After switching service provider, and of course change from SIM card, I noticed a huge battery drain, sometimes over 10% per hour when the phone is almost idle. Battery life WAS very good, but now it's quite bad.
I cannot find anything about this, except for some old articles suggesting a faulty SIM card. I don't have other problems. Any suggestions? Anyone who recognizes this problem?
Battery stats is showing Android System (26%) and Phone Idle (20%) as most important battery draining apps.
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After switching service provider, and of course change from SIM card, I noticed a huge battery drain, sometimes over 10% per hour when the phone is almost idle. Battery life WAS very good, but now it's quite bad.
I cannot find anything about this, except for some old articles suggesting a faulty SIM card. I don't have other problems. Any suggestions? Anyone who recognizes this problem?
Battery stats is showing Android System (26%) and Phone Idle (20%) as most important battery draining apps.
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It could be the SIM card or it could be the provider. Do you have less bars/signal with the new provider? The only thing that generally causes an idle phone to drain like that is if it's constantly searching to try and pick up a signal. Since the phone was fine before the switch I am willing to bet it's the SIM card. Years ago (LTE was still fairly new) when getting a new phone I had to go through three of them before life was good again. The one that came with the phone was old and outdated so it couldn't pick up a 4G LTE signal. I then went to a store location and they swapped out the SIM card but as luck would have it the ones they had on hand were outdated too. It wasn't until the main office mailed me one that life was all good again.
So yeah try a new SIM card, may want to just call and have them mail you one. Hopefully that helps. If not check what radio bands your new provider uses and compare that to the ones supported on the phone.
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I recently found an app called data on demand, which switches data off when the phone goes on standby (eq. screen is off). My problem is that I would like it to switch the phone to use only 2g networks.
That way it would still fetch my emails and such, but it would also save battery life.
So perhaps some developer is interested in this?
Bump: old thread, but this functionality would be great. It saved heaps of battery life on my HD2, and now even though my galaxy s has half decent battery life, i'd still like to go for 2 days plus without charging
Did U tried this? h__p://lifehacker.com/5482663/juicedefender-saves-batteries-by-automating-android-data
Just recently got D2G from verizon. Bc this was a replacement phone, I had to use the same battery I previously had in the orig Droid. Battery, as of today, is 15 months old.
When first got D2G, battery life terrible. Upon review of various threads here, determined probably crapware, etc. causing the problem. Using the instructions in this forum, rooted the phone, ran scripts to temporarily remove crapware, installed setCPU, disabled CDMA cell network, set widgets on phone to make sure Wifi, GPS, etc. turned off until needed, and voila, awesome battery life. If not too active, I could get 30 hours on a charge.
Just starting a few days ago, I'm back to 6-8 hours per charge. Phone constantly running out of battery. For example, I was in garage last night, had phone on charger and streaming pandora to my stereo. Come back into house, get ready for bed, quit pandora, phone at 90% charge. Go to bed at 11 pm, up this morning, at 7, phone's dead.
Also, after phone dies, it seems like it takes a long time to get to the 5% charge to actually boot. It will be on USB charger for 30 min plus or so bfore it even boots.
How do you check to see if battery bad?
John
Download an app called Spare Parts from the market (free). Under battery information it will show you battery health. I'm not sure exactly how accurate it is, but it's worth looking at.
Also look at battery history. Change other usage to partial wake, and see whats keeping your phone awake (which can cause battery drain) and also look at network usage, to see if something is constantly connecting to the internet. Hope this helps.
Thx for the response, will give it a look and report back.
John
Looked through spare parts (I had it already), the android operating system was the largest user of CPU and overall. Second by a least half as much was a program called "mediaserver" remainder of programs were all fractional amounts.
Says battery is "good"
I already had "activity/process management" set to aggressive killing.
John
Just went through phone again to see if I missed anything or something mysteriously reset itself. Only thing i noticed was cell mode set back to global (a result of dead battery reboot??) Changed it back to CDMA only (verizon network). This is supposed to help battery bc GSM network not active.
Also checked through eletric sheep, nothing came up with "mediaserver" Does anyone know to what this refers?
Unless anyone has any other ideas, we'll see what GSM change does.
John
Mediaserver has to do with playing media; pics, videos, etc. In otherwords, in your case, Pandora.
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Just went through phone again to see if I missed anything or something mysteriously reset itself. Only thing i noticed was cell mode set back to global (a result of dead battery reboot??) Changed it back to CDMA only (verizon network). This is supposed to help battery bc GSM network not active.
Also checked through eletric sheep, nothing came up with "mediaserver" Does anyone know to what this refers?
Unless anyone has any other ideas, we'll see what GSM change does.
John
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Is there an option for cdma auto prl? Is so select that
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Hey Guys,
I've gotten my Moto G5 Plus about a week ago and I'm loving it so far. However, I'm having a bit mediocre battery life. I only manage to get about 4 hours of screen on time with very light usage (mainly whatsapp and a bit of reddit). So I went looking for what this might be causing. In the battery stats it's showing a 29% usage for Cell standby, with a 99% time without signal. I'm only using one of the two sim slots currently and I have cellular data turned off. It is also almost always showing full bars for the sim card i'm actually using, the other is turned off in the settings. I'm used to having the screen be the biggest battery drain and cell standby being around 5% on my Moto G2 running with the same simcard. I've already tried reinserting the sim/sd card tray and rebooting a couple times, both of which didn't fix the problem. Do you guys have any idea what's going on?
Thanks!
~HeetHoofd27
PS: I can't post the pictures because I'm new on XDA but it shows the cellular network signal being entirely red, the screen at 5% battery usage and cell standby on 29% with the 99% time without signal.
Most reviewers are reporting GREAT battery life with this phone.
Is the phone rooted? Did you run Wakelock dectector?
I assume you have turned the phone off and back on?
Have you verified that your APN settings are correct?
I would open a ticket with support unless you've already put a custom ROM.
The phone is not rooted and yeah I have rebooted it a couple times. I'm going to try running wakelock detector and see what it says. I have however turned on the other sim which seems to make Cell standby use normal ammounts of battery which is strange.
heethoofd27 said:
Hey Guys,
I've gotten my Moto G5 Plus about a week ago and I'm loving it so far. However, I'm having a bit mediocre battery life. I only manage to get about 4 hours of screen on time with very light usage (mainly whatsapp and a bit of reddit). So I went looking for what this might be causing. In the battery stats it's showing a 29% usage for Cell standby, with a 99% time without signal. I'm only using one of the two sim slots currently and I have cellular data turned off. It is also almost always showing full bars for the sim card i'm actually using, the other is turned off in the settings. I'm used to having the screen be the biggest battery drain and cell standby being around 5% on my Moto G2 running with the same simcard. I've already tried reinserting the sim/sd card tray and rebooting a couple times, both of which didn't fix the problem. Do you guys have any idea what's going on?
Thanks!
~HeetHoofd27
PS: I can't post the pictures because I'm new on XDA but it shows the cellular network signal being entirely red, the screen at 5% battery usage and cell standby on 29% with the 99% time without signal.
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Try wiping cache and still if it doesn't work go for a reset and it should be ok
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Harsh.gundecha said:
Try wiping cache and still if it doesn't work go for a reset and it should be ok
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The same thing happening to me also. My Moto G5 Plus was at 19% at night and at morning I saw as 8% remaining. Before that, It decreased around 22% battery during night. Mobile data, Wifi everything was kept off. When I checked the battery stats today it showed cell standby on 2nd number draining the most battery. What to do for it? If anyone has any solution please let me know.
jigar2709 said:
The same thing happening to me also. My Moto G5 Plus was at 19% at night and at morning I saw as 8% remaining. Before that, It decreased around 22% battery during night. Mobile data, Wifi everything was kept off. When I checked the battery stats today it showed cell standby on 2nd number draining the most battery. What to do for it? If anyone has any solution please let me know.
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It seems that on my phone the only thing this is happening is when I turn one of the sim cards off in the settings. I've been running both sims at standby since yesterday and de battery usage is currently at 6% for Cell standby. The time without signal has also decreased to 0%. You might want to try to keep both sims enabled and see if that helps.
Harsh.gundecha said:
Try wiping cache and still if it doesn't work go for a reset and it should be ok
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Just out of curiosity are you also running a dual sim version of the G5 Plus? And if you are, are you running with both enabled or just having one of them enabled at a time?
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Just out of curiosity are you also running a dual sim version of the G5 Plus? And if you are, are you running with both enabled or just having one of them enabled at a time?
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Currently i am totally on flight mode but previously i used with sims but haven't faced such issue!
Try that wiping thing, should fix it
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jigar2709 said:
The same thing happening to me also. My Moto G5 Plus was at 19% at night and at morning I saw as 8% remaining. Before that, It decreased around 22% battery during night. Mobile data, Wifi everything was kept off. When I checked the battery stats today it showed cell standby on 2nd number draining the most battery. What to do for it? If anyone has any solution please let me know.
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I think I found the issue/solution! When you do the dual sim setup and get to choose the data sim, I picked that as my second sim as I don't use data often. However, while having the second sim enabled it seems to always keep looking for a signal. Which it obviously can't find because the sim is disabled. This of course leads to high battery usage. Changing the data sim to the first sim that's actually enabled seems to resolve this issue.
I, too, have issues with cell standby draining battery. For me this seems to be an issue with LTE / 4G.
The problem occurs as soon as I activate LTE/4G on the data sim card. It also happens with only one SIM in the phone. If I switch to 3G only, the drain stops.
So:
- With only 3G enabled and wifi connected, all apps installed, syncing etc. I get a huge standby time of ~13 days.
- If I enable the LTE while being connected to wifi, standby time remains good at first.
- As soon as mobile data is first used (e.g. shortly disable wifi so LTE data is used), huge battery drain occurs (about only a day of standby time) everything else as above.
This happens even if wifi is used afterwards. Once connected / mobile data used (with LTE), battery drain occurs. Toggling enhanced LTE services doesn't make a difference (I had it enabled inititally but also tested with it disabled as my provider doesn't support VoLTE or IMS messaging with this phone). Switching to 3G stops the drain.
This is seems to be a bug in Moto G5 Plus firmware and/or baseband. Note that adb logcat doesn't show anything out of the ordinary.
LTE signal is excellent at my location and none of my other phones have such a drain with LTE using the same SIM card.
When I turned it back on today it started having the same drain again. Even though I didn't change any settings or anything, just rebooting. This definitely seems like a software problem, however when I posted on the motorola/lenovo forum about it they just shook it of as if I have bad signal reception...
Hey all.
I am having this exact same problem on the XT1685 Dual-SIM, 3GB/32GB model, using only one SIM card. Mobile standby always drains the battery - during day and night, regardless of which SIM slot is used, and even when there's no SIM card at all! Mobile network coverage is excellent in my area, and despite that, mobile standby ends up eating 1000mAh (25-30%) per charge.
Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
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I think I found the issue/solution! When you do the dual sim setup and get to choose the data sim, I picked that as my second sim as I don't use data often. However, while having the second sim enabled it seems to always keep looking for a signal. Which it obviously can't find because the sim is disabled. This of course leads to high battery usage. Changing the data sim to the first sim that's actually enabled seems to resolve this issue.
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My first sim is Jio sim so my data is also on 1st sim. for calls and data both i use jio. and my 2nd sim is vodafone.
I'm wondering if any of the updates fixes this. I'm still on January security patch...
I have same and dont have found any solution to solve this. i bought my phone only a few days ago and i use only one sim card
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alvarorojas4 said:
I'm wondering if any of the updates fixes this. I'm still on January security patch...
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Im on august security patch and have same issue.
i think this problem will solved only in android O
alvarorojas4 said:
I'm wondering if any of the updates fixes this. I'm still on January security patch...
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My UK phone updated to the May security patch recently and the phone loses about 1% every 4 hours overnight now.
How? i still facing this issue... any solution???
Hi everyone,
I have an S8 which after the oreo update its battery performance decreased significantly.
its overnight drain was around 30 - 40 % (no use, no AOD).
However I did something that fixed it and i hope it is the same issue with everyone else so that yo can fix it too.
It's the DUAL SIM
I disabled the dual sim from the sim card manager & now my phone is only working wth one sim. There is a HUGE increase battery performance where now the overnight drain is 3% !!!!.
I hope this helps everyone with the same problem.
Youssef93 said:
Hi everyone,
I have an S8 which after the oreo update its battery performance decreased significantly.
its overnight drain was around 30 - 40 % (no use, no AOD).
However I did something that fixed it and i hope it is the same issue with everyone else so that yo can fix it too.
It's the DUAL SIM
I disabled the dual sim from the sim card manager & now my phone is only working wth one sim. There is a HUGE increase battery performance where now the overnight drain is 3% !!!!.
I hope this helps everyone with the same problem.
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I am using single sim only from quite a few time.. but still 30-35% of battery drain overnight. Not sure what to do
sp1312 said:
I am using single sim only from quite a few time.. but still 30-35% of battery drain overnight. Not sure what to do
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I am not sure what is your problem. I'd also note that this only improved the standby time. However the usage time is still bad. For example yesterday I spent an hour chatting on whatsapp & it drained more than 20%. I'm not sure why samsung isn't doing anything about it & I'm thinking of downgrading to Nougat
Youssef93 said:
Hi everyone,
I have an S8 which after the oreo update its battery performance decreased significantly.
its overnight drain was around 30 - 40 % (no use, no AOD).
However I did something that fixed it and i hope it is the same issue with everyone else so that yo can fix it too.
It's the DUAL SIM
I disabled the dual sim from the sim card manager & now my phone is only working wth one sim. There is a HUGE increase battery performance where now the overnight drain is 3% !!!!.
I hope this helps everyone with the same problem.
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How do you disable? Tks
Tiongkia said:
How do you disable? Tks
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Settings -> Connections -> Sim Card Manager
Press on SIM2 & disable it.
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Settings -> Connections -> Sim Card Manager
Press on SIM2 & disable it.
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I cannot. Maybe because i did not have 2nd sim insert.
I found a recent reduced battery life on my S8 was resolved with a factory reset.
Anecdotally, a cache partition wipe can help too, though that might just be because (i believe) it forces apps to re-optimise themselves.
Btw, if you had 2 SIMs in and effectively stopping use of 1 slot has improved battery life, then a) try reseating both SIMs b) get new SIMs. Otherwise, maybe it's the SIM reader itself i.e. a hardware issue (which might be that component or a problem on the mainboard).
I guess it could be a software glitch.
I read that the firmware is different for single and dual SIM handsets - you defo using the correct firmware for your handset?
regards,
Gary
Hello.
I've read a few threads on here and elsewhere that address the general issue but not this precise situation.
Background - S8 received back from repair. Factory reset as standard. Clean installed usual apps.
I noticed over the following week very poor battery life compared to pre-repair. Another S8 in household, we checked every setting was the same throughout. Also confirmed massive battery drain difference overnight. I was convinced the repair shop had sent me a refurb handset (or refurb internal battery). Checked IMEI - same handset at least.
Installed GSAM to monitor overnight. Phone Radio heaviest user by a mile. I'll upload the photos later but typically 3% - 6% per hour. Second night I turned absolutely every setting off including WiFi, Mobile Data, Sync, but left network signal on for receiving calls. Exactly the same heavy battery drain on Phone Radio was recorded. By now I'm thinking my sim card is hunting between cell towers or something is not right with the syncing of my Vodafone account/sim card. Third night I turn every setting off and then completely remove the sim card and sd card (signal strength bars still show due to internal chip for emergency numbers). Wake up to even heavier usage, nearly 7% per hour drain due to Phone Radio.
What is the internal phone radio/cell chip getting up to at night, and why now after repair? Any help greatly appreciated.
Funny that you say that. Insurance claim with AT&T and Asurion gave me 8+ like I had. New device is doing the same thing your saying and I didn't have that problem with my old phone. I believe my replacement is a refurbished phone.
Why isn't there any update to that? I suspect this is a planned obsolescence scheme to push you to buy a new smartphone since there's no reason for that...