Hello all!
First of all, let me just say thanks to the whole xda forum community for making this such a great place to find answers and alternatives to Android users.
So, I bought myself a brand new RAZR HD (XT925) last week. It works just fine, its really fast, but the main reason why I bought it is failing me - battery time. I'm not a heavy user, just have a couple of apps installed like facebook and twitter, eventually I'll listen to some music on it, watch some youtube video. While I'm doing this simple tasks with the screen on, I'm losing 1% of battery every 7/10 minutes. And if I try and load a game just to see, 15 minutes of gameplay will take me as much as 6% of my battery. That is so NOT why I bought this device.
So I went on a journey to find why this was happening. I've tried updating to JB, no better results. Downgraded to 4.0.4 stock firmware, wiped to factory defaults, didn't install ANYTHING apart from what it actuall came with the stock firmware and battery calibration, which I did after changing roms, and the results were the same.
While I was sleeping, the battery seemed to stay a bit better. My GPS and bluetooth are always OFF, I only turn Wi-Fi and 3G on when I need to use it, otherwise its always OFF.
I`ve charged it to 100% 24 hours ago, and BARELY used it, and now its at 34%... is this normal?
Any ideas are welcomed, and if there are other RAZR HD`s users out there with the same problem, please post here! Thanks!
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brunoadr said:
I`ve charged it to 100% 24 hours ago, and BARELY used it, and now its at 34%... is this normal?
Any ideas are welcomed,
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Its not normal especially with radios turned off, and more specifically with 3g turned off. I keep everything on except bluetooth and nfc and can expect a heavy day of screwing around with it, to get 16 to 20 hours with 6+ hours of screen on time. It looks like you really have barely used yours at all.
As for ideas, warranty if you have one? If not then a factory restore might help. Try it from the GUI and if that doesn't work then you can do one by getting into the menu at boot time by holding volume up while turning it on, volume down to select (you have very little time to find your selection, volume up to select , select recovery, then when you get the green droid laying on its back hold both volume buttons down at once and let them go. You might need to do it repeatedly to get it right; just middle click the volume rocker a bunch of times until you get a menu.
Pull everything you want to keep from your internal sd before doing a factory reset because it will be erased.
First things first though, check your wakelocks using better battery stats. Mine are high even when the phone is not in use and with Google Now turned off. Google apps (I think is the problem) still wake it up like crazy yet I get the stated 6+ hours of screen time on a day of heavy usage. Also, I noticed that setting wifi on and leaving it to a policy of never wake up when sleeping is better power savings than having wifi off. It shows up in my usage though as it causes the phone to wake up a lot if wifi is turned off manually opposed to letting the ROM handle it and in some cases it comes on in the background so damn much that its half of the day.
You aren't the first person with this sort of problem btw. There was another thread a while back but I didn't follow it to see if it was widespread.
I have Juice Defender Plus running on my XT925 and I regularly have 75%+ battery left at the end of the day with pretty light use. I leave my GPS on all the time. WiFi is on 100% of the time I'm at home. I leave 4G off 100% of the time as there is no 4G coverage in my area. I find the battery goes down a lot quicker when I enable 4G, even when I'm not in a coverage area.
Try turning 4G off and install JD. See if that helps.
I'm having terrible battery performance after upgrading it to Jelly Bean. I'm running Jelly Bean 4.1.2 update via OTA (98.50.20004.XT925.Vivo.en.BR). I have the screenshots and I can post it here after my phone charges. Battery lasted today for ~10h 44m with HSDPA+ on most of the time. Screen on for about 2 hours with brightness set to 30%. When using it, battery discharges really fast. A simple Temple Run Oz short gameplay takes 5% of the battery. Battery dies in a flick of an eye. I cannot believe it's normal.
better battery life on razr hd (XT925) with JB 4.1.2 update
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I'm having terrible battery performance after upgrading it to Jelly Bean. I'm running Jelly Bean 4.1.2 update via OTA (98.50.20004.XT925.Vivo.en.BR). I have the screenshots and I can post it here after my phone charges. Battery lasted today for ~10h 44m with HSDPA+ on most of the time. Screen on for about 2 hours with brightness set to 30%. When using it, battery discharges really fast. A simple Temple Run Oz short gameplay takes 5% of the battery. Battery dies in a flick of an eye. I cannot believe it's normal.
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With ICS 4.0.4 and green power app installed, my battery would last for almost 3 days with wifi on (at work and at home), HSDPA+ whenever wifi is off and light use for other things. After the upgrade, battery drains way faster and yesterday I had a really bad experience reported.
With same use, my battery lasted 19hr only!!
The solution that I have found so far was turning wifi and 3G off all the time and turn on only 2G. Internet will still work, sync emails, get whatsapp messages, know who is making viber calls. If I need to use better internet speed, like call viber for instance, I will turn my HSDPA+ on or my wifi on.
I know this is not the best solution, because you have to change HSDPA+ to 2G manually all the time (as far as I know, smart actions and the green power app still can't control 2G/3G/4G switch).
If anyone has found a better solution, let me know.
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With ICS 4.0.4 and green power app installed, my battery would last for almost 3 days with wifi on (at work and at home), HSDPA+ whenever wifi is off and light use for other things. After the upgrade, battery drains way faster and yesterday I had a really bad experience reported.
With same use, my battery lasted 19hr only!!
The solution that I have found so far was turning wifi and 3G off all the time and turn on only 2G. Internet will still work, sync emails, get whatsapp messages, know who is making viber calls. If I need to use better internet speed, like call viber for instance, I will turn my HSDPA+ on or my wifi on.
I know this is not the best solution, because you have to change HSDPA+ to 2G manually all the time (as far as I know, smart actions and the green power app still can't control 2G/3G/4G switch).
If anyone has found a better solution, let me know.
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I wish my battery lasts 19h. With HSDPA+ on I have now 34% after 6h and 55m. What's your OS version?
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I wish my battery lasts 19h. With HSDPA+ on I have now 34% after 6h and 55m. What's your OS version?
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The word is, for some reason, HSDPA+ is killing battery fast.
-Sent from Marino's Razr Maxx-
Today things got worse. Yesterday the overall performance of the phone was terrible after JB update, plus terrible battery performance so I did a factory reset via GUI. When I'm out I need HSDPA+ on because I receive messages thru Whatsapp and Viber mostly and I pay for a better data plan with a faster connection, so I need to use it. First 5% of my battery was drained in the first 40/50 minutes unplugged with a screen usage of about 12 minutes. The phone heated all day long with no usage. I think it's really weird. I don't know if there's an app causing it, or a sync. I have Facebook, Google, Last.fm, Twitter and Whatsapp synced but it was not an issue in ICS. I could let HSDPA+ on all the time with no heating and battery after 6 hours would still have 60%.
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brunoadr said:
Hello all!
First of all, let me just say thanks to the whole xda forum community for making this such a great place to find answers and alternatives to Android users.
So, I bought myself a brand new RAZR HD (XT925) last week. It works just fine, its really fast, but the main reason why I bought it is failing me - battery time. I'm not a heavy user, just have a couple of apps installed like facebook and twitter, eventually I'll listen to some music on it, watch some youtube video. While I'm doing this simple tasks with the screen on, I'm losing 1% of battery every 7/10 minutes. And if I try and load a game just to see, 15 minutes of gameplay will take me as much as 6% of my battery. That is so NOT why I bought this device.
So I went on a journey to find why this was happening. I've tried updating to JB, no better results. Downgraded to 4.0.4 stock firmware, wiped to factory defaults, didn't install ANYTHING apart from what it actuall came with the stock firmware and battery calibration, which I did after changing roms, and the results were the same.
While I was sleeping, the battery seemed to stay a bit better. My GPS and bluetooth are always OFF, I only turn Wi-Fi and 3G on when I need to use it, otherwise its always OFF.
I`ve charged it to 100% 24 hours ago, and BARELY used it, and now its at 34%... is this normal?
Any ideas are welcomed, and if there are other RAZR HD`s users out there with the same problem, please post here! Thanks!
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That doesn't sound normal at all. Under very light use, the phone should last for a couple days.
What applications are you installing?? This phone has the best battery life of any android phone I've owned.
My Razr HD with ReVolt 4.2.2 ROM and some mods has the best battery life I've ever seen in any Android device.
At this picture that i took last saturday (14/09/2013) i had 3:40H screen time and still got that 65% battery left.
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I updated my stock S4 the other day and my battery life has just dropped off a cliff. Before the update, a normal day would use 50-60% of my battery. Since the update, i'm down around 10% by 10pm in the evening ... and I dont use my phone very much at all. Wifi is on, GPS and Bluetooth are off. And it appears that the Android System is using about 50% of the battery. (Right now, the phone has been on for 2.5 hours with no calls and no web surfing and the battery is down to 85%)
Any idea what might be causing the problem?? or a solution?
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I updated my stock S4 the other day and my battery life has just dropped off a cliff. Before the update, a normal day would use 50-60% of my battery. Since the update, i'm down around 10% by 10pm in the evening ... and I dont use my phone very much at all. Wifi is on, GPS and Bluetooth are off. And it appears that the Android System is using about 50% of the battery. (Right now, the phone has been on for 2.5 hours with no calls and no web surfing and the battery is down to 85%)
Any idea what might be causing the problem?? or a solution?
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Switch off all the Samsung bloat S-Beam, Screen Mirroring, Air View, Motion and Gestures. Turn on Power save mode.
Switch off auto-brightness and select the brightness you like.
installed stock NI1 from Uruguay. Best battery life ever. Super fast response and screen clarity with above settings.
The only thing missing cannot root using towelroot.
battery sux after Nl1
By lunch today I was at 11%! Normally I would be at 45-50% by lunch, and my phone does come off the charger at 5am. In the past I've been able to keep everything on (GPS, BT, Auto Brightness etc) without running into this kind of battery drain.
Try a factory reset and see.
Normally you should reset after an update.
If that doesn't work, download the old stockrom and flash it
Try flashing back firmware NB1
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i dont think its the update..i have everything disabled power save mode on hardly any background services, no BT, and by 5pm im usually 30-35% no matter what rom or version. and thats on both my batteris..i think the phone just likes to eat batteries
My 1 month old s6 (920i) struggles to get a 3.5hr SOT during the day. Coming from the s3 where i used to easily get a 5hr SOT with the same usage style i can say this is pathetic. In the battery section top of the list i have Android OS and Google Services, followed by Facebook and Instagram. All drain battery more than the screen itself !!?
Note that i have most of the things turned off except when using them, such as wifi, gps, nfc etc...
Also i tried booting to stock recovery and clearing cache but this has not solved the issue.
The phone does go to deep sleep as i have checked using BBS.
What could be the issue any help or tips is greatly appreciated.
3.5 hours of battery life for continous heavy use is just about average. I get the same battery usage times.
Phone radio is killing my battery on a S6 & Wifi signal is very poor - please help?
Hi folks,
I'm new to these forums and having read through more posts than I remember I think I need some help - apologies in advance for the length of this post!
I bought a S6 approx 4 weeks ago, having had the S4 which served me well. I immediately noticed two issues
1/. Battery drain
2/. Poor Wifi signal
1/. My battery drain is currently unacceptable, I charge to 100% and unplug overnight so screen is off - I wake up 7hours or so later to find it has drained overnight to 75% or even less. I have power save mode on ALL the time, I have disabled all the non essential and probably some essential apps such google player etc. I have location, NFC, Bluetooth, Sync, Always allow wifi scanning, none of my apps are set to sync automatically etc switched off (having read all this good info on these forums). I installed GSAM and never saw any major issues although the screen would be showing close to 40% (I have black background and only on Amoled Photo display rather than the Adaptive display which is so much better!) I then read on a post today the GSAM Wifi profile had to be edited to 767 to show an accurate usage - I did that this morning and lo and behold I have a Phone Radio zapping 43% battery. Can someone please tell me how to switch that damn thing off or how it can be managed? I notice the battery issue is alot worse on wifi than using mobile data. I have attempted a cache reset post 5.1.1 update. Any other ideas on saving battery life would be very much appreciated.
2/. Wifi signal - I have a Virgin Media Superhub router on a 50meg connection. My S4 had no issues throughout the house picking up a very good signal and wifi speed was excellent. All other devices such as laptop and IPAD have no issues getting a good signal on both 2.4G and 5G On my S6 unless im in the same room as the router it is extremely poor and I'm guessing has also something to do with my battery draining so the two may go hand in hand? Again having read many posts on these forums I have changed my wifi settings DNS 1 & 2 to 8.8.4.4 - I haven't seen this make much of a difference though. I used the DNS SET app I read somewhere would also help but unfortunately the poor signal and slow speed continued.My battery drain is worse with Wifi so I try to use my data plan but im using that up very quickly and would love to use wifi! Does anyone know anything else I can have a go at?
I am loathed to try the factory reset option if there are other things I can attempt first to save me setting up the phone and my go launcher app etc. I have attempted to attach some GSAM screen shots but cant find an attach link anywhere?? can someone advise how to do this? more than happy to provide any other info. Any help would be very much appreciated - thanks in advance.
I have the low wifi signal problem too. My friend has an S6 and has also poor wifi signal at the same spot. Others phones like z3 compact or moto g2 have more signal than s6 at the same spot.
It's annoying.
I bought a 2nd hand galasy s6(Sm-G920F). If i use Wifi and browse the Internet, use fb or any social media it consumes about 20% of my battery in an hour, even if i write a message with my wifi switched off it will still consume like 7-10% in 30 min.
I needed to confirm is s6 battery that bad or is there something wrong with my device?
Thanks in advance!
TalhaArshad96 said:
I bought a 2nd hand galasy s6(Sm-G920F). If i use Wifi and browse the Internet, use fb or any social media it consumes about 20% of my battery in an hour, even if i write a message with my wifi switched off it will still consume like 7-10% in 30 min.
I needed to confirm is s6 battery that bad or is there something wrong with my device?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi
You can ask here to confirm if you have the same usage here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/battery-life-discussion-t3033385