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Anyone else having this ISSUE? My last phones all had like 4-6% standby time on the battery. But this g2x has been 64-83%. If this can get fixed I think my battery will be much much better!
What can be causing this?
when you say 64-83% how many hours has it been in standby? What else is using the battery? I know the G2X in my office has like 70% standby but that's standby from 14 hours and it's still at 92% battery life. (work phone so pretty much just sitting in the office until we need it)
Standby usually drains faster if you're in an area with no cell signal from what I've noticed.
gqkevyn said:
Standby usually drains faster if you're in an area with no cell signal from what I've noticed.
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This is very important to note. As the signal gets lower, your antenna has to increase power to maintain a connection with the tower. The lower your signal, the more battery required to keep a connection
My cell standby has been alot more then my display and I don't have it in standby. What is odd. My network connection says utms yet I have 4g showing and speedtest is 4-7mb dl. I can unplug my phone leave it on for an hour loose about 15-20% battery with it like at 70%+ cell standby. It's odd...
Maybe it's the 4g cell struggling to connect?
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Do you have a lot of Widgets pulling data?
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I have the same widgets on the G2x that I have on my Nexus S. I have pure calendar and pure calendar agenda both set to update when the calendar updates. I am still leaning towards more with the 4G struggeling or something.
I've always thought umts was pure 3G while hspa was an update to that which in turn you could get the hspa+. However my connection always says umts, yet I do get way above 3mb dl on the speedtest. It always gets between 4-7mb dl.
The battery life on this android reminds me of when I had the Eris, just blah!!
pinbak said:
My cell standby has been alot more then my display and I don't have it in standby. What is odd. My network connection says utms yet I have 4g showing and speedtest is 4-7mb dl. I can unplug my phone leave it on for an hour loose about 15-20% battery with it like at 70%+ cell standby. It's odd...
Maybe it's the 4g cell struggling to connect?
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I have the EXACT same issue with cell standby. I think it's the 4g connection as mine is constantly switching between 4g and 2g (never 3G)
I can't remember can you click on the "cell standby" tab in 2.2 to get additional information? It will usually say something like xx% time without signal.
yes you can click on it but that option is not showing. I was thinking just like I could my Eris was place into airplane mode take it out and it would correct the cell standby issue. But the xx% without signal is not showing. Well at least on mine it doesn't.
I don't think it ever says 3G. Mine goes from 4G to 2g. I just traveled to Indianapolis and pulled 6mb down but at home we don't have 4g yet even though it says 4g. My download at home was the same as my nexus one = 700k
So while I see it drop to 2g... I think they replaced the 3G icon with a straight 4G icon.
Plus I thought utms was edge?
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Same here with the cell standby... Battery life isn't that terrible for me though (six hours down to 75 percent). Still this seems to be a big problem. Can we somehow force it to just use 3G for the time being?
Make air plane mode your best friend when your not using it. It could be widgets your using
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runderekrun said:
Same here with the cell standby... Battery life isn't that terrible for me though (six hours down to 75 percent). Still this seems to be a big problem. Can we somehow force it to just use 3G for the time being?
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Wish there was that option. But we can only set it to 2g now
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Northern Cali has no 4g and mine always says 4g. Same issue here tho... cell standby way to hi
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I was having the same issue, and battery life was terrible.
Performing a full factory reset as well as completely draining the battery several times solved the issue for me.
Before the factory reset Battery Monitor was reporting heavy battery use even while idle, after the reset it only uses 2-5mA while idle compared to over 150mA before.
Today I went from 5:45 AM to 4:30 PM and am only down to 70% charge left.
same exact issue here. My usage habits have not change from my mytouch 4g which only showed a few percent of cell standy and phone idle. I dont get it, but i think that is what is killing my battery.
Suprah said:
Wish there was that option. But we can only set it to 2g now
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We do have that option. Settings-->Wireless Networks --> Mobile Networks-->Network Mode --> WCDMA Only (3G & 4G Only)
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We do have that option. Settings-->Wireless Networks --> Mobile Networks-->Network Mode --> WCDMA Only (3G & 4G Only)
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Not the same. We want an option for JUST 3g as the problem (with the cell standby) seems to be a weak 4g signal...
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I hate Widgets so I'm not using any at all.
Mine was also jumping from 4G to 2G.... Odd
jink25 said:
I was having the same issue, and battery life was terrible.
Performing a full factory reset as well as completely draining the battery several times solved the issue for me.
Before the factory reset Battery Monitor was reporting heavy battery use even while idle, after the reset it only uses 2-5mA while idle compared to over 150mA before.
Today I went from 5:45 AM to 4:30 PM and am only down to 70% charge left.
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I'm glad it worked for you but I am a little confused as to how could this fix this problem?
I have been using my Atrix 2 from 2 days. My battery goes down from 100% to 20% in about 10 hours with very moderate use. I found that "Mobile Standby" is using 51% of total battery and the explanation given under it is "Battery used by Mobile Radio"
Is anyone experiencing similar problem? Please tell me any fix.
EDIT: Well, I have already done the reset three times. Actually whenever I select the "Search for network Automatically" the phone keeps on disconnecting from the network every 3-4 mins. So I have selected the network manually. I found out on Motorola forum to condition the battery by discharging it and re- charging it by keeping it switched off. Will keep you updated if there is any improvements.
I don't think it's a problem. Mine usually takes about 30-40% you could try disabling 3g/4g.
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lkrasner said:
I don't think it's a problem. Mine usually takes about 30-40% you could try disabling 3g/4g.
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But the battery goes down from 100 to about 70% even if I am not using it in about 3-4 hrs.. (All sync off)
androiddecoded said:
But the battery goes down from 100 to about 70% even if I am not using it in about 3-4 hrs.. (All sync off)
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Damn....mine drops like 5% in 3 hours with sync on. Lol
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battery usage varies greatly
not just by your interactive use of your phone, but also on the environmental conditions affecting your radio. The radio is by far the biggest user of the battery, and if it has to transmit alot to stay in touch with the tower (whether you use data or not), and has to crank up the transmit power to compensate for poor reception, then you will see a high amount of batter drain.
One way to rule out the radio is to put your phone in airplane mode and compare battery drain. If you have decent wireless reception in your area and you're not moving around alot, then you should look at suspect apps. I've not had great confidence in the android 'battery stats', and the one on the atrix2 is especially bad. Sometimes, mine won't update until after I reboot my phone.
If you cannot nail down a battery-hogging app, or reception issues, then a factory data reset would be in order.
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not just by your interactive use of your phone, but also on the environmental conditions affecting your radio. The radio is by far the biggest user of the battery, and if it has to transmit alot to stay in touch with the tower (whether you use data or not), and has to crank up the transmit power to compensate for poor reception, then you will see a high amount of batter drain.
One way to rule out the radio is to put your phone in airplane mode and compare battery drain. If you have decent wireless reception in your area and you're not moving around alot, then you should look at suspect apps. I've not had great confidence in the android 'battery stats', and the one on the atrix2 is especially bad. Sometimes, mine won't update until after I reboot my phone.
If you cannot nail down a battery-hogging app, or reception issues, then a factory data reset would be in order.
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Well, I have already done the reset three times. Actually whenever I select the "Search for network Automatically" the phone keeps on disconnecting from the network every 3-4 mins. So I have selected the network manually. I found out on Motorola forum to condition the battery by discharging it and re- charging it by keeping it switched off. Will keep you updated if there is any improvements.
Hi there,
I've had my Google Nexus 5 for a few weeks now and the battery life on it seems to be very hit and miss. Sometimes it'll make it through the day ok and others it won't. Today I haven't really used my phone very much and the battery is already down to 17%! I've followed the suggestions in the forum but any ideas as to what is causing this? I don't have my email set to push (I just check it when I need to), Facebook isn't set to automatically get notifications, Google Now is off (and the location settings are set to preserve battery) but I'm puzzled as to how the battery life is so bad. In terms of brightness, it's set down to around 20%.
My old Samsung S3 was never this bad!
use GSAM or better battery stats to find what is keeping your phone awake.
There were no other battery threads to post this in?
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Apologies, I should have posted this in another battery post. Do I have to be rooted to use better battery stats?
Your cellular signal looks low. Your phone could be spending a lot of time hunting for a tower. Try using WiFi. You can also try putting your phone into either airplane mode or turn cellular data off.
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You don't need root for gsam, tho with root you get more useful stats.
just a guess, but I agree, your Poor signal is likely destroying your battery.
I'd have to agree with others based on the minimal amount of information provided. Low signal + Google services (Auto Sync, etc.) trying to use that low signal is going to eat through any phones battery no matter how big.
Ok so I used Greenify to clear out any apps that I thought could have been causing the battery drain but to no avail. I've also installed GSAM battery monitor and that reports my battery usage as 5% per hour. The funny thing is I've come from a Samsung S3 which only had a 2100mah battery and my Nexus 5 gets nowhere near that in terms of battery life.
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Ok so I used Greenify to clear out any apps that I thought could have been causing the battery drain but to no avail. I've also installed GSAM battery monitor and that reports my battery usage as 5% per hour. The funny thing is I've come from a Samsung S3 which only had a 2100mah battery and my Nexus 5 gets nowhere near that in terms of battery life.
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apps do not make a difference if your signal is garbage.
based on the 2 screen shots you provided, your signal is crap and eating your battery.
Hi there,
Thank you for your reply. I'm working at a place where the signal is much better (at least 3 bars) and still the battery drain is high.
Zepius said:
apps do not make a difference if your signal is garbage.
based on the 2 screen shots you provided, your signal is crap and eating your battery.
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Hi there,
Thank you for your reply. I'm working at a place where the signal is much better (at least 3 bars) and still the battery drain is high.
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yet you still wont provide us more than the 2 screenshots.
i've asked for GSAM or betterybatterystats and you have provided neither.
until i see differently, your signal sucks and is killing your battery.
We do need gsam or equivalent screen shots. Or you will only get guesses as replies.
Let's get those shots and get it solved.
Root your phone. Install slimkat Rom and Use greenify. on average day I get around 3 hours of SOT
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Apologies. I'll post some screenshots when I've used it a bit more.
As requested.
i see nothing really wrong. you have 3 hrs of SoT which is more than acceptable.
Zepius said:
i see nothing really wrong. you have 3 hrs of SoT which is more than acceptable.
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But that's 3 hours out of 7 hours of up time. Maybe if it was 3 hours of SoT and around 12-15 hours up.
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If you click phone radio in gsam... It shows you time looking for signal.
Anyway, its your signal. It doesn't show up as big usage on any app. you're signal is very poor. That's your issue.
Not a lot you can do. Except turn off data. Or use WiFi. Or even airplane mode.
That's about it.
Nothing will save your battery with data on with such a low signal.
Thank you all for your feedback. I'll try using the Wi-Fi and switching off data and see if that helps.
ajayb21 said:
Thank you all for your feedback. I'll try using the Wi-Fi and switching off data and see if that helps.
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You have normal and low awake time....so almost the only other possibility is radio signal. Or a rogue and sneaky app. Is location services on? That's usually what rogue apps interact with to cause bad drain. Just if that's the case, android o/s is usually real high. The last thing is screen brightness...if its real bright it will drain fast.
Try WiFi.....then look at those other options I said.
Good luck! ?
Dear all,
I have a Pixel 2 and am having some issue with battery life. Some days, it is crazy good: I leave my phone at 100% before going to bed, and I find it at 100% when I wake up in the morning (about 7 h of deep sleep for both me and the phone). Some other days, I lose about 40% over the same period of time. In both situations, I don't touch the phone from when I go to bed until morning. Bluetooth is disabled, WiFi and Mobile are enabled. My WiFi router is always on and I have very good cellular signal.
I thought that a rough app/wakelock could be the culprit but, using BetterBatteryStats, I have not been able to find any. The only unusual "process" seems to be one that is called "No Data Connection" and "No or Unknonw Signal", which show up as 87%, whatever that means.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could be the source of the problem?
Many thanks!
nicolazilio said:
Dear all,
I have a Pixel 2 and am having some issue with battery life. Some days, it is crazy good: I leave my phone at 100% before going to bed, and I find it at 100% when I wake up in the morning (about 7 h of deep sleep for both me and the phone). Some other days, I lose about 40% over the same period of time. In both situations, I don't touch the phone from when I go to bed until morning. Bluetooth is disabled, WiFi and Mobile are enabled. My WiFi router is always on and I have very good cellular signal.
I thought that a rough app/wakelock could be the culprit but, using BetterBatteryStats, I have not been able to find any. The only unusual "process" seems to be one that is called "No Data Connection" and "No or Unknonw Signal", which show up as 87%, whatever that means.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could be the source of the problem?
Many thanks!
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Losing 40% charge in standby mode is a serious issue. Could be a defective battery. Why don't you return the phone to the store you bought from and get a new one?
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Maybe you have dodgy mobile coverage where you are? If signal is weak or in/out of service any phone will use a lot more power trying to stay connected to a tower it can find. You may also experience that a phone seems to 'camp on' to a tower with a weak signal (consuming more power) even when it sometimes finds a stronger one from the same location.
No solution, other than to move!
I didn't experience any of this with my, now, old Nexus 5x, so I'd say that mobile coverage is unlikely to be the cause.
nicolazilio said:
I didn't experience any of this with my, now, old Nexus 5x, so I'd say that mobile coverage is unlikely to be the cause.
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How many bars does it show for signal strength in the status bar?
WibblyW said:
How many bars does it show for signal strength in the status bar?
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Full signal
I should also mention that rebooting the phone solves the "fast discharge" problem
nicolazilio said:
Dear all,
I have a Pixel 2 and am having some issue with battery life. Some days, it is crazy good: I leave my phone at 100% before going to bed, and I find it at 100% when I wake up in the morning (about 7 h of deep sleep for both me and the phone). Some other days, I lose about 40% over the same period of time. In both situations, I don't touch the phone from when I go to bed until morning. Bluetooth is disabled, WiFi and Mobile are enabled. My WiFi router is always on and I have very good cellular signal.
I thought that a rough app/wakelock could be the culprit but, using BetterBatteryStats, I have not been able to find any. The only unusual "process" seems to be one that is called "No Data Connection" and "No or Unknonw Signal", which show up as 87%, whatever that means.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could be the source of the problem?
Many thanks!
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No rogue apps in your battery stats during the 40% drain??
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No rogue apps in your battery stats during the 40% drain??
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No, none that I can detect.
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No, none that I can detect.
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I also get either 0% or 0.1% overnight drain as well. But what are you looking at in BBS? I usually look at partial wakelocks and alarms. Next time that happens take a look. Once on my Pixel I lost that amount and as it turns out a news app was running a video all night long. I sincerely doubt it's a defective battery but rather a rogue app and that's why a reboot fixes it. Push comes to shove you will have to head over to the BBS forum and post a log file. There are instructions in the OP.
hi,
does anybody else have huge cell standby drain? it consumes most of my battery at around 27% over a day. 10% of it happened overnight. I am still testing for wakelocks and signal strength, but I hope someone had this issue already, and maybe found a solution.
also merry Christmas
ferdzso said:
hi,
does anybody else have huge cell standby drain? it consumes most of my battery at around 27% over a day. 10% of it happened overnight. I am still testing for wakelocks and signal strength, but I hope someone had this issue already, and maybe found a solution.
also merry Christmas
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Hi,
Try disabling the Always on display, I had battery drain 10% overnight and disabled it only drained 2% may be it's that...
wilpang said:
Hi,
Try disabling the Always on display, I had battery drain 10% overnight and disabled it only drained 2% may be it's that...
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thanks, I will check that tomorrow night. did that appear as cell standby as well?
wilpang said:
Hi,
Try disabling the Always on display, I had battery drain 10% overnight and disabled it only drained 2% may be it's that...
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Did you have the motion sensor option checked?
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bloodydawn said:
Did you have the motion sensor option checked?
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Yeah I did so not sure what caused it to drain that fast. Devsk in another thread states something similar and switches his off oh well good attempt by HTC to do something different which is appreciated.
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Yeah I did so not sure what caused it to drain that fast. Devsk in another thread states something similar and switches his off oh well good attempt by HTC to do something different which is appreciated.
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I think the firmware still needs a lot of improvements
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Yeah cell standby drain is high even for me right now. I had it on normal U11 but it didn't affect usage.
On here, my battery life is only 5 hours SOT over 24 hours, so the same as U11. Cell standby drain took 30% battery.
Galactus said:
Yeah cell standby drain is high even for me right now. I had it on normal U11 but it didn't affect usage.
On here, my battery life is only 5 hours SOT over 24 hours, so the same as U11. Cell standby drain took 30% battery.
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5 hours SOT is not great for me, at least from this big a battery, it should be a comfortable 5 hours not just barely.
I have identified the biggest culprit. it is location services. on battery saver it consumed 15% overnight. if I turn it off it was only 4%.I am testing a few other options. tonight I will check how high accuracy affects it, then location history if it does not solve it
Today, mobile network standby absolutely destroyed my battery. It used 40% of my battery.
Galactus said:
Today, mobile network standby absolutely destroyed my battery. It used 40% of my battery.
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I think it might have to do something with location services and network strength. the network is not the strongest in the room I sleep, but I never had such a horrible drain with any phone
ferdzso said:
I think it might have to do something with location services and network strength. the network is not the strongest in the room I sleep, but I never had such a horrible drain with any phone
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Do you leave mobile data on overnight?
Could be that its swopping from 4g/3g constantly which can kill your battery.
could try changing the sim modes by typing *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer? experiment under phone info, set preferred network type.
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Do you leave mobile data on overnight?
Could be that its swopping from 4g/3g constantly which can kill your battery.
could try changing the sim modes by typing *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer? experiment under phone info, set preferred network type.
Phil750123 said:
Do you leave mobile data on overnight?
Could be that its swopping from 4g/3g constantly which can kill your battery.
could try changing the sim modes by typing *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer? experiment under phone info, set preferred network type.
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Do you leave mobile data on overnight?
Could be that its swopping from 4g/3g constantly which can kill your battery.
could try changing the sim modes by typing *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer? experiment under phone info, set preferred network type.
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Setting to 3g only for example didn't really change much.
Also it seems that your U11+ may not be going into deep sleep. I don't always have wifi/data on all the time and overnight my battery drain is only 2 to 3% as stated in previous post and mobile network standby was 30%. But it's currently on 4% so not sure what the difference is...
HTC haven't solved this issue since U11…Maybe needed more people to report this bug or HTC won't do anything for this
In developer options try turning off always on data. It's an Oreo feature but seems an unnecessary drain on battery.
International_cow said:
In developer options try turning off always on data. It's an Oreo feature but seems an unnecessary drain on battery.
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only affects WiFi usage
I think I solved the issue.
I usually only use data, leave location on (battery saver mode without wifi scanning, Google location history enabled).
the thing that likely solved it for me was to reset the network settings.
Settings/System/Reset/Network settings reset
it goes to sleep properly I get 1-2% drain overnight.
alternatively somebody mentioned that clearing cache for sense home might do it as we. I did it both, and no longer have the issue (for 3 days, right now I am turning stuff back on to see if it might be something else)
if someone has the issue and tries it, let me know if this is an actual solution for you
Will want to see actual confirmation though with battery stats after a full day otherwise these claims are moot
Not saying you're lying, but evidence always helps rather than text lol
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Will want to see actual confirmation though with battery stats after a full day otherwise these claims are moot
Not saying you're lying, but evidence always helps rather than text lol
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here's the past 4 days
I am not sure why GSam only saved 4 days, I was running it for more. bot on the first day I still had the issue, and since then I was trying to fix it.
the only 2 other things that I can think of what solved the battery drain was that I do not just throw the phone on my chair, but lay it on a flat surface, or that due to the holidays the cell reception around my area was worse, and that was the one draining the battery and causing the low reception. if I check now, the cell strength is exactly the same, but in GSam in cell usage I had a lot more Low showing up. after a reset, this seems to have been solved
ferdzso said:
here's the past 4 days
I am not sure why GSam only saved 4 days, I was running it for more. bot on the first day I still had the issue, and since then I was trying to fix it.
the only 2 other things that I can think of what solved the battery drain was that I do not just throw the phone on my chair, but lay it on a flat surface, or that due to the holidays the cell reception around my area was worse, and that was the one draining the battery and causing the low reception. if I check now, the cell strength is exactly the same, but in GSam in cell usage I had a lot more Low showing up. after a reset, this seems to have been solved
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Interesting, either way at least it is solved for you.
What is your mobile network drain % like in stock battery settings menu before your daily charge?