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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Hi All,
I got my new galaxy note about a month.
im struggling on battery life.
I went through lots of search, how to optimise the battery life when using stock browser, couldn't find any information that is helpful at all.
i have done - reset to factory default, tried various task killer apps ( juice defence, advance task killer, 2x battery etc...)
i can't make it for 2days for normal use. the max i get is 1day and 5 hours.
on about 4 hours screen time. (my wifi always off when not in use, 5-10% brightness, 3G off only use gsm).
can any one also tell me why Gnote has 2500mah battery compare others, great on talk time and video play back, but when web browsing it only last about 3 hours ???
http://blog.gsmarena.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-battery-test-is-over-results-are-impressive/
by the way, i'm on stock rom 2.3.6
I think that is pretty good I'm on GB screen time 1h 1m and at 13 h 14 m and don't get to 2 days as I'm always checking twitter and Facebook and compared to my S2 I'm more than happy.
The phone is not supposed to sit there doing nothing and if you get more than day with several calls, web surfing etc all is good.
The web browser prob is not that we'll optimized and if it's loading lots of pics and flash it will chew battery life.
Get rid of things like juice defender they are battery hogs and ruin the note experience.
If you want battery life on GB see checkrom or other roms if you want the candy and less battery life look at ICS roms.
I'm in no hurry to go to ICS I went through that with the S2 if you want the look get Go Launcher.
its weird how you only last for 3 hours.. (hehe)
anyway, my battery lasted me for 6 hours before i flashed to custom roms. Maybe try a rom out there like stunner which is said to have good battery life
I thought my battery was doomed.. Until I tried a Note 7 Port. For some reason I get MUCH better battery life on the ports than "stock" custom roms.
On ports I get almost zero drain and 1-1.30 hours per 10% and that is while my phone is even in the pocket most of the day (low standby drain). On the other hand on every stock rom, after the same day, same usage and same apps I have around 45min SOT and down to 70%.
I think Android System is the culprit, but there are still people having amazing battery life on "stock" roms. So how do you stop this Android System drain? It's clearly fixed on the Note 7 and there might be months before we get the updates where the note are now.. But I like stability by far, so would like to go back to stock, if I could stop the drain.
Thanks in advance
I have only had my S8 for about four months now. Anytime I install Nova launcher on my phone I notice a RAPID battery drain. I let it drain almost all the way down tonight and found the Android system using close to 20% of the batter and the UI using close to 10%. Is this normal for an S8? And is this normal for Nova launcher?
In the app information of nova, mine says 0% of battery used. Plus I get 8 and a half hours screen on time with nova. So nova does not drain any battery from my s8 plus. I've heard that it might even increase battery life compared to TouchWiz.
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In the app information of nova, mine says 0% of battery used. Plus I get 8 and a half hours screen on time with nova. So nova does not drain any battery from my s8 plus. I've heard that it might even increase battery life compared to TouchWiz.
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I have no idea what it could be. Whenever I apply Nova my battery drains much faster. I'm still getting the screen, Android system, and OS being my biggest battery drainers! It sucks because I love Nova but feel like I have to sacrifice battery for the launcher. ?
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I have no idea what it could be. Whenever I apply Nova my battery drains much faster. I'm still getting the screen, Android system, and OS being my biggest battery drainers! It sucks because I love Nova but feel like I have to sacrifice battery for the launcher.
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If you can post a screenshot of your bat statistics
I use nove since day 1 of owning my s8 (6 months) and never experienced battery drain from it. maybe it has to do with something else. it's not normal.
Since the XDA app won't upload a screen shot I'll just write the results. Drained my battery all the way down to 10%.
Battery life:10 hours 11 mins
Usage;
Screen (25%)
Android system (19%)
Android OS (12%)
Google Play services (8%)
Device idle (5%)
Cell standby (5%)
Snapchat (4%)
Twitter (3%)
Everything else was 2% or less.
THIS IS WHILE RUNNING NOVA
what can anyone make of this?
Wfitzhugh said:
Since the XDA app won't upload a screen shot I'll just write the results. Drained my battery all the way down to 10%.
Battery life:10 hours 11 mins
Usage;
Screen (25%)
Android system (19%)
Android OS (12%)
Google Play services (8%)
Device idle (5%)
Cell standby (5%)
Snapchat (4%)
Twitter (3%)
Everything else was 2% or less.
THIS IS WHILE RUNNING NOVA
what can anyone make of this?
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yip something not right, my android system is 6% and Android OS is 2% but I've been using Nova since day 1 and never had any battery (or other) issue with it, been brilliant. go into settings, reset and reset settings, then go to settings, apps, nova and clear data. delete cache to from recovery, then reboot and see if there is any improvement.
Do a reboot. It that doesn't fix it, do a factory reset, perhaps that'll help.
Nova doesn't appear to be the problem from your stats.
Wfitzhugh said:
I have only had my S8 for about four months now. Anytime I install Nova launcher on my phone I notice a RAPID battery drain. I let it drain almost all the way down tonight and found the Android system using close to 20% of the batter and the UI using close to 10%. Is this normal for an S8? And is this normal for Nova launcher?
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you can have full confidence that the problem is not nova launcher. I use since 3 years in several phones and i did not have any battery drain
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.