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Green power app works as well, you don't even have to allow it to manage the WiFi. I think it's an issue with the network data. That's all I have it managing and it seems to go to sleep ok. The phone does still get rather warm while using WiFi though. But at least it's not awake for hours on end.
 
Definitely something wrong with your phone if its getting warm just having wifi on, i can play HD videos on youtube and it wont even get slightly warm, was one of the things that impressed me most with this phone. If you are under warranty id ask for a replacement.
 
Did a factory reset from hboot and didn't do a restore yesterday. In fact didn't even sign into my Google account until setup was done and VM did the ID install. Seems to be going to sleep just fine now. Knock on wood. Cross our fingers.
 
Day 2 after the reset and I haven't had the sleep issue again. I've installed most things I need and it's working ok. Only stuff I haven't installed are the Amazon app store and anything I own from it.
 
I tried a factory reset and after a couple of days the issue came back again - it definately seems to be some kind of rogue system process as whenever this is happening (like now - if I could attach a screenshot, I would), the top contender by A LONG WAY is "Android System".

In fact, checking my phone right now, 35% of my CPU is getting used pretty much constantly with "system_server" and 15% with "com.google.android.gms"
 
Huh, mines been good for the last week. Did you do the reset from the hboot screen? That seemed to work for me. That and I didn't restore my phone and didn't even log into Google until after the ID software update.
 
shew82 said:
I tried a factory reset and after a couple of days the issue came back again - it definately seems to be some kind of rogue system process as whenever this is happening (like now - if I could attach a screenshot, I would), the top contender by A LONG WAY is "Android System".

In fact, checking my phone right now, 35% of my CPU is getting used pretty much constantly with "system_server" and 15% with "com.google.android.gms"
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This is what I've been getting also, though mines been good for two days now but keeps coming back every once in awhile, for some reason it seems to be calming down!
 
One tip I found while sifting through these power issues with my own device, which seems counter intuitive to how we've all managed our smartphones so far, leave GPS on and turn the location mode to "high accuracy" instead of battery saving.

The logic here is that google location services keeps awake, firing up the wifi to determine location instead of just powering up the GPS briefly when called on. Seems to make a difference, at least qualitatively, which is the yardstick we all tend to use with these things......
 
I also have another hypothesis. After my last reset my phone lasted for a week waking and sleeping normally until yesterday when the updated HTC backup app popped up a notification about registering my backup account (I hadn't signed in yet) after that everything went haywire and my phone stayed awake and my battery power drained quick. I removed the update, force closed it and restarted my phone and is seemed to act properly again.

Could it be the HTC backup update from the play store that is being wacky with the update?
 
I think you both overthink stuff lol. Turn on power saver and stop thinking about it. If you are getting a days worth of battery that is all you can ask for in a phone today, no more 1.7inch screens where you could get 3 days easy.
 
araxxis said:
I think you both overthink stuff lol. Turn on power saver and stop thinking about it. If you are getting a days worth of battery that is all you can ask for in a phone today, no more 1.7inch screens where you could get 3 days easy.
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The issue isn't powersaver mode, the issue is something is actually keeping the phone awake and causing a battery drain. I can disable WiFi and my network connection when it's doing this and still watch my battery drain very quick. It's acting ok today after I uninstalled the update to the htc backup app, I'll let you know if it acts up again.
 
I have not been able to pinpoint it, mine is still acting up every other day or so and haven't found a steady thing that does it. Hope it's that, that would be great!
 
BTW, when I catch it acting up (draining) I will restart the phone and it seems to go back to normal. Sometimes have to do a full shut down and then reboot to get it back to normal. Still seems to be getting less and less of a problem over time, (knocking on wood).
 
I agree that battery problems seem to be recurring, even after the reset steps described earlier in this thread. Those efforts solved the problem for a good while, but the problem is back. I have not yet observed enough to concur with the theories or solutions proposed thus far, but consider this a vote affirming that the problem is ongoing.
 
I actually think mine is the play services. I find that the problem stops when I kill that and restart. I reported this to Google, but I don't think anything has been done yet.
 
I've thought that it was the play services but just can't seem to nail it down, that could be it though, that seems to be one of the main culprits under battery usage.
 
I dunno why you guys are having problems, ever since i upgraded to kit kat my battery has been outstanding. Like right now im at 1 day 12 hours usage and 51% battery life, this is playing twitchtv app on my phone for quite a while even. Prior to this update i would be at 25-35%.
 
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the updated play store seemed to have improved the issue for me today. Maybe I'm just not seeing it yet, but I've been checking and haven't had any crazy battery drain yet today.
 
groo79 said:
Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the updated play store seemed to have improved the issue for me today. Maybe I'm just not seeing it yet, but I've been checking and haven't had any crazy battery drain yet today.
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Would not be surprised if that was it. I've noticed "Google play services" taking up an ungodly amount of CPU cycles.
 
Just last night I thought to revise my Play Store settings to only allow updates via wifi. My thinking was to prevent the phone from trying to reach out to a distant tower just to check for and grab updates, thereby preserving power. Sure enough, my battery was enormously better today.

BTW, I haven't yet received the latest Play Store update ony Virgin Mobile Desire 601, so that's not a factor in my improvement.
 
I have the same issue. I think that hard reset formating
/system /data /cache folder will not help.
I saw that when the phone gets warm the "android system process"
has high cpu usage - 25% and above, you can see the screenshot
bit.ly/1q6vi2e
I try almost everything. No backups, no syncs, no location, wifi/3g off when screen
is off, power save use and etc and etc.
Is there any tool or way that can analyze why this process have
so high usage? Something like debuger, analyzer or else ?

Today I will try to disable the google play service and see what's happens.
I have root + recovery 4.4.2 stock rom
 
Negative on the new play store update. BAHHH! I'm about to call VM and see if they can do something. This is ridiculous, I had 0 battery problems before the Kit Kat update. Something went horribly wrong on HTC's end I think.
 
My android system currently says 84% and that's pretty normal even when it's not having the problems. Not sure what's up with that. Definitely always the highest but seems like when it's having the "stay awake" issue and the batteries draining the "Play Services" jump up into the 20-30% area. No idea what's up? Been driving me nuts since after the update but have learned to kind of keep an eye on it and restart the phone whenever this happens, down to usually once a day or so.
 
I think that the reason of high cpu usage on "android system process" is have something general with those two options:

- first I change the Network mode WCDMA, GSm only, GSM/WCDMA and GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto to -->>> WCDMA

- wifi policy
Wifi - Keep Wifi on during sleep my options are:
Always, only when plugged in and Never.
I choose -> only when plugged

Today my phone works normal. No warming or high cpu usage
of any process.

keep tracking :-)

Well I found something new. Cause the problem occurs again
i download these software Wakelock Detector
there are some screenshots
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/192vgfue1uz6a8t/AABGzMpTo5PaCvuc_d7d0VNoa
in OS monitor "Android system process" has high cpu usage,
but using Wakelock Detector it seems that google checkin service
is the problem (it is running 4 hours !!!)
Some can try Wakelock terminator, but the phone could crash
- soft brick или bootloop and the Xposed module doesn't seem to work with 4.4

Now I try App Ops for root
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droidmate.appopsinstaller
I marked "deny" location-а for Android system and Google Play service.

I will post the results in a few days :-)
 
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