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I need help with my g2. my battery life on this phone is very inconsistent, sometimes i can go 50+ hours on it with 6 hours screen time, but lately my battery has been draining for no reason at all. Im not even using the phone and its rapidly draining for no reason. This all started happening when the gps kept on turning on i read about the carrier iq service and the google location to turn them off. But it doesn't really help much. On my battery manager it says that the android system is first with like 85% or more and it says that my gps has been on for hours and hours even though it hasn't. I don't know what to do i can barely make it through a day now. Should i root my phone? I like the lg ui and i want to keep all of the features such as q slide and especially knock on and off. Can someone help me out if you have had the same experiences. I want to turn off the iq agent permanently. Is this possbile? I have never rooted a device before so im a complete beginner.
fromc2m said:
I need help with my g2. my battery life on this phone is very inconsistent, sometimes i can go 50+ hours on it with 6 hours screen time, but lately my battery has been draining for no reason at all. Im not even using the phone and its rapidly draining for no reason. This all started happening when the gps kept on turning on i read about the carrier iq service and the google location to turn them off. But it doesn't really help much. On my battery manager it says that the android system is first with like 85% or more and it says that my gps has been on for hours and hours even though it hasn't. I don't know what to do i can barely make it through a day now. Should i root my phone? I like the lg ui and i want to keep all of the features such as q slide and especially knock on and off. Can someone help me out if you have had the same experiences. I want to turn off the iq agent permanently. Is this possbile? I have never rooted a device before so im a complete beginner.
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Download better battery stats and see what wakelocks are causing the drain. Are you using Google+? Are you on Wi-Fi all day? Have you tried uninstalling all your apps and adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit? Something is keeping your phone running...
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Download better battery stats and see what wakelocks are causing the drain. Are you using Google+? Are you on Wi-Fi all day? Have you tried uninstalling all your apps and adding them back one at a time until you find the culprit? Something is keeping your phone running...
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Yes i have downloaded better battery stats, and im not using google plus. And im not on wifi all day. The battery is just draining for no reason i even end alot of the running apps such as google location service, facebook, carrier iq agent. I was wondering if i could root my phone and delete carrier iq and get those apps that can help with the battery life, yet keep the original lg ui with all the features.
fromc2m said:
Yes i have downloaded better battery stats, and im not using google plus. And im not on wifi all day. The battery is just draining for no reason i even end alot of the running apps such as google location service, facebook, carrier iq agent. I was wondering if i could root my phone and delete carrier iq and get those apps that can help with the battery life, yet keep the original lg ui with all the features.
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There are a lot of custom roms built off the stock LG ui
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I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?
Yup. Have tried factory resetting twice. Clearing cache. Disabling nearly everything possible. No avail.
Mine was draining a bit faster than normal after the update. I let it run all the way down, and charged it up, and it has been fine since then.
Hope it works out for you guys.
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I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?
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Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?
Mine drains extremely fast but seems to charge just as fast
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Ive gotten better battery performance since setting up Battery Guru and disabling all app refresh unless I open them. Still seeing very fast battery drain, but it's definitely improved.
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YUP. I work 3rd shift and used to be able to go all night with one charge. Streaming music on wifi all night. Now I have to recharge at lunch.
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Yeah I've noticed that the battery life is a little worse than the past two updates.
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FAst drain slow charge
The battery on mine would drain quick and charge forever. It would take me close to 12 hours charging it to be full. Any help?
Camera bug = Battery Drain
Did some looking around, and it appears to be a bug related to the camera (i know, sounds a little odd).
Here's one link of many I've found regarding this issue...Samsung has acknowledged an issue and is working on a fix:
"cultofandroid.com/53672/google-vows-fix-android-4-4-2s-camera-battery-drain-bug"
I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.
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I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.
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I posted this in the 4.4.2 issues thread, but will post here:
EAS continuously running....I found this out as well after the update. I cant believe its low priority for such a major issue. I switched mine to manual just to be safe. I also found a major battery drain issue when surfing on the internet via LTE service.
Any way, I wanted to see if others could replicate my issue:
-Stock (non-rooted) S4 phone with the recent 4.4.2 update on LTE with 5 bars of service.
-I am using Chrome to surf the internet.
-I have Exchange and Gmail accounts. Gmail is set to PUSH and exchange is set to manual. (My hope is that having Exchange set to manual I avoid the EAS issue described above.)
-Majority of the boatware turned off
Scenario: While using Chrome to surf via LTE service I am literally able to see a 1% decrease in battery ever 2-3 minutes of surfing on the internet. Wifi is better, but still drains faster than 4.3.
Can anyone else try and replicate and respond back? I may have to do a hard reset to see if it will remedy the issue. :-/
Thanks,
Eric
My battery life has been exponentially better since enabling battery guru. Use inactivity power boost to disable all app refresh after 15 minutes of inactivity. Set everything to manual refresh.
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Yes I have had worse battery drain with the KitKat update. Hoping for an AT&T update since we dont have the option to flash roms...
What are you actually seeing for battery consumption?
I have google+ at the top of the list with >30% use. Definitely new after 4.4.2 update.
Seemed to be ok for a day and then popped back up. I'm going to try to see if it's caused by 1st use of the camera.
Live wallpapers causing bigger drain on kitkat I found
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Live wallpapers causing bigger drain on kitkat I found
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I'm not using live wallpapers.
Rebooting the phone and avoiding use of the camera did not help.
I uninstalled all google+ updates that that has worked so far, but definitely not a long term solution.
Well I would up flashing the MK2 revert, then changed my mind and re-updated to NB1 (these two processes involved many full-wipes and even flashing a .pit file). Installed all my apps one-by-one. I'm now getting better battery life. Still higher than previous usage by Android System (usually ends up being 14-17%).
NB1 now works pretty damn well for me. Once we get root I will be able to disable some stupid things like the boot sound and charger connection sound, along with a few apps that just don't need to be running like Knox and Security Policy Updates...
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ryujeff said:
Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?
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I have a big battery drain and serious wifi issues, cant connect to wifi cuz some security is blocking it, at the moment I have rooted the device and am going to install a custom rom,screw Samsung and their BS
In the past week or so, I've noticed that my battery is draining unusually fast. I will take the phone to bed with me (I use it as an alarm clock) at 100% battery and I can wake up 7 hours later with it at 82%. When I look at my battery information, I see steady, solid drain over that time, with the biggest offender being Google Services. When I look in Wakelock Detector, I see the most usage (though seemingly not a ton) by Android System.
I found some tips on using Wakelock Terminator in Xposed to filter some things from Google Play Services from triggering wakelock, and I was optimistic, but it didn't seem to help.
Any advice?
Greenify
flu13 said:
In the past week or so, I've noticed that my battery is draining unusually fast. I will take the phone to bed with me (I use it as an alarm clock) at 100% battery and I can wake up 7 hours later with it at 82%. When I look at my battery information, I see steady, solid drain over that time, with the biggest offender being Google Services. When I look in Wakelock Detector, I see the most usage (though seemingly not a ton) by Android System.
I found some tips on using Wakelock Terminator in Xposed to filter some things from Google Play Services from triggering wakelock, and I was optimistic, but it didn't seem to help.
Any advice?
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Are you on a stock rom? Did you try greenify? It's on the play store. It kills the apps background services and the app itself until you start the app or the app is started by another app or service. Soon as the app os no longer needed it is turn back off. This program does not freeze apps it prevents them from running until needed.
Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned my rom and such. I'm running ForceROM, a relatively older version (maybe 2.3?), since I never felt the need to update.
I haven't tried Greenify. Haven't actually heard of that one before. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip.
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Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned my rom and such. I'm running ForceROM, a relatively older version (maybe 2.3?), since I never felt the need to update.
I haven't tried Greenify. Haven't actually heard of that one before. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip.
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Try a custom kernel like KToonsez in addition to Greenify. It's amazing what you can end up doing with that kernel
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ForceROM includes Ktoonsez kernel. For the last 8 months or so, I've had great battery life. This is a sudden and recent change, which I'm assuming to be caused by an update of some Google app (such as Play Services).
How do I use Greenify? Or do I just install it and it does magic?
flu13 said:
In the past week or so, I've noticed that my battery is draining unusually fast. I will take the phone to bed with me (I use it as an alarm clock) at 100% battery and I can wake up 7 hours later with it at 82%. When I look at my battery information, I see steady, solid drain over that time, with the biggest offender being Google Services. When I look in Wakelock Detector, I see the most usage (though seemingly not a ton) by Android System.
I found some tips on using Wakelock Terminator in Xposed to filter some things from Google Play Services from triggering wakelock, and I was optimistic, but it didn't seem to help.
Any advice?
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Do you have auto-sync enabled? What Google Services do you have enabled for sync? I used to have a similar issue but turning off sync for things I don't use (like newsstand, etc) helped my battery life a lot.
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flu13 said:
ForceROM includes Ktoonsez kernel. For the last 8 months or so, I've had great battery life. This is a sudden and recent change, which I'm assuming to be caused by an update of some Google app (such as Play Services).
How do I use Greenify? Or do I just install it and it does magic?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552570
That thread may help you with this.
my last resort advice would be to flash a 4.3 rom......your not missing out on much not running KK.....
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I highly recommend trying out NEGALITE WonderRom r14.
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pacoz said:
I highly recommend trying out NEGALITE WonderRom r14.
agreed..!
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I believe that installing Greenify might have done it. Battery usage looks much better today. I'll do a real test tonight when I get it charged to 100% before bed.
Well, I'll be...
I think that the problem is wifi. When I'm at home, I'm on wifi, and the battery is constantly draining. When I'm not at home, and on mobile data, the battery is well-behaved.
What's up with that?
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Well, I'll be...
I think that the problem is WiFi. When I'm at home, I'm on WiFi, and the battery is constantly draining. When I'm not at home, and on mobile data, the battery is well-behaved.
What's up with that?
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Some apps can be setup to sync over WiFi only instead of 3G/4G data. but you have to check what apps would be the culprit. I know Google play, dropbox's picture upload feature can be set to download/upload/update over WiFi instead of data. But the only way to know is to see what apps connect over WiFi.
WiFi is suppose to give you better battery life since its signal is usually nearby and your phone doesn't have to use more power to find a better signal like it does with 3g/4g. I know for me it does since there are very few towers in the middle of the dessert.
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No, I use Swiftkey.
So, interesting twist to this saga. Leaving wifi off takes away the solid blue bar on the battery screen, but I still see the same level of battery drain (about 18% overnight). Very intriguing.
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I believe that installing Greenify might have done it. Battery usage looks much better today. I'll do a real test tonight when I get it charged to 100% before bed.
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Agreed helps a lot when charging phone. May get a lil glitchy if you run it on every app.
flu13 said:
Well, I'll be...
I think that the problem is wifi. When I'm at home, I'm on wifi, and the battery is constantly draining. When I'm not at home, and on mobile data, the battery is well-behaved.
What's up with that?
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Sounds like you're losing power to things syncing over wifi. Maybe try just giving it a week and watching it to see if it settles down. Google play sometimes settles down on its own. I also vote to check out greenify. With the donation package you can work wonders at calming down power hungry apps, even system apps.
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My situation has suddenly taken a turn for the much worse. I don't know what's going on. I haven't added anything new or changed any settings since installing Greenify a while back. Now, the battery is just tanking. I got up to 100%, ran Battery Calibration and now, about 2.5 hours later, I'm at 82%. Could this just be a problem with the battery itself? Do I need to replace it?
Are you on MJA?
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flu13 said:
My situation has suddenly taken a turn for the much worse. I don't know what's going on. I haven't added anything new or changed any settings since installing Greenify a while back. Now, the battery is just tanking. I got up to 100%, ran Battery Calibration and now, about 2.5 hours later, I'm at 82%. Could this just be a problem with the battery itself? Do I need to replace it?
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Honestly there are a few days where the battery life suddenly drops dramatically. I've experienced this on unrooted mf9, mk2, and nae. Give it some time and see if battery life comes back up. You can reboot the phone to kill a rouge app that might be the cause.
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This is the first I've heard the term MJA, so I don't think I'm on that.
There definitely do seem to be days where battery is worse than others. And I do typically try to reboot when I see it acting too squirrelly. I'll just keep keeping an eye on it. Weird-ass phone...
So I just OTA updated to 4.4.2 and have noticed my battery is draining a lot faster on 4.4.2 than when I was on 4.2.2. Under usage there is Bluetooth using 15% battery with 1hr48mins of stay awake time. Is there something I can do to remedy that? KitKat is great and all but I've gone from an average of 7-9 hours of on screen time to 3 hours or so since the 4.4.2 ota.
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Factory reset fixed mine, but I'm on TMO and not ATT.
I am running on 4.4.2 with root and am seeing Bluetooth using 4-5% under battery usage when it is supposedly off. I did inadvertently factory reset my phone last night and still see the issue. Hopefully there are some other solutions.
bbenz3 said:
I am running on 4.4.2 with root and am seeing Bluetooth using 4-5% under battery usage when it is supposedly off. I did inadvertently factory reset my phone last night and still see the issue. Hopefully there are some other solutions.
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My bluetooth was at 18% battery usage. I did a full discharge and recharged it last night and that dropped it down to using 5% but seeing as how bluetooth isn't active at all on my phone it shouldn't be in the list. Interestingly I have narrowed it down to a KitKat bug bc I factory reset my device to 4.2.2 and the bluetooth usage issue isn't present. So it's a bug. I don't know if it is actually using battery or not or if the device is just reporting falsely because when I go under running apps Bluetooth isn't running BUT... when I click all apps and click bluetooth it has the option to force stop bluetooth. So it's as if it IS running but it isn't running. Makes no sense. Hopefully AT&T will issue a patch for it. Until they do I am staying on 4.2.2
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My bluetooth was at 18% battery usage. I did a full discharge and recharged it last night and that dropped it down to using 5% but seeing as how bluetooth isn't active at all on my phone it shouldn't be in the list. Interestingly I have narrowed it down to a KitKat bug bc I factory reset my device to 4.2.2 and the bluetooth usage issue isn't present. So it's a bug. I don't know if it is actually using battery or not or if the device is just reporting falsely because when I go under running apps Bluetooth isn't running BUT... when I click all apps and click bluetooth it has the option to force stop bluetooth. So it's as if it IS running but it isn't running. Makes no sense. Hopefully AT&T will issue a patch for it. Until they do I am staying on 4.2.2
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For me everything is much quicker and significantly better battery life since upgrading to KK and using a few Xposed modules along with Greenify and the firewall. I wouldn't go back to 4.2.2 just b/c of a Bluetooth glitch, however annoying it currently is.
bbenz3 said:
For me everything is much quicker and significantly better battery life since upgrading to KK and using a few Xposed modules along with Greenify and the firewall. I wouldn't go back to 4.2.2 just b/c of a Bluetooth glitch, however annoying it currently is.
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Yeah but see what you had to do to get where 4.2.2 is? You had to use xposed And Greenify to keep your wakelock in check. I will agree that kitkat runs circles around 4.2.2 in terms of speed but imo if it comes at the expense of battery life and forces me to jump through hoops then I'm good with waiting until the Googs patches it. Google is aware of the issue and are working on a patch.
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Especially since I get 7-9 hours of on screen time. I'm not gonna complain about 4.2.2 lol
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I noticed an increase in battery life going from rooted 4.2.2 with greenify and firewall to 4.4.2 stock no root. When I got root on 4.4.2 and started using a couple modules in xposed along with greenify it only got better. The first run down of my battery netted 58 hours with about 12% battery left.
I noticed after using my Bluetooth for an extended period that I now have two Bluetooth objects listed under battery usage. One has the Bluetooth logo and the other has a system styled logo with a small Bluetooth logo embedded into it. Not sure if that will be of help to anyone or not.
bbenz3 said:
I noticed after using my Bluetooth for an extended period that I now have two Bluetooth objects listed under battery usage. One has the Bluetooth logo and the other has a system styled logo with a small Bluetooth logo embedded into it. Not sure if that will be of help to anyone or not.
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I call kitkat shenanigans
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Hey Guys,
I have a nexus 6p the 64 gb version ,and its one of the greatest phones I have ever owned. Everything about it is great, unfortunately the past couple of weeks my phone battery started to drain extremely fast. My phone now doesn’t last a full day and it constantly overheats. I’m a very heavy user, I almost do anything electronically on my phone, but before the battery drain my phone didn’t overheat nor its battery drained that fast.
There is no apparent reason why this is happening, I did not change my frequency or intensity using my phone. But I think there is possible reasons:
-Google latest update
- Charging my phone BRIEFLY with a non-certified type C cable (I didn’t know there was an issue with those cable before)
- A certain application that runs in the background (phone is always warm and when on usually overheats even if just browsing)
One of the great things I admired about my Nexus was its long lasting battery life and rapid charging. I’m really disappointed, I really liked this phone and wanted to last. Please if anybody faced the same issue or have any suggestions, solutions etc, please share. I have attached a report showing my battery use.
Thanks Aalot
**my phone is not rooted or anything it’s just plain stock android
The first thing I would have pointed out, is a custom kernel, tweaked inappropriately. But you ruled that out.
Now since your device is not rooted, there are not much ways to track the drain. I certainly believe that, there is a specific app that is causing the drain.
First of all, thanks for your response.
A small percentage of the battery is consumed by apps the rest is for the screen
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noname42 said:
First of all, thanks for your response.
Do you know any application that can measure each app battery consumption. Because it will be very difficult determining which app is sucking all the juice
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GSAM would, but I heard it is a battery drainer itself on the 6P.
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GSAM would, but I heard it is a battery drainer itself on the 6P.
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The drain was there before Gsam actually I used it to investigate the cause of battery loss and forget about how it can measure app consumption
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I just got mine last Thursday and I'm also a little disappointed with the battery life. When I set up the phone, there were 3 or 4 google updates and the phone only lasted for less than 8 hours. I'm thinking it's due to the whole set up process.
I did a hard reset due to missing wifi passwords and I'm currently monitoring the battery drain.
Coming from OnePlus One, the battery life on this is really disappointing. But then again, I always have my anker battery charger with me. I'm hoping once the apps settle, battery life should improve.
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I uninstalled FB, Messenger, and a couple of other apps that were restored from initial set up, powered off and wiped cache. So far, battery is holding up. If drain continues, I will factory reset and install apps one by one
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I uninstalled FB, Messenger, and a couple of other apps that were restored from initial set up, powered off and wiped cache. So far, battery is holding up. If drain continues, I will factory reset and install apps one by one
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I am having some success with wifi off during sleep and turning off bluetooth.
I find my wake locks come and go - some days doze works like a charm while other's it disappoints.
Facebook messenger used to drain my last phone battery (HTC One M8) at an alarming rate. I've just used the Web browser since.
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Hey guys, I removed alot of applications, and btw I never installed Facebook messenger on my phone. But the battery is still draining.
The phone is constantly warm, and sometimes hot, even if its on standby.
Any suggestions?
Its very strange that the majority is not facing this issue (it's a good thing),
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This is happen to me too. No new app. It is appear that if I reboot the phone after disconnect from from the charger then it is doze normally otherwise android system will keep the phone awake. Bluetooth does not seem to matter on or off. This is happen after april ota.
noname42 said:
Hey guys, I removed alot of applications, and btw I never installed Facebook messenger on my phone. But the battery is still draining.
The phone is constantly warm, and sometimes hot, even if its on standby.
Any suggestions?
Its very strange that the majority is not facing this issue (it's a good thing),
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Go to Settings >Battery and see what is causing it. It may be an app that you updated. Try wiping cache or uninstall/install the updated app. If still draining, you may have to factory reset from boot and install apps one at a time instead of restoring backup.
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erm1001 said:
This is happen to me too. No new app. It is appear that if I reboot the phone after disconnect from from the charger then it is doze normally otherwise android system will keep the phone awake. Bluetooth does not seem to matter on or off. This is happen after april ota.
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Yeah, I think the last update was the root cause, there is no other reason. I will do a factory reset soon and will update you
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erm1001 said:
This is happen to me too. No new app. It is appear that if I reboot the phone after disconnect from from the charger then it is doze normally otherwise android system will keep the phone awake. Bluetooth does not seem to matter on or off. This is happen after april ota.
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Same here. Tired of this sutuation already, sometimes it works properly 1-2 % even 0 on morning, but sometimes it loses 10-15 %, I didn't install any new applications in monthes, it just started.