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This has been bothering me....
Is anyone else completely happy with the Evo battery life? I came from the Hero and the Evo without a doubt beats it. I mean I was charging my Hero halfway through the day and I was barely using it while working.
Anyone else feel the same?
Mine dies pretty quick. I should probably keep the brightness down but I love how it does it automatically. Will a change in Rom help with the problem?
kyleblakepeters said:
This has been bothering me....
Is anyone else completely happy with the Evo battery life? I came from the Hero and the Evo without a doubt beats it. I mean I was charging my Hero halfway through the day and I was barely using it while working.
Anyone else feel the same?
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I have a Nexus One and we had to deal with alot of these same sort of whining battery life threads when it came out.
Give it time... the whiners will eventually go away
I use Power Manager Pro, and have wifi off when not connected to my Mac (which is only done at home) and my brightness low. I am continuously pulling RSS feeds all day with NewsRob Pro and checking email while on a regular work day.
I can easily pull a day and a half with my Evo without charging, compared to my Hero which would only last about 6-8 hours with the same settings. As I type this, I am currently tethering after installing the latest Wifi Tether and the battery is holding steady.
Gotta love it.
Curious, mine was fine until the OTA update. Did you guys get it yet? What radio version, software version you running? My drain isn't coming from calendar/flickr either.
1.39...5.31 (Baseband)
1.32.651.6 (software)
I OTAed
Unrevoked.
running .6 (obviously)
I also have turned off data and call roaming (South Florida is one of Sprint's best networks, no need to have to be searching for better strength towers.)
Some people were reporting 100% sync uptime after Toast's root. Could you be experiencing that?
I'm still on the stock image. No roots for me yet. I was running fine for about 2 weeks until that OTA.
I do have bad signal at work, so i was thinking that maybe it was just searching for signal all day, but still doesn't make sense to me yet why it was ok before.
I'm not having any battery issues. I'm also really careful with what i leave on, remove all the bloatware and not really into facebook and the other social bull ****.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...ockwidget-insane-battery-life-40-hours-2.html
For other people....I'm going to be giving this a shot tomorrow all day. If it works as intended, this time tomorrow I should be around 50% battery.
I've had good luck removing my flickr account.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695515
im using the overclock widget already, and i must say... its helping, but i cant tell if its becasue of it or all the sprint and htc bloat ive removed since they were all done in the same day...
This is the result of:
-Turning off Auto sync *background data is fine
-Rooting & removing all the crap that starts up in the background
-Startup Cleaner 2.0 (app)
-If at home or office use WiFi only and turned the sleep policy to never
-Gps off
-Bluetooth always on. As from what I understand it only drains while in use which seems to be true.
-4g off
That's pretty much all with medium to heavy use. I had about 10 phone calls today. I txt all the time so I don't keep track and well yeah...that's it. I know its not omfg amazing but it literally gets me trough "a day".
Strangely enough, I have very good battery life.
WiFi: Off
GPS: Off
4G: Off
Bluetooth: On and off
Exchange: Push
IMAP Email: 3 accounts, checks every 5 minutes
Weather, Facebook and Flickr: Default interval
Screen brightness: Auto
Gmail, gvoice and gchat: On
LWP: Off
Using this configuration, I have had this result today:
8.5 hours since last charge
80% battery remaining
1 hour of continuous talk today
2-3 hours of continuous 3G useage and browsing
on my phone right before i plugged it i had 20 hours uptime and 6.5 hours awake time....and i was using i pretty moderately. checking xda shooting some videos with qik, emails, texting with google voice, basically everything i would normally do with my old g1 (which i had to charge at least 2 times a day) so this one has superb battery life... i really dont know what people are complaining about. one thing i do want to note though, is that the very first charge only lasted about 6 hours before my device died and that was 6 hours on NONSTOP use (was playing with it soo much haha) i think the very first charge is always going to drain super quick.
These are my sync settings
FACEBOOK FOR HTC SENSE:my sync settings are update every 2 hours, sync live feed checked, sync contacts checked.
GOOGLE: sync calendar is unchecked, sync contacts is checked and sync gmail is checked.
NEWS: is set NOT to sync (i can check news on internet myself)
STOCKS: is set NOT to sync
TWITTER: update schedule every 2 hours, download last 50 tweets, sync peep checked, sync friend checked
i dont have a flicker account so i didnt set that up...
also in the calendar app, press menu, then "more", then "calendars", and i uncheck everything except my calendar.
I had really good battery life until the OTA as well...can I revert back without rooting..
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I get get to 20%ish after about 24 hours or so with medium to high usage. High usage is streaming Pandora for a while. I streamed it last night for about 2-3 hours with hardly a noticeable reduction.
My details:
4G Off - I'm in Portland, but can't get 4G at any of the places I frequent, so whats the point?
WiFi - On at home, off outside the home.
Bluetooth Off - On outside the house.
GPS - ON
Screen Brightness - 30%
Animations - Off
Gmail & FriendStream - AutoUpdate On
Oh, and no OTA update and unrooted.
Edit: Also using Live Wallpapers if that helps at all..
This thread reminds me of car forums...where there is always that group of people that claim to average 10mpg better than you have ever even peaked at.
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This thread reminds me of car forums...where there is always that group of people that claim to average 10mpg better than you have ever even peaked at.
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Yeah, that reminds me..my Toyota's gas mileage sucks monkey balls. I'm only averaging 20mpg when it's supposed to be at least 22 in the city..WTF Toyota!
What were we talking about?
I noticed a HUGE increase by just turning off 4G, probably because it does nothing but "search" for a signal. It was my single biggest drain.
Sirchuk said:
Yeah, that reminds me..my Toyota's gas mileage sucks monkey balls. I'm only averaging 20mpg when it's supposed to be at least 22 in the city..WTF Toyota!
What were we talking about?
I noticed a HUGE increase by just turning off 4G, probably because it does nothing but "search" for a signal. It was my single biggest drain.
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Feel lucky, my Toyota gets 15.5 mixed
Same with 4G here, in fact that issue alone is making 4G over all much less attractive. 4G can't get through many commercial buildings here in Houston 9Like my downtown office) therefore I need to disable it. Then when I do need to use it, and have access...I have to enable to 4G antenna...which takes as long as it would just to pull the info over 3G when you count in the 4G activation lag.
It angers me, all the negative battery press on this phone. I seem to get great battery life with mine. I fully charged before much use, not sure if that makes a diff, I know the batteries now are not supposed to have memory. With the bad press I thought I would full charge first. Also I read somewhere that HTC recommends you charge the phone before using it for a minimum of 8 hours? Mine seemed to take a long time to fully charge the first time.
4g off (no 4g in Utah anyway)
Display brightness (cranked all the way
sync off
moderate txting and calls
some gaming and playing videos (to show off the new toy)
1 hour of sprint navigation (gps on) and played with google earth a few times
several trips to the market for apps and games
14 hours later I still have 40% battery left
WTF are people complaining about, they only get 6-8 hours with 4g blazing. turn it off retard!!! Why do you need it on all the time anyway? If your going to surf in a 4g area, flip it on, when your done turn it off. The 4g seems to me mostly hype anyway and not that much faster than 3g in the tests I've read.
To touch on the MPG joke in this thread:
In this new EVO car, when your driving 140 mph and hit the NOS to punch it up to 180 you will have poor gas mileage... Forget all the other cars on the market that cant do 140 and have no NOS... BAD EVO BAD, what a crappy car, I'm not buying it.
That just made me think.. Someone should make a widget to turn on 4g and have that nitrous sound kick in.. What a bad ass phone
I have a galaxy note 4 on sprint. When I first got the phone, it ran great. I love the long battery life and multitasking abilities. However, I've noticed recently that it seems to be running slower. I'm on stock, unrooted firmware and I've only had the phone about six months. When I first got the phone, battery life was excellent. I only seemed to lose about ten percent battery for an hour of normal use (screen on, low/moderate processor use). Now I lose about twice that. I also downloaded the AnTuTu benchmark test and ran it. When I first did this with this same phone six months ago, I achieved a score of around 50,000 but I ran the test again last night and scored 27,000. I had a friend run the test on his note 4, also about six months old, and he scored about 50,000. I also cannot connect to a Bose Soundlink Bluetooth speaker that I used to have no problems with (still with same note 4 unit) and I had to factory reset my android wear watch to get it to connect to my phone, another issue I've never had. On top of that, I can no longer get the phone to vibrate with the arrival of a text message. It will give a notification and sound, but no vibrate. These issues are frustrating, especially as the phone is only around six months old. Any help with this stuff would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I have a galaxy note 4 on sprint. When I first got the phone, it ran great. I love the long battery life and multitasking abilities. However, I've noticed recently that it seems to be running slower. I'm on stock, unrooted firmware and I've only had the phone about six months. When I first got the phone, battery life was excellent. I only seemed to lose about ten percent battery for an hour of normal use (screen on, low/moderate processor use). Now I lose about twice that. I also downloaded the AnTuTu benchmark test and ran it. When I first did this with this same phone six months ago, I achieved a score of around 50,000 but I ran the test again last night and scored 27,000. I had a friend run the test on his note 4, also about six months old, and he scored about 50,000. I also cannot connect to a Bose Soundlink Bluetooth speaker that I used to have no problems with (still with same note 4 unit) and I had to factory reset my android wear watch to get it to connect to my phone, another issue I've never had. On top of that, I can no longer get the phone to vibrate with the arrival of a text message. It will give a notification and sound, but no vibrate. These issues are frustrating, especially as the phone is only around six months old. Any help with this stuff would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I think the current and last few versions of Google Play Services have a battery drain bug. Google Play Services (which I'll abbreviate as GPS) is updated automatically via the Play Store, but you don't confirm the update like a normal app. So it basically updates without your knowledge.
My battery life was normal on my ATT Note 4 about 2 weeks ago, with Location always on (power saving), power saving mode on, bluetooth always on, and my Moto 360 connected. Lately though, the battery life has started dropping faster. I used to get home from work with about 75% battery left. Now I'm between 50 and 65%.
If GPS is indeed the issue, then all we can do is wait for Google to fix it in a newer version. You can uninstall the updates, or even manually install a certain version, but within about 24hrs, GPS will automatically update itself to the latest version again.
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Thanks for the information! I didn't think of that. Would that cause my AnTuTu benchmark score to be low, as well? The phone just seems to lag sometimes and the benchmark score seems to be evidence that it's more than just my perception
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Thanks for the information! I didn't think of that. Would that cause my AnTuTu benchmark score to be low, as well? The phone just seems to lag sometimes and the benchmark score seems to be evidence that it's more than just my perception
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Maybe?
You can try uninstalling (which will downgrade to a very old version) GPS updates via settings-general-applications-all-google play services
You won't be able to properly use many Google apps while downgraded though, and GPS while probably auto update over night. But while downgraded, don't open Play Store and try Antutu again to see if there is any improvement. Run your phone like normal too and see if battery life improves. If all this is better, then it's definitely GPS.
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Not sure what happened, but the benchmark score is back up (around 46000). Battery life has not gotten any better, and I'm having more Bluetooth problems, specifically with my LG g watch now. This is frustrating. Anybody have any idea? Would it be within the realm of possibility to get the phone replaced under warranty? I've only had it since February. I'm also having problems with text messages actually sending. They show as sent from my phone, but people don't receive them
Hello, I just bought an S8 as an upgrade from my beloved S6E+. when I firt turned it on the phone was on 55% I started using smart switch to transfer stuff from my old cellphone over WIFI (over 10gb of stuff) while the phone was updating from the playstore and downloading a software update and updating galaxy apps (too many stuff) I felt the phone getting really warm then it became HOT not uncomfortably but very very noticeable.,I downloaded an app to see the temp. and it reported 59 C for the CPU and 42 for the Battery. then it jumped to 69C for the CPU and 47 for the processor. I waited till everything finished, updated the sofware and reststed. it idled at 42 - 45 C.
I live in a hot country and the outside temprature was 38 C. but my S6E+ never reached such temperatures, and I don't want to bring any drama but the whole Note7 thing is making me paranoid about using the phone while its hot like that. so is this normal??
1. The fact that you're living in a hot country matters. Its a factor. Coz apparently ambient temperatures affects the feel of materials such as glass or Aluminium. So take note of that.
2. You've said it yourself,you made the phone go through a hell doing stuff all at once. Let it settle. Give it days,maybe weeks.
3. If after all that you're still experiencing the overheating,then it could be;
a)Just a software hitch which could be fixed by a simple factory reset or software update.
b) If someone else report the same issue,then it could be a common issue with the phone
c) If no one reports similar issue and yours persist,then you probably have a defective unit,and you should consider replacing it.
I recently pulled the trigger on the MPHS25.200-23 official Android N software update for the Moto X Pure Edition. Aside from the concerns I listed among the release notes in the rollout discussion thread, I have been reasonably satisfied with the update. However, battery life absolutely plummeted after installing it. A hard reset was executed before (and after) the update and a cache/dalvik/art wipe was completed a couple days after getting everything set up.
Battery percentage drops at record speeds while the screen is on (although standby time is still okay). Using a Nexus 6 for reference, I compared results using Ampere and didn't notice any significant difference in power use (at least while idling with the screen on). Using the CPU usage monitor tool found under the debugging panel, nothing seems out of the ordinary here either (idling and light use shows a figure in the 9s, typically).
At this point, I figured misbehaving software could be ruled out, so I turned my attention to the battery. On my laptops, I can use either the OEM's power manager application or a Windows commandline tool (in Windows 8 and newer) to generate a battery health report, showing the "design capacity" and the actual "full charge capacity" in mah, which is a very good indicator of a battery's health. I struggled to find an equivalent to this on Android, but, after some digging, did find some promising leads
The trouble is that the results aren't consistent. On the Nexus 6, running "dumpsys batterystats | grep "Capacity"" shows a "Capacity" of 3220, which just happens to match the design capacity of the Nexus 6's internal battery. Running "dumpsys batteryproperties" shows "2910000" at the bottom next to "Full charge." Since the Nexus 6 is close to 3 years old now, it would make sense that the battery is only good for 2900 mah. Everything makes sense so far...
On the Moto X Pure Edition, however, "dumpsys batterystats | grep "Capacity"" yields a puzzling "Capacity: 1948." "dumpsys batteryproperties" yields "Full charge: 1948000". This makes no sense. If "Full charge" represents the design capacity, (not taking usage into account) why would it show as only 1948 on the Moto X?
Now, I'm opening this up to the community. What do you see when you run the first command?
Code:
dumpsys batterystats | grep "Capacity"
Do you see the expected design capacity of 3000 or do you also get a small (or smaller) number like I did?
Either way, I'd like to see people's results for the second command as well:
Code:
dumpsys batteryproperties
How close is the resulting "Full charge" value to the rated 3000?
The battery never was a 3000mah. That was a lie.
Have you done a factory reset since the update?
I get:
estimated battery capacity : 2996 mAh
and :
ac: 0 usb: 1 wireless: 0 current_max: 0 voltage_max: 0
status: 2 health: 2 present: 1
level: 96 voltage: 4411 temp: 267
current now: -182951
charge counter: 2905046
current now: -185
cycle count: 2
Full charge: 2730600
although my battery misbehaves big time ! from full charge to 80 in less than 10 minutes.
Thank you for the input
autosurgeon said:
The battery never was a 3000mah. That was a lie.
Have you done a factory reset since the update?
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I figured as much, but not a value nearly half that! Definitely performed a hard reset, both before and after the update.
roozbeh101 said:
I get:
estimated battery capacity : 2996 mAh
and :
ac: 0 usb: 1 wireless: 0 current_max: 0 voltage_max: 0
status: 2 health: 2 present: 1
level: 96 voltage: 4411 temp: 267
current now: -182951
charge counter: 2905046
current now: -185
cycle count: 2
Full charge: 2730600
although my battery misbehaves big time ! from full charge to 80 in less than 10 minutes.
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Interesting. This is more in line with what I was expecting to see on my own system, although it's surprising to hear that your phone still misbehaves as it does.
Bill720 said:
Interesting.
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Bought February this year:
Going to try battery replacement
At this point, I'm going to chalk the issues up to a failing battery and simply consider this a coincidence. Does anybody who has done a battery replacement recently recommend any good brands or vendors who sell a decent battery that I won't have to bend to make fit? One eBay seller who I have contacted says that he normally sells the flat ones, but will provide a curved battery in its place if the customer specifically asks for it at checkout.
It may not be a bad battery, as I had the same issues and I recently replaced my battery with a battery the seller swears is brand new, and again it is behaving exactly like the old battery.
So I am at a loss as to what to try. How do you fool the system into thinking the battery is brand new?
I just decided to check the dumpsys batterystats and it shows absolutely nothing
dumpsys does not give me any information at all, is this a permission problem?
The plot thickens...
roadrun777 said:
It may not be a bad battery, as I had the same issues and I recently replaced my battery with a battery the seller swears is brand new, and again it is behaving exactly like the old battery.
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Interesting. What time of runtime (screen-on time) are you seeing? Do you remember what seller/store you got the replacement from? Was the replacement flat or curved, like the original battery?
roadrun777 said:
I just decided to check the dumpsys batterystats and it shows absolutely nothing
dumpsys does not give me any information at all, is this a permission problem?
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Don't try "dumpsys batterystats" without the "grep "Capacity"," else you'll get so much output that the device might freeze and then reboot.
The fact that you're getting no output with either command seems unusual though. I don't know if it'd make a difference for sure, but, out of curiosity, do you have busybox installed?
Yes I have busybox installed, let me go check version.
busybox 1.27.2
I thought maybe it was because I was plugged in but I installed a terminal app get root and check it internally without it being plugged in and nothing, there is absolutely no data.
So I am at a loss as how to fix this. Something is either hijacked the system and is hiding the data or there is no data and the processes that create it have not run correctly, which then means I will have to hunt down exactly what processes create the info.
Any help would be appreciated as I've been doing stuff like this without help for decades and it gets very time consuming to track down bugs for developers that are too busy driving around in their humvee's and flying to Europe to care.
Strange output; are you running the stock rom?
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Yes I have busybox installed, let me go check version.
busybox 1.27.2
I thought maybe it was because I was plugged in but I installed a terminal app get root and check it internally without it being plugged in and nothing, there is absolutely no data.
So I am at a loss as how to fix this. Something is either hijacked the system and is hiding the data or there is no data and the processes that create it have not run correctly, which then means I will have to hunt down exactly what processes create the info.
Any help would be appreciated as I've been doing stuff like this without help for decades and it gets very time consuming to track down bugs for developers that are too busy driving around in their humvee's and flying to Europe to care.
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That's really weird that the command takes, but displays no output. My Samsung Epic (with a CyanogenMod build of Ice Cream Sandwich) simply scolds me when trying to put the commands in. The only time when I can achieve no output (on the Pure Edition or Nexus 6) is if I forget to go root before typing the commands. Are you on the stock rom?
No good, it seems
Well, I received the replacement battery today and installed it. To my surprise, however, there was almost no measurable change in runtime; I charged it up and burned down half a tank with only about 45 minutes of screen-on use! I ran those commands again, and this time, both values indicate a touch over 3000. I'll give it a few cycles to see if things return to normal, but if not, then I'm at a loss. Are there any negative consequences to "downgrading" to Marshmallow?
Unusually high power draw spotted, as reported by Ampere
Quick addendum: I tested again using a program called Ampere, and found that current draw is actually a bit on the high side. Comparing alongside the (nearly identically-configured) Nexus 6, using multi-window, I found that current draw is actually often doubled, and sometimes even tripled.
For example, when playing an HD YouTube video, the Nexus 6 maintained a draw of around 330, give or take a few dozen (fluctuating between around 300 and 430). However, the Pure Edition was between 800 and 1400, typically settling at around 1100 to 1300. Thinking that there may be some kind of software issue after all, I rebooted into "Safe Mode" and tried using the device that way, but saw no perceptible change (at least as best as I could tell without being able to run Ampere).
With that in mind, I'd like to pivot more to a discussion of what kind of power draw everybody is seeing in Ampere under light usage and video watching, regardless of what Rom or kernel you're running. Is anyone else seeing high power draw while doing relatively little?
200-22 was the ticket!
Well, this will be the second time that a weird, untraceable issue wound up being solved by flashing back to stock and upgrading. I installed that 200-22 factory image, took the new update, (October security level) and everything appears to be fine and dandy once again. Runtimes are much better and Ampere reports much lower power consumption (idling below 250ma and light use in the mid-to-low hundreds; which is much less than half of what I was seeing before).
Idle power draw (prior to restoring most of my apps) was holding steady at around 1.4% per hour, averaged over about 24 hours of non-use. And that's without any of the Amplify or Greenify tweaks.
I'll have to withhold final judgement until all of my data and software is restored, but things are looking really good so far. That "Sprint" factory image appears to have saved this Verizon-network-user's bacon.
Update...
Maybe that wasn't it after all. Battery life started tanking again within a couple of weeks after the operation, so there must be some software I'm installing that isn't playing nice somehow (even though Wakelock Detector shows no noteworthy periods of unrest). It's odd because I have almost the exact same software load on my backup phone (the Nexus 6) and can leave that thing in the backpack for days on end without it losing much charge at all, while the Pure Edition is managing to run down at a rate of about 4 percent per hour, screen-off and unused.
While the device is awake and running, Ampere shows an idle power draw of between 450 and 1000 mah, which, while (probably) not as bad as before, is still consistently higher than it should be.
The silver lining to this whole thing is that I now have so little time in the day to actually use the phone that it usually doesn't matter. If I get the chance again, I might switch back to the Nexus 6 temporarily again to troubleshoot the Pure Edition more carefully. There has to be something that I'm missing.
same issue here after updating to NPHS25.200-15-3, i have to charge the phone almost twice as before. looking at apps usage shows nothing unusual. i'm checking battery performance using accubattery
Power use figure?
hagi_mostafa said:
same issue here after updating to NPHS25.200-15-3, i have to charge the phone almost twice as before. looking at apps usage shows nothing unusual. i'm checking battery performance using accubattery
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What's your idle power draw as measured by Ampere?
Bill720 said:
What's your idle power draw as measured by Ampere?
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Check these two shots
Going to have to find the answer the hard way
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Check these two shots
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Are you running stock rooted? At this point, I'm beginning to wonder if I got a bum replacement battery, since the whole thing just shut down spontaneously on me one day at around 20%. I'll try switching back to the Nexus 6 and start over with the Pure Edition again, this time installing things one-at-a-time (or in waves while making liberal use of backup images) to see what (if anything) is not sitting right with it. The most perplexing thing of all is that I have the Pure Edition configured almost identically to the Nexus 6 in terms of tweaks and software, and yet the Nexus lasts 2-4 times longer.
Even right now, I'm sitting at 4% with about 32 minutes of screen-on time and 36 minutes of background audio playback over about 12 hours. In contrast, the Nexus 6 is at 74% with just over 1 hour of screen-on time and 52 minutes of screen-off audio playback (and yes, I do have an active Sim card installed in it too, albeit on a different carrier). In essence, the Nexus managed to do twice as much with one quarter the power draw, so I know for a fact that something is wrong, either in hardware or in software, and my experiments over the course of the coming weeks will confirm, one way or another, which is the case.
This whole experience really has soured my whole opinion of this phone. I still believe that it's one of the best smartphones ever made, but there's no doubt that it has a serious problem, and I'm disappointed by both possible outcomes. If it ends up being software, then it'll be plain that Lenovo screwed up in a big way to make it so that I could duplicate the same weird bug twice in a row with a fairly common/minimal setup that should not cause any problems. On the other hand, if it ends up being hardware, then that'll be the end of the line for this phone, plain and simple, seeing as few of the available battery replacements don't completely suck. Honestly, I'd have replaced this phone sooner, given how much time it's cost me, but there's just nothing affordable I could go to that wouldn't be a compromise. I guess the dream of "decent smartphone" just wasn't meant to be for any longer than that first year .
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Are you running stock rooted? At this point, I'm beginning to wonder if I got a bum replacement battery, since the whole thing just shut down spontaneously on me one day at around 20%. I'll try switching back to the Nexus 6 and start over with the Pure Edition again, this time installing things one-at-a-time (or in waves while making liberal use of backup images) to see what (if anything) is not sitting right with it. The most perplexing thing of all is that I have the Pure Edition configured almost identically to the Nexus 6 in terms of tweaks and software, and yet the Nexus lasts 2-4 times longer.
Even right now, I'm sitting at 4% with about 32 minutes of screen-on time and 36 minutes of background audio playback over about 12 hours. In contrast, the Nexus 6 is at 74% with just over 1 hour of screen-on time and 52 minutes of screen-off audio playback (and yes, I do have an active Sim card installed in it too, albeit on a different carrier). In essence, the Nexus managed to do twice as much with one quarter the power draw, so I know for a fact that something is wrong, either in hardware or in software, and my experiments over the course of the coming weeks will confirm, one way or another, which is the case.
This whole experience really has soured my whole opinion of this phone. I still believe that it's one of the best smartphones ever made, but there's no doubt that it has a serious problem, and I'm disappointed by both possible outcomes. If it ends up being software, then it'll be plain that Lenovo screwed up in a big way to make it so that I could duplicate the same weird bug twice in a row with a fairly common/minimal setup that should not cause any problems. On the other hand, if it ends up being hardware, then that'll be the end of the line for this phone, plain and simple, seeing as few of the available battery replacements don't completely suck. Honestly, I'd have replaced this phone sooner, given how much time it's cost me, but there's just nothing affordable I could go to that wouldn't be a compromise. I guess the dream of "decent smartphone" just wasn't meant to be for any longer than that first year .
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after several cycles accubattery shows that a full battery just works no more than 3 hours. in some cases it even lasted for just one hour or less!
so of course there's something wrong here.
the issue has appeared exactly since i upgraded from 6.0.1 to version 7, both official xt1572 asia ds. just flashing boot and system files. no root custom recov or else.
so i really doubt that this could be of a hardware failure. also i'm using the same collection of apps as in rom 6.0.1 so this is not an app issue.
as accubattery shows battery health and power usage, battery health is 80% at 2580mah and power usage is high, something between 500 up to 700 mah.
the only possible cause resides in rom or flashing. i'm gonna try flashing us rom and if the problem continued, i'm gonna flashing latin ds with boot system and modems.
Gratitude for the information
hagi_mostafa said:
the issue has appeared exactly since i upgraded from 6.0.1 to version 7, both official xt1572 asia ds. just flashing boot and system files. no root custom recov or else.
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Good to know. Mine is the North American XT1575 variant, but I'm in the same boat otherwise. The trouble seemed to start almost immediately after installing the new 7.0-based update, so there's a good chance that it's related to this in some way. Mine is rooted, (stock rom/kernel, however) but it's good to know that somebody running stock is seeing the same thing.
hagi_mostafa said:
so i really doubt that this could be of a hardware failure. also i'm using the same collection of apps as in rom 6.0.1 so this is not an app issue.
as accubattery shows battery health and power usage, battery health is 80% at 2580mah and power usage is high, something between 500 up to 700 mah.
the only possible cause resides in rom or flashing. i'm gonna try flashing us rom and if the problem continued, i'm gonna flashing latin ds with boot system and modems.
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I don't think that it has anything to do with the software region. I'm on the standard North American build with the same problem, so the issue (if in software) must be a broader one. I'm going to try to switch back to the Nexus 6 today so that I can start the long process of starting over on the Pure Edition and getting to the bottom of just what causes things to crash & burn.
Sooo, something is very off with Google Fit/MyFitnessPal. In the latter, it's showing calories burned from steps as being REALLY high. Like today, I'm only at approximately 450 steps, and it says I've burned 122 calories from that. Yesterday, I had around 12,000 steps, and it said I was close to having burned 1000 calories. This is WAY off. I should be burning a little under 300 calories per 6000 steps or so by my weight. Anyone else experiencing this? I have a Fossil Q Explorist HR.
Also, to add, I had a Huawei Watch 2 last year (sent it back, terrible battery life), and for the week I had it, steps and calorie count were pretty spot on.
Lastly, my weight lifting/strength training/HIIT workouts are not showing in MFP. My treadmill warmups are, even my treadmill cool-down this Saturday after doing HIIT did. But nothing else does. I see them in the Fit app though.
I'm wondering if this is stemming from problems associated with the new Fit update?