[Q] High battery drain since installing MIUI 5 theme in apex launcher - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am not 100% if the issue is this theme in apex or if my battery is becoming defective, the phone / battery is only about 4 - 5 months old though.
Since installing the miui 5 theme and running applying it in apex i have found my battery is going down very fast, the only thing is i am not 100% its definitely that but seems like it may be the obvious thing if its not a battery error.
Can anyone tell me if the miui 5 theme through apex should bring a higher battery drain or should there be no effect at all, and therefore my issue is totally unrelated and i need to look elsewhere for the issue?
thanks
james

james_lpool said:
I am not 100% if the issue is this theme in apex or if my battery is becoming defective, the phone / battery is only about 4 - 5 months old though.
Since installing the miui 5 theme and running applying it in apex i have found my battery is going down very fast, the only thing is i am not 100% its definitely that but seems like it may be the obvious thing if its not a battery error.
Can anyone tell me if the miui 5 theme through apex should bring a higher battery drain or should there be no effect at all, and therefore my issue is totally unrelated and i need to look elsewhere for the issue?
thanks
james
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It should not drain the battery get Wake lock detector from Google play that will show you the problem

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Someting interesting I found about CM6 ROM...

Not sure if this is the culprit of my battery drain even if I used setCPU (with screen off profile) and/or UltimateJuice, I still get somewhat not too good battery life on CM6. So today just surfing the net and found GDE a new home screen which pretty slick, and decided to try it out. So after running GDE for a while, my batter seems to be better for some reason.
So my thought would be that ADW launcher is the culprit because after GDE, I don't use ADW anymore and when I was with ADW, batter seems bad.
Anyone can confirm this?
vboyz103 said:
Not sure if this is the culprit of my battery drain even if I used setCPU (with screen off profile) and/or UltimateJuice, I still get somewhat not too good battery life on CM6. So today just surfing the net and found GDE a new home screen which pretty slick, and decided to try it out. So after running GDE for a while, my batter seems to be better for some reason.
So my thought would be that ADW launcher is the culprit because after GDE, I don't use ADW anymore and when I was with ADW, batter seems bad.
Anyone can confirm this?
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I'd like to see the answer to this.
Although if you'd like a TRUE battery saving ROM, try Fresh's 3.2.0.0 (donators only) that is based off the HTC's latest 3.28.651.1 build along with a MUCH IMPROVED HTC kernel (BIG DIFERENCE ON BATTERY LIFE, AND MORE STABILIZED with Youtube, video recording, etc)
So as of now I'd prefer using Fresh when it comes to battery life (using ADW launcher), but when it comes to toying around...I like CM6 simply because it is SENSE-LESS.
I am getting horrid battery life on CM6 as well, seems my wifi isn't letting the phone sleep.
Had to switch to another ROM, but I really don't want to use sense...so I hope I can figure this out. After testing out a different ROM with ADW installed, I'll reload cyanogen and replace ADW with Zeam or something.
well there are ways you could test this out more. you could run a true battery test something like running a movie from 100% till it shuts down with adw and then with GDE and compare etc. I think it is a big leap to switch homes and then say adw was the cause of your battery drain without any actual test or data.
I have gotten amazing battery life using ADW and i have gotten horrible life depending on what i have running my use etc.
for those that dont want to use sense you can remove sense from your phone for the most part. while it isnt asop you dont have to use/have sense running if you remove a few apks or in Damage Control its as s imple as selecting to ban sense and rebooting

Some issues with Nils business sense rom.

I am having some issues, and hopefully you all can help. Btw, I did try reinstalling it with a full wipe again. Anyway, the issues I am having is pretty fast battery drain, and my notification led doesn't go off when I get a message or text. What can I do to fix these issues ?
Thanks.
Help please
I have had my phone since day one, and I must be the only one who has neveer ever used the notification led. I seriously never paid attention. as far as battery, i found bus z to have fantastic life with ziggys 3/11 bfs wo havs, ocd to 1.114. Check your brightness settings, i run about 25%, and do you have gps on all the time, are you using bt all the time. this is the most stable rom ive ever used.
donnyp1 said:
I have had my phone since day one, and I must be the only one who has neveer ever used the notification led. I seriously never paid attention. as far as battery, i found bus z to have fantastic life with ziggys 3/11 bfs wo havs, ocd to 1.114. Check your brightness settings, i run about 25%, and do you have gps on all the time, are you using bt all the time. this is the most stable rom ive ever used.
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No gps on, no 3rd party apps, no bt on. I just re flashed and my battery was charged to 100% and it dropped to 80% while phone was on idle. What kernel
are you using?? Also are you on version 6.2?
I think the notification led is an issue with z roms, when I've flashed them in the past I use the app blink to get it working again.
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Battery drain
Mrhorology said:
I am having some issues, and hopefully you all can help. Btw, I did try reinstalling it with a full wipe again. Anyway, the issues I am having is pretty fast battery drain, and my notification led doesn't go off when I get a message or text. What can I do to fix these issues ?
Thanks.
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I also am having very fast battery drain. I dropped brightness to 50% and I tihnk I have had GPS going all the time. I will fix that now. I also want to know should I be using Version 3.0 >>>> Download or Version 2.2 >> Download
I know that sounds like a dumb question but as far as dates go it looks like 2.2 is the latest.
It "doesn't matter" which version you use depending on what you want as both are essentially the same minus a few, subtle differences. Nils provides several battery saving tips in the first page of both roms.
Nils Business Gingersense 3.0 v2.2 is based on Sense 3.0 thus it is more resource heavy. I personally use this rom and notice more battery life (as with any rom I use) when I don't use 3g. Not everyone is in my situation but I'm a grad student and I spend a good chunk of time at home so I primarily use wifi and extend battery life.
Nils Business Gingersense 2.1/3.0 v3.0 is a mix of Sense 2.1 and Sense 3.0. It may be more toward you're liking if you can deal without several Sense 3.0 elements like widgets and rotating home screen.
What is it you do when you notice poor battery life? Also, ate you comparing your battery life to an AOSP rom?
Since I can't post in the dev thread yet....
I've had the ROM for a couple weeks with few issues. I am noticing problems with the camera saving pictures. Sometimes it's fine, other times the images don't show up for several minutes, then today, several never showed up in the gallery. Just looking through the gallery, sometimes older pictures show an error, or on some occasions, duplicate. The image never sharpens on zoom as it used to either. Tried a reboot and fixing permissions to no avail. Is there a known issue with the gallery in GB or with Sense 3 on these phones?
MyBrainHurts said:
Since I can't post in the dev thread yet....
I've had the ROM for a couple weeks with few issues. I am noticing problems with the camera saving pictures. Sometimes it's fine, other times the images don't show up for several minutes, then today, several never showed up in the gallery. Just looking through the gallery, sometimes older pictures show an error, or on some occasions, duplicate. The image never sharpens on zoom as it used to either. Tried a reboot and fixing permissions to no avail. Is there a known issue with the gallery in GB or with Sense 3 on these phones?
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Save to the SD card since there is no guarentee it wil save to internal
The man, himself!
Big fan here, NilsP. Thank you!
Regarding battery life, I've been running this ROM for a couple of weeks and am getting good battery life, but I spend most of the day on WiFi (WiFi sleep policy = Never). I use the kernel included in the ROM and the stock radio.
Go in Settings > About Phone > Battery > Battery Use, then click on the battery graph. Check the line at the bottom that says Awake and compare it to Screen On. Your phone should not be awake constantly when the screen is off. If it is, then something is preventing your phone from sleeping. You can use an app like System Panel to monitor apps and figure out which is the culprit. This has helped me identify battery-hogging apps.
After flashing from 2.2 to 2.3 my available memory has gone from 130 to about 80 something. I don't know what i'm doing wrong here. Also I don't have anatase as an option in setcpu. any help errors be greatly appreciated. I love the ROM and can't wait to see 3.5.
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I think the fast battery drain is not really the battery draining that fast. When I flashed this ROM, I had to wipe the battery stats and it slowed the drain amount down. At 1st I was losing like 10% every 10 minutes till I hit about 40% then it would hang there for most of the day. after wiping the stats it's a more accurate slow drain.
Recalibrating Your Battery Stats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656
Hope this helps, if this is not the problem then it's because I suck, but it did help my situation.

Battery Life BUG in ICS based ROMS

I've done a little research and there is a bug in the 4.0.3 AOSP release. You can see a link to this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22878#makechanges
Attached is a screenshot of the problem ocuring in ICS Passion 13.1
I am curious is anyone NOT having this issue?
Yeah, mine started couple of days ago with the same problem. Android System shows 75% battery usage.
I wonder if there is a fix for this bug. I read whatever is on the link but there is all king of possible solutions.
I'm on MIUI and this is happening quite a bit too
Yeah, My battery will be 80% I reboot and it 10% or it's10% and I reboot then it's 80%...lol
I think, 84% is the culprit. Read my post here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23766036&postcount=2223
bobshute said:
Yeah, My battery will be 80% I reboot and it 10% or it's10% and I reboot then it's 80%...lol
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I used to have that issue on CM7 many moons ago. Did a bunch of searches and someone mentioned a process call GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK somewhere on XDA, that constantly runs even after you do not choose to backup to google (at least thats what I think its for).
I used root explorer to go into /system/apps and delete the GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK. I have never had any negative effect from doing it. It fixed the Android OS sucking up battery problem. Now I make it a point to delete it after flashing a rom regardless of whether batter drain is there or not. Never had that issue since.
Try it and see what happens. You can always just move it or rename it so you can put it back if it does not solve your problem.
illego said:
I used to have that issue on CM7 many moons ago. Did a bunch of searches and someone mentioned a process call GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK somewhere on XDA, that constantly runs even after you do not choose to backup to google (at least thats what I think its for).
I used root explorer to go into /system/apps and delete the GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK. I have never had any negative effect from doing it. It fixed the Android OS sucking up battery problem. Now I make it a point to delete it after flashing a rom regardless of whether batter drain is there or not. Never had that issue since.
Try it and see what happens. You can always just move it or rename it so you can put it back if it does not solve your problem.
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I'm trying this now, I'll report back. Thanks
I'm joining this club.
Mine S2 is having the same problem since yesterday....
System uses 39% and keeps my phone awake for 6 hours now.
Would like to add a screenshot but I can't
Info:
Model: GT-I9100
Version: 4.0.3
Baseband: I9100XXLPQ
Kernel: [email protected] #3
Build: Lite'ning ROM v2.1
thaizz said:
I'm joining this club.
Mine S2 is having the same problem since yesterday....
System uses 39% and keeps my phone awake for 6 hours now.
Would like to add a screenshot but I can't
Info:
Model: GT-I9100
Version: 4.0.3
Baseband: I9100XXLPQ
Kernel: [email protected] #3
Build: Lite'ning ROM v2.1
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Post to the Google Code bug
Just wondering if there have been any discoveries or new info on this problem.
I was experiencing this bug for a long time and I thought it was a bad battery. After replacing my battery it was still happening.
Battery life is the sole reason I went from ICS Passion (4.0.3) to Slim ICS (4.0.4).
I think battery life is better now, but I've also been incrementally restoring all my apps, ensuring battery drain isn't unreasonably affected with each restore.
I have this same issue! My battery lasted up to a day yesterday and today I had to charge my phone twice. Lasted only 4 hours. Pretty ridiculous I would say! I did try removing googletransport.apk and it reduced my android os to 25% or so from 60% that's about it.
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Try using any of the ROMs on Android 4.0.4
EXROM
SLIM ICS
ZenWick
I too was on ICS Passion. I noticed a huge battery improvement when moving to the ROMs listed above (4.0.4 based)
xdaboualem said:
Try using any of the ROMs on Android 4.0.4
EXROM
SLIM ICS
ZenWick
I too was on ICS Passion. I noticed a huge battery improvement when moving to the ROMs listed above (4.0.4 based)
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I was hoping for a work around sigh .
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illego said:
I used to have that issue on CM7 many moons ago. Did a bunch of searches and someone mentioned a process call GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK somewhere on XDA, that constantly runs even after you do not choose to backup to google (at least thats what I think its for).
I used root explorer to go into /system/apps and delete the GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK. I have never had any negative effect from doing it. It fixed the Android OS sucking up battery problem. Now I make it a point to delete it after flashing a rom regardless of whether batter drain is there or not. Never had that issue since.
Try it and see what happens. You can always just move it or rename it so you can put it back if it does not solve your problem.
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Wow, this worked beautifully, thanks a mil illego.
Installed ICS Passion v13.1 a few days ago and had severe battery drainage, from 100% to 0% in 8 hours after calibration.
Looking at the battery stats I realized that the phone was always in AWAKE mode, with ANDROID SYSTEM sapping like 80%.
After renaming GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK the phone finally went into much needed sleep mode.
In hindsight, I enabled Google "Backup this Phone" during first ICS setup, and this must've tried to connect to the internet the whole time or had a process keeping the phone awake.
Brilliant fix, you made my day, thx.
I was using ICSSGS's 4.0.3 and noticing that my battery was draining pretty quick with little or no use.
I decided to try the Dark Knight 4.0.4 rom and my battery life has pretty much doubled.
No lock screen issues now either!
SlimICS!
I have been using SlimICS and have never had any batt drain issues. Googlebackup.apk is removed by default from this ROM.
I never get good battery life on a ics rom, tried on 3 different phones with 6 different roms. It looks nice but isn't battery friendly from my experience.
[bman123] said:
I never get good battery life on a ics rom, tried on 3 different phones with 6 different roms. It looks nice but isn't battery friendly from my experience.
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You must have one or more apps draining your battery.
User betterbatteryStats or "BadAss battery monitor" to check where battery is being used and whether any app is keeping the phone awake.
I agree
I have to agree. When I use a Froyo Rom my phone loses .5% per hour in idle. At times it loses a max of 1% per hour. However, with ICS ROMs I lose around 1.7% per hour. I have tried just about all ICS Roms, and all Kernels. While some are better than others, 1.7% per hour is pretty standard with any ICS. Trust me, I have no deep sleep issues, and no abnormal wakelocks. I've read all the post of saving battery life, and done them all. Roughly 1.7% per hour is what I get with any ICS Rom.
Personally, I like the look and feel of ICS so I just take the good with the bad. Can anyone shed some light on this. Why does ICS drain battery so quickly in idle vs older android versions. Or, is it just the Vibrant? Im stumped.

CM based roms have better battery life than Vanilla CM

Hey guys, i have made an observation recently.
i have been using CM nightlies for about a month or two now, and i have noticed the battery to be quite, meh
standby times are pretty terrible tbh.
so i tried carbon rom and noticed the standby times were much better along with the screen time.
with cm nightlies, i have used several battery monitoring apps and i have come to the conclusion that the phone isnt sleeping properly,
or some sort of app is waking the phone a lot, these being system apps.
can anyone confirm this? thanks
I can confirm.
But I can also confirm that no CM based comes even close to stock based roms when it comes to battery life
Same settings being used I get 5.5~6h of screen time on a stock based vs 3.5-4.25h I get on a CM. And idle times are pretty much awful on CM. Every update theres always something new draining the battery.

Source of my battery drain found: Nova Prime

Hey guys, thought I would try and leave a quick tip over something interesting I found.
The day I updated my Note 3 to the official 4.4.2 OTA, I stupidly installed Nova Launcher Prime (I should have waited before changing anything on my device so I could monitor potential battery drain issues with the new software). I started noticing that my battery would drain 20-40% more during the day than it had been doing since I got the phone in December. On a light day, I was plugging in at night with about 80% remaining, after the KK update, it was more around 50-60%. And on a full charge, I would get no more than 3 hours of screen-on time, which is pathetic considering I used to be able to get 5-6. I figured this was just Kit Kat doing its thing.
But then I started to get mad and wondered how I could solve this. After deleting some apps/games that I thought might have been running rogue processes, and changing around a few settings, I noticed no immediate benefit. I was about to just factory reset, when I realized I had installed Nova the same day I got the update. At first, Nova completely slipped my mind as a potential battery drainer, because why would a home screen replacement do that? I removed Nova from my system, rebooted, and then threw it on the charger overnight.
It's been 5 days now, and my battery life is back to where it was when I first took it out of the box. I thought this was weird, since Nova is extremely popular and not once have I ever heard about battery life complaints from the user base. Sure enough, on the Note 3 subreddit this morning, there is a post regarding Nova killing someone's battery, and a few users confirmed the same.
I chimed in there as well, but wanted to come here to let you all know that removing Nova from my system and going back to the default TW launcher gave me back a dramatic amount of my battery life which I had thought I lost due to the 4.4.2 update. I don't know if it's a Kit Kat thing, a Nova thing, or a Note 3 thing, or some combination. I know how popular the "stock" Android look is around here, and figured maybe a good deal of you guys are running Nova. If you're noticing higher than usual battery drain and have Nova, try removing it, to see if it helps.
Have you notified the dev?
undrwater said:
Have you notified the dev?
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The dev of Nova is inactive for like 6 months now. Most people think he made his money and abandon the project.
To OP,
I still love NOVA bought the prime long ago. Use it everyday on every single rom that I install on my note 3. Never the case of drain. I use it on both KK and JB rom. Granted I never use official KK rom so I can't comment on that but with all the custom roms, I haven't had a single issue. Great on battery life, smooth and fast.
Since Nova is a problem for you, I can suggest try the Apex Launcher. Both Apex and Nova are very similar to each other. Hope Apex doesn't act the same on your phone.
mutantblack said:
The dev of Nova is inactive for like 6 months now. Most people think he made his money and abandon the project.
To OP,
I still love NOVA bought the prime long ago. Use it everyday on every single rom that I install on my note 3. Never the case of drain. I use it on both KK and JB rom. Granted I never use official KK rom so I can't comment on that but with all the custom roms, I haven't had a single issue. Great on battery life, smooth and fast.
Since Nova is a problem for you, I can suggest try the Apex Launcher. Both Apex and Nova are very similar to each other. Hope Apex doesn't act the same on your phone.
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I am pretty sure he had other issues with his life is what I heard. I don't think he just took the money and ran, but that is always a possibility!
And to OP I use Nova Launcher (non prime) on and off between themer and it doesn't have much effect at all ~2% most of the time.
Maybe try reinstalling it or refreshing your phone.
Didn't notice any issues with Nova
I've been using Nova Launcher for a long time now and didn't notice any battery drains after official KK update.
Yup nova is draining almost none of my battery here.
Goes to show that each device is different.
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I've never noticed any increase in battery drain when using Nova. Been using it for years. Although I admit, I feel like changing launchers since it seems its been abandoned along with Tesla Unread and WidgetLocker. Its unfortunate. Still works well considering it hasn't been updated in 6 months and continues to work after a major OS update.
I will eventually move to Apex or just go all natural with GEL.
Thank you so much for this thread! I was so worried and thought I needed to either factory exchange, or get a warranty exchange. I, too, have been suffering from horrendous battery drain using Nova Prime since and after the Kit Kat update. Prior to the update, my battery would drain anywhere from .80 - 1% per hour. Still not the amazing life others report, but that's pretty good to me. After the Kit Kat update, my battery would drain anywhere from 3 - 4% per hour! I had no idea what was causing the issue. I had thought Kit Kat was supposed to make things better. I was looking at the system processes, but nothing seemed unusual. So glad I found this thread. I will stop using Nova and see what happens in the next 48 hours!
Ugh, two hours into reverting to stock TW, and no dice! Down to 94% battery, already! For the OP, did you have to literally COMPLETELY uninstall Nova, or did you just disable/revert back to TW or another launcher?? I'm so friggin' frustrated with this B.S.!
nova prime user here. I have had other apps be the culprit of battery drain, but not nova on 4.4.2
Is there any benefit using let's say, kcin build on 4.4 aosp over nova which is 4.0 and later? I did try kcin launcher and seems much smoother.
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I suddenly started having battery drain issues, but it was Lookout that was killing my battery 50% plus per day and the phone was sitting idle. I didn't even put Nova Launcher back on yet but I will at some point this week.
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Ugh, two hours into reverting to stock TW, and no dice! Down to 94% battery, already! For the OP, did you have to literally COMPLETELY uninstall Nova, or did you just disable/revert back to TW or another launcher?? I'm so friggin' frustrated with this B.S.!
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94% after 2 hours of use is pretty damn good. idk why you are complaining lol.
Update:
Yeah, it was almost definitely Nova draining my battery while in standby. Very very light use today, nearly half an hour of screen-on time, but my standby time is back to being fantastic.
pham818 said:
94% after 2 hours of use is pretty damn good. idk why you are complaining lol.
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And yet, you can't quote a single instance of me making any claim that I stated or insinuated, anything about "use." That's what YOU assumed. And there's a nice old saying about people who assume...
Dr. Evo said:
And yet, you can't quote a single instance of me making any claim that I stated or insinuated, anything about "use." That's what YOU assumed. And there's a nice old saying about people who assume...
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doesn't matter. you said two hours. and you still complaining.
I don't use Nova and was having major battery drain. Found it was the new FB and Google+. I reverted to an older FB and disabled G+, getting 28+ hours on a charge with decent usage.
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Just for fun I uninstalled nova and went back to apex. Major battery improvement. Weird.
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As much as I loved Nova, I switched to APEX. It bothers me to use something that I know is abandoned and will never get another update or support.
I saw that there's a new beta of Tesla Unread which adds more apps - so could be the dev hasn't completely abandoned it.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...s-for-hangouts-whatsapp-bbm-outlook-and-more/

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