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Today just noticed clock drains my battery a lot. Any ideas?
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Hi All,
Just throwing this one out there but has anybody noticed the battery on their new S5 is not as great as the reviews all believe?
I got mine on Thursday morning in Switzerland. It's the European model - and I brought it home to the UK.
Charged it up fully, then let it discharge which took about 15 hours (though eight of those were in bed). Then yesterday, I charged it from 2% up to 100% at about 1pm. It was down to 20% by 10pm. Obviously, I'm using it a fair bit but no more than the other reviewers seem to imply.
I have it linked to my Gear 2 Neo and wonder if that's the cause. But I can't see how it would be as GSAM reckons Bluetooth is low usage and also my friend is using his connected to the Gear 2 and tells me yesterday, he had 90 mins of Netflix, Facebook and general playing before he got down to 90%. GSAM tells me that the kernel is the biggest user.
I vaguely seem to remember the S3 having a similar battery drain at first and not being sure what it was and it settled down eventually - but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts and experiences. By the way, I have Power Saving ON here too!
As a guide, it is now down to 93% after about an hour off charge with the screen having barely been on.
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It's kind of common sense to expect degraded battery life due to an always connected device like the Gear.
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I thought that initially but the gear is using low level blue tooth and even GSAM says it is barely responsible
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philliplavelle said:
As a guide, it is now down to 93% after about an hour off charge with the screen having barely been on.
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Something might be up with your phone. I have the US AT&T version of the S5 and my Gear 2 Neo is constantly connected and set to sync every 3 hours.
After 3 hours off the charger I'm down to 94% battery. If anything the battery on my Neo is what I'm concerned about. That's at 83% at about 8 hours.
That's what I'm concerned about.. as a routine, I installed a load of my most commonly used apps straight out of the box, but they're not running and not huge battery drainers.
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philliplavelle said:
That's what I'm concerned about.. as a routine, I installed a load of my most commonly used apps straight out of the box, but they're not running and not huge battery drainers.
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Battery is at 90% right now. saproviders which has the same icon as the gear settings app (so I'm assuming this is the service) has used 4% according to battery stats. Screen time is at 30% for me. My gear has used as much of my battery as being on wifi and cell standby.
It definitely appears to be my kernel that's doing it - but what? And how can I stop? See attached screenshots I just took.. Hope someone can help
After a new install always andoid is doing something intense ( my guess is that is scanning your phone). I installed cpu spy from gplay and I checked regularly for the deep sleep time. If you have zero time in deep sleep you have to turn off your phone and then back on. Check again deep sleep state.
P.S. Real life battery depends mostly on screen on time and the quality of network signal in your area.
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Hi Calinormy.
Thanks for the response. So, I just installed cpu spy and it tells me that my phone spent a flips chunk of last night in deep sleep. I am flummoxed as to what this kernel usage is.
My instinct would say the constant connection to the Gear Neo watch but I know people also using that watch who say that it is having no impact on battery life and in the gsam stats, it seems to reflect that.
I wonder if the kernel usage will calm down after a few days.
Boooooo
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I have a S5 from AT&T and it is connected to my Gear Fit. My Gear fit is the top battery user at 19% followed by Android System at 16% and Screen at 14%. Everything else is under 10% including Android OS. I would find my battery down 8-10 within 1-2 hours but I would listen to music via Bluetooth in the car ride to work which is 45 minutes. It has been 8hrs and 45minutes since my phone was at 100%. I am now at 58%, so about 5+% an hour drop. Now my usage is email, web browsing, light facebook, LinkedIn. No heavy video and have Wifi turned off but bluetooth is on for the Gear Fit.
Also, it took two hours of charge time to go from 10% to 37% charge last night which seems rather slow. I was plugged into a USB 3.0 slot on my PC. My iPhone 5 would have been at or close to 100%.Hoepfully it gets faster over time.
Merc82386 said:
Something might be up with your phone. I have the US AT&T version of the S5 and my Gear 2 Neo is constantly connected and set to sync every 3 hours.
After 3 hours off the charger I'm down to 94% battery. If anything the battery on my Neo is what I'm concerned about. That's at 83% at about 8 hours.
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I have a Gear 2 Neo as well....what do you mean by set to sync every 3 hours?
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
I have a Gear 2 Neo as well....what do you mean by set to sync every 3 hours?
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How often it syncs pedometer and weather data automatically. The default is to sync every 24 hours.
Gear S and Galaxy 5S battery drain
I forgot and left the GPS on (gear S). My Galaxy S5's battery started draining at an unbelievable rate. Turned of the watches GPS and all was fine. Seems as though if GPS is on, it's always communicating with S Health even though I don't use it.
Hi,
I bought my galaxy s5 exynos version. It is overheating a lot. Its body gets pretty hot and temp sensors show that the battery temp is 38 degrees and body temp is 33 degrees. The battery life also is really poor.. it went to 47% in just 3.5 hrs of usage even with power savings. Is it a problem with phone's battery? I have attached a screenshot of battery stats.
Are the other users using smg900h facing this problem of heating and battery drain? is there any workaround? Please help me.
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Hi,
I bought my galaxy s5 exynos version. It is overheating a lot. Its body gets pretty hot and temp sensors show that the battery temp is 38 degrees and body temp is 33 degrees. The battery life also is really poor.. it went to 47% in just 3.5 hrs of usage even with power savings. Is it a problem with phone's battery? I have attached a screenshot of battery stats.
Are the other users using smg900h facing this problem of heating and battery drain? is there any workaround? Please help me.
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Not at all... There's something wrong with yours. I usually get 6+ hrs screen on time on mine.
Battery lasts a day.
Any app you recently installed? Or maybe your SD Card has some corrupted files and the Media Scanner gets stuck?
drakester09 said:
Not at all... There's something wrong with yours. I usually get 6+ hrs screen on time on mine.
Battery lasts a day.
Any app you recently installed? Or maybe your SD Card has some corrupted files and the Media Scanner gets stuck?
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No the media server isnt popping up. Now as I am writing this , the battery drain slowed down and now it is on 23%. This is my first discharge of phone though.. Also what about overheating? Mine remains warm while browsing and becomes hot after using a bit of camera. I dont know why but my ears feel the heat during a voice call.
Try the fixes in my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2745909
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Hi,
I bought my galaxy s5 exynos version. It is overheating a lot. Its body gets pretty hot and temp sensors show that the battery temp is 38 degrees and body temp is 33 degrees. The battery life also is really poor.. it went to 47% in just 3.5 hrs of usage even with power savings. Is it a problem with phone's battery? I have attached a screenshot of battery stats.
Are the other users using smg900h facing this problem of heating and battery drain? is there any workaround? Please help me.
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Hi! sorry about my English.
I'm having the same problem with my exynos galaxy s5. It sometimes gets really hot and the battery drains really fast, even with low usage (emails and whatapp). It's definitely a software problem, because it disappears on reboot. But after a while it returns.
After a reboot i can get sometimes 4.5h to 5h or more of screen on time with no overheating, full day, but than something triggers and i have 2.5 screen or 3h max on with a hot device on wifi, and terrible standby time.
I can't pinpoint the problem. It's not a wakelock problem. I Checked wakelock detector (PC version, since my device is unrooted), and it shows only 8% wake on a full day (yesterday).
The battery on setting shows normal usage: the screen is always on top, followed by android os.
I really don't know what to do, besides keeping rebooting the device every day. No luck turning locations services off.
As I mentioned, that is not normal at all, this is my battery life:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53575590&postcount=697
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As I mentioned, that is not normal at all, this is my battery life:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53575590&postcount=697
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Do you have the Exynos or the Snapdragon version?
i'm having similar issues with mine, but i managed to get better battery life by turning off location reporting, samsung account,chatON, my magazine, polaris and changing the location to GPS only, it's not drastically different but as of right now im at 61% with 13h off the charger and 30m on screen time.
Sinchero said:
Do you have the Exynos or the Snapdragon version?
i'm having similar issues with mine, but i managed to get better battery life by turning off location reporting, samsung account,chatON, my magazine, polaris and changing the location to GPS only, it's not drastically different but as of right now im at 61% with 13h off the charger and 30m on screen time.
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Exynos, G900H
drakester09 said:
Exynos, G900H
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Do you have anything turned off? are you using touchwiz launcher?
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Do you have anything turned off? are you using touchwiz launcher?
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Lot of stuff I don't use is greenified, using Nova Launcher.
I only have disabled Knox in Titanium Backup
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drakester09 said:
Lot of stuff I don't use is greenified, using Nova Launcher.
I only have disabled Knox in Titanium Backup
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do you have a SD card installed? i read somewhere in this forum that some people were having issues with their SD cards,
Sinchero said:
do you have a SD card installed? i read somewhere in this forum that some people were having issues with their SD cards,
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Yes, an old class 10 16GB card. I have it since I got the S3... I stopped using it while I had the Nexus 4 and 5.
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Dont have this issue at all, i charge it when the battery is below 20%
use greenify and blaze kernel for SM-G900F with the power suspend 1% drop in 5 hours
Try to reboot every time of overheating. This should resolve the problem.
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drakester09 said:
Not at all... There's something wrong with yours. I usually get 6+ hrs screen on time on mine.
Battery lasts a day.
Any app you recently installed? Or maybe your SD Card has some corrupted files and the Media Scanner gets stuck?
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man! Really ?? I can only get around 3 hours and 40 minutes at best.
which variant you're using bro ? I am using SM-G900H and trying to buy another spare battery.
Do you perhaps have 1+ Exchange accounts filled with data (email, calendar, contacts, memos, ..). I had this issue on my Nexus 4. As I wiped and flashed the device often, I noticed that the issue was not appearing when I forgot to add one of my Exchange accounts. What fixed it was deleting most unwanted data from my Exchange accounts (old e-mails, all sent e-mails, ecc.). Just guessing.
Don't know why there isn't a thread for it yet, so I took the time to make one! Discuss your battery life, and any tips that can increase them here.
I am using t810 with latest firmware. When I don't use my tablet, I turn it off, for example I turn it on for Internet browsing and then when I go out I turn it off until I need it again.
I can't get more than 5,30-6 hours sot, with most of time Internet browsing and 10-15minutes of gaming.. I think battery life is worse than Galaxy tab s...
I get 7 hours sot on average, with 6.30 being the lower bound and 8 hours being the upper bound. Everything is stock. WiFi turns off when in standby (stock option in WiFi settings), so there is no drainage when in standby.
I use it half of the time for browsing and half of the time YouTube.
zapee995 said:
I am using t810 with latest firmware. When I don't use my tablet, I turn it off, for example I turn it on for Internet browsing and then when I go out I turn it off until I need it again.
I can't get more than 5,30-6 hours sot, with most of time Internet browsing and 10-15minutes of gaming.. I think battery life is worse than Galaxy tab s...
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It almost certainly is, the battery is significantly smaller. The OG S was a beast.
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My battery life is solid, it doesn't drain much at all when on and not in use or just browsing the internet. It lasts awhile while playing San Andreas. I always use the OEM charger and cable having had issues with other phones mixing chargers and cables. Also I think I read something saying the first few weeks of use to keep the battery as full as possible but not leaving it plugged in over night for exaple or off for an extened time.
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Quick question: on my T710 on 5.0.1 I don't seem to be abke to see the specific battery usage, eg: how much battery used by wifi. Typically I would tap the battery graph to get these details, but doesn't seem to work on my S2?
I'm pretty impressed with the battery life of my 817T. I don't feel like I've had it long enough yet to say average SOT, but I only need to charge it every 2-3 days with some gaming, browsing, maybe a reboot or 2, and a fair amount of etc. It barely loses anything on standby, which is impressive. The only thing is it feels like it charges so slow but that's only because I'm used to using QC 2.0 on my Note 4! It's not a problem or anything; it would be nice if it had some LEDs for charging though.
hi all...i got this on wifii and its verry good for me
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Quick question: on my T710 on 5.0.1 I don't seem to be abke to see the specific battery usage, eg: how much battery used by wifi. Typically I would tap the battery graph to get these details, but doesn't seem to work on my S2?
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Nope, Samsung dropped that feature from it TouchWiz Nature 5 skin.
I'm getting 9 hrs SOT really good for the battery size. stock tw using lux, package disabler, stock keyboard, Google launcher
Getting a fairly good number on mine, considering this was first cycle, and that I have no special optimizations for it like turning off WiFi when screen off, and I haven't messed around with the settings at all to improve battery.
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Getting a fairly good number on mine, considering this was first cycle, and that I have no special optimizations for it like turning off WiFi when screen off, and I haven't messed around with the settings at all to improve battery.
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Good for you. I'm using T815Y 9.7" and got around 8h onscreen. It's quite good
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I got 8-10 hours SOT with gaming, browsing, emails ,....
and in sleep I get 0.15% per hour
I'm loving its battery life
my only problem is slow charging, it gets around 20% per hour with its own charger so it takes almost 5 hours to fully charge
I've noticed that CM12.1 gives allot better battery performance on my Tab then before. I'm still not sure if my tab came with a bad battery but on stock samsung I only got about 3h maybe 4h of screen usage. On CM i'm assuming (note, I haven't run a battery test yet) to get about 8-9h when I see how slow the percentage goes down.
Getting very good results almost 8 hours of SOT with heavy usage (browsing web, playing some hearthstone, temple run, subway surfers and watching youtube)
Very strange for battery of that capacity seems like system is really optimized
Which version is this?
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Getting very good results almost 8 hours of SOT with heavy usage (browsing web, playing some hearthstone, temple run, subway surfers and watching youtube)
Very strange for battery of that capacity seems like system is really optimized
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Which version is this?
I can't tell you right now how long my SOT is but the battery life of my T810 is really unexpected great.
I'm using it always with the Bluetooth keyboard from the official cover and the Samsung mouse. I'm typing a lot in university and using it at home for surfing, YouTube and Emails. I don't play any games on my tab and I have to charge it every 4 - 5 days. For its big screen I can't complain about the battery life!
Charing with the stock charger takes about 4 hours. When I plug my Tab S2 into my Anker Powerbank it just takes 2 - 3 hours.
I'm on the latest 5.0.2 firmware available in Germany.
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Does anybody use the Optimalrom with Greenify? Or the best is to use stock?
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After having all the iPad generations and trying about a dozen or more Android tablets... have to say the S2 is the first tablet i've had that has a iPad-like battery life.. Doesn't appear to drain while in standby (just like an iPad).. So it's a finally usable tablet in my eyes.. My problem was Android tablets just sitting in my bag would lose 20% a day.. Glad to see Android has figured out how to address the issue.
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Does anybody use the Optimalrom with Greenify? Or the best is to use stock?
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Good idea, I did it. Worked well (left = no greenify) (right = with greenify) both are school usage like doing documents and playing the occasional game in class. Seems pretty good.
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I've got the s7 edge and the android system is draining about 15%,but the screen on time is amazing. About 7 hours when i play games,call people,message people. Is this too high?
Here i have a screen shot of the android system usage. Is this normal? I have all the wireless things off,i only use wifi.
I am also experiencing same issues. SOT is good but when phone should be doing nothing it's draining battery... active display is off. No Facebook.. standard sync with Google... I'm even using grenify..
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