Can someone confirm if this issue exists on their device?
I live in an area with no cell service so I put my device in airplane mode and use WiFi Calling. This worked great for my OnePlus 5T. Now with my 6T I get very heavy battery drain when I do the same. Somewhere between 2 and 4 percent an hour. If I have good cell reception and airplane mode off I don't get any standby drain, like it should be. I have attached a screenshot of the drain while my phone was in standby. The red boxes highlight when it was in airplane mode with WiFi Calling.
I would like to figure out if it is just my device with the issue or if everyone is affected. I am on MetroPCS if that makes any difference.
Trying to figure out if this has to do with Magisk, or maybe my DTIM and Beacon intervals I set in my router. No apps are holding wakelocks, phone is active less than 5% when screen off. I will factory reset if a few people state that they do not have this issue.
Can someone reproduce these steps and let me know if you get heavy standby drain?
1. Enable WiFi Calling.
2. Turn airplane mode on.
3. Turn WiFi back on.
4. Make sure you are connected to WiFi Calling.
5. Check current battery level.
6. Turn screen off and leave phone for an hour or more.
7. Check to see if battery went down more than 1%.
Thank you!
In case anyone else has this issue it seems that the heavy drain was due to a DTIM interval of 50 that I had set on my access point. Setting it back to the default of 1 seems to have stopped the heavy standby drain.
I was thinking of buying a OP6T and using WiFi calling as I have no cell/4G coverage at home to try and avoid standby drain issues I have had with previous android phones. Stupid question, why do you need to enable aeroplane mode? Does the phone not switch automatically to WiFi calling when it finds no cell signal like iPhones do? Surely forgetting to turn off aeroplane mode causes problems. What are your experiences in general with WiFi calling on this phone? What sort of battery drain are you looking at overnight using WiFi calling? Do you have any other tips for minimising standby drain when you have no cell coverage?
Percy247 said:
I was thinking of buying a OP6T and using WiFi calling as I have no cell/4G coverage at home to try and avoid standby drain issues I have had with previous android phones. Stupid question, why do you need to enable aeroplane mode? Does the phone not switch automatically to WiFi calling when it finds no cell signal like iPhones do? Surely forgetting to turn off aeroplane mode causes problems. What are your experiences in general with WiFi calling on this phone? What sort of battery drain are you looking at overnight using WiFi calling? Do you have any other tips for minimising standby drain when you have no cell coverage?
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I enable airplane mode to prevent the phone from draining looking for cell service that it will never find. It will automatically switch to WiFi-calling but it will still constantly scan for cell signal just wasting battery, all phones operate like this.
Wi-Fi calling works great for this phone. The only issue I have is that MMS for T-Mobile/MetroPCS does not work. Calling and SMS work 100%.
I usually loose between one and three percent batter overnight (about six to eight hours) with airplane mode on with Wi-Fi on and Wi-Fi calling connected.
To minimize standby drain with no cell service just put your phone in airplane mode and then turn Wi-Fi back on so that Wi-Fi calling connects. This tip would work with pretty much every phone.
I hope this helped!
Thanks for the information. Did WiFi calling work automatically on your phone or did you have to contact your airtime carrier to set it up? Can you please confirm that with aeroplane mode on you can make/receive phone calls and send/receive sms messages. I need to stay in touch and have good battery life, not one at the cost of the other. I don’t really send mms messages so that is not a problem. What is the DTIM interval you mention on your router/AP and how does this affect the phone? I will be choosing between OPT6 and the P20 Pro and I am concerned about brightness levels on OPT6 as screen seems very dim. I understand google has made changes to the brightness slider in android Pie but I had to have the brightness at 100% where normally it would be at about 50-60% on other phones. Is this something you find a problem or does the adaptive brightness learn your habits?
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Thanks for the information. Did WiFi calling work automatically on your phone or did you have to contact your airtime carrier to set it up? Can you please confirm that with aeroplane mode on you can make/receive phone calls and send/receive sms messages. I need to stay in touch and have good battery life, not one at the cost of the other. I don’t really send mms messages so that is not a problem. What is the DTIM interval you mention on your router/AP and how does this affect the phone? I will be choosing between OPT6 and the P20 Pro and I am concerned about brightness levels on OPT6 as screen seems very dim. I understand google has made changes to the brightness slider in android Pie but I had to have the brightness at 100% where normally it would be at about 50-60% on other phones. Is this something you find a problem or does the adaptive brightness learn your habits?
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WiFi calling worked right away with my phone provider, MetroPCS. All I had to do was use their app to set my E911 number for emergency purposes, I am in the US by the way. Some carriers may have to contact their support to enable the feature for your account, I cannot say for any other carriers than MetroPCS.
I can confirmed that airplane mode with Wi-Fi calling works 100% for calling and SMS. The MMS issue seems to just be an issue with the US carriers T-Mobile and MetroPCS from what I have seen. Just make sure you turn Wi-Fi back on after enabling airplane mode.
You can look up what the DTIM interval is on Google if you are interested in it. Basically its how often the router will include a message to wake up the Wi-Fi on your phone to process messages. I had mine set to 50 or 100 beacon intervals and that was causing high standby drain. Pretty much every router defaults that setting to one so you shouldn't have to worry about that. I currently have mine set to three with no issues.
As for the brightness slider it works great for me. I think it's a little on the right side most of the time, some people say it's too dark sometimes, it's all subjective to the person and how they use their phone. Personally I think the new brightness slider is a huge improvement over the old versions. You have a lot more control of the brightness at lower levels so you are able to better set your phone in low light environments. Also the screen gets plenty bright at 100%. I have not had issues using my phone outdoors in bright sunlight. As for learning your habits with the brightness, it does seem to do that to some extent but don't expect it to be magically right all the time.
Thanks very much for all your help. Have a great New Year.
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I keep seeing all these threads about how people are getting rediculous hours on 1 charge, but mostly all the post I see are people with rooted phones. What are the best ways to increase battery live on a epic with stock rom?
Those crazy battery life u see is ppl putting their phone in airplane mode and with very limited use. They don't mean anything. But some tips to improve batt life are keep screen brightness down, turn off 4g when not in use, maybe use juice defender to automatically turn off 3g whenever the screen is off.
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I'm 100% stock, unrooted.
Turned off Auto-Sync
Brightness set to auto
Wifi on, since I'm usually within range of work or home wifi
Swapped Wifi policy to never drop when asleep. (prevents wifi from dropping and going to 3g)
Killed that absolutely stupid DRM process
Activate Airplane mode after initial boot and turn it back off. (Due to Samsung bug)
Have any program that syncs set to sync at 2hr intervals
My battery life with heavy usage will last over 6 hours (games, txts, browsing, app downloading). With moderate usage it usually can go 15 hours (sans app downloading), and with light usage I've pushed it 2 days (games and txts).
Mind you I don't use the browser much since 90% of my day is in front a PC, Mon-Fri.
I'm 100% stock, no root as well.
1.Train your battery!
when I got my phone I did at least 3 full charge/complete discharge cycles
2.I do not use any Task Killers or JuiceDefender (tried and uninstalled for ineffectiveness), I just use built in tool to monitor running programs and kill off the one I do not need. I prefer not to install application that do not have clean exit programmed. I do use JuicePlotter to monitor battery charge/discharge.
3. After each reboot toggle airplane mode on and off(Airplane trick)
4. Go to Menu/Settings/Applications/Running Services and shut down all services that not needed (DRM, MediaHub, etc)
5. Set brightness to minimal possible value (works fine for me), not auto set - when I need it on the street just slide the finger across the status bar and raise the level as needed.
6. All 4G, GPS, Wi-Fi are off and on only when needed. I use Wi-Fi home, 4G at work, rest of the places 3G or whatever is available. My data/sync is always on. Wi-Fi set to never sleep.
7. I have Roaming Guard off since my house in the very poor reception area so it's roaming most of the time but there is wi-fi for data.
8. Use dark background/wallpaper (I use Star Wars light speed jump live wallpaper)
IMO the battery life is depend on the type of use. From my 2 month experience the following battery killer tasks are:
1.Streaming video, music with screen on (will discharge the battery even when plugged in.
1a.Streaming music with screen off.
2. I haven't tried tethering (hot spot mode) but would think it's a killer as well
3. Browsing web, especially over 3G
4. Roaming
5. Game playing.
6. GPS
Obviously you can have a bad (defective) battery, but it's likely less then 1%.
Good luck!
nikon120 - What do you consider moderate? I consider my usage to be moderate, but I can't go 15hrs. Yesterday after fully charging the phone from mid point, my phone completely died after 5hrs, with very light usuage as most of that time I was busy. Today with light to moderate usage, my phone is indicating that it needs to be charged at roughly hr 10.
stud_muffler - I'm not familair with this airplane trick you're referring to. Can you enlighten me?
I'm doing most of the things suggested in this post, but I still don't think the battery usage I'm getting is up to par. The battery life on my Epic is much worse then what I was getting on my WinMo TP2, with roughly the same amount of usage.
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stud_muffler - I'm not familair with this airplane trick you're referring to. Can you enlighten me?
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After you reboot the phone press and hold Power button until it buzz.
Menu will appear.
Select and touch Airplane Mode option. It will turn off all radio and show plane icon in the status bar.
wait few seconds and repeat to turn radio on.
that's all.
First of all, I'm doing this guide (wiki[dot]cyanogenmod[dot]com/wiki/Troubleshooting#Battery_recalibration) since I recently rooted and flashed CyanogenMod 7.0.3. One of my questions was this: What's the quickest way to drain my battery? Currently, I have airplane mode off, wifi on, sync on, GPS/Navigation on, and I'm watching a Netflix movie with the screen at the brightest setting. It's been like this for maybe ten minutes and it's still at 100%. Since I'm going to sleep soon, I was hoping it would be quicker to eat up the battery.
Secondly: 'Cell Standby' keeps eating up all my battery. Seeing as how I don't have a cell coverage plan and I always use my phone with airplane mode (with wifi on), why does 'Cell Standby' use so much power?
Anyways, does anyone have any more battery saving options? I wouldn't like to turn off wifi or sync.
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First of all, I'm doing this guide (wiki[dot]cyanogenmod[dot]com/wiki/Troubleshooting#Battery_recalibration) since I recently rooted and flashed CyanogenMod 7.0.3. One of my questions was this: What's the quickest way to drain my battery? Currently, I have airplane mode off, wifi on, sync on, GPS/Navigation on, and I'm watching a Netflix movie with the screen at the brightest setting. It's been like this for maybe ten minutes and it's still at 100%. Since I'm going to sleep soon, I was hoping it would be quicker to eat up the battery.
Secondly: 'Cell Standby' keeps eating up all my battery. Seeing as how I don't have a cell coverage plan and I always use my phone with airplane mode (with wifi on), why does 'Cell Standby' use so much power?
Anyways, does anyone have any more battery saving options? I wouldn't like to turn off wifi or sync.
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Have you tried different radios? also you can overclock and undervolt, those all can make a huge difference in your battery life.
Set you brightness to a low level and turn off auto brightness.
Use a darker colored background,this will normally use less lcd power.
Also GPS can eat up alot of battery.
You may want to change your sync/ push options to update less often.
Not too familiar with the cell standby eating up battery life, normally with airplane mode this should stop the phone from searching for service. also try battery calibration after you install any rom. you can find this in the market.
Hope this was somewhat helpful.
good luck!
This isn't a thread for when your battery drain is excessive on standby, this is a thread dedicated to figuring out how to simply get more power to the phone for extended runtime.
I'm using a 5000 mah external battery pack for extra charge, and it seems to be good enough to last me at least an extra day or two of usage, which is great. It seems like the only other options are cutting up the battery door to fit an extended battery from the evo 3D or just carrying extra batteries...
Best easy change for me was always using wifi instead of the network when at home and work. Made a huge improvement
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This isn't a thread for when your battery drain is excessive on standby, this is a thread dedicated to figuring out how to simply get more power to the phone for extended runtime.
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So....how to get the most time out of your battery in standby?
As you've allready said:
One of the biggest improvements is possible by using a Sensation or Evo3D battery. With that i get a nice 1% per hour in standby. (It's actually a bit lower than 1%).
While not using the phone it's unnessecary to have 3G activated. Recieving emails and texts via whatsapp, viber etc via 2G is good enough. For everything that is more datahungry you can allways activate 3G manually.
Keep background data turned off. I use K9 Mail which works independently and Whatsapp recieves messages too. But a lot of other stuff doesn't syncronize which means less wakelocks and thus less power consumption.
Same with locations. As long as you don't WANT to tell google your every step you can keep network based location turned off.
If you need a location fix quickly you can allways turn on gps for a moment. After using the FasterFix app (i guess you need root for that), i get a gps lock in 5 seconds, so i can determin my location really fast and share it with others (for intance via whatsapp) without having to keep it on all the time.
And last but not least:
You probably don't need to know the current outside temperature every 5 minutes. So set that to manual update too.
Doing these things doesn't turn my smartphone into an overweight dumbphone with a battery problem and i get a maximum of over 4 days of standby time out of it.
Normally my battery holds for roughly 35 hours (1 day and 11 hours), but it's usually awake for 1/4th of the time serving as my newspaper and video and mp3 player.
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Use llama!
You'll never have to worry about forgetting to set your phone on vibrate while at work and setting it to loud at home.
You can configure it so it only activates wifi at home and turns it off again if you didn't connect to any access point after a set amount of time. I haven't had to activate/deactivate wifi manually for ages without having to worry about it constantly searching for networks and sucking my battery dry!
What he said
Dlog said:
So....how to get the most time out of your battery in standby?
As you've allready said:
One of the biggest improvements is possible by using a Sensation or Evo3D battery. With that i get a nice 1% per hour in standby. (It's actually a bit lower than 1%).
While not using the phone it's unnessecary to have 3G activated. Recieving emails and texts via whatsapp, viber etc via 2G is good enough. For everything that is more datahungry you can allways activate 3G manually.
Keep background data turned off. I use K9 Mail which works independently and Whatsapp recieves messages too. But a lot of other stuff doesn't syncronize which means less wakelocks and thus less power consumption.
Same with locations. As long as you don't WANT to tell google your every step you can keep network based location turned off.
If you need a location fix quickly you can allways turn on gps for a moment. After using the FasterFix app (i guess you need root for that), i get a gps lock in 5 seconds, so i can determin my location really fast and share it with others (for intance via whatsapp) without having to keep it on all the time.
And last but not least:
You probably don't need to know the current outside temperature every 5 minutes. So set that to manual update too.
Doing these things doesn't turn my smartphone into an overweight dumbphone with a battery problem and i get a maximum of over 4 days of standby time out of it.
Normally my battery holds for roughly 35 hours (1 day and 11 hours), but it's usually awake for 1/4th of the time serving as my newspaper and video and mp3 player.
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Use llama!
You'll never have to worry about forgetting to set your phone on vibrate while at work and setting it to loud at home.
You can configure it so it only activates wifi at home and turns it off again if you didn't connect to any access point after a set amount of time. I haven't had to activate/deactivate wifi manually for ages without having to worry about it constantly searching for networks and sucking my battery dry!
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Exactly what he said, but you can automate a lot of it by using an app called Tasker. I use it to sync all data on my phone for 3 minutes every 4 hours so it's always up to date. It can also automate the GPS on/off depending which app I use so it switches on when I open CoPilot and turns off again when I close it.
Tasker can also replace Llama if you can find 'profiles. to do it. Llama looks pretty good though.
I think the biggest drain is the display. With auto brightness on, the sensor will monitor the changes in your surrounding every second the moment you turn on the screen. Turn that off and manually control the brightness save a lot of battery.
Or just use lower autobrightness script.
I use Invisibright. Long hold on search softkey + slide enables me to set the brightness to whatever I want in a second no matter what apps are running.
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It is still useless as your sensor is still working every time you turn on your screen. The sensor is draining your battery. Not the brightness value.
Autobrightness sensor drain
So you think that there is a greater drain from the light sensor than from an uncontrolled screen brightness?
Interesting thought. I'll manually set my brightness level a round20% for the next charge cycle and see what effect it has, though I suspect that as my display currently accounts for 20% of battery drain it won't make all that much difference.
I use juice defender and I think its actually working.
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This tip is one that seems counter-intuitive, but you can save a lot of wear and tear on your Android phone's battery if you tell it to keep the Wifi radio turned on and connected while the phone is sleeping. Your phone needs a lot of juice to keep pinging those cell towers, and even more to transmit data to and from them. Wifi radios use much less power because of their design, and they don't have to keep searching for a better access point. It's the way cellular data communication was designed, and it's a necessary evil.
But what if you're spending all day (or all evening) in one place, connected to Wifi? If you tell your phone to shut off Wifi when idle, it bounces back to cellular data (be it 2G, 3G, or 4G) and starts sucking down the electrons again when the screen shuts off. That's no good, and easy to fix:
Open the advanced Wifi settings by pressing the menu button, then Settings, Wireless & networks, Wi-Fi settings, and tapping the menu button again. You'll have a choice to either Scan, or go Advanced -- go Advanced.
Tap the Wi-Fi sleep policy entry, and you'll get a pop up dialog with the 3 choices. Choose Never.
Now even when your phone goes into standby mode, you'll stay connected to Wifi and be able to get mail and messages without turning the cell radio back on and trouncing your battery life. And for the times when you're not in an area with a Wifi connection, just shut Wifi off, either through the menu or with a handy toggle widget. Your battery will thank you for it.
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dont you mean tick always, as if you tick never itll go back to using your dataplan instead of the wifi
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I use to believe this but for some reason on my sgs3 wifi drains more battery I get more juice with wifi off.
Results may very due to your services supporting fast dormancy, etc.
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This tip is one that seems counter-intuitive, but you can save a lot of wear and tear on your Android phone's battery if you tell it to keep the Wifi radio turned on and connected while the phone is sleeping. Your phone needs a lot of juice to keep pinging those cell towers, and even more to transmit data to and from them. Wifi radios use much less power because of their design, and they don't have to keep searching for a better access point. It's the way cellular data communication was designed, and it's a necessary evil.
But what if you're spending all day (or all evening) in one place, connected to Wifi? If you tell your phone to shut off Wifi when idle, it bounces back to cellular data (be it 2G, 3G, or 4G) and starts sucking down the electrons again when the screen shuts off. That's no good, and easy to fix:
Open the advanced Wifi settings by pressing the menu button, then Settings, Wireless & networks, Wi-Fi settings, and tapping the menu button again. You'll have a choice to either Scan, or go Advanced -- go Advanced.
Tap the Wi-Fi sleep policy entry, and you'll get a pop up dialog with the 3 choices. Choose Never.
Now even when your phone goes into standby mode, you'll stay connected to Wifi and be able to get mail and messages without turning the cell radio back on and trouncing your battery life. And for the times when you're not in an area with a Wifi connection, just shut Wifi off, either through the menu or with a handy toggle widget. Your battery will thank you for it.
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You need to choose "Always", not "Never". If you choose "never", then it disconnect wifi as soon as display is turned off.
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I use to believe this but for some reason on my sgs3 wifi drains more battery I get more juice with wifi off.
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If you're moving out of wifi range, or in and out of wifi range, turning wifi off will use less power as associating with an AP has a high energy cost. But as the original poster says, if you're going to be sitting in one place all day e.g. at home or at the office where your phone will always be connected to an AP, leaving wifi on and always connected will use less power than 3G.
More details here:
http://people.cs.umass.edu/~arun/papers/TailEnder.pdf
I suppose it's not that surprising. I'm sure many of us, after buying a new phone, have left the old one sitting around at home without a SIM card but connected to wifi, still polling emails and everything. The battery lasts ages!
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This might be irrelevant, but i red an article her in xda about modern mobiles battery long time ago.the article said that when wifi on or off has no significance effect on battery life (regardless of other sitting like carrier signal .....etc)
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I use to believe this but for some reason on my sgs3 wifi drains more battery I get more juice with wifi off.
Results may very due to your services supporting fast dormancy, etc.
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Apparently FD doesn't affect battery life that much (See here, second post). I get better battery life on wifi and I think that's still the case for the majority of people if they are within a wifi area.
I tried and with option "always" I have more battery drain, cca. 2%/h in idle/screen off/overnight. With old setup when Wi-Fi is off in case screen goes off, I have cca. 1.6%/h. So, it doesn't work for me. Thanks anyway.
What ive found is to turn your 3g to 2g, that will save a LOT of battery. I use 3g if im out and about where theres no wifi, if im at work i dont use my phone often so switch 3g to 2g. It still brings my notifications in time. And at night switch to 2g as well.
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What ive found is to turn your 3g to 2g, that will save a LOT of battery. I use 3g if im out and about where theres no wifi, if im at work i dont use my phone often so switch 3g to 2g. It still brings my notifications in time. And at night switch to 2g as well.
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But that's a no brainer! Of course battery life will last a lot longer on 2G! Your battery life will also last a lot longer if you have no data connectivity. The discussion here is between data and wifi.
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Thanks good tip
Hey everyone,
I picked up a T2 on Thursday morning coming from a Maxx, and after the first day I felt I wasn't getting quite the battery life I should. After watching the battery stats and doing some research, the issue seems to be due to Lollipop's well-documented cell standby bug. Coming from KitKat I have been pretty frustrated by this, as my T2 will sometimes drain 5% or more in an hour of idling if WiFi (or possibly Bluetooth) is on, and seems to drain much faster with use if WiFi is on. (Note that all of this is taking place in areas with very strong 4g and WiFi signal).
When WiFi is turned on, Cell Standby tops the battery consumption chart by a large margin and my unscientific eyeball test suggests that the battery drains much faster.
Is anyone else having this issue? I'm considering taking the T2 back, but honestly there aren't any other new phones with comparable battery life, and it would be hard to give up the shatterproof display. Other than this I'm loving the phone and Lollipop.
Thanks!
I'm not having that issue at all and I leave my WiFi on pretty much all the time. I just checked mine and in 13 hrs my cell standby was 8%. Honestly idk if that's good or bad.
I guess I'll just keep an eye on it. Over this past night Cell Standby was on for 10 hours and had the Mobile Radio on for 8 hours while the phone was idle. Not sure if this is intended or not. My battery woes could just be in my head.
cell standby has been near or at the top of all 3 of my Verizon Lollipop phones so dont believe its a Turbo 2 direct issue.
I guess I'll just be patiently awaiting marshmallow then!
Try this, idk if it'll help or not but under WiFi settings under keep WiFi on during sleep, choose only when charging.
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Try this, idk if it'll help or not but under WiFi settings under keep WiFi on during sleep, choose only when charging.
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
I've also read this cell standby time is related to WiFi and possible fixes are as follows. Turn off allow Google to scan for networks even if off, keep WiFi on during sleep charge only, LTE instead of global, and then go into recovery and clear cache. This is what I did and my cell drain is very low. Hope it helps.
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I've also read this cell standby time is related to WiFi and possible fixes are as follows. Turn off allow Google to scan for networks even if off, keep WiFi on during sleep charge only, LTE instead of global, and then go into recovery and clear cache. This is what I did and my cell drain is very low. Hope it helps.
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Thanks for the tips - I changed all the settings but I'm having trouble getting into recover. When I try to launch from the bootloader I just get the dead Android with "No Command" displayed below it. Is there something I'm missing? FWIW I have dev mode on and unlock oem bootloader on.
I wouldn't turn on unlock boot loader this disables some security features and unless we have a way to truly unlock it. It's better to leave on. Dev mode doesn't affect drain issue at all. Here's link for booting into recovery.
http://androiding.how/download-droid-turbo-android-5-1-lollipop-ota-update/
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I wouldn't turn on unlock boot loader this disables some security features and unless we have a way to truly unlock it. It's better to leave on. Dev mode doesn't affect drain issue at all. Here's link for booting into recovery.
http://androiding.how/download-droid-turbo-android-5-1-lollipop-ota-update/
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Got it. Thanks for the help!
Mine drains fast while sleeping at home. In my case, the signal is poor so the phone has to crank up the radio power, draining the battery.
UPDATE: For anyone interested, the fixes suggested in this thread seem to have done the trick for me. After changing settings and wiping cache I am getting even better battery life (7-8 hours of screen on time up from 5-6 in similar conditions). This could, of course, be due to other factors - but hey, it's worth a shot if your battery is draining quickly!
gfrrt said:
I've also read this cell standby time is related to WiFi and possible fixes are as follows. Turn off allow Google to scan for networks even if off, keep WiFi on during sleep charge only, LTE instead of global, and then go into recovery and clear cache. This is what I did and my cell drain is very low. Hope it helps.
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Which lte did you pick? There is 2 options. Also how do you get into recovery? Thanks
LTE/CDMA
I personally have noticed that turning off mobile data when connected to WiFi helps. I have done this with previous phones
I experienced this the other day after spending the weekend in an area with spotty service. To fix all I did was reboot the phone.
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UPDATE: For anyone interested, the fixes suggested in this thread seem to have done the trick for me. After changing settings and wiping cache I am getting even better battery life (7-8 hours of screen on time up from 5-6 in similar conditions). This could, of course, be due to other factors - but hey, it's worth a shot if your battery is draining quickly!
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Hey sorry but could you give a bit of a walkthrough for all the processes you took? Bit of a newbie here and my moto x force doesn't seem to be doing very well with the drain
Giving this a shot now...hopefully this works for me as well
Changing those settings helped immediately