Hello everyone,
I have a Galaxy S5 SM-G901F for about half a year now, and i bought it second hand. The battery didn't pose an issue in the beginning, even on Lollipop, and since then I have upgraded the operating system to Marshmallow.
During the past month I observed the battery is draining much faster than it used to in the past. I assumed it could have been because a rogue app or something, but it doesn't seem like it. When I have the phone on stand-by, the battery is relatively okay. When I start to use various intensive apps, the battery goes down at lightspeed (as you can see in the attached pics). I thought Facebook and Messenger were responsible for the battery drain, but I have uninstalled them, with the same results.
The phone tends to lose 1% per hour over night, with the internet connection on. I have a stock Marshmallow ROM and I have rooted the device. Also, I have freshly installed the ROM about one week ago, to no avail. The battery is the original one, as well.
Is it the time to replace the battery?
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Hello.
I've been searching various forums for a fortnight now to try and diagnose an SII issue I've been having and Google inevitably brings me here. Unfortunately, the numerous threads on battery drain don't match the problem I've had and the solutions haven't helped.
Around two weeks ago I noticed the battery life on my handset was really terrible, draining in hours. I had been using it quite a bit at the time so assumed this was the cause. However, lately it has been draining within around 6-10 hours even when idle, usually dying completely overnight despite a full charge just before then. I don't have a huge number of apps installed - maybe 20, fairly standard ones like Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, no games and no 'battery defender' style apps. It's not rooted (it's 4.0.3) and I can't root it for other reasons.
The battery drain was a nightmare, basically going from power point to power point just to keep it topped up enough to use and it was draining during idle time and deep sleep. I very rarely ever have 3G, GPS or Bluetooth switched on. Wireless is on most of the time and it generally does have a signal in the two places I spend most time (home and work). It also has a strong Vodafone signal since I'm living in a major city centre.
I tried a few things:
1. Uninstalled all but the most-used apps I had. No change.
2. Uninstalled everything it was possible to uninstall. No change.
3. Installed BetterBatteryStats and CPU Spy. BBS plus many hours of searching kernel/partial wakelocks and so on showed nothing that looked odd at all, certainly nothing taking up a lot of time or regularly stirring the phone. CPU Spy showed it did deep sleep when idle.
4. Factory reset. This included no app installations except BBS, disabling the likes of Social Hub, Gaming Hub and all other stock apps I could. No tethering or wifi sharing, no wifi, no 3G, no GPS, no Bluetooth, nothing running. It was basically a handset sitting there doing nothing. BBS showed nothing odd that I could see but the battery still drains in hours. No partial wakelocks and a tiny number of kernel wakelocks taking up next to no time and occurring a handful of times. No change.
5. I charged it before bed, took the battery out and left it until morning. In the morning it was down at 79%. This seemed weird so I bought a brand new genuine Samsung battery and gave that a try. No change in the 6-10 hour drain but taking the battery out overnight showed no drain now.
6. The weirdest of all. I charged it fully before bed, switched it off over night and it was drained completely by morning. That seems crazy to me. I can fully understand poor software or bugs draining a battery but not when a handset is switched off.
I am lucky enough to be able to get a new handset through work but this issue really annoys me. I took very good care of the phone, never installed anything crazy, didn't over charge it, the handset never got warm at any time, I'm careful with Wifi/GPS/Bluetooth/3G and location services, yet I ended up with an effectively useless "mobile" phone.
Is there anything that comes to mind that could have caused this? Point 5 above made me think it was simply a battery issue and maybe it partly was (with two batteries, how unlucky) but point 6 is just crazy. What could cause a handset to drain a battery under these circumstances?
Thanks for any advice!
Take the phone to Samsung Service Centre. No phone should drain that quick when un-rooted and a full wipe has been done
Sounds like tha battery is shot.
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same thing happened to me yesterday, heres what i have tried to do so far:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821094
Um...widgets? Some widgets on stock Samsung ROMs kills your battery - I remember AP mobile news is a huge drainer. Try limiting the number of widgets you put on your homescreens maybe?
Hi...
Try:
01 - Full Wipe
02 - Install a clean ROM
03 - Disable Fast Dormancy ( *#9900*# )
04 - I use the GreenBatterySaver
After post your result !
I sugges too full reflash the stock rom and after count the batter time. If it does not help, it cold be HW error too - maybe it isn't.
Hello All,
I'm using note 3 France version. I notice that overnight my phone is getting, yesterday night my phone was charged till 93%and i closed all the running apps & when i see this morning, am left with 71% of juice.
Stock Android + no root.
When i look at the battery graph, it just says "android os" for 100%.
Is it actually hiding any of the background process?
Is this normal?
Sent from my SM-N9005
In my case, the sd card is the culprit. Every thing back to normal when i remove the sd card.
Sent from my SM-N9005
SD card shouldn't be a problem, many people use them without any issues, you may have experienced indexing bug, some program residing partially on a card got shot down, when card was removed, or something of this nature.
As far as OP goes, even battery display itself is weird, never seen anything like that. On mine Android OS, Android System, cell standby, device idle, something from Google and screen will show up at the minimum. In your case it seems every other battery usage had to be very small, way less than 1%, If you press on Android System, you will get more details, but no matter what I would do full factory reset to start with, since neither 22% idle discharge nor battery display is normal. Just make sure you have full backups, since you'll loose all settings and need to reinstall all programs.
sbk_hbk said:
Hello All,
I'm using note 3 France version. I notice that overnight my phone is getting, yesterday night my phone was charged till 93%and i closed all the running apps & when i see this morning, am left with 71% of juice.
Stock Android + no root.
When i look at the battery graph, it just says "android os" for 100%.
Is it actually hiding any of the background process?
Is this normal?
Sent from my SM-N9005
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Note 3 battery drain problem Solved...
Hi all..
I am using a note 3 LTE N9005. I was facing the battery drain problem with my phone it used to drain at a rate of 10% an hour even when the phone was locked and kept idle. Like some one mentioned above if I kept it aside after full charging in the night it would be around 50% in the morning.
Then i installed wake lock to check what was causing the issue but couldn't find anything unusual.
Later i noticed that my android system and android OS were consuming more than 35 % charge everyday. Even wake lock and other similar apps couldn't find it.
Finally....finally i decided to uninstall few apps one by one and check if anything changes..... and yessss..... i found it.... Facebook app and Facebook messenger were the culprits. ... particularly Facebook app.
Now without them... i am getting a full 6 hours screen time and 24 hours on normal usage. Just try it.... its worth a try.
Please note : My phone : N9005
Android version : 4.4.2 KitKat
Hope this help you.
Hi Everyone
I’ve bought yesterday a brand new Samsung Galaxy S4 here in Brazil (model GT-I9515L, it’s a Snapdragon 600 4G one), and I’m kinda worried about my battery life, which drags 1% every one or two minutes on simple Wi-Fi web browsing, I have been from 100% to zero in less than two hours, and I honestly don’t think that is normal.
I’ve tried a lot of things, I tried disabling some battery dragging features like the gestures, gps and etc, and still got terrible battery life
I’ve noticed that if I sit the phone down idle (screen off but powered on), it doesn’t seem to drag the battery much, when idle it seems equal to my Nexus 4 that I had previously, I'm starting to miss this phone more and more since I got the Galaxy.
The charging time is normal too, it goes from 0 to full in average time, two hours or so.
My phone is in 4.4.2 Kitkat (TouchWiz, unrooted) I’ve haven’t done anything to the phone other than apply OTA updates once it turned on the first time.
I’ve tried doing a factory reset via the settings menu (is this the same thing than reseting from recovery?) and not installing anything after but still got the battery drain problem.
Thinking that it was a faulty battery or phone I’ve brought it back to the store (an official Samsung Store here in Brazil), but they told me that my software was out-of-date, which I thought was strange because both the Software Update menu in phone settings and Kies found no updates to be applied.
I watched them as they put my phone in Odin mode and plugged my phone into one of the store’s computers, opened a program called “samsung master” in order to update my phone, but they couldn’t do it because my “Knox” was somehow messed up (which isn’t because it shows as 0x0) and told me to come back another day when the technician is there.
I became really frustrated with this, so far what I could diagnose was that somehow that my battery drain problem is a software one, and is solved by some kind of update that isn’t available by Kies, just in Samsung stores.
Can you guys give me any directions? I’m open to suggestions and if you guys need any other information, please tell me that I can post here, sorry for my English because I’m brazilian.
Drain almost always applies to when your screen is off. If you don't have drain while your screen is off, then it's perfectly normal.
2 hours of screen on time is perfectly normal. Your screen uses power, not much you can do about that.
Lennyz1988 said:
Drain almost always applies to when your screen is off. If you don't have drain while your screen is off, then it's perfectly normal.
2 hours of screen on time is perfectly normal. Your screen uses power, not much you can do about that.
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When it's off, the batteery seems to last, but the performance is way worse than on my Nexus 4 (which is known for it's bad battery performance) when it comes to screen time, I've got near the double web browsing time on the nexus.
Your galaxy drains battery like this too? it seems insane to me. 2hours from 100% to zero without any of the features, brightness on the lowest level, only Wi-Fi on, I don't think every galaxy is like this.
When I brought them to the store, the salesperson told me that it had an update to be applied, but when I search for an update or put it into kies it shows me as up-to-date, do you guys know anything about that?
Here you can find the latest
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Though I doubt a firmware upgrade would change it.
And yes, 2 to 2 1/2 hours screen on time is what I get.
Hey guys
I have Lollipop, Kernel 3.4.0, Software Version V30-EUR-XX, original LG soft
Battery drains fast. I left phone in flight mode in sleep and it lost 8% in 6 hours. While usage it loses 1% in around every 1,5 min. This phone has so good opinion because of battery, so I guess something must be wrong. I replaced my battery a week ago, its still same.
I installed GSam Battery Monitor, no apps which would use battery significantly. By the way, no matter if I switch all the radios off or I browse web on LTE with full brightness, it shows between 26-30mA, it doesn't seem legit, does it?
I bet this firmware may be problematic. Wiped this phone twice already, by 1st time it was getting hot very quickly, by 2nd time it was lagging. It is not the way to wipe phone every 1,5 month though.
Do you know guys some quick solution on this or can recommend some other firmware?
After updating from Lollipop to Marshmallow (stock UK firmware), battery life was absolutely terrible. With most of Google and Samsung apps disabled along with wifi, GPS, bluetooth and just light usage (1 hour of browsing and whats app, 30 mins calls), the phone would barely last 10 hours. Taking it off full charge at 8am and by 5pm it'd be around 20%. Whilst using the phone, I'd lose 1% every four minutes.
I tried a factory reset, wipe cache partition and everything else you can think of. GSam Battery Monitor Pro showed nothing was killing the battery and there were no rogue apps. The same SIM in my S4 mini running KitKat with the same usage easily manages a day and often far more.
I was going to flash down to KitKat and if this didn't work, sell the phone, I was that sick and tired of it.
Then I tried disabling 4G and leaving it on 3G only.
Bingo!
Battery life MASSIVELY increased. With the same usage, I'm now easily able to manage 2 days. My S4 Mini doesn't have this problem so I can only assume the problem is with the radio part of the Marshmallow firmware. I live in an area with poor reception but all my other phones on the same network have the same weak signal and none of those have battery drain.
Onto the lag then. Since upgrading to Marshmallow, the whole phone felt sluggish. Scrolling was jerky, the lock screen would take a few moments to show and even the smart manager always said I had less than 300MB free of RAM. About a week after upgrading though the phone suddenly restarted itself and upon boot said "Android is Starting - Optimizing App x of xxx". Once this had finished, the whole phone was snappy again and RAM was back up to over 800MB being available.
Bit concerned why the phone restarted itself but happy with the much improved battery life and performance so far. Will give it another week before deciding if a downgrade to KitKat is still necessary or might just sell the phone.
So if you have an S5 Mini with serious battery drain, try disabling 4G.
Well thanks for that, I was skeptical but I gave it a try. I booted in recovery mode, wiped dalvik cache and once optimization is done after reboot the phone was quite snappy. I've not tested battery life on 3G only mode yet.
According to Samsung Galaxy S5 Manual- guideusermanual.com/product-name-galaxy-s5-manual&po=356337&lang=English following guidelines are suggested by experts to fix battery drain:
Stop unnecessary apps.
Replace your old battery with a new one.
Your charger does not work.
'Android system' using too much battery.
Google Play Services battery drain.
Switch off auto-brightness.
Shorten your screen timeout.
Watch out for widgets and background apps.
Well thats unexpected
Coming here after I just got my new s5 and I gotta say this works like a charm. I disabled the 4g and I'm getting huge improvements. IAM on factory's Tom ty for this.
Just disabled 4G and I think it makes an impact, a good one. S5 G900F here.
I have S5 G900F with official stock Rom along with Marshmallow 6.0.1 update and IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!
The phone is usually EXTREMELY slow and sluggish. I cannot smoothly navigate and scroll around the apps, and I can NOT wake the phone up from lock screen instantly. Even waking up from lock screen takes ages. It is very laggy. I tried everthing and not working.
I beleive either Marshmallow kernel has a nasty Cpu bug or Samsung intentionally slows down the phobe just like Apple does.
I hate it.
What are your thoughts?