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I have tried several wm6 roms without much problems, however lately I've noticed that browsing for about an hour drains the battery by 50% from a full charge. I flashed back to official aku 3.3 wm5 rom but the drain is still there. On standby I have no drain problem at all. The phone (and its battery)is about 30 months old, is the battery at the end of its life?
Any help appreciated
regards stretch
wifi sucks a lot of juice, but the battery is getting old if you plan on keeping the phone for a while it doesnt hurt to have a spare battery
I think you might need to flash back to the officail wm5 rom a few time to clear up the corrupt extended rom that drains the battery.
As stated by others earlier, WiFi is tuff on the battery and the drain is visibly noticeable.
If you're experiencing battery drain during normal use try one or both of these:
1. Install the SD Battery fix
2. Run the Blank or Empty Extended Rom
Extended Rom residue from a previous Rom has been shown to contribute in battery drainage & so has the SD card.
dwny said:
As stated by others earlier, WiFi is tuff on the battery and the drain is visibly noticeable.
If you're experiencing battery drain during normal use try one or both of these:
1. Install the SD Battery fix
2. Run the Blank or Empty Extended Rom
Extended Rom residue from a previous Rom has been shown to contribute in battery drainage & so has the SD card.
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Do you know where I can get these two files from? I have tried a search but been unsuccessful. Thanks
zakhir_n said:
Do you know where I can get these two files from? I have tried a search but been unsuccessful. Thanks
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Get them here: TOOLz
dwny said:
Get them here: TOOLz
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thanks so much!!!
I have done the following already
Location services disabled
Google Now disabled
Location reporting disabled
Wifi Scanning disabled
wiped cache
G is still getting drained quick. Screen on time doesnt cross 2.5-3.5 hours . I keep wifi and 3g both on
Install an app like BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock Detector. They will show more information but require root.
Dexxon said:
Install an app like BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock Detector. They will show more information but require root.
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I am unrooted unrooted G's in the other xda moto g battery screenshot thread are getting a screen on time of 5-6 hours.. cant seem to be able to match their numbers even remotely
Do you have the brightness set to auto?
Dexxon said:
Do you have the brightness set to auto?
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actually yes, but could that be such a major drain factor??
Actually i don't really know but who knows? Since when are you facing this issue?
Dexxon said:
Actually i don't really know but who knows? Since when are you facing this issue?
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the device itself is about 10 day old. so can't pinpoint exactly
Seems to be a strange issue. Maybe you should give it some time. If it is not getting any better you should consider rooting and install a better battery app
You could try a factory reset
Verstuurd vanaf mijn XT1032 met Tapatalk
Battery drain app might give you some ideas, I'm averaging 0.85% hour with location and google now on
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WazaBe.android.BatteryDrain
There are threads and a bug report with Motorola regarding this. It seems sometimes once GPS is used the battery continues to drain at 1-3% per hour until you reboot.
It may not be the issue in your case but it looks likely as the drain you see when the phone is not awake looks very similar to the problem.
If it drains in airplane mode and the phone shows as never awake then its the same problem.
For now don't use GPS or if you do then reboot directly after.
eemgee said:
Battery drain app might give you some ideas, I'm averaging 0.85% hour with location and google now on
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WazaBe.android.BatteryDrain
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ok, installed it, will keep posting results
scott_doyland said:
There are threads and a bug report with Motorola regarding this. It seems sometimes once GPS is used the battery continues to drain at 1-3% per hour until you reboot.
It may not be the issue in your case but it looks likely as the drain you see when the phone is not awake looks very similar to the problem.
If it drains in airplane mode and the phone shows as never awake then its the same problem.
For now don't use GPS or if you do then reboot directly after.
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I have disabled location completely and haven't used GPS at all. But other phones in XDA seem to be getting awesome battery life despite GPS on
xgt001 said:
I have disabled location completely and haven't used GPS at all. But other phones in XDA seem to be getting awesome battery life despite GPS on
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If you use your camera, then that might be the problem. Google itself noted a bug in Kit Kat that may run down the battery if you use the camera. Do a search on Google for more details...
btw I found this article stating skype sucks battery, how true is it?? will keep posting any changes after uninstall
@emgee It's showing a drain of 2.8%/hr with wifi on
Prior to this early morning I had turned off data and wifi and I got a battery drop from 100% to 91% in about 7 hrs, is that Ok?
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I have disabled location completely and haven't used GPS at all. But other phones in XDA seem to be getting awesome battery life despite GPS on
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OK, it was just that he first screenshot showed GPS was used right at the start of the battery graph. I assume you have rebooted since then.
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OK, it was just that he first screenshot showed GPS was used right at the start of the battery graph. I assume you have rebooted since then.
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yeah have done.
So you suggest that battery saving option in Location is the best to use?? I have been following that thread
xgt001 said:
yeah have done.
So you suggest that battery saving option in Location is the best to use?? I have been following that thread
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If you are getting the weird drain issue that seems to be related to GPS then maybe best to use battery saving. Depends his bad you need GPS though. So up to you really.
battery drain around 2.5 % /hr . Basically havent been using phone after 82%
There are plenty of apps which supposedly save battery life majorly by real-time optimizations. The most popular seems to be Battery Doctor and Clean Master which also have very high ratings on Google Play. Does anybody use them? What's your experience on their battery impact? Do they really make any difference?
All I use is Greenify. It's an awesome app and a ton of people swear by it.
Honestly battery apps make it worse. Greenify is the exception.
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Greenify only. Nothing else.
Leandroid here..
Post 2, 3 and 4 sums it up. ?
I'm always running out of battery. I went dead in the first few hours today and then I used my Chromecast to watch the interview and was at 50% when I started. Screen off entire time 17% at the end. Now 15. Idk what to do about this drain. I've gotten lucky once with 4 hours screen on time though
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I'm always running out of battery. I went dead in the first few hours today and then I used my Chromecast to watch the interview and was at 50% when I started. Screen off entire time 17% at the end. Now 15. Idk what to do about this drain. I've gotten lucky once with 4 hours screen on time though
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Not sure why you'd expect good battery whilst casting. Its a massive battery drain, using wireless to send data. Especially large chunks over prolonged periods.
rootSU said:
Not sure why you'd expect good battery whilst casting. Its a massive battery drain, using wireless to send data. Especially large chunks over prolonged periods.
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It's not steaming from the device itself. Your phone is mostly the controller
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It's not steaming from the device itself. Your phone is mostly the controller
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I'm not convinced that's accurate, but even if you're right, there is a constant connection between Chromecast and your device, with wakelocks and large data usage.
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I'm not convinced that's accurate, but even if you're right, there is a constant connection between Chromecast and your device, with wakelocks and large data usage.
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That is definitely true! But even without casting I can't get over 3.5 hours sot
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That is definitely true! But even without casting I can't get over 3.5 hours sot
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Yes, sorry you're right. I've read up how Chromecast works and it is different to others, as you say.
It actually doesn't make sense that it would cause drain.
As for 3.5 hours screen, that's not abnormal.
rootSU said:
Yes, sorry you're right. I've read up how Chromecast works and it is different to others, as you say.
It actually doesn't make sense that it would cause drain.
As for 3.5 hours screen, that's not abnormal.
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I just don't know how I can get that to be higher. I was looking at gsam and trying to figure out wake locks but I don't understand it
DOBBY0 said:
I just don't know how I can get that to be higher. I was looking at gsam and trying to figure out wake locks but I don't understand it
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Did you visit the battery sticky thread?
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Did you visit the battery sticky thread?
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Yeah, I just haven't had much experience with tweaking my device for battery. I could use someone's help determining what kills my battery. I have lost 5% in 20minutes I've been awake
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Yeah, I just haven't had much experience with tweaking my device for battery. I could use someone's help determining what kills my battery. I have lost 5% in 20minutes I've been awake
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Run your phone until it's had a good run (80% battery used or something) and post as many gsam and android battery stats as possible in that thread. Use
tags so people dont have to load all pictures unless they want to. Make sure you go into teh battery graph in andoid and screenshot that and also into the big offenders, like screen so they can see how long things have ben running
Chromecast does not stream data from the phone unless its local media. If you want to see for yourself, stream a netflix movie and turn off your phone once it starts playing.
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Chromecast does not stream data from the phone unless its local media. If you want to see for yourself, stream a netflix movie and turn off your phone once it starts playing.
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Yes, we established that.
2 pages and not one useful screen shot of battery stats. ?
See post 4 in the battery thread in my signature, and provide some screen shots that are recommended.
Otherwise this is just going to go in circles. ?
Guys Im coming from a stock lollipop rom on my Nexus 5 and Im looking for a STABLE rom on my nexus 5 that provides much better battery life without performance sacrifice.. Any suggestions..??
My phone had been off the charger for 6 hours and I hadn't touched it. Looked and the battery was at 25%. And it was warm. Looked at the battery consumption and "Media Server" had used 75% of the power. I can't disable it there, and I can't even find it in Apps to try and disable it there. Google hasn't helped either.
Has anyone else seen this? Nougat and this is the first time I've seen the problem, but I've only had the phone for a few weeks, and Nougat for a few days.
What version of the device do you have? What OS/FW are you running?
If you use memory card, remove it or format it through the phone.
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My phone had been off the charger for 6 hours and I hadn't touched it. Looked and the battery was at 25%. And it was warm. Looked at the battery consumption and "Media Server" had used 75% of the power. I can't disable it there, and I can't even find it in Apps to try and disable it there. Google hasn't helped either.
Has anyone else seen this? Nougat and this is the first time I've seen the problem, but I've only had the phone for a few weeks, and Nougat for a few days.
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I have the same issue. I lost in 3 hours about 30-40% and dont use the Phone really. I had this problem since 2-3 days. Mediaserver is always at the first place with a big difference to the second place in the battery consumption. Have also Nougat
tevfik6638 said:
I have the same issue. I lost in 3 hours about 30-40% and dont use the Phone really. I had this problem since 2-3 days. Mediaserver is always at the first place with a big difference to the second place in the battery consumption. Have also Nougat
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Once I rebooted, I haven't had the problem since.
Hi,
Try running the phone in Safe Mode for a while, to see if it`s the system itself that is keeping it awake or one of the other apps. If this happens when using the device in Safe Mode a full factory reset should resolve this issue.
Cheers.
I had this problem last week. Google gave me a suggestion to go to Media Storage in the apps list(you need to show system processes) and clear the data/cache and the problem cleared right up.
amarryat said:
Once I rebooted, I haven't had the problem since.
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Yeah same here... Thx mate... :good:
I don't know what I did, but now every app, even streaming apps like Youtube and Twitch, seems to be pegging my tablet, making it warm and dramatically dropping the battery.
It started when I was playing a game and my battery was low. The K1 switched into battery saver mode which was killing my game performance, so I stupidly changed the power setting to max performance. I then plugged in and set the tablet back to normal. Now every app is killing my battery. I tried messing around with app optimization settings, which I never touched before, but that hasn't helped.
Any idea what I did and how I can fix it?
Battery really isn't great on this Tablet, I need to charge it at least once a Day. You could just try to use Better Battery Stats to identify the Rogue app, or as a last Resort Factory Reset. It could also very well be just Batter degradation.
The battery was fine for me before this incident. And it's not a single rogue app, it's all apps, which makes me think I've screwed up my general power/performance plan. Could I be stuck in Max Performance?
strells said:
The battery was fine for me before this incident. And it's not a single rogue app, it's all apps, which makes me think I've screwed up my general power/performance plan. Could I be stuck in Max Performance?
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Battery drain is caused by 5.3 update. Nvidia is working on this issue and new 5.4 will be released by the end of Jan. Meanwhile you can rollback 5.2 tho.
Well, if they are really going to fix the Battery then we can wait those few Days. Hopefully
NGowtham said:
Battery drain is caused by 5.3 update. Nvidia is working on this issue and new 5.4 will be released by the end of Jan. Meanwhile you can rollback 5.2 tho.
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This is a known issue with 5.3? Documented anywhere?
strells said:
This is a known issue with 5.3? Documented anywhere?
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Found on Nvidia forums. Many users reported the same issue.
Battery Drain Issues
NGowtham said:
Battery drain is caused by 5.3 update. Nvidia is working on this issue and new 5.4 will be released by the end of Jan. Meanwhile you can rollback 5.2 tho.
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How do we roll back to 5.2? Thanks!
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This is a known issue with 5.3? Documented anywhere?
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I have the same/similar problem. I used to be able to get 6 hours or so SOT with relatively light tasks like streaming video, web browsing, etc. On 5.3, I get about 2 hours (maybe less). And the tablet gets very warm near the power/vol buttons (didn't use to).
A few other users complained about battery drain on the 5.3 update thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75007359&postcount=43
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75322052&postcount=55
ltcbing said:
How do we roll back to 5.2? Thanks!
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Before proceeding do remember it will wipe all your data on the device. Do at your own risk!
1. Enable developer mode on your tablet then download & install Minimal fastboot and ADB on to your PC (you can find 'em on XDA)
2. Download Recovery image.
3. Find "NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1 Recovery OS Image " and the version should be 5.2
4. Download the zip file from the link above and extract them.
5. Copy the extracted file to the Minimal fastboot and ADB location.
6. Connect the device to your PC and type "adb reboot bootloader" on 'cmd-here.exe' (found on the above mentioned install location)
7. To flash this recovery image, run the following commands:
-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
-fastboot flash boot boot.img
-fastboot flash system system.img
-fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
-fastboot flash staging blob
8. Reboot your device and you are good to go!
DM me if you have any doubt!
Sorry for jumping in, but I did reroll mine back to 5.2 a while ago (seen it elsewhere - just found this thread here) and it did nothing actually. Still huge drain no matter what I'm doing... I guess the battery just sucks and it's gone "already".
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Sorry for jumping in, but I did reroll mine back to 5.2 a while ago (seen it elsewhere - just found this thread here) and it did nothing actually. Still huge drain no matter what I'm doing... I guess the battery just sucks and it's gone "already".
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I downgraded mine to Marshmallow! Damn its snappy af. No unnecessary battery drain at all.
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I downgraded mine to Marshmallow! Damn its snappy af. No unnecessary battery drain at all.
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Wow! Which exact version did you flash? Did you get it from that NVIDIA developer website?
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Wow! Which exact version did you flash? Did you get it from that NVIDIA developer website?
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v1.5 and yes.
I guess the battery degradation is quite fast on the Shield Tablet. Heat is really bad for a battery, and it's not good for the battery to use the device while charging either. When playing games you have to have it plugged in to get more then like 1 hour SOT. And we all know how hot it can get.
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Sorry for jumping in, but I did reroll mine back to 5.2 a while ago (seen it elsewhere - just found this thread here) and it did nothing actually. Still huge drain no matter what I'm doing...
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No joy for me either, downgrading to 5.2. First tried a "dirty flash" (using TWRP) keeping user data, and the battery drain and heat continued. Then tried a clean flash of 5.2. Maybe seemed better for a couple days (hard to tell for sure . . . maybe just placebo) but now the power drain and heat issue are back.
Strangely, I didn't have this problem on 5.2 before. And in fact, I think 5.3 was fine for a couple months, but just started draining the battery recently (past few weeks). So those fact tend to make me think it has something to do with user data.
Another observation, is that battery drain seems to be fine when viewing video files saved locally on the tablet/SD, or reading ebooks saved on the tablet/SD. But doing anything that requires WiFi, such as video streaming or even just browsing webpages, makes the battery level plumment, and the battery gets very warm.
redpoint73 said:
No joy for me either, downgrading to 5.2. First tried a "dirty flash" (using TWRP) keeping user data, and the battery drain and heat continued. Then tried a clean flash of 5.2. Maybe seemed better for a couple days (hard to tell for sure . . . maybe just placebo) but now the power drain and heat issue are back.
Strangely, I didn't have this problem on 5.2 before. And in fact, I think 5.3 was fine for a couple months, but just started draining the battery recently (past few weeks). So those fact tend to make me think it has something to do with user data.
Another observation, is that battery drain seems to be fine when viewing video files saved locally on the tablet/SD, or reading ebooks saved on the tablet/SD. But doing anything that requires WiFi, such as video streaming or even just browsing webpages, makes the battery level plumment, and the battery gets very warm.
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Dude! That's EXACTLY my situation. I never had this problem before on 5.2, as well as the 5.3 was fine for some time. The issue started about a month ago. I also noticed this exact same thing you said about doing anything that requires WiFi.
Another relevant point is: standby battery life is GREAT. If the battery was that bad, wasn't it supposed to drain also on standby? I'm not really into technical stuff but it makes sense to me thinking like that.
NGowtham said:
I downgraded mine to Marshmallow! Damn its snappy af. No unnecessary battery drain at all.
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I'll have to give this a shot. I've tried everything else so far, including Lineage 14.1 and RR ROMs. Lineage eliminated the heat and battery drain, but has some OpenGL related issues, and of course leaves the device uncertified as an unofficial build.