Cell standby: Can't work my way to it

[mireazma]

Hello community. I hope someone here could and would help me. I've got the ancient, still unsolved, problem that we all know: "cell standby" sucking at the balls of my battery. It has these:
Cell standby = 48%
Phone idle = 46%
Screen = 3%
Android System = 3%
Dialer = 2%
in the last about 5 hrs
I've googled it of course and saw some solutions but before getting to solutions it appears that my kitkat phone has another, related, problem:
I want to get to the screen where wakes, wifi, screen and others show their activity as bars during the last time, you know with green, yellow segments. I wanted to see the signal history. To get there I saw I need to tap the battery graph. Well, I go to settings > battery and there is no battery graph so, no sense of stuff activity over time. Is it normal? How can I get the graph? I have a THL 4000.
Missing battery graph would be problem #2.
Problem #1 is the cell standby. I tried settings > more > Mobile networks > 3G service > Enable 3G = off but it doesn't change a thing. I read something with enabling "radio" mode. Isn't any way to disable this? IF the signal is lost, don't go radio. Or search for the signal once every 5-10 min. I'm not too much of a talker over phone anyway.

Thanks in advance.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Not sure why you don't have a battery graph--it may be some quirk of the manufacturer, which isn't that well-known. You could install a 3rd party battery monitor like GSam Battery Monitor.

Is your cell signal generally weak? That can lead to a lot of Cell Standby battery usage, because the phone is expending more energy trying to latch onto signal. I don't know of any apps that can keep a phone in Airplane Mode and scan intermittently for good signal--maybe Tasker?

 

[mireazma]

Thank you for replying, B.
I'm not interested in having the battery history as much as being able to see the signal history and I thought I inadvertently did something to my phone and disabled the history/graph. I suppose there are apps out there to monitor different activities, I'll go check the store.
Time without signal = 0! This is what intrigues me now.
EDIT:
Time on 15h 46m 35s
but here's the trick: my phone began to log like at most 18 hrs ago. OK, 18 -15 = 3 hrs of airplane mode. But I have my phone on airplane mode for at least 8 hrs for sure. WTH is going on?

 

[B. Diddy]

The Time without Signal is how long it has no signal at all--so it doesn't count very weak signal, which will still cause battery to drain.