Develop Bugs

Dracula?? (com.lge.dracula)

So hunting through the bloat I chance upon this interesting kibble. Using nobloat I disabled it and thusfar no issues...But doesn't anyone know what the heck it is?
Google wasn't much help in that regard.

Maybe it is the dreaded "Battery Sucker" we are all searching to disable/stake through the heart/flame to hell, cut it's scrawny head off???

that's weird, i just checked and mine has com.lge.wolfman

repherb said:
Maybe it is the dreaded "Battery Sucker" we are all searching to disable/stake through the heart/flame to hell, cut it's scrawny head off???
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Imagine it is the reason why the battery life is so horrible. And if so, why is it there to begin with? hehe

makes us actually wonder that question with serious thought, just WHY is it there and named so? i can actually say i saw battery life decrease when i enabled it. i could leave my phone unused in my holster all day and see little dropoff, but when i re-enabled com.lge.dracula i actually lost 3/4 of my battery power by mid-day!! coincidence?? maybe....LTE affiliation? possibly.... "battery sucker"?? certainly.

repherb said:
makes us actually wonder that question with serious thought, just WHY is it there and named so? i can actually say i saw battery life decrease when i enabled it. i could leave my phone unused in my holster all day and see little dropoff, but when i re-enabled com.lge.dracula i actually lost 3/4 of my battery power by mid-day!! coincidence?? maybe....LTE affiliation? possibly.... "battery sucker"?? certainly.
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Well Dracula was also on my vivid
Sent from my LG Nitro HD

Can someone run it with the others over at Skyrocket's forum n see if it's also available on their phone. If it is, then it might be LTE related.
Repherb, when u disable it, did u check to see if your LTE will work or not?

i froze dracula through Titanium backup , currently connected to LTE, no problems here, restarted to make sure. it is still frozen and LTE connected.
LG Optimute LTE. P930.

Who can we inquire to here in XDA to research on this random file? Can someone from XDA investigate with LG to find out the purpose behind this file?
Also, is there any possibility of some screenshots to show the difference freezing Dracula does to the battery life? This way we can prove that this file (or Wolfman) does suck the life out of the battery and is the reason behind the horrible battery life.

Froze it, no discernible difference in battery life imo.
Ran a video playback test, the extrapolated playback time at 40% brightness in airplane mode is about 5 hours 20 mins. The same test on my SGS2 got slightly over 8 hours.

LTE works fine when disabled, i am going to dive into the OS to see what calls this. btw: after rooting with DoomLord v3 zergrush, i am getting a serious amount of FC with nothing disabled using GO launcher. anyone else having this? just a [Q]... not trying to cross post...
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after running top, i found that "lg_fota" (OTA updates) calls the Dracula process. hope this sheds some light on this elusive process.

I hate to reopen a two year old thread, but since Dracula is actually undead, I just have to ask: has anyone figured out what com.lge.dracula is, and if it's safe to chuck it?

[Q] Does this battery time look average?

http://imgur.com/a/7zLjf#9
I just want to make sure that this battery life looks reasonable. A good portion of these images were taken yesterday, and I wasn't really messing with my device all that much, as I was doing a lot of work.
Thanks for your help, I will try to get some better detailed descriptions per image next time I am almost down to no battery.

Nope. It doesnt really. Gtalk is keeping your phone awake a lot.

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http://imgur.com/a/7zLjf#9
I just want to make sure that this battery life looks reasonable. A good portion of these images were taken yesterday, and I wasn't really messing with my device all that much, as I was doing a lot of work.
Thanks for your help, I will try to get some better detailed descriptions per image next time I am almost down to no battery.
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I don't necessarily agree with the Gtalk issue but I do notice two problems.
First of all, you only had signal 60% of the time (?) and you are using Facebook. I would disable the facebook app or remove it since it's notorious for causing severe battery drain (at least for now). If you're in a low signal environment, you won't be able to really judge battery life very well since the phone is expending a lot of energy trying to maintain or look for a signal.

I read somewhere that gtalk eats up a lot of battery? aint it so?

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I read somewhere that gtalk eats up a lot of battery? aint it so?
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Its possible. I can't tell from the logs he posted if it was causing problems. Its one of the apps that I freeze or delete cuz I don't plan to ever use it.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

Unfortunately, Facebook is a must, all of the notification settings and geo-location stuff is disabled. I gotta be addicted to something right? I have contemplated deleting my account, so when that happens the app will be removed.
Gtalk is now frozen.
Low signal, I can't really help, I work in a brick building.

That isn't very good battery life it also depends on how much you were using it.

Bump added pictures for the past two days worth of battery stats.
I tried having Google Talk disabled for two days, didn't seem to decrease the awake counts.
So I tried uninstalling it, still doesn't seem to have helped at all.
Today, I may have used the phone for an hour and a half maybe. Beyond that, I haven't really used it.

Battery draining faster than b4

Ok I know this question has been asked so many times but I have searched and read and read and then read some more but I can't find a real answer. I used to go more than 4 days on a single charge with minimal phone usage but then I updated to 4.2.2 (kk) and noticed a significant amount of loss in battery life. A couple of days later, the batt was back to normal however I got another update (whatever the hell that was supposed to do) and since then (a couple of weeks now) my phone barely lasts 2 days with barely even making one phone call. When I check the batt. usage I don't see anything that's more than 25%. (Cell standby for example is 23%). Anything I can do?
Also, after the update, the sidebar thing (I'm not sure if that's what it's called but it's the menu you get when you press and hold the return button) is no longer there. What happened to it?

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Ok I know this question has been asked so many times but I have searched and read and read and then read some more but I can't find a real answer. I used to go more than 4 days on a single charge with minimal phone usage but then I updated to 4.2.2 (kk) and noticed a significant amount of loss in battery life. A couple of days later, the batt was back to normal however I got another update (whatever the hell that was supposed to do) and since then (a couple of weeks now) my phone barely lasts 2 days with barely even making one phone call. When I check the batt. usage I don't see anything that's more than 25%. (Cell standby for example is 23%). Anything I can do?
Also, after the update, the sidebar thing (I'm not sure if that's what it's called but it's the menu you get when you press and hold the return button) is no longer there. What happened to it?
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Spoken to samsung/your carrier about their update? (assuming you're using stock)
Tried another battery?
There simply isn't any reason or excuse for creating yet another battery usage topic. What anybody will say here has already been said and discussed. You can also just reply to one of those topics. We do not need another as it just adds to the already diluted forums.

Electroman365 said:
Ok I know this question has been asked so many times but I have searched and read and read and then read some more but I can't find a real answer. I used to go more than 4 days on a single charge with minimal phone usage but then I updated to 4.2.2 (kk) and noticed a significant amount of loss in battery life. A couple of days later, the batt was back to normal however I got another update (whatever the hell that was supposed to do) and since then (a couple of weeks now) my phone barely lasts 2 days with barely even making one phone call. When I check the batt. usage I don't see anything that's more than 25%. (Cell standby for example is 23%). Anything I can do?
Also, after the update, the sidebar thing (I'm not sure if that's what it's called but it's the menu you get when you press and hold the return button) is no longer there. What happened to it?
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Hello there, here I am to help you out, not to tell you off or scold you. Hope no one banned me for this jaja. well so let's begining. I found something interesting concerning to battery draining starting from kitkat. The first one is "media scanner" it drains a lot of battery, so if you use dr ketang you can handle this, or if you don't want to use dr ketang just install his apk + security settings -obviously rooted device- (to get it working good - available in playstore too) and there you got something good. My next step is just research for android system usage, that is high on kitkat custom sammy roms, don't think this happens on the aosp (not sure). so I hope this is useful for you. :highfive:

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Spoken to samsung/your carrier about their update? (assuming you're using stock)
Tried another battery?
There simply isn't any reason or excuse for creating yet another battery usage topic. What anybody will say here has already been said and discussed. You can also just reply to one of those topics. We do not need another as it just adds to the already diluted forums.
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No thanks for the no help. No one twisted your hand to reply. Like they say, if you have nothing good to say, then don't say nothing at all. But if you bothered to read, there's was another part to my question that was NOT related to the battery draining thing. You guys think it's being smart when you parrot the same words.

Austtin said:
Hello there, here I am to help you out, not to tell you off or scold you. Hope no one banned me for this jaja. well so let's begining. I found something interesting concerning to battery draining starting from kitkat. The first one is "media scanner" it drains a lot of battery, so if you use dr ketang you can handle this, or if you don't want to use dr ketang just install his apk + security settings -obviously rooted device- (to get it working good - available in playstore too) and there you got something good. My next step is just research for android system usage, that is high on kitkat custom sammy roms, don't think this happens on the aosp (not sure). so I hope this is useful for you. :highfive:
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Thanks austtin. I don't really know anything about that ketang thing. No my phone isn't rooted. But thanks anyway. At least you tried instead of being rude like the guy above.

Electroman365 said:
No thanks for the no help. No one twisted your hand to reply.
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The saying is "arm" not "hand".
Electroman365 said:
Like they say, if you have nothing good to say, then don't say nothing at all.
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I did have something good to say, I told you how to post correctly and search instead of just diluting forum with your duplicate posts/questions. You will get your answer more quickly by actually reading instead of creating duplicate posts and waiting to be spoon fed.
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But if you bothered to read, there's was another part to my question that was NOT related to the battery draining thing.
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Yes and that question has already been answered on forum. Info is theer if you look.
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You guys think it's being smart when you parrot the same words.
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No, we find it annoying when newbies create duplicate topics/questions and "parrot same words".

TheATHEiST said:
The saying is "arm" not "hand".
I did have something good to say, I told you how to post correctly and search instead of just diluting forum with your duplicate posts/questions. You will get your answer more quickly by actually reading instead of creating duplicate posts and waiting to be spoon fed.
Yes and that question has already been answered on forum. Info is theer if you look.
No, we find it annoying when newbies create duplicate topics/questions and "parrot same words".
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Okay good, can you give us the propper direct link to it, because we're facing the battery draining too. Searching through xda I didn't found anything, so if you know where's the thread we'll be glad. But remember this: NO ONE'S BORN KNOWING EVERYTHING. Bye felicia

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493849359548

Battery on my s6 sucks

Wow, I am about to return this phone. Got it yesterday and battery is horrible.
Turned off every thing and keeps bleeding battery life.

engelsione said:
Wow, I am about to return this phone. Got it yesterday and battery is horrible.
Turned off every thing and keeps bleeding battery life.
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whats the setup?
are you stock/root
customer recover?

I turn on the power saver... no noticible performance different in basic tasks and im getting about 2-3 hours per 10%

Im not getting great battery either. Averaging 10-13 hours off charge and only about 3 hrs screen on time.

Check and see if you guys got the Samsung Push update thru the Playstore. The seemed to help alot. Also, I changed my mobile network to just LTE/CDMA and that's seemed to help as well. I keep everything synced and get 1 day way with 2-3 hours SOT. Great for me, but everyone's different.

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Check and see if you guys got the Samsung Push update thru the Playstore. The seemed to help alot. Also, I changed my mobile network to just LTE/CDMA and that's seemed to help as well. I keep everything synced and get 1 day way with 2-3 hours SOT. Great for me, but everyone's different.
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Ya, i did that also...still no difference.

I would wait like 3-4 days before judging the battery life. Mine seems to get better after every day also i would do a factory reset.
Sent from my SM-G920P using XDA Free mobile app

There is already a thread to discuss battery. Please search prior to posting a new thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=60194853
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Have a great day!

General November update still battery drain 25% on standby in 8 hours

Why? I have restricted all apps I can, still drain very fast....

In my opinion this is a thing that has been on Android (and sometimes Windows and iOS) phones since day 1. Specifically that some people randomly get very poor battery, especially standby battery, which most people are fine. It's a problem with a huge number of unknown causes and few solutions. My recommendation is always - do a hard full system wipe. The three or four times it's happened to me, this was the solution.

With the lack of information you gave there are so many reasons your phone's battery could be sucking now. I suggest doing some research and digging through XDA or some other nerdy site. I don't mean this to sound bad, but figure it out on your own. If you find something that works, share it here.

I went from 4h SOT to 2h SOT after the update same or less usage

Are u rooted? Without root it's pretty hard to do much. First thing u need is data. Find out what is using too much batt. You can use the battery section in settings to get clues. If u have root you can get even more info/data. Once u find the app or process responsible then u can drop the hammer on it.

November build have a lot of bugs, wifi sucks battery sucks, call quality is poor....

my fingerprint sensor broke.
10/1 ratio...

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paulwang323 said:
Why? I have restricted all apps I can, still drain very fast....
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pedro6669 said:
With the lack of information you gave there are so many reasons your phone's battery could be sucking now. I suggest doing some research and digging through XDA or some other nerdy site. I don't mean this to sound bad, but figure it out on your own. If you find something that works, share it here.
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Try a clean flash using PixelFlasher or the Android Flash Tool through Chrome browser and skipping the initial setup guide. (Old backups can cause problems). Once your Pixel is running then you can set your apps up!