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Have to charge almost twice a day... I believe it happened after latest 1.45.531.1 update....
Disabled all animation, got auto adjust for display, disabled all what I could.. Still gives me 12 -16 hours on standby only....NOT even using the phone!!!!
Does anyone have something like that??? Or there is some remedy I skipped?
Sorry if I repeat someone's question.
Running full stock, HTC battery.
Thanks in advance!!
Tester.
PS. Recently exchanged the phone.... First one R.I.P......died completely, didn't even charge.
Is there a chance they swapped a refurbished one on me??? How to find out???
can you provide a screenshot of the battery usage graph? also, have you tried getting an aftermarket, bigger battery such as the anker?
I was the same way as you. I checked my battery graph, and standby was using something like 80% of the battery with almost everything turned off. By the time I got home from work I would need to charge it immediately. I bought one of the Anker batteries on Amazon for $15 bucks or so, and I'm now getting about 2 days for a charge. I don't know what it was with my battery, because it sounds like my experience wasn't typical, but I didn't really feel like going through HTC when I could just pay the $15.
I'm with ya...
This phone was running PERFECT prior to the HTC update. Now I'm having a plethora amount of problems, including the battery. For example, prior to the update I would get 13-16 hours on HEAVY usage... Moderate usage? Try a day or day in a half. Now take today for example, I unplugged my phone a little before 7am and I had 20 something percent 4 hours later.
I'm telling you, that HTC update really messed this phone up IMO.
Thanks, guys!!
Will try to get Anker battery, I believe it's 1900 mAh.
But again something running on the background with that update. We'll see.
I'll try to get the graph, maybe someone'll get some sense of it...
Much appreciated,
Tester.
here are the battery stats...
Display..........74%
Cell standby...13%
Phone idle......11%
Voice calls......2%
THAT'S IT!!! Nothing else is running...... SUX...
Still gives 12 - 16 hours of life on almost idle......
I hate to say it,but if you're battery's dying a lot faster after an update,a bigger battery won't help much.
I'd be getting in touch with HTC and ask them what the heck is going on.
Really annoyed with the battery performance. I checked and only display is using 90% of battery. Tried everything to reduce it but no change.
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Tester30 said:
Have to charge almost twice a day... I believe it happened after latest 1.45.531.1 update....
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I've had the same issue since the update. My battery drains at a ridiculous rate. I've become really frustrated with the phone since. I rooted it and flashed a custom ROM in hopes of solving the problem but it's the same deal.
I've confirmed it's not the battery either since I've got another one I've tried and only get the same results. Even with Juice Defender running I get nowhere as great a battery life as I did before the update
I'm doing decent 8hrs 20,mins on batt. With 40% left mostly text and internet browsing
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Try clicking the graph at the top of the screen it will give you another screen that shows awake/screen time etc. Is your phone going to sleep when you screen turns off?
I was having the same problem and realized that some app was keeping my phone awake even though the screen was off. I uninstalled 80% of the crap I had installed and now my phone sleeps like it should and battery lasts amazingly long time.
Tester30 said:
here are the battery stats...
Display..........74%
Cell standby...13%
Phone idle......11%
Voice calls......2%
THAT'S IT!!! Nothing else is running...... SUX...
Still gives 12 - 16 hours of life on almost idle......
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Try clicking the graph at the top of the screen it will give you another screen that shows awake/screen time etc. Is your phone going to sleep when you screen turns off?
I was having the same problem and realized that some app was keeping my phone awake even though the screen was off. I uninstalled 80% of the crap I had installed and now my phone sleeps like it should and battery lasts amazingly long time.
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How can you tell if your phone is going to sleep when you lock the screen? What is a good method for this? And if I find it its not sleeping when it should, is there a way to find the culprit easily?
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How can you tell if your phone is going to sleep when you lock the screen? What is a good method for this? And if I find it its not sleeping when it should, is there a way to find the culprit easily?
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Click on the graph in battery stats, it should show awake time and screen on. If your awake time is constant when the screen on time isn't, then chances are you've got an bad app somewhere preventing the phone from sleeping
my battery life was plain **** on 2.3.3., device was running hot all the time (=waste of energy), charging took ridiculous 4h+! When I took it off at the charger around 23:00 the battery was dead at 14:00 the next day with most time being idle!
Since my update to 2.3.4 things got so much better. charging takes around 2h and battery finally lasted a whole day and had 40% juice left in the evening.
Since I got my 2 Ankers+charger for 20$, battery life is crazy now. Been on one charge for 2d2h and still had 16% left. Pushmail on, wifi on (cellular data only when not at home), brigthness at 100%, taking video, pictues and some navigation, messaging and phonecalls. Oh yeah and a few minutes of flashlight use
I would say between slight and medium use.
If 2.3.4 worsened your batterylife, contact HTC or your vendor.
I now replaced the battery at 16% with the other Anker because I still need to do my 5 charge cycles on that one to calibrate it.
Here's an example of the graph. At the bottom you can see awake and screen on time. I pulled phone of charger last night, did some browsing, then ran for an hour with music playing in the background (you can see the small green bar on awake even when screen is off). After I surfed a little and left it off the charger when I went to bed. The phone is properly sleeping when the screen is off and almost 16 hours and still have 62%.
Before I uninstalled the apps, the awake time was solid green across the screen.
Anker battery worked wonders on my device. Before I would have to throw it on the charger after lunch as I like to go for a beer after work and the stock battery would never make it that far... Now when I get home from the bar I still have ~30% battery. Anker battery FTW!
flash a custom rom and u will go gaga over ur battery life. definitely works for me. on standby overnight drain 0-1%.
I found out that if you don't have strong signal at your location your battery drains pretty fast that's why I always connect my phone to WiFi at my apartment where my phone looses signal sometimes. now I lose just 1-2% of power during a night.
Sorry to hear about your battery troubles. A couple days ago I rooted and switched to "Android Revolution HD 3.0.4" and my battery life seems pretty solid. I wasn't having battery life issues prior to this though.
I'm currently in the process of calibrating the battery:
- drain it mostly
- turn off
- plug it in overnight while still off
- in the morning unplug, wait 15 minutes, replug for a few hours; do this ONLY ONCE or you may damage the battery
- power on, immediately go to recovery, advanced, reset battery stats
- start normally
- drain battery until it shuts down; a continuous stress test or stability test app is probably ideal
- once it shuts off, turn it on again to double-check that it's dead; it should only come on for a second or two
- while off, plug in and allow to fully charge; no fooling around with plugging/unplugging, just normal
- calibration complete!
I think you can follow a similar procedure (minus clearing battery stats) to refresh the battery calibration even without rooting/custom recovery. I've read the effectiveness is similar. The phone just needs to be retaught what "full" and "empty" mean, all in one charge cycle. If you calibrate it wrong you could have issues with it shutting off while still reading ~15% battery life.
Anyway, as I said, I'm in the process of doing this. Currently I'm in the "drain it" phase... with my screen at maximum brightness (remaining on), overclocked to 1.5 ghz, I've been running "StabilityTest" (from market) for one hour and fifteen minutes. It stresses both cores as well as the RAM. At this time, my battery is at around 30-40% or so, and it's getting really hot! The phone's temperature is reading as 54.8 degrees!
Also, yesterday I used the GPS for about 4 hours before it died, this was prior to any calibration attempt. I think this is within typical battery life considering that the screen stays on.
TL;DR: Maybe you just need to try a custom rom or recalibrate your battery. Miscalibrated battery can be caused by flashing/updating a rom, I imagine even when it's an OTA. Sense is crippling your phone anyway, you might as well give it a try IMHO.
get yourself an anker battery..I havent charged my phone since the day before and now i have 20% left! heavy usage
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My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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teobeo94 said:
My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Nope. With data/wifi turned on (data auto-off since Wifi is active), I lose at most 2% overnight. With airplane mode on OR data/wifi off, you should be seeing practically 0% loss.
Check your battery usage and see what's eating up the battery. Sounds like an rogue app/process that's wasting cycles or is out of control.
One of the best things about this phone is its standby life, as it seems to sip battery juice very lightly.
My battery was still 100% after I woke up today.
Nevertheless it dropped very quickly after using the phone, about 11% in 10-15 min but I assume that's completely normal after 8 hours standby.
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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teobeo94 said:
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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That means that of the whatever % battery (out of 100%) that you've used, 20% of that drain was due to standby. That's not necessarily bad. So if you have 50% charge left, then it means that (50% x .2)% of your drain was from standby. My cell standby has currently used 23% of my current drain percentage. Since your phone is often left in the sleep/not-active state, then a large % of battery drain happens in standby.
Battery usage on Android is frequently misunderstood. And keep in mind that the 2% from the LWP you used is because it's only displayed when you're on the home screen. Otherwise, it remains dormant/paused.
that's strange that you are having that much usage in standby.. i have been getting a solid day and a half out of my battery and it doesnt really use any battery in standby.. there has to be an app of some sort that is sucking the battery or still running.. i always at bedtime though clear the cache thru storage in the settings menu and end all tasks in the task manager and close all the windows/programs with the far right virtual button on the bottom of the screen.. I am a bit OCD but heck if its working why stop..lol
Area with poor cell reception? If you were in plane mode it is an app for sure.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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I would have to agree with everyone else. I only experience 1% loss at most times overnight. Best standby battery life i've ever gotten on a HTC phone.
I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
Lost 8% tonight (86/78). Saw this morning that the signal was not perfect. But wifi went off during the night. That should not happen. Maybe my custom rom is switching off wifi on sleep...
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I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
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It's either a faulty battery or a rogue app. Shouldn't happen to a new battery either.
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Use better battery stats to diagnose rogue apps.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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Right.
Battery lasted up to 2:30pm being off the plug from 7 am the previous morning. So a total of 31hours.
That is with tapatalk, a bit of web browsing, a bit of WiFi and google store updating, 2 short phone calls.
The app. 2x was running on mild battery saving,mainly by cutting the data periodically when the phone is idling.
I must say that this is really good and the phone took quite a while to go from 15% to 4% after which it switched off before I noticed it again.
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I thought maybe it was my battery (anker 1900) so they replaced it, and although my battery life increased, once I get to around 12%, it'll jump to 4 and then die in 5 minutes, many times before the phone can even shut itself off, it just loses power. Almost as if its.misreading the voltage until it gets very very low. I know this was a problem on gingerbread, didn't think it was on ice cream sandwich. Any thoughts? Its really annoying
This anker battery does last longer than my last anker, I got over 4 hours of screen use with wifi over 9 or 10 hours. But the jumping to 4% must be software since it happened on both batteries. Haven't tried using my stock battery yet. Anyone else experience this?
Have you tried one of the recalibration methods on xda? Or you can use battery monitor widget pro to enter upper and lower limits for your current setup.
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Well, in the lower levels of the battery, ie below 20% the % reading is quite unreliable. This is normal, because voltage fluctuations will cause wrong battery readings.
To show you an example, after your battery dies out, leave it for a few minutes & then try to switch on your phone. You will still be able to, because the battery hasn't completely drained.
You should calibrate your battery & see if that helps too
For some reason my screen started really draining the heck out of my battery and it's only set on about 35% brightness.
Here are my current stats:
Screen - 65%
Wifi - 14%
Call Standby - 10%
Phone Idle - 9%
Android - 2%
What are your stats? Is the screen eating the battery? Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
succorso said:
For some reason my screen started really draining the heck out of my battery and it's only set on about 35% brightness.
Here are my current stats:
Screen - 65%
Wifi - 14%
Call Standby - 10%
Phone Idle - 9%
Android - 2%
What are your stats? Is the screen eating the battery? Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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That looks usual
When my screen is on my battery drains about 1% per minute.
What is your max cpu speed?
Bad battery?
Those stats look normal for the most part, but it also depends on how long the screen was on vs how long the phone was on overall.
Cell standby appears a bit high at first glance, which definitely causes some additional drain if you don't have reception during standby and the phone is searching for reception.
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Hey,
I am running MIUI ROM 2.6.15
Screen 25%
WiFi 20%
Cell Standby 17%
Android System 16%
MediaServer 7%
Phone Idle 7%
Music 4%
Gmail 3%
Media 2%
Google Services 2%
I used the built-in Battery Calibration to calibrate the battery like last week and I noticed that by the end of the day, I still had at least 30% of battery...
I use it to text, listen to music and talk everyday at night at least 3-4 hours with my girl...
I'd suggest to root phone, try a new rom, or use any calibration apps from play store and follow the instructions... worked with my 2 previous phones.. Huawei Ascend, Motorola Droid 2 Global.. and this is 6th android I have and I love it a lot.
The screen is set to 25%. It's only on for about 45 minutes.
I have rooted the phone and am running a very new rom.
i'm pretty much in the same position, my battery drains 1% per minute
I'm on T-Mobile and their "My Device" app will let you know if you need to replace the battery or not. Give it a try.
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succorso said:
For some reason my screen started really draining the heck out of my battery and it's only set on about 35% brightness.
Here are my current stats:
Screen - 65%
Wifi - 14%
Call Standby - 10%
Phone Idle - 9%
Android - 2%
What are your stats? Is the screen eating the battery? Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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Are you running an ICS ROM? They seem to be so efficient at everything else that the screen is the major battery sucker. I've played PSX4Droid for a couple hours at a time, and it barely gets above 10% usage.
I run 2.3.4 virtuous unity. I can make it 24 hours before I charge it.
But the screen is the highest user of battery.
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2.3.4 GB here but i honestly say the games and watching videos takes a toll on battery the most.
I used to have awful battery life on ICS and was able to narrow it down to the amazon app store....using like 35% battery.<--disappointing amazon! After uninstalling that I can get about 2-3 hours of screen time. If you're having terrible battery life after flashing a new rom you could try caliberating your battery. I use battery caliberation. When my battery is fully charged I run it, let it drain all the way down then charge it back up. There are probably other caliberation apps out there...or you could delete the battery stats from your recovery. Hope this helps.
edit: just noticed you're talking about Gingerbread, my bad, kinda skimmed over that Caliberating your battery could still help though.
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Hey everyone,
I recently upgraded to android ICS 4.0.4 from 4.0.3 with the hope of the battery issue no longer an issue with my nexus s...
Though my battery drains around 1% every 2-4minutes with normal use, as in just scrolling and going through settings (not using apps), very very light use. I have factory wiped it , I have installed new roms and kernels - mixed and matched, uninstalled apps and installed apps one at a time (to see what drains), I even disabled some the high % wasting applications...
My screen dim is on the lowest, wifi is off, data is off, sync is off, gps is off, screen rotation is off, yet still no improvement, I even fully discharged my battery and re-charged it (while phone is off)- no improvement. And i also changed the CPU settings to 800max and still no improvement.
and when i'm playing a game or something it drops around 10% in ten - fifteen minutes, sometimes drops more.
When my screen is sleeping it takes around 1-2% every 1 hour-2hours, which I think is normal.
My screen is usually 45-50% Battery used by the display and backlight
Android system is usually 15%-20%
Android OS is usually 3%-10%
My battery is only about 4-5 months old, and I've always charge it when its 5-10% left, I don't let it die. I'm going to purchase a new battery to see if the problem occurs, if it does, can it be something with the phone hardware?
But any suggestion on what it is?
I've looked around on forums etc and none of the solutions have worked.
The display is going to use the most. There is no way around it. What are your average use times? If you're only losing a few % an hour idling, that's great! The only things I can think that would help is using black backgrounds whenever possible. You also have to keep in mind you're gaming with your phone and that's CPU intensive, which will cause more drain.
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The display is going to use the most. There is no way around it. What are your average use times? If you're only losing a few % an hour idling, that's great! The only things I can think that would help is using black backgrounds whenever possible. You also have to keep in mind you're gaming with your phone and that's CPU intensive, which will cause more drain.
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Yeah the display will use the most, but I remember it used to be around 30-35%, I've just been seeing how the battery is lately - just going through settings etc and it goes down every 2-3 minutes by 1%, it used to last much longer than that - 1% every ten mins. Sad thing is - I do use a black background lol to save battery and with games I hardly play them but when I do bye bye battery.
try battery callibration apk from market before you recharge your phone and no use 3g just 2g and make conservative 100/1000 the governor.
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I'll try the battery calibration and see how that goes, and change the governor as well to see if any improvement.
J.Jon said:
Hey everyone,
I recently upgraded to android ICS 4.0.4 from 4.0.3 with the hope of the battery issue no longer an issue with my nexus s...
Though my battery drains around 1% every 2-4minutes with normal use, as in just scrolling and going through settings (not using apps), very very light use. I have factory wiped it , I have installed new roms and kernels - mixed and matched, uninstalled apps and installed apps one at a time (to see what drains), I even disabled some the high % wasting applications...
My screen dim is on the lowest, wifi is off, data is off, sync is off, gps is off, screen rotation is off, yet still no improvement, I even fully discharged my battery and re-charged it (while phone is off)- no improvement. And i also changed the CPU settings to 800max and still no improvement.
and when i'm playing a game or something it drops around 10% in ten - fifteen minutes, sometimes drops more.
When my screen is sleeping it takes around 1-2% every 1 hour-2hours, which I think is normal.
My screen is usually 45-50% Battery used by the display and backlight
Android system is usually 15%-20%
Android OS is usually 3%-10%
My battery is only about 4-5 months old, and I've always charge it when its 5-10% left, I don't let it die. I'm going to purchase a new battery to see if the problem occurs, if it does, can it be something with the phone hardware?
But any suggestion on what it is?
I've looked around on forums etc and none of the solutions have worked.
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Yesterday morning i charged it full 100%. I took it off the charger and left it on the table. It had no wifi or games running at all( at about 8 am) I leave it there all day until about 6 or so. and when i come back its down to 30% WTF IS THAT!. On my dads phone he could have 1% battery and leave it standing by all day and night and he can still turn it on without losing the last percent. Its not an iphone either. Hopefully 4.1 Jelly Bean will have some battery fix for the nexus
BetterBatteryStats. Your best friend when it comes to battery life.
Yeah. Mine isn't bad, but I also just go by my screen usage. If can't get at least 3 hours by the end of the day(which is probably 13 hours), then something is up. Note on calibration, it won't do anything. Those stats are reset once the phone is charged past 90% IIRC. On top of that, our batteries have a different way of reporting the charge. It's not the same as htcs.
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I managed to get my screen down to 40ish% and my Android system is under 10% and I've been timing my battery and noticed every 4minutes exactly it still goes down. I tried calibration does nothing as you said. I'm gonna download betterbatterystats and I have cpu spy running atm...
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CooLoserTech said:
Yesterday morning i charged it full 100%. I took it off the charger and left it on the table. It had no wifi or games running at all( at about 8 am) I leave it there all day until about 6 or so. and when i come back its down to 30% WTF IS THAT!. On my dads phone he could have 1% battery and leave it standing by all day and night and he can still turn it on without losing the last percent. Its not an iphone either. Hopefully 4.1 Jelly Bean will have some battery fix for the nexus
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If we even get jellybean
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If we even get jellybean
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xda will do it!
I have the same issues. 10 hours max not touching the phone at all. Stock, custom, matrix, nothing helps.
Maybe 6 hours if I start using it moderately
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Similar issue here. Tried all combinations of ROMs (jb,ics,gb) and kernels (air,marmite,matr1x,lucid) to no avail. Even reverted back to stock GB ROM, radio, and bootloader. Nowhere near 6 hours talk time or 200 hours standby time. I get between 8-10 hours standby time if I'm lucky. I even tried turning the phone off overnight, with a full charge even, and when I went to turn it back on in the morning the battery was dead and I had to plug it in to turn it on.
I picked up a new battery today but the issue seems to persist. I put the new battery in at noon with 98% charge and now 2.5 hours later I'm down to 70%. I am convinced there is a hardware problem that is causing the battery to drain excessively. GSAM Battery Monitor and stock battery stats all look normal with screen using the most battery followed by Android System etc etc. Aside from the battery problem, the phone is awesome and I really don't want to have to buy a GNex when this phone is still salvageable.
So what part of this phone could drain the battery so fast with the screen off? It could be the CPU, GPU, screen digitizer perhaps?
I know you tried with your old battery, but could you try again with the new battery with your phone turned completely off? If there's a drain, then there's definitely a hardware issue.
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I know you tried with your old battery, but could you try again with the new battery with your phone turned completely off? If there's a drain, then there's definitely a hardware issue.
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Phone off for half hour yielded a 9% drop in battery life. I'll keep the responses in this thread only. I just realized every time I respond to a thread it gets bumped to the top of the forum!
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Phone off for half hour yielded a 9% drop in battery life. I'll keep the responses in this thread only. I just realized every time I respond to a thread it gets bumped to the top of the forum!
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Definitely something wrong. I don't lose anything with phone off, so something is messing up hardware wise. Did the phone get water damage?