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Hi guys, just as a suggestion, someone could stick a thread regarding battery life, with tweaks or recommendations of what to do to improve this. I'm sure it is the major drawback of our wonderful device and I'm always trying to find something that could help, but I never find anything that really helps.
After several tweaks from this forum, the only thing I think that have really improved my battery life was to disable the HTC sense. It really works. Somehow, the Sense drains the battery so fast, the change is very visible.
But of course the Sense is one of the best things of the HD2
What do you think guys?
I have the same problem as well, power management cab didn't help in 1.48 ROM, in 1.43 everything worked quite well
I'm subscribing to this thread in the hope someone can do a good summary.. fingers crossed!
yeah the only solution is not to use sense, sense drains alot of power.
After I installed spb mobile shell the problem is solved..
Using spb and not sense has made my battery last alot longer, at night the battery would drain 50-60 % when I was at sleep using sense, but with spb it only drains 5-10% for a whole night.
I am using Sense and my battery drains about 5% over night. I found 2 things that helped a lot.
1. Turn off Settings/Location and automatically decline the service to HTC apps.
2. Turn off Settings/Personalise/Vibration.
Since yesterday 7am my battery now is 48%
the following services are running:
-bluetooth handsfree
-email check every 15 minutes
-approx 1hr of calls a day
- synchro over bt activesync with pc
- installing some apps
i think its not to bad on the stock phone with some tweaks from xda
I have no idea how long that is for you, but it is 0920 am here now so.. 52% in two hours?
bakskj said:
I have no idea how long that is for you, but it is 0920 am here now so.. 52% in two hours?
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check the config, switch off twitter/facebook to manual update, use edge instead of hsdpa, etc
another thing that helps is to disable the animated wallpaper. You can do so by chosing from the album
email check every 15 minutes
lol what do you expect.
I download weather ever hour, and just check for mails when i want to, average use i drop 10% - 15% in a day with sense on.
jrvenge said:
email check every 15 minutes
lol what do you expect.
I download weather ever hour, and just check for mails when i want to, average use i drop 10% - 15% in a day with sense on.
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I get similar. sense does not seem to drain battery for me. weather update every hour, Facebook every 2 hours, email every hour. I get 2 - 3 days use.
Got a question about Hotmail, I got it set to "As items arrive" now.
Does this mean it's scanning for email 24 hours/1440 minutes/86400 seconds a day?
If so, that would probably eat alot of battery?
Or does it work somehow else? Can somehow tell me please
Thanks
I want only give my experience with this new Radio 2.07.50.27_02. I use Miri ROm v 1.5 with wm 6.5.3. One thing that was boring me,was the fact of the battery drain. I wakeup normaly on 7h morning and on 13h my battery was drain to 55 - 50% with 15 min of internet search, 5 min RSS feeds update, 10- 15 min on phone and 30 min mp3 player on the car with S2P, one weather update (3h) and one twitter update. No Bluetooth and no WIFi.
I have flash this Radio 2.07.50.27_02 on Saturday night and on Sunday (Yesterday ) i have verify immediatly that the drain was less. But today i know that is true. I use the phone in the same way i use every week day and on this time, 13:50 , i have 83% of Battery. I will confirm this again tomorrow.
I wan´t only give this information for anyone that wan´t try this Radio. I have try a lot of Radios but this is amazing.
Sorry for my bad English.
Same with i had this battery problem with all roms and radio which ever i install atlast i found my solution with this radio its amazing give it a shot its gr8
thanx
I have the exact same experiences with that radio! It's simply outstanding and it also works well with the 576 RAM hack.
radio 2.07.50.27_2
+1. very poor battery performance in the first day after flashing this radio. now it improved a lot but not quite as good as the previous ones...
the speed and stability is fantastic though.
16:30h . Make one call 3 min and one weather autoupdate. 80%.
3% drain in 3 h. Great!!!
27firesnake said:
+1. very poor battery performance in the first day after flashing this radio. now it improved a lot but not quite as good as the previous ones...
the speed and stability is fantastic though.
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This is absolutely normal.
Is the HD2 your first HTC?
Battery life after a flash is always terrible.
You need to wait at least a full discharge before talking about battery life.
The best thing to do after the flash is a full battery cycle (i.e. full discharging, taking out the battery for 2 mins, putting it back, full charge, battery out for 2 mins, battery in -- your done).
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JJKameR said:
This is absolutely normal.
Is the HD2 your first HTC?
Battery life after a flash is always terrible.
You need to wait at least a full discharge before talking about battery life.
The best thing to do after the flash is a full battery cycle (i.e. full discharging, taking out the battery for 2 mins, putting it back, full charge, battery out for 2 mins, battery in -- your done).
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Yes, this is my first HTC. Buggy, thirsty, not what I expected but I love every minute with my phone because of everything else about it. This community has a lot to do with it though...
About the full battery cycle, I did all the steps except taking the battery out 2 mins after full charge. I'll try again, thanks.
also really helps to charge unpowered after a full drain.. (usb not the charger)
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also really helps to charge unpowered after a full drain.. (usb not the charger)
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thanks, i'll try this also
my battery life is much better with 2.07 radio rom, too! my hd2 is almost perfekt - except the noise problem of earpiece
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16:30h . Make one call 3 min and one weather autoupdate. 80%.
3% drain in 3 h. Great!!!
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Hi Manuel,
Can you update what else you are using on your phone, do you have Exchange enabled.. what about the syncing.. is it 'as items arrive' or syncing manually.
Do you have hotmail syncing as well?
Do you use IM?
Sorry for so many questions, just want to see if you're phone usage is similar to mine
Thanks!
where can we get this radio and can we flash it to any rom?
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Hi Manuel,
Can you update what else you are using on your phone, do you have Exchange enabled.. what about the syncing.. is it 'as items arrive' or syncing manually.
Do you have hotmail syncing as well?
Do you use IM?
Sorry for so many questions, just want to see if you're phone usage is similar to mine
Thanks!
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Because of drain of the battery i have removed all the autoupdates from twitter ; Hotmail and other two emails accounts. The only think that i keep on autoupdate is the weather and my location that sync every 3h. i will keep this settings for one day more to see if i have the same good results of battery as the last two days.
Today again i have wakeup on 7h with full charge of battery. on 30 min of trip to work i use the phone as mp3 player. 10 min use of internet to make all the updates from RSS FEED and E-mails. At this time (9.10h)i have 92%. very good!
You can get it from the rom development section, I'm not convinced about this radio yet, the power drain does not seem to be better than the 2.06 one I was using previously. I'll try for a bit longer though and see how it goes.
tboy2000 said:
where can we get this radio and can we flash it to any rom?
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You can search for this radio on the XDA forum. You can flash it normaly. The phone will not hard reset!
padlad said:
You can get it from the rom development section, I'm not convinced about this radio yet, the power drain does not seem to be better than the 2.06 one I was using previously. I'll try for a bit longer though and see how it goes.
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Hello. If you find another that is better, let us know. I have try several radios 2.06 and it was not better then this one. But it can depend alsoon the location .
fruchtfliege said:
my battery life is much better with 2.07 radio rom, too! my hd2 is almost perfekt - except the noise problem of earpiece
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I totally agree.
i am using stock rom 1.66 so you guys are saying that if i flash that radio rom my battery life will improve? will i lose my messages and settings in the process or is a radio rom flash only a partial flash? thanks!
edit nevermind if found out that i will not lose any of my contacts. Nice! will try it when i get home and let you know if i notice any improvement
jamieeeee said:
i am using stock rom 1.66 so you guys are saying that if i flash that radio rom my battery life will improve? will i lose my messages and settings in the process or is a radio rom flash only a partial flash? thanks!
edit nevermind if found out that i will not lose any of my contacts. Nice! will try it when i get home and let you know if i notice any improvement
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Thats right. You can flash any radio that you wan´t. You don´t lose anything on the the phone. Le us know your experience with this radio.
Thanks
I am going to try the most recent radio: 2.07.51.05 compared to the 2.07.50.27 in this thread.
I am on O2 in UK. Fingers crossed. Legs crossed. Eyes crossed.
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
uristic said:
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
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mine is on par with any other smartphone ive owned. i can get 24 hours out of it comfortable. thats with about 30 mins calls, 15-20 sms, 30-40 mins gaming, wifi, bluetooth, location & feedback all turned on, windows live & facebook hourly sync & 5 email accounts syncing between every hour & every 2 hours. i have noticed battery life seems to suffer when i use last.fm over HSDPA so maybe its something related to music playback. but even with 3-4 hours of last.fm im still getting 13-14 hours.
uristic said:
Hi guys, I have my omnia 7 for less then a week now and I found it's battery life terrible, the worst performance ever. It drys off in less then a half of day with general use. I fill the battery to 100% over the night and then I wake up in the morning at 5.30am and when I'm back from school sometimes it's allmost empty, sometimes is at about 20% with a usage of About 15 mins of gaming, some browsing/facebook.. few calls and sms and an hour or two of music playback.
I have wifi, bluetooh, push mail, feedback and locations off. Have also been reading on the social.answers microsoft forum about that and there were different tought. I'm wondering how is it with yours.. is it REALLY this bad or it is something wrong with my phone/battery. I don't want to take it back if all are like this as it will be at least one week on service.
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mine is running fine.
1. exchange mail
2. google mail
3. facebook sync
4. average 10 minutes surfing
5. 10 minutes game
6. less than 20 sms
7. average 10 minutes voice call
morning 9AM full charged and at least 60% by 8PM
ok thank you guys for reply.. I'm deffinetly taking it back for a replacement on monday.
It could be some app running under the lock screen draining your battery, like a game or Last.fm... other than that, yeah, sounds like a replacement is in order
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It could be some app running under the lock screen draining your battery, like a game or Last.fm... other than that, yeah, sounds like a replacement is in order
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Nothing running in background. anyway I'll take it back in monday and ask them for a replacement if not, I'll have to wait a week or two to get it back from repair service... trought I hope to get it back till new year.
Maybe consider just buying a new battery?
you should definitely ask for a new battery first, before sending it to service. In the end all is made in China... P.s. My bat. lasts the same as descibed by the others. 1-1,5 day...
Bya said:
Maybe consider just buying a new battery?
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giving 390€ with 24 months of contract, using the device for one week and you really think I'm as dumb to buy a new battery as I have 1 year warranty on battery and other accesories ? ... Really ?
mchabr said:
you should definitely ask for a new battery first, before sending it to service. In the end all is made in China... P.s. My bat. lasts the same as descibed by the others. 1-1,5 day...
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Thanks, I'll see what it can be done..
my omnia7 leasts longer than my galaxys with data and email sync .. so no problem
Ok I was at my carrier and they said that the phone needs to be send on service (no replacement options) so I'll probobly send it after new year.
But I notice that when I'm at home (I live about 7-8km out of the city) my battery last muuuuuch longer, actually enugh for what I expect - 2h of music, about 2h web and of market browsing (connected to home wifi + mobile data enabled connected on 3g+ full signal) and when I'm in school (city centre) it drys my batery much faster. Today after 3h with 20min of music and 5 min of web browsing it fell on less than 50% and few hours later on -20% and then it turned off. (same if connected to school wifi or just 3g+ also with full signal)... I really don't get it .
And many of my school mates have the same carrier but don't have any of this problem... might it be somekind of carrier transmitor selectnig bug with windows phone 7 or what ?
Things to note - browsing with WiFi requires less power than browsing over 3G - 3G browsing will suck out your battery a lot faster. (The phone will not use your mobile data connection if you're over WiFi) Also, depending on the lighting conditions, your screen auto brightness will probably also have your screen on a lower brightness setting in your house.
That, and I don't really recommened using your phone as your primary Music/Video palyer if you're serious about battery life - that does a good job of sucking your battery too, and you'll ntoice most of the people getting good battery life aren't really using it as their primary media player.
actually I tested it with using at home with same settings (brightnes to low, wifi/3g off/on) and I can see that when I'm in the city centre it sucks the battery in only few hours with data connection on and not connected to wifi so I assume that my operator wich recently updated it's network did something wrong as my school mates have noticed this too but none of them isn't using a smartphone on this network so it isn't so obvius. I temporary solved the problem with turning off data connection when I'm in the centre and turning it on only when I need it and when I'm out of the centre.
I also noticed my battery life sucked when I had the official twitter application installed on it.
Today I left it charging for 8 hours on my laptop and the battery meter barely moved, I removed Twitter and hey presto it started to charge properly.
Back to Beezz and now all is ok
daleski75 said:
I also noticed my battery life sucked when I had the official twitter application installed on it.
Today I left it charging for 8 hours on my laptop and the battery meter barely moved, I removed Twitter and hey presto it started to charge properly.
Back to Beezz and now all is ok
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Apps don't run in the background so it is pretty much impossible for twitter to be draining your battery if it is not open.
Maybe it was just a coincidence but as soon as I removed this app my battery started to charge.
Unless it was a one off issue with charging over usb.
my batterylife is the best ive ever had in a smartphone ... i need a custom rom on my galaxy s with android to get close to the batterylife of my omnia 7 ... i am using hsdpa with the same provider on both phones permantly and im syncing emails with them ... even with gaming (sims 3 or nfs underground) the windows phone least longer.
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Apps don't run in the background so it is pretty much impossible for twitter to be draining your battery if it is not open.
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Not at all. There could me a memory leak in the .NET/silverlight runtime - even Microsoft developers make mistakes
Tbh, I have the Twitter app installed also and my battery life is as good as can be expected with a modern smartphone: 1.5 days heavy use (Music, Twitter, Facebook, web browsing & constant SMS/e-mail)
may I ask somebody for a favor ? Under the diagnosis (call ##634#) type *#2*# (battery diagnosis) and please check what does it say on the third screen at the last line "Result". For me it's "Pass/Fail". Might this "fail" mean it's something wrong with the battery ?
PS. after dialing ##634# a shortcut for diagnosis will show up in the apps menu... just delete it if you don't need it.
And to get to the third screen use the big arrow on the top =)
I been searching for a while but nothing. The Rom I have now battery dies after 3-4 hours of usage... is there any roms with 6+ life... thx
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Doing what? The last two roms I've had give me about 8 days of standby, but probably 2 hours of browsing and 4-6 hours of talk. With light use during the day, I easily have 50% battery when my HD2 goes on charge.
My current ROM is here.
all cm7 have almost same consumption but u can ask the users of evey rom to know....
by the way ...wrong place to post ur question ...
The best time gave me Frankinstain Droid wirh 1st sense... it is really the best imho
HyperDroid CM7 is best choice for me. At the end of Day with bit internet surfing and 30 minutes of phone calling, it still has 71% . And it's every day the same percentage.
Modifications:
-Tasker profiles for disabling phone in the night, GPS turning on basing on app start.
-RIL Tweaks matching my provider
Important is, that you uninstall all unnecessary stuff like widgets you don't use.
Best roms for battery...
MIUI ROMS (NDT/LADY). The best batt life usually. Some Cy 7.1 roms last 8hrs but most dont. Just flash a miui and turn off gps and bluetooth when not in use...wroks for me...
I use Hyperdroid Cm7 [look at my signature below] with Radio 2.15.50.02 and i have the best battery life!
Ps: Wrong section to post your question mate!
Ducalion said:
MIUI ROMS (NDT/LADY). The best batt life usually. Some Cy 7.1 roms last 8hrs but most dont. Just flash a miui and turn off gps and bluetooth when not in use...wroks for me...
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+1 same me
Battery life depends so much on usage pattern ... I can't tell that often enough. My setup e.g. is primarily for business with primary use of push email, phone, bluetooth connection. Occasionally Internet, but only when Wifi is available.
So my setup is
- private APN (most ports blocked, so Market and many apps using non-8080 ports won't work)
- push email/calendar/contacts sync (Exchange server)
My experience is that "background sync" is a real battery sucker, so I switched it off (as described above, Market & Co. won't work anyway as long as I am on the private APN). With this setting, I can survive two full days, between 60% and 70% battery left when the second work day starts and around 20% left at the end of the second work day. Moving around (travelling) decreases my mileage, but I am always >50% after one full day.
Switching on "background sync", using weather and other fancy stuff brings me down to 25-30% after one day. I am using a Gingerbread ROM with Sense (Sense of Eclipse 2.0.0)
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)
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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