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So after reading everywhere on the forums how amazing the Atrix's battery life is, I took a look into my phone to see why mine was so shoddy. Turns out that when I type *#*#INFO#*#* on the dialer and go to Battery history, under Sensor usage it says that the Android System has been using it 100% of the time the phone has been on for "Since last unplugged", "Total since boot", and "Total in all time". The thing is, I stopped using auto brightness a few days ago, so I don't know what the problem is. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this typical of the Atrix? My N1 never had this problem. Any suggestions please? Thanks.
fl13dl1c3 said:
So after reading everywhere on the forums how amazing the Atrix's battery life is, I took a look into my phone to see why mine was so shoddy. Turns out that when I type *#*#INFO#*#* on the dialer and go to Battery history, under Sensor usage it says that the Android System has been using it 100% of the time the phone has been on for "Since last unplugged", "Total since boot", and "Total in all time". The thing is, I stopped using auto brightness a few days ago, so I don't know what the problem is. Is anyone else having this problem? Is this typical of the Atrix? My N1 never had this problem. Any suggestions please? Thanks.
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I have the same battery drain issue while the phone is on stanby. I fully charge my battery to 100%, left the wifi on and went to sleep. Woke up and battery is 60%. Try again the next night. 100% battery, turn wifi off and when I woke up the battery was 96%. So from 10pm-5am i lost on 4%. So something is wrong with our wifi sensor.
Well leaving wifi on will drain the battery. My issue is the proximity sensor I believe. I factory reset my phone just now and I'm still plagued with the same issue. So I don't believe it's a rogue app. Can anyone look at their battery history and tell me their usage percentage? I'm afraid my problem is a hardware issue now.
Can anyone check out their battery info with *#*#INFO#*#* and tell me their Sensor Usage by Android System? I just need to confirm to see if this is a hardware issue for me. Thanks!
I'm not having any battery issues and my sensor usage is 100%.
I leave GPS on, I've been texting on and off, played about half an hour of angry birds, and spent maybe 30 minutes on a call. Started at 8am now it's 1:47pm and my battery is at 60%. I'm not using juice defender or any battery management software.
Hope this helps.
fl13dl1c3 said:
Can anyone check out their battery info with *#*#INFO#*#* and tell me their Sensor Usage by Android System? I just need to confirm to see if this is a hardware issue for me. Thanks!
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Mine shows the same thing. I don't think this is an error. The system needs to be aware. This sensor could be the unlock button. I have great stand by batt unless wifi is on which is normal
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Ah I see, thanks for your input guys. It's just that I haven't had the greatest battery life, I can just see it drop with battery circle widget sometimes :/. Plus, coming from a N1, its sensor usage was low so I thought this was a problem. But this puts my worries to rest, thanks.
Seems every Atrix is a new world, just as my Milestone.
Do you guys have "Sensor Rotation" enabled in the Phone preferences? This was known to drain the battery of the Nexus S/Vibrant.
Anyone else having this problem? All the sudden Android OS is taking a ton of battery, killed half my battery overnight while the screen was off. Anyone have any of these problems?
Android OS is too general to say what is causing the wakelock. Use an app that can see which process is causing the wakelock directly and you will know what the problem is.
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Anyone else having this problem? All the sudden Android OS is taking a ton of battery, killed half my battery overnight while the screen was off. Anyone have any of these problems?
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My android os consumes 70% of my battery. Tried better battery stats, but I don't see any wake locks
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for what it is worth, it lasts forever in airplane mode...
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for what it is worth, it lasts forever in airplane mode...
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Then you definitley have an app or two that is causing it. Try CPU Spy (let's you know if you get deep sleep or not) and see if that helps any. I hate battery drain so best of luck in solving your battery drain issue.
Since I've upgraded to 4.2 roms on all my devices I've noticed this too. Normally, Maps is the culprit causing a "normal" wakelock. Google +, Latitude, Google Now, etc. This is just the way Google operates now & the biggest difference between 4.1 & 4.2. I've taken to disabling Location unless I'm needing GPS service. It checks your location every couple minutes it seems.
I've had a situation you describe a few times caused by media storage. It keeps scanning the SD card. Sometimes a reboot helps but mostly I've just changed roms instead of chasing it. Better Batt Stats should show it somewhere. Keep looking, look in "alarms". Also you might try GSam Battery Monitor. That app has come a long way lately & also helps finding battery sucking sources.
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For me it was Viber. After deleting it I get almost no battery drain over night. Maybe 1% in 8 hours...
Some of you may have noticed that battery life on this phone can be both unbelievable and mediocre. I've been trying to figure out what can trigger and cause mediocre performance and I'm at a loss. The problem is, there doesn't appear to be a smoking gun. No obvious wake locks. No rogue Apps. I have Carrier IQ disabled by System Tuner. Google Now is off. What I'm running right now is pretty bare bones. And the kicker is my phone is sleeping, as can be seen in the shots below. The vast majority of the time my phone was off the charger it was in deep sleep mode.
I noticed my phone in excessive drain mode Saturday so I let it run over night and into the next day, so that BBS and GSam could pick up as much data as possible, including sitting idle overnight and very little use throughout yesterday.
Here are some shots to show the story. The graph, which is definitely steeper than when idle drain is normal, which resulted in idle drain of about 6% per hour. Also as can be seen in these shots, there is not a wakelock problem. Deep sleep shows as 12 hours 38 minutes, Awake time of 1 hour 8 minutes, and screen on time of 1 hour. So, my phone was only "awake" for 8 minutes when the screen was off out of almost 14 hours according to BBS.
I did notice and oddity here though. BBS listed the unplugged status as 13 hours 47 minutes, while the phone's battery meter listed it at 12 hours 13 minutes.
Attached are the shots I took at 19%, as well as a final battery meter shot after charging the phone to full while powered off and restarting, where it's been purring like a kitten in deep sleep.
Part of me is beginning to believe there is a bug with the battery gauge. What do you guys think is going on?
Try clearing data for google play services,google services framework and playsore than reboot and check if things changed.
And i would recommend uninstall the updates related to those apps and let them update itself again.
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Try clearing data for google play services,google services framework and playsore than reboot and check if things changed.
And i would recommend uninstall the updates related to those apps and let them update itself again.
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Done. Although I won't know if any attempts to resolve the issue have worked until the idle drain triggers again (or doesn't).
Thanks for the advice.
Well unfortunately that didn't solve the issue. The heavy deep sleep drain again triggered after a bit over one full day. I charged to full last night and let sit over night where it drained 6% per hour with no obvious culprit. Anyone else have any suggestions?
It seem that your signal is week, did you get stable signal and have you tried airplane mode, to find out how much battery drain in this mode?
Also, did you disable LG MLT? This is a massive app from LG, can consumed about 150 MB RAM.
This might sound boneheaded, but what about just resetting the phone. Maybe some system app is causing some type of memory leak and thus draining your battery. Also disable wifi when you're not using it.
I don't think it's signal related. I get an excellent signal at work and the idle drain still occurs. Also, it happens whether wifi is on or not. I have not disabled MLT, as I'm not concerned about RAM, just running processes. Rebooting the phone eliminates the issue, so something is obviously getting hung. The really odd thing is I was draining 6%/hr overnight, all while the phone was in deep sleep, yet my top battery consuming category was the screen at 35%, with just 1 hour of screen on time of 10 hours off the charger. If something was cranking in Android System that caused 40% drain overnight I would have expected Android System to be higher. It doesn't make any sense.
I may just have to factory reset.
My battery's been great until couple of days ago when I turned on GPS and Voice Notification (for speaking out names when phone call/message comes in). After I noticed the abnormal battery drain, I turned off those two options, because that's the only thing I did differently before noticing the drain. However, that didn't help... yet. I needed to do a reboot and battery's been fine again. Not sure if those two were the actual culprit, or just coincidence.
Have you changed any settings right before you noticed the drain? Just a thought.
had the same issue., wakelock detector, BBS, GSAM nothing could show what was eating the battery. i use mobile browsing a lot and almost 8/10 times this battery drain was happening with chrome , chrome beta and firefox browsers.
Only thing thats helping me is the Greenify app . Greenified the chrome and firefox and almost all the cloud apps and the battery is now much much better.
still ...IT IS AN PROBLEM to be found..
To provide a bit more info on this, attached is a pic of my reboot a couple hours ago (marked by the thin white vertical line). The change in the slope of the drainage line is drastic. Also, notice the small hump after the reboot? The line actually increased a bit, fell, then flat lined. More and more I'm beginning to suspect the battery gauge, but I just don't know.
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I have the same situation after charging. Even in"deep sleep" it would chew through the battery. Now I just reboot the phone after charging and it plays nice. The gerbil on the wheel seems to take a break and rest.
To all who have excessive battery drain, did you charge your phone while it is on or off?
Some where in this forum (if not mistaken), I read that there is a bug while charging G2 when it is on. You should reboot your phone after it is fully charged otherwise you will experience excessive battery drain.
Mine always charged it while it is off and never had problem with battery life.
i got the same issue which is very annoying, have over 85% deep sleep, no wake lock, battery draining like crazy, and it happens randomly. I wonder if factory rest fixes the problem, or hardware issue
i have done a bit testing for this random drain,
with mobile signal on ==> huge drain
without mobile signal on and only phone signal ==> huge drain
airplane mode ==> no drain
so i believe it is a bug within the phone software, actually sometimes the random drain started after a phone call
I've been getting the drain too in the past few days. Last time i could fix it by factory resetting, but obviously I don't feel like doing that once per month. What I do know is that flashing another stock ROM (kdz) without factory resetting doesn't fix it. However last night I figured i'd try disabling WiFi (kept it on during the night until now) and I only drained 1% in 5 hours, down from 3% per hour. Perhaps this bug is related to WiFi.
Have you disabled LG MLT? It acts like CIQ for internal LG purposes. I have personally seen it cause mass wakelock in unexplained situations. If I leave everything on overnight under 95% battery, I will get around a 3% drain in about 7 hours. Pretty normal. The first 5% on these batteries seem magical. At 100%, with everything on, I wake to 100%.
Yup, frozen in TiBu. Will be factory resetting however when I get home as GSAM grabbed my attention. Never were system things so high up the list when i had no drain.
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htcm7 said:
To all who have excessive battery drain, did you charge your phone while it is on or off?
Some where in this forum (if not mistaken), I read that there is a bug while charging G2 when it is on. You should reboot your phone after it is fully charged otherwise you will experience excessive battery drain.
Mine always charged it while it is off and never had problem with battery life.
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I been struggling with this since I got the phone (almost a month now). I've done all the usual:
Removing bloat
Disabled CIQ
Disabled Google Now, Location, GPS
and I have the same apps as my Nexus 5
Just last night I realized that this battery drain only happens after taking it off the charger. This got me to add the word "charging" in my search and I found this thread.
Is this hardware related, or would a custom ROM resolve this? I have the AT&T version.
Ok and which stock rom does not do that?
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I been struggling with this since I got the phone (almost a month now). I've done all the usual:
Removing bloat
Disabled CIQ
Disabled Google Now, Location, GPS
and I have the same apps as my Nexus 5
Just last night I realized that this battery drain only happens after taking it off the charger. This got me to add the word "charging" in my search and I found this thread.
Is this hardware related, or would a custom ROM resolve this? I have the AT&T version.
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Probably this is a software issue. Never heard this problem on latest firmware or custom ROM.
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Probably this is a software issue. Never heard this problem on latest firmware or custom ROM.
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Guys could you write which stock rom does this wakelocks for you so we could eliminate corrupt firmwares?
For example I experience these wakelocks on latest F international version.
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.
recently i encountered a lot of battery drain even without using my phone ( galaxy s8 dual sim ) i noticed that cell standby is using a lot of battery sometimes as much as if not greater than the screen it self which is weird because my signal is ok i dont think ian losing signal
anybody having this problem ??
alaa96 said:
recently i encountered a lot of battery drain even without using my phone ( galaxy s8 dual sim ) i noticed that cell standby is using a lot of battery sometimes as much as if not greater than the screen it self which is weird because my signal is ok i dont think ian losing signal
anybody having this problem ??
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The image shows the phone was without signal for some time which was about 32% and it will consume power. Don't know the reason behind this, but if phone really had no signal for a long time, then be in another place where there is a good signal and test there. I have seen few times with my old Moto X, that sometimes after using internet via mobile network(without wifi), the connecting would somehow still be open and it would consume battery and the way to fix this, I had to restart the phone.
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The image shows the phone was without signal for some time which was about 32% and it will consume power. Don't know the reason behind this, but if phone really had no signal for a long time, then be in another place where there is a good signal and test there. I have seen few times with my old Moto X, that sometimes after using internet via mobile network(without wifi), the connecting would somehow still be open and it would consume battery and the way to fix this, I had to restart the phone.
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this is ridiculous ! i never had an issue like this with any of my older phones
best bet do a factory reset and see if it still persists
Same happens to me too. Yesterday I went outside my house and traveling in the city - my battery went from 100% to 43% in 6h40min. I had SOT only 1h. I am wondering if something related to GPS is killing the battery as it always drain very fast if i am moving - but in the other hand it seems that phone radio is draining also the battery a lot. Any advices what could I do?
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best bet do a factory reset and see if it still persists
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i already did it but no good i think this problem happened after an update
nixun said:
Same happens to me too. Yesterday I went outside my house and traveling in the city - my battery went from 100% to 43% in 6h40min. I had SOT only 1h. I am wondering if something related to GPS is killing the battery as it always drain very fast if i am moving - but in the other hand it seems that phone radio is draining also the battery a lot. Any advices what could I do?
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cell standby is not related to gps and location services i dont think so at least iam pretty sure it is mainly phone network related
Cell standby drains too much battery
I'm using Galaxy S8 Exynos Version (Dual Sim). Facing this cell standby extreme battery drain issue recently. I have tried several options like- reset network settings, restart / power off-on, factory reset and wipe cache partition to see if the problem goes away or not. These things can solve the problem only for 2-3 days. Then after that same cell standby battery drain occurs again. The only thing left is to hard reset. But I don't think this will solve the problem either. These are not the permanent solution. When I first got the phone this problem was not there. For the last 2-3 weeks I have been facing this issue and it is bothering me a lot coz my battery drains too much even when i'm not using my phone. I really need a solid solution for this. Can anybody help? And I hope Samsung will address this issue and solve it asap.
I think cell standby is the worst problem in the S8. It really kills battery. It can make your phone drop 2% per hour.
Same issue here. Didn't have this issue before the latest two updates. Before I had 6-7 SoT and now barely 2-3 hours.
yes, this issue was not pronounced before the latest updates (one or two as mentioned)
Same thing here. After the last update there is a battery problem with standby. Hope they fix it with next release.
same with my s8+ dual exynos