Hi there!
I rooted my nexus 5 recently and experiencing a sudden drain in battery..i used to get 14 to 15 hrs of backup before rooting and now only 10 to 11hrs of backup..I then installed a power saver app to reduce the CPU frequency to conserve the battery life and currently running at 1.2 Ghz..while it doees conserve the battery..I'm still curious why all of a sudden a battery drain and is there any other way to solve this without underclocking the cpu frequency?
Read this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-life-help-troubleshoot-battery-t2785128
And only then after trying the suggestions there post the images it asks for.
Now i am not saying you are lying but its very strange to hear rooting causing a battery drain. Power saver apps useless. Can you try unrooting to see if the problem goes away?
It could be one of the app you have in your device. Anyway to monitor what's causing the drainage. Install system monitor ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.systemmonitor.lite)
Also, Install Greenify, that should give you control to hibernate your apps (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify).
Root itself cannot cause battery drain. It will be a coincidence
Did you install any mods after rooting?
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Hi guys,
Here's one for you!
After I performed the widely reported HTC Desire battery calibration on my HTC Desire S I was easily getting about 40hours usage from it. I was extremely impressed by its long battery life.
However in recent days I have been getting just a fraction of this. Perhaps 15hours at most. My usage hasn't increased or decreased and I'm struggling to find an explanation as to why the battery life has been slashed. I recalibrated and still no improvement.
Can anybody shed some light please!?
lukey-windy said:
Hi guys,
Here's one for you!
After I performed the widely reported HTC Desire battery calibration on my HTC Desire S I was easily getting about 40hours usage from it. I was extremely impressed by its long battery life.
However in recent days I have been getting just a fraction of this. Perhaps 15hours at most. My usage hasn't increased or decreased and I'm struggling to find an explanation as to why the battery life has been slashed. I recalibrated and still no improvement.
Can anybody shed some light please!?
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You need to run some battery monitoring tools to see whats actually eating the battery.
I'd recommend battery monitor widget this should show the amount of battery being eaten at a given time and record history, so you can determine if its a rouge application or a duff battery?!
After you install it it change Settings->Monitoring->Battery Capacity to the correct value of 1450.
Try to think about what applications you may have installed around the time the consumption changed or if you have recently added new accounts to sync.
Indeed you need a battery monitoring tool to see exactly what is going on but for me I noticed that running a GPS application and after that stoping GPS module never release completly the resources and the battery is discharging faster.
All indications shows there are no GPS connections and the module is off but the battery discharge at 2x speed than usual. I had to restart the phone and the problem is solved until the next time I start any GPS app (Navigon , iGO ..).
I use stock ROM.
You could also try, where is my android power.
It's an app that shows you which app consume how many % of battery.
Maybe the problem is related to an app you downloaded lately
Thank you for all your comments so far guys. Unfortunately I am no closer to finding out what has started to dissolve my battery.
I have done a factory reset today to rule out any rogue app causing problems.
Just seems odd that I can go from getting 36-40 hours usage down to about 15 without dramatically increasing my time spent using the phone.
I'm wondering if anyone has made a chart to test this. I normally go through a battery and a half to 2 batteries in a work day. Currently completely stock with Juice Defender ultimate and Lookout running in the background. After my 8 hr shift im usually having to change my battery (sometimes before). I know rooting is suppose to help with this, but does it really help with so much on screen time? Funny thing is most my battery drain is a mix between, XDA, Facebook, and Reddit. Usually non work days i can get a full days use out of a singal battery.
Rooting doesn't change your battery performance... It's what you do WITH root access that helps that.
There are plenty of things you can do without root access to better your battery life though. I personally get 24+ hours and I'm on the stock rom that came with the phone. Make sure your data connection is off when you're not using it, set your wifi sleep policy to turn off when the screen is off (settings>wireless/network>wifi settings>menu button>advanced>wifi sleep policy), and set your brightness low. Honestly about all it takes to get great life out of your phone.
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.
zephiK said:
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)
brunsman6229 said:
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.
zephiK said:
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.
I was wondering how good rooted users could make the battery life with apps like Greenify etc.
Are there any users here that use rooted apps to extend battery life? If so how is it?
I am not rooted.
It seems to me I have better battery life since I got rid of greenify, lux and tasker. I never meant to just remove them, it's just I was getting random reboots so factory reset and have only installed a small bunch of apps since.
Didn't expect better battery life especially without lux which can dim the screen brightness much more then stock. On greenify, my take is, without root it cannot really hibernate the apps, I think it stops them altogether, so it takes more for them to start again, hence more battery drain.
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Android System is draining my battery and is keeping my device awake for more than 2 hours. Is anyone on Nougat suffering from this? I didn't have this high drain on Marshmallow, not sure what's causing this. All help, suggestions, and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance.
I am on Nougat 7.0, stock. Even after doing all the typical battery saving tweaks, I found that using the Google App and Google Play Services were consistently the highest battery drainers. Was getting 2-3% battery drain per hour, with minimal or idle use. For the Google App, I ultimately had to stop using and disable Google Now Cards to eliminate that app's drain as nothing else worked. Still working on the drain on Google Play Services as that one still shows up but not as high as before, but am now getting close to 1% drain per hour on idle use.
my phone had no facebook, messenger barely go to google play, not setup google now. using nova launcher. all I used is twitter, google+, instagram, photo (backup), SAO game, and others living app. turn on GPS on high used too. battery live until night.
Are you guys rooted?
I used the Boost app that was introduced in the update, kills all processes you want it to with the smart feature, but has a weird side effect of being unable to download anything when it's in the background, just gotta hold the app open until it's done downloading. Battery life is fine for me, since using this.
Yes I am root. Boost app really to frozen the apps when phone off. but message and info still got intouch
My Sprint HTC One A9 phone is rooted, S-off, unlocked, flashed with TWRP 3.0.2-0 am on 6.0.1 and I am experiencing the same battery drain issue. I have tried multiple battery conditioners with no affect upon the battery life. It still drops very quickly and the phone will power off at about 25 - 30% battery left on the phone. Boot into TWRP and find the battery level states at 37 - 45%. Let the phone sit on TWRP screen for hours and it never powers off.
I cannot figure this out and am about to wipe my phone and start all over again.
theNdroid said:
Android System is draining my battery and is keeping my device awake for more than 2 hours. Is anyone on Nougat suffering from this? I didn't have this high drain on Marshmallow, not sure what's causing this. All help, suggestions, and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance.
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same over here I'm on Htc one M9 and my system usage is 32% , android os is 16% and phone idle is 9%, lets see for another week so nougat may take some time to settle down on our mobile phones :good cheers
theNdroid said:
Are you guys rooted?
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Have tried to root using kingroot with no success as of yet.
marcomellett said:
Have tried to root using kingroot with no success as of yet.
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Use ADB to flash TWRP and boot it up. Mount /system read only. Flash Magisk. Now you've got root.