Is anyone having issues with battery drain while not using their phone? My wife and I both have noticed pretty good battery drain while we're not using our phones. Going into settings and checking under the battery menu, all we show is phone idle. I've adjusted all my settings to be as battery friendly as possible including turning of wifi and mobile data, minimum brightness, 30 second screen time out, constantly clearing my recents, black wallpapers, daydream off. We're still losing battery life pretty quickly and for the life of me I can't figure it out.
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Check the thread here for some discussion on battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/how-to/battery-life-thread-t3350032
I seemed to incur significant standby drain because I disabled some apps. I just reenabled them this morning. Still need to keep an eye on things, but I will copy my days results from the other thread. To see more details on what has been going on, check the other thread.
Right now I am at 66% with 2:05 SOT and 16 hours since unplugging. The Android OS, held awake, and Google Play Services are all somewhat reduced.
Smithfolk4 said:
Check the thread here for some discussion on battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/how-to/battery-life-thread-t3350032
I seemed to incur significant standby drain because I disabled some apps. I just reenabled them this morning. Still need to keep an eye on things, but I will copy my days results from the other thread. To see more details on what has been going on, check the other thread.
Right now I am at 66% with 2:05 SOT and 16 hours since unplugging. The Android OS, held awake, and Google Play Services are all somewhat reduced.
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As far as disabling apps, the only thing I've disabled are the vzw apps and also the Amazon apps. There's a lot there that I don't know what they are so I just left them alone.
As far as my idle time is concerned, it had gotten a little bit better, but it is nowhere even close to what I could get out of my nexus 6. When I'm actually using the phone, the battery drains pretty quickly as well. I installed gsam battery monitor after reading through the thread that you posted above. I figure I'll need to wait a couple of days to get a true feedback from that app. Once it stabilizes, I'll report back what it says.
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As far as disabling apps, the only thing I've disabled are the vzw apps and also the Amazon apps. There's a lot there that I don't know what they are so I just left them alone.
As far as my idle time is concerned, it had gotten a little bit better, but it is nowhere even close to what I could get out of my nexus 6. When I'm actually using the phone, the battery drains pretty quickly as well. I installed gsam battery monitor after reading through the thread that you posted above. I figure I'll need to wait a couple of days to get a true feedback from that app. Once it stabilizes, I'll report back what it says.
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I have recently noticed that I get drain when I use Google (now) and/or Chrome. I don't use either too much so I am still investigating. When I use them I get a lot of held awake time in GSAM and a lot of Google Play Services and Android OS battery usage in the native battery usage app. I have to stop the apps and reboot to get the drain to stop. At least that is what is seems like at this point. Still messing around with it. If you use those apps a lot it may be a pain to deal with. If it is one or the other, hopefully an update will fix the issue.
I don't have google now activated, but I do use chrome. I don't see out rubbing in any background services though.
I did forget to mention that I revived nova launcher and all apps associated with it, (tesla unread, nova prime, unused icon packs), I also uninstalled any apps that I have not been using or rarely use.
Having said that, i did give google maps full permissions, went back to the stock launcher that came with the phone, and I did keep all my disabled apps....disabled. I charged my battery to 100%. I pulled my phone off the charger and it took over 30 minutes for the battery to get below 100%. I just got home about 15 minutes ago, and all I've done is Check my email and reply this post and my battery has dropped 5%. It hasn't even been 10 minutes. That's pretty bad. That would equate to roughly 30% an hour.
I'll keep updating as i search for things. I'll try dialing chrome and see what happens.
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I recently received an Nvidia Shield and updated it right away to 4.4.2.
Today I noticed that overnight the Android OS was taking up a large portion of the battery life. The Shield's Android OS used 70% of the battery while my Nexus 4 usually only uses 12% or so.
I'm not sure if this is because it's a new install or going to be a persistent problem.
Has anyone found out why this is or have a solution to fix it?
I don't want to disable multitasking. I'm probably also not going to root the device anytime soon just in case this is a real problem and I need to RMA it. I have disabled Wi-Fi when the device sleeps.
Actually, now that I'm looking at the screenshots again, it seems the battery stats aren't reporting the other apps I was using. Maybe it all got combined into Android OS somehow? I checked my Shield again and the games and apps I was using are shown and the % of Android OS seems to be going down.
I hope this was a fluke, but it'll be a few more days before I know for sure.
It seems it might have just been a weird glitch in the way the battery stats was shown.
Today I checked my Shield and it only used 3% battery life overnight with Android OS only using 9%. All the other apps also stayed visible on the list of apps.
Last night I turned on "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" again since it's actually pretty annoying when I'm trying to download something on the Shield and it gets cancelled when it goes to sleep.
I had 30% battery life when I went to bed and the Android OS battery usage was a low 12%.
I woke up with the Shield having 30% battery life still, but the Android OS battery usage shot up from 12% to 45%.
I went out for 30min and came back and the Shield had 32% battery life.
I used it for a couple of minutes and battery life dropped to 25%.
I have no idea what the heck is going on with the battery stats. I'm probably going to see what happens tonight and if the Android OS starts to get really high again I'll then turn off "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" for a few nights to see if that's really what's causing it.
Outrager;541903Last night I turned on "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" again since it's actually pretty annoying when I'm trying to download something on the Shield and it gets cancelled when it goes to sleep.
I had 30% battery life when I went to bed and the Android OS battery usage was a low 12%.
I woke up with the Shield having 30% battery life still said:
No live wallpaper? Or gpu rendering in dev options?
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No live wallpaper? Or gpu rendering in dev options?
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Using the stock wallpaper. I think it's just an image.
Force GPU rendering is off. All the Dev options are default.
I'm interested to know if this ever gets resolved. I'm experiencing the same thing, just a tad more extreme. Android OS taking 95% battery. Been on the wallcharger more than a day, i wake it up and its at 45% charge. Stock, non-rooted, no Dev options enabled. I have a sneaking suspicion its related to Google Play services, but have no way of knowing.
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brianj1970 said:
I'm interested to know if this ever gets resolved. I'm experiencing the same thing, just a tad more extreme. Android OS taking 95% battery. Been on the wallcharger more than a day, i wake it up and its at 45% charge. Stock, non-rooted, no Dev options enabled. I have a sneaking suspicion its related to Google Play services, but have no way of knowing.
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So after doing a factory reset and getting the same results I finally decided to just unlock my bootloader and root the Shield. I did contact my 3rd party insurance company first to make sure they would still cover any hardware faults if I did that.
Anyway, unlocking the bootloader meant a factory reset too. Well instead of Android OS taking up the majority % of the battery life it became Wi-Fi that was doing it.
I thought it might be the battery so I ran it down to 0% then while charging it back up I just said, "Screw it," and started fresh using the Recovery OS Image from the Nvidia site.
SO FAR, it seems to be much more normal in terms of the battery stats.
What's weird is Android OS and Android System have swapped positions compared to the way my Nexus 4 is.
It'll probably be another day or two when I use the Shield some more before I can make sure it's all better.
Update:
Nevermind.
Overnight Wi-Fi and Android OS shot to the top of the battery usage.
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So after doing a factory reset and getting the same results I finally decided to just unlock my bootloader and root the Shield. I did contact my 3rd party insurance company first to make sure they would still cover any hardware faults if I did that.
Anyway, unlocking the bootloader meant a factory reset too. Well instead of Android OS taking up the majority % of the battery life it became Wi-Fi that was doing it.
I thought it might be the battery so I ran it down to 0% then while charging it back up I just said, "Screw it," and started fresh using the Recovery OS Image from the Nvidia site.
SO FAR, it seems to be much more normal in terms of the battery stats.
What's weird is Android OS and Android System have swapped positions compared to the way my Nexus 4 is.
It'll probably be another day or two when I use the Shield some more before I can make sure it's all better.
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Nevermind.
Overnight Wi-Fi and Android OS shot to the top of the battery usage.
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Not more than a week and a half ago, I did a factory reset on my Shield, for reasons unrelated. I was running into problems where the thing would randomly reboot in the middle of playing games. I attributed it to issues related to moving games to SD.
After the reset, and re-install of everything it has been running rock solid, it's only past few days this battery drain started being an issue. Last night I went through and unchecked 'show notifications' for any and all downloaded games, not sure if that makes a difference really. The thing sat on the charger an entire night, and in the morning it was still only at 52% charge, Android OS still being the top offender.
I've turned location OFF, and set WIFI to off during sleep. Going to see how the battery looks after a few more hours. If I was more adventurous I'd root, and install a wakelock detector, but I'm just not that motivated. I'm hoping if I ignore it the problem will work itself out eventually. Not sure what to think, none of my other Android tablets or phone are experiencing this phenomenon.
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Not more than a week and a half ago, I did a factory reset on my Shield, for reasons unrelated. I was running into problems where the thing would randomly reboot in the middle of playing games. I attributed it to issues related to moving games to SD.
After the reset, and re-install of everything it has been running rock solid, it's only past few days this battery drain started being an issue. Last night I went through and unchecked 'show notifications' for any and all downloaded games, not sure if that makes a difference really. The thing sat on the charger an entire night, and in the morning it was still only at 52% charge, Android OS still being the top offender.
I've turned location OFF, and set WIFI to off during sleep. Going to see how the battery looks after a few more hours. If I was more adventurous I'd root, and install a wakelock detector, but I'm just not that motivated. I'm hoping if I ignore it the problem will work itself out eventually. Not sure what to think, none of my other Android tablets or phone are experiencing this phenomenon.
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Setting Wi-Fi to turn off during sleep does sort of help keep Wi-Fi battery usage down, but I just find it so inconvenient.
I just rooted and have BetterBatteryStats installed. The Kernel Wakelock category doesn't show anything for some reason and nothing unusual about the Partial Wakelocks.
The only unexplained thing is a Process called migration/0 that has been on for 15h 15m 6s even though the device only shows an uptime of 13h 1m 26s. A quick Google search says, "The migration kernel process distributes workload across CPU cores. You should have one migration process per processor core." so I guess it's normal?
Also, while typing this, my Android OS battery usage shot up to 80% and my Wi-Fi is now at 10% which is still higher than the Screen on usage of 7%.
I also just used ROM Toolbox Pro to freeze all the Nvidia system apps, like NVStats and TegraZone, to see if that will help at all.
I have this feeling that it is Android 4.4.2 that is causing the problems and I hope Nvidia at the very least updates to 4.4.4.
I've been reading some more articles and there are some that point to the external SD card being the culprit of the battery drain.
It seems to be that Media Scanner is trying to constantly scan the external SD card.
I'm not 100% sure if it is the cause because on my side I don't have the Mediaserver using any battery.
The next time I fully charge my Shield I might try removing the MicroSD card to see if that is causing it.
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I've been reading some more articles and there are some that point to the external SD card being the culprit of the battery drain.
It seems to be that Media Scanner is trying to constantly scan the external SD card.
I'm not 100% sure if it is the cause because on my side I don't have the Mediaserver using any battery.
The next time I fully charge my Shield I might try removing the MicroSD card to see if that is causing it.
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I'm not sure removing the SD card changed anything.
I did notice a process in BetterBatteryStats called migration/0 that is very high usage and I have no idea what it is for or how to stop it.
Okay, so I think I've found the cause of the high Android OS battery usage.
First my solution:
In the Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> (your account)
Leave Sync enabled, but ONLY check "App Data", "Chrome", and "Google Photos Auto Backup". Leave everything else un-checked.
Set Wi-Fi to turn off when the Shield goes to Sleep.
*I haven't bothered to test individual sync option, but those are just the 3 I left checked. You can try it yourself to see which one is the real culprit. My best guess is it is Calendar syncing that is causing the problems.
*Do not just disable Sync. I found that did not help at all. I don't know why.
*I don't know if it's my router or the Shield, but Wi-Fi also uses way too much battery when asleep. I can see that it is going into deep sleep too. Setting Wi-Fi to turn off when the Shield goes to sleep drastically lowers the Wi-Fi battery usage. Fun fact: The Wi-Fi stays on for 20 minutes after you turn off the screen before turning itself off.
After un-checking a bunch of the syncing options my Android OS battery usage went down to 20% for a 20 hour period compared to the 70% or so it was using the day before I did it.
The "migration/0" process no longer shows up at the very top in BetterBatteryStats. If it is showing up, it is <10sec of usage.
After 20 hours, with about 35min of 3D gaming and 40min screen on time, the Android OS battery usage was using 20% with 30m30s of CPU Total. I also spent about 10min transferring files using AirDroid then moving them to the SD card.
The battery life dropped from 100% -> 84% in those 20 hours. I think I would have had battery life closer to the Anandtech review if I was just doing 1 thing consecutively and not gaming then using the Wi-Fi to move files. I might try that one day, but most likely not.
I hope this helps for everyone having the same problem as me.
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Okay, so I think I've found the cause of the high Android OS battery usage.
First my solution:
In the Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> (your account)
Leave Sync enabled, but ONLY check "App Data", "Chrome", and "Google Photos Auto Backup". Leave everything else un-checked.
Set Wi-Fi to turn off when the Shield goes to Sleep.
*I haven't bothered to test individual sync option, but those are just the 3 I left checked. You can try it yourself to see which one is the real culprit. My best guess is it is Calendar syncing that is causing the problems.
*Do not just disable Sync. I found that did not help at all. I don't know why.
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Thanks for this pointer.
I was also facing significant CPU consumption by the real time kernel process migration/0 on my Googy-Max-1.7.9 kernel.
I turned off the calendar sync and this seems to have fixed the issue. Now I am only syncing App Data, Contacts, Gmail and the others [browser, Calendar, Chrome, Chrome Beta and People details] are off.
Related thread: http://superuser.com/questions/416779/linux-migration-n-high-cpu-consumption
Noticing your Galaxy S6 battery is draining too fast? This thread can help.
Part of the problem lies within a memory leak which is a known problem that Samsung is aware of and is reportedly patching in an upcoming update.
The other issue is Samsung attempts to load everything into memory and run several services in the background as well as hard loading the phone with bloatware.
Here is how I gained 30% better battery performance. Guaranteed
*Prerequisites
*Need to be rooted for every tip to work.
1. Disable anything you consider bloatware
2. Go to settings then application manager and disable both ANT radio service apps. You don't need this. Causes massive battery drain. Google it if you don't believe me.
3. Go to the app store and download "Servicely" from Franco. Paid app but worth the money...trust me. (Need root)
4. Once in servicely add running services and apps to your hit list, choose start at boot and run hit list while screen is off.
5. Reboot your phone. Give your phone a full charge and see the difference
Attached is a screenshot of realistic usage. I was on a poor lte signal for 9 hours and conducted several calls and used my phone moderately heavy. As you can see i got through my entire work day and still have 6 hours left at moderately heavy use.
Remember, this is realistic. I could have shown you a screenshot showing 18 hours left after only using it 1 hour. What I'm showing is a legit 9 hours of usage. Before I made these tweaks I would be at 10% battery or less after nine hours of the same usage.
Post your screenshots after 24-48 hours and let's see how much you are saving.
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A shot showing your phone call, screen on, and deep sleep times would do a lot to bolster your claims. Your "normal" use isn't like anyone else's. I have 50% battery left right now, after 13 hours of my "normal" use. I'm not using servicely.
Fair enough. I'll post a screenshot using Gsam
Just experiment. I'm offering up a known legitimate way to reduce battery drain.
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Just experiment. I'm offering up a known legitimate way to reduce battery drain.
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How many places are you posting this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s6/help/battery-drain-fix-t3142008
Cross posted in ATT forum as well.
In each carrier QA section. Relax. Take a deep breath. It's ok lol. Just stick to the original topic please. Try out my method and post your findings or bring forth a method that works great for you. Point is sharing
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Noticing your Galaxy S6 battery is draining too fast? This thread can help.
Part of the problem lies within a memory leak which is a known problem that Samsung is aware of and is reportedly patching in an upcoming update.
The other issue is Samsung attempts to load everything into memory and run several services in the background as well as hard loading the phone with bloatware.
Here is how I gained 30% better battery performance. Guaranteed
*Prerequisites
*Need to be rooted for every tip to work.
1. Disable anything you consider bloatware
2. Go to settings then application manager and disable both ANT radio service apps. You don't need this. Causes massive battery drain. Google it if you don't believe me.
3. Go to the app store and download "Servicely" from Franco. Paid app but worth the money...trust me. (Need root)
4. Once in servicely add running services and apps to your hit list, choose start at boot and run hit list while screen is off.
5. Reboot your phone. Give your phone a full charge and see the difference
Attached is a screenshot of realistic usage. I was on a poor lte signal for 9 hours and conducted several calls and used my phone moderately heavy. As you can see i got through my entire work day and still have 6 hours left at moderately heavy use.
Remember, this is realistic. I could have shown you a screenshot showing 18 hours left after only using it 1 hour. What I'm showing is a legit 9 hours of usage. Before I made these tweaks I would be at 10% battery or less after nine hours of the same usage.
Post your screenshots after 24-48 hours and let's see how much you are saving.
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this dont fix the batery drain mate i try this like 2 month ago and I don't have any diference... the only diferencie I see is with the phone rooted, debloeted, grenifi, setcpu, green power premium and app ops.... and if you want the Google service of are a specific app for that... dosableservice you can find it in Google play. This a a bery basic alternative.
Hello all,
I just bought a new galaxy s7 silver (exynos variant) around 3 days ago and my battery life seems to be really bad. I've only managed to achieve 1h 56m screen on time and I'm already at 41%! I keep auto brightness on and leave always on display off and don't keep things like mobile data active. If anyone can suggest how to fix this it would be phenomenal .
I was quite sad considering I have heard of people who can achieve 5+ hours screen on time with regular usage and not having to compromise on switching everything off .
Thanks for the help in advance
Do you have Google Chrome installed? And can you see something like "media server" in you battery usage log as a high power consumer?
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Do you have Google Chrome installed? And can you see something like "media server" in you battery usage log as a high power consumer?
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I would send you a picture of my battery statistics but for some reason every time I try to upload a picture I get "network error"
My top consumers are :
Screen 31%
Android system 19%
Android OS 9%
Cell standby 7%
Mediaserver 4%
And Also I do have Google Chrome installed
Good day.
Try this and see if it works:
-In settings -> privacy and safety -> location -> improve accuracy - Turn off wifi scanning (The phone turns on and off wifi regularly for location purposes and it uses some battery)
-In settings -> Display - Turn off smart stay
-In settings -> Advanced features - Turn off pop-up view gesture, Smart capture, palm swype to capture, smart alert and easy mute.
-In settings -> Accounts - Turn off auto sync
Turn off hardware step counter at S-health app.
Use Greenify to hibernate samsung and google play app and services.
And if you want to stretch it more have a look at this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/touchwiz-bloatware-save-to-remove-list-t3330241)
Hope it works for you.
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Hello all,
I just bought a new galaxy s7 silver (exynos variant) around 3 days ago and my battery life seems to be really bad. I've only managed to achieve 1h 56m screen on time and I'm already at 41%! I keep auto brightness on and leave always on display off and don't keep things like mobile data active. If anyone can suggest how to fix this it would be phenomenal .
I was quite sad considering I have heard of people who can achieve 5+ hours screen on time with regular usage and not having to compromise on switching everything off .
Thanks for the help in advance
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Hi mate,
The 2nd guy in this post touched on it. When you see Mediaserver on your battery stats it's normally a sign that your phone, since being on, has got quite hot and there has been substantial battery drain. I've had this same issue before too. Factory resetting etc wouldn't help. And the phone would get so hot. Eventually I read and found a link between Google chrome and Mediaserver. I deleted chrome and mysteriously the issue left, that was on my last s7. My current s7 I got yesterday and haven't got this issue once, despite using chrome right now.
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Hi mate,
The 2nd guy in this post touched on it. When you see Mediaserver on your battery stats it's normally a sign that your phone, since being on, has got quite hot and there has been substantial battery drain. I've had this same issue before too. Factory resetting etc wouldn't help. And the phone would get so hot. Eventually I read and found a link between Google chrome and Mediaserver. I deleted chrome and mysteriously the issue left, that was on my last s7. My current s7 I got yesterday and haven't got this issue once, despite using chrome right now.
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Yeah I did notice that the phone was heating up rapidly and my battery life was falling heavily. I will delete it and give an update to see if it works.
Thank you
Right I tried it and at first I thought that it worked but then today I am down to 25% with only 2h 5mns screen on time. Anyone got any other ideas?
Sorry read that wrong lol I read 25% battery for 2 hrs screen on time!
Accounts syncing in the background could be a culprit or some of the fancy software functionality that Samsung cook in to touchwiz. I generally don't have anything working or syncing that I don't use.
Might be worth going through all of your settings one by one. That's what I did when I first got the phone.
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Sorry read that wrong lol I read 25% battery for 2 hrs screen on time!
Accounts syncing in the background could be a culprit or some of the fancy software functionality that Samsung cook in to touchwiz. I generally don't have anything working or syncing that I don't use.
Might be worth going through all of your settings one by one. That's what I did when I first got the phone.
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I'll give it a shot , how does your battery life seems to do? also, do you use power saving mode ?
At this moment in time I've had 2 hours 44 minutes of screen on time and I've got 53% battery left.
The majority of that usage has been on WiFi though and I do have auto brightness enabled. One thing I have noticed about the s7 screen is, it is very good quality and incredibly bright. I have spent a good amount of time tweaking the auto brightness so the screen isn't any brighter than it needs to be in various light conditions.
I was suffering from rapid battery draining and the phone getting overly warm when I had Google Chrome installed. I've removed it, and it has taken those issues away completely.
I have come from a nexus 6p and don't miss the extra 500mAh of battery to be honest.
3hr 28 minutes of screen on time now with 43% battery left. Still on WiFi but have been playing a bit of order and chaos 2, reading the news, browsing forums and general Internet surfing. I don't have much on in terms of push notifications other than Gmail and have my Samsung Internet app syncing and some stuff related to my Google account.
If it's of any help at all, my phone is on the 3 network in the UK running the stock 3 branded firmware.
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3hr 28 minutes of screen on time now with 43% battery left. Still on WiFi but have been playing a bit of order and chaos 2, reading the news, browsing forums and general Internet surfing. I don't have much on in terms of push notifications other than Gmail and have my Samsung Internet app syncing and some stuff related to my Google account.
If it's of any help at all, my phone is on the 3 network in the UK running the stock 3 branded firmware.
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Yes my battery life does seem to have improved considerably. I am at 50% charge with 3h 35mns screen on time so so far so good
Good news mate!
Alright all was going well regarding batteey life until recently when it began to slack off again. I hopped in to srttings see what was consuming all of my battery life and it said android system. Anyone know what that's all about?
Hey people,
Recently installed Android Pie and noticed that battery drain in background has increased.
Anyone else having this situation with the new system?
You are not the only one...I'm trying to figure it out as well...I know on the second beta I had the battery life of the gods. I went 3 days without charging my phone and still had 40% left but after that beta it was all down hill...have you noticed Google play services consuming more battery?
Sometimes. But most of the time play services wasn't that much of a drainer. The worst part is that the "full device usage" has been useless ever since the official release. And I keep all of my apps restricted not to operate in the background.
I have tried going back to Oreo and then installing the update from there. Let's see how it goes from there
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You are not the only one...I'm trying to figure it out as well...I know on the second beta I had the battery life of the gods. I went 3 days without charging my phone and still had 40% left but after that beta it was all down hill...have you noticed Google play services consuming more battery?
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I've had Google play services go crazy from time to time on Pie. Finally installed greenify and have greenified as much as possible. Will see what happens. Though I've notice play services really eating up battery in airplane mode.
Also, I think the play store is triggering play services issues. Will see in a day or two.
I've noticed an increase. Lost about 10% last night which is more than I used to. hoping that now pie is final that essential can make optimisations and additions specific to ph-1 that will help.
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No problems for me, I'm seeing around 5 sot.
I do d do a full reset though.
I had horrible drain right away. Checked BBS/Gsam and it was clearly GP services and the play store. Just did a stop/clear cache/clear data on both and yesterday I got 8hr SOT.
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I had horrible drain right away. Checked BBS/Gsam and it was clearly GP services and the play store. Just did a stop/clear cache/clear data on both and yesterday I got 8hr SOT.
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I've done this several times on 9.0, only to have GP services suddenly eat the battery a couple days later. Installed greenify and seen that the play store keeps restarting and the Google app was always working. So to test i disabled them. Will see what comes.
I hope yours behaves!
From the looks of it greenify has been helpful. I resisted on using it because for some reason it made my phone touch-vibrate even with battery saver on. But let's try it again and see how it goes
It takes a few days to settle down.
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Hi I had an issue too. XD
Before pie I used to use 7h but now only 5h30
I found problem. It was intelligence battery maneger
I turned off after that okey.
Go settings -) bettery -) bettery manager -) turn off manage apps automatically
Hi my battery is dying fast since 9.0. I think i had about 2mins SOT since last charge and it was about 60%. I too noticed Google App running constantly so I disabled it. Battery is still loosing charge quickly.
If it is the battery optimizer it may day a few days to settle down. I will report back any findings.
On a side note, I installed OTA, then did a full wipe.
If all else fails, factory reset the thing.
I did a fresh install. Noticed overnight 7-8hrs of off time on the screen, it is using about 10-12 percent. Normally 4-5 percent it would use. Running custom elemental kernel as well. Not cool.
Disabling the Google app and or Google play store caused Google play services to eat even more battery.
Now my current test is to enable all Google bloatware. If you notice Google is tying in all there stuff together especially with assistant. My current guess is, because of this if you have certain Google products disabled etc... It causes a circle and constant attempt by one or more apps to accomplish something that's disable.
I'm sure the Googlers don't disable all the Google stuff we do.....
These are my current stats. I turned on battery saver at 15%.
johnny8910 said:
No problems for me, I'm seeing around 5 sot.
I do d do a full reset though.
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That is nothing tho...I was getting over 8hrs SOT with 8.1. Now I am only getting 4-5 on 9.0.
Heh I am getting between 8 and 12 hrs sot per charge uptine between 15 and 24 hrs the lower numbers are when exclusively on the cell network with no wifi. This is about 1 to 2 hours better than 8.1
I flashed on release. This was what I have gotten so far. Bare minimum use. It does drain fast when in use, but idle is semi decent.
Check out WiFi Calling, I think it's turned on by default. I turned it off and my phone has been pretty good today. Too early to tell if it's better then Oreo, but much be then yesterday.
Hi,
I have a Note 20 Ultra that doesn't see a whole lot of use. I have a few apps on it, mostly stuff for my smart lights and a few other things. I don't run push on anything and the apps that I have on the Note 20 are the same that I had on my old Note 8.
Lately my phone has spent a lot of time sitting because my job gave me a phone that I use pretty much exclusively during the week. I've noticed that in spite of the lack of apps on the phone and the lack of use, I lose somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of the battery per day, with nothing done to it.
I'm at a loss as to what's causing it. I check the battery app in settings and it shows me nothing useful. I have put unused apps to sleep turned on and have added a few apps to the sleeping apps section. I was wondering if there is any non-rooted way to figure out what is causing the battery drain and to fix it.
Before I had this phone, I had a Note 8. That phone was my absolute favorite phone. I loved that phone. It had a great camera, good screen, and in spite of having quite a few more apps on it, it did much better on battery than this Note 20 does. Between the battery suck and the lack of any useful macro on the camera, this ranks near the absolute bottom of the list of my favorite phones. I'm ready to have Verizon turn on my Note 8 and sell this thing on craigslist. I wish that I'd never gotten this thing but as long as I have it, I'd at least try to do something about the battery drain when just sitting on a table doing nothing other than sitting on a table.
When I had some unexplained battery consumption I used Safe Mode which helped.
Put the phone in Safe Mode which disables your downloaded app's but let's your stock app's keep working. If the issues stop then this highlights a downloaded app as the possible issue. Come out of Safe Mode and start deleting your most recent downloaded app's one at a time until it stops. https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-to-start-my-galaxy-device-in-safe-mode/
BandOfBrothers1 said:
When I had some unexplained battery consumption I used Safe Mode which helped.
Put the phone in Safe Mode which disables your downloaded app's but let's your stock app's keep working. If the issues stop then this highlights a downloaded app as the possible issue. Come out of Safe Mode and start deleting your most recent downloaded app's one at a time until it stops. https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-to-start-my-galaxy-device-in-safe-mode/
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Thanks. I've never understood why they don't make it easier to identify what apps are causing problems. That battery app is pretty useless. You wouldn't know by looking at it that I was having any problems at all.
The last few years I have a battery drain between 0.7% and 0.8% per hour, when phone "sleeps" next to me during the night. I use free Gsam battery monitor to check. So your daily "use" while sleeping seems normal. 24 times 0.8 equals that. With ca 20%/day
I use Samsung Notes for years and years and it always comes to that average. Wifi, Bluteooth, Radio, and all other possible options left ON.
Switching them all off or airplane mode, makes no difference at all.
usmaak said:
Hi,
I have a Note 20 Ultra that doesn't see a whole lot of use. I have a few apps on it, mostly stuff for my smart lights and a few other things. I don't run push on anything and the apps that I have on the Note 20 are the same that I had on my old Note 8.
Lately my phone has spent a lot of time sitting because my job gave me a phone that I use pretty much exclusively during the week. I've noticed that in spite of the lack of apps on the phone and the lack of use, I lose somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of the battery per day, with nothing done to it.
I'm at a loss as to what's causing it. I check the battery app in settings and it shows me nothing useful. I have put unused apps to sleep turned on and have added a few apps to the sleeping apps section. I was wondering if there is any non-rooted way to figure out what is causing the battery drain and to fix it.
Before I had this phone, I had a Note 8. That phone was my absolute favorite phone. I loved that phone. It had a great camera, good screen, and in spite of having quite a few more apps on it, it did much better on battery than this Note 20 does. Between the battery suck and the lack of any useful macro on the camera, this ranks near the absolute bottom of the list of my favorite phones. I'm ready to have Verizon turn on my Note 8 and sell this thing on craigslist. I wish that I'd never gotten this thing but as long as I have it, I'd at least try to do something about the battery drain when just sitting on a table doing nothing other than sitting on a table.
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I use GSAM Battery Monitor Pro, there's a free version to. With just a couple adb commands you can enable app sucker which will tell what all your installed apps are doing to your battery.
GSam Battery Monitor Pro - Apps on Google Play
GSam Battery Monitor provides deep insights into what is using your battery.
play.google.com