Wakelock vs. CPU for battery drain [PICS] before and after

[pcguys]

Can I simply review the apps with highest CPU to identify what's waking up the phone, or are they 2 different things?

I'm getting worse battery since kitkat on my Galaxy Note 3 (still better than my S3), but no where near as awesome as it was before the upgrade.

I was draining at 2.5% or 3% per hour over-night. This got it to 1.25% / hour which is better, but I've severely reduced the functionality of the phone. The wipe-cache I just did so I won't know till tomorrow if that helped.

I've read through the forum, and did a bunch of stuff including:

• turning off nearly 30 apps which came with my phone (including google plus and hangouts, ,)
• uninstalled skype and instragram
• stopped the wifi searching / advanced wifi
• turned off gps, wifi, bluetooth
• turned off location services (settings | connections | locations) (stops life360 from getting location of other family members - not good)
• changed exchange to poll every 15 minutes instead of push
• disabled lookout
• made sure all apps were up to date
• confirmed security level = normal
• turned power saving mode on in settings| general [won't know till tomorrow]
• wiped cache [ won't know till tomorrow]
• turned back on location but changed mode: settings | location | mode= power saving instead of high accuracy, enabling life 360 to work [won't know till tomorrow]
• disabled google drive, google play services, google maps [won't know till tomorrow]

Before KitKat:


After:

 

[pcguys]

Well, something in the batch of changes I made last night got me back to the 0.3% / hour overnight I enjoyed initially.

To recap: this is what I did last night:

• turned power saving mode on in settings| general [won't know till tomorrow]
• wiped cache [ won't know till tomorrow]
• turned back on location but changed mode: settings | location | mode= power saving instead of high accuracy, enabling life 360 to work [won't know till tomorrow]
• disabled google drive, google play services, google maps [won't know till tomorrow]

Of these, I bet it was disabling: "disabled google drive, google play services, google maps "

I just enabled these and will report back.

BTW, I just looked at my other Note 3 which somehow was already set to location power -saving, so it wasn't just that. I just wiped that cache (no other changes). I'll check on that one later and report back.
-Mike

 

[Jerrduford]

Before Kit Kat you were also on Wifi the entire time. That equates to an enormous battery saving vs cellular.

 

[somnambulator]

why'd u turn push email notifications off? push is the best of both worlds. it saves battery versus polling since it's told when to download email instead of checking every x minutes 24 hrs a day.

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