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I bought my galaxy S two months ago. Its a great phone but the biggest problem for me is battery. When i go to sleep (7-8 hours) and my phone is idle, my battery drains like 10-20 % every night, even when i switched off fb updates, no wifi, no gps, dont have a live wallpaper, and my brightness level is the lowest. I dont knwo what rooting is or rom is. i m a fresh noob, and i need some advice to get increase my battery life. Please help me!!! what should i do?
please help anyone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884816
Put it on charge when you go to sleep like the rest of us
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Put it on charge when you go to sleep like the rest of us
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but doesnt overcharging the battery damage the battery even more?
How I solved my battery drain problem!
Have you tried turning off 3G?
I also had this issue battery drain was huge. It started appearing suddenly one day. Its a very slow process to figure out the culprit. I did a step by step analysis.
1. Found out that battery drain was happening only when 3G was on. Verified this by switching off data network (long press power button to deactivate).
2. Also verified abnormal data usage in my carrier page when I was not using my phone [like - 3G was on and I was watching a movie at a theater].
3. I also saw abnormal battery drain soon after I started Google Maps after a fresh reboot.
4. So I identified the culprit - Google Maps - but was not sure how to solve battery drain [Google Maps restarts, if you kill it].
5. I installed a variety of apps to identify the battery hog. Finally I went for Task Identifier.
6. Task Identifier finally showed me what programs started while my screen was off, etc. And I started noting them. Finally I figured out that Google Maps::BackgroundFriendService was running frequently.
7. A quick search on Google helped me understand that this is about Google Latitude. It searches for your friend's location every now and then - leading to battery drain!!!
8. I opened up Latitude and signed out from it [I guess the sign out option is in Menu -> Privacy].
9. Do not re-open Google Latitude after this - you will get signed in again leading to battery drain.
10. After 2-3 months of search and prodding, I finally figured out the cause of battery drain and fixed it - now I get 2 - 3 days of charge in my battery under normal usage!!
I'm happy now!!
Hi,
If you're using Froyo and can access file in your phone,
In task manager , on the tab "Summary", click on the "start monitoring" button. Let it monitor the phone over the night. The next morning, there should be 2 files created in your sdcard, one is CPUxxxxx and the other one is battxxxxxx.
The Batxxx tells you when the percentage of the battery at certain time of time. the CPUxxxx will tell you wht applications are running during that period.
When i used it first time, i notice that facebook and lattitude always running - when I stop these 2 tasks; i get a normal drain again.
while you guys are at it.
here's my "problem".
when I surf for an hour over 2g I losing about 10% batterylife and android reports that my display uses around 90% to 95% of the battery.
display is set to lowest brightness + screen filter.
is that normal? (im guessing it is not).
used dozens of different roms (stock, darky, jims, etc...), same behaviour everywhere.
i already did all the battery stat wiping and whatnot.
is it a faulty battery or display or something?
for the OP, maybe a combination of the above with this could help :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10092321&postcount=11053
helped me .
edit : to pfannenwender, maybe your unit is faulty?
poundesville said:
Hi,
If you're using Froyo and can access file in your phone,
In task manager , on the tab "Summary", click on the "start monitoring" button. Let it monitor the phone over the night. The next morning, there should be 2 files created in your sdcard, one is CPUxxxxx and the other one is battxxxxxx.
The Batxxx tells you when the percentage of the battery at certain time of time. the CPUxxxx will tell you wht applications are running during that period.
When i used it first time, i notice that facebook and lattitude always running - when I stop these 2 tasks; i get a normal drain again.
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I have froyo but i dont have any start monitoring button
I also have froyo 2.2.1 and don't have start monitoring function
pfannenwender said:
while you guys are at it.
here's my "problem".
when I surf for an hour over 2g I losing about 10% batterylife and android reports that my display uses around 90% to 95% of the battery.
display is set to lowest brightness + screen filter.
is that normal? (im guessing it is not).
used dozens of different roms (stock, darky, jims, etc...), same behaviour everywhere.
i already did all the battery stat wiping and whatnot.
is it a faulty battery or display or something?
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Sounds normal to me. 10% loss while surfing and 95% display is nothing extraordinary.
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i have the same problem too after upgrading to Froyo 2.2.....what i do was turning the data connection off yand you will get 2 days with moderate usage....but oneday i had overcharged my phone (about 8 hours i think) and after that my phone can stay about a day and half with moderate use......btw i already did the 8 hours charge during my first charge long time ago.!...hope this helping
I hope some one could help me ...
My galaxy I9305 have for 2 or 3 weeks now... leaked battery very fast
When i pull out the phone from charger at 06.00 AM (its at 100%)
when its 08.30 AM its about 80%
In that period is both wifi and data disabled..also gps and bluetooth
But the strange thing is .. from 08.30 AM to 03.00 PM
it only use about 20%
In that period i use my phone in my lunchbreak ,surfing facebook, mails etc..
and all the time is data activated..
So now i wonder.. is there a way i can get a normaly battery leak from in 8 hours ( about 25%)
Is the battery stats ****ed up.. or what could it be..
Im using a sentinel 6.0 Kit-Kat rom
I really hope that someone could help me...
BTW... all my apps is the same ... over 3 the last 3 weeks..
showbizz said:
I hope some one could help me ...
My galaxy I9305 have for 2 or 3 weeks now... leaked battery very fast
When i pull out the phone from charger at 06.00 AM (its at 100%)
when its 08.30 AM its about 80%
In that period is both wifi and data disabled..also gps and bluetooth
But the strange thing is .. from 08.30 AM to 03.00 PM
it only use about 20%
In that period i use my phone in my lunchbreak ,surfing facebook, mails etc..
and all the time is data activated..
So now i wonder.. is there a way i can get a normaly battery leak from in 8 hours ( about 25%)
Is the battery stats ****ed up.. or what could it be..
Im using a sentinel 6.0 Kit-Kat rom
I really hope that someone could help me...
BTW... all my apps is the same ... over 3 the last 3 weeks..
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The first period i though is strange, case with everything disabled and if you are not using the phone, it should has decreased at max 4% in 2 hours (wich already is too much for me). I can't compare with mine cause i'm on stock unbloated and agni kernel.
The second period must be normal, if you said you were surfing through facebook, mails.. I assume you used your phone at least 3 hours with screen on. Screen kills most of the battery and thats normal. And you said you was on mobile data.. mobile data consumes more battery than wifi, so use wifi when available.
The best for you to help us help u would be take some screenshots of the battery usage at some times, because we don't have sure how many time the screen was on from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Make another test taking some screenshots of battery usage in details so someone here can help you bro
ok many thx.. i will take some screenshot...
I suggest a read of this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551846
I know it's lengthy and most might not apply but it is what improved my battery consumption.
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you're going through the battery at an abnormal rate especially if your wifi and mobile data are off... What type of battery do you have is it stock or something else?
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50441083#post50441083
Battery issue continued
i have now uninstalled a few program.. that was using much battery..
The one > mcafee Mobile security.... using very much ..
now its uninstalled... restarted mobile... installed again...
Now i got much more battery time...
So i think that program was ****ed up somehow...
but i will test for a few days, just to be sure...
THX
Hello guys , any one noticed that battery is got drained very quickly.
I charge my phone to full chatge before I sleep & I close all running apks , then the next day morning the battery life is 70% though the phone is in slerp mode,even couldn't find any use of ultra power save mode ,actually, it didn't do anything WOW..
im on original firmware & screen contrast is to 40% ...
zeyad abed said:
Hello guys , any one noticed that battery is got drained very quickly.
I charge my phone to full chatge before I sleep & I close all running apks , then the next day morning the battery life is 70% though the phone is in slerp mode,even couldn't find any use of ultra power save mode ,actually, it didn't do anything WOW..
im on original firmware & screen contrast is to 40% ...
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I Never Faced That ... Try Turning on ROG Technology and Switching Off Wi-Fi ... That Should Help
Before I sleep I close all running apk & I off data ,I never used wifi.. , will try to turn on ROG. & update tomorrow..
Ive tested it ,but, apparently it seems to be the same.. not a big difference... plssss help me...
Folks, pls help me out in this .. the battery life is terrible , today morning my phone was in 100% charge level , then, today afternoon the battery is 43% though the phone was in standby & I've never used it at all,
My old htc desire s used to stay in standby mode more than 3 days... !!!!
Folks, pls help me out in this .. the battery life is terrible , today morning my phone was in 100% charge level , then, today afternoon the battery is 43% though the phone was in standby & I've never used it at all, all wifi& data connection were off & no programs run in the background.
My old htc desire s used to stay in standby mode more than 3 days... !!!!
Is your phone rooted?
Please make a screenshot of the battery options.
Like I have do it.
I forgot one thing.
Charge your phone to 100% before you go to sleep. Then you take off the power cable and then don't touch the phone until you awake in the morning.
Then you make this screenshot.
Ok will do this...
zeyad abed said:
Folks, pls help me out in this .. the battery life is terrible , today morning my phone was in 100% charge level , then, today afternoon the battery is 43% though the phone was in standby & I've never used it at all, all wifi& data connection were off & no programs run in the background.
My old htc desire s used to stay in standby mode more than 3 days... !!!!
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That is too much drain...
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First off, I'd suggest you upgrade your firmware quick as possible. Go to b125/b132 or b512
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Well im experiencing this issue since the very first day I bought this phone... & im not rooted & on last firmware update.. will post screen shots tomorrow
Strange. I have the battery lasts well two days
Here is my personal experience so far (I have my P7 last week, and I did not use an Android for more than one year), overall I'm somewhat disappointed by Android in the power management area, things do not seem to improve for 2 years
I disabled Google Now and deactivated location history, that seems to improve the battery life. I noted that Google Play Services consumed more than 20% yesterday. With Google now, the battery did not last more than 14h.
Without Google Now, I notice today that Cell Standby consumed about 15% for today. After 15h, there is some 20% left with moderate use. In a normal day, this means that I will have trouble to go through.
I try to do some tweaks to improve the battery life, but really have no clue what to test exactly ( disable 4g seems to have minor effect ).
Hello folks here are the scrren shots to my phone , it's really disappoints me a lot ...
Guys these are the pictures ..
zeyad abed said:
Guys these are the pictures ..
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Poor Signal........first finding from your pics.
Espicially on 3G networks, poor signal will drain your battery as hell
So ,what do I have to do.. im really suffering .. can't rely on my phone to go outside..for long time...
Buddies , pls help me .. im tired of this phone,though, it's wonderful but im fedup with battery..
zeyad abed said:
Buddies , pls help me .. im tired of this phone,though, it's wonderful but im fedup with battery..
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Your screenshot are ok.
The signal can be problem, for your battery drain.
But I miss the big thing. I can't see how the battery drains over the night. Because all your screnshots don't show the battery drain over night.
Please follow this way:
Charge the phone until is 100%.
Take off the power charger from the phone.
Don't (never) touch the phone in the night and go to sleep.
Then you awake in the morning, make this screenshots.
Other way you can test too ( for the second night).
Update the firmware to the newest firmware.
Reset your phone (to the factory defaults).
Don't configure accounts, don't install apps etc.
Take off the power charger from the phone.
Don't (never) touch the phone in the night and go to sleep.
Then you awake in the morning, make this screenshots.
hi !
At first i tried to get some GOOD answer from the official forum ,but... pfff.... lol : they said factory reset my phone ,delete batterystats.bin ,etc.
These are voodoos only and do not wok ! (OS always creates a new stats file after every charge)
Well ,here comes the problem(s) and the facts about my phone:
Warranty : yes
Model : c5303
Rooted : yes
Bootloader : unlock NOT allowed (LBL,never touched)
OS : Stock based. (no matter what ,i have the same issues)
Service center : NOT FAULTY
The problems :
1. A real example :today i had 61% charge. Powered off my phone for approx. 5 mins. After this turned ON ,and i had 81%. What the hell ??? It is a real charge level ,drains lineary it holds out till the end !
2. In official 4.3 and custom ROMs based on that ,STAMINA absolutely doesnt work. I have exactly the same standby time with or without it. Forget the force stop eco ,etc mode controller ,clear data,etc. It doesnt work !
Logcat LOG : http://pastebin.com/NSV7j68T
Created with my phone from a terminal window. If you need something else ,please let me know.
A real fact too : with stamina off ,the OS calculates the remaining uptime to ~4 days. I turn on STAMINA ,it displays ~15 days ,but after a few hours it lowers to the STAMINA OFF value. Why ????
3. Phone configured to totally OFFLINE mode in 2G. Just like an old Nokia 3210. EVERYTHING is off ! Everything. Even NFC too.
Freeze with Titanium Backup ? It doesnt help.
I have the same issues with every stock based ROMs ! (Dont forget ,i have LBL !)
Guys ! What can i do ? This is not a normal situation !
akimester said:
hi !
At first i tried to get some GOOD answer from the official forum ,but... pfff.... lol : they said factory reset my phone ,delete batterystats.bin ,etc.
These are voodoos only and do not wok ! (OS always creates a new stats file after every charge)
Well ,here comes the problem(s) and the facts about my phone:
Warranty : yes
Model : c5303
Rooted : yes
Bootloader : unlock NOT allowed (LBL,never touched)
OS : Stock based. (no matter what ,i have the same issues)
Service center : NOT FAULTY
The problems :
1. A real example :today i had 61% charge. Powered off my phone for approx. 5 mins. After this turned ON ,and i had 81%. What the hell ??? It is a real charge level ,drains lineary it holds out till the end !
2. In official 4.3 and custom ROMs based on that ,STAMINA absolutely doesnt work. I have exactly the same standby time with or without it. Forget the force stop eco ,etc mode controller ,clear data,etc. It doesnt work !
Logcat LOG : http://pastebin.com/NSV7j68T
Created with my phone from a terminal window. If you need something else ,please let me know.
A real fact too : with stamina off ,the OS calculates the remaining uptime to ~4 days. I turn on STAMINA ,it displays ~15 days ,but after a few hours it lowers to the STAMINA OFF value. Why ????
3. Phone configured to totally OFFLINE mode in 2G. Just like an old Nokia 3210. EVERYTHING is off ! Everything. Even NFC too.
Freeze with Titanium Backup ? It doesnt help.
I have the same issues with every stock based ROMs ! (Dont forget ,i have LBL !)
Guys ! What can i do ? This is not a normal situation !
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I'm not really sure how your phone behaves in term of battery drain.
First are you using Greenify? If not, make sure you do!
Do you have any background process that drains your battery like "Media Server", if yes you can make a shell script which you can execute from the terminal or use init.d script with init.d app. (Both are quite easy, if you need help I can give you some guidance).
Download CPU Spy and check if your phones goes into "Deep Sleep" when you're not using it.
Use Wakelock Detector to see which programs "wakes" your device, how often and for how long.
Share what your battery life is on average and in stand by mode.
Most of the time the phone calculates the remaining time on the average reading for the past few hours or smth like that.
In my case (just giving you an example), I use stock .205 ROM, rooted, stock kernel, Locked Boot Loader.
With Greenify, Media Server script that I exec from the terminal and Stamina mode, I drop like 1% of battery every 6-8 hours when I'm not using my phone (3G, GPS, Wi-Fi on all the time. NFC & bluetooth - off). I mostly charge my phone before I go to bed, and when I wake up it's still at 100%.
because of my poor english knowledge ,its pretty hard to draw up the things.
well ,greenify. i use it ,but i cant greenify system apps/services ,only "playstore" things. (all my apps are stock apps ,bloatwares are freezed with TB)
wakelock detector. nothing(!) keeps my phone awake ! nothing !
according to the OS' battery stats ,i have no awakes ,the display has the highest consumption ,everything else has lower percentage.
cpu spy:its interesting.. once im in deepsleep ,other times NO ! and yes ,i refreshed the stats. but when in deepsleep ,i have the same amount of drain when not in deepsleep !
btw i know what stamina is and how it works.
ok ,please tell me how can i use/create that greenify/media server script thingy.
akimester said:
because of my poor english knowledge ,its pretty hard to draw up the things.
well ,greenify. i use it ,but i cant greenify system apps/services ,only "playstore" things. (all my apps are stock apps ,bloatwares are freezed with TB)
wakelock detector. nothing(!) keeps my phone awake ! nothing !
according to the OS' battery stats ,i have no awakes ,the display has the highest consumption ,everything else has lower percentage.
cpu spy:its interesting.. once im in deepsleep ,other times NO ! and yes ,i refreshed the stats. but when in deepsleep ,i have the same amount of drain when not in deepsleep !
btw i know what stamina is and how it works.
ok ,please tell me how can i use/create that greenify/media server script thingy.
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Well if you have some battery juice leak, than maybe it's hardware problem as it seems, cause from what I can tell your software behaves perfectly fine.
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For script you just create file called let's say "mediaserver.sh" or whatever you wanna call it as long as it has ".sh" at the end.
You edit it with text editor and paste:
#!/system/bin/sh
killall -9 android.process.media
killall -9 mediaserver
in it.
Place it anywhere in your phone. Let's say SD card.
You go to terminal and type:
su
exec /mnt/sdcard/mediaserver.sh
exit
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But in your case you don't have Media Server or any other app eating your battery juice, so if you have poor battery life it's the battery itself.
Best thing you could do it, stress test the battery.
Charge your battery to 100%. Unplug the charger.
Go to dialer and type #*#*4636#*#* → battery information → battery voltage should be around 4150~4200 at full charge. Everything above 4100 is healthy battery.
Go and set your screen brightness at 70-80% and play a game. Your battery will should last at less 3h.
Then charge the battery to 100% again. Check the voltage. Put your phone in stamina mode and see how much your phone will last if you're using it only as a phone, without playing games, internet, etc. See if you can get more than 2 days.
If results are good then I would not worry about anything if I were you.
thank you ,i will try it !
have a nice day !
Hey guys , i am using this phone for the last one week and so far i am not impressed with its battery life.its almost similar to my xperia z1.
I lost over 24% battery in the past 2 hours just listening to music and surfing a bit.
Please have a look at my gsam screenshot and tell me if something is wrong.
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thank you.
Friend, take sshot from you apps usage and screen. Add sshot from stock battery manager too.
Thanks for your interest in my post.
I have attached the necessary screenshots.
I was having 3-3.5 hours of sot with my 2 years old xperia z1 and almost same with my note5 .
Not happy at all.
Today i left my phone at 41% went to lunch and returned after 90 mins and found battery left is 30% doing absolutely nothing.
Just taking the sshots and posting it here used 4% battery!!!!
Is something wrong?
11pm to 7pm off charge....looks fine to me!
I come off charge at 6am and it generally lasts to 8/9pm without a mid day charge.
Your screen is a big hog. Is brightness set too high constantly?
I don't play games but you clearly do - clash of clans....again another drain.
Big screen = big battery usage!
I've resorted to plugging mine in while I'm sat at my desk for a few mins here and there.
MM is poor though. The deep sleep / doze seems to work randomly.
bonerp said:
11pm to 7pm off charge....looks fine to me!
I come off charge at 6am and it generally lasts to 8/9pm without a mid day charge.
Your screen is a big hog. Is brightness set too high constantly?
I don't play games but you clearly do - clash of clans....again another drain.
Big screen = big battery usage!
I've resorted to plugging mine in while I'm sat at my desk for a few mins here and there.
MM is poor though. The deep sleep / doze seems to work randomly.
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Yeah i get your point
Brightness is about40% and i do play coc frequently
But my concern is suddenbattery drain. 11 % drain during lunch doing nothing and now 3% drain just opening xda and replying to your comment
Is that normal?
Also screen awake is almost 2 hours doesnt seem like doze is working
Check any apps you've recently installed....or start in safe mode and see if the problem continues.
Clear cache....
I've set up a greenify process - when I tap the home key on the home screen it puts it into deep sleep. I don't think MM doze works very reliably. Also my screen is at about 20%. Can easily whack it up when you go outside temporarily.
bonerp said:
Check any apps you've recently installed....or start in safe mode and see if the problem continues.
Clear cache....
I've set up a greenify process - when I tap the home key on the home screen it puts it into deep sleep. I don't think MM doze works very reliably. Also my screen is at about 20%. Can easily whack it up when you go outside temporarily.
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I have used 2 full days with just whatsapp and stock apps installed still the problem persists.
Please look at the sshot ,2 hr 14 min sot is absolutely ridiculous
Try the following:
- Uninstall Facebook
- Amplify
- Greenify
Has helped my Note-5 battery life greatly.
elmor0 said:
Try the following:
- Uninstall Facebook
- Amplify
- Greenify
Has helped my Note-5 battery life greatly.
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what is amplify?
ViperCDX said:
what is amplify?
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An App to control how often your wakelock & alarms fire off - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryansteckler.nlpunbounce
Also, worthwhile alternative = Servicely (need to be rooted) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.servicely
Try de-bloat script too by Battlehero.
Its funny how you and i used to own a z1 lol what a coincident. Anyways i think i commented about your battery life before. Regarding to the amplify im mot sure if op has root. I suggest you not to root if you want to exchange it saying its a defective battery.if not then go for it root it and see if it will change your battery stats. Pretty normal things to do is factory reset , boot in safe mode, maybe reflash firmware through odin and check any mysterious apps draining battery. Also maybe try greenify non root way for afressive doze. It shortens the time needed before going into doze mode. Im currently testing it right now.
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