Google voice Killing my battery? - Captivate General

I was getting a solid 2 days out of a single charge, then I tried Google voice. I barely get a day out of it now.
I installed the app from the market, and use the voice mail only.
Could I have missed some kind of sync setting that's draining my battery?

allted said:
I was getting a solid 2 days out of a single charge, then I tried Google voice. I barely get a day out of it now.
I installed the app from the market, and use the voice mail only.
Could I have missed some kind of sync setting that's draining my battery?
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I would look elsewhere - I don't think it is GV. I have been using it since day 1 with no issue.

I found out what was killing my battery (Meebo....) with an app called Spare Parts.
Launch it, tap battery history, and click on the top dropdown and select 'partial wake usage' which indicates what's been making the phone do stuff while the screen's off. Maybe it'll be helpful?

allted said:
I was getting a solid 2 days out of a single charge, then I tried Google voice. I barely get a day out of it now.
I installed the app from the market, and use the voice mail only.
Could I have missed some kind of sync setting that's draining my battery?
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Wow, 2 days? I take mine off charge at 730am and its plum dead by 11pm.

derek4484 said:
Wow, 2 days? I take mine off charge at 730am and its plum dead by 11pm.
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thats because you guys are using it differently

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Any suggestions about my battery life

I know that there are lots of these battery life threads and i have read most of them and I've tried closing processes that i don't need and i have tried setcpu to keep the cpu low when the device is off, which seemed to help some but my phone would shutoff randomly. So last night i had a full battery and went to bed when i woke up 8 hrs later i was at 20% so about 10% an hr not even using the device. I have attached some pics for reference does anyone have any thoughts that might help. Thanks
I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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tuxStyle said:
I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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I don't have wifi enabled, I don't use it that often. the name of the prog is system panel
Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.
Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?
hacker01 said:
Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?
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yes i do.. Why? but it was turned off last night, as its turned off every night
Ok so i tested again last night and I did not have my im+ app running and the battery life was soooo much better. I also did not have system panel running which records all the battery and cpu stats but i'm think its the im+ app that was taking up all the juice. Can anyone think of another app that does skype and facebook but that also does not take up sooo much batter life??? Thanks
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Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.
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Possible he has his set to stay on. While yours may turn off when sleeping.
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Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.
m_1000rr6 said:
Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.
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yeah the app that took the most juice was im+
I drained mine down to 5% and charged full a few times and still only got 8 - 10 hours on mine until i flashed to jh2 and now have been getting almost 16 hours with same usage and apps installed. I charge mine at night. I use ebuddy with the piwer saver option turbed on abd it does an ok job.
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I have the stock ROM and stock launcher and my battery is awsome! 8 hours and I will still be above 80%.
Brightness: Lowest (manually control via stock stock gesture)
GPS: OFF
Wifi: ON all day
BT: OFF
GMail manual
Other emails accounts hourly for the most part.
Widgets: Google/Fancy Weather
BG: Mostly Black
I have never seen such good battery life on a smart phone.
I could easily get 2 days, but i rather charge every night and then not worry about battery usage.
The wifi/gmail/gps made a big difference, its too bad you can't set gmail to hourly or something lik e that. Some of my email accounts i would like to set longer than hourly.
The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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tysj said:
The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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How many hours with the display on?
Sent from my phone so I apologize for any spelling mistakes
My battery icon depletes one notch when I'm using the screen for about an hour. Some people recommend cycling the battery, in which you do a full drain and immediate full charge, 3 or 4 times. I've done it, but it's hard to say if it explains my good battery life.
let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.
Berserk87 said:
let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.
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You don't want to drain the battery that much, those kind of batteries can be damaged. The phone turns off for a reason.
I haven't done the cycle thing and its fine. A lot of that comes from older batteries with the memory problem.
irus, software which is based on data connection drains the battery one way or another. Some apps now support push notifications and IM+ does too. Did you try to use push?
These claims of multiple day charges with moderate use is crazy to me. I have the newest ROM, a black screen, display all the way down, gps off, wifi on when in range, make zero voice calls, run juice, and only have 2 widgets that update every 4 hours. I use my phone for a maximum of 3 hours browsing the web, reading XDA and feedR, checking facebook and the occasional text message. My phone lasts a total of 12 to 14 hours. My battery has a manufacture date of late July. Is there some secret I am not aware of?
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I'm I'm your boat Shuggins, except I don't use juice, I have it installed though
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Battery life

Is anyone else having problems with the battery on the epic mines only lasting 5 hours
epic4gxtra
im using juice defender and task killer and ive been off the charger for over 8 hours with moderate texting, one 5 min phone call, checked email once, read the news for about 20 mins and my battery is at 46%. Try juice defender it turns off your data when the screen gets turned off and that pretty much doubled my battery life. With 3g data on all the time my battery gets murdered.
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im using juice defender and task killer and ive been off the charger for over 8 hours with moderate texting, one 5 min phone call, checked email once, read the news for about 20 mins and my battery is at 46%. Try juice defender it turns off your data when the screen gets turned off and that pretty much doubled my battery life. With 3g data on all the time my battery gets murdered.
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I can also say Juicedefender has had a very substantial positive impact on my phone's battery life.
Doesn't work with 4G on had to disable it in order to finish the setup hope it doubles my bat life too.
I noticed great bettery life today after crappy bettery life yesterday by removing fring. Doesn't look like its a 100% compatible with the epic yet as I couldn't log into aim from my home computer while I was connected with the epic... didn't actually receive any IMs either
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I havent had any issues with the battery life. In fact, It took me 8 hours to completely drain the factory charge (Which is usually around 45% shipped). However, I am an Ex Sprint Hero user so my expectations may not be as high as yours.
I was having issues also. My issue was app related, Google Voice was cutting my battery life in half.
Do you mean Google Talk or actually Google Voice? If it is Google Voice, did you just sign out and use Sprint's Visual Voicemail?
kngyn19 said:
Do you mean Google Talk or actually Google Voice? If it is Google Voice, did you just sign out and use Sprint's Visual Voicemail?
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Yes, Google Voice. You can still use it, but I would suggest turning off background data in the app itself and enable the option to get text alerts when you have a message or voicemail.
I've used it for over a year, but I think I'm gonna ditch it. I found out that the unlimited mobile-to-mobile doesn't count when someone calls my google voice number. That means others are using there regular minutes to call on my google voice number even though it's mobile-to-mobile. The same goes for voice mail, you also use minutes for that because it's forwarding to another number.

[Q] *Ridiculously* Bad Battery Life

First day of owning a ChaCha. My phone lost 30% of battery just sitting overnight. What the hell? I went to bed with 75% and woke up with 45% about 7 hours later.
Battery use lists three items: Cell standby, Phone idle, and Display. Shouldn't there be more?
I really want to like this phone, but this is simply unacceptable. Is there something I'm missing here?
Also, has anyone noticed that the phone takes a ridiculous amount of time to charge when connected to a computer?
may be sth wrong with your battery.
mine performs well when standing by
jqm800 said:
may be sth wrong with your battery.
mine performs well when standing by
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Maybe. I'm also having software issues where after one call, my Dialer app begins draining my battery rapidly, using over 90% of the battery according to the Battery Use page.
Anyway, battery performance on this phone seems so far to be a bit erratic. Eh. I'm interested in trying out a CM port whenever that becomes available on this phone to see if it helps.
Hi, my bettery lasts 2-3 days (on normal usage). Also, the performance improved with more charging cycles...
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Hi, my bettery lasts 2-3 days (on normal usage). Also, the performance improved with more charging cycles...
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Do you make calls often? Next time you make a call, could you check your Battery Use page under "Settings -> About phone -> Battery -> Battery use" and see if "Dialer" takes up a large percent.
Thanks!
In fact, could anyone else who has a ChaCha please reply to let me know if they experience Dialer taking up a huge percent of the battery after making a call? You can check under "Settings -> About phone -> Battery -> Battery use".
I know one person on another forum who brought up this issue before I even experienced it myself, so I know I'm not alone, but I don't know whether this is bug is specific to my phone or for all ChaChas.
Thanks!
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Mine says nothing about dialer app, have just made a call so will check later.
battery is poor tho, won't last a day if I actaually use if for any thing other than text or email.
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qbert456 said:
Mine says nothing about dialer app, have just made a call so will check later.
battery is poor tho, won't last a day if I actaually use if for any thing other than text or email.
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Hm, okay, thanks.
Yeah, the battery life seems to be quite bad for me as well even when the Dialer issue isn't happening. Oh well.
So since my last post I made a 3 sec call that was it.
Stats show, 10h since charge,
Dialer has used 96% !!! Of battery, that's why the standby is so bad, I'm going to email HTC.
Can the dialer app be changed?
Or is that a root luxury, cyanogen 6 had a decent dialer on my legend....
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On my phone, 49% is dialer app, and for me, it's too much, since I do not use phone for too many calls.
exactly the same here ... after 2 mins of phone call - battery stats said that it takes more than 60% of battery use... And the weirdest thing is, that I used internet browser, tweetdeck and greader before for more than 2 hours...
I suggest everyone write in to HTC support so they might get a fix out soon. I've already contacted them.
Another question: how much battery drains overnight while your phone is just on standby? Mine loses about 40% in about 9 hours overnight.
Mine runs like forever, when i just use it for email, sms and a few calls.
I charged mine on Thursday and last evening the battery bar went to orange.
da-vid said:
Another question: how much battery drains overnight while your phone is just on standby? Mine loses about 40% in about 9 hours overnight.
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In 7 hours of standby, battery dropped for about 3%.
Mine drains about 15-20% during the night (00:00 - 7:00)
Is your mobile network turned on while you are in standby?
Go to settings - Wireless & Networks - Mobile network.
It's not checked here. I check it only when I want to use mobile operator data package.
aca_coa said:
Is your mobile network turned on while you are in standby?
Go to settings - Wireless & Networks - Mobile network.
It's not checked here. I check it only when I want to use mobile operator data package.
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Yeah, but why should I have to uncheck that?! I even have push email disabled during non-peak hours.
My iPhone loses like 5% overnight with push and full 3G data still enabled. I'm not expecting iPhone performance, but 40%? What could possibly be happening on the phone that it uses that much battery overnight? I checked my battery use page and my phone is in fact going to sleep when I lock it.
Ah well. I'll try to see if I can isolate this issue to a certain app or something when I have time.
Well, I turned on mobile network, and I lost about 2% within 10 minutes in standby mode, but I will test this a little better tomorrow.
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My HTC ChaCha has the dialler issue.
I charge my phone overnight and would expect it to last all day, even with heavy usage. By 1pm (i leave for work at 7.30am) battery life is becoming a serious issue. I then have to charge the phone in order for it to last till i get home at 6pm.
The dialer is always using 95/96% of my battery.
I only make or receive 1 or 2 very short calls during the day.
This isnt such a problem in work as I can charge the phone, but im going away next week and wont be able to charge it every couple of hours.
I was going to buy another battery as i thought this would be a solution but its obviously not the battery, its something to do with the software.

Are there any others s4 owners out there noticing BAD battery life?

I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
MentalToast said:
I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
nakedninja42 said:
Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Weird.. I don't think I have any apps that are running wild in the background. I'm not rooted atm though.
If it were a mystery app running in the background, would it be listed on the battery stats screen showing the % each program is taking up?
MentalToast said:
Weird.. I don't think I have any apps that are running wild in the background. I'm not rooted atm though.
If it were a mystery app running in the background, would it be listed on the battery stats screen showing the % each program is taking up?
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Could be location reporting
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MrPlNK said:
Could be location reporting
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
MentalToast said:
I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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You said you have sync enabled, how many different accounts or apps are syncing and how often? If you have 4-5 accounts syncing every 15 minutes, your phone will never sleep and you will see massive drain
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MentalToast said:
I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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One of the problems I had when updating to my new S4 was the memory card. Going from the S3 to the S4 was not good. The S4 didnt like the memory card and was causing high Gallery cpu/battery usage. Reformating the card fixed that problem.
Now, my Galaxy S4 has the best life of any Android I have ever had. At the end of the day, it still has 40% battery remaining with an screen on time of around 4 hours.
hmbpopo said:
You said you have sync enabled, how many different accounts or apps are syncing and how often? If you have 4-5 accounts syncing every 15 minutes, your phone will never sleep and you will see massive drain
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I think you're aiming in the right direction here. That was one of my guesses was that sync is draining it fast.
Just checked what i had under accounts. The only ones that were syncing were Google (toggled off a few of the features i don't use so i only sync what i do use, drive , calender etc)
The only other one that was on was Samsung account which i just toggled off as well since I don't have any need for that to be synced up whatsoever.
The only other apps I can think of that actively try to sync are my gmail and facebook. I'm not sure how to view the frequency for gmail to sync, but facebook is set up to check every hour.
MentalToast said:
I think you're aiming in the right direction here. That was one of my guesses was that sync is draining it fast.
Just checked what i had under accounts. The only ones that were syncing were Google (toggled off a few of the features i don't use so i only sync what i do use, drive , calender etc)
The only other one that was on was Samsung account which i just toggled off as well since I don't have any need for that to be synced up whatsoever.
The only other apps I can think of that actively try to sync are my gmail and facebook. I'm not sure how to view the frequency for gmail to sync, but facebook is set up to check every hour.
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Yeah I have more accounts than that and I see 4+ he's of screen time a day with 30-40 percent left at the end of the day. I would try formating your sd card as stated above as that is also a known problem
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Not I personally. My buddy his wouldn't charge past 46% no matter what. Not even with new battery or after a factory reset.
I tho notice better battery life with this phone then on my s3.
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Yeah I have more accounts than that and I see 4+ he's of screen time a day with 30-40 percent left at the end of the day. I would try formating your sd card as stated above as that is also a known problem
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I don't have a sd card inserted
Here is mine on little usage. About a good 2-3 hours of screentime, everything turned on, max brightness, and live wallpaper...
I also had a 64GB MicroSD from my Galaxy S II that I did not format.
From the screenshot, the MediaServer is from the live wallpaper, and Maps -> almost every location setting in maps setting is checked... which will change soon... :good:
FWIW, GSMArena did a new battery test for the i9505 after the recent OTA update:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...ests-update-battery-life-improved/#more-48734
Overall, it saw a slight improvement.
MentalToast said:
I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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Doesn't google now always tell you how far you are from home regardless of gps being on?
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nakedninja42 said:
Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
Yea just checked bbs and it showed that any smart screen feature turned on caused wakelocks 7 hours straight while I was sleeping. disabled and Now I barely get battery drain and my phone goes into deep sleep. Sucks cuz I liked using smart screen features.
I'm getting itty good results I think? Formatted memory card installed.
How does this stack up against your guys
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
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Its paid in Play store, but if you find the xda thread (search on google: "better battery stats xda") there is a version available there. If you like it support the dev
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
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Look on XDA, its free.
Also after the OTA update my battery life is about 2x worse. Before I would lose 1% overnight and now i lose about 3%. Before I could get 4hrs screen on time with 20hrs standby, and now I am at 35% with 10 hours standby and 2hrs 6min on screen on.
Going to factory reset tonight.
I have only slightly better battery life than my rooted inspire 4g with a 1230 mah battery....
I cant WAIT for the custom roms and developers tweaking these phones...there is soo much potential for this device!
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Question Google assistent battery drain

Hi, anybody has a massive battery drain with Google assistent?
Yes. I ripped this crap
Yeah, after the novelty wore off, I uninstalled it.
adrianhoria said:
Hi, anybody has a massive battery drain with Google assistent?
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Do you have "ok google" enabled? If so, that will probably create a huge battery drain. Just turn that feature off.
I have to agree with crxssi, I've been using assistant for a few days and don't notice any drainage. I also don't have voice activation on.
I wish Bixby was more useful, but assistant manages my smart devices way more efficiently. Bixby doesn't understand
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I have to agree with crxssi, I've been using assistant for a few days and don't notice any drainage. I also don't have voice activation on.
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Well, it turns out that I also have reduced battery now. See: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/official-google-assistant-for-gw4-available.4449411/post-87157609
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Well, it turns out that I also have reduced battery now. See: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/official-google-assistant-for-gw4-available.4449411/post-87157609
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hello there!
I have recently purchased a brand new GW4 (3 days ago).
I never experienced any issues with the watch's battery life at all until what happened today.
Yesterday, I went out with 97% battery, used 3 exercise modes for an hour each, and returned home around 8 hours later, with around 87% of battery left!
I decided to get the Google Assistant installed and ended up side loading it because it is unfortunately not available in my region.
Went out today as well, did the same thing as yesterday, except I had Google Assistant installed (with the ok google option disabled), and returned home with 57% of battery left!!
I am really frustrated that I have to uninstall the Assistant for now, but unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's another choice to solve this problem.
If you ever find a fix for this, please do let me know as I really love the Assistant and it's sad that it drains my battery so much.
Thanks!
After the novelty of Google assistant wore off, I removed it to get the battery life back. I hardly ever use it on my phone anyway.

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