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[Q] KitKat battery usage way up

I have read where the KitKat upgrade for the G2 is supposed to add speed and increase battery life even further. For me however it seems its the opposite. I have had way worse battery life since installing (pc lg tool) the KitKat update. I was going all day with anywhere from 40 - 30% left when it was finally plugged in for the night, now I am lucky if I make it to the end of the night. At first I thought perhaps it was just in need of a reboot, but I have done that several times since installation and battery times are still worse. What I don't understand is the battery meter says "System" is to blame for 53% cpu time. Before screen time was my number one battery drain, now its just from being on?.... I don't get it.. Anyone else having this issue, or can shed some light?
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What are you doing different? Mine has gotten better since the update
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What are you doing different? Mine has gotten better since the update
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That's just it, i haven't done anything different. It can't be an app because i haven't installed anything since the upgrade. What bothers me is it seems to be a system process that's causing it.

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That's just it, i haven't done anything different. It can't be an app because i haven't installed anything since the upgrade. What bothers me is it seems to be a system process that's causing it.
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Location settings/reporting/Google Now on?

Pocket Mode
Not sure if it is something generic across KitKat or if it is specific to my ROM but pocket mode was killing my battery since it was constantly powering my proximity sensors looking for light to unlock the screen.
settings-security-lockscreen notifications-pocket mode.
Hope that helps man

howesfd said:
Not sure if it is something generic across KitKat or if it is specific to my ROM but pocket mode was killing my battery since it was constantly powering my proximity sensors looking for light to unlock the screen.
settings-security-lockscreen notifications-pocket mode.
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theres pocket mode ? where is it located in settings ?

shriom_manerker said:
theres pocket mode ? where is it located in settings ?
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I provided the path above, like I said though not sure if it is specific to the ROM i'm on(PA 4.4.2) or not. It the only real exposure to kitkat that I've had. If it isn't a default kitkat thing i apologize if I got your hopes up. I will say this though, if it is don't get your hopes up. It's rather annoying and a massive battery drain. With it on my phone acted like it had half the battery it does.

I don't have location settings turned on, so google now shows unavailable for location, also I don't have security turned on, so I have no security lock screen notification settings that I could find... I'm assuming this is only on if you are using pin, or pattern lock. Thanks for the suggestions tho... I'm going to keep monitoring it and see how it goes. So far today it seems to have normalized, Android System is only showing 2%, which is more like it.

I'm on Official LG Stock KK and to be truthful the battery life has been pretty bad. Like not really comparable to 4.2.2 and definitely not comparable to vanilla Android(of course). What's the issue? Anyone know?
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Had a similar issue. Let It settle for a day or so. If no improvement, that's a pain but go through a factory reset. That should fix it. Did you have a specific setup like root/custom rom before?
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I am having serious Bluetooth battery drain even though it has been off. Anyone know how to stop this? Thanks
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Draining bad...
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Last one.
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Same with me I'm going to do a factory reset luckily I can back up everything to box because they gave me 50GB free!
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Factory reset fixed it for me.
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Factory reset fixed it for me.
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Will you lose root if you do a factory reset and was this a factory reset from the Stock Recovery or from entering the Settings and inside Backup and Reset menu and then Factory Reset?

Package Disabler Pro on AT%T

I've always used Package Disabler Pro on all my phones for improved battery life.
This time I was getting worse battery life by disabling a bunch of stuff. Now, I'm keeping it simple and disabling most apps through Applications and using Package Disabler Pro for the following 5 apps/processes running in the background. See attachment.
I hope it helps. I'm getting awesome battery life.
Update: Please make sure you enable everything prior to accepting any OTA updates.
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attachment?

Thanks for this, I've always had rooted phones and just got my s7 edge today so I'm trying to figure out what workarounds to do for things I used to do with root. But just barely have had any time with it but very excited for my new device.
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Does the att software update handle the OTA android updates for the device?
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Seeing good results with a similar setup on mine. Out of the box was seeing about 5 sot, now 6 1/2 ish
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Disabling the gear vr services seems to add to more android system drain and almost 2 hours less SOT. Still testing this. Annoying since the gear vr service is constantly chugging along for some reason
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Annoying since the gear vr service is constantly chugging along for some reason
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I "love" how consistent these things are. The gear vr service has yet to show up in my power consumption lists. I haven't spent any significant time playing inside or watching video in vr yet, but it's all setup and configured and loaded and has been used *some* ... perchance do you have the Oculus auto-update enabled?

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Does the att software update handle the OTA android updates for the device?
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Yes, so important to enable to get update. In fact, enable everything prior to any OTA update.
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C0derbear said:
I "love" how consistent these things are. The gear vr service has yet to show up in my power consumption lists. I haven't spent any significant time playing inside or watching video in vr yet, but it's all setup and configured and loaded and has been used *some* ... perchance do you have the Oculus auto-update enabled?
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I actually haven't done anything with occulus as I don't have the headset yet. So I know that out of the box, the gear vr service is eating battery... I'd assume on all of our devices, since I've literally done nothing with oculus or gear VR yet.
Maybe the service is eating so little that its not worth worrying about. Also, maybe I'm misunderstanding the data im reading... I'm looking under application manager, click 'gear vr service' and I'm looking at the battery percent used since last fully charged
Edit: To me, looking at my screenshot, I'm seeing the gear vr service has eaten 5% of the 28% that's been used so far. Am I right? It would be nice if that was at zero, since I don't use VR... But when I disable this package with PDP, I see my battery life take a noticeable hit.
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I realize now that I'm reading that wrong...
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which disabler are you guys using?

Good lock battery drain

Has anyone noticed increased battery drain since activatinh good lock? Ive been using it today and it seems like my battery is draining faster. Thanks

No.
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Yes.. a bit battery drainer and makes my device a bit warmer mostbof the time
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There is slight drain, but it's nothing really noticeable.. at least not on the latest version of good lock. I had about 2hr 35min SoT at 54% today with good lock running the entire time.. To put it into perspective, I had about 3 hours of SoT with the normal system UI with 49% left.
Either way, the battery trade off is well worth having a vanilla android UI but with all of Samsung's lovely customisations.
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To be honest, I have not noticed a battery drain at all.
Even if there is, it should be very minuscule that you would hardly notice

Yes, due to always request location on each wake...

yea its a bit of a drain....i mean..i like it so much it doesn't bother me lol as much as if it was just a ****ty touchwiz alternative lol.... but maybe as it progresses it will get better on battery...the last update from the 5th shows some improvement ...so over time we should it better with more stabiltiy.

Code124Y said:
Yes, due to always request location on each wake...
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The latest version doesn't require location, according to Samsung.

meyerweb said:
The latest version doesn't require location, according to Samsung.
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u mean xx.0.6?

Yes. I can't find it now but somewhere Samsung wrote that they fixed the location requirement. I haven't verified that, however. I had another issue that forced me to uninstall it.

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Yes. I can't find it now but somewhere Samsung wrote that they fixed the location requirement. I haven't verified that, however. I had another issue that forced me to uninstall it.
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The latest version of Good Lock does not constantly prompt location, which is why I installed it and ran it for a bit. The first version did, and that's why I uninstalled it. But since I've decided to root and use Xposed modules, I'm back at the normal system UI.
What issue caused you to uninstall it? I'm rather curious.

any possible way to show icon labels for wifi bluetooth,location ect... in the pull down menue

Seems to consistently take about 4% off my battery. Haven't decided if that's enough to really care. Really like the lock screen.

It took over 15% of my battery (no location enabled, just "everywhere"). It was next under the screen in battery stats. Needless to say I uninstalled it because of that only. Otherwise I kind of liked it except for the multitasking.

dannejanne said:
It took over 15% of my battery (no location enabled, just "everywhere"). It was next under the screen in battery stats. Needless to say I uninstalled it because of that only. Otherwise I kind of liked it except for the multitasking.
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I've seen a little bit of battery drain but I get an entire day out of my phone so I'm not worried about it. Never as much as you say though. Maybe uninstall and reinstall it. I love the new UI. Also HUGE update came out today

I think that the battery usage is dependent on the number of routines that you run. I personally just set up the default routine to my liking and don't have any others set up and Goodlock typically stays under 5% usage.

My wifi keeps switching off
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Newest version does not give me any drain at all. Now it's also optional to have the new multitasking or not.
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dannejanne said:
Newest version does not give me any drain at all. Now it's also optional to have the new multitasking or not.
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I don't see the Google search bar in recents and I have the latest version installed with the new recents UI turned off.
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dannejanne said:
Newest version does not give me any drain at all. Now it's also optional to have the new multitasking or not.
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The only thing I don't like turning off new recent apps screen it that it takes away the "close all" button but nevertheless shows Samsung is working in it and giving us options based on feedback
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Are there any reasons to hold off on taking the latest update?

Just in terms of eventual root, or something. It's not going to make much of a difference, or anything?
I'm on 6.O.1 - G930PVPU1APB5
Update G930PVPU2APD3
Its just that I notice it includes "security improvements," and that after updating, "returning to the previous version will be impossible. "

If your battery life is good right now, I wouldn't take the update. Sprint ****ed up the battery life on the GS7E with the pd3 update. I wish I had never updated my phone. I went from 7 to 8 hrs SOT down to 4 to 5 hrs after the update. It is caused by a GPS bug.
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If your battery life is good right now, I wouldn't take the update. Sprint ****ed up the battery life on the GS7E with the pd3 update. I wish I had never updated my phone. I went from 7 to 8 hrs SOT down to 4 to 5 hrs after the update. It is caused by a GPS bug.
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Where did you hear about the GPS bug? My battery life got horrible as well and seems to be better with location services off but not as good as when the phone was new
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hads said:
Where did you hear about the GPS bug? My battery life got horrible as well and seems to be better with location services off but not as good as when the phone was new
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My own research. Used GSam monitor & wakelock detector to track down the culprit service.
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If you use hotspot then don't take the new update!

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If you use hotspot then don't take the new update!
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new update fix the hotspot issue?

It breaks the apn hotspot trick

I have my apn modified and the update did not break it. I meant the 'restart' method
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The wifi calling does work better which was one fix on the update
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Is there a way to disable the software update? It keeps popping up on my notification bar.

kreizyidiot said:
Is there a way to disable the software update? It keeps popping up on my notification bar.
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I did with this. No root required
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And disable these

I noticed with the newest update notification tones are significantly louder while using headphones and are unaffected by the sound level settings.
Edit: Also, notifications on lock screen auto-clearing upon turning phone screen on.
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kreizyidiot said:
Is there a way to disable the software update? It keeps popping up on my notification bar.
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I wish. I accidentally took mine a few days ago. Was walking through LA at night, pulled my phone out to check directions, and it was 10% deep into it. I was so pissed, and it was like an hour before I could use my phone again.

Thanks. This works, well worth the buck.
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I did with this. No root required
And disable these
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Edit: Also, notifications on lock screen auto-clearing upon turning phone screen on.
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Can this be a bad thing? What if you turn the screen on to check time or something, and then the notifications disappears without you even glancing at it?

kreizyidiot said:
Is there a way to disable the software update? It keeps popping up on my notification bar.
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Block Google Play services notifications.

Disable Bloat/Improve battery life the EZ Way

I see a lot of folks having problems with battery life and lag so I'm sharing my xml file for EZ Package Disabler Pro ($1.49)
This will disable bloatware on your device and help it to run as it should.
Import the xml file and apply.
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.packagedisabler
XML Download(updated): http://www54.zippyshare.com/v/RY5hORye/file.html

It would be very helpful at a first glance if you could list all of the apps that you are disabling in this thread.

Need a decryption key for the xml file
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Sub'd

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Need a decryption key for the xml file
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Yea you do, wtf?

There's already a debloat thread here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-note-7/help/q-package-disabler-pro-apps-getting-rid-t3443355

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-note-7/help/q-package-disabler-pro-apps-getting-rid-t3443355
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Here's my list that I've used since Note 4 without any issues whatsoever with any of my devices.
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I've updated the link. I'll post the list of apps disabled later today.

Here is a list of what I've disabled. I don't use the edge apps and I don't use s health either.

Also I disabled the tmobile app via adb before I started using this app. If you can't disable that app let me know.

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Also I disabled the tmobile app via adb before I started using this app. If you can't disable that app let me know.
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Disable this app as well, "com.tmobile.pr.adapt"
Its a tmobile spying app. Related to my account as well

Thanks for this. Might have to use it if my battery drain goes to crap. But after factory reset all is well so far. Over 6 SOT whew.
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there is an app or 2 on your list that i actually use. will it reactive once i open app?

RotaryXperiment7 said:
there is an app or 2 on your list that i actually use. will it reactive once i open app?
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Just unmark it from the disabler.

I'm going to have to try this because I have been having a crazy lag issue with the keybord
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tommason1968 said:
I'm going to have to try this because I have been having a crazy lag issue with the keybord
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There's a lot of talk on the infoweb about the Samsung keyboard. being less that stellar.

I have no problem with Samsung keyboard so far, but I'm not fast typist by any means and don't type much. Isn't there another keyboard you can load, swiftkey or something? I think I had it on my old phone and at the end Samsung was better for me, but should work for others.
Stupid question: since we can disable programs using settings/apps, what is the benefit of using separate dedicated program, besides the usual faster/easier? For example can the program disable apps settings can't?

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I have no problem with Samsung keyboard so far, but I'm not fast typist by any means and don't type much. Isn't there another keyboard you can load, swiftkey or something? I think I had it on my old phone and at the end Samsung was better for me, but should work for others.
Stupid question: since we can disable programs using settings/apps, what is the benefit of using separate dedicated program, besides the usual faster/easier? For example can the program disable apps settings can't?
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I froze the Samsung keyboard and am still having problems with it, lol! I still see that bug where the Sammy keyboard periodically tries to place itself back as 'default' is still around. It somehow screwed up my Swype and I had to make a few settings changes to get it working right again.

I've now tweaked my note 7 to where I'm literally getting 1hr and 20 minutes of SOT per every 10% of battery!
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Samsung keyboard has issues. Google keyboard is working legit. No issues whatsoever.
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