I've had my 3T for about a week now. I really like the phone, but I think I'm getting subpar battery life.
I use my phone mostly for music, email, photos, and other productivity apps. I don't play games on it. While the battery typically lasts the whole day, I get to 7-8pm at about 15% or less. Given that this is a 3400 mah battery, I was expecting a slower drain.
Below is an example of a typical day: phone was charged in the evening up to 100%, slept with the phone unplugged, woke up the next morning at about 95%, and carried on from there.
Here are the screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/fQ5u7
As you can see here, my phone is being kept awake when the screen is off. I'd like to find out what is causing this in order to improve battery life. I don't have root and most of the apps I know require root. Is there any other way to find out what is keeping the phone awake?
Lastly, any other suggestions are more than appreciated.
Did you check the common possible culprints like location (off), wifi & bt location scanning (location>3dots>scan>both off), wifi settings (wifi>gear icon>all off), doze (developer settings>doze), no aggressive doze?
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Did you check the common possible culprints like location (off), wifi & bt location scanning (location>3dots>scan>both off), wifi settings (wifi>gear icon>all off), doze (developer settings>doze), no aggressive doze?
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Thanks, I've turned off wifi setting, wifi & bt location scanning, and aggressive doze is off.
If I completely turn off location, will it prevent apps that need location from knowing where I am? I'm thinking Swarm?
In developer settings, doze should be on or off? Seems like when it is on it saves battery?
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Did you check the common possible culprints like location (off), wifi & bt location scanning (location>3dots>scan>both off), wifi settings (wifi>gear icon>all off), doze (developer settings>doze), no aggressive doze?
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You are forgetting probably the biggest battery leech, and that is data reception, if you are located in a place where bad signal is received, your battery performance will be severely affected. And if that is the case, I suggest you to change LTE to 3g.
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You are forgetting probably the biggest battery leech, and that is data reception, if you are located in a place where bad signal is received, your battery performance will be severely affected. And if that is the case, I suggest you to change LTE to 3g.
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Even if he was on wifi most of the time?
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reviad said:
Thanks, I've turned off wifi setting, wifi & bt location scanning, and aggressive doze is off.
If I completely turn off location, will it prevent apps that need location from knowing where I am? I'm thinking Swarm?
In developer settings, doze should be on or off? Seems like when it is on it saves battery?
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It will, but just switch it on whenever needed. Normale doze should be on, thats the one in dev settings. Btw, did you update the os? If yes, did you do a reset?
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Even if he was on wifi most of the time?
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It will, but just switch it on whenever needed. Normale doze should be on, thats the one in dev settings. Btw, did you update the os? If yes, did you do a reset?
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Os was updated when I set up the phone so everything is new.
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Look here. Something is keeping it awake, even when the screen is off.
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Did you check the common possible culprints like location (off), wifi & bt location scanning (location>3dots>scan>both off), wifi settings (wifi>gear icon>all off), doze (developer settings>doze), no aggressive doze?
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Why turn aggressive doze off?i find it helps my battery life a lot
check out my thread here, might be helpful to you. I was in the same boat as you. Do you use textra or swiftkey? There's probably some rogue app causing your drain. Do you have any apps or the system following your location minute to minute? That could also be contributing.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/how-to/battery-life-heres-how-fixed-t3536456
Thanks. I'll take a look
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Dear All,
here is my Note 2.3.6 stock rom with Franco #6 kernel Battery usage (in pic 1&2)
It shows that my note was awake mostly all the time although as you can see from the pic that the phone screen is off most of the time (almost did not use it that day)
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1-is this because I was leaving the wifi on most the time?
Edit: I turned the wifi before sleep and after 6 hours I found the phone was awake all the 6 hours and sygic was off
this an old pic (couple of days before) and you can see my wifi was on all the time while the phone was not awake most of the time
2- Why my signal bar in pic is yellow and not green as usual?
and in pic 2 here is my apps, so which one caused this awake?
Final results after long day of asking, getting help from replies here, reading and trying, everything is fixed after doing restart
Run BetterBatteryStats to find the app causing the wakelocks
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Run BetterBatteryStats to find the app causing the wakelocks
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Don't keep your WiFi and GPS (Sygic) on all the time. Looks like that's what's stopping your Note from going to sleep.
Don't know if this is an actual fix, but what I discovered is that turning the screen off by pressing the 'Power' button on the side helps tremendously in preserving my battery life. If I just let the screen time out, my battery gets drained big time.
This may/may not work for you, but it's worth a shot...
(EDIT: This still holds true even when I keep my wi-fi on)
thank you to all who replied here, the main thread is updated , please read it​
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Run BetterBatteryStats to find the app causing the wakelocks
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Looks like has a lot of settings but will try
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Don't keep your WiFi and GPS (Sygic) on all the time. Looks like that's what's stopping your Note from going to sleep.
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I turned the wifi before sleep and after 6 hours I found the phone was awake all the 6 hours and sygic was off
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Don't know if this is an actual fix, but what I discovered is that turning the screen off by pressing the 'Power' button on the side helps tremendously in preserving my battery life. If I just let the screen time out, my battery gets drained big time.
This may/may not work for you, but it's worth a shot...
(EDIT: This still holds true even when I keep my wi-fi on)
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will try that too
Well both old and recent screenshots show the same battery drain and quite similar usage, they lasted for a day and a couple hours.. I think it's a glitch in the system info.
Had a problem a week ago with heavy battery drain in a quite similar manner and I can guarantee that if the phone didn't entered sleep mode it wouldn't even last those 24hrs.
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Well both old and recent screenshots show the same battery drain and quite similar usage, they lasted for a day and a couple hours.. I think it's a glitch in the system info.
Had a problem a week ago with heavy battery drain in a quite similar manner and I can guarantee that if the phone didn't entered sleep mode it wouldn't even last those 24hrs.
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do you mean that the phone entered deep sleep but the results are not correct or not true?
I have also CPU Spy and it shows that my phone did not enter deep sleep during the last 30 hours (or more)
try uninstalling Sygic.
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Also, Voice talk has the option to be ready all the time, by "Hi galaxy" command, try disabling that.
It was all good before but it suddenly started to drain out the battery. I saw the battery stats, its the cell standby that's using almost all the battery. I turned off the moto voice and moto display, no change. Maybe it has something to do with the location reporting as I heard somewhere. Even in airplane mode it still drains the heck outta it.
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Model: XT1058
Version: Lollipop 5.0.2 Stock
Status: Rooted
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Additional:
- Greenify installed
- No battery savers installed
- Drains even with USB charging and no activity with phone
See the Screenshots attached below.
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I have turned off location reporting and kept in charging or a while. I will update the thread if it's solved.
And it still remains the same, although the battery is slightly increased.
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And it still remains the same, although the battery is slightly increased.
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when you are not using 4g services than set network preference to 3g or 2g. disable mobile data when connected to wifi.
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when you are not using 4g services than set network preference to 3g or 2g. disable mobile data when connected to wifi.
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I'm always on WiFi, I already set to 3g as I use it occasionally but its not just that, airplane mode is useless, it shows radio uses battery. Maybe reseting is the only option.
I think this was common in the 5.0.2 version, I had bad standy cell drain and i think a lot of people on the MFN soak test forums also complained about it.
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I have turned off location reporting and kept in charging or a while. I will update the thread if it's solved.
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The only way i've found to get rid of the mobile standby battery drain is to keep wifi off. Dropped from 71% (one day with wifi and 4g on) to 4% (entire day with only 4g on). Only wifi with mobile data off still gets the mobile standby issue, albeit with better total battery life. Android 5.1 update just sucks for battery compared to 4.4.4, used to get through an entire day with 30-40% left and now im at 1% at 10pm.
Moto x battery draining on cell standby!
Even I am also facing the same trouble in my Moto x 2013 version which was not there in kitkat. I guess it is a hardware issue as my friend is also having the same mobile but he is not facing this issue.
Is there a bug fix for this yet?
I don't have the issue anymore and I turned of cell internet when not needed, installed power nap, wakelock detector, greenify, servicely, GSM battery, recently, and DS battery saver. One of those or all of them help, I don't know, but I get 7 hours screen time and my phone can run for 3 days without use
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I also think there's a bug in how Android reports the battery use because the app GSM battery sometimes shows a completely different use if battery stats and the GSM makes more sense so I think it's right and not Android
See the difference. Android has my screen using 75%, but GSM battery has it at 55%. The other totals are close. I have seen it a lot worse than this though.
See I keep data off and I don't have problem. The bug is, the switch from WiFi to data using voice over IP, or vise versa. Google has to find a way for it to work, without the cell stanby issue
Is there no way to fix this with root?
Tucking makes the hone unusable
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Battery consumption on school WiFi is unusually high. You'll notice the much steeper curve than when at home earlier in the day (school starts at 8). You can find attached GSam Screenshot, my app drawer and battery stats. Any ideas on how to reduce the consumption?
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A few things could be happening here;
1. When you take your phone off charge, usage below around 96% is a steeper curve for Li-Po and Li-Ion batteries, especially in smartphones, so this could be an unusual drain on your battery.
2. When connected to your home WiFi Router, the smartphone has a stable connection to one source. When connected to commercial WiFi, you'll find the device can be connecting to multiple routers as you move around so the phone is constantly renewing the WiFi lease, this will force the CPU to wakelock also which will cause a higher battery usage.
I'd suggest looking around for apps which give you more detailed battery stats, make sure you're charging the device with an approved Samsung product etc. It could even be that WiFi isn't even the issue here so it's worth looking around for apps which give better stats on usage.
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A few things could be happening here;
1. When you take your phone off charge, usage below around 96% is a steeper curve for Li-Po and Li-Ion batteries, especially in smartphones, so this could be an unusual drain on your battery.
2. When connected to your home WiFi Router, the smartphone has a stable connection to one source. When connected to commercial WiFi, you'll find the device can be connecting to multiple routers as you move around so the phone is constantly renewing the WiFi lease, this will force the CPU to wakelock also which will cause a higher battery usage.
I'd suggest looking around for apps which give you more detailed battery stats, make sure you're charging the device with an approved Samsung product etc. It could even be that WiFi isn't even the issue here so it's worth looking around for apps which give better stats on usage.
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It's not a commercial wifi, as far as I know, there's a single AP, as it's not a terribly big facility
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The router could have an agressive beacon rate...which just constantly probing your phone for connectivity. nothing you can do.
My fiance and I had similar battery drain issues whenever we connected to 5G routers. The only solution that I could find was to only use 2.4G on my router at home and cellular data when i'm out. Hopefully this issue will get fixed in a future update.
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The router could have an agressive beacon rate...which just constantly probing your phone for connectivity. nothing you can do.
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Not actually true.
If you wish root, then my SkyHigh kernel has Synapse options to adjust all this. May or may not work for him, as unsure of the exact cause.
Once you root though, there's no turning back. Warranty void and if you do re-flash full stock firmware after, knox being tripped, won't allow deep sleep.
Robatic said:
My fiance and I had similar battery drain issues whenever we connected to 5G routers. The only solution that I could find was to only use 2.4G on my router at home and cellular data when i'm out. Hopefully this issue will get fixed in a future update.
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Thanks for the insight, though it's unlikely my cheapskate school even has a 5GHz network ?
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Not actually true.
If you wish root, then my SkyHigh kernel has Synapse options to adjust all this. May or may not work for him, as unsure of the exact cause.
Once you root though, there's no turning back. Warranty void and if you do re-flash full stock firmware after, knox being tripped, won't allow deep sleep.
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Wait, does the no deep sleep without Knox apply to older phones? Because I think that my S4's battery degraded after I rooted, unrooted, then upgraded to Lollipop (though the latter part was done by a Samsung rep)*
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The router could have an agressive beacon rate...which just constantly probing your phone for connectivity. nothing you can do.
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I have the same problem on my home router. By setting a different beacon rate value, can I fix it?
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Not actually true.
If you wish root, then my SkyHigh kernel has Synapse options to adjust all this. May or may not work for him, as unsure of the exact cause.
Once you root though, there's no turning back. Warranty void and if you do re-flash full stock firmware after, knox being tripped, won't allow deep sleep.
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I have the same problem; how can I fix with Synapse? I never changed the values of the kernel and do not know how.
Anyone having issues with wifi constantly destroying the battery even when off?
I've turned off wifi scanning and location mode is device only and yet when you look at battery stats wifi is still on.
Only fool proof way of turning it off is having all aforementioned settings in place and then disconnecting from wifi while I'm still connected instead of leaving it by moving out of range (leaving my house for example).
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Anyone having issues with wifi constantly destroying the battery even when off?
I've turned off wifi scanning and location mode is device only and yet when you look at battery stats wifi is still on.
Only fool proof way of turning it off is having all aforementioned settings in place and then disconnecting from wifi while I'm still connected instead of leaving it by moving out of range (leaving my house for example).
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Am having the same issue... Nothing seems to fix it. I don't want to root and mess around with custom ROMs too.
Amerision said:
Anyone having issues with wifi constantly destroying the battery even when off?
I've turned off wifi scanning and location mode is device only and yet when you look at battery stats wifi is still on.
Only fool proof way of turning it off is having all aforementioned settings in place and then disconnecting from wifi while I'm still connected instead of leaving it by moving out of range (leaving my house for example).
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Amerision said:
Anyone having issues with wifi constantly destroying the battery even when off?
I've turned off wifi scanning and location mode is device only and yet when you look at battery stats wifi is still on.
Only fool proof way of turning it off is having all aforementioned settings in place and then disconnecting from wifi while I'm still connected instead of leaving it by moving out of range (leaving my house for example).
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Hello, I hope I can help. I have the same issue the day after I received MM OTA, that wifi drained me more than 10% in the morning when I haven't done anything online.
I tried googling. In addition to location and scanning settings, there is one more you can try:
http://www.naldotech.com/having-problems-with-marshmallow-wifi-battery-drain-how-to-fix-it/
Now go to Settings > Backup And Reset > Network Settings Reset and reset settings.
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The on screen instruction said I will lose all wifi settings, but turns out I don't need to enter the wifi and encryption keys again. I performed all these steps in one go and the problem disappeared the next day, so I don't really know which switch actually did the job. A week has passed, no more battery drain now and the battery usage is far better than I anticipated.
Hope this is helpful to you.
No dice my friend, still draining. I've disconnected from WiFi while in its range and am avoiding turning it back on and using 4G only
Wish someone would figure this out. Battery or WiFi is a pretty bad choice to be forced to make.
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No dice my friend, still draining. I've disconnected from WiFi while in its range and am avoiding turning it back on and using 4G only
Wish someone would figure this out. Battery or WiFi is a pretty bad choice to be forced to make.
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Have you really tried reset network setting, as I quoted in my earlier reply, and reboot immediately? If this doesn't work, do you have time to do reset factory default? A complete factory reset can sometimes be the last way out. No guarantee though.
I was having the same problem + cell was getting hot too often. I did a factory reset and the 2 issues were solve. You might need to try that.
I've been noticing huge battery drain on my Pixel 7 after the March update. No particular apps are draining the battery, phone idle alone does it.
I thought after the June update, it will make the battery backup better but I think it made it even worse. Last night I charged my phone to 100% and slept by turning off WiFi and mobile data. I even kept my network type to 3G to avoid background activities from 4G. And waking up after 5-6 hrs of sleep, I found my battery to be 89%. Screenshot is attached below. This is very disappointing. I bought this phone on February. It has not been a year and this is the performance I get from a flagship?
Clearly, this is not normal. Phone Idle draining 78%(of the 11% actual battery drain) of my phone's battery is crazy. I used to get 2 days of battery backup before that March update. And now I can hardly survive 16hrs. Please help me with a fix.
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Factory reset, then be careful what you install.
You didn't use anything on the device though. The phone is idling more than doing any other task. So of course 78% of that small amount of battery drain is going to be due to the idle because idling is what is doing 78% of the time. I really don't see any issue here. I mean you only lost 11% battery over 4 hours and that first 15% drains quicker because lithium ion battery drain isn't linear. That first 10% always goes faster than the rest of the device. If it really bothers you, I would suggest changing the doze parameters to wear it disables the sensors on the device until it's unlocked.
Also, I just noticed that you have no mobile data on either SIM card. The phone is looking for a signal constantly and not getting it, that alone will drain battery, not to mention using dual sims has been known to affect battery life as well. Is the phone in airplane mode in that picture?
You aren't alone. I've been fighting the same issue with the battery drain since March. Up until the June update my excessive battery drain was showing as "Mobile network" but now it shows as "Phone idle". Strangely it drains the most when not in use. I've already done a factory reset and ended up with the exact same issue instantly.
It may be worth trying to disable the "adaptive connectivity" setting and see if that helps. I live in a weak 5g area and my phone was constantly switching between LTE and 5g causing signal drops and battery drain for me. I turned it off and it helped with both issues.
Settings, network & internet, scroll down to the bottom.
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It may be worth trying to disable the "adaptive connectivity" setting and see if that helps. I live in a weak 5g area and my phone was constantly switching between LTE and 5g causing signal drops and battery drain for me. I turned it off and it helped with both issues.
Settings, network & internet, scroll down to the bottom.
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Tried almost everything except this one. I noticed this option was enabled on my phone. Turned it off today. Let's see how it goes. Thanks for suggestion!
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Also, I just noticed that you have no mobile data on either SIM card. The phone is looking for a signal constantly and not getting it, that alone will drain battery, not to mention using dual sims has been known to affect battery life as well. Is the phone in airplane mode in that picture?
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Not in airplane mode. I turned off Data then why would it constantly look for signal?
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Not in airplane mode. I turned off Data then why would it constantly look for signal?
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I guess I should have asked first, I wasn't sure if you turned data off or not, I guess that's what led to the airplane mode. What about in developer options? Is mobile data always active still set to true?
Anyone with this issue my best suggestion would be use some kind of doze optimization mod. I know nap time is kind of outdated but some things still work correctly. I believe all of it does except for the GMS does magisk module. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom there's a setting that says wait for unlock. That keeps the phone in deep doze mode until you unlock the device, which also keeps the sensors turned off as well. Another option is diamond John's app Temefi. In the search box, type in doze, and you'll see a place where you can choose from several different Doze profiles. For this you need root, but if you're not rooted I would stick with nap time which just needs some ADB commands entered
i think it's a bug, i have no drain but look at the screenshot
"telefono inattivo" is phone idle, same percent but 1hr and more compared to yours, strange, indeed i've no drain
i always keep data, wifi and bluetooth on, since i work in a place where there's no 100% coverage of wifi, and bluetooth for smartwatch connection
have you tried safe mode?