I have my Mi5 since April of 2016 and I really enjoy this phone, it's perfect for me and still super fast, but it lacks in the battery department.
I've already bought 2 new original batteries and tried over 3-4roms and I cant get over 2H of SOT. The original battery was from 2016 so I replaced it with a 2017 branded one, and it gave me almost the same results, so I got a newer one from 2018. I get the same results as the 2017 one... Can this be a hardware malfunction or something that's draining it too fast?
This is my battery usage on PixelExperience with a battery saving kernel:
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Take into consideration I dont have GPS on, neither bluetooth, neither 4G, I use Wi-Fi 90% of the time.
Unplugged from the charger 3h ago and already at 63% with only 41min of SOT. I get almost the same results with Xiaomi.eu rom, official dev and stable releases, etc. I'm yet to try LineageOS, but I think it will be the same.
EDIT: here's an updated battery usage.. 20% left with only 1h 8m of SOT
Hi, I'm in your condition. Now I have the pixel Experience. I did not understand if it was useful to change the battery. Has not the situation improved? Is it difficult to replace?
Was the battery original? Does it have the chip to measure the temperature?
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Hi, I'm in your condition. Now I have the pixel Experience. I did not understand if it was useful to change the battery. Has not the situation improved? Is it difficult to replace?
Was the battery original? Does it have the chip to measure the temperature?
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Yes both I tried were original. Do you mean the kernel change? I didn't test the original kernel, so I cant say if its better
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1- i heard alot about battery problem and drain so fast..so is it right or just normal like all rest of android phones (need some one use diff. phones) ??
2- is there any other general problems in this mobile ??
thank U in advance
1) battery problems isnt phone specific, if you decide to use it just as a phone some users have reported 6 days on a single charge with minimal internet/ screen on usage
2) only main problems with this phone (to me) is LG software support..... but thats really a non issue what with the wonderful roms our devs/chefs have for our device
large display will be always drain battery. there are no problems with the phone but sometimes are errors in the various roms
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I'll say that it does drain quite fast, but I don't think it's because of the display, but rather the signal and CPU! Optimus Black's NOVA Display uses less battery than normal LCDs.
Here's the battery usage for 2d 13hours:
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I had a Motorola Defy and the battery was soo good, I loved it...!
However I agree that optimizing your use by few tricks will help to keep the battery good.
You can use Profile Scheduler for example. It can control brightness, Wi-fi, apps, ringtone, signal, etc at different schedules! Quite handy at night (I use airplane mode, and not even 1% lost for 8 hours!)
Battery does drain fast, so I took it to the service centre and they repalced the battery.
Did make a differecence.
1.the battery on my OB with froyo was even better than on the iphone 4s with the exactly the same usage, now that i'm on GB things are not that worse after all, with Zeus rom i have 10-12 hours of intense usage, 3g always on, fb messenger, whatsapp, some browsing, market etc,mails, sincro on...i think i's not that bad, I know that iphone 4s has almost the same drain...
2. as for the rest I really had no problems with it! and with Huexxx's rom it's a jewel, really nice aesthetically and functionally...
OB is a very good device.. but you can find much better..
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My battery life is really bad that i have to charge the phone twice a day sometimes more
i tried every thing said here on the forums, i disabled LG bloatware, i lowered the brightness to 0% but with no luck
so is the only way is to unlock the device and install a custom rom? or could it be the battery hardware itself? because i realized that the battery charges really fast, also i just got the phone 4 days ago is it normal that out of the box the battery life is this bad?
EDIT: it looks like i'm running UAE firmware, would it help if i flashed a kdz file for a European firmware? if yes which firmware should i install from these http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?
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My battery life is really bad that i have to charge the phone twice a day sometimes more
i tried every thing said here on the forums, i disabled LG bloatware, i lowered the brightness to 0% but with no luck
so is the only way is to unlock the device and install a custom rom?
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Using a different kernel would be the better idea IMO
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Using a different kernel would be the better idea IMO
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So i should unlock the device? could it be the battery hardware itself? because i realized that the battery charges really fast, also i just got the phone 4 days ago is it normal that out of the box the battery life is this bad?
thanks for your reply
EDIT: it looks like i'm running UAE firmware, would it help if i flashed a kdz file for a European firmware? if yes which firmware should i install from these http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=15
no its not the battery hardware, the hardware is really good, better than S3. i had the same problem.. until i unlocked my phone
i just installed werewolf v8 kernel. Works great on CM10.1.2 RC1.
3h on screen
24h on battery
My device is not very old. It's about 1 year now and battery isn't as good as it used to be. When I got it after school I had minimum 50% no matter what I've been doing and atm it's 24% which is disturbing.
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Any tips/ideas what to do?
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My device is not very old. It's about 1 year now and battery isn't as good as it used to be. When I got it after school I had minimum 50% no matter what I've been doing and atm it's 24% which is disturbing.
Any tips/ideas what to do?
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Check for battery health in 7378423 to see if it had any wear out in battery capacity. Mine is 31460 (1+ year, when buy it is 32000, Sony is always add more to make the battery last longer )
And check for any apps that run out of battery, malware too (There are some Android malware which mine Bitcoin/Litecoin and make phone hot and run out of battery)
Also check your kernel setting or reflash ROM if nessesary.......
Mine is 1,5-2 day battery life with typical behavior.......
Well, my battery says 31440 when at 86% of charge. I haven't got many wake locks in betterbatterystats either so I'm not sure what could be the cause. I'm on stock kernel. Thanks for the heads up on that mining malware. I had no idea it went over to mobile devices. My phone actually gets a bit hot after some regular usage, but nothing out of ordinary I guess. I did lots of mods to the stock rom on my own so I'm not that keen on reflashing. I'd rather find out what could be the cause of that poor battery life and fix it by myself.
Any other suggestions and things to try?
You can reinstall your Firmware, and see if the battery life would be better. And my Wakelocks have i solved with the App DS Battery Saver.
Strangely enogh my battery was at 2880 after only 140 charge cycles.
Then by accidient it deep discharged (problems with not charging, hard reset etc. until it was fully 100% dead) and now is back at 3130 with only the first charge cycle counted as 1.
Not the case here since your's has a good number, but I wanted to add this information.
Hello,
It's been some time and some devices since I was wannted to try this dirty hack. My good old GT-P6800 has successfully avoided this fate, my SM-T705 has not.
So, the theory is like that. You can connect virtually any Li-Ion batteries by attaching plus to plus and minus to minus and achieving and thus capacities will be summed.
So, I purchased a battery from aliexpress.com an attached it to original battery wires red to red, black to black.
Then I had to cut a rectangle hole in tablet's back housing cover to let it close with that battery onboard. To protect battery (li-ion battery has to be protected) I use TPU cover.
It looks like that
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And the actual effect
Now, from original 6-7 hours I got 15-18 hours on battery, while time to charge to top is now somewhere about 7-7.5 hours.
Need to mention, that original capacity calculation algorithm based on MAX17050 chip is adapted for original battery (obviously), so has to be overridden with custom software patch to kernel.
I agree, this mod isn't aimed to mass user, but the experience itself I find really interesting.
18hours screen on time? This looks really cool. But hey now you got and extra 8-9 hours of spare battery
-DUHA
I would say extra 10-12 hours.
wow that is one hard core mod! How long does it take to charge it to full?
Oh, totally forgot to mention, about 7 hours.
Hi, i know it's a 5 year post. What happended to green wires ? and i think the battery you used had just black and red cables?
Hi, I know I am necroposting and I'm sorry for that. But how do I inform the kernel of the new capacity?
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Hi, I know I am necroposting and I'm sorry for that. But how do I inform the kernel of the new capacity?
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I think he doesn't. It should work fine without any extra settings.
The battery life was all good until last week when I started to experience some problems. The standby drain is awful, usually I lose around 10 - 15 % overnight - 8hrs. The awake time is good. When I use it it's good. for example today I was at 85% after 2 hrs of youtube and facebook at about 13. At around 18 I had 3.15 hrs of screen on and I was at 65%. After two hours I was at 51% with no usage.
Anyone with the same problem?
Solution will be appreciated!
Thanks!
Go to bootloader recovery and clear the partition cashes thats what i did and its better now
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I made a factory reset but it didn't help.
Same for me ... Juste 5hours on SOT ... It's strange ?
Same here, battery seems to act weird after 156 update
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What version do you use with the full version number??
Mine as attached
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In battery stats what do u see?
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Mine as attached View attachment 4601940
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ok...can you try format..or wait for next update...and maybe will fix that
The good thing is that pie is on the way.
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ok...can you try format..or wait for next update...and maybe will fix that
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Yeah that's what I am planning to do, I just have to find some spare time for that [emoji23]
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Further to my last, although I haven't made a factory yet, but as I see in battery usage there is a huge drain probably coming from Huawei home, which for sure was never that high in the past, maybe 1-2% with heavy usage. In this cycle it has drained almost 120mah out of nowhere?
Now I barely use the phone and battery drains like crazy.
See attached.
Any tips before factory reset?
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