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?
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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
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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
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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%
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I recently turned Google Now on and I think it's causing a huge battery drain - so I turned it off, rebooted, and my battery is still draining, hard. Used to be able to get at least 12-14 hours or longer and now it's hitting 10% after only about 8-9 hours.
Am I missing something to actually get Google Now to shut down completely? Or is there something else?
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I recently turned Google Now on and I think it's causing a huge battery drain - so I turned it off, rebooted, and my battery is still draining, hard. Used to be able to get at least 12-14 hours or longer and now it's hitting 10% after only about 8-9 hours.
Am I missing something to actually get Google Now to shut down completely? Or is there something else?
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Hello, if you're rooted you can freeze the application or delete it.
ldubs said:
I recently turned Google Now on and I think it's causing a huge battery drain - so I turned it off, rebooted, and my battery is still draining, hard. Used to be able to get at least 12-14 hours or longer and now it's hitting 10% after only about 8-9 hours.
Am I missing something to actually get Google Now to shut down completely? Or is there something else?
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have you checked what's actually draining your battery under "battery" in the settings menu?
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have you checked what's actually draining your battery under "battery" in the settings menu?
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Google Search. I don't necessarily want to delete/disable Google Now (and yes, I am rooted), actually kind of like it in some cases, but what I'm saying is that I turned it on, noticed a larger battery drain, turned it off, rebooted, and battery is still draining at same rate.
So what you're saying is it might not have anything to do with Google Now then. Maybe more so locations, but we'll never know until you dig a bit deeper and find out what's causing the drain.
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So what you're saying is it might not have anything to do with Google Now then. Maybe more so locations, but we'll never know until you dig a bit deeper and find out what's causing the drain.
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What? I said it was google search that was killing my battery. The only change I made from standard stock was turning on Google Now. then I noticed much steeper battery drain. So I turned google now off, and am still seeing very steep battery drain.
Just turning it off saves alot of battery and I hope google fixes it soon.
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Turn off location reporting and location history. Problem solved, and Google Now still works just fine.
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I would suggest to turn off the "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" as well as "Scanning always available"
I noticed a very big difference in battery :good:
maxpower7 said:
Turn off location reporting and location history. Problem solved, and Google Now still works just fine.
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Exactly what Max said...
Just keep google now activated but turn off location reporting, its the #1 wakelock with google now
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Matrix_19 said:
Exactly what Max said...
Just keep google now activated but turn off location reporting, its the #1 wakelock with google now
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Not just the reporting, as I had the same thoughts you did. Turn off history as well.
I haven't had an issue since then.
Moe560 said:
I would suggest to turn off the "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" as well as "Scanning always available"
I noticed a very big difference in battery :good:
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Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is going to save you battery, unless you happen to do better with your data connection then your WiFi which would be contrary to most. Overnight I would typically lose 2-3x more battery on data then WiFi (3g/H) using that option.
Disabling scanning always available would account for your improved battery.
Hi I have an 8 gig moto g UK version on KitKat 4.42 I have noticed some days my battery life will be superb like today and others not as good I will post screenshots today's battery life is the second charge after running it down to 0%..
Battery life from the other day
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614346&stc=1&d=1394014951
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614347&stc=1&d=1394014951
Today's battery life so far
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614348&stc=1&d=1394014951
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2614349&stc=1&d=1394014951
thanks.
1: Your cell coverage seems to be kind of bad sometimes, it cna cause battery drain
2: Your phone is awake most of the time even with screen off, you should check your wakelocks
3: There is a thread about a mysterious battery drain, which unfortunately I got as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50467389
miklosbard said:
1: Your cell coverage seems to be kind of bad sometimes, it cna cause battery drain
2: Your phone is awake most of the time even with screen off, you should check your wakelocks
3: There is a thread about a mysterious battery drain, which unfortunately I got as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50467389
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Hi thanks for the reply yeah my network is bad in this area never more than 2 bars of signal, I was running wakelock detector on 4.3 but obviously Google stopped the user from being able to read process data. I do have gsam battery monitor installed I will see if that turns anything up. I hope Motorola fixes the battery drain issue soon thanks for your help.
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Hi thanks for the reply yeah my network is bad in this area never more than 2 bars of signal, I was running wakelock detector on 4.3 but obviously Google stopped the user from being able to read process data. I do have gsam battery monitor installed I will see if that turns anything up. I hope Motorola fixes the battery drain issue soon thanks for your help.
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Notice how your battery drain is bad after GPS is used. See the link posted above by the other poster. My posts in that thread refer to GPS as being the culprit. It seems it may be the same in your case.
When you notice the bad battery drain try a reboot. It should fix it until GPS is next used. BTW I have noticed GPS doesn't always cause the drain to start, but it does quite often.
Are you on non-gpe device or gpe.
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Notice how your battery drain is bad after GPS is used. See the link posted above by the other poster. My posts in that thread refer to GPS as being the culprit. It seems it may be the same in your case.
When you notice the bad battery drain try a reboot. It should fix it until GPS is next used. BTW I have noticed GPS doesn't always cause the drain to start, but it does quite often.
Are you on non-gpe device or gpe.
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Hi Scott thanks for the info I didn't notice that I will fully charge tonight and then use the GPS for a little while and then stop using it to see if that causes the drain by the way my phones a standard g non gpe.
A quick update this is today's total battery life with some GPS use and Bluetooth on from 5pm connects to my car stereo.
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A quick update this is today's total battery life with some GPS use and Bluetooth on from 5pm connects to my car stereo.
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actually with that signal level I think this is the normal drain, you got quite some screen time as well.
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miklosbard said:
actually with that signal level I think this is the normal drain, you got quite some screen time as well.
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Ah thanks I would have got more but the phone powered down at 10% seconds after i'd posted that, calibration issue I'm guessing.
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Notice how your battery drain is bad after GPS is used. See the link posted above by the other poster. My posts in that thread refer to GPS as being the culprit. It seems it may be the same in your case.
When you notice the bad battery drain try a reboot. It should fix it until GPS is next used. BTW I have noticed GPS doesn't always cause the drain to start, but it does quite often.
Are you on non-gpe device or gpe.
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Did a bit of a GPS test this morning Scott was used for 15 mins then maps was turned off along with data so I had no other battery drain.
tje1991 said:
Did a bit of a GPS test this morning Scott was used for 15 mins then maps was turned off along with data so I had no other battery drain.
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My personal experience is that I only get the drain when I have used GPS but I do not always get it when I have used GPS. Basically to me it seems like some intermittent GPS issue that causes the drain. I had it yesterday and rebooted. But today I have tested gps and all fine again - no drain.
Also have noticed after the latest KitKat update (the tiny 9MB update) that at times GPS can't get a lock.
I noticed battery draining fast since I installed gravity box. Without even touching the phone in the morning it will go down to 99%
I attached the screenshot of wakelock detector from this morning. an hour commute with just listening to music dropped 15%
You need to be a bit clearer with your reports about 'drain'
Are you reporting 1% battery drop as a 'drain' definitely due to gravitybox?
Are you using a custom rom with a feature conflicting with gravitybox?
Can you uninstall gravitybox and immediately confirm the drain goes away?
Your 15% drop, were you streaming via 3G on your hour commute? If so that sounds reasonable as it works harder to keep the signal
Try betterbatterystats as well to look at other wakelocks
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You need to be a bit clearer with your reports about 'drain'
Are you reporting 1% battery drop as a 'drain' definitely due to gravitybox?
Are you using a custom rom with a feature conflicting with gravitybox?
Can you uninstall gravitybox and immediately confirm the drain goes away?
Your 15% drop, were you streaming via 3G on your hour commute? If so that sounds reasonable as it works harder to keep the signal
Try betterbatterystats as well to look at other wakelocks
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I am stock but rooted.
I am on lte but half of my commute i have no signal from being on a train. but usually my phone lasts a day or at least 12 hours now i am only getting 6 hours.
I will try better battery stats and then post a screenshot before uninstall gravity body
I have the same problem. I Ajay lost 3%in one minute after using this for 4 minutes. Something not right with that gravity box. I'll be lucky to get 2.5 hours of screen time compared to my 3.5 I used to get.
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here is the better battery stats
not sure if accurate reading since it was installed with 80% battery left.
I will have to try again when it is fully charged
Gravity box won't drain your battery.
Not having a signal on the train will tho....big time. Unless you switched to airplane mode? Anytime the phone has to look for a signal, the battery takes a real beating.
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kj2112 said:
Gravity box won't drain your battery.
Not having a signal on the train will tho....big time. Unless you switched to airplane mode? Anytime the phone has to look for a signal, the battery takes a real beating.
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The weird thing is even with traveling on the train i used to get at least 12. Even on the weekends when I am home it is draining fast unless I don't touch the phone at all
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I am stock but rooted.
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rooting does not necessarily mean you will have better or wore battery. Try changing the kernel, stock kernel gives you 3-3.5 hrs SOT normal usage.(unless you use it to read books)
I had 0% drain overnight when i first bough the phone, but after a while 1-3% drain overnight is normal.
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rooting does not necessarily mean you will have better or wore battery. Try changing the kernel, stock kernel gives you 3-3.5 hrs SOT normal usage.(unless you use it to read books)
I had 0% drain overnight when i first bough the phone, but after a while 1-3% drain overnight is normal.
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I understand that. I was just stating that I was not on a custom rom.
I heard that franco kernal is the same battery stats as stock.
any suggestions?
Thanks
There was some problem with old version of KitKat. Google Now constantly was accessing location services and draining the battery like hell. I don't know if it got fixed or not.
Try turning off location and use phone normally.
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cooolforce said:
There was some problem with old version of KitKat. Google Now constantly was accessing location services and draining the battery like hell. I don't know if it got fixed or not.
Try turning off location and use phone normally.
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I was thinking of that. I never had the problem with keeping it in battery saving mode. I will have to try turning it off
jj71787 said:
I was thinking of that. I never had the problem with keeping it in battery saving mode. I will have to try turning it off
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Great! So let us know the results
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jj71787 said:
here is the better battery stats
not sure if accurate reading since it was installed with 80% battery left.
I will have to try again when it is fully charged
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jj71787 said:
I understand that. I was just stating that I was not on a custom rom.
I heard that franco kernal is the same battery stats as stock.
any suggestions?
Thanks
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Different kernels behave differently for everyone's device and usage. You need to experiment yourself.
But before you do, work out what is using your battery first, electricity doesn't just disappear, tends to obey the laws of physics...
Then determine if it's definitely gravity box, or if you're experiencing phone 'usage' as opposed to battery 'drain'
Leave wakelock detector and betterbatterystats for collecting data for much longer. Put your phone down for a while...
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Different kernels behave differently for everyone's device and usage. You need to experiment yourself.
But before you do, work out what is using your battery first, electricity doesn't just disappear, tends to obey the laws of physics...
Then determine if it's definitely gravity box, or if you're experiencing phone 'usage' as opposed to battery 'drain'
Leave wakelock detector and betterbatterystats for collecting data for much longer. Put your phone down for a while...
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I turned location off to see if it is that. I am going to try better battery stats tomorrow after i gets a full charge
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I turned location off to see if it is that. I am going to try better battery stats tomorrow after i gets a full charge
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So man, did turning off location services help ?
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Are you performing soft restarts? If so, that's probably the reason. For some reason, Android doesn't take well to soft restarts, so when you soft reset it never initializes properly and you end up with strange things like excessive battery drainage.
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Are you performing soft restarts? If so, that's probably the reason. For some reason, Android doesn't take well to soft restarts, so when you soft reset it never initializes properly and you end up with strange things like excessive battery drainage.
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Interesting...I've been having erratic drain patterns lately with no visible culprits. I've noticed it happens sometimes after updating gravity box and I always do a soft reboot, so that might explain it. Do you have any more information about it?
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I only did 1 softboot.
I think the culprit is google music it drains the battery like crazy. I tried not listening to music on my commute and got to work with 98% battery. With google music I will get to work with 90%
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Are you performing soft restarts? If so, that's probably the reason. For some reason, Android doesn't take well to soft restarts, so when you soft reset it never initializes properly and you end up with strange things like excessive battery drainage.
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soft reboots do fine on android. your "never initializes properly" is inaccurate and just plain wrong.
jj71787 said:
I only did 1 softboot.
I think the culprit is google music it drains the battery like crazy. I tried not listening to music on my commute and got to work with 98% battery. With google music I will get to work with 90%
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To be honest this looks like phone usage, rather than particularly bad battery 'drain'. Are you expecting that your battery should be 98% if you listen to music while on the move for an hour? Or what would a reasonable expected level be?
Your first post said that an hour commute dropped 15%, now it's dropping 10%? Sounds like an improvement to me.
hi everybody, since one or two weeks i see i have a big battery drain when my phone is "inactive"... how to resolve this please?
Your screenshot doesn't tell us anything. Further debugging can be found using BetterBatteryStats / Gsam / Wakelock Detector, root is required.
A app is preventing your phone from deep sleeping.
The only thing your screenshot does show us is that Play Services is there, http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2832525
View that to fix that but theres definitely more to it than Play Services.
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Your screenshot doesn't tell us anything. Further debugging can be found using BetterBatteryStats / Gsam / Wakelock Detector, root is required.
A app is preventing your phone from deep sleeping.
The only thing your screenshot does show us is that Play Services is there, http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2832525
View that to fix that but theres definitely more to it than Play Services.
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thanks for your rapid answer Zephik, but i have just reflashed
my stock calkulin's cm11... but i have a question: is it possible the battery drain come since i changed kernels..? (without touching their settings)
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thanks for your rapid answer Zephik, but i have just reflashed
my stock calkulin's cm11... but i have a question: is it possible the battery drain come since i changed kernels..? (without touching their settings)
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I don't understand your question. In actuality, it takes a couple days for your phone to settle in the new kernel if thats what you're asking.
As long as your phone is properly deep sleeping, you shouldn't be worrying.
You can find out by using 1 of the 3 apps I mentioned previously.
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I don't understand your question. In actuality, it takes a couple days for your phone to settle in the new kernel if thats what you're asking.
As long as your phone is properly deep sleeping, you shouldn't be worrying.
You can find out by using 1 of the 3 apps I mentioned previously.
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i say, is it possible that the battery drain comes from new kernel?(AK)
also thanks for your help dude, and i modified googleplay services as you've told me with my fresh install of cm11...
I have 2 days of battery life almost and still have 20% left. I use this phone heavily and haven't recharged.
I had the same problem where 60% drain overnight.
Now 2 says.
All I did was turn off Facebook Location services.
That's it.
Facebook was draining so much. I have Wifi on, GPS with High Accuracy.
Facebook always drains a significant amount of battery, I prefer using the mobile website but if you must need the app then greenify it.
After updating my Z3's firmware to Lilipop, I'm facing huge battery drain. In kitkat, when returning home battery remained 55%. After update, I found it 30-35%. Note that my usage pattern didn't change.
How can I get rid of it?
sameee781 said:
After updating my Z3's firmware to Lilipop, I'm facing huge battery drain. In kitkat, when returning home battery remained 55%. After update, I found it 30-35%. Note that my usage pattern didn't change.
How can I get rid of it?
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There is another thread for this issue.
Does there have the solution? Please share the link.
Many users reported that a factory reset fixed their problems. Only downside is that you have to reconfigure your phone
done factory reset manytimes but the drain remains..
seems like radio being active by apps is the problem
i'd love to post screenshots but since i am new here you know i am unable
Have you tried using BBS (better battery stats) to isolate the drain? And also try setting "keep wifi in sleepmode" to never or only when connected. Have heard of that working wonders for some.
And the screenshot thing can be overcome by uploading it to a different site and posting only the links
Preper yourself for NO notifications, if you put WI-FI to sleep.
I have wifi asleep and still get notifications. Maybe a little less frequent, but that's because stamina mode is working better (in my opinion) and only checks once in a while for new notifications
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I have wifi asleep and still get notifications. Maybe a little less frequent, but that's because stamina mode is working better (in my opinion) and only checks once in a while for new notifications
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That' s the Queue background data option that is doing that.
So there ARE notifications Vs what you said that there would be none. I rest my case here
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@ OP, I also ticked the option that other apps may not use wifi for location even when wifi is off. I believe that may also cost you some juice
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crazymister said:
Have you tried using BBS (better battery stats) to isolate the drain? And also try setting "keep wifi in sleepmode" to never or only when connected. Have heard of that working wonders for some.
And the screenshot thing can be overcome by uploading it to a different site and posting only the links
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thanks for suggestions ..
It's funny how my phone ran normal for the first week now the phone is being drained by Facebook and feedly, I have made no changes in any settings and its happening now. Haven't looked into the problem yet but don't even know is it third party issues lol.
One thing I found out is that the battery tend to drain at a lesser rate if you leave the phone charged for an extra 20 mins or more after hitting 100%. Just a speculation
LitoNi said:
It's funny how my phone ran normal for the first week now the phone is being drained by Facebook and feedly, I have made no changes in any settings and its happening now. Haven't looked into the problem yet but don't even know is it third party issues lol.
One thing I found out is that the battery tend to drain at a lesser rate if you leave the phone charged for an extra 20 mins or more after hitting 100%. Just a speculation
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So, blame facebook for the battery drain.
There is an option where you can make the phone play a sound when is fully charged.
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Just clean flash stock ftf.. Ota just sucks. I did it and my battery returned to prime life again.
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I doubt that the reason we have the same problem is the same, but since I know how to post a screen cap, here's mine:
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