How is everyone's battery life with this watch? I lost 13% in an hour, and by 11am I was down to 30%. Took it off the charger at 7am. This seems very poor.
...aaaand battery dead.
Uninstalled a ton of apps. Now I just lost almost 10% while charging the thing. What's up with this device's battery life?? Getting all kinds of connection errors from my phone, saw some 'couldn't write to file' notification on my phone... Seems like maybe mine is a dud?
Had to reboot the watch last night to get it to charge. Would not charge on the dock a couple hours after it was just charging. So frustrating.
Anyone have any suggestions for me or am I just talking to myself?
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Something else that kills my battery, almost as bad as Facer, and causes my phone to constantly disconnect from the watch until I reboot, is enabling developer settings in CM12.
So yesterday I took it off the charger at 730am and by 8pm, I still had 24% left. 12.5 HRS and them some.
I activated the Developer Options and installed the following apps:
Wear Battery Stats
Wear Charging Widget (Beta)
Today. I took the watch off the charger at 730am again, and I'm going to be dead by 5:00PM. So 9.5 HRS...
I lost 3 HRS plus 24% additional by changing those three things?
Any have any experience with these 3 items?
ymDroid said:
So yesterday I took it off the charger at 730am and by 8pm, I still had 24% left. 12.5 HRS and them some.
I activated the Developer Options and installed the following apps:
Wear Battery Stats
Wear Charging Widget (Beta)
Today. I took the watch off the charger at 730am again, and I'm going to be dead by 5:00PM. So 9.5 HRS...
I lost 3 HRS plus 24% additional by changing those three things?
Any have any experience with these 3 items?
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Facer killed my battery the most. My battery was dying while charging after opening Facer on my phone. Dev options kill my battery quick too. Uninstalled Facer...battery charged immediately. Turned off dev options, charged faster and drained slower. (I am on CM12 on the Nexus 6)
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Facer killed my battery the most. My battery was dying while charging after opening Facer on my phone. Dev options kill my battery quick too. Uninstalled Facer...battery charged immediately. Turned off dev options, charged faster and drained slower. (I am on CM12 on the Nexus 6)
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I only thing I changed under development options was the screen on while charging.
Are you say that just enabling development options kills the battery?
If so, how I do disabled development options?
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I only thing I changed under development options was the screen on while charging.
Are you say that just enabling development options kills the battery?
If so, how I do disabled development options?
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Go into development options and toggle it off... It's at the very top.
Battery just started randomly going away again. Dying on the charger.
This time, I didn't do anything. Just got really hot and the battery was like 30% lower than it was the last time I looked at it.
I am about to return this watch unless someone can convince me otherwise.
Rebooted the watch and now it's charging again. But the time or charge percent won't update while it's charging. Have to undock/dock the watch to see it update.
WTF? This thing sucks
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Rebooted the watch and now it's charging again. But the time or charge percent won't update while it's charging. Have to undock/dock the watch to see it update.
WTF? This thing sucks
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The ustwo watch face app did this. Installed twice, and twice this happened. Seems like watch face apps are still very buggy.
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Go into development options and toggle it off... It's at the very top.
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Oh... You meant the "off while charging" option toggle. Got it.
I deleted those two apps with 5% left, and the watch lasted 2 hours on 5%.
I don't understand how the screen off while charging option depletes the battery. I would think it improves it.
Narrowed this down more...
Sycning apps to the watch from the Android Wear app seems to be what causes this battery drain as well.
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Wondering if anyone else has had any battery issues? I went to sleep last night with about 85% or more battery, and 5.5 hours later my phone was dead....when i plugged it in for like 5 minutes to call my work and tell them i was going to be late...when i got to work my phone said 45% phone idle and 45% cell standby for battery use
none here - took phone off charger about midnight, this morning after alarm rang for the full 10 minutes, it still showed 100%
i've been watching it and am really impressed with battery life - is it possible you've got a program running in the background? - i had Startup Auditor to stop apps in the background but had that from before, on my Vibrant
on the vibrant,running a predominantly black wallpaper, screen brightness at 13%, putting phone in "airplane mode" when i sleep, keeping GPS off, data sync off etc, it'd be down to 17-22% at end of day before going back on charger
this G2, running live wallpaper (thunderstorm), no efficiency moves (ie GPS off, etc), screen brightness at 50%, phone still had 34% last night before going back on the charger - and the battery has not "conditioned" - i noticed on the past 2 phones batteries life got better after the first few weeks of use.
Nothing different than my nexus...and i was thinking maybe it was a game but that should have been killed automatically and i dont think it would say phone standby and cell idle if it was an app would it?
tonite you might try putting the phone in airplane mode when you go to bed, and turn off GPS
see what happens to battery drain overnite - if it diminishes then i'd look at what apps you've installed. there was an article on engadget not too long ago that some researchers had analyzed the 358 most popular apps, and found 30 were reporting data to their "mothership" that had not declared it or asked for permission to report data.
hope that helps
well another weird thing is, that when i bought the phone and brought it home, usually it comes with half battery and thats what it showed but i had to charge it quick with no apps really installed on it yet...Im charging now and will test to see what happens with battery...i just removed off alot of my apps.... to see whats up
I'm getting about 10 hours with regular usage though I wish I knew why Photobucket keeps starting everytime i kill it.
I hope you guys charged the phone fully before you used it first. That can play a big role in battery life.
I got my phone yesterday and haven't done any calibrations yet. I've been playing with it like you normally would if you buy a new smartphone. I took it off the charger around 9pm last night and at 7:32am right now I have about 60% left. So roughly 10.5 hours later and I've only lost about 40%. I'm very impressed by that. My vibrant would have been dead by now, it rarely lasts through the night if its not on the charger.
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Wondering if anyone else has had any battery issues? I went to sleep last night with about 85% or more battery, and 5.5 hours later my phone was dead....when i plugged it in for like 5 minutes to call my work and tell them i was going to be late...when i got to work my phone said 45% phone idle and 45% cell standby for battery use
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What's your time with out signal, sounds like the 50% bug to me, google the airplane mode fix, if not you might want to look into a new radio, and you should allways recal your battery after you flash
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rigbyrobot said:
What's your time with out signal, sounds like the 50% bug to me, google the airplane mode fix, if not you might want to look into a new radio, and you should allways recal your battery after you flash
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what do you mean time without signal? and cant flash the build or radio without root(if thats what you meant) im fully charging it now and removed all of my apps...and going to see what happens from there
I've been using mine off and on mostly text, web and speedtests for 4 hours off the charger and my battery is at 91%
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The first month this phone was great on battery... Its horrible now 3 months later! I shut off all the samsung stuff that suck up the battery. I have the screen power down to the lowest setting. Sometimes when i charge the phone is says its fully charged and when i unplug it its about 98%. Does this once and awhile. I've been playing a games for about 1.5 hours. The batter is about 40%. Is this normal?
10 minutes later i just checked the phone and now its down to 30%... wtf is going on with this battery?
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The first month this phone was great on battery... Its horrible now 3 months later! I shut off all the samsung stuff that suck up the battery. I have the screen power down to the lowest setting. Sometimes when i charge the phone is says its fully charged and when i unplug it its about 98%. Does this once and awhile. I've been playing a games for about 1.5 hours. The batter is about 40%. Is this normal?
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1.) You should get Better Battery Stats from the Play Store so you can see what could be causing this battery drain.
2.) When you unplug your device and it shows 98% it's a good thing. It means that your fuel gauge is working correctly. We have a safety feature that helps the battery to never get over charged. It helps the battery last a lot longer. The way these batteries work is if it's constantly overcharged over an certain amount of time it would deplete the battery life.
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10 minutes later i just checked the phone and now its down to 30%... wtf is going on with this battery?
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you have something in the background going on. could be a rouge app. check Better Battery Stats.
A coworker of mine has a Galaxy III on ATT same as I do. She complained about her battery to me. We both opened our Elvision Battery Widget and saw that screen times and time on battery were within 30 minutes of each other (1hr 50m mine vs 2hr 15m hers). She had 73% and I had 95%; her widget said 38XXmv, mine said 4100 (I have more stuff on than her). I had her restart her phone just for the hell of it, then I flipped through her settings and TURNED OFF battery saver. The problem went away. I've never used the battery saver and my battery stays golden all day. That said there's no telling if the restart did more for the phone than turning off the battery saver. I told her to turn on battery saver for 2 hours this weekend and see what it does. Will keep everyone posted.
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you have something in the background going on. could be a rouge app. check Better Battery Stats.
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I just downloaded this app but have no idea how to use this thing...lol
ViciousLSD said:
The first month this phone was great on battery... Its horrible now 3 months later! I shut off all the samsung stuff that suck up the battery. I have the screen power down to the lowest setting. Sometimes when i charge the phone is says its fully charged and when i unplug it its about 98%. Does this once and awhile. I've been playing a games for about 1.5 hours. The batter is about 40%. Is this normal?
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Are you on stock?
Stock ICS on my S3
I'm rooted on stock ICS...
Google Now is a huge battery drain from my experience.
I'm rooted stock. No battery issues in fact gs3 has some of the best battery life I've seen second only to my hoxl.
Download autostart fromvthe market.
Find out what's running at os startup.
Disable. Things like googleplay, Googlemaps etc. Don't need to start up.
In fact the only thing required is integral Os components. At start up, I have alimost everything Google disabled.
None of your maps need time start when boot. None of them. Keep in mind I'm talkin aps like ....anything AT&T... w/e you dl'd from market.
Also go through and disable bloatware.
This will help. check your battery. It should be flat or slightly concaved. If it's bulging even slightly get a new one.
Report back and let us know.
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Hi, I had my galaxy S3 from Rogers for almost 1 year and the battery drains like crazy!! When I first got the phone the battery life was ok. It lasted 1 full day (with the settings auto brightness, wifi usually on [when not in wifi area, using LTE], vibrate only, power saving on and snyc on. I turned off gps, bluetooth, location services, and motion). About 6 months ago I dropped the phone in water :S and I got it repaired. The phone battery life was still about 1 full day (with the same setting as above except when I'm not in a wifi area I use 4G to save battery life). After that every month the battery life seems to get worse from 1 full day to about half a day :S. After doing alittle research (this was around May/June) I found out Facebook was killing my battery so I stop using it on my phone then my battery got better (to about 3/4 of a day). But after that in July and August the battery life got really really bad, it will probably only last 5-6hrs. I honestly don't know what is wrong with it now. Is the water damage the problem with my battery drainage?
I'm running 4.1.2, never rooted and I'm running Nova launcher too.
Get better battery stats or gsam battery monitor to rule out a rogue app(s) first...
Maybe the battery cells are dying out?
DMF1977 said:
Get better battery stats or gsam battery monitor to rule out a rogue app(s) first...
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right know it seems to be the screen is draining my battery (I leave it on auto brightness)
diablo009 said:
Maybe the battery cells are dying out?
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thats wat I was thinking too, maybe I should get a new battery?
jly660 said:
right know it seems to be the screen is draining my battery (I leave it on auto brightness)
thats wat I was thinking too, maybe I should get a new battery?
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I leave mine on auto brightness too, I still get around 24 hours on a charge, and between 5 and 6 hours of screen on time. My phone is only about 3½ months old though... Could be the battery??
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I leave mine on auto brightness too, I still get around 24 hours on a charge, and between 5 and 6 hours of screen on time. My phone is only about 3½ months old though... Could be the battery??
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that what I would assume too. maybe its time 2 get a new battery, thxs
I got my s3 in dec. It worled fine till now.
I am facing the same drain problem. No wakelocks active.... checked better battery stats. Phone is going in deep sleep.
My real problem is
Whenever I plug my charger and start watching a video song or movie. Charhe gets real slow. If I dont use my cell while charging, it charges fine.... dont know why is this so.
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abhinavseth92 said:
I got my s3 in dec. It worled fine till now.
I am facing the same drain problem. No wakelocks active.... checked better battery stats. Phone is going in deep sleep.
My real problem is
Whenever I plug my charger and start watching a video song or movie. Charhe gets real slow. If I dont use my cell while charging, it charges fine.... dont know why is this so.
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Is it the original charger that came with the phone? And are u charging it from the wall or pc??
Ya I am using the original charger and original cable.. using ac supply, with plugged in wall...
The thing is if I reset my device ( which I have done 2-3 times) and after that, watching video/playing games/ internet surfing etc. With the charger plugged in, works fine... I mean it charges my phone battery fine. Battery is new. Checked its condition with battery monitor pro... it states its good.
But after a couple of months after resetting, I face the problem of slow charging, with my phone in use while plugged in... did a lot of search but didnt help out. Cleared dalvik and other cache.... nothing seems to be working.
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I installed Google fit the day it was released and my battery seems to be taking a big hit. I was getting 24ish hours with ambient mode on and now I'm not getting 12. Is anyone else seeing this?
I see no difference with or without Google Fit. Are you constantly syncing?
No. In installing it was the only change before the decrease in battery life. Wear battery stats doesn't show any apps using any battery either. Thinking I'll reset the 360 and see if it clears up.
How the **** do people get 24 hours with ambient on, when I barely get to 16 hours with ambient off and a stock black watch face and nearly zero usage of the watch?? I can't help but think I have a bad device and should return it...
what apps do you have installed? maybe its something else...
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How the **** do people get 24 hours with ambient on, when I barely get to 16 hours with ambient off and a stock black watch face and nearly zero usage of the watch?? I can't help but think I have a bad device and should return it...
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Well, i get up at 5 am and take my watch off the charger and when i out it back on at 11 it usually has over 30% which I'm assuming would be plenty enough to get me back to 5 am if i tried.
I only have Keep, play music, fit interval timer and wear battery stats installed...
I did see a reduction in battery. I didn't think it was Fit until I saw this post. I'm going to give it a day or two... Might be battery recalibration or something. My battery life isn't bad but before fit and the update I was getting about 40-50% per 12 hours... Give or take 10% depending on the notifications and such.
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mine decreased significantly as well.
I was getting between 4% - 5% drain an hour. Installed Google Fit, drain increased to 10% - 12% per hour.
No apps installed except wear battery stats.
May be you should change location setting..use power saving mode instead of gps
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My battery on the watch is more or less the same but my phone battery has taken a hit for sure .. fit is keeping my phone awake a lot!
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Yeah I noticed this as well. I deleted Fit on my N5 and battery life appears to be better gain.
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I did see a reduction in battery. I didn't think it was Fit until I saw this post. I'm going to give it a day or two... Might be battery recalibration or something. My battery life isn't bad but before fit and the update I was getting about 40-50% per 12 hours... Give or take 10% depending on the notifications and such.
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This is an update: no changes to anything except turning off ambient mode. Ambient mode was on and off throughout the day yesterday because I though that might have been killing the battery. I turned it off during last night's charge cycle to turn the screen off as usual but this time I didn't turn it back on. Normally, leaving on Ambient mode only takes 5-10% in a given day, so I can only assume that either I was moving a lot yesterday or something more sinister was going on.
Still using:
-Nexus 5
-Google FIT, Facer is being used, wear battery, a few other minor apps
-No changes to GPS settings, etc
The watch has been off the charger since 7:30-7:45 (100%) it is now 4:23 (75%) approximately 8 hours @25% , which is closer to my normal battery time. I've been receiving my normal notifications and I haven't even reset my device. Hopefully other people have the same results cause it really sucked last night to have a watch on my arm that didn't even work... lol
i've notice just a small decrease in battery, but not a huge one, i still took off the charger at 6am this morning and still have 51% right now, where as normally i'd have about 65%.
I was at about 55% when I installed the latest Wear update this evening. Three hours later I'm at 16%. Ambient mode off. Gonna keep an eye on it but that Wear update seems to be the culprit for me.
I suspect that the Google Fit is only using phone sensor at the moment and the Fit app is only syncing from the phone and not the otherway round. Checking Heart Rate history on the www.google.com/fit is also not showing anything.
When you check in Google Fit settings in the app, it doesn't show the Moto 360 as an connected device. Not sure if this by design.
How can the heart rate monitor and/or heart activity be turned off completely? I still get these "You've reached your daily goal" messages every single day, sometimes only minutes apart - it gets annoying, quickly. I've switched off all three sections in the settings menu, but it doesn't seem to do the trick.
I have noticed in the past 3 weeks that my phone rapidly discharges. I have done a factory reset, uninstalled programs that i really don't need, and moved a lot of apps to SD card and i am still losing power faster than i was in say April or even July this year.
Anyone else experiencing this? Not rooted BTW.
Like how fast does it discharge?
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Like how fast does it discharge?
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Lets say I plug it out at 9am. by 12 midday it has already lost 3-5% or even more. Overnight like 10%. it used to only lose 3-5% overnight.
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Lets say I plug it out at 9am. by 12 midday it has already lost 3-5% or even more. Overnight like 10%. it used to only lose 3-5% overnight.
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Okay so I can tell that the initial drop is a bit unusual because even on my S8+ when I unplug the phone from around 8:30 A.M (100%) it drops 1% around 10:00 A.M. or 10:30 A.M (This is with AOD on) and the overnight drain also seems unusual cause for me I face like a 5 - 6% drains due to my social media apps always retrieving notifications.
But try giving this app a try and see:- Servicely It may help you save up some battery. But before you try this app I suggest Like Re-calibrating your battery, the best way to do this would be to fully charge the battery and then drain the battery till it automatically switches off, repeat this 2 - 3 times and then give the app a try
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Okay so I can tell that the initial drop is a bit unusual because even on my S8+ when I unplug the phone from around 8:30 A.M (100%) it drops 1% around 10:00 A.M. or 10:30 A.M (This is with AOD on) and the overnight drain also seems unusual cause for me I face like a 5 - 6% drains due to my social media apps always retrieving notifications.
But try giving this app a try and see:- Servicely It may help you save up some battery. But before you try this app I suggest Like Re-calibrating your battery, the best way to do this would be to fully charge the battery and then drain the battery till it automatically switches off, repeat this 2 - 3 times and then give the app a try
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Thank you for the advice. Funny enough, this week I have been making it go all the way down to 6% or so before I recharge it. Also, screen broke in July so this phone is literally 2 months old as I got it July 5th as a replacement. Brand new and in the beginning I was so impressed with the battery usage. Since then, it has fallen off dramatically! I keep hoping an update will change it but not yet, the last one last week for facial recognition, etc did nothing for the battery.
I will try and recalibrate it over the weekend/next week.
Thanks.
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Thank you for the advice. Funny enough, this week I have been making it go all the way down to 6% or so before I recharge it. Also, screen broke in July so this phone is literally 2 months old as I got it July 5th as a replacement. Brand new and in the beginning I was so impressed with the battery usage. Since then, it has fallen off dramatically! I keep hoping an update will change it but not yet, the last one last week for facial recognition, etc did nothing for the battery.
I will try and recalibrate it over the weekend/next week.
Thanks.
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No pb, before having an S8+ I had a OnePlus 2 and I was having some battery issues, so the normal battery calibration helped solve the problem for a few months until I bought a new battery for it. And we'll have to hope that Oreo would optimize the battery life
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No pb, before having an S8+ I had a OnePlus 2 and I was having some battery issues, so the normal battery calibration helped solve the problem for a few months until I bought a new battery for it. And we'll have to hope that Oreo would optimize the battery life
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Yes, when it does come out......Verizon is not always first...
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Yes, when it does come out......Verizon is not always first...
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Yep they are pretty slow when it comes to updates
Hatsune_Rox said:
Okay so I can tell that the initial drop is a bit unusual because even on my S8+ when I unplug the phone from around 8:30 A.M (100%) it drops 1% around 10:00 A.M. or 10:30 A.M (This is with AOD on) and the overnight drain also seems unusual cause for me I face like a 5 - 6% drains due to my social media apps always retrieving notifications.
But try giving this app a try and see:- Servicely It may help you save up some battery. But before you try this app I suggest Like Re-calibrating your battery, the best way to do this would be to fully charge the battery and then drain the battery till it automatically switches off, repeat this 2 - 3 times and then give the app a try
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Do you have to turn your phone back on as soon as you plug it in or keep it off? Would it matter either way?
theres battery/power adjustments options in the phone... touch the battery icon
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Do you have to turn your phone back on as soon as you plug it in or keep it off? Would it matter either way?
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Nope don't turn it on if you are recalibrating it
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Nope don't turn it on if you are recalibrating it
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Update: Since I posted this, it was determined by Verizon that the unit was to be changed out. I got the new unit and so far(fingers crossed) I am getting about 2 days out of 1 charge. I liked the suggestion about recalibrating the battery. I am now losing 3-4% overnight when the unit does "sleep". Much better than the 10+% it was losing before. Not sure what was killing it but thanks to all the suggestions out there. I will see if there is any improvement when we get Oreo update.