The Best Nexus 5 Battery Tips

The Best Nexus 5 Battery Tips - Nexus 5 General

Hey there,
I constantly see lots of questions re battery life, I thought I'd try and help with a couple of very simple proven methods for increasing battery life on Nexus devices. None of this idiotic switching everything off garbage, you'll still have a fully featured phone. Google has added some very sneaky behind the scenes rubbish to monitor Wi-Fi and you're movements, it's this constant polling that can quite drastically effect your battery life.
Obviously, the third option won't work for everybody. Start form the top and move down till you're happy with battery life.
1. Do not use factory auto brightness, it is too aggressive on the Nexus 5. Install Lux and and let it handle the auto brightness. Link inside dark, medium and bright points and finally link a max brightess outside. This will greatly help battery life. Set brightness so it's comfortable, but not overly bright. This alone should net you an extra hour of screen on time if done correctly. I'm not saying dim, I have my screen nice and bright, just not as bright as the factory settings.
2. Fix the horrible factory Wi-Fi settings. Go into Wi-Fi, settings, advanced. Turn off Network Notification, turn off scanning Always available (this doesn't mean no Wi-Fi, it means it stops the phone scanning for Wi-Fi when the Wi-Fi is off, it's insane there is actually such a feature, un-check avoid poor connections, finally turn on Wi-Fi optimization.
3. Location reporting has to go. Go to your app draw, Google settings, location settings. Turn off location reporting and location history. This means you will lose Google Now. I personally couldn't really care, but many will. This does have a rather large effect on battery life, especially if you are out and about and moving through bad coverage and GPS areas.
4. You need to know what you have running on your phone, every app you install could be the one that stops your phone working as long as you need it. Many apps background sync without you actually needing it, or even realizing it. It's your phone, you need to run it. You cannot run Facebook, Twitter and 100 email accounts syncing all day and expect amazing battery life. You simply must be realistic. Only sync the email you have to sync. Open every app on your phone, one by one, if it has background sync, disable it if you don't need it. Apps like Pulse, Flipboard will background sync. Why on Earth you'd need them to load stories when you're not using the app I don't know. Even Google's own News and Weather app background sync's. Turn it all off. Additionally, I un-check Google Currents in Google account sync settings. It takes approx 5 seconds to load the data on nearly any app with modern phones with a single swipe or button press. These changes will drastically benefit you're battery life.
I hope this helps.

RE: WiFi scanning always on. I believe that this is supposed to save battery life. This let's apps use WiFi for locations rather than firing up GPS chip which is worse on the battery. So for example a weather app can push accurate weather where you are behind the scenes. Testing it myself the WiFi scanning checked on helps. That being said I also have Google Now on. Youre saying turn that off too. In that case it may help assuming you have no other apps that pull background GPS data as this seems to be the most GPS hungry app I have.
Ketzal said:
Hey there,
I constantly see lots of questions re battery life, I thought I'd try and help with a couple of very simple proven methods for increasing battery life on Nexus devices. None of this idiotic switching everything off garbage, you'll still have a fully featured phone. Google has added some very sneaky behind the scenes rubbish to monitor Wi-Fi and you're movements, it's this constant polling that can quite drastically effect your battery life.
Obviously, the third option won't work for everybody. Start form the top and move down till you're happy with battery life.
1. Do not use factory auto brightness, it is too aggressive on the Nexus 5. Install Lux and and let it handle the auto brightness. Link inside dark, medium and bright points and finally link a max brightess outside. This will greatly help battery life. Set brightness so it's comfortable, but not overly bright. This alone should net you an extra hour of screen on time if done correctly. I'm not saying dim, I have my screen nice and bright, just not as bright as the factory settings.
2. Fix the horrible factory Wi-Fi settings. Go into Wi-Fi, settings, advanced. Turn off Network Notification, turn off scanning Always available (this doesn't mean no Wi-Fi, it means it stops the phone scanning for Wi-Fi when the Wi-Fi is off, it's insane there is actually such a feature, un-check avoid poor connections, finally turn on Wi-Fi optimization.
3. Location reporting has to go. Go to your app draw, Google settings, location settings. Turn off location reporting and location history. This means you will lose Google Now. I personally couldn't really care, but many will. This does have a rather large effect on battery life, especially if you are out and about and moving through bad coverage and GPS areas.
4. You need to know what you have running on your phone, every app you install could be the one that stops your phone working as long as you need it. Many apps background sync without you actually needing it, or even realizing it. It's your phone, you need to run it. You cannot run Facebook, Twitter and 100 email accounts syncing all day and expect amazing battery life. You simply must be realistic. Only sync the email you have to sync. Open every app on your phone, one by one, if it has background sync, disable it if you don't need it. Apps like Pulse, Flipboard will background sync. Why on Earth you'd need them to load stories when you're not using the app I don't know. Even Google's own News and Weather app background sync's. Turn it all off. Additionally, I un-check Google Currents in Google account sync settings. It takes approx 5 seconds to load the data on nearly any app with modern phones with a single swipe or button press. These changes will drastically benefit you're battery life.
I hope this helps.
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Ketzal said:
Hey there,
I constantly see lots of questions re battery life, I thought I'd try and help with a couple of very simple proven methods for increasing battery life on Nexus devices. None of this idiotic switching everything off garbage, you'll still have a fully featured phone. Google has added some very sneaky behind the scenes rubbish to monitor Wi-Fi and you're movements, it's this constant polling that can quite drastically effect your battery life.
Obviously, the third option won't work for everybody. Start form the top and move down till you're happy with battery life.
1. Do not use factory auto brightness, it is too aggressive on the Nexus 5. Install Lux and and let it handle the auto brightness. Link inside dark, medium and bright points and finally link a max brightess outside. This will greatly help battery life. Set brightness so it's comfortable, but not overly bright. This alone should net you an extra hour of screen on time if done correctly. I'm not saying dim, I have my screen nice and bright, just not as bright as the factory settings.
2. Fix the horrible factory Wi-Fi settings. Go into Wi-Fi, settings, advanced. Turn off Network Notification, turn off scanning Always available (this doesn't mean no Wi-Fi, it means it stops the phone scanning for Wi-Fi when the Wi-Fi is off, it's insane there is actually such a feature, un-check avoid poor connections, finally turn on Wi-Fi optimization.
3. Location reporting has to go. Go to your app draw, Google settings, location settings. Turn off location reporting and location history. This means you will lose Google Now. I personally couldn't really care, but many will. This does have a rather large effect on battery life, especially if you are out and about and moving through bad coverage and GPS areas.
4. You need to know what you have running on your phone, every app you install could be the one that stops your phone working as long as you need it. Many apps background sync without you actually needing it, or even realizing it. It's your phone, you need to run it. You cannot run Facebook, Twitter and 100 email accounts syncing all day and expect amazing battery life. You simply must be realistic. Only sync the email you have to sync. Open every app on your phone, one by one, if it has background sync, disable it if you don't need it. Apps like Pulse, Flipboard will background sync. Why on Earth you'd need them to load stories when you're not using the app I don't know. Even Google's own News and Weather app background sync's. Turn it all off. Additionally, I un-check Google Currents in Google account sync settings. It takes approx 5 seconds to load the data on nearly any app with modern phones with a single swipe or button press. These changes will drastically benefit you're battery life.
I hope this helps.
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Thx Man. I will try it out and see what I get.

I do everything recommended in the op and I get great battery life. I think location reporting is a huge battery drain.
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Location is by the worst battery killer on this phone. I set it to GPS only and have no issues. Otherwise Google services destroys the battery life.
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In addition to the above, I highly recommend disabling these apps if you are not using them, as they could potentially give you unwanted wakelocks, draining your battery.
Google Earth
Email
Play Books
Play Games
Play Magazines
Play Movies
Play Music
Google+
News & Weather
Wallet

un-check avoid poor connections
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Could this not save battery if it's avoiding low signal connections? Wi-Fi always on feature is for when you're not using the GPS, in a supposedly "battery saver" mode in Location services.

In addition, look at your list of installed apps - the usual suspects like weather & news (those w. breaking news alert enabled and/or frequent updates - pre fetching news articles & pix, etc.) Weather Channel was high on my list after I turned off/disabled plenty others as listed above - running Facebook, Twitter & Skype ?? as those could be draining along with cloud storage access (Dropbox, Drive & Sky Drive, etc.)
Plus, let's face it - it's a 5" HD screen - set mine to timeout @ 15 sec. after inactivity, normally - I don't set it to less than 45 or 30 secs. - mine is essentially being conditioned with very little usage, mostly standby time after 2 days and 3 hours, 25% remaining. Screen Time On: 3 hrs. 17 mins.

For what its worth after setting up G.Wallet my biggest location hog was G.Wallet and I fixed that by un-checking showing offers based on location within Wallet.
I have however had a frustrating experience with location eating battery on this phone, the first couple days location was active for over 6 hours out of 13. I still have 3 minutes of GPS time this morning, even though reporting, history, G.now are all off and I haven't launched any location aware apps.

I think the first App on any phone should be "Disable Service". it is like "Services.msc" on windows, it will show you all services on the device from which you can see which services are running and stop them if you dont need them.
this is a must have, it will save you RAM and battery. requires root access.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice&hl=en

Really helpful! Thanks!
Disabled some of the Google Apps I wasn't using (Magazines, Earth, Books) and switched off Location Reporting. I had forgotten i had turned it off on my Nexus 4 as well so maybe that's why my battery life wasn't so good. Will do some digging to see if any apps are downloading things in the background.

Thanks
Many thanks for the sensible suggestions.
I wish there was a set of switches one could use so that when you really required the comfort of knowing you needed your phone to last, you could set it to 'Low Consumption'. In fact there probably is an app.
Cheers anyway.
Bob

looking at the process statistics in "settings->developer options" facebook messenger is my biggest problem. Looking at the battery overview, it was the google play services.
I checked my fathers nexus 5 a few minutes ago (he has whatsapp installed and that's it) and he had 20% battery drain after 16 hours and google play services are at the top showing it's been running for 16 hours (is that the wakelock? looks like it, but i'm not sure).
So kicking the google play services sounds like a must-have. I use ingress after work and thats it. No need for constant position updates while i'm at work or sleeping.

How do I remove google earth?

Gravediggaz said:
How do I remove google earth?
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If you're not rooted go to:
Settings>Apps>Google Earth> Uninstall updates> Disable.
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For me the battery drain with Google services has stop since i disable auto update on play store (set it to "do not update automaticly")
Maybe you can try and wait for the next battery charge and see [emoji2]
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I had a massive drain from google play services keeping my phone awake now when asleep my phone barely drops any battery after hours. I stopped play services from being able to wake the nexus while sleeping now my battery life is very good better than my s4

On auto brightness and playing clash of clans during the day still 19% left
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Operation Tweak Stock

I've seen a lot of people complaining about battery life, and while I've had my Atrix HD only for a few days now (coming from an Atrix 2) I've had pretty good success w/the stock battery. I was initially bummed that we can't root yet, and with that comes the inability to turn off 3G/4G/LTE when the screen is off as well as other build.prop tweaks. I will be doing the EB40 battery mod, but before that I wanted to ensure I was getting the most out of my stock battery. I've done some things to get me the most life from my battery and many are just a reflection of my personal habits when I use the phone. Once size doesn't fit all, but hopefully you can use a few of the tricks here to improve your battery life. We can use this thread to share our results and findings.
Yes some of these are no-brainers, and we're not going to discuss the fact that using wifi, bluetooth and GPS all day will drain your battery. I operate on the idea that if I need it, I'll turn it on. I don't need every single one of my accounts synced to the split second. Half the time my phone is sitting next to me while i'm at my computer. Of course others live and breath through their phone. I don't care to be bugged every 5-10 seconds by my phone; got better things to do....but that is my style.
I will post some screen shots of my system as I complete some other tests. The first test I will do is turn off data and background sync and see how many days this phone can last w/out a charge. Other tests are TBD.
So here is what I've done so far.. While all of this is no more than enabling/disabling and configuring items, I still will take no responsibility if disabling any features/apps breaks or harms the your installation of your phone or bricks it.
Enjoy
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Developer Options
Window Animation Scale: Animation Off
Transition Animation Scale: Animation Off
Deep Sleep
This one is critical, in fact I didn't have good battery life until I was positive that the phone was entering deep sleep when it was idle (cellular data on or off, it doesn't matter). I used Better Battery Stats to determine this. I'd set a custom reference point, lock the phone, wait 1-2 minutes and then look in BBS. If i didn't see any Deep Sleep time, i'd uninstall or re-configure apps so that the phone would remain asleep. Even if you see a high % of 384mhz and no deep sleep, you will loose battery power. Low CPU usage is NOT the same as deep sleep. The culprit i've honed in on is Beautiful Widgets. I'm suspect this app, despite telling it to only update the weather every 2 hours does not let the phone enter deep sleep. Further testing is needed to confirm.
Accounts
Sync only contacts
I have one account (exchange) that has its calendar synced
Manually sync other items when you need them
Background Sync
All apps have any kind of notifications and sync turned off, this includes ebay, words with friends, facebook twitter etc. Again, when you need to see an update, manually update/sync.
Social Apps syncing? - NO
Email Client - I'm using Enhanced Email, I'm not using the stock email client or the gmail app.
# of accounts: 3 (2 are gmail, 1 is exchange)
Sync: Check every 15 minutes
Using Gmail client - NO
Smart Actions - This alone is a huge battery saver, over night my phone only looses 1-2 % of battery life. By the time I pick up my phone at 8:30am, my email is already synced and i haven't lost any battery power. My reson for doing this is that I came from a Blackberry about a year ago. They had a great feature that would put the phone into a super deep sleep, essentially a hibernate. Everything was off; this is the closest we can com to on Android, sans turning the phone completely off. I estimate if you use this setting all the time you would be close to the advertised 8.5 days of standby time.
Triggers
Nighttime Battery Saver
Timeframe: 10pm - 8am
Display - Off
Actions:
Background sync Disabled
Cellular Data - Disabled
Wi-Fi - Off
Bluetooth - Off
GPS - Off
Disabled Apps
Amazon Kindle
At&T Code Scanner
AT&T Family Map
AT&T Messages
AT&T Navigator
AT&T Ready2Go
At&T Smart Wi Fi
Audio Effects
Browser Message
Bubbles
Circles
City ID
com.softwareimaging.motoprint.mo....
DRM Protected Content Storage
Email
Face Unlock
Google Search
Lamina
Live TV
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Music Visualization Wallpapers
MyAT&T
Print to Retail
Qik Lite
Quick View
Real Racing 2
Rescue Security
Suggestions
Suggestions Core Rule Checker Sevice
Suggestions Poll Scheduler Service
Swype
Talkback
Vehicle Mode
VMWare Ready
Weather
YPmobile

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I used to activate sleep mode at night and it really helps a lot.

How do you deactivate apps?
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deeje00 said:
How do you deactivate apps?
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Settings -> Apps -> All
Select an app, click "disable"

Ahhhh didn't realize you had to un install updates first.
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Significantly reduced battery drain with one setting change!?

I've had my Nexus 4 for about two weeks, so everything should be synced up already and I can't blame it for the battery drain. In the battery settings, I noticed the Android OS would keep my Nexus 4 "awake" for almost the majority of the phone's battery life.
I unchecked one setting in Google Now and the keep awake time is significantly reduced. My battery is also lasting longer.
1. Go into Google Now settings (scroll all the way down in Google Now to see settings button)
2. Click Voice
3. Uncheck Hotword detection (make sure it's off - I also unchecked Block offensive words and Personal Recognition)
4. Reboot phone
Albeit, I'm not a heavy user like some of you guys, but doing this has given me more confidence in the battery. I have Google Now, location history, GPS, and sync enabled. My brightness is set to Auto and haptic feedback/NFC are off. My service is T-Mobile and I rarely use Wifi.
I think the Hotword detection was keeping the phone awake to listen for the word "Google."
Let me know if you guys see a change in battery life.
Thanks.

Thanks for the tip, giving it a try now.

It only listens for the word "Google" when you're on the Google Now / Google Search app. This is just a placebo; you're seeing the effect you want to see.

nawoa said:
It only listens for the word "Google" when you're on the Google Now / Google Search app. This is just a placebo; you're seeing the effect you want to see.
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What he said. I don't know where the OP came from this idea that Google Now is a culprit of battery life. Where is your evidence of this?
I know that if you have Google Now with cards on with constant GPS on, it would drain. But if you turn off the cards you don't want (or all of them) then you won't have any problems.
Personally for me, I only leave the tracking of my orders on. I leave hotword and personalization on and its fine.
Battery life for me yesterday, http://zephik.com/upload/Screenshot_2012-12-14-19-05-58.png -- I don't think that this is causing any problems.

[Q] Still chasing battery drain: Is it possible FingerPrint Unlock is part of it?

So having come from Verizon's Note 4 and averaging up to 24hrs on battery running pretty much the same setup as I do now on my T-Mobile Note 4 minus the "Root" & "Custom Rom" abilities. Otherwise, same apps, accounts, usage pattern, ect...
I am on an ongoing battle still after several complete wipes, different Roms including just running STOCK ANK4 and trying to figure out what is going on. Phone defect? Battery defect?
Anyhow, Ever since changing over to both the T-Mobile Note 4 & their service, my experience has been a rather miserable 14 to 18hrs MAX battery life and going from 4hrs screen on time to around 2 1/2 w/ T-Mobile.
Which now leads me yet to wonder something else. I believe I started using the "FingerPrint" security feature since switching to T-Mobile to unlock the device. Has anyone experienced a similar "Battery longevity" issue using said feature before I continue troubleshooting and chasing my own tail on this? Of course I will eventually test this theory anyhow, but figured I would throw it out there.
Also, Open to any suggestions.
Just some things I have already done along with the above mentioned:
- Utilized the App "Greenify" & donation full version to greenify many apps including "Google Play Services".
- Set up Profiles which I toggle via "PhoneWeaver" to turn off data when on Wi-Fi which consists of 90% of my day as I'm Wi-Fi connected both at home and work.
- Of course always turn off that option within Wi-Fi settings to untick "Always Scan".
- Went into "Google" app settings and turned off about everything I can find in there and it's now rather complex settings.
- Turned off most syncing of my 2 "Google" accounts to only one having anything other than Email Sync active such as the Calendar, Contacts, and Apps Sync. - Again, my 1 Google Account I only have set to sync Email and nothing else.
Sure I forgot some things I've tried but again, I am open to any/all suggestions. I admit, I bought my T-Mobile via Swappa. All seemed well as per their checklist of the obvious things to check regarding the phone's operation. Kind of stuck here now and wondering if my device is simply defective and/or the battery.
Also of note: Android System is always by far the largest contributor to my battery drain and exceeds even Screen-On time by around 10%. But then again, don't really know if that means anything or not since even before switching carriers and the transition from "JellyBean" to "KitKat" on my previous S4, Android System became a forever battery hog for me.
Just never had a top end device such as this in past years barely get me through a complete day: Work & Home time. I don't consider myself a heavy user. Barely even "Moderate" many days as I mainly text during my lunch break, otherwise phone is pretty much idle. And say 2 phone calls of aprox 20 min.s each during commute time. Yea, something just isn't right. :crying:

I have noticed 3 things that were hurting battery bad.
1.) Use the Google play services with the 030 extension. I get way better battery life on it 5% to 10% increase in battery life. Link below:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-7-0-99-1809214-030-android-apk-download/
2.) If you are not using maps or other location services turn your location off. Literally a 20%+ increase in battery from this alone.
3.) Toggle your NFC. Something in Android 4.4.4 sometimes causes your NFC to wake lock. If you turn it on then turn it off one time it normally fixes is.
I attached my battery stats below.
It with about 2 hours of screen on time.
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ShrekOpher said:
I have noticed 3 things that were hurting battery bad.
1.) Use the Google play services with the 030 extension. I get way better battery life on it 5% to 10% increase in battery life. Link below:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-7-0-99-1809214-030-android-apk-download/
2.) If you are not using maps or other location services turn your location off. Literally a 20%+ increase in battery from this alone.
3.) Toggle your NFC. Something in Android 4.4.4 sometimes causes your NFC to wake lock. If you turn it on then turn it off one time it normally fixes is.
I attached my battery stats below.
It with about 2 hours of screen on time.
Sent from my SM-N910T using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks for the reply and suggestions! I just checked and I am currently running Google Play Services V 7.0.97 (1791429-030).
A couple things I have done meanwhile since my OP which have had "some" noticeable positive effects on my battery duration, yet still no where near what you have posted are:
Within "Google Settings" app:
- Account History ( I have "turned off or rather paused" ALL the Activity/Info/History settings here - All 5)
Regarding my 2nd, basically "Junk mail" Gmail Account:
- Now have ALL "Sync" turned off within, including the syncing of email, which I now simply check manually to update.
Greenify:
- Revisited, and added a bunch more apps and pretty much "Greenified" ALL Samsung related entries/services/ect...
So far I have increased to achieving up to about 3 1/2 hrs Screen time (Gained 1 hr) & a few more hours of real time battery longevity as I can now achieve close to 20hrs before needing charge.
Still feel I have some troubleshooting to go. Oh, I actually have the NFC Service "Greenified" to. So far haven't really noticed a problem with "Deep Sleep" either according to CPU SPY pro.
Yep, Have always had the Location Service to OFF, not even using the so called "Battery saving" selection with it. Such a pity to have to cripple such things but it's a trade off I guess in achieving a full day's battery vs.s using the features with this phone for some reason more-so than past devices it seems. At least in my case. :silly:

Battery life tips

So I love this phone but the battery life is poor to say the least with my usage.
I was wondering if we could discuss any realistic battery life tips, which are different from the usual dark mode, turn off x feature etc.
For example, I was thinking of using Macrodroid or Tasker to turn off mobile data when connected to WiFi and vica versa. (I'm not sure the the OS does this anyway though)
Any other thoughts, ideas?

I always turn off send usage and reports/whatever for every Google app. Back when I had my S7 edge, it would run out of battery by 5pm. just checking those off, especially the main Google account made it last until like 10. Been doing it ever since. For the main Google account one, go to settings, Google where it says services & preferences under it, then hit the hamburger menu on the top right, usage and diagnostics, then switch it off. I also do this for the Google app, Gboard, and any others that have it.
Switch off digital wellbeing too. Just search for usage access in settings, find digital wellbeing, then flip it off. That made a big difference for me as well.
My battery lasts from 6am until well after 10pm. It hits 15% around then. This is under fairly heavy usage.

gettinwicked said:
I always turn off send usage and reports/whatever for every Google app. Back when I had my S7 edge, it would run out of battery by 5pm. just checking those off, especially the main Google account made it last until like 10. Been doing it ever since. For the main Google account one, go to settings, Google where it says services & preferences under it, then hit the hamburger menu on the top right, usage and diagnostics, then switch it off. I also do this for the Google app, Gboard, and any others that have it.
Switch off digital wellbeing too. Just search for usage access in settings, find digital wellbeing, then flip it off. That made a big difference for me as well.
My battery lasts from 6am until well after 10pm. It hits 15% around then. This is under fairly heavy usage.
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Excellent. Thank you for that. I didn't even think about that. Both turned off.

Question Phone Overheats and Fast battery drain with normal use

Phone been using for 2 weeks now first week battery was horrible getting only 3 hours of SOT per full charge and now i get around 5-6 hours per full charge with medium use(tiktok and playing Clash of Clans)
that said i notice cpu usage around 30% and gpu around 10% when in tiktok which shoudn't even get the phone hot but somehow it ends up hot and battery drains super fast is there any fix since this battery life is just like my 4 year old phone which was one of the main reasons to change
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QHD+ 120hz are my settings

A lot of social media crapware. I never allow that on the phone. They eat battery and have a huge potential as a security risk. If I can't access/login to a site through the browser, I don't use it.

Xrodn34 said:
Phone been using for 2 weeks now first week battery was horrible getting only 3 hours of SOT per full charge and now i get around 5-6 hours per full charge with medium use(tiktok and playing Clash of Clans)
that said i notice cpu usage around 30% and gpu around 10% when in tiktok which shoudn't even get the phone hot but somehow it ends up hot and battery drains super fast is there any fix since this battery life is just like my 4 year old phone which was one of the main reasons to change
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Trust me tiktok is a massive drain. It's horrifically intrusive, yes I know it has its moments.. But it's basically spyware for China.
5-6 hours is probably totally normal.
I've got a list of things so I'll attach below ...
if you follow half of that then you'll improve your battery massively.
The first thing I'd change is QHD you honestly do not need it, even 720p would look adequate on a 6 inch screen, my nebula mars 2 pro is 720 and even at 120 inches looks like HD, so being able to see the difference between 1080p and 4K is indistinguishable.
Here's the tips.
Change 5G to 4G
Remove Facebook use web based
Remove Facebook messenger use web based
Remove Twitter use web based
Remove any ad based apps pay for the pro version
Turn off gestures like lift to wake
Change from QHD to FHD (No difference)
Allow auto brightness
Turn off WiFi overnight
Turn all updates to manual not auto (play store)
Remove any so you don't use
Change back up to once a month (WhatsApp)
Turn off location history (Google)
Use titanium to remove any system apps you don't need
Don't allow anonymous usage statistics for any app ever.
Don't allow tracking cookies on any website
Use adaway (root needed)
Don't open web pages in Google app (I use Samsung browser)
Don't use xposed.
If you game you will not get high SOT scores, period.
Don't bother with battery saving apps or monitoring apps.
Streamline your apps, if you don't use it, remove it.
Don't allow WiFi scanning (as in letting other apps use it when it's not on)
Never allow personalised ads.
Never allow notifications from websites
Always decline cookies unless your absolutely have to allow some tracking (common sense prevails here)
Optimise as many apps as possible unless it affects performance.
Don't allow apps to remain open in the notification area.
Change your launcher, my preferred launcher is lawn chair and this did actually burn up some battery when compared to the OnePlus launcher.
Don't use live widgets (yes they look cool, but they annihilate your battery)
Live wallpaper, again very cool, but battery burners.
Again! Don't charge overnight, make a note of your percentage then see what it is in the morning, you shouldn't be losing more than 5% really, if you've done well then it'll be reflected here, the good SOT results will follow.
Turn off live read outs of network speed, RAM usage in the status bar.
Turn off NFC unless in use.
Leave location on in quick settings.
Don't overcharge your phone, IE: overnight
Don't allow your phone to fully deplete the battery.
Whatever anyone says, this does 100% damage batteries, there is no argument here and I won't entertain anyone who says otherwise, Ive seen through real life tests what this results in, bloated, inefficient, possibly dangerous lithium batteries.
Keep your phone out the sun.
Keep it out of extreme cold.
Keep your device clean dust free.
Snapchat, Viber, house party, apps like that tends to use more battery as they don't have great dormancy periods.
Apps like speed test by Ookla tend to have location tracking, similarly they tend to turn themselves on and off when they feel like it, my advice, install test and uninstall.
Allow a couple of battery cycles between tweaking sets, to give you an idea of how much of a difference you've made.
Use BBS to see what is being used, once you've removed problems, remove BBS.
I've just written this from the top of my head so o probably missed some things, the general idea is to keep your device clean and fresh, remove files you don't need any more.
Keep an eye on apps that misbehave or aren't wanted, index your folders so they aren't a mess.
The more good things you do means the more potentially bad apps you can have on your phone, eg if you really need Facebook, you could keep it so long as you clean up other areas of your phone.
Good luck.

dladz said:
Trust me tiktok is a massive drain. It's horrifically intrusive, yes I know it has its moments.. But it's basically spyware for China.
5-6 hours is probably totally normal.
I've got a list of things so I'll attach below ...
if you follow half of that then you'll improve your battery massively.
The first thing I'd change is QHD you honestly do not need it, even 720p would look adequate on a 6 inch screen, my nebula mars 2 pro is 720 and even at 120 inches looks like HD, so being able to see the difference between 1080p and 4K is indistinguishable.
Here's the tips.
Change 5G to 4G
Remove Facebook use web based
Remove Facebook messenger use web based
Remove Twitter use web based
Remove any ad based apps pay for the pro version
Turn off gestures like lift to wake
Change from QHD to FHD (No difference)
Allow auto brightness
Turn off WiFi overnight
Turn all updates to manual not auto (play store)
Remove any so you don't use
Change back up to once a month (WhatsApp)
Turn off location history (Google)
Use titanium to remove any system apps you don't need
Don't allow anonymous usage statistics for any app ever.
Don't allow tracking cookies on any website
Use adaway (root needed)
Don't open web pages in Google app (I use Samsung browser)
Don't use xposed.
If you game you will not get high SOT scores, period.
Don't bother with battery saving apps or monitoring apps.
Streamline your apps, if you don't use it, remove it.
Don't allow WiFi scanning (as in letting other apps use it when it's not on)
Never allow personalised ads.
Never allow notifications from websites
Always decline cookies unless your absolutely have to allow some tracking (common sense prevails here)
Optimise as many apps as possible unless it affects performance.
Don't allow apps to remain open in the notification area.
Change your launcher, my preferred launcher is lawn chair and this did actually burn up some battery when compared to the OnePlus launcher.
Don't use live widgets (yes they look cool, but they annihilate your battery)
Live wallpaper, again very cool, but battery burners.
Again! Don't charge overnight, make a note of your percentage then see what it is in the morning, you shouldn't be losing more than 5% really, if you've done well then it'll be reflected here, the good SOT results will follow.
Turn off live read outs of network speed, RAM usage in the status bar.
Turn off NFC unless in use.
Leave location on in quick settings.
Don't overcharge your phone, IE: overnight
Don't allow your phone to fully deplete the battery.
Whatever anyone says, this does 100% damage batteries, there is no argument here and I won't entertain anyone who says otherwise, Ive seen through real life tests what this results in, bloated, inefficient, possibly dangerous lithium batteries.
Keep your phone out the sun.
Keep it out of extreme cold.
Keep your device clean dust free.
Snapchat, Viber, house party, apps like that tends to use more battery as they don't have great dormancy periods.
Apps like speed test by Ookla tend to have location tracking, similarly they tend to turn themselves on and off when they feel like it, my advice, install test and uninstall.
Allow a couple of battery cycles between tweaking sets, to give you an idea of how much of a difference you've made.
Use BBS to see what is being used, once you've removed problems, remove BBS.
I've just written this from the top of my head so o probably missed some things, the general idea is to keep your device clean and fresh, remove files you don't need any more.
Keep an eye on apps that misbehave or aren't wanted, index your folders so they aren't a mess.
The more good things you do means the more potentially bad apps you can have on your phone, eg if you really need Facebook, you could keep it so long as you clean up other areas of your phone.
Good luck.
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or better, dont use your phone xD

marko94 said:
or better, dont use your phone xD
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Nah, just learn to use it right.. I use mine a lot and get over 10 hours SOT consistently in a single charge.
Just need to treat it right...

This is normal for this device nothing to worry they are trying to give you a horrible android aosp feeling in a software what is not suited for it

Hey man @HessNL , do you know what punctuation is?
Please correct your post a little bit and set dots.
It's easier to read
Thank you very much

HessNL said:
Won't help hahah the drain in the night will be 0.80 but during the day it will use always doesn't matter what kind off apps you have 1.30 i don't use all that stuff even if you turn off the background activity then there software what they are making is totally crap turns it back on on the back ground but there is something in your system to turn on auto optimize but even that won't work great because the system can't optimize because there software is crap and plus remove system apps will lead to crashes why you even recommend this my 9 pro didn't even survive it on it when I delete Google apps it started to reboot constantly until i used msm and everything was okay but even when i did a downgrade it will when you just disable 1 Google app to reboot and end up in boot loop graag advice your giving here your sure you know OnePlus colorOS code based very oh wait I needed to say terrible advice
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Not sure where to begin with this, to put it plainly; You're wrong!
Doesn't matter what apps you have? That statement couldn't be more wrong, apps like Facebook, tiktok, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, they literally do what they want and more than likely have access to what they want. It's already been proven that tiktok is logging and lifting keystrokes, don't be a fool by thinking that they wouldn't do that or that you have some special degree of control, you don't..
FYI: I lose 0-1% overnight, idle during the day doesn't change unless I'm mobile in which case signal fluctuations and location spikes affect battery accordingly.
I can't decipher the rest of your message but it sounds like an angry mess.
Good luck with your future endeavours, my guess is you'll need them.

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