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So I've noticed that my battery seems to drop quite a bit 15% or more overnight. Not a huge deal but I'm just wondering if there is anything I can check or do. Figure it could help with overall battery life as well.
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Known issue. Lots of X users have unusually high idle drain. Probably due to high android os usage. Search the battery threads and you will find some suggestions.
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My trick is to disable motoconnect. It at least makes a huge difference on my phone.
I just realized that m wifi was out all night and the phone was on 4g, that usually will drain it a bit faster. I'll monitor it over the weekend.
I did freeze motoconnect as well thanks!
Not sure anyone has really pinpointed it. It does seem the Android OS process is higher on this phone then any other phone. But theres no particular wake locks or anything that tell us exactly why its draining so high. Alot of users say it depends on routers configurations. Alot of suggestions are to greenify some things like the google play store, google maps, etc. Also removing alot of undeeded apks. Ive done it all, freezing APKs, greenifying apps. On average my idle drain is 1.8%/hr. Ive had it as high as 2.5% and as low as .8%. Although ive made no connections as to how it got that low one night.
freeintruth said:
My trick is to disable motoconnect. It at least makes a huge difference on my phone.
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You just clicked "unlink account" under motorola device id?
rman18 said:
You just clicked "unlink account" under motorola device id?
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I think he meant disable it by going to settings > security > device administrators > Motorola device policy
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Hahaha, all I did was to disable motorola connect at app setting. I did see a very visible improvement. As for Moto security, I actually want that function while disabling AVG anti-theft function.
freeintruth said:
Hahaha, all I did was to disable motorola connect at app setting. I did see a very visible improvement. As for Moto security, I actually want that function while disabling AVG anti-theft function.
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Android.com/devicemanager does the same as Motorola security. Its pretty much the same thing.
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emerica243 said:
Not sure anyone has really pinpointed it. It does seem the Android OS process is higher on this phone then any other phone. But theres no particular wake locks or anything that tell us exactly why its draining so high. Alot of users say it depends on routers configurations. Alot of suggestions are to greenify some things like the google play store, google maps, etc. Also removing alot of undeeded apks. Ive done it all, freezing APKs, greenifying apps. On average my idle drain is 1.8%/hr. Ive had it as high as 2.5% and as low as .8%. Although ive made no connections as to how it got that low one night.
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I'm in your boat. Searched everywhere. Nothing solves it. Some have reported returning the phone and the next one is better. Not sure if its myth or not. Considering exchanging phones tomorrow. As short as I can put it. Let me know if you find a solution.
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Might be placebo, but i tried the unlinking the motorola account id last night like mentioned and i ran at 1.1%/hr in a ****ty 1-2 bar low strength area all night. So that either helped a good bit or was a quincidence. Will check the idle drain again tomorrow after overnight in a 3-4 bar area.
I had horrible idle drain (10-20% overnight) but once I rooted and froze/greenified everything I could, now I lose 2-3% overnight. Doesn't get much better than that.
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I had horrible idle drain (10-20% overnight) but once I rooted and froze/greenified everything I could, now I lose 2-3% overnight. Doesn't get much better than that.
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I had an X when they first came out and also got horrible idle drain. I returned it before a root method was available.
Now I've got a T-Mobile version on the way and am going to test again with lots of stuff frozen. Unfortunately I can't greenify because I have to delete root after I finish setting up the phone because of my corporate email app.
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phositadc said:
I had an X when they first came out and also got horrible idle drain. I returned it before a root method was available.
Now I've got a T-Mobile version on the way and am going to test again with lots of stuff frozen. Unfortunately I can't greenify because I have to delete root after I finish setting up the phone because of my corporate email app.
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what do you mean your corporate email app? there is a work around for corporate email security depending on what you meant by corporate email app.
I just checked my phone last night and got it to .8% per hour. No idea what is different between today and oh say 2 days ago when I lost 2.5% and hour. Going to check it again tonight but even .8% isn't that big of an accomplishment especially considering how much of this phone i have locked down.
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what do you mean your corporate email app? there is a work around for corporate email security depending on what you meant by corporate email app. So you have to root, set your phone up the way you want, then unroot, before you install the app.
I just checked my phone last night and got it to .8% per hour. No idea what is different between today and oh say 2 days ago when I lost 2.5% and hour. Going to check it again tonight but even .8% isn't that big of an accomplishment especially considering how much of this phone i have locked down.
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Corporate email app is called good for enterprise. It has a root checker that disables the app if root is detected. Then you have to get your IT department to re enable your account.
0.8% is good in my opinion. But it's troubling that so many people seem to report 2.5% one night and then less than 1% the next night, with no change made to phone to account for the difference. Almost seems random and inexplicable, which makes it much harder to troubleshoot.
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phositadc said:
Corporate email app is called good for enterprise. It has a root checker that disables the app if root is detected. Then you have to get your IT department to re enable your account.
0.8% is good in my opinion. But it's troubling that so many people seem to report 2.5% one night and then less than 1% the next night, with no change made to phone to account for the difference. Almost seems random and inexplicable, which makes it much harder to troubleshoot.
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even harder to troubleshoot when some people say they returned their phone and got a new one and had everything installed the exact same and their battery drain was fixed... Very frustrating. I know a few culprits on my phone like qcom_rx_wakelock (but that changes to a different wake lock when Im not on wifi) and alarm manager ( some google service is calling on alarm manager like 3000 times a night), and my wifi seems to cause problems occasionally and power manager service is a b**** sometimes as well.
If you are experiencing bad idle drain, please go post in https://forums.motorola.com/posts/afdf80c0dc. I think actual Motorola employees monitor those forums and report issues to engineers.
To start off, I used to get pretty good battery life on this phone. I usually averaged somewhere around 3 to 4 hours of screen on time while still ending the day with over 20% left. This is from usage such as using the GPS for between 30 to 60 min, browsing reddit, watching youtube, and other stuff like that. I have slowly noticed that I have been getting worse and worse times until I finally decided to log them. I'm hoping that with the information I collected, you guys may be able to give me an idea of why my battery life sucks and what I can do about it. If it turns out my battery life is actually fine and I'm crazy, tell me that too haha. The link to the album with all of the screen shots is here: http://imgur.com/a/j7f3o
The first few images are of the battery logging app GSam Battery Monitor. Ignore the average screen on at the bottom of the first image because it's way too high as seen in the later images. The screenshots from the Android Battery Monitor are towards the end.
Quick Look
Screen On Time: 2h 43m
WiFi Always On
Bluetooth Always On (Pebble Watch)
No Active GPS Usage during Monitoring
Top 5 Consumers According to Android Battery Monitor:
Google Play Services (15%)
Screen (13%)
Google App (11%)
Android OS (11%)
Cell Standby (9%)
From GSAM
Discharge While Screen On/Off: 47%/50%
97% Battery Used on 15h 3m
35% of Battery Used by Screen
39% of Battery Used by Apps
Top 5 Apps by Consumption:
Android System (10.69%)
Reddit News (6.8%)
Kernal (Android OS) (6.1%)
Google App (2.6%)
Chrome (2.0%)
I really appreciate your helps and am hoping there is something I can do to help fix this while maintaining all of the functionality I enjoy with this phone. I've seen plenty of people on this forum getting amazing battery life and usage times and would love to join their ranks! Let me know if I can get you any other information and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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To start off, I used to get pretty good battery life on this phone. I usually averaged somewhere around 3 to 4 hours of screen on time while still ending the day with over 20% left. This is from usage such as using the GPS for between 30 to 60 min, browsing reddit, watching youtube, and other stuff like that. I have slowly noticed that I have been getting worse and worse times until I finally decided to log them. I'm hoping that with the information I collected, you guys may be able to give me an idea of why my battery life sucks and what I can do about it. If it turns out my battery life is actually fine and I'm crazy, tell me that too haha. The link to the album with all of the screen shots is here: http://imgur.com/a/j7f3o
The first few images are of the battery logging app GSam Battery Monitor. Ignore the average screen on at the bottom of the first image because it's way too high as seen in the later images. The screenshots from the Android Battery Monitor are towards the end.
Quick Look
Screen On Time: 2h 43m
WiFi Always On
Bluetooth Always On (Pebble Watch)
No Active GPS Usage during Monitoring
Top 5 Consumers According to Android Battery Monitor:
Google Play Services (15%)
Screen (13%)
Google App (11%)
Android OS (11%)
Cell Standby (9%)
From GSAM
Discharge While Screen On/Off: 47%/50%
97% Battery Used on 15h 3m
35% of Battery Used by Screen
39% of Battery Used by Apps
Top 5 Apps by Consumption:
Android System (10.69%)
Reddit News (6.8%)
Kernal (Android OS) (6.1%)
Google App (2.6%)
Chrome (2.0%)
I really appreciate your helps and am hoping there is something I can do to help fix this while maintaining all of the functionality I enjoy with this phone. I've seen plenty of people on this forum getting amazing battery life and usage times and would love to join their ranks! Let me know if I can get you any other information and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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You should post that in the battery life OP. I'm sure someone there could help you out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2946742
mine lasts half a day too
I'm getting horrible battery life with ANY custom ROM I use, I might just go back to stock .
Jess813 said:
I'm getting horrible battery life with ANY custom ROM I use, I might just go back to stock .
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Generally, you should allow one to two days for everything to settle. Are you doing that?
[i know this is the Nexus 6 forum, but somebody else suggested i post here as you all seem to discuss battery life issues more than other phone forums]
Moto X 2014 running pre-rooted 5.0 with tether enabled, flashed with MOFO
i have wifi, bluetooth, as well as location services OFF
in the past 2 or 3 days my battery life has gone to crap. someone suggested there was a GPS update that is causing problems, but can't find any other info
the biggest drain seems to be Google Play Services, with >40% of the power usage.
1) anyone else experiencing this? if so, is there a solution or fix?
2) can Google Play Services be uninstalled/disabled (or frozen using Titanium Backup) safely
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[i know this is the Nexus 6 forum, but somebody else suggested i post here as you all seem to discuss battery life issues more than other phone forums]
Moto X 2014 running pre-rooted 5.0 with tether enabled, flashed with MOFO
i have wifi, bluetooth, as well as location services OFF
in the past 2 or 3 days my battery life has gone to crap. someone suggested there was a GPS update that is causing problems, but can't find any other info
the biggest drain seems to be Google Play Services, with >40% of the power usage.
1) anyone else experiencing this? if so, is there a solution or fix?
2) can Google Play Services be uninstalled/disabled (or frozen using Titanium Backup) safely
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first off, you can try updating the google play services. use google and search google play services apk latest.
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first off, you can try updating the google play services. use google and search google play services apk latest.
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shouldn't this be updating through the play store?
i am not an experienced dev or anything... MOFO was about as much as i felt comfortable doing unless there are detailed step by step instructions somewhere.
[email protected] said:
shouldn't this be updating through the play store?
i am not an experienced dev or anything... MOFO was about as much as i felt comfortable doing unless there are detailed step by step instructions somewhere.
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play store, not usually. its usually gets updated by google through tour data connection, in the background. or, you can download the apk itself and install it(that how i get it updated sometimes).
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[email protected] said:
shouldn't this be updating through the play store?
i am not an experienced dev or anything... MOFO was about as much as i felt comfortable doing unless there are detailed step by step instructions somewhere.
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here is the latest. check what version you have installed, if its not this recent, install the latest. if it is the same, we will look in a different direction http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-7-5-71-1955121-438-android-apk-download/
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play store, not usually. its usually gets updated by google through tour data connection, in the background. or, you can download the apk itself and install it(that how i get it updated sometimes).
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here is the latest. check what version you have installed, if its not this recent, install the latest. if it is the same, we will look in a different direction http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-7-5-71-1955121-438-android-apk-download/
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my phone has the version you linked to 7-5-71-1955121-438
searching "google play services apk latest" brings up what appear to be later versions...
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/
...or are these for other phones?
[email protected] said:
my phone has the version you linked to 7-5-71-1955121-438
searching "google play services apk latest" brings up what appear to be later versions...
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/
...or are these for other phones?
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same one but different version, for a different device. there are many different versions, the one i linked is right. but you have it already, so forget that plan. your battery still doing the same?
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same one but different version, for a different device. there are many different versions, the one i linked is right. but you have it already, so forget that plan. your battery still doing the same?
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i am at 75% now. if i am down to below 10 by tomorrow morning, with phone just sitting next to my bed in the dark, not being used at all, then the problem is still happening. i'll report back... thanks.
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same one but different version, for a different device. there are many different versions, the one i linked is right. but you have it already, so forget that plan. your battery still doing the same?
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very wierd. battery life seems to be back to normal now. not sure what, if anything, changed.
thanks,
So I have a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4, I got it back in October so yes I have "broken in" the battery. I have checked out several other posts and tried pretty much everything. I've turned off bluetooth, NFC, any and pretty much all useless Samsung features (smart stay, turn over to mute, multi-window), I've got a black wallpaper on for both my home and lock screens, I have greenify AND DU Battery Saver, I ONLY ever use data as I have unlimited data and my building has a shared wifi network which I don't trust, I have tweaked Sync in the settings menu to only sync crucial info from all my accounts (google, facebook, email, whatsapp, etc.). So far the BIGGEST battery drainer is Android System. It is always number one. I've had days where I've decided to push the screen-on time to its limits and have used it nonstop. Screen consumption only ever gets close even if I use my phone nonstop Android System is the biggest offender. I've tried keeping power saving mode on 24/7 but that has not seemed to help at all. I've disabled S Health, S Voice, and several other apps I never use like Google Play Newsstand. I am at the end of my rope I despise this phone for its claim to great battery life but its absolute GARBAGE real world performance. I consider myself lucky to get over 3.5 hours SOT. At this rate I might as well have an iPhone 5. I have no idea what to do.
Here's a list summarizing the things I've done to improve battery life:
Bluetooth off
NFC off
Multi-Window off
All email sync set to Manual
Sync for every account adjusted to isync only crucial info
Pitch Black Wallpaper
Power Saving Mode (Not Ultra Power Saving) switched on about 90% of the time
Using Greenify on all Power-Hungry apps
Closing most apps upon finishing using them
Using DU Battery Saver in order to monitor battery activity
Never use Wifi
No Multi-Window
No Touch Sensitivity
No Side Key Panel
Wifi Calling feature disabled (I never use wifi anyway)
No Download Booster
No Smart Stay
Animations switched off via the Developer Options
Tried using another battery (similar if not identical results)
I'm still getting at the very best if I'm somehow on a miraculous streak of good luck that day: 4 hours of Screen-On Time. It is ALWAYS Android System usually followed by Android OS and then an app or two before Screen (because my SOT is so pathetically terrible)
I love this phone, the display is beautiful, the camera is fantastic, it runs seamlessly (on Nova Launcher that is), BUT I despise the battery life. It has made me resent this phone and I'm seriously considering switching to the iPhone 6 Plus as that has comparable battery life and with it running iOS I doubt the OS would destroy my battery the way Android has been lately. What do you guys do to get such good battery life from this phone? I've tried everything I know!! Please can you help guys?
I'm also attaching screenshots from one of the BETTER days.
I would consider rooting and installing a custom rom, poprock I would recommend for keeping touchwiz.
I don't know.. maybe your battery is the problem.. When I was on stock I had the same issue, but i varied in a weird way. With poprock, battery life has been amazing.
imafriend123 said:
I would consider rooting and installing a custom rom, poprock I would recommend for keeping touchwiz.
I don't know.. maybe your battery is the problem.. When I was on stock I had the same issue, but i varied in a weird way. With poprock, battery life has been amazing.
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You said you varied in a weird way? Mind telling me how?
ghettozilla said:
So I have a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4, I got it back in October so yes I have "broken in" the battery. I have checked out several other posts and tried pretty much everything. I've turned off bluetooth, NFC, any and pretty much all useless Samsung features (smart stay, turn over to mute, multi-window), I've got a black wallpaper on for both my home and lock screens, I have greenify AND DU Battery Saver, I ONLY ever use data as I have unlimited data and my building has a shared wifi network which I don't trust, I have tweaked Sync in the settings menu to only sync crucial info from all my accounts (google, facebook, email, whatsapp, etc.). So far the BIGGEST battery drainer is Android System. It is always number one. I've had days where I've decided to push the screen-on time to its limits and have used it nonstop. Screen consumption only ever gets close even if I use my phone nonstop Android System is the biggest offender. I've tried keeping power saving mode on 24/7 but that has not seemed to help at all. I've disabled S Health, S Voice, and several other apps I never use like Google Play Newsstand. I am at the end of my rope I despise this phone for its claim to great battery life but its absolute GARBAGE real world performance. I consider myself lucky to get over 3.5 hours SOT. At this rate I might as well have an iPhone 5. I have no idea what to do.
Here's a list summarizing the things I've done to improve battery life:
Bluetooth off
NFC off
Multi-Window off
All email sync set to Manual
Sync for every account adjusted to isync only crucial info
Pitch Black Wallpaper
Power Saving Mode (Not Ultra Power Saving) switched on about 90% of the time
Using Greenify on all Power-Hungry apps
Closing most apps upon finishing using them
Using DU Battery Saver in order to monitor battery activity
Never use Wifi
No Multi-Window
No Touch Sensitivity
No Side Key Panel
Wifi Calling feature disabled (I never use wifi anyway)
No Download Booster
No Smart Stay
Animations switched off via the Developer Options
Tried using another battery (similar if not identical results)
I'm still getting at the very best if I'm somehow on a miraculous streak of good luck that day: 4 hours of Screen-On Time. It is ALWAYS Android System usually followed by Android OS and then an app or two before Screen (because my SOT is so pathetically terrible)
I love this phone, the display is beautiful, the camera is fantastic, it runs seamlessly (on Nova Launcher that is), BUT I despise the battery life. It has made me resent this phone and I'm seriously considering switching to the iPhone 6 Plus as that has comparable battery life and with it running iOS I doubt the OS would destroy my battery the way Android has been lately. What do you guys do to get such good battery life from this phone? I've tried everything I know!! Please can you help guys?
I'm also attaching screenshots from one of the BETTER days.
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A few people have this issue. I really think it has to do with a corrupt file that was flashed. Maybe no fix but a new phone. If part of the pit file got damaged no fix but samsung.
@ghettozilla
This is known as battery rape. Please view my thread about it posted yesterday lol
Are you still on KK or LP?
ghettozilla said:
You said you varied in a weird way? Mind telling me how?
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Like sometimes I would get like a day's worth of battery some half a day.. it happened with stock touchwiz and cyanogenmod. more on cyanogenmod.
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masri1987 said:
@ghettozilla
This is known as battery rape. Please view my thread about it posted yesterday lol
Are you still on KK or LP?
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look like lp based on the theme. lol
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the battery distribution and the SOT is what I usually get too.. but the usage of 7 hours is too little. I always get over a day..
masri1987 said:
@ghettozilla
This is known as battery rape. Please view my thread about it posted yesterday lol
Are you still on KK or LP?
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I'd already seen your thread. It wasn't too helpful for me unfortunately because I'm not rooted. Half the terms you guys were using "Odin'd, pit file, etc." I don't understand at all. I'm running Nova Launcher on this phone. Just typing this comment my battery has dipped from 78% to 74% this is ****ing ridiculous I'm sick of this **** phone I might just switch to iPhone. I'm done with battery raping Android.
I'm in the process of fixing this. I think I may have figured something out. I have been slowly working through freezing applications to figure out what is causing the battery drain. I've made some progress. I really think it is an issue with lollipop system apps.
I am now having a slight dragon from cell standby, but the Android System drain is getting capped. Been in this single charge for 17 hrs and Android system is only 7%
Once I get a bit more firm information I will post my findings.
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Some suggestions: check out your Google settings first. Disable Google Now and uncheck their location monitoring settings. Also freeze Facebook (use the website instead). Finally ou can disable sync altogether for a while in case other apps are hammering away through it. Test your battery under each of those conditions. Good luck, be patient, take your time. If your battery is good eventually you'll get to the bottom of it. Use Better Battery Stats to monitor. Most people get fantastic battery life. I rarely use 40% in a day. Over night (8 hours) I lose 2% - that's also a really good thing to watch. If you are draining badly at night, you have major wake locks occurring.
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Dumbo53 said:
Some suggestions: check out your Google settings first. Disable Google Now and uncheck their location monitoring settings. Also freeze Facebook (use the website instead). Finally ou can disable sync altogether for a while in case other apps are hammering away through it. Test your battery under each of those conditions. Good luck, be patient, take your time. If your battery is good eventually you'll get to the bottom of it. Use Better Battery Stats to monitor. Most people get fantastic battery life. I rarely use 40% in a day. Over night (8 hours) I lose 2% - that's also a really good thing to watch. If you are draining badly at night, you have major wake locks occurring.
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Err. i literally had facebook, tinder, syncing my accounts manually using toggle, and was still getting 7hrs of SOT.
This is something else altogether.
Dumbo53 said:
Some suggestions: check out your Google settings first. Disable Google Now and uncheck their location monitoring settings. Also freeze Facebook (use the website instead). Finally ou can disable sync altogether for a while in case other apps are hammering away through it. Test your battery under each of those conditions. Good luck, be patient, take your time. If your battery is good eventually you'll get to the bottom of it. Use Better Battery Stats to monitor. Most people get fantastic battery life. I rarely use 40% in a day. Over night (8 hours) I lose 2% - that's also a really good thing to watch. If you are draining badly at night, you have major wake locks occurring.
Sent from my SM-N910T using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks I'll try some of that but my problem is that I shouldn't have to do all of this crap! God it seems like we HAVE to revert these superphones back to pre 2000 dumb phones in order to get any kind of a decent battery performance from them. Samsung just haaaaaad to make the screen 2K. If they'd kept 1080p it might've been better! I might as well just switch to the iPhone 6 plus if I want ZERO functionality from my big screen phone. God I hate this Note 4 and I'm so jealous of people who don't do anything like this and still get 5-7 hours of SOT with their Note 4's. I'm beginning to think they're full of it honestly.
masri1987 said:
Err. i literally had facebook, tinder, syncing my accounts manually using toggle, and was still getting 7hrs of SOT.
This is something else altogether.
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Thanks for your input. Didn't help me at all but thanks for your input.
BACARDILIMON said:
A few people have this issue. I really think it has to do with a corrupt file that was flashed. Maybe no fix but a new phone. If part of the pit file got damaged no fix but samsung.
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Is there any way to find out if I have a corrupted pit file?
ghettozilla said:
Is there any way to find out if I have a corrupted pit file?
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Nope. Either replace the phone or wipe and start over since u not rooted very little help.
If you're not rooted do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2903733
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If you are scared of root just stay stock rooted. Not a slight at Bacardi. He answers the questions better than us.
I am have the same issue with battery drain from Android System. I have see that issues is there when WiFi is enable the battery drains faster. When WiFi is off and using mobile data it drains normal.
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I will be watching this carefully. I have the same issue. Always Android system and Android OS in the top 3 battery drainer. Only, issue I have is I have to use WiFi at home. T-mobile service drops to Edge about a half mile before reaching my neighborhood.
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If you click on the Android Systems within the Battery usuage section. It will give you more detail, and show you what services, or packages are using it. The. You can take it from there.
This is what I have right now.
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I see u play a lot of games I am assuming. How much? Games eat a lot of battery.
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Sony Xperia Z5 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
The best SOT Android smartphone ever, this was confirmed by a lot users and famous blogs.
RyTekk said:
The best SOT Android smartphone ever, this was confirmed by a lot users and famous blogs.
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On Z5 maybe but With the Z5 Premium it's hard to reach 4hours screen on time...
Wave__ said:
On Z5 maybe but With the Z5 Premium it's hard to reach 4hours screen on time...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66164342&postcount=28
Ashray_Vk said:
Was using Intelliplug with eco conservative profile in kernel auditor. Also had undervolted all clock frequencies by 5 mV
Most of the other settings stayed at stock. The governor (interactive) was tweaked using heimdall's tweaks ( posted in z5 themes and apps section by a user, along with those power tweaks and setprop tweaks)
I felt amplify made most of the magic here. Helped a lot with wakelocks. Searched the net for guide to use amplify and it worked brilliantly. Phone was down to 50% and I had an SOT of 4.5+ hours.
Will try the new kernel and let you know in a day or two. I am pretty sure the kernel would work better if I gave it a day to settle.
For the previous kernel which I was testing, it was it's first run.
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zacharias.maladroit said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66164342&postcount=28
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Pretty sure I can get it to around 8 hours SOT atleast! But since I am very busy nowadays and my internship started today, it's gonna be a little hard
Best for me is 4:48 as reported by Battery Monitor Widget, but mostly is 3D games so I think is pretty good
I have my Phone 3 hours off Power, Battery goes down to 60% and the main app draining power is the Display with 17% as per the battery consumption chart.
In the Details to the batteryconsumption of the display it says the display was on for 1:35, however I hardly turned it on.
That is the same since LP and even with MM I reset already 3 times. no change.
I would love the meet someone with that great performance. mine seems just broken :/
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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Sony Xperia Z5 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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I get 5 hours on average from 100% without using Wi-Fi and on H+ and my average use is what's app, Instagram, mobile payment, snap chat ( eats a lot) and taking pictures. My brightness is at half with automatic turned on
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Such a pity that the battery is not awesome maybe due to bloatwares
calvinerico said:
Such a pity that the battery is not awesome maybe due to bloatwares
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Actually I hope so. I am one step away from rooting my phone and hope that this might help, especially with greenify having root access.
The device is almost unusable anymore with this battery life. I factory reset once a week, don't even have many apps or do much with it but it still lasts just half a day.
After a factory reset the first 2-3 days are almost fine up to one day.
I dont even think 2 days are possible if I don't activate the whole time...
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Actually I hope so. I am one step away from rooting my phone and hope that this might help, especially with greenify having root access.
The device is almost unusable anymore with this battery life. I factory reset once a week, don't even have many apps or do much with it but it still lasts just half a day.
After a factory reset the first 2-3 days are almost fine up to one day.
I dont even think 2 days are possible if I don't activate the whole time...
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Xperia Z5 Tmobile USA
2.5HR SOT
Mobile radio likes to stay active throughout the day. Have tried many roms/ factory resets.
Hopefully next software update....feel like i've been saying that for years about various android phones...
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Xperia Z5 Tmobile USA
2.5HR SOT
Mobile radio likes to stay active throughout the day. Have tried many roms/ factory resets.
Hopefully next software update....feel like i've been saying that for years about various android phones...
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Similar here on T-mo USA
I wonder if the lack of proper tmous radio tuning leads the phone to drain on LTE... Have noticed more drain (phone doesn't seem to have doze lines anymore even though BBS shows doze..) after rooting/xposed. So much that I uninstalled xposed as a test.
Going to try dropping back to HSPA and see if its better.
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Similar here on T-mo USA
I wonder if the lack of proper tmous radio tuning leads the phone to drain on LTE... Have noticed more drain (phone doesn't seem to have doze lines anymore even though BBS shows doze..) after rooting/xposed. So much that I uninstalled xposed as a test.
Going to try dropping back to HSPA and see if its better.
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Not sure if that may attribute to it but i dont doubt it...
I did have the courage to flash one of those US roms, even though my FPS (fingerprint sensor ) didin't work...
But eventually after a few days, battery drain came back....
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Not sure if that may attribute to it but i dont doubt it...
I did have the courage to flash one of those US roms, even though my FPS (fingerprint sensor ) didin't work...
But eventually after a few days, battery drain came back....
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Hmmmm may be onto something here, right away I'm noticing that Yappy is not hanging on sending messages. What I think was happening for me was low LTE signal was causing Yappy to wake up every minute to restart itself. Not sure why Yappy wasn't showing in battery settings, but my phone seems to be connected now that I'm on a 'stable network'. Really wish we could get the tuning on tmous :/
I'm getting average 7-9 hours SOT with my Xperia Z5 Dual E6683... btw is it normal for the GPS indicator at the battery usage page to show that it's constantly turned on throughout the whole day eventhough it's turned off?
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Hmmmm may be onto something here, right away I'm noticing that Yappy is not hanging on sending messages. What I think was happening for me was low LTE signal was causing Yappy to wake up every minute to restart itself. Not sure why Yappy wasn't showing in battery settings, but my phone seems to be connected now that I'm on a 'stable network'. Really wish we could get the tuning on tmous :/
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Aaaand nope, got the fast dormancy wakelocks and battery drained faster than before. Reflashing the stock system and wiping cache now to see if I can get doze lines again.
Edit: Battery is better but I think because of things I did after reflashing. Installed WLD since I have root now and noticed that google maps (and later android pay) were generating NLP wakelocks, so cleared data on google maps since I have location reporting off already and then denied location to android pay and it seems to be back to normal. If this is stable for a few days I may try Xposed again.
On average daily use with WiFi on and location enabled most of the time I will get 5 hours SOT. I have pushed it close to 6 with reducing my brightness to almost nothing and only using the phone for messaging. Several factors will affect SOT. For me getting group messages or picture messages drops battery life. Using Chrome also drops it.
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On average daily use with WiFi on and location enabled most of the time I will get 5 hours SOT. I have pushed it close to 6 with reducing my brightness to almost nothing and only using the phone for messaging. Several factors will affect SOT. For me getting group messages or picture messages drops battery life. Using Chrome also drops it.
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Curious what your app list is?
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Curious what your app list is?
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Are you asking the app usage in the day? Funny enough my battery life today was a definite miss but it got me through the workday and that's all I need.
Nah I meant like what apps do you have that are non-stock..
But looks like my phone is back to not dozing.. losing ~10% overnight, where I used to lose 3%. Looks like I'm getting the Mobile Radio Active bug displaying through google play services. Clearing caches of apps that appear to be causing it as I go...
Hi guys,
Have been using my new note 9 after replacing it with my s8+. So far it's a pretty good phone. One of the primary reasons for me to get was the large battery such that it will last m even more longer. But I have been noticing poor performance everyday. At the end of the day, I am bleeding to 10%. The s8+ was given to my wife and I compared her usage vs mine and for same amount of screen time I ended up at 30% and she was at 67%. I have less amount of apps installed than hers and she is heavy user of all social media apps. I have been observing my battery performance and what seems to be draining the most is the Android system, Google play services and Android OS. They claim all together half of my battery life. I noticed that there was an update right after I setup my note 9 initially and not sure if that could have caused it. Is there any way I can reverse it to see if it was the update? I have already tried wiping out the cache and shutting down all background activities on those items and blocked notification on pretty much most of the apps. How is everyone else's experience on the battery? I forgot to capture screen shot but will do it at the end of today.
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Hi guys,
Have been using my new note 9 after replacing it with my s8+. So far it's a pretty good phone. One of the primary reasons for me to get was the large battery such that it will last m even more longer. But I have been noticing poor performance everyday. At the end of the day, I am bleeding to 10%. The s8+ was given to my wife and I compared her usage vs mine and for same amount of screen time I ended up at 30% and she was at 67%. I have less amount of apps installed than hers and she is heavy user of all social media apps. I have been observing my battery performance and what seems to be draining the most is the Android system, Google play services and Android OS. They claim all together half of my battery life. I noticed that there was an update right after I setup my note 9 initially and not sure if that could have caused it. Is there any way I can reverse it to see if it was the update? I have already tried wiping out the cache and shutting down all background activities on those items and blocked notification on pretty much most of the apps. How is everyone else's experience on the battery? I forgot to capture screen shot but will do it at the end of today.
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I'm chiming in because I'm currently using the Note 9 ATT variant. My battery life has been pretty decent, but it's tough because the usage and even my "all day" and your "all day" can differ so much. Are you using 1080 resolution or did you set it to the higher resolution? I'm also running the ATT update you mentioned. But I'm also using wifi calling, not sure if that hurts or helps battery life, I haven't used it on my previous unlocked international HTC devices, so I'm just starting to experiment.
Have you enabled any of the battery optimization?
You can go to settings/device maintenance and click on battery on the bottom. I have it set to off in the "presets" but at the lower part of the page you can see "app power monitor" and see the app's power usage per hour. If you've got some that are higher, you can click on just those apps to check them on the list, and then click "save power" and see if your battery life gets better.
Possibly if you're using always on display you can modify that, if it's not something you really need and have already addressed.
Thanks for your reply. I am not running any battery optimization. I wanted to try default. Yes, I looked at battery usage per app and don't find anything bothering or consuming extra battery. Resolution is set to 1080 and always on display is off. Also. Wifi calling is on at all times. I am not sure if I am expecting too much but after using s8+ for over a year I was expecting much decent battery life with less than half of the apps installed on s8+ and having a bigger battery on this beast. I will need to find out how to lower down those Android system, os and Google play services.
My device is unlocked but on AT&T's network and I'm running my screen at max resolution and close to max brightness. My screen and AOD are always one and two with the O/S running a distant third or fourth sometimes fifth. If Google Play Services is consuming that much battery it is constantly running in the background trying to sync or pull data which it's not getting. Focus on that application and you should be fine, my phone is typically at greater than 50% at the end of the day and I use it all the time.
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My device is unlocked but on AT&T's network and I'm running my screen at max resolution and close to max brightness. My screen and AOD are always one and two with the O/S running a distant third or fourth sometimes fifth. If Google Play Services is consuming that much battery it is constantly running in the background trying to sync or pull data which it's not getting. Focus on that application and you should be fine, my phone is typically at greater than 50% at the end of the day and I use it all the time.
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How do you find which app or service is running in background which is trying to pull or sync data?
Just a note, I had to drop t-mobile to make a point with them for screwing with my account. Houston has good coverage but the network is congested and that is an understatement. My battery life went down on my V20 and my note4 when on ATT's network. Not that the reception was always poor, because it is very poor at my house, but speeds and latency on ATTs LTE were like going back to HSPA. Sometimes it was better to turn off LTE and just put up with the super high latency to get decent speeds on ATT.
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How do you find which app or service is running in background which is trying to pull or sync data?
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Go into settings/apps/Google Play Services/Battery and see what it's been doing. You can restrict the app as well from there I believe, also clear the cache. As I stated I would focus on that app specifically.
My experience was rough when I first got the phone as well. I factory restored with Odin and used ADB to remove all the apps I was not going to use. I then i stalled all my apps and the battery life took a hit again. I'd come home from a 9 hour day of work and be in the 40s. I downloaded betterbatterystats and let it monitor my phone overnight. I found that com.att.iqi was running all the time and constantly causing wake locks. I downloaded package disabler pro and disabled that package. Now when I leave work I am at 75% battery for the past two days. By bed time my phone has been off the charger for 18 hours with about 4 hours screen on time and I'm between 25%-35% which is outstanding. I made a thread with my complaint comparing the battery to my iPhone X and was called a troll because android can do no wrong. In short get betterbatterystats and package disabler pro.
Thanks for this, I was wondering if betterbatterystats would work on my Note 9, but hadn't researched it yet. It's a great app specifically for targeting issues like this, but I've always used it on rooted devices so I didn't recall if it worked on unrooted devices. I'm looking forward to trying it over the next few days and slimming this thing down.
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Thanks for this, I was wondering if betterbatterystats would work on my Note 9, but hadn't researched it yet. It's a great app specifically for targeting issues like this, but I've always used it on rooted devices so I didn't recall if it worked on unrooted devices. I'm looking forward to trying it over the next few days and slimming this thing down.
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Try Wake lock detector lite. One simple adb command allows you see wakeup locks etc ..
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My battery life on the ATT version has been garbage too. I was going to return it, but I missed my 14 day window. Thus far, my S9+ was a better device, but I'm hoping the little bugs get squashed in an upcoming update.
One thing I'm wondering about is Bixby. My battery life seems to be pretty decent with ATT. I don't use Bixby, although I haven't disabled the app, I don't have it set up or signed in.
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My experience was rough when I first got the phone as well. I factory restored with Odin and used ADB to remove all the apps I was not going to use. I then i stalled all my apps and the battery life took a hit again. I'd come home from a 9 hour day of work and be in the 40s. I downloaded betterbatterystats and let it monitor my phone overnight. I found that com.att.iqi was running all the time and constantly causing wake locks. I downloaded package disabler pro and disabled that package. Now when I leave work I am at 75% battery for the past two days. By bed time my phone has been off the charger for 18 hours with about 4 hours screen on time and I'm between 25%-35% which is outstanding. I made a thread with my complaint comparing the battery to my iPhone X and was called a troll because android can do no wrong. In short get betterbatterystats and package disabler pro.
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Thanks. I will try out betterbatterystats.
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My battery life on the ATT version has been garbage too. I was going to return it, but I missed my 14 day window. Thus far, my S9+ was a better device, but I'm hoping the little bugs get squashed in an upcoming update.
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I actually managed to return mine and got another note 9 thinking that I would try it without doing the first update. Unfortunately that software update thing popped up while I was using the phone and I hit continue by mistake. I am kind of thinking about returning this one and getting the s9 plus if I still have this crappy battery life.
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I actually managed to return mine and got another note 9 thinking that I would try it without doing the first update. Unfortunately that software update thing popped up while I was using the phone and I hit continue by mistake. I am kind of thinking about returning this one and getting the s9 plus if I still have this crappy battery life.
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I'm not a battery life hawk,but,there's a few things you can do without crippling your phone (some already mentioned) before throwing in the towel.
1) Go to each app in SETTINGS > APPS > MOBILE DATA & turn off ALLOW BACKGROUND DATA USAGE on apps that have this option & where you're absolutely sure this will not impact something important to your usage.
2) Package Disabler Pro was already mentioned,it's well worth the price of admission. This is where you'll likely see the biggest improvement,surely no one here uses every single feature/app on any phone,force stop & disable what you're not using.
3) Again,I'm not a battery stat ninja,I just use my phone as I see fit,but,others have suggested try using FHD instead of WQHD for screen resolution. I myself use WQHD,but,I'm content with my battery life,however,I'd give it a try if I felt the need.
4) If you have NFC on,turn it off until you need to use it,access to it is quick & easy. I myself do not use NFC,but,even if I did,I can't imagine I'd use it to the point to where I'd leave it on 24/7 for convenience of use.
What's important to your usage is in the eye of the beholder,so,that's the extent of my recommendations for battery recommendations. The few I've mentioned should net some improvement without negatively affecting your routine usage.
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Is this the app you're speaking of:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot&hl=en_US
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Is this the app you're speaking of:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot&hl=en_US
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Yes. But it seems to stop working once the battery level reaches a certain point. I think it was somewhere below 80% , probably 60% . I installed it last night.
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Yes. But it seems to stop working once the battery level reaches a certain point. I think it was somewhere below 80% , probably 60% . I installed it last night.
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THX,gonna give it a go. :good:
I may drop the developer a line,since the app hasn't been updated in a while.
Perhaps there's been some changes in Android 8 that haven't been addressed.
Regardless,I'm gonna try it out.
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Is this the app you're speaking of:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot&hl=en_US
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I'm trying to ascertain which one to use. Apparently this app shows all wakelocks whereas better battery stats only shows partial wakelocks, from the small amount of research that I've done.
The dev apparently doesn't respond and has abandoned the app, again from research I've done
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I am trying a rundown tomorrow with power save. Just CPU and screen brightness. I left resolution and network usage on. I don't think brightness does much. It is supposed to be -10% but I have trained my auto brightness some and I have been having to turn it up. So I think only speed limiter CPU 70% is at play.