Bizarre battery problems cropped up during romming

[Titchener17]

Ha, btw Freddie King's Going Down just came on shuffle while reading "going down" portion of post. Love when synchronicity happens

 

[Titchener17]

EarlyMon, that battery solution based info you gave has helped me lock in my wifi signal with neighbors considered and jet pack err router setup. Info to help in the future too. Thank you very much sir! :thumbup:

 

[greg schmeg]

OK guys. I calibrated my battery with battery calibration apk. I let it fully discharge and recharge back to 100%. Unplugged phone at 1AM with 100% and when I woke up at 9 AM my battery had drained down to 20%... Usually when i wake up its at around 75%-85%... And I'm running greenify which hibernates most of my apks. I looked at all three apps, wifi analyzer, android system info, and gsam battery. I didn't see anything that looked out of the ordinary as far as any numbers I saw, but i know something can't be right... I guess I'll post some screenshots of those apps with the graphs and numbers that they contain. I don't really know what to do

Also, the battery seems to be charging now even with the screen on and running some apps. ?? Wasn't before, is now.

 

[Doc]

Yea post up some screenies so we can take a look

 

[greg schmeg]

Gsam battery

 

[greg schmeg]

Android system info

 

[greg schmeg]

Very steady signal. Not jumping around

 

[greg schmeg]

During last nights 8 hour discharging period, my cell standby numbers are huge...

 

[greg schmeg]

I'm missing how I could still be having these types of issues after a clean flash to a trusted ROM. Idk but it makes me think its a problem deep in the system..

 

[EarlyMon]

I'll be back in a little bit, will smoke over your screenshots then, mobile now. Just letting you know so you know I'm not bailing on you.

 

[EarlyMon]

Ok, you're not seeing the whole story yet.

From Android System Info, this is the shot I care about -

Spoiler

Now, here's mine, taken with Gsam -

Spoiler

Overall, when your screen is off, your phone is mostly asleep - according to the awake bar.

You've got some blocks of awake time in there, that could be email, social apps, etc etc.

But - notice that in the first third of your graph, where your battery is falling - mine is holding rock steady, not dissipating.

So the battery bar is saying that something on your phone is actually awake.

So - the stats you have are necessary but not sufficient to tell us what we need to know.

The real deal is that while those graphs are handy, they'll mask out awake activities that are on/off, on/off super-short duration.

I suspect that you have those and that if we could zoom in on your graph, we'd see them.

Good news - let's pretend we saw them anyway and take the next step.

On your first Gsam page shown - % of power - tap that and choose wakelocks.

Please show me that screen next.

 

[EarlyMon]

And by the way - we'll be needing to see that Gsam info from a period of at least a few hours while on battery ok.

 

[greg schmeg]

Sure thing. Hey where it said system (wakelocks) in that first picture, its now not showing up at all like it did before. There is a spot I can click that just says Android System and inside it shows a window about wakelocks. I guess I'll post that since its not showing System (wakelocks) anymore...

 

[greg schmeg]

Android system/ wake lock details

 

[EarlyMon]

Ok, interesting - two things.

First - I think you don't know about our app - is that so?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapatalk.androidforumscom

It makes posting screenshots a whole lot easier than with a browser - you don't have to edit for size or anything or hassle going from phone to PC.

Second - before I dig into your system wakelock stuff, please show me the screen to follow (give me a sec, I'm posting from my phone and my desk lol).

 

[EarlyMon]

See what I did there with Gsam?

That top bar is a drop down menu.

Let's see first what your distribution of wakelocks by app looks like.

 

[Titchener17]

Nice.. Doc n doctor EarlyMon diagnosing the situation! This is cool to witness must say am trying to learn/understand the knowledge that's being dropped and logic too, but mainly just good stuff yall cheers !

 

[EarlyMon]

 

[greg schmeg]

Ya your overall percentage was around 12%. Mine is double that...

 

[greg schmeg]

I've lost 35% from 100% in an hour and thirty five minutes.

 

[Doc]

Mine is in the same ball park as Earlys is, I just wondering what apps are you running.....

 

[EarlyMon]

Bingo.

Tap that arrow to the right on Google Services - no guarantees but let's see if we found it.

And by the way - consider running a day with Greenify uninstalled.

I'm not knocking the app - I'm just saying - no telling how that's interacting with the Android OOM (out of memory) manager in your configuration.

 

[greg schmeg]

OK I can disable it for a day but I must say, when I first started using it recently it seemed to help. But I will disable it now and will post screenshot in a moment

 

[EarlyMon]

OK I can disable it for a day but I must say, when I first started using it recently it seemed to help. But I will disable it now and will post screenshot in a moment

Easy does it.

Please take it a step at a time.

I've had the same problem with a battery as you before, 100% gone in 4 hours doing nothing, so I can dig the frustration and the desire to find it.

But it'll go just as quickly the better way.

Show me the thing I asked above first.

If we don't get anywhere, freeze Greenify, reboot, start Gsam, tap the home button, screen off, give it an hour, then let's see the same screens.

Like I said, I'm not knocking the app, your decisions or anything.

What I'm about is reducing various interactions as we go along and see what pops out.

My experience is that approach usually works.

Cool?

 

[EarlyMon]

Oh, and I'm sick as a dog today and thinking fuzzy when I talk so make me repeat anything that doesn't make sense.

I said a day before, I just meant - some time, like - an hour or so.