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Hey, I was wondering if anyone else was having a problem with sub par battery life. I have not been satisfied with my G2 battery life, I only get about 12-13 hours and I am not a really heavy user. I have disabled wifi, bluetooth, gps, cell location, and syncing for everything but my gmail and exchange (set to push), and it didnt affect my battery life at all.
I noticed that "Android System" was taking up 35% of my battery, which I am pretty sure is not normal, so I decided to try a different battery monitoring app to get more details. I downloaded PowerTutor and it was showing that Facebook was using a LOT of battery life over the period of about 10 minutes, which was strange considering that I had turned off all notifications, turned off the refresh, and turned off syncing. It shouldn't have been doing anything.
I logged out of the facebook app and it no longer seemed to be doing anything. My facebook version is 1.3.2. Hopefully this will give me some better battery life (right now i am at 24% at 3:00pm after unplugging at 6:30am, but PowerTutor ate a good bit of battery life while it was monitoring)
Just thought I would post for people who might have abnormally low battery life, and see if anyone else had the same problem.
The facebook app is terrible anyways, I won't miss it. I just use a shortcut on my home screen to m.facebook.com
I'll post back tomorrow and see if my battery life has improved.
i get 12-13 hours, moderate use... but i do have facebook refreshing hour... I had no idea it was eating battery while sitting idle though :-\ that's something for me to look into
I also didn't know 12-13 hours was considered low (new to Android)
Thanks for the heads up
I've been doing a little digging on the Adroid System battery drain issues over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801244. I don't use the Facebook app at all, but I have noticed a Facebook still periodically pops up in logcat. If I get around to it I'll login to the Facebook app and enable updating to see how often it show up then.
Get the currentwidget app and put it up as a widget at the home screen (I come from WM 6.5.5). Set it up using the default setting. Click the power button and let it sleep. Wake it up in 4 minutes and check your Ma shown in the widget. I'm getting 35Ma and my battery seems to be doing fine.
Its tells you how much power is being used by your phone when it sleeps. Also remove any task killer on your phone. You don't need it.
My battery has also been draining pretty fast. Android system says its using 45% percent of the battery. Don't know what to do?
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I just did some more testing with PowerTutor. The e-mail app (not gmail) is using up TONS of power when my phone is locked. I think it may have to do something with Exchange and ActiveSync. It's a hotmail address that I'm synced to. I guess I'm going to forward it to a gmail account or something. Its sapping battery life with both Push settings and Every 10 Minute settings.
lol. app dev for facebook hates ios and android. though the fb for android does suck(doesn't have half the things ios version has) but its still better then nothing. fb app is pretty buggy so not surprised that it would take up so much juice.
You could also use watchdog and kill Facebook if it's the culprite. It will also tell you if something else is to blame.
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I think that Facebook is the culprit. At least for me it was. I was sitting at android system using ~35% and once I logged out of the Facebook app I checked back about 5 or so hours later and it went down to 12% or so.
But i like that FB app only thing I disliked was getting sent to the web when checking notifications. Maybe social scope will alleviate that
It's looking to me that Facebook was using a decent chunk of battery. Android system is down to 19% for me today after signing out of facebook. I've been listening to music all morning too so thats probably why its still high-ish.
When I get home from work I'm going to monitor my battery again and see if the e-mail app is still using up battery.
If someone else has logged out of facebook and saw battery usage go down, then I think it is safe to say that the app is buggy.
wow... so are you telling me my battery life will go from 12+ hours to 16-17 if i log out of facebook? YOWZERS
When I posted this thread yesterday I was at 24% at 3pm. Right now, at 1pm after logging out of facebook last night and unplugging this morning at the exact same time, my battery is at 68%. I have been listening to music all morning too, browsing the web periodically, and I got a few short phone calls. So unless my battery life tanks 40% in the next 2 hours, I think that being logged in to facebook definitely seems to be eating up battery on the G2.
My testing is hardly scientific, though. But I have had the phone unplugged for 6 hours and 40 minutes and im only down to 68%. Not bad at all.
Someone else should try testing a day logged in to facebook (with notifications, syncing, and refresh all off) and a day logged out of facebook.
edit: also, my Android System is down to 15%. much better.
What about the Twitter app?
And turning off background data won't stop Facebook from draining battery?
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What about the Twitter app?
And turning off background data won't stop Facebook from draining battery?
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I'm not sure, I don't use twitter. And I haven't tried turning off background data, I'm trying to narrow down my battery issues to an application specific level. I'd rather turn off facebook for being a battery hog than turn off all of my background data.
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Someone else should try testing a day logged in to facebook (with notifications, syncing, and refresh all off) and a day logged out of facebook.
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Am testing that one out. However, I have just the syncing on but I don't think that syncs constantly. We'll see how my phone fares with that setting I have now with notifications and refresh both being off but still logged on the Facebook app. My phone averages around 10-12 hours per charge even with using Trillian and AndChat and quite a copious amount of texting during the event hours. I changed the Facebook settings last night. We'll see how the day goes with the battery.
For me, just turning off notifications and refresh didn't help battery life. I had everything turned off and it was still draining battery (what it was doing? I have no clue... shouldn't have been doing anything.. I think the application has a bug)
Loged off Fb and twitter and the battery lasted all day no problems! Also turned off GPS seeing as I rarley use google maps and now very happy with my G2 batt. Thx!
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Snuggl3s said:
Loged off Fb and twitter and the battery lasted all day no problems! Also turned off GPS seeing as I rarley use google maps and now very happy with my G2 batt. Thx!
fRom Snugs G2 ^.^
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Me too. Getting great battery life now!
Hi all, I have an i9023.
I've just installed Peter Alfonso's latest Bugless Beast.
After the first boot I flashed Air Kernel 3.2.
Then I continued with the setup wizard, signed in with my gmail account.
After the initial setup, I went into Settings and turned off sync, I also have backup, NFC, GPS disabled.
After 1 hour leaving the phone idle, I noticed that I lost 5%. I only use 2G with good signal.
I went into Battery use and saw that Google Services is on top of the list with 30%.
I also found that my phone was awake most of the time, even when the screen was off.
What is wrong with my phone here?
I have turned off all syncs but Google Services keeps waking phone up.
I need a google account because I need market and Gtalk for keeping in touch.
But this last 1 hour I just didn't touch gtalk at all.
My phone is completely idle.
I checked with CPU spy and saw that my phone was in deep sleep most of the time.
How can I disable this Google Services from waking my phone up?
I see people having normal to great battery life, and they don't have this Google services massive battery use.
Anyone can help?
Thank you very much.
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I think an hour of use is a little premature to worry about battery life.
I know, I'm just trying to do a fresh install after having serious battery drain yesterday.
I'm just curious about this Google Services.
Why is it keeping my phone awake while I didn't use any of its services at all (i.e. automatic sync)?
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Please see attached screenshots. This is absolutely doing my head in. It's always draining my battery but others I know don't have it show up at all. The dreaded Google Services!
I'm trying to avoid doing a factory restart add it took me ages to set this phone up from scratch.
Google doesn't seem to be able to provide me with a concrete answer and I don't want to disable Google sync if I can help it because then my push Gmail will stop working and I kind of need that.
Please help. Before I end up self harming or throw this beautiful phone out of the window and under a bus!
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Please see attached screenshots. This is absolutely doing my head in. It's always draining my battery but others I know don't have it show up at all. The dreaded Google Services!
I'm trying to avoid doing a factory restart add it took me ages to set this phone up from scratch.
Google doesn't seem to be able to provide me with a concrete answer and I don't want to disable Google sync if I can help it because then my push Gmail will stop working and I kind of need that.
Please help. Before I end up self harming or throw this beautiful phone out of the window and under a bus!
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Is this the only instance you've noticed it since buying the phone? Coz all the stats show is that google services took 68% of your total battery loss till now, so you roughly lost 4% of your battery to google services. The screen will be the max user if you keep the screen on for longer. Try running the whole day and see the battery usage by google services throughout the day. Are you using google now?
Hi there.
It's not the only instance. I had this the other day too. My battery was draining like something ridiculous. About 10% am hour in idle mode.
Even at the current rate, I lost about five percent in a few hours when the phone would be in deep sleep. Seems to be preventing that happening..
I'm on my third full recharge now since getting the phone
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philliplavelle said:
Hi there.
It's not the only instance. I had this the other day too. My battery was draining like something ridiculous. About 10% am hour in idle mode.
Even at the current rate, I lost about five percent in a few hours when the phone would be in deep sleep. Seems to be preventing that happening..
I'm on my third full recharge now since getting the phone
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Hmmm.. Do you use Google Now? Try and disable it perhaps, coz thats the only thing which would require location services, and GPS takes a lot of power.
No, Google Now is permanently disabled. I don't use it and have it permanently turned off.
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No, Google Now is permanently disabled. I don't use it and have it permanently turned off.
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Thats one off the list. Ok, lets try and narrow down the issue: try n disable location services completely, It should be in the settings.
After the Google I/O announcements yesterday, I noticed I was draining battery a lot quicker than usual. I checked battery stats and Google Services was responsible for almost 70% of my battery usage - and this is continuing into today. See the screenshots below for what I mean:
Battery stats
Google Services battery usage
I haven't used Maps or anything GPS related this morning - I'm not sure what the GPS usage is for. Is anyone else seeing something similar this morning?
Yes! Idk what it is
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I had this happened to my phone a couple of days ago. It would not go away until I cleared data for all google apps including the framework. Did a reboot and let it sit there overnight.. When I woke up it was gone. Hope this helps
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After the Google I/O announcements yesterday, I noticed I was draining battery a lot quicker than usual. I checked battery stats and Google Services was responsible for almost 70% of my battery usage - and this is continuing into today. See the screenshots below for what I mean:
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Google Services battery usage
I haven't used Maps or anything GPS related this morning - I'm not sure what the GPS usage is for. Is anyone else seeing something similar this morning?
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I unchecked use GPS in location settings and it brought the battery usage down. There was an update to it yesterday and it seems to have started the battery issue again. I had issues with Google Services when I first got the phone.
My maps started going crazy yesterday. It was going higher than screen time in %. This also started yesterday.
Are you missing a Google update btw? My icon for Google Services appears as the google play puzzle piece.
Right now my Maps is at 26% and Google services is at 2%.though 4 hours in I am only down to 89%.
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My maps started going crazy yesterday. It was going higher than screen time in %. This also started yesterday.
Are you missing a Google update btw? My icon for Google Services appears as the google play puzzle piece.
Right now my Maps is at 26% and Google services is at 2%.though 4 hours in I am only down to 89%.
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Mines was a puzzle piece also until I launched the play store and google services was updated. Now it's like the one OP showed.
I had the issue of maps being higher than screen on battery usage yesterday even though I hadnt opened maps in days. What I did was force stop maps and restart my phone. All seems well now. I also updated google search/now last night and it didnt affect anything.
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Google music constantly runs in the background now. I forced closed, few seconds later it started running again. I never opened google music since I got the phone. I prefer stock music player. So what I did was disable that app since I can't uninstall it.
Same as OP here.
Going into Application manager and clearing the cache for the Google programs (as mentioned earlier) seems to work well...temporarily at least.
Not getting the google services drain, but the new map update added some bull**** wakelock called nlpcollector.. no clue what its doing but its keeping the phone awake about 8 mins out of every hour. Uninstalled the update and it stopped... wtf google?
Installed and ran "Better battery stats" and took a look at the "wakelock" and it Network Location Locator that eating up my battery. I also have a HTC one and the battery lasts all day but the S4 barely makes it till noon.
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Do any of you have "Report from this device" enabled in Maps? It will use data constantly.
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Thnxs. Turned that setting off but it still drained.....Figured it out. It was a setting in location that says 'wifi and mobile location' that was causing a drain. Turned it off and only lost 3% over night instead of the 20% I usually lost before. The only thing is that now Google Now wont work unless the setting is turned on. But I can live with it for now till an update comes out.
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There is a great thread HERE with a solution to this issue. I really think you all should read it and try it out. No more Google Service battery drain from now on. :good:
Battery life on this phone is amazing under use, but only average on standby, which is the only negative thing I could say about G2. I routinely lose 2%-3% battery over night, it was the same on JB and now on KK.
I've been checking the wake locks and it is our old friend Google Services and its NlpCollectorWakeLock that keeps the phone awake about 10 minutes a day, since Google likes checking our location 1000 times a day. Turning location off doesn't help at all.
What are your experiences and how have you been dealing with this on G2 specifically? Don't just say install Wakelock Terminator, if you used it also share your experiences with it. Does Greenifying make a difference and what did you hibernate? Did you have any issues afterwards with apps that use location?
And most importantly, did it have any effect on battery life in standby?
Can't remember whether Knock On/Off feature has anything to do with the NCWL but just disable it and see what happens.
Also, down 2-3% overnite seems normal to me.
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Also, down 2-3% overnite seems normal to me.
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Normal but we had 0% even on ICS 4.2.2, and on 4.1.2 my previous phones did managed to spend 0% overnight
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Turning location off doesn't help at all.
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Yeah, constantly running Location Services bugs me off too.
Maybe you could find solution in that http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nlpwakelock-nlpcollectorwakelock-t2551846 topic, I didn't read it
Location services disable location reporting and history ... That helps decrease it (only do this if you don't use Google now location based features)... Also you can set location to device only if you want ... And greenify the Google maps app ...
... did you actually just complain about a 3% battery drain in 6-7 hours of idling or whatever you define 'night' as?...
Getting back to the topic, one of the bigger things you could do to reduce NlpCollectorWakeLock is disable Google Now. I personally don't find it very useful in my country so I never keep it on. Thus, I get that 3% battery drain overnight with WiFi on.
Turn off wifi assist in location services just set it to device only and it will be gone
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iamtha1 said:
Turn off wifi assist in location services just set it to device only and it will be gone
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Just turn off "Google Now", you'll be amazed how long your battery will last.....
Cheers
Or install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
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I think I discovered a fix to some hard to track wakelocks by the android services.
What I did:
-settings > share & connect > menu button > dlna feature > menu button > settings > uncheck share options.
Let me know! First post!