huge battery loss even in deep sleep - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Wifi off, mobile data off, gps and location reporting is off, maps is signed out. This started to happen a few days ago which was like 40% after 8-10hrs of deep sleep now its dropped to 1-3% per hour. I used to have 1% drop every 8hrs of deep sleep.
Stock rom, franco r32 kernel, no oc.
Ive attached a history of my bbs and the latest 3-4hr test showing andriod battery stats.

EarlZ said:
Wifi off, mobile data off, gps and location reporting is off, maps is signed out. This started to happen a few days ago which was like 40% after 8-10hrs of deep sleep now its dropped to 1-3% per hour. I used to have 1% drop every 8hrs of deep sleep.
Stock rom, franco r32 kernel, no oc.
Ive attached a history of my bbs and the latest 3-4hr test showing andriod battery stats.
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Thats relatively normal. I get around a 1-2% drop per hour normally. If you really got 1% every 8 hours, please tell me how. If I unplug my phone at 8AM and not use it till 12PM, I usually have around 94%. I'm also running franco and I've under clocked to 1.5GHz.

Did you turn on sweep or tap to wake, by any chance? I gave up on those and my battery life was much improved.
1%/hr was the best I could do with dt2w, now I get much better battery using volume to wake.

aooga said:
Thats relatively normal. I get around a 1-2% drop per hour normally. If you really got 1% every 8 hours, please tell me how. If I unplug my phone at 8AM and not use it till 12PM, I usually have around 94%. I'm also running franco and I've under clocked to 1.5GHz.
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I assure you 1% per hour is NOT normal on the settings I have. Ive been getting 1% drop per 8hrs ever since I got the device and only on maybe 2-3 rare instances I've gotten a huge drop but starting around the end of January I've been getting at least 1% drop per 8hrs.

roustabout said:
Did you turn on sweep or tap to wake, by any chance? I gave up on those and my battery life was much improved.
1%/hr was the best I could do with dt2w, now I get much better battery using volume to wake.
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I dont have any of those features enabled, are they even on the franco kernel ?

EarlZ said:
I assure you 1% per hour is NOT normal on the settings I have. Ive been getting 1% drop per 8hrs ever since I got the device and only on maybe 2-3 rare instances I've gotten a huge drop but starting around the end of January I've been getting at least 1% drop per 8hrs.
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Hmm. It's normal for me. I have the same settings as you. I've turned off auto sync as well and underclocked to 1.5GHz.

aooga said:
Hmm. It's normal for me. I have the same settings as you. I've turned off auto sync as well and underclocked to 1.5GHz.
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Aite, thats good if its normal for you. But on my end its not and Im would like to find a solution altho my BBS stats is not showing anything relevant.

EarlZ said:
Aite, thats good if its normal for you. But on my end its not and Im would like to find a solution altho my BBS stats is not showing anything relevant.
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What I'm telling you is what your getting is normal for the majority or users. The only thing that I can suggest is to factory reset.
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What is this: No or Unknown Signal (): 9 h 27 m 21 s (34041 s) Ratio: 100.0%
If you really had no signal for that long, battery will drain really fast. By the looks of the screenshot, you have pretty good signal though.
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aooga said:
What I'm telling you is what your getting is normal for the majority or users. The only thing that I can suggest is to factory reset.
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What is this: No or Unknown Signal (): 9 h 27 m 21 s (34041 s) Ratio: 100.0%
If you really had no signal for that long, battery will drain really fast. By the looks of the screenshot, you have pretty good signal though.
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I may perform a factory reset/flash back to stock and just have root for BBS after I do 1-2 battery charge calibrations.
I also dont know why its saying No or Unknown signal but signal is pretty good. Max bars the entire time.

I have sync on. Location set to high accuracy running Cataclysm with linaro version of franco kernel and leaving my wifi on i get 1-2 % drop overnight
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Expected SOT

Hi,
recently I bought N5 and I am very pleased with it. I could say that I love it. But I am worried about my battery. When I was buying it, the dealer at my carrier store, was hiding the box when opening it from me. I think that the box was not sealed any more ( i dont know if it is only in my country but here it's usuall that when buying a new phone they cut the sticker on the box infront of you). When I called at my store they said that they had only one more. And I am worried that the phone was used befor me for showcasing in the store. My battery usually lasts for two days ( I also have N7 so when on university i use N7 for heavy work) but barely get 3 hours of SOT. Wifi and 4G mostly off and brightness at minimum or max at 30% if on sun. Assistant of, gps of, ART on, using snapdragon BatteryGuru. I would really like to know what SOT should I get with this settings. And if you guys think I should go for warranty and hope that they replace my battery. Is there any way of seeing if the phone was already factory reset? Also I saw guys getting 5-6 hours SOT with wifi on here on XDA. Don't get me wrong I love the standby time but when using it (FB, twitter, messaging, browsing Chrome, 2 mail syncing) the battery drains like F1 car drains gas. If this is somewhere answered close the thread and point me there . Thank you
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screen on time is totally dependent on personal usage.
the best thing to do would be to root it and install 'better battery stats'. then you can analyze your battery properly. feel free to let this run for a full discharge and then post your screenshots
Yeah the problem with SOT is purely personal and that is why I posted here to see what you guys think. But still it is interesting to see how different the time can be from user to user. Will post screenshots in the evening.
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BombasMirko said:
using snapdragon BatteryGuru
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remove this. It doesn't help and if anything, it makes it worse
The battery drains whether the screen is on or off. If you're getting two days of use with 3 hours sot I would say that's ok. You might get 5 hours if you drained the battery in a day. Does that make sense? It does in my head!
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Ok so I removed Battery guru. And here are my stats from today (this was not my normal day of using it). Through the day the screen was almost constantly at the same level of brightness. And a lot of wifi and even 4g usage. But my battery could be draining a bit faster too because of not that good cellular coverage.
As pepdavies said with my normal use probably I would get closer to 4 hours if I would draind a battery in a day. .
Can I aske one more question? If I charge my phone over night and phone is off, will it overcharge my battery the same way as it would if it was on?
BombasMirko said:
Ok so I removed Battery guru. And here are my stats from today (this was not my normal day of using it). Through the day the screen was almost constantly at the same level of brightness. And a lot of wifi and even 4g usage. But my battery could be draining a bit faster too because of not that good cellular coverage.
As pepdavies said with my normal use probably I would get closer to 4 hours if I would draind a battery in a day. .
Can I aske one more question? If I charge my phone over night and phone is off, will it overcharge my battery the same way as it would if it was on?
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ive always charged my android devices overnight while they are on, nothing bad comes from it. you will be fine. i do it on my nexus 5 every night, yet still see at least 5 hours sot every battery cycle(5+ hours sot because i use lte exclusively, it gives better battery life than 3g/2g).
BombasMirko said:
... If I charge my phone over night and phone is off, will it overcharge my battery the same way as it would if it was on?
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You can leave the phone plugged in 24/7/365, on or off, and it will never overcharge, whatever that may mean. Nor will it overheat, slow down, melt, or explode.
I got 7 hours of screen on time by having the screen on a low brightness but that is only practical in a dark environment. I've also disabled a lot of google stuff and uninstalled google+ which was destroying 20% of the battery regularly. Generally 5 hours of screen on time using lux to lower brightness levels but to a point where the screen still looks nice
4 hours sot is typical for stock
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i dont really see how anyone can enjoy using there phone at minimum brightness unless its in a dark room i keep mine at 25% and it looks damn good using a tweaked gamma profile. Regarding battery i average 4.30 hours screen on time and 23 hours total with wifi only mostly web browsing and as said already there will be no harm in charging your phone overnight when i wake up its at 100% and battery temp is at around 24c
PhilipTD said:
You can leave the phone plugged in 24/7/365, on or off, and it will never overcharge, whatever that may mean. Nor will it overheat, slow down, melt, or explode.
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you are right that it will never overcharge, it is not optimal to keep your device with a full charge of battery for an extended period of time. by extended period of time i mean 5+ days
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fedor12 said:
i dont really see how anyone can enjoy using there phone at minimum brightness unless its in a dark room i keep mine at 25% and it looks damn good using a tweaked gamma profile. Regarding battery i average 4.30 hours screen on time and 23 hours total with wifi only mostly web browsing and as said already there will be no harm in charging your phone overnight when i wake up its at 100% and battery temp is at around 24c
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there are many people in this world and we all have our own likes and dislikes.
when im outside I enjoy being outside and do not use my device except to check a notification or two. so when im inside and in an average lit room, I can drop the brightness to about 15% and that is enough for me. remember, lighting the screen is the phone's biggest battery hog. any decrease to this will increase your SoT. I enjoy getting an extra 2 hours out of my device before i have to be tied to a power cord
that said, im waiting for my zerolemon battery case to ship and can't wait

Bad battery life on my recent Nexus 5

Hello,
I got a second Nexus 5 after my first one suddenly developed a modem fault and refused to work in 2G areas. This time, I got one in red, used, manufactured in March 2014. The phone is in great condition and is as good as new.
Problem is, the battery life is really bad. I'm on stock rom with ElementalX 1.12 and despite undervolting by -25 on all frequencies, my battery life is as shown in the images below. I easily got 3.5-4 hours of SOT with some 15-20% battery remaining on my previous Nexus 5 which I got in December 2013. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is the only phone I can afford right now and I'll have to live with this purchase till at least next year. Thank you.
P.S: I'm down to 22% within the last 30 minutes with an extra 10 minutes of SoT while doing nothing but keeping the screen active.
How's your signal?
Signal is generally good. I was travelling to a remote location today hence the poorer signal but on any day, my battery is pretty much the same. Especially now that I'm back home with a solid signal, it's still dropping battery.
whisky_ said:
Hello,
I got a second Nexus 5 after my first one suddenly developed a modem fault and refused to work in 2G areas. This time, I got one in red, used, manufactured in March 2014. The phone is in great condition and is as good as new.
Problem is, the battery life is really bad. I'm on stock rom with ElementalX 1.12 and despite undervolting by -25 on all frequencies, my battery life is as shown in the images below. I easily got 3.5-4 hours of SOT with some 15-20% battery remaining on my previous Nexus 5 which I got in December 2013. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is the only phone I can afford right now and I'll have to live with this purchase till at least next year. Thank you.
P.S: I'm down to 22% within the last 30 minutes with an extra 10 minutes of SoT while doing nothing but keeping the screen active.
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your battery is fine. the longer you go without charging, the shorter amount of screen time youre gonna get. im a heavy user, and use up my battery within 10 hours, but i see 5h sot every day. you are using closer to 24 hours but are seeing 3.5-4h sot. i see nothing wrong with your battery. lower your brightness some and youll see better battery. keep your brightness around 20%.
20 hours, 33% remaining, what's the issue? 3hrs SoT is what is to be expected without reducing the settings that drain your battery. A small undervolt and custom kernel aren't going to affect your run time noticeably, so you've actually yet to do anything significant to increase battery life. That would require adjusting settings to maximize run time.
For more information, see the battery help thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-life-help-troubleshoot-battery-t2785128
EDIT - just saw it was already linked.
Hello,
I am using nexus 5 for couple of days now. Recently I am getting this running process "mm-qcamera-daemon" which is eating 31% of my battery life. (Check my screenshots attached) which is even greater than screen % of about 16% only.
The battery drains real quick. Even though I reboot the phone,it doesn't work.
I also keep getting error message of "cannot connect to camera".
Romush,
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romusht said:
Hello,
I am using nexus 5 for couple of days now. Recently I am getting this running process "mm-qcamera-daemon" which is eating 31% of my battery life. (Check my screenshots attached) which is even greater than screen % of about 16% only.
The battery drains real quick. Even though I reboot the phone,it doesn't work.
I also keep getting error message of "cannot connect to camera".
Romush,
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reboot to get rid of the battery loss. and where did you buy your n5? and is a warrenty exchange possible? since your having camera issues as well. you can try going to the main settings, apps, yhen find the camera app and clear its data.
Hi simms22,
I cleared the app data and rebooted. But still same mm-qcamera-daemon is still there eating up my 31% battery.
Is that a bug or issue with my ROM??
I bought it from 3rd person so no exchange possible.
Should I be worried about my battery??
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romusht said:
Hi simms22,
I cleared the app data and rebooted. But still same mm-qcamera-daemon is still there eating up my 31% battery.
Is that a bug or issue with my ROM??
I bought it from 3rd person so no exchange possible.
Should I be worried about my battery??
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it could be a bug with the rom you are running, if its a custom rom. if so, id flash the factory img first. btw, which version of android is running? anyways, if after flashing the factory img it still happens, i suspect a hardware issue if your camera is not working. so, after a full run, it uses that much battery or is that only in the very beginning, when you just start using after unplugging?
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romusht said:
Hi simms22,
I cleared the app data and rebooted. But still same mm-qcamera-daemon is still there eating up my 31% battery.
Is that a bug or issue with my ROM??
I bought it from 3rd person so no exchange possible.
Should I be worried about my battery??
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ok, i didn't see the screenshot before. i see. do you use the camera?
Hi simms22,
I am using stock ROM running on andrioid 4.4.4
This issue doesn't always arise. But happens In like 3-4 days.
Yes I do use the camera.
When I reboot it. It works fine for couple of days again.
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romusht said:
Hi simms22,
I am using stock ROM running on andrioid 4.4.4
This issue doesn't always arise. But happens In like 3-4 days.
Yes I do use the camera.
When I reboot it. It works fine for couple of days again.
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ok, then you just have the normal bug with the daemon. after using the cam, reboot. and that should keep it from appearing mostly.
The bug is bugging me. Whenever you need the camera most it shows the error.
Anything you can help me with again.
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romusht said:
The bug is bugging me. Whenever you need the camera most it shows the error.
Anything you can help me with again.
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just clearing the camera apps data and rebooting.
How long does it take for your nexus charge with 5V 1.2A adaptor??
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romusht said:
How long does it take for your nexus charge with 5V 1.2A adaptor??
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About 4 hours on my wireless pad mate (throws out about 1.0 amp)
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romusht said:
How long does it take for your nexus charge with 5V 1.2A adaptor??
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100 minutes with a dual usb 4.1 amp charger

Battery Life Discussion

Before purchasing, I was a little concerned about the amount of battery time between charges on the S6. I picked up the phone yesterday and was able to get 4+ hours of Screen On Time (SOT) with my first full charge. I didn't think that was too bad. I think the fact that it is a new device, I tend to "play" with it more in the beginning. I'm hoping it will get better as it settles into my routine. I still am a little concerned though as I didn't even have an hour of talk time to go along with the SOT, didn't stream music, play any games or really use any other apps. It's been quite a while since I've had a smaller sized battery in a phone I've owned so I may be hoping for too much when it comes to battery life. I had the LG G2, Galaxy S5, LG G3 and Note 4 prior to purchasing the the S6. I love the phone and don't plan on switching. I just thought I would get others opinions on it.
Battery life is bad. This is what it predicts for me. I get 15 hours basically with only chat and web browsing. I sleep off the charger and the phone loses 10-12%
Gps and playing music during a drive just gave me 4 hours. I'm trying to break the battery in by bringing it to 5% and recharging, but this is laughable.
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Here's what I've got for the day
So far I'm not happy with the battery life. I'm coming from a G3, where the phone would stay at 100% for several hours, and by the end of the day would be anywhere from 30-50%. I received my S6 yesterday, got everything set back up and use the same apps as my G3, but within a couple minutes the battery was already at 99%, then 20 minutes later was in the mid 90's.
This is the first full day on a charge, with very light use, and this is what I have so far:
Taken off the charger around 6AM at 100%, and now at 7PM it's at 13%.
13 hours on battery
1h 32m SOT
I installed Greenify and GSAM battery monitor, hopefully that will help.
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So far I'm not happy with the battery life. I'm coming from a G3, where the phone would stay at 100% for several hours, and by the end of the day would be anywhere from 30-50%. I received my S6 yesterday, got everything set back up and use the same apps as my G3, but within a couple minutes the battery was already at 99%, then 20 minutes later was in the mid 90's.
This is the first full day on a charge, with very light use, and this is what I have so far:
Taken off the charger around 6AM at 100%, and now at 7PM it's at 13%.
13 hours on battery
1h 32m SOT
I installed Greenify and GSAM battery monitor, hopefully that will help.
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I think we've been spoiled by the LG batteries and then I went to the Note 4 so that doesn't help my comparison either. Today was better for me then yesterday though. Yesterday I was ready to take it back and tell them to keep it. Right now I've been off the charger for 90 mins. I'm down to 91% with 24 mins of calls and 23 mins of SOT.
So far my battery life is soso. Took off charger at 5:40am Saturday morning Eastern time. Currently at 21% with fairly light usage. Texting, little bit of Web browsing, some reading on Kindle app. I expect with normal usage I'll probably get in the 15-16 hour range. Which is uninspiring. perhaps an update will increase efficiency.
Cell standby is the #1 drain for me, comparible to many of the complaints in the main S6 forum prior to the vzw variant being released.

			
				
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Here's what I've got for the dayView attachment 3257442View attachment 3257444View attachment 3257445View attachment 3257446
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I think that is pretty good. Over 5 hours SOT and still 16% battery life left. Anything over 5 hours is very....very...good.
Looks to me like if they fix that cell standby bug we'll have a monster of a phone. 5 hours screen on time and its only 10% of the battery drain.... I'm curious to know if this cell standby bug is just a mistake in how battery stats are being reported.
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I've seen a big improvement in battery today. No change in use. I have over 2 hours of talk and over 3.5 hours of SOT. Still have 22% and it's been 18.5 hours since the charge. My concerns are starting to go away.
Ok so here's all my info for you guys... I am on Verizon, and turned off the VOLTE calling when I got the phone based on the stuff I'd read. I had high cell standby usage. I turned it back on and it went awY to normal.levels, even with WiFi on all day and crappy signal.
I am using Nova launcher, and no theme. I do use a black background, basically a picture of a clear night sky with tons of stars. The day in the picture was a day of heavy Waze use with screen on, heavy Web surfing and some youtube. As few texts and some bacon reader.
I don't see volte calling anywhere I settings. I see "advanced calling". Is that it?
Verizon GS6
sd0070 said:
I don't see volte calling anywhere I settings. I see "advanced calling". Is that it?
Verizon GS6
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Yes
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The problem doesn't seem to be SOT, but standby time. When I use the phone for an extended period of time, such as when I'm in bed for an hour, I only loose a few percent. However it seems to drain nearly as fast when it's in my pocket. This is why some get 5 hours of SOT while people like me who dont use it much are lucky to get 2 hours. Standby time seems to max out around 12-14 hours.
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The problem doesn't seem to be SOT, but standby time. When I use the phone for an extended period of time, such as when I'm in bed for an hour, I only loose a few percent. However it seems to drain nearly as fast when it's in my pocket. This is why some get 5 hours of SOT while people like me who dont use it much are lucky to get 2 hours. Standby time seems to max out around 12-14 hours.
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Yep I noticed this, got mine yesterday and to sleep at 89 percent woke up at 79. Lost 10%. Hopefully an updates helps because while in use It's fine.
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My Verizon S6 (64GB black) also has Cell Standby as the number one drain on the battery. It's significant compared to my Note 4, where Cell Standby is much lower on the list, and which loses a lot less battery power when idle compared to the S6. Doing a full factory reset, wiping cache doesn't change this fact on my device. Good to see that others have this issue, though I wonder if Samsung/Verizon will really do anything to address it. I love some aspects of the Galaxy S6, but the battery life is an issue for me.
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The problem doesn't seem to be SOT, but standby time. When I use the phone for an extended period of time, such as when I'm in bed for an hour, I only loose a few percent. However it seems to drain nearly as fast when it's in my pocket. This is why some get 5 hours of SOT while people like me who dont use it much are lucky to get 2 hours. Standby time seems to max out around 12-14 hours.
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Yeah, this is exactly what I see. My S6 lost 11% of battery as it idled while I slept, with Cell Standby as the largest user of battery (by far) during that time. It has to be a bug, as my Note 4 (with Lollipop) doesn't have this issue.
So my first two cycles on Friday and Saturday were pretty normal and the phone idled incredibly. Then all of a sudden the last couple of cycles (and this one I'm on now apparently) are being killed by Google Play Services, even while idle. I hate that app (not really). I wish it was more clear what within it was eating up the battery.
My experience: Got a S6 Edge from Verizon Apr 10. I was having data issues where I couldn't load pages even though it said 4G. My Cell Standby was pretty high 30%-40%. I was attributing the poor reception to the Cell Standby. They finally gave me a new phone yesterday. The data issue was fixed but my Cell Standby is still high at 30% (I turned off Advanced Calling). I'm assuming this isn't a hardware issue unless I'm really unlucky.

Try this and report if your battery life gets better

Friends,
I'm currently using H990DS from Taiwan, normally the phone lasts until 5pm (about 2h30 - 3h screen on). This happened with all my previous devices with promised good battery life like Note 4 or G2. I only installed standard apps like facebook (i know it drained battery), instagram, flipboard...
So yesterday, I did something that today, the battery improved greatly. It's currently at 49% battery with 3h15min screen on, of which over 2h45min of Clash Royale (over wifi)!
So you can try this and maybe it will improve your battery life. I know it work for me, not sure about everyone else.
Step 1: Go to https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard
Step 2: On Audio, may be you see the Audio history is Enable. Please disable it. What it does I believe is to turn off Ok Google detection.
Let's report if you have better battery after.
I will try it. Thanks
Will try as well.
I'll give it a go as well.
I'll try too, it's here to disable btw https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
trongnghia2411 said:
Friends,
I'm currently using H990DS from Taiwan, normally the phone lasts until 5pm (about 2h30 - 3h screen on). This happened with all my previous devices with promised good battery life like Note 4 or G2. I only installed standard apps like facebook (i know it drained battery), instagram, flipboard...
So yesterday, I did something that today, the battery improved greatly. It's currently at 49% battery with 3h15min screen on, of which over 2h45min of Clash Royale (over wifi)!
So you can try this and maybe it will improve your battery life. I know it work for me, not sure about everyone else.
Step 1: Go to https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard
Step 2: On Audio, may be you see the Audio history is Enable. Please disable it. What it does I believe is to turn off Ok Google detection.
Let's report if you have better battery after.
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I just did this and now the google assistant will not work without audio turned on and I am sure the Android Auto in my Truck will no longer work either.
xbmoyx said:
I just did this and now the google assistant will not work without audio turned on and I am sure the Android Auto in my Truck will no longer work either.
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That's correct, I believe this disabled audio features like Google assistant and the like.
thank you, always good to know
Day 1: No obvious change, at 50% with about 2 hrs of screen on time, just like before. Although my use case may be odd, since no matter what I've done by the end of the day my phone idle takes anywhere between 10-20% in the battery usage menu. Anyone else seeing this?
I don't use google assistant so I disabled this, the battery gets better. So don't do this if you rely on Google Now or Google Assistant...
p_pal2000 said:
Day 1: No obvious change, at 50% with about 2 hrs of screen on time, just like before. Although my use case may be odd, since no matter what I've done by the end of the day my phone idle takes anywhere between 10-20% in the battery usage menu. Anyone else seeing this?
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Maybe some app is constantly refresh in the background?
My phone drop 1% per hour in idle.
trongnghia2411 said:
Maybe some app is constantly refresh in the background?
My phone drop 1% per hour in idle.
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I use gsam battery monitor but it just says that the Android system takes up the most battery, and it also shows less than 20 alarms and less than maybe 30 wakelocks per day so it's weird.
p_pal2000 said:
I use gsam battery monitor but it just says that the Android system takes up the most battery, and it also shows less than 20 alarms and less than maybe 30 wakelocks per day so it's weird.
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I suggest you update all the apps, clear the cache in Smart Cleaning. Then restart the phone.
If you it doesn't get better, I think you should remove the battery for 2 mins. plug it back, charge to 100%, use the phone till 0% then charge to 100% again to see if it gets better
trongnghia2411 said:
I suggest you update all the apps, clear the cache in Smart Cleaning. Then restart the phone.
If you it doesn't get better, I think you should remove the battery for 2 mins. plug it back, charge to 100%, use the phone till 0% then charge to 100% again to see if it gets better
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Already done all of this previously. I guess I will try once more.
disabled it now, i'll test it tomorrow and will give my feedback in the next few days
So it's been over a week I think since the last post, I find that under my usage (medium to heavy) I get around 4 hours screen on time consistently. In the picture shown, I had around 55% battery with about 2 hours screen on time. However, what I don't get is the phone idle time battery usage. Just look in the picture and you will see what I mean. Furthermore, for half of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, which makes it even stranger. If anyone else is getting something like this or has any suggestions/requires further info, please let me/us know.
p_pal2000 said:
So it's been over a week I think since the last post, I find that under my usage (medium to heavy) I get around 4 hours screen on time consistently. In the picture shown, I had around 55% battery with about 2 hours screen on time. However, what I don't get is the phone idle time battery usage. Just look in the picture and you will see what I mean. Furthermore, for half of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, which makes it even stranger. If anyone else is getting something like this or has any suggestions/requires further info, please let me/us know.
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You have been using the phone for 15 hrs or more. Yes you used it for 2 hours SOT but for 13 hrs it was idle, that is why phone idle is the biggest battery drain imho. Anyway try using the mart cleaner, it may help reduce idle time battery usages.
Sot is a horrible reference point. You could be using maps in with the screen off, streaming music with the screen off. There's all kinds of things while the screen is off that can consume battery. If your phone can get you through most of the day without a charge you're good. Stop putting so much emphasis on sot..
RdT21 said:
You have been using the phone for 15 hrs or more. Yes you used it for 2 hours SOT but for 13 hrs it was idle, that is why phone idle is the biggest battery drain imho. Anyway try using the mart cleaner, it may help reduce idle time battery usages.
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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Swizzle82 said:
Sot is a horrible reference point. You could be using maps in with the screen off, streaming music with the screen off. There's all kinds of things while the screen is off that can consume battery. If your phone can get you through most of the day without a charge you're good. Stop putting so much emphasis on sot..
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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Swizzle82 said:
Sot is a horrible reference point. You could be using maps in with the screen off, streaming music with the screen off. There's all kinds of things while the screen is off that can consume battery. If your phone can get you through most of the day without a charge you're good. Stop putting so much emphasis on sot..
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Also, for most of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, just sitting in my pocket(I would say about 8 hours of the day or maybe a bit more or less), and the pictures show are similar to what I do every day, and I also use airplane mode the same way every day.
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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Also, for most of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, just sitting in my pocket(I would say about 8 hours of the day or maybe a bit more or less), and the pictures show are similar to what I do every day, and I also use airplane mode the same way every day.
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Do you have volte enabled? Lg ims is volte. If you have greenify and see lg ims waking your phone 400 times then that is your issue.

Why am I getting such a poor battery life?

Hello xda community
Just bought this phone few days ago(brand new) and I'm experiencing bad battery life(at least for me).
So, I installed those apps: Whatsapp, Snapchat, Instagram, Sofascore, Deezer, Uber and of course GSam Battery. These are apps that i've always used and never had problems with them in a term of battery life.
First major problem is idle. So, what the hell, first night went to sleep with 100%, woke up 7 hours later with 80%, so I went into settings and disabled wifi always on and the other night it was better but still bad, went to sleep with 100 and woke up with 87%...
Second problem is SOT, I've been using phone for messaging mostly, some browsing and taking pictures and that's it, only on WIFI and NO GAMING at all and right now I have freaking 3 hours SOT and only 26% of juice left which is awful for me. I used to have that SOT with Galaxy S6 and that phone is known to have very very VERY bad battery life..Forget to mention: loacation off, data off, bluetooth off
Do you have some advice? What can be so power-thirsty on my device?
I will post screenshots with all my instaled apps and all the battery stats
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In other terms this phone is a beast even in 2017. Performance is even better that on my dad's S7, camera is really good, I kinda like EMUI but battery is really starting to be a porblem for me so please help me if you can. Thank you very much.
Here are pics
Day #3
7 AM 100%
Data on, wifi off, blutooth off, location off
3 PM 30% with 1,5 SOT,
Can someone please help I'm really getting bad battery life..
ivanlaki said:
Day #3
7 AM 100%
Data on, wifi off, blutooth off, location off
3 PM 30% with 1,5 SOT,
Can someone please help I'm really getting bad battery life..
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I am also facing the same problem although not to your extend.. I am losing close to 10% by night and SOT is close to 4 hours when gaming.. Currenly running b340 build on frd 02
ivanlaki said:
Here are pics
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Did you try factory reset.it helps a lot when you facing drain.
ivanlaki said:
Here are pics
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Install BetterBatteryStats to know more what's eating your battery.
Update after 20 days of usage:
Most awsome thing is idle.. i turn on airplane mode when i go to sleep, wifi is on(but set to never stay active), and after 8 hours of sleepong, literally 0% of juice is used. Amazing. And through the day, when I have data turned on, i check my phone 2 hours later and maybe 1-2% is used :good:
SOT is always different, depends a lot(A LOT) on usage, from 2,5 (data on, bluetooth for headphones, camera,maybe location turned on sometimes etc) to 5 hours (wifi only, bluetooth location and data turned off). I think battery life is okay, what makes it great is that 20-30 minutes is enough to charge a lot of juice with quick charging
ivanlaki said:
Update after 20 days of usage:
Most awsome thing is idle.. i turn on airplane mode when i go to sleep, wifi is on(but set to never stay active), and after 8 hours of sleepong, literally 0% of juice is used. Amazing. And through the day, when I have data turned on, i check my phone 2 hours later and maybe 1-2% is used :good:
SOT is always different, depends a lot(A LOT) on usage, from 2,5 (data on, bluetooth for headphones, camera,maybe location turned on sometimes etc) to 5 hours (wifi only, bluetooth location and data turned off). I think battery life is okay, what makes it great is that 20-30 minutes is enough to charge a lot of juice with quick charging
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How much total SOT you get??
hassanjavaid8181 said:
How much total SOT you get??
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Sorry my post is confusing..
So, average 4 hours, but if I tend to use a phone heavily than not more than 2.5-3 hours. When I say heavily than I mean data on all the time, brightness above 60%, some bluetooth connection, lots of social media and browsing the internet.
When I'm at home, wifi on and data off, brightness 30% cca, I can get around 5 hours max.
Is that okay considering your sot?
The first sets of SoTs you posted are unusual. The last seems more on point, but a little low.
I average around 4-6 hours SoT which is average for the device except if you really crack down on all battery consuming apps and services.
4-5 hours for me consists of maybe 2 hours on mob.data and the rest on wifi, location on and a few minutes of gaming/maps/camera.(Brightness on auto, so pretty high most of the time)
If factory reset didn't help, you might want to try to manually update your system either via OTA or through some of the methods found in guides.
Generally I'd say something isn't quite right.
Though you might want to add your model number emui version
Sent from my HUAWEI FRD-L09 using XDA Labs
This one is a little older but i remember trying to simulate heavy use with this one, mob. data is on when wifi is off, it just doesn't show because of the skin.
I also have one with 6h and 17% left with mostly wifi so that's that
Edit:
Oh hang on, actually this one was the two days and barely used one.
Well you get the picture i guess
Sent from my HUAWEI FRD-L09 using XDA Labs
There you go
Sent from my HUAWEI FRD-L09 using XDA Labs
SharxX8 said:
There you go
Sent from my HUAWEI FRD-L09 using XDA Labs
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So here is my classic day. Awful battery life today..
At least in my opinion.
Unplugged at 10 AM, data on and wifi off, used basic apps like Whatsapp Instagram Chrome.. listening music with blietooth headphones for one hour apx. (Deezer-but offline!). Didn't really use my phone a lot today.
7 PM only 2 hours SOT with 35% juice left.. like I said, barely 2,5 hours of SOT I can get with data on..
I uploaded screenshots of my battery life, my EMUI version and all my apps installed.
Can someone figure out why my battery lofe is so awful..
Can't install betterbatterystats cause I don't wanna root my phone yet.
Thanks for advices.
ivanlaki said:
So here is my classic day. Awful battery life today..
At least in my opinion.
Unplugged at 10 AM, data on and wifi off, used basic apps like Whatsapp Instagram Chrome.. listening music with blietooth headphones for one hour apx. (Deezer-but offline!). Didn't really use my phone a lot today.
7 PM only 2 hours SOT with 35% juice left.. like I said, barely 2,5 hours of SOT I can get with data on..
I uploaded screenshots of my battery life, my EMUI version and all my apps installed.
Can someone figure out why my battery lofe is so awful..
Can't install betterbatterystats cause I don't wanna root my phone yet.
Thanks for advices.
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That's a bad battery backup...
I think you should flash another firmware number...
Which firmware number you are on right now..??
hassanjavaid8181 said:
That's a bad battery backup...
I think you should flash another firmware number...
Which firmware number you are on right now..??
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Don't really know ehat firmware number is, where to find it and how to flash it :/
ivanlaki said:
Don't really know ehat firmware number is, where to find it and how to flash it :/
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Share about phone SS..hide imei..
hassanjavaid8181 said:
Share about phone SS..hide imei..
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I hope that's it.
ivanlaki said:
I hope that's it.
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LOL...required info is above which SS you did nt took...
Purpose for asking screen shot is to find your
Model number
Build number
Cust version..
So I can give you firmware link according to your model number
hassanjavaid8181 said:
LOL...required info is above which SS you did nt took...
Purpose for asking screen shot is to find your
Model number
Build number
Cust version..
So I can give you firmware link according to your model number
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I posted screenshot of that few post ago..
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I posted screenshot of that few post ago..
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There is none bro...

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