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Anybody else experiencing subpar battery life on the latest update/firmware?
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Anybody else experiencing subpar battery life on the latest update/firmware?
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i first upgrade the firmware from 2.16.654.4 to 3.30.654.2, then flash the viperone M8 3.1.0 to replace 2.5.0 without full wipe. Recovery is TWRP2.8.0.1, not the latest 2.8.1.0. After that i found it is hot after 3-5 minutes using and the battery is losing so quick, this morning I turn on wifi and data connection, listen some songs for about 20minutes, log in instagram, facebook and twitter for 30 minutes, telephoned two people in totally less than 5 minutes, other time it only put on my desk. just 7 hours the power fall from 100% to 34%.
is that means my problem cause by flashing the rom without wiping or any other reason like kernel or system bugs?
Possibly related to Itson app? Have a thread in General about it taking up 40% of battery usage on some devices
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-htc-one-m8/general/itson-app-t2925082
I tried disabling Itson but it seems to kill data service. I just sent and e-mail here - http://www.itsoninc.com/contact-us/ asking why this is on my phone, that it's killing my battery and how do I remove it.
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Mine has gotten better but I did do a clean install. Glad I did because I hadn't realized how much garbage I had accumulated over the past few months. Battery is lasting all day again...
I used to get 8 hours OST on 4.4.2 then it dropped to about 5 on 4.4.3. Now I am lucky to get 4 hours on 4.4.4. I am tempted to go back....
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I used to get 8 hours OST on 4.4.2 then it dropped to about 5 on 4.4.3. Now I am lucky to get 4 hours on 4.4.4. I am tempted to go back....
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I did clean install and have over 13 hours on battery today including 6 hours of streaming music. Still have 30% left..
I'm on Captain Throwback's Beyond Stock. So far, so good for me
I agree, battery life has taken a noticeable hit with the 4.4.4 upgrade. Battery life was ****ing stellar on 4.4.2, noticeably worsened on 4.4.3, and now is unacceptable on 4.4.4. Yesterday I had that ItsOn wakelock that people have talked about. A reboot made it disappear, but for the past two days my Android System and Android Kernel use have been way higher than usual. They're both in the 20% range, even when I'm sitting there watching videos on my phone, they take up almost as much battery as the Screen.
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I used to get 8 hours OST on 4.4.2 then it dropped to about 5 on 4.4.3. Now I am lucky to get 4 hours on 4.4.4. I am tempted to go back....
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I agree, battery life has taken a noticeable hit with the 4.4.4 upgrade. Battery life was ****ing stellar on 4.4.2, noticeably worsened on 4.4.3, and now is unacceptable on 4.4.4. Yesterday I had that ItsOn wakelock that people have talked about. A reboot made it disappear, but for the past two days my Android System and Android Kernel use have been way higher than usual. They're both in the 20% range, even when I'm sitting there watching videos on my phone, they take up almost as much battery as the Screen.
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Ditto. On 4.4.3 I use to get 6-7 hours of SOT and now I'm getting 3 hours. Not sure what is so different that is causing this.
Th3Bill said:
I did clean install and have over 13 hours on battery today including 6 hours of streaming music. Still have 30% left..
I'm on Captain Throwback's Beyond Stock. So far, so good for me
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I've been on Beyond Stock since Monday, and didn't have any problems until today. ItsOn is killing my battery - I dropped from ~70% to 30% in a matter of a couple of hours. I'm going to revert to a 4.4.3 ROM as soon as I get home.
I'm still having pretty bad battery life. 2-3 hours of SOT.
Anybody else found a solution?
Hey guys, looking for some input here.
Im coming up on the 14 day return policy for the nexus 6, but im really thinking of returning it and going with the note 4.
The only issue i have with the phone is battery life. My phone seems to gulp it down. Now i do have many battery draining features turned off and standby time is excellent. Its when i actually use the phone i get massive drain, whether it be facebooking, web browsing, or playing games, the phone loses a lot of life! My wife used the camera this past weekend for 20 minutes according to the stats and my percentage dropped 25%from 80% to 55% within 1/2 hour!
My brightness is also on adaptive at 35-40%. For the life of me, it just seems i cant stop the battery drain.
I know going to the stock note 4 battery is about the same, but Zerolemon is releasing the note 4 10000 mah battery later this month. I had the same battery on my note 3 and loved it, ive never killed that battery. Yes, itll be a brick, yes but im thinking id prefer battery over function.
I do love the nexus, especially the screen size and the front facing speakers, and i will lose those with the note, but having a dead phone by 6pm makes those features useless. Yes, i could charge the phone halfway through the day, but i was spoiled with the note 3 extended battery.
SO my question is, should i chance the nexus 6 and hope upcoming updates solve the drain, or should i dump it and go with the note 4 and extended battery.
Frank
TL;DR NExus 6 battery dies too quick, return and get note 4 with zero lemon.
I went from the Note 4 to the Nexus 6 and battery life is about the same. I was actually pretty disappointed with the battery life of the Note 4 considering i had a Note 2 where the battery lasted FOREVER! I had originally decided that i would bypass the Nexus 6 and get the Note 4 instead, and at first i loved it but after having to deal with constant lag and dealing with samsung's crappy radios i'm glad i picked up the Nexus 6 (Note 4 is my new alarm clock at home)
It seems that your mind is already made up.. just get the Note 4
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Hey guys, looking for some input here.
Im coming up on the 14 day return policy for the nexus 6, but im really thinking of returning it and going with the note 4.
The only issue i have with the phone is battery life. My phone seems to gulp it down. Now i do have many battery draining features turned off and standby time is excellent. Its when i actually use the phone i get massive drain, whether it be facebooking, web browsing, or playing games, the phone loses a lot of life! My wife used the camera this past weekend for 20 minutes according to the stats and my percentage dropped 25%from 80% to 55% within 1/2 hour!
My brightness is also on adaptive at 35-40%. For the life of me, it just seems i cant stop the battery drain.
I know going to the stock note 4 battery is about the same, but Zerolemon is releasing the note 4 10000 mah battery later this month. I had the same battery on my note 3 and loved it, ive never killed that battery. Yes, itll be a brick, yes but im thinking id prefer battery over function.
I do love the nexus, especially the screen size and the front facing speakers, and i will lose those with the note, but having a dead phone by 6pm makes those features useless. Yes, i could charge the phone halfway through the day, but i was spoiled with the note 3 extended battery.
SO my question is, should i chance the nexus 6 and hope upcoming updates solve the drain, or should i dump it and go with the note 4 and extended battery.
Frank
TL;DR NExus 6 battery dies too quick, return and get note 4 with zero lemon.
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Are you using stock ROM or rooted and/or flashed? Sounds unusual for stock. I'd check your network settings and make sure your preferred network type and access point name are correct for your carrier but if standby time is good that probably isn't it anyway. I'd look for an app which gives more detailed battery usage information and go from there.
after going through an S4 and Note 3.. Im glad to be away from samsung. They have amazing hardware specs but drag it down with their crappy touchwiz. It's really unfortunate, the s-pen is pretty great.
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Are you using stock ROM or rooted and/or flashed? Sounds unusual for stock. I'd check your network settings and make sure your preferred network type and access point name are correct for your carrier but if standby time is good that probably isn't it anyway. I'd look for an app which gives more detailed battery usage information and go from there.
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im actually fully stock, with just a few apps. I have checked for wake locks and draining apps and down have any. Actually all the apps i had are the same as the note 3 i had. Nothing new.
Im on att and my prefered network is LTE, changed it from global a few days ago.
It seems the biggest drain is during use, not standby!
Frank
tsy87 said:
after going through an S4 and Note 3.. Im glad to be away from samsung. They have amazing hardware specs but drag it down with their crappy touchwiz. It's really unfortunate, the s-pen is pretty great.
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I'm in the same boat you are. I'd get a samsung device today if they just got rid of TouchWiz and just went stock AOSP.
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It seems the biggest drain is during use, not standby!
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That is normal on any device. That battery for me is decent. However don't forget that you just got a new device. People always use new devices more initially before they settle into a normal use rhythm. Also I wouldn't worry much about the return date because this device is so hard to get that if you sold it yourself you would probably make money on it. Just give it time.
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It's possible that something is wrong with YOUR nexus. I get 5 hours of sot with a stock rooted rom and greenify. Once I decrypt, ROM and kernel I'd expect 6 to 8 easy.
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It seems that your mind is already made up.. just get the Note 4
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Could it be related to this?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/11/05/google-confirms-android-5-0-lollipop-delay/
edit: nm i see you already mentioned it in the original post, and were just looking for opinions.
The battery life is obviously important, so it is certainly a dice roll on your part.
For me, I have a Note 2 and waiting for N6 to be available for me. I am so sick of Samsung forced apps and touchwiz. It's not rooted, but I don't feel like I should have to root it in order to get a basic OS without the addons being forced on me by the manufacturer, and then have the warranty voided because of it.
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Could it be related to this?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/11/05/google-confirms-android-5-0-lollipop-delay/
edit: nm i see you already mentioned it in the original post, and were just looking for opinions.
The battery life is obviously important, so it is certainly a dice roll on your part.
For me, I have a Note 2 and waiting for N6 to be available for me. I am so sick of Samsung forced apps and touchwiz. It's not rooted, but I don't feel like I should have to root it in order to get a basic OS without the addons being forced on me by the manufacturer, and then have the warranty voided because of it.
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My top hitter has never been misc, its usually android os or google play services.
Frank
So here's some usage pics from today. Does this seem typical?
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So here's some usage pics from today. Does this seem typical?
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theres no such thing as "typical". we all use our devices differently, and have differing signal quality. you can really ever compare battery stats with another person because of that. only you know how you use your device. so the question is going to get changed.. by how you use your device, and your local signal quality, are you happy with your battery life?
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im actually fully stock, with just a few apps. I have checked for wake locks and draining apps and down have any. Actually all the apps i had are the same as the note 3 i had. Nothing new.
Im on att and my prefered network is LTE, changed it from global a few days ago.
It seems the biggest drain is during use, not standby!
Frank
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Did you allow google to auto restore settings, apps, data at first boot up? Coming from a different device and OS version could have synced something funky that is causing this. I have noticed this before. Consequentially I never use this feature. I always set every device up fresh (same if switching Roms too in my book). I would try a factory reset at the very least. I have been trying hard to kill my n6 today with no luck, already 12 up time 22% battery left with 4½ hours SOT. Battery stats say I have 3 hours of life left.
Have google now on and going, 2 email clients syncing, g+ syncing, Tapatalk syncing, roughtly 4 active hangouts going, and updated 8+ apps from play store.
Been actively trying to duplicate a power day on this thing. With you experience, something is off with your description and worth experimenting some.
I did do the wireless sync due to some apps needing to recover data.
Maybe I'll try a reset and manually download the apps.
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Ive had my phone for a couple weeks now. The first week I had it obviously I was playing around with it a ton and trying different Qi chargers to see how they work. My battery life was unimpressive at 8-10 hours. I was hoping to have at least a full days worth of time based on everything this is supposed to have.
Then I tried a couple things. I turned off the stupid fit application. I ran the battery all the way down until the phone literally turned off. Then I used only wall USB chargers to charge it up.
Now with the same type of usage 3-4 hours of screen time, Im typically getting at least 18-24 hours of battery life. I even managed 30 hours once. Anyway, Im extremely happy with the way this phone is holding up now. Obviously YMMV but I think if you find the right tweaks for the way you use it, it should last longer than you expect.
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So here's some usage pics from today. Does this seem typical?
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So Far Today by your stats i will give you mine.
@ 27% Battery Left after flashing Stock a 1.5 days ago rooted/decrypted
Screen is at 4:30:09 @ 42% Usage
Phone Radio 15:30:41 @ 4% usage
Wifi Active 3:24:12 1% usage
Held Awake 2:23:26 0% usage
App Usage 53%
I also have a persistent System (ADSPD) drain that while i don't know how much its draining app sucker puts it at 13.8% vs the next drainer of Android System at 7.3%
Just guessing maybe you are in a poorer signal area than I? Basing that on your phone radio using much more of the percentage?
For what its worth you saw my screen on time. GSAM is predicting 6h 58m total for the day if i run it to 0.
To date, this post is for anyone that has had this phone from november december area. I have always struggled with battery dwindling on my phones. The LG G2 lasts 1.5 hours of screen time now on AOSP when it used to push almost 5hrs, and my girlfriends older droid razr m went from 3 hrs of screen time to a struggling 1 hour. I would wait for the next nexus but i hear its coming from hauei whoever they are. Im not comfortable going with that company yet. I have been looking at the Sony z3 (or waiting for the new Us versions z4 with the 2k screen) but i am abe to get this phone for 380 through my work. How is the stamina of the battery 7-8 months later?
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To date, this post is for anyone that has had this phone from november december area. I have always struggled with battery dwindling on my phones. The LG G2 lasts 1.5 hours of screen time now on AOSP when it used to push almost 5hrs, and my girlfriends older droid razr m went from 3 hrs of screen time to a struggling 1 hour. I would wait for the next nexus but i hear its coming from hauei whoever they are. Im not comfortable going with that company yet. I have been looking at the Sony z3 (or waiting for the new Us versions z4 with the 2k screen) but i am abe to get this phone for 380 through my work. How is the stamina of the battery 7-8 months later?
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Had the phone since early December, no battery dwindling here, even with Quick Charge. I'm on Verizon, and I use LTE, never WiFi. I normally get 2-3 hours of screen time. If I use WiFi I can get 4 hours or so. It easily lasts me an entire day, but I struggle to get through 1.5-2 days. Keep in mind I do not underclock or undervolt. I am running AOSiP ROM and have Lean Kernel as my Kernel. But I don't underclock.
I did run the phone completely stock for about a month and got about the same battery life, maybe even slightly better. I have over 120 apps on my phone, and I have the 64GB White version. Let me know if you have any other questions!
P.S. For $380 you could easily buy the phone and sell it in a couple of months and lose nothing and still upgrade to a newer phone.
Its the best phone i ever had hands down and with a powerbank or using the quickcharger you will never run out of juice. Besides that its fast, responsive, has a great screen and dual speakers so overall i can recommend to anyone who appreciates vanilla. If you want bloat get a Sony, Samsung or LG BTW my screenontime is about 3-4 hours depending on usage and i think Huawei makes some pretty damn good phones like the Mate 7 for instance.
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Its the best phone i ever had hands down and with a powerbank or using the quickcharger you will never run out of juice. Besides that its fast, responsive, has a great screen and dual speakers so overall i can recommend to anyone who appreciates vanilla. If you want bloat get a Sony, Samsung or LG BTW my screenontime is about 3-4 hours depending on usage and i think Huawei makes some pretty damn good phones like the Mate 7 for instance.
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Do you use WiFi or LTE mainly? If LTE, what carrier?
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Do you use WiFi or LTE mainly? If LTE, what carrier?
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My carrier (T-Mobile) in the Netherlands just rolled out LTE where i live and coverage isn`t optimal yet (HSPA+). I`am about half the day on wifi and half on LTE (HSPA+).
All great info. No bloatware on the z3 international, and it's certified ip68 were the nexus can take a dunk but not certified. I agree 380 is good price it was a debate of this or s6 a and I'm leaning to this one
agree 100%
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Its the best phone i ever had hands down and with a powerbank or using the quickcharger you will never run out of juice. Besides that its fast, responsive, has a great screen and dual speakers so overall i can recommend to anyone who appreciates vanilla. If you want bloat get a Sony, Samsung or LG BTW my screenontime is about 3-4 hours depending on usage and i think Huawei makes some pretty damn good phones like the Mate 7 for instance.
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I couldn't agree more. It is the best phone I ever had too. Recently I have purchased a Qi charger for the office, so i do not even use the turbocharger that sits at home. No battery deterioration noticed. Oh, and I never use the car charger.
WiFi / LTE - 50/50.
This is the best phone I've had as well, have had it since it came out end of 2014, on the Verizon network the entire time.
I'm on LTE 10-13 hours a day, and WiFi a few hours, the battery will last me from 6:30am - 10pm everyday, without charging at all, and being around 15%-25% when I am about to put it on charge during bedtime.
The phone is rooted, on AOSIP ROM, with AOSIP default kernal. The battery life is amazing. I get between 4-5 hours of screen on time. I am currently at 61% battery (6:30am to 3pm now), with 2 hours SOT.
I use Servicely to hibernate apps while phone is asleep. I also use 'App Ops' to disable 'Location' and 'Keep Awake' access for apps that don't need the access. I have Google Now and Facebook running normal all day, and WhatsApp is my preferred method of texting throughout the day.
Coming from a Galaxy Note 3, I'm a bit disappointed by the screen and battery life. Color reproduction is kinda weird and the screen is too dim in bright sunlight for me. I can live with the relatively weak battery but the screen is just...disappointing. Still, I love it and felt never so happy with a device!
HSPA+ is not LTE
I've been having horrible battery life on Pie. I started on a clean slate then restored through smart switch. I'm getting max 5 hours of SOT on pie whereas I always got 8+ hours on oreo. I don't know if it's just me or anyone else is experiencing the same. Please share your battery stats so we can average out the outcome. If this continues, I'm definitely odining back to oreo.
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Got 10 hours this past weekend. Snapdragon.
Exynos. And it's awful
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6hrs consistently
Exynos
It looks bad Pie on exynos.Woaw!
I am Oreo.Not upgrade to Pie and my SOT is every day 7,8h SOT wifi and 4G.
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Got 10 hours this past weekend. Snapdragon.
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Are you on T-mobile?
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Exynos
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Yours is pretty bad.
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K-alz said:
Are you on T-mobile?
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AT&T
therebel88 said:
AT&T
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Then it's only tmobile who's having the battery issue
Nope, I am At&t went back to Oreo. Wasn't getting anywhere close to the 8 to 10hr screen times as a see some have. Best I could get was about 5hrs..granted I would have about 6hrs call time which is ok I guess, but still Oreo was better for me. But then again I never let my battery drop below 20% and I usually only charge to 90%..I never let it get down to the single digits.
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Then it's only tmobile who's having the battery issue
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I'm on T-Mo and have great battery life. 8-10 hours SOT. Mix of WiFi and LTE.
Actuakky I'd say an estimated 8-10 hours. I use the phone pretty heavy throughout the day. I'm on it for a couple hours after I wake up. Posting on here, reading my Bible app, checking the news, etc.
Then I go to the gym and stream music through Bluetooth for a couple hours. I usually check my phone occasionally and take calls while there.
Then I randomly get on it throughout the day and evening at home.
I average 1 hour of screen time per 10% of battery, but I haven't been able to kill the battery before bed to see the full 10 hours of SOT. And I charge over night. Though I have left it off the charger by accident and still woke up with a plenty of juice.
This phone is a beast that sips battery. And my Note 8 is doing just as well on Pie.
I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm just saying something must be going on with your particular phone.
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I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm just saying something must be going on with your particular phone.
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Or possibly an app that is not Pie friendly.
Exynos, always almost max brightness QHD+ and 50/50 4G+/wifi, 512/8 version
First one is Oreo, others are pie
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Exynos, always almost max brightness QHD+ and 50/50 4G+/wifi, 512/8 version
First one is Oreo, others are pie
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Do you understand that you're more satisfied with Pie than with Oreo?
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I've been having horrible battery life on Pie. I started on a clean slate then restored through smart switch. I'm getting max 5 hours of SOT on pie whereas I always got 8+ hours on oreo. I don't know if it's just me or anyone else is experiencing the same. Please share your battery stats so we can average out the outcome. If this continues, I'm definitely odining back to oreo.
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I'm getting 7hrs 40mins average SOT
Exynos the battery is quite good.
Dual sim always, location high + wifi scan when wifi off, max resolution on (WQHD+), no AOD
On 4G i get around 5 hours SOT and on WIFI around 6 SOT
Those that are getting 8hours+ probably sometimes they are using the phone in airplane mode with WIFI enabled or not at all and a lot other things that they do not mention so please do not take them as "normal" people because it's not fair what they are presenting and does not reflect a normal day to day user.
As some noted, depending on the usage - the battery life on pie is worse vs oreo. For me it's also worse as I multitask a lot. The SOC CPU control is tuned differently for more performance. Sadly, it's leading to worse battery life while still lags massively behind the snapdragon 845 in performance. Luckily - it's a little bit faster. This is the reason why most likely those reports about lower battery life on pie will come from mainly exynos note 9 owners.
For me and my usage, it's not massively lower, but surely it's noticeable lower usage before need for recharge vs oreo. It's still ok. I am not so ok with the gutted multiwindow functionality and the rushed/bugged state (and that's funny given how many months the PIE update was in development + the beta).
I also saw some recent tests of those with exynos and update Pie with Antutu around 260000 compared to the test made on Oreo around 244000. It sees the CPU and GPU increase and a consistent decrease to UX and MEM.
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Exynos the battery is quite good.
Dual sim always, location high + wifi scan when wifi off, max resolution on (WQHD+), no AOD
On 4G i get around 5 hours SOT and on WIFI around 6 SOT
Those that are getting 8hours+ probably sometimes they are using the phone in airplane mode with WIFI enabled or not at all and a lot other things that they do not mention so please do not take them as "normal" people because it's not fair what they are presenting and does not reflect a normal day to day user.
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Actually depends on the apps you're using, on wifi I got very high battery without airplane mode, which can make me go to 10 hrs of screen on
Hello, I got a Zenfone 8 from Amazon Warehouse with MFD 4-21. Just after receiving i read about the Ramdump issues with 4-21 and 5-21 MFD, so far nothing happened to my phone. My problem is just the bad battery life and heating issues. I optimized bluetooth (do not know if I disabled optimisation for it), with this I got a little more battery and heating in pocket got less.
Also I flashed Kirisakura Kernel with the hope of getting enough battery life out of the phone to last through the day. Compared to my previous phone (Unihertz Atom XL) I have got much worse battery life. The old phone got about 4300 mah and a smaller screen, but it was in no way optimized and still had about 50% on the end of the day. With the Zenfone on the other hand I get from the morning 06:00 (90 % charge limit) to about 14:00 and would have to recharge. Usage is the same (Health app which is activated every 5 min and needs BT, some news-browsing)
I am now thinking about sending the phone back and switching to a refurbished Pixel 5 (which schould have better battery) or get a brand new Zenfone 8. I like the look and feel of the phone very much, but I do not want to have to charge throughout the day.
If the thermal and battery problem would be from that, that the phone is manufactured in April 2021 I would rather order a brand new Zenfone 8 (in the hope in getting really a new one with MFD end 2021).
What are your thoughts on this?
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Hello, I got a Zenfone 8 from Amazon Warehouse with MFD 4-21. Just after receiving i read about the Ramdump issues with 4-21 and 5-21 MFD, so far nothing happened to my phone. My problem is just the bad battery life and heating issues. I optimized bluetooth (do not know if I disabled optimisation for it), with this I got a little more battery and heating in pocket got less.
Also I flashed Kirisakura Kernel with the hope of getting enough battery life out of the phone to last through the day. Compared to my previous phone (Unihertz Atom XL) I have got much worse battery life. The old phone got about 4300 mah and a smaller screen, but it was in no way optimized and still had about 50% on the end of the day. With the Zenfone on the other hand I get from the morning 06:00 (90 % charge limit) to about 14:00 and would have to recharge. Usage is the same (Health app which is activated every 5 min and needs BT, some news-browsing)
I am now thinking about sending the phone back and switching to a refurbished Pixel 5 (which schould have better battery) or get a brand new Zenfone 8. I like the look and feel of the phone very much, but I do not want to have to charge throughout the day.
If the thermal and battery problem would be from that, that the phone is manufactured in April 2021 I would rather order a brand new Zenfone 8 (in the hope in getting really a new one with MFD end 2021).
What are your thoughts on this?
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Hello, with hot environmental temps, phone heats up easily and that's normal if you're running stock Soc values/bloated OS.
The only way to reduce that, is to install a vanilla rom like Los 19.1 or AEX/Omni (at worst with microG or smallest gApps) and limit a bit the max frequencies for both Cpu and Gpu.
No miracles at all but really acceptable
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Hello, with hot environmental temps, phone heats up easily and that's normal if you're running stock Soc values/bloated OS.
The only way to reduce that, is to install a vanilla rom like Los 19.1 or AEX/Omni (at worst with microG or smallest gApps) and limit a bit the max frequencies for both Cpu and Gpu.
No miracles at all but really acceptable
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Thank you for your answer!
Until now I did not have phones which get hot (rather warm) during normal use, also not during summer. Under heavy games this is normal for sure, and expectable.
Are there any disadvantages in using one of the custom roms? I had lineageos on older phones (Galaxy S5 and Oneplus 6t), with the Oneplus there were some problems and I did not see any advantage in using it. Is everything running smooth and working? If not what function is affected by which rom?
I read in another thread that someone managed to get over 8 hours SOT with LOS, this would be nice if there is no disadvantage in functionality and usage.
So you would not recommend to replace the "old" Zenfone with a new one with newer MFD?
I find it a pitty that such a nice phone has those problems, this is why I thought about switching to a Pixel 5 (size, camera, battery and (community) support).
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Thank you for your answer!
Until now I did not have phones which get hot (rather warm) during normal use, also not during summer. Under heavy games this is normal for sure, and expectable.
Are there any disadvantages in using one of the custom roms? I had lineageos on older phones (Galaxy S5 and Oneplus 6t), with the Oneplus there were some problems and I did not see any advantage in using it. Is everything running smooth and working? If not what function is affected by which rom?
I read in another thread that someone managed to get over 8 hours SOT with LOS, this would be nice if there is no disadvantage in functionality and usage.
So you would not recommend to replace the "old" Zenfone with a new one with newer MFD?
I find it a pitty that such a nice phone has those problems, this is why I thought about switching to a Pixel 5 (size, camera, battery and (community) support).
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The main reason for the heat issue is the bad built 888, and in our compact dimensions can only be worse than expected.
If you can go vanilla, that's for sure the best option in consumption/temp terms, otherwise even microG or at worse with smallest gApps you'll be in a better situation than stock, still tweaking freqs as I said above by default .
Bugs might be on NFC payments department, shouldn't there be in any other side, considering these A12 roms are on "first weeks of global tests".
On Los you loose Asus Camera and Dialer as their best apps, but you can go with gCam though with pretty results.
Omni/AEX should also have FM radio if you're interested in and Asus camera.
Since you're already rooted, it's just a matter of a Format to go with any rom, and an eventually second Format to go back easily with the Asus A12 RAW file.
I was forgetting....only a newer device than, let's say November 2021, might give you a real "ramdump proof" device, but heat remains the same, unless they also modified heat dissipation that's most unlikely to happen.
I installed MicroG, this helped with battery life, but brought also disadvantages (calendar, contacts). I also got a Pixel 5 to test, and am until now more for the P5. The battery lasts me a full day and this without taking the disadvantages in usability on me. With MicroG the battery life still was not as I would like it to be.
I liked the ROM of Asus, especially because of the battery options and modes, also the options for Dual Band Wifi and Hyperfusion (Wifi + Data).
I am thankful for your recommendations. But I am tending to stay with the Pixel where I do not need to do so much to the software to work for me.