How bad does Always On affect battery life? - Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers

I am used to a notification light, this is legit my only issue with the phone as of now so I need to use Always on to at least see the notification visual...How bad of a hit is this generally on battery life?

~1% drain every hour it's on.

iamloco724 said:
I am used to a notification light, this is legit my only issue with the phone as of now so I need to use Always on to at least see the notification visual...How bad of a hit is this generally on battery life?
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Without controlled tests can't say for sure, but I've had my 3 since last week. Today for the first time I had AOD on all day, and I've got more battery left now at 7pm (74%) than I did yesterday at this time without AOD. Usage varies some day to day so that's not conclusive, but my observation so far is it's not a battery hog. Its easy enough to try and compare for yourself. I also have adaptive battery turned on which can take a while to optimize, so that could have influenced my results. For now I'm leaving AOD on.

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~1% drain every hour it's on.
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That's about right. If I charge my phone to 100% before bedtime it's at about 91% in the morning. If I turn off AOD, it's about 98% in the morning which is about the same as other phones I have. I wish you could program it to turn off from say 10pm to 6am like my LG V30.
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rmc69 said:
That's about right. If I charge my phone to 100% before bedtime it's at about 91% in the morning. If I turn off AOD, it's about 98% in the morning which is about the same as other phones I have. I wish you could program it to turn off from say 10pm to 6am like my LG V30.
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Hmm I am not a pro at Tasker but I wonder whether this can be achieved using that without root?

rmc69 said:
That's about right. If I charge my phone to 100% before bedtime it's at about 91% in the morning. If I turn off AOD, it's about 98% in the morning which is about the same as other phones I have. I wish you could program it to turn off from say 10pm to 6am like my LG V30.
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My Huawei blow my mind with turning itself of and turning itself on again as scheduled
Really cool and should be standard

rmc69 said:
That's about right. If I charge my phone to 100% before bedtime it's at about 91% in the morning. If I turn off AOD, it's about 98% in the morning which is about the same as other phones I have. I wish you could program it to turn off from say 10pm to 6am like my LG V30.
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AOD turns off when the proximity sensor is covered. Its off in the pockets. Its off when you put it in a sleeve or just turn it over screen down.
If you feel comfortable with keeping the phone screen down on your night stand, AOD will turn off automatically.

You can certainly do it with Tasker (I do). Should work without root as it's just a secure setting (Tasker supports changing secure settings now, or you can use the auto tools plugin)
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Battery usage in night time?

Previously I had Huawei with 4.0.3 and in night time (wifi disabled, sync disabled, no apps active) battery dropped about 3 points, but with Moto it's about 10 points.
How much battery uses your Moto in night time?
ksuuk said:
Previously I had Huawei with 4.0.3 and in night time (wifi disabled, sync disabled, no apps active) battery dropped about 3 points, but with Moto it's about 10 points.
How much battery uses your Moto in night time?
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The one of mine used last night more or less the same, around 10% with wifi, no apps running, no data conection, etc. I'm a little bit worried about it, i think it's too much battery drop :/
ksuuk said:
Previously I had Huawei with 4.0.3 and in night time (wifi disabled, sync disabled, no apps active) battery dropped about 3 points, but with Moto it's about 10 points.
How much battery uses your Moto in night time?
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I just go airplane mode and I had a 1% drop over 10 hours overnight.
download BetterBatteryStats or Wakelock Detector and check what eats your battery
fubag said:
I just go airplane mode and I had a 1% drop over 10 hours overnight.
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I'm using Profile Scheduler, but since 4.3 it can't activate aeroplane mode, without rooting and I always forget switch it manually.
I always turn off my data and WiFi and my phone only drops about 4 to 6 percent overnight
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well, my battery has dropped 10% inaproximately 5 hours beeing in airplane mode :/ can someone tell me why?
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well, my battery has dropped 10% inaproximately 5 hours beeing in airplane mode :/ can someone tell me why?
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yes, read my previous post.
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It may have been related to Mediaserver, read - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2570854
I need SkyPe so can't unistall it but I disabled AD -s in SkyPe settings, and see does it help.
Edit: I removed latest SkyPe and installed older version and Mediaserver doesn't eat battery anymore.
It seems to do just fine at nighttime for me.
Nearly 0% drain after a night with airplane mode.
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Tonight, in almos 6 hours my battery has dropped around 4% being in airplane mode. I have installed betterbatterystats and i cannot see anything strange
what used up the 4% that is not strange?
I unplugged my phone at around 3am because I rolled over and noticed the notification led blinking. I was at 100% and cleared the notification. Went back to sleep then got up around 5:30am and looked at my phone. I noticed my battery was down more than I expected so I checked the stats. I was down almost 20% in 2 hours 30 minutes. Android OS was at 60% usage with time on a 2 hours 20 minutes. I had sleep assist turned on during the night and I also keep wifi and data on. I've installed Wakelock Detector to see if it will be able to see what in Android OS is keeping my phone on.
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Scott
fyi. when you charge your phone, the battery starts discharging once the battery is FULL, NOT when the cable is unplugged. However, the battery % will not drop whilst the phone is plugged in,
Therefore, if you charge your phone fully but don't unplug it for hours, it 'may' appear to discharge faster than normal once you do unplug it. (basically the phone will over present it's true charge level).
If you unplug the phone as soon as its fully charged, however, it will appear to discharge more slowly...
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fyi. when you charge your phone, the battery starts discharging once the battery is FULL, NOT when the cable is unplugged. However, the battery % will not drop whilst the phone is plugged in,
Therefore, if you charge your phone fully but don't unplug it for hours, it 'may' appear to discharge faster than normal once you do unplug it. (basically the phone will over present it's true charge level).
If you unplug the phone as soon as its fully charged, however, it will appear to discharge more slowly...
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Lol
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Lol
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think I must have missed the joke??, or are you wishing me 'Lots of Love' ?
you can test if for yourself if you don't believe me... It protects the battery..
it is very relevant for people who charge their phone over night. The Android battery stats will start the clock ticking from 9am when they unplug their phone, however the battery started discharging 6 hours erlier when he phone was fully charged at 3am... The % then drops much faster than expected as it races to it's 'true' level of charge. This could explain the differences people are seeing in some cases...
helppme said:
think I must have missed the joke??, or are you wishing me 'Lots of Love' ?
you can test if for yourself if you don't believe me... It protects the battery..
it is very relevant for people who charge their phone over night. The Android battery stats will start the clock ticking from 9am when they unplug their phone, however the battery started discharging 6 hours erlier when he phone was fully charged at 3am... The % then drops much faster than expected as it races to it's 'true' level of charge. This could explain the differences people are seeing in some cases...
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actually you are just partially right. the percentage only drops until reaching a trigger level, where it starts to charge again. also in my opinion when the phone is charged and left plugged in it uses the power directly and leaves the battery untouched
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helppme said:
think I must have missed the joke??, or are you wishing me 'Lots of Love' ?
you can test if for yourself if you don't believe me... It protects the battery..
it is very relevant for people who charge their phone over night. The Android battery stats will start the clock ticking from 9am when they unplug their phone, however the battery started discharging 6 hours erlier when he phone was fully charged at 3am... The % then drops much faster than expected as it races to it's 'true' level of charge. This could explain the differences people are seeing in some cases...
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Hogwash.
Lithium batteries don't retain a memory.. You can charge them as often as you want... No matter what percentage your at. And if you leave it plugged in it will keep your battery fully charged with a trickle charge at 100...
I'm not sure what wives tales you've been reading.... But not everything on the Internet is true.... So you know.
I read something else around here lately where a guy was saying basically if you plug in at bedtime, you better wake up after a couple hours and unplug.... Or you'll damage your battery. Lol
Anyway.... Charge how ever you feel you need to.... To each their own. But I guarantee your battery will not drain quicker cause you left it charging all night.... That's simply ridiculous.
No offence.
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Lol
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kj2112 said:
Hogwash.
Lithium batteries don't retain a memory.. You can charge them as often as you want... No matter what percentage your at. And if you leave it plugged in it will keep your battery fully charged with a trickle charge at 100...
I'm not sure what wives tales you've been reading.... But not everything on the Internet is true.... So you know.
I read something else around here lately where a guy was saying basically if you plug in at bedtime, you better wake up after a couple hours and unplug.... Or you'll damage your battery. Lol
Anyway.... Charge how ever you feel you need to.... To each their own. But I guarantee your battery will not drain quicker cause you left it charging all night.... That's simply ridiculous.
No offence.
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its not hogwash, I think maybe you misunderstood me. I'm well aware lithium cells aren't memory cells. In fact, check my post history I posted as much in a thread of someone asking 'how best to first charge their moto G'. So if this is what you thought I meant, fairplay.
However,
Someone clarified above there is a 'threshold' level. however, these phones do not 'trickle charge' it's not a car battery. Charging at full amps when the battery is full would damage it, hence it stops charging, starts to discharge, then at some 'threshold level' will begin charging again, it does not trickle charge..
Also, as a matter of fact a friend of mine is an electrical engineer, does small Linux projects and some work on ARM architecture. I first heard about this behaviour when charging whilst on the XDA S2 forum. We tested the charge in the S2 1650mha battery ourselves and found we could get a variety of charge levels all shown as '100%' on the phone, just by when we unplugged the charger. I'm making an assumption this phone behaves the same, however why would it not?
So, all I would say to anyone on this forum. Just because someone has a lot of posts and thanks and 'knows his stuff' , This guy should take his own advice and not believe everything he reads on the internet...
No offence

How long does your battery last in a day?

My watch is fully charged at the beginning of the day, 5:00 am, and 12 hours later it is down to 39%. I checked my notifications and did use the internal music player when working out for 30 minutes today. So was just wondering what everyone is experiencing with battery life.
Think I can get 24 hours with the screen always on and wake up gesture set on. 2 days with wake up gesture on and always on screen set off.
70%@24 hours with wake-up gesture, moderate heart rate monitoring, NFC and Wifi turned off, and lots of notifications.
Wonder why my battery is draining so fast...
I'm at 70% after an 8 hour work day. Wake up gesture on, wifi, bluetooth on.
After a day I get home with 33%. By bed time I am closer to 28-29%. No way could I get 2 days. This is with brightness low, although ambient still working. Gesture on, wifi & bluetooth on. This is the biggest disappointment about the phone.
Can I get through a day? yes. Can I get the claimed battery life? no. I do not get many notifications (maybe 15 emails and 10 texts a day on it).
Currently at 65%. Last plugged in was yesterday morning at 6am. WiFi off since its always near my phone. Wake up gesture on. Brightness at 6. I get a good amount of notifications too. This can easily last me 2 work days.
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mobeast17 said:
Currently at 65%. Last plugged in was yesterday morning at 6am. WiFi off since its always near my phone. Wake up gesture on. Brightness at 6. I get a good amount of notifications too. This can easily last me 2 work days.
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Mine was at 62% last night so two days won't be a problem. Since it's new I'm still playing around with it and using more battery than is necessary. Put my wife's photo on the watch face just to see if I could. I did shut off WiFi since my phone is always nearby and NFC since that doesn't really work yet and I'm not sure I would use it anyway. I also turned off the turn on with notifications. Accidentally put it in a waterfall pond this morning doing some maintenance and am glad I don't have to worry about that aspect of it.
What phone are you using your Gear S2 with?
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What phone are you using your Gear S2 with?
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S6
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What phone are you using your Gear S2 with?
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Galaxy SIII
With brightness at 7, all connections on (WiFi, BT, NFC), screen always on, and receiving notifications, I finished yesterday with about 20%. The watch was taken off the charger at 6:45am and put down around midnight.
Today, I made one change and turned off WiFi. Watch off from the cradle at 6:45am and right now at 10:36pm, I have 31% left.
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Last night I was at 33% again (10:00 pm). I turned off the functions wifi/bluetooth/nfc and this morning I was at 20%. I am running it down today to see if that will help condition the battery (100-0 then full charge) and if it adjusts how the percent remaining is displayed.
I seem to remember that batteries should be usually kept between 20% and 80% with an occasional full cycle to help keep them conditioned. I'm no expert though so this may or may not be true.
29 hrs and it shut down. Light use of the device.
-30 email/text notifications.
-15 hrm tests.
-screen brightness of 5.
-22hrs with wifi/bluetooth/nfc on,
-8hrs with it off (during sleep).
61% left last night. 60% left seems to be my average. NFC off, WiFi off, watch on with notifications off, heart rate frequent. Basic watch-face with white background and date. Notifications from ESPN and texts.
Ending 18 hour days with about 35% in the six days I've had it. Brightness @3. BT and wifi on. Nfc off. Always on screen on. Tilt to wake, and heart rate off.
Decided to try the always on feature today and ended the day at 31% instead of my usual 60% so this feature uses a lot of battery. Going back to not always on.
With the s2 classic, im at 38% with light usage, a few notifications, wifi off, nfc off, wake up gesture on and 50hrs and 22 mins off the charger.
Edit: brightness on 7.
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Varies a bit from what I can see. I took it off charging dock at 6:30am. At 3:10pm, I have 82% left. Always On screen disabled, brightness at 6, WiFi, BT, NFC on. First day, it was worse.
That is extremely weird. Just bought mine. Charged it fully through night.
- Picked it up at 06:15 @ 100%
- Wifi on, NFC, on, HRM Frequent.
- Brightness 7
- Screen always on
- Wake up on notification
- Wake up gesture on
Battery at 14:00 = 5%....
is this normal ??

poor battery life?

Hi,
I received my gear S2 classic yesterday but I don't seem to be getting the battery life of 2 days. I took it off charge this morning at 11:30 am and it's now 12 noon and it's down to 89%. Is this normal? I've turned off the auto heart rate monitor and NFC and Wifi. It's constantly connected to my note 4 and the brightness is set to 5.
I've had a fair few notifications and haven't really used apps on it today so far but seems to be draining quicker than what I was expecting, just wondering if this is normal or not? I understand it's a small battery but when it's supposed to get 2 days and it doesn't seem like I'd get one day out of it if I was to take it off charge early in the morning like at 8 AM for example.
In 30 min it drained 11%? Seems like a lot. Restart it perhaps? I have wifi off, s voie off, and screen brightness set to 5 as well and it lasts 2+ days. I'd give a couple more days, if it doesn't improve then I would exchange it.
nightf0x said:
In 30 min it drained 11%? Seems like a lot. Restart it perhaps? I have wifi off, s voie off, and screen brightness set to 5 as well and it lasts 2+ days. I'd give a couple more days, if it doesn't improve then I would exchange it.
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Think it's okay (ish) been off charge now for about 11 and a half hours and it's at 46% though this still is only barely a day of battery life not 2. Should be able to live with it though I normally put my phone on charge at night when I go bed anyway regardless of the charge I have left and I do the same with the S2. Speaking of phone is there anything I can do with it's battery life? Having bluetooth on 24/7 really takes a hit on my battery life on my note 4. Is there anyway I could put it into some kinda low powered bluetooth mode so maybe it's not quite as fast but still some kind of connection?
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Think it's okay (ish) been off charge now for about 11 and a half hours and it's at 46% though this still is only barely a day of battery life not 2. Should be able to live with it though I normally put my phone on charge at night when I go bed anyway regardless of the charge I have left and I do the same with the S2. Speaking of phone is there anything I can do with it's battery life? Having bluetooth on 24/7 really takes a hit on my battery life on my note 4. Is there anyway I could put it into some kinda low powered bluetooth mode so maybe it's not quite as fast but still some kind of connection?
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I had pretty bad battery life with watch connected too. It turned out it was a misbehaving app with bluetooth, GasBuddy in mycase. Uninstalled it and battery life went back to normal. I suspect something similar may be happening in your case.
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nightf0x said:
I had pretty bad battery life with watch connected too. It turned out it was a misbehaving app with bluetooth, GasBuddy in mycase. Uninstalled it and battery life went back to normal. I suspect something similar may be happening in your case.
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+1 for the misbehaving app as the likely cause. For comparison: My Classic goes on at 9am and off around 9pm with about 60% left, consistently. Connected with bt...Wifi off and max brightness all day.
Battery App Misbehavior
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+1 for the misbehaving app as the likely cause. For comparison: My Classic goes on at 9am and off around 9pm with about 60% left, consistently. Connected with bt...Wifi off and max brightness all day.
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How did you determine the app causing issues? Do you have the clock always on or gestures on? it seems i am draining awfull fast too. Took off charger at 7am and now at 10 i am at 85% is this normal?
mapobean said:
How did you determine the app causing issues? Do you have the clock always on or gestures on? it seems i am draining awfull fast too. Took off charger at 7am and now at 10 i am at 85% is this normal?
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That drain seems a little fast to me but not too bad compared to the experience of others posted here.
Usually you'll notice the drain soon after installing troublesome apps, so the offender is likely one of the last few you installed. To fix this I just uninstall the last few apps I downloaded and test from there. If the battery issue is still not resolved after a while of usage, then I uninstall the ones before it. I don't know of any other way to test on the Gear S2 like we do on android phones (e.g. with bbs, wakelock detector, etc.).
The battery life I mentioned for my Classic is with gesture mide turned on, and always-on mode turned off.

battery drain overnight

Does anyone get quite bad battery drain overnight?seems to drain more than when I had my s7 edge!!I know s7 edge had doze built in so I'm assuming s8+ also had doze built in,also compared to my previous phone iPhone 7+ which hardly drained,dropped 10% overnight about 6 hours doing nothing and was in ultra battery settings also using greenify,do I need to download the app doze?other than this battery life through the day and such has been great anyone else get this?cheers
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Does anyone get quite bad battery drain overnight?seems to drain more than when I had my s7 edge!!I know s7 edge had doze built in so I'm assuming s8+ also had doze built in,also compared to my previous phone iPhone 7+ which hardly drained,dropped 10% overnight about 6 hours doing nothing and was in ultra battery settings also using greenify,do I need to download the app doze?other than this battery life through the day and such has been great anyone else get this?cheers
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No issues here just woke up after 5hrs and half at 98% on AT&T S8 Plus
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No issues here just woke up after 5hrs and half at 98% on AT&T S8 Plus
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How come your apps haven't showed up should be so many with tiny use have you got apps installed?do you use greenify or anything?cheers
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How come your apps haven't showed up should be so many with tiny use have you got apps installed?do you use greenify or anything?cheers
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The reason why it don't show i unplugged phone around 2:30 am after that i went right back to bed and just woke up now , so thats normal will not show apps since phone wasn't touched till i got up, once you start using phone and apps then it will start showing apps being used!
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The reason why it don't show i unplugged phone around 2:30 am after that i went right back to bed and just woke up now , so thats normal will not show apps since phone wasn't touched till i got up, once you start using phone and apps then it will start showing apps being used!
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See look at pictures after i woke up a few minutes later am using phone so now apps are showing up!
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My battery drain overnight is minimal, 8 hours off the plug on a full charge is 4-6 per cent.
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My battery drain overnight is minimal, 8 hours off the plug on a full charge is 4-6 per cent.
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Yup that sounds about right!
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The reason why it don't show i unplugged phone around 2:30 am after that i went right back to bed and just woke up now , so thats normal will not show apps since phone wasn't touched till i got up, once you start using phone and apps then it will start showing apps being used!
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So before you stop using phone for night do you close all apps in background for them not to show or just leave it?thanks for info
I'm having a battery issue as well. I had my phone on the car charger for 5 hours and it showed that it was charging but my phone dropped to 6%. There were no apps running in the background and I restarted the phone.
My T-Mobile variant S8+ seldom has more than a 4% drop after being fully charged and sitting on desk for 8-9 hours. I've disabled Bixby and several other services.
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I'm having a battery issue as well. I had my phone on the car charger for 5 hours and it showed that it was charging but my phone dropped to 6%. There were no apps running in the background and I restarted the phone.
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I've had a couple of instances when the battery would not charge when plugged is. Showd as quick charging, but no increase in percent battery charge. Rebooting fixed it for me both times.
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I usually charge my phones overnight, but in the one instance that I left it unplugged, I was pleasantly surprised to wake up to 100%. Not a single percent dropped. It's worth mentioning that I turned the phone over so that AOD would shut off.
i've been having issues as well. it has been draining 20-40% overnight lately. i got gsam with advanced stats on and have been removing stuff... i'm not quite sure what the culprit is, but i think it might be dt ignite so i disabled that.
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Does anyone get quite bad battery drain overnight?seems to drain more than when I had my s7 edge!!I know s7 edge had doze built in so I'm assuming s8+ also had doze built in,also compared to my previous phone iPhone 7+ which hardly drained,dropped 10% overnight about 6 hours doing nothing and was in ultra battery settings also using greenify,do I need to download the app doze?other than this battery life through the day and such has been great anyone else get this?cheers
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You need to identify the what the wake-locks are that are causing the battery drain. Install BetterBatteryStats, charge your phone right before bedtime, then leave it overnight to collect data. Post a screenshot of BetterBatteryStats when you wakeup the next morning.
i have the same problem with my galaxy S8 i lose overnight between 10 and 20 %.. before this problem i lost 1 to 3% overnight and now it has been a week that i have this problem of loosing 10 to 20% :/
I have my Wi-Fi off, phone face down so Aod is turned off. Location is on power saving mode. Optimised settings ,fhd+. Still I lose more than 10% overnight. What should I do to reduce this drain ?? I am getting a great battery life otherwise on my note 8. About 6 to 7hrs of Sot with about 18 hrs total.
I`m getting 2% drain over 8 hours of sleep with AOD off , wifi on or off it`s the same 2%, location always on on power saving mode.

Question Overnight battery drain issue

I am totally in love with my GW4 (Classic 46mm Model) as it's my first smartwatch but there is still one thing that bothers me, the unreasonable battery drain overnight. I charged up my watch last night, put the watch on my desk, came back in the morning and saw about 10% battery drain in 8 hours! That's insane considering the fact that I've disabled everything and even enabled battery saver, I thought after all these years I can finally get a full fledged Wear OS smartwatch and be happy with the battery but Wear OS is still the same OS as it was.
I've got the same issue. I thought it was the sleep tracking but I was wrong
And the funny fact is that the battery life is reasonably good when you actually using the watch, but as soon as you put it away it starts to drink juice weirdly, looks like there is no deep sleep kicking in no matter what, even disabling everything and enabling airplane mode.
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I am totally in love with my GW4 as it's my first smartwatch but there is still one thing that bothers me, the unreasonable battery drain overnight. I charged up my watch last night, put the watch on my desk, came back in the morning and saw about 10% battery drain in 8 hours! That's insane considering the fact that I've disabled everything and even enabled battery saver, I thought after all these years I can finally get a full fledged Wear OS smartwatch and be happy with the battery but Wear OS is still the same OS as it was.
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Which version/size do you have? How many times have you fully charged the watch? I have Classic 46mm. My battery drains 4 -6 % during the night. I have watch on my wrist when I sleep. I always put watch into bedtime mode before I go to bed. I don't disable anything or put on power saving mode. I think the bedtime mode simply turns off notifications and stops watch face from automatically turning on.
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Which version/size do you have? How many times have you fully charged the watch? I have Classic 46mm. My battery drains 4 -6 % during the night. I have watch on my wrist when I sleep. I always put watch into bedtime mode before I go to bed. I don't disable anything or put on power saving mode. I think the bedtime mode simply turns off notifications and stops watch face from automatically turning on.
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Oh sorry for not mentioning it, It's the same as yours classic 46mm. I have the watch for almost 1 week now but I always charge it whenever it gets to 50% so it's a half cycle charge. Do you think I should let it fully discharged and recharge it for a full cycle?
I have the non classic 44mm LTE and I have always used bedtime mode and I've tried nothing all the way to disabling everything and enabling battery saver and still lose quite a bit at night
UnknownWolf said:
Oh sorry for not mentioning it, It's the same as yours classic 46mm. I have the watch for almost 1 week now but I always charge it whenever it gets to 50% so it's a half cycle charge. Do you think I should let it fully discharged and recharge it for a full cycle?
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It seems to me that the battery lasted longer after doing some full cycle charges but I could be wrong. I definitely have seen improvement in battery life since the first few days I had watch. Not sure what it is.
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I've got the same issue. I thought it was the sleep tracking but I was wrong
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How do you know it was not sleep tracking?
For me, I went to bed yesterday with almost 100% battery. The overnight drain was 15%, flight mode enabled, good night mode enabled and spO2 while sleeping on.
My watch is 40mm, BT modell.
Tonight I will try only the automatic good night mode.
What about Bluetooth when my phone is in airplane mode? Will it consume more battery searching for the device? My wifi will also be disabled in the night...
I am seeing this same thing
13% drain with airplane mode, good night mode, and battery saver modes on.
13-14% drain with battery saver mode and good night mode on.
This is for an 8 hour window.
Using the watch during the day, the battery does seem to last longer and I don't see the drain, even when using it to track workouts and such.
Last night my battery used 11%. I'm not sure what the difference is. I know I have been in the 4-6% range in the past but I always do not pay attention. Possibly related to how fully charged the watch is. Why do we think 10% is bad? I did a search on-line and I have to say that 10% seems very good compared to some other watches. The reality for me as that I'm typically getting 2 days plus on a charge unless I'm heavy on GPS. Currently I'm at 50% and I charged the watch 1 day and 9 hours ago. I came from a GW1 which had significantly more battery time but I'm still very happy with the GW4.
My drain is 20% overnight - despite watch being in bedtime mode.
UnknownWolf said:
I am totally in love with my GW4 (Classic 46mm Model) as it's my first smartwatch but there is still one thing that bothers me, the unreasonable battery drain overnight. I charged up my watch last night, put the watch on my desk, came back in the morning and saw about 10% battery drain in 8 hours! That's insane considering the fact that I've disabled everything and even enabled battery saver, I thought after all these years I can finally get a full fledged Wear OS smartwatch and be happy with the battery but Wear OS is still the same OS as it was.
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If your watch is on your desk and turned on, it's constantly searching for your wrist. If you are not wearing it, turn it off.
I have the same issue about battery drain.
I lose between 15-20% each night with everything off (no SpO2, no snoring, etc)
I have the LTE 46 classic model
But based on people and comments I'm guessing the issue comes because I'm not using a Samsung phone and bed time is not synced with the watch and is still "online" all the night
Geez I thought my 3-5 percent drain was horrible. I have the 44mm Bluetooth only model. The first night it drained horrible but I had every sensor on. I noticed I got much better battery after disabling location. I've had mine paired since 7am this morning (it's now 3pm) responding to texts, wifi on and using Spotify on it at 75 percent brightness and it's at 79 percent now. Maybe I got lucky or something? The only sensors I have are the step counter as well as heart rate when resting more than 10 minutes and I never like to use battery saver mode on mine
Second night and I got about 20% drain overnight with everything turned on. I got a similar battery consumption like adj998. Spotify on first place.
I will try do disable GPS tonight and see if anything changes, but I guess it's a normal behaviour. One thing I could try is to turn the spO2 sensor off.
Read somewhere that unlocked ADB is the culprit. So I have unlocked it.
Let me watch how it helps my 20% overnight drain.
sjgoel said:
Read somewhere that unlocked ADB is the culprit. So I have unlocked it.
Let me watch how it helps my 20% overnight drain.
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Interesting. I'm betting that this drain is related to certain apps as well. When I did my post yesterday about the 11% drain the previous night I noticed the Altimeter app was listed at 4.5%. I immediately uninstalled this app. I had used it once the previous day and apparently it was still using battery. Results: much battery time last night. I would say 3%. In fact, when I looked earlier this morning I still had 41% battery. Yesterday morning I was at 50%. 25 hours and 9% battery used. I have not been very active these last couple days (long days at work). Still putting in about 5,000 steps a day. I have notifications on (gmail, texts, meesenger), use bedtime mode, spO2 sensor off, and do not have watch always on.
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Interesting. I'm betting that this drain is related to certain apps as well. When I did my post yesterday about the 11% drain the previous night I noticed the Altimeter app was listed at 4.5%. I immediately uninstalled this app. I had used it once the previous day and apparently it was still using battery. Results: much battery time last night. I would say 3%. In fact, when I looked earlier this morning I still had 41% battery. Yesterday morning I was at 50%. 25 hours and 9% battery used. I have not been very active these last couple days (long days at work). Still putting in about 5,000 steps a day. I have notifications on (gmail, texts, meesenger), use bedtime mode, spO2 sensor off, and do not have watch always on. View attachment 5405809
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Read on Reddit that altimeter drain was a known issue, in earlier models as well.
With people that are having excessive battery drain on their watch: are there any apps which are listed in Wear app -> Watch settings -> Battery that seem like a high percent of battery usage?
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With people that are having excessive battery drain on their watch: are there any apps which are listed in Wear app -> Watch settings -> Battery that seem like a high percent of battery usage?
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Actually yeah, for me it's Spotify. I installed it and connected it to my account but did not use it...

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