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My only concern when buying this phone was battery life compared to my Razr Maxx. I was expecting it to be shorter...... but not this much!
I have tried restarting and clearing cache+dalvik. It seems to keep happening.
Eesh that is definitely not normal. I have the Verizon GS3 and get far better battery life.
I would suggest a factory reset. That seems to work for some people. Otherwise I'd suggest getting a replacement.
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looks like something is waking up your phone like crazy when the screen is off...
I love these sort of posts. You obviously have a wake lock that is keeping your processor active when not in use. Download "BetterBatteryStats" from the market and check out your wake locks and partial wake locks. It will be petty obvious at that point. It's most likely a rouge app.
It isn't a systemic problem with the phone. I get around 20 hours with slightly more than moderate use.
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I love these sort of posts. You obviously have a wake lock that is keeping your processor active when not in use. Download "BetterBatteryStats" from the market and check out your wake locks and partial wake locks. It will be petty obvious at that point. It's most likely a rouge app.
It isn't a systemic problem with the phone. I get around 20 hours with slightly more than moderate use.
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can you elaborate more on this? i downloaded the program and I dont see anything irregular at all. when i go to "partial wake locks" i see audioout only taking up 2.4% TOTAL TIM, 7M51S and the next one being dropboxcpuolywakelock
next one being backup, so on and so forth, none above 2%....
I am experiencing the exact same battery life drain as the op...except i have the tmobile version
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can you elaborate more on this? i downloaded the program and I dont see anything irregular at all. when i go to "partial wake locks" i see audioout only taking up 2.4% TOTAL TIM, 7M51S and the next one being dropboxcpuolywakelock
next one being backup, so on and so forth, none above 2%....
I am experiencing the exact same battery life drain as the op...except i have the tmobile version
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I had the same issue the other night. Took it off the charger and fell asleep.... when I woke up over 1/4 of my battery was gone. Android System showed the same high percentage used. I went into apps, android system, force stopped it, rebooted.. Hasn't crept back up since.
From my understanding, under idle, android system should be in the 5-10% range.
I did a full system reboot, pulled battery and restarted - all better. Something was tripping my battery up as well. It's not the phone, somethings causing it.
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Schaweet said:
I love these sort of posts. You obviously have a wake lock that is keeping your processor active when not in use. Download "BetterBatteryStats" from the market and check out your wake locks and partial wake locks. It will be petty obvious at that point. It's most likely a rouge app.
It isn't a systemic problem with the phone. I get around 20 hours with slightly more than moderate use.
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not sure how thats possible at all.. I have the t999 gs3 and other verizon users confirmed very similar battery life..... these phones get around 2.5 hours screen on time.... soo to actually get 20 hours of use, MOST of that time has to be with the screen off.. i dont see how moderate usage would yield 20 hours.... ide LOVE to get 20 hoursss
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My only concern when buying this phone was battery life compared to my Razr Maxx. I was expecting it to be shorter...... but not this much!
I have tried restarting and clearing cache+dalvik. It seems to keep happening.
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Your phone never sleeps. I would do a factory reset.
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not sure how thats possible at all.. I have the t999 gs3 and other verizon users confirmed very similar battery life..... these phones get around 2.5 hours screen on time.... soo to actually get 20 hours of use, MOST of that time has to be with the screen off.. i dont see how moderate usage would yield 20 hours.... ide LOVE to get 20 hoursss
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that's what i get, with 2-2.5 hours of screen time. no lte for me though.
I have Verizon GS3 and battery life is great. I too had an issue with battery drainning fast on my GS3 but found out it was Enhanced Mail Apps that I was using that killed my Battery so I uninstalled it. After the uninstall, my battery life has been great. You really can't compare battery life between Mot Raze and GS3. GS3 is far superior.
There must be an apps that is draining your battery.
Here is my battery stats. This is with moderate use.
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That is far from normal.
100% LTE. Moderate with periods of heavy use. I would run a few cycles to see if your battery performance improves. Also, as other users have stated, keep running BetterBatteryStats for a few days and it will keep catching the wakelocks you're getting. If you still can't figure out the problem, I would seek a replacement battery from Verizon just to be sure.
Edit: Forgot to mention this before. If you haven't yet, plug your phone in and charge the battery to 100% with the phone powered down completely. Then let it run all the way down before charging it again. Doing this once effectively "trains" the battery to better read its full capacity and won't hurt the overall life of the battery. This is something that I find is often missed with new batteries, but I have had great results with.
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Thanks for the replies... i did a factory reset and did not use Titanium to restore the apps in case one of them was causing the drain.
I'm still getting random drains by "gsiff_daemon" (which i'm seeing others having issues with this too). Fortunately this drain is fixed by a simple reboot. Yesterday I was able to get just under 15 hours of what i'd call light'ish use (under an hour of cached Spotify, WiFi all day, 10 minutes of phone calls, 30 SMS) and was at about 5%. Keep in mind I had about an hour in there where good 'ol gsiff was suckin down the battery (It took about 20% in 45 minutes).
The final test for me is this weekend. If it can last a whole day with my moderate/heavy usage.... i'm keeping it. Otherwise, its back to the Maxx.
This doesn't address the root cause of something preventing the phone from sleeping, but I thought I would mention an app that helps extend battery life. Personally I get great battery life regardless of any "saver" apps, and have never gotten less than 12 hours on a full charge, and that was very heavy use. I probably average closer to 20 on moderate-heavy use.
Anyway, as some know there are apps that will automatically turn off your data connection while the screen is off. Most turn the connection on for 1 minute, every 15 minutes while the screen is off so that you still receive email, ect... This does not affect phone calls and text messages, as they do not use apn and would be received immediately. These products can significantly extend battery life with little complication, particularly if you stay connected to LTE all the time. As an example, overnight I might lose about 20% of my battery or more while sleeping. With one of these apps I lose only about 4-6%.
I personally like the BatteryDefender app, very simple to use, and very reliable.
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Coming from the HTC Thunderbolt, the Sammy GS3 is a nice change as far as battery life!
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Did you have your phone on Airplane Mode or something for half the day?
High 300ma - 1000+ ma battery drain on idle. Bought pre-used 1 week. Faulty good or?
Info: already did factory reset using stock motor recovery and cache.
Also did factory reset through android.
Also tested ma drain without any installed apps - still high 600-1000ma drain on standby.
Also when I use battery monitor app, it says my battery is li-on 1500mah.. Is this a fake razr hd? Razr hd meant to read 2530mah?
I'll attach screen shots, please give your opinions people.
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High 300ma - 1000+ ma battery drain on idle. Bought pre-used 1 week. Faulty good or?
Info: already did factory reset using stock motor recovery and cache.
Also did factory reset through android.
Also tested ma drain without any installed apps - still high 600-1000ma drain on standby.
Also when I use battery monitor app, it says my battery is li-on 1500mah.. Is this a fake razr hd? I thought it's meant to be 2750mah?
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The MAXX is 3300 the Reg HD is 2530
I mean 2530ma..
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Where did you buy it? Could be fake
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You have a problems. This is my battery capacity. .
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I am also experiencing what I feel is significantly less battery life than I should be getting from my new RAZR MAXX HD.
I have only gone through one charge cycle, so I'm hoping it is just a symptom of unconditioned battery.
Last night I went to bed with the phone on 35% and when I woke up 7 hours later it was dead despite being idle with the screen off.
Now after fully charging, battery monitor is giving me an estimate of only 10 hours (after I manually entered 3300 mAh capacity). I expect to get close to 30 hours mixed use out of this phone.
What is the best way for me to determine if there is some problem with my phone?
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I am also experiencing what I feel is significantly less battery life than I should be getting from my new RAZR MAXX HD.
I have only gone through one charge cycle, so I'm hoping it is just a symptom of unconditioned battery.
Last night I went to bed with the phone on 35% and when I woke up 7 hours later it was dead despite being idle with the screen off.
Now after fully charging, battery monitor is giving me an estimate of only 10 hours (after I manually entered 3300 mAh capacity). I expect to get close to 30 hours mixed use out of this phone.
What is the best way for me to determine if there is some problem with my phone?
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Are you in a area with poor cell or lte coverage? Searching for signal will murder a battery quickly. I thought my S3 was faulty before I realized that poor lte coverage was eating my batt.
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Are you in a area with poor cell or lte coverage? Searching for signal will murder a battery quickly. I thought my S3 was faulty before I realized that poor lte coverage was eating my batt.
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I've been experiencing short battery life as well. I bought a Telstra branded but unlocked RAZR HD from JB Hi Fi and am using it on the Optus network. Could this be keeping the radios awake trying to find a Telstra network or something? Wakelock features prominantly in my battery stats, second only to screen, and the Better Battery Stats app estimates I have around 10 hrs from a full charge. I have 4g off, wifi off, bluetooth off, gps on.
So far its used 5% in 30 mins with very minimal use (one text message and on 2 or 3 times to check Better Battery Stats) and says it's only achieved deep sleep for 4mins 9s.
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I've been experiencing short battery life as well. I bought a Telstra branded but unlocked RAZR HD from JB Hi Fi and am using it on the Optus network. Could this be keeping the radios awake trying to find a Telstra network or something? Wakelock features prominantly in my battery stats, second only to screen, and the Better Battery Stats app estimates I have around 10 hrs from a full charge. I have 4g off, wifi off, bluetooth off, gps on.
So far its used 5% in 30 mins with very minimal use (one text message and on 2 or 3 times to check Better Battery Stats) and says it's only achieved deep sleep for 4mins 9s.
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What does the BBS say the wakelock is? If it isn't under the word wakelock try looking at the biggest partial wakelock. Also if it is signal related it is probably under cell standby in the android battery reporter. Also I hope that isn't whats going on and it is unlikely or no one would use noncarrier specific phones. I am wanting to buy a canadian hd maxx so I can use it here on at&t.
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I've been experiencing short battery life as well. I bought a Telstra branded but unlocked RAZR HD from JB Hi Fi and am using it on the Optus network. Could this be keeping the radios awake trying to find a Telstra network or something? Wakelock features prominantly in my battery stats, second only to screen, and the Better Battery Stats app estimates I have around 10 hrs from a full charge. I have 4g off, wifi off, bluetooth off, gps on.
So far its used 5% in 30 mins with very minimal use (one text message and on 2 or 3 times to check Better Battery Stats) and says it's only achieved deep sleep for 4mins 9s.
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As a reference, here are screenshots of my battery monitor widget history. My drain is typically well under 200 mA when screen is off and idling with radios only. In the first screen shot, RAZR HD was unplugged at 1240, then used GPS, and maps over LTE at 1312, did some texting too. Then it was thrown into the side pocket of my car for awhile explaining the drop in temperature. Third screen is when I charged it up earlier.
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What does the BBS say the wakelock is? If it isn't under the word wakelock try looking at the biggest partial wakelock. Also if it is signal related it is probably under cell standby in the android battery reporter. Also I hope that isn't whats going on and it is unlikely or no one would use noncarrier specific phones. I am wanting to buy a canadian hd maxx so I can use it here on at&t.
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OK, after I left home and went to work, phone only drained 10% in 3.5 hours, so thought all might be good, got home, drain started going up again. While at work the phone was achieving deep sleep, at home it stopped again. After looking at BBS and doing some digging, the issue seems to be Fast Dormancy. FDComlpeteTime is the largest partial wakelock by far. Whirlpool website says some optus towers support fast dormancy but not all, so maybe while i was at work i was connected to one of those that has it.
So the next big question is how do I disable fast dormancy on the RAZR HD.
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I too have been having battery issues.
My last few phones have been iPhones and I have been extremely disappointed with the Motorola Razr HD's battery.
First, it takes forever to charge up... like over three hours. Is that a common experience for others? My old iphones with charge up from low to full in an hour-ish.
Second, the battery seems to drain at an alarming rate. I have not been using my Razr HD for gaming or videos and I'm not still not getting anything near a full day out of the phone.
I have a drainage shot from Battery Monitor but apparently I can't posted as I'm a noob. But essentially it shows -150 to -350 most of the time (ie. lock screen off or when doing minimal tasks) and then -450 to -750 for anything real (web browsing, maps etc.)... no idea if these are acceptable numbers.
I have been trying to extend my battery life using SetCPU, but frankly this should be necessary.
With 65% battery my estimated time remaining is about 5 hours... I'm not feeling the "all day" battery promised.
Any suggestions welcome!
Same issue here as well.
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OK, after I left home and went to work, phone only drained 10% in 3.5 hours, so thought all might be good, got home, drain started going up again. While at work the phone was achieving deep sleep, at home it stopped again. After looking at BBS and doing some digging, the issue seems to be Fast Dormancy. FDComlpeteTime is the largest partial wakelock by far. Whirlpool website says some optus towers support fast dormancy but not all, so maybe while i was at work i was connected to one of those that has it.
So the next big question is how do I disable fast dormancy on the RAZR HD.
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Ok, so while at my friends place last night the problem persisted. Ended up downloading Titanium Backup and freezing Modem Fast Dormancy Monitor Service. fdCompleteTime disappered from my Partial wakelocks. Battery drain went down quite a lot, after 2-3 hours of monitoring was geting reports of approx 3%-4% an hour =25-30Hrs on battery, very usable.
Came home, put it on charge, went to sleep. Pulled it off charge this morning, didn't touch it for 3-4 hrs, turned it on to see only 66% battery left. thats a drain of approx 10% an hour with no use. After checking BBS there was no significant partial wakelocks at all, but kernel wakelocks have now gone up with smdcntl0, smdcntl1 and bam_dmux_wakelock and radio interface being the big killers.
As this wasn't happening at my friends place, am I just living in a hole that can't get a good lock on reception, or is there some inherent problem with using this phone on the Optus network rather than the network that it was release under (Telstra)?
So after four hours of work and minimal use (checked a couple emails and Twitter) I'm at 75% battery life.
Meanwhile, in the same period and with maybe a bit less usage on an iPhone 4s is sitting at 97%.
I think I've just about had it with the RAZR HD.... it's worst feature is the one it bragged about (battery life).
The battery problem also exists in the maxx hd? It seems there is a big problem, because it occurs many people
Or maybe after a few charge cycle the battery life will be normalized? Pls tell me what happens at you!
Guys i was having this same issue and i uninstalled lightflow app and all is well now. The app wasnt letting my phone go into deep sleep it was always awake even with screen off. Now that i uninstalled the app i only get 2% drain in 6 hours of screen off. I suggest if you have this app to uninstall immediately. Let me know if this helps anyone.
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found out my issue, my phone was a dodgy phone sold by a dodgy seller (it in fact had a replaced aftermarket battery of 1500mah), bought a new razr HD and it is now the proper 2530mah...
2) your phone will drain if its not with telstra.
reason: telstra supports fastdormancy (saves battery), but if ur like me and use optus (doesnt support fastdormancy), it will drain your battery because, the razr hd telstra branded was configured like this. uninstall modemfastdormancy using titaniummbackup.
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found out my issue, my phone was a dodgy phone sold by a seller (it in fact had a replaced aftermarket battery of 1500mah), bought a new razr HD and it is now the proper 2530mah...
2) your phone will drain if its not with telstra.
reason: telstra supports fastdormancy (saves battery), but if ur like me and use optus (doesnt support fastdormancy), it will drain your battery because, the razr hd telstra branded was configured like this. uninstall modemfastdormancy using titaniummbackup.
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I've already frozen modemfastdormancy monitor in titanium back up.
I'm in Melbourne and in some areas i get ok battery drain, others i get about the same as if i had fast dormancy still on. I think some optus towers are configured to use fast dormancy as before i froze the service i was getting really good battery stats in some areas. (10% over 4 hours).
At the moment I'm just getting round it by switching 3g off when i don't need it.
hi there,
i have the same issue.. i get something around 12 hours in use, and 1.5 hours display on- time.. ist the seccond charge and discharge process.. if you look at the Images, you can see, that all the time the display was off, the phone doesnt switch in to the deep sleep mode.. i read here in this poste, somebody are talking about wakelocks, could you explain what is mean with that? is there a way to figure out what is prevent the phone to go in to deep sleep mode? i downloaded the battery monitor widget app, but not sure that im right with it..
many many thanks!
I came across the official Qualcomm Snapdragon Battery Guru app in the Play Store the other day. I've installed it but it's still in "learning mode" so I can't comment on it's effectiveness yet.
Is anyone using it with their Razr HD? Any feedback yet?
I was using Juice Defender Plus but it's become a bit unstable lately. I'll give this a go for a while and if it helps...
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matt
Can't speak for the HD, but when I had the DNA it worked really well for me. I saw a 30-40% increase in battery life; post learning mode.
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I'll report back, I just installed it and giving it a go.
At times helpful, at times annoying.
It kinda estimates when you're at home/office and turns on WiFi, which is nice if you don't want to have it On all the time, but once it learns certain habits, it will be constantly turning on WiFi, and it's kinda annoying to take the phone out of your pocket while in the streets, and having it search for WiFi networks when you're clearly not near one.
One of friend with us cellular galaxy s3 tried the battery guru app few days ago but his experience was not good. He experienced significant battery drain after installing this app. BTW i will try it with my razr hd soon...
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At times helpful, at times annoying.
It kinda estimates when you're at home/office and turns on WiFi, which is nice if you don't want to have it On all the time, but once it learns certain habits, it will be constantly turning on WiFi, and it's kinda annoying to take the phone out of your pocket while in the streets, and having it search for WiFi networks when you're clearly not near one.
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If that's what it does, that's the exact same thing as Motorola SmartActions.
Yeah, I'm wondering if it actually does anything differently to SmartActions or Juice Defender. From what I can see, it seems to do the same things, just a bit more automated. I was kinda hoping that it might have some power management features specifically for Snapdragon processors, but I haven't seen any evidence of that so far...
My battery usage seemed a lot worse than usual today. 17 hours off charge and I'm on 9%. Moderate usage at worst today. No games or YouTube our music. Just emails, Facebook and some browsing. I'm usually over 50% on a day like today when I'm using juice defender....
At this rate the battery guru won't be lasting long.
Matt
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lobie81 said:
My battery usage seemed a lot worse than usual today. 17 hours off charge and I'm on 9%. Moderate usage at worst today. No games or YouTube our music. Just emails, Facebook and some browsing. I'm usually over 50% on a day like today when I'm using juice defender....
At this rate the battery guru won't be lasting long.
Matt
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Does the app show up specifically in your batter usage stats?
Mine's been OK so far, still in learning mode. I'm currently at 2 days and 3 hours with 2 hours of on screen time. I'm of course running a Razr Maxx HD so this kind of battery life is normal for me. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.
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Does the app show up specifically in your batter usage stats?
Mine's been OK so far, still in learning mode. I'm currently at 2 days and 3 hours with 2 hours of on screen time. I'm of course running a Razr Maxx HD so this kind of battery life is normal for me. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.
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No it doesn't show up in the battery stats. Android OS was the number 1 user last night, the screen was number 2, but I don't remember the percentages. Looks like something might have been keeping it awake yesterday as I'm sure "phone idle" is usually in the top 3, but it wasn't yesterday...
I don't think the app will do much during learning mode. I certainly didn't notice any difference to my normal usage when it was in learning mode...
matt
I tired this app in my LG optimus G...Usually my mobile doesnt get into deepsleep mode nd consumes lot of power.....after i installed this app while it was in learning mode i uninstlled it and ma mobile suddenly enters the deep sleep mode nd got awesome bettry backup.....i did restart nd ma mobile came back to original state...no deepsleep mode now.... again i reinstalled the app nd testing...!!
Well I was able to get through the initial learning phase. In the end, it does exactly the same thing as Motorola SmartActions...just turns stuff on and off depending on where you are..that sort of thing. I also didn't notice any significant battery drain while using it...not sure why others would have that problem.
In the end I uninstalled it because I really don't need 2 apps doing the same thing.
I don't know how everyone else is getting 3-5 hours of on screen time. When my screen is on, I lose about 1 percent every 2 minutes it seems like. When I look at the app usage, the kernel and media are sucking the life out of the battery. I am really discouraged about this battery because my G2 would easily get 3.5+ hours of on screen time. So far, I am going to be lucky to get about an hour.
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I don't know how everyone else is getting 3-5 hours of on screen time. When my screen is on, I lose about 1 percent every 2 minutes it seems like. When I look at the app usage, the kernel and media are sucking the life out of the battery. I am really discouraged about this battery because my G2 would easily get 3.5+ hours of on screen time. So far, I am going to be lucky to get about an hour.
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Something is wrong with ur phone or u have some jacked up apps. I have got over 6 hours screen time with this phone and got over 5 with my DNA. You need to download GSAM or BEtter battery stats.
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Something is wrong with ur phone or u have some jacked up apps. I have got over 6 hours screen time with this phone and got over 5 with my DNA. You need to download GSAM or BEtter battery stats.
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I have Gsam installed but sometimes it doesn't accurately record on screen time as it resets to 0. Also, today I unplugged my phone and the phone was thinking that the charger was still connected. As I said, Gsam reports that the Kernel is taking battery power.
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I have Gsam installed but sometimes it doesn't accurately record on screen time as it resets to 0. Also, today I unplugged my phone and the phone was thinking that the charger was still connected. As I said, Gsam reports that the Kernel is taking battery power.
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Something is way wrong with your phone then.
Mine has terrible battery life
I am very much on the same page with you. I am on my 4th cycle.
Mine only last 14 hours with 3 hours of screen time. I don't understand how all these people are getting 5 to 6 hours of screen time.
I have both Better Battery Stat and GSam monitor and it shows Kernel is taking 50% and system is taking 6.2%
Just try with different kernals,good kernals would give exellent battery life
I would gladly take the battery problems to get rid of this brand new beast. It's too Frickin big.. I had g2 but sold it. Paid 700 for this att note 3...lol. straight talk on att towers to save on bills. But this thing may be the fastest latest greatest next to the new releases of '14 but I should have kept the g2...This is a tank. I'd swap for smaller phone in heartbeat. Might post cl ad
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Just try with different kernals,good kernals would give exellent battery life
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...really...try a different kernel...on the Verizon HTC One M8...
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Are you in the right forum? This makes no sense.
I think it highly depends on what you're doing when screen is on. If you're playing games or using a lot of data, it can drain very quickly. If you're watching local videos or something, your battery would last a lot longer.
Im a beginner, xda said i must have 10 posts to do anything on xda so i was filling my posts..sorry friend....now i got 10 posts so im playing with n9005 rom section now
if you are rooted, install better battery stats (free on xda from the dev) to see the culprit.
clearly something is keeping the phone awake and hogging the cpu
So far today with only 10 minutes of screen on time and 45 minutes of playing a podcast through Bluetooth in my car the battery is down to 92%. This podcast was already downloaded and just playing from Dogcatcher. When I left I rebooted the phone right after pulling it off the charger. The phone is rooted and all Verizon apps are disabled. I see the android system at 40% and Google Services at 15% usage. Yesterday with only about 2 hours of screen on time I was down to 18% after 10 hours off the charger. I do not see any one app drawing power, it is always the android system it seems.
Edit: Using BetterbatteryStats I noticed that my phone has basically been awake the entire time it has been off the charger. Out of 2.5 hours it was in deep sleep for 10 minutes.
I don't get great battery life either. Nor do I get good game performance. Battery has went down 9% in less than 2 hours of idle. Just downloaded gsam the kernel use is the highest at 26+ percentage
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Turning off Location Reporting made a HUGE difference to my battery life. I accidentally left my phone laying in bed next to me last night instead of plugged in, and it dropped maybe 5% over 6 hours.
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Turning off Location Reporting made a HUGE difference to my battery life. I accidentally left my phone laying in bed next to me last night instead of plugged in, and it dropped maybe 5% over 6 hours.
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I will try disabling location reporting. But I know with my Galaxy S3 I had this enabled and did not have battery issues.
I turned off location reporting and location history and am seeing better battery life today. 5hrs 47 min and 89% battery left.
My battery is confusing me. First 2 days.. 15hrs 3hrs screen on time.. 3 days after that 24+hrs with 5hrs screen on time... The past couple of days I'm back down to 14-15hrs with 1-3hrs screen on time. This is running it down to 10%
My usage isn't much different from day to day.
Power saving is now enabled and I turned off location settings. Let's see...
M8, nuff said.
What I do not understand is why my old GS3 and my co-workers HTC One M7 with location services on, do not have this battery drain problem. This should not be an issue.
Yeah, it seems to be an on and off issue. On my GNex sometimes after flashing a ROM I had to turn location reporting off to get through the day, and then after the next ROM flash I didn't.
Hello ..
I am getting amazing battery life since I got 6.0 .. Before with lollipop I used to get around 5 hours on screen time. Amazingly though I hit 6.30 hours on the first day after update, and this with wireless, mobile data and Bluetooth on. And no data saving and screen on 70% which is amazing.
Good job Motorola
Excellent I would say
Excellent batt life with this new update very impressive how a software help the hardware to accomplish that task.
I replaced my STYLE and got a new one two days back. The old one would be dead even though it has 80%+ battery.
The current one is pretty good compared with the old unit. I got 4+ hours of SOT and I was on 4G and WiFi all the time. Was using it heavily for browsing and chat.
mohan_168 said:
I replaced my STYLE and got a new one two days back. The old one would be dead even though it has 80%+ battery.
The current one is pretty good compared with the old unit. I got 4+ hours of SOT and I was on 4G and WiFi all the time. Was using it heavily for browsing and chat.
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This is not bad at all. What I am saying is after MM update battery life increased about 1.5 hours extra SOT
Perhaps the update fixed something else? Looking at the MM update from L, there appears to be nothing besides Doze, which only works when the device is still and not used. I notice perhaps 15% better battery life if using the device sporadically during the day (medium use for me). With heavier use, I notice zero difference so far.
I was hoping some kernel adjustments were made, but the device spikes with heat about the same. I first thought it was less, but notice the same apps get the device very warm to hot (the GPU is over it's head with 1440p). Standby time is a lot better though, but only a significant improvement if lighter use though the day (so Doze can be a factor).
Usage is relative only to the user though
How do you get such great battery performance? I barely manage to get 3 hours SOT.
When the device is idle there's no drain, i only lose 2-3% overnight. But when the device is active the battery drains very quickly.
Tried a lot of battery saving stuff, greenify, powernap, and so on, but no luck.
I'm on MM stock rooted. Having a lot of apps installed. May this be the culprit?
dyonissos said:
How do you get such great battery performance? I barely manage to get 3 hours SOT.
When the device is idle there's no drain, i only lose 2-3% overnight. But when the device is active the battery drains very quickly.
Tried a lot of battery saving stuff, greenify, powernap, and so on, but no luck.
I'm on MM stock rooted. Having a lot of apps installed. May this be the culprit?
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If 20% brightness or less, all you do is web surf and a little Youtube, with good LTE signal or wifi and VERY little use of apps that force the GPU to push 1440p, you can get five hours. Everything is relative to the user. That's it.
Counting stock apps, I have 395 apps and 5GB free (64GB model). based on MM battery report, I have no apps that are background battery demons.
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If 20% brightness or less, all you do is web surf and a little Youtube, with good LTE signal or wifi and VERY little use of apps that force the GPU to push 1440p, you can get five hours. Everything is relative to the user. That's it.
Counting stock apps, I have 395 apps and 5GB free (64GB model). based on MM battery report, I have no apps that are background battery demons.
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Are you talking just 1440p video in general or are you talking 1440p games?
I'm lucky if I get 2 hours of SoT. I can't tell if Android Wear is eating my battery or if it's Sprint, despite having a decent signal. Bluetooth and Cell Standby are chewing up the majority of my battery power. I think the network management is trying to shuffle my phone between their three frequencies and while at work, I can only get on the 1900MHz PCS band due to having to use a repeater.
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Are you talking just 1440p video in general or are you talking 1440p games?
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Some games and apps run at 1440p and choke the GPU. They stand out by running very warm to hot and drain the battery more quickly.
dyonissos said:
How do you get such great battery performance? I barely manage to get 3 hours SOT.
When the device is idle there's no drain, i only lose 2-3% overnight. But when the device is active the battery drains very quickly.
Tried a lot of battery saving stuff, greenify, powernap, and so on, but no luck.
I'm on MM stock rooted. Having a lot of apps installed. May this be the culprit?
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Yes the apps do drain battery.
I uninstalled one particular email app that alone would drain 6% daily!
Anyway this time I got is without gaming. Mostly chatting and browsing and a lot of movies (vlc). I think that day I watched not less than 3-4 hours of continuous movies on the phone.
The only thing I did differently than before is removing unnecessary app permissions and notifications. Other than that I have done nothing. Like I said I do not try to save battery because I always have power source near by, but this 6.30 hours SOT i s awesome I tell you.
Based on my little experience with Android some apps will screw up the phone for no reason. First time I got the phone I got around 3 hours SOT with so many unneeded apps, and I did not know which app is draining my battery so I formatted the phone, and started installing apps one by one and watching the battery. And I managed to hit 4-5 hours with lollipop. Now with the update I got this and I was shocked.
Fully back to stock, unrooted, bootlocker relocked.
Upgraded to MM via OTA.
Installed all my apps via Play Store. Until now, i always restored my apps via TiBu, including data/settings.
I'm curious if my battery life will improve.
Will post the outcome, if any
Cheers!
A lot of the time my phone is just sitting on my desk. It used to say I would get around 1-2 days battery life from it sitting there doing nothing. After MM it says there is 8 days left. I have had it unplugged all day and even with some moderate use I am only at 95%. The doze mode really makes a big impact in stand by times!
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Perhaps the update fixed something else? Looking at the MM update from L, there appears to be nothing besides Doze, which only works when the device is still and not used. I notice perhaps 15% better battery life if using the device sporadically during the day (medium use for me). With heavier use, I notice zero difference so far.
I was hoping some kernel adjustments were made, but the device spikes with heat about the same. I first thought it was less, but notice the same apps get the device very warm to hot (the GPU is over it's head with 1440p). Standby time is a lot better though, but only a significant improvement if lighter use though the day (so Doze can be a factor).
Usage is relative only to the user though
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I think it did do something to the apps. The way you can block apps from getting access to location or other services is pretty impressive. I love that as I hated that apps would have access to everything on my phone and I cannot do anything about it. Now I can and this particular feature made me love Android even more after I switched two months back.
Is there something wrong with me. I only get 2 to 2 1/2 hours battery tops and actually I've tried amplify (paid version), and power nap and they don't seem to help much. I have only got 3 hours once since I got this phone. Is it just AT&T maybe?
I'd like to mention something else. Probably not related at all, but ..
My old MXS was a faulty unit (as I mentioned in my previous post). Once I got a new replacement, I have not yet charged the phone using Turbo Charger. I am charging it with Mi Pad charger (non-turbo). Yes, it took about 2+ hours to go from 30 to 100%.
Old MXS was always charged with turbo charger and I was getting pretty bad SOT and the baterry would drain as fast as it would charge. Does it have to do something with using a normal vs turbo charger?
I stop pretty much all background services and apps not in use. The only active applications are firefox, whatsapp and VLC.
My screen is set to 50% brightness with adaptive brightness ON. Moto X display and attentive display is ON.
Non-root (planning to root soon) and Moto ROM.
mohan_168 said:
I'd like to mention something else. Probably not related at all, but ..
My old MXS was a faulty unit (as I mentioned in my previous post). Once I got a new replacement, I have not yet charged the phone using Turbo Charger. I am charging it with Mi Pad charger (non-turbo). Yes, it took about 2+ hours to go from 30 to 100%.
Old MXS was always charged with turbo charger and I was getting pretty bad SOT and the baterry would drain as fast as it would charge. Does it have to do something with using a normal vs turbo charger?
I stop pretty much all background services and apps not in use. The only active applications are firefox, whatsapp and VLC.
My screen is set to 50% brightness with adaptive brightness ON. Moto X display and attentive display is ON.
Non-root (planning to root soon) and Moto ROM.
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Maybe if it is a faulty device. I use turbo and i t has nothing to do with battery life.
Notstewie said:
Maybe if it is a faulty device. I use turbo and i t has nothing to do with battery life.
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Probably yes. But i would charge on non turbo for two weeks so that I get definite data for comparison.
timde9 said:
Is there something wrong with me. I only get 2 to 2 1/2 hours battery tops and actually I've tried amplify (paid version), and power nap and they don't seem to help much. I have only got 3 hours once since I got this phone. Is it just AT&T maybe?
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Less than 3 hours is not good bro, really anything below 4 hours is just bad. You better figure out what is draining your battery, or maybe it Is a bad unit?
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Probably yes. But i would charge on non turbo for two weeks so that I get definite data for comparison.
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what difference does it make if it is charged slowly or not??
It should not matter, if the battery is not keeping the power that means it is defective, nothing to do with slow or fast charging.