Friends,
I'm currently using H990DS from Taiwan, normally the phone lasts until 5pm (about 2h30 - 3h screen on). This happened with all my previous devices with promised good battery life like Note 4 or G2. I only installed standard apps like facebook (i know it drained battery), instagram, flipboard...
So yesterday, I did something that today, the battery improved greatly. It's currently at 49% battery with 3h15min screen on, of which over 2h45min of Clash Royale (over wifi)!
So you can try this and maybe it will improve your battery life. I know it work for me, not sure about everyone else.
Step 1: Go to https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard
Step 2: On Audio, may be you see the Audio history is Enable. Please disable it. What it does I believe is to turn off Ok Google detection.
Let's report if you have better battery after.
I will try it. Thanks
Will try as well.
I'll give it a go as well.
I'll try too, it's here to disable btw https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
trongnghia2411 said:
Friends,
I'm currently using H990DS from Taiwan, normally the phone lasts until 5pm (about 2h30 - 3h screen on). This happened with all my previous devices with promised good battery life like Note 4 or G2. I only installed standard apps like facebook (i know it drained battery), instagram, flipboard...
So yesterday, I did something that today, the battery improved greatly. It's currently at 49% battery with 3h15min screen on, of which over 2h45min of Clash Royale (over wifi)!
So you can try this and maybe it will improve your battery life. I know it work for me, not sure about everyone else.
Step 1: Go to https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard
Step 2: On Audio, may be you see the Audio history is Enable. Please disable it. What it does I believe is to turn off Ok Google detection.
Let's report if you have better battery after.
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I just did this and now the google assistant will not work without audio turned on and I am sure the Android Auto in my Truck will no longer work either.
xbmoyx said:
I just did this and now the google assistant will not work without audio turned on and I am sure the Android Auto in my Truck will no longer work either.
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That's correct, I believe this disabled audio features like Google assistant and the like.
thank you, always good to know
Day 1: No obvious change, at 50% with about 2 hrs of screen on time, just like before. Although my use case may be odd, since no matter what I've done by the end of the day my phone idle takes anywhere between 10-20% in the battery usage menu. Anyone else seeing this?
I don't use google assistant so I disabled this, the battery gets better. So don't do this if you rely on Google Now or Google Assistant...
p_pal2000 said:
Day 1: No obvious change, at 50% with about 2 hrs of screen on time, just like before. Although my use case may be odd, since no matter what I've done by the end of the day my phone idle takes anywhere between 10-20% in the battery usage menu. Anyone else seeing this?
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Maybe some app is constantly refresh in the background?
My phone drop 1% per hour in idle.
trongnghia2411 said:
Maybe some app is constantly refresh in the background?
My phone drop 1% per hour in idle.
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I use gsam battery monitor but it just says that the Android system takes up the most battery, and it also shows less than 20 alarms and less than maybe 30 wakelocks per day so it's weird.
p_pal2000 said:
I use gsam battery monitor but it just says that the Android system takes up the most battery, and it also shows less than 20 alarms and less than maybe 30 wakelocks per day so it's weird.
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I suggest you update all the apps, clear the cache in Smart Cleaning. Then restart the phone.
If you it doesn't get better, I think you should remove the battery for 2 mins. plug it back, charge to 100%, use the phone till 0% then charge to 100% again to see if it gets better
trongnghia2411 said:
I suggest you update all the apps, clear the cache in Smart Cleaning. Then restart the phone.
If you it doesn't get better, I think you should remove the battery for 2 mins. plug it back, charge to 100%, use the phone till 0% then charge to 100% again to see if it gets better
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Already done all of this previously. I guess I will try once more.
disabled it now, i'll test it tomorrow and will give my feedback in the next few days
So it's been over a week I think since the last post, I find that under my usage (medium to heavy) I get around 4 hours screen on time consistently. In the picture shown, I had around 55% battery with about 2 hours screen on time. However, what I don't get is the phone idle time battery usage. Just look in the picture and you will see what I mean. Furthermore, for half of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, which makes it even stranger. If anyone else is getting something like this or has any suggestions/requires further info, please let me/us know.
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So it's been over a week I think since the last post, I find that under my usage (medium to heavy) I get around 4 hours screen on time consistently. In the picture shown, I had around 55% battery with about 2 hours screen on time. However, what I don't get is the phone idle time battery usage. Just look in the picture and you will see what I mean. Furthermore, for half of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, which makes it even stranger. If anyone else is getting something like this or has any suggestions/requires further info, please let me/us know.
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You have been using the phone for 15 hrs or more. Yes you used it for 2 hours SOT but for 13 hrs it was idle, that is why phone idle is the biggest battery drain imho. Anyway try using the mart cleaner, it may help reduce idle time battery usages.
Sot is a horrible reference point. You could be using maps in with the screen off, streaming music with the screen off. There's all kinds of things while the screen is off that can consume battery. If your phone can get you through most of the day without a charge you're good. Stop putting so much emphasis on sot..
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You have been using the phone for 15 hrs or more. Yes you used it for 2 hours SOT but for 13 hrs it was idle, that is why phone idle is the biggest battery drain imho. Anyway try using the mart cleaner, it may help reduce idle time battery usages.
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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Sot is a horrible reference point. You could be using maps in with the screen off, streaming music with the screen off. There's all kinds of things while the screen is off that can consume battery. If your phone can get you through most of the day without a charge you're good. Stop putting so much emphasis on sot..
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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Swizzle82 said:
Sot is a horrible reference point. You could be using maps in with the screen off, streaming music with the screen off. There's all kinds of things while the screen is off that can consume battery. If your phone can get you through most of the day without a charge you're good. Stop putting so much emphasis on sot..
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Also, for most of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, just sitting in my pocket(I would say about 8 hours of the day or maybe a bit more or less), and the pictures show are similar to what I do every day, and I also use airplane mode the same way every day.
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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My point was that Android 7.0 nougat and updated doze have been giving people great standby times, like 1 or two percent gone overnight, without airplane mode too. Compared to my experience, that seems massively different. I was simply wondering if what I had was normal for my LG V20.
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Also, for most of the day, my phone is in airplane mode, just sitting in my pocket(I would say about 8 hours of the day or maybe a bit more or less), and the pictures show are similar to what I do every day, and I also use airplane mode the same way every day.
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Do you have volte enabled? Lg ims is volte. If you have greenify and see lg ims waking your phone 400 times then that is your issue.
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Hi,
I just recently bought my Inspire and rooted/s-off/eng s-off.
I flashed Android Revolution and I can't stand that I can't have my phone for more than 6 hours before 15% battery.
Is there any other ROMs that have better battery life? I'd rather have something like an optimized stock, but I really would love better battery life.
If you're wondering, I don't do a lot on my phone--just music, texting, and mild web. No video, and some e-mail.
Thanks~
For me, CM7 has better battery life than AR.
It's AOSP though so no sense. Though honestly I don't miss sense at all. In my experience the only feature that sense has over stock is the dialer and camera.
How long were you using Revolution? ROM's need some time to even out in the OS. At first they'll rip through the battery like nobodys business. Also, did you reset the battery stats? I'm pretty sure that is in the Revolutions FAQs. I could be wrong though. Also, the ROM in my sig is a great one to try. He also had a sense version if that's your bag.
Phone Battery usage statistics
I flashed CoreDroid V5.1 two days ago, and i'm sad to say i'm experiencing similar DISMAL battery performance. I've ran specific tests on it all day today, and this is what i have seen thus far:
08:12 - 95% - Airplane mode ON
09:46 - 91%
11:32 - 86%
12:30 - 83% - Airplane mode OFF
13:27 - 73%
14:33 - 62% - Airplane mode ON
16:30 - 44%
These stats were taken with the phone NOT IN USE. The screen was off and it was sitting on my desk. So, as you can see from the list above:
with AIRPLANE MODE ON - a loss of ~3-4% per hour
with AIRPLANE MODE OFF - a loss of ~10% per hour!
This is patently ridiculous!
When airplane mode is on and the phone is not in use, it should be basically on standby, using maybe a percent every hour or two.
When airplane mode is off, 10% /per hour?! That is just INSANE! No WONDER i can't get until even 7pm before my phone is dead!
If it can be determined what is sucking down the battery with Airplane Mode ON, and that 3-4% is eliminated, then the phone should have no problem lasting >14 hours.
(As a note, i saw similar performance before i rooted, so it's not just the ROM)
Moved as not android development.
I don't know if it's just how Sense works, but whenever I view the Applications in Settings, ALL my apps are running, ALL the time.
I don't remember it being the case with my Captivate, though..
Charge your battery till it completely charged. Turn the phone off and boot into ClockMod Recovery. Wipe the battery stats and hopefully that should help with the battery.
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Little_Ant said:
I flashed CoreDroid V5.1 two days ago, and i'm sad to say i'm experiencing similar DISMAL battery performance. I've ran specific tests on it all day today, and this is what i have seen thus far:
08:12 - 95% - Airplane mode ON
09:46 - 91%
11:32 - 86%
12:30 - 83% - Airplane mode OFF
13:27 - 73%
14:33 - 62% - Airplane mode ON
16:30 - 44%
These stats were taken with the phone NOT IN USE. The screen was off and it was sitting on my desk. So, as you can see from the list above:
with AIRPLANE MODE ON - a loss of ~3-4% per hour
with AIRPLANE MODE OFF - a loss of ~10% per hour!
This is patently ridiculous!
When airplane mode is on and the phone is not in use, it should be basically on standby, using maybe a percent every hour or two.
When airplane mode is off, 10% /per hour?! That is just INSANE! No WONDER i can't get until even 7pm before my phone is dead!
If it can be determined what is sucking down the battery with Airplane Mode ON, and that 3-4% is eliminated, then the phone should have no problem lasting >14 hours.
(As a note, i saw similar performance before i rooted, so it's not just the ROM)
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If i leave my phone alone over night while i sleep after 8 hours it will be at 93/94%.
Download an app called CurrentWidget. It will tell you how much your battery is being used.
Remember to enable logging so you can check the log latter on your sd card .
With my phone idle I normally get ~3mA or less per minute with spikes of ~160mA once an hour or so.
The max "Screen On" time is about 2 hours per charge.
There is also an app called Traffic Monitor Widget to see how much data each app is using.
These may help you understand what your battery drains so fast.
I'm not Rooted.
I'm seeing some pretty decent battery life on CM7 RC4. Here are some screen caps.
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I'm seeing some pretty decent battery life on CM7 RC4. Here are some screen caps.
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How long was your screen on for?
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How long was your screen on for?
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I dunno really. I just took two more screen caps from today. Just my general days usage. I've had the phone for only a week now so I expect the battery to break in a bit more like my nexus did. I was a bit worried about the battery life and this thing lasting me throughout the day but I have been impressed so far. I never even used it with the stock ROM so I can't compare, I dislike Sense.
I've been off the charger for 13hours. I'm at 50% with 1h10min screen on time too. I've had mine for about two weeks now.
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I'm running coredroid 5.1 and I fail to see that I'm loosing 10% an hour. Here's how my day was in battery faintly remembering. Woke up at 9:30 took of charger and left for work by 10. From then to I say around 1 I had around 90% only cause I was messing with my build.prop so I was restarting my phone like 20 times doing some test. Also I was ebbing a lot to look for info on what I was doing. And near the end of work around 5 I had even been playing music and games. And was around the 60% I wanna say in the high 60% I played with my phone a lot today and as of right now the same day I'm talking about I'm at 44% and been on my phone like crazy even rebooted a few times again. From what I have been doing to my phone I highly don't see how u could loose so much battery. So from now 10 to to 8 I'm at 44% that 10 hours I was playing with my phone like crazy.
Tips. Use recommended radio's. Charge to 100% clear battery bin. Also give it a few days for the Rom to get built in a little bit. also go download frail CPU its free. It'll help you save some juice when screen is off. Hope this helped.
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I'm seeing some pretty decent battery life on CM7 RC4. Here are some screen caps.
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thats because your phone is sitting in standyby 90% of the time. I've never checked my battery use and NOT had display at the very top using at least 50%. Its not wonder your battery life is great
I have been on many Roms but cm7 rc4 is the best for me. I get about 18 hrs of life with normal usage and gaming. I think Sense is the culprit on other ROMS. Also the free memory on cm7 is 200mb more than on Sense. And this is 90% of the time for me.
Inspired from my Inspire 4G using XDA Premium App
I don't think you can beat miui. Pulling 1-4 per min. Of all the roms, I tried this is the best. Ginger with OC kernels too.
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If your talking about mA per minute. I get that with my non rooted inspire.
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
I have noticed something funny about the battery stats on different ROMs. In particular, on CM7, I would never get display as using more than about 10%. On the other hand, when I am running stock rooted ROM, my display always uses about 60%. This is all with similar usage patterns and similar brightness settings. What is going on there I wonder?
I have also never seen my display less than 40%! Even today.
Attached are screen caps of my usage, based on what was happening earlier.
So lets see, display was on 1 hour out of 15 hours. And that = 40%. yea. i call bull****.
Thank you to all for your suggestions thus far. I will try them all out and report back what i have found!
I am heaving very good battery life with CorDroid 5.1 But I also had good battery life with Rev roms. When I am in a fringe service area I switch to GSM only and it more than doubles my battery life with the radio I am using. If I dont need the high speed I leave it off if it is not a strong signal.
Hi,
recently I bought N5 and I am very pleased with it. I could say that I love it. But I am worried about my battery. When I was buying it, the dealer at my carrier store, was hiding the box when opening it from me. I think that the box was not sealed any more ( i dont know if it is only in my country but here it's usuall that when buying a new phone they cut the sticker on the box infront of you). When I called at my store they said that they had only one more. And I am worried that the phone was used befor me for showcasing in the store. My battery usually lasts for two days ( I also have N7 so when on university i use N7 for heavy work) but barely get 3 hours of SOT. Wifi and 4G mostly off and brightness at minimum or max at 30% if on sun. Assistant of, gps of, ART on, using snapdragon BatteryGuru. I would really like to know what SOT should I get with this settings. And if you guys think I should go for warranty and hope that they replace my battery. Is there any way of seeing if the phone was already factory reset? Also I saw guys getting 5-6 hours SOT with wifi on here on XDA. Don't get me wrong I love the standby time but when using it (FB, twitter, messaging, browsing Chrome, 2 mail syncing) the battery drains like F1 car drains gas. If this is somewhere answered close the thread and point me there . Thank you
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screen on time is totally dependent on personal usage.
the best thing to do would be to root it and install 'better battery stats'. then you can analyze your battery properly. feel free to let this run for a full discharge and then post your screenshots
Yeah the problem with SOT is purely personal and that is why I posted here to see what you guys think. But still it is interesting to see how different the time can be from user to user. Will post screenshots in the evening.
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BombasMirko said:
using snapdragon BatteryGuru
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remove this. It doesn't help and if anything, it makes it worse
The battery drains whether the screen is on or off. If you're getting two days of use with 3 hours sot I would say that's ok. You might get 5 hours if you drained the battery in a day. Does that make sense? It does in my head!
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Ok so I removed Battery guru. And here are my stats from today (this was not my normal day of using it). Through the day the screen was almost constantly at the same level of brightness. And a lot of wifi and even 4g usage. But my battery could be draining a bit faster too because of not that good cellular coverage.
As pepdavies said with my normal use probably I would get closer to 4 hours if I would draind a battery in a day. .
Can I aske one more question? If I charge my phone over night and phone is off, will it overcharge my battery the same way as it would if it was on?
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Ok so I removed Battery guru. And here are my stats from today (this was not my normal day of using it). Through the day the screen was almost constantly at the same level of brightness. And a lot of wifi and even 4g usage. But my battery could be draining a bit faster too because of not that good cellular coverage.
As pepdavies said with my normal use probably I would get closer to 4 hours if I would draind a battery in a day. .
Can I aske one more question? If I charge my phone over night and phone is off, will it overcharge my battery the same way as it would if it was on?
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ive always charged my android devices overnight while they are on, nothing bad comes from it. you will be fine. i do it on my nexus 5 every night, yet still see at least 5 hours sot every battery cycle(5+ hours sot because i use lte exclusively, it gives better battery life than 3g/2g).
BombasMirko said:
... If I charge my phone over night and phone is off, will it overcharge my battery the same way as it would if it was on?
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You can leave the phone plugged in 24/7/365, on or off, and it will never overcharge, whatever that may mean. Nor will it overheat, slow down, melt, or explode.
I got 7 hours of screen on time by having the screen on a low brightness but that is only practical in a dark environment. I've also disabled a lot of google stuff and uninstalled google+ which was destroying 20% of the battery regularly. Generally 5 hours of screen on time using lux to lower brightness levels but to a point where the screen still looks nice
4 hours sot is typical for stock
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i dont really see how anyone can enjoy using there phone at minimum brightness unless its in a dark room i keep mine at 25% and it looks damn good using a tweaked gamma profile. Regarding battery i average 4.30 hours screen on time and 23 hours total with wifi only mostly web browsing and as said already there will be no harm in charging your phone overnight when i wake up its at 100% and battery temp is at around 24c
PhilipTD said:
You can leave the phone plugged in 24/7/365, on or off, and it will never overcharge, whatever that may mean. Nor will it overheat, slow down, melt, or explode.
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you are right that it will never overcharge, it is not optimal to keep your device with a full charge of battery for an extended period of time. by extended period of time i mean 5+ days
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fedor12 said:
i dont really see how anyone can enjoy using there phone at minimum brightness unless its in a dark room i keep mine at 25% and it looks damn good using a tweaked gamma profile. Regarding battery i average 4.30 hours screen on time and 23 hours total with wifi only mostly web browsing and as said already there will be no harm in charging your phone overnight when i wake up its at 100% and battery temp is at around 24c
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there are many people in this world and we all have our own likes and dislikes.
when im outside I enjoy being outside and do not use my device except to check a notification or two. so when im inside and in an average lit room, I can drop the brightness to about 15% and that is enough for me. remember, lighting the screen is the phone's biggest battery hog. any decrease to this will increase your SoT. I enjoy getting an extra 2 hours out of my device before i have to be tied to a power cord
that said, im waiting for my zerolemon battery case to ship and can't wait
i have the dual sim version. both 2g. NO WI-FI AT ALL.
I usually get 3- 4 hours of screen on time. then im under 14% i just use whatsapp, a little gaming,opera mini browser. with this usage i get total 14-18 hours of battery. is this normal? my previous phone was nokua 5230 with inane battery life.
not sure..
My battery life is better i think but cant say if yours is normal ... Screenshot of battery stats would be helpful
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My battery life is better i think but cant say if yours is normal ... Screenshot of battery stats would be helpful
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I charged in the middle upto 80. Screen on time at that time was 3.5 hours
Hmm..your battery life doesnt seem Bad to me, but I cant tell you if its actually a normal or a Bad battery life as i have the single sim Version with tweaky one Rom and faux kernel... Sorry, that i cant tell you more, but i saw some battery threads here at xda already, maybe you should ask there. Good Luck.
1. From screenshot it says 3G.. You sure you are on 2G all the time or this was just rare case?
2.From graph it seems like you charged phone in between from pretty low to quite respectable 70 - 80%.
3. I get this kind of battery on medium usage with single charge. So if you charged in between then your battery seems poor.
4. Do check background services running and disable what you can.. From usage you specified, you should not require many running things. Use greenify to automate this things.
He says he uses WhatsApp as well? Does it work on 2G connection too?. Thought I'd point out.
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1. From screenshot it says 3G.. You sure you are on 2G all the time or this was just rare case?
2.From graph it seems like you charged phone in between from pretty low to quite respectable 70 - 80%.
3. I get this kind of battery on medium usage with single charge. So if you charged in between then your battery seems poor.
4. Do check background services running and disable what you can.. From usage you specified, you should not require many running things. Use greenify to automate this things.
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i didn't charge in between. i was just not able to fully charge my phone as i was in a hurry. before that i got my specified usage. and 3g is a rare case. i get very weak signal. so i use 2g network all the time
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He says he uses WhatsApp as well? Does it work on 2G connection too?. Thought I'd point out.
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Well yes. It works on any kind of connection.
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sbs205 said:
i didn't charge in between. i was just not able to fully charge my phone as i was in a hurry. before that i got my specified usage. and 3g is a rare case. i get very weak signal. so i use 2g network all the time
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If that is the case then you are definitely having less battery life buddy..
What else is running in background?
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Well yes. It works on any kind of connection.
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If that is the case then you are definitely having less battery life buddy..
What else is running in background?
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i had acdisplay but i dont use it now because i think it's eating up my battery. i have avast free, messenger, WhatsApp, clean master, dashclock widget and battery extenson . camera 360 is a bit nuisance. i close it but it starts again. also u should know that my phone was fully discharged two times when it was new
due to my carelessness. but i immediately charged it.
edit: also chrome on 2g takes up 1 or 2% every 3 or 4 minutes. it takes 3 or more hours to completely charge it with Motorola charger. I'm on GEL. got it from android police.
Before purchasing, I was a little concerned about the amount of battery time between charges on the S6. I picked up the phone yesterday and was able to get 4+ hours of Screen On Time (SOT) with my first full charge. I didn't think that was too bad. I think the fact that it is a new device, I tend to "play" with it more in the beginning. I'm hoping it will get better as it settles into my routine. I still am a little concerned though as I didn't even have an hour of talk time to go along with the SOT, didn't stream music, play any games or really use any other apps. It's been quite a while since I've had a smaller sized battery in a phone I've owned so I may be hoping for too much when it comes to battery life. I had the LG G2, Galaxy S5, LG G3 and Note 4 prior to purchasing the the S6. I love the phone and don't plan on switching. I just thought I would get others opinions on it.
Battery life is bad. This is what it predicts for me. I get 15 hours basically with only chat and web browsing. I sleep off the charger and the phone loses 10-12%
Gps and playing music during a drive just gave me 4 hours. I'm trying to break the battery in by bringing it to 5% and recharging, but this is laughable.
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Here's what I've got for the day
So far I'm not happy with the battery life. I'm coming from a G3, where the phone would stay at 100% for several hours, and by the end of the day would be anywhere from 30-50%. I received my S6 yesterday, got everything set back up and use the same apps as my G3, but within a couple minutes the battery was already at 99%, then 20 minutes later was in the mid 90's.
This is the first full day on a charge, with very light use, and this is what I have so far:
Taken off the charger around 6AM at 100%, and now at 7PM it's at 13%.
13 hours on battery
1h 32m SOT
I installed Greenify and GSAM battery monitor, hopefully that will help.
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So far I'm not happy with the battery life. I'm coming from a G3, where the phone would stay at 100% for several hours, and by the end of the day would be anywhere from 30-50%. I received my S6 yesterday, got everything set back up and use the same apps as my G3, but within a couple minutes the battery was already at 99%, then 20 minutes later was in the mid 90's.
This is the first full day on a charge, with very light use, and this is what I have so far:
Taken off the charger around 6AM at 100%, and now at 7PM it's at 13%.
13 hours on battery
1h 32m SOT
I installed Greenify and GSAM battery monitor, hopefully that will help.
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I think we've been spoiled by the LG batteries and then I went to the Note 4 so that doesn't help my comparison either. Today was better for me then yesterday though. Yesterday I was ready to take it back and tell them to keep it. Right now I've been off the charger for 90 mins. I'm down to 91% with 24 mins of calls and 23 mins of SOT.
So far my battery life is soso. Took off charger at 5:40am Saturday morning Eastern time. Currently at 21% with fairly light usage. Texting, little bit of Web browsing, some reading on Kindle app. I expect with normal usage I'll probably get in the 15-16 hour range. Which is uninspiring. perhaps an update will increase efficiency.
Cell standby is the #1 drain for me, comparible to many of the complaints in the main S6 forum prior to the vzw variant being released.
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I think that is pretty good. Over 5 hours SOT and still 16% battery life left. Anything over 5 hours is very....very...good.
Looks to me like if they fix that cell standby bug we'll have a monster of a phone. 5 hours screen on time and its only 10% of the battery drain.... I'm curious to know if this cell standby bug is just a mistake in how battery stats are being reported.
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magnumrt562 said:
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I've seen a big improvement in battery today. No change in use. I have over 2 hours of talk and over 3.5 hours of SOT. Still have 22% and it's been 18.5 hours since the charge. My concerns are starting to go away.
Ok so here's all my info for you guys... I am on Verizon, and turned off the VOLTE calling when I got the phone based on the stuff I'd read. I had high cell standby usage. I turned it back on and it went awY to normal.levels, even with WiFi on all day and crappy signal.
I am using Nova launcher, and no theme. I do use a black background, basically a picture of a clear night sky with tons of stars. The day in the picture was a day of heavy Waze use with screen on, heavy Web surfing and some youtube. As few texts and some bacon reader.
I don't see volte calling anywhere I settings. I see "advanced calling". Is that it?
Verizon GS6
sd0070 said:
I don't see volte calling anywhere I settings. I see "advanced calling". Is that it?
Verizon GS6
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The problem doesn't seem to be SOT, but standby time. When I use the phone for an extended period of time, such as when I'm in bed for an hour, I only loose a few percent. However it seems to drain nearly as fast when it's in my pocket. This is why some get 5 hours of SOT while people like me who dont use it much are lucky to get 2 hours. Standby time seems to max out around 12-14 hours.
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geoff5093 said:
The problem doesn't seem to be SOT, but standby time. When I use the phone for an extended period of time, such as when I'm in bed for an hour, I only loose a few percent. However it seems to drain nearly as fast when it's in my pocket. This is why some get 5 hours of SOT while people like me who dont use it much are lucky to get 2 hours. Standby time seems to max out around 12-14 hours.
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Yep I noticed this, got mine yesterday and to sleep at 89 percent woke up at 79. Lost 10%. Hopefully an updates helps because while in use It's fine.
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My Verizon S6 (64GB black) also has Cell Standby as the number one drain on the battery. It's significant compared to my Note 4, where Cell Standby is much lower on the list, and which loses a lot less battery power when idle compared to the S6. Doing a full factory reset, wiping cache doesn't change this fact on my device. Good to see that others have this issue, though I wonder if Samsung/Verizon will really do anything to address it. I love some aspects of the Galaxy S6, but the battery life is an issue for me.
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geoff5093 said:
The problem doesn't seem to be SOT, but standby time. When I use the phone for an extended period of time, such as when I'm in bed for an hour, I only loose a few percent. However it seems to drain nearly as fast when it's in my pocket. This is why some get 5 hours of SOT while people like me who dont use it much are lucky to get 2 hours. Standby time seems to max out around 12-14 hours.
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Yeah, this is exactly what I see. My S6 lost 11% of battery as it idled while I slept, with Cell Standby as the largest user of battery (by far) during that time. It has to be a bug, as my Note 4 (with Lollipop) doesn't have this issue.
So my first two cycles on Friday and Saturday were pretty normal and the phone idled incredibly. Then all of a sudden the last couple of cycles (and this one I'm on now apparently) are being killed by Google Play Services, even while idle. I hate that app (not really). I wish it was more clear what within it was eating up the battery.
My experience: Got a S6 Edge from Verizon Apr 10. I was having data issues where I couldn't load pages even though it said 4G. My Cell Standby was pretty high 30%-40%. I was attributing the poor reception to the Cell Standby. They finally gave me a new phone yesterday. The data issue was fixed but my Cell Standby is still high at 30% (I turned off Advanced Calling). I'm assuming this isn't a hardware issue unless I'm really unlucky.
I'm having terrible standby time battery life. I have tons of apps "optimized" and the battery life is pretty good under use. I'm losing battery like crazy when the phone is just sitting here though. Battery use shows 'Android System' as the culprit which of course can be any number of 50 things. I know it isnt AOD because I turned that off but Android System is used nearly 600mah in 8 hours which is outrageous. Any ideas?
My phone too. A lot of android system drain. I don't know why. But still I'm having a solid day of battery
I would give it a couple of days. My phone's always have horrible battery the first couple of days then it starts to level off. That's when you really see what the battery is like.
Is probably background updates and stuff
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Is probably background updates and stuff
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This is what I am thinking it is... My phone is physically warm to the touch from load of doing all the background stuff right now. I have like 95 apps its downloading & installing & about 13k images via the photos app. Not to mention the very large restoration task of my SMS from my old device.
Only second cycle here but at 4hr21min sot at 21%
However android os is at the top
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dakalter said:
I would give it a couple of days. My phone's always have horrible battery the first couple of days then it starts to level off. That's when you really see what the battery is like.
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So far so good
I'm passed all the downloads and updates I believe. One of the embedded components must be misbehaving
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3:51 SOC. Still 27% to go but android system is the top of battery
The same thing is going on with my AT&T S6 Edge since I got it. Every night 25%-35% battery gone.
SUCKS BIG TIME
Note: VoLTE is turned off
My standby battery is dropping 3% every 8 hours
if you guys leave wifi on, that's why. every since lolipop, having wifi on for Samsung devices kills battery in standby. my tab s 8.4 on kk lasted days with wifi on idle. with lolipop, i'm lucky if it lasts 24 hours idle. I have to put it in airplane mode every night I'm done with it.
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So far my battery life has been really good. Took the phone off the charger at 10 am and now its 10:30 pm and right now I'm at 50%. My old Note 4 would have died hours ago. I would love to leave it uncharged tonight so see where's its at in the morning but I wont have time to charge it before I have to leave for work.
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if you guys leave wifi on, that's why. every since lolipop, having wifi on for Samsung devices kills battery in standby. my tab s 8.4 on kk lasted days with wifi on idle. with lolipop, i'm lucky if it lasts 24 hours idle. I have to put it in airplane mode every night I'm done with it.
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wifi off for me
YOu guys have the S7 already??
I disabled Google now and turned off the nearby device scanning. Will see how that goes tomorrow.
Yes we have s7. Nearly everyone who ordered on T-Mobile has them or has shipped.
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4 hours and 20 minutes of SOC but android system ate 850mah of the battery. Still trying to figure out what.
Mine is doing okay I reckon.
Did you guys do a factory reset? And disable all those useless apps that are running in the background (settings -> application manager -> running (disable those that are running that you don't use)).
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Did you guys do a factory reset? And disable all those useless apps that are running in the background (settings -> application manager -> running (disable those that are running that you don't use)).
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Pretty much the only app that I disable from the start is Lookout Mobile Security. As soon as I can get to the settings in setup it gets disabled
Yea I haven't done a factory reset, the phone is brand new, why should we have to
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