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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?
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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.
My English might be poor, hopefully this thread help. I have flashed stock ICS in my tab baseband XXLQ8. After fully recharged my battery, I found that the performance was not tolerable since in HC 3.2, it only drains 2-3% battery life per 24 hrs in a sleep mode. Unlike HC 3.2, ICS 4.0.4 (baseband XXLQ8, some addressed as Italian stock ROM) drains 1-2% per hour in sleep mode. My battery life dropped 7% in 5 hours without any usage (off screen).
Later on I installed CPU SPY and BetterBatteryStats suggested by some of the posts here. Having the same problem, my tab could barely get into the Deep Sleep state when it was in sleep mode. Instead Deep Sleep, it still works under 216 MHz.
Somebody here suggested it was the Push Service in Samsung App, Google+ or something. Some even found that it was the GSM problem. With the sim card slotted in, the problem gone. However we are pretty sure the effect of the problem is battery drainage in sleep mode. We found that there is a kernel wakelock called l3_hsic all the while running in background that prevents the tab from going into Deep Sleep.
There are several possibilities causing this to happen. Apps creating wakelock maybe, some suggested Google+ with the sync or upload function enable; hey, wait! I don’t have a Google + account signed in, could that still be the problem? Some say Samsung App Push Service causes it to happen, so I just give it a try. Launch the Samsung App, go to the Settings and disable the Push Service. Put the tab to sleep for an hour and check back. Battery drainage still occurs since it dropped 2% for an hour. What a disappointment. But wait, this time I get into the tab Settings>Application>All and find the Samsung Push Service. Checked there were permissions such as creating wakelock and prevent tablet from sleeping. Tap on it and uninstall the app. Put my tablet into sleep again.
After 3 hours, turn on the tab and check back with the battery stats. CPU SPY shows that my tab could get into Deep Sleep state. My battery life did not even drop a single percent. Today is my third day from the last charge. Thanks god, problem solved.
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It doesn't work for me. Still looking
and for l2_hsic what could be the solution? i`ve searched on xda and google but i didn`t find any reliable solution. Any advice?
sgabytzu said:
and for l2_hsic what could be the solution? i`ve searched on xda and google but i didn`t find any reliable solution. Any advice?
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Is that the "battery drains while on airplane mode" issue? I have it too :crying:
it doesn't work for me bro..
for me, i noticed that google maps (auto update on my place, that friends can see where i am) Since I enable auto location my place, i get no deel sleep, when i have disable it, i have 100% deepsleep
I disabled Maps to fix my battery drainage issue. If I need to use maps I just enable it.
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The solution to the l2_hsic is to insert a uSIM.
Nevertheless the deep sleep problem will remain. Sorry!
hello,
can we flash another kernel ?
I have the same issue with my galaxy tab 10.1 running Stock ICS 4.04. Something is interrupting deep sleep mode and the battery consuption is 2% per hour in standby mode.
After rebooting it seems to be OK but later and i dont know when/how/why... stops entering deep sleep. I think this problem needs a revision by Samsung but i am sure that they have forgotten us.
I've seen a firmware update on some other thread, for our tablets... but it seems we're not getting it OTA
Another Tips for slove it
I found another solution for this issue in this post:
Finale Solution for Battery Drain issue
l2_hsic wakelock explained.
sgabytzu said:
and for l2_hsic what could be the solution? i`ve searched on xda and google but i didn`t find any reliable solution. Any advice?
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Please check. :angel:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2474923
Maps Samsung apps Google plus
They sometimes make device wake during sleep
I disabled them all
When keeping my phone on idle during the night, it dropped by around 30%.
I have installed BetterBatteryStats.
The largest user of the battery is "Android OS", according to the battery graph in the settings menu. However, in BBS, the largest partial wakelock is Connectivity Service, which was on for only ~6 minutes.
However, under CPU states, it says that the CPU was idling at 250 MHz for many hours?
This is undoubtedly some sort of phantom battery drain. It has occured for many weeks during the use of the phone.
In addition, with 'Wakelock Detector', it too says that the largest wakelock is usually for around 6 minutes, by Facebook more often that not. However, the total stats say that the phone was awake the entire time, and it has not entered Deep Sleep at all.
I would greatly appreciate your help and tips. Thanks
cald said:
When keeping my phone on idle during the night, it dropped by around 30%.
I have installed BetterBatteryStats.
The largest user of the battery is "Android OS", according to the battery graph in the settings menu. However, in BBS, the largest partial wakelock is Connectivity Service, which was on for only ~6 minutes.
However, under CPU states, it says that the CPU was idling at 250 MHz for many hours?
This is undoubtedly some sort of phantom battery drain. It has occured for many weeks during the use of the phone.
In addition, with 'Wakelock Detector', it too says that the largest wakelock is usually for around 6 minutes, by Facebook more often that not. However, the total stats say that the phone was awake the entire time, and it has not entered Deep Sleep at all.
I would greatly appreciate your help and tips. Thanks
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You could try ds battery saver from Google play i use it and loose about 3% over night 7 hours
Yeah this looks weird.
I'm no BBS expert, but what I would do is, disable everything. Weather widgets and so on, Facebook sync and whatever else you have syncing in the background. Basically make it a dumb phone temporarily by disabling all the stuff you have running.
Then reboot and let it sit for an hour without touching it.
Check BBS again, choose "since boot" and look for partial wakelocks and battery consumption.
If it seems OK, turn something back on, for example add a weather widget and enable Facebook sync again. Don't enable too many things, just one or two! Reboot. Let it sit for an hour without touching it. Check BBS again. If the result now is again worse than it was before, you know that something you just added or enabled is causing the drain.
If everything seems OK, enable something else, whatever it may be - an RSS reader syncing, Instagram, Flipboard, Skype - I don't know what you have on your phone. Reboot and let it sit, check BBS again.
10 hours of WiFi on and WiFi running. There's your phantom drain.
Let me guess, you have scanning enabled in Wifi settings?
jaythenut said:
You could try ds battery saver from Google play i use it and loose about 3% over night 7 hours
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Kiahnlliya said:
Yeah this looks weird.
I'm no BBS expert, but what I would do is, disable everything. Weather widgets and so on, Facebook sync and whatever else you have syncing in the background. Basically make it a dumb phone temporarily by disabling all the stuff you have running.
Then reboot and let it sit for an hour without touching it.
Check BBS again, choose "since boot" and look for partial wakelocks and battery consumption.
If it seems OK, turn something back on, for example add a weather widget and enable Facebook sync again. Don't enable too many things, just one or two! Reboot. Let it sit for an hour without touching it. Check BBS again. If the result now is again worse than it was before, you know that something you just added or enabled is causing the drain.
If everything seems OK, enable something else, whatever it may be - an RSS reader syncing, Instagram, Flipboard, Skype - I don't know what you have on your phone. Reboot and let it sit, check BBS again.
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Thanks for the detailed advice. I'll disable everything, reboot, and then keep it for the night. And I'll install DS Battery Saver.
ShadowLea said:
10 hours of WiFi on and WiFi running. There's your phantom drain.
Let me guess, you have scanning enabled in Wifi settings?
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Nope, I'm afraid not.
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I did as you advised before, disabling everything. The drop over the night was only 10% this time, but this inexplicable drop persists nevertheless.
I had the same thing happening yesterday night. When my phone is drained, I usually charge it in the evening, reboot and then let it sit for about 5-6 hrs with everything except NFC off. Normally, I have a battery drop within those 5-6 hrs of about 1-3%. But yesterday morning after the same procedure, I had lost 30%. I did a reboot then and battery usage went back to normal. So I charged my phone yesterday night and did a reboot, and surely enough I only had 1-3% of battery lost over night. Strange.
For a month or more I'm facing totally unexplainable battery drain.
As seen on the screens below, the phone is awake, but it is not detected anywhere - not by android nor by GSam. In any case the battery draws faster.
I have one observation tho - this happens after I make phone calls. Not every time, but once per 2,3 days.
Any ideas?
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For a month or more I'm facing totally unexplainable battery drain.
As seen on the screens below, the phone is awake, but it is not detected anywhere - not by android nor by GSam. In any case the battery draws faster.
I have one observation tho - this happens after I make phone calls. Not every time, but once per 2,3 days.
Any ideas?
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You have this problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/explanation-horrible-note-4-battery-t3004274
I'm pretty sure that I don't have this issue. Yes, the percentage in GSam maybe high, but I don't believe this reflects what is happening.
First of all - I don't have bad battery life. Usually my over night drain is less than 1%/1h.
Second - the issue appears sporadically.
Third - in the provided thread I don't see the issue appearing in stock battery monitor, while mine appear.
At last - my battery drains faster only while the issue is present and before I restart. After that it is back to normal ...
@Spo0f
Just some suggestions maybe you're using 3g I always have that turned off and switch it on when I use it my guess is that some apps are causing your drain after a call maybe like you said if you're not fimiliar with greenify I suggest you use it to stop all those apps and system apps also uninstall all those bloatware you don't need or at least freeze them if you don't mind lower the resolution to 1080p with nomone app use power save or disable dvfs and use an app to lower and raise the CPU to save juice when not needed....
Thanks for the suggestions, but as I said - this problem appear sporadically - home when using WiFi as well as outside when using 3G.
All of the rest is done - I'm no newby
Spo0f said:
Thanks for the suggestions, but as I said - this problem appear sporadically - home when using WiFi as well as outside when using 3G.
All of the rest is done - I'm no newby
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Oh sorry mate well I don't use much 3g so I can't help you there but if you're having drainage when you're using WiFi in general then maybe you should reconsider investigating the post above with the link I don't have so much drainage on connectivity with 3g or WiFi....viewing the pics you uploaded it seems suspicious.... Maybe an app? I don't know...
Use wakelock detector
Spo0f said:
I'm pretty sure that I don't have this issue. Yes, the percentage in GSam maybe high, but I don't believe this reflects what is happening.
First of all - I don't have bad battery life. Usually my over night drain is less than 1%/1h.
Second - the issue appears sporadically.
Third - in the provided thread I don't see the issue appearing in stock battery monitor, while mine appear.
At last - my battery drains faster only while the issue is present and before I restart. After that it is back to normal ...
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My overnight drain was also very low, but that was because the faulty device on the network was asleep at night too (my desktop).
If you're not rooted, use the PC version of Wakelock Detector at the end of your day and post screenshots of your highest drainers for the various categories. In my case, the device was being woken up by something on the network and it showed.
Bear in mind that actively downloading something in the time period will also raise wifi power used but more stats will help.
The fact that you're still experiencing a lot of drain even when outside suggests it might be a rogue app
One phone call today and after it the phone stayed awake.
Because I had issue with the PC WLD the screen shots are from 11 minutes after one of the disconnects. The device was awake all of them.
Spo0f said:
One phone call today and after it the phone stayed awake.
Because I had issue with the PC WLD the screen shots are from 11 minutes after one of the disconnects. The device was awake all of them.
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I also checked out my battery behaviour this night and was very disappointed. Although my phone was in flight mode and every peripherals and services shut down, today morning my phone was crying for energy. So I made a quick investigation in my power diagram and found out, that "Android OS" requested a wakelock during the whole power-on time. So I installed "CPU Spy" to check in which states the phone was really over the whole charging period. I couldn't believe my eyes. Although the kernel should do it's job good, cause most of the CPU times are in lower freqeuncy states, the deep sleep mode was never activated.
Therefore I installed an app called "Wakelock Detector" to check out which apps could cause that. I found out, that S Health had a big amount of wakelocks and also active-time, so the first thing was to disable S Health. After some minutes I checked back, but nevertheless still no deep sleep time in "CPU Spy".
So I searched around and found another one arguing about the wakelocks and that they could be the products of some programming issues concerning WiFi. The should be gone, after turning off WiFi and rebooting yout phone. And it seems that he was right. I waited some time and hooray, "CPU Spy" listed the phone state "Deep Sleep" the first time as an active state and also with the major active-time. So at least that was some step ahead. (I have to remark, that S Health was already unfrozen at this time, so S Health should not be responsible in any way.)
The next step was to reactivate WiFi, leave it on and set the phone on standby. After some time I checked back again the phone showed even more deep sleep time. So that was an improvement. I reactivated everything and waited some time... Deep Sleep all over the time. Can't figure out for now, if it was S Health, WiFi, or anything else that caused the wakelock for sure. At least the reboot helped. I'll check that out on a long-term test, maybe I get some further conclusions.
I got the German 5.0.1
IS it only me or is it general with the battery drain?
Even in Flight Mode, I am losing the battery in a couple of hours
#dissapointed
me too.
i'm trying to find out a fix...
miketrevis said:
me too.
i'm trying to find out a fix...
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Hello everyone, two days ago i downgrade to kitkat, I decide to re-put Lollipop because I'm documenting on various forums Italian and foreign, and this drain the battery does not have all .... well for my case I installed the GSAM Battery Monitor from Play Store that seems to work well with Lollipop. I left the phone idle and discovered that the deep sleep has never been reached. The phone was always active, even when locked.
GSAM has reported that the app "Unified Daemon (EUR)" was among the top three applications that consume battery.
According to various forums is a preloaded application from Samsung that unifies information like weather across other applications preloaded. I really do not know what good has this application.
I tried to turn it off, and in fact the phone goes into deep sleep with consequent consumption "standard" like KitKat.
The downside of disabling this app is that you lose the weather from the lock screen and through the window of the cover S-view, while the widget on the home seems to work perfectly.
Obviously there is to say that others should do the same test and see if this app will appear among the first applications to battery consumption.
A greeting
disable Facebook app (use web version) and turn off wifi when not being used. My battery usage has transformed! See other thread....70% after 10 hours. 56% after 13 hrs! Lollipop is buggy. Manage wifi manually and you're battery will be awesome.
bonerp said:
disable Facebook app (use web version) and turn off wifi when not being used. My battery usage has transformed! See other thread....70% after 10 hours. 56% after 13 hrs! Lollipop is buggy. Manage wifi manually and you're battery will be awesome.
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^^^^this^^^^ . Me too. Disabled damn Facebook and it a few Google apps and I'm back to normal. The main culprit is the stupid Facebook. To make easy access of it from Web just make a shortcut on your desktop.
I will leave wifi on today regardless of whether or not it is connected and see if things get warm / battery usage ramps up. If it doesn't it might indicate an issue with FB alone or at least prove whether or not wifi is stopping the phone from going into deep sleep after a period of non use. Yesterday having left FB and wifi off, resulted in 40% battery remaining after 16 hrs usage. It never got hot once. This is my yard stick.
Lots of users are having issues with the latest update to facebook - just look at the comments on the play store!
Anyone else been having high battery usage but are not users of FB app on lollipop?
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@gasland Here is what i did.
I uninstalled
Facebook, Facebook pages, Facebook messenger and com.facebok."something"....
I removed everything that had the name "facebook" and rebooted my device.
Battery has been okay since then.
Ps: I also froze "unified demon" as I don't use either of the weather services or finances or all that crap.
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