Battery drains fast!

[parker34]

Read all the pages in this thread, it's a kernal issue...

I know that there is an issue with it but I have yet to see one where it is awake 100% of the time. Mine did not "sleep" one time last night.

 

[jcardona1]

I know that there is an issue with it but I have yet to see one where it is awake 100% of the time. Mine did not "sleep" one time last night.

Yeah that's pretty nuts lol. Mine is usually awake for half of the total time. Have you tried installing Watchdog so you could see which apps are running in the background? It keeps telling me FB is hogging up a lot of the CPU. So last night I turned off FB notifications and restricted background data in Settings-Data. I'll see if that makes any difference today. Tomorrow I may uninstall FB all together and see what happens.

Out of curiosity, those of you with 20+hrs of battery life, do you have FB installed?

 

[dezymond]

And here's the results of being idle overnight. Better battery life for sure but seems I lost more battery due to more notifications. Android os doesn't seem to run as high, almost half of what it ran for the past two nights but its still pretty high. Overall I'd say there's a battery life improvement and look forward to the next version of this ROM which should yield even better results

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[tgyberg]

Yeah that's pretty nuts lol. Mine is usually awake for half of the total time. Have you tried installing Watchdog so you could see which apps are running in the background? It keeps telling me FB is hogging up a lot of the CPU. So last night I turned off FB notifications and restricted background data in Settings-Data. I'll see if that makes any difference today. Tomorrow I may uninstall FB all together and see what happens.

Out of curiosity, those of you with 20+hrs of battery life, do you have FB installed?

No FB on my phone and on my Bionic I have anything/all of the social/FB stuff frozen. When I did that I noticed the battery life go through the roof. I hope that is the key!

 

[scdown]

Yeah that's pretty nuts lol. Mine is usually awake for half of the total time. Have you tried installing Watchdog so you could see which apps are running in the background? It keeps telling me FB is hogging up a lot of the CPU. So last night I turned off FB notifications and restricted background data in Settings-Data. I'll see if that makes any difference today. Tomorrow I may uninstall FB all together and see what happens.

Out of curiosity, those of you with 20+hrs of battery life, do you have FB installed?

Same here. Uninstalled FB on Saturday, and I've had REALLY good battery life (36% @24 hours)

 

[SSHGuru]

First of all even when you are not using the phone the background processes will eat battery - that is normal.

Secondly, I just uninstalled Facebook. If there is even a chance it's taking any battery I don't want it. I don't use it...

 

[dezymond]

First of all even when you are not using the phone the background processes will eat battery - that is normal.

Secondly, I just uninstalled Facebook. If there is even a chance it's taking any battery I don't want it. I don't use it...

If you're logged in and have notifications on, yes. However if you uninstall it then there is no way it can drain battery, at least to my knowledge...

 

[yakitori]

facebook on my tbolt with liquid 3.2 didnt drain any faster. I put the refresh to never in settings on that app always anyway.

I cant see this really being a huge issue...although its a possibilty I guess with the difference in OS and how it handles the app.

Hopefully fb updates the app to be more compatible with ics. If anything you can always get on fb from browser.

It only shows up as 2 percent on my batt stats screen.

 

[scdown]

facebook on my tbolt with liquid 3.2 didnt drain any faster. I put the refresh to never in settings on that app always anyway.

I cant see this really being a huge issue...although its a possibilty I guess with the difference in OS and how it handles the app.

Hopefully fb updates the app to be more compatible with ics. If anything you can always get on fb from browser.

It only shows up as 2 percent on my batt stats screen.

I'm gonna try Friendcaster to see if it's friendlier - also to get better contact pics (as I've read it might do?)

 

[jcardona1]

facebook on my tbolt with liquid 3.2 didnt drain any faster. I put the refresh to never in settings on that app always anyway.

I cant see this really being a huge issue...although its a possibilty I guess with the difference in OS and how it handles the app.

Hopefully fb updates the app to be more compatible with ics. If anything you can always get on fb from browser.

It only shows up as 2 percent on my batt stats screen.

Yeah same here. It's shows as a very small percentage of battery life, but it keeps throwing off Watchdog alerts as using the CPU a lot even though I haven't touched the app. Something is definitely fishy.

 

[Jradish]

I'm gonna try Friendcaster to see if it's friendlier - also to get better contact pics (as I've read it might do?)

I tried Friendcaster the other day to sync contacts. I deleted it because the contact picture quality was worse than having no contact picture at all.

 

[parker34]

Yeah same here. It's shows as a very small percentage of battery life, but it keeps throwing off Watchdog alerts as using the CPU a lot even though I haven't touched the app. Something is definitely fishy.

I installed watchdog as you said and mine shows facebook way down on the cpu list. It's actually at 0% even though I've used it a few times today. I may still uninstall it and see if my battery differs tomorrow.

 

[mfendley]

Have been using mine quite a bit, and draining the battery in around 6 hours. Once it is configured as I like, my goal will be to get 10-12 hours. If I cannot get there, then I will have to start changing what I have the phone do. In addition to what you can see in the 2nd screen shot, there is also Android System, Media Server, and Words Free all at 2%.

 

[jcardona1]

Things are looking a lot better today for when my phone is just sitting on my desk. What I did differently:

- turn off location services
- using 3g/wifi
- running the app 2x Battery
- disabled FB notifications and restricted FB's background data in the Data settings

Screen has only been on 20min, CPU was kept awake for 48min. Tomorrow I will uninstall FB right before I unplug the phone. Watchdog is showing a high CPU usage for FB.

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[tw15egan]

I installed watchdog as you said and mine shows facebook way down on the cpu list. It's actually at 0% even though I've used it a few times today. I may still uninstall it and see if my battery differs tomorrow.

Why don't you try Restricting Background Data (Under Data Usage in Settings menu) for Facebook? Mine had a really high background data /foreground data discrepancy. Will see if helps