A not so positive First Two Days with Galaxy S9 - Samsung Galaxy S9 Guides, News, & Discussion

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

mix1987 said:
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

skivnit said:
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.

Rapier said:
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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skivnit said:
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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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

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[Q] How many time does your battery work?

Hello there!
I want to ask you to write -how many time does your battery work until the phone asks to charge it?? And can you add, do you keep your wifi, gps, bluetooth, auto rotation,3g,background data,auto-sync on? What programs do have running in the background?:}
You see, the problem is that i have my mini for about a week now, and i'm a bit dizzy about the fact, that my battery stands for ~9 to 14 hours, AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT, i have everything what i have mentioned above TURNED OFF. I use only wifi for about ~30 minutes a day and listen to music while i'm traveling somewhere..
My mini has android v2.2.1 Maybe newer versions can extend the battery life?
Cheers!)
Hi letmepass,
I understand your problems with battery life as I'm sure a lot of others here can sympathize. I am running android 2.3.7 and my experience is that even from 2.3.4 onwards the battery life is significantly improved.
Currently I run wifi constantly and sometimes gps when I'm outside. Gps doesn't seem to pose a huge threat running in the background although WILL drain your battery if in constant heavy use (maps/navigational applications etc). I suggest upgrading your firmware version of android to at least 2.3.4.
Also theres a quick check to see whats hogging all your resources which I always find to come in handy. Go into settings, then application settings and choose running services. Press your info button on the mini and touch show cached processes (press again to switch back to running processes) From there you can get a pretty good idea of what is using your system resources and you can pretty much guarantee thats a huge drain on battery also.
Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot Fraser1978 ! I'm thinking about upgrading my android, the only thing stops me is warranty, i don't want to loose it yet. And of course the risk to brake my phone.. Am. Can you tell me please how often do you charge your mini?
I sometimes only charge once a day but it depends on how heavily I use the phone. In general my phone is charged twice a day. How often do you have to charge your mini?
Fraser1978 said:
I sometimes only charge once a day but it depends on how heavily I use the phone. In general my phone is charged twice a day. How often do you have to charge your mini?
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Once or twice a day.. Uh, I thought.. I've read somewhere, that mini can stay alive up to 2-3 days.. You know, it's my first smartphone, so didn't know the battery behaves this way ;D before i had Samsung s5230, and it worked for 3-4days, so it's a big difference
One day i downloaded avg antivirus for mini and ran it. Can you imagine, it discharged the full battery in about 3-4hours ;D ...
Thank you anyway!
Did not use rooted 2.2.1 for long.
2.3.3 and 2.3.4 (stock rom), rooted, with CPU tuner installed helped getting 40+ hours of battery life - no wifi; GPRS on full time, 1hr + talk time. 15 to 45 minutes browsing. This meant charging alternate days.
With CM 7.1, it charge alternate days, but if first charge is today morning, next charge is tomorrow evening.
Edit:- This also a bit operator / location dependent. If you travel a lot, phone will obvious discharge fast. Try using a different operator (if possible), or using in a different location.
Changing operator selection to "manual" might help.
I really feel your pain! It's the main drawback for me with this phone. Its my third smartphone and second touch smart phone. My last 2 were both symbian. It's a great phone but the battery life is really disappointing!
Mine can survive up to 2 days...I'm running CM7.1 with governor interactive x and scheduler sio(using no frills).
I use my phone in two ways: one as a simple phone, with just 15 minutes of 3g, about an hour of call, and a lot of SMS...and it stands up two days...the other way is about an hour of 3g and a bit of gaming, over the phone using...and I can get a whole day
I keep everything disabled when not using, and (the most important thing) I use "battery calibration" every time I flash a new ROM
Try my suggestions and let me know ;-)
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Thank you guys for your replies!!)
For me it survives in a normal day (with travel, in Froyo 2.2.1 with 3G and tweeting every 30 mins) from 7AM to 8/9PM, If I stay at home with the wifi always on and a few calls 1 day and 12 hours...
I wish they had thought about the battery life before finishing the product!
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And you're welcome letmepass
Max 7 hours if full network
Fraser1978 said:
I wish they had thought about the battery life before finishing the product!
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And you're welcome letmepass
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That's a problem with all smartphones, have you seen the battery stats for the HTC Titan.....3 to 4 freaking HOURS before charge....I think that's just irresponsible!!!
OK I have one more question, is it ok to leave mini charging over night? I mean, doesn't it have bad effect on the battery life?
Hello friends!
I have good news:} I think I've found the solution for my situation:} In my case, the "Use packet data" was on, which means that phone was always using/reconnecting to the EDGE:} I turned it off and battery works just fine!!:} Now there is only one thing to look for is for how many time will my battery survive!;D
Just in case anyone find it useful;}
Cheers!
hmmm , im using wifi up to 8 hours but only sms my phone up to 48hours !

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.

Nexus bricked (already got new one) and battery question

So hi all
I received my first Nexus 6 yesterday, got it charged, didn't even set it up properly (no sim card installed yet). Screen pops up to say ther's an update available to 5.1. So I did that update. Mid-update an android shows up, laying on his back and "Error". Rebooted phone... Bootloop on "optimizing apps".
Got new phone from store today, everything works. But I don't want to update again and have the same issue. Anyone knows something about bricking the Nexus 6 with factory updates? Wasn't planning on rooting or anything else. Is there any major reason to update to 5.1?
Secondly, I was reading that the Nexus 6 has a very good battery life. That's the main reason I switched from my iPhone 5 (before I had android phones) to the Nexus 6. I fully charged it today, spent 20 minutes on the phone and already 5% off, only WiFi enabled & bluetooth. Three apps installed: Facebook, Messenger & Instagram. Does the phone still have to break in or could it be that the 5.1 update fixes any battery drain issues?
Many thanks in advance!
Jessestr said:
So hi all
I received my first Nexus 6 yesterday, got it charged, didn't even set it up properly (no sim card installed yet). Screen pops up to say ther's an update available to 5.1. So I did that update. Mid-update an android shows up, laying on his back and "Error". Rebooted phone... Bootloop on "optimizing apps".
Got new phone from store today, everything works. But I don't want to update again and have the same issue. Anyone knows something about bricking the Nexus 6 with factory updates? Wasn't planning on rooting or anything else. Is there any major reason to update to 5.1?
Secondly, I was reading that the Nexus 6 has a very good battery life. That's the main reason I switched from my iPhone 5 (before I had android phones) to the Nexus 6. I fully charged it today, spent 20 minutes on the phone and already 5% off, only WiFi enabled & bluetooth. Three apps installed: Facebook, Messenger & Instagram. Does the phone still have to break in or could it be that the 5.1 update fixes any battery drain issues?
Many thanks in advance!
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the 5.1, then the 5.1.1 updates fix MANY issues, add features, and it changes the way the cpu works, for the better..
simms22 said:
the 5.1, then the 5.1.1 updates fix MANY issues, add features, and it changes the way the cpu works, for the better..
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Any tips to prevent it from bricking again? It's a brand new phone in a brand new package... Don't want to go to the shop again tomorrow saying it's broken again. And I could fix it by adb & fastboot stuff but I don't want to void my warranty yet.
the battery drain is mostly related to how you personally use the phone, how you set it up, what apps you install and use, and your phone/data signal quality. keep your phones brightness down for better battery.
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Jessestr said:
Any tips to prevent it from bricking again? It's a brand new phone in a brand new package... Don't want to go to the shop again tomorrow saying it's broken again. And I could fix it by adb & fastboot stuff but I don't want to void my warranty yet.
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well, it wasnt "bricked", you just didnt know how to fix it. but no, thetes nothing you can do from that randomly happening again. but it was a random event, as the far majority of nexus 6 updated ota fine.
Jessestr said:
So hi all
I received my first Nexus 6 yesterday, got it charged, didn't even set it up properly (no sim card installed yet). Screen pops up to say ther's an update available to 5.1. So I did that update. Mid-update an android shows up, laying on his back and "Error". Rebooted phone... Bootloop on "optimizing apps".
Got new phone from store today, everything works. But I don't want to update again and have the same issue. Anyone knows something about bricking the Nexus 6 with factory updates? Wasn't planning on rooting or anything else. Is there any major reason to update to 5.1?
Secondly, I was reading that the Nexus 6 has a very good battery life. That's the main reason I switched from my iPhone 5 (before I had android phones) to the Nexus 6. I fully charged it today, spent 20 minutes on the phone and already 5% off, only WiFi enabled & bluetooth. Three apps installed: Facebook, Messenger & Instagram. Does the phone still have to break in or could it be that the 5.1 update fixes any battery drain issues?
Many thanks in advance!
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Regarding battery life, Facebook app is a huge battery killer. I suggest using the mobile site. Battery life is dependent on many things, including signal quality, apps installed, location settings, screen brightness, etc. I regularly see 5-6 hours of SOT. I keep location set to battery saving. Ambient display is turned off, because I use a custom ROM that enables the LED notification by default. My brightness is kept between 30-35% with adaptive brightness enabled. Also, I'm either on WiFi or a strong LTE signal.
Regarding your misfortune with the OTA soft brick, it is not uncommon but I doubt it will occur again on your new device. If it should, return it again. It is of no fault of yours. You should always update, as important security and system features are updated.
Evolution_Tech said:
Regarding battery life, Facebook app is a huge battery killer. I suggest using the mobile site. Battery life is dependent on many things, including signal quality, apps installed, location settings, screen brightness, etc. I regularly see 5-6 hours of SOT. I keep location set to battery saving. Ambient display is turned off, because I use a custom ROM that enables the LED notification by default. My brightness is kept between 30-35% with adaptive brightness enabled. Also, I'm either on WiFi or a strong LTE signal.
Regarding your misfortune with the OTA soft brick, it is not uncommon but I doubt it will occur again on your new device. If it should, return it again. It is of no fault of yours. You should always update, as important security and system features are updated.
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Thanks! Facebook wasn't even between the battery usage yet. Because I wasn't logged in yet. Messenger and Facebook (& data signal) were the apps that drained my iPhone the most, sadly enough.
Currently I was on WiFi with data disabled. To how much days does 5-6 hours SOT time translate in days? 1 or 1.5 days .. 2 days? (for you). I was having high hopes with Android again but my newly aquired Moto 360 drained in 3 hours from 80% to 6%... with almost all features turned off. Hoping to get this stuff fixed.
So I should just try to update it again?
Jessestr said:
Thanks! Facebook wasn't even between the battery usage yet. Because I wasn't logged in yet. Messenger and Facebook (& data signal) were the apps that drained my iPhone the most, sadly enough.
Currently I was on WiFi with data disabled. To how much days does 5-6 hours SOT time translate in days? 1 or 1.5 days .. 2 days? (for you). I was having high hopes with Android again but my newly aquired Moto 360 drained in 3 hours from 80% to 6%... with almost all features turned off. Hoping to get this stuff fixed.
So I should just try to update it again?
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I'm in the "extreme" category as far as usage goes. So, my 5-6 hours of Screen On Time translates to about 15-18 hours of use/standby. For less frequent use, you should easily see 1-1.5 days on a charge, if not more.
Yes, update. There's nothing you can do to prevent it from happening. Well, maybe not nothing...
You could unlock your bootloader, and never worry about updates again.
Jessestr said:
Thanks! Facebook wasn't even between the battery usage yet. Because I wasn't logged in yet. Messenger and Facebook (& data signal) were the apps that drained my iPhone the most, sadly enough.
Currently I was on WiFi with data disabled. To how much days does 5-6 hours SOT time translate in days? 1 or 1.5 days .. 2 days? (for you). I was having high hopes with Android again but my newly aquired Moto 360 drained in 3 hours from 80% to 6%... with almost all features turned off. Hoping to get this stuff fixed.
So I should just try to update it again?
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a little story about facebook.. the last time i had facebook on any of my devices was in 2011. i had it on bith my nexus phones and tablet at the time. as far as i could remember, it always drained my battery. i had it on my nexus 7 for 2 months. one day i noticed it drained 25%. the funny thing was that i never ever logged into my account on the tablet, ever. i started niticing that it drained anywhere from 8-30% battery, without me ever using. after a week or so of this, i uninstalled the facebook app from all of my devices, and have been using the site since. btw, facebook is one of the top 5 apps that will drain your battery, even if you dont ever use.
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Jessestr said:
Thanks! Facebook wasn't even between the battery usage yet. Because I wasn't logged in yet. Messenger and Facebook (& data signal) were the apps that drained my iPhone the most, sadly enough.
Currently I was on WiFi with data disabled. To how much days does 5-6 hours SOT time translate in days? 1 or 1.5 days .. 2 days? (for you). I was having high hopes with Android again but my newly aquired Moto 360 drained in 3 hours from 80% to 6%... with almost all features turned off. Hoping to get this stuff fixed.
So I should just try to update it again?
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my phone uses about 5.5-6.5 hours sot. for me, thats about a day, but im a very heavy user. we all use our phones differently, so 5h sot will mean different things to different people.
simms22 said:
a little story about facebook.. the last time i had facebook on any of my devices was in 2011. i had it on bith my nexus phones and tablet at the time. as far as i could remember, it always drained my battery. i had it on my nexus 7 for 2 months. one day i noticed it drained 25%. the funny thing was that i never ever logged into my account on the tablet, ever. i started niticing that it drained anywhere from 8-30% battery, without me ever using. after a week or so of this, i uninstalled the facebook app from all of my devices, and have been using the site since. btw, facebook is one of the top 5 apps that will drain your battery, even if you dont ever use.
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my phone uses about 5.5-6.5 hours sot. for me, thats about a day, but im a very heavy user. we all use our phones differently, so 5h sot will mean different things to different people.
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Oh okay. Maybe I should remove the Facebook app. I only use it when I'm bored. Will leave messenger installed for now.
In meantime I successfully installed 5.1. Now on to 5.1.1 or does it have the same battery drain issue as the android wear one?
Jessestr said:
Oh okay. Maybe I should remove the Facebook app. I only use it when I'm bored. Will leave messenger installed for now.
In meantime I successfully installed 5.1. Now on to 5.1.1 or does it have the same battery drain issue as the android wear one?
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android wear, i have no idea, sorry. but 5.1.1 is better
Jessestr said:
Oh okay. Maybe I should remove the Facebook app. I only use it when I'm bored. Will leave messenger installed for now.
In meantime I successfully installed 5.1. Now on to 5.1.1 or does it have the same battery drain issue as the android wear one?
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No battery drain issues here.
All updates installed. Battery life got good, also fixed my moto 360 install. Both devices can stay on for much longer! Feels good !

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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Sony Xperia Z5 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
The best SOT Android smartphone ever, this was confirmed by a lot users and famous blogs.
RyTekk said:
The best SOT Android smartphone ever, this was confirmed by a lot users and famous blogs.
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On Z5 maybe but With the Z5 Premium it's hard to reach 4hours screen on time...
Wave__ said:
On Z5 maybe but With the Z5 Premium it's hard to reach 4hours screen on time...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66164342&postcount=28
Ashray_Vk said:
Was using Intelliplug with eco conservative profile in kernel auditor. Also had undervolted all clock frequencies by 5 mV
Most of the other settings stayed at stock. The governor (interactive) was tweaked using heimdall's tweaks ( posted in z5 themes and apps section by a user, along with those power tweaks and setprop tweaks)
I felt amplify made most of the magic here. Helped a lot with wakelocks. Searched the net for guide to use amplify and it worked brilliantly. Phone was down to 50% and I had an SOT of 4.5+ hours.
Will try the new kernel and let you know in a day or two. I am pretty sure the kernel would work better if I gave it a day to settle.
For the previous kernel which I was testing, it was it's first run.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66164342&postcount=28
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Pretty sure I can get it to around 8 hours SOT atleast! But since I am very busy nowadays and my internship started today, it's gonna be a little hard
Best for me is 4:48 as reported by Battery Monitor Widget, but mostly is 3D games so I think is pretty good
I have my Phone 3 hours off Power, Battery goes down to 60% and the main app draining power is the Display with 17% as per the battery consumption chart.
In the Details to the batteryconsumption of the display it says the display was on for 1:35, however I hardly turned it on.
That is the same since LP and even with MM I reset already 3 times. no change.
I would love the meet someone with that great performance. mine seems just broken :/
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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Sony Xperia Z5 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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I get 5 hours on average from 100% without using Wi-Fi and on H+ and my average use is what's app, Instagram, mobile payment, snap chat ( eats a lot) and taking pictures. My brightness is at half with automatic turned on
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...authkey=!ALg0IZ2gdeTvo9A&v=3&ithint=photo,png
Such a pity that the battery is not awesome maybe due to bloatwares
calvinerico said:
Such a pity that the battery is not awesome maybe due to bloatwares
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Actually I hope so. I am one step away from rooting my phone and hope that this might help, especially with greenify having root access.
The device is almost unusable anymore with this battery life. I factory reset once a week, don't even have many apps or do much with it but it still lasts just half a day.
After a factory reset the first 2-3 days are almost fine up to one day.
I dont even think 2 days are possible if I don't activate the whole time...
pilzj said:
Actually I hope so. I am one step away from rooting my phone and hope that this might help, especially with greenify having root access.
The device is almost unusable anymore with this battery life. I factory reset once a week, don't even have many apps or do much with it but it still lasts just half a day.
After a factory reset the first 2-3 days are almost fine up to one day.
I dont even think 2 days are possible if I don't activate the whole time...
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Xperia Z5 Tmobile USA
2.5HR SOT
Mobile radio likes to stay active throughout the day. Have tried many roms/ factory resets.
Hopefully next software update....feel like i've been saying that for years about various android phones...
stealthj said:
Xperia Z5 Tmobile USA
2.5HR SOT
Mobile radio likes to stay active throughout the day. Have tried many roms/ factory resets.
Hopefully next software update....feel like i've been saying that for years about various android phones...
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Similar here on T-mo USA
I wonder if the lack of proper tmous radio tuning leads the phone to drain on LTE... Have noticed more drain (phone doesn't seem to have doze lines anymore even though BBS shows doze..) after rooting/xposed. So much that I uninstalled xposed as a test.
Going to try dropping back to HSPA and see if its better.
sovanyio said:
Similar here on T-mo USA
I wonder if the lack of proper tmous radio tuning leads the phone to drain on LTE... Have noticed more drain (phone doesn't seem to have doze lines anymore even though BBS shows doze..) after rooting/xposed. So much that I uninstalled xposed as a test.
Going to try dropping back to HSPA and see if its better.
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Not sure if that may attribute to it but i dont doubt it...
I did have the courage to flash one of those US roms, even though my FPS (fingerprint sensor ) didin't work...
But eventually after a few days, battery drain came back....
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Not sure if that may attribute to it but i dont doubt it...
I did have the courage to flash one of those US roms, even though my FPS (fingerprint sensor ) didin't work...
But eventually after a few days, battery drain came back....
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Hmmmm may be onto something here, right away I'm noticing that Yappy is not hanging on sending messages. What I think was happening for me was low LTE signal was causing Yappy to wake up every minute to restart itself. Not sure why Yappy wasn't showing in battery settings, but my phone seems to be connected now that I'm on a 'stable network'. Really wish we could get the tuning on tmous :/
I'm getting average 7-9 hours SOT with my Xperia Z5 Dual E6683... btw is it normal for the GPS indicator at the battery usage page to show that it's constantly turned on throughout the whole day eventhough it's turned off?
sovanyio said:
Hmmmm may be onto something here, right away I'm noticing that Yappy is not hanging on sending messages. What I think was happening for me was low LTE signal was causing Yappy to wake up every minute to restart itself. Not sure why Yappy wasn't showing in battery settings, but my phone seems to be connected now that I'm on a 'stable network'. Really wish we could get the tuning on tmous :/
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Aaaand nope, got the fast dormancy wakelocks and battery drained faster than before. Reflashing the stock system and wiping cache now to see if I can get doze lines again.
Edit: Battery is better but I think because of things I did after reflashing. Installed WLD since I have root now and noticed that google maps (and later android pay) were generating NLP wakelocks, so cleared data on google maps since I have location reporting off already and then denied location to android pay and it seems to be back to normal. If this is stable for a few days I may try Xposed again.
On average daily use with WiFi on and location enabled most of the time I will get 5 hours SOT. I have pushed it close to 6 with reducing my brightness to almost nothing and only using the phone for messaging. Several factors will affect SOT. For me getting group messages or picture messages drops battery life. Using Chrome also drops it.
mbeni007 said:
On average daily use with WiFi on and location enabled most of the time I will get 5 hours SOT. I have pushed it close to 6 with reducing my brightness to almost nothing and only using the phone for messaging. Several factors will affect SOT. For me getting group messages or picture messages drops battery life. Using Chrome also drops it.
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Curious what your app list is?
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Curious what your app list is?
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Are you asking the app usage in the day? Funny enough my battery life today was a definite miss but it got me through the workday and that's all I need.
Nah I meant like what apps do you have that are non-stock..
But looks like my phone is back to not dozing.. losing ~10% overnight, where I used to lose 3%. Looks like I'm getting the Mobile Radio Active bug displaying through google play services. Clearing caches of apps that appear to be causing it as I go...

fix for 7+ hours sot

Ok as you know the phones with the Xynos chip has pretty rubbish battery life but I've found a temp fix until samsung hopefully fix the issue. You won't notice any slow down or compromise the use of your phone.
All it is is set your phone to mid battery save and keep all the settings on but limit the cpu.
You can still play all the latest games without a stutter, you can't tell the cpu is being throttled.
Try it for a day see what you think, I also have Always on Display turned off for extra savings.
Interesting, will give it a try today, been averaging 3h40m for 50% battery usage (Not run it down to 0% yet) so will be able to see if it improves much
Says it has added over 4 hours to my battery life estimate
Thanks for the suggestion, will be testing soon.
My issue with my Exynos S9 is the standby. It's not completely terrible unless I'm in a crowded bar or an area with zero reception, but I can never get it to be good. Even with everything disabled (location, sync, AOD, lots of apps, etc) I can't get it under 1.5% drain per hour. With it all on I can easily hit 5% drain per hour, sometimes more, which is weird, cause the actual SOT doesn't take much more than this; 8-10% when stationary on WiFi, 12-15% when moving on mobile data.
Seriously the SOT on this thing is great (FHD+, haven't tried QHD+ yet). I reckon I could easily hit 7 hours, possibly getting up to 10 if I'm just browsing/watching shows in bed all day. But dear god the standby is driving me nuts.
SponTen said:
Thanks for the suggestion, will be testing soon.
My issue with my Exynos S9 is the standby. It's not completely terrible unless I'm in a crowded bar or an area with zero reception, but I can never get it to be good. Even with everything disabled (location, sync, AOD, lots of apps, etc) I can't get it under 1.5% drain per hour. With it all on I can easily hit 5% drain per hour, sometimes more, which is weird, cause the actual SOT doesn't take much more than this; 8-10% when stationary on WiFi, 12-15% when moving on mobile data.
Seriously the SOT on this thing is great (FHD+, haven't tried QHD+ yet). I reckon I could easily hit 7 hours, possibly getting up to 10 if I'm just browsing/watching shows in bed all day. But dear god the standby is driving me nuts.
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Standby drain will be higher if your phone is in a pocket, doze only kicks in when the phone is sitting completely still so no sensors are active like gyro etc (unless that has changed in Oreo)
So standby overnight should be significantly better than when you're out and about with it
*Detection* said:
Standby drain will be higher if your phone is in a pocket, doze only kicks in when the phone is sitting completely still so no sensors are active like gyro etc (unless that has changed in Oreo)
So standby overnight should be significantly better than when you're out and about with it
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Yeah makes sense, but it still drains 1% per hour overnight, whereas other phones I've used only drain about 0.5%.
SponTen said:
Yeah makes sense, but it still drains 1% per hour overnight, whereas other phones I've used only drain about 0.5%.
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1% or even 0.5% per hour is a bit much tbh, I see about 2% drain for around 8-10 hours
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1% or even 0.5% per hour is a bit much tbh, I see about 2% drain for around 8-10 hours
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That's also the consensus I've been seeing elsewhere.
No idea how to fix. Seems that only my HTC 10, which has horrible SOT (drains about 25% per hour) can get standby this good, and yet it's still worse than most other people's.
2.5% per hour on average during the day with location and sync (but not AOD) on is actually good for my S9, yet it's still poor compared to everyone else's it seems. Today, with location and sync off, I'm averaging 1.5% standby drain per hour. AccuBattery staying 86% deep sleep, whereas it's closer to 65% when location/sync are on.
idunnolol, maybe I have poor signal? I'm usually on 2-3 bars. Or maybe an app I use is sucking power? ¯\(°_o)/¯
SponTen said:
That's also the consensus I've been seeing elsewhere.
No idea how to fix. Seems that only my HTC 10, which has horrible SOT (drains about 25% per hour) can get standby this good, and yet it's still worse than most other people's.
2.5% per hour on average during the day with location and sync (but not AOD) on is actually good for my S9, yet it's still poor compared to everyone else's it seems. Today, with location and sync off, I'm averaging 1.5% standby drain per hour. AccuBattery staying 86% deep sleep, whereas it's closer to 65% when location/sync are on.
idunnolol, maybe I have poor signal? I'm usually on 2-3 bars. Or maybe an app I use is sucking power? ¯\(°_o)/¯
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There's a few people with this drain problem and up to now we're starting to think it might be related to the modem, as with the SIM removed the extra drain is gone
It also looks like it might be related to which region/CSC firmware you have running, I am running the United Kingdom O2U firmware and do not see this extra drain
But this is all theory / guesses right now, nothing solid
*Detection* said:
There's a few people with this drain problem and up to now we're starting to think it might be related to the modem, as with the SIM removed the extra drain is gone
It also looks like it might be related to which region/CSC firmware you have running, I am running the United Kingdom O2U firmware and do not see this extra drain
But this is all theory / guesses right now, nothing solid
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Yeah makes sense. I'm in Australia, not sure how to find my firmware version. I'm guessing it's in Software Information? But there are a lot of numbers.
I find the Exynos modems seem a little worse than the Snapdragon ones where I live, though it could just be the specific places where I work and travel.
SponTen said:
Yeah makes sense. I'm in Australia, not sure how to find my firmware version. I'm guessing it's in Software Information? But there are a lot of numbers.
I find the Exynos modems seem a little worse than the Snapdragon ones where I live, though it could just be the specific places where I work and travel.
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Samsung Phone INFO app from the play store will give you all the info you need
*Detection* said:
There's a few people with this drain problem and up to now we're starting to think it might be related to the modem, as with the SIM removed the extra drain is gone
It also looks like it might be related to which region/CSC firmware you have running, I am running the United Kingdom O2U firmware and do not see this extra drain
But this is all theory / guesses right now, nothing solid
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I think I isolated the issue by disabling extra packages last night, but I don't know which of them. Will see after tonight for sure.
Can you please enable aod (even though it will be turned off between 12-7AM) and the facebook packages for a night? It will help us narrow down the issues.
I used your settings - fb -aod and still had drain.
Will flash the O2 firmware if the drain continues overnight.
doriandiaconu said:
I think I isolated the issue by disabling extra packages last night, but I don't know which of them. Will see after tonight for sure.
Can you please enable aod (even though it will be turned off between 12-7AM) and the facebook packages for a night? It will help us narrow down the issues.
I used your settings - fb -aod and still had drain.
Will flash the O2 firmware if the drain continues overnight.
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Yea sure, so enable AOD but set it to turn itself off between 12am-7am?
Enable FB packages
I`ll set that all up tonight, then charge to 100% before bed, see where it is in the morning
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Yea sure, so enable AOD but set it to turn itself off between 12am-7am?
Enable FB packages
I`ll set that all up tonight, then charge to 100% before bed, see where it is in the morning
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Thanks. Would've done it myself, but I want to know if disabling some of the services isolates the issue.
Maybe it's AOD+FB or other issue (that I might've fixed by mistake). Took this post as a reference: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76543514&postcount=49
Disabled some of the packages until I got bored + the ones you disabled.
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Thanks. Would've done it myself, but I want to know if disabling some of the services isolates the issue.
Maybe it's AOD+FB or other issue (that I might've fixed by mistake). Took this post as a reference: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76543514&postcount=49
Disabled some of the packages until I got bored + the ones you disabled.
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I've always disabled both tbh, only left FB package manager or whatever it is needed for the GearVR on my S7 for a while when I was using the Gear, but got bored of that and disabled them all, AOD gets disabled straight away, phone definitely cannot be as deep sleeping if that is active, and the screen is using power the whole time too, albeit only the pixels that are lit, but still more than having it 100% off
I tested with AOD on and off on my S7 and got huge overnight drain with it enabled vs off, same throughout the day, the phone couldn't enter Doze fully iirc
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I've always disabled both tbh, only left FB package manager or whatever it is needed for the GearVR on my S7 for a while when I was using the Gear, but got bored of that and disabled them all, AOD gets disabled straight away, phone definitely cannot be as deep sleeping if that is active, and the screen is using power the whole time too, albeit only the pixels that are lit, but still more than having it 100% off
I tested with AOD on and off on my S7 and got huge overnight drain with it enabled vs off, same throughout the day, the phone couldn't enter Doze fully iirc
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I didn't think AOD will drain battery since it's turned off in that interval? I had a OK drain after factory reset with AOD on. So idk what the hell is happening.
doriandiaconu said:
I didn't think AOD will drain battery since it's turned off in that interval? I had a OK drain after factory reset with AOD on. So idk what the hell is happening.
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I meant when I left it enabled and on the display the whole time, different phone and different version of Android though
Maybe after the factory reset, because the system apps are back to their original versions, drain is OK, then when they update back to the newest the bug is brought back? Or are you updating everything 100% before testing?
Samsung system apps get updated from the Samsung app store too so you'd need to sign into a Samsung account to update those iirc
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I meant when I left it enabled and on the display the whole time, different phone and different version of Android though
Maybe after the factory reset, because the system apps are back to their original versions, drain is OK, then when they update back to the newest the bug is brought back? Or are you updating everything 100% before testing?
Samsung system apps get updated from the Samsung app store too so you'd need to sign into a Samsung account to update those iirc
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Everything was up to date before testing. So I have no idea what is causing the drain to lag.
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Samsung Phone INFO app from the play store will give you all the info you need
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I think I'm on ARD4? That's the last 4 numbers of Bootloader and PDA Version. CSC is ARCA and Baseband is ARD6.
I've already got FB disabled, amongst pretty much anything unnecessary. Although I do use FB Messenger as everyone where I live uses it.
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I think I'm on ARD4? That's the last 4 numbers of Bootloader and PDA Version. CSC is ARCA and Baseband is ARD6.
I've already got FB disabled, amongst pretty much anything unnecessary. Although I do use FB Messenger as everyone where I live uses it.
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ARD4 is the firmware before latest, apparently the latest BRE5 fixes some drain bugs and other things
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Everything was up to date before testing. So I have no idea what is causing the drain to lag.
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Ah well, we'll see tomorrow if FB / AOD causes it for me, if not then at least you've disabled whatever was causing it
Export your package disabler list and save on a PC for future in case you reset again
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ARD4 is the firmware before latest, apparently the latest BRE5 fixes some drain bugs and other things
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I have heard that. Will defs be testing, cheers.

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