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Help Screen killing phone battery?.

t12b25

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Hi everybody I use gsam and it says 59% of my battery is used by the screen. Even weirder is that it's only calculating 26% last 2:30 hours, but I'm at 49% hmm and no I haven't charged my phone since 100% at 3:35pm. Any ideas I included a pic. Thank you,
Anthony
 

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Graph, Other tab at the far right, see if it reveals anything.
How's this?. Does that help any?.
Thanks for the help/reply.
Anthony.
 

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See that dark vertical line?

It looks like the phone rebooted at 6:08 pm - the picture in the first post is referencing the percentage at that time - 75%.

If it didn't reboot, you're not running an automatic task killer, ram cleaner, or battery helper are you?
 
No I don't run any of that stuff it's been years. It might've rebooted. Any idea why the screen was taking up 59%?. I had my brightness turned the way down . From what I can see it said it was the screen that doesn't usually happen, usually I have good battery life. I thought it was a rogue app. Any idea?.
Thank you, I appreciate your help.
Anthony.
 
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Mine is misbehaving a bit, I'm aware of it - I'm testing some stuff, I've had lousy reception all day, and I have auto brightness on.

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I lost 56% of the almost 40% used while the screen was on - not to just the screen -

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That part works out to about 10%/hour for screen on time use (combination of local and streaming videos) and fits my expectations.

I've also lost over an additional 15% to being held awake - and as I'm rooted, I can confirm that that is what GSam is trying to say by looking at the overview from Wakelock Detector -

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Mine has been caused by unnecessary alarms (remember, I'm testing some stuff) and generally a bad signal earlier.

Although GSam is saying that the awake portion is costing me 0%, it's not accurate and the actual loss is being tallied in my apps.

Hopefully that all will help with some insight into your data so far and give you some points for comparison.

Unless you're getting a bad signal, I would look at your apps, definitely.

You've got something holding the phone awake quite a bit and your power drain isn't great to see on the graph.

This is your target (from an earlier version of the app) -

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Basically, a flat line without drop when the screen is off, even if harmless, FAST, wakelocks occur behind your back.
 
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