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Horrible Battery Life

It would seem that after I installed the AT&T update to dumb down thr search on my phone, my battery life has been terrible. Yesterday it was down to about 30% after only 4 hours of light use with the processes "Android OS" and "Cell Standby" taking up the most battery. I can't even get through the day with this phone. Some help would be much appreciated.

After any update, give it a couple days to level out. Until then, just carry an extra charger and plug in when you can.

The update was installed at least a week ago.

In that case, backup everything and do a factory reset when you have a fully charged battery.

Alright I'll give it a shot. I needed to do that anyway as my clipboard no longer works and consistently crashes. :/

I did a factory reset a few weeks ago and that solved it for me.

Do you have any specific methods for backing up a phone that isn't rooted? I've got nova backed up, but I would like to make sure everything else is too.

FlyinHi said:
Alright I'll give it a shot. I needed to do that anyway as my clipboard no longer works and consistently crashes. :/
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Are you receiving push email? that was the major drainer for me. apparently the android email app has a bug.
Regarding clipboard...delete everything in data/clipboard; force close the 'test service' app and then restart your phone

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Do you have any specific methods for backing up a phone that isn't rooted? I've got nova backed up, but I would like to make sure everything else is too.
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The best method would be to use titanium backup but since your not rooted I don't know what options you have except to use the google backup but that ain't to good since its only app data.
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Hi all,
Since getting the phone from day one, I really never had a problem with the battery. Lately however, I've noticed a significant drain in battery over night. I tested the drain a few times over several nights, and even put my phone into "airplane" mode to help save battery.
Below are my results from going to sleep at 1:30am with 100% battery power and in airplane mode and waking up at 9:30am the next morning. I get a 12% decrease in battery over night for doing nothing over the course of 8 hours.
The only thing I've noticed differently is that Chrome is starting to use battery which is odd because I rarely use Chrome to begin with.
Any ideas to help this? What should I do?
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Hi all,
Since getting the phone from day one, I really never had a problem with the battery. Lately however, I've noticed a significant drain in battery over night. I tested the drain a few times over several nights, and even put my phone into "airplane" mode to help save battery.
Below are my results from going to sleep at 1:30am with 100% battery power and in airplane mode and waking up at 9:30am the next morning. I get a 12% decrease in battery over night for doing nothing over the course of 8 hours.
The only thing I've noticed differently is that Chrome is starting to use battery which is odd because I rarely use Chrome to begin with.
Any ideas to help this? What should I do?
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I had the same problem this morning chrome had like 26% and it showed no cpu use my phone was down from around 88% to 56% I know for a fact it was chrome so try un installing it.
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Yeah I've noticed a huge jump in Android System usage since I flashed the UCLG1 update.
Currently
18h 27min on current charge
screen on 1h 22min
Android system = 51%

DudeWatsThat, thanks I'm going to give it a try and see if uninstalling Chrome changes anything. It just boggles my mind that in airplane mode over night it would drain the battery 12%

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Yeah I've noticed a huge jump in Android System usage since I flashed the UCLG1 update.
Currently
18h 27min on current charge
screen on 1h 22min
Android system = 51%
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That
ain't normal for sure.
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DudeWatsThat, thanks I'm going to give it a try and see if uninstalling Chrome changes anything. It just boggles my mind that in airplane mode over night it would drain the battery 12%
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Yea its definitely a rare bug since Chrome wasn't even displaying cpu usage.
Sent from my GSIII

i second that problem about Chrome. I think it is a bug regarding the builtin flash code. my battery was great until i installed Chrome then it got really bad. I uninstalled Chrome and my battery life jumped up big time. huge different. too bad i really like Chrome but no go right now

Not sure if it's the same issue, but I had some problems with battery life in Chrome until I disabled Tilt Scrolling under Developer Options in the Chrome menu.

my battery life is great even after the update

Sudden Battery Drain From Voicemail & Android OS

I'm running a Note 4 rooted stock with Emotion Kernel and have been getting at least 12-15hrs battery time for as long as I can remember.
Suddenly my battery is draining crazy fast, a full charge doesn't even last 8hrs with very minimal use.
I checked in Settings>Battery and see that Voicemail and Android OS are consuming 4-5 times everything else...voicemail??? I barely get any voicemails ever!
Below is a screenshot...if anyone has a fix for this please let me know...thanks.
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Let use Titanium Backup to freeze Voicemail for more free RAM and save your battery.
I think you should also consider freezing apps you rarely need.

Im having this problem today and last night as well. My phone is not going to sleep at all, and its due to voicemail. It is eating my phone alive.
Reboots, system cache clear, nothing is helping. I'm having to use greenify to put it to sleep but im unrooted and the phone is continually turning the screen on just to kill the process.

mr_binthoi said:
Let use Titanium Backup to freeze Voicemail for more free RAM and save your battery.
I think you should also consider freezing apps you rarely need.
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yeah I been using titanium b/u for years...froze the voicemail app...trying to figure out why it suddenly started draining though...I've had the same setting running for weeks with no issues then 2 days ago this started

Its gotta be something from Sprint. Maybe its constantly pinging the voicemail for some reason? Is that a thing?
Edit: This is apparently pretty widespread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/3p4tbb/voicemail_battery_drain/
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651

crazymook said:
Its gotta be something from Sprint. Maybe its constantly pinging the voicemail for some reason? Is that a thing?
Edit: This is apparently pretty widespread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/3p4tbb/voicemail_battery_drain/
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651
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I read alot about the 5.1.1 killing people's batteries but I haven't had any issues until 2 days ago.
I installed Battery Doctor from the Play Store, charges the phone and can already see a huge difference...after unplugging from the charger it stayed at 100% for a good half hour-45 minutes...plus it shut killed a few apps that were sucking the juice out like crazy.

Crazy I have the M8 and can confirm the same issue. Every since the weekend my phone will not sleep and battery wears down very fast. What I did to bypass for now was reverting the vm app back a few versions. I got lucky and had a backup in titanium backup from June. Anyways, I uninstalled vm and installed backup and my phone is now back to normal.
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As a temporary solution I went into the app settings for voicemail, deleted all the data (not sure if necessary and WILL delete your saved voicemails), uninstalled the updates, turned off notifications, and then restarted my phone. You will NOT be able to use the visual voicemail after doing this because as soon as you try to open the app it will prompt you to reinstall the mandatory updates. I don't really take many phone calls anyway so I don't care. I'll leave it like this until Sprint fixes the issue. I'd rather have my batter life back.

Supposedly Sprint fixed the issue through a network config last night. I was having the same issues up until last night. I uninstalled the voicemail updates (although the version is still 6.0.1.22) and rebooted the phone. Today the issue is gone for me.
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651?start=0&tstart=0

poit said:
Supposedly Sprint fixed the issue through a network config last night. I was having the same issues up until last night. I uninstalled the voicemail updates (although the version is still 6.0.1.22) and rebooted the phone. Today the issue is gone for me.
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/215651?start=0&tstart=0
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I never experienced any of these problems with vvm, not any excessive battery drain. But glad to see it was fixed for others.

High battery drain for a fresh reinstall 7.0 in idle for no apparent reason

Hello, people!
So, on 6.0.1. stock ENcrypted it was like this:
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about 5% lost per night
WiFi always on, whatsup, maildroid checking one imap mailbox for every 120 mins (set to wake up the phone), ok google OFF, now cards OFF, backup-ing OFF. Steady about 5% (4-6%) per night.
Now, I flashed factory image 7.0.0. everything stock. Then I flashed boot.img with disabled encryption and formated data and cache. Everything is as it is described above expect for the maildroid has NOT been even installed yet.
And that's what I get second night in a row (rebooted, cache wiped from recovery mode before leaving the phone):
23% eaten for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
What even worse, even android itself does not know what it was doing that it ate so much battery because the percentages does not add up for the whole drain.
After so many time invested into this phone for getting pure stock 7.0 unencrypted I just feel exhausted and want to throw this phone out of the window.
I'd appreciate a right direction for figuring out what drains the battery.

Yeah battery blows with nougat. Significant Google play services drain mainly bet scheduler. Had somewhat similar with MM but was able to really calm it down with Power Nap, bit since Xposed is not out yet for N....I'm nandroiding back to MM too.
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I downgraded to MM, and it became normal. The next day I missed the quick switching between the last two opened apps and I flashed N again))
Actually, this night it drained 8% what is kinda OK. What I additionally did was that I disabled under google account sync everything except for the contacts and calendar. Also I activated data saver and added only whatsup there. Wifi was on all night, but he phone did not seem to be waking up during the night at all, what is good because I didn't need it to be doing anything except for idling in case someone calls for emergency. So, I guess after some hard tweaking and disabling things I can cope with N, but mostly for the sake of awesome interface features.

Oversemper said:
I downgraded to MM, and it became normal. The next day I missed the quick switching between the last two opened apps and I flashed N again))
Actually, this night it drained 8% what is kinda OK. What I additionally did was that I disabled under google account sync everything except for the contacts and calendar. Also I activated data saver and added only whatsup there. Wifi was on all night, but he phone did not seem to be waking up during the night at all, what is good because I didn't need it to be doing anything except for idling in case someone calls for emergency. So, I guess after some hard tweaking and disabling things I can cope with N, but mostly for the sake of awesome interface features.
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Just give it sometime...things are settling in...so a lot of time play services and stuff also go crazy...also apps are getting updated as well...give it a week or so...things will be better

I had this sort of issue on DP5 after a while but clean flashing MM stock and then re-OTAing to N seemed to fix it for me and I'm back at 5-6% overnight.
I honestly think there is a bug in there somewhere, whether its Google services or what i've no idea as my battery stats didn't seem to add up to the drain I was seeing. I had a similar weird drain before on MM too which a wipe sorted out.

give the system some time to settle in. i upgraded to N the day it came out and after giving android a few days i recognize no major difference in performance or battery life, even though things like Force Doze are incompatible now.

Sorry for off topic
How did you get that icon to the left of alarm icon in status bar (circular arc with + sign in the center)?
Thanks in advanced

ABSathe said:
Sorry for off topic
How did you get that icon to the left of alarm icon in status bar (circular arc with + sign in the center)?
Thanks in advanced
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That's a new data saver feature being turned on. Setting -> Data usage -> Data Saver option there

I went back to MM not because of the idle drain, infact, I had no drain but the SOT sucks... Like 2-3 hours instead of 4-5 on MM. Maybe I'll wakt until Xposed it compatible again...

Hi, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I posted about an issue with the screen, which is battery related as well. Actually when idle I have almost no battery drain (up to 2% per night). Could you take a look at this thread regarding the issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/nexus-5x-android-7-screen-battery-usage-t3463591
I have screenshots prepared (even worse than what I've already described), but as already mentioned I don't have enough posts in order to be able to post them here.
Is this an issue with the screen, battery or OS? The device is new with the OTA Nougat update.

How exactly did you downgrade to Marshmallow? I'd like to know because my 5X drains battery like crazy without doing anything on 7.0

Rage9one said:
How exactly did you downgrade to Marshmallow? I'd like to know because my 5X drains battery like crazy without doing anything on 7.0
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Flash factory image from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Did that too but unfortunately for me it didn't fix my drain...

Battery Drain from "Kernel (Android OS)" and "Android System"

Not sure when this started but I'm now dropping about 20% of battery per night and when I look at GSam battery monitor it seems to be due to :
- Kernel (Android OS)
- Android System
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Unfortunately clicking on either of them only show a long list of processes/packages with no further detail.
I'm running S233 Deodexed, rooted and I've already optimized everything I could with Greenify and that seems to have worked ok looking at the Gsam stats.
Anyone know what might be going and what to try to curb that battery drain ? Thanks !

i am having the same problem..... since last two weeks.

Not sure what to suggest, I ended up wiping and restoring with Titanium and it's definitely improved things, something must have gone "wrong" somewhere...
I still find my P2 to be not very frugal (not as much as say my old Moto X) but with the huge battery it's impossible to drain it in a day and I'm never that far away from a power source, so...

Thanks for reply. I dont want to wipe and do restore. If you have to do it only once then its ok but everytime... Not good..
I post the same issue in different forum, will update if i get something..

webvan said:
Not sure when this started but I'm now dropping about 20% of battery per night and when I look at GSam battery monitor it seems to be due to :
- Kernel (Android OS)
- Android System
Unfortunately clicking on either of them only show a long list of processes/packages with no further detail.
I'm running S233 Deodexed, rooted and I've already optimized everything I could with Greenify and that seems to have worked ok looking at the Gsam stats.
Anyone know what might be going and what to try to curb that battery drain ? Thanks !
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go through below link....
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=207700
and #57 and try...
it worked for me

Thanks, I'll try.

npt122p2 said:
go through below link....
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=207700
and #57 and try...
it worked for me
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This?
"The *backup* wakelock is activated once you plug your device into the charger and it continues to manifest no matter what you do because it is stuck in a buggy loop, only reboot will fix it temporarily until you charge the phone again.
Through many trial and error experimentation I finally found an easier fix than rebooting every day.
1- Reboot the phone (just once to fix the wakelock, or the next steps won't work if it's already activated)
2- Before charging the phone, turn off WI-Fi & Google Backup
3- Fully charge the phone
4- Unplug the phone
5- Turn Wi-Fi & Google Backup on again
6- ???
7- Profit!
The culprit is Google Backup, and the bug is activated once the device is plugged into the charger and on Wi-Fi, but if it's turned off before and during charging with Wi-Fi off it'll not be activated.
But if the wakelock is already activated, it won't go away even if you turned backup off.
The Wi-Fi is a strange case, I once rebooted the phone, turned backup off and charged the phone with Wi-Fi on and I had the wakelock. My guess is even with backup off, some logs will still try to backup when Wi-Fi is on (Wi-Fi passwords maybe)
4th day without the Android System battery drain and both my Nexus 6P and Galaxy S7 Edge doze properly now.
Hope It'll help you as it helped me. "

Treboeth said:
This?
"The *backup* wakelock is activated once you plug your device into the charger and it continues to manifest no matter what you do because it is stuck in a buggy loop, only reboot will fix it temporarily until you charge the phone again.
Through many trial and error experimentation I finally found an easier fix than rebooting every day.
1- Reboot the phone (just once to fix the wakelock, or the next steps won't work if it's already activated)
2- Before charging the phone, turn off WI-Fi & Google Backup
3- Fully charge the phone
4- Unplug the phone
5- Turn Wi-Fi & Google Backup on again
6- ???
7- Profit!
The culprit is Google Backup, and the bug is activated once the device is plugged into the charger and on Wi-Fi, but if it's turned off before and during charging with Wi-Fi off it'll not be activated.
But if the wakelock is already activated, it won't go away even if you turned backup off.
The Wi-Fi is a strange case, I once rebooted the phone, turned backup off and charged the phone with Wi-Fi on and I had the wakelock. My guess is even with backup off, some logs will still try to backup when Wi-Fi is on (Wi-Fi passwords maybe)
4th day without the Android System battery drain and both my Nexus 6P and Galaxy S7 Edge doze properly now.
Hope It'll help you as it helped me. "
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yes this is... i tried this and getting no Android OS KEEP AWAKE.

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yes this is... i tried this and getting no Android OS KEEP AWAKE.
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i did that and still the same problem

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i did that and still the same problem
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Any solution got that same huge ideal battery drain. :crying:

Chiming in here with the same problem, never used Google Backup so that's definitely not causing the issue on my device
Currently running the last LOS 14.1 nightly with the default LOS kernel

Question Very absurd heating issued not fixed + battery drains fast

I've had this issue ever since I restored whatsapp backups, deleted everything regarding it. Now the phone heats up noticeably with NORMAL usage, and the battery drains way faster than normally. I have done a few factory resets, cleared cache then finally flashed stock rom with odin, using nand erase option.
But the issue still persists.?! Anybody more technical than me? Been through the whole internet searching about this issue and no avail, and visited service center 2 times where they claim it is an app when clearly it's not.

What does it say for your battery usage? Settings->Battery and device care->Battery->(tap on graph)
Also you said you've done some factory resets - it can take a few days for the adaptive battery usage to optimize itself after a reset.

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Have you tried uninstalling whatsapp to see if your phone still heats up noticeably with NORMAL usage, and the battery drains way faster than normally ??? So you will see if the problem is on whatsapp side or not... ^^
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Yes, I installed whatsapp way back in march and this caused the problem to arise. Haven't touched it ever since.
koimr said:
What does it say for your battery usage? Settings->Battery and device care->Battery->(tap on graph)
Also you said you've done some factory resets - it can take a few days for the adaptive battery usage to optimize itself after a reset.
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Obviously TikTok using a lot of battery because I've been using it a lot. Installed or not, heating still occurs when using other apps. Neither is it microG, that has been using battery today unrelated to the draining issues.
And regards to the factory reset, they were done way back in march as well. I did wait until the optimization to sort itself out but nothing ever seemed to change. I had done a reflash through odin as well, making sure the storage gets completely wiped out.
The apps aren't at fault though. Before I had installed whatsapp, these apps you currently see did not have such massive draining or heating issues until installing wa. Neither did the issue go away after factory reseting or flashing the stock rom. All of this happens in safe mode too, I am not sure where to even begin with.

Ah ok, I see. Yes, that's more than enough time since your reset for the adaptive battery to figure things out.
How much is the drain overnight when you're sleeping?
Are you mainly on wifi or cell data? How strong are they for you?
Another thing you can try is dark mode and see if that helps at all as our screens use less power when showing black. I don't know how much of an effect that actually has though.
Also, if you haven't already, set your screen to 60Hz instead of 120Hz.

Overnight drain is nonexistent. And I am typically on wifi when at home, outdoors using data. Both have full bars so I am sure it's not them.
Been on 60Hz the whole time, I dislike 120Hz
I've had this same problem on my previous S7 where it was more severe due to the exynos chip. I had a spare S7 edge not used by me, so I installed whatsapp and restored the backup, and the same issue I described began. That phone ran cool without lag, now suffering the same fate as my A52s. I flashed the stock rom on the edge as well and it didn't seem to fix the issue either.

Sorry. I forgot to mention I had uninstalled whatsapp back in march, so the issue should be gone but it still persists.

You don't need to be so aggressive to me. I know what I am here for and I am trying to get help after trying to fix this by going to the service center where they claim false stuff, and whatever I posted earlier. Read what I posted, TikTok is not causing it neither is any app causing it.

Please read what I wrote above. Not tryying to start an argument here but sounds like you are trying to.
It does not matter if TikTok is installed or not. The same issue persists nevertheless and I already mentioned WhatsApp was not installed. Everything I mentioned above was tested by myself...
TikTok obviously is using a lot of battery because it has been on for a long time. Same thing, does not matter if it's installed the same heating and battery drain issue will occur in other apps. (Normal usage, not gaming or doing anything that stresses the phone)
What I am trying to gain here is advice to fix it, not asking for blaming on apps or useless advice because you never read my post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys10/comments/bfdbbz
This post is similar to what I am experiencing at the moment but for a different reason. Going to the service center isn't really an option anymore because they do not believe me and make up false reasons for this problem, and I am not a very confrontational person either.

twixbar said:
This post is similar to what I am experiencing at the moment but for a different reason. Going to the service center isn't really an option anymore because they do not believe me and make up false reasons for this problem, and I am not a very confrontational person either.
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I'm not a huge fan of these types of apps but one might point you in the right direction here - try and install something like AccuBattery and let it go for a few days. See what it says for battery usage.
It's been a while but I think there's an additional setting in the app (AccuBattery) that will enable the app to get more details, make sure you do that (was an ADB command if I recall).

koimr said:
I'm not a huge fan of these types of apps but one might point you in the right direction here - try and install something like AccuBattery and let it go for a few days. See what it says for battery usage.
It's been a while but I think there's an additional setting in the app (AccuBattery) that will enable the app to get more details, make sure you do that (was an ADB command if I recall).
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Absolutely, I will install it and let it run for a few days then report the results back here.

Did you try enrolling to Whatsapp's beta program or sideload the latest beta from apkmirror and compare the battery drain between the two versions (Stable vs Beta)?