Recent content by surrealjam

Yes, it is consistently poor without drops so I take your point that time without signal is different.

I also think this is interesting :) It goes to show how two seemingly similar scenarios can be actually quite different... so many variables I suppose.

As crazy as it sounds, can you try to enable it? I had a very similar issue with Android OS and WiFi taking up large chunks of battery and enabling location reporting actually helped. I appreciate this is not how it should be but I presume there is a potential bug somewhere.

Although I generally agree, poor signal strength doesn't seem to affect battery so much when you have a good WiFi connection (which it appears the user does). At home, I only get 1 bar of mobile reception but standby is very similar as at work where I get full bars.

What setting do you have against: Settings > Location > Google Location Reporting > Location Reporting On or off?

I know a lot of the mm-qcamera-daemon issues were blamed on Skype when people were running 4.4.2. Obviously I thought they'd resolved this but do you have Skype installed?

Not sure that's relevant to this particular software issue.

This certainly isn't normal! I would always suggest a simple reboot which should fix the issue and then monitor in the future. If it doesn't happen again, something clearly went wrong on this one occasion. If it comes back then it's worth investigating further.

re: As an added bonus, this means any crap shots you take while connected to WiFi don't get automatically backed up before you've managed to delete them. That always annoyed me...

This is still giving me grief. I seemed to recall reading somewhere that enabling "Location reporting" can actually help battery life. Anyway, I enabled it and the results are good so far. I've got a screenshot here showing the point where I enabled the option on the battery stats. Note that I...

Stupid question but I assume you're running 4.4.4 (KTU84P)?

I think the vast majority of ART related issues will now have disappeared. Bear in mind that Android L will only use ART - all the major app developers will have been testing their apps with ART as much, if not more, than Dalvik. ART does use a little more storage space for applications...

I thought that was impossible as Xposed required the JIT compilation available with Dalvik.

I still think the problem could be application related - I don't think hardware issues fit with the description of the problem. My real gripe is that Android seems to make it easy for rogue apps to drain battery (notably, with wakelocks) yet it makes it so very difficult for you to find the...

Sad times - thanks for the reply. Looks like more reboots for me then!