Hello guys,
im on stock ROM 12.5.3.0 global and the battery life has been a hit and miss on this phone. Some days 9hrs Sot and other days 4-5hr. Ive been trying to locate the culprit as i have like 2%/h drain when idle and that is killing me(12% overnight in 7 hrs). I dont want to start the flashing custom roms game as im sattisfied with the rom for my needs.
Installing BBS i have sar_detector on phone service sensor having the phone awake for 15hr out of 15 meaning it is on all the time(no clue what this is even after googling). And ofcourse sns_smd on play services for 11hrs having wakelocks.
and most importantly phone awake for 1hr40 while sleeping. ill try charging it full and check discharge overnight but still its a pain.
Are you using Always On Display? You could install AccuBattery, give it Usage Access, and check if it gives you useful data after a period.
It could also be that Double-Tap to Wake or Fingerprint for Lockscreen perhaps use battery, but I don't know how much. Just a speculation. For me battery life is very acceptable, and I even use a Live Wallpaper. ^^
But then, everyone has a different line where they say "acceptable".
dreamytom said:
Are you using Always On Display? You could install AccuBattery, give it Usage Access, and check if it gives you useful data after a period.
It could also be that Double-Tap to Wake or Fingerprint for Lockscreen perhaps use battery, but I don't know how much. Just a speculation. For me battery life is very acceptable, and I even use a Live Wallpaper. ^^
But then, everyone has a different line where they say "acceptable".
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I tried disabling them last night. Got better still i think this phone can do more. Sar_detector is being used 24/7 and i cant find a workaround. The battery life is good tbh and it gets me through the day easily. But why not use it like its meant to. Anw i will wait the new update should be coming anyday.
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I bought this amazing [As you all know how fast it is ] Galaxy Nexus and was previously using hTC Desire S[GB] !!!
I'm somehow not happy with the battery life and also the overheating of Nexus !
It is Stock[ROM + Kernel] + Root ! around 7th or 8th charge cycle !!
I did try out Cpu Sleeper App works like a charm but was facing reboot issue and that is why had to remove it !!!
See if anyone of you could help me overcome these issue ! or Is this really something for me to worry about !!?????
[PS: Please don't recommend me to change ROM or KERNEL ! Because I prefer to stay on Stock ! Also NOOO Overclockig !]
Check out the Few screen shots i took when my brain kicked me to !!!
We need to see the screen before this one(the one that lists top consumers of battery). To see if something is waking the phone up. Also, charge cycles and calibration are bogus. If anything, you would be using the phone less since you've finally set everything up the way you want and the newness effect has worn off. My battery life has been about the same if my usage pattern remains like it usually does throughout the day. It doesn't really look too bad, but the drops seem a little steeper than what I normally see. . Grab CPUSpy and BetterBatterystats. I'm on my way to work soon, but someone may be able to help you before I go on break.
the screenshots you required
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We need to see the screen before this one(the one that lists top consumers of battery). To see if something is waking the phone up. Also, charge cycles and calibration are bogus. If anything, you would be using the phone less since you've finally set everything up the way you want and the newness effect has worn off. My battery life has been about the same if my usage pattern remains like it usually does throughout the day. It doesn't really look too bad, but the drops seem a little steeper than what I normally see. . Grab CPUSpy and BetterBatterystats. I'm on my way to work soon, but someone may be able to help you before I go on break.
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Here we go
ok so calibrators and cycles are bogus ! I get that !
What about brightness ? Should that be auto or manual mode ??
And is Google Now causing issue ?? Because its not really useful to me on daily basis !!???
And any other suggestions your would like to share
I was gonna edit my post, actually. I've personally never fully charged and drained my battery for any of my phones(some people swear by it though). I guess if the readings are out of whack then yes. My phone got stuck at 85% for almost 12 hours one day, but I had did something which messed up the OS. Haha.
If you don't use Google Now, you can opt out of it. Brightness is a personal preference. I usually stick mine at 25%. Auto may take a hit on the battery, but I doubt it's anything to worry about. Just the common sense stuff. Apps that poll data in the background will drain the battery, but if they're properly coded, they shouldn't be a problem Running on 4G/LTE/HSPA with a bad signal will drain it more since the radio is trying to find the best possible signal. After a full day of use, what is your typical screen on time? 18 hours is pretty good if you're using it on HSPA all day.
ya honestly that doesnt appear to have anything wrong. What results were you expecting vs what you have? You have a lot of screen on time, that takes a LOT of battery to run the display and using it when brightness is high takes significantly more. Also it appears you have a couple long phone calls in there as well. As far as heat goes, youre going to have that on the higher end phones due to the gpu producing heat and oled displays produce a bit of heat as well, lcd runs cooler.
Weak/unstable/unrealible mobile network signal could cause the fast drain of your battery. I saw you have one bar of hspa signal in the 3rd screenshot.
Those graphs should be much flatter during idle periods. Something is keeping awake. If you're on jelly bean its prob Google now. It does it to everybody.
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Those graphs should be much flatter during idle periods. Something is keeping awake. If you're on jelly bean its prob Google now. It does it to everybody.
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Yeah I some how feel the same and for a fact its a good service but then i don't really use it ! I tried to look through titanium but failed to find Google Now on the list !! Does the apk have some other name ????? or is there any other way out ?
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Those graphs should be much flatter during idle periods. Something is keeping awake. If you're on jelly bean its prob Google now. It does it to everybody.
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I was gonna edit my post, actually. I've personally never fully charged and drained my battery for any of my phones(some people swear by it though). I guess if the readings are out of whack then yes. My phone got stuck at 85% for almost 12 hours one day, but I had did something which messed up the OS. Haha.
If you don't use Google Now, you can opt out of it. Brightness is a personal preference. I usually stick mine at 25%. Auto may take a hit on the battery, but I doubt it's anything to worry about. Just the common sense stuff. Apps that poll data in the background will drain the battery, but if they're properly coded, they shouldn't be a problem Running on 4G/LTE/HSPA with a bad signal will drain it more since the radio is trying to find the best possible signal. After a full day of use, what is your typical screen on time? 18 hours is pretty good if you're using it on HSPA all day.
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Actually 3G isn't really well established for Vodafone[or any other company] in India.Also there is a peak going upwards in the first image indicating charging and after having a battery life of around 20 hrs on My Desire S and screen on [appx.] 7 hrs , I'm very disappointed with Jelly Bean !! Also While googling this issue I found out that somebody sniffed the mobile wifi connection to monitor and found some app constantly exchanging packets which according to his test was the root issue for the battery drain !!
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]Ok I found the way to shut google Now !
I'll records stats for a day or two and get back Thanks Everyone for your time and help
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Yeah I some how feel the same and for a fact its a good service but then i don't really use it ! I tried to look through titanium but failed to find Google Now on the list !! Does the apk have some other name ????? or is there any other way out ?
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In Google Now >> Menu >> Settings >> Google Now there is an on/off switch at the top. Depending on the ROM it's included as either velvet.apk or QuickSearchBox.apk but removing that would get rid of Google search I think.
Yeah. I think its actually part of search. Like I said, just opt out and you should be good to go. Keep us posted.
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Yeah. I think its actually part of search. Like I said, just opt out and you should be good to go. Keep us posted.
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I'm loving it
I'm new to my Pixel 2 XL and have the 8.1 update and am seeing horrible battery life. Noticed others in here also experiencing this and wondered if any of you have some recommended settings for EX Kernel that can improve battery life? I only use the phone for notes, camera, calls, messages, etc... Daily use type of stuff. I don't play any games on my phone other than Hearthstone and it doesn't require much to be smooth and I watch some YouTube here and there but it also doesn't require much so anything I can do to get those 6 hour SoTs everyone raves about with this phone.
Standby is great, in use is just embarrassing.
Mine is opposite. It easy to get 6 or more hours SOT using the phone but the thing drops like 10% battery overnight even with battery and data saver on.
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Mine is opposite. It easy to get 6 or more hours SOT using the phone but the thing drops like 10% battery overnight even with battery and data saver on.
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Well that's not good. I would much rather deal with on drain than stand-by.
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Well that's not good. I would much rather deal with on drain than stand-by.
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A kernel will not stop a badly behaving app from drawing too much power, or not dozing when it is supposed to. You would be better served in using a battery drain app to find your wakelock/bad actors and deal with them. Beyond the information you can get from the improved Google battery applet, GSam and BBS are two apps that can help pinpoint the application or service causing excessive battery drain. It is not the kernel, and as flar2 states, the new chips are so efficient with power there is almost no room for improvement battery-wise. Most people leave it on the default settings, and use it for extra features and customization.
https://elementalx.org/the-truth-about-kernels-and-battery-life/
I agree 100%, I just thought some settings adjustments with the kernel could do some good and maybe someone might have some ideas on what would help the in-use battery consumption. I'm currently clean flashed with only Google APPs and Nova Launcher installed along with EX Kernel and Magisk no modules. Battery drain only shows android system... Not a lot to tell me what it really is. Will try the apps you suggest
Hello everyone!
Proud owner of 5T for about 2 months now, switched from OPX and the performance, the screen, the everything was such a big improvement!
However, I've started noticing that my battery life is sub par... And I frequently read on forums and reddit that people achieve 5-6 hours SOT. I think I average about 4h SOT.. The reason I can't say for sure is because I've probably never charged my phone up to 100% (all hail dash charging when you can just plug it in for 20mins and get an extra hour lol).
Right now I'm testing this out, so I've charged my phone to 100% and I'll see how it goes.. Right now I'm on 36% with 2h 24min SOT and 14h 20mins since last full charge...
Here are some things I've tried:
- I frequently delete cache
- I've set animation scales and some other things to lower in developer options
- I use greenify automatic hibernation
- I don't have auto updates in Play store
- I have most of the notifications turned off
... There are probably more things that I can't remember right now, but I think I've probably tried most of the frequent fixes.
Right now I'm thinking of switching to a custom ROM (I loved Lineage and SultanRom on my OPX), because right now I'm running 8.0.0 (I've never upgraded because some people were saying it slowed their phones and/or worsened their battery life).
Please XDA, help me. I really want that 6hrs SOT and not having to bring charger with me around lol
Your battery life can depends on what apps you use, what you have on (wifi, bluetooth, data and stuff), you could check if something if heavily using up your battery in the corresponding section of your settings.
What kind of ROM you use doesn't noticeably affect your battery life as much. Instead however, people achieve a higher battery life by installing a custom kernel - they really do help, both in smoothness and SOT, give it a go mate
starting walking with several power banks ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Don't clear your cache very frequent.
Uninstall app you don't use.
Disable vibrations.
Use dark, black wallpaper. Bright colors consume more baterry. Blue is bad for our eyes.
Use black menu, interface, where is possible.
Disable Location if you don't need it.
Close the phone when you don't use it.
Finally, get a job.
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Then unistall greenery and use oreos background restrictor in battery settings
Also uodate to the latest
Title. H810 no root.
I'm aware the battery life on this one is not really good. That in mind.
-Example, (nothing running on background, everything but wifi off) using it normally until 14%. Pushed sleep button.
-Turn screen on like 5 mins after and it was 15%, used it a bit then again screen off.
-Turned screen on about 6 minutes later and it was 5%.
-Drained it to supposedly 1% then phone turned itself off.
-Turned phone on again and it was 2% and stayed like that for 10 mins while scrolling twitter with 30% brightness, until it turned itself off again and this time battery is to low to turn on.
Tried factory reset, draining till absolute 0% then 100% multiple times but so far nothing works.
Battery's health is good and factory original, no water, no heavy drops.
Let's say i root it (as far as i know its possible in all models), question:
Is there a way to push battery stats to make battery readings accurate?
Or what do you suggest? thanks.
lRaziel1 said:
Title. H810 no root.
I'm aware the battery life on this one is not really good. That in mind.
-Example, (nothing running on background, everything but wifi off) using it normally until 14%. Pushed sleep button.
-Turn screen on like 5 mins after and it was 15%, used it a bit then again screen off.
-Turned screen on about 6 minutes later and it was 5%.
-Drained it to supposedly 1% then phone turned itself off.
-Turned phone on again and it was 2% and stayed like that for 10 mins while scrolling twitter with 30% brightness, until it turned itself off again and this time battery is to low to turn on.
Tried factory reset, draining till absolute 0% then 100% multiple times but so far nothing works.
Battery's health is good and factory original, no water, no heavy drops.
Let's say i root it (as far as i know its possible in all models), question:
Is there a way to push battery stats to make battery readings accurate?
Or what do you suggest? thanks.
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Hi,
What you have is normal.
My owen device jumps frpn 12% to 15% after heavy and log use, thats normal, cause battery is cooling down/pre-ucomputed Energy is not consumed and Battery is calculated new.
The other Jump from 15 to 5 thats somthing you should watch closer. did that happen often?
all in all I have a sugestion but answer this first.
How old is Battery and usage time? (heavy or Soft? SOT? and so one)
Battery readings denpend on the Kernel. You are Stock i think?
Titan Kernel gave me awesome Display Sdreen on Times but battery is jumping too.
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Hi,
What you have is normal.
My owen device jumps frpn 12% to 15% after heavy and log use, thats normal, cause battery is cooling down/pre-ucomputed Energy is not consumed and Battery is calculated new.
The other Jump from 15 to 5 thats somthing you should watch closer. did that happen often?
all in all I have a sugestion but answer this first.
How old is Battery and usage time? (heavy or Soft? SOT? and so one)
Battery readings denpend on the Kernel. You are Stock i think?
Titan Kernel gave me awesome Display Sdreen on Times but battery is jumping too.
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Thanks for replying!
Well thats one solved, it wasnt a sudden jump but rather a few minutes discharge doing nothing at all.
Battery is as old as the phone, 2015 and usage, i dont know for sure since it's an import US carrier phone sold to me locally, seems like it was a test phone like the ones you can try at stores. I would say battery use isnt any different than it would be in a daily usage and even if not, would be very rare for a li-ion battery to degrade in such a small amount of time. Gonna ask the seller.
Another thing i notice is very fast battery drain while playing music. I listen to music from home to work, like a 1 hour trip and when i got of home with 81% when i get to my job im at 68%.
And yeah stock everything with android 6.0, as i said currently not even rooted.
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Well thats one solved, it wasnt a sudden jump but rather a few minutes discharge doing nothing at all.
Battery is as old as the phone, 2015 and usage, i dont know for sure since it's an import US carrier phone sold to me locally, seems like it was a test phone like the ones you can try at stores. I would say battery use isnt any different than it would be in a daily usage and even if not, would be very rare for a li-ion battery to degrade in such a small amount of time. Gonna ask the seller.
Another thing i notice is very fast battery drain while playing music. I listen to music from home to work, like a 1 hour trip and when i got of home with 81% when i get to my job im at 68%.
And yeah stock everything with android 6.0, as i said currently not even rooted.
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Sounds as if the Battery has some Altered Issues. How Often do you charge?
with Music You meen Mp3 or stream? (stream drain battery much faster)
Try custom Rom and titan kernel if u dont need stock services, otherwise rootand use greenify or other.
on Stock i Had SoT of 2 hours max. now i am back to 3 Hoeurs (i´m heavy user some days...)
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Sounds as if the Battery has some Altered Issues. How Often do you charge?
with Music You meen Mp3 or stream? (stream drain battery much faster)
Try custom Rom and titan kernel if u dont need stock services, otherwise rootand use greenify or other.
on Stock i Had SoT of 2 hours max. now i am back to 3 Hoeurs (i´m heavy user some days...)
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Already using greenify. Charging 2 times a day, 1 before going to work, 1 when i come back, plugged while using it.
MP3 from stock music app, since i read somewhere a 3rd party music app caused an user a battery drain-
H810 has locked bootloader, do you know any flash tool?
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Already using greenify. Charging 2 times a day, 1 before going to work, 1 when i come back, plugged while using it.
MP3 from stock music app, since i read somewhere a 3rd party music app caused an user a battery drain-
H810 has locked bootloader, do you know any flash tool?
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Greenify is much better with Root
first you must unlock your Bootloader.
there are 2 Otions at the moment. Official (don´t know if possible for H810) and USU by @steadfasterX
for second:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/unlock-unlock-lg-g4-device-usu-t3760451
read and choose for yourself if that is what you want
Just by a new battery. Original battery can be found for about 8$ at least here in Sweden..
I believe this is normal.
My H815 had it with both the original and a new battery. It used to be really bad when you charged it to 100%, restarted and it would drop immediately to 80%.
Also, especially on stock LG stuff (the graph on custom ROMs seems to be smoothed out), the battery graph was a mess of random spikes and dips
Hi ... I have a question about bn31 battery ... how do I know if the battery life is still good?
Using the multimeter, it marks 4.20v ... it means that this good or I need to change? the cell phone is not lasting for 6hrs of use and the battery is gone. Would you like to know if it's really the battery or have something else with the phone?
Use AIDA64 app to check battery health
Hi. Thanks for informativo. But i want anything more physical...no app...i don't believe much in the app's :good:
lucasbellinaso said:
Hi ... I have a question about bn31 battery ... how do I know if the battery life is still good?
Using the multimeter, it marks 4.20v ... it means that this good or I need to change? the cell phone is not lasting for 6hrs of use and the battery is gone. Would you like to know if it's really the battery or have something else with the phone?
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Used AccuBattery and then use your phone as normal and let it charge for 4-5 times, then you will get the estimate battery health left from your phone. Screenshot is from my Mi A2.
You know it's good if it doesn't look like this:
Late reply.
I'm using AccuBattery App since March 2019 and its working very well for My MiA1. I trust it after cross-checking with alternate indicators.
Most important is the time spent in Deep Sleep. If you get zero or small percentage of time in this mode even after overnight inactivity, your mobile has background apps that are consuming battery.
I have been using Greenify App for many years and it helps cleaning up. I think it's a necessary App.
Try the following:
Shut down the phone. Reboot from Cold.
Put the Battery Saver ON w/o doing any other app launch.
Do the same thing first, after every Charging.
Every morning, I check the Deep Sleep. I do get additional ~6hrs (same as your sleep time). The average discharge rate falls to 1 to 1.5%/h.
AccuBattery does help, working consistently for last 8 months.