Sprint Galaxy S4: "Android System" is draining my battery since I updated to KitKat

[dllebandroid]

The kernel is now up to 91%!! Battey life has gone from great, to, bad, to horrible... but no single app is drawing over 2%... Wish I could figure out what was destroying the battery -

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its like that on my phone as well. i used to get 5 hrs of SOT on average and now i struggle to get 3 1/2 hrs of SOT because of the kernel

 

[ToddK]

Nice to know I'm not the only one... Wish we could figure out what was causing it, though .

Glad I have a spare battery. ;-)

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[metle_geek]

My S4 received the Kit Kat update and once it rebooted the lock screen was freezing and within 1 hour the battery went from 90% to 17%! I noticed the GPS icon at top left was flashing rapidly as if it was unable to locate reference points. I switched off the GPS and all seemed well as long as it remained off. I use hands free with a Bluetooth headset when driving so the first time I made a call the "driving mode" activated the GPS again and the phone was back to messed up. The only way I have been able to correct the problem is to ensure GPS is off, hands free is off and then pull the battery.

I did stop by a Sprint tech store and the tech was very helpful. He learned a bit with my experience and he informed me of all the other issues. Sprint has instructed the techs to NOT attempt to roll back the system as the phone will brick. Sprint and Samsung are supposedly working on a patch and as long as you have reported your issue to Sprint you should receive a patch within a coupe weeks. If you have not yet upgraded to Kit Kat my advice is DO NOT DO SO until the issues have all been resolved. Fortunately my wife's S4 did not receive an update notification until a few days after mine so we know not to proceed. With luck this will be corrected quickly, all else seems to work as long as the GPS remains off.

It seems the updaye breaks the gps this is true with at&t as well which simply means its a samsung issue it seems the only fix is to factory reset twice and let it charge with the phone off

must have unlocked boot loaders!!

 

[metle_geek]

Nice to know I'm not the only one... Wish we could figure out what was causing it, though .

Glad I have a spare battery. ;-)

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Ok go to settings more find battery and see which app is using the most power

must have unlocked boot loaders!!

 

[metle_geek]

Should look something to that effect dont worry about the red its a custom rom for at&t gs4 I might of migrated here by accident as im seeing sprint??

must have unlocked boot loaders!!

 

[ricktara]

this is more like what my battery use is

 

[pop stream]

Does anyone know if I have a unlocked atT phone if I'm still eligible for the upgrade to kitkat?

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[djdonnyk]

Do you use the power saving mode?

Sent from a device beyond your wildest dreams!

 

[mikefour77]

This is my problem... The kernel is keeping the phone awake for more than four hours.... Hopefully they release a fix for this.

 

[EPownes]

Hi guys, I don't know if this will be of any help but it is worth a try.

I experience battery drain every time I update on my HTC one AT&T version. The problem that happens is that the updater that ATT provides tends to keep looping even after the update is finished.

I'm not sure how it works on Sprint but on ATT if you check software and there is nothing available it will tell you to wait 24 hours before you try again.

What I do is go into your date and set it manually a day ahead. After you have done this, check for software updates again. If it says everything is up to date again, go back into your date and set it back to automatic.

This tends to disrupt the loop of the updater to keep looking for new software and I think the kernel name is redbend if you happen to see it under your wakelock detector.

Again, I don't know of sprints updater works the same but this works for me every time and it seems it is the only thing that works.

 

[metle_geek]

Does anyone know if I have a unlocked atT phone if I'm still eligible for the upgrade to kitkat?

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Only att can push that on the stock rom so simply pop in an at&t sim and your going to have it pushed but if your on 4.2.2 stay the hell away root and flash as you please loki doki dont work on 4.3 or 4.4.2 so you have been warned also kit kat will screw over your sd card and break your gps

must have unlocked boot loaders!!

 

[ireorp]

I have the same battery drainage problem. It's the Android system and Exchange services which drains the battery. This has happened to me previously, and then it was the Google Play services which drained the battery. Last time the problem lasted for a couple of days, and then the battery returned to "normal", without my changing any settings or anything. This time, however, the problem won't go away by itself!!! But I still do not see how my changing the location settings or any other settings can fix the problem permanently. This is not the cause of the problem (I know, because I did not mess with any settings before this problem started). So in my opinion, changing settings will only be "symptoms treatment"...

 

[guitardoc64]

I'm having the same issue. Rooted stock, somewhat debloated and the HSIC wakelock is eating battery and causing 1/2 the battery life I had before. So far I haven't seen any solution and nothing that I have tried has worked. Luckily, I still have the MF9 bootloader so I can at least go back. MF9 was rock solid for a stock ROM, and really had no issues to speak of.

 

[likearaptor]

Disable the photo backup in Google+ That fixed it for me

 

[Kirk Johnson2]

Looks exactly like my phones battery profile, same exact wavelock problems . Only started after NG6 update, not the intital kit kat update. Did you ever find a solution?

 

[forrestparkay]

I'm still looking for a solution as well.