My battery is dropping more than it should when the screen is off. Android System seems to be using a fair amount, between 16-21% on average. Can't anyone tell me what 'Light' is under sensors? It's giving a very high reading for Android System. As is the Accelerometer in Google Play Services. Why would Google Play Services be using the Accelerometer?
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My battery is dropping more than it should when the screen is off. Android System seems to be using a fair amount, between 16-21% on average. Can't anyone tell me what 'Light' is under sensors? It's giving a very high reading for Android System. As is the Accelerometer in Google Play Services. Why would Google Play Services be using the Accelerometer?
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Hi everyone, so I am the proud owner of 3 Nexus S' and I have to say, probably the most awesome phone I have ever owned... Battery life is good on all 3 phones with an average of 20 hours on average use... however as soon as I enable LATITUDE on either of the 3 devices.. battery life drops to around 8 hours with the same average use. I believe people are aware of this issue, but I could not find a fix other than obviously disabling the feature.
Is this a software bug for Google yet to fix, or is Latitude/GPS that much of a battery drainer (sometimes up to 20% in battery usage in info)
Same here. Battery drops as soon as it is enabled.
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Well Latitude continuously pings your location to Google, and it's receiving info of where your friends are, so yes, it's a battery hog.
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Well Latitude continuously pings your location to Google, and it's receiving info of where your friends are, so yes, it's a battery hog.
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I honestly believe that's not the problem, especially with hundreds of emails coming through my phone a day. I never had such a drastic battery drain from this feature on another android device (e.g. Nexus One)... I believe it may be linked to either a software bug or hardware issue (I'm assuming Samsung GPS takes up more time and power to acquire the same lock vs an HTC device).
Anyone know of a way to tweak Latitude's GPS refresh rate? I'd like to raise it's minimum to like 30/45min. Or I want to figure out why it's keeping the phone awake 1-3hrs in a single day.
disable location history and auto checkin ...mine doesn't seem to take up as much power after i did that
yeah, there's a bug report if you google. latitude is not that battery hungry on my previous HTC Magic.
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I honestly believe that's not the problem, especially with hundreds of emails coming through my phone a day. I never had such a drastic battery drain from this feature on another android device (e.g. Nexus One)... I believe it may be linked to either a software bug or hardware issue (I'm assuming Samsung GPS takes up more time and power to acquire the same lock vs an HTC device).
Anyone know of a way to tweak Latitude's GPS refresh rate? I'd like to raise it's minimum to like 30/45min. Or I want to figure out why it's keeping the phone awake 1-3hrs in a single day.
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remember when you are signed in to latitude, it does not use the GPS in the background, it only approximates your location from the nearest cell site. when you actually go into maps and into latitude is when it pinpoints your precise location with GPS. soon as you minimize it, the GPS turns off and it goes back to approximating location again.
i cant use latitude in this condition
can u link the bug report please?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15057
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I'm on second Nexus S. I didn't have Latitude enabled on my previous Nexus S. Battery used to last me a day.
On second one, I enabled Latitude and it would last about 5 hours. I didn't think Latitude was problem.. though I should disable after weeks of usage. Then I get about 15 hours with mild usage.
Yea I've stopped using latitude... only manually refreshing it then disabling it every now and then. It was fine on my Nexus One so I don't know why it's such a huge hog on the Nexus S. I submitted a bug report to google a few days after release...
Same issue on my NS when using Latitude as well. I'm wondering if it has something to do with Samsung's GPS functionality as there has notoriously been issues with it with their Galaxy S phones.
Just when I thought I do not have this issue anymore, yesterday Maps was using 70% of my battery, and I saw that it kept my phone awake for 7 hours of my 15 hours period!
I have rebooted my phone and now Maps seems to be at a normal 20% battery usage (still not normal if compared to latitude being enabled on my old HTC Magic).
Really need latitude....
enable latitude always kills your battery life
but set to never sleep in wifi advanced settings will definitely reduce the battery leeching
I hate resurrecting old threads, but there is an alternative to latitude.
Search for altitude, by the same dev that put out betterbatterystats.
It allows you change the refresh on latitude, and how coarse/fine you want it to locate you.
Definitely reduces the resource drain.
I just never open latitude. Till this day its never been open.
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So I also disabled latitude because of this.
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I just never open latitude. Till this day its never been open.
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Try it. Not everybody has the issue.
Actually on that bombshell, Latitude uses very little power when I don't travel and lots when I do, as I expect. The refresh rate depends on how much I move about. Newer versions of Google Maps has tended to use more power than older versions but the update last week has helped.
I don't have any real reason to use Latitude most of the time, other than I can, but my wife uses it to not call me to see where I am. I wonder if the power saved through no call makes up for the drain..?
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After installation of the latest update to Google Play services , my Moto X has become a battery hog.
Am rooted, have the Verizon Dev model.
Using Greenify BetterBatterystats etc.
Seeing CastSocketMultiplexer.mWakelock appear, never seen it before.
What happened and waht else can I do?
What version of google play services do you have. the latest version is 5.0.84
Also have you installed wifi fixer and battery guru they can help on battery alot
use there betas as well WiFi fixer: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12jjhc5zwfqedwfh23xchyqlrutil44h04
Greenify: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/communities/103850238949791125024
Battery guru does not have a beta
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Screen shots? From Gsam or something other than stock battery usage section.
Otherwise the thread will be full of guesses.
And I'm sorry...but need to disagree with above poster....battery Guru will cost more battery life than its supposed to save. Unless you're a VERY light user.
Battery guru has worked wonders for me on atrix hd and I've had it since I got my X so I can't say whether it helps I guess
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Try searching Disable Services on google play and turn off that one who is giving you that problem. I don't use locations,wallet, cast and etc had to disable those. You'll see a greater battery saving as i have.
Recently my battery is very bad and I try many Roms, They all I get 3 hours screen battery.
I have root and used Greenify.
I actually came to xda to see if anyone else was having problems. My wife and I have noticed huge battery drains the past few days. Honestly have no clue what it was. She noticed her google now launcher now has a white background when viewing "all apps".
Our phones are not rooted and are stock.
Help?
Probably Google Play service related. I have had bad battery life on pretty much all roms, and in power settings it always says G+, google services, youtube or something else is using most of the power.
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Probably Google Play service related. I have had bad battery life on pretty much all roms, and in power settings it always says G+, google services, youtube or something else is using most of the power.
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Nope.
any services not running in background.
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I recently got fed up with microphone issues on stock 5.0.1 on my Nexus 4.
So I did the sensible thing and wiped it clean, rooted it and installed a custom ROM.
(In this case, ParanoidAndroid 4.6 Beta 6)
But ever since then I've been having really weird battery issues.
(Se attached images)
It drains about at the rate I'd expect, but then for no discernible reason it plummets.
Sometimes, as in the attached images, it even reboots and loses about 5-15% of battery while doing it.
I've tried recalibrating the battery, since it does have a few cycles in it by now and is probably getting a bit worn, but it didn't change the situation.
Any ideas as to things to try or what could be wrong?
HubbeKing said:
I recently got fed up with microphone issues on stock 5.0.1 on my Nexus 4.
So I did the sensible thing and wiped it clean, rooted it and installed a custom ROM.
(In this case, ParanoidAndroid 4.6 Beta 6)
But ever since then I've been having really weird battery issues.
(Se attached images)
It drains about at the rate I'd expect, but then for no discernible reason it plummets.
Sometimes, as in the attached images, it even reboots and loses about 5-15% of battery while doing it.
I've tried recalibrating the battery, since it does have a few cycles in it by now and is probably getting a bit worn, but it didn't change the situation.
Any ideas as to things to try or what could be wrong?
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instal an app that monitors wakelocks f.e. better battery stats. search it here on xda. that app will tell you exactly what is draining your battery.
as far as i can see google play services and google app is very high, so i would suspect that you have enable something like smart lock that drains battery. also google now is a battery drainer. another possibility is that you have gps high accuracy enabled, that combining with google now cards is very battery draining. try to disable this things (if enabled) to see if it is better.
ttheodorou said:
instal an app that monitors wakelocks f.e. better battery stats. search it here on xda. that app will tell you exactly what is draining your battery.
as far as i can see google play services and google app is very high, so i would suspect that you have enable something like smart lock that drains battery. also google now is a battery drainer. another possibility is that you have gps high accuracy enabled, that combining with google now cards is very battery draining. try to disable this things (if enabled) to see if it is better.
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Gps high accuracy and Google now might drain some battery, but at not at high rate.
It must be from other source.
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Gps high accuracy and Google now might drain some battery, but at not at high rate.
It must be from other source.
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The battery is probably faulty. This happened to my Kindle Fire. It would freeze and lock up. Then it would reboot and to my surprise it would drain about 20-80% of the battery in a single forced reboot. Recalibration makes the plummeting less severe (now at about 10-30% change) but the reboots would get more and more frequent. Ended up replacing the battery and no more issues happened.
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Will the 6P have that dedicated chip that's always listening for the OK google hotword without heavy battery drain?
The question is "without heavy battery drain"
Moto said their service was on a low draw core on the Pure and they were full of crap because turning off all their crapware is the only way you can even net anything close to decent battery life. Can google get it right? I don't know but I'll probably turn it off regardless.
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Will the 6P have that dedicated chip that's always listening for the OK google hotword without heavy battery drain?
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Isn't that part of the Android Sensor Hub?
jam256 said:
Will the 6P have that dedicated chip that's always listening for the OK google hotword without heavy battery drain?
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Aridon said:
The question is "without heavy battery drain"
Moto said their service was on a low draw core on the Pure and they were full of crap because turning off all their crapware is the only way you can even net anything close to decent battery life. Can google get it right? I don't know but I'll probably turn it off regardless.
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I wonder if the Android Sensor Hub is just a fancy name for the Hexagon DSP in Snapdragon chips? I've been using the always-on function of "OK Google" on my Note 4 for quite some time and haven't noticed any significant battery drain. I've left my phone off the charger overnight and I typically get about .5-1% drain per hour, depending on what notifications I get during the course of the night. That's about what I had before turning on "OK Google". The only issue I've had is the consistency with Google Now activating with the screen off. I think Android sometimes kills Google Now if it's not used in a while.
Using ok google everywhere in nexus 6 all the time.. Works great with screen off... Love this feature... So useful when u dont want to pick up the phone or driving.
I can't bring myself to talk to my phone..... I've tried and felt like a complete pillock!
I hope this function works on the 6P still and doesn't drain a lot of battery. I do use it a lot with my N6 right now. However, I only use it when I am alone I could not think of talking to my phone like that in public haha.
Huh? It's a sensor built into Qualcomm sd chips. The nexus 5 had it. It just didn't have the software for always listening with the screen off..... I think it was on the nexus 6 because it was a moto and Google owned moto. Id assume we wouldn't go backwards. Since the functionality is built into Google's own app. I think it's safe to say it's here to stay
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Huh? It's a sensor built into Qualcomm sd chips. The nexus 5 had it. It just didn't have the software for always listening with the screen off..... I think it was on the nexus 6 because it was a moto and Google owned moto. Id assume we wouldn't go backwards. Since the functionality is built into Google's own app. I think it's safe to say it's here to stay
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No this is supposed to be a different sensor not the DSP you are referring to. The Android Sensor Hub does more than just always listening, it allows for more accurate step counting, finger print unlock without waking the phone etc... Watch the keynote for the launch of you want more details
Howie Dub said:
I wonder if the Android Sensor Hub is just a fancy name for the Hexagon DSP in Snapdragon chips? I've been using the always-on function of "OK Google" on my Note 4 for quite some time and haven't noticed any significant battery drain. I've left my phone off the charger overnight and I typically get about .5-1% drain per hour, depending on what notifications I get during the course of the night. That's about what I had before turning on "OK Google". The only issue I've had is the consistency with Google Now activating with the screen off. I think Android sometimes kills Google Now if it's not used in a while.
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check this blog post
http://androidcommunity.com/google-...ims-to-greatly-improve-battery-life-20150930/
" only the latest Nexus smartphones have the Android Sensor Hub. Google said it will be a standard feature in future Android devices so that's something to look forward to"
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