FP2, FPOpen with security patch from 5. December 2016
My problem is that the top entry in my battery consuption view is âotherâ using 55% of my FP2âs battery and I donât know what âotherâ represents.
I thought this is a general Android thing so I used my Google-Fu. But I only get heaps of clickbaity âWhat app you can download to save batteryâ articles, but none explain what âotherâ is.
I have shown the screenshot above to my colleagues, but they all said: âNever seen that. It usually says mobile data or wifi on topâ. I also cannot recall ever seeing âotherâ on any Android phone I have used.
Do you guys ever have had this? Any Ideas?
Itâs not a showblocker (like the system clock with reboot-amnesia) but I am a bit concerned.
you should download one of the usage tracker apps, to make sure itâs not the dreaded media server bug or something similar. other than that, not sure. maybe itâs a runaway service.
I think we have this discussion already here on the Forum, but I couldnât find it, so Iâm gonna explain it myself: Other/Sonstige is the difference between ther calculated battery usage and the real usage. Since Android doesnât include every battery-consuming process in the calculation, Other/Sonstige exists. On my phone itâs currently at 16%, which is (in my opinion) higher than it should be, (sometimes itâs just 5%). But unfortunately I canât explain why itâs 55% at your phone
Thank you for the explanation. This makes âotherâ a very useful indicator of something going not as planned. I shall try a tracker as fusurugi said.
nothing comes to mind, I once used battery minder on my old phone, but it didnât really do me much good.
you could try greenify to kill useless processes.
I also have quite some remarkable amount of âotherâ. I tuned the phone with Greenify,amplify and specially tuned tasker tasks, and get 0.4% drain while idle⊠But this is of not much use of you use you phone muchâŠ
I also had the same problem with âother/ Sonstigesâ being my primary source of battery consumption since November and in general a very poor battery life.
Itâs a proximity sensor problem that occured when the developers introduced the new sensor calibration. Probably itâs because one of your apps uses the proximity sensor and your fairphone doesnât switch do deep sleep mode when not used for a while. A very short battery life is the main result.
This thread discusses the problem: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/use-of-proximity-sensor-drains-the-battery/22155 @explit described a workaround how to flash older drivers to your fairphone that donât cause this problem. You need a little bit advanced knowledge how to flash, though. Since doing that I donât have the problem any more. But itâs annoying. You need to do it over and over again with each update.
You should open a ticket and let the fairphone devs know. @explit is (rightly) very worked up, that this problem was not addressed so far and I think fairphone developers need to know that itâs a very nasty bug they have to fix.
This post was moved from another topic replying to @anon26506580âs post.
Am besten schreibst du den Fairphone-Leuten und erklĂ€rst das Problem. Es liegt an einem Software-Bug, der mit dem NĂ€herungssensor zusammenhĂ€ngt. Er fĂŒhrt dazu, dass dein Telefon nicht mehr in den Tiefschlafmodus geht, wenn es nicht benutzt wird. Das Problem ist hier auf Englisch beschrieben: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/use-of-proximity-sensor-drains-the-battery/22155 und es gibt auch eine Lösung als Workaround, indem alte Treiber installiert werden, bei denen das Problem noch nicht bestand. Leider ist das nicht ganz so einfach zu machen und es sollte unbedingt von den Fairphone-Entwickler gefixed werden.
Leider haben sie das Problem scheinbar noch nicht auf dem Schirm bzw. nicht auf hoher PrioritĂ€t. Ich denke, viele wissen gar nicht, dass sie das Problem haben und sind dann im Zweifelsfall einfach enttĂ€uscht von der schlechten Akku-Laufzeit die aus dem Problem resultiertâŠ
In letzter Zeit geht bei meinem Fairphone 2 der Akku teilweise sehr schnell aus. In den Einstellungen steht, in solch einem Fall dass dass âSonstigesâ bis zu 50 Prozent der AkkukapazitĂ€t verbraucht hat. AuĂerdem habe ich bei meinem Display teilweise eine Wackelkontakt allerdings ist dieses Problem durch Schieben wieder zu beseitigen. Ich bin mir zwar nicht sicher aber ich habe die Vermutung dass das zusammenhĂ€ngt.
Ich wĂŒrde mich freun wenn jemand eine Idee fĂŒr eine Lösung hĂ€tte
@parisc hat schon weiter oben geschrieben, dass Dein Problem (vielleicht) mit einem anderen Softwarefehler, der den NÀherungssensor betrifft, zusammenhÀngt.
Falls Du Fairphone OS nutzt, gibt es mittlerweile einen Fix dafĂŒr:
âFixed the proximity sensor calibration data not taken into accountâ
My Fairphone 2 drains the battery in half a day or even faster and I have to charge the battery multiple times a day. When I check the battery stats, most of the usage is filed under the Miscellaneous category which only tells me that it wasnât able to figure out what app uses my battery:
Or even at the play store, as Iâm on open and gapps, have similar stats, maybe i can get some insights.
I already tried better battery stats, but the idle drain, while somewhat high, is not too revealing. Some kernel related issue, but it sleeps quite well⊠The active part is, where this mostly happens.
One thing which i already stated is some problem with the cpu governor, which keeps the CPU running at too high frequencies, imho
I am using this one and tells you plenty of tings⊠You can select âprocessâ and it tells you the percentage for each process of the phone so you can see if it is an app that is draining or if it is something elseâŠ
Try those, might help you.
Also I just installed an app that is called âforce Dozeâ which actually force the Doze to stay active few minutes after the screen goes off and even if you are moving. I found it very useful and I am saving lots of battery.
I installed BetterBatteryStats which didnât reveal anything new. It just shows stats that never add up to 100% battery usage. Itâs still totally unclear where the drain comes from In the mean time it even got worse. Without any heavy usage of the phone Iâm still not getting more than 6 - 8 from one charge.
Iâm beginning to suspect that my phone is broken. That would be a pity, I expected to get more than two years out of itâŠ
You might try out âwakelock detektorâ but I think itâs not available in F-Droid.
To see if itâs HW or app related you might do a complete backup and then a factory reset and run your phone half a day without all your additional apps to see if power drain remains.
If HW related it could also be related to SIM card(s) or SD card.
