Hey guys. I recently went back to 25r in an attempt to get better battery. And I am. What's strange is that in the first 50% I'll get 3hours soc. But I'm now on 18% with 4hours and 10 mins. Seems kinda strange. Not using the phone any differently. I do have a Google play services drain but its only 14% and I don't think its doing that much harm
Any one else?
J
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Fix the drain, http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2832525
Posts like this don't really help as we need to see what wakelocks are going on with your phone as well as the number of times its waking up your device.
The whole post-50% is a coincidence.
It's completely normal for you to have a 'faster' drain on the lower 50% of your battery life. But what Zephik said is right, it's impossible to say what's happening on your device without you providing some accompanying analytical data.
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Fix the drain, http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2832525
Posts like this don't really help as we need to see what wakelocks are going on with your phone as well as the number of times its waking up your device.
The whole post-50% is a coincidence.
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timmaaa said:
It's completely normal for you to have a 'faster' drain on the lower 50% of your battery life. But what Zephik said is right, it's impossible to say what's happening on your device without you providing some accompanying analytical data.
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Im quiet happy with my battery, get about 3 hours soc until 50% and then i get home from work, so its not a massive issue for me. What i find weird is the 49%-1%
Drain a hell of a lot faster, not really an explanation as to why it does that?
Hoping the 38r update that comes out next sunday makes it even better though
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JackHanAnLG said:
Im quiet happy with my battery, get about 3 hours soc until 50% and then i get home from work, so its not a massive issue for me. What i find weird is the 49%-1%
Drain a hell of a lot faster, not really an explanation as to why it does that?
Hoping the 38r update that comes out next sunday makes it even better though
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Install a app such as GSam / Wakelock Detector / BetterBatteryStats, on your next battery cycle running one of the 3 apps listed, post up screenshots of the listings so we can further discuss this. Or you can take a look at them yourself if you know what to look for.
You'd be looking for partial wakelocks / wake ups
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I've never got that great of battery life on the skyrocket, but lately I've noticed it declined to really quite terrible. I've flashed many different ROMs/kernels and have never been able to tell a difference. I've also used better battery stats to check for rogue apps and wake locks.
I have hardly any talk time on the phone and use moderate screen time. In about 10 minutes of browsing the web the battery has dropped almost 15%.
My question is that I've had the phone for a year and a couple months, is that about the lifespan of the battery before it needs replacing? How long do you all go before replacing the battery on the skyrocket?
Thanks
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I'm about the same life as you on my battery with similar use. Battery is still working pretty good for me. Not like new but not as bad as yours sounds.
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SeaDonkey said:
I've never got that great of battery life on the skyrocket, but lately I've noticed it declined to really quite terrible. I've flashed many different ROMs/kernels and have never been able to tell a difference. I've also used better battery stats to check for rogue apps and wake locks.
I have hardly any talk time on the phone and use moderate screen time. In about 10 minutes of browsing the web the battery has dropped almost 15%.
My question is that I've had the phone for a year and a couple months, is that about the lifespan of the battery before it needs replacing? How long do you all go before replacing the battery on the skyrocket?
Thanks
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I had the same issue except I found my devices heat was bouncing like crazy causing overheat/cooling issues I did replace my battery but after that I did a full wipe and flash then I only installed just primary apps I used to see where the issues was found out it was a total of 3 apps causing data hoggers and wakelocks that's were at low percentages
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I had the same issue except I found my devices heat was bouncing like crazy causing overheat/cooling issues I did replace my battery but after that I did a full wipe and flash then I only installed just primary apps I used to see where the issues was found out it was a total of 3 apps causing data hoggers and wakelocks that's were at low percentages
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I have noticed that my phone will get very hot sometimes even when just idling in my pocket. Do you remember where you bought the battery from?
If you're having battery life problems try installing Better Battery Stats and see what you've got for wakelocks before you blame the battery. Same thing happened to me. It'd take forever to charge and discharge within 5 hours, not even using the phone. Turns out I had partial wakelocks from the media scanner,my G+ app, and lock/unlock sounds killing my battery.
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I have noticed that my phone will get very hot sometimes even when just idling in my pocket. Do you remember where you bought the battery from?
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you can buy one on ebay or you can buy an exteneded one from ebay as well thats where i always go
I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Weird.. I don't think I have any apps that are running wild in the background. I'm not rooted atm though.
If it were a mystery app running in the background, would it be listed on the battery stats screen showing the % each program is taking up?
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Weird.. I don't think I have any apps that are running wild in the background. I'm not rooted atm though.
If it were a mystery app running in the background, would it be listed on the battery stats screen showing the % each program is taking up?
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Could be location reporting
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Could be location reporting
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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I've seen a couple threads praising their s4s for how long the battery life and in one case how much it flatlines while it's idle.
Since I've had mine , I've noticed the opposite. Using it very casually throughout the day with some light texting it'll drain probably about 30-40% while doing very little of anything.
But the part that stands out the most is when my s4 is idle overnight , it'll drop about 17-20% while others have reported seeing very little loss.
Has anyone else expierenced poor battery life? Is this normal for my s4 to do?
The only features I have turned on are; Wifi, Sound, Mobile Data, and Sync.
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You said you have sync enabled, how many different accounts or apps are syncing and how often? If you have 4-5 accounts syncing every 15 minutes, your phone will never sleep and you will see massive drain
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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One of the problems I had when updating to my new S4 was the memory card. Going from the S3 to the S4 was not good. The S4 didnt like the memory card and was causing high Gallery cpu/battery usage. Reformating the card fixed that problem.
Now, my Galaxy S4 has the best life of any Android I have ever had. At the end of the day, it still has 40% battery remaining with an screen on time of around 4 hours.
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You said you have sync enabled, how many different accounts or apps are syncing and how often? If you have 4-5 accounts syncing every 15 minutes, your phone will never sleep and you will see massive drain
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I think you're aiming in the right direction here. That was one of my guesses was that sync is draining it fast.
Just checked what i had under accounts. The only ones that were syncing were Google (toggled off a few of the features i don't use so i only sync what i do use, drive , calender etc)
The only other one that was on was Samsung account which i just toggled off as well since I don't have any need for that to be synced up whatsoever.
The only other apps I can think of that actively try to sync are my gmail and facebook. I'm not sure how to view the frequency for gmail to sync, but facebook is set up to check every hour.
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I think you're aiming in the right direction here. That was one of my guesses was that sync is draining it fast.
Just checked what i had under accounts. The only ones that were syncing were Google (toggled off a few of the features i don't use so i only sync what i do use, drive , calender etc)
The only other one that was on was Samsung account which i just toggled off as well since I don't have any need for that to be synced up whatsoever.
The only other apps I can think of that actively try to sync are my gmail and facebook. I'm not sure how to view the frequency for gmail to sync, but facebook is set up to check every hour.
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Yeah I have more accounts than that and I see 4+ he's of screen time a day with 30-40 percent left at the end of the day. I would try formating your sd card as stated above as that is also a known problem
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Not I personally. My buddy his wouldn't charge past 46% no matter what. Not even with new battery or after a factory reset.
I tho notice better battery life with this phone then on my s3.
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Yeah I have more accounts than that and I see 4+ he's of screen time a day with 30-40 percent left at the end of the day. I would try formating your sd card as stated above as that is also a known problem
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I don't have a sd card inserted
Here is mine on little usage. About a good 2-3 hours of screentime, everything turned on, max brightness, and live wallpaper...
I also had a 64GB MicroSD from my Galaxy S II that I did not format.
From the screenshot, the MediaServer is from the live wallpaper, and Maps -> almost every location setting in maps setting is checked... which will change soon... :good:
FWIW, GSMArena did a new battery test for the i9505 after the recent OTA update:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-i9...ests-update-battery-life-improved/#more-48734
Overall, it saw a slight improvement.
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I'm sorry if I'm TOTALLY off, but would that require the gps toggled on?
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Doesn't google now always tell you how far you are from home regardless of gps being on?
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Seems you have a run away app that is sucking your battery. If you are rooted, check out Better Battery Stats on xda. I get at most ~2% in an hour but normally its not even 1%.
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
Yea just checked bbs and it showed that any smart screen feature turned on caused wakelocks 7 hours straight while I was sleeping. disabled and Now I barely get battery drain and my phone goes into deep sleep. Sucks cuz I liked using smart screen features.
I'm getting itty good results I think? Formatted memory card installed.
How does this stack up against your guys
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
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Its paid in Play store, but if you find the xda thread (search on google: "better battery stats xda") there is a version available there. If you like it support the dev
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Is there a free app that is good for checking out the stats. Looks like the Better Barry Stats is paid.
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Look on XDA, its free.
Also after the OTA update my battery life is about 2x worse. Before I would lose 1% overnight and now i lose about 3%. Before I could get 4hrs screen on time with 20hrs standby, and now I am at 35% with 10 hours standby and 2hrs 6min on screen on.
Going to factory reset tonight.
I have only slightly better battery life than my rooted inspire 4g with a 1230 mah battery....
I cant WAIT for the custom roms and developers tweaking these phones...there is soo much potential for this device!
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I had battery saver installed and seemed to do great work but when uninstalled, my tablet's battery doesn't last more than 30 mins and it got much slower too. No virus was detected from CM though.
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I had battery saver installed and seemed to do great work but when uninstalled, my tablet's battery doesn't last more than 30 mins and it got much slower too. No virus was detected from CM though.
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It can be due to many reasons. Firstly, there can be many heavy ram consuming apps running in background. Try to close them. Keep the brightness of screen low. Keep Wifi and Other data connections off when not needed. You can also turn off auto-rotation. This will increase your battery backup to a considerable amount.
Incase, it doesn't makes much of a difference, you should buy a new battery !
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It can be due to many reasons. Firstly, there can be many heavy ram consuming apps running in background. Try to close them. Keep the brightness of screen low. Keep Wifi and Other data connections off when not needed. You can also turn off auto-rotation. This will increase your battery backup to a considerable amount.
Incase, it doesn't makes much of a difference, you should buy a new battery !
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This isnt a battery save issue. When it reaches like 92% it instantly goes to 56 and at about 51% it goes like 15% or less, or it may even go from 54% instantly to zero. How can i possibly change battery? Its a tablet. How can i open it? If taken for service will they accept it? Its rooted.
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This isnt a battery save issue. When it reaches like 92% it instantly goes to 56 and at about 51% it goes like 15% or less, or it may even go from 54% instantly to zero. How can i possibly change battery? Its a tablet. How can i open it? If taken for service will they accept it? Its rooted.
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I'm sorry. I didn't read your question properly.
Keeping in mind what you're saying, it seems like a "Failing Battery" . Tablet batteries can be changed but you will have to unroot first or the people at service center won't accept your device. So, unroot first and then go to service center.
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I'm sorry. I didn't read your question properly.
Keeping in mind what you're saying, it seems like a "Failing Battery" . Tablet batteries can be changed but you will have to unroot first or the people at service center won't accept your device. So, unroot first and then go to service center.
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last question then i hit thanks . There is no way i can possibly fix it without getting a new battery?
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last question then i hit thanks . There is no way i can possibly fix it without getting a new battery?
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Frankly speaking, No.I think you should get a new battery because a bad battery can be really-really dangerous !
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Thanks a lot, i will go as soon as possible
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Happy to help !
There are plenty of apps which supposedly save battery life majorly by real-time optimizations. The most popular seems to be Battery Doctor and Clean Master which also have very high ratings on Google Play. Does anybody use them? What's your experience on their battery impact? Do they really make any difference?
All I use is Greenify. It's an awesome app and a ton of people swear by it.
Honestly battery apps make it worse. Greenify is the exception.
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Greenify only. Nothing else.
Leandroid here..
Post 2, 3 and 4 sums it up. ?
I'm always running out of battery. I went dead in the first few hours today and then I used my Chromecast to watch the interview and was at 50% when I started. Screen off entire time 17% at the end. Now 15. Idk what to do about this drain. I've gotten lucky once with 4 hours screen on time though
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I'm always running out of battery. I went dead in the first few hours today and then I used my Chromecast to watch the interview and was at 50% when I started. Screen off entire time 17% at the end. Now 15. Idk what to do about this drain. I've gotten lucky once with 4 hours screen on time though
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Not sure why you'd expect good battery whilst casting. Its a massive battery drain, using wireless to send data. Especially large chunks over prolonged periods.
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Not sure why you'd expect good battery whilst casting. Its a massive battery drain, using wireless to send data. Especially large chunks over prolonged periods.
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It's not steaming from the device itself. Your phone is mostly the controller
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It's not steaming from the device itself. Your phone is mostly the controller
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I'm not convinced that's accurate, but even if you're right, there is a constant connection between Chromecast and your device, with wakelocks and large data usage.
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I'm not convinced that's accurate, but even if you're right, there is a constant connection between Chromecast and your device, with wakelocks and large data usage.
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That is definitely true! But even without casting I can't get over 3.5 hours sot
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That is definitely true! But even without casting I can't get over 3.5 hours sot
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Yes, sorry you're right. I've read up how Chromecast works and it is different to others, as you say.
It actually doesn't make sense that it would cause drain.
As for 3.5 hours screen, that's not abnormal.
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Yes, sorry you're right. I've read up how Chromecast works and it is different to others, as you say.
It actually doesn't make sense that it would cause drain.
As for 3.5 hours screen, that's not abnormal.
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I just don't know how I can get that to be higher. I was looking at gsam and trying to figure out wake locks but I don't understand it
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I just don't know how I can get that to be higher. I was looking at gsam and trying to figure out wake locks but I don't understand it
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Did you visit the battery sticky thread?
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Did you visit the battery sticky thread?
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Yeah, I just haven't had much experience with tweaking my device for battery. I could use someone's help determining what kills my battery. I have lost 5% in 20minutes I've been awake
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Yeah, I just haven't had much experience with tweaking my device for battery. I could use someone's help determining what kills my battery. I have lost 5% in 20minutes I've been awake
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Run your phone until it's had a good run (80% battery used or something) and post as many gsam and android battery stats as possible in that thread. Use
tags so people dont have to load all pictures unless they want to. Make sure you go into teh battery graph in andoid and screenshot that and also into the big offenders, like screen so they can see how long things have ben running
Chromecast does not stream data from the phone unless its local media. If you want to see for yourself, stream a netflix movie and turn off your phone once it starts playing.
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Chromecast does not stream data from the phone unless its local media. If you want to see for yourself, stream a netflix movie and turn off your phone once it starts playing.
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Yes, we established that.
2 pages and not one useful screen shot of battery stats. ?
See post 4 in the battery thread in my signature, and provide some screen shots that are recommended.
Otherwise this is just going to go in circles. ?
Guys Im coming from a stock lollipop rom on my Nexus 5 and Im looking for a STABLE rom on my nexus 5 that provides much better battery life without performance sacrifice.. Any suggestions..??
As mentioned on the title, do you guys know what I should do? I'm on the latest stable update. I just got the phone couple of days ago.
I was thinking to do a factory reset and download each app manually instead of going through backup stuff? Idk if this will help.
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I was thinking to do a factory reset and download each app manually instead of going through backup stuff? Idk if this will help.
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I would turn on adaptive battery to begin with and get BBS to find out which app is draining the battery before you go through a factory reset. How is your standby time overnight? It should be around 0.5 - 0.8% / hour.
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I would turn on adaptive battery to begin with and get BBS to find out which app is draining the battery before you go through a factory reset. How is your standby time overnight? It should be around 0.5 - 0.8% / hour.
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I get a lot worse than that but I'll do what you say then I'll update you later on
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Please update us as I'm having the same issue where the drain from a factory reset with fresh start is still 3%/hr, with ambient display off.
Dr-akbar said:
Please update us as I'm having the same issue where the drain from a factory reset with fresh start is still 3%/hr, with ambient display off.
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That should not be. Get better battery stats and figure out what is waking your device with screen off. Disable it or get the eff rid of it. It's probably one app so find it. I had some stupid app draining 1% per hour idle. Bye bye. You'll get it and then squash it.
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That should not be. Get better battery stats and figure out what is waking your device with screen off. Disable it or get the eff rid of it. It's probably one app so find it. I had some stupid app draining 1% per hour idle. Bye bye. You'll get it and then squash it.
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I'll try that but if I remember correctly, I did at some point download it and nothing was shown to be draining the battery or waking the device except for high usage by Google services as it always seems and couldn't narrow it down at that time.
I'll give it another shot and see.
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I'll try that but if I remember correctly, I did at some point download it and nothing was shown to be draining the battery or waking the device except for high usage by Google services as it always seems and couldn't narrow it down at that time.
I'll give it another shot and see.
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I look at alarms and partial wakelocks mostly. You'll find something errant other than the system services which everyone has. Shoot for 0.7% / hour max. I mean sometimes something goes awry and I have to reboot to clear it out. Do a reboot before unplugging at full charge then go 7 hours or so and see what you get unplugged. Screen on time is nonsense so don't pay attention to that. The battery isn't stellar but it is sufficient.
With pixel phones I've learn to live without root, customROMS, short battery life and lag here and there.
To love Android I have to accept or sacrifice those little things.
I'm enjoying the camera, regular updates and the size of my pixel 3.
If you are looking for best battery life, pixel is not an option.