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Galaxy s5 battery drain 50% in 3.5 hrs + overheating

Hi,
I bought my galaxy s5 exynos version. It is overheating a lot. Its body gets pretty hot and temp sensors show that the battery temp is 38 degrees and body temp is 33 degrees. The battery life also is really poor.. it went to 47% in just 3.5 hrs of usage even with power savings. Is it a problem with phone's battery? I have attached a screenshot of battery stats.
Are the other users using smg900h facing this problem of heating and battery drain? is there any workaround? Please help me.

Lakshay2014 said:
Hi,
I bought my galaxy s5 exynos version. It is overheating a lot. Its body gets pretty hot and temp sensors show that the battery temp is 38 degrees and body temp is 33 degrees. The battery life also is really poor.. it went to 47% in just 3.5 hrs of usage even with power savings. Is it a problem with phone's battery? I have attached a screenshot of battery stats.
Are the other users using smg900h facing this problem of heating and battery drain? is there any workaround? Please help me.
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Not at all... There's something wrong with yours. I usually get 6+ hrs screen on time on mine.
Battery lasts a day.
Any app you recently installed? Or maybe your SD Card has some corrupted files and the Media Scanner gets stuck?

drakester09 said:
Not at all... There's something wrong with yours. I usually get 6+ hrs screen on time on mine.
Battery lasts a day.
Any app you recently installed? Or maybe your SD Card has some corrupted files and the Media Scanner gets stuck?
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No the media server isnt popping up. Now as I am writing this , the battery drain slowed down and now it is on 23%. This is my first discharge of phone though.. Also what about overheating? Mine remains warm while browsing and becomes hot after using a bit of camera. I dont know why but my ears feel the heat during a voice call.

Try the fixes in my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2745909

Lakshay2014 said:
Hi,
I bought my galaxy s5 exynos version. It is overheating a lot. Its body gets pretty hot and temp sensors show that the battery temp is 38 degrees and body temp is 33 degrees. The battery life also is really poor.. it went to 47% in just 3.5 hrs of usage even with power savings. Is it a problem with phone's battery? I have attached a screenshot of battery stats.
Are the other users using smg900h facing this problem of heating and battery drain? is there any workaround? Please help me.
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Hi! sorry about my English.
I'm having the same problem with my exynos galaxy s5. It sometimes gets really hot and the battery drains really fast, even with low usage (emails and whatapp). It's definitely a software problem, because it disappears on reboot. But after a while it returns.
After a reboot i can get sometimes 4.5h to 5h or more of screen on time with no overheating, full day, but than something triggers and i have 2.5 screen or 3h max on with a hot device on wifi, and terrible standby time.
I can't pinpoint the problem. It's not a wakelock problem. I Checked wakelock detector (PC version, since my device is unrooted), and it shows only 8% wake on a full day (yesterday).
The battery on setting shows normal usage: the screen is always on top, followed by android os.
I really don't know what to do, besides keeping rebooting the device every day. No luck turning locations services off.

As I mentioned, that is not normal at all, this is my battery life:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53575590&postcount=697

drakester09 said:
As I mentioned, that is not normal at all, this is my battery life:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53575590&postcount=697
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Do you have the Exynos or the Snapdragon version?
i'm having similar issues with mine, but i managed to get better battery life by turning off location reporting, samsung account,chatON, my magazine, polaris and changing the location to GPS only, it's not drastically different but as of right now im at 61% with 13h off the charger and 30m on screen time.

Sinchero said:
Do you have the Exynos or the Snapdragon version?
i'm having similar issues with mine, but i managed to get better battery life by turning off location reporting, samsung account,chatON, my magazine, polaris and changing the location to GPS only, it's not drastically different but as of right now im at 61% with 13h off the charger and 30m on screen time.
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Exynos, G900H

drakester09 said:
Exynos, G900H
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Do you have anything turned off? are you using touchwiz launcher?

Sinchero said:
Do you have anything turned off? are you using touchwiz launcher?
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Lot of stuff I don't use is greenified, using Nova Launcher.
I only have disabled Knox in Titanium Backup
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drakester09 said:
Lot of stuff I don't use is greenified, using Nova Launcher.
I only have disabled Knox in Titanium Backup
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do you have a SD card installed? i read somewhere in this forum that some people were having issues with their SD cards,

Sinchero said:
do you have a SD card installed? i read somewhere in this forum that some people were having issues with their SD cards,
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Yes, an old class 10 16GB card. I have it since I got the S3... I stopped using it while I had the Nexus 4 and 5.
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Dont have this issue at all, i charge it when the battery is below 20%
use greenify and blaze kernel for SM-G900F with the power suspend 1% drop in 5 hours

Try to reboot every time of overheating. This should resolve the problem.
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drakester09 said:
Not at all... There's something wrong with yours. I usually get 6+ hrs screen on time on mine.
Battery lasts a day.
Any app you recently installed? Or maybe your SD Card has some corrupted files and the Media Scanner gets stuck?
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man! Really ?? I can only get around 3 hours and 40 minutes at best.
which variant you're using bro ? I am using SM-G900H and trying to buy another spare battery.

Do you perhaps have 1+ Exchange accounts filled with data (email, calendar, contacts, memos, ..). I had this issue on my Nexus 4. As I wiped and flashed the device often, I noticed that the issue was not appearing when I forgot to add one of my Exchange accounts. What fixed it was deleting most unwanted data from my Exchange accounts (old e-mails, all sent e-mails, ecc.). Just guessing.

[Question] How battery life really is on marshmellow?

hello,
i ordered a moto x play two days ago and i will get my device today or tomorrow. Now i am not sure if i should upgrade to marshmallow. Regarding to some posts here the battery life seems to suffer from the update. Is this true? Do you have the same battery life with 6.0 as with 5.1.1 ? For me battery life is kind of crucial. I chose the moto because of the good battery.
I'd love to know your opinion.
Thanx in advance.

Battery life seemed a bit lower on 6.0 than on Lollipop for a few days. Now, it's stabilized, and I'd say it's almost as good

aVe2000 said:
hello,
i ordered a moto x play two days ago and i will get my device today or tomorrow. Now i am not sure if i should upgrade to marshmellow. Regarding to some posts here the battery life seems to suffer from the update. Is this true? Do you have the same battery life with 6.0 as with 5.1.1 ? For me battery life is kind of crucial. I chose the moto because of the good battery.
Thanx in advance.
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No the battery performance hasn't gone down but has instead remained same or been better now.
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It's been great for me. 7-8 hrs sot with stock kernel and now on track to get 10 with Squid kernel.

I get 10+ hours SOT . With stock mm.. dual sim and mobile data.

I usually play around with the autostarts app and titanium backup. I guess, i can root my device and i will then be able to optimize the phone i like with these tools.
Thanx for your answers. I still would like to get some more votes.
regards.

I think the only difference MM can make will be due to optimizing certain apps. Its sucha shame that google play services cant be optimized. I am finding its better than LP.
Offtopic - I had a S5 (g900h) with LP 5.0.1 stock and samsung had this optimization option which lead to an awesome battery life. This is why I believe that can be the only thing which can make it better

It depends on your usecase. If you are constantly on the phone, they won't differ much. If your phone is screen-off most of the time, Marshmallows Doze mechanism can save you a ton of battery life (assumping you jumpstart it with Naptime or similar). It could possibly be matched or even overcome if you REALLY fine tune a lollipop setup with Amplify, but from a technical standpoint doze is far better, because the OS controls when the device wakes up, not the apps themselves. Also, the most recent (best?) kernels will only be for MM.

Battery drains during standby mode. Overnight battery drops upto 3-5 % is it normal? I am on 5.1.1

prashu#1 said:
Battery drains during standby mode. Overnight battery drops upto 3-5 % is it normal? I am on 5.1.1
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3 - 5 percent for how many hours?
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K.khiladi said:
3 - 5 percent for how many hours?
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Upto 8-10 hours

prashu#1 said:
Battery drains during standby mode. Overnight battery drops upto 3-5 % is it normal? I am on 5.1.1
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2-3-4% is expected for 10 hour . see if location and wifi are turned on in advanced setting. it depends on the apps you are running. post screenshot.

bablu048 said:
2-3-4% is expected for 10 hour . see if location and wifi are turned on in advanced setting. it depends on the apps you are running. post screenshot.
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GPS & WiFi is off in advance setting

prashu#1 said:
Upto 8-10 hours
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That's absolutely great.
It means if 4 percent decreases in 8 hours it's about 1 percent in 2 hours. Me too has same result although in between 8 hours I took a 3 minute call and my alarm rung.
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Battery life discussion

Definitely impressed so far. How about your experience?

I'd like to know wich rom offers better battery life, xiaomi.eu or official global.

I get 6-7h of SoT regularly. But then I use my phone heavily every single day, needing to recharge at 3pm, almost never allowing the phone to sleep/turn off the display.

Amazing Batterylife

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Since I've used reading mode my screen on time is 5 hours, meanwhile at first my Sox was about 6.30 hours...

i got decent 6 hour screen on time in normal usage ( in performance and balance mode)
i always turn performance mode because i did notice some frame drop and lag
i just received redmi 4 prime view day ago
and it beat redmi note 4 battery life

Battery life is awesome! I'm coming from the iPhone 6s and I'm completely stunned by the battery life I get with this phone!

I get on average 7 hours screen on time (chrome instagram twitter whatsapp spotify youtube twitch) and phone last about at least 18-20 hours. Amazing

someone261 said:
Battery life is awesome! I'm coming from the iPhone 6s and I'm completely stunned by the battery life I get with this phone!
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GSam works on your phone? MIUI keeps killing off mine, so the results are horribly inaccurate. Tried high priority, tried removing power saving from MIUI app settings, tried putting notification. Kept killing off the notification.

You should go to Settings and then Permissions and then Autostart and select the apps you want to be able to run in the background and autostart.

Pretty decent battery with the alternative rom from cofface.
img15.hostingpics.net/pics/421253Screenshot20161222000030.png

Around 4-5 hours SOT, 20% brightness mostly reddit, FB, manga, that's with wifi + dualsim btw.

can you tell me what is the pecertange of cell standby on your phone when you have 5-6 hours sot and what ROM do you use? thank you

Thunder ROM, no tweaks or settings changed, WiFi + dualsim, 4G if there's no WiFi

Between the huge battery and the very customizable "doze" alternative, this thing sips its juice like a little bird. Could go for a few days if need be. Stock everything.

SD 625
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Lol what? That's impossible.. That's probably on multiple charges or you left the screen of the phone on overnight without using it (which will only consume some %).

Silvers91 said:
Lol what? That's impossible.. That's probably on multiple charges or you left the screen of the phone on overnight without using it (which will only consume some %).
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Would you believe if I showed graph ?
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Would you believe if I showed graph ?
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Dude seriously? 23 hours with 11 hours of SOT? That's the craziest I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. What is your usage? (apps, wifi or 3G/4G)

Silvers91 said:
Dude seriously? 23 hours with 11 hours of SOT? That's the craziest I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. What is your usage? (apps, wifi or 3G/4G)
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Usage is light with some gaming
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Idle Battery Drain

At idle, is 4% battery drain per hour normal? I let my new S8 sit over night and the only thing showing consuming battery was idle and cell signal, but it still drained 4% per hour. I have it set for WQHD and aod is on. So far I've been very disappointed with the battery life of my S8 and am considering returning it and going back to my Nexus 5. Is there anything else I can check/do to find why it's draining so fast? Or is 4% idle per hour normal?

I was getting very good standby . Seemed like less than 10% overnight. and
Adding apps that want to update all the time will consume more standby power though. So I'm not getting that anymore.
Aod will take 10% of your total battery charge. Or so they say.
Anyway, you could try with aod disabled and see how that goes.
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Howdy,
S8+ here, whatsapp, messenger and typical apps installed here, AOD on.
My standby drain is 1.3%/h. You may want to investigate which app is keeping the device awake / causing wakelocks.

What do you recommend I use to figure out my wake locks?

Also, I'm not rooted so is there anything I can do other than uninstall an app anyway?

You can block their notifications, that will help a bit.
I just did a one hour test and it's 2% on my s8+.
Well you know, if you got many fb contacts and all sorts of messages your battery definitely drains faster.
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force doze app did wonders for me
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Use GSAM battery monitor to trace your wakelock. For my case, my S8 last time is draining around 3-4%/h with AOD on & now only 0.5-1%/h without AOD.
Believe it or not, my S8 battery standby drain is getting better daily due to app power monitor. Give it a week or more for S8 to learn & setup for your usage behaviour.

I don't use AOD, but if I get more than 4% discharge overnight I would be on the hunt for rogue apps. You do realize at 4% discharge rate per hour your phone will be dead in 24 hours even without you ever using it?

Skander1998 said:
My standby drain is 1.3%/h.
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About what I'm getting too. The Device Maintenance app does a great job shutting down battery draining background apps. I routinely get messages that 3-8 apps have been shut down.

BarryH_GEG said:
About what I'm getting too. The Device Maintenance app does a great job shutting down battery draining background apps. I routinely get messages that 3-8 apps have been shut down.
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Which app is the "Device Maintenance app"?

Installed Greenify and started using force doze and my idle drain is now < 2%.

The device maintenance app is build in. It will kick in after a certain time of idle. You will see it in the notification bar.
As for other apps, they simply stop apps you installed from using battery time.
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Brett3rThanU said:
At idle, is 4% battery drain per hour normal? I let my new S8 sit over night and the only thing showing consuming battery was idle and cell signal, but it still drained 4% per hour. I have it set for WQHD and aod is on. So far I've been very disappointed with the battery life of my S8 and am considering returning it and going back to my Nexus 5. Is there anything else I can check/do to find why it's draining so fast? Or is 4% idle per hour normal?
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Did you realize when you total up the battery usage, you cant get 100% of battery charges?

Battery Life

Hey guys,
how's your battery life going? I'm rather pleased with it so far. This is my first day with the phone on stock with no mods or special battery apps.
Can you guys recommend a battery app to restrict background leeching?
Cheers

Vaxbox said:
Hey guys,
how's your battery life going? I'm rather pleased with it so far. This is my first day with the phone on stock with no mods or special battery apps.
Can you guys recommend a battery app to restrict background leeching?
Cheers
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Screen-on time? I got on my first charge 30hrs. off the charger and 5,5 hrs. SOT with 7% left.

From 92% to 10%, with hardcore installing, making nearly 100 photos and some videos, and gaming, running tests, im get more than 4 hour SoT.
Stock OS, no mods.
Screenshots
https://imgur.com/gallery/MT1VH

Battery backup is great imo
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About 4h SOT with 15h use and 18% left.

Klanac89 said:
About 4h SOT with 15h use and 18% left.
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On wifi or 4g?

60% left, 3.2h sot, only wifi (no sim card), location on

First full cycle. Im pretty pleased with the battery. Stock rom and kernel. Magisk as root and no battery saving apps. Didnt even use battery saver once it hit 15%.
7hr sot with moderate usage. A little bit on clash of clans. quite a bit of web browsing on chrome. Used facebook, messenger, tandem and other apps quite a bit. Also used wifi 90% of the time and LTE the other

DSF said:
On wifi or 4g?
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Naw, normal day, mix (wifi and 4g).
It's about the same like 3T but I will sell it.

Very impressed with battery backup.
First charge (full) since I received the device, everything stock.
Medium to high usage over 36-38 hours, setting up, installing apps, gaming a little, videos, browsing. Mostly on WiFi, maybe a couple of hours on 4G:
15% battery remaining

After today's oxygen update my battery has gotten significantly better. It may also be a case of the battery settling in after a few days. I went from losing 30% in 2 hours idle in my pocket yesterday to losing 30% in 9 hours using it throughout work today. Color me impressed. And this is coming from the Moto Z play. A battery beast!!!

letmedanz said:
Very impressed with battery backup.
First charge (full) since I received the device, everything stock.
Medium to high usage over 36-38 hours, setting up, installing apps, gaming a little, videos, browsing. Mostly on WiFi, maybe a couple of hours on 4G:
15% battery remaining
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How much you get for this post?

Klanac89 said:
How much you get for this post?
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So much more than tiny minds can comprehend

Show us the next time all screenshots... There is no way 8h SOT, no matter what you did.

Klanac89 said:
How much you get for this post?
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This is from yesterday. Just dropping it here

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This is from yesterday. Just dropping it here View attachment 4193754View attachment 4193755
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Daaaayyyuuummmm is all I can say

Min. screen brightness and only wifi = maybe 6h SOT.

Klanac89 said:
Min. screen brightness and only wifi = maybe 6h SOT.
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Or maybe 8 hours and 1 minute SOT

Klanac89 said:
Show us the next time all screenshots... There is no way 8h SOT, no matter what you did.
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Check this out!
All time with wifi on with probably 15-20 mins of LTE. Brightness set to 10-25%. I am so pleased with this!