Anyone know of a status bar Battery Icon that also shows drain in either mA or mW?
If not, perhaps someone around here might be interested in creating one as I have looked but cannot find one. (I do not mean a Today Plugin like HomeScreenPlusPlus/BatterStatus)
The idea:
Essentially similar to the WM Battery Icon that is there now with bars showing charge but with added feature of numerals showing mA drain. These numeral could either be overlayed on the icon or squeezed beneath it in tiny font.
The advantage of this arrangement is:
1) it would work with TF3D on a Diamond. This is because it would not be a today plugin. Simpy an alternative to the current battery icon on the Status bar.
2) Would enable user to always see charge remaining and current load.
I like the idea of always being able to see the load on my battery as often I have apps running in the background which are chewing through the battery. Conversely if the mA drain is low I know these apps cannot be running and all is good. Makes for an easy way to increase battery life.
Essentially all the app would have to do is somehow ascertain current drain in mA and display it over the battery bars on the icon. Nothing more. Be great if one of you clever programs could put this together. I reckon it would be popular.
Would any one else be interested in a replacement for the default status bar battery icon that worked like this?
Battery Status is ur best bet
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
TimeWalker pedometer widget was the culprit in my case, see details near bottom of thread.
Shane112358 said:
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
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How did you find this info?
icantdrawanime said:
How did you find this info?
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By going to the stock battery statistics in the settings, about phone.
Very Strange... I have no clue what that is. Sorry
It doesn't show up in my task manager, or as an app in Titanium or anywhere else.
I have quite a few widgets installed (Weather Channel, Buzz Box, Agenda Widget, Battery Widget, Facebook, Pandora, TimeWalker, Twitter) as well as Tasker running. Could it be one of those? I might try removing them one by one to see if it goes away.
Do you have any games installed? I found this on some Swedish site. They were talking about the same process.
Originally Posted by Double Barrel
Now, added that the phone has been on the table all night. Had an app called Labyrinth started. Could be it. Now I'm down to 13%.
Labyrinth Games that are heavy users of the sensors so it is not surprising.
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Do you have any games installed? I found this on some Swedish site. They were talking about the same process.
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No, although one of my tasker profiles is set to turn the alarm off if I put the phone face down at night. I might try deactivating that and seeing what happens.
I disabled the Tasker profiles and let the phone sit for almost 2 hours.
Sensorserver_ya :40%
Cell standby: 22%
Phone idle: 16%
Bluetooth: 9%
Display: 7%
Android OS: 3%
WiFi: 3%
Android System: 2%
TimeWalker (pedometer widget): 2%
What. The. Cuss. ???
I have the same thing but it only takes 3-4%
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same thing here, used 27% of battery in few hours and 1hr 18m CPU usage time.
Galaxy S Vibrant user
sparkling said:
same thing here, used 27% of battery in few hours and 1hr 18m CPU usage time.
Galaxy S Vibrant user
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What widgets are you running?
Sensorly app?
Weird, I dont even have that process in mine....
I disabled the TimeWalker widget (pedometer) and the process hasn't appeared yet. I think this may have fixed it. Anyone else?
At least in my case, the TimeWalker widget was the culprit. "Sensorserver_ya" didn't show up for days. This morning, I reactivated it and all of a sudden it showed up again, shooting up to 9% of battery usage (and draining 2% of my total battery) in less than 10 minutes. The widget itself took another 1/3 of that.
Too bad, I had a pedometer built into my Sony Ericsson w580i and it was awesome. Battery rocked. Not sure what the problem is here.
I see that process on occasion and I've never run the widget that you are referring to.
It is probably triggered by running a compass or other app that uses the position sensors.
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Since not everybody is seeing this power drain, I think it is not likely to be the system setting to check orientation and adjust the screen from portrait to landscape automatically, although that seems a likely suspect to me. I also suspect a screen management tool called Screebl. I have disabled Screebl now to see if that makes a difference. (Even though I had Screebl configured to not work when power is applied, my system didn't have any period of Suspend through the night last night, despite being plugged in for about half the night.)
Shane112358 said:
This mystery process called "sensorserver_ya" is killing my battery, between 50% and 150% of what my screen is using (which is, of course, a lot).
Anyone have any idea what it is? Tried googling things for awhile and found nothing other than people listing their battery processes, and a couple other people asking what it is also...
TimeWalker pedometer widget was the culprit in my case, see details near bottom of thread.
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I observed that besides the mystery process sensorserver_ya and the shortened battery life, if I watched the phone go into power saver mode with no apps running it would dim then kill my display as expected, but then after 3 to 5 seconds it would light it up again as if I had pressed the activate button.
I tried uninstalling two apps ACIDR and PowerAmp. This behavior stopped after
that. I reinstalled PowerAmp and the behavior did not recur. ACIDR had been on my GalaxyS for some time PowerAmp was recently added. Both were up to date.
I know, old thread, but...
Just to add to the possible causes for others, I found that CardioTrainer had frozen up while trying to post my workout to Facebook. Several hours later I saw the sensorserver process sucking my battery at 14% of total usage according to "About Phone". When this thread mentioned pedometer and labyrinth I checked and found that CardioTrainer was hung. It didn't show in the normal "Active Applications" but TitaniumBackup told me it was running.
Hope that helps anyone else with the problem.
Seeing that process means that you have something that is making use of the accelerometer on a frequent basis. You should figure out which of your apps are using the accelerometer and either uninstall or make sure they remain closed.
Making use of the accelerometer in a way that is using it at nearly all times is the fastest way to burn through your battery.
I have a question about the battery / percentage indicator. I always charge the battery to 100% before going to bed. I use the phone as an alarm and check the battery indicator when I wake up. Sometimes its at 94-97% , other time it can show as low as around 65%. This is after 3.5 hours. I dont use task killers or have WiFi or 3G on, however I do use Watchdog. Any ideas ?
you will notice that the phone peaks then drops then peaks then drops several times if you charge overnight. Its not something that you should be too concerned about. if you install an app called "juice plotter" (or one like it) you will see a graph of your battery charge over time including whats on at the time designated by color. this will show you what i am talking about.
I have enormous battery drain on my phone (Gingerbread) and it shows that phone is constantly "awake" and drained 25% of my battery in 2 hours. Majority is taken by "phone idle" and graph shows that it was almost 100% awake all that time even though I never used a phone.
Phone idle as a top consumer is normal. If you have the screen on a lot, it should be close to the Display consumption.
As far as a fix, I saw this on GB before upgrading the radio to .30P (I am on ATT).
Saw a dramatic improvement, which makes me conclude that the new radio is optimized to GB, whereas the .15P was only good enough for FroYo.
check for social network apps and widgets that update themselves constantly... i had the same issue and fixed it by freezing the social network stuff and setting my others not to check at OCD levels....
If you've got time on your hands and "System Panel" app from Market, this is going to be really worth it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8910035&postcount=24
System panel is by far the best tool for this. Paid version with monitoring tracks all apps hitting your cpu. Must have.
should i freeze stuff with titanium backup? or is there a beter/easier/safer/whatever way?
Smintz said:
should i freeze stuff with titanium backup? or is there a beter/easier/safer/whatever way?
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First look in the settings for each app to see if you can disable or change the usage in any way.
feisty_noodle said:
Phone idle as a top consumer is normal. If you have the screen on a lot, it should be close to the Display consumption.
As far as a fix, I saw this on GB before upgrading the radio to .30P (I am on ATT).
Saw a dramatic improvement, which makes me conclude that the new radio is optimized to GB, whereas the .15P was only good enough for FroYo.
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I can second that. My phone was draining battery like crazy after Gingerbread. I flashed the .30P radio last night, and now it looks like it is back to normal. I'm on AT&T as well.
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If you've got time on your hands and "System Panel" app from Market, this is going to be really worth it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8910035&postcount=24
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Thanks a bunch, thats a really good find
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I'm trying the system panel solution. But it seems to be telling me nothing (I HAVE turned monitoring on) .
e.g. my top process after 3 hours is Beautiful live Weather at 1.8% then system at 0.4%? surely that's a bit low, if I add up everything in top processes I don't even get 10%.... also I'm sus as none of the blur stuff is showing up LOL, also I've been listening to music via BT for at least 1 hour and its not even showing 1%....
My drain is not crazy (~5% an hour if mostly idling, ~10% an hour with BT music) but I want to improve it
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I'm trying the system panel solution. But it seems to be telling me nothing (I HAVE turned monitoring on) .
e.g. my top process after 3 hours is Beautiful live Weather at 1.8% then system at 0.4%? surely that's a bit low, if I add up everything in top processes I don't even get 10%.... also I'm sus as none of the blur stuff is showing up LOL, also I've been listening to music via BT for at least 1 hour and its not even showing 1%....
My drain is not crazy (~5% an hour if mostly idling, ~10% an hour with BT music) but I want to improve it
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I do believe motoblur is included in "system"
About the percentages... is it the ammount of total battery used, percentage of processing capacity, or what? You have to look out for those details.
even if it is total amount of battery used, where is the drain caused by 1-2 hours of mp3 playback via bluetooth? surely thats on the list somewhere. I know for a fact that it doubles the rate of drain roughly.
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I'm trying the system panel solution. But it seems to be telling me nothing (I HAVE turned monitoring on) .
e.g. my top process after 3 hours is Beautiful live Weather at 1.8% then system at 0.4%? surely that's a bit low, if I add up everything in top processes I don't even get 10%.... also I'm sus as none of the blur stuff is showing up LOL, also I've been listening to music via BT for at least 1 hour and its not even showing 1%....
My drain is not crazy (~5% an hour if mostly idling, ~10% an hour with BT music) but I want to improve it
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well dont worry, i too now have this awwake problem. last night 9 hours unplugged, all while i was sleeping so no phone usage by me, my phone was awake constantly, just a thousand little awake blips on the graph.
so i check system panel, and it all shows as normal. nothing high usage or out of the ordinary. so something else is going on here.
i'm a religious system panel user too. never had the awake problem on my nexus one.
Hello. I'm making this thread because I had several battery issues where my battery laste 5 hours and 44 minutes in standby.
If you follow my threath in this link you'll see that after a factory reset i managed to get full 24 hours with regular usage.
Well the thing is yesterday I made my minimalistic text widget to show me battery %, battery temp. and battery health... went to bed and when i woke up the phone was dead, when i got it charge enough to turn it on i notice that lasted 5:44 minutes and it was in standby all night...
So today I'm taking my widget off and let's see how it goes.
I'm running Stock 2.3.4 UHKI1.
I'll let you know how this test goes.
I've used minimalistic text since I got my phone as a clock widget and a weather widget set to update every hour (both on different pages), I've never had drain like you've been experiencing.