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Hi,
I was searching but couldn't find anything with regards to my issue. I've had my Galaxy s I9000M for a bit over a week and have noticed that the battery level, even while doing nothing, will decrease more when I am moving vs when I am stationary. The phone IS rooted, unlocked and I also have applied the OCLF 2.0. I have disabled GPS as well as the 'Use wireless networks' but they seem to have done nothing in regards to prolonging battery life. My guess is that it has something to do either with some kind of location tracking that I have overlooked or the built-in accelerometer. If anyone has any idea what it might be that drains my battery while I am mobile vs stationary, please advise.
Thanks in advance.
I think it got something to do with live wallpaper. I had same problem, before i go to work its 100%. I hardly use it at work cos got a work phone. 8 hours later and its down to 60%. Im on jm8 with digital wall paid live wallpaper.
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Varying signal strength could also cause that, as the cell radio will use more power when in weaker signal areas.
okpc said:
I think it got something to do with live wallpaper. I had same problem, before i go to work its 100%. I hardly use it at work cos got a work phone. 8 hours later and its down to 60%. Im on jm8 with digital wall paid live wallpaper.
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I don't think that would apply to my case though, since I am still using the default wallpaper that came with it, but that is definitely something that i will have to keep in mind. Thanks for that.
Devhux said:
Varying signal strength could also cause that, as the cell radio will use more power when in weaker signal areas.
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I have not even considered that, but I suppose that could be a possibility. I'm wondering if there is anything that I could do that could prolong the battery life if what you suggested would actually be the cause.
Anyone else have any possible ideas or suggestions?
Thanks again for the replies.
No idea what's going on but my battery is horrible
Ive greenify what I can
disabled on what can
Non idea what to do
CheesyNutz said:
No idea what's going on but my battery is horrible
Ive greenify what I can
disabled on what can
Non idea what to do
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I feel your pain, brother. Came back to Sammy for the Note 4 after 6 weeks with the OnePlus One, where I was getting 40-60 hours! But, my signal in 2nd floor apt of a 3 story was unusable on LTE, and the One doesn't have wifi calling. It looks like even after rooting, freezing, greenifying, I will be lucky to get 15 hours.....But what a beast of a machine this is! Gonna play around with slow vs rapid charge, and keep my 10,000 spare battery with me, and use this til the 64 bit goodness rolls out next summer/fall.
CheesyNutz said:
No idea what's going on but my battery is horrible
Ive greenify what I can
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Non idea what to do
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Possibly a defective one? Im getting amazing battery life. Even before I was rooted and had all the tweaks that custom roms give us. I leave my phone off the charger all night and drop maybe 3% over 8hours. Ive been gaming, surfing the web through LTE and Wifi and it seems like I have to really push it to get a solid battery drain.
Your screen on time is 2hrs 15mins thats close to 6hrs of screen on time tell dead. Seems about right
LancerV said:
Your screen on time is 2hrs 15mins thats close to 6hrs of screen on time tell dead. Seems about right
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Never happens sadly
Went to the T-Mobile store and the guy told me he has had 4 people in complaining about the same thing ..i m thinking its a bad batch they are out of stock ATM but I've had the phone less than a week so I think I'm going to exchange it once they get more in
Install wakedetector and run it and give it 2 hours then look at the wake locks
BAD ASS NOTE 4
This is mine with heavy heavy use
BAD ASS NOTE 4
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Never happens sadly
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Turn to 100% dont touch phone check 1hr later see how much battery drain you have.
I have been using my N6 for the past couple of days and the battery life has been quite disappointing for me so far. It seems the biggest culprit for me is the poor signal in my area leading to a huge amount of drain from Cell Standby. Even when idle, my battery drains quickly. I lose 1% every few minutes without even turning my screen on and about 10% over an hour. As of now, my device has been on for 2h 49m and 24% of that time has been without signal.
I understand that poor reception is causing the radio to constantly look for a signal but my Moto G and Nexus 5 are in the exact same environment and fair much better when it comes to battery life. Anyone else experiencing this insane battery drain? At this point I'm debating sending the device back, getting a refund, and dealing with the bloated and Touchwiz filled Note 4. It's a bummer because I absolutely love this phone otherwise. The screen, build quality, WiFi signal strength, and audio experience make this phone an absolute delight but the battery drain might be a deal breaker for me. Thankfully I still have a couple of weeks to make up my mind on whether or not I'll be keeping the phone or returning it and going for another phablet. Thanks to the N6, I can no longer return to a phone with small display.
As I mentioned earlier, I am not having this issue with my Moto G or Nexus 5 and both devices have excellent idle battery life.
Battery stats: http://i.imgur.com/Qmx3vkh.png
Detailed Battery stats: http://i.imgur.com/Qmx3vkh.png
Cell Standy: http://i.imgur.com/gvSbxLp.png
I have noticed the same thing with my device. Might not be to the extent you are experiencing because the cell coverage is a little better but cell standby is one of the main causes of my battery draining.
dleonard1122 said:
I have noticed the same thing with my device. Might not be to the extent you are experiencing because the cell coverage is a little better but cell standby is one of the main causes of my battery draining.
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This seems to be an issue with Lollipop and people with the Nexus 5 are also experiencing this. There is a thread over at /r/android discussing this issue.
I absolutely love this phone and I will be holding out for a patch as long as I can. This phone is so awesome though.
I don't have this issue with my new N6 or my N5 on lollipop. I have very strong signal though in my area.
I would like to point out though it's not that bad considering your without service for over 20% of the time at that point.. From that it looks like you'll have a12 hour day.
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godsafk said:
IAnyone else experiencing this insane battery drain?
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Yes, my N5 running LRX21O has the same since I activated my N6. In my case (Wi-Fi only) I can just turn off the mobile radios.
I actually already started a thread about this. At first I thought it was a sprint issue turns out to be widespread.
TwelfthMan said:
I actually already started a thread about this. At first I thought it was a sprint issue turns out to be widespread.
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Thanks for letting me know about your own thread discussing the same issues, I have posted there as well. :good:
This cell standby drain reminds me of eclair and froyo days. I believe the temp solution for this was to briefly put it into airplane mode. Then turn mobile network bank on. It would sort of reset the existing bug. Anyone remember this from way back when?
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hasbrobot said:
This cell standby drain reminds me of eclair and froyo days. I believe the temp solution for this was to briefly put it into airplane mode. Then turn mobile network bank on. It would sort of reset the existing bug. Anyone remember this from way back when?
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I remember it well I had the Eris. But I think it's different today. I think it's a reporting issue not a signal loss issue. Imo
Ahh... memories, I had the eris as well. Actually 5 of them, ha ha. Man android has come along way.
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Just a thought.. try changing it from LTE preferred to 3G. I'm not saying to use this as a permanent solution but just try it out. I was in the -90 to -103dB range in signal on LTE and it would randomly crap out entirely for a few seconds every couple minutes (at best). I have no idea why - didn't have that issue on my older galaxy S3. Anyway, switching to 3G suddenly gave me fantastic reception (at least in terms of signal strength).
If it helps you - that might be the cause of your battery drain: poor signal.
Me too I've switched to 3g and I'm my nexus isn't constantly looking for a 4g signal
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I just did 12 hours in a hospital where my S3 couldn't make it much past lunchtime. I'm at around 15 hours now and have 70% left. Full time on 4G.
pifsworld said:
Me too I've switched to 3g and I'm my nexus isn't constantly looking for a 4g signal
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Did this too which helped a ton.
Also flashing the latest modem in fastboot also appeared to help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/ref-nexus-6-modem-collection-t2969380
Like others have mentioned, forcing it to a specific network mode will typically save power, especially when you kill something as power hungry as LTE.
From the regular system menu, you only have the options to set "preferred" LTE/3G/2G, but this does not actually disable LTE or 2G when you select 3G.
From the dialer, enter *#*#4636#*#*, select phone information, scroll down to "set preferred network type" and choose "WCDMA only". With this, it will actually turn off the LTE and GSM radios.
From the Android Central forums:
Settings. . Mobile networks. . mobile data .. enhanced 4g
Since turning off wifi also stops the drain, I might speculate the bug is actually in the voice processing for wider bandwidth and turning off wifi or enhanced 4g shuts down that section of voice processing, which is keeping the radio alive when it should not.
Thanks for that. I'll try this..
Does enhanced 4g mean LTE? What does turning it off do (besides save battery life supposedly)?
demonwind said:
Does enhanced 4g mean LTE? What does turning it off do (besides save battery life supposedly)?
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Thats HD Voice (AT&T's version of VoLTE). Turning it off disables the Voice over LTE feature.
Does anyone have proof that this is related to cell standby? I am skeptical that this is the smoking gun for battery drain. I have noticed a substantial drain even compared to my old Moto X (2014) and that is saying a lot since that phone's battery wasn't great. I am trying to see where we can make stride to determine the reasons for it. I have different results in my details. Sometimes android system is the culprit.
I turned off Enhanced 4g last night and cell stand by isn't even on my battery usage list today. It was the top one last night before disabling.
How's the overall life now? I just shut it down myself.
Anyone do this and leave WiFi on and still have good battery. Seems to me that no matter what I do WiFi still causes the battery to drain far faster than it should.
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Pure+ said:
Anyone do this and leave WiFi on and still have good battery. Seems to me that no matter what I do WiFi still causes the battery to drain far faster than it should.
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I keep everything on except enhanced 4g and get between 5 and 6 hours of screen on time.
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Anyone do this and leave WiFi on and still have good battery. Seems to me that no matter what I do WiFi still causes the battery to drain far faster than it should.
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+1
I switched off enhanced LTE but if I leave the wifi on I see a battery drain. With wifi off I get a stable battery. My Edge (AT&T) is on Android 5.0.2.
I remember first T-mobile users mentioning battery was ok until 5.0.1 which was later updated to 5.0.2 and the trouble started.
If we could just figure out how to get rid of Google Play services
Im gonna try this too. I keep wifi on. Time to charge up to 100% and see how quick it goes down
So today I decided to keep wifi on and wow. Battery life not as good. Not having horrible drain, but it is most certainly effecting my battery life. So tomorrow I will go all day without wifi and see how it fairs. But I'm thinking that unless I know I'm gonna be at home a lot where I can easily charge, then wifi will remain off indefinitely. Good thing I have 30gb mobile share data
If you root and can't deep sleep restore your devices stock recovery
ktetreault14 said:
If you root and can't deep sleep restore your devices stock recovery
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theres no root for the att variant
Oh sorry
jaltman said:
From the Android Central forums:
Settings. . Mobile networks. . mobile data .. enhanced 4g
Since turning off wifi also stops the drain, I might speculate the bug is actually in the voice processing for wider bandwidth and turning off wifi or enhanced 4g shuts down that section of voice processing, which is keeping the radio alive when it should not.
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Lol that was my post on Android Central. Its like that because I typed it one handed while at a stop light.
mobilehavoc said:
Lol that was my post on Android Central. Its like that because I typed it one handed while at a stop light.
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That's why I gave attribution that I was taking it from elsewhere. you just never know when someone will come along and say 'I wrote that.'
Thanks for finding it and sharing.
Ill give it a try and report back. Does anyone use the "Battery Saving" feature all the time?
spotdog14 said:
Ill give it a try and report back. Does anyone use the "Battery Saving" feature all the time?
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I'm about to try leaving it on all day. Anything that it turns off I don't really need so might as well. And let's be honest, who needs all the power this phone has all the time. I'd say 95% of the time I don't need anywhere near the processing that this beast is capable of.
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http://bgr.com/2015/05/20/galaxy-s6-battery-life-google-now/
Turning off Google Now is not a battery fix
I was just posting this to share the article.. Personally I use Google now daily so I won't be trying.. but if anyone else wants to test this "theory" give it a shot.. maybe post some results
Or perhaps one could turn it off halfway through the day & extend battery life.. Lol idk ?
BGR are a bunch or turds, they are iCrap homers and are the absolutely the worst. BGR is a great example of what is wrong with journalism and yahoo today, 2-3 paragraph hit jobs without any research. They just scan xda forums or other news sites for the most popular "problem" threads and then write an anti-android article almost instantly.
With that being said and considering the source, no this is not a possible battery fix .
Apologies for going off, but if you couldn't tell, I really hate BGR and yahoo.
5.1.1 is our only hope. I'm crossing my fingers it fixes the memory leak AND cell standby so I can get a wireless charger and have a 100% battery in the morning.
ThePagel said:
5.1.1 is our only hope. I'm crossing my fingers it fixes the memory leak AND cell standby so I can get a wireless charger and have a 100% battery in the morning.
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I thought there was a cell standby "fix" already? With VoLTE off and WiFi calling (which is tarded in itself unless you live in an area with bad reception) off, it doesn't even show up on my battery list.
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I thought there was a cell standby "fix" already? With VoLTE off and WiFi calling (which is tarded in itself unless you live in an area with bad reception) off, it doesn't even show up on my battery list.
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Well that's not a fix its a workaround (I hate VoLTE anyway). I have both off but when I'm in a building with poor to no reception it eats my battery worse than any phone I have ever had. Plus there's no way (I think) the memory leak is causing my battery to drop like it is when it's doing absolutely nothing. I don't have any apps like facebook to cause it either. People on reddit who have taken the 5.1.1 edge leak say the difference in battery life is biblical so we will see if that helps me when we get it.
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Well that's not a fix its a workaround (I hate VoLTE anyway). I have both off but when I'm in a building with poor to no reception it eats my battery worse than any phone I have ever had. Plus there's no way (I think) the memory leak is causing my battery to drop like it is when it's doing absolutely nothing. I don't have any apps like facebook to cause it either. People on reddit who have taken the 5.1.1 edge leak say the difference in battery life is biblical so we will see if that helps me when we get it.
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Hmm. Since I've moved to the Edge (since my first S6 was defective) I'd love to see the improvement. I went from getting 9-10%/hour drain with very little use on my S6 to about 3% with moderate use on the Edge. I'm at 8 hours on battery and 1hr 15 of SOT and I'm still at 75% battery life. For stock, that's pretty good IMO.
How can volt be turned off?
blah_blah_blah_blah said:
How can volt be turned off?
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Settings/applications/phone/voice over LTE settings (this really deserves a swipe down quick button)
I keep hearing across all of the Galaxy S6 threads how the 5.1.1 update will fix battery and voLTE and Wifi calling issues... I hope it does. My question is when is the predicted date when Tmobile pushes it out to us?
I have had my S6 for a little less than a week, and it's completely stock. Rooting (in any of the multiple ways) seems to have issues with deep sleep, but easy work arounds. I plan on keeping it stock for as long as I can stand, but if Tmobile isn't planning to push the 5.1.1 out in the next 2 months, I will root. Plus, the opportunity would be present to clear out some bloatware
blah_blah_blah_blah said:
How can volt be turned off?
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On your homescreen, click Phone app(dialer) > more > Settings > Voice over LTE settings - Do not use VoLTE
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32923793
Doze... Android M, I will settle for 5.1.1.
ipaq_101 said:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32923793
Doze... Android M, I will settle for 5.1.1.
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Android pay... even though they already did that with wallet the new security features sound nice. Plus it looks like aosp will support fingerprints on M! If we ever see aosp M on this phone I might give it a shot (if the camera isn't crap).