I bought my Gnex from Handtec at the end of November. I have been very happy with it Until 2 weeks ago. Battery life has not been great but has lasted 16+ hours each day and I always charge overnight so this has not been a problem to me.
I take phone off charge at 7am. A couple of weeks ago I started to notice that instead of 50% at 7pm it was showing only 20 to 30% charge.
I bought BetterBatteryStats which showed no WaveLocks.
I started to freeze apps using Titanium Backup.
The battery life did not improve. I noticed the phone was getting noticeably hot to the side of the camera and charges were taking much longer. Instead of 3 hours it was taking longer than 7 hours.
Last weekend I noticed a drop of 70% in 3 hours on 2 occasions.
So I decided to wipe the phone and install AOKP build 15 with Franco kernel 10. I did not re-install aps. I charged he phone after install which took all night and then reset the battery stats.
The phone has continued to be hot and discharge very quickly. Charging is very slow. If the phone is off - charging appears to be even slower or not take place at all.
My Gnex is now fully discharging in less than 5 hours when idle in flight mode and is always very warm without any use.
I have been using a Samsung galaxy s2 wall charger.
Is this likely to be a faulty battery or phone hardware fault.
Any suggestions for next steps or is it a Samsung repair job.
Thanks
Mke
well, whichever it is, it sounds like a hardware problem that should be warrantied. i would flash it to stock and get it repaired by samsung, or see if the place you bought it will take it back
I get a similar problem but i return it back to vodafone 2 days ago and now waiting for the results, i returned it a week ago and they only give me a new battery to see if that will solved the problem but nope it persist, now they too it for either repair or replace ....
mike_m said:
I bought my Gnex from Handtec at the end of November. I have been very happy with it Until 2 weeks ago. Battery life has not been great but has lasted 16+ hours each day and I always charge overnight so this has not been a problem to me.
I take phone off charge at 7am. A couple of weeks ago I started to notice that instead of 50% at 7pm it was showing only 20 to 30% charge.
I bought BetterBatteryStats which showed no WaveLocks.
I started to freeze apps using Titanium Backup.
The battery life did not improve. I noticed the phone was getting noticeably hot to the side of the camera and charges were taking much longer. Instead of 3 hours it was taking longer than 7 hours.
Last weekend I noticed a drop of 70% in 3 hours on 2 occasions.
So I decided to wipe the phone and install AOKP build 15 with Franco kernel 10. I did not re-install aps. I charged he phone after install which took all night and then reset the battery stats.
The phone has continued to be hot and discharge very quickly. Charging is very slow. If the phone is off - charging appears to be even slower or not take place at all.
My Gnex is now fully discharging in less than 5 hours when idle in flight mode and is always very warm without any use.
I have been using a Samsung galaxy s2 wall charger.
Is this likely to be a faulty battery or phone hardware fault.
Any suggestions for next steps or is it a Samsung repair job.
Thanks
Mke
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I am on the same build and recently used francos kernel. At night the phone would drop 20-30% of battery on airplane mode. Installed the apex build 5 kernel and all the battery nonsense stopped straight away. It seems to be a great kernel especially with AOKP B15.
Hope that helps.
My S3 is normally have really great battery life with disabling unnecessary features and turning off unnecessary functionality. With normal use and with wifi one it has battery life more than a 36 hrs. But at work because of poor signals I hardly gets 20 hrs. and I can understand that problem with poor signals.
But, Ones and while battery dies in 3- 4 hrs. I fully charged my cellphone at night and took the charger off mid night Battery at 40% in 4 hours. without use , where no application or wifi, data plan running. and many time it just die if I don't get up in midnight. This happen so randomly no proper time duration. some time no issue for month or week. Some times I seen this behavior in day time, phone got really hot... I just restart phone and it will fix the issue.
I didn't root my phone running on Jelly beans. Should I contact Samsung or bestbuy from where I purchase.
jigar_bm said:
Ones and while battery dies in 3- 4 hrs. I fully charged my cellphone at night and took the charger off mid night Battery at 40% in 4 hours. without use , where no application or wifi, data plan running.
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This is a daily problem for me ever since I bought my device so I got used to it. Rooting the device with a stripped down ROM fixed my battery life issue. But I reverted to stock in anticipation of the 4.1.2 update for the i747.
Recently I updated my tablet to the stock 4.4 room via the OTA update.
Since then, my battery life has gone horrendous.
Android OS takes up most of the battery when the tablet is idle.
With ~2 hours of screen time and a day on the battery, it has drained down to 30%.
Anyone facing similar issues?
frictionbuster said:
Recently I updated my tablet to the stock 4.4 room via the OTA update.
Since then, my battery life has gone horrendous.
Android OS takes up most of the battery when the tablet is idle.
With ~2 hours of screen time and a day on the battery, it has drained down to 30%.
Anyone facing similar issues?
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were your data connection and Sync ON??
Bad Battery
I experienced the same bad battery today.
for test purpose i set the tablet to flight mode and left home for around 8 hrs.
when i came back it has already died out,,, if i check the usage the Google Service has used 46% of the juice.
I'm having same problem. Device was fully charged, 6 he's later with light use it died. Here's a screenshot showing Google services
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Has anyone else noticed this in the last week or so? My battery is regularly higher than 60% at the end of a 16 hour day. Right now it's at 78%, and I took it off the charger 12 hours ago! I've only had the watch for a couple weeks, but it seems to be laying much longer since that update on the 6th or 7th.
I'm using the rotate dial, and have ambient mode off. I may go back to trying ambient mode since noticing the improvement.
I agree it is better. I have also switched to ambient mode on because I like the ability to glance at the watch to see the time. My watch can go the entire day (~17 hours) without having to recharge.
My Moto 360 has been dying in about 4-6 hours the last 3-4 days. It appears to be around the time that recent update was pushed that rebooted my watch. Anyone else experince worse battery life since the update?
Mine has been slightly worse. I use to end the day with about 50% remaining.. Lately, it has been in the 30% range.
My battery was full when I left for work at 9:35am it is 1:33pm and it's at 22%...
I actually came to seek help for this same reason. Up til yesterday (maybe two days ago) my battery has been lasting roughly 16 hrs. Now I'm losing just over 10% per hour. Has anyone found a solution?
Add me to this list. Glad to know it's not just me, but it still sucks. Also noticing 8 - 10% drain per hour (per Wear Battery Stats). I've reset the watch, cleared out Play Services cache, uninstalled all other watchfaces, etc. Still the same drain, which seems to have started with the last update.
I know it makes a big difference regardless, but I turned off Bluetooth on my phone to see if the drain continued on my watch without it being connected. It stopped. In a hour I only lost about 3 percent. Could it be that after the update it is trying to sync too frequently or something to that effect?
I got the 5.0.1 update last night. I removed my watch from the charging dock this morning at 6 am and it is at 31% now at 1045 am. It is horrible. Wasn't this update supposed to be dramatically improving battery life instead of dramatically reducing it?
I had really good battery life before the update easily lasting through the day.
I hope there is a quick fix going to be issued shortly.
I hope the chaps at google are reading this thread.
laszlo.szeman said:
I got the 5.0.1 update last night. I removed my watch from the charging dock this morning at 6 am and it is at 31% now at 1045 am. It is horrible. Wasn't this update supposed to be dramatically improving battery life instead of dramatically reducing it?
I had really good battery life before the update easily lasting through the day.
I hope there is a quick fix going to be issued shortly.
I hope the chaps at google are reading this thread.
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So I had the same problem but I did a factory reset on the watch because someone in these forums told me to and now my battery life is pretty descent. About 12 - 16 hrs.
Can confirm, after updating to 5.0.1 battery life lasts like 2-3 hours... and its pretty laggy.
Motorola = fail !!!
I also have the same battery drain. After a 8 - 10 I use to have 60 - 50 %left now it is 10%. No new apps added. will try reset
Could it have something to do with the 1.0.5 Android Wear update? I was getting great battery life from 5am to 11pm, at around 30% left. Yesterday I was installing a new band and noticed it was at 15% around 6pm and then died about an hour after. Today I took it off the charger at around 5am and it's at 66% at 8:36am. This is ridiculous! I'm still on 4.4w.2 by the way.
Add me to this list, did the update this morning normally on about 60% now instead I'm on 11%.
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So I don't know if something changed overnight, but I put my watch on a little over an hour ago and it's only loss 5%.
Update to my post from earlier. Was 66% at 8:36am and it just died at 10:30am. So, it's only been used for a little over 5 hours.
Are you guys using Facer by any chance? I ask cause I went from using Facer to using a stock face (Digital) and my battery life has improved drastically. I've now had my watch on for 2.5 hrs after a full charge and my battery is still at 91%.
I dont know if this will help or not......i also had the issue when i first updated the 360..........someone posted that a factory reset may work....
so i reset it....didn't quite help.....after 10 minutes or so...i noticed that the watch was quite hot...........i left it for about 10 extra mins and reboot the 360 again........after that....the battery life seems better......over the last 2 hours....i only lost about 7% of the battery......
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Are you guys using Facer by any chance? I ask cause I went from using Facer to using a stock face (Digital) and my battery life has improved drastically. I've now had my watch on for 2.5 hrs after a full charge and my battery is still at 91%.
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I'm using Facer. I was just reading on Reddit that it could be because of the Facer update. Apparently the faces are using bits from 5.0. But, if you're on 4.4, the 5.0 faces cause the drain. Atleast that's what I was reading. I'm at work and don't have a charger. So, testing will have to be later.
I'm in the same boat EXCEPT I'm still on 4.4, not lollipop. However I do have the new version of wear.
Watchface gets HOT. I did a factory reset but battery life is dropping like a rock.
This happened to me once before, about 4 weeks ago. I solved it by doing a factory reset on my phone also.
are you guys all running battery wear status and other apps? i took my watch off at 8a this morning and at 12:35p i'm at 82%. i think that's probably higher than the normal 3.5% drain i'm used to seeing.
one thing I DID notice was that i ran the update with 100% and by the time i was done with shower, etc., it was already down to 87%, so i stuck it back on the charger.
Just an update. I went back to using a facer watch face. In 10 minutes my batter dropped 2%. Went back to stock face and a hour later it's only dropped 4%.