recent update of whats app started draining battery on nexus - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Recently whats app has started causing huge batter drain. Many times I see whats app consuming around 50% of battery. It has started happening fairly recently (probably after the last update). I have faced this issue on nexus 5 and nexus 4 however haven't heard this complain from non-nexus user. Any one else is facing the same issue ? Any work around ?

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[Q] Battery life issue!!

I understand that many people have battery problem with nexus 5 due to the camera app running in the background with skype or other apps that uses the camera. I dont use any of these apps and recently i am barely getting 2.5hrs screen on time(SOT) where just before a couple of weeks i was getting almost 4.5-5 hrs SOT. its a huge drop. I assumed it was a rouge app that i must have downloaded that is using up the battery so i factory reset my phone and have only reinstalled several apps such as facebook and whatsapp and several others but even today i only got 2hrs and 30 mins of SOT.
The battery setting shows the android system and the screen using most of the battery. Is anyone else facing similar issue? or if you can suggest me what I can do to fix it, I will be very thankful.
ps. i am running stock rom with stock kernel (not rooted)
thanks in advance
Normally I'd suggest installing BetterBatteryStats and see what is keeping your device awake, but it could be your sync settings/frequency, radio signal strength, and etc that are the culprit.
Factory reset again and install only updates for stock apps. Leave all other 3rd party app off your phone for 24hours. Use the phone as a phone, rather than a social and gaming platform for that amount of time.
See if you get better life at that point. If so, then it's at least one or multiple apps that you need to monitor closely. Best way is to get your baseline as I suggested, and then install apps one-by-one to find the issue.
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nikon120 said:
Normally I'd suggest installing BetterBatteryStats and see what is keeping your device awake, but it could be your sync settings/frequency, radio signal strength, and etc that are the culprit.
Factory reset again and install only updates for stock apps. Leave all other 3rd party app off your phone for 24hours. Use the phone as a phone, rather than a social and gaming platform for that amount of time.
See if you get better life at that point. If so, then it's at least one or multiple apps that you need to monitor closely. Best way is to get your baseline as I suggested, and then install apps one-by-one to find the issue.
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If using the device stock with only stock apps doesn't increase your battery life the problem could be hardware related too.
The first N5 which I ordered the day it launched had the battery life fall to almost half
I tried everything I could think of, flash stock, factory reset, dim brightness, disable everything, only use 3G nothing worked.
then the earpiece started to go, called google for a RMA and the new device works perfectly
with the same apps installed I'm now getting 4 - 4 1/2 hours of SOT when I was lucky to get 3 before, usually 2 1/2
Seems battery had a hardware issue as well, I had been chalking it up to software battery drain issues, but it was definately hardware in my case.
Without screen shots from gsam or something, anything but the stock battery usage section in settings.....we're all just guessing here.
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movielover76 said:
If using the device stock with only stock apps doesn't increase your battery life the problem could be hardware related too.
The first N5 which I ordered the day it launched had the battery life fall to almost half
I tried everything I could think of, flash stock, factory reset, dim brightness, disable everything, only use 3G nothing worked.
then the earpiece started to go, called google for a RMA and the new device works perfectly
with the same apps installed I'm now getting 4 - 4 1/2 hours of SOT when I was lucky to get 3 before, usually 2 1/2
Seems battery had a hardware issue as well, I had been chalking it up to software battery drain issues, but it was definately hardware in my case.
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Faulty Battery sells often do get into the production line and its very common as OP has no pics we cant determine weather is software or hardware related
If anything send it to Google for RMA or LG for a replacement battery
Battery life
thestar1992 said:
I understand that many people have battery problem with nexus 5 due to the camera app running in the background with skype or other apps that uses the camera. I dont use any of these apps and recently i am barely getting 2.5hrs screen on time(SOT) where just before a couple of weeks i was getting almost 4.5-5 hrs SOT. its a huge drop. I assumed it was a rouge app that i must have downloaded that is using up the battery so i factory reset my phone and have only reinstalled several apps such as facebook and whatsapp and several others but even today i only got 2hrs and 30 mins of SOT.
The battery setting shows the android system and the screen using most of the battery. Is anyone else facing similar issue? or if you can suggest me what I can do to fix it, I will be very thankful.
ps. i am running stock rom with stock kernel (not rooted)
thanks in advance
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Same problem i had in the past with Nexus 5 . We cant say that it is a hardware or a software related.MIGHT BE OR MAY NOT BE.
Its better to factory reset again and install all apps one by one to find out the actual reason only updates for stock apps leave all other apps for the time being.Turn off your Bluetooth and use your phone as a phone only, for a while.

One plus one terrible battery life

Hello all. I have had my one plus one for nearly one year and since the start it has been really bad with battery life. I can get around 4 to 5 hours of idle time with my brightness at the lowest capability and force quitting every app after using it and I can get maybe an extra 4 hours with battery saver. Something is clearly wrong and I would like to fix it since some of my other One Plus buddies have around 21-30 hours of battery life right out of the box.
My phone is rooted and I have changed the rom 4 times but this battery life problem has been a problem since I opened the phone and started using it. I am currently running the newest Cyanogen 13 snapshot. Could this be a defect? the phone occassionally lags a lot and the only fix is force restarting. Seriously need help thank you.
You might want to get it checked, the battery might be faulty. Try using an AOSP based build and see if the issue persists. If it does, then your battery might need to be replaced.

Android Services draining my Battery?

Hey guys so recently my Pixel 2 has been draining battery and I don't know why. I feel as though this had started happening right after the February 5 security update but i don't know if that makes sense... Any ideas on what could be causing the drain in battery? I have a screenshot to show you guys that Android Services seem to be causing the issue. I have wifi scanning off too which I have seen can affect battery.
connorhiller said:
Hey guys so recently my Pixel 2 has been draining battery and I don't know why. I feel as though this had started happening right after the February 5 security update but i don't know if that makes sense... Any ideas on what could be causing the drain in battery? I have a screenshot to show you guys that Android Services seem to be causing the issue. I have wifi scanning off too which I have seen can affect battery.
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There has been a lot of reports on battery drain after the February patch update. There is a post on reddit who used the files go app to clear the cache for multiple Google apps that seemed to fix the issue. You could try that and see if it works for you. A

Android System draining battery?

Hey guys so recently my Pixel 2 has been draining battery and I don't know why. I feel as though this had started happening right after the February 5 security update but i don't know if that makes sense... Any ideas on what could be causing the drain in battery? I have a screenshot to show you guys that Android System seems to be causing the issue. I have wifi scanning off too which I have seen can affect battery
connorhiller said:
Hey guys so recently my Pixel 2 has been draining battery and I don't know why. I feel as though this had started happening right after the February 5 security update but i don't know if that makes sense... Any ideas on what could be causing the drain in battery? I have a screenshot to show you guys that Android System seems to be causing the issue. I have wifi scanning off too which I have seen can affect battery
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Fixed it... If anyone else is having this issue, go to developer options and turn off "Mobile Data Always Active"

Help : Fast battery drainage

Did anyone encounter the same problem??
Two 5ii of mine are draining too fast this month.
I don't think it's a hardware problem, but a software problem.
Anyone??
Shilddop22 said:
Did anyone encounter the same problem??
Two 5ii of mine are draining too fast this month.
I don't think it's a hardware problem, but a software problem.
Anyone??
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I noticed that too for a week.
It must have been some Google service update that generated a lot of unusual wakelocks.
In my case, it's gone and back to normal.
reboot your device just in case
Same here as I texted this. I've getting SOT like less than 4 hours per day even I've restricted battery on some apps and restricting background data. However the issue still persists.
Kinda agree with the Google Service Update thingy since after some play store or updates installed and the battery drainage is just absurd.
Also throttling the CPU a lot and temperature is higher than usual, almost achieving 40°C in just usual social media, browsing and working.
Worst is that I've reboot in safe mode, and multiple restarts and is still draining battery vigorously.
Hope some software or google updates can solve this issue quickly.
From my experience (see my previous post) i had the problem for about 1 week and then it went away.
And lately, I'm getting the best-ever deep sleep battery consumption during night: ~3% .
I did not tweak any app battery policy in settings and I'm using stock A12 latest update.
You may have some rogue app update that is not in tune with the correct power management posture.
I have the same issue. It seems to have been triggered by poor network connectivity or something. The first time I had this issue, I had to solve it via software repair. I'm not keen to go through the process for the second time. I have shut down and restarted my phone several times.
There have been a number of posts on Reddit recently about massive battery drain with Sony phones.
Here and here and here and here
Seems like it's a Sony Vs Google problem
I have had the same huge battery drain, with my phone going from lasting two days between charges, to now getting hot and lasting just 15 hours
When I look at running apps, I see Gooogle Play Services has 2 or 3 instancnces. Some with 13 services. In the last two weeks Play Services has used 825Mb of data. Feels like my phone has become an AV transmitter.
Hello guys, today I noticed that the battery is finally back to normal. I turned on auto-update for everything and let it update whatever it needs to at the very first place.
Hope this kind of **** don't happen ever again.
I don't have auto-update and that issue only lasted a few days

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