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Increase battery life by 50%

I simply switched off location services and my battery life has gone up by ~50%.
I was really surprised that the location services took this much energy. I usually have Wifi off except when at home (if that's important) I haven't really missed the lack of location services - I just remember to re-enable it before running "Places" or similar

I'll try it, thanks.
I'm overseas on holiday and have had no data for 2 days (no wifi no mobile data). The battery hardly drained (%30). I was playing games and texting so I am now convinced that it is data and voice calls that drain battery.

gf_gollum said:
I simply switched off location services and my battery life has gone up by ~50%.
I was really surprised that the location services took this much energy. I usually have Wifi off except when at home (if that's important) I haven't really missed the lack of location services - I just remember to re-enable it before running "Places" or similar
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How you switched off location services ?

I want to know how you turn off that as well thanks!

I'm guessing menu>settings>location and security> switch off wifi location and GPS location
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robotnoize said:
I'm guessing menu>settings>location and security> switch off wifi location and GPS location
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Yes - that's all I've done.

Yes, all options is turn off.
My battery:
1d 1h 56min on battery
and now battery level is 38%.
Is the result same with you?

I'm getting ~10% drop over 10 hours when the phone is idle overnight. Obviously battery usage increases with calls etc. to 26% over 10 hours with some light calls and 3G based app updates. (no Wifi)

Increase battery life 10000% by turning phone off and removing battery
Number picked at random, YMMV.

DirkGently1 said:
Increase battery life 10000% by turning phone off and removing battery
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I've tried this. Phone doesn't work

I turn on "Use only 2G networks" (in Settings --> Wireless & networks --> Mobile networks) and the battery life is incredibly increased ^^.
In addition, I also turn off the "Data enabled", whenever I need to access the 3G networks, I just turn them on again.

OferR said:
I've tried this. Phone doesn't work
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I'll give you £20 for it
Seriously though, rather than trying to eke out every last milliamp of power from their batteries, i wish people would just buy a spare one and use that instead.

DirkGently1 said:
Increase battery life 10000% by turning phone off and removing battery
Number picked at random, YMMV.
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I've tried that but my phone is bricked now. Doesn't boot anymore. xD
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Battery tip for people with bad battery life.

I've had bad battery life since I bought this phone on release day. I would get no more than 1.5-2 hours screen on time. The battery wouldn't last more than 12 hours. I've been messing around with it since then but still had bad battery life up until the last few days. Now I get 3.5-4 hours screen on time and I'm a moderate user.
Here is what I did:
1. Go to Google maps and then go to settings and untick anything that is ticked then click on "location reporting" and set it to do not update your location.
2. Go into the phone settings>location services and untick everything. When you want to use maps just turn on gps.
3. Get the app "battery calibration". First charge your phone to 100% and keep the charger plugged in and then go to the app and Press calibrate. Then use your phone till the battery is dead (turns off) and plug the charger in and let it charge to 100% while it is off.
Turn it on and then use it till the battery is dead again and charge while off to 100%.
I'm not saying this is guaranteed to work for you but it has for me.

You know my problem is I did that and when on Jb lib battery drain like crazy.Back on ICS no problem with battery can you explain that why on ICS calibration is not needed ???
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goose2515 said:
You know my problem is I did that and when on Jb lib battery drain like crazy.Back on ICS no problem with battery can you explain that why on ICS calibration is not needed ???
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O end yes maps drain battery I turn this off
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uf21 said:
Up until now I had bad battery life since I bought this phone on release day. I would get no more than 1.5-2 screen on time. The battery wouldn't last more than 12 hours. I've been messing around with it since then but still had bad battery life up until the last few days. Now I get 3.5-4 hours screen on time and I'm a moderate user.
Here is what I did:
1. Go to Google maps and then go to settings and untick anything that is ticked then click on "location reporting" and set it to do not update your location.
2. Go into the phone settings>location services and untick everything. When you want to use maps just turn on gps.
3. Get the app "battery calibration". First charge your phone to 100% and keep the charger plugged in and then go to the app and Press calibrate. Then use your phone till the battery is dead (turns off) and plug the charger in and let it charge to 100% while it off.
Turn it on and then use it till the battery is dead again and charge while off to 100%.
I'm not saying this is guaranteed to work for you but it has for me.
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First two items I agree on. GPS uses up a lot of battery, though from personal experience, it didn't dent my battery too much anyway as long as I don't have running apps using it.
But the last point. I believe those battery calibrations are actually useless. There was some article from the android team describing why.

The 2nd and 3rd are completely useless.
People who use gps know that even if you tick those location services, it only gets enabled when an app requires gps. Thua, battery is only lost if you use loads of navigation services. Unchecking those won't do any good.
Battery Caliberation is just what you can call the perfect reading that is shown on your status bar. Ultimately, whether you caliberate or not, battery gets charged upto 100% only. It won't surely exceed that.
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uf21 said:
I've had bad battery life since I bought this phone on release day. I would get no more than 1.5-2 hours screen on time. The battery wouldn't last more than 12 hours. I've been messing around with it since then but still had bad battery life up until the last few days. Now I get 3.5-4 hours screen on time and I'm a moderate user.
Here is what I did:
1. Go to Google maps and then go to settings and untick anything that is ticked then click on "location reporting" and set it to do not update your location.
2. Go into the phone settings>location services and untick everything. When you want to use maps just turn on gps.
3. Get the app "battery calibration". First charge your phone to 100% and keep the charger plugged in and then go to the app and Press calibrate. Then use your phone till the battery is dead (turns off) and plug the charger in and let it charge to 100% while it is off.
Turn it on and then use it till the battery is dead again and charge while off to 100%.
I'm not saying this is guaranteed to work for you but it has for me.
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A better idea:
Disable auto sync for accounts
Disable GPS (and wifi gps)
Disable auto backup of Gmail account
Set wifi sleep policy to “when plugged in”
Disable motion
Check your apps settings and disable useless background sync​

Setup a static IP via your router.

I had issues with Chrome Sync - when enabled it prevented phone from going into deep sleep. So if you use Chrome and struggle with battery life this is one more thing to look at ...

Official Facebook app uses a lot of power and waking device for many times. Use browser for facebook or alternatives...You will see the diference !

Darkside Agent said:
A better idea:
Disable auto sync for accounts
Disable GPS (and wifi gps)
Disable auto backup of Gmail account
Set wifi sleep policy to “when plugged in”
Disable motion
Check your apps settings and disable useless background sync​
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good list id like to add:
freeze unused apps/battery hogs if used sparringly (with titanium backup)
set wifi to always on, switch off manually when not in use
firewall apps that dont require internet

I agree on the Facebook app. I will charge my phone to full, reboot it, and then let it sit overnight without using any apps and it will be one of my top processes in better battery stats. I really like using facebook simply for the picture and phone number syncing. I guess I could always go back to haxsync. On my Galaxy Nexus since I can't use facebook app to sync I just use mobile page and it definitely is better on battery life.
I've been trying to improve my battery life on 4.1.1 LIB as if I leave it on Wifi overnight with no use after reboot and full charge I'll see Deep Sleep at maybe 90% if I'm lucky. I'm losing almost a full hour of sleep time over the course of 7-8 hours. I think Facebook is part of it, also it seems to be worse when I use the S3's built in alarms.

Go into Settings -> Location and disable everything? You mean that we should disable:
1) Use wireless networks (location determined by wi-fi and/or mobile networks). I really don't see how this saves battery.
2) Use GPS satellites. This uses up battery ONLY when an app requires GPS (and when the icon shows).
3) Use sensor aiding. See above.
4) Location and Google Search. (only used to get your location when you're connected to GPS and/or wifi/mobile network).
I really don't see how this saves battery.
On a side note, one might want to freeze unwanted apps, not use too many live wallpapers, sync only when needed, and get rid of unwanted widgets. THAT might help.

Better tip. Use your phone with everything turned on as it was designed like I do and get 4 hours + screen on time, and 1 to 2 days useage depending on how much it's used.. simples...

I really don't see the point of buying a phone like this and turning everything off!
Google now won't work properly with all the location stuff switched off.
I always get through the day with everything turned on, in use power saving at work and switch off wifi that's it.
If the battery runs down have a back up waiting, galaxy s3 owners are always going on about it being good that our phone has a removable battery and iphone doesn't but there are still many people not happy that their battery runs down quick!
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The best thing I ever spent on for this phone was the official samsung battery kit. At least I don't have to worry about the battery at all and I can leave all the features on.
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The best app to see exactly what's happening on the phone is "Better Battery Stats".
I can have access to all partial wavelocks and see exactly what app is sucking my battery like a vampire on a virgin.
Companies creates amazing devices but forgot to create the amazing batteries that go with them!

DeadSOL said:
Go into Settings -> Location and disable everything? You mean that we should disable:
1) Use wireless networks (location determined by wi-fi and/or mobile networks). I really don't see how this saves battery.
2) Use GPS satellites. This uses up battery ONLY when an app requires GPS (and when the icon shows).
3) Use sensor aiding. See above.
4) Location and Google Search. (only used to get your location when you're connected to GPS and/or wifi/mobile network).
I really don't see how this saves battery.
On a side note, one might want to freeze unwanted apps, not use too many live wallpapers, sync only when needed, and get rid of unwanted widgets. THAT might help.
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Yes that's true but this is not for everyone. I don't use Google now and why should I use wireless networks when there is a built in GPS.

Thank you OP. That was the problem with my phone. Now its awake when the screen is on. Before that, it was awake every 5 minutes. !!!!

And after you've turned every single feature off, you can stand back and admire your Nokia 3310

boundy said:
And after you've turned every single feature off, you can stand back and admire your Nokia 3310
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You're only turning of location services. Why does the phone need to know where you are 24/7? Just turn it on when you need to use maps or location. Not hard.
My car was designed to be driven, does that mean it should be left on while I'm not using it? Think about that.

terranoid said:
Thank you OP. That was the problem with my phone. Now its awake when the screen is on. Before that, it was awake every 5 minutes. !!!!
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Glad I could help.

[Q] Google Maps is consuming lots of battery

Over the weekend I bought a new Galaxy S4 on the Bell network in Canada (model SGH-I337M). I used it Saturday and Sunday without any problems, getting about 4-5 hours of screen on time per day. On Monday I went to work and used my phone a lot less, but noticed I only got about 2.5 hours of screen on time before I had run down the battery. I looked at the battery stats and saw that Maps was consuming a lot of battery (considering I had not opened Maps that day), but thought little of it. Yesterday my battery life was even lower, after 1 hour of screen on time I had about 50% battery left and Maps was responsible for 70% of battery usage.
Here are screenshots I took at the end of yesterday to show the battery consumption:
End of day screen on time
Battery graph (note that Maps is using about 70% of my battery)
Usage details for Maps
Why did Maps keep the phone awake for almost 2 hours when I didn't even open it? This morning I've been off the charger for 1.5 hours and Maps has already had 10 minutes of stay awake time.
I've rebooted the phone, disabled location sharing (Latitude), disabled GPS (as you can see though, Maps only used the GPS for 2.5 minutes) and I don't know what to do now to fix this. Does anyone know how I can stop this?

disable the map's app if u don't use it

Blackwolf10 said:
disable the map's app if u don't use it
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I do use Google Maps fairly often, I'd rather avoid disabling it if I can.

Go to settings / more / application manager / maps >> force stop >> clear data & cache >>> reboot
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Go to settings / more / application manager / maps >> force stop >> clear data & cache >>> reboot
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It seems like that's helped, for now at least...Maps still claims to be taking up most of the battery but stay awake time has only been about a minute and a half. Thanks!

In google maps app setting disable location reporting and enable location sharing.
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Did you use a widget that uses maps on your homescreen.
I added a go home button to my homescreen. It drained my battery. Took me a while to find the culprit.
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Vosje986 said:
Did you use a widget that uses maps on your homescreen.
I added a go home button to my homescreen. It drained my battery. Took me a while to find the culprit.
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I was using the weather widget that was already on the homescreen but I removed it to see if that was the problem, it wasn't.
Interestingly enough however it still says Maps is responsible for 63% of my battery usage...with 7 minutes 26 seconds of stay awake time after 10 hours. Screen (with 1.5 hours screen on time) is at 24%, and I have 52% battery remaining. I installed BetterBatteryStats but I don't see any unusual wakelocks or anything like that.

Sadly I do not have any advice to you. Just posting to let you know that I am also in the same boat.
For the past three days, Maps has done this. Today, it was fine. I changed nothing in between then and now. Weird.

got_milk said:
Over the weekend I bought a new Galaxy S4 on the Bell network in Canada (model SGH-I337M). I used it Saturday and Sunday without any problems, getting about 4-5 hours of screen on time per day. On Monday I went to work and used my phone a lot less, but noticed I only got about 2.5 hours of screen on time before I had run down the battery. I looked at the battery stats and saw that Maps was consuming a lot of battery (considering I had not opened Maps that day), but thought little of it. Yesterday my battery life was even lower, after 1 hour of screen on time I had about 50% battery left and Maps was responsible for 70% of battery usage.
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Got my t-mobile UK 9005 yesterday and after just 30 mins Maps was using 14% of my battery second only to the screen. That's default just turned it on. Something very wrong here. (rebooted a few times and rooted)
Left the device over night first thing this morning checked battery. Maps 63% battery usage and battery had gone from 99% to 82% while just on standby. Something very wrong here!
Now I noticed that i have app like DailyMotion and Deezer installed for me that cant be uninstalled without a root app like debloater. Wondering if the issues here are less android OS and more badly behaving apps grabbing location data. (made all the more difficult by Plays auto download of old apps, hard to diagnose which app is the culprit)
Ive reset to factory settings and prevented any auto installs and after 3 mins theirs is no sign of Google Maps being used... wonder if we need to factory reset our device to wipe this issue out?
Can we start to collate the problem? Please state which handset model you have, firmware and network.
GT-i9005 / UAMDD / T-mobileUK (EE)

Perhaps some of the new Samsung services?

JmJ17 said:
Perhaps some of the new Samsung services?
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About one hour in since i factory restored the handset, setup G+ and a few other known location hogs and Google maps has NOT returned to my battery stats! as I said earlier it was their from the moment I turned the device on when I got it.
Give a factory reset a try and see if you get the same result as me folks...
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androidizen said:
About one hour in since i factory restored the handset, setup G+ and a few other known location hogs and Google maps has NOT returned to my battery stats! as I said earlier it was their from the moment I turned the device on when I got it.
Give a factory reset a try and see if you get the same result as me folks...
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I've created a video explain the problem I had in more detail and show the fix that worked for me, hope it helps others:

I tried a factory reset last night but again this morning Maps was keeping the phone awake (about 5 minutes of stay awake time after an hour and a half off the charger). I disabled Location History in the Maps app and now Maps has dropped right off of the battery stats screen, and it's been gone for a couple of hours now. If anyone else is having this issue, it might be worth a shot - I don't use/care about Location History anyway.

HOW TO:
Go to : [Phone setting => Accounts => Google => Location setting => and TURN IT OFF!!]
Fully charge your phone and job done... no more maps on stats.......
enjoY!!

djembey said:
HOW TO:
Go to : [Phone setting => Accounts => Google => Location setting => and TURN IT OFF!!]
Fully charge your phone and job done... no more maps on stats.......
enjoY!!
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But it's this setting supposed to be turned on if I use Google Maps or Google Now? I use these two quite often.

Disabled auto location updating and sharing, etс but maps are giving me headache constantly. Once they ate 30% of batter overnight and currently network location passive collector wakelock is troubling me.

Al Gore said:
Disabled auto location updating and sharing, etс but maps are giving me headache constantly. Once they ate 30% of batter overnight and currently network location passive collector wakelock is troubling me.
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Damn. This is giving me huge headache. If I hold my phone for 10 mins using internet, battery drains about 5%. Insanity.

henrykkim said:
Damn. This is giving me huge headache. If I hold my phone for 10 mins using internet, battery drains about 5%. Insanity.
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Well it's about right mathematically. 5% = 10 mins so 100% = 200 mins = 3.3 hours of onscreen time. Personally max I've managed to get is 4 hours, very disappointing battery life so far for me.

There is another Maps / location power sucking app called Story Album ....Samsung Bloatware I guess. Anyway when you open the app, goto settings, click Home City > Select Method > set to None. In the lower part called Album content de-select City information, Location etc..

Turn off lication reporting and tick location sharing in maps app settings->location
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[Q] Android OS accounting for a huge part of battery usage

Hello all.
First off, bear with me if this has been discussed before, I have searched on google and in previous threads here (including the amazing 58.5 hr standby and 6 hr. usage thread) but I cannot find the culprit of the huge Android OS drain.
The battery lasts about 4.5 hrs of screen on time , which is pretty neat but nowhere near what other people are reporting. I know the battery needs to go through a few cycles before reaching its full potential, but the Android OS drain is what bothers me. Please note that I am unrooted due to warranty issues and an unreliable rootchecker.
I have done the following:
Disabled bloatware
Disabled LG MIT (P.S Do you recommend me to change other settings from the hidden menu?)
Disabled auto sync and backup in the settings menu.
Disabled Google Location services from Google Settings, although I kept the location settings in the settings menu due to widget.
I installed Lux to prolong battery life and it only operates upon waking the device.
Installed BBS and Wakelock detector
BBS shows 154 partial wakelocks in just 3 hours of standby from WifiOffDelayIfNotUsed and NetworkLocationLocator 191 partial wakelocks.
Wakelock detector shows a fair amount of Facebook wakelocks (86 in 3 hours - could that be the culprit?) and Viber with 21 wakelocks. This makes me miss Greenify - damn!
To round this off, can anybody please give me advice on how to solve this drain? As previously mentioned I am not willing to root it just yet. Feel free to include perfomance boosting tips as well if you have any
Thanks in advance.

vPro97 said:
Hello all.
First off, bear with me if this has been discussed before, I have searched on google and in previous threads here (including the amazing 58.5 hr standby and 6 hr. usage thread) but I cannot find the culprit of the huge Android OS drain.
The battery lasts about 4.5 hrs of screen on time , which is pretty neat but nowhere near what other people are reporting. I know the battery needs to go through a few cycles before reaching its full potential, but the Android OS drain is what bothers me. Please note that I am unrooted due to warranty issues and an unreliable rootchecker.
I have done the following:
Disabled bloatware
Disabled LG MIT (P.S Do you recommend me to change other settings from the hidden menu?)
Disabled auto sync and backup in the settings menu.
Disabled Google Location services from Google Settings, although I kept the location settings in the settings menu due to widget.
I installed Lux to prolong battery life and it only operates upon waking the device.
Installed BBS and Wakelock detector
BBS shows 154 partial wakelocks in just 3 hours of standby from WifiOffDelayIfNotUsed and NetworkLocationLocator 191 partial wakelocks.
Wakelock detector shows a fair amount of Facebook wakelocks (86 in 3 hours - could that be the culprit?) and Viber with 21 wakelocks. This makes me miss Greenify - damn!
To round this off, can anybody please give me advice on how to solve this drain? As previously mentioned I am not willing to root it just yet. Feel free to include perfomance boosting tips as well if you have any
Thanks in advance.
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I don't know how to solve the problem, but I can tell you this regarding root: Flashing a KDZ file after doing a full factory reset makes the roottripper reset too, including a showing of UNROOTED in the download mode.

Awesome news! Makes me reconsider rooting my device. I would still want to know what I can do without rooting. Thanks a lot for the info ?
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Use Better Battery Stats to see exactly what is causing wakelocks and GSam Battery Monitor to see what's using other things.
"A huge amount of battery" is meaningless without context. If it says "50%" but that's .5%/hr, it means NOTHING else was doing anything really.

Disable KnockON, then Android OS will shrink to a few percents in your statistics.
I have tested it out, KnockON is causing the most part of Android OS.
Via LG G2

Wifioffdelayifnotused can be caused by going in and out of service. Disable optimizing in Wi-Fi, disable disconnect on low signal, set sleep policy to never.

vPro97 said:
Awesome news! Makes me reconsider rooting my device. I would still want to know what I can do without rooting. Thanks a lot for the info ?
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khaytsus said:
Use Better Battery Stats to see exactly what is causing wakelocks and GSam Battery Monitor to see what's using other things.
"A huge amount of battery" is meaningless without context. If it says "50%" but that's .5%/hr, it means NOTHING else was doing anything really.
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well. As stated in OP I am using BBS but I will try out Gsam battery.
You've got a point there, but I'm not seeing 24 hours of standby, which annoys me. A side note- if there was no' something' draining my battery wouldn't it show as "device is idle" rather than android os?
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Disable KnockON, then Android OS will shrink to a few percents in your statistics.
I have tested it out, KnockON is causing the most part of Android OS.
Via LG G2
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Thanks for the tip. I am well aware that knock on uses up some battery but I don't recall the people getting 6 hrs of usage and 50 hrs of standby disabling this feature. Anyway I wouldn't disable this feature even if it would give me am extra hour of usage (unless in dire need) ??
And to the last post (which I forgot to quote) WiFi is set enabled in standby and the other option is disabled. The only thing I have checked in the advanced WiFi settings is lower battery consumption when device is using WiFi. Thanks for clarifying though.
It seems like. Android os is a mystery ?
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Delete.

The cpu power consumption is the biggest problem~
I had read a Chinese thread that CPU quality is the major problem causing this huge battery drain. Qualcom classified 7 quality levels. Slow, nominal, fast, very fast, ultra fast,....from class 0 to 6.(higher is better). the higher class quality means that cpu can use lower voltage to reach higher frequencies. The difference between C 6 and 0 is about 0.15V,,, :crying:
PS: [email protected](0.95V Max)/ [email protected](1.1V Max)

There has been some improvement but the phone was awake for 42 minutes more than screen on time . I posted some screenshots.
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Steamer86 said:
Wifioffdelayifnotused can be caused by going in and out of service. Disable optimizing in Wi-Fi, disable disconnect on low signal, set sleep policy to never.
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I'd say leave wifi optimization, set sleep policy to any other than never, and turn off the feature that turns wifi off if the access point you're connect doesn't have internet access. Or try aosp
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If you're connected to more Wi-Fi than cell signal, leaving this on will do nothing to increase battery usage, more so increase it. Counterintuitive, but it is what it is. This is Google software itself, not hardware. Learn before you post BS. The phone uses more battery searching and refreshing for 4G data signal than it ever will on Wi-Fi. Do what this guy says if you spend most the day in Wi-Fi, and watch those counts hit the roof. If your of Wi-Fi most the day, just turn it off until you are, all good. Why waste battery when unneeded.

google now draining battery

I have used G2 for about a week, battery life has been superb, decided to turn on google now yesterday, drained my battery like 20% in 10 hours while I was sleeping it was keeping phone awake
I turned it completely off now. Does anyone use google now? Anyway to use it but not drain battery?

I use it. Idk how much it drains at night cause that's when I charge the g2. My battery does pretty well though and I'm on it a ton and it still lasts all day.
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tannor said:
I have used G2 for about a week, battery life has been superb, decided to turn on google now yesterday, drained my battery like 20% in 10 hours while I was sleeping it was keeping phone awake
I turned it completely off now. Does anyone use google now? Anyway to use it but not drain battery?
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Google Now will use some more battery because it's checking for updates and probing for location periodically, but nothing like you describe, so something else was going on.

go to google settings, location, and turn off location reporting and location history. Google Now will still work fine, but your battery will immensely improve.

stevessvt said:
go to google settings, location, and turn off location reporting and location history. Google Now will still work fine, but your battery will immensely improve.
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OK great thanks going to give it a try, what about do I check off Access Location under that same menu or keep it off?

You can leave that on, it shouldnt impact your battery by itself.

stevessvt said:
You can leave that on, it shouldnt impact your battery by itself.
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Thanks one more question, under main settings -> Location access
Do I need any of these on (Access to my location)? and if so which ones? GPS & Verizon or Wi-fi & mobile network location. Right now I have all of it, not sure which is least battery drain

You only need GPS on if you need very accurate pinpointing, like using navigation, mobile network location is fine to leave on.

Another tip: Google Now>settings>Phone Search
You can change which apps Google Now searches on your phone. This sped up Google Now for me as well as helping with battery.