Hi folks,
I have an at&t galaxy s3 that I bought sometime in late January, immediately flashed with Task's AOKP rom, and enjoyed some great battery life with. I was going 15 hours of moderate use (occassional texting, IM, email, browsing, auto-sync on, no wifi, only LTE) with 38% of battery life still remaining. I only have a screenshot from that long ago because I used it to boast to my non-android friends (haha/boohoo).
After a few updates to the ROM, I started noticing my battery life getting significantly worse. It got to a point where within 7 or 8 hours it would run down to under 15% of battery life remaining, with very similar usage patterns and apps. I have very good reception where I work, good wifi (experimented with this as well). I tried doing a full wipe and reinstalling the rom, tried the liquid smooth rom as well (last few screens), but nothing seems to be fixing it.
I installed better battery stats as well and I'm not sure how to be reading the info from the tool. I'd appreciate it if anyone could look at the screens I already have, and recommend any additional info that could help me figure this one out. Thanks!
I know only wakelock detector. its easy to understand. but someone will chime in. but if your usage hasnt changed then something must be causing that drain.
when you did the wipe did you restore data? did you do clean flashes? my only suggestion is try wakelock detector. charge your phone. let it sit for a few hours or with light use.
your screen shot shows that your phone was awake a lot when screen wasnt on. what app causes this im not sure. but find it and get rid of it if you dont need it
sevengroove said:
Hi folks,
I have an at&t galaxy s3 that I bought sometime in late January, immediately flashed with Task's AOKP rom, and enjoyed some great battery life with. I was going 15 hours of moderate use (occassional texting, IM, email, browsing, auto-sync on, no wifi, only LTE) with 38% of battery life still remaining. I only have a screenshot from that long ago because I used it to boast to my non-android friends (haha/boohoo).
After a few updates to the ROM, I started noticing my battery life getting significantly worse. It got to a point where within 7 or 8 hours it would run down to under 15% of battery life remaining, with very similar usage patterns and apps. I have very good reception where I work, good wifi (experimented with this as well). I tried doing a full wipe and reinstalling the rom, tried the liquid smooth rom as well (last few screens), but nothing seems to be fixing it.
I installed better battery stats as well and I'm not sure how to be reading the info from the tool. I'd appreciate it if anyone could look at the screens I already have, and recommend any additional info that could help me figure this one out. Thanks!
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Try and see if AT&T will give you another battery. They are usually good about doing this. Give 611 a call and see what you can achieve. If you go into a corporate store I would recommend going to stock first. Of course making a nandroid is optimal. If this does not correct your issue at least their records will so such so you can work on getting a warranty repair.
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when you did the wipe did you restore data? did you do clean flashes?
your screen shot shows that your phone was awake a lot when screen wasnt on.
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i'd like to add by asking when you say full wipe, what did that include for you?
You said after a few updates. Try reflashing a backup to when you had the best battery life. Most likely it's because of additional features. Your battery stats doesn't show any wakelock issue.
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I know only wakelock detector. its easy to understand. but someone will chime in. but if your usage hasnt changed then something must be causing that drain.
when you did the wipe did you restore data? did you do clean flashes? my only suggestion is try wakelock detector. charge your phone. let it sit for a few hours or with light use.
your screen shot shows that your phone was awake a lot when screen wasnt on. what app causes this im not sure. but find it and get rid of it if you dont need it
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I'll definitely install wakelock detector and give it a go - now that I think about it, I sometimes notice that my phone will be warm when I pull it out of my pocket.
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i'd like to add by asking when you say full wipe, what did that include for you?
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When I say full wipe, I wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, format /system. I let google restore all my apps on startup though.
S384, does that constitute a clean flash for you?
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Try and see if AT&T will give you another battery. They are usually good about doing this. Give 611 a call and see what you can achieve. If you go into a corporate store I would recommend going to stock first. Of course making a nandroid is optimal. If this does not correct your issue at least their records will so such so you can work on getting a warranty repair.
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This was going to be my last alternative - flash back to stock, and if the problem persists, get a new battery. I've only had the phone for about 2 months, so it is indeed unlucky if my battery itself is defective.
Domoo said:
You said after a few updates. Try reflashing a backup to when you had the best battery life. Most likely it's because of additional features. Your battery stats doesn't show any wakelock issue.
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But surely Task isn't including features on his rom that drains battery faster .. ? This is worth a shot though, a better alternative than going to stock for sure.
Wakelock detector screenshot attached - not sure if this is enough of a span to make any inferences, but I'll keep monitoring it.
yes, a full wipe constitutes wiping data, cache, dalvik and formatting system.
i would wipe data and both caches and flash back to stock. then do a full wipe and flash your rom of choice and wipe data and cache again. i'd almost bet this clears your issue up. as someone already said, grab the release that was working well for you if you want to stick with tasks 4.2.2.
i'm on aokp's 4.1.2 release from october and i get about a day or 2 of use. depending on my usage
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this is a recovery-flashable stock firmware zip with root injected from upndwn4par: http://d-h.st/8OQ
in case you're interested in my suggestion
xBeerdroiDx said:
yes, a full wipe constitutes wiping data, cache, dalvik and formatting system.
i would wipe data and both caches and flash back to stock. then do a full wipe and flash your rom of choice and wipe data and cache again. i'd almost bet this clears your issue up. as someone already said, grab the release that was working well for you if you want to stick with tasks 4.2.2.
i'm on aokp's 4.1.2 release from october and i get about a day or 2 of use. depending on my usage
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[/COLOR]this is a recovery-flashable stock firmware zip with root injected from upndwn4par: http://d-h.st/8OQ
in case you're interested in my suggestion
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This may be a basic question, but are you recommending this because you think there is a rogue app somewhere that needs to get wiped, or because somewhere along the way something may have fundamentally gone wrong with ROM installations, switching around etc?
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This may be a basic question, but are you recommending this because you think there is a rogue app somewhere that needs to get wiped, or because somewhere along the way something may have fundamentally gone wrong with ROM installations, switching around etc?
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my suggestion is based on several things:
1. you used release updates. perhaps even OTA.
2. you flashed another aosp-based rom and werent coming from stock
these types of things will bog your system down. dont get me started on a custom roms updates. dirty flashing repeatedly will cause things that used to work to become buggy.
always try to flash an aosp-based rom over stock. just works best.
Yup, I've definitely had that bogginess before on my old SII when I didn't do clean wipes, but the problem always went away when I did a clean wipe and reinstall, even though it wasn't from stock to aokp.
I'll wait and see if we can catch something through the wakelock detector - if that comes up empty, seems like this is the way to go.
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Yup, I've definitely had that bogginess before on my old SII when I didn't do clean wipes, but the problem always went away when I did a clean wipe and reinstall, even though it wasn't from stock to aokp.
I'll wait and see if we can catch something through the wakelock detector - if that comes up empty, seems like this is the way to go.
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keep me posted. if you reset, do full wipes before and after flashing the stock firmware zip (its for at&t btw. i'm assuming you are too?)
xBeerdroiDx said:
keep me posted. if you reset, do full wipes before and after flashing the stock firmware zip (its for at&t btw. i'm assuming you are too?)
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Yup, I'm on at&t.
Another Wakelock update from this morning, + BBS info - still on LiquidSmooth. Thoughts?
More stats ... looks like the battery did a little better than usual today, but still not even close to what it used to be.
Does anyone see anything out of the ordinary? I'm just trying to figure this out to make sure it's not user- or app-induced, so that I don't repeat the problem again.
does seem like a lot of wakelocks. I really dont know how to fix that but I have much less. like maybe max of a minute used by top app. and maybe 3 or 4 apps with wakelocks. but it might depend on your usage.
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does seem like a lot of wakelocks. I really dont know how to fix that but I have much less. like maybe max of a minute used by top app. and maybe 3 or 4 apps with wakelocks. but it might depend on your usage.
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Over a span of 7 - 8 hours? Hmm wow - yea, I wish I had these numbers from when my battery was running well because honestly these apps are the same ones that I used at that point. Google music for commute, email, kik/whatsapp for im'ing, (maps is a little odd, don't remember using that today) ...
Any inferences from the BetterBatteryStats?
just another suggestion. try clearing data from email services and anything else that you use often. I believe excess data in apps can cause the wakelocks. I know it might suck but every now and then I just go through my phone and delete stuff. or download something like clean master and it will delete temp files and what not from your storage.
in your situation I would probably do these things. try again. or else do a factory reset and system wipe and reinstall a rom and not restore data to your phone but rather redownload your apps. I used to do this all the time due to just not knowing otherwise and it worked.
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or sorry go into application manager works too. find apps you use a lot and clear the data and cache. some apps this is not recommended because you dont want to lose data but it does help. for example my maps currently has 13mb in cache. I clear that and it seems to make no difference in what the maps app will do for me. theres also lots of threads on xda about wakelocks.
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just another suggestion. try clearing data from email services and anything else that you use often. I believe excess data in apps can cause the wakelocks. I know it might suck but every now and then I just go through my phone and delete stuff. or download something like clean master and it will delete temp files and what not from your storage.
in your situation I would probably do these things. try again. or else do a factory reset and system wipe and reinstall a rom and not restore data to your phone but rather redownload your apps. I used to do this all the time due to just not knowing otherwise and it worked.
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or sorry go into application manager works too. find apps you use a lot and clear the data and cache. some apps this is not recommended because you dont want to lose data but it does help. for example my maps currently has 13mb in cache. I clear that and it seems to make no difference in what the maps app will do for me. theres also lots of threads on xda about wakelocks.
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I typically redownload my apps instead of restoring the data - but clearing the cache etc sounds like a good idea anyway. I did it for the email and music app, let's see if things change.
sevengroove said:
More stats ... looks like the battery did a little better than usual today, but still not even close to what it used to be.
Does anyone see anything out of the ordinary? I'm just trying to figure this out to make sure it's not user- or app-induced, so that I don't repeat the problem again.
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Dude add up all the wake locks in that bottom picture and its like 30% of your battery. That's terrible. Thus is what it should look like. Add mine up and you are at only a couple %.
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half way through the day today, and a couple days ago, i noticed my phone slowing to VERY very much, huge lag and latency. i barley run any appas at work, ill check a couple of websites, facebook and txt messages. I checked spare parts > Battery History and Running is at 100%. when i check partial wake usage, no apps seem to be staying awake and draining my battery. any1 ever experience this? is there another way to see if there is an app/service bogging down my phone. sometimes i notice when im on 4G it also slows doen, but it has never drained my battery like this.
im considering wiping the cache and dalvik, would that help?
Yes wipe both and then go to "Other" and select 'Fix UID mismatch' while you're there.
Another app that can help narrow it down is "SystemPanel Lite", free on the market.
Or if you like, start using Juice Defender and maybe even buy the UltimateJuice for 3.99 if I remember correctly, It gives me a x1.87 boost, so It could work...GL
And I just found this useful bit of information on each method to save your battery or increase it in fact here it is the link http://home.comcast.net/~evobenchers/index.html viola enjoy
Thanks for the suggestions, ill see if it helps within the nest couple days
Good luck...nothing has worked for me. I have done all of the above and it still happens. 4g does seem to slow it up also. My phone runs around 100% but no apps are draining it. Very rarely will watchdog alert me on an app draining the usage. I do not want to do a hard reset but that is sprints only answwr.
Hey, are there any side effects to wiping the cache and dalvik without flashing a new rom? will i lose anything?
Edit1: also, i'm looking into WatchDog. which version are you using skillzo1?
SilverStone641 said:
Hey, are there any side effects to wiping the cache and dalvik without flashing a new rom? will i lose anything?
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None other than your first boot up will take a little longer as it rebuilds the Dalvik.
It probably could be considered a good maintenance step as is cleaning up "Other".
I'm getting quite annoyed with my S3 and its piss poor battery life - currently seeing as little as 5 hours. On average, 55% of my battery goes to "Android System". I've tried a variety of battery monitors, but none can dig deep enough to determine which of the processes under Android System are sucking up all my juice. I'm on stock (rooted) and have tried to uninstall as much as I can (including the notorious Google+). Any tips on an app that can determine exactly which process is draining? I've also disabled as many Samsung apps as I can. I *did* try CM10 for a bit, but too many small things were not working right, so I nandroid'ed back to stock again.
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I'm getting quite annoyed with my S3 and its piss poor battery life - currently seeing as little as 5 hours. On average, 55% of my battery goes to "Android System". I've tried a variety of battery monitors, but none can dig deep enough to determine which of the processes under Android System are sucking up all my juice. I'm on stock (rooted) and have tried to uninstall as much as I can (including the notorious Google+). Any tips on an app that can determine exactly which process is draining? I've also disabled as many Samsung apps as I can. I *did* try CM10 for a bit, but too many small things were not working right, so I nandroid'ed back to stock again.
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I had this problem numerous times before. If it is Android System that is taking up battery, then its most probably a bad kernel. Your nandroid backup probably was bad. (it sucks, i know). Redownload the stock rom, flash it in odin, before starting up reboot in recovery and factory reset, then start it up. Your problem should be resolved. dont restore any apps and start fresh. Like I said it sucks but what can you do?
Hey ScottC,
Definitely doesn't sound normal. At the end of the day, I'm sitting around 10% lost to android system, 15% tops (of course this can vary on what you use and how you use it, but if your battery dies in 5 hours, certainly something is wrong). It's possible that in the process of nandroiding back, something messed up. I'd recommend a complete wipe (factory reset, wipe dalvik, etc), then test it out for a day or two. If the issue persists, you will likely want to Odin back to stock. If it still persists (highly unlikely), I'd call in for an exchange. Best of luck to you, and please let us know the results!
Thanks for the tips - to clarify, it was doing this before I ever nandroided back - but I have a feeling wiping might be the best bet (or trying out a better JB leak).
I think you may be getting the gsiff_daemon bug. Next time you have the battery start draining like that, turn on show cpu usage under developer options in settings. If you see gsiff_daemon at the top, then that's what's causing the android system battery suck.
The fix is simple go to /system/bin with a root explorer, mount r/w and rename gsiff_daemon to .Bak or delete it. This won't hurt anything. Then reboot.
There is a thread about this in QA. If you check it out keep in mind it's full of wags and speculation.
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I have the same issue. My phone was 100 percent and I've been sitting here watching the Texans game and I'm getting the worst battery life today that I have in my week or so of owning this phone. My phone is bone stock.
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I have the same issue
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I think you may be getting the gsiff_daemon bug. Next time you have the battery start draining like that, turn on show cpu usage under developer options in settings. If you see gsiff_daemon at the top, then that's what's causing the android system battery suck.
The fix is simple go to /system/bin with a root explorer, mount r/w and rename gsiff_daemon to .Bak or delete it. This won't hurt anything. Then reboot.
There is a thread about this in QA. If you check it out keep in mind it's full of wags and speculation.
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Add another one to the list for this problem. I've had my phone since Sept. 27th (so 3 weeks?) and up until about 4 days ago it was great. Great battery life, even with all the bells and whistles turned on, and several apps that update constantly. For some reason a few days ago it started to battery drain HARD, downing to 25% of the battery life in less than 6 hours. That's with the phone sitting idle, not touching it, on wi-fi (not 4G) with excellent signal. Last night I plugged the phone in at 10% battery, did some chores, and returned some 3 hours later to find the battery at 5%. It drained while it was plugged in!
The battery drain issue seemed to start after the phone decided to have a certain level of diffuculty finding a 4G signal. I had to reboot the phone to get it to connect to the network. After that, the Android System will take anywhere from 55% to 76% of the battery drain.
I have shut off numerous programs, disabled the Samsung apps that were said to possibly be a problem, and looked for the gsiff_daemon in the CPU list (my top process is "com.android.systemui"). I searched com.android.systemui to see if I could find a fix, and all I'm really seeing is "flash a new ROM" or "Your kernal is bad, reset or reflash it." I'm running a 100% stock phone, and actually had no intention of rooting or flashing this phone yet, and I didn't want to have to factory default it. It's starting to look like that's my only option. Someone said that this bug seems to crop up out of pure chance and I think they may be right. My husband has the identical phone, bought, charged and activated the same day, and he doesn't have this problem. He's still getting the incredible battery life that I used to get.
So what's the skinny? Is my only option on this a factory reset? I've seen threads referrring to a thread dedicated to this topic, yet no links. If there's more info to be found, I'd love to read it.
This thread might as well be titled "all noobs thread". It is known widely that android system in jb leaks is a problem but of course u cant know that cuz reading and searching are two words that sound like chinese to you.
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This thread might as well be titled "all noobs thread". It is known widely that android system in jb leaks is a problem but of course u cant know that cuz reading and searching are two words that sound like chinese to you.
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Actually I have "searched" and "read". I wouldn't have posted had I been able to find an answer. Everything I've found has been for ROOTED/FLASHED ROMs, and I'm on stock. I don't want to root/flash this phone, I'd like to fix it without having to return it or factory default it if possible. I also mentioned that I had gone through threads and tried as many of the tips there that applied to my situation.
While I'm not nearly the level of many here, I'm also not a n00b. I've flashed, rooted and hacked many devices, I'm just trying to avoid that here. I didn't run across anything called "jb leaks" in my search, so if you'd care to be helpful and elaborate on that term, it might prove useful.
I believe this is the thread you were told about.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755180
When you checked cpu use, how did you check it? There's an option in Dev Options to Show CPU Usage and you can see real time what's running. Just fyi in case you did it differently.
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Thanks for the Link, Doc! It's much appreciated. As far as checking the CPU, I used the option under the Dev Options menu and watched it bounce about. Many different programs would take top spot, but when the phone was idling it was always com.android.systemui at the top. When it wasn't top, it was never far below.
Have you tried booting into recovery and wiping dalvik cache?
If it comes to it, before factory resetting since you want to avoid that, download the official stock FW and flash with Odin. I'm pretty sure it will keep your data and apps intact. Backup data first in case I'm remembering wrong. If that doesn't do it then factory reset may be your final option.
Check settings > Battery, and open Android System (I'm betting its at the top). This may give you a better idea of what the root cause could be, maybe...
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Actually I have "searched" and "read". I wouldn't have posted had I been able to find an answer. Everything I've found has been for ROOTED/FLASHED ROMs, and I'm on stock. I don't want to root/flash this phone, I'd like to fix it without having to return it or factory default it if possible. I also mentioned that I had gone through threads and tried as many of the tips there that applied to my situation.
While I'm not nearly the level of many here, I'm also not a n00b. I've flashed, rooted and hacked many devices, I'm just trying to avoid that here. I didn't run across anything called "jb leaks" in my search, so if you'd care to be helpful and elaborate on that term, it might prove useful.
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You are not the op of this thread so i cannot comment about your problems. The first posts regard rooted devices running jb leaked roms and in the jb leaked roms threads all people talk about is android system taking a high percentage of the battery usage. So one must be really blind not to notice what is the problem and fix if there is any. There is no fix and it is kernel issue. Thats the reason why it is called leak and not official release. U can post some screenshots of ur battery usage and firmware version you are running if u want people to help u since u claim u r all stock and still android system usage is high 76%.
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I tried booting into recovery, but since I'm not a rooted user I can't clear the delvick cache. Somehow in the process of attempting booting into recovery I managed to lose my set wallpaper and most of my homescreen widgets, though the rest of my data and programs seem perfectly intact (accidentally went into a safe mode option). I did clear the cache partition in recovery, and tried another trick someone listed of pulling the battery and holding down the power key (I'll try anything at this point) and oddly it seems to be behaving better so far. Sitting on my desk it didn't discharge at all, and having just put all my widgets back it's only drained a few points. The screen is now the big spender at 39% with Cell Standby next at 12% (previously is was Android System being the hog at 50-70%). I have no idea which of the things I did actually did anything, but I think this just saved my tail.
I'm going to charge the phone normally tonight and leave it loose all day tomorrow like I usually do, and see what happens. If it starts battery draining again, I'm going to try flashing with Odin. Here's hoping I'm one of the few lucky ones where the problem simply "goes away".
Thanks again for your help!
Well that's kinda weird...good, but weird!
I've heard of people going into safe mode but its never intentional and I've never found how to do so at will.
As long as it goes back to normal though! Hope it does! Good luck!
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I know that this sounds pretty simple and you may have already tried this, but it always works like a charm for me. Try draining the battery ALL the way down until it automatically shuts off. Then keep turning it on until it won't even turn on our vibrate anymore. Plug it in and turn it on. Leave it plugged in until it's at 100% again, I do this overnight so there's no usage other than standby. Hopefully this will get your battery back in shape. Good luck!
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Well that's kinda weird...good, but weird!
I've heard of people going into safe mode but its never intentional and I've never found how to do so at will.
As long as it goes back to normal though! Hope it does! Good luck!
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Sometimes I wonder how I got into Safe mode.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821557
Well, It behaved for about an hour, then it started the massive drain again. Sadly I just backed a few things up and then factory defaulted it. We're leaving on a trip tomorrow, and I need it to not be a power-sucking brick. Oddly, everything that my CPU report was showing was identical to my husban'd phone, which has no issues with battery life. The Gsiff daemon never once showed up.
As far as safe mode, I held down the volume down button while I powered up the phone. It went into safe mode. Don't know if it'll work for y'all, or if it was just a fluke on my part. :>
Thank everyone for your help in trying to troubleshoot this. One of these days I'd love to have an electronic device that just worked without me having to poke around in it's guts. ;>
If its still acting up after the factory reset, your best bet is to flash the stock FW with Odin. If the factory reset didn't wipe your internal sdcard, you may need to to wipe it in recovery by using format data as well. (Factory reset should do this anyway as long as you're on stock recovery)
I've seen on some jb leaks where this would significantly help. I know your not using jb but its worth mentioning anyway.
Good luck!
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I had been getting some higher battery drain with JB than I was with ICS, both were on rooted stock ATT roms. Early on I had posted that it was about the same as ICS, but after more and more use, I was starting to find that it really wasn't. I was consuming about 5-8% per hour idle and 10+ while actually using it. The idle bothered me the most because, obviously, using a phone will drain the battery
Two things have stood out as the high consumers: Media Scanner and poor signal.
To address the media scan drain, there have been suggestions to change CWM settings to backup as .tar rather than default .dup. This ONLY works if you re-do each nandroid that was a .dup as a .tar, delete the .dup backups, and clear the unused backup data through CWM. This removes the blobs folder files which will be in the thousands.
To address the poor signal drain, I flashed the UCLH9 modem (see modems thread in the development forum). Better Battery Stats is not showing any drain caused by poor signal, and this is also reflected by actual usage, the signal is simply... better.
Consumption is marginally higher than on ICS but not nearly as high as I was experiencing. If this has already been covered, my apologies for eating up server space...
Could you alternatively put a .nomedia file into the clockworkmod folder on the device? Would that prevent it from scanning that folder?
Well I'm bone stock and not rooted, I have no backups and the media is eating my battery like mad since the update. I've killed the process several times but it starts back up on its own. The only way I know to fix it will require root.
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There is a rogue app in the stock TW that is doing it. I have seen it in every 4.1.2 port. Run a de-bloat and it will go away.
Do you know what bloat exactly is causing it?
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There is a rogue app in the stock TW that is doing it. I have seen it in every 4.1.2 port. Run a de-bloat and it will go away.
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I have all the att and Samsung bloat frozen via TiBu.
Trust me, something is there. I never had the chance to figure out exactly which app it was though. I have a feeling that it may have something to do with a Samsung app.
I would suggest using OS Monitor from the Play Store. Make it show all system processes and see if you can dig deeper into it.
Edit: Also, here is my humble opinion too. People keep wanting new and better features. Well, that always comes at a cost. Just remember that. The iPhone boys are learning that the hard way too.
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Trust me, something is there. I never had the chance to figure out exactly which app it was though. I have a feeling that it may have something to do with a Samsung app.
I would suggest using OS Monitor from the Play Store. Make it show all system processes and see if you can dig deeper into it.
Edit: Also, here is my humble opinion too. People keep wanting new and better features. Well, that always comes at a cost. Just remember that. The iPhone boys are learning that the hard way too.
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I agree with that sentiment... I'm considering reverting back to ICS but the smoothness of jelly beans is too enticing.
after making these changes yesterday I got a 40% battery consumption over 9 hours with average use which IMHO is plenty.
Solution is to reboot the phone OR unmount by going into settings, storage and unmount the USB there instead of from the notification bar. I think this solution works but have not tried it myself.
rebooting whenever the os gets out of hand, or unmounting the SD card, is not a viable option IMHO.
my post was directed toward root users who have cwm installed and are experiencing the media drain because of the blob files. the modem change I tried because all the reliable jelly bean ports seem to use the H9 modem. a weak mobile signal is detrimental to battery life, as is a weak or intermittent WiFi signal.
believe me, on my rooted phone, these two changes made a real and noticeable improvement in battery life in JB. I've gone half the day today on ICS and half the day on JB. battery consumption is now within the range I had on ICS.
one the one hand, I believe that some increase in consumption is due to the "omg I has the jelly beans and I'm going to use the bejeasus out of my phone" factor. I also believe that a good number of fixes and patches are simply a placebo effect. BUT, my phone had been getting hot and tearing up the battery due to signal searching in areas where it had been fine prior to the update. heck, we have an att tower within 100 ft if my office, I typically pull 69-70mbps at work. on the k3 modem I was regularly dropping data or losing LTE. not anymore.
Un mounting then re mounting seems to have worked for me the process can now be killed!
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1% in the last hour and it wasn't idle the whole time. sent a few texts and spent a few minutes on Facebook. I'll take it...
Check you facebook mine wa at 51% I uninstalled it and re installed fixed battery drain
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Argh. k3 modem has been simply horrible. was constantly losing data though I initially thought it was the rom i was using. Is it safe to back flash from k3 to h9 or is there a certain procedure that needs to be done?
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Argh. k3 modem has been simply horrible. was constantly losing data though I initially thought it was the rom i was using. Is it safe to back flash from k3 to h9 or is there a certain procedure that needs to be done?
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I used the CWM flashable zip from the thread in development. I did the typical cache/dalvik cache wipe first.
the last4 hours the phone was on my nightstand unplugged doinga sleep drain test. 0.3% per hour.
Ok I have found something running on my SGS3 that wasn't running all the time before and now its open constantly. I need to know if anyone knows if this one is safe to FC and then disable. Any help would be appreciated. I mean heck I wake up in the morning and this is running and I definitely am not using maps in my sleep.LOL anyways anyone know?
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Ok I have found something running on my SGS3 that wasn't running all the time before and now its open constantly. I need to know if anyone knows if this one is safe to FC and then disable. Any help would be appreciated. I mean heck I wake up in the morning and this is running and I definitely am not using maps in my sleep.LOL anyways anyone know?
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what is it?
OOPS! Sorry about that. MAPSserviceSamsung. I finally found the list of apps safe for disable and it is safe to disable. I'm seeing a bit of improvement in battery life. I also uninstalled facebook and reinstalled it and since doing these 2 things I'm things are getting much better.
I will have to try these. My battery is horrid. My OneX got easy 30+ hours of heavy use to a charge. My SG3 is lucky to get 8 hours. I average 10% an hour on mild use, heavy use and its as high as 15%
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OOPS! Sorry about that. MAPSserviceSamsung. I finally found the list of apps safe for disable and it is safe to disable. I'm seeing a bit of improvement in battery life. I also uninstalled facebook and reinstalled it and since doing these 2 things I'm things are getting much better.
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I'd like to see that list too if you don't mind sharing the info
I think I'm going to do a factory reset soon. Pretty sure that these drains are caused by some leftovers from ICS...
Hi,
Thanks jedi Team for an awesome ROM, I have questions and concerns...
I am using a ROGERS note 2, I317, flashed the rom, blue theme last Wed.
1. The APN info didn't automatically load, I had to manually enter it, I have seen on the forum that many are having this issue as well.
2. I know touch wiz gallery is a bit buggy and slow, but after flashing to x16 I am find the gallery to be in even worst shape then before, thumb nails take forever to load. Is anyone else experiencing this?
3. I am noticing that I am losing data connectivity as well, in x14 I was receiving plenty of ghost calls(People call you but your phone never rings, it actually happened to me in the movies were one of my friends was trying to find me, I saw him calling me 3 times and my phone didnt ring)
4. My biggest concern is battery at this moment, after 9 hr of medium use, my phone was at 33 percent, I am find that ever since I moved from x14 to x16 (I skipped x15) the battery life has been poor.
I also like to note that, while I was using x14, I was running more apps on my phone and had PIE control enabled, were as in x16, I have only loaded my go to apps only.
I would appreciate any feed back
Kamkash
Might get a better answer posting this in the Jedi thread...
I'll recommend one thing for you list of problems. If your SD CARD is near full you might want to get everything you want off of it (back up) and then format it so you can start fresh! Might speed a few things up for you!!
Just my 2¢®O0
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Bajanman said:
Might get a better answer posting this in the Jedi thread...
I'll recommend one thing for you list of problems. If your SD CARD is near full you might want to get everything you want off of it (back up) and then format it so you can start fresh! Might speed a few things up for you!!
Just my 2¢®O0
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I cant post things in development section yet, I would have loved to post it directly on their form.
Funny you say that about sd card, I actually did format it before flashing the new rom and started fresh, i have about 2 gig of free space on it now, mostly music.
Speed is not my problem, just gallery and battery life.
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I cant post things in development section yet, I would have loved to post it directly on their form.
Funny you say that about sd card, I actually did format it before flashing the new rom and started fresh, i have about 2 gig of free space on it now, mostly music.
Speed is not my problem, just gallery and battery life.
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Ahhh okay about the posting.
Well if your gallery is opening really slow might be a lot of pics it's trying to load? If not then you can try clearing out the cache in the gallery app, under applications. Might help the gallery open a lil faster.
Now concerning battery life, usually if you just flashed a different Rom, then you have to give that Rom a few days to settle in. Then you'll see your true battery life.
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kamkash said:
Hi,
Thanks jedi Team for an awesome ROM, I have questions and concerns...
I am using a ROGERS note 2, I317, flashed the rom, blue theme last Wed.
1. The APN info didn't automatically load, I had to manually enter it, I have seen on the forum that many are having this issue as well.
2. I know touch wiz gallery is a bit buggy and slow, but after flashing to x16 I am find the gallery to be in even worst shape then before, thumb nails take forever to load. Is anyone else experiencing this?
3. I am noticing that I am losing data connectivity as well, in x14 I was receiving plenty of ghost calls(People call you but your phone never rings, it actually happened to me in the movies were one of my friends was trying to find me, I saw him calling me 3 times and my phone didnt ring)
4. My biggest concern is battery at this moment, after 9 hr of medium use, my phone was at 33 percent, I am find that ever since I moved from x14 to x16 (I skipped x15) the battery life has been poor.
I also like to note that, while I was using x14, I was running more apps on my phone and had PIE control enabled, were as in x16, I have only loaded my go to apps only.
I would appreciate any feed back
Kamkash
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Since everyones answered the Gallery issue I will go for the battery issue.
I actually get the best performance and battery life with Xp16 with the Saber 35 kernel I believe. I leave everything default in the trickster MOD except I underclock it to 100mhz and move the scheduler to ZEN and PEGASUS.
I get about 15-20 hours of phone use with a screen on time of 4-5 hours. It all depends on how my signal is. I am never on WIFI either.
I would give it a week to settle. I think about 3-5 charging cycles should be good.
chousayz said:
Since everyones answered the Gallery issue I will go for the battery issue.
I actually get the best performance and battery life with Xp16 with the Saber 35 kernel I believe. I leave everything default in the trickster MOD except I underclock it to 100mhz and move the scheduler to ZEN and PEGASUS.
I get about 15-20 hours of phone use with a screen on time of 4-5 hours. It all depends on how my signal is. I am never on WIFI either.
I would give it a week to settle. I think about 3-5 charging cycles should be good.
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Well its been about 4-5 days since I have flashed it... I have to charge my phone around lunch time (it will be around 50-55%)...
Is there a way to flash battery stats and would that help?
when I flashed the rom I also didn't clear cache or dalvik, I never really understood why its required to flash cache/dalvik since after first reboot everything is initialized anyways...
Also can any one help me with my 3rd problem? I seems at least couple of days i randomly lose date connection for a good couple of minutes...
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Well its been about 4-5 days since I have flashed it... I have to charge my phone around lunch time (it will be around 50-55%)...
Is there a way to flash battery stats and would that help?
when I flashed the rom I also didn't clear cache or dalvik, I never really understood why its required to flash cache/dalvik since after first reboot everything is initialized anyways...
Also can any one help me with my 3rd problem? I seems at least couple of days i randomly lose date connection for a good couple of minutes...
thanks
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About the phone losing data connection, you might want to try to update your modem if you haven't already!!
And you always want to clear out whatever old cache/dalvik on the phone!! Because some apps leaves behind a whole lot!
Now if your getting that type of battery life you might want to start over fresh!
Factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache 3x each,, then flash Rom!
Another thing you might want to take s look at if Skynote Rom. Excellent on battery life imho
Included 2 pcs too show you Skynote battey life!!:thumbup:
You can check it out here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36575063
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kamkash said:
Well its been about 4-5 days since I have flashed it... I have to charge my phone around lunch time (it will be around 50-55%)...
Is there a way to flash battery stats and would that help?
when I flashed the rom I also didn't clear cache or dalvik, I never really understood why its required to flash cache/dalvik since after first reboot everything is initialized anyways...
Also can any one help me with my 3rd problem? I seems at least couple of days i randomly lose date connection for a good couple of minutes...
thanks
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Yes, you definitely need to wipe everythinig, data cache dalvik atleast 3 times. I acutally wipe it about 4 or 5 times before I install with the aroma for JEDI and I say WIPE in the aroma option too. I havent been using my phone very heavily today but I will post the two screen shots.
As of Sunday my Google Play Services has been KILLING my battery. It's been using over 25% of the battery and draining FAST...it's already at 25% today and it's only 1pm.
Typically I am at around 70% at 1pm.
What changed? NO idea.
I have done some googling. and I have done everything it said to do.
Clear cache on the app, reboot.
Clear the phone cache and reboot
Etc.
I did that Monday night and everything was pretty good Tuesday...Wednesday, not so much.
Anyone have any ideas?
Please help, battery life IS life!!
THANKS!!
ryanvan9 said:
As of Sunday my Google Play Services has been KILLING my battery. It's been using over 25% of the battery and draining FAST...it's already at 25% today and it's only 1pm.
Typically I am at around 70% at 1pm.
What changed? NO idea.
I have done some googling. and I have done everything it said to do.
Clear cache on the app, reboot.
Clear the phone cache and reboot
Etc.
I did that Monday night and everything was pretty good Tuesday...Wednesday, not so much.
Anyone have any ideas?
Please help, battery life IS life!!
THANKS!!
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The only thing U have done when this occurs is to clear cache in recovery. I have had to do it twice on occasion. It sounds like you already did that. The only other thing I can think of is maybe some other app is causing google services to run. Any new apps or app updates or changes in the way you use them that correspond to the time it began might be the cause. You may want to post in the general Q&A section since more people probably look there and you will get a wider range of experience to draw from.
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The only thing U have done when this occurs is to clear cache in recovery. I have had to do it twice on occasion. It sounds like you already did that. The only other thing I can think of is maybe some other app is causing google services to run. Any new apps or app updates or changes in the way you use them that correspond to the time it began might be the cause. You may want to post in the general Q&A section since more people probably look there and you will get a wider range of experience to draw from.
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Yes, I did that in recovery. I will post it there...thanks for the advice.
I don't post on forums often.