According to battery stats I lost 10.8% of my battery to Google Play Services although it was only active for 1 minute?
It was the lowest my note 9 had got in a day, finishing at 19% with music on for a few hours, a lot of photography, but no intensive gaming at all.
Any thoughts appreciated. I've never really had to bother with battery checks before as never get that low.
The only times when it took a lot battery were when I enabled automatic apps updates, since it tries even on poor Internet cellular connection, which can take a lot of time and heat up the phone.
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Hello everyone,
Over the past week I have noticed my HTC One runs out of battery quickly when watching videos/playing games.
I have downloaded a wakelock detector and it sleeps 99% of the time, mainly because I have used Greenify to make sure that there are no wakelock problems.
I always have my phone on minimum brightness (not auto, just 0) with mobile data turned off most of the time. Wifi is usually on. NFC and Bluetooth are both almost always off. My screen powers off after 45 seconds, and data turns off if the screen is off for an extended period of time. On top of that, Power saver mode is always on with all 4 features ticked.
I do not have a problem with the phone leaking battery, but rather than when i begin to do intensive tasks, e.g. playing games (Bloons Tower Defence 5 for instance) the phone seems to lose the battery very quickly.
I found that within 5 minutes of playing I would lose about 2-3%. This means that within 3-4 hours I would run out of battery completely. Is this normal? How have other users fared with the battery and finally, what else do people recommend I do to save some more battery?
Thanks
Playing drains the battery as hell. From such a powerhouse it is not surprising tough.
I usually play logical games, and "ye' good ol' Carmageddon" sometimes. While 2D games are pretty ok, demanding 3D games will eat your battery as you said.
For example, I have lost 40% battery after playing Carmaggeddon for about 90 minutes.
On the other, when using the phone as phone, not as gaming device, the battery is pretty sweet.
I can get 8 hours on screen time with one charge, and lasts me through the whole day - auto brightness, auto-sync, wifi or mobile data always on - BT, NFC disabled.
For comparison, I managed to get around 4.5-5.5 hours with the same settings from my iPhone 5. And gaming ate battery super fast on that phone as well - I only
dared to play with a charger nearby (Max Payne).
To save some juice I recommend to set a lower CPU frequency when playing games (for those do not need all the power) - but that requires root.
Other than that, it seems you already have all the options enabled.
davebugyi said:
Playing drains the battery as hell. From such a powerhouse it is not surprising tough.
I usually play logical games, and "ye' good ol' Carmageddon" sometimes. While 2D games are pretty ok, demanding 3D games will eat your battery as you said.
For example, I have lost 40% battery after playing Carmaggeddon for about 90 minutes.
On the other, when using the phone as phone, not as gaming device, the battery is pretty sweet.
I can get 8 hours on screen time with one charge, and lasts me through the whole day - auto brightness, auto-sync, wifi or mobile data always on - BT, NFC disabled.
For comparison, I managed to get around 4.5-5.5 hours with the same settings from my iPhone 5. And gaming ate battery super fast on that phone as well - I only
dared to play with a charger nearby (Max Payne).
To save some juice I recommend to set a lower CPU frequency when playing games (for those do not need all the power) - but that requires root.
Other than that, it seems you already have all the options enabled.
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Thanks for the reply.
It's nice to know that it isnt just my phone that seems to drain like hell while playing any of the more resource-hungry games.
Thanks
I've got a UK release HTC One (M7) that was bought unlocked SIM free in July last year. It has never been rooted, but has had all official updates applied so far (Kitkat 4.4.2 the latest, still waiting on Sense 6.0).
The phone battery lasts a few days on standby, but actually use the phone for anything (calls, texts, surf the net, simple game or listen to music) the battery drains at roughly 1% every 2 mins (It's a good job I don't play graphic games, watch video or stream). I factory reset the phone and deleted everything on it, charged it to 100% and in the 2 hours it took me to set it up again and re-download apps and install them the battery dropped to 38%, so based on that I'd be lucky to get 4 hours use out of the phone on a full charge.
I have battery saver on with roaming, syncing, GPS, Bluetooth, mobile data all disabled as standard, with only wireless enabled (but that goes off when the phone sleeps - screen is set to low brightness and 1 minute), I've also gone through every app and disabled those I can't delete and that give me the option like Blinkfeed, FB, Twitter, Maps, Google Music, Play, Drive etc, but the battery still drains quickly - any ideas please? would rooting and using a custom ROM help?
Cheers
Try a battery monitoring app like GSAM or BBS to check for apps and wakelocks, which are causing the drain.
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I've got a UK release HTC One (M7) that was bought unlocked SIM free in July last year. It has never been rooted, but has had all official updates applied so far (Kitkat 4.4.2 the latest, still waiting on Sense 6.0).
The phone battery lasts a few days on standby, but actually use the phone for anything (calls, texts, surf the net, simple game or listen to music) the battery drains at roughly 1% every 2 mins (It's a good job I don't play graphic games, watch video or stream). I factory reset the phone and deleted everything on it, charged it to 100% and in the 2 hours it took me to set it up again and re-download apps and install them the battery dropped to 38%, so based on that I'd be lucky to get 4 hours use out of the phone on a full charge.
I have battery saver on with roaming, syncing, GPS, Bluetooth, mobile data all disabled as standard, with only wireless enabled (but that goes off when the phone sleeps - screen is set to low brightness and 1 minute), I've also gone through every app and disabled those I can't delete and that give me the option like Blinkfeed, FB, Twitter, Maps, Google Music, Play, Drive etc, but the battery still drains quickly - any ideas please? would rooting and using a custom ROM help?
Cheers
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So you got 2 Hours of screen on time.. I'd say that's pretty decent, considering all the app installs you must've done. Typical battery life on this phone would get you anywhere between two hours to six hours of screen on time. In the remaining 38%, you'd probably get an hour and 15 or 30 minutes. What you were doing after you reset the phone wan't normal usage.. If you want to improve the battery life, read the posts on the battery stats thread and ask for recommendations there. Also, try keeping your phone cool, it'll help the battery a lot. Basically, what i've noticed is as soon as the phone gets hot, your battery gets over much quicker.
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So you got 2 Hours of screen on time.. I'd say that's pretty decent, considering all the app installs you must've done. Typical battery life on this phone would get you anywhere between two hours to six hours of screen on time. In the remaining 38%, you'd probably get an hour and 15 or 30 minutes. What you were doing after you reset the phone wan't normal usage.. If you want to improve the battery life, read the posts on the battery stats thread and ask for recommendations there. Also, try keeping your phone cool, it'll help the battery a lot. Basically, what i've noticed is as soon as the phone gets hot, your battery gets over much quicker.
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Try batter battery stats..
Lately I feel like my battery life has gotten worse. If I check my battery stats, it shows Google Services consuming a major portion of the battery, typically 25%-35%. I've also found my battery life has gone down to about 25% left after 16 hrs being unplugged and only 1.5hrs of screen time. Any suggestions as to what could be causing this?
I have this occasionally happen with Google Services. For some reason, it just starts holding the phone awake all day and the only cure I have come up with is a reboot (other than opting out of everything Google).
Try disabling GPS for the day and see if that helps.
Just curious on people's battery life experiences so far. This seems to be the main negative I hear about this device from reviews. I am most likely going to get the device nonetheless.
I don't feel like the battery life is that bad on this device.
I can get through a hole day very easily. I play some games (but not that much), I listen to a lot of music and I use Chrome very often.
Still I have about 40% at the end of the day.
For a device with a 1440*2560 5.7 inch screen and a Snapdragon 810 I reckon that it is pretty good.
I can only tell you to get this device it is awesome
Battery life for me is pretty terrible. The battery drain is significant even when the phone is in idle. I usually have access to a charger throughout the course of a day and I feel the need to keep it connected as often as possible. I still love the phone, but the battery life is the worst I have experienced with any phone I have had in the last couple of years, and I have used many. I leave it on balanced mode for the majority of the day and only switch to performance mode when I am going to play a graphic intensive game.
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Battery life for me is pretty terrible. The battery drain is significant even when the phone is in idle. I usually have access to a charger throughout the course of a day and I feel the need to keep it connected as often as possible. I still love the phone, but the battery life is the worst I have experienced with any phone I have had in the last couple of years, and I have used many. I leave it on balanced mode for the majority of the day and only switch to performance mode when I am going to play a graphic intensive game.
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Yikes. Have you tried any software like Greenify to help alleviate the problem or it still persists ?
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Yikes. Have you tried any software like Greenify to help alleviate the problem or it still persists ?
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No, I haven't tried any apps or other battery profiles. Like I said, I keep it plugged in a lot during the day, so I have never felt the need to see how far I could stretch a single charge. This is also the way I have kept all of my previous phones and the Xiaomi drains the battery the fastest in comparison.
Mine lasts me about 12hours. I listen to music most of the day and I'm a heavy user.
Got the phone 2 days ago. got around 4 hours 15 minutes SOT from 7am till 9pm on the international rom. Better than i was expecting. Hopefully I can improve it further.
I have to admit that over time the battery got worse. That would be because I have more apps etc..
What is your SOT time usually?
I noticed today my battery SOT and idle drain has been really bad. The only thing I think I did diffrently was that I logged onto my miui account last night so i could download themes. I have no use for the miui account other htan the themes so I will try logging out and seeing how things are after it....
2-9% per hour is not bad i guess...
If i use it a lot, then only it will go as far as 11% per hour and mostly because the big QHD screen,
When it sleep, it almost didnt drain...
Of course you have to kill/disable all those stupid google play services... Named it Event Log and Checkin handoff etc etc
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2-9% per hour is not bad i guess...
If i use it a lot, then only it will go as far as 11% per hour and mostly because the big QHD screen,
When it sleep, it almost didnt drain...
Of course you have to kill/disable all those stupid google play services... Named it Event Log and Checkin handoff etc etc
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Are you still using the Mi note pro?
Hi. I just got my P9 Plus last week. Seems to me people are having insane experiences with their batteries like almost 2 days of usage with quite a fair amount of SOT. However, I'm unable to even get past 1 day without charging my phone in the middle of the day some times. Even if i just use instagram, whatsapp and facebook or surf the net, it drops 10% in less than 45 minutes not sure if that's normal? I checked the consumption levels and something called Android system was the highest for some reason. I read online some reviews they tested the battery life by runnning a video for 90 minutes and they only dropped 13%. I lose 5% in less than 20 minutes. Again, Android system was the highest. I then tested it myself, I just played Summoner's war, watched youtube and dramas, then when my batter dropped from 100% to 40% I checked the consumption, though I expected the Screen and the Game to take up bulk of the usage, Android system claims top spot again for some reason. Is this normal or do I have a faulty phone/battery?
I feel sorry for what you are experiencing because such a battery loss is definitely not normal. I have P9Plus(dual SIM version L29) and I put it on charger every 2 days with SOT 7 to 8hours(over 8 hours is not uncommon). It's definitely the best mobile I've ever had - batterywise and otherwise too.
First thing I would do would be updating the firmware and clearing the cache and even reset to factory mode. Install just few basic apps u feel you can't live without and observe how is battery doing. In this way you can eliminate the fact that your batt drain is caused by some app conflict etc. You should disable wi-fi/bt scanning(it is useless anyway) and location services too. If you can, disable the autosync too. Later on you can enable it again and see if it changes anything.
If no improvement you can post the print-screen of your battery data here so we can take a look and maybe we can figure out something.
Last idea that comes to mind is that you were unlucky and have faulty battery - just look at Samsung's Note7 and what kind of headaches their own battery gave to them. Sometimes it just happens that battery may come faulty from manufacturing.