I am new to this tablet Arnova 10 G2 (101c). Got it like 2-3 days back. Trying to know it better, so don't flame me please.
I got the rooted firmware on through one of the bundled apps - arctools. So now, here are my questions:
1. Camera:
My camera works. But I can't see where it stores the pics. Even doing a media rescan in settings menu doesn't seem to help.
2. Internal Memory:
On the back it says the model is 4GB. But inside, when I am browsing in root explorer I see over 7 GB free. I have copied over 4 gigs of pdfs (books), and still have over 3 gigs free. Over 7 GB free space on internal SD normally translates to a 8GB model. This has got me perplexed.
3. Battery:
Installed battery calibrator. I drained the battery full until the tablet shut down by itself. Then I charged it to 100%. Used the battery calibrator to delete the batterystats.bin file. Then charged it until the light was green with the tablet off. Turned it on with charger unplugged.
I put it on a movie at about 60% brightness. After about 5+ hours, it was at about 55-60%. Then I took off the movie for some time, turned the brightness to 0, and was doing some browsing, and now I noticed battery at 65%. Battery usage details show spikes moving up while I was simply using it and no charger connected.
Is this normal? How long does it take for the battery to normalize?
Someone help me please. Even after 3 full charge-discharge cycles, my tablet when kaput from about 30 to 0 last night!
diablo009 said:
Someone help me please. Even after 3 full charge-discharge cycles, my tablet when kaput from about 30 to 0 last night!
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Regarding the pictures I won't help you till I have the tablet but speaking of storage you clearly got the 8gb model if you're sure there's no external (micro sd ) memory counted
Regarding the battery it seems that you messed too much with it unnecessarily and now (guessing) the battery electronics freaked out or the li-ion cells got damaged because of a deep discharge.
try to use it normally charging from say 10-50% when needed to full and after some cycle maybe it will get better ?
this isn't the Arnova 10g2 (Philly tablet) your speaking of is it?
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this isn't the Arnova 10g2 (Philly tablet) your speaking of is it?
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Nah. I got this from a store here.. it says Arnova 10 G2 (non philly). Philly is a different version of the same.
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Regarding the pictures I won't help you till I have the tablet but speaking of storage you clearly got the 8gb model if you're sure there's no external (micro sd ) memory counted
Regarding the battery it seems that you messed too much with it unnecessarily and now (guessing) the battery electronics freaked out or the li-ion cells got damaged because of a deep discharge.
try to use it normally charging from say 10-50% when needed to full and after some cycle maybe it will get better ?
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I don't really know about this. All I did was a couple of full charge-discharge cycles, and nothing more.
And it showed ~7+ GB free on internal memory (without any sd card inserted).
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I am seriously thinking about returning my Sony Tablet S.
I can't seem to get more than 3 hours out of this without a charge.
I play a full movie with wifi/GPS on and then i am down to 30%.
I do have it rooted and most of the bloat apps is gone. I check the battery indicator constantly and the biggest app using battery seems to be android so nothing is zapping my battery life.
Any ideas?
I think something is wrong with you're tablet, mine lasts for more then 8 hours without root.
So yes, return it and ask for a replacement.
bartbla said:
I think something is wrong with you're tablet, mine lasts for more then 8 hours without root.
So yes, return it and ask for a replacement.
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same as that
Try this app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
If it doesn't work, send to service centre for a check.
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Try and adjust the backlight intensity
When I first used my tablet the battery seemed to be gone in no time. I have found that reducing the backlight manually has helped. I would say there was a definite difference.
Thanks for all the responses.
Problem is this is for my kid. He don't really have the patience to wait for charges every day.
He like to watch movies on the tablet and play some games here and there. Considering he only use it for 3-4 hours a day, this is insane how short the battery is.
I thought i will never say this...but another android guy bite the dust and cross over to the evil apple kingdom (exchanging for the ipad2 with 10 hour battery life).
jxl92182 said:
Thanks for all the responses.
Problem is this is for my kid. He don't really have the patience to wait for charges every day.
He like to watch movies on the tablet and play some games here and there. Considering he only use it for 3-4 hours a day, this is insane how short the battery is.
I thought i will never say this...but another android guy bite the dust and cross over to the evil apple kingdom (exchanging for the ipad2 with 10 hour battery life).
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so we've all told you that it doesn't sound normal and that you should get much longer out of the device and your answer is "it must be android" rather than a faulty device.......
8 hours to 10 hours on mine, depending on what i do. with and without root, it doesn't change my battery life.
Mine about 8 hours
Had the same issue in the past... Delete all on USB and make a factory reset solved the problem. Now it run up to 8 hours.
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Had the same issue in the past... Delete all on USB and make a factory reset solved the problem. Now it run up to 8 hours.
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Same issue and fix here.
I have decent battery life ( 6+ hours) but one thing that makes me wonder is the idle time.
5 hours of screen time is less power consuming than the tablet being 20 hours in idle. Has anyone the same experience?
Yes. In my case it's the 3G modem. Turn it off generally and only on when you use it.
If I compare this case with my iPad I have to say, that the 3G modem in the sony uses much more energy in idle than in my iPad.
My Tablet is WiFi-only. And WiFi shuts down when the screen goes off.
Battery use:
Tablet idle ------------ 49% --> 15h 8m 57s
Screen---------------- 37% --> 4h 56m 31s
Is this strange behaviour or am I just paranoid since this is a totally different battery usage than on a phone( e.g Sensation)?
Bejtulla said:
My Tablet is WiFi-only. And WiFi shuts down when the screen goes off.
Battery use:
Tablet idle ------------ 49% --> 15h 8m 57s
Screen---------------- 37% --> 4h 56m 31s
Is this strange behaviour or am I just paranoid since this is a totally different battery usage than on a phone( e.g Sensation)?
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I report the same type of stats...
Its using a lot of battery in sleep mode. But sometimes it doesn't, sometimes sleep mode last way longer but most of the time its about 25-30 hours in sleep mode and that is way too much...
I hope ICS will fix this, if not i may return mine.
And not 2g/3g/4g here, no celular radio here.. So, its not that.
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Schrammi said:
Had the same issue in the past... Delete all on USB and make a factory reset solved the problem. Now it run up to 8 hours.
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USB??? you mean internal SD card (/mnt/sdcard)?
Yes. That's what I mean.
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Hmm. You do realise playing videos and having the wifi on in the background will cane the battery? Even more so if you're streaming said videos to your device via wifi. No doubt you've got the screen turned up full brightness as well?
Mine runs perfectly well and can last for a couple DAYS between charges, depending of course on how I use it.
Follow the tips provided by the others, you might get a fix. If not, get a new one from Sony. It's not a problem with Android - I suspect if you watch hours and hours of movies on an iPad you will still experience excessive battery drain because of the intensive nature of what you're doing!
Thanks for all the suggestions. If the tablet is for me to use daily, I probably would have condition the battery, try to delete all and then restart. However, it is for my kid and frankly it is unacceptable that a brand new tablet after watching one movie (just regular mp4 file i installed into the internal SD) is down to 30% charge.
I won't even start with the rest of the things i am disappointed with; the missing 6 gigs on the 16 gig, the screen little darker than i wanted (the screen protector I don't like at all), and frankly honeycomb in general is not that crispy and well developed.
I did end up getting a Ipad 2. After watching 1 movie, the thing still got 80% juice left....is night and day. Screen is sharper and brighter and most importantly it last more than a day without charge.
I don't want to hype about ipad here and i am still an android fan (i got 2 android phones), but the ipad really is WOW compared to the current corp of android tablets. Yes i am disappointed i won't be able to "tweak" the ipad like i can with droid pads, but Apple OS is so much better developed than honeycomb or ICS for that matter that really you can live without the tweaking.
For all you guys, with Wi-fi only (and 3G if you like the solution), before putting it to sleep put the device in flight mode. I've done it on mine and it was asleep for 4 days while I went out on a journey and when I came back only 30% of battery was gone...
I honestly can only fault the ipad in the sense that a media device, that for all intensive purposes is basically a more convenient option than a laptop, does not have flash support. Quick web browsing on tablets is great but it's useless without flash :S. Damn apple. Other than that I think the iPad is pretty great, especially now that the pricing for the new iPad has become alot sharper than in the price. Obviously to combat the success of Android tablets of late. But all I want out of a tablet is a bit of web browsing here and there, a couple games now and then and a nice digital photo frame to boot
I don't know about everyone else, but I have no desire to flash the crap out of my Sony tablet like I do with my SGS2. Now that I have root access it's doing everything I wanted it to do (and should have done!) from the start. So long is it's stable and responsive I'll be happy with it for a few years at least.
I was never happy with my tablet from day one but for me it was just software - sluggish and app incompatibility - a factory reset and root has fixed all that now. Never once have I had an issue with battery life. Sure as hell out-does any gameboy/ds/psp I've owned. Standby will last weeks if I don't touch it too.
So to those of you getting around 1-2 days standby time, something is seriously wrong with your tablet. There must either be a fault with your battery itself, or some app has gone rogue and just keeps it awake the whole time. i dont think any type of conditioning your battery will heed any results;
I didn't condition my battery at all when I got it and it's just fine. I played it with the 5% charge it had out of box till it died, got home, charged a bit, played with it till it shut off again, then when it got about 1/2 full just took it off charge and played with it again. Now it normally gets charged every friday whether it needs it or not.
Update: I normally keep my microSD card mounted in my Prime. After doing some searching, I've seen a few reports of battery drain being bad when having an SD card mounted in the Prime and/or the Prime's dock. I unmounted my SD card and my battery life has greatly improved. Give this a shot if you currently always leave your microSD card mounted and have battery drain problems.
Has anyone noticed this wakelock killing their battery? My problems just started recently. I charged my phone overnight and did not use it all day. This wakelock was literally running the ENTIRE time my tablet was on - for over 12 1/2 hours. It brought my battery down to 80% without me ever turning the screen on. Has anyone else noticed this problem on their Prime, or does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? The only thing I changed recently is I installed System Tuner Pro, which I just uninstalled to troubleshoot.
i would like to know how if i charge my dock up and then 2 days later connect it to my prime it lost 20 percent of its battery. Maybe the batteries also have a
discharge built in , IDK?????????????
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jetbruceli said:
i would like to know how if i charge my dock up and then 2 days later connect it to my prime it lost 20 percent of its battery. Maybe the batteries also have a
discharge built in , IDK?????????????
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I had that problem with the TF101. My dock battery would completely discharge in 2-3 days without ever being connected.
My TF201 holds its charge for weeks with losing more than a few %.
Asus really needs to get it together and develop some consistency with their tablets.
Update: I normally keep my microSD card mounted in my Prime. After doing some searching, I've seen a few reports of battery drain being bad when having an SD card mounted in the Prime and/or the Prime's dock. I unmounted my SD card and my battery life has greatly improved. Give this a shot if you currently always leave your microSD card mounted and have battery drain problems.
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Give this a shot if you have battery drain problems and always leave your microSD cardmounted.
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Do u mean unmounted?
demandarin said:
Do u mean unmounted?
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Not exactly, but that sentence was definitely confusing. I just edited it for clarification. Thanks.
No difference here.
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No difference here.
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Interesting. I wonder if the contents of the SD card makes a difference (i.e., I wonder if my Prime keeps continuously scanning my SD card for some reason).
I did a fair amount of research on this phone - I was particularly interested in the camera after reading some glowing reviews. Then I got sidetracked about the large screen (for one handed use anyway), 4G. IR blaster etc. And completely forgot about checking for SD card slot.
Anyway, got a 16 GB version from ebay and realised it only has 10 GB available. So, I'm wondering if any ROMS manage to improve on that number? Even 11 or 12 GB would be better?
As I know, you must change the partitions, also in small roms like Cyanogemod (300mb or something like that) the system partition takes 2gb space. I think it would be very risky to change it. Let's hope some other person reply
Even I'm planning on buying the 16GB variant. But I'm not sure if that'll be enough for me...
Go through all the crap you plan to copy over to the phone, and skip the stuff you rarely or never use. I bet you'll have plenty of free space. Encode movies to be smaller, and put fewer of them on. No big deal.
and buy a mini 32 or 64gb dual usb/mini usb stick and you're covered...
Unfortunately those sticks consume quite a bit of battery while plugged even in idle mode (on the LG G2).
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Unfortunately those sticks consume quite a bit of battery while plugged even in idle mode (on the LG G2).
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didn't notice any battery drain when i used my sandisk mini usb stick...
it's not ment to be constantly connected to the device...
i use it for bigger file transfers from pc to phone (vice versa), backups in twrp and keeping the essential files in case of bad flash or smtn...
never had it connected more than 10 minutes...
twrp backup of 3.6 gb takes some 500 seconds, and the battery went down by 1-2% max (mostly because the screen was turned on)
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didn't notice any battery drain when i used my sandisk mini usb stick...
it's not ment to be constantly connected to the device...
i use it for bigger file transfers from pc to phone (vice versa), backups in twrp and keeping the essential files in case of bad flash or smtn...
never had it connected more than 10 minutes...
twrp backup of 3.6 gb takes some 500 seconds, and the battery went down by 1-2% max (mostly because the screen was turned on)
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Do you have the 16GB variant or the 32?
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Do you have the 16GB variant or the 32?
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16 gb d802 variant of the phone + 32gb sandisk mini usb...
Hi, got the C5 ultra a couple of days back. I feel that my phone slows down and lags when the battery is low? Its almost unusable due to the lag in the app drawer and recents panel. Im not sure if this happens everytime the phone is low on battery. Is this is problem for u as well and is there any fix?
Thanks
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Hi, got the C5 ultra a couple of days back. I feel that my phone slows down and lags when the battery is low? Its almost unusable due to the lag in the app drawer and recents panel. Im not sure if this happens everytime the phone is low on battery. Is this is problem for u as well and is there any fix?
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yes. it happens to me too.. also my battery takes forever to charge.. 15 mins = 2 % . but when it is turned off, it seems like any other phone.. contacted sony and all they said was to try the software repair, which i am tempted to do.. my youtube causes the whole phone to crash too every now and then. Have you encountered the same?
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yes. it happens to me too.. also my battery takes forever to charge.. 15 mins = 2 % . but when it is turned off, it seems like any other phone.. contacted sony and all they said was to try the software repair, which i am tempted to do.. my youtube causes the whole phone to crash too every now and then. Have you encountered the same?
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It does charge slow. I guess it charged from 14 to 78% in about 2.5 hours. My lg g flex charge in like 2 or 2.5 hours max and it had a 3500 mah battery. If we use a high amphere charger, it might mess with the phone's battery life. Other than the lag on low battery, I haven't had much issues aside from when the phone crashed 2 or 3 times when watching an hd video and then I had to manually switch it off and turn it back on.
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It does charge slow. I guess it charged from 14 to 78% in about 2.5 hours. My lg g flex charge in like 2 or 2.5 hours max and it had a 3500 mah battery. If we use a high amphere charger, it might mess with the phone's battery life. Other than the lag on low battery, I haven't had much issues aside from when the phone crashed 2 or 3 times when watching an hd video and then I had to manually switch it off and turn it back on.
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Just did the sony repair as advised from sony support. The battery seems to be charging faster but my lg g4 still chargers faster as well. Hopefully some kinks were fixed as well, though i reserve my optimism since the software is basically the same.
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Just did the sony repair as advised from sony support. The battery seems to be charging faster but my lg g4 still chargers faster as well. Hopefully some kinks were fixed as well, though i reserve my optimism since the software is basically the same.
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After repairing, does your phone still slow down when the battery is low or has that been fixed as well? And did the repair delete all your phone's data?
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After repairing, does your phone still slow down when the battery is low or has that been fixed as well? And did the repair delete all your phone's data?
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Hi, used my phone for 2 days without charged. I decided to turn it off while charging since i noticed it was still faster to 100%. With regards to performance, I did not notice any considerable lag or heating, though the camera still had some lag and stuttering. The repair is basically a wipe of everything and reinstall. Sony said it was different to a factory reset as it like a "clean" wipe. Not sure what they meant there but so far im happier with the phone now. Still hoping that Sony releases a new update to address the slight stuttering, unsatisfying battery charging speeds and the laggy camera interface.
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Hi, used my phone for 2 days without charged. I decided to turn it off while charging since i noticed it was still faster to 100%. With regards to performance, I did not notice any considerable lag or heating, though the camera still had some lag and stuttering. The repair is basically a wipe of everything and reinstall. Sony said it was different to a factory reset as it like a "clean" wipe. Not sure what they meant there but so far im happier with the phone now. Still hoping that Sony releases a new update to address the slight stuttering, unsatisfying battery charging speeds and the laggy camera interface.
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Hi ive also repaired my phone using PC companion and restored my data and backup. I definitely feel I feel less internal storage space available now about 2gb is missing. do u have any idea why this happened? In storage, it says android system has 8.8GB and I feel previously this was not so much.
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Hi ive also repaired my phone using PC companion and restored my data and backup. I definitely feel I feel less internal storage space available now about 2gb is missing. do u have any idea why this happened? In storage, it says android system has 8.8GB and I feel previously this was not so much.
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im not too sure about yours, but mine is showing 4.95gb of Android system. try transferring some of your system apps to the external sd card if u have one.
I'm running Android 11, in a Moto G30.
I've noticed battery drains from 100% to 80% from 1am to 9am when I wake up. I decided to get a bugreport.zip using ADB and load it in Battery Historian.
Seems like at some point in the night, JobScheduler runs and finishes in a minute, but CPU stays on forever (even on full doze state). Reasons seem to be several Abort: Pending Wakeup Sources related to networking. At these point, battery discharge rate is ~2.5% per hour, whereas "normal" screen-off / doze rate is ~1.5%.
These are some screenshots, and here's the bugreport.zip
Here's the CPU wakeup sources list,
And here's a previous time when JobScheduler runs and CPU behaved well,
I'm facing the same issue, battery is draining a lot when the screen is off, were you able to fix this?
Yes, I forgot to post here. I've read somewhere that the issue might be the SD card. I've formatted it and it got solved! I couldn't believe the difference, battery lasts for 3 days (9 screen hours) with moderate use. It drains ~0.3% per hour at night or while doze.
In my case I had the 8GB SD card in my previous phone, half with media, and I just inserted it on the new Moto G30 phone.
Apparently the issue has to be with an Android media background process. Weird, because I it seems it had something to be with network according to Battery Historian
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Yes, I forgot to post here. I've read somewhere that the issue might be the SD card. I've formatted it and it got solved! I couldn't believe the difference, battery lasts for 3 days (9 screen hours) with moderate use. It drains ~0.3% per hour at night or while doze.
In my case I had the 8GB SD card in my previous phone, half with media, and I just inserted it on the new Moto G30 phone.
Apparently the issue has to be with an Android media background process. Weird, because I it seems it had something to be with network according to Battery Historian
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Nice, I also have a SD card, I'll try the same then, thanks a lot
kazimuhtasim said:
Nice, I also have a SD card, I'll try the same then, thanks a lot
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Could you fix it? I'm facing the same battery drain issue
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Yes, I forgot to post here. I've read somewhere that the issue might be the SD card. I've formatted it and it got solved! I couldn't believe the difference, battery lasts for 3 days (9 screen hours) with moderate use. It drains ~0.3% per hour at night or while doze.
In my case I had the 8GB SD card in my previous phone, half with media, and I just inserted it on the new Moto G30 phone.
Apparently the issue has to be with an Android media background process. Weird, because I it seems it had something to be with network according to Battery Historian
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Did you format your SD card from your Moto G30 or from somewhere else?
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Could you fix it? I'm facing the same battery drain issue
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No, I formatted it, and I even took it out from the phone, still drains like 20% overnight staying idle, will take it back once the situation here gets better, but let me know if you have tried anything else, I feel like it's a software issue as on safe mode the battery drained normally
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No, I formatted it, and I even took it out from the phone, still drains like 20% overnight staying idle, will take it back once the situation here gets better, but let me know if you have tried anything else, I feel like it's a software issue as on safe mode the battery drained normally
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I downloaded an app called Naptime from the play store. What it does, basically, is to force the doze mode, so the device enters in doze mode in minutes rather than in hours. That did the trick for me so far. Here I attach a picture of my results. Give it a try and tell me if it works for you as well. Last night drained only 4% while on idle.