Has anyone else noticed the battery draining incredibly fast while on a call? My battery went from 81% to 67% after a 15 minute call. The battery doesn't go down anywhere near that pace during any other function I've used it for so far. In fact, if I don't make or receive any calls, it lasts all day. I checked battery usage and it was only at 2%, which is definitely not right and there was nothing else showing up under usage that could have been the culprit. I've had the phone for 1 1/2 weeks now and it is definitely the only time it happens.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
What network?
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skyfox99 said:
What network?
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Sprint
Check how strong your coverage is. Sometimes weak signal will drain your battery considerably faster.
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Check how strong your coverage is. Sometimes weak signal will drain your battery considerably faster.
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Someone else mentioned that as well, but I had full bars even it happened. What's even more weird... When I only have 2 bars, the battery drops less while on a call. It's the strangest thing I've come across on the phone. I love everything else about it and I'm going to keep it regardless. I appreciate your input! Hopefully someone else has this experience and can find a cause. I thought I was very knowledgeable on Android and had seen everything since I've been on it since the original G1 (which I still have lol), but it's a new one for me. I also don't get the complaints about the camera...I was in the backyard taking pictures today, just test it out, and it's definitely better than my S7. Anyway, thanks again for taking the time to respond and help with ideas and if you think of another one, let me know!
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Could someone help me troubleshoot/fix my cell standby issue. I know it's been asked before and I apologize if this upsets you. But, i have searched and tried methods to fix the issue with no success. And it just kills my battery.
I've used many roms and initially would always have 50-70% cell standby. With the airplane mode fix i could only get it to drop to 20-35%. I'm on the Aloysius rom now which isn't supposed to have any cell standby issues and my cell standby is still 45-60%. With airplane fix I get it down to 15-30%. I can never get it down to under 10 which would at least make me happy. But, from what I've read most get it down to zero. I would appreciate any suggestions or ideas to help me fix this problem. Thanks
I think alot of that depends on your location... Cell standby is not a bad thing, we just don't want the bug that makes it sit at 50% every time I restart my phone. Mine fluctuates between 0%, (when im downtown with full bars all the time) and 25%, (when at home with only 1 or 2 bars).
Whitepaint said:
I think alot of that depends on your location... Cell standby is not a bad thing, we just don't want the bug that makes it sit at 50% every time I restart my phone. Mine fluctuates between 0%, (when im downtown with full bars all the time) and 25%, (when at home with only 1 or 2 bars).
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Yeah I commute from sacramento to san francisco every day so initially I blamed that. But even when I'm in my house with full bars it's up around 30% always. Not only does this waste battery life, but i would assume, possibly incorrectly, that this also slows down the speed of the device as well as it's being used to find a signal. Ugh
It may not be that big of an issue... Or at least as big as i think it is. But, i would think that with the limitations of the battery and processor that this would just make things even worse. It's just a nuisance that people can get theirs to zero and I have never gotten it that low.
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Yeah I commute from sacramento to san francisco every day so initially I blamed that. But even when I'm in my house with full bars it's up around 30% always. Not only does this waste battery life, but i would assume, possibly incorrectly, that this also slows down the speed of the device as well as it's being used to find a signal. Ugh
It may not be that big of an issue... Or at least as big as i think it is. But, i would think that with the limitations of the battery and processor that this would just make things even worse. It's just a nuisance that people can get theirs to zero and I have never gotten it that low.
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When at work, i have very little, if any service. But at home, I have full service. So I will have to see if it lowers when I get off work tonight. But I am always around 40%+
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When at work, i have very little, if any service. But at home, I have full service. So I will have to see if it lowers when I get off work tonight. But I am always around 40%+
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Thank you for that. It makes me feel a little better to hear I'm not alone. Have you tried the Aloysius rom? Supposedly it fixes the problem for some.
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Thank you for that. It makes me feel a little better to hear I'm not alone. Have you tried the Aloysius rom? Supposedly it fixes the problem for some.
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I am using v6 of his ROM. I still get better battery than any other ROM I have used, and trust me, i have flashed almost every single ROM. But since seeing others with very low, I was just wondering as well.
OK well something weird is happening with my time without a signal... I am at 65% right now and already did the airplane trick... and it just jumps up.... that being said... My battery life is still way outlasting anyother ROM and to top it off, I am getting a signal and am making calls in places at work where I did not have a signal at all.... not that I care much about the time with a signal % because this ROM is the best, but its just weird... better battery performance, better signal, higher stat.. hmmm
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I have a similar issue... I posted this in the other thread
I tested the following:
Turning 4G on in a full bar area and letting it stand idle for one hour.
I lost about 20% battery in one single hour.
The phone had the screen off, wifi off and all apps but the essential ones off.
On 3G i lost about 5%/hour.
4G is supposed to be an "always-on" service with such a battery drainage?
I was sure it was supposed to be a power efficient service, like WiFi or at least like 3G.
Note the phone also gets a little hot after one hour if being idle with 4G on.
I wonder if other people are seeing the same results?
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4G is supposed to be an "always-on" service with such a battery drainage? I was sure it was supposed to be a power efficient service, like WiFi or at least like 3G.
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Ummmm...
Wow...
ummmm...
4g = bad for battery
OK...Thanks!
I really wanted someone else to test this and report back.
Maybe it is just my unit or the ROM that i am using?
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OK...Thanks!
I really wanted someone else to test this and report back.
Maybe it is just my unit or the ROM that i am using?
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LoL sorry brotha' I was just messing around
You gotta admit though, you set yourself up for that one
In all seriousness, 4g is an absolute battery killer! ESPECIALLY if your in an area where you don't get good 4g signal.
If your in a good area and surrounded by 4g then the phone doesn't really have to work at all to keep the signal BUT if your in an area where there's not much 4g signal, like most of America, then it will destroy your battery life (and make your phone hot) because your phone keeps searching for it over and over which chews up the battery. I would ALWAYS keep 4g off unless your downloading something until the 4g becomes more expanded across America. Also download the app battery indicator and make sure you keep track of your battery temperature with it in the status bar. I never let my battery get above 99*F since that will cause permanent damage. In your first post you were talking about losing 20% in an hour while on 4g which would alot of sense since the phone (on 3g) is only slated to get 4-5 hours of talk time, with 4g on always searching for signal the 20% loss seems about right.
Sorry again for messing with you earlier
np.
I am with full 4g bar when testing, so it is not a signal issue.
Yeah, it's a huge battery drainer. I forgot I turned it on in town, took a nap and had 85% battery left, fell asleep and took a 2 hour nap, woke up and it was dead dead mofo dead.
So yeah, it's a battery killer.
Good thing you can barely use the main advertising feature of this phone.
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Good thing you can barely use the main advertising feature of this phone.
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LOL A+
stupid10char
Hello,
Just trying to figure out if my battery is normal.
With any ROM OR KERNEL combination here, I tried few, my battery is fantastic while phone is idle, no loss over night or all day if screen is off.
But once I start using the phone it drops like 3-5 % from few minutes regular use, yesterday I took few photos, sphere, panorama and it dropped 25%. I have max1350
Wake locks are OK, no stupid stuff eating at it.
Is this normal for people or?
To open xda and type this I Lost 2%
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Hello,
Just trying to figure out if my battery is normal.
With any ROM OR KERNEL combination here, I tried few, my battery is fantastic while phone is idle, no loss over night or all day if screen is off.
But once I start using the phone it drops like 3-5 % from few minutes regular use, yesterday I took few photos, sphere, panorama and it dropped 25%. I have max1350
Wake locks are OK, no stupid stuff eating at it.
Is this normal for people or?
To open xda and type this I Lost 2%
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Nah, that's not normal.
- Bad signal reception?
- Google Now & maps updating non stop? Other apps, like facebook?
Post a screen shot of your battery usage graph, will make it easier to determine.
Have a look at this thread as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107163 some people have been helped by flashing back to stock.
Was it always this bad?
The battery reporting is kinda broken. Add you say, it can hold constant when it should really be draining slightly, and then suddenly drop in one big go as it "catches up".
It's a common problem.
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Nah, that's not normal.
- Bad signal reception?
- Google Now & maps updating non stop? Other apps, like facebook?
Post a screen shot of your battery usage graph, will make it easier to determine.
Have a look at this thread as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107163 some people have been helped by flashing back to stock.
Was it always this bad?
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-I was thinking of signal, I think it's not so great at home, it jumps from 3g to H to H+, but it's like 4-5 bars. Not sure, is there an app to monitor the signal strength?
-I've been planing around so there are not solid stats yet. But I am running Liquid smooth I don't even have Maps. There no crazy wakelocks or apps running, otherwise even in idle mode I would loose power.
It pretty much been always like this, since I started flashing custom staff. Don;t remember on stock, as there is no batter % icon there, I reverted back to stock right now lets see.
What ROM/Kernel are you using? and have you done what that thread is talking about?
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The battery reporting is kinda broken. Add you say, it can hold constant when it should really be draining slightly, and then suddenly drop in one big go as it "catches up".
It's a common problem.
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Yes pretty much, I would not say i drops in one big number, but yes fast so pretty much same.
For example, to post the Thread i went from 35% to 32% after being idle all night, but then One Hour Driving to work with BT on pair with car, text messaging and e-mailing it dropped 1%.
The big question, if it's common problem, meaning not on every phone, so does t hat mean it's hardware and I should be calling Google?
or
is it 4.2.1/Custom ROM/Kernel problem?
is there a thread or anyone I can follow on this issue?
Thanks
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-I was thinking of signal, I think it's not so great at home, it jumps from 3g to H to H+, but it's like 4-5 bars. Not sure, is there an app to monitor the signal strength?
-I've been planing around so there are not solid stats yet. But I am running Liquid smooth I don't even have Maps. There no crazy wakelocks or apps running, otherwise even in idle mode I would loose power.
It pretty much been always like this, since I started flashing custom staff. Don;t remember on stock, as there is no batter % icon there, I reverted back to stock right now lets see.
What ROM/Kernel are you using? and have you done what that thread is talking about?
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I was on that until yesterday. Try it with Trinity or Franco's kernel, see what that does.
Didn't do what the op claims in that thread but then again, I didn't have any issues with the battery..
My phone was behaving the same way. The idle time would be great...no percents dropping for hours. But then when I'd actually use the phone the drop was sharp.
Lately its getting better for me...its dropping a bit on idle but also at a much slower rate when the phone is used.
I hope it'll be fixed in 4.2.2
Also keep in mind that the rendering process in photosphere does that huge amounts of battery.
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I was on that until yesterday. Try it with Trinity or Franco's kernel, see what that does.
Didn't do what the op claims in that thread but then again, I didn't have any issues with the battery..
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I used Franco and Faux, good builds but it jumps even more.
I will try Harsh at -50UV just came out, see how it goes and then Trinity. I am using Liquidsmooth ROM.
Much appreciated.
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My phone was behaving the same way. The idle time would be great...no percents dropping for hours. But then when I'd actually use the phone the drop was sharp.
Lately its getting better for me...its dropping a bit on idle but also at a much slower rate when the phone is used.
I hope it'll be fixed in 4.2.2
Also keep in mind that the rendering process in photosphere does that huge amounts of battery.
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Ok so It's not hardware I am thinking.
But did you do anything, like flash something different? which rom/kernel you are on now?
or
did it just settle over few cycles?
Again thanks everyone for valuable answers, much appreciated, I was getting worried.
Loving this update even more. Yesterday installed update and usually my phone would drain 3-5% each hour not in use but today. My phone was stuck at 98% when I came back from 2 1/2hr meeting, I was amazed.
Also noticed the startup sound is now muted when in silent. It wasn't a big deal before but nice change.
Camera appears to be a little more snappier as well .
Verizon did really good with this update. Droid Turbo is really turning into perfect phone imo. Now we await Lollipop.
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Battery does seem a bit better for me.
I'm at 43% right now with 11h35m on battery and 2h40m screen on time.
JayfromBK86 said:
Loving this update even more. Yesterday installed update and usually my phone would drain 3-5% each hour not in use but today. My phone was stuck at 98% when I came back from 2 1/2hr meeting, I was amazed.
Also noticed the startup sound is now muted when in silent. It wasn't a big deal before but nice change.
Camera appears to be a little more snappier as well .
Verizon did really good with this update. Droid Turbo is really turning into perfect phone imo. Now we await Lollipop.
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Funny...I have the opposite problem. Also, mine randomly reboots now. It didn't do this before.
jbhorner said:
Funny...I have the opposite problem. Also, mine randomly reboots now. It didn't do this before.
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Factory reset and update. Maybe it will fix your problem
jbhorner said:
Funny...I have the opposite problem. Also, mine randomly reboots now. It didn't do this before.
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You can also try booting into Safe Mode, and then re-adding your accounts. I did that and it fixed my battery drain problem it seems.
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Made it all day on 20% and that was listening to about three hours of podcasts and very light usage.
My 3g/4g randomly stops and I can't send texts or calls... I even factory reset it ...still does it my phone was a beast before now not so much...
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My 3g/4g randomly stops and I can't send texts or calls... I even factory reset it ...still does it my phone was a beast before now not so much...
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CDMA is a fallback if you lose LTE. Sounds like tower trouble in your area.
I had full 4G here before update...after I get this! If I turn off WiFi..I basically can't use my phone! BTW I just did a factory reset and cleared cache..
It sounds like you are having tower issues in your area.
i noticed before the patch when i took my phone off charger it would drop to 99% battery right away, now it actually takes a bit before it drops.
this seemed to be a legit patch for little bug fixes.
The battery seems a little better for me too.
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Loving this update even more. Yesterday installed update and usually my phone would drain 3-5% each hour not in use but today. My phone was stuck at 98% when I came back from 2 1/2hr meeting, I was amazed.
Also noticed the startup sound is now muted when in silent. It wasn't a big deal before but nice change.
Camera appears to be a little more snappier as well .
Verizon did really good with this update. Droid Turbo is really turning into perfect phone imo. Now we await Lollipop.
Sent from my VS980 4G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I noticed this as well..good stuff indeed!
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I just got the Droid Turbo this Monday and left the store after it was updated. Attached is a picture of my battery usage. It doesn't seem right to me. Can someone also explain how to read it with regards to "time on" etc? Many thanks for the help!
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I just got the Droid Turbo this Monday and left the store after it was updated. Attached is a picture of my battery usage. It doesn't seem right to me. Can someone also explain how to read it with regards to "time on" etc? Many thanks for the help!
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what doesnt seem right? that looks normal if u want to look at your screen on time tap on the screen line and it will give u how long the screen was on in between charges.
So 1 hr and 20 min left on battery seems right with a 20% usage for cell standby?
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So 1 hr and 20 min left on battery seems right with a 20% usage for cell standby?
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Battery drain isn't linear and drain slows as you get further into the battery.
Were you expecting it to stay at 100% for 15 hours or something?
Maybe I am not understanding what the screen is telling me 100%. I took it to mean that there is only approx 1 hr and 20 min left on the battery? Is that not correct?
With regards to the cell standby and other things using the battery, my assumption was that 20% battery usage by the cell standby was rather high. In searching online, I have seen people post that it should be around 11%. Is this not accurate?
Thank you for the help!
it means you've been off the charger for 1hr and 20 minutes and used 5% battery. As to standby time it's hard for me to say as I haven't updated and heard it's gotten better.
Hi guys!
I have this annoying problem.
I have mi S5 since February. I love it. Great battery and everything. My problem is that where I work I have a awful signal strength. 3G works when it wants and 4G, I measure 3 or 4 Mb/s, so you can see, it's pretty awful too, just a bar or even no bars of signal. I sometimes use my work's wifi, but we are so many people using it that it's the same, sometimes it doesn't even work.
Well, the problem is that this signal problem drains my battery terribly faster . Today it went from something like 65% at 10AM to 7% in 4 hours using a bit of FB.
When I get home, whereI have good signal strength, I can go to like a day and a half, 2 days on a single charge.
Is there anything I can do to solve this problem? It's really annoying because I know that the battery is good and it should last way longer....
Thanks in advance!
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Hi guys!
I have this annoying problem.
I have mi S5 since February. I love it. Great battery and everything. My problem is that where I work I have a awful signal strength. 3G works when it wants and 4G, I measure 3 or 4 Mb/s, so you can see, it's pretty awful too, just a bar or even no bars of signal. I sometimes use my work's wifi, but we are so many people using it that it's the same, sometimes it doesn't even work.
Well, the problem is that this signal problem drains my battery terribly faster . Today it went from something like 65% at 10AM to 7% in 4 hours using a bit of FB.
When I get home, whereI have good signal strength, I can go to like a day and a half, 2 days on a single charge.
Is there anything I can do to solve this problem? It's really annoying because I know that the battery is good and it should last way longer....
Thanks in advance!
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Hello,
You can obviously stop the data at work. It is a bit extreme but will for sure save your battery
You can also choose to restrict data to 3G it might help.
jm_38 said:
Hello,
You can obviously stop the data at work. It is a bit extreme but will for sure save your battery
You can also choose to restrict data to 3G it might help.
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To be happy I should stop data and wifi, but I need it because of Whatsapp.
In fact, the problem is 3G AND 4G, both of them
Well, there's no magic solution....
Thanks!