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2013 Lollipop Performance

I saw the Lollipop performance thread, but it seemed mostly focused on the 2012 model, so I wanted to start a thread to air out some issues I'm having on the 2013 OTA. I sideloaded the OTA, and my tablet is encrypted, which may be contributing to these issues, but I have to say that performance is poor, bordering on abysmal.
I see stutters and lag all the time, even on the simplest tasks like drawing the notification drawer animation. Actions like returning to the home screen are brutal and sometimes take measurable time. Sometimes apps just slow to a crawl and the tablet seems to lock up for a bit before it figures out what it was doing.
And over the last two days, I've noticed completely brutal battery performance, including this garbage:
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That's a day of the tablet sitting on my bed not being used. I think there was 35 minutes of screen time. The battery stats are useless: 11% Android OS and that was the highest. Nothing else, no miscellaneous or anything like that.
I just cleared my cache partition, but it's still being sluggish. Any ideas on what the hell is going on here? It feels awful and the tablet was really pretty damn decent before this update. The battery life was just fine: 85% or so if I came home from leaving it on the bed all day.
Likewise, are there any better battery stat apps I can look at that can help me get to the bottom of this? It feels like bad battery and bad performance could easily be related if something is grinding in the background and keeping a wakelock active and I have no idea.
Anyone else having an awful time of 2013 5.0? Anyone see a performance increase?

Seen the Nexus 7 2013 forum?
If not, try it out.
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By way of an update, clearing the cache and a reboot seemed to have helped significantly. The weird battery drain is gone, so that might have just been a runaway process or something, and the overall feel of the tablet is back to being much snappier.

Dont know why i didnt think of clearing the cache. Performance is where it chould be now. Thanks!

Question about battery performance from a prospective buyer

I have my finger hovered over the "Buy" button in Moto Maker but im a tad concerened about battery life. Most reviews say its OK but have also heard slightly worse. Im a relatively heavy user listening to podcasts via bluetooth incar and also the normal social network stuff along with connection to a Moto 360. I do however have easy access to an in car charger throughout the day should the phone need charging. Im just slightly concerned for when I have days out with no access to a charger.
How are Moto X owners on here finding battery life?

Hi man. I'm not a heavy user and I can do the whole day.
As you say, the heavy users are not very happy with the battery life and there is not yet clear if with Lollipop is better or not. What I have read almost in every post about this, is that people is suggesting to have the turbo charger with you all the time if you are a heavy user....
Anyways, I'm not a heavy user and I think is OK, but yep...is not fantastic.

There are way too many of these threads. The battery is NOT bad. If u manage ur device well there wont be any issues with battery. Also everyone will have different results based on how the phone is used.

I'm not as heavy a user as you are; the main things I do on my phone is surf G+, browse the internet (using Chrome), use Reddit News, use bluetooth to connect to my car and stream music (probably about 2-3 hours a day), and of course text (using Google's Messenger app and GroupMe). I also have Location services on High Accuracy, but use WiFi mostly. Typically, I get 4-5 hours of screen time. The best I've seen was a little over 6 hours of screen time over a ~14 hour time period.
Coming from a Nexus 5, I think the battery life is awesome (I got 4 hours max. on a good day). If you do pull the trigger, get the Turbo Charger, too. With that, unless you go a really long time without seeing a power outlet, I don't think you should have any real concerns regarding battery life.

I really think the battery is fine here is a screen shot of my battery usage. I have exchange and two gmail accounts. This is with an hour flight listening to music on Moto Buds and 2.5 screen on time.
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Thanks for the replies. Apologies its all been asked before.

Play services 7.5 drains battery

Hey guys, my Moto X used to be able to get OK battery,but since the 7.5 update, I lose 15-20% over a five hour period, which is quite disappointing. any fixes?

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Hey guys, my Moto X used to be able to get OK battery,but since the 7.5 update, I lose 15-20% over a five hour period, which is quite disappointing. any fixes?
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Please share some screenshots from gsam or something like that
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All of a sudden for me too, GPS is now eating up to 15% of my battery and the Android OS is at 11%... I noticed this this morning. The only thing I installed last night was Greenify...

Quite similar to what I have. Android system and Android os always on top
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This is new for me. I normally have pretty crap battery life but services and OS are normally never this high. The battery on my phone is so hit or miss. It 's behavior seriously changes daily. I don't get it.

Obeyryan said:
This is new for me. I normally have pretty crap battery life but services and OS are normally never this high. The battery on my phone is so hit or miss. It 's behavior seriously changes daily. I don't get it.
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By the way, it got me to 8.30pm yesterday before I had to charge. As bad and inconsistent the battery is, at the very least I can say it gets me to dinner without too much babying. I'm just concerned when it drains much quicker than usual which means I can't use it as much for it to survive.

My Pie battery life experience

Before the upgrade I've read many posts about people bragging having twice longer SOT.
So OTA eventually flew in.
After the upgrade I did factory reset and spent few days with just a basic functionality, a little bit of YouTube, email etc.
Surprise #1. I was getting 5-6 hours of SOT. Few days in a row.
So I started installing all my apps.
Surprise #2. My SOT returned back to the same ol' 3hrs of SOT.
Conclusion: do not install any apps and get a decent SOT

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Before the upgrade I've read many posts about people bragging having twice longer SOT.
So OTA eventually flew in.
After the upgrade I did factory reset and spent few days with just a basic functionality, a little bit of YouTube, email etc.
Surprise #1. I was getting 5-6 hours of SOT. Few days in a row.
So I started installing all my apps.
Surprise #2. My SOT returned back to the same ol' 3hrs of SOT.
Conclusion: do not install any apps and get a decent SOT
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Well, it's obvious then that one of your apps is causing the issue. Don't blame the phone
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My battery life has been MUCH better on Pie.

Same here, better battery on pie.

I have great SoT on Pie, but my data is off most of the time, i uninstalled quite a few bloat apps using adb (not rooted) and have set most apps to not sync in background, except mail, Instagram, etc. I generally get around 7 hrs SoT with 60 to 70 odd hours between charges.
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No change in battery life. It was fine for me (approx. 6hr sot) on Oreo and remains fine on Pie.

Overall quality of the Note9

Hi all
I'm fairly new to XDA and this is my first post so go easy on me plz So i preordered the note9 and ever since i've had it i've had nothing but issues with the device. First, it was the camera unit buzzing and struggling to focus. I took it in to my nearest Samsung store and well... the overall ordeal was unpleasant. I was in and out of the Samsung store 4-5 times in a month and it took 10 days for them to come to a resolution, but thats not the point. After i had the phone repaired, 2 days later my S-Pen broke. I was taking it out and only the clicker part of the pen came out. Instead of taking it up with Samsung and wanting to avoid having to leave my phone at Samsung again for 'inspection' i decided to fork out the dough and purchase a replacement S-Pen. Now, my phone is exhibiting signs of either burn in or display uniformity. It is extremely visible, when displaying dark images and considering i use 'night mode' indefinitely its really hard to avoid. I even notice it in the Game launcher, notifications tab, settings menu, even in games and apps such as spotify or Youtube.
It really sucks having paid $1500AUD :crying: for a phone that severely lacks quality. I just wanted to know what your experience with the Note9 has been and if you're experiencing the same issues as me. What course of action should i take? I really want to demand a refund.
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The only issue I have had so far is in relation to video calling. I'm not sure about the built in video calling, but when using FB Messenger or Google Duo, it is extremely poor quality, and eventually drops the call, disconnects data from the network and refuses to reconnect it for at least 15 minutes. Verizon can send diagnostics to the device and they say it still has a "background" data connection, but that doesn't really help me much. This has been occurring as long as I've had it. Even after flashing multiple OEM's, resetting things, etc. Only thing to do is have it replaced, but since the back has scratches now, it has to be through insurance. Other then that, there have been no problems.