Foyo update...Battery life shortened ? - Captivate General

Has anyone noticed their battery life seems shorter since the update ? I installed the official froyo update last night and it seems I'm running out of juice much quicker than before.

At first mine ran down faster. I ran it all the way down. Charged it. And ran it all the way down again and charged. It seems back to normal.

I didn't have any issues. Maybe you changed something else as well? Could always try a few recharge cycles and see if it stabilizes..

I was running the leaked 2.2 and I flashed to official 2.2. My battery life is almost double what it was. I can't complain one bit about battery life, although I have other gripes with the official Froyo release.

I'm with icepop on this one.. I was running the stock rogers rom pre-update and now with the official rogers 2.2 I'm getting at least double the use before having to charge again.

I'm having battery issues with the new stock Froyo. I lose a huge amount of juce when in standby. I thought I may have my widgets updating too often so I charged it up and put it into airplane mode last night. The phone lost about 1% per hour in airplane mode. IDK what is normal but that seems like a lot to me. I didn't have any apps running, except my alarm was set for the morning.
I have SystemPanel installed and my cpu load NEVER goes below 10 percent, even in airplane mode. I suspect this is a large part of the issue. In app history, system and system processes are always on the top of the list and are around 3% each. IDK what controls this or how to lower it. I would love some feedback from someone else with SystemPanel just to see how our numbers compare. Overall the battery life I'm experiencing is pretty terrible and a buddy of mine's Fascinate has much better battery life (hence something must be wrong somewhere). He and I were skiing all day over the weekend and when we got back to our cars, my phone was half dead and his had lost almost zero juice. This displeases me.

mine's was better actually. but i didnt stayon it for long

My initial results with 2.2 were very bad (10% drop per hour when idling). I reset the phone back to 2.1 then re-installed 2.2. This did not help. Now I did this again (2.1 then 2.2) but this time I have not re-installed my apps and have not rooted (yet). So far, battery life seems to be normal. I suspect that some of my applications might mis-behave when installed on 2.2. I am planning to add them slowly and watch the battery.

Not here, seems the same to me

Mine is terrible ! I don't know what it might have been on 2.1 as I upgraded fairly quickly. Essentially I charge all night and then disconnect from power at 6:30am and then by 4:30pm I'm out of juice (phone shuts off). Any ideas here? I'm not running anything extravegant (email only) and hardly make any calls.

Whenever you flash to a new ROM, wait for at least a week of normal usage before you judge the battery life. The reason is simple, your battery stats are reset after ROM flash and your new OS needs time to learn how your battery drains before it can give you accurate readings.
If you can't wait for that long, you need follow the battery calibration thread to force a manual calibration of the battery.

I'll give it a week and see how it is then. Definitely is draining much quicker now though. I think It acted similiarly when I first got the phone as well. If I recall correctly the batter life sucked when I first got it, but then a week or so seemed to get much better.

I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?

TheSopranos16 said:
I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
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Running stock since purchasing the Captivate back in August, and so far battery life actually seems to be routinely as good if not better than 2.1. I must admit I didn't use my phone a huge amount yesterday (except for about an hour plus of downloading a bunch of wallpapers off Zedge for some ungodly reason lol), and after 18 hours of the phone being on I was still over 50% battery life left. 2.5% in standby doesn't sound like all is well - you must have something running in the background or similar issue. I have a live background, sync 5 e-mail accounts (granted, only one of those is every 15 minutes - the others are every thirty minutes, every hour, and once a day on two of them), and with light use I am getting over 40 hours with 2.2 so far (about in line with 2.1, but seems maybe just a little better). Heavy use I am dropping more like to the 12 - 18 hour mark (heavy use for me means the screen on more than off, actively playing games or using apps, large amounts of texting, etc. Solid game playing I haven't figured out a drain yet, but on some games it seems like I can drop almost the whole battery in close to 10 hours). At your rate of 2.5% per hour in standby you would only make it forty hours without even using the phone. I have been using mine just a little this morning (FB check, logging in to one of the desktops at work remotely to make some changes, live background running, WiFi sleep policy is set to when screen is off, but to be honest that is about it) and I haven't moved off the 100% mark yet and the phone has been unplugged over an hour and a half.
All that said though, as other users have stated you might want to give it a little more time for the system to recalibrate the battery usage. I would definitely check your processor usage though regularly to see if anything seems 'off'. One thing that caused me problems was that my SNS service would be running but then would get stuck in a pattern of 'Restarting' - would drain my battery rapidly.

It has been said that bettery drain is not linear. First 5% goes real fast. So, you need to judget the average over a day of use, not first hour or so. I'm still in first week of ROM flashing. So I can't confirm anything yet.

See my battery stats recalibration steps here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656
Also, TheYar has a great write-up on identifying battery drain issues here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806211

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HTC Magic Ports Battery Life

Hey everyone, I am currently running rc33 jfreak 1.42 on my phone. I was running 5.0.1G and. When I was running that rom i t seemed like my battery life was longer. Now tfhat I'm back on jfreak my battery is draining faster. Has any one else seen improved battery life with the magic rom?
I recently switched from JF 1.42 RC33 to 5.0G and saw no noticeable battery life difference. I did however notice a very noticeable increase in browser speed, which was awesome.
Well today I'm on jfreak and my battery is constantly draining, the only reason I flashed back was to test the battery life
I would say that since I started using Haykuro's Magic builds, my battery life has definitely increased. However, I suspect that this is because the device now uses less charge when it is not actively being used (i.e. standby time is longer) - I'm not using it as my primary phone at the moment as I'm on vacation in the US and I've a prepaid Tracfone that serves for the most part.
A heavy user probably wouldn't notice much difference.
Regards,
Dave
My battery life was pretty bad with 5.01H I'm talking like 10% per 15 minutes of use.
My standby time was great on 5.02.h but I noticed it took longer to charge.
I think the H build drains faster than the G
It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
When i first flashed just 5.0 i charged it to 100% took it off the charger and fell asleep for 2 hours, when i woke up the battery percent was at 92% and i was using the sapphire radio
I agree.
I think google did a lot of battery optimization in standby mode with 1.5.
If I don't turn on my g1 all day, the battery life barely goes down at all.
Of course if you do use the g1, it still drains battery like before because there's not much you can do when you are using 3g, have the lcd turned on, and the cpu chugging along. They all use a lot of power.
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It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
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DaUub said:
When i first flashed just 5.0 i charged it to 100% took it off the charger and fell asleep for 2 hours, when i woke up the battery percent was at 92%
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Do you have any background processes like twitter, IM, etc? Those could be using up the battery even if you aren't actually doing anything with the phone.
The increase in my case is VERY noticable. At minimum a boost of 50% battery life.
yeah the battery life has increased
but ive only noticed it while using just one or two apps every couple of hours
my usual day includes texting alot
2 or 3 phone calls less than 4 min
fb app, twitter app, nba app, a game or two, and other stuff
my brightness is around 25 percent
and my 3g wifi gps auto sync is on all the time
it lasts longer than it used to
but the second i start surfing the web and reading forums or using greed to read a bunch of rss feeds the battery life drains amazingly fast
im on 5.0.1h
gonna give the g build a try and then check out 5.0.2h later this week
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Do you have any background processes like twitter, IM, etc? Those could be using up the battery even if you aren't actually doing anything with the phone.
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i was using gtalk on 5.0.1 and it didnt run my battery down. on 1.42 my battery dies very fast
definite battery increase i actually didnt have to charge my battery allllll day w? moderate use..
I believe the increase in battery life in standby is more due to everyone having to wipe their data and reinstall applications.
Previously you probably had a ton of applications, that start as services, and run ALL day in the background. Applications such as chomp, twitter, hello aim, even stuff like officedroid remain open in the background because they are registered as services. Eliminating a number of these programs due to wipe is probably the reason why the battery life has improved so much.
but i was still using programs i used before, i used all of them except task manager, droid sans, and chomp sms
i'm seeing alot better response from 5.0.1h build. The static rc33 was draining the battery. Actually that's how i got it for so cheap cause the person i bought it from hated that the battery died so quick. I use my phone constantly for work and when i got home tonight i was at half a battery.
I'm back to 1.42 also i flashed 5.0g first and didn't really pay attention to the battery use but did notice a very big increase in the speed (loads very fast) then flashed 5.o.1h and it was crazy how fast the battery was on e............ Im thinking bout flashing back to 5.0g just 4 the super quick speed !
DynaMight said:
It's the standby times which are greatly increased. For instance, I took my G1 off charge at 6:45am this morning, it just sat in my pocket until lunch break at 2pm and I was at 99% charge. Surfed for 30mins at lunch and it's at 92%. It then sat in my pocket until I checked it again at 5:30PM, where it was 90%. It's now almost 7PM and the battery is sitting at 88%.
5.0.1G. Standard battery, Wifi/GPS/BT off. 3g on. 20% screen. It still drains quite quickly when used, I think it's better but hard to say how much better.
When I had RC9 on there, even in standby it would drain quite quickly.
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Following on from this.... It's 24hrs since I last charged it and the battery is currently at 73%. Very light usage but shows the battery can last if needed.

[Q] Battery life with firefly 2.3

I am getting a very short life out of my battery. I run firefly 2.3 and with everything off i am at 50% after about 4 hours. any ideas please.
Samsung Captivate
Firefly 2.3
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I'm not too sure.
I almost get 1% a little bit less than an hour 45~50 mins at idle.
This is no data and nothing on.
But once wifi is on, it ate about 15~20% in under 30 mins. This is with browser open and msn
I suppose data would be around the same if not a bit less or more underload.
I suggest do all those things that increase battery life ppl suggest on the stickies.
4 hours doesn't meant much without more info. You can have your phone on for 3 hours and been surfing the net or playing games the whole time so I'd expect your battery to be nearly drained.
How long is your phone on for?
What % is the display using up your battery?
How long has your screen been on?
After display what's next for battery usage?
tric2009 said:
I am getting a very short life out of my battery. I run firefly 2.3 and with everything off i am at 50% after about 4 hours. any ideas please.
Samsung Captivate
Firefly 2.3
speedmod k13b-500hz #54
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I would go through all the basics:
- Charge to 100%, wipe back to stock and do a fresh install
- Charge the battery to full again, do all the basics to get a legitimate read (plug/replug, wipe battery stats)
- Check your about phone settings and look at battery use, check for battery hogs.
- Check to see if you are in an area with poor signal. I lose signal if I'm indoors where I'm at so I turn the phone to flight mode. If I don't it eats about 15% of my battery an hour.
I get consistently good battery life with my captivate/FF2.3, so I'm betting it comes down to a faulty install or battery measures.
I've also noticed this after I upgraded to 2.3 (from stock Rogers captivate). My battery used to be at maybe 70% at the end of the day, now it is at 20%.
I just checked it, and it is reporting 93% after 2 hours. The display has only been on for 2 minutes but has used 48% of the battery.
I have the display set to the lowest setting, no gps, no wireless, limited background apps.
ok i turned everything off and put into flight mode and set the screen to turn off after 15 seconds brightness set to the lowest point on the slider and starting out at 99% on my battery, after letting it sit for exactly one hour with no use at all i turned it back on and it was at 83%. how did it eat 16% doing nothing. I also did like you said with the reflashing and clearing of the battery info and still get the same results. do you think it may be a bad battery.
tric2009 said:
I am getting a very short life out of my battery. I run firefly 2.3 and with everything off i am at 50% after about 4 hours. any ideas please.
Samsung Captivate
Firefly 2.3
speedmod k13b-500hz #54
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I'm getting great battery life with Firefly 2.4(no mods added) with WiFi on 24/7...might wanna upgrade, it is so easy with the on-board download and upgrade built in!
I made the mistake of flashing when I wasn't at 100% battery not knowing how much of a pain it was to calibrate the damn thing. I did however realize that after a couple of full charge/discharge cycles my battery life improved. FF 2.4 seems to have better battery life, but I haven't had it on the phone long enough to say for sure.
KayvinM said:
I made the mistake of flashing when I wasn't at 100% battery not knowing how much of a pain it was to calibrate the damn thing. I did however realize that after a couple of full charge/discharge cycles my battery life improved. FF 2.4 seems to have better battery life, but I haven't had it on the phone long enough to say for sure.
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My first charge on 2.4 never displayed "FULL" in the top left like I'm used to seeing. I bump charged just once and cleared stats. Still couldn't get that "FULL" up there.
That said, my batt lasted 2 full days on the charge with minimal usage (3 or 4 calls, a few short youtube videos, 4 or 5 rounds of Angry Birds, otherwise with display off sitting by my chair on my wifi).
That seems like ridiculous good standby to me... perhaps too good. I'm afraid I might be badly overcharging my battery, so I let it drain until it I couldn't turn it on and it's back on the charger. I'm hoping I'll see a "FULL" up there this time. On the other hand, I sure could get used to that kind of standby time...
There is a Q&A thread in the Q&A forums please use those instead of opening a new one.

Very curious quirk On Android Open Kang Project ROM... Near Unlimited Battery!!!!

hi all...
soo after my comments over a week ago on the aokp website for this build, i decided afterall to take the plunge and update. i was on b26, so subsequently had to flash b27 and then this. everything has gone absolutely swimmingly with no issues at all so far....
HOWEVER>>>>>
I am faced with a very puzzling quirk. its by nooooo means a problem at all, infact it quite the opposite!!! let me explain.
i've started charging my phone in the evening these days for some stupid reason and then, when charged taking it off and going to bed. After getting this milestone on, my battery has been killed over night, draining to around 15%. Normally, it would drain to around 70% and be flat by the end of the day ready for charging again.
This continued for a few days when i decided to root out the cause of the massive overnite idle drain. I installed a fantastic free app called Badass Battery Monitor (which i highly recommend btw!), and over a period of a couple of days the offending app was weeded out. It was Nova Launcher. This had never happened to me before and couldn't understand it. So, as part of my diagnostics, I decided to confirm the findings by removing it and just using stock.
Over a couple of days monitoring, with exactly the same charging method, my battery levels returned to normal drainage with around 75% battery left by the morning. Fantastic. I had found the problem fixed it and got back to normal. Soooo where is the quirk i here you say!!!? lol Well......
On average, from everything i've read in forums, battery drain overnight while phone in standby is around 20/30%, so mine WAS right up there with the majority of you.
Last night, i decided to charge to full and then wipe battery stats. Which i did. Now, bare in mind here that I ONLY have the standard battery that is supplied with the Galaxy Nexus. I got up this morning, and to my utter amazement, my battery had only drained 2%
Now been incredibly realisting here based on average overnight drains, i was 100% sure that this was deffo an error. I have done everything from restarting the phone, taking the battery out, but still the level in my battery was saying the same.
As I sit here writing this, I have been streaming a radio station via wifi on the phone for the last 2 hrs, and atm my battery is telling me that it is STILL 85% full.
I am DEFFO not complaining, but i'm sure now, you can see why the hell i am so puzzled! HOW THE HELL IS THIS HAPPENING, because i can genuinely find no explanation at all for it
as a follow up, it is now more or less 5 hrs since my orginal post, and my battery is reporting that it is 75% full
Jeesh, 20 to 30 idle drain overnight? My phone drains about 3 to 5 overnight which is typically 8 hours of sleep.
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Interesting quirk. Are you a heavy or a light user? It'd be nice to see how it drains after a full drain and recharge.
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Interesting quirk. Are you a heavy or a light user? It'd be nice to see how it drains after a full drain and recharge.
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well, to see if what was been reported was correct, i've been an absolute heavy user today. i have wifi on, ive streamed radio via internet for around 3 hrs, ive been playing all sorts of games and watched a few youtube vids. and my battery is atm reporting 74% life left
so here i am, STILL very very puzzled..
my battery life is just going and going with no signs of running flat... have a look at these screenshots and give me an explanation as to why i suddenly have a super battery!
MAYBE you really have a super battery or your mobile is glitched and shows the battery like that due to laG?
I'm on miui and I lose 0% overnight. It just depends on the ROM, but 20-30% is ridiculous!
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AOKP MS4 CM9, *goes all day without charging phone *
Ictcreations said:
so here i am, STILL very very puzzled..
my battery life is just going and going with no signs of running flat... have a look at these screenshots and give me an explanation as to why i suddenly have a super battery!
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Your states do not seem super impressive. On most phones the screen is the biggest drain. You show 49% battery with a screen on of only 1 hour. After 33 hours you've only used your phone for 1 hour screen on. Thats VERY little.
I usually get 2.5-3 hours of screen on time for my galaxy nexus.
Ictcreations said:
I installed a fantastic free app called Badass Battery Monitor (which i highly recommend btw!)
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Thanks for the app recommendation! Been looking for something like it all day.
This will depend on ROM/Radio/Kernel user installed programs/sync etc but 2-6% is normal drain over night anyone with 20% needs to seriously look @ battery stats and work out what's causing wake locks.
Also not forgetting most phones need to bed in after a flash which can take 2-3 days before we see real battery info.

Bad Battery life or Bad Battery on Nexus 5 with 5.1

Hello,
I've searching for like 2 months about problems with battery life and Lollipop with nexus 5. I understand the issues but since it was released, i never had much problems with it. I used to have 2h SOT for like 40% battery or so.
My daily routine allowed me to reach home with a bit more than 50% battery with 2h SOT more or less. (a lot of messaging on viber/whatsapp)
But something changed since 1 and half months ago. I can no longer do the same and it seems that i have a CONSTANT battery drain. I remember when i unplugged my phone i would reach my workplace (1:30h after unplug) i would have like 2-4% less battery depending on the usage. Currently when i get out of home the battery is already at like 92% or more depending on the usage. If i let the phone stay idle all the time, i usally get home with 30-40% battery now. I'm already thinking that my battery has gone bad. This started to happen from one day to another and i never let the battery stay too much below 30% usually, but nowadays it's impossible to predict the battery life since some days it seems to drain more than others.
I've used some apps to monitor the usage but i really don't understand much about it and can't seem to find a pattern. I've already did factory reset with all Lollipop versions and i remember doing a KK regression for some hours but the drain seemed like it was still there (can't use KK on my nexus 5 anyway, it feels weird after Lollipop experience ) but i didn't even fully charged the battery as i remember. Anyway if it would be an app, there should be some kind of logging in battery stats which doesn't, and i can't think about anything else.
I finally gave up and decided to ask help here, since i don't know what else to do. I'm actually leaning towards getting a nexus 6 but after reading about so many issues (screen/battery life/burn-in) i'm not sure what else i can do with my nexus 5.
If anyone can give me a hint i'd be very grateful
PS: already tried Cataclysm ROM and using currently ElementalX kernel. I notice a bit better battery life with ElementalX but i think the pictures speak for themselves.
Judging by that constant drain with very little shown awake time I'd install Better Battery Stats and check for kernel wakelocks. I had a similar situation with a wake lock from using a wireless charger that did not show in the regular battery stats.
AndrasLOHF said:
Judging by that constant drain with very little shown awake time I'd install Better Battery Stats and check for kernel wakelocks. I had a similar situation with a wake lock from using a wireless charger that did not show in the regular battery stats.
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i already installed it before, but currently don't have it installed. I have Wakelock Detector app i can post a screenshot if helps
Installed Better Battery Stats, i'll post results tomorrow (battery at 19% already).
As promised, there's still some battery left but i didn't even use the phone today mostly... in days like these i should be over 70% as usual or maybe close to 80% that i remember.
Can't seem to find the cause
bump i guess
will some full discharge cycles fix this ? iirc that can make things worse.
I feel your pain...when I was on Kitkat, I'd get to work running just Waze and Pandora and my battery life would be at 80%. Installed Lollipop 5.1 and now half way through my trip (15 minutes of use) the phone shuts down with a dead battery. Maybe it's just a coincidence that my battery decided to give up the ghost at the same time I install 5.1, but I find that very odd...the phone is only a 1.5 years old...lithium battery's tend to last 2+ years and even then they don't fall off a cliff in terms of capacity. At this point I think I'll buy a new battery and see what happens, LG OEM are about $25 on Amazon.

Rubbish battery life?

I got an S7 G930F yesterday, first full charge last night, I haven't it even properly set up yet, haven't got most of my apps installed yet. I took it of the charger this morning at 8am its now at 50% at 2pm, 45 mins screen on time with the biggest battery drain being android system 20%.
I have hardly used the phone today as I'm off work, at this rate it'll be dead long before bedtime with me doing nothing.
Any ideas?
Hard to expect getting the best of it at first. It took me a good week to figure out how to optimized battery without having to use it like a 2G phone. I suggest you do factory reset. Observe how it goes that way. For the first time, a handful of things run in the background; syncing, location, whatsoever so I bet it'll take a while to really adapt and I can assure you based on experience, it's like that as it was like for me.
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I got an S7 G930F yesterday, first full charge last night, I haven't it even properly set up yet, haven't got most of my apps installed yet. I took it of the charger this morning at 8am its now at 50% at 2pm, 45 mins screen on time with the biggest battery drain being android system 20%.
I have hardly used the phone today as I'm off work, at this rate it'll be dead long before bedtime with me doing nothing.
Any ideas?
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Always takes a few full charge cycles to get the best out of a new battery I find, fully charge and fully discharge 4-5 times, calibrates the phone too to know what 0% and 100% are iirc
But you're always going to see high battery usage setting up a new phone, installing apps, screen on constantly, playing about with it more than you will once you've had it a while
The are wide reports today of crazy bad battery life. Some people are tying it the latest Oculus update.
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Always takes a few full charge cycles to get the best out of a new battery I find, fully charge and fully discharge 4-5 times, calibrates the phone too to know what 0% and 100% are iirc
But you're always going to see high battery usage setting up a new phone, installing apps, screen on constantly, playing about with it more than you will once you've had it a while
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I'd like to believe that but I didn't have this issue on my Nexus 5X with a smaller battery or Huawei P9 Lite, in fact the P9 Lite also has a 3000mAh battery and I could make it last 2 full days, this won't last 1.
Getting the phone yesterday, you've hardly given it a chance, with heavy usage I get just over a day with mine, with medium, 2 days
Same phone, same OS, same battery
See how you get on in a week or two, or return it and get the Edge, 3600mAh
Check the package disabler pro threads, disable the battery draining bloatware (no root needed)
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Getting the phone yesterday, you've hardly given it a chance, with heavy usage I get just over a day with mine, with medium, 2 days
Same phone, same OS, same battery
See how you get on in a week or two, or return it and get the Edge, 3600mAh
Check the package disabler pro threads, disable the battery draining bloatware (no root needed)
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Yep thats the usage I got with my P9 Lite with the same size battery. I was sitting this morning look at the phones always on display. 30mins of the charger it was at 94% and that's with me not even touching it.
It's crap for the first few days
Whenever I first got my phone or when I factory reset or when I install new rom, the battery life is usually crap. But after a few days when battery optimization kicks in (power saving on apps not used in past few days) battery gets tremendously better.
Posting back to confirm that Oculus update shat on a lot of phones.
Oculus home process kept trying to install and uninstall. This demolished battery life, increased heat, etc.
Once I uninstalled Oculus, all problems went away. I will reinstall after fix.
This may be caused by either the oculus app or good lock app they have been reports on the Internet about these two particular apps
Also when setting the phone for the first time it will drain battery in the first few days
Confirmed about Oculus draining battery
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...p-samsung-phones-causing-heavy-battery-drain/
NH Apache said:
The are wide reports today of crazy bad battery life. Some people are tying it the latest Oculus update.
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Definitely was, my phone overheated and shut down over night when the update came through. I literally couldn't charge it it with fast charger. it would just sit at the same % it was burning through the battery so quickly. uninstalled sammy vr and oculus apps everything fine now.
I don't have anything oculus related installed. The is day 2, second full charge last night. Of the charger now 1 hour, its got flight mode on with wifi calling enabled. I am currently at 90% with 1 min screen on time. Android services again the biggest hog but it contains IPSec services which does the Wifi Calling part.
I was about to remove Occulus when I received an occulus update, about one hour ago, and it seems that the problem is fixed. The battery looks ok, and the phone is not hot any more. I'm waiting a little bit more to be sure...
Right guys I have found the culprit of my drain issue. Wifi calling. I happened to turn it off and I have gone from 10% drain in an hour to 1%
That's more like it, never used WiFi calling so wouldn't know if it causes drain
EDIT - Not available with my model / carrier
There's a debloat script back in the Development Section which will remove all those trash that came with the phone, as for battery optimaztion This Ultimate Battery Guide is one of the best here in XDA and is a must see for anyone with an android phone basically
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