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Android OS staying awake 6 hours +

I am stock. Not rooted.
I have restored the phone to factory settings thinking it will help it. But it hasn't.
I have tried the completely stock and immediately the Android os was keeping phone awake. Then I started disabling Verizon apps, unnecessary g9ogle apps and still I have the os keeping phone awake about 6-7 hours per charge.
What should I do? I've dealt with this on my old nexus 4 and haven't been able to figure out why Android phones are plaged with this Android os wakelock.
I believe this all started when I got the 25b ota. After that I've done a factory restore. I don't have Verizon so I'm not getting any more ota for 26A. Is there a way I can manually flash the newer rom?

No answer for you, but just wanted you to know my battery life with the last 4.4 upgrade just the other day is now miserable. Can not make it a day. Use to be able to get like 2 days. Thinking about just selling the phone, and buying something new cause of it.

dlang123 said:
No answer for you, but just wanted you to know my battery life with the last 4.4 upgrade just the other day is now miserable. Can not make it a day. Use to be able to get like 2 days. Thinking about just selling the phone, and buying something new cause of it.
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Wakelock detector, see what's keeping the phone from sleeping.

mjones73 said:
Wakelock detector, see what's keeping the phone from sleeping.
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Have it installed.. even installed greenify yesterday to see if that helps.. Wiped some of one of the batteries average length per charge and started it fresh today, so I am going to chase it down I hope. Battery shows it's Android. Note 4 anyone? Have to pay full price for it though, can't justify 700 bucks. But I do have a trip coming up where I have to be gone for 2 weeks.. so maybe then?

dlang123 said:
Have it installed.. even installed greenify yesterday to see if that helps.. Wiped some of one of the batteries average length per charge and started it fresh today, so I am going to chase it down I hope. Battery shows it's Android. Note 4 anyone? Have to pay full price for it though, can't justify 700 bucks. But I do have a trip coming up where I have to be gone for 2 weeks.. so maybe then?
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Let it sit for about 30 mins with the screen off untouched, see if it's going into deep sleep, report back your findings under partial and kernel wakelocks also.

mjones73 said:
Let it sit for about 30 mins with the screen off untouched, see if it's going into deep sleep, report back your findings under partial and kernel wakelocks also.
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I grabbed these snaps.
I'll try to get better info a bit later.
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mjones73 said:
Let it sit for about 30 mins with the screen off untouched, see if it's going into deep sleep, report back your findings under partial and kernel wakelocks also.
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See if this is what you meant...if not a nudge into the place to look would help me..

Looking at the second set of shots, are you on a public/work wifi network? The wlan wakes are what's keeping your phone from sleeping. That can be caused by things like DHCP queries from the network waking it up, etc.. My battery life takes a hit when I use our open network at work, constantly woken up by the wireless lan.
Are you having the same issues off wifi?

mjones73 said:
Looking at the second set of shots, are you on a public/work wifi network? The wlan wakes are what's keeping your phone from sleeping. That can be caused by things like DHCP queries from the network waking it up, etc.. My battery life takes a hit when I use our open network at work, constantly woken up by the wireless lan.
Are you having the same issues off wifi?
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Yeah, I normally don't run wifi. I just happened to turn it on today at work. I can let it sit for another 30 mins or so and do the same thing. Phone is at 57% screen on time of 1 hour, I use to get at least 4-5 a while back.

Add me to the list.. I'm stock and after the update a few weeks ago this turd heats up lots, freezes, re-draws home screens VERY slowly, Swype effs up badly now and my battery life is literally about cut in half. This is all after a factory reset after taking the update.

Stbrightman said:
Add me to the list.. I'm stock and after the update a few weeks ago this turd heats up lots, freezes, re-draws home screens VERY slowly, Swype effs up badly now and my battery life is literally about cut in half. This is all after a factory reset after taking the update.
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Rooted?
Hotspot Hack?
My buddy claims to not have a problem with his, completely stock. Mine is rooted and has the hotspot hack.

dlang123 said:
Rooted?
Hotspot Hack?
My buddy claims to not have a problem with his, completely stock. Mine is rooted and has the hotspot hack.
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...as I said, I'm stock. My wife has the same phone and hers has no problem, or so she claims. However, her phone is nothing more than a window into the world of Pintrest and Facebook whereas I actually use my device constructively.

I just took the plunge, flashed back to 24a, re rooted, upgrade to 26a, and now it is much better.
Tried to post a pic.. but it is too annoying
26h 20min battery usage,
@24%
screen on time of 3hours.
That is much more in line in what I got when it was new.

So just running it all the way down, 33.5hours of usage @ 5% battery left, 3.5 hours of screen on time.
Much better.
I'll try to grab the battery pics, since I know no one will believe it..
You might want to fresh flash.. not sure what got messed up.. or if it was an app. Even though it was listed as Android system stuff.

dlang123 said:
So just running it all the way down, 33.5hours of usage @ 5% battery left, 3.5 hours of screen on time.
Much better.
I'll try to grab the battery pics, since I know no one will believe it..
You might want to fresh flash.. not sure what got messed up.. or if it was an app. Even though it was listed as Android system stuff.
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Which application do you use to track battery usage?
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Pretty sure I was just using the stock battery tracker at the time.

I officially give up on Lollipop

regarding the wifi battery drain bug. I've been scouting the Internet and found different suggestions from:
1. Changing Wifi Frequency
2. Turn off High Accuracy mode for GPS
3. Use custom kernel
4. Use custom Rom with R7 code
5. Uninstall apps, by using WLD to detect.
Some of my own:
1. Turn down screen brightness
2. Change my Wifi channel to N-only mode (5Ghz)
3. Flash back to KK 4.4.4 and OTA to L (UPDATE)
But nothing seems to help the drain while USING the freaking phone. I mean I surf the web with Wifi on and the battery drains quickly. I can't turn off wifi because I need it badly due to the fact I have the T-Mo $30 plan.
So therefore, I'm giving up trying and just have to charge more.

I never had this issue
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You could just try to live with it, i don't have this bug at all, but also i dont need wifi so much, have 15 GiB Data from Vodafone DE and just use it up like 90%..
You could also try to flash factory image and don't import ur apps, just go fresh

Out of curiosity, how much better was you phone on 4.4.4?
And, who can point me in the direction of how best to downgrade to 4.4.4?
Thanks.

Same here man. Here is what I've done so far to try to get back to Kitkat battery life.
I've fresh flashed the image at least 10 times using the flash all.bat on 2 different computers with matching MD5 downloads.
I've used it both stock/stock rooted, both unlocked/locked bootloader, both with/without user apps.
I've used several builds of Nexus 5 Experience, Slim , and Cataclysm ROMs.
I've used stock, Slim, Franco, ElementalX, Code Blue, Hellsgod, and Faux kernels.
I've used the setup as new device option at least 5 times on clean ROM flashes.
I've used Greenify and Lean Droid.
I've tried deleting all of but the most basic needed system apps.
I've turned off all battery drainers: Google Now, Location Services, Auto Brightness, Google Fit.
I've set mobile data to 2g only, set wifi to turn off while asleep, set wifi to 2.4 or 5 only, set it to device only GPS.
I've turned off auto brightness.
I've tried undervolting, tried underclocking, tried conservative governors.
I've tried doing a battery calibration.
.....there's probably a few more things I've tried as well but am not remembering right now.
I've tried quite literally every possible thing I can think of that I've picked up over the years as battery tips.
I'm still only able to get around 3 MAAAAAYBE 4 hours of combined usage on a good day which for me is listening to music over bluetooth and SOT combined. Compared to Kitkat that is about 2 hours give or take 30 minutes of less than before. Luckily I'm always near a charger.
Project Volta my patooty.:silly:

ronnienyc said:
Out of curiosity, how much better was you phone on 4.4.4?
And, who can point me in the direction of how best to downgrade to 4.4.4?
Thanks.
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Did you flash via the OTA update or through adb sideload on stock recovery?
Either way, you're going to have to unlock your phone to downgrade to 4.x, because you'll need to flash the factory image for it. Here's a quick overview of the process:
1. Download the factory image for your phone at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
2. If you haven't already unlocked your N5, you need to --- and back up anything important first, cuz it all gets erased. Google how to do it -- there are toolkits to do this quickly and painlessly (I think WUG's is one?). Look in the dev section for it.
3. Once you're backed up, unlocked, and factory image downloaded, you use fastboot to flash the factory image. Google how to flash nexus factory images, and substitute the image you have in place of the image any guides have.

For unlocking your Nexus 5 Bootloader, you first need to boot into fastboot mode. This can be done by turning off your phone, holding vol down and power and wait till the screen responds.
Now you need to connect your phone to your pc, be sure you installed the google usb driver for full support of fastboot mode.
Now you can go ahead and install Fastboot/ADB, there are plenty of Tutorials in this section for this.
Now open your cmd, and type
Code:
fastboot oem unlock
On your phone you will now see a selection, which you have to answer with YES.
Voilla, you have an unlocked Bootloader.
ALL YOUR DATA IS NOW LOST
Now just flash Factory 4.4.4 with flash_all.bat

This is true the battery is not very good but when you are using custom kernels please tweak them and learn how to tweak them using several kernel tuning apps like synapse faux clock, kernel tweaker, trickster mod etc
And if after tweaking u still are not getting results please try changing your kernel settings to new ones keep testing until you find suitable settings
All the best

Anyone want to comment on how LL battery life compared to 4.4.4 on their nexus?
In any case, I see little improvement in LL.
IMO 4.4.4 was better. At least you didn't have to swipe away notification screen every time you power on the screen.
If all we are gaining is slightly "smoother" experience, and encryption, then who gives a sh!t.
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Kartoffelrudi said:
For unlocking your Nexus 5 Bootloader, you first need to boot into fastboot mode. This can be done by turning off your phone, holding vol down and power and wait till the screen responds.
Now you need to connect your phone to your pc, be sure you installed the google usb driver for full support of fastboot mode.
Now you can go ahead and install Fastboot/ADB, there are plenty of Tutorials in this section for this.
Now open your cmd, and type
Code:
fastboot oem unlock
On your phone you will now see a selection, which you have to answer with YES.
Voilla, you have an unlocked Bootloader.
ALL YOUR DATA IS NOW LOST
Now just flash Factory 4.4.4 with flash_all.bat
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And yes, thank you. Fortunately, I have rooted tons of phones before, so I shouldn't get too lost
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Just for comparison's sake, I have been using my iPhone 6 for the past 4 hours, and it reads 94% remaining battery.

ronnienyc said:
[/COLOR]Just for comparison's sake, I have been using my iPhone 6 for the past 4 hours, and it reads 94% remaining battery.
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You weren't using it full screen on and playing anything intensive....
Iphones drain just a badly when you use them. When screen off sitting, they have wonderful battery. But who cares? I leave my phones on chargers when Idle.

tweaked said:
You weren't using it full screen on and playing anything intensive....
Iphones drain just a badly when you use them. When screen off sitting, they have wonderful battery. But who cares? I leave my phones on chargers when Idle.
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You're right - I wasn't using my iPhone 6 to "play" anything. I was using it to get work done: Emails, web, phone calls, SMS etc. It lasts two days for these purposes. My Nexus 5? 4-5 hours.
(and uh, no. It doesn't drain as badly. There's no contest there.. I prefer Android, but goddamn...I can't run around with a charger in my pocket. Not gonna happen)

2 days is my usual battery time. Same as kitkat, don't know what you r talking about wifi battery drain. Wifi is 90% turned on.

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You're right - I wasn't using my iPhone 6 to "play" anything. I was using it to get work done: Emails, web, phone calls, SMS etc. It lasts two days for these purposes. My Nexus 5? 4-5 hours.
(and uh, no. It doesn't drain as badly. There's no contest there.. I prefer Android, but goddamn...I can't run around with a charger in my pocket. Not gonna happen)
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4-5 Hours? You should re-image it man. You have something wrong. I get 4-5 hours of game, email, and music stream time on battery. If I Only do internet, email and phone I get an entire day.
Lucky for me these are toys. I would never be beholden to my electronics. lol

I'm not seeing any of these issues on Lollipop. Battery life has increased for me over KitKat.
I've been using Stock rooted with Code Blue.
A couple questions though...
Do you only make one change at a time and then test?
After making changes, how long do you test those settings before making additional changes?
Why did you switch it to 5GHz only? 5GHz has more trouble with walls and has a smaller coverage area than 2.4GHz.

Never had any issues with the WiFi but I turned off Google Now listening and almost tripled my daily battery life.
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I've just gone back to 4.4.4 - will see if battery improves or not.
I really did not see anything particularly better about LL anyway.

I'm having my share of problems with Lollipop (though things have been improving over the past week or two,) but the wifi power drain never hit me. Wi-Fi battery life is a bit worse than I had on Kitkat: idle drain is excellent, but SOT has gone from a comfortable 4 - 5 hr to 3 - 4 hrs (in a 12 - 15 hr day***), I can easily get well over 5 hrs, but that'll be at the cost of a significantly shorter 'day'. 3G, on the other hand, is chawing through battery rather aggressively compared to Kitkat & it hurts.
On both Kitkat & Lollipop I was/am running pure stock with everything on (Always listening, precise location, location reporting, bluetooth, etc. The only thing I've knowingly turned off is NFC (after accidentally setting my phone on a tag & tag-calling my mom at 4 AM ) No gaming, but several hours of podcast listening or Tune-In radio listening every day.
*** Usual average day from full charge to ~12% but early on there were a few days that barely lasted 10 hrs with under 3 hrs SOT.

I've been using the stock factory image and haven't encountered this wifi draining bug.

Update with reverting back to KK 4.4.4 from factory images and OTA to L in OP but only help with idle but not when using phone.

ronnienyc said:
Just for comparison's sake, I have been using my iPhone 6 for the past 4 hours, and it reads 94% remaining battery.
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ronnienyc said:
I was using it to get work done: Emails, web, phone calls, SMS etc.
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I'm not sure if you realize this, but you claimed you can get 66.6 hours of active usage on a single charge with your iphone 6. I don't think I need to explain how ridiculously impossible that is. Maybe you should stop exaggerating so much if you want people to take you seriously. Assuming what your battery life is and knowing, are two very different things.
I'd put money down the phone wasn't actively used for more than 1 hour in that time. 16 hours of usage is within the realm of possibility.
For the record, my colleague beside me right now has an iPhone 6 PLUS (more battery) and confirms that is impossible. You couldn't even read ebooks at 0% brightness for 66 hours. I'd ask for proof but your phone of choice has no way to do so and we all know it could never happen anyways.

Horrible Note 4 Battery Life. Android System Draining Way Too Much Battery.

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.
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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.

TMO NEXUS 6 Battery life since newest update

My device is unrooted
Everything was going great until the newest update that came last week. Since this my battery life has gone down hill fast. I feel like I'm back on my G1.
I have two questions is anyone else having this issue at all?
My other question is all my previous phones have had SD card spots so when I reset myphone all my pictures are stored there. If I reset myphone do I lose all my pictures?

Battery life has been good for me on that build and the recent fi build as well. Do you have a secondary battery meter like better battery stats? There is no sd card in the phone so yes that would be lost.

of course you can check why your battery times have dropped.. like maybe a stuck process or a certain app draining battery. im nearly 100% sure its not because of the update, but it can be user related. your signal quality could be worse as well, which will also drain battery faster.

wondercoolguy said:
My device is unrooted...
My other question is all my previous phones have had SD card spots so when I reset myphone all my pictures are stored there. If I reset myphone do I lose all my pictures?
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yes
why not use an auto photo backup app like picasa or similar?
you really should be doing this regardless. countless times people have come on here all frantic because something happened to their device and they lost all pics needlessly.

bweN diorD said:
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why not use an auto photo backup app like picasa or similar?
you really should be doing this regardless. countless times people have come on here all frantic because something happened to their device and they lost all pics needlessly.
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Cause I dont want Obama see my pictures!!! J/k
You bring up a good point I'll start the back up process when I get home....As I move closer to resetting my phone to see if it will fix my batterylife issue

simms22 said:
of course you can check why your battery times have dropped.. like maybe a stuck process or a certain app draining battery. im nearly 100% sure its not because of the update, but it can be user related. your signal quality could be worse as well, which will also drain battery faster.
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When I feel my phone getting hot or I notice the drain is going on I turn off my phone let it set to cool down or I just straight up restart it.
I live a pretty routine based life, Work, Church, Gym, Home.... So my signal life hasn't changed. My usage hasn't gone up or down....but my battery has since that update.
I do have battery apps to keep an eye on things. Display is number (of course) and number 2 which isn't normal is Android OS.

simms22 said:
of course you can check why your battery times have dropped.. like maybe a stuck process or a certain app draining battery. im nearly 100% sure its not because of the update, but it can be user related. your signal quality could be worse as well, which will also drain battery faster.
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One thing else I just noticed is my phone doesn't hit deep sleep either
Deep sleep is at 4hrs and 300mhz is at 13hrs

wondercoolguy said:
When I feel my phone getting hot or I notice the drain is going on I turn off my phone let it set to cool down or I just straight up restart it.
I live a pretty routine based life, Work, Church, Gym, Home.... So my signal life hasn't changed. My usage hasn't gone up or down....but my battery has since that update.
I do have battery apps to keep an eye on things. Display is number (of course) and number 2 which isn't normal is Android OS.
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well, what ive found out iver the years that im with android is that battery apps are pointless, and end up using your battery. just check you regular battery usage/stats. nobody uses their phones the exact same way every single time, its impossible. and when you are out, walking around, or driving, your signal quality will change, constantly. and apps, many times they will get a process stuck, and drain much more battery than normal. and then there is google play services, that will occasionally drain lits of battery, especially when its updating itself. in reality, there are numerous other reasons, besides the update, that will make you battery drain quicker. too numerous to list, lol.

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well, what ive found out iver the years that im with android is that battery apps are pointless, and end up using your battery. just check you regular battery usage/stats. nobody uses their phones the exact same way every single time, its impossible. and when you are out, walking around, or driving, your signal quality will change, constantly. and apps, many times they will get a process stuck, and drain much more battery than normal. and then there is google play services, that will occasionally drain lits of battery, especially when its updating itself. in reality, there are numerous other reasons, besides the update, that will make you battery drain quicker. too numerous to list, lol.
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my battery also has been going deep underground after last security update! nothing changed in the usage or the number of apps that i keep installed, so the suspect that the drain depends on the update in my opinion is becoming more and more real.
i also keep checking battery's stats and there isn't any anomaly or discrepancy compared to pre-update's stats.

I am in the same boat. I was using about 2-3 percent an hour before the security patch. But since the patch dropped I've been averaging about 10 percent an hour. I have to recharge at least once in the middle of the day. None of my apps changed.

Same here, noticeable difference in battery performance since last weeks update. Only change to apps is I am now using Google fit since last week, thought it was that but battery stats say otherwise.
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So last night I backed up all my pictures on my computer and the cloud. Tonight I will reset my phone before bed Ill have a better idea of what it will do tomorrow. It kinda stinks because I have this zooper/launchy/popup widget masterpiece going on my homescreen
Ill report back....

I have noticed the same issue since the OTA patch. Reminded me of my old Galaxy S where it would not go into deep sleep after being unplugged at a full charge without a reboot. I've gone without a reboot and with rebooting since the update and my phone is much better off after a reboot. About 7% per hour lost without compared to about 3-4% per hour lost with a reboot. Pretty consistent usage on a daily basis. Just my personal observation. I'm on AT&T though.

I got better battery life after the update... But then it went back to normal. I was being about 30 to 45 minutes extra SOT but now I'm back to my average times of 4-4:15 hours
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Take this for what it is.... I wake up at 545 grab my phone since the update by the time I get to work 7am it would be 96 or below.... I reset my phone last night and the phone seems back to normal at 99%-98%when I sit at my desk..... All apps reloaded and working before bed.....

My N6 is worse off for battery too after OTA update of last week. Seems like Google Services has just gotten a lot more aggressive doing what it is supposed to be doing. I hope Marshmallow will fix this.
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Well, mine also loses a lot per hr...and it alsways is the cell interface that is being kept awake over hours of time during a day.
Mainly email and Google services are the apps sucking it off...
Any ideas?

Factory reset and back to normal so far.
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A not so positive First Two Days with Galaxy S9

Hi all.
I buy the Galaxy S9 Plus, received two days ago.
Currently i have the January Firmware, no update here in Italy, that seems unstable right now.
Compared to my Oneplus 5t, sorry to say, but it is a bit laggier.
In those days, 2 times / 10 some application (Google maps - Twitter) have crashes or made the phone unusable (i have to force close Google maps three times yesterday).
Also, the battery is draining really fast, battery today drops with a medium usage to 10% after 2h of screen.
Hoping that the situation will be better with the new firmware.

2 days for testing battery life not enough the device still learning how u use it
for crashing and unstable for sure updates will solve that

The device isn't even officially released yet. Give them time to release the update that we already know is being released (already has been in Germany).
Allow more time for battery. A new phone has to learn your usage patterns before the battery is properly optimised.
If you're getting a lot of app crashes there's something wrong. Try a factory reset. If that doesn't work, return it as its faulty.

battery indeed drain very fast. I own a regular UK dual sim s9. compared to S8 which I previously own, sot is up to 1.5 hours shorter. basic operation heats up phone fast too.

I have none of such problems. No crashes so far. Battery life is great. Maybe faulty unit?

These are my battery figures so far.

I have had no crashes just yet. I managed about 4 hours SoT over an 18 hour day yesterday. Not amazing but better than my old 6P.
The device is lightning fast and keeps quite a bit in memory too!

Got the plus and had an ota yesterday. 1 fc of something I can't quite remember prior to update.
Been rock stable and battery excellent since then

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These are my battery figures so far.
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Something wrong with your apps/configuration. Android system can't be the top drainer....
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lorenzo.themax92 said:
Hi all.
I buy the Galaxy S9 Plus, received two days ago.
Currently i have the January Firmware, no update here in Italy, that seems unstable right now.
Compared to my Oneplus 5t, sorry to say, but it is a bit laggier.
In those days, 2 times / 10 some application (Google maps - Twitter) have crashes or made the phone unusable (i have to force close Google maps three times yesterday).
Also, the battery is draining really fast, battery today drops with a medium usage to 10% after 2h of screen.
Hoping that the situation will be better with the new firmware.
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I can tell you one thing when users report 5-7hrs sot and you just get 2, you can't blame the phone something is wrong with the apps you have or with some syncing issue

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Something wrong with your apps/configuration. Android system can't be the top drainer....
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I can tell you one thing when users report 5-7hrs sot and you just get 2, you can't blame the phone something is wrong with the apps you have or with some syncing issue
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I will post in those days, some screenshot about my battery usage, so you can understand.
However, i will reset the phone tonight, so we can check if it's something wrong with my apps.

It is the usage pattern that counts as well as the apps, theme and so on. Some might not use Facebook for ex that is known to heavily drain battery. Others might have dark/black themes that helps, or medium batery saving mode...there are hundreds of scenarios. One user that has his phone set on FHD+ resolution wil have the battery lasts longer than one that has it at WQHD. Some might have smartwatches and devices that require permanent BT on or high location settings. All these consume battery so just saying mine has that much SOT or it lasts that much time, means nothing.
For ex, in the print screens above mix197 had 13 hrs of standby with 2 hrs SOT...2 hrs of doing what? Cause there is no voice call (and he has VoLTE active that sucks battery), no navigation, no nothing. Read the Bible for 9 mins and browsed the internet for 20...and having 13 hrs of IDLE. That's a graphic showing night usage...probably lasted like this since he was sleeping and the phone too.
What I want to say is that don't bother to compare your new devices with others....eventualy compare it with your old devices since those had the same apps and usage pattern (mostly). And read how to improve on battery: use a dark theme, disable un-needed packages/bloatware...including but not limited to Gear VR, Gear S, Facebook, Bixby if you don;t use, ANT+ and so on...deactivate BT, or set the mobile data to turn off when on WiFi (is in dev settings as I recall and it's on by default to switch quicker from wifi to mobile data). All these will help you get some more battery

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It is the usage pattern that counts as well as the apps, theme and so on. Some might not use Facebook for ex that is known to heavily drain battery. Others might have dark/black themes that helps, or medium batery saving mode...there are hundreds of scenarios. One user that has his phone set on FHD+ resolution wil have the battery lasts longer than one that has it at WQHD. Some might have smartwatches and devices that require permanent BT on or high location settings. All these consume battery so just saying mine has that much SOT or it lasts that much time, means nothing.
For ex, in the print screens above mix197 had 13 hrs of standby with 2 hrs SOT...2 hrs of doing what? Cause there is no voice call (and he has VoLTE active that sucks battery), no navigation, no nothing. Read the Bible for 9 mins and browsed the internet for 20...and having 13 hrs of IDLE. That's a graphic showing night usage...probably lasted like this since he was sleeping and the phone too.
What I want to say is that don't bother to compare your new devices with others....eventualy compare it with your old devices since those had the same apps and usage pattern (mostly). And read how to improve on battery: use a dark theme, disable un-needed packages/bloatware...including but not limited to Gear VR, Gear S, Facebook, Bixby if you don;t use, ANT+ and so on...deactivate BT, or set the mobile data to turn off when on WiFi (is in dev settings as I recall and it's on by default to switch quicker from wifi to mobile data). All these will help you get some more battery
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The only reason people try to compare is to know if theres a problem with their device. For the s9+ it is the case as some are reporting 6-7Hrs sot while others are reporting 2-3hrs

I still believe that usage pattern and applications makes the difference. Such comparison should reflect something if same person was doing the tests. As this is not the case, results may vary by a large margin as I said. Besides that, the difference in hardware might be the binning (as it was the case with Note 8 or S8/S8+ devices). Could be that devices with higher SOT have higher values for nAsv too so that would mean they're much more power efficient and have higher performance too.

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I still believe that usage pattern and applications makes the difference. Such comparison should reflect something if same person was doing the tests. As this is not the case, results may vary by a large margin as I said. Besides that, the difference in hardware might be the binning (as it was the case with Note 8 or S8/S8+ devices). Could be that devices with higher SOT have higher values for nAsv too so that would mean they're much more power efficient and have higher performance too.
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That's why i started a thread called chip bin and benchmarks

Ok, i think that maybe there are some serious problem.
Only 1h and 30 of screen on, and already at 57% of battery.
Something goes wrong.
See screenshot attached

Yes android system is an aggregate of many things you need to install BBS or gsam

exocetdj said:
Got the plus and had an ota yesterday. 1 fc of something I can't quite remember prior to update.
Been rock stable and battery excellent since then
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How do you get such good battery life. I bearly get 3-4 SOT
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Something wrong with your apps/configuration. Android system can't be the top drainer....
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My screen is usually on top then it's Android System. How do I figure out what's causing my bad battery life?

3bs11 said:
How do you get such good battery life. I bearly get 3-4 SOT
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My screen is usually on top then it's Android System. How do I figure out what's causing my bad battery life?
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Install betterbatteystats and grant it the permissions via adb

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Install betterbatteystats and grant it the permissions via adb
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I just did that with gsam. Now what?

3bs11 said:
I just did that with gsam. Now what?
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Now you leave your phone for an hour or 2 untouched and see how it behaves. Look for partial wakelocks and alarms