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Anyone experiencing faster battery drain on 4.4.2?

I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?

Yup. Have tried factory resetting twice. Clearing cache. Disabling nearly everything possible. No avail.

Mine was draining a bit faster than normal after the update. I let it run all the way down, and charged it up, and it has been fine since then.
Hope it works out for you guys.

l337m45732 said:
I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?
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Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?

Mine drains extremely fast but seems to charge just as fast
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Ive gotten better battery performance since setting up Battery Guru and disabling all app refresh unless I open them. Still seeing very fast battery drain, but it's definitely improved.
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YUP. I work 3rd shift and used to be able to go all night with one charge. Streaming music on wifi all night. Now I have to recharge at lunch.
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Yeah I've noticed that the battery life is a little worse than the past two updates.
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FAst drain slow charge
The battery on mine would drain quick and charge forever. It would take me close to 12 hours charging it to be full. Any help?

Camera bug = Battery Drain
Did some looking around, and it appears to be a bug related to the camera (i know, sounds a little odd).
Here's one link of many I've found regarding this issue...Samsung has acknowledged an issue and is working on a fix:
"cultofandroid.com/53672/google-vows-fix-android-4-4-2s-camera-battery-drain-bug"

I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.
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shamelin73 said:
I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.
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I posted this in the 4.4.2 issues thread, but will post here:
EAS continuously running....I found this out as well after the update. I cant believe its low priority for such a major issue. I switched mine to manual just to be safe. I also found a major battery drain issue when surfing on the internet via LTE service.
Any way, I wanted to see if others could replicate my issue:
-Stock (non-rooted) S4 phone with the recent 4.4.2 update on LTE with 5 bars of service.
-I am using Chrome to surf the internet.
-I have Exchange and Gmail accounts. Gmail is set to PUSH and exchange is set to manual. (My hope is that having Exchange set to manual I avoid the EAS issue described above.)
-Majority of the boatware turned off
Scenario: While using Chrome to surf via LTE service I am literally able to see a 1% decrease in battery ever 2-3 minutes of surfing on the internet. Wifi is better, but still drains faster than 4.3.
Can anyone else try and replicate and respond back? I may have to do a hard reset to see if it will remedy the issue. :-/
Thanks,
Eric

My battery life has been exponentially better since enabling battery guru. Use inactivity power boost to disable all app refresh after 15 minutes of inactivity. Set everything to manual refresh.
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Yes I have had worse battery drain with the KitKat update. Hoping for an AT&T update since we dont have the option to flash roms...

What are you actually seeing for battery consumption?
I have google+ at the top of the list with >30% use. Definitely new after 4.4.2 update.
Seemed to be ok for a day and then popped back up. I'm going to try to see if it's caused by 1st use of the camera.

Live wallpapers causing bigger drain on kitkat I found
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Live wallpapers causing bigger drain on kitkat I found
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I'm not using live wallpapers.
Rebooting the phone and avoiding use of the camera did not help.
I uninstalled all google+ updates that that has worked so far, but definitely not a long term solution.

Well I would up flashing the MK2 revert, then changed my mind and re-updated to NB1 (these two processes involved many full-wipes and even flashing a .pit file). Installed all my apps one-by-one. I'm now getting better battery life. Still higher than previous usage by Android System (usually ends up being 14-17%).
NB1 now works pretty damn well for me. Once we get root I will be able to disable some stupid things like the boot sound and charger connection sound, along with a few apps that just don't need to be running like Knox and Security Policy Updates...

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ryujeff said:
Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?
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I have a big battery drain and serious wifi issues, cant connect to wifi cuz some security is blocking it, at the moment I have rooted the device and am going to install a custom rom,screw Samsung and their BS

My battery life is very bad after KitKat update

Before the KitKat update my LG G2 had really good battery life doing everything I'm doing now .. Using action launcher pro .. Watching kids browsing web etc and having NFC Bluetooth location off etc.. My phone did get really fast with KitKat though anf the UI works really fast despite looking really bad .. So my screen on time for a whole day is only 4 hours and thats 2-3 hours less .. My phone idle and standby are both at 10% and for some reason Bluetooth says its using the battery even though I'm not using it at all it says 5-6% used for Bluetooth .. So annoying.. Also I never rooted or did anything fancy with this phone And everything works fast but its the battery life That's annoying me .. If anyone could help fix this issue if they know why its happening that'd be great.

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Before the KitKat update my LG G2 had really good battery life doing everything I'm doing now .. Using action launcher pro .. Watching kids browsing web etc and having NFC Bluetooth location off etc.. My phone did get really fast with KitKat though anf the UI works really fast despite looking really bad .. So my screen on time for a whole day is only 4 hours and thats 2-3 hours less .. My phone idle and standby are both at 10% and for some reason Bluetooth says its using the battery even though I'm not using it at all it says 5-6% used for Bluetooth .. So annoying.. Also I never rooted or did anything fancy with this phone And everything works fast but its the battery life That's annoying me .. If anyone could help fix this issue if they know why its happening that'd be great.
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Bluetooth battery drain is known issue. Some have their battery life gimped while others see the Bluetooth usage and don't see a change in battery life. In my case Bluetooth was 15-18%. My screen on time was halved from 7-9 hours to 3-4 hours. I reverted back to 4.2.2 and the phone is behaving normally again. I have the update notification in my status bar but I'm not taking it. Hopefully google takes care of this issue soon.
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BreakingVZW said:
Bluetooth battery drain is known issue. Some have their battery life gimped while others see the Bluetooth usage and don't see a change in battery life. In my case Bluetooth was 15-18%. My screen on time was halved from 7-9 hours to 3-4 hours. I reverted back to 4.2.2 and the phone is behaving normally again. I have the update notification in my status bar but I'm not taking it. Hopefully google takes care of this issue soon.
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Yes I agree I was waiting for the update for a long time (had this since October) and when it comes its bugged :/ .. Right now I'm trying to use the battery saver mode and its only slightly improved it but still far from what I had on jelly bean .. Also tried a lot of apps for battery saving and did not come at any ones that worked.. I rather stay on 4.4.2 because its just so fast and as smooth as my nexus 7

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Yes I agree I was waiting for the update for a long time (had this since October) and when it comes its bugged :/ .. Right now I'm trying to use the battery saver mode and its only slightly improved it but still far from what I had on jelly bean .. Also tried a lot of apps for battery saving and did not come at any ones that worked.. I rather stay on 4.4.2 because its just so fast and as smooth as my nexus 7
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It just comes down to if you want your phone to be a little bit faster and have terrible battery life or if you handle 4.2.2 being a little bit slower (we're talking milliseconds here) and have awesome battery life. I chose the latter bc battery life is one of the reasons I purchased the phone.
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actually battery life was worse on the kitkats not for my phone, for my phone the kitkat is awesome
send from the jungle

bachera said:
actually battery life was worse on the kitkats not for my phone, for my phone the kitkat is awesome
send from the jungle
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I have the D801 hbu?

So if there was a patch coming I would get a notification for the small update to fix it .. That would not become 4.4.3 I think .. Or do I go back to 4.2.2 and wait for a lg to announce its updated and patched 4.4.2

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So if there was a patch coming I would get a notification for the small update to fix it .. That would not become 4.4.3 I think .. Or do I go back to 4.2.2 and wait for a lg to announce its updated and patched 4.4.2
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Go bk to 4.2.2 & wait until you hear good things about the update before jumping in full force

I'm having the same issue

[Q] Nexus 4 KitKat 4.4.4 battery drain

Since a few weeks I'm experiencing excessive battery drain on my stock Android Nexus 4.
What I tried without succes:
Switching from Chrome to Dolphin Browser
Lowering screen brightness
Lowering screen timeout
In the attachment you can find screenshots from monitoring app GSAM after half a day usage.
Mainly did some browsing, partly on 3G.
How to find out if the culprit is some background process, some app or some Android 4.4.* update?

First, you need an add blocker. If you're rooted try adaway. Google it.
I don't see anything terrible there. You're signals look good. But they're usually the main problem. If you had low Wi-Fi or data signals they could have caused your issue. The browser looks a little high relative to your screen on so maybe that's a little bit of an issue. Is this a one time occurrence or is it typical?
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Thanks for the tip.
I've been using home WiFi and the best 3G provider of my country, so in theory the signal should be healthy.
The day before yesterday the phone shut down after 8-9 hours being on, of which 3 - 3,5 hours active usage.
While browsing I see the battery dropping about 1% per minute. This is since about 2 weeks (not sure whether it's since a certain Android update).
I've read some user complaints about battery usage with the recent Android updates, but not about solutions.
I'll attach new screenshots from GSAM later today when the battery is almost empty.

how do i wipe the battery status on nexus 4?
its acting very badly
Ramu

YandroidG said:
While browsing I see the battery dropping about 1% per minute. This is since about 2 weeks (not sure whether it's since a certain Android update).
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You said this started to happen recently...what changes have you made to the phone in the last few weeks?

darkkid85 said:
how do i wipe the battery status on nexus 4?
its acting very badly
Ramu
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pls help guys, battery beavhing weridly

Search Wakelock detector app in play store, it can find the bg apps who cause battery drain.
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darkkid85 said:
how do i wipe the battery status on nexus 4?
its acting very badly
Ramu
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darkkid85 said:
pls help guys, battery beavhing weridly
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You don't... wiping battery stats does nothing but make you feel better.
http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer

LRX21Q Improvements

So, I manually flashed the recent OTA. Felt like sharing what I have noticed.
For one thing, EVERYTHING is snappier. Going into recent apps is fast, home screen and apps don't take forever to load. That's a definite improvement. If it changes after running for awhile, I'll update.
Google Now's Always On voice recognition now works. I couldn't get it to work while away from the Google Now launcher before the update.
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
Nothing for enabling the notification LED yet. Weird.
All I can see. Share what you've seen here.

st33med said:
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
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Thanks for the impressions. Hopefully the excessive power usage while using browser is fixed or will be soon.
I will note though that even though it shouldn't need to be used to avoid using Chrome, I think that using Tapatalk to browse XDA is a better experience. IMO, of course.

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Thanks for the impressions. Hopefully the excessive power usage while using browser is fixed or will be soon.
I will note though that even though it shouldn't need to be used to avoid using Chrome, I think that using Tapatalk to browse XDA is a better experience. IMO, of course.
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I noticed this too and im glad it wasnt only me. Certain websites cause the tablet to heat up, sometimes taking up as much as 40-50% CPU in the background until i force stop it.

Just flashed and rerooted. I hope its smooth now

mk92595 said:
Just flashed and rerooted. I hope its smooth now
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can you confirm that CF-Auto-Root still works with the latest OTA?

nealkoy said:
can you confirm that CF-Auto-Root still works with the latest OTA?
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Yes.

Will do a factory reset after this update to get a smooth new start

Any updates on the heated section next to the camera where the processor is at?

ElementalXY said:
Any updates on the heated section next to the camera where the processor is at?
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That heat is coming from the processor, that just means it's just under heavy load.

Sadly, WiFi 802.1x auth still doesn't work (PEAP) and the "Sign-in to Wifi network" screen is still blank for me. (Tested with Cisco Wireless LAN Controller at work.)

st33med said:
So, I manually flashed the recent OTA. Felt like sharing what I have noticed.
For one thing, EVERYTHING is snappier. Going into recent apps is fast, home screen and apps don't take forever to load. That's a definite improvement. If it changes after running for awhile, I'll update.
Google Now's Always On voice recognition now works. I couldn't get it to work while away from the Google Now launcher before the update.
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
Nothing for enabling the notification LED yet. Weird.
All I can see. Share what you've seen here.
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I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
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I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
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IS this refresh the re-draw of the launcher when turning the device orientation in an app and then exiting?

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IS this refresh the re-draw of the launcher when turning the device orientation in an app and then exiting?
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I think he is referring to the re-draw that seems to occur randomly when returning back to the home screen. Based on the impressions I may just flash the factory image to LRX21Q if these improvements are widespread. I still haven't received the OTA and can't sideload it because my tablet is still on the pre-release BL for some reason.

mbirth said:
Sadly, WiFi 802.1x auth still doesn't work (PEAP) and the "Sign-in to Wifi network" screen is still blank for me. (Tested with Cisco Wireless LAN Controller at work.)
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Was never a problem with my nexus 9. Working flawless.

It feels faster for sure, doesn't seem to get as hot either but maybe it does.

Yes I definitely see the improvement. I was one of the first buyers on the first day. But the unit I got has defected NFC chip. I returned it and got a replacement. Latest update definitely fixed the stutters and lags. I can vow for this.

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I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
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Is this under heavy usage?

Overheating and Screen Flickering
Do you think that the overheating issue near the camera and the issue where the screen is flickering when the device is not at full brightness, can be fixed by a software update or a firmware update?

ElementalXY said:
Is this under heavy usage?
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François Simond a kernel dev said this.
Francisco Franco9:36 AM+5
Just a heads-up, this OTA provides a VERY significant performance improvement - there was a Kernel regression that they fixed on this build regarding memory cgroups. Its very noticeable while using the tablet with this new patch.

I haven't noticed a difference yet but I didn't do s full wipe when I flashed.

Something in PL6 draining the battery??

PL6 installed on my phone this morning, and ever since I've had a mysterious battery drain. Even when on a Samsung fast charger, it drains faster than it can charge. The last time this happened, it was an Oculus GearVR update that caused it[1]. Anybody know what it is this time?
[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-s7-edge/help/unexplained-battery-drain-t3471301

jkwjkw said:
PL6 installed on my phone this morning, and ever since I've had a mysterious battery drain. Even when on a Samsung fast charger, it drains faster than it can charge. The last time this happened, it was an Oculus GearVR update that caused it[1]. Anybody know what it is this time?
[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-s7-edge/help/unexplained-battery-drain-t3471301
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i would suggest factory resetting the device. this has happened to alot of people and a sd card format (then copy your stuff back minus android -SD card only) then insert card reset go through all the bull but im hearing it runs almost as good as the OG firmware PB5 (im still on PB5 2 to 3 days battery every charge)
goodluck

jkwjkw said:
PL6 installed on my phone this morning, and ever since I've had a mysterious battery drain. Even when on a Samsung fast charger, it drains faster than it can charge. The last time this happened, it was an Oculus GearVR update that caused it[1]. Anybody know what it is this time?
[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-s7-edge/help/unexplained-battery-drain-t3471301
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Also i notice some laggy too . Not just battery drain
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Gets laggy, and bad battery life for me also. Sometimes it gets to the point it is unusable, even after shutdown and clear cache. Seems that if you reboot because of lag, you can't use it right away otherwise the lagginess continues. I have a Ventra app for monthly train ticket on my device and there is some security, and purchased tickets are stored locally. I guess I'll have to wait to do a reset when my monthly ticket expires. I thought this update was for Nougat, otherwise I wouldn't have updated. Anybody hear if this version is rootable? So far it seems not from what I've read.

My battery drain issues continue. I got a new message today though ... phone got so hot that I got the popup saying that only calls and messaging would function because of the temperature. This phone is a POS.

jkwjkw said:
My battery drain issues continue. I got a new message today though ... phone got so hot that I got the popup saying that only calls and messaging would function because of the temperature. This phone is a POS.
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Agreed. Wish my Note 4 didn't get smashed, I'd still be a happy man.

jkwjkw said:
My battery drain issues continue. I got a new message today though ... phone got so hot that I got the popup saying that only calls and messaging would function because of the temperature. This phone is a POS.
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I really hate this phone. I wish I could have kept my Note 7.

nosympathy said:
I really hate this phone. I wish I could have kept my Note 7.
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Hopefully The New 7.0 Update Fixes Everything! **** needs to hurry up and release already!
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Son Rise said:
Hopefully The New 7.0 Update Fixes Everything! **** needs to hurry up and release already!
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I am really hoping so. My average battery life with 40 mins screen on time is about 6 hours until 10% with no rogue apps or nonsense draining the battery.
haven't factory reset, been waiting on the 7.0 update to see what happens.

Koopa210 said:
Agreed. Wish my Note 4 didn't get smashed, I'd still be a happy man.
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nosympathy said:
I really hate this phone. I wish I could have kept my Note 7.
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I've been tempted several times to go back to my Note 4. Like a fool, I enrolled in that stupid Sprint Galaxy Forever program so I'm locked in, unless I want to spend $$$ to get out of it.