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Help battery consumption suddenly high

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dedik

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So, yesterday I was shocked when I checked my phone and the battery was already in the yellow, only four hours after I had unplugged it from the charger. And I hardly used it, other than a single foursquare check in and checking out my twitter and google reader feeds for a few minutes in a waiting room.

Now, I've had the phone since last November, with no battery issues at all, even with leaving bluetooth and gps and wi-fi on, and it normally lasts me the whole day. So I'm unsure what the problem is and was hoping posting to these forums would help me troubleshoot the issue.

According to the battery info the health is good and the voltage is 3889 MV. So I don't think the battery went bad. Like I said, I've had no issues leaving bluetooth, gps, and wifi on all the time, but tried turning those off anyways, and that didn't seem to lessen the battery drain. Nor did turning off using wireless and gps for my location. I know sometimes my battery will drain faster in an area with bad signal, but I was home for most of the day yesterday, and on wireless to boot, so I don't think it was a signal issue.

I did notice in battery usage, "android system" is noticeably high, around 50%. There were several apps I have installed that had recent updates, including googlemaps, google authenticator, and twitter. They aren't showing up in the battery usage screen though, but is it possible the updates could have caused the android OS to go haywire? I uninstalled the googlemap updates and it did drop the android OS usage to 35%, but the battery still seems to be draining fast (1% every few minutes). Of course, I'm also tinkering with the phone more trying to figure out what's wrong with, so maybe that's impacting things as well?

Any ideas as to what else I can do to try and figure out the problem?
 
Check your google latitude to see if the auto checkin is turned on. I had to uninstall Maps because the latitude or maps was draining like crazy.
 
Alas, I already uninstalled google maps before checking that, and the stock version doesn't have that option. I don't use latitude though, so if I wasn't signed in, I don't think it should be impacting my battery life. (Unless its doing still doing something weird in the background even if one is not signed in, but I have no idea how to check for that)

I posted this same question in the g2 support forms on T-mobile's site, and it sounds like I'm not the only one having the issue all of a sudden spring up yesterday morning. I have my phone charging right now, and I uninstalled the googlemaps update. Once my phone is charged back up, I'll see if I still continue to have issues.

But I'm still open to suggestions, just in case that doesn't work!
 
Is anyone else with a G2 seeing this issue, because on the t-mobile boards I've seen several people also start to have battery issues around the same time I did.

FYI, turning off bluetooth and wifi didn't seem to help. But, turning on airplane mode did. It went from 10% loss an hour to 1%. Same thing with just setting the phone to use 2g networks. Again, 10% to 1%, and that's with bluetooth and wifi still on. (and also having re-installed those googlemaps updates I had rolled back, since that didn't seem to be the culprit) So, it seems to me the only thing that helps is stopping the phone from accessing the higher speed networks. Which makes me think there's something weird going on on T-mobile's end, if it started happening to multiple users at the same time (coincidentally around the same time they announced a major OTA rollout)

I'd try logcat to see if there's anything in the logs that would support my theory, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to make sense of any of the messages.
 
Something weird maybe going on on tmobiles side, pinging G2 IMEIs or something. I went from 100% to 17% in 9 hours 8 of that time I was asleep. I haven't added any new apps, I'm not even stock. My normal over night use is about 1% sometimes it doesn't move at all.
 
i havent had thos problem at all. but also it sounds like some of you are struggling for signal reception and that would take up alot more power than normal (all tho not that much)
 
I have run into this same issue starting last week. I have uninstalled many apps but I have not been able to fix the problem. My wife has the same phone and is not having any battery issues.
 
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