Database Users

The only thing that helped my batterydrain

I installed Spare Parts and saw that my phone was never sleeping, even though it was on standby all the time.
This was caused by the location by antenna feature.
Ever since i unchecked that feature i've had around 50-60 hours of uptime, with a few calls and a lot of texts.
hope this helps alot others

With the new firmware the problem of battery dissapears completely

There is a known issue with network location detection in android 1.6. I had the same issue with my galaxy and it was solved. Now that we have root, we can hopefully do the same.
Also, br aware that I have found spare parts to actually stop the phone from sleeping, as well as tapatalk. I suggest rebooting after using either program.
-------------------------------------
Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App

adrianoftyriel said:
There is a known issue with network location detection in android 1.6. I had the same issue with my galaxy and it was solved. Now that we have root, we can hopefully do the same.
Also, br aware that I have found spare parts to actually stop the phone from sleeping, as well as tapatalk. I suggest rebooting after using either program.
-------------------------------------
Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually that issue is fixed in the latest update so it's already fixed without needing root.

Which firmware? I know I'm still experiencing it.

RBA020 solved the battery issues for me.

Where in spare parts does it show you if your phone has been sleeping?

you don't need spare parts. Just dial *#*#4636#*#* and click battery history and then the running bar.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App

Inebriatef said:
This was caused by the location by antenna feature.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hope this means that under Location, you had Wireless Networks and Assisted GPS enabled.
One question tho... how did you isolate this feature as the one that was keeping the system awake?
I just found that my phone has been running most of the time, I see Running at 100% under Battery History. Then I select Partial Wake usage and see Android System has the largest share. But what part of Android System? how does one get to know?

I know from having a Samsung galaxy and being part of the androidforums community that was going nuts until Simone found a bug report with Google saying that network location was stopping devices from sleeping. We had root so a Dev applied a patch to services.odex and voila! Phones were napping again.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App

adrianoftyriel said:
I know from having a Samsung galaxy and being part of the androidforums community that was going nuts until Simone found a bug report with Google saying that network location was stopping devices from sleeping. We had root so a Dev applied a patch to services.odex and voila! Phones were napping again.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmm... time to give this a try... so is it just Wireless Network or also AGPS that causes this problem?
I hope I can still leave GPS turned on?
EDIT:
adrianoftyriel said:
Sent from my X10a using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Didn't know that there was an XDA App till I saw your sig. Looks like its worth a try since its free!!

Update after turning location off completely
Well first run with all location methods disabled (I can still enable GPS quickly via a widget when I need to use it)... the battery performance is up phenomenally!!
I charged fully before going to bed last night, then kept the phone unplugged... woke up and found the battery was at 97%. This has never happened to me.
Ok, one thing tho, I use Juice Defender with night time schedule, so my wifi and 3G were off during most of the night. Anyways, its been around 3 hours since I woke up, and I've been using the phone on and off to do some browsing.
The battery is now at 93%.
I do not use any other aid other than Juice Defender... no task killers, no startup editors. Will update on how the rest of the day progresses.
EDIT: my thanks to Inebriatef and adrianoftyriel for pointing this out.

j4mm3r said:
I hope this means that under Location, you had Wireless Networks and Assisted GPS enabled.
One question tho... how did you isolate this feature as the one that was keeping the system awake?
I just found that my phone has been running most of the time, I see Running at 100% under Battery History. Then I select Partial Wake usage and see Android System has the largest share. But what part of Android System? how does one get to know?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I too would like to hear a bit more. Could the OP please elaborate?
I'm running the latest FW and although my battery life increased exponentially, I find that it's not going to sleep anymore! I had close to 50 hours battery life and now I repeat everything to get just under 20 hours.
I don't use task killers and crap anymore, just before I put my phone away. If I don't, I have a trillion programs running with like 40mb of RAM free. Although I understand this is Linux based, these programs are RUNNING and not idle. All my **** is draining the battery again after a clean reinstall of everything. What a bummer.

bongd said:
I too would like to hear a bit more. Could the OP please elaborate?
I'm running the latest FW and although my battery life increased exponentially, I find that it's not going to sleep anymore! I had close to 50 hours battery life and now I repeat everything to get just under 20 hours.
I don't use task killers and crap anymore, just before I put my phone away. If I don't, I have a trillion programs running with like 40mb of RAM free. Although I understand this is Linux based, these programs are RUNNING and not idle. All my **** is draining the battery again after a clean reinstall of everything. What a bummer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
@bongd, by latest FW, do you mean the R2BA020? If yes, then you shouldn't be affected by the problem being reported here. I'm still on R1FB001, which apparently has this Android 1.6 bug related to location.
As in my case, simply by disabling location settings (even though this reports that network location is the culprit, I disabled them all), the phone is now able to suspend itself and basically consume very little battery in standby.
Personally, I dont see any issue with lot of applications running and having little RAM left because I trust the Android system to manage it efficiently. Furthermore, the RAM on these phones is not as fast as what you would see typically on desktop systems, so it actually helps having things around in memory rather than aggressively cleaning it out. Checkout this link to understand a bit more about Android task management features: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
I suggest you use Spare Parts to isolate your battery drain, there might be some app that is misbehaving and hogging systems resources. Also turning off very frequent updates/refresh intervals in some applications is the way forward.

I found through trial and error that fancy widgets keeps my phone from sleeping.sad cause I really want to use it.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App

j4mm3r said:
@bongd, by latest FW, do you mean the R2BA020? If yes, then you shouldn't be affected by the problem being reported here. I'm still on R1FB001, which apparently has this Android 1.6 bug related to location.
As in my case, simply by disabling location settings (even though this reports that network location is the culprit, I disabled them all), the phone is now able to suspend itself and basically consume very little battery in standby.
Personally, I dont see any issue with lot of applications running and having little RAM left because I trust the Android system to manage it efficiently. Furthermore, the RAM on these phones is not as fast as what you would see typically on desktop systems, so it actually helps having things around in memory rather than aggressively cleaning it out. Checkout this link to understand a bit more about Android task management features: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
I suggest you use Spare Parts to isolate your battery drain, there might be some app that is misbehaving and hogging systems resources. Also turning off very frequent updates/refresh intervals in some applications is the way forward.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, j4mm3r. I am using R2BA020. It looks like I have some diagnostic troubleshooting to do when I get home.
Sitting here at work charging my phone, it isn't loading craploads of programs anymore. And it seems to be sleeping okay. I'll play around when I have some free time.

Fixed my problem big time
Hey guys,
I just wanted to throw my two cents into the pot.
OK – so after experimenting with Task Killers, Task Managers, Spare Parts, Juice Defender, etc. I came to the conclusion that they (for the most part) did more bad than good. It was getting to the point that I was just starting to accept that “The X10 just has ****ty battery life” end of story.
I also read in a Google released post on the web, that there are a number of reasons that Task Killers, etc. are actually not required to end tasks. Android actually has a fairly intelligent and systematic approach to killing tasks that are not being used. I haven’t used any sort of proprietary battery saver, task ender, startup cleaner, etc. and I’ve been having the best phone performance since I got the headset.
The time now (Eastern Standard) is 3:30pm on Monday. The last time I charged my phone was Saturday evening at 6pm, and currently I am showing 24% battery remaining. Let those numbers do the talking!
My settings are:
Wi-Fi always off unless I am going to be actively using it (browsing)
Using Phone info, I change WCDMA Preferred to GSM Only (enables 2g instead of 3g without disabling data altogether)
GPS always off
Screen settings, brightness, etc. I believe have a much smaller effect than people tend to believe. The SINGLE BIGGEST factors for me, and noticing this huge increase in battery life are:
Settings -> About Phone -> Software Update -> UNCHECK Automatic Search (this constantly searches the market, etc. for app updates and what not)
Cycle power immediately after charging. Once my phone completes its charge, I turn off and then on again.
I hope that some people can enjoy moderately extended battery life as I have. I am SO ecstatic to be at HOUR 43 and still at 20%+
Worth mentioning also that I am on Rogers (Canada) and have not received any updates, so this extended battery life is not a result of a firmware update.

How I Fixed My Batter Life Problem
My Incredible would run dead in about 4 hrs doing nothing. I finally dug into several "task killer" programs and found that about 20 - 30 apps were invisibily running in the background constantly. As soon as I permanently killed them, my battery life went to normal. I can now get about 2 days of normal use on 1 charge. Even a day of pretty heavy use will last almost all day.
So for me, it was all the new apps I installed when I first got the phone that were running in the background. The free "task killer" program was not showing them. I finally found the app called "System Panel." It was the ONLY app that would show me all the "invisible" apps that were still running invisibly in the background and let me kill them. Once I killed them with System Panel, they stayed dead and the free "task killer" program could auto-kill them from them on.
Not sure why the free programs could not see the rogue apps, but my battery life is GREAT now.

Inebriatef said:
I installed Spare Parts and saw that my phone was never sleeping, even though it was on standby all the time.
This was caused by the location by antenna feature.
Ever since i unchecked that feature i've had around 50-60 hours of uptime, with a few calls and a lot of texts.
hope this helps alot others
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What do you mean caused by the location of the antenna feature?
Where is this option to uncheck this feature.
Thanks dear.
Vatis

I'm running R2BA023 and I am struggling to get a full day from the phone at the moment. It normally lasts around 12 hours and then its flat.
However, I ran the Telenor R2BA020 update and I manage to get a full day with ease.
I have just done a clean install of R2BA023 Generic UK "root" edtion and going to see how I get on. What I did notice before is that the phone was not returning to a idle state.

[Q] Awake Time

I thought maybe we should have one thread where everyone having the same problem can come troubleshoot it.
On EB01, I have 100% awake time. I tried wiping and reinstalling fresh, but still sporadically it won't sleep. I've had some results turning off GPS, then back on. But that doesn't always work to resolve it.
Anyone else have anything they tried and it works consistently for them?

For me, if gps is on in the pull down shade, the phone doesn't sleep.
Probably a bug that will hopefully get addressed before release.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

nmyeti said:
For me, if gps is on in the pull down shade, the phone doesn't sleep.
Probably a bug that will hopefully get addressed before release.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Confirmed issue heard from others btw. But where's the point of having gps even on when you don't need it? Just kills the battery anyways...

jenisiz said:
Confirmed issue heard from others btw. But where's the point of having gps even on when you don't need it? Just kills the battery anyways...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In all other versions, it wasn't actually "on" until an app needed it. In this version it's still not "on" it's just preventing the phone from sleeping.
Best practice for EB01 is to disable it until it's actually needed and then your battery life should significantly improve (assuming i'm not the only one that suffers this bug).

nmyeti said:
In all other versions, it wasn't actually "on" until an app needed it. In this version it's still not "on" it's just preventing the phone from sleeping.
Best practice for EB01 is to disable it until it's actually needed and then your battery life should significantly improve (assuming i'm not the only one that suffers this bug).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
interesting...i'd heard from some that their gps would continuously try and lock unsuccesfully. Thanks for the info...

jenisiz said:
interesting...i'd heard from some that their gps would continuously try and lock unsuccesfully. Thanks for the info...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
On DL09 I could keep it enabled and the only time it would "activate" was when I started Maps or the browser (Google is my homepage and i've enabled location sharing).
Either way my battery life is pretty much back to normal just by disabling GPS in the notification shade.

I've realized that upon boot, if I turn off GPS for a few minutes, turn it back on, then go into maps or latitude, the awake time will go back to normal. If I reboot and never go through this process, I'll get 100% awake time.

I seem to have forgotten where the awake time is displayed. Anyone refresh my memory?
Cheers
Sent from my SCH-I500

Domush said:
I seem to have forgotten where the awake time is displayed. Anyone refresh my memory?
Cheers
Sent from my SCH-I500
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm using spare parts from the market to access the battery stats.

settings > Battery use > Display > Time on
Is that what you're looking for?

Just download spare parts from the market. Its free and has tons of information and settings that you can tweak.

"sns_periodic_wakelock" killing battery

Hey,
I'm running stock nexus 4. I have been having terrible 8 hour battery life with "Android OS" taking up all the battery in battery status. BetterBatteryStats tells me that "sns_perioidic_wakelock" and "sns_async_ev_wakelock" is using up most of the battery. See attached. Any idea what apps are causing this?
http://i.imgur.com/t1gAr.png

thegreyspot said:
Hey,
I'm running stock nexus 4. I have been having terrible 8 hour battery life with "Android OS" taking up all the battery in battery status. BetterBatteryStats tells me that "sns_perioidic_wakelock" and "sns_async_ev_wakelock" is using up most of the battery. See attached. Any idea what apps are causing this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm pretty sure I've seen those wakelocks when making a lot of phone calls. Seems likely related to cell radio use some how, but that's just a guess.

mattb3 said:
I'm pretty sure I've seen those wakelocks when making a lot of phone calls. Seems likely related to cell radio use some how, but that's just a guess.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually the crazy thing is that i have airplane mode with wifi on most of the day cause I have really bad service. And I only have 100 minutes of talk, so I never talk on the phone.

thegreyspot said:
Actually the crazy thing is that i have airplane mode with wifi on most of the day cause I have really bad service. And I only have 100 minutes of talk, so I never talk on the phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just checked mine and those wakelocks are really low today despite several phone calls, I've been on wifi all day though. The right way to figure those wakelocks out is to download the kernel source from one of the devs github and do some searches through the source to see where those wakelocks are logged. You might also search the battery impression thread in general, some smart folks have dissected many kernel wakelocks in there. Seems weird that you would have them in airplane mode.

thegreyspot said:
Actually the crazy thing is that i have airplane mode with wifi on most of the day cause I have really bad service. And I only have 100 minutes of talk, so I never talk on the phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the exact same issue. Wakelocks/Android OS killing my battery (Android OS usually 45% or higher when it should be my screen that is the biggest battery sucker).
I barely use my phone to make phone calls as well. I'd say 1 call every 2 or 3 days.

Same exact wakelocks here. I made 0 phone calls. There is defiantly something up.

I had these two wakelocks too and it turned out to be my live wallpaper that was causing it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35277041&postcount=20

Same wakelocks on my N4....
Solution in my case, delete widget locker....... My Nexy sleeps again:angel:

exact same situation: N4, sns wakelocks killing battery, phone not deep sleeping. culprit? Shake 'n Rotate! app. so add that one to the blacklist as well!

Are any of you running stock kernel and ROM?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Im Running stock kernal and Rom and i still get sns_periodic_wakelock and sns_async_ev_wakelock Does anyone have any idea what they are or what causes them or how to fix? They seem to be on the whole time my phone is on and they suck battery crazy not as bad as most but my android os is always 2nd battery use to my screen or more depending on how i use it and it sucks cause i know i would have pretty awesome battery life if these were fixed or gone. I appreciate any help!

Apparently you can also add: lightflow vibrate on pickup feature and adding a widget to the lock screen..

PowerManagerService and sns periodic wakelock are my main culprits but I'm not sure these numbers mean there's an issue or not...

I just checked BBS for todays use and I have on 9h use 4h on sns_periodic_wakelock. I have been using DashClock on my lockscreen. I will remove that and post back later to see if that helped.:cyclops:

Hmm can anyone say if this looks problematic?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

Yes it does look problematic.
Basically sns_periodic_wakelock kept the device from sleeping for almost three hours.
I have the same issue and don't know what's causing it.
EDIT: Apparently live wallpapers do.

Just writing back to tell you guys how it went. I removed DashClock from my lockscreen and that wakelock seemed to be gone for a few days.
I then later updated the app, and just by updating it, I think it caused the wakelock. This time I'm uninstalling and checking if it comes back again.

Is there a known list of apps suspected of causing this?

dohkoxar said:
Just writing back to tell you guys how it went. I removed DashClock from my lockscreen and that wakelock seemed to be gone for a few days.
I then later updated the app, and just by updating it, I think it caused the wakelock. This time I'm uninstalling and checking if it comes back again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've had dashclock for the past two days.. Not seeing any wake locks. I have all the extensions from the app enabled.

Sns is related to facebook. If you use Titanium backup, go to apps and you can see a blue icon with a letter f on it that looks like facebook letter and labelled sns. Uninstall that and your lovely nexus 4 will enjoy its sleeeeep....

Does GasBuddy still cause a battery drain problem for nexus 6p users?

So I noticed that the newest version of GasBuddy says they fixed the battery drain problem that was affecting certain phone models. I decided to test this the last two nights. I Uninstalled GasBuddy and left my phone unplugged while I slept. I lost 2 percent from 100 percent. Then last night I tried with GasBuddy installed. I lost 20 percent and the keep awake time for android os was more than 8 hours. Is this still an issue for other people? I love GasBuddy and I hate to keep it off my phone.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

same - the update didn't fix it.

it did cause mad wakes for me, uninstalled it last week, i will wait longer until i know its fixed for sure

going to mobile version of the site from chrome and adding to homescreen for the time being seems to be better option instead of installing the app. Also this seems to be fast.

I haven't seen any battery drain at all, I read somewhere that it had something to do with bluetooth, which I don't use

Well I sent then an email hopefully they can fix the 2nd time around
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Yes, problem still here, had to uninstall GasBuddy. Strange that it needs bluetooth and then GB doesn't even show up in BBS as holding a wakelock.

Just Greenify it.

jejb said:
Just Greenify it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does that fix it? Have you tried it? I'm afraid that once it triggers bluetooth to keep the phone awake it may not go away even if you Greenify it. It feels like something wrong in the bluetooth stack that GB may trigger. I can't explain why GB doesn't show up in BBS or the Android battery monitor.

sirxdroid said:
Does that fix it? Have you tried it? I'm afraid that once it triggers bluetooth to keep the phone awake it may not go away even if you Greenify it. It feels like something wrong in the bluetooth stack that GB may trigger. I can't explain why GB doesn't show up in BBS or the Android battery monitor.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, apparently not. After reading this thread, I started GasBuddy for the first time on my new phone and put it right on the Greenify list. Constant wakelocks anyway, and battery took a steep downhill trend for the next few hours.

jejb said:
No, apparently not. After reading this thread, I started GasBuddy for the first time on my new phone and put it right on the Greenify list. Constant wakelocks anyway, and battery took a steep downhill trend for the next few hours.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, this may point to a Bluetooth stack problem and not really a GasBuddy problem, though the app triggers it. I'm sure there are other apps out there that trigger the same.

Wow thank you people... I noticed in the last weeks that, as soon as I use the bluetooth and then stop using it (I disconnect my device), if I let the bluetooth activated, my phone was awake all the time. I couldn't find WHY !!
Then I saw a post from someone who said that the fix was to remove gasbuddy. I couldn't believe it, but I did the test and it's true !!
Gasbuddy is the culprit

It seems to be fixed now, in the latest release. I'm running it and have actually uninstalled Greenify. I never turn BT off. Battery life is excellent.

jejb said:
It seems to be fixed now, in the latest release. I'm running it and have actually uninstalled Greenify. I never turn BT off. Battery life is excellent.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did the test this morning and it's not fixed

All I can say is that is working great for me. Stock Rom, Kylo Kernel, system level root, 6.0.1.

jejb said:
All I can say is that is working great for me. Stock Rom, Kylo Kernel, system level root, 6.0.1.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Stock only for me.
I just did it again :
I installed GasBuddy, I turn bluetooth ON, I connect my headphone.
I start TuneIn and start playing anything for a few seconds. Then I stop it and I disconnect my headphone and I let the bluetooth on
here is the wakelock again.

I only connect to my vehicles and laptop with BT, which I've done several times since loading GasBuddy's fixed release. No issues. Ended the day yesterday with 92%, including a couple of BT phone calls from my truck.
I'm also using NapTime, using the Aggressive mode.

jejb said:
I only connect to my vehicles and laptop with BT, which I've done several times since loading GasBuddy's fixed release. No issues. Ended the day yesterday with 92%, including a couple of BT phone calls from my truck.
I'm also using NapTime, using the Aggressive mode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you stock rooted with the stock kernel as well?

geoff5093 said:
Are you stock rooted with the stock kernel as well?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
See post #15

Wakelock caused by GasBuddy App

So not sure if this has already been posted and / or discussed elsewhere. Did a quick search and didn't find anything.
I was having pretty decent battery life on my s7 edge, but still getting random wakelocks that were only stopped by a restart. I was using package disabler to disable bloatware etc.
Usually it would show up as Android OS which was causing the stay awake. Device would not go into deep sleep when this was happening.
A bit of playing around and I noticed once the wakelock started I could get it to stop by restarting the phone or turning off bluetooth. I use android wear so turning off bluetooth wasn't an option.
Some googling led me to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/bluetooth-causing-wakelock-t3237226
Mentions gas buddy app causing wakelock due to polling location via bluetooth (beacons...?), and some sort of bug or bad programming being the main culprit. Anyway, point being once I removed gas buddy everything was great and I had no more extended wakelocks for no reason.
I hadn't seen anyone post it in here, and clearly it does have the same issues on our phones. I see a lot of people talking about bad battery life, so hopefully this helps.
Keep in mind that gas buddy isn't the only app which has issues like this - it just seems to be the most common one. Check your apps as while it might not report it that way, but could be the root caused of wakelocks and subsequent bad battery life.

mrja22 said:
So not sure if this has already been posted and / or discussed elsewhere. Did a quick search and didn't find anything.
I was having pretty decent battery life on my s7 edge, but still getting random wakelocks that were only stopped by a restart. I was using package disabler to disable bloatware etc.
Usually it would show up as Android OS which was causing the stay awake. Device would not go into deep sleep when this was happening.
A bit of playing around and I noticed once the wakelock started I could get it to stop by restarting the phone or turning off bluetooth. I use android wear so turning off bluetooth wasn't an option.
Some googling led me to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/bluetooth-causing-wakelock-t3237226
Mentions gas buddy app causing wakelock due to polling location via bluetooth (beacons...?), and some sort of bug or bad programming being the main culprit. Anyway, point being once I removed gas buddy everything was great and I had no more extended wakelocks for no reason.
I hadn't seen anyone post it in here, and clearly it does have the same issues on our phones. I see a lot of people talking about bad battery life, so hopefully this helps.
Keep in mind that gas buddy isn't the only app which has issues like this - it just seems to be the most common one. Check your apps as while it might not report it that way, but could be the root caused of wakelocks and subsequent bad battery life.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Related question: How are you determining wakelocks? Are you rooted?
Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

GiancarloMorr24 said:
Related question: How are you determining wakelocks? Are you rooted?
Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am not rooted. This makes the whole wakelock detecting a whole lot harder.
I simply use cpuspy and watch when the phone isn't going into deep sleep, but rather idling at the lowest cpu speed. This usually means a wakelock so I head over to the battery section in settings and look at what is listed there for stay awake times. this is what lead me to android os, and then bluetooth (as android os aggregates a lot of different services into it's stats)