Wake locks

Lucy Davies

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When I went to work today my phone was on about 93% & 4 hours later my phone was on 45% this can't be normal. I looked at my battery stats & android OS is at the top using 30% or more & my phone is almost constantly awake which I'm guessing is to do with wake locks. Is there a way to make them not use so much battery power in 4 hours.

Running lollipop 5.0.1 for 6 days now.

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Run Wakelock Detector. I'm assuming you haven't rooted your phone (if you have, that's all you have to do), so read Wakelock detector with non-rooted phone. It's a bit of a pain, but two times (once after a normal workday cycle, once after a normal weekend day cycle) should be enough to give you an idea of which apps are keeping the phone awake. Then run Greenify and Greenify those apps. (I run all my apps Greenified, except those I want to be able to run by themselves - like phone, texting and email, so I get incoming ones without having the apps running constantly, and the alarm, so I don't have to run it to get it to ring [which kind of defeats the purpose of an alarm - if you're already aware that it's time to turn it on, you don't need it]). My phone (a Note 3) can sit for at least 2 days before the battery is down to 40% if I'm not using it. I've actually gotten 4 days once - nothing happened, no email, no calls, and I checked it about every 8 hours. It seemed as if it was never going to drain.)

Also, when you're looking at the Awake line, look at the Mobile network signal line. If it's not solid green, it's costing you battery because your carrier has a weak signal where you are (so look where you spend lot of time - home, the office, etc.) The only solution to a weak signal is changing carriers to one that has a strong signal where you usually are (which is why choosing the carrier by actual test driving is the first decision in getting a cell phone if you don't have an account, of if you're off-contract. For instance, Sprint has some great deals - and is useless in my daughter's house, so I eliminate them right off the top.)
 
Just looked at my signal when I was at work & it's quite bad lots of red & yellow/orange with some green. I'm on contract so can't change carrier until late April next year. My brother downloaded something to do with drivers on the computer & a message comes up on the computer saying the drivers are out of date or something so i'm not sure if wake lock detector would work as I'm not rooted. I do get a lot of messages from twitter & facebook while at work so could that be one of the problems?

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Just looked at my signal when I was at work & it's quite bad lots of red & yellow/orange with some green. I'm on contract so can't change carrier until late April next year. My brother downloaded something to do with drivers on the computer & a message comes up on the computer saying the drivers are out of date or something so i'm not sure if wake lock detector would work as I'm not rooted. I do get a lot of messages from twitter & facebook while at work so could that be one of the problems?

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Select "gsm only" in mobile networks in the network settings. That cured my Note 4 of continously waking. The only hitch is that you have to manually switch back to 4g when you leave the area of poor reception.
 
Don't seem to have gsm only. I have 2G,3G,4G only or 3G, 4G only or 3G only.

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Can't choose 2G on its own unfortunately as I only have 3 options. 4G, 3G, 2G is one option which my phone is on or 4G, 3G is the second option & 3G only is the third option. I turned one of my apps off & I had a bit more battery power & android OS wasn't using much battery power either which was good. Phone was still awake a lot.

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3g then. The idea is to stop the phone part from scanning for a higher speed signal
 
Tested 3G only yesterday at work & turned off one of my apps & my phone went from 92% to 70% in 4 hours 30 mins which is a lot better but still not perfect. I did receive about 40 messages from twitter though so that may drain the battery a bit.

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You can turn twitter Notifications totally off in 5.0.1 but that defeats its purpose. Glad there was an improvement.
 
I love my twitter notifications & use them for these things called Amiibo from Nintendo & need to know when certain ones become available so I can pre order so I don't have to pay for them on amazon or ebay which have stupid prices. They go out of stock really fast too.

Yesterday was the same with my battery only dropped about 20%

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