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battery issue in lollipop

Anyone having terrible battery? I'm at 55% with only 40 minutes screen on time. For some reason "Android OS" is at the top of my battery list. Any suggestion on how to fix this? I'd hate to go back to KK. At this rate I'd have to charge 4 times a day. I lost 4% writing this post...

After the upgrade to 5.0, on a full charge it says my estimated time left is 4 hours.
Not sure what's going on here.

I'm guessing it's the old "Miscellaneous" issue that plagued the Dev Preview, that Google was saying they fixed, only now it's called Android OS. It even uses the same icon.

Mine is dropping rather quickly too. 12% in 1 hour with minimal use.
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Yeah its same (or worse) here. I came to look if somebody had posted something similar about it - or to know if I'm alone in this.
It is so bad that on USB charging it actually discharges if the screen is on! AC charging is alright, but as soon as I take it off charger, I can almost see the percentage dropping.
Project Volta they said. There will be battery improvements they said.

the_rebel said:
Yeah its same (or worse) here. I came to look if somebody had posted something similar about it - or to know if I'm alone in this.
It is so bad that on USB charging it actually discharges if the screen is on! AC charging is alright, but as soon as I take it off charger, I can almost see the percentage dropping.
Project Volta they said. There will be battery improvements they said.
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I loved the look and feel of 5.0 (Preview). I was even willing to give up all custom ROM tweaks and Xposed modules for it. But after a week I had to come back to KitKat because the battery on Lollipop was so bad I literally couldn't get through the day.
KitKat feels so 'agricultural' in comparison to 5.0, but it just works and my phone doesn't die in 6hrs.

Mine isn't too bad... Reporting 8 hours left with 55 minutes SoT only at 75%. I switched from my One M8 so I expected a drop in battery.
I'm going to let it settle in though. Liking the look and feel of lollipop too much to go back to KK. The weekend will be a good test for me.

I rooted and took out Google's bloatware.
6%, 4 hours SOT, Been using a lot of chrome, YouTube, and Chrome video playing, also did the removing of apps, got a feel for the system and functionality testing.... This thing went through a hellish 3.5 hours in my case.
Personally, I'm impressed.
Suggestion? Root and remove bloatware apps.
Also, Greenify apps.
I believe the only thing that isn't too like is the battery drop when sleeping. I haven't done any detective work on the wake locks just yet

setspeed said:
I loved the look and feel of 5.0 (Preview). I was even willing to give up all custom ROM tweaks and Xposed modules for it. But after a week I had to come back to KitKat because the battery on Lollipop was so bad I literally couldn't get through the day.
KitKat feels so 'agricultural' in comparison to 5.0, but it just works and my phone doesn't die in 6hrs.
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This. My biggest sacrifice moving from KK was XPosed and the selection of awesome modules I was using.
I just finished restoring my nand backup of L Dev preview - atleast the battery is ok on that. Didn't notice a difference between it and final release anyway.

I am having battery drain issues also. Off the charger at 730 and down to 44% at 1130 with about 30 minutes of screen on time. I am rooted, so I wonder if modifying the boot image to root lollipop is doing something...
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aaa12585 said:
Suggestion? Root and remove bloatware apps.
Also, Greenify apps.
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I removed Chrome, G+, GP Movies, GP Music, GP Games.. disabled Keep and Drive etc. I didn't use Greenify as I usually get better results with DS Battery Saver. Nothing I tried helped... back to Dev Preview for now..

I'm at 87% with 25 minutes and 30 seconds of SOT since 9am this morning.
Proportionally, that would put me at ~3 hours and 12 minutes of SOT.. usage has been fairly light, too.

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I'm at 87% with 25 minutes and 30 seconds of SOT since 9am this morning.
Proportionally, that would put me at ~3 hours and 12 minutes of SOT.. usage has been fairly light, too.
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We know not everyone is having problems. So posting about a Ok or above average battery life doesn't help us poor suffering souls much
Though it'd be awesome if someone who is going through the pain comes across a way to solve the issue.
For me the worst battery eaters are always:
- Android OS
- Google Services
- Android System
- Google Search
- Miscellaneous (sometimes, but its not the worst one)

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the_rebel said:
We know not everyone is having problems. So posting about a Ok or above average battery life doesn't help us poor suffering souls much
Though it'd be awesome if someone who is going through the pain comes across a way to solve the issue.
For me the worst battery eaters are always:
- Android OS
- Google Services
- Android System
- Google Search
- Miscellaneous (sometimes, but its not the worst one)
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Understandable, though there's no harm in having "normal" numbers for the sake of comparison as well.
I had issues with the Google Play Services keep-awake nonsense on KitKat, so naturally I'm keeping a close eye on what processes are draining my battery in L as well.

My battery is also suffering pretty badly. A week before I updated while I was on KK, the battery was horrible. 2 hours SOT from my usual 3. Idk what happened to Project Volta but... this is NOT looking good.

Viruss57 said:
I had issues with the Google Play Services keep-awake nonsense on KitKat, so naturally I'm keeping a close eye on what processes are draining my battery in L as well.
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Yeah.. and as you can see from my list above - the worst ones are all Google. Btw read 'Google Services' above as 'Google Play Services'.

I did read in the code blue kernel thread the kernel dev mentioned that some root apps like Titanium Backup for example can cause the daemon su to lock the cpu up which causes high battery drain(Post #4913 http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ent/kernel-t2697951/post56634422#post56634422). I did use the beta titanium backup after I used cfautroot because the normal titanium backup wouldn't work. I wonder if that had any effect. Did any of you others with battery issues use titanium backup to restore anything?
I deleted Titanium backup and restarted my phone. I am going to evaluate after a full charge.

Evo_Shift said:
I did read in the code blue kernel thread the kernel dev mentioned that some root apps like Titanium Backup for example can cause the daemon su to lock the cpu up which causes high battery drain(Post #4913 http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ent/kernel-t2697951/post56634422#post56634422). I did use the beta titanium backup after I used cfautroot because the normal titanium backup wouldn't work. I wonder if that had any effect. Did any of you others with battery issues use titanium backup to restore anything?
I deleted Titanium backup and restarted my phone. I am going to evaluate after a full charge.
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I also used the beta of TB. Since you already uninstalled, let me know your results.
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Looks like I'll have to bring my charger to work..

So I got the s8+ two days ago and I gotta say, I'm not that impressed with the battery, my nexus 6p was more reliable.. Just got home from work and had ~17% left with 3.5h sot. This means that when I get home from work I'll have to charge my phone for half an hour atleast before I can go out and enjoy my spare time, I can't just go out straight from work
Anyone have any pointers?
Some key notes, no wifi at work (working within the government in Sweden is retarded)
And the 4g is pretty weak.
Brightness is around 50% and I have disabled bixby and 100 other services (package disabler)
Played games for like 1h
Some browsing, no video watching
Nobody called me during the say because I'm an asshole
That's pretty much it

Two days isn't really a good test to see what the battery life will be like. Especially since you are installing apps and setting up the phone.
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I suggest use a black theme to save battery, as AMOLED screens doesn't need much power producing black color.
Also in the bottom of Battery settings, there's "always sleeping apps". Add all apps here that you don't need running in the background.
Also disable mobile internet if not needed, or at least turn on data saver.
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Katt50 said:
Two days isn't really a good test to see what the battery life will be like. Especially since you are installing apps and setting up the phone.
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BratPAQ said:
I suggest use a black theme to save battery, as AMOLED screens doesn't need much power producing black color.
Also in the bottom of Battery settings, there's "always sleeping apps". Add all apps here that you don't need running in the background.
Also disable mobile internet if not needed, or at least turn on data saver.
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Yeah im happy both of you responded to me, I do realize that 2 days is way too soon to judge the battery, and I am not going to do so, you are both right and I did follow the advice you posted, got all the apps I don't need running in the background etc! Thanks guys, let's see if I end up with more %tomorrow after work

WOW! I wonder what's draining you so quickly? I'm getting right at 7hrs SOT with no WiFi and marginal cell service at work!

You must've disabled an app that keeps pinging the system. Try to enable all apps and go from there. You shouldn't have to disable anything. Just watch for resource hungry apps like Facebook or Snapchat

subyfan said:
WOW! I wonder what's draining you so quickly? I'm getting right at 7hrs SOT with no WiFi and marginal cell service at work!
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guaneet said:
You must've disabled an app that keeps pinging the system. Try to enable all apps and go from there. You shouldn't have to disable anything. Just watch for resource hungry apps like Facebook or Snapchat
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Yeah im not enjoying this.. it's been 3 hours, barely used the phone and im down to 80% already (30 min sot)
I renabled everything in package disabler again, won't be using it untill people get more comfortable and researched in the subject of matter.
4g signal is pretty bad at work though, and these idiots dont have wifi lol. (getting like 1-2 bars)

Maybe it was package disabler causing the problem, if you disable something which something else relies on it might constantly try and connect to the disabled package causing battery draining
if you do continue to have a poor experience i definitely suggest using a pure black theme, This will boost your SOT buy a few hours minimum

MrAshMan said:
Maybe it was package disabler causing the problem, if you disable something which something else relies on it might constantly try and connect to the disabled package causing battery draining
if you do continue to have a poor experience i definitely suggest using a pure black theme, This will boost your SOT buy a few hours minimum
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I did re-enable all apps within package disabler again in the morning, im at 65% now thats 5h battery usage and 1.5h SOT.
How are people getting 8-9 hours SOT... HOW
also I am using a black theme atm, it's the "high contrast" on samsung theme store
I appreciate the help

You may have a dud. I'm coming from a 6p too and I usually have about 30% batter at the end of the day when I was shutting down right before leaving. I run a dark substratum theme with brightness at 35%. I get 6hrs but I stream video and game off and on.Give it a few days and if things don't improve try a new one.

alldino said:
I did re-enable all apps within package disabler again in the morning, im at 65% now thats 5h battery usage and 1.5h SOT.
How are people getting 8-9 hours SOT... HOW
also I am using a black theme atm, it's the "high contrast" on samsung theme store
I appreciate the help
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Hey man. I had this same issue when i bought my phone. Apparently my phone wasn't going into deep sleep mode. Install an app called CPU spy and you'll be able to see if you're phone isn't going into deep sleep due to an app. If your phone is going into deep sleep but you still have battery drain like that. It could be a defective device. Btw the issue I had was facebook app. I disabled it and now I'm getting at least 8:30 hours sot.
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vermiciouskanid666 said:
You may have a dud. I'm coming from a 6p too and I usually have about 30% batter at the end of the day when I was shutting down right before leaving. I run a dark substratum theme with brightness at 35%. I get 6hrs but I stream video and game off and on.Give it a few days and if things don't improve try a new one.
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Hey man. I had this same issue when i bought my phone. Apparently my phone wasn't going into deep sleep mode. Install an app called CPU spy and you'll be able to see if you're phone isn't going into deep sleep due to an app. If your phone is going into deep sleep but you still have battery drain like that. It could be a defective device. Btw the issue I had was facebook app. I disabled it and now I'm getting at least 8:30 hours sot.
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I'll look into that theme, thank you for the tip Vermicious!
I am going to install cpu spy, I do use facebook, i dont know why tbh, might actually disable it and might just use the messenger app whitch is the app i pretty much only use anyways (for social media)
I have verified that I can return the phone unlike my note 3 that I bought a couple of years ago (battery laster 4 hours first charge, wanted to return it but since i had peeled the plastic off they rejekted it lol, such dicks xD)
Other than the battery being a big off the device is absolutely incredible, I am happy I gave samsung another chance, (I had sworn to never use a samsung device again after the note3)
again, many thanks for taking your time to look into my issue!

Battery Drain Op6

Hello everyone, I was recently inrroduced to the world of rooting, modding and installing custom roms and kernels to the device so I may sound like a noob here and there . I have a issue with my one plus six running stable oos 9.0.2 where I think I habe have high battery drainage, there are people who claim that their op6 lasts a whole day at one charge but I being a heavy user have to charge it up to 3 times a day. I have currently rooted my op6 with magisk installed and the list of mods is attached below, also the bbs stats are attached too along with all the necessary information, I am currently on the Ex kerenel Manager and have the battery settings turned on along with advanced optimization. Also I am using the lawnchair launcher v2 with pixel 3 live wallpapers coupled with the mod provided for aod . Can anyone tell me what should i remove to make my battery life more optimal or if my battery is fine.

So 10.2% in one hour, while playing pubg. Seems normal.

Yes, thats fine but the idle drain is way too high.

Nish53 said:
Yes, thats fine but the idle drain is way too high.
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Could be the always on display. What does your partial wakelocks look like? It's likely an app keeping it awake

Nish53 said:
Yes, thats fine but the idle drain is way too high.
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Have you also tried to disable the second Sim?

The pixel live wallpaper will do a number on battery.

Two Sims, live wallpaper and aod. You problem is right in front of you.

The AOD will suck quite a bit of battery, for me during the day i get around 2/3% par hour of standby. My graph looked like yours at first.
But, try putting it in you pocket when you don't need to have it on a table, etc. With OOS 9.0.2 and Franco Kernel, i get 0.42% per hour of standby while phone is face down during the night and thus AOD disables.
I'm not even trying to maximize battery, have Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and other apps running, Wifi + LTE, location disabled, with a fresh install of latest OOS stable and Franco Kernel r13 without tweaking anything :good: And i also use the Pixel 3 wallpapers, wich by the way look amazing used with the AOD.

Screenshots for illustration.

The OnePlus is not designed for Always on Display, but even with that, it definitely shouldn't be empty in 6 hours. But with heavy gaming, I believe the phone life tested at about 5 hours. You should see what it looks like when you don't game.
I get about 8 to 10 hours Screen on Time with with browsing, facebook, and casual use. I have 1 Sim, no live wallpapers, no Magisk modules. I also disabled the Ambient Display on lifting phone. (I probably did a few other small optimizations, but can't remember)

spartan268 said:
Could be the always on display. What does your partial wakelocks look like? It's likely an app keeping it awake
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No, I checked on my partial wakelocks and they are running net scheduler max for a 3-5 minutes in an hour and I can assure they are not the problem.
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Have you also tried to disable the second Sim?
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The pixel live wallpaper will do a number on battery.
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Two Sims, live wallpaper and aod. You problem is right in front of you.
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Wow, Tried disabling the second sim and could notice the extra SoT, thank you for the advice though. Also, I tried disabling the live wallpaper and didn't notice much of a effect on the SoT.
Totone56 said:
The AOD will suck quite a bit of battery, for me during the day i get around 2/3% par hour of standby. My graph looked like yours at first.
But, try putting it in you pocket when you don't need to have it on a table, etc. With OOS 9.0.2 and Franco Kernel, i get 0.42% per hour of standby while phone is face down during the night and thus AOD disables.
I'm not even trying to maximize battery, have Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and other apps running, Wifi + LTE, location disabled, with a fresh install of latest OOS stable and Franco Kernel r13 without tweaking anything :good: And i also use the Pixel 3 wallpapers, wich by the way look amazing used with the AOD.
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Wow Dude , your phone ui looks quite minimal and clean, are you using any launcher or icon pack? Also i have my location turned on always so can it be a deal breaker? Now as I focus, i think location too is sucking the damn battery off. Also while using Franco kernel do you have any problems with the brightness, I can't seem to disable low brightness while using the manager. My idle standby is too damn high thought averaging 2-3% even with the aod off. I think I mighy now consider a clean format.
Sepero said:
The OnePlus is not designed for Always on Display, but even with that, it definitely shouldn't be empty in 6 hours. But with heavy gaming, I believe the phone life tested at about 5 hours. You should see what it looks like when you don't game.
I get about 8 to 10 hours Screen on Time with with browsing, facebook, and casual use. I have 1 Sim, no live wallpapers, no Magisk modules. I also disabled the Ambient Display on lifting phone. (I probably did a few other small optimizations, but can't remember)
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Okay, I tried disabling everything off and was able to get upto 7 hours SoT with high browsing and playing videos but still wasn't satisfied as I also have the xXx rom installed with fsync diabled and stuff such as touchboost disabled and still I am only averaging out.

Nish53 said:
Wow Dude , your phone ui looks quite minimal and clean, are you using any launcher or icon pack? Also i have my location turned on always so can it be a deal breaker? Now as I focus, i think location too is sucking the damn battery off. Also while using Franco kernel do you have any problems with the brightness, I can't seem to disable low brightness while using the manager. My idle standby is too damn high thought averaging 2-3% even with the aod off. I think I mighy now consider a clean format.
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I'm just using OOS 9.0.2, OnePlus icon pack and stock launcher, everything stock !
Location services seem to use quite a bit of juice yes, saw very good results while disabling them.
Yeah I saw this brightness thing in the Franco app, but looks like it doesn't do anything, or it's a bug. I flashed blu.spark and the brightness is exactly the same ! I wouldn't pay attention
Idle standby on my end is 0.5%/h with Franco and Blu.Spark. So it's definitely ROM/setup related ! A clean flash should solve it !
Try Servicely from Franco to revoke WakeLock authorization for apps, I feel like it helps a ton with social apps too !

Totone56 said:
I'm just using OOS 9.0.2, OnePlus icon pack and stock launcher, everything stock !
Location services seem to use quite a bit of juice yes, saw very good results while disabling them.
Yeah I saw this brightness thing in the Franco app, but looks like it doesn't do anything, or it's a bug. I flashed blu.spark and the brightness is exactly the same ! I wouldn't pay attention
Idle standby on my end is 0.5%/h with Franco and Blu.Spark. So it's definitely ROM/setup related ! A clean flash should solve it !
Try Servicely from Franco to revoke WakeLock authorization for apps, I feel like it helps a ton with social apps too !
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Thanks bro, I surely ll do what you said, thank you for quick replies and support.

Nish53 said:
Thanks bro, I surely ll do what you said, thank you for quick replies and support.
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Do you use WhatsApp or snapchat by any chance? Both of those butcher battery life from my experience.

crixley said:
Do you use WhatsApp or snapchat by any chance? Both of those butcher battery life from my experience.
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Yes, I do use WhatsApp, although i havr Snapchat installed, i don't use it on a daily basis.

hey guys I have huge battery drain issues and I can't figure it out. I am using a second sim, but I need that second sim (is there a way to disanle it, so that i can get phone calls?)
Did a clean flash yesterday, hoping things get better, but nothing. my phone used 14% in 6.5 hours . BBS shows me Net_scheduler, I tried somethings there too but no success.
what could else be the problem?

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hey guys I have huge battery drain issues and I can't figure it out. I am using a second sim, but I need that second sim (is there a way to disanle it, so that i can get phone calls?)
Did a clean flash yesterday, hoping things get better, but nothing. my phone used 14% in 6.5 hours . BBS shows me Net_scheduler, I tried somethings there too but no success.
what could else be the problem?
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Considering you just said 14% in 6.5 hours of idle drain, it is a bit high though. Have you any mod installed or have Aod by chance, also how long does the net scheduler work? Also do check the summary for if the phone goes into the state of doze or deep sleep, id it does the problem might be with kernel wakelocks, i tried disabling the wakelocks as per the boeffla wakelock and ffs I can notice differences.

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Considering you just said 14% in 6.5 hours of idle drain, it is a bit high though. Have you any mod installed or have Aod by chance, also how long does the net scheduler work? Also do check the summary for if the phone goes into the state of doze or deep sleep, id it does the problem might be with kernel wakelocks, i tried disabling the wakelocks as per the boeffla wakelock and ffs I can notice differences.
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yeah, I get about 2-2.5%/hour on idle.
I should mention my setup, sorry:
OOS OB7
XxX installed, with disabled kernel tweaks
blu_spark kernel, but had also smurf no difference
I flashed a debloater from Tomatot (thought it might help)
no aod
Well, my phone is awake(screen off) quite a lot, but not too much, saw some others with insane battery life (not expecting that) with similar Awake time.
Sorry to ask this noob question, I am fairly new to this.
In BBS I see repeatatly net_scheduler , gcm, nlpcollectorwakelock, ddscardselectioncontroller.
Boeffla isn't it just for OP3-5T?. are there other settings I could change in tje kernel manager etc?
thanks a lot!!

spikerspike97 said:
yeah, I get about 2-2.5%/hour on idle.
I should mention my setup, sorry:
OOS OB7
XxX installed, with disabled kernel tweaks
blu_spark kernel, but had also smurf no difference
I flashed a debloater from Tomatot (thought it might help)
no aod
Well, my phone is awake(screen off) quite a lot, but not too much, saw some others with insane battery life (not expecting that) with similar Awake time.
Sorry to ask this noob question, I am fairly new to this.
In BBS I see repeatatly net_scheduler , gcm, nlpcollectorwakelock, ddscardselectioncontroller.
Boeffla isn't it just for OP3-5T?. are there other settings I could change in tje kernel manager etc?
thanks a lot!!
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Do you get that on Wi-Fi or also on mobile data? I get about 0.8-1%/h on Wi-Fi and up to 2%/h on LTE+ without music playback on OOS 9.0.2. i can tell you it's mostly an app that hides itself in the stats
E.g. Pokémon Go's adventure sync used GPS and datan regularly resulting in an awful 4%/h drain.

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Do you get that on Wi-Fi or also on mobile data? I get about 0.8-1%/h on Wi-Fi and up to 2%/h on LTE+ without music playback on OOS 9.0.2. i can tell you it's mostly an app that hides itself in the stats
E.g. Pokémon Go's adventure sync used GPS and datan regularly resulting in an awful 4%/h drain.
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yaeh, it doesn't matter, is quite the same on wifi and lte.
alright, I think I'll search a little. thanks for your help

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U.S. Unlocked 512gb - Snap Dragon Stock Settings - FHD

The Biggest Boost to the Battery Life came from Removing the Facebook App and accessing it thru the browser instead. Still have Facebook Messenger installed. Adaptive Battery ON, Processing Speed Optimized and FHD Resolution with Motion Smoothness at Adaptive.

Another upshot with accessing FB via browser is you don't get all the ads. Which is why the FB app uses so much battery.

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U.S. Unlocked 512gb - Snap Dragon Stock Settings - FHD
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Hahahah I was thinking about creating a thread about that to share our experiences and tweaks.
I feel that aodnotify (and always on display that is required for aodnotify) is taking too much battery. Do you guys use this app?

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Another upshot with accessing FB via browser is you don't get all the ads. Which is why the FB app uses so much battery.
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Weird that you brought it up. I deleted the Facebook app and started using it on the browser for that very reason. There was this Dr. Ad with a banana pic and no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to go away. It kept coming back and was annoying I couldn't control it. Then after I deleted the Facebook app I noticed the battery life was way better so I did another test and hence this thread was born.

ffp. said:
Hahahah I was thinking about creating a thread about that to share our experiences and tweaks.
I feel that aodnotify (and always on display that is required for aodnotify) is taking too much battery. Do you guys use this app?
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Well lets collaborate on that here? Anyway no I don't use the AOD Notify. Is that the app that makes the flashy light around the camera hole when you get a notification?
What I do is use (always on) but set to only show when notifications come in. So the screen is blank until I get a text or email then it shows up on always on display and then when I read it then it goes blank screen again. That works for me.

Paul_Deemer said:
Well lets collaborate on that here? Anyway no I don't use the AOD Notify. Is that the app that makes the flashy light around the camera hole when you get a notification?
What I do is use (always on) but set to only show when notifications come in. So the screen is blank until I get a text or email then it shows up on always on display and then when I read it then it goes blank screen again. That works for me.
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Absolutely, we van use this thread! =)
Yes, it's an app to blink in several ways. I use the one that a circle around the front camera hole (eco blink). The issue with aod is that you can't see if there's a notification just by taking a quick look to the camera hole without taking the phone from your pocket, right?
You need to look the whole screen to see the notifications. Aod also let you change colors according to app, so just by looking I can identify a WhatsApp message or a missed call.

ffp. said:
Absolutely, we van use this thread! =)
Yes, it's an app to blink in several ways. I use the one that a circle around the front camera hole (eco blink). The issue with aod is that you can't see if there's a notification just by taking a quick look to the camera hole without taking the phone from your pocket, right?
You need to look the whole screen to see the notifications. Aod also let you change colors according to app, so just by looking I can identify a WhatsApp message or a missed call.
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If that thing flashing the whole time in your pocket until you see it then yeah I would think that would be a big battery drain. I only have one social media app and that Facebook. Then I got the basic Phone App, IP Relay App (Because I am Deaf) Text Messages App and Facebook Messenger App. Because I am now using Facebook on the browser and don't have any other social media apps that probably has a lot to do with why my battery life is 10 hours SOT and 14 hours Off. I guess it like Virgo_Guy and the others said about Social media apps being battery hogs. Also WQHD Resolution eats up battery and makes phone run hotter especially when you out in the summer heat. I noticed mine was getting a little hot the other day and switched down to FHD Resolution and it got cooler.

Paul_Deemer said:
Also WQHD Resolution eats up battery and makes phone run hotter especially when you out in the summer heat. I noticed mine was getting a little hot the other day and switched down to FHD Resolution and it got cooler.
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Fyi I'm running WQHD+ and my phone never runs hot. I get 10hr SOT also. Btw my screen is set to natural mode @ 60hz.

Rubby1025 said:
Fyi I'm running WQHD+ and my phone never runs hot. I get 10hr SOT also. Btw my screen is set to natural mode @ 60hz.
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Well I was in a hot car when it was doing that. When your bright sun light, it's 95 degrees outside and the screen is in WQHD and at full brightness so you can see the screen it will get hot. Other than that circumstance no it doesn't get hot but it does drain the battery faster. It's a fact of life. The higher the resolution the more the drain. Mines on adaptive.

Paul_Deemer said:
Well I was in a hot car when it was doing that. When your bright sun light, it's 95 degrees outside and the screen is in WQHD and at full brightness so you can see the screen it will get hot. Other than that circumstance no it doesn't get hot but it does drain the battery faster. It's a fact of life. The higher the resolution the more the drain. Mines on adaptive.
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Ok, I'll agree with you there. I'm in Texas and the heat/sun is insufferable so if I'm going to look at my phone outside I'm finding some shade 1st!

I still can't understand how you all get 6, 7 or 10 hours of SOT.
I went through all the guides and disabled every nonsense, configured bixby routines to go to power saving in certain situations etc.. And still at the end of the day I'm close to zero battery with just 3-4 hours of SOT at best.
Are you just watching youtube the whole day connected to wifi or what? No LTE? No BT? No Location? Low brightnes? No games? No camera?
And I'm not blaming S22 Ultra. That happened to every Galaxy Note I had in the past (no more than 3-4hrs of SOT).

bat0nas said:
I still can't understand how you all get 6, 7 or 10 hours of SOT.
I went through all the guides and disabled every nonsense, configured bixby routines to go to power saving in certain situations etc.. And still at the end of the day I'm close to zero battery with just 3-4 hours of SOT at best.
Are you just watching youtube the whole day connected to wifi or what? No LTE? No BT? No Location? Low brightnes? No games? No camera?
And I'm not blaming S22 Ultra. That happened to every Galaxy Note I had in the past (no more than 3-4hrs of SOT).
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What are you saying? If there's a will, then there's a way. Have a strong will and you will soon get earth shattering SOTs.

Virgo_Guy said:
What are you saying? If there's a will, then there's a way. Have a strong will and you will soon get earth shattering SOTs.
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Haha.. ok Sounds good
Anyway.. whats the secret of 6+ hrs of SOT?

bat0nas said:
I still can't understand how you all get 6, 7 or 10 hours of SOT.
I went through all the guides and disabled every nonsense, configured bixby routines to go to power saving in certain situations etc.. And still at the end of the day I'm close to zero battery with just 3-4 hours of SOT at best.
Are you just watching youtube the whole day connected to wifi or what? No LTE? No BT? No Location? Low brightnes? No games? No camera?
And I'm not blaming S22 Ultra. That happened to every Galaxy Note I had in the past (no more than 3-4hrs of SOT).
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I used LTE and 5G for mobile. Had it on all day. But was mostly at home or work and streaming over WiFi connections. Processing Speed is set to Optimized and using Adaptive Battery. Power saving is off. But I'm not a gamer so the settings in Game Launcher are still at standard optimization and Alternative Game Performance Management is disabled. So pretty much the stock Settings. I also only have one social media app and I access that (Facebook) thru the browser although Messenger App is still installed. I think social media apps cause a big drain on the phone. The other thing I have is the Resolution set to FHD instead of WQHD.
Also don't have my Netflix, HBOmax, Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+ installed on Phone as I watch those on my Galaxy Tab 7+ or the TV.
So basically I am just using the phone For Texting, YouTube, Browser, Camera etc. Things that don't use a lot of power such as Gaming, Social Media etc. If your a heavy gamer and got 5 or 6 social media apps on your phone your results are going to be drastically different especially if you got the Exynos version.
If you have Facebook installed that's a huge battery drain cause of all the ads. Try uninstalling some of your social media apps that can be accessed thru the browser and see how that goes. And when you not gaming try settings of optimized and standard instead of maximum.

Paul_Deemer said:
U.S. Unlocked 512gb - Snap Dragon Stock Settings - FHD
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Those are really incredible SoT you got there. Mine is about 8h.
It is enough, but we always want more hahaha. How are your sleeping apps config? Do you put everything in deep sleep?
I noticed there are apps. like Find My Mobile, that always appears on the list when I use Device care. Do you do something about those background apps?
@bat0nas I'm doing almost nothing... I keep Bt and location on, 120 Hz screen. The only thing that I'm doing to get more battery is using "Put unused apps to sleep" setting, which I don't even know how much battery it saves. Oh, and adaptative battery.
EDIT: Paul_Deemer , my settings are basically the same as yours. But I stay a LOT more in LTE than wifi, since I'm working presentially and only turn on wi-fi at night when I got home. I dont use social media other than Whatsapp and Instagram. I don't game often. If I do game or use too much camera one day it will probably not last that long.
The aodNotify app and aod consumes about 1,5-2% each every day. It's 3-5% total, which isn't much, but could be better.

Location is on for me but I turned Bluetooth off when it's not needed like when phone is connected to the car. Rest of time it's off. Don't see Find my Mobile using power and it not disabled so maybe the auto settings putting it to sleep I dunno. Considering how much Mobile time your using during the day with no WiFi available like me at work and that you have two social media apps installed and are occasionally gaming I think you SOT is about as good as it gonna get. I wouldn't be unhappy with your SOT based on your usage patterns.

Paul_Deemer said:
Location is on for me but I turned Bluetooth off when it's not needed like when phone is connected to the car. Rest of time it's off. Don't see Find my Mobile using power and it not disabled so maybe the auto settings putting it to sleep I dunno. Considering how much Mobile time your using during the day with no WiFi available like me at work and that you have two social media apps installed and are occasionally gaming I think you SOT is about as good as it gonna get. I wouldn't be unhappy with your SOT based on your usage patterns.
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Well, I seldom game, and when I do is for about 20-30min tops. However i do stay at LTE for almost the whole day. Is there much difference between using LTE and Wifi?
If you count discord and telegram as social media, then I have 4, lol. But I don't use them as much as Whatsapp and Instagram. Indeed, Find My Mobile isn't in the usage list.
I'd like to know how much battery is consumed when screen is off, but I'm not sure settings can do that. Do I need an app for that?

I saw this little quote on the web and it fits with what people are saying about 5g being a battery hog. Not using any special apps for battery management . There are plenty available though. Just do a search on Google.
You may notice that your phone's battery drains faster than usual while you are connected to a 5G network. This is a limitation of the current 5G networks, and will be improved as the networks expand.

Oh one other important thing to note. When I did that test above that was with Protect Battery Off. Meaning it went from a Full 100% Charge down to 10%. I now have it back to Protect Battery which means it only charging to 85%. So naturally you gonna lose a bunch of time with it not charging to the full 100%.

How To Guide Good Battery Life

I been experimenting with Facebook Lite and Messenger Lite. Both do everything I need them to do and there are no options I am missing over the full versions. The Bloat is gone and it takes up way less space. But what impressed me the most is how much battery life I gain. Usually it's 1.5 to 2 hours. I don't game with my phone and Facebook is the only social media app I use. All the other apps on phone are communication, banking and business apps.
The only other thing I changed from stock is setting Resolution to FHD. Still using Adaptive Refresh. With the Full versions of Facebook and Messenger and WQHD resolution I got around 6+ hours of battery life. With the Lite version and FHD I am getting 9+. Test was 100% Charge down to 15%.
(U.S. Unlocked 512gb - T-Mobile SIM - U1)

Nice, congrats!
PS: Just another reason to stay away from Meta and factory ROMs

I use simple pro for the socials. 1 app. ☺

I tried the same but i got no improvement. I tried removing Instagram facebook and messenger. And use them from the browser but did me no improvement. My s22 ultra snapdragon is so bad in the battery i get 3 to 4h sot . Waiting for the one ui 5 to maybe see a difference

If your battery that bad I don't think the new UI is gonna be the life saver you think. Do you use YouTube vanced every day as much as it showing on your screen? It's weird your battery life that low on Snapdragon. Do you have protect battery enabled and your only charging to 85% ? Try not using YouTube Vanced for a day to see the result? Not got any weird apps installed that might be running adware in the background?

Maybe I'm missing something? His screenshot shows an 8hr 8min SOT from the last time charged..

Sooo, my battery life sucked until I did a factory reset on beta 3. Then it was great. 4 and 5 were back to suck, but once I updated to stable A13 the good battery life is back. I would recommend just updating to A13 then factory resetting. I know it sucks to do, but it's totally worth it.
FYI, no extreme debloat. All I've done is remove the crapware apps that you can uninstall normally. I disabled a few too. That's it though.
Hope this helps.

gettinwicked said:
Sooo, my battery life sucked until I did a factory reset on beta 3. Then it was great. 4 and 5 were back to suck, but once I updated to stable A13 the good battery life is back. I would recommend just updating to A13 then factory resetting. I know it sucks to do, but it's totally worth it.
FYI, no extreme debloat. All I've done is remove the crapware apps that you can uninstall normally. I disabled a few too. That's it though.
Hope this helps.
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Pretty much my modus operandi. Start with a clean slate and most issues get resolved.

inthedark22 said:
I use simple pro for the socials. 1 app. ☺
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Simple pro?

dj24 said:
Maybe I'm missing something? His screenshot shows an 8hr 8min SOT from the last time charged..
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I think he charged his phone in middle of that.