I have only had my S8 for about four months now. Anytime I install Nova launcher on my phone I notice a RAPID battery drain. I let it drain almost all the way down tonight and found the Android system using close to 20% of the batter and the UI using close to 10%. Is this normal for an S8? And is this normal for Nova launcher?
In the app information of nova, mine says 0% of battery used. Plus I get 8 and a half hours screen on time with nova. So nova does not drain any battery from my s8 plus. I've heard that it might even increase battery life compared to TouchWiz.
apham69 said:
In the app information of nova, mine says 0% of battery used. Plus I get 8 and a half hours screen on time with nova. So nova does not drain any battery from my s8 plus. I've heard that it might even increase battery life compared to TouchWiz.
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I have no idea what it could be. Whenever I apply Nova my battery drains much faster. I'm still getting the screen, Android system, and OS being my biggest battery drainers! It sucks because I love Nova but feel like I have to sacrifice battery for the launcher. ?
Wfitzhugh said:
I have no idea what it could be. Whenever I apply Nova my battery drains much faster. I'm still getting the screen, Android system, and OS being my biggest battery drainers! It sucks because I love Nova but feel like I have to sacrifice battery for the launcher.
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If you can post a screenshot of your bat statistics
I use nove since day 1 of owning my s8 (6 months) and never experienced battery drain from it. maybe it has to do with something else. it's not normal.
Since the XDA app won't upload a screen shot I'll just write the results. Drained my battery all the way down to 10%.
Battery life:10 hours 11 mins
Usage;
Screen (25%)
Android system (19%)
Android OS (12%)
Google Play services (8%)
Device idle (5%)
Cell standby (5%)
Snapchat (4%)
Twitter (3%)
Everything else was 2% or less.
THIS IS WHILE RUNNING NOVA
what can anyone make of this?
Wfitzhugh said:
Since the XDA app won't upload a screen shot I'll just write the results. Drained my battery all the way down to 10%.
Battery life:10 hours 11 mins
Usage;
Screen (25%)
Android system (19%)
Android OS (12%)
Google Play services (8%)
Device idle (5%)
Cell standby (5%)
Snapchat (4%)
Twitter (3%)
Everything else was 2% or less.
THIS IS WHILE RUNNING NOVA
what can anyone make of this?
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yip something not right, my android system is 6% and Android OS is 2% but I've been using Nova since day 1 and never had any battery (or other) issue with it, been brilliant. go into settings, reset and reset settings, then go to settings, apps, nova and clear data. delete cache to from recovery, then reboot and see if there is any improvement.
Do a reboot. It that doesn't fix it, do a factory reset, perhaps that'll help.
Nova doesn't appear to be the problem from your stats.
Wfitzhugh said:
I have only had my S8 for about four months now. Anytime I install Nova launcher on my phone I notice a RAPID battery drain. I let it drain almost all the way down tonight and found the Android system using close to 20% of the batter and the UI using close to 10%. Is this normal for an S8? And is this normal for Nova launcher?
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you can have full confidence that the problem is not nova launcher. I use since 3 years in several phones and i did not have any battery drain
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Noticed that many people complain about ROMs bringing battery drain issues, but It's mainly the third party widgets that cause this, for example, I noticed whilst on standby the nice gtabSiMiclock drains around 4% battery life in 6 hours, not big difference, but remember whilst on standby, found that it constantly updates for god knows what reason, where as the HTC clock drains 0% on standby. The circle battery widget and setcpu drains 0% neither. So if everybody can keep an eye out on what apps drain more battery, whether it makes significant or insignificant changes, leave messages down below for others.
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Tazur Rahman
How did you determine the battery usage for a single app/widget? I'd like to try myself.
jon_f said:
How did you determine the battery usage for a single app/widget? I'd like to try myself.
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I used battery circle and my small brain, usually I have my HTC sense clock on overnight which drains 0% battery, whereas last night, I only slept 6 hours, woke up to find 4% missing thanks to SiMi clock. I wish there was an app that could do this.
Wow, it's easier for me to charge battery every few minutes than to calculate the source of the drainage
sHaHiN786 said:
Noticed that many people complain about ROMs bringing battery drain issues, but It's mainly the third party widgets that cause this
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You could be right, i'm also complaining but my DHD batterydrain issue even occurs without any widget installed\active.
Use ' Current widget' It can show/log your battery uses. When your playing or when screens off
I seem to be draining about 10% overnight at the moment and that's with an underclocked kernel and setcpu.
My widgets are not updating automatically either so can't see this being the cause. Running leedroid.
Any thoughts?
i uninstalled stuff like visionary, vlingo, and audio guru. audio guru turned out to be the beast. it was draining HUGE amounts of power (400mah+) on standby!! avoid like the plague. now that thats gone im down to 5mah on standby with wifi and 3g on.
Hey friends
I had recently switched to launcher pro from twlauncher .I am Experiencing a battery drainage issue with it.In 8-10 hours of standby it consumes more than 10 % of battery. Why This is Happening.I Had listen that it consumes less battery. It uses 10-12 MB of Ram. Is Launcher pro is like this only or only I am experiencing it.
clarkkov said:
No, Launcher Pro itself does not consume more battery and uses 5 to 10 MBs of RAM. This can be caused by LP widgets though, if you set Facebook, Twitter and Gmail stream widgets and they update too frequently this may be the cause of your problem. If you use weather clock widgets, this is also draining your battery - in fact any widget drains your battery (even system info widgets if it's updated often). Try to use LP without widgets and see if the problem persists.
I use LP since I bought the phone (1 month) and am getting 2 days average of battery life, I topped at 4 days, so I doubt LP is the cause of your increased battery drain.
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You are right about lp widgets
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Is it just me or does the Google now launcher absolutely destroy battery life? I switched to it due to someone saying touchwiz was really heavy and bad on battery but ever since switching although I enjoy having Google now on the left screen I can't seem to pass 4 hours screen on throughout the day and my battery will be dead by at least 7 o clock regardless of what I do? Does anyone have any solutions or a better launcher or anything?
Every since the update my battery seems to lose a percent every 5-10 minutes the screen is on.
What gives?? Tried a fresh install and everything.
livinin82 said:
Every since the update my battery seems to lose a percent every 5-10 minutes the screen is on.
What gives?? Tried a fresh install and everything.
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54% in the last 3 hours. This is noticeably different.
Have you looked into whats draining it? i.e. under battery settings or using better battery stats?
Bubba Fett said:
Have you looked into whats draining it? i.e. under battery settings or using better battery stats?
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Nothing specific. Just screen for the most part and a little bit of chrome. I deleted messenger, and Facebook. Everytime I turn my screen on...By the time I go to turn it off after whatever activity I notice a percent loss.
My battery life has never been what I would call "good", but after the update it has been even worse. Wifi and location off, no facebook at all and screen at auto brightness. The battery seems to lose about 10% an hour and I'm lucky if I get to see 3 hours of screen on time.
I'm getting roughly 0.6% an hour when idle with 10j
T-Mobile. Best ever was 8h SOT with a few percent left in 10d. I am on 10j now rooted. Battery life seems worse but really it's not. Used to get about an hour screen before drops to 99% but now about 20mins. Just seems to measure battery better. This rundown so far was at work in downtown and I was on 41st floor most of the day. I am home now where my LTE is pegged full blast and I could probably pull down at least 5 more hours of this charge depending what I do.
I know it's not a solution in the sense its not solving whatever software is draining the battery but there are aftermarket battery packs for the v20 already that will make the phone last longer.
Zero Lemon specifically makes an excellent aftermarket battery pack if you don't mind the bulk.
I am waiting for a middle man battery pack that's larger than the factory battery but not as massive as the zerolemon.
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Hey guys.
So I noticed everyone here and anywhere else basically, complaining about the battery life on this phone after the MIUI 11 update so I used the debloater directly after getting the phone to have the best battery life possible.
Turned off all the suggested apps and services and I gotta say battery improved, but it wasn't what was promised by the phone's specs. I'm barely getting 4h SoT, without any heavy usage whatsoever, only social stuff.
The culprit for me as well has been the Android System, with over 40% drain every day. So I installed Accubatery to try and see what's happening with my battery, along with better battery stats.
What I found useful from the accubattery app is the permanent notification where it tells you, after a few seconds, how much mA will be drained in an hour of using the phone like the way you are using it at that moment. So I did a test. Had my phone on the home screen, doing nothing. After a few seconds the reading showed -180mA, which is awesome right? Then I locked my phone and left it at the always-on display for a minute or so. Unlocked it and the notification showed -980mA.
This is very VERY weird and I cannot find anything anywhere suggesting what anyone can do to combat this. I have more average battery drain when the screen is off than when the screen is on.
I have never reset my phone (and would like that to stay that way if possible) and the phone itself is a month old. It's really saddening to see other people are getting twice as much SoT.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
giorgos123 said:
Hey guys.
So I noticed everyone here and anywhere else basically, complaining about the battery life on this phone after the MIUI 11 update so I used the debloater directly after getting the phone to have the best battery life possible.
Turned off all the suggested apps and services and I gotta say battery improved, but it wasn't what was promised by the phone's specs. I'm barely getting 4h SoT, without any heavy usage whatsoever, only social stuff.
The culprit for me as well has been the Android System, with over 40% drain every day. So I installed Accubatery to try and see what's happening with my battery, along with better battery stats.
What I found useful from the accubattery app is the permanent notification where it tells you, after a few seconds, how much mA will be drained in an hour of using the phone like the way you are using it at that moment. So I did a test. Had my phone on the home screen, doing nothing. After a few seconds the reading showed -180mA, which is awesome right? Then I locked my phone and left it at the always-on display for a minute or so. Unlocked it and the notification showed -980mA.
This is very VERY weird and I cannot find anything anywhere suggesting what anyone can do to combat this. I have more average battery drain when the screen is off than when the screen is on.
I have never reset my phone (and would like that to stay that way if possible) and the phone itself is a month old. It's really saddening to see other people are getting twice as much SoT.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
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I was on Miui 11 for a few weeks and had ~8h SOT with AOD enabled all the time. Now I am on Pixel Experience and I have ~7.5h SOT without AOD so I am very satisfied with the battery life.
I advise you to wait for Miui 12, which will come very soon to the Mi 9T. Then everything will probably change again with the battery life...