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Battery life getting worse, common problem?

Yesterday a post was made to /r/nexus5 on reddit about how battery life was getting worse as time went on. Over 100 people replied saying that their phone was getting worse battery life as well. Here's the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/1yxj2g/battery_life_went_from_insane_to_terrible/ The most people were able to find out was that there was a problem with the Android OS process. Are you guys having similar issues? And do you have any fixes?

Batteries do lose their max charge over time. We're now 6 months aged for the first purchased devices, so it could simply be those batteries are starting to age. They still have years to go, but a brand new battery will always be impressive.
It's one reason why I silently laugh at people bragging about great battery life for a brand new device. of course it will get good life, it's a new battery running optimized software that isn't pushing the hardware as hard as the software 2 years into a device life cycle.

posted by people that know nothing..
as time goes on, you install more and more apps. many apps arent coded very well, and have other issues. anyways, people get more and more of these crappy apps that will drain more and more battery without you even using them. anywho, not a problem here. i get pretty much the exact same battery life now as i did months ago.
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Hooya said:
Batteries do lose their max charge over time. We're now 6 months aged for the first purchased devices, so it could simply be those batteries are starting to age. They still have years to go, but a brand new battery will always be impressive.
It's one reason why I silently laugh at people bragging about great battery life for a brand new device. of course it will get good life, it's a new battery running optimized software that isn't pushing the hardware as hard as the software 2 years into a device life cycle.
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great battery life for an "old" device, 5-6 hours screen on time every single day. the batteries life doesnt reduce that quick, and generally youll change phones(within 2 years) before you see the life of your battery shorten.

Hooya said:
Batteries do lose their max charge over time. We're now 6 months aged for the first purchased devices, so it could simply be those batteries are starting to age. They still have years to go, but a brand new battery will always be impressive.
It's one reason why I silently laugh at people bragging about great battery life for a brand new device. of course it will get good life, it's a new battery running optimized software that isn't pushing the hardware as hard as the software 2 years into a device life cycle.
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6 months isn't going to be noticeably less max charge unless the battery was severely abused. Also the phone has been out for 4 months and most are younger.
Here's something to think about: Usage patterns change. People install new apps.
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Indeed usage patterns play a massive part. And some of which can be completely out of your control.
At home on WiFi I'll get 6-7 hours of screen time.
At home on hspa I'll get 5-6
At work on hspa I'll get 3-4
So at worst case scenario I can lose half of my normal battery usage just based on the carrier performance.
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I get about 3-4 hours SoT daily... If anything, that has gone up since I got my device (one of the first batches shipped in US).
I wish I could get 5-7 SoT, with numbers like that, I'm beginning to think I'm doing something very very wrong
Point is... I have one of the first phones shipped out, and my battery life has stayed exactly the same.

High battery usage by Android OS is probably good indication that there are some wakelocks. It has nothing to do with battery being "older".
My battery is great from day one.
Captain obvious mode now:
Posting SoT is pointless and proves nothing. It really depends on what you are doing when screen is on. It is really obvious that it is not the same if you read some book with 5% brightness or play a game.
My SoTs go from 2h up to 7h, depending on usage...
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wake lock is main reason makes battery drains so much. try to use greenify to hibernate apps.
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Tenhi said:
Captain obvious mode now:
Posting SoT is pointless and proves nothing. It really depends on what you are doing when screen is on. It is really obvious that it is not the same if you read some book with 5% brightness or play a game.
My SoTs go from 2h up to 7h, depending on usage...
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LOL. Yep. Give me a day and I'll show you screenies of ten hours of SOT. It'll be BS because to get those results I have to set my phones brightness to less than stock. I also have to set screen timeout to 30 minutes. As well I need to remember to turn the damn screen back on after 30 minutes. I also have to make sure my phone is in my sock drawer doing nothing when the screen is on. It'll still show 10 hours SOT though.

theesotericone said:
LOL. Yep. Give me a day and I'll show you screenies of ten hours of SOT. It'll be BS because to get those results I have to set my phones brightness to less than stock. I also have to set screen timeout to 30 minutes. As well I need to remember to turn the damn screen back on after 30 minutes. I also have to make sure my phone is in my sock drawer doing nothing when the screen is on. It'll still show 10 hours SOT though.
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Only 10? Think you could do much higher in those conditions.
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mateopase said:
Yesterday a post was made to /r/nexus5 on reddit about how battery life was getting worse as time went on. Over 100 people replied saying that their phone was getting worse battery life as well. Here's the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/1yxj2g/battery_life_went_from_insane_to_terrible/ The most people were able to find out was that there was a problem with the Android OS process. Are you guys having similar issues? And do you have any fixes?
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Yeah, the common problem.... My battery just is used for 5 hours.
But there are some fixs to follow:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1168036

I posted my usual screen times on a typical day for me.
Typically I do the same things which are a lot of xda and viewing the verge and YouTube. A few calls and texts.
And from my experience the difference between being at home with WiFi off and being at work with WiFi off is that my battery usually lasts nearly twice as long at home.
I was trying to get across the message that your carriers signal strength plays a massive role on how long your battery lasts.
So say if a mast went down and you get bumped onto one a bit further away (they don't rush when fixing these things unless it's a critical one). You would have done nothing and all of a sudden your battery life has started taking a massive hit.
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I'm also having this problem with the android os draining my batter And this started happening within the last week or so.I used to be able to easily get about 30 hours out of my phone, now I'm only able to get about half that. As you can see in the 4th pic, android os has been the cause of a 3h45m partial wakelock, which doesnt seem right to me and is probably the cause of most of the battery drain. the last 2 pics are something that also seems weird to me, as google accounts manager shouldnt take 4% in about an hour. I dont even know why its running that long. Though i know how to quick fix the account manager drain (simply disable it) the android os isnt that simple as i dont know how to see exactly what apps or processes are making it cause a partial wakelock.
Im on omnirom using chaos kernel 9.2
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I had a similar issue a while back, and in the end it was Google location reporting within Google now service. Try to switch location reporting off but leave location history on and see if it helps. Also choose Location mode to battery saving.
Turning off location reporting does not affect Google Now functionality...
It can be something else in your case, but this problem was common...
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One thing I've noticed as a weirdness is the cache of a phone can get stale and so it gets into some weird loop that drains battery or something and clearing the cache improves battery life. Also sometimes apps can develop bugs or new wakelocks when you do an update so sometimes you have to stay on top of it to track it.

MrObvious said:
One thing I've noticed as a weirdness is the cache of a phone can get stale and so it gets into some weird loop that drains battery or something and clearing the cache improves battery life. Also sometimes apps can develop bugs or new wakelocks when you do an update so sometimes you have to stay on top of it to track it.
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Thanks for the cache thing I have never thought about that before :good:
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If I did not use some preventative measures to prolong battery life I would maybe get 14-16 hours in a day of usage, I always left wifi on, bluetooth even when not connected, data, force LTE, etc. I did not care because I charge my phone every night. I just find it silly if I get a day usage out of my phone and it is at 50% well assuming you use the phone the exact same as the last day you will use another 50% and it will be dead by the time you get to your charger.

4 days + on ONE charge! Amazing Battery Life

Howdy all,
Just thought I'd relay my battery stats on my Rooted Verizon S5 with Jkruse's Dark_Theme_Rom.
I had my phone on full with NO charge for 4+ days. 1hour 21 minutes for voice calls, 4hours 8 minutes for screen time and 4 days 4 minutes without a charge. My S5 always has: Bluetooth on, Location on, Mobile data on, sync on and I keep my brightness at 60%! So I was not just trying to get to 4 days. However when I was at the 4 days it did finally get down to 1% battery left so I did these screenshots for fun. I guess I'm just excited but also if one has an issue with battery life, then I'm not sure where the problem may be. Great phone this Galaxy S5 is proving to be.
Call me happy and I thought I would share.
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tiger505 said:
Howdy all,
Just thought I'd relay my battery stats on my Rooted Verizon S5 with Jkruse's Dark_Theme_Rom.
I had my phone on full with NO charge for 4+ days. 1hour 21 minutes for voice calls, 4hours 8 minutes for screen time and 4 days 4 minutes without a charge. My S5 always has: Bluetooth on, Location on, Mobile data on, sync on and I keep my brightness at 60%! So I was not just trying to get to 4 days. However when I was at the 4 days it did finally get down to 1% battery left so I did these screenshots for fun. I guess I'm just excited but also if one has an issue with battery life, then I'm not sure where the problem may be. Great phone this Galaxy S5 is proving to be.
Call me happy and I thought I would share.
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Did you use u ultra power saving?

popkurn611 said:
Did you use u ultra power saving?
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I do use Glowing Battery Saver. It gives me a nice battery widget and it does have a power saving modes. I use the normal settings which does help. I should also mention that I have S-health on always for my pedometer as I like to know how much I walk everyday. Today was about 4 miles. Picture below is my home screen with the Glowing Battery Saver widget. I use the Apex Launcher and Wanam for an FYI.
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I do use Glowing Battery Saver. It gives me a nice battery widget and it does have a power saving modes. I use the normal settings which does help. I should also mention that I have S-health on always for my pedometer as I like to know how much I walk everyday. Today was about 4 miles. Picture below is my home screen with the Glowing Battery Saver widget. I use the Apex Launcher and Wanam for an FYI.
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And that app hasn't been updated in a since September of last year. That's good its still working that well!!

budies3 said:
And that app hasn't been updated in a since September of last year. That's good its still working that well!!
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Yes your right Glowing Battery Saver has not been upgraded in a while but it works great for me. There are probably hundreds of apps like this and I encourage folks to take advantage of one of them for their device at least IMHO.

I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.

ldeveraux said:
I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
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I can't imagine what options were turned off, but check it out -- only about 4 hours of screen-on time. Not sure how much one can use their phone over 4 days when you're only averaging 1 hour of on-screen time a day.

ldeveraux said:
I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
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Nope, his phone's like mine. If you turn off everything that doesn't need to be on, minimal apps it can be done. Turn off wifi always scanning, stuff like that. I can get 10%-15% drain per day with little to no use, it can go 5+ days between charges that way, seriously no B.S.. Now it's not much of a phone that way and I freely admit I have no life

ldeveraux said:
I call BS. I find it impossible to believe that the phone went 4 days without charge , while still being used. If I don't touch my phone, it's dead in under 2! I'm guessing he's the app's developer trying to drum up more sales.
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Before calling BS perhaps you should try some battery saving options for yourself. If I "don't touch my phone" I can go far past two days. Moderate use (3-4 hours screen on time + exchange + 2 google accounts) I can go about 1 1/2 days. Without exchange, I've gotten a little more than 3 days. So, if I "don't touch my phone" it'd go much past that.
People should stop assuming everyone is always lying.

BigBot96 said:
Before calling BS perhaps you should try some battery saving options for yourself. If I "don't touch my phone" I can go far past two days. Moderate use (3-4 hours screen on time + exchange + 2 google accounts) I can go about 1 1/2 days. Without exchange, I've gotten a little more than 3 days. So, if I "don't touch my phone" it'd go much past that.
People should stop assuming everyone is always lying.
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People should really stop believing what they see on the internet!
I don't KNOW he's lying, the whole thing just doesn't add up, to me and apparently others. I'd love for it to be true, but with BT, WIFI, sync, Exchange, S-health, 1+hr talktime, I doubt it's legit. You believe him, that's your opinion. He also hasn't bothered to follow up on the thread since day 1...

ldeveraux said:
People should really stop believing what they see on the internet!
I don't KNOW he's lying, the whole thing just doesn't add up, to me and apparently others. I'd love for it to be true, but with BT, WIFI, sync, Exchange, S-health, 1+hr talktime, I doubt it's legit. You believe him, that's your opinion. He also hasn't bothered to follow up on the thread since day 1...
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Wow, this really has opened a can of worms. First and foremost I am NOT lying! I never had my phone off and yes I did have everything opened above but Exchange, never said that. And I do have sync always on but un-check everything and sync only on demand for my contacts (over 3000+ as I in sales), gmail, browser and calendar. Yes for 4 days I was light on phone use. Only an hour a day average of screen time, and yes only an hour and 1/2 of phone calls so it was not my usual power use, however this is very legit. I only posted about this just to let everyone know I'm happy with my results with jkruse Rom and the device itself. I could care less about whether one believes me or not, but to say I'm lying is really not cool. Move along doubters, nothing to see here. But again it is what I experienced.
If the Mods want to delete this tread because of hostility then so be it, as I'm amazed at some of these posts. Those who understood I thank you... :good:

That's mine.

jasonbtx said:
That's mine.
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That's basically 6 hours screen on-time, not bad.

Not too shabby. I still want the zero lemon

close to 4hrs screen time with 51% left

I have the ZL battery... Considering this Dark Theme Rom more now after reading this. And I wonder what kind of damage I could do, so to speak, with a ZL battery, that rom, and NO battery saver app. Probably wouldn't be as long as his though because my S5 is my internet at home, and that would drain the battery fast.

kprice8 said:
I have the ZL battery... Considering this Dark Theme Rom more now after reading this. And I wonder what kind of damage I could do, so to speak, with a ZL battery, that rom, and NO battery saver app. Probably wouldn't be as long as his though because my S5 is my internet at home, and that would drain the battery fast.
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im using stock battery with only greenify as batt saver app.. 28% over 1 day and 5 hrs screen time now.. im going to run down to 1% and post results after

elliwigy said:
im using stock battery with only greenify as batt saver app.. 28% over 1 day and 5 hrs screen time now.. im going to run down to 1% and post results after
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28% used in that time, or 28% left to use?

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28% used in that time, or 28% left to use?
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it was 28% left.. this was end result:
Some of the best ive had on this phone since ive had it and have had same device and battery since the s5 came out day one

with the black s5, white mophie case and my black n white extreme syndicate rom i have over 2 days and 14+ hrs screen on time without plugging it in once! & it looks badass!

Severe Battery Issues... anyone else having this? (results inside)

So one night I left my phone off the charger at 40%... it was about 2am. I woke up at about 6am and the phone was completely dead. 4 hours of STANDBY drained 40%. So I thought I was just imagining things and compared my phone usage stats to my buddies who got the same phone at the same time. Here's a quick comparison... and mind you.. my numbers are after a FRESH factory reset with only stock app updates installed and maybe 2 or 3 of MY apps that I needed. I can't speak to what he's installed, but with these contrasts... I don't think it matters much.
Does anyone have some insight to this, similar experiences? I'm really thinking that I have a bad battery perhaps? I get usage varies by user but I really don't think this much especially considering that I intentionally let my phone just sit uncharged and unused for a good chunk of the day after it hit 100 and I pulled it from the charger.
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Maybe an app constantly running in the background?

Darrius777 said:
Maybe an app constantly running in the background?
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That's what I thought.... but not after a factory reset?
Here's the Usage Stats from a *#*#4636#*#*.... nothing out of the ordinary

same carrier? Your signal may be horrid in comparison to his.
Could be location, could be carrier. Make sure to take a look. If your phone is struggling to keep a data connection you'll kill your battery easy.

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same carrier? Your signal may be horrid in comparison to his.
Could be location, could be carrier. Make sure to take a look. If your phone is struggling to keep a data connection you'll kill your battery easy.
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Same carrier, we live down the street from each other. Signal strength according to the *#*#4636#*#* is -92dBm 48asu (whatever the asu part means)

Sorry I don't have anything to add but I had this plague in S7. My battery died very fast.
The S8 has been opposite for me. I was able to get 15 hours out of the battery using it all day (where 8 of it was in a really bad reception area).
I hope you get it sorted out. I could never figure it out with my S7. I did alot of research (all here)

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Sorry I don't have anything to add but I had this plague in S7. My battery died very fast.
The S8 has been opposite for me. I was able to get 15 hours out of the battery using it all day (where 8 of it was in a really bad reception area).
I hope you get it sorted out. I could never figure it out with my S7. I did alot of research (all here)
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I am planning on bringing it to the AT&T store and presenting my findings to them and demand a replacement. I know that I had no issue chatting AT&T support and getting a replacement but they say that since it's brand new, I need to get support from the AT&T store.

jgruberman said:
So one night I left my phone off the charger at 40%... it was about 2am. I woke up at about 6am and the phone was completely dead. 4 hours of STANDBY drained 40%. So I thought I was just imagining things and compared my phone usage stats to my buddies who got the same phone at the same time. Here's a quick comparison... and mind you.. my numbers are after a FRESH factory reset with only stock app updates installed and maybe 2 or 3 of MY apps that I needed. I can't speak to what he's installed, but with these contrasts... I don't think it matters much.
Does anyone have some insight to this, similar experiences? I'm really thinking that I have a bad battery perhaps? I get usage varies by user but I really don't think this much especially considering that I intentionally let my phone just sit uncharged and unused for a good chunk of the day after it hit 100 and I pulled it from the charger.
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I don't know the battery life on mine is amazing 100% after 8hrs standby. and I was on my phone yesterday for 14hrs doing stuff and that brought me down to 5% from 100. I have most of the gestures and crap that drains the battery off though.
My point is if your not happy with your battery life there maybe something physically wrong with the battery or phone.
It's bound to happen a lot of people are buying these so not every phone is going to work as it should.

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I don't know the battery life on mine is amazing 100% after 8hrs standby. and I was on my phone yesterday for 14hrs doing stuff and that brought me down to 5% from 100. I have most of the gestures and crap that drains the battery off though.
My point is if your not happy with your battery life there maybe something physically wrong with the battery or phone.
It's bound to happen a lot of people are buying these so not every phone is going to work as it should.
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I agree completely that there is a battery issue. I've had a LOT of exposure to testing battery life, troubleshooting what impacts battery, etc... and I'm fairly confident there is some sort of battery issue. There are FAR too many people reporting stellar results for me not to as well. Even with how much I use use it, there was someone getting 40+ hours on battery... so I should be able to get 12 right after a factory reset... you'd think

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Same carrier, we live down the street from each other. Signal strength according to the *#*#4636#*#* is -92dBm 48asu (whatever the asu part means)
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Would love to know what his is. -92 isn't terrible but it's not great. You'd be amazed based on tower placement what even 50 feet can do, much less building materials, etc.
not saying this is for sure it, but i've been in this same situation with another carrier, was dead set it was the phone/battery and so were they, we tried 3 replacements before I gave up and determined it had to be a signal problem. Switched carriers and got the same exact phone, issue was gone.

Mine is exceptionally good. I get 0 to 1% drain overnight. My battery seems to last forever in the day. I don't think it's your signal. I have been in bad signal areas for long periods of time with this phone and no significant drain. I would definitely get a replacement and go from there. Good luck
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djxn40 said:
Mine is exceptionally good. I get 0 to 1% drain overnight. My battery seems to last forever in the day. I don't think it's your signal. I have been in bad signal areas for long periods of time with this phone and no significant drain. I would definitely get a replacement and go from there. Good luck
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That's what I thought... I felt like with all the positive reviews going on about it and knowing how to minimize battery drain that I couldn't squeeze any decent results out of it...

djxn40 said:
I get 0 to 1% drain overnight.
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Seriously? Off the charger?
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Seriously? Off the charger?
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Absolutely. I have most crapware disabled and all apps hibernated on screen off but this is without a doubt the best battery stats I have ever had on a stock phone.
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I had battery drain on my S7 Edge
cos i had Sync from old S6 Edge all the apps
I fresh install each App & that did help
No Issue on my S8+ till now :fingers-crossed:
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I had this problem, turned off location and always on display before heading to sleep, battery was at 96%. 9 hours later when I woke up, 93%. Before when I had both settings on, my phone dropped by 14 percent overnight. SOT is amazing so far, 2h 40 min at 74%. Will post pics when battery is almost dead.
P.S. - Compared to my Nexus 6 battery, I used to get 3 hours SOT before dying, looking good so far.

I went to the AT&T store and they hooked my phone up to a diagnostic machine and it said the charging system was defective. So new phone and fingers crossed.
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That sounds to me like a bad battery. I get about 2.5 days now which is unheard of on my V20.

You got a rogue app my friend. My battery is phenomenal even with terrible Sprint signal in my area

kennypow3rs said:
You got a rogue app my friend. My battery is phenomenal even with terrible Sprint signal in my area
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Wasn't a rogue app, not after a factory reset. However the AT&T store validated there was a battery issue based on whatever test they used. Would like to get my hands on that testing app.....
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Discussion: post your battery life, BT and 4G variant.

Hello all,
I'd like to know your impressions about battery life on our HW2.
my feeling from now: with BT model, 2 days battery life, with 4G variant (with no sim card in), just one day and sometimes even less.......
standard use on both models, quite a lot notifications, some calls, intensive use of watchmaker faces......
what about you?
thanks and regards

I've got the 4G version. Every day I get vastly differing battery results. One day it might be 2% per hour, the next day it might be 15% per hour. I have a SIM card installed but I have it disabled as it kills battery when the watch is disconnected from the phone.
At first I was not happy at all, but as soon as I reached the conclusion that I would have to charge it every day, I stopped caring about battery life.
Not good enough really, but AW 2.0 is what it is.

That's why I opt for BT version. Eventually you cannot use 4G at all. You need to keep your phone connected all day long and that make 4G version non-sense. The only regret is the lacking of Global rom for China BT version.

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I've got the 4G version. Every day I get vastly differing battery results. One day it might be 2% per hour, the next day it might be 15% per hour. I have a SIM card installed but I have it disabled as it kills battery when the watch is disconnected from the phone.
At first I was not happy at all, but as soon as I reached the conclusion that I would have to charge it every day, I stopped caring about battery life.
Not good enough really, but AW 2.0 is what it is.
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hello,
I agree with you about every day differences and i have realized that my problem is when i forgot my phone and i move more than what BT can reach. I found better situation now after I got last samsubg s8 update, better bt better battery life for my HW2. ( by the way I wake up every morning a t 5.00am and i go to sleep normally around 23.00..)
As I wrote I dont have sim card, I think for a few money more you can have, eventually, opportunity to put sim card if needed, with bt version, if you need sim you have to buy new watch.
regards

I have the 4g, I get about 16 hrs battery life without sim, and with wifi and location disabled. I have tried everything i can think of because I know there is people getting 2 days battery life. Even wiped and flashed a full rom from this forum. But my watch just drains too fast, about 6% an hour in normal use and 3.5% with airplane and theater mode...
I am currently on a trip, but I think I will try to get my watch replaced when I get back

nomadbass said:
I have the 4g, I get about 16 hrs battery life without sim, and with wifi and location disabled. I have tried everything i can think of because I know there is people getting 2 days battery life. Even wiped and flashed a full rom from this forum. But my watch just drains too fast, about 6% an hour in normal use and 3.5% with airplane and theater mode...
I am currently on a trip, but I think I will try to get my watch replaced when I get back
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It is probably an app that you have running on the watch. You can check via the 'Watch battery' settings on the phone in the Android Wear App. I found that Huawei Health was using about 6% of my battery. I didn't use it, so I disabled it on the watch. I have disabled all the system I apps I don't use like Runtastic and all of the builtin watch faces (I use a Google Fit watch face). Things got better for me immediately afterwards. I can get two days with everything disabled.

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It is probably an app that you have running on the watch. You can check via the 'Watch battery' settings on the phone in the Android Wear App. I found that Huawei Health was using about 6% of my battery. I didn't use it, so I disabled it on the watch. I have disabled all the system I apps I don't use like Runtastic and all of the builtin watch faces (I use a Google Fit watch face). Things got better for me immediately afterwards. I can get two days with everything disabled.
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thanks a lot,
I cant disable HHealt cause I am in China, but i have Fit and runastic disabled same as others I dont care.
To help all of us, do you mind to share your disabled apps and services? I think we can have good results discussing about this.
bdw.... I am trying to hit your thanks button but nothing happen..... please for the moment, accept my apologize....
regards

giangishanghai said:
thanks a lot,
I cant disable HHealt cause I am in China, but i have Fit and runastic disabled same as others I dont care.
To help all of us, do you mind to share your disabled apps and services? I think we can have good results discussing about this.
bdw.... I am trying to hit your thanks button but nothing happen..... please for the moment, accept my apologize....
regards
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Hi,
These are the apps I have disabled:
Chill for Huawei Watch 2
Elements Analogue
Elements Digital
Huawei Health
Huawei Member
Runtastic
Watchface
Wrist Gestures Tutorial
The apps the had the biggest positive impact on battery life were:
Huawei Health
Huawei Member
I have Wifi disabled, my SIM card is disabled (I just enable it briefly if I need it) and have always on display turned off. I have wrist gestures turned off but tilt to wake screen on.

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Hi,
These are the apps I have disabled:
Chill for Huawei Watch 2
Elements Analogue
Elements Digital
Huawei Health
Huawei Member
Runtastic
Watchface
Wrist Gestures Tutorial
The apps the had the biggest positive impact on battery life were:
Huawei Health
Huawei Member
I have Wifi disabled, my SIM card is disabled (I just enable it briefly if I need it) and have always on display turned off. I have wrist gestures turned off but tilt to wake screen on.
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waiting for that f....g thanks button back to work.......... thanks a lot!!!
regards

to all of you,
any services that can be disabled?
regards

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It is probably an app that you have running on the watch.
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I cannot be 100% sure but I don't think so. I tried resetting the watch and not installing any apps for a few days. I have tried that several times, same result.
I also tried disabling almost all apps in the watch. So much that it was the dumbest smart watch ever. That way I almost got 20 hours, but the watch was useless and still far from the 35 hrs some people is getting with regular use.
I also have updated play services in the phone (Mate 9) and the watch. Same thing.
This is what my stats look like on a regular day:
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test
hello,
first day of test.
fit, runastic and wifi disabled, always on display turned off, wrist gestures turned off but tilt to wake screen on.
woke up at 5.30am, now 15.15pm, battery is 75%, received calls and usual notifications.
not bad compared to past days when at the same time battery was less than 50%.
regards

anyone advise how to disable those apps?? cant find how to on the watch? i must be blind missing the option lol

dread123 said:
anyone advise how to disable those apps?? cant find how to on the watch? i must be blind missing the option lol
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hello,
setting
app
system app
click on the app you want to disable
click on disable button
done
not all the apps has the ability to be disabled...
regards

This was a pretty good Battery day. With 13 hours of use I still have 54% left. With always on display, WiFi on, Pulse on. I have the 4G version but no sim in it. I have a watch face from minimal & elegant. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/59359f17dd673/Screenshot_20170605-200409.png?
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After about 24 hours of use. 8 hours was during the night with sleep tracking on and the display always on.
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After about 24 hours of use. 8 hours was during the night with sleep tracking on and the display always on.
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That's pretty good. For sleep tracking do you use Sleep as Android?

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That's pretty good. For sleep tracking do you use Sleep as Android?
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Yes I use sleep as android. I wish the sleep app were build in by huawei. I also have a Garmin 735XT and it starts the sleep tracking automatically. It would be nice if sleep as android could do that.

Went for a unicycle ride this evening. Put a sim card in the watch so that I could left the watch at home. I used the endomondo app for trackning and the watch was fully charged. The ride took 1 hour and 9 minutes. After that I had 57 % left of the battery. Maybe the huawei sports app drain less battery or is it the sim card that is the problem. I think that I have read tha Huawei says that the battery should last for 10 hours with a tracking with gps and puls on.

spenstberg said:
Went for a unicycle ride this evening. Put a sim card in the watch so that I could left the watch at home. I used the endomondo app for trackning and the watch was fully charged. The ride took 1 hour and 9 minutes. After that I had 57 % left of the battery. Maybe the huawei sports app drain less battery or is it the sim card that is the problem. I think that I have read tha Huawei says that the battery should last for 10 hours with a tracking with gps and puls on.
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From my experience it is the SIM card that drains the battery. I've seen the same 10 hour claim. It isn't true unfortunately.
If I have the SIM enabled in an area with no reception, the battery can drain in less than two hours. It's insane.
I just enable 4G when and if I need it.

Question Huge battery draining

Hi all! Hope I can have son help from anyone... I'm experiencing a huge battery drain on my watch 4 40mm... Usually battery for me lasts around one day and an half, but right now I can't barely complete a day. Here's my screenshot on my galaxy manager app.
I saw the thread about Google Assistant draining battery a lot and I've already disabled it since I'm not using it. But as you can see in a little more than 4 hours by battery has drained a lot...
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You will need to supply a lot more info. Like what settings you use, especially AOD, how often you use it and what you use, how old the watch is, how often it is charged, etc.

Sorry you are right.
Aod always disabled.
I have the watch since 7-8 months.
I'm not using the watch really hard, just to see and reply text messages (not so frequently) and track my sleep during the night. Wifi always in automatic mode. Localization disabled.
I was used to charge it once every two days usually, now two times in a day...

I would start by using either command prompt or adb app control to debloat the watch and see if that makes a difference

how many times a week you restart the watch?
i think is full, close every app and restart the watch then try to use risparmio energetico (you are italian vero)

Here is my stats. This is ofc with multiple charges. I have the same 42mm Watch 4 classic with LTE. Normally it does not last even a day.. If I enable battery saver it last 1 and a half day. So you can try that? My watch 3 46mm lasted around 3 days lol..

ric_vdl said:
Hi all! Hope I can have son help from anyone... I'm experiencing a huge battery drain on my watch 4 40mm... Usually battery for me lasts around one day and an half, but right now I can't barely complete a day. Here's my screenshot on my galaxy manager app.
I saw the thread about Google Assistant draining battery a lot and I've already disabled it since I'm not using it. But as you can see in a little more than 4 hours by battery has drained a lot...View attachment 5671495
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Hello, I have had the same, suddenly barely getting a day out of the watch with no change of settings or face etc, many on Reddit say the same too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatch/comments/w9f923
Hopefully just a dodgy app update that will be corrected in the next update but very frustrating, ~I have turned off "raise to wake" today and I'm still on 50% which is about what I would have normally had at this time of day before this change.

gianoi said:
how many times a week you restart the watch?
i think is full, close every app and restart the watch then try to use risparmio energetico (you are italian vero)
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Yes I'm Italian, I've tried several times rebooting and resetting the watch but nothing has change...

stiffis said:
Here is my stats. This is ofc with multiple charges. I have the same 42mm Watch 4 classic with LTE. Normally it does not last even a day.. If I enable battery saver it last 1 and a half day. So you can try that? My watch 3 46mm lasted around 3 days lol..
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Gonna try it !!

MilgeS said:
Hello, I have had the same, suddenly barely getting a day out of the watch with no change of settings or face etc, many on Reddit say the same too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatch/comments/w9f923
Hopefully just a dodgy app update that will be corrected in the next update but very frustrating, ~I have turned off "raise to wake" today and I'm still on 50% which is about what I would have normally had at this time of day before this change.
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I'm really hoping the problem is just a crappy update honestly

If you have already performed a factory reset and the problem persists, then I wonder if it could be a bad calibration on the battery, or hardware failure. Chances are that it is something else, like you mentioned -- a bad update -- but it is possible that the device "thinks" the battery is draining faster than it actually is, or "thinks" the battery is fully charged before it really is. Just something to consider.

TacoDeMuerte said:
but it is possible that the device "thinks" the battery is draining faster than it actually is, or "thinks" the battery is fully charged before it really is. Just something to consider.
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And if that is so, it is easy to fix. Just charge to 100%, then allow it to run COMPLETELY down to zero charge (just use it normally) and it shuts off. Don't use battery saver. Then charge it up 100% and do it again. I have done this with phones before to fix calibration.
Remember, Lithium Ion devices don't really know the state of the battery completely. There is a lot of guess work going on. But this calibration usually fixes the issue where it thinks there is MORE battery available than actual, not the other way around.

ric_vdl said:
I'm really hoping the problem is just a crappy update honestly
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Yesterday I had a Health Services update on the watch and it seems to have fixed my battery drain problem, hopefully you have the update already or soon.

MilgeS said:
Yesterday I had a Health Services update on the watch and it seems to have fixed my battery drain problem, hopefully you have the update already or soon.
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I had same problems from the first day (half july), just noticed the update of health app. Hope that will improve battery

jordiz86 said:
I had same problems from the first day (half july), just noticed the update of health app. Hope that will improve battery
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I done that Health update last night and it drained 30% overnight, I'm hoping a cache clear, reboot and full charge this evening will sort that out, they fix one thing and break another!

MilgeS said:
I done that Health update last night and it drained 30% overnight, I'm hoping a cache clear, reboot and full charge this evening will sort that out, they fix one thing and break another!
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This is not encouraging me..
With my old galaxy watch 1, in the entire night with sleep tracker on, it was losing 2/3%... this watch lose 15/20% in the same hours... maybe depending on OS used, but it's really strange that a 3 years old watch is better than a new one... I was charging the old one every 2/3 days, this new is impossible to achieve 2 days..

jordiz86 said:
This is not encouraging me..
With my old galaxy watch 1, in the entire night with sleep tracker on, it was losing 2/3%... this watch lose 15/20% in the same hours... maybe depending on OS used, but it's really strange that a 3 years old watch is better than a new one... I was charging the old one every 2/3 days, this new is impossible to achieve 2 days..
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Yes, I too had a GW1 but I believe that Tizen was much more optimised by Samsung as it was their own OS, still disappointing with the consistency (or rather inconsistentcy) of Wear OS3.
Hopefully the next version that is currently in Beta will be more optimised and bug free.....

Don't ask how..
But after 1 month and a half, I've reached for first time 2 entire days of battery.. nothing changed in last days, except aod off. But 3 days ago I returned home with 54% of battery after 22 hours from charging and aod on, while yesterday with same hours and aod off I was at 62%, so not a big difference... maybe some minor updates of some apps? Someone other noticed improvements in last days?

I have a somewhat long story but it may help some of you here. I was wanting more complications on my watchface for more info and finally when I was annoyed enough that I couldn't find a watchface with how many I wanted, I went to work with watchface studio only to waste a ton of time making it look just like I wanted only to find out that there is an 8 complication limit on faces. So I started looking for alternatives and found bubble cloud launcher. A replacement launcher and watchface for wear os. After the steep learning curve that came with this AND emailing the dev back fourth a bit with questions. I found that using his watchface and his liveinfo (what he calls them) bubbles instead of using complications I get WAY better battery life WITH more info on my watchface than ever before. According to the dev, his liveinfo bubbles update dynamically from the phone companion app and not just whenever the watch wants to, he said that during his time learning about watchfaces that some complications update every second and others every minute and some are really bad on your watch battery and so when he designed his app he had battery longevity in mind and boy does it help me.