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This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
TimeWalker pedometer widget was the culprit in my case, see details near bottom of thread.
Shane112358 said:
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
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How did you find this info?
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How did you find this info?
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By going to the stock battery statistics in the settings, about phone.
Very Strange... I have no clue what that is. Sorry
It doesn't show up in my task manager, or as an app in Titanium or anywhere else.
I have quite a few widgets installed (Weather Channel, Buzz Box, Agenda Widget, Battery Widget, Facebook, Pandora, TimeWalker, Twitter) as well as Tasker running. Could it be one of those? I might try removing them one by one to see if it goes away.
Do you have any games installed? I found this on some Swedish site. They were talking about the same process.
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Now, added that the phone has been on the table all night. Had an app called Labyrinth started. Could be it. Now I'm down to 13%.
Labyrinth Games that are heavy users of the sensors so it is not surprising.
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Do you have any games installed? I found this on some Swedish site. They were talking about the same process.
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No, although one of my tasker profiles is set to turn the alarm off if I put the phone face down at night. I might try deactivating that and seeing what happens.
I disabled the Tasker profiles and let the phone sit for almost 2 hours.
Sensorserver_ya :40%
Cell standby: 22%
Phone idle: 16%
Bluetooth: 9%
Display: 7%
Android OS: 3%
WiFi: 3%
Android System: 2%
TimeWalker (pedometer widget): 2%
What. The. Cuss. ???
I have the same thing but it only takes 3-4%
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same thing here, used 27% of battery in few hours and 1hr 18m CPU usage time.
Galaxy S Vibrant user
sparkling said:
same thing here, used 27% of battery in few hours and 1hr 18m CPU usage time.
Galaxy S Vibrant user
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What widgets are you running?
Sensorly app?
Weird, I dont even have that process in mine....
I disabled the TimeWalker widget (pedometer) and the process hasn't appeared yet. I think this may have fixed it. Anyone else?
At least in my case, the TimeWalker widget was the culprit. "Sensorserver_ya" didn't show up for days. This morning, I reactivated it and all of a sudden it showed up again, shooting up to 9% of battery usage (and draining 2% of my total battery) in less than 10 minutes. The widget itself took another 1/3 of that.
Too bad, I had a pedometer built into my Sony Ericsson w580i and it was awesome. Battery rocked. Not sure what the problem is here.
I see that process on occasion and I've never run the widget that you are referring to.
It is probably triggered by running a compass or other app that uses the position sensors.
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Since not everybody is seeing this power drain, I think it is not likely to be the system setting to check orientation and adjust the screen from portrait to landscape automatically, although that seems a likely suspect to me. I also suspect a screen management tool called Screebl. I have disabled Screebl now to see if that makes a difference. (Even though I had Screebl configured to not work when power is applied, my system didn't have any period of Suspend through the night last night, despite being plugged in for about half the night.)
Shane112358 said:
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
TimeWalker pedometer widget was the culprit in my case, see details near bottom of thread.
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I observed that besides the mystery process sensorserver_ya and the shortened battery life, if I watched the phone go into power saver mode with no apps running it would dim then kill my display as expected, but then after 3 to 5 seconds it would light it up again as if I had pressed the activate button.
I tried uninstalling two apps ACIDR and PowerAmp. This behavior stopped after
that. I reinstalled PowerAmp and the behavior did not recur. ACIDR had been on my GalaxyS for some time PowerAmp was recently added. Both were up to date.
I know, old thread, but...
Just to add to the possible causes for others, I found that CardioTrainer had frozen up while trying to post my workout to Facebook. Several hours later I saw the sensorserver process sucking my battery at 14% of total usage according to "About Phone". When this thread mentioned pedometer and labyrinth I checked and found that CardioTrainer was hung. It didn't show in the normal "Active Applications" but TitaniumBackup told me it was running.
Hope that helps anyone else with the problem.
Seeing that process means that you have something that is making use of the accelerometer on a frequent basis. You should figure out which of your apps are using the accelerometer and either uninstall or make sure they remain closed.
Making use of the accelerometer in a way that is using it at nearly all times is the fastest way to burn through your battery.
Ok, this may sound a little bit strange, but once, maybe twice a day, I see a long bar on the Awake status in the Battery Use screen, indicating that something is keeping the phone awake for some time, usually a couple of hours.
Straight example:
I charged my phone to 100% on 8 April, around 22:30.
It's 10 April, 14:35 now, so it's on for about 1d 16h.
It still has 26%, with screen brightness set at 10%.
The alarm was set to 9:00 on 10 April.
Usage statistics:
- Display 28% (2h 16m)
- Cell Standby 22% (1d 15h 44m)
- Android System 17% (51m keep awake)
- Phone Idle 9% (1d 13h 28m)
- Android OS 5%
- OS Monitor 5%
- Voice calls 4% (7m 24s)
- Google Services 3% (16m keep awake)
- Google Search 2%(12m keep awake)
- Launcher PRO 2%
On the battery graph, I clearly see the flat line part of the last night (10 April, 00:00 till 10 April, 9:00), where I was asleep, indicating that there was no awake state, and the battery wasn't drawn of power.
But, because I was to lazy to get up when the alarm rang at 9:00, I consecutively put it to snooze about 8-10 times. That meant from 9:00 till ~10:30. After the last time on snooze, I completely turned the alarm off. I got up at 13:30 (yea, I know, I was kinda of lazy today).
Well, the problem consists in the fact that, even after 10:30, when I shut the alarm down for good, it was still awake. The awake bar in the graph points from the first time I put it on snooze till when I got up. That means from 9:00 to 13:30.
I installed OS Monitor from the Market and analyzed the logs. Indeed, from 13:15 till 13:30, the wakeup wake lock was triggered about 15 times only for alarm. So, the process was still on, even after i turned it off. What gives ?
Is it normal to even stay awake after snooze ? Can't it just wake up right when the snooze time ends ? I can't believe that it really needs to stay on all the time. And what about AFTER I turned it off ? Why the hell does it need to stay awake then !?!?
It's so unbelievable, that I actually don't think it's something Google-related (Android code fail, I mean), maybe something to do with MY phone in particular, though that would be stupid as well, I know. So what the hell is going on here ?
PS: Oh, I almost forgot. It's not only the alarm. One night it started to stay in awake mode from ~01:00 midnight till 10:00 in the morning. Unfortunately, I didn't have OS Monitor installed then. But I can give you another 7 processes that bust the wake up, besides alarm. Those would be the following: mmc_delayed_work, gpio_input, modem_fmt, modem_ip_rx, KeyEvents, PowerManagerService, max8998-charger (WTF IS THIS !>!>!>>!>!?!>!>!!?!?!?!?)
PPS: About the battery, I think it's faulty, because I have barely used it in the last 1d 16h and it has 26% left. What do you think ?
Dont think its a faulty battery. I get 17-18hrs n I use the hell outta my phone (200-500 text/day, gtalk, twitter, reading news articles, a couple YouTube videos n maybe a phone call or 2...)
Yea, well... if I send 200-500 text/say + gtalk + etc. etc. those 1d 16h would drop to about 8-10h. Compare that to your 17-18h. It's not really good now, is it ?
What's your screen brightness and how long does your screen stay up ?
Well, I have an update for 1 process from the list of 7:
gpio_input, is a process that handles physical buttons. To be more precise, every time you press the power button to wake up the device, the process is being activated.
Furthermore, after I pressed 2 times Volume Up + 1 time Volume Down + Power button, with a total of 4 button presses, it would fire up 4 distinctive gpio_input processes. So, for every physical button pressed, another process would fire up.
So no need to worry about this one. Let's see the others. The alarm one is still present all over the freaking place !
PS: Forgot to mention something: the always-awake state has gone sometime during the day. I think it was right after I did a restart. Dunno why... it just ended. Pff.
I think this is a bug because I see it on my nexus one too. Over night I'll see solid line for hours showing my phone woke up. But interestingly no battery drain happens, its just reported as being awake.
RogerPodacter said:
I think this is a bug because I see it on my nexus one too. Over night I'll see solid line for hours showing my phone woke up. But interestingly no battery drain happens, its just reported as being awake.
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Exactly.
As for the battery, I've calculated my usage of 3G talk-time (10 mins of talk time on my phone representing 4% of battery), compared to the official stated talk-time (of 400 mins):
Oficial:
400mins = 100%
10 mins = x%
x = 2.5% from the total battery level (x represents how much % of battery level should 10mins of 3G talk eat juice, after Google standards)
Real stats:
10 min = 4% out of 95% battery level
Phone = 4/100*95= 3.4% from the TOTAL 100% battery
y mins = 100%
10 mins = 3.4%
y = 1000/3.4 = 294mins ~= 300mins REAL TALK TIME
So, after calculations, it seems that for MY phone, the 3G talk time is actually 300mins, not 400 as Google states. That's an argument for WHY I actually believe my battery sucks. Well, it doesn't TOTALLY suck, as some of your batteries here on the forum... but it is indeed below the standard. Isn't it ?
Yep, it happened again. No problems during the night, but in the morning, when the alarm started, the always awake state has begun. It now shows a long blue bar that spans for about 3-4 hours. What is peculiar is that the wake lock alarm is on during the hole day, even if the alarm is completely off.
LE: Surprisingly, after a restart, it would sleep normally. I can't think of any other possibility besides the alarm (I mean, if you put the alarm to snooze, it will keep your phone in permanent awake state onwards from that point.)
What is even more interesting, is that you don't need to restart the device to finally put it back to sleep, as I stated above. I've charged it to max and the always-awake state was gone. Interesting, isn't it ? Guess it's just a glitch... If, somehow, someone knows the answer to this, I would gladly listen to it. Until then, well... I guess I'll just forget about it and never bother again. Hope you guys don't have problems with this and/or something similar. Cheers !
I have the same on Acer Liquid Metal.
Any remedy foud?
Tried to track down with aLog, but useless
I'm not quite sure... but I think maybe Maps is the cause. Again, I'm not sure at all, I'm just seeking a pattern every day I use it, and this far, Maps has been the best bet for this glitch. Can you confirm that ?
LE: Forgot. The remedy is, well... just go to Task Manager and stop the app.
Also, I have seen 3 instances of this process:
- com.google.android.apps.maps
- com.google.android.apps.maps:NetworkLocationService (I think this one is the problem)
- com.google.android.apps.maps:Friends (or something like this; and wondered what the hell it is for...)
For me the culprit is definitely maps. And that effect is doubled when I'm signed in to latitude. Just by signing out of latitude I can double my battery life and by disabling "wireless networks" in the location settings my battery life can be tripled! There is something really wrong with the maps app here.
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anirudh.pullela said:
For me the culprit is definitely maps. And that effect is doubled when I'm signed in to latitude. Just by signing out of latitude I can double my battery life and by disabling "wireless networks" in the location settings my battery life can be tripled! There is something really wrong with the maps app here.
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Thanks a lot for the input, really appreciate it. Unfortunately, I don't use Latitude, so I can't confirm that part. Neither the wireless networks part, I haven't notice that before... but I'll see what I can come up with.
Still searching what to stop
All you said was already deleted/frozen but problem persist
For a month or more I'm facing totally unexplainable battery drain.
As seen on the screens below, the phone is awake, but it is not detected anywhere - not by android nor by GSam. In any case the battery draws faster.
I have one observation tho - this happens after I make phone calls. Not every time, but once per 2,3 days.
Any ideas?
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For a month or more I'm facing totally unexplainable battery drain.
As seen on the screens below, the phone is awake, but it is not detected anywhere - not by android nor by GSam. In any case the battery draws faster.
I have one observation tho - this happens after I make phone calls. Not every time, but once per 2,3 days.
Any ideas?
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You have this problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/explanation-horrible-note-4-battery-t3004274
I'm pretty sure that I don't have this issue. Yes, the percentage in GSam maybe high, but I don't believe this reflects what is happening.
First of all - I don't have bad battery life. Usually my over night drain is less than 1%/1h.
Second - the issue appears sporadically.
Third - in the provided thread I don't see the issue appearing in stock battery monitor, while mine appear.
At last - my battery drains faster only while the issue is present and before I restart. After that it is back to normal ...
@Spo0f
Just some suggestions maybe you're using 3g I always have that turned off and switch it on when I use it my guess is that some apps are causing your drain after a call maybe like you said if you're not fimiliar with greenify I suggest you use it to stop all those apps and system apps also uninstall all those bloatware you don't need or at least freeze them if you don't mind lower the resolution to 1080p with nomone app use power save or disable dvfs and use an app to lower and raise the CPU to save juice when not needed....
Thanks for the suggestions, but as I said - this problem appear sporadically - home when using WiFi as well as outside when using 3G.
All of the rest is done - I'm no newby
Spo0f said:
Thanks for the suggestions, but as I said - this problem appear sporadically - home when using WiFi as well as outside when using 3G.
All of the rest is done - I'm no newby
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Oh sorry mate well I don't use much 3g so I can't help you there but if you're having drainage when you're using WiFi in general then maybe you should reconsider investigating the post above with the link I don't have so much drainage on connectivity with 3g or WiFi....viewing the pics you uploaded it seems suspicious.... Maybe an app? I don't know...
Use wakelock detector
Spo0f said:
I'm pretty sure that I don't have this issue. Yes, the percentage in GSam maybe high, but I don't believe this reflects what is happening.
First of all - I don't have bad battery life. Usually my over night drain is less than 1%/1h.
Second - the issue appears sporadically.
Third - in the provided thread I don't see the issue appearing in stock battery monitor, while mine appear.
At last - my battery drains faster only while the issue is present and before I restart. After that it is back to normal ...
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My overnight drain was also very low, but that was because the faulty device on the network was asleep at night too (my desktop).
If you're not rooted, use the PC version of Wakelock Detector at the end of your day and post screenshots of your highest drainers for the various categories. In my case, the device was being woken up by something on the network and it showed.
Bear in mind that actively downloading something in the time period will also raise wifi power used but more stats will help.
The fact that you're still experiencing a lot of drain even when outside suggests it might be a rogue app
One phone call today and after it the phone stayed awake.
Because I had issue with the PC WLD the screen shots are from 11 minutes after one of the disconnects. The device was awake all of them.
Spo0f said:
One phone call today and after it the phone stayed awake.
Because I had issue with the PC WLD the screen shots are from 11 minutes after one of the disconnects. The device was awake all of them.
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I also checked out my battery behaviour this night and was very disappointed. Although my phone was in flight mode and every peripherals and services shut down, today morning my phone was crying for energy. So I made a quick investigation in my power diagram and found out, that "Android OS" requested a wakelock during the whole power-on time. So I installed "CPU Spy" to check in which states the phone was really over the whole charging period. I couldn't believe my eyes. Although the kernel should do it's job good, cause most of the CPU times are in lower freqeuncy states, the deep sleep mode was never activated.
Therefore I installed an app called "Wakelock Detector" to check out which apps could cause that. I found out, that S Health had a big amount of wakelocks and also active-time, so the first thing was to disable S Health. After some minutes I checked back, but nevertheless still no deep sleep time in "CPU Spy".
So I searched around and found another one arguing about the wakelocks and that they could be the products of some programming issues concerning WiFi. The should be gone, after turning off WiFi and rebooting yout phone. And it seems that he was right. I waited some time and hooray, "CPU Spy" listed the phone state "Deep Sleep" the first time as an active state and also with the major active-time. So at least that was some step ahead. (I have to remark, that S Health was already unfrozen at this time, so S Health should not be responsible in any way.)
The next step was to reactivate WiFi, leave it on and set the phone on standby. After some time I checked back again the phone showed even more deep sleep time. So that was an improvement. I reactivated everything and waited some time... Deep Sleep all over the time. Can't figure out for now, if it was S Health, WiFi, or anything else that caused the wakelock for sure. At least the reboot helped. I'll check that out on a long-term test, maybe I get some further conclusions.
Have updated until the update notifications stopped coming. Sitting on 6.0.1 with Feb patch. What can I do? I was wondering if this is a problem with stock rom and moving to something like pure nexus would help?
I searched Google (and Xda) and found there are people both affected and not affected by this problem. Any insights would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: if needed, my SOT right now sits at 2h35m58s with 30% battery left. Have screen listed at top on things using battery most with 8% and it shows 5hrs worth juice left.
akashspeaking said:
Have updated until the update notifications stopped coming. Sitting on 6.0.1 with Feb patch. What can I do? I was wondering if this is a problem with stock rom and moving to something like pure nexus would help?
I searched Google (and Xda) and found there are people both affected and not affected by this problem. Any insights would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: if needed, my SOT right now sits at 2h35m58s with 30% battery left. Have screen listed at top on things using battery most with 8% and it shows 5hrs worth juice left.
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The same happened to me - new phone, ran all the patches, and craptastic battery life. A factory reset fixed it.
akashspeaking said:
Have updated until the update notifications stopped coming. Sitting on 6.0.1 with Feb patch. What can I do? I was wondering if this is a problem with stock rom and moving to something like pure nexus would help?
I searched Google (and Xda) and found there are people both affected and not affected by this problem. Any insights would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: if needed, my SOT right now sits at 2h35m58s with 30% battery left. Have screen listed at top on things using battery most with 8% and it shows 5hrs worth juice left.
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This says nothing.
What apps to you have installed?
What widgets are running, etc?
Elnrik said:
The same happened to me - new phone, ran all the patches, and craptastic battery life. A factory reset fixed it.
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Thanks for info! I am planning to swap stock rom for pure nexus today. It will include a full system wipe so here's to hoping. Will report findings in a couple of days.
tech_head said:
This says nothing.
What apps to you have installed?
What widgets are running, etc?
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No widgets. `Google now` and `google now on tap` turned off. NFC turned off (Wifi, BT on). Listening for `OK google` turned off completely. Screen brightness managed by adaptive brightness.
Apps include the normal google ones that came pre-installed and whatsapp, slack, apple music, pebble time, harvest (timesheet app for work), pocket, sync pro (reddit) and 1password.
I did find out that the device seems to be awake much more than the screen. Seems like a wakelock. I'll have to root the device later today and install wakelock detector to see what's up.
Over 2.5 hours SOT with 30% left isn't the end of the world. People eek 6 hrs out of this phone either with greenify or naptime or they turn all the location and background services off.
I'm at 17% with about 3.25 hrs SOT now on a third party ROM without greenify and everything running in the background. If I get 4hrs+, I'm fine with that. I have chargers everywhere.
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Over 2.5 hours SOT with 30% left isn't the end of the world. People eek 6 hrs out of this phone either with greenify or naptime or they turn all the location and background services off.
I'm at 17% with about 3.25 hrs SOT now on a third party ROM without greenify and everything running in the background. If I get 4hrs+, I'm fine with that. I have chargers everywhere.
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Yeah I don't really care about SOTs and stuff. Only put it here because I thought it may help someone think of something that might be wrong. The actual problem is, I am literally seeing battery percentage go down as I use the phone. I browse a few pages on chrome, maybe 15-20 minutes and my battery goes down 6-7%. Neither of my previous phones did that and none of them were known for their good battery life like nexus 6p. That kinda has me concerned.
I'd advice you to charge your battery full (leave it on charger for 30mins after it says that it's full). Then use BetterBatteryStats background while you use your phone normally all the way down to 10%.
Take screenshots from BetterBatteryStats and from battery (from settings).
There are quick toggles for Wifi and Bluetooth, no need to keep them on constantly if they're not needed. Bluetooth is known to drain battery for some users (not me though). Screen brightness is 100% with adaptive brightness? Are you always in a well lit area? I use 50% w/ adaptive. I usually get something between 4.5 to 6 hours of SOT.
Pebble time can be your drainer, I remember ppl complaining about it a while ago.
So I flashed purenexus with elemental x. It probably is better to let it go for a few recharge cycles before commenting but things are already looking very good For anyone looking at this in future, I suggest a minimum of system reset (or flash a new rom if you wanna go all the way).
I'll monitor the battery life over this week.
My battery life had previously been fine. We had that last security update from AT&T and suddenly, my device is awake almost 100% of the time. Android OS is always at the top of my stats and awake time shows at 99%. I used the light version of Wakelock Detector (which doesn't require root) and it's not really showing anything, but I deleted all apps showing the most wakelocks anyway and I'm still at 99% wake time. I even took out my SD card to test that and it hasn't changed anything. I also disabled GPS to test and "awake time" still stayed at max.
I'm on the verge of wiping it, but I have already done that once to resolve other issues and I know there has to be a cause to all of this. Is anyone else experiencing this since the last update? Anything I haven't tried that someone recommends? I have not installed any new apps or anything.
One thing to note is that my drain is only around 1%/hr at idle, but I'm pretty sure the phone still shouldn't be awake almost 100% of the time.
1%/hr drain while idle means 4 days of standby i think you're fine
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One thing to note is that my drain is only around 1%/hr at idle, but I'm pretty sure the phone still shouldn't be awake almost 100% of the time.
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percussionking said:
1%/hr drain while idle means 4 days of standby i think you're fine
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That doesn't change the fact that the phone is awake over 99% of the time. After a wipe, it's no longer going that and my idle drain is less. So, something was clearly wrong.
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Yeah, you're right if the behavior is different after resetting the phone. I was wondering if maybe Wakelock Detector might see certain features of the QC820 like AOD as applying a wakelock.