OK, so here is the deal.
been having this same problem on a couple different ROM's, the latest one was the 4.2.2 GSM build "ported" over to my Verizon Nexus. i have ZERO issues other than this one.
yesterday, i tried using GPS to navigate, i wasn't getting the flashing symbol in the status bar (just the GPS symbol with nothing in the middle flashing) so i figured GPS was borked on this build....no big deal. i turn off GPS and go on my way.
later in the day, i check my battery stats, and see that Maps has been using most of my battery (about 40%) and after opening it up, it has had GPS ON, for 5 or so hours....even though it has been off the entire time.
so i Froze the "Maps" app with titanium thinking that might fix it.
charge it over night, with a reboot in the middle of the night.
wake up, go to work, place on charger again, pull it off once it reaches 100%
after 1 hour i see this.
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dont worry about percentages, that is with streaming pandora the entire time, as well as 15+ minutes screen on time in weak 3g/4G signal.
remember, MAPS has been Frozen for the entire day!
so I click on MAPS and see this
again GPS was "ON" the entire time according to my phone. but its not on, and i haven't used anything that would use GPS (no maps because its frozen, no google, no FB/G+ ect.
so....am I alone here? Anyone else having this issue?
the only way i know how to fix it is to factory reset and re-flash the ROM. but i am afraid it will come back as soon as i use GPS again (rare)
This is why I un installed maps. Happened to me yesterday on an unmodified stock rooted rom. Kept my gps on for 6 hours when I never even opened maps app to start with.
Just moved over to a GNexus from my Inc2, installed AOKP 4.2.1 build 3 and my GPS is on all day. Goes off and comes back 5 seconds later. Its driving me nuts.
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This is why I un installed maps. Happened to me yesterday on an unmodified stock rooted rom. Kept my gps on for 6 hours when I never even opened maps app to start with.
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Is your gps turned off in settings? I usually don't have an issue until i have GPS on and the phone tries to find a lock. Doesn't matter if it's maps or Facebook or Google plus.
they all eat the battery and show GPS as being on for X amount of time
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Just moved over to a GNexus from my Inc2, installed AOKP 4.2.1 build 3 and my GPS is on all day. Goes off and comes back 5 seconds later. Its driving me nuts.
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I think these are separate issues as i am never showing a gps icon unless i am trying to acquire a GPS location.
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Yea, I figured they were but this was the only thread I saw close to the problem I was having so I figured I would see if anyone else out there was experiencing this as well. I can't for the life of my figure out what the hell is going on.
** Update **
Shazam was causing the GPS issue. When I added the widget it turned on GPS for location song tagging! Never had that issue before. Disabled the feature and all is good in the hood. That was fun.
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I have been having poor battery life since I got this device on launch day. I just noticed today that my Wifi is constantly scanning even though it is connected. I usually keep Wifi on most of the time since I have really slow 3g at home and the building I work in is like a concrete bunker built in the 1970s so nobody gets very good service in there.
Anybody else notice this?
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Yeah mine does this too but my battery life is still good.
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this is also happening to me, and it is KILLING MY BATTERY!!!! really frustrating.
What do i look for to notice if its scanning constantly? is it the popup that comes up? with the networks that are in range?
i installed a free app called "watchdog lite", and it notifies me everytime my cpu usage goes over 50%, and at this time, i open watchdog, and it tells me "android system" is using 90%+ of the cpu... <<-- this happened EVERY 5 MINUTES when wifi is on. with wifi off, this only happened once in a while, maybe once every couple hours...
screenshow below: the critical battery drop happened when i turned on wifi, and CPU usage was going over 50% every other minute, and i restarted phone...
btw, this wifi issue does NOT happen when the phone is connected to a charger
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What do i look for to notice if its scanning constantly? is it the popup that comes up? with the networks that are in range?
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I've noticed this as well and I believe its also negatively impacting battery life. Its interesting that it would continue to scan while its connected.
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I posted on this earlier this morning. My wifi also turns off after about 4 to 5 minutes. I can toggle it off then back on ever time but this can't be normal.
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I posted on this earlier this morning. My wifi also turns off after about 4 to 5 minutes. I can toggle it off then back on ever time but this can't be normal.
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Mine as well. Exchanged one for that reason and this one does it too.
The Evo3D Killer!!!
I'm hoping we get a fix for this soon.
Same here..
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I see it now....damn never looked there actually. So is basically a bug.
Fixed yet?
I think multiple people (myself included) have confirmed that this was normal behavior - it scans constantly, yet there's no battery drain associated with it.
It seems that whenever you are on that Wifi settings page, it keep scanning constantly. But when you leave the page, it stops doing it that often (or at least doesn't drain the batter.)
You can check that by turning off wifi and still noticing big drain - which would indicate that wifi isn't the issue.
Now, there may also be a bug where this constant scanning actually continues. But like I said, it doesn't do it for everyone.
Use y5 battery saver from the market. It turns on and off with known networks and helps alot.
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My wife's is doing this and it is definitely affecting battery. Viewing the battery graph, it does a decline of about 30 degrees with only 3G on and with wifi on it does a treacherous drop of about 50 degrees. I've actually told her to just leave 3G on all the time because it is easier on the battery. Hoping for a fix soon.
Mine scans a lot but doesn't hurt the battery. With moderate use im at 50% with 12 hours on.
Anyone else getting Wifi connecting and disconnecting about 5 to 10 minutes.
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Anyone else getting Wifi connecting and disconnecting about 5 to 10 minutes.
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Check your wifi sleep policy.
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If you want to try something, change WiFi Sleep Policy to *never*.
It seems counterintuitive, but the bug where Android system uses a lot of CPU uses much more power than setting WiFi Sleep Policy to never as the WiFi is using very little power when not transmitting data while Android system is just sucking up your battery with this bug.
Hello, i'm using betterbatterystats to check my battery life.
Everything is OK but i have a strange behaviour.
The App says that my bluetooth is always ON
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but my Bluetooth is always OFF :
and i double checked in Parameters, and even restarted my phone, still same problem ....
Then today i checked my batterys stats and i get this :
My log is 19h10m5s long, and i have 2% of Bluetooth time.
But when i look at bluetooth time it says also 19h10m5s
so it should be 100 %, shouldn't it ?
Anybody also experiencing these strange Bluetooth stats ?
My Bluetooth is ON or OFF ?
Thanks.
battery stats doesn't really work, looking about the forums you see if you put wifi on all the time it says you have No or unknown signal for the same time as wifi was on.
you can look at your own screen shot for this one
seems it doesn't report as it should on the HOX
Hi, it is quite sure that betterbatterystats doesn't work but it's the system logs which is in fault not the app itself.
Even the stock app shows strange values on Bluetooth and wifi as you mentioned ...
In the case of the One X it is very useful to read those stats, but if they are totally wrong, how can we do a correct analysis of battery drain ...
By chance it is rarely bluetooth or wifi that drains the battery.
apagado es mejor!!!
19+ hours on battery with 65% left, and you call that a drain?
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Hi, it is quite sure that betterbatterystats doesn't work but it's the system logs which is in fault not the app itself.
Even the stock app shows strange values on Bluettoth and wifi as you mentioned ...
In the case of the One X it is very useful to read those stats, but if they are totally wrong, how can we do a correct analysis of battery drain ...
By chance it is rarely bluetooth or wifi that drains the battery.
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Hello, i have no drain, and never said that.
I just noticed those strange bluetooth stats when checking battery usage ...
Can you disable widget locker and associated power widgets in you home screens and figure out?
I would imagine some kind of interaction comes into the equation with these 3rd party programs.
Bonne chance.
Hello, thanks, it is a good idea ...
I removed the power widget on the home page and disabled widget locker.
I restarted my phone. Weirdly i had to insist to restart the phone.
When pushing power button, after 3 seconds, the lower buttons were blinking
but it didn't start, and then keeping power button 3 ou 5 seconds longer the phone restarted .
That is not the first time i noticed that the phone doesn't start or stop normally ...
At restart, i didn't see 100 % "bluetooth on" in betterbatterystats.
It looks like problem is solved ...
I will let the phone like that for a moment and put again the power widget on home page to see if i get the error back.
And then activate back widget locker.
Merci.
I activated the bluetooth for some minutes and turned it off.
Now i see on betterbatterystats that it is still ON in stats.
I refresh and the time "bluetooth on" is increasing.
I will wait a moment to see if bluetooth appears on "stock" battery stats.
It looks like a android system issue with bluetooth stats
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battery stats doesn't really work, looking about the forums you see if you put wifi on all the time it says you have No or unknown signal for the same time as wifi was on.
you can look at your own screen shot for this one
seems it doesn't report as it should on the HOX
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If you feel you have found a bug in BBS I would be glad to help you clarifying what is wrong (or fix what has to be fixed). But please take the discussion to the right thread.
My phone's battery is draining really fast with minimal usage. Take a look at these battery usage screenshots:
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As you can see, the battery is pretty close to dying out after 11 hours with just 30 minutes of screen time. This definitely isn't right so I decided to look around. I haven't installed any suspicious apps and Android's battery usage stats are pretty unhelpful, but Better Battery Stats reveals the culprit: a gps-lock kernel wakelock.
While this wakelock is active, I've noticed that GPS apps don't work. None of the GPS apps show any GPS icon in the status bar and I don't seem to get any lock. The apps just fall back to the network location.
Turning the GPS or location services altogether off and on doesn't seem to help. Keeping the GPS off completely doesn't help either. A reboot does remove this wakelock... for a short while. Then it just pops up back again after a short while and doesn't clear unless I reboot.
I'm not sure where else I can look for the source and I could use some help.
I'm running stock 4.1.2 on a GSM Nexus.
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My phone's battery is draining really fast with minimal usage. Take a look at these battery usage screenshots:
As you can see, the battery is pretty close to dying out after 11 hours with just 30 minutes of screen time. This definitely isn't right so I decided to look around. I haven't installed any suspicious apps and Android's battery usage stats are pretty unhelpful, but Better Battery Stats reveals the culprit: a gps-lock kernel wakelock.
While this wakelock is active, I've noticed that GPS apps don't work. None of the GPS apps show any GPS icon in the status bar and I don't seem to get any lock. The apps just fall back to the network location.
Turning the GPS or location services altogether off and on doesn't seem to help. Keeping the GPS off completely doesn't help either. A reboot does remove this wakelock... for a short while. Then it just pops up back again after a short while and doesn't clear unless I reboot.
I'm not sure where else I can look for the source and I could use some help.
I'm running stock 4.1.2 on a GSM Nexus.
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Google Maps/Google Now any app that use gps is active and searching for your location.
Go the app info clear cache/data and force stop them.
Google Map is pretty the biggest drain.
post your partial wakelock as well that can help us determine what app are awake =)
Simply go to maps setting and remove check-in and other useless option
This gps-lock is caused from google now and maps that continue research for your position, but it's strange and abnormal, i've googlenow actived with all option, and i do 4 hours screen on with always 3g up
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Google Maps/Google Now any app that use gps is active and searching for your location.
Go the app info clear cache/data and force stop them.
Google Map is pretty the biggest drain.
post your partial wakelock as well that can help us determine what app are awake =)
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I didn't take a screenshot of the partial wakelocks since there was nothing suspicious going on in there, but I can get one tomorrow if my battery drains again.
The biggest partial wakelocks usually come from AudioOut (if I listen to music), exchange sync, google backup, g+ sync and the like. Pretty much the same as on my Nexus 7, which doesn't have this crippling kernel wakelock.
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Simply go to maps setting and remove check-in and other useless option
This gps-lock is caused from google now and maps that continue research for your position, but it's strange and abnormal, i've googlenow actived with all option, and i do 4 hours screen on with always 3g up
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Thanks. Suprisingly, I had location reporting turned on in Maps, though I don't remember ever turning it on.
Hope it helps, since before this started happening, I could get around 2 days of standby time with around 4 hours of screen time on a single charge.
Other than that, I don't think Google Now and the GPS lock that Maps tries to take every now and then are the culprits. I remember Maps trying to get random GPS fixes on my old Gingerbread phone with no significant effect on battery.
Had the same problem - thanks!!
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you - I had pretty much the same problem, and I think following this advice will take care of it for me. It was obvious from the screen captures that "something" was wrong, and searching through the log files for what had the largest percentage solved it for me (I think).
Solution
Simply install TopNTP from google play
and then install his gps options (choose what you prefer)
Problem for me gone after this, and also gps working faster
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I'm running a Note 4 rooted stock with Emotion Kernel and have been getting at least 12-15hrs battery time for as long as I can remember.
Suddenly my battery is draining crazy fast, a full charge doesn't even last 8hrs with very minimal use.
I checked in Settings>Battery and see that Voicemail and Android OS are consuming 4-5 times everything else...voicemail??? I barely get any voicemails ever!
Below is a screenshot...if anyone has a fix for this please let me know...thanks.
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Let use Titanium Backup to freeze Voicemail for more free RAM and save your battery.
I think you should also consider freezing apps you rarely need.
Im having this problem today and last night as well. My phone is not going to sleep at all, and its due to voicemail. It is eating my phone alive.
Reboots, system cache clear, nothing is helping. I'm having to use greenify to put it to sleep but im unrooted and the phone is continually turning the screen on just to kill the process.
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Let use Titanium Backup to freeze Voicemail for more free RAM and save your battery.
I think you should also consider freezing apps you rarely need.
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yeah I been using titanium b/u for years...froze the voicemail app...trying to figure out why it suddenly started draining though...I've had the same setting running for weeks with no issues then 2 days ago this started
Its gotta be something from Sprint. Maybe its constantly pinging the voicemail for some reason? Is that a thing?
Edit: This is apparently pretty widespread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/3p4tbb/voicemail_battery_drain/
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651
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Its gotta be something from Sprint. Maybe its constantly pinging the voicemail for some reason? Is that a thing?
Edit: This is apparently pretty widespread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/3p4tbb/voicemail_battery_drain/
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651
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I read alot about the 5.1.1 killing people's batteries but I haven't had any issues until 2 days ago.
I installed Battery Doctor from the Play Store, charges the phone and can already see a huge difference...after unplugging from the charger it stayed at 100% for a good half hour-45 minutes...plus it shut killed a few apps that were sucking the juice out like crazy.
Crazy I have the M8 and can confirm the same issue. Every since the weekend my phone will not sleep and battery wears down very fast. What I did to bypass for now was reverting the vm app back a few versions. I got lucky and had a backup in titanium backup from June. Anyways, I uninstalled vm and installed backup and my phone is now back to normal.
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As a temporary solution I went into the app settings for voicemail, deleted all the data (not sure if necessary and WILL delete your saved voicemails), uninstalled the updates, turned off notifications, and then restarted my phone. You will NOT be able to use the visual voicemail after doing this because as soon as you try to open the app it will prompt you to reinstall the mandatory updates. I don't really take many phone calls anyway so I don't care. I'll leave it like this until Sprint fixes the issue. I'd rather have my batter life back.
Supposedly Sprint fixed the issue through a network config last night. I was having the same issues up until last night. I uninstalled the voicemail updates (although the version is still 6.0.1.22) and rebooted the phone. Today the issue is gone for me.
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651?start=0&tstart=0
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Supposedly Sprint fixed the issue through a network config last night. I was having the same issues up until last night. I uninstalled the voicemail updates (although the version is still 6.0.1.22) and rebooted the phone. Today the issue is gone for me.
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651?start=0&tstart=0
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I never experienced any of these problems with vvm, not any excessive battery drain. But glad to see it was fixed for others.
Dear Friends,
Short Read: Disable Asus Cover Application and Reboot.
Full Story:
I recently bought an Asus Zenfone2 as I needed a Dual SIM Dual Active phone. Last week I observed that battery was draining quite fast and phone was feeling warm too, which is definite hint to an issue. As I dug into Battery usage, I found that the phone was always Awake - obviously leading to fast battery drain.
I searched the net for a possible fix but could not find a concrete one. One thread suggested disabling selected Apps only in Auto Start Manager - but the screen to identify "Running Processes" is not there in Marshmallow.
So I started on my own and the plan was to disable everything possible and see if that fixes the issues. So I uninstalled many downloaded apps, disabled all preloaded apps (including Weather which provides clock on lock screen), disabled location, location scanning, blocked most notifications, and so forth. After I rebooted, to my joy, the device was cool and was not Awake all the time.
After that I slowly start enabling apps in batches, leaving the phone for some time and monitoring the Awake status. Over a period of 2 days I enabled back all the apps, kept location on (but location scanning off), enabled lock screen notifications. But the phone was still going to sleep and not Awake all the time. I was surprised as I wanted to identify the rogue app and here I was back will all apps and phone performing good with battery. On the third day, while I was playing around with settings trying to enable few more things, and it started again! I could feel the phone warmer in my pocket within minutes and the Battery Status showed that the phone was being Awake continuously. The only thing I had done was to enable "Show Status Bar" in lock screen, enable bluelight filter, and also started Themes and Asus Cover apps and closed. I reverted all the settings changed but phone was still all Awake. Then I stopped the Asus Cover App, disabled it, and rebooted. Now things were fine again!!
It seems that once your *start* Asus Cover app, it does some initial set up that starts keeping the phone Awake, even if you leave the check box to enable cover unchecked. May be it starts checking for magnetic proximity to make the phone sleep, and since I don't have Asus cover it was not going to sleep. So there seems to be some bug in this app.
So friends, this is my finding after two hard days of investigation. Please try if you are also suffering standby battery drain, with phone Awake all the time, and you don't have Asus Cover.
After the fix, here's how the battery drain looks like after 100% charging and then 1 hour of standby - only 1% battery drained!
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Thank you so much. I have searched and seen a lots of tries. Only your resolution gave a fix it seems.