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hey you guys, i was trying to turn wifi on my phone off today and when i went into settings, the wifi icon was on the "green on" switch, but it was kinda grayed out so it wouldnt let me turn it off. do any of you know what the problem could be? thanks, also my hd2s battery dies really fast, it only lasts a few hours and drains really bad when im listening to music , even with the screen turned off, i know that battery problems have been posted all over the forums but has any fix been released? or should i just get a new battery? thanks
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hey you guys, i was trying to turn wifi on my phone off today and when i went into settings, the wifi icon was on the "green on" switch, but it was kinda grayed out so it wouldnt let me turn it off. do any of you know what the problem could be? thanks, also my hd2s battery dies really fast, it only lasts a few hours and drains really bad when im listening to music , even with the screen turned off, i know that battery problems have been posted all over the forums but has any fix been released? or should i just get a new battery? thanks
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You Battery is Dying fast because of the WiFi being left on. Try to re-install the ROM. Also please give more info regarding the ROM you are using. So I could help you further.
The wifi icon being gray means it's turning on or of but in your case I believe it's simply stuck. If reboot doen't do a trick, reinstall ROM or install another one.
Hi
After updating to android 4.3 at my GT-I9505 I noticed a very high battery drain.
I can do almost nothing and the device will go like 30% after half a day or so.
I disabled already the reading mode and wifi.
I put the screen brightness on automatic.
I don't know what to do more. On 4.2.2 I had better battery life but I can't go back because of the Knox and also I don't want.
What do you suggest? What more options to disable?
Thanks
Meyhemg said:
Hi
After updating to android 4.3 at my GT-I9505 I noticed a very high battery drain.
I can do almost nothing and the device will go like 30% after half a day or so.
I disabled already the reading mode and wifi.
I put the screen brightness on automatic.
I don't know what to do more. On 4.2.2 I had better battery life but I can't go back because of the Knox and also I don't want.
What do you suggest? What more options to disable?
Thanks
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Hi.
U can refer to my posts here what has been draining yr battery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47410352&postcount=2 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47410796&postcount=12
Cheers..
Hey there!
I flashed the official Lollipop (Germany) rom that is posted in the Note 4 General forum two days ago without doing a factory reset. Right now, I am experiencing horrible battery life. GSAM reports that the phone radio is using 35% of the battery life. I also see the 4G icon blinking every few seconds, indicating that mobile data is being used. How can I solve this? My battery life was perfect before flashing Lollipop...
Many thanks in advance!
Screenshot just in case:
Maybe you should try a factory reset.
Although I updated without resetting and one of my friends did a full wipe before and after, and we both see a decrease in battery life. Nothing too horrible, but noticeable. So I think it's just Lollipop. After all, even the Nexus devices have been having battery issues with it.
See if a factory reset helps you, worth a shot.
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Maybe you should try a factory reset.
Although I updated without resetting and one of my friends did a full wipe before and after, and we both see a decrease in battery life. Nothing too horrible, but noticeable. So I think it's just Lollipop. After all, even the Nexus devices have been having battery issues with it.
See if a factory reset helps you, worth a shot.
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Thanks for your advice. I will be sure to give it a shot. A decrease in battery life is pretty bad if you ask me. I thought Project Volta was supposed to improve battery life, not decrease it. And definitely not as much as is happening to me. By the way, the phone radio is still constantly active. I hope a fix will be out soon.
Can you check your Power Saving menu? I have similar problems with all apps that are using mobile data. Their Total connection time is really long even though I have used them for a few minutes.
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asbozh said:
Can you check your Power Saving menu? I have similar problems with all apps that are using mobile data. Their Total connection time is really long even though I have used them for a few minutes.
Sent from my SM-N910C
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Unfortunately a factory reset didn't help. My battery is still draining way too fast.. I can get around three and a half ours screen on time. Previously that was around five hours. I will check the total connection time later on when my battery has drained a bit!
Horrible battery drain in my handset, too. 910F model with German rom.
Flash echoe lollipop rom.waaaay better then stock.no more battery drain for me and much faster!
Formating cache partition helped me to get rid of the battery drain.
YoungStarDC said:
Hey there!
I flashed the official Lollipop (Germany) rom that is posted in the Note 4 General forum two days ago without doing a factory reset. Right now, I am experiencing horrible battery life. GSAM reports that the phone radio is using 35% of the battery life. I also see the 4G icon blinking every few seconds, indicating that mobile data is being used. How can I solve this? My battery life was perfect before flashing Lollipop...
Many thanks in advance!
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you are not alone, I hate note 4 battery life, extreme drain 1% in one minute normal usage....
bekasulaberidze said:
you are not alone, I hate note 4 battery life, extreme drain 1% in one minute normal usage....
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That sucks. It seems like this is a very serious bug in Lollipop. You'd think Google would have it figured out in 5.0.1 but that doesn't seem the case. Very annoyed by this.
YoungStarDC said:
That sucks. It seems like this is a very serious bug in Lollipop. You'd think Google would have it figured out in 5.0.1 but that doesn't seem the case. Very annoyed by this.
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downgraded to kitkat but I'm not satisfied with battery life, note3 was better
I just disable Google now and OK Google and everything is OK
gpap2004 said:
I just disable Google now and OK Google and everything is OK
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Your total connection time is back to normal on mobile data usage after this?
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gpap2004 said:
I just disable Google now and OK Google and everything is OK
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hellO!
here the same battery drain of facebook after lollipop upgrade (germany)
when i unplug wifi it starst keep stay connected to facebook and it grows even bigger than screen battery consumption.
heve you fixed it?
thanks!
I found WiFi to be the culprit for the rapid battery drain on Lollipop. Check out the following posts with my observations so far:
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After updating to Lollipop, I found that the phone behaves very differently. I have high "stay awake" times, caused by Android OS, even on Ultra Power Saving Mode. However, screen on time is still close to 4 hours, which is what I was getting on KK with my usage.
Before people jump in and say I need go factory reset, no I don't, there's another Note 4 in my home right now that was wiped before and after the update and shows the same symptoms.
Also I did install Gsam, but I'm not rooted, so it didn't give me more information than the stock battery stats page.
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UPDATE: I think I found the culprit. It's the WiFi. What I did today was charge my phone to 100%, switch WiFi off, disconnect from the charger and reboot. Then went about using it as usual, only I didn't turn WiFi on at all, not even for a second (weirdly enough, the battery stats report WiFi being on briefly at times, but that's another Lollipop bug).
The results were a big increase of SOT (+1 hour, see my previous post for comparison), no more permanent wakelock and increased standby time.
My findings are consistent with reports from Nexus users, claiming WiFi on Lollipop is a battery killer, even on 5.0.1, which was supposed to be an update to fix said issue.
Now, not turning on the WiFi is not really a viable solution for me, as I don't have an unlimited data plan, so I sure hope Samsung will fix this problem soon.
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Below are screenshots showing battery behaviour with WiFi on (first 3 images) and with WiFi off.
It's important to point out that simply turning WiFi off doesn't appear to bring battery drain back to normal.
Turning WiFi off and rebooting fixes the issue, so long as you don't turn WiFi on again.
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I found WiFi to be the culprit for the rapid battery drain on Lollipop. Check out the following posts with my observations so far:
Below are screenshots showing battery behaviour with WiFi on (first 3 images) and with WiFi off.
It's important to point out that simply turning WiFi off doesn't appear to bring battery drain back to normal.
Turning WiFi off and rebooting fixes the issue, so long as you don't turn WiFi on again.
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i thik i have another problem.
mine is only in 3g. no wake problem.
marci4na said:
i thik i have another problem.
mine is only in 3g. no wake problem.
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KitKat or Lollipop?
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KitKat or Lollipop?
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LOLLIPOP
I've started to have very poor battery life 7 days after installing the DBT lollipop. 60% after 4 hrs use today. It was good at first but has been getting worse by the day. Something was making the phone get hot just now so restarted and its cool shortly afterwards. However I cannot identfy what it was causing the overheating.
Is it worth trying to wipe the cache? I did a factory reset after the install as it was boot looping. I really do not want to reset it weekly! Google is crap at backing up all the apps - 160 out of 196 were reinstalled after the factory restart. Very poor.
Hey guys. First proper charge from around 3% too 100% and I'm getting battery drain already, I thought this issue was resolved in lollipop? Not the mention the emense heat that comes off of this device
Check out the picture and get back to me. Thanks.
Jack
Same thing is happening to me... I don't find that the drain is really so bad, as I still get pretty great battery life, but does appear that this issue is still present in lollipop. Seems pretty wide spread among Android users.
I had an iphone for about 5 months. Went back to android and the problem still persists I got 3.5 hours of screen on time yesterday. Take a look at this
Also getting battery drain, the main offender seems to be the "mobile standby" which is always around 50-65% for me.
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Also getting battery drain, the main offender seems to be the "mobile standby" which is always around 50-65% for me.
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I think this was an error in reporting in the stock firmware, I haven't had a problem with the battery, in fact it's been really good. Since updating to B132 (GRA-L09) the battery usage seems to be reported correctly.
Interesting, I'm not sure what the normal drain should be then. My HTC One had a pretty good battery life, but it seems with this phone the battery drains quite fast when I'm using Chrome and WhatsApp etc. The power saver reports Chrome uses a max of around 10% but the rest use very little %, yet it seems I'm using around 30-40% of the battery in around half an hour.
Do you think using a custom rom (when they become available) would be any different?
Not sure if a custom rom would help. Are you rooted? If so you should have a look at betterbatterystats which should show you what's using up the battery.
When I'm mostly on wifi I can get 5 hours of screen time with 32+ hours running time.
i have the same problem with the "mobile standby" batery drain
i did a clear data/cache then factory reset, and now it's ok
androyd system still drain batery pretty much
sorry for my bad english
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Not sure if a custom rom would help. Are you rooted? If so you should have a look at betterbatterystats which should show you what's using up the battery.
When I'm mostly on wifi I can get 5 hours of screen time with 32+ hours running time.
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Was going to wait for a few roms to be released before rooting, but the battery life seems so poor I think I'll do it just to find out.
I've had the same Problem with the battery drain and analysed this with the Wakelock Detektor (needs root). Cause was the "NlpWakeLock" thats part of the Google Services. Then I disable the Google Location History everything went well. They are a lot of of useres, who have the same problem. The only real solution (If you want to use the Location history) is a Xposed module for that you need a working Xposed framework.
I have now disabled Google location history, hopefully this fixes the problem for me too.
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I have now disabled Google location history, hopefully this fixes the problem for me too.
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how did you disable the location history?
hebbe said:
how did you disable the location history?
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Google settings > Location > Google Location History :good:
Hi guys, i have problem with drain too - Android system is 36 % and doesnt fall down. What can i do? Please help
Hi guys, I've a problem with battery, I've the operative system and play service always over the first at 18% and the second over at 22%, also the stand-by is under 6%? I've try the hard reset but nothing has changed. Have you a possible solution? Thanks so much :good:
mirost1 said:
Hi guys, i have problem with drain too - Android system is 36 % and doesnt fall down. What can i do? Please help
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zar marco said:
Hi guys, I've a problem with battery, I've the operative system and play service always over the first at 18% and the second over at 22%, also the stand-by is under 6%? I've try the hard reset but nothing has changed. Have you a possible solution? Thanks so much :good:
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have you guys find the solution? ill kill myself, the battery is horrible now, thanks for answer
Its lolipop, i think 6.0 will fix this.
So I have my phone like 4 days now and the first day I immediately noticed that when I turn off the screen it drains battery like hell (60+% in one night). It's like the cpu doesn't go to sleep at all.. Sometimes it works fine and looses like 5% at night that's fine for me but then the next day it will loose 10+ % in one hour by doing nothing...
The phone is pure stock, I changed nothing, no root or anything...
This is really annoying have no idea what it could be that drains so much battery.. Already looked if an app was draining but no...
Someone has the same problem? Or maybe knows how to fix this?
Clear the cache.
In case you don't know.
Turn phone off
Hold Home + Power + Volume Up till you see the Samsung logo, then let go of all buttons.
A menu should load - Navigate using vol keys and select using power button.
I had a similar issue and this fixed it for me.
Alex---1 said:
Clear the cache.
In case you don't know.
Turn phone off
Hold Home + Power + Volume Up till you see the Samsung logo, then let go of all buttons.
A menu should load - Navigate using vol keys and select using power button.
I had a similar issue and this fixed it for me.
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So did it last night but changed not much at all, at most it drains 2% less an hour..
I'm thinking if factory reset would fix it but I don't really wanna do that..
Mønsters924 said:
So I have my phone like 4 days now and the first day I immediately noticed that when I turn off the screen it drains battery like hell (60+% in one night). It's like the cpu doesn't go to sleep at all.. Sometimes it works fine and looses like 5% at night that's fine for me but then the next day it will loose 10+ % in one hour by doing nothing...
The phone is pure stock, I changed nothing, no root or anything...
This is really annoying have no idea what it could be that drains so much battery.. Already looked if an app was draining but no...
Someone has the same problem? Or maybe knows how to fix this?
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There is an excellent thread on battery life for note5 which you can use to get tips for edge plus too.Here is the link :
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-5/567125-note-5-battery-life-thread.html
Samsung has provided lot of inbuilt apps like Smart Manager which is like Clean Master you get in Play store.
Open Smart Manager ---> Click on Storage --> click on Detail ---> click on Cache data --> click delete to clean cache.
Lot of people downloaded Greeify, shutupp,wave lock detector and doze which actually use battery. After I uninstalled them battery life increased by 45 minutes.
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There is an excellent thread on battery life for note5 which you can use to get tips for edge plus too.Here is the link :
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-5/567125-note-5-battery-life-thread.html
Samsung has provided lot of inbuilt apps like Smart Manager which is like Clean Master you get in Play store.
Open Smart Manager ---> Click on Storage --> click on Detail ---> click on Cache data --> click delete to clean cache.
Lot of people downloaded Greeify, shutupp,wave lock detector and doze which actually use battery. After I uninstalled them battery life increased by 45 minutes.
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I agree. Most of the apps that promise to increase battery life degrade it further. In fact, this Paranoia of ours with battery life (keep checking every 10 minutes for battery drop) affects it further.
So, I would suggest uninstall all 3rd party apps. And do not track battery life every instant. And still if you think your battery isn't lasting long enough (check On Screen Time/ Active Time at end of day), contact Samsung.
Hello there!
I had the same problem initially. I wasn't sure which app was causing. So i did a factory reset and reconfigured everything. Now all well. So i guess the best thing would be to backup everything do a factory reset. Then carefully monitor the other app you are installing. There are few that draws lot of power for location services. Then disable that S voice wake up command thingy I am guessing it runs all the time which is not so great. Don't go for Greefiy or any apps like that. Those don't do great job unless you have a Xposed running
So I tried clearing the cache but did noting. I had GPS always on I thought maybe if I turn it off but the same changed nothing.. I don't have any "battery Monitoring" or greenify like app.. Sometimes it works fine but othertimes it drains like crazy doing nothing.. I will try factory reset, hope that will fix this..
Same was here
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So I tried clearing the cache but did noting. I had GPS always on I thought maybe if I turn it off but the same changed nothing.. I don't have any "battery Monitoring" or greenify like app.. Sometimes it works fine but othertimes it drains like crazy doing nothing.. I will try factory reset, hope that will fix this..
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Hello mate. I faced the same battery drain problem. It wasn't going to deep sleep when screen was off. Last night 6-7 hours screen was off but the device wasted my %19 battery so result was missing the alarm and got late to work etc. Then I rooted and flashing the Arter97 kernel solved this(Now draining about %3). The device is now sleeping deeply like a deeply sleeping baby when screen is off lol.
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Hello mate. I faced the same battery drain problem. It wasn't going to deep sleep when screen was off. Last night 6-7 hours screen was off but the device wasted my %19 battery so result was missing the alarm and got late to work etc. Then I rooted and flashing the Arter97 kernel solved this(Now draining about %3). The device is now sleeping deeply like a deeply sleeping baby when screen is off lol.
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How did you root it? I'm on G928F and didn't find anything else that the stock autoroot kernel but not sure about it..
Go to arter97 thread in android development and you will find what you seek.
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Or the how to topic in general discussion section
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Hello mate. I faced the same battery drain problem. It wasn't going to deep sleep when screen was off. Last night 6-7 hours screen was off but the device wasted my %19 battery so result was missing the alarm and got late to work etc. Then I rooted and flashing the Arter97 kernel solved this(Now draining about %3). The device is now sleeping deeply like a deeply sleeping baby when screen is off lol.
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So I flashed Kernel and rooted the phone (bricked it by the way with that stupid FRP LOCK but recovered it ��) and I noticed no difference in the battery drain in deep sleep it continues to drain like hell I don't understand...
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So I flashed Kernel and rooted the phone (bricked it by the way with that stupid FRP LOCK but recovered it ��) and I noticed no difference in the battery drain in deep sleep it continues to drain like hell I don't understand...
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It's weird. Did u check the arter kernel flashed properly, cpu governor switched to interactive and 'Deep sleep' isn't in 'Unused Cpu States' ? I ask that because my device doesn't waste much battery when the device is in deep sleep(already said). Dunno man I couldn't help any more. Good luck.
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It's weird. Did u check the arter kernel flashed properly, cpu governor switched to interactive and 'Deep sleep' isn't in 'Unused Cpu States' ? I ask that because my device doesn't waste much battery when the device is in deep sleep(already said). Dunno man I couldn't help any more. Good luck.
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Took a screen from my kernel so yeah I guess it flashed properly but how do i check governor and cpu states?
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Took a screen from my kernel so yeah I guess it flashed properly but how do i check governor and cpu states?
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Yeah flashing is ok. You can download any kernel app. I'm using Kernel Aduitor, Kcontrol, Trickster Mod Kernel Settings apps. Basically download the first one from Play Store.
Thanks so governor is interactive but in unused cpu states I have nothing just "-"
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Thanks so governor is interactive but in unused cpu states I have nothing just "-"
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So check the deep sleep usage. How long time it have used.
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So check the deep sleep usage. How long time it have used.
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Okay I'll show you tomorrow will charge up the phone now and let it sit until tomorrow morning and see how much deep sleep it had and how much buttery he drained
The thing is before I flashed the kernel I looked at the deep sleep and it seemed like it deep sleep correctly.. I don't get it
I'm always the only bastard who gets a phone with a problem that nobody else has ????
lol. Good luck mate
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lol. Good luck mate
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So it's been a couple weeks now and I managed to get a little bit better battery life, drains 15-20% over night before it drained something like 60 70% but battery life is still poor some guys get 7 to 9h SOT I'm can be happy if I get 4 5h..
I'm running custom rom arter kernel tried everything but nothing really fixes completely my problem.. Start to think I have a faulty phone..