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I know that there are lots of these battery life threads and i have read most of them and I've tried closing processes that i don't need and i have tried setcpu to keep the cpu low when the device is off, which seemed to help some but my phone would shutoff randomly. So last night i had a full battery and went to bed when i woke up 8 hrs later i was at 20% so about 10% an hr not even using the device. I have attached some pics for reference does anyone have any thoughts that might help. Thanks
I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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tuxStyle said:
I don't know about galaxy S but on my X10 the problem was wifi.
When I didn't have a data plan I had wifi on all day and the battery was down in 10h max 12h.
To improve it I had to use JuiceDefender to enable wifi every five minutes for updates..
Try to disable wifi overnight, reboot the phone and see what happens.
By the way, what app you used for those stats?
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I don't have wifi enabled, I don't use it that often. the name of the prog is system panel
Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.
Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?
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Do you have that one LED app installed? The one that shows a little red dot on the corner of your screen when you have a notification?
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yes i do.. Why? but it was turned off last night, as its turned off every night
Ok so i tested again last night and I did not have my im+ app running and the battery life was soooo much better. I also did not have system panel running which records all the battery and cpu stats but i'm think its the im+ app that was taking up all the juice. Can anyone think of another app that does skype and facebook but that also does not take up sooo much batter life??? Thanks
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Very weird indeed. I have my Captivate with Wifi on all day, GPS signal and auto sync and when I go to bed and wake up, the battery hasnt gone down at all. I had the phone go on full battery one day and I even sent a few texts and went online for 10 minutes before it lost just a bit of battery.
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Possible he has his set to stay on. While yours may turn off when sleeping.
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Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.
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Open up the dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#*
Go to BATTERY HISTORY>PARTIAL WAKE USAGE and maybe that will show you which app is sucking up your battery life while you sleep.
Also try, if you don't absolutely need an internet connection while you sleep, SMODA widget to turn off your mobile internet. It's quick, free, and painless.
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yeah the app that took the most juice was im+
I drained mine down to 5% and charged full a few times and still only got 8 - 10 hours on mine until i flashed to jh2 and now have been getting almost 16 hours with same usage and apps installed. I charge mine at night. I use ebuddy with the piwer saver option turbed on abd it does an ok job.
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I have the stock ROM and stock launcher and my battery is awsome! 8 hours and I will still be above 80%.
Brightness: Lowest (manually control via stock stock gesture)
GPS: OFF
Wifi: ON all day
BT: OFF
GMail manual
Other emails accounts hourly for the most part.
Widgets: Google/Fancy Weather
BG: Mostly Black
I have never seen such good battery life on a smart phone.
I could easily get 2 days, but i rather charge every night and then not worry about battery usage.
The wifi/gmail/gps made a big difference, its too bad you can't set gmail to hourly or something lik e that. Some of my email accounts i would like to set longer than hourly.
The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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tysj said:
The last few days have been pretty good one my phone. Used to get maybe 16 hours but my last charge lasted me about 50 hours with moderate browsing, gaming, and voice/text. Juiceplotter is telling me I'll be getting about 47 hours
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How many hours with the display on?
Sent from my phone so I apologize for any spelling mistakes
My battery icon depletes one notch when I'm using the screen for about an hour. Some people recommend cycling the battery, in which you do a full drain and immediate full charge, 3 or 4 times. I've done it, but it's hard to say if it explains my good battery life.
let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.
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let the battery drain COMPLETELY until the phone turns off a couple times, then charge it till 100% without unplugging it.
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You don't want to drain the battery that much, those kind of batteries can be damaged. The phone turns off for a reason.
I haven't done the cycle thing and its fine. A lot of that comes from older batteries with the memory problem.
irus, software which is based on data connection drains the battery one way or another. Some apps now support push notifications and IM+ does too. Did you try to use push?
These claims of multiple day charges with moderate use is crazy to me. I have the newest ROM, a black screen, display all the way down, gps off, wifi on when in range, make zero voice calls, run juice, and only have 2 widgets that update every 4 hours. I use my phone for a maximum of 3 hours browsing the web, reading XDA and feedR, checking facebook and the occasional text message. My phone lasts a total of 12 to 14 hours. My battery has a manufacture date of late July. Is there some secret I am not aware of?
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I'm I'm your boat Shuggins, except I don't use juice, I have it installed though
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So, it seems like the xoom wifi model looses its wifi connection after the screen is off for a few minutes; is there a setting that I can change to keep the wifi active all the time, or, is it a function of the built in battery savings modes?
thanks!
weird... I have not encountered this issue.... my xoom is binging all the time when sleeping notifiying me of emails and such.
is it a wifi only model, or a 3g/wifi?
thanks
I have a wifi only version and no problems with wifi
ok, I guess I need to hear from more wifi owners to know if mine has a problem, or its my router..Although I have a brand new cisco/linksys e4200, so it shouldnt be the router..
I have the wifi only model.
I just looked at the settings... go into the wifi settings click the disconnect policy, and make sure "never" is clicked.
thanks, that was the first thing I did..
i also downloaded Spare Parts from the market to see if that would help, but so far it doesnt seem to help at all..
wonder if I have a bad unit..
May I ask why you would never want it to disconnect when screen is off? You will get more battery not using data when data is not needed... I had to go in and do the opposite because I noticed my xoom was draining more than normal when screen is off. Went down five percent in 1 hour which is not good once changing it; it didnt budge when screen is off. just my two cents..
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May I ask why you would never want it to disconnect when screen is off? You will get more battery not using data when data is not needed... I had to go in and do the opposite because I noticed my xoom was draining more than normal when screen is off. Went down five percent in 1 hour which is not good once changing it; it didnt budge when screen is off. just my two cents..
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Well if u want data for updates and oush notifications you'll need wifi on. Mines on all the time even when screens off and my battery life is amazing.
If you're having lots of battery drain u might wanna check your "awake" time in battery usage and make sure you don't have a rogue app or widget keeping the Xoom awake while the screen is off. The CNN widget was doing this for me.
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Well if u want data for updates and oush notifications you'll need wifi on. Mines on all the time even when screens off and my battery life is amazing.
If you're having lots of battery drain u might wanna check your "awake" time in battery usage and make sure you don't have a rogue app or widget keeping the Xoom awake while the screen is off. The CNN widget was doing this for me.
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Understood. Yea for some reason my awake time is matching my battery use time 100 percent however there is nothing that I can find causing it. Doesnt seem to be draining my battery at all however. I dont have a weather app or cnn app and my running services are just the google framework and core apps / maps ,goog voice. oh well.
It's called WIFI Sleep Policy. Set it to "never."
martonikaj said:
Well if u want data for updates and oush notifications you'll need wifi on. Mines on all the time even when screens off and my battery life is amazing.
If you're having lots of battery drain u might wanna check your "awake" time in battery usage and make sure you don't have a rogue app or widget keeping the Xoom awake while the screen is off. The CNN widget was doing this for me.
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my thoughts exactly..
battery usage is amazing for me, even with all the widgets I have running on it, which are at least 10 or so..
Easily getting over 12 hours of battery life, which is good, since you cant plug the damn thing in while its standing up..
The engineer who placed the power hole on the bottom should be shot...
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my thoughts exactly..
battery usage is amazing for me, even with all the widgets I have running on it, which are at least 10 or so..
Easily getting over 12 hours of battery life, which is good, since you cant plug the damn thing in while its standing up..
The engineer who placed the power hole on the bottom should be shot...
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That's hardly a death sentence. Lol
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Hi all,
Just want to share a battery saver app which works really well on my charge. I used to have 10-12 hrs normal usage, now I have 20hrs with left over at the end of the day. The only feature that you have to look out for is "enable cpu saving", it may work for you, but for me this put my phone in so deep sleep that it never wake up. But of course just pull battery, reboot then disabled the feature. it made by a big Chinese internet security company and "melvinchng" is nice enough to translate it to English for us. All credits go to him. Hope you all like it. Cheers!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685816
Better than Antutu?
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Better than Antutu?
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For me it is, but the best bet is try it for yourself and let us know your opinion. You have nothing to lose.
Here is screen shots of mine. I will post a few more later.
If u want to save battery just turn off 4g under wireless and networks. My 3g only will last 1.5 days of moderate to lighter use.
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Here is screen shots of mine. I will post a few more later.
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I may be missing something, but it looks like all it is doing is blocking mobile data periodically, right? mobile data is the biggest drainer on battery performance (in my experience). however, I don't want to have it off, even for a minute - as if I misplace my phone, I'll need mobile data to be on in order to find my phone via the Lookout app...
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I may be missing something, but it looks like all it is doing is blocking mobile data periodically, right? mobile data is the biggest drainer on battery performance (in my experience). however, I don't want to have it off, even for a minute - as if I misplace my phone, I'll need mobile data to be on in order to find my phone via the Lookout app...
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It doesn't unless you instruct it to do so. If you toggle wifi/4g on only when needed then you should save even more. Did you see Vulkano? that video streaming over 4g. If I have wifi/4g on all the time, with my normal usage, I can have the phone unplugged at 8am to 10pm and still have about 30% left. Of course my normal usage maybe different from yours. If I have your phone in standby (screen off), I got 10hrs and the phone is at 91%.(about 1% per hrs). I suggest to find out if this app really help or not, just try it out, you have nothing to loose.
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It doesn't unless you instruct it to do so. If you toggle wifi/4g on only when needed then you should save even more. Did you see Vulkano? that video streaming over 4g. If I have wifi/4g on all the time, with my normal usage, I can have the phone unplugged at 8am to 10pm and still have about 30% left. Of course my normal usage maybe different from yours. If I have your phone in standby (screen off), I got 10hrs and the phone is at 91%.(about 1% per hrs). I suggest to find out if this app really help or not, just try it out, you have nothing to loose.
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thanks, I will.
I know that in standby mode with wifi on and 4G off, my battery drains about 1% per hour. with 4G on (no wifi connection), ~5% per hour.
once factoring in some moderate usage, that drops down quite significantly.
OK, as promissed, here are pictures after 11hrs. Noticed my screen time is more than 50%.
Looks good. But will need to see a comparison to without the app.
But I did download and install it. Will see how we do tomorrow.
tappin' that....
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Looks good. But will need to see a comparison to without the app.
But I did download and install it. Will see how we do tomorrow.
tappin' that....
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Haha, seems like to need a lot of lucks!
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OK, as promissed, here are pictures after 11hrs. Noticed my screen time is more than 50%.
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Actually, you didn't include your screen on time at all. Your screen's percentage of battery use was over 50%, though. Including your actual screen on time would help when comparing battery usage.
well, this app was a major fail for me. after 4 hours, down to 61%. it blocks what I need (google syncs such as mail, calendar, photos, drive, music, etc). so if someone sends me an appointment, I will not receive it.
I don't have any problem with Juice defender. But I guess it isn't for everyone. I just use it so I don't have to worry about manually switching back and forth between 4g and wifi as I go around throughout the day.
I turned off 4g recently to try to improve my horrible battery life (just got 4g in my area too ). It wasn't a huge difference but what really changed it for me was to stop overclocking. I really don't see much lag anyways and it didn't help with the apps I wanted so fixes fine for me.
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I don't have any problem with Juice defender. But I guess it isn't for everyone. I just use it so I don't have to worry about manually switching back and forth between 4g and wifi as I go around throughout the day.
I turned off 4g recently to try to improve my horrible battery life (just got 4g in my area too ). It wasn't a huge difference but what really changed it for me was to stop overclocking. I really don't see much lag anyways and it didn't help with the apps I wanted so fixes fine for me.
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regarding Wifi, I have found that editing the build.prop file to adjust the wifi interval scan helps dramatically. I changed my 1800 (once every 30 minutes). now I leave wifi and 4G on all the time with no significant battery drainage.
but I have found that these so-called battery saving apps just simply cut off mobile data or "auto-sync".
This app was a huge fail for me. Back to the antutu battery saver i go.
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This app was a huge fail for me. Back to the antutu battery saver i go.
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antutu was a fail for me too. so was "easy battery saver"
trying out juice defender again. I think I'm okay with mobile data turning on/off periodically. JD seems to do this nicely. I also like how JD turns on mobile data when the screen is unlocked.
however, I'm thinking that this could be done via a build.prop edit of some kind. essentially, what I would like to do is:
if WiFi is disconnected and screen is off/locked, turn on mobile data for 1 minute every 30 minutes, if WiFi is connected, turn off mobile data and keep wifi connection.
Flashed CleanROM V and did a battery calibration running it down to 0% a couple times but getting terrible battery life still. I work in a concrete warehouse all day so the signal is pretty weak. Any suggestions and maximizing my battery?
Perhaps try turning off wifi if you've not got a signal & try kicking the phone back to 3g.
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nitens said:
Perhaps try turning off wifi if you've not got a signal & try kicking the phone back to 3g.
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I'll give that a shot. I don't get back to work until monday so I'll see if the battery is better when I'm not all blocked off with concrete walls.
notice maps is running a lot u running google now ?
also check for any wakelock
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notice maps is running a lot u running google now ?
also check for any wakelock
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The screen on to awake ratios should roughly be similar but it looks different in this case, install BetterBatteryStats to check out wakelocks.
Also, your mobile signal appears to be very weak and dropping out.
PS. Wiping battery stats does nothing
Wow, you should be getting easily double that if not triple the usage.
First thing, if you are in a area where wifi is available, you can disable mobile data(3g/4g) completely. if not, then leave wifi turned off and use 3g, i dont use 4g lte unless im downloading something BIG.
Secondly, if you want to, you can close the apps via task switcher every few hrs, but not mandoatory.
Lastly, update your device to the latest version 2.20 or 2.40. I got easily 15-20% increase when i updated from 1.85 to 2.20.
Also you can leave your screen to auto brightness, which helps by itself, i used to change it myself but i realized auto is better since it changes it instantly depending on the situation.
Doing this gets my phone to average 30hrs standby with about 3hrs screen on time. Heck, few times when i used wifi mostly and data turned off majority of the time, i got 5+ hrs screen on time within about 24hrs usage.
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Flashed CleanROM V and did a battery calibration running it down to 0% a couple times but getting terrible battery life still. I work in a concrete warehouse all day so the signal is pretty weak. Any suggestions and maximizing my battery?
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Turn off facebook notifications - main culprit and google maps
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tomascus said:
The screen on to awake ratios should roughly be similar but it looks different in this case, install BetterBatteryStats to check out wakelocks.
Also, your mobile signal appears to be very weak and dropping out.
PS. Wiping battery stats does nothing
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I installed BBS and i'll run that today since it's my first day back at the environment.
sharkonland said:
Wow, you should be getting easily double that if not triple the usage.
First thing, if you are in a area where wifi is available, you can disable mobile data(3g/4g) completely. if not, then leave wifi turned off and use 3g, i dont use 4g lte unless im downloading something BIG.
Secondly, if you want to, you can close the apps via task switcher every few hrs, but not mandoatory.
Lastly, update your device to the latest version 2.20 or 2.40. I got easily 15-20% increase when i updated from 1.85 to 2.20.
Also you can leave your screen to auto brightness, which helps by itself, i used to change it myself but i realized auto is better since it changes it instantly depending on the situation.
Doing this gets my phone to average 30hrs standby with about 3hrs screen on time. Heck, few times when i used wifi mostly and data turned off majority of the time, i got 5+ hrs screen on time within about 24hrs usage.
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That's what I'm saying! For such a great phone I should be able to use it more at least I'll look into disabling 4g. LTE just got turned on in my area and i'm soaking in the super fast speeds Probably not worth the sacrifice in battery if that's the case though.
abhipati said:
Turn off facebook notifications - main culprit and google maps
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I don't have facebook installed but Google Maps could be sucking a lot of battery life since I keep GPS on.
Hello everyone.
I've been running stock Lollipop on my Nexus 5 for the past week or so. Fully wiped when flashing the factory image.
I've noticed erratic battery consumption since then, but before Chainfire's latest Supersu, most battery apps didn't work well, so it wasn't easy to be sure of what was going on.
Last night I had this impossible battery drain. As you can see from the screenshots, my phone has been up for 7h 48m, in deep sleep for 7h 36m, with the screen on for 5 min, and awake for 11 minutes.
So how it could have consumed 7% battery per hour baffles me.
Has anyone noticed something like this?
Cheers,
TD
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Hello everyone.
I've been running stock Lollipop on my Nexus 5 for the past week or so. Fully wiped when flashing the factory image.
I've noticed erratic battery consumption since then, but before Chainfire's latest Supersu, most battery apps didn't work well, so it wasn't easy to be sure of what was going on.
Last night I had this impossible battery drain. As you can see from the screenshots, my phone has been up for 7h 48m, in deep sleep for 7h 36m, with the screen on for 5 min, and awake for 11 minutes.
So how it could have consumed 7% battery per hour baffles me.
Has anyone noticed something like this?
Cheers,
TD
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Dunno but you have unknown signal 100%. You get this when your wifi is connected, but your wifi was only connected 14%... So what was happening with your signal for the other 86%?
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Dunno but you have unknown signal 100%. You get this when your wifi is connected, but your wifi was only connected 14%... So what was happening with your signal for the other 86%?
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Tasker turns on my wifi at 8:01 am, which would explain why the wifi was on for 1 h and 4 min (9:05 am - 8:01 am).
I assume that No Data Connection is for 7 hours and 46 min out of 7 hours and 48 min because before 8:01 am I had the phone on 2G and Data Off. Then Tasker re-enabled Data and Wifi, and I suppose that before the phone connected to the Wifi, those couple minutes passed by. After those couple minutes, the phone connected to the wifi, thus stopping to use the Data connection once again.
The No or Unknown signal is also a consequence of this. I get that when I'm using a 2G connection with Data OFF.
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Tasker turns on my wifi at 8:01 am, which would explain why they wifi was on for 1 h and 4 min (9:05 am - 8:01 am).
I assume that No Data Connection is for 7 hours and 46 min out of 7 hours and 48 min because before 8:01 am I had the phone on 2G and Data Off. Then Tasker re-enabled Data and Wifi, and I suppose that before the phone connected to the Wifi, those couple minutes passed by. After those couple minutes, the phone connected to the wifi, thus stopping to use the Data connection once again.
The No or Unknown signal is also a consequence of this. I get that when I'm using a 2G connection with Data OFF.
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Oh OK...
Perhaps run the phone in safe mode and see what happens? Chances are it's an app not properly updated to 5.0 yet...
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Perhaps run the phone in safe mode and see what happens? Chances are it's an app not properly updated to 5.0 yet...
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It could, but between the stock battery monitor and 3 extra apps (BBS, GSAM and Wakelock Detector) how could it go "unnoticed"?
Noone else has had a similar drain?
Im at about 60% today snce taking my phone off at 7am. Have not done ANYTHING with it though since Im at work. Dont know why this is this low as on KK it would be at around 80.
My battery says its mainly chrome but I havent even been using chrome since I work behind a computer...... odd
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Im at about 60% today snce taking my phone off at 7am. Have not done ANYTHING with it though since Im at work. Dont know why this is this low as on KK it would be at around 80.
My battery says its mainly chrome but I havent even been using chrome since I work behind a computer...... odd
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chrome runs background syncing, and lately a lot of people have complaining about its battery drain, check on android police, comments on posts about chrome and you see a fest of people complaining about battery
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chrome runs background syncing, and lately a lot of people have complaining about its battery drain, check on android police, comments on posts about chrome and you see a fest of people complaining about battery
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Anyone have ways to stop i t from syncing until maybe you open it?
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You can try to disable background data for chrome in data usage.
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You can try to disable background data for chrome in data usage.
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But with the consequence of failed download if set chrome in background. So you must set chrome in foreground when download a file.