My Nexus 4 battery life - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Dear bros,
After I did root for my phone, Its battery seems to drain so quick even I use JuiceDefender-Balance profile (about 15% of whole after one night without 3G, disable facebook, email notification). Before It may be better. Have you all give me advice to investigate this stuff? Thanks in advance!
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First, I wouldn't use juice defender. In my opinion it does more harm than good. Rooting won't cause battery loss. What you need to do is get BetterBatteryStats so you can see what' app(s) are keeping your phone awake.

zxyz said:
First, I wouldn't use juice defender. In my opinion it does more harm than good. Rooting won't cause battery loss. What you need to do is get BetterBatteryStats so you can see what' app(s) are keeping your phone awake.
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Falssseeee lol. I used juice defender on my S3 and it ran like a charm and extended my battery life by more than 8 hours. All it does is shut down the unused radios when the device is in certain states and etc.
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Battery Drains QUICKLY!

I got school at around 6 am. By the time I eat lunch it's already at 57%. By the time I get home around 5 and it's already at 17%.
All I do is listen to music (doubletwist/playerpro) and play Cut the Rope, WTF!?
Cell standy by is 46% in batter usage followed by wifi with 11%
any help guys?
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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is it stock no over clocking mods etc no app keeping phone locked awake?
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Droid117 said:
What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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fma965 said:
is it stock no over clocking mods etc no app keeping phone locked awake?
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Brightness is below half,I never go over. WiFi is on but not all the time.
Stock rom 2.3.4 rooted
Do you have data off?
How's your phone signal most of the time? It has been proven that low/bad signal drains battery quicker than good signal.
Sometimes certain buildings/rooms have pretty bad reception making it a huge drain for your phone.
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What I tend to do is have brightness down to about half. Have you also tried fully charging the phone, taking the battery out and charging back to full? I sometimes find it drops down but regenerates itself.
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This is a useful piece of information, however is not really practical. Ideally we don't want to be turning off our phones on every charge :/
I myself own 3 batteries, and alternate them (I have a wall charger for the batteries)
what ver are you using if 2.3.4 the battery issue is fix.
I get 3 /4 bars, at school right new and yea some times I get nothing, especial ly during the subway ruse which is an hour
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Once I updated my phone to 2.3.3 I noticed that the battery life was sub-par, only lasting 3/5s of the day on a full charge.
I proceeded to root my phone (as I don't have the money to unlock my Big Red Bootloader); after installing SetCPU I took down the clocking meter 1 notch (768MHz) and the phone is stable with not difference in performance (so far). Doing this and removing some unneeded bloatware has increased my battery life 2.5x and I can go almost 3 days on a single charge.
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what ver are you using if 2.3.4 the battery issue is fix.
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xiEvo is correct and I've read a lot of good stuff regarding battery life with 2.3.4. I can only begin to imagine what kind of battery life I'll have once I get that update.
get juice defender off the market ultimate version is best. this will lookafter everything for you.. juice defender is a must have app for all android devices
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I'm 2.3.4.
Honestly I had the best battery life with 2.3.2, IDK why.

Battery issues

Hi guys. Need some help. Very happy with my nexus 4 but, and its a big but, i am having some serious issues with the battery. I am struggling to even get 2 hrs of screen time on my nexus 4. The battery cant be this bad. Is there any way i can see what is exactly causing my battery drain? Sync, nfc is turned off. No widgets r running. Cant understand it. May have to rma this thing.
Help please.
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This is probably the cause of your problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999368
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didi you root the phone? if so what rom/kernel are you using?
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KyraOfFire said:
didi you root the phone? if so what rom/kernel are you using?
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Stock. Not done anything to it
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What kind of apps do you have?? Like apps that you think might drain some battery. Also use betterbatterystat app to monitor what's waking your device.
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moghm said:
Stock. Not done anything to it
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With stock, around 2 hours of screen on time is typical. You can prolong the battery life by disable Google Now, location service, email sync, Playstore auto update, etc. Check your battery stats (try better battery stats from the store) to see if any third-party apps drain your battery.
The better way to do it is to unlock bootloader, root your phone then flash a custom kernel. I recommend franco.Kernel. 3-4 hours of screen on time is typical with franco.
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With stock, around 2 hours of screen on time is typical. You can prolong the battery life by disable Google Now, location service, email sync, Playstore auto update, etc. Check your battery stats (try better battery stats from the store) to see if any third-party apps drain your battery.
The better way to do it is to unlock bootloader, root your phone then flash a custom kernel. I recommend franco.Kernel. 3-4 hours of screen on time is typical with franco.
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Might as well flash a custom ROM with it if you're going to use a custom kernel IMO. When a new OTA, OP will have problems updating to it because he is using stock + custom kernel + custom recovery.
Here is how to fix your battery problem.
1. Turn off location access in Google Maps settings.
2. Wait about a week for the battery to go through its charge cycle 6-10 times. Let it get as low as possible without the battery dying (this is really bad) and be sure to let the battery sit at 100% for atleast a half hour or so when fully charged.
Each day you will see your battery life increase and when done, you should be getting around 5 hours screen on time.
Well dramatic change in battery life as displayed below. Now after having a read in several topics it seems like a fix is to have the wifi on. How strange as this goes against the ethos of all previous smartphones i have owned i.e. wifi on drains battery. I have uninstalled a few apps and also switched of location access, so to be sure that the fix is wifi related i will switch wifi off the next time i do a full charge and see how that behaves. By the way android os is way down in battery consumption now.
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Massive battery issues

Hello folks.
I'm currently on Aokp 4.2.2 unofficial with Francos r90 Kernel, bootloader and Radio are both updated. I'm suffering from massive battery draining. I guess something isnt letting my CPU sleep properly, as i always get messages like "100% awake while screen off" from battery stats plus. I'm just getting up to 2 hours screen on time, and battery is falling by about ~7% / hour With normal usage (whatsapp, News, xda) and like 15 Minuten screen on time in that hour. Also, see the attached Images. I sometimes have wakelocks by audioOut_2 and as you can See, maps is using more battery than the Display itself.
On an additional Note, GPS is always off, im using Taster to locate, but with cell near only.
Would be very Kind to help me out of this issues, thank you a bunch!
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Turn off Location Services for a little bit to see if that helps.
You should try a program like autostarts, and don't allow things to run unless explicitly started by yourself. This way it'll help identify if there is an misbehaving program.
I saw you were using franco r90 which could be an issue. Try going back to the last stable
I think you will like this application.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5vYXNpc2ZlbmcuZ3JlZW5pZnkiXQ..
This simple application will make your annoying applications to go to sleep. Therefore your phone can finally go to sleep like it should when it's not in use. I see that Google maps seems to be the culprit in your battery drain. You can use titanium backup and delete it and install it back again from the play store. After that you can use the application that I've given you and force it to go tot sleep.
Here's the forum for the application:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
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Thanks guys! I disabled some Autostarts and greenified some apps. I'll Report the outcomes later today.
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JoeBananas_ said:
Thanks guys! I disabled some Autostarts and greenified some apps. I'll Report the outcomes later today.
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If that doesn't work I recommend you flash the matr1x kernel I'm on it and I get very good life on this phone so yeah give it a try if u want
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Click it I dare you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1784401
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Thanks for your reply. Yeah im already thinking about flashing matr1x or trinity Kernels. How much screen on time Do you get with matr1x?
I reinstalled maps, greenified maps and facebook. Updated to Franco 92. Already getting better results with greenified maps, but i get following wakelocks:
"pm8921_eoc", "msm_otg" and AudioOut_2 and still notifications from bbs: 100% awake.
Apps running are: astrid, avast, Francos updater, Rom toolbox, Tasker
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Does anyone have some knowledge about How to identify why Android OS is consuming so much battery Life? While screen off some process is waking up the Device, up to 1.5 GHz.
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I also have MASSIVE draining issues. Took my phone off charge around 9am this morning... 1hr screen time... 8% battery left and its only 13:45 Pacific time...
Latest Faux running in dual core ECO MODE underclocked to 1.3Ghz with Stock 4.2.2,,,, still get ****ty ass battery life...
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Do you see any wakelocks using the better battery stats app? Which apps are running?
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Do you see any wakelocks using the better battery stats app? Which apps are running?
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I just bought it ( for $3), sooo now I have to wait and see what is causing this....
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I just bought it ( for $3), sooo now I have to wait and see what is causing this....
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Cannot wait til you update us!
Coming from the iphone 4, good battery life is the most important thing i miss. I need a rock solid reliable phone or else would have started to mess around a read about Kernels to see how they may help with better battery life. My iPhone would last me 3-4 days of general use. To me General use is very light use..! With nexus it lasts max 1-2 days but more importantly i need to be concious what the battery level is. With th eiphone i never really bothered as i knoew i would get at least 2 days if not more.
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Still got audioOut_2 wakelock. Except that onr, everything is fine After Kernel update, greenifying and disabling Autostarts
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High battery consumption by stock kernel

Hi guys,
Last night I had 15% drop at the battery, wifi was off, gps was on.
From gsam i saw that the kernel drained the most.
Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid this kind of battery draining?
Few days after I got the phone I had 0%(!) battery drain at night and it was along few night, for some reason i cant reach same level of battery drain at night now.
Thanks in advance.
You have some weird apps keeping your phone awake, nova launcher? Have never seen that one in my list. Install betterbatterystats to see the wake locks in detail.
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You have some weird apps keeping your phone awake, nova launcher? Have never seen that one in my list. Install betterbatterystats to see the wake locks in detail.
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I don't think that's a wakelock list buddy, it's just listing which processes used the battery the most.
Apex, run this for a few hours and post a screenshot.
Betterbatterystats is an app that shows into detail the wakelocks, alarms, frequencies etc. Don't know the app you gave, maybe it does the same.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
ok so here are the findings:
I froze news&weather since i dont use it and put taptalk on 3 hours intervals of checking.
I'll read more into BBS analysis to retrieve further information
anyone?
It doesn't seem like there are any weird wakelocks. How many hours of screen on time do you get?
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Turn off your GPS.
Why do you need it on when you're sleeping? do you sleep walk? Don't answer that. Lol
I recommend downloading this app called "greenify" and find that app and hibernate it.
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I also installed greenify, but it just doesnt seem to work well... every now and then, when I check on greenify, I need to re-freeze the Maps App, even though I didnt start it in the mean time.
Speaking of which, why does Maps keep the phone awake that long (or wake it that often) and drain so much battery at all?
anyone got an answer to this?

[Q] Nexus10 battery life with KitKat4.4

My N10 has this 1 issues where the device keeps awake when the screen is on.
Is this normal ?
Can anyone help me
The device is stock unrooted.
ahodil55 said:
My N10 has this 1 issues where the device keeps awake when the screen is on.
Is this normal ?
Can anyone help me
The device is stock unrooted.
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Did you mean when the screen is off? Because obviously it status awake while the screen is on. But there may be an app keeping it awake. Make sure all your apps are trusted
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when the screen is on. ive never experienced this when its on Jellybean 4.3
and all the apps ive downloaded are from Google Play Store of course.
anyone ???
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anyone ???
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I'd go for a wakelock detecting app like "better battery stats" or "wakelock detector" to see which app could be the culprit. "Greenify" could then be used to block that app from keeping your tablet awake.
I personally do have no issues with standby whatsoever. I'd say I lose about 3-4% of battery during the day on 4.4. (WLAN and sync on all day, but I'm taking it to work where I have no WLAN I could use). I guess I had the same mimimum drain on 4.3. So standby couldn't be better on N10 in my opinion.
I only had one issue so far, where at about 25% of battery left it suddenly began to drain like 10-15% an hour, thus leading to my N10 shutting off after about 2 hours. No idea what caused that drain in standby.
I second that, get better battery stats or something similar to see what's keeping it awake.
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AFAIK, BBS needs root in order to use em. And i cant root the N10 as it belongs to my mother
You don't need root for bbs
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Same here...very bad battery after moving to kitkat..
This is what I get...which is atleast 50% worse off
Update :- the charging time seems to have gone up significantly for both USB and power socket.
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meletios said:
Same here...very bad battery after moving to kitkat..
This is what I get...which is atleast 50% worse off
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mhm ... will not install 4.4 if the battery life is that terrible. Did you guys control the typical Google apps, which usually like to eat a lot of battery?
I have this since 4.4.2 on my Nexus 10 and 7v2. Not on the 5. My N10 uses almost every juice for Android OS. Before it used 5% for 1-2 days for standby. Now 3 hours. See screenshot. Is this normal?
And it wasn't awake. See other screenshot.

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