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Atrix Battery life

How is everyone's battery life... I think I came in overhyped by some reviews like engadget's praising the battery life of this phone but in reality haven't been too impressed.
I have to change how I use my phone in order to make it through the day... I did cone from an iphone 4 though...

Give it a day or so. My initial full charge barely lasted a few hours. My next one, though, lasted 12+ hours with pandora running, and the screen on half the time.

Give it a little time. Battery and phone both need to calibrate their readings. I got ~7 hours with display on today (1.5 hours browsing, 5+ hours movie).

Got my phone a few days ago. Last night I went to bed at 12 and didn't plug in my phone, it had 50% remining. I woke up at 11 am and the phone was dead. I charged it to full, now its reporting 30% at 11 hours later. This is with night mode on and I barely touched the phone today, maybe 20 texts max. The thing using most of the battery is phone idle.
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mchimney said:
Got my phone a few days ago. Last night I went to bed at 12 and didn't plug in my phone, it had 50% remining. I woke up at 11 am and the phone was dead. I charged it to full, now its reporting 30% at 11 hours later. This is with night mode on and I barely touched the phone today, maybe 20 texts max. The thing using most of the battery is phone idle.
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This I too noticed. Uses too much battery when idle. I will charge to 100% and see how it fares while I sleep.

I plan on leaving mine unplugged for the night as well. I wonder why this phone idle is using so much battery though.
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1) this is like the 10th battery thread. Many answers can be found in the others.
2) Yes. Your battery needs to calibrate over time.
3) Android users more battery when on because of all the things it syncs with in the background: weather, mail, maps, etc.
4) again due to it's syncing it uses more in the background. To find out what dial *#*#info#*#* and look at the battery stats of what had been running. Look at Other Usage especially.

What size does your battery say on the actual battery? I thought it is advertised with 1930 but mine says 1850.
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Im 19 hours unplugged and still at 15%, this phone is a beast
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What size does your battery say on the actual battery? I thought it is advertised with 1930 but mine says 1850.
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Mine says 1880/1930 mAh (min/typ).
My battery seemed on the lower side of average when I first got it and then it got a lot better after a couple days.

Download Green Power in the Market. Insane improvement. I've used it on my Nexus One (Atrix is coming tomorooow!! for a month now and I've gone 50-60% plus on duration.

I have been running slacker and just web browsing for approx 1.5 hours and am down from 100% to 70%... This is after about four days of nightly charging. I am running green power too with no wifi managment. I have gps etc off. The battery analysis shows that the display is using 80% of the juice. Is any of this normal or is something wrong here?
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The Atrix's battery is the best battery in an Android phone I've used to date. I just left Sprint and thought the Epic 4G's battery was decent. After using this for a few days, I realize that the battery in this thing is AWESOME!
While we were with Sprint, my wife had the EVO 4g and now has the Inspire 4G. NONE of these phone hold a candle to the battery life of the Atrix.

So i left mine unplugged over night again, just tried to turn it on and i got "Modem did not power up (0). Starting RSD protocol support. Battery is too Low to flash.

battery info and network searching
First post here and I'm not a developer but have some feedback for this. Couldn't share without registering first. Won't be a pest.
Had the battery issue with the atrix and called att. The suggested a microcell booster as i was only getting one bar here (H+) at home. The store in San Diego gave me one for free and I installed it and have been off the charger for well over 24 hours now and at 50%. granted I'm not using it much as I have computer at home too. However, just sitting on the table before the booster and it would be at 50% in 4 hours.
Went to the laguna mountains in the middle of nowhere two days ago and it had edge network only. The battery lasted all day and night. The drive out there had H+ and edge in the middle of the cleavland nat forest.
If the atrix is searching for networks it uses battery like crazy.
Also tech support said there was no way to force edge connectivity on the atrix. There has been a code suggested here (I don't recall it now) that is supposed to do it but it is only for international use.

Vangelis13 said:
Download Green Power in the Market. Insane improvement. I've used it on my Nexus One (Atrix is coming tomorooow!! for a month now and I've gone 50-60% plus on duration.
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Another vote for green power. Worked wonders on my Cappy.

psymont said:
I have been running slacker and just web browsing for approx 1.5 hours and am down from 100% to 70%... This is after about four days of nightly charging. I am running green power too with no wifi managment. I have gps etc off. The battery analysis shows that the display is using 80% of the juice. Is any of this normal or is something wrong here?
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I have Green Power on "Managing wifi & mobile netwotk". Does wonders..
Where you browsing on Wlan or Mobile? If your signal isn't good enough it'll obviously eat the battery much faster.

battery life much better than EVO or Epic and EVEN the Droid X. Better than my cousin's iPhone 4 as well. Really great.

I have been using the mobile connection. Havent used gps or wifi. I do only have 2 bars in my house. Can low signal really account for this massive drain. Display still says over 80% use. Now I have been unplugged for 3 hours and I am down to 40%. This cant be right...
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I have been using the mobile connection. Havent used gps or wifi. I do only have 2 bars in my house. Can low signal really account for this massive drain. Display still says over 80% use. Now I have been unplugged for 3 hours and I am down to 40%. This cant be right...
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Of course!! Your phone is constantly looking for stronger signal & you're browsing at the same time, that certainly accounts for big portion of your battery usage

Battery life on this phone?

I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.

SilverTipp said:
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
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I'd disable smart actions and also Google now. People report that helps a little
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I also found it took about 3 weeks for the battery to settle down and really give good long life on each charge. Now I'm super impressed with battery life of this gem of a phone...

Hmm ... I'm debating on sending it back. How was your battery life in the beginning?
No one experiencing huge facebook issues? Some other apps seem to take awhile to load.
Thanks.

I have the official jelly bean and I'm a rooted. So far today has been the best battery life that I've had even since flashing from ICS last week.
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Amazing freaking battery life. Definitely. Probably top five of all time considering the power of the phone
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I disabled location reporting in Google Latitude and find the battery life good.

SilverTipp said:
Hmm ... I'm debating on sending it back. How was your battery life in the beginning?
No one experiencing huge facebook issues? Some other apps seem to take awhile to load.
Thanks.
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Seeing you had 2-3 hrs on screen time, its no wonder the battery is dying on you. At first I found the battery life ok, would get through the day, but as I used it more the battery seemed to settle and now get 2 days a charge...BUT as with everything concerning battery this is relative.
I don't sync pretty much anything. I don't sync gmail, facebook, etc...which i know do take up substantial battery life. One thing I've found with this phone from using CPU Spy (app), is that when it goes into deep sleep, it really uses no battery power...I mean NONE! The other day at work it was just sitting on my desk doing nothing for 3 hours and went from 90% at 9am to 90% at 12 noon.
Battery is great on this phone...

SilverTipp said:
I just got this phone, instantly updated to jellybean, still did a factory reset to help with little issues that happen sometimes on android updates ... and the battery life is terrible. Nothing at all like everyone is bragging about. I even made a lot of smart actions to try to help (i.e. put in airplane mode when I'm not using it, 4g off when wifi on, background data only when using phone, etc.).
I'm getting around 2h and 45 min of screen on time. And it still loses around 12-15% overnight with airplane mode on. No apps downloaded or settings synced from account.
Are there other things I could check?
Facebook freezing and FC constantly too.
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I've had this phone for about a month now and my battery life is incredible. Better than I ever expected. I'm getting 2 full work days out of a single charge. I can suggest an app that I'm convinced works very well for Motorola's as this is the second one I've had. 2x battery saver seems to work better than juice defender. Cutting off background data when the phone is idle will help out a lot and that app does that very well. Smartactions should also be kept to a minimum. My phone uses virtually no battery when it is idle. If you play around on the internet a lot then its gonna drain your battery. For mostly talking and texting, its great.

Same problem but it does get resloved
When I got my razr m it had the same battery problem, but with time it will start holding more of a charge. It takes roughly month, and now i'm getting two days easily with it.

Yep. The battery here is unbelievable. I used ~1gb data, about an hour of calls and a few games for bout 30 min or so. Oh and some music. About 1.5 hours to charge and 2 days battery. Best battery life I have seen since the Nokia 1700 with net ten. Really. Its that good.
And I mean straight out the box. I bought it on Thursday last week and charged it maybe 3 times.
Charged it on Tue at 830 or so till bout 10 central standard time. I got 35% right now. I'm TRYING to kill it before I go to bed. I'm not very optimistic. Outstanding battery. Shoot, unheard of. 4.1.1
Oh and PS. I ain't rooted it yet either.
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To speed the settling in process.
Use the phone unit it dies. And then Charge it fully with no interruptions. Dont unplug and replug.
I had 4 of these going through my place now.
My girls, Mines and 2 from friends.
My girl's was settled in well when we received it already.
Mines took 1 week to settle in. My 2 friends took 1 weeks with that Calibration process and the other took 4 weeks of normal usage.
The phones battery is a monster !!!
2 hours worth of phone calls Screen is on time 3 hours, 16h wifi, I am at 40% and been off the charger for 17 hours.

The battery on this thing is great! One thing Motorola does better than any other manufacturer. I'm getting all weekend off a charge as my phone pretty much runs off wireless
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Anyone compared battery life of RAZR M vs RAZR i battery life?
I've seen on gsm arena that battery life of RAZR i is incredible, but there is no battery test for RAZR M.
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Proda said:
Anyone compared battery life of RAZR M vs RAZR i battery life?
I've seen on gsm arena that battery life of RAZR i is incredible, but there is no battery test for RAZR M.
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The i is more efficient when using it acctionally by 5%
Heavy usage the M is by 3% better, at conserving battery but the i is faster on heavy usage on large application
I have to get the screen shots we got few weeks ago.
Also the i tends to suck more power on some apps due to the emulation. But is not slower in anyway.
They are marginally almost the same.
Its just where u need the Processing power to be.
Heavy need of processing power the i is very competitive on single 3D apps
Need 100% compatibility with the apps store use the M with its ARM CPU
1.5 ARM Dual core or 2.0 Hyper Thread Single Core

I'm getting AMAZING battery life on my RAZR M. I get through the entire work day (lots of voice calls, wifi usage, bluetooth, maybe 1.5 hrs of screen time total) and still have about 35% remaining before I go to bed (about 15 hrs of usage). I even try to kill the battery by watching videos at home, putting the screen brightness on 100%, still havent managed to kill the battery.
So far very impressed with this phone, especially compared with my old Galaxy SII on TMobile

My Record:
2d 4h with 3.30 screen on

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My Record:
2d 4h with 3.30 screen on
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Dudee how are you getting that much!
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I think you got a borked phone, ive had this phone for 3 days now, noticed the amazing battery life the first day, phone came with a 50% charge, didnt charge it all day, finished day 1 with 30% after heavy use, day 2 heavy use navigation, texting, games, ect, finished day again at 30%, now day three same heavy use as day 2, days almost over and im at 50%, think i got a good one well deserving of the trident case i bought for it.

jarzy00 said:
Dudee how are you getting that much!
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I've got rule in SmartActions.
If screen off - then turn off mobile data.

[Q] Terrible Battery Life

Hi guys, my glaxy s4 has terrible battery life. Like after 5 hours, i need to recharge my phone again. My phone is rooted and on CM 12 (UB ROM). I tried to remove facebook but no luck. How can i improve my battery life? I provided a sceenshot of my battery usage.
I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance

Use BBS and check wakelocks

If ur using it all the way for 5 hours straight, it's normal.

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If ur using it all the way for 5 hours straight, it's normal.
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Are you sure? S4's battery is 2600 mAh. It should take about 15 hours or more to make the battery become low with minutes of gaming.. I have S3 mini and its battery is 1500 mAh and it takes about 12 hours or more to make the battery become low.

I can get 5 hours on 60 percent but I gotta be using battery saver with data off when I lock the acreen

take a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59922819&postcount=12

Thanks, i will try it
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Gaming or watching movies will discharge your battery in a few hours. 4,5 or 6 hours max. Depending on what you're doing and other stuff like wifi and screen brightness.

GDReaper said:
Gaming or watching movies will discharge your battery in a few hours. 4,5 or 6 hours max. Depending on what you're doing and other stuff like wifi and screen brightness.
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But i have galaxy s3 mini and its battery life is longer than s4. S3 mini's battery is 1500mAh, s4 is 2600mAh. S4's battery life is supposed to be longer than s3's
Battery life. Oh and i tried not to play games but tue battery life is still terrible. I hate it.
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xxhunterxx11 said:
But i have galaxy s3 mini and its battery life is longer than s4. S3 mini's battery is 1500mAh, s4 is 2600mAh. S4's battery life is supposed to be longer than s3's
Battery life. Oh and i tried not to play games but tue battery life is still terrible. I hate it.
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Was the battery life always terrible or is it just now?

I'm having a similar problem so I'll use this thread instead of creating a new one. I hope you don't mind.
My battery is draining at a rate of 15% per hour even If I leave it on standby, ocasionally turning on the screen to get a message on Whatsapp of checking the time. It was 100% this morning, 1 and a half hours later, 74%.
After reading on the forums that the cause of the battery drain could be that the phone was constantly trying to get network signal (in cases where the signal is poor, like where I live), I decided to switch on airplane mode. To my surprise, in 3 minutes after this the phone was in 75%. 10 minutes later and I got a 76%. As I write (on PC) it is on 80%.
That's right. The phone started "recharging" without a cable (I know this is impossible, just describing what the display shows me) after I turned on airplane mode.
Any ideas about what might be going on and how can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: It's not the battery itself, as I've bought a brand-new, samsung original battery and the draining was still the same
EDIT: the battery started behaving like this only a few weeks ago. So I'd assume that the signal problem could be helping, but would not be the main reason on why my battery goes down so quickly.

Venorian said:
I'm having a similar problem so I'll use this thread instead of creating a new one. I hope you don't mind.
My battery is draining at a rate of 15% per hour even If I leave it on standby, ocasionally turning on the screen to get a message on Whatsapp of checking the time. It was 100% this morning, 1 and a half hours later, 74%.
After reading on the forums that the cause of the battery drain could be that the phone was constantly trying to get network signal (in cases where the signal is poor, like where I live), I decided to switch on airplane mode. To my surprise, in 3 minutes after this the phone was in 75%. 10 minutes later and I got a 76%. As I write (on PC) it is on 80%.
That's right. The phone started "recharging" without a cable (I know this is impossible, just describing what the display shows me) after I turned on airplane mode.
Any ideas about what might be going on and how can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: It's not the battery itself, as I've bought a brand-new, samsung original battery and the draining was still the same
EDIT: the battery started behaving like this only a few weeks ago. So I'd assume that the signal problem could be helping, but would not be the main reason on why my battery goes down so quickly.
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I loose battery at the same speeed, but my signal is not so poor.
Not tried the airplane mode, but i'm sure that if i put to charge it charge quickly, too quickly.... like it was 80% 5 min after 90%

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Was the battery life always terrible or is it just now?
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It was terrible from the beginning. I cant replace the battery because my phone is rooted and my warranty is now void. And i won't buy a new battery because i believe the problem wiol not be solved.
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What if i flash the official firmware from samsung? Will it fix the battery issue?
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xxhunterxx11 said:
What if i flash the official firmware from samsung? Will it fix the battery issue?
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You could try that and see if it is a rom problem.
Otherwise try to borrow a battery from somewhere just to be sure it isn't the battery.

Android 6.0.1 Battery Life Dicussion

Discuss all battery life and doze info here for Android 6.0.1 Only

It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....

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It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....
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That is indeed true.. I for one been hitting that button like crazy but sadly only the G920F is getting it and not my "I" variant.

eSu.Matix said:
It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....
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So ture

eSu.Matix said:
It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....
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Agreed, also would be good if those who tried it can post a comparison about how much was lasting battery with 5.1.1 and now with 6.0 on same scenario (I mean apps, settings, etc)

befor update i think battery life getting better ,but after one night and a some program ,it's show only 22 hours battery life ,,,, hey sami what you think about batterylife .?
i totaly disapoint...

Installed French XEF yesterday at 15:00 (03:00PM)
Popped it off the charger at 16:00
Now : 08:00, the next day
43% charge
16h 8m on battery
1h 44m SOT
Maybe 2% loss overnight.
Disabled Google Apps and Samsung bloat via Settings => Applications
WIFI : ON
Location : GPS, WIFI and Mobile
Brightness : 25% + Auto
Turned OFF LTE : Only 3G speeds in my area
Action Launcher 3

There's not so much to do fellaz. We've got a 2500 mah battery giving juice to a monster cpu and monster useless display. These things swallow harder than sasha grey.
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esi2121 said:
befor update i think battery life getting better ,but after one night and a some program ,it's show only 22 hours battery life ,,,, hey sami what you think about batterylife .?
i totaly disapoint...
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System calculate time left on battery based on your usage in 7 days, if you use it a lot then system will shows that you have short life of battery, if you use moderate or low, then you would see longer time of usage. So You should check your real time on battery, when you use in similar way than in on 5.1.1 and then compare to 6.0.1. For me at the moment i see much better battery performance.

Ops wrong thread
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Heavy use. 40-70% brightness about 1h more SOT than Lollipop.

The battery life for now is not so impressive, not more than L

One more thing to notice is that the battery fares better in wifi. But suffers a lot in Lte or in 3g mobile network. I get no more than 3 hrs of SOT when connected to mobile network in lollipop, but 4.5 to 5 hrs in wifi. Could anyone manage to get better battery in mobile network in MM?? The main battery suckers in network are google services and the annoying mobile radio active bug in lollipop. Are these two things fixed in MM touchwiz rom?? Confirmation is appreciated..
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One more thing to notice is that the battery fares better in wifi. But suffers a lot in Lte or in 3g mobile network. I get no more than 3 hrs of SOT when connected to mobile network in lollipop, but 4.5 to 5 hrs in wifi. Could anyone manage to get better battery in mobile network in MM?? The main battery suckers in network are google services and the annoying mobile radio active bug in lollipop. Are these two things fixed in MM touchwiz rom?? Confirmation is appreciated..
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The doze feat is deff working. With WiFi on all night and apps open I lost 2%.
no sight of the R.A.B but some say they are exparience it.

How do you guys check whether Doze is actually working or not? Is there any specific part of the settings where I could check it?
Thanks!

By now your phone battery would have deteriorated for those who have had it a while that whatever gain MM has would be negligible.
For those of us who got it at release day, battery health would be about ~95%.
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unotretresette said:
There's not so much to do fellaz. We've got a 2500 mah battery giving juice to a monster cpu and monster useless display. These things swallow harder than sasha grey.
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Indeed, but no one is asking for Xperia Z3 battery either, where I could get around 8+ hours SOT with Amplify, Greenify and a few other tweaks. I no we can't let the battery drop slower when using the phone, but the main complain is the standby drop, which would give us more SOT if we could lower it. Really, my phone should not use power on anything else than be ready for calls, text and else the apps I set it to, like Snapchat, Messenger and so on when in standby and you can get this with Amplify and Greenify. On 5.1.1 I managed to get around 0-1% drop over 8 hours of sleep, so as I got more standby time, I would eventually get more SOT too, which made the phone still last a day.
The problem now with the high standby drain is that you can't really feel a difference (might be kind of ironically here) between using the phone or having it in standby as it still drains hell a lot.

nothing has changed in marshmallow since 5.1.1 . I am using for 2 days. the battery consumption is the same as lollipop. (i did clean flash of france mm)

I've noticed App Optimisation is using 7% of my battery.... Cell standby 3% and Android system 8% with screen nicking 50%.
Seems good, but i'm disabling App Optimisation and comparing over the next few days.
Haven't experienced any drain from mobile or radio signals or any other bugs.

sathishm07 said:
One more thing to notice is that the battery fares better in wifi. But suffers a lot in Lte or in 3g mobile network. I get no more than 3 hrs of SOT when connected to mobile network in lollipop, but 4.5 to 5 hrs in wifi. Could anyone manage to get better battery in mobile network in MM?? The main battery suckers in network are google services and the annoying mobile radio active bug in lollipop. Are these two things fixed in MM touchwiz rom?? Confirmation is appreciated..
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Its pitty but i still face the radio bug in some apps, even android system has it
Jonathan-H said:
I've noticed App Optimisation is using 7% of my battery.... Cell standby 3% and Android system 8% with screen nicking 50%.
Seems good, but i'm disabling App Optimisation and comparing over the next few days.
Haven't experienced any drain from mobile or radio signals or any other bugs.
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You mean its better App Opt to be off rather than On?

Poor Battery Life on my ZTE Axon 7.

I have very poor Battery Life on my new phone. Last night I factory reset the phone and at 11pm I fully charged the phone and left it in airplane mode. This morning it reported 58% by 7am this morning.
It's much worse in daytime light usage. It's flat after about 4hours.
I have noticed that the WiFi and AWAKE history graphs in battery section show WiFi always on and phone is always awake. Even when the WiFi is switched off it is always ON according to the graph. The phone is constantly warm all the time. I have contacted the UK supplier. Awaiting response.
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I had the same problem with HTC, please try:
Turn off "Scanning always available:" in Advanced Wi-Fi settings.
Gogle description: Turn on to allow apps to scan for Wi-Fi networks even when Wi-Fi is off.

TomoBero said:
I had the same problem with HTC, please try:
Turn off "Scanning always available:" in Advanced Wi-Fi settings.
Gogle description: Turn on to allow apps to scan for Wi-Fi networks even when Wi-Fi is off.
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I see no such option on the Axon 7.

This probably depends on phone manufacturer, try find menu or more in Wi-Fi options, most of Android 4/5 usually have this option, sorry I'm only potential buyer of A7
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Sorry, ZTE Axon 7 doesn't have option "Scanning always available"(User Manual page 57), Older ZTE Axon it has (User Manual page 53).

There is an option to turn Wi-Fi off when asleep in the Wi-Fi advanced options menu. Might be worth trying.
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Sounds like this is a settings issue, not zte or the phone.

This battery drain is obviously the result of a wakelock. Adjusting WiFi settings will not solve your problem.

Have you checked the 'fast battery drain apps' in power manager. Mines not liking Amazon music and the Android central app.
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Shipmate said:
I have very poor Battery Life on my new phone. Last night I factory reset the phone and at 11pm I fully charged the phone and left it in airplane mode. This morning it reported 58% by 7am this morning.
It's much worse in daytime light usage. It's flat after about 4hours.
I have noticed that the WiFi and AWAKE history graphs in battery section show WiFi always on and phone is always awake. Even when the WiFi is switched off it is always ON according to the graph. The phone is constantly warm all the time. I have contacted the UK supplier. Awaiting response.
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The wake lock issue is most likely this scenario in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68001359
I've improved my awake stats and battery range since following the reboot after unplugging advice in that thread.
I'm still researching the always on WiFi graph under settings >battery.
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Download the Battery Monitor Widget App. It can monitor everything about your battery very accurately. Even your SOT stats.

Fully charged up my UK axon 7 phone this morning. I powered it up at 7.35am it was totally flat by 12midday. I had factory reset phone and not installed any apps. I only had data switched on via sim. GPS, WiFi and low power mode on. Used it very sparingly and it went flat.
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Sorry meant GPS and WiFi off!
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I think that is an issue, however I am still not getting the battery life reviews have been getting....
The first few reviews talked about amazing battery life with SOT of 6+ hrs on this phone but in my opinion it is worse than the OnePlus 3 I used for a few days. Yesterday I got just under 4 hrs of screen on time, taking my phone off the charger at 6:30am and plugging it in at 11pm with about 4% battery left. I am using GSAM Battery Monitor and Phone Radio is taking a solid 37% of my battery, is that normal? The phone does show it has a weaker signal than any of my last phones in all familiar locations but I haven't actually noticed a difference in internet speed (actually getting 40mb pretty regularly) or call quality/reception. Today I am at 63% battery with the phone being unplugged 10 hrs 47 min and only 1hr and 16 minutes of SOT. No apps stand out as using a lot of the battery with App Usage being at 1%.

PolishDude said:
I think that is an issue, however I am still not getting the battery life reviews have been getting....
The first few reviews talked about amazing battery life with SOT of 6+ hrs on this phone but in my opinion it is worse than the OnePlus 3 I used for a few days. Yesterday I got just under 4 hrs of screen on time, taking my phone off the charger at 6:30am and plugging it in at 11pm with about 4% battery left. I am using GSAM Battery Monitor and Phone Radio is taking a solid 37% of my battery, is that normal? The phone does show it has a weaker signal than any of my last phones in all familiar locations but I haven't actually noticed a difference in internet speed (actually getting 40mb pretty regularly) or call quality/reception. Today I am at 63% battery with the phone being unplugged 10 hrs 47 min and only 1hr and 16 minutes of SOT. No apps stand out as using a lot of the battery with App Usage being at 1%.
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What those 6+ hrs SOT stories don't tell you is that they gimp the phone ie turn off most if not all background processes such as: location, push emails, anything that has a hook to the web.
I mean I can always get 5+hour turning off all my smartphone services and just having my screen on to flipping around looking at locally stored stuff.
An average best for me is usually going to bed with 4+ hrs of SOT by midnight. @15% remaining and that was before the wake lock I mentioned above.
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Yeah I was right at 4 hours SOT at 1am with the phone unplugged since 6:30am that morning and still 22% battery left, that is fine for me. I had everything on, including GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi

celticchrys said:
I see no such option on the Axon 7.
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That setting is here:
Settings > Location > (menu - three dots in upper right corner) > Scanning
From here you can disable Wi-Fi Scanning and Bluetooth Scanning.
I do not know if this helps battery life though - I just now tried it myself.

Yeah I get horrible battery life too and it doesn't show any apps using alot ): , if I'm lucky I get 4hr sot

jordy787 said:
Yeah I get horrible battery life too and it doesn't show any apps using alot ): , if I'm lucky I get 4hr sot
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How is 4 hours horrible? 4 to 5 hours is really good battery and is a standard for any flagship device.
I don't get people that want 6 hours of screen time. Don't y'all have anything to do through the day? Spending 6 hours a day staring at a screen cant be good for anyone.
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tolymatev said:
How is 4 hours horrible? 4 to 5 hours is really good battery and is a standard for any flagship device.
I don't get people that want 6 hours of screen time. Don't y'all have anything to do through the day? Spending 6 hours a day staring at a screen cant be good for anyone.
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I guess I got spoiled with battery life on my old Huawei mate 8 and other phones with amazing battery.

I've been getting over 5 hours SOT pretty consistently for the past week. The battery life is way more consistent than my Nexus 6p was, and seems to last noticeably longer. I also don't worry about topping up when I get home from work if I really need to (or if I watch YouTube for 3 hours after I get home) because of how fast it charges, even if you use while charging. I'm very pleased with battery life overall.