Ok so I got my XZ yesterday and the battery life is worse than my SGS3. My S3 lasted 1.5 to 2 days with the same amount of usage. I have no idea how the battery life is on 4.3 or 4.2.2 as I upgraded it to .230, the moment i got the phone.
Anyways, my question is whether the battery life improves if i install custom roms (LB) or is the problem kernel sided.
Also is 7% of battery usage a lot? Google play services is taking 7% of battery.
So Guys android 5.0 is here and i think most of u have tried it.So hows Battery performance on lollipop?
I feel it's worse TBH. I've tried several different roms and revisions and it still seems to be worse. Maybe I'm just playing with my phone more but my SOT can't seem to break 4 hours and it usually can't go all day on a charge.
Same. My battery life definitely seems worse.
I had better battery life on the developer Preview!!
this sucks
after removing Google Now and Google Fit, it has improved a bit, but still bad.
On some days it's pretty bad and on other days it isn't with pretty much the same setup... LOL
I accept the fact that battery has gotten worse with Lollipop, but I'm sure they'll fix this on the next release.
Chill~
Worse.
Developer Preview was significantly better than stick KK, final release the same as KK if not slightly worse. Was definitely expecting more from LP.
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mine is definitely way way way better
I'm a heavy user and its better than KK
I had the dev preview and Battery life was better than KK
Now on final release battery life is 1% drain per minute if I dont use the phone (but I discovered exchange services and gmail had updated from the one from the apk's I installed on the dev preview
re built again last night and max is 4 hours again without using the phone
2nd rebuld I did not restore anything
KK could be a day or 2 with using the phone before needing a charge
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Ok, here is my xperia z3 compact not been charged for at least a day, has all the same apps and is used about the same as the Nexus 5 (z3 running kitkat, with NO power saving features enabled) and actually has a lot more apps running than Lollipop
and this is the Nexus 5 with only the apps you can see listed as running apps that was from a full charge overnight
It has dropped another 4% since taking that pic
In my case, the standby time of my N5 (which is new, I got it back from a RMA a month ago, so its battery isn't worn) is much worse on Lollipop than Kitkat: it drops 5% battery in one night in airplane mode, while 4.4.4 barely dropped 1%. On the other hand, the battery life when using the phone is way better! Before updating, I always got less than 4h SoT; now I get past 4.30 without even activating the battery saver.
So I'm not voting at the moment.
Mine is better than KitKat, some random drain's, quick soft reset fixes it.
Battery has definitely taken a hit wid L. Clean flash where
Mine's definitely better. I'm not a heavy user, but on KK I would need to charge during the day at work (usually afternoon time)...but now I can leave it till I get home.
I don't charge my N5 overnight, instead I wait to come in to work where I have a Qi charger on my desk. Usually I see it sitting at about 95% when I put it on the charger at work after leaving it alone all night. This morning I see it at 65%. I have never had it drop that low in one night before android 5 showed up.
What is even more interesting is that the battery stats claim that basically no one has been using any battery power. The highest number is 3% for wifi with 2% and 1% for a few other things, so where the heck did the 35% of the battery charge go?
I was in a similar situation as most people in this thread but currently I'm on my first discharge cycle on optipop rom with uber kernel and im on 4 hour screen on time with 20% to go.
I have google now off and location on and spent most of my time on wifi with avg cell signal.
I flashed the OTA manually and haven't done a factory reset, but the battery life is better than ever. 3 days and 9 hours, and 3.27 h screen on time. Brightness is set to auto.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tmykcaqcyhm6eaz/Screenshot_2014-11-18-23-46-52.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlxcn1ctmnijs5j/Screenshot_2014-11-18-23-46-57.png?dl=0
Of course, if pay more games, I'll get it down much much faster.
I have some random battery drain issues too. But I think the issues belongs to 3rd party apps. In the safe mode there's not any battery drain. The 3rd party apps aren't compatible with Lollipop yet. So the main issue is this apps. Now 'Im trying to uninstall and reinstall the apps to find which apps drain the battery in deep sleep. I think which apps has a "cancel deep sleep mode" permission may drain battery if it's not updated for Lollipop. It's just a guess though.
First my battery life was really bad. I couldn't figure it out. I decided to do full wipe and it helped a lot. Now the battery life is better than on kitkat.
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I'm getting worse battery life than any ROM stock or not I've run on the phone. I had better battery life on the dev previews. I don't think I've broken 3 hours screen on time or mixed usage(screen time+music time)once since the official image came out. I've done 2 or 3 clean flashes of the image and had also tried the Nexus 5 Experience ROM. I've used it each time rooted. Last night I did another clean flash of the image locked the bootloader and am going to try running it unrooted for a day or so with only 4 or 5 user apps installed. It shouldn't make a difference but I'm going to see what happens.
I have both the Turbo and N6 in hand this week. Aside from battery life, the N6 is by far my favorite.
I can get 6 hours SOT/24 hours per charge on the Turbo, and 5.5 SOT/15 hours on the N6. The N6 would cover a heavy use day because there's no way I'd get to 5 + hours looking at a phone without being near my charger, but to an old man committed to function over form I'm undecided over which phone to keep (thinking a long hike with GPS active and poor reception).
The Turbo has any 5.0 improvement sitting in the bank, so to speak. The N6 performance is with 5.0 on board.
Initially, 5.0 was reported to increase the Moto X life by 30%, but there were bugs in the first release that actually DEcreased battery life relative to KitKat
Any thoughts on whether the N6 5.0 version of lollipop suffers from similar bugs, and that updates will improve its battery life over what I'm seeing? Or is what I'm seeing likely to be what I'll be getting?
There is no way of knowing, however the turbo has a bigger battery and smaller screen to power. No matter what happens you will get more battery life from the turbo vs the n6. It is entirely possible that battery shall improve on either devices, but we can't know until the updates happen.
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Only time and release of 5.0.1 official will tell. I'm running 0.7 alpha of Slim ROM and compared to the 0.5 which was 5.0 based it seems to draw less battery screen off all else equal.
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Only time and release of 5.0.1 official will tell. I'm running 0.7 alpha of Slim ROM and compared to the 0.5 which was 5.0 based it seems to draw less battery screen off all else equal.
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Maybe the better way to ask the question is whether the Moto X did in fact have improved battery in pre-5.0 release than it did when it officially came out, and has since improved with 5.01.
I think this question belongs on the MotoX forum, don't you?
I will be posting it there as well......
for people that upgare their devices to MM
the battery drain is better?
I don't see much of a difference actually, but it could only be me also.
With 5.1, my Moto X was draining about 12% overnight. After updating to 6.0, the overnight drain was reduced to 9% (with 83% of that being cell standby). Not a huge difference if you ask me, but certainly greater than statistical error. Full stock, no root.
thanks for your feedback
I have great sot from my new battery.. but the main issue is 15% early shutdowns... Possibly this issue due to changes on software i think....
Anyone faces this issue? Since on 7.1.1 and Above?
The Nexus 6 makes very high demands on the battery, so this happens if your new battery isn't perfect.
I especially have the problem when I'm at a place with bad mobile signal.