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Hi all,
The battery life of my 4month old SGS is becoming shorter every week! I can 'almost' last a work day (8 hours) with a fully charged battery and minimal use.
I had this problem also on the stock firmware, Darky's rom 8.x was a slight improvement (much faster tho!), Light-ning rom and Darky's rom 9.x.
Everyday I charge my battery untill it is full, when my alarm goes off it's already at 98% (it's still hooked up). When I'm in the train to school, my battery already dropped around 86% (being idle). I check some mobile websites, my e-mail and read some twitter messages.
Because I know services as Twitter (I'm using Tweetdeck) uses alot of resources and battery, so when I'm done looking I always shut down those programs. And I often do an 'end all' task in the 'System' app which I purchased from the market lately to monitor my battery.
During the day the only thing I do is check my mail and some websites, but not for long, mostly it would be around 5minutes or so. So WiFi is turned OFF, GPS is turned OFF, and only GMail synchronizes with default settings. So what's the deal? Is my battery slowly dieing because of oldness, or is there another problem?
Thanks in advance for helping me! You're doing a great job!
Sincerely yours,
S1GNZ
after flashing your custom roms of choice... did you ever do a battery calibration?
like let your phone drain till it dies on its own... turn it on againa nd let it die again to completely drain it to the point where u cant even turn it on.
Then plug your phone in to charge and let it charge to 100%. Keeping the phone plugged in turn on your phone into recovery. Then clear battery status.
Then reboot your phone into normal mode and let it continue charging till it says 100%. WHen you unplug your phone it SHOULD say 100% still.
This normally fix the problem but if you notice that your phone is dying quickly still then PM me.
One small advice,try logging out google talk,of-course if you are not on it much,it will give you at least 2-3 hrs more.
Also,there is already a thread active on this forum 'dont kill your phone
,give it a life' give that a read.
Mainly this battery drains are there because of apps doing sync. or polling.identify them and adjust settings.
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cripez said:
after flashing your custom roms of choice... did you ever do a battery calibration?
like let your phone drain till it dies on its own... turn it on againa nd let it die again to completely drain it to the point where u cant even turn it on.
Then plug your phone in to charge and let it charge to 100%. Keeping the phone plugged in turn on your phone into recovery. Then clear battery status.
Then reboot your phone into normal mode and let it continue charging till it says 100%. WHen you unplug your phone it SHOULD say 100% still.
This normally fix the problem but if you notice that your phone is dying quickly still then PM me.
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I've been browsing these forums lately, and I've also come across a thread which advice is just the opposite and that you should NOT do this, any advice if that's true? And is it also true that deleting the batterystats helps?
GreenSGS said:
One small advice,try logging out google talk,of-course if you are not on it much,it will give you at least 2-3 hrs more.
Also,there is already a thread active on this forum 'dont kill your phone
,give it a life' give that a read.
Mainly this battery drains are there because of apps doing sync. or polling.identify them and adjust settings.
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Am I auto-logged in on Google talk? If so, how do I log myself out :$? So Google sync might drain it? (Mail, Agenda, Contacts?)
Thanks for the quick replies! I really appreciate it!
Sincerely yours,
S1GNZ
I am not 100% sure if you auto logged or not.I believe not but if not so , then open app,press menu/setting button on phone,select logout.also if you not intending to use data network,press power key till you see a menu turn off,data network,turn it on when you need it.These small things saves some power.
If you dont want to mess around with this little twiks then 'juice plotter' is the app for you.it will manage lots of things and defi. saves battery.
BTW based on your usage desc., I think I use it in similar way ...almost and yet phone makes ~2 days.
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S1GNZ said:
I've been browsing these forums lately, and I've also come across a thread which advice is just the opposite and that you should NOT do this, any advice if that's true? And is it also true that deleting the batterystats helps?
S1GNZ
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You of course wouldn't be doing this alot nor should you NEED to do this often. It's only something you do when you're experiencing what you currently are.
Personally I have no idea why anyone say u "Should NOT" do this.. it's not like you're altering anything hardware wise. It's mainly software and power usage aspects.
Like I said to each their own. Some people say custom roms are a "No-No" cuz it messes with the phone in more bads than good and some says stock roms are for noobs. You dont HAVE to try what I said, it's merely a suggestion of fix or methods that seems to solve the problems others have encountered.
Clearing the battery status pretty much resets it's counter to 100% and from there it will "calculate" the life of the battery from full to empty. It's a calibration thing.
Now on regards to usage, keep your data plan off and auto-sync off when you're not using it. Leave your wifi off and gps off as well.. pretty much keep anything you dont need off until you need it. Some samsung apps does a background run thing where it'll auto turn on and auto run in the background which drains ur battery quite badly. If you don't use goggle talk or samsung chat apps, there are many ways to remove them completely so it won't mess with your battery life
Simple you installed a rom with multiple posts on battery drain problem .
A rom that also tells you about battery drain problems /fix on its front page .
jje
GreenSGS said:
I am not 100% sure if you auto logged or not.I believe not but if not so , then open app,press menu/setting button on phone,select logout.also if you not intending to use data network,press power key till you see a menu turn off,data network,turn it on when you need it.These small things saves some power.
If you dont want to mess around with this little twiks then 'juice plotter' is the app for you.it will manage lots of things and defi. saves battery.
BTW based on your usage desc., I think I use it in similar way ...almost and yet phone makes ~2 days.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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Okay! And you're right, it logs me on when I start the app. But I logged me out, just to be sure. I know about turning of the mobile data traffic, I'll see how much it saves. I think I came across juice plotter, but I'll look into it. Thanks!
cripez said:
You of course wouldn't be doing this alot nor should you NEED to do this often. It's only something you do when you're experiencing what you currently are.
Personally I have no idea why anyone say u "Should NOT" do this.. it's not like you're altering anything hardware wise. It's mainly software and power usage aspects.
Like I said to each their own. Some people say custom roms are a "No-No" cuz it messes with the phone in more bads than good and some says stock roms are for noobs. You dont HAVE to try what I said, it's merely a suggestion of fix or methods that seems to solve the problems others have encountered.
Clearing the battery status pretty much resets it's counter to 100% and from there it will "calculate" the life of the battery from full to empty. It's a calibration thing.
Now on regards to usage, keep your data plan off and auto-sync off when you're not using it. Leave your wifi off and gps off as well.. pretty much keep anything you dont need off until you need it. Some samsung apps does a background run thing where it'll auto turn on and auto run in the background which drains ur battery quite badly. If you don't use goggle talk or samsung chat apps, there are many ways to remove them completely so it won't mess with your battery life
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Don't be offended by what I said! . I only wanted to make sure I'm doing the right thing, I appreciate your criticism though. I did what you said and fully drained my battery yesterday, kept it charging overnight, cleared the batterystats through recovery mode and at the moment it's charging till 100%. I will see if it helps!
And according to my usage, I have Wifi and GPS turned of as default. And because I reinstalled a new ROM inclusive data wipe I don't have much chat apps installed, maybe there are some default apps that don't show up in the 'System panel' app though?
JJEgan said:
Simple you installed a rom with multiple posts on battery drain problem .
A rom that also tells you about battery drain problems /fix on its front page .
jje
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Care to explain a bit further?
FYI, I installed these ROMS:
past: Stock firmware 2.2.1
past: Darky's ROM v8.0 Gingerbread edition
past: Light-ning ROM 2.2 (if I'm correct, it's probably the latest)
current: Darky's ROM v9.2 Extreme edition (9.2 should've fixed the battery drain, am I right?)
Can't thank you enough for the replies!
Sincerely yours,
S1GNZ
im having similar problems too. calibrating doesnt really make a difference.
i installed an app called task identifier which is brilliant it tell me whats happening when the phone is asleep. the only trouble is i dont understand what these processes are so i cant disable them.... is there any sort of app out there that completely logs / signs you out of every app ??
i have 108 apps (not including system apps) and its hard trying to eliminate the battery drainers
Care to explain a bit further?
As it says post lots of with battery problems big big percentage running Darky rom .
current: Darky's ROM v9.2 Extreme edition (9.2 should've fixed the battery drain, am I right?) You would have to ask on dARKY Post .
Look at Battery drain thread LAST POST OR SO MAY BE OF INTEREST .
I am of the opinion that if a rom breaks something then installing more roms will often not fix the problem . I prefer a blank completely wiped phone in such cases with no trace of any rom left on it .
jje
@azzledazzle 108 apps? really ????
I don't have that much on my PC!
I think we should start narrowing down which apps drain most juice. I've been using Advanced Task Killer just to narrow down a couple.
example:
Sound Hound - starts on its own
Facebook had an issue with notifications push, when disabled, it still sent notifications to my phone. But I think they fixed it in the latest version.
We could start adding versions to know which app is a 'juice drainer'
I recently flashed a stock 4.3 rom build I9505XXUEMJ7, and Im having a big problem with the battery, during the time when im asleep without wifi,3g and I clear all recent apps, and ram, in the morning i lose like 8% battery, and on airplane mode i lose like around 5 or 6. Is it this normal with other S4 users or could someone point me out to a better build rom or something?
alexjojo946 said:
I recently flashed a stock 4.3 rom build I9505XXUEMJ7, and Im having a big problem with the battery, during the time when im asleep without wifi,3g and I clear all recent apps, and ram, in the morning i lose like 8% battery, and on airplane mode i lose like around 5 or 6. Is it this normal with other S4 users or could someone point me out to a better build rom or something?
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Make a full wipe..
Check the Battery section in settings if there is anything anormal, like Google Play services
Aryus said:
Check the Battery section in settings if there is anything anormal, like Google Play services
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I have disabled google services and google account manager, even the google play store, cause most of my apps that i use are from apk source from my previous phone, i just cant figure out why is the battery drainage while night so high, the only time when i get nice battery life is when i go to developer options and set no background processes, but then i dont get notifications for whatsapp or facebook
alexjojo946 said:
I have disabled google services and google account manager, even the google play store, cause most of my apps that i use are from apk source from my previous phone, i just cant figure out why is the battery drainage while night so high, the only time when i get nice battery life is when i go to developer options and set no background processes, but then i dont get notifications for whatsapp or facebook
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Update latest version firmware :highfive:
Joku1981 said:
Update latest version firmware :highfive:
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Im already at MJ7, for my country there isn't a newer firmware
alexjojo946 said:
Im already at MJ7, for my country there isn't a newer firmware
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Don't know if you have other problems like the phone is rebooting without any reason or hanging during startup, if this is the case then you should change your battery because a great nr of phones are shipped with a bad battery.
Acer4605 said:
Don't know if you have other problems like the phone is rebooting without any reason or hanging during startup, if this is the case then you should change your battery because a great nr of phones are shipped with a bad battery.
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Nope, I don't have any problems, it has never crashed or randomly rebooted, except apps failed to load i downloaded from play store, but all system apps work pefect. Like I said the only way for me to get more battery life is to set no background processes in developer options, but then no push notifications from social apps
alexjojo946 said:
I recently flashed a stock 4.3 rom build I9505XXUEMJ7, and Im having a big problem with the battery, during the time when im asleep without wifi,3g and I clear all recent apps, and ram, in the morning i lose like 8% battery, and on airplane mode i lose like around 5 or 6. Is it this normal with other S4 users or could someone point me out to a better build rom or something?
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It is really difficult to diagnose a battery problem without post at least the three battery stats screenshots in battery settings. Also post here two first letters of your battery serial number.
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I am running a Note 3 bought in Sweden around the 11th of December, fully stock. Never rooted or anything. I was actually too stupid to update myself to MJ7 right when i bought it before finding out about the KNOX-debacle, but nevermind about that. What is done is done!
Batterylife has so far been alright since I bought the phone. I've managed to get around 7 hours of screen-on time in the exact same environment as these pictures have been taken in without enabling any power saving modes or going to extremes with turning off location services etc. I was very happy.
Yet lately I've been seeing that my battery life has started to get worse. I've noticed it mostly when the phone has been idle. This led me to experiment today. I've experienced the Android OS bug earlier, which caused me to factory reset the phone and start again. It disappeared for a while, but it has come back now.
The reason I am making this thread is that I cannot for the life of me figure out what inside Android OS is wakelocking my phone. I have a lot of pictures detailing my battery stats screen, with screen on times, signal strengths, location settings, google now settings, better battery stats kernel/partial wakelocks/other tabs etc. Even "Wakelock Detector" with all of its tabs are screencapped.
The wakelock times within better battery stats just do not add up to the "Android OS" wakelock time. Is there something I am not seeing, or is it maybe because I am not rooted that I cannot see more detailed info about what is wakelocking my phone? The only thing i've done today which I know wakelocks my phone, is listen to music for about 2 hours. Surely music does not count into Android OS? It is listed as another process in the battery stats..
Anyhow, if anyone has time to take a look at my screencaps to try and pinpoint what it is exactly that adds up to the "Android OS" time, I would be very greatful. This is very frustrating, as I was very sure to disable almost everything that has to do with location services etc. to see how the battery would fare during the day.
Please help me!
Thanks.
i have exactly same problem like yours. my main wakelock is resume_wakelock and sec battery monitor. i dont know what cause those 2 wakelock. i had disabled all location services and turn off gps and auto sync. do u managed to overcome this problem ?
EddieN said:
I am running a Note 3 bought in Sweden around the 11th of December, fully stock. Never rooted or anything. I was actually too stupid to update myself to MJ7 right when i bought it before finding out about the KNOX-debacle, but nevermind about that. What is done is done!
Batterylife has so far been alright since I bought the phone. I've managed to get around 7 hours of screen-on time in the exact same environment as these pictures have been taken in without enabling any power saving modes or going to extremes with turning off location services etc. I was very happy.
Yet lately I've been seeing that my battery life has started to get worse. I've noticed it mostly when the phone has been idle. This led me to experiment today. I've experienced the Android OS bug earlier, which caused me to factory reset the phone and start again. It disappeared for a while, but it has come back now.
The reason I am making this thread is that I cannot for the life of me figure out what inside Android OS is wakelocking my phone. I have a lot of pictures detailing my battery stats screen, with screen on times, signal strengths, location settings, google now settings, better battery stats kernel/partial wakelocks/other tabs etc. Even "Wakelock Detector" with all of its tabs are screencapped.
The wakelock times within better battery stats just do not add up to the "Android OS" wakelock time. Is there something I am not seeing, or is it maybe because I am not rooted that I cannot see more detailed info about what is wakelocking my phone? The only thing i've done today which I know wakelocks my phone, is listen to music for about 2 hours. Surely music does not count into Android OS? It is listed as another process in the battery stats..
Anyhow, if anyone has time to take a look at my screencaps to try and pinpoint what it is exactly that adds up to the "Android OS" time, I would be very greatful. This is very frustrating, as I was very sure to disable almost everything that has to do with location services etc. to see how the battery would fare during the day.
Please help me!
Thanks.
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try and turn of (auto network switch) it might have something to do with wifi
i may be wrong ,but no harm in trying
Here the same problem, it drains my battery in half a day
installed wakelock detector, and found out, that my note 3
never goes into deep sleep, it stays awake the whole time
For me it has nothing to do with screen -on time, Wifi or any apps
the problem is is in the android kernel system, and I do not know, how to solve this problem
last statistics : CPU time 3 u 11m 24s , Awake 10 u 28m 48 s
Tried lots of "solutions" found here on this forum, but so far no good
correct me if i am wrong, but as I understood, HTC and LG are having the same kernel / rom,
but without the google "apps", and are not having these problems
Asking Samsung is no use, a concreet wall will answer you sooner, than Samsung in the Netherlands
I wished I had a solution for this android kernel problem
I will wait for the Kitkat update, and if it will solve this problem, if not I will get myself another device
wiebew said:
Here the same problem, it drains my battery in half a day
installed wakelock detector, and found out, that my note 3
never goes into deep sleep, it stays awake the whole time
For me it has nothing to do with screen -on time, Wifi or any apps
the problem is is in the android kernel system, and I do not know, how to solve this problem
last statistics : CPU time 3 u 11m 24s , Awake 10 u 28m 48 s
Tried lots of "solutions" found here on this forum, but so far no good
correct me if i am wrong, but as I understood, HTC and LG are having the same kernel / rom,
but without the google "apps", and are not having these problems
Asking Samsung is no use, a concreet wall will answer you sooner, than Samsung in the Netherlands
I wished I had a solution for this android kernel problem
I will wait for the Kitkat update, and if it will solve this problem, if not I will get myself another device
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have u try factory reset via recovery mode ? i had read somewhere that factory reset can solve that problem but i didnt try yet
peped94 said:
have u try factory reset via recovery mode ? i had read somewhere that factory reset can solve that problem but i didnt try yet
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Hell Pepe, Tried this already several times, wiped cache and installed stock firmware twice (MJ7)
so far ,nothing, I am very glad to get good information from this forum, and hopefully I will get/ find the solution soon
maybe the problem will be solved by rooting my device and install a custom rom, but i am a bit afraid to trip knox
wiebew said:
Hell Pepe, Tried this already several times, wiped cache and installed stock firmware twice (MJ7)
so far ,nothing, I am very glad to get good information from this forum, and hopefully I will get/ find the solution soon
maybe the problem will be solved by rooting my device and install a custom rom, but i am a bit afraid to trip knox
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how do u flash stock firmware without tripping the knox ? i want to try. and how do u do factory reset ? in recovery mode or in setting ? because i also had try reset in setting but problem still exist. later ill try factory reset in recovery mode
peped94 said:
how do u flash stock firmware without tripping the knox ? i want to try. and how do u do factory reset ? in recovery mode or in setting ? because i also had try reset in setting but problem still exist. later ill try factory reset in recovery mode
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you tube has a lot of videos how to perform a factory reset or how to install stock firmware
T-mobile has a nice manual also http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-9049
when re-installing the (original samsung ) stock firmware , knox will not be tripped.
I even switched from T-mobile MJ6 to provider free firmware MJ7, without any problems,
hopefully MJ7 will get Kitkat sooner, than MJ6
peped94 said:
how do u flash stock firmware without tripping the knox ? i want to try. and how do u do factory reset ? in recovery mode or in setting ? because i also had try reset in setting but problem still exist. later ill try factory reset in recovery mode
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download stock from here www.sammobile.com flash with odin
it wont trip knox
jaythenut said:
download stock from here www.sammobile.com flash with odin
it wont trip knox
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now im on mj7, if i want to downgrade to mj1 , it will trip my knox or not ?
peped94 said:
now im on mj7, if i want to downgrade to mj1 , it will trip my knox or not ?
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You can't downgrade Sammy won't allow it anymore
jaythenut said:
You can't downgrade Sammy won't allow it anymore
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damn u samsung. haha. but if i want to flash mk1 or mk2 when im on mj7, is it trip my knox ? i mean if i want to flash newer firmware than my current firmware
Upgrading won't trip KNOX no.
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radicalisto said:
Upgrading won't trip KNOX no.
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are u sure ? because i have read that whenever we upgrade or downgrade our firmware, knox will be changed to 0x1. but im not sure if we just reflash the same stock firmware
peped94 said:
damn u samsung. haha. but if i want to flash mk1 or mk2 when im on mj7, is it trip my knox ? i mean if i want to flash newer firmware than my current firmware
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no flashing stock will not trip knox
EddieN said:
I am running a Note 3 bought in Sweden around the 11th of December, fully stock. Never rooted or anything. I was actually too stupid to update myself to MJ7 right when i bought it before finding out about the KNOX-debacle, but nevermind about that. What is done is done!
Batterylife has so far been alright since I bought the phone. I've managed to get around 7 hours of screen-on time in the exact same environment as these pictures have been taken in without enabling any power saving modes or going to extremes with turning off location services etc. I was very happy.
Yet lately I've been seeing that my battery life has started to get worse. I've noticed it mostly when the phone has been idle. This led me to experiment today. I've experienced the Android OS bug earlier, which caused me to factory reset the phone and start again. It disappeared for a while, but it has come back now.
The reason I am making this thread is that I cannot for the life of me figure out what inside Android OS is wakelocking my phone. I have a lot of pictures detailing my battery stats screen, with screen on times, signal strengths, location settings, google now settings, better battery stats kernel/partial wakelocks/other tabs etc. Even "Wakelock Detector" with all of its tabs are screencapped.
The wakelock times within better battery stats just do not add up to the "Android OS" wakelock time. Is there something I am not seeing, or is it maybe because I am not rooted that I cannot see more detailed info about what is wakelocking my phone? The only thing i've done today which I know wakelocks my phone, is listen to music for about 2 hours. Surely music does not count into Android OS? It is listed as another process in the battery stats..
Anyhow, if anyone has time to take a look at my screencaps to try and pinpoint what it is exactly that adds up to the "Android OS" time, I would be very greatful. This is very frustrating, as I was very sure to disable almost everything that has to do with location services etc. to see how the battery would fare during the day.
Please help me!
Thanks.
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Hello EddieN,
Found this on the forum, Under Apps > Settings > Wi-Fi > Menu > Advanced there are two options that should help this: "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" and "Always allow scanning" I set the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to Never and unchecked Always allow scanning and rebooted the phone. This stopped my battery from draining fast, however this is not the solution where was hoping for, maybe Kitkat will solve the problem
kind regards
wiebew said:
Hello EddieN,
Found this on the forum, Under Apps > Settings > Wi-Fi > Menu > Advanced there are two options that should help this: "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" and "Always allow scanning" I set the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to Never and unchecked Always allow scanning and rebooted the phone. This stopped my battery from draining fast, however this is not the solution where was hoping for, maybe Kitkat will solve the problem
kind regards
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Hello, thank you for the tip and happy new year!
I tried it, but it didn't work. Wifi is on all the time since the phone never sleeps. I just checked my phone again, and it's been on for about 4 hours. It hasn't entered deep sleep not even 1 minute out of that time. This is getting ridiculous. Screenshots from BBS are attached. As you can see, Kernel and Partial Wakelocks just don't add up to the "Awake" time.. Why is this? What is keeping my phone awake?
I'm seriously getting desperate. I'm considering just tripping knox and dealing with it properly with a custom rom/kernel combination that rids the phone of these problems. Is KitKat due this month? Or is it february? I may wait for it but something tells me it wont solve the issues we are having.
Cheers
peped94 said:
i have exactly same problem like yours. my main wakelock is resume_wakelock and sec battery monitor. i dont know what cause those 2 wakelock. i had disabled all location services and turn off gps and auto sync. do u managed to overcome this problem ?
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me too, have you settle this problem yet?
Did you try: Settings - wifi - advanced - turn off scanning always available & auto network switch and network notification
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billythegod said:
me too, have you settle this problem yet?
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yes. finally my battery life back to normal. just updated to the latest firmware in my country and do a factory reset in recovery mode. now no more drain like hell but still android os consume about 10-15% but sec battery monitor and resume wakelock no more on top in wakelock detector. i also can get about 7hours 300min screen on time with 1day standby time
I'm starting to think the goodness of the Note 3 battery is becoming a joke. What I did was clear my cache partition and did a factory reset after from the recovery menu. I have not installed any other apps yet. I just set up dropbox, play books, email, etc. Normal things for normal use.
I did a reset because my battery was draining before and I thought a reset could resolve it. I need to ask for solutions as this is really giving me a headache.
Don't ask if I have turned off this or that, most probably I did as I read from multiple threads. Those threads are only guessing or otherwise throwing the OP in a loop for the search of answers.
Xda, I need your help to figure out how to SOLVE this stupid drain.
Note on the screenshot: I took that screen after 30 mins after plugging it out. It drained 2% while I was doing absolutely nothing but stare at the Android System bar graph go higher. Its like a plague for the damn phone.
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I installed BBS and here are screenshots of the partial and kernel wakelock. Is this normal though? This happened while I was sleeping overnight and I have not installed any apps other than BBS. This is how my stats were before and my battery is draining fast especially when I'm using my phone.
Thing is, I have set all measures possible to extend battery life non rooted and it goes down by the minute of light use.
Pokkle said:
I'm starting to think the goodness of the Note 3 battery is becoming a joke. What I did was clear my cache partition and did a factory reset after from the recovery menu. I have not installed any other apps yet. I just set up dropbox, play books, email, etc. Normal things for normal use.
I did a reset because my battery was draining before and I thought a reset could resolve it. I need to ask for solutions as this is really giving me a headache.
Don't ask if I have turned off this or that, most probably I did as I read from multiple threads. Those threads are only guessing or otherwise throwing the OP in a loop for the search of answers.
Xda, I need your help to figure out how to SOLVE this stupid drain.
Note on the screenshot: I took that screen after 30 mins after plugging it out. It drained 2% while I was doing absolutely nothing but stare at the Android System bar graph go higher. Its like a plague for the damn phone.
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at least should mentioned ur model n900 or n9005!?
anyway i did this for my N900 after i got battery draining once and it solve problem;
when it discharge to ~15% turn it off and connect it to charger and let it charging 100%
it can help battery to charge without using it at same time
i mentioned it before several times (in another threads) it s like re-gauging battery.
another thing u can do is flashing another stock firmware
but search for the more stable firmware.
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Sorry! I have the SM-N9005. Bought from the Philippines (Smart carrier)
Pokkle said:
I'm starting to think the goodness of the Note 3 battery is becoming a joke. What I did was clear my cache partition and did a factory reset after from the recovery menu. I have not installed any other apps yet. I just set up dropbox, play books, email, etc. Normal things for normal use.
I did a reset because my battery was draining before and I thought a reset could resolve it. I need to ask for solutions as this is really giving me a headache.
Don't ask if I have turned off this or that, most probably I did as I read from multiple threads. Those threads are only guessing or otherwise throwing the OP in a loop for the search of answers.
Xda, I need your help to figure out how to SOLVE this stupid drain.
Note on the screenshot: I took that screen after 30 mins after plugging it out. It drained 2% while I was doing absolutely nothing but stare at the Android System bar graph go higher. Its like a plague for the damn phone.
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The joys of Android!
Wakelock detector and BetterBatteryStats are your best friend in regards to stuff like that. - Usually it's Alarmmanager or something similar that causes it. What generally fixed it for me was switching ROMS
radicalisto said:
The joys of Android!
Wakelock detector and BetterBatteryStats are your best friend in regards to stuff like that. - Usually it's Alarmmanager or something similar that causes it. What generally fixed it for me was switching ROMS
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The joys Android bring me alright...
I downloaded bbs and will check after I wake up!
*rooting, switching roms and other watchamacallit are out of my comfort zone atm. I am trying to read about them alright but idk, I just don't get it lol. The Note 3 is my first Android/smartphone coming from the olden mobile phone days.
Pokkle said:
Sorry! I have the SM-N9005. Bought from the Philippines (Smart carrier)
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Do you also have a microSD or a large amount of custom files in your (internal or external) memory? Since when you do factory-reset you also clear all the preliminary indexes and caches that the system created, and it will work pretty hard to re-index all that after first reboot!
Ahh wise not messing if out of your comfort zone then, sensible guy.
However, have a good read around, you'll find after some heavy duty reading you'll probably feel alright in maybe trying rooting and debloating some apps etc. But then again, you might not. That is one of the best things about Android, you can play around to suit your needs whether novice or pro.
Also, if you do fancy rooting and need help you can post here, or you can just shoot me a PM I'll help you over the first hurdle at least if you want :good:
xclub_101 said:
Do you also have a microSD or a large amount of custom files in your (internal or external) memory? Since when you do factory-reset you also clear all the preliminary indexes and caches that the system created, and it will work pretty hard to re-index all that after first reboot!
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No, I don't have an SD card inserted. This is my second reboot since trying to solve the problem.
[FIXED]
The problem was related to the motherboard. With the new one everything works properly.
Hi,
I have seen a battery drain for a one week. I can't stand with it. The battery drains very fast - especially at night because I got over 30% battery lose with everything turned off! I tried to wipe cache and factory reset but these ways didn't work. I dunno what's going on but it makes me sick. I think that the phone doesn't go into the deep sleep, because "Android System" takes a first place when it comes to the battery usage. Actually the battery is quite new (97,5% real capacity) so I guess that's a problem with system. I don't want to root my phone because of the knox privileges.
I attached a screenshot which shows a night usage of the battery (when I unplugged - battery percentage was 75%).
Any solutions?
What I tried:
- turn off Wi-Fi scanning
- turn off Bixby
- battery saving mode
- wiping cache
- factory reset (but I've used a backup - if that matters)
Didn't work.. So please, help me
i have exactly same problem for about two weeks. Android system is the first place in battery usage, even before screen, if i dont use phone too much. On samsung community there more people with this problem.
Maybe problem is polish version? Też jestem z polski, jedynie problem mam na modelu z plusem. Jeśli znajdziesz rozwiązanie napisz je proszę (if you find the solution please write it here)
Try not to use a backup, just for a dat or so.
Do you use OPV CSC? Or XEO? Which security patch? My is september. I unfortunately use OPV (Orange) and maybe that's the problem. Can you o provide a link to the Samsung community discussion?
I did a totally clear factory reset yesterday and it still doesn't work. ?
My sot is around 2h...
Same issue with me also.. stand by time is around 8-9 hrs only..
Not sure what happened.. service center ppl asked me to change the battery only..
Turn off GPS and your battery will last forever. On my S8 plus I only turn on GPS when really needed.
I have exactly same problem in s8+. Android system draining my battery for about 2 weeks. SOT in 2-3h.
@vemangor i've got Xeo and problem exist.
agawron91 said:
I have exactly same problem in s8+. Android system draining my battery for about 2 weeks. SOT in 2-3h.
@vemangor i've got Xeo and problem exist.
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2 weeks? Lol my problem has occured for the same period. I have no Idea what I can do with it. The biggest drain is always when the screen is off and I don't use my device .
Nothing actually works... the worst battery experience I've ever seen
same for 2-3 weeks..
1) display
2) android system
3) android os
4) device standby
vemangor said:
2 weeks? Lol my problem has occured for the same period. I have no Idea what I can do with it. The biggest drain is always when the screen is off and I don't use my device .
Nothing actually works... the worst battery experience I've ever seen
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Uncheck these 3,on apps ,show system apps
And check Developer options ,keep mobile data to be off
mihayash said:
Uncheck these 3,on apps ,show system apps
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Thanks for the info, what is the name of the theme you are using?
Thanks
mihayash said:
Uncheck these 3,on apps ,show system apps
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Any app background freezes or any issues??
all of these i try and still system android eating my battery...
I tried these steps and unfortunately didn't work ?. I see no any errors, freezes etc. Just battery which drains within 2 hours. During the last night my phone turned off because of... 51% battery lose. Everything was disabled. ?
vemangor said:
I tried these steps and unfortunately didn't work . I see no any errors, freezes etc. Just battery which drains within 2 hours. During the last night my phone turned off because of... 51% battery lose. Everything was disabled.
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Maybe you have apps that run in backround,just try to disable few apps(apps-show system apps- disable allow backround data usage),and disable body sensors from GmsCore from google,you can find it in permissions.
I dont have gmscore and playstore anymore on my S8+,and i have 8 hours SOT,these are the apps that i use right now,i've debloated everything that i dont use and i have Alexisrom 5.6.1
agawron91 said:
all of these i try and still system android eating my battery...
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You have to disable this too,i have over 8 hours SOT even if i use 10 hours aod
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately - these steps don't work as well... Hate that situation?
vemangor said:
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately - these steps don't work as well... Hate that situation
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What Rom do you use,Stock ,Custom ? Have you ever tryed AlexisRom ?Have you done factory reset ?
mihayash said:
What Rom do you use,Stock ,Custom ? Have you ever tryed AlexisRom ?Have you done factory reset ?
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I use the stock rom. I do not wanna to install any custom because of the Samsung Knox. I did factory reset for few times and no one fixed the battery problem.