When I first got my S7 the battery seemed to be draining pretty quickly, being totally unable to get through a full day without needing a recharge. In fact it would get down to about 20% within 7 hours. One night I charged it to 100% before bed, and then left it off charge, and it used up 15% overnight. I looked up some other people's reports, which seemed to suggest that the normal battery drain overnight should be closer to 5%. In fact on the "reviews" section on XDA, a lot of people seem to say that 1% overnight is more normal. I do use the AOD though, which I hear might use up 1% per hour? so I should be maybe getting between 8% and 10% overnight I guess.
I have done a full factory reset, thinking that perhaps it was being caused by an app or setting that had transferred during the NFC auto transfer process, so I did a clean install of everything, followed by wiping the cache. Fresh tidy install. Battery definitely seemed better, but still not great. I did another test last night, a shorter one but still should be enough info for people to help. (hopefully).
I've included the screenshots, which show a 7% drop in battery in 3.5 hours, so a typical 'overnight' is still going to be about 15%, way higher than 'normal' apparently.
I do leave everything running overnight, but from other user's reports that shouldn't matter. I have wifi set to turn off on sleep unless charging. Doze seems to have worked this time (which it wasn't before my factory reset), though it doesnt seem to have helped the battery drain much.
The weird part is that the built in battery app is saying GooglePlayServices is draining a lot of battery, but GSAM seems to think it hardly used any battery at all....
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My main reason for chasing after this is that I have just come from an xperia Z5 compact, which will happily get me through a day at work and to bedtime with 40%+ battery left, and could potentially last through two days. True, it has a smaller screen, but then the S7 has a bigger battery. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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When I first got my S7 the battery seemed to be draining pretty quickly, being totally unable to get through a full day without needing a recharge. In fact it would get down to about 20% within 7 hours. One night I charged it to 100% before bed, and then left it off charge, and it used up 15% overnight. I looked up some other people's reports, which seemed to suggest that the normal battery drain overnight should be closer to 5%. In fact on the "reviews" section on XDA, a lot of people seem to say that 1% overnight is more normal. I do use the AOD though, which I hear might use up 1% per hour? so I should be maybe getting between 8% and 10% overnight I guess.
I have done a full factory reset, thinking that perhaps it was being caused by an app or setting that had transferred during the NFC auto transfer process, so I did a clean install of everything, followed by wiping the cache. Fresh tidy install. Battery definitely seemed better, but still not great. I did another test last night, a shorter one but still should be enough info for people to help. (hopefully).
I've included the screenshots, which show a 7% drop in battery in 3.5 hours, so a typical 'overnight' is still going to be about 15%, way higher than 'normal' apparently.
I do leave everything running overnight, but from other user's reports that shouldn't matter. I have wifi set to turn off on sleep unless charging. Doze seems to have worked this time (which it wasn't before my factory reset), though it doesnt seem to have helped the battery drain much.
The weird part is that the built in battery app is saying GooglePlayServices is draining a lot of battery, but GSAM seems to think it hardly used any battery at all....
My main reason for chasing after this is that I have just come from an xperia Z5 compact, which will happily get me through a day at work and to bedtime with 40%+ battery left, and could potentially last through two days. True, it has a smaller screen, but then the S7 has a bigger battery. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Since it is not an app that is draining the battery, which means there are two possibilities.
First one would be that certain settings are draining the battery, like all the smart stuff and the beacon that always searches for devices nearby.
I personally don't use AOD because I don't find it that useful, plus it uses quite a lot of juice. So just look through the setting and turn off everything you don't use.
The second one would be the firmware.
I once had an update which made my battery just suck. I got quite fed up with it and decided to move to a custom rom and I've never had any problems since then. I also use greenify and L-speed to make my battery last even longer and since I am a quite heavy user, but with mixed use I get about 15-10% by bedtime.
Hope this helps you to fix your problem.
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Since it is not an app that is draining the battery, which means there are two possibilities.
First one would be that certain settings are draining the battery, like all the smart stuff and the beacon that always searches for devices nearby.
I personally don't use AOD because I don't find it that useful, plus it uses quite a lot of juice. So just look through the setting and turn off everything you don't use.
The second one would be the firmware.
I once had an update which made my battery just suck. I got quite fed up with it and decided to move to a custom rom and I've never had any problems since then. I also use greenify and L-speed to make my battery last even longer and since I am a quite heavy user, but with mixed use I get about 15-10% by bedtime.
Hope this helps you to fix your problem.
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Changing rom isn't really an option, as there is no way to do it without tripping knox. Not worth the effort at this point.
I already have the WiFi and Bluetooth constant scanning turned off, and WiFi turns off when the phone is asleep (or is meant to anyway).
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Changing rom isn't really an option, as there is no way to do it without tripping knox. Not worth the effort at this point.
I already have the WiFi and Bluetooth constant scanning turned off, and WiFi turns off when the phone is asleep (or is meant to anyway).
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I would try to flash a newer firmware via odin. That shouldn't trip Knox. But if that doesn't help then it might not be a software problem anymore.
I found that the AOD was preventing the phone entering Doze, disabled mine and got a lot better results overnight, down to about 2-3%
Lived without an AOD for years, don't need one draining my battery now
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I found that the AOD was preventing the phone entering Doze, disabled mine and got a lot better results overnight, down to about 2-3%
Lived without an AOD for years, don't need one draining my battery now
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Same, though I do like the feature at times. If it actually showed notifications for whatsapp or facebook I would definitly keep it, but it only shows texts and calls (and I rarely get either) so I can live without it.
If it had a setting to stay off unless you tap the screen, then show for say 5-10 seconds, and turn off again, and like you say, had useful notifications to show, then I might, but as it is atm, it's just a pointless battery drain
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If it had a setting to stay off unless you tap the screen, then show for say 5-10 seconds, and turn off again, and like you say, had useful notifications to show, then I might, but as it is atm, it's just a pointless battery drain
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Actually, something I learnt over the weekend (and you may know about already), is that the AOD screen will turn off if you turn the phone face down on the table, or have it in a pocket. I believe it uses the proximity sensor. When you pick it up, it turns back on.
Also, according to this article, it uses roughly the same amount of power "turned off" due to the proxy sensor, as it does when it's totally disabled. So maybe that's an option.
http://www.techspot.com/news/64162-tested-galaxy-s7-always-display-consumes-little-battery.html
nirurin said:
Actually, something I learnt over the weekend (and you may know about already), is that the AOD screen will turn off if you turn the phone face down on the table, or have it in a pocket. I believe it uses the proximity sensor. When you pick it up, it turns back on.
Also, according to this article, it uses roughly the same amount of power "turned off" due to the proxy sensor, as it does when it's totally disabled. So maybe that's an option.
http://www.techspot.com/news/64162-tested-galaxy-s7-always-display-consumes-little-battery.html
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Yea I remember reading about the face down thing a while back, didn't have a case back then though, and wasn't going to put the phone on it's screen, still, seems like more hassle picking it up and turning it around to see the AOD than just hitting the home button
Maybe 7.0 will improve AOD, if it was useful I wouldn't mind the drain as much, tbh I'm sitting at a PC most of the day anyway, so for the time I can just look at the computer, if I get a text the screen on the phone turns on anyway, and the only other thing is WhatsApp really, and I need to turn the screen on to reply on there, so tbh, AOD is pointless whichever way you look at it, for me anyway
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Yea I remember reading about the face down thing a while back, didn't have a case back then though, and wasn't going to put the phone on it's screen, still, seems like more hassle picking it up and turning it around to see the AOD than just hitting the home button
Maybe 7.0 will improve AOD, if it was useful I wouldn't mind the drain as much, tbh I'm sitting at a PC most of the day anyway, so for the time I can just look at the computer, if I get a text the screen on the phone turns on anyway, and the only other thing is WhatsApp really, and I need to turn the screen on to reply on there, so tbh, AOD is pointless whichever way you look at it, for me anyway
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I actually have the "easy on" setting turned on, so all I do is wave my hand over the screen to turn it on. Even easier than pressing the home button haha.
lol nice, I turn all that stuff off, don't like my phone waiting for gestures, accident waiting to happen
I especially hate WhatsApp when you are listening to a voice message, touch the top of the phone to move or turn it slightly, and the proximity sensor thinks you've put it to your ear and stops the message
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lol nice, I turn all that stuff off, don't like my phone waiting for gestures, accident waiting to happen
I especially hate WhatsApp when you are listening to a voice message, touch the top of the phone to move or turn it slightly, and the proximity sensor thinks you've put it to your ear and stops the message
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The proximity sensor is running all the time anyway, so it's nothing extra. Though I do agree that it is sometimes annoying when it turns the screen off when you don't want it to.
Yea it's not using any extra resources, but I don't want to activate something without realising because I reached over my phone to pick something up off the desk lol
The WhatsApp thing doesn't turn off the screen, it just stops the playback of the voice message, PITA
Update: So I tried it last night with AOD turned off, and the battery drain.... was basically the same. Still averages out to about 14% over 7 hours. Hmm.
Well sony is known for a good standby so nothing you can really do about this but a full charge on the s7 should het you to 1 full day atleast so turn of sync and locations.
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Update: So I tried it last night with AOD turned off, and the battery drain.... was basically the same. Still averages out to about 14% over 7 hours. Hmm.
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14% in 7 hours is not bad and think thats normal but like i said again this aint a xperia phone but a samsung so dont expect the same standby times.
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I actually have the "easy on" setting turned on, so all I do is wave my hand over the screen to turn it on. Even easier than pressing the home button haha.
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I have this setting on too. I wonder how much power this little feature costs? To have the sensors always on and looking to identify the exact right circumstances to fire up the display can’t be for free.
BTW it works great and never fails or lights up at the wrong moment for long. The phone has to be quite still (accelereometer) and the proximity sensor has to be triggered. This leads me to believe that quite a bit of the battery power goes this way. What do you think?
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Well sony is known for a good standby so nothing you can really do about this but a full charge on the s7 should het you to 1 full day atleast so turn of sync and locations.
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14% in 7 hours is not bad and think thats normal but like i said again this aint a xperia phone but a samsung so dont expect the same standby times.
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Well my only worry is I have a glitch or a bad battery, as a lot of reports on the xda reviews pages are saying that they get overnight battery drains closer to 5%, which is a lot less than I'm getting. This means my daily use is always going to be shorter, and my battery will wear out faster.
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I have this setting on too. I wonder how much power this little feature costs? To have the sensors always on and looking to identify the exact right circumstances to fire up the display can’t be for free.
BTW it works great and never fails or lights up at the wrong moment for long. The phone has to be quite still (accelereometer) and the proximity sensor has to be triggered. This leads me to believe that quite a bit of the battery power goes this way. What do you think?
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Well I know the proxy sensor is on for the AOD anyway, because of the auto shut off. I assumed it was a sensor that was just always running, like the accelerometers. They don't use much power really.
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Well my only worry is I have a glitch or a bad battery, as a lot of reports on the xda reviews pages are saying that they get overnight battery drains closer to 5%, which is a lot less than I'm getting. This means my daily use is always going to be shorter, and my battery will wear out faster.
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Well i know that when i keep my wifi always on that my battery drains faster so thats why i have that turned off. Also do i use flightmode when i sleep so battery doesn't get drained ????but double check all your apps for syncing
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Well i know that when i keep my wifi always on that my battery drains faster so thats why i have that turned off. Also do i use flightmode when i sleep so battery doesn't get drained ????but double check all your apps for syncing
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My wifi is set to turn off during sleep, unless the phone is on charge... Though the GSam app seems to say it's always on? That app seems a bit innacurate on other things too though, so I dunno if it's just cos the phone isn't rooted that it's not able to see things properly.
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I unplugged the phone and got onto the bus. I read news with Captivate. Nothing fancy, just NY Times, Fox News etc. I got off the bus later, I only have 73% battery.
Yes, I just started my day and it's only 70% of battery.
#FAIL.
There are a few simple things you can do to increase battery life. Turn the screen brightness down and use a solid black background as a wallpaper. The screen uses the majority of the batter. so dimming the screen helps, when using a black background the amoled display does not light up black pixels so there is power drain.
I've been running on the same charge since 4pm yesterday. I've streamed music through pandora for about an hour while exercising, browsed the xda forums using the XDA App for 30 mins, made a few calls, browsed Facebook for 30 mins, surfed the web for a couple of hours before bed. Its now 10AM and I'm sitting at 36%. Not to bad really! The phone functions exactly the same at 36% as compared to 100%.
I wonder why everyone says to use a solid black background? Do most people use their phones primarily by staring at the home screen? I'm never at my home screen more than perhaps five seconds while switching apps
I've had pretty poor battery life as well, even after discharging, recharging, and deleting batterystats.bin. There are small tips here and there, like black background and screen brightness, but even following them all, my phone lasts me barely ten hours, and most of that time it's idle. For instance, I listened to local must (no streaming) with the screen off for about an hour and lost 10% of my battery life. What's up with that?
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I've streamed music through pandora for about an hour while exercising, browsed the xda forums using the XDA App for 30 mins, made a few calls, browsed Facebook for 30 mins, surfed the web for a couple of hours before bed. Its now 10AM and I'm sitting at 36%.
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I am also shocked and confused by how people can use their phone so heavily.
I already killed those unnecessary processes (e.g., all AT&T crap). I have a static wallpaper. I have screen brightness at 60%. And all I have been doing is just reading news and surfing the web. It literally cost me 1% of battery for every 1 min of use. It's just ridiculous.
You are probably on your home screen a lot more than you realize.
Anyway it's a smartphone, they all eat through battery time. you will never get superb battery life unless you crowbar a 3000mah battery into your device.
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set the screen on its lowest brightness setting, the only time I've had to increase the brightness is when I am outside in the sun.
if you are on a bus, if you are not using wifi, turn off the radio.
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Anyway it's a smartphone, they all eat through battery time. you will never get superb battery life unless you crowbar a 3000mah battery into your device.
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You just said your phone is at 36% eighteen hours after charging! Compared to the 0% I'm at ten hours after charging...I'm not looking for superb battery life at all, just somewhat decent. I'm actually bringing a backup feature phone with me to college this semester in case I can't resolve this issue, because I will need to use my phone both in the morning and at night some days
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set the screen on its lowest brightness setting, the only time I've had to increase the brightness is when I am outside in the sun.
if you are on a bus, if you are not using wifi, turn off the radio.
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I have Wifi, BT always off. And I don't listen to Pandora.
I think the key is you have the lowest brightness on your phone. It is going to save you a lot of battery 'cause half of the battery is for the screen.
But I just couldn't stand it. I wish I can set to 100% all the time. It looks so much better.
The phone radio is a huge consumer of battery - especially in weak signal areas. The bars are not that accurate either. that coupled with 3rd party apps that don't always behave nice, can equal rapid battery drain.
Putting the plain in Airplane mode is good way to see what battery life is like without the Cell radio always doing its thing. It is not a fix, but it can show that the battery/phone are not broken. There probably can be improvements and tweaks made by samsung, but I don't think the phones are defective.
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I think the key is you have the lowest brightness on your phone. It is going to save you a lot of battery 'cause half of the battery is for the screen.
But I just couldn't stand it. I wish I can set to 100% all the time. It looks so much better.
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This is what you would call a trade-off I like the bright screen also but I like having longer battery life more.
The screen is still pretty bright on it lowest setting and you gt used to the lower brightness after a while.
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You just said your phone is at 36% eighteen hours after charging! Compared to the 0% I'm at ten hours after charging...I'm not looking for superb battery life at all, just somewhat decent. I'm actually bringing a backup feature phone with me to college this semester in case I can't resolve this issue, because I will need to use my phone both in the morning and at night some days
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how are you using your phone? What apps are you running, are you using any emulators.
There's an app called Spare Parts, which will show you what is using your battery when the screen is off. Open it up and choose "Partial Wake Usage" from the drop down to see.
My Captivate appeared to drain battery very quickly, but with moderate to decent usage throughout a day I was trying to kill the battery it lasted me over 13 hours. I think it's a matter of the battery reporting taking a good while to calibrate properly.
I've had an issue twice now with absurd battery usage. Both times I charged the phone to full and disconnected it; after doing that the phone would lose 10% charge every hour sitting completely idle! Using the phone during that time drained it even faster. Both times powering the phone completely off and back on resolved the issue.
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I wonder why everyone says to use a solid black background? Do most people use their phones primarily by staring at the home screen? I'm never at my home screen more than perhaps five seconds while switching apps
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In AMOLED, black pixels dont use power. This is different from LCD where even black pixels still use power.
Have you guys tried fully charging, then fully discharing then repeating this step 3 more times? It helps with the battery life tremendously.
You gotta do a factory reset. Many people as well as myself had the same issue. For me, a side effect was also that the att start up swoosh was stupidly loud.
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I only did the discharge thing once, last week, and today I am going on a 21 hours with 28% left.
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I was told there is a 2g / 3g application. Has anyone tried this? Apparently it puts the phone in 2g when no data connection is needed and then updates to 3g when a data process is required...
i'm on day two of not charging mine... and i'm at 25%...
i unplugged it from a full charge yesterday (monday) morning before i left for work and today (29 hours later) i'm at 25%... this is with advanced task killer auto killing tasks when screen is off as well as being aggressive about it. i've been listening to music from my sd card, browsing facebook and taking some pictures (and uploading them to fb). i guess i'm either super lucky not to have any problems with GPS or the battery, or i'm a very light user.
I dunno what happened to the main battery thread?
I just got a new phone two days ago because of the restart issue. This one has the same battery issue. Drains 2-4%/hour just being idle. I have nothing beyond launcher pro and google voice installed. Everything is on lockdown in terms of batt usage. The only thing I haven't done is turn off the cell antenna.
I've tried the tricks I knew: factory reset, calibration trick. These didn't help at all. My last phone just needed a factory reset and it was all good. Now I'm sad again :-( will it just improve itself when the phone "learns" the battery or something? I wish I could teach it
Several things you can do.
1) Use WiFi if you can use it, it uses less power. If you don't have somewhere to use WiFi, leave it off.
2) Same goes for BT- leave it off if possible.
3) Use this to get rooted and remove all the ATT crap that sucks battery life. Applying the lag fix also means you spend less time with the screen on, so that can also help you out.
4) Use Auto Brightness
5) Disabling haptic feedback and the tapping sounds (I find it more annoying regardless)
6) Use a static black wallpaper- or something really dark. IMO it looks great black and plus the AMOLED... Black doesn't use power.
7) Use Advanced Task Killer. I have mine on Aggressive and Moderate security every half hour. This will make sure hung apps, etc get killed and apps you haven't ran. Make sure you whitelist the apps that run your widgets and such though.
That's the best things to do to.
Edit- above all, remember this is a SMART phone, not a feature phone like the iPhone is. The simple fact this full blown SMART phone can even begin to rival just a feature phone like the iPhone speaks volumes to how much more efficient it is than what you think it is.
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I've had an issue twice now with absurd battery usage. Both times I charged the phone to full and disconnected it; after doing that the phone would lose 10% charge every hour sitting completely idle! Using the phone during that time drained it even faster. Both times powering the phone completely off and back on resolved the issue.
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I too have had issues with battery life but quickly realized what had been causing the issues, twice it had been snesoid not closing down all the way after use, and this combined with an app that was hurting battery life (word feud), I realized what my problem was.
I leave the brightness jacked all the way down. I believe the lowest it goes on the stock rom is like 15%, but there are ways to go lower than that.
I've not used my phone much the past two days since charging it, and i'm currently down to 35%, but most of my battery use is cell standby, with display being 3rd or so on the list.
You can always use a program like tasker to make the phone go into airport mode between certain hours of the day (IE: while you're sleeping) to help conserve the battery life.
There are also tons of other good tips in this thread.
And trust me, the phone can last; i've managed 3days on one charge
My battery seems to be REALLY bad. Worse than most peoples from what i gather from reading threads. I get about 8 hours from a full charge with minimal use. It seems that my screen is taking up most of the battery, according to my battery use page.... Any one else having major battery drain like I am??
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My display is taking a huge percentage as well. Everything else is low percentages. Don't know why. My screen is always either on auto brightness or completely dim.
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Give it a while and a few recharges. It should get better. Same thing happened to me. It's slowly getting better. I have it about a week now.
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I was getting 7 to 8 hours at first, had my phone almost 2 weeks now and am now getting just under 20 hours with moderate use.
Give it time. My sensation has far better battery life compared with my DHD.
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Peeps, you missed most important thing. Look at the AWAKE line. Either OP is playing a lot with th phone, or something is not letting it sleep.
Yeah, the battery really plummets when you actually use the phone (even on low brightness) but it idles quite efficiently at least...
Did u try juice defender? Just asking ify bout the sensation dnt knw either to get it or wait for sumthing else
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Did u try juice defender? Just asking ify bout the sensation dnt knw either to get it or wait for sumthing else
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Would help if you used proper language.
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Yeah, noticed same thing
I downloaded juice defender beta? whatever the free one was. To me that app does not have a good layout at all, either that or I was missing something. There dont seem to be any personalization settings at all. I dont trust apps to work when they just say "im doing something!!" ya know?
Now that I think about it on that charge I was playing music while I worked on my car for a while, that would explain the awake time. Even without doing that battery life is still really bad and the screen takes up 80%+. I will post another pic after my battery dies today. Dont plan on using it much so hopefully it will last longer.
That is good news about life getting better after a week or two though cause 8 hours with moderate use is unacceptable. My MT4G got a good 24 hours with pretty heavy use, I expect this thing to get at least half that.
i use juice defender and under normal use and a few hours of pandora streaming on wifi im at 35 hours at 40% battery
My phone was also drained like madness, within 6 hours it was empty, even if I didn't do anything with it. At the moment it is better, I did a factory reset through the startup of the phone (turn phone off, remove batt, place batt, hold volume down and push on/off button). There is an option to factory reset.
Strange thing was that when I turned off my phone before the factory reset, it was telling 34% batt. Right after the factory reset is was at 89% ???
I use Battery Status Bar app to display my batt in percentage...
But the good news is, my problem is now solved. Battery lasts for more than a day at normal use and 6-8 hours while very actively handeling it.
Looks like it was a reading wrong information or something...
Got 11 hours out of a battery today. So far its been charging for 4.5 hours and is at 94% charge. Takes about half as long to charge it as it does to kill it!
I will give juice defender a try. Seems like it works for a lot of people.
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Got 11 hours out of a battery today. So far its been charging for 4.5 hours and is at 94% charge. Takes about half as long to charge it as it does to kill it!
I will give juice defender a try. Seems like it works for a lot of people.
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I had same kind of long charging last night. Battery died at about 7:30pm. I plugged it and did not turn the power on. Went to play some ice hockey and after that I turned the power on again at about 10:10pm and it was still charging. At about 11:20pm(still charging) I unplugged for a couple of seconds to see the specs of the charger and then plugged back, surprisingly percentage jumped to 100. It was still on 100 this morning at about 8:00am.
Now I found out that phones own battery monitor tells me that time on battery is roughly 8 hours But when I check the time from Battery Indicator it tells me that time on battery is roughly 15 hours, which is correct.
Seems that a lot of people are getting false battery readings, me included. I did a factory reset last night and this seemed to fix this, at least until now it seems to report correct (realistic) values. I haven't charged the battery after the reset so we will see if charging messes it up again...
I hope this is a software problem, i really don't want to exchange my phone, i don't have any of the other problems.
what sort of battery times are acceptable for this phone? many are suggesting factory resets and all i wonder if i should do it or not. if i charge the phone overnight it goes to power saver mode usually say 8-9pm and then the power saver mode (basically dim screen and no gps wifi remains on) is managing to hold the power till i go to bed and charge it. is this ok?
juice defender seems to be recommended eh? maybe one should should try that before the factory reset. btw if factory reset done whats the best way to restore your phones contacts to how they are now? i mean it took forever to link all the facebook, phone and microsoft exchange contacts and offcourse gmails. dont want to go through that again.
I tried juice defender last night and it didnt seem to help. I lost 45% overnight without me even using the phone! When I fell asleep the battery meter said 100% still and I woke up to 55%. The phone says there is some awake time, wonder what it could be? As much as I dont want to do it I think a factory restore may be an option since nothing else is really helping. Should I wait until the battery is 100% before I reset it?
Some new pics, keep in mind I was asleep for all of this use except for what the screen awake time says.
cyrarchy said:
what sort of battery times are acceptable for this phone? many are suggesting factory resets and all i wonder if i should do it or not. if i charge the phone overnight it goes to power saver mode usually say 8-9pm and then the power saver mode (basically dim screen and no gps wifi remains on) is managing to hold the power till i go to bed and charge it. is this ok?
juice defender seems to be recommended eh? maybe one should should try that before the factory reset. btw if factory reset done whats the best way to restore your phones contacts to how they are now? i mean it took forever to link all the facebook, phone and microsoft exchange contacts and offcourse gmails. dont want to go through that again.
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I would say you battery life isnt that bad, if it lasts a day then it sounds about right. People are saying the batteries last longer after a couple weeks or so. If you do factory reset try and connect to wifi when google is restoring your contacts and such, it makes things go a lot faster.
I managed just over 9 hours on my first charged but I'm recharging it now and it went straight up to 31% when it booted up again :S
Me and my gf both have a Sensation now(i upgraded from HTC Desire, and she a HTC Legend), we are both pleased with the battery on the phones, she uses stock Sense, and i use LauncherPro, though we did learn something from our older phones, the thing that drains battery extremely much is all the notification emails Facebook automatically send(gmail push), these are almost turned off to 100%, next thing is to turn off all syncronisation in the phone you don't use, ex. i use Launcherpro therefore i don't need the phone to update Sense's own weather, and so on.
We both normally charge the phone every night, but i guess my phone would last almost 2 days on days i don't use it that much.
I must say i am extremely satisfied with my phone, the thing that i dislike the most is the camera, or to say it in a different way, if i didn't know the SG2 had a slightly better camera i may have been more satisfied
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The phone says there is some awake time, wonder what it could be?
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You should not have anywhere near 100% awake time unless you're using the phone at all times. You have some app that is not shutting down or auto-updating far too often. That's your culprit - find it and your battery life will improve.
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Yeah, the battery really plummets when you actually use the phone (even on low brightness) but it idles quite efficiently at least...
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What app is this???
Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.
Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.
So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)
Thanks!
honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......
unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?
i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.
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honestly if you are only getting six hourse with the setup you have, im tempted to say something is wrong with your phone......
unless you are getting 4 or more hours of screen-on time. how much screen on time?
i was getting 15 hours out of the box with 2 hours of screen on. now with leedroid, slightly underclocked, im getting about 24 hours with 3 hours screen time.
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OP, if you're talking 6 hours to go from 100% to 0%, you've got something else going on. Big time. Especially of you're turning off all that stuff and *still* only getting 6 hours.
Now, if you had the screen on that entire time, I'd actually say you have great battery life, but I suspect that's not the case.
If it happens with both of your batteries, there has to be something else running on your phone, perhaps as a background service, that's sucking that much juice.
@ OP:
I get like 1 hour call per 18-20% battery on 3G/H. So 6 hours of call time from 100 to 0 is good in my opinion.
If not on calls: I did a stress test 2 days back. I got ~6.5 hours display time for movies from 100 to 5% battery with display at 25%.
So like people pointed out above, unless u r continuously on calls or having display on for atleast 3-4 hours with data transfer on 3g/h, something is wrong.
Here are my normal stats:
1 hour calls, 2 hours display exclusively with data transfer, all these on 3G/H, with about 12 hours standby, I come home with about 35-40% battery left.
I agree with the posters above there is definitely something wrong. Slightly UC & UV I get 6-7h screen time.
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Insert whiny post about how much my battery life sucks.
Now that I've just rooted my Inspire, are there any fixes that are available that will help improve battery life? I am using the RCDMix3D rom, and my phone barely lasts 6 hours. I take all of the suggested actions like turning off bluetooth, gps, wifi, autosync, and background data, but it doesn't seem to help much. I even bought a 1600mAH battery, which lasts no longer than the standard 1230mAH one.
So, looking for anything I can flash, or download, or whatever that will help improve it. Good battery life is something I really need in a phone, and the Inspire's is the one thing that is making me consider switching phones. (which I'd rather not do, I love this phone!)
Thanks!
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A lot of testing with legitimate lab equipment has proven that ProdiCell batteries are not actually 1600mah, rather 1060mah which is actually lower than stock. Sorry if you bought one of their batteries.
I wasn't able to find the blog I was reading last night, but I can link you to the amazon comment thread where I first started my online research. >> Link <<
Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.
It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.
I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.
Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay That could be it by itself hah.
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Yikes, that would suck if it was something wrong with the phone. I bought it off someone and was practically brand new, but I think it is out of warranty now.
It did this both before and after I had rooted my phone, so I'm not sure what background processes there could be that would be causing this? I know that some of the AT&T bloatware was always running in the background before (like Blockbuster), but I have since removed all of that crap.
I planned on doing some stress-testing today just to see. So far it has been unplugged for 56 minutes with 15 minutes of display time on, a 3 minute phone call, and using the internet for 5 minutes. Also sent/received about 20 SMS. Battery is at 94%.
Maybe I will switch back to the stock battery that came with the phone and see if there is any improvement. The one I am using now is meant for an HTC Desire, but I had read that those with an Inspire were able to use it with improvements. Not sure what brand makes it, but I do know it came from eBay That could be it by itself hah.
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Have you tried a battery calibration? It's easy to do manually, but there's a convenient app on market called, wait for it... battery calibration, that makes it a one-click process.
I really doubt it's the phone hardware itself. Probably some combo of battery/calibration/rom/kernel/radio.
BTW, the phone just came out in mid-February, so technically it's not out of warranty. It's like a year or year and a half or something.
I'll try that app for sure. Thanks!
When I called HTC in May to order replacement battery/SIM door covers, they said my warranty would run out in the next month. Maybe the CS rep was a moron.
Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.
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Also make sure to turn off WiFi & mobile data when not using it, that will extend your charge.
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Do a fresh install and calibrate your battery. Use titanium backup to freeze user apps. Add your apps one by one to find out which apps are hogging your battery. Also, try charging it before you go to bed. Take it off the charger, and when you wake, check to see if your phone uses more than 1% battery per hour.
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I literally just rooted/flashed my ROM yesterday. I charged the phone back up to 100% today and used that calibration app, and so far it seems to have helped. It definitely uses more than 1% an hour. So far it's at 45% after having been unplugged for 5 hours and 37 minutes, with 2 hours and 4 minutes of display time, 10 minutes of phone calls on 3G, sent/received about 100 texts, checked/downloaded about 20 emails, and taken 10 or so pictures.
Of course, WiFi/Background data/auto-sync/bluetooth/GPS are off, and brightness is at about 40%.
I've got a weird one on this particular battery cycle. I used the battery calibration app before I went to sleep last night and unplugged the phone at 100% charge. While I was asleep...the dialer used 16% of my battery according to my battery stats and the total battery was down into the 60%'s...I searched google, and other sources / forums report a reboot fixes it, and the issue likely occured from a "Wake Lock State" occuring at my last previous phone call the previous evening...ugh hell of a bug...I haven't rebooted it yet, and still notice even plugging and unplugging all day dialer still in low teens for batt. %...seems to be an Android thing although thre seemed to be a preponderance of HTC's...but they are popular devices and there was a Samsung tablet in there with the same thing...
I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
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I just got a whole day with 3 hours screen time and gmail and htc sense getting updates, more than 100 texts and 40 minutes of calls and wifi on half the time the battery on this phone is awesome. At night i get maybe 2-3% drain in about 7 hours. I suggest you find a ROM with some UV capabilities, the ones with the oc/uv daemon are great as they already have the settings built in.
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Wow, that's pretty good. What ROM are you using?
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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Someone asked which ROM I'm using, its the one in my Sig...when you dont have signal I would put it in airplane mode because your phone will search and search for a signal and that kills battery fast.
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elijahpr said:
Doing a nandroid backup, and then gonna flash Gingerbeast after work to see if battery improves or not.
That's another weird thing about my phone; one of the places I work my shifts are only 4 hours long. I go in and the battery is at about 95% because I've been streaming music on the way there. I come out, and it's down to 30%, or less. The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there, and when I do I send and receive maybe 20 texts during that time. Nothing else. Don't even turn the display on aside from that.
So, for Gingerbeast, is there a different kernel I need to flash? I was reading a little about it, but as I am still new to this whole thing, I'm not entirely sure what that is. Do I just flash it using CWM? I downloaded one from LordMod that is supposed to help.
Thanks again all!
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The reason why you are losing so much battery is your phone is trying to connect to a tower in order to gain service. Switch to airplane mode when at work.
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The funny part is I don't even get a cell signal down there
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There's the culprit!!! When phone does not have proper signal, it increases the radio power so that it may not lose connection. And when connection comes in, and is good enough, it starts to slowly scale down the power to the radio.
Hahaha, that's awesome. I was thinking the exact same thing as the three posts above me when I was working today... kind of an "oh, duh!" moment, then I come back and check the thread and ya'll confirmed it.
Flashing Gingerbeast right now, so hopefully that will show if it's the ROM or my hardware that's causing the battery drain. Gonna try it out for the rest of the day, though I will miss my Sense 3.0
I've had my AT&T Note 10 plus for over a week now, and for the first week the battery life was stellar. Three days ago seemingly out of nowhere, battery life had tanked. Some context - I came from a Note 9 which had fantastic battery life. Location on, widgets, notifications, etc were enabled. I feel I shouldn't have to yield to or cripple my phone to get decent battery life from it so I refuse to do that on a device that costs this much. It should just work.
Anyway, fast-forward to three days ago with my note 10+ - same settings and everything as my previous note 9 - and out of nowhere the battery life just starts to tank. Android System is seems to be the drain, but I'm not sure what in there is causing it. The phone is constantly warm. As an experiment, I've put it on airplane mode now with wifi still on and the phone has cooled down but I'm not sure yet if the battery is being drained less or not as it's only been a few minutes. But, I am losing about 6% battery/hr not even using the phone. That is rather unacceptable after it having worked just fine the first several days I've had it. I refuse to disable location and do other seemingly band-aid tricks to help the battery along as I don't feel that really solves the issue and should be unnecessary for a device that costs this much money. I also refuse to factory reset unless I ABSOLUTELY have to because these phones are a pain in the rear to setup, even with Samsung/Google's restore. So many settings to go in and manipulate.
I hope this resolves itself or I can get to the bottom of it somehow. I really love this phone and really don't want to go back to my iPhone XS Max over a battery issue but it is just unacceptable for the battery to drain like this with little to no actual use of the phone. The other night by the time I had placed it on the charger, android system was up over 30%...
is anyone else experiencing this problem?
I apologize if this has been discussed before - I couldn't find anything similar.
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After putting the phone in airplane mode (wifi left on), it has cooled down and battery drain seems to have improved. According to the battery graph it looks like the phone is also finally going to sleep. Previously the graph went straight down to the right with no flat spots.
What could this be? My cell reception hasn't changed and I'm at wit's end
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I've had my AT&T Note 10 plus for over a week now, and for the first week the battery life was stellar. Three days ago seemingly out of nowhere, battery life had tanked. Some context - I came from a Note 9 which had fantastic battery life. Location on, widgets, notifications, etc were enabled. I feel I shouldn't have to yield to or cripple my phone to get decent battery life from it so I refuse to do that on a device that costs this much. It should just work.
Anyway, fast-forward to three days ago with my note 10+ - same settings and everything as my previous note 9 - and out of nowhere the battery life just starts to tank. Android System is seems to be the drain, but I'm not sure what in there is causing it. The phone is constantly warm. As an experiment, I've put it on airplane mode now with wifi still on and the phone has cooled down but I'm not sure yet if the battery is being drained less or not as it's only been a few minutes. But, I am losing about 6% battery/hr not even using the phone. That is rather unacceptable after it having worked just fine the first several days I've had it. I refuse to disable location and do other seemingly band-aid tricks to help the battery along as I don't feel that really solves the issue and should be unnecessary for a device that costs this much money. I also refuse to factory reset unless I ABSOLUTELY have to because these phones are a pain in the rear to setup, even with Samsung/Google's restore. So many settings to go in and manipulate.
I hope this resolves itself or I can get to the bottom of it somehow. I really love this phone and really don't want to go back to my iPhone XS Max over a battery issue but it is just unacceptable for the battery to drain like this with little to no actual use of the phone. The other night by the time I had placed it on the charger, android system was up over 30%...
is anyone else experiencing this problem?
I apologize if this has been discussed before - I couldn't find anything similar.
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After putting the phone in airplane mode (wifi left on), it has cooled down and battery drain seems to have improved. According to the battery graph it looks like the phone is also finally going to sleep. Previously the graph went straight down to the right with no flat spots.
What could this be? My cell reception hasn't changed and I'm at wit's end
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I use Naptime from the play store by Francisco Franco and no as the title of his app says you don't get 9000% better battery. You'll need a couple of adb commands to get it to work it you're not rooted.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.doze&hl=en
This is a quote from Franco - Unbelievably improve the battery life during idle of your device by empowering Android's built-in Doze power saving functionality. It supports Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo and now Pie. It features more options for rooted devices, but it'll also work if you're unrooted.
Naptime also allows you to disable WiFi, mobile data, location & bluetooth during doze for that battery life /flex ?
I find that I'm losing around 1 to 0.7% per hour is that normal or considered good? The other night my phone was at 95% I woke up 6 or so hours later and it was a 89%. I'll need to do some thorough testing, but I don't know what to make of those results.
Anyone on here have some advice on weather that idle time is good or bad? My device is an unlocked n10plus running Snapdragon
-If you charge to 100 and put it next to your bed. How much is it next morning?
-do you use the led cover?
-are there any less known apps in your list?
Switching off wifi, Bluetooth etc is useless. These are efficient enough nowadays.
I tested these kind of "tricks" and no difference after my nightly sleep test.
Sometimes an app like evernote, google foto's or journey is downloading a lot of data in your new phone.
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With all my last Notes I get a .6 till .9% per hour in a situation where i put my Note next to my bed and do not touch it during sleeping hours.
I live on three different locations, in different countries even, and that shows some battery consuming difference. Routers and provider locations are not the same.
I have more than 180 apps installed. No games however.
I am not rooted, but use GSAM battery monitor. The quickest way to see the hourly consumption.
Factory reset means a full day work for me. E.g. banking apps need a lot of tuning. Even using Google and Samsung restore.
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-If you charge to 100 and put it next to your bed. How much is it next morning?
-do you use the led cover?
-are there any less known apps in your list?
Switching off wifi, Bluetooth etc is useless. These are efficient enough nowadays.
I tested these kind of "tricks" and no difference after my nightly sleep test.
Sometimes an app like evernote, google foto's or journey is downloading a lot of data in your new phone.
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With all my last Notes I get a .6 till .9% per hour in a situation where i put my Note next to my bed and do not touch it during sleeping hours.
I live on three different locations, in different countries even, and that shows some battery consuming difference. Routers and provider locations are not the same.
I have more than 180 apps installed. No games however.
I am not rooted, but use GSAM battery monitor. The quickest way to see the hourly consumption.
Factory reset means a full day work for me. E.g. banking apps need a lot of tuning. Even using Google and Samsung restore.
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I charge it overnight while I'm sleeping. No lesser-known apps installed, no LED cover either. Not rooted. this literally happened out of nowhere after days of it being great. Not sure what could have happened, or if it's something on ATT's end? I don't know where else to look. I'm with you on the factory reset. It's such a waste of time and will take up hours.
mine also been facing this battery drain issue since day one. Tried using naptime just now and it improve my battery life ALOT!! Thanks for the suggestion
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I charge it overnight while I'm sleeping. No lesser-known apps installed, no LED cover either. Not rooted. this literally happened out of nowhere after days of it being great. Not sure what could have happened, or if it's something on ATT's end? I don't know where else to look. I'm with you on the factory reset. It's such a waste of time and will take up hours.
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Pls try to charge it before going to bed and leave it to see how much it spends overnight w i t h o u t touching it. If it is higher than 1+%/hr something is wrong..
I buy a new phone every year because I am nuts. But I always register in Evernote my findings.
Frequently the power consumption is higher in the beginning, because a lot of background activity like data reading and background update of software.
If it is more than, let's say 1.2%/hr during overnight sleep it is not ok.
I am doing this test now with my Note 10+ 512 (Yes i am nuts, I told you) and will inform you later.
After seven hours .8%/hr which is normal.
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Pls try to charge it before going to bed and leave it to see how much it spends overnight w i t h o u t touching it. If it is higher than 1+%/hr something is wrong..
I buy a new phone every year because I am nuts. But I always register in Evernote my findings.
Frequently the power consumption is higher in the beginning, because a lot of background activity like data reading and background update of software.
If it is more than, let's say 1.2%/hr during overnight sleep it is not ok.
I am doing this test now with my Note 10+ 512 (Yes i am nuts, I told you) and will inform you later.
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I can tell you right now that it's losing 5-6% an hour just sitting there. The phone has been set up for days now so I know it's not the setup process. Like i said, it was fine for almost a week, then out of nowhere this happens...
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I can tell you right now that it's losing 5-6% an hour just sitting there. The phone has been set up for days now so I know it's not the setup process. Like i said, it was fine for almost a week, then out of nowhere this happens...
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Pffff, you have a problem. So in settings/maintenance/battery there no apps with high use?
After just rebooting the phone the consumption starts immediately?
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Pffff, you have a problem. So in settings/maintenance/battery there no apps with high use?
After just rebooting the phone the consumption starts immediately?
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Yes...I know I have a problem...Android System is the culprit. Beyond that, I do not know what in "android system" is causing it. Perhaps a wake lock bug? A wifi bug?
It's always the same with my Samsung devices it's rediciculus Samsung. On your note 10 or note 10+ before switching to flight mode set the network setting to 3g only! In 7 hours you will loose only 2% battery instead of 8 or more. Same was on my note 9 but Samsung finally patched this behavior a few month ago. Now the same with my note 10+.
This problem is only for the flight mode. So you can test 3 things in 3 nights. You have 3 options before going in flight mode. In network selection choose 3g only. Than watch what happens over night. Next time you choose 2g/3g only and you can try it with 2g only.
For me doing so 1-2 % battery drain in 7-8 hours.
I've pretty bad reception with 4G. But no crazy 25% drain over night, more like 4-5%. And that's with the non plus Note with exynos.
With naptime, do you get notifications instantly? I have auto sync on all the time, is there any issues around this?
Just bought a new galaxy note 10 and overnight from 100 % i have 57 this morning. Whats going on?
Is this normal on note 10 plus battery health?
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My N10+ is about 3 weeks old, but I found, like you, that after a couple days of stellar battery life my idle was starting to drain pretty fast. Going to bed and waking about 6 hours later I was missing around 20%. This is with all apps closed, WiFi, BT, Location, Link to Windows, Mobile data, NFC, Sync, and AOD turned on. I turned off AOD, NFC, and Link to Windows. My battery drain since, for the better part of 2 weeks, has been about 5-6 percent. Around 1% an hour while sleeping. I don't know how I can help, but I hope this does. I honestly can't complain about this battery. I have been getting 6-7 of screen time before having to charge around 10%.
Edit: also turned off edge lighting, which I had enabled before.
ehm so you made your top shelf 1000$ device into a feature phone ... that's no solution
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ehm so you made your top shelf 1000$ device into a feature phone ... that's no solution
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I don't remember saying, "Here's a solution for you!" No, I simply posted what I did to stop the horrible battery drain that I was experiencing.
Also, I spent the $1,100 on this phone and I'm pretty sure I can use it however I want. Feature phone, paper weight, fish tank decoration..:good:
My N10+ has been sat on my desk and not used for 4 hours yet battery has gone from 100% to 78%.
I don't know how this is acceptable.
shaunydub said:
My N10+ has been sat on my desk and not used for 4 hours yet battery has gone from 100% to 78%.
I don't know how this is acceptable.
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I have the reg note 10 and ive been battling this for a couple weeks. nothing seems to keep the system from sucking the batter dry. Standby life is a joke. i lost 40% today with the phone on for about 10 hours and 30 min SOT while i was at work. I cant figure out whats stuck in the system, tried literally everything
Why don't the stats add up? What else is taking battery but not being shown here? And is the overnight battery drain normal? It's just put on the table, not worn at night.
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anil2705 said:
Why don't the stats add up? What else is taking battery but not being shown here? And is the overnight battery drain normal? It's just put on the table, not worn at night.
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It is normal for it to consume energy at night, if you do not use the phone at night a few percent will also escape
if your battery life is low, you can try to "optimise" it (there are various tools for this on the forum)
kind regards
yangton said:
It is normal for it to consume energy at night, if you do not use the phone at night a few percent will also escape
if your battery life is low, you can try to "optimise" it (there are various tools for this on the forum)
kind regards
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At night... While sleeping... So phone is not used at all... And yet the watch drains battery.
I don't know the battery lasts about a day on watch 4
and you have to charge it more or less every day
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I charge my gw4c in late evening, wear it before I go to bed and by the next late evening I have abt 55%. I do charge it almost every day because I know it might not make it for two full days. Heart rate/stress/snore detection set to always and blood oxygen measuring during sleep to on.
thanito said:
I charge my gw4c in late evening, wear it before I go to bed and by the next late evening I have abt 55%. I do charge it almost every day because I know it might not make it for two full days. Heart rate/stress/snore detection set to always and blood oxygen measuring during sleep to on.
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I too
I got GW5 Pro and I was also wondering why the battery usage doesn't add up. For some reason it doesn't show every apps battery consumption. I was able to find some apps that didn't show up on mine, but used some amount of battery. Usage still doesn't add up but gets closer.
On your phone open wear manager and go to watch settings and then apps. Now go through every app on that list one by one and check battery usage there.
For me Find My Mobile, Settings and Samsung text-to-speech engine shows 5% (I'm at 26% battery now) battery usage for every of those app, yet none of them are listen in apps shown at battery usage page.
anil2705 said:
At night... While sleeping... So phone is not used at all... And yet the watch drains battery.
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That is normal. The watch is still "running" even if not on your wrist and with the screen off and idle. It is still connected to your phone and communicating some. The drain might not be a lot , but it will still use some power.
crxssi said:
That is normal. The watch is still "running" even if not on your wrist and with the screen off and idle. It is still connected to your phone and communicating some. The drain might not be a lot , but it will still use some power.
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So 2% an hour idle drain is fine for this watch?
anil2705 said:
Więc 2% bezczynności na godzinę jest w porządku dla tego zegarka?
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yup
anil2705 said:
So 2% an hour idle drain is fine for this watch?
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Not if it is off your wrist it isn't. My drain rate, off my wrist, with WiFi off (BT on), sitting a foot from my phone, is about 0.6% per hour.
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Not if it is off your wrist it isn't. My drain rate, off my wrist, with WiFi off (BT on), sitting a foot from my phone, is about 0.6% per hour.
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How to even figure what's causing the drain since the battery stats don't even add up to 100? Also I noticed when placed on a dark surface, the battery drain is higher. When placed on a white surface, drain is on the lower side...
anil2705 said:
How to even figure what's causing the drain since the battery stats don't even add up to 100? Also I noticed when placed on a dark surface, the battery drain is higher. When placed on a white surface, drain is on the lower side...
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It isn't easy.
For one, it is important to store the off-wrist watch on its side or up-side-down. That is what I do. Since I have AOD on, it is often necessary to keep the display off. But it also stops the watch from trying to measure heart-rate/etc. Store it near the phone, so the signal to the phone is strong and it doesn't have to expend as much energy (assuming it ramps up/down for transmission power). Reboot the watch once in a while (I do at least once a month; I have my Samsung phone set to reboot each Sun). I am not sure what other apps or systems installed will affect battery life. I don't have Samsung health thing running, since I don't care about it.
Battery stats never add up. Not on the watch or any Android device I have ever seen.
If you use and recharge the watch (or any modern device) very often, as it gets older, the battery indicator will become less and less accurate, overstating or understating drain/remaining life. At that point, a recalibration is helpful (drain it COMPLETELY until dead and shuts itself off, charge it fully. Might require a repeat).
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It isn't easy.
For one, it is important to store the off-wrist watch on its side or up-side-down. That is what I do. Since I have AOD on, it is often necessary to keep the display off. But it also stops the watch from trying to measure heart-rate/etc. Store it near the phone, so the signal to the phone is strong and it doesn't have to expend as much energy (assuming it ramps up/down for transmission power). Reboot the watch once in a while (I do at least once a month; I have my Samsung phone set to reboot each Sun). I am not sure what other apps or systems installed will affect battery life. I don't have Samsung health thing running, since I don't care about it.
Battery stats never add up. Not on the watch or any Android device I have ever seen.
If you use and recharge the watch (or any modern device) very often, as it gets older, the battery indicator will become less and less accurate, overstating or understating drain/remaining life. At that point, a recalibration is helpful (drain it COMPLETELY until dead and shuts itself off, charge it fully. Might require a repeat).
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Well, it has bedtime mode on, so AOD isn't an issue I guess. It's relatively a new watch, been just a month or so.
Will try keeping the watch upside down and see nonetheless.
crxssi said:
It isn't easy.
For one, it is important to store the off-wrist watch on its side or up-side-down. That is what I do. Since I have AOD on, it is often necessary to keep the display off. But it also stops the watch from trying to measure heart-rate/etc. Store it near the phone, so the signal to the phone is strong and it doesn't have to expend as much energy (assuming it ramps up/down for transmission power). Reboot the watch once in a while (I do at least once a month; I have my Samsung phone set to reboot each Sun). I am not sure what other apps or systems installed will affect battery life. I don't have Samsung health thing running, since I don't care about it.
Battery stats never add up. Not on the watch or any Android device I have ever seen.
If you use and recharge the watch (or any modern device) very often, as it gets older, the battery indicator will become less and less accurate, overstating or understating drain/remaining life. At that point, a recalibration is helpful (drain it COMPLETELY until dead and shuts itself off, charge it fully. Might require a repeat).
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Kept the watch upside down, still drains @2%/hour.