Screen time on battery life? - Eee Pad Transformer General

Just wondering how many screen time hours are you guys noticing on your ICS tablets? I'm getting about 8 hrs. Seems it lasted a bit longer on honeycomb and had way better standby time. Maybe I'm just going crazy, could be a possibility also I guess.
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Hi there, I am very lucky to get seven hrs, that's reading emails and browsing - was much longer with Honeycomb

With ICS I almost hit 9hrs one time. On the average I get 8+ hours. With HC the average was 7 hours. I may be wrong but I experience noticeably larger battery life. Still the issues with ICS like user agent string of stock browser, app crashes and overall system stability bug me.

just fixed the battery drain issue and now averaging 8 hrs 45 min with very minor drain on sleep mode/standby
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Hi there, how did you fix the battery drain ?

pkfox said:
Hi there, how did you fix the battery drain ?
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Maybe this way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1539646

pkfox said:
Hi there, how did you fix the battery drain ?
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Also try the Battery Saver app, it reduced the screen power drain from over 50% to about 30%, a 20% savings!

pkfox said:
Hi there, how did you fix the battery drain ?
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Yea the link the person posted above. Go to developer settings and check stay awake. Then uncheck it again.
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tedr44 said:
Also try the Battery Saver app, it reduced the screen power drain from over 50% to about 30%, a 20% savings!
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Which one, specifically? There are several matches to "battery saver" in the market....

Motero73 said:
Maybe this way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1539646
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Tried that weeks ago didn't work for me
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tedr44 said:
Also try the Battery Saver app, it reduced the screen power drain from over 50% to about 30%, a 20% savings!
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Which one ?

Yep 8 hours on mine too.
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Post your Battery life here

I don't see a thread like this for the T-mobile HD2 so I figured we can have our own.
It would be nice if you included the following with your posts:
screenshots including on screen time, information about your rom, kernel, etc. and estimated talk, text, browsing, and gaming time, and what brightness you had your screen on (auto, full, etc.). If you use something like SetCpu with profiles list your profiles and settings here too.
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Good idea. Here some screenshots of my battery usage and system.
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jvzijp said:
Good idea. Here some screenshots of my battery usage and system.
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I get about a day on mine running Nexushd2-ics-cm9-hwa-v2.9a. I use setcpu to fine tune and use between 4 and 5ma on standby according to currentwidget. It is disappointing to see such a small battery in a power hungry phone. I do have the larger HTC battery but it makes the phone too big and bulky for me.
jvzijp said:
Good idea. Here some screenshots of my battery usage and system.
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Thanks for the screenshots, how much battery life do you get by one recharge.???
Screenshots don't say much, I think, as the use of the phone is always different.
After charging I can game about 4-5 hours straight on full brightness for my battery to be empty.
With a lot of standby and only screen on to Whatsapp/Kik/Text and brightness on 'automatic', it can last for 1-2days.
Only listening music all day it can last about a day.
Standby only it can last almost a week.
ROM: Xylon 4.2.2
Battery Capacity: 1230mAh (stock battery)
Charging using an external charger because the USB port is broken.
Unscrewed said:
Screenshots don't say much, I think, as the use of the phone is always different.
After charging I can game about 4-5 hours straight on full brightness for my battery to be empty.
With a lot of standby and only screen on to Whatsapp/Kik/Text and brightness on 'automatic', it can last for 1-2days.
Only listening music all day it can last about a day.
Standby only it can last almost a week.
ROM: Xylon 4.2.2
Battery Capacity: 1230mAh (stock battery)
Charging using an external charger because the USB port is broken.
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Whoa. I get 3-4 hours straight whatsapping/tweeting plus some reading with Kindle. My battery is gone, I guess.
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Unscrewed said:
Screenshots don't say much, I think, as the use of the phone is always different.
After charging I can game about 4-5 hours straight on full brightness for my battery to be empty.
With a lot of standby and only screen on to Whatsapp/Kik/Text and brightness on 'automatic', it can last for 1-2days.
Only listening music all day it can last about a day.
Standby only it can last almost a week.
ROM: Xylon 4.2.2
Battery Capacity: 1230mAh (stock battery)
Charging using an external charger because the USB port is broken.
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I guess your getting good battery life for 1-2 days on use of some specifc apps.:good:
My battery goes down in 6-7 hrs with normal use, time to change it i guess.
Deyinka said:
Whoa. I get 3-4 hours straight whatsapping/tweeting plus some reading with Kindle. My battery is gone, I guess.
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3-4 hours is too bad i guess. You really need to buy a new battery.
Because i get abour 6-7 hours from normal use, and about a day by just whatsapping or surfing.
Deyinka said:
Whoa. I get 3-4 hours straight whatsapping/tweeting plus some reading with Kindle. My battery is gone, I guess.
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Try wipe battery status. :good:
marcimix said:
Try wipe battery status. :good:
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That shouldn't do anything for a Li-ion battery.
However, using an external charger seemed to have doubled my battery life, as strange as it may sound.
marcimix said:
Try wipe battery status. :good:
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Wiping battery stats does nothing.It is just a myth.
Check this out : http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
I often get 2 days using (no data, wifi, no game)
That's acceptable
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I often get 2 days using (no data, wifi, no game)
That's acceptable
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That is pretty much acceptable. :good:
How often you use wifi, is it just for some time or for complete day?

Impressive battery life

So my battery has gone through 6 charge cycles, and I am now getting really good battery life with medium- heavy usage. Very impressed with the phones battery life. Approx 24 hours standby, 4 hours screen on and 30% percent battery still left today. Watched some YouTube, listened to lotsof songs,whatsapp,emails, browser fb etc
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Agreed, I am getting similar good battery life as well.
Same here. I'm actually satisfied with the battery!
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EnIXmA said:
So my battery has gone through 6 charge cycles, and I am now getting really good battery life with medium- heavy usage. Very impressed with the phones battery life. Approx 24 hours standby, 4 hours screen on and 30% percent battery still left today. Watched some YouTube, listened to lotsof songs,whatsapp,emails, browser fb etc
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Check wakelocks. If music is not taking up an hour or so of wakelock, you can still make it better.
So about 12 hours would be considered average/good?
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Daygo said:
So about 12 hours would be considered average/good?
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That... means nothing. 12 hours of screen on time is mind-blowing. 8 hours is some extremely optimized usage. 6-7 hours is about what most people should get. 4-5 hours means you have battery life issues. 4 and less means you have severe battery issues.
5 hours and less of screen on time before 1% means you need to diagnose wakelocks and rogue apps.
Ahh, Ok, I was thinking 5 was high.... Thanks for cleaning that up. I'm on the fence about getting this... Doing my homework now... Any complaints?
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EnIXmA said:
So my battery has gone through 6 charge cycles, and I am now getting really good battery life with medium- heavy usage. Very impressed with the phones battery life. Approx 24 hours standby, 4 hours screen on and 30% percent battery still left today. Watched some YouTube, listened to lotsof songs,whatsapp,emails, browser fb etc
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Have you rooted your phone and do some special optimizations?
Why my screen only on with 20 mins, and consumes about 4.5% power?
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Hunt3r.j2 said:
That... means nothing. 12 hours of screen on time is mind-blowing. 8 hours is some extremely optimized usage. 6-7 hours is about what most people should get. 4-5 hours means you have battery life issues. 4 and less means you have severe battery issues.
5 hours and less of screen on time before 1% means you need to diagnose wakelocks and rogue apps.
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Do you mean HTC One? I think my One can last only 5 hours if the screen is on.
How to address the problem? My screen is set at auto brightness, and power save mode is enabled except display option.
bfdream said:
Have you rooted your phone and do some special optimizations?
Why my screen only on with 20 mins, and consumes about 4.5% power?
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Do you mean HTC One? I think my One can last only 5 hours if the screen is on.
How to address the problem? My screen is set at auto brightness, and power save mode is enabled except display option.
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Better Battery Stats. Figure out what is holding partial wakelock. Disable anything involving location settings for Google Search and Google Maps/Latitude. If you have MSM_HSIC_HOST wakelock, you have to root and run a wireshark for a long idle period to determine what is killing battery life.
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Daygo said:
Ahh, Ok, I was thinking 5 was high.... Thanks for cleaning that up. I'm on the fence about getting this... Doing my homework now... Any complaints?
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Not really. I will note that MSM_HSIC_HOST wakelocks are seriously the most annoying things ever to figure out. I'm going nuts trying to reduce it, and fixing the issue requires root because you have to install a root application that can sniff network traffic to determine what's causing modem wakelocks.
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Better Battery Stats. Figure out what is holding partial wakelock. Disable anything involving location settings for Google Search and Google Maps/Latitude. If you have MSM_HSIC_HOST wakelock, you have to root and run a wireshark for a long idle period to determine what is killing battery life.
Yes, the MSM_HSIC_HOST wakelock exists for about 2 hours, and my battery only use 5 hours since last unplugged.
Is it serious problem? I have not unlock and root my phone, is there any other approach to detect that without root?
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OP what is your screen brightness set to?
simba2585 said:
OP what is your screen brightness set to?
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Automatic brightness
Just watched a hour and a half movie over wifi, lost only 15 percent. At 4 hours screen time with over 2 hours music played through the speakers. 15 percent left and been on WiFi most of the day and about 2_3 hours with lte on and Bluetooth
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just saw my gps was on.
maybe thats why my battery was draining a bit rapidly.
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confirm if your battery shows li po or li on using *#*#*4636#*#*
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just saw my gps was on.
maybe thats why my battery was draining a bit rapidly.
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I was always under the impression that the only time GPS was using the battery was when you could actively see the GPS logo in your notification bar so unless you were always running apps that would use it you didn't need to turn it off?
Usually get 2 days out of mine with a bit to spare..... i'm not too heavy a user in the week though.
Easily get 24 to 36 hours if i'm using it a lot at week.
Really pleased with it.
from 7am to 6pm my battery is left at about 14%. doesnt seem that great. pretty light usage.
only been cycled twice though, so will wait and see.
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OP what is your screen brightness set to?
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Auto. I am not rooted and am running lots of 3rd party apps
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I've learnt to cope with the poor battery life on my one x. Can't wait to get my One and not have to be careful all the time.
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My location settings were on during that time, could have gotten more than 5 hours if location was off and I used the 30% juice left.
I am going to test the bsttery with lte enabled all day tomorrow
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Poor battery life after November update

Hi guys,
Are you experiencing a poor battery life (both Screen on & Stand-by) after the last update?
Yes same here, about 10% battery loss in standby just within an hour of installing the update.
No such issue in update ,you need to calibrate your battery, sometime it is necessary to do it after update(not for everyone)
Download &install battery calibration app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
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Are you experiencing a poor battery life (both Screen on & Stand-by) after the last update?
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nope
rkview37 said:
No such issue in update ,you need to calibrate your battery, sometime it is necessary to do it after update(not for everyone)
Download &install battery calibration app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
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No need, just recharge battery, it will recalibrate itself, all these kind of apps are complete BS.
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sale 83 said:
No need, just recharge battery, it will recalibrate itself, all these kind of apps are complete BS.
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It's not like other crap app it really works if battery issue caused after ota update
Manual method of calibration
1)recharge your battery 100%& shut down,plug in charger it shows charged
2)power on phone plug in charger again it shows charged &just reboot
Enjoy
Apparently a simple restart worked for me
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Are you experiencing a poor battery life (both Screen on & Stand-by) after the last update?
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Nope & Nope
dante_tds said:
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No, good battery life here.
you need a screenshoot ?
No issues here, battery life is same as before.
No problems here. Battery life is stunning.
Maybe you should wait and give it a change to settle?
confirm that the battery life is equal to or better than October? should I upgrade to November?
Don't see anything different, battery seems the same to me.
I don't get that update till now.
Battery life
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Are you experiencing a poor battery life (both Screen on & Stand-by) after the last update?
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Yup.. am also facing the same issue
Someone please tell the max sot (screen on time) that they are getting after a full charge.Its better if someone can share screenshots.i am getting max 4 hrs sot but few users claiming that they are getting 7 hrs.Is my device faulty?
I get about 7 hrs or more depends on use, but currently @ 71% with 3 hrs SOT 2 of those hours were spent on gaming. Brightness at about 25% WiFi always on.
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I get about 7 hrs or more depends on use, but currently @ 71% with 3 hrs SOT 2 of those hours were spent on gaming. Brightness at about 25% WiFi always on.
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Are u on November update?
Yup.
Im facing standby drain after nov update too.
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Standby battery drain issue in HTC U Ultra!

Hi,
I have recently got a new HTC U Ultra from Dubai and found quick battery drain issue in it and I have to charge it twice a day. It only gives max 2 hours screen on time and even battery get drained when the phone is in standby mode. Can anyone help here, please?
Thanks in advance!
Show us battery history and battery usage per app then we could help.
Definitely not normal behavior. See battery history for potential problematic application causing the drain. If nothing can be seen you can try reset of the phone.
Join the club mate, same here brand new ultra here from Dubai.. I don't think it's good to check drain now.. is just the first week. That said try the wake lock detector app
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I have reset the device and till now it seems little better as after 44 mins of screen on time I still have 81% battery left. Thanks for all the suggestions guys!
Keep in mind that in the first 5 to 10 days android does many things in background till it sets up everything. I personally start looking at battery life after the first week of usage.
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I have reset the device and till now it seems little better as after 44 mins of screen on time I still have 81% battery left. Thanks for all the suggestions guys!
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just like you, i also notice standby drain, but didn't feel it as so bad as 2 hours SOT.... didn't feel the need to check the SOT, so honestly i don't know the numbers. i myself installed wakelock detector to see if there are anyything triggering the wakelocks.. will report back!
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Keep in mind that in the first 5 to 10 days android does many things in background till it sets up everything. I personally start looking at battery life after the first week of usage.
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yeah, thats why i am not worried at this point.
I have turned off the permanent secondary display and is on for the notifications only. Now it is giving me around 3.2 hours of SOT and I hope its fine.
rehmanbaig83 said:
I have turned off the permanent secondary display and is on for the notifications only. Now it is giving me around 3.2 hours of SOT and I hope its fine.
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I checked my device and have considerably low standby drain. Didn't measure yet, but when there is enough signal and when in WiFi, the battery holds up properly. I think 3.2 is still a little low, At least of 4 hours I expect.
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March update had significantly improved battery life

Guys how is the update treating you? I really am enjoying this update and i can see about 30-45 mins improvement in battery life. Would love to know your thoughts!
hi.
my pixel updated yesterday.
i will check it today.
can you post your sot ?
Gmola said:
hi.
my pixel updated yesterday.
i will check it today.
can you post your sot ?
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Hi sorry i didn't take it but i am getting around 6h 45mins+ and i only used to get 5h 45mins before on the same usage pattern.
Also before i was using dark mode all the time and now i am using scheduled dark mode. So i believe i can squeeze in 15-20 mins more if i use dark mode only. This is great. I think they updated the pixel 4 first as users reported improvement in battery life in Jan or Feb.
My battery is at 90% health, so that is really gre8 seeing it boosted by an hour.
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Hi sorry i didn't take it but i am getting around 6h 45mins+ and i only used to get 5h 45mins before on the same usage pattern.
Also before i was using dark mode all the time and now i am using scheduled dark mode. So i believe i can squeeze in 15-20 mins more if i use dark mode only. This is great. I think they updated the pixel 4 first as users reported improvement in battery life in Jan or Feb.
My battery is at 90% health, so that is really gre8 seeing it boosted by an hour.
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WOW
6HR+ sot is very good.
i have max 5 hour(wifi), with 80% healt (accubattery)
you alos use accubattery ?
Gmola said:
WOW
6HR+ sot is very good.
i have max 5 hour(wifi), with 80% healt (accubattery)
you alos use accubattery ?
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Yeah i got the battery health from accubattery. I think you should definitely see an increase with this update. let me know once you test the battery
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Yeah i got the battery health from accubattery. I think you should definitely see an increase with this update. let me know once you test the battery
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yeah, of course.
Indeed man. I am losing 1 percent overnight (7 hours deep sleep).
nothing change for me.
losing 3-4 % night (8 hour)
I think battery has worsened, but the animations are much much smoother. Especially the home gesture animation
When I say worsened, it went from 6h to 5.5h. Still a beast.
I always lose 7% over 7-9 hours, the wifi draining problems persist
Im getting anywhere between 6 to 8 hours sot. Depending what usage I've put the device through. But I do think dark mode really helps a lot on this device.
I agree. Look at that straight line last night overnight! That's beautiful!
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kmry said:
I always lose 7% over 7-9 hours, the wifi draining problems persist
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That must be because of WiFi scanning options being turned on or something. If you investigate properly you will get better stand by time
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That must be because of WiFi scanning options being turned on or something. If you investigate properly you will get better stand by time
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i had turned off all the other options involving WiFi ( WiFi search for location services, Actívate wifi when home, and open network notifications)
kmry said:
i had turned off all the other options involving WiFi ( WiFi search for location services, Actívate wifi when home, and open network notifications)
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Can you post screenshots of the drain? It could be any app you've misbehaving or some services updating itself at night when your phone is ideal and connected to WiFi
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That must be because of WiFi scanning options being turned on or something. If you investigate properly you will get better stand by time
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Can you post screenshots of the drain? It could be any app you've misbehaving or some services updating itself at night when your phone is ideal and connected to WiFi
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These are the screenshots, the only thing that seems weird is the photos app, but in the past i have disabled it, and the wifi drain still happened.
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These are the screenshots, the only thing that seems weird is the photos app, but in the past i have disabled it, and the wifi drain still happened.
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The photos app does look suspicious, maybe you can check the settings for uploading or backing up your photos.
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The photos app does look suspicious, maybe you can check the settings for uploading or backing up your photos.
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Will do the same today disabling it, my honor 8, had only 0.1%/h and had the same apps, but will try it again tonight
I think my battery use has gotten a bit better. I used to get about 5hrs SOT..... Not I get about 5.5hrs. battery health @89% with moderate to heavy use
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Will do the same today disabling it, my honor 8, had only 0.1%/h and had the same apps, but will try it again tonight
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Also if you've always on display, you should turn it off

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