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Hi all!
Not sure if this is isolated to the X1 or not, but I found that Batti (yes, I know it's discontinued now... but it is opensource freeware, so anyone can improve it now!), I found on my X1 that the CPU load, while charging and with "colour gradient" on, is constantly about 10-20% CPU load usage. My X1 would actually heat up (the battery temperature would increase) because of this, and not only that, it would take longer to charge up, because Batti was simultaneously draining the battery. And of course the phone was somewhat more sluggish.
I was about to un-install it, but then I decided to turn OFF the colour gradient function. BAM... CPU usage went down to 0-1%.
I tried turning off the "Charging indicator) which is simply stopping it from scrolling the bar left-to-right when it is plugged in, but that didn't make any difference.
The BIG DIFFERENCE is the Colour Gradient function. At least for the X1, i *HIGHLY* recommend you TURN IT OFF.
This problem might affect other phones as well, maybe only on WVGA (since we have a wider high resolution screen, perhaps Batti has to calculate too much to make the colour gradient smooth as it is?)... so maybe the Touch HD which also has the same resolution has the same problem with CPU load / Battery drain?
Anyway, thought I would bring this up, because I know quite a lot of people talk about battery drain while using Batti, and now I have identified the cause (and remedy) for this.
Hope this benefits others, and hopefully someone can maybe optimize the color gradient algorithm so it is not so CPU intensive!
(oh, and sometimes when we slide the keyboard out to change orientation or slide it back in, batti takes some time to redraw the bar... this also improves after you turn OFF this colour gradient function!)
Thanks!
Thanks man I didn't notic that but however I've noticed that something drains the battery very fast. Thanks for the useful info!
linkrage said:
Thanks man I didn't notic that but however I've noticed that something drains the battery very fast. Thanks for the useful info!
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Yeh, I just thought I'd post this here, so that if someone is doing a search, then they can find a solution easily!
no more automatic switch off
Hello, I have a touch HD with Batti installed, and a very important battery drain since installed. I've tried to remove the "gradiant option" as you said, and it seems to be better, but thought, i remarked that my phone doesn't want to turn off its screen after 20 secs of inactivity, as i esked it to do via the autonomy settings ant S2U2 settings, so i think it can explain the battery drain too. Let me know if u have the same problems with your phones, please.
Not exactly resolved, but it's a workaround.
No more prob
OK, good for me, i think my problem was not Batti's fault, but a new transparent theme fot tf3d that disabled the automatic screen shutdown, cause since i removed that (very nice) theme, i have no more battery drain with batti re-installed and "colour gradiant" turned off. Thx for the trick, so ...
Batti discontinued? -- http://code.google.com/p/batti/
May i know how do you guys check for the CPU usage?
I don't ... I'm only talking about the battery drain.
sitelister said:
Batti discontinued? -- http://code.google.com/p/batti/
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Yes, it is, but the author made it open source, so anyone can continue it now!
Thumbs Up!!!!
Yup! This actually did the rick for me. I cant comment on battery consumption yet cause i just tried it but Batti is definitely performng better now. Screen switching is zippy. With gradient on, batti used to take forever to appear when waking up the device from sleep mode (used to show the charging purple colour) but now that is also very fast as well.
I used to think that turning gradient off was ugle but it is actually more pracical now that im using it; the battery is fully green when full, yellow when below 50% (i think) and red when under 10%, even looks neater than with gradient on!
Good job!
Thanks for the post! Confirmed that CPU usage has dropped considerably from 7-8% to 0.2-0.3%. I had switched to a different battery indicator for awhile, but happy to be using batti again for all of its other features!
istnelane said:
May i know how do you guys check for the CPU usage?
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I use this:
http://www.acbpocketsoft.com/Products/acbTaskMan/acbTaskMan-Overview-6.html
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Please help to move the thread to a suitable place if this is not the right place.
As the title said, I have my phone deep sleep like 90% of the time but the battery still lose 4%+/h.
Does any one have any idea how this is possible? Thank you in advance.
Attached is my BBS dump.
Appreciate your support!
May be some apps are running in background, which is disturbing your device to have deep sleep..
Use Wakelock detector app to observe which apps are main culprit..
Masum56k said:
May be some apps are running in background, which is disturbing your device to have deep sleep..
Use Wakelock detector app to observe which apps are main culprit..
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The problem is that there seems to be no wakelock but the battery decrease significantly:crying:
cantruchd said:
The problem is that there seems to be no wakelock but the battery decrease significantly:crying:
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Can you post a screenshot of wakelock detector's status?
Hi,
I'm a Samsung Galaxy S4 user (I9500XXUGNF6). with rooted stock rom (4.4.2) installed.
After the battery level %25-%30; screen render rate drops dramatically (in app's like Candy Crush Saga)
When i plug the charger, it returns to normal. Or when the battery is full or nearly full.
This occurs almost two weeks on my device.
No background processes, wiped ram repeatedly.
Restarted the device and tried,
Wiped cache partition... But no solution.
I'm waiting for your advices.
Thanks all.
It's obviously some battery saving feature which activates at around 30%.
Plugging the charger deactivates the thing because it doesn't require battery anymore.
GDReaper said:
It's obviously some battery saving feature which activates at around 30%.
Plugging the charger deactivates the thing because it doesn't require battery anymore.
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First of all thanks for ur kind reply.
But i dont use any battery saving program. Do u have any advice about reverting back to default settings ? ( except factory reset or smthng else)
janbey said:
First of all thanks for ur kind reply.
But i dont use any battery saving program. Do u have any advice about reverting back to default settings ? ( except factory reset or smthng else)
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The rom has an in-built battery saver. I think it was called Power Save. It should be in the status bar on stock kitkat roms.
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The rom has an in-built battery saver. I think it was called Power Save. It should be in the status bar on stock kitkat roms.
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Thanks but i never use that option and checked again and it is still deactivated.
it may be related to DVFS. Dynamic Voltage something. It's basically a performance limiter. Try disabling that.
GDReaper said:
it may be related to DVFS. Dynamic Voltage something. It's basically a performance limiter. Try disabling that.
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disabled dvfs..i was hopeful about that solution but not worked for me..
i will reflash the rom again i think..
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.
projectmayhem22 said:
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.
projectmayhem22 said:
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.
I have latest rr rom installed and at night it does not go into deep sleep. I think on other roms a have same problem.
Here is screenshot from cpu spy plus
Now i have Deep sleep on cpu info but my battery still drain a lot during night: it is 30% less any idea? I have franco kernel on rr
I noticed this too, about 20% overnight, nearly on every custom rom. I will turn off the ambient gestures this night, let's see if it gets better. Always on display is off anyway, that should be clear.
Use ForceDoze app to put the device to sleep as soon as you turn the screen OFF.
my ambient gestures is disable.
deep sleep = doze, enter when no sensor cath anything, if you keep night your phone somewhere the sensor feel movements, for exsample, the phone will not enter doze.
use an app for force doze, can work even with no root applying 2 adb command, like naptime, greenify and so on.
No, its your rom/kernel problem, i'm on "other rom" and i dont have this issue, standby only drain 1-3% over night.
TerQQ said:
I have latest rr rom installed and at night it does not go into deep sleep. I think on other roms a have same problem.
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Yes i'm also having this problem on almost every rom.mine overnight battery drain is about 20% and it shows that android os is using all battery.
GVN.Gallus said:
No, its your rom/kernel problem, i'm on "other rom" and i dont have this issue, standby only drain 1-3% over night.
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What rom you use now?
TerQQ said:
What rom you use now?
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Lastest Carbon with inbuilt kernel.
Problem is not with rom nor kernel. There is a problem in the USB port i also have this problem. There is a temporary fix. Not a permanent one.
The temp fix is you need a root browser with root permissions
Go to /sys/module/dwm_msc (or something like that) /parameters then click on the file disable_host_mode and change the value from N to Y
If phone is restarted the value gets reset to N
williamzerner said:
Problem is not with rom nor kernel. There is a problem in the USB port i also have this problem. There is a temporary fix. Not a permanent one.
The temp fix is you need a root browser with root permissions
Go to /sys/module/dwm_msc (or something like that) /parameters then click on the file disable_host_mode and change the value from N to Y
If phone is restarted the value gets reset to N
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OK, i changed it, let's see what's happens.
@GVN.Gallus could you check the value on carbon ROM ?
I had the same issue with stock rom. Naptime did the trick for me. Before that IT wouldnt go info deep sleep.
coremania said:
OK, i changed it, let's see what's happens.
@GVN.Gallus could you check the value on carbon ROM ?
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Its N by default.
Using Naptime during night still drain a lot battery ... Help me :|
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During night my phone is always on deep sleep. i checked it with cpu spy plus.
It is normal? Screens from wakelock detector.
100%-75% after 3 hours with 40 min SOT. ROM:Aosp extended with inbuild kernel
TerQQ said:
It is normal? Screens from wakelock detector.
100%-75% after 3 hours with 40 min SOT. ROM:Aosp extended with inbuild kernel
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Everything look ok to me, BUT one app
I think Google Play Services causing you drain, on my stock ROM, Play Services is least active app while on you screenshot it is most active one. Try to, disable, enable and then update it.
TerQQ said:
Using Naptime during night still drain a lot battery ... Help me :|
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During night my phone is always on deep sleep. i checked it with cpu spy plus.
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Did you try another kernel?
marko.dnb said:
Everything look ok to me, BUT one app
I think Google Play Services causing you drain, on my stock ROM, Play Services is least active app while on you screenshot it is most active one. Try to, disable, enable and then update it.
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OK but how I can disable google services? In stock settings I can't press disable...