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Help me understand the poor battery life on Fascinate

I have a work issued iPhone 4 and the fascinate. I fully charged both phones and put them on my desk at 3pm yesterday and did not use them at all. This morning the iPhone was at 98% charge and Fascinate was at 30%... Both phones sync with a exchange account and both have very good signal strength at my home.
I've checked the battery usage on Fascinate and the top 4 items are: Display 49%, Media server 15%, Cell standby 14% and Phone idle 9%. How can standby and idle use so much battery? I also used task manager and killed all running programs yesterday.
So what could be causing this? I can literally watch the battery percentage click down 1% for every couple of minutes of use.
Running Blackhole v1.3 with JT's Stable 11/11 kernel.

After a full day's worth of average use my battery (off the charger at 9am, on the charger at ~1am) My battery rarely drops into the orange.
You mentioned you had a task killer, I'd blame that first and foremost. Also, I think there was something inherently wrong with your test... if a screen that was off used 50% of the battery...
It's also entirely possible that you're just trolling, because I know from roomate experience that his phone if left alone is not at 98% battery after 24 hours. Also, APPLE lists the standby time as up to 300 hours. That would mean that at best you'd be looking at an ~8% drop after 24 hours.

That 15% used by the media server probably didn't help much. What all was your IPhone running in the background...oh wait, nevermind.

I dunno about the iphone but I feel you on the fascinate. I left mine off the charger, no screen on, with airplane mode on, and the battery dropped 50% in 7 hours. With absolutely no use. I'm lucky to get 7 hours during the day actually using the phone. Three display is always around 70% usage of the battery even though I have brights all the way down and always turn off the screen.
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I use Ultimate Juice Defender and I take my phone off the charger at 6:30 a.m. and by 5:30 p.m. I am usually at 80-90%.

Not sure, you might just have a bad battery. I have been off the charger for almost 7 hours now (early day). I have been messaging (google talk and sms) had WiFi/BlueTooth/GPS running constantly I rarely turn them off.
Have been using google maps off and on for at least 20-30 minutes as well as voice. And about 45 minutes of phone calls.
For me:
Display 29%
Standby 26%
Idle 16%
android 12%
and then bluetooth, LauncherPro, OS and Google rounding out the remaining quantities.
Oh forgot and a solid 20 minutes of angry birds

i use a task killer but i allways set system apps to ignore except camera and google maps and autokill stuff like file explorer, root explorer, games and stuff.
I get up at 4am use my phone pretty often little of everything and can make it threw a day getting homr at 5pm might be 16-20% battery left but still good imo.
Removing bloat might help?

I went to lunch and played with the phone while waiting for the food. Just red some news and surfed the web a bit. Before lunch the battery was at 34% now its at 16%, I think there definitely is something wrong with my phone. I wonder if a different kernel would help.

Try resetting battery stats and reconditioning the battery. There's no way it should drop more than a handful of percent asleep in airplane mode... Maybe one per hour.
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How would I recondition the battery? I've reset the stats with a fresh battery before and have tried different kernels. I have two batteries and it's the same with both. I even took it to verizon but they said there was nothing wrong with it even though it dropped 30% on their test call.
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I'd definitely say its just a bad battery. My fascinate stock destroys iphone battery life. With a UV kernal it at least doubles iphone battery life. My work issues iphones so I get a daily comparison.
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I would say battery as well, my phone has been off the charger for 20 hours now and I'm at 50%. It's my work phone so its a stock kernel.
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I was in your boat. The first fascinate I had would be unplugged at 6:30am and dead at 3pm with very little usage. I hated this phone. I got juice defender and it would last until 6 or 7 with very little usage, and as I used the phone I would watch as the battery rapidly ran dry. I got two other fascinates and it was the same issue. Then I got the one that I have now and it uses almost no power in standby. with juice defender and it being on idle, I can get almost 2 days out of 1 charge. I know it sounds ridiculous to you, with your experiences and it being a smartphone, but samsung has done some kind of magic here. Keep taking your phone back until you get one that uses very little battery on standby. Apparently there are a lot of units with bad batteries. As of this writing, with Ultimate Juice, my phone has been off the charger since 5:30 this morning, did some flashing, which uses the battery open throttle, installed 5 apps, played angry birds for about 35 mins and I am at 91% at 10:09

Well my 30 days are up, verizon found nothing wrong with it and I have 2 batteries.
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Sithben24 said:
Well my 30 days are up, verizon found nothing wrong with it and I have 2 batteries.
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Try a different big red CSR, and if you fail again, try bricking it in a fixable way after backing up. If you come in with a force close loop, I but they won't have any idea whats going on and you'll have a high likelihood of getting a new phone. If it fails, just reflash and try another tack.

Haha perfect.
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I would honestly try one of the Stupidfast kernels if you really want bettery battery life, but honestly it sounds like some kind of hardware problem.
Stupidfast kernels really do give me better battery life. I was skeptical at first but after wiping the battery stats and rebooting after I unplug I've been getting GREAT battery life.
I'm a HEAVY user and I unplugged at 11 AM and 9 hours later I still have 31% left. With ANY other kernel, my phone would be at <20% by now, probably under 10%
I'm a believer, and will be donating come Wednesday when I get paid

Tried them all. But the stupid fast does seem to do the best job.
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I will say one thing, with the new DJ05 update my battery life is great. Best I've ever had. So when it is finally pushed to u enjoy. I feel like there has been some tweaks made in the upcoming update that make even a bone stock fascinate one of the best around.
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ksizzle9 said:
I will say one thing, with the new DJ05 update my battery life is great. Best I've ever had. So when it is finally pushed to u enjoy. I feel like there has been some tweaks made in the upcoming update that make even a bone stock fascinate one of the best around.
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+1 on that.
DJ05 + StupidFast 1.2.3 = a battery juice sipper !!!!

Unique Battery problem

Sorry to start another thread on battery issues but I was unable to find a scenario like mine.
Hey everybody, Im new to the android scene, just got my vibrant less than a month ago. Before that I had an Iphone 3g. So far I like the phone but the battery life is horrible. When I surf the internet on wifi or 3g I noticed that I use like 3-5% in a matter of 5 mins. Is this normal? I consider myself to be a light-moderate user and have been getting and average of 12 hours or so on my vibrant. Also if it makes any difference when my phone is idle or being used my temperature runs around the high 80's low 90's but when being charged it drops to the low 80's or high 70's. What is going on? How can I get more 20 hours on my phone? With the iphone I used to get an easy 15 hours and still have like 40-50% remaining.

aamir123 said:
Sorry to start another thread on battery issues but I was unable to find a scenario like mine.
Hey everybody, Im new to the android scene, just got my vibrant less than a month ago. Before that I had an Iphone 3g. So far I like the phone but the battery life is horrible. When I surf the internet on wifi or 3g I noticed that I use like 3-5% in a matter of 5 mins. Is this normal? I consider myself to be a light-moderate user and have been getting and average of 12 hours or so on my vibrant. Also if it makes any difference when my phone is idle or being used my temperature runs around the high 80's low 90's but when being charged it drops to the low 80's or high 70's. What is going on? How can I get more 20 hours on my phone? With the iphone I used to get an easy 15 hours and still have like 40-50% remaining.
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Try a different rom?
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When I first got the vibrant, it had pretty bad battery life, I would lose like 25% while sleeping 8-10 hrs. So light usage would be like a day. Slowly I started to get longer battery life (2 days on light usage). Recently I could get up to like 3.5 days on real light usage. After updating to JI6, max I can get now is like 3 days. I didn't really do much and I tripled my battery life by just giving it time.

Thanks burntrat I guess ill be patient. And I must mention that I am running stock.i was just worried because my battery temperature gets colder when charging and warmer when idle or running.

burntrat said:
When I first got the vibrant, it had pretty bad battery life, I would lose like 25% while sleeping 8-10 hrs. So light usage would be like a day. Slowly I started to get longer battery life (2 days on light usage). Recently I could get up to like 3.5 days on real light usage. After updating to JI6, max I can get now is like 3 days. I didn't really do much and I tripled my battery life by just giving it time.
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Hey burntrat or anybody, has your battery ever acted sort of schizophrenic on you? I mean one day I leave it on standby and its drains like 1% in 7-10 hours another day I leave it on standby and it drains 18% in about 4 hours. Whats going on?

aamir123 said:
Hey burntrat or anybody, has your battery ever acted sort of schizophrenic on you? I mean one day I leave it on standby and its drains like 1% in 7-10 hours another day I leave it on standby and it drains 18% in about 4 hours. Whats going on?
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It happens
If ur super concerned get these 2 apps
~juice defender
~ super power

My battery has been draining inconsistently lately. It drains faster in the 50-100% level. Under 50%, it feels like it drains slower while doing the same stuff.

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It happens
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Juice defender doesnt work for me, but ill have to try superpower, anyways I just feel that its weird that without anything changing, my battery drains differently on different days. Burntrat I think thats normal for every phone, the last 50% always seem to drain slower.
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if your phone is draining a lot during standby or sleeping. There may be a rogue app out there or an app that didnt shut down properly. (I guess that would mean a rogue app)

ELStiko said:
if your phone is draining a lot during standby or sleeping. There may be a rogue app out there or an app that didnt shut down properly. (I guess that would mean a rogue app)
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nope task manager shows everything as clear, and if I have a rogue app why is it acting up one day and not the other? Btw it seems to skip a daybetween bad battery life

aamir123 said:
nope task manager shows everything as clear, and if I have a rogue app why is it acting up one day and not the other? Btw it seems to skip a daybetween bad battery life
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I had the same problem, stock task manger doesn't show all of the apps.
Check ur services, go to settings apps manage apps running applications.
Or instead of that I brought the advanced task killer back to check on things

@aamir123 and burntrat: maybe you guys need to calibrate your battery? Also the stock rom usually has a lot of bloatware running in the background. Flashing a custom rom oughta do the trick.
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chikin said:
@aamir123 and burntrat: maybe you guys need to calibrate your battery? Also the stock rom usually has a lot of bloatware running in the background. Flashing a custom rom oughta do the trick.
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How do you recalibrate the battery?
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Try this. Download the system panel app from the market. You can set it to monitor your system and it will chart what applications are running and how much they are using the cpu. If you find you have some unnecessary bloatware running in the background download titanium backup and freeze those apps.

hitman818 said:
How do you recalibrate the battery?
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There are a lot of different ways mentioned in different forums. Try this:
Let your battery drain all the way to the point when it turns off by itself.
Charge it while its off until its full.
Unplug it, turn the phone on, then plug it in again.
After it reaches 100, unplug the charger and turn your phone off.
Once off, plug it in and let the charging complete.
Once complete, unplug it and turn the phone on. When everything has loaded, turn the phone off (note: no charging involved in this step.)
After it turns off, charge it one last time until 100%. After this, go into recovery and clear battery info (or cache, I forget). There you go
Oh, and its better if you don't download too many apps that monitor battery usage, cpu etc. cuz they will contribute to the battery consumption.
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chikin said:
There are a lot of different ways mentioned in different forums. Try this:
Let your battery drain all the way to the point when it turns off by itself.
Charge it while its off until its full.
Unplug it, turn the phone on, then plug it in again.
After it reaches 100, unplug the charger and turn your phone off.
Once off, plug it in and let the charging complete.
Once complete, unplug it and turn the phone on. When everything has loaded, turn the phone off (note: no charging involved in this step.)
After it turns off, charge it one last time until 100%. After this, go into recovery and clear battery info (or cache, I forget). There you go
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It isn't a good idea to let your battery drain all the way to zero since it is lithium ion. I think skipping that part and just charging it when it's on to full, then off to full, then on to full, then off to full and then wiping battery stats would suffice. Also you need to have clockwork recovery to wipe battery stats.

jimmynguyen91 said:
It isn't a good idea to let your battery drain all the way to zero since it is lithium ion. I think skipping that part and just charging it when it's on to full, then off to full, then on to full, then off to full and then wiping battery stats would suffice. Also you need to have clockwork recovery to wipe battery stats.
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When the phone turns off by itself, the battery still has some juice left in it to prevent it from losing the ability to charge, if that's what you meant by not a good idea cuz its lithium ion. If thats not what you meant, then please explain why.
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burntrat said:
When I first got the vibrant, it had pretty bad battery life, I would lose like 25% while sleeping 8-10 hrs. So light usage would be like a day. Slowly I started to get longer battery life (2 days on light usage). Recently I could get up to like 3.5 days on real light usage. After updating to JI6, max I can get now is like 3 days. I didn't really do much and I tripled my battery life by just giving it time.
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Agreed. In my case, I barely lasted 12 hours on moderate use with any of the JI6 2.1 ROMS (Eugene's, Bionix, Fusion, etc). I think after I updated to 2.2, all of the ROMS have been giving me 18+ hours on moderate-heavy use no matter what modem or kernel I use.

So where is the "unique" problem?

jimmynguyen91 said:
It isn't a good idea to let your battery drain all the way to zero since it is lithium ion. I think skipping that part and just charging it when it's on to full, then off to full, then on to full, then off to full and then wiping battery stats would suffice. Also you need to have clockwork recovery to wipe battery stats.
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This is true.
Try this, it helPed, me get like 10 more hours.
Charge till 100.
Shut down
Plug in usb until the green battery shows up and says completed our something.
Reboot
Charge for5 minutes.
Reboot
Done.

Atrix not charging past 88%

As of Saturday evening, my phone will no longer charge past 88%. Earlier on Saturday, the phone was charged to 100% in my car. We lost power and the phone ran down to 3% before I was able to charge it again.
After charging over 8 hours, the phone would not go past 88%. Any ideas?

MacAlert said:
As of Saturday evening, my phone will no longer charge past 88%. Earlier on Saturday, the phone was charged to 100% in my car. We lost power and the phone ran down to 3% before I was able to charge it again.
After charging over 8 hours, the phone would not go past 88%. Any ideas?
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Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16240746
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Voelker45 said:
Have you tried to recalibrate the battery? Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16240746
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I have not tried that. Weird thing is, the battery calibration app reads 4196mV at 70% while charging and ~4200 while at 88%.

Just go to CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. Do a few charge recharge cycle. It should be OK.
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anupash said:
Just go to CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. Do a few charge recharge cycle. It should be OK.
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Yup wiping the battery stats in cwm will do the trick
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Charge to 88% or until you notice it not going any further. Turn off the phone. Plug in the charger and wait until the battery display shows. While the phone is still plugged in, remove the battery. Wait for it to boot up and show a no battery icon (or something like that). Once it does, put the battery back in and leave it for about 30 mins. When you hit the volume buttons, the display will show between 5-10% charged. Anyway, after about 30 mins, turn the phone one and it should show 100%. Re-calibrate the battery after that using the app or recovery.

Are all android batteries like this? I've never had a device with such finicky battery stats. I too have the 88% problem and i feel like im recalibrating every week. I will try again.

s1mpd1ddy said:
Are all android batteries like this? I've never had a device with such finicky battery stats. I too have the 88% problem and i feel like im recalibrating every week. I will try again.
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I don't think they're all like this..but I know its as annoying as F***. Every morning almost i'm doing the "battery pop out" trick just so that it'll read full. It would be different if it read 95% or something and stuck there for awhile until the battery caught up to the actual reading..but it doesn't. The battery continues to drain at a normal rate, so you basically lose however many % you had initially.
Definately annoying..

Rickroller said:
I don't think they're all like this..but I know its as annoying as F***. Every morning almost i'm doing the "battery pop out" trick just so that it'll read full. It would be different if it read 95% or something and stuck there for awhile until the battery caught up to the actual reading..but it doesn't. The battery continues to drain at a normal rate, so you basically lose however many % you had initially.
Definately annoying..
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so you're having to do the pop-out trick every day? that's definitely not something you should have to do....... what gives with our battery?

Mine did this before and what I did was run it all the way to 0% and it cuts of and will not start, then charge it to 100% with the power off and and then boot it up. Work like a charm for me.

lilhaiti said:
Mine did this before and what I did was run it all the way to 0% and it cuts of and will not start, then charge it to 100% with the power off and and then boot it up. Work like a charm for me.
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Same, friends atrix wouldn't get past 86%, calibration app didn't work and neither did wiping bat stats. Draining however did fix but damn was it slow. 6+ hours to reach 100%
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ChongoDroid said:
Same, friends atrix wouldn't get past 86%, calibration app didn't work and neither did wiping bat stats. Draining however did fix but damn was it slow. 6+ hours to reach 100%
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do you have the same battery issues on your galaxy?

So I've been sitting at 1% for the past hour. Been playing games, have wifi, bluetooth, GPS all turned on.
Thing will just not turn off!
EDIT: Right as soon as I post this, it turns off. Over 1 hour on 1%.
Will recharge tonight and hopefully it works right.

I had this problem for a while but you should know that it will fix itself eventually. The phone is fully capable of re-learning the limits of the battery and after several days will begin to display the correct charging status. Mine took about a week to start displaying 99% in the morning.
This happened after I did the complete discharge, charge, pull battery, charge again, then boot procedure. It was fine for a couple of days then started displaying 82% as a full charge then slowly got better. I'm fairly confident that I'm not leaving anything on the table in terms of capacity either since with moderate use and turning off wifi when I leave the house I'm getting about two days of charge.

Sounds like a jumping battery problem to me.
1. Click on this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1174349&highlight=battery+fix
2. Download juggernault's jumping battery fix.
3. Follow the instructions there
4. if it solves your problem, thank the dude for his contribution to the Atrix community and also leave him a comment to thank him.

heres what you need to do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ehvLLmEIg

Already have juggernaults battery fix applied. Thinking this is just some freak occurrence.
EDIT: Drained the battery at work. Charged since 6:30 while powered off and phone charged past 88%. All is well in Atrixland!

MacAlert said:
Already have juggernaults battery fix applied. Thinking this is just some freak occurrence.
EDIT: Drained the battery at work. Charged since 6:30 while powered off and phone charged past 88%. All is well in Atrixland!
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Not a freak occurrence. Happens to me too all the time.. makes me not wanna flash anything . I jump charged my phone to 100 today. Did battery pull, wiped stats and calibrated
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s1mpd1ddy said:
do you have the same battery issues on your galaxy?
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No none, I had battery drain but it was kernel related. I get a days worth of heavy usage out of mine now.
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Figured I'd follow up. After doing all this ... first recharge went to 98. Second recharge overnight.. 85 Max. WTF
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[HELP] Big battery drain. 1 hour battery life

Ok I lied, it's not one hour backup, it's 50 min battery backup. I charged my phone to 100% 4163mv and played about 2 songs, battery dropped to 47 and then suddenly 0%. It all happened in less than 50 min. Just when I was thinking, it can't be more worse. I charged and battery was 99% :O. Another time, phone shut down at 40%, when charged moved up to 70% and number started increasing every 3 seconds. I did calibrated it many times so that's out of question. I bought this phone in May so I will be surprised if battery is defective. I'm confused. Please help!!
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friend863 said:
Ok I lied, it's not one hour backup, it's 50 min battery backup. I charged my phone to 100% 4163mv and played about 2 songs, battery dropped to 47 and then suddenly 0%. It all happened in less than 50 min. Just when I was thinking, it can't be more worse. I charged and battery was 99% :O. Another time, phone shut down at 40%, when charged moved up to 70% and number started increasing every 3 seconds. I did calibrated it many times so that's out of question. I bought this phone in May so I will be surprised if battery is defective. I'm confused. Please help!!
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charge till you get"unplug your charger " message

I did, many times too.
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friend863 said:
I did, many times too.
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Time for a new battery bro...
Same thing happened with me....
On a side note : Does the back cover of your phone fit?
Cause when I had this problem my battery had literally expanded in size.... :X
Due to which the back cover did not fit perfectly.......

Yeah, it fits perfectly..
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Download from market app called Battery Calibration.
Open it and connect your phone to the charger. When you have 100% status, and ~4200mV click Calibrate and unplug your charger.
Then set the LCD Brightness to max, set timeout to never sleep or just use your phone to fast discharge it(that doesn't need to be fast and doesn't need to be slow it just need drop to 0%).
Let it automatically die because of low power, and then charge it to 100%(you can use battery calibration app to see the voltage, around 4.2V it's max).
After that your phone should have a much better battery life.

JoHnNy08PL said:
Download from market app called Battery Calibration.
Open it and connect your phone to the charger. When you have 100% status, and ~4200mV click Calibrate and unplug your charger.
Then set the LCD Brightness to max, set timeout to never sleep or just use your phone to fast discharge it(that doesn't need to be fast and doesn't need to be slow it just need drop to 0%).
Let it automatically die because of low power, and then charge it to 100%(you can use battery calibration app to see the voltage, around 4.2V it's max).
After that your phone should have a much better battery life.
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He already said, he did calibrate the battery....
I 100% think you need a new battery Mate....

Try installing any stock rom before. Maybe that can help. I was getting ultra fast battery drains when I flashed indroid 5.0
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Yes u need a change of batt. I had not even up to half an hour of wifi surfing. After changing i could use the phone for 30+hrs
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Change the Battery.. I had the same problem.. then found out my battery got swollen big time..

Should I exhange? Massive battery drain.

I have had my S4 for 5 days, battery lasts me only 5-6 hours at best. Moderate useage. Disabled all bloatware and apps I am not using. Not having the Maps issue, also turned off all the air gesture stuff and etc. Should I get it replaced?
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Is your screen at max brightness? When you click on your screen in that screen what kind of on time are you getting before it's dead? I get 3-4 hours usually

Its all the way down and on auto. And it says 1 hour and 45 mins
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What does betterbatterystats say?

I have the same problem, but I get around 2:30 screen on. About 6-8 hours usage, I've been trying different ways of charging to see if it will extend life, I might try to use power saver mode next if I can't find a way to get better life.

I have same problem too. This is day 7 for me since I acquired the device. The first day I thought the drain was from the amount of usage during my setting up the device. But now even after a full charge. It will be down to 92% just sitting in my holster in about an hours time. The battery would drain in about 8 to 10 hours.
The only massive usage in the battery status page I see is the screen and I have set that at lowest brightness and then auto. Im using battery saver as well. Im thinking about taking this to AT&T store tomorrow to see about battery or device replacement.
We shall see.
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CAG-man said:
...But now even after a full charge. It will be down to 92% just sitting in my holster in about an hours time...
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That is definitely abnormally high battery drain. I get less than 1.5% drain / hour when the phone is idle. So your drain seems to be more than 5 times higher!
It may be a misbehaving app.
BetterBatteryStats, is good because it gives you detailed info on what is consuming your battery.

This is what mine looks like
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If you are in a building with pretty thick walls that could drain your battery also due to the phone using more power to acquire a signal. I work in a building that house a lot of servers and notice it uses more battery than when I'm not at work.

electrogiz said:
I have had my S4 for 5 days, battery lasts me only 5-6 hours at best. Moderate useage. Disabled all bloatware and apps I am not using. Not having the Maps issue, also turned off all the air gesture stuff and etc. Should I get it replaced?
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I see you're using slacker radio, most streaming services will eat battery up. If you click that what's the run time on it?
crystalstylez said:
If you are in a building with pretty thick walls that could drain your battery also due to the phone using more power to acquire a signal. I work in a building that house a lot of servers and notice it uses more battery than when I'm not at work.
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This i can agree with, when i visit my parents in the middle of nowhere my battery on any phone every has always died in 3 hours looking for a signal so this might be relevant if you're in a porr signal area.
If you're curious about where you sit for coverage try this app RF Signal Tracker - Play Store Link

Typical battery life. Auto brightness. Poor signal also and on wifi.
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I'm having this problem too, I don't understand BBS but here's a screenshot of the screen.
I'm tired of this, how can a new and expensive cellphone's battery lasts like 8 hours without even really using it.

My drain was resolved. Android battery stats indicated the screen was draining the battery. BBS indicated my WIFI use was. But neither usage seemed too much.
A visit to the local AT&T store got me a new battery. Albeit some arm twisting occured trying to convince them of the hardware issue.
Yesterday, after overnight charge the previous night, I ended the day with a 72 % battery.
Did a quick charge to 100 percent this morning and my charge dropped 1% in 1 hour. With heavy usage, I sit currently at 72%.
Much better results and happier.
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