Got tired of battery life on Lolipop, wakelocks, mystery drains etc etc, Went back to kitKat a few days ago and to be honest it feels like I've gotten my phone back.
I had recently put in a new battery so the phone is stable, flying and lasts a whole day with some juice left over.
Was this meant to be a PM?
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Got tired of battery life on Lolipop, wakelocks, mystery drains etc etc, Went back to kitKat a few days ago and to be honest it feels like I've gotten my phone back.
I had recently put in a new battery so the phone is stable, flying and lasts a whole day with some juice left over.
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And its rooted ? Using apps like servicely or greenify ?
Umm? Is this an actual thread?
Either way, are you sure that 'Google Services' were not draining battery due to the continuous, checking for OTA - failing, rechecking preventing the phone from going into 'Deep Sleep' state?
doctor_droid said:
And its rooted ? Using apps like servicely or greenify ?
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Not rooted, back to stock and not using those apps
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Umm? Is this an actual thread?
Either way, are you sure that 'Google Services' were not draining battery due to the continuous, checking for OTA - failing, rechecking preventing the phone from going into 'Deep Sleep' state?
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Yeah, just felt like venting a bit about my experience, Not sure about google services to be honest (did that problem occur in KK too ?) but IMHO i feel Kitkat is better for me at this point, Wasnt lolipop supposed to have better battery life ? what happened there google ?
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Umm? Is this an actual thread?
Either way, are you sure that 'Google Services' were not draining battery due to the continuous, checking for OTA - failing, rechecking preventing the phone from going into 'Deep Sleep' state?
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Wakamatsu said:
Was this meant to be a PM?
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No, just felt like venting and described my experience to see if any others had similar.
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Yeah, just felt like venting a bit about my experience, Not sure about google services to be honest (did that problem occur in KK too ?) but IMHO i feel Kitkat is better for me at this point, Wasnt lolipop supposed to have better battery life ? what happened there google ?
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I'm actually with you on this one... Went back to 4.4.4 Omnirom. Google services seems to behave much better. I had a tasker script that disabled the update service on boot, but still get significantly worse on lollipop. I also used appops and tried a few roms with no luck.
KitKat has better battery life by far. Such a disappointment.
Aerowinder said:
KitKat has better battery life by far. Such a disappointment.
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yep ,been a huge disappointment on my device but perhaps its better on other brands etc , it would appear google have taken their eyes off the ball here, i hope its not a sign of future quality control to come.
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I rooted my phone yesterday to try to get ubuntu on my webtop. Is there anyway that rooting has screwed up my battery at all? My phone is getting much hotter and the battery is draining much faster now.
Any help would be great.
I also had some battery issues after rooting. My phone got very hot and completely discharged the battery in three hours while sitting idle in my bag. I'm not sure what the culprit was, but a factory data reset seems to have fixed my issue.
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I will try that and report back.
how much battery life do you get after rooting?
Interesting. I am rooted and have not seen any loss of battery life. Did you remove or freeze any apps?
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Interesting. I am rooted and have not seen any loss of battery life. Did you remove or freeze any apps?
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Yes I did freeze apps. I factory reset last night and didn't freeze and the phone is doing better so far.
Same here, rooting seems to be affecting battery. All I did was uninstall the bloatware. Gonna see today how it goes. It was fine for a couple days and then just bombed.
Have you guys tried deleting the battery statistics??
I could be that there's something off with the way the usage is occuring through operation that way.
It might help.
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Have you guys tried deleting the battery statistics??
I could be that there's something off with the way the usage is occuring through operation that way.
It might help.
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I can't find the link right now, but the myth that deleting the battery statistics file improves battery life has been thoroughly debunked.
I also had some battery issues after rooting.
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I can't find the link right now, but the myth that deleting the battery statistics file improves battery life has been thoroughly debunked.
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Send me the link, would love to see it.
The battery statistics, it worked on my RAZR by deleting them, so I would love to see where they 'de-bunked' it as personal experience for me says otherwise.
Got about a half hour more when I did this.
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Send me the link, would love to see it.
The battery statistics, it worked on my RAZR by deleting them, so I would love to see where they 'de-bunked' it as personal experience for me says otherwise.
Got about a half hour more when I did this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444234
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444234
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I'll have to reply to that, as the battery stats do not reset upon full charge, but only upon reset of the phone.
I actually don't turn my phone off very often, and have seen stats compile for days on end.
Or at least that was what was happening to my RAZR....
Interesting, though.
Since i switched to Maclaw's CM 11 about a month ago and i had no trouble with the phone untill i updated to version 3/8 and the versions after that..the battery gets drained fast even when the phone is always underclocked to 200 MHz which never made an issue for me in terms of being a bit slow.
It used to drop just 1% every 15 min with heavy data use..a lot of the time it even lasted more than that! Now drops 1% every 5 min or less with the same heavy data use!!!
What went wrong?
It's just CM 11. Remember, it's still under heavy development, so it's not 100% yet. Don't worry, they'll get it fixed.
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It's just CM 11. Remember, it's still under heavy development, so it's not 100% yet. Don't worry, they'll get it fixed.
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I do hope they do.
Does Carbon has that battery drain problem too or is more stable than CM?
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I do hope they do.
Does Carbon has that battery drain problem too or is more stable than CM?
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My battery lasts the whole day with moderate use.
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I have the same problem, but haven't tracked down what it is that that drains the battery other than Android system.
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My battery lasts the whole day with moderate use.
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I think i'm gonna give Carbon a go if the problem continues .
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I have the same problem, but haven't tracked down what it is that that drains the battery other than Android system.
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Yeah but something changed after that 3/25 version. I've updated to the latest version yesterday and will put it under test today; hopefully the problem will be gone.
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I think i'm gonna give Carbon a go if the problem continues .
Yeah but something changed after that 3/25 version. I've updated to the latest version yesterday and will put it under test today; hopefully the problem will be gone.
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would be cool to hear if carbon made a chance then
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would be cool to hear if carbon made a chance then
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Got a lot better with Carbon without doing any more scientific research into what was eating my battery. If you still have CM installed, maybe a simple "top -m 10" in an adb shell will give a clue to what the power drain is. (I'm new to adb and forget how easy it is can be to have a linux shell on my phone. :silly
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Got a lot better with Carbon without doing any more scientific research into what was eating my battery. If you still have CM installed, maybe a simple "top -m 10" in an adb shell will give a clue to what the power drain is. (I'm new to adb and forget how easy it is can be to have a linux shell on my phone. :silly
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hey thank you so far, i just got CM 2 days and i'm not sure about the battery drain so far. but if you found out what it was at you, please tell me. ah and btw. i heard skype has an issue with it, do you have it installed?
also: whats the differencte of CARBON from CM?
/edit: I tried the parameter, and it says 94% sorta is "system server" is this normal?
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hey thank you so far, i just got CM 2 days and i'm not sure about the battery drain so far. but if you found out what it was at you, please tell me. ah and btw. i heard skype has an issue with it, do you have it installed?
also: whats the differencte of CARBON from CM?
/edit: I tried the parameter, and it says 94% sorta is "system server" is this normal?
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I got problem with battery also with cm11. Drain so fast. I installed carbin, its a bit better. But also I order new battery (2450mh) because i think my old one is gonna die
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Since i switched to Maclaw's CM 11 about a month ago and i had no trouble with the phone untill i updated to version 3/8 and the versions after that..the battery gets drained fast even when the phone is always underclocked to 200 MHz which never made an issue for me in terms of being a bit slow.
It used to drop just 1% every 15 min with heavy data use..a lot of the time it even lasted more than that! Now drops 1% every 5 min or less with the same heavy data use!!!
What went wrong?
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Hey all looks like i found a way!
check this, i just made a solution thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51278758
Aronuser said:
Hey all looks like i found a way!
check this, i just made a solution thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51278758
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Please delete?
What happened to the thread bro?
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Please delete?
What happened to the thread bro?
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well i found out that my solution didn't really work. but i now have a new solution which seems to work, i got this from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2683451 by factorexh
1. tick "set on boot" at governor and i/o of cpu, then set governor to abbysplug and i/o to sio
I set it like this and it seems to work but not 100% sure since it's the first day
So i installed Carbon and left it for 2 days and the battery was better but then i flashed CM back and the problem was still there. So i flashed the Stock rom back, rooted the phone then installed CM...at first everything seems back to normal but later that day the battery little started draining faster!
I thought that maybe coz i disabled/froze some system and built in apps that it what caused the problem but now i made sure i didnt disable any app, only force stop some non system appsm j and found the battery still draining!m
I have only 4 things running in my "Running apps" section:
1- Settings
2- Greenify
3- Setcpu (underclocked to 200)
4- Smart keyboard trial
THAT'S ALL!!
liongame said:
So i installed Carbon and left it for 2 days and the battery was better but then i flashed CM back and the problem was still there. So i flashed the Stock rom back, rooted the phone then installed CM...at first everything seems back to normal but later that day the battery little started draining faster!
I thought that maybe coz i disabled/froze some system and built in apps that it what caused the problem but now i made sure i didnt disable any app, only force stop some non system appsm j and found the battery still draining!m
I have only 4 things running in my "Running apps" section:
1- Settings
2- Greenify
3- Setcpu (underclocked to 200)
4- Smart keyboard trial
THAT'S ALL!!
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i don't know about that maybe your batt is demaged but still
CM11 the 20th 3rd 14th version mentioned a change about battery life.. they update the zip very often just check if the zip has another date in the name then flash it...
and try to change what i said above.. about stock i don't know how to help but i have my battery now for longer than half a day on and it's on 64 with display on mid-high
How fast is the battery charging(with the original charger). If it charges from empty to full very fast, then it's probably a bad battery. Both mine and my wife's battery has died on us after just a year of use, so it seems like the sIII mini's batteries is not lasting much more than 400 cycles.
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Aronuser said:
i don't know about that maybe your batt is demaged but still
CM11 the 20th 3rd 14th version mentioned a change about battery life.. they update the zip very often just check if the zip has another date in the name then flash it...
and try to change what i said above.. about stock i don't know how to help but i have my battery now for longer than half a day on and it's on 64 with display on mid-high
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It's the original battery, i havent changed it yet. I've just started using this phone like 2 or 3 months ago!
I'll see that governor trick, it may help. I'll update to the latest CM and see if there's any difference and keep you posted.
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How fast is the battery charging(with the original charger). If it charges from empty to full very fast, then it's probably a bad battery. Both mine and my wife's battery has died on us after just a year of use, so it seems like the sIII mini's batteries is not lasting much more than 400 cycles.
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It charges from 20% to full in about 3 hours or a bit more. Is that bad? Original battery and charger.
liongame said:
It's the original battery, i havent changed it yet. I've just started using this phone like 2 or 3 months ago!
I'll see that governor trick, it may help. I'll update to the latest CM and see if there's any difference and keep you posted.
It charges from 20% to full in about 3 hours or a bit more. Is that bad? Original battery and charger.
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it's now 17:50 and i woke up at 9:00 and the batt is on 41% with that settings and newest of CM11 maclaw (btw. they update it daily as far as it seems)
also i heard skype can cause problems, but i don't have it installed at the moment
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it's now 17:50 and i woke up at 9:00 and the batt is on 41% with that settings and newest of CM11 maclaw (btw. they update it daily as far as it seems)
also i heard skype can cause problems, but i don't have it installed at the moment
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Yeah, i've noticed. It's kinda a pain to keep downloading and flashing on a daily basis though.
Do you have Wifi/mobile data on during those hours?
I dont have Skype nor Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and all those messenger apps.
Mind if i asked you if you disabled any apps? System or downloaded?
And what's your current LCD density? Mine is 200, i tried to go for 180 but the phone started acting a bit weird.
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Yeah, i've noticed. It's kinda a pain to keep downloading and flashing on a daily basis though.
Do you have Wifi/mobile data on during those hours?
I dont have Skype nor Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger and all those messenger apps.
Mind if i asked you if you disabled any apps? System or downloaded?
And what's your current LCD density? Mine is 200, i tried to go for 180 but the phone started acting a bit weird.
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i have standart lcd density of CM cause i don't see any use in alternate densities...
I have the "mini" gapps from maclaw and line messenger, xposed with multi timezone clock, moon calendar, status bar clock in lockscreen. and pimpmyrom and facebook and facebook-messenger...
thats all cause i just installed CM and didn't save the apps...
i had wifi and mobile both on most of the day yeah...
(no need to flash daily when you're happy with it )
hey guys i recently did the 4.4.2 update but notice that my battery from 100 to 96 on screen within 7mins of usage. i did a factory reset but still giving me the problem. i was wondering if anyone was able to fix their battery issue after the update.
One person claimed nova launcher caused that on kitkat
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dadiall discourse
its un rooted i followed one of the steps from the kitkat fix on the forums here.
Subzero24 said:
hey guys i recently did the 4.4.2 update but notice that my battery from 100 to 96 on screen within 7mins of usage. i did a factory reset but still giving me the problem. i was wondering if anyone was able to fix their battery issue after the update.
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That is a very common issue with Kitkat on the ATT Note 3. Custom roms have helped it, but not much. I use to get about 2 days out of my phone. I switch batteries everyday now. I have the spare battery charging system.
So we can only wait for ether the bootloader to be unlocked or for ATT to fix it.
Unrooted and can only get 18-23 hours of charge after the Kit Kat update. Before I could do 2-3 days, easily!
Dr. Evo said:
Unrooted and can only get 18-23 hours of charge after the Kit Kat update. Before I could do 2-3 days, easily!
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damn thats what my batery life use to be. I heard something about knoxraid that helps with the battery life but it sucks that we have to wait for an update.
Subzero24 said:
damn thats what my batery life use to be. I heard something about knoxraid that helps with the battery life but it sucks that we have to wait for an update.
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A word to the wise, I wouldn't be mentioning KR around here. It is considered a taboo subject after what the creator did.
android core apps always used to show as the top battery culprit for me under 4.4.2 - the google search app with the cards ended up being the app i isolated for my issue and disabling it fixed my battery drain issue.
I have also read about a bug with the camera app - but I haven't consistently had that issue so I stopped restarting my phone after using the camera.
My battery life has also went down since the kitkat update. I am at 36% at 11hrs 39min and 3.5 hrs of screen time. That's not bad, but previously I would be around 50% around this time...
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Whenever you charge your phone to 100% (after it got to at least 15%) unplug it and reboot right a way. That fixed the problem for me.
from the tip of my fangers...!
This helped with my note, and managing "power hungry" apps also made a big impact.
davidwritesmusic said:
This helped with my note, and managing "power hungry" apps also made a big impact.
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What helped
I am experiencing terrible battery life. It seems something is keeping my device awake while screen off? Any idea can find that out and fix it? Thanks in advance.
already so many threads just do a little reading
and as i can see your device is not sleeping is awake most of the time thats the issue
your job is to find out which process is keeping the device awake
nitinvaid said:
already so many threads just do a little reading
and as i can see your device is not sleeping is awake most of the time thats the issue
your job is to find out which process is keeping the device awake
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I know some process are keeping it awake. But I don't know what it is and the top command seems does not provide much information.
Use better battery stats API from XDA search Google for it
4.0.3 has nice battery life.
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Try Greenify, Naptime..
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Use better battery stats API from XDA search Google for it
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Thanks for the advice. Turns out it's the Google play services that's waking up my device. I have encountered this before and tried various methods in the forum yet still not fixed permanently. Anyway, for now, it's solved by rebooting the device.
JayYip said:
Thanks for the advice. Turns out it's the Google play services that's waking up my device. I have encountered this before and tried various methods in the forum yet still not fixed permanently. Anyway, for now, it's solved by rebooting the device.
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Have your device manually power off/on during night say 1144Pm to 445AM. Some folks received many calls I don't so no need to have my phone on ALL night. Plus it helps my phone last way. .Way longer. This are my stats just from yesterday...http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/58a44fe5442fc/Screenshot_20170214-174412.png?
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nano303 said:
Have your device manually power off/on during night say 1144Pm to 445AM. Some folks received many calls I don't so no need to have my phone on ALL night. Plus it helps my phone last way. .Way longer. This are my stats just from yesterday...http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/58a44fe5442fc/Screenshot_20170214-174412.png?
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No. But turning off at night will improve the battery life? That sounds nonsense...
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No. But turning off at night will improve the battery life? That sounds nonsense...
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None sense??? Lmao none sense is leaving your phone on all night and expect the battery life to not drop.. that's nonsense
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None sense??? Lmao none sense is leaving your phone on all night and expect the battery life to not drop.. that's nonsense
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NONONO. I mean I don't care night usage since I usually charge it overnight. I complaint about the battery life at daytime.
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I have Greenify and Naptime. But still... It just cannot fall asleep. I use Force doze now and it seems works. Still waiting for more data to confirm it.
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I have Greenify and Naptime. But still... It just cannot fall asleep. I use Force doze now and it seems works. Still waiting for more data to confirm it.
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Hey Jay,
Are you rooted ?
D0M1N13 said:
Hey Jay,
Are you rooted ?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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What ROM are you using and what kernel ? The reason I am asking is, that kernels really matter in terms of battery life.
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What ROM are you using and what kernel ? The reason I am asking is, that kernels really matter in terms of battery life.
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OOS4.0.3, Franco r12. I know kernel matters. But it seems lots of people are getting great battery life with Franco.
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OOS4.0.3, Franco r12. I know kernel matters. But it seems lots of people are getting great battery life with Franco.
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use some battery monitor app and check which app is using the most & keeping the cpu awake..
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use some battery monitor app and check which app is using the most & keeping the cpu awake..
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Google play services... Of course
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Google play services... Of course
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Well... I don't have Google Play Services eating up my battery... when I go to battery stats, the most percentage that is eating up my battery is Android OS which is at 3% But I did hear some users complaining about bad drain from Google Play Services. Try this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/help/google-play-services-battery-drain-t3537545
Also, use this kernel: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/development/kernel-elementalx-op3-1-00-t3521298 with instructions on how to get best SOT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSa-9aWmTFk
So first try the methods to fix the battery drain issue with the thread that I posted, and then go and install the Elemental X kernel, and tweak it using the instructions on the youtube video Should work like a charm !
I'm with Franco and in getting amazing battery life. You should clean flash oxygen and the flash Franco kernel again
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Well... I don't have Google Play Services eating up my battery... when I go to battery stats, the most percentage that is eating up my battery is Android OS which is at 3% But I did hear some users complaining about bad drain from Google Play Services. Try this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/hel p/google-play-services-battery-drain-t3537545
Also, use this kernel: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/development/kernel-elementalx-op3-1-00-t3521298 with instructions on how to get best SOT:
So first try the methods to fix the battery drain issue with the thread that I posted, and then go and install the Elemental X kernel, and tweak it using the instructions on the youtube video Should work like a charm !
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Thanks for the help!
Does anybody else notice that battery life on this 12.1 is horrid?? I'm on the May update and man oh man it seems like I've got to stay close to a power source to charge this thing.
Yeah, same here, unfortunately.
Before that it was the phone with the best battery life I've ever got.
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Yeah, same here, unfortunately.
Before that it was the phone with the best battery life I've ever got.
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Yea I'm not sure what happened there but there's gotta be something behind the scenes killing it.
"Google" app is draining the battery.
Remove update and never update it again or just disable it will help
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"Google" app is draining the battery.
Remove update and never update it again or just disable it will help
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Is that what it is?? For real??