hello,
I have a frustrating problem. I used to use a galaxy tab to play Spotify in a different room. But control it via my smartphone using the other devices feature in Spotify.
My tablet died so have been using my p10 lite.
The problem is that my p10 lite kills randomly kills spotify when not in use, so I have to physically restart it every time.
Whereas on the tablet , it was always just available from my phone.
I've tried going into battery settings and manually managed it to ignore battery optimisation, disabled screen locks. Disabled power options.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
There's probably the app "huawei power genie" responsible, you can ADB uninstall it. Easy and I didn't feel impact on battery life, the purpose of this App is to stop every app after 60 minutes. No custom whitelist possible. Great huawei power management!
There lots of good tips & tutorials out there!
Good luck
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Hey folks,
I have noticed that simply having apps installed (without actually running them, especially games) seem to decrease over all battery life.
Anyone else feel this way? Or am I over reacting?
is this why each app has an option to force close? a little piece of code runs in the back ground?
Some apps will turn on themselves without your knowledge. Thus, that is why you're experiencing battery loss. The apps keeps phone awake which prevents it from going to deep sleep to conserve power.
I recommend downloading a application from the play store called "Greenify". Ironic as this may sound this app allows you to detect apps that are running without your permission and you can simply stop them from running without your knowledge. There is an entire thread dedicated to this app.
Link to thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
The app is free in the play store.
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I tried searching Google for battery drain related to Play Services. Up until my phone had official KitKat, even with CM11, the battery drain from play services was never this horrendous (about 36% battery usage).
The only thing I could find besides version 4.4 was the "fix" for battery drain related to location was that some Sony devices, upon upgrading to KitKat, suffered similar problems with battery.
I've come to the conclusion the RAZR HD/MAXX HD suffer from the same issue.
Downloading BetterBatteryStats I found when GPS was the only way of doing location services, the battery drain is ~1% an hour. When I had high accuracy or battery savings mode, the drain was ~3.5% an hour. This is the EXACT issue that the Xperia devices are suffering from.
So, for all those on KitKat who are experiencing battery drain, try switching to Device Only. This will utilize only GPS satellites to determine location. You will lose location based stuff in Google Now, suck as traffic or weather but your battery will last much longer.
I looked through and didn't see anything about this in any other thread, so I decided to make a new one. Hopefully Google updates Play Services to be a bit more friendly with LTE and WiFi location settings soon (I'm looking at you, I/O).
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Another potential way around this is possibly using the Greenify app, if you're rooted. You'll also have to donate ($2.99 USD) but it's well worth it if you ask me. I actually used my Amazon Coins to donate that way.
With a donated version, you can hibernate system apps, but you have to be careful because hibernating certain system apps could cause other apps to no longer work (which is easy to fix - just unhibernate them). But, this is different from freezing apps. Freezing an app means you've disabled it. What Greenify does is prevent the phone from starting up apps when the screen is off (wake lock). But, you can launch the app yourself and it will fire up (albeit maybe a little slower since it wasn't pre-loaded) and then when the screen goes back off, Greenify will hibernate the apps again.
This is another way to stop apps from firing up when you're not using your phone. I've noticed Google Play services going nuts one time. A reboot cured it, but I wasn't sure what apps would have been using it. I've since Greenified some regular apps and I haven't seen it happen again.
But, Greenify is definitely something to look at. The non-donation version only allows you to greenify non-system apps, but even for those, it works really well.
You can get it at Google Play or at Amazon App store.
I haven't got issues with battery drain at the moment but I bookmarked this link of reddit and maybe it help you.
Sorry for the English
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1zxri4/google_play_services_battery_drain_the_real/
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I believe I read that thread, too. It is helpful to understand that Google Now is really what's killing the battery. I've noticed that the battery life is one again incredible on my phone after changing to device only. This allows me to still use navigation if necessary and also allows my weather extension in DashClock to work because the one I installed allows the phone to read GPS location instead of relying on my network location. So for now while I lose traffic updates and weather updates through the Google search app, it's not SO bad. I seriously hope they modify the number of times that Google pings for your location or figure out how to cause less drain on the battery, because I find the location stuff incredibly useful at times.
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Looking through the time line today saw this thread and remembered this app. Hopefully its helpfull
Hello to all!! I've had the same problems like the 90% of the people that installed the 4.4.2 update on my Note 3. Android OS was almost always awake and was draining the battery like hell!! Sometimes even 40% battery drop over a night!! I've tried almost everything! Factory reset - some said that a simple reboot and many other not usefull things in forums that other people suggested!! Nothing worked. Sorry for all these I say but I am very frustrated with all these people that suggests things without even knowing the problem or even tried first do some things for it. Maybe I am wrong for this but anyway. Lets continue..
SOLUTION:
1st of all! You must have root access.
2. Buy and install Autostars from google playstore! 1.5€ is nothing from what this app gives you...!!
3. Open autostarts and give root access to the app
4. It will scan your phone for all the apps running etc. When its done you will get a categorised list with actions your phone does in many different situations. Like when you put a charger or open wifi or close mobile data etc etc...
5. open the category "after boot" and underneath you will see all the actions your phone does after booting inside android system.
6. Disable the following actions:
Camera test
Camera
And anything else at you own will! Maybe you dont want to start facebook.. youtube.. etc after boot! Even though if you are not an expert on all these things (like me) dont touch any other system apps. (System apps are yellow colored inside the app) Also I've read somewhere that you must disable and the camera button in lockscreen. I don't know if this helped also. You can try it on your own. I've had it disabled in my phone from the begining. All these worked for me under NG2 kernel. I haven't tried it with NF4 kernel but I thing that it will be the same.
7. Final step. Just reboot
All the battery drain comes from a sensor in the camera that stays on after booting your phone and it doesnt leave your phone go sleep even with the screen locked. Before those things Ive hand 12-14hours roughly battery lifetime. The android os was awake the 10 hours in these 12-14 hours.... now I am 12 hours on battery with heavy use and I have 78% battery... Android Os now is just 1-2minutes awake in 12hours of use.... I hope that works on everyone try these things! I would be very happy if this works in all of you!! I was 3 days over my phone to find a solution and Ive read tooooo many forums!
Finally sorry for my english. I know that I am not very good but I ve tried..
EDITED: Uploaded pics of the HUGE difference!!! The attached image is before!
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Camera Test APK can be deleted. Will try that.
My Note 3 with KitKat 4.4.2 seems to do great with battery use. I've seen it only lose one or two percent from a full 100% charge after 8 to 12 hours if I'm not using it much. The big difference in the way I use mine however is it's in Airplane mode all of the time. I suspect that part of the phone may use a fair amount of power and depending on how far your nearest cell tower is will use a lot more power for phones that are further away from a cell tower. Phones make brief transmissions even when you are not using your phone to stay in touch with the cell tower unless you are in Airplane mode.
I am using Autorun Manager to try this out.
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Viptr said:
Hello to all!! I've had the same problems like the 90% of the people that installed the 4.4.2 update on my Note 3. Android OS was almost always awake and was draining the battery like hell!! Sometimes even 40% battery drop over a night!! I've tried almost everything! Factory reset - some said that a simple reboot and many other not usefull things in forums that other people suggested!! Nothing worked. Sorry for all these I say but I am very frustrated with all these people that suggests things without even knowing the problem or even tried first do some things for it. Maybe I am wrong for this but anyway. Lets continue..
SOLUTION:
1st of all! You must have root access.
2. Buy and install Autostars from google playstore! 1.5€ is nothing from what this app gives you...!!
3. Open autostarts and give root access to the app
4. It will scan your phone for all the apps running etc. When its done you will get a categorised list with actions your phone does in many different situations. Like when you put a charger or open wifi or close mobile data etc etc...
5. open the category "after boot" and underneath you will see all the actions your phone does after booting inside android system.
6. Disable the following actions:
Camera test
Camera
And anything else at you own will! Maybe you dont want to start facebook.. youtube.. etc after boot! Even though if you are not an expert on all these things (like me) dont touch any other system apps. (System apps are yellow colored inside the app) Also I've read somewhere that you must disable and the camera button in lockscreen. I don't know if this helped also. You can try it on your own. I've had it disabled in my phone from the begining. All these worked for me under NG2 kernel. I haven't tried it with NF4 kernel but I thing that it will be the same.
7. Final step. Just reboot
All the battery drain comes from a sensor in the camera that stays on after booting your phone and it doesnt leave your phone go sleep even with the screen locked. Before those things Ive hand 12-14hours roughly battery lifetime. The android os was awake the 10 hours in these 12-14 hours.... now I am 12 hours on battery with heavy use and I have 78% battery... Android Os now is just 1-2minutes awake in 12hours of use.... I hope that works on everyone try these things! I would be very happy if this works in all of you!! I was 3 days over my phone to find a solution and Ive read tooooo many forums!
Finally sorry for my english. I know that I am not very good but I ve tried..
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Can't find Autostars app, can you post a link?
Jason x
I believe that freezing an app and stop it from running is better than deleting it! If you freeze it and you have a problem you can just unfreeze it. Deleting it making a lot more time to fix the problem.. But sure I believe that if you can delete it then you will have the same result.
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droidzer1 said:
My Note 3 with KitKat 4.4.2 seems to do great with battery use. I've seen it only lose one or two percent from a full 100% charge after 8 to 12 hours if I'm not using it much. The big difference in the way I use mine however is it's in Airplane mode all of the time. I suspect that part of the phone may use a fair amount of power and depending on how far your nearest cell tower is will use a lot more power for phones that are further away from a cell tower. Phones make brief transmissions even when you are not using your phone to stay in touch with the cell tower unless you are in Airplane mode.
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Hello my friend! As I said in the main post this problem can be found in the majority of the phone that running the 4.4.2 kk rom. Sure the phone antenna consumes more battery when your phone is at greater distances from the cell tower and when you lose some more battery 'juice' because of this it is not considered as a battery drain problem... this is normal! Also Ive said in the post that the battery drain was from the android os and not the cell tower. When you go to the battery information to see the consumptions you will see that android os and the cell tower is in different categories. Anyway.. you should be very happy because belong to the minority of this 4.4.2. Problem and you dont have to do any of the above to get your battery back!
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Springles said:
I am using Autorun Manager to try this out.
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I dont know this app but it must do the same thing.. ! Give it a try and enjoy the results!
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code72 said:
Can't find Autostars app, can you post a link?
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I hope this link helps!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts
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I'am very pleased with the battery now! I Thing I will never update my phone again!! If my battery was brand new I bet that it would hold 2 days with my phone usage.
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For AutoStarts, BootManager module for Xposed works pretty well too
PlutoDelic said:
For AutoStarts, BootManager module for Xposed works pretty well too
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Thank you !
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I bought this phone like few months ago. When I held it for first time and used for few days I was completely charmed. For some time, this was the best android phone ever created for me but right now it's not. Why is that? Maybe because EMUI is a piece of trash. This is literally one of the worst android skins ever created, along with other ****ty chinese skins of course. The problems are not lack of app drawer or other generic and dumb issues people have about emui, this skin is broken to the core. Made by monkeys with brain damage. I tried all available android version for this phone and all of them have some annoying issues. In other words, this phone is unusable and it shouldn't be because it's not cheap. I'm a power user but constantly fiddling with a phone to make some basic functionality work is annoying even for me. Issues I experienced by firmware version:
- Notifications stops working as soon as phone enter doze (B152) and no, disabling doze is not a fix. Disabling a core system functionality which can be used to save phone from garbage google services doing havoc in the background is not a fix,
- Google backup transport constantly wakes up modems, sometimes every one second, sending very small data batches and completely decimating battery. Sometimes it does this for few minutes and sometimes it does it for hours. It doesn't matter how many google account I have or how many applications I have it happens every freaking time. On every single firmware version. And of course, backup disabled, sync also (all firmware versions)
- Doze is useless on Mate 8, doze is great because it fixes (actually it doesn't fix anything, it's jus workaround) horrible android battery life in standby. Does it works on Mate 8? Of course not ! Because dumb Huawei programmers added every single google service and app to permament whitelist which renders doze useless and main doze feature is ability to block ****ty google services (every version except B560+)
- Incosistent battery life (extreeeeeemeeeely incosistent battery life), same amount of apps in the background, same amount of notifications and one night - 1 % of battery, another one - 10%, amazing (all firmware versions).
- killing applications in the memory after long time of inactivity (of course killing apps, which shouldn't be killed, added to either protected or not closed apps, depending on version). I leave phone with 5 apps open in the background, at the morning only 1 is left in the memory. What is this? 50$ phone for christ sake?
- propably more smaller issues i forgot.
So is there a way (maybe some magic firmware version) to fix this phone? So instead of being garbage it will be actually useful and not frustrating? If not I'm selling this because I honestly can't remember a phone which annoyed me that much. Since 2006. And no, those are not my issues or I'm not using it wrong. These are well known issues baked deeply into crappy emui source code and "I don't have them" means I don't notice them.
I got this phone a few weeks ago, and I'm also unhappy with it. Specifically, the mirror screen function is super pixelated on my TV and almost unusable. No other Android phone I've used has this problem.
Update to Nougat with Emui 5. It's imho a huge improvement. Very very happy with it. Will never go back to Samsung or HTC.
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I got a DLOO version. Admittedly, had a frustrating time trying to root, debrand. But once done, I'm now on L29C432B320 and using Nova launcher. No issues on usability or battery, etc. As suggested, hopefully EMUI 5 will further enhance the experience.
No problems with mine...that I know of...
I'm 100% stock at this time, had it for about 3 months
L29C185B180
With all the headaches of upgrading at this point, I'll just stick it out a while on the current
build...I don't use the default launcher, but use Nova Prime.
If you have chinese version (AL10, DL00 etc), debrand to 432 and use build 560. Doze works, background apps works, battery life is pretty great and most importantly notification pulldown and notification icons are good.
My Mate 8 has been working fine till now.
B152. Stopped reading there. You won't put any effort in using the inbuilt updater and yet you come here to complain?
B180 and higher has all your problems solved and it's available to all handset versions.
I have a AT&T s7 edge running the latest U firmware. My battery life isn't great so I had to get a battery case. Screen on time about 3 hours.
Wi-Fi is off
Bluetooth off
Location and location scanning settings off
Data saver on for almost every app.
Power saving mode on with worst screen resolution
No AOD
Auto sync is off
I use greenify and doze
Auto update apps is off
Package disabler fully debloated
Literally almost everything to help save battery is done and only get about 3 hours 3 1/2 SOT.
Might get a new battery or new phone
Should i try anything else? Rooting again?
Switch back to ATT firmware?
I used to use all of the disabler apps thinking it would help my battery last longer (I heard using more than one at a time makes the phone run worse, too). For me, they seemed to start making it worse. I do disable a lot of apps like the AT&T crap, and a few others, though. I didn't see you mention auto brightness... do you have it on or off? Mine is usually off because I don't really need it, but I know it uses more battery while it's on. I'm getting around 6 hours of SOT. Sometimes more. You might have a rogue app that you installed from the play store. I haven't rooted this phone either. I got so tired of messing with root a few phones back, now I just use them as they come. It got too time consuming for me messing with all that.
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There's a battery guide floating around the edge forums, I wanna say the thread is in the TMB general section.
One of the biggest battery hogs is social media and messenger app from FB. Download BK package disabler and open android system and hit services, turn off IQ services and you should notice a dramatic improvement in bat life.
Or maybe it's just time to replace the battery......
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Quickvic30 said:
There's a battery guide floating around the edge forums, I wanna say the thread is in the TMB general section.
One of the biggest battery hogs is social media and messenger app from FB. Download BK package disabler and open android system and hit services, turn off IQ services and you should notice a dramatic improvement in bat life.
Or maybe it's just time to replace the battery......
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Yeah I have seen that. I have u firmware so it doesn't have the iq services. The att firmware did though. And yeah I have tried other apps they help a little but not worth it tbh
jack man said:
I used to use all of the disabler apps thinking it would help my battery last longer (I heard using more than one at a time makes the phone run worse, too). For me, they seemed to start making it worse. I do disable a lot of apps like the AT&T crap, and a few others, though. I didn't see you mention auto brightness... do you have it on or off? Mine is usually off because I don't really need it, but I know it uses more battery while it's on. I'm getting around 6 hours of SOT. Sometimes more. You might have a rogue app that you installed from the play store. I haven't rooted this phone either. I got so tired of messing with root a few phones back, now I just use them as they come. It got too time consuming for me messing with all that.
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Ow much usage tho????? What firmware? 6 hours is a lot of sot you Haveto be doing something light
Krazie99 said:
I have a AT&T s7 edge running the latest U firmware. My battery life isn't great so I had to get a battery case. Screen on time about 3 hours.
Wi-Fi is off
Bluetooth off
Location and location scanning settings off
Data saver on for almost every app.
Power saving mode on with worst screen resolution
No AOD
Auto sync is off
I use greenify and doze
Auto update apps is off
Package disabler fully debloated
Literally almost everything to help save battery is done and only get about 3 hours 3 1/2 SOT.
Might get a new battery or new phone
Should i try anything else? Rooting again?
Switch back to ATT firmware?
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Same, I am thinking to return Att firmware? Yes I will try and see what happen
The thing that kills my battery the fastest is poor reception areas and large Wifi networks (schools, hospital, etc). It almost always better if you don't connect to a large Wifi network even if your reception isn't that great. Large wifi network constantly keep your phone awake with discovery packets
sam2c said:
The thing that kills my battery the fastest is poor reception areas and large Wifi networks (schools, hospital, etc). It almost always better if you don't connect to a large Wifi network even if your reception isn't that great. Large wifi network constantly keep your phone awake with discovery packets
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That's why they have the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" option. Set it to "While charging" and you'll see much better battery life.
This means it only connects to wifi when you unlock your phone or while it's charging. (Your phone will still use wifi determined by your "secured lock time" settings, which for me is 5 minutes).