First day with the G watch and I'm getting pretty awful battery life - I charged it this morning, 4 hours later its already at 74% and I haven't really been using it. I noticed in the persistent notification on my phone that it says "Connected, running sync loop". I pair my watch with a Nexus 5. My friend who also has the G Watch but paired with a Note 3 says his just says "Connected". He didn't even charge his last night and his is at 85%.
I tried resetting both the watch and re-installing Android Wear software. It still says running sync loop. Anyone else have this issue?
Just got my G Watch, my phone also says "Connected, running sync loop". Whats it mean?
I get the constant running sync loop notification message too. I have a Verizon GS4 running CM 11 nightlies. I am also wondering if this is normal.
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I think it's normal, it happens with my Gear Live as well. I assume it's because the service they use for communicating with the device needs to be run as a foreground service, which requires showing a notification.
I dunno if it's normal.
I have a G Watch, mine only ever says "Connected" on the notification. I have never seen anything about this sync loop.
Same issue
Have lg g2 running cm11 nightly, getting same sync loop issue with a g watch. Battery life does not seem bad, end or day around 40%
Felnarion said:
I dunno if it's normal.
I have a G Watch, mine only ever says "Connected" on the notification. I have never seen anything about this sync loop.
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So your notification doesn't show anything after the comma in this screenshot? That's odd
IDK if the sync loop is effecting the battery or not but I'm really not happy with the battery performance on my watch. Dunno if it's limited to mine but right now I've been off the charger for 6 hours, screen always on, off and brightness at 2. I'm at 63%. I've barely used it too -- maybe two dozen messages came in and a few phone calls.
Meh.
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So your notification doesn't show anything after the comma in this screenshot? That's odd
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Nope.
My friend using his GS4 running KitKat paired with a G watch only sees "Connected" in his notification. However, he said that it showed "Connected, running sync loop" back when he used the Preview Wear app that connected to the emulator (back when the Wear preview was first released). Interesting behavior, but it doesn't really help us figure out which message is the "normal" one.
I have a Note 3 running CM 11 M8, and mine always says "Connected, running sync loop." I've never seen it say anything else.
I was off charger for roughly 12 hours today, and it dropped all the way down to about 8% battery left. I'll try restarting the watch to see if it does better tomorrow.
I just realized I never posted anything about my battery life: My gear live is usually at ~60% by the end of the day, and I haven't noticed any real impact on the battery of my Nexus 4.
I just noticed that my lg g watch is doing this on my nexus 5. I never saw it on the android l developer preview or stock 4.4.4. The first time I saw it was when I installed cyanogen mod yesterday. I can't say my battery life it horrible but it does seem like it is having trouble syncing apps and controlling music at some points
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I just realized I never posted anything about my battery life: My gear live is usually at ~60% by the end of the day, and I haven't noticed any real impact on the battery of my Nexus 4.
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Why post this here?? There are threads for this for each watch.
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Why post this here?? There are threads for this for each watch.
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Because the very first post in this thread mentions the impact on battery life...
I was using Android Wear on my OnePlus One with CM11S (stock). Never saw this message until I wiped the phone and install CM11 Nightlies. Now I see it.
Today's the first day with the "Sync loop" message, but battery drain is negligible. BTW, Android Wear takes quite a bit of battery. The BT connection causes wakelocks, and even if BT 4.0 is low power, there's no way my OnePlus one is getting the ~0.8-0.9% drain per hour it was before.
Its hard to separate the its Android Wear alone or the new OK Google everywhere. Both seem to have a noticeable impact, but I have yet to test them individually to get exact numbers. I can say that the week where I went turning on bluetooth only during hte day and night (leaving my watch as a dumb step counter) resulted in better battery life on my phone. I rarely use my watch as a real notification mirror anyway. I find it far too annoying buzzing every Hangouts message (I know about mute, but if I do so, I can never see my messages then)
I know this is a little old but I just got my gear live a week ago. I don't remember seeing this on the L preview but I've been seeing "running sync loop" since switching back to CM 11 a few days ago. I also think bluetooth is disconnecting randomly, which has also happened in my car from time to time for a while now (while on CM 11).
Yea, put a new ROM on my N5, and no doubt i WIPED everything, and still getting the loop error on my Moto360. I tried TiBU at first, then downloaded the Wear app from the store, just to be safe, and still get the error.
Hi,
I had a short experience with CM11 M12 yesterday on my GS4. At morning , my G watch R was a 60%. At 16h it was only 15% and I needed to put it in flight mode to keep battery. I had the sync loop message
Normally the watch uses about 40% of battery per full day (7h30 --> 22h).
Today I use a Google edition on my GS4 (4.4.4), I have no sync message and my Watch is at 83%(16h) it was unplugged at 7h30. It's normal as it was with my previous touchwiz rom (4.4.2)
I think the CM11 has really a problem to communicate with the watch.
Stock rooted GS4, g watch r
I have the same problem. I don't think it's cm.
ed_bracam said:
Hi,
I had a short experience with CM11 M12 yesterday on my GS4. At morning , my G watch R was a 60%. At 16h it was only 15% and I needed to put it in flight mode to keep battery. I had the sync loop message
Normally the watch uses about 40% of battery per full day (7h30 --> 22h).
Today I use a Google edition on my GS4 (4.4.4), I have no sync message and my Watch is at 83%(16h) it was unplugged at 7h30. It's normal as it was with my previous touchwiz rom (4.4.2)
I think the CM11 has really a problem to communicate with the watch.
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So I fully charged my phone last night and took it off the charger around 8am this morning. My battery was 100% full. I noticed that after 90 minutes of the being on/in sleep mode, I am seeing the Android OS take up 47% of the battery.
Anyone know why the Android OS is eating up 47% battery? Is this a known issue? I am stock, not rooted, and on the latest 4.2 firmware.
anybody having or seeing this issue??
Not sure, but I also see Maps taking up a good chunk when i am not even using it...
I had the same issue the first day I got my phone. But after that, this issue has never appeared again.
Here's an update (see picture). I guess not bad then so far. The Android OS has gone down percentage wise. Also, my phone is not used when I'm at work, I text from google voice on the browser and maybe a few Google Plus Messenger messages from the phone. Other than, than I don't use it for calling or other stuff when at work.
This is because at that moment in time the OS was what had primarily used your battery, since it was your first day with it and i'm assuming you hadn't spent much time doing anything else this was reporting as 47%. If you had a 30 minute phone conversation or played a game you'd have seen a different set of percentages based on that usage
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This is because at that moment in time the OS was what had primarily used your battery, since it was your first day with it and i'm assuming you hadn't spent much time doing anything else this was reporting as 47%. If you had a 30 minute phone conversation or played a game you'd have seen a different set of percentages based on that usage
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Try turning off the live wallpaper if you have one running... That was causing huge Android OS usage for me.
I have an LGE Nexus 4 and I just got the 4.4 update a few days ago. I love the update so far, but one thing that really irritates me is:
Battery life! Ever since updating to 4.4, Exchange services is using up more battery than my screen! Other power hungry apps since the update are: Mediaserver, and Android System. (I'm running Nova Launche Prime, that's probably responsible for the android system usage.
I used to come home from school at 5PM with around 35-40% Battery. It's currently 12:45PM and i'm already at 65% :S. Anybody with tops and tricks to help me conserve battery life please do share with my self and the community!
thanks world ( ::cyclops:
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I have an LGE Nexus 4 and I just got the 4.4 update a few days ago. I love the update so far, but one thing that really irritates me is:
Battery life! Ever since updating to 4.4, Exchange services is using up more battery than my screen! Other power hungry apps since the update are: Mediaserver, and Android System. (I'm running Nova Launche Prime, that's probably responsible for the android system usage.
I used to come home from school at 5PM with around 35-40% Battery. It's currently 12:45PM and i'm already at 65% :S. Anybody with tops and tricks to help me conserve battery life please do share with my self and the community!
thanks world ( ::cyclops:
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I don't think you've provided enough information for us to really tell you. Try getting BetterBatteryStats and then check for yourself what's going on. Sven has fixed it to work on 4.4.
I've experienced the battery to be affected negatively on 4.4 as-well.
For now i turned off the voice command [ok google] which seem to help a bit but still not as good as 4.3.
ITs location services... turn it off and see how much better battery life you get or use device only then check your google services useage
Exchange Push is the issue
I have found that changing my Exchange settings from "Push" to check every X minutes has greatly improved my battery life. It seems to be much more inline with what I was used to with 4.3.
Hope this helps,
GusBot
Well... I flashed 4.4.2 the other day and I saw my battery plummeting like mad... so naturally the first place I came to was XDA, and saw that a lot of people were having a big problem with battery life.
So I didn't do any battery pulls or anything like that on my N7100, but when the battery went from 85% down to 12% what I did was to turn on everything that I could in order to drain the battery... turned on Data, WiFi, turned off the battery saver etc. etc.
Down at about 6%, I got that alarm with the notification to plug in the charger but I just let it go.
After a while, the phone wouldn't turn on at all... nothing. Nada.
So I plugged in the charger and let it go.
I checked it in about 1.5 hours and it said 100% but the red charging LED was still on so I let it charge for about another half hour and finally the LED turned green.
I turned on the phone and held the power button until the screen flashed three times (About 15 seconds), and let it boot up.
I had 100% charge last nite @ 11:39, and right now on standby (12:45 the next day) I still have 95% on the battery.
Strangely enough, I didn't get one call on this phone all day... but when I don't answer my Note 2, people just try the other number on my iPhone 5s.
Granted, I never leave the WiFi on or data... but I have the stock ROM with all the crapware that it has... but I flashed that French version of KitKat off of that site that I won't mention (But it's that one that if you're not a paying member, it takes you half a day to download anything).
Pretty happy with KitKat stock rom so far, but that first few hours when when I saw my battery sucked dry before my eyes was pretty disconcerting.
Hey guys and please dont crucify me. I know there's a ton of other battery issue threads on this forum and on many others but I cant find the right one. I have looked up each and every one of them, about mediaserver draining the battery about the android system and so on. I have done everything each thread said to, downloaded greenify and hibernated most active apps, disabled and froze certain bloatware with titanium backup pro and so many other things. And I think that the battery would be supposed to perform at its best right now. I am not a very heavy user, I just use my phone for music, calls, a little gaming and the occasional facebook/messenger/browser session with either 4G or WiFi. I have everything everyone ever said turned off. Things like auto backup of Google+ and all location services and auto sync. Screen is constantly at 65% brightness. To further prove my point, at this point in this post which took me like 3 minutes to write, my battery has lost 3 percent. I can leave the phone unplugged all night at 100% and when I wake up it will be at 95% but the moment I pick it up and start playing some music or some games the battery goes down really fast. I can even compare it to the battery of my old Xperia S after a year and a half use which was like 7 hours altogether. Battery stats say that mediaserver takes up 20ish% battery and Android system goes over 40%. I really don't know what to do. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance, George.
you should look at the time it depletes when screen on, if its below 5 hours from 100% downward then its not good. I have noticed the battery still charges past 100%. So leave it an hour after it reaches 100%. I would also recommend using the charger that came with phone. No usb charging for these tests. Dont use phone while charging either.
Also freezing\debloating can be adverse, at least thats my experience on battery life. So I recommend going back to stock full clean with factory resets.
No recovering of apps or app data for these tests. No contamination so to speak.
Also lg roms allow you to switch off services via taskmanager settings, in settings app you can disable what you dont want to use. No need for debloating\freezing etc.
Switch off location settings, gps and bluetooth for this test. Search for carrier iq on lg g2 forum and how to disable it via settings. Switch of cloud storage(dropbox/box etc) and lg backup stuff. Only google accounts, wifi and mobile networks.
Now for the screen on time test, just use browsing apps. No games or music\movies.
Your screen on time should be 6 hours approximately. From 100 to 0. It can be 5-6 hours. If its below 5 then its not good. this is with good network coverage btw.
thats what I would do
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Have you tried better battery stats, wake lock detector, or even gsam battery monitor. Maybe you have Google location services on?
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comk4ver said:
Have you tried better battery stats, wake lock detector, or even gsam battery monitor. Maybe you have Google location services on?
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Yes I have tried all of the above. Only thing that sticks out is something called 1013 which keeps running and waking my phone but I think it's something about the sound. Next is Android System with many wakelocks and as I said with 30+ % battery consumption. Everything location-wise is off. Actually everything is off. Every setting. Things go to hell when I open 4G or WiFi. Also I have the international model so I don't think there's carrier IQ in my device, or maybe I didn't find it in an app suggested by someone here for that purpose. System Tweaks I think it was.
Could you post a screen shot?
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I've had android 4x do this on multiple devices, multiple roms for no apparent reason. Wipe it and start over. Wipe everything. Especially directories with any form of music, sound files, videos... ( Use LG Flash Tool and go back to stock 4.2 for example will do just that )
So the OTA came over to my country and now it seems like BBS and WLD are broken. Can't really do anything to show you the more complex battery stats and can't really say that the battery has improved. Reducing the brightness did have some effect but I am not really fond of having it at such low values. Anything else I can do to minimize the Android System battery consumption? Its bigger than what the screen is using, even when it was at 70% brightness.
Sad to say my first LG G2 just got replaced today & am now running into this problem with the 2nd phone. Its literally night and day battery life performance between both phones.
First phone had 0 issues and by now I'd still have battery % in the 90s. New phone is sitting @ 63% after 3 hours of use (setting up phone, few reboots here there....just factory resetted for the 2nd time to try and clear this etc)
Culprits are:
Google Services
Android Core Apps
Media Server
System UI
Both phones are: 4.2.2
build: JDQ39B
Software: D80110c
brightness (which never was an issue)= 45%
O.P,
has your situation improved or worsened since you've encountered this problem? I'm thinking about sending my replacement back for another replacement
tiguy99 said:
Sad to say my first LG G2 just got replaced today & am now running into this problem with the 2nd phone. Its literally night and day battery life performance between both phones.
First phone had 0 issues and by now I'd still have battery % in the 90s. New phone is sitting @ 63% after 3 hours of use (setting up phone, few reboots here there....just factory resetted for the 2nd time to try and clear this etc)
Culprits are:
Google Services
Android Core Apps
Media Server
System UI
Both phones are: 4.2.2
build: JDQ39B
Software: D80110c
brightness (which never was an issue)= 45%
O.P,
has your situation improved or worsened since you've encountered this problem? I'm thinking about sending my replacement back for another replacement
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I can now say that the battery life of my phone has improved. But sadlyf the problem was probably some corrupt mp3 files that I moved directly from my old device which forced the mediaserver service to run constantly and thus the android system. :/ I still can say that I think it drains a bit fast when I use it for browsing, Facebook, games and stuff but at least when I check the battery consumption, the only things stated there that make a difference are the screen at ~30-35% and the game which I was playing or for example Chrome. It finally feels like that whatever I use drains the battery and not something else in the background but I don't have that good of an impression for the 3000mAh "beast" battery of the G2. Awesome phone though.
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I can now say that the battery life of my phone has improved. But sadlyf the problem was probably some corrupt mp3 files that I moved directly from my old device which forced the mediaserver service to run constantly and thus the android system. :/ I still can say that I think it drains a bit fast when I use it for browsing, Facebook, games and stuff but at least when I check the battery consumption, the only things stated there that make a difference are the screen at ~30-35% and the game which I was playing or for example Chrome. It finally feels like that whatever I use drains the battery and not something else in the background but I don't have that good of an impression for the 3000mAh "beast" battery of the G2. Awesome phone though.
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I ended up returning my replacement phone and am back on my original G2 until I can get a proper replacement. I can tell you, the G2 does have an awesome battery life if you get a good phone out the box.
The differences between my first G2 and the 2nd one tmobile sent me are night and day. Get a replacement phone while you still have time.
Should have my new one next week. Just hope it's exactly like my first one.
Ex....been using it all day..I mean heavy usage...and in still @ 75%..and the phone is cool to the touch
The replacement g2 would [email protected] 36-37% by now and running hot
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Yes I have tried all of the above. Only thing that sticks out is something called 1013 which keeps running and waking my phone but I think it's something about the sound. Next is Android System with many wakelocks and as I said with 30+ % battery consumption. Everything location-wise is off. Actually everything is off. Every setting. Things go to hell when I open 4G or WiFi. Also I have the international model so I don't think there's carrier IQ in my device, or maybe I didn't find it in an app suggested by someone here for that purpose. System Tweaks I think it was.
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You're on 4.2.2, not 4.4.2 when you have the 1013, is that correct?
Try rebooting when the volume is on, rather than rebooting in quiet/vibrate mode.
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You're on 4.2.2, not 4.4.2 when you have the 1013, is that correct?
Try rebooting when the volume is on, rather than rebooting in quiet/vibrate mode.
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The OTA came to my country some days ago. Still the battery feels kind of small. Is it normal to lose 1% every ~1-2 minutes on 4G browsing? With nothing else on. No gps no G+ backup no anything.
Ever since I downloaded the app and paired my phone with my LG G Watch, I went from a full day's use to only 6 hours on my Oppo Find 7a. Its really frustrating. Tried resetting, redownloading and reinstalling to no avail. My phone even heats up now (something it doesn't normally do). I know with bluetooth and constant connection with the watch, battery life will take a hit but never expected it to be this much. Any one else?
**Screenshot of GSAM battery status is attached below
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Ever since I downloaded the app and paired my phone with my LG G Watch, I went from a full day's use to only 6 hours on my Oppo Find 7a. Its really frustrating. Tried resetting, redownloading and reinstalling to no avail. My phone even heats up now (something it doesn't normally do). I know with bluetooth and constant connection with the watch, battery life will take a hit but never expected it to be this much. Any one else?
**Screenshot of GSAM battery status is attached below
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As you said, bluetooth and constant connection would drain the battery life...
DaniCalifornia said:
As you said, bluetooth and constant connection would drain the battery life...
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Not necessarily... I noticed only slight more battery drain running it on my S4
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bluetooth's problem
Oppo Find 7a must be defective, bluetooth takes very little battery life. I am thinking up until you had a bluetooth device you never turned it on, you finally turn it on and find the phone is defective.
My Note 3, I never turn off bluetooth off and I can not notice any battery drain.
Looked at the screen shop Android Wear is in some sort of wake lock.
Mine Android Wear is not even listed see Bluetooth at 3% but no Android wear.
You have some utility that maybe cause issue? I never use a battery conserving app they do not work.
or the device which I do not know may not be using 4.4?
Hello all
First post on this forum, hope I'll do ok
I've just got my Axon 7 last Thursday. I had before a One+One and I was pretty happy with it, but I'm a geek so when I saw the Axon, well...
So on Thursday, when I first started the Axon and got the message "Do you want to reinstall your apps"? I said Yes and all the Apps I had on the OnePlus got installed on the Axon right away. Mistake?
During that first installation, the battery of the Axon went down like crazy. From a 100% (I had slow charged it the night before), it went to 5% in 3 or 4 hours. Got quite hot too. So I figured: "lots of work, let's see later" I charged it with the charger right after, fully.
The next day was fine. But I'm not a player, my main uses are the social apps (Facebook, Twitter), some text messages, one phone call that lasted 15 mins, web browsing, and some pictures (like 10) at night without flash. Got home last night with 10% left. Figured it was ok. So I charged it fully again.
This morning, waking up, the battery is at 80%. I haven't touched the phone... GSam says that Mobile Radio used 48% and the screen 34%. I activated the WiFi when I woke up and GSam says 18%.
I didn't have that "issue" with my OnePlus so...
My mobile network uses 4G but with my OnePlus, inside my home, I would only have something like H+ or rarely 3G.Maybe the mobile network is draining the battery. Since I haven't rooted the Axon (is it possible? I'm not too found of that), I can't used apps like WakeLock to see if something else is draining the battery...
I have installed of course the latest update from ZTE.
What do you think? Should I do a factory reset and restart from scratch, not reinstalling automatically the apps? Those are pretty basic apps btw, like I said no games, nothing fancy...
Or... do I have a faulty battery?
I chose this phone over the OnePlusThree because of its battery, I would be quite pissed if I had the only Axon with a defective battery
Thanx for your help and comments
If you have a 4g service and your phone's can't connect to it then I'd suggest switching the data service preference to 3g or better yet, keep connected to wifi. This is just to establish if the constant network search for LTE is what's eating up your battery. I believe the first instance of getting only 3 to 4 hours can be attributed to the install of apps. GSAM indicators are approximate if you aren't rooted but it's still good enough to tell you what is eating up your battery.
Maybe a clean start can at least help you test and conclude if the battery is actually at fault.
Btw, FB app is the worst offender as far as battery life goes. I hope your problem can be identified and fixed soon