with my 4.2.2 update my phone's battery is draining fast when using wifi 3g only i can last 3.30 hours.but i did a reset,
repair with sony pc companion i read this article http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/Battery-time-and-enhancement-features/m-p/347874#U347874
it says
When using your new Android phone it will take approximately up to a week or so before the phone settles in its battery usage and power management, depending on applications installed and the amount of content in your phone. It’s worth mentioning that this evaluation that the phone runs in the background at first period of use will happen again after master reset or reinstalling/repairing the phone software. So if you have just reset or reinstalled your phone, this power management evaluation process will run again. So it might at first seem like your phone is consuming more battery power than before the reset, but its normal.
so is that the case for draining fast compared to my 4.1.2?
please help
Try to calibrate your battery, there are apps in the Google Play Store that could help, some of them need root, others not.
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"Android System" keeping phone awake 24/7, draining battery life- T-Mobile Z3
I startes noticing that even after quite a few charge cycles, I'm still getting 4-5 hours of SoT over less than 24 hours. The phone is awake 24/7, and Android System seems to be the cause, but no idea why. Does anybody have any suggestions? I've attached some screenshots.
Factory reset?
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Maybe you have some apps causing wakelocks, showing through Android system? My dad had massive data usage from Youtube which confused me until I uninstalled an app that used YouTube.
Yes something that you have installed is causing the Android System to run for extended periods.
I would first try, disabling some apps in the settings menu, to see if that helps. (like throw, bluetooth, NFC, wifi, hotspot) see if any of those help
I would factory reset, and be very careful about what you install back onto the phone initially.
Or instead of reset try, clearing out all apps and re-install one by one untill you hit a bad one. If that does not work I guess reset.
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I startes noticing that even after quite a few charge cycles, I'm still getting 4-5 hours of SoT over less than 24 hours. The phone is awake 24/7, and Android System seems to be the cause, but no idea why. Does anybody have any suggestions? I've attached some screenshots.
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In Settings>Power Management, there is a selection called "App power consumption". Have you checked there? There could be an app listed that drains the battery.
I had checked app power consumption, and unfortunately it didn't give me any further information. Better Battery Stats is also almost completely useless without root, but I did try it and saw Performance Manager or something to that effect was what was keeping it awake (in Kernel Wakelocks). I ended up doing a factory reset, and it seems like it's working fine now with the same combination of apps.
I think I disabled something I shouldn't have using pm block (package), since after some searching it seems like the phone might have been constantly searching for a blocked package, keeping it awake. It's working fine now, thanks everyone for your suggestions!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 and the battery was doing fine. A few weeks ago the phone started getting quite slow and the battery life went way down. I had installed a few apps around then, so I removed them and still battery life was bad. I tried restarting the phone and that didn't help. At the time I was running Marshmellow and I was using OSMonitor to watch the system. I was finding that Android OS was taking most of my battery and 30% of the CPU all of the time. Not long after that Nougat became available and I upgraded thinking that might help. It didn't help and OSMonitor no longer worked. I switched to GSam Battery Monitor and used adb to give it the permissions to see all app information. I'm still finding that the Kernel is taking 28% of my battery and Android System is taking 37% of my battery and I can't figure out why. I would rather not need to do a full reset and install all of my apps and settings again, so I'm asking if anyone out there has ideas on things to try and fix this. This is a non-rooted phone running the stock image from Samsung/Verizon.
Thanks for any help.
try activate the Battery Saving option and use it for a day and see if helps
I've had this happen to me before. The phone was getting seriously hot while it was happening too. I decided to do all I can without doing a factory reset (I was on vacation at the time, so no access to something to backup my data).
I cleared the cache of all apps. Then I disabled all of the stock apps I didn't need (like Gear VR). I also shuttered apps running in the background to about a max of 3 apps open at any given time. That stopped the insane heat issue, but Android System was still sucking 30% of the battery. I turned off Always On Display, that got me down to about 25%. A factory reset got the phone down to around 10%, and I never saw the issue again.
Before you do that I would recommend checking out this thread below as there does appear to be a bunch of other possible solutions provided by others.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/how-experiencing-android-battery-drain-t3327730/page51
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try activate the Battery Saving option and use it for a day and see if helps
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But then my background syncing is turned off too...
I didn't need this before, so wondering why I should need it now.
I had same issues and was able to fix it. See the following thread for details.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=71558514
Try this , it helped me a lot .
Download from the XDA forums the Kernel named : "Apollo Kernel" v7
Just flash it , and when you install it , if you dont use your phone for high end games or hard work,that requires high end specs , then you can underclock the cpu/gpu .
It s a battery life saver, plus , your components will be much better in terms of thermals/life
Hello guys. I just wanted to know how is your XZ Premium's battery life after the September update (47.1.A.16.20). Because I am experiencing severe battery drain problem. I don't if it is bcoz of the update or my battery is damaged. Your valuable inputs would be appreciated.
I get through a day easily with normal use (WhatsApp, YouTube, Reddit etc.) and have about 20-30 % left in the evening (10 pm.) when I charge it.
Didn't notice much change after the update at all regarding performance or battery life.
Maybe check with an app, what is draining your battery in particular.
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Hello guys. I just wanted to know how is your XZ Premium's battery life after the September update (47.1.A.16.20). Because I am experiencing severe battery drain problem. I don't if it is bcoz of the update or my battery is damaged. Your valuable inputs would be appreciated.
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Reflash the software, do a full wipe/format and then see how it behaves.
Until that, it's difficult to know if it's an app draining it, a software bug or a hardware issue, although, I doubt it's a hardware issue.
Or, for the first step try disabling some apps you're not using. Go to settings-apps-apps info-select the top right menu dots-enable "show system" and then go through the list of apps and disable what you don't use.
One thing I did notice different is in the latest weather app, you can't have it monitor your location without using GPS any more, before it would allow location service to use battery saving mode, but since the last update it always turns on the GPS, which might drain a bit more battery.
Other than that, I haven't seen the battery life degrading or improving regardles of the software I use, it's the same as on Nougat, gets me through 3-4 days depending on usage.
Disclaimer, I don't use any social media or game on this phone. Apart from Viber and AliExpress app, there's not much else on it third-party, and I have disabled sixteen preinstalled apps, which indicates to me that the software alone is probably not the issue, rather some app draining the battery.
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I get through a day easily with normal use (WhatsApp, YouTube, Reddit etc.) and have about 20-30 % left in the evening (10 pm.) when I charge it.
Didn't notice much change after the update at all regarding performance or battery life.
Maybe check with an app, what is draining your battery in particular.
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Even I got through a day easily one month ago. But now the issue has become worse. I am afraid it would be a hardware issue. I will try resetting the device once I transfer all my files to my hard disk. Thanks for your suggestion .
Omario-242 said:
I get through a day easily with normal use (WhatsApp, YouTube, Reddit etc.) and have about 20-30 % left in the evening (10 pm.) when I charge it.
Didn't notice much change after the update at all regarding performance or battery life.
Maybe check with an app, what is draining your battery in particular.
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Atrax2010 said:
Reflash the software, do a full wipe/format and then see how it behaves.
Until that, it's difficult to know if it's an app draining it, a software bug or a hardware issue, although, I doubt it's a hardware issue.
Or, for the first step try disabling some apps you're not using. Go to settings-apps-apps info-select the top right menu dots-enable "show system" and then go through the list of apps and disable what you don't use.
One thing I did notice different is in the latest weather app, you can't have it monitor your location without using GPS any more, before it would allow location service to use battery saving mode, but since the last update it always turns on the GPS, which might drain a bit more battery.
Other than that, I haven't seen the battery life degrading or improving regardles of the software I use, it's the same as on Nougat, gets me through 3-4 days depending on usage.
Disclaimer, I don't use any social media or game on this phone. Apart from Viber and AliExpress app, there's not much else on it third-party, and I have disabled sixteen preinstalled apps, which indicates to me that the software alone is probably not the issue, rather some app draining the battery.
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Yes. I will transfer all my files to hdd once I receive the OTG cable tomorrow. and then I will reset the phone and update you about the status. Thanks for the reply
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I've got a brand new PH-1 and haven't yet had time to set it up properly, only started it up, let it update software and used for an hour or so before testing the idle battery drain.
I haven't installed any apps or changed any settings other than to disable the google app (to prevent it listening for or responding to "ok google"). I tried out the 360 camera, signed in to gmail and browsed a few websites, before charging back to full and restarting the phone before this test anyway.
But leaving it idle with the screen off and with phone network disabled (there's not even a SIM inserted), only wifi on with good signal, it lost 65% battery in under 22 hours. Screen on time was less than five minutes.
Is this a hardware issue I should RMA, or is it considered normal? If this is normal and there's no easy fix, I'll probably end up having to return the phone anyway for a refund, because if it can't even last a day and half in idle there's no way it would last a reasonable amount of time with normal usage.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Since there isn't a sim card installed, try going to airplane mode and then turning WIFI on.
I am getting about 1.2% drain with cell network and wifi enabled along with all my standard apps installed.
On a typical day with 1-2h SOT, I usually have 60-70% battery left at midnight. I'd try to reset the phone, and then testing again - occasionally a system update will end up doing something funny
I left it overnight with airplane mode on, so even wifi was off, and it's a little better but not by much. Screen on time was one minute.
With airplane mode on, screen off, no dodgy apps, the phone really shouldn't be doing anything to drain battery.
I'll try a full factory reset and see what happens.
Just to follow up, a full factory reset seems to have fixed the issue. Even after doing the same things I had done before (connected to wifi, updated, logged in to gmail, etc) the battery now drains at a much more sensible rate.
Very strange that a factory reset made a difference since it was new from the factory when I had the issue, but I guess something strange happened in the update like dsip suggested.
Thanks for the help!
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Just to follow up, a full factory reset seems to have fixed the issue. Even after doing the same things I had done before (connected to wifi, updated, logged in to gmail, etc) the battery now drains at a much more sensible rate.
Very strange that a factory reset made a difference since it was new from the factory when I had the issue, but I guess something strange happened in the update like dsip suggested.
Thanks for the help!
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That's ? percent normal behavior. Anytime you flash a ROM (new phone =new ROM) you need to wait a bare minimum of a charge cycle (more like three in my experience) before you get the slightest idea what your actual battery drain is going to look like. think of it like breaking in the engine on a new car.
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Hello everyone, I'm in trouble.
22 Ultra is simply eating battery at indescribable levels. Yesterday we went on a trip from work, I left my home with 100%. During the day I did not touch the phone, a bit of a camera but beyond that really nothing. My battery was about 40% after about 3 hours, with no screen use at all! On the other hand, a friend at work with Xiaomi came out with 100% and after 3 hours was on 85, and he did touch the phone here and there.
I don't know how that makes sense, and it's no longer clear to me what to do to solve the problem. I debloat, deleted and disabled a number of irrelevant apps but still, the battery is being eaten. How can I solve it? Please help me!
Draining battery so fast, 20% per hour while idle is not normal, so you definitely have a problem.
It looks that there are two possibilities here:
- Battery malfunction
- Some active process in the background that is using lots of processor power constantly.
If battery is damaged / not working properly, the only solution is to replace it. Still, this doesn't look like a case of duying battery.
If you have some persistent process running in the background that you can't get rid of by debloating, it can't be stopped by restarting the phone, and its not visible in the battery usage section, i would say that factory reset is the most effective option here, since you stated that you tried to deal with it in a various ways already.
You could also wait a bit until you get chance to update to OneUI 5 / Android 13, which should solve your problem, if it's software related.
Hope that you will find solution soon
draskome said:
Draining battery so fast, 20% per hour while idle is not normal, so you definitely have a problem.
It looks that there are two possibilities here:
- Battery malfunction
- Some active process in the background that is using lots of processor power constantly.
If battery is damaged / not working properly, the only solution is to replace it. Still, this doesn't look like a case of duying battery.
If you have some persistent process running in the background that you can't get rid of by debloating, it can't be stopped by restarting the phone, and its not visible in the battery usage section, i would say that factory reset is the most effective option here, since you stated that you tried to deal with it in a various ways already.
You could also wait a bit until you get chance to update to OneUI 5 / Android 13, which should solve your problem, if it's software related.
Hope that you will find solution soon
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I want to keep the factory reset as the last option....
Every single app that I don't need at the background I disabled from running in background.
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maor23 said:
I want to keep the factory reset as the last option....
Every single app that I don't need at the background I disabled from running in background.
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Try to wipe your system cache.....it won't do a factory reset but might solve the issue while keeping your phone as it is.
Volume UP button along with the power button until you see Android screen
Scroll down with volume down until you reach wipe system cache and reboot
sometimes, it won't show up while you press the buttons....in that case, connect your phone to your PC/Laptop with any USB C cable and then do it.
Second solution, you can try Samsungs App Booster.....get an apk from the net. It generally helps as well.