Sometimes my battery is awesome, and sometimes it just sucks.
This was 7 hours overnight, zero use. No wakelocks, and yet the battery drained really fast. Usually it's about 1% of drain per hour and a half of idle.
Any ideas?
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And the awake times are for Twitter, Facebook, email, weather updates, etc.
1. well twitter and facebook are battery hogs.
2. I have had battery issues with email (only exchange accounts)
3. which firmware are you using?
Nk3,
And it isn't always like this. Some days are fine, some days are awful.
And I use tweetings for Twitter, no the actual twitter app, if that makes a difference.
My battery is terrible has been since I got it
Battery Issue
Well, I see no reply on this thread for a long time. I have been facing some battery issues as well. And this issue was there since before the 5.0.1 OTA update which I received 3 days ago. I will post some screenshots, but here are the usage statistics. I have been struggling to get a full day of battery with very moderate to low usage. The general amount of screen on time I get has been about 2-2 1/2 hours at max. I make some phone calls over the day and since that uses the radios, I take that as a reason too. The general call time I use my phone everyday is about 1-1 1/2 hours. Other than that, its not much usage. I am posting the most recent screenshots here. I unplugged my phone from charging at a little over 1.30 PM and have lost 11% in about an hour. In that duration, the only thing I used my phone for, was 43 minutes of voice call. Is this normal for this duration of calling? The screen has been on for a maximum 5 minutes at best.
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Well, I see no reply on this thread for a long time. I have been facing some battery issues as well. And this issue was there since before the 5.0.1 OTA update which I received 3 days ago. I will post some screenshots, but here are the usage statistics. I have been struggling to get a full day of battery with very moderate to low usage. The general amount of screen on time I get has been about 2-2 1/2 hours at max. I make some phone calls over the day and since that uses the radios, I take that as a reason too. The general call time I use my phone everyday is about 1-1 1/2 hours. Other than that, its not much usage. I am posting the most recent screenshots here. I unplugged my phone from charging at a little over 1.30 PM and have lost 11% in about an hour. In that duration, the only thing I used my phone for, was 43 minutes of voice call. Is this normal for this duration of calling? The screen has been on for a maximum 5 minutes at best.
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Oh yes, and I forgot to mention. I do not put the screen on auto brightness. I usually keep it at a very low level, say about 20-25% and only increase it manually if I am outdoors.
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I know there are a million threads on battery life here and on other forums. But I am curious before I take the dive into the EVO (buying outright without an upgrade).
How bad is the battery life?
and
How wide spread is the screen separation issue?
I intend on buying the EVO and then trading to the EPIC when its released then deciding which to keep for the next year until I do have an upgrade.
Battery life will probably be the key determination for me between the 2, I need every last second of power I can get.
Captivate guys are saying 5% an hour under moderate use 2% under light- I can tolerate that. But its a GSM phone and they typically have better batter life anyway. No one can really tell what the Epic will do until we get one.
If I don't touch my phone and idle it I can get 24+ hours. light/moderate I can get 8+, heavy I pretty much have to keep it plugged in.
I got 2 days on a single charge last weekend, barely used and was basically on a 2 day drinking binge. Probably could have gone a bit longer but I plugged it in first chance I had. I can easily get through a day with medium use. Maybe light in the morning, more medium - heavy use in the afternoon but can still make it home knowing I have some charge. Or if I get sidetracked for a couple hours at the local watering hole I know I'm still safe.
I feel a lot of people want to best their last battery time though, sometimes after a decent day of use I need to juice it for a while before I go out that night. Any decent phone these days, with the things they can do, can be dried out pretty quickly with heavy use. But once you get more into the regular use of the device it is more than suitable, IMO. Not to mention other steps can be taken to make sure you get the best performance out of the phone, battery included.
I've been leaving my GPS on lately, keeping sync constantly on, just to see how big of a hit it will really deal during the day. It's not really noticeable yet. One thing I have noticed though, honestly, is that in the beginning when my phone was off it seemed to really use a lot of battery. But now when not in use it's almost as if the battery takes a very minor hit, if a visible one at all. Went to sleep last night with 70% left and woke up it was reading the same. Responded to emails, sent some texts, checked the weather for no reason, and left it idle for an hour. Still sat at that 70% mark, even though that is a slight estimate in terms of battery charge meter. Might have been nearing more to the 60 but still showed 30% as used.
this is a screen shot from when i had cm6 7.27 build. i'm running the 8/2 build right now and its about the same.
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I'M using Oxygen 0.2.2 Beta Rom. Yesterday I recalibrate my battery, closed unnecessary programs, turn off wifi, 3g, gps and bluetooth. Morning I checked battery level and shocked battery leves was about %75. I checked if there any memory leaked program but I couldn't find something like that.
Display used battery percantage dramatically high?
What is the problem? Screen was turned off naturally.
'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.
@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.
Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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'My Battery Kills Me' - sounds like the title of a cheap horror film - LOL
How long is 'overnight'? 8, 10 hours?
25% in that time sounds quite reasonable to me.
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overnight is about 7hr13m
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@cr1960 25% over 8 hr with wifi and 3g off is not normal and if you experience this i would check what is causing your drain.
@yapay Install current widget, place it on one of the home screens and set it up to wright to the log every 5 min. Then turn your phone in to flight mode overnight and the next day check the log, if you have more than 1 mA usage regularly during the night there is something using to much power. Install a monitoring app from the market and let it run during the night to find out what.
If it's mostly around 1 mA than your problem probably is gone after another charge.
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I installed current widget. I will try this this night. Thank you very much for your suggestions.
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Screen is very high for only 1.5h ish. Looks looks like you have high brightness settings and a lot of white/blue images being displayed.
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There is a misunderstood. I checked battery status after woke up and that was 60% display usage. After that I used phone during breakfast and later my battery was 18%.
Something is wrong...
Hello, I just wondered if it was normal to get around 60mah drain while on standby.
I only have my yahoo mail account retrieving email every hour.
I don't understand where this high drain is coming from or whether this is normal. My beloved HD2 only had 3 to 7mah on standby.
Monitoring with battery monitor widget.
I seem to feel the same way... Maybe I am just being paranoid.
Unplugged from charger at for 1:40 mins and dropped down to 94% already.
Screen time only been on for 23 mins and have only made 2 short calls. One call is voip and the other is normal...
Is this normal?
Ok... Wipe catch, wipe dalwik wipe battery.
Do not disturb the charging process.
Unplug the cable only after fool charge (only when is green light is on).
Also I always restart the phone after full charged.
Check this out: 1% in 1 hour in heavy using!!!
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Ok... Wipe catch, wipe dalwik wipe battery.
Do not disturb the charging process.
Unplug the cable only after fool charge (only when is green light is on).
Also I always restart the phone after full charged.
Check this out: 1% in 1 hour in heavy using!!!
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I assume you mean wiping the cache?? But won't I have to wipe for each application?
How to wipe dalwik? Can this be done on a non-root stock phone.
Wipe battery?? You mean recalibration??
for me,battery is draining at a rate of 1% per 4~5 mins while watching videos at 30-40% screen brightness.guess it's normal ? i'm little bit paranoid since i moved from a old nokia phone,which used to last for days and days....
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for me,battery is draining at a rate of 1% per 4~5 mins while watching videos at 30-40% screen brightness.guess it's normal ? i'm little bit paranoid since i moved from a old nokia phone,which used to last for days and days....
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so,,, you could watch a film of say.. 1 1/2 hours long.... and still be on 85% battery... and your not happy?????? sheeesh..
I get 2 hours of general internet use from my S2 and that drains my battery to 15% !!!
what i noticed. the battery would last longer as the numbers went down
It's Android for God's sake. One day it will be 10 mAh, another day 60 or more, one has to get on with it.
I did a test watching a youtube video 2hrs long with everything on (wifi and location on with no power saving) and after 90min it would have drained 14/15% so 10hrs video is excellent, compared to my old iphone 4 which after 30min 3g is down to 70%
only problem I have is getting 5% drop in 10 hrs on standby (power saving on, wifi and location off)
im on the uk o2 fw ( XXALIJ ) BB (XXALIH), would the official stock be better?
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It's Android for God's sake. One day it will be 10 mAh, another day 60 or more, one has to get on with it.
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You just posted an universal truth.
Thank you.
Hi guys
I've had my HTC 10 for over 2 weeks now, and as I decided to change from iOS to Android the first few days/week the battery would only last me barely 14 hours.
However, the last few days were very impressive with the phone lasting me 2 days and 12 hours with normal usage (no games and not heavy internet browsing).
But today something weird happened as I took the phone in the morning to go to work and at 10:30/11:00 my phone was down to about 60% without me doing anything to it and without a specific reason to it.
I will attach some screenshots to see if anyone had the same problem/issue.
I would appreciate any feedback you may have!
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Did you try to restart the phone? Something is keeping your phone awake. A restart every couple of days is always helpful.
Yes, I did.
However, the phone's battery still only lasted until 7 pm. Which is really weird as I literally almost didn't use it...
Will see how it goes today
My battery life did not last very well either when K first got my 10. I'm an HTC lover by the way. In my experience, I've learned you really need to optimize the controls and settings after you purchase the phone to get the most out of your battery. I restrict a lot of app permissions that ask for location so my phone isn't constantly locating itself on GPS. Same for Wi-Fi. I turned off the auto scan for the Wi-Fi cause that absolutely toasts your battery. And then I turn off vibration feedback for touching keys just to conserve even more. I moderately use my phone throughout the day checking mail, texting, browsing the web, facebook, xda, altos adventures, a YouTube video here and there. I get to my office at 4 in the morning, don't get home til 3 pm and my phone still has anywhere from 45 - 60% charge. I think that's great considering my M8 normally has 15 - 20% when I would get home. Just tinker with the controls for a bit. Maybe I'm wrong but this is what worked for me
Yes, I understand and I have done so by restricting must apps and by having the same constant brightness and normally (as it happens today) the phone after 12 hours still has 50% battery. But it was that episode that literally was eating away the battery without me using the phone at all!
Thanks for the replies so far
Good day, just got a refurbished from Amazon and getting lousy 2 hr of SOT, I decided to replace it myself a week ago. Now my SOT is around 4 hr.
Now for my question, is this the normal SOT for Pixel XL OG? What are you guys getting with new battery?
I can go beyond 4 hours SOT on a full charge over a full day of 17 hours on a freshly replaced battery with my OG 5", the XL could reach 6 IMHO.
It all depends on your usage and those silent internal updates being pushed to your device which keeps changing a device's output oftentimes. Just few weeks ago I was getting 5-6 hours of SoT normally on my marlin (3 month old phone), hit 7 hours few times, but last few days barely reaching 5 hours! Usage obviously has not changed for me. 4.5-5 hours SoT now. From 90-10%.
i get 3 hours, android 9 august patch
Thank you everyone this is Interesting. I can't seems to get pass 4 hours no matter how hard I try. Stuff I've tried: Factory reset, battery saver, no FB, no games. Guess my new battery is busted.
Does this mean my battery is dying already? Stats don't look good at all
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I bought my Pixel XL used about 18 months I'm so I have no idea how it was used by the first owner. I'm not a heavy user, mostly texts, calls, and web surfing. No games and only occasional YouTube videos. I can usually go 2-2 1/2 days between charges and rarely let it get below 40%. My battery health shows 93% and Accubattery says 3:41 for estimated SOT.
I was getting around 4h sot with my pixel XL. Accubattery shows 96% health on it. My OnePlus 5 I'm using now gets closer to 5-6 hours with health showing 90%.
Both phones can go several hours longer if used for reading a book on a black background, or just heavy browsing or YouTube videos indoors where screen brightness is low.
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Does this mean my battery is dying already? Stats don't look good at all
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79% isn't that good for a newly bought phone. That's what users expect after using the device for like 18-24 months or something.
My first one was down to 83% after almost 2 years of use. I hadn't really noticed a decrease in battery life so I assumed software updates had actually improved it offsetting the battery wear.