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I'm running pure stock rom, no rooting, no updating, V10E just bought it less than a week ago.
This is the apps I have installed:
2G-3G toggle widget
Android live wallpapers
Aptoide
Bs Player
CamScanner
Dropbox
Chrome UPdates
Epic Citadel
Flashlight
Go Launcher EX
Go SMS pro
GPS fix deluxe
Moon+ Reader
Onavo Count
Onavo Extend
Opera MIni
QuickPic
Screen Filter
Shush! Ringer Restorer
Simple Mp3 Downloader
Thumb Keyboard
Viber
Whatsapp
Now I tried the following two things with my phone:
For the first night, I left it at 2G only, with autosync disabled, and wifi,bluetooth,gps etc. off. All above apps were running, viber and whatsapp included, and obviously with no autosync, Gmail was not, so only the Email app that comes with android was running and checking email. In one night, it drained no more than 6%, over 8 hours.
The second night; again 2G only, and everything off, except for autosync, which I set to sync gmail only, and disabled the native Email app. In 6 hours overnight, battery drained 10%. This does not make sense for me, why would gmail drain so much battery?
Next, while I can live with those stand-by times, what is wierd is that while using the phone, the battery drains at unbelievable rates. I leave it mostly on 2G, barely using 3G every now and again. This morning, I left the house with 90% battery. charged it on my way to uni with the car, then when I got there played some games and a few songs for maybe 15 mins, then my friend came and we goofed around taking a video with the effects for a few minutes not more than 5. THen I went on for my lesson, took about 15 photos with no flash, with CamScanner and organized them into documents, then used regularly my phone to send texts, whatsapp and viber, then browsed the web for maybe 10 mins on 3G. By 12 o' clock, my phone was nearly dead (10%)! This does not seem normal to me, even though the standby times range from excellent, to acceptable it seems like the phone uses an enormous amount of battery when in use generally.The brightness varied from about 10% indoors, to 80% when outdoors. (most use was indoors). To make the time clear, I got to uni at 6.30 am, and while using the phone and games the phone was still connected to the car charger.
I have not done any modification to the phone. NO updates, no root (which I heard causes battery drain) no nothing.
HELP ?
Chrsp said:
I'm running pure stock rom, no rooting, no updating, V10E just bought it less than a week ago.
This is the apps I have installed:
2G-3G toggle widget
Android live wallpapers
Aptoide
Bs Player
CamScanner
Dropbox
Chrome UPdates
Epic Citadel
Flashlight
Go Launcher EX
Go SMS pro
GPS fix deluxe
Moon+ Reader
Onavo Count
Onavo Extend
Opera MIni
QuickPic
Screen Filter
Shush! Ringer Restorer
Simple Mp3 Downloader
Thumb Keyboard
Viber
Whatsapp
Now I tried the following two things with my phone:
For the first night, I left it at 2G only, with autosync disabled, and wifi,bluetooth,gps etc. off. All above apps were running, viber and whatsapp included, and obviously with no autosync, Gmail was not, so only the Email app that comes with android was running and checking email. In one night, it drained no more than 6%, over 8 hours.
The second night; again 2G only, and everything off, except for autosync, which I set to sync gmail only, and disabled the native Email app. In 6 hours overnight, battery drained 10%. This does not make sense for me, why would gmail drain so much battery?
Next, while I can live with those stand-by times, what is wierd is that while using the phone, the battery drains at unbelievable rates. I leave it mostly on 2G, barely using 3G every now and again. This morning, I left the house with 90% battery. charged it on my way to uni with the car, then when I got there played some games and a few songs for maybe 15 mins, then my friend came and we goofed around taking a video with the effects for a few minutes not more than 5. THen I went on for my lesson, took about 15 photos with no flash, with CamScanner and organized them into documents, then used regularly my phone to send texts, whatsapp and viber, then browsed the web for maybe 10 mins on 3G. By 12 o' clock, my phone was nearly dead (10%)! This does not seem normal to me, even though the standby times range from excellent, to acceptable it seems like the phone uses an enormous amount of battery when in use generally.The brightness varied from about 10% indoors, to 80% when outdoors. (most use was indoors). To make the time clear, I got to uni at 6.30 am, and while using the phone and games the phone was still connected to the car charger.
I have not done any modification to the phone. NO updates, no root (which I heard causes battery drain) no nothing.
HELP ?
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hey, some tips if you want to extend your battery life, that worked for me, set display bright 50% and check auto bright mark, use some app like antutu cpu master (root required) to down your cpu clock to 1200 Mhz or 1000 (i used 1000Mhz), and also you should consider upgrade your firmware to v10h, you can notice the change in the battery duration, for me with all this tips, my battery drains about 30% from 5am to 3pm with a normal usage (gmail sync, whatsapp, email sync, facebook, twitter, some calls, sms), if you play casual games, battery duration goes down, but with cpu speed set to 1000mhz you can obtain a little more while gaming and avoid overheating
donkanmcklaus said:
hey, some tips if you want to extend your battery life, that worked for me, set display bright 50% and check auto bright mark, use some app like antutu cpu master (root required) to down your cpu clock to 1200 Mhz or 1000 (i used 1000Mhz), and also you should consider upgrade your firmware to v10h, you can notice the change in the battery duration, for me with all this tips, my battery drains about 30% from 5am to 3pm with a normal usage (gmail sync, whatsapp, email sync, facebook, twitter, some calls, sms), if you play casual games, battery duration goes down, but with cpu speed set to 1000mhz you can obtain a little more while gaming and avoid overheating
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Thank you Ok, so is it safe to change to v10H? Will I need to factory reset everything? Because I would really like to avoid that? Plus to downclock would I need root? THen I'm going to definitely need to factory reset right?
Also which rom should I go for? I keep seeing the "Stock" roms and the deodexed zipaligned roms, which are better? If possible can you include for me a link to the actual rom you are using? thanks
BTW:: I don't have auto brightness setting!!
And is it wierd that gmail seems to be using way too much battery on standby?
This is actually quite 'normal' as most O4X users experience this notorious battery drain.
To extend your battery, you might want to do these:
1. Root your phone and uninstall any unnecessary bloatwares
2. Install battery saving app. A word of precaution though, for some it works wonder, and some experience disaster. I personally use Juice Defender and have seen some battery improvement.
3. Root your device and edit your com.telephone database. I've seen major battery improvement by doing this.
4. Get yourself some power banks. This thing comes handy when you're running out of juice.
You can browse this forum to do all the above.
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hernestwisnu said:
This is actually quite 'normal' as most O4X users experience this notorious battery drain.
To extend your battery, you might want to do these:
1. Root your phone and uninstall any unnecessary bloatwares
2. Install battery saving app. A word of precaution though, for some it works wonder, and some experience disaster. I personally use Juice Defender and have seen some battery improvement.
3. Root your device and edit your com.telephone database. I've seen major battery improvement by doing this.
4. Get yourself some power banks. This thing comes handy when you're running out of juice.
You can browse this forum to do all the above.
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Explain the com.telephone procedure? I'm seeing some improvement by using apex and freezing bloat, lower brightness etc but could do with a little more juice
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Try this post, it might help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2057093
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I just bought the note yesterday from a local Verizon store.
I really love it but my battery life is literally TERRIBLE. I've googled a bunch to try and find a solution but I haven't gotten a straight answer. I've heard to resync your google accounts, swipe data and reload everything, but nothing have seemed to be solid.
I am a pretty avid user of my phone and I decently know what I am doing. I am coming from a Razr Maxx x912 with CM10 snapshot M11.
So I charged up to 100% at 10:38 am this morning, went to the Cardinal Lions game. Wanted test the phone out and used pretty significantly. When I got home it was 6:00 pm and I was left with 26% battery. That is not okay.
I am using Google Now Launcher because I hate that you can't center the apps icon on their launcher.
I have location on/off when appropriate, wifi on when needed, no bluetooth, automatic brightness, close out active programs, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary that would suck up the battery.
My battery stats are reading with Android System at 25% use and Screen at 22%.
I've read people getting a total of 22-24+ hours with their Note 4. I'm not even getting about half that.
Did I get a bunk battery? Does anyone know of something I could be doing that is abnormal for battery use?
The phone does runs hot to the touch on it's back. I also get messages from advanced task manage that cloud or facebook has lagged and overdraws battery. I don't know of anything else I've done differently than any use of my other phones that would change my battery draw.
I'm willing to go back to the store and swap out this phone for another Note 4 because I do love the phone.
If anyone would have any ideas I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
I consider myself a moderate to heavy user (gmail, hotmail, facebook, linkedin, dropbox, whatsapp, skype all syncing), often reading news and diff articles throughout the day, light game use.
I only leave wifi on when i'm at home or somewhere where i connect to wifi, otherwise it's turned off.
I usually get from 7am - 11pm with 30% left. Screen on time is the killer - playing games i notice the battery drop quickly.
HuStLaZ said:
I consider myself a moderate to heavy user (gmail, hotmail, facebook, linkedin, dropbox, whatsapp, skype all syncing), often reading news and diff articles throughout the day, light game use.
I only leave wifi on when i'm at home or somewhere where i connect to wifi, otherwise it's turned off.
I usually get from 7am - 11pm with 30% left. Screen on time is the killer - playing games i notice the battery drop quickly.
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I would say I am at the same level of use. Emails read and write, Reddit poops, typical facebook scrolling, instragram butts, news, text, Use bluetooth at the gym with wireless headphone, but no games or anything really consuming.
Do you see my situation as typical or atypical as in, is it obscure enough to go in and ask for a different Note 4 since because of the battery?
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I just bought the note yesterday from a local Verizon store.
I really love it but my battery life is literally TERRIBLE. I've googled a bunch to try and find a solution but I haven't gotten a straight answer. I've heard to resync your google accounts, swipe data and reload everything, but nothing have seemed to be solid.
I am a pretty avid user of my phone and I decently know what I am doing. I am coming from a Razr Maxx x912 with CM10 snapshot M11.
So I charged up to 100% at 10:38 am this morning, went to the Cardinal Lions game. Wanted test the phone out and used pretty significantly. When I got home it was 6:00 pm and I was left with 26% battery. That is not okay.
I am using Google Now Launcher because I hate that you can't center the apps icon on their launcher.
I have location on/off when appropriate, wifi on when needed, no bluetooth, automatic brightness, close out active programs, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary that would suck up the battery.
My battery stats are reading with Android System at 25% use and Screen at 22%.
I've read people getting a total of 22-24+ hours with their Note 4. I'm not even getting about half that.
Did I get a bunk battery? Does anyone know of something I could be doing that is abnormal for battery use?
The phone does runs hot to the touch on it's back. I also get messages from advanced task manage that cloud or facebook has lagged and overdraws battery. I don't know of anything else I've done differently than any use of my other phones that would change my battery draw.
I'm willing to go back to the store and swap out this phone for another Note 4 because I do love the phone.
If anyone would have any ideas I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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I assume that your phone would have been using more battery at a stadium with 50, 000 other cell phones its visinity. Your phone would be losing a lot of packets with so much traffic around it
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trichrome1 said:
I assume that your phone would have been using more battery at a stadium with 50, 000 other cell phones its visinity. Your phone would be losing a lot of packets with so much traffic around it
SM-N910W8 on Rogers Canada
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that might be the case but as I was reading forum posts about the battery life on the way home from the stadium I could watch my battery % decrease. On a 20 minute car ride I went from around 33% to 30%.
Compared to other reactions to the battery life online, I don't doubt my battery is depleting abnormally for some reason whether it is in a stadium or not.
Jakib2 said:
I would say I am at the same level of use. Emails read and write, Reddit poops, typical facebook scrolling, instragram butts, news, text, Use bluetooth at the gym with wireless headphone, but no games or anything really consuming.
Do you see my situation as typical or atypical as in, is it obscure enough to go in and ask for a different Note 4 since because of the battery?
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Yeah it seems to be draining a bit more than mine. I also listen to about 1-2 hrs music (or podcast listening), plus 1 hr using Runkeeper (that by itself only drains 3-4%).
Maybe give it a few days for the battery to settle in, then see what kind of battery life you're getting?
Are you using Lte, 3g or Edge?
Jakib2 said:
I just bought the note yesterday from a local Verizon store.
I really love it but my battery life is literally TERRIBLE. I've googled a bunch to try and find a solution but I haven't gotten a straight answer. I've heard to resync your google accounts, swipe data and reload everything, but nothing have seemed to be solid.
I am a pretty avid user of my phone and I decently know what I am doing. I am coming from a Razr Maxx x912 with CM10 snapshot M11.
So I charged up to 100% at 10:38 am this morning, went to the Cardinal Lions game. Wanted test the phone out and used pretty significantly. When I got home it was 6:00 pm and I was left with 26% battery. That is not okay.
I am using Google Now Launcher because I hate that you can't center the apps icon on their launcher.
I have location on/off when appropriate, wifi on when needed, no bluetooth, automatic brightness, close out active programs, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary that would suck up the battery.
My battery stats are reading with Android System at 25% use and Screen at 22%.
I've read people getting a total of 22-24+ hours with their Note 4. I'm not even getting about half that.
Did I get a bunk battery? Does anyone know of something I could be doing that is abnormal for battery use?
The phone does runs hot to the touch on it's back. I also get messages from advanced task manage that cloud or facebook has lagged and overdraws battery. I don't know of anything else I've done differently than any use of my other phones that would change my battery draw.
I'm willing to go back to the store and swap out this phone for another Note 4 because I do love the phone.
If anyone would have any ideas I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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In my case battery was really better after few cycle , after a little week
ShannonAUT said:
Are you using Lte, 3g or Edge?
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LTE SM-N910V
On 4.4.4
Im moderate user with dropbox, google drive and 3 email accounts sync on. With power savig mode on I go from 7am to 11pm on 60 - 65% battery capacity. I keep screen on manual settings (automatic is to low for my likings) and phone is not rooted so I can't disable some applications running in background (same of them i.e tmobile my account I can close manualy in application manager). Install battery monitor to check if your phone ever go into "deep sleep" or if there is offensive app what keep it "awake" all the time.
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So you're complaining because you left home used your phone all day to make it back home again and still have bayyery? I'm confused.
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Jakib2 said:
I also get messages from advanced task manage...
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Stop using task killer type apps.
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Stop using task killer type apps.
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Why do you say this? I've never heard to not use them before, so if something else is more efficient or less burdensome that would be great! My task killer has given me the message of apps causing CPU lag and overdraining the battery wit the option to "BOOST". Not exactly sure what this means.. I assume it means boost (kill) completely. Is this normal?
I'm complaining because I've heard so many people loving the battery life on their Note 4, claiming to have a battery life of 22+ hours while I am barely getting 13. I want to ensure that I didn't get a bunk battery and that I might need to swap it out at the store. I love the phone but it bothers me to watch the battery % deplete before my eyes as I use it.
That being said, I watched 20 minutes of the science of interstellar last night after draining the battery completely and then charging it back up to 100% and at the end of the 20 minutes 92%. 8% loss over 20 minutes of video should not happen. Have anyone experienced something similar?
Since Android 2.3, task killer apps will significantly reduce your battery life. When an app is sitting open in the background it is just stored in RAM and is not using any power. When a task killer tries to kill it, it removes it from memory and then the system loads it up again. That causes power drain.
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Jakib2 said:
That being said, I watched 20 minutes of the science of interstellar last night after draining the battery completely and then charging it back up to 100% and at the end of the 20 minutes 92%. 8% loss over 20 minutes of video should not happen. Have anyone experienced something similar?
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Was that a streaming video or locally saved? If you're streaming over LTE I wouldn't consider that too unusual.
You also haven't given any screen on times, which are very important. I can let my phone sit idle and get ~15 days out of it if I don't touch it, but I could also use it for 7 hours of watching a movie with the screen on and kill it.
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Since Android 2.3, task killer apps will significantly reduce your battery life. When an app is sitting open in the background it is just stored in RAM and is not using any power. When a task killer tries to kill it, it removes it from memory and then the system loads it up again. That causes power drain.
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Was that a streaming video or locally saved? If you're streaming over LTE I wouldn't consider that too unusual.
You also haven't given any screen on times, which are very important. I can let my phone sit idle and get ~15 days out of it if I don't touch it, but I could also use it for 7 hours of watching a movie with the screen on and kill it.
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I was streaming it over wifi via the youtube app, so it was nonlocal.
My stats show Android system at 27%, and Screen 12%.
I charged to 100% this morning and am at 93% now after screen time of 13m 15s.
That's actually really bad if it was over WiFi.. I had this test done (and throughout that post), but the one linked is at 95% of 41 minutes OST (1st post on that page); I also have three emails running (Push - two hotmails, one exchange for work); My test was basically running a Crunchyroll video for the whole time.. I was able to get a little over 8 hours OST at the end of the test; However, if you left your phone on for a few hours, then that's pretty good.. remember the standby mode does kill battery too.. I use a 'deepsleep' mode when my screen is off (80%+ deepsleep from CPU Spy);
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note-4-battery-thread-t2893547/page66
Jakib2 said:
I was streaming it over wifi via the youtube app, so it was nonlocal.
My stats show Android system at 27%, and Screen 12%.
I charged to 100% this morning and am at 93% now after screen time of 13m 15s.
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CPU Spy for 48 seconds.. I'll post one with a bit longer time next.. but you get the point.. try to get deepsleep when your screen turns off.. (for example, I turn off all the radios (except cellular and bluetooth) when I turn off the screen.. The app I use for this is DS Battery... I had the 8 hours OST test done while using DU Battery, DS Battery, and Memory Manager Full all at the same time.. so now only down to DS Battery left.. from what others say, the apps that clear memory are bad because it reloads them back into services/memory and thus gets more battery drain.. just like getting out of a car door (while you are driving to the store) every minute to check on something, then getting back in.. better to just sit and go the whole trip and get out at the end (which deepsleep mode can do).. the app can run, but it can't do anything because the wifi/mobile data radio is off.. (just like if there was no 'car' in the example);
5 minute run.. dropped a lot but still over 95% of off screen time is 300mhz or deepsleep..
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5 minute run.. dropped a lot but still over 95% of off screen time is 300mhz or deepsleep..
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Great. Thanks I downloaded CPU spy and DU Battery. I'll look into DS Battery.
Other than turning off radios when in DS, do you have any other suggestions?
I was using Google Now Launcher, which I think ran the Okay Google option all the time which sucked some life. I switched to Nova and relinked my google accounts and it seems to be running better.
Ill charge it full and then run it dry and report back with my results.
Jakib2 said:
Great. Thanks I downloaded CPU spy and DU Battery. I'll look into DS Battery.
Other than turning off radios when in DS, do you have any other suggestions?
I was using Google Now Launcher, which I think ran the Okay Google option all the time which sucked some life. I switched to Nova and relinked my google accounts and it seems to be running better.
Ill charge it full and then run it dry and report back with my results.
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Turn off Google Now if you don't use it
Turn off Location/GPS or make sure it runs only in power saving mode
Turn off location history in Google settings
Use auto-brightness
Disable Pen detection in the S Pen settings
Disable S voice responding to double-tap of the home button (in S Voice settings)
Don't use the Google search widget which listens for the "OK Google" command
TeslaUnread for Nova Launcher prime drains some battery too, don't use this unless you really like it
Use power saving mode when going out for a big day rather than relying on it as the battery is almost drained
Disable any apps you don't care about i.e. carrier bloat, Google apps like Play Movies, Books, Newstand and Samsung apps like the TV/remote apps, video player if you're using an alternative, cloud syncing processes and print/spool ones as well. This may not make a big difference but it's nice to get them out of sight anyway.
And most importantly, as mentioned previously, don't kill your apps. The only time I kill an app is for big 3D games as I like them to go away rather than sitting in RAM. I also have a little routine, when I do a reboot and full charge, I run all of my common apps like Hangouts, Messages, Phone, Chrome and my weather app so that they are sitting in RAM already while my phone's at 100% rather than draining my battery during my commute to work in the morning. I don't really have any particular reason to do this as my batter never gets anywhere near 0% by the end of the day, I'm just OCD with seeing it drain too much before I even get to work.
I don't think most of the suggestions above are too extreme. Unlike uninstalling commons apps such as Facebook/FB Messenger, or disabling your data/wifi/bluetooth or even turning sync off. To me this is taking away from the purpose of a smartphone, but each to their own.
I've been thoroughly impressed with battery life on the Moto Z as a result of normal use. Less so with idle battery consumption. That is, after installing my full complement of apps (including facebook and twitter), I did a few tests by going too bed on a full charge, and found that 7 or so hours later, it had burned down 15-20% doing nothing overnight!
I installed gsam batter monitor since the stock one is kind of useless. This provided a lot of valuable info, which is basically that Twitter is a huge hog, Facebook surprisingly isn't, and google play services also seems to be spinning its wheels a lot when I'm doing nothing. But most of my juice was going to powering the wifi radio.
Android M has a setting to turn off wifi when the phone is sleeping. I was reluctant to do this at first because I figured my apps would just start wasting my data instead. However, you also have the ability to selectively limit apps' ability to use cellular data when running in the background. In an app's settings you can click "Data Usage", then "Restrict app background data."
I did this for all the apps that gsam identified as being the wifi/battery users. And frankly there are almost no apps that I actually want using data when I'm not using the app itself anyway, except SMS and gmail. (I wish there was a way to just say "actually shut this app down when I close it", so I could activate it for most apps!)
Anyway -after doing this, I activated the setting to turn off the wifi radio when the phone was sleeping.
Result? 2% battery drain overnight, and minimal cellular data use. Amazing.
(Btw - I also uninstalled the twitter app and just put a link from chrome on my desktop. The web mobile app is very good anyway and I'm not much a twitter addict so this is a fine alternative that is a lot less intrustive for me).
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I've been thoroughly impressed with battery life on the Moto Z as a result of normal use. Less so with idle battery consumption. That is, after installing my full complement of apps (including facebook and twitter), I did a few tests by going too bed on a full charge, and found that 7 or so hours later, it had burned down 15-20% doing nothing overnight!
I installed gsam batter monitor since the stock one is kind of useless. This provided a lot of valuable info, which is basically that Twitter is a huge hog, Facebook surprisingly isn't, and google play services also seems to be spinning its wheels a lot when I'm doing nothing. But most of my juice was going to powering the wifi radio.
Android M has a setting to turn off wifi when the phone is sleeping. I was reluctant to do this at first because I figured my apps would just start wasting my data instead. However, you also have the ability to selectively limit apps' ability to use cellular data when running in the background. In an app's settings you can click "Data Usage", then "Restrict app background data."
I did this for all the apps that gsam identified as being the wifi/battery users. And frankly there are almost no apps that I actually want using data when I'm not using the app itself anyway, except SMS and gmail. (I wish there was a way to just say "actually shut this app down when I close it", so I could activate it for most apps!)
Anyway -after doing this, I activated the setting to turn off the wifi radio when the phone was sleeping.
Result? 2% battery drain overnight, and minimal cellular data use. Amazing.
(Btw - I also uninstalled the twitter app and just put a link from chrome on my desktop. The web mobile app is very good anyway and I'm not much a twitter addict so this is a fine alternative that is a lot less intrustive for me).
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I just got the phone a couple days ago. I appreciate the info here. I have also read that if you just turn wifi to 2.4 GHz only that it will keep the battery drain from happening. I don't use twitter or facebook so don't have to worry about those. Google play services has been a problem since marshmallow. If we could root we could use something like Amplify to stop all the wakelocks, but root is getting hard to come by on these new phones.
I noticed on Gsam that my phone will sleep well for a while, then the "held awake" category starts to take off. I have to reboot to get it to doze again. I have agressive doze and doze on the go activated in Greenify. Not sure what gets it started, but it would be nice to be able to kill it off without rebooting.
I bought a USB C to regular USB and have been charging without the Turbo Charger and the battery is doing so much better.
I was getting frustrated with the battery performance.
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Hi
Got my p20 pro a few days ago, love the phone but have a few issues, mainly battery.
After seeing slot of comments saying how people are easily getting 6/7 even 8 or 9 hours sot I'm struggling to get to 5. I have display on auto, removed uneeded apps, have darkened colour selected for menus etc yet I can't get through a day of use (Twitter, email, internet and some YouTube videos) I do have Spotify on in the background slot, but looking at the usage settings the highest battery use for that has been around 241 ma, so not a great deal
Is there anything obvious I'm missing?
A second issue is that when using pinch to zoom in you tube in landscape mode I get a line between the screen and the notch which looks like a weird display gap and is really annoying, anyone else get that?
Lastly...in camera mode I've watched a ton of phone reviews and night mode is a swipe able option along the bottom, next to aperture mode etc...however I don't have this, I have to go into more then night mode, anyone know why that is? ( I'm in the UK if that makes any difference)
Thanks for any help you can give
Ross
Same here, Im not impressed with the battery.
Same here. Its not a deal breaker though over night
I lose 2% on idle with aeroplane mode on and then shortly using 2% drops off.
We seem to forget that this is the initial release of the firmware - I am sure huawei will optimise it further to improve battery
My phone nearly always gets charged overnight, the fact that this is now easily getting me through the day with zero scares is good for me, I'm not trying to eek 2 days out of it, if Huawei somehow get that then all well and good, but for now I'm happy knowing it's unlikely to die on me if I leave the house at 100%
I had the same issue, but seem to have stabilised it.
Try the following :
Stick to one resolution rather than smart.
Disabled adaptive eye.
Keep the notch on
Managed all apps manually (setting only my key apps to auto and run in background)
I also deleted the cache on all apps and the system via boot menu because I think migration caused some of the issues.
I'm sure mines got something going on in the back ground, fully charged to 100% left in standby while driving to work, arrive (30 mind later with the phone not used) and it's gone down 3%.
Tried the settings above and have manual control over all the apps, I kill off apps after I use them and it's still draining worse than any phone I've had for the last few years.
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Lastly...in camera mode I've watched a ton of phone reviews and night mode is a swipe able option along the bottom, next to aperture mode etc...however I don't have this, I have to go into more then night mode, anyone know why that is? ( I'm in the UK if that makes any difference)
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That is the same menu i have (i'm in Belgium)
i have to go in "more" and then select "night shot"
Yeah, the phone menus are a step backwards from the mate 10 pro. Dunno why they've done it this way
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I'm sure mines got something going on in the back ground, fully charged to 100% left in standby while driving to work, arrive (30 mind later with the phone not used) and it's gone down 3%.
Tried the settings above and have manual control over all the apps, I kill off apps after I use them and it's still draining worse than any phone I've had for the last few years.
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Same here!!!
I get between 8 and 9 SOT a day, Wifi most of the day, 3 hours netflix on 4g with BT headphones, instagram, whatsapp, web browsing, streaming deezer music on BT headphones, texts, some calls. No snapchat or games though and facebook is not logged in.
Haven't tested standby drain yet but maybe it's standby that's killing your battery?
This is in one day though and is excessive use as I have two Instagram accounts and lots of work emails as well. I also don't have a pc at home so use phone for browsing.
How is your settings within the battery category? Do you manage the apps to etc run manually or what do you have in the settings that gets you so much of SOT?
So after some days of testing and trying out some battery monitor apps, the max SOT that I get is 5 hours and 45 minutes.
GSam reports that Android System and Kernel (Android OS) use more than 30% of the battery combined. Is that normal? I'll attach some screenshots.
What I also find interesting is that the AccuBattery app shows that the estimated capacity of my battery being at 3500mAh out off the 4,000mAh design capacity and battery health is at 88%.
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I get between 8 and 9 SOT a day, Wifi most of the day, 3 hours netflix on 4g with BT headphones, instagram, whatsapp, web browsing, streaming deezer music on BT headphones, texts, some calls. No snapchat or games though and facebook is not logged in.
Haven't tested standby drain yet but maybe it's standby that's killing your battery?
This is in one day though and is excessive use as I have two Instagram accounts and lots of work emails as well. I also don't have a pc at home so use phone for browsing.
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I'm sorry but how do you achieve this? I barely get 5 hours SOT with WI-FI on, instagram, messenger, facebook etc. Also my apps are running on AUTO APp launch.
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So after some days of testing and trying out some battery monitor apps, the max SOT that I get is 5 hours and 45 minutes.
GSam reports that Android System and Kernel (Android OS) use more than 30% of the battery combined. Is that normal? I'll attach some screenshots.
What I also find interesting is that the AccuBattery app shows that the estimated capacity of my battery being at 3500mAh out off the 4,000mAh design capacity and battery health is at 88%.
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Have you figured out what is causing the problems? I'm having pretty similar issues.
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I'm sorry but how do you achieve this? I barely get 5 hours SOT with WI-FI on, instagram, messenger, facebook etc. Also my apps are running on AUTO APp launch.
Have you figured out what is causing the problems? I'm having pretty similar issues.
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Unfortunately I haven't had any luck either. I've deactivated almost everything that could be using up the battery and I still don't get more than 6-7 hours of SOT... I've had the phone for two months now, battery life didn't really get better as some people mention. I carry a powerbank with me cause when I'm out and taking photos it doesn't even make it through half the day...
Did you guys deactivate the option mobile data while connected with wifi? That drains a lot of battery while connected with wifi and is activated out of the box for no reason. What also drains battery are the two options under location settings to search for wifi networks all the time.
When I was on emui I set all apps to manual and only activated active in background and auto start for apps that really need it and I want to get notifications from, like WhatsApp and telegram.
Under mobile data settings I also deactivated background data for those apps and boom, easily 10+ hrs SOT when on WiFi or 7-8 hrs on mobile data.
I'm running force Doze app as well but that might only help with standby drain.
Oh and get rid of Facebook, messenger and snapchat if you want good battery. They are known for huge drain and there are good or even better alternatives like Friendly e.g.
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Unfortunately I haven't had any luck either. I've deactivated almost everything that could be using up the battery and I still don't get more than 6-7 hours of SOT... I've had the phone for two months now, battery life didn't really get better as some people mention. I carry a powerbank with me cause when I'm out and taking photos it doesn't even make it through half the day...
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That does not sound too bad...At least you're getting 6-7 hours of SOT. I'm getting like 4H MAX lately. And that is mostly internal usage! with low brightness.
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Did you guys deactivate the option mobile data while connected with wifi? That drains a lot of battery while connected with wifi and is activated out of the box for no reason. What also drains battery are the two options under location settings to search for wifi networks all the time.
When I was on emui I set all apps to manual and only activated active in background and auto start for apps that really need it and I want to get notifications from, like WhatsApp and telegram.
Under mobile data settings I also deactivated background data for those apps and boom, easily 10+ hrs SOT when on WiFi or 7-8 hrs on mobile data.
I'm running force Doze app as well but that might only help with standby drain.
Oh and get rid of Facebook, messenger and snapchat if you want good battery. They are known for huge drain and there are good or even better alternatives like Friendly e.g.
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Thanks for that! I've just disabled "Mobile data always on" and we'll see how much difference does it make. I also might give Friendly a shot.
Also, if I disable background data/app launch for Facebook, that will surely prevent facebook to sync constantly, right? I don't need constant notifications from facebook, only from messenger.
Also I noticed I went to sleep with 100%, after 7 hours I woke up with 92% left. That is with Always ON display. Is this normal standby drain? I'm also thinking about disabling always on display as it does not show notifications correctly anyway.
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That does not sound too bad...At least you're getting 6-7 hours of SOT. I'm getting like 4H MAX lately. And that is mostly internal usage! with low brightness.
Thanks for that! I've just disabled "Mobile data always on" and we'll see how much difference does it make. I also might give Friendly a shot.
Also, if I disable background data/app launch for Facebook, that will surely prevent facebook to sync constantly, right? I don't need constant notifications from facebook, only from messenger.
Also I noticed I went to sleep with 100%, after 7 hours I woke up with 92% left. That is with Always ON display. Is this normal standby drain? I'm also thinking about disabling always on display as it does not show notifications correctly anyway.
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Yes that should prevent notifications from Facebook.
Hm when I charge it to 100% I usually still have 100% when I wake up 7hrs later. That doesn't mean I have no drain but I think the phone stays at 100% fairly long and seems to drain faster on low battery percentage (similar to iPhone afaik). When I charge to 90% for example I wake up with 87% or so. That's more realistic I think. Wifi on, everything else off, no AOD.
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Did you guys deactivate the option mobile data while connected with wifi? That drains a lot of battery while connected with wifi and is activated out of the box for no reason. What also drains battery are the two options under location settings to search for wifi networks all the time.
When I was on emui I set all apps to manual and only activated active in background and auto start for apps that really need it and I want to get notifications from, like WhatsApp and telegram.
Under mobile data settings I also deactivated background data for those apps and boom, easily 10+ hrs SOT when on WiFi or 7-8 hrs on mobile data.
I'm running force Doze app as well but that might only help with standby drain.
Oh and get rid of Facebook, messenger and snapchat if you want good battery. They are known for huge drain and there are good or even better alternatives like Friendly e.g.
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What system apps do you deactivate background data? I just did it to some of my installed apps and i hope i will see a diffrence soon. And where can i find "deactivate mobile data when on wifi?.
Thanks
Elwaa said:
What system apps do you deactivate background data? I just did it to some of my installed apps and i hope i will see a diffrence soon. And where can i find "deactivate mobile data when on wifi?.
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Not too many actually. Could probably deactivate some more but seems fine as it is.
My system is German but it must be somewhere in wireless and network - mobile network - advanced.
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Hi,
I'm currently running into a battery issue with my S21 Ultra. It seems like the Samsung Music APP is completely draining my phone battery and I'm wondering if there is a way to resolve this because I do use it for local files and if I do add it to a sleeping app it ends up not playing Music when I'm using another app. I've provided some screenshots of the battery drain if anyone got any suggestions on how to solve the issue whether is a fix for Samsung music app or an alternative app, please let me know.
Thank you.
Try an alternative music app if the samsung music app is bad
its not completely draining your battery. you use it quite a bit, and it uses an appropriate amount of battery from what I can see.
an app running for 16 hours is going to use quite a bit of battery, in your case 23%, doesnt seem excessive to me at all.
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its not completely draining your battery. you use it quite a bit, and it uses an appropriate amount of battery from what I can see.
an app running for 16 hours is going to use quite a bit of battery, in your case 23%, doesnt seem excessive to me at all.
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Yeah the thing is I'm not listening to music out of those 16 hours. I expected it to automatically close background when music is not playing but it doesn't and it still runs in the background. Is there a way to have it automatically stop the app from running in the background because even if I go to recent apps and close the app it is still running in the background and for me to actually stop background usage is by going to apps and force stopping the app everytime it's not in usage.
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its not completely draining your battery. you use it quite a bit, and it uses an appropriate amount of battery from what I can see.
an app running for 16 hours is going to use quite a bit of battery, in your case 23%, doesnt seem excessive to me at all.
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any app suggestions?
I've recently started using muzio and seems ok
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Yeah the thing is I'm not listening to music out of those 16 hours. I expected it to automatically close background when music is not playing but it doesn't and it still runs in the background. Is there a way to have it automatically stop the app from running in the background because even if I go to recent apps and close the app it is still running in the background and for me to actually stop background usage is by going to apps and force stopping the app everytime it's not in usage.
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you can try going to settings > apps > samsung music > battery and turn off background usage
the downside to that is, if the app is not in the foreground, it wont play music.
you can try youtube music, or the many many others on the play store.