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Something wrong with my battery life?

I think I'm getting really bad battery life is this normal?
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Install this and check what apps or wakelocks are draining the battery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
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Good Guy Mark said:
I think I'm getting really bad battery life is this normal?
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I am also experiencing the same thing.
Mine started with this and from next day onwards it is getting over heated and now currently heating issues and crashing

Do what spaceman said your phone isn't sleeping. One hour+ of staying awake.
Also, go into Google maps into settings into location settings and disable automatic location reporting and uncheck the other things.
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Okay I downloaded it and this is what I get
What's wakelock?
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Good Guy Mark said:
Okay I downloaded it and this is what I get
What's wakelock?
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I think it means that it prevents your phone from going into deep sleep.
Not entirely sure though, you might want to wait for someone to confirm what I said or tell you what it really means.
Regarding your question in post #1:
What have you been doing on your phone (i.e. playing games, phone calls, watching videos)? Do you have GPS and Bluetooth on? WiFi? 3G? How many (and which) widgets do you use?

Wakelocks stop your phone from entering deep sleep which therefore causes battey drain. The app will tell you what is causing the wakelocks so you know what is draining your battery and can deal with it. However, it might just be that your phone usage is causing the battery drain e.g 3G and GPS always on as the battery life isn't exactly amazing on the nexus 4

Battery Drain Dramatically Increased in Last Week

Is anyone else experiencing exceptional battery drain in the last week or two? I'm not sure if it is since 4.3, but my phone barely lasts a full day and it is the same with all my other friends with a Nexus 4.
We are all wondering what is going on!

montrealguy said:
Is anyone else experiencing exceptional battery drain in the last week or two? I'm not sure if it is since 4.3, but my phone barely lasts a full day and it is the same with all my other friends with a Nexus 4.
We are all wondering what is going on!
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So many things could be draining your battery. You need to provide more data in order to troubleshoot.
Use BetterBatteryStats and/or wakelock detector (both in Google Play) to identify apps causing wakelocks. Then Google those wakelocks for possible solutions. Out posts screenshots of your wakelocks here or in a wakelock thread.
Plus provide details of what ROM, kernel, and radio you're using.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44478830

montrealguy said:
Is anyone else experiencing exceptional battery drain in the last week or two? I'm not sure if it is since 4.3, but my phone barely lasts a full day and it is the same with all my other friends with a Nexus 4.
We are all wondering what is going on!
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Possible answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Galaxo60 said:
Possible answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Interesting--- but the OP says it was resolved with the latest updates, but mine is still draining superfast.

I had the same problem. At my nexus it was the zooper widget which causes the draining. After uninstalling the battery consumption went normal. Maybe you have a similar problem...
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scherfa said:
I had the same problem. At my nexus it was the zooper widget which causes the draining. After uninstalling the battery consumption went normal. Maybe you have a similar problem...
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No- the only widgets I have are the ones for Google Voice and Google Calendar.

montrealguy said:
Interesting--- but the OP says it was resolved with the latest updates, but mine is still draining superfast.
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LOL, I´m the OP, but also there is some Android System wakelock that is caused by a bad radio. Try to install some app to detect wakelocks or post a screenshot to see how it looks the battery drain, so we can help you better.

Galaxo60 said:
LOL, I´m the OP, but also there is some Android System wakelock that is caused by a bad radio. Try to install some app to detect wakelocks or post a screenshot to see how it looks the battery drain, so we can help you better.
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I installed Wakelock Detector but I have no idea how it works or how to interpret the data. If you can show me how to paste the data here, I'd appreciate it.

montrealguy said:
I installed Wakelock Detector but I have no idea how it works or how to interpret the data. If you can show me how to paste the data here, I'd appreciate it.
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I just installed once the app, but can´t remember well how it exactly work.
It is not too hard. Just install app and then wait for a full cycle. What this app does, is just monitoring all the processes on your phone. When you make a full battery cycle, it detects which processes are awake and it shows them on the wakelock screen as well as the name of the process.
Sometimes, it will show crazy names or not so conventional names, but better to make a screenshot of the overall wakelocks and then the detail of the major wakelock. I think this was on top of others.

Why is it suddenly draining?

As you can see I've got hardly any screen on time. Location services, GPS, sync and everything were off. Data off. WiFi on but had strong signal entire day. Battery saver on. Not rooted, full stock. Any ideas on why it suddenly started draining? I've been getting much better life than this. After 18 hours of this kind of usage I usually have 50+ percent left.
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chrisphoenix7 said:
As you can see I've got hardly any screen on time. Location services, GPS, sync and everything were off. Data off. WiFi on but had strong signal entire day. Battery saver on. Not rooted, full stock. Any ideas on why it suddenly started draining? I've been getting much better life than this. After 18 hours of this kind of usage I usually have 50+ percent left.
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CarrierIQ! You probably have it enabled. Given that your screenshots say AT&T, this is most likely the culprit. Disable it and your battery issues should go away.

I've read people across devices have been getting drain from Google Play Services. Seems it would show up though, it's the 2nd thing in mine next to screen...
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marleyinoc said:
I've read people across devices have been getting drain from Google Play Services. Seems it would show up though, it's the 2nd thing in mine next to screen...
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I don't have that issue. My Google Play Services only takes up 2% of my battery. But its a known issue that if you have an AT&T phone, chances are you accepted everything when you first setup the phone and opted into CarrierIQ.
For the OP, his screenshots don't see Google Play Services as a battery drainer. I am pretty sure it is CarrierIQ draining his battery especially if he has GPS enabled all the time.

Battery usage was included in screenshots.
Carrier IQ uses that much battery? User has to opt in to it?
Guess an FDR is in order to opt out this time. Save you stuff to your PC or cloud first.
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marleyinoc said:
Battery usage was included in screenshots.
Carrier IQ uses that much battery? User has to opt in to it?
Guess an FDR is in order to opt out this time. Save you stuff to your PC or cloud first.
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User opts in when they have a pop up window asking if they can collect locations statistics and send it back to Google or whatever for assisting in resolving issues. I don't have AT&T so I don't have the exact popup handy. I just know that Tmobile has an setting in Options to disable CarrierIQ.

I don't have GPS on ever. And I can't find carrierIQ anywhere. I'm not familiar with it.
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Wouldnt that be a wakelock issue? look his cell standby takes up the most of his battery... check out GASM battery so you can know what to disable to save battery

Google Play Services has been killing me over the past few days and there have been a LOT of reports of others having the same issue across multiple devices. Today Google Play Services has taken up 37% with 14 hours of wakelock. Absolutely ridiculous.
No one has been able to figure out why.

I have an ATT D800 and just started experiencing this in the last few days. I already had disabled CIQ (checker says it exists but is disabled).
It may be the google play services issue and I just finished disabling those and charging to 100%. We shall see.

I took these things off, and got great batterylife after that:good: It should help for google play services battery drain..but report back if it works or not.
Settings -> Location access -> Off
Google Settings ->Location -> Location Reporting Off, Location History Off

All location settings are off. I've been with android since 2010. I've always kept location everything off.
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chrisphoenix7 said:
As you can see I've got hardly any screen on time. Location services, GPS, sync and everything were off. Data off. WiFi on but had strong signal entire day. Battery saver on. Not rooted, full stock. Any ideas on why it suddenly started draining? I've been getting much better life than this. After 18 hours of this kind of usage I usually have 50+ percent left.
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I think there's an issue with WiFi on the D800. If I leave my setup the same as when on LTE, but turn on WiFi instead, I get a nice steady battery drain. I have compared BBS stats to when I'm on LTE and I don't see anything different. No wakelock keeping the phone on. Deep sleep is similar, etc.

Found the culprit. Battle Dragons, a game, was keeping the phone awake. Better battery stats showed it was never letting the phone sleep. Getting normal life now that I've uninstalled BD. No clue why it was waking it though, I stopped the app.
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[Q] Google Play services

After installation of the latest update to Google Play services , my Moto X has become a battery hog.
Am rooted, have the Verizon Dev model.
Using Greenify BetterBatterystats etc.
Seeing CastSocketMultiplexer.mWakelock appear, never seen it before.
What happened and waht else can I do?

What version of google play services do you have. the latest version is 5.0.84
Also have you installed wifi fixer and battery guru they can help on battery alot
use there betas as well WiFi fixer: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12jjhc5zwfqedwfh23xchyqlrutil44h04
Greenify: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/communities/103850238949791125024
Battery guru does not have a beta
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Screen shots? From Gsam or something other than stock battery usage section.
Otherwise the thread will be full of guesses.
And I'm sorry...but need to disagree with above poster....battery Guru will cost more battery life than its supposed to save. Unless you're a VERY light user.

Battery guru has worked wonders for me on atrix hd and I've had it since I got my X so I can't say whether it helps I guess
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Try searching Disable Services on google play and turn off that one who is giving you that problem. I don't use locations,wallet, cast and etc had to disable those. You'll see a greater battery saving as i have.

WiFi Drain Issue On The S8?

Anyone experiencing severe WiFi drain like this? It's a Galaxy S8 on the Australian ROM. Haven't seen WiFi taking up a majority of the battery usage before. WiFi is on all day as the device is usually connected to a WiFi network. Is this a settings issue? Currently causes the device to get only a little over 3 hours screen-on time.

Y.G. said:
Anyone experiencing severe WiFi drain like this? It's a Galaxy S8 on the Australian ROM. Haven't seen WiFi taking up a majority of the battery usage before. WiFi is on all day as the device is usually connected to a WiFi network. Is this a settings issue? Currently causes the device to get only a little over 3 hours screen-on time.
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Not that severe. I used adb to load better battery stats and had a pretty significant wifi wakelock. Deleted a rogue app and it fixed it a bit, but still ugly. I use greenify with advanced doze and it helps quite a bit.

samman82 said:
Not that severe. I used adb to load better battery stats and had a pretty significant wifi wakelock. Deleted a rogue app and it fixed it a bit, but still ugly. I use greenify with advanced doze and it helps quite a bit.
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Didn't realize you could get an app to have system permissions by using adb. Will GSam Battery Monitor give me a detailed breakdown of the WiFi wakelock without adb?

Y.G. said:
Didn't realize you could get an app to have system permissions by using adb. Will GSam Battery Monitor give me a detailed breakdown of the WiFi wakelock without adb?
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Doubt it, but I haven't tried. I'm not too familiar with gsam

samman82 said:
Doubt it, but I haven't tried. I'm not too familiar with gsam
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Going to give Betterbatterystats a shot. Will report back with my results.