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[Fix] Battery Drainage Issue, Make battery last Longer.

Battery Drainage Fix :
There is a Dialer bug in the Chacha that drains the battery, you can see this if you go to : "settings >about phone >battery >battery use". You will see it shows dialer usage at 90%+ and this is the MAIN reason your battery drains so quickly. do the following to fix the issue.
Go to : settings >sound> Disable quiet ring on pickup, Disable pocket mode and Disable flip for speaker.
Then
Go to : settings>applications>development>enable usb debugging.
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Now recharge your battery to the full. Should see some change.
Additionally if you want to extend your battery even further :
I would HIGHLY recommend you install these 3 widgets, they are all small and take very little space on your phones desktop, and you can toggle each of them on/off with a single click :
Wifi - On/off
Brightness Widget
Autosync-On/off
Hope this helps all the poor souls out there with battery issues. I use my phone quite often and my battery currently as it stands now :
On time since last Full Charge : 11H 56Mins 45s
Battery Level Percentage : 44%
And Im using nothing fancy, its a Stock Rom/Stock Battery with the above settings and widgets, and i mostly browse the net with opera mini, use whatsapp, google talk, check gmail, sms, O and I play some angry birds.

Hey you are right about the Dialer being a big part of the battery drain! Thanks!

Thanks! I always wondered why it was always saying "dialer" drained 90% of my battery. I always thought HTC had it twisted with Display. I have my phone flashed with CM7 right now and the battery so far has been great! about 12 hours and 70% capacity still. Normal use (4 email accounts, whatsapp, ebay, amazon, etc. no angry birds yet. lol
I will definitely let my gf know since she kept hers stock.
Thanks again!

Hi, i have this problem, dialer usage is 90%+. So i "disable quiet ring on pickup, disable pocket mode and disable flip for speaker" and "enable usb debugging", and after full charge, i don't see "dialer usage" voice in "settings >about phone >battery >battery use". but after incoming call the voice "dialer usage" come back with 93% usage! :-((( what's the problem?

Me too, but battery work fine with all options checked.
Note, on this few days usage phone is very low....(10 calls below 2 min, 30-40sms.......)
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Ok, thanks, i'll check this and report possibile problems

I am using CM now but when I had stock (European 1.54) I recall that besides disabling the sensors (which, by itself didn't work), if all calls (both calling and receiving) were done with loudspeakers the bug didn't kick in...
good luck!

Missed step
Also need to go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications >Dialer > Clear data > Restart Phone

my chacha battery is so bad
it takes 2.30 hours from 100% to 15 % !!
where is the problem ? battery or Rom ??
and how to make sure from that ???

Juice defender
well, try Juice defender - battery saver , works perfectly with my phone, kept it running from 8 to 20 hours

saeidos said:
well, try Juice defender - battery saver , works perfectly with my phone, kept it running from 8 to 20 hours
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Don't those apps turn the phone's radio off while it's in standby though? I imagine that could cause issues for most people.

Yeah, the battery is too bad
Yeah, the chacha battery is too bad. Especially for 3G, I try to turn on Wifi all the time & the battery can take 40% longer, comparing to 3G network.
Turn off all sync services, auto screen rotation, uninstall all social network widgets & my battery can long for 36 hours.

nldquy said:
Yeah, the chacha battery is too bad. Especially for 3G, I try to turn on Wifi all the time & the battery can take 40% longer, comparing to 3G network.
Turn off all sync services, auto screen rotation, uninstall all social network widgets & my battery can long for 36 hours.
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Disabling "quiet ring on pickup", "pocket mode", and "flip for speaker" options in the sound menu also mildly helps. Just disabled sync services. Thanks!

GPS keeping apps awake, even though GPS is off and apps are greenified.

I'm having an issue where apps which require location seemingly stay awake after being greenified and killed from the recent apps. In my battery stats, it shows the gps use details going up continuously, while the CPU usage does does not.
I am running the stock ROM and trinity kernel.
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ikn0wagh0st said:
I'm having an issue where apps which require location seemingly stay awake after being greenified and killed from the recent apps. In my battery stats, it shows the gps use details going up continuously, while the CPU usage does does not.
I am running the stock ROM and trinity kernel.
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I don't see the little GPS peg on the screen that would indicate GPS is being used. Is your battery dropping fast? It's either a bug in the display, or a bug in the GPS code.

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I don't see the little GPS peg on the screen that would indicate GPS is being used. Is your battery dropping fast? It's either a bug in the display, or a bug in the GPS code.
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That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.

ikn0wagh0st said:
That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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Is the issue reproducible?

go to your phones main settings, location.. what mode is it in? high accuracy, battery saving, or device only? also is googles location reporting on or off?

ikn0wagh0st said:
That is correct, and why I am baffled. GPS is turned off. Battery life seems fine from what I am seeing.
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It happened with me also some days back, location services were completely off but google services kept gps on, while I didn't enable it and I was able to track down the culprit, for me it was google play services. Restart fixed it for me.
I think this is another bug because same thing happened with a person who I know and for him it was facebook and for you its speedtest app.

I've noticed the service GoogleLocationManager tries to keep itself running at all times, even with locations completely disabled.
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Hi, i have the same problem. Few days ago i found out that may GPS si running background even if my google location, google maps are off. I put phone into airplane mode but GPS was still running.
My nexus 5 is stock and unrooted. If i turn off/on GPS stop running.
Has anyone any solution about this problem?it seems it has to be some bug draining my battery, but if i dont root nexus i wont know wick app is draining battery?

simms22 said:
go to your phones main settings, location.. what mode is it in? high accuracy, battery saving, or device only? also is googles location reporting on or off?
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^^^^^ this.
Set it to battery saving. A majority of the apps do not need high accuracy (active) GPS. The only time I have to enable High accuracy active GPS is when using maps/navigation (a tasker profile takes care of that for me - enable high accuracy when maps is launched, and switch to battery saving when I exit maps). Most of the other apps work just fine with battery saving location settings.

I got this issue today ( stock rooted)
After using the map and GPS for many hours, the GPS was awake even after force close the map app, and setting location off.
Rebooting the phone is the fix.

Help finding/fixing idle battery drain

Hi my wife bought a Note 5 two days ago (9/30). She did all setup, app restoring, etc that evening and fully charged the phone overnight. However her phone is experiencing idle drain that I need some help fixing.
Some other info: battery saver modes are off, wifi is always on (but only connected at home), bluetooth is always off.
10/1: Arrived at work with 100% battery
A little over 4 hours later, with light use, the phone was at 51% with less that 45 mins SOT
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With facebook as the biggest offender I suggested she turn off the setting of pre-loading pics and videos.
When she got home she charged phone to 100%. I also changed mobile network to CDMA/LTE. Here's how the battery looked with light use before going to bed:
10/2 - Left the phone unplugged over night to see what would happen, it lost 12% sitting on the nightstand for 8 hours.
Will report back later this afternoon to see how the day is progressing.

First step for me in reducing battery drain was to disable the Facebook app. It is a battery hog and was always at the top of my list. Instead, use a browser and create a shortcut to facebook.com or install Metal from the Play Store which is a web wrapper for Facebook and so much lighter. Sometimes I still get strange battery drain from Android system (up to 35% sometimes!). But this usually gets resolved just by opening up recent apps and closing all.

Hmm, I don't have problems with Facebook app on my droid turbo

tripjnj said:
First step for me in reducing battery drain was to disable the Facebook app. It is a battery hog and was always at the top of my list. Instead, use a browser and create a shortcut to facebook.com or install Metal from the Play Store which is a web wrapper for Facebook and so much lighter. Sometimes I still get strange battery drain from Android system (up to 35% sometimes!). But this usually gets resolved just by opening up recent apps and closing all.
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Some people want notifications.

Regardless, Facebook doesn't seem to be showing up at the top afte the setting change. I'm interested to see what she has this afternoon. Will have some updates screen shots later on. I also asked her to charge ~3pm then drive home with nav on to see what the battery looks like under heavy usage.
I need to dig into Android System to see what's going on there, any ideas? Will GSAM pro give more insight here?

Not looking good, 22% used in 2.5 hours with 20min SOT

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Where is the setting for turning off preload pics and videos in Facebook? I dont see it in the facebook app settings.

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Where is the setting for turning off preload pics and videos in Facebook? I dont see it in the facebook app settings.
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I lied, facebook setting is "play videos automatically", I have to assume turning this off will save data/battery. Also Instagram has "use less data" setting. I thought I read that this stops pre-loading of videos/images, but I might have imagined that?
Anyway, for facebook setting hit the menu button next to the notifications icon then scroll to "App Settings" near the bottom of the screen.

After most of a work day and light use she's down to 58%. Looks like facebook is back up there, odd because it's not a problem on my phone.
Does anyone know how to troubleshoot why Android System is using so much battery?

I have a note 4 and I'm having similar issue ls

Hi I'm facing kind of same problem but other device HTC one m7 and rom is aicp I don't know what is draining battery in idle time but almost 10 to 20 % is gone in idle and the fun thing is I use airplane mod all the time
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yogiboor said:
Hi I'm facing kind of same problem but other device HTC one m7 and rom is aicp I don't know what is draining battery in idle time but almost 10 to 20 % is gone in idle and the fun thing is I use airplane mod all the time
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You guys have to also take in consideration the Lollipop total connection time bug. Apps open up a connection and it won't close it when it's done... For example my first charge cycle I signed into instagram and it used 40% of my battery without me ever open again. The total connection time of most apps ends up being hours when it shouldn't be. That won't be fixed untill Marshmallow comes to the Note 5. Google is aware and has fixed it. It's on multiple Lollipop devices.
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Mine seems to die by every morning if I don't charge it over night

Jacob11701 said:
You guys have to also take in consideration the Lollipop total connection time bug. Apps open up a connection and it won't close it when it's done... For example my first charge cycle I signed into instagram and it used 40% of my battery without me ever open again. The total connection time of most apps ends up being hours when it shouldn't be. That won't be fixed untill Marshmallow comes to the Note 5. Google is aware and has fixed it. It's on multiple Lollipop devices.
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I use greenify to hibernate apps but still some thing is going on but marshmallow is coming out soon so I am happy
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Yea I've used that for a while. When I force stop an app I tend to not see it encounter that bug
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If the device is rooted then you can try Greenify to hibernate the apps which are consuming the battery life.Try other simple solutions like disabling the Wifi and other tools when not using them.Sometimes Play services may cause the issue so try to fix them.There are some guides which may help you http://fixdroidbattery.net/fix-fast-battery-drain-problem-on-samsung-galaxy-note-5/
http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-fix-samsung-galaxy-note-5-fast-battery-drain-problem/
Hope these guides will help you

The problem is ...because of the device used to be root although we flash original stock firmware it is still drain when device idle ...you can take a look in Android OS and see stay awake period ...one way is flash custom room that said deep sleep fix . Hope this comment could deal your problem

Marshmallow 6. 0 wifi battery drain bug, it's not actually draining

So I am back to the stock rom and recovery and the wifi drain bug is back. :'(
Though I noticed the CPU's runtime stays roughly the same at 22 seconds, the computed power use is 536 mah but there is no actual showing of power use and my screen on time in my lowest brightness + adaptive brightness setup is Still giving me a good near 10 hours SoT of constant use.
This means that the wifi battery drain bug is. Not actual drain, but it's just a bug that shows it like that. Notice how nobody actually has reduced battery life because of this? Those percentages the bug shows are a lot but nobody has less SoT because of it.

coolkingler1 said:
So I am back to the stock rom and recovery and the wifi drain bug is back. :'(
Though I noticed the CPU's runtime stays roughly the same at 22 seconds, the computed power use is 536 mah but there is no actual showing of power use and my screen on time in my lowest brightness + adaptive brightness setup is Still giving me a good near 10 hours SoT of constant use.
This means that the wifi battery drain bug is. Not actual drain, but it's just a bug that shows it like that. Notice how nobody actually has reduced battery life because of this? Those percentages the bug shows are a lot but nobody has less SoT because of it.
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Yes its a bug affecting the nexus devices as well.
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Is this 'Mobile Standby' in the battery stats?

Holoryn said:
Is this 'Mobile Standby' in the battery stats?
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No,it's the wifi
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what the **** is this..im using mobile data all the time n did all the **** in location n turned of wifi scanning.. still this wifi eating my battery.. guya help me out thanks in advance
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Same here. Android System keeps my phone awaken all the time, even if screen is off.

I never noticed this bug. Do you mean when you wifi is switched off its still showing like it was on all the time in the battery stats?
The only bug I noticed is the mobile signal drain when using dual sim roms on my single sim device.

Sickaxis79 said:
I never noticed this bug. Do you mean when you wifi is switched off its still showing like it was on all the time in the battery stats?
The only bug I noticed is the mobile signal drain when using dual sim roms on my single sim device.
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I dont use wifi at all..still it shows drain in battery stats
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Since it's not draining your battery I shouldn't worry to much.You could try clean dalvik and cache and if that doesn't help try a factory reset or reflash the whole rom.

The wifi IS draining my battery
Kept the phone overnight, dozed properly, but still lost 11% in 7 hours!
Wifi is eating it all up
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rgshah3 said:
The wifi IS draining my battery
Kept the phone overnight, dozed properly, but still lost 11% in 7 hours!
Wifi is eating it all up
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Wifi is main issue with marshmallow
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I still have no problems with wifi draining though, I mean, look at the time it was actually on, if it was seconds, it really isn't draining, computed power use isn't actually what it drained.
I even went back to stock, updated all the way to 6.0.1, 2 days ago, same reporting bug is back but no actual drain.

Disable location scanning, and search for Wi-Fi on the background. After reset and the Wi-Fi status on the graph should stop. At least this is what I do, after using the maps or tinder, or other location app

I fixed the battery drain due to wifi
Go to settings, backup and restore
Reset the network settings, reboot the device and charge it to 100%
No more wifi eating battery
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Question Where are the battery troubles in the LTE models coming from

There seems to be some sort of consensus that the LTE versions of the watch have more battery trouble
Has anyone actually given it some thought as to why?
When LTE is off it should not make a difference, but it does seem to exist.
Is the emergency service always connected, is there a bug where the modem drains power even when it should be off?
Curious to hear what you think

user822 said:
There seems to be some sort of consensus that the LTE versions of the watch have more battery trouble
Has anyone actually given it some thought as to why?
When LTE is off it should not make a difference, but it does seem to exist.
Is the emergency service always connected, is there a bug where the modem drains power even when it should be off?
Curious to hear what you think
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I have discovered my mistake was thinking that I needed to have the LTE button in the quick menu lit up blue to work away from the watch, my battery life has improved since I discovered it doesn't need to be lit up blue as that is permanently "on", by having the button grey it's on "auto"

MilgeS said:
I have discovered my mistake was thinking that I needed to have the LTE button in the quick menu lit up blue to work away from the watch, my battery life has improved since I discovered it doesn't need to be lit up blue as that is permanently "on", by having the button grey it's on "auto"
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What is "LTE button in the quick menu"?
I only see Mobile Data. Afair there was mobile network button in the Tizen, but I do not see it in the GW4

XorZone said:
What is "LTE button in the quick menu"?
I only see Mobile Data. Afair there was mobile network button in the Tizen, but I do not see it in the GW4
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I think that's the same button I called LTE/mobile network, it's the up/down arrows design button, sorry for the wrong description!

I got mine the other day replacing my 1st gen galaxy watch. I set it up in the same way as my old watch and was amazed to see the battery drop 10% in one hour, since then I have made one change... I disabled the option for the screen to come on via gesture, settling for a tap if the screen... I took it off charge this morning at 5:30am and it is now 21:21BST... It has 58% remaining... a significant improvement over day 1

I have the same problem with LTE. Whenever I use "auto" for LTE settings, the watch would keep trying to find signal and that would drain the battery. Which is insane, especially because: 1) the phone is always nearby, bluetooth connected 2) i haven't set up any carrier yet!

I have the network connection on. For me, i have a good 2 days of battery life. Compared to my previous WearOS watches, it's excellent...
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Did some testing and disabled everything (HR, Stress, Exercise detection, notifications, LTE/Mobile data, Wifi, NFC) all that was left on was the BT connection and I was still getting about 8% per Hour drain (12 hr 30 min life). Disabled BT and enabled Wifi for connection and drain now at 3.6% /H. (Stats as per Battery and Charge Monitor for Wear OS). So it doesnt appear to be a drain from any of the health monitoring or notifications etc, but possibly from the OS, which hopefully Google/Samsung will resolve/improve with updates.

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Did some testing and disabled everything (HR, Stress, Exercise detection, notifications, LTE/Mobile data, Wifi, NFC) all that was left on was the BT connection and I was still getting about 8% per Hour drain (12 hr 30 min life). Disabled BT and enabled Wifi for connection and drain now at 3.6% /H. (Stats as per Battery and Charge Monitor for Wear OS). So it doesnt appear to be a drain from any of the health monitoring or notifications etc, but possibly from the OS, which hopefully Google/Samsung will resolve/improve with updates.
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There was a Health Services update yesterday and since then, my watch battery lasts WAY better. at 17hrs 33min i still have 64% left and i had re-enabled everything again as it should be. Continuous monitoring, sleep with SPO2, location, LTE, etc.