Task Manager draining battery?

[darthweasel]

My battery has been draining pretty rapidly lately when I have not even been using the phone.
For example, it has been fully charged overnight and has not been off the charger for 50 minutes and is already down to 94% battery.

If I go into the battery section of 'Settings', it shows 'Task Manager' as the #1 app (using 20% of the battery).
Any idea what could be causing the stock Task Manager to go wild like this?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Not sure why. But yolu can try rebooting into recovery and clearing the system cache. Here is how: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...ing-into-recovery-mode-galaxy-s2-s3-tab2.html
Follow instructions for the S3.

 

[darthweasel]

ok - tried that and it is still showing what I believe to be an abnormally high battery use percentage (upward of 20%).

Any other suggestions?

 

[alexcolka]

I never get tired of advising about apps that rely in location services, you should check for those. Apps that use location services are heavy drainers.

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[electricpete]

Try going to app manager and find this application (task manager) then clear data and clear cache on that application. Then maybe power down, pull battery, replace, start and keep your fingers crossed

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[revansCAAD8]

My wife's Note3 has the same issue; 'Task Manager' always at the top of the battery usage list!? This was found while on KK4.4.4.4 and same after upgrading to L5.0.

My Note3 has never had the issue.

Posted via my Galaxy Note3 on the Android Central App

 

[revansCAAD8]

Try going to app manager and find this application (task manager) then clear data and clear cache on that application. Then maybe power down, pull battery, replace, start and keep your fingers crossed

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Tried many times and made no difference.

Posted via my Galaxy Note3 on the Android Central App

 

[emjaysea]

ES Task Manager doesn't list location services among its permissions...

 

[Mooncatt]

ES Task Manager doesn't list location services among its permissions...

Just uninstall that app.

Android was designed, and is most efficient, with memory almost full. Task managers and similar apps that advertise freeing up memory are only going to fight against the OS, so it's no surprise that the battery would drain quicker when using them.

Android fills up the memory.
The manager empties it.
Android, seeing this now wasted memory, fills it up again.
The manager sees the memory full again and clears it out.

Lather, rinse, repeat.