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[Q] All the sudden can't get past 1 hour screen on time?

Hey guys, for whatever reason I cannot get past an hour to an hour and a half screen on time per charge. I used to be able to consistently get 3 but for whatever reason that no longer seems to be the case. I use CM 10.1, usually the official but sometimes mastamoon's build. Intially I thought my battery went bad but even after replacing it with a new one I've seen no real difference. I actually replaced the phone once as well but still to no avail. Any ideas?

What's eating most of your battery? Do you have Better Battery Stats it has more specific info on wakelocks.
If you have no significant wakelocks first thing I would try is a different ROM/kernel combo. TouchWiz roms generally get better battery life than AOSP.

BattsNotIncld said:
What's eating most of your battery? Do you have Better Battery Stats it has more specific info on wakelocks.
If you have no significant wakelocks first thing I would try is a different ROM/kernel combo. TouchWiz roms generally get better battery life than AOSP.
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Yeah, but it seems like people usually end up getting better battery life on AOSP ROMs than I am. I haven't checked this iteration of CM but usually it's screen on time eating most of it and wake-locks doesn't seem to be an issue. It just drains super fast, especially with even 5 minute phone calls. I'm in the middle of Cleveland so signal shouldn't be an issue. Although it is usually yellow on the graph.

I would definitely install BetterBatteryStats and see what that shows you. I only run AOSP roms and while battery life isn't great its nowhere near that bad.

I'm having the same issue. No big wake locks, my phone just dies really fast. Running latest AOKP nightly with latest KT747 kernel
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So here are some pictures from my dreadful battery life. More to come. Anyone see anything? I'm not sure what deleted wake locks is.

Slacker101 said:
So here are some pictures from my dreadful battery life. More to come. Anyone see anything? I'm not sure what deleted wake locks is.
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So those were yesterday, here is today. Noticeably less talk time but I hit that magic 1hr screen on time.

The only thing I can get from that is your poor signal, it's simply destroying your battery. I don't see anything else that could be the problem besides a bad battery.
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thesoldier said:
The only thing I can get from that is your poor signal, it's simply destroying your battery. I don't see anything else that could be the problem besides a bad battery.
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****ed up thing is I live in Cleveland and work down town yet sometimes this phone refuses to get signal. It's really frustrating that it's also killing my battery.
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Slacker101 said:
****ed up thing is I live in Cleveland and work down town yet sometimes this phone refuses to get signal. It's really frustrating that it's also killing my battery.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
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I also think it's mostly due to signal loss. You have an 8 hour no data connection. That entire time your phone is looking for a signal and killing your battery. I highly recommend trying to use a touchwiz rom, doesn't really matter which one. I used to use cm10 but it would drop my signal constantly. From my experience, touchwiz roms are much more stable when it comes to holding a phone signal.
There are some amazing devs who've made some cool aosp features and customizations built into touchwiz roms. Some highly customizable roms are goodness and hyperdrive. In my opinion, pair one of those with nova launcher and you'd get a very aosp like experience with the stability of touchwiz.
I also recently flashed the mb1 firmware, that's giving me slight increases in signal strength. Might just be a placebo affect, but I think it helps.
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You might have to try a touchwiz Rom. My battery is at 77% after extensive use for an hour and 40 minutes.

jmxc23 said:
You might have to try a touchwiz Rom. My battery is at 77% after extensive use for an hour and 40 minutes.
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I am having a similar issue with stock, verizon OS. There was a system update just a couple days ago through verizon, and I installed it, ever since then it's been horrible. My battery usage blames it on "Media Server" though. Not really sure if it's related, but wanted to let you know in case it might help someone trouble shoot. Also, I noticed that since the update, my 4G icon in the top is on at the same time as my Wifi icon, which previously was just one or the other depending on if I was connected to Wifi or not.

johnwilliame said:
I am having a similar issue it with stock, verizon OS. There was a system update just a couple days ago through verizon, and I installed it, ever since then it's been horrible. My battery usage blames it on "Media Server" though. Not really sure if it's related, but wanted to let you know in case it might help someone trouble shoot. Also, I noticed that since the update, my 4G icon in the top is on at the same time as my Wifi icon, which previously was just one or the other depending on if I was connected to Wifi or not.
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Just disable the caller id app and the 4G icon won't show up. Also I don't think you get my post as I said extensive meaning watching movies and playing games with out any screen off time all in an hour and 40 minutes the person who started this thread is on an AOSP ROM and is getting the same. The main difference is I still had 2/3 of battery life left while his battery is dying or dead. Right now I have been on this phone for 3 hours and have about 60% of battery life left. I don't have a media server problem and on a custom touchwiz ROM with a custom kernel.

Usually the ROM is not a factor, its one of two things 99% of the time,.
1. a rogue app, that won't stop looking for location or data or is just hung
2. Poor or lost signal and the phone keeps boosting power to stay attached or search for signal;

Slacker101 said:
So those were yesterday, here is today. Noticeably less talk time but I hit that magic 1hr screen on time.
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Edit: As many have pointed out by now,
It appears that you are not getting the best cell signal on your phone. From personal experience, I can tell you that bad reception takes a huge toll on battery life.
You could try switching modems/roms to see if that will solve your problem. In my experience, I have gotten better signal using a TouchWiz ROM. However, I do miss the lag-freeness of CM

[Q] HTC One battery drain on Pac ROM 4.4.2

Hi
First let me say I'm a noob to this forum and to Rooting, ROMS etc.
I've just installed the latest Pacrom on my HTC One and love it! However since installing my battery life has taken a serious hit! I used to get a good 10hrs plus out of it through average use. The last 2 days though I've been lucky to get 6hrs.
I've tried installing Franco Kernel as I had read that was good for battery life. However, although it says it has installed, when I go to About phone>Kernel version, it simply doesn't appear there.
Has anyone got any recommendations?

Megatron2507 said:
Hi
First let me say I'm a noob to this forum and to Rooting, ROMS etc.
I've just installed the latest Pacrom on my HTC One and love it! However since installing my battery life has taken a serious hit! I used to get a good 10hrs plus out of it through average use. The last 2 days though I've been lucky to get 6hrs.
I've tried installing Franco Kernel as I had read that was good for battery life. However, although it says it has installed, when I go to About phone>Kernel version, it simply doesn't appear there.
Has anyone got any recommendations?
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give a picture of your battery usage in settings, if PACrom has Governors and I/Os you can mess around with those to find the best battery life/performance. i personally love to use Ondemandx and InteractiveX, they both underclock and stay at that frequency while the screen is off, saving somewhat battery i have used it on a few phones (some highend and some entry levels) the high ends had no problem with them but as i used it on my entrys when waking it on there was a little lag (im guessing for the CPU to speed up since it was at a low frequency) but went away after a few seconds it was pretty noticeable.

Megatron2507 said:
Hi
First let me say I'm a noob to this forum and to Rooting, ROMS etc.
I've just installed the latest Pacrom on my HTC One and love it! However since installing my battery life has taken a serious hit! I used to get a good 10hrs plus out of it through average use. The last 2 days though I've been lucky to get 6hrs.
I've tried installing Franco Kernel as I had read that was good for battery life. However, although it says it has installed, when I go to About phone>Kernel version, it simply doesn't appear there.
Has anyone got any recommendations?
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Go to Google setting/ search & now/ try to turn off Google Location reporting and see what's happen. It's good for battery life in some devices I've used. Just in case Google Now will not work, if you care about Google Now then don't do that.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using Tapatalk

Hmm changed a few things under Settings>Performance, such as turning powersave on. Seems much better, gone the whole day without a charge.

Megatron2507 said:
Hmm changed a few things under Settings>Performance, such as turning powersave on. Seems much better, gone the whole day without a charge.
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Awesome dude! i didnt know pacrom had powersave!

New phone battery life

Hi!
I am new to the nexus 5 community and I just got my nexus 5 about 2 days ago
After fully charging it I started using it , I have heard that nexus 5 has battery issues and that's why I only want you people to help me tell how the battery life of my phone is for a brand new device by seeing the screenshots of my usage.
Here are the screenshots:

Looks normal to me. What's ingress? A game?

K****ij Agrawal said:
Hi!
I am new to the nexus 5 community and I just got my nexus 5 about 2 days ago
After fully charging it I started using it , I have heard that nexus 5 has battery issues and that's why I only want you people to help me tell how the battery life of my phone is for a brand new device by seeing the screenshots of my usage.
Here are the screenshots:
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Not bad. I would disable Wi-Fi always scanning available (even if Wi-Fi is off), location to start. That's not bad though and is about what I get, but you might be able to get better SOT.

the nexus 5 does not have battery issues, at all. it stupid people that themselves have issues, not the phone.

Seems normal to me ,I bought mine month ago

There are no issues with battery on nexus 5. I charge mine usually once in 3 days, my record without charge is about a week.
It really depends on how you use it. Under constant 100% load I think battery can be depleted under 5 hours, as in every other device.

i can use my phone very heavily, and deplete my battery in 6-8 hours. but ill still get 5+ hours screen on time.

simms22 said:
the nexus 5 does not have battery issues, at all. it stupid people that themselves have issues, not the phone.
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wow Simms, you're everywhere lol

xnormskix said:
wow Simms, you're everywhere lol
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not quite, but in the n5 and n4 forums I am :angel:

Have you tried running the phone down till it switches off? I know it's not good practice to do that often but I like to do it with a new phone relatively early as it makes sure it's calibrated - sometimes phones can either switch off at 5% or, conversely, run on 1% for hours...

surrealjam said:
Have you tried running the phone down till it switches off? I know it's not good practice to do that often but I like to do it with a new phone relatively early as it makes sure it's calibrated - sometimes phones can either switch off at 5% or, conversely, run on 1% for hours...
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You don't ever need to do that as it calibrates every time you charge the phone. Also he just got the phone and isn't having any battery issues.

bblzd said:
You don't ever need to do that as it calibrates every time you charge the phone. Also he just got the phone and isn't having any battery issues.
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He means to break in a LIon battery the first three times you kill the battery and then don't take it below 20% after that.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app

MrObvious said:
He means to break in a LIon battery the first three times you kill the battery and then don't take it below 20% after that.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app
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That's not helpful and does more harm than good. Li-Po never needs to be user calibrated in any way.

Thanks!
Thanks a lot guys for taking your time and helping me , nexus 5 is truly an amazing phone.
@Ben36 yes , ingress is a game and its a location based so it keeps running in the background and uses location services.
Guys , I have some questions relating to the vibration motor , is it fine if I ask here or am I supposed to make a new thread?
Thaks a lot once again

simms22 said:
the nexus 5 does not have battery issues, at all. it stupid people that themselves have issues, not the phone.
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I was just about to start a thread about something then I read this. So here's the deal. I agree that it's almost always user error and/or over expectation when it comes to battery. Stupid people are here to stay. I'm neither stupid nor expecting too much from my battery.
I've always been intrigued by how some experienced users get great battery and some get not so great. Has to be user error I always thought. I thought this because I was one of the experienced users getting great battery life. I mean GREAT. Way over 7 SOT all the time.
So a few weeks ago my first phone had an audio port issue that I had RMA'd. I received the new phone and set it up. It had crap battery. I'm talking less then 2 hours SOT. Same ROM, same kernel, same apps, same coverage for mobile and data, same usage. I set about looking for wakelocks and they all where the same as the first phone. Nothing was wrong on my end. I spent over a week troubleshooting. CPU frequencies and time in state where normal. Temps where normal. CPU benching was the same. Awake vs screen on was almost identical. The phone is sleeping like a baby when not in use.
So, using Occam"s razor, it would lead me to believe that not all batteries in the N5 are created equal. After getting off the phone with a google support supervisor a few hours ago he agreed. Another RMA process has been set up and I was promised this phone would make it's way back to LG so they can actually analyze the battery.
Like I said, I used to think the same way you do. Now I'm not so sure.

theesotericone said:
I was just about to start a thread about something then I read this. So here's the deal. I agree that it's almost always user error and/or over expectation when it comes to battery. Stupid people are here to stay. I'm neither stupid nor expecting too much from my battery.
I've always been intrigued by how some experienced users get great battery and some get not so great. Has to be user error I always thought. I thought this because I was one of the experienced users getting great battery life. I mean GREAT. Way over 7 SOT all the time.
So a few weeks ago my first phone had an audio port issue that I had RMA'd. I received the new phone and set it up. It had crap battery. I'm talking less then 2 hours SOT. Same ROM, same kernel, same apps, same coverage for mobile and data, same usage. I set about looking for wakelocks and they all where the same as the first phone. Nothing was wrong on my end. I spent over a week troubleshooting. CPU frequencies and time in state where normal. Temps where normal. CPU benching was the same. Awake vs screen on was almost identical. The phone is sleeping like a baby when not in use.
So, using Occam"s razor, it would lead me to believe that not all batteries in the N5 are created equal. After getting off the phone with a google support supervisor a few hours ago he agreed. Another RMA process has been set up and I was promised this phone would make it's way back to LG so they can actually analyze the battery.
Like I said, I used to think the same way you do. Now I'm not so sure.
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oh, no, I 100% agree with you. just like our devices, that all aren't equal, that are all assembled in differing places, that all have smaller parts that are made in more different factories.. the batteries themselves will differ as well. it'll even probably fall onto a bell curve, where most are near the center, and less with better or worse. but 100% they vary.

theesotericone said:
I was just about to start a thread about something then I read this. So here's the deal. I agree that it's almost always user error and/or over expectation when it comes to battery. Stupid people are here to stay. I'm neither stupid nor expecting too much from my battery.
I've always been intrigued by how some experienced users get great battery and some get not so great. Has to be user error I always thought. I thought this because I was one of the experienced users getting great battery life. I mean GREAT. Way over 7 SOT all the time.
So a few weeks ago my first phone had an audio port issue that I had RMA'd. I received the new phone and set it up. It had crap battery. I'm talking less then 2 hours SOT. Same ROM, same kernel, same apps, same coverage for mobile and data, same usage. I set about looking for wakelocks and they all where the same as the first phone. Nothing was wrong on my end. I spent over a week troubleshooting. CPU frequencies and time in state where normal. Temps where normal. CPU benching was the same. Awake vs screen on was almost identical. The phone is sleeping like a baby when not in use.
So, using Occam"s razor, it would lead me to believe that not all batteries in the N5 are created equal. After getting off the phone with a google support supervisor a few hours ago he agreed. Another RMA process has been set up and I was promised this phone would make it's way back to LG so they can actually analyze the battery.
Like I said, I used to think the same way you do. Now I'm not so sure.
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Well I feel that there are always some exceptions , some phones may have a manufacturing defect and maybe the phone you are talking about did have one , but these manufacturing defects are mostly really rare.

You should be good to go...just keep an eye on it! Happy Flashing

bblzd said:
That's not helpful and does more harm than good. Li-Po never needs to be user calibrated in any way.
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I was just explaining what he said. The rumor is (supposedly backed up) that you kill the battery 3 times in a row but never take it close to dying after that and you get the best battery life possible because the battery works best if you only charge it between 20 and 80%. I think there may be something to it because new phones only last like half a day on the first charge but after a week last a day or longer for me. I won't derail this thread though as that's a debate that always loves to go on and I've never found hard proof either way but people who just write websites who supposedly sound smart and can word it quite eloquently.
That being said, I didn't necessarily agree with it, but I was clarifying what was said.

MrObvious said:
I was just explaining what he said. The rumor is (supposedly backed up) that you kill the battery 3 times in a row but never take it close to dying after that and you get the best battery life possible because the battery works best if you only charge it between 20 and 80%. I think there may be something to it because new phones only last like half a day on the first charge but after a week last a day or longer for me. I won't derail this thread though as that's a debate that always loves to go on and I've never found hard proof either way but people who just write websites who supposedly sound smart and can word it quite eloquently.
That being said, I didn't necessarily agree with it, but I was clarifying what was said.
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Thanks for clarifying. Keeping the battery between 20% and 80% is said to help with battery degradation, which after a year or two might affect how much one could get out of a full charge. Most won't find it practical to limit them self to only 60% of their total available battery pool though.
Even hitting 0% isn't as big of a problem as some may think as there is a reserve charge for protection. For instance, mine has full died on me twice due to a power outage (I even attempted a boot up) and I always full charge with no noticeable degradation after 8 months.

O+O - Disastrous battery life due to CM12?

Hey all !
I am back to O+O since 1 month as I was able to find a bamboo version.
Previously, last year, I owned a normal O+O running CM11 and I was really happy with battery life. I was wable to go trough my working day and then get a drink in the evening and keep battery life until morning.
With the Bamboo one I have now, it is impossible. I am around 10% of battery life near midnight. The only differences I see are :
- Bamboo cover (I don't think it is impacting battery life)
- The phone is 1 year old, perhaps the other owner did something wrong with the phone and ruined the battery
- CM12
I think the answer is in the version of CM ... Can you confirm me that ? Do you know if I can downgrade from 12 to 11 ?
My phone is used at work, not too much, I shutdown useless services and connection as LTE, Bluetooth, NFC, Location, ...
So that's really annoying I am already lowering my usage of this fabulous phone to be able to reach a full battery day and it is getting me sad
Thanks in advance for your help and toughs and excuse my poor english
Lag

fx.lagwagon said:
Hey all !
I am back to O+O since 1 month as I was able to find a bamboo version.
Previously, last year, I owned a normal O+O running CM11 and I was really happy with battery life. I was wable to go trough my working day and then get a drink in the evening and keep battery life until morning.
With the Bamboo one I have now, it is impossible. I am around 10% of battery life near midnight. The only differences I see are :
- Bamboo cover (I don't think it is impacting battery life)
- The phone is 1 year old, perhaps the other owner did something wrong with the phone and ruined the battery
- CM12
I think the answer is in the version of CM ... Can you confirm me that ? Do you know if I can downgrade from 12 to 11 ?
My phone is used at work, not too much, I shutdown useless services and connection as LTE, Bluetooth, NFC, Location, ...
So that's really annoying I am already lowering my usage of this fabulous phone to be able to reach a full battery day and it is getting me sad
Thanks in advance for your help and toughs and excuse my poor english
Lag
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I'm guessing its going to be due to CM12 which has poorer battery life across different devices compared to previous life on Kitkat. You can go back to kitkat or run both via multrom which is what I do. You can compare both and I clearly see that kitkat standby time is far better with probably an extra hour or 2 screen on time. Is your bootloader unlocked? If not your going to need to, to flash back to previous android versions.

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I'm guessing its going to be due to CM12 which has poorer battery life across different devices compared to previous life on Kitkat. You can go back to kitkat or run both via multrom which is what I do. You can compare both and I clearly see that kitkat standby time is far better with probably an extra hour or 2 screen on time. Is your bootloader unlocked? If not your going to need to, to flash back to previous android versions.
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I had also the feeling the issue is caused by CM12 and Jelly bean.
thanks for your idea of multirom, I am going to have a look at that tonight !

fx.lagwagon said:
I had also the feeling the issue is caused by CM12 and Jelly bean.
thanks for your idea of multirom, I am going to have a look at that tonight !
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Its definitely worth it, theres a guide to booting lollipop and kitkat roms alongside eachother in the thread below. Sounds tricky but once you get the right files together its fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-mmwolverines-opo-mods-tips-tricks-t3027926

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Its definitely worth it, theres a guide to booting lollipop and kitkat roms alongside eachother in the thread below. Sounds tricky but once you get the right files together its fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-mmwolverines-opo-mods-tips-tricks-t3027926
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MultiRom is installed and updated, I am now checking your loink to get the right version of KitKat rom and I'll install it.
I'll come back here with my impressions asap.
Thanks !

Want to improve battey life on Pixel? Try this

settings -> system -> Advanced -> Developer Options -> System Tracing. Uncheck the Trace Debuggable Applications. Enjoy about 15% better battery life.
Make sure to have a before and after record of your battery usage, with same set of apps, and same pattern of usage over couple of charges (like 3-4 days), to see how this affects your battery life. So, don't just rush to make the change, measure it. Your numbers may vary compared to mine.

thanks for sharing, will give it a go.

Interesting. I'll experiment with this for the hell of it. Thanks.

More info here: https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/systrace-on-device
Is is only enabled if you enable developer options? Seems like an interesting switch regardless, less realtime debugging / tracing should lead to better battery I'd think .

Just for someone who doesn't know too much about this, what does this do? Is it okay to turn off? Does it actually enhance battery life?

Thanks! Testing it out.....my average SoT is between 5h to 6,5h.

Thanks for the tip. Trying this out now.
My battery life on my 3 XL has not been great lately. I used to easily get 6h to 6.5h SoT, but not since like December patch, I'm getting maybe 5.5h tops.

Anecdotally this seems to work for me, heading home with 85% battery instead of 60% despite similar usage during the day

I turned it off yesterday. I feel my battery life getting longer, thanks:highfive:
But I noticed my phone is getting some lags sometime

same here will give it a go

When I got my pixel 3 XL last year the battery life was pretty good it was never a amazing but was enough for me. But lately the last couple of months it's turned ****, and I haven't installed any new apps or done anything different with my phone since I got it. I've got it set up exactly the same way since launch.

Zorachus said:
When I got my pixel 3 XL last year the battery life was pretty good it was never a amazing but was enough for me. But lately the last couple of months it's turned ****, and I haven't installed any new apps or done anything different with my phone since I got it. I've got it set up exactly the same way since launch.
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The Feb update seems to have caused some more drain for me. Battery was fine prior to that update. I'm going to give this suggestion a try and see if it helps.

anyone can confirm?

I can't definitively confirm this is what did it, but I'm definitely experiencing longer battery life.

TheIgster said:
The Feb update seems to have caused some more drain for me. Battery was fine prior to that update. I'm going to give this suggestion a try and see if it helps.
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Yup, the Feb update has definitely messed up the battery life.

Thanks! I also give it a try on my 3 XL.
Up till now, my 2 XL gives always a better batterylife than the 3 XL, hopefully it will be better now on the 3 XL.

This actually worked! thanks!

Discovered that when I do this, I lose the smart lock, which sucks because I'm using AA Mirror to mirror my phone screen to my Ford Sync display. Had to disable this.
Cheers,
B.D.

BostonDan said:
Discovered that when I do this, I lose the smart lock, which sucks because I'm using AA Mirror to mirror my phone screen to my Ford Sync display. Had to disable this.
Cheers,
B.D.
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I disabled it also, but my smart lock is still working. I just tried it. No issues.
PS: And you mean you had to re-enable it right? Cause it was enabled by default.

Legendhidde said:
Just for someone who doesn't know too much about this, what does this do? Is it okay to turn off? Does it actually enhance battery life?
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https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/systrace-on-device
Explanation. I don't know for sure, but I can't see any benefit to a non developer having this on.
I'd be curious if it's enabled in the background, or if triggering Dev setting turns it on.
My wife's phone doesn't have Dev on, but mine does. Not sure how I'd do a battery test short of running a stress test of some kind with both phones.
Anyone have an inside contact who would know if turning on dev enables it? Would be illogical to have it running without that right? No benefit...
I'm on a brand new 3xl and battery seems great. I just came from a V20 though, so hard for me to know if my battery is great or good...