I will be sharing battery stats & issues/crashes/freeze which happen while using S6 Edge. Some of the issues might be related to an app but its better to note nonetheless.
Please note that I have not rooted the phone & its running Android 5.0.2, build number is LRX22G.G925TUVU1AOCG.
Let me know if you want to know anything else & contribute with your own issues if any.
Please share a solution to any of the issues.
Issue Log for Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (Starting 3/30/2015):
1. Google Play services has stopped/crashed at least 10 times & Amazon twice even though I am not using the apps.
2. Sometimes the phone feels very hot from the right edge, it feels as if hot air is blowing from the phone directly to my hand, kind of unbearable. This has happened twice till now. The phone was charging once.
3. Accu weather widget does not pin point your correct location even after turning the GPS to ON.
4. Hydrate Me app always crashes whenever opened.
5. People Edge is too high on the right side & only works when on home screen or in the app drawer.
6. Volume buttons are too far high on the left side of the phone.
7. You get to see lag/dropping frames 1-2 times a day, sometimes while unlocking.
8. The homescreen takes a good 3-4 seconds to display icons/widgets after unlock, this has happened twice.
9. Battery - I am really concerned about the battery, not good performance on day 1 but I suppose it will improve with time. I am attaching some screenshots for battery usage. Power saving mode was turned OFF. I will try with ON in a few days.
10. Edge notifications change orientation which makes them useless & there is no option to force the orientation.
11. There is a reason why the Samsung Wireless charger is round because the wireless charging does not work on straight pads, it keeps on starting & pausing because of the camera bump on the back so you have to keep the phone across to work.
12. The red light from the heart rate detector keeps turning ON & OFF at random all the time, even during night making it more uncomfortable.
13. Camera has failed once when I opened it directly form the lock screen.
The GOOD:
1. Double press the home button to launch camera is really fast.
2. Camera is quick & takes pictures amazingly fast. Check my other post with pictures.
3. Fingerprint scanner is pretty accurate, almost 99% of the time.
4. Touchwiz is light for the first time, you feel it in the performance.
5. The phone itself gives a cool feel in the hand, aluminum edges provide a good grip.
Charging Stats:
Maximum battery is used by the below apps in decreasing order :
Cell standby > Android OS > Android System > Google Play Services > Screen
Charge 1 :
Battery Left : 19%
Usage since last fully charged : 4h 2m
Screen On Time : 1h 45m
Charge 2 :
Battery Left : 20%
Usage since last fully charged : 9h 27m
Screen On Time : 2h 47m
Charge 3 :
Battery Left : 16%
Usage since last fully charged : 14h 52m
Screen On Time : 1h 52m
Charge 4 :
Battery Left : 20%
Usage since last fully charged : 15h 7m
Screen On Time : 1h 55m
Charge 5 :
Battery Left : 20%
Usage since last fully charged : 15h 27m
Screen On Time : 1h 33m
Charge 6 :
Battery Left : 14%
Usage since last fully charged : 14h 26m
Screen On Time : 1h 11m
Charge 7 (Power saver mode set to ON):
Battery Left : 19%
Usage since last fully charged : 12h 51m
Screen On Time : 1h 19m
Charge 8 (Power saver mode set to ON):
Battery Left : 20%
Usage since last fully charged : 8h 18m
Screen On Time : 1h 45m
you are getting under 2 hours of screen time that is horrendous
Looks like I'm waiting for the note 5
are those stats without taking the ota that is out, or did you take the ota?
also, there will be alot more updates once the phone is actually released on April 10th, so at this point, these stats dont mean much
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are those stats without taking the ota that is out, or did you take the ota?
also, there will be alot more updates once the phone is actually released on April 10th, so at this point, these stats dont mean much
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Yes these stats are with the OTA installed. Folks are saying that there is a wifi bug in 5.0.2 which drains battery.. Not sure when will 5.1 come.
The only thing that is consistently a problem is the battery.
The numbers of the last charge are with power saving mode ON.
I agree. I've had the phone for a day and the battery sucks. Albeit yeah it's been a day and I'm coming from a one plus one and a note 4 before it. I'm spoiled but it should be better.
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Yes these stats are with the OTA installed. Folks are saying that there is a wifi bug in 5.0.2 which drains battery.. Not sure when will 5.1 come.
The only thing that is consistently a problem is the battery.
The numbers of the last charge are with power saving mode ON.
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thanks for the info
what I meant is that t mobile will push some updates a day or 2 after april 10th, when more mainstream people have the phone and report these issues. Did you try uninstalling the system monitor app, and see if that helps the battery? I heard that helps alot..
I wont have my phone until monday, so I cant tell how anything is at this point, but I know things like weird lag, or bad battery is always present in the initial builds when most phones first come out. It wont take a general update to 5.1 for tmobile/samsung to address those issues..
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thanks for the info
what I meant is that t mobile will push some updates a day or 2 after april 10th, when more mainstream people have the phone and report these issues. Did you try uninstalling the system monitor app, and see if that helps the battery? I heard that helps alot..
I wont have my phone until monday, so I cant tell how anything is at this point, but I know things like weird lag, or bad battery is always present in the initial builds when most phones first come out. It wont take a general update to 5.1 for tmobile/samsung to address those issues..
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Yes I agree that initial builds might have some issues that may be resolved over time as more people use it.
I do not see any system monitor app which can be uninstalled, which app are you talking about?
I am hopeful that the situation will improve specially on the battery front.
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praddz said:
Yes I agree that initial builds might have some issues that may be resolved over time as more people use it.
I do not see any system monitor app which can be uninstalled, which app are you talking about?
I am hopeful that the situation will improve specially on the battery front.
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I dont know where there app is; when I get my phone monday, I will look and let you know..I read in another thread here somewhere that helped a couple of folks with battery issues..
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I dont know where there app is; when I get my phone monday, I will look and let you know..I read in another thread here somewhere that helped a couple of folks with battery issues..
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No issues.. 1 weird issue is that there is no way to place a direct dial as a shortcut.. Really breaking my head on this but nothing
Thanks,
Prady
yeah, I read that doesn't work on stock right out of the box I know there are 3rd party apps that will allow that..I like to do that too..
I'll do more research and find something that will work..I have used an app for that before, I just cant remember which one it is right now!
Phone wont go into deep sleep, that is the cause of the drain.
chakra said:
Phone wont go into deep sleep, that is the cause of the drain.
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If not going into deep sleep is an issue then it will not be fixed before 10th April at least. Till then quick top ups should do...
I am not having the wireless charging problems. I have a Koolpad. Is this with a case?
gunslingerfry said:
I am not having the wireless charging problems. I have a Koolpad. Is this with a case?
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Mine is without a case. Actually the camera bump does not allow for an ideal connection so I keep it sideways but you have to be exact.
Keep Rocking,
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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (T-Mobile)
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Moto E 2014
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Samsung Galaxy S5 (T-Mobile)
Moto G 2014
Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T)
It has fast charging adapter that saves time to charge to the S6. I am impressed with it as the battery life is worth with great user experience.
This is my experience with Power saver off and screen brightness around 40%. I also had sync on with auto receive.
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my phone had almost 70% deep sleep last night, but I still lost 27% of my battery over 8 hours, so that's not very good..
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my phone had almost 70% deep sleep last night, but I still lost 27% of my battery over 8 hours, so that's not very good..
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Eagerly waiting for a fix as soon as the phone is released to the masses.. 10th April...
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Moto E LTE 2015
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Moto G 2014
Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T)
ayemprady said:
Eagerly waiting for a fix as soon as the phone is released to the masses.. 10th April...
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+1. I compared the battery usage between my S3 and the S6 edge, and the results were bad. S3 3% after 2 hours, S6 edge 13% after the same time.
I just did a full factory reset just to make sure there isn't' something fishy going on with the OTA update. How sure are we that there will be an update after 4/10? I'm wondering if I should go ahead and just send this back.
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I've been troubleshooting this problem for weeks now - have never found a cause. I did a hard reset yesterday and have only installed the mainstream necessary apps - nothing sketchy or buggy at all.
My battery life is usually great and when unused drops less than 1% per hour...until suddenly it goes crazy and starts dropping ~10%/hour with NO USE.
I think perhaps something is wrong with my radio as the "mobile network signal" graph in the picture below is always spotty and shows the radio off for significant chunks of time when I know it's on. When these battery plunges start happening, it shows the radio as solid on, as you can see below...and reports the battery drain is from the radio.
A reboot fixes it but it comes back randomly within a day or two...the problem is that I can leave the phone unused for an hour to make dinner and when I pick it up next it has dropped a significant amount!
Hopefully AT&T will exchange it for me tomorrow and I will have better luck...I bought it on June 28th and tomorrow is July 28th...the 30th day, by my count.
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16hrs on battery and still at 43% is pretty darn good if u ask me.
This has happened to me too on stock and AOKP. Just happened again a couple of hours ago.
So I did the exchange 4 days ago. Have not rebooted since then. Thought I was in the clear until this afternoon when the battery started to plummet again...I updated the screenshots in the first post with today's data. Very disappointed and not sure what to do now except to try and do a hardware reset and use the phone stock with no apps for a few days and see what happens...
You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"
Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
torred said:
You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"
Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
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I have used it extensively. Posted numerous logs and screenshots in the developer's thread and had them examine it...no one could figure anything out.
Tonight I have watched it plummet again. I turned off wifi - it kept dropping. I turned off mobile data, it kept falling just as fast. Lastly I turned on airplane mode and it seems to have leveled off...seems to me the phone radio is the culprit but I have no clue what it could be doing!
(Forgive me if I'm hijacking)
I scooped up my SG3 on Sunday, and noticed almost immediately that my battery drops pretty quickly. I haven't rooted yet, and needless to say haven't flashed anything on it. I'm completely bone stock. I guess I'm wondering the same thing, in that I may need to return to AT&T. I lost as much as 70% in almost 8 hours with moderate to heavy use (Web browsing, textibg, a few calls, etc).
Something else: there is an orange sticker on the box it came un, much like a price tag at a retail store. On the sticker it reads: "REMATE 7.11.12" and has me wondering if this is a refurb they unloaded on me. Any ideas about the battery or this stupid aticker?
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I notice that my battery life seems very unstable - one day it goes 10 plus hours no problem, the next day with the same usage its dying at 8 hours. The phone went bezerk this weekend, to the point of multiple reboots and just turning the thing off since it was unuseable. Factory reset over the weekend, wow ! Battery life is rocking 12 hours easy with heavy use.
The software on this phone is strange to say the least -
Apex_Strider said:
I lost as much as 70% in almost 8 hours with moderate to heavy use (Web browsing, textibg, a few calls, etc).
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Yep, your battery dies after using your phone a lot. Hmmmm.
Igotsanevo4g said:
Yep, your battery dies after using your phone a lot. Hmmmm.
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The reason I say this, is because of the fact I've heard of 12 to 14 hours or more of battery with the same (mostly) moderate to (occasional) heavy use. I understand that usage = battery discharge, I'm not a fool.
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my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
TRusselo said:
my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
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So perhaps I'm worrying over nothing (hopefully). I have been doing full charge to full discharge cycles and charging once it shuts down to "gel" or "season" the battery. But, there still remains the question of what the "REMATE" sticker is all about. It clearly has a date printed on it, which strikes me as odd...
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So check out this graph...update of the earlier one.
-turned off wifi - plummet continued.
-turned off mobile data - plummet continued.
-turned on airplane mode to turn off the radio - battery stabilized. You can see the plateau towards the end.
-turned off airplane mode - plummet resumed as you can see.
Any conclusions I can take from this? It seems like it's the phone radio/standby and not apps...
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The reason I say this, is because of the fact I've heard of 12 to 14 hours or more of battery with the same (mostly) moderate to (occasional) heavy use. I understand that usage = battery discharge, I'm not a fool.
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Of course but battery loss is a corollary response to usage. Who made the rules on what moderate or heavy usage is? Besides other factors like strength of signal, etc.
That said I personally average 10-12 hours with 4hrs of screen on time.
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jeffreii said:
So check out this graph...update of the earlier one.
-turned off wifi - plummet continued.
-turned off mobile data - plummet continued.
-turned on airplane mode to turn off the radio - battery stabilized. You can see the plateau towards the end.
-turned off airplane mode - plummet resumed as you can see.
Any conclusions I can take from this? It seems like it's the phone radio/standby and not apps...
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Didn't see this mentioned, the stock rom had a cell standby bug where it drops by 32(whatever the measurement is) instead of what's supposed to be 3.2. This has effected me before and there are fixes.
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TRusselo said:
my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
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Juice Defender Ultimate works great for me at work. Shuts off my data radio while screen is locked.
The location for wifi(allowing it to control wifi) is a little funky so I stopped using it(and suffered a little in the beginning because i kept forgetting to turn off wifi at night)
You can see how much my phone goes into deep sleep mode - This shows last night when I went to bed
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This is my battery graph - note that sharp drop was last night when I was installing the Google Wallet fix and the dev had an issue with the update. Took me a little while to figure it out as you can see.
corythug said:
Didn't see this mentioned, the stock rom had a cell standby bug where it drops by 32(whatever the measurement is) instead of what's supposed to be 3.2. This has effected me before and there are fixes.
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That doesn't explain why the actual battery it dropping so fast. I suppose it could skew the "reason" the system gives for the battery drop...but it's further proven by the fact that the only way to stop the drop is to turn off the radio - even turning off mobile data alone does not stop it at all.
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Juice Defender Ultimate works great for me at work. Shuts off my data radio while screen is locked.
The location for wifi(allowing it to control wifi) is a little funky so I stopped using it(and suffered a little in the beginning because i kept forgetting to turn off wifi at night)
You can see how much my phone goes into deep sleep mode - This shows last night when I went to bed
This is my battery graph - note that sharp drop was last night when I was installing the Google Wallet fix and the dev had an issue with the update. Took me a little while to figure it out as you can see.
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Your sharp drop is correlated to heavy screen on time. Mine is correlated to nothing...just sitting there with the screen off and nothing happening that I can tell.
I reported this problem back in June. This same exact thing happens to mine. Normally the battery is awesome, but sometimes it starts discharging at a crazy rate at which point I restart thee phone to fix it.
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torred said:
You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"
Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
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That's definitely my problem. When gsiff_daemon hasn't gone crazy the battery life is very good. I've only had the phone 3 days now and on the second found the battery discharging quickly when the phone was in standby (like the OP). I diagnosed this to be caused by gsiff_daemon. Seems to happen after the phone stops responding to input then does a warm restart. I only found one thread on this issue on one of the other S3 forums at XDA (TMo or global?)
Is there any sign of a fix for this? This is making an otherwise excellent phone horrible. I tried to relate this problem to Samsung through their support site, but just got a generic robot answer. Samsung's support site appears to be useless. Is there any indication Samsung is even aware of these problems?
I use System Tuner to check for gsiff_daemon going nuts. I normally notice it because my phone gets hot. If you use the Task Mgr from System Tuner and turn on display of kernel processes, it will pop right to the top if that's your problem.
The easiest way to deal with the problem when you notice it is to kill the process with System Tuner. It will start up again, but will not longer pin your CPU. A restart also works, but takes longer (and uses more battery).
You might also want to set up the Watchdog app to notify you when gsiff_daemon goes nuts.
I noticed you posted BBS logs, but gsiff_daemon will show up in Process, which doesn't appear to be logged (at least it isn't in the log in just dumped from my BBS).
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Our devices use a 4600 mAh battery and was wondering if anyone ever actually sees that figure? I've been struggling to get more than 4-5 hours use and started investigating why. The highest I've ever seen on a full charge is 4309 and the average is about 4260-4280.
Another strange thing I've noticed is that if I start playing a game with 100% charge and the tab plugged in I still loose about 1% per minute.
I've tried multiple roms and they all seem about the same as far as battery usage goes. Right now I'm back to the stock LG KitKat as it seems to perform about the best for me and very stable. I use the battery calibration app and was wondering is there another that might work better?
In closing looking forward to any suggestions or advise
Yep,same for me.battery life is terrible.have tried multiple roms,lucky to get anywhere near 4hrs.
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I just tried an experiment, 100% charged, unplugged tab w/o turning anything on and I already lost 7% in 15 minutes !! I have Greenify installed and all non system apps hibernated and it still eats the battery.
My Sero Pro can sit all day and only loose 1%. If I could be sure I would receive a perfect unit I would consider RMA. But after reading all the issues with the screen problems I'm not going to take the chance. My tab is perfect aside from battery life.
I found a replacement battery on Ebay and am considering buying it to see if I have a bad battery. Something definitely isn't right.
I went to Mahdi rom as soon as I got my tablet about 2 weeks ago. This past weekend I did two battery tests.
These tests were done with wifi always on (medium signal strength, most google apps synced, google location reporting off, no twitter/facebook app, no greenify or any power management apps
If I left the display on indoors at auto brightness, it lasted for about 7-8 hours.
If I left the tablet idle (display off), it consumed about 3% per day (most of it consumed by wifi).
I would suggest trying the same thing with yours and see whether its a hardware issue. You can just do it for a few hours and extrapolate.
I've never calibrated my battery (drain until its empty) unless I notice an erratic drain from a constant task.
Mine is the same, not being used it drains almost nothing. Currently mine is at 49%, been unplugged about 12 hours with 2:47 of screen on time according to the battery stats in settings. 100% stock KitKat, bluetooth off. 15 minutes of screen off (with the screen on long enough to look at battery settings) and no % lost.
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Mine is the same, not being used it drains almost nothing. Currently mine is at 49%, been unplugged about 12 hours with 2:47 of screen on time according to the battery stats in settings. 100% stock KitKat, bluetooth off. 15 minutes of screen off (with the screen on long enough to look at battery settings) and no % lost.
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Same. If I leave it in standby overnight, I see zero battery drain (in 8 hours). I also tested a full HD movie (1080p) in full screen at 45% brightness and medium loudspeaker volume, and measured roughly 12-14% drain per hour, which suggests it could run 7-8 hours of movie playback on a single charge.
I'm happy with my battery usage. I think it's at least as good as my 2012 N7.
Here's a screen shot of usage just reading the other day. Keep in mind I mainly stop my tablet charging at between 90-95% as often as possible.
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I'm with the OP as far as battery drain goes. Mine loses almost 10% in 12 hours at idle with wifi on. With wifi off it'll lose about 3-4% in 12 hours. I haven't done a full to zero test, but battery life is not that great on my personal unit. That is the only thing I don't like about it. I'm running idterror's v50018a ROM.
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I'm with the OP as far as battery drain goes. Mine loses almost 10% in 12 hours at idle with wifi on. With wifi off it'll lose about 3-4% in 12 hours. I haven't done a full to zero test, but battery life is not that great on my personal unit. That is the only thing I don't like about it. I'm running idterror's v50018a ROM.
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Then you have an issue with software you installed. It is neither the battery nor the ROM.
Well I went ahead and ordered the battery. I'm fairly confident it'll solve my problem. To Subtleone, with my tablet even with a barebones install I still have real bad battery life. It does not change very much between barebones and all my apps installed.
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Then you have an issue with software you installed. It is neither the battery nor the ROM.
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I don't think so. Even with a barebones install I get similar battery drain. But I knew the G Pad had terrible battery life going in as noted by every industry review I read prior to purchase.
Don't have any battery problems here (stock KitKat, rooted and most non-system apps greenified), get about 6 hours screen-on time at 70-100% brightness when reading books (wifi off) and an hour or so browsing/youtube'ing.
Are people actually going by unplug time until the device physically shuts down, or just what the battery bar claims? Battery stats are rarely 100% accurate, and there's protection measures built in to prevent a battery actually reaching 100% or 0% despite what the device says.
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I don't think so. Even with a barebones install I get similar battery drain. But I knew the G Pad had terrible battery life going in as noted by every industry review I read prior to purchase.
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Except that I don't have terrible battery life. In fact, most don't. With KitKat (the one in my sig), with WiFi on, I get exactly 0% drain after 8 hours with it in standby (not actually off). Zero. Needless to say, I do not have any known battery killers such as the Facebook app.
At 45% brightness or so, I see about 13% battery drain after an hour of watching a 1080p movie in full screen with sound coming through loudspeakers.
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Except that I don't have terrible battery life. In fact, most don't. With KitKat (the one in my sig), with WiFi on, I get exactly 0% drain after 8 hours with it in standby (not actually off). Zero. Needless to say, I do not have any known battery killers such as the Facebook app.
At 45% brightness or so, I see about 13% battery drain after an hour of watching a 1080p movie in full screen with sound coming through loudspeakers.
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That's incredible. What exactly are your settings? And what are these known battery killer apps so I can freeze them when I'm traveling?
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That's incredible. What exactly are your settings? And what are these known battery killer apps so I can freeze them when I'm traveling?
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Biggest battery eaters are apps like Google+ and Facebook.
UCCW and Weather apps too. Also having gps on.
There's some smashing eye candy apps for use and just for info on your lockscreen, they all seem to suck juice like no tomorrow. It's all the updating they do.
Best advice is to use something like wakelock detector to highlight your problem apps, then use greenify to get them to sleep properly. Also have your wifi set to only stay on when your tablet is plugged in.
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To test a lot of theory I loaded up stock LG KitKat this A.M. . After letting it install and rebooting 3 times in 60 minutes I turned off WIFI and GPS and left it idle. In 4 hours and 12 minutes I was at 79%. Keep in mind when I left it idle the last time I was at 100%.
So at least in "my" case its most certainly not the software. My battery is scheduled for delivery 5/9/14. I'm hoping that will solve the battery issues.
Once I receive the new battery I'll update the thread. And thanks for the replies
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Biggest battery eaters are apps like Google+ and Facebook.
UCCW and Weather apps too. Also having gps on.
There's some smashing eye candy apps for use and just for info on your lockscreen, they all seem to suck juice like no tomorrow. It's all the updating they do.
Best advice is to use something like wakelock detector to highlight your problem apps, then use greenify to get them to sleep properly. Also have your wifi set to only stay on when your tablet is plugged in.
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My GPS is always on so I do not think it drains battery in any unusual way. I'll also add that it works darn well. I used the tablet for navigation in a car and it was impressive.
So to continue the theories I put my screen @ 50% watched 60 minutes of 1080p video via MX Player and lost 31%! That's totally bare aside from MX Player. So after seeing Subtelone's results I'm very convinced I indeed have a bad battery.
I know it's not a fair comparison but I've been using my mum's Acer W4 tablet as my 8.3 is being repaired for bad LCD (mura/spots). The W8.1 tablet actually gives me about 8-9 hours of web browsing time. Yes, it's got fewer pixels to push but bear in mind it is running the full fat Windows 8! I just think it's quite disappointing that the LG pad for me barely lasts 4 hours SOT when I mainly use it for web browsing.
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So to continue the theories I put my screen @ 50% watched 60 minutes of 1080p video via MX Player and lost 31%! That's totally bare aside from MX Player. So after seeing Subtelone's results I'm very convinced I indeed have a bad battery.
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Yes, something is seriously wrong with your battery if everything else is identical. My results are exactly as posted.
Hello !
I've a question for those who have the Zenfone 5Z 6GB RAM !
I get it since 3 days, but battery life isn't so good ! The first time i've had 5h02 SOT and yesterday 4H49 ! When i see review ou forum people can reach more than 7h SOT ! I'm surfing normaly, don't abuse of snapchat and use "auto brigtness" .
I just update today the new version "WW_80.11.37.79" i'll see if the battery goes better with this update ..
And sometime battery decrease from 2% in 1 second...
And an other question, today i've charge my phone but i see than the phone is charging fast ! I'm using the orginal charger from Asus.
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The charger have Quick Charge ? And there is a way to disable this ? Fast charge kill the battery
Am I that person who gets +7h? :laugh:
Yes, that charger is a fast charger. 18W so it's really fast. You can use QC3.0 chargers with this phone. Btw I've never heard that fast charging kills the battery, where'd you read it? I'm just asking. But using phone while charging kills the battery.
I couldn't find a setting to turn off qc.
About battery drain: did you play games? If yes, battery drain is normal but if not maybe they solve it with updates
Note: One + means you are using qc2.0, two + means that you're using qc3.0
HallEx said:
Hello !
I've a question for those who have the Zenfone 5Z 6GB RAM !
I get it since 3 days, but battery life isn't so good ! The first time i've had 5h02 SOT and yesterday 4H49 ! When i see review ou forum people can reach more than 7h SOT ! I'm surfing normaly, don't abuse of snapchat and use "auto brigtness" .
I just update today the new version "WW_80.11.37.79" i'll see if the battery goes better with this update ..
And sometime battery decrease from 2% in 1 second...
And an other question, today i've charge my phone but i see than the phone is charging fast ! I'm using the orginal charger from Asus.
The charger have Quick Charge ? And there is a way to disable this ? Fast charge kill the battery
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to get better batt life u can go into system an then app applist
lets say take facebook hit go down to batterie hit it then disable permission to run in background
an do that with all apps running in the backgeound
an btw Qcharge dont kill batterie
an talking an using it wen its chsrging dont kill it
i have bien using fastcharge since oneplus3
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Am I that person who gets +7h? :laugh:
Yes, that charger is a fast charger. 18W so it's really fast. You can use QC3.0 chargers with this phone. Btw I've never heard that fast charging kills the battery, where'd you read it? I'm just asking. But using phone while charging kills the battery.
I couldn't find a setting to turn off qc.
About battery drain: did you play games? If yes, battery drain is normal but if not maybe they solve it with updates
Note: One + means you are using qc2.0, two + means that you're using qc3.0
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I'm using stock charger for the moment ! And yes you are maybe the only one who get 7h i can't reach more than 4 SOT .. So worse than my S7E
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to get better batt life u can go into system an then app applist
lets say take facebook hit go down to batterie hit it then disable permission to run in background
an do that with all apps running in the backgeound
an btw Qcharge dont kill batterie
an talking an using it wen its chsrging dont kill it
i have bien using fastcharge since oneplus3
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Hi ! For me facebook isn't in the app list of app who consume battery life, the first is screen and after others app are between 1-2% .. Not bad ! Hope that my battery isn't defective ..
I'll see in future for Qcharge but for the moment i'm using stock charger !
HallEx said:
Hello !
I've a question for those who have the Zenfone 5Z 6GB RAM !
I get it since 3 days, but battery life isn't so good ! The first time i've had 5h02 SOT and yesterday 4H49 ! When i see review ou forum people can reach more than 7h SOT ! I'm surfing normaly, don't abuse of snapchat and use "auto brigtness" .
I just update today the new version "WW_80.11.37.79" i'll see if the battery goes better with this update ..
And sometime battery decrease from 2% in 1 second...
And an other question, today i've charge my phone but i see than the phone is charging fast ! I'm using the orginal charger from Asus.
The charger have Quick Charge ? And there is a way to disable this ? Fast charge kill the battery
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There's an option to choose AI charging.
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im still waiting for the article that u claim
that says quickcharge kills the battery
i got my battleram ready to ambush the deuchebag that writes that article!
HallEx said:
Hello !
I've a question for those who have the Zenfone 5Z 6GB RAM !
I get it since 3 days, but battery life isn't so good ! The first time i've had 5h02 SOT and yesterday 4H49 ! When i see review ou forum people can reach more than 7h SOT ! I'm surfing normaly, don't abuse of snapchat and use "auto brigtness" .
I just update today the new version "WW_80.11.37.79" i'll see if the battery goes better with this update ..
And sometime battery decrease from 2% in 1 second...
And an other question, today i've charge my phone but i see than the phone is charging fast ! I'm using the orginal charger from Asus.
The charger have Quick Charge ? And there is a way to disable this ? Fast charge kill the battery
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Bro I am facing the exact same issue!! Even I was wondering that if I got a defective battery.
Initially on the first 2 days I wasn't even able to reach 4Hr SoT mark. But after update it seems to have "improved" a bit I'd say but not by a largr extent. Now I manage to get just about 4.5 to 5 Hours of SoT.
I still find it strange that how all the reviewers are able to get 6-7 hours of SoT even with their "heavy" usage for the review purposes and I am struggling to cross 5 hrs with just about moderate usage.
*Note- I use 2 sims and data (volte) is turned on most of the time on one sim, throughout the day. I also keep my location on and keep the brightness at auto settings.
If anyone else is facing the same issue and/or has a solution for this Please let us know!!
Thank you! Appreciate it!!
There is no way you can take 7+ hours SOT from Zenfone 5Z. With my Zenfone 5, i always get 5-5:10 hours SoT, IF i'm not listening to radio or Spotify too much. On a normal day, with data, sync, bt and stuff always enabled, i get 5 hours. One day that i was using it all day for youtube and netflix i almost got 6 hours, but never more than that.
I'm not complaining of course, 5 hours SoT out of a 3300mAh battery is good enough for me, but you'll propably never see 7 hours.
Hi !
I'm always getting max 4h SOT with normal use (FB, browser,..) no photos, music or video.. I'm on the last update. Don't know how others people can reach more than 6h .. Maybe a battery problem or me .. Let see if next update will increase battery life but for me not crazy.. Same as my S7E !
HallEx said:
Hello !
I've a question for those who have the Zenfone 5Z 6GB RAM !
I get it since 3 days, but battery life isn't so good ! The first time i've had 5h02 SOT and yesterday 4H49 ! When i see review ou forum people can reach more than 7h SOT ! I'm surfing normaly, don't abuse of snapchat and use "auto brigtness" .
I just update today the new version "WW_80.11.37.79" i'll see if the battery goes better with this update ..
And sometime battery decrease from 2% in 1 second...
And an other question, today i've charge my phone but i see than the phone is charging fast ! I'm using the orginal charger from Asus.
The charger have Quick Charge ? And there is a way to disable this ? Fast charge kill the battery
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i m getting 7 hr SOT..mostly browsing..watching youtube video..whatsapp..facebook on web(fb apps disabled)..few calls..both sim always active with mobile data ON...i m with this phone since 1 week (6GB/128GB version)
Battery backup problem
My phone also gives low poor battery backup and also when in night my phone is in idle in 12am to 7 am and battery drain 7% to 10% is it for all device.??? And phone also in power saving mode please help me.
HallEx said:
Hi !
I'm always getting max 4h SOT with normal use (FB, browser,..) no photos, music or video.. I'm on the last update. Don't know how others people can reach more than 6h .. Maybe a battery problem or me .. Let see if next update will increase battery life but for me not crazy.. Same as my S7E !
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Like I said I was having the same issue. I was getting just about 4 Hrs of Screen-On time with very light usage, to the point that I thought that it was me who got a defective product and got in touch with the e-commerce seller (Flipkart from India) from which I made the purchase about getting it replaced. Following which the Technical support team told me to do the following..... Factory reset the phone. Then when you start up again, DO NOT back up the settings from previous phone, instead do SET UP AS NEW DEVICE. Then when you are done setting it up, you need to update all your pre-installed applications to the latest versions and also make sure that you have the latest system update running. Then you need to restart your device one last time before installing any other applications and continue with your regular usage.
I followed these steps and implemented them day before yesterday and it did actually improve my battery life from hardly 4 Hrs of Screen-On to exactly 7 Hours before my phone died (100-0) with my mixed slightly heavy usage with 4g data/wifi always on along with gaming, music streaming to speakers and a good amount of YouTube too.
Try the above stuff maybe it will solve your problem.
Hope this helps!! Peace
use this setup surely u will get good battery backup, ya the quick charging kill the battery backup but if u use this mode then surely get good backup...
Ravben2 said:
use this setup surely u will get good battery backup, ya the quick charging kill the battery backup but if u use this mode then surely get good backup...
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I have my schedule set to 10.30 pm -6 am but the phone still charges to a hundred within its usual time(an hour or so if i plug it in at 11pm). How exactly is it supposed to work?Does it just hold it at 100 then for the rest of the night? Just wanted some clarification if its even doing anything at all
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My phone also gives low poor battery backup and also when in night my phone is in idle in 12am to 7 am and battery drain 7% to 10% is it for all device.??? And phone also in power saving mode please help me.
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For me night time drain is 4-5%. The duration is ~ 7 hours. Regarding battery backup I can confirm it will increase with time. Small advice is that dont let the battery fall below 40%. And dont charge south of 90%. I follow these steps.. I easily get 6 hours screen time with good 18-25% remaining. I use GPS in high accuracy. I have no complaints regarding battery.
Edit - if you have bought it new, then for the purpose of calibration you can drain it to 0 and charge it till 100 once. For me this worked. On the second day I did this and after that battery backup increased.
Night drain is approx 5% here.
Moreover I am getting 7 hours SOT on it
Btw I am using AI charging.
Spiklearn said:
Following which the Technical support team told me to do the following..... Factory reset the phone. Then when you start up again, DO NOT back up the settings from previous phone, instead do SET UP AS NEW DEVICE. Then when you are done setting it up, you need to update all your pre-installed applications to the latest versions and also make sure that you have the latest system update running. Then you need to restart your device one last time before installing any other applications and continue with your regular usage.
I followed these steps and implemented them day before yesterday and it did actually improve my battery life from hardly 4 Hrs of Screen-On to exactly 7 Hours before my phone died (100-0) with my mixed slightly heavy usage with 4g data/wifi always on along with gaming, music streaming to speakers and a good amount of YouTube too.
Hope this helps!! Peace
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Just followed these steps after the latest update (though it`s a little bit time-consuming project....... ) and hope it`ll help to increase the overall battery life.
I'm on latest update (5 June 2018 Security patch).
My screen on time is over 8hrs (With constant Wifi connectivity) everyday .
Arcticstar said:
I'm on latest update (5 June 2018 Security patch).
My screen on time is over 8hrs (With constant Wifi connectivity) everyday .
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How and what is your formula on getting the 8hrs SOT? Can you please enlighten me on what is the magic behind it? I never really hit 5hrs SOT..
chaostan said:
How and what is your formula on getting the 8hrs SOT? Can you please enlighten me on what is the magic behind it? I never really hit 5hrs SOT..
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I use phone on Power saving mode (not super saving) You will not find any big difference in performance between normal and Power saving, I also Keep the phone on Auto Brightness . Since i got the phone i never used AI charging just for the info if it makes any difference .
Also I'm confident if i don't play PUBG or any other game daily, Phone can easiy go 9-10hrs even when it stays connected to Wifi all day .
Also I never charge my phone during night cause I've faced battery draining issues with my old android phones by doing that often (or even too many ) times .
Hello,
Was wondering if someone has had the same experience with their note 10+.
I got my device on the 22nd of Aug and since day 1 the battery has always been showing 99% almost immediately after disconnecting from the charger.
But after that, it discharges normally. Have had no issues with SOT as well.
This wasnt the case with my note 8 and note 9. They used to stay on 100% for a while after disconnecting from the charger.
But was wondering if anyone else has had the same experience with their Note 10+.
Thank you.
viruscmotu said:
Hello,
Was wondering if someone has had the same experience with their note 10+.
I got my device on the 22nd of Aug and since day 1 the battery has always been showing 99% almost immediately after disconnecting from the charger.
But after that, it discharges normally. Have had no issues with SOT as well.
This wasnt the case with my note 8 and note 9. They used to stay on 100% for a while after disconnecting from the charger.
But was wondering if anyone else has had the same experience with their Note 10+.
Thank you.
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yes. after disconnecting the external power charger (or generally changing some working conditions i.e. the type of network connection) a lot of applications receive broadcast messages and wake up their services increasing the cpu activity and battery juice. then they come back to sleep. I suggest to download the app Ampere and monitor the real time current consumption to see if it is such case... in normal idle state my note10+ current drain amounts to 180 mA.
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Its normal. I would say 98% reaches in no time. After that it discharges fine.
Same to me..after disconnected charger drop to 99% after few second
Yup, normal! Usually drops to 99% in no time! Iphones do the opposite. They take ages to get to 99% and then drop like hell after that haha
Blaalad12 said:
Yup, normal! Usually drops to 99% in no time! Iphones do the opposite. They take ages to get to 99% and then drop like hell after that haha
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Yup. Me too in same boat.
My snapdragon variant of note 10+ 512 Gb drains in 5-8 minutes from 100% to 99% if left untouched after removing provided or any type of charger, slow of fast charge doesn't matters. After that to come to 98% it takes around an hour to come again with untouched. I monitor battery status of phone battery on my galaxy watch. But after 98% it's completely normal and last very good. More then hour or I wound say uoto 90 minutes too for draining 1%. I Beleive reason behind this should be save battery wear and tear and prolonged life that battery after charging should not stay for long at highest possible charge and hence drop to 99 percent soon.
On the other hand I am getting very good 10 hours plus sot with my note 10 plus. Very satisfied. Better then my s10 plus.
Same, it's normal
Mine takes about 30 min to 1 hr, but that means nothing, probably calibration slightly off or maybe voltage sensor, or as the person said all those apps running in the background wake up and start sending data, asking for updates etc. I disabled everything that I could from running in the background, from waking up phone from sleep and took all the permissions away, that programs shouldn't have etc. but it is such a pain I wish SD had a root. BTW this is such a freaking BS, that once you run some program it stays in memory and even loads back on restart, even if you never use it again or manually kill it.
It's Normal For Note10 Plus , I'm on AT&T Note10 Plus Snapdragon Carrier and still get excellent Battery Life As you can see here.
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And i've been getting 9 to 10hrs SOT since got phone on the 21st of August.
Venom0642 said:
It's Normal For Note10 Plus , I'm on AT&T Note10 Plus Snapdragon Carrier and still get excellent Battery Life As you can see here.
And i've been getting 9 to 10hrs SOT since got phone on the 21st of August.
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Of course snapdragon variant is much better than the more common Exynos chip. Samsung should use Snapdragon chip globally as it is a superior SOC
Had this with ever phone ive own. You are most likely at 99.9%
Because the phone is no longer 100% because there is no charging happening.
So its normal to display 99% right when removing it.
Yes me too it kept dropping to 99% after I disconnect my charger, during my S8+ times where I just plug in again and make sure its 100% before I unplugged again and I realise aftrr a year of doing, my battery life tend to age faster.
So dont care about dropping to 99% or 89% ! In my case it slow down after 89% ever since (maybe of my daily routine).
Also, for you guys that really afraid that it wont last a day, try to charge it whenever you can but not fully charge, i.e. 20-50% and you are also good to go!
Also, invest a fast charge wireless power bank, this phone got fast wireless charging, trust me its a blessing to have this type of function and you wont be worry about dead battery!
Yep same here drops to 99 withing a couple minutes of disconnecting
Venom0642 said:
It's Normal For Note10 Plus , I'm on AT&T Note10 Plus Snapdragon Carrier and still get excellent Battery Life As you can see here.
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And i've been getting 9 to 10hrs SOT since got phone on the 21st of August.
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Can you advise us some tips and tricks you used to obtain such battery ? life. I am also using snapdragon Canadian variant. But I also get very good battery but still needs your advise. Also which theme are you using, sir?
Thanks a lot.
Meh. I'm more worried about how long it takes to drop to 0%. Only saw it once after nearlyn10 hours of screen time. This phone is a beast.
Drop from 3pc to dead phone is equally instant. My phone died when at 3pc ...this has happened twice.
Yup it's normal as many have confirmed.
I'm averaging a solid 7.5 - 8 hours of OST daily @ 50-60% brightness with pretty heavy usage. YouTube, calls, navigation, Spotify, chat apps, browsing etc..
I'm a power user and I have to charge my battery every 4 hours. I keep my hotspot on and tether it while I stream to. Cant really tell a difference in battery between s10 plus and note 10 plus
I've had my note 10+ for say a month now and I charged it up
when I first got it and It still says 99 percent
never drops and I stream music and talk on the phone and use it to make popcorn
I never charge it ,stays at 99 percent
edit: LOL
Hey Guys,
you have also a massiv battery drain on your Pixel Device?
I need to charge it twice a day since I updated to Android 13 ...
Do you think Google will fix it asap?
There are a ton of battery life threads in this section - more than one page of search results. I know battery life has been mentioned with regards to Android 13 in some threads in this section, although I'm not sure if it was in a battery-specific thread.
For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any difference on mine.
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Have you checked to see in the battery usage what's using it
I had this problem before. The fix was completely wipe the device then install everything from scratch, not using restore service. Additionally, I putting background restriction on many battery hungry apps like Facebook, Messenger, Google Maps, etc... Also, I'm using Kirisakura kernel on top of battery restriction. My battery can last up to 22-23 hours.
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I had this problem before. The fix was completely wipe the device then install everything from scratch, not using restore service. Additionally, I putting background restriction on many battery hungry apps like Facebook, Messenger, Google Maps, etc... Also, I'm using Kirisakura kernel on top of battery restriction. My battery can last up to 22-23 hours.
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hmmmm, thats a shame, because it is bad enough setting everything back up again after restoring it. But incredible the battery life you are getting.
My phone has Shamesung health app smashing battery, phone idle and and mobile network cosuming huge battery again
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hmmmm, thats a shame, because it is bad enough setting everything back up again after restoring it. But incredible the battery life you are getting.
My phone has Shamesung health app smashing battery, phone idle and and mobile network cosuming huge battery again
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Try disabling the Physical Activity permission of the Samsung Health App, it might actually do wonders when it comes to battery life. While it wouldn't affect your watch, your device would no longer be able to count steps [for me, that was worth the trade-off].
the answer is bluetooth and wifi failure and trying to reconnect NONSTOP. after 4 factory resets my phone suddenly doesnt do it anymore and battery life is fine. came to this conclusion when i connected my galaxy watch to my phone and is disconnected every couple minutes. looking at the quick settings id see bluetooth looking like its resetting itself. i didnt check the crash log but at this point its kind of common sense what it was. after some research last night i saw i wasnt the only one. it actually was so bad that my phone died over night even tho it was 43% when i went to sleep
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/wrfqze
I had my first full day with A13 yesterday and it was hard not to notice how fast the battery was draining, I would have expected this to have been picked up during beta testing
Less than 24 hours since update and I noticed it too.
My Pixel 6 used to be awesome in terms of battery.
But today, after 9 hours it's 30%. It's been some heavy usage, but it should be 50% at least.
Edit: The second day things went back to normal. After 16 hours i'm still at 66%.
The battery drain is bad for the initial 3-4 charge cycles, then it goes back to what was "normal" on A12. Which sucks, since if you listen to YouTube (downloads only, screen off) and use Google Maps while snapping photos (20-30 and no video), the phone will die in less than 8 hours.
In other words, the phone is unfit for travel. Pitty, because the camera is great.
You would think that now that Google has better control over the hardware and complete control over the software (including services), plus a huge 5000mAh battery, the P6P would do far better.
Sure, it's better than my last Pixel, a 3XL, but that was so bad I swore off Pixels.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max lasts twice as long with a much smaller 4353mAh battery. Without having to turn off 5G or regular services. What a joke.
SITREP !
Bluetooth issue still ongoing and still causing the major battery drain. Has 0 to do with what this guy said ^ . Sometimes its OK but most times it just crashed and restarts.
I dont have any of those issues. I guess I got lucky.
43% and it died overnight? Dude that is insane. Even if it is Bluetooth/wifi keeping the phone from truly going into deep sleep, you wouldn't think that alone would be able to completely drain the battery to 0 over the course of what... 5 - 8 hours? (Unless your my ex, then it's more like 14 hours ). Have you pulled any logs or looked at the battery usage? I'd be hesitant to believe that there isn't more going on there contributing to the massive drain. Gotta love google... I remember the first talks of Android 13 was geared towards smarter battery usage. Go figure.
Today my phone has been (and is yet cause the battery is not charged) plugged to a google charger for 3 hours and half and the battery has charged from 40% to 82%
The phone had the screen off for 1 hour by this time. This was when the battery recovered 40%.
I tend to think that we've got, Houston, a big problem here...
No massive battery drain for me. 8.39%/hr active drain and .80%/hr idle drain on stock kernel. Active drain is a little higher than usual for me, probably because of rebooting many times doing stuffs.
Fast charging is also the same for me using an Anker Nano II 30W charger. No problems in that area.
I have no solution, but I can confirm this is an issue. I had no issue before the update lasting up to even 2 days with light use. Now, I even with battery saver turned on, it dies in about 6 hours in my pocket.
I just went on a trip to Toronto last week and it was terrible, had to keep my phone powered off in my pocket so I could still be sure to have enough battery to get an uber back to my airbnb.
So far today at work. I unplugged my phone at 730am to leave for work, it's 1105 and typing this out is the most I've used my phone. It is both warm to the touch and the battery is at 73%.no wait 72% it just went down...
FakeGiraffe01 said:
I have no solution, but I can confirm this is an issue. I had no issue before the update lasting up to even 2 days with light use. Now, I even with battery saver turned on, it dies in about 6 hours in my pocket.
I just went on a trip to Toronto last week and it was terrible, had to keep my phone powered off in my pocket so I could still be sure to have enough battery to get an uber back to my airbnb.
So far today at work. I unplugged my phone at 730am to leave for work, it's 1105 and typing this out is the most I've used my phone. It is both warm to the touch and the battery is at 73%.no wait 72% it just went down...
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Here are 2 examples showing the difference between before and after A13
Just when I was about to switch to my P6P, I'm reading all these problems with slow charging and mediocre battery life. I wonder how widespread they are?
I can't use a new phone that seems to have a worse battery life than my P4XL...
Not to mention the whole sideloading apk FC thing.
Guys, I am also having massive issues with my new Pixel 6 phone which is approx 10 days old only....
A12 was fine for the first days then I want to A13 and then all hell brooke lose The battery drain is awful and I am facing these problems :
- Phone idle is between 20-37% - even when phone is in flight mode for the night it consumes 20-30% instead of normal 1-2%
- Viber is draining battery with 20%+ consuming when its not really used shows usage of 20+ hours Never had such issue.
I am over now 4-5 recharge cycles and I have turned off adaptive almost anywhere... What to do?
Just pray and wait for Google to drop a fix/patch for A13 for our Pixel 6 ???
For those that upgraded from A12 to A13 and having the issue, have you wiped the phone (factory reset) and started fresh? I know it's a PITA getting everything setup again, but that's crazy. I was at 100 percent at 7 am, now 7 hours later, I am at 66 percent with pretty heavy usage... Generally YouTube constantly along with everything else I'm doing. By no means is my battery life amazing, but def comparable to A12 on my end.