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how come my battery drains so fast when using it only last 4 hrs then its dead but when on sleep mode it could last over 13 hrs
is there any recommended radio or anything
im on MIUI btw CM7 kills my battery like crazy
TheUndertaker21 said:
how come my battery drains so fast when using it only last 4 hrs then its dead but when on sleep mode it could last over 13 hrs
is there any recommended radio or anything
im on MIUI btw CM7 kills my battery like crazy
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The display uses the most battery; if the 4hrs that it takes to kill it is 4hrs of browsing, games, etc. then that makes sense. Your best bet would be to turn off auto-brightness and set your display brightness really low.
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TheUndertaker21 said:
how come my battery drains so fast when using it only last 4 hrs then its dead but when on sleep mode it could last over 13 hrs
is there any recommended radio or anything
im on MIUI btw CM7 kills my battery like crazy
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So you have this drain on both MIUI and CM7? What are you doing throughout the time that you're using the device?
You will obviously get more or less life based on what you're doing with it. Playing games or streaming music/video will kill your battery. Light use with occasional apps and texting will give you much more
If the device is sitting sleeping and still only gets 13hours though you probably have a problem.
martonikaj said:
So you have this drain on both MIUI and CM7? What are you doing throughout the time that you're using the device?
You will obviously get more or less life based on what you're doing with it. Playing games or streaming music/video will kill your battery. Light use with occasional apps and texting will give you much more
If the device is sitting sleeping and still only gets 13hours though you probably have a problem.
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browsing listing to music. i get more than 13 hrs but when i use it i can see it dropping every 2 or 3 mns thats crazy
Get a new battery
TheUndertaker21 said:
browsing listing to music. i get more than 13 hrs but when i use it i can see it dropping every 2 or 3 mns thats crazy
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Well when the screen is on browsing and you're listening to music, I'm not surprised at all that you see a % drop every 2 or 3 minutes. That's not surprising at all.
If with normal/slightly heavy use throughout the day you're getting 13 hours, I'd say thats pretty normal. If you're interested in seeing if you have a bad app running or something download an app like 'Watchdog Lite'. It will alert you when a process is eating up CPU power. Also, there are many battery apps that will allow you to look into whats taking the most power.
AS ALWAYS turn off Bluetooth/GPS/WiFi when not using them. Use auto-brightness or manually keep the brightness lower. Sync different apps at slower intervals if you don't need the data as readily. These all help life.
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Get a new battery
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Not necessarily. Don't think its a good idea to jump to that conclusion before ruling out other things.
I also got two batteries both drain like crazy but Thanks everyone
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-Wifi and Bluetooth on whole time
- Tons of texting, a lot
- Over 1 hour of phone calls on Bluetooth
- Over 3 hours of A2DP streaming
- Periods of no signal (subway)
- Screen on for 2 hours
- Google Reader and Web browsing
- Used the phone as I would normally without thinking about battery at all.
Very very happy. UPDATED with recent screenshots before I plugged it in.
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Out of interest, how many times have you charged your phone (0%-100%)?
Never drained it to zero and started using it right away without charging it. Its been charged to 100 twice already. My uptime is 73 hours and that's exactly how long I've had the phone.
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Wow! I wish mine was as good as that, seems to be getting better with each charge though, which is a positive.
Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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BlackDino said:
Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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me too OP: share your secret!
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Probably dim screen. Usually screen takes 60%-70% of the power.
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BlackDino said:
Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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Honest question, how many times are you more than 12 hours from sleeping or relaxing in your house?
12 hours is more than adequate for a normal user
This is mine after a fresh wipe and no apps installed. Just thought i`d see how it did with normal use.
Here's mine; at a point the phone got itself shut down for some reason, and I couldnt get it restarted at that moment, so I left it like that, and when I could turn it back on, it was quite warm around the camera unit, and also the battery was pretty much drained - thats what you can also see on the screenshot at the "20minutes" part of t he scale. After I've removed the battery and put it back, the phone was working for quite a while again, like 12 more hours.
I'm sure auto brightness helps as it keeps screen dim but during my use it was brighter especially outdoors. My whole point is there is no secret, you should use the phone as you would like it. One thing I could have done I'm sure to improve battery life is turn off wifi and bt when they weren't in use and possibly not have as many apps running but then what's the point in having the phone?: D
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I get around 11-13 hours. Not too impressed. My iPhone 4S gets 20 easily. I'm really conservative on my Nexus too because doing anything intensive (games, video recording, youtube etc) really rapes the battery. I'm guessing some of you turn off auto sync or something.
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I'm currently on 1 day 1 hour, with 50% left. Although with light usage.
Stretlow said:
Honest question, how many times are you more than 12 hours from sleeping or relaxing in your house?
12 hours is more than adequate for a normal user
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true, just a pain in the ass to plug in.
would be nice if it lasted 18hrs so if I can wake up, stay out late, and then plug it in when I go to bed
BlackDino said:
true, just a pain in the ass to plug in.
would be nice if it lasted 18hrs so if I can wake up, stay out late, and then plug it in when I go to bed
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I was able to do that last night but honestly not a big deal plugging it in.
It's simple really - the more you use the phone the worse battery life is but that's because you used the phone more! I never use the phone LESS just for battery life because then you're doing yourself and the phone injustice.
43% - 14h.. screen taking up 48%
from what I can see, apart from the screen, the biggest battery hog is wifi/3g
I installed Juice Defender and I am getting fantastic battery life now:
winwiz said:
from what I can see, apart from the screen, the biggest battery hog is wifi/3g
I installed Juice Defender and I am getting fantastic battery life now:
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So JuiceDefender works fine for you? I just read that alot of users had problems with ICS and JD. Would be great if it worked though!
Here's mine. Since I was at work all day I only got time to play Dillo Hills for about 20 mins but I've found the battery is REALLY good after flashing the Android Revolution ROM. MoDaCo causes too much drain IMHO.
Battery life isn't too bad on mine. I got mine on the 10th and I used it right out of the box. Battery life wasn't that great until I did a charge to 100%. The OTA update didn't change much for me in regards to battery. Currently at 21h uptime and I'm at 32%.
Just picked up a used GNex and thought everything was great until i started using it. I have a regular and an extended battery both exhibiting near instantaneous battery drain til it gets down to about 70 - 60 percent and slows down a little. disabled auto rotate and GPS with brightness turned all the way down. using liquidsmooth and also reverted to stock- rooted with same results.
All in all from full charge to completely drained I get about 6 hours with light to moderate use. It takes about 6 - 7 hours to charge as well.
I knew the Gnex was a battery eater but this seems a little much.
how much screen on time do you get? i assume CDMA/lte gnex?
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how much screen on time do you get? i assume CDMA/lte gnex?
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yes, VZW phone. I don't know what you mean by screen on time, how do I check that?
Also wanted to mention that I did wipe batterys stats when flashing and with liquid the default lean kernel settings
another thing I noticed is when charging the batter goes from 100% to 99% pretty frequently.
Like I said I'm new to the GNex but this kind of battery life actual makes me want to go back to the TBolt.
smerfherder said:
yes, VZW phone. I don't know what you mean by screen on time, how do I check that?
nevermind, it shows 11s right now because i just plugged it in.
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you check your screen on time by going into settings, then battery, then tap/click on the screen. then you'll see the screen on time. since you are using 4.1 JB on LTE device, I don't think the battery life would be that good, but we need to know the screen on time to know if there is a problem or if it's normal
using it heavy for 6 hours total battery time and getting 3-4.5 hours screen on time is normal. using it lightly for 6 hours total battery time and getting 1 hour of screen on time is not normal. heck, i get great battery life, but i can kill my battery within 5 hours, but ill get 4.5 hours screen on time(gsm gnex).
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using it heavy for 6 hours total battery time and getting 3-4.5 hours screen on time is normal. using it lightly for 6 hours total battery time and getting 1 hour of screen on time is not normal. heck, i get great battery life, but i can kill my battery within 5 hours, but ill get 4.5 hours screen on time(gsm gnex).
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hate to say it but that probably answers my question. If I had to guess I would say the screen was on most of the time as it is new to me so getting things set up and such. will try some of the tips I found around these parts and report back.
flashed latest official image from Google and got nearly 13 hrs. on battery with nearly 3 hrs screen time while on 3g most of the day.
so I think it is either 4g or maybe something to do with the bootloader which was on ja003 before. IDK but reasonably happy with battery now.
hey all, recently my g3 has gotten terrible battery life, when it would usually take me through most of the day, it now only gives me like MAYBE 12 hours with less than 2 screen on time. today, i pulled it off the charger at 1230, by 4 it was down to 54%, and after 8 1/2 hours of sitting(i was at work) it was down to 15% and then it was dead less than an hour later. i'm unrooted(was rooted) and on the latest ota, i've done a factory data reset, re-rooted and unrooted and another factory data reset. it's just weird to me because about two weeks ago my husband's g-flex wouldn't hold the data connection, dropping in consistently for two weeks(bad enough that t-mobile sent him a replacement unit, and eventually put him in a note 3) and all the sudden my battery life went from decent, to complete crap.
You are having some major wake locks. Check your apps for "kept awake ". Usually Android os has a big number but dont worry about it. Here are my battery stats for reference.
Let us know what you find out and post screenshots of any abnormalities.
Edit: ive had bad luck with battery logging apps draining a lot of battery and not letting the phone go into deep sleep.
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getrdy said:
You are having some major wake locks. Check your apps for "kept awake ". Usually Android os has a big number but dont worry about it. Here are my battery stats for reference.
Let us know what you find out and post screenshots of any abnormalities.
Edit: ive had bad luck with battery logging apps draining a lot of battery and not letting the phone go into deep sleep.
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23 hours and still at 77%???? Is that with phone just sitting not in use in stand by?
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Here is mine. Bluetooth is on from the time I unplug till I plug it in at night going to bed. Wifi is off during the day, so I'm on 4G LTE till I get home and turn data off and wifi on. So wifi is on for about 6-8 hours a day. I always typically keep sync off. Ill turn it on a few tomes throughout the day for a few mins to pull any emails and what-not, than I turn it right back off. It drains a lot of battery on mine just talking with apps trying to pull data from them constantly.
Location is also usually off until I need it. Today I had it on all day.
My screen brightness when I'm away from home is usually anywhere from say 60-95%. I HATE auto-brightness, just keeps it way to dark.
I also use greenify, and I have clean master auto clear memory upon screen off. So when I turn screen off, all apps I selected hibernate via greenify, and memory clears with clean master.
I'm also using trickster mod, and have a few kernel tweaks to smooth out the notorious G3 stutter which was from a thread on here. Lag solutions I think(ill grab link in a min) via Heisenberg's settings. Very stable and runs like a champ!
I am using g3 tweakbox, nothing fancy going on though or crazy.
Also, I do have seeder, which I was using before the trickster kernel tweaks, and it was working great, but I'm trying the trickster settings for now.
I HIGHLY recommend using the trickster mod kernel settings heisenberg suggested in his his thread. They are extremely stable, it makes phone snappy and very smooth, and I swear it made my battery life much better! Give it a shot, I swear you'll love it.
Here is lag solutions thread, 1st post is the kernel tweaks I use w/ trickster mod. It did help battery. Give it a shot, if it doesn't help you, or makes things for(which it wont, its very stable) you can always undo them just as fast and easy. Do all of them though, and do exactly, don't change numbers yet(if you're very comfy with it and do k is what you're doing with it), just give those a shot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/lag-solutions-t2816188
Let me know if you have any questions on my set up, ill be glad to help.
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Syntax323 said:
23 hours and still at 77%???? Is that with phone just sitting not in use in stand by?
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Thats a medium/light use with mostly talking on the phone and listening to music day and i have a follow-up for it. The pics are after 48h of use without charging.
Coming from a Samsung galaxy s3 im really impressed with the battery on this phone.
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How do you have less screen on time after 48 hours than you did at 23?
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How do you have less screen on time after 48 hours than you did at 23?
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Because that screen shot of the screen on time is from a different day. You can see that if you look at the time/date and battery %.
Sorry about the confusion.
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getrdy said:
Because that screen shot of the screen on time is from a different day. You can see that if you look at the time/date and battery %.
Sorry about the confusion.
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Ah okay, wasn't even paying attention lol.
after my most recent factory data reset, i realized that after i unrooted i had used the kdz for the 8110c firmware to unroot, and my phone updated to 8110m...i got 40 hours of standby after the update, but only about 3 hours screen on...but that's better than the 10 hours of standby i was getting...thanks for allt he suggestions!
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after my most recent factory data reset, i realized that after i unrooted i had used the kdz for the 8110c firmware to unroot, and my phone updated to 8110m...i got 40 hours of standby after the update, but only about 3 hours screen on...but that's better than the 10 hours of standby i was getting...thanks for allt he suggestions!
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Hows your signal strength? Having crapy signal drains the battery a lot.
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getrdy said:
Hows your signal strength? Having crapy signal drains the battery a lot.
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didn't even think to check it...you'd have thought that would have been my first instinct with the issues my husband was having with his g-flex...but, battery life was my only issue with the phone, and it's up to where i'm content with it now, but in answer to your question -87dbm
Ok so I did a "test". I had bad signal- 1 bar 4g and it would hop to 2g quite often. In about 2h i drained 70% battery with tune in radio and the screen turned off. I couldnt screenshot it because my phone died :banghead:
My guess is that if you are working somewhere with crapy signal and you have push notifications coming in often it would kill your battery.
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So I am loving my new Pixel 2 XL, but i have noticed my battery life isn't nearly as what i see on the review forms. like with light usage only 2 hours of being unplugged, im at 77%. I came from my nexus 6 and transferred all my apps from it so it might be an app sucking my battery life? i don't know. any suqqestions would be good. I am rooted with magisk with the GMS Doze addon to try to help with this problem
It could be anything. At least with the root access, you can get many decent apps to track the apps that may be causing this. The battery on my 2 XL (stock) has been spectacular so far. I was a little bit worried that 8.1 may change that, but seems like it is even better now. For the first time in years, I am not worried about the battery at all. Even if I forget to charge overnight, I am OK going to work with about 40% of battery as I know I can get home with still something left in it. The only reason why I often check battery stats is because I still can't believe what is going on.
I am. Getting great battery life also rooted
Do a factory reset
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YoshiFan501 said:
So I am loving my new Pixel 2 XL, but i have noticed my battery life isn't nearly as what i see on the review forms. like with light usage only 2 hours of being unplugged, im at 77%. I came from my nexus 6 and transferred all my apps from it so it might be an app sucking my battery life? i don't know. any suqqestions would be good. I am rooted with magisk with the GMS Doze addon to try to help with this problem
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I personally had worse results when I tried to tweak doze. Greenify also made things worse. My best results are leaving everything alone.
i think im gonna give it a few charge cycles before i do anything. i havent let this phone die yet, and i think the culprit might also be the life360 app.
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I personally had worse results when I tried to tweak doze. Greenify also made things worse. My best results are leaving everything alone.
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I agree with this and I remember similar findings on the OG Pixel XL. I'd start by disabling the doze tweaking apps and see how it goes.
YoshiFan501 said:
So I am loving my new Pixel 2 XL, but i have noticed my battery life isn't nearly as what i see on the review forms. like with light usage only 2 hours of being unplugged, im at 77%. I came from my nexus 6 and transferred all my apps from it so it might be an app sucking my battery life? i don't know. any suqqestions would be good. I am rooted with magisk with the GMS Doze addon to try to help with this problem
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Check which app is draining the battery. My brother's unit for some reason had Google Play service draining 46% of the battery. After I flashed back to factory (without wiping) and enrolled the phone into beta program for the service. That worked out for him. (version 8.0 November patch)
My battery life has taken a significant hit since going to 8.1. No new apps (a few app updates through) but it is a noticeable difference from just a week ago. It's still impressive, but prior to 8.1 I would be at 70-75 at this point in the day with around 2 hours screen-on time, currently at 60% with only 1.5 hours screen-on time. I just got super spoiled for about a month or so with absolutely incredible battery life. Now, I have to live with "just" very good battery life.
First-world problems.
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I personally had worse results when I tried to tweak doze. Greenify also made things worse. My best results are leaving everything alone.
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That's my experience as well. I haven't done anything to tweak my phone to try and get better battery life. I'm 100% stock. No unlocked bootloader. No root. Just out of the box. I'm getting 7-9 hours SOT over 24-32 hours depending on what I'm doing.
What I have noticed with 8.0 it use to drain a lot slower the first 30 to 40%, then it will drain faster, in 8.1 it is more consistent, I still average 7 to 8% SOT per hour and .3% an hour when screen is off. The phone still last 2 days with 7 to 8 hours SOT and I will be at around 25 to 20% still available. I had the phone since Oct. 20th and based on Accubattery I have charged it only 25 times in total
Remember that they fixed how battery life is calculated with the update. Also, you can looks under Background check under developer settings to stop specific apps from running in the background
Superdad_98 said:
What I have noticed with 8.0 it use to drain a lot slower the first 30 to 40%, then it will drain faster, in 8.1 it is more consistent, I still average 7 to 8% SOT per hour and .3% an hour when screen is off. The phone still last 2 days with 7 to 8 hours SOT and I will be at around 25 to 20% still available. I had the phone since Oct. 20th and based on Accubattery I have charged it only 25 times in total
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Thing is I'm not even getting that
https://i.imgur.com/DO8gHom.png
YoshiFan501 said:
Thing is I'm not even getting that
https://i.imgur.com/DO8gHom.png
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That's some heavy battery drain, mine wasn't that bad, but close. If you spend most of your day somewhere with a weak mobile signal, try switching off "Mobile data always active" from Developer options. My office has very bad signal, and by switching off that setting, my battery improved a little bit. Nothing major, but it was noticeable.
Mine has changed noticeably, though not anything enough for me to be concerned in my daily use. Still getting 7 hrs SOT, just less stand-by time.
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That's my experience as well. I haven't done anything to tweak my phone to try and get better battery life. I'm 100% stock. No unlocked bootloader. No root. Just out of the box. I'm getting 7-9 hours SOT over 24-32 hours depending on what I'm doing.
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I rooted mine for like 2 weeks. I ended up relocking the bootloader and unrooting it. It just runs better that way.
This was me leaving it screen off unplugged for half the night and I can tell you right away the walelocks don't look right but I can't figure out what. https://imgur.com/a/SPIdL
I'm getting 7 hrs of SOT consistently. Not even close to sub par for me. That's heavy use as well.
I've noticed that many times people with poor battery life transferred everything from another phone. It seems like a crap shoot compared to starting fresh. Pre and post 8.1 I'm getting 6 to 7 hrs sot using around 55% brightness and mostly lte.
Seems like a lot of people are experiencing battery drain from Google Play services 11.9.51 (including myself).
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So i factory resetted and reinstalled all my apps and stuff and still not getting good battery life. in 30 minutes from a full charge i was down to like 85% and that was just from listening to music
i cant tell what is causing it besides probably Google Play Services, so i enabled Doze on it via magisk, and still nothing. i highly doubt it's a defective battery