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I used my phone for a 10 minute phonecall this morning, I did a little bit of wireless tethering to download some ppt files for my mba class on my laptop, and then I just did some basic surfing on the phone and using the xda app.
My battery level was at 80 at about 12:15 pm. I left for a little bit, leaving the phone where it was, and when I got back around 1:30ish, I looked at the phone and the battery level was 70. That's very uncommon and I was really surprised that it had dropped more than 1% or so in such a short time. And within a few seconds my phone just rebooted by itself. And when it came back up, it was running VERY VERY sluggish, and I opened up system panel, and my CPU consumption was at 90% or above. I had to reboot into recovery and wipe dalvik cache and cache, now the phone is running like normal.
I looked at my system panel monitoring data which I had running, and I'm posting the screenshots of the historical data.
It seems something suddenly happened to the system. I can't figure out what it is. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Check the logcat.
If you see a message saying something like "Can't read CPU frequency linked list - next isn't in the list" or something like that repeating endlessly as an error, and you happen to use iR's kernel, then it makes 2 of us and you can show him the logcat to debug.
I wanted to debug it, but I don't seem to find any time.
I'm using wild monks kernel that's listed in my signature. How does one do a log cat anyway?
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Don't know how to help, but I'm curious to know which app you are using to get those measurements.
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domonas said:
Don't know how to help, but I'm curious to know which app you are using to get those measurements.
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I looked at my system panel monitoring data which I had running, and I'm posting the screenshots of the historical data.
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So, as he said, he used System Panel.
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So, as he said, he used System Panel.
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Ha. Didn't even know that was an app.
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ksc6000 said:
I'm using wild monks kernel that's listed in my signature. How does one do a log cat anyway?
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Wildmonks' kernels are based on iR's source, if I'm not mistaken.
Go to Market, search "logcat".
Go to Google, search "post logcat".
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Wildmonks' kernels are based on iR's source, if I'm not mistaken.
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correct.
I see the battery drop from 50% to 0....did you change anything with the battery calibration app?
I set my battery health to 100% from 94% and my phone switched off at ~25%. Try wiping battery stats.
Happening to me too. If you click on System you'll see it's really the suspend process. Typically on my N1 there is nothing in the log.
See here for further discussion: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126, "suspend" process runs continually in background at ~40% CPU on HTC EVO 4G
I had this problem too.after I installed look out on my phone, I notice that my phones battery was dropping significantly fast. I thought it was the look out app that drain the battery since it's a security app and should be running constantly. But it's not though cuz I installed the app on my wifes g2 too and hers is fine. Hers is stock btw and mine is running cm6.1. But after 2 days and few time rebooting it, it's fine and normal now.
I usually make it through one heavy using day, but when the problem exist it can barely make through half a day. I start my day at 8 and stop at 6
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Anybody come up with anything on this yet??
I can confirm this issue happens with a whole bunch of iR's and WM's kernels. On the other hand, never happened on stock Enomther's kernel.
You can use OS monitor to see logcat or even dmesg log for battery stuff too. And you can use that app to export both logs to memory card whenever you want. I do that all the time to analyze my log from a computer when testing the battery calibrator app when developing new one.
No clue why that CPU is happening though. I, too, purchased system panel and It's by far the best app on my phone.
I had this once. It was a corrupt photo on my SD card. I formatted it, restored some files, and it never happened again.
Unless you really go through all your logs line by line I don't think you can figure this out. This includes both logcat and dmesg.
Im noticing my battery is draining faster than when I had froyo anyone else noticing this.its very disappointing .im using it just how I used it on froyo and it barely last through half the day. And should I use a task killer, droid life said it would save me more battery if I didn't use one
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You might want to recalibrate your battery. I am getting much better life on gingerbread. Definitely do not use a task killer. Android is designed to keep the programs you use most in memory and drop the ones that aren't. Even the ones on memory won't be using much power.
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Charge the battery to 100% and then boot into CWM and go to advanced > wipe battery stats
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You might want to recalibrate your battery. I am getting much better life on gingerbread. Definitely do not use a task killer. Android is designed to keep the programs you use most in memory and drop the ones that aren't. Even the ones on memory won't be using much power.
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Thanks
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Charge the battery to 100% and then boot into CWM and go to advanced > wipe battery stats
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It actually was doing pretty good until today and maybe its me not noticing how much im using it since I am trying out gb and all its new features lol
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Another reason that I regretted upgrading to it is the battery seems to run down a lot faster.
I also noticed the keypad lights stay on considerably longer (and brighter too?). Can it possibly be assisted adjusted?
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Ted A said:
Another reason that I regretted upgrading to it is the battery seems to run down a lot faster.
I also noticed the keypad lights stay on considerably longer (and brighter too?). Can it possibly be assisted adjusted?
Yea the lights are way to bright for no good reason.
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We just updated my wife's DX to the Gingerbread OTA this morning. (We are running stock)
My wife showed me that her battery was down to about 40% today, when normally she is around 70% by the end of the day.
I don't have CWM on her phone (if I should be resetting data as mentioned above).
Is her battery draining faster, or is it just a battery recalibration issue?
If we need to recalibrate, what should we do without CWM?
Thanks ...
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Is her battery draining faster, or is it just a battery recalibration issue?
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The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
openbox9 said:
The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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I'm also experiencing 20 to 30% faster battery drainage on GB. No change in usage or apps.
openbox9 said:
The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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Are there other threads where this drainage issue is being discussed and potential solutions being posted?
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Are there other threads where this drainage issue is being discussed and potential solutions being posted?
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Yes, and so far the suggestions revolve around disabling any sort of syncing/polling apps, turning down screen brightness, turning off 3G radio and living life with only WiFi, doing a factory reset, and a few others. Some believe it's a 3G signal issue and the radio bumping the power to compensate. I'm betting on this as the phone does get quite a bit warmer when using the 3G radio. Realistically, the only real solution will come from Moto when the issue is fixed.
Motorola claims the DroidX has 480 minutes talk time and 220 hours standby!
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/U...s/Mobile-Phones/ci.Motorola-DROID-X-US-EN.alt
Anyone here get anything remotely close to those times?
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Definitely not since the GB update. Might have been able to get that before if you remove all widgets, syncing/pushing apps, and only turn the screen on to dial a phone number.
On a side note, I broke down and bought the extended battery and I seem to be getting worse battery life now than before Time to exchange it or get my money back.
I am experiencing the same fast drainage and excessive heat. I am more than ready for a fix & root.
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Just updated to 2.3.3 today and my battery is doing a lot better than on froyo. im unrooted
I was having a similar issue with the battery draining and the phone feeling warmer that usual after I first updated. I fired up OSMonitor and found that there was a motorola service running nonstop at like 20% CPU usage. Found out it was trying to sync my exchange account but couldn't connect. I manually went in to the mail app and refreshed; it sync'd my account and the problem was solved. Great battery life ever since.
Don't know if this is a similar issue that other people are having, but hopefully it helps someone.
I had the same problem (battery would drain in a few hours and the phone would get very hot) and could not determine the problem.
After a few days I tried the "Droid Factory Reset"
under: Reset instructions for DROID X on 2.3 Gingerbread Android:
motorola-global-portal dot custhelp dot com/app/answers/detail/a_id/48517/~/droid-x---factory-data-reset
It worked. The battery life went back to what it had been before the update, or at least to something similar. Of course, all the data and apps were wiped.... but it was a perfect trade off for having a phone that worked once again.
Just waiting for the Gingerbread OTA Root!
funny, cause when i go through privacy to factory data reset and get all the way to the final button to erase everything...the damn button does nothing. Doesnt work.
it's fine cause i can just boot into android recovery and do it there, but wtf.
this OTA GB has been pretty bad thus far. lots of lost functionality such as extended controls / power control widget, task killer widgets...none of them work.
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I was having a similar issue with the battery draining and the phone feeling warmer that usual after I first updated. I fired up OSMonitor and found that there was a motorola service running nonstop at like 20% CPU usage. Found out it was trying to sync my exchange account but couldn't connect. I manually went in to the mail app and refreshed; it sync'd my account and the problem was solved. Great battery life ever since.
Don't know if this is a similar issue that other people are having, but hopefully it helps someone.
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99% of the time, that was the issue with battery drain on GB.
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I've tried a large amount of ROMs by now and I'm cosistantly having these issues with my battery. I'm noticing a correlation between battery and WiFi seeing that WiFi destroys it every time I use it...is there something wrong with my phone? Battery? Should I stop using agat and ktoonz kernel? I'm confused...I'm not OCd or anything with my kernel either
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I've tried a large amount of ROMs by now and I'm cosistantly having these issues with my battery. I'm noticing a correlation between battery and WiFi seeing that WiFi destroys it every time I use it...is there something wrong with my phone? Battery? Should I stop using agat and ktoonz kernel? I'm confused...I'm not OCd or anything with my kernel either
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If you have a battery monitor (such as GSam or BetterBatteryStats, etc) take some screenshots and post em' so we can get more info.
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If you have a battery monitor (such as GSam or BetterBatteryStats, etc) take some screenshots and post em' so we can get more info.
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Yes, I noticed that WIFI kills the battery life too. That probably because, it constantly scans to try to find and connect to a hot spot of TWCWIFI. I have to make sure to turn off the WIFI after use.
Hmmmm. There are a number of rooted apps that will kill unnecessary apps from sucking the life oitta your battery.
Use Greenify. Its a pretty cool app that deff helps out.
Obviously make sure Power Saving Mode is on. Make sure to turn off anything youre not using.
ALSO. Something many people don't know...Whenever I get a new phone and or battery. I make sure..and this is important...I charge the battery ALL the way up without messing with it. Then when its good and juiced up. Use the battery normally. But use it ALL the way til your phone dies. Literally. Then...charge it ALL the way back up.
Repeat these steps a good 3-4 times. Batteries have memory in them. If you charge up a new battery to say 75% and take it off and let it drain..then charge it back up. It'll think that 75% is 100%. Thats why its crucial to do those steps a good handful of times.
I guess you can also set your brightness level to auto. Get a cleanup app. Clean Master is a good one. It even boosts memory too by clearing up random files.
I tried greenify but like as we speak, I'm on the charger with WiFi on and the battery is still draining....like is my phone screwed up?
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Should I stop using agat and ktoonz kernel? I'm confused...I'm not OCd or anything with my kernel either
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Yes, you should. I am always amused that people will take a perfectly good device, modify it completely, and then wonder why they are having issues. ODIN back to stock rooted and don't fix what's not broken. Needless to say, I have no battery drain issues with my device. On my old S3, I used to do what you do, including running kernels by the same devs you mentioned. What I found was that I would spend hours backing up, flashing, restoring, configuring, etc, and I would be left with a device that ran like crap with piss-poor battery life. Nothing custom lasted more than 48 hours on my old S3 and nothing custom has even been flashed to my S4. No need for it.
I do notice that sometimes I get more WiFi battery drain than even on LTE. That has to do with the signal strength of the WiFi vs LTE. A weak wifi signal will drain your battery more than normal, that goes for any device.
Give us some screenshots brotha so we can help diagnose the problem.
Hi guys!
Just got my second G2 - the first one got exchanged, because of a bad battery and software errors. The second one is a lot more smooth in software, but battery life is still kind of bad.
This night, it lost 16% in 9 hours?! I have almost no apps installed, and those I have (Facebook) is greenify. I have some screenshots of different things, maybe you can see what's going on.
And maybe, can you tell me what apps, bloats and services I can freeze, remove or anything else, in order to get more then 3:30 screen time per charge, so I can get 4-5-6 hours, like a lot of you have.
Thank you
Tim
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You have a pretty bad wakelock somewhere. Need to find out what's causing it.
Compare with these screen shots:
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
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You have a pretty bad wakelock somewhere. Need to find out what's causing it.
Compare with these screen shots:
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
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Ok, I can see there is a little difference
What program can I use, to see what's causing it?
On the App Sucker screen, click on system and system(wakelock) lines. Out should give you a list of apps that are using the most battery. Try modifying their settings. Or, you could try a factory reset, and add things slowly until you find the offending app. Sometimes trial and error is the only way to find these things.
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
I use Wakelock Detector and its always been helpful for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector&hl=en
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On the App Sucker screen, click on system and system(wakelock) lines. Out should give you a list of apps that are using the most battery. Try modifying their settings. Or, you could try a factory reset, and add things slowly until you find the offending app. Sometimes trial and error is the only way to find these things.
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
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This....
Facebook may be your problem though
Another night is over, time for an update.
Yesterday my display time was 1:45,and I was down to 61% when I got to sleep. This morning, 10h later, the battery was down to 55%, better, but is that still to much battery usage?
Now, I've had the display on for 20 minutes, and the battery is down to 48%.
I don't know what to think, is it normal, or is there something wrong with my phone?
I'm rooted, so I could use greenify.
The only apps I have installed are Facebook, Facebook site manager, the xda app, dropbox, gsam battery monitor, greenify and wakelock detector. Both Facebook apps and xda app is greenify.
I hope you guys can tell me, if there's anything wrong, and hopefully how to fix it.
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Now I have used almost all my battery, here is some screenshots.
Can you, by looking at them, tell me what I can do, to get better battery life, and is able to get a higher screen on time? I can't figure out what to do, with the information provided here.
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Hello, I've had this phone pretty much since release. I've never had any problems with battery life on it, I would typically get 5-6 hours of screen on time since I'm not that heavy of a user. Recently, however, I have not been getting very good battery life at all. My phone drains a lot, even while it should be sleeping. I checked the battery usage report and the first thing on the list just says 10037. I click on it and cannot force stop or anything and it doesn't provide me with any additional information. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to figure out what this is or if any has had any issues with this is as well and found a fix. I haven't really done anything new to the phone that I can think of. I posted the screen shot of my batter usage. Thanks.
http://i.imgur.com/9PwkHcX.png
It's an app that was previously uninstalled. If you restart the phone and recharge it should disappear.
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It's an app that was previously uninstalled. If you restart the phone and recharge it should disappear.
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I haven't uninstalled any apps that were number 1 on my list, though, that's why I'm confused. This puppy is showing that's it's using a lot of battery lol.
Just try it. I've encountered a lot of this on other forums. Fix was always the same.
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Just try it. I've encountered a lot of this on other forums. Fix was always the same.
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I'm in the process of trying it lol. But I don't think it hurts trying to get more information while the phone is charging. I've given it a google and couldn't find it on other forums, which is why I made a post asking. I did see a lot of people that posted their battery logs from their rooted apps saying an id of the deskclock was 10037. So I wasn't sure if that was draining my battery for some odd reason after the update a couple weeks ago.