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Hey Guys,
I am usually just a silent observer on the boards and try and gain knowledge from all these amazing developers but my experience last night has pushed me to vent. I live Atlanta, and a Vendor had offered us some suite tickets to the Falcons Ravens game. Of course I would take those. Knowing this phone does not get the best battery life, I made sure to have the phone fully charged before I departed. I left the office at 5pm with a full charge. Throughout the night I would send a txt here and there and take a photo, nothing too strenuous I thought. As the game was coming to an end I looked down and saw that the phone was already in the yellow, not terrible since it should last me till I get to the car. I’m not thrilled because this means the phone charge has only lasted 6 hrs. I get off the mass transit station and go for my car key…..and it’s not there. I check all my pockets to find nothing. I am now screwed. No car, no phone, no charger. To cut the story short, I had to find a payphone (needle in a haystack) and call collect to my father, who has the only spare key. Needless to say he was not too please coming down at 2 am to get me out of the jam. I am just so furious that the phone died so quickly on me. It seems if I ever go out at night, if I’m not near a charger, that phone is dead within hours. Sorry for the rant, but its just the one major flaw about this phone. My old Tilt would last a couple days ( I know I know, small screen low processor) But a solid day out of these phones would be nice.
Do you manage the battery consumption by turning off unneeded features such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi? Have you set the screen timeout to a few seconds of idle time? The display is the biggest consumer of battery power. Finally, when I know I'll be away from a power source for more than 6 hours, I put a fully charged spare battery in my pocket.
FYI the Galaxy S has one of the best batteries for a smart phone. With careful use and battery management, I routinely get 16 hours before a yellow warning.
I had much of your same problem in the first few weeks of having the captivate, prompting me to go buy two extra batteries and a charger off ebay ($10). I feel that upgrading to cognition 2.2 and using the task manager to stop facebook and such from always updating has saved a lot of life, and my phone will last a day to a day and a half on a single charge, so long as I put it into flight mode at night. then I just shut the phone down, switch out batteries, and turn it back on.
I have the screen set at the lowest possible brightness (11%). When i am out i never have bluetooth or wifi on. Perhpas there was a runaway app that was draining the battery. I have never gotten 16 hrs though. My max is about 12, and thats if i dont make any phone calls. You start making calls, it just kills the battery life on my phone. I did use to have a spare battery on my tilt, i might have to do the same with this phone.
It's most likely because your phone is not sleeping when the screen is off.
Download the "Spare Parts" app or just enter *#*#4696#*#* in your dialer and check out the "Battery History". If the Running % is almost full (around 80%-100%) during a day's use, your phone isn't sleeping when the screen is off which means battery is draining. Give it a reboot when that happens, but the known cause I've found was that WiFi causes this issue.
Are you sure you weren't losing signal when you were in the arena? When you lose signal the phone constantly searches for a signal causing your battery you drain.
I know in arenas you don't get a strong signal...
Just a thought
Turn on airplane mod when ur not really using your phone..
I have a great battery life. Especially when not using HSUPA. Try deleting your battery stats.
I typically see 12 to15% per hour drain with constant use.... meaning display is on all the time and I am on internet, phone laying idle overnight... 1%/hr tops. I do have a nice signal at home though... ranges from –70 to –85 so the modem is not working hard at all.
I received my Moto G on 8th Feb (Saturday). I opened the packet at night. After checking everything, plugged the charger and Moto G came to life. Battery level showed 55%, which was unusual. Not sure how can this phone show 55% charging just after coming out of the box!!!??
Then I let it charge for 2-3 hours before turning it ON. When batter charging showed 100%, i removed the charger and switched on the phone.
I then enjoyed the UI of phone for about an hour and then switched it off. Then during afternoon when i tried to turn it on (as it was already charged at night), it showed no signs of life. I then connected my charger and was kinda annoyed to see that battery level is showing 0%.
Do anyone has any idea why & how is this happening?
Its a known bug when newly launched in brazil ..most of the people had the same complaint. .check the older threads in general and troubleshooting.
Seems like indian handsets come with this bug too.. nothing serious but still annoying ...
Thanks for reply.
I gained awareness from a friend that this is something called Battery Calibration. When it showed me 55% initially, it might actually be very less and when it showed 100% in 2 hrs, it might be still very less in actual. I might have used all that very less charging and when switched off, it used up the left over even less battery.
I think if anyone else too faced this problem, it must only be in initial days. I am just hoping that i don't face this problem again.
Anyone body has any view over this, plz feel free to share.
Thanks.
My Z3 is fairly new to me, just got it on Friday. So far love the phone. Only problem is with charging... and battery life.
So far I'm not getting anywhere close to advertised battery life. I hardly used it at all yesterday and took it off charge around 11:00am from 100% and when I put it on charge at 1:00am it was at 23%. I had no phone calls, played a game for about 20 minutes, and did some facebook messaging in the afternoon for a little bit. Didn't watch no movies, didn't stream any media... very odd. It was paired with my Moto 360 all day however... could that kill the battery that fast? Stamina mode was not activated.
The biggest issue however has been charging. I turned the phone OFF when I put it on charge at 1:00am and this morning when I turned it on it still read 23%. When I plugged the charger in before I went down for bed the phone lit up saying it was connected and receiving power and the light turned orange. Same thing happened Friday night when I put it on charge, except for the phone was ON, and it dropped from 30% to 20% overnight while in airplane mode.
I used two different chargers both nights.
During the day the charger I used Friday night seemed to work fine as it charged it up from 8:00am till 11:00am Saturday morning. It's a Blackberry Playbook charger, so it puts out a lot more juice (don't have it next to me so don't know the spec), and it charged up my tablet just fine. The cable I used to charge it overnight last night is currently charging it as I type this. So why won't it charge overnight?
I had the same issue on my old Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo, but I resolved switching charger and plug.
Did you try changing plug?
Yes I've used three different cables
Might be a long shot, but check that your WiFi isn't on all the time, either when screen off and sleep mode, or always scanning and sending...WiFi advanced settings...that can cause rapid drain..also Sony products are very particular in charge mode, and will only charge fully and properly if using Sony chargers...best fit is to use charger supplied...had same issue with my S4, and Nexus 7..hope this helps
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wired335 said:
My Z3 is fairly new to me, just got it on Friday. So far love the phone. Only problem is with charging... and battery life.
So far I'm not getting anywhere close to advertised battery life. I hardly used it at all yesterday and took it off charge around 11:00am from 100% and when I put it on charge at 1:00am it was at 23%. I had no phone calls, played a game for about 20 minutes, and did some facebook messaging in the afternoon for a little bit. Didn't watch no movies, didn't stream any media... very odd. It was paired with my Moto 360 all day however... could that kill the battery that fast? Stamina mode was not activated.
The biggest issue however has been charging. I turned the phone OFF when I put it on charge at 1:00am and this morning when I turned it on it still read 23%. When I plugged the charger in before I went down for bed the phone lit up saying it was connected and receiving power and the light turned orange. Same thing happened Friday night when I put it on charge, except for the phone was ON, and it dropped from 30% to 20% overnight while in airplane mode.
I used two different chargers both nights.
During the day the charger I used Friday night seemed to work fine as it charged it up from 8:00am till 11:00am Saturday morning. It's a Blackberry Playbook charger, so it puts out a lot more juice (don't have it next to me so don't know the spec), and it charged up my tablet just fine. The cable I used to charge it overnight last night is currently charging it as I type this. So why won't it charge overnight?
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Hey buddy, I have had the EXACT same problem.
I have watched tons of reviews for this phone on YouTube and users feedback on how great battery life is, and I have owned this phone for a week but I was struggling to make it to 4 1/2 hours of on screen time and the phone would take forever to charge. But just tonight, like literally a couple of hours ago, I noticed my phone charging was odd. Phone was charging till 99% then it would drop to 97% while still charging then go up to 98% then back down to 97% then back up to a 100% in all taking about 30 min. Now, I can tell, battery life seems to be much better. Not sure if the phone was calibrating itself but I have been using the phone heavily since I took it off charge nearly 3 hours ago and I have more than an hour of screen time with 86% left. Before I would be around 73% probably. So give it some time, try using the phone till it dies completely then recharge it and repeat the process 3-4 times, I think the battery will calibrate itself.
Edit: Also, I went to settings, power management and app power consumption and noticed that a couple of apps that I barely use are the ones using the most background data so I uninstalled them as well. But give it time, the phone will eventually go to normal and give you that insane battery life. Also use the oem USB cable and wall plug, I have been using a cheap 3rd party one.
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Why don't you try without pairing with the Moto 360. Check the battery life without pairing to your smartwatch for a day. We can at least exclude the culprit. IF its the phone, then get a replacement done.
yes, I'm going all day today without having the Moto 360 paired up. already after two hours off charge and hardly any on screen time and it's down to 85%. Not even my iphone 5s drained that fast and usually I was out of power by lunch on that thing (one of the reasons I grabbed the Z3)
I charged it off the factory charger last night and with the phone off and that seemed to work, it charged up nicely this morning.
We will see what happens.... seems like Lifelog draws a lot of power according to the battery stat meter, gonna uninstall that and see if that helps.
so the phone died off at 8:30 or so last night to 0%. from about 3:30-7:00 the phone was untouched, not paired to my watch, and wifi/bluetooth were turned off. It dropped from about 50% to 30% during that time. From about 8:00-8:30 I played a game to just kill it, when I started playing battery was at 21%
I had stamina mode on from 9:00am till 7:00pm yesterday too. This seems very strange to kill that fast.
Even this morning, took it off the charger, confirmed 100% charge, did my morning routine (without touching the phone) and even after 30min it dropped to 90% already.
There has to be something robbing power...
Lifelog is off. BBM is on. stamina mode only allows BBM and push email through. I made sure BeWeather is setup to only refresh on screen unlock.
the good news is... charging is working!
Just to make sure it isn't BBM i would suggest you don't allow it for stamina mode. What other apps have you installed? They might be draining too..
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Just to make sure it isn't BBM i would suggest you don't allow it for stamina mode. What other apps have you installed? They might be draining too..
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I'll shut BBM off for today and see what happens.
EDIT: you also asked what other apps I have installed...
allcast
adobe reader
android wear
angry birds transfomers
Rogers wireless bloatware
google calendar
beweather pro
cam scanner
google camera
chromecast
cinplex odeon
dopbox
edmonton journal
edmonton public library
facer
feedly
facebook
facebook messenger
google hangouts
kijiji
instagram
flickr
google fit
fuel buddy
golden hour
indigo books an dmusic
google maps
passwallet
adobe photoshop
edmonton oilers
quadrant standard
shazam
sleep like adroid
snapseed
snapchat
guitar tabs
ultimate guitar tools
swiftkey
tapatalk
bank app
scoremobile
xbox one smartglass
various games
Yesterday, 2.5hr screen on time, had the screen dimness at aprox 20% all day, no phone calls, no gaming, no bluetooth aside from from my 20min commute to and from work, wifi at home from 6:00-7:30. got from 6:50am till 8:30pm until the phone died. Was on stamina mode.
Took it off the charger this morning and in 20 minutes lost 10%.
I'm ordering a replacement phone as this seems very high.
I'm seeing people use their phone pretty close to max settings without stamina mode in the battery thread I was reading yesterday (and I will probably take this conversation there), and they are getting much longer life it seems than I am.
I've been having issues on my Bell Canada Z3 as well (I've had it for 3 weeks). Battery Stats was blaming it on GMail (25%). I wiped GMail's data and cache today, so I'm hoping that will help. I also noticed a couple of times this week that my phone was running very slow and starting to get hot. In that scenario /usr/sdcard seemed to be the culprit. Got out of that by unmounting and remounting the sdcard. Seems really unstable in general, I hope Lollipop fixes things.
I've had an HTC One Mini for about 6 months now and haven't any real problems. Last night, it decided to stop vibrating completely. After two restarts and a knock on its back, the motor seems to be working again, but it is running warm and the charge is plummeting. Just sitting on my desk it lost 40% charge in just over 2 hours and it's running warm. I've had the issue in the past where Android System was using a lot of power, but it's not being reported as anything significant this time, neither is any other app.
Better Battery Stats CPU states has 1.4GHz for 1h58m, 1.03GHz for 29m, and nothing else significant. This is from charged to current while I am at 49% battery. Screen has only been on 12m in that time, but it has been awake the entire time. The battery is at 34C in a cool room.
I'm running CyanogenMod version 11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-m4, which is Android 4.4.4. Nothing changed that I know of when the problems started.
I just noticed that the vibration is now weaker than it normally is (and was earlier today), still working, but weaker.
Any ideas?
download wakelock detector and let it run in the background for about an hour. Then check it to see which program or service is keeping your phone awake. Once you find it, kill it and wait another 15-20 minutes and check the power stats within your settings to see if the phone has stayed awake since then or not.
I bought my phone new when the Galaxy S6 first came out and have not rooted it.
For while now my battery life has been bad but consistent, or I would say acceptable given what is running in the background. With normal usage, including connecting to a bluetooth watch, LTE, and location services on, my phone battery would drop from around 100% starting at 7am to around 70% by noon. On weekends when I'm just at home and have it on Wifi instead and no bluetooth, it takes until around 6pm to drain to 70%. These numbers have been consistent, give or take 5% for over a year.
The problem started recently when I received an OS update. I can't remember if I was already on Android 7.0 before this update and it was just a minor update for something else, or if this updated me to 7.0 from 6.x
The first week after the update the battery was great. With no change in the way I use my phone I was able to go the entire day without recharging. By noon I was still at 85-90% and by around 7pm it showed 60-70%. So I was able to go the entire day without recharging for almost 2 weeks after the update.
The problem started 3 days ago when suddenly the battery is draining like crazy, and it seems like there's something weird with the battery indicator and the way it's charging. Again, nothing has changed in the way I use my phone.
Now, when I use it, the battery will go down by 1% every minute. And even when I don't use it, it will be down to 70% by 8am and 20% by noon. The stranger thing is when I try to charge it.
Before, with normal use, it will take around 1 hour to charge my every night. Also, the indicator showing how much time is remaining is pretty accurate as well. Now, when I charge it, it seems to take a lot longer. The time indicator will sometimes fluctuate. It may show a realistic time like 45mins remaining, then change to 10mins, then back to 45mins. Also, the times seem to be incorrect. For example, before if I'm at 85% it might take another 15-20mins to reach 100%. Now, it will be at 85%, say it will take 40mins, but after 40mins it's still only showing 90%.
I tried restarting my phone normally, and resetting it by pressing the the vol down and power buttons. I also tried other power saving methods like forcing apps to sleep when I'm not using them. But for some reason, the battery is still draining like crazy.
At this point, given what is going on when I charge the battery, I'm wondering if the real problem is the OS update screwed up the way the phone is reading the battery's power and not that the battery is actually being drained. Maybe the battery in fact is still at 70% by noon even though it says 20%.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to be as detailed as possible given that this seems to be different from some of the other battery related problems I've read about on the forums.
Any help or insight will be appreciated.
replace the internal battery