abismal battery life - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6

I wanted to see if it's just me but this phone seems to have the worst battery life of any phone I've ever owned. I will text and use GPS a few times during the day and it stays in wifi most of the time. However it seems to be draining much to fast and getting hot while doing normal things. I've already swapped it out for another phone since I'm still in the 14 day return policy but the new one seems to be doing g the same thing. I attached a screen shot for you guys to see. Am I crazy?
UPDATE: One thing I hadn't done after the 5.1.1 update was factory reset. Once I did this, battery life seemed to get better. it is still not impressive though. Hope the S7 over comes this.

gigamchz said:
I wanted to see if it's just me but this phone seems to have the worst battery life of any phone I've ever owned. I will text and use GPS a few times during the day and it stays in wifi most of the time. However it seems to be draining much to fast and getting hot while doing normal things. I've already swapped it out for another phone since I'm still in the 14 day return policy but the new one seems to be doing g the same thing. I attached a screen shot for you guys to see. Am I crazy?
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I get a full day of battery life, on average. Of course heavy use requires that I recharge more often, if I use GPS all day while traveling.
I am rooted, run a custom ROM that is heavily debloated and use Greenify.

My phone would get about 10-16 hours of use in a full charge, the longest battery life I've got was 1d 1hr and 6min. I play some games, listen to a couple of hours of Spotify, Facebook, and some YouTube. and I use Amplify, Greenify, and PowerNap to save battery.

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My phone would get about 10-16 hours of use in a full charge, the longest battery life I've got was 1d 1hr and 6min. I play some games, listen to a couple of hours of Spotify, Facebook, and some YouTube. and I use Amplify, Greenify, and PowerNap to save battery.
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I tried powernap, and it kept giving me SOD. How did you avoid that? Also, curious as to if you greenify any system apps. I just greenify messenger and snapchat. Also, using amplify too.

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I tried powernap, and it kept giving me SOD. How did you avoid that? Also, curious as to if you greenify any system apps. I just greenify messenger and snapchat. Also, using amplify too.
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I used to get SOD, but not anymore, not sure how I avoided that, maybe factory reset? I greenify all the apps I have lol, its not necessary but I do it, I greenify some system apps like Facebook, Instagram. Look for the Extreme Battery Life thread in the XDA forums.

I am definitely getting horrid battery life on this device. I usually root within a week of getting a device, but this is my first Samsung device in a very long time, and I don't fully understand the whole "tripping Knox" thing, and how it will affect my Sprint TEP insurance. I installed Greenify, but it's not quite worth it without root. Sigh....

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I am definitely getting horrid battery life on this device. I usually root within a week of getting a device, but this is my first Samsung device in a very long time, and I don't fully understand the whole "tripping Knox" thing, and how it will affect my Sprint TEP insurance. I installed Greenify, but it's not quite worth it without root. Sigh....
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What you will lose if you trip Knox is the ability to use Samsung Pay. That is it. Should have no impact on your insurance. If needs be, you can always Odin back to stock. Sprint doesn't look at Knox, not in my experience anyway.
If you root, which is the goal here, you will need to lose the Samsung Pay service and, while rooted, the ability to use Android Pay.
If you don't care about those......well, as Darth Vader once said, come over to the Dark Side!

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What you will lose if you trip Knox is the ability to use Samsung Pay. That is it. Should have no impact on your insurance. If needs be, you can always Odin back to stock. Sprint doesn't look at Knox, not in my experience anyway.
If you root, which is the goal here, you will need to lose the Samsung Pay service and, while rooted, the ability to use Android Pay.
If you don't care about those......well, as Darth Vader once said, come over to the Dark Side!
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My friend.... you have just made my day. Samsung pay does not work with my bank, and I'd much rather get these massive amounts of bloatware off of here, than be able to swipe my phone to pay at Walmart.

yamus08 said:
My friend.... you have just made my day. Samsung pay does not work with my bank, and I'd much rather get these massive amounts of bloatware off of here, than be able to swipe my phone to pay at Walmart.
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Here is a guide to help you get started: http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-galaxy-s6/general/how-to-to-100-stock-root-t3075448
If this helps you, please remember to thank @JoeFCaputo113

I don't know, but what I have to say is that the latest update has worsened the battery life
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I don't know, but what I have to say is that the latest update has worsened the battery life
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Yes, it definitely did. The update a mere month before that optimized battery life and this update just zapped the battery life right out of it. I had to root and delete most of the stock apps just to get some battery salvation.
I deleted
Facebook Stub
Com.facebook.system
Com.facebook.appmanager
Google Drive
Google+
Samsung pay and the framework,
Sprint ID
Sprint Fun & Games
Sprint Zone
"galaxy apps" and the widget
OneNote
Live Weather
Knox(all 6 of them including KLMS Agent)
Lookout
Hangouts
Google Play Newsstand
Google Play Movies
Google Play Music
After doing this, my battery is going on strong like a champ, and this is even while streaming Periscope with the display around 50% settings. I have't seen it drop even 10 percent in almost 20 minutes, the screen has been on while typing this up and it hasn't dropped even 1 percent.
Don't delete any more than these apps, otherwise you're gonna feel dumb cuz you just potentially bricked your phone. So be smart and only delete the apps I listed. Good luck!

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[Q] How can I get good battery life without sacrificing too much?

I seem to get absolutely terrible battery life no matter what I do. Most of the time I'm lucky to get 8 hours.
It was that way stock/unrooted but it is no better with CM9 beta 1. Right now it is down to 69% after 2 hours with under 30 min screen on time.
I don't play games any more resource intense than Scramble With Friends and today I haven't played any at all. Most sync is turned off except Contacts and Gmail.
This is driving me insane... suggestions are much appreciated!
You have an app eating processes.
Install better battery stats from XDA to find what is keeping your phone awake.
Install Watchdog to find if any apps are running more than they should.
Worst comes to it, install everything one by one and find out which app or apps it is.
Just installed both of those. I will report back tonight.
Any settings I need to change in Better Battery Stats? I bought the paid version.
You didn't have to buy the paid version, it's free on XDA
There are no settings to change for better battery, just let it go. I haven't needed watchdog in a long time but you can set how aggressive it is if you'd like.
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You didn't have to buy the paid version, it's free on XDA
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I appreciate that, but being able to install/reinstall from the store is convenient and I like supporting good developers.
There are no settings to change for better battery, just let it go. I haven't needed watchdog in a long time but you can set how aggressive it is if you'd like.
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Thanks!
No matter what I do, it is still terrible.
I know that I've heard that crappy reception can shorten battery life, maybe that's the problem. Where I live, the signal is very spotty and I'm sans WiFi for a week or so.
I'll post screenshots of battery/usage and watchdog, better battery stats when I get to work tonight to see if any of you experts can shed some light on this.

Verizon Galaxy Nexus battery fix!

Hi all, I found an awesome way to actually get solid battery life on my galaxy nexus last night so I thought I'd share with everyone:
So theres about a bazillion threads about people only getting 10-14 hrs of battery life on the Galaxy Nexus, and it looks like alot of them have to do with "Phone Idle" just draining the battery. Lately I'd pretty much given up and just figured that 14 hrs with normal use was about all I was gonna get.
Fast forward to last night, I was using Titanium Backup to go through and delete some of the Verizon crapware that comes on the stock ROM. I deleted "My Verizon Mobile" and "VZ Backup Assistant" and then left it fully charged over night to see what would happen. Woke up this morning and my battery was at 90% after 8.5hrs! Been using it lightly today and currently I'm at 58% battery after 17hrs.
So obviously one of these 2 applications has been running in the background and keeping my phone from going into deep sleep. Super glad to finally have this figured out!
BTW I'm running rooted stock 4.1.1. Also attached a few screenshots of the battery stats:
good find man. most roms already leave those apps out so i think you just got lucky because i still see pretty terrible battery. i suggest trying out a custom rom and kernel and youll get even better battery life. btw try to shoot for a high screen on time because thats when battery life really counts.
Phone Idle and Cell Standby higher than Screen... Of course you'll be getting good battery life if you never use the phone. Screen on time is the only good measure of battery life.
Probably a majority of users here don't have those apps because they have installed custom firmware. But AOSP has the same problem.. First thing I do after flashing gapps is "disable" all the Play apps (books, magazines, videos, movies, currents, etc).
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Probably a majority of users here don't have those apps because they have installed custom firmware. But AOSP has the same problem.. First thing I do after flashing gapps is "disable" all the Play apps (books, magazines, videos, movies, currents, etc).
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Yup, this is why we Root & ROM. There are MANY Verizon apps/services that run whether you want them or not, and that is completely bogus. It's no wonder that we love phones that can be unlocked.
I agree that screen on time is the best measure of battery life. The best I ever have gotten is three hours of screen on time. That was done using WiFi all day and screen at lowest brightness setting.
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Really? This thread is stupid...and helps nobody. Ur impressed that ur phone drained 10% in 8 hours while you weren't using it?
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Help Battery Life

I have been stressing myself out about this for over a week, trying different things, buying new batteries trying new chargers, changing roms.
Turning so many things off basically making my phone into a dumbphone to try to figure out why my battery life is so bad. Could it be I just have a bad phone and need a new one??
I had a Galaxy S3 gave it to my GF, never turned any sync services off and I am able to get 20+ hours with that phone, this phone is HORRIBLE.
I was stock getting about 5 hours before dead battery (phone would get real warm- battery stats showing 33C+).
So I rooted and took it back to an LJC rom (4.1.1). Tried different modems, kernals, files tweaks with root explorer.
I bought BBS, a battery calibrator from the market and still cant see any problems that would do this?
last picture......
Should I just take it into Sprint and get a replacement???
ezeroc said:
I have been stressing myself out about this for over a week, trying different things, buying new batteries trying new chargers, changing roms.
Turning so many things off basically making my phone into a dumbphone to try to figure out why my battery life is so bad. Could it be I just have a bad phone and need a new one??
I had a Galaxy S3 gave it to my GF, never turned any sync services off and I am able to get 20+ hours with that phone, this phone is HORRIBLE.
I was stock getting about 5 hours before dead battery (phone would get real warm- battery stats showing 33C+).
So I rooted and took it back to an LJC rom (4.1.1). Tried different modems, kernals, files tweaks with root explorer.
I bought BBS, a battery calibrator from the market and still cant see any problems that would do this?
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What ROM are you installing over and over again?
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i had that issue. i fixed it by installing the same rom a couple times, and wiping cache/dalvik alot.
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I am running Macintosh 3.0 and I have power saver turned on, and I run DS Battery saver all day long. I am getting 2.5 days solid with moderate use. I am pretty sure DS Battery Saver is what is saving my battery. Let me know if you want to try the app. I have the .apk saved on my sdcard.
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I will try that !
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Also try uninstalling and reinstalling facebook. My girlfriend's phone (GS3, not a note) went from 8 hours to probably 14 hours just by using the mobile web version of facebook instead of the the app. Facebook is atrocious at making apps.
But it really does sound like you got a lemon here, I'd get a replacement from Sprint. I don't think I could kill my battery in under 10 hours unless I was playing a game non-stop. My phone is completely stock.
I will uninstall Facebook, and test it out. Thanks!
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OP. Your problem is not your ROM or anything else. Jeeze people.
Those partial wakelocks are PURELY from Google Now and the wifi/network based location. Either turn off Google Now, or turn off network-based-locating and those partial wakelocks will disappear....I'd also wager you have Sprint Connection Optimizer still running causing your phone to hangup trying to find a network conenction.
My battery took a good hite when I updated to 4.1.2 used to get 20+ hrs with 7+ screen time now I get about 14-15 with 4-5 hrs screen time
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Ok I turned off Google Now, network-based-location, and Sprint Connection Optimizer. I have also installed DS Battery Savor Pro running in balanced mode. I dont have facebook installed anymore also. Here are the screens, still just as bad........
ezeroc said:
Ok I turned off Google Now, network-based-location, and Sprint Connection Optimizer. I have also installed DS Battery Savor Pro running in balanced mode. I dont have facebook installed anymore also. Here are the screens, still just as bad........
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Based on your first pictures, your status bar, and the amount of awake time your phone is showing I'm guessing a couple of things. Do you have a phone signal where you spend most of your day? If my awake bar was solid like yours I wouldn't have a battery after 7 hours either. I would backup everything and do a full wipe / clean install and run the phone a day or so.
ezeroc said:
Ok I turned off Google Now, network-based-location, and Sprint Connection Optimizer. I have also installed DS Battery Savor Pro running in balanced mode. I dont have facebook installed anymore also. Here are the screens, still just as bad........
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What of the borderline useless bells and whistles do you have enabled? I.e. face recognition/unlock, auto-brightness, SPen battery saver etc? Things like battery savers unsurprisingly don't help so i'd nix it as it is only wasting battery.
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Based on your first pictures, your status bar, and the amount of awake time your phone is showing I'm guessing a couple of things. Do you have a phone signal where you spend most of your day? If my awake bar was solid like yours I wouldn't have a battery after 7 hours either. I would backup everything and do a full wipe / clean install and run the phone a day or so.
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Meh. On this device I always aim for getting 10%/ battery usage per hour of screen-on-time on TouchWiz ROMs, and a fraction of a percent per hour in screen-off....something is burning battery here, and it is probably a system setting.
bhint15 said:
Based on your first pictures, your status bar, and the amount of awake time your phone is showing I'm guessing a couple of things. Do you have a phone signal where you spend most of your day? If my awake bar was solid like yours I wouldn't have a battery after 7 hours either. I would backup everything and do a full wipe / clean install and run the phone a day or so.
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I am going to try that now, going to do a wipe of everything and not install anything except the battery tools.
Skripka said:
What of the borderline useless bells and whistles do you have enabled? I.e. face recognition/unlock, auto-brightness, SPen battery saver etc? Things like battery savers unsurprisingly don't help so i'd nix it as it is only wasting battery.
No face recognition/unlock, auto brightness is enabled, but with that little screen time does it really matter? No SPen battery savor. Thanks for the suggestions.
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The thing is, I have a Galaxy S3... The Note II is setup no different then that, settings or otherwise. I am trying all of these suggestions, but why did I not have to turn any of these off on my S3?? Same service area obviously. I took the Galaxy S3 off the charger last night at 100%. Put a new battery in the Note II so it was at 100%. Let them both sit on the counter for 1 hour. S3 had 98%, Note II was at 87%... No calls no texting, no screen time. It is so fustrating! I have had my fair share of battery tweaking with previous phones (HTC EVO, HTC hero). It seems something isn't right. I had problems with stock rom, that is why I rooted so quick, to try a different ROM.
If the wipe does not work I will try to get Sprint to get me a replacement, was hoping the get this figured out before I fly to Florida for a week. Good thing I have extra batteries.
ezeroc said:
The thing is, I have a Galaxy S3... The Note II is setup no different then that, settings or otherwise. I am trying all of these suggestions, but why did I not have to turn any of these off on my S3?? Same service area obviously. I took the Galaxy S3 off the charger last night at 100%. Put a new battery in the Note II so it was at 100%. Let them both sit on the counter for 1 hour. S3 had 98%, Note II was at 87%... No calls no texting, no screen time. It is so fustrating! I have had my fair share of battery tweaking with previous phones (HTC EVO, HTC hero). It seems something isn't right. I had problems with stock rom, that is why I rooted so quick, to try a different ROM.
If the wipe does not work I will try to get Sprint to get me a replacement, was hoping the get this figured out before I fly to Florida for a week. Good thing I have extra batteries.
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I would get a replacement. You should not have to turn off all thr features to get decent battery that defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.
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I recommend having Sprint check it out for you and then buying Ds battery saver pro!!!
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I recommend having Sprint check it out for you and then buying Ds battery saver pro!!!
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Bought Ds Battery savor. Charged phone to 100% put it in airplane mode went to bed at 11pm (phone at 100%), woke up at 7am and it was at 8% Fail! 0 screen time, 0 talking, zero everything and lost charge in a little over 8 hours! Going to use it in florida the next week, with my extra batteries and most likely going to return when i get back
Thanks All for your suggestions!
Has anyone disabled samsung push service. If not does it drain battery I have had it disabled since I bought the phone because I never use samsung chaton or other aops **** that but I want to start to use Chaton but not if push services has a big affect on battery.
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[Q] Android System is draining my battery!!

I just got the Note 2 in October of this year. I have always been amazed at the battery life. With regular use, texting, emails, internet and phone calls (nothing crazy), I easily could go 2 days on a charge. Now for the past few days, I am already at 71% and it's just 11am. I can't figure out what is going on. my battery meter shows the Screen as first then Android System next at 22%....Easily dropping 5-10% per hour. Help!!
mshart said:
I just got the Note 2 in October of this year. I have always been amazed at the battery life. With regular use, texting, emails, internet and phone calls (nothing crazy), I easily could go 2 days on a charge. Now for the past few days, I am already at 71% and it's just 11am. I can't figure out what is going on. my battery meter shows the Screen as first then Android System next at 22%....Easily dropping 5-10% per hour. Help!!
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It is running on Android 4.1.2. All of these things I am reading about rooting and stuff are foreign to me. I just want my battery life back. Any help would be appreciated.
Have you adjusted anything with your brightness? You may have accidentally turned off auto adjustment if you were using it previously. If that's not it I'd suggest a hard reset. If that cures it you can most likely chalk it up to a recently downloaded app.
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yes I keep it on auto brightness...
mshart said:
yes I keep it on auto brightness...
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When you get a chance run the battery down to 1% then power off and let charge for at least 20 min after light turns green. ..you'll probably see immediate improvement
i've had to move google play services as a user app with titanium and then greenify it. all my devices started getting big time standby drain last month from google play services.
i do have the donation version of greenify, but i didn't feel like installing xposed to use it.
OMGosh...I updated to 4.3 and did a factory reset as well and it is not helping! What does it mean to "root" your phone? Will rooting the Note 2 nullify my Samsung warranty? Someone please help....
mshart said:
OMGosh...I updated to 4.3 and did a factory reset as well and it is not helping! What does it mean to "root" your phone? Will rooting the Note 2 nullify my Samsung warranty? Someone please help....
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yes rooting will void your warranty but there are methods you can do to unroot it and have it go back to stock rom. I, as well as most of the people in this community get better battery if you root your rom and install a custom kernel, you will get better battery life.
one app that I found that I use daily is 2x battery pro. it's not free though.. there is a setting on the app that lets you turn off any background data while the phone is idle; you will still get calls and texts though. this will give you longer battery life. when you turn your phone on data will come back on. I get around one day and a few hours from the charge. check it out man. might help you..

Battery life is terrible now?

So recently my battery life went from absolutely amazing to terrible (just went from 100% to 83 percent with 30 min SOT and 3 hrs off the charger) does anyone know a good app that will tell me what the hell is digging through my battery life so bad? The only thing I have connected is the android wear watch, and surely that wouldn't hinder my battery life that much, would it? Thanks to anyone that replies, I just want my old battery life back.
if you recently took the OTA then go in to recovery to clear the cache partition
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if you recently took the OTA then go in to recovery to clear the cache partition
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I already tried that, to no avail..
what does your battery screen look like?
insang-droid said:
what does your battery screen look like?
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I plugged it up or I would show you, I uninstalled some things and it seems to be helping quite a bit. Seems like Facebook was the one that really helped.
Yes we have been talking this on the "At&t OTA" thread. Check over there, there are a couple small solutions people have. None have worked for me my battery life is HORRID post update. I've done a reset, cleared cache, etc
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Yes we have been talking this on the "At&t OTA" thread. Check over there, there are a couple small solutions people have. None have worked for me my battery life is HORRID post update. I've done a reset, cleared cache, etc
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Mine has been terrible since the NK3 OTA as well. It's a shame that they couldn't just leave it alone. I was enjoying it so much more when I was squeezing 5 hours SOT.
after taking the NK3 update, my battery life was still amazing, until tonight. I didnt update anything (no app updates and no new apps installed) but my battery went from 50% to 30% in about 10 minutes. I cleared cache and rebooted and it went from 30% to 0% in about 15 minutes. I dont understand why all of a sudden, it died so quickly. Only thing I can think of is that I switched to ART about two days ago. It was fine until this evening, when the phone completely fell on its face. It was running extremely slow, even after I killed all running apps, thats when the battery dropped. I'm switching back to dalvik and we'll see what happens.
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after taking the NK3 update, my battery life was still amazing, until tonight. I didnt update anything (no app updates and no new apps installed) but my battery went from 50% to 30% in about 10 minutes. I cleared cache and rebooted and it went from 30% to 0% in about 15 minutes. I dont understand why all of a sudden, it died so quickly. Only thing I can think of is that I switched to ART about two days ago. It was fine until this evening, when the phone completely fell on its face. It was running extremely slow, even after I killed all running apps, thats when the battery dropped. I'm switching back to dalvik and we'll see what happens.
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I'm still on dalvik, so that isn't the problem. They have probably done something that has messed with a radio or something to set up the enhanced 4G services.
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I'm still on dalvik, so that isn't the problem. They have probably done something that has messed with a radio or something to set up the enhanced 4G services.
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Yeah, my battery life has taken a major blow too. I used to get 6+ hours of screen on time and now barely 4 if lucky. What the hell.
hyukki said:
Yeah, my battery life has taken a major blow too. I used to get 6+ hours of screen on time and now barely 4 if lucky. What the hell.
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I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one experiencing this. This tells me that it isn't a rogue app.
OK guys, here is an odd question. What do you do for a living? Is there anyone that would benefit by listening in to your device? I know it sounds weird, but your phone may be active when you think it isn't, including the camera, mics, GPS etc. I get these unexplained battery drains too, and my wife has the identical device and near identical app setup (and we both have the update) and her battery is much better. Its one of only two things i can think of.
Here's the other: not using the supplied charger. I regularly use other chargers when my wife refuses to do so.
Anyway, just my mad ideas
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OK guys, here is an odd question. What do you do for a living? Is there anyone that would benefit by listening in to your device? I know it sounds weird, but your phone may be active when you think it isn't, including the camera, mics, GPS etc. I get these unexplained battery drains too, and my wife has the identical device and near identical app setup (and we both have the update) and her battery is much better. Its one of only two things i can think of.
Here's the other: not using the supplied charger. I regularly use other chargers when my wife refuses to do so.
Anyway, just my mad ideas
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I'm just a 19 year old nurse aid.. I highly doubt anyone would benefit from monitoring me. And I use the stock charger.
In all honesty I went through and found a bunch of apps I personally don't use to disable, such as instagram and some other apps such as that, you may also want to see if your mobile signal is having issues or your wifi is having issues, both those items will cause battery drain, I turned off a bunch of apps and my phones been unplugged for almost 6 hours and I have over an hour of that as screen time, I'm down to 88%, I work at att so I'm always showing my phones off and demoing them, I disabled 21 apps I have no use fore and my free ram is just about a gig, you just gotta dig a bit to find what's always on.
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In all honesty I went through and found a bunch of apps I personally don't use to disable, such as instagram and some other apps such as that, you may also want to see if your mobile signal is having issues or your wifi is having issues, both those items will cause battery drain, I turned off a bunch of apps and my phones been unplugged for almost 6 hours and I have over an hour of that as screen time, I'm down to 88%, I work at att so I'm always showing my phones off and demoing them, I disabled 21 apps I have no use fore and my free ram is just about a gig, you just gotta dig a bit to find what's always on.
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Care to compile a list of what you disabled?
Amazon
Att locker
Att family maps
Att live
Att mail
Att mobile locate
Att navigator
Att ready to go
Caller name I'd
Drive mode
Games
Google play movies and TV
Google +
Instagram
Keeper
Lookout
Milk
Mobile TV
Smart remote
Uber
Yellow pages
Soft card
I used task killer, found any apps that were running which I didn't use and disabled or Un-installed them. Then went from there as to what else ran I didn't want.
My wife keeps on bugging me that after the update her battery on her note 4 is ****ty to the point that it would drain in 6 hours.
Go to the thread where you disable Knox.. It has a adb command you can send to phone that disables close to 100 apps.. Try it and see if it helps.
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Today I had 4hours OST and was at 50%
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Go to the thread where you disable Knox.. It has a adb command you can send to phone that disables close to 100 apps.. Try it and see if it helps.
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Today I had 4hours OST and was at 50%
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Were you experiencing issues before?
not sure what you mean by bad.. every one's usage of the phone is different.. i was getting around 4 hours OST.. when using the phone regularly.. playing CoC, answering emails, whatsapp, messaging...
sometime i got 3 hours.. some time i got 5.. some time it ran away so i had to reboot.
i believe about 75% that disabling some of the software did help with battery life while the phone is sleeping. but i've only recently disabled bunch of stuff

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