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Hi everyone,
I've read in the update threads that battery life has improved for most since the update.
However, I feel that my battery is draining much quicker now. I re-did all the changes I made after the update (like removing Timescape widget + disconnecting from FB, switching off auto-sync etc). Didn't make much difference, though.
So, has anyone else experienced this? Also, has someone really checked if the camera bug is gone?
Regards,
cherryfish
Yes, the camera bug is gone. Personally tested that.
As for overall battery life, there's not much difference for me. Maybe just slight improvement in idling current. (idling battery drain is still about 1% or less per hour though... almost same as before update)
But I already have really good battery life before update... so maybe that's why I don't see much difference.
Non-rooted. Unbranded. No task killers.
that's weird, my arc's battery life is way better now, lt lasts 1 day 2 hours minimum.
my gf's been complaining about the battery becoming pretty hopeless....I have repaired, factory reset and uninstalled most apps and no respite...used to give 1 n a half days easily on mod-light usuage...now barely lasts a day...
need to figure it out..ill look more into it when I have time..
I have the same problem, looked good the first day now its ****, i can loose the last 20% in an hour while its just idling, today i was down to 9% after 12 hours, but i did use the speaker to listen to music for like 5 hours. Is there Anyone else that use the speaker alot that can tell me if it uses alot of juice?
Hi, I have got similar situation with u.
I have used titanium to backup and restore the system data and apps.
Is it the problem between old ver 2.3.2 system data and new ver 2.3.3 that caused the battery drain problem?
Battery life has doubled for me. I noticed that a lot of Sonys apps are no longer running in the background after flashiing the o2 2.3.3 over my Rogers rom.
Yep, battery life is way better over here too. I did a reset on it and set the phone up again pretty manually. Did sync my contacts etc. Works very well now.
Have 4 email accounts syncing, facebook and twitter syncing every hour and every 30 mins, do quite a bit web browsing on both 3g and wlan and have had w lan constantly on for quite a few hours now. Screen brightness set on 75%.
And now, after 15 hours and 33 min I have 66% battery left.
Battery life is really great & i am loving it. Those who have problems, i doubt there must be an app (if not more) causing problem. My brother got the battery problem on his Arc (battery drain 100 to 10% in 10 hours with moderate usage).. He uninstalled Handcent & started using Go SMS Pro & battery life is again good
For me, I was on work today... Wifi always on, Facbook auto update every hour, weather every hour, 1 hour 30 minutes music listening with bluetooth headset, 50-60 sms, 5 min phone call, half hour browser, played a game in 15 min.. and after 15 hours battery is till 60%... I am very happy
Waiting for the upgrade since camera makes battery die very soon.
Without camera usage battery performance is really good.
i did not transfer any userdata when i updated so taht cant be the problem, and i have the same apps as on 2.3.2 but i do suspect widgetlocker is eating up battery. I have also read that the wather app snowstorm that i have installed is a big batterydrainer but none of those shows up in my battery usage.
I see that the music player dubletwist is the biggest sinner except the screen but im assuming thats because i used the arc speaker for music at work.
But as you can see from the pictures i have drained the battery twice today, though the second charge was only up to something like 80%. And ive hardly used it after that(3-4 minute long calls and maybe 20 minutes of music using in-ear headphones and 30 min browsing). Something is wrong somewhere
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My battery life has definitely improved it now must be about the best I have had on any Android device I have owned.
My battery life has gone from an average of 15 hours to an average of 31 hours with more usage. Im very pleased with the update best smart phone battery life ive ever had now:-D
jjbbb said:
Hi, I have got similar situation with u.
I have used titanium to backup and restore the system data and apps.
Is it the problem between old ver 2.3.2 system data and new ver 2.3.3 that caused the battery drain problem?
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I really don't know, but after a couple of reboots it seems better now... might be the reason.
Edit: I just installed Battery Monitor Widget and it says I it drains ~200-350mA atm. Wifi and 3G all off.
For me I defintely think the battery life is worse. I only ever use my phone on non-3g, all other connections off and got a nice 2 days easy out of it.
Since the update I would say I get just over a day (not sure if that is still good in other people's eyes) One of the killers seems to be the gallery which I presume is because of the new facebook update which pulls in your facebook pictures onto the phone....
Anyone find as well when you play games the phone gets really really hot i.e shadow guardians HD makes my phone just burn.
Easily upgraded today.
So far with using camera alot batt live is fine
and droping very slow on idle. Great!
Upgraded mine on Saturday and it's defo better on the battery. Wasn't using it at work and it was hardly using any power. Then started messing about with wifi and gps, etc, and it's still got plenty.
Haven't noticed many other differences though!!
Dazza
I have to charge my phone 2 days and battery is now at 54%.
I never had such battery life before even with bloatware apps removed with that usage.
Imagine if i remove them now! (Though i wont since i cant root with gingerbreak anymore, hopefully someone will implement it on the next gingerbreak's update)
Agree with everyone else here.
Battery life has improved with upgrade.
Battery life much better for me 50%
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I have had my Note for 9 days now and wonder if my battery may have an issue. Yes the phone is entering deep sleep, No I don't have any specific app that is running it dry. Screen takes most of the juice. I have it set at automatic brightness. Everything is off. It does auto sync. Signal is fantastic. I can hardly get 3/4ths of a day. I usually spend 30 minutes on the phone. 30 emails, 2 hours browsing, 30 minutes on tapatalk. This has always been my pattern and coming from a Motorola photon I always made the day easily. I'm on ISC (stock) not rooted just plain old stock. I'm thinking maybe a battery problem? What do you all think? Thanks for your help.
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swid441 said:
I have had my Note for 9 days now and wonder if my battery may have an issue. Yes the phone is entering deep sleep, No I don't have any specific app that is running it dry. Screen takes most of the juice. I have it set at automatic brightness. Everything is off. It does auto sync. Signal is fantastic. I can hardly get 3/4ths of a day. I usually spend 30 minutes on the phone. 30 emails, 2 hours browsing, 30 minutes on tapatalk. This has always been my pattern and coming from a Motorola photon I always made the day easily. I'm on ISC (stock) not rooted just plain old stock. I'm thinking maybe a battery problem? What do you all think? Thanks for your help.
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I've only had my note a couple days. I've gotten about 10-12 hours out of it both days. But that was with what I would call moderate to less then moderate usage. A little web browsing and facebook, probably less then 2 hours total. Maybe 20-30 texts and reading emails for maybe 30 minutes and 10-15 minutes of calls. I'm not sure what to expect, I am coming from a rooted HTC evo which I ran a lot of custom roms/kernels on, so I got great battery life with it. But I don't remember how it performed stock. The Note gets me through my work day, but not much more.
Charge the battery to full.
Let it drain completely (till it turns itself off).
Charge the battery to full once more.
I don't know the science behind it, nor does everyone benefit from doing this. (Something to do with calibration of the battery) but I do this after every major update, or new phone. I'm currently sat on 44% battery after 24hours usage (Moderate, certainly not heavy usage).
You have to remember the note will consume a large amount of battery simply because of its screen size (As you've noted its the biggest offender).
Someone with more experience/knowledge will hopefully be along shortly to give you better more informed advice but this is what I know from experience.
Normally what I have seen is I get approx near
4 hours of battery life (screen on time)
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Batterylife on samsung ics (XXLPY) is terrible if you compare it to gingerbread. It is nearly cut down in half. I guess touchwizz has gotten more hungry than before or samsung has altered ics so much that the advantages are gone.
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Charge the battery to full.
Let it drain completely (till it turns itself off).
Charge the battery to full once more.
I don't know the science behind it, nor does everyone benefit from doing this. (Something to do with calibration of the battery) but I do this after every major update, or new phone. I'm currently sat on 44% battery after 24hours usage (Moderate, certainly not heavy usage).
You have to remember the note will consume a large amount of battery simply because of its screen size (As you've noted its the biggest offender).
Someone with more experience/knowledge will hopefully be along shortly to give you better more informed advice but this is what I know from experience.
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I do this method every 2 or 3 months on all my devices (iPod, phone, Laptop) so that the percentage or battery shown on the devices is more accurate. I read somewhere that since most of us charge out devices before battery dies completely, like we charge it when its 80 or 60 or even 20 instead of charging it when it completely dies, doing so makes the accuracy of the percentage very low but we can't help it but to charge it at what ever percentage for various reason thus, I always drain all my battery on devices completely than charge it full before using (minus the first full charging). Any ways if your ICS it seems to be a bug, it cannot be fixed until a new update.
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Do the charge/drain cycle.
I've done this and improved the battery life immensely.
Currently my note has been on for 3d 21h 16m 1s and has 11% charge left - okay so it hasn't been used much over the weekend but that not a bad standby time.
Hi,
So I had my phone on repair for the speaker. They repaired it and now it works. I got it back 4 days ago. And apparently (i dont know if this is important for battery) they installed a firmware for Poland on my phone, even though I am not from Poland, but anyways I have it set to my language and all is good.
The thing is, I am not sure how my battery is doing. I was right now on my phone searching for this on the internet (i was using the internet app) and it drained my phone from 53% to 44% in just maybe 15-20 minutes. Is that normal? I think that yesterday or the day before yesterday I had like 4 hours of SOT... When I am reading on the web people are averaging like 6 to even 8 hours. What is even more frustrating for me is that all of those people who get around 7 hours of SOT say that they are heavy users, playing games all day, snapchating, facebooking etc. and they have around 20-30% left by bedtime... Now comparing to my phone either they go to bed at 6 o'clock or my phone is bad. Because at 9 pm i have maybe like 10%. And moreso those people that report 7 hrs of SOT and are saying they are heavye users, they also say that they have Location, Data, Wifi, Sync, NFC, Bluetooth ALWAYS turned on. Me, never have Sync, NFC or Blutetooth on, because i dont need it. I only use Data, Wifi and Location, but i dont have them on all the time, I only turn them on when i need it. For example, if I have avaliable Wifi, I will connect to the wifi and my data wont be turned on. If i want to use google maps, i will turn on data and location, but once i arrive to where i need to, i will turn both off as i do not need them.
So tell me is something wrong with my battery? It is 3 pm now and i am already on 44%. I was home all day, so I did use the phone a bit more, always on Wifi, but i think i didnt use it that much. Could it be the new poland firmware? Cause i think they didnt change my battery in repair. Or is all normal? Or should i give it a few more days, since the phone was factory reset and maybe needs to learn my usage patterns? But shouldn't the phone learn that already? Its been 4 days...And how the heck do i get 7hrs of SOT and 25-30% of battery left when its 9 pm...?
Please please help me solve this.. Tell me nothing is wrong with my phone. I don't want to send it back for repair, because they already had my phone for almost 2 months and I just want to use it finnally as i really like it.
Thanks
Right now my stats are:
Battery at 38%
Total battery usage 6h 56min
Estimated usage time remaining 5hrs and 24 minutes (when i had about 70 % i think this number was 9 hrs)
Recent battery usage list:
the first item on the list is screen --> SOT=3h 40 min, it say next to it 43% and 781mAH.
second is System Android --> it says next to it 16% and then CPU total=1h 58min, CPU foreground 4 min, Stay awake=10min, Data received via WiFi= 1018, Data sent via WiFi=800 and Computed power usage= 297mAH
Then its the Internet app: 10%, CPU total 1h 8min, CPU foreground 12min, data received=76294, data sent=76198, and usage=183mAH
then it's android OS: 7%, CPU total= 51 min, stay awake= 29min, Data recieved= 9401, data sent=10892, usage=140mAH
And then i have boom beach game at 4% and cell stanby at 3% etc. but these are the top 4...
So how's it looking?
And please remember I had wifi on all the time today.. no data or location as i did not need it. and no sync, bluetooth or nfc as i never use those. Its 4 pm right now and jsut writing all this drained 3% from my phone, and if i start using it as a heavy user from this moment i dont think i'd have even 15% left by bedtime. But all the others are reporting of having all nfc, BT, wifi, data, sync turned on and playing games and watching youtube and using FB and snapchat and all these heavy stuff and still have 7hrs SOT and 25% left by bedtime... Oh and i do have FB and Messenger on my phone as well as instagram and snapchat. But i rarely use them. Only for checking our school group on fb, and instagram and snapchat i use even more rarely...
Post a screenshot of the battery usage page?
Here we go. And just before i saw your reply i was browsing again on the forums and my phone got a bit warm and dropped from like 25% to 17% in maybe 20 or 30 minutes of being on forums. And there i hear some people having a 5-10% drop when they watch a whole episode of a series on Netflix or some other video that is 1+ hours long. How?
Oh and ita 6:41 pm and im on 15%. If this was my bedtime it might have been okay but its not haha. And still people are saying they have 25% left by bedtime and here i am at 15% with only wifi on and nothinf else and its like that the whole day. I went to the shop today thats when i disabled wifi and truned on data. Thats all.
Downgraded a few weeks ago to March firmware. Battery life is great again. Had to downgrade because of the high Android System and OS which started occurring after the August patch and got worse with every new patch. Someone with the same problem?
Well i dont really know how to downgrade. And it would probably remove some features wouldnt it? Would you say my android system and os is high? Could it be better with the nougat update when it comes? Anything else that might help?
Right now i am on 8% and 5hrs 51min of SOT. Not even close to those 25% "before bedtime" and not evem close to 7hrs sot or 8 as some report.
And the cpu total of android system is 3hrs
Use ODIN to downgrade to March firmware.
When I used march firmware, Android System and OS were always below 10% - Less than 120mAh
Yes but i dont know how to use odin. I am not really that tech savy. And i heard something about voiding warranty if you fiddle with odin and doing things to your software.
And what do you think of my battery stats, sir? And do you think it might get better when nougat comes (do you think it will drop percentage of android os and system)?
Also how much should AOD and night watch drain your battery? I have aod always on and night clock from 1am to 5am. Today i slept from 1am to 9am and i think it went from 81% to 73%. How much is normal and is my normal?
And right now i have 55% battery and 2hr 45min SOT and the second on the battery usage list is android system at 20%. Everything looking good?
Try turning off Wifi and monitor. It is what causes my battery problem as of the moment and I am currently waiting for Nougat hoping it would fix this. If not, either we downgrade or go for a custom ROM.
SoT is a tough way to measure battery life unless under very closed conditions. The S7E is not a 7-8 hour phone unless you spend all your time in a dark cave with strong cell signal. It isn't usually the individual phones, but the usage and conditions that vary.
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Hapibanana,what is monitor? And may i ask how much drain you get from aod and night clock overnight?
And I guess it totaly vary from time to time. Like right now i have 60% battery left, total time usage is only 4hrs 20 minutes and i have only 2hrs of SOT atm. Meaning that i dropped 32% in 4 hrs, of which 2hrs was screen on time. So this time i will probably only get 4hrs of sot in total. I doubt ill have 3hrs of sot by the time i reach 50%. Yet yestrday i had almost 6hrs SOT with 10% left.
I guess it depends on what you do with the phone. If you hardcore surf the web, click a lot of stuff play some games and click some more it drains more than if you just watch a youtube video where you dont click that much. Or i noticed that FB and snapchat take a lot of battery. And when i search forum and write stuff amd have multiple tabs open and change beetween them it also drains quite quickly. Like right now i was on the forums for about half an hour typing and doing some screenshots and editing them and posting them and my phone got pretty hot and it drained from around 71% to 60% which is something i guess. I use internet stock app from samsung btw.
And i also noticed that it drains from 100% to 90% very quickly then from 90% to 50% it drains a bit slower, than from 50% down even slower. I dont know the reason for this but i just noticed.
Just what i noticed.
And yeah i also hope nougat will fix some things and i hope it comes soon as i've read it is really beautiful. I waaaant it noooow
i consider myself a moderate to heavy user based on how i use my phone and up to the point before the phone update with the latest software update, i would try to kill my phone before going to bed after a full days use commencing at 7 am.
Since the January update i now i really noticed it today when my phone was fully charged at 5 am at which point i woke up 1 hr earlier than normal and use the phone for 1 hour and 35 minutes playing games. my phone was down to 5% by 10 am. this has only started happening since the last software update
I've stayed on march firmware since day 1 due to battery drain complaints on other versions. Never had a problem.
Downgrade would appear the only solution for you.
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So from 100 to almost 0 in 4 hours Deathsyntch? Thats even worse than what i have. I guess it really is something up with software. I rellay dont want to downgrade as i dont want to mess something up.. Never done it and i am not that good with his stuff. So i just hope thag nougat will maks it better and i hope it comes soon.
I got same issue, seems like normal consumption.
I had a lot of battery drain after the last Google App update.
I disabled Google App and installed the 6.8.23.21 October 2016 version.
Now all ok and I have 6-7 SOT
If you go on google market and check all the comments on Google App you can see a lot of people complaining about battery drain!
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?
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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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Hello.
So i have had this issue for that past 6 months or so.
I bought my galaxy s8 upon release and the battery was great at the time. After some time of course i can expect the life to degrade. But it is horrible now.
I experimented with custom roms and stuff and it just got worse and worse and i tried a lot of different roms. My expected screen on time was 5 hours which is pretty normal.
After some time i only get like 3 hours a day and the standby drain was awful. Once a time i tried to go with stock rom and i got like 2 hours sot and a standby drain that was crazy. I use greenify to close apps in background.
My usage is normally messenger, facebook some times. Its mostly closed by greenify. I watch youtube browse the web and play simple games that doesnt need a lot of processing power to run.
Is it my battery thats very bad? I also experienced in the cold like 0 degrees celcious that my phone just died when it had like 25 percent.
Should i get battery replacement or whats the best option here? Currently running teamexykings lightrom for my galaxy s8 exynos
Same issue, I replaced the battery when fixing the cracked screen, didnt see any improvement even with the new battery
You can try if you want replacing the battery, but I believe its the software issue.