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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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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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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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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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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?
Does anyone know why this is happening? My phone deep sleeps but loses ~10% per hour. I tried replacing the battery and restoring to stock but nada
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Does anyone know why this is happening? My phone deep sleeps but loses ~10% per hour. I tried replacing the battery and restoring to stock but nada
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uuuhmmmmmm quite weird... I think that must be a hw issue.. did u contact google? does this happen with every kernel?
I got my phone from a carrier in Canada and they will not honour the warranty because I bought it outright. I have tested stock and franco
Install BetterBatteryStats and see what the other wakelocks are.
Sometimes WakelockDetector does not show every wakelock that is happening.
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Install BetterBatteryStats and see what the other wakelocks are.
Sometimes WakelockDetector does not show every wakelock that is happening.
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Look though, my device was only awake 2% of the time
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Look though, my device was only awake 2% of the time
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And look what i said, WKD does not seem to be able to see all the wakelocks, install BBS and see if you get any extra wakelocks.
If that doesn't help, i would suggest you to do a complete reflash to stock and see if it still happens on stock.
turn off your wifi when you are not using it. there is a constant drain with a wifi connection.
Drain is STILL there with wifi and everything off (airplane mode)
I installed BetterBatteryStats and everything seems normal. In a 1 hour period the largest offender was msm_hsic_host and sns_async_evwakelock and suspend_backoff with a total of 4 min.
It seems to drain the same whether I use the phone or not.
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If that doesn't help, i would suggest you to do a complete reflash to stock and see if it still happens on stock.
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I have tried restoring to stock. Drain still remains
Anyone have any ideas? Here is more info
I was after a red light I bought a new battery because I wanted everything back. but after replacing. the phone loses all the time very fast.i think is battery fault. I tried all the ROM and the kernel and does not help
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Seems like the exact same issue. Have you tried using another battery? I am being sent another battery to replace the one I bought so I will try that when it arrives.
I not tried yet. I wait for the 4.4 ROM and if not help i buy new battery but from someone else
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I have a question. as you put the batteries you put blue tape too? It's a bit strange but maybe this is the reason because I threw my to the trash.it is called blue anti-electrostatic discharge tape
What blue tape? Do you are exepriencing usb connection problems too? I have all those symptoms after I've replaced my battery, and also the usb stopped working
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w.etradesupply.com/blog/how-to-replace-nexus-4-battery/
Step number 5 blue tape
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Well, I didn't replace mine.. Could it be the culprit? Where can we buy that tape?
I doubt the tape is the issue.
Have any of you tried using another new 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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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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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.
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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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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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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?