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Bought HTC Touch HD second hand -(nearly new) the other day and think it's great. Had one locked password screen ( HTC's have habit of doing this occasionally) and needed hard reset, but in the whole great PDA.
However, couple of times now battery charged night before and checked in morning - only two bars gone. Then an hour later gone to turn phone on and it has no battery life in at all. Not been used except for perhaps alarm. No WIfi on and no programs running. This has happened twice now. I have updated to the latest ROM as soon as I got it and problems hae occured after that. Could this be the reason.
It has only happend in the mornings. Charging up fine again now, but has left me high & dry without warning. p.s I check battery life all the time but it just went from nearly full to none in an hour??? Why
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Bought HTC Touch HD second hand -(nearly new) the other day and think it's great. Had one locked password screen ( HTC's have habit of doing this occasionally) and needed hard reset, but in the whole great PDA.
However, couple of times now battery charged night before and checked in morning - only two bars gone. Then an hour later gone to turn phone on and it has no battery life in at all. Not been used except for perhaps alarm. No WIfi on and no programs running. This has happened twice now. I have updated to the latest ROM as soon as I got it and problems hae occured after that. Could this be the reason.
It has only happend in the mornings. Charging up fine again now, but has left me high & dry without warning. p.s I check battery life all the time but it just went from nearly full to none in an hour??? Why
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Any ActiveSync / Messaging / IM / other data-pull services active? What is the signal strength in your area? I live in a strange area: in my room I sometimes have 70% strength, ten minutes later only 10% - maybe this drains your battery.
turned off 3g
Noticed since I turned off 3 G battery life has been great. I t did searchquite a bit on H and 3g. perhaps this was the battery eater. Cheers anyway.
May also want to check your running apps as harddisk_wp was discussing. I had a very similar issue come up with my Kaiser/Tilt a few years back. I went from having great battery life to having maybe 2 hours max. Was carrying a second battery, etc., etc... Come to find out, the problem wasn't with my battery, it was with the software the phone was running. Specifically, that time, Emoze. The PC Connector was causing a problem (corrupt file) and every time it connected, it sent a pile of data, failed, then reconnected, and continued the loop, over..and over..and over again...
Needless to say, I corrected the problem (Emoze support made suggestions, a few weeks later I was gone from Emoze completely). Anything using data, heavy or not, can effect your battery life dramatically. Your 3G of course will drain it more, as will WiFi, but in my experience it is related to the data being processed itself...
-John
Thxs for that. Since I disconnected from 3G battery life has been great. End of each day still only two bars gone with lots of use. Ryan
^^yep, that darn 3G can suck the guts out of these batteries!
Hi guys,
I have been struggling for quite a while to investigate why my battery drain is about 150mA best case. I have installed Onyx micro version and disabled almost all unnesessary services and applications, and yet could not live a day even in stand by mode without recharging. Battery capacity is 1100mA, so with 150mA drain, it lasted less than 10 hours per day.
I have checked almost all available ROM's on this site, starting with the original HTC one.
No luck ! So, I've concluded it was no ROM issue. Then, I started to play with IPL and SPL. I had both version 3.14.
To make the long story short, I found the best combination of IPL 3.14 and SPL 3.10
Now I have 91-100mA stand by current drain all the time. Sometimes during the night this value droops to 41mA.
I am preety happy with this and also wonder whether anyone has managed to get a better battery life for his Elf ?
Cheers.
The two things you haven't looked at are the radio and the SIM. I'd try with a different sim for 24 hours and search for the best radio rom. My Elfin battery life is terrible but I think it's down to using M2D.
there is a lot of factor that could affect the battery life, from software, to hardware, the most common problem, is battery age, as old your battery are, the less it will hold the charge. on my elfin I have onyx 5.1.1, IPL 3.10 and HSPL 3.10, radio 3.39.90(I'm having better signal with almost no difference in battery drain) I use the backlight on the second darker step, not the default second brighter one. I usually take no more than 10 calls at day, each one of about 1 to 2 minutes, usually don't use(and is always off) the wifi, the bluetooth I use it occasionally while driving about 3 miles from work to home, and to listen to music at work, 1 or 2 hours per day. data connection(EDGE) is always on, but not used very often just to check email once in a while and update weather once of two time a day.
my battery holds for 2 days, most 2 days and a half.
I think your battery may be the problem, maybe is quite old.
dont forget it can be affected by the network coverage too. in fact some of the power regulation in gsm network is managed from the base station.
EDIT: i mean, besides a hundred other things network-controlled that can affect your battery life, the antenna can actually tell your phone how much power it must use when transmitting.
Hey all,
About three weeks ago I had a strange problem. I noticed that in two straight charge cycles, my battery life plummeted from about 80% to zero in just a few hours. I'm not sure what the issue was. I hadn't changed settings, installed new apps, etc. My first screenshot shows an example of what happened. 4G and data were off during the entire time.
Since then, things have been okay. I typically get 3 days standby with 4G on and light use, or 4 days with 4G off. That's mostly standby with maybe an hour or so of talking and minimal use.
After those strange battery plummets, I installed and used GSam Battery Monitor to get more details about what processes were running on my phone in case I noticed the sharp drop happening again. Everything had been fine for over two weeks, with me getting expected battery life before this issue and not experiencing any odd, sudden drops (maybe 5 or 6 charge cycles). This lends me to conclude that my battery's charge capacity is okay, and calibration also shouldn't be an issue.
However, the problem arose once again a couple days ago. Went from 75% to nothing in just a few hours. 4G was off during that time. The third and fourth screenshots show the same issue. Charged my phone, and this morning the same thing happened yet again. At about 90% the plummet began, and within an hour or so I was at 75%. At this point I took screenshots of Android's battery status, and I also did the same for GSam to show what apps and processes were running. The phone's temperature seemed fine.
The GSam screenshots taken when the phone was at 75% and dropping are in the next post, since I'm limited to four images in this one. I have no idea what's causing this massive, sudden battery drain. The only thing I can think of is that I've done Verizon's OTA updates, but otherwise pretty much all my settings, apps, and usage are the same. Plus, for two weeks I had normal battery behavior, so I'm completely baffled.
I also know that cell standby is incorrectly reported in the GS3 battery screen, and I'm getting a good signal where I live so that shouldn't be a problem. I forgot to get screen time for the first case (first two images), but it shouldn't be more than 10-15 min there since most of the charge was lost due to the freak plummet.
If anyone may have an idea of what's going on, or if there are some tools/tests I may use to figure this out, I'd really appreciate it. I turned off my phone after taking the screenshots at 75%, so if I need to turn it on and check something for you I can probably do that. Thanks a lot.
FYI, here are GSam screenshots from when the battery was in the process of plummeting this morning.
i think you built in battery status settings are off. i barely get 12 hrs with medium use, so what i think it happens is that the battery monitor is not showing the proper discharge, and then all of a sudden it catches up to the discharge rate.
are you on stock rom, rooted, unlocked bootloader?
wizzardeel said:
i think you built in battery status settings are off. i barely get 12 hrs with medium use, so what i think it happens is that the battery monitor is not showing the proper discharge, and then all of a sudden it catches up to the discharge rate.
are you on stock rom, rooted, unlocked bootloader?
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I am stock rom. No rooting, no unlocking.
These plunges are definitely an anomaly. Truly, with me barely using the phone and turning off mobile data, I get a few days of standby. I've had the phone since July, and the aberration in battery behavior has been the steep plunges I've shown.
In between these instance of steep plunges, I've had normal use. I really don't think it's an issue of calibration. Please believe me when I say that my normal, light use during the past four months gets me anywhere from 3-5 days with me barely using the phone. When I say barely using it, I mean not even touching it for an entire day if nobody calls me. But now, a sudden plunge in battery life is happening at 80% with no apparent reason.
I think it might be some kind of software or hardware glitch, but it's impossible for this to be normal given the battery life I typically get. Just looking at that steep drop, it's crazy and just happens out of nowhere.
But please trust me when I say that these sudden plunges that have happened a total of 4 or 5 times, causing the battery to drain completely in a few hours when I'm not touching it, are quite a drastic aberration from the normal standby life I get. Something is definitely wrong here, I just don't know what.
And one more thing to add is that after this sudden plunge and rapid drain, charging the battery still takes the normal time it does when I'm not having this issue. That is, about 2.5-3 hours to reach a full charge (and I charge with the phone 'off'). The battery is being completely drained. But this happened twice, then didn't happen for maybe 5-6 charge cycles, then happened again twice.
Before the first instance, I remember an OTA Verizon update around 10/5. My phone was okay for 2-3 charge cycles after that. Then two rapid drains. Then 5-6 normal cycles. Then two more rapid drains. There was a second Verizon OTA update somewhere in there but I can't remember.
and you said it only started once you did the OTA update from verizon right? well you could either try to go back to the stock verizon rom pre-update and see what happens there, or contact verizon and let them know what happens with the new OTA update. they could replace your phone, or it could be a bug of the new OTA update. i am on stock rom and rooted and deleted the apk that kept on trying to push the update. just unlocked by bootloader and so far my battery life has improved compared to previous locked bootloader.
i would take it to a verizon store and show them. They might give you a new battery.
I may have to do that. I'm just not really sure what the issue is.
- The battery can still hold a full charge.
- Based on running services, nothing is causing high CPU usage.
- The sudden plummet almost seems kind of random.
- Since there have been normal charge cycles, it's not an issue of calibration.
I'm not sure if this is a hardware issue or software issue. I'm trying to wrap my brain around what could cause the battery to drain so suddenly and sharply. Could the charge somehow be "leaking"? But in that case I'd expect it to happen all the time. If there's an underlying software issue, is there any other tool I might be able to use to figure it out?
Does the phone get hot?
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Does the phone get hot?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
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Not from what I can tell. Note that the first couple plummet drains were overnight.
But today I caught it before noon. The phone wasn't hot, and the GSam screenshots show no CPU stress.
Maybe you can do a factory reset and se if that helps. They will probably do one if you bring it to verizon anyways. It sure sound like a hardware problem. You'd think if the processors are working that hard that the phone would get hot, I know mine gets pretty hot sometimes under heavy use.
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Thing is, all indications show the CPU isn't working hard, and the phone wasn't hot.
I'm stumped.
This is a noobish question, but I presume the only way to go back to stock is to factory reset? One thing I might wait for is the Jelly Bean update, presuming this random drain holds off until then.
But yea, I dread going into VZW because they're just going to try to pass this off onto me doing something wrong, or me not knowing how to calibrate the battery, etc. The information I've provided in my OP and in the screenshots would fly over their heads. Maybe I can just do an online chat and tell VZ to send me another battery?
The only other thing I can think of is that sometime before these plummets happened, I went online to MyVerizon and turned off the Backup Assistant for movies/music/etc. so I wouldn't get all those notifications. I don't think this could be the issue, since the plummet happens when data is off. Plus, GSam would show that Backup Assistant is hogging the CPU or forcing a signal.
I doubt swapping batteries will fix it, though. I'm thinking my internal hardware might have a serious problem.
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Thing is, all indications show the CPU isn't working hard, and the phone wasn't hot.
I'm stumped.
This is a noobish question, but I presume the only way to go back to stock is to factory reset? One thing I might wait for is the Jelly Bean update, presuming this random drain holds off until then.
But yea, I dread going into VZW because they're just going to try to pass this off onto me doing something wrong, or me not knowing how to calibrate the battery, etc. The information I've provided in my OP and in the screenshots would fly over their heads. Maybe I can just do an online chat and tell VZ to send me another battery?
The only other thing I can think of is that sometime before these plummets happened, I went online to MyVerizon and turned off the Backup Assistant for movies/music/etc. so I wouldn't get all those notifications. I don't think this could be the issue, since the plummet happens when data is off. Plus, GSam would show that Backup Assistant is hogging the CPU or forcing a signal.
I doubt swapping batteries will fix it, though. I'm thinking my internal hardware might have a serious problem.
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Before the update, was everything normal?
Is the update with the HE base/baseband?
It probably isn't a hardware problem, just a bad base.
I've noticed after updating my GS3 to the HE base and the battery life was just horrid.
It's said that the new HE baseband uses up more battery also
emckai said:
Before the update, was everything normal?
Is the update with the HE base/baseband?
It probably isn't a hardware problem, just a bad base.
I've noticed after updating my GS3 to the HE base and the battery life was just horrid.
It's said that the new HE baseband uses up more battery also
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Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "HE" base/baseband.
But yea, this problem didn't come up until after an OTA update.
Check your baseband version under Settings -> About and paste it here
Sent from my rooted Verizon Samsung Galaxy SIII
It's I535VRLHE
Kernel version: 3.0.8-1092717
Build number IMM76D.I535VRALHE
I turned on the phone and within 10 min or so the battery life went down by 2-3% without me doing anything. As a test I've put it into Airplane mode, and it's decreased by about 2% in 45 min.
Now I'm wondering if I have a faulty antenna or something.
Yup ive had it drain 90% overnight many times for no reason. Called verizon and my new battery should be here today.
1+ day on battery and only 11 minutes of screen time?!?
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It's I535VRLHE
Kernel version: 3.0.8-1092717
Build number IMM76D.I535VRALHE
I turned on the phone and within 10 min or so the battery life went down by 2-3% without me doing anything. As a test I've put it into Airplane mode, and it's decreased by about 2% in 45 min.
Now I'm wondering if I have a faulty antenna or something.
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HE is the baseband version and the build number. For example I have: Android Version: 4.0.4
Baseband: I535VRLG7
Build: IM76D.I535VRALG7
which is the version before the update.
Like everybody else said, call Verizon or go to a store and let them know about the battery issues and they should send you a new one. Or even call Samsung and tell them you bought an S3 through Verizon and you are having battery hardware issues.
sonser said:
1+ day on battery and only 11 minutes of screen time?!?
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Well, no calls made or received during that time. No data being used.
So, wasn't really using the phone during that time...
I have an Infuse that I got a little over two years ago. It started out with Froyo and I installed the official Gingerbread update after using the phone for a while. Long story short, I will need to keep it for a while yet so I can't just upgrade through my carrier (AT&T).
Here's my problem. A few months ago, I very abruptly had a battery problem. One day I had a normal recharge/discharge cycle in terms of how long the battery lasted (usually around 60% remaining when I plugged it in at night), and the next day the entire battery was drained in less than 14 hours. I typically leave it plugged in at work now, whereas before I could go for almost two days without needing to charge. Nothing changed in how much I used it. I had not installed any new programs.
I want to try to fix this phone before forking over money for a new one. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on here? Looking at my battery usage stats, "cell standby" seems to be in 1st or 2nd place for battery drain, depending on how much the screen has been on (with typical use for me, "display" is usually #1, but if I've not checked my messages or email much, that drops down to 2nd-4th place with cell standby at the top). I'm not sure if that info is of any help.
Someone told me recently that he had a similar problem with a (different) older phone, and someone had told him that some of the older technology in the towers was being phased out and the phone was draining its battery looking for a signal that wasn't as strong anymore due to there being fewer towers it could get a signal from. Is that true?
Thanks to whoever can give me any assistance. If you need more info please ask.
QuantaFille said:
I have an Infuse that I got a little over two years ago. It started out with Froyo and I installed the official Gingerbread update after using the phone for a while. Long story short, I will need to keep it for a while yet so I can't just upgrade through my carrier (AT&T).
Here's my problem. A few months ago, I very abruptly had a battery problem. One day I had a normal recharge/discharge cycle in terms of how long the battery lasted (usually around 60% remaining when I plugged it in at night), and the next day the entire battery was drained in less than 14 hours. I typically leave it plugged in at work now, whereas before I could go for almost two days without needing to charge. Nothing changed in how much I used it. I had not installed any new programs.
I want to try to fix this phone before forking over money for a new one. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on here? Looking at my battery usage stats, "cell standby" seems to be in 1st or 2nd place for battery drain, depending on how much the screen has been on (with typical use for me, "display" is usually #1, but if I've not checked my messages or email much, that drops down to 2nd-4th place with cell standby at the top). I'm not sure if that info is of any help.
Someone told me recently that he had a similar problem with a (different) older phone, and someone had told him that some of the older technology in the towers was being phased out and the phone was draining its battery looking for a signal that wasn't as strong anymore due to there being fewer towers it could get a signal from. Is that true?
Thanks to whoever can give me any assistance. If you need more info please ask.
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Lets rule out any obvious culprit by installing Wakelock Detector, and letting it run until the battery becomes low (then post the stats). There may be an app that stands out.
I have a similar issue with my current phone. It is sporadic, and I think it is a process within Android Services that came with Fly-On Mod (once a week I have bad battery but a reboot fixes it, only discovered it after installing Fly-On). Haven't bothered removing it yet because a latest ROM update seems imminent and I would rather wait for that if I'm wiping everything.
I've bought the international version of the S7 (the only one available here in Portugal) which is the SM-930F on the last tuestday (2016-09-16).
During the wednesday, I've noticed that the battery drained really fast, but I thought that it was because of the whole first-day configuration / installing 50 apps thing.
On thursday (yesterday), I removed it from the charger at 8h30, barely used it, and at around 13h00 it had 44% battery. I don't have a lot of background syncing or anything like that, just the normal I've used on other phones before the S7.
I've read somewhere from people that had similar problems and they said a factory reset solved. I did a factory reset but the battery kept draining at the same rate.
So, at around 20h30 I went to the store and asked for a replacement. Exactly the same model and color.
I went home, installed all apps and updated everything so I could test it today without updates and downloads. I didn't restore any settings from previous installations.
Today I took it off from the charger again at around 9h00, it's 14h30 and it has 64% and I barely touched it! I've checked some stuff at lunch time for like 10min, that's all.
What can possibly be wrong here? Everyone on the internet says that this phone's battery life is one of the best out there, but it's draining faster than any of my previous phones!
Both the original and replacement phones were sealed in the box.
Any ideas?
Some screenshots of installed apps and battery usage:
https://goo.gl/photos/isCRB88NgZhShe1H8
UPDATE:
For those that come to this thread looking for answers to the same problem, read my update here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68758433&postcount=10
METEMEDO said:
I've bought the international version of the S7 (the only one available here in Portugal) which is the SM-930F on the last tuestday (2016-09-16).
During the wednesday, I've noticed that the battery drained really fast, but I thought that it was because of the whole first-day configuration / installing 50 apps thing.
On thursday (yesterday), I removed it from the charger at 8h30, barely used it, and at around 13h00 it had 44% battery. I don't have a lot of background syncing or anything like that, just the normal I've used on other phones before the S7.
I've read somewhere from people that had similar problems and they said a factory reset solved. I did a factory reset but the battery kept draining at the same rate.
So, at around 20h30 I went to the store and asked for a replacement. Exactly the same model and color.
I went home, installed all apps and updated everything so I could test it today without updates and downloads. I didn't restore any settings from previous installations.
Today I took it off from the charger again at around 9h00, it's 14h30 and it has 64% and I barely touched it! I've checked some stuff at lunch time for like 10min, that's all.
What can possibly be wrong here? Everyone on the internet says that this phone's battery life is one of the best out there, but it's draining faster than any of my previous phones!
Both the original and replacement phones were sealed in the box.
Any ideas?
Some screenshots of installed apps and battery usage:
https://goo.gl/photos/isCRB88NgZhShe1H8
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Hi
Most of times battery consumption is due to settings , WIFI , e-mail sync , location , rogue app , facebook..... review them......maybe do a factory reset , install nothing and see how it behaves , install app in smaller lots to see if there an increase on battery drainage , if you where root there is an app that is great to see exactly who is the culprit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Anyhow also check some of this threads for ideas
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/battery-life-discussion-t3316305
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/standby-drain-2-8-hours-wifi-bit-4g-t3416864
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Hi
Most of times battery consumption is due to settings , WIFI , e-mail sync , location , rogue app , facebook..... review them......maybe do a factory reset , install nothing and see how it behaves , install app in smaller lots to see if there an increase on battery drainage , if you where root there is an app that is great to see exactly who is the culprit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Anyhow also check some of this threads for ideas
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/battery-life-discussion-t3316305
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/standby-drain-2-8-hours-wifi-bit-4g-t3416864
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If it was a rogue app, wouldn't that show up in battery usage?
For apps, syncing, location and network, I have the exact same settings I had in my previous Note 4 and LG G2, and nothing like this ever happened.
Location is on all the time, I'm connected to my company's WiFi, 4G always on (overriden by the WiFi most of the time).
The only thing I didn't have in those phones was the "screen always on" of the S7 that shows the time, which reviewers say that it's so optimized that it barely makes a difference.
I wouldn't be complaining if it were draining a bit faster than the Note 4 or the old LG G2, but it's actually draining like 4-5 times faster!
Yesterday I had both the G2 and the S7 with me, with all the same apps, with a SIM card from the same network/account.
When I reached the store, the S7 had almost critical battery, while the G2 had around 80%...
The S7 didn't get hot or anything.
I will wait a couple days to see if it improves, but it's extremely disappointing, after spending 730€ on a new phone (around $820).
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If it was a rogue app, wouldn't that show up in battery usage?
For apps, syncing, location and network, I have the exact same settings I had in my previous Note 4 and LG G2, and nothing like this ever happened.
Location is on all the time, I'm connected to my company's WiFi, 4G always on (overriden by the WiFi most of the time).
The only thing I didn't have in those phones was the "screen always on" of the S7 that shows the time, which reviewers say that it's so optimized that it barely makes a difference.
I wouldn't be complaining if it were draining a bit faster than the Note 4 or the old LG G2, but it's actually draining like 4-5 times faster!
Yesterday I had both the G2 and the S7 with me, with all the same apps, with a SIM card from the same network/account.
When I reached the store, the S7 had almost critical battery, while the G2 had around 80%...
The S7 didn't get hot or anything.
I will wait a couple days to see if it improves, but it's extremely disappointing, after spending 730€ on a new phone (around $820).
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Battery drainage is a Bit** , some time is hard to find out what is going on and you need to be patient and methodical
to your questions
If it was a rogue app, wouldn't that show up in battery usage?
Not necessary , may be is a process and do not show in there , most times you need a better app (BBS the link i gave you) and be root to see those process , or by discarding apps to find out
For apps, syncing, location and network, I have the exact same settings I had in my previous Note 4 and LG G2, and nothing like this ever happened.
Different phones , not necessarily the apps behave the same in different phones
Location is on all the time, I'm connected to my company's WiFi, 4G always on (overriden by the WiFi most of the time).
Try different settings and see if they make a difference , see what apps are using location , do not have wifi on all the time during sleep......
In my case i do not have even half of that drainage , of course we all use the phone in different ways and have different apps......as i said is a royal pain in the a** and need to be patient and methodical to find out if is a real hardware problem or a configuration problem
After reading this,
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS7/c..._s7_edge_battery_drains_20_overnight_8_hours/
I've decided to wait for a few days to see if it improves. The poster seemed to have the same problem I have and he said it stabilized after a few days.
If he problem persists, I will try the things you said.
Thank you.
Maybe you can install Better Battery Stats and wait for it to give you some answers.
I would suspect that the phone has trouble connecting to network, WiFi or mobile network or tries to constantly fix to gps signals. A constant search for better connection results problems like yours. If you can, try another operator sim for a day, or try another location.
Perhaps do not use wifi for a day to rule out bad compatibility with your routers settings.
My S7 SM-930F do not lose ever one percent per hour if left unused with everything on and no powersaving.
Did you use Memory card ? I had similar issue on S4. There was damaged file and phone tried read it whole time.
I had the similar problem which was caused by Email App. Try to install Wakelock Detector Lite and see which app drains the battery most. In my case, Email app was preventing phone to enter deep sleep mode and it can not be seen in Android battery statistics.
Wakelock Detector does not need root but you need to enable developer mode and use adb shell. Code is below, you can Google it for how to.
Code:
"adb -d shell pm grant com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot android.permission.BATTERY_STATS"
Here's an update:
So I've waited a couple days and the battery seems perfect now. I've unplugged it yesterday at around 12h30, used 9gag, browser, facebook, youtube, gmail (a bit of everything, actually) and now it's almost 10h00 and it still has 44%.
I've installed that GSam app and it seems that the phone was transferring lots of stuff through WiFi in the first 2 days, I assume that was the cause.
Thanks everyone for the tips!
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Here's an update:
So I've waited a couple days and the battery seems perfect now. I've unplugged it yesterday at around 12h30, used 9gag, browser, facebook, youtube, gmail (a bit of everything, actually) and now it's almost 10h00 and it still has 44%.
I've installed that GSam app and it seems that the phone was transferring lots of stuff through WiFi in the first 2 days, I assume that was the cause.
Thanks everyone for the tips!
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Thank you for reporting back on how this went for you! Not everyone is so good at doing us this favour!
A lot is going on with a newly initiated mobile and perhaps it was a new firmware too that was downloading in the first days and together with everything else the battery life seems terrible to start with. My S7 downloaded a new firmware and flashed it in my first few hours with the phone and I didn’t notice before it wanted to reboot to flash. Together with all other updating going on if you reinstall apps and set things up it takes a while for the poor thing to settle!
The switching of phones did of course make the whole process start from scratch again and this made the problem seem even worse to you!
Well, Samsung should put some kind of warning in the box or something, I was getting extremely disappointed. I'm very happy now though, the phone seems to be amazing.