Battery goes from 14% to 1% in minutes. - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi there
Yesterday my phone just went from 14% power (after giving me the usual battery warning) to 4% in like two minutes. The other days before that, it's been very shirt time as well.
I don't turn anything off (like 3G, sync, etc.) when I get the 14% warning, but going down 10% in few minutes seems a bit extreme.
Have anyone tried the same? Or can someone explain why?
Thanks in advance.
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Ham duden said:
Hi there
Yesterday my phone just went from 14% power (after giving me the usual battery warning) to 4% in like two minutes. The other days before that, it's been very shirt time as well.
I don't turn anything off (like 3G, sync, etc.) when I get the 14% warning, but going down 10% in few minutes seems a bit extreme.
Have anyone tried the same? Or can someone explain why?
Thanks in advance.
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Well at least you have no deep sleep issues. It can happen after a deep sleep period that the battery levels indicated are not up to date at the time it wakes up. Then comes a correction of the actual battery level.

Sv: Battery goes from 14% to 1% in minutes.
Okay, thanks a lot for the answer. So I should only begin to worry if it continues?
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Ham duden said:
Okay, thanks a lot for the answer. So I should only begin to worry if it continues?
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That probably will not happen, usualy only after a longer deep sleep period.

Ham duden said:
Hi there
Yesterday my phone just went from 14% power (after giving me the usual battery warning) to 4% in like two minutes. The other days before that, it's been very shirt time as well.
I don't turn anything off (like 3G, sync, etc.) when I get the 14% warning, but going down 10% in few minutes seems a bit extreme.
Have anyone tried the same? Or can someone explain why?
Thanks in advance.
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This used to happen to me. After calibrating the battery it hasn't happened again
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How
Ranaquajaro said:
This used to happen to me. After calibrating the battery it hasn't happened again
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How did you calibrate the battery??

Manj0t.singh said:
How did you calibrate the battery??
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Search for batterycalibration on the app store. Just follow directions on the app
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Standby battery life

Is anyone else losing 10 - 15% battery overnight?
Ive got a few email accounts setup but thats about it, seems a lot to me
Nope. About. 1-5% for me.
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Nope. About. 1-5% for me.
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Well I'm glad it's not normal, anyone got any ideas on how to solve it?
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Gotta figure out your wake locks. I lost 0-1% overnight last night.
Best bet is to download better battery stats and gsam battery info. Also CPU spy is helpful for figuring if your tablet is deep sleeping or not.
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duarian said:
Gotta figure out your wake locks. I lost 0-1% overnight last night.
Best bet is to download better battery stats and gsam battery info. Also CPU spy is helpful for figuring if your tablet is deep sleeping or not.
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On my graph it doesn't look like wake locks but ill see what better battery stats says. Thanks for the advice.
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Also turn off NFC and WiFi. That will help a ton
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duarian said:
Also turn off NFC and WiFi. That will help a ton
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I've turned off NFC, Location Services and only sync the folders I need in Gmail and i'm down to about 5% overnight. I'll try setting the wifi to sleep when the screen is off and see how that goes.
How accurate are battery stats on the Nexus 10?

Battery om nom nom nom om

Anyone else noticing that the battery percentage goes down incredibly fast when screen is on ?
I've never ever seen a phone go down so fast and I've had the note
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i've actually been pleasantly surprised at the battery life on mine! Over two hours of screen time midway through my day yesterday and i was just above 60%
Have been advised to turn cell broadcast off
Supposed to save a bit if battery.
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My advice, get Tasker to disable mobile data and WiFi when screen is off. Disable Google Now. Disable NFC. Disable GPS until you actually use it. Enjoy your 5+ hour screen on battery life.
Alexander DeLarge said:
My advice, get Tasker to disable mobile data and WiFi when screen is off. Disable Google Now. Disable NFC. Disable GPS until you actually use it. Enjoy your 5+ hour screen on battery life.
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What good then would your phone be if no data or wifi...
Foukos said:
What good then would your phone be if no data or wifi...
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exactly my thinking.
Why the hell does the Nexus consume soooo much battery ? I have turned most of the stuff off but you dont get any Google Now, emails etc dont work correctly, - totally useless.
My S2 is better than this.
cirian75 said:
Anyone else noticing that the battery percentage goes down incredibly fast when screen is on ?
I've never ever seen a phone go down so fast and I've had the note
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+1
I've literally watched the battery tick down every 2-3 minutes right before my very eyes doing absolutely nothing. Just had the screen on. SMH
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I really want this phone at 3pm today but is the battery THAT bad? I thought they learned from the Galaxy Nexus.
AlleN7 said:
I really want this phone at 3pm today but is the battery THAT bad? I thought they learned from the Galaxy Nexus.
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yeah its worse than my Galaxy S2. - battery stats say its the screen but that's on auto and its already dim as hell. When off it consumes power if WiFi is on.
cirian75 said:
Anyone else noticing that the battery percentage goes down incredibly fast when screen is on ?
I've never ever seen a phone go down so fast and I've had the note
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Hold up... So you're saying... Having the screen on... Which uses more battery than screen off drains the battery? :what:
My current ROM kernel combo is battery efficient
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FallN said:
+1
I've literally watched the battery tick down every 2-3 minutes right before my very eyes doing absolutely nothing. Just had the screen on. SMH
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And? Most people don't seem to get this: Say your battery depletes 1% for every 3 minutes you have the screen on, that's 300 minutes, or 5 hours, of screen time. Which is more than acceptable.
TheFiveDots said:
And? Most people don't seem to get this: Say your battery depletes 1% for every 3 minutes you have the screen on, that's 300 minutes, or 5 hours, of screen time. Which is more than acceptable.
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That's what I'm saying
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Battery great over here
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lonz358 said:
Battery great over here
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Yeah def better than the gnex which was rather good too. I took my phone off of charge @ 7:20am and put it on charge when it had 4% left @ 1:30am. So pretty much lasted 18 hours with medium use.
cirian75 said:
Anyone else noticing that the battery percentage goes down incredibly fast when screen is on ?
I've never ever seen a phone go down so fast and I've had the note
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The Note is an extremely ****ty device to compare to. The battery it has is much larger than ours.
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cirian75 said:
Have been advised to turn cell broadcast off
Supposed to save a bit if battery.
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What do you mean cell broadcast? Where is that?
my N4 is 1% per minute screen on
2% streaming video, that right, 40 minute netflix = 80% battery gone
NFC and cell broadcast off, gps off, screen at 50% brightness
Like a fool i sold my iPhone 5 and got the nexus 4 only to be having this issue FML
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Battery issues

Hi, I've problem with battery. Yesterday when I go sleep have my phone 93% battery. After 6 hours when I woke up I look at the phone and there was 91% battery - thats not bad but after 10 minutes SOT it dropped down to 87%. And it was dropping twice by 2% down in a moment. I'm using Franco M3 and PA 3.60. Is it normal? That's not first time. But normally when I'm using phone during day it not happen.
it might just have been because it didn't hardly go down at all in those 6 hours. That's happened to me before where I left it for a while and the battery didn't go down and when I started using it it went down faster than normal. Not sure what it is
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Flash a different ROM or kernel and check if the problem is still there first
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Hi, so I tried change ROM and kernel but it happened again after deep sleep
Hi,
it happens to me too. But I think it is quiet normal for a Nexus 4.
rusak2 said:
Hi,
it happens to me too. But I think it is quiet normal for a Nexus 4.
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It seems that you have right. Thank you guys for reply

How much battery do you lose overnight?

Hi guys as the title says can you guys pls mention how much battery you lose overnight with which rom and which kernel..
i leave mine plugged in overnight, why would you not?
Also i have some weird behavior with my phone.. It lost lot of battery overnight.. Android os is drainin too much battery.. Check the screen shots and tell me if its normal..
simms22 said:
i leave mine plugged in overnight, why would you not?
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The thing is that ramzan is going on.. So i plug it overnight then i unplug it when i wake up at 4am.. Then i go back to sleep at 5 am.. So cant plug it in again right..
zerohunk said:
The thing is that ramzan is going on.. So i plug it overnight then i unplug it when i wake up at 4am.. Then i go back to sleep at 5 am.. So cant plug it in again right..
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i bump charge all day long at work, i have on all my androids for the past 5 years(almost 5). and yet i am very happy with my battery when im away from the charger all day too
I lose about 4%-5%.
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zerohunk said:
Hi guys as the title says can you guys pls mention how much battery you lose overnight with which rom and which kernel..
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0%-1% loss with wifi off, completely stock 4.3
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Max 2% since January. Regardless of the android version.
Totally stock
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filthykid said:
Max 2% since January. Regardless of the android version.
Totally stock
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failly said:
0%-1% loss with wifi off, completely stock 4.3
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badboy47 said:
I lose about 4%-5%.
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wow guys are you all serious??? i lose around 10-15 percent overnight man
Dude.. My phone was on 60 percent at 6pm once when I slept... Next morning at seven it was off... Wifi off data off.. All **** off... I dint even get a call or msg... Definitely not 1 percent I guess...
If I leave data and WiFi off, about 2% to 10% but that isn't usual. When I am home, I leave WiFi on and that gets my currents and YouTube video preloaded. 15% to 20% Max. I rarely leave it to charge overnight.
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zerohunk said:
wow guys are you all serious??? i lose around 10-15 percent overnight man
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Yes ! you leave wifi or data on overnight?
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With data and WiFi on , if I fall asleep and my phones at 100%, it will be at 75 or so when I wake up
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8 hours of sleep 0%. WiFi & Data off always. Rootbox ROM with Franco M3 Kernel. No of stuffs. Just default Franco settings.
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failly said:
Yes ! you leave wifi or data on overnight?
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yes i do keep wifi/data on
any suggests ?
REBOOTED - nothing, drain battery like hell, lose about 30-40% in 5 hours...
I woke up with 15-20% battery drained... wtf guys ?
I kill all apps, turn of data, wifi and etc, still nothing...
BATTERY STATUS - messaging use 84% of battery... wtf ?
To all of you having problems with battery drain, you should know that last Google Maps update messed up the deep sleep state of the system.
I´m running Carbon ROM, but also tested with other 2 ROM´s and the results were the same, around 20%-25% battery drain over night.
I read that disabling "Reporting Location" and "Location History" under Location settings in the Google Settings app(the one with the green icon) helps a little, but still is an issue.
With these settings disabled, I get around 5% battery drain over night. Although the wakelock has decreased, is still there waking up the device. Already reported to Google to see if they can do anything to fix it. The wakelock appears as "Android System" or "Google Services".
Before update I had around 3% battery drain over night(around 8 hours) with WiFi.
Hope this helps.
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As a battery life druggie, I get 1% max. Regardless rom. Usually wifi off and 2g data on. (wifi on is bad for HUMAN DEEP SLEEP).
A not sure useful or not hint, set pm.sleep_mode=1 in your build.prop
Disable everything you can think of. Wifi, gps etc.
Uninstall bloatwares, replace with downloadable ones, use greenify to freeze them.
5 %

My battery life has been terrible today...

As the title states, my battery life has struggled mightily today. Check out my pics, what do you think could be causing this?
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dude 3 hours awake time out of 5...thats an issue. you've got a wake lock somewhere. download wake lock detector
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the 1positive with mine so far is the battery. i go all day (12-14hrs) with moderate use and still have 30% charge when i plug it in.
That's terrible. You got an app freaking out. I noticed a huge drop in battery life when I put on a different sms app.
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Thanks guys, I installed the wakelock app. I will see what's going on.
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What was the issue?
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Install better battery stats.....maps and partial wakelocks seems to be killing you battery. BBS would give u a better indication of whats eating your battery
WizeGuyDezignz said:
As the title states, my battery life has struggled mightily today. Check out my pics, what do you think could be causing this?
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akong702 said:
What was the issue?
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Not sure what the issue is yet, I was charging my phone. Now I took it off the charger and have better battery stats installed. I will monitor it and let you know.
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Held awake for 3 hours because your screen was on for almost that long. Right?
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one thing that really kills this battery is the setting under location access "wifi and mobile network location" if you have that enabled google services keep the phone awake and drain the battery. I disabled that and my battery last so much longer now.
Well guys, something is still eating my battery alive. I went to bed with over 40% battery and I woke up with 7% left.
Here are my screenshots from better battery stats. Can anyone figure out what's eating me alive?
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
As the title states, my battery life has struggled mightily today. Check out my pics, what do you think could be causing this?
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Use greenify....you will see improvements right away.
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Well guys, something is still eating my battery alive. I went to bed with over 40% battery and I woke up with 7% left.
Here are my screenshots from better battery stats. Can anyone figure out what's eating me alive?
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NLP-Network Location Process-seems to be your biggest issue. My best bet would be settings>accounts>Google>google+>location
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bova80 said:
one thing that really kills this battery is the setting under location access "wifi and mobile network location" if you have that enabled google services keep the phone awake and drain the battery. I disabled that and my battery last so much longer now.
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Thanks, I turned it off and will let you know if that was it.
lastdeadmouse said:
NLP-Network Location Process-seems to be your biggest issue. My best bet would be settings>accounts>Google>google+>location
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I wasn't signed into Google+, so hopefully turning off the setting above will help. Thanks!
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lastdeadmouse said:
NLP-Network Location Process-seems to be your biggest issue. My best bet would be settings>accounts>Google>google+>location
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Yeah, good tip. If that doesnt work, go to Maps and disable history and location reporting as well. Might want to disable Wifi and mobile network location under the global location settings as well. This prevents other programs from eating up battery trying to access location when GPS is off. Restart your phone after diasbling any of these, then check battery life
Ok guys, here is how my battery has been doing since I made the changes that everyone suggested. Am I in good shape?
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seems good. here was mine earlier though lol
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jayochs said:
seems good. here was mine earlier though lol
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Lol nice. The only complaint that I have about this is that I had to turn off every single location based setting in the phone. I've never had to do that on my previous phones. It never drained like this on my S4 with those settings on.
The root of my complaint is that I can't even get weather updates on my widget because it is all turned off. And I always like to have the weather widget on my main screen. Which single setting can I turn on to get weather updates? I will leave the other ones off.
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Getting eaten alive again. What are these top two things?
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Power management wakelocks in the kernel is a placeholder for partial wakelocks. Look at the partial wakelock list for details. I had a terrible *backup* partial wakelock that had a start count of 3000 within 8 hrs!!! It was killing my bat. Check yours, it might be that same if its not the location wakelocks acting up again

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