Hi All,
Got my OP6 a few days ago, I've come back to android after having to endure iOS on an iPhone 6s+
Things seem to have changed since I had my last android phone (Oneplus One).
I can't seem to find much detail about what is actually using up my battery.
When looking at tips online for reducing battery usage I keep seeing this battery stats screen for oreo (presumably AOSP or some very unmodified version from google).
The battery stats screen has a sub menu inside by pressing on the 3 dots in the top right which displays "Batttery Optimisation" and "Show full device usage".
On the OP6 Its accessible via Settings>Battery. However there is no 3 dots button in the top right that i keep seeing everywhere.
Has this menu been removed from Oxygen OS or something?
What are you guys all doing to reduce battery usage?
(I would post screenshots to describe better but my post count limits me - can't remember my old login here!)
Tia
silent08 said:
Hi All,
Got my OP6 a few days ago, I've come back to android after having to endure iOS on an iPhone 6s+
Things seem to have changed since I had my last android phone (Oneplus One).
I can't seem to find much detail about what is actually using up my battery.
When looking at tips online for reducing battery usage I keep seeing this battery stats screen for oreo (presumably AOSP or some very unmodified version from google).
The battery stats screen has a sub menu inside by pressing on the 3 dots in the top right which displays "Batttery Optimisation" and "Show full device usage".
On the OP6 Its accessible via Settings>Battery. However there is no 3 dots button in the top right that i keep seeing everywhere.
Has this menu been removed from Oxygen OS or something?
What are you guys all doing to reduce battery usage?
(I would post screenshots to describe better but my post count limits me - can't remember my old login here!)
Tia
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The battery optimization section is the button right under the battery saver option
silent08 said:
Hi All,
Got my OP6 a few days ago, I've come back to android after having to endure iOS on an iPhone 6s+
Things seem to have changed since I had my last android phone (Oneplus One).
I can't seem to find much detail about what is actually using up my battery.
When looking at tips online for reducing battery usage I keep seeing this battery stats screen for oreo (presumably AOSP or some very unmodified version from google).
The battery stats screen has a sub menu inside by pressing on the 3 dots in the top right which displays "Batttery Optimisation" and "Show full device usage".
On the OP6 Its accessible via Settings>Battery. However there is no 3 dots button in the top right that i keep seeing everywhere.
Has this menu been removed from Oxygen OS or something?
What are you guys all doing to reduce battery usage?
(I would post screenshots to describe better but my post count limits me - can't remember my old login here!)
Tia
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You can also get to this by tapping the battery/battery percent in the settings
Thanks,
I did find the battery optimisation setting - However the one im more intereted in finding is "Show full device usage".
If you google this:
"Android Oreo feature spotlight: More traditional battery stats make a return with 'Show full device usage' setting"
The first article shows a screenshot of the exact menu I'm trying to find.
silent08 said:
Thanks,
I did find the battery optimisation setting - However the one im more intereted in finding is "Show full device usage".
If you google this:
"Android Oreo feature spotlight: More traditional battery stats make a return with 'Show full device usage' setting"
The first article shows a screenshot of the exact menu I'm trying to find.
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That screen shot is stock Android we aren't on stock Android so obviously you won't find the exact same menu
I don't expect to find the same menu.
My question was does this menu exist somewhere on our devicea?
It looks like my battery stats only show user applications rather than the whole system.
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Hi all,
Running stock Android 2.2.2 on a Galaxy Pro, and I can't seem to locate "Battery Level" percentage.
All posts point that it should be under Settings > About Phone > Status, but all I can see there is Battery Status, which is either Charging or Discharging.
Any help to locate "Battery Level" would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Anyone, please?
Click on one of the text there.. either battery status or that progress bar (that shows how much is left).
Most of the time, pressing the Menu button will pop up extra options as well.. just try tapping around and see if anything comes up
chongyixiong said:
Click on one of the text there.. either battery status or that progress bar (that shows how much is left).
Most of the time, pressing the Menu button will pop up extra options as well.. just try tapping around and see if anything comes up
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Nope - neither is clickable. :\
amdroyd said:
Nope - neither is clickable. :\
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You're saying that: Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery use - _ doesn't allow you to see details regarding battery status/usage?
GodzillaBox said:
You're saying that: Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery use - _ doesn't allow you to see details regarding battery status/usage?
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It does give me a break-down of battery usage. But it does not give me a "battery level" in percentage, which is what I can't seem to find anywhere on my phone.
I understand a widget would do the job, but I find it intriguing not being able to find this piece of information, especially that most people seem to have it.
I get what you mean, but the Battery Level is segmented into 10 bars, and I can roughly guess that my current battery level is at 40% (4 green bars).
BattStatt Pro shows me that I'm at 42% actually. So it's not far off, you'd be able to estimate to the nearest +/- 5% or 2.5% if your 'eyeball' skills are not bad.
Edit: On my HTC Legend, I can enter *#*#4636#*#* on the dialer menu and then check my Battery Info from there as well.
When you click about phone,is ther not an option that just sez status then gives percentage,if not I mayby thinking of a later android,if u long press on home screen,choose widgets,see if theres a battery 1 to add,there is on my android or look in the market theres plenty apps or widgets for free
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I cannot find an indication of screen on time in either Usage or History under my power menu. Is it not there, or am I just blind? I've also checked the "Display & gestures" without luck.
Screen time has always been my major indication of battery life, so I'm having a hard time evaluating my new phone without it. Can anyone help?
Thank you.
TheTomas said:
I cannot find an indication of screen on time in either Usage or History under my power menu. Is it not there, or am I just blind? I've also checked the "Display & gestures" without luck.
Screen time has always been my major indication of battery life, so I'm having a hard time evaluating my new phone without it. Can anyone help?
Thank you.
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Try a 3rd party app like GSAM Battery Monitor.
So it's really not there? I really thought I was just missing something. It's ridiculous that the information is not available through the stock rom.
Thanks for the reply, I'll check out the app, but it seems like there's got to be a way to get the stock system to show that info? Maybe there's a mod of the settings.db to enable it?
Anyone know?
Yeah, I have no idea why HTC would not include the "Screen" section for Battery Usage
krazie1 said:
Yeah, I have no idea why HTC would not include the "Screen" section for Battery Usage
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Hell, I don't know why they didn't just use the real Android settings/power/etc screens, and just theme them with Sense.
TheTomas said:
I cannot find an indication of screen on time in either Usage or History under my power menu. Is it not there, or am I just blind? I've also checked the "Display & gestures" without luck.
Screen time has always been my major indication of battery life, so I'm having a hard time evaluating my new phone without it. Can anyone help?
Thank you.
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Isn't it in settings under / power ? nevermind I see what your talking about.
Yeah that irritated the heck out of me too when I first noticed it. And since KitKat you can't use apps to monitor battery statistics without root and an Xposed module. Now I just betterbatterystats and EnableBatteryStatsPermission xposed module and I can see my screen on time, kernel wakelocks, and everything else. Works for me.
I recently updated my Nexus 5 to Android 6.0 and now when I go to the dialer and enter *#*#4636#*#* the testing menu is now missing the "Battery Information" menu. It had phone uptime, battery health, battery temperature and a few other things.
What happened to it? I still get the other three options but not the one I want. Is it just gone? Maybe moved to a different place?
I just noticed this! I wanted to check what the health of my battery currently is, but now there is no way to check this anymore? Seems like the exact opposite of what Google wanted to achieve with Marshmallow, giving the user more insight into battery information.
Hello everyone,
This guide is for non-rooted, stock-firmware phones. It is geared more towards getting good stand-by times, but of course this will also benefit screen-on time. It has some OnePlus-specific things but also many non-specific to one manufacturer. It does not contain miracle information, but from my experience it can help quite a bit. It assumes that you keep phone, mobile data, Wi-Fi and sync enabled at all times. Those are core features of any phone and are not means to save battery. The optimization steps are listed in the order which I think impacts battery life. You may or may not apply some or all of the things listed, depending on your own needs.
So:
1. Go to Settings->Battery->Battery optimization->[tap on the 3 vertical dots on the upper right corner] and enable the phone's "Advanced Battery Optimization" (aka. Aggressive Doze) feature, while at the same time whitelisting apps from which you need instant notifications, like Whatsapp or Outlook, etc. For other apps notifications may be delayed. Some applications like AdBlock Plus for Samsung browser also need whitelisting to work properly. Just go by trial and error with finding which applications need whitelisting.
2. Enable "Developer Mode" by going to Settings->About Phone and tapping 7 times on the "Build Number". Then go to Settings->Developer Options and enable the "App Wi-Fi Multi/Broadcasting Filter" option. I did not find any app impacted negatively by this, even casting to Chromecast works fine.
3. Go to Settings->Display->Ambient Display and disable the "Lift up display" and "Wake screen on notifications" options (which are useless compared to a true Always-On Display option anyway), and instead put the phone's RGB notification LED to good use. The Light Flow (one of many, but in my opinion the best) app can customize the LED color for different types of notifications, as well as setting a priority or cycling between colors. Since the LED's "always-on" nature, it is actually much more useful than a dead screen that only wakes up when lifted. When I use Light Flow, I set the LED blinking speed to "Always On" and a diffent color for each app. Works much better than any "ambient" mode.
4. Go to Settings->Display->Themes and enable the "Dark Theme". It reduces power consumption for OLED displays such as the one from the OnePlus 6.
5. Social media apps (especially Facebook) are battery hogs because they need to continuously gather your personal data and usage information. If you are only an occasional user, prefer uninstalling those apps and instead using the browser to access your account. This will also benefit you in other areas, like productivity
6. Keep Location off until you need it. This will ensure that the system does not wake up the GPS due to some obscure request from an app that can also work without knowing your location.
7. Go to Settings->Apps->Application list, tap on each app and review permissions. Remove Location permission for apps that you don't want to unknowingly wake up your GPS and draining your battery. I prefer to only allow Location access to Google Maps and Waze but your mileage may vary.
8. Disable Face Unlock. Activating the front camera so often does consume quite a bit of battery, as can be seen in battery stats. And as you may have read, it is not very secure anyway. As the rear-placed fingerprint sensor makes it almost unusable for me (for example I cannot unlock it while in the car cradle or on the desk), I chose to use the Smart Lock features with my Bluetooth smartwatch and my home Wi-Fi network and my phone stays unlocked while my smartwatch is around, which eliminates the necessity for both face unlock and fingerprint reader.
9. Prefer using software from companies that do not live from user data (like Google and Facebook). Collecting as much user information as possible requires wide system access and takes up a lot of battery. I like to replace Gmail with Microsoft Outlook (even for my Gmail addresses) and I use Samsung Internet instead of Chrome. The Samsung browser seems to be the most battery-efficient browser available, way above Firefox. Microsoft Edge may also be a good alternative.
10. Use an ad-blocker if supported by your browser. Animated ads and additional loading of ad-related content contributes quite a bit to the web browsing battery drain.
11. Go to Settings->Accounts->Google and for each Google account, tap on it and then disable syncing for information that you do not need synced. Clicking on a Google account shows you sections of info to be synced. Disable what you don't need. For example, you may only need Contacts syncing for your primary Gooogle account and not all of them. Same with Google Fit data, pictures, etc.
12. Go to Settings->Apps->Special Access->Usage Access and disable this access for OnePlus Switch and Google Play Store (not for Google Play Services, it may have unwanted side effects). This stops these apps from consuming system resources and battery to continuously collect usage data.
13. Go to Settings->Apps->Application list and disable applications that you don't need and can be disabled (some cannot be disabled).
14. Opt out of (do not enable) the "send diagnostic information" checkboxes whenever you are asked for, unless you are really selfless and want to give [a percentage of your battery life] to the community Go from app to app and see if it has this or similar setting (sometimes these settings are sugarcoated into "enhance your experience by sending your data to us"). Disable if found.
15. Do not enter your OnePlus account information. This will activate all kinds of data-sending services that will contribute to the battery drain.
16. Wipe cache after each update, especially if you notice worsened battery drain. To wipe cache, turn off the phone, then hold Power + VolDown buttons continuously until it starts, keep holding until a menu appears. After you enter your phone password you can choose "Wipe Cache/Data" section which brings another menu, choose "Wipe Cache" then after confirmation, choose Reboot.
17. If you are not using the landscape mode a lot, prefer to lock the phone rotation in portrait mode (the toggle is present among the quick toggles) and only unlock the rotation when needed. From what I have read, somehow the auto-rotation seems to unnecessarily cause some activity (even wake-locks), and from my experience I did see a bit of improvement from this tweak, looks like more than placebo.
18. If you already have a OnePlus 6, this does not apply. But if you are after ultimate battery life, keep in mind, less chips means less power draw if all else is equal, and RAM memory needs continuous refresh, so a model with 6GB of RAM may be a bit more power-efficient than one with 8GB RAM, especially given the fact that still-large 6GB of RAM virtually guarantees that there will be no extra overhead related too app reloading.
Hopefully this will help some people.
Below you will find some of my usual stand-by times after the optimization. Since update 5.1.7 battery life seems to be improved even further (see last 2 screenshots - with 5.1.7 and 5.1.8).
Thanks for all this. Most of the things I already did myself, but some of them actually make a lot of sense but I've never thought about it before.
Already very happy with the battery life I'm getting, but very curious if it will be even better now.
Thanks for this nice pice of guide!
All of this means nothing if you have really bad cell reception like me. -105 to -112 dBm at the office. Drains like hell in standby.
Cst79 said:
1. Go to Settings->Battery->Battery optimization->[tap on the 3 vertical dots on the upper right corner] and enable the phone's "Advanced Battery Optimization" (aka. Aggressive Doze) feature, while at the same time whitelisting apps from which you need instant notifications, like Whatsapp or Outlook, etc. For other apps notifications may be delayed. Some applications like AdBlock Plus for Samsung browser also need whitelisting to work properly. Just go by trial and error with finding which applications need whitelisting.
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By Whitelist you mean changing it to "Not Optimize correct?
mesajoejoe said:
By Whitelist you mean changing it to "Not Optimize correct?
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Correct !
well done on post [emoji106]
Dumb question, is Advanced Optimization (with some apps not optimized as needed) definitely more efficient than normal, with every app set to optimize as by default (and everything works)?
Why isn't there 3 settings for every app: not optimized, optimized, and advanced optimized?
and i got this today... now charging...
Muntasir Mahmud Saif said:
and i got this today... now charging...
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Looks pretty great ! Did you use the optimizations from this guide ? Any other tips ?
Cst79 said:
Looks pretty great ! Did you use the optimizations from this guide ? Any other tips ?
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no bro...i always make my own optimization...no offense though... I'll post the guide later on...
Cst79 said:
15. Do not enter your OnePlus account information. This will activate all kinds of data-sending services that will contribute to the battery drain.
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Hi Bro,
Sorry that i not so understand what this item 15 means.
xiah1512 said:
Hi Bro,
Sorry that i not so understand what this item 15 means.
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As you may know, especially if you purchased your phone or accessories from the OnePlus website or accessed the OnePlus forums or support, you can create a OnePlus account online. At phone setup, OnePlus asks you to optionally enter this account for various benefits. Do not enter this information when/if asked. Or, if already entered, you can delete it from Settings->Accounts.
Cst79 said:
As you may know, especially if you purchased your phone or accessories from the OnePlus website or accessed the OnePlus forums or support, you can create a OnePlus account online. At phone setup, OnePlus asks you to optionally enter this account for various benefits. Do not enter this information when/if asked. Or, if already entered, you can delete it from Settings->Accounts.
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Ok, Thanks bro.
For those suggestions that cut down on network chit-chat, this also serves as a partial data usage optimization guide. Thanks for taking time to enumerate all these suggestions. I found a few slam-dunks in this list.
Cst79 said:
As you may know, especially if you purchased your phone or accessories from the OnePlus website or accessed the OnePlus forums or support, you can create a OnePlus account online. At phone setup, OnePlus asks you to optionally enter this account for various benefits. Do not enter this information when/if asked. Or, if already entered, you can delete it from Settings->Accounts.
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What does adding that account allow you to do?
Muntasir Mahmud Saif said:
no bro...i always make my own optimization...no offense though... I'll post the guide later on...
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how did you fix the massive overnight drain eventually?
I'm getting 8% drain overnight, I dont think that's normal.
-marco- said:
how did you fix the massive overnight drain eventually?
I'm getting 8% drain overnight, I dont think that's normal.
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You are on 5.1.6?
Joyarup said:
You are on 5.1.6?
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I am, yes.
-marco- said:
I am, yes.
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I was also facing this weird issue, then I noticed that the phone wasn't deep sleeping for some reasons, I rebooted it before going to sleep and it went to deep sleep fine and the drain was around 2% on LTE standby overnight. I will try different kernels too, currently using EX.
I just got the 8.1 Oreo update for my LG Q6 (LG-M700 model) and I am having so troubling issues. My biggest problem is battery usage. Google Play Services is by far highest battery user and I have noticed that when I restart the phone, the app is not excluded from the Power Saving Exclusions list, but after a short while, it switches to "Excluded" on its own and starts eating up the battery like crazy and it does not even show up in the list so I can turn the exclusion off. With Nougat I did not have these problems and battery life was ok.
Another issue is that the status bar icons and home buttons are very faded out, same with the on screen keyboard. I don't know if it's just a new look for Android or some hidden setting messing up.
Revert back to 7.1. I'm having issues with the update even if I factory reset to 8.1 still issues.
aaronrey10 said:
Revert back to 7.1. I'm having issues with the update even if I factory reset to 8.1 still issues.
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I've installed the latest beta Google Play Services, and battery drain has improved somewhat, still testing though.
Nandiman said:
I just got the 8.1 Oreo update for my LG Q6 (LG-M700 model) and I am having so troubling issues. My biggest problem is battery usage. Google Play Services is by far highest battery user and I have noticed that when I restart the phone, the app is not excluded from the Power Saving Exclusions list, but after a short while, it switches to "Excluded" on its own and starts eating up the battery like crazy and it does not even show up in the list so I can turn the exclusion off. With Nougat I did not have these problems and battery life was ok.
Another issue is that the status bar icons and home buttons are very faded out, same with the on screen keyboard. I don't know if it's just a new look for Android or some hidden setting messing up.
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the status bar and nav bar icons fading out is a new thing in 8.1 personally i like it but that's my opinion and battery life for me has been the same as nougat
moreogthanu said:
the status bar and nav bar icons fading out is a new thing in 8.1 personally i like it but that's my opinion and battery life for me has been the same as nougat
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After some more testing, I found that with the new Google Play Services, battery drain in standby is great, superb even, but under actual use is still terrible (every time I glance at the battery, it just dropped another percent, and that's just by browsing with Chrome). Does anyone know the proper settings for Google Play Services regrading permissions and such? What can I turn off? What has to remain on? That kind of stuff.
Nandiman said:
After some more testing, I found that with the new Google Play Services, battery drain in standby is great, superb even, but under actual use is still terrible (every time I glance at the battery, it just dropped another percent, and that's just by browsing with Chrome). Does anyone know the proper settings for Google Play Services regrading permissions and such? What can I turn off? What has to remain on? That kind of stuff.
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As far as I know the only permissions that don't have to be on are maybe camera or calendar
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As far as I know the only permissions that don't have to be on are maybe camera or calendar
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Well, in my case I have Calendar, Contacts, Phone, SMS and Storage permissions on, "Draw over other apps" is Yes, "Modify system settings" and "Pictrue-in-picture" is No.
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Well, in my case I have Calendar, Contacts, Phone, SMS and Storage permissions on, "Draw over other apps" is Yes, "Modify system settings" and "Pictrue-in-picture" is No.
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Draw over other apps stays on so does modify system settings