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Battery life tweak

I was lurking over at the sprint hero board and came across an interesting thread. People are noticing an increase in battery life when the set the wifi settings for sleep to Never.
Seems like what is happening, as soon as the phone blanks out, WIFI is turned of and the phone is switched to EVDO mode. which drains battery. If your in a bad coverage area your battery drains even faster.
Some people are talking about a performance increase as well, but I think what they are seeing is the phone not having to cycle back to wifi everytime they touch the phone.

Treefallingquietly said:
I was lurking over at the sprint hero board and came across an interesting thread. People are noticing an increase in battery life when the set the wifi settings for sleep to Never.
Seems like what is happening, as soon as the phone blanks out, WIFI is turned of and the phone is switched to EVDO mode. which drains battery. If your in a bad coverage area your battery drains even faster.
Some people are talking about a performance increase as well, but I think what they are seeing is the phone not having to cycle back to wifi everytime they touch the phone.
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Interesting, but is this for those who always have wifi enabled (I never use it)? I'll try anything to get more from my battery since I can barely squeeze out about a day (18 hours) from my phone even with the sms workaround implemented.
I'm looking in the wifi settings and don't see any options for "wifi sleep".

katmandu421 said:
Interesting, but is this for those who always have wifi enabled (I never use it)? I'll try anything to get more from my battery since I can barely squeeze out about a day (18 hours) from my phone even with the sms workaround implemented.
I'm looking in the wifi settings and don't see any options for "wifi sleep".
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Here is the link: http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/24324?tstart=0
Basically, when you are in an area that has spotty coverage, your battery will drain quicker because its always roaming and trying for service. I get this in the Texas Hill country. So if you have wifi and are in a bad location, whenever your wifi sleeps, it goes back to EV. I think just the nature of this connection is hard on the battery. hence using Wifi as much as possible.

Another option is to use APNdroid or something like it to disable the EVDO when you're not using it. Push notifications don't always come through that way or can be slow coming, but if you know your phone is just going to sit there you can conserve a lot of power this way. Turning off GPS, WiFi and EVDO I was able to squeeze out almost 3 days of usage when I was using the phone sparingly. If you're enabling those connections only when you need them, making it through the day should be no problem if you're not constantly using the device.

Heads up: Juice defender has issues with Droid Charge

With Juice Defender, I was having issues when in fringe 4g areas where I would get no data at all on wake (neither 3g nor 4g). Enable and renable data would work some of the time, but about half of the time required a reboot. Juice defender seems good in concept, but I think it is conflicting with the way the phone switches between 3g and 4g. When am in a strong 4g area, it works flawlessly.
Since disabling it, I have had no issues. My phone now just downshifts into 3g when the 4g gets spotty.
FYI, I am on a EE4 radio with GummyCharged 1.5 ROM

I noticed this too, disabling rarely worked for me had to uninstall. I really liked JD for my droid 1 hopefully they can update it for better performance on the charge
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Has anyone tried their public market beta or private beta versions to see if they've fixed it?

You can do pretty much everything JuiceDefender does by using Tasker instead. Tasker has been working well on my Charge.

same goes for the Green Power program that turns wifi and data on and off automatically....I was having trouble with the data part. Not sure why but when the data was supposed to come back on it wouldnt and I couldnt do anything that required the data..also required a reboot to get data working again..luckily you can have it not turn the data off to save power which is how I am running it now.

chiahead52 said:
same goes for the Green Power program that turns wifi and data on and off automatically....I was having trouble with the data part. Not sure why but when the data was supposed to come back on it wouldnt and I couldnt do anything that required the data..also required a reboot to get data working again..luckily you can have it not turn the data off to save power which is how I am running it now.
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I've been sending emails back & forth to the Green Power developer about this very issue. Waiting on a final reply. He usually responds nightly. . . . I also tried the private beta for JD, still not re-enabling data when screen is turned back on. I posted the problem in the prvate beta forum for the developers. No response yet.

my green power program just had an update...states fixed data on when screen comes back on so maybe its fixed..anyone test this yet? I wonder if Juice Def is fixing it as well?

Seems to be not working just like before...not 100% sure..anyone else?
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Might be a tough one for them. I think this has more to do with LTE than with anything the program is doing. I don't think it likes being turned off and on that quickly and often, as apparently there is a lot of syncing that has to happen when you turn it on or off.

I have my phone forced into 3G at all times since I dont live in a 4G area yet

I found this out in the first few days I had it, I had a ton of synching and switching problems that went away when I got rid of it. I don't really see what the point of running it without the data option, isn't that really all it does to save power?
I've found its really easy to just turn data on or off as needed in the little pull-down button in the notification bar, I have no synching issues and data comes right up no matter how quickly I turn it on or off...

I first installed the app to help my wife who has a charge as well...she cant seem to remember to turn the wifi and data off, so I tried it as a solution. Green power runs fairly good and doesnt hog the system resources or battery to turn wifi on and off automatically for my wife. So, for her it is helping greatly. For me not so much since I am always checking and rechecking everything often(OCD).

chiahead52 said:
my green power program just had an update...states fixed data on when screen comes back on so maybe its fixed..anyone test this yet? I wonder if Juice Def is fixing it as well?
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Two months later and it still doesn't work. There has to be something wrong with the way the device syncs with the Verizon network since every battery saving program has issues reconnecting with the mobile network after it has been turned off for a certain amount of time. I'm dumping my Droid Charge when the Bionic comes out if this issue isn't fixed. Without the battery saving apps, I only get 7 hours of life out of my phone.

Stockmoose16 said:
Two months later and it still doesn't work. There has to be something wrong with the way the device syncs with the Verizon network since every battery saving program has issues reconnecting with the mobile network after it has been turned off for a certain amount of time. I'm dumping my Droid Charge when the Bionic comes out if this issue isn't fixed. Without the battery saving apps, I only get 7 hours of life out of my phone.
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Only seven hours? When's the last time you calibrated your battery?

hazard209 said:
Only seven hours? When's the last time you calibrated your battery?
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I calibrated it very recently. I'm a fairly heavy user 75+ emails, screen on at least 1:15 min per battery cycle, regular use of the 4g network. The phone gets at least double the battery life with Juice Defender and similar programs... now if only those programs could properly control the network all day.

Has anyone tried this with the new EP1Q modem firmwares?

I have been rather shocked at how poor the battery life is in my Charge.
I came from a Liberty ROMed DroidX that easily made it through a day at work running all the exact same apps I am running on my Charge. I have three extra batteries for the Charge (& two external chargers) but it's a good thing as I have had days where I briefly got into the 3rd battery.
I am running Gummy 1.9.1, EP1Q modem, my screen is set to 20% & I have it locked on 3G (unless I want to DL something). I have done the bump charge & batt calibration a few times. When it is idling with the screen off, it hardly uses any battery but the minute I use it for anything online I can literally watch the battery drop......
It really cracks me up when I see people posting that their battery lasts for 28 hours (yea right)
~John

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It really cracks me up when I see people posting that their battery lasts for 28 hours (yea right)
~John
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I've had mine last that at least that long with light usage. And this is with 4G and GPS always on, and screen brightness set on auto. Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't make it impossible.

I get about 24hrs when I am in a strong signal area (i.e. at home on weekends). With the week signal I get at work, forget it. It drops to 12-16 hrs.
Try to root out any rogue apps. I found Yahoo's mail app was killing my battery 50% faster.
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Juice Defender works with the Gingerbread leaks, but not with the Froyo builds. It isn't the radios. I've tried it with Froyo ROMs running GB radios and it still had all the same issues. Not sure what the change is, but if you want to run Juice Defender, you need to be on a GB build.

My Mom's GS3 is dying fast. I think it's LTE but I may be wrong.

OK, so my wife and I both have GS3's through T-Mobile and our batteries last very long. I'm a heavy user and get a fully day while my wife is a light user and easily get's two days. My Mom on the other hand has her GS3 through Verizon and her battery is dying in roughly half a day. She is not a heavy user at all. In fact, her old Droid 2 would last longer than her GS3 which really has her frustrated.
I think it may be due to the fact she doesn't get a good 4G signal at work and at home. In fact, she gets 1 bar at work if she's lucky. She also said the phone is constantly bouncing back and forth between 3G and 4G while at work. She took it to Verizon today and they swapped SIM cards to be sure that wasn't the problem. Obviously that didn't work because I'm posting here. I will see her on Thursday and she want's me to look at her phone.
Do you guy's think this is most likely the reason as to why her battery is draining so fast? Also, if it is. Would there be a way I can show her how to disable 4G so her battery lasts longer?

It's most likely 3G and 4G switching back and forth or a rogue app. For to turn off the 4G it can't be done without rooting I'm pretty sure.

No, it's because you have task running. I had the same thing happen to me. If you exit an application by pressing home, the program will continue to run in the background. I had gallery take up 38% of my battery life. If you press the back button, it will FC the application.
Good bye HTC Rezound, hello Galaxy S3!

jrwingate6 said:
OK, so my wife and I both have GS3's through T-Mobile and our batteries last very long. I'm a heavy user and get a fully day while my wife is a light user and easily get's two days. My Mom on the other hand has her GS3 through Verizon and her battery is dying in roughly half a day. She is not a heavy user at all. In fact, her old Droid 2 would last longer than her GS3 which really has her frustrated.
I think it may be due to the fact she doesn't get a good 4G signal at work and at home. In fact, she gets 1 bar at work if she's lucky. She also said the phone is constantly bouncing back and forth between 3G and 4G while at work. She took it to Verizon today and they swapped SIM cards to be sure that wasn't the problem. Obviously that didn't work because I'm posting here. I will see her on Thursday and she want's me to look at her phone.
Do you guy's think this is most likely the reason as to why her battery is draining so fast? Also, if it is. Would there be a way I can show her how to disable 4G so her battery lasts longer?
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I'm on verizon as well and I find that my battery dies extremely fast. Full charge in the morning and by bedtime its just about dead, that's with moderate use. Some things that I have found to help is I generally keep bluetooth, and gps off unless I need either. I keep power saving mode on, and really minimized what Sync's through my accounts.
It's not exactly the answer you were looking for but it should help you until a more long term solution can be figured out.

Does anyone know how to turn 4G off?
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Low tower signal will kill the battery very fast. Frustratingly fast. I have Verizon GS3, have very low signal at work, and I burn 8% battery per hour when phone is idle. With almost no use, my battery is down to 30% by time I go home.
At home I have good tower signal and my battery drops very slow in idle, maybe 1% per hour. At both work and home I have WiFi connected and set to keep WiFi on during sleep always. Therefore I don't think it's data traffic / sync causing the issue. Instead its hyperactive radio hardware or firmware killing itself as it constantly finds/loses tower connection. The only thing I've been able to find to reduce the drain is going into airplane mode... which is obviously a terrible option.
Hope Samsung can improve this self devouring nature in the future!

jrwingate6 said:
Does anyone know how to turn 4G off?
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go to the playstore and download "phone info" open it and go to device information
Swith the " lte/cdma/evdo" into cdma auto (PRL)
I also turn off 4g at work due to weak signal
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I believe its a signal search at where she spends most of her time. At my work the signal is very bad and the phone goes from 100% to 20% in 10 hours without even touching the phone. Now I turn on airplane mode and it never drops the battery.
She can disable the data and find out how much that would save her

First make sure it's not a rogue app by going into Settings -> Battery, your top 2 battery usages should be Screen and Cell Standby. As long as you don't have some random app eating away at your battery then it's definitely signal strength related. Does she have Wi-Fi available at work? If so make sure she connects to it. I have a Verizon S3 and the battery life on this phone is better than any Android phone I've ever owned (and I've had a lot). I leave GPS and Bluetooth on all day and can easily get a full day with mid to heavy usage. The biggest thing would be to get her on Wi-Fi if available. This will stop the phone from constantly trying to poll data off a poor signal and significantly increase battery life. If no Wi-Fi available, then the above post would come into play, Phone Info app and switch into cdma to keep it locked into 3g will help, but only if there's a decent 3g signal. If the 3g signal is weak also, then you're not going to help anything, and she will just need to remember to turn data sync off while she's at work.
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Try switching batteries to see if she has a defective battery. If thats not the case, then make Verizon give her a replacement S3.

Add me to the list of people who think its the signal search in low service areas.. I disabled 4G with the Phone Info app and my phone lasted way longer than before..
Since you pointed out she has a low signal, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the culprit..
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Pagaldesi4life said:
Try switching batteries to see if she has a defective battery. If thats not the case, then make Verizon give her a replacement S3.
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This is what I did, kept the old battery too...then they swapped me for a w S3. My battery is doing much better now.

The5Venomz said:
This is what I did, kept the old battery too...then they swapped me for a w S3. My battery is doing much better now.
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Ahhh so it wasn't the battery itself?
When you got a replacement S3, did you go back to the same store where you had originally purchased them from or tried a different store?

I disabled 4G today at work with my stinky cell signal and my battery nose dived like usual. Therefore, if you have no signal, 3G/4G doesn't seem to matter. The radio hardware will still destroy itself happily.

Anyone know of a widget my Mom could use to disable data completely while she is at work?

jrwingate6 said:
Anyone know of a widget my Mom could use to disable data completely while she is at work?
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Pull the task drawer down and uncheck mobile data. Why do you need a widget?

You might have a system process called "gsiff_daemon" draining the battery. I have that problem and others have reported that process has been draining their battery as well. Or it could be other have mentioned already, signal switching, rogue programs, etc.

Today at work I ran with mobile data off. I still had a really bad battery drain. Therefore the voice 3 g radio must be responsible. Not much we can do about that unless a new firmware comes out.

Another battery tip...
Scrappy1 said:
Today at work I ran with mobile data off. I still had a really bad battery drain. Therefore the voice 3 g radio must be responsible. Not much we can do about that unless a new firmware comes out.
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There's also an option in the settings>developer options to restrict how many processes are running in the background, and to kill an app after leaving it. The only problem I've noticed with the second option is that the fb app won't allow you to post a status, I think because it causes it to start a new activity, which kills the main fb activity when you leave it. But limiting the background stuff seems to have saved some more juice on top of only using 3g.

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There's also an option in the settings>developer options to restrict how many processes are running in the background, and to kill an app after leaving it. The only problem I've noticed with the second option is that the fb app won't allow you to post a status, I think because it causes it to start a new activity, which kills the main fb activity when you leave it. But limiting the background stuff seems to have saved some more juice on top of only using 3g.
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Naw man, at home I have good cell signal and have almost no idle drain. At work I have terrible signal and it drains like nuts. It's not an issue with apps, processes, services, etc.

Batter Saver

Hello, everyone. I have a Photon Q and I LOVE it except for the fact that I go to work with it fully charged and by the time I get out of work, I'm out of battery.
So tell me, forum, what settings have you tweaked to get optimal battery performance?

I turn off wifi, bt, gps, and sync. I am on a factory floor for 12-13 hrs a day & I generally have over 50% left at the end of the day w moderate use.
If you are in an area w poor reception might help to turn off mobile data, or put it in airplane mode temporarily.
-Saint

+1 on this. I agree with saint. I turn off mobile data and syncing until I need it. I talk on the phone for almost 6 hrs a day and the battery still lasts about 19hrs.
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I don't disable syncing completely, but I have the Green Power Premium app and have it set to turn data on and sync once every hour or so.

I leave data on, but i turn auto syncing off. bt/wifi/gps are all off as well. I also have it set to underclock when my screen is off.
Check your brightness settings as well. I dont typically leave it on auto because that's a lot higher than i need it to be. Check your battery usage and see what's using the most and it'll help you determine what you need to check.

sixxt9 said:
Check your brightness settings as well. I dont typically leave it on auto because that's a lot higher than i need it to be. Check your battery usage and see what's using the most and it'll help you determine what you need to check.
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For me, in 'battery usage' it's almost always 60% screen usage. I'm on auto, I guess I'll try some lower screen settings to see if I can improve that...

sixxt9 said:
Check your brightness settings as well. I dont typically leave it on auto because that's a lot higher than i need it to be.
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Agreed, I keep mine roughly around 10-15% which is fine for me...the only caveat is I have a Smart Action rule to bump it to 100% when in the vehicle dock (mainly because of daytime issues with glare/sun/etc where I need it to be higher, but its getting charged at the same time so its fine then).

I notice a big difference if I stay logged out of facebook. And I cant really give specifics on this, but I have noticed that after installing certain apps, my battery will start draining faster, so I uninstall those if that happens. Also take it off of LTE mode so it is on CDMA only, unless you are sitting in an area where it stays connected to 4g already. I get the best battery life out of my phone when I have a verizon PRL loaded so that its not looking for any other signal but the one I tell it to. Of course you cant do that all the time, I am just giving an example of how much better battery is if the phone isnt looking for something that you know it cant get where you are. Try to think of apps like facebook though that are always checking online for updates. Email programs, and programs like I mentioned that drain the battery, for whatever reason that may be.

Facebook is a hog, and there are so many different things that will auto update or notify you about, I spent a good 30 minutes going through the options looking for all the settings so I could turn them off.
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I notice a big difference if I stay logged out of facebook. And I cant really give specifics on this, but I have noticed that after installing certain apps, my battery will start draining faster, so I uninstall those if that happens. Also take it off of LTE mode so it is on CDMA only, unless you are sitting in an area where it stays connected to 4g already. I get the best battery life out of my phone when I have a verizon PRL loaded so that its not looking for any other signal but the one I tell it to. Of course you cant do that all the time, I am just giving an example of how much better battery is if the phone isnt looking for something that you know it cant get where you are. Try to think of apps like facebook though that are always checking online for updates. Email programs, and programs like I mentioned that drain the battery, for whatever reason that may be.
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I havent messed with any PRLs yet, but i get a strong signal where I'm at. Home and at work for the most part actually. Its crazy cuz my signal strength is a lot better than on my last phone, which likely has to do with the radios. We have plenty of WIMAX coverage around here, but no LTE yet, so I just keep it on CDMA and roll with that.

Found this on the portal, might help w auto brightness: http://velisthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/10/velis-auto-brightness-manual.html?m=1
-Saint

Marshmellow Upgrade | Awful Battery Life

Anyone else experiencing this? Atrocious battery life post upgrade. Nothing odd running in background, program or processes. Rebooted phone. Started the day at 100% with moderate usage at best, I'm already down to 19%.

Battery life is relatively unchanged in mine after the mm update. Easily make it through the entire day with 50-60% battery life remaining. I disabled a whole bunch of the bloatware (and will be removing it entirely when I decide to root my phone) and battery life is wonderful.

shaels said:
Anyone else experiencing this? Atrocious battery life post upgrade. Nothing odd running in background, program or processes. Rebooted phone. Started the day at 100% with moderate usage at best, I'm already down to 19%.
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Mine has been fine, slightly better with doze/disabling packages. Do a back up through Smart Switch and try a factory reset. I do that every time I update.

I'm envious of your successes. I'll give it a bit to see if it stabilizes, if not I'll use SS and reset/restore.

shaels said:
I'm envious of your successes. I'll give it a bit to see if it stabilizes, if not I'll use SS and reset/restore.
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I will recommend "Package Disabler Pro" to disable bloatware. Costs but is worth the cash.

Mine went through on Thursday and so far battery appears ok.
I have noticed however the lighting is messed up all over. Play books night light feature is broken and dims it to unrecognizable levels. I have to go into the settings again when in the book and disable auto lighting and manually raise it. When back at the list of books screen, the brightness drops to nearly off again.
Also it seems the notifications when listening to music are much louder. I could listen to mp3s via poweramp while reading a book and get an SMS text and itd be a light little sound. this is playing louder than my music and very annoying.

My batter life was horrible after the upgrade. Here's what I did to fix it.
1) Wifi sleep policy - Changed that to "While Charging" (big difference noticed after that)
2) Fully charged phone then let it run down to 0 (must let it power itself off)
3) Wifi Scanning has been moved under Location setting. Go to Location -> Improve accuracy, make sure Wi-Fi scanning is off.
Batter life is awesome now.

jasong127 said:
My batter life was horrible after the upgrade. Here's what I did to fix it.
1) Wifi sleep policy - Changed that to "While Charging" (big difference noticed after that)
2) Fully charged phone then let it run down to 0 (must let it power itself off)
3) Wifi Scanning has been moved under Location setting. Go to Location -> Improve accuracy, make sure Wi-Fi scanning is off.
Batter life is awesome now.
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1: Apps/sync will use mobile data as priority if this is done while waiting to connect to wifi. In turn, using even more battery if an app/sync wakes the phone switching between networks.
2: This is damaging to Li batteries. To extend the life of your battery, it is better to keep it topped above 80% and cool(not very common in real world applications). These aren't Ni batteries, long gone are the days of "memory discharging".
If you don't need notifications at night, use airplane mode. I miss Xposed, Autotasker, and Amplify(formerly Bounce)... Greenify is a good alt atm
Note: Sometimes even Play service updates will introduce bugs and or "retarded" policies that will destroy the battery, especially the "Now" systems. It can happen at the most random times as well and not at all most. Every now and then the fat man will get stuck in the tube.

All thoughtful replies. I don't have Location on ever, unless I'm using Waze, so that's a non-issue for me. Allowing WiFi to sleep when the phone is off, while I'm only connecting via WiFi, effectively makes my smartphone a dumb phone, until I wake it up, right? The fact that I need to start changing around "normal" settings on my phone, to lesser benefiting ones, to get back to the battery life I had before I installed MM is pretty silly. I've been hoping things would settle down, but they don't. I can try using SmartSwitch later to see if that helps.
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1: Apps/sync will use mobile data as priority if this is done while waiting to connect to wifi. In turn, using even more battery if an app/sync wakes the phone switching between networks.
2: This is damaging to Li batteries. To extend the life of your battery, it is better to keep it topped above 80% and cool(not very common in real world applications). These aren't Ni batteries, long gone are the days of "memory discharging".
If you don't need notifications at night, use airplane mode. I miss Xposed, Autotasker, and Amplify(formerly Bounce)... Greenify is a good alt atm
Note: Sometimes even Play service updates will introduce bugs and or "retarded" policies that will destroy the battery, especially the "Now" systems. It can happen at the most random times as well and not at all most. Every now and then the fat man will get stuck in the tube.
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No, it will connect LTE and then switch to wifi. LTE use more battery life, the network switch uses a bit, then finally you are into wifi. If your phone wakelocks or alarms(location ping, play service ping, etc) it will use more battery than wifi always on. Personally, I've tested both to make sure a wifi wakelock bug hasn't been introduced as I do with every update and play service update(it does happen and it's horrible drain). I see more savings always on.
If you meant you disable mobile network, yes, dumb phone, text and call. Also, I disable mobile usually always as I piggyback off work cell at work, and always wifi at home. I only toggle mobile data when necessary.

jasong127 said:
My batter life was horrible after the upgrade. Here's what I did to fix it.
1) Wifi sleep policy - Changed that to "While Charging" (big difference noticed after that)
2) Fully charged phone then let it run down to 0 (must let it power itself off)
3) Wifi Scanning has been moved under Location setting. Go to Location -> Improve accuracy, make sure Wi-Fi scanning is off.
Batter life is awesome now.
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I believe this is what most people encounter. Most dont have unlimited data and use WIFI always. I think by default, WIFI is set to always on, even when phone screen is off. WIFI will rape your battery. I did my own tests with wifi vs 4g and just by using my 4g all the time, battery quadrupled. Many argued that WIFI uses less battery, and i have the best of the best wifi router/modem/isp with 5ghz ac excellent coverage. Not the case for me. I have unlimited and just stick with that now. Battery life on MM has been great for me.

My battery life is 4x better. I couldn't be happier.

shaels said:
Anyone else experiencing this? Atrocious battery life post upgrade. Nothing odd running in background, program or processes. Rebooted phone. Started the day at 100% with moderate usage at best, I'm already down to 19%.
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Been on MM for about five days now and my battery blows, so much worse than what it was!

musicfreak190 said:
My battery life is 4x better. I couldn't be happier.
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Mine is exactly 4 times worse

Battery the same.
But I have to tap the screen harder to chose app.
Going to factory reset and start clean, been a while.
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Has Verizon released any new updates to patch the issues with Marsh Mellow update

utsc said:
Has Verizon released any new updates to patch the issues with Marsh Mellow update
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Not that I know of.
Though they JUST released Marshmallow. Verizon is probably still patting themselves on the back even though they released several months late. What I'm waiting for is a miraculous root.

I never use my phone the same amount every day, so it's hard to say exactly what kind of battery life I get, but I have noticed that it has improved. I would usually be near 15% by 10pm after coming off charger at 6am. Now I float around 25% at 10pm. So it seems to be better, even if only slightly so.

I see a minimal improvement, but I was doing what I could without root prior to sleep unnecessary crap.

Weird, when thye MM updated happened, up until the last two days, I was getting much better battery life under MM. But the past few days my battery life has declined dramatically to the point that I am not getting through a day of minimal use. Screen only 2%, Android OS consuming 76%.
I just fiddled with settings (Changed Wifi sleep to While Charging; Turned off wifi scanning). I am going to also try a reboot to see if that helps. I swear it started just about the time I started looking at Nexus 6p replacements).
Update, rebooting, and removing a few more useless apps and battery life has returned.