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Re: Battery dropped 50% overnight

 

Hi to all.

With my bq E5 OTA 13 I can also confirm that such an annoying battery
issues had become worse.

If I can provide logs or support to help resolving this issue, I will.

Regards.
Marcos

El miércoles, 26 de octubre de 2016, Alexander <alexanderkinne@xxxxxxxxx>
escribió:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1471913
>
> This one? It has several Dupes already and a heat of 384.
>
> Please... Where is this being worked on? I am asking so that we as the
community can contribute to bringing about a solution to this annoying
ongoing issue?
>
> On 26.10.2016 10:24, Alexander wrote:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1458756
>>
>> This one? Reported 2015-05-26 and currently sitting in the System Image
>> backlog queue since it has been put there on 2015-10-09. It has a heat
>> of 132 as of now.
>>
>> Cheers, Alexander
>>
>> On 26.10.2016 09:22, Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>> On 25.10.2016 17:29, Pat McGowan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> /var/log/syslog, there are some similar bug reports you could update
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Dominik Wnęk <dominik@xxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:dominik@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Last night my bq 5 decided to use up all remaining battery (some
>>>>     50%) and die before it could ring my 7 am alarm. That was _really_
>>>>     not cool.
>>>>
>>>>     I'm attaching my battery graph. Is there some log I could extract
>>>>     from the phone to help with the problem?
>>>>
>>>>     Dom
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Perhaps its time to get to the heart of the apparent CRITICAL power
>>> management issue? Instead there are several bugs that will take months
>>> to get picked up - if at all. (Who wants to touch the hot potatoe?)...
>>>
>>> I have observed this phenomenon sporadically overnight in the past and
>>> it now seems to be a (almost) constant state. After the latest OTA the
>>> issue has grown with the addition of taking as long to charge the last 3
>>> percent of the battery as it takes for the 97 percent. So far I have
>>> attributed this to the explanations offered here about aging batteries.
>>> I am no longer convinced it is an issue of aging batteries. Something
>>> within the power management of UT is broken. At least for the vegeta-hd
>>> channel. Another thing I have observed is that the WLAN indicator goes
>>> to the not-connected state after a while, although the phone is
>>> connected to the network. This is also new since the last OTA. Perhaps
>>> the phone is spending all its energy on that? I will try to switch off
>>> W-Lan this night and see what happens.
>>>
>>> When going to bed i like to listen to a podcast (PodBird) or sometimes
>>> use a flashlight (U-Torch). I have been attributing the overnight
>>> battery drain to those applications - I have however observed the drain
>>> on several occasions while making sure those applications get swiped
>>> away on the app spread. As far as I understand it should not make a
>>> difference what application was run last, as the OS will suspend
>>> anything to conserve battery when not in use? At least it does for
>>> applications like Oxide - try navigating to some web page and leave the
>>> phone for a while then go back. You are presented with a low res screen
>>> grab of where you where only to be brought back to the start page after
>>> a second or so. Frustrating!
>>>
>>> MY REQUEST:
>>> Can we find ONE bug to record this under? I'd be happy to contribute
>>> with logs and tests as much as I can find the time. Since the last
>>> charge my phone only took 18 hours (over night) to get down to 22
>>> percent and most of the time it has been just sitting there supposedly
>>> not doing anything.
>>>
>>> Attached: /var/log/syslog; /var/log/repowerd.log; Various beautiful
>>> battery graphs, including the one from tonight :-)
>>>
>>
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