Mine has been averaging between 10-15% at home but at work i roam like crazy. So i'll check the %OS when i head back to office on Monday and report back. I just put BeWeather app on last night and still getting around 15%.
Android OS over 60+%
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youngjediboy
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Ok I've turned off roaming and noticed the OS still is in the 70s%
Also with roaming off, when I'm at work I sometimes simply get ZERO coverage... I've gotten texts quite late and when sending texts they just fail and I have to resend them when I leave work and go somewhere within coverage. Looks like I need roaming to even stay connected when at work.
I'll have to call Sprint on Monday or I might have to think about switching to AT&T... not that I'd want to pay more and deal with their CS, but I think their coverage just might be better in my area.
Also with roaming off, when I'm at work I sometimes simply get ZERO coverage... I've gotten texts quite late and when sending texts they just fail and I have to resend them when I leave work and go somewhere within coverage. Looks like I need roaming to even stay connected when at work.
I'll have to call Sprint on Monday or I might have to think about switching to AT&T... not that I'd want to pay more and deal with their CS, but I think their coverage just might be better in my area.
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SoI just browsed xda and ac for the last 20 mins from my phone via tapatalk and then checked my battery usage and it doesn't show up in the usage list, I wonder if it isn't getting grouped with android os instead of listed by itself
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Well on bone stock install with only gmail and contact (not facebook) enabled I am back to almost 77% used by android os
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With moderate usage today, I am at 51% remaining, android os is still in the mid 40%, only difference is I took out the sd card. I have google synching on but not facebook yet and everything else is set how I had it yesterday
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Well here is my usage for the last almost 19 hours, still have 17% left,went to sleep with around 30% left and woke up to 19% remaining. I do not have power saving enabled. The only difference from friday is no sd card installed.
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Anyone get to the bottom of this? I'm stock. Tonight I'm at 11h 55m with 54% remaining. good for the stock battery, Is there anything to be concerned about. Am I getting less battery life than I should? Should I exchange my phone? I'm a bit of a novice with this so excuse the dumb questions. Could it have something to do with the display? Those that have high display numbers are you using live wallpapers?
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graffix31
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isnt this number sort of relative? i mean i took my phone off the charger about 3 hours ago. havent really used it a whole lot, not more than a minute of two here and there. my battery is at 95% and my android os was up to 70. but considering nothing else was really running and the screen was off so the display number would be low doesnt that have to make android os go that high because out of 100 there is nothing else really draining the battery? if you have the screen off for a long time what else should be taking the battery other than the os? it all has to add up to 100 in the end right?
@graffix31 Thanks. That's was the basis of my convoluted question. I'm not clear on how others are using the Touch that might cause a shift in what process takes the lion's share of 100%.
Using phone in a roaming are at work and OS is at 30% when not in roaming at home i was at 10% so maybe it's a roaming issue??
Hello all, i'm having the problem where the Android OS is almost at 60%. I'm just wondering did you guys use any kind of app to keep it down?. I'm really confused with the processes that's running, I mean stopped it and few minutes after that it'll be back on. I'm sorry it sound trivial but I'm fairly new to Android OS or for that matter smart phones. Any help is much appreciated, thanks!! 
Yeah graffix has a point here, I'm not sure how valid any of these concerns really are. What we would need are absolute numbers for OS usage which don't really exist AFAIK. Because the task manager shows the OS usage as a percent everything has to add up to 100%. So your OS% may be high, but it just as well may be because you have nothing else running as opposed to there being an actual problem. With nothing else running something has to make up the majority of the 100%, which would most likely be the OS.
Nothing wrong with your phone.. your at 50%+ of battery life after 12 hours that great...
This makes sense because i would be sleeping and when i wake up the next day my os % is high but when the phone is in use during the day it drops ... So if it adds everything to 100 and nothing but the OS is running as low as it my be the % will still be crazy high due to everything else not running...
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so after over 4.5 hours of not really using the phone for more than a minute or two i am still at 97%. my os is at 80 or so. and i have been roaming for most of this time. i think the big thing is also when you are not on wifi to shut it off. i havent found a setting other than in battery saver mode that will shut it off when not in use. but 3% loss after that long is amazing.
I have also noticed that if i am using the phone constantly and not shutting the screen off the OS stays at about 15% or so. As soon as i shut the screen off and let it sit for a little the OS skyrockets up to 50% or so.
I think its a combination of the WIFI and the suspend mode.
I think its a combination of the WIFI and the suspend mode.
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