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Battery Life BUG in ICS based ROMS

I've done a little research and there is a bug in the 4.0.3 AOSP release. You can see a link to this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22878#makechanges
Attached is a screenshot of the problem ocuring in ICS Passion 13.1
I am curious is anyone NOT having this issue?

Yeah, mine started couple of days ago with the same problem. Android System shows 75% battery usage.
I wonder if there is a fix for this bug. I read whatever is on the link but there is all king of possible solutions.

I'm on MIUI and this is happening quite a bit too

Yeah, My battery will be 80% I reboot and it 10% or it's10% and I reboot then it's 80%...lol

I think, 84% is the culprit. Read my post here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23766036&postcount=2223
bobshute said:
Yeah, My battery will be 80% I reboot and it 10% or it's10% and I reboot then it's 80%...lol
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I used to have that issue on CM7 many moons ago. Did a bunch of searches and someone mentioned a process call GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK somewhere on XDA, that constantly runs even after you do not choose to backup to google (at least thats what I think its for).
I used root explorer to go into /system/apps and delete the GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK. I have never had any negative effect from doing it. It fixed the Android OS sucking up battery problem. Now I make it a point to delete it after flashing a rom regardless of whether batter drain is there or not. Never had that issue since.
Try it and see what happens. You can always just move it or rename it so you can put it back if it does not solve your problem.

illego said:
I used to have that issue on CM7 many moons ago. Did a bunch of searches and someone mentioned a process call GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK somewhere on XDA, that constantly runs even after you do not choose to backup to google (at least thats what I think its for).
I used root explorer to go into /system/apps and delete the GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK. I have never had any negative effect from doing it. It fixed the Android OS sucking up battery problem. Now I make it a point to delete it after flashing a rom regardless of whether batter drain is there or not. Never had that issue since.
Try it and see what happens. You can always just move it or rename it so you can put it back if it does not solve your problem.
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I'm trying this now, I'll report back. Thanks

I'm joining this club.
Mine S2 is having the same problem since yesterday....
System uses 39% and keeps my phone awake for 6 hours now.
Would like to add a screenshot but I can't
Info:
Model: GT-I9100
Version: 4.0.3
Baseband: I9100XXLPQ
Kernel: [email protected] #3
Build: Lite'ning ROM v2.1

thaizz said:
I'm joining this club.
Mine S2 is having the same problem since yesterday....
System uses 39% and keeps my phone awake for 6 hours now.
Would like to add a screenshot but I can't
Info:
Model: GT-I9100
Version: 4.0.3
Baseband: I9100XXLPQ
Kernel: [email protected] #3
Build: Lite'ning ROM v2.1
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Post to the Google Code bug

Just wondering if there have been any discoveries or new info on this problem.
I was experiencing this bug for a long time and I thought it was a bad battery. After replacing my battery it was still happening.

Battery life is the sole reason I went from ICS Passion (4.0.3) to Slim ICS (4.0.4).
I think battery life is better now, but I've also been incrementally restoring all my apps, ensuring battery drain isn't unreasonably affected with each restore.

I have this same issue! My battery lasted up to a day yesterday and today I had to charge my phone twice. Lasted only 4 hours. Pretty ridiculous I would say! I did try removing googletransport.apk and it reduced my android os to 25% or so from 60% that's about it.
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Try using any of the ROMs on Android 4.0.4
EXROM
SLIM ICS
ZenWick
I too was on ICS Passion. I noticed a huge battery improvement when moving to the ROMs listed above (4.0.4 based)

xdaboualem said:
Try using any of the ROMs on Android 4.0.4
EXROM
SLIM ICS
ZenWick
I too was on ICS Passion. I noticed a huge battery improvement when moving to the ROMs listed above (4.0.4 based)
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I was hoping for a work around sigh .
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illego said:
I used to have that issue on CM7 many moons ago. Did a bunch of searches and someone mentioned a process call GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK somewhere on XDA, that constantly runs even after you do not choose to backup to google (at least thats what I think its for).
I used root explorer to go into /system/apps and delete the GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK. I have never had any negative effect from doing it. It fixed the Android OS sucking up battery problem. Now I make it a point to delete it after flashing a rom regardless of whether batter drain is there or not. Never had that issue since.
Try it and see what happens. You can always just move it or rename it so you can put it back if it does not solve your problem.
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Wow, this worked beautifully, thanks a mil illego.
Installed ICS Passion v13.1 a few days ago and had severe battery drainage, from 100% to 0% in 8 hours after calibration.
Looking at the battery stats I realized that the phone was always in AWAKE mode, with ANDROID SYSTEM sapping like 80%.
After renaming GOOGLEBACKUPTRANSPORT.APK the phone finally went into much needed sleep mode.
In hindsight, I enabled Google "Backup this Phone" during first ICS setup, and this must've tried to connect to the internet the whole time or had a process keeping the phone awake.
Brilliant fix, you made my day, thx.

I was using ICSSGS's 4.0.3 and noticing that my battery was draining pretty quick with little or no use.
I decided to try the Dark Knight 4.0.4 rom and my battery life has pretty much doubled.
No lock screen issues now either!

SlimICS!
I have been using SlimICS and have never had any batt drain issues. Googlebackup.apk is removed by default from this ROM.

I never get good battery life on a ics rom, tried on 3 different phones with 6 different roms. It looks nice but isn't battery friendly from my experience.

[bman123] said:
I never get good battery life on a ics rom, tried on 3 different phones with 6 different roms. It looks nice but isn't battery friendly from my experience.
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You must have one or more apps draining your battery.
User betterbatteryStats or "BadAss battery monitor" to check where battery is being used and whether any app is keeping the phone awake.

I agree
I have to agree. When I use a Froyo Rom my phone loses .5% per hour in idle. At times it loses a max of 1% per hour. However, with ICS ROMs I lose around 1.7% per hour. I have tried just about all ICS Roms, and all Kernels. While some are better than others, 1.7% per hour is pretty standard with any ICS. Trust me, I have no deep sleep issues, and no abnormal wakelocks. I've read all the post of saving battery life, and done them all. Roughly 1.7% per hour is what I get with any ICS Rom.
Personally, I like the look and feel of ICS so I just take the good with the bad. Can anyone shed some light on this. Why does ICS drain battery so quickly in idle vs older android versions. Or, is it just the Vibrant? Im stumped.

how to stop android os from draining battery

OK. I'm frustrating as hell over android os draining my battery. I've tried different type kernel from stock, bricked, faux, Trinity, motley, Franco and every time and android is would take a good chunk if battery life even when I'm doing nothing. Anyone know what's really causing this to happen or how to fix it?

Sorry just realized I posted in the wrong section. This should probably belong in the q& a .

I have this problem on some days. Quite annoying.
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qpqpqp said:
OK. I'm frustrating as hell over android os draining my battery. I've tried different type kernel from stock, bricked, faux, Trinity, motley, Franco and every time and android is would take a good chunk if battery life even when I'm doing nothing. Anyone know what's really causing this to happen or how to fix it?
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Just started happening to me aswell. I'm completely on stock. Hope someone is able to solve this before I have to do a factory reset..

Turn of Location Updating in Google Maps, Settings?
Worked for me. I had enabled location updating on another device in the past, and the setting had sync'd.

For me a full factory reset using the official factory image from Google + installing franco kernel v28 fixed the issue. Maps usage is still high, but Android OS went from 30% to 8-10%. BAttery life is way better. Which version of franco have you tried ?
Here you can find the latest kernel : [KERNEL][GPL][N4] franco.Kernel - r29

CrazyPeter said:
Turn of Location Updating in Google Maps, Settings?
Worked for me. I had enabled location updating on another device in the past, and the setting had sync'd.
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This.

CrazyPeter said:
Turn of Location Updating in Google Maps, Settings?
Worked for me. I had enabled location updating on another device in the past, and the setting had sync'd.
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Did that a couple of days ago, didn't help so far. It decreased Maps battery usage, but not the Android Os process.
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I flashed cm10.1 and faux latest beta kernel and android os is no longer taking up all my battery
I'm getting about 4 hours screen on time now.
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Battery drain

Hey All,
I went to sleep last night with my power at around 50% and woke up this morning and it had dropped to around 11% which seems absolutely huge to me considering I wasn't doing anything with it. So I went to settings->battery to have a look and I now see "Android OS" taking up 31% and "Android System" taking up 6%, I'm sure these weren't there (or taking up so much power that I'd notice them) before I upgraded to 4.2.2 - what's going on?
I've added a screenshot of the battery section of my settings as well.

Monotoko said:
Hey All,
I went to sleep last night with my power at around 50% and woke up this morning and it had dropped to around 11% which seems absolutely huge to me considering I wasn't doing anything with it. So I went to settings->battery to have a look and I now see "Android OS" taking up 31% and "Android System" taking up 6%, I'm sure these weren't there (or taking up so much power that I'd notice them) before I upgraded to 4.2.2 - what's going on?
I've added a screenshot of the battery section of my settings as well.
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Stock kernel?

Yeah, everything stock and unrooted the bootloader is unlocked because I was playing with some ROM's a while ago, but my kernel version right now is:
3.4.5-gaf9c307
[email protected]corp.google.com #1
Tue Jan 8 17:22:07 PST 2013

Monotoko said:
Yeah, everything stock and unrooted the bootloader is unlocked because I was playing with some ROM's a while ago, but my kernel version right now is:
3.4.5-gaf9c307
[email protected] #1
Tue Jan 8 17:22:07 PST 2013
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hummm, in my experience I had high OS battery drain using Franco's kernel R4. however with CleanROm's kernel(I beleive stock 4.2.1) battery was fine.
I have not updated to 4.2.2 yet. But maybe the solution is using another kernel.

If I install the custom ROM from here: http://www.scottsroms.com/content.p...-2-0-★-Aroma-Stable-Fast-CLEAN!-★
Does it include the custom kernel as well?

Naver LINE chat causes battery drain. Anyone else noticed it?

Hi!
I'm using my new Nexus4 for a week and I can't believe that its battery duration is worse than my old Samsung Galaxy SII. Yesterday I looked to the "Battery" in the settings app and I saw that the program spending the most of the battery was Naver LINE chat, a 46%!!!!! I'm not a power-user of LINE (the latest time that I opened it was 4 days ago).
I can't believe it, but I uninstalled the app for testing if the battery drain disappear today.
Anyone else has noticed it?

I did, since the latest update I'm experiencing this too, I'm waiting for an update to fix this

yep definitely one of the biggest wakelock source. I froze it with titanium backup and my battery stats went up significantly.

it happen to me too according to Better Battery Stat app. hope next update will solve this problem

Fine! I'm not mad LOL!
I was asking to my friends with different Android mobiles (SGS2, SGS3, Sony Xperias...) and any of them has noticed it.
Is it possible that some custom ROMs (or maybe some stock ROMs like the Samsung ones) are "fixing" in some way this wakeLock for avoiding battery issues? It's estrange that people with the latest LINE version in Android are not experiencing the issue...

I believe the latest update has fixed this

Xanderwufu said:
I believe the latest update has fixed this
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Unfortunately, not for me
Still using more than 40% on my N4 and my wife's N4 as well.
No way to report this to the developers.

Not to beat a dead horse but I'm curious about this also.
I feel like Line is a huge battery drain and I'm tempted to uninstall it.

the1onewolf said:
Not to beat a dead horse but I'm curious about this also.
I feel like Line is a huge battery drain and I'm tempted to uninstall it.
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Is urs 3.10.1? Or .0?
Mine also like this and it has been kept awake for nearly an hour....jesus.

7.1.1 (December security update) live now

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

It's official, pixel c is not a pixel device. No pixel features to be found

For me the downloaded OTA will not work to upgrade from the beta version. The ota has a time stamp of 4 november and the beta has a timestamp of 11 November . Running adb sideload "ota.zip" returns Error E3003: Can't install this package (<OTA timestamp>) over newer build (<beta timestamp>).
Edit: Refresh my memory. Is it the case that any reversion from beta to factory release requires a full install?

Is anyone else noticing severe battery drain after updating to NMF26H? I didn't have a problem with the developer preview releases but I lost 35% of my battery idling last night and just tested again and lost 15% in roughly for hours. Android OS, tablet idle and Android system seem to be the vaguely specified culprits.

]grimm[ said:
Is anyone else noticing severe battery drain after updating to NMF26H? I didn't have a problem with the developer preview releases but I lost 35% of my battery idling last night and just tested again and lost 15% in roughly for hours. Android OS, tablet idle and Android system seem to be the vaguely specified culprits.
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Quite the opposite for me. Battery life seems better.

I'll keep my eyes open. Perhaps it was a one off. Also, I now seem to notice that "Cellular network signal" appears under the battery graph (always as a "red" no signal, obviously). Is this new? I don't recall seeing it there before given that the tablet has no cellular radio.

]grimm[ said:
I'll keep my eyes open. Perhaps it was a one off. Also, I now seem to notice that "Cellular network signal" appears under the battery graph (always as a "red" no signal, obviously). Is this new? I don't recall seeing it there before given that the tablet has no cellular radio.
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Nothing like that on mine.

cam30era said:
Nothing like that on mine.
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For clarification, nothing like in the attached screenshot? I wonder what's going on with my tablet...

]grimm[ said:
For clarification, nothing like in the attached screenshot? I wonder what's going on with my tablet...
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Nope

The culprit for battery drain seemed to be the TWC TV app (which I never even really use). Uninstalling it seemed to fix it.

I upgraded the system yesterday to 7.1.1 from 7.0 and night mode has disappeared, I have read in some places that the implementation of night mode has changed in a way that now requires driver support which is not present in this device.
Anybody knows a solution for this? Overlay apps like twilight are much worse that native night mode

]grimm[ said:
For clarification, nothing like in the attached screenshot? I wonder what's going on with my tablet...
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its also does the same thing on mine , help!

Got my 7.1.1 OTA from the DP beta yesterday evening. Battery seems have improved when not in use. Haven't look ed at changes in this release to see if they did anything to sleep or doze functions.

Just picked up this device. So far so good
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bajasur said:
Just picked up this device. So far so good
Sent from my Pixel C using XDA-Developers mobile app
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