Hi, I have upgraded to Android 7.0 on my Honor 8 yesterday and since then the battery is draining at an insane pace.
I used to get an overnight standby drain of 3-5% on average with 6.0 and it is well over 25% with 7.0. Something called "Android System" has consumed a disproportionate majority of the battery. A similar problem is reported here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/battery-dropped-40-nougat-honor-8-t3558197
The background app settings haven't been changed -- have about same 6-7 apps like Whatsapp, Outlook, etc. However, when I open the current background apps, I see a few unprotected apps (like Maps) also running in the background. Is this a bug?
Please help out, if there are any fixes.
Thanks.
try apps like greenify to fix wakelocks
adisarun said:
Hi, I have upgraded to Android 7.0 on my Honor 8 yesterday and since then the battery is draining at an insane pace.
I used to get an overnight standby drain of 3-5% on average with 6.0 and it is well over 25% with 7.0. Something called "Android System" has consumed a disproportionate majority of the battery. A similar problem is reported here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/battery-dropped-40-nougat-honor-8-t3558197
The background app settings haven't been changed -- have about same 6-7 apps like Whatsapp, Outlook, etc. However, when I open the current background apps, I see a few unprotected apps (like Maps) also running in the background. Is this a bug?
Please help out, if there are any fixes.
Thanks.
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Many users are dealing with this problem and I've reported before.. This update is broke, and shouldn't have been pushed officially. There are a lot of bugs, and the most irritating one is the battery consumption.
And I don't think Honor is going to fix any of it since we're used to them not caring about what we deal with.
My personal experience with the Nougat update was that battery drained quicker than usual for the first few days, then it stabilized to normal levels (i.e. more or less what it had been in Marshmallow). I was expecting this behaviour, since system upgrade clears out battery optimization data, and it takes a couple of days for the OS to learn what to optimize. Also I suggest you recheck your battery saving settings (Both the Huawei version under Battery settings and the Google version under Applications).
And since someone is going to ask anyway: no, I haven't done factory reset. There was no need.
But this was just my personal experience with nougat. It's of course quite possible that for some people there is a real constant battery drain (wouldn't be the first time, I had a similar experience with my old Motorola when I upgraded to Lollipop a couple of years ago).
It's not the update. From my experience, I had this issue since I bought the phone. I would factory reset it all the time and this issue would persist.
It turns out that in my case, I would always turn off LTE and use WCDMA instead. My logic being that WCDMA uses less power, so therefore I would get better battery life. Nope. There's a glitch that happens if you do this and have wifi on, It doesn't let the phone go into deep sleep. Ever. So your battery drains about 20℅ overnight.
The solution for me was to simply leave LTE on, and now my battery consumes like 1℅ overnight.
For those suffering from battery drain, check your consumption and see if Google calendar sync is taking up a lot of it.
I had that issue, and had to manually kill the sync (from the accounts screen).
It seems to be an issue on all Huawei devices on 7.0, the native calendar isn't playing well with sync, and unless you're rooted and can uninstall it, you're stuck. (I'm waiting to root until a patch comes out for all these issues first)
All in all, if this is how Huawei treats their devices, and their customers, I won't buy another one of their devices.
I updated via Charles method, but my mother's L04 still hasn't gotten the update. And probably never will unless I do it manually.
Very disappointing.
b1tt1 said:
My personal experience with the Nougat update was that battery drained quicker than usual for the first few days, then it stabilized to normal levels (i.e. more or less what it had been in Marshmallow). I was expecting this behaviour, since system upgrade clears out battery optimization data, and it takes a couple of days for the OS to learn what to optimize. Also I suggest you recheck your battery saving settings (Both the Huawei version under Battery settings and the Google version under Applications).
And since someone is going to ask anyway: no, I haven't done factory reset. There was no need.
But this was just my personal experience with nougat. It's of course quite possible that for some people there is a real constant battery drain (wouldn't be the first time, I had a similar experience with my old Motorola when I upgraded to Lollipop a couple of years ago).
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Thanks. I was thinking of waiting for a couple of days too. Its just been 12 hours and the battery is almost down to 25% from 100%. If it doesn't improve in the next few days, I'll revert to 6.0 with which I had solid 1.5 days battery life for my usage level.
On my frd 09 i got a update after the nougat update which fixed my battery drain it was around 356 mb big. But since maybe 1-2 weeks already. And my battery drain is lower as on MM
I do feel Nougat on my L14 is draining faster than MM. It's mostly Android System or Android OS so I have no idea what is within that taking the power. There is also a weird bug with LTE enabled when I make a call to another cell phone. Most of the time, my phone says it's ringing on the other side but there's no "ringing" sound on my side. Weird. Turn off LTE and you can hear the ringing.
It is always hard to determine what is going on in these sort of circumstances. For me, EMUI 5 doesn't seem to have badly affected my battery life. I just got almost 3.75 hours SOT using Waze for navigation, and still have about 30% battery. According to the detailed power info, Waze was using 1340.27 mAh.
b1tt1 said:
My personal experience with the Nougat update was that battery drained quicker than usual for the first few days, then it stabilized to normal levels (i.e. more or less what it had been in Marshmallow). I was expecting this behaviour, since system upgrade clears out battery optimization data, and it takes a couple of days for the OS to learn what to optimize. Also I suggest you recheck your battery saving settings (Both the Huawei version under Battery settings and the Google version under Applications).
And since someone is going to ask anyway: no, I haven't done factory reset. There was no need.
But this was just my personal experience with nougat. It's of course quite possible that for some people there is a real constant battery drain (wouldn't be the first time, I had a similar experience with my old Motorola when I upgraded to Lollipop a couple of years ago).
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Just for balance, my experience is more like this one, although I don't think I had to wait days for it to not be a battery drainer. Is everyone in this thread talking about b360? (for whatever variant you have)? I did see this on b320, but have used b360 for about 1-2 months now (Charles) and haven't had any noticeable difference in battery life from Marshmallow. It drains 1-3% / night. Screen on time , say browsing is pretty regularly 5.x hours, and typically I get 2-3 days out of a charge.
I believe everyone that says they've got a problem, but I guess some of us got lucky. Just so it's known: Mine is a US L04*b360 variant.
Note: Just as a possible point of difference. Before I was on b360, I had the phone rooted, with TWRP, and had to wipe the entire thing , rollback to b160 and use Charles to get b360. I never did a reset and I don't turn off functionality. Also, maybe most important. I don't use social media hardly at all. I haven't got Facebook or Twitter installed because I don't like either.
i would suggest a factory reset, then install only essential apps and test it for a couple of days.
L04 here, OTA updated and I'm seeing better battery performance than MM.
adisarun said:
Hi, I have upgraded to Android 7.0 on my Honor 8 yesterday and since then the battery is draining at an insane pace.
I used to get an overnight standby drain of 3-5% on average with 6.0 and it is well over 25% with 7.0. Something called "Android System" has consumed a disproportionate majority of the battery. A similar problem is reported here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/battery-dropped-40-nougat-honor-8-t3558197
The background app settings haven't been changed -- have about same 6-7 apps like Whatsapp, Outlook, etc. However, when I open the current background apps, I see a few unprotected apps (like Maps) also running in the background. Is this a bug?
Please help out, if there are any fixes.
Thanks.
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Try going into settings, accounts, google.
Look to see if anything looks like its stuck syncing. If there is, turn that off. Go into the app that was stuck, and swype down to cause it to refresh, then go back into the setting and turn that syncing back on (if you want it to sync).
Does root and Greenify help?
I contacted Honor Support and reported the problem.
I was suggested to "Wipe Cache Partition". It helped a bit but the battery was still draining at a faster rate than 6.0. So I have now been wiping cache partition on a daily basis after a full charge.
I know it doesn't make much sense but it helps contain the drain a bit, at least when connected to the Internet via WiFi. The drain rate remains the same as soon as I switch to LTE (about 2-3% drain per hour with roughly 5-10 minutes SoT).
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Does root and Greenify help?
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My phone wasn't rooted. I'd have tried Greenify but it wasn't any app causing the drain; "Android System" is the culprit. I don't know if Greenify could help with that.
amarryat said:
Try going into settings, accounts, google.
Look to see if anything looks like its stuck syncing. If there is, turn that off. Go into the app that was stuck, and swype down to cause it to refresh, then go back into the setting and turn that syncing back on (if you want it to sync).
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Thanks for your comment. I checked the settings; there are no issues with sync.
hachamacha said:
Just for balance, my experience is more like this one, although I don't think I had to wait days for it to not be a battery drainer. Is everyone in this thread talking about b360? (for whatever variant you have)? I did see this on b320, but have used b360 for about 1-2 months now (Charles) and haven't had any noticeable difference in battery life from Marshmallow. It drains 1-3% / night. Screen on time , say browsing is pretty regularly 5.x hours, and typically I get 2-3 days out of a charge.
I believe everyone that says they've got a problem, but I guess some of us got lucky. Just so it's known: Mine is a US L04*b360 variant.
Note: Just as a possible point of difference. Before I was on b360, I had the phone rooted, with TWRP, and had to wipe the entire thing , rollback to b160 and use Charles to get b360. I never did a reset and I don't turn off functionality. Also, maybe most important. I don't use social media hardly at all. I haven't got Facebook or Twitter installed because I don't like either.
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Thanks for your comment. My model number is: FRD-L14 and the build number is B360.
Honor Support recommended to "Wipe Cache Partition". I did that without much luck. I have now been wiping the cache partition after every full charge (which is a ridiculous thing to do!). It does help arrest the drain a bit but only on WiFi. As soon as I turn on the Mobile Data, the battery drains at insane speed (about 2-3% an hour with just 5-10 minutes of SoT).
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Hi,
I've got an HTC One S since a few weeks (got it with the 1.57 FW I think). It's a stock one, not from a carrier. No branding.
The battery life was great, 2 to 3 days with normal use.
But yesterday evening I proceeded to the OTA update and since then, trouble began
Battery life is much, much lower. After 12 hours standing on my desk in the office, I got 10% remaining!
Anytime I switch the screen ON, I see there is some data being sent (or received) because the "arrows" are full. If I check in system panel lite, there's always 1 or 2 kb/s of traffic.
Also, the phone is a bit warm, quite often.
Has anyone else noticed this? That's rather annoying :/
Could be faulty? I have the same phone with no carrier or branding and not had any problems at all.
Like faulty hardware? Seems unlikely to me since it worked well with 1.57. Also, sending data isn't hardware related
Here are some details.
In Mobile usage, just for today (less than 24h)
"Media" has used 13MB of background data
"Android OS" has used 5MB, also background
Android OS gives no more details. Media is told to include "Download manager" "DRM protected content storage" "Media storage" and "Downloads"
This sounds like a lot of background data :/
Try an app called Badass Battery monitor. It should tell you what's eating your battery.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
Sent from my rooted and debloated T Mobile HTC One S
I have to say, this phone, at least mines, seems to have a pretty bi polar battery. It's got a case of ADHD.
For example, just the other day, I had the phone fully charged when I awoke at 9am, after playing Temple Run, surfing the web, using GPS, streaming and listening to music, playing more Temple Run, fiddling around with the OS, checking emails, sending texts, talking on the phone a bit, downloading apps, with about 25-30% brightness, I ended up with 18% battery remaining after a good 11 hours of very heavy use. I was quite pleased, considering the inordinate amount of usage I had with the phone all day.
(BTW, I use Juice Defender, which has helped tons in reducing battery drainage for almost every phone I've owned in the past 3 months, including the One S)
Yesterday, I had the phone charged at 100% when I awoke at 9am, with a little bit of use, by 12am, I had 63% remaining, same brightness, but with much much less use then the day prior. By the time 3pm hit, I was at about 30%, and by 5pm, it was drained to 18%, mostly on standby. By my estimation, that's 8 hours of usage, same brightness levels as the day before, using Juice Defender, but with much much less fiddling around with pretty much everything on the device.
I went ahead and disabled Juice Defender today to see if it would make a difference, and the battery actually got a bit worse, so I went ahead and re-enabled it and it immediately improved.
So I'm a bit perplexed, I haven't gotten any official updates, still running on the original stock build, but ultimately, I guess this is what is too be expected with an early build. Hopefully future updates WILL fix these issues and not hinder them more. Granted it's still much better then my HTC Amaze and Galaxy Nexus, which drained 4% the moment I took them off charger.
Thanks for your input, I'll check again today how the phone goes.
I played with all the settings and menus yesterday, and found something strange. In the "downloads" app, there was a "system update" download. That's quite normal since I downloaded and applied the OTA the day before. But it was referred as "ongoing", like it was still downloading a part of the OTA zip file AFTER I applied it (and rebooted a couple of times)
In phone settings, about, updates, it was also written "ongoing"
Now this is over (I don't know why and how) and the network usage seems back to normal. I'll try today to see how the battery drain is
Anyway, it's s strange the phone was still downloading the update zip file after having applied it. AND that it was downloading it on the 3G at a very lowered bitrate (like background) while I downloaded it on the wifi the day before
Anyway...
The battery life of my One S seems to have declined as well since the update. Before the update my battery lasted 2 days easily with moderate usage. Now I have 20-30% left at the end of the day from a full charge since 9am. This is with very light usage (mostly on standby from 9 to 5).
I did turn on best wifi performance recently so I just to turned that off to see if it helps but I really doubt that.
Hello guys, I have same problem, but my phone wasting energy on "phone radio" process, just look at screens below. I tried using stock Rom with last update, trickdroid, and now it happend on leedroid v.2 . Btw I changed 4 micro sim cards with several providers, but no result. I really need help with this issue, because my battery draining very very
fast...
Thank you
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA
I had a similar problem a few days ago, using Lee´s ROM.
I noticed that the drain had something to do with autosync. As soon as I turned off autosync (leaving mobile internet on) drainage went back to normal.
I still don´t know what caused this since I only had the google account, weather and dropbox installed.
Anyway, after doing a fresh install, the problems seem to have gone.
Of course I can´t be completely certain of it until some more days of testing/usage.
I also noticed quite a few problems since the latest OTA update.
Not only does the battery drain fast, the phone also feels extremely hot when browsing on 3G.
The phone does cool down pretty quickly when turning off 3G but it feels like I burned my hands
Here are a few screenshots.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52039330/2012-05-10_13-46-08.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52039330/2012-05-10_13-51-52.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52039330/2012-05-10_13-59-10.png
I also experienced weird things when connected to EDGE (2.75G).
3G (HSPA) coverage on BASE (KPN) sucks in Belgium
Look at the video below for more details.
Has anyone else experienced this yet?
http://youtu.be/3g8FLpWDAYM
I also contacted HTC about this issue and they recommended a hard reset.
Unfortunately this doesn't help at all, I still get these weird glitches
mattionline, can you get a logcat when the phone's doing this weird stuff? It looks like the Home button is being pressed repeatedly and if logcat confirms it then it's probably a hardware problem.
keinengel said:
mattionline, can you get a logcat when the phone's doing this weird stuff? It looks like the Home button is being pressed repeatedly and if logcat confirms it then it's probably a hardware problem.
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Do you need root to make a logcat ? My phone is not rooted and I'm not planning to do it. How can this be a hardware problem ? I never had this problem before. I'm sure that it's a software bug.
Bricolo_fr said:
Here are some details.
In Mobile usage, just for today (less than 24h)
"Media" has used 13MB of background data
"Android OS" has used 5MB, also background
Android OS gives no more details. Media is told to include "Download manager" "DRM protected content storage" "Media storage" and "Downloads"
This sounds like a lot of background data :/
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I just fixed someone else phone that had the exact same symptoms. In the end I narrowed down the problem to one of his weather apps.
He had a live wallpaper that reflected the current weather, weather on his lock screen and a beautiful widgets weather thing. I never did figure out exactly which one it was I just turned off all there and told him he was crazy.
I don't know if it's something "weather" related for you but it maybe it will help.
mattionline said:
Do you need root to make a logcat ? My phone is not rooted and I'm not planning to do it. How can this be a hardware problem ? I never had this problem before. I'm sure that it's a software bug.
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you don't need root, just enable usb debugging in development options and connect the phone to your pc. You need to have the android sdk installed.
Sup guys , some of you don't seem to realize that there are many reasons why your battery drains, what you might think is, "quickly". A few tips to keep minimal battery out put...1 keep brightness down, the screen itself sucks juice probably the most. 2 check your apps, some apps send and receive data and/or are kept running in the background. You might have to enable/disable setting on shove apps. 3 widgets, widgets like battery meters, CPU meters, things like this constantly refresh to keep real time info. That also eats up alot of juice . 4 Turn off WiFi or any other thing like that when your not using it. WiFi continually sucks nice. Lastly, invest in some app that will help you close apps. Basically, tweek everything you might think that the os can run without. The less your CPU has to do, the more juce you save.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA
dc211 said:
[...]I just turned off all there and told him he was crazy.
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This made me lol hard.
Best advice ever.
But yeah, on the 1.0 version of Leedroid I had quite some drain, too.
When I turned off autosync it went back to normale. I only had my google account, dropbox (with syncing off) and the weather thingy set up and never figured out which one was resposible.
After installing Lee´s 2.0 ROM everything is fine.
I suppose there really is something wrong with the autosync and maybe with the weather stuff in particular.
My problem didn't go away with stopping auto sync, even without it, I had a constant data flow
Anyway, I rebooted the phone twice and the issue was gone.
It happened again a few days later, after the phone did shut down because of low battery. I put it on charger and turned it on, then, I noticed the 3G arrows were always on. After I unplugged it from the charger the battery went down in 10 hours. After a reboot, problem gone...
Since then, nothing...
And please note than when the problem is here, it's media and android os using a lot of data
I have been having one S problems too - I am on my second phone after the first one became reliably unresponsive every time I turned on mobile data. More relevant to this discussion, my battery died shockingly last night. Normally it drains at a few percent an hour when I am not using it (i.e. when asleep!) but I woke this morning to find it totally dead - that is 30% plus gone in 5 hours without it being in use.
Does anyone else have the issue where android system is consuming 35+% of the battery? Looking at the stats it seems like one of the bundled services is keeping the radio on for 14/18hrs its been on.
Have the same isssue
Yeah, I'm having this issue too. Android System is consuming HUGE amounts of battery for me.
Thought I was the only one but glad that's not true! Still got good battery stats with the android system drain nonetheless.
Charged mine to full last night right before hitting the sack.
Woke up 7½ hours later and it had consumed 33% of the battery just sitting doing nothing bar getting email & polling (presumably) for Facebook updates.
And that was with Power Saving enabled. Bit disappointing, hoping when I disable auto-sync that it'll kill the drain.
There's lots of services running under Android Systems disable the ones u don't use, I have disabled some got better battery life, still testing some others...
The hardware on the phone is great, but touchwhiz drives me up the wall. I'll be happy if and when we get anything AOSP based, CM being the holy grail. Nice to know I'm not the only one getting this battery drain. I've disabled pretty much everything that's able to be disabled, as all I use is google services.
Same problem here.... Huge Android System battery drains.
I've played around with several things, and as of yet I haven't gotten it to stop other than turning off WiFi. Anyone found a fix?
Mine's more a combo of Android System and Google Services... both take up a majority of my usage... Services typically being a bit more.
Why are there two android systems? wtf...
Is there any way to reduce cell standby?
polaric said:
Does anyone else have the issue where android system is consuming 35+% of the battery? Looking at the stats it seems like one of the bundled services is keeping the radio on for 14/18hrs its been on.
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Same sh*t here. Went to bed last night fully charged, and 7-8 hours later, wake up with 23% of my battery gone.
I'm starting to wonder if moving away from the Nexus line was a mistake. I started running again and the N6 was just too big to lug along with me, on arm or in a waste band, so I decided to try Samsung.
Just got my S6 and I noticed this right away. Last charge I had 2:42 of SOT and "Android Systems" used 47% of the battery. I was just watching Netflix and YouTube mostly. My overnight drain is also quite high, about 1% every 30-40 minutes of standby.
Is that normal for most S6 owners?
To all:
Turn off VoLTE, turn off WiFi calling, install CPU Spy, ensure your phone is going into deep sleep. If it isn't, flash the stock recovery with Flashify, wipe the cache with it, then flash TWRP back with Flashify.
Post your results.
Paradoxumical said:
To all:
Turn off VoLTE, turn off WiFi calling, install CPU Spy, ensure your phone is going into deep sleep. If it isn't, flash the stock recovery with Flashify, wipe the cache with it, then flash TWRP back with Flashify.
Post your results.
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Is this only for people who already flashed TWRP? I'm stock rooted and seeing this.
km8j said:
Is this only for people who already flashed TWRP? I'm stock rooted and seeing this.
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This is for everyone. If you haven't flash TWRP, then simply wipe the cache with stock recovery.
I just assumed most people would have TWRP flashed, my bad.
I am guessing that that this is an Android problem as the Galaxy S6 Edge has the same problem with battery drains.
Paradoxumical said:
To all:
Turn off VoLTE, turn off WiFi calling, install CPU Spy, ensure your phone is going into deep sleep. If it isn't, flash the stock recovery with Flashify, wipe the cache with it, then flash TWRP back with Flashify.
Post your results.
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I'm not rooted and I don't plan on doing so. I'm not sure of any other options. I unplugged it last night an let it sleep. Android system used about 14% of the battery. And I lost 20% charge. Cpu run time was 38 minutes too. and I never even woke it up post unplugging it.
I believe this Battery Drain Issue is a Lollipop issue. Was haing it with my One Plus One, I fixed it by going into privacy Guard, and going to Google Play Services and not allowing it to stay awake, and start by itself.
Ill find the actual thread and post it, same issues happening with a lot of phones using lollipop
Battery drain on a new device = bad flash (very common on android devices, first run)
1 wipe the devices and start it again from factory problem should go away. (at least the excessive drain anyway)
2 Ensure you have updated the Samsung Services app (this was responsible for most if not all battery drain issues if you reset your device)
3. Turn the bloody Screen brightness down and turn off Adaptive display (way way way too much battery drain using them)
4. LTE off and Cell data off if you on wifi, your wasting battery power communicating with cell sites you arnt using, the weaker the signal the more power you will drain for no benefit
6. GPS / Loc data off unless you need it even then wifi / AGPS is usually more than accurate, remember GPS + poor sky visibility = more power used to get a loc.
5 NEVER measure battery life for the first 24 hours way too much stuff syncing and updating to measure with any accuracy.
I get a solid 2 days out of the S6 with mixed use and a screen on time of 2:30 could get that upto 3 hours but i have a hearthstone addiction
As mentioned above, I highly recommend wiping the cache, even when not rooted.
Also, worst comes to worse, i'd completely redo the phone from scratch via the Smart Switch software samsung provide.
Before anyone asks I have searched, Googled, looked on reddit, and gone through these guides on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-to-battery-life-t3092593
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-battery-performance-tips-t3072049
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/10-battery-life-tips-tricks-t3088264
I have a Galaxy S6 fro Rogers in Canada (no root) and I recently updated from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 and my battery life has gone to crap, my usage patterns and apps remain the same as before. Previously I would get about 4 hours SoT, 5 on a good day. Now I can barely get 2.5 hours SoT. I have no other problems with this phone, none of the RAM issues, lagging, or over heating other people have mentioned, my only problem is the poor battery life.
The apps are primarily use are Facebook, Puzzle and Dragons, Messenger, and Chrome, I realise that these are battery guzzlers but 2.5 hours is ridiculous and I used to get more using the same apps. I typically start using my phone around 8am from 100%, and by 5pm after 2.5 hours SoT it is around 20% battery life, previously it would hit 20% around 11pm with about 4 hours SoT. No apps are draining a particularly large amount according to GSAM.
To reiterate the things I have done to improve my battery life are:
1. disabling unused apps in application manager
2. setting brightness to lowest setting on auto
3. restarting phone
4. restarting phone in safemode
5. clearing cache
6. performing a factory reset after updating to 5.1.1
7. leaving wifi gps off when not in use (but I'm not constantly turning it on and off either)
8. Greenifying apps I use less than once a day (but anything with push notifications is not Greenified)
Additionally I have not moved or anything and reception in my area has always been decent. Any suggestions for what else I should do? My phone is still under warranty, should I send it to a service centre? Or should I try rooting it an actually deleting bloatware and having an ad blocker (though this would void the warranty...).
Please advise! I am very frustrated with this battery life.
Im having the same issue after updating the GS6 on Wind (Canada) to 5.1.1. Terrible battery life and Android OS draining battery as well. I barely get 2.5 SoT.
I'll join this unfortunate crew. I have to charge everyday before leaving work in order to get through the day.
Take off the charger at home when I leave and by the time I get to work(30-40 min drive) I'm at ~95%. By lunch I'm down to around 50%.
Hoping Android M fixes some issues
Clear cache in storage option and reboot! It will very slightly improve!
bman3k said:
Before anyone asks I have searched, Googled, looked on reddit, and gone through these guides on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-to-battery-life-t3092593
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-battery-performance-tips-t3072049
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/10-battery-life-tips-tricks-t3088264
I have a Galaxy S6 fro Rogers in Canada (no root) and I recently updated from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 and my battery life has gone to crap, my usage patterns and apps remain the same as before. Previously I would get about 4 hours SoT, 5 on a good day. Now I can barely get 2.5 hours SoT. I have no other problems with this phone, none of the RAM issues, lagging, or over heating other people have mentioned, my only problem is the poor battery life.
The apps are primarily use are Facebook, Puzzle and Dragons, Messenger, and Chrome, I realise that these are battery guzzlers but 2.5 hours is ridiculous and I used to get more using the same apps. I typically start using my phone around 8am from 100%, and by 5pm after 2.5 hours SoT it is around 20% battery life, previously it would hit 20% around 11pm with about 4 hours SoT. No apps are draining a particularly large amount according to GSAM.
To reiterate the things I have done to improve my battery life are:
1. disabling unused apps in application manager
2. setting brightness to lowest setting on auto
3. restarting phone
4. restarting phone in safemode
5. clearing cache
6. performing a factory reset after updating to 5.1.1
7. leaving wifi gps off when not in use (but I'm not constantly turning it on and off either)
8. Greenifying apps I use less than once a day (but anything with push notifications is not Greenified)
Additionally I have not moved or anything and reception in my area has always been decent. Any suggestions for what else I should do? My phone is still under warranty, should I send it to a service centre? Or should I try rooting it an actually deleting bloatware and having an ad blocker (though this would void the warranty...).
Please advise! I am very frustrated with this battery life.
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http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Android/thread-id/31962/page/32 Read through the last 6 or 8 pages over there. A lot of unhappy people with Rogers right now using the S6. I'm in the same boat. Crappy cell service, times it will show bars of 4G but then tell me there is no network connection. Try to make a call with full bars at 4G and it will say not registered on network. Text messages being sent and received twice automatically. No connection at all in places my HTC used to have 4G if not LTE. I had to send my S6 away for camera repair for a week so I pulled back out my old HTC M8 for that time and my connection was stable and awesome everywhere just like I thought it should be. Now that I'm back on my S6 it's barely hanging onto EDGE in places I had full 4G bars on the HTC like at my desk at work. Places I spend a lot of time at.
I suggest you call Rogers and talk to the tech support. Tell them your issues. The more complaints the faster the issue will be resolved. It sounds wide spread so don't waste your time trying to fix it yourself.
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http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Android/thread-id/31962/page/32 Read through the last 6 or 8 pages over there...
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Thanks for the link, I didn't think to check the Rogers forums, I'll call their tech support to let them know of my issues and hope they are working on something.
I also have this issue. I was able to make it through an 8hr work day before the update. Now it's down to 10% or to completely dead. My usage at work did not change. Sucks that I have to plug my phone into my car just to get enough juice to make the drive home.
Just to confirm are you guys all now on 5.1.1 and is battery life the only issue you are experiencing?
I talked to a rep with my carrier (Rogers) and he said that the known issues were to do with connectivity (calls, data), but not with battery. He said battery issues that could not be resolved by a reset should sent in for service.
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Just to confirm are you guys all now on 5.1.1 and is battery life the only issue you are experiencing?
I talked to a rep with my carrier (Rogers) and he said that the known issues were to do with connectivity (calls, data), but not with battery. He said battery issues that could not be resolved by a reset should sent in for service.
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There was some discussion in various places about cell standby being a HUGE drain on the battery when connected to WIFI.
My issues are data and call related. I've never been one to care that much about battery but it does seem off from what I'm used too and I'm seeing some long times on the mobile radio being active.
I think it's safe to say that all of this stems for the 5.1.1 update. Cell reception "problems" can lead to big battery drains and if our phones are having issues staying in tune with the towers, it could cause big battery drain.
Keep an eye on what might be causing your battery drain though. It might be something silly like an app trying to do something.
I have also noticed a sharp drop in battery life now that I'm on 5.1.1.
USA AT&T.
I'm really at a loss. GSAM says "Android System" under apps as well as "Phone Radio" are the highest drain.
Hey,
my battery life seems to vary, maybe wakelocks? I am not rooted so I can't check. Some days I get 7-8 hours sot, however today (a day at university with wifi connection) my battery life is terrible, mobile network standby and Android system seem to be battery hogs.
Does anyone else have this problem?
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I wanted to post the same thing... I haven't even installed all my apps on the new phone,
and I get terrible battery drain especially in standby, it's losing 20% overnight.
Then I factory reset it and it seems a little better now, but it's too unstable...
I was expecting better to be honest, and I only had it for less then a week...
How was your cell reception? Having bad reception has a big toll on battery performance, at least in my experience.
There have been reports of other users on battery drain with certain themes installed. What theme are running and could you compare with the default theme?
same here, not found the cause yet but tempted to do a full reset and start from scratch.
For wakelocks non root, download wakelock detector lite, you just enable it via a chrome app and usb debug, will have to do it when you restart the phone but thats not so often now days.
SLBoy said:
How was your cell reception? Having bad reception has a big toll on battery performance, at least in my experience.
There have been reports of other users on battery drain with certain themes installed. What theme are running and could you compare with the default theme?
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In my house the reception is not very good, but that's why I set it to 2G and turn off mobile data, leave it only on Wifi.
Did not install any theme, default everything. But really, can a theme cause battery drain ?
Me too
The battery standby stability is not great is it?
I'm currently turning on "battery saver" when I am not using the phone - a slight pain, I know, but it does seem to have helped, a bit.
Will keep an eye on it and let you know (I am hoping to get away with charging the phone every two days rather than every day).
Will see if that proves possible - FWIW, for me, it seems that Ourlook and Bluemail are two key culprits. I have changed the settings on Bluemail from Push to Fetch every 15 mins, which has helped, but of course you cannot do this on Outlook. Well done Microsoft.
At this rate I'll end up using the "extreme" power saving mode
I know battery usage will never be consistent among different users, but the background drain is too much (based on what I see here and the other thread). If you can figure out your background drain you'll be sorted.
I know Dropbox had a bug that affected a lot of people recently, where it would keep the phone awake for hours at a time, they sorted it out in a BETA but not sure if its been pushed to stable yet.
I'd recommend everyone to download BetterBatteryStats, give it permissions via ADB and then use your phone normally until you reach 10% and see what is keeping the phone awake. My phone drains less than 1% an hour overnight (typically lose 4-5% over an 8-9 hour period.)
By the way, it is VERY common amongst the U11 and U11+ for mobile network standby to appear very high. It always does, even when I get 7-8 hours SOT, the mobile drain appears high. I think the battery stats are a bit bugged if I am honest. Sometimes it will say Spotify has been using battery in the background for 10 hours, yet it drains less than 1% and doesn't show up on battery historian. Other times it will say Nova is using 50% battery with 10 minutes screen usage (even though my phone has been running for 30+ hours). Doesn't always make sense.
My experience with battery drain is that I don't have any issues. As others have said, it will be different for different users depending on apps running in the background.
I have over 100 apps installed, some are running in the background, but I usually have 50% left most days. My battery drains really slowly. Couldn't be happier.
I think there is som bug with software
Hi there,
This is the problem I have with this HTC U11+ battery: if I don't reboot the phone after charging, kernel is always awakes
If you reboot your phone regularly you won't notice this.
I wonder if it is a common problem to U11+ and if HTC knows this.
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This is CPU
It has raisen to 100% during charging and never changed.
Seems more like a software issue.
I would try seeing what apps maybe like to wake up when charged (anything that backs up only when charging etc) or do a factory reset.
Galactus said:
Seems more like a software issue.
I would try seeing what apps maybe like to wake up when charged (anything that backs up only when charging etc) or do a factory reset.
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I did factory reset, wipe cache, everything... Unfortunately there are many people with this problem since the last software update, so I think it's something HTC related that must be fixed.
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I did factory reset, wipe cache, everything... Unfortunately there are many people with this problem since the last software update, so I think it's something HTC related that must be fixed.
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I don't recall many people saying the kernel is constantly awake?
Galactus said:
Seems more like a software issue.
I would try seeing what apps maybe like to wake up when charged (anything that backs up only when charging etc) or do a factory reset.
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Galactus said:
I don't recall many people saying the kernel is constantly awake?
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Not here maybe but I'm Italian and I'm talking about an Italian forum where we are trying to understand what happens exactly.
By the way this is another thing I noticed
Of course any help would be appreciated. ?
Same here.
I have the China version U11+. After I upgraded to 1.24 via OTA, battery draining has become a serious problem, even in airplane mode.
I have solved it after I noticed the problem by doing a factory reset.
I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
handsome_hell said:
Same here.
I have the China version U11+. After I upgraded to 1.24 via OTA, battery draining has become a serious problem, even in airplane mode.
I have solved it after I noticed the problem by doing a factory reset.
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kmitchpg said:
I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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Disable background data and motion permission and if you are rooted install magisk module dose on google play service
kmitchpg said:
I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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I don't think it's play services' problem… Because the maximum battery consumption is caused by the EPS.
Maybe it's a bug made by HTC. They may change some files after the update, but forget to deal with the case of these files have been generated. So my problem was solved after factory resetting.
I use Google apps too, they don't cause battery draining if everything goes well.
I reached out to HTC as I noticed an absolutely huge decrease in battery life. I was asked to calibrate the battery and that seems to have stopped the issues at the moment. Email I received had the following instructions:
Recalibrate the battery/charging logic with the following steps:
•Charge the device for at least 10 minutes
•With the device truly OFF while still being plugged into the wall outlet, push in and hold volume up and volume down AND power button, for 2 minutes.
•Let go. Device will boot up, and battery/charging logic are re-calibrated.
I tried that and then reset it and I've been getting about a day since then. It's definitely linked to the last software update despite what they'll try and say.
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Same here.
I have the China version U11+. After I upgraded to 1.24 via OTA, battery draining has become a serious problem, even in airplane mode.
I have solved it after I noticed the problem by doing a factory reset.
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I have the European U11+ and I'm experiencing very fast battery draining after the latest OTA update too.
With me it's Google Play services causing the problem even in airplane mode and with extreme power saving on
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Aftab_khatri said:
Disable background data and motion permission and if you are rooted install magisk module dose on google play service
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I don't think it's play services' problem… Because the maximum battery consumption is caused by the EPS.
Maybe it's a bug made by HTC. They may change some files after the update, but forget to deal with the case of these files have been generated. So my problem was solved after factory resetting.
I use Google apps too, they don't cause battery draining if everything goes well.
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I have to agree that something is happening with the software, and moreover, since last week the drain became really noticeable.
I was losing around 15% by night, so what I did to fix it was the following:
Clear cache of Sense Home
Disable the apps I was not using; for me those were:
Weather
HTC Account
Device configuration
Google Documents (didn't let me uninstall, but Sheets and Presentation let me)
Duo
Zoe Video Editor
Facebook
Facebook App Manager
HTC Alexa
HTC AppCloud
HTC Sense Companion
Instagram
Messenger
News Republic
VR Google Services
TouchPal
Clear cache from recovery
After doing this, the drain was gone and I was getting 2%-3% drain overnight again, and so far, is behaving properly now.
Maybe you guys can try.
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I have to agree that something is happening with the software, and moreover, since last week the drain became really noticeable.
I was losing around 15% by night, so what I did to fix it was the following:
Clear cache of Sense Home
Disable the apps I was not using; for me those were:
Weather
HTC Account
Device configuration
Google Documents (didn't let me uninstall, but Sheets and Presentation let me)
Duo
Zoe Video Editor
Facebook
Facebook App Manager
HTC Alexa
HTC AppCloud
HTC Sense Companion
Instagram
Messenger
News Republic
VR Google Services
TouchPal
Clear cache from recovery
After doing this, the drain was gone and I was getting 2%-3% drain overnight again, and so far, is behaving properly now.
Maybe you guys can try.
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I've ended up doing something similar- starting in safe mode I found that I wasn't getting the same drastic battery drain so I removed/disabled some apps, including HTC Weather and Touchpal, same as you. Now battery life seems much better and Google Play Services isn't causing a problem. I'm cautiously optimistic....:good:
Hi All--
I've been on the Android P Beta for a while.
However, starting with the final beta that was released (and now on the final version of pie) I've been experiencing really quick battery drain.
Tried a total wipe and restore, and the same thing. My wife (also the pixel) isn't having those issues at all.
Thoughts?
(nothing shows up in the battery section)
Yes, I had great battery life. Then once Android Pie was released, jumped on the beta to get 9 sooner. Then got the upgrade from beta to final and battery life is horrible. I did not factory reset, I have battery saver on and it doesn'tseem to matter. If I leave on standby, no issues. If I use the phone, it can bleed as much as 10% per hour! Unacceptable. I may try factory resetting, but idk...
have you allocated sufficient time for app battery optimization?
I also have a pixel, Android 9.0/Pie (bought it brand new three days ago) and think battery is draining very (!) quick.
Yesterday I had roughly 2.5 SOT (with battery saver enabled) and this seems consistent with what I can expect typically. I did factory reset and have tried restricting "background activity" for my frequent apps - seems to make no difference. Obviously it had not time to do full battery optimization yet I guess, but I doubt it would mean a that big difference?
Saw a thread where someone mentioned it seems CPU-freq is high/inc. very rapidly when just tapping the screen (GPU-0%), and I can agree with that although I have not the prev. experience of what to expect.
My previous experience is with Xiaomi mi6/mi5 (lineage 15.1), similar usage would give 2x or 3x SOT (however with some other hw-issues.. ).
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I also have a pixel, Android 9.0/Pie (bought it brand new three days ago) and think battery is draining very (!) quick.
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Reinstall factory image & see if that helps.
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Reinstall factory image & see if that helps.
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Flashed factory image without -w/"wipe". Will that do or should it be "full" factory reset to make sense?
Thank you for your information, I will stay on Oreo.
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Flashed factory image without -w/"wipe". Will that do or should it be "full" factory reset to make sense?
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I don't think it would make a difference. The user data is on a different partition.
You could try flashing the image again, without Magisk or any other additions.
I had used up 50% with only 21 minutes screen on time.
I noticed the app Device Health Services, was constantly active in the background.
I had the same like the OP: everything was fine until the last beta came, and battery is draining faster, phone gets hot from even the smallest usage even in the prod release of android pie.
I was thinking it has something to do with being about 36 degrees (summer time....), but it is the same even in cooler temperature rooms. It's like if the phone is constantly doing something in the background, but only if I use it.
It has been a few days since I upgraded my Pixel 2. Battery life is noticably worse, maybe 20-30% more battery drain in a day than what I saw in Oreo.
I notice the issue as well. I did factory reset after update it's been a week. I was on beta and started noticing battery issues in the first beta and throughout. I decided to install Accubattery to track my battery usage and ended up with a result.
My phone states the battery is in good condition but this app says otherwise. I guess it's time to change the battery along with cracked screen!
i'm curious if my battery is shot as well... Seems like after I purchased my used Pixel.. the battery is not as lasting as I hoped for the smaller pixel phone... I may try one of those battery testing apps to see if it will tell me its current health..
I normally welcome up updates, but this update screwed up my battery life so bad. I mean everything was perfect until the update. Now the battery drains so fast I can watch the percentage count down like a timer and now when the battery gets anywhere from 15-40% the phone will just shut down.
I would like to go back to oreo, but it's such a pain in the ass having to back everything up and flash a ROM considering I haven't done that since before I bought the pixel
I have the same problem. I hope Google can fix it.
Wow, that is not normal. Stock android 9 with root and elemental kernel.... I go back to android 8.1.0 and wait for feature releases
I think I found an Draining App/Setting
I disable the RCS Service on my Phone. It can be found under Messages >> 3 dot Menu >> Settings >> broadcast News. Disable it.
And then Bluetooth and WiFi scan disable.
Same here, crazy idle drain after pie, only 50% deep sleep, tried factory reset and no luck
Try BetterBatteryStats. People in that thread spend their free time analyzing logs to tell you what's eating up all your battery life.
jambo89liam said:
I had used up 50% with only 21 minutes screen on time.
I noticed the app Device Health Services, was constantly active in the background.
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Same problem :crying::crying: