battery issues please help - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My note 3 battery is horrible I downloaded wake lock
Here are 2 pics
Any advice?
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Here is another
My phone has been in my pocket all day not being used until just now when I made this post

I should also mention it is fully stock

looks pretty standard for stock to me. 5 hours for 23% of the battery? That means about 20 hours a cycle? seems very standard for stock.
If you want more then you gotta go custom ROMS and Kernels.
If your rooted use SET CPU to make phone clock speed 322-400 mhz when the screen is turned of.

But why is it awake so much?

Search for "AndroidOS Bug" and you'll get the answer.
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This bug really makes it hard to enjoy the note 3 as a whole. I was plagued by this pretty badly until recently I sort of found a workaround.
Some time ago I found out, that in offline mode the bug is not present. I came across it, when i was in our datacenter where the cell signal is a nightmare. I turned on offline mode and switched WiFi back on (thankfully we have a WiFi active there) and the battery drain was very low with active WiFi and bluetooth (headset connected) over a period of several hours.
I did still encounter the Android OS bug afterwards, but then once after my phone was fully charged, I put it into offline mode for some time (30 secs or one minute) and then switched back to normal and that day I had exceptional battery life (whole day = ~12h with some time checking, messaging and checking mail, with ~70% battery left) which i assume must be the actual battery life that the phone is capable of without bugs.
So long story short:
possible workaround for the Android OS bug: put phone in offline mode for ~1 minute, then back into normal mode
I would love to read if somebody tried this and gave some feedback.

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battery drains a lot

Hello.
I am having problems with the battery because drains a lot (5% per hour without wifi, 3G, screen off, etc). I looked for this problem and I found that other people resolve it installing francokernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36553244). The problem was that the tablet uses the 3G even if no SIM card of 3G off.
But, I have installed the francokernel and the problem keeps and I don't know why The francokernel reduce the problem of 3G but my battery keep draining a lot. Can you help me ? I attach images from betterbatterystats. The test is with wifi off, 3g off and only facebook, twitter and whatsapp installed. The model is Nexus 7 3G
Thank you.
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uninstall facebook
It's draining because there is something not allowing it to go to deep sleep. Install cpuspy or similar that will tell you what the CPU is doing.
EDIT: I know there are photos but only a couple are showing up for me.
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It's definitely doesn't appear to be Facebook or a lack of deep sleep. Despite not seeing the infamous Google services, you may want to verify your location settings as that can override you turning off wi-fi and mobile network.
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I have tested again with CPUSpy (wifi off, 3g off, only I have used 5 min, ...). Now, I see the wakelock PowerManagerService is on 33 min. At any rate, 90% of time the tablet is in deep sleep mode and drains aproximately 6% per hour. I don't know why happen this ... Is it possible that in the deep sleep mode the frequency would be high ?
I attach images of betterbatterystats and CPUSpy. Sorry, I can't upload picture o links (but in the first message I can do it). I put the links below with a "-" behind "http".
Thanks
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Try restarting your N7. Every time i have this problem I restart my tablet and the battery draining goes away for about a week

Overheat Damage from Charging?

Ok so I'm slightly panicking... I forgot to charge my phone 2 nights ago, so I went the next day from like 50% down to 4% maybe (awesome battery life coming from my Gnex!). Plugged it in to charge. Woke up 8 hours later and the phone was pretty warm, but fully charged. Well, I got in the car to go to work and the screen just went black when I tried to play some music and BT, then the phone rebooted. It was still kinda warm so I just turned it off for a half hour on the way to work. Left it sit on my desk all day (busy day) and start using it this evening. So far the phone has rebooted itself twice now on its own. I cleared cache and dalvik thinking it'd help after the first reboot. Is it possible somehow the full charge up and heat maybe broke something? My verizon dev edition is only a few weeks old!
My phone has never gotten more then a gentle warmth to it while charging - are you using the stock power adapter? If it got hot enough to damage it from charging then you should have it replaced.
It also might just need a full reset, but that will erase all data.
All smartphones have PMIC(Power Management Integrated Circuit) on their boards to prevent the battery from being overcharged and having too much current running through such that the battery would feel anything more than mild under the most stressful loads. If a phone(our Moto X) has Qualcomm's Quick Charge 1.0 and is pulling the full 1.1A from a battery at 20%, then the battery is going to feel warm as the current-draw is at its highest from 20% to 80%. Here's a line-graph comparing charge times to illustrate the point where Quick Charge 2.0 was being graphed.
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With regard to the OP's situation: I have no idea without a logcat file to say for sure.

[Q] Sudden battery life change

Hello,
I've experienced a sudden change in battery performance.
What used to take around 50% of battery now takes around 85%.
It happened recently, around the same time I started working at a new workplace. The reception is horrible there, maybe that's the issue. However during the weekends, it is around the same.
I was on 4.4.2 stock when it happened and since then I've flashed it again once. I've also tried a couple of different radios (and enabled LTE) and I've always had franco kernel.
Brightness was always on Auto (which I shall turn off to experiment battery life) and wifi is selected to be off when the phone is off.
I have still a few more experiments to do, but I'm considering using warranty services. What do you guys think? It's clearly not as bad as some of the other battery issues I've seen on this forum, but it's quite the change for me. I bought this phone in July 2013.
Here is an example battery usage graph. Charging finished around 1 AM and left it unplugged over night. In the morning (~7 hours) the percentage was at 75%. (5% / hr) Throughout the day, I have used it for text messaging only and by 6 pm, it's at around 13%.
Thanks for taking the time to read my long post.
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You can check what drains battery with BetterBatteryStats. Google it and you'll find.
Thanks for replying.
I have tried that before an OS reset although I couldn't make much out of it. One main thing I noticed was a certain kernel wakelock which, after I googled, was responsible for LTE connectivity. Although this makes sense, I had good battery life even with the LTE chip being used (& auto brightness / wifi always on) prior to this battery incident. By good battery life, I mean 50-60% used by the end of the day

Constant awake bug after full charge

I just found a pretty interesting bug that causes my G935FD phone to be constantly awake after a full charge, but will happily go into deep sleep after I restart the phone after the full charge. It reflects in the GSam Battery monitor as well as the battery life.
Maybe someone who has issue with the phone constantly awake (or very high Android System battery usage) can try this trick out. My software version is:
Baseband: APD1
Build: APDQ
My phone is rooted if it makes any difference.
Here are some examples:
After 10 mins charging and before reboot:
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And after a quick reboot:
may b this is the cause
may be this is the cause of pathetic battery life on my phone. do u suggest a restart while still plugged in or after unplugging? Know any permanent fix for this?
drmrahul said:
may be this is the cause of pathetic battery life on my phone. do u suggest a restart while still plugged in or after unplugging? Know any permanent fix for this?
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I reboot them after unplugging.
I've just found this work around recently (as you can see my pathetic average doze time per charge).
Will try this for a few days to see if it helps.
Have you tried to wipe cache ? cause i've had the exact same problem over and over again and in my case it only happened with wireless charger. After I wiped cache partition it never happened again.
It is google backup bug. Turn off google backup and it should be gone.
Or restart your phone after each full charge.
Edit: it affects other phones too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/partial-wakelock-android-backup-t3363390
wollyka said:
It is google backup bug. Turn off google backup and it should be gone.
Or restart your phone after each full charge.
Edit: it affects other phones too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/partial-wakelock-android-backup-t3363390
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Wow this is a colossal bug.
Yeah, it affects two of my phones, S6 and S7 edge!

Battery loss over night

Aloah!
I bought the S7 Edge and used it in stock version. Then I noticed that the battery loses over 10% per night. So I decided to install the Superman ROM with root and deactivated some Samsung Features. But the phone still looses over 10% per night.
I have disabled WLAN, BT and GPS. The only activated feature is the always-on-display, but this could not be the problem, because of AMOLED. I know that Samsung bloates their phones with useless things and I only recognize this battery problem (mostly) on Samsung phones. So I think the battery loss must have to do something with the Samsung features.
So my questions are these two:
1. How can I find the battery-using processes?
2. Is there a near-stock-android ROM which is fully debloated? On the S5 the stock ROM had 1,5 GB and then I installed one which has only 400 MB. So there was much Samsung trash removed.
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since you are rooted start by installing either Wakelock Detector or BetterBatteryStats app and see the output of those in the morning.
also is it a used or new phone? if its used then the battery might be faulty.
also try 1 night with AOD off and see if that gets rid of the issue.
Its a brand new phone. Ok, I try these two apps.
But what is AOD?
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Its a brand new phone. Ok, I try these two apps.
But what is AOD?
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Always On Display :: AOD
Does this really take that much battery? I mean, its mostly black and that doenst consume battery (mostly).
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Does this really take that much battery? I mean, its mostly black and that doenst consume battery (mostly).
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Id bet thats where most of your drain is coming from. Im just going by what I recall, but believe AOD accounts for 1 to 2% per hour.
I like having the AOD at night so I keep it on regardless since Im pretty much able to charge my phone at work or in the car, its not a big deal.
Ok, I deactivated the AOD but still got around 7% loss.

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