[Q] What is chewing my battery? - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I pulled from charger at 9AM and I played about 30 min of candy crush then it drained from 70 to 25 while sitting on my table.
All I did was checking battery then close S-view cover.
I can't find what is wrong with it, so I am posting my battery screenshot.
Screentime is 1 hour and half and rebooting did not help. -_-
What is chewing constantly..?

Try installing the apps greenify (to freeze unwanted apps that are running in the background) and perhaps you can pair it up with DS Battery Saver
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saywhatt said:
Try installing the apps greenify (to freeze unwanted apps that are running in the background) and perhaps you can pair it up with DS Battery Saver
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I just want to know what was chewing it.. Because I closed all apps but didnt work then cleaned memory from application monitor but didnt work then reboot but didnt work lol

reservin said:
I just want to know what was chewing it.. Because I closed all apps but didnt work then cleaned memory from application monitor but didnt work then reboot but didnt work lol
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i forgot the one name of that one awesome battery monitoring app.. :\ haha
uhh but you can try installing battery monitoring apps from the market

saywhatt said:
i forgot the one name of that one awesome battery monitoring app.. :\ haha
uhh but you can try installing battery monitoring apps from the market
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BBS right? haha.
Yeah I am going to install it but it will start monitoring from now on, so it can't tell me what happened today

reservin said:
BBS right? haha.
Yeah I am going to install it but it will start monitoring from now on, so it can't tell me what happened today
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Yes! That one 0
Good luck with that buddy
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It looks like your device keeps waking up way too often...install the app to monitor wakelocks and see whats causing it not to go into deep sleep.

iznee said:
It looks like your device keeps waking up way too often...install the app to monitor wakelocks and see whats causing it not to go into deep sleep.
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Yeah, it stopped after 2 reboot..

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Battery Drainage

What app can i use to show what specific app is draining the battery the most.. my battery seems to drain faster than everyone else on here and i figured its has to be an app that im using thats using more battery that the rest..
jok3sta said:
What app can i use to show what specific app is draining the battery the most.. my battery seems to drain faster than everyone else on here and i figured its has to be an app that im using thats using more battery that the rest..
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try quick battery widget plus quick settings.
jok3sta said:
What app can i use to show what specific app is draining the battery the most.. my battery seems to drain faster than everyone else on here and i figured its has to be an app that im using thats using more battery that the rest..
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First, you need spare parts. Go to Battery History and check the % of running time. If its near 100%, your phone isn't sleeping. Next is to find what is causing this issue.
Go to homescreen, hit menu, hit settings. About phone, Battery Use. See what is using the most battery.
Next, go to settings, Applications, running services. See what services are running. If your phone isn't sleeping, its probably one of these services causing it. For me, Coreplayerservice, which is the music player service caused the phone not to sleep.
Spare parts is showing 68% and that's probably because ie been using th phone a lot this morning
Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 4g
You should check the CPU usage next on spare parts...that should show you the apps taking cpu time
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sneerpeer said:
You should check the CPU usage next on spare parts...that should show you the apps taking cpu time
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ill check that now
68% is very high unless you think that since you unplugged the phone you have literally been using it 2/3 of the time.
If you don't want the full blown Spare Parts app, but want the battery piece then you should download "BatteryHistory" from the market.
Sorry to thread jack, but my usage is 99.2%, thats bad right???
mikeschevelle said:
Sorry to thread jack, but my usage is 99.2%, thats bad right???
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Its not good.
mines at 62% by android system

Low battery life

For the past few weeks i've been noticing a bigger drain of battery than the usual and i don't seem to be figuring out what's going on...
If someone knows any way to increase battery life feel free to post any solution. Thanks in advance
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nikeradsn said:
For the past few weeks i've been noticing a bigger drain of battery than the usual and i don't seem to be figuring out what's going on...
If someone knows any way to increase battery life feel free to post any solution. Thanks in advance
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have you been fully charging and fully discharging your phone?
What app did you install? Did you install a new rom? what rom are you on? My guess would be a rouge app. Have a look in the battery usage graph or get spareparts and look at the things that are keeping the phone awake.
dc959 said:
have you been fully charging and fully discharging your phone?
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Fully discharge only some times i usually start to charge it at 10%
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PaulMilbank said:
What app did you install? Did you install a new rom? what rom are you on? My guess would be a rouge app. Have a look in the battery usage graph or get spareparts and look at the things that are keeping the phone awake.
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Im running aurora 4.1.1a, the problem might be a rouge app i don't know
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I would suggest you download CPU Spy to see if an application is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep mode, for example. You may have a lot of widgets refreshing way too often, as well.
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I would suggest you download CPU Spy to see if an application is preventing your phone from entering deep sleep mode, for example. You may have a lot of widgets refreshing way too often, as well.
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The only widget that refreshs at my home screen is SetCPU, in order to monitor the Temperature, but i will try that app in order to check whats going on thanks.
Ok finally I've managed to see what was the problem that was causing such battery drain/loss... The problem is that i wasnt full charging/discharging, now the battery seems to be working fine. Also I've check cpuspy and nothing is interferindo with the deep sleep.. Thanks for the help
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nikeradsn said:
Ok finally I've managed to see what was the problem that was causing such battery drain/loss... The problem is that i wasnt full charging/discharging, now the battery seems to be working fine. Also I've check cpuspy and nothing is interferindo with the deep sleep.. Thanks for the help
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Never fully discharge Li-ion batteries.
But is not fully discharging, under %15 damages battery? And also i put from batter over %95 because after %100, it waits until it drops and again charges if i forget there.

[Q] Betterbatterystats help

Hi, I need help to figure out why I'm getting so more much awake time than screen on time.
According to the partial wake lock stats audioout_2 is the one that keeps waking up my phone... Tho the time running is not very high so I'm a little confuse here...
Is anything else I'm missing here??
Thanks
PD sorry for my bad English
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Gustavoca1 said:
Hi, I need help to figure out why I'm getting so more much awake time than screen on time.
According to the partial wake lock stats audioout_2 is the one that keeps waking up my phone... Tho the time running is not very high so I'm a little confuse here...
Is anything else I'm missing here??
Thanks
PD sorry for my bad English
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hi..
Audio out 2 is the touch/screenlock sounds.
try disable and monitor it in BBS again in few hours' time.
Playing music will cause AudioOut_2 wakelock.
I get it when using any music player.
Hi, I already have touchscreen wakelock sound disabled.
Using wakelock detector, I found Facebook app is draining a lot of battery, but I'm not sure If that's the app that causes the audioout_2 wakelock.
I downloaded greenify , so I'll try add the app there.
Thanks
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Hi, at the moment I'm not using my phone for playing songs. Maybe some other app? I've read that viber could cause this wakelock, I uninstall it but still the same.
Thanks!
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Gustavoca1 said:
Hi, at the moment I'm not using my phone for playing songs. Maybe some other app? I've read that viber could cause this wakelock, I uninstall it but still the same.
Thanks!
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hi.
yes, viber does cause wakelocks.
try to post screenshots of BBS partial wakelocks after 4 hours idle time (without any interruptions), with the sound disable and other apps that u think that causes wakelocks
Cheers..
maanz said:
hi.
yes, viber does cause wakelocks.
try to post screenshots of BBS partial wakelocks after 4 hours idle time (without any interruptions), with the sound disable and other apps that u think that causes wakelocks
Cheers..
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After 3:30 hrs, using greenify on Facebook app
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whatsapp is another wakelock culprit preventing yr device to deep sleep..
what I would suggest to u is to unchecked sync contacts in whatsapp setting.
that would minimise the wakelocks if u still intend to use it.
so does exchange mail service..
maybe try to change refresh intervals to 4 hours and monitor it from there.
nlp collector is caused by location is being turned on in yr device settings.
turn location to off if u want it to go away.
and after 4 hours, post a dump file from BBS here again, mate.
other things to look at BBS is the high number of counts on each services running in the partial wakelocks.
besides these, there are more..
maanz said:
whatsapp is another wakelock culprit preventing yr device to deep sleep..
what I would suggest to u is to unchecked sync contacts in whatsapp setting.
that would minimise the wakelocks if u still intend to use it.
so does exchange mail service..
maybe try to change refresh intervals to 4 hours and monitor it from there.
nlp collector is caused by location is being turned on in yr device settings.
turn location to off if u want it to go away.
and after 4 hours, post a dump file from BBS here again, mate.
other things to look at BBS is the high number of counts on each services running in the partial wakelocks.
besides these, there are more..
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exchange mail is already in 4 hrs interval... and i kinda use the nlp service from google...
Freezing facebook app with Greenify, made my phone last a day. I think ill stick with this configuration
Thanks for your help!
1% per hour? That's amazing (at least to me and my phone)...
robogo1982 said:
1% per hour? That's amazing (at least to me and my phone)...
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thats was a test, when i let my phone alone for 4 hours... In normal use is 3%/h
had the same issue(AudioOut drain without playing any music), turned out to be the lock-screen sound effect drains the battery after locking the screen. disabled it , no more drain

Galaxy S4 Battery Drain Please Help

I bought a S4 manufacturer refurbished new with battery, charged it for like 6 hours as it is new, I've been using it for nearly 5 hours now and it is at 41%, from the very start I've disabled nearly everything apart from WiFi and the Samsung features such as air gestures and stuff and even mobile data (as I have none atm) have been disabled and brightness has been just slightly higher than lowest, how is it possible that the battery is draining so fast???
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I bought a S4 manufacturer refurbished new with battery, charged it for like 6 hours as it is new, I've been using it for nearly 5 hours now and it is at 41%, from the very start I've disabled nearly everything apart from WiFi and the Samsung features such as air gestures and stuff and even mobile data (as I have none atm) have been disabled and brightness has been just slightly higher than lowest, how is it possible that the battery is draining so fast???
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look at your settings and go to the "battery" section, and have a look at whats eating up your battery.
you can use "greenify" from google play to suspend any applications too.
Here look Twitter is nearly highest, I find it highly unbelievable that Twitter has been eating my battery this fast, I've seen S4 users have their screen brightness to the highest watch videos social networks etc for 16 hours and still have juice left
ShadowBlazeSheff said:
Here look Twitter is nearly highest, I find it highly unbelievable that Twitter has been eating my battery this fast, I've seen S4 users have their screen brightness to the highest watch videos social networks etc for 16 hours and still have juice left
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Hi.
U might want to refer in here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532210
Cheers.
Hello, sorry I don't have anything setup to buy the better battery stats yet
ShadowBlazeSheff said:
Hello, sorry I don't have anything setup to buy the better battery stats yet
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Get the free BBS app from the thread.
I have downloaded it but I'll give reading when battery is at 50%
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ShadowBlazeSheff said:
Hello, sorry I don't have anything setup to buy the better battery stats yet
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I switched off the phone but forgot the battery stats go, but as I remember these are the things running that took most of the charge
You need to look at the partial wake locks in other on bbs
And here is the battery stats from Android
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ShadowBlazeSheff said:
I switched off the phone but forgot the battery stats go, but as I remember these are the things running that took most of the charge
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Oh ffs, oh well I'll do it again tomorrow
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Here are the Android Battery and BBS stats
Edit - I did charge it from like 30% to 65% then it went down again to the percentage you see on screenshots
Direct track is killing your battery. You need to find out what that wake lock is and get rid of it. Google directtrack wakelock
Music also seems to have taken a lot when I didn't even use it a lot
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jd1639 said:
Direct track is killing your battery. You need to find out what that wake lock is and get rid of it. Google directtrack wakelock
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I can't find any way to get rid of it
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I can't find any way to get rid of it
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What music app do you use?
jd1639 said:
What music app do you use?
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The default music app player not Google Play or Samsung music, on the first day I didn't use any music players but still saw exceptional battery drain
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The default music app player not Google Play or Samsung music, on the first day I didn't use any music players but still saw exceptional battery drain
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Freeze that app and see if that helps the battery drain
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Freeze that app and see if that helps the battery drain
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How do I freeze it?
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How do I freeze it?
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Go into settings, apps and see if you can disable it

Android system draining battery.

Hello, today I noticed that my battery was worse than usual, so I checked what was draining it and android system was second after screen. It says stay awake 1h 15 min from total 1h 30min since full charge. It's already 80% with less than 1h sot, normally it is better. What can I do ?
Notice, I went to running processes, and software update was always running, even after stopping it it got open again. Also a strange one I never seen before, com.sec.android.app.keyguard , is always running.
Anyone? -_-
Are you 100% stock, uprooted and no custom recovery installed?
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Are you 100% stock, uprooted and no custom recovery installed?
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Yes full stock.
I has the exact same issue with my Sprint S3 (D2SPR) last year. The only thing that I could do to fix it was to flash the stock firmware with Odin. Nothing I did helped the battery drain. Are you familiar with Odin and flashing Samsung devices?
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fast69mopar said:
I has the exact same issue with my Sprint S3 (D2SPR) last year. The only thing that I could do to fix it was to flash the stock firmware with Odin. Nothing I did helped the battery drain. Are you familiar with Odin and flashing Samsung devices?
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Yea I tried. Also tried flashing costum rom and then flashing stock but still the problem goes on.
fast69mopar said:
I has the exact same issue with my Sprint S3 (D2SPR) last year. The only thing that I could do to fix it was to flash the stock firmware with Odin. Nothing I did helped the battery drain. Are you familiar with Odin and flashing Samsung devices?
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At the moment I rooted to use BetterBatteryStats and it shows that phone is not going to deep sleep.
Well, let's install a wakelock detector and see what shows up. Then, we can use a number of other apps to control the wakelock to prevent the high battery drain. You probably have a rogue app keeping your device awake. You can unintelligible each app one by one and monitor the battery list or install Better Battery Stats and it will tell you which apps have gone rogue and are killing your battery life. Do you have Facebook or Twitter or other heavy social media apps on your S3?
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fast69mopar said:
Well, let's install a wakelock detector and see what shows up. Then, we can use a number of other apps to control the wakelock to prevent the high battery drain. You probably have a rogue app keeping your device awake. You can unintelligible each app one by one and monitor the battery list or install Better Battery Stats and it will tell you which apps have gone rogue and are killing your battery life. Do you have Facebook or Twitter or other heavy social media apps on your S3?
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Yes I have but I always had those apps and I dont believe its their fault. Android system is first on the list, even higher that screen which I always had first. System is staying awake a lot. Now I formated and will see with wakelock detector what will show.
Cool. Lemme know how Wakelock Detector does and what it shows for wakelocks keeping your S3 awake.
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Cool. Lemme know how Wakelock Detector does and what it shows for wakelocks keeping your S3 awake.
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BetterBatteryStats shows that phone went to deep sleep, only 1 minute is awake with screen off and this is good. Wakelock detector shows first place is google services, then 1013 ( don't know what that is ) and 3rd is android system. I have no apps installed only what it has preloaded.
If that's how Better Battery Stats shows what is happening I think a rogue app was causing your high battery drain. Install your apps one at a time and allow Better Battery Stats to run each time and see if the app causes high Android System drain. Glad it's not pulling your battery down. I think 1013 is what is shown for media scanning in some way.
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If that's how Better Battery Stats shows what is happening I think a rogue app was causing your high battery drain. Install your apps one at a time and allow Better Battery Stats to run each time and see if the app causes high Android System drain. Glad it's not pulling your battery down. I think 1013 is what is shown for media scanning in some way.
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Thank you for your patience and help sir, but unfortunately the problem continues. BBS still shows that phone is awake while not being used. Maybe less, but still it is. Anyway I will try a rom or something, or just leave it be. Thank you.
Give Aditya ROM a try and see how it runs. Put it thru it's paces and then let it rest for a while. Then take a look at the battery list and see what's there. It looks like a full featured ROM with plenty of new stuff. Just a recommendation. Let me know if I can help in any way.
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Give Aditya ROM a try and see how it runs. Put it thru it's paces and then let it rest for a while. Then take a look at the battery list and see what's there. It looks like a full featured ROM with plenty of new stuff. Just a recommendation. Let me know if I can help in any way.
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Thank you, I will.
fast69mopar said:
Give Aditya ROM a try and see how it runs. Put it thru it's paces and then let it rest for a while. Then take a look at the battery list and see what's there. It looks like a full featured ROM with plenty of new stuff. Just a recommendation. Let me know if I can help in any way.
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I think it is back to normal now. Flashed aditya rom and then back to stock, maybe this fixed it. Thanks again my friend.
kico94 said:
I think it is back to normal now. Flashed aditya rom and then back to stock, maybe this fixed it. Thanks again my friend.
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No problem. Glad it seems to.be back to normal. When I had my Sprint S3 I had issues like this too. I would flash a custom ROM in recovery and then Odin back to a bone stock firmware and everything would be back to normal again. Good luck.
Factory reset your device. For me it helped and now Android System is only 11% and no app draining the battery. btw.. are you using black S3 Neo?

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