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Android System using 55% of battery?

I had a Evo before and the Android System used maybe 15% of the battery (as seen in the battery stats section of the settings.) Now I have an Evo with far worse battery life, and it says that 55% of the juice is being used by Android System? Anyone know why, or how to fix it? These are essentially stock Evos, no rooting or such. Thanks.
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Mine says 30% right now but that's with me playing on it for a while tonight. Try a battery pull, or reset it.
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Click on it and see how many apps "android system" contains. Also if you havent made any phone calls or used 3rd party apps to much "android system" will occupy most of the battery.

Ok, did some research and found that people have been having issues with version 1 of the HTCfacebook app keeping the phone awake all the time and killing the battery. Seems.it.can not he deleted on non-rooted phones, but I did force close it and the drain on the battery seems to have slowed, and the system is down to 30% battery usage. now, does anyone know how I might delete this app without root? (this is the app which comes preinstalled and runs all the time in the background, not the one downloaded from the market.)

ronnienyc said:
Ok, did some research and found that people have been having issues with version 1 of the HTCfacebook app keeping the phone awake all the time and killing the battery. Seems.it.can not he deleted on non-rooted phones, but I did force close it and the drain on the battery seems to have slowed, and the system is down to 30% battery usage. now, does anyone know how I might delete this app without root? (this is the app which comes preinstalled and runs all the time in the background, not the one downloaded from the market.)
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Did you make sure it's not set for auto sync using the HTCfacebook app?

You should be able to update it to the newer version that fixed that issue. No need to delete.

How does one update the preinstalled version? Thx.
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How does one update the preinstalled version? Thx.
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I re-read one of your posts and noticed that its the htc facebook that's giving you the problem.
You should be able to download facebook for android (ver. 1.3.2 I believe) on the market and that should become your default facebook app and solve your issue.

Thanks lovethyEVO, I have done that but the default app keeps running in the background

Wonder if you went to settings, applications, and found the bad fb. App. Then hit clear defaults. Now set the upgraded version as default. Idk. It might work

Was going to suggest an autostarts type of app, since you can't uninstall it unless your rooted, but it looks like you have to be rooted on autostarts also. You can maybe try to find one that doesn't need root, or an autokill type of app. You can't uninstall it, but maybe you can keep it under control.
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Thanks all. Well, I spent about 2 hours rooting from 2.2 today, and now I am running Fresh, which seems to have far superior battery life. Thanks for all of your ideas. (rooting the Hero was way, way easier)

Need Battery Help!!!

I need help with my g2. my battery life on this phone is very inconsistent, sometimes i can go 50+ hours on it with 6 hours screen time, but lately my battery has been draining for no reason at all. Im not even using the phone and its rapidly draining for no reason. This all started happening when the gps kept on turning on i read about the carrier iq service and the google location to turn them off. But it doesn't really help much. On my battery manager it says that the android system is first with like 85% or more and it says that my gps has been on for hours and hours even though it hasn't. I don't know what to do i can barely make it through a day now. Should i root my phone? I like the lg ui and i want to keep all of the features such as q slide and especially knock on and off. Can someone help me out if you have had the same experiences. I want to turn off the iq agent permanently. Is this possbile? I have never rooted a device before so im a complete beginner.

fromc2m said:
I need help with my g2. my battery life on this phone is very inconsistent, sometimes i can go 50+ hours on it with 6 hours screen time, but lately my battery has been draining for no reason at all. Im not even using the phone and its rapidly draining for no reason. This all started happening when the gps kept on turning on i read about the carrier iq service and the google location to turn them off. But it doesn't really help much. On my battery manager it says that the android system is first with like 85% or more and it says that my gps has been on for hours and hours even though it hasn't. I don't know what to do i can barely make it through a day now. Should i root my phone? I like the lg ui and i want to keep all of the features such as q slide and especially knock on and off. Can someone help me out if you have had the same experiences. I want to turn off the iq agent permanently. Is this possbile? I have never rooted a device before so im a complete beginner.
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Download better battery stats and see what wakelocks are causing the drain. Are you using Google+? Are you on Wi-Fi all day? Have you tried uninstalling all your apps and adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit? Something is keeping your phone running...
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Jank4AU said:
Download better battery stats and see what wakelocks are causing the drain. Are you using Google+? Are you on Wi-Fi all day? Have you tried uninstalling all your apps and adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit? Something is keeping your phone running...
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Yes i have downloaded better battery stats, and im not using google plus. And im not on wifi all day. The battery is just draining for no reason i even end alot of the running apps such as google location service, facebook, carrier iq agent. I was wondering if i could root my phone and delete carrier iq and get those apps that can help with the battery life, yet keep the original lg ui with all the features.

fromc2m said:
Yes i have downloaded better battery stats, and im not using google plus. And im not on wifi all day. The battery is just draining for no reason i even end alot of the running apps such as google location service, facebook, carrier iq agent. I was wondering if i could root my phone and delete carrier iq and get those apps that can help with the battery life, yet keep the original lg ui with all the features.
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There are a lot of custom roms built off the stock LG ui
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Abysmal battery life. Frozen is not frozen?

I'm using my G2 now since 2 months and generally I'm happy with it, coming from a Galaxy Nexus. Just the battery is still one of my concerns, I just don't seem to be able to crack the code to get that awesome battery life, everyone is talking about.
I have the international, unlocked, no carrier version.
I'm rooted, using Greenify (most background apps greenified), Gsam, Snapdragon Battery Guru. Most unnecessary LG/spam processes are frozen with Titanium (as per the respective threads), Google Location Service I only switch on when needed (Play Service is updated to the latest, battery saving version), I tried that with sync as well, without much difference. Bluetooth, NFC all off. I'm mainly in area of good 3G reception. LTE is off via Network Modes.
Mainly I use the device for Internet browsing, Whatsapp, tapatalk, Facebook. Nothing spectacular, no gaming.
I usually get a SOT of around 3 hours on 3G, 4 if I'm lucky, and sync & location is off and when on Wifi only.
Over night I regularly lose around 10% of battery if unplugged, with empty task manager/recent apps.
Following my Gsam stats, Android System is the biggest culprit. What disturbs me most, is that apps and processes that show frozen in Titanium are showing up in the details as well, aka LG Backup, Install Service, Setup Wizard, PC Suite Service.
What the heck is going on? Has anyone a clue what else I could do?
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I would like to extend this as well. I have frozen lots of lg apps and in android system today lg VPN was my highest usage. I have never used lg VPN or any VPN service so.....
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try to uninstall facebook app if installed.use fast instead. its really heavy and bad app the official one.
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try Betterbatterystats app .. u can search in XDA ... it will show u which rogue app is eating your battery :good:

Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps are two of the worst apps when it comes to battery drains. I just have shortcuts set up to the webpage versions. Also, I had a significant increase in battery life after disabling Intelligent Agent. Make sure you're rebooting your phone after disabling an app to clear it out of memory. And I've read that Snapdragon Battery Guru is a battery hog as well even though it's supposed to help battery life.
EDIT: Changed freezing to disabling, because I didn't freeze anything, but disabled IA. Disabled CIQ as well, but didn't noticed any significant increase.

CIQ and Intelligent Agent don't seem to be in the international version, at least not on my device, can't find.
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Guys, i start to think that the battery in this phone is sh*t After 1-2 months it's starting to drain quickly and we are goin nuts to disable or freeze almost everything .....

instead of using facebook app use, chrome web browser. I have facebook messenger and it does not seem so have much impact on battery life.
Also I think you have too many apps that monitor battery life. I don't use any I get 100 hours standby 2 hours talk 2 hours screen time.
Also are you getting weak signal? or frequently lose it?

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CIQ and Intelligent Agent don't seem to be in the international version, at least not on my device, can't find.
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Didn't see that your phone isn't carrier specific...I believe CIQ is carrier bloat. Intelligent Agent should be on there as it's an LG app. It is listed as LGLIA in your system folder

I'll chime in. Haven't had my phone for 2 months but battery life is solid, and this is coming from a previous Note 2 user.
I don't go crazy using this and that app to freeze everything under the sun, just the unnecessaries (just made up that word ). Most LG stuff is disabled and a few are frosted with TiBackup. I don't use Greenify or GSam or whatever. No fancy kernels or undervolting or any of that stuff. Just stock and rooted, how i like my stuff.
I'm usually streaming Pandora most of my 8 hour shift at work to a Bluetooth Sound Dock and still pushing 70% on the ride home with Gmail sync on, 2 emails pooling every hour, etc. I even have the dreaded Facebook app installed and its okay.
I don't bother with obsessing over screen on time, I just USE my phone. I check emails, browse the web, use apps, occasional game here and there, read eBooks, movies, music, pictures...and still have more than 60% left on the way home.
That's how I prefer to measure battery life. I have the Sprint version, CDMA, which usually use more juice than GSM in general, so I'm perplexed how you're not getting good battery life.

Howie Dub said:
Didn't see that your phone isn't carrier specific...I believe CIQ is carrier bloat. Intelligent Agent should be on there as it's an LG app. It is listed as LGLIA in your system folder
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I check everywhere, but I don't have that LGLIA in Titanium nor in System Folder. Weird.
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nomad4ever said:
I check everywhere, but I don't have that LGLIA in Titanium nor in System Folder. Weird.
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That's a good thing then...maybe they don't include it in the no carrier version. That bugger is a big drain.

Rogue bloatware Battery drain - US users read!

I I started to click through my applications one by one after I was experiencing drain, despite barely having used my phone for the day. I found two rogue apps that I haven't used once taking up battery life. I'll bet this is why Android System is so high on SD phones. One of them is Knox, which doesn't even show up on my app drawer, but can't be uninstalled. The other is Setup Wizard, same deal. Check out the screenshots. There's no reason these should be draining battery. Or even in use.
Any suggestions on how to fix?

And... Turns out someone else figured this out and found a solution that fixes the battery issue. See link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ct9K7iRifUg

The system processes are all linked together and share the same battery drain levels, so it's not necessarily Knox or the Setup Wizard that are the rogue apps. I suggest disabling all carrier apps installed and then disable whichever Samsung or Android apps you don't use. For me the biggest drain was the AT&T Updater, it would consume data even though there were no updates to be downloaded, there's no need for it to be running in the background unless there's an actual update.
Also, when there is a phone update be sure to re-enable all your apps before updating. Just export your configuration to an XML beforehand.

Carterman32 said:
And... Turns out someone else figured this out and found a solution that fixes the battery issue. See link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ct9K7iRifUg
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To bad package disabler messes with to much and cuases more issues than it helps..i had to factory reset and it botched mine up
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ibcenu said:
To bad package disabler messes with to much and cuases more issues than it helps..i had to factory reset and it botched mine up
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Well, it's better than having the phone constantly waking, killing th battery.

ibcenu said:
To bad package disabler messes with to much and cuases more issues than it helps..i had to factory reset and it botched mine up
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Too.
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ibcenu said:
To bad package disabler messes with to much and cuases more issues than it helps..i had to factory reset and it botched mine up
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Yeah, you can't just disable all bloatware. If you take the time and disable what you know you don't use, is excellent.
For example, just the ANTs, the GEARs and the fonts, battery life rockets!
Also, rather than disabling say Facebook on the system, which forces you to revert to the Factory installed version, with this, if you need to use any blocked item, you just unlock it, no need to re download from the store, no need to update.
It's like a switch. This app is excellent. It's a lifeline, first thing I install on all my Samsungs now.
Quickly followed by Shutapp.

Have you used package disabler, and actually seen the android system battery drain go away?

Just asking, not provoking. Except for ant and a couple other things, I can disable or Uninstall most everything in the phone. Until, if at all root comes, it works for me. What's the advantages of package disabler. For me it just caused errors and upon boot, told me my system was unlocked
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Package Disabler. I am going to check this out. I have been experimenting with Android and Samsung since the Tab S and I am finally jumped ship from the virus Apple. Been very happy since!

Battery Life Improvements

Hey guys, so battery life is pretty good on my Axon 7; however, I am always looking for ways to extend it as much as possible. What are some 3rd party apps/modules you guys recommend that save battery life? (For example an app that prevents wakelocks) I've tried Amplify but Im not really sure what is safe to disable. I've also tried the Xposed Module Power Nap but it doesn't seem to function with most apps.

I'm using Amplify(stock tweaks)+Greenify(running in xposed mode+basically greenified all GCM apps and maps apps+using agressive dose)
I would say the agressive dose feature is the best one for saving battery in standby!

Haven't rooted or unlocked yet. Any use for Greenify?
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