[Q] Battery problem - One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, I have an HTC ONE M8 for 2 months and I was verry happy because his battery is so strong.
Last week my battery decreases very much
In standby in one hour it decreases like...10%
In the morning I find the htc with 0% battery after a 8h sleep from 30%
What's the problem?
Thank you all!!!

your HTC m8 battery decrease becouse other apps are have in background run so your battery is drain I just suggest you solution is use any Ram booster like smart Ram booster and stop background proccess then your battery life is improve & if you want instance Ram boosting then get Root access on your device
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Please don't use or recommend ram boosting apps, they're all junk.
Better off with uninstalling crappy apps that keep your phone awake, or if you really need them, greenify can help.
Use Gsam or BetterBatteryStats for diagnosing the problem, plenty of threads here with advice, so do a search.

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[Q] My HTC One V drains battery fast and lag

HELP EVERYONE
MY HTC ONE V drains faster even in normal use.
I just use the phone for texting
Wifi OFF
Data OFF
GPS and Location OFF
Bluetooth OFF
from 77% after five hours it became 39%
and also is the HTC One V lag? is it normal? how to run the device so smooth?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE EVERYONE FOR HELPING ME. GRATEFUL :")
Def not normal. My battery with everything on WiFi, sync etc. And playing music for 4 hours my battery is at 72 after 10 hours
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You have an app that uses the cpu too much = it eats a lot of battery.
Yea true! Some app is sucking the juice off your battery! See if you have some background app running which is trying to connect to the Internet (Since you have both data n WIfi off). Usually these apps eats up a lot of CPU speed. Could explain the lag issue too
Also does you phone heat up?
Great battery life on this phone. Better than most I've tried. Watch what apps you have installed as well. They might be tapping the juice in the background.
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yep something is draining ur battery and eating lot of ram
wt free ram ua having?
and if u use swift key x thn think twice it uses more thn 3mb ram when u nt using 50+ whn ua using
soo think ovr it
dnt keep screen brightness to max
it will drain juice twice faster whn ua at home keep it low and when out 25% is enough to make u see the screen in bright daylight
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paarthdesai said:
yep something is draining ur battery and eating lot of ram
wt free ram ua having?
and if u use swift key x thn think twice it uses more thn 3mb ram when u nt using 50+ whn ua using
soo think ovr it
dnt keep screen brightness to max
it will drain juice twice faster whn ua at home keep it low and when out 25% is enough to make u see the screen in bright daylight
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Just keep it at auto-brightness...
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Yes I must point out that the battery life on this phone as I have observed is quite above average.
RaceAce said:
Yes I must point out that the battery life on this phone as I have observed is quite above average.
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I definitely agree on that. At this day and age of smartphones and their battery lives, this phone is rather exceptional.
Use apps like Watchdog and Wheres is my droid power to check what is using more cpu/battery! And remove it or find a alternative
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Its always better to install apps which are without ads (mostly freewares are like that only). Keep the brightness at optimum coz its the screen which uses most of the battery.
The more the softwares are running at a moment, the more the RAM is used and hence the battery runs out qiuckly.
Dont keep wi-fi or internet connectivity open always.
Or else u can install third party softwares like Juicedefender or Easy Battery Saver.
Oh and most importantly NO TASK KILLERS!
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iamsonal said:
Its always better to install apps which are without ads (mostly freewares are like that only). Keep the brightness at optimum coz its the screen which uses most of the battery.
The more the softwares are running at a moment, the more the RAM is used and hence the battery runs out qiuckly.
Dont keep wi-fi or internet connectivity open always.
Or else u can install third party softwares like Juicedefender or Easy Battery Saver.
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Or you can install the program AdFree, set the adress ip for ads to be ignored and you will have your phone ad free .
And those softwares "juicedefenders" are good on a short term but on the long run it causes problems.
Use it as stock without any programs that help you to have more battery or **** like this..
Check the battery usage through Settings > Power > Battery use.
No need to use a third party app for this (unless you've removed this by any means).
Sometimes software issues cause these problems on the phone (even on the stock ROM). Common culprits are "Phone is idle", "Inactive" and "Android system". If these are reporting battery use above ~10% (and you haven't actually had the phone inactive for most of the time), the problem should be resolved with a factory reset.
Otherwise, unless you've tampered with the bootloader this would be covered under the 24 month manufacturer's warranty (12 outside EU) and the device should be sent in for a battery swap / given back to retailer as DOA.
Also, the device isn't the fastest one. The processor is running at 1Ghz with 512Mb of RAM to go along with it. The solution is to load a kernel with overclocking capabilities (Titanium for example) and crank up the CPU to 1,5 or 1,7 GHz. I would assume all of them can run 1,5 GHz as I suspect the processors are actually underclocked to keep battery life long.
Obviously this would reduce your battery life, but having less than 24 hours of battery life on an unmodified One V is what I would call poor unless you are a heavy user.
I hope this helps.
mysdavey said:
Check the battery usage through Settings > Power > Battery use.
No need to use a third party app for this (unless you've removed this by any means).
Sometimes software issues cause these problems on the phone (even on the stock ROM). Common culprits are "Phone is idle", "Inactive" and "Android system". If these are reporting battery use above ~10% (and you haven't actually had the phone inactive for most of the time), the problem should be resolved with a factory reset.
Otherwise, unless you've tampered with the bootloader this would be covered under the 24 month manufacturer's warranty (12 outside EU) and the device should be sent in for a battery swap / given back to retailer as DOA.
Also, the device isn't the fastest one. The processor is running at 1Ghz with 512Mb of RAM to go along with it. The solution is to load a kernel with overclocking capabilities (Titanium for example) and crank up the CPU to 1,5 or 1,7 GHz. I would assume all of them can run 1,5 GHz as I suspect the processors are actually underclocked to keep battery life long.
Obviously this would reduce your battery life, but having less than 24 hours of battery life on an unmodified One V is what I would call poor unless you are a heavy user.
I hope this helps.
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Actually, a good kernel can improve battery life even if you overclock your cpu. HTC's kernel doesn't come with all the tweaks available for volting and battery life. So if a good dev makes a good kernel, the battery should be the same as running on stock, but with faster performances. Adi_Pat has done a great job with his kernel. I was running it for 2 days until I needed to get a replacement for my phone and now I am waiting to get a new one so I can run it again. I even overclock it at 1.9 ghz and run it for 1 full day and after almost 8h of wifi on, the battery still had 50%. So if you don't have an app that kills your juice, you have definitely a poor battery built in.
does it lag
it was going to buy this phone but saw this vid /watch?v=JptIYZl8qmE that said it was very lag. do you think i should buy this or the sony arc s. plz help
I had some similar issues until I did the following:
Run the battery completely dead until the phone shuts itself off, then put it on the charger with the phone off. Charge it until it is at 100%. Take it off the charger and turn it on. Turn it off again, put it back on the charger until the LED is green, then turn it on again. This helps Android to calibrate the battery.
Install Quick System Info and see what apps are running and how much resources they are using. Also, close all apps, then go into Settings>Apps>Running and see what is running. Look for any apps that shouldn't be running and uninstall them. You have something running in the background and need to get rid of it, this will help you do that.
Uninstall Swiftkey X or Thumbs Keyboard or any other keyboard apps you put on there. Uninstall any weather/clock widgets like HD Widgets or Animated Weather. Use the stock keyboard and stock weather widget (they both work pretty well).
After doing all of this I consistently get home after 10 hours from work with about 60% after moderate usage. I also have almost no lag unless I am playing a more graphically intensive game. Couldn't be happier.

Battery drain -

I am still experiencing high battery drain issues. I am using Badass Battery Stats, and I am seeing high battery use from App Usage (30%), with System (com.htc.launcher) taking 16%.
Is this normal, are you guys seeing similar results? What is your Launcher usage?
I am at 65% after 10 mins of screen usage and 3 hrs of standby.
For comparison, my phone lasted like 35 hrs yesterday/the day before, with ~2 hrs of screen usage.
neocryte said:
I am still experiencing high battery drain issues. I am using Badass Battery Stats, and I am seeing high battery use from App Usage (30%), with System (com.htc.launcher) taking 16%.
Is this normal, are you guys seeing similar results? What is your Launcher usage?
I am at 65% after 10 mins of screen usage and 3 hrs of standby.
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your best bet is to use BetterBatteryStats and that will give you a more detailed explanation in what is draining your battery when screen is off. Launcher should not really eat that much battery it is normally the screen. so if i was you i would remove that app for one charge cycle and try bbs which you can get from a thread here on xda and found out from that what is eating your battery my friend
neocryte said:
I am still experiencing high battery drain issues. I am using Badass Battery Stats, and I am seeing high battery use from App Usage (30%), with System (com.htc.launcher) taking 16%.
Is this normal, are you guys seeing similar results? What is your Launcher usage?
I am at 65% after 10 mins of screen usage and 3 hrs of standby.
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*#*#3424#*#* -> More -> Battery Test and if it's faulty ask for a return/exchange. I got around 87% +/- 1 after1 hour of the test.
I actually swapped my unit once already, the last one had drain issues as well. I wonder if it's something on my software end.
BetterBatteryStats couldn't find anything unusual on my last device, but I will try it on this guy as well.
Will try the battery test as well, thank you.
I have a ton of contacts (1k+) that got imported from my Gmail. I wonder if the device is trying to sync those, which causes some of the battery issues - since the included "Contacts" package is indicated in the screenshot I attached.
I turned off auto-sync for contacts, will see if that helps at all.
solution...
neocryte said:
I am still experiencing high battery drain issues. I am using Badass Battery Stats, and I am seeing high battery use from App Usage (30%), with System (com.htc.launcher) taking 16%.
Is this normal, are you guys seeing similar results? What is your Launcher usage?
I am at 65% after 10 mins of screen usage and 3 hrs of standby.
For comparison, my phone lasted like 35 hrs yesterday/the day before, with ~2 hrs of screen usage.
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Get Slim ICS installed. I've tried almost every ROM out there for the HOX, and this is by far the best battery consumption I've ever had!
A new ROM is a solution, but was hoping I could get stock working fine first... :/
Do you guys have any suggestions on how to diagnose what could be causing that htc.com.launcher is taking so much battery? I'm up to 25% now.
Is it me or are people using Badass Battery experiencing bad results for battery?
Well let me tell you when I use it I get worse battery. It tells you what is using your battery, but when I decide to disable some of the things it picks up on. I get worse battery life. Also the app itself drains a lot of battery.
I am not an expert, but some the items disabled are integral to the system. And the system trys to enable these apps, but can't. It's like batteries playing hide and seek with the apps and running out of breath.
I got my ram usage down to 490 mb ish with all apps killed, but I had the worst battery life ever. It was draining fast even with the phone in sleep, and I had random apps I disabled starting (Flickr and PDF viewer).
My advice is trial and error. Use the task manager as apposed to these battery heavy apps, and if you find a place where you are getting awesome battery results, stop tinkering!
Edit: a bit enthusiastic in the Ram department.
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There's a new battery monitor just come out for free on the play store called carat.
This app's meant to tell you which apps are using your battery and compares it to other phones.
It has to monitor your device for a week before it can give you the results but if it works properly it will be worth it.
have you found a solution? I have the same issue and don't know how to fix
I'm a new user of one x and the battery drain is appalling....i charged it full and was just playing around customizing the phone/settings and i could see it was draining one percent every one to two minutes!
I'm coming from sgs2 although it wasn't great but wasn't as bad as this!
Also, following my customisation etc i changed the sim card and all my customized settings such as wallpaper etc reset back to default!
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mchu6am4 said:
I'm a new user of one x and the battery drain is appalling....i charged it full and was just playing around customizing the phone/settings and i could see it was draining one percent every one to two minutes!
I'm coming from sgs2 although it wasn't great but wasn't as bad as this!
Also, following my customisation etc i changed the sim card and all my customized settings such as wallpaper etc reset back to default!
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I, for once was having the same problem..but after one week or two, the battery seems quite stable, and after I played among those beautiful ROMs, I can get the most out of my battery..thank God, I hope you will have the same experience..
Maybe if you wanna stay stock, start to analyze what 'culprit' that actually drained your battery..try using the search bar and use different search terms such as 'battery saving guide' bla bla bla..there are several thread have discussed the same issue..
I am on stock Rom and this is the first full charge after a factory reset although the phone is not brand new but a few months old...
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Hi guys..after a few charges it has improved a little but not by much...don't understand why it goes down in 2% increments?
Also i keep hearing random notification type sounds without any notifications...why is this as I'm using stock Rom and unrooted?
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mchu6am4 said:
Hi guys..after a few charges it has improved a little but not by much...don't understand why it goes down in 2% increments?
Also i keep hearing random notification type sounds without any notifications...why is this as I'm using stock Rom and unrooted?
Sorry...i know it's the wrong thread for the question but finally why can i see the text message sender's name and the content of the text message inside notification bar even though I've selected not to show this in the stock messaging app settings?
Have a good day...
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neocryte said:
I am still experiencing high battery drain issues. I am using Badass Battery Stats, and I am seeing high battery use from App Usage (30%), with System (com.htc.launcher) taking 16%.
Is this normal, are you guys seeing similar results? What is your Launcher usage?
I am at 65% after 10 mins of screen usage and 3 hrs of standby.
For comparison, my phone lasted like 35 hrs yesterday/the day before, with ~2 hrs of screen usage.
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Try disabling Location & Google Search (Settings -> Location). Noticed that Google services drained 65% of my battery, and heated up the phone. And it only happens when I turn on wifi and update the weather widget, which uses network location service. The drain won't stop until I restarted. Under the services, there's a network location service. So I tried disabling the said setting. Not sure if it will work for you, but it won't harm if you try.
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Try disabling Location & Google Search (Settings -> Location). Noticed that Google services drained 65% of my battery, and heated up the phone. And it only happens when I turn on wifi and update the weather widget, which uses network location service. The drain won't stop until I restarted. Under the services, there's a network location service. So I tried disabling the said setting. Not sure if it will work for you, but it won't harm if you try.
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Thanks...i think it may have worked as i didn't hear any notification type sounds!
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*#*#3424#*#* -> More -> Battery Test and if it's faulty ask for a return/exchange. I got around 87% +/- 1 after1 hour of the test.
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...and that's good?
I got 86%. Is that defective or not?
I got -30mAh when screen is off.
ARHD 7.1.0 + faux 3b10
Is it a acceptable number ?

HTC One X - Horrible Battery Life

Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
MrCEOAdam said:
Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
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Plz search in One X general....u'll find alot of topics regarding this....search for the one titled battery saving tips...the tips are all the same usually....your phone will improve after multiple charge cycles.....
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There are plenty of threads discussing about battery life, look at few of them to get an idea.
One X battery life is not great, but it should comfortably last a day (around 16 hours or more) with moderate use. But everything depends on what apps you are running and how you the phone. For example if you play graphics intensive 3D games for like 2 or 3hrs then it wont last much more than 4 or 5 hours. Other than processor intensive apps the other biggest battery killer is screen, you can’t get more than 3~4hrs of screen time with One X (but then again 4 hours on the phone is not exactly moderate use either). With normal use i.e: 1~2hrs of screen time for day-to-day tasks (browsing, email, texting etc..) and about 1hr of calls the battery should last 16+ hrs. Standby battery life of One X is fantastic, it hardly drops even more than 5% overnight is left alone. If you notice a 20% drop then there is something wrong. Go to battery usage stats and see which apps are eating up the battery.
MrCEOAdam said:
Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
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There is a huge battery thread in this forum, please read through it. However, to start do as below:
Your overnight behavior is not normal. One X uses a 5th core and barely uses any battery while asleep. Usually with auto sync on I consume 2% overnight (usually 8 hours).
Install CPU spy and Better Battery stats. With CPU spy reset the counter before going to sleep and check the sleep % in the morning, it should be above 90% at 0 mhz. Check if it has several minutes at high mhz (800 to 1200 mhz).
With better battery stats go to other in menu and set custom ref before going to sleep. Check in the morning both kernel wakelocks and partial wakelocks. Check if there are any apps generating the most wakelocks . You could have some of the following consuming your battery overnight (I had all of these):
- weak wifi or data signal generates a lot of kernel wakelocks as the phone is constantly scanning for signal.
- some weather widgets have generated me constant wakelocks
- Facebook, Currents, Flipboard all of those constantly update and consume battery.
Also if your HOX is new at first battery life sucks. Believe me it will get way better after a couple of weeks.
try installing ther latest firmware (2.17). if you cant install then search install this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1546970
works like a charm for me and helps the battery to last longer!
MrCEOAdam said:
Hi All,
Recently switched from an iPhone to HTC One X and I am quite disappointed so far. Does anyone also endure poor battery life with your HTC One X?
I am not running much applications in the background either, if I charge my phone to 100%, I go to bed and wake up its 80% without me even touching the phone... and it hardly lasts me half a day without charging.
Does anyone have any tips to improve battery life? Oh, and my screen brightness is always at 0-25%... thanks for any help!
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yup .. im having the same problem ... and i tried the tips concerning this, not really useful ...
unlucky us -_-

[Q] First timer - Pl suggest ROM upgrade to improve battery

Hello Champs.. I am first time user to this forum so pls excuse any idiot questions if it may seem.
I tried to go through threads to find answers but got completely confused, so though to put my question in simple words here.
I have Desire HD running task killer and Juice defender ultimate with extreme power saving option set and also optimized settings but still my phone don't last more than a day of normal usage. I just check emails, read news and call.. I do not play games and use any CPU intensive app. Phone is not rooted and running 2.3.5v of android
One of my friends told me after flashing ROM, battery power is improved by 40% in case of his tablet, so I am wondering if there is any suggestion for me to use for my Desire HD mobile. I have tried all options at application and settings level to improve the battery life.
As I am not too techincal in this field, if someone could write me few high level steps from start to end to get better battery life ROM and / or jellybean on Desire HD, I'll try to find out low level details of those steps in this forum and root (and flash) my mobile.
My sole requirement is to get as much battery as possible and if possible, some latest android version (4.1 or 4.2) to avail the new features.
Also, would there be an option to take the snapshot of current mobile setup in case if rooting / flashing goes wrong, I could revert back to the current version without loosing settings / data.
Thanks for your help.
two things, go to settings>about phone> battery
Or something like that. Take screenshots of your battery consumption, and the amount of time for each. Without that we can't know what's really causing your battery drain.
That said, a day of use will pretty much wind down your phone, the DHD has a very poor battery, decent sized screen, and most modern smartphones don't last terribly long anyways. However, you said you weren't using it too hard, so I'm not sure what it could be
As for juice defender, make sure that the intervals are set to no less than 15 minutes. 10 minutes pushing it. if you set it to 5 minutes, your phone will constantly be waking up from sleep (ultra battery saving mode), and constantly enabling and re-enabling radio. That'll cause more drain than it will save. At 15 you'll notice definitive increases, and at greater your battery will only get better.
Get rid of the task killer, or disable autotask killer and keep task killing to an absolute minimum. Never kill all your user apps at once. Kill only very large resource hogs (e.g. after playing a game, kill it). An autotask killer is very bad for your phone, and for your battery. Linux naturally tries to keep as many processes 'running' or cached in the background, using up a lot of your ram- it makes multitasking better, so in linux this is a good thing. With windows, it does the opposite, and if you run out of RAM you're screwed. A task killer will try to ruin that behavior, and in the end both performance and battery life will suck. It hurts battery life because after you kill that app, it'll just restart itself in the background- using more CPU therefore battery. Plus it also wakes your phone up from sleep when it needs it. I would only recommend a task killer for a phone with 512mb of RAM.
If it's an older battery, you could also have lost a lot of it's charge. I recommend installing battery monitor widget, and letting it run in the background. It'll estimate your mAH (battery capacity). If it's over 1,000, you're fine. If it's around 800, not bad, still doable. If it's at around 600, I would recommend going in for a replacement battery. I'm using an Anker 1500 (amazon), and I highly recommend it. Mugen 1600 is very good one, but it'll cost you a lot more money. I would not recommend an original HTC one.
finally, installing a custom ROM may or may not help battery life. With HTC Sense based ROMs, I've noticed a battery increase. In AOSP (unmodded, as google intended) gingerbread ROMs, you'll also notice a battery increase. With AOSP ICS, JB4.1.2 and 4.2.1 battery life is hit and miss, some ROMs will get you better battery, some will get you worse. You'll need to experiment around with it.
Also, yes you can backup everything after you install a custom recovery. I recommend looking up AAHK (advanced ace hack kit) on google and youtube, as well as rooting and S-OFF in general on youtube.
Thanks for your reply... Really appreciated. I'll look at the suggestions and see if it is unnecessary to root if 1 day battery is expected.
Do you think recommended high power battery actually improves usage time or people just compare their used up battery with new high capacity ones and think they hv got more juice in it. If high capacity ones really give another 2-3 hours of browsing as compared to OEM 1230 mah battery, I would rather buy it instead of flashing Rom.
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Need help with a couple of things!

Hey guys so I got the phone I can't find a CPU temp monitoring app that works.
My battery hits about 44℃ whilst gaming and charging and my other halfs m8 runs games smoother :S
Also the battery seems to drain rapidly for example from 100% with no use its down to 60% in 4 hours and the battery usage doesn't help much biggest offender is google services this is with Wi-Fi on connected to a network and brightness on auto.
So could someone help me with why it seems to be slower and battery life and CPU temp this is all completely stock with latest firmware thanks in advanced
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Oh also I noticed Android os needed 1h22
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connrad96 said:
Hey guys so I got the phone I can't find a CPU temp monitoring app that works.
My battery hits about 44℃ whilst gaming and charging and my other halfs m8 runs games smoother :S
Also the battery seems to drain rapidly for example from 100% with no use its down to 60% in 4 hours and the battery usage doesn't help much biggest offender is google services this is with Wi-Fi on connected to a network and brightness on auto.
So could someone help me with why it seems to be slower and battery life and CPU temp this is all completely stock with latest firmware thanks in advanced
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Turn off the accounts and sync until needed. I also keep mine on power saver unless I need more CPU. With no use I'm seeing an estimated 36 hours of battery life. In my daily use I get about 50% left when I plug in after a 16 hour day.

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