Has anyone noticed any significant decrease in battery life after applying the recent update issued by Verizon a couple of days ago? My Fascinates battery life was actually impressing me tremendously before the update, and it seems to have taken quite a big hit since the update. Just wondering if my case is isolated, or if others are seeing the same thing.
How many hours are you getting? My battery life always lasted around 13-15 hours even before the update which is still pretty short imo. I wonder if I have a defective battery. I turn everything off and brightness to the lowest but it's always around 13/14 hours when my phone dies completely.
My battery life has definitely takin a hit...
Whitepaint said:
My battery life has definitely takin a hit...
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There's an UNCONFIRMED rumor floating around over on Android Central that Verizon and Samsung have pulled the update due to problems. Again, this is unconfirmed, and just a rumor, and makes NO mention to the reasons why. Perhaps the battery life is a more wide spread issue.
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There's an UNCONFIRMED rumor floating around over on Android Central that Verizon and Samsung have pulled the update due to problems. Again, this is unconfirmed, and just a rumor, and makes NO mention to the reasons why. Perhaps the battery life is a more wide spread issue.
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Well, isnt that special.
Took me forever to apply it manually and now it might be borked, great
I didn't really have a problem with the battery life after this update, but I did notice a signifigant loss of speed when going to websites or watching Youtube.
I installed the update by reverting to stock and updating, and then re-rooted and re-applied the lag fix, and of course re-removed bloatware. I can report that I have noticed no difference at all on data transfer performance, and also no battery life issues. In fact, when I got home from work today, I looked at my battery gauge, and it was still at 87%. That's after almost 12 hours of mostly standby time, with gmail, corporate email, and weather services updating regularly. That's actually the best battery life I've seen out of this thing yet. If your battery is draining faster than that, then you must have some kind of process or background service that's not letting the CPU sleep, which will drain your battery fairly quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit is one of the bloatware apps that I disabled.
On a side note, I still seem to have an issue where the data connection intermittently cuts out. I don't lose the 3G icon, and have plenty of signal, but it's like the connection just times out, and a few seconds later resumes again. I was hoping the radio update in DI01 would address this, but no dice. I'm actually suspicious that it's an issue in the OS itself, as I've seen similar behavior over WiFi, which is a completely separate radio and network interface. I hope it's just a software bug, not a hardware defect. If it persists after the Froyo upgrade, I plan on doing a warranty claim.
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I installed the update by reverting to stock and updating, and then re-rooted and re-applied the lag fix, and of course re-removed bloatware. I can report that I have noticed no difference at all on data transfer performance, and also no battery life issues. In fact, when I got home from work today, I looked at my battery gauge, and it was still at 87%. That's after almost 12 hours of mostly standby time, with gmail, corporate email, and weather services updating regularly. That's actually the best battery life I've seen out of this thing yet. If your battery is draining faster than that, then you must have some kind of process or background service that's not letting the CPU sleep, which will drain your battery fairly quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit is one of the bloatware apps that I disabled.
On a side note, I still seem to have an issue where the data connection intermittently cuts out. I don't lose the 3G icon, and have plenty of signal, but it's like the connection just times out, and a few seconds later resumes again. I was hoping the radio update in DI01 would address this, but no dice. I'm actually suspicious that it's an issue in the OS itself, as I've seen similar behavior over WiFi, which is a completely separate radio and network interface. I hope it's just a software bug, not a hardware defect. If it persists after the Froyo upgrade, I plan on doing a warranty claim.
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How did you get yours rooted? I have the I01 installed but cant get it rooted again now....
oryank99 said:
How did you get yours rooted? I have the I01 installed but cant get it rooted again now....
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You should be able to redo the original root procedure as documented here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779238
Note that some have reported that they had to do the root procedure twice after installing DI01 to get root access back, though it worked the first time for me.
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Yeah I have done it probably 7 times to no avail.... :/
It freezes my phone i believe after it sents the second restart command. it comes up with device not found, even after it says it was successful....
I also tried the original version of this program (i believe), but it is the one I used to root it the first time.
I bought the phone on the 25th and got the update within minutes of leaving the store. I got great battery life the first day but it's been more standard fair so far getting 13-14 hours with moderate usage.
I unplugged my phone about 12 hours ago. I have used it all day for email, text and phone calls and I am right now at 64%. I am getting great battery life with this phone, loads better than my droid 1 and 2.
Reinstall the Samsung drivers. I had to do that and then root was achieved again. I'm an employee of Vzw and haven't heard any rumors of the update being borked. I'll keep y'all posted!
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I've installed the 2.3.5 kernel recently because people were saying it was great on the battery but i'm getting pretty tired of this...
Out of nowhere sometimes like this morning i left the phone screen off since 7.00 am full charge and i checked it now at 11.40 and the battery was at 79%... It has been awake the whole morning. I looked at OS monitor and it might be calendar trying to sync all this time without having a 3g connection or wi-fi... why would it keep the phone awake and try so many times to sync if i'm not under 3g coverage?
I used to get 3 days with 2.3.4. I'm going to revert back. Aweful update...
thanks for telling us
I thought it was calendare but apparently it isn't.
Only after clearing RAM has it stopped staying awake even with screen off.
No idea what this is all about.
How do i discover what's keeping my sgs2 awake?
Tell me about it!
I flashed XWKI8 and I have been having all sort of issues with it. My phone was terribly slow and very laggy. It was getting seriously heated up around camera.
And above all, I took it off the charger (100% battery) 7:30 in the morning and now by 3:30 PM I got no juice left in the battery! It just died upon me.
I think I will flash it back to our trusty KF3 update.
Does anyone know if I can just download it from Intratech's thread and update with ODIN, or do I need to get some kinda wipe package from somewhere?
i'm quite positive you just need to reflash the pda in odin
You have no idea what you are talking about. You start that the kernel is not good. Then you blame the calendar for keeping your phone awake. Now tell me how is that related?
You can't say that something is bad based on one experience.
If you read the replies you would've seen that calendar is not the problem...
And before the update the phone was NEVER awake if the screen wasn't on... So YES i think it's a kernel problem
Nonsense !
2.3.5 battery just fine ... better than 2.3.4
Gives me a full day when used intensive (3-4 hours of surf, mail, talk)
Gives me 2 days if used moderately
About ½% per hour standby
The real question now is... how can i see what is keeping my phone awake???
Riqz said:
The real question now is... how can i see what is keeping my phone awake???
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Search for 'Better Battery Stats' in XDA.
Besides, I don't think it's huge improvement in battery life in 2.3.5 than 2.3.3. I am getting almost same battery backup in recent KI3 which I was getting in previous 2.3.3 KF3. There are plenty of ROM's but I doubt there is any difference between then other than they are dedicated for different regions. It's basically a freaking thing to flash new ROM's continuously.
look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
and check if it isn't the same thing that's bothering you. when you look at the built in battery stats, do you have a very high usage percentage of "Android OS"?
dude I am usin XXKI8 (2.3.5) with chain-fire root kernel KI8..
I have seen drastic improvement on battery life over KF3.. only 2% overnight drain on standby (with data connection off of course). smoother animations.. near zero lag while locking, unlocking, smoother browser.. the only thing that bothers me is occasional lag while opening gallery.. rest is superb..
Seylox said:
look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
and check if it isn't the same thing that's bothering you. when you look at the built in battery stats, do you have a very high usage percentage of "Android OS"?
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AOS Issue doesnt seem to be affecting me i think:
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HOLY SHOIT!!!
I think i've found the culprit:
How do i get rid of this? I thought facebook android app was decent!!! It wasn't 2.3.5 at all!!!
Riqz said:
HOLY SHOIT!!!
I think i've found the culprit:
How do i get rid of this? I thought facebook android app was decent!!! It wasn't 2.3.5 at all!!!
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I had that also, it's a ***** in Facebook app. You don't need to remove facebook app, just go to facebook chat and log off. I wonder why it's enable by default from facebook if they know this thing is going to drain battery like hell.
Riqz said:
HOLY SHOIT!!!
I think i've found the culprit:
How do i get rid of this? I thought facebook android app was decent!!! It wasn't 2.3.5 at all!!!
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How?
Very simple : just delete it.
Your battery will thank you soon, and you will certainly stop pulling your hair out.
Anyway, you always can use mobile FB version which is actually pretty good.
Cheers
No need to delete, just use the app and sign out of chat, poor design on part of facebook, but like many others using android, no investigation, just blame the update or the phone......
nah. i did not know how to see what processes were keeping my phone awake. now that i know i'm a happy new man. And i'd also like to change the title of this thread!
I used to get really good battery life on stock 4.2 rooted (radio - 0.48). But after upgrading to 4.3, stock rooted I'm getting really bad battery life. At night, right now getting 30% reduction in battery where it was like around 5-10%. Interesting thing is, I can't find any unusual usage from battery usage screen.
4.3 battery usage -> http://imgur.com/a/9vXod
4.2 battery usage -> http://imgur.com/a/Wn5O6
Online, everyone is posting about battery life improvement, so I tried formatting and flashing factory image. Still no change. Can some one help me identify the issue and resolve it ?
UPDATE: seems like I'm getting better battery life after flashing .48 radio. So issue might be with the radio which came with 4.3
Are you still on your first charge? Battery life should improve on your 2nd + 3rd charge. Also the gauge might be wrong, let the phone die on low battery once to reset the stats.
Battery Geeks use zero brightness, turn everything off, look at a black screen for hours to get those results.
My results are not as bad as yours. They say my reception is bad. the cell tower is in my sight all day. There is only a double glazing between the phone and the tower which is 50 yards away.
I just accepted the fact that the nexus 4's battery life is crap.
jishnu7 said:
I used to get really good battery life on stock 4.2 rooted (radio - 0.48). But after upgrading to 4.3, stock rooted I'm getting really bad battery life. At night, right now getting 30% reduction in battery where it was like around 5-10%. Interesting thing is, I can't find any unusual usage from battery usage screen.
4.3 battery usage -> http://imgur.com/a/9vXod
4.2 battery usage -> http://imgur.com/a/Wn5O6
Online, everyone is posting about battery life improvement, so I tried formatting and flashing factory image. Still no change. Can some one help me identify the issue and resolve it ?
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Did you updated radio and bootloader also?.
Some people reported problems with old radio/bootloader and updated to 4.3. Also there are some wakelocks around there, my findings here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Are you still on your first charge? Battery life should improve on your 2nd + 3rd charge. Also the gauge might be wrong, let the phone die on low battery once to reset the stats.
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No. No improvement after charge cycles. Tried full discharge also. No difference.
calyxim said:
Battery Geeks use zero brightness, turn everything off, look at a black screen for hours to get those results.
My results are not as bad as yours. They say my reception is bad. the cell tower is in my sight all day. There is only a double glazing between the phone and the tower which is 50 yards away.
I just accepted the fact that the nexus 4's battery life is crap.
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I was using same settings for 4.2 -> auto brightness, GPS etc. Reception is also stable. So no point in turning off everything.
Galaxo60 said:
Did you updated radio and bootloader also?.
Some people reported problems with old radio/bootloader and updated to 4.3. Also there are some wakelocks around there, my findings here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Am in new bootloader and radio.
I flashed old radio, 0.48, will update the post after checking.
I feel like I am getting better battery life since updating to 4.3, strange.
What hardware revision are you on?
I had bad battery life but I think that was due to my CPU burning at 50-77°C
Its gone back to LG.
I wondered if it was due to having Hardware r10.. Just a thought
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After upgrading to 4.3 OTA, It took me 2 charge cycles to see the improvements. Made sure that the battery was never discharged below 15% and did not keep it in fully charged state for too long. Overall the performance has significantly improved with 4.3.
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Upon my first using of 4.3 my battery was draining quite a bit and I was lost as to why. I looked in what was using battery and it showed "Google Services" I saw where others were having weird battery issues so I read around and found out a battery drain is happening with location services using network and wifi to locate you. I turned it off and battery has been significantly better. Settings>location access is where you'll find it. My phone does fine finding me using the gps.
Seems like battery life has improved after flashing .48 radio. So I think issue was with .84 radio which came with 4.3
I have bad battery also, have only had the phone for a week and no unusual drains or wakelocks...
I had the same issue, and solution was the same.
Didn't saw this thread while I was experimenting with it.
Wrote my story here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44537106#post44537106
So my phone sometime last for 3 days, normal usage, sometimes it lasts barely a day. That's with same apps, same usage, same patterns.
I charge my phone before going to bed. If I wake up with it still on 100% I know I'm in for a 3 day+ cycle, but sometimes for no apparent reason, I wake up with 75-80%.
Better Battery stats shows the phone was asleep 99% of the time. I'm going crazy over this love/hate relationship with my phone.
That's android. Sometimes apps go rouge.
Posting from my LG G2 while driving an Evo IX.
Under alarms section I see com.android.phone has hundreds, even thousands, depending on uptime, wakeups. What could this mean? My carrier has FD so I have it enabled, is this connected?
I've now started having abysmal battery life. I've flashed kk kdz and started from scratch yesterday. Greenify all apps I can think of, frozen all bloat. Google now is not running, location services off, Google backup turned off, I barely used the phone. I've had great battery life on kk before, it's abysmal the last week. No apparent wakelocks, no rogue apps. I'm literally stumped as to what is happening.
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Could be a built hardware issue. I've heard and seen bad battery reports.
Mine isn't as great as everybody elses, but lately I've been running without battery save on full brightness using chrome all day and changing things since root. So that's to be expected.
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Could be a built hardware issue. I've heard and seen bad battery reports.
Mine isn't as great as everybody elses, but lately I've been running without battery save on full brightness using chrome all day and changing things since root. So that's to be expected.
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I'm thinking it's hardware as well. I'm gonna do another charge cycle and see if anything changes. If not, I'm factory reseting again but with no apps installed. If that fails as well, I'm gonna go claim warranty...which will leave me without a phone for a week, at least.
My drain hunting is still going on. What I have found out is the phone works fine when it's factory reseted. After installing apps, everything is still fine. The problem starts happening after my memory starts getting filled. I can't pin-point if it's pictures, videos, music..but I' sure the files themselves are good. Because they are my personal files, not downloaded from shady places.
Pretty much after some time, the drain appears again.
Is there a way to check the internal storage for errors and to possibly fix them?
i reverted back to 4.2.2. KK was draining my battery for the same activity about 2x the speed. it wasn't even a "i think" it's draining more.. it's definitely. revert back to 4.2.2 if batter life is important to you.
i tried both XDAxebb's and micromods's stock and stock debloated.
If I may, you seem to have used 3G for 12 hours over a 58% battery drain. As far as I know that qualifies as great battery life.
metalboy94 said:
If I may, you seem to have used 3G for 12 hours over a 58% battery drain. As far as I know that qualifies as great battery life.
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Not when 11h out of 12h was deep sleep.
Here is my battery life so far, 3 hours screen time 25 hours on battery.
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I've been noticing my battery has been draining a lot lately, and the majority is going to Android System. I did a search and found another post about this with no answers. I'm not getting much more than 12 hours on a daily basis, and I hardly use my phone. I'm including a screen shot of the battery usage. Is this a normal usage amount? I remember this phone being better on battery than this.
What are you guys getting for typical usage?
Anyone have any suggestions?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4axktwglfqg4ac/Screenshot_2014-10-23-21-11-07.png?dl=0
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I've been noticing my battery has been draining a lot lately, and the majority is going to Android System. I did a search and found another post about this with no answers. I'm not getting much more than 12 hours on a daily basis, and I hardly use my phone. I'm including a screen shot of the battery usage. Is this a normal usage amount? I remember this phone being better on battery than this.
What are you guys getting for typical usage?
Anyone have any suggestions?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4axktwglfqg4ac/Screenshot_2014-10-23-21-11-07.png?dl=0
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as of yesterday, I'm seeing the same problem. Didn't have short battery life before that but several apps updated yesterday morning and now I have something like 50% on Android System and an unusually high "Stay Awake" - we're talking something like 10 hours when I wasn't using the phone for anything in particular - certainly not 10 hours worth!
So, I'm wondering how we tell what is keeping a phone awake?
usually we need more info such as what rom your using and when it started to happen..
second post might be one of the apps thats causing it so id backtrack them n see if u can find the culprit
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also, better battery stats on xda is your friend.. android system can be a ton of different things
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I had big time battery issues when I was running NI2, and similar to what you were seeing Android System and Kernel, my battery would be nearly drained after about 10 to 12 hours. I rolled back to NE9 and my battery is back to being great I am usually at about 60% after about 10 hours. For what it's worth apps and programs were the same between both builds. Not sure this is much help just figured I'd share my experiences and what worked for me.
scadilla said:
I had big time battery issues when I was running NI2, and similar to what you were seeing Android System and Kernel, my battery would be nearly drained after about 10 to 12 hours. I rolled back to NE9 and my battery is back to being great I am usually at about 60% after about 10 hours. For what it's worth apps and programs were the same between both builds. Not sure this is much help just figured I'd share my experiences and what worked for me.
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This was the solution I feared. I'm having massive battery drain on NI2 as well. Unfortunately, won't we lose "HD Voice" or VOLTE if we roll back to NE9? Not a deal breaker I guess.
It's really too bad Samsung/Verizon broke the phone with an update. This is seemingly pretty common now. Hope another small update gets released soon. I'm on international travel starting Friday and having a phone dead by 3pm doesn't sit very well with me.
-Collin-
CollinFX45 said:
This was the solution I feared. I'm having massive battery drain on NI2 as well. Unfortunately, won't we lose "HD Voice" or VOLTE if we roll back to NE9? Not a deal breaker I guess.
It's really too bad Samsung/Verizon broke the phone with an update. This is seemingly pretty common now. Hope another small update gets released soon. I'm on international travel starting Friday and having a phone dead by 3pm doesn't sit very well with me.
-Collin-
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Yes, you will lose HD Voice / VOLTE unfortunately. That was a sacrifice I had to take I couldn't deal with my phone being dead by 5:00pm.
agreed. Yesterday was a complete joke. By 2pm with light use, I was down to 21%. Dead by 3:30.
I hate that I have to flash my phone back to a prior version because Verizon/Samsung broke it.
CollinFX45 said:
agreed. Yesterday was a complete joke. By 2pm with light use, I was down to 21%. Dead by 3:30.
I hate that I have to flash my phone back to a prior version because Verizon/Samsung broke it.
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it is what it is.. there are ni2 roms with great battery.. few have reported battery drains but not me.. ive tried a few ni2 roms and not had a battery drain since before ni2
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CollinFX45 said:
agreed. Yesterday was a complete joke. By 2pm with light use, I was down to 21%. Dead by 3:30.
I hate that I have to flash my phone back to a prior version because Verizon/Samsung broke it.
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Wake lock detector and greenify are your friends...
My about phone.
so, after posting the second post in this thread I'm happy to post that my battery consumption returned to normal by the next day. I don't know what was going on but I'm still on NI2 and regular battery consumption - what I've been used to seeing on the phone all along.
that said, it's great to know about some of the apps that are available for better tracking/info about wake-locks and battery use.
So guys, I love my S7 edge, as I'm sure a lot of you do, but after the update yesterday my battery life has taken a serious dive in the wrong direction.
Turns out its the Bluetooth, except I haven't used Bluetooth all day, I've been at work, where I only look at it a few times a day.
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Any suggestions or fixes?
Turn Bluetooth off?
Make sure Nearby Device scanning is turned off, and make sure Bluetooth scanning is off under Location > Improve Accuracy.
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Turn Bluetooth off?
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Funny thing is, bluetooth was never on.
Damn if restarting or clearing system cache in recovery mode doesn't work you might need to do a factory restore
I was thinking "Oh great, yet another dude complaining about losing 5 minutes of his 8 hour SOT", but I'll admit this is a weird issue, especially if you haven't enabled or used bluetooth at all. Have you checked with a different logger, like Gsam?
Jonnyn93 said:
So guys, I love my S7 edge, as I'm sure a lot of you do, but after the update yesterday my battery life has taken a serious dive in the wrong direction.
Turns out its the Bluetooth, except I haven't used Bluetooth all day, I've been at work, where I only look at it a few times a day.
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WHICH UPDATE are you talking about? Be specific...
NO problems here:
J.Biden said:
I was thinking "Oh great, yet another dude complaining about losing 5 minutes of his 8 hour SOT", but I'll admit this is a weird issue, especially if you haven't enabled or used bluetooth at all. Have you checked with a different logger, like Gsam?
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Yeah I'm not the type to moan about poor SOT. The battery life on this phone is among the best. But yesterday was just terrible. Seems today it is doing better. Only time will tell.
I also have battery life issues after the APD1 update. Whereas before the phone had no problem lasting 48 hours, now it struggles to last 36 hours (Exynos here). I hate these stupid updates: notification LED is dimmer under most light conditions, battery life now sucks...thanks, Samsung !
Cst79 said:
I also have battery life issues after the APD1 update. Whereas before the phone had no problem lasting 48 hours, now it struggles to last 36 hours (Exynos here). I hate these stupid updates: notification LED is dimmer under most light conditions, battery life now sucks...thanks, Samsung !
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I know you are going to hate this, but do a factory reset. Pain in the ass I know, but your battery will be back. Happened to me on the last update. I was relieved after the reset.
backup phone and reset phone system.
horizontal168 said:
backup phone and reset phone system.
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How do you backup your apps AND app data without root?
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Is your phone at&t?
Here's a thought, I also had pretty "bad" battery life after the previous update, and then it got back to normal after I re-enabled the stock Samsung apps that I had previously disabled, so enable them again and let them be for a day or two and see if you notice any changes. This doesn't apply to your bluetooth issue, but I just thought of this now.
jark99 said:
How do you backup your apps AND app data without root?
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if you have app backup set up through google it should be automagic
Im in the same boat... but i did a factory reset when i installed echo rom. My battery is lucky to get 9hrs with 4hrs screen time. Befoee the update i was getting 14hrs battery with 8.5hrs screen time. Its the 3rd day today so ill see how it goes cos i know it can take a while for thr phone to settle
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mwatson said:
I know you are going to hate this, but do a factory reset. Pain in the ass I know, but your battery will be back. Happened to me on the last update. I was relieved after the reset.
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Cool. Thanks for the tip. I've experienced exactly the same thing with this update - was getting about 48hrs with just shy of 6 hours screen on time. I have a long weekend coming up, so I'll see how it goes and then restore if I think it needs it.
I typically use Ultra Power Saving Mode overnight. It lost 13% last night in about 9hrs. I would have been disappointed with anything more than about 2%. So hopefully a reset will fix this because I've been loving the battery mode up to this point!!!!
p2kmafia said:
if you have app backup set up through google it should be automagic
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that backs up the apps, but not the "app data" which is a internally saved to the phone itself.
Basically my "Android System" usage went from 2-3% to 17-19% after this update. On the Exynos. So now the Exynos is now as bad as the SD820 at battery life.
I will reset my phone to factory right now, if this does not solve it (and I highly doubt it) then my only option is to flash the old APC8 firmware (it's possible to do it without rooting, right ?)
jark99 said:
How do you backup your apps AND app data without root?
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Use Samsung's own Smart Switch Windows application to take the backup.. It backs up everything, your Msgs, Contacts, Documents, Images/Videos, Apps and their settings..