Why's the Battery Life so Pathetic? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers

I thought that with a bigger battery, the S7's battery would be slightly better compared to that of the S6, but it has been pathetic. I understand the battery depends on a lot of factors but this is unacceptable.
I can't use betterbatterystats as my device is not rooted. Are there any other apps I can use to figure out what the heck is going on? Obviously, I'm trying to avoid resetting the phone.
These issues really push me to the fence to consider an iPhone for the first time, and I never thought I would say that.
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incisivekeith said:
I thought that with a bigger battery, the S7's battery would be slightly better compared to that of the S6, but it has been pathetic. I understand the battery depends on a lot of factors but this is unacceptable.
I can't use betterbatterystats as my device is not rooted. Are there any other apps I can use to figure out what the heck is going on? Obviously, I'm trying to avoid resetting the phone.
These issues really push me to the fence to consider an iPhone for the first time, and I never thought I would say that.
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Anyone with suggestions?
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Post a screenshot of your battery page in settings. I had an issue with google play services draining my battery and the only thing that would fix it was a factory reset

Facebook app kills my battery. Disable that and you'll get almost double life. You can still go to it on a browser.

I have terrible battery life as well and I don't have Facebook downloaded as well as Google play services disabled for background data.

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Battery issues on 2.3

Im noticing my battery is draining faster than when I had froyo anyone else noticing this.its very disappointing .im using it just how I used it on froyo and it barely last through half the day. And should I use a task killer, droid life said it would save me more battery if I didn't use one
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You might want to recalibrate your battery. I am getting much better life on gingerbread. Definitely do not use a task killer. Android is designed to keep the programs you use most in memory and drop the ones that aren't. Even the ones on memory won't be using much power.
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Charge the battery to 100% and then boot into CWM and go to advanced > wipe battery stats
jgraham4598 said:
You might want to recalibrate your battery. I am getting much better life on gingerbread. Definitely do not use a task killer. Android is designed to keep the programs you use most in memory and drop the ones that aren't. Even the ones on memory won't be using much power.
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Thanks
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Jmoney47 said:
Charge the battery to 100% and then boot into CWM and go to advanced > wipe battery stats
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It actually was doing pretty good until today and maybe its me not noticing how much im using it since I am trying out gb and all its new features lol
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Another reason that I regretted upgrading to it is the battery seems to run down a lot faster.
I also noticed the keypad lights stay on considerably longer (and brighter too?). Can it possibly be assisted adjusted?
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Ted A said:
Another reason that I regretted upgrading to it is the battery seems to run down a lot faster.
I also noticed the keypad lights stay on considerably longer (and brighter too?). Can it possibly be assisted adjusted?
Yea the lights are way to bright for no good reason.
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We just updated my wife's DX to the Gingerbread OTA this morning. (We are running stock)
My wife showed me that her battery was down to about 40% today, when normally she is around 70% by the end of the day.
I don't have CWM on her phone (if I should be resetting data as mentioned above).
Is her battery draining faster, or is it just a battery recalibration issue?
If we need to recalibrate, what should we do without CWM?
Thanks ...
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Is her battery draining faster, or is it just a battery recalibration issue?
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The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
openbox9 said:
The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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I'm also experiencing 20 to 30% faster battery drainage on GB. No change in usage or apps.
openbox9 said:
The battery is likely draining faster. It's an issue discussed by many others. I have questionable battery issues following the upgrade. My usage patterns haven't changed, but my battery life seems slightly worse. Moto is aware and hopefully will fix relatively soon.
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Are there other threads where this drainage issue is being discussed and potential solutions being posted?
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Are there other threads where this drainage issue is being discussed and potential solutions being posted?
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Yes, and so far the suggestions revolve around disabling any sort of syncing/polling apps, turning down screen brightness, turning off 3G radio and living life with only WiFi, doing a factory reset, and a few others. Some believe it's a 3G signal issue and the radio bumping the power to compensate. I'm betting on this as the phone does get quite a bit warmer when using the 3G radio. Realistically, the only real solution will come from Moto when the issue is fixed.
Motorola claims the DroidX has 480 minutes talk time and 220 hours standby!
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/U...s/Mobile-Phones/ci.Motorola-DROID-X-US-EN.alt
Anyone here get anything remotely close to those times?
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Definitely not since the GB update. Might have been able to get that before if you remove all widgets, syncing/pushing apps, and only turn the screen on to dial a phone number.
On a side note, I broke down and bought the extended battery and I seem to be getting worse battery life now than before Time to exchange it or get my money back.
I am experiencing the same fast drainage and excessive heat. I am more than ready for a fix & root.
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Just updated to 2.3.3 today and my battery is doing a lot better than on froyo. im unrooted
I was having a similar issue with the battery draining and the phone feeling warmer that usual after I first updated. I fired up OSMonitor and found that there was a motorola service running nonstop at like 20% CPU usage. Found out it was trying to sync my exchange account but couldn't connect. I manually went in to the mail app and refreshed; it sync'd my account and the problem was solved. Great battery life ever since.
Don't know if this is a similar issue that other people are having, but hopefully it helps someone.
I had the same problem (battery would drain in a few hours and the phone would get very hot) and could not determine the problem.
After a few days I tried the "Droid Factory Reset"
under: Reset instructions for DROID X on 2.3 Gingerbread Android:
motorola-global-portal dot custhelp dot com/app/answers/detail/a_id/48517/~/droid-x---factory-data-reset
It worked. The battery life went back to what it had been before the update, or at least to something similar. Of course, all the data and apps were wiped.... but it was a perfect trade off for having a phone that worked once again.
Just waiting for the Gingerbread OTA Root!
funny, cause when i go through privacy to factory data reset and get all the way to the final button to erase everything...the damn button does nothing. Doesnt work.
it's fine cause i can just boot into android recovery and do it there, but wtf.
this OTA GB has been pretty bad thus far. lots of lost functionality such as extended controls / power control widget, task killer widgets...none of them work.
Nate0922 said:
I was having a similar issue with the battery draining and the phone feeling warmer that usual after I first updated. I fired up OSMonitor and found that there was a motorola service running nonstop at like 20% CPU usage. Found out it was trying to sync my exchange account but couldn't connect. I manually went in to the mail app and refreshed; it sync'd my account and the problem was solved. Great battery life ever since.
Don't know if this is a similar issue that other people are having, but hopefully it helps someone.
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99% of the time, that was the issue with battery drain on GB.
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Yes! After poor battery life (3-4hrs) I've isolated the issue and LOVE it!

I was getting horrendous battery life on my new Nexus 7 stock and rooted / custom ROM.
I decided to wipe, install zero apps except Chrome and fire away at the battery. YouTube has streamed 3 hours worth of an HD video and I'm at 72%!!! Nice!!!!
I was using FB and FB messenger, Firefox beta and really that's about it. Needless to say I'll hold off on installing them until they've been optimized with 4.3
~A happy Nexus user
Evolution11 said:
I was getting horrendous battery life on my new Nexus 7 stock and rooted / custom ROM.
I decided to wipe, install zero apps except Chrome and fire away at the battery. YouTube has streamed 3 hours worth of an HD video and I'm at 72%!!! Nice!!!!
I was using FB and FB messenger, Firefox beta and really that's about it. Needless to say I'll hold off on installing them until they've been optimized with 4.3
~A happy Nexus user
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fwiw - i have chrome, fb and ff beta also installed - no battery issues. I dont use FF messenger though.
Its FB. Seriously. Its a horribly written website with horribly written apps. It sucks information all the time.
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I'm sure my battery life would be great with no apps installed too. I'm holding off on wiping mine though, because I'm sure after I root and reinstall my stuff, the battery life will go to crap again.
On my Nexus 7 Google Services has an inordinate amount of keep awake time. So I'm hoping updates will fix the issue.
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I'm sure my battery life would be great with no apps installed too. I'm holding off on wiping mine though, because I'm sure after I root and reinstall my stuff, the battery life will go to crap again.
On my Nexus 7 Google Services has an inordinate amount of keep awake time. So I'm hoping updates will fix the issue.
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I've heard people uninstalling Google Services helps. Might cause issues elsewhere though. I think certain battery savers can limit specific apps from keeping the device awake. Im on CM and my device goes into deep sleep quite often. Like 86% of the time.
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Better battery stats always helps finding the culprit. I had some issues with suspend_backoff and it seems chrome was the issue for me.
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player911 said:
Its FB. Seriously. Its a horribly written website with horribly written apps. It sucks information all the time.
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A thousand times THIS.
If you really want FB install tinfoil. You lose notifications, but it's FBs garbage constant notification polling that is keeping your device awake.
Not trying to defend Facebook but.... Its not like fb doesn't have the option to turn notifications off. Chat availability off. Refresh interval to never. Messenger location off.
At some point no matter how bad the app is it comes down to user error.
albundy2010 said:
Not trying to defend Facebook but.... Its not like fb doesn't have the option to turn notifications off. Chat availability off. Refresh interval to never. Messenger location off.
At some point no matter how bad the app is it comes down to user error.
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It doesn't matter. I turn that crap off and while it probably helps, FB is always eating up tons of memory and keeping the battery drained.
I use APW Widgets, setup a Facebook widget, and click through to the mobile Facebook page using Next Browser. The Facebook app has some perks over this but using this method, I know its not leeching my contacts and mobile usage.
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I believe you as I've had issues like this too with many apps.
What I don't understand is how two people with same hardware, same ROM, install same app, one will have drain and the other doesn't. For example I have FB installed on my N7 2013 and its fine (at least it doesn't pop up in the usage chart if I don't use it).
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It doesn't matter. I turn that crap off and while it probably helps, FB is always eating up tons of memory and keeping the battery drained.
I use APW Widgets, setup a Facebook widget, and click through to the mobile Facebook page using Next Browser. The Facebook app has some perks over this but using this method, I know its not leeching my contacts and mobile usage.
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Using memory doesn't = using battery,
With those settings the device should idle perfectly. Assuming the rest of your set up is well behaved of course.
While your device is up and running the process will run time to time but it shouldn't cause any noticeable battery drain.
Don't get me wrong I can go on and on about all the stupid things that app does but set it up that way and you should not suffer any battery issues / drainage.
Once the MBA and CEO Class got their hands on Facebook it was Game Over .....
Most MBA's and CEO's aren't well enough educated to run a technically/scientifically based operation .... Look what happened to Gateway, Yahoo, Dell and almost happened to Apple in the 90's before they brought the Brains back ....
Google is one of the few that haven't went that route which is why they are leading the pack on most things. .... As long as the Brains of Google keep majority share and thus control of Googler I'll stay invested but as soon as the MBA and CEO Class takes ovber (hopefully never) I'll dump all my Google stock just like I did with Yahoo in early 2000 .....
Just look at the Damage the MBA and CEO Class did in the late 90's (The wrongly named Dot Com Bust) and in 2008 ..... Mainly because they are too poorly educated to work the technology and their insane belief in disproven Economic Theories like Supply Side that falls completely to pieces in the Tech World ....
BrianDigital said:
Better battery stats always helps finding the culprit. I had some issues with suspend_backoff and it seems chrome was the issue for me.
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so what did you do about chrome to fix it?
ANigerian said:
so what did you do about chrome to fix it?
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Uninstalled it
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does a battery saver app like juice defender ultimate work or it just wastes 'more' battery?, i don't think my battery is all that great but i do have alot of apps installed
anyone installed snapdragon battery guru app?
gonna try to unistall chrome, but i find its the best looking browser interface for the sites i visit
I'm gonna tell you greenify changed my life, my battery life that is. Try it out and you will not be dissapointed.
an app that has not been used in over a day.. after a reboot yesterday should not be in top ten active apps and have near 7000 wakelocks when all notifications in the app are turned off. so yes, Facebook app sucks more than just itself
still. I'm at 22 hours unplugged, 4 and a half hours screen on time and only at 54% battery... I rate that as good
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cobyman7035 said:
does a battery saver app like juice defender ultimate work or it just wastes 'more' battery?, i don't think my battery is all that great but i do have alot of apps installed
anyone installed snapdragon battery guru app?
gonna try to unistall chrome, but i find its the best looking browser interface for the sites i visit
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I would have recommended JD a few years ago.. its victims abandon ware for almost 2 years.. (never updated for ICS let alone JB) you are better off having tasked handle the same functions.. or just removing apps that are poorly writted
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I haven't had any need yet on my Nexus 7, but I found Gemini App Manager to be a godsend on my Virgin Mobile phone. I can disable all the Intents that apps believe they ought to wake for and just allow them to respond to me actually running them. Much better battery life and more responsive phone without memory cluttered by all the bloatware that believes it needs to run all the time.
cobyman7035 said:
does a battery saver app like juice defender ultimate work or it just wastes 'more' battery?, i don't think my battery is all that great but i do have alot of apps installed
anyone installed snapdragon battery guru app?
gonna try to unistall chrome, but i find its the best looking browser interface for the sites i visit
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I just picked mine up yesterday and snapdragon was one of the first apps I looked for. Couldn't download because it's "not compatible with this version" I'm on stock BTW...
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albundy2010 said:
Not trying to defend Facebook but.... Its not like fb doesn't have the option to turn notifications off. Chat availability off. Refresh interval to never. Messenger location off.
At some point no matter how bad the app is it comes down to user error.
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so your saying that the app by default should run constantly in the back ground grab your location any time it wants. THen its user error that they dont dive in setting and change everything so it doesn't suck battery life
LOL yes its user error, now Im off to sound full of myself elswhere

[Q] Help With Battery Drain

In the past week or so, I've noticed that my battery is draining unusually fast. I will take the phone to bed with me (I use it as an alarm clock) at 100% battery and I can wake up 7 hours later with it at 82%. When I look at my battery information, I see steady, solid drain over that time, with the biggest offender being Google Services. When I look in Wakelock Detector, I see the most usage (though seemingly not a ton) by Android System.
I found some tips on using Wakelock Terminator in Xposed to filter some things from Google Play Services from triggering wakelock, and I was optimistic, but it didn't seem to help.
Any advice?
Greenify
flu13 said:
In the past week or so, I've noticed that my battery is draining unusually fast. I will take the phone to bed with me (I use it as an alarm clock) at 100% battery and I can wake up 7 hours later with it at 82%. When I look at my battery information, I see steady, solid drain over that time, with the biggest offender being Google Services. When I look in Wakelock Detector, I see the most usage (though seemingly not a ton) by Android System.
I found some tips on using Wakelock Terminator in Xposed to filter some things from Google Play Services from triggering wakelock, and I was optimistic, but it didn't seem to help.
Any advice?
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Are you on a stock rom? Did you try greenify? It's on the play store. It kills the apps background services and the app itself until you start the app or the app is started by another app or service. Soon as the app os no longer needed it is turn back off. This program does not freeze apps it prevents them from running until needed.
Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned my rom and such. I'm running ForceROM, a relatively older version (maybe 2.3?), since I never felt the need to update.
I haven't tried Greenify. Haven't actually heard of that one before. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip.
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Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned my rom and such. I'm running ForceROM, a relatively older version (maybe 2.3?), since I never felt the need to update.
I haven't tried Greenify. Haven't actually heard of that one before. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip.
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Try a custom kernel like KToonsez in addition to Greenify. It's amazing what you can end up doing with that kernel
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ForceROM includes Ktoonsez kernel. For the last 8 months or so, I've had great battery life. This is a sudden and recent change, which I'm assuming to be caused by an update of some Google app (such as Play Services).
How do I use Greenify? Or do I just install it and it does magic?
flu13 said:
In the past week or so, I've noticed that my battery is draining unusually fast. I will take the phone to bed with me (I use it as an alarm clock) at 100% battery and I can wake up 7 hours later with it at 82%. When I look at my battery information, I see steady, solid drain over that time, with the biggest offender being Google Services. When I look in Wakelock Detector, I see the most usage (though seemingly not a ton) by Android System.
I found some tips on using Wakelock Terminator in Xposed to filter some things from Google Play Services from triggering wakelock, and I was optimistic, but it didn't seem to help.
Any advice?
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Do you have auto-sync enabled? What Google Services do you have enabled for sync? I used to have a similar issue but turning off sync for things I don't use (like newsstand, etc) helped my battery life a lot.
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flu13 said:
ForceROM includes Ktoonsez kernel. For the last 8 months or so, I've had great battery life. This is a sudden and recent change, which I'm assuming to be caused by an update of some Google app (such as Play Services).
How do I use Greenify? Or do I just install it and it does magic?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552570
That thread may help you with this.
my last resort advice would be to flash a 4.3 rom......your not missing out on much not running KK.....
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I highly recommend trying out NEGALITE WonderRom r14.
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pacoz said:
I highly recommend trying out NEGALITE WonderRom r14.
agreed..!
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I believe that installing Greenify might have done it. Battery usage looks much better today. I'll do a real test tonight when I get it charged to 100% before bed.
Well, I'll be...
I think that the problem is wifi. When I'm at home, I'm on wifi, and the battery is constantly draining. When I'm not at home, and on mobile data, the battery is well-behaved.
What's up with that?
Are you using Google's keyboard?
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Well, I'll be...
I think that the problem is WiFi. When I'm at home, I'm on WiFi, and the battery is constantly draining. When I'm not at home, and on mobile data, the battery is well-behaved.
What's up with that?
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Some apps can be setup to sync over WiFi only instead of 3G/4G data. but you have to check what apps would be the culprit. I know Google play, dropbox's picture upload feature can be set to download/upload/update over WiFi instead of data. But the only way to know is to see what apps connect over WiFi.
WiFi is suppose to give you better battery life since its signal is usually nearby and your phone doesn't have to use more power to find a better signal like it does with 3g/4g. I know for me it does since there are very few towers in the middle of the dessert.
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No, I use Swiftkey.
So, interesting twist to this saga. Leaving wifi off takes away the solid blue bar on the battery screen, but I still see the same level of battery drain (about 18% overnight). Very intriguing.
Agreed
flu13 said:
I believe that installing Greenify might have done it. Battery usage looks much better today. I'll do a real test tonight when I get it charged to 100% before bed.
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Agreed helps a lot when charging phone. May get a lil glitchy if you run it on every app.
flu13 said:
Well, I'll be...
I think that the problem is wifi. When I'm at home, I'm on wifi, and the battery is constantly draining. When I'm not at home, and on mobile data, the battery is well-behaved.
What's up with that?
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Sounds like you're losing power to things syncing over wifi. Maybe try just giving it a week and watching it to see if it settles down. Google play sometimes settles down on its own. I also vote to check out greenify. With the donation package you can work wonders at calming down power hungry apps, even system apps.
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My situation has suddenly taken a turn for the much worse. I don't know what's going on. I haven't added anything new or changed any settings since installing Greenify a while back. Now, the battery is just tanking. I got up to 100%, ran Battery Calibration and now, about 2.5 hours later, I'm at 82%. Could this just be a problem with the battery itself? Do I need to replace it?
Are you on MJA?
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flu13 said:
My situation has suddenly taken a turn for the much worse. I don't know what's going on. I haven't added anything new or changed any settings since installing Greenify a while back. Now, the battery is just tanking. I got up to 100%, ran Battery Calibration and now, about 2.5 hours later, I'm at 82%. Could this just be a problem with the battery itself? Do I need to replace it?
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Honestly there are a few days where the battery life suddenly drops dramatically. I've experienced this on unrooted mf9, mk2, and nae. Give it some time and see if battery life comes back up. You can reboot the phone to kill a rouge app that might be the cause.
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This is the first I've heard the term MJA, so I don't think I'm on that.
There definitely do seem to be days where battery is worse than others. And I do typically try to reboot when I see it acting too squirrelly. I'll just keep keeping an eye on it. Weird-ass phone...

[Snapdragon batteryguru vs Stamina mode]

Dose anyone use snapdragon batteryguru?
Or stay with default function, namely stamina mode?
Or both together?
I just installed yesterday and it is on the way learning.
So, if some of you have already tried some combination of those, I am appreciate it in giving me feedback.
Also, I will give you feedback after testing.
Best regards,
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I have used batteryguru before didn't notice much improvement and from what the app was saying the apps you don't use often it stops them pushing the notifications etc until you load the app however I was still having notifications coming from all the apps on my phone. Your milage may vary though depending on what you use your phone for.
I was using JuiceDefender until I've been told that it doesn't do me any good. I thought it was a pretty nifty app for its functionality to enable and disable Wi-Fi and mobile data when I need it or not...
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I have been used for 1 month. I guess batteryguru did not help me much. So, I just uninstall it.
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I also had tried it on my HTC Butterfly (Global version of Droid DNA) and my LG G2, noticed no improvement in battery life.
Also, I just recognize that battery recharge time longer when I used it.
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I think is better to use both
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GigaSPX said:
I was using JuiceDefender until I've been told that it doesn't do me any good. I thought it was a pretty nifty app for its functionality to enable and disable Wi-Fi and mobile data when I need it or not...
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Why would you think, that JuiceDefender does not do any good?
I use it and actually have very good results with it...
bill340 said:
Why would you think, that JuiceDefender does not do any good?
I use it and actually have very good results with it...
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Well, peers have told me:
1. Battery saving apps are pointless with how advance Android is nowadays. Also especially since Sony has already included enough battery saving software in their devices.
2. The battery saving app keeps running, so that itself drains the battery.
What do you think?
GigaSPX said:
Well, peers have told me:
1. Battery saving apps are pointless with how advance Android is nowadays. Also especially since Sony has already included enough battery saving software in their devices.
2. The battery saving app keeps running, so that itself drains the battery.
What do you think?
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1 is correct
2 is partially correct, depends on which power saving app, I didn't notice any real drain from Battery Guru, though it didn't help increase it either.
I've never used Battery Guru before, but I think I'd rather purchase Tasker to do the job of location based Wi-Fi for my phone.
Would it drain battery or such if I have that act like juice defender/battery guru instead?
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Ive used battery guru for a while, but looks like it doesnt do much. So i uninstall it already.
With the latest version of Stamina I can't really see what BatteryGuru can do to further improve things.
The Z3 effectively turns just about everything off in standby if you ask it to, firing up when you start using the phone. Battery Guru attempts to learn your usage, so it will still allow data at certain times and restrict completely at others.
I'm very happy with Stamina and uninstalled Battery Guru some time ago. I still have it on some other devices tough, especially anything that doesn't have any native power saving functions.
I do wonder how Sony is going to combine Stamina with the Lollipop battery saver, which is a simple on or off - along with the horrid orange bars. That's very much all or nothing with far less intelligence, so maybe Sony will not use that at all.

Amplify, greenify, better battery stats: how to?

How do I use these apps to increase battery life without negatively affecting performance? Particularly amplify and batterystats since I'm not sure how to read the numbers given to me by those apps
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Most battery apps are pretty useless with cheap tricks like turning on and off WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS etc. I think we all know apps like Facebook, twitter and free to play apps are a battery drain, just go to settings and disable or delete the apps. When I used to be rooted on my oneplus I used to underclock or disable background apps and all this junk. My best solution to save battery was to turn my phone from 4g to 2g when I wasnt using any type of data other than calls and text messages.
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How do I use these apps to increase battery life without negatively affecting performance? Particularly amplify and batterystats since I'm not sure how to read the numbers given to me by those apps
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There is no short answer to this question. You need to read the forums and understand what wakelock and hibernation mean. You can really foobar your phone's behavior by greenify-ing the wrong things or preventing the wrong wakelock.
I have used these apps as well and in my experience they did nothing to gain additional battery. For me uninstalling unused apps and keeping brightness at 40% worked the best.....and stopped watching the battery and just using my device was the best solution.
I know many will disagree with this, this is just my experience.
By the way I average 3 to 4 hours SOT daily.
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