Battery Drain Android System and Google Play Store - Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe

Hi guys,
I've got the Mi 9T Pro a few days back and it's a great phone! That said, battery life ja not great (at least not good as I see people have here). I get around 6h SOT and one day of use. I don't use Facebook, messanger or similar and I don't game. I don't use auto brightness, it's usually on 30ish percent. Auto sync is turned off, always on screen is also off. It seems Google play store and Android system are wasting most of my battery. I tried clearing cache, without success.
Does anyone have any similar experience and were you able to solve it? I'm on Miui 11 global, android 10
Let me know if I can provide anything.
Thanks!

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OnePlus 3T SOT only 4.5 ish hours

I have got my one plus 3t about 2 weeks ago. I have noticed that it's screen on time is never over 4.5 hours. I've read people saying their op3t SOT is over 6 hours.
Currently it's running oxygen OS 4.0.3 (Android 7.0)
I can't compare against the SOT in marshmallow because after I bought it I instantly upgraded to android 7.
I followed some steps suggested in several forums that should fix any battery drain issue such as wiping partition cache from recovery mode, clearing Google play service cache, turning on doze mode from DEV mode. It didn't get much better.
My usage pattern is mostly light to moderate. I use Facebook, fb messenger, aqua mail as default mail app, deezer for music. I am normally on my wifi most of the time. I turn on data for a small portion of the day. I turned of location service and Google location history. My screen brightness is set to about 20%.
Can you help me understand what's the underlying cause? It's not that I'm not happy with the battery performance. It lasts easily a whole day for me. But having more SOT would definitely be great.
Note: Unfortunately can't share my screenshot here as i'm new to this forum.
aman_kaushik said:
I have got my one plus 3t about 2 weeks ago. I have noticed that it's screen on time is never over 4.5 hours. I've read people saying their op3t SOT is over 6 hours.
Currently it's running oxygen OS 4.0.3 (Android 7.0)
I can't compare against the SOT in marshmallow because after I bought it I instantly upgraded to android 7.
I followed some steps suggested in several forums that should fix any battery drain issue such as wiping partition cache from recovery mode, clearing Google play service cache, turning on doze mode from DEV mode. It didn't get much better.
My usage pattern is mostly light to moderate. I use Facebook, fb messenger, aqua mail as default mail app, deezer for music. I am normally on my wifi most of the time. I turn on data for a small portion of the day. I turned of location service and Google location history. My screen brightness is set to about 20%.
Can you help me understand what's the underlying cause? It's not that I'm not happy with the battery performance. It lasts easily a whole day for me. But having more SOT would definitely be great.
Note: Unfortunately can't share my screenshot here as i'm new to this forum.
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o.o you use Facebook and Facebook Messenger. To my knowledge they both encompass a whole lot of wakelocks that keep your device running after you put it to sleep. First thing would be to either greenify (if it will help) or delete both of those applications. I dont use em, but if you go to any battery saving thread on android most tell you to do something to keep those apps from running unless you want them to, instead of just, on, all the time doing meaningless things like holding the phone awake.
Without Facebook installed, only whatsapp and surfing, I am getting around 7,5 hours SOT. I'm on freedom os open beta, stock kernel.
on oos rooted with elemental x kernal, whatsapp snapchat and instagram only no facebook or anything like that, i am getting 6 hours screen on time with a bettery life 2.5-3 days 100% to 10%. Obviously i am not addicted to my phone the screen is on about 2 hours a day on average sometimes 3. I have no idea how much screen on time i could get in a single charge if i was a heavy user but i reckon it would be high based on the rest of this post.
Edit: For those on franco kernal i tried it and it was not even close to elemental ex i was get 1.5 days battery at best and that was with the battery profile enabled.
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o.o you use Facebook and Facebook Messenger. To my knowledge they both encompass a whole lot of wakelocks that keep your device running after you put it to sleep. First thing would be to either greenify (if it will help) or delete both of those applications. I dont use em, but if you go to any battery saving thread on android most tell you to do something to keep those apps from running unless you want them to, instead of just, on, all the time doing meaningless things like holding the phone awake.
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instead of using greenify, would it help if I use the Aggressive doze mode? It should put every background app (including Facebook and FB messenger) into hibernation). Shouldn't it?
Ribery771 said:
Without Facebook installed, only whatsapp and surfing, I am getting around 7,5 hours SOT. I'm on freedom os open beta, stock kernel.
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Are you only on wifi?
aman_kaushik said:
instead of using greenify, would it help if I use the Aggressive doze mode? It should put every background app (including Facebook and FB messenger) into hibernation). Shouldn't it?
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Greenify makes a massive difference. I was using naptime that puts aggressive doze on as soon as the screen is switch off and i was still getting more drain that i wanted (about 3 percent in standby).
Now people will tell me greenify doesnt make a difference, answer me this then. How do i have a screenshot of an 8 hour period over night where i lost 0.1% per hour.
EuEra said:
Greenify makes a massive difference. I was using naptime that puts aggressive doze on as soon as the screen is switch off and i was still getting more drain that i wanted (about 3 percent in standby).
Now people will tell me greenify doesnt make a difference, answer me this then. How do i have a screenshot of an 8 hour period over night where i lost 0.1% per hour.
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Standby in night seems use less power than in day. I think the reason is that you don't wake your phone at all at night.
JayYip said:
Standby in night seems use less power than in day. I think the reason is that you don't wake your phone at all at night.
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Why does everyone find this so hard to believe. At night i would lose 0.6% per hour. With greenify i lose 0.1%. Greenify makes a difference, simple.
EuEra said:
Why does everyone find this so hard to believe. At night i would lose 0.6% per hour. With greenify i lose 0.1%. Greenify makes a difference, simple.
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No, I believe you man. I use Greenify too. Just saying a fact that I observed. I thought you're comparing the day time drain with night time drain.

Battery Life Issues

Hi guys,
The main reason I moved from OnePlus 3T to this Moto X4 is for the great battery life. But ever since i bought the phone i am not running on good mileage. It is rather decent but battery percentage decreases quite a lot. Unable to find the right culprit for this.
Currently I have rooted and running Magisk and running on Oreo (Retin, XT1900-2 India).
It goes from 90 to about 15 percent in a day with decent Whatsapp, Facebook (app changed to Fella), and Messenger, and from time to time I use Google drive, watch little video clips (low quality from Whatsapp).
Screen time is about 3-4 hours, in the span of 24 hours. My home is situated in a half sort of signal zone (constant 4G network, no 3G or 2G, Jio network) and 90 percent of the time I use Wifi (ac/n).
In contrast I have a Xiaomi Redmi 5A (office use, costs 77 usd currently) runs for 3-4 days on a single charge!
In Magisk I tried the Google GMS core (i think thats the name) doze and it freezes my Whatsapp notifications and others, I need these notifications, so I disabled and am running normally.
Is there a particular thing that I can use or test or try out to find out what is going on in my phone? OR would you consider that this is usual for this phone?
Moto is a sprinter not marathon runner
androidnandroid said:
Moto is a sprinter not marathon runner
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Haha I get the point, but is it normal?
Tommylee567 said:
Haha I get the point, but is it normal?
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Nope, it's not normal. With wifi usage I get 7.5 hrs SOT on average. When I am out of station, I use Jio sim for accessing internet. I also use gps and maps in such case and still manage to get 6 hrs of SOT.
Thanks for that confirmation. Looks like something would be wrong then with the hardware.
There's something really wrong with your x4.
I have more or less the same daily usage and in the end of the day I still have more than 50% of battery.
i'm not usung my phone heavy, but always on bluetooth, wifi, momile data and gps, checking facebook instagram and those others social media few times throu the day, sometimes pokemon go. and i have 4-5h on screen time. max 20h in total (android 7.1.1 reteu)
Moto display is culprit
This phone has bad battery life. My moto g5 plus last longer.
yes i can confirm this behaviour. i guess this is largely after the oreo update and even before the update i didn't like the battery life as much which was may be the case because i was coming from yu yunicorn with 4000 mAh battery. so i don't know may be it's the oreo update issue or may be it's only a few models like ours that are affected. either way i'm really concerned as i'm really in love with this phone and don't wanna get a new one any time soon... ?
IDK how much it helps but go into developer settings and disable mobile data always active. It was on by default after I updated to oreo
Wow. I just picked up this phone, X4, to take advantage of a Sprint special.... The 2 days I have had it, the battery has been horrible. I turned off Moto display so I'll see if that helps. Otherwise, I don't have Facebook or any other social media app. I have 1 hour 39 minutes of SOT today and I'm at 15% battery. I'm seeing reports the Oreo update is when this started. Hoping this can get fixed with Pie and soon!
Any tips or tricks would be great! Thanks.
Here is an overnight view on WiFi. So 14 minutes of SOT with Google play services using 35% battery. Any suggestions? This is really hard to believe. I'm likely going to try and return phone I guess.
Did you reset your phone or restore backup?
Hello. Yes, I did a factory reset at the end of day 1. I just turned off background activity for Google play services so hopefully that will help.

Xiaomi Mi A2 battery drain issue?

Hello, fellows. I have a Xiaomi Mi A2 and couple of days ago I started experiencing battery drain issue. Google Play Store drained 23% of my battery on the last charge, despite rarely using the store app. I have already limited background data usage and background app running but I think I still have the drain issue. Any advice on what to do? I haven't installed any new apps that would cause this and this issue came out of nowhere... I have been using the phone for almost 2 months now and before I was getting 6 and a half hours of screen on time, now I'm struggling to get even 4... Any ideas?
As I experienced it many times, I found a solution which I hope find useful. If you have a continuous notification like a pedometer, weather forecast or sth like that, play store or play services drains the battery a lot.
alperdemir32 said:
As I experienced it many times, I found a solution which I hope find useful. If you have a continuous notification like a pedometer, weather forecast or sth like that, play store or play services drains the battery a lot.
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Nothing in the way I use my device changed. I have not installed any new apps and the battery started draining suddenly and I think it's play store or its services
Don't know, some people are telling me to install MIUI.
you can turn off fingerprint sensor, it might save battery to some extent. Use face unlock instead.
Same issue here, today was killer 25 min SOT 65% drain in idle.

10 months trying fixing battery drain (k20 pro/mi9t pro)

So, It has been 10 months of headaches. Bought in july 2019, for two months best phone ever, battery lasted 2 days, near to 1-2% of battery drain at night on standby. After installing miui 11, the battery said "bye bye". 3h screentime, need to charge the phone twice a day, losing 10%/h on standby.
What I tried is:
-havoc os
-xiaomi.eu Miui 11-12. beta and stable
-Evolution x
-latest firmware always/reinstalled latest firmware-vendor
-always clean install wiping everything
-new battery 2 months ago (same results, no difference at all)
-no app is draining battery in the settings
-unistalled analytics and miui daemon (msa not found on xiaomi.eu roms)
the phone goes in deep sleep as you can see in the photos in the link below.
Gps, wifi and bt always on. Tried switching them off, just 1% less of battery drain on standby.
Bought a broken mi 9t pro just to try switching motherboards, just to try that it isn't a electric or physical issue with the phone, but can't do it that right now, waiting the new screen to test the broken phone.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zaAoKBJ4txMa7vRg9
Any suggestion?
Have you tested putting the phone on standby in airplane mode? This is unlikely to be the root of the issue but poor cellular signal may negatively impact the battery life.
wsydgx said:
Have you tested putting the phone on standby in airplane mode? This is unlikely to be the root of the issue but poor cellular signal may negatively impact the battery life.
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tried that also, nothing change. Always 4%+/h of drain in standby.
I've pretty same problem, and it's really strange...
I've a Mi 9T Pro, bought not more than 2 months ago brand new, all stock.
I leave on just the phone active during the night, in both SIM cards: no bt, no wifi, no mobile data active.
The battery drain is around 10%, which is really insane considered that before my 3 years old phone, an Honor 8, in same conditions, was draining not more than 4%.
In general battery is draining really too much.
Passed OTA from MIUI 11 to 12, but the drainage is same.
I'd like to understand what is the issue causing that.
Dude. Same issue for me. It's only 6 months old. I noticed battery loss on miui just a month into purchase. I'd suggest pick a rom without Gapps or one with microG and try them out. I was using evo X and getting around 6-7 hrs SOT. Once I moved to Aim and Omni I started getting 9-10 SOT. I think Gapps is mostly the culprit. Miui sucks these days. I tried miui 12 and was utterly disappointed. Try this and you might just start loving your phone again. I'd say go for Omni and setup microG, install greenify, turn off battery optimisations only for essential messaging apps and turn on aggressive doze. Your sure to see a difference
Try havoc os 3.7 , try it without social apps like instagram, facebook and other crap.
Mine usually lasts around 3 days with 6h sot.
I also have gps , bt , sync and data always on
Tried gms doze? Disabling autostart of apps in miui?
Mi 9T Pro ll Tapatalk
The point, guys, is not to try different ROMs or install apps or not to use social medias because the phone drains battery...
The point is that the phone should not drain battery that much at all!
I think Xiaomi should care more of the firmwares released, trying harder to fix bugs that might be important rather than releasing new features.
My own opinion.
PS. Last night i checked the battery drain thoroughly: from 1.30 am to 7.30 am, just both SIM cards on to receive eventually phone calls, no WiFi, no BT, no internet connection, ND mode active = battery drained 9%
It is not acceptable!!
Clear all apps from memory, clear cache of 'Google Frameworks' and 'Google Play Services' don't restart the phone
I do this whenever I remember usually every few days and get great SOT around 9-11 hours. Although Accubattery says my battery health is 3300 of the 4000 as I've had it for a while and I'm a very very heavy user. Brand new was getting closer to 10-12 hours doing this same method.
I found it by someone posting a random comment somewhere in this forum just don't know who or where I saw it. They gave no explanation as to why it works but just what they did and its worked immediately. Note I'm still on MIUI 11.0.3 Global as I'm nervous this method won't be as effective in more newer MIUI Versions.
If you have a newer version please try and let me know if it still works, hope this helps
Also I reinstall MIUI through the phone after clean flashing it via Mi Flash
That is that I flash clean (erase storage but not lock bootloader) from Mi Flash and then go to the update settings of the phone and then press the 3 dots at the top left and "download latest update" and then install it again
This helped when I was on MIUI 10.X.X but do it out of habit so not sure if it helped for MIUI 11.0.03
edit: Reinstall method
Similar issue with my K20 Pro.
1. The battery backup on Android 9/MIUI 10 was giving me close to 1.5 days of backup of 7-8 hours of screen time.
2. It was decreased to 6-6.5 in Android 10/MIUI 11
3. Now with MIUI 12 it is reduced to 6 hours and with need of charging two times in a single day. All this with no social media apps, only Whatsapp, Youtube, Prime Video, Spotify and MS outlook, teams apps with regular usage. WIFI all the time, no GPS, 2-3 hours of Bluetooth. plus tried deboating MI apps.
So far I have tried PE, EVOX and EU roms but all gave me disappointing battery backup. The battery seems fine only on android pie so my assumption is that battery probably doesn't need replacement and more of xiaomi's firmware related issue on android 10.
It's so disappointing to see such a great piece of hardware holding back because of battery. I hope somebody find a good solution to this issue.

Question High battery drain

Hi guys. I am rocking CN version of Mi11 Ultra 12/256. It's currently on stable 12.0.10. i have allowed the application for notification and set up the system in my way to be usable by uninstalling most of the chinese ops that i was able to. Now, i can see that the battery drains abnormally it seems that the phone doesn't go to deep sleep. The second highest usage stats is android system.
Awesome phone!
It's a bit old but you can use Wakelock detector to see what is preventing your phone from going into deep sleep.
I'd also try to check the logcat to see if there is some system process working in the background continuously draining your battery.
I'm also looking at that graphic, it doesn't seem like Battery Drain is much at all. The phone has been active for 8 hours and it's around 80%? Doesn't seem bad to me.
Screen and Android System are the commonly the two most battery drainers if nothing else is cpu intensive.
Yes, but it was 8 hours overnight
bitpushr said:
I'm also looking at that graphic, it doesn't seem like Battery Drain is much at all. The phone has been active for 8 hours and it's around 80%? Doesn't seem bad to me.
Screen and Android System are the commonly the two most battery drainers if nothing else is cpu intensive.
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Thanks for the input BTW, I'll definitely check wakelock. Maybe it's just me, but it seems it's draining in my eyes.
20% overnight is indeed too much... Might it had something to do with the debloat ? Did you uninstalled the Chinese aps via the getapp store or ADB ( disable or remove )?
After I upgraded to 12.0.13 my battery did drain a bit faster the very first couple of hours. ( background optimizations i Guess ).
Today I updated OTA to 12.5.
We'll see how this goes .
Good luck to you !
You probably already checked these settings but don't forget to disable AOD (if you don't need it), WiFI/Bluetooth scanning and WLAN Assistant too as thais will help reduce power consumption slightly.
I think its normal drain...the system drain is just there for example i debloated around 30 apps and its good
Last night with everything on as during the day ( Bluetooth, wifi, mobile data, gps, nfc, etc ) it drained only 4%.
For me it's a new record
Here is mine
Jhonxs said:
20% overnight is indeed too much... Might it had something to do with the debloat ? Did you uninstalled the Chinese aps via the getapp store or ADB ( disable or remove )?
After I upgraded to 12.0.13 my battery did drain a bit faster the very first couple of hours. ( background optimizations i Guess ).
Today I updated OTA to 12.5.
We'll see how this goes .
Good luck to you !
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I uninstalled some chinese apps traditionally, so didn't use ADB download method.
Is the same that i did when i got my phone.
I went in the getapps store ( xiaomi store ) and uninstalled everything that i could there
Maibe you have some other software then installed , that isn't perfectly optimized.
My best advice is to go ahead and clear the full data for ALL the aps you are using ( including google playstore and the related services )
Also you can try to keeps the phone plugged during a night or two ( without touching it )
As i read somewhere, if the system sees that it has full battery and is plugged in after a while ( more than 20 min or so ) will start the optimizations of apps/general system ( otherwise it will try to do the optimizations during the day when it's in standby and above certain battery level )
I had some success doing this on my mi9 with xiaomi.eu, but in that case the rom version had a known battery drain
Do you have the miui optimizations disabled ( i left it enabled and haven't touched it ).
Have no issues with batter drain so far.
Good luck and keep us posted !
Did you ever fix the issue with the high battery drainage? I got my global unit last Friday (running 12.0.1) and I feel like I'm seeing a similar thing. Wanted to see what other users were averaging for screen on time. Is around 5hours of SOT with 120Hz and WQHD+ enabled decent?
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Did you ever fix the issue with the high battery drainage? I got my global unit last Friday (running 12.0.1) and I feel like I'm seeing a similar thing. Wanted to see what other users were averaging for screen on time. Is around 5hours of SOT with 120Hz and WQHD+ enabled decent?
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I did, bu flashing EU rom 5hours SOT with both options turned on is decent. And recharging the bat takes minutes
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Did you ever fix the issue with the high battery drainage? I got my global unit last Friday (running 12.0.1) and I feel like I'm seeing a similar thing. Wanted to see what other users were averaging for screen on time. Is around 5hours of SOT with 120Hz and WQHD+ enabled decent?
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Same.. i am on global with 12.0.6.
Batt drain is very bad, overnight, from 100% at 1am to 88% at 8am.
i have scheduled batt saver to turn on.
i am getting average 4 to 5+ SOT with 90hz and wqhd,
If it would happen to me i would check every app behavior closely ( battery app and maybe a third party battery monitor like accubattery that i'm using ), see if i find anything suspicious and if nothing is out of the ordinary i would do a complete reset, reinstall again and if this doesn't work, install xiaomi.eu stable at the very least .
But that's just me
on a side note, on my china unit when i was on the 12.0 the experience was not so great...
As soon as the 12.5 update came i could see a major improvement.
So maybe have a bit more patience until 12.5 will launch for global versions as well, all tough china will always be ahead in terms of improvement...which leads me to xiaomi.eu, again.
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If it would happen to me i would check every app behavior closely ( battery app and maybe a third party battery monitor like accubattery that i'm using ), see if i find anything suspicious and if nothing is out of the ordinary i would do a complete reset, reinstall again and if this doesn't work, install xiaomi.eu stable at the very least .
But that's just me
on a side note, on my china unit when i was on the 12.0 the experience was not so great...
As soon as the 12.5 update came i could see a major improvement.
So maybe have a bit more patience until 12.5 will launch for global versions as well, all tough china will always be ahead in terms of improvement...which leads me to xiaomi.eu, again.
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i had the 12.5 CN rom on the mi 10 ultra, it was bad, notifications were delayed or not coming in at all until i opened the app, like whatsapp.
it was working fine in 12.0
that is why i decided to go back to global rom
I don't know about mi 10 ultra but i can tell you that for me on the mi 11 ultra, it's very good.
Good luck !

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