Android System is draining my battery and is keeping my device awake for more than 2 hours. Is anyone on Nougat suffering from this? I didn't have this high drain on Marshmallow, not sure what's causing this. All help, suggestions, and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance.
I am on Nougat 7.0, stock. Even after doing all the typical battery saving tweaks, I found that using the Google App and Google Play Services were consistently the highest battery drainers. Was getting 2-3% battery drain per hour, with minimal or idle use. For the Google App, I ultimately had to stop using and disable Google Now Cards to eliminate that app's drain as nothing else worked. Still working on the drain on Google Play Services as that one still shows up but not as high as before, but am now getting close to 1% drain per hour on idle use.
my phone had no facebook, messenger barely go to google play, not setup google now. using nova launcher. all I used is twitter, google+, instagram, photo (backup), SAO game, and others living app. turn on GPS on high used too. battery live until night.
Are you guys rooted?
I used the Boost app that was introduced in the update, kills all processes you want it to with the smart feature, but has a weird side effect of being unable to download anything when it's in the background, just gotta hold the app open until it's done downloading. Battery life is fine for me, since using this.
Yes I am root. Boost app really to frozen the apps when phone off. but message and info still got intouch
My Sprint HTC One A9 phone is rooted, S-off, unlocked, flashed with TWRP 3.0.2-0 am on 6.0.1 and I am experiencing the same battery drain issue. I have tried multiple battery conditioners with no affect upon the battery life. It still drops very quickly and the phone will power off at about 25 - 30% battery left on the phone. Boot into TWRP and find the battery level states at 37 - 45%. Let the phone sit on TWRP screen for hours and it never powers off.
I cannot figure this out and am about to wipe my phone and start all over again.
theNdroid said:
Android System is draining my battery and is keeping my device awake for more than 2 hours. Is anyone on Nougat suffering from this? I didn't have this high drain on Marshmallow, not sure what's causing this. All help, suggestions, and opinions welcome. Thanks in advance.
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same over here I'm on Htc one M9 and my system usage is 32% , android os is 16% and phone idle is 9%, lets see for another week so nougat may take some time to settle down on our mobile phones :good cheers
theNdroid said:
Are you guys rooted?
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Have tried to root using kingroot with no success as of yet.
marcomellett said:
Have tried to root using kingroot with no success as of yet.
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Use ADB to flash TWRP and boot it up. Mount /system read only. Flash Magisk. Now you've got root.
Hi,
I am facing a lot of battery drain issue. My phone is only a month old . I have updated toemui 5 with nougat. The battery doesn't last for more than half a day. May a little more than that. I'm losing a lot of juice even when the phone is on standby.
I keep closing all apps when I get the message for power using apps. I have disabled most of the apps too from using my battery..
Someone please advice. I also feel that the charging is very slow on my device
Do you use GPS location? Data? Wifi? Do you have strange signal on your SIM?
I found these things that they consume most of the battery.
Do not close just apps but what drains the battery in standby is a lot of wifi, data and cellular..
Try to disable that settings every time you are not useing it.. evan if two sim.. disable the one not needed.. this should help..
But then again I never disable anything and still can go up to 2 days..sometimes one day and having still 40% .. are you on the latest noughat 7??
Rommco05 said:
Hi,
you install Nougat manually or OTA?
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I used the firmware finder and pushed the download to the official updater to update my phone.
netvorCZEK said:
Do you use GPS location? Data? Wifi? Do you have strange signal on your SIM?
I found these things that they consume most of the battery.
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GPS is rarely on. WiFi is on all the time. Data is usually off..
The phone is a bit quirky when it comes to battery for me. Some days, the power drain is unreal and will lose 10% per hour during standby. Other days, it will sleep all night long and only lose 2-3%. Even stranger, the days when the drain is very high, the stock battery graph shows the phone with minimal awake time. And on the days when the battery is not draining, it will show constant system wake ups when the screen is off for hours. I've only had mine for a few weeks, so I'm hoping it's just reacting to all the apps and settings I keep adjusting and will settle down over time.
I think this issue came with Nougat update... Noone complained with A6..
netvorCZEK said:
I think this issue came with Nougat update... Noone complained with A6..
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Many, many users complained about the battery issue on noughat 7. So me to was thinking should I risk to update to N7 or just stay on MM
Couse many users tried it and than did the roll back to MM
So I tried it to and was not having any battery drain
And with the latest noughat version like the B381 I am having or depanding on model it is the B385 or the B387 it not just adds more features like better camera options and functions but it also gives the battery drain fix many already reported that the drain is now gone.. and for me it is evan better battery on B381 then it was on B360.. much better.. like 30% better
Here on ss you can see that android os draining battery. Cleared cache after fw update but no use. Any help?
Don't know,
however, I updated mine and turned on an off. Fully charged, but next day was the first time I have ever run out of battery in a day (admittedly long day).
Today though, back to normal and finishing at 38 percent.
did yours come good?
Just got mine, so still testing.
I also noticed this thing .... But I think I consume more because inside it has information also on GPS, camera and WiFi
emremutlu said:
Here on ss you can see that android os draining battery. Cleared cache after fw update but no use. Any help?
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No probs on my S8 on AQH3
Maybe your government is "spying" on your phone... :angel:
First of all, I am new to Xda so I am not sure if this is the right section for this post. So let me start. Bought this device from samsung last May here in the Philippines. Everything worked fine. I rooted it after a month and re-flashed the stock firmware from sammobile immediately after rooting. Nothing changed. Battery was so good. Last august 12, I flashed the first ever nougat firmware for a520f, the russian firmware. Battery was still good in the first 2 weeks but after that my phone keeps draining battery like hell while doing nothing!! I ignored it for a while coz i thought that its just a bug or the battery was not calibrated properly. But after a week, I got worried. I sleep with 100% and after I wake up, only 65% was left. It drains 5% an hour and it's pretty awful. I couldnt enjoy my phone especially after school. I go home with only 20% or below with 2 hrs SoT. Couldnt resist the problem thats why I did a full factory factory reset including the cache partition. Was excited after resetting coz i thought the problem will be fixed but unfortunately, it wasn't. I was confused and didnt know what to do thats why I flashed a different firmware. The Cyprus version of Nougat. But still, the battery drain is still killing my device. After 2days I flashed the Indian version of nougat and STILL NOTHING HAPPENED Phone still drains 5% every hour. Did everything I could. Rollbacked to marshmallow (ph firmware which was my original firmware). So im back at mm and im hoping that the drain is gone but still, it's killing me. Dont know what to do. I updated my a520f to nougat via OTA. But still nothing happened tried rooting, still nothing. I really need help. I think there is a bug in my phone's deep sleep mode that causes it to be awake even when the screen is off. Please help me guys. I did everything and the batter drain is killing me!!
Ps: i tried safemode, ultra power saving and more stuff but still the battery is drained while idle.
Note: Battery is good when im using the phone
Hey guys,
I bought OP6 8/128 version and first, the battery life was ok, I was getting 4-5 hours of sot. Now, I see that battery is discharging in constant rate and something is keeping my phone awake all the time. Firstly I thought it was Instagram when it helped when I force stopped it. Now I'm lost 20 percent overnight and battery stats show, that all the time my device was awake. Cannot see anything suspicious through gsam or better battery stats as I believe the put it under android system. Help anyone?
Did you already do a reboot?
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Hey guys,
I bought OP6 8/128 version and first, the battery life was ok, I was getting 4-5 hours of sot. Now, I see that battery is discharging in constant rate and something is keeping my phone awake all the time. Firstly I thought it was Instagram when it helped when I force stopped it. Now I'm lost 20 percent overnight and battery stats show, that all the time my device was awake. Cannot see anything suspicious through gsam or better battery stats as I believe the put it under android system. Help anyone?
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From personal experience, i found that updating OTA was the culprit. To get around this, download the full update from Oneplus and update that way.
Ever since i started doing this, I have not had the battery drain issues i used to have. Also, wipe cache before booting phone after update.
hallo dare said:
From personal experience, i found that updating OTA was the culprit. To get around this, download the full update from Oneplus and update that way.
Ever since i started doing this, I have not had the battery drain issues i used to have. Also, wipe cache before booting phone after update.
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So I should try to do fresh install from OnePlus site? Awake time drops when I clear recent apps, so I believe this is either Instagram or Facebook doing this. Really weird. Even without awake time shown in graph, I got 35% drain in 1h sot and 11h standby, this shouldn't be normal, right?
It's crazy, because I used to have a good battery life
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So I should try to do fresh install from OnePlus site? Awake time drops when I clear recent apps, so I believe this is either Instagram or Facebook doing this. Really weird. Even without awake time shown in graph, I got 35% drain in 1h sot and 11h standby, this shouldn't be normal, right?
It's crazy, because I used to have a good battery life
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for testing, can you uninstall Instagram and Facebook for 1 day and see how your battery life changes.
I can tell you right now Instagram has a prefetch service which causes close to 1-2 hours of wakelock per day for me. I have root so I can disable it but there's no other way from the app itself.
spartan268 said:
I can tell you right now Instagram has a prefetch service which causes close to 1-2 hours of wakelock per day for me. I have root so I can disable it but there's no other way from the app itself.
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You can just set the app to not use any background data from within Android. I have it on all that's not important for me.
Loose about 0.3% per hour without any apps or mods on beta 2.
whizeguy said:
You can just set the app to not use any background data from within Android. I have it on all that's not important for me.
Loose about 0.3% per hour without any apps or mods on beta 2.
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So, the story continues... After following your advice and restricting background data for Instagram the wake up time fixed itself, however battery is still draining. Screenshots attached (facebook and time sensors used??)
I will test every available option and if they won't work, I would consider moving to beta oxygen os. Now I'm on 5.1.11
I am ready to trace this to it's roots for people who will potentially encounter this problem in the future.
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So, the story continues... After following your advice and restricting background data for Instagram the wake up time fixed itself, however battery is still draining. Screenshots attached (facebook and time sensors used??)
I will test every available option and if they won't work, I would consider moving to beta oxygen os. Now I'm on 5.1.11
I am ready to trace this to it's roots for people who will potentially encounter this problem in the future.
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It could be your spotty connection. Your awake time is fairly high when the mobile network connection goes south. Can you try using something like 3G instead and see if the awake time goes down? As well as the battery drain?
Naturally 3G uses less battery but if you see a drastic difference then it could be the tower connection you have. When the signal gets worse the modem tries harder and effectively uses more battery trying to stay connected.
Have a look if Facebook is allowed to use unlimited background data, I believe there is a setting for it on 5.1.11 aswell (I'm on beta,its a beast.)
There are many reasons not to install Facebook apps on your phone, and this is one of them.
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Have a look if Facebook is allowed to use unlimited background data, I believe there is a setting for it on 5.1.11 aswell (I'm on beta,its a beast.)
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Background data off both for Facebook and Instagram fixed (at least it seems) the overnight drain issue even with airplane mode on. Last time I lost 20-30%, tonight less than 4-5%
Just when I thought I found what was causing the drain, take a look at this: 20min sot and 20% down in 4.5h
Screens attached, still searching for the issue. Android battery stats show no awake time, but something is definitely draining (app usage insanely high on 80%)
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Background data off both for Facebook and Instagram fixed (at least it seems) the overnight drain issue even with airplane mode on. Last time I lost 20-30%, tonight less than 4-5%
Just when I thought I found what was causing the drain, take a look at this: 20min sot and 20% down in 4.5h
Screens attached, still searching for the issue. Android battery stats show no awake time, but something is definitely draining (app usage insanely high on 80%)
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So strange.. I feel we still have 3 options here.. 2 old and one new.
Flash 5.1.11 without wiping anything (you won't loose data so it's just an upgrade)
Flash beta 2 dirty as an upgrade, (you might get device corruptednat boot, press power 2 times and forget about the message) you won't loose any data or apps this way either.
Last option is the least fun, clean install of rom :/. If you ask me, I'd go for beta 2 option, if you wanna run something you know is stable go with 5.1.11.
I didn't run into any issues with beta 2 but some are (I believe user error here..)
Changed my mind.... I have 2 more posible fixes.. (I think)
Hmmm, one more thing I just came to think of is try using SD Maid, now this is just a guess that it will do anything at all..
The other thing is flashing a kernel, something could have happened there after an upgrade or something (just a guess.)
I'm running flash kernel now, it's really good
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So strange.. I feel we still have 3 options here.. 2 old and one new.
Flash 5.1.11 without wiping anything (you won't loose data so it's just an upgrade)
Flash beta 2 dirty as an upgrade, (you might get device corruptednat boot, press power 2 times and forget about the message) you won't loose any data or apps this way either.
Last option is the least fun, clean install of rom :/. If you ask me, I'd go for beta 2 option, if you wanna run something you know is stable go with 5.1.11.
I didn't run into any issues with beta 2 but some are (I believe user error here..)
Changed my mind.... I have 2 more posible fixes.. (I think)
Hmmm, one more thing I just came to think of is try using SD Maid, now this is just a guess that it will do anything at all..
The other thing is flashing a kernel, something could have happened there after an upgrade or something (just a guess.)
I'm running flash kernel now, it's really good
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Thanks for your thoughts, thinking of going to beta 2 since I am on 5.1.11 right now. As for flashing kernel, I've been there with custom roms and kernels with several other phones and in the end most of them (except galaxy s5) were working better on stock ones after a while... However, doesn't rooting void the warranty on OP6?
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Thanks for your thoughts, thinking of going to beta 2 since I am on 5.1.11 right now. As for flashing kernel, I've been there with custom roms and kernels with several other phones and in the end most of them (except galaxy s5) were working better on stock ones after a while... However, doesn't rooting void the warranty on OP6?
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Beta 2 is really good
48 hours and I'm at 18% with soon 9hrs of screen (usage and SS in battery thread)
As of warranty, no, you will still have full. However this shouldn't have to be done as a "fix" , i was just curious if stock kernel somehow got messed up :s
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Thanks for your thoughts, thinking of going to beta 2 since I am on 5.1.11 right now. As for flashing kernel, I've been there with custom roms and kernels with several other phones and in the end most of them (except galaxy s5) were working better on stock ones after a while... However, doesn't rooting void the warranty on OP6?
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I would suggest doing a factory reset or uninstall your apps one at a time. Considering it's saying kernel wakelock (could be false positive) I would start go straight to factory reset. If going to Android Pie beta 2 is overall stable and forces a reset anyways, then go ahead and do that instead.
Im just getting 5-6hours SOT on my new op6, is this the normal battery life? Was planning on flashing custom kernels? Any suggestions?
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Beta 2 is really good
48 hours and I'm at 18% with soon 9hrs of screen (usage and SS in battery thread)
As of warranty, no, you will still have full. However this shouldn't have to be done as a "fix" , i was just curious if stock kernel somehow got messed up :s
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So, I can close this case as SOLVED.
Today, phone was mainly on 4g, doing photos, videos, calls, 4 hours of spotify via bluetooth. 3h50min SOT, 16h standby and still 27% left. Dirty install of Beta 2 fixed it! Thanks for your help!
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So, I can close this case as SOLVED.
Today, phone was mainly on 4g, doing photos, videos, calls, 4 hours of spotify via bluetooth. 3h50min SOT, 16h standby and still 27% left. Dirty install of Beta 2 fixed it! Thanks for your help!
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Really nice to hear mate!
whizeguy said:
Beta 2 is really good
48 hours and I'm at 18% with soon 9hrs of screen (usage and SS in battery thread)
As of warranty, no, you will still have full. However this shouldn't have to be done as a "fix" , i was just curious if stock kernel somehow got messed up :s
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Where can I download beta 2?
I am on 5.1.11