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Reasonable battery life expectations after Rooting

So sorry for adding to the battery life threads, but I'm pretty frustrated.
I've seen people posting screen shots with 18 hours uptime, 7 hours wake time and 50% battery on custom roms. I've seen people getting about 24 hours on a single charge.
I've had my evo 2 weeks now, and I've tried about 3 different ROMS and 4 or 5 different Kernels all of which promised LONG battery life. I'm currently running BakedSnack 1.7 with Kernel #5. My phone has been on 10 hours, 2 hours of wake time and it has only 35% left. Couple of short phone calls, 10 mins Pandora and a bit of browsing and texting here and there. I was expecting more after rooting, yet it seems almost the same as it was before I rooted.
Am I expecting too much ?
I've gone through the full discharge/recharge cycle about 4 times so far. Bad battery perhaps ?

will the phone charge get you through a day say 10 hour work day ( includes travel time )
imho your expecting to much with 10 hours in to your charge and still have 35% left is pretty damn good imho
Baked Snacks is a great rom ! its no the battery check your TWS

Depends what you are doing, some things (3d games, flash) will drain the battery faster than others.
If you are at 10 hours and 2 hours awake with 35% left, thats not too bad. You should end up around 16-17 hours with 4 hours of awake time.
If you are talking on the phone, that will drain your battery the fastest.
Make sure you completely condition your battery as well (as many posts show)

Sporkman said:
will the phone charge get you through a day say 10 hour work day ( includes travel time )
imho your expecting to much with 10 hours in to your charge and still have 35% left is pretty damn good imho
Baked Snacks is a great rom ! its no the battery check your TWS
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It will make it through but usually by 5pm its around 30%. I almost have to make an effort to use it sparingly though. I really like the Baked Snack Rom, its very slick probably the best I've had so far. TWS was 3% today.
Bielinsk said:
Depends what you are doing, some things (3d games, flash) will drain the battery faster than others.
If you are at 10 hours and 2 hours awake with 35% left, thats not too bad. You should end up around 16-17 hours with 4 hours of awake time.
If you are talking on the phone, that will drain your battery the fastest.
Make sure you completely condition your battery as well (as many posts show)
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I haven't even gotten into playing games or watching video on it yet to be honest and my phone calls are usually short.

30% by 5 stop please be happy with that lol

goon3r said:
So sorry for adding to the battery life threads, but I'm pretty frustrated.
I've seen people posting screen shots with 18 hours uptime, 7 hours wake time and 50% battery on custom roms. I've seen people getting about 24 hours on a single charge.
I've had my evo 2 weeks now, and I've tried about 3 different ROMS and 4 or 5 different Kernels all of which promised LONG battery life. I'm currently running BakedSnack 1.7 with Kernel #5. My phone has been on 10 hours, 2 hours of wake time and it has only 35% left. Couple of short phone calls, 10 mins Pandora and a bit of browsing and texting here and there. I was expecting more after rooting, yet it seems almost the same as it was before I rooted.
Am I expecting too much ?
I've gone through the full discharge/recharge cycle about 4 times so far. Bad battery perhaps ?
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Have you tried SetCPU? I have stock rooted with SetCPU (Perflock Disabler ftw) and without a signal 13-25% of the time (meaning the phone is searching for a signal), I end a 10-12 hour work day with about 45-50% left. Underclocking to 250 while the screen off has helped a lot.

This seems to be a common concern. first please remember to take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to people reporting there battery times. There are just to many factors to say ok if you use this rom and this kernel you will get 20 hours of battery life. Also many of the people reporting battery life exaggerate. sure they may ahve gotten 50 hours between charges on stock battery... but they surely didn't have moderate use ... or any real use during that no matter what they claim.
from another post it seems the majority of people in that post (with everything tweaked calibrated and set up) were getting roughly 13-18 hours of battery life out of there phone with normal use. normal being defined by actually using your phone as a phone as well as using its other capabilities. So my feeling if you are a moderate user you should expect to fall into this area as a goal. Things to help would include setCPU, making sure you turn off data when you shut off screen (or getting a program to do so for you - juicedefender) and making sure you calibrate your battery and battery stats of your phone.
it seems like you are getting close to this range however you are having to watch your use to do so. as others have said the first thing i would do is get setCPU and set up a battery saving profile. read through some of the battery threads if you havent and look for setting changes that wont impact you tremendously but will help save battery (for example if you dont use landscape mode a lot you can turn off autorotation and save some battery). If you are using froyo and are running a task killer uninstall it since it doesnt work any way. While most settings will make a small impact together they should help get you to where you can use your phone moderately through out the day with out worries.

Sporkman said:
30% by 5 stop please be happy with that lol
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Don't get me wrong here, the thread wasn't about me complaining, more about setting my expectations.
2 Years ago I had the first Touch Pro which would be dead by 3pm regardless of usage. At one point I had 4 batteries. I got the Touch Pro 2 a year later and it could go 2-3 days on single charge with normal usage. It was like night and day.
Granted this is a much more powerful device than either of those, but I feel like I've taken a step backwards with the battery situation.
ritzbrie said:
Have you tried SetCPU? I have stock rooted with SetCPU (Perflock Disabler ftw) and without a signal 13-25% of the time (meaning the phone is searching for a signal), I end a 10-12 hour work day with about 45-50% left. Underclocking to 250 while the screen off has helped a lot.
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I tried out SetCPU but the phone was slugglish for me at times and once or twice I had to reboot.
I'm probably just gonna grab an extra battery and a desktop charger so I can charge one battery while the other is in use.

omegasun18 said:
Things to help would include setCPU, making sure you turn off data when you shut off screen (or getting a program to do so for you - juicedefender) and making sure you calibrate your battery and battery stats of your phone.
it seems like you are getting close to this range however you are having to watch your use to do so. as others have said the first thing i would do is get setCPU and set up a battery saving profile. read through some of the battery threads if you havent and look for setting changes that wont impact you tremendously but will help save battery (for example if you dont use landscape mode a lot you can turn off autorotation and save some battery). If you are using froyo and are running a task killer uninstall it since it doesnt work any way. While most settings will make a small impact together they should help get you to where you can use your phone moderately through out the day with out worries.
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Thanks alot for those tips, I'll give SetCPU another go.
I haven't tried out Juice Defender but I'll look into that as well. Turning off Data when the screen is off might be just the thing I need!

Doze Performance

So Doze is supposed to minimize battery drain to almost nothing overnight or when the phone is not in use for a long time. How many people have actually experienced that? I'm not sure what to think, I lose about 1% per hour consistently overnight. That's without greenify or other battery saver methods. But it still seems excessive to me for such a hyped feature. I wonder if future hacks will be able to turn doze on in 1/2 hour instead of 1 hour. What have your experiences been?

1% per hour is pretty good. That means your phone would stay on for up to 100hrs which is more than 5 days. Are you complaining about that?
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Soundfreak82 said:
1% per hour is pretty good. That means your phone would stay on for up to 100hrs which is more than 5 days. Are you complaining about that?
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That is pretty bad if Doze is on given that 1%/hr is a widely accepted standard pre-marshmallow

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aamir123 said:
So Doze is supposed to minimize battery drain to almost nothing overnight or when the phone is not in use for a long time. How many people have actually experienced that? I'm not sure what to think, I lose about 1% per hour consistently overnight. That's without greenify or other battery saver methods. But it still seems excessive to me for such a hyped feature. I wonder if future hacks will be able to turn doze on in 1/2 hour instead of 1 hour. What have your experiences been?
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Doze only dozes applications from waking up the phone at their will, but still does periodic wakes. It will only make a big difference really if you had a misbehaving app in the first place.
Don't forget that even in the best case that Doze stops all activity from apps, you are still using power connected to the cell and or Wi-Fi, plus power to refresh the memory and other peripheral chips, so 1% an hour could be considered quite good.
Try putting the phone into flight mode over night and see if that 1% drain an hour goes, if all is well you should get around 1 or 2% power loss in 8 hours.
The other think to note is apps can bypass Doze and schedule wakeups regardless, this needs an update to the app for Marshmellow. So if you had an app that wanted to wake the phone every 10 minutes to download the latest adverts, it will stop under Marshmellow when Doze kicks in, but they could update their app to use a different API call and go back to waking the device every 10 minutes bypassing Doze. I strongly suspect that the Google Play store will start recognizing this API call and may start warning about apps that are battery drains, so the user can make a better decision, otherwise Doze will have a short term benefit as apps work around it.
Regards
Phil

Doze is working really well for me. Battery drain overnight seems to almost be non existent. I went to bed with 51% battery life on my phone. I woke up roughly 7 hours later and it was still at 51%.
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Yeah I had only 4% drain after 8 hours overnight.

PhilipL said:
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Doze only dozes applications from waking up the phone at their will, but still does periodic wakes. It will only make a big difference really if you had a misbehaving app in the first place.
Don't forget that even in the best case that Doze stops all activity from apps, you are still using power connected to the cell and or Wi-Fi, plus power to refresh the memory and other peripheral chips, so 1% an hour could be considered quite good.
Try putting the phone into flight mode over night and see if that 1% drain an hour goes, if all is well you should get around 1 or 2% power loss in 8 hours.
The other think to note is apps can bypass Doze and schedule wakeups regardless, this needs an update to the app for Marshmellow. So if you had an app that wanted to wake the phone every 10 minutes to download the latest adverts, it will stop under Marshmellow when Doze kicks in, but they could update their app to use a different API call and go back to waking the device every 10 minutes bypassing Doze. I strongly suspect that the Google Play store will start recognizing this API call and may start warning about apps that are battery drains, so the user can make a better decision, otherwise Doze will have a short term benefit as apps work around it.
Regards
Phil
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that was a great explanation, also I do think 1% per hour is bad since like someone already stated that I've had phones that would drain about that without marshmallow. Also those other people who replied I would really like to know how you get such little battery drain, do you guys have a lot of apps installed? I unplugged today around 5 am and woke up around 10 am with 95%. I have about 60 apps and 3 email accounts (1 yahoo which is set to sync manually).
Personally I am trying to sort my battery issues with this phone as some are getting great battery life (5 hours sot with over 24 hours off charge) while others are barely hitting 3 hours like me. Also I would think doze would be better than what I am experiencing.

How long have you had the phone for? AFAIK it can take a few days for Doze to "learn" how to optimize (reduce) battery drain. You may find it gets better over the course of a week or so. If you check the "detailed" battery stats (click the first battery graph) you should see little to no "awake" time overnight when you'd expect Doze to kick in - e.g see this link as an example: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wjguaIIcGgUZn7w-KXnY3MJ0qTK0rUCWiA
Otherwise try as @PhilipL suggested and run in aeroplane mode overnight.

Doze is working as advertised here. On my 5x and my N5 as well.
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aamir123 said:
that was a great explanation, also I do think 1% per hour is bad since like someone already stated that I've had phones that would drain about that without marshmallow. Also those other people who replied I would really like to know how you get such little battery drain, do you guys have a lot of apps installed? I unplugged today around 5 am and woke up around 10 am with 95%. I have about 60 apps and 3 email accounts (1 yahoo which is set to sync manually).
Personally I am trying to sort my battery issues with this phone as some are getting great battery life (5 hours sot with over 24 hours off charge) while others are barely hitting 3 hours like me. Also I would think doze would be better than what I am experiencing.
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It could be your location and the cell signal you are receiving, sometimes even if you have a good signal you still might be evenly served by 2 or 3 masts and the phone keeps swapping between them, if you don't have too good a cell signal, the phone will be using more power during standby. The only way to tell for sure is to put the phone into flight mode overnight.
One thing to note, you will only get the maximum screen on time if you use your phone a lot, i.e. all the screen on time is used during a 12 hour day after a full charge. If you are only using say 30 minutes one day, 20 minutes the next and so on, your total on screen time achieved will be less than many are saying they get, this is because more power is spent over time on background tasks and syncing, leaving less for actual on screen time. My previous Nexus 5 for example, sometimes I would go 4 days without needing to charge it, but my actual on screen time was only an hour or so.
Perhaps crudely speaking, 1 day of very light usage may see enough battery power expended on back ground tasks to see 1 hour sacrificed of on screen time.
Usually it doesn't matter how many apps you have installed, that in itself doesn't use any battery, of course if those apps are constantly pinging back home to some server, then that is how power is used. Doze will be helping with those apps over night and other quiet periods.
Regards
Phil

PhilipL said:
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It could be your location and the cell signal you are receiving, sometimes even if you have a good signal you still might be evenly served by 2 or 3 masts and the phone keeps swapping between them, if you don't have too good a cell signal, the phone will be using more power during standby. The only way to tell for sure is to put the phone into flight mode overnight.
One thing to note, you will only get the maximum screen on time if you use your phone a lot, i.e. all the screen on time is used during a 12 hour day after a full charge. If you are only using say 30 minutes one day, 20 minutes the next and so on, your total on screen time achieved will be less than many are saying they get, this is because more power is spent over time on background tasks and syncing, leaving less for actual on screen time. My previous Nexus 5 for example, sometimes I would go 4 days without needing to charge it, but my actual on screen time was only an hour or so.
Perhaps crudely speaking, 1 day of very light usage may see enough battery power expended on back ground tasks to see 1 hour sacrificed of on screen time.
Usually it doesn't matter how many apps you have installed, that in itself doesn't use any battery, of course if those apps are constantly pinging back home to some server, then that is how power is used. Doze will be helping with those apps over night and other quiet periods.
Regards
Phil
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Thats the thing I get about 2.5 hours sot in about 12-14 hours and have to recharge before the night is over. Of course quick charge helps but I really don't want to rely on something like that. Also I'm wondering if wifi calling on will help with battery or will it be like the iphone where it'll just drain more battery? Gonna have to play with it and see what I can improve on. Also noticed that chrome has been using about 15-25% battery on any given day. I do use it as my main browser but that still seems excessive so may try a different chrome iteration if it keeps up.
Thank you to everyone that has helped and hopefully this can be a come all thread for people with questions about or problems with Doze.

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aamir123 said:
Thats the thing I get about 2.5 hours sot in about 12-14 hours and have to recharge before the night is over. Of course quick charge helps but I really don't want to rely on something like that. Also I'm wondering if wifi calling on will help with battery or will it be like the iphone where it'll just drain more battery? Gonna have to play with it and see what I can improve on. Also noticed that chrome has been using about 15-25% battery on any given day. I do use it as my main browser but that still seems excessive so may try a different chrome iteration if it keeps up.
Thank you to everyone that has helped and hopefully this can be a come all thread for people with questions about or problems with Doze.
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What brightness setting, as that can make quite a difference?
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Phil

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What brightness setting, as that can make quite a difference?
Regards
Phil
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Adaptive brightness less than 50%

I'm getting 3 to 4% drain during 7 hours overnight, working well for me.
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Hi
Did a test last night, charged the phone to 100%, put it into flight mode and went to bed, checked it this morning and still at 100%.
Regards
Phil

PhilipL said:
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Did a test last night, charged the phone to 100%, put it into flight mode and went to bed, checked it this morning and still at 100%.
Regards
Phil
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Now you need to find what is draining your battery overnight when not in Flight mode. I suspect you will find either Google Services or Google Play services not releasing the modem or something similar.

When I installed Cerebus it asked to turn off battery optimization. My guess is that is Doze could be wrong though. It was the only app that asked. So far battery life is better then the N6 that I had a Amplify running on.

km8j said:
That is pretty bad if Doze is on given that 1%/hr is a widely accepted standard pre-marshmallow
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Might be a standard if everything worked perfectly, which I have yet to see. With this new architecture, you are guaranteed it. I love it.

I lost about 1% in 3 hours last night with WiFi calling on. Maybe it has to do with poor coverage. Last night I did end up with 3.5 hours sot which I think was my highest. So in the past few days I have factory reset and turned on WiFi calling.
Now I need to optimize my browser usage, chrome was talking more than screen was ~20%. Using #nochromo now and not much better.

Battery went from 66 to 64% last night in 8 hours.. #dozeisdope
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Is my Battery Defective? (S7 Edge Root Battery Drain)

Hey guys. So I've recently had a lot problems with my S7 edge. A lot of them I fixed.
My root was terrible until a couple weeks ago when it started to just overheat constantly and shut down. (Not the Occulus app either.) So I factory reset it to PE1 and followed the root guide on a clean startup this time and it's smooth as silk now.
However, I notice I still have issues with my battery...
Even after following these guides:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...uide-fine-tuning-performance-battery-t3417804
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...guide-to-fix-s7-lag-root-s7-variants-t3441715
While my phone is running very smooth, my battery is draining way too fast.
My phone will not doze, and I've dropped at least 20-30% over just leaving the phone alone for 14h. I have Force Doze enabled as well.
Judging by what people have been posting, their phones are in a deep deep sleep when it's off. Mine doesn't sleep at all.
I've got every configured in that guide except for Do Not Disturb as I don't use it.
Also not to mention, my Screen on Time is terrible. I can literally watch my battery drain, when on Chrome, a Game, or even listening to music. It's FASTER than it should be.
I have some pics below to show, my posts...
I noticed Google Services was draining a lot so I fixed some app permissions and it's still persisting.
Help would be greatly appreciated, as well as tips. If you need anymore info, please just ask, and I'll post screens of what you need.

It's because of the root.
It will most likely have that battery drain if it's rooted.

zimgir124 said:
It's because of the root.
It will most likely have that battery drain if it's rooted.
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...But if you go back and read those other posts you can see those people having much better battery life than mine...

Squall429 said:
...But if you go back and read those other posts you can see those people having much better battery life than mine...
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Yes, but the ENG boot makes the battery life terrible for everyone.
They might be using greenify or some other tool to do get the better life. But no matter what you always get a bad battery life with the current root method.

zimgir124 said:
Yes, but the ENG boot makes the battery life terrible for everyone.
They might be using greenify or some other tool to do get the better life. But no matter what you always get a bad battery life with the current root method.
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Well I'm using Greenify as well. Some of the guys in that forum are posting like stock like SOT which is why I'm so stumped...

zimgir124 said:
Yes, but the ENG boot makes the battery life terrible for everyone.
They might be using greenify or some other tool to do get the better life. But no matter what you always get a bad battery life with the current root method.
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I am rooted using stang5litre ROM and getting very good battery life. Most nights losing only .5 to .7% over 6 to 7 hours. Normally get a full day and a 1/2 per charge. I am not using special apps like Greenify or other apps to extend battery life. I do use titanium to freeze Verizon bloat.

zimgir124 said:
Yes, but the ENG boot makes the battery life terrible for everyone.
They might be using greenify or some other tool to do get the better life. But no matter what you always get a bad battery life with the current root method.
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biikman said:
I am rooted using stang5litre ROM and getting very good battery life. Most nights losing only .5 to .7% over 6 to 7 hours. Normally get a full day and a 1/2 per charge. I am not using special apps like Greenify or other apps to extend battery life. I do use titanium to freeze Verizon bloat.
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Same. I'm using the same rom and no greenify either.
I've under clocked the SoC a little to help with throttling and it helped with battery a little but that's about it.
3h 40m SOT and 14hrs 48min since i pulled it off the charger. Still at 23%.
Not very heavy usage either.

I posted in another thread about this
Dude I'm in the same boat. I've tried every rom on this board with all the exposed battery saver apps. But still when non rooted the battery is amazing. As soon as I root I can literally type an email on my phone and watch 3% tick away. Like right now went from 30% to 27% fml lol
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Update: I went back to stock universal rom no root and what a difference. Woke up around 9am and used my phone a full day, facebook, whatsapp, exchange and gmail, Went to bed around 1am with 33% charge left. With root I was charging my phone twice a day. My battery stats with root kernel were always showing 25-30% usage by the kernel

battery life

Had the phone for a week now and battery is horrible. Android system and os destroy it. One hour of be SOT and at 66%. Anyone else?

km8j said:
Had the phone for a week now and battery is horrible. Android system and os destroy it. One hour of be SOT and at 66%. Anyone else?
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consider providing more info like apps and other usage to assess/comment on your situation. i'm likely not the typical smartphone user (by today's definition), but i'm getting solid battery life for my uses/needs. i'm not the gaming type, no facebook/twitter checking or posting and mainly emails, texts, phone calls. below are screen shots from 1 moderate-to-high usage day (for me); 17 hours on battery, 7 hours screen time, 2 hours of calls, emails (75)/replies (40) 50 text messages, approximately 1.5 hours of screen time was web-browsing. will continue usage and make final keep/return assessment next week. as an FYI, this is a T-Mo G6 that's been sim-unlocked and being used on ATT.

km8j said:
Had the phone for a week now and battery is horrible. Android system and os destroy it. One hour of be SOT and at 66%. Anyone else?
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Did you do a restore or a clean install of all your apps? Ive been getting consistently 6 1/2 hours SOT everyday for the past week. Pulling off the charger at 6:30 am and putting it back on the charger around midnight with right about 37-40% left. I did a clean install, no restores.

wingzfan said:
Did you do a restore or a clean install of all your apps? Ive been getting consistently 6 1/2 hours SOT everyday for the past week. Pulling off the charger at 6:30 am and putting it back on the charger around midnight with right about 37-40% left. I did a clean install, no restores.
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i know your reply was to the OP, just wanted to confirm that i reinstalled all apps from scratch via the play store as well - was quite painful as i would usually reinstall via TB or backup.

cortez.i said:
i know your reply was to the OP, just wanted to confirm that i reinstalled all apps from scratch via the play store as well - was quite painful as i would usually reinstall via TB or backup.
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Yeah it was brutal but Im seeing most if us with great battery set it up from scratch. To me that's the best way to go.
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Reinstalled from scratch. Android OS/System is what is eating everything on my phone so other apps arent really important.

km8j said:
Reinstalled from scratch. Android OS/System is what is eating everything on my phone so other apps arent really important.
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As much as it will suck, I'd reset it and start over. It should have leveled out by now.
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Today was my first day starting with a full battery. Regular use all day long: lots of texts, several phone calls, checking email, adjusting settings, you name it (but no gaming) - a fairly heavy day of use for me. Unplugged at 7:45 a.m. It is now 4:30 p.m. and I have 63% left. FWIW, I'm pretty happy with that.

Today was my first day on a full charge as well, I took it off the charger at 6:30 am and it had some light use throughout my day. As of me writing this post I'm at 51% which is okay but I feel like if it could be optimized a little better I would be super happy with it.
2 hours of screen on time
Seems like the "phone idle" is hogging..

Mine has been on par with my S5 so far. With this having a taller screen (the width is almost the same), I'd say that's pretty impressive.
It does seem a little unoptimized in certain spots. That is, certain processes may impact battery more than others. For example, geotagging. I turned that off because I felt like it was impacting battery. Bluetooth always stays on because I use it for file send and occasionally use it with my headphones when I go for walks.

Update, day 2 my outlook has turned around. I will post at the end of the day but with 1hr SOT I'm at 82% with an estimated 26.5 remaining. (And this was taken off charger at 6:45am.

Going on day 3 and today had some heavy use. Lots of camera use (video and pictures... Cameras are pretty awesome), texting, ton of taking and watching Snapchats and Instagram. Got up at 6am and writing this now with 52%. So far very happy and hopefully will last.

Well as the day rolls into a close I am suuuuuper happy with my results today. This is for sure my current favorite phone now and ideally as doze acclimates more to my behaviour it will keep getting better! Really loving the display though. Quite captivating to look at.
3hr sot (double yesterday's or so)

This is very disappointing.
I have the H870DS variant and I barely get 4:30h of SOT with 1h of voice calls at 15% battery remaining ( using mixed wifi and 4g )
I see that all of you have a high phone idle usage, higher that the SOT. Really this does not seem very good to me.
Having the OP3T, and using it in the same manner, I was getting 1-1.5 hours more that the G6. What is wrong with it ? For me it looks like a software problem

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km8j said:
Reinstalled from scratch. Android OS/System is what is eating everything on my phone so other apps arent really important.
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The same happens with mine LG G6. Based on battery stats it seems that the yop battery consumer is Android OS. Did you factory reset? It yes what happened?

Hi. I have lg g6 (h870) for now 3 weeks. Battery life for me is awesome!!:good: Previous phone was huawei P10. With G6 i have 2 days with 5-5,5 SOT. (with P10 i have 1 day with 4,5-5 SOT). G6 heavy use-26hours on battery i have easy 7-8 hour SOT. Stock FW,no root, V10u
No FB,messenger,instagram. Instaled samsung browser. Bloatware uninstal or disabled.

km8j said:
Had the phone for a week now and battery is horrible. Android system and os destroy it. One hour of be SOT and at 66%. Anyone else?
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I would say that after sometime i discovered that if you factory reset and then if you do not update the LG apps through lg app updater the phone battery performance gets great!!! DO NOT UPDATE WEATHER AND OTHER LG APPS NO MATTER WHAT AFTER FACTORY RESET!

HELP - Only 3-3,5 hours of SOT :crying:
HELP PLEASE! I've had this phone for almost 2 weeks now and I can't manage to get more than 3, 3-1/2 hours of SOT. I use it almost all day with WIFI and screen brightness at an average of 40% or less all day. Phone idle seems to be consuming at least 15-20% of the battery, is that the problem? The other30-35% is consumed by the apps and 15-20% by the system.

Instead of resurrecting ancient threads why don't you read the ultimate battery thread, plenty of things to try there.

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

10+ hours SoT (12 or so full battery) on 60hz mostly browsing chrome, average brightness. I don't do 120hz, period, only reason I'd use it is if a phone didn't have any lower option. I think 120hz looks weird so there's no reason for me personally to waste the battery for it.
Not sure how 120hz would work out
Edit: now getting 12-14 hours SoT 100-0 after having the phone for over a week

AerationCheese said:
10+ hours SoT (12 or so full battery) on 60hz mostly browsing chrome, average brightness. I don't do 120hz, period, only reason I'd use it is if a phone didn't have any lower option. I think 120hz looks weird so there's no reason for me personally to waste the battery for it.
Not sure how 120hz would work out
Edit: now getting 12-14 hours SoT 100-0 after having the phone for over a week
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Hi there. May I ask how you are getting 10+ hours of SoT? Were there some settings you adjusted to achieve such phenomenal SoT? I'm losing a lot of battery even when I don't use it.
I use 60Hz refresh rate as well, browse chrome, and low brightness as well. Heck, I don't have any social media apps refreshing in the background, only mail and messaging apps occasionally giving me notifications.
Thanks.

golddragon97 said:
Hi there. May I ask how you are getting 10+ hours of SoT? Were there some settings you adjusted to achieve such phenomenal SoT? I'm losing a lot of battery even when I don't use it.
I use 60Hz refresh rate as well, browse chrome, and low brightness as well. Heck, I don't have any social media apps refreshing in the background, only mail and messaging apps occasionally giving me notifications.
Thanks.
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Well I use 60hz and battery saver is on pretty much all the time. (don't use ultra battery saver though, it basically just breaks your phone and messes up settings)
Don't turn the brightness up higher than you need it. Use wifi whenever possible. Turn location/Bluetooth off when not in use.
Not sure of anything else that helps.

AerationCheese said:
Well I use 60hz and battery saver is on pretty much all the time. (don't use ultra battery saver though, it basically just breaks your phone and messes up settings)
Don't turn the brightness up higher than you need it. Use wifi whenever possible. Turn location/Bluetooth off when not in use.
Not sure of anything else that helps.
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Thanks for the tips.
I used to have battery saver on, but it seems like it bogs down notifications, or maybe it was because I didn't set permissions for every app. I have discussed this in another thread, but anyway, I should use power saver again now that I have all the permissions and data settings out of the way.
Brightness is always as low as possible. I work in an office or at home, and with the virus still hanging around, I haven't been outside for recreation using the camera/GPS, etc.
At least I know you didn't have to work something complicated out. Thanks again.
Wait, your SoT is in one day, right?

golddragon97 said:
Thanks for the tips.
I used to have battery saver on, but it seems like it bogs down notifications, or maybe it was because I didn't set permissions for every app. I have discussed this in another thread, but anyway, I should use power saver again now that I have all the permissions and data settings out of the way.
Brightness is always as low as possible. I work in an office or at home, and with the virus still hanging around, I haven't been outside for recreation using the camera/GPS, etc.
At least I know you didn't have to work something complicated out. Thanks again.
Wait, your SoT is in one day, right?
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Yeah I recharge it once a day. I use my phone a LOT. Idle drain when I sleep is very low. 2-3% overnight

AerationCheese said:
Yeah I recharge it once a day. I use my phone a LOT. Idle drain when I sleep is very low. 2-3% overnight
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Oh ok. I'm a bit different because I use my phone maybe about three hours tops everyday.
Interesting because I observed my phone for the past two nights and it's been draining about 6% overnight, around 6 hours sleep time. This is the biggest battery I've ever had on a phone, so losing 6% makes me wonder if I haven't set something up correctly.

golddragon97 said:
Oh ok. I'm a bit different because I use my phone maybe about three hours tops everyday.
Interesting because I observed my phone for the past two nights and it's been draining about 6% overnight, around 6 hours sleep time. This is the biggest battery I've ever had on a phone, so losing 6% makes me wonder if I haven't set something up correctly.
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It might just be the different apps we use. Different apps will use more power during different use scenarios, 6% overnight isn't TOO bad but it could be lower. Do you have the option on that turns off power draining features when it detects you're asleep? It's somewhere deep in battery saver settings.

AerationCheese said:
It might just be the different apps we use. Different apps will use more power during different use scenarios, 6% overnight isn't TOO bad but it could be lower. Do you have the option on that turns off power draining features when it detects you're asleep? It's somewhere deep in battery saver settings.
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Yeah, different apps for sure. I don't use anything like Instagram/Snapchat, or whatever people use nowadays. My Mate 10 Pro I've upgraded from stays at the same battery level overnight as when it was taken off the charger when new. Two/three years down the line with some battery degradation, it only drains 2-3% every night, so that's why I was so confused.
I think I know what you're talking about. The sleep detection feature doesn't make a difference. The only difference it has is it doesn't refresh notifications while draining the same amount of battery. I think I might need to dig into the settings a bit more or just take it. The drain isn't all that bad, but may take some time to get used to. I should probably try and do a factory reset or something.

Have you disabled and uninstalled all of the unnecessary junk apps using that Xiaomi adb tool?

I'm using Mi 10 Ultra @ 120Hz and getting 7 hrs SoT + 12 hrs Standby and left with 1%. 6hrs SoT + 10:51 Standby @ 20% left. Heavy use of Facebook and Messenger. Light use of Chrome, Youtube, etc. Google Photos backup turned on. Overnight drain is usually around 5% for me.

Active
5 hrs 41 mins
Standby
4 hrs 12 mins
With 18% left
Does this look any good?
I'm not blown away by the battery life but I guess it's better than what my s20 or even the note 20 ultra was

60 hz vs 120 hz.
Only WiFi, auto brightness, social media apps, few pictures.
Generally it's a decent battery for 120 hz, csn make a hole day without worries.

Battery saver seems to give me an extra 20-30% SoT without noticeably impacting my experience beyond the fact that it disables Gmail sync. 8-10 hours without it, 10-14 with.

Do you guys debloat stuff?
i have no luck with Xiaomi and always have poor battery.

Greenify helps. I don't need to charge every day as my phone turns off at midnight and on at 7am.
It's two batteries not one and they are coated in graphene so I expect longevity!
Early signs are good but when this is rooted with lspeed and Greenify it'll be superb.
Greenify does sleep system apps without root though
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sirTAVARES said:
Do you guys debloat stuff?
i have no luck with Xiaomi and always have poor battery.
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I've come from a Mi9 which when rooted with a custom kernel and ROM lasted a couple days of moderate use.
Xiaomi bloat is annoying but the hardware is brilliant. You really should explore unlocking that true potential if you don't...

They're not really coated in graphene, they use a graphene electrode. The benefits of graphene electrodes aren't super clear beyond the fact that they're 1000x more conductive than the typical electrode material used in lithium ion batteries. That means less heat when charging and discharging but it's hard to say what else. Supposedly 800+ cycles for minor capacity degradation to set in, instead of the 300-500 for typical batteries, but that's a claim made by xiaomi not necessarily one that's been scientifically proven on this battery or other phones yet. I'm sure it's better than normal batteries but how much better and in what ways isn't clear yet.

ToneLa said:
Greenify helps. I don't need to charge every day as my phone turns off at midnight and on at 7am.
It's two batteries not one and they are coated in graphene so I expect longevity!
Early signs are good but when this is rooted with lspeed and Greenify it'll be superb.
Greenify does sleep system apps without root though
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I've come from a Mi9 which when rooted with a custom kernel and ROM lasted a couple days of moderate use.
Xiaomi bloat is annoying but the hardware is brilliant. You really should explore unlocking that true potential if you don't...
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im aware of it

sirTAVARES said:
im aware of it
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So what's your next step?

My battery life has gotten much worse lately and I'm not sure why exactly. Down to 6-7 hours SoT from 10+ easily before. It happened around the same time I installed accubattery, but I uninstalled it a few hours later so I doubt it's that unless it somehow changed a system setting.