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Rapid Battery Drain - How can I improve?

My battery seems to be draining quite fast. I have removed a lot of bloatware, but I'm not getting the type of performance that others are getting.
It has lost 70% in 5 hours just doing a little browsing, watching a 20minute video and playing a game for half an hour. This was with Wifi on, and mobile data switched off, and background data switched off too.
I've had the device for a week now and I've charged it every day.
Any Ideas on how to improve it?

Bad4ss said:
My battery seems to be draining quite fast. I have removed a lot of bloatware, but I'm not getting the type of performance that others are getting.
It has lost 70% in 5 hours just doing a little browsing, watching a 20minute video and playing a game for half an hour. This was with Wifi on, and mobile data switched off, and background data switched off too.
I've had the device for a week now and I've charged it every day.
Any Ideas on how to improve it?
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Could well be your brightness level? Are you using autobrightness or is it on a fixed level (I hope its not fixed at 100%!)
If you use autobrightness try using an app like LUX auto brightness instead.

Bad4ss said:
My battery seems to be draining quite fast. I have removed a lot of bloatware, but I'm not getting the type of performance that others are getting.
It has lost 70% in 5 hours just doing a little browsing, watching a 20minute video and playing a game for half an hour. This was with Wifi on, and mobile data switched off, and background data switched off too.
I've had the device for a week now and I've charged it every day.
Any Ideas on how to improve it?
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If you are rooted get wakelock detector that will tell you what's up

Lennyuk said:
Could well be your brightness level? Are you using autobrightness or is it on a fixed level (I hope its not fixed at 100%!)
If you use autobrightness try using an app like LUX auto brightness instead.
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Thanks for that, I did have it on Auto brightness for the first few days, but the last few days I switched it off just in case it was that, but the problem remained. I will try LUX auto as you suggested.

jaythenut said:
If you are rooted get wakelock detector that will tell you what's up
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I am rooted, and thanks for the suggestion of that app - I will get it right now and test with it today, I'll let you know later how I get on.

My guess is a corrupted media file somewhere which is causing your media server to prevent the phone from going into deep sleep. When you go to settings , battery, is media the no 1 juice sucker?

Seifer1975 said:
My guess is a corrupted media file somewhere which is causing your media server to prevent the phone from going into deep sleep. When you go to settings , battery, is media the no 1 juice sucker?
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Yeah I got rid of the radio and media player from one of the homescreens as they showed quite heavily in wake up time. but the battery still kept draining fast.

Just buy another battery and enjoy the pleasures of experiencing a QHD beast I have 3 batteries (2 standard) and managed to strike a freebie on the 3rd battery ..

Showtek1980 said:
Just buy another battery and enjoy the pleasures of experiencing a QHD beast I have 3 batteries (2 standard) and managed to strike a freebie on the 3rd battery ..
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I wouldn't mind, but I just bought it 8 days ago, people are experiencing a lot longer battery life than I can.
Immediately just played a game and look how much has gone.
Why is Android system using up so much? I've even got location switched off and Google search etc. is deleted.

If 're not using Xposed Frameowrk for tweaks, looking into enabling ART - I did that and my battery life has been impressive.

nest75068 said:
If 're not using Xposed Frameowrk for tweaks, looking into enabling ART - I did that and my battery life has been impressive.
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I did try that, but it didn't work and the phone was a bit laggy. Why would android system take up 15% of whatever the battery uses? I'm getting so frustrated, I might do a factory reset.

Here is the picture of what is being used, down 40% in such a short time. :

Bad4ss said:
I did try that, but it didn't work and the phone was a bit laggy. Why would android system take up 15% of whatever the battery uses? I'm getting so frustrated, I might do a factory reset.
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Aosed to make things smoother not laggy
Sounds like you have something eating up massive resources.

nest75068 said:
Aosed to make things smoother not laggy
Sounds like you have something eating up massive resources.
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Must be, but I don't have any idea what it is:
Here is a screenshot a few minutes after the last screenshot - another 10% down, and I watched a 8 minute video:

Bad4ss said:
Must be, but I don't have any idea what it is:
Here is a screenshot a few minutes after the last screenshot - another 10% down, and I watched a 8 minute video:
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How long has that screen been on for?

A shot in the dark:
Do you skype? Skype was draining the battery down in the Nexus 7 2013 even when you were not using it. I disabled it and the battery improved greatly.
Another option:
It sounds to me that there's an app that is draining the battery down a whole lot. I would try to isolate that app (by deleting each one you downloaded one at a time) until you have found it.

IndianaBond said:
A shot in the dark:
Do you skype? Skype was draining the battery down in the Nexus 7 2013 even when you were not using it. I disabled it and the battery improved greatly.
Another option:
It sounds to me that there's an app that is draining the battery down a whole lot. I would try to isolate that app (by deleting each one you downloaded one at a time) until you have found it.
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I don't have skype, but I like your idea - I've gotten rid of almost all the bloatware stuff. What I think I'll do now is charge it to max. DO a factory reset and not allow Google to start downloading all my apps again.
Funny thing though - when I charged it last night and unplugged it for 3 hours it only dropped a couple of percent. It started dying rapidly after I opened up a few other apps.
What I'll do now is charge do a factory reset, then switch it off, then charge to max before turning it on again. When I first got it, it turned on as soon as I plugged it in. did the same happen for everyone?

What you might want to do is download Greenify on the play store. This will tell you what apps are running in the background and then it will turn them off (hibernate).

Bad4ss said:
My battery seems to be draining quite fast. I have removed a lot of bloatware, but I'm not getting the type of performance that others are getting.
It has lost 70% in 5 hours just doing a little browsing, watching a 20minute video and playing a game for half an hour. This was with Wifi on, and mobile data switched off, and background data switched off too.
I've had the device for a week now and I've charged it every day.
Any Ideas on how to improve it?
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Go to accounts and uncheck stuff u dont need synced

Bad4ss said:
I wouldn't mind, but I just bought it 8 days ago, people are experiencing a lot longer battery life than I can.
Immediately just played a game and look how much has gone.
Why is Android system using up so much? I've even got location switched off and Google search etc. is deleted.
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Make sure that you leave the battery charging for about 10-15 minutes more after your cradle light turns green. Sometimes the battery isn't fully charged despite the cradle light turning green. 30 minutes on a game shouldn't be using that much battery consumption.
I usually get about 10-12 hours or more on each of my batteries ( video calling, chatting, games and my 4g is turned on 90% of the time
Try this from Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm&hl=en
You can read their reviews and install the app but don't download too many battery monitor apps Keep us posted after a few days of monitoring Good luck :good:

Stock OS

Been poking around here and reading all the posts that people had mentioning battery life on stock/cm11. Is battery life really that good? I find myself trying everything possible (including hardly using the device, turning brightness all the way down, turning off bluetooth & Dynamic perspective) and I find that my phone is dropping like a brick. I can have the phone lose %s in front of me just having the screen open for a few minutes doing nothing else.
I even have two apps to optimize/kill all other apps and I'm finding that this phone is dying faster than a t-mobile pre paid LG L90 I was using prior. I just don't see how people with stock and all the features on are getting more than 5 hours battery life tops. This phone dies while you use it on the charger, which is a first from any phone I've ever used.
How do your experiences stack up? Do I just have a bad unit? Really considering going to cm11 now (really wanted to like Fire OS).

You must have something wrong with the phone. I have had Samsung S3's and S4's and the Fire is far and away the best I have experienced for battery life. I am getting close on two days on a full charge although I do not use it a great deal for voice calls.

dmarchant said:
You must have something wrong with the phone. I have had Samsung S3's and S4's and the Fire is far and away the best I have experienced for battery life. I am getting close on two days on a full charge although I do not use it a great deal for voice calls.
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Are you keeping Dynamic perspective off with a low brightness instead of auto? Don't see how two days is possible unless you absolutely never used the device. I can lose like 10% an hour just on the browser reading text sites.

Fire has the best battery life of any android phone I've owned. I'm on fire os with a different launcher and I have dynamic perspective on (not for home screen obviously). I'm also using auto brightness. I'm rooted with gapps installed. I get great standby time and even in use its good. You should get gsam battery monitor and see what's going on, although I think you might have a broke unit.

Here is a picture from Gsam (I don't have my phone rooted). I think this is pretty bad for only 3:28hrs of screen on time and that was with the screen at the lowest brightness, not on auto. For app usage I have 7% coming from a game I was playing, but the rest of the drain is coming from system and kernel. Would really like to see another users stats with similar screen on time, as I'm pretty sure I could completely kill this phone's battery in 4-5 hours just using silk browser on Reddit.
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Sent from my SD4930UR using XDA Free mobile app

Ztcc said:
Here is a picture from Gsam (I don't have my phone rooted). I think this is pretty bad for only 3:28hrs of screen on time and that was with the screen at the lowest brightness, not on auto. For app usage I have 7% coming from a game I was playing, but the rest of the drain is coming from system and kernel. Would really like to see another users stats with similar screen on time, as I'm pretty sure I could completely kill this phone's battery in 4-5 hours just using silk browser on Reddit.
h ttp://i.imgur.com/JSXxRGN.png
Sent from my SD4930UR using XDA Free mobile app
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Can you check the kernel wake lock section of the same app?

ratbags said:
Can you check the kernel wake lock section of the same app?
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On the off chance that you or anyone else can help me understand what's going on I ran a ~10% drain test and made a picture including information from WakeLock Detector and GSam. This drain seems very bad considering the screen was only on for a total of 16 minutes and I lost 8% power.
imgur.com/YbgFfmA

Ztcc said:
On the off chance that you or anyone else can help me understand what's going on I ran a ~10% drain test and made a picture including information from WakeLock Detector and GSam. This drain seems very bad considering the screen was only on for a total of 16 minutes and I lost 8% power.
imgur.com/YbgFfmA
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Your phone isn't going into deep sleep. It's hard to determine exactly what's going on there but if you download kernel adiutor (yes, that's the spelling) you'll see its locked at 300mhz most of the time. I know it sounds crazy but have you rebooted? That can often sort out a misbehaving app. Are you rooted? If so deploy greenify.

ratbags said:
Your phone isn't going into deep sleep. It's hard to determine exactly what's going on there but if you download kernel adiutor (yes, that's the spelling) you'll see its locked at 300mhz most of the time. I know it sounds crazy but have you rebooted? That can often sort out a misbehaving app. Are you rooted? If so deploy greenify.
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I am rooted. That screenshot was with using greenify :[
I will get that kernel app.

ratbags said:
Your phone isn't going into deep sleep. It's hard to determine exactly what's going on there but if you download kernel adiutor (yes, that's the spelling) you'll see its locked at 300mhz most of the time. I know it sounds crazy but have you rebooted? That can often sort out a misbehaving app. Are you rooted? If so deploy greenify.
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Do you have any recommended settings for that app? I disabled something that I think is allowing me to enter deep sleep more, but I have to finish testing. Thanks for the help ratbags!

Oh I see what's the wrong.
Battery usage give me a wrong information.
My fire phone lasting about 5hrs turning on screen.
Very very good !!
Thank you.:good::good:

Five hours is good??

Ztcc said:
Five hours is good??
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5 hours of "screen on time" is solid, the combined time incl. standby, etc. is of course much longer. He didn't know how to interpret the statistics from the device, it was a misunderstanding.

Ztcc said:
Do you have any recommended settings for that app? I disabled something that I think is allowing me to enter deep sleep more, but I have to finish testing. Thanks for the help ratbags!
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That kernel app won't help battery life but it will show you how long you spend in deep sleep.
As for greenify, you should greenify all the Google apps. I actually greenify everything except sms app, browser, phone and alarm apps.
Also, this could possibly be some kind of location based frippery. Turn location services off or onto battery saving mode if only temporarily. And turn off auto sync if it's on.

Bad Battery Life

Hi all,
I've been getting less than 3 hours of screen on time on Open Beta 9. No root, fully stock. I've got Bluetooth on for my Moto 360 and location on battery saving, but I still get horrible battery life. I've tried resetting many times. I get around 3 hours SOT on custom roms, but not much improvement in general.
I have attached screenshots.
Thanks.

R55770 said:
Hi all,
I've been getting less than 3 hours of screen on time on Open Beta 9. No root, fully stock. I've got Bluetooth on for my Moto 360 and location on battery saving, but I still get horrible battery life. I've tried resetting many times. I get around 3 hours SOT on custom roms, but not much improvement in general.
I have attached screenshots.
Thanks.
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Click on the battery graph and see if it ever sleeping. Also try wake lock detector to see what's causing the drain.

R55770 said:
Hi all,
I've been getting less than 3 hours of screen on time on Open Beta 9. No root, fully stock. I've got Bluetooth on for my Moto 360 and location on battery saving, but I still get horrible battery life. I've tried resetting many times. I get around 3 hours SOT on custom roms, but not much improvement in general.
I have attached screenshots.
Thanks.
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Android System seems to be topping the list with 30%. Normally the screen should be on top or some other app. Install BetterBatteryStats and check what is actually draining the battery. Go through the BBS thread here on XDA for possible solutions.

nine5raptor said:
Click on the battery graph and see if it ever sleeping. Also try wake lock detector to see what's causing the drain.
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tnsmani said:
Android System seems to be topping the list with 30%. Normally the screen should be on top or some other app. Install BetterBatteryStats and check what is actually draining the battery. Go through the BBS thread here on XDA for possible solutions.
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Hey,
Thanks for the quick replies. I'll root with Freedom OS and get back to you.
Thanks again.
EDIT: Battery drain seems to be fixed with OB10. Thanks for the help.

Moto ZP display consumes more battery suddenly

Hi,
My mzp display consumes more battery nowadays.
Anything went wrong? Kindly suggest what needs to be done.
TIA,
Dinesh

I mean whats your SOT? show us the other stats as well.

Dchoi229 said:
I mean whats your SOT? show us the other stats as well.
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Hi ,
What's SOT means? And what other stats are required?

Screen On Time. Show me a screen shot of the history details. You just click on the battery stats and it'll show the history details.

Dchoi229 said:
Screen On Time. Show me a screen shot of the history details. You just click on the battery stats and it'll show the history details.
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Hope the below screenshot is expected from me.

youre charging your phone lol... You have to show everyone a clear battery cycle. Meaning charge your phone all the way to 100 until a low percentage. Then take a screen shot. Show us the SOT and the history details. I'm guessing you have a lot of wakelocks.

Dchoi229 said:
youre charging your phone lol... You have to show everyone a clear battery cycle. Meaning charge your phone all the way to 100 until a low percentage. Then take a screen shot. Show us the SOT and the history details. I'm guessing you have a lot of wakelocks.
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Okay will take a SS n post my usage. I have not enabled any wakelocks to any app. Any way to find that?

I had a recent issue with battery drain as well. Read in 1 of the threads that it could be due to using Magisk and activating Magisk hide. Not sure if you're rooted but if so, and you use Magisk, you might want to see if that is your culprit.

In the ss the second most consuming thing is android system. Used to go to sleep and wake up with the same % but now it consumes 1-2 % at night. And that is only because of Android system that appeared a couple of weeks ago. Except from cleaning cache there is nothing else on the web , only a software reset. Anyone else with high Android system consumption?

Question Deep sleep problems

hi friends
My oneplus 9 pro with11.2.3.3 During the night(8 hours) my phone consumes 15-20% battery, I bought it for a week and it is like this every night.
Anyone same problem?

rapboy91 said:
hi friends
My oneplus 9 pro with11.2.3.3 During the night(8 hours) my phone consumes 15-20% battery, I bought it for a week and it is like this every night.
Anyone same problem?
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check detailed battery consumption you should be able to tell which app is draining your battery

yosry said:
check detailed battery consumption you should be able to tell which app is draining your battery
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I can't understand because I only see applications that have consumed battery while using the phone.

rapboy91 said:
I can't understand because I only see applications that have consumed battery while using the phone.
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i will try to simplify it to you :
you will have to full charge your phone to 100% before going to sleep and just remove it from the charger just before sleeping and once you weak up go to battery usage and you can tell immediately what is draining your battery
you can also that ram boost is turned on
and turn off always on ambient display
hope this helps

Good idea thank you.
Ram boost is on
I wiil try to turn off Aod.

Have you got AOD enabled? I was getting the same usage with it enabled, turned it off cos it doesn't make that much of a difference.

Install betterbatterystats, give it required permissions via ADB and check what apps keep waking the phone up during night when you wake up. I see you are using telegram, I've seen someone having problems with it in terms of battery drain, try to set telegram to optimize battery drain (not intelligent), see if that helps.

DashDashCZ said:
Install betterbatterystats, give it required permissions via ADB and check what apps keep waking the phone up during night when you wake up. I see you are using telegram, I've seen someone having problems with it in terms of battery drain, try to set telegram to optimize battery drain (not intelligent), see if that helps.
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Ok I will try it I just looked at telegram usage in the background and it is very high
Is normal this whatsapp background use?

rapboy91 said:
Ok I will try it I just looked at telegram usage in the background and it is very high
Is normal this whatsapp background use?
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Definitely not, optimize it or intelligent. Here's mine.

DashDashCZ said:
Definitely not, optimize it or intelligent. Here's mine. View attachment 5290381
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but so the notifications don't arrive instantly or am I wrong?

rapboy91 said:
but so the notifications don't arrive instantly or am I wrong?
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I mainly use whatsapp for messaging, have it on intelligent control as you can see and the messages aren't delayed.

Ditch Whatscrap, FB, and such malware apps.
Turn off all power management as it causes all kinds of issues.
Cloud apps are bandwidth and battery horrors.
Goggle Firebase, disable as well as Transport.
Playstore disable until needed.
Google Play Services is a known battery hog, I keep it disabled 99% of the time.
On my Note 10+ SOT usage is about 9%@ hour browsing on Brave.
Less than 1%@hr with AOD always on.
Less than .5%@hr sleeping with AOD touch to view.
I'm running Pie on a stock AT&T N10+ using a package blocker and Karma Firewall to lock it down. It's heavily reconfigured.
It was a twitchy, hot running bandwidth eating battery hog.
Now it's a very stable, fast, cooling running dream device...
hell yeah

blackhawk said:
Ditch Whatscrap, FB, and such malware apps.
Turn off all power management as it causes all kinds of issues.
Cloud apps are bandwidth and battery horrors.
Goggle Firebase, disable as well as Transport.
Playstore disable until needed.
Google Play Services is a known battery hog, I keep it disabled 99% of the time.
On my Note 10+ SOT usage is about 9%@ hour browsing on Brave.
Less than 1%@hr with AOD always on.
Less than .5%@hr sleeping with AOD touch to view.
I'm running Pie on a stock AT&T N10+ using a package blocker and Karma Firewall to lock it down. It's heavily reconfigured.
It was a twitchy, hot running bandwidth eating battery hog.
Now it's a very stable, fast, cooling running dream device...
hell yeah
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Oh man, that's some hate! I have pretty similar battery performance without disabling anything and using WA Btw this is a OnePlus 9 Pro forum, not note 10+ forum.

DashDashCZ said:
Oh man, that's some hate! I have pretty similar battery performance without disabling anything and using WA Btw this is a OnePlus 9 Pro forum, not note 10+ forum.
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Not hate, awareness.
Cross platform to find new answers and ways.
If it works right out of the box... all the better