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Battery Life dreadful after ITL41F

Hi Everyone,
I was wondering whether anybody else has experienced this side effect of the ITL41F update? My battery life has been really really good, much better than that of my HD7. I was really chuffed with it. Along comes the ITL41F update, and since then the battery will drain itself on standby. Nothing has changed on my phone. I have not installed any new apps or made any settings changes (such as sync frequency, etc). So the only difference is the ITL41F update.
To give you an idea, If I charge the phone in the late afternoon, and then pretty much leave it alone, by the morning it will have gone down to 15% battery or less. This morning I plugged it in again, and now it's down to 50%. And I only sent a single txt message and didn't do anything else on the phone. This is properly rubbish.
Anybody know where I can report this bug to Google/Samsung?
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Cheers Guys!
Mich

You have a lot of awake time without your screen been on which seems a little strange.
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I would say your mobile signal is using up a lot battery. when it is yellow that means its weak, and grey means no signal. Since this is the main 2 colours on your chart I would say this would be the main reason for your battery drain

Matcarroll said:
You have a lot of awake time without your screen been on which seems a little strange.
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What he said^^^
Something is keeping ur phone awake
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How would someone go about improving that? My mobile connection is mostly yellow as well. Could APN settings help that? Or would I have to go about flashing a different modem and all that
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alias3800 said:
How would someone go about improving that? My mobile connection is mostly yellow as well. Could APN settings help that? Or would I have to go about flashing a different modem and all that
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Are you seriously asking that question?
You improve your mobile signal but getting your network provider to install another mast, or switch to a different network with better coverage in your area.
If you could improve signal with APN settings or flashing a different radio it would be done like that from the factory!

WEll, I have a LG Optimus One and use franco kernel with it, and am soon buying a GN because he develops for it too, SO:
FLASH FRANCO KERNEL!
DOnate him a beer before and ten after the WOW-experience you'll get when you realise 4 days later that your battery is only 10% becuase of the popup.
And now read my words again.
It's the best option!

Your phone was awake for more than 50% of the time. If you really didn't use it, there's most likely a rogue app which is preventing phone from going into deep sleep.
Use an app like System panel to locate the culprit.

nevermind - delete me

Thanks for the fast replies guys, it's much appreciated! =)
What I find puzzling is that absolutely NOTHING has changed on the phone, apart from the update. So if there was a rogue app that was consuming the battery, it should have exhibited that behaviour before the update, right?
I will check with system monitor though, to see if I can spot something. The strange thing I noticed is that the OS is consuming *more* battery than most other functions. Even on standby.... weird!

After finally getting the patch I can't say the battery has been worse. In fact it seems to be better. Although I think that is down to the fact I've been through a few charge cycles now.

click on android OS, and check out the awake and CPU times. The cpu time should be a fractions of the time awake.
example, my phone has been on this charge for 22 hours (still 36% battery left.. didn't use it too much this charge). the leading battery drain is screen at 51% (2.5 hours awake time), and the 2nd leading item is Android OS which has the following:
CPU Total - 18m 53s
Keep Awake - 4h 46m 9s
I'm just curious on why your CPU total was in relation to the awake time by Android OS.

Mines great.
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its funny how many similar theads appear everytime a phone gets updated. And most of them all go down to user error.
Just saying. my Gnex is fine after 11F update, OP should probably do a wipe

Guys, I'm not ruling out 'user error', but at this moment in time I cannot see what I could have possibly done to cause it. I have purchased System Panel on the Market and I'm running it in monitoring mode to see if it can shed some light on the issue. Strangely, 'Cut the Rope' and 'Exchange' are running constantly and as a service. Not necessarily consuming CPU while the phone is asleep though. Just though it would be strange for a game to be running as a service? Must be a reason for it....

Ask the developper of "Cut the Rope" why does it need to run that way. Exchange is run as a service because you probably need it.
Anyways, you can try a clean flash with stock ITL41F. But i'd say apps are to blame
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do you lose root if you update?

tommy96814 said:
do you lose root if you update?
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Yes, but it's easy to do Superboot again.

mictho100 said:
Guys, I'm not ruling out 'user error', but at this moment in time I cannot see what I could have possibly done to cause it. I have purchased System Panel on the Market and I'm running it in monitoring mode to see if it can shed some light on the issue. Strangely, 'Cut the Rope' and 'Exchange' are running constantly and as a service. Not necessarily consuming CPU while the phone is asleep though. Just though it would be strange for a game to be running as a service? Must be a reason for it....
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Did you factory reset after the update? If not I realize it sucks to do, but.....that's the road I would venture down.....have yet to own a Samsung that it wasn't almost mandatory to do. Always a battery and sleep issue.
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No problems here
I'm using this phone on t mobile usa on my battery life is the same just like before the update.

Battery life after Jelly Bean Update

how was your battery life after update . my was suck drain very fast

I don't know how most people got better battery life, but mine worse, not extreme, but noticeable worse.
Android system and Android OS takes second and third place, which on ICS I barely see their place on top of battery usage.

cnguyen said:
how was your battery life after update . my was suck drain very fast
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my own battery life is mess.

my phone drop about 10% in 15min

Mine is great. But I turn off data when not used. Last night, I lost 1% per hour with data off and sync off
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batttery getting better after couple reboot

Best advice, power down after every charge and reboot.
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cnguyen said:
batttery getting better after couple reboot
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Seems the same for me...at first after updating battery life was terrible..but after a few charges and reboots it seems to be getting better.

Download an app from the play store called "CPU Stats" and see if the CPU is under serious load when you're not doing anything. If it is, you may have the same issue I had which was that the media scanner was getting stuck in folders that had a lot of files in them. My idle cpu utilization now hovers between 8-30% on core 1 and core 2 stays sleep for the most part.

Jigga0o7 said:
Download an app from the play store called "CPU Stats" and see if the CPU is under serious load when you're not doing anything. If it is, you may have the same issue I had which was that the media scanner was getting stuck in folders that had a lot of files in them. My idle cpu utilization now hovers between 8-30% on core 1 and core 2 stays sleep for the most part.
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How did you fix your issue?

dls5375 said:
How did you fix your issue?
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If you're rooted, look in system/bin on the root directory and see if you have a file named gsiff.daemon (also do the same for qosmgr) If so, add .bak to the end of it.
this will kill the high android usage!
where i got the information from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=34189109
Betterbatterystats will tell you if you have the daemon issue or the gosmgr for my phone the gosmgr was killing my battery

dls5375 said:
How did you fix your issue?
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I offloaded my Titanium Backup folder to my PC & deleted it from my phone plus made sure to get rid of any corrupted pictures (aimed at the 0 bytes ones). So not only is my battery life better, but the performance is also much better because the CPU(s) aren't really doing anything until I actually use the phone. Note that this is an issue I've only had w/ Touchwiz Jellybean and never had it with CM10 or any AOSP based rom. This is a bug that Samsung/Google really needs to get on top of because I'm sure that a lot of people are having this problem and don't know how to fix it.

dls5375 said:
Seems the same for me...at first after updating battery life was terrible..but after a few charges and reboots it seems to be getting better.
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This is my understanding as well.

Charged to 100 turned off WiFi sync and mobile data before bed woke up with 2% loss then listening to music on my way to work.
Update : still going
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My battery life has been amazing
This was after the weekend. Friday Morning I charged it and then I was off I went to work. After I went to a party didn't charge my phone. Woke up in some girls room. Still surprised I had more than 50%. I didn't go home that day and everyone had an iphone so I couldn't charge my baby. Wake up go home and I had this much and I was like wow holy sh**.
Stats: I had a little over an hour of talk time and a little under 2 hours of screen time.
Yeah I know why is battery life good if you don't use the phone but dude seriously I had a GS2 and drainage on standby was so bad. I like that they improved standby battery drainage this was beautiful. I have the latest Stock Jelly Bean. Rooted, debloated myself with stock Kernel. Might add a new Kernel but don't really need to this is just great.

Jigga0o7 said:
Download an app from the play store called "CPU Stats" and see if the CPU is under serious load when you're not doing anything. If it is, you may have the same issue I had which was that the media scanner was getting stuck in folders that had a lot of files in them. My idle cpu utilization now hovers between 8-30% on core 1 and core 2 stays sleep for the most part.
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I was having this exact issue and fixed mine by copying my external SD card contents onto my desktop and then reformatting my sd card. After that I just transfered my old pictures and videos back to my card.
For people who are having poor battery life, the best thing you can do to help others help you is post a screen shot or at least write down what is using your battery and how long you have screen on time. When I was having my media issue it was obvious when looking at the battery usage since my cpu was constantly awake. Just saying "i have poor battery life" really doesn't explain much at all.

That would explain things... I had my media scanner get stuck and take down my battery a couple of days ago... after a reboot though it was much better... Though I should have let this run longer on battery just to see how long it would run.

Ok so since the JB update it seems my battery has been draining a bit faster. I've tried turning off sync and all the other normal stuff but it doesn't seem to help. Here are my stats and the slight lapse on the time line was when I was in CWM doing a nandroid backup.

I don't think that you can compare yours since you did a backup, that always drains the battery more than normal use would.

Well all I can say is its normally like that. I pull my phone off the charger at 7 am and by 4pm its usually at 10% with maybe an hour of on screen time. I'm just trying to figure out why it dies so much quicker than what most people are posting here. I try to keep everything closed and off and I've frozen all the bloatware.
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note 2 update to 4.1.2

hey i was a while ago waiting for the 4.1.2 update of the note 2 n7100 ... i saw a couple of days ago that people are not satisfied with the update and that it is causing problems ,, mainly the " SDS" and others complaining about freezes.
can someone tell me what is the update version that is having this problem??
also have anyone here faced this problem with the update

if your eMMc chip is vulnerable to sds, the 4.1.2 temporaly fix it,also it fix exynos abuse
The problem i have faced since the update is:
The phone will never go on deepsleep,reducing battery life.
Is highly recommended that if your phone is vulnerable to sds upg to 4.1.2

well i checked and my phone is not vulnerable ,, i saw that the update has some new features that seemed to be useful , i will consider updating ...
anyway thanks bro

There are no problems with 4.1.2, it has several small improvements. Never had reboot or freeze or anything wrong happen. The only problem is battery life which is shorter then with 4.1.1....

dalanik said:
There are no problems with 4.1.2, it has several small improvements. Never had reboot or freeze or anything wrong happen. The only problem is battery life which is shorter then with 4.1.1....
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the battery drain issue is that report from your personal use of the update??
i need a battery test for that matters if someone can post it here

aboalghool said:
the battery drain issue is that report from your personal use of the update??
i need a battery test for that matters if someone can post it here
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I don't have any "numbers" but it is so OBVIOUS, not small difference.... I.e. overnight drain was 1-2% now it is 10% at least... previously I charged my Note II until midnight, in the morning it was like 98%, I used it whole day at work and came home at 5pm with like 40-50% battery. Now I charge it at work until lunchtime (12:00) and come home and it is like 40-50% level... so NOTICABLE diference....

dalanik said:
I don't have any "numbers" but it is so OBVIOUS, not small difference.... I.e. overnight drain was 1-2% now it is 10% at least... previously I charged my Note II until midnight, in the morning it was like 98%, I used it whole day at work and came home at 5pm with like 40-50% battery. Now I charge it at work until lunchtime (12:00) and come home and it is like 40-50% level... so NOTICABLE diference....
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thats makes this update for me a major FAIL

aboalghool said:
thats makes this update for me a major FAIL
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Yes, I agree, I wouldn't flash if I was not afraid of Sudden Death Syndrome, since I have the chip they say can fail under 4.1.1....

dalanik said:
I don't have any "numbers" but it is so OBVIOUS, not small difference.... I.e. overnight drain was 1-2% now it is 10% at least... previously I charged my Note II until midnight, in the morning it was like 98%, I used it whole day at work and came home at 5pm with like 40-50% battery. Now I charge it at work until lunchtime (12:00) and come home and it is like 40-50% level... so NOTICABLE diference....
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O really? Sorry to prove you wrong but, you're really really wrong.
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Taken on my 4.1.2 stock device. And that's with BT on all the time, and WIFI on when the screen is on, and just a brief 10 minutes or so on charge.
Battery life on 4.1.2 is just fine.

some devices will have normal battery life on 4.1.2, my phone got a random wakelock with 4.1.2, while my mother note 2 with 4.1.2 got normal battery life.
pd: i see you charged your phone in that screen.

yudodis said:
pd: i see you charged your phone in that screen.
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Try reading.
and just a brief 10 minutes or so on charge.
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I state quite clearly that I did charge it, briefly. It makes bugger all different to the overall power consumption, which you can see quite clearly.

FloatingFatMan said:
Try reading.
I state quite clearly that I did charge it, briefly. It makes bugger all different to the overall power consumption, which you can see quite clearly.
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forget everything now,,, look guys i am updating my phone .. tonight i will post my battery status
however; tonight i will include battery status of my phone with no background apps..[i will shut down everything including wifi , BT , antivirus]
tomorow i will turn on BT, WIFI & lookout antivirus

I was expecting to find more people talking about issues with the 4.1.2 upgrade - does appear to be a minority (that I am unfortunately in)
Since upgrading, my (sim free) Note 2 has gone from being just about perfect in operation and behaviour to suffering;
- Daily episodes of freezing (often requiring a battery out to reset)
- 2 or 3 times a day it will randomly re-boot itself
- whilst typing on keyboard often suddenly goes very laggy
- battery life has *defnintely* worsened (probabbly by around 15% or so per days use - it does deep sleep though)
- calendar view/settings reset themselves every re-boot (annoying)
All the above annoy the cr4p out of me, as I am super picky with my phones/devices and I'm pretty dissappointed with this - given the phone was SO slick pre-update. I can't stand to have a buggy phone, so unless there's an update to cater for these issues very soon (.3?) it's S4 for me.
(I would roll back to .1 in a heartbeat, but looking at how to do it, it's tantamount to a rooting processs in it's 'complexity' - you guys may be adept at such things, but to me they just look like an uneccessary ball-ache - shame there can't be a kind of 'macro/apk/idiots program' that does it all for you! But there you go, I'll have to suffer for now and see which way to jump in a few weeks I guess).
My advice? DON'T upgrade to .2 - I can't see any discernable benefit in day to day use, but I can see a LOT of irritating downside.
Very pi55ed off

Sounds like you've got something else going on than the 4.1.2 update. I have NONE of those issues at all, and battery life is just as excellent as it ever was.

i'm on 4.1.2
I've updated my mobile to 4.1.2
Baseband version : N7100XXDLK7
Build number : N7100XXDMB5
and i don't have any single problem with that update....
and the battery performance has really improved

overnight test ... without BT or WIFI but antivirus is on

tonight i will put BT and WIFI on

Rooting and NO DEEP SLEEP

Anybody that has rooted their 925t tmobile version can you guys check if your phone is going into deep sleep after root ?? I keep hearing that after rooting this way phone is no longer able to go to deep sleep
TO FIX DEEP SLEEP SIMPLY ODIN FLASH STOCK RECOVERY AND DEEP SLEEP WILL BE FIXED AFTER YOU ROOT
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TIME TO ROOT GUYS

Rooted my phone yesterday and my phone has not been in deep sleep all morning. I unplugged it this moring around 9 am and 5 hrs later my phone has been awake for 5 hrs. So as of right now, yes I can confirm that my phone has not been in deep sleep since I rooted.

Goog1e Phone said:
Rooted my phone yesterday and my phone has not been in deep sleep all morning. I unplugged it this moring around 9 am and 5 hrs later my phone has been awake for 5 hrs. So as of right now, yes I can confirm that my phone has not been in deep sleep since I rooted.
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you are the 2nd person to confirm this to me..... I wonder if is only happening to tmobile edges since we have to use the wrong root file ??? or is happening to the other edges that have a correct root file ????
seems like I'll wait to root specially now with the built in battery

I decided to start fresh and will wait for a fix on this root issue. Hopefully it comes soon.

I can confirm this as well. My battery life is atrocious with everything disabled (google now, location, wifi, etc)...less than my Nexus 5 with everything enabled.

Same here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3079176
Here's a great guide if you guys decide to unroot and start over. Make sure you guys thank the OP of that thread.

I'm not sure how to actually confirm it for you, but my phone has been off charge for 2 hours, and I am at 98%.
I bought the phone on Friday, ran the OTA that popped up as soon as I powered on whilst still at the store, came home and rooted. Disabled a bunch more bloat, but the battery wasn't great. It was iPhone territory.
Yesterday, I started over with a full KiES install that included that OTA. I rooted again and then re-installed everything from TB. This has seemed to make a marked improvement. That said, tomorrow will be a true to test of the battery as It's a work day, I'm travelling, and I'll be roaming up in Canada.

This is very helpful - thanks! Please, if you think of it, let us know how Monday goes? Appreciate it!
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I'm not sure how to actually confirm it for you, but my phone has been off charge for 2 hours, and I am at 98%.
I bought the phone on Friday, ran the OTA that popped up as soon as I powered on whilst still at the store, came home and rooted. Disabled a bunch more bloat, but the battery wasn't great. It was iPhone territory.
Yesterday, I started over with a full KiES install that included that OTA. I rooted again and then re-installed everything from TB. This has seemed to make a marked improvement. That said, tomorrow will be a true to test of the battery as It's a work day, I'm travelling, and I'll be roaming up in Canada.
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I just installed from the new Samsung smartswitch and all is going good for battery now. Will root when I am sure root won't mess with battery. Also when more services available. Yahoo know unless I want to test something cool

I installed from the Samsung smarts witch and everything is perfect getting awesome battery life........ will not root if is going to destroy my battery

ShermCraig said:
This is very helpful - thanks! Please, if you think of it, let us know how Monday goes? Appreciate it!
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I looked a little bit more through this thread and saw that CPU Spy app, so I ran it, and I am deep sleeping after root. Please do note, however, that I have WiFi set to always on, one of my email accounts in Nine is set to not sync at all during off-peak hours (which includes the weekend), and the other one only syncs every two hours during the same period.
I will definitely still update on Monday as it will be punishing.

dc/dc said:
I looked a little bit more through this thread and saw that CPU Spy app, so I ran it, and I am deep sleeping after root. Please do note, however, that I have WiFi set to always on, one of my email accounts in Nine is set to not sync at all during off-peak hours (which includes the weekend), and the other one only syncs every two hours during the same period.
I will definitely still update on Monday as it will be punishing.
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So you are rooted and going into deep sleep ??? Just want to be 100% sure before rooting my device

FWIW, that is how I understand it. I think I'm going to take the plunge, using the CF-Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t file. Would love if someone out there could tell me that I am on the right track!!
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So you are rooted and going into deep sleep ??? Just want to be 100% sure before rooting my device
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gdmlaz said:
So you are rooted and going into deep sleep ??? Just want to be 100% sure before rooting my device
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ShermCraig said:
FWIW, that is how I understand it. I think I'm going to take the plunge, using the CF-Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t file. Would love if someone out there could tell me that I am on the right track!!
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Correct. Clean flash is a must, however.

This is where I am confused. Define (please) "Clean Flash". I did a restore using SS a few hours ago, but have since restored data, apps, etc. Please elaborate. Thanks.

Deff didn't work for me...... I had perfect deep sleep over 4 hrs of screen time...... I had done the samsung smart switch now rooted and yeap no deep sleep at all stuck at 400mh all the time

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Correct. Clean flash is a must, however.
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are you sure ur device is going into deep sleep ????? Mines deff isn't after I rooted it right now

Absolutely sure.

Galaxy 6 edge good battery life

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Ever since I used the smartswitch and clean flashed battery life has been awesome got 4 hours screen time..... wish root would let our decides go into deep sleep so I could root and use greenify to try n get more

Please see my two posts here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60068820&postcount=13
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60061930&postcount=8
I am rooted after a clean flash and deep sleeping.

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Please see my two posts here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60068820&postcount=13
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60061930&postcount=8
I am rooted after a clean flash and deep sleeping.
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So maybe the problem was taking that OTA update to begin with instead of clean flashing it........ I guess I'll root mines I hope I don't lose my awesome battery life lol

gdmlaz said:
So maybe the problem was taking that OTA update to begin with instead of clean flashing it........ I guess I'll root mines I hope I don't lose my awesome battery life lol
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Yep. OTA = bad, clean = good.

Are you guys re-rooting with the CF-Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t.tar ?
If so has your device been able to deep sleep

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Are you guys re-rooting with the CF-Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t.tar ?
If so has your device been able to deep sleep
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I just rooted doing this and getting no deep sleep after my device was perfect wouldn't reccomend you to do it unless there is something I'm missing but I been rooting phones since the galaxy nexus without any issues

gdmlaz said:
I just rooted doing this and getting no deep sleep after my device was perfect wouldn't reccomend you to do it unless there is something I'm missing but I been rooting phones since the galaxy nexus without any issues
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Thanks for the info I'll hold off on rooting for now

whats smatswitch? dont take ota? what do u mean clean flashing?

raw2000j said:
whats smatswitch? dont take ota? what do u mean clean flashing?
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If you're asking these questions, you probably shouldn't be attempting to root or modify your device at all.

Everything is fine now..... rooting and deep sleep are friends again lol

So if i understand correctly
Reflash S6 with Kies or Odin then Root and this should improve batt life?

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/04/1...s6-battery-life-in-latest-update/#more-165658

smartswitch just fails to work for me. It always gets stuck on 51 % can anyone help? my battery life is horrible

cds36 said:
Are you guys re-rooting with the CF-Auto-Root-zerofltetmo-zerofltetmo-smg920t.tar ?
If so has your device been able to deep sleep
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Yes. I have deep sleep working fine after rerooting but I also am running the stock recovery file Posted here.
http://zidroid.com/download-t-mobile...tock-recovery/
I have probably rerooted a slew of times for for various reasons. Last method was to first restore stock firmware using Kies method. It will ask for your serial number. If you can get to download mode, puch home key and wrote down serial number you will see there. Ther serial number for your phone is NOT the IME number which Samsung as well as TMobile kept telling me was the correct serial number. On top of that, First level support asked me to remove my battery to finde serial number under the battery. LOL....great support we pay for

seems to be working really good for me so far
havent truely tested the phone out
last night i factory reset my phone rooted then flashed stock recovery then wiped cache
set up my phone disables some bloat
the night before the phone died while i was sleeping
last night it barely dropped 1% so deep sleep is working
right now im at 39% phones been on for 12h 13m since last charge
and i have 2h 30m on screen time,
need to do some more testing. a couple more charge cycles should make it right
how are u guys charging your phone? letting it die then letting it charge to a full 100? or what

Getting pretty decent life myself.

Just look at this
I didn't watch any movies, just plain browsing, couple of messages, 25 minutes gaming and using some apps (Facebook, google + and a couple of news apps).

lilmikey201 said:
seems to be working really good for me so far
havent truely tested the phone out
last night i factory reset my phone rooted then flashed stock recovery then wiped cache
set up my phone disables some bloat
the night before the phone died while i was sleeping
last night it barely dropped 1% so deep sleep is working
right now im at 39% phones been on for 12h 13m since last charge
and i have 2h 30m on screen time,
need to do some more testing. a couple more charge cycles should make it right
how are u guys charging your phone? letting it die then letting it charge to a full 100? or what
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good stats from your end... but i seem to be having an issue after I:
took OTA
then rooted
went back n flashed stock FW
rooted again
I fully charge last night around 11pm, and woke up around 5:30am and battery was down to 91%... Just now i had to fully charge again since I was down to about 10% ... Any ideas??
UPDATE:
Don't know if this fix the battery drain issue.. But after rooting, flashing back stock FW and rooting again over the weekend the battery took a massive hit. Just last night with about 78% i decided to odin the Stock Recovery. I went to sleep with 76% and woke up to a 74% battery. I guess the stock recovery worked --- but then on my 2.5 hour commute i left the house with 73% and when i check back at my office i was at 55% (browsing, FB and soundcloud player on) I guess that's normal ???

Completely stock and happy with the battery life.

Loving my battery life! Rooted, custom kernel and twrp