I recently purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S4 (9505 version) to replace my HTC One X as the battery life was awful. I was shocked that the S4 actually had a much worse battery life than my old HTC One X. After a factory reset on the S4 and everything turned off (GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, 3/4G, Account Sync), the battery would only last 12 hour on standby without any usage.
I eventually chose to install a custom rom, and went with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544474
I found the battery life MASSIVELY improved with this rom. I went from getting 12 hours on standby with the stock rom, to 48 hours of light usage with the custom rom. However, after I installed all my apps, and I only have about 10, the battery drain came back. None of the apps I use are active background processes, and I even installed Greenify to Hibernate any running apps. I have WiFi/GPS/Bluetooth/Sync turned off. I don't understand why I am getting 48 hours of battery without my apps, and only 12 hours of battery with my apps installed even though none are running. According to the battery stats, it is "Phone Idle" which is taking all the battery, none of the apps are even listed on there.
Any ideas why this is?
Could be a app that have installed. My s4 on stock with light use could go by 3 days. Charged this morning and have now 83% with call and text a bit of Internet
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Check out greenify on the play store. Should help with the battery issues
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symondo12 said:
Check out greenify on the play store. Should help with the battery issues
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Learn to read. Op has already mentioned that he's using greenify.
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Android4Andy said:
I recently purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S4 (9505 version) to replace my HTC One X as the battery life was awful. I was shocked that the S4 actually had a much worse battery life than my old HTC One X. After a factory reset on the S4 and everything turned off (GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, 3/4G, Account Sync), the battery would only last 12 hour on standby without any usage.
I eventually chose to install a custom rom, and went with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544474
I found the battery life MASSIVELY improved with this rom. I went from getting 12 hours on standby with the stock rom, to 48 hours of light usage with the custom rom. However, after I installed all my apps, and I only have about 10, the battery drain came back. None of the apps I use are active background processes, and I even installed Greenify to Hibernate any running apps. I have WiFi/GPS/Bluetooth/Sync turned off. I don't understand why I am getting 48 hours of battery without my apps, and only 12 hours of battery with my apps installed even though none are running. According to the battery stats, it is "Phone Idle" which is taking all the battery, none of the apps are even listed on there.
Any ideas why this is?
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This is because of batterystats.bin file. While flashing custom rom, be sure you battery is 100%. Use advanced option in CWM to remove batterystats.bin. Or you can manually remove this file using Root explorer data/system/batterystats.bin after flashing the rom. Use Easy battery calibration from google play. You should be at 100% battery before using this app. DO as it say. Then after calibrating, without charging discharge your battery to 0% until it switched off itself and cannot boot(Note: It is not good for long-term battery life) Then charge your phone to 100% in off mode. Boot it and again charge it to 100%. Now it should help with your battery life
Android4Andy said:
I recently purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S4 (9505 version) to replace my HTC One X as the battery life was awful. I was shocked that the S4 actually had a much worse battery life than my old HTC One X. After a factory reset on the S4 and everything turned off (GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, 3/4G, Account Sync), the battery would only last 12 hour on standby without any usage.
I eventually chose to install a custom rom, and went with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544474
I found the battery life MASSIVELY improved with this rom. I went from getting 12 hours on standby with the stock rom, to 48 hours of light usage with the custom rom. However, after I installed all my apps, and I only have about 10, the battery drain came back. None of the apps I use are active background processes, and I even installed Greenify to Hibernate any running apps. I have WiFi/GPS/Bluetooth/Sync turned off. I don't understand why I am getting 48 hours of battery without my apps, and only 12 hours of battery with my apps installed even though none are running. According to the battery stats, it is "Phone Idle" which is taking all the battery, none of the apps are even listed on there.
Any ideas why this is?
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it can be your battery aswell if your batteries serial starts with BD exchange it asap you may also encounter other issues like mentioned in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2570608
i face a odd problem with my s4 above 30% of batery life is very good but when batrry goes to below 30% it drain very fast i use diffrent stock n custom roms same result any one have solution plz help
Hi all,
Just wondering what the battery life is like for all you Lollipop users. I feel like the battery is around the same compared to when I was still using Kitkat.
I currently have 8 hours of screen on time with about 16% of battery left. I'm using AryaMod build March 16th 2015. No custom kernels.
Power mode setting is enabled, I don't listen to music, no GPS, no web browsing, but occasionally I do watch a few Youtube videos. I also use a lot of Memedroid and some textings with Line.
No Xposed installed (don't want to mess with it until it's stable for Lollipop) but I do use Greenify.
Anyway, most people might think 8 hours of SOT is a lot with 16% battery left. But if I look at BBS, the stats are rather disappointing. There are a lot of Google Play Services wakelocks (even though Google Play Services is already Greenified). I also see a lot of PowerManageService.Wakelocks under Kernel Wakelock. I've done the best I could to troubleshoot this but it seems like there's not much else I can do to optimize it.
Just wondering what battery life you guys are getting?
no one?
I justupgraded yrster to 5.0 on my note 3 and it is draining a lot fater. If there was a root i would get rid of the stock aps that run in the backround. I would say it could use a partial charge around 4pm if i take it off the charger at 630am
Play services draining battery after clean install of 4.5.14. Any solutions. Thanks.
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They will always drain your battery, don't worry dude
Same here... i dam on latest fw. since the update google play service goes to nearly 30 % in GSAM monitor. I have searched in web and someone says that google updates play service in the background in the last days. and many, many users of other devices are talking about massive battery drain because of google play service.
What can we do?
My google play store used 38% of my battery life. Its incredible. What did i do or set wrongly?
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My google play store used 38% of my battery life. Its incredible. What did i do or set wrongly?
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One time my google play store updated like 20 apps and it took a huge amount of battery, did the same thing happen to you?
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One time my google play store updated like 20 apps and it took a huge amount of battery, did the same thing happen to you?
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I rmb i updated pubg for 1.6gb ,then the drain happens, i check, its active at background for 95% of 5 hours
https://hizliresim.com/K5SW3Y
Hey guys, i am using pixel experience on lavender
Yesterday I let phone in %40 battery and afterwards that day battery was drained to %0
By google play store, it drained battery %213
How can I fix this?