I have this issue and have spent the last 2 days trying to fix it to no avail. I'm wanting to start a fresh to resolve it which means wiping internal storage of music/photos etc. One question though, what's the best way of doing this to them install a fresh ROM?
Is this being reported by GSAM with the root plugin, or another battery monitor?
Also, are you on stock, or another ROM?
I have noticed my top app battery drain by far is the Mediaserver - however my battery life doesn't seem to be suffering unduly.
I'm wondering if it isn't actually to do with the indexing that the System (mediaserver) performs but the "Audio On time". If you view the details of the apps power usage in GSAM it shows quite a high number for "Audio On". About the same as my SoT. I have no idea if this is expected/normal behaviour (ie whenever the phone is awake the process turns the audio on) and is a red herring or if this is in fact an issue with it activating some audio functions even when nothing is playing.
Azarin said:
Is this being reported by GSAM with the root plugin, or another battery monitor?
Also, are you on stock, or another ROM?
I have noticed my top app battery drain by far is the Mediaserver - however my battery life doesn't seem to be suffering unduly.
I'm wondering if it isn't actually to do with the indexing that the System (mediaserver) performs but the "Audio On time". If you view the details of the apps power usage in GSAM it shows quite a high number for "Audio On". About the same as my SoT. I have no idea if this is expected/normal behaviour (ie whenever the phone is awake the process turns the audio on) and is a red herring or if this is in fact an issue with it activating some audio functions even when nothing is playing.
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Yes it is and it's making me go mad! I might uninstall it if this is the case. Has anyone else reported the issue if it is one?
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Firstly, this is in relation to the battery drain issue concerning the 'time without signal' bug.
Okay, I've done three repeated tests, all leading to the same results. Basically, it seems that when I restart/reboot my phone, a number of applications etc. show up in the 'battery use' menu, including 'Android OS' and 'Android Operating System', 'Dialer', etc. Battery drain at this stage is quite bad at around 8-10 (Battery ETA) percent per hour with barely any use. Now, when I plug my phone briefly into the computer letting it charge a few percent, and then unplug it (under usb setting, without detecting sd cards), these applications reduce down to only four in the 'battery use' menu (Display, Cell standby, phone idle and android system).
More importantly, the 'time without signal' info mysteriously disappears from the 'cell standby menu', and battery drain reduces to 3.4 (Battery ETA) percent per hour with me playing around with the settings/apps etc.
This seems like a temporary fix to what seems to be a phone radio searching/standby issue. Can others try what I did and report back? I have little knowledge in application development, etc. so I'm hoping someone can deduce the source of the problem from this information.
Also, my phone is a stock galaxy s i9000 from virgin mobile Australia.
Update: same effect also with wall plug. Phone must be on, and only after cable is unplugged, the aformentioned occurs.
Hi.
I also notice the issue.
For example, after 4 hours and 18 m, I'm with 70% of battery left.
And I didn't do ANYTHING. Just navigate through the menu.
I tried many ROMS and the issue remains. Now I'm running on the Darky's ROM, and it is really good. Someone says that reduces battery consumption. I didn't noticed that.
Anyway, I always do the recharge with the device ON but I don't see battery save. ~10% consumption per hour.
I tried everything to reduce the battery drain!
Now I'm testing SuperPower from XDA (you can find it on the market), it's amazing, it allows you to configure profiles in each states of the phone: awake, lockscreen, sleep. It can slowdown CPU speed, disable WiFi and Mobile Data, disable autosync, and more.
Sounds good each of these features, but remember that it is still a beta.
I'm using it right now, but as you can se, the battery drain continues....
Bear with me. If you are an expert on android maybe you can help me out here. First off, I have researched the crap out of this problem and still been unable to fix it, so YES, I did search before making this thread.
I am on a stock, rooted Verizon Galaxy S4. I have been watching my battery consumption carefully via the integrated battery settings menu, battery stats plus and wakelock detector apps. Mainly, there is a program or set of programs that typically is called "Google Services" that according to the integrated battery menu is consuming anywhere between 20-45% of my battery, sometimes more than the screen on time! My battery life is around 48hrs with 10hrs screen time but that is on the massive zerolemon 7500mah battery which I just bought, so I am not sure if that is above, below or just average (i.e. I have no real standard by which to judge).
Like I said I have read probably every thread about this problem with remedies such as; disable location, turn off google now, turn off google maps reporting, uninstall updates for google play/google play services/google framework settings, turn off google sync etc. I have tried them ALL, none seem to work. I have a feeling the issue is perhaps more in depth and above my head.
It gets more complicated. Although the stock android integrated battery menu reports it as using a massive amount of battery, the other two apps I mentioned above do not even report it, or at least not under a name that I regonize (perhaps that categorize it under a different process?). Under them screen time is by far the highest consumer.
So what to make of this? Is it a false report that the stock integrated android battery menu is reporting, and thus something to disregard? I doubt that because there are many other threads out there of people with the same problem and questions I have. But It's also not like my battery drains within hours. For instance, today I have been off the charge for 12.5hrs, with 3hrs and 40min of screen time and have 63% remaining on the 7500mah zerolemon extended battery.
If you can help, please do. If this is indeed a major drain I would really like to fix it.
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Bear with me. If you are an expert on android maybe you can help me out here. First off, I have researched the crap out of this problem and still been unable to fix it, so YES, I did search before making this thread.
I am on a stock, rooted Verizon Galaxy S4. I have been watching my battery consumption carefully via the integrated battery settings menu, battery stats plus and wakelock detector apps. Mainly, there is a program or set of programs that typically is called "Google Services" that according to the integrated battery menu is consuming anywhere between 20-45% of my battery, sometimes more than the screen on time! My battery life is around 48hrs with 10hrs screen time but that is on the massive zerolemon 7500mah battery which I just bought, so I am not sure if that is above, below or just average (i.e. I have no real standard by which to judge).
Like I said I have read probably every thread about this problem with remedies such as; disable location, turn off google now, turn off google maps reporting, uninstall updates for google play/google play services/google framework settings, turn off google sync etc. I have tried them ALL, none seem to work. I have a feeling the issue is perhaps more in depth and above my head.
It gets more complicated. Although the stock android integrated battery menu reports it as using a massive amount of battery, the other two apps I mentioned above do not even report it, or at least not under a name that I regonize (perhaps that categorize it under a different process?). Under them screen time is by far the highest consumer.
So what to make of this? Is it a false report that the stock integrated android battery menu is reporting, and thus something to disregard? I doubt that because there are many other threads out there of people with the same problem and questions I have. But It's also not like my battery drains within hours. For instance, today I have been off the charge for 12.5hrs, with 3hrs and 40min of screen time and have 63% remaining on the 7500mah zerolemon extended battery.
If you can help, please do. If this is indeed a major drain I would really like to fix it.
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Did you trie to disable the network location? It works for me.
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Did you trie to disable the network location? It works for me.
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Yes that seems to work, but it's not really a "fix" as now I cannot use the location feature of many of my apps. Basically traded one problem for another, albeit lesser one.
I'm still trying to figure it out as since last update (MEA firmware) , my phone is heating a lot.
I had this problem with data connection on, I had this problem in airplane mode, but not strangely with having connection to wifi.
I also observed that google services and android system is consuming most of the battery. earlier when I used to get 8-10% consumption in full use in an hour, now, 8-10 % is consumed within 30 mins.
No tweaks are working. Frozen a bunch of apps but the problem is still there.
Just now I've uninstalled fileexpert HD , as "greenify" told me that since last 20 minutes my phone is on, it has taken 250+ wake locks.
I'm charging my battery to full to check if that solves my problem.
will try to disable location services and report back on the results.
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Have the exact same problem, before the latest firmware my phone had awesome battery life, and now the battery goes from 40% to zero in just a few hours without any app running when I'm sleeping... it's horrible. Same problem with my wife's S4 since the latest update... It absolutely sucks.
Huge battery drain when tablet is "sleeping" - probably because "bluesleep"
Hello,
I have problem on my N7 with large battery drain.
I had this issue witch Stock ROM, now I tried to root stock ROM (4.4.4) and install Greenify, but battery still dies after 2 days of no usage.
I tried to charge it fully, reboot it, cleared cache and dalvik cache, and put it to "sleep". After one night, 40% of battery was gone.
It seems that my N7 is not going to "deep sleep" for some reason.
So I tried to install numerous of apps to find what app is responsible for this. None was successfull, until I tried BBS.
In attachment, you can find BBS dumpfile. But it seems, there is some "bluesleep" kernel wakelock, which is responsible for all my troubles. Unfortunatelly, I dont know what this process is. Or am I reading dumpfile wrong and some other app/process is responsible for this huge battery drain?
I also attached screenshot from standard android battery statictics, which shows, that "Android OS" is preventing tablet from sleep.
Is there some way to fix this issue? Tablet worked normally for 1.5 year, but in last months is unusable, because it has dead battery everytime I want to use it.
Thanks for advices.
I would imagine bluesleep wakelock is related to bluetooth. Do you have BT on and/or connected to anything using BT?
If so try turning it off and see if it persists.
Yes, I use Bluetooth for my Jawbone UP24 sync. But I have this band only for a week. Extreme battery drain already was there before I have got UP24. In these times I had bluetooth turned off all time. So I dont think this is main reason.
I turned off BT. Lets see what happens in the morning.
UPDATE: You were right. It is bluetooth. When I turn it off, tablet is most time in deep sleep.
So probably rooting and installing greenify worked, but in meantime, I started using UP24 and Bluetooth on tablet.
I will try if situation is better with some AOSP based ROM. I did not wanted to flash another rom (than Stock), but I guess, there is no other way. Even clean Android on Nexus device is not usable with comfort...
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
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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
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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.
Hey guys...
Just here to say that I unplugged this phone at around 5 in the morning, and around 5 hours later its already down to 74%.
What did I do? Only about 10 minutes of mobile hotspot, a 2 minute phone call, and three text messages. The rest just idling...
1/4th of my battery life for just that?
What the heck?
Everything is disabled and the screen brightness is low... Whats the matter with this phone?
Looks like something is keeping your device awake.
Can you please add some screenshots of your battery graph?
In addition, you can try to boot into safe mode. If your problem is gone in safe mode, a third party app is interfering.
If you're rooted, try installing Wakelock detector or BBS (Better Battery Stats) and check out what is waking up your device.
If you use Gas Buddy, it was known to be causing massive bluetooth wakelocks. Either uninstall it or update it to the latest version.
Set your wifi to 2.4 ghz only. On 6.0 and 6.0.1, the 5 ghz band has been causing abnormal battery drain and keeping phones from entering doze mode. Here's the issue being reported: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197460
If neither of these make a big improvement, you'll have to use your battery stats (and if rooted, use Better Battery Stats or Wakelock Detector) to specifically see what's keeping the phone awake. In either of these apps, filter the view by "Alarms" or "wakeup triggers" and you'll see what the heavy hitters are.
Be sure to go into Location>Settings and turn off wifi and bluetooth scanning.
Hi.the maps app isvuding WiFi and gps even though both are disabled and I'm not using it... Any ideas?