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[Q] [POLL] Battery Life on Stock LOLLIPOP

So Guys android 5.0 is here and i think most of u have tried it.So hows Battery performance on lollipop?

I feel it's worse TBH. I've tried several different roms and revisions and it still seems to be worse. Maybe I'm just playing with my phone more but my SOT can't seem to break 4 hours and it usually can't go all day on a charge.

Same. My battery life definitely seems worse.

I had better battery life on the developer Preview!!
this sucks
after removing Google Now and Google Fit, it has improved a bit, but still bad.

On some days it's pretty bad and on other days it isn't with pretty much the same setup... LOL

I accept the fact that battery has gotten worse with Lollipop, but I'm sure they'll fix this on the next release.
Chill~

Worse.

Developer Preview was significantly better than stick KK, final release the same as KK if not slightly worse. Was definitely expecting more from LP.
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mine is definitely way way way better
I'm a heavy user and its better than KK

I had the dev preview and Battery life was better than KK
Now on final release battery life is 1% drain per minute if I dont use the phone (but I discovered exchange services and gmail had updated from the one from the apk's I installed on the dev preview
re built again last night and max is 4 hours again without using the phone
2nd rebuld I did not restore anything
KK could be a day or 2 with using the phone before needing a charge
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Ok, here is my xperia z3 compact not been charged for at least a day, has all the same apps and is used about the same as the Nexus 5 (z3 running kitkat, with NO power saving features enabled) and actually has a lot more apps running than Lollipop
and this is the Nexus 5 with only the apps you can see listed as running apps that was from a full charge overnight
It has dropped another 4% since taking that pic

In my case, the standby time of my N5 (which is new, I got it back from a RMA a month ago, so its battery isn't worn) is much worse on Lollipop than Kitkat: it drops 5% battery in one night in airplane mode, while 4.4.4 barely dropped 1%. On the other hand, the battery life when using the phone is way better! Before updating, I always got less than 4h SoT; now I get past 4.30 without even activating the battery saver.
So I'm not voting at the moment.

Mine is better than KitKat, some random drain's, quick soft reset fixes it.

Battery has definitely taken a hit wid L. Clean flash where

Mine's definitely better. I'm not a heavy user, but on KK I would need to charge during the day at work (usually afternoon time)...but now I can leave it till I get home.

I don't charge my N5 overnight, instead I wait to come in to work where I have a Qi charger on my desk. Usually I see it sitting at about 95% when I put it on the charger at work after leaving it alone all night. This morning I see it at 65%. I have never had it drop that low in one night before android 5 showed up.
What is even more interesting is that the battery stats claim that basically no one has been using any battery power. The highest number is 3% for wifi with 2% and 1% for a few other things, so where the heck did the 35% of the battery charge go?

I was in a similar situation as most people in this thread but currently I'm on my first discharge cycle on optipop rom with uber kernel and im on 4 hour screen on time with 20% to go.
I have google now off and location on and spent most of my time on wifi with avg cell signal.

I flashed the OTA manually and haven't done a factory reset, but the battery life is better than ever. 3 days and 9 hours, and 3.27 h screen on time. Brightness is set to auto.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tmykcaqcyhm6eaz/Screenshot_2014-11-18-23-46-52.png?dl=0
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Of course, if pay more games, I'll get it down much much faster.

I have some random battery drain issues too. But I think the issues belongs to 3rd party apps. In the safe mode there's not any battery drain. The 3rd party apps aren't compatible with Lollipop yet. So the main issue is this apps. Now 'Im trying to uninstall and reinstall the apps to find which apps drain the battery in deep sleep. I think which apps has a "cancel deep sleep mode" permission may drain battery if it's not updated for Lollipop. It's just a guess though.

First my battery life was really bad. I couldn't figure it out. I decided to do full wipe and it helped a lot. Now the battery life is better than on kitkat.
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I'm getting worse battery life than any ROM stock or not I've run on the phone. I had better battery life on the dev previews. I don't think I've broken 3 hours screen on time or mixed usage(screen time+music time)once since the official image came out. I've done 2 or 3 clean flashes of the image and had also tried the Nexus 5 Experience ROM. I've used it each time rooted. Last night I did another clean flash of the image locked the bootloader and am going to try running it unrooted for a day or so with only 4 or 5 user apps installed. It shouldn't make a difference but I'm going to see what happens.

Battery Life

So I've been pretty unimpressed by battery life so far. Barely getting 3.5 hours
Anyone else getting better?

brushrop03 said:
So I've been pretty unimpressed by battery life so far. Barely getting 3.5 hours
Anyone else getting better?
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Gonna need more info than that. You talking screen on time? or total? under what settings? full screen brightness?

Yeah screen on time with auto screen brightness. Pretty much on LTE all day. Only disabled bloat apps.

Full day with it, unplugged at 3am and at 8:38pm cst, I am still at 48%. Now I don't use facebook or Tweeter so that helps my battery life. Wifi at work weak and slow so I am on LTE most of the time.
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Same here. Only around 4 hrs with regular use. This device needs root.

Easily getting through a day with the phone. Most of the bloat disabled, moderate usage, Bluetooth/NFC/Wi-Fi always on, though mostly on LTE. I certainly don't expect this thing to last like my Note 4, but I'm pleased with the battery life. I get home with time to spare, and plug it in every night like any other phone, so its all good.

calientecafe2001 said:
Same here. Only around 4 hrs with regular use. This device needs root.
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Root doesn't mean better battery life. My nexus 5 had about the same battery and got about the same battery life as my s6. And that's rooted, stock, slimrom, and cataclysm. My G3 has about 500 more mAh than the s6 and I get about 5 hours of screen time. Stock battery was better than cyanogen battery.
It's not 2012 anymore. Root is almost obsolete. It's good for app removal, rooted app functionality, and customization. Even if underclocked and undervolted it doesn't change dramatically. If u want a better battery, buy a phone with a bigger battery. MOST people don't look at their phone for 25% of their awake hours (if avg sleep is 8 hrs.) The s6 will give u 3.5-4hrs of screen time on 14-15 hours of use. That is plenty for MOST users

prjkthack said:
Easily getting through a day with the phone. Most of the bloat disabled, moderate usage, Bluetooth/NFC/Wi-Fi always on, though mostly on LTE. I certainly don't expect this thing to last like my Note 4, but I'm pleased with the battery life. I get home with time to spare, and plug it in every night like any other phone, so its all good.
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Same here!
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We badly need root. Rooting my phone has always improved the battery life and performance of your phone.

Battery life today was better I think. Screen-on time didn't even show up in the battery usage list, so i'm not sure how much it used. 20.5hrs since unplugging with 14% left.
This will definitely be a phone I'll have to get rid of after a year. With constant charging and a sealed battery, this device really doesn't have a long life. That's my main concern.

Someone in another thread turned off Enhanced LTE (Voice over LTE) under network settings and saw a much better battery life (or lack of drain).

I am experiencing insane WiFi battery drain. I am foregoing the use of WiFi in the mean time. Seems to help.

oxeneers said:
I am experiencing insane WiFi battery drain. I am foregoing the use of WiFi in the mean time. Seems to help.
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Same. I tested mine and the drain is far less with WiFi off all together. No WiFi and I can get 6-7+ sot.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3yfqsTbo3GY
dont know how true this is. i updated mine and going to see if it does indeed improve battery life.

Pure+ said:
Same. I tested mine and the drain is far less with WiFi off all together. No WiFi and I can get 6-7+ sot.
Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
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freebee269 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3yfqsTbo3GY
dont know how true this is. i updated mine and going to see if it does indeed improve battery life.
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I updated the Samsung push service and it seems to have improved battery life for me. I will also try turning off the HD Voice and see how it performs..

iceman4357 said:
I updated the Samsung push service and it seems to have improved battery life for me. I will also try turning off the HD Voice and see how it performs..
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I updated mine plus turned off Wi-Fi and the hotspots setting in advanced Wi-Fi and battery life has improved. I still see screen as being one of the lowest factors for battery consumption. Our gs6 must have a very battery efficient display. Android os is now my top battery drain. I'm hoping an update to android 5.1 improves the system battery usage. I know it did on my nexus 6.
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if you heavily use it well.. thats pretty normal.. mine can last a day if i don't use it for browsing just sms.. but for calling it would mean smaller life

brushrop03 said:
So I've been pretty unimpressed by battery life so far. Barely getting 3.5 hours
Anyone else getting better?
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I was getting horrible battery life like you because of cell standby but I disabled enhanced lte and did a cache delete in recovery and now I'm getting almost 5.5 hours of screen on time with brightness set at 25%-50% on WiFi/lte. If you want I have screenshot.

vontokkerths said:
I was getting horrible battery life like you because of cell standby but I disabled enhanced lte and did a cache delete in recovery and now I'm getting almost 5.5 hours of screen on time with brightness set at 25%-50% on WiFi/lte. If you want I have screenshot.
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I can vouch for this myself. I was getting pretty bad drain to the point where I was about to return the phone.
The cache wipe seemed to work wonders. Along with deleting and reinstalling google play services (I searched google play services in chrome, clicked the link and jninstalled reinstalled uodates , then did cache wipe)
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Battery life seems great to me.

Worried about Mi 5 battery life

I ordered this device yesterday but I worried about battery life, in reviews spoken the battery life was bad.
I dont have the device yet.
In the future the battery life was improvement on system updates?

saarxee said:
I ordered this device yesterday but I worried about battery life, in reviews spoken the battery life was bad.
I dont have the device yet.
In the future the battery life was improvement on system updates?
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I have to say I find the battery life to be outstanding if you are using the chinese rom. If using the global one it is really poor. There is another thread on here about battery life. Have a look at that

How much SOT on chinese rom?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-5/how-to/discussion-xiami-mi-5-battery-life-t3338693

I look that but I Asks you.
Chinese rom was better than global on performance and camera?

saarxee said:
I look that but I Asks you.
Chinese rom was better than global on performance and camera?
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In my opinion the chiense rom is much better although there are obviously some chinese apps there too

I'm reviewing the phone at the moment, my results on GeekBench 06:30:30 for runtime and a score of 3905 with the screen on maximum brightness. I've used the phone with dual-SIM and single-SIM and not struggled with it at all. MIUI 6.3.31 and it's the 64/3GB model. Hope that's of some help!

Battery life is usually good. SOT around 5 hrs for me and I usually play games.
However stand by is really odd one both the roms. Sometimes overnight it consumes 1%-3% sometime s 20%-25%, I still can't figure out why.

25% in night?? why?

mohitgalaxy3 said:
Battery life is usually good. SOT around 5 hrs for me and I usually play games.
However stand by is really odd one both the roms. Sometimes overnight it consumes 1%-3% sometime s 20%-25%, I still can't figure out why.
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Never seen that with mine. While at work during the day I only use it for the odd call and some texts along with a small amount of browsing. With the chinese rom I would have 85% charge left when I get home but with the global rom doing the same I would have about 65% left so clearly it wasnt going to sleep properly. Maybe thats what you are seeing

mohitgalaxy3 said:
Battery life is usually good. SOT around 5 hrs for me and I usually play games.
However stand by is really odd one both the roms. Sometimes overnight it consumes 1%-3% sometime s 20%-25%, I still can't figure out why.
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You have LG G2 before Mi 5? this is huge upgrade? better device in camera and more?

saarxee said:
You have LG G2 before Mi 5? this is huge upgrade? better device in camera and more?
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No, I haven't updated my signature from so long.
I have used nexus 5, galaxy s6(lost), lg g4 and oneplus 2 after Lg g2. For me galaxy s6 was the best device I have ever used.
Mi5 has a mediocre camera nothing exceptional about it xiaomi is creating hype about 4-axis and things however in reality it can't capture full hd video smoothly.
For sure Mi5 has better sound and battery and chipset but software wise I think any other phone out is better than this MIUI crap.
and believe me MIUI can never get fixed until and unless they changed their framework completely. As of now MIUI 7 is based on MM but it doesn't have a single feature of MM so what is the use of such OS. MIUI is for users who just want to keep applying themes and do nothing else.
I am never going to buy xiaomi again.
Hoping I get my hands on an AOSP or CM ROM soon or else I have to sell this ****.
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skoobee said:
Never seen that with mine. While at work during the day I only use it for the odd call and some texts along with a small amount of browsing. With the chinese rom I would have 85% charge left when I get home but with the global rom doing the same I would have about 65% left so clearly it wasnt going to sleep properly. Maybe thats what you are seeing
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I really don't know what is wrong but I experience the same on both the ROM's, yesterday I got 7.2.12 and after that it consumed only 3 % overnight even with alarm on.
Also, I have one more strange bug whenever I start playing coc my wifi gets disconnected and it gets disconnected randomly too, are you facing any such thing like this.

You have the wakelock qpnp_fg_memaccess that is draining battery. Check with wackelock detector..
Same happened to me one night from 40% to 6% in 6 hours..
This happened because Qualcomm introduced a new feature called Fuel Gauge that is managing the battery and is not working really like it should..

Strange.. I used my phone heavily(not gaming of course) and hardly to hit 70% in 8 hours during day time.
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spavian said:
You have the wakelock qpnp_fg_memaccess that is draining battery. Check with wackelock detector..
Same happened to me one night from 40% to 6% in 6 hours..
This happened because Qualcomm introduced a new feature called Fuel Gauge that is managing the battery and is not working really like it should..
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So what does one do about it? its my first day on mi5, i cant say that battery is bad.. its almost same as on a Sony Z5P.

My Mi5 is doing great on the battery... I use it at work i use it at home... during the night it drain around 5% max. Normally i can say it can last 1,5 days...
Using China Stable 7.3.3 With some battery usage tweaks..

Using CM13 I go all day without recharging from 7am to 7pm
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Same here on CM 13 battery is good, lasting 2 days.

saarxee said:
I ordered this device yesterday but I worried about battery life, in reviews spoken the battery life was bad.
I dont have the device yet.
In the future the battery life was improvement on system updates?
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MI5 is one of the crazy device ever! Once you receive the phone you will be keep busy with experiment. Some people will tell battery life is outstanding and some like me will say battery life is poor.
My impression about MI5 is, usually after buying a phone we try to use it hassle free. But MI5 will create lots of confusion and make you trend to experiment lots of things until you get the perfection.
Currently the global ROM is most worst ever ROM and it will make you frustrated. Some people will tell China ROM is better but eventually until unless you are Chinese, you will never like chinese things!
Just now flashed CM13 and looks impressive!

The way you charge helps with endurance as well
Try getting into the habit of not letting your battery level drop below 15%. Charge it from there to 100%. Was a big item on xda some months ago about expanding the quality of a modern smartphones battery.

Battery Drain is V.Bad Need HELP....!!!

I hav bought a secound hand oneplus 3t and hav been using it since a couple of weeks i have a lot of battery drain when the phone is sitting idle jst like browsing chrome or something . Some of the examples of my drain is charged to 100% and after 32 min of use the battery drops to 80-83%
i have tried almost all the custom roms and the stock roms I get only around 3-4hrs sot only on the stock marshmallow rom i hit 5 hrs need help
really bad.

You'll need to provide a bit more info to figure out exactly what's causing the drain. Download BetterBatteryStats, that will allow you to see which Wakelocks are involved.
Also, how old is the phone? Considering the usage and charging habits of the previous owner, its possible the battery itself might have degraded since batteries do degrade over time.

Mizart said:
You'll need to provide a bit more info to figure out exactly what's causing the drain. Download BetterBatteryStats, that will allow you to see which Wakelocks are involved.
Also, how old is the phone? Considering the usage and charging habits of the previous owner, its possible the battery itself might have degraded since batteries do degrade over time.
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its been about 8 months since he bought it and how do i know if the battery is bad?

ak_bagade said:
its been about 8 months since he bought it and how do i know if the battery is bad?
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To do that, for an accurate reading you'd euther need a multimeter or any other capacity meter, but i believe you'd have to open your phone up even if you did have one of those devices since the battery isn't user accessible.
However, you can also use apps such as Accubattery which give you a similar reading. It wont be as accurate but it'll give you a general idea.

Question Battery Life is getting worse, anyone else noticed that?

The battery life is getting worse every single day, I am getting less and less battery life as the days goes by. I can't return this phone neither will someone buy a phone this bad.
If someone else noticed that their phones battery life has gotten worse, pls let me know (any tips would be great too)
Thanks.

I absolutely have noticed this.

Me too

Me three.
I was using my phone on OOS12 until the nagging messages were too annoying to ignore, so I let it do it's thing to 13.
This was a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I've noticed SIGNIFICANT battery drain, I used to be able to go all day with light use and have more battery left over by bedtime. Lately I need to top it off to last the day or else it will be dead by dinner time.
I was going to just blame the OOS13 update but are you guys saying this is recent and across the board? Did something happen, maybe a OP app is running in the background after an OTA?

It's expected that the battery will degrade with time. You can download a recognized battery app, which will show your remaining capacity.

Furious Froyo said:
It's expected that the battery will degrade with time. You can download a recognized battery app, which will show your remaining capacity.
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Yes I know, but this phone is barely a year old and the difference was very sudden from one day to the next.