qcom_rx_wakelock on University WiFi Causing Android OS/Kernel Battery Drain - OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers

When I got my OP3 I noticed that my battery wasn't quite as good as some had been reporting and that there was a lot of drain going on while the phone was off. After a while I started to notice that I was having bad wakelocks only when I was on any WiFi network on campus. When I went home for Thanksgiving, this battery drain was completely eliminated and I was easily getting 6+ hours of SOT which is almost double what I was getting. Once I came back to school, the battery drain came back. I did some research and everything seemed to point to the qcom_rx_wakelock which seems to be an issue on many school/work networks. I ran Wakelock Detector while on WiFi and this confirmed that qcom_rx_wakelock is the cause of the drain.
I am on version 3.2.8 and completely stock and I would like to keep it that way. This wakelock is an issue on the network's end and from the sound of things there aren't really any software fixes that I could do. I've read that most battery saving fixes such as using Amplify or flashing a different kernel don't help anyways. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could stop this? Are there any changes to the network that the school could make to alleviate this issue? I doubt they would listen but it's worth a try. Or are there any other things I could try?
Also, I should mention that I tried the simple fix of turning off the setting "Keep WiFi on During Sleep" which prevented me from reconnecting to the WiFi even when I turned the phone back on. The only way I could reconnect to the network was rebooting my device.

same with me.
i open qq in background. if i connect to the college wifi, screen off wake time is up to 50%;if i connect to my router,it's about 12%.. BTW,i use betterbatterystates to see my wake time.

Flash Franco Kernal, it has this WiFi wake lock fix.

cstrock said:
When I got my OP3 I noticed that my battery wasn't quite as good as some had been reporting and that there was a lot of drain going on while the phone was off. After a while I started to notice that I was having bad wakelocks only when I was on any WiFi network on campus. When I went home for Thanksgiving, this battery drain was completely eliminated and I was easily getting 6+ hours of SOT which is almost double what I was getting. Once I came back to school, the battery drain came back. I did some research and everything seemed to point to the qcom_rx_wakelock which seems to be an issue on many school/work networks. I ran Wakelock Detector while on WiFi and this confirmed that qcom_rx_wakelock is the cause of the drain.
I am on version 3.2.8 and completely stock and I would like to keep it that way. This wakelock is an issue on the network's end and from the sound of things there aren't really any software fixes that I could do. I've read that most battery saving fixes such as using Amplify or flashing a different kernel don't help anyways. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could stop this? Are there any changes to the network that the school could make to alleviate this issue? I doubt they would listen but it's worth a try. Or are there any other things I could try?
Also, I should mention that I tried the simple fix of turning off the setting "Keep WiFi on During Sleep" which prevented me from reconnecting to the WiFi even when I turned the phone back on. The only way I could reconnect to the network was rebooting my device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was on stock... switched to FreedomOS 1.7 (3.2.8) with ElementalX kernel. No WiFi darins.

cstrock said:
When I got my OP3 I noticed that my battery wasn't quite as good as some had been reporting and that there was a lot of drain going on while the phone was off. After a while I started to notice that I was having bad wakelocks only when I was on any WiFi network on campus. When I went home for Thanksgiving, this battery drain was completely eliminated and I was easily getting 6+ hours of SOT which is almost double what I was getting. Once I came back to school, the battery drain came back. I did some research and everything seemed to point to the qcom_rx_wakelock which seems to be an issue on many school/work networks. I ran Wakelock Detector while on WiFi and this confirmed that qcom_rx_wakelock is the cause of the drain.
I am on version 3.2.8 and completely stock and I would like to keep it that way. This wakelock is an issue on the network's end and from the sound of things there aren't really any software fixes that I could do. I've read that most battery saving fixes such as using Amplify or flashing a different kernel don't help anyways. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could stop this? Are there any changes to the network that the school could make to alleviate this issue? I doubt they would listen but it's worth a try. Or are there any other things I could try?
Also, I should mention that I tried the simple fix of turning off the setting "Keep WiFi on During Sleep" which prevented me from reconnecting to the WiFi even when I turned the phone back on. The only way I could reconnect to the network was rebooting my device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm having the same problem but what's new for me is that I'm connecting to the same router from last week I'm facing this issue on any ROM but IDK how can this happen bc my router are same as before it used to work fine before.
I guess it a hardware fault?

Related

Battery - Wi-Fi and Awake always solid blue

So I've been trying to get more life out of my battery, I get decent now, but not the 18+ hours I've seen other people getting. I think the main problem here is, if I go view the Applications -> Battery Usage screen, the "Wi-Fi" and "Awake" bars are always full blue, even when the phone hasn't been touched in a couple hours.
Does anyone know what actually causes these to now sleep? Is it push email? Or some other setting I'm missing?
Thanks
RubenRybnik said:
So I've been trying to get more life out of my battery, I get decent now, but not the 18+ hours I've seen other people getting. I think the main problem here is, if I go view the Applications -> Battery Usage screen, the "Wi-Fi" and "Awake" bars are always full blue, even when the phone hasn't been touched in a couple hours.
Does anyone know what actually causes these to now sleep? Is it push email? Or some other setting I'm missing?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Look and find out you can start by turning off wifi if not using it post your screen shots of battery use someone may help
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
RubenRybnik said:
So I've been trying to get more life out of my battery, I get decent now, but not the 18+ hours I've seen other people getting. I think the main problem here is, if I go view the Applications -> Battery Usage screen, the "Wi-Fi" and "Awake" bars are always full blue, even when the phone hasn't been touched in a couple hours.
Does anyone know what actually causes these to now sleep? Is it push email? Or some other setting I'm missing?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try Menu/Settings/Wireless and Network/Wi-Fi Settings. Then press Menu/Advanced/Wi-Fi- sleep policy.
Play with those settings. You are probably set to "Never". Folks have actually been reporting better battery life with this setting (powering on and shutting down the wifi eats up battery) You can play around with it to get your own results.
Hit thanks if this helps!
pojieps said:
Try Menu/Settings/Wireless and Network/Wi-Fi Settings. Then press Menu/Advanced/Wi-Fi- sleep policy.
Play with those settings. You are probably set to "Never". Folks have actually been reporting better battery life with this setting (powering on and shutting down the wifi eats up battery) You can play around with it to get your own results.
Hit thanks if this helps!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ah...yes, it is set to never. So leaving it on "never" gets better results, say if you're at home and always have a wifi connection? Also, if the wi-fi is on, does that mean the device can't sleep I take it, that's what's keeping the device awake with screen off?
Thanks for the tip.
RubenRybnik said:
Ah...yes, it is set to never. So leaving it on "never" gets better results, say if you're at home and always have a wifi connection? Also, if the wi-fi is on, does that mean the device can't sleep I take it, that's what's keeping the device awake with screen off?
Thanks for the tip.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've heard both sides to this argument, and frankly I don't think most people understand why changing it does, or in other cases does not help.
I suspect that the answer to your issue isn't going to be found here. Here's the theory:
- Setting wifi policy to "Sleep - Never" results in better battery life for some; it's likely because these individuals have a fairly low 3g signal, which tends to draw more battery when periodic updates/synchronization occurs (e.g., gmail, calendar, facebook, etc.). By leaving wifi Sleep set to never, the wifi (which THEORETICALLY uses less power than 3g) can do the work instead.
- Setting wifi policy to "Sleep - When Screen is Off" can result in better battery life for a number of reasons, many of the underlying issues being hard to identify. For example, if your router tends to send a lot of 'noise' and wake up your phone, having wi-fi disabled will prevent this. Location services in the OS - which you've probably permitted to 'help locate you faster' - even when you are NOT connected to a wifi network - will periodically ping wireless networks around you to help facilitate faster geolocation. This uses battery as well.
But don't confuse the generalities that have spawned from people's anecdotal situations with what could be a very different problem.
Was your phone primarily located in one location during most of the 'awake' period? If so, then it was probably connected to the same router most of that time. If so, it really shouldn't matter what the setting was for Advanced Wifi - the phone should still sleep.
If you turn off wi-fi on the device, and the device then sleeps, then you've narrowed the issue some, but that is not a solution, because what are you going to do, not use wifi?
You've got to dig deeper; your issue may be any of the following - rogue app that keeps a wakelock, rogue app that updates too frequently, wifi modem issue, router issue, OS issue, etc.
In short, you need to figure out what's keeping the phone awake. Get CPU Spy and Better Battery Stats to help you get insight into what's keeping the device awake.
Capp5050 said:
I've heard both sides to this argument, and frankly I don't think most people understand why changing it does, or in other cases does not help.
I suspect that the answer to your issue isn't going to be found here. Here's the theory:
- Setting wifi policy to "Sleep - Never" results in better battery life for some; it's likely because these individuals have a fairly low 3g signal, which tends to draw more battery when periodic updates/synchronization occurs (e.g., gmail, calendar, facebook, etc.). By leaving wifi Sleep set to never, the wifi (which THEORETICALLY uses less power than 3g) can do the work instead.
- Setting wifi policy to "Sleep - When Screen is Off" can result in better battery life for a number of reasons, many of the underlying issues being hard to identify. For example, if your router tends to send a lot of 'noise' and wake up your phone, having wi-fi disabled will prevent this. Location services in the OS - which you've probably permitted to 'help locate you faster' - even when you are NOT connected to a wifi network - will periodically ping wireless networks around you to help facilitate faster geolocation. This uses battery as well.
But don't confuse the generalities that have spawned from people's anecdotal situations with what could be a very different problem.
Was your phone primarily located in one location during most of the 'awake' period? If so, then it was probably connected to the same router most of that time. If so, it really shouldn't matter what the setting was for Advanced Wifi - the phone should still sleep.
If you turn off wi-fi on the device, and the device then sleeps, then you've narrowed the issue some, but that is not a solution, because what are you going to do, not use wifi?
You've got to dig deeper; your issue may be any of the following - rogue app that keeps a wakelock, rogue app that updates too frequently, wifi modem issue, router issue, OS issue, etc.
In short, you need to figure out what's keeping the phone awake. Get CPU Spy and Better Battery Stats to help you get insight into what's keeping the device awake.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for that very informative post. My phone was on my desk all day today( worked from home ) and wi-fi is set to always on, and it never slept, not even once.
I'll try disabling wi-fi( should have done this earlier to be honest and checked ) and then I'll download those apps, I just got Badass Battery Monitor, I'll check out the two you recommended as well. Thanks for the info!
Your phone should still go into deep sleep with wifi on. If it doesn't then you have something else wakelocking your phone. However, if wifi is set to never sleep, and wifi is enabled, the bar on the battery chart will always be solid blue.
So just installed CPU Spy, it looks like IM+ is the biggest user of wakelocks. I like to always be signed in to my accounts, but not at such a huge cost of battery, does anyone know of a better multi IM client that will push updates to you? I used to have IM+ on the iPhone( yea I know, just switched two months ago, and never looking back ) and the push on it worked great. The 'push' IM+ says it has is awful, most of the time I never get my IMs sent to me at all.
Also have skype signed on all the time, not sure if that is wakelock'ing anything, I'll have to keep an eye on it, it didn't show up on CPU Spy.
Try IMO, free from the Android Market. Its a multi-IM client that combines most common clients including Skype. I've used it. It creates some wakelocks, but not sufficient to wake the phone. I don't use IM very often so I'd be curious to hear how it works for you.
Capp5050 said:
Try IMO, free from the Android Market. Its a multi-IM client that combines most common clients including Skype. I've used it. It creates some wakelocks, but not sufficient to wake the phone. I don't use IM very often so I'd be curious to hear how it works for you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks ... Giving it a try today, I'll let you know how it goes.
Capp5050 said:
Try IMO, free from the Android Market. Its a multi-IM client that combines most common clients including Skype. I've used it. It creates some wakelocks, but not sufficient to wake the phone. I don't use IM very often so I'd be curious to hear how it works for you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So been trying IMO the past couple days. Seems much better than IM+. Haven't seen any disconnects, I get my IMs about 30sec - 1min after the computer gets them, which is fine, and the wake-locking is extremely minimal. IM+ was awful with the wake-locking.
So that clears up the Always awake issue, flashed Blazer 3.8 last night, so can't comment on battery too much yet, also calibrating today.
RubenRybnik said:
So been trying IMO the past couple days. Seems much better than IM+. Haven't seen any disconnects, I get my IMs about 30sec - 1min after the computer gets them, which is fine, and the wake-locking is extremely minimal. IM+ was awful with the wake-locking.
So that clears up the Always awake issue, flashed Blazer 3.8 last night, so can't comment on battery too much yet, also calibrating today.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear it helped, and I now feel a little more confident leaving my IM 'on' more often.

Galaxy Nexus BTLowPower keeps running when bluetooth is off

Hello,
I’m looking for help with a rather strange problem. I’m getting a lot of awake time in Android OS. I installed BetterBatteryStats and noticed it was the service BTLowPower that was doing a lot of kernel wakelocks.
I turned bluetooth off a couple of days (and have rebooted in the meantime even) but still the top service in kernel wakelocks is BTLowPower by a very large margin ... how can this be if bluetooth is turned off ?
Stats are in BetterBatteryStats Kernel Wakelocks
Unplugged 12h47min.
BTLowPower 9h33min, 74.7%
I've attached a screenshot
I have a Galaxy Nexus which is running stock Jellybean.
Thanks in advance for any advice !
Same here.
Please help.
My battery drains out because of this in 12h and 1.5h of screentime
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
bat0nas said:
Same here.
Please help.
My battery drains out because of this in 12h and 1.5h of screentime
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you guys have other Bluetooth devices around? I have a Motorola S805 headset as well as a cheapo BT2.0 dongle from DealExtreme.
I typically don't have the headset turned on unless it's connected to the computer, but what I'm finding is that if I just leave my phone with the dongle turned off and the headset turned off then I don't get the BTLowPower battery drain.
If I turn the dongle on, and turn on the headset then I typically get the BTLowPower battery drain in my GNex. I have to reboot the phone for it to go away. I'm not really sure the exact sequence of events to cause the drain to occur, but I feel like it's definitely related to turning on and off my S805 headset or being around the dongle.
There might be other bluetooth devices around (such as phones of a colleague or something), however the bluetooth on my phone is turned OFF and I still keep getting the BTLowPower in kernel wakelocks Today for example it kept my phone awake for over 10 hours
Anyone ? I keep having this problem ...
Same problem here. BTLowPower keeps draining my battery.
I have bluetooth and Jabra headset off...
It usually happends when I unplug my GNex from charging.
Please help....
-----------
sorry for my bad english.
Same issue
I'm running a Toro Gnex with the Vanir AOSP ROM. It's buttery smooth, and I've had no problems at all, other than this specific kernel wakelock. Same scenario as the OP.
If anyone finds out more about it, I would be grateful!
Airplane Mode
NicholasFarseer said:
I'm running a Toro Gnex with the Vanir AOSP ROM. It's buttery smooth, and I've had no problems at all, other than this specific kernel wakelock. Same scenario as the OP.
If anyone finds out more about it, I would be grateful!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've been reading about this all morning. I run Automateit Pro and have it go into airplane mode at night. After losing 25% battery overnight, the investigation began. BTlowpower was keeping the phone awake. It looks like airplane mode can be the culprit, possibly in combination with Wifi set to always on. I am set up to turn Bluetooth off a couple of minutes after going into airplane model tonight, I'll follow up with my findings over the weekend.
bigknowz said:
I've been reading about this all morning. I run Automateit Pro and have it go into airplane mode at night. After losing 25% battery overnight, the investigation began. BTlowpower was keeping the phone awake. It looks like airplane mode can be the culprit, possibly in combination with Wifi set to always on. I am set up to turn Bluetooth off a couple of minutes after going into airplane model tonight, I'll follow up with my findings over the weekend.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great, keep us posted. I also turn airplane mode on at night, but my Bluetooth is always off.
Did anyone try to hard reset their phone ? I called Samsung but I got the standard reply to hard reset my phone, I haven't tried it yet because I doubt it would work and I have a lot of authenticators on it and it's a bit of a hassle. But if any of you guys already tried it I would love to hear if it worked ! Thanks !
BTlowpower solved
Darthy1980 said:
Great, keep us posted. I also turn airplane mode on at night, but my Bluetooth is always off.
Did anyone try to hard reset their phone ? I called Samsung but I got the standard reply to hard reset my phone, I haven't tried it yet because I doubt it would work and I have a lot of authenticators on it and it's a bit of a hassle. But if any of you guys already tried it I would love to hear if it worked ! Thanks !
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
BTlowpower issue solved by turning Bluetooth on and then off again after Airplane mode activated. However, that caused another issue - modem_usb_gpio_wake to crush my battery. Doing more testing today to resolve that one - will post again when that one is solved.
BTlowpower and modem_usb_gpio_wake resolution
bigknowz said:
BTlowpower issue solved by turning Bluetooth on and then off again after Airplane mode activated. However, that caused another issue - modem usb gpio wake to crush my battery. Doing more testing today to resolve that one - will post again when that one is solved.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After testing different configurations this weekend, it looks like turning off sync causes these 2 kernel wakelocks. I tested 2 states: Airplane mode + no Wi-fi, and no data (no Wi-fi + no Wireless data, voice signal on). In either instance, the wakelock occurs with sync off. Leaving sync on finally achieved the low overnight battery drain (< 5%) I've been looking for. Regardless, to avoid battery drain after shutting data off:
Turn Bluetooth On and then Off again. If you are using airplane mode (this may be overkill), also turn Wireless Data On and then Off again.
Let me know if this helps.
bigknowz said:
After testing different configurations this weekend, it looks like turning off sync causes these 2 kernel wakelocks. I tested 2 states: Airplane mode + no Wi-fi, and no data (no Wi-fi + no Wireless data, voice signal on). In either instance, the wakelock occurs with sync off. Leaving sync on finally achieved the low overnight battery drain (< 5%) I've been looking for. Regardless, to avoid battery drain after shutting data off:
Turn Bluetooth On and then Off again. If you are using airplane mode (this may be overkill), also turn Wireless Data On and then Off again.
Let me know if this helps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi thanks for posting !
Just to make sure I understand, you say the solution is to turn bluetooth on and off again after turning off airplane mode ?
Just for completeness sake, this is my situation: overnight I turn on airplane mode and I sometimes have the wakelock draining my battery during the day (but not always). Draining doesn't occur during the night as while it's on airplane mode I'm also charging it.
I will try every morning when I turn airplane mode off to turn bluetooth on and off again afterwards for a few days and see if that helps. Let me know if I misunderstood.
Thanks,
Jorn
Just found a kind of workaround at another thread, this might be helpful (if it works ).
It doesn't, the drain still occurs >_<
gwindlord said:
Just found a kind of workaround at another thread, this might be helpful (if it works ).
It doesn't, the drain still occurs >_<
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I actually have a workaround that works for me. During the night I turn off my phone instead of using airplane mode. I no longer have BTLowPower and I also am able to successfully connect every time very quickly with bluetooth to my carkit, which previously was very flaky. It's definitely a standard issue though with the galaxy nexus, I can reproduce it on 2 other galaxy nexi as well.
I just installed BetterBatteryStats two days ago, and I'm seeing the exact same results. I can't help but wonder if the issue is at all related to the kernel I'm using (LeanKernel v4.7), or if perhaps a resolution to the problem could be solved by a modification within the kernel code. The ROM I'm running is BAMF Paradigm v2.4, which is based on AOSP v4.1.2. Like the rest of you, I'd really like to get this fixed.
trestevenson said:
I just installed BetterBatteryStats two days ago, and I'm seeing the exact same results. I can't help but wonder if the issue is at all related to the kernel I'm using (LeanKernel v4.7), or if perhaps a resolution to the problem could be solved by a modification within the kernel code. The ROM I'm running is BAMF Paradigm v2.4, which is based on AOSP v4.1.2. Like the rest of you, I'd really like to get this fixed.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Anyone have any updates on this? My GNex just started doing this randomly after being stable for a long time.
the7thson said:
Anyone have any updates on this? My GNex just started doing this randomly after being stable for a long time.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After three days or so, the issue seemed to go away on its own. I didn't make any changes to any of the apps I was running, nor did I update the kernel. I really have no clue what took care of it for me, but I haven't seen it since.
trestevenson said:
After three days or so, the issue seemed to go away on its own. I didn't make any changes to any of the apps I was running, nor did I update the kernel. I really have no clue what took care of it for me, but I haven't seen it since.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Weird, mine went away as well after toggling BT a couple times. Guess we'll file this one under unsolved mysteries

Wifi Battery Drain

Hi guys
I have a LTE Note II and have had this battery drain on standby where wifi will absolutely destroy my battery. This has been going on for months and months and I'm just not sure if Samsung are ever going to resolve this and it is quite the pain in the arse.
I've done many tweaks to my phone, and all location services are off. Also, I've set it as a static IP, but nothing seems to help. I think this is related to the wlan_rx_wake wakelock? I get the impression my phone is responding to the wifi and getting woken up constantly.
Does anyone else experience this and do you have any suggestions?
P.S. please don't mention my apps causing it. It definitely is not. I know my way around Android and also, my Nexus 4 with the same setup (but location + google now turned ON) absolutely annihilates my Note II battery life on standby. This is clearly a Samsung problem that they have ignored for the best part of a whole year, and it seems to be related to wifi.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Do u have some figures about this battery drain to be able to compare with my phone?
It could be a bad modem/connection. What is your configuration?
Primokorn said:
Do u have some figures about this battery drain to be able to compare with my phone?
It could be a bad modem/connection. What is your configuration?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No exact figures but I have been observing it for months now and it hasn't been the case with any other phone I use. With wifi on, it'll drain around 20% overnight. With Wifi off, it'll drain 5 or so %. With Wifi on on every other phone I own/owned, it will barely drain at all overnight.
Type *#0011#
Check wifi setting
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app
This is what I got when I entered that it
After *#0011# go to menu and select wifi in order to see if power safe mode is on.
Yeah it is on
Is that bad?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
That's not bad, it improves battery usage. I don't recognize your problem. Does the phone go into deep sleep with wifi on? Which rom do you use?
Hielko said:
That's not bad, it improves battery usage. I don't recognize your problem. Does the phone go into deep sleep with wifi on? Which rom do you use?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Stock ROM. And yeah, but it is constantly being woken up.
Sorry for the bump, but this hasn't changed.
I'm not sure if this is to do with just the N7105, but it is something that just won't go away. I'm now finding I lose between 20 and 30% overnight (around 7 hours) with wifi on, or about 10% with data on. With these both turned off but the phone radio still being on, it only drops about 2% in the same time. This was tested with bluetooth/gps and sync turned off.
I don't really have the time to write up everything that I have tried, but suffice to say I have tweaked the phone a lot over the past few months trying to sort this out, but nothing works.
Here is a quick summary of the stuff I have done.
Firstly, I have to run a stock rom and kernel because there is an app I need that will not work on custom roms/kernels. It also doesn't work on root but I have found a procedure to toggle unroot/root when need be and it works fine. Therefore I'm stuck on 4.1.2 as I want to be rooted but I cannot use any custom rom or kernels.
I have tried factory wiping the phone/installing later versions of 4.1.2, etc etc and the same problems still exists with a freshly wiped phone and no apps installed. This problem also doesn't happen with my Nexus 4 or any other phone I have owned with the same setup, so I am very certain it is not due to a misbehaving app.
I have frozen a lot of bloat with titanium backup, I have hibernated a hell of a lot of stuff with greenify (including system app where there are no perceivable negative consequences)
I have added a few tweaks to the build.prop such as to disable fast dormancy and a few other supposed power saving ones which are meant to help with the msm_hsic wakelock.
There are many other things such as setting a static IP, and also tweaking with my router based on some advise I found on these forums. Nothing much has helped.
Location services and google now are off, and I'm not using the Samsung bloatware apps.
I use betterbatterystats and the partial wakelocks are fine. Very low infact.
However, IMO it is two "kernal wakelocks" which are causing me the problem.
wlan_rx_wake - in regards to the wifi
mdm_hsic_pm0 - in regards to the data
These are by no means outrageously high. My estimation is perhaps 10 mins wake up time and around 2000 "expire time" (whatever that means) every 3 hours or so. However, these two are always the highest kernel wakelock depending on if i'm using wifi (wlan_rx_wake) or data (mdm_hsic_pm0). My phone is also not being kept awake too long too in general.. at a guess around 3 hours awake time for every 2 hours screen on time for every 15-20 hours.
I can't remember if these kernel wakelocks were super duper high in the past, and the fixes I tried actually lowered them, but I still notice this massive Idle drain when on data or wifi (just over 1% per hour - or 2-3% per hour respectively).
In regards to the Wifi.. I suspect that packets are being sent from my router which are constantly waking up my phone. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to solve this problem with any of the router-side fixes I've tried.
This leads me to suspect that the wifi and data radio of the N7105 is power hungry, or I've had a faulty unit since day one. I keep hearing about this stellar battery life for this phone but, for me, the best I've ever got is around 20 hours. This may sound good but the problem is it is 20 hours with 6 hours screen on time, or 20 hours with 2 hours screen on time. This doesn't seem to make a difference where I should be getting two days when I only have 2 hours screen on time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and any experiances of others with the N7105 may help find out if it indeed is more power hungry. I'd also like to add that my network does not support 4G yet so this is all on 3G and NOT LTE.
Thank you, and sorry for such a long post.
fade2black101 said:
Hi guys
I have a LTE Note II and have had this battery drain on standby where wifi will absolutely destroy my battery. This has been going on for months and months and I'm just not sure if Samsung are ever going to resolve this and it is quite the pain in the arse.
I've done many tweaks to my phone, and all location services are off. Also, I've set it as a static IP, but nothing seems to help. I think this is related to the wlan_rx_wake wakelock? I get the impression my phone is responding to the wifi and getting woken up constantly.
Does anyone else experience this and do you have any suggestions?
P.S. please don't mention my apps causing it. It definitely is not. I know my way around Android and also, my Nexus 4 with the same setup (but location + google now turned ON) absolutely annihilates my Note II battery life on standby. This is clearly a Samsung problem that they have ignored for the best part of a whole year, and it seems to be related to wifi.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I ain't expert...
but, I would suggest like this :
Go to wifi, press menu and then Advanced (advanced setting of the wifi).
uncheck/untick "Scanning always available"
"Keep wifi on during sleep" = set to Never.
uncheck / untick "auto network switch btwen wifi network and mobile networks"
all these helps me to minimize the usage of wifi during night times (when I sleep). Anyway, device also need to have a deepsleep
Hope can help you as well.
Sent from the corner of this rounded earth.

What keeps WiFi on at night?

On latest Android M updates, but this has been happening forever since upgrading to M. Some nights my N7 is well behaved, while other nights it chews through battery. From looking at BBS it seems that something keeps WiFi on all the time those nights, even though the WiFi advanced settings say that WiFi should be on only when plugged in. BBS doesn't show anything else interesting.
So, how can I find out what's preventing WiFi from sleeping? Android M bug? Some app?
And more importantly ... what can I do about it? The N7 used to have great battery life, now it's terrible (could be Android M or it could be that the battery is 3 yrs old and no longer performing as it should, though it doesn't happen all the time, so I suspect it's a software issue).
Same here. Fully charged Nexus is empty after a night. All due to WiFi. Suddenly.
I ended up installing this app to fix it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterwifionoff&hl=en
It's old and doesn't work well with multiple users on the same device, but it works well enough to fix the battery problems. My N7 sleeps like a baby now and battery drain overnight is barely noticeable. FWIW, I tried Greenify first but didn't really help. In fact Greenify has a problem if you enable aggressive doze mode where there's a constant wakelock which makes battery drain even worse.
I'm sure the same could be automated using Tasker, MacroDroid, Automagic or any other automation app but didn't feel like messing with them even though I own Tasker. Better Wifi on/off was the quick and easy way out. We are not getting any more updates for Android on N7 so I know it will work until the tablet dies completely.

Wifi drain battery

I have a problem with wifi. In battery stats wifi has more consumption as screen.
I never seen it on any other android smartphone in my house.
Somebody with this behavior? I am using latest stock.
Check Location>Wifi Scanning
any other idea
thx, i disable scanning in location, reboot, after week still wifi 1st in battery consumption, it's not big problem, battery life on this phone is excellent, but can be better
It's a wrong report from Android, your WiFi is not draining your battery (a few of us have the same problem, me included). I don't know where it comes from but you can just ignore it (there's no real way to fix the issue I'm afraid)
Mine was doing the same - and I use Chrome a lot for web surfing
Disable Location permissions in Chrome (Settings->Apps->Chrome->Permissions->Location Off)
ok, i just ignoring it, not big deal, battery life is fine, i just was wondering if can be even better everybody know android is quite tricky
Some screenshots would be great, so people can help.
That's the kind of problem he is having, which is just a bug from Android ?
DadOudidOuda said:
That's the kind of problem he is having, which is just a bug from Android ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you also post how much mah does that use(by clicking on WiFi). And also the battery map clicked.
Thanks
bharatshaan said:
Can you also post how much mah does that use(by clicking on WiFi). And also the battery map clicked.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here you go
DadOudidOuda said:
Here you go
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hope you have your WiFi scanning and WiFi network notification off.
I faced same problem in the starting.
I switched above settings off and cleared cache and then switched off WiFi and restated phone.
Now it is gone. Hope it helps.
bharatshaan said:
I hope you have your WiFi scanning and WiFi network notification off.
I faced same problem in the starting.
I switched above settings off and cleared cache and then switched off WiFi and restated phone.
Now it is gone. Hope it helps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Everything has been off for a while, the "problem" appeared afterwards but I personally don't mind, I know that's just a bug
DadOudidOuda said:
Everything has been off for a while, the "problem" appeared afterwards but I personally don't mind, I know that's just a bug
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you guys only seeing this reporting when wifi is on but not connected? Or all the time?
Only had the device 2 days, but no sign of it for me - wifi on, background scanning and network notification also on. Only been out of wifi coverage for a few hours though.
dandrumheller said:
Are you guys only seeing this reporting when wifi is on but not connected? Or all the time?
Only had the device 2 days, but no sign of it for me - wifi on, background scanning and network notification also on. Only been out of wifi coverage for a few hours though.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's when the WiFi is on (connected or not).
OK, some say it's a bug, others say it's no biggie since the large battery, but.... I used to get home after a 12 hr days work, and have 4-5 hrs sot and still 20-30% left. Now I need to keep the phone charged, because it's down to 10 % halfway... That IS a BIGGIE.... And for those who say it's just a stats thingie, well, if this thingie shows 0%: your phone WILL shut down!
Ive tried ALL tips, NOTHING works. Period. What bugs me most is that I don't know why! I turned off scanning, cleared cache, reboot, etc, heck, I even did multiple factory resets, NO GO on any of those!
Believe me I'm happy for those that have solved the issue, but this should have never happened.
After consulting Motorola's customer services I was advised to send it back for repair, and so I did. I need to get it back still, but if this really is a bug, than:
SHAME ON YOU MOTOROLA/LENOVO.
You need to fix this asap, because it really IS a BIGGIE!
Even when it was disabled all the time.
you have to disable location scanning for bluetooth and wifi. I've had the same issue. I also dont use high accuracy location. I use device only to save battery and prevent wifi from turning on. It drains crap ton of battery.
Yea! I had also disabled it and made one thread for this so let other knows the solution.
SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/how-to/guide-prevent-wifi-draining-battery-t3612123

Categories

Resources