Not sure about anyone else but I've found battery life considerably worse than with Kitkat which I felt had more life. I have tried stock GPE, various Lollipop aosp/cm releases and custom GPE roms, they've all come out worse.
I tend to find of late the battery drain when the phone is in sleep. I can come back to my phone four hours later and 20% has gone. I should check to see if any apps are doing this or whether it's an overall thing with Lollipop.
I have not tried Lollipop Sense roms as I prefer the stock aosp look.
Anyone else find Lollipop worse than Kitkat?
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Not sure about anyone else but I've found battery life considerably worse than with Kitkat which I felt had more life. I have tried stock GPE, various Lollipop aosp/cm releases and custom GPE roms, they've all come out worse.
I tend to find of late the battery drain when the phone is in sleep. I can come back to my phone four hours later and 20% has gone. I should check to see if any apps are doing this or whether it's an overall thing with Lollipop.
I have not tried Lollipop Sense roms as I prefer the stock aosp look.
Anyone else find Lollipop worse than Kitkat?
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Go-to settings - developer options and uncheck use nu-player, restart your phone and see if the problem remains, if the problem has gone then you have the media bug, I think it's caused by corrupt files in your music and media folders on your internal storage.
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Well, I think this causes some app. I had various lollipop roms and the battery life was slightly better (in my opinion).At night with airplane mode on and wifi off i had drain about 3% after 8 hours of sleep.Try different kernel and some wakelock detector (I use BetterBatteryStats).
Thanks for the advice, will try them all. I am partial to the stock GPE. There are some good kernels for GPE?
For me its ElementalX or Kangaroo, you can find them in original development thread, but be sure you choose the right version (not the sense one)
I too found lollipop worse with GPE vs Sense running KitKat. I wanted Lollipop so I converted my M7 to a GPE with 5.0.2. I didn't like worse battery performance and I didn't like how the volume rocker on the lowest setting only went to vibrate so I went back to stock sense with KitKat.
Well, I have reflashed Santods GPE plus rom, clean flashed. Disabled nu-player as advised and we'll see what happens. Any kernels that are compatable with Santods GPE rom? He has his own kernel so I was concerned about breaking the rom by flashing another.
Would it make a difference in that where I work I have no mobile signal or wifi signal, would it cause the phone in sleep mode to constantly be looking for a signal so that it can connect and download data, thus drain the battery more? If yes, I might try killing the data service while I am at work.
I never seem to get this drainage at home or out about where I get wifi, hotspots and better mobile coverage.
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Has anyone else with an AT&T One converted to GPE 4.4 been experiencning horrifying battery life? I am running an entirely stock GPE conversion, including recovery, kernel, etc, latest firmware, radio, etc. On a fresh install (NO Google settings changed from defaults), off Wi-Fi and with consistent good LTE signal, my phone will drain from 100% to 75% in about 2 hours. That is with no apps installed and a screen-on time of only 45 minutes, texting and web browsing. Such battery drain is very consistent.
With all of my usual apps installed, some of which include GroupMe, Facebook, Maps, and a couple others, battery life doesn't change for better or worse.
And this has always been the case for me with any sort of GPE conversion. Well, with any ROM for that matter. I had the same astronomically bad battery life when I OTA'd from stock to AT&T 4.3. In fact, the ONLY time my phone has what I would consider good battery life is when running stock AT&T 4.1.2. I can reach up to 3.5 hours of screen-on time over the course of a day and a half that way.
Anyone else? Lots of threads and complaints about this, but I'm wondering if having an AT&T phone converted to an "international"/"Google Play Edition"/"Developer Edition" is to blame some how? Radio perhaps?
me too
++terible battery life...s-off unlocked vodafone version converted to wwe 4.3 unrooted all stock.It seems that this is an android 4.3 issue thar remains in 4.4....
Yes, 4.3 seems better. I only used few days. Need to use bit long to see.
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Has anyone else with an AT&T One converted to GPE 4.4 been experiencning horrifying battery life? I am running an entirely stock GPE conversion, including recovery, kernel, etc, latest firmware, radio, etc. On a fresh install (NO Google settings changed from defaults), off Wi-Fi and with consistent good LTE signal, my phone will drain from 100% to 75% in about 2 hours. That is with no apps installed and a screen-on time of only 45 minutes, texting and web browsing. Such battery drain is very consistent.
With all of my usual apps installed, some of which include GroupMe, Facebook, Maps, and a couple others, battery life doesn't change for better or worse.
And this has always been the case for me with any sort of GPE conversion. Well, with any ROM for that matter. I had the same astronomically bad battery life when I OTA'd from stock to AT&T 4.3. In fact, the ONLY time my phone has what I would consider good battery life is when running stock AT&T 4.1.2. I can reach up to 3.5 hours of screen-on time over the course of a day and a half that way.
Anyone else? Lots of threads and complaints about this, but I'm wondering if having an AT&T phone converted to an "international"/"Google Play Edition"/"Developer Edition" is to blame some how? Radio perhaps?
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You have to give the phone time to adjust to the new software. Give it a few charge cycles.
I cannot remember how the battery life was for me on sense 4.1.2 because i installed a GPE 4.3 ROM and the batterly life was terrible on that. I ran battery calibration multiple times because my charge would go from 14% to 1%; powering off in less than a minute. Now i did do the conversion to GPE the other day and like you i am running the stock kernel, recovery, radio, firmware etc etc and the battery life compared to the ROM is amazing. I also enabled ART immediately so i cannot compare it to dalvik, but you may want to try that out.
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Has anyone else with an AT&T One converted to GPE 4.4 been experiencning horrifying battery life? I am running an entirely stock GPE conversion, including recovery, kernel, etc, latest firmware, radio, etc. On a fresh install (NO Google settings changed from defaults), off Wi-Fi and with consistent good LTE signal, my phone will drain from 100% to 75% in about 2 hours. That is with no apps installed and a screen-on time of only 45 minutes, texting and web browsing. Such battery drain is very consistent.
With all of my usual apps installed, some of which include GroupMe, Facebook, Maps, and a couple others, battery life doesn't change for better or worse.
And this has always been the case for me with any sort of GPE conversion. Well, with any ROM for that matter. I had the same astronomically bad battery life when I OTA'd from stock to AT&T 4.3. In fact, the ONLY time my phone has what I would consider good battery life is when running stock AT&T 4.1.2. I can reach up to 3.5 hours of screen-on time over the course of a day and a half that way.
Anyone else? Lots of threads and complaints about this, but I'm wondering if having an AT&T phone converted to an "international"/"Google Play Edition"/"Developer Edition" is to blame some how? Radio perhaps?
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I cannot remember how the battery life was for me on sense 4.1.2 because i installed a GPE 4.3 ROM and the batterly life was terrible on that. I ran battery calibration multiple times because my charge would go from 14% to 1%; powering off in less than a minute. Now i did do the conversion to GPE the other day and like you i am running the stock kernel, recovery, radio, firmware etc etc and the battery life compared to the ROM is amazing. I also enabled ART immediately so i cannot compare it to dalvik, but you may want to try that out.
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Would you mind telling me what firmware you are running? The latest GPE 4.4? I used ART for a few days and don't recall a difference, but I'm currently going back to it to see if things improve.
I've got a 2 year old I9305 from the UK that's rooted and using the German 4.3 Stock ROM (couldn't update to 4.3 with a UK ROM at the time).
The battery life used to be much better - I've had it for a year (I bought it as not working from a family member and then got it running) and would easily get over a days use including hooked up to the wifi most of the day, 2-3 hours with the screen on etc but now I find I'm often getting less than a day with similar use. I've since done a factory reset and re-installed my apps but it's not improved anything noticeably.
I rotate through 4 Anker 2200mAh a genuine Samsung and a Samsung battery bought on Amazon (genuine - not sure about that!) using a wall mounted charger to do most of the charging as I spent the last 8 months traveling and didn't want my phone sat around in dorm rooms plugged into the mains while I wasn't in the room.
If I only had the one battery then it would make sense that it's ability to hold a full 2100mAh charge would drop after a year but with 5-6 batteries taking the strain, I'd assume that this would be less likely. I was looking at apps like Nova battery tester and An tu tu Tester and will give them a go tonight on which ever battery is in the phone - are they any good?
If the batteries are still taking a solid charge then I guess it's time to go back down the route of a custom ROM but as I travel a lot, I'm loathe to mess around with my S3 too much. I had an HTC HD2 that was running CWM and a couple of different ROM's and it died on me a couple of times while I was on the road. That was less of an issue than it will be now as I was traveling with a netbook - the S3 is my only device now so I need to to be stable. I'm not averse to going through the process of putting a ROM on the phone if there are a couple that are known to be super stable and lighter than stock on battery life, but if I can stick with my stock set up with some tweaks...I've got All in one toolbox controlling which apps load on boot, greenify to hibernate apps (instead of a task killer knocking them off) and No Bloat stopping the bloatware from running.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Hmm.. As you are using greenify, boot apps control and no bloat, you are extremely in control of your rom - that's good.
I think that there would be negligible to none difference in battery life between your rom and any custom. Stock Touchwizz roms are said to have better battery (from my own experience too), therefore installing any custom aosp rom should be rejected.
What I can suggest? Download some recent full rom from sammobile or live updates samsung (search google) and flash it through odin. Or maybe you have tried it?
However running one rom for few months may have some influence on battery too.
Also, installing custom kernel is the thing that may help you optimize battery/performance with few interesting features. Boeffla has great description and faq on the website and user-friendly config app. But that's only if you want to experiment (it is still rock-stable) a little bit.
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The 4.3 JB upgrade is well known as a battery killer. I had stock 4.3 from Base (Germany), but the 4.3 from H3G (UK) is the same for battery life. I have used CM 11.0 as well as others, almost all are nicer to batteries than stock.
Currently I use the S5 Elite Lite Rom. The current version 1.4 seems to be very stable even with both cpu and gpu overclocked. Battery life is still a little better than stock 4.3 and that is despite not using the deep sleep feature. CM 11.0 is even better for battery, at least for me probably down to there being none of the Stock bloatware. Hope that helps.
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Hmm.. As you are using greenify, boot apps control and no bloat, you are extremely in control of your rom - that's good.
I think that there would be negligible to none difference in battery life between your rom and any custom. Stock Touchwizz roms are said to have better battery (from my own experience too), therefore installing any custom aosp rom should be rejected.
What I can suggest? Download some recent full rom from sammobile or live updates samsung (search google) and flash it through odin. Or maybe you have tried it?
However running one rom for few months may have some influence on battery too.
Also, installing custom kernel is the thing that may help you optimize battery/performance with few interesting features. Boeffla has great description and faq on the website and user-friendly config app. But that's only if you want to experiment (it is still rock-stable) a little bit.
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The current ROM was one from a year ago when I first set up the phone but I've since done a factory reset and reinstalled all my apps.
I didn't realize that I could run a custom kernel with a stock ROM - that's something I'll look into. I don't have a custom recovery set up as the last time I used one on my HD2 I had nothing but trouble and, as I said, I need this set up to be reliable over pretty much everything else.
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The 4.3 JB upgrade is well known as a battery killer. I had stock 4.3 from Base (Germany), but the 4.3 from H3G (UK) is the same for battery life. I have used CM 11.0 as well as others, almost all are nicer to batteries than stock.
Currently I use the S5 Elite Lite Rom. The current version 1.4 seems to be very stable even with both cpu and gpu overclocked. Battery life is still a little better than stock 4.3 and that is despite not using the deep sleep feature. CM 11.0 is even better for battery, at least for me probably down to there being none of the Stock bloatware. Hope that helps.
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How long have you been running S5 Elite ROM? I think I'd probably stick with CM, though I'm intrigued by some of the other stuff out there, but ideally I'd like to stick with a solid, stock rom without a custom recovery.
SYMLY, I don't really understand what you meant in your post.
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How long have you been running S5 Elite ROM? I think I'd probably stick with CM, though I'm intrigued by some of the other stuff out there, but ideally I'd like to stick with a solid, stock rom without a custom recovery.
SYMLY, I don't really understand what you meant in your post.
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I have been running the S5 Elite ROM for a couple of weeks only. In that time I have found it very stable, by stable I mean no random reboots, and no force closes. It is not completely glitch free for example some apps need to have the sd card unmounted before being installed. I run it overclocked at 1.8Ghz and slight over clocking on the GPU too. Antutu score was around 20800. The S5 Elite ROM gives me a stock look including the S apps I want specifically SPlanner and SVoice.
If you really want to have a completely stock rom with good battery life you might need to consider downgrading to a 4.1.2 rom from Samfirmware or waiting for the fabled 4.4.2 upgrade. I've been waiting on that for months and finally gave up, hence I'm now using the S5 Elite.
Best of luck deciding, I guess there is no one size fits all solution.
Roms that may help with the batteries.
So far i've seen that stock roms usually consume less battery than stock firmware . something that may help you is deleting apps that you know you'll never use at all. that removes the autorun consuming less battery. Now. among the best but remains on 4.3, is the Alliancerom v3.5. i've seen that my battery drained less faster than on stock firmware. but also due to its kernel it can be controlled the amount of mhz using for process (if you don't know how to use it, do not touch it) . and also the charging rate can be controlled.
If you want a touchwiz based rom, i recommend AllianceROM V3.5 or AMCHA rom v6.11. Both roms are super stable, Alliance lags quite a bit though. Ive been using AMCHA (with S5 theme and agni kernel from aroma installer) rom for awhile, so far so problems and pretty good battery life
You can also try archidroid and neat ROM they are one of the best touchwiz 4.3 roms
To be honest, I'm thinking that I'd rather go down the route of checking over my batteries and trying out any other utilities that might aid in reducing the battery use of my S3.
If I were to go down the custom ROM route then I'd be more interested in the kernels as it's been pointed out that they're going to have more impact on power consumption.
So, any suggestions for utilities - as I've said I'm running all in one toolbox, no bloat and greenify. What about apps to check the actual capacity of the battery?
Well. That been said. Then my suggestion is that you delete apps you dont use at all. Actually that also works in alliancerom 3.5 or any rom or stock firmware. It is obvious that if you delete apps that have autorun enabeled by default when you restart or turn on it affects the ram and also affects the battery draining. My alliancerom 3.5 battery last even more than the original firmware. I've deleted plenty of apps i didnt need at all. More like junk to me. Of course. All of this you can do only if you are rooted. Also another suggestion. Ebay sells i9305 extended battery. It comes with the double, Triple and even more amount of mah for pretty good prices. With them i can assure you that you will use your smartphone with the highest performance without been worried of low battery until night.
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If I were to go down the custom ROM route then I'd be more interested in the kernels as it's been pointed out that they're going to have more impact on power consumption.
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No... nono ononono.
Stock kernel will have similar battery performance as agni or boeffla (on same settings). Sure, custom can bring a enhancment or two, but the battery improvements would be minimal.
A custom kernel will only improve a stock kernel battery performance if the stock kernel is ****ty to begin with. Not the case with TW 4.3
It's the rom, and it's apps and your apps.
How about installing Better Battery Stats and posting a few screenshots?
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No... nono ononono.
Stock kernel will have similar battery performance as agni or boeffla (on same settings). Sure, custom can bring a enhancment or two, but the battery improvements would be minimal.
A custom kernel will only improve a stock kernel battery performance if the stock kernel is ****ty to begin with. Not the case with TW 4.3
It's the rom, and it's apps and your apps.
How about installing Better Battery Stats and posting a few screenshots?
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Cheers for that. I'm aware of the obvious basic stuff affecting battery use like cutting down the number of running apps (hence why I use all in one, no bloat etc) but no little about kernels or their battery related benefits.
That app sounds good, I'll stick it on today and then happily post a few screenshots for you to look through. I've just had a look and it's a paid app - bearing mind I'm only needing the use of this once or twice are there any similar free ones.
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Cheers for that. I'm aware of the obvious basic stuff affecting battery use like cutting down the number of running apps (hence why I use all in one, no bloat etc) but no little about kernels or their battery related benefits.
That app sounds good, I'll stick it on today and then happily post a few screenshots for you to look through. I've just had a look and it's a paid app - bearing mind I'm only needing the use of this once or twice are there any similar free ones.
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If you have zillion apps (like me), then they tend to update frequently, use more and more resources, and services.
I was astonished to see that some apps that i installed just in case - like ebay, skype, tripadvisor - and never used yet, - were running services and have put themselves into autostart!
if you are rooted and use autostarts utility, you can disable a lot of junk in the on start and after start events.
you will immediately see the difference in boot time.
i also deinstalled the apps mentioned above, and battery usage back to normal.
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If you have zillion apps (like me), then they tend to update frequently, use more and more resources, and services.
I was astonished to see that some apps that i installed just in case - like ebay, skype, tripadvisor - and never used yet, - were running services and have put themselves into autostart!
if you are rooted and use autostarts utility, you can disable a lot of junk in the on start and after start events.
you will immediately see the difference in boot time.
i also deinstalled the apps mentioned above, and battery usage back to normal.
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Ok, for those new to these things I'll give you a brief run down of the 3 apps I keep mentioning to save people posting suggestions for things that they already do....
Nobloat (root) - delete (including permanently) any apps including system apps (get rid of the pre-installed bloatware.
All in one toolbox pro (there's a free version) - I use this to clean up my autostarts - I can determine which apps will load on boot - both user apps and system apps.
Greenify - hibernates apps rather than killing them so they don't then autostart. There's also a way to have apps brought out of hibernation if their push notifications come through.
All in all, 3 very useful apps.
Feel free to mention any other ones to help things run a little smoother.
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Ok, for those new to these things I'll give you a brief run down of the 3 apps I keep mentioning to save people posting suggestions for things that they already do....
Nobloat (root) - delete (including permanently) any apps including system apps (get rid of the pre-installed bloatware.
All in one toolbox pro (there's a free version) - I use this to clean up my autostarts - I can determine which apps will load on boot - both user apps and system apps.
Greenify - hibernates apps rather than killing them so they don't then autostart. There's also a way to have apps brought out of hibernation if their push notifications come through.
All in all, 3 very useful apps.
Feel free to mention any other ones to help things run a little smoother.
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Do what i did, i bought a 6000mah mbuynow battery off ebay which seems to be around 4000mah true. It lasts about 90% more than the stock battery. im still not impressed with the battery life as phones these days can achieve the 8 hours of screen on time that i get with my extended battery with there stock batterys. i9300 has better battery life for some reason even though my i9305 is undervolt and underclock
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Do what i did, i bought a 6000mah mbuynow battery off ebay which seems to be around 4000mah true. It lasts about 90% more than the stock battery. im still not impressed with the battery life as phones these days can achieve the 8 hours of screen on time that i get with my extended battery with there stock batterys. i9300 has better battery life for some reason even though my i9305 is undervolt and underclock
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That sugestion is completly wrong. A 6000mAh battery is huge and adds a lot of weight and bulkiness to the phone.
Exactly! it's perfectly viable to live with a standard battery on our device, if you use a right rom and de-bloat.
Say no to bulk! ))
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I have read a lot of threads saying how horrible the battery life is on this Lollipop Rom. I love ViperOne Roms!!! I have loved them since the M7 days and dont like to run any other Rom. My only complaint is the battery life of this particular version of the Rom, 3 .2.1 was amazing! I just wanted the Lollipop and such. My question is...? Has anyone found a kernel or something that gets better than 4-6 hours of phone use. I unplug my phone at 6am Monday-Friday and by noon I am at 15-10% I don't play games.. I am E-mailing, SMS, Music, Talk (6-10 calls lasting 2-3 mins each) surfing the web. I don't use my phone any different than the 3.2.1 version of the ROM and I would be at 30-40% at 6pm . Someone Please Help Me Out Or Point Me In The Right Direction. Thank you and sorry this post is so long.
So not knowing what you've tried and what you haven't but have you looked at wakelocks? It seems to me that is almost always the issue regardless of ROM.
I ran 4.2 for a few days and my battery life was fine. I would 12-15 hours with no problem and would be in the mid 30%s at the end of the day. No custom kernel or any special themes, just stock with several of the tweaks.
Also make sure you're not running xposed. IMO it adds nothing anyway and usually causes more problems than anything else.
I too stick with Viper but can't stay on the 4.2.0 version yet because of the WiFi calling issue and I need it to work as I have poor coverage where I live.
I'm not running Xposed, and I haven't been able to find a kernal that will work. I'm on Sprint
Hello everyone
I recently bought a used Xperia Z1 (C6903), which came with Lollipop 5.0.2 installed (Build .270). It has a defective screen, which is going to be replaced shortly. I mostly use it with a mouse via USB. Other than that, it is perfectly fine.
On Thursday, I inserted my SIM card on the device and installed the latest build available for this device, which is 14.6.A.1.216 (Lollipop 5.1.1) via Flashtool, making sure I did a factory reset. On Friday, I rooted it using KingRoot (promptly replacing it with SuperSU) and, as I did my research first, installed Wakelock Detector to compare the battery between each Android version. On 5.0.2 battery was pretty good, maybe because the phone didn't have the SIM card inserted, but still used WiFi and had a lot of apps which were left by the previous owner (Such as Facebook and FB Messenger, which both are battery hoggers). Even then, the phone had tremendously good battery, managing to reach 3 days on a full charge (I observed that before buying it). The only problem was that the phone overheated a bit.
Now that I have installed 5.1.1, things got worse. The only good things are that the overheating problem is gone and the performance seems a bit better. However I saw that for many, the battery was way better on 5.1.1 than on 5.0.2. This isn't the case for me. The battery drops approximately 1% each 30 minutes, with the screen off. I don't have mobile data on, as I always use WiFi, so the radio active bug doesn't affect me (right?). I have disabled most, if not all useless apps or things that would keep using the phone's resources. I disabled them, not uninstalled them because the phone has a problem with root permissions, saying that system is not mounted as R/W but still giving apps root access and they can disabled apps just fine. Currently I have none of my apps installed with the exception of Wakelock Detector, thanks to the battery drain and the defective screen which prevent me from doing much. STAMINA mode is on, but I don't notice it working too well, as it doesn't turn WiFi off when the screen is off, even though that option is turned on. I cannot deliver an exact screen on time as don't use the phone that much, but it is average 3-4 hours.
Wakelock Detector tells me that the phone has been awake by 12%, even though there aren't any wakelocks nor apps that would take batery. I would have tried with BetterBatteryStats but it is a bit confusing to use for me. Most people here on this phone's XDA forum complain about the battery in Lollipop, but Kitkat has provided them very good battery life.
Is there any way to fix this? I will provide anything that is asked, such as screenshots of Wakelock Detector, etc.
Should I downgrade to 4.4.4? (Build .157 or whichever you recommend) or perhaps install a custom rom based on 4.4.4, like iHackers? I would test them myself, as it is the best way of telling the difference, but I have a very bad connection and downloading files over 1GB+ takes 5 or 6 hours, only if it doesn't disconnect automatically. The most important things for me are the performance of the phone and the battery life.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for my bad english.
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use mx rom
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Right. I will use it, thanks for the tip. As you have to downgrade to KitKat in order to install custom recoveries and the like, I already did so. And I discovered something new, which wasn't on Lollipop. KitKat's battery stats show that 39% of the phone's battery is used up by the screen, even though I barely use it and it is on the lowest brightness possible. Other than that, another culprit is the mobile signal, which shows a high usage of battery.
EDIT: I have now installed the rom and indeed, the battery problems seem to be gone. Battery isn't dropping as it did, and Wakelock Detector says that the phone is now 1-2% awake
At 1 point, 5.0.2 had a lot of battery problems and performance issues
Are u facing any on MX now ?
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So far, battery has been perfect the phone easily lasts 1 day and still has 40% left. I guess that could be better, but I am satisfied with it
One thing I have noticed is that even though the ROM has much bettery battery management than the stock rom, it feels somehow slower. In developer options, the "Force GPU rendering for 2D" option is enabled. I disabled it and weirdly, the phone seems to be faster and smoother, like it was before. The opposite of this should be happening, as I've read that it instead makes the phone smoother than having it ticked off
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None, especially since the latest firmware was used. try chaning your kernel, I use Advanced Kernel, thought the latest has a chinese/japanese twrp recovery, he might fix that in the next version.
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Hi
I've reflashed the ROM, stock kernel and now it seems perfect.
What does advanced kernel offer in your honest opinion than the stock kernel
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I normally would test stock, then go ahead testing a custom advanced kernel and compare the findings and differences over a few days of usage.
However, will be using stock for now as it hasn't given me any real problems with performance and battery
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Are you using mx rom? If so could you please upload a screenshot of your battery usage stats?
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I'm not using mx rom anymore, I decided to use a customized stock rom from scratch, sorry.
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Why did you change? I just installed mx rom now! Seems pretty good so far, but still too early to comment on the battery
There's no such issue with this update.
I'm sorry to say this, but things are now where they were before I flashed MX Rom
Three days ago the battery started draining like before, with high usage of the process "Android System", approximately 30%. The screen also has high usage, but really shouldn't as screen on time is barely one hour. I also learned how to properly use BetterBatteryStats, and it reports that the device has 100% no or unknown signal. The phone also is doing weird beep sounds around the camera area. I've factory reset the device, but it didn't do anything. In fact, it is worse now. Battery drain is approximately 3% an hour. And that is with WiFi, Mobile Data and almost everything else off. I also don't have any apps installed. The same happens with Android Kitkat. A lot of apps are also disabled.
I had a battery drain for a long time on my Nexus 5. Device was awesome when I bought it, but after upgrading to Lollipop I started to get strange battery drain problem which reason cannot be found easily, it's nothing in Settings->Battery on graph - no apps using battery, but it goes from 100 to 0% in about 7 hours. Even if I dont use it at all, battery discharges very fast.
I tried different ROM versions and found that battery life is soo much better on 4.4.2. I found that 4.4.2 has baseband v 1.0, and starting from 4.4.3 it was upgraded to 2.0.
So I solved it by downgrading baseband to 1.0. I found that very likely that any baseband works with any ROM, so I flashed latest 6.0.1 system, then flashed radio from 4.4.2. fastboot, unlocked bootloader. I think to make it work reliably, don't make it boot first time after flash, hold power button, and Volume down, it reboots to bootloader. Then do factory reset and reboot. In my case radio is recognised and works.
Now I have latest stock ROM and radio from 4.4.2, and battery life in standby is so much better. I tried to replace battery 2 times, but battery was actually OK. For those who have similar problem u should try it. Google made a great device, still fast and works very good, but they or Qualcomm maybe ****ed up things in modem firmware since version 2.0. Probably not everyone is affected but for me difference is huge, its like normal device with reasonable battery life, but becomes junk after software update. I will think twice before I'll buy something more from Google. Why I must to support device myself, if I found how to fix this why they still not released proper fix? Probably Google doesn't care about product quality after several months.
surely, is an experiment to try .also if , the battery drain problem I'm suffering, like many, more when the screen is on.
during screen off the battery falls but little, turned on the screen, also even if you do nothing and just read [low light, dark menu through substratum, dark backgrounds, cpu and gpu limited kernel with blue spark powersave settings, night vision in browser] decreases the battery 1 % every 2 minutes, something noted by many and to me with various Roms [octOS mm e n, purenexus 6 and 7, stock] .
this is for me the "great mystery" of this device