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My N7 LTE have these 2 wakelocks (based on BBS) that kept draining my battery:
- suspend_backoff
- qxcom_rx_wakelock
These caused the "Android OS" USAGE to go about 38% of the battery life.
I used Greenify and AutoStarts to disable the same applications in the N7 as my S4 (Amazon AppStore), so it seems to be something specific to the N7 LTE.
There no way you can get battery life as posted by the WiFi only users in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381370
Wowzers - battery life!
Stop the presses! LTE uses more battery than wifi! The world must know!!
Also, I don't have these wakelocks on my LTE version.
lanwarrior said:
My N7 LTE have these 2 wakelocks (based on BBS) that kept draining my battery:
- suspend_backoff
- qxcom_rx_wakelock
These caused the "Android OS" USAGE to go about 38% of the battery life.
I used Greenify and AutoStarts to disable the same applications in the N7 as my S4 (Amazon AppStore), so it seems to be something specific to the N7 LTE.
There no way you can get battery life as posted by the WiFi only users in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381370
Wowzers - battery life!
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JoeBruin32 said:
Stop the presses! LTE uses more battery than wifi! The world must know!!
Also, I don't have these wakelocks on my LTE version.
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So your N7 last only 12 hours?
If no, then help those who have battery life. Otherwise, we don't need your sarcasm.
This is my first LTE Android tablet. My other one is an iPad with cellular and I have great battery life.
LTE and the "great battery life" are incompatible.
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LTE and the "great battery life" are incompatible.
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Isn't the above is what I am trying to point out in the thread title?
I think most people know battery life is bad, but I just want to point out that it is REALLY BAD.
12 HOURS with just 2 hours screen time.
If I am wrong and you all get better battery life than the above, please enlighten me, especially the issues I had above.
By the way, my S4 Active, a PHONE, have far better battery life than the N7 LTE.
Yes LTE uses more battery than WiFi only, only logical since it's powering extra hardware.
Mine seems to last quite a bit longer than that. Sorry I can't check for wake locks since BBS is not yet working under KitKat.
With just built-in battery state, I'm currently almost 14hrs since charged, got around 1hr screen time and still got 78% battery left.
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I think the LTE version does consume a bit more battery.
Here I use the EDGE network. When in standby status, the battery power drops usually 1 percent / 2 hours. Something like that. It was for 4.3.1, not the 4.4.
I've heard 4.4 is far more power efficient.
Mine usually last 36 hours on a charge. Currently it has been up one day and four hours with five hours screen time. Playing videos and playing poker used most battery. I am sure many people have similar stats.
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Something is not right on yours, Android OS battery usage is at 12% consistently on mine.
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Same here. Unreasonably terrible battery life for LTE. I expected a little more. Upgraded to 4.4 also.
Are we all talking about the same device? The 2013 Nexus 7 LTE? I get EXCELLENT battery life from mine. I've never had an Android device last this long. I could go up to 3 days without having to recharge. I usually put it on the charger every two days. See my snapshot:
I bought the LTE version because I wanted LTE connectivity.
Thanks to everyone who shared their battery life. So something is causing these wakelocks and shown as "Android OS".
Interestingly, I do NOT use many apps that use background processing, such as Facebook, Instagram, weather or even Google Now.
Quick question: do you guys use ANY anti-virus/malware application? I use Avast but because I want the FIREWALL capability to block app or games from making Internet connection, since that will eat up my data. These apps/games usually connect to download ads and they're built-in, which Ad-Away CANNOT block (per the author).
Other background apps I use are "normal" apps --> calendar, 3 Gmail accounts, Google Contact Syncs, Google Talk. I use Greenify too.
If you guys do NOT use anti-virus/malware application, let me know. I will try uninstall Avast and monitor my battery life tonight to see if the same wakelocks appears again.
BTW, those who use BBS, do you see excessive usage of these wakelocks:
- suspend_backoff
- qxcom_rx_wakelock
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Same here. Unreasonably terrible battery life for LTE. I expected a little more. Upgraded to 4.4 also.
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Oh? Looks like you have the same issue as mine: High usage of "Android OS". If you're NOT on 4.4, I'd have ask if you can use BBS to check what caused this.
lanwarrior said:
Thanks to everyone who shared their battery life. So something is causing these wakelocks and shown as "Android OS".
Interestingly, I do NOT use many apps that use background processing, such as Facebook, Instagram, weather or even Google Now.
Quick question: do you guys use ANY anti-virus/malware application? I use Avast but because I want the FIREWALL capability to block app or games from making Internet connection, since that will eat up my data. These apps/games usually connect to download ads and they're built-in, which Ad-Away CANNOT block (per the author).
Other background apps I use are "normal" apps --> calendar, 3 Gmail accounts, Google Contact Syncs, Google Talk. I use Greenify too.
If you guys do NOT use anti-virus/malware application, let me know. I will try uninstall Avast and monitor my battery life tonight to see if the same wakelocks appears again.
BTW, those who use BBS, do you see excessive usage of these wakelocks:
- suspend_backoff
- qxcom_rx_wakelock
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I'm not a fan of social media, so I don't have Facebook, Google+, Instagram either. I do not use any anti-virus applications. That may be one of your battery drainers. My Nexus is bone stock and still on 4.3. I don't know whats BBS or a wakelock, so I can't help you with that. I just use my nexus for browsing web pages using Dolphin and it's Jet Pack to block ads while surfing. I also use the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) apps as well as apps from my stock brokers (Interactive Brokers and Tradestation) to keep track of the markets. I do use Google music to stream music in the car using bluetooth.
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I'm not a fan of social media, so I don't have Facebook, Google+, Instagram either. I do not use any anti-virus applications. That may be one of your battery drainers. My Nexus is bone stock and still on 4.3. I don't know whats BBS or a wakelock, so I can't help you with that. I just use my nexus for browsing web pages using Dolphin and it's Jet Pack to block ads while surfing. I also use the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) apps as well as apps from my stock brokers (Interactive Brokers and Tradestation) to keep track of the markets. I do use Google music to stream music in the car using bluetooth.
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BBS is Better Battery Stats. It was created by one of XDA member and available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809. The app allows you to drill down and see a particular process causing the battery drain.
I have uninstalled Avast and will monitor the battery tonight. Will leave it ON, unplugged, CONNECTED to WIFI and not used. Let's see what will happen.
PS: Any good firewall app I can use to stop free apps from downloading ads? For example, I played Tiny Death Star and that app uses about 10 Mb of data in 1 day...and I only played it 3 times!
I had the 2012 Wi-Fi/3G model and it too had terrible battery life. I don't mean while it was using the cellular radio only, but on Wi-Fi only the battery life sucked. I pulled the SIM card out and turned off the Wi-Fi too, didn't help at all. I know the 2013 N7 does have a smaller battery compared to the 2012, but I feel the 2013 Wi-Fi only version gets better battery life than the 2012 Wi-Fi only version did. Yes, I had 2 N7s last year.
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PS: Any good firewall app I can use to stop free apps from downloading ads? For example, I played Tiny Death Star and that app uses about 10 Mb of data in 1 day...and I only played it 3 times!
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Try AFWall+ available through https://f-droid.org or the f-droid app. This app requires root. Hope this helps.
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Hi guys, I have N7 Mk2 LTE version.
If I don't play games, it keep 2+ days without charging. So stop writing all the bull...t above.
Before you write some nonsenses about battery drain, try to uninstall Facebook app...
Try switching to Samsung Note 8 and you'll thank that N7 LTe has more battery life. Been there and never look back since I switched to N7. Awesome battery life, last to 2 days and perhaps 14-16 on normal use with a bit of short gaming.
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Got this phone about 10 days ago and my battery is terrible since day 1, someone suggested to root my phone and get the BBS app and dump a file i did that and installed a system tuner to disable google CHECKIN OR GCM and unchecked them. apps i got installed to help with battery battery doctor, wakelock detector, os monitor, system tuner, gsam battery, betterbatterystats.
Apps i disabled are:
Ant radio service
Ant+ plugins
App zone
Blurbcheckout
chaton
chrome
flipboard
google play book, games, movies, music, newstand , google search, google+ , hangouts
hp print service plugin
my magazine
s health , svoice , samsung account , samsung apps , samsung galaxy apps widget, samsung push service, smart remote , Top Hd Games
got a plain black wallpaper, even after all this i cant get more than 2h30m screentime and everyone is getting 5h+ do i have a defective unit? what are my options right now? cause basically i removed everything the phone has lol. i talk to my workplace and they can send the phone for repair but i want to see if someone can help me before i do that. i have to unroot the phone if i have to send it for repair even though my phone is 0x1 on knox cause i was stupid to root with cf-root and didnt check other methods.
After all that you did, then it sounds like a faulty battery or device.
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How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.
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How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.
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How do I check if I have a good signal at work? Through an app or through a battery status.
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This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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kgyirhj said:
This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.
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I posted my info with photos ^ thanks
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Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.
Looks like ur using max brightness? Nearly 2 hours screen on time for 44% isnt the best but isnt terrible. I get around 5 to 6 hours using low brightness 3g/4g on besides when screen on. Using android tuner and greenify for tuneing. Screen uses a lot of battery to. Im using. Ktoons kernal now with oc and the batterys probably the same to to me. No beter or worse but. Im running higher clock.
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I also use normal power save eith the greyscale option selected and I have the cpu limited disabled.because ktoons app limits it for me.
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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You're set for almost four hours of screen on time there, on what seems to be very poor mobile signal. Doesn't sound that unrealistic to me to be honest.
Poor mobile signal absolutely kills battery life, as your phone spends the entire time searching and trying to get a better signal.
dandroid13 said:
Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.
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I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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I see a couple of things interesting with your setup, Speaking from personal experience, I too have had battery issues drive me up a wall. I'd get just about a day on a battery when everyone else gets about 3-9 days more. My friend has an s5 all stock and he gets 9 days on a freaking battery. WTF
I rooted my first s5, with ANCH baseband and still couldn't solve all the issues with it. So I sent it back to t-mo and they sent me another one, getting batteries on ebay has also ended up a wash. 2 batteries I've received go down 20% from a full charge in the first hour and shut completely down at 32 percent at least I got a refund on that. (So be careful about ebay batteries, even though they say samsung.
So looking at yours here's what I see, Your system is staying awake, lets look at wake locks. Kik is really tearing up your machines wakelock (900wake locks) as well as the camera CPU time, i'd imagine you were recording a video at some point.
1. Go get greenify and greenify those Kik, Instagram and camera apps if thats usage while the screen is off. (No notifications on those apps, i'm afraid when you do that.)
2. Go get system tuner, make sure your rooted by towelroot (If you so choose to keep from tripping knox) and go into app mgr and find android system and go through activities, receivers and services and make sure everything you see that says IQAgent gets unchecked. This will help you stay out of ServiceIQ's eyes and also help your battery as your entire phone is debugged through those apps. (Help is on the forums somewhere)
3. Turn off google now, hotword detection and location history or you'll start noticing Google services draining your battery
4. Go get deep sleep battery saver and remove that battery saver, I personally never liked it it only suggests things to do rather than do them for you. At night or whenever you need to save your battery turn on slumber and it will only take like a percent to 5% in the morning
5. You probably have a bad battery, especially if its down to that low. Time to exchange or return
I'm incredibly disappointed, i've had to do all these things to really figure things out, heck i'd be on firefox for about 15 minutes and go down 18% (Happened this morning)
Android really has some issues with kitkat, and even though we try and fix these problems with modifications there comes a point where one just gives up and tries to deal with it.
I don't understand why my phone gets 1.2 days and my co-workers Verizon s5 gets 9 days with normal usage. Everyone seems to have crazy all over the scale battery life results. Heck, i've reset my phone and flashed so many roms that i'd be safe to say that I have yet to have 10 full discharges in the 4 weeks i've had the phone. At the end of the day though, it's mountains better than my iphone 5 with a lenmar battery case.
Wish I could say the same with stability, I'd be on my bike and switch tracks (or try) and stuff just doesn't respond, heck I can't even go with voice activation with wired headphones and that is really a downer for me. I want to be able to hold down the pause and play and get the google now boop boop sound and speak as i'm riding.
I'm tired of this, and google has no answers, the fixes above only seem to add a couple of hours but not the 9 days I was seeing.
Goldie said:
I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...
dandroid13 said:
So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...
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My rom. With nothing removed or frozen as I have to keep all bloat due to development to check everything. I recharge every night usually with about 20% left and about 5h30 screen on. Using Tapatalk, music, calls, Internet. The usual stuff.
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I get 6-7 hours normal use with the bloatware I never use frozen. And I mean never use.
Gtalk, whatsapp, line, google drive, dropbox, gmail, Yahoo mail, corporate mail, all running. No greenify. No battery saver.
Now playing games is different thing. 2-3 hours max.
My battery is amazing. I keep the screen brightness lower, keep networks and chips off when not using, i use bootmanager to prevent apps from launching ay boot and only 1 active widget. Good for a day and a half of very fair use !
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It's your probleme. Problably you have some stupid apps I'm your phone that you shouldn't have.
Like you see in my picture. My battery it's just fine and there is 2 stupid apps that eat me my battery without do anything
My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps
matheus_sc said:
My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps
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Yup probably, the only flaw with a smartphone is its user
Dose anyone use snapdragon batteryguru?
Or stay with default function, namely stamina mode?
Or both together?
I just installed yesterday and it is on the way learning.
So, if some of you have already tried some combination of those, I am appreciate it in giving me feedback.
Also, I will give you feedback after testing.
Best regards,
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I have used batteryguru before didn't notice much improvement and from what the app was saying the apps you don't use often it stops them pushing the notifications etc until you load the app however I was still having notifications coming from all the apps on my phone. Your milage may vary though depending on what you use your phone for.
I was using JuiceDefender until I've been told that it doesn't do me any good. I thought it was a pretty nifty app for its functionality to enable and disable Wi-Fi and mobile data when I need it or not...
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I have been used for 1 month. I guess batteryguru did not help me much. So, I just uninstall it.
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I also had tried it on my HTC Butterfly (Global version of Droid DNA) and my LG G2, noticed no improvement in battery life.
Also, I just recognize that battery recharge time longer when I used it.
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I think is better to use both
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GigaSPX said:
I was using JuiceDefender until I've been told that it doesn't do me any good. I thought it was a pretty nifty app for its functionality to enable and disable Wi-Fi and mobile data when I need it or not...
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Why would you think, that JuiceDefender does not do any good?
I use it and actually have very good results with it...
bill340 said:
Why would you think, that JuiceDefender does not do any good?
I use it and actually have very good results with it...
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Well, peers have told me:
1. Battery saving apps are pointless with how advance Android is nowadays. Also especially since Sony has already included enough battery saving software in their devices.
2. The battery saving app keeps running, so that itself drains the battery.
What do you think?
GigaSPX said:
Well, peers have told me:
1. Battery saving apps are pointless with how advance Android is nowadays. Also especially since Sony has already included enough battery saving software in their devices.
2. The battery saving app keeps running, so that itself drains the battery.
What do you think?
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1 is correct
2 is partially correct, depends on which power saving app, I didn't notice any real drain from Battery Guru, though it didn't help increase it either.
I've never used Battery Guru before, but I think I'd rather purchase Tasker to do the job of location based Wi-Fi for my phone.
Would it drain battery or such if I have that act like juice defender/battery guru instead?
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Ive used battery guru for a while, but looks like it doesnt do much. So i uninstall it already.
With the latest version of Stamina I can't really see what BatteryGuru can do to further improve things.
The Z3 effectively turns just about everything off in standby if you ask it to, firing up when you start using the phone. Battery Guru attempts to learn your usage, so it will still allow data at certain times and restrict completely at others.
I'm very happy with Stamina and uninstalled Battery Guru some time ago. I still have it on some other devices tough, especially anything that doesn't have any native power saving functions.
I do wonder how Sony is going to combine Stamina with the Lollipop battery saver, which is a simple on or off - along with the horrid orange bars. That's very much all or nothing with far less intelligence, so maybe Sony will not use that at all.
Hello all,
So we have all seen varying battery life as well as many different attempted solutions to make for less battery drain.
We have heard of the Cell Standby bug, draining a ton of battery
And yet for many, battery was still really bad.
This post is to show confirmed culprits of the battery drain that some of us have experienced, and to give the best, most up to date solution that has proven to make a difference :
For me, cell standby was the first and main issue. Turning off VoLTE did nothing, but turning off WiFi caused that drain to disappear. However, the battery was far from reasonable.
I noticed a couple apps crashing, so I went ahead and froze the preloaded amazon app using greenify. This resulted in the best battery cycle I have had with an S6 edge. Others have tried and confirmed that the preloaded amazon store seems to be causing a strange battery drain. Disabling that one completely seems to make a healthy difference.
Also, make sure you are using the charger that came with the phone, to allow the battery to calibrate. Share your results and suggestions below, and whatever we confirm as a potential help in battery life I will add here.
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My phone doesn't go into deep sleep. Not even on a fresh installation with only CPU Spy installed.
Samsung bloat is disabled, a lot of popular wakeups disabled via App Ops, and still nothing.
For me no deep sleep, email sync is the top % user, after making the changes OP suggested, WiFI off, Amazon and many others disabled. Battery still sucks
aaronc_98 said:
For me no deep sleep, email sync is the top % user, after making the changes OP suggested, WiFI off, Amazon and many others disabled. Battery still sucks
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Download greenify and see what apps it suggests to freeze through it, that's how I first caught the amazon issue. Also, make sure wifi calling is off and Always scan wifi is off. Give it about 4 charging cycles with the charger that came with the phone only (DO NOT use a universal charger or any charger that didn't come with your Edge) if this still doesn't fix it and an app like gsam can't catch anything wrong, might be a defective unit.
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My phone doesn't go into deep sleep. Not even on a fresh installation with only CPU Spy installed.
Samsung bloat is disabled, a lot of popular wakeups disabled via App Ops, and still nothing.
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Try to see if GSAM catches what's causing the wake lock and report back ur findings?
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Could you recommend a good app for monitoring my battery and how applications use it? I feel like the tool in the settings is lying to me and not showing all the apps.
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Shygeek said:
Could you recommend a good app for monitoring my battery and how applications use it? I feel like the tool in the settings is lying to me and not showing all the apps.
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Betterbatterystats or accubattery
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Betterbatterystats
you won't regret
betterbatterystats requires root
Accubattery, gives an estimate of your battery size or mah
I'm using AccuBattery as well. Although I think it can only monitor foreground app usage.
It shows a variety of charging and discharging stats including voltages, %/hr changes, and tracks battery health over time.
gsam is the standard for proper monitoring of app use afaik but there seems to be bugs at the moment where even giving it the permissions with adb, it keeps forgetting that it has permissions and stops showing the complete breakdown of apps.
accubattery seems good but will only show foreground app usage, which doesnt help much since its the background app use that people need to monitor to stop battery drain. it does have some interesting stats like estimated mah of your battery and various forecasts of battery life based on % drain per hour and monitors your charging so you know how many charge cycles you have used.
wakelock detector IMO is good, since it monitors apps that keep your phone up even when it's not used, but it needs root and I don't know if ADB would have some workaround for that, which brings me to another question: is there any ADB manual/info that would list capabilities and functions it supports on Galaxy S8 in particular? Snapdragon S8 doesn't have a root, but maybe we don't need one, if ADB could give us similar functionality? I already came across one program that requires root, but has workaround for ADB as well, in case root is not available, but it would be nice to have one place to go to get info.
Shygeek said:
Could you recommend a good app for monitoring my battery and how applications use it? I feel like the tool in the settings is lying to me and not showing all the apps.
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Why you feel the monitoring apps is lying? Is it when u total up the battery usage, you wont get 100% of battery charge? I also having the same problem....