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S4 GT i9505 Snap Dragon Battery Problem

Hi all, I recently purchased a galaxy s4 1.9 Ghz quad core snap dragon and last night I turned off the phone with 26% battery when I lit morning I found a 23% battery! Other thing when i navigate on facebook, with half brightness I consume a lot of battery, for example if i have 5 minutes on facebook consume 4, 5 % battery go! Is it normal?

A different battery level between turning off and back on is nothing unusual, especially only 3%. It's the first release and things will improve as the firmware is updated.
I have no issues with general battery life myself - it is much better than my I9100 ever was. With normal use I go from fully charged to between 30 and 40 percent in around 16-18 hours and considering we're talking about a phone with a 5" 1080p display I don't think there can be any complaints about that. I have never had to recharge during the day.
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Pagnell said:
A different battery level between turning off and back on is nothing unusual, especially only 3%. It's the first release and things will improve as the firmware is updated.
I have no issues with general battery life myself - it is much better than my I9100 ever was. With normal use I go from fully charged to between 30 and 40 percent in around 16-18 hours and considering we're talking about a phone with a 5" 1080p display I don't think there can be any complaints about that. I have never had to recharge during the day.
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What settings do you leave on? I usually don't pass the 10 hour mark without having to recharge. I leave mobile data, sync, screen rotation and multi Window and turn the rest off. The battery life is horrible especially for someone coming from a Note II
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Facebook on S4 is a battery hog for sure. On the 10-11 hours my phone was on, Facebook accounted for 50% of the battery usage, and the screen 26%. Turn of Facebook sync and such, that will improve your battery life.

I don't use Facebook on my I9505, but I have to concur the battery life on this phone is utter garbage.
With mobile data, power saving and sync on, this thing still drains like crazy, there is definitely something wrong somewhere with the S4's battery in general. I've only heard very few people saying it's actually decent, other than that, mine and pretty much everyone else I hear commenting about the S4's battery life agree it's horrible.

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I don't use Facebook on my I9505, but I have to concur the battery life on this phone is utter garbage.
With mobile data, power saving and sync on, this thing still drains like crazy, there is definitely something wrong somewhere with the S4's battery in general. I've only heard very few people saying it's actually decent, other than that, mine and pretty much everyone else I hear commenting about the S4's battery life agree it's horrible.
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I'm at 64% after almost 15 hours... You must have some ****ty apps, try greenify from the play store.
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fstorm said:
I'm at 64% after almost 15 hours... You must have some ****ty apps, try greenify from the play store.
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It's not the apps, it's the phone or the battery.

Bad battery life

My Note 3 seems to be able to get only 4-5 hours of screen time while on 4G. Using Wi-Fi doesn't improve the battery life much either.
My brightness is set to auto and mostly used indoors. I've also used set cpu to limit cup usage to 960 mhz, installed greenify but nothing seems to help. Mostly surfing the web, fb, Twitter etc
I felt that I got better battery life out of it during the first week of my purchase 3 weeks ago. But ever since last week it's been getting bad.
Any ideas why?
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batt life
Although the Note 3 is a beast of a phone..all the functions that it has are also battery hogs.. what you dont need to use frequently, can be turned off with the factory toggles..
things like air gesture, command, motions, (turning power sav mode on) wifi off, live wallpapers, lookout antivirus, and if you press the 3 line icon at top right, there are 20 functions that can potentially drain battery..nfc, air view, smart stay..etc.. also, try battery doctor app to help control additional consumption. Turn the fucntions on only as needed..
OR- Get an extended battery or just a battery like mugen or zero lemon battery..with extra power within same parameters, similar dimensions. etc. hope this helps. REMEMBER - like a cop car, that has all those lights, radios, laptop- they run a bigger battery AND a huge alternator.

I have all the fancy system apps and features already disabled with root app delete. What's weird is it happens when I'm doing basic web brwosing.
The battery also seems to be draining at 1% per hour while the screen is turned off, is this supposed to happen?
Or could it be a faulty battery?
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have you tried turning off animations?

aeronium said:
I have all the fancy system apps and features already disabled with root app delete. What's weird is it happens when I'm doing basic web brwosing.
The battery also seems to be draining at 1% per hour while the screen is turned off, is this supposed to happen?
Or could it be a faulty battery?
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Use juice defender to turn off data when your phone is not being used (deep sleep), use this as a temporary measure I would say while u use the various battery stats monitoring tools to find the actual culprit.

Sounds like an app issue. Have you installed any new apps recently that may coincide with the sudden poor battery performance? I don't use any power saving apps and leave all my Samsung features enabled and still get over a full day's worth of use.
Are you in a poor reception area? Perhaps you should consider a factory reset. If that doesn't change anything, exchange your device for a new one.
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you have the s800 witch it's not an low consuption cpu even if the governor sysfs settages are good

aeronium said:
My Note 3 seems to be able to get only 4-5 hours of screen time while on 4G. Using Wi-Fi doesn't improve the battery life much either.
My brightness is set to auto and mostly used indoors. I've also used set cpu to limit cup usage to 960 mhz, installed greenify but nothing seems to help. Mostly surfing the web, fb, Twitter etc
I felt that I got better battery life out of it during the first week of my purchase 3 weeks ago. But ever since last week it's been getting bad.
Any ideas why?
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Do you have Google Now enabled? I noticed as soon as I enabled Google now and location services my battery life has suffered.

aeronium said:
The battery also seems to be draining at 1% per hour while the screen is turned off, is this supposed to happen?
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How is that a problem
Are you saying that if you left your phone fully charged and didnt touch it. It would last over 4 days
and you think this is bad battery life
Many many factors can cause battery drain apps you use sync of apps,signal strength,brightness,sensors,google now,s-voice etc.
themes you use
Using black themes will use less battery because an led display will turn off the black areas of the screen etc which is how it achieves the best black contrasts.
I myself have the same use 4-5 hrs of on screen battery which i find great as i can take my phone and use it all day without a problem
people who have 7-8 hrs of on screen time per day on there phone should really seek counselling or go to AA meetings as you have a problem
As to disabling features of the phone Buying a smartphone and disabling all the features that make it a smart phone is pretty pointless if you ask me

It's been the same for me. The first couple of weeks I had the phone the battery was amazing. I could last 2 days easily with heavy usage. I'd say since the most recent update I had on this phone the battery life has been draining significantly faster. I now have to charge my phone each night as it is always hovering around 30%
Do you guys think the update has anything to do with this issue?
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The biggest battery hog I've ever seen is facebook. Particularly, its auto sync. Kill that and try again.
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[Q] Battery life.. (android system)

Hi all.
Just a quick question. My battery life is great but i feel like it could be much better. Here are my current stats as i write this.
With this its saying i will get under 4 hours screen on time, i wouldnt say i was a heavy user. I use my phone quite a bit but i wouldnt say it was alot.My biggest problem is with the android system anyone else have it as such a big drain? Somedays its sat up at 40%
Anyone know what i can do to rectify this? Im currently not rooted..
Thanks in advance
Liam

There are just two possibilities.
LG stock rom is so bloated that it sucks most of battery or GRAM feature is so good that screen time is not really problem anymore.

Forgot to mention, my screen time was 2hr 30 so probably looking at not even getting 4 hours screen on time.. Gonna have to guess that it's the stock rom sucking up loads of battery? Would that cause the android system percentage to be so high?

I'm having the same issue here.. Getting 4 hours screen ttime though...
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Im Getting just under 4 hours!
would be nice to be getting more, dont get why android system is taking up so much!

Your signal is bad, and google play service is too high.
My android system is very high too but i can reach 5hours sot easily
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Xenovias said:
Your signal is bad, and google play service is too high.
My android system is very high too but i can reach 5hours sot easily
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install greenify. it save my battery. last longer.

I can easily reach 6 hours screen on time. And I'm a heavy user and by no means try to save battery. multiple social networks, emails syncing etc often streaming music and watch videos and brightness set to a constant 75%. This is on StockModRom. So yeah I'd say something is draining your battery unnecessarily there.
Try installing better battery stats:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
see if anything is keeping your phone awake, I'm sure the guys over at that forum can help you, don't forget to Thank/donate to the guy if his app helped you. Whats your drain when phone is left overnight? mine varies between 0-3%.

shaldi said:
install greenify. it save my battery. last longer.
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Not Rooted

Merfy said:
I can easily reach 6 hours screen on time. And I'm a heavy user and by no means try to save battery. multiple social networks, emails syncing etc often streaming music and watch videos and brightness set to a constant 75%. This is on StockModRom. So yeah I'd say something is draining your battery unnecessarily there.
Try installing better battery stats:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
see if anything is keeping your phone awake, I'm sure the guys over at that forum can help you, don't forget to Thank/donate to the guy if his app helped you. Whats your drain when phone is left overnight? mine varies between 0-3%.
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Installed better battery stats today! will see what that throws up..
wow, your battery is tons better than mine, although overnight i get similar drops only a 3% drop maximum..
Strange..
Hopefully better battery stats will show me whats up!

Okay last night over night the battery dropped 10% im pretty sure this is not normal.. gonna have to dig deep and find the cause..

ldorbin said:
Okay last night over night the battery dropped 10% im pretty sure this is not normal.. gonna have to dig deep and find the cause..
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If you find one, please let me know. As Android System is also eating my battery.
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Strangely, for me, when I go over ~2h screen time the Android System drain is taken over by the Screen drain. This being said, I never got over 3h30m of screen time - this is with about 10h WiFi (including overnight => ~2% drain) and about 7h 3G. I have noticed plenty of crap among the kernel wakelocks, but I lack the knowledge to remove them in the source code and rebuild the kernel.
Also, BBS is among the apps that trigger a Qualcomm bug regarding sensor kernel wakelocks (sns_async_ev_wakelock), which, obviously, lead to more battery drain.
All of this is not really acceptable coming from a company like Qualcomm (the sensor bug, in particular, is present ever since the S3 QC version...).

I'll second that Greenify is pretty good at saving battery.
I too have had a screen on time of 6 hours 11 mins over a duration of being off charge for over 14 hours
I'm using StockMOD kernel but the ROM itself is stock as i can't seem to get StockMOD rom to boot.
Also if you Root try TricksterMOD and use multicore savings etc maybe get a bit more life from your battery
Hope battery life gets better for you as it is an awesome phone would be nice for you to enjoy it as much as the rest of us

callum1986 said:
I'll second that Greenify is pretty good at saving battery.
I too have had a screen on time of 6 hours 11 mins over a duration of being off charge for over 14 hours
I'm using StockMOD kernel but the ROM itself is stock as i can't seem to get StockMOD rom to boot.
Also if you Root try TricksterMOD and use multicore savings etc maybe get a bit more life from your battery
Hope battery life gets better for you as it is an awesome phone would be nice for you to enjoy it as much as the rest of us
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I'll look into trickster. But when I first got my G2 I was blown away by the battery. Now its not much better than my s4..
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Yea let us know how you get on could just be something holding the phone awake that'll kill it in know time as suggested before download better battery stats it's pretty good at helping find the culprit
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Okay, so i gave up finding what it was. did a system restore and well what can i say? apart from WOW.
been on for 26 hours now with 2hr 20mins screen on time and still at 62% absolutely amazing!
still unsure whether to root and try and squeeze even more battery out of it!
Still annoyed i never found out what was causing the issue..

Wow just wow. This was my last charge, absolutley incredible.
This includes 1hr 45min of music streaming.
Streaming a 2hr 20 min film.
Twitter/facebook/emails and a tiny maybe 10 mins of web browsing.

I have with cyanogenmod 11 a very nice Akku.
99% Akku - 5 hours standby (Internet GPS.... On)
58% Akku - 4.5 houers tune in radio (everytime Internet on)
I think that's whery good
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[Q] Poor Phone battery with Android Wear

Does anybody have their phone battery going flat quicker with Android Wear installed?
My note 3 used to last all day, now i have to charge it half day.
The battery usage has android Wear as the main culprit then system. My Samsung gear live has plenty of battery left (49%) after 16hrs used.

Battery life on Nexus 5 has is lasting half the time
jeux_1 said:
Does anybody have their phone battery going flat quicker with Android Wear installed?
My note 3 used to last all day, now i have to charge it half day.
The battery usage has android Wear as the main culprit then system. My Samsung gear live has plenty of battery left (49%) after 16hrs used.
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Yes, same problem here. Since installing wear, I'm getting half the life out of my Nexus 5 battery after installing and connecting Android Wear device (Samsung Live). I usually get more than a day's worth of time from my phone, I had burned through 75% of the battery by noon today.

Did you have google now disabled before, but enabled now? If so, try it with google now disabled.
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I always used Google now on my phone. The note 3 battery has been great and i have never had the need to disable or do anything. I feel that I may had to send the watch back based on that only.

Got the same problem with an CustomROM, simply annoying with the battery charge with Android Wear and my S3.

Wear had an impact on battery life but not to a point where I'd consider returning the watch.
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I mean, I was able to last almost 2 full days before having the watch and now I need to charge the phone when I come home from work. I'm okay with that.
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Are you guys on Bluetooth 3.0 or 4.0?

Bluetooth 4.0 le. I guess the battery on the phone is halved.

With google now turned off, I'm getting close to the previous battery life.
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my cousin has same problem,battery drains faster than the usual :crying:

I'm also encountering heavy battery drain with Wear. Didn't have this issue with my Pebble, and there's nothing obvious in BetterBatteryStats or the Android battery settings. Nothing in there ever shows up as bluetooth or Wear related. I've always used Now, nothing new there.

Have this, too.

I have not noticed any difference in battery use. In the battery usage display has any activity moved up in the usage list?

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I have not noticed any difference in battery use. In the battery usage display has any activity moved up in the usage list?
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Yeah. The Android Wear App takes like 50-60%, it trumps even System and Display (around 10% each).
The problem definitely is the Wear app on the phone that takes many CPU cycles.
What I tried:
- Reboot watch
- Reboot phone
- Uninstall all apps on watch
- Pairing the watch again with the phone
- Disabling Google Now
- Cleared data of the Android Wear app (which did not(!) reset the settings of that app)
EDIT: Well blimey! Talk about buggy software: Now it works again... Devices just sitting on my desk... No drain anymore...
EDIT2: And now it starts again to drain... what the actual hell?

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I have not noticed any difference in battery use. In the battery usage display has any activity moved up in the usage list?
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Nothing for me here... Everything looks normal for my phone. There's just less battery life. It's really odd.

jeux_1 said:
Does anybody have their phone battery going flat quicker with Android Wear installed?
My note 3 used to last all day, now i have to charge it half day.
The battery usage has android Wear as the main culprit then system. My Samsung gear live has plenty of battery left (49%) after 16hrs used.
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I was experiencing some pretty serious battery drain on my nexus 5 after getting my G watch. At first I didnt really notice it and thought I was just using the phone harder at work (which i might have also been). But one night i unplugged my fully charged phone right before falling asleep and woke up 6 hours later with about 70% battery, i knew something was up.
BBS didnt really provide much insight, and the android battery info just listed Android System as #1 battery user. I got another app, Wakelock Detector, and enabled Advanced Mode in the settings so it shows system processes and discovered that BluetoothRemoteDevices had kept my phone from entering deep sleep most of the night.
Since the only bluetooth device i had paired up at that time was my G watch, I knew it was prob something related to it. I went through and uninstalled a few of the Wear apps i had been using and now i have much better battery life again. I think the culprit for me was the app Wear Unlock or possibly the one camera app I was using also. So maybe go through and try removing as many wear apps as you can and see if it gets better for you. I only have a couple watch faces, wear mini launcher, wear calculator, Calendar, and Wear Aware installed now and much less BluetoothRemoteDevices wakes and my battery life is good on both phone and watch!
Hope this helps

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go through and try removing as many wear apps as you can
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But I love all my apps :'(
Seriously though, it's been happening since day one where the only apps compatible I had installed were Hangouts, Maps, and Keep. I haven't noticed battery life getting worse as I've installed more.

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This seems to be another but compared to mine. Glad you have figured it out!
For my bug (high drain of Wear app on phone) I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, also I restored the watch (using the menu option). Drain gone... Fingers crossed!
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Next day: Had my watch and phone on the desk over the night (non-charging). Everything fine. Then I started charging the phone. When it was full, I unplugged it and suddenly the Wear app was listet with top battery usage (50%). Only app on watch was the StarWatch watchface.

I have isolated the problem: The battery drain start when I leave home in the morning. Seems there is something that the Wear app does (tries, maybe fails to do). I have uninstalled the Llama app which in my case triggers some actions when I leave home. Let's see what happens.
EDIT: Not solved. Killing the Wear app temporarily stopps the battery usage. But it comes again. By the way: The Wear app seems to do some task periodically, because I get a huge battery drain spike each 5 seconds. Is there any kind of possibility to log what the app does.

Is anyone using the Wear App Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=goko.ws2)? I've read that this app could be the cause for poor battery performance on the phone.

Moto X 4.4.4 TERRIBLE battery life!

I have a problem. I upgraded my moto X to 4.4.4 about 4 months ago, and since then my battery has only lasted 5 HOURS a day. I deleted a bunch of apps and only have a few and yet it still only lasts that long. In my battery life in settings, it says screen is using 50%, and its on a pretty low brightness, chrome and other things are only at 2-5%.
I REALLY need help with my battery, so if anybody could help that would be awesome.
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On moderate usage it only lasts 3-4 hours!!! That's literally how short my battery is
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I also have poor battery. I lose 50% or so overnight. And during the day I get around 3+ hours SOT generally.

I've seen battery fluctuations after some app updates. like.. battery was great (day and a half per charge), got some app updates from Google and battery life was bad (half a day then had to charge!), got more updates, battery life was back to "normal", and last week or so I got some more updates and battery was back to bad.
Also, my phone is now going on 2yrs old. So the battery has likely degraded and probably doesn't hold as good of a charge because of that too.

check for app usages like google play services or wake time. if constant wake time, could be an app that is keeping the phone from going into deep sleep mode (often related to google play services update).
otherwise, I'm on LP, and I wish I could get 3 hours SOT...

Try downloading a battery monitor and run it for a couple days. I recommend GSam Battery Monitor. Also go into Android Settings > Battery and tap on the graph and see if your phone is going into sleep mode when the screen is off. If it isn't then there is something keeping your phone awake when it should be in deep sleep. The GSam Battery Monitor app will help you find out what that is. Even if your phone isn't going into sleep GSam will at least tell you what is draining the crap out of it. If nothing is glaring out to you, then perhaps your battery is degraded and won't hold a charge as well as it used to,

Android os seems to be using more power than the screen. I have my screen set to the dimmest setting. Anybody have an idea of what android os might be doing?
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Heronicola said:
Android os seems to be using more power than the screen. I have my screen set to the dimmest setting. Anybody have an idea of what android os might be doing?
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Check your Google account under settings -> accounts. Look for things that sync automatically that you may not need.
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Check your Google account under settings -> accounts. Look for things that sync automatically that you may not need.
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I only have one thing syncing, and that's Google accounts.
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Heronicola said:
I only have one thing syncing, and that's Google accounts.
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look deeper into the google accounts. there are several things trying to sync such as google+, google photos, fit, e-mail, data, people, contacts, etc...

Disabling a bit of syncing helped, but my moto X still lasts only 5 hours.
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Disabling a bit of syncing helped, but my moto X still lasts only 5 hours.
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look at your CPU states - is going into deep sleep mode? if not, then something (app) is preventing it from going into that mode. also check your awakw status - if the phone is constantly awake, then there is an app that is keeping it awake.

try to change your governor from interactive to ondemand by using kernel auditor

Anyone having a high Android OS (high Keep Awake) battery drain?
If so turn off battery optimization in advanced Wifi settings.
Also root+greenfy+amplify pro+power nap = 24 hours battery with 3-4 hours of screen time.

Factory reset, don't install any apps, don't even sign in to your google account, just use it for 1-2 days like that and see what battery you get, no data either ofc.Stick to Wifi and 2G for calls.If then you get again 5hrs battery life, you got a problem with battery or something else, if way longer, lets say 12+hrs , then some app/setting was causing it and it's your thing to find out what it was.