So the other night I charged my phone to 100%, the LED was green indicating it had come to a full charge. I unplugged the phone and left it on my night stand to see how it held it's charge over night. It was shocked in the morning when I woke up and found my battery had depleted drastically. It had gone from 100% to 47% over night. 53% loss while it was sitting on my night stand and I was sleeping. My old iPhone 4 would only lose about 3 or 4 % over night. This seems ridiculous.
First thing I did was jump into my battery usage screen to see what's been killing my phone over night. This was from roughly 9:30pm till 6am.
I'm running ROM Xi40 126.
It's pretty atrocious with the battery life. I'll have it fully charged, and then unplug it and within about 10 minutes I'm already down to 97%. It's loosing 1% every 5 - 8 minutes and I'm not doing anything with it. Just sitting in my pocket or on my desk.
What could be causing this? I'm going to try a different ROM and see if that helps.
Download betterbatterystats to get a view of what apps may be causing wake locks. What are your sync options? Check Facebook sync, and the actual app settings. Facebook my default refreshes a live feed and every hour, its a real drain. I'm on r123 Xi40 and my battery life has been pretty good.
I've set global sync options to once a day as opposed to hourly or something.
I don't have any widgets open except for a 1x4 clock / weather widget on my home screen.
I flashed CleanROM 4.5 RC1 Lite and it appears to be a lot better so far. Only lost 5% in 30 minutes with screen on and downloading stuff over WiFi and LTE. I'm charging it to 100% right now and will be out for the afternoon, 8'ish hours. I'll see how the battery lasts.
Changing to CleanROM 4.5 seems to have solved the issue. Been unplugged for nearly 3 hours, an hour of which was streaming music from slacker over LTE, and I've only lost 10%.
My guess is there was an application running in the background that got killed with you flashed CR 4.5. Happy you got it resolved though!
Download SmartSync Disabler
So what you wanna do is use SmartSync Disabler. So download it, enable it, reboot. Then you should be good to go. This is a bug where your WiFi and Data connection is turned off and on randomly, and intermittently throughout the night. This causes for the drain and heat issues maybe.
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After being on the charger after 7 hours as soon as I take out of the charge my battery his down to 98%. I made one phone call of 2 min and 3 txt messages and it dropped another 1 percent. Before this charge I let it fully drain. Anyone?
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I experience the same results - When the phone is powered off and on the charger, it only goes to 98% (according to the settings-->about phone-->Status-->battery level
However, if you turn the phone on, and charge, it will reach 100%..
this is insane... my bat is down to 93% and since the first post to now i haven't even USED the phone... i think my phone is not going into full sleep whatsoever. I uninstalled 3g watchdog yesterday as some people mentioned in other forums that sometimes it wouldn't let the phone go into sleep mode. No kidding... that i only noticed this dramatic change in battery time after i installed LauncherPro. when i was using touchwiz on my second charge the phone lasted a full day with moderate use and i didn't even drain the whole battery. Yesterday was the first day i left the battery to die, i had this phone since last friday.
I was experiencing excessive battery use when I was running LauncherPro. I switched to ADW.Launcher and it went away. I also use JuiceDefender to manage connections while the screen is off. It disables data connections and turns them on for 1 minute every 15 minutes to update any data streams & then turns the data connection back off. I can get around 14 hours of light to moderate use now.
to check if your phone is properly sleeping
Plug into charger
Unplug and hit power to turn screen off
wait 5 minutes
hit power to turn screen back on
using spare parts or any other application which shows battery history(battery leftwidget)
check: Running%
It should be less than 10% for someone with a ton of background apps or widgets
It should be less than 5% for someone without a ton of widgets/bg apps
During normal usage it should be within 10% of the screen on %
Exception to this is if using something like music player
100% !!!!! I installed awd bedore doing this test and had no widgets running whatsoever
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I've been sitting at 69% battery for the past hour and 48 minutes.
http://i.imgur.com/Hw57X.jpg
I've been using the phone for about 18 hours, and I am at 45%, ill post some pictures in morning, going to bed.
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it's been 1d, 10hr, 59min,
and I'm at 57%.
but of course very mild use:
about 30min of phone call,
25min of web browsing,
13min of XDA Prem
20min of music.
20min of clicking around randomly in the phone
I am a "minimist". I only run apps when I need them so I have pretty much nothing running in the background (except Google Voice). I don't even have a widget, only 1 screen of shortcuts. so put that into consideration before comparing your battery life to mine. I am just giving an insight about how I achieved mine.
Removed(deleted) all bloatwares (wifi calling, myaccount, lg.omadmclient)
Using Titanium Backup PRO, froze several apps (which I don't think matters, since I never see these apps running in the background anyways)
Using StartUp (the program), I disable A ****LOAD of things, so apps won't startup by itself due to whatever reason
did the HTC battery conditioning twice, then wiped battery stats
has a SetCPU screen off profile of 216/216.
no apps that sync at all (except Google Voice, which is constantly running)
default brightness
use ATK to kill tasks manually everytime I'm done using the phone, before I lock my screen (NO AUTOKILLING)
what I've come to realize is that no matter what u do, when you use the phone, the battery is going to drain. when my screen is off/idle, i lose almost no battery. For example, the day before yesterday, I lost 3% battery overnight (8 hours). Last night I lost 1% overnight (8 hours). But when I actually use the phone (screen on), i lose battery fast.
My battery life was awful the first few days but after uninstalling the capacitive buttons led notification app and calibrating my battery it got a lot better. It now lasts me the entire day with around 30% left when i plug it back in. I do turn off 4g when I'm at work and in a few of my classes because I dont get good reception.
The battery seems to last a really long time on idle but as soon as I play a game (guerilla bob thd) the battery drops about 10% in about 20mins (while im playing) and then goes back to about 5% an hour
Here's my battery life... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13438062&postcount=21
Haven't tried to stretch my battery past what I needed yet but I used it for 1 hour 2 minutes straight today and only lost 10% battery. No way thats happening on my old phone. Used to lose 1% every couple minutes the screen was on.
That's how much I'm losing.. the phone is pretty good when it's off.. when there's no network.. but I went from 65% to 45% in 1 hour, and that's just from texting, really not liking that.
Damn that sucks. I only lose 4-5% per hour of left idle. Something is prolly up with your phone.
You lose 4% - 5% when your idle? That's how much I lose when I'm idle, probably even less.
When I touch the phone, it starts to die really quickly
Dunno whats causing that. I drain pretty slow during actual usage. My screen brightness is usually 25-30 that prolly helps a lot.
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Damn, same here man, what about GO SMS or Go launcher?
Does that kill battery?
I removed Go launcher, I really loved the look, but testing if that kills the battery?
Mikeglongo said:
Damn, same here man, what about GO SMS or Go launcher?
Does that kill battery?
I removed Go launcher, I really loved the look, but testing if that kills the battery?
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I use both and have never experienced them using any more battery than any other launcher on either of my phones.
I have this phone for two months, stock rom, not rooted, don't use mobile internet, only wi-fi, not always on, I would say a moderate usage.
The last week I am experiencing big battery problems, it drains in half a day. Nothing new installed in the last week that could be a problem, I think I had only few app updates from the market, but am not sure if the time is the same as the beginning of battery problems.
The first time I have charged the battery in the evening, disconected the charger after the light turned green, it was about 10pm, the next morning at 6 am the battery was at 4%?! The second time the battery was charged from 15% to 65% (I had no time to full carge), from 4pm to 10 pm it went down to 3% again.
Last night I made a full charge, disconected the charger at 6am this morning, now at 8 am the battery is at 75%, I don't understand...
I don't let the apps sync automatically and I use wifi only, everything is setup not to drain the battery, no problems till the last few days...I have installed GO launcer a month ago but I don't think it could be a problem, it worked all well till now.
Any thoughts or suggestions what to do?
When you go to settings,about phone, battery usage, what does the statistic point out as the biggest user? You can also download battery monitor widget to see what is usung what.
Goodluck
It says display 58%, cell standby 15%, voice calls 14% (3 voice calls), phone idle 13% (for 4 hours after disconnecting the charger), this last one, phone idle, seems to much considering others?
Anyway, I have powered off the phone, pulled the battery out and put it back in, seems the situation is better, I will see later on.
Now I remember that few days ago the phone got frozen and I had to pull the battery out to restart it because I couldn't restart it regularly. I think it is after that the battery draining problem has begun, is it possible?
Let me start by saying that DOZE had been working great for me since the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, yet DOZE seems to have stopped working..
Usage pattern:
- Phone is only used during work hours (Mon - Friday 730am - 400pm) and is at 100% charged by 400pm.
- ALL other times phone is sitting tucked away in drawer and not being used.
Up until this past weekend DOZE has been working great. I'd grab my phone at 730am and it would have 93+ % battery remaining to start my day.
This past Sunday I grabbed my phone (after sitting in the drawer since Friday at 400pm) only to be surprised to see the battery low message and battery being at 13%. I put it on the charger and let it fully charge. I then rebooted the phone to rule out anything that may have messed things up. After using google maps for a bit I retired the phone around 400pm with about 85% batttery. Monday morning, 730 rolls around and I'm down to 53% battery @#$ I rebooted the phone again to try to rule out anything that could mess it up. Phone was at 100% again by 400pm and found it's way to the drawer until 730am the next morning only to be at 56% @#$$#@. I also computed the total amount of mAh used by all listed apps under battery and it only amounted to 363mAh. That's approx. 10% of the battery capacity, not 44% @#$
I'm not sure what the heck could have changed @#$#
- Under Battery Optimation the only app NOT optimized is : Google Play Services
- Under Battery - Phone Idle shows 17 hours idle
Again, my usage patterns and settings have not changed prior to this starting to happen so I'm a bit at a loss here.
Since DOZE is completely autonomous and quite new I was wondering if there might be anyway to troubleshoot this ?
Here is a pic of my Battery Usage screen :
Same with me. Worked fine for a couple of weeks(where battery drain was about 3-4% in the night) but now battery drains by 25-30% every night.
Another day, same behaviour.
This time just prior to unplugging at 400pm and retiring to drawer for the night I swiped away all recent apps and rebooted the phone
The picture below shows all but twos apps/services.
They are Cell Standby @ 2% and Google Services @ 1%.
And that's it @#$
I think the culprit to my issue lies in WIFI ....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/guys-call-wifi-battery-drain-6-0-t3219870
Disabling WIFI seems to let my phone enter Doze mode w/o issue.
According to the battery usage screen, about 15% of the battery has been used. And yet, it's in freefall. At 34% I got a low battery warning saying the battery would only last another three hours, even though it was dropping about 1% a minute.
Just randomly happened today. Left it unplugged overnight with Sleep as Android running, woke up to about 70% battery, started browsing on Chrome and Talon for Twitter, and 15 minutes later I had 20% battery. Plugged it in, got it back up to 75%, had to go out. Felt it get hot, checked, saw it was still dropping dramatically. Turned it off, left it to cool, turned it back on, and it continued dropping.
I had it turned off for a while to cool down after I'd plugged it in, as well.
Battery Usage does list Sleep as using 22% battery, but that's since the last full charge so I assume includes what it did overnight, which jives with having a percentage in the 70s when I awoke. Talon, Chrome, Facebook, TiBu, and a couple of other apps are listed as using 1-2% of the battery. That's it.
WTF is going on?
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According to the battery usage screen, about 15% of the battery has been used. And yet, it's in freefall. At 34% I got a low battery warning saying the battery would only last another three hours, even though it was dropping about 1% a minute.
Just randomly happened today. Left it unplugged overnight with Sleep as Android running, woke up to about 70% battery, started browsing on Chrome and Talon for Twitter, and 15 minutes later I had 20% battery. Plugged it in, got it back up to 75%, had to go out. Felt it get hot, checked, saw it was still dropping dramatically. Turned it off, left it to cool, turned it back on, and it continued dropping.
I had it turned off for a while to cool down after I'd plugged it in, as well.
Battery Usage does list Sleep as using 22% battery, but that's since the last full charge so I assume includes what it did overnight, which jives with having a percentage in the 70s when I awoke. Talon, Chrome, Facebook, TiBu, and a couple of other apps are listed as using 1-2% of the battery. That's it.
WTF is going on?
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I think the battery might need to be replaced...after I charged my phone to 100% and then reboot, it will show 69% or 70% after the reboot -_-|. Also when the battery % drops down below 50%, my phone could switch off anytime - and then when I switch it on again, the battery is like 1%. I am using this phone as a backup just to receive messages so I don't mind it too much. If you use it as a main phone maybe it is time to upgrade to a newer model...the battery on regular Pixels were not so good even when new...
When the phone is off charge it to 100% then use it until it dies completly, then try to start it couple of times(it should just show a battery low icon or turn off while booting). Then charge it to 100% again while turned off.
This should pretty much reset the electronics in the phone. If it still does it replace the battery.
P.S.: Also look at the phone from the sides to see if you notice any glass poping (just in case the battery has started to expand)