Having just received my Moto X on Thursday, I've noticed my screen on time being higher than normal. I am not sure if this is due to the "new device excitement" or that active notifications are counting towards the screen on time, and often firing while walking around in my pocket.
Does anyone know if active notifications count towards screen on time or not while displayed?
Even if active notifications are counted towards screen time, it would not have much of affect on battery because only some pixels of the screen are lit up.
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EVOSerb said:
Even if active notifications are counted towards screen time, it would not have much of affect on battery because only some pixels of the screen are lit up.
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Exactly. I am trying to determine if my battery life is actually really good, or mediocre. If AN's are counted towards screen on time, then having only 3 hours of screen on time is actually quite low. If they are not counted, then that is pretty solid.
Definitely does not. I noted my screen on time and then activated notifications for a total of 1 minute, check screen on time again, difference was seconds. I repeated the cycle 4 times before coming to this conclusion.
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Definitely does not. I noted my screen on time and then activated notifications for a total of 1 minute, check screen on time again, difference was seconds. I repeated the cycle 4 times before coming to this conclusion.
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Awesome! Thanks for the info =)
I am not even worried about screen draining battery because Motorola did a great job with it. What bothers me when i am in my bio lab where college blocks the signal, my battery would drain down to 50% in like 4 hours without even using it at all. I would have maybe one bar or two or mostly roaming but the drain is so bad and fast.
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Yea, this radio is definitely more temperamental than other phones I have used. This is my first moto, not sure if this is common with their radios or not.
Can you enable airplane mode while in your lab? If the signal is blocked, then I imagine they don't want you on your phone anyways... Maybe set up a tasker protocol to enable airplane mode by gps location or use a tag... Obviously, you would have to manually turn off airplane mode when you leave.
But a direct solution to the poor signal drain would be preferable... Luckily, I rarely, if ever, suffer from this.
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Yea, this radio is definitely more temperamental than other phones I have used. This is my first moto, not sure if this is common with their radios or not.
Can you enable airplane mode while in your lab? If the signal is blocked, then I imagine they don't want you on your phone anyways... Maybe set up a tasker protocol to enable airplane mode by gps location or use a tag... Obviously, you would have to manually turn off airplane mode when you leave.
But a direct solution to the poor signal drain would be preferable... Luckily, I rarely, if ever, suffer from this.
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Omg i totally forgot about airplane mode. :thumbup:
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This is with screen on full brightness, moderate use, all sensors, sync enabled, and on mobile data. Leaps and bounds over E4GT.
Edit: battery is at 57% still
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What's your screen time?
My battery life actually hasn't been that great, almost equal to my S3 if not worse :/
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What's your screen time?
My battery life actually hasn't been that great, almost equal to my S3 if not worse :/
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3hrs 13mins. About 30 minutes of that was using the camera.
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Agreed. Mine has blown my E4GT away in battery life, and I haven't even been using the little tricks like turning data off when I'm at work yet.
I normally would have to plug mine in by noon after being unplugged since 7am. And that was screen halfway dimmed and barely any use
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I agree. Compared to my 3D, AMAZING. Walked out of work at 6PM, it had just dropped below 60% and my 3D would get to that point by 11:30AM.
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I'm consistently getting 5 hours of screen time, which I'm pretty happy with. Haven't ever ran it all the way to zero, so could probably get a little more.
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All phones have ****ty battery life when you're hacking and popping bursters everywhere. But my GS4 has done the best so far!
I'm excited to see it. I'll leave my house with a full charge, and streaming radio over 3G to my bluetooth headset for 2 hours and browsing the web for 20 minutes knocks my Evo 3D down to 30%.
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I'm consistently getting 5 hours of screen time, which I'm pretty happy with. Haven't ever ran it all the way to zero, so could probably get a little more.
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How?? I only get 4 hrs of screen on time when I have wifi on, power saving mode on, and have brightness at the bare minimum.. Did you 5 hr screen timers do something else to your device like disable sprint bloatware or something?
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Not doing anything special here. Haven't removed any bloat yet, not using power saving mode, using auto brightness.
Maybe I just have a strong signal. Weak signal can cause the radio to ramp up power and chew up a lot of battery...
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Not doing anything special here. Haven't removed any bloat yet, not using power saving mode, using auto brightness.
Maybe I just have a strong signal. Weak signal can cause the radio to ramp up power and chew up a lot of battery...
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This. Turning data off when I'm at work (in a thick building) makes a ton of difference.
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This. Turning data off when I'm at work (in a thick building) makes a ton of difference.
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Will try especially since I have wifi access at work. But yes, I do have a not so great data connection in my area with sprint.
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Does killing the data make it impossible to send SMS?
My battery sucked till I installed Greenify, and Juice Defender
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This is from today. Only an hour screen on time. Everything enabled, screen full brightness.
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Pretty good. The last phone I had with this good of battery life was my Samsung a920 flip phone!
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Please tell me how. I can only get 4 hours out of mine.
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Dont know what you do?
This was mostly WiFi calling from home. YouTube
Facebook
Auto-Sync Off
Internet
Power Saver Mode On
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You shut your phone radio off as well that's a big reason man
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People get 5+ hours of screen time by having odd configurations that would diminish the purpose of even having a phone.
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Yes thank you I was freaked out untill I actually looked people cripple there phones to get this achieved most of the time lol I have seen a few freaks that get great life and are stock and I just dont get it
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stevenm9 said:
Please tell me how. I can only get 4 hours out of mine.
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I'm curious, are you finding yourself in a situation where you're needing over 4hrs of screen on time?
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I'm curious, are you finding yourself in a situation where you're needing over 4hrs of screen on time?
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Good point and I'm not being rude but to much high standards lately ! As long as it lasts you the day with your normal use then thats all that should matter ! I still tweak out on my battery life but am learnin to let it be it's just a phone
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Good point and I'm not being rude but to much high standards lately ! As long as it lasts you the day with your normal use then thats all that should matter ! I still tweak out on my battery life but am learnin to let it be it's just a phone
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I mean I get it! I'm not trying to poke fun at him or anyone trying to get as much battery life of their phones as possible. I'm just curious as to why the obsession if you don't need it.
Hell, I'm guilty of something similiar... every HTC One I get my hands on, I go to MYHOIAN's ebay site and try to get it SIM unlocked. Why? I'm not travelling overseas any time soon or jumping GSM carriers here in the States. ... I just want it unlocked! And... $3.50, really, can't beat that price.
Yea me to buddy wish we didn't have to worry about unlocking and batteryife that be a perfect world
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I have a T-Mobile phone so it does have a Wi-fi calling for home.
If I do use the phone it is with the WCDMA only... This was with heavy internet usage for work purposes with email sending. Also taking an average of 150+ Photos.
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I got out of school a few weeks ago, so I'm at home during the day. Plus my laptop broke so I use my phone to get on the internet a lot more now.
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I got my phone on the weekend, and finally hit 5 hours for the first time yesterday. I was playing music, browsing the internet, using WiFi and mobile data, and played a game for a little while. I almost didn't believe it when I saw it. I am very satisfied.
I think the app that got me there was Lux. It's a smart-dimming app that adjusts your screen brightness. You can also set what % you want your screen at for certain background light levels. I really like it.
Anyway, can't think of anything else I did to get that result. Much much much better than the One X.
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Like the other user said, people do crazy things to keep their phone alive but rendering a smartphone useless.
Makes no sense to disabled data, sync, and other features of a smartphone
When you stop worrying about your battery life that's when your battery last you the most
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Like the other user said, people do crazy things to keep their phone alive but rendering a smartphone useless.
Makes no sense to disabled data, sync, and other features of a smartphone
When you stop worrying about your battery life that's when your battery last you the most
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Exactly buddy well put and to the people that post the 5+ hours of sot good for you and hope that's what you want but I leave all my stuff running as this is what smartphones are supposed to do
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Set brightness to 50% and hibernate google maps with greenify. It really is that simple. 5 hours.
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Set brightness to 50% and hibernate google maps with greenify. It really is that simple. 5 hours.
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This is true I have done this and I get 5 hours screen time after surfing the net and streaming music using mp3 player half day wifi other lte...I am on the latest release .16r also turn of location in google now ...hibernation of maps is key and location in now...now request location from map=drain...only use maps when u need it..the location off in google now does not affect weather btw
Edit I also have power saver on but disabled the powersave for the screen(hate a dim screen) like I said 50% brightness
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I have a question about Wi-Fi calling too. Does it save battery compared to not using it?
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I don't know how you're not getting such screen on time, to be honest. It's obviously dependant on what your usage is like while using your phone.
With me on stock kernel, if I'm just browsing around XDA or the internet I'll get around 8 hours screen on time (at least from how long it seems. I haven't confirmed and actual length of time so it could be less or more). Whereas if I'm playing Shadowgun Deadzone constantly, I can still get around 5 hours screen on time with 4 hours constant play of it.
If I remember, I'll get some actual proof of my stats over the next few days.
Dont worry about it. Even I get about 4 hours only. This is with 25% backlight indoors and 75% outdoors and heavy regular use. We dont have wifi calling or anything like that here. It is on 3G HSPA+ network and I get just above 4 hours of on screen time till battery goes below 10%. Lot of people disable lots of stuff like automatic syncing and turn the brightness all the way down. I dont do any of that. My gmail, twitter, drive, G+, Pulse, Hangout are all running in background syncing and doing their stuff (the only thing I have done is to tell G+ to upload only on wifi ).
7hrs screen time is easily achievable on this phone with 12hrs + uptime.
Theres a dedicated thread on this already if u wanna go read how guys are setting their phones for this.
My use is as follows to get 7hrs...
*Wifi only browsing (no mobile data)
*Auto brightness during the day and low at night.
*Eliminate as much wakelocks as possible by not using auto syncs in apps etc.
*I'm rooted so i use "Greenify" to make sure apps go into hibernation after I close them.
*I use Titanium backup to freeze bloat ware I don't use.
Apps such as Skype, Facebook, Viber etc etc are Known drainers so keep an eye on them if u use them.
There prob more that I can't think if right now but with the above set up, you will easily get between 5-8 hours screen on time.
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My phone has not always been this way. Its started in the past week. The battery seems to dive at the end of the day when I quit using it.
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Anyone? Am I the only lucky person to get the bug?
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Something... Looks like "phone" in your screen shot, is keeping your phone awake for a crazy amount of time. Solve that and you're good again. Google it.
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I'm not sure the cause or a permanent solution. But if you see the battery dropping fast... Whether it's from "phone" or anything else.... A reboot should clear it up and you won't lose so much battery life.
That is, if you notice it dropping too fast. Sometimes you might not catch it till it's too late and you're running for a charger. Lol
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It's pretty obvious some app is keeping your phone awake once you have solid mobile network signal. Time for you to find out what it is.
I have Gravity box installed. That's it. last night I charged it all the way up before I went to bed. I woke up with a 50℅ loss! This time it was the media server. Whatever that is......if I look on the wakelock detector there are 1000 little things but nothing stands out. Tonight I'll do the same thing but do a reboot before I lay it to rest.
What's weird is I only get this problem when the phone is not being used. If its of any relevance I leave the WiFi on all night. And have it set to turn off when the phone sleeps.
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I have Gravity box installed. That's it. last night I charged it all the way up before I went to bed. I woke up with a 50℅ loss! This time it was the media server. Whatever that is......if I look on the wakelock detector there are 1000 little things but nothing stands out. Tonight I'll do the same thing but do a reboot before I lay it to rest.
What's weird is I only get this problem when the phone is not being used. If its of any relevance I leave the WiFi on all night. And have it set to turn off when the phone sleeps.
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you should know the drill. start getting rid of apps to see if it improves. or, go reverse and start over, installing one app at a time. other posters above are right. you've got something else polling, that's causing the wake lock.
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Seems like you could also just have some faulty hardware? e.g. a bad battery or charge sensor?
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Seems like you could also just have some faulty hardware? e.g. a bad battery or charge sensor?
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This is something fairly new. Unless it went belly up.....I still have more testing to do, which can take a while......since it only seems to be happening when I don't use my phone.
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There is a bunch of apps to help you out
Usually i use this two
Wakelock detector
battery widget
Use those and paste a print here
Last night I left the WiFi on. Cleared all tabs in the recent and I lost only 28% .
Making progress. It was some app left running that kept it awake. Not sure what though.
Tonight I'll leave the WiFi off.
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So um on my second full charge and so far with all day usage I am still string at 72% battery how's everyone else holding up?
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My 5 is much better than my S4, that's for sure
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So um on my second full charge and so far with all day usage I am still string at 72% battery how's everyone else holding up?
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Pretty good, but not THAT good. Not much running in the background?
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Mine is hit or miss, doing the same things with the phone at the same places every day, some days it is decent and I will have 40-50% left when I get home, other days (like today) it was almost totally dead. That's with sync and wifi on, but location turned off. Its decent, but far from great IMO.
The battery life is WAY better than my wife's Nexus 5, but it is garbage compared to my international Note 2 I was using previously. I'd have 70-80% left when I got got home doing the same stuff as I am with the S5, plus I would leave Bluetooth, wifi, sync, location, and GPS on all the time.
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Pretty good, but not THAT good. Not much running in the background?
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This is all the stuff running in the background so far.
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at the end of the day by bed time i have 30% or so left. my old htc one x would be in the teens %. it doesn't help that i leave bluetooth and wifi on and searches all day since i'm too lazy to turn BT on only when i get into my car and i'm too stupid to learn how to use NFC tags.
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at the end of the day by bed time i have 30% or so left. my old htc one x would be in the teens %. it doesn't help that i leave bluetooth and wifi on and searches all day since i'm too lazy to turn BT on only when i get into my car and i'm too stupid to learn how to use NFC tags.
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I use everything on. On my S4 I didn't much, because my battery would die sooner buy with this battery so far I'm getting better life with more things left turned on.
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Holding up much better than my S4 which I returned as I could barely get it to go 3/4 of a day without dying with normal usage. Now I end the day with at least 30% left. Also outperforming my iPhone 5S which would be close to dead by the end of the day. Very impressed!
great battery
I had an S3 before. When left alone at night, I can see phone 'Awake' numerous times. As viewed from Battery settings.
Except Gmail, I had sync disabled on every app. I also had most of the apps greenified. Still phone wakes up numerous times at night when not in use.
With S5, I have installed all the apps I had on S3. I have configured only few of them. None of them are greenified now. Also, I have left more apps to sync in background. Previous night, in the 9 hrs I left it alone, it woke only 2 times. Thats really good. In that 9 idle hours, battery dropped only 4%.
Battery is similar to the m8 (very good)... I'm thinking I'm going to have to return the htc
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So um on my second full charge and so far with all day usage I am still string at 72% battery how's everyone else holding up?
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I'm really not getting very good battery life at all. I am shocked when I hear of others getting 5+ hours of screen on time. I'm getting nowhere near that and unfortunately for me I'm on my phone all day for work (calls, emails, etc.) because I work from home. This is also my 2nd SGS5. The first was having major screen issues and the capacitive buttons stopped lighting up for some reason.
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I'm really not getting very good battery life at all. I am shocked when I hear of others getting 5+ hours of screen on time. I'm getting nowhere near that and unfortunately for me I'm on my phone all day for work (calls, emails, etc.) because I work from home. This is also my 2nd SGS5. The first was having major screen issues and the capacitive buttons stopped lighting up for some reason.
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Have you disabled all of the built in apps you aren't using? Try to cycle your battery. Go on your Google account and disable sync on thin you don't need. Or call ATT and ask for a replacement under warranty maybe your battery is bad. They are very good when it comes to warranty exchanges. Best of luck.
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Have you disabled all of the built in apps you aren't using? Try to cycle your battery. Go on your Google account and disable sync on thin you don't need. Or call ATT and ask for a replacement under warranty maybe your battery is bad. They are very good when it comes to warranty exchanges. Best of luck.
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I've tried cycling, I have more than half of the sync items turned off and I'm still having this issue But thank you for the suggestions. I am going to head to the store tomorrow and see about a replacement. I just can't guarantee it will be another S5 at this point. LOL
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I've tried cycling, I have more than half of the sync items turned off and I'm still having this issue But thank you for the suggestions. I am going to head to the store tomorrow and see about a replacement. I just can't guarantee it will be another S5 at this point. LOL
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Att wouldn't even let me return the phone without restocking fee. Which was a joke.
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Oh really? I'm still within my 14 days because we just switched to them and I've had issues so that may be why I've had no trouble?
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Today's battery life.
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Fantastic battery life so far. Since unplugging it from the charger Wednesday morning, my battery is at 86% this morning! I do have the power saving mode on (not the ultra power saving mode, the regular one), and don't use it a whole lot during the day (not for hours on end at least, just a few minutes here and there)
Better battery life that I was getting on my S4.
I average about 5-6 hours screen time every day no matter if on WiFi or data.... I bet I could crack 7 if I was on Wi-Fi the whole time but yeah, coming from the nexus 5, this thing kicks the crap out of it in battery department
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My first battery cycle I got 7 hours screen on time and the last two I haven't gotten more than 5 hour if that. I disabled about as much bloat I could. Can some one explain what it means to cycle your battery
I think the battery life has been really good so far...
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I feel like my battery keeps getting worse and worse. Used to last me a day and a half and now only about a day.
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Hey mate, sorry to hear you are getting worse battery life. Are you using anything from your normal? Check out my guide and see if anything helps. Below are my stats currently. I can only see you still have your alarm on, this can cause a slight lose.
Mine hasn't ever lasted as long as your day and a half, maybe it is just leveling out? A few days ago I recalibrated my battery, maybe that would help?
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Hey mate, sorry to hear you are getting worse battery life. Are you using anything from your normal? Check out my guide and see if anything helps. Below are my stats currently. I can only see you still have your alarm on, this can cause a slight lose.
Mine hasn't ever lasted as long as your day and a half, maybe it is just leveling out? A few days ago I recalibrated my battery, maybe that would help?
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Try shutting it off ( hold the off button on right side) the turning it back on . Reboot, I had an unexplained battery issue and this fixed it, I can get 3-4 days now.
Any update @gainstatom?
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My battery is either good or bad. Right now it's fine and going good. But sometimes I think something makes my battery worse. I will keep updating with screenshot. I think 8% for only minute on screen time is not that good.
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Yeah that's great! You can install better battery stats here on xda to see if you are getting any wake locks etc. Greenify plus xposed will do this also, but bbs has more info
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I had a battery problem similar to yours not long ago. One of the things that was running it down was in Settings> Wi-Fi> Always allow scanning. The phone would scan for Wi-Fi signal even when Wi-Fi was turned off. Unchecking that box helped a lot.
I also used a battery calibration app that clears the battery stats and that has pretty well fixed the problem.
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