The "Video On" Battery Leak

[Zolee10]

His twiter app works fine.

But, when some app starts behaving like this nothing but restart helps. Tried regular force close, then clearing cache & data. Then tried disabling from settings (put in deep sleep stock battery manager), hibernate by Greenify and finaly not even dissabling with CCSWE helps!!!
It just continues sucking battery via some stuck video process.

 

[KPMcClave]

Force stop Twitter , then check next charge cycle of its still high

Twitter isn't misbehaving. It has in the past.

It isn't only one app, nor is it consistently any app. Instagram, Twitter and Ring (and maybe others) have shown this Video On battery drain sometimes. There is no consistency to the leak.

 

[mustang7757]

Twitter isn't misbehaving. It has in the past.

It isn't only one app, nor is it consistently any app. Instagram, Twitter and Ring (and maybe others) have shown this Video On battery drain sometimes. There is no consistency to the leak.

Gotcha , you checked device care for any app crash reports?

 

[KPMcClave]

Gotcha , you checked device care for any app crash reports?

Nothing there.

 

[mustang7757]

Nothing there.

Ok , how about recovery cache clear ?

 

[KPMcClave]

Ok , how about recovery cache clear ?

I did that yesterday. I don't think I've had the Video On drain since. I had Ring draining it earlier in the day yesterday.

So, we'll see if it comes back with an app.

Zolee10?

 

[mustang7757]

I did that yesterday. I don't think I've had the Video On drain since. I had Ring draining it earlier in the day yesterday.

So, we'll see if it comes back with an app.

Zolee10?

I have my camera app drain also with constant push notifications but I still manage great battery life .

 

[Zolee10]

I did that yesterday. I don't think I've had the Video On drain since. I had Ring draining it earlier in the day yesterday.

So, we'll see if it comes back with an app.

Zolee10?

What is recivery cache and how to clean it?
Btw I dissabled digital wellbeing because I read somewere it can cause battery drain. Didnt use it anyway.

 

[KPMcClave]

What is recivery cache and how to clean it?

This is for the TMO S20 but the steps are the same. Just make sure you wipe the cache partition and not data!

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/de...5g/wipe-cache-partition-samsung-galaxy-s20-5g

 

[Zolee10]

Re: The "Video On" Battery Leak

Yea, I remembered what it is and did it. I totaly forgot about it. Last time I rooted my phone and messed with custom roms and recoveries was S5

Thabks for the info though.
I cleared up pcache partition and did app recovery command.
Hopefully this helps

EDIT: Nope, it didnt help

EDIT 2: I switched back to 60Hz just to check how battery and temp. will hold. Now there is no more video on battery leak with any app. I am sure it has nothing to do with display Hz but, that is the only change I made. Will try later with switching back to 120Hz.

 

[KPMcClave]

It had been a while since I noticed the Video On battery leak for any of my apps.

I got an update to the Ring app via Play yesterday and there the leak was again:





This isn't a beta app and it has done this before (as have Instagram and Twitter off the top of my head).

It seems a reboot took care of the issue, but in the past the issue has reappeared without an update being installed, seemingly out of the blue.

 

[Zolee10]

I read somewhere that it is gsam bug.

 

[KPMcClave]

I read somewhere that it is gsam bug.

Meaning what? Gsam is falsely reporting that usage? I'm assuming Gsam can't cause that usage.

When I searched the issue a couple of weeks ago there weren't any causes or solutions that I found.

 

[Zolee10]

Yea, there are just few places where this is mentioned. No solution. On one place I read someone said its gsam bug. Dont know if its true but it makes sense, how is possible that gsam keeps adding to app usage after app is hibernated?
Try tracking through some different monitor app what is the % of power offending app uses.
I have given up on this...

 

[KPMcClave]

Yea, there are just few places where this is mentioned. No solution. On one place I read someone said its gsam bug. Dont know if its true but it makes sense, how is possible that gsam keeps adding to app usage after app is hibernated?
Try tracking through some different monitor app what is the % of power offending app uses.
I have given up on this...

Thanks. It was my sense that, despite the wild numbers for the occasional rogue app's Viedo On line, my overall drain wasn't obviously different. That supports the idea of a Gsam bug issue. Of course, I'm not certain that was the case because the issue didn't last with one app for multiple days.

I appreciate the info.