Android Os taking up ALOT of battery

[TheElements]

when i put my phone on airplane mode and went to sleep last night around 5 hours battery android os is only at 14% and phone idle is at 72% but i only lost around 10% battery

[tman_c45]

I too am having the high battery usage with android os...I've read a good deal of stuff to try (check wifi sleep settings, clearing cache, etc...) and it's not any better. the process does seem to use a little less when I'm home connected to my wifi, but still is the top consuming process.

Any solutions other than a hard reset?

[doogald]

Do you have many/any home screen widgets that get data from the internet somehow? How about live wallpaper?

[tman_c45]

the power control and the google search are the only two widgets I have. No live wallpaper.. it's black for the most part.

[Shimmy549]

As a rule, the display should be the biggest battery consumer, unless you're talking on the phone a lot or listening to music/watching movies (maybe the display would still show up as the biggest consumer if you were watching movies, though). I don't think Android OS has ever been my phone's biggest probleml

When you check your running services, what's in that list?

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[tman_c45]

here are three separate screenshots of the battery usage:


current running processes:
settings
camera360
google voice
superdim
battery indicator
juiceplotter
data manager service
in pocket
contactsdata
google services
sync service
backup assistant
weather
voice search
IM
motorola dock service
bluetoothdun
calendar
multi-touch keyboard.


phone is rooted with bloatware removed.

[Shimmy549]

One thing I noticed: Android OS doesn't seem to be killing your battery. Your battery life looks to be on par with mine, even though our Running Apps and Battery Usage stats are very different.

I never set up my phone to take screenshots (yeah, I know...I will someday), but here is my Battery Usage and Running Apps:

Battery Usage:
Display-70%
Tapatalk-14%
Wi-Fi-11%
Cell Standby-4%
Android OS-4%

Running Apps:
Settings
Root Tools
Data Manager Service
Google Services
Backup Assistant
Motorola Dock Service
BluetoothDun
Swype

DoubleTwist was running earlier because I was playing music with it at work, but I closed it down and plugged my phone in when I came home. Otherwise, that's pretty close to how both look all the time. Sometimes Skyfire makes an appearance, or doubleTwist (and Music), or Voice Calls, or one additional app or another, but I never have a very long list of either.

Like I said, though, your battery life seems to be at least accaeptable. I don't know what was going on when you took the middle screenshot, but it doesn't seem like Android OS is doing much damage. It's doing the MOST damage, but not much.

One other thing: I turned off In Pocket detection because it seemed unnecessary with this phone. I struggle to hit the power button when I mean to-haha. Unlike other phones I've had, this one has proven hard to accidentally turn on, so I took a chance and haven't had any pocket dial issues.

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[Se7enLC]

Android OS is taking up ALOT of Battery?



http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co...verything.html

[tman_c45]

this hasn't always been the case... it just started a few weeks ago, and I have removed any additional apps that I installed.... in addition to clearing the cache partition and the devalik cache (however you spell that)...

Android os process used to be around 10% of the total battery usage

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[Shimmy549]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/arch.../t-620371.html

Not the most recent discussion out there, but I thought it might be useful to you.

Another one:

https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/521309

I find the one poster's idea-to install Watchdog Lite-somewhat compelling.

I hope something here sparks an idea. It doesn't look like anybody really has the answer. There are a lot of theories, but nothing that seems to work permanently or with regularity.


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