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Example: my battery says 50%, I reboot, and now it's down to about 40%.
What's the deal? Anyone else have this problem?
I'm running Das BAMF 1.6.2, stock kernel.
I've noticed since I got the tbolt day one. Im in the 15% range when reboot. My screen freeze after lightning strike for 3 minutes. Was hoping the new update would fix it but update now delayed. Never again will I be the first in line for phone.
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The percentage drops but it stays at whatever that percentage is for an hour or five depending on how much I'm using my phone.
because your battery gauge is lying to you and not reporting accurately prior to reboot.
dbisch said:
Example: my battery says 50%, I reboot, and now it's down to about 40%.
What's the deal? Anyone else have this problem?
I'm running Das BAMF 1.6.2, stock kernel.
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Thought I had commented on this, whoops.
So have you calibrated your battery since flashing 1.6.2?
If not you need to do so, as this will fix your issue, and help your battery life.
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Thought I had commented on this, whoops.
So have you calibrated your battery since flashing 1.6.2?
If not you need to do so, as this will fix your issue, and help your battery life.
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What do you use to calibrate it? Wiping the battery stats?
Check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871051
Basically the meter is lying because keeping your phone at 100% while charged is not so good for long term life of the battery. So once you get a full charge it doesn't keep the battery full, and when you take it off the charger the meter quickly catches up to reality.
So don't worry, it's supposed to happen this way.
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Thought I had commented on this, whoops.
So have you calibrated your battery since flashing 1.6.2?
If not you need to do so, as this will fix your issue, and help your battery life.
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How do I calibrate it?
There's an app on the Market called BatteryCalibration, works well.
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Thought I had commented on this, whoops.
So have you calibrated your battery since flashing 1.6.2?
If not you need to do so, as this will fix your issue, and help your battery life.
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It may help battery life, but it won't fix the issue
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How do I calibrate it?
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There are several threads explaining this but you just:
-Charge to 100% and boot into recovery
-Select advanced>wipe battery stats
-Use phone normally until battery dies and it powers off
-Charge back up to 100% (preferably while still off)
Edit- if you are running das bamf you can also clear them from the toolkit.
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It may help battery life, but it won't fix the issue
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It will fix the issue that the OP is having of the phone dropping % drastically when they reboot. If you are talking about the phone dropping from 100 to 95% or so after you unplug, then no it won't, because that is actually a safety feature that you do not want to fix, unless of course you want to burn your phone up.
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It will fix the issue that the OP is having of the phone dropping % drastically when they reboot. If you are talking about the phone dropping from 100 to 95% or so after you unplug, then no it won't, because that is actually a safety feature that you do not want to fix, unless of course you want to burn your phone up.
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Thanks. I just want my battery % to be accurate.
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Thanks. I just want my battery % to be accurate.
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No problem, if that is what you want then doing a battery stats wipe will do that. It should be done actually everytime you change ROMs or upgrade a ROM.
Just follow Dirtyfingers instructions, or use a Battery Calibration app from the market
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No problem, if that is what you want then doing a battery stats wipe will do that. It should be done actually everytime you change ROMs or upgrade a ROM.
Just follow Dirtyfingers instructions, or use a Battery Calibration app from the market
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Man, don't say that in the dev area, or the irc. There was someone named Confucius on there yesterday reaming people for wiping battery stats. It wasn't pretty.
Doug B.
dvgb173 said:
Man, don't say that in the dev area, or the irc. There was someone named Confucius on there yesterday reaming people for wiping battery stats. It wasn't pretty.
Doug B.
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It is a bad idea to wipe battery stats? Can it damage the phone?
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It is a bad idea to wipe battery stats? Can it damage the phone?
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No your phone stores how long it takes to die charge etc. and when you change roms these stats obviously change and therefore wiping the stats allows the phone to really calibrate to the new rom. At least I think that's how it is.
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dbisch said:
Example: my battery says 50%, I reboot, and now it's down to about 40%.
What's the deal? Anyone else have this problem?
I'm running Das BAMF 1.6.2, stock kernel.
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This happens to me and it annoys me everytime it does it. I dont know why for some reason this is a recurring thing with HTC phones.
My battery drops 10-15% rather quickly when I unplug it but I believe this is actually normal with newer Li-Ion charging techniques.
Mine drops about 5% after a reboot. I reset my batteries stats today and hope that will improve my battery life, but I must say I got about 8 eight hours today with fairly heavy use and a few reboots.
Has anybody else had trouble with rapid battery drain and Cell Standby being the process that's taken up most of the battery? I'm completely stock and unrooted at the moment
JoeyBert said:
Has anybody else had trouble with rapid battery drain and Cell Standby being the process that's taken up most of the battery? I'm completely stock and unrooted at the moment
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It's a known issue. They apparently added the wrong power draw amount when calculating the percentages so those are wrong but it's not really using more battery, just misreporting.
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It's a known issue. They apparently added the wrong power draw amount when calculating the percentages so those are wrong but it's not really using more battery, just misreporting.
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Any fixes out there?
You need to be rooted. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
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You need to be rooted. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
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Do you know if this works only with a custom ROM or can I just use the non-Odin root method?
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Do you know if this works only with a custom ROM or can I use the non-Odin root method?
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I used the non-odin route and just installed it on mine. Cell standby dropped from about 30% to only 3% after install.
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I used the non-odin route and just installed it on mine. Cell standby dropped from about 30% to only 3% after install.
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Thanks, appreciate the quick responses
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It's a known issue. They apparently added the wrong power draw amount when calculating the percentages so those are wrong but it's not really using more battery, just misreporting.
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So with that calculation being incorrect does that result in your battery life draining faster? I just got mine on 9/22 and battery is draining significantly due to cell standby (cell radio being at the top of the list) I heard through a friend that this will be fixed with jelly bean update?
Can anyone shed some light as I just switched over from iPhone 4 and this whole battery issue is disappointing, thanks!
Frankiej1978 said:
So with that calculation being incorrect does that result in your battery life draining faster? I just got mine on 9/22 and battery is draining significantly due to cell standby (cell radio being at the top of the list) I heard through a friend that this will be fixed with jelly bean update?
Can anyone shed some light as I just switched over from iPhone 4 and this whole battery issue is disappointing, thanks!
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Battery not draining faster. Percentage reported in stats is wrong. 30% shown is actually 3% and should be at bottom of list.
prdog1 said:
Battery not draining faster. Percentage reported in stats is wrong. 30% shown is actually 3% and should be at bottom of list.
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Thanks for the reply prdog..one more question cuz I just came back from the Verizon Store and they can give me a new one if I go back since I just got this on Saturday..
So the reported stats is wrong as you stated in Battery setting..so thats the reason why I see my battery level indicator draining? Because it does drain pretty fast.
nearly was late for work because my phone died and i was using it as an alarm. what could have drained 50% battery in 6 hours and not show? wifi was off
while the graph is nice, better battery stats is what we need.
ihatelolcats said:
nearly was late for work because my phone died and i was using it as an alarm. what could have drained 50% battery in 6 hours and not show? wifi was off
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Poor mobile network signal
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Poor mobile network signal
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Except it's green meaning full signal all the way to death...
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Except it's green meaning full signal all the way to death...
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what you didnt post is the page with what was using your battery by %. now how are we supposed to tell you what happened and what used your battery? this thread is pointless because you gave us no usable information. what i got from the info that you did post is that a UFO flew by you and drained your battery of its power. and the thing is, my guess will be just as good as any other guess.
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what you didnt post is the page with what was using your battery by %. now how are we supposed to tell you what happened and what used your battery? this thread is pointless because you gave us no usable information. what i got from the info that you did post is that a UFO flew by you and drained your battery of its power. and the thing is, my guess will be just as good as any other guess.
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sorry but there was nothing out of the ordinary there so i didnt even think to screenshot it. by a large margin the screen used the most % battery. i thought it might have stuck on but that's not shown in the above shot
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sorry but there was nothing out of the ordinary there so i didnt even think to screenshot it. by a large margin the screen used the most % battery. i thought it might have stuck on but that's not shown in the above shot
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right, not in the posted shot. could have been an app that decided not to go away and drain your battery instead.
simms22 said:
right, not in the posted shot. could have been an app that decided not to go away and drain your battery instead.
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+1 to this theory
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is that a known problem with the alarm app itself? stock rom
there just wasn't anything that stood out to me on the app battery use list
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is that a known problem with the alarm app itself? stock rom
there just wasn't anything that stood out to me on the app battery use list
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stock alarm app, no. but you do have a lot of wakelocks. when the screen is shown off, your device should be asleep. your device shows a lot of activity when your screens off(ironically, not when the supposed battery drain happened though, so i cant say thats why it drained).
Do you have the horrid camera bug?
Do you use exchange at all? I've had a lot of phones (android mostly htc and iphones) hit bugs from exchange in push mode and burn through their battery really quickly constantly trying to sync and hitting an error.
I charge mine on my dresser next to my head, and also use it as an alarm, I'd recommend charging it over night
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Do you have the horrid camera bug?
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god i hope not. what is that?
i don't use exchange
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Do you use exchange at all? I've had a lot of phones (android mostly htc and iphones) hit bugs from exchange in push mode and burn through their battery really quickly constantly trying to sync and hitting an error.
I charge mine on my dresser next to my head, and also use it as an alarm, I'd recommend charging it over night
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i charge it every night, and its also by me every night, as its also my only alarm.
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god i hope not. what is that?
i don't use exchange
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I'm guessing this http://www.androidcentral.com/googl...cpu-usage-bug-fix-coming-next-android-release
I found it by googling "Nexus 5 horrid camera bug" lol, first link
Stock apps have no such issue as till date.Except for apps that use internet /wifi consume a lot of battery. So switch of those frst or keep ur cell on flight mode. The battery consumption may be due to gplay service, account sync,gmaps etc. I don't own a nexus device but I have experienced this kind of behaviour with my phone sometimes with a hot back cover sometimes.Try using apps like greenify to control this prob(or switch of ur network @ night/use lower cpu values + governers like powersave/conservative)
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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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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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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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.
Does it have a lot of bugs? How is the battery and etc?
For me, the battery life is crap, apart from that I'd say it's stable enough.
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For me, the battery life is crap, apart from that I'd say it's stable enough.
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On B316?
mr.jelly said:
For me, the battery life is crap, apart from that I'd say it's stable enough.
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How can you say that ? I get more SoT on Nougat, like 5-6 hours with like 30-40 minutes of gaming.
On marshmallow i get like 5 hours.
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Does it have a lot of bugs? How is the battery and etc?
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No bugs, everything looks fine for me, fast and fluid. I get more battery on Nougat then on Marshamallow.
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How can you say that ? I get more SoT on Nougat, like 5-6 hours with like 30-40 minutes of gaming.
On marshmallow i get like 5 hours.
No bugs, everything looks fine for me, fast and fluid. I get more battery on Nougat then on Marshamallow.
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Thanks for reply
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On B316?
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B320
For me i miss some things on marshmallow like the smart power plan....battery life isn't so great for me whether on marshmallow or nougat :/ i don;t kno how you guys set up your phones but even after calibrating i notice a significant drain
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How can you say that ? I get more SoT on Nougat, like 5-6 hours with like 30-40 minutes of gaming.
On marshmallow i get like 5 hours.
No bugs, everything looks fine for me, fast and fluid. I get more battery on Nougat then on Marshamallow.
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Had 5-6 on Marshmallow, on the Beta the battery is draining like crazy, usually have to charge twice a day with light usage. Factory reset didn't do nothing, same apps as before. Might do another factory reset or go back to Marshmallow after the holidays.
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Had 5-6 on Marshmallow, on the Beta the battery is draining like crazy, usually have to charge twice a day with light usage. Factory reset didn't do nothing, same apps as before. Might do another factory reset or go back to Marshmallow after the holidays.
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exactly the same issue....on marshmallow is a bit better cause of the extra power plans....i wonder if rooting and using greenify and amplify will help
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exactly the same issue....on marshmallow is a bit better cause of the extra power plans....i wonder if rooting and using greenify and amplify will help
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I never messed with the power plans, just went with performance, haha!
Might help, give it a try, I haven't got time to mess around with anything now for a week or two.
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I never messed with the power plans, just went with performance, haha!
Might help, give it a try, I haven't got time to mess around with anything now for a week or two.
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Where did you find power plans in nougat ?
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Where did you find power plans in nougat ?
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Nowhere, meant on Marshmallow
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For me i miss some things on marshmallow like the smart power plan....battery life isn't so great for me whether on marshmallow or nougat :/ i don;t kno how you guys set up your phones but even after calibrating i notice a significant drain
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It depends on number of apps you install , number of apps running in background . Time u keep you data connection open . all above will drain it battery faster so use minimal except basic apps
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It depends on number of apps you install , number of apps running in background . Time u keep you data connection open . all above will drain it battery faster so use minimal except basic apps
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Figured all that already...always close all apps when the screen is off, never connect to wifi or data while the screen is off, smart power plan, reduce resolution, disable bloatware i don't use etc..... for sure i can have my phone without charging for 3 days but what is the point is my screen on time is 4hrs or maybe less in Nougat is even worse imo.... Even after emptying the battery charge to 100% and recalibrating twice
Also something irrelevant i noticed after downgrading back using another region update.app is that the theme store have more themes now that before they weren't there
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Where did you find power plans in nougat ?
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No power plans on Nougat. It's something like this, for performance you dont need to do anything.
The batttery saver is in Phone Manager, then you have the option to lower the resolution which i dont think it works because nothing changing when i turn it on and the Ultra saver.
I noticed more standby battery drain in EMUI5.0 (B320) than EMUI4.1. I believe Android OS uses more power than before (I don't remember how much it uses in 4.1, but it uses a lot in 5.0).
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No power plans on Nougat. It's something like this, for performance you dont need to do anything.
The batttery saver is in Phone Manager, then you have the option to lower the resolution which i dont think it works because nothing changing when i turn it on and the Ultra saver.
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the smart power plan is missing though!!! which i find it important cause sometimes you don't need neither perfomance nor battery save
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the smart power plan is missing though!!! which i find it important cause sometimes you don't need neither perfomance nor battery save
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I think the smart power plan is the same thing as battery saver
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No power plans on Nougat. It's something like this, for performance you dont need to do anything.
The batttery saver is in Phone Manager, then you have the option to lower the resolution which i dont think it works because nothing changing when i turn it on and the Ultra saver.
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Changing the resolution won't change anything in view . but look here , in order to display a video with 1080p resolution you are using much CPU power where as when u watching the same video at 480p resolution , it requires much juice . only thing u miss is display quality which is negligible.
Wow battery drain is epic i turn everything off and went to sleep with 60% and i wake up with my phone dead..