Hello all,
I'm using the original European rom (the first updated ROM that came out; didn't have time to install the second updated ROM )
The only program I'm running is S2U2 (slide to unlock2), the newest version.
The problem I'm experiencing is the next: The battery status from S2U2 gives a percentage of 26%, but the battery indicator from Windows Mobile (upper right corner) gives an indication of 2 Blocks (so battery more than half-full).
When I go to the settings tab, press more and have a look at the battery indicator of Windows Mobile in detailed version, I see I have only 3 green blocks left. This shows the INDICATION of S2U2 of 26% battery remaining was correct!
But the TRUE CAPACITY isnt, because:
The weirdest thing is, my battery stayed at the level of 26% remaining ALL DAY, while normally my battery goes down with about 20% a day..
The problem is situated in WM itsself I guess :s
It also isn't something that happened once, it has occurred more often...
I also shut down the phone every evening and boot it up every morning, but I never experienced any trouble with that. Even letting the battery go flat to about 3% and then a full recharge (as wel leaving the phone turned on as letting it shut down by itsself) didn't help...
Any Idea's / experience with it?
Thanks in advance,
Borai
The answer is in the information you've provided; The WM "4-bar" display shows 25% per bar. If S2U2 is showing 26%, that's over 25%, and therefore showing two bars
A small explaination:
- 4 bars = 100% - 76%
- 3 bars = 75% - 51%
- 2 bars = 50% - 26%
- 1 bar = 25% - 0%
As for the battery draining faster / slower than usual, it all depends on usage. In low signal areas the battery will drain faster as it spends more ticks trying to get a connection. Turning the screen on and off consumes battery power, using WiFi, leaving applications running in the background... Any number of causes.
Not really
At the moment I'm at 21% according to S2U2 (yes, a full day and I only used 5% battery power, not really possible I think...)
The battery indicator in the right corner still shows 2 bars... And the indicator from 'all settings' still shows 3 blocks left...
There is defenitely something strange going on, because I never really experienced this problems when the phone was brand new...
Are there any hacks/applications out there that will display the battery level percentage in the native battery display in the tor right of the android screen on the status bar?
I've seen battery apps that display a battery indicatior as a widget, or as an additional item on the status bar.
It just seems redundant to show the same info in multiple places...
Any ideas?
No, it's been asked before.
I think some ROMs and themes used to have it. The problem with it was that it only has like 4 or 5 states, so it would be very inaccurate. For example, the real percentage could be 41%, but it would still you show 60% because the range is 40-60% (not sure if I said it clearly).
[Q] "Android OS" vs. "Android System". WTH is "Android OS"?
This is a rather widely reported problem, although I can't seem to find a definitive answer to it.
From time to time (pretty often) the phone starts consuming the battery rather rapidly, even though it is sitting in sleep mode with the screen turned off. The quick check of the battery consumers reveals that most of it is consumed by something called "Android OS". What is that "Android OS" and why is it consuming so much battery power?
Note, that in normal mode the biggest consumer is usually the "Display". The list of consumers normally also include "Android System" (note: "Android System", not "Android OS") and its battery consumption is usually rather low. Most of the time "Android OS" is not even in the list. Or sometimes it is with some very low consumption value.
When the problem begins, that "Android OS" begins to consume the battery in large amounts and quickly rises to the top of the consumer list.
For example, what I currently see on my phone is
- Android OS - 44%
- Display - 30%
- Stand By - 10%
...
- Android System - some low value
...
Now I do a soft reboot (power + touchpad + vol down). And now, immediately after reboot my battery consumption screen shows
- Display - 70%
- Android System - 13%
- Android OS - 6%
- Stand By - 3%
...
This doesn't seem to make any sense. A reboot shall not, of course, redistribute the percentages in such drastic fashion. It appears that the consumption initially attributed to "Android OS" is now taken away from it and given over to "Display" or something like that.
So, again what it that "Android OS", how is it different from "Android System"? And why does that "Android OS" act that way with regard to battery consumption?
OS = "operating system"
SEARCH the forum for "init" and "suspend" and "Watchdog" for answers to battery consumption by OS processes.
Use http://acronymfinder.com for help with acronyms.
HTC Glacier running CM7 #15
jggimi said:
OS = "operating system"
SEARCH the forum for "init" and "suspend" and "Watchdog" for answers to battery consumption by OS processes.
Use http://acronymfinder.com for help with acronyms.
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Beautiful. If I call an Android application "HIV", knowing that HIV stands for "Human immunodeficiency virus" would not help me much, would it? So, it is not about acronyms. Meanwhile, operating system that runs on the phone reports itself as "Android System", as is explicitly stated in my original message. Not "Android OS", but "Android System".
I got a rather meaningful suggestion on another forum that "Android OS" is actually the low-level kernel, while "Android System" is actually the higher-level OS service layer, although it doesn't help much in answering the question of why "Android OS" starts eating up the battery sometime (acronym finders don't help much either).
Your consumption is likely caused by either the suspend process bug, or the init bug. You can discover which by installing Watchdog and enabling monitoring and display of phone processes in Watchdog's settings. You could then search for solutions and circumventions appropriate to your specific problem.
Both problems have been discussed in many threads here.
HTC Glacier running CM7 #15
jggimi said:
Your consumption is likely caused by either the suspend process bug, or the init bug. You can discover which by installing Watchdog and enabling monitoring and display of phone processes in Watchdog's settings.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I have immediately installed Watchdog on my phone and was running it continuously ever since. It does catch some apps sometimes, but that does not seem to be related to the issue I describe.
In fact, when "Android OS" enters that runaway battery consumption mode, thus rapidly draining the battery, Watchdog catches absolutely nothing. Is there something I should tweak in Watchdog settings in order to make it catch it?
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Sent From My Rooted HTC Glacier- It Just Makes SENSE
My android System is 32% and my android os is 2%. what would have my android system so high? Was never like this before.
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Uninstall the updates for the "My Account" app and then never open or update it again.
bet it solves your problem!
A lot of people seem to be having this problem of "Android OS" eating up all of their battery by keeping the CPU constantly processing.
There are a number of bugs which have been associated with this behaviour, in the case of my phone it was the ubiquitous "init" bug: the underlying Linux kernel/system is trying to start a process or activity, which subsequently fails and falls into an infinite loops, hence burning up the CPU/battery.
Install "WatchDog" from the marketplace and you'll soon find out if it's this or something else which is the problem.
The fix for the init bug which worked for me (and for others I've encountered online) was to enable the "USB debugging mode" in Settings->Applications->Development.
Presumably this sets debug parameters which cause this process not to fail/loop.
Hope this helps.
D.
wouldn't it be hilarious to find out that watchdog was behind the bug just to get everyone to download their app.. just saying...
Battery usage statistics keeps on warning me that Chrome has been using too much battery even when screen is off: is there a way to clear this stats?
Battery usage shows "Others" and it's always at the highest percentage. Tapping on it does nothing. I'm not sure if this is legitimate some app that does not show up in Accubattery or just a bug. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
The phone is on version A2017GV1.3.0B03 and not rooted.