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Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the HTC U11+'s battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I have terrible standby drain, basically the phone never truly sleeps, it is kept awake on a low CPU frequency by Kernel (Android OS).
This is what I see in GSam, and I lose 20% battery over one night (8 hours).
This is why my battery life is somewhat 4 h SOT over 24 hours.
And I think this device should be capable of double that, maybe 7 h SOT over 24 hours.
Anybody else see this king of behaviour ?

I had same problem with my U11+
I reset application preferences and now the smartphone seems to go into deep sleep (Doze)

Had pretty bad standby battery drain recently on my U11+ and did 2 things that seemed to have fixed it.
1) Cleared cache on HTC Doze
2) Ram Boost+ for the first time and then enabled Smart Boost
Did these ard 12hrs ago and standby drain seemed to have improved a lot. Will report in a few days to let you guys know if it's really fixed for me or not.

andreipaval said:
I have terrible standby drain, basically the phone never truly sleeps, it is kept awake on a low CPU frequency by Kernel (Android OS).
This is what I see in GSam, and I lose 20% battery over one night (8 hours).
This is why my battery life is somewhat 4 h SOT over 24 hours.
And I think this device should be capable of double that, maybe 7 h SOT over 24 hours.
Anybody else see this king of behaviour ?
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rva60481 said:
I had same problem with my U11+
I reset application preferences and now the smartphone seems to go into deep sleep (Doze)
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quagmire1234 said:
Had pretty bad standby battery drain recently on my U11+ and did 2 things that seemed to have fixed it.
1) Cleared cache on HTC Doze
2) Ram Boost+ for the first time and then enabled Smart Boost
Did these ard 12hrs ago and standby drain seemed to have improved a lot. Will report in a few days to let you guys know if it's really fixed for me or not.
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Is a known issue and HTC is already working on it.
So far, they recommend to reboot the phone every 1-2 days to prevent this.

Reboot everyday !?!
It's a boring solution... and not the solution for my problem.

rva60481 said:
Reboot everyday !?!
It's a boring solution... and not the solution for my problem.
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It is the workaround HTC recommended until they release the update with the fix.

I'm not having any standby drain even without rebooting my phone.

gm007 said:
I'm not having any standby drain even without rebooting my phone.
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You have 3,5 hours of SOT from 29% battery ?, and with 11 hours off the carger.
At this rate you will get more that 10 hours of SOT.
This seems almost unreal to me... I don't even have half of that, with medium use...
Please share more... settings, apps, how do you do it ?

andreipaval said:
You have 3,5 hours of SOT from 29% battery ?, and with 11 hours off the carger.
At this rate you will get more that 10 hours of SOT.
This seems almost unreal to me... I don't even have half of that, with medium use...
Please share more... settings, apps, how do you do it ?
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Yes i could,i already shared a screen shot in other thread ,plus the 2 last pages for info what i have disabled
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2411840&p=75594359

Battery drain
This is my situation, with the last software update! 6 hours awake screen off!

I've only disabled Bluetooth, so no more connection to Android Wear watch... Zero issues with sleep now, two full days easily done.

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
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When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
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I left my phone uncharged with 42 percent of battery, after 8 hours of sleep, it's still 42 percent tho. If I'll rate the battery by 1-10, I'll rate it 10 out of 10!

Left my phone overnight just lying there : in the morning it had shut itself down. Battery = 0
Cheers

chalseu said:
I left my phone uncharged with 42 percent of battery, after 8 hours of sleep, it's still 42 percent tho. If I'll rate the battery by 1-10, I'll rate it 10 out of 10!
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Mine went from 98% to 93% while being in airplane mode for 10 hours last night. It used to be better with Oreo I think.

DashLightning said:
Mine went from 98% to 93% while being in airplane mode for 10 hours last night. It used to be better with Oreo I think.
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Have you left the smart(not sure what it's called offhand) WiFi enabled?

After a few weeks running the beta version and now running the december update battery life has vastly improved, it only drops 2% overnight without using airplane mode.

BlueMoonRising said:
Have you left the smart(not sure what it's called offhand) WiFi enabled?
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No, I had never even turned it on.

DashLightning said:
Mine went from 98% to 93% while being in airplane mode for 10 hours last night. It used to be better with Oreo I think.
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Try turning on Airplane mode, Battery saver and Adaptive battery. Idk what's Wind Down tho but the grayscale seems to save the battery on Android Pie.

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No, I had never even turned it on.
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It's turned on by default (on mine anyway).

I often forget to turn wi fi off but it has never caused any battery drain. The phone consumers no more than 1% during 8 hours of standby every night. This phone is cheap but it's battery is amazing
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Those who are facing battery issues can do the following:
1. Disable auto syncing
2. Disable auto wifi scanning
3. Disable "mobile data always on" in developers menu
4. Delete some unneeded apps using adb commands. In particular, RCSService (uceShimService), PAI, Spock, Carrier Services, Feedback and some google bloatware. deleting them via ADB won't affect system partitions and won't affect OTA in any way.

gglface said:
I often forget to turn wi fi off but it has never caused any battery drain. The phone consumers no more than 1% during 8 hours of standby every night. This phone is cheap but it's battery is amazing
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Those who are facing battery issues can do the following:
1. Disable auto syncing
2. Disable auto wifi scanning
3. Disable "mobile data always on" in developers menu
4. Delete some unneeded apps using adb commands. In particular, RCSService (uceShimService), PAI, Spock, Carrier Services, Feedback and some google bloatware. deleting them via ADB won't affect system partitions and won't affect OTA in any way.
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Is that 1% nightly loss with (or without) the measures you describe in 1-5 above?
Since the Pie update, mine is consistently losing about 1% per hour (25% per day) just doing (apparently) nothing (few apps installed to sync). I've tried switching off 4G data, WiFi, Location, but curiously that hardly makes any difference. I'm a bit disappointed in comparison to some older android devices that could go for weeks on standby. I can't make much sense of the percentage numbers in the "battery usage" settings as they don't seem to account for it all by any means. I suppose I can try full flight mode next (all radios off) and see how that affects it.

fasty said:
Is that 1% nightly loss with (or without) the measures you describe in 1-5 above?
Since the Pie update, mine is consistently losing about 1% per hour (25% per day) just doing (apparently) nothing (few apps installed to sync). I've tried switching off 4G data, WiFi, Location, but curiously that hardly makes any difference. I'm a bit disappointed in comparison to some older android devices that could go for weeks on standby. I can't make much sense of the percentage numbers in the "battery usage" settings as they don't seem to account for it all by any means. I suppose I can try full flight mode next (all radios off) and see how that affects it.
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Sorry to hear you are having this. My phone would consume 4-5% before I did some digging and took the aforementioned measures. Now it only gets 1% (2% on rare occasions) overnight even after updating to Pie. However, SOT has taken a significant hit since the Pie update for to screen brightness being too dim when used below 30%. However there is still no problem with standby mode. Do you have D2W functionality? this might be affecting your battery life

Hello, I'm creating an account in order to give my real-life review of this phone. The previous phones I had were HTC One M8, LG G6.
Standby drain is excellent.
At night, I can loose 1 or 2 percent.
But, I have found that the drain is more important when Wi-Fi is turned on.

It only consumes 1% (7% Maximum when I leave WiFi/4G and location turned on) when on standby overnight. Typical for Android phones for me, which is a little bit disappointing considering that it is equipped with 4 Amperes battery.
To compare with, my previous phone (J500H with Bootleggers ROM) did surprisingly better for this, survived doing nothing for a week from 54% to 36% with WiFi turned on (when I just accidentally left it at home while I'm on vacation) and did drain 0-1% overnight doing nothing.

Phone went from 90% to almost shutdown overnight. Gsam reported netmgrd, ipa_ws prevented deep sleep, and Google Play Services have been using body motion sensor for the past 12 hours. I just posted my phone on eBay.

In the beginning battery life was great, close to 4 days. Three years later, it barely makes from morning (100% charged) to evening. Not even a full day....

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Xiaomi Poco F1's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
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About 3% battery drain in approx 8 hours
With one sim inserted and wifi connection

PD2091 said:
With one sim inserted and wifi connection
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Considering the total capacity of the battery, that strikes me as a bigger drop than I'd be used to, particularly with a virtually brand new battery - anyone else?

Yeah.. Agree!
thesoupthief said:
Considering the total capacity of the battery, that strikes me as a bigger drop than I'd be used to, particularly with a virtually brand new battery - anyone else?
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Can someone share their experience in this aspect?

PD2091 said:
Can someone share their experience in this aspect?
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I've never owned a phone running MIUI but I understand it has pretty aggressive power management (shutting down services and relaunching them when they're needed, rather than just letting Android's power management do its thing in letting them sleep). Wondering if battery drain might be a MIUI-thang?
Does anyone have any first hand experience to improve on my rumour-based speculation?

Had a really bad stand by drain from about 85 to 63 percent because of Wifi
Turning WiFi off solves the problem

Ezio123456 said:
Had a really bad stand by drain from about 85 to 63 percent because of Wifi
Turning WiFi off solves the problem
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That's because your phone was awake all the time because of wifi on all the time. Phone didn't go to deep sleep.

Ezio123456 said:
Had a really bad stand by drain from about 85 to 63 percent because of Wifi
Turning WiFi off solves the problem
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That's a weird battery graph you have there. Even though screen was off, somehow you phone was awake non stop without a break.
Below is my battery graph. When screen is off, 99% time phone won't be awake. But I don't know much about that stuff.

Ezio123456 said:
Had a really bad stand by drain from about 85 to 63 percent because of Wifi
Turning WiFi off solves the problem
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Dharmik Jain said:
That's because your phone was awake all the time because of wifi on all the time. Phone didn't go to deep sleep.
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i don't think its due to the wifi. check your apps usage/battery page. some app is draining the battery. just close all apps and reboot your phone.

se7enlyn said:
i don't think its due to the wifi. check your apps usage/battery page. some app is draining the battery. just close all apps and reboot your phone.
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The battery usage of all the apps seems to be normal but Android system has pretty high usage of about 20percent
In the image below it can be seen that that the battery drain is present only when I keep the WiFi on.

Ezio123456 said:
The battery usage of all the apps seems to be normal but Android system has pretty high usage of about 20percent
In the image below it can be seen that that the battery drain is present only when I keep the WiFi on.
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besides android system, what other apps is listed there? can you show the apps usage screenshot?

I'm also getting quite high battery drain at night (around 13%), I have really few apps installed and I tried closing all the apps in memory before going to bed. I haven't tried turning wifi off but that shouldn't be the issue in a modern phone. I hope it gets fixed in an OTA. Otherwise battery life is great.

I tried factory resetting the phone but the problem persists.Ill post the usage when I have used it for some time.
I noticed another thing that this problem is only present for specific WiFis. It works just fine for other networks and also in the networks where the problem is present there is a constant network traffic of about 20-30kbps

superchesser said:
I'm also getting quite high battery drain at night (around 13%), I have really few apps installed and I tried closing all the apps in memory before going to bed. I haven't tried turning wifi off but that shouldn't be the issue in a modern phone. I hope it gets fixed in an OTA. Otherwise battery life is great.
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Don't think there's going to be any OTA for that. Only few people facing the issue. I get like 4% drain over 12 hours and I'm sure that's due to random notifications waking my phone during sleep. Thats normal.

Nobody tried BetterBatteryStats? It should show what is draining the battery.

Ezio123456 said:
Had a really bad stand by drain from about 85 to 63 percent because of Wifi
Turning WiFi off solves the problem
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I too have this issue, my battery drained 20% with the screen off + WiFi ON for 7 hours. My graph was almost the same as yours, even though the screen was OFF my system was awake.
Today I checked the same by turning OFF WiFi, there was only 2% drain.

PD2091 said:
Can someone share their experience in this aspect?
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0.5 percent/hour in case WIFI is off
1-2 percent/ hour if wifi is on
In case of poor network reception 2.5-3 percent/ hour with wifi turned on

2% to 5% drainage at night.
The battery drains 2% to 5% at night. Well yeah , it doesn't makes sense while the battery is 4000 mAh , I tried removing background app but still something sucks the battery. I'm new to MIUI , might be the case with this operating system or is it due to always on fingerprint sensor?? I would like to disable that feature because I am I'm love with face unlock. It's just awesomeness!

Ezio123456 said:
I tried factory resetting the phone but the problem persists.Ill post the usage when I have used it for some time.
I noticed another thing that this problem is only present for specific WiFis. It works just fine for other networks and also in the networks where the problem is present there is a constant network traffic of about 20-30kbps
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In last few days i am observing, my battery drained max 2-3% in any given night.
I kill all apps from recent menu before goin to sleep. I never turn off WiFi.
I feel its quite impressive for my usage. Lasts me whole day with 20-30% remaining. I get SOT of min 7hrs before battery hitting 10%.
If anyone of you facing major battery drain, try using battery saver. It turns off sync, turns off gps/location. You can even schedule it if you want.
In my case with battery saver on, my general usage is unaffected. Bettery lasts 15-20% more. I even play PUBG at full settings with bettery saver on and it doesn't drop a single frame.

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the OnePlus 7T's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Anyonbe facing battery drain on standby due to maintly radio services and the following things
Hotspot
Bluetooth audio
Location
Google Play services
Also using data while travelling(sub par connectivity)
These literally eat away all my battery

XDA_RealLifeReview said:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the OnePlus 7T's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
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2 nights in a row, my battery has decreased 5% each night over 7 hours of standby. The first night 99% to 94%, and the second 97% to 92%. Wifi connected, Bluetooth on.

cjvphd said:
2 nights in a row, my battery has decreased 5% each night over 7 hours of standby. The first night 99% to 94%, and the second 97% to 92%. Wifi connected, Bluetooth on.
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No drain, sleeps like a baby. Around 0.5% drain

Standby drain is quite a lot worse than on my OP6 tbh. During night I lose 5% vs. 2% on my OP6. I also lose more during the day in standby. In 15 hours time I lost 40% with just only 2 hours SOT. No culprit in battery graph.

My standby at night is HORRIBLE. It was amazing on my 6T with only a few percent lost at night (6-7 hours). My 7T doesn't seem to go in to any sort of standby. It pretty much straight line drains the whole day with no distinction for night.
With my 6T I was often able to go 48 hours between charges with moderate usage. This one mows through battery at night.

Mine drains by about 5% overnight and i leave network, Bluetooth and WiFi on and i have also turned off Sleep Standby Optimisation to make sure any calls or alerts get though due to having elderly parents.

Lost Dog said:
My standby at night is HORRIBLE. It was amazing on my 6T with only a few percent lost at night (6-7 hours). My 7T doesn't seem to go in to any sort of standby. It pretty much straight line drains the whole day with no distinction for night.
With my 6T I was often able to go 48 hours between charges with moderate usage. This one mows through battery at night.
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Same experience, although my battery drain during the night isn't that bad (5%), but still not good. My issue is mainly idle drain during the day.
Been at work past 12 hours. Lost 25%, and I barely used the phone (maybe 20min). This wasn't the case with my OP6. Weird.

I lost 20% from 12:15 am to 7:30 am. It was at 33% when I put it down and 13% when I got up. I cleared out all recent apps before turning off the screen and going to bed.

Last full charge 113 minutes ago
Screen usage 15 minutes
Battery 90%
Detailed usage
XDA 1%
Lol this battery sucks. Might return.

Last full charge 6 hours ago
Screen usage 23 minutes
Battery 84%
Yeah this really sucks.. phone is going back tomorrow.

pbassjunk said:
Last full charge 6 hours ago
Screen usage 23 minutes
Battery 84%
Yeah this really sucks.. phone is going back tomorrow.
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I don't know how long you've had it, but I've noticed that the battery is significantly better after a week or two.. I think it's something with android 10. Right now I'm at 10hrs since charge. 1h 15m use. I've lost only 10%.
Last week it was the double.

Battery life seems pretty terrible for a new phone.

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Battery life seems pretty terrible for a new phone.
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See my post above.

I noticed a really high battery drain through wakelock auf WhatsApp gcm. I've seen that it prevent my Phone going into deep sleep. I have to switch off battery optimization because of stopping the push service for incoming messages. Are there other persons with this problem?

abalam said:
No drain, sleeps like a baby. Around 0.5% drain
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What's your setup?

Not great. 1+ just announced 10.0.6 which they say addresses standby.

pbassjunk said:
Not great. 1+ just announced 10.0.6 which they say addresses standby.
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Location on?

pbassjunk said:
Not great. 1+ just announced 10.0.6 which they say addresses standby.
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Wtf. I got 3% drain overnight for close to the same time.

Shadow Samurai said:
Wtf. I got 3% drain overnight for close to the same time.
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Mine is way worse. Almost 10% drain overnight. I have tried greenify but no luck. Any suggestion?

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy A71's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
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Phone lost 24% overnight. Culprit seems to be Facebook services, which in turn triggered Google services (for GPS location). I've disabled all the FB crap now and I'll see how it goes today...
Update 19/02 - I'm using Swipe Pro for Facebook and since then the battery seems to have settled. Getting really good battery life now with not too much standby drain.

The 730G is dreadful on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - which has an even bigger, ~5200mAh battery. It performs much worse than my OnePlus 7 Pro with 4000mAh. IMO the chipset (730/730G) is NOT power efficient.

h8Aramex said:
The 730G is dreadful on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - which has an even bigger, ~5200mAh battery. It performs much worse than my OnePlus 7 Pro with 4000mAh. IMO the chipset (730/730G) is NOT power efficient.
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Likely a device specific problem. Notebookcheck test power consumption in idle, sd 730/g phones are within the same range of comparable mid range SOCs. A71 in particular consumes pretty much the same as Pixel 3a for example (Snapdragon 670), more under load but it's quite a bit more powerful as well, consumes less than Galaxy A51 (Exynos 9611), way less than Huawei P30 lite (Kirin 710) and quite a bit less than Oneplus 7 pro as well for that matter. It uses the same modem as sd 710 and 712 so that's not a problem either.

I have 2-4% standby battery drain. But I checked all apps for background battery usage, I don't use facebook app. The only background apps I use are email, sense flip clock and I use greenify on top of that.
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I have about 15% battery drain in flight mode during the night. I feel this is a CATASTROPHY! What is causing this??? Is there a FREE app that can find what app is doing this? If I check in the settings, it says all apps has drained 0% during the night..

Hey, am thinking of buying an A71 and was wondering if you still have battery issues please?

I have wifi off and Bluetooth for watch, No FB . I get 1 or 2% loss mainly messenger lite , and my games I don't shut down .. with wifi on an average day its about 40% loss . that with wifi always on , games being played, youtube etc ... Since taking of FB I have noticed a huge difference, as before I was loosing 10/20 % at night and 70% in the day ... now I charge once every 2 days, which is not bad ...

guitarsmurf2501 said:
Phone lost 24% overnight. Culprit seems to be Facebook services, which in turn triggered Google services (for GPS location). I've disabled all the FB crap now and I'll see how it goes today...
Update 19/02 - I'm using Swipe Pro for Facebook and since then the battery seems to have settled. Getting really good battery life now with not too much standby drain.
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if U use Facebook Messenger , just remove it and test your phone again
if its not gonna helpful , just check what app drain your battery in setting

Same problem. Just got mine and lost 25% overnight. AOD is not even on. I disabled Facebook the instant I took it out of the box so it isn't that. Must be another app but not sure which. All the same apps I was using on my previous device and had no issues like this.

My battery life is horrible on my A71, I come home from work with 10%, on my P20 Pro which has a smaller battery is 65-70%. I have already used package disabler to disable the crap and its still happening. Going to be returning this phone.

Standby Drain on A71 Samsung
I have the phone for 1 week now and the battery I can say is performing very poor. Just got it to 100% then after 1 minute suddenly went to 99% and after 5 mins suddenly went to 98% just on standby mode. Can anyone please explain me why this is happening?
My device is always optimized (no background processes running). Every app (even the useful ones) I have put to sleep, which means I'm sacrificing on not getting the notifications when the internet is connected as those those apps are put to sleep but I did it just to put my battery on right track. Still no significant benefit.
Standby drain is the biggest issue I'm facing. Early 2% drops from 100% for no reason at all. At night time, I see at least 3% drop in 4 to 5 hours standby with wifi off and zero brightness and dark mode on and always-on display disabled, battery saving mode on and no app running in the background.
I'm having 1% battery drop every 10 mins for just reading comments on XDA developer or GSMArena with brightness to 0%, no extra app working in background, have put all the apps to sleep when not in use, no multimedia use, always-on display disabled, dark mode on, battery saving mode on. So, when I'm using Chrome, I'm only using Chrome. When I'm watching Youtube videos on app with 20% brightness and 60% volume, I'm having 1% drop every 7 to 8 mins. I see variability between each % drop. Like for example, sometimes it drops 1% at 4 mins interval and after that it will take 8 mins to drop a percent.
I have never been so confused in terms of battery life before. Someone from Samsung should at least come forward and explain to us what is going on.
From the reviews, the new updates doesn't have much to offer in terms of battery life. I haven't gotten the update yet.

Good-doctor said:
I have the phone for 1 week now and the battery I can say is performing very poor. Just got it to 100% then after 1 minute suddenly went to 99% and after 5 mins suddenly went to 98% just on standby mode. Can anyone please explain me why this is happening?
My device is always optimized (no background processes running). Every app (even the useful ones) I have put to sleep, which means I'm sacrificing on not getting the notifications when the internet is connected as those those apps are put to sleep but I did it just to put my battery on right track. Still no significant benefit.
Standby drain is the biggest issue I'm facing. Early 2% drops from 100% for no reason at all. At night time, I see at least 3% drop in 4 to 5 hours standby with wifi off and zero brightness and dark mode on and always-on display disabled, battery saving mode on and no app running in the background.
I'm having 1% battery drop every 10 mins for just reading comments on XDA developer or GSMArena with brightness to 0%, no extra app working in background, have put all the apps to sleep when not in use, no multimedia use, always-on display disabled, dark mode on, battery saving mode on. So, when I'm using Chrome, I'm only using Chrome. When I'm watching Youtube videos on app with 20% brightness and 60% volume, I'm having 1% drop every 7 to 8 mins. I see variability between each % drop. Like for example, sometimes it drops 1% at 4 mins interval and after that it will take 8 mins to drop a percent.
I have never been so confused in terms of battery life before. Someone from Samsung should at least come forward and explain to us what is going on.
From the reviews, the new updates doesn't have much to offer in terms of battery life. I haven't gotten the update yet.
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Had the same issue and no matter what I did couldn’t fix it. I turned this off turned that off, lowered this, reduced that. In the end I gave up and returned it. Shouldn’t be that much of an effort but then it always seems to be with Samsung. Huawei for example it’s just ready to go and works flawlessly out of the box. For a phone that had 4500mah battery it performs nothing like it. I bought the new iPhone SE, it’s battery is tiny 1800mah or something and it lasts longer than the A71.

47% overnight, with no use. It's my second A71. The first, the battery seemed normal. But I did not observe this detail carefully. I changed it the first time due to the infamous discoloration defect of the screen on a gray background with low brightness. Now the second, in addition to the same discoloration defect of the screen, the battery does not last! I went to sleep, the battery at 47%. Wifi off. Mobile data off. GPS off. Bluetooth turned off. Vibration off. Always on Display off. NFC Off. Sim card removed. Only Whatsapp running in the background. All other apps have been configured to be suspended in the background. Approximately 8 hours later, without any use, the battery has zeroed. I have a Samsung Galaxy A7 2017, which has 3 years of use and a 3600MAh battery worn by hundreds of charge cycles, and yet its battery is WELL better than the Galaxy A71, which has 4500MAh and a few days of use. If a new cell phone discharges at this rate, imagine after about 2 years of use. You will need to recharge every hour. Turning the adaptive battery on or off for me made no difference. During normal use, it discharges quickly, but the problem is much more evident at night, when the device is not in use. It seems to drain as much energy in idle mode as in normal use.
The quality of Samsung's products is dropping every day. 3 years ago, you could buy an intermediary made of metal and glass. Protection IP68, OIS and Gorilla Glass 4. Today, the devices that cost almost the same as the high end, are all made of plastic. Without IP68. Gorilla Glass 3 (obsolete technology from 2013), without OIS, and batteries that although bigger, last less. Quality decreases and price increases. It is unfortunate.

h8Aramex said:
The 730G is dreadful on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - which has an even bigger, ~5200mAh battery. It performs much worse than my OnePlus 7 Pro with 4000mAh. IMO the chipset (730/730G) is NOT power efficient.
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I have the 730G 8GB ram variant on my A71 (This is the standard in the PH) and my phone lasts for 2 days with social media and youtube usage. OST is between 6-7 hours so no issues with the chip itself, the phone software is probably not optimized properly with the Mi Note 10.

DOVahFeyN said:
I have the 730G 8GB ram variant on my A71 (This is the standard in the PH) and my phone lasts for 2 days with social media and youtube usage. OST is between 6-7 hours so no issues with the chip itself, the phone software is probably not optimized properly with the Mi Note 10.
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So what's happening to the other people in this thread? Is it a case of just too many bad apples (bad/broken devices) or... ?

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So what's happening to the other people in this thread? Is it a case of just too many bad apples (bad/broken devices) or... ?
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I think we need to put things into context first. None of them talked about what apps they had running, what settings they used, etc. Also, the other dude talked about the Huawei when that phone is known to aggressively kill apps very quickly in the background to save battery as a default. You can also do that with Sammy's but you need to activate it first.
As for my phone, it's set on its default out of the box-setting which is optimized if that at all matters.
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So what's happening to the other people in this thread? Is it a case of just too many bad apples (bad/broken devices) or... ?
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I think we also need to look at which carriers are having issues. I have an open line international variant and I've had none of the issues in this thread.
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iro_ori said:
Hey, am thinking of buying an A71 and was wondering if you still have battery issues please?
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If you can find an open line (not tied to any carrier) international variant, it doesn't have any issues.

guitarsmurf2501 said:
Phone lost 24% overnight. Culprit seems to be Facebook services, which in turn triggered Google services (for GPS location). I've disabled all the FB crap now and I'll see how it goes today...
Update 19/02 - I'm using Swipe Pro for Facebook and since then the battery seems to have settled. Getting really good battery life now with not too much standby drain.
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Mine was a bit power hungry at first 6 months ago
Now that i shut off and tried to kill all processes but active ones my battery is AMAZING!
So to compare I read your post last night at around 11 ish to midnight topped off the phone to 94%, and it dropped to 93% just before i went to sleep
killed all the processes with built in battery device care and also greenify.
woke up today at 8:30am and the batter was at 90% and dropped to 89% after a min of use.
So 3-4% over eight or nine hours.... I"m pretty happy with that.