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[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niekvans:
the recent 4.4.2 update (175.44.1) fixed it!

Hi guys,

Just to inform you, I was having the same drain issue with my moto g, and just yesterday I got an OTA update to 4.4.2 (system version: "175.44.1.falcon_umts.Retail.en.DE" (Kernel version: "3.4.0-gc6fc9e1-00001g6ff871f hudsoncm@ilclbld23 #1 Mon Jan 13 04:48:46 CST 2014")

This has definitely fixed it for me, finally (I tried a lot of things before that didn't help). I was still on 4.3, never got an update before this (even though I checked for updates almost every day).

More details about the reason behind this issue (GPS) in my other post on this forum called "Just got OTA 4.4.2 (was 4.3): seems to have fixed it".

Let us know if, when you upgrade to this recent system/kernel version (so not just any 4.4.2!!) your drain has been fixed as well. I have the German retail version from Amazon, and apparently Motorola already issued another 4.4.2 to some others before (an older system version) and those users now *also* are getting this bug fix version update to 175.44.1, an update of only 2MB for them (because they were already on an older 4.4.2)

Good luck, and let us know your experiences with this version, to confirm it has really been fixed.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frojnd:
I don't know if this is airplane issue or standard battery drain issue. Yesterday I put my phone in airplane mode (66%) and in the morning was dead I can't see from batty stats if it was one second drain or couple of hours drain. Please see the attachment. Also if batty isn't fully charged os will not reset counter and I can have 6+ days on batty until I fullybehaviour this normal behaviour?

Ota 4.2 root

View attachment 2540182
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frojnd:
After the incident of draining the battery from 66% to 1% I charged phone to 7% and then to 33% then I was doing some high gaming at maximum brightness until battery completely drained up. After it let it charge until it was 100% and I also let it one hour in the charger even though it was already charged. (Powered off).

When it was completely charged I turned phone on and put out in airplane mode and in the morning noticed 8% drain and phone was only 7 hours on battery in airplane mode.

Then I wrote this post and I noticed it's already 89% :s

Better battery stats it was in deep sleep:
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unlinker:
It was happening to me in 4.3 but I fixed it upgrading all the Google apps that were outdated.

Now it's happening in 4.4 even If almost everything is upgraded.. the only way not to make this happen is disable location services and reboot, then the drain is "normal" (1% per hour, still more than 4.3 anyway).

This is ridicolous, I think I'll root and go back to Jelly Bean.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theoneofgod:
Are you on 2G?

---------- Post added at 01:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:46 PM ----------

Are you using 2G?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frojnd:
Always on Wi-Fi and if I use data I prefer 3g
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theoneofgod:
But the drain happens while idle on 2G?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
I ended up returning my phone to Amazon, and got a replacement. I tried everything and figured maybe my particular phone was problematic (though every engineering instinct in me did not agree ...). Got the replacement, fully charged it, added my google account, and let it run all night. The discharge rate was just under 1%/hr. I think that is still on the high side. Anyways, I installed a few basic apps the next day like a file explorer and some financial apps (mint.com, my credit card and bank accounts ..), and noticed that the standby drain was close to 2%/hr. I uninstalled everything, and put it in airplane mode during the night .... Sigh, again - 1.5%/hr battery drain.

Below is my battery drain log during airplane mode. The number on the right is the % drain /hr. As you can see, it's hovering around 1.5%/hr.

1390913270763;49;-2.204095576931201;true

1390911637440;50;-1.6839166779317574;true

1390909499567;51;-1.6229711733270098;true

1390907281413;52;-1.3373438790327883;true

1390904589510;53;-1.571928844020994;true

1390902299330;54;-1.7160769717724407;true

1390900201522;55;-1.0001005656679922;true

1390896601884;56;-1.4993221814304782;true

1390894200799;57;-2.000486785117712;true

1390892401237;58;-1.2496233773987562;true

1390889520369;59;-1.4292979883821895;true
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Get Gsam and have a detailed look at what's happening. The stock battery stats screens are near useless. ;)

Sent from my Moto X cellular telephone...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
Precisely, what have you disabled? I'll try replicating it on my end. I got a replacement phone, and it is still ~1.5%/hr drain in airplane mode overnight :( .

Also, how did you go about disabling the stuff? Through, settings->apps?

Damnit, I hate Android now. I just want a phone that performs as advertised, without having to spend 10s of hours tinkering with it.

Thanks.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
It's useless in KitKat, you're unable to see partial wakelocks and pinpoint the problem without root. The phone was in airplane mode, with location services disabled. Without root, GSAM, or BBS would not really be able to tell you much...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Good old Google....slowly leaning towards the apple philosophy. ;)

Sent from my Moto X cellular telephone...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
Yeah ... that's what you get for selling out and going public. Sigh ...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
Just spoke to level 2 tech support at Motorola. He said that the only spec Motorola publishes for the MOTO G is "24hrs of mixed usage", and that 1.5-2%/hr battery drain in airplane mode is okay.

Useless. Morons.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nandeh:
I will test it tonight, but Imho is Google Now merged with the Location service which are causing the draining in Airplane Mode... I will report my results tomorrow morning :silly:
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
FYI, my results were with location services disabled.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
Started a thread on the official MOTO G forums as well. I encourage any and all of you who have this problem to post there as well, and bring this issue to their attention.

https://forums.motorola.com/posts/5a07d40ff2?commentId=760452#760452
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niekvans:
I'm afraid it started happening to me again too (system version 175.44.1, 4.4.2), but it's definitely related to location services: what you can do to stop it is just disable location on your phone, reboot (vital step!!), and the drain won't happen. (if0rg0t: you said that it happened with location services disabled, but did you perform the required reboot after disabling?)

I also believe it is related to moving around different networks, and it may not be GPS but wifi location that starts this "drain mode", in relation to Google Play Services (usually when there's a drain, the google play services app is showing up high in the battery list: when doing the procedure described above, this service won't show up or will show up only very low).

Yesterday, it went fine for a while, until at some point the drain started: I believe it might get started by a bad connection to wifi. Once it's in that mode, obviously nothing will stop it except a reboot.

Personally, I now just keep location disabled, until I really need it (which isn't very often). Yes, that may not be ideal, but at least you get guaranteed great battery life as a result, and as a positive side effect the NSA won't have as much information on you.

On a more positive note: I think it's not a Moto G specific issue, but a general Android (google play services) issue, as described here: http://xdaforums.com/nexu...droid-t2385843

See also another thread on the same topic (not meaning to cross promote threads, but it can be helpful to those who haven't seen it yet): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2583419&page=6
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jim.1405:
Since my G is going to be a secondary phone anyway I though it would be fun to see what kind of battery life it would get in pure standby mode which is important to me. I charged it up Friday night, turned about everything I could think of to off or disabled except the phone radio, and set it on the table. Today, at 90 hours of no use standby it is down to 81% which works out to ~.21%/hr if the battery meter is correct and usage is linear. It is getting 4 or 5 bars where it is located so it has a good signal. Pretty impressive.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theoneofgod:
On 3g yea?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Scrooby:
Hey there,

a think I may have found the solution for the battery draining. I did wipe the cache after I read this post. Now I have very good battery even in normal standby!! Tonight I only turned off wifi and data but still connected to 3G and lost about 2% in 8 hours. This is damn good. Also it's worth mentioning that I use the wifi location service. No drain at all!!!

good luck trying this out...

regards
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
have you got Google now on? and isn't play services showing in your battery stats?

I'm feeling a slight improvement but not much so far.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Scrooby:
I have disabled most google apps. The problem with this battery drain was that is wasn't shown anywhere. I have similar stats now. I don't trust them realy. The only I can trust is the time without charging and the battery status. So for me it is a huge improvement.

regards
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
I did a cache clear and didn't make much difference, but just did a factory reset and a cache clear and now after 2 hours and a few notifications I'm still on 99% with location on!
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelopolis:
Hi, did you do a factory reset through the recovery menu or just through settings menu ? Also if I do a factory reset, do I need to manually clear the cache through recovery ?

Thanks
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theoneofgod:
I drain 0.2%/h in 3G, 2%/h in 2G.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
I did it through recovery. I tried factory reset a week ago, didn't make any difference. Then i did a cache clear, made some difference.

Then I did cache clear, then factory reset and cache clear again, BIG difference.

Did it last night at 18:30 and switched location fully on and currently after 22 hours I'm still on 89%. Before this this I'd be on around 70%!
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crewster:
Does the factory reset through revovery delete all internal memory files as the factory reset within the settings?

Enviado desde mi XT1032 mediante Tapatalk
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
Yes, but if that's what it takes to get my battery back(presuming it stays good) it was worth it.

I will try switching google now on next.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tag49:
Hi,

I did all the propositions :

Cache clear

Rest factory,

Moving to ART.

But noway, still draining 1% battery during night in airplane mode. Phone idle is the only process that seems to drain a lot...

4.3 was more performant !
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psychoferno:
You try to disable the Google location service, in Google account (not general location)?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50077905&postcount=16

For me (dual chip) this works.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50094311&postcount=18
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tag49:
Yes, all google's services and synchronization are desactivated... :crying:
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
after clearing cache etc I left location on last night in airplane mode and lost zero percent. I had a moderate drain today at work(more than without location and Google now on) but by this afternoon, it seems to be leveling out.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
Sometimes I get amazing standby performance ... Zero percent in many hours. Other times I get 1-2%/hr ... And yet at other times I get a crazy 8-12%/hr drain, which is corrected ( if I can catch it ) with a reset..

Thinking about voiding my warranty and rooting...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuducnamit.94:
The problem of draining battery is the charger, which charger do you use ? i recommend to use charger of Samsung Galaxy S3(5V-1A) because i have very good performance of standby/on screen time after changing from PC USB charge to it.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
The charger has nothing to do with the battery drain issue ...
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vuducnamit.94:
just follow and get it, if you do not want to do, it's ok, have fun :D
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
I have g now on location on high accuracy and for the last two nights have lost less than 1% in airplane mode. losing around 1.5% a hour average over the last 2 days.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogeriorp:
I gave it a try with wifi and location set to off tonight, dropped from 18 to 17% in 8.5h. Satisfied.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] if0rg0t:
See this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50467389
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wizzie86:
Dear iforgot and others,

This workaround helps you get rid of the drain:

Step 1. Disable location and reboot.

Step 2. Use your phone normally: you won't have a drain.

If you want to use location again, the drain will start. Regardless of whether you turn location off. You will need to perform step 1 again in order to get rid of the drain.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboard:
Any news after the update to Lollipop ??? Or is the location battery drain not software related at all ?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboard:
OK so I'm trying to keep my expectations low but there might be a chance the bug has gone away in lollipop.

Moto G 1st gen from amazon UK Dec 13

Did the lollipop update today and then I activated location high accuracy and opened google maps and ingress.

And the drain never happened.

Could be luck since the bug was intermittent.

More tests tommorow .

PS noticed very low battery usage on google services around 2%
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DessPL:
Could you post your battery stats?
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
I still have drain but when I don't have it, I'm using around 10% less a day.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboard:
Here it is
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboard:
So I think the drain happened again.

Probably will try to sell it and go for an lg.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neu - smurph:
It's definitely not fixed in Lollipop 5.0.2 - however overall battery life is better.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eemgee:
This is true, but if you look over on the motorola forum, they have finally admitted there is a problem that should be fixed in the next update.

I imagine that will be 5.1 and our last official update, so last chance.
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sportfreunde:
Anyone know which Moto G specific things I can disable in terms of wakelocks/alarms/services using Amplify on an optimized stock 5.0.2 Rom?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cybergurken:
Good day all xda dev and everyone else

first off, I know that this isnt the correct section for this but I am REALLY REALLY desperate, 5 months ago I bought a Samasung Tab from eBay (from US) but I live in South Africa and so obviously we dont have Verizon here...

So I made 3 posts already in the appropriate section regarding rooting and network unlocking this device but I have had no successful response

SO I am posting this question here,

How can I network unlock (for global use, or just not so it is lock to verizon) this Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Lte (SCH-I905)

Thank you...
[HTC One V] azor_spark:
I installed the Omega Primou Lite v2.0 ROM, and it works fine, exept for the sound, not heard, anything, ringtones, or music, or the sounds of the games or the system, NOT PLAY ANY SOUND

Hope you can help me, thanks.
[HTC One V] red de0392:
Wipe Cache and Dalvik cache...

or do a Complete wipe and install the rom again
[HTC One V] XNick92:
Hi, question is a bit out of topic, somebody faced with the disappearance of the lock screen animation in Primou Omega v1.1?

and bug Awesome BEATS when listening to music, sound effects equalizer disappeared, so it was necessary to return the switch song. How to fix it?
[HTC One V] ymansky_ph:
i dont faced any problem like that in v 1.1. back up your data in sd card. do a full wipe including sd card. then flash the rom again. and note i dont restore apps using titanium back up or any restoring apps. i just donwload it again from play store so its just like a fresh rom.
[HTC One V] FocusBlast:
I did the complete flashing again still sound didnt work :(
[HTC One V] red de0392:
Ive no clue then...does ua sound work with other roms ??
[HTC One V] Ringford:
Sound problem is a known issue. I wonder why you don't know that issue.

Read this:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Arterion:
Anyone know how i can remove the words which my Universal has saved when i've texted someone? There are alot of incorrectly-spelled words which are just annoying when they come up as an autocorrect.

I was searching through the Phone from my PC, and found an autocorrect.txt file. When i copied it to my PC, it's not appearing where I copy it to, even with hidden file view enabled, but if i try to copy again it asks if i'm sure I want to overwrite....whats going on?!?!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] matobeli:
Hi,

I was completly fed up with Sony rubbish software so I decided to install custom ROM.

First I Unlocked bootloader. That went OK.

Then I installed Custom ROM from user "munjen" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2531189

I used Flashtool in Fastboot mode.

Now my phone is not able to enter fastboot (blue led) and doesn't boot. If I restart it with up+power the backlight lights up (LCD is till black) and the notification led goes quickly trough all colurs it can display.

After that, It's all dark. except LCD backlight.

Here is part of the log from Flashtool:

15/023/2014 15:23:41 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

15/023/2014 15:23:47 - INFO - Device disconnected

15/023/2014 15:23:48 - ERROR - Drivers need to be installed for connected device.

15/023/2014 15:23:48 - ERROR - You can find them in the drivers folder of Flashtool.

15/024/2014 15:24:53 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging on

15/024/2014 15:24:54 - INFO - Connected device : Sony Xperia GO

15/024/2014 15:24:54 - INFO - Installed version of busybox : N/A

15/024/2014 15:24:54 - INFO - Android version : 4.1.2 / kernel version : 3.0.101-munjeni-g1e8f320 / Build number : 6.2.A.1.100

15/025/2014 15:25:44 - INFO - Device disconnected

15/025/2014 15:25:47 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

15/025/2014 15:25:47 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

15/025/2014 15:25:54 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging on

15/025/2014 15:25:55 - INFO - Connected device : Sony Xperia GO

15/025/2014 15:25:55 - INFO - Installed version of busybox : N/A

15/025/2014 15:25:55 - INFO - Android version : 4.1.2 / kernel version : 3.0.101-munjeni-g1e8f320 / Build number : 6.2.A.1.100

15/026/2014 15:26:33 - INFO - Device disconnected

Can anyone help me? :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
Please elaborate on the "installed" part, what exactly did you do?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] matobeli:
I pluged my phone to PC, opened Flashtool, choose correct ROM (.img) and tried to flash it.

In fact, I solved my problem myself. I turned on my phone in "flash mode" (down+on) and flashed some original ROM in .ftf. It worked. (after third try though)

And now, I'll try again! :angel:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
The boot.img is not "the ROM" it's just the kernel.

To flash the whole ROM copy the zip file to internal memory, then flash boot.img.

Next biit, and press volume down about once a second, untill CWM recovery comes up, then choose flash zip, choose zip to flash, choose and flash
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] stefanoclaes:
flashing

dont forget that you have to wipe data and wipe cache patrition in cwm or twrp.:good:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] matobeli:
thank you guys, I'm getting there. It was a while since I flashed my last rom (xperia x8).

-bootloader unlocked OK

-copy entire .zip to internal memory OK

-boot into fast mode and flash kernel (I found it in the munjeni's .zip file, Is that ok?) OK

-boot into CWM -I'm not able to, what could be wrong? I did as ChikeD told me, but recovery won't show.

Here's the whole log of my "operations" if it helps.

16/047/2014 22:47:48 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized

16/047/2014 22:47:48 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.9.13.0 built on 2013-06-04 22:50:00

16/047/2014 22:47:53 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging on

16/047/2014 22:47:54 - INFO - Connected device : Sony Xperia GO

16/047/2014 22:47:54 - INFO - Installed version of busybox : N/A

16/047/2014 22:47:54 - INFO - Android version : 4.0.4 / kernel version : 3.0.8+ / Build number : 6.1.1.B.1.10

16/048/2014 22:48:02 - INFO - Device disconnected

16/048/2014 22:48:22 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

16/048/2014 22:48:32 - INFO - Device disconnected

16/049/2014 22:49:18 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

16/049/2014 22:49:37 - INFO - Device disconnected

16/049/2014 22:49:43 - INFO - Device connected in fastboot mode

16/050/2014 22:50:16 - INFO - Selected kernel (boot.img or kernel.sin): C:\Program Files (x86)\Flashtool\firmwares\boot.img

16/050/2014 22:50:16 - INFO - Flashing selected kernel

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - sending 'boot' (8588 KB)...

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - (bootloader) USB download speed was 21192kB/s

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - OKAY [ 0.430s]

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - writing 'boot'...

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - (bootloader) Flash of partition 'boot' requested

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - (bootloader) S1 partID 0x00000003, block 0x0000d000-0x00014fff

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - (bootloader) Erase operation complete, 0 bad blocks encountered

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - (bootloader) Flashing...

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - (bootloader) Flash operation complete

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - OKAY [ 0.625s]

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - finished. total time: 1.055s

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - FASTBOOT Output:

sending 'boot' (8588 KB)...

(bootloader) USB download speed was 21192kB/s

OKAY [ 0.430s]

writing 'boot'...

(bootloader) Flash of partition 'boot' requested

(bootloader) S1 partID 0x00000003, block 0x0000d000-0x00014fff

(bootloader) Erase operation complete, 0 bad blocks encountered

(bootloader) Flashing...

(bootloader) Flash operation complete

OKAY [ 0.625s]

finished. total time: 1.055s

16/050/2014 22:50:17 - INFO - Please check the log before rebooting into system

16/050/2014 22:50:45 - INFO - Device disconnected

16/054/2014 22:54:28 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

16/054/2014 22:54:28 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

16/054/2014 22:54:31 - INFO - Device disconnected

16/054/2014 22:54:32 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

16/054/2014 22:54:32 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

16/054/2014 22:54:51 - INFO - Device disconnected
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mathbalaji:
After you flash the boot.img, start the phone and once you see the Sony logo, press the volume key (down or up) repeatedly until all the led colors stop blinking. Then you'll be in the recovery mode. Wipe n install the zip. Good luck!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ankitsxperiago:
Is it not good to unlock your bootloader?

Sent from 'not any permanent posture/position' using Xperia go