Any advice on how to conserve battery life on stock mf3? Not interested in rooting right now. My phone seemed to came shipped with mf3 and im hearing its a pain to root...
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It's not a pain to root...It's impossible to root right now. Location services and the amount of syncing of accounts is what I play with to reduce battery usage. Turn location services off if you don't need it and sync less often.
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In addition to jd1639's comments;
If I'm able to use wi-fi, I'll switch it on and turn of "Mobile Data", and vice versa.
Power Saver mode is on.
Screen brightness is at lowest possible setting and Auto.
Signout of google talk/hangouts. Turn gps off. Turn any app notifications off (I.e. facebook)
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Ever since I updated to 4.2 and especially 4.2.1, battery life has not been the same. Today I went from 100% last night to 73% in 22 hours just in standby. I didn't change any settings that I can remember. Can anyone please help with this?
Thanks,
wws12
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I had the same battery issues on 4.2 in standby...even with wifi disabled. I ended up flashing back to 4.1.2 and battery is back to normal. To me 4.1.2 is more stable and much smoother. Hopefully Google will fix these issues in the next update.
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I noticed that a large portion of the battery is being used by something called "Media server" Any idea what that is or how to turn it off?
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I'm also noticing the same sleep mode battery drain on 4.2.1,around 1% per hour..
I need to root my tablet to downgrade?
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Use media scanner root from the play site and disable the media scanner. Then this battery drain should reduce.
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Use media scanner root from the play site and disable the media scanner. Then this battery drain should reduce.
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Do I need to be rooted for this?
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Do I need to be rooted for this?
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Yes. Root access is a must.
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I think in my case most of the battery issues was from the device being new and the software stats still needed more time to be accurate, that has happened to me on my Sony tablet also..
Now I can see some real stats as I use better battery stats app for keeping track of the battery.
I use my tablet as a use when needed device because it's not my notifications device that is always connected, for that I use my smartphone. That said I turn on airplane mode when I'm not using it and sync when needed as well.
Só when my Nexus 7 is in sleep mode it has very few apps and services running other than the system ones.
So the stats I came up with are:
1% in sleep mode with airplane mode on and Google Now and Location History turned on..
And..
0.3% in sleep mode with airplane mode and Google Now plus Location History off..
So for me no Google Now as I don't need that much.. It lasts 3x more in standby without it... And the truth is, in my country Google now for me isn't that useful as it is although I'm sure someday will be..
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It's strange...with stock 4.2.1 no root I haven't any battery drain... 0.7% /hour with wifi on and sync enabled...In the battery stats, even if in a hour i turn on the display on a minute, the display takes at least 40% of battery...
It is a Google service and I have disabled location services and Google Now. Does not seem to make a difference. I have looked everywhere and have come up with nothing. I have the phone set up basically the same apps as my N4 and my Nexus is crushing my G2 in battery life. Any ideas would be great on what is causing this.
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Are u talking about google service that you see when you go into battery usage options? If yes, im in the same boat as you.
What percentage of battery doew the google service use?
I would like to know how to take care if this problem as well
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I am using better battery stats and it is partial wake lock I guess I did not bother looking at the overall usage. I am trying a few more things and will report back later.
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add me to the list of people this is driving nutzo.
Question, when you go to google sync under settings/accounts and sync, does it show that 'sync is not available at this time?'
I wonder if that could be causing it?
I am waiting for my case to make it my daily driver but last night I tinkered and went and set up all my Google apps and changed my Google plus photo to only upload on charger. When I turned it off it was deep sleeping and and that wake lock was no where to be found. If anyone wants to try this and see if it helps.
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I am waiting for my case to make it my daily driver but last night I tinkered and went and set up all my Google apps and changed my Google plus photo to only upload on charger. When I turned it off it was deep sleeping and and that wake lock was no where to be found. If anyone wants to try this and see if it helps.
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Thats how i've had mine set from the beginning. weird. I'll mess around with it and see if it changes things.
Well my phone seems to be deep sleeping once again. My guess is setting up all my Google apps fixed it Still have some work to do get my deep sleep better but it is not awake all the time now.
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Alright. I'm getting horrible battery life. Do you guys have any tips? Even after a data wipe its still bad. And tips specifics to this phone or general ones? Thanks
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Are you in an area with poor reception?
You can try turning GPS and WiFi off when not in use.
You can also root your phone and feeeze/remove bloatware.
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Get wake lock detector and you can find what is draining your battery
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Well I had good service but had to wipe it and now it seems like my service is terrible and it drops all the time
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Well I had good service but had to wipe it and now it seems like my service is terrible and it drops all the time
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I had the same issues after my update. I then went and froze mobeam, all Knox services, enterprise.knox, knoxs.eventmanager, and a Security wipe apk. Let my note drain all the way until it powered down. Let it charge full cycle while turned off. So far work 1hr and 45 mins of on screen on time I'm down 15%. I feel like that's decent. Been on xda app pretty heavy and 2 different games straight with no screen timeouts
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Alright. I'm getting horrible battery life. Do you guys have any tips? Even after a data wipe its still bad. And tips specifics to this phone or general ones? Thanks
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Best tip I can give in general, whether you're experiencing bad battery life or not, is to learn how to bring down the Google based wakelocks across play store, youtube, account sync, maps, hangouts/talk etc
So how does one do this? First, do the obvious by going into each Google app - Menu key - settings - and untick things such as annoymous usage data, google mob ads etc. Delete apps you don't use if you're rooted too.
Disable Account Sync altogether if you can, location services in gps settings, bluetooth, nfc
More advanced things you can do is learn about "wakelocks" here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827676
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I had the same issues after my update. I then went and froze mobeam, all Knox services, enterprise.knox, knoxs.eventmanager, and a Security wipe apk. Let my note drain all the way until it powered down. Let it charge full cycle while turned off. So far work 1hr and 45 mins of on screen on time I'm down 15%. I feel like that's decent. Been on xda app pretty heavy and 2 different games straight with no screen timeouts
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thanks, i have 30min of screen time and down 15%
As per the title, I am finding on a daily basis that I am only getting 14-15 hours Max.
I only have one homescreen with no Widgets on it.
I have 3 mail accounts, 2 are exchange, 1 Gmail.
No live wallpaper,
Been in a good signal area most of the time, send maybe 10 texts a day, very few calls. No music listening, no picture taking.
Phone is a uk phone d802 supplied by 3 but reflashed with generic open firmware to remove 3 bloat.
Any ideas what's going on or how I try to resolve it?
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Don't know if this helps to see where problem is
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Might be an app sucking the battery or a bad flash. Try reflashing the firmware. Do a factory reset before the flash and one afterwards.
Also, install GSAM battery monitor.
Disabling knock on might help as well. However if you do find a solution without disabling knock on please let me know.
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try regular procedure found everywhere on how to determine wakelock.
also check for battery unfriendly settings. like email sync settings, push is friendliest, check-in every minute keeps phone awake lol.
but most importantly, state what you do in these 14 hours. How many is the screen on. etc.
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It seems Google services is the culprit,disable locations,hangout,google search,android device manager....
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It seems Google services is the culprit,disable locations,hangout,google search,android device manager....
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I think I can do this from the standard task manager can't I? Sure there is an option to stop services. Don't really use Google now so will not miss that.
Screen time on from my screenshot yesterday was 12% don't know if that's considered high etc.
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try regular procedure found everywhere on how to determine wakelock.
also check for battery unfriendly settings. like email sync settings, push is friendliest, check-in every minute keeps phone awake lol.
but most importantly, state what you do in these 14 hours. How many is the screen on. etc.
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Have two exchange accounts that are push and one Gmail set for every hour.
Generally just viewing Facebook, bit of browsing and 1-2 calls a day if about 5mins. Occasionally streaming tv services for about 30 mind.
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Try turning off reporting and history in Google location settings. As helped my phones battery tremendously.
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yeah, set Gmail to push,
turn in settings locations off
in Google settings also
turn backup off,
reboot, check if settings were saved
install betterbatterystats from play or this forum. with that check kernel and partials. Google what they are and mean.
Also check deep sleep percentage in cpu spy. should be, pending you keeping awake around 95% in period off charger.
success
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yeah, set Gmail to push
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How? I can't set it to exchange anymore. Only imap works
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yeah maybe ignore that Gmail suggestion
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If I Want Increase Battery Life . What Should I Do For That..
Anyone Giving This Battery Life Like Me :crying:
Not so far but have u turned on ur gps, data connection, wifi, etc?
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Not so far but have u turned on ur gps, data connection, wifi, etc?
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No Only Wifi Look .. Wifi Only 1 Hour... OK & You ?
Thats weird. Did you check the battery? Is it fine?
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My phone gives me a good time though my wifi stays on
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Maybe its because of the Samsung applications. They sync a lot.
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Try turning off or disabling samsung apps. Are any sensors turned on? NFC?
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Try turning off or disabling samsung apps. Are any sensors turned on? NFC?
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Everyone Getting This Battery Life
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2740656
Check Out ......:silly:
Weird :x
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There must be something done about it. Let me check every poat I can find.
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My battery life has gone to hell since the 2nd 4.4.2 update on [email protected] last week. I was getty 36 to 48 hours every time. As soon as the new update went in things changed the next day. Now I am lucky to get10 to 12 hours out of it. I have started pulling app but nothing has worked.
The battery drain on my once perfect S4 is now worse then on my LG Thrill!
Some things that helped control my battery in Kit Kat
In KitKat Google changed how location services works which seems to cause a lot of the battery drain issues. If you have Wi-Fi turned off during sleep, apps are likely trying to get your location using GPS which will easily drain your battery. It seems like even with Location Services is turned off that some apps can still continue to try and request location. Personally I like using the location services and that many apps use in Android so completely disabling wasn't an option for me.
I've played around with it quite a bit myself and found these settings have helped me::
-Leaving Google Location Services on at High Accuracy has been better on my phone's battery life.
-Leave Wi-Fi always on if it's available. (Use something like Llama or Tasker to automatically turn Wi-Fi on and off.)
-Setup My Places in Locations that correspond to Wi-Fi, etc
-Try uninstalling/reinstalling updates to Google Search, Google Play Services and Google Play Store
-Go through your apps and uninstall anything you aren't using or is not from a reputable developer. A lot of apps seem to have keep awake and location permission enabled by default that don't need it. You won't see these apps in the battery screen because they hide behind tiny wake lock requests and Google Play Services.
Another tip for saving battery is to use LLama or Tasker to disable Account Syncs any time you disconnect from a Wi-Fi network.
Good Luck and Cheers