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Horrible Battery Life

It would seem that after I installed the AT&T update to dumb down thr search on my phone, my battery life has been terrible. Yesterday it was down to about 30% after only 4 hours of light use with the processes "Android OS" and "Cell Standby" taking up the most battery. I can't even get through the day with this phone. Some help would be much appreciated.

After any update, give it a couple days to level out. Until then, just carry an extra charger and plug in when you can.

The update was installed at least a week ago.

In that case, backup everything and do a factory reset when you have a fully charged battery.

Alright I'll give it a shot. I needed to do that anyway as my clipboard no longer works and consistently crashes. :/

I did a factory reset a few weeks ago and that solved it for me.

Do you have any specific methods for backing up a phone that isn't rooted? I've got nova backed up, but I would like to make sure everything else is too.

FlyinHi said:
Alright I'll give it a shot. I needed to do that anyway as my clipboard no longer works and consistently crashes. :/
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Are you receiving push email? that was the major drainer for me. apparently the android email app has a bug.
Regarding clipboard...delete everything in data/clipboard; force close the 'test service' app and then restart your phone

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Do you have any specific methods for backing up a phone that isn't rooted? I've got nova backed up, but I would like to make sure everything else is too.
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The best method would be to use titanium backup but since your not rooted I don't know what options you have except to use the google backup but that ain't to good since its only app data.
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Hi all,
Since getting the phone from day one, I really never had a problem with the battery. Lately however, I've noticed a significant drain in battery over night. I tested the drain a few times over several nights, and even put my phone into "airplane" mode to help save battery.
Below are my results from going to sleep at 1:30am with 100% battery power and in airplane mode and waking up at 9:30am the next morning. I get a 12% decrease in battery over night for doing nothing over the course of 8 hours.
The only thing I've noticed differently is that Chrome is starting to use battery which is odd because I rarely use Chrome to begin with.
Any ideas to help this? What should I do?
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Hi all,
Since getting the phone from day one, I really never had a problem with the battery. Lately however, I've noticed a significant drain in battery over night. I tested the drain a few times over several nights, and even put my phone into "airplane" mode to help save battery.
Below are my results from going to sleep at 1:30am with 100% battery power and in airplane mode and waking up at 9:30am the next morning. I get a 12% decrease in battery over night for doing nothing over the course of 8 hours.
The only thing I've noticed differently is that Chrome is starting to use battery which is odd because I rarely use Chrome to begin with.
Any ideas to help this? What should I do?
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I had the same problem this morning chrome had like 26% and it showed no cpu use my phone was down from around 88% to 56% I know for a fact it was chrome so try un installing it.
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Yeah I've noticed a huge jump in Android System usage since I flashed the UCLG1 update.
Currently
18h 27min on current charge
screen on 1h 22min
Android system = 51%

DudeWatsThat, thanks I'm going to give it a try and see if uninstalling Chrome changes anything. It just boggles my mind that in airplane mode over night it would drain the battery 12%

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Yeah I've noticed a huge jump in Android System usage since I flashed the UCLG1 update.
Currently
18h 27min on current charge
screen on 1h 22min
Android system = 51%
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That
ain't normal for sure.
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DudeWatsThat, thanks I'm going to give it a try and see if uninstalling Chrome changes anything. It just boggles my mind that in airplane mode over night it would drain the battery 12%
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Yea its definitely a rare bug since Chrome wasn't even displaying cpu usage.
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i second that problem about Chrome. I think it is a bug regarding the builtin flash code. my battery was great until i installed Chrome then it got really bad. I uninstalled Chrome and my battery life jumped up big time. huge different. too bad i really like Chrome but no go right now

Not sure if it's the same issue, but I had some problems with battery life in Chrome until I disabled Tilt Scrolling under Developer Options in the Chrome menu.

my battery life is great even after the update

Plagued by phantom GPS issue. am i alone?

OK, so here is the deal.
been having this same problem on a couple different ROM's, the latest one was the 4.2.2 GSM build "ported" over to my Verizon Nexus. i have ZERO issues other than this one.
yesterday, i tried using GPS to navigate, i wasn't getting the flashing symbol in the status bar (just the GPS symbol with nothing in the middle flashing) so i figured GPS was borked on this build....no big deal. i turn off GPS and go on my way.
later in the day, i check my battery stats, and see that Maps has been using most of my battery (about 40%) and after opening it up, it has had GPS ON, for 5 or so hours....even though it has been off the entire time.
so i Froze the "Maps" app with titanium thinking that might fix it.
charge it over night, with a reboot in the middle of the night.
wake up, go to work, place on charger again, pull it off once it reaches 100%
after 1 hour i see this.
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dont worry about percentages, that is with streaming pandora the entire time, as well as 15+ minutes screen on time in weak 3g/4G signal.
remember, MAPS has been Frozen for the entire day!
so I click on MAPS and see this
again GPS was "ON" the entire time according to my phone. but its not on, and i haven't used anything that would use GPS (no maps because its frozen, no google, no FB/G+ ect.
so....am I alone here? Anyone else having this issue?
the only way i know how to fix it is to factory reset and re-flash the ROM. but i am afraid it will come back as soon as i use GPS again (rare)

This is why I un installed maps. Happened to me yesterday on an unmodified stock rooted rom. Kept my gps on for 6 hours when I never even opened maps app to start with.

Just moved over to a GNexus from my Inc2, installed AOKP 4.2.1 build 3 and my GPS is on all day. Goes off and comes back 5 seconds later. Its driving me nuts.

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This is why I un installed maps. Happened to me yesterday on an unmodified stock rooted rom. Kept my gps on for 6 hours when I never even opened maps app to start with.
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Is your gps turned off in settings? I usually don't have an issue until i have GPS on and the phone tries to find a lock. Doesn't matter if it's maps or Facebook or Google plus.
they all eat the battery and show GPS as being on for X amount of time
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Just moved over to a GNexus from my Inc2, installed AOKP 4.2.1 build 3 and my GPS is on all day. Goes off and comes back 5 seconds later. Its driving me nuts.
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I think these are separate issues as i am never showing a gps icon unless i am trying to acquire a GPS location.
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Yea, I figured they were but this was the only thread I saw close to the problem I was having so I figured I would see if anyone else out there was experiencing this as well. I can't for the life of my figure out what the hell is going on.
** Update **
Shazam was causing the GPS issue. When I added the widget it turned on GPS for location song tagging! Never had that issue before. Disabled the feature and all is good in the hood. That was fun.

Watch keeps turning on, even with tilt to wake off

My watch has lost 50% battery in the last hour because the stupid screen keeps turning on while I'm typing. I'm not even raising my wrist to look at it, and I turned off tilt to wake, and it's STILL turning on, wasting battery life. WTF?

Try changing the watchface. I encountered the same behavior using UsTwo watchfaces, and it stopped once I switched back to Fiore.

Mine has been doing the same thing!! I've had it on since about 7AM, and it had 9% left about 10 minutes ago. (10:40AM) I've been repeatedly pressing the button to turn the screen off, then I look and it's on again. Charging now, and up to 21%. IDK what's causing it either, I haven't installed anything new in the last few days. If I didn't have an extra charger on my desk at work it'd be dead. I'll try switching faces, although I've had the same one for weeks and it never did this before

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Mine has been doing the same thing!! I've had it on since about 7AM, and it had 9% left about 10 minutes ago. (10:40AM) I've been repeatedly pressing the button to turn the screen off, then I look and it's on again. Charging now, and up to 21%. IDK what's causing it either, I haven't installed anything new in the last few days. If I didn't have an extra charger on my desk at work it'd be dead. I'll try switching faces, although I've had the same one for weeks and it never did this before
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I unpaired and reset the watch... unfortunately, it's still draining the battery ridiculously fast. And now it's not charging right. I've left it on the dock all day only to find that it's at 86% by the end of the day. I put it on last night, at 86%. When I woke up this morning, it was dead. It used to be that even when I was using it for Sleep as Android (which uses the watch as a sensor for movement and heart rate), that it'd only use about 40% overnight. Nowadays, even when I go to bed with a full charge, it'd be dead in the morning.

I have been getting this too the last couple days. Resetting and or just rebooting solves it for a brief period, but the issue invariably returns. The screen doesn't time out for me either - I have to cover it or press the button to turn it off. I have uninstalled several apps and removed my screen protector to no avail.

Have you checked if any app updated? I got an update for the google services (and a few others), apparently since then the timeout settings don't work anymore.

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Have you checked if any app updated? I got an update for the google services (and a few others), apparently since then the timeout settings don't work anymore.
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I don't know. I've reset the watch a few days ago, and it's still acting odd. It dies within a hour or two on a full charge, and it's hot while charging, most of the time it doesn't go higher than 85+. I'm starting to think I need to send it in to Motorola. I doubt they'll fix it without a deposit though.

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I don't know. I've reset the watch a few days ago, and it's still acting odd. It dies within a hour or two on a full charge, and it's hot while charging, most of the time it doesn't go higher than 85+. I'm starting to think I need to send it in to Motorola. I doubt they'll fix it without a deposit though.
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Which version of Android Wear is installed? I had this behavior after the first OS update, the 3rd one (and a reset) helped.

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Which version of Android Wear is installed? I had this behavior after the first OS update, the 3rd one (and a reset) helped.
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The latest. When I updated to 6.0, things were going smoothly. It just started this behavior in the past week.

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So I think my issues started on the 14th of July, when it looks like the clock app was updated. I am going to try and find an older version of the clock apk and try and revert to that.

So I think my issues started on the 14th of July, when it looks like the clock app was updated. I am going to try and find an older version of the clock apk and try and revert to that.
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Oh yes, this one was updated too! Seems that this is the one to blame
Edit: I use a Wileyfox Swift, and apparently there were two clock apps installed. I have deleted the new one (4.5) and my watch made a "downgrade" to 4.3 (same version on my phone now).

Odd, I think that's around the time that I installed 4.5.1 from APKmirror.

Yeah. FWIW, my watch has been behaving itself just fine after I "downgraded" the clock app to a pre-4.5.1 version. Knock on wood.

I downgraded the Clock app back to 4.4 yesterday, and since then, both my watch and my phone have been behaving normally again. Before, my phone would drain within mere hours, and my watch acted similar. My watch actually lasted through the night (I used Sleep as Android, which uses the watch to monitor movement and body stats).

High battery drain for a fresh reinstall 7.0 in idle for no apparent reason

Hello, people!
So, on 6.0.1. stock ENcrypted it was like this:
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about 5% lost per night
WiFi always on, whatsup, maildroid checking one imap mailbox for every 120 mins (set to wake up the phone), ok google OFF, now cards OFF, backup-ing OFF. Steady about 5% (4-6%) per night.
Now, I flashed factory image 7.0.0. everything stock. Then I flashed boot.img with disabled encryption and formated data and cache. Everything is as it is described above expect for the maildroid has NOT been even installed yet.
And that's what I get second night in a row (rebooted, cache wiped from recovery mode before leaving the phone):
23% eaten for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
What even worse, even android itself does not know what it was doing that it ate so much battery because the percentages does not add up for the whole drain.
After so many time invested into this phone for getting pure stock 7.0 unencrypted I just feel exhausted and want to throw this phone out of the window.
I'd appreciate a right direction for figuring out what drains the battery.

Yeah battery blows with nougat. Significant Google play services drain mainly bet scheduler. Had somewhat similar with MM but was able to really calm it down with Power Nap, bit since Xposed is not out yet for N....I'm nandroiding back to MM too.
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I downgraded to MM, and it became normal. The next day I missed the quick switching between the last two opened apps and I flashed N again))
Actually, this night it drained 8% what is kinda OK. What I additionally did was that I disabled under google account sync everything except for the contacts and calendar. Also I activated data saver and added only whatsup there. Wifi was on all night, but he phone did not seem to be waking up during the night at all, what is good because I didn't need it to be doing anything except for idling in case someone calls for emergency. So, I guess after some hard tweaking and disabling things I can cope with N, but mostly for the sake of awesome interface features.

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I downgraded to MM, and it became normal. The next day I missed the quick switching between the last two opened apps and I flashed N again))
Actually, this night it drained 8% what is kinda OK. What I additionally did was that I disabled under google account sync everything except for the contacts and calendar. Also I activated data saver and added only whatsup there. Wifi was on all night, but he phone did not seem to be waking up during the night at all, what is good because I didn't need it to be doing anything except for idling in case someone calls for emergency. So, I guess after some hard tweaking and disabling things I can cope with N, but mostly for the sake of awesome interface features.
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Just give it sometime...things are settling in...so a lot of time play services and stuff also go crazy...also apps are getting updated as well...give it a week or so...things will be better

I had this sort of issue on DP5 after a while but clean flashing MM stock and then re-OTAing to N seemed to fix it for me and I'm back at 5-6% overnight.
I honestly think there is a bug in there somewhere, whether its Google services or what i've no idea as my battery stats didn't seem to add up to the drain I was seeing. I had a similar weird drain before on MM too which a wipe sorted out.

give the system some time to settle in. i upgraded to N the day it came out and after giving android a few days i recognize no major difference in performance or battery life, even though things like Force Doze are incompatible now.

Sorry for off topic
How did you get that icon to the left of alarm icon in status bar (circular arc with + sign in the center)?
Thanks in advanced

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Sorry for off topic
How did you get that icon to the left of alarm icon in status bar (circular arc with + sign in the center)?
Thanks in advanced
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That's a new data saver feature being turned on. Setting -> Data usage -> Data Saver option there

I went back to MM not because of the idle drain, infact, I had no drain but the SOT sucks... Like 2-3 hours instead of 4-5 on MM. Maybe I'll wakt until Xposed it compatible again...

Hi, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I posted about an issue with the screen, which is battery related as well. Actually when idle I have almost no battery drain (up to 2% per night). Could you take a look at this thread regarding the issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/nexus-5x-android-7-screen-battery-usage-t3463591
I have screenshots prepared (even worse than what I've already described), but as already mentioned I don't have enough posts in order to be able to post them here.
Is this an issue with the screen, battery or OS? The device is new with the OTA Nougat update.

How exactly did you downgrade to Marshmallow? I'd like to know because my 5X drains battery like crazy without doing anything on 7.0

Rage9one said:
How exactly did you downgrade to Marshmallow? I'd like to know because my 5X drains battery like crazy without doing anything on 7.0
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Flash factory image from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Did that too but unfortunately for me it didn't fix my drain...

Question Very absurd heating issued not fixed + battery drains fast

I've had this issue ever since I restored whatsapp backups, deleted everything regarding it. Now the phone heats up noticeably with NORMAL usage, and the battery drains way faster than normally. I have done a few factory resets, cleared cache then finally flashed stock rom with odin, using nand erase option.
But the issue still persists.?! Anybody more technical than me? Been through the whole internet searching about this issue and no avail, and visited service center 2 times where they claim it is an app when clearly it's not.

What does it say for your battery usage? Settings->Battery and device care->Battery->(tap on graph)
Also you said you've done some factory resets - it can take a few days for the adaptive battery usage to optimize itself after a reset.

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Have you tried uninstalling whatsapp to see if your phone still heats up noticeably with NORMAL usage, and the battery drains way faster than normally ??? So you will see if the problem is on whatsapp side or not... ^^
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Yes, I installed whatsapp way back in march and this caused the problem to arise. Haven't touched it ever since.
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What does it say for your battery usage? Settings->Battery and device care->Battery->(tap on graph)
Also you said you've done some factory resets - it can take a few days for the adaptive battery usage to optimize itself after a reset.
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Obviously TikTok using a lot of battery because I've been using it a lot. Installed or not, heating still occurs when using other apps. Neither is it microG, that has been using battery today unrelated to the draining issues.
And regards to the factory reset, they were done way back in march as well. I did wait until the optimization to sort itself out but nothing ever seemed to change. I had done a reflash through odin as well, making sure the storage gets completely wiped out.
The apps aren't at fault though. Before I had installed whatsapp, these apps you currently see did not have such massive draining or heating issues until installing wa. Neither did the issue go away after factory reseting or flashing the stock rom. All of this happens in safe mode too, I am not sure where to even begin with.

Ah ok, I see. Yes, that's more than enough time since your reset for the adaptive battery to figure things out.
How much is the drain overnight when you're sleeping?
Are you mainly on wifi or cell data? How strong are they for you?
Another thing you can try is dark mode and see if that helps at all as our screens use less power when showing black. I don't know how much of an effect that actually has though.
Also, if you haven't already, set your screen to 60Hz instead of 120Hz.

Overnight drain is nonexistent. And I am typically on wifi when at home, outdoors using data. Both have full bars so I am sure it's not them.
Been on 60Hz the whole time, I dislike 120Hz
I've had this same problem on my previous S7 where it was more severe due to the exynos chip. I had a spare S7 edge not used by me, so I installed whatsapp and restored the backup, and the same issue I described began. That phone ran cool without lag, now suffering the same fate as my A52s. I flashed the stock rom on the edge as well and it didn't seem to fix the issue either.

Sorry. I forgot to mention I had uninstalled whatsapp back in march, so the issue should be gone but it still persists.

You don't need to be so aggressive to me. I know what I am here for and I am trying to get help after trying to fix this by going to the service center where they claim false stuff, and whatever I posted earlier. Read what I posted, TikTok is not causing it neither is any app causing it.

Please read what I wrote above. Not tryying to start an argument here but sounds like you are trying to.
It does not matter if TikTok is installed or not. The same issue persists nevertheless and I already mentioned WhatsApp was not installed. Everything I mentioned above was tested by myself...
TikTok obviously is using a lot of battery because it has been on for a long time. Same thing, does not matter if it's installed the same heating and battery drain issue will occur in other apps. (Normal usage, not gaming or doing anything that stresses the phone)
What I am trying to gain here is advice to fix it, not asking for blaming on apps or useless advice because you never read my post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys10/comments/bfdbbz
This post is similar to what I am experiencing at the moment but for a different reason. Going to the service center isn't really an option anymore because they do not believe me and make up false reasons for this problem, and I am not a very confrontational person either.

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This post is similar to what I am experiencing at the moment but for a different reason. Going to the service center isn't really an option anymore because they do not believe me and make up false reasons for this problem, and I am not a very confrontational person either.
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I'm not a huge fan of these types of apps but one might point you in the right direction here - try and install something like AccuBattery and let it go for a few days. See what it says for battery usage.
It's been a while but I think there's an additional setting in the app (AccuBattery) that will enable the app to get more details, make sure you do that (was an ADB command if I recall).

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I'm not a huge fan of these types of apps but one might point you in the right direction here - try and install something like AccuBattery and let it go for a few days. See what it says for battery usage.
It's been a while but I think there's an additional setting in the app (AccuBattery) that will enable the app to get more details, make sure you do that (was an ADB command if I recall).
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Absolutely, I will install it and let it run for a few days then report the results back here.

Did you try enrolling to Whatsapp's beta program or sideload the latest beta from apkmirror and compare the battery drain between the two versions (Stable vs Beta)?