the last couple of days i had to charge my touch pro almost twice per day (heavy usage). I also watched the battery drain very fast.
I have been using a custom taskbar with 1% battery icons. Yesterday i accidentally removed the battery for the taskbar (using the clock now instead) and for some reason i feel that the battery lasts longer. I still have 7/10 bars since yesterday now (2 of them were because i was playing diamond twister which sucks your battery up though).
please noone flame with comments like this is bs etc..as i said i THINK this is the case..i will report back how long it lasts..You are welcome to try it.
It could have something to do with the battery status refresh interval
I have definitely heard that some of the custom battery monitors are huge memory whores because of the problem you noted- they are constantly polling and therefore leading to a heavy drain. If you think the one you installed is doing it I bet it is doing it.
For some reason when I fully charge my phone using the usb , it last much longer. Don't know why. Otherwise my battery is very erratic. I really can't pinpoint any program. I charged my phone in the car for a 3hr trip and then it lasted all day w/hardly any drain...weird... If I turn off the phone and charge via usb, it is the best for me.
ive had loads of htc phones over the years and i agree that custom battery icons do IMHO drain battery alot more
a bit off topic.. but when i got my tp i installed everything i wanted... then uninstalled the things i didnt want.. on and on for about a week..
using sk tools to clean up invalids from uninstalled software..
battery lasted 4 hours...
so i got all the softwares i wanted...
and for some reason, i had to do a hard reset...
so i installed
WAD
WIS
pA
Flexmail
and then the rest of the software i knew i wanted...
for some reason the hard reset... changed something i did, now TP lasts 10-12 hours..
with it checking email every 10 minutes, weather every hour, and me constantly messing with it.
so just a thought.
Same thing happened with my Fuze and also my Tilt.
I dont think that battery drainage is the problem. The battery meter is just inaccurate. I was able to get 8-10 hours of usage before. Now it lasts 2 days with the same usage.
Has anyone noticed their battery life seems shorter since the update ? I installed the official froyo update last night and it seems I'm running out of juice much quicker than before.
At first mine ran down faster. I ran it all the way down. Charged it. And ran it all the way down again and charged. It seems back to normal.
I didn't have any issues. Maybe you changed something else as well? Could always try a few recharge cycles and see if it stabilizes..
I was running the leaked 2.2 and I flashed to official 2.2. My battery life is almost double what it was. I can't complain one bit about battery life, although I have other gripes with the official Froyo release.
I'm with icepop on this one.. I was running the stock rogers rom pre-update and now with the official rogers 2.2 I'm getting at least double the use before having to charge again.
I'm having battery issues with the new stock Froyo. I lose a huge amount of juce when in standby. I thought I may have my widgets updating too often so I charged it up and put it into airplane mode last night. The phone lost about 1% per hour in airplane mode. IDK what is normal but that seems like a lot to me. I didn't have any apps running, except my alarm was set for the morning.
I have SystemPanel installed and my cpu load NEVER goes below 10 percent, even in airplane mode. I suspect this is a large part of the issue. In app history, system and system processes are always on the top of the list and are around 3% each. IDK what controls this or how to lower it. I would love some feedback from someone else with SystemPanel just to see how our numbers compare. Overall the battery life I'm experiencing is pretty terrible and a buddy of mine's Fascinate has much better battery life (hence something must be wrong somewhere). He and I were skiing all day over the weekend and when we got back to our cars, my phone was half dead and his had lost almost zero juice. This displeases me.
mine's was better actually. but i didnt stayon it for long
My initial results with 2.2 were very bad (10% drop per hour when idling). I reset the phone back to 2.1 then re-installed 2.2. This did not help. Now I did this again (2.1 then 2.2) but this time I have not re-installed my apps and have not rooted (yet). So far, battery life seems to be normal. I suspect that some of my applications might mis-behave when installed on 2.2. I am planning to add them slowly and watch the battery.
Not here, seems the same to me
Mine is terrible ! I don't know what it might have been on 2.1 as I upgraded fairly quickly. Essentially I charge all night and then disconnect from power at 6:30am and then by 4:30pm I'm out of juice (phone shuts off). Any ideas here? I'm not running anything extravegant (email only) and hardly make any calls.
Whenever you flash to a new ROM, wait for at least a week of normal usage before you judge the battery life. The reason is simple, your battery stats are reset after ROM flash and your new OS needs time to learn how your battery drains before it can give you accurate readings.
If you can't wait for that long, you need follow the battery calibration thread to force a manual calibration of the battery.
I'll give it a week and see how it is then. Definitely is draining much quicker now though. I think It acted similiarly when I first got the phone as well. If I recall correctly the batter life sucked when I first got it, but then a week or so seemed to get much better.
I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
TheSopranos16 said:
I did the manual battery recalibration (let it die, charge while off, turn on and bump charge...etc). Last night I lost about 2.5% of battery per hour while in standby. This seems improved since calibration but its still pretty terrible IMHO. Is this in line with the amount of drain other are getting or am I draining more than usual?
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Running stock since purchasing the Captivate back in August, and so far battery life actually seems to be routinely as good if not better than 2.1. I must admit I didn't use my phone a huge amount yesterday (except for about an hour plus of downloading a bunch of wallpapers off Zedge for some ungodly reason lol), and after 18 hours of the phone being on I was still over 50% battery life left. 2.5% in standby doesn't sound like all is well - you must have something running in the background or similar issue. I have a live background, sync 5 e-mail accounts (granted, only one of those is every 15 minutes - the others are every thirty minutes, every hour, and once a day on two of them), and with light use I am getting over 40 hours with 2.2 so far (about in line with 2.1, but seems maybe just a little better). Heavy use I am dropping more like to the 12 - 18 hour mark (heavy use for me means the screen on more than off, actively playing games or using apps, large amounts of texting, etc. Solid game playing I haven't figured out a drain yet, but on some games it seems like I can drop almost the whole battery in close to 10 hours). At your rate of 2.5% per hour in standby you would only make it forty hours without even using the phone. I have been using mine just a little this morning (FB check, logging in to one of the desktops at work remotely to make some changes, live background running, WiFi sleep policy is set to when screen is off, but to be honest that is about it) and I haven't moved off the 100% mark yet and the phone has been unplugged over an hour and a half.
All that said though, as other users have stated you might want to give it a little more time for the system to recalibrate the battery usage. I would definitely check your processor usage though regularly to see if anything seems 'off'. One thing that caused me problems was that my SNS service would be running but then would get stuck in a pattern of 'Restarting' - would drain my battery rapidly.
It has been said that bettery drain is not linear. First 5% goes real fast. So, you need to judget the average over a day of use, not first hour or so. I'm still in first week of ROM flashing. So I can't confirm anything yet.
See my battery stats recalibration steps here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765656
Also, TheYar has a great write-up on identifying battery drain issues here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806211
Hi,
Recently I have been experiencing issues with battery drain, which was typically drained in less than 10 hours. Therefore I have bought a new brand battery (the old one was about 1.5 years old). However, today it was drained in just mere 3-4 hours. I have used my phone to place three calls, used Chrome browser for a few minutes to google up some numbes and that was it. Nothing like playing games. The phone was recently restored to stock, so there are not that many applications installed either. Battery reports attached.
What in the world could have drained the battery so fast?
P.S. I use Samsung S3 (GT-I9300) with Android 4.3, rooted.
Hi, I installed the S3 update over the air to my Korean S2 a couple of days ago. Everything seems fine except for issues with the battery. I Can take the watch of the charger after an overnight charge and wear it all day, powering it off before i go to bed in the evening. When i shut it down the charge can be over 50% but when i power it back on in the morning the charge is just over 10%. If i leave it powered on but not on charge the percentage will increase over the next couple of hours back to just under 50%. The problem is i can never be sure what the true state of charge is, so i am unsure whether it will last the day.
Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?
I have problem with battery. Battery is discharging really fast.
That's weird. My battery life seems pretty good. My watch has been off the charger for 5 hrs and I'm still at 94%
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Yeah, it looks like that first 2-3 charging cycles were not good, but today I have really good battery life. ... So my problem is solved.
On the old firmware I could wear it 16 hours and put it back on the charger with over 60% left. Since the update I am down to 20% in four hours. I've done 2 hard and one soft reset to no avail. The battery thing on the phone app says its my watchface and I should use a dark one but I am. This, frankly, is a show stopper. I can't recharge 2 or 3 times a day. Any idea how to reinstall the R734XXU2DPG1 firmware? That worked.
Apparently a couple of recharges fixes the battery issue. Don't know why but it does. So far at least.
Hi
I just updated my gear s2 classic yesterday with the new ota, my battery doesn't even last for 2 hours now, before it gave me 1_1.5 days. In battery usage it shows 22% usage by contacts and 19% watchface even though I'm using the stock with no customization and even the background is same as default for menus.
I've denied the permission for gear plug in for contacts even then the drain is too fast.
How can we fix this, any ideas.
I both Pixel 1.5 years ago and now the battery cannot keep the charge as before.
On flight mode overnight it may drop by 20% vs 5% months ago.
My Nexus started this issue after 4 years. Are the batteries getting bad quality with new Google phones or I bough a phone sitting 2 years in same store.
Is there a way to find out when was a battery made.
its the same with literally every battery ever made, they all worsen over time. however my battery in my pixel would be roughly 3 years old and i lose almost nothing on standby so you may have an app draining your battery during standby.
same problem
Mine was doing the same thing. I think I found the problem to be Outlook. The phone would get real hot just sitting idle. My battery would only last about 4 hours. After weeks of disabling various apps, outlook seemed to be the culprit. Now, I go into settings / apps & notifications and force stop the app. I just have to manually check my email and when done, force stop outlook again. Kind of a pain. I occasionally leave outlook running and sure enough, phone runs hot and battery drain.