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[Q] Better battery after root?

I am just wondering if people are experiencing better battery life after rooting?
I am really stressing over the battery. Today, with just some phone calls and using the browser maybe once, total 9 hours, I have 66% battery. Is that bad or am I just overreacting. So little usage but down to 66% seems bad to me. I am coming from a blackberry, it easily made it through the day, even though it was really old. Am I just expecting too much from smart phone like this (with the touch screen and all the apps and features)?
I have the brightness way down, syncing turned off for most apps and on others syncs less often. Etc...

thats actually pretty dam good after 9 hours...

LMAO mine died from a full charge in 8 hours yesterday.
13m45s talk time
35 text messages total
34 minutes browser time
35% brightness
So...you're lucky.

morganblackstone said:
LMAO mine died from a full charge in 8 hours yesterday.
13m45s talk time
35 text messages total
34 minutes browser time
35% brightness
So...you're lucky.
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That's it?!?!

Well, I guess I just have to get used to it. I just hadn't used it much at all to get to the 66%.
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But is anyone rooted and getting better battery?
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That's IT. usually i have it plugged in at my other job but i was snow plowing. lucky it was a light storm or i would have been out longer and in some serious trouble. I also called AT&T (im an employee as well lol) and i complained about the captivate (i purchased two of them, gps and battery issues) and the battery life on the HTC and they wouldnt even waive the upgrade fee ($18...not to mention my early upgrade fee of $200) and couldnt notate the account saying that they would waive the $35 restocking fee. Thats BS because we do it for customers all day long at my store. Sorry to thread jack. lmao

morganblackstone said:
LMAO mine died from a full charge in 8 hours yesterday.
13m45s talk time
35 text messages total
34 minutes browser time
35% brightness
So...you're lucky.
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I believe the browser time listed there is cpu time, which doesn't necessarily correlate to how long you were using the browser. What was your display on time? If I stay connected to wifi most of the time I can get 3-4 hours of display on time (and about 16 hours total), which is pretty good for a phone with a 4.3 inch screen. It's better than the Captivate got running custom ROMs.
Don't be mistaken, this is no iPhone 4, BlackBerry, or dumbphone. You can't realistically expect to get more than a day of battery life with a modern, powerful, Android smartphone with a large display (although I did get almost 40 hours with very light use). I suggest getting a dock that you can rest it in while at work and a car charger as well. It's not a big deal and well worth the functions this phone provides imho.

Im fully rooted and the battery is better after the root. instead of getting 8 hours out of it I now get atleast 10 depending on how often I am using it. I am a moderate to heavy user.

When I was stock before root, I'd normally have 60-70% battery in the evening. I unplug my phone around 7:30am and around 6-7pm is when it's at 60-70%. I play some word games through the day, browse very little, make a call or two, or just randomly go through my phone. I have my brightness set at 30% and I have a toggle to go to 20% if my battery gets low.
Right now I'm rooted with the RevHD .15 rom OCed at 1.228ghz. I seem to get around the same battery life. I haven't gone through a whole day after root without plugging in because I've been flashing though.

I'm amazed at some people saying they use the phone heavily and only use 30-40% of the battery after 12 hours. I hardly use the phone, am on WiFi all day, and after 12 hours I've used 80% of my battery.
1 widget running, 2 email accounts checking every 15 min, Facebook and weather every hour, HTC Sync is set to push. I even set HTC Sync to 1 hour and not much has changed.

Hockey37 said:
HTC Sync is set to push. I even set HTC Sync to 1 hour and not much has changed.
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That is a BIG reason why. I removed the account and it made a world of difference. Even set to once a day, it still ate the battery.

id10terrordfw said:
That is a BIG reason why. I removed the account and it made a world of difference. Even set to once a day, it still ate the battery.
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if you don't mind, could you go into detail exactly where you did that? I'm not quite sure where you deleted it...

antioch216 said:
if you don't mind, could you go into detail exactly where you did that? I'm not quite sure where you deleted it...
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Go to settings -> accounts & sync -> choose htc sense -> remove account

Battery life
I rooted mine and am running Core Droid and I was coming home from work after 8 hours and have 15% to 30% battery left. After root and custom Rom and screen set to 30% brightness which is still bright I am off the charger for 12.5 hours now with moderate use and have 29% battery left. Thats with htc sense set to push. I removed it and will test this out tomorrow.

Hockey37 said:
I'm amazed at some people saying they use the phone heavily and only use 30-40% of the battery after 12 hours. I hardly use the phone, am on WiFi all day, and after 12 hours I've used 80% of my battery.
1 widget running, 2 email accounts checking every 15 min, Facebook and weather every hour, HTC Sync is set to push. I even set HTC Sync to 1 hour and not much has changed.
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Those two email accounts checking every 15 min and Facebook every hour are killing you. If you set those email accounts to forward to a gmail account so emails are pushed to your phone it will save a lot of battery. As for Facebook... do you really need to know what 500 people are doing every hour?

I would just do manual Facebook refresh when I go into the app. There is no need to have that updated all day every day.

What is the battery life on standby with basically all radios and wireless turned off (3g,bluetooth,wifi,etc.) except for 2g for voice calls? Basically, how long can it last as a very basic dumbphone?

If u turn off 3G network and use 2G, u get more battery life.
I have Nexus one with me under ATT 3G, and the battery life only holds for 20 hours, ( hardly making any calls, internet ect. just standby). However, when I was in China for summer, the battery life was about 3days under EDGE network, so I guess 3G network and SYNC can make ur standby hours shorter.

My battery is much better now. I downloaded juice defender and I think it actually helped.
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battery drain?

hi guys, i'm wondering if theres something wrong with me nexus s cause it drains battery really quick.
settings:
wifi - always on
background data disabled
display on lowest brightness
using go launcher
use phone couple hours a day. (maybe 3 - 4 hours on display?)
by the end of the day, im at like 10% or less battery. (unplug around 8AM and 10% around 15h later).
i went to sleep yesterday on full battery and didn't charge. woke up and i'm at 75%!
email seems to be the biggest battery drainer apart from display. i don't even use my email that often, but it always comes back in the 'running applications' list.
any way to fix?

What's your current setup? Are you running stock or a custom ROM and kernel?
A ~80% drain in 15 hours is something I have too btw, but some people get their device to last almost 2 days. Based on your usage, you should at least get around 20-24 hours.
One of the best enhancements the custom ROMs gave us, battery wise, is the Deep Idle mod. That'll make your battery drain maybe 2% over night.
You say the E-mail app is using the most battery... Maybe it's constantly checking whichever server you connect it to. The native Gmail app had battery drain issues in the very first releases of GB but those have been worked out a long time ago.
Greetz

thanks for the reply
i'm on stock rom, no root.
also im using the email app not the gmail app (not sure if it makes a difference) and i set the update interval to never.

Can you go to Settings => Battery - Click the graph and post the top 5-6 stats from that list please?
Also, which version of Gingerbread are you running? The last one? (2.3.7)
And apparently I was mistaken, it was the E-mail client and not the Gmail client that had reported battery drain issues before:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075887&page=2
Greetz

just went from 83% to 66% from listening to uber music for half an hour and playing 10mins of angry birds at the same time...
tempted to root my phone just forbthe battery life. lool

That's not too abnormal, gaming asks a lot of the battery.
What is stopping you from rooting and trying out new ROMs? You have Nexus S after all, the possibilites are legion
Greetz

Am I the only one with poor battery life?

I can't get through half the day.

could you be more specific as to what you do on your phone? is your phone the international version or the USA T-mobile version.
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Tmobile, stock everything and I had the battery issue on my first HOS. I just got my replacement and Im running the same apps, same calls, same eveything as the first phone but i get a significant more battery life. The battery on the replacement HOS lasted me the entire day, but I still carry a charger around just incase.

Superbattery?
My TMo One S battery life recently went through the roof for some reason. I can only attribute it to one of the following or perhaps luck:
I've been charging it at end of day regardless of charge but I finally let the charge get below 25% -- I think it got to 15%. Then I powered it down and let it charge 12 hours overnight.
I disabled all Facebook related apps.
Other than that I can't recall anything I did recently that might account for my new super battery. But I'm at 1d 4h 25m on battery -- most of that on WiFi granted -- and still have 42% juice. I'll take it!

I always have my charger because I'm a twitter whore. I recommend disabling any bloat ware or duplicate app like Facebook For HTC or Twitter For HTC. And make sure you change settings for each app you use and don't use.
Sent from the (problematic?) One S.

Anyone use Juicedefender? My battery is excellent but if it can be improved then even better..

I'm using my phone very much, with Facebook and games and such, and I still get through the day without hesitate! I think it's wonderful

my battery life was poor on stock rom aswell. went trough a day only. had to charge every day. but now with noble v3 rom and being tiny bit more careful with use i have battery for 2 days

Battery life on this phone is better than most and I give it that. The only problem I have is the quick drop from 100% to 92% in a hour from little to light usage.
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I'm on stock Tmo US and have been getting amazing battery life. I took it off the charger when I left for work at 7:30am and I'm at 75% at 8:50pm.
That's with quite a bit of texting, pics taken at work, and 45 minutes of web browsing while I was on lunch. Granted, I don't do Facebook, so that may help.
This is the first phone I've been lazy about rooting because it's worked so well so far.

ptweasel said:
I'm on stock Tmo US and have been getting amazing battery life. I took it off the charger when I left for work at 7:30am and I'm at 75% at 8:50pm.
That's with quite a bit of texting, pics taken at work, and 45 minutes of web browsing while I was on lunch. Granted, I don't do Facebook, so that may help.
This is the first phone I've been lazy about rooting because it's worked so well so far.
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I get decent battery life as well, but how do you manage only a 25% drop with over 12 hours of on time whic included a bunch of texting which keeps the screen on while u text and 45 min of browsing. Seems too good

I just got my One S less than a week ago. Love ICS. Battery life has been about 10 to 12 hours with medium amount of use. Facebook is disabled. I'm using active sync to sync to my exchange server and push frequency. (that continually goes out but that's for a different thread I guess).
I charge over night as I've done with my Dinc2, original Dinc, and all flavors of blackberry.
Last night I used a digital clock app while it was charging and in the morning at 8:30 where I unplugged, it had 100%. It's now just past 11 in the morning and with email, one short phone call and some light surfing, I'm already down to 62%.
I have noticed the phone is hot which means it's working hard to do something.
I have WiFi off and GPS off as well as location services. Should I return it for a new handset? Should I just go back to Verizon and get an iPhone?? Ugh.

ptweasel said:
I'm on stock Tmo US and have been getting amazing battery life. I took it off the charger when I left for work at 7:30am and I'm at 75% at 8:50pm.
That's with quite a bit of texting, pics taken at work, and 45 minutes of web browsing while I was on lunch. Granted, I don't do Facebook, so that may help.
This is the first phone I've been lazy about rooting because it's worked so well so far.
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What's your "screen on" time? Have you changed any connectivity settings, that may have increased your battery life a lot?

If the phone is hot then something is running in the background you should probably figure out what that is and disable it before you do anything. Now with exchange servers set up on your phone they do tend to eat some battery. That's universal though. Sounds like to do have a rogue app though. As for me this past Monday I took the phone off the charger at 430am and didn't have to return it to the charger til 11pm mostly because I was going to bed. I watched netflix, text, phone calls, Web surfed.... Love this device.
Posted with my HTC One S (US)

mikea3000 said:
I get decent battery life as well, but how do you manage only a 25% drop with over 12 hours of on time whic included a bunch of texting which keeps the screen on while u text and 45 min of browsing. Seems too good
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To you and the other person that asked, I think it really has to do with cell signal strength.
I posted those numbers after coming home from work where I have awesome cell coverage.
Today I've been home all day, and even though I'm on WiFi all day, my cell signal is horrible here. WiFi or not, it's still searching for a signal constantly so I've lost 30% in 6 hours with moderate use.
Now, as I said before, I don't use facebook or friendstream, but I think a lot of it is the radio constantly searching for a better signal.

I also think that either bad signal or just 3G takes a lot of battery.
I switched to 2G only just as an experiment, where I get a good signal almost constantly. This extended my battery life quite a lot. Where I usually had 10-20% left after a full day, I had 50% left with only 2G. I have also been using WiFi where available.
Can this be a software bug since there is such a big difference? I've noticed before that phone calls suck a lot of juice...

cawith said:
I also think that either bad signal or just 3G takes a lot of battery.
I switched to 2G only just as an experiment, where I get a good signal almost constantly. This extended my battery life quite a lot. Where I usually had 10-20% left after a full day, I had 50% left with only 2G. I have also been using WiFi where available.
Can this be a software bug since there is such a big difference? I've noticed before that phone calls suck a lot of juice...
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2G is known to use much less battery life in every phone you check it.
Take a look at GSMarena on phone specifications in the bottom and you'll see the great difference.
BTW, looking on the battery test GSMArena did for the One S, it's quite in good place for the 3G calling and Video playback but uses a lot of battery on WEB browsing, see here
Might be that we the ones with low battery are more surfing than the others...

I get about 24 hours.
2 hour screen use. No FB or twitter, only gmail sync
Some text, 5mins of calls, <2% no signal
When idle i get battery drain of <10mA using:
http://www.3c71.com
Battery Monitor Widget. Logging current consumption is the only way to get to the bottom of the problem.
I'm talking with the author to get the kinks worked out of the One S logging.
*but* for some reasons something is keeping the phone awake at times. current drain is then 70-80mA constant. Not been able to find the culprit, but a reboot helps.
Hopefully this was useful.

I had the same issue-downloaded 2x battery from the market and it is much better. ( I have syncing with twitter, fb, gmail, mobile life all enabled)
I could barely get through the day. Seems the phone does a lot when syncing etc and this stops that, or at least limits it to the interval of your choice. every 10 I believe with the free version.
Try it-I am sure it will help. (I also turn the brightness down as I am mostly indoors-and put it on auto outside-but that is just me)

kickstarter said:
I had the same issue-downloaded 2x battery from the market and it is much better. ( I have syncing with twitter, fb, gmail, mobile life all enabled)
I could barely get through the day. Seems the phone does a lot when syncing etc and this stops that, or at least limits it to the interval of your choice. every 10 I believe with the free version.
Try it-I am sure it will help. (I also turn the brightness down as I am mostly indoors-and put it on auto outside-but that is just me)
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Actually, due to the fact that every time I check the usage of battery screen is in top place (with Auto brightness all the time) and the fact I'm syncing with FB, Gmail, Exchange server and more, I guess the best thing to do is to lower Screen brightness...

I think I solved the ICS fast battery drain... simple solution

I have a Galaxy Note and updated to ICS about a month ago....
Like many of you I also experienced fast battery drain, around 10% or more per hour, without usage. even more when I use it. 5 hours with moderate usage.
I am on unlimited data plan so 4G is always on.
I also tried fully charging the phone before going to bed at 11pm, woke up at 6am and battery already at 20+%, that's when I was sleeping, no use at all.
For a month, I have been charging my phone 2x a day!
I was very frustrated and wanted to go back to GB.
I was researching for weeks for the solution (also, checking for ICS updates almost everyday, waiting to see if Android had found a solution already), no one seemed to have a concrete solution, some suggest resetting, formatting etc.
These were so complicated for me I didn't even dream of doing them.
3 days ago, I accidentally switched off my 4G connection.
I didn't realize that the connection was off..
I was happy to see my battery charge was still at 98% after an hour, after 2 hours, light usage 95%.
"What's happening?"
Then I saw that my 4G was off.
Now, I was thinking 4G connection was the culprit... but I wanted to explore more and see if there was an app that could be causing this....
I checked my apps that used data and nothing was on, then I checked my sync settings, This is where I found out that I had so many accounts that had SYNC ON! Twitter, facebook, gmail, samsung e-mail etc.
So, I tried an experiment.... I stopped SYNCING everything.
It worked!
For one day, maybe 12hrs. (light usage with 4G connection on, just light usage, I checked my gmail by using the refresh button) 75% left on the battery!!! Wow!!
Then I thought "come on...gmail and android? Same owner/company right? I'm going to try to turn ON the GMAIL SYNC, I'm sure there won't be a problem"
I was right!!!
Now on my second day with 4G connection ON, Sync Gmail ON, medium usage, maybe 20-30min of phone calls, 30 or more texts, email and around 10 minutes of internet surfing.
9 hours unplugged and battery only at 70%!!!
I am very happy!
Oh, last night, I think only about 8-10% of battery was used (6 or 7 hours of sleep only 8-10% used....) nice!
For those who have not tried it yet... please try it... I hope it also works for you.
I just wanted to share my experience and hopefully help others that are, i'm sure, also already so frustrated with ICS.
I apologize for the long post.
Cheers!

so in other words disabling sync for apps that use networks poorly, over a high power useage radio.
its not really a solution, more of avoiding the problem . I know sync falls under android os in the data usage. which means to disable its bg data disables it all, so the real solution is to apply bg data restrictions to sync list as well to cover all ways of data access.
evidence of this is that Facebook ignores bg data restrictions( no big surprise there)

I think there is something wrong with my twitter app?
maybe I changed my password in my home page but did not change it in my twitter app and the app kept on trying and trying to log in but can't, maybe this caused the fast battery drain?
I didn't check it yet, maybe one of these days, but now, I'm happy... I really don't need to sync twitter all the time anyway.
Guys, check your accounts and sync... let us know what happens.

OLD NEWS.

Try this. My experience is on the AT&T Skyrocket, but from the research I've done both the Skyrocket and Note have the same problem. It's probably your charger.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26733386&postcount=2412
jrockttu said:
You have CPU Spy, so run this test to rule one thing out:
1) Charge your phone overnight.
2) When you wake up in the morning, pull it from the charger and reset the timers in CPU Spy.
3) Let the phone sit idle for a few minutes with the screen off.
4) Refresh the timers in CPU Spy.
If your phone spent significant time at 384 mhz during that idle time and none in Deep Sleep, it's your charger. If it's deep sleeping, it's not your charger (do you use more than one charger?) To further verify the problem, restart your phone, let it sit idle for a few minutes, and check CPU Spy to see if it went into deep sleep after you restarted.
I have a couple of chargers that cause my phone to never deep sleep after I charge with them. The thing that remedies it is restarting the phone or plugging in to a "working" charger. It's a know issue, there's a dedicated thread in the Note forum where someone pinpoints the issue for the Note.
I researched a lot about battery problems on this phone, so list more specifics (do you always use the same charger, charge to full, apps, widgets, etc) and I'd be glad to help. Also, when you take a screen shot of your battery life like you did, take one of your screen on time as well. Since that's your primary drain, it's a good indicator of how your battery life is. 8 hours of battery life sucks, but it's really good if 4 hours is with the screen on.
EDIT: Here's the link to a VERY informative thread on the issue for the Note: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1519084
And one more EDIT, with a workaround: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1516565
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opdrago said:
OLD NEWS.
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And has worked for most Android versions.

wow.
the more stuff you have 'on' on your phone, the more battery it will use. hmmm. Do you leave GPS on when your inside a building also?

I think syncing should not be put on auto. Unless on necessary apps like email. And... email only? Facebook and what not social app, keeping track on website when you want to is prolly sufficient. Unnecessary background data mining will without doubt drain the battery.

I will PM all senior mods here on xda and suggest you for 'Elite Developer'...you deserved it like noone else

This is not development and should not be posted in a development forum.
Moved to general.

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Sure ,but glad it was revisited as it is still a good idea.So old news is still good news.lol
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If your phone gets hot & battery drains fast last 2 days, here is why!

Hi guys,
My battery is quite stable with the V20 since the 10c update (I'm with H990DS). However, today, my phone drains very fast without doing anything. It also gets hot and I cannot fast-charge it through the fast charger, which has never happened before.
I did a search on the internet and found out that many people has the same problem in the last 1- 2 days with Facebook & Facebook Messenger top of the list. They are very popular apps and I think you guys may have it installed as well on your phone.
Do you have the same problem? Do you have facebook/messenger app installed? My Facebook app version is 106. What's yours?
If you have the same problem as me, try disable facebook & Messenger for a couple of day till they release an improved version.
UPDATE: Not only V20 but other phones like S7E, 6P from my friends are having the problem. I;m 99% sure it is facebook that affects all android devices!

That's true. FB app is a battery guzzler. I always check FB via my browser.
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Normally, fb behave fine, just the Jan 10th update that ruined everything!

I never use FB or Messenger, and when they're among the first apps I uninstall after rooting a phone for this very reason. I was having the exact issue described in this thread this morning and checked to see what was draining the battery. Sure enough, FB and Messenger were at the top of the list. I hadn't even checked on here, so I didn't know others were having the same issue. My phone is not rooted so I can't remove system apps, but I did disable both and things seem to be working much better now.

I'm starting to suspect the download of the update I just got today on my AT&T V20 caused my battery drain.
It was nearly dead last night (uncommon), and only charged 41% overnight.
A couple of reboots, and killing FB, Messenger and DirecTV (high battery use, and I haven't used it), did little.
It applied the update, and my battery usage is back to normal. Weird.

I went from 80% to 4 in a matter of 2 hours... Never gonna update the app again.

Had the issue today. Biggest users of battery were FB, Messenger and DirectTV (which I swore i had disabled but disabled it again just in case).
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Just checked the FB app page in play store. This is happening on other phones as well. Samsung, LG, OnePlus, etc.

I thought it was just me. Phone hot and battery dropping..... Facebook and Facebook Messenger using 51% of battery.

my battery has been awful, i disabled facebook and uninstalled messenger, i hope this was the issue as i could not tolerate this battery drain, lets see tomorrow how it will be

my version is 107. However, im kind of experiencing a faster battery drain than when i bought the phone. (although i have way too many user apps too lol) but i notice the difference. IM going to download the version 108 and see how it performs

I think I was hit by the same problem last night. Usually, the battery drain during my sleep time is just about 5~7 % only. But when i woke up this morning, I saw freaking 17% drained. And yes, when i open to see the battery usage history, the culprit is the Facebook app sitting on the top with 11% battery usage. But I'm on FB app version 106.0.0.26.68, which was updated since 16th Dec.
It could be issues related to Facebook server, or might be a bogus issue that push the FB app to the top. I'm not sure yet at this moment.

I got hit by it last night. Uninstalled fb and messenger and installed Metal Pro to use in the interim until they fix the issue

trongnghia2411 said:
Hi guys,
My battery is quite stable with the V20 since the 10c update (I'm with H990DS). However, today, my phone drains very fast without doing anything. It also gets hot and I cannot fast-charge it through the fast charger, which has never happened before.
I did a search on the internet and found out that many people has the same problem in the last 1- 2 days with Facebook & Facebook Messenger top of the list. They are very popular apps and I think you guys may have it installed as well on your phone.
Do you have the same problem? Do you have facebook/messenger app installed? My Facebook app version is 106. What's yours?
If you have the same problem as me, try disable facebook & Messenger for a couple of day till they release an improved version.
UPDATE: Not only V20 but other phones like S7E, 6P from my friends are having the problem. I;m 99% sure it is facebook that affects all android devices!
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Same issue. I wonder why..
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Uninstalling and reinstalling FB and FB messenger worked.

Facebook admitted to a server-side issue: http://www.androidauthority.com/facebook-messenger-battery-drain-issue-742402/
Two nights ago my phone had massive battery drain (I typically see around 65-70% battery when I wake up, streaming music all night long), and my phone completely died two nights ago and then continued to drain yesterday morning until the issue was fixed on FB's end.

I just uninstalled facebook amd its messenger and my battery life went way up. Just going to use browser to check Facebook
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spiderx_mm said:
I think I was hit by the same problem last night. Usually, the battery drain during my sleep time is just about 5~7 % only. But when i woke up this morning, I saw freaking 17% drained. And yes, when i open to see the battery usage history, the culprit is the Facebook app sitting on the top with 11% battery usage. But I'm on FB app version 106.0.0.26.68, which was updated since 16th Dec.
It could be issues related to Facebook server, or might be a bogus issue that push the FB app to the top. I'm not sure yet at this moment.
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ilarson008 said:
Facebook admitted to a server-side issue: http://www.androidauthority.com/facebook-messenger-battery-drain-issue-742402/
Two nights ago my phone had massive battery drain (I typically see around 65-70% battery when I wake up, streaming music all night long), and my phone completely died two nights ago and then continued to drain yesterday morning until the issue was fixed on FB's end.
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looks like my guess is correct.

I experienced this situation a couple day ago, battery went from 100 to 54% in about 2 hours, and device was pretty hot, I checked the battery statistics, Facebook and fb messenger were responsible for 19% of battery consumption. I disabled background data for the 2 apps and now the problem is solved, battery life is pretty average, about a day of mid usage. I'll try using greenify with force Doze enabled to see if there is improvement.

I had the same problem. I've desinstalled and reinstalled Facebook and Messenger, and it worked.

I dont have facebook at all. No facebook apps of any kind on my lg v20 and it still gets hot and battery drains even after factory reset. Overall pretty disappointed in its battery life.
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