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How long does your Galaxy S battery lasts when APN is enabled?
Bought mine at Singtel and my Galaxy S came with a G7 battery...
my battery lasts barely a day.. I need to turn off APN so it can last longer.
I also installed Task Panel X to kill the running apps which I think is using my Data (if I didn't turn of APN).
I'm curious about these 3 apps, they always runs again even if I killed them using Task Panel
1) SNS -> Phonebook & Facebook integration, even if I disabled the auto sync and turn off Sync in the Power Control Widget.
2) My Uploads -> I'm not uploading anything..
3) com.sec.android.app.samsungapps.una -> what is this?
4) Feeds and Updates -> even if I'm not using this widget.
3) com.sec.android.app.samsungapps.una -> what is this?
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Im guesing that is touch wizz
once I got all apps installed (coming over from G1) it get very bad, barely get through a full day, I can see it ticking down at times.....cant seem to track down the culprit apps though
I woke up at 6am this morning, got low batter warning at 10am this morning wtf! (first day of having the phone).
Hope it gets better....
Mine is still showing about 1/4 charged after 24 hours of light use.
Been useing it for a few days now and most off time got BT and wifi is on from time to time at home and work to speed things upp, and also every morning/night on my way to work play music. And use mail,sms and call for quite a bit every day, and on the night when i go to bed i got around 20-30% left. I take it off like 7 at the morning and i put it in charger at around 22-23 so should say battery is quite nice so far.
mine has great battery too.. but I don't have 3g yet
either way even if my internet is closed, many of the apps you mentioned still run out of nowhere.
Once we get root we'll be able to disable them via the application "Autostarts"
Archius said:
mine has great battery too.. but I don't have 3g yet
either way even if my internet is closed, many of the apps you mentioned still run out of nowhere.
Once we get root we'll be able to disable them via the application "Autostarts"
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we have root already...
but looking at the autostarts list, can't decide which can be disabled....
battery life huh..
i listen to music.. search the web.. read pdf's.. calls.. gaming (tangram pro).. play with the interface..
all in all.. battery kinda sucks.. i always carry with me the Gata USB cable so that I can charge at work.
i travel for 1.5 - 2 hours to work and i can manage to get the battery nearly half once i reach work after using the phone (no calls).
hopefully we will see high capacity battery for the phone like 3500mAh - 3800mAh..
oh yeah, someone said that you need to drain and charge it 5 times to get the battery working at 100% capacity.. not sure though.. and haven't tried.. but will try eventually.. hehehe
kenkiller said:
we have root already...
but looking at the autostarts list, can't decide which can be disabled....
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sorry yes I know we have it but I wrote it wrong haha I meant once we have an easier way to root xD
I'm not comfortable rooting that way. I remember it was easier before :/ ..
I have to say my battery life has been pretty good. I didnt charge the phone when I got it like some have said you should do, it arrived with 40% battery and lasted about 6 hours of constant use. The next day it lasted just shy of 24 hours and then with medium use im getting about 32 hours out of it. Today im on 71% after 12 hours of use. I expect I can get 2 full days out of it if I could leave the phone be for more than 5 minutes but that screen is too hard to resist. This is with push email always on, twitter updating every 15mins, stocks updating every 30mins and a live wallpaper. The screen does have the brightness turned all the way down though, I only bump it up when in direct sunlight.
About 50% longer then my Desire lasted with the same Apps.
Any ideas on why mine would be so low? Have been awake for 3.5 hours now, and am on 63% battery. Light internet surfing on wifi for some of it, but a lot of it was just standby...
rodh257 said:
Any ideas on why mine would be so low? Have been awake for 3.5 hours now, and am on 63% battery. Light internet surfing on wifi for some of it, but a lot of it was just standby...
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Have a look at what your wifi is set for connecting and downloading emails.
Mine was set to connect every 5mins and I didn't get round to checking this feature for the first couple of days.
During that time my phone needed charging twice a day.
Ithen changed the timing from every 5mins to every 1hr (and nothing else), now instead of charging 2 x daily I get a whole days use with some to spare.....
When the machine lays idle wifi is the biggest battery eater.
rodh257 said:
Any ideas on why mine would be so low? Have been awake for 3.5 hours now, and am on 63% battery. Light internet surfing on wifi for some of it, but a lot of it was just standby...
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My initial thoughts would be something to do with the fact, you are charging through USB, and not the mains power supply.
I have found USB, never fully charges my phones, and even when it says 100%, it very quickly drops below, after some use.
thanks for your thoughts guys.
My initial charge was on USB, and I was using it while charging (and unplugged it once or twice), maybe it's just got bad calibration or something as a result and thinks its running low when it isn't? dont know if this is likely or not.
My second charge was via the mains power, with a UK->Australia power adapter.
THen next one was USB
Then last night I charged it using my girlfriends iPhone power adapter (which is a USB -> mains, so I plugged my cable into it).
My exchange email is every 5 minutes, but I kind of want that to stay like that, I might try moving it if I can't think of anything else. Gmail I think can't do anything but push?
my wifi is connected most of hte day, at home and at work, though I just turned off the setting for alerting for new networks, maybe that will help?
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I woke up at 6am this morning, got low batter warning at 10am this morning wtf! (first day of having the phone).
Hope it gets better....
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Happened to me before.. even if I turned off "Sync" in the "Power Control Widget" or setting the phone on 2G Mode.
but I found a possible solution.
Try to un-check the "Background Data" under "Settings - Accounts and Sync". I noticed that the phone still uses data even if I killed all the tasks. Also make sure that you don't have any auto sync settings like "Feeds and Updates", Facebook, Tweeter, etc.. (if you don't need it)
*Android Market needs this "Background Data", it will ask you to turn it on. Just turn it off after..
Startup auditor doesn't require root and seems better then autostarts . I Just bought it. works great ....just an fyi
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I too have the Sanny Galaxy S from Singtel but i flashed the euro fw to get rid of all the bloatware.
Could go into the location menu under settings and turn off the 'get position via wireless networks' option as i find that with that on, the wifi keeps turning itself on although the icon does not pop up in the task bar.
Battery lasts about a full day for me so far with moderate usage (about 1hour of music, 30mins web browsing, push Gmail and Hotmail + Exchange syncing every hour)
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i listen to music.. search the web.. read pdf's.. calls.. gaming (tangram pro).. play with the interface..
all in all.. battery kinda sucks.. i always carry with me the Gata USB cable so that I can charge at work.
i travel for 1.5 - 2 hours to work and i can manage to get the battery nearly half once i reach work after using the phone (no calls).
hopefully we will see high capacity battery for the phone like 3500mAh - 3800mAh..
oh yeah, someone said that you need to drain and charge it 5 times to get the battery working at 100% capacity.. not sure though.. and haven't tried.. but will try eventually.. hehehe
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Draining the battery is bad. These batteries you should try to charge whenever possible. Draining it will lower the capacity.
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My Huawei has a horrible battery life. I'm using stock rom (rooted of course) and the battery drains really fast, like 5-10% an hour even in sleep mode. I have used a battery calibration app recommended by someone here in xda, but I don't think it made any difference. My last Android phone used around 1% an hour, even with data and sync on, but with pretty much the same settings, I can hardly make it through the day with my Huawei.
So, what to do? I don't need the battery to last for days, but having to recharge twice a day at worst is just too much.
My battery drops around 7-10% overnight.
Probably a defective cell?
mine after i installed custom rom (b160) and a battery calibartion in flight mode during my sleep after 7 hours that passed and woke up it was 1% dropped and now 7 almost hours afterwards in normal mode it has dropped 7% with very light use of course...
i want to say just that with gsm active it drained 5% more than in flight mode...
so something must be going wrong , like you don't have a good signal and it uses much power to keep your connection alive and have better signal....
i must say that i have a profile with setcpu when the screen is off with min 122 and max 460...
and just for the record i think that with custom rom also mine was dropping more...
i don't know why although...
ioucorsa said:
mine after i installed custom rom (b160) and a battery calibartion in flight mode during my sleep after 7 hours that passed and woke up it was 1% dropped and now 7 almost hours afterwards in normal mode it has dropped 7% with very light use of course...
i want to say just that with gsm active it drained 5% more than in flight mode...
so something must be going wrong , like you don't have a good signal and it uses much power to keep your connection alive and have better signal....
i must say that i have a profile with setcpu when the screen is off with min 122 and max 460...
and just for the record i think that with custom rom also mine was dropping more...
i don't know why although...
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Noticed this myself. i use spotify alot on the phone, walking, bicycling, at the gym. and it drains a whole lot of power even in offline mode. but if i set it in flight mode the phone last for hours and hours without even dropping 5-10% of power. but when gsm or data traffic is on the battery life just drains out so quickly! so it is definitly something serously wrong in this rom. Im hoping gingerbread is coming soon to this phone, so maybe all these small issues has been fixed.
I've found highly variable battery life. Sometimes it's awful, almost 50% overnight when it's sleeping on my nightstand, other times it's much better and only drops 7-10% under those conditions.
One thing is Google Maps, even when not in use it seems to suck battery like crazy if it's loaded (and it has a habit of getting loaded even when you don't run it or any apps that use it). There's a long thread on this in the Google support forums, but no sign of a fix from Google yet.
I've found doing a 'force stop' on Maps if it's running often helps, another thing is to reboot the phone after you charge it, that seems to fix it for several days sometimes, but then it starts sucking juice again for no apparent reason, so I tend to reboot it after each recharge. There can also be other apps that due to bugs can suck battery, for a while there app killer did this but the author put a fix out pretty quick and it shouldn't be an issue now.
Just noticed that there's an Android update from Huawei now available for download, maybe that'll fix some of the irritations and help with battery life; I'm off to install it!
where can you find that update? through phone's settings->check for update (in my case it says i got the latest version) or online?
My phone has been on for nearly 48 hours.. charging it right now. I played, connected to wifi, browsed the net, facebook, gmail etc.. and I really played hard on it for a few hours.
30mins ago it switched off, dead battery.. I'm quite pleased with the battery life
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My Huawei has a horrible battery life. I'm using stock rom (rooted of course) and the battery drains really fast, like 5-10% an hour even in sleep mode. I have used a battery calibration app recommended by someone here in xda, but I don't think it made any difference. My last Android phone used around 1% an hour, even with data and sync on, but with pretty much the same settings, I can hardly make it through the day with my Huawei.
So, what to do? I don't need the battery to last for days, but having to recharge twice a day at worst is just too much.
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Exactly the same problem here. I formatted now both the internal and external SD card, let's see if that helps.
edit: No it doesn't. The problem seems to be that my phone doesn't sleep properly. I charged it to full, then turned the screen off for one hour. App called Spart Parts shows that since last unplugged, time spent without sleeping is 36m.
it took mine 2 weeks to get to the full battery life. now i get 36-48 hours from it.
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it took mine 2 weeks to get to the full battery life. now i get 36-48 hours from it.
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After 5 weeks i get about 12hrs. No GPS, no 3G. About 10min ago i took the charging cable off. Now Battery History in Spare Parts show that "Since last unplugged" time spent without sleeping is 10m 33s (99.9998%), and time spent with screen on is 3m 23s.
im thinking of buying this phone is it available in India ? also can this device be rooted n what about the custom roms ? are they available as there is nthng on XDA :'( . And what about its battery life even being 1500mah is it so awful ?
knevski said:
After 5 weeks i get about 12hrs. No GPS, no 3G. About 10min ago i took the charging cable off. Now Battery History in Spare Parts show that "Since last unplugged" time spent without sleeping is 10m 33s (99.9998%), and time spent with screen on is 3m 23s.
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something is running background...
after i removed all these applications such spare parts and other i got 3 days with light use of course...
with screen off after 3 hours it drops 1% !
and this is fantastic for me!!!
ioucorsa said:
something is running background...
after i removed all these applications such spare parts and other i got 3 days with light use of course...
with screen off after 3 hours it drops 1% !
and this is fantastic for me!!!
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Now after factory reset it seems that this is fixed. Over night with Wi-Fi and all sync's enabled, it took about 20% which is quite ok.
knevski said:
Now after factory reset it seems that this is fixed. Over night with Wi-Fi and all sync's enabled, it took about 20% which is quite ok.
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The problem is back... For some unknown reason the phone doesn't go to sleep and starts to use more battery.
Battery History:
Other usage, since last unplugged:
Running (100%)
Screen on (3,2%)
Partial wake usage, since last unplugged:
Android System: Total time: 13s
Dialer: Total time: 0s
Maps: Total time: 0s
It seems that reboot helps with this every time. After reboot, running-% is 32.9 when screen on is 6.5%. It would still be interesting and helpful to know what causes this.
its an android thing
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its an android thing
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Do you mean it's a common bug, or is it normal thing for Android to not go to sleep after few hours of using the phone?
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Do you mean it's a common bug, or is it normal thing for Android to not go to sleep after few hours of using the phone?
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That's not true. My battery history shows that correct(as far as I can perceive) running time.
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That's not true. My battery history shows that correct(as far as I can perceive) running time.
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I get most of the time also. But after charging, at one point (after some time) for some reason the time spent without sleeping goes to 99%. The problem is, that the partial wake usage doesn't show that something is wrong. Usually restart helps, but sometimes it can be already late, because 100% running has already taken quite much of the battery.
Also, when the time spent without sleeping is 99% or 100%, the CPU is still NOT in heavy use. So something just prevents the phone to go to sleep mode, and it seems that it is not the CPU that causes it.
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where can you find that update? through phone's settings->check for update (in my case it says i got the latest version) or online?
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I got it through the phone, it was the 2.2.1 B136SP02 update. Not online at Huawei website. It doesn't seem to have improved battery life alas (or the frequent WiFi dropouts I've had since new, particularly while downloading app updates). Main feature of the update is WiFi tethering/hotspot support, at last...
What seems to have worked for me after a couple of weeks++ of REALLY crappy battery life is a battery stats wipe.
FullCharge while the phone was off. First boot in recovery, battery wipe and then i just let it run close to dry before the first charge (almost 48 hours of medium use). Note here that i am now using the charger that came with the phone because i noticed that my generic usb one had an output of 0.7A instead of the full 1A of the factory charger.
Another point arose however. Does anyone else have stability issues when battery drops below 25%? I am talking about some serious crash/reboot/lag/noradio issues.
Hi, everyone ı bought s4 but ı didn't like its battery.İnternet is connecting everytime , and ı look my social network every 15 minutes,ı play 30 minutes totally in a day.And waching video on youtube but battery run-out 12 hours.İs it normal ?
Lastly I'm sorry for my English.
Thank you
These phones suck up the juice. Search for other posts on battery drain there are a bunch, and they have good info in them.
I shut off everything I don't use and still had issues getting 24 hours with light use. I ended up getting an extended battery and I get 2 days with no issues now. Google services was killing my battery.. Look in settings under battery and see what's using the most battery.
Samsung Galaxy S4 battery life
Stock 4.2.2 I337MVLUAMG1 Rooted. Using JuiceDefender Ultimate.. Pretty good thou..
Just sharing with my experience..I'm happy about it..
Battery is great.
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Both TouchWiz and CyanogenMod gave me around a whole days use (about 3-5 hour screen on time). It all depends what you do with your phone throughout the day. If you browser the web, text and call you should last the whole day. But if you play games, text, call, etc and use your phone heavily, expect it to die out at around 12-15 hours.
The best option in my opinion would be getting extra batteries. Not extended batteries, if you don't want the extra bulk. Hyperion and Anker are excellent 3rd party battery manufacturers, you can carry the extra batteries around with you, in your backpack or even your pocket and use them if you need them.
I like to use GREENIFY and hibernate all but essential apps
*messaging, Whatsapp, phone and weather widget
I also use WAKELOCK DETECTOR to see what is running when the phone is "asleep"
I can "play hard" with the phone for about 14 hours
--games, texting, pictures...and typical phone calls
However I do still charge it up at night and I have a car charger so I keep the battery topped off..I never know when I will be 14 hours away from a charger
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Stock 4.2.2 I337MVLUAMG1 Rooted. Using JuiceDefender Ultimate.. Pretty good thou..
Just sharing with my experience..I'm happy about it..
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How in the hell did u get 3 days? I cant get over 26 hours, and thats with like maybe 2-3 hours screen on time and really limited usage of games, maybe like 10 minutes
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How in the hell did u get 3 days? I cant get over 26 hours, and thats with like maybe 2-3 hours screen on time and really limited usage of games, maybe like 10 minutes
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Just a regular usage, FB, Email, Weather, Remote of my few devices at home. Not much Call and text specially games. Restart phone when your about to go sleep in the end of the day and just let it go. Let juice defender do the trick for you. I kinda like the app. 2nd or 3rd day charge phone when ever necessary. I have S3 as wel b4 this phone so I just use that for my games and etc.
I used to go 2 days with my 5200 battery, but the last set of google updates have cut me down to 17 hours.. I was very happy with the S4 battery life before that
I had the same issue with my S4. Id seem to be losing a percent per minute while using the phone to do simple things like sending texts with wifi, air gestures, gprs, bluetooth off. I 'd leave the phone on standby over night and by morning losses of up to 30% of the battery wold be seen. I fixed the issue by reseting the phone and disabling location finder in google seen on initial setup. Try it. My battery nowlasts much longer despite frequent usage. eg. I umplugged from charger yeaterday at 9am and used the phone all day. At 9 this morning my battery was at 35%.
I just got my phone 2 days ago and I can say this is the best battery I ever used (at least for now)
mf3 rooted SHOstock 2.3
willieamm said:
I had the same issue with my S4. Id seem to be losing a percent per minute while using the phone to do simple things like sending texts with wifi, air gestures, gprs, bluetooth off. I 'd leave the phone on standby over night and by morning losses of up to 30% of the battery wold be seen. I fixed the issue by reseting the phone and disabling location finder in google seen on initial setup. Try it. My battery nowlasts much longer despite frequent usage. eg. I umplugged from charger yeaterday at 9am and used the phone all day. At 9 this morning my battery was at 35%.
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ekotim said:
Hi, everyone ı bought s4 but ı didn't like its battery.İnternet is connecting everytime , and ı look my social network every 15 minutes,ı play 30 minutes totally in a day.And waching video on youtube but battery run-out 12 hours.İs it normal ?
Lastly I'm sorry for my English.
Thank you
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seaham358 said:
These phones suck up the juice. Search for other posts on battery drain there are a bunch, and they have good info in them.
I shut off everything I don't use and still had issues getting 24 hours with light use. I ended up getting an extended battery and I get 2 days with no issues now. Google services was killing my battery.. Look in settings under battery and see what's using the most battery.
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Hi all,
I realize a bad Wifi connection /congested wifi can cause Battery drain.
Some background services will get stuck there and consume 3-4% per hour. If that happens can try to disable Wifi or set it to disable during sleep and monitor the battery usage again. Hope this will help
Hi guys, can you post battery stats, including Screen On Time?
Thanks.
My first drain from 100% = ~22 hours of life with over 4 hours of SOT. Qualcomm Quick charge will have me back in 96 minutes. Pretty impressive for such a little phone.
Lasted a whole day about 20 hours until I reached 4% before I charged it again. Only
25 min of gaming
30 min video
45 min phone
3 hours use on internet
7 hours of calc player , Howard stern
Wi-Fi on all time
Display settings on default
No power saving mode
I'm impressed
The day after when I installed more apps it's more noticeable to see drain from certain apps that constantly use push notification like slickseals
First drain from 100%.
SOT around 3 hours
Automatic brightness
WiFi on 24/7, connected only when at home
Bluetooth on 24/7, also used with Android Wear
~5 hours of BT streaming (Play Music streaming over LTE)
7 Google accounts on Push
1 Outlook account on Push / 1 Verizon account on 2 hour Fetch (stock Email app)
Facebook / G+
Lots of apps installed...
Here is mine from today so far.
On pace for almost 6+ hours SOT.
I also have the Always on Display setting turned on.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_ESszeycXGQkY3MnNRTmFCX1E/view?usp=sharing
The battery has been really good so far. When I checked the first time, it last for 16-17 hours total and 6-7 hours of sot. I was reading, watching videos, and playing games. I'm satisfied.
Pretty good so far I think. Far better than I ever got with the s6
Just under 7 hours screen on time from the very first charge.
i usually get between 4-4.5 hours screen on time and i use bluetooth all day with my headset along with streaming milk music with some games.
Yesterday/day before :29 hours with 5 hours Screen on time
Today: 20 hours with 6.5 hours screen on time
By far the best battery life i have ever had on any smart phone
I'm happy with this. Location always on high. Bluetooth on all day with my s2 classic.
Auto brightness and regular data the whole time, not bad at all
No complaints
So far battery is pretty good
I've been pleased. Wifi Calling and VoLTE on. Location services/history on (WiFi and network, GPS off unless using maps). Auto brightness. Stock settings, a few apps disabled.
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So far battery is pretty good
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I never thought I'd see the day... a Galaxy with 7 hrs SOT.:good:
This is my 5th full charge. Screen brightness at about 60/65%, Always On Display on, GPS on, not trying to preserve power in any way....
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This is my 5th full charge. Screen brightness at about 60/65%, Always On Display on, GPS on, not trying to preserve power in any way....
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How is yours blacked out like that?
Best SOT I ever got. Doze kept it alive at the end lol
Ive had my phone for 3 weeks and its been rooted since day one. I use my phone in the same way day to day but my battery is over the place. Yest i had it off charger for 15 hours and i had 6 hours of sot with 5% left. Today its been off charger since 730. All i did was stream music to my blue tooth headphones for 30 min and battery is down to 75%. Screen was off so was wifi and gps. Anyone else have this problem?
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Ive had my phone for 3 weeks and its been rooted since day one. I use my phone in the same way day to day but my battery is over the place. Yest i had it off charger for 15 hours and i had 6 hours of sot with 5% left. Today its been off charger since 730. All i did was stream music to my blue tooth headphones for 30 min and battery is down to 75%. Screen was off so was wifi and gps. Anyone else have this problem?
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Messenger is your problem if you weren't using it. Was there an update to it recently? My GF complained of battery drain on her G5 this morning and messenger was running crazy.
Wouldn't I have awful battery everyday than? I have bad day followed by Good day.
There is another thread here. A few of us are expecting this lately. And I think it's safe to conclude that Facebook is the one responsible for these battery drain. Try uninstalling and disabling it. Both Facebook and FB messenger.
I uninstalled it and recharged. I'm still losing crazy amounts of battery. I lost 10% in an hr with the phone sitting in my pocket and now the screen won't rotate anymore.
on the tmo/918 variant and experienced this as well starting this morning - slow charging, high battery drain, phone being overly hot. uninstalled both FB and messenger, cleared cache, and so far things seem to be back to normal...