Hi guys,
I've recently bought a Nexus 5X. Naturally it came with Marshmallow installed. When I turned it on it was at 19% and I've used it for a couple of hours and the battery charge barely dropped, I was even concerned that there might be an issue with either the battery, or the phone reporting the charge properly (it just looked too good to be true).
I've charged the phone and updated to Nougat. It seems like the battery is discharging rapidly. I've followed tips like never let the phone go under 10-15% and charge for 2-3 hours longer, after the phone reaches 100% for the first few charges. Now on its 4th charge it still drains rapidly fast. When I use the phone (adaptive brightness off, I'm using it at 20% brightness at the most) and the battery drains really quickly and it looks like the screen is at fault. When I play something it's ~1% per minute or two, which is awful. Here are some screens:
It seem like I don't have enough posts in order to be able to post links in my threads, so the phone's charge is currently at 27%, the screen has used 22% of the battery - Time on: 2h 58min / computed power use: 567mAh
As a comparison my crappy old Sony M2 Aqua (I know, I know...) for the same battery usage by the screen I can see more than 7hours "Time on". I know we're talking about different devices, Android versions, screens, etc, but it still looks like the battery of my Nexus 5X is draining a lot faster than it should.
I must admit that the battery barely drains when the phone is at standby (locked screen).
So is this a software issue with the new OS, or a faulty screen, or battery or something else? I'm really freaking out guys, please shed some light on this if possible.
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I am having battery drainage due to the display (unlike most people who are having battery issues because of the android system). I've tried dimming down the brightness and putting the screen timeout to the lowest possible but the display still sucks up most of my battery. Can anyone help me with this ?
I think that would be normal. It's a 4.5 inch touch screen; it takes a lot of juice to be so pretty ...
Under settings - about phone - battery usage - display, what is the time on vs. % of battery usage?
I've been off the charger for 30 minutes and display use is at 76% since I've been browsing news and xda non stop.
If your screen on time is low compared to it's battery usage, it's a different story. Sounds like you've tried the usual fixes.
Well I've been off the charger since 12 last night so it would be 12 hours. But the thing is that the display usage says 51% and the actual time on for display was only 2 hours.
and also my battery drains 1% about every 30 minutes with the screen off.
2 hours of screen on time sucking 51% of the battery sounds normal to me, even across other Android phones on GB. Touch screens use lots of power.
Maybe someone else can chime in with something I'm not getting, but it seems normal to me.
This is a screenshot of my E4GT after 33 hours off the charger with normal usage. I don't play games, but I do text a lot and had a few calls as well. As you can see, the screen was on 20% of the 33 hours, meaning 6.6 hours etc etc and I still had 9% battery life at that point.
I am loving my phone!
Doesn't that 20% mean that the display used 20% of the battery power, not that it was on for 20% of the time? If you select the Display, it actually shows you how long it's been on.
I just feel like my battery should last longer than it does. I used to own the moment and that would last me three days with moderate use. ButI guess that this phone is more powerful it would make sense not to last three days. If only that would happen haha
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Hello everyone! I just switched to my first Android device and am truly enjoying the experience. I can't believe I was using an iPhone for so long. I finished draining my battery for the first time and recharged it and am draining it again. My phone indicates that the screen is consuming around 66-70% of the battery drainage while everything else is quite low such as the Android OS taking up about 12%. Is this typical and does it improve over time? Thank you for your help.
this is normal but seems like that is pretty heavy use. if your phone was barely used then that is not normal.
I am going to further diagnose this. I have my brightness set to auto. I wasn't really using the phone that much. I flashed it to the yakju build and it is running 4.0.2. Is there anything I should do to test the phone?
what is your screen on time
I'm looking at
9h 56m on bettery
Android OS 33%
Phone Idle 30%
Cell Standby 22%
Screen 9% (on time 9m)
Wifi 5%
Google Services 2%
This is after the phone being nearly untouched most of the day, no calls or texts and nothing being done but checking my email once not too long ago. It's on Auto-brightness which sucks because it appears to be on the darkest setting but without that my battery seems to go from full charge to 50% in 1-2hours with moderate usage (Browsing the web, Checking email, Browsing Market, few phone calls and texts) and it sucks that I feel like I cant play with the phone because it'll be dead when I need it and without Auto-brightness the battery dies even quicker.
Almost feel like I need to be tethered to the charger.
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I'm looking at
9h 56m on bettery
Android OS 33%
Phone Idle 30%
Cell Standby 22%
Screen 9% (on time 9m)
Wifi 5%
Google Services 2%
This is after the phone being nearly untouched most of the day, no calls or texts and nothing being done but checking my email once not too long ago. It's on Auto-brightness which sucks because it appears to be on the darkest setting but without that my battery seems to go from full charge to 50% in 1-2hours with moderate usage (Browsing the web, Checking email, Browsing Market, few phone calls and texts) and it sucks that I feel like I cant play with the phone because it'll be dead when I need it and without Auto-brightness the battery dies even quicker.
Almost feel like I need to be tethered to the charger.
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you either have really bad signal and/or 4g and/or a process keeping the phone awake, in your case the high cell standby time suggests the first two
This seems common for the lte version. The gsm version gets very good battery life especially idle drain. Turn off lte is your best option.
knowran said:
Hello everyone! I just switched to my first Android device and am truly enjoying the experience. I can't believe I was using an iPhone for so long. I finished draining my battery for the first time and recharged it and am draining it again. My phone indicates that the screen is consuming around 66-70% of the battery drainage while everything else is quite low such as the Android OS taking up about 12%. Is this typical and does it improve over time? Thank you for your help.
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Assuming you have the screen on a lot then yes. Those big beautiful screens are hard on a battery.
If you're on the LTE version using 3G only you will get around 3 hours screen on time MAX.
GSM version you will probably get 3-4 hours screen on time per charge.
Hello,
I've read the threads about battery in the desire, BATT FIX with new kernels etc but can't really find a definite answer for my problem.
I bought my phone 18 months old and from the beginning it has shut down at about 20%. Tried the battery thing with charging, on/off, charing again etc, wiping battery stats etc but it doesn't seem to matter. So, I thought I'd just buy a new battery and be done with it.
The new battery arrived yesterday (actually, it's a used battery from customer returns but seller tells me it's been tested to be in mint condition). So this battery shows 3% when I first start up with it, "good, this seems to work" I think. But when at 75% the charger indicator (LED light) all of a sudden turns green and battery % jumps straight to 100%. I do the battery calibration trick with on/off charge and wipe battery stats. Stuck at 100% for some time as reported by others trying this "trick", have been using it all day and it shuts down at 25% even worse than the other battery...
The best voltages I've seen on this supposedly new battery is 4,144 and somewhere above 3.5 (nowhere near 3.2 and 4.2). What strikes me as odd is that I get very close to the same values with my old battery so I'm starting to think that maybee both battery are good but the phone reports way wrong values...is this possible?
Battery life with phone and data connection on, 1 gmail account but disabled backup feature (no GPS, BT etc) gives me -5% after 10 hours standby and I can use the phone for browising, light gaming for about 3 hours and 40 minutes before it dies (more or less constant usage at very low autobrightness levels and Turbo 3G enabled).
If someone has some insight into this it would be really helpful before I contact the eBay seller for this particular battery.
Regards, Olle
Same thing
My phone shuts down at 35% now... Is that a problem with the chipset or what? Only with Alex-V's calibrated kernels my phone shuts down at 0%, and sometimes it decalibrates too, but after calibration is Okay. I wonder if i need a new battery or my chipset has issues.
I recently got this phone, mainly because it's the most developer-friendly phone (once S-Off is achieved) which supports MirrorLink.
Although I've heard great things about this phone's battery life, I'm kind of disappointed with the battery being used up while I'm not using the phone. I'll go into more details.
I'm a very light user most of the time. I have had my phone on right now for 15h, 16m, and the screen's only been on for 14 minutes. The battery is at 82%
On my iPhone, I usually get home from work with 95%+ charge left. The amount of charge left on my iPhone varies basically with how much I used the phone, but with usage as light as mine, I barely use 5% a day. This phone, though, despite not being used, seems to drain at least 25% each day.
The major users according to battery stats are the phone radio and the android kernel.
My assumption is that the way Android handles push notifications is different from iOS, and that must be why my iPhone simply doesn't drain on standby. But does anyone have an M8 that behaves better on standby, with notifications on? Or does anyone know the exact reason for this 0.7~1.5% per hour battery drainage and a way to stop it?
Since I can usually charge the phone every night, it's not too big of an issue, but it does bother me that it drains regardless of usage. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
I have this case:
http://www.amazon.com/Google-Nexus-2013-Case-Manufacturer/dp/B00E5NOXM4
If I have the Nexus at 100% battery and shut off the screen, it will be completely dead after 24-48 hours. Considering that this is standby and that my old old old iPad 1st Gen had a standby time of a couple WEEKS, I'm thinking that there is something wrong?
How long is the standby time supposed to be on the 2013 Nexus?
Is it possible that the case is actually somehow turning on the screen behind the cover and just leaving it on?
Assuming you are on stock 5.1.1, then the battery life is pretty poor....
Mine will only last 48 hours max on standby as it repeatedly wakes up, albeit with the screen off...
I have tried to disable anything I can to stop it waking up, but no good....
KitKat was far better in terms of staying asleep IMHO.
I actually have two N7's and have rooted the seocnd one and am running CleanRom and that is a LOT better at sleeping and so lasts a lot longer on standby.
Why would it be the case? It's not like the case is going to randomly turn it on and off... And if you need to test it; take it out of the case.
My N7 loses a few percent overnight at most... I've left it in my desk at work over the weekend by accident.. Off the charger at 9am Friday, looked at it 9amish Monday, it was at 83%. Nothing special, was stock L at the time.
More then likely you have software installed that is waking the tablet up or running in the background frequently causing the drain. I can unplug mine from the charger at 7am and not use it till 7pm and it will still be fully charged with that case. If I am super busy and don't use it for day or two it may go down to 98-95%. But if I leave Terraria open and put it to sleep by 7pm it may be down to 60-70% without even using it.
My OG ipad has stand-by measured in months. Too bad it's now completely useless. With the constant reboots and battery drains this N7 isn't far behind.
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I have this case:
http://www.amazon.com/Google-Nexus-2013-Case-Manufacturer/dp/B00E5NOXM4
If I have the Nexus at 100% battery and shut off the screen, it will be completely dead after 24-48 hours. Considering that this is standby and that my old old old iPad 1st Gen had a standby time of a couple WEEKS, I'm thinking that there is something wrong?
How long is the standby time supposed to be on the 2013 Nexus?
Is it possible that the case is actually somehow turning on the screen behind the cover and just leaving it on?
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Battery life has declined since some version of lollipop. It's still pretty good but I've lost more than an hour of screen on time. It's impossible to pinpoint what app or apps cause the drainage because wakelock detector only shows facebook messenger as the sole big battery consumer but that's nothing new. In Android's own battery usage stats besides screen my main battery usage is "Android system" and "Android os" which use way too much CPU and cause abnormally much keep awake. I use Greenify and have almost every app except Google's own Greenified but lately I suspect apps bypass Greenify through Google Play services in some way.
But mostly I think it is under the hood stuff in Android and poor optimization from Google devs combined with Wi-Fi being always on. My old nexus 7 2012 which has "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" set to never has incredible standby time. If not used I get 2 weeks.
Remember how much they praised project Volta last year's i/o, lollipop actually has shortened battery life. This year they called it doze. I honestly think it's just a charade to fool us to believe they put an effort in battery optimization.
^I guess it's just going to be different for everyone depending on a lot of variables.
You say you lost an hour with lollipop, I believe it but I can tell you that I've gained an hour compared to kitkat. So...
Standby time could definitely use some work though.