Time without signal... - Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey everyone, I guess I'm among the few who have actually had this thing since Monday and I have to say so far it seems great. The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that I have been consistently seeing about 10% "time without a signal." I'm coming from a 2013 Moto X and with the exact same usage patterns I had maybe 1% time without signal max . I haven't really noticed this affecting my battery and I've never had an instance where I try to send a text or make a call and it fails. I have noticed occasionally it will go from showing full bars to 0 bars and then back to full... Anyways I was just curious if any one else had noticed anything similar or if anyone had any suggestions. By the way I am on Verizon.
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mpw3000 said:
Hey everyone, I guess I'm among the few who have actually had this thing since Monday and I have to say so far it seems great. The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that I have been consistently seeing about 10% "time without a signal." I'm coming from a 2013 Moto X and with the exact same usage patterns I had maybe 1% time without signal max . I haven't really noticed this affecting my battery and I've never had an instance where I try to send a text or make a call and it fails. I have noticed occasionally it will go from showing full bars to 0 bars and then back to full... Anyways I was just curious if any one else had noticed anything similar or if anyone had any suggestions. By the way I am on Verizon.
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It's higher than normal for me too but reception has been perfect. Seems to not impact anything.
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The same thing happened to me with my HTC One M8 on the GPe rom on Verizon where it would just drop to no bars and then half a second later jump back up to the correct amount. I think it's just something with the way VZW and AOSP work. Right now my Nexus 6 says I have been without a signal for 9% of the day but I know I haven't. It doesn't seem to affect battery life either which is good.

Where do you find this data?

I've had 68% time without a signal. Never bothered me nor affected my battery life. And I had a signal all of that 68% of time. I believe it to be erroneous reports. Its showing you your signal is very weak for a period of time. If you think it is affecting your battery life negatively then you could and should look into it. Otherwise just ignore it. Hard to do maybe, but you'll be fine.

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Cell Standby 40% battery usage with only 3% time without signal?!

So my battery time isn't horrible but why the heck is cell standby using 40% when time without signal is only 3%?! Doesn't make any sense.. anyway of resolving this?
I'm seeing the same thing, in fact most of the time 'cell standby' is on the top of my battery usage chart. I suspect some of this is because I live in a relatively weak sprint signal area, its shouting pretty loud to get to the tower.
Every once in a while the phone will boot and have service, but time without signal will show 98-100%, I haven't figured this problem out yet (and yes I've done the GSM/CDMA switch in the test menu).
If you don't want your phone to go into standby, use it more.
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If you don't want your phone to go into standby, use it more.
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BAAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good one
Look guys, the battery usage is always going to total between 99% and 101%
This is not an indication of how much or fast your battery is being used, it is a reflection of how the amount of battery used IS BEING USED
Like adcdfv said, and he's absolutely right, if you want to see your cell standby percentage decrease then make more phone calls.
But there's no reason to do that.
Thank you, Thank you.
lawl.
I've done a lot of reading on this and everyone seems to say that Cell Standby has nothing to do with phone use. I use my phone all day to text and randomly use it to browse. Either way my phone is "in use" more or less all day.
And I did that same "fix" in the Test menu that Fird spoke of. I do not live in an area with a weak signal, either. Most of the time I'm getting 3+ bars..
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lawl.
I've done a lot of reading on this and everyone seems to say that Cell Standby has nothing to do with phone use. I use my phone all day to text and randomly use it to browse. Either way my phone is "in use" more or less all day.
And I did that same "fix" in the Test menu that Fird spoke of. I do not live in an area with a weak signal, either. Most of the time I'm getting 3+ bars..
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Having a high cell standby is good. It means that the radio is going to sleep properly. It's the Time Without Signal that you'd want to worry about, but with the latest ROMs it's no longer an issue.
I know this is an old thread and it's for a diffrent phone model, but i've been searching the web for the last hour and this thread is the closest one i've found to what i'm experiencing. I have an LG optimus one phone using knzo's Void Forever(2.3.4 based on CM) and the cell standby battery usege is 37% with only 1% time without signal. Can anybody tell me why this is happening?
did you read the previous posts?
Yes i did, and i don't think it's normal to have a high battery usage if TWS is 1%.
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Yes i did, and i don't think it's normal to have a high battery usage if TWS is 1%.
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What that means is cell standby is 40% or so TOTAL. It will always add up to around 100% no matter what. Your phone is fine.

[Q] Time Without Signal - Very High

I've done several searches regarding a high "Time Without Signal" percentage in battery use, but no one has mentioned it for the Revolution, and none of the tricks I've found work (airplane mode... dialing #*#* blah blah blah).
Letting the phone sit on a table overnight, I was down to 28% battery after about 7 hours. No use at all. Time Without Signal was at 99% I've seen it be at 100% before. This is all despite having a perfectly fine signal (varies between 3 and 5 bars out of 5).
The guy at the verizon store (why are they always so useless?) says he'd never seen it before, but refused to ever address it again, despite my repeated inquiries.
Has no one seen this issue? Anyone have any pointers? Help...?
Mines usually around that high too... do you have 3G/4G automatic? Mine is currently around 60% and I was in a 4G area for 3 hours earlier... could be saying the 4g has been without a signal... thinking out loud.
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I'm always in a 4G area, though. I very, very rarely have less than 3 bars of 4G. I guess I could try turning off LTE for a day and seeing if I get the same Time Without Signal. Though, I only got the phone for LTE, so if that's the issue, that's a real bummer.
Well, TWOS shouldn't make a big deal, just don't look at that menu a lot of phones don't report it properly just weird that it shows so high. :-\
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It's a big deal because my battery life is atrocious, and I think that's part of the reason.
I can't go more than 10 hours on a charge with absolutely no use.
If it helps with battery life, Im rooted, and I have setcpu with profiles setup so that while the screens off, its no higher than 368mhz but set to the conservative governor, and all other times its 122-1024mhz on interactive. this really helped battery life for me. The other 2 things Ive found is this phone uses the gps fairly arbitrarily a lot, so turning off gps when your not doing something with it helps, just as turning off background data/syncing. At least this way, without using my phone, i could squeeze 16 hours tops. Now I just have the extended battery and it works absolute wonders.

Battery life in the last few days

Anyone notice a change in their battery life in the past few days? My girlfriend and I both are going through our batteries in just over half a day with no use. It's like the phone isn't sleeping. Looking at battery use Display is using all of the battery. I'm running CM7.0.3 and she's on stock. Looking at mine right now the phone has been on battery for 1 hour 34 minutes, and Display is taking 57% of the battery and I'm down to 84% battery.
Yes! I've had my N1 since January 2010. I stayed stock until recently when I installed CM 7.1 RC1 shortly after it was released. Battery life had always been great, both stock and under CM7, especially with SS4N1. Then, a few days ago it just fell off a cliff. I now get only about 7-8 hours, even with little to no usage. Before I'd barely lose anything if the phone wasn't being used (a percent every couple hours).
Now the Nexus One Battery Calibrator application shows a drain of ~200 mA or more constantly.
I've been tearing my hair out for the last few days, uninstalling apps right and left, trying in vain to figure out what's causing this. I even considered a full wipe and reinstall of CM 7, thinking that some system setting somewhere had gotten horked.
I've always had WiFi set to never sleep, since I'm usually either at work or home. I've also had preferred network type (*#*#4636#*#* -> Phone Info) set to "GSM auto (PRL)" for months.
I've not made any other changes I can think of that would've had such a drastic impact on power consumption. I didn't track all the app updates that happened around the time it started, so I suppose it could be one of those. But I've uninstalled just about everything and it's still happening.
I have the same issue! Just in the past week or so. I have about 50% battery then a hour or so later it's dead! I was going to get a new battery today but maybe it's a CM7 issue. I use the nightly as soon as they hit the mirror.
An update on this... There may be a big issue going on with T-Mobile or some recent update:
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/07/t-mobile-g2-users-suddenly-suffering-from-huge-battery-loss/
Looks like other users on different phones have the same issue!
Thanks for that article, Lost Dog. Makes me feel a bit better. At least I know I'm not just going nuts.
My phone still has increased battery drain even if I put it in airplane mode though. It helps, but it's still much faster than before. This makes me really puzzled as to what the cause could be. How could the cell network still be causing increased drain if the phone's completely disconnected from it? Some sort of configuration information it received that persists even after the cell radio is turned off? EDIT: I may be wrong on this one, see below.
Last night I tried a complete wipe (using Temasek's full format "Format-signed.zip" first), and re-installed CM7.1 RC1 completely fresh. I installed only the minimal Google applications and a couple crucial tools (my password safe app). However, I'm still getting the same quick battery drain today.
I hope we (or T-Moblie) can figure out how to fix this. It really cripples my phone as a useful tool to have such short life!
EDIT: I'm going to try a workaround I've seen mentioned in comments on the TMoNews and Phandroid articles about this: limiting the cellular connection to 2G/EDGE only. It seems to have made a significant difference so far. I may have been incorrect then about airplane mode not having an impact. I'd only been checking current drain with the N1 Battery Calibrator app, and never left it in airplane mode for long. Anyway, I'll post back later this afternoon with results.
Ok, so switching to 2G-only for the cellular connection seems to have made a HUGE difference. The drain rate seems to be back at around what I'd expect. Everything else I left exactly the same (WiFi on, GPS enabled, same applications, etc.)
So, I'm starting to suspect something may be up with T-Mobile's 3G/3G+ service in some areas that's preventing phones from idling properly.
Anyone else want to give it a try?
Interesting, I'll switch over to 2G only and see how that affects my phone.
I've gone as far as wiping everything and that didn't help so if it really is a t-mobile issue then that would shed some light on the situation.
I see the same trend when switching to 2G only. Very steep power usage with 3G then a dramatic decrease in the discharge slope in 2G.
T-Mobile has an issue. The trick will be getting someone there to listen.
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Here is my screenshot. You can clearly see when I turned on 3G. Dramatic difference. Looking on the T-Mobile forum there are many people seeing the same issue but there's mostly finger pointing and speculation as to the cause.
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Anyone notice a change in their battery life in the past few days? My girlfriend and I both are going through our batteries in just over half a day with no use. It's like the phone isn't sleeping. Looking at battery use Display is using all of the battery. I'm running CM7.0.3 and she's on stock. Looking at mine right now the phone has been on battery for 1 hour 34 minutes, and Display is taking 57% of the battery and I'm down to 84% battery.
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I also got the same rapid battery drain since last Wednesday. At that time, I thought there may be a hardware/battery issue for my nexus one. To test this, I switched my rom from CM7 back to GB stock. After a few updates for the GB stock and used it for a day, same battery drain happened. So, I changed to use another backup battery yesterday. It did not help also. I thought it may be a real hardware issue.
Then, I found this thread and research a bit in the web. I found out it could be either caused by tmobile or google map updates. I first uninstall google map and reinstall the new version right from the market again. I also switch off 3G as well. No rapid battery drain for the entire day. The battery runs normally. When I came back home today, I turned on 3G, let it for a couple of hours, checked a couple of emails and received a 20min phone call. Everything seems to work fine. No noticeable rapid battery drain was observed. My conclusion so far is: this is caused by google map 5.8 update.
Try to uninstall it and reinstall the google map from the market to see if it helps.
Good luck.
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I also got the same rapid battery drain since last Wednesday. At that time, I thought there may be a hardware/battery issue for my nexus one. To test this, I switched my rom from CM7 back to GB stock. After a few updates for the GB stock and used it for a day, same battery drain happened. So, I changed to use another backup battery yesterday. It did not help also. I thought it may be a real hardware issue.
Then, I found this thread and research a bit in the web. I found out it could be either caused by tmobile or google map updates. I first uninstall google map and reinstall the new version right from the market again. I also switch off 3G as well. No rapid battery drain for the entire day. The battery runs normally. When I came back home today, I turned on 3G, let it for a couple of hours, checked a couple of emails and received a 20min phone call. Everything seems to work fine. No noticeable rapid battery drain was observed. My conclusion so far is: this is caused by google map 5.8 update.
Try to uninstall it and reinstall the google map from the market to see if it helps.
Good luck.
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Well, I'm willing to give it a try, but I'm skeptical. If it were the Maps 5.8 application that was preventing the phone from idling correctly, or transmitting tons of data, wouldn't we expect it to happen regardless of whether the phone was using the 2G or 3G radio connection? Sure, there might be a slight difference in the drain rate, but we'd still expect to see it in both cases. And yet the accelerated drain is alleviated completely by using only 2G. I have the Maps 5.8 application and can fix the problem by using 2G only. That indicates to me it's not an issue with the application.
I'll try uninstalling Maps tomorrow (I'm using CyanogenMod, so it's possible to remove it completely). Then I'll put the phone back on 3G and report back on what happens.
I've been experiencing similar battery issues the past week or so too. It looks like turning on 2G only seems to fix it, but what I don't get is why I'm still getting horrible battery life?
I have tasker auto turn off my 3G all together whenever my screen is turned off, and yet I leave my phone on my desk untouched all day and I end up at 40% when I get off work.
Wouldn't turning off 3G via Tasker be the same (or close to it) as turning on 2G only in the settings?
Hope t-mobile gets this worked out pretty soon!!
Glad I saw this thread. My wife and I both have N1s and have each been noticing unusually fast battery drain just in the last 3-4 days.
Last night I charged both phones to the same percentage, turned off 3G on hers and let them both sleep for a while. The phones are configured pretty similarly (stock, latest Maps installed, similar push settings etc). After about an hour and a half, my phone had lost 11% of its charge and hers had only lost 2%. That's enough of a delta for me to point to the 3G usage as the culprit. I guess I will be leaving my phone on 2G when I'm not using it if I am going to be away from a charger for a while.
It's NOT the Google Maps update.
Well, I did my experiment yesterday to rule out the Google Maps 5.8 update as the cause of this issue.
I'm running CyanogenMod so it's possible for me to uninstall Google Maps completely, not just the updates. I did so on Saturday night. Still set to 2G only, I removed my phone from the charger Sunday morning. A few hours later I enabled 3G. Later that afternoon I turned 3G off again.
I think the screenshot speaks for itself. Again, this is without Google Maps installed at all.
I asked around this weekend, and my friend's wife (also here in Portland, OR) is experiencing the same issue on her G1 on T-Mobile. Reading online I've heard about the problem affecting the MyTouch 3G, the G2, and many here with the Nexus One. The common elements seem to be: T-Mobile 3G service, particular models of phones, and some particular geographic areas.
Bottom line (IMHO): T-Mobile has a problem with the configuration of their 3G service in some areas, and it's preventing many phones from being able to idle/sleep properly, resulting in huge battery drain.
Here's mine, I posted this several days ago in the TMONEWS thread.
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Here's mine, I posted this several days ago in the TMONEWS thread.
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That's interesting. Even locking the phone to 2G/EDGE didn't have an impact? (not a Nexus One there it appears, what model?)
How did you go about disabling the 3G connection? I'm not sure if there are multiple ways to do it, but I used:
Settings -> Wireless Networks -> Mobile Networks -> Use only 2G networks
Really strange that even pulling the SIM didn't seem to make a difference. Or maybe that's not the same as turning off the cell radio entirely? Perhaps the issue is lower-level, like the radio constantly polling the tower or something even in the absence of being able to successfully register on the network for active use.
Does enabling airplane mode fix the drain issue for you?
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That's interesting. Even locking the phone to 2G/EDGE didn't have an impact? (not a Nexus One there it appears, what model?)
How did you go about disabling the 3G connection? I'm not sure if there are multiple ways to do it, but I used:
Settings -> Wireless Networks -> Mobile Networks -> Use only 2G networks
Really strange that even pulling the SIM didn't seem to make a difference. Or maybe that's not the same as turning off the cell radio entirely? Perhaps the issue is lower-level, like the radio constantly polling the tower or something even in the absence of being able to successfully register on the network for active use.
Does enabling airplane mode fix the drain issue for you?
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This is a G2.
2G has been much better than 3g, but still probably only 3/4 of my former battery life, optimistically. I checked "Use 2g networks only", same as everyone else. The graph above is a little misleading, since I really saw better battery life, that initial flat and quick drop actually averages out to "decent", rather than "horrific.
At the "Pulled SIM and SD card" mark I re-enabled 3g, so the drain afterwards is still 3g related.
Pulling the SIM doesn't disconnect it from the radio tower, you can still make emergency calls/etc. so it has to maintain a connection I suppose.
Twice I hard-reset the phone, pulled out SD and SIM, and still had huge huge battery drain. Powertutor said IDLE draw was 1437mw on average, no SIM, no WIFI, just sitting there on my desk.
In Airplane mode it'll last for days...
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I've been experiencing similar battery issues the past week or so too. It looks like turning on 2G only seems to fix it, but what I don't get is why I'm still getting horrible battery life?
I have tasker auto turn off my 3G all together whenever my screen is turned off, and yet I leave my phone on my desk untouched all day and I end up at 40% when I get off work.
Wouldn't turning off 3G via Tasker be the same (or close to it) as turning on 2G only in the settings?
Hope t-mobile gets this worked out pretty soon!!
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I'm not familiar with Tasker. However, maybe it's just disabling cellular data use, not actually disabling the 3G radio? From what we've seen it appears the problem is very low-level, perhaps something to do with basic communication/negotiation between the cell radio in the phone and the towers, as there's no indication of particular application activity or significant data transmission that the Android OS is aware of.
In the T-Mobile support thread there are reports that T-Mobile is now acknowledging there's an issue with changes to their HSPA+ network in some areas.
I've had 3G off all day and my battery life is back to normal. I'm at 87% after at least 6 hours on battery. Yesterday I was down to less than 50% by this time. Luckily, I am able to be on Wifi at work so I don't have to deal with EDGE speeds, which make the Baby Jesus cry.
deliamber, you probably noticed this already but I'm also in the Portland market. It's gotta be a network issue.
I'm having the same issue on my N1 (I'm around the Portland area myself)
I did everything as well, 2g is the only thing that saves me..
Can't wait for a fix!

[Q] 4.3 and battery drain

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone is experiencing significantly worse battery life since the update. Today I kept my phone in battery saver mode all day, barely used it, stayed mostly in my apartment, and it's down to 15% after 12 hours. I'm pretty disappointed, as I had read that battery life was supposed to actually be marginally improved with 4.3.
Looking at my battery usage, the Android System percentage seems way up from what it used to be, though I might be making this up. Also, some of the apps I used a bit (Facebook, Instagram, whatever) aren't showing up in the usage stats.
I recall that my battery life wasn't so great for the first couple days after I initially got the phone, so I've been hoping that it just needs to re-adjust to my usage, but that hasn't happened yet. Otherwise, any ideas what I might try to fix this?
I've attached some screenshots of my usage. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
Its not just you, I also noticed worse battery life on 4.3.
Your not alone, use a program to monitor battery use ie gsam monitor.I noticed Google services is waking my phone like 220 times in 12 hours. My battery use is up and I'm getting like 9 hours less time because of it.
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Me too! I thought battery life was supposed to be better with this. My phone is getting super hot now and dying fast,
I had similar issues, especially where I work. That place is on a fringe location where it switches 4g and 3g depending on how deep in the store you are. Where I work, I would always have 3g and the phone would get super hot and I'd burn through 50, 60 or more percent battery in 5 hours or so. It was rediculous. This afternoon, I said screw it and did a factory reset (I'm bone stock btw). Tonight, I worked a 7 hour shift and had 4g most of the time (never happened before) and the phone stayed cool to the touch. I lost about 20% battery. Just something you guys might wanna try. I know its a pain in the butt to do, but, at least for me, it seems to have been worth it.
Im running on stock rom, and my battery is much better than before. Maybe it has something to do with the rom?
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Im running on stock rom, and my battery is much better than before. Maybe it has something to do with the rom?
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I'm stock as well. I can try a factory reset, but I'd like to try anything else possible first.
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I'm stock as well. I can try a factory reset, but I'd like to try anything else possible first.
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Do you have an app that would probably keep waking up the phone?
Has anyone tried flashing the older radio over the new firmware? I think the signal is weaker with the new radio. Maybe it's switching back and forth between 2g/3g/4g causing high system usage stats. Can anyone try and report back?
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Has anyone tried flashing the older radio over the new firmware? I think the signal is weaker with the new radio. Maybe it's switching back and forth between 2g/3g/4g causing high system usage stats. Can anyone try and report back?
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I was at home on WiFi for almost the whole day, so I doubt that's the problem, though it's not impossible. I just installed WakeLock Detector a few minutes ago although it's only been running for a sec, so far looks like the Sprint Visual Voicemail app is using CPU wakelock a LOT. Could this be the culprit?
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Has anyone tried flashing the older radio over the new firmware? I think the signal is weaker with the new radio. Maybe it's switching back and forth between 2g/3g/4g causing high system usage stats. Can anyone try and report back?
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I'd buy that, though idk that it explains everything. I generally got good battery life, but I'm lucky enough to get fairly solid 4g at school and home. Work is the only place where it was iffy, and that is also where I had the worst battery life. The signal is not (in my experience) weaker. The bars just reflect data, not voice now, making it seem weaker. The only other weird thing is that the stability of my wifi connections is better than it was before the reset, and that I get 4g at all at work when previously I had to be at the end of the parking lot to get it.
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I was at home on WiFi for almost the whole day, so I doubt that's the problem, though it's not impossible. I just installed WakeLock Detector a few minutes ago although it's only been running for a sec, so far looks like the Sprint Visual Voicemail app is using CPU wakelock a LOT. Could this be the culprit?
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Maybe. Ive also heard that theres a bug in chrome that also wakes your phone. Keep the app running to find out anyways. Ive disabled my visual voicemail since I don't use it myself.
Ever since update my battery is draining crazy. I just woke up and looked at my phone that was plugged in all night. And it's only 44 % charged. WTF!!
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I was at home on WiFi for almost the whole day, so I doubt that's the problem, though it's not impossible. I just installed WakeLock Detector a few minutes ago although it's only been running for a sec, so far looks like the Sprint Visual Voicemail app is using CPU wakelock a LOT. Could this be the culprit?
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I take VVM off my phone, so its not that, at least in my case. I ran system panel yesterday and the top battery consumer is a process called binder_2. Its always that.
To me, turning off 4g made an absurd difference in battery life. There's a bug with 4g for sure. It never reconnects back to 4g for me once it switches to 3g and the drain is just horrible. I literally get 5 times better battery life out of the phone on CDMA only and truly, LTE is not 5 times better. I prefer consistency and better battery life over speed. So I just turned it off.
I read that up there claiming a factory reset eliminated the battery drain. I'll look into it. I just don't want to do a factory reset cause it's too much work.
Mine better! Signal bars lower both wifi & gsm, but... The true result better, I don't know why? Even no wifi signal bars, Internet still works,
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To me, turning off 4g made an absurd difference in battery life. There's a bug with 4g for sure. It never reconnects back to 4g for me once it switches to 3g and the drain is just horrible. I literally get 5 times better battery life out of the phone on CDMA only and truly, LTE is not 5 times better. I prefer consistency and better battery life over speed. So I just turned it off.
I read that up there claiming a factory reset eliminated the battery drain. I'll look into it. I just don't want to do a factory reset cause it's too much work.
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That's very similar to what I had going on. I also had some issues where the phone would tell me x amount of internal storagespace remaining after installing certain apps and the reset (seems to have) fixed that too. If you use an app like Helium backup (no root needed) the reset might be a lot less painful, and I'm almost sure it will help you.
Yeah, I don't think it was actually VVM. I tried to let the WakeLock Detector app run for a while, but it kept causing my phone to restart randomly and I'd lose all the data it had collected, so I just uninstalled it. Looking like a hard reset's in my future. Balls.
No issues with that
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Back on ecliptic 4.2.2, superb battery life is back. I'll get back on the 4.3 bandwagon again when we start getting custom kernels to fix what HTC broke.

[Q] Verizon Moto X with AT&T sim battery drain?

So I've finally switched from VZW to AT&T on my XT1060. Data and everything works great, but I've noticed a considerable hit to battery life after popping in the new AT&T sim. Where I used to get a whole day's worth of battery (anywhere from 18-20 hours with about 3 hours SOT), I now maybe get 10-12 hours tops with barely 1.5 hours SOT. I wish I had screenshots to share, but I currently don't have any. I haven't noticed any wakelocks or abnormal app behavior, so I can't pinpoint the culprit. My only guess is an issue with the sim itself or something else. Does anyone have ideas or experienced anything similar?
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So I've finally switched from VZW to AT&T on my XT1060. Data and everything works great, but I've noticed a considerable hit to battery life after popping in the new AT&T sim. Where I used to get a whole day's worth of battery (anywhere from 18-20 hours with about 3 hours SOT), I now maybe get 10-12 hours tops with barely 1.5 hours SOT. I wish I had screenshots to share, but I currently don't have any. I haven't noticed any wakelocks or abnormal app behavior, so I can't pinpoint the culprit. My only guess is an issue with the sim itself or something else. Does anyone have ideas or experienced anything similar?
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Funny you mention this as I was about to make a similar post!
Same situation basically, took a VZW Moto x and as of a few days ago ported to Consumer Cellular (AT&T). Battery life has been terrible, though while nothing has changed program or application wise, my guess was more battery being used for the radio connection?
I need to review some battery stats and post some images, but today I had the phone on for 8 hours with about 1hr talk and 1 hour screen time and it's at 10%. this didn't happen last week!!
Need Gsam screen shots to help. Otherwise it's all guesses. ?
Get those and we can see. Fromm 100 to near dead is best before taking them.
Well I got the new Moto X for my birthday surprisingly, so this isn't an issue for me anymore. But, if you guys do find anything I am interested in knowing.
What is your signal like on AT&T if it's bad it can drain your battery much faster than when used on Verizon (if you signal is strong with them).
Got up this AM and left my phone on overnight to see the impact with no usage...
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Not sure I get the Textra and calendar situation?
This is using Consumer Cellular on my VZW XT1060, perhaps I don;t have the correct GSM bands for my local towers?
Right now I'm getting a good HSPA+ signal(-89bdm) but I noticed the phone had switched network type from LTE/GSM/UMTS to Global the other day, perhaps that's a factor?!
Chip
Or perhaps more appropriate are today's results...
The radio interface kernel wakelock is the one hurting I think.... And that's usually due to a poor signal while on data. The 3 hours your were NOT on wifi, was your signal very low? If you can next charge, can you post your stock battery screen graph? If there's a lot if yellow or red in your bar for signal... While not on wifi.... That is likely your issue.
Nothing else in your screens looks out of place.
Darth,
I believe you are correct in that the signal it's finding (that the VZW DE supports) is a strain, I'm seeing a fair amount of yellow. I'll post an image.
I had hoped to be able to get some decent life out the VZE version of my X to warrant not having to buy a GSM version, looks like that might not happen!

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