Hello, I always used my nexus 5X on stock android, stock kernel, everything stock and I was used to 4h30 ~ 5h of OST... Now I upgraded to Android Nougat, with everything stock and I get 3h30 MAX...
I'm reading a lot of people telling that the battery is better on the Android 7 and the performance is better.... The performance is better for me but the battery life sucks... Can anyone give me a tip on how to improve the battery life? There is something I can change on the phone, like the kernel, root or something like that?
Also, there are two "Android System" consuming battery in the battery settings... is this normal?
PS: I already did a factory reset on the phone and still the same thing.
Thanks.
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Can anyone comment on battery life for the new release of jelly bam? I have been getting 50+ hours and over 7 hrs of screen on out of my gorilla gadgets extended battery and I don't want to lose that performance. I would post this in the jellybam thread in the dev section, but I have fewer than ten posts and I can't. Thanks for your input.
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Can anyone comment on battery life for the new release of jelly bam? I have been getting 50+ hours and over 7 hrs of screen on out of my gorilla gadgets extended battery and I don't want to lose that performance. I would post this in the jellybam thread in the dev section, but I have fewer than ten posts and I can't. Thanks for your input.
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Usually, battery life only gets better. Also, not many people have your extended battery so it's gonna be very hard to compare.
I'm currently using 4.0 with stock kernel and i'm getting good battery, life the same as before.
I guess I should have asked how is the battery life as compared to the previous version(s) of the rom.
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I guess I should have asked how is the battery life as compared to the previous version(s) of the rom.
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I've actually found the battery to be a lot worse for me for the time being. I was getting killer battery life but now it's beyond awful. I don't necessarily think it's 4.0's fault, but i have something definitely going rogue and draining and can't seem to pin it on anything in particular. My two biggest drainers according to GSAM are "Android System" and "Kernel (Android OS)", so that's why I don't think it's a particular app or anything. This is since updating to 4.0.
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I've actually found the battery to be a lot worse for me for the time being. I was getting killer battery life but now it's beyond awful. I don't necessarily think it's 4.0's fault, but i have something definitely going rogue and draining and can't seem to pin it on anything in particular. My two biggest drainers according to GSAM are "Android System" and "Kernel (Android OS)", so that's why I don't think it's a particular app or anything. This is since updating to 4.0.
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Thanks for the reply. I'm gonna roll with this version bc I haven't seen anything in the new One that I can't live without and the battery life is kicking.
Just curious, if anyone has seen any random reboots since upgrading to 5.0 or 5.0.1?
I've played around with lollipop for week or so now, and I haven't experienced one single reboot... Unless, I've initiated it myself that is.. How about you?
Not that but bad battery life is affecting my tablet dramatically.
No reboots to speak of for me, and battery life has been about the same if not slightly better.
I got one on 5.0 (kernel panic). Haven't had any yet on 5.0.1.
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Not that but bad battery life is affecting my tablet dramatically.
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Weird. My battery's been the best it's ever been.
All location, syncing, wifi etc left on I'll get 7 hours screen time over two days no problem, with no gaming 8 hours. Idle drain is like nothing compared to all previous versions.
Find out what app is draining it or what wakelock is keeping it up. If you haven't already, flash the factory image without keeping data.
5.0.1 is ****ing NICE.
I am very upset with low battery life. It holds the charge ok while I am not doing anything, but overheats when I use the internet, GPS or camera. Power loss is about 20% per hour, which is unacceptable. I am shocked how come they can even bring such products to the market.
I recall that power consumption significanlty increased when I upgraded Sony Xperia Z1 from Android 4.4 to 5.
I have a rooted LG G4.
I want to install android 4.4 on it. Is it possible to install standard version of Android 4.4 or the phone will stop working?
I can definitely relate to the bad battery life, I lose 20%+ when using my phone during my lunch break, it's insane.
Unfortunately the bootloader is locked with no workaround currently, so there is no way to flash custom ROMs. If there was, you'd be hard pressed to find a developer working on an older Android OS as most tend to use the stock ROM and customize it or use a newer version of AOSP Android.
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I can definitely relate to the bad battery life, I lose 20%+ when using my phone during my lunch break, it's insane.
Unfortunately the bootloader is locked with no workaround currently, so there is no way to flash custom ROMs. If there was, you'd be hard pressed to find a developer working on an older Android OS as most tend to use the stock ROM and customize it or use a newer version of AOSP Android.
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Thank you for information. I hope they will come up with something, like downgrade capability or Android 5 fix.
Go into battery stats and see what's draining your battery. Try installing GSAM battery monitor or BetteryBatteryStats.
Maybe you have email set up to constantly check or something else, but there is something draining the battery. Your drain is not normal.
I am getting easily 24 hours between charges. I'm getting a few hours of screen on time each day. My battery drain overnight is about 1% or 2% per hour. For example, I may go from 78% to 68% overnight. I think that's high because I had my G3 on Lollipop doing 2% or so most nights. I leave on WiFi and data all night.
I know, our device has really great battery life and I don't have anything to complain about that, but a friend of mine just got himself a new phone and his values make me a bit jealous and most of all: surprised and stunned.
He got himself a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (SD 625 variant, MKT variant really sucks), it has the same processor, same display and not even 700 mAh more (4100 mAh) and he got with some "dev rom" (made by Xiaomi, seems to just be the beta of that ugly MIUI 9, based on Andorid 7.0) 6h of SOT, doze seems to haven't really kicked in in that time. in their forum in the SOT thread I see people getting normally about 8-10 with up to over 12 h of SOT, most of them on stock ROM without any additions. And I'm quite irritated about that huge of a difference with not that much more battery. And he seems quite convinced that it's not on the cost of performance, you should notice that quickly on such a heavily skinned ROM.
Now my question is: how in hell is that even possible? I mean our devices seem quite comparablewith just a slight bump in battery but near-stock AOSP Android against pretty much an iOS clone. Does anyone have any idea what could cause that big of a difference? And if it's software based could that be done on our device? Because my experience and from different posts our device lasts about 5-6 h normally.
I mean I'm already lucky about my 2 days of usage with up to about 2.5 days on some weekends where I have a lot of stuff to do. But I wouldn't mind a bit of extra. But my biggest problem with that is as simple as: how? I could really use some explaination right now...
I don't have issues with device.. stock 7.1.1 with dec.patch, unlocked bootloader, with latest magisk. Also installed greenify.
Then you are one of very rare cases. My experience is about half of that.
And I also meant on stock ROM, without any modifications. So I don't know which apps you greenified, but that was not the point. I use Greenify too but more for apps that aren't supposed to run constantly in background when I only use it very seldomly.
The norm for this phone is 8+ hours SOT. Sometimes I get 10 and a few have had up to 12. Unless you're gaming 8 should be easy. 5 hours means something is wrong with your phone hardware, you have a rogue battery eating app or you're gaming. I rarely charge my phone over the weekend even when I use it a lot.
Well, neither of that is the case and I rarely see people claiming more than 6h of SOT
So the answer to your question is, it's the wrong question. The question should be, why does my battery not last very long and what apps or usage causes me to have such poor battery life? Compared to the Redmi Note 4 the Z Play is exactly where it should be.
Here's a link to the SOT thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/review/screen-time-t3643959
gsmarena battery life test 100h endurance rating: https://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3?idPhone=8310#show
Here's an app to help diagnose battery condition (Accubattery): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery&hl=en
also betterbatterystats is really helpful.
I sincerely hope you get it sorted out!
Well, gsam isn't detecting any app that's off even with root so I don't think there is any. I installed that AccuBattery app, let's see what it has to say
Removed because of ****ty q&a system...
Oh, and another thing I noticed: I get very randomly reboots, and every time the battery percentage drops massively. Just had a 30% drop. And after the reboot the battery percentage seems like frozen. Now I rebooted and plugged in the cable and got 44% again... No fast charging. Do that detection seems very off
Motorola forum isn't helpful at all. Clearing cache and dalvik didn't change anything and running around for a week in secure mode (that's how random they mostly are) or even doing a factory reset without restoring apps is out of question for obvious reasons.
That's pretty weird. Did you try a factory reset and after restore your apps? There's not a lot you can do if you're not rooted, but you shouldn't need to do much anyway on stock rom.
Only other option is full RSD lite OS restore as a last resort.
I am rooted for long, that's why I use Greenify. I know it also works without but then it's a joke. As RSD lite is, it just refuses for everyone to detect anything on Windows 10.
Factory reset is out of question for the moment, it takes way too long to do it properly (with titanium and NANDroid backup first) and I won't have that much time probably for the whole of this month. Otherwise I would most likely already have went off to the next best custom ROM since Motorola just can't get their **** together and still work on 8.0 in test for 2.5 month with searching testers for another one.
I think the next thing I'll do is to try the good old battery calibration, just have to find the file storing the statistics. I know many say that won't work but that's rubbish, it worked for me already a few times
Update: no, no change. Don't know if that funky battery percentage bug on random reboots still happen since I haven't had any again yet, but they come too random and unpredictable.
And that AccuBattery just proves to be worthless. It tries to estimate the rest capacity, but then it even fails to detect original capacity by 500 mAh. The battery sucker stats are also unrealistic. It puts chrome first with 10%, while GSam with root puts it 5th at 4.6% after kernel, Spotify, Android system and fight services. Android itself even puts it 9th with screen, phone idle, cell standby, Android OS and Bluetooth in-between.
So let's see what happens first. Motorola releasing 8.0, which I will flash through the .xml.zip, this time using flashfile.xml which should force a factory reset... Or me finding the time to switch to a custom ROM
Edit: so I got another one, bit this time no crazy battery drop. But the other times I killed of the soft reboot sequence because Magisk can have some problems with that. This time I didn't
Yesterday I was finally able to do the factory reset since those darn random reboots became too annoying and Moto's support is had just the most ridiculous ideas... In the worst way.
Either way, now OTA looks better, let's see how it will turn out in the next days
Before Oreo update battery life was pretty decent. I had gotten 3 - 4 hours of SOT.
Now I upgraded to Oreo and I get at best 2 hours.
I have tried everything; multiples recalibrating methods posted here, Installing greenify, amplify, and many more however nothing have changed.
Accu battery says that the mAh capacity it's around
1750 mAh which is insane for a 2 years phone.
It is worth mentioning that my phone was originally the T-Mobile version, but I followed some post here to be able to convert it to the unlock version.
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Before Oreo update battery life was pretty decent. I had gotten 3 - 4 hours of SOT.
Now I upgraded to Oreo and I get at best 2 hours.
I have tried everything; multiples recalibrating methods posted here, Installing greenify, amplify, and many more however nothing have changed.
Accu battery says that the mAh capacity it's around
1750 mAh which is insane for a 2 years phone.
It is worth mentioning that my phone was originally the T-Mobile version, but I followed some post here to be able to convert it to the unlock version.
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Oreo battery life is worse than Nougat for everyone, and your battery capacity is down to almost half of what it used to be. So there is nothing you can do, short of downgrading back to Nougat
Actually, when I test accubattery on RR ROM its says that I have about 2659 mAh, so I supposed is some kind of corrupted file.
Battery Is rubbish, could just be the battery
The battery life becomes horrible because of a couple factors. They can all be fixed. But require some work.
1. Replace your battery in the phone or get it replaced.
2. Root your phone install custom ROM (I use leedroid). Also make sure install elemental X or cleanslate.
3. Use alderon666 CPU profile with elementalx app. Also disable touch boost. Delete htc pnp stuff see in other post about profile tweaks.
4. Download Xposed installer and install sdk 26
5. Install amplify (Best app ever). Limit wakelocks and alarms.
I am able to get 5:45 minutes with my phone on Oreo without lag or stutter. I am adjusting further to get 6 hours maybe. But 5:45 is good for me. I've seen better but don't need much better.
Hi, just to share my experience with Android O and Lineage 15.1 on my HTC 10:
With the official Android O update, battery lifetime was not too bad. Not as great as my previous G2, but good enought: I could end a day with around 50% remaining battery.
With Lineage 15.1, battery life got much worse. My battery was depleting to 10% at the end of the day. Even with Greenify, forcing doze, and underclocking, the phone was barely making it. Some system process was constantly consuming the battery, even when the screen was off (com.android.webview:sandboxed_process0 or android.chrome:sandboxed process or something like that; I haven't taken a screenshot, I cannot be sure which one was the top consumer).
What solved it: changing the launcher. Ditching the default Google Now launcher and replacing it with Nova fixed it. Now I'm back to a phone that lasts 2 days. \o/