so i cleared my cache - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6

So I cleared my cache the other day. I have pretty bad service at home and normally overnight i see my phone drop at least by 40% battery. Well last night it only dropped by 15%. In fact yesterday i made it 24 hours using only 50% battery.
Just coincidence ? Or real ?

Nope it's real gave me 10 hours more of battery

scooterman said:
So I cleared my cache the other day. I have pretty bad service at home and normally overnight i see my phone drop at least by 40% battery. Well last night it only dropped by 15%. In fact yesterday i made it 24 hours using only 50% battery.
Just coincidence ? Or real ?
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That's what happened to me also. On the first few days I was dropping battery like crazy at home. Now at home I'm on wifi but my 4G signal is crap upstairs, and in the basement I'm constantly flipping between 3G and 1X. Normally I don't care because wifi for data and I use gVoice for calls here, but it did seem related to battery drain. Clearing the cache (and in my case also a factory reset), combined with turning on Advanced Calling seemed to do the trick. Now it's much more reasonable.

this is a known workaround that works on most S6s...it didn't work on my original but it did on my replacement. See the battery life thread...

Are you clearing a specific app's cache or what are you doing?
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droidiac13 said:
Are you clearing a specific app's cache or what are you doing?
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Device cache thru recovery or flashfire. Even though the OP doesn't appear to know this, he had high cell standby drain.

twiz0r said:
Device cache thru recovery or flashfire. Even though the OP doesn't appear to know this, he had high cell standby drain.
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Just wipe the cache partition?

droidiac13 said:
Just wipe the cache partition?
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Yes...are you having high cell standby drain?
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twiz0r said:
Yes...are you having high cell standby drain?
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Always in the top 3, but my battery life isn't horrible. I was having worse luck with the google play services. I just wanted to know for future reference. Thank you.

droidiac13 said:
Always in the top 3, but my battery life isn't horrible. I was having worse luck with the google play services. I just wanted to know for future reference. Thank you.
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Ya the Google play services thing is weird. I've only had it happen to me once. Oh well. Glad I could clarify for you
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How are you wiping the cache through stock recovery? I don't have that option on my recovery screen..

Rippley05 said:
How are you wiping the cache through stock recovery? I don't have that option on my recovery screen..
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Um....it's there. Towards the bottom of the list. I'd look to see exactly but I'm testing battery life and don't want to go into recovery.

It's there. Saw it yesterday.
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wiping battery stats DOES improve battery life!!

If people have been wondering...
I got a 3800mah sedio extended battery like a month ago and so far its been better then standard, when i got home i had about 20% more battery then before.
I thought i wiped my battery stats with app but now it turns out it didnt, i wiped it using CMW and i can already see the improvment.
Normally when I would use it for about 30 minutes moderate usage i would be down to about 94%... Now i only go down to aboit 97-98%
Wiping battery stats is the quicker alternative to using a ROM for a while.
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How would I go about wiping battery stats? Sorry I'm a noob. Phones rooted btw
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Stang5_o2002 said:
How would I go about wiping battery stats? Sorry I'm a noob. Phones rooted btw
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You need to have CWM installed. Instructions are found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
To the OP, I dont think it would actually improve battery life. When I had a Motorola I had this issue all the time. When I would get to 1% it would sit there for hours. I would wipe batter stats and it would be more accurate. Giving you the illusion that its better.
What a bunch of BS. delete this nonsense thread.
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I personally thought wiping battery states just let's your phone know the exact battery level if it got messed up. So in theory you aren't getting more battery its just your phone now knows the right right battery level. Lol
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The battery stats is just a file that gives the info in the settings / battery stats .. this is a myth that's been disproved already ..
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Please do a bit more research before believing things
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Holy mother.
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When I started out changing ROMs a few months ago, I used to wipe the battery stats and do the full charge/full drain thing. I've since stopped and can't say that I notice any change in how quickly the initial drain goes back to normal (or even that there is a an "initial" and a "normal").
That all said, if there is, in fact, truth to the idea that the battery drain indicator just needs a while to become accurate on a new ROM, it seems entirely likely that wiping stats and doing a full charge/full drain cycle is really only useful because of the full drain part of it providing the ROM time to calibrate.
I believe it has more to do with the physical battery getting juiced properly when you first get your phone. After that a mod shouldn't need to reflex the battery, but wiping the stats would give you a more accurate percent if it seems off.
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Good lord people. What's with the pointless threads? Please Do some research on the subject before posting nonsense.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
There's an explanation of what the battery stats actually are. Your 'evidence' is purely anecdotal. That's all.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
There's an explanation of what the battery stats actually are. Your 'evidence' is purely anecdotal. That's all.
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Ding ding, we have a winner.
That source is tough to refute too.
Im not sure if its my new battery (generic thats SUPPOSED to have more mAh's) but the new 4.04 battery life just SUCKS. Trying it on the OEM battery to see how it compares after wiping th stats.
Everyone needs to stop responding to this thread! It's already been stated that it is all nonsense, so for the love of god people, stop bumping it!
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Well I WOULD have posted in the devlopment thread, but since Im a N00B and all I have to post my problems somewhere...
custommx3 said:
Im not sure if its my new battery (generic thats SUPPOSED to have more mAh's) but the new 4.04 battery life just SUCKS. Trying it on the OEM battery to see how it compares after wiping th stats.
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generic batteries are garbage
I had the same battery drain on my OEM battery. Flashed back to 2.3.5 and now I have a battery that lasts!

Battery drain

Im having Lot of battery drain by Google Service and I have all disabled.. Any idea?
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no one can help me? :\ so I will do a new install of the rom then I'm sure to solve this problem.
McGiver93 said:
no one can help me? :\ so I will do a new install of the rom then I'm sure to solve this problem.
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Which rom are you running?
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Could it be you have latitude turned on? This used loads of battery on the phone I just had
I solved it by discharging the battery completely, then I did wipe battery stats and then i re-charged it. now after 6 hours its 94%
What's the typical battery time for the One S? I got mine a few days ago and it just seems like the battery drains away way too quickly than what I read on reviews. 14 minutes in and already at 83%? Yet all I did was use the 3G connection. But my screen consumption is 89% yet I have brightness at below half way, probably 40%. How is any of this possible?! I've got Google's Location service and Location and Google search options turned on, could this be it?
I haven't had the opportunity to go at it for the full day, so that's what I'm gonna do today and see how it goes.
Take a look at this (which will grow over time):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28947240
Lodberg said:
Take a look at this (which will grow over time):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28947240
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Thank you.
There are mods for battery saving
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[Q] Battery Drained 99% Overnight?!!

Hi! Last night, I charged my battery to 100% then left it on overnight, turning everything off (wifi, bluetooth, notifications) and made sure to clear all running applications. Usually, my battery only drains about 5-10% during the 8 or so hours that I sleep, which is what I expect. But all of sudden, last night it drained ALL THE WAY. When I woke up, it was at 1%!! Does anybody know why this happened? I know that the reception at my house sucks (dropped calls, failure to send texts sometimes, etc.), but that never really hurt my phone that much overnight. I'll upload some pics of my battery stats. I appreciate any help!
Your phone didn't go into deep sleep more than likely.
Was your battery old???....it might have lost its power to charge
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How do I know or make it go to deep sleep?
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How do I know or make it go to deep sleep?
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This app could help.
It has to be a rogue app. I would fix permissions, wipe caches, and reboot. That should fix the problem, if not, you will probably have to reflash your Rom.
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You are the 1%.
But no seriously. It's probably a rogue app.
By any chance do you live in the Fort Wayne area? This happened and no signal will quickly kill a battery.
HHF2 said:
It has to be a rogue app. I would fix permissions, wipe caches, and reboot. That should fix the problem, if not, you will probably have to reflash your Rom.
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What is a rogue app? I don't remember downloading any new apps, and I'm running stock right now, so is necessary to reflash?
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Did you try the other things first?
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I decided to look at your pictures, and sure enough, you have 0 signal for pretty much the entire night (red bar) which kept your phone awake the whole night. At the end you have so-so signal (mustard color). 92% cell standby power usage. Yup.
So this can be chalked up to signal issue.
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I decided to look at your pictures, and sure enough, you have 0 signal for pretty much the entire night (red bar) which kept your phone awake the whole night. At the end you have so-so signal (mustard color). 92% cell standby power usage. Yup.
So this can be chalked up to signal issue.
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Good call, didn't even notice the colored signal bar.
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Did you try the other things first?
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No not yet. I don't think I need to, because I didn't change anything to my phone except reinstall AVAST? And I'm not exactly sure how to do all of your suggestions because I'm still kind of new to rooting....
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Good call, didn't even notice the colored signal bar.
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Oh. So it is really just because of my crappy signal? This has never happened before though. Maybe my signal was just more terrible that night?
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lilaznandyx said:
Oh. So it is really just because of my crappy signal? This has never happened before though. Maybe my signal was just more terrible that night?
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If your phone wasn't in a different spot than normal, then perhaps there was a network outage in your area overnight.
I had cell standby at 90 or so % one night too and it drained me down to 40% batt over night. It only happened once tho
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You can put it in airplane mode if the bad signal keeps draining it. I have to do that when I'm at work. Used to be I would get to work with about 85-90% and 7 hours later with almost no use it would be down to 20%. I switched it to airplane mode at work and only lose about 2% over the 7 hours now. (imoseyon's lean kernel with a cpu screen off profile also helps)
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Was your battery old???....it might have lost its power to charge
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How does anyone here have an old battery? The first wave of SIII's hit stores not even three months ago lol.
Maybe he wanted to ask if the battery was faulty?
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ahhh, good call on the signal. He could enable wifi if there is an AP handy. Wouldn't that help?
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If your phone wasn't in a different spot than normal, then perhaps there was a network outage in your area overnight.
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My phone did the same thing again. It went from 60% right down to powering off. I don't get why this has never happened before... Maybe I'll just leave it in airplane mode....
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google services consuming battery

I notice Google services is consuming a large amount of battery. Anyone else notice this? It's used 29% of my battery today so far. I'm sitting at 59% battery right now after 7 hrs.
pmazz850 said:
I notice Google services is consuming a large amount of battery. Anyone else notice this? It's used 29% of my battery today so far. I'm sitting at 59% battery right now after 7 hrs.
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Exact opposite for me. Google play services is at 1% after a few hours of usage.
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wtoj34 said:
Exact opposite for me. Google play services is at 1% after a few hours of usage.
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Are you on Verizon?
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Are you on Verizon?
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Yeah, just picked it up in store this morning.
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wtoj34 said:
Yeah, just picked it up in store this morning.
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Ya I'm thinking something Isn't right. Everyone says battery life is great on this phone and right now I'm worried about it. I'm coming from a note 2 and it had great battery life.
Got mine on Tuesday.
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wtoj34 said:
Yeah, just picked it up in store this morning.
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Ya I'm thinking something Isn't right. Everyone says battery life is great on this phone and right now I'm worried about it. I'm coming from a note 2 and it had great battery life.
Got mine on Tuesday.
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I came from note 2 as well. That was a known issue with aosp roms. I'd hang tight until we get some more insight on it.
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My battery usage isn't accurate at all, it doesn't even show screen or other apps I'm using. Maybe the OTA will fix this, we're on an old build version compared to the international users
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pmazz850 said:
I came from note 2 as well. That was a known issue with aosp roms. I'd hang tight until we get some more insight on it.
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Ya I will thanks. I did notice something today though. When I got the phone Tuesday I activated it on a second line to get the discount. The next day I went back and switched it over to my line. After I went back I started getting this pop up saying- something went wrong....I'll try to attatch pic. Doesn't say what it's for or anything. So I went into sync and unchecked a bunch of craps. Haven't seen it again. Been about an hour.
Edit: Still getting pop up....
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pmazz850 said:
wtoj34 said:
Ya I will thanks. I did notice something today though. When I got the phone Tuesday I activated it on a second line to get the discount. The next day I went back and switched it over to my line. After I went back I started getting this pop up saying- something went wrong....I'll try to attatch pic. Doesn't say what it's for or anything. So I went into sync and unchecked a bunch of craps. Haven't seen it again. Been about an hour.
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I am having that same problem cannot figure out what is is hmm
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you can disable google service
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pmazz850 said:
I am having that same problem cannot figure out what is is hmm
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you can disable google service
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wtoj34 said:
Exact opposite for me. Google play services is at 1% after a few hours of usage.
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Same issue here, coming fro the Note 3 I figured I would be disappointed with Battery but not like this. 4 hours off the charger and minimal use and I'm at 60% , Android System using 46% and Google Play Services using 42%. I'm also on Verizon...
I seem to be doing a little better today on battery. I went into app manager and disabled every Verizon app I could. I also unchecked administor box in Google. Haven't had the pop up yet today bout signing into something. So I'm still hoping this phone will hold up. 6hr31m at 73%
Android system is normal.. As you can see I have no play services up. Battery life is meh after using a note 3.. But liveable.
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That's interesting. I'm still showing Google services consuming a fair amount of my juice. I think I might factory reset this phone because I don't know what the salesman did when he set it up. That's why I don't usually go into a retail store for new phones, they get there grubby paws all over it.
Go in Google now and uncheck the "ok Google" shortcut. A lot of complaints for 4.4.2 on the Moto X showed improvement by doing this. i did it day one just to be careful since i never use that shortcut. phrase. Just something to try and see if you have improvement. 4.4.2 on the Moto X had a crazy battery drain bug and that helped it.
Cole
COLJ04 said:
Go in Google now and uncheck the "ok Google" shortcut. A lot of complaints for 4.4.2 on the Moto X showed improvement by doing this. i did it day one just to be careful since i never use that shortcut. phrase. Just something to try and see if you have improvement. 4.4.2 on the Moto X had a crazy battery drain bug and that helped it.
Cole
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the "Ok, Google" hotword detection?
I'll disable it as I never use it.. the battery drain is really odd.. I'm getting 10% drain from google play services and 58% from android system..
x70xchallengerx said:
the "Ok, Google" hotword detection?
I'll disable it as I never use it.. the battery drain is really odd.. I'm getting 10% drain from google play services and 58% from android system..
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Yea the hotword detection. It's worth a shot.
Cole
My battery seems to be getting butchered by Android System and Google Services.
pettigrew95 said:
My battery seems to be getting butchered by Android System and Google Services.
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Same here, I mean that's just what it shows but I'm seeing 50-60% used by android system , is that normal?
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I disable the 90 percent of mine and battery life is awesome now
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Massive drain with no wake locks

Hey all
I had a wake lock trigger that was draining my battery so I decided to try and find what was causing it. I turned off all background sync and disabled GPS. I charged my phone to full and then let it drain over night. As you can see in screen shots... Massive drain occurred with no visual signs of the cause. Anyone have an idea?
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Demonic240 said:
Hey all
I had a wake lock trigger that was draining my battery so I decided to try and find what was causing it. I turned off all background sync and disabled GPS. I charged my phone to full and then let it drain over night. As you can see in screen shots... Massive drain occurred with no visual signs of the cause. Anyone have an idea?
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Try to turn off wifi and see what happens
Demonic240 said:
Hey all
I had a wake lock trigger that was draining my battery so I decided to try and find what was causing it. I turned off all background sync and disabled GPS. I charged my phone to full and then let it drain over night. As you can see in screen shots... Massive drain occurred with no visual signs of the cause. Anyone have an idea?
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Did you get any shots of the Kernel Wakelocks and Partial Wakelocks screens in bbs? That's where you would see the culprit(s). Also, do you ever do soft reboots? Some people (including myself) have experienced increased battery drain with no visible wakelocks after soft rebooting. Doing a full reboot seems to fix it.
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It's definitely something using Wi-Fi. Need more in depth analysis
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Did you get any shots of the Kernel Wakelocks and Partial Wakelocks screens in bbs? That's where you would see the culprit(s). Also, do you ever do soft reboots? Some people (including myself) have experienced increased battery drain with no visible wakelocks after soft rebooting. Doing a full reboot seems to fix it.
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I checked those but there was nothing abnormal. I'd done a reboot when I flashed the kernel back to stock pa.
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It's definitely something using Wi-Fi. Need more in depth analysis
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I've disabled wifi and it drained to dead. Going to recharge to full and see what it does off wi-fi. What could I do to see why/if wi-fi is killing it?
You can see it is draining it in your screen shots. Maybe you didn't fully disable the background Wi-Fi usage. "scanning always enabled" for example
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rootSU said:
You can see it is draining it in your screen shots. Maybe you didn't fully disable the background Wi-Fi usage. "scanning always enabled" for example
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That was one of the first things I disabled.
Demonic240 said:
That was one of the first things I disabled.
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Doesn't look like its disabled correctly. Your screenshot shows nearly 8 hours Wi-Fi.
Maybe there is a bug in your settings data.
Not sure if you're rooted or not but maybe a backup / wipe is the best course of action
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Doesn't look like its disabled correctly. Your screenshot shows nearly 8 hours Wi-Fi.
Maybe there is a bug in your settings data.
Not sure if you're rooted or not but maybe a backup / wipe is the best course of action
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Here's the current setting. I guess I can factory reset again. I'll try that after this current charge cycle.
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You could try booting the phone into safe mode to see if it's a 3rd party app, though unnecessary if you plan on trying a full reset anyways.
Disable xposed
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Factory reset, no syncing enabled, no auto updates, google now disabled, no apps other than stock gapps installed. Still high android os usage.
Demonic240 said:
Factory reset, no syncing enabled, no auto updates, google now disabled, no apps other than stock gapps installed. Still high android os usage.
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while at first it looks high, in reality it isnt(yet). in your screenshot you have only lost 5% battery so far with light use. at this point you really cant tell what your battery will be like with use.
simms22 said:
while at first it looks high, in reality it isnt(yet). in your screenshot you have only lost 5% battery so far with light use. at this point you really cant tell what your battery will be like with use.
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How about now?
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How about now?
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ahh, thats a little better, but itll drop a little more with use. while 20 is a little high, id still classify as normal. really anything up to 20% is normal. typically, after a full cycle, i see android os between 9-15%. but it would all depend on exactly how you use your phone.
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ahh, thats a little better, but itll drop a little more with use. while 20 is a little high, id still classify as normal. really anything up to 20% is normal. typically, after a full cycle, i see android os between 9-15%. but it would all depend on exactly how you use your phone.
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Right now.. I'm not doing anything other than replying to this thread.
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Right now.. I'm not doing anything other than replying to this thread.
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i see that chrome(and chrome sandbox) is taking a huge amount of battery for very little use. 21% together, just to respond to xda..
Install system monitor from play store and check CPU freq and number of CPU's online while screen on.
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As said above....use the phone normally and check when its almost drained. It will surely be much lower.
If location is on...it will probably be higher than 10% I'd guess. If so....completely normal.

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