What killed my battery? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

What the heck killed my battery? This is with the extended battery and I started from a full charge after flashing a new rom and clearing battery stats..
I turned off all connections, and turned off sync.. Sat the phone down and went to bed after about an hour of web surfing.. I went to bed with 70% left and woke up 6 hours later with 37%...
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Its all in the last screenshot. Keep awake time is huge. That's the bug if I had to guess.

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Its all in the last screenshot. Keep awake time is huge. That's the bug if I had to guess.
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That keep awake time is normal, nothing strange there...
Your story of browseing for an hour then going to sleep for 6 hours doesnt match your batteries' graph.
According to your story, there should have been a sharp decline from browsing web since the screen would be sucking the power, then a very slight decline from being idle, something was either running in the background (facebook maybe, it has a high % of usage) who knows?

Yeah idk.. If you look at when wifi was on that was when I was browsing.. Then after that there is a steep decline which doesn't make sense to me.. I don't think it was Facebook or anything because all data/sync was off...
I know it takes a day or two for a new rom to settle in but I certainly wouldn't think it would have that large of an impact
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I read somewhere that there is/was a bug where after a reboot Google talk or maybe google+ launches the camera in the background which keeps running until you manually open the camera app and close it. I believe I read it some where on Franco's kernel post. Not sure if the bug is still there and if it's the culprit here, but might be worth investigating.

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Finding apps keeping GN awake?

With ICS what is everyone using to figure out what apps aren't letting the phone sleep properly?
Spare Parts isn't working.
I've tried uninstalling about everything and I can't get this phone to sleep.
This is exactly the post I wanted to make today, glad I searched this one out.
I have few apps installed, and battery is going well for me. I'm a moderate user. I get about 20hours out of a charge.
I notice that even in airplane mode, my phone wakes up 3 or 4 or 5 times during the night for 5 or 10 minutes at a time it seems. What could this be? It's not data as I'm off wifi and in airplane mode. Any ideas?
Thanks all.
I've also been experiencing fairly high CPU awake times and was curious as to how I could track it down. Haven't found anything much yet in the way of apps, but I've turned off a lot of unnecessary Google syncing and an hourly sync of my Exchange account and it seems things are better now. I'm still getting awake times 1h30 greater than screen on time though.
I am seeing high "Keep Awake" times on Android OS Spare Parts force closes when I try to check Partial Wake usage so not 100% sure what this could be.
Wondering if this is the cause of some lower-end battery life we're seeing. My only thought would be LightFlow that is causing this (maybe to wake up for notifications). I thought I read it somewhere, but not sure if it was debunk'd or not.
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Weird battery activity

So I charge my phone all night, take it off the charger to go to work at 6am by 3pm my battery is at about 8 percent. Here is where it gets funny, if I turn the phone off then back on I have about 59%. How does that happen
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Sorcery. That's how.
I'm guessing the reason your battery gets drained so quickly is because of the poor network coverage.
Could you also provide a screenshot of the apps/programs/hardware that have drained your battery? By that I mean the screen you see after hitting battery under settings.
The fact that it goes up so much after a reboot is very weird indeed. It usually happens the other way around with mine, the battery level drops about 15% for me after a reboot, which I also find weird.
I have had the same expierence with my phone as well. Dont understand it either.
I suggest you use a battery calibration app or s-off/root and install Clockwork Mod recovery to clear your battery stats and run a few cycles. Your phone doesn't know where full is and can't detect it as well as we'd like.
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I think you need a battery calibration. Before i calibrated mine would drop 10-15% sometimes but now it is good. I would also add expect a small margin of error if you were using your phone heavily and it is warm/hot and you reboot. Some people report, myself included, that you might see a slight spike after your phone cools down.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.

[Q] My awake time seems awful high, where do I go from here?

I picked up betterbatterstats as my battery life has been crappy over the past few days, I have found the following to be true: I am barely using the phone as I'm at work all day and the battery is draining much faster than before. My screen time is 20 minutes total for the following stats.
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I'm not sure if I'm not using BetterBattery correctly but I can't find an option to tell me what offending processes are keeping the phone awake for so long. How do I figure out what is causing this?
Thanks for any help.
Check partial wakelocks in better battery stats.
Turn off your GPS. That is what worked for me. I have 9h 6m 20s on battery and Android OS only has 51m of awake time.
check your apps, if you're not using them, close them. ask yourself, what apps do i have installed that require wakelock permissions. those are the ones who will drive android os through the roof. latitude. maps. email. feeds. even games can trigger sensors and not let go of them properly, leaving your cpu always working. check cpuspy from market.
turn off autosync. you're working right? no point getting distracted over some lame ass post on fb or some worthless spam in your mailbox.
Ok, so now this is weird. I don't have any apps keeping the phone awake for very long, but the wake counts are retarded, take a look at the attachment. The time is very low, but the count is over 2k. The phone is at about a 75% wake time. This really doesn't make any sense.

Desire Standby Time Results

Hey all,
I just thought I would post this as I thought it was quite incredible.
I don't know what HTC's stats are on 'standby time' (which is usually how long a phone will last with no radio gear active) but look at how long my Desire lasted when I took the sim card out
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That's 302 hours
Just Sayin'...
Another thing that I noted was the vast amount of 'awake' time vs 'screen on' time, sometimes lasting hours.
What does android have to do so desperately whilst the screen, radio, wifi, in fact everything is turned off??
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What does android have to do so desperately whilst the screen, radio, wifi, in fact everything is turned off??
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Its not Andeoid really. My best bet would be that Go Weather app.
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I'm not entirely convinced that it is, I could uninstall GoWeather or do a /userdata wipe and retry to see if it'll last any longer?
Even if you put it on airplane mode, the apps you have would still try to wake up every now and then to try and refresh themselves. If you have a resource hungry app then it will wake your device to do the task it needs to perform. It may or may not be go weather app but there is something installed on ur phone that is keeping it awake even on standby. That's what I think anyway.
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Ha ha ha ha...looks about the same as my desire. I got one hour battery life on idle once with 3G off, wifi off and most of my user apps killed.
My phones been charging for the last four hours and it hasn't moved from 75%. It dies in ten minutes If I use the data connection when it's discharging.

Another battery drain with screen shots

Ready to go back to @??/€..... hate that but im sick of this battery drain randomly
Ive found a few things to be consistent maybe others can chime in.
With google services. Its not always bad. Recently had everything on and no issues. Including gps, Google now, location services etc.
I have found out to last more than a work day. Come home with 45-50%
But today..... Phone just restarted randomly, not the first time either. Usually there is an update for something and the phone restarts to update an app or whatever.
Today, just restart. Then 40 min to 1 hour later. Phone is getting HOT, I look and I had gone from 70% batt to 56 in minutes. Then to 40 then 15 and all the way to 2%
I wanted it to shut down on its own and restart it with a charge but, I had to drive home and car isnt 100% reliable and I didnt have a car charger. So I plugged it into pc to get a few % up.
Google plus went rogue I guess. As you'll see below. But why? And why doesn't @??/€ have this problem?
I just want the phone to last a full day. I dont even use it at work hardly at all with the exception of a bit of tapatalk and facebook......
Screen shots below for help.
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Not to state the obvious, but have you considered freezing or uninstalling Google Plus?
Also, check out the link in my signature about keeping Google Services in check.
I forgot to mention that I'm on 4.2 .2 . In addition I didn't do anything to the song, I did not force stop loss, nothing. And everything is back to normal today
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