Had the Pixel 4 XL for just over a week but noticed some strange app battery usage readings. As you can see from the pictures, I only used Chrome for maybe 30 seconds today but it has the highest battery usage percentage. The detail view of the app shows 0 minutes of background activity and 0 active use minutes. I just set it to restrict background usage just now to see if it would make any difference (edit: % still climbing with restricting background usage and no usage from me). I have also had this type of high battery percentage reading occur with the twitter app and Instagram app on other days. Only used those other apps for a few minutes with no background battery usage time but they also ended up at the top of battery usage list. Anyone else having this happen?
factory reset through recovery and restrict app background usage under app settings, I have sooooo many apps with restricted data and background data usage and I get roughly 6 or 7 hours SOT.
yep. I am. And there was one app, bleacher report, that would even use tons of battery when I barely used it, even after I restricted it. That one I just had to uninstall.
Some_Ghost said:
factory reset through recovery and restrict app background usage under app settings, I have sooooo many apps with restricted data and background data usage and I get roughly 6 or 7 hours SOT.
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just finished with a factory reset so hopefully that will fix it.
Here is today's battery usage for me, restricted apps, 90hz off, Motion sense on
I've only had this 4 XL for maybe a week now btw and I'm a pretty moderate user you can see lol
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Hi all,
I have a att HTC one m7 running sixth sense with the stock kernel. Just checking on my battery life. With power saver on and brightness set to minimum with location off and LTE on, I have 2:41 screen on time with 36% left in the tank. I bought my phone August last year. Is this normal battery life?
Basically no, what's hogging up your battery life? (Any apps running in the background for example?)
Well gsam says apps are using 57.5% with screen using 34%. The top offenders in apps are chrome at 12%, system... At 9.3%, and android system also at 9.3%, and kernel at 5.6%.The HTC battery utility says android system is using 80% in app usage
I have been looking at this forever now... its this keep alive sob. a lot of people is having this issue
Well the official sense 6 update will be coming out soon, I'll update to that. Think that will fix the issue?
i already updated to sence 6, nope.
this is my phone's normal activity, when no app is running in the back ground.
If you go into Power > History - is your awake bar almost solid color? Looks like some app or setting won't let the phone go to Deep Sleep, causing battery issues.
After converting back to stock with power saver on and brightness set to low, I'm at 3 hours screen on time with 48% left. Is this more normal?
Arcturus314 said:
After converting back to stock with power saver on and brightness set to low, I'm at 3 hours screen on time with 48% left. Is this more normal?
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Depends on what programs did you use and if you had Wifi/Mobile internet connection. As always, showing screens from a battery app (GSAM/BBS) makes it much easier to decide.
For example on WiFi the longest screen on time I had was 6Hrs 16 mins with 23% left - I watched 3 movies in a day with headphones.
But usually I am getting 2-3 hours screen on per charge if I use my phone "normally" and not watching movies.
Hi folks.. facing a lot of battery drain issues.. mostly it had to do with social network apps .. bit in general the battery y efficiency in emui is not that great.. pls share your thoughts and tricks to lower battery consumption ..
Mohit849 said:
Hi folks.. facing a lot of battery drain issues.. mostly it had to do with social network apps .. bit in general the battery y efficiency in emui is not that great.. pls share your thoughts and tricks to lower battery consumption ..
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really? my honor play work 1-2days with 1 charging... i use fb app(not lite) and fb messenger(not lite)... and not drain battery... problem is in your device...check battery statistic which app drain battery...
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really? my honor play work 1-2days with 1 charging... i use fb app(not lite) and fb messenger(not lite)... and not drain battery... problem is in your device...check battery statistic which app drain battery...
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I do have what's app and Instagram apart from the other two that you mentioned .. my general use is of 3.5 to 4 hours per day but by the end of day the battery dies..so my question is should I stop background running apps? I have around 30 to 35 apps installed on phone..
I got this tips for battery longevity..
Also, don't put phone on vibration mode...it consumes battery...either silent or sound..
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1) get charger alarm and set it to 80%
2) disable uselesa background apps.
Thats it.
I charge to 80% every morning, despite having 4G volte + data 24/7 with upto 2 hours calling, 30mins-60mins gaming, 1hr+ chatting, 30mins+ 9gag, 30mins youtube...
Mine phone still stays around 35%...when I check next morning
Data (4g), location, auto synch are ALWAYS turned ON
(Yesterday my totol usge was 5.5hours with 1hour gaming (fortnite)... My battery was at 25% when i checked this morning)
I recently bought the honor play but have found the battery usage to be higher than I would like at night during standby. I leave my phone connected to wifi and 4g (although 4g is not on when wifi is) and I noticed that the phone wakes up a lot during the night. It seems that it mostly wakes up more often when on wifi as when on 4g during the day there are far fewer wake up events. So to solve this problem I'm using tasker to disable wifi, deny all network activity (excluding calls), bluetooth and auto sync for me during 11:30pm and 7.30am. The result is that the phone barely wakes up at night now and I am getting 2-3% battery drain over 8 hours instead of 10-14%. So I would recommend doing this, as it seems to improve battery life. There may be other apps that can do the same thing but I like the interface and usability of it over something like automate.
Edit: I would also recommend leaving the standard power saving mode on all the time as it doesn't limit performance but just limits background activity. However, this does disable auto sync, but then you could just set auto sync to turn on at set intervals using tasker, at least that's what I'm doing.
So taking a look at my screenshot after a long 14 hour work day I'm down to 35% yet with only 1.44hr of OST. I've seen numerous reports about 5/6/7 hours OST but the most I've gotten was 5 hours and change with the battery all the way down to no more than 10% and that's with battery saver automatically activated at 20%. I do not have force 90hz on anymore for the past week and I'm currently rooted in December patch stock kernel and minimal magisk modules installed. Running substratum of course and Viper. Nothing else really fancy going in with my setup. Been eyeing down better battery stats and nothing is hogging battery consumption in the background. Any thoughts on this would be very much appreciated. And yes I'm aware of the disappointing battery size but I believe I should still be seeing much better performance than this.
It's normal for a device with a small battery. Check if you have any wakelocks and start carying a portable charger
Do you have the P4 XL?
I'm on force 90 hz, mobile network all day, 90% brightness level, rooted with magisk, only thing I'm not using is motion sense (not available in my country and don't want to force it with any module yet) and get 6-7 hours SOT easily
You "Full charge lasts about" is still a decent 19 hour and 15 minutes so do you always end around 35% and under 2 hours SOT? Do you stream something with the screen off most the day?
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otrobruno said:
Do you have the P4 XL?
I'm on force 90 hz, mobile network all day, 90% brightness level, rooted with magisk, only thing I'm not using is motion sense (not available in my country and don't want to force it with any module yet) and get 6-7 hours SOT easily
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That's what I don't understand I feel like I should be getting that type of battery life as well
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You "Full charge lasts about" is still a decent 19 hour and 15 minutes so do you always end around 35% and under 2 hours SOT? Do you stream something with the screen off most the day?
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I'm always checking for walelocks and I have nothing abnormal going in there and I even have a dozen apps battery restricted
FFS, don't believe the stupid train on SOT being a remotely valid indicator of a device's battery life. your SOT will never match the next person's nor will it be a reliable indicator that you'll get that amount the next day. you should be measuring your battery drain rate and determining what's causing your battery to get eaten up through the day.
I do agree that SoT is not a good indicator. For starters, a device with a screen at 100% brightness doing the same workload as a device with a screen at 50% brightness will have wildly different SoT. The SoT is only perhaps relevant to you individually, and only after a long time of use when enough data was gathered for you to know the actual average SoT.
I mean my full charge lasts about 16 hours, but yet some days get 7 hours sot and others 3, it's all in how you use it. I'm still stock and haven't rooted.
So did anyone else get terrible batterylife with andeoid 10?
I went from 8h SOT to about 5h.
Am thinking of downgrading cause before it was the best phone ive ever had
There isn't 10 for my csc yet
Anybody else confirming bad battery life on 10?
how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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how where you getting 8hours sot... i was getting 6 and now 5 but i do have a lot more idle cause of the quarantine
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Wish I could tell you. All I know is it was the best battery I've seen. Was using it 'normally' and throughout 24 hours I got 7-8 hours battery life always, every single day for half a year. With music streaming for 1-2h, some browsing, location on, bluetooth on, and all apps like facebook, instagram etc. disabled.
Now I get 2 hours 20 mins and its already on 48%. Android 10 was a garbage and I wish I could downgrade without much hassle. I cannot find out what is draining the battery, there is no app. If I account for the apps it has used around 1000mah or less, which is 1/3rd, wihc would put me at around 70% - that would be my old battery life. But there is something else draining 20-30% battery and it is not shown in the battery reports, I am using accubatterry.
I really hate it, now I hate this phone
Battery draining mainly depends on how device is used, means how much CPU/GPU are stressed. Has NOTHING to do with Android OS itself: an OS is a piece of software, nothing else, an OS doesn't consume electric power. It are all the running apps/services - either running in foreground or in background, for example Location Providers & Google Play Services - that drain the battery, as also the activated hardware components like the screen, WiFi, GPS, SIM-cards, BlueTooth, etc.pp. even if device is in standby mode. It are the device's power management settings what control the behavior of Android phones that could affect the system's power consumption, such as adjusting lighting, handling the phone's sleep, and the wake-up, idle, turn-off timing, back lighting or display brightness of the device. It are the device implementers who define the related constants suitable to their devces, it's NOT Google , the developers of Android. With regards to Samsung S10 devices it's worldwide known that it has a very poor power management compared to others.
BTW: Since Android 9, the platform can monitor apps for behavior that negatively affects the battery life of devices.
No matter what you do to your device, it will never stop draining the battery.
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You have no idea what you are talking about and should stop wasting everyones time talking about that
So I simply reset my phone and I am back to 8h SOT and happy again.
3h42mins with 62% of the battery at like 8h usage
And after about 15h usage at 51% with 4h10mins SOT ?
I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
Maveric-Romeo said:
I also got terrible battery life after the 10 upgrade.
What do you mean by reset? How?
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A simple factory reset, type reset in your settings in the search bar and do a factory reset.
It will delete everything, so make a backup before
It is my second day with the phone. Exyons version. I charged it 100% and left home at 5pm and here were are 11:40 pm 21% with 2hours 44 mins SOT
How?
4g enabled about 40 mins
I only used camera, google maps, a little facebook and uber.
Bluetooth enabled for the watch and the buds.
No wifi. No nfs.
Adaptive refresh rate and 1080p resolution after it dropped to 60%.
What have I done wrong?
This is very similar to my situation but I have snapdragon version my SOT is not that good get about 2-3 hours with 8 hours of use. I already resetting my phone once I'm currently still going through the learning usage pattern after my reset. Hopefully it improves because I'm hoping that my phone is not defective.
I thought about resting the phone but I have already downloaded about 20gb of games :/
I will wait couple days to see maybe the phone is still learning usage pattern . Please keep us updated if SOT got improved with you
I sincerely advise you to do a factory reset, don't restore any data (except stuff like picture and video) and start again installing apps, don't install everything, just the necessary and check the battery, you will see a big improvement.
start from there and then look at the difference.
different apps can behave differently.
And of course put anything you don't constantly use to deep sleep in battery setting!
I did it and my battery now is totally fine.
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I sincerely advise you to do a factory reset, don't restore any data (except stuff like picture and video) and start again installing apps, don't install everything, just the necessary and check the battery, you will see a big improvement.
start from there and then look at the difference.
different apps can behave differently.
And of course put anything you don't constantly use to deep sleep in battery setting!
I did it and my battery now is totally fine.
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Question for you. What is normal battery draining for you. For example, if you leave your phone over night usually how much percent does your phone drop. And how long does it take your phone to drop by 1% obviously this last question depends on what app you're using but ideally on average how long does it take your phone to drop by 1%. The reason I'm asking is Because I kind of want to gage how my phone Is performing compared to others. Thanks!
Yea what's been said above, don't use smart switch and give it about a week to settle in, you will genuinely see an improvement.
Put all apps you don't use regularly/ need notifications from in deep sleep. If you have crap signal at home turn on WiFi calling. Turn off nearby decide scanning in connections.
If you're still struggling after a week, download GSAM as it gives much more detailed stats
I lose around 0.5% an hour overnight on standby
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Question for you. What is normal battery draining for you. For example, if you leave your phone over night usually how much percent does your phone drop. And how long does it take your phone to drop by 1% obviously this last question depends on what app you're using but ideally on average how long does it take your phone to drop by 1%. The reason I'm asking is Because I kind of want to gage how my phone Is performing compared to others. Thanks!
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on average I lose 0,6-0,7%/h when the screen is off and an average of 10%/h when the screen is on.
fhd+, bt with smartwatch, location off, mostly on wi-fi (when I'm on wifi I use a Bixby routine to turn off data and switch to 2g but I don't think it makes much difference), lots of apps to deep sleep but not apps like whatsapp telegram and gmail.
anyway, everything depends on your specific use and apps installed but I can say my battery life was half than now when I restored my settings and apps data using samsung stuff.
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I sincerely advise you to do a factory reset, don't restore any data (except stuff like picture and video) and start again installing apps, don't install everything, just the necessary and check the battery, you will see a big improvement.
start from there and then look at the difference.
different apps can behave differently.
And of course put anything you don't constantly use to deep sleep in battery setting!
I did it and my battery now is totally fine.
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Thank you. I will do a factory reset and update you guys later
I heard that uwb application is the culprit. Many users reported worst battery life with it. It's something related to 5g ultra wide band. Hopefully future update fixes it. Check below thread on how you can remove it. Not sure what functionality gets impacted by removing it
What is Uwb Application and how do I stop it??
So this morning I noticed this app I've never seen before, Uwb Application hogged 14%. I've never seen it before. What does it do and how do I stop it? I recently installed microg and YouTube vanced? Does this have anything to do with these apps...
forum.xda-developers.com
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Question for you. What is normal battery draining for you. For example, if you leave your phone over night usually how much percent does your phone drop. And how long does it take your phone to drop by 1% obviously this last question depends on what app you're using but ideally on average how long does it take your phone to drop by 1%. The reason I'm asking is Because I kind of want to gage how my phone Is performing compared to others. Thanks!
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FHD+/120hz/5g off/smart things off/ everything else normal
Overnight loss is about 2-3%
From 100% to 99% withing 3 minutes after wake up in the morning. That's turning screen on checking Facebook, or browse news.
My Huawei P30 pro would go 99% probably after 30 or 40 min of morning browsing
iPhone 12 pro max I am testing now, stays 100% for about an hour fr a wake up, that's browsing internet social networks
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FHD+/120hz/5g off/smart things off/ everything else normal
Overnight loss is about 2-3%
From 100% to 99% withing 3 minutes after wake up in the morning. That's turning screen on checking Facebook, or browse news.
My Huawei P30 pro would go 99% probably after 30 or 40 min of morning browsing
iPhone 12 pro max I am testing now, stays 100% for about an hour fr a wake up, that's browsing internet social networks
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To measure battery loss from 100-99 is meaningless. The last several generations of the iPhone have behaved like this but clearly this has no real meaning, Which is more accurate? From that clearly the Samsung is the "least worse". To stay at 100% for an hour is absurd. BS calibration. Similar for the P30 Pro. Overnight loss of 2-3% is par for the course (I lose -using GSAM Pro - 0.6% per hour overnight which is probably very similar to you) So ignore a 1% drop in 3 minutes. It is just a matter of calibration.
Edit - added per hour re the 0.6% to clarify.
iOS is lying about battery percentage. If you see 100% it's in 100-95% range.
Anyway, it has more efficient deep sleep.
Yeah. Shouldn't the battery only be at 100 while it's plugged in? Cause as soon as you unplug it, it's obviously using the battery juice...which means it's no longer at 100.
I'm not sure if these Temps and cpu usage are normal, which I don't feel like it's normal, but every time I pick up my phone My phone is just running at 100% cpu usage. Granted I already reset my phone two days ago and got two full charges in. And my battery says it's still learning usage pattern. I'm not sure if this is part of the learning usage pattern phase.
Khalid Madkour said:
It is my second day with the phone. Exyons version. I charged it 100% and left home at 5pm and here were are 11:40 pm 21% with 2hours 44 mins SOT
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Wait at least 3 full days after setting up a new Android phone before you assess battery life and SOT.
I have exynos S21U and get 8 or 9 hrs SOT with the 90Hz screen refresh rate mod.
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90Hz screen refresh rate mod
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link, please? Does it support the adaptive screen refresh rate or sticks to 90 Hz?
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link, please? Does it support the adaptive screen refresh rate or sticks to 90 Hz?
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Adaptive refreh... There you go
Khalid Madkour said:
It is my second day with the phone. Exyons version. I charged it 100% and left home at 5pm and here were are 11:40 pm 21% with 2hours 44 mins SOT
How?
4g enabled about 40 mins
I only used camera, google maps, a little facebook and uber.
Bluetooth enabled for the watch and the buds.
No wifi. No nfs.
Adaptive refresh rate and 1080p resolution after it dropped to 60%.
What have I done wrong?
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I reset my phone and waited around days
And after I was getting 4~5H SOT with no 4G, I am getting now 5h SOT with 50% only
Duel sim
4G
96hz QHD
Social media, browsing ans watching movies offline
And thats so satisfying!!