Last night I restored my phone using the factory image. For some reason I anticipate an OTA soon so I wanted to be ready. Anyhow, before I suffered from the battery drain bug. I forgot to charge my phone last night, and didn't realize it until I got in my car and put it on the car charger and it said 89%. My first thought was that my battery drained over 10% in the hour I was getting ready and not using it! Then I went into battery settings and found out I never charged it.. then I found some pleasant... well, I'll just show you.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
As you can see, I lost less than 5% battery during the 6+ hours my phone was unplugged. I had the phone in the living room charging while watching a movie. Then I unplugged and used it for about 20 minutes in the bedroom which accounts for the first rapid drop in battery. But after I set it down, the phone went into a coma. And I can't see exactly, but it looks like it was only 2 or 3% which is great!
Not sure what changed, I still have the same apps installed, even Facebook. I did, however, NOT disable VZ backup assistant like I normally do. Maybe that is what causes the OS to go bonkers? Thoughts?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
I got about 20 hours out of mine yesterday (extended battery) with moderate usage (texting, ebay, facebook, web) This is after unlocking the bootloader and rooting. Unlocking the bootloader resets the phone to factory state. I've read a few other posts around the web where battery life is greatly improved after a factory reset. Android OS is still the main things devouring my battery, but I almost don't care with the performance I'm getting. I should also mention that I wiped battery stats from CWM and then calibrated the battery on first charge.
I'm no dev, so I don't know why a reset would help. Then again, maybe it was wiping battery stats and calibrating that helped me. Just my $.02
How did you calibrate the battery?
There's a free tool in the market that will calibrate for you. Have to be rooted though. Just search for calibrate.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Surprised this isn't getting more acknowledgement. Any one else experience the same after a reset?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Guess maybe I'm one of the lucky few...I've always had this type of battery life. The phone just sips power while the screen is off.
While it is on...well that's different. I keep the brightness high and get about 2-2.5 hours of screen time before it powers off.
The interesting thing here is that it seems that you have the Android OS constantly waking up the phone but yet it still barely uses battery.
Do you have location services turned on or off?
Turned on. I noticed that too but the overall awake time is low. Usually it would be over half of the entire time on battery, sometimes 100%.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
I used 50% in about 3 hours on my extended battery.
fml.
Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
rpnunez said:
Great battery life, but you didnt really use your phone much.
Your "Screen on" is only about 15% of those 6 hours. Which ends up being about an hour.
Still, none the less, great battery life/power consumption.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
kangxi said:
I think you missed the point. I said this was done while I was sleeping. Many people are experiencing extreme battery drain even when they aren't using the phone, as was I. After restoring from the factory image, my issue seems to be gone.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I unplugged my phone at 11:30 pm with 98%, woke up at 7:30 am today and it dropped to 76%. So a 20% drop in 8 hrs with the phone just sitting there with wi-fi on and no apps running. It'd be very interesting to see if a factory restore would help.
How's the battery life now that you're using it?
Im thinking of unlocking and rooting mine tonight. havent had a moment to read the walkthrough just yet.
i noticed this too last night/today. i went to sleep after installing bugless beast 4.0.3 cdma, left it off the charger, and today i saw the chart was pretty much a flat line. i don't recall the exact times, but i'll try to time it out. about 8 hours
i wonder if all the initial extreme battery drain reports are due to the 'wowanewphone' effect, where you are molesting your phone 24/7, as opposed to the typical day-to-day use you'll eventually fall back into
Related
I'm on Stock 2.2 US and Battery Life is HORRENDOUS. I have the Moto Charge app that displays actual battery in the status bar. I charged to 100%, wiped battery stats, turned it on and after 6 minutes of no use, I'm at 97%. What am I missing here?
Are there any apps constantly running in the background?
Do you have bluetooth/wi-fi/gps switched on all the time?
Are you using your phone somewhere that's unusually hot, cold or humid?
Step666 said:
Are there any apps constantly running in the background?
Do you have bluetooth/wi-fi/gps switched on all the time?
Are you using your phone somewhere that's unusually hot, cold or humid?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, no, no, no, no
How long have you had it?
Has the battery always been this bad?
Has it only started recently? Is there some sort of cause, something that happened that has brought about this poor performance?
I just got the phone from a friend but I do not believe it to be an issue directly related to this specific handset.
Having GPS "on" all the time will not drain your battery as it is only being made "available" when an app needs it (mine is always checked and has zero effect on the battery until actually used). Did you do a factory reset after installing 2.2? On the Moto forum many issues are resolved with a reset.
hah2110 said:
I'm on Stock 2.2 US and Battery Life is HORRENDOUS. I have the Moto Charge app that displays actual battery in the status bar. I charged to 100%, wiped battery stats, turned it on and after 6 minutes of no use, I'm at 97%. What am I missing here?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lithium-ion batteries have a big drop off at the start of the discharge profile.
They will then maintain a fairly steady state between about 80% - 40%.
A 3% change, therefore, from 100 to 97 is not equivalent to a 3% change from 80% to 77%.
I'm pretty certain it is specific to your handset - most Defys have very good battery life.
Here's my handset:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
At that rate, it should last ~5 days.
There are always something running in the background. Install a cpu monitoring application and see if the cpu is running wild.
In my case, 1% power lasts for 3~5 minutes usage (game, movie, surfing etc), or 2 hours standby (wifi off), or 1 hour standby (wifi on).
I checked Battery Use, there is nothing crazy. I've also checked Battery History and nothing is using the CPU or keeping it awake. I actually wiped the phone last night, didn't have a sim card in it and left it on over night and it lost 14% in 7 hours. It shouldn't have even lost 2% given that it wasn't connected to a cell tower. I have wiped it twice.
hah2110 said:
I checked Battery Use, there is nothing crazy. I've also checked Battery History and nothing is using the CPU or keeping it awake. I actually wiped the phone last night, didn't have a sim card in it and left it on over night and it lost 14% in 7 hours. It shouldn't have even lost 2% given that it wasn't connected to a cell tower. I have wiped it twice.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am of a differing opinion.. I think these android devices have terrible battery life.
That being said, invest in a few of the cheap Hong Kong 1800mAH batteries on ebay.
I had a good experience ordering from "farmerseller". Curiously, I ordered 1500mAH batteries but received 1800 mAH batteries..... it took a while to arrive, but they work great and the charger is nicely designed.
luxdesigns said:
I am of a differing opinion.. I think these android devices have terrible battery life.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Compared to what?
What's your frame of reference?
I'm not aware of any other smartphone with specs similar-to or better-than the Defy's that gets anywhere near the battery performance my phone does.
Everyone I know with Galaxy Ss or Desires charges basically every day, one friend with an iPhone4 can get a couple of days out of it but most are only a day, friends with Blackberrys get a couple of days or so.
I regularly surpass 3 days of what I would call normal usage - web browsing, texting, a bit of gaming and the odd call here and there.
Are there any ROMs known to get better battery life? On both my N1 and NS, certain ROMs performed LIGHTYEARS better than other ROMs in the battery department. This is a well known fact that Android is inconsistent on battery life.
So I wiped, re-wiped, flash the beach update.zip, wiped, re-wiped and I'm not confident the wipe is working. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988036
Regardless, I also find it odd that my battery was at 85% and, after the flash/wipe, it charged to full in <10 minutes.
Give it a few days of usage and see the results afterward. Basically it needs some cycles to re-create the battery stats after wiping.
You can also install Powertutor to check what apps are "consuming" the battery.
From my experience: with light usage I made once 3 days but normally 1-2 days is all I get (3g, some talks, 30 min browsing, some ebook reading). It was the same with my past 2 Android phones and some 4 Win Mobile phones...
When you are in a really tight spot do the usual tricks: 2g only, disable APN, don't play too much with the phone. You will probably get 3-4 days in one charge
I updated to 2.2.1 also, and battery life went right down the tubes. I lived with it for two days, and then did a factory reset, and now I have better battery life than with 2.1. I really didn't want to factory reset because of all the fine tuning I did, and not to mention re-downloading all the apps and setting them back up, but I must say it was worth it. After 13 hours I'm at 30%, and that is with heavy use. I started at 100% and in 10 hours without using it much at all, it only dropped 10%, so 1% an hour I can live with. Once I started playing game it went fast, but that is to be expected.
Ahhh!!!!! You guys are killing me from laughter. Don't take this the wrong way....but read more items on these forums...they are a welath of information. First off.... battery stats are wiped. It will take a few days of charging/discharging for the phone to get an accurate idea of actual use. It needs a baseline created. Don't worry yet. It can take up to a week to get really good stats. As for the horrible life on 2.2....did you wipe battery stats before flashing? If not thats your problem. You have to wipe the stats when you go to 2.2. Different profiles and usage. It's mentioned in a number of the roms. With steady hard usage I'm averaging about 2 days between charging. On standby with no use the best I have gotten so far is 6 days. RTFM.... Hope this helps out.
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361108
Lost just 20% in 16 hours. This is of course with JuiceDefender and airplane mode scheduled to run over night. But it's still impressive as we used to get battery drains even at times phone was supopsed to sleep and AirPlane mode on.
My baseband is UGKK7, but that's not what cured it, I had this baseband installed days earlier and battery drain was awful.
In my case it appears all battery problems are cured:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
What's your standby current draw? In my HD2 android, I had about 4-9ma. But in Galaxy Nexus it's about 19-40ma which is pretty high. Judging from your screenshot, yours is 16ma in standby?
Possibly, I have no idea. Nexus is known from high default cpu voltage, maybe thats that or maybe it's my apps waking phone every now and then to check things, for example LED light notification app or Juice Defender.
Anyway, I'm pretty happy now, might tweak it some more when I have time, but it's now at the same level as my old SGS2, I'd say a bit better (I think I had 5% night drop on AirPlane mode on SGS2, but again it depends on apps).
luffyp said:
What's your standby current draw? In my HD2 android, I had about 4-9ma.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just checked: it was constant -5mA throughout the night.
Have you, knowing you want to see good results, un-knowingly played less with your phone on this rom?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Tjotte said:
Have you, knowing you want to see good results, un-knowingly played less with your phone on this rom?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's not it, I know battery will go down when I actively use it. What I noticed is that I get great results when phone is idle. This didn't happen before, you would see battery drain even when idle at night in AirPlane mode. This means light use should also give better battery performance than before, I will be testing that.
Sent from Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
This is with Google+ and Facebook signed in. I just disabled all notifications from these apps and they appear to function properly, do not keep awake when not run.
schriss said:
This is with Google+ and Facebook signed in. I just disabled all notifications from these apps and they appear to function properly, do not keep awake when not run.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I dont know what I did but while IDLe, I get about 1% drain per hour, thats on 3G, sync on (gmail, google+, etc), no juicedefender or airplane mode.
I only tested it overnight, when Im sleeping, notice the ZERO wake locks and crappy signal; unbelievable!
Disclaimer: this was while I was sleeping, NO usage. Battery obviously goes down much quicker once the screen is on, but for idle time, I am content!
schriss said:
That's not it, I know battery will go down when I actively use it. What I noticed is that I get great results when phone is idle. This didn't happen before, you would see battery drain even when idle at night in AirPlane mode. This means light use should also give better battery performance than before, I will be testing that.
Sent from Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ok, thank you keep on testing and keep us informed, always nice to get some info! Merry X-mas!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
thats great to see how long it lasts while youre not using the phone... but how about while youre actually using it?
voxigenboy said:
thats great to see how long it lasts while youre not using the phone... but how about while youre actually using it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For real... All these people posting up 15-20 hours of battery by putting it on airplane mode overnight is just useless info. Especially when most people put it on the charger overnight
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Happy! said:
For real... All these people posting up 15-20 hours of battery by putting it on airplane mode overnight is just useless info. Especially when most people put it on the charger overnight
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It is not useless info. Previously, when putting in AirPlane mode and not using the phone at all we would see big battery drain. Now we don't. This is to proove that now the phone actually goes to sleep whenever I don't use it. This is proper testing before and after applying one change.
voxigenboy said:
thats great to see how long it lasts while youre not using the phone... but how about while youre actually using it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I will know next time I go to work. But since I never use it for all these 8-10 hours straight, I should have better battery, because whenever I will put the phone away, even for another 15mins, battery will stop dropping like it used to.
In other words, it will most likely still drop as usual while actively using the phone, but in overall I should get more battery because of much more efficient idle times.
This is irritating me immensely...my Galaxy Nexus has yet to last me a full day on a charge. I bought a Hyperion 3800mah battery and I believe it really did extend my battery life. On Sunday, I was home all day and my phone was connected to wifi. I used it quite a bit and the thing had 80% when I went to bed.
Today and yesterday, going to school, my phone is just about dead when I get home, at 2:30. I did use my phone, but not heavy at all. Spent the most of the day in my pocket. I had nothing on both days. No bluetooth, GPS, I had sync off when I went to school today, then I turned it on around 1 o clock or so. I used full screen brightness when I was outside for a few minutes, otherwise it was on low. The thing is warm to the touch like its been running frantically. I'm lead to believe that its something to do with the LTE radio. But what??
Took some screen shots of my battery page, had 4% left.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Please please please help me. I've read people getting 2 days on a charge with a 3800mah battery...I'm drooling for that ability.
Thanks!
It looks like your spending lots of time in area's with bad reception. I'm using the sedio 3800mah and I have no problem going several days on one charge. Only time it drops faster is when I have crappy reception and the radio's are pulling more juice. On heavy days I have wireless tether running all day, and a couple hours of games and still have 40+ percent at the end of the day.
there is also some crap app installed that keep ur phone awake..
ur phone should be awake only when the screen is on (or so)..
your high % of cell standby should give it away.
look at your signal the red is all the times with no signal meaning that whole time the phone is searching for signal. plus 49 %of screen on time that looks to be half of 7:49 so almost 4 hours of scren time is good just need to fix your signal problem plus draw something kills your battery as well
lordgodgeneral said:
It looks like your spending lots of time in area's with bad reception. I'm using the sedio 3800mah and I have no problem going several days on one charge. Only time it drops faster is when I have crappy reception and the radio's are pulling more juice. On heavy days I have wireless tether running all day, and a couple hours of games and still have 40+ percent at the end of the day.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1 to signal causing drain
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using XDA
dco717 said:
plus 49 %of screen on time that looks to be half of 7:49 so almost 4 hours of scren time
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
is not like that..49 % is the power consumption of the screen in relation to the other things that drained the battery..with easy word, you cant know the screen on time if he doesn't say u
True...well he needs to do a factory reset and see if it helps
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
Wow, poor to no reception, high awake times, high screen on times...it's a miracle your battery lasted as long as it did.
dco717 said:
True...well he needs to do a factory reset and see if it helps
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Factory reset doesn't help bad signal...lol.
Turn off LTE, bad signal will drain you fast but bad signal on LTE will drain you twice as fast.
Looks like you have a rogue app. See how much your phone is awake when the screen is off? That combined with bad signal=dead phone.
I see what you guys mean about awake mode. Yea my phone feels like a warm coal all day. I uninstalled "Words Free" because I've heard bad thing about battery, I stopped using the beautiful widgets weather app, stopped sync with soundcloud, and I got an airplane mode widget for the bad reception area. We'll see how long I can stretch my battery tomorrow.
I read up on how Light Flow light might drain the battery. The LED light has remained stuck on a lot, so I uninstalled it. I'll post a battery stat tomorrow night. Fingers crossed.
I can vouch for bad reception draining the battery.. that should clear up your problem.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
I had the same problem but get this app called "2X Battery", my batter lasts the whole day now! Get the PRO version, its actually worth it and it works wonders!
I have the extended battery also
yep bad reception... once time i left my phone one in my bag while on an airplane... not in airplane mode or anything... battery went dead in about 2 hours due to no signal
Pretty sure the bigger problem is the phone waking up while the screen is off. You should run your phone for another day and look at the list of apps that are draining your battery.
A few good things to look for? Google + or other programs constantly checking for messages your location, or updates, e-mail being pushed to your phone automatically, Wifi on while in sleep, and widgets.
My battery is **** also on GSM version my galaxy s2 would have 2-3% drain per hour most time less Nexus seems to drain 2-3% in 15mins its terrible wish i never changed.
It used to be that with the screen off and the phone on idle with the screen off, I would lose maybe 2% per hour. This morning, my battery quickly dropped to 50% with some phone call but very light use. So I charged it back up to 80%. For the last hour, it dropped about 9% with the screen completely off and I had cleared the memory prior to that. That is unusually high since the phone is sitting in one place in an area that has good 4g and 3g.
How is your standby battery drain? I am on LJC stock rooted.
Edit: reboot phone and now it is better. Loosing 6% in 2 hours of standby. Much better.
aquaholik said:
It used to be that with the screen off and the phone on idle with the screen off, I would lose maybe 2% per hour. This morning, my battery quickly dropped to 50% with some phone call but very light use. So I charged it back up to 80%. For the last hour, it dropped about 9% with the screen completely off and I had cleared the memory prior to that. That is unusually high since the phone is sitting in one place in an area that has good 4g and 3g.
How is your standby battery drain? I am on LJC stock rooted.
Edit: reboot phone and now it is better. Loosing 6% in 2 hours of standby. Much better.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Glad a reboot helped. I'd recommend rebooting every day. I usually do it first thing in the morning and before going to bed.
My battery life on LJC rooted was fantastic. Never had a phone like this. My EVO3D with 3300 extended battery was good, but still not as good as the note2.
I experienced a really weird battery drain a few weeks ago but cannot replicate it. However it dropped from 100% to 42% in 2 hours time. Pulled battery recharged it and nothing since. But I usually get 16+ hours a day with extreme usage. I am talking 5 hours of netflix and some pandora and games. On my weekend when I dont use the phone much I get 48 hours usually.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
poor_red_neck said:
Glad a reboot helped. I'd recommend rebooting every day. I usually do it first thing in the morning and before going to bed.
My battery life on LJC rooted was fantastic. Never had a phone like this. My EVO3D with 3300 extended battery was good, but still not as good as the note2.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I kept checking it with battery monitor widget and the third and fourth hour, it was only losing 1% per hour much like my old E4GT. Battery drain went down from -300ma to about -45ma.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
aquaholik said:
I kept checking it with battery monitor widget and the third and fourth hour, it was only losing 1% per hour much like my old E4GT. Battery drain went down from -300ma to about -45ma.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Which app is that? I've been looking for something to view battery current, many I used on HTC phones don't work on Samsung.
Does that app also have a better understanding of what apps are causing battery drain? I'm tired of seeing "Android OS" and not knowing EXACTLY what it is...Might help me diagnose my Fiance's E4GT (GS2) with "Android OS" as the main culprit at 67%...
poor_red_neck said:
Which app is that? I've been looking for something to view battery current, many I used on HTC phones don't work on Samsung.
Does that app also have a better understanding of what apps are causing battery drain? I'm tired of seeing "Android OS" and not knowing EXACTLY what it is...Might help me diagnose my Fiance's E4GT (GS2) with "Android OS" as the main culprit at 67%...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here's something that may help diagnose the culprits.
http://www.phonereview.mobi/2013/02/galaxy-note-2-tips-tricks-episode-72.html
poor_red_neck said:
Which app is that? I've been looking for something to view battery current, many I used on HTC phones don't work on Samsung.
Does that app also have a better understanding of what apps are causing battery drain? I'm tired of seeing "Android OS" and not knowing EXACTLY what it is...Might help me diagnose my Fiance's E4GT (GS2) with "Android OS" as the main culprit at 67%...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's just battery monitor widget available at the play store. It is still hard to tell what is exactly causing the -300ma drain during standby with screen off.
Wiley_11 said:
Here's something that may help diagnose the culprits.
http://www.phonereview.mobi/2013/02/galaxy-note-2-tips-tricks-episode-72.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Very helpful. Thanks.
I updated to 4.1.2 about 3 weeks ago or so. Not sure exactly. And the battery seemed to be just fine then. But slowly over these weeks, especially the last 4 days or so, it seems to be decreasing. I used to be able to go a whole day easy. And still have 45-50% left. And that would continue into the next day. Sometimes I would get 2 whole days and sitll have about 15% and then decide to charge it back.
Now, I can barely get a full day. And when I don't charge the phone at night, the battery charge decreases quite rapidly. Sometimes 15% or so with no usage at all overnight. It used to maybe move 3% at the most overnight with no usage.
My settings are the same. My usage is the same. I see time without signal is 2%. Nothing extremely high there.
Is this just one of the downside of 4.1.2 or is there something else happening that I'm not picking up on?
I didn't want this to really turn into what apps are out there to make the life better because I hate jumping through all those hoops and settings to get the most. I know this phone has the potential for 2 days of moderate use out the box because that is what I used to get. Seeing if I could get back to that state.
I was told to go into Wifi settings and change the setting not stay on while the phone is sleeping. Did not help at all. Per this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mInF-ZRX5bs
Did that last night. Charged it 97% and went to sleep. Slept for 5 and a half hours. Did not touch the phone at all. Woke up and it's at 82% this morning. Here's the screenshot of the battery stats:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Thanks.
Yup...update messed up my battery life also.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app
droidjon said:
Yup...update messed up my battery life also.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Glad it's not just me then. Have you found anyway to make it a little better?
Well if you don't need to wanted at night, then what I do is put it in airplane mode and take off when waking up.
If you still get wake locks, check to see which ones they are off a wake lock app.
Also before I put into stand by, I exit all apps, also restart phone with airplane mode on. Doing this I haven't lost any battery life at all and seems to help throughout the day as well
Currently 60% right now and over 3 hours on-screen time and 16 hours.
Doing much better if I don't do what I have been doing.
Also make sure all GPS location settings are off. Huge battery drain for me.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
JesseMT4G said:
Well if you don't need to wanted at night, then what I do is put it in airplane mode and take off when waking up.
If you still get wake locks, check to see which ones they are off a wake lock app.
Also before I put into stand by, I exit all apps, also restart phone with airplane mode on. Doing this I haven't lost any battery life at all and seems to help throughout the day as well
Currently 60% right now and over 3 hours on-screen time and 16 hours.
Doing much better if I don't do what I have been doing.
Also make sure all GPS location settings are off. Huge battery drain for me.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I know airplane mode will work but I receive texts late at night sometimes and those would not come through. Before this update, I never had a problem. I never had to make sure apps were closed and all this other stuff. It just never drained on me at all. When I first had the phone, I used to have to try very hard to drain the battery to zero so I could let the phone die and then get a full charge. The battery life used to be very great. Now, not so much.
And I have no idea why Slacker is being used like that. I haven't used that app in 3 weeks. And I don't see any settings that would cause it to being used in the background when I'm clearly not using it.
Yes I never have GPS on until I need it for navigation purposes. I'm hoping Key Lime Pie fixes this or we get another minor update before that.
barats said:
Yeah I know airplane mode will work but I receive texts late at night sometimes and those would not come through. Before this update, I never had a problem. I never had to make sure apps were closed and all this other stuff. It just never drained on me at all. When I first had the phone, I used to have to try very hard to drain the battery to zero so I could let the phone die and then get a full charge. The battery life used to be very great. Now, not so much.
And I have no idea why Slacker is being used like that. I haven't used that app in 3 weeks. And I don't see any settings that would cause it to being used in the background when I'm clearly not using it.
Yes I never have GPS on until I need it for navigation purposes. I'm hoping Key Lime Pie fixes this or we get another minor update before that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should never discharge your phone to anywhere close to dead. It ruins your battery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
Do you have lte on? Are you in an lte area? Have you tried a factory reset?
My battery life was horrible when j first upgraded. Seeing as i am not with T-Mobile i do not get lte. I turned my lte off and my battery went back to normal.
A factory reset may also clear any gremlins that you may have left over frlm the update
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda premium
Same here owned it since december...great battery and after update it went down the drain (especially losing 15-20% overnight with just about everything turned off. I would usually let it get down to 10-15% and then charge. Well eventually my phone would only charge "when it wanted too" so I got a replacement, updated to 4.1.2 and battery lifes has been great.
As far as not doing full cycles or not...ive looked and looked and everyone says diff. Some experts argue it's good to let ot drain till about 5% and then charge And other experts say charge often and not let it below x percentage. Soooo confused on the topic, so in the end to each their own I guess lol
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app