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[Q] Weird battery usage

Hi, I've had my Play for about a week now and absolutely love it. The only thing I don't get about it is it's weird battery usage.. it seems to charge slower than it uses for one thing, and the usage seems kind of random.
Last night I went to bed with about 70% battery usage. This morning I woke up and my phone was off. I tried turning it on while charging but it didnt work (not even a charging indicator), I took out the battery and put it back in which got it working. Once it booted I checked the battery usage and it showed it basically went from 70% to 0% at once..
Also when checking what processes used the battery it seems off.. Camera 15% while I hardly used it, Keypad 5% seems weird as well.
Anyone know what's going on? Is this a common thing with the Play or is my device possibly malfunctioning?
Thanks

Your usage seems nothing like mine. Mine says standby, display and wifi take the most and doesn't even show keypad. And my battery draining is always consistent, it doesn't fluctuate like yours did.
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@Naatan I've sent my device to service for the second time now. First time it was something different than this, but since i got it back last monday it has acted like you posted, not exactly the same as you describe but close. My phone also turns of during the night at some point, first i thought it was drained. Had to pull the battery first and then leave it in the charger untill the charging symbol showed before i could boot again and when booted up the lockscreen showed 35% one morning and 62% another morning. So my phone is not draining but acting weird. Even when i turn it off i have to pull the battery to turn it on again. My phone is updated to the newest firmware 4.0.A.2.368 - 2.3.3.
As i said it's at a service place right now (they broke my volume button last time they fixed it, so i had to go back) and when i get it back from repair i will downgrade to 2.3.2 and run it for a week and see if the same thing happens and then i will update to newest for a week and see what happens. I think it's a bug in the new update, randomly hitting devices as they are not all alike as in the hardware behaves a little different from device to device, hence when oc'ing you have to do it a little at a time cuz one clock works perfectly on one device but messes with another.
Will report my findings.
Regards Dousan...

My cell standby is 56% battery usage and its on 11% battery and only off charge 12 hours ago. Horrible atm
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I haven't charged mine in 3 days, and have 35% left, with around 3 hours use on wifi for browsing and Facebook
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My battery has certainly suffered with the update. The battery life used to be pretty awesome, now id compare it to an iPhone struggling to last through the day. And thats with pretty minimal use.
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What's the mystery with this 4.0.a.2.368 update.. I got kinda same problem too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17545087&postcount=13

[Q] Phone got very hot and battery drained in 2 hours???

So my new Note 3 was fully charged this morning and when I got to class I noticed it had heated up A LOT. It was very, very warm. I had all the apps shut down, Mobile Data turned off, Wifi turned off, GPS/location services turned off, etc and it still died in 2 hours. I was concerned because it was heating up very hot too, so I took the case off and as soon as I returned to my room I plugged it in. The battery went from 100% to 2%.
Why did my Note heat up like that and die when nothing was currently running on the device? Help!!! I don't want this to happen again :crying:

markiemark23 said:
So my new Note 3 was fully charged this morning and when I got to class I noticed it had heated up A LOT. It was very, very warm. I had all the apps shut down, Mobile Data turned off, Wifi turned off, GPS/location services turned off, etc and it still died in 2 hours. I was concerned because it was heating up very hot too, so I took the case off and as soon as I returned to my room I plugged it in. The battery went from 100% to 2%.
Why did my Note heat up like that and die when nothing was currently running on the device? Help!!! I don't want this to happen again :crying:
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That sounds extremely wrong. I would return it personally if something like that happened to me. My note 3 has never felt even the slightest bit hot to me. It could be something you downloaded, or a crazy app doing something in the background. but for a 3200 mah battery to drain 100% to 2% in 2 hours seems like something is faulty.
I cant even drain the phone that fast on purpose if i tried.

Agreed , just return it or warranty it .
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There is an anomaly with you phone. I've had this problem before but on a Motorla Droid Bionic. I was tethering while on a custom rom and my battery went from 96% to 2% in 2 hours. Sorry if it's off topic, my JuggerNote3 has not had a battery issue like you mentioned, so far. Best of luck of getting a replacement and fixing your battery issue

Thanks everyone - I am going to try and fix this problem. Additionally, my phone has also restarted 2 times. This concerns me as well. Does the Note3 need to update by restarting? If not, then I definitely have a battery problem.

My phone is fine now
SO I never got around to doing anything about this problem, and it never happened again. I've had this Note 3 for about 2 months and now it's fine. I met a guy who also said this happened to his N3 (more than once) but his phone still functioned fine. So it seems like maybe it got overworked too soon after I got it??? I'm not sure but it's all good now! I absolutely love this phone, and would recommend it to others. Looks like I'll be a Samsung user from now on

98% deep sleep but 48% battery drain? What gives!

I charged my phone for a little bit last night because it was a little low (48%). I took it off at about 77%. I don't understand what happened. Why did it just drop like a rock? Phone is AT&T LG g2, stock 4.2.2 rooted.

Jesus that can't be good.
I have no clue about this one; it's just too weird.
I'd probably let it fully deplete and then completely charge it and see if it ever does it again.

joeyvanhummel said:
Jesus that can't be good.
I have no clue about this one; it's just too weird.
I'd probably let it fully deplete and then completely charge it and see if it ever does it again.
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That's what I'm going to do. Unfortunately this is not the first time it has happened. This happened about 2 weeks ago, but then my GSAM showed a HUGE signal decrease at the same time my battery drained, so I figured it was just that.
This time I just do not understand. I've had this phone since August or September and it's been great until this randomly started happening in the past couple weeks.

ksc6000 said:
That's what I'm going to do. Unfortunately this is not the first time it has happened. This happened about 2 weeks ago, but then my GSAM showed a HUGE signal decrease at the same time my battery drained, so I figured it was just that.
This time I just do not understand. I've had this phone since August or September and it's been great until this randomly started happening in the past couple weeks.
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Well it says 66% of that was phone radio signal. So that is the problem 90%. I had similat problem only it was while charging, so my phone wasnt charging almost at all, when i restarted it was charging fine (from 20% to 100% in 90 min) . What happened when u picked it up, was it still doing that? Or maybe its a some kind of cpu loop if that is even possible. Some people was complaining about nexus 5 rapidly discharging with combo of some lite apps (news readers).

5ch said:
Well it says 66% of that was phone radio signal. So that is the problem 90%. I had similat problem only it was while charging, so my phone wasnt charging almost at all, when i restarted it was charging fine (from 20% to 100% in 90 min) . What happened when u picked it up, was it still doing that? Or maybe its a some kind of cpu loop if that is even possible. Some people was complaining about nexus 5 rapidly discharging with combo of some lite apps (news readers).
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Yes even after picking it up, the drain continued. I've let it die and am charging the phone while it's off but I don't know if the problem will be fixed.

The youtube app was causing a major battery drain for me a few days ago,now I close it after using it just in case . I'm in the habit of checking the phone's temperature at all times :/
it has a great battery life, especially sceen on time, but the standby isn't top notch at all, I think it's poor software optimization on LG's end, I hope 4.4.2 fixes it.

charge till full. then reboot and check battery percentage.
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Excessive System Battery Usage?

I have had my Galaxy S7 since about four days before it was officially released thanks to T-Mobile shipping it early. (I say this because I assume this is enough time for the battery to cycle)
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced some crazy system battery drain? I have hardly used my phone today other than two phone calls that lasted about 2 minutes each. My Android System has used 42% battery and it's draining at about 5% an hour. I don't even have two hours of screen on time. I close my apps out when I am finished with them so I don't think that is the problem. I also have location turned off. Any ideas? :crying:

My doing the same. Not sure what's the big gap is about.
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Mine was getting 7 hours sot for around 20 hrs of usage then all of a sudden the other day it started this crazy battery drain where it went from 100% to 80% in 2 hours with no use age. I didn't install anything new at all. So I did a factory reset and now it's back to the way it was.
I had to have had an app that went rogue as my device also was heating up. The reset was just the quickest and easier way to correct. Besides with no root it's almost impossible to find the culprit
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/temporary-fix-battery-drain-t3343415

I had a battery drain issue and I traced it to the "My Places" app that the contexual location edge bar uses to determine your location. It was keeping my GPS on and keeping my phone awake. Turned it off and back to 5+ hours screen on time.

Battery drain super fast

Dear all,
My S7 edge would give me a very good battery life at the beginning. For instance, i would charge it to 100%, it would take 15 to 20 mins of continuous usage to become 99%. And further same speed till 0.
But since 2 to 3 months, it is draining very fast no matter how many times i flashed with the latest firmware. 100% to 99% in 3 mins of usage. And further every percent goes down in 2-3 mins.
Is the battery spoilt? Do i need to replace it? Any solution? I did try calibrating from 0 to 100%. No use.
If battery needs to be replaced so, do service centre replace as if it was never opened? Cause i love my phone to look new and when i sell them, no one should make out i replaced it or opened the phone.
Kindly guide. Thank you.

Your trying to tell me your surprised that the battery is draining while your using the phone?
I've been sat here surfing the net, reading tapatalk and replying to messages for the past 40 mins and I've lost 5% but you know I'm using the phone, so it's expected.
If you think it's abnormal (it isn't) check what's running in the background, hardware intensive apps are obviously going to cause the battery to drain faster, put them to sleep in the battery section and get bbs to check for wakelocks and alarms etc...
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Mr.R™ said:
Your trying to tell me your surprised that the battery is draining while your using the phone?
I've been sat here surfing the net, reading tapatalk and replying to messages for the past 40 mins and I've lost 5% but you know I'm using the phone, so it's expected.
If you think it's abnormal (it isn't) check what's running in the background, hardware intensive apps are obviously going to cause the battery to drain faster, put them to sleep in the battery section and get bbs to check for wakelocks and alarms etc...
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Thanks for the reply. Could you please tell me how to check and give you a record of the whole to cross check if possible?
The drain is very fast even after flashing and not installing anything on it.