I am getting some strange battery behaviour.
My device will turn itself fully off when sleeping about once a day. The power use graph often has strange jumps in it as well.
I've tried resetting battery stats but it's not made a difference.
Any ideas what could be causing it or how to fix it?
I've been having the same issue for the past few days. I've also been having a good amount of crashes. I am thinking about starting completely over: Odin back to 3.2, reinstalling CWM, and then trying the nightlies again. If that doesn't make it more stable, I may try Task 14 (HC).
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barryfell said:
I am getting some strange battery behaviour.
My device will turn itself fully off when sleeping about once a day. The power use graph often has strange jumps in it as well.
I've tried resetting battery stats but it's not made a difference.
Any ideas what could be causing it or how to fix it?
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Have you ever uv your device? It sounds like sleep of death.
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If you're rooted download better battery stats from xda applications section and cpu spy from the play store to see your wakelocks and if your device is deep sleeping. Then post your bbs dump here
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kilometers4 said:
Have you ever uv your device? It sounds like sleep of death.
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What's uv? Under volted? If so, no.
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If you're rooted download better battery stats from xda applications section and cpu spy from the play store to see your wakelocks and if your device is deep sleeping. Then post your bbs dump here
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OK i've got both those apps installed now and it is deep sleeping. I'll let it run for a few days and post the bbs dump.
Thanks very much for your help.
OK I've attached my BBS dump.
Can anyone identify an issue?
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OK I've attached my BBS dump.
Can anyone identify an issue?
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Well first, I would not recommend Juice Defender. I have heard that it causes the batter to drain more.
Secondly, the stats are only for not even 3 hrs. If you want a proper reading of what is draining battery it needs to be longer, if possible.
EDIT: What rom/kernel are you running? And did you do a full wipe when you flashed them?
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Well first, I would not recommend Juice Defender. I have heard that it causes the batter to drain more.
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I need an app that turns the wi-fi off when i'm not using it as I find wi-fi being creates a big battery drain. JuiceDefender has served me well for that purpose for years. Any other apps you can recommend for automatically turning off the connections?
Secondly, the stats are only for not even 3 hrs. If you want a proper reading of what is draining battery it needs to be longer, if possible.
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Unfortunately 3 hours was the longest I could get before it turned itself off and the stats were lost.
EDIT: What rom/kernel are you running? And did you do a full wipe when you flashed them?
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I was running CyanogenMod 9 Nightlies Galaxy Tab 10.1 WIFI, then after a week switched to [ICS]Ganbarou GT-P7500/7501/7510/7511 CM9, and I am now as of yesterday on [JB][AOSP][ALPHA] Android 4.1.1 - Jelly Bean - [GT-P7510], full wipe as usual for them all, bar JellyBean where I had to return to stock first.
I've had the same power problem on them all, but i've noticed i've managed a 10hr stretch on JellyBean, so stats are attached.
Problem fixed.
I installed the Jelly Bean alpha, but it was still happening, so I drained the battery completely, then charged it fully, and that fixed the problem.
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Hi there,
just in advance: Yes, I have read quite a bunch of battery drain threads, but non of them seemed to help me.
Compared to GB, my SGS2 doesn't even seem to last more than a day in terms of battery life.
Now I wonder - is it just me playing around with (otherwise awesome) CM9 and battery life is actually normal or is there some kind of battery drain going on?
Running CM9 14-04, stock kernel, LPS baseband.
Attached please find BBS stats and other battery stats screenshots.
Help very much appreciated
lunatic54 said:
Hi there,
just in advance: Yes, I have read quite a bunch of battery drain threads, but non of them seemed to help me.
Compared to GB, my SGS2 doesn't even seem to last more than a day in terms of battery life.
Now I wonder - is it just me playing around with (otherwise awesome) CM9 and battery life is actually normal or is there some kind of battery drain going on?
Running CM9 14-04, stock kernel, LPS baseband.
Attached please find BBS stats and other battery stats screenshots.
Help very much appreciated
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Awake over 2 hours, 1 hr 43 min screen on, down to 62%. That's on track for 5.5 hours awake time, and about 4.5 hours screen on time. Looks pretty normal.
You MIGHT be able to squeeze a bit more juice out by playing with your sync and display settings, but that otherwise doesn't look that bad.
ctomgee said:
You MIGHT be able to squeeze a bit more juice out by playing with your sync and display settings, but that otherwise doesn't look that bad.
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Sync is pretty much off completely and display brightness was on 'auto'...
the graph looks pretty good without gsf and alarm manager wakelocks
Have you tried to re-calibrate your phone? I once messed around with my battery and i lost 70% battery overnight when it was on 100% because i was unplpugging, plugging my phone in randomly.
How do I do that?
Just bought a 2000mA battery and it seems I still got the same 'issue'...
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lunatic54 said:
How do I do that?
Just bought a 2000mA battery and it seems I still got the same 'issue'...
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Download battery calibration app from play store, put phone on charge, wait untill will be 100% charged, open battery calibration app, click calibrate, unplug you phone. Done.
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How do I do that?
Just bought a 2000mA battery and it seems I still got the same 'issue'...
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Did you try to wipe your battery stats? Also, I noticed that playing around flashing the Roms, requires 2-3 full charging cycles before the battery was "stable" again
I've also read the following but didn't try it (I imagine it does the same than wiping the battery stats in the recovery, but you never know, you can try it):
Delete batterystats.bin in data/system, after full charging (with Rootexplorer or another app)
Then, use it until to 90%, and full charging.
Good luck!
When is it a good idea to wipe battery stats? When it's empty or at full charge?
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The CM9 has some battery drain problems because is still developing maybe try wiyth another rom and see if the problem remains
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When is it a good idea to wipe battery stats? When it's empty or at full charge?
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when its full charge. Try to play with other ROM+kernel, i did this and solved the battery drain issue....
Good Luck
M90 said:
The CM9 has some battery drain problems because is still developing maybe try with another rom and see if the problem remains
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Stats seem fine to me. Your phone shouldn't drain much when idle, but once that big screen is lit up the power drains much faster. The SGS2 stock battery is not huge to begin with either. Your 2000mah will be better though, especially after using it for a few cycles. You can also try flashing a different stock kernel or custom kernel (Siyah, etc).
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Thanks guys!
So charged my 2000mA battery up to 100% now and wiped the battery stats. Hope this helps.
I really wanted to stick to CM9, because I don't wanna do a factory reset every couple of days when flashing other ROMs, because I'm tired of setting up all my stuff over and over again...
Are the other ROMs really that much better? Thought that CM9 would be best, because most popular...
Or could it be the baseband/modem too?
I am on LPS right now... I've searched the forums forever, but can't seem to find an answer for:
What is the best baseband/modem for battery life?
lunatic54 said:
Or could it be the baseband/modem too?
I am on LPS right now... I've searched the forums forever, but can't seem to find an answer for:
What is the best baseband/modem for battery life?
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ANSWER = non use whats best for your location network and phone .
jje
So I'm using Vodafone in Germany... anyone else?
Hi guys,
Is anyone having battery drain issues with their new sgs3's?
With my one it wouldn't last 12 hours without dying. Also if its at 100% it'll drop to 70% overnight while i sleep (6-7 hours) and thats with power saver on, sync off and running juicedefender.
Today I factory reset the phone and only installed flash, whatsapp and dolphin browser. Have wifi on, sync, data, gps and bluetooth off. Havent got pictures of battery stats yet since I only reset it half an hour ago.
So is anyone else experiencing battery drain? if so have you fixed it? and how?
Are there any apps I should be aware of that drain the battery?
I would remove juice defender.
Uninstall lightflow app if you are using it.
Use betterbstterystats to identify any wakelocks. The xda thread of the same name will be able to help with solutions.
Other than that follow general tips on increasing battery life that are found all over xda.
This device is easily capable of much better battery life than you are getting.
Good luck.
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Something wrong with your battery maybe? This phone is easily one of the longest lasting smart phones I've used
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I lost only 8 percent at night's . Install bad ass battery monitor and find the culprit app
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uf21 said:
Hi guys,
Is anyone having battery drain issues with their new sgs3's?
With my one it wouldn't last 12 hours without dying. Also if its at 100% it'll drop to 70% overnight while i sleep (6-7 hours) and thats with power saver on, sync off and running juicedefender.
Today I factory reset the phone and only installed flash, whatsapp and dolphin browser. Have wifi on, sync, data, gps and bluetooth off. Havent got pictures of battery stats yet since I only reset it half an hour ago.
So is anyone else experiencing battery drain? if so have you fixed it? and how?
Are there any apps I should be aware of that drain the battery?
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No issues at all so far, in my case. In fact this is the first Android phone I've owned that has no battery-related issues
Based on my previous experience what you can try doing is (a) install CPU Spy to see if your phone is entering 'deep sleep' appropriately (b) install BetterBatteryStats to identify offending applications.
Even the 'Battery' section in settings is useful -- just check if any apps are keeping the phone awake for longer than you've actually used them ('Stay Awake' number).
ok well ive installed bad ass battery monitor since its free. Also since I did factory restore i charged it to full and in 1 hour 44 mins it used 7% on idle. Going to charge it to full again and use it normally to see how it is.
Only apps ive installed is XDA, badd ass battery, dolphin browser and whatsapp.
maybe you have samsung widgets etc set to refresh every hour or shorter. Or could be Whatapp
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maybe you have samsung widgets etc set to refresh every hour or shorter. Or could be Whatapp
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That's after the factory reset. Before I had a more stuff installed.
Right now it's been about 3.5 hours and I'm at 74% with light use.
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That's definitely not right. Perhaps you have a dodgy battery? Can you find an app that measures the batteries mha. I use battery monitor pro. I will post a screenshot for comparison.
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i have a problem with battery also... when it goes 100% and i unplug the charger ii falls directly to 99% i tried everything wipe battery stats left the phone 5-6 hours to charge but nothing...
maybe i need a new battery? can i try anything else?
[email protected]@xyS said:
i have a problem with battery also... when it goes 100% and i unplug the charger ii falls directly to 99% i tried everything wipe battery stats left the phone 5-6 hours to charge but nothing...
maybe i need a new battery? can i try anything else?
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Don't be concerned by this. It appears to be normal behavior on this phone.
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corrsea said:
That's definitely not right. Perhaps you have a dodgy battery? Can you find an app that measures the batteries mha. I use battery monitor pro. I will post a screenshot for comparison.
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Just woke up and about to start work (Australia time). Ive taken a bunch of screenshots from stock battery monitor and from bad ass battery monitor. Will post up when I get home.
Also I installed battery monitor pro but it wont let me select 2100mAh. when I put it 2100mAh and press ok it just goes back to 1500mAh. Battery is currently at 36%.
uf21 said:
Hi guys,
Is anyone having battery drain issues with their new sgs3's?
With my one it wouldn't last 12 hours without dying. Also if its at 100% it'll drop to 70% overnight while i sleep (6-7 hours) and thats with power saver on, sync off and running juicedefender.
Today I factory reset the phone and only installed flash, whatsapp and dolphin browser. Have wifi on, sync, data, gps and bluetooth off. Havent got pictures of battery stats yet since I only reset it half an hour ago.
So is anyone else experiencing battery drain? if so have you fixed it? and how?
Are there any apps I should be aware of that drain the battery?
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Make a search for BetterBatteryStats in xda, install, learn how to use it and identify the cause of the drain
uf21 said:
Just woke up and about to start work (Australia time). Ive taken a bunch of screenshots from stock battery monitor and from bad ass battery monitor. Will post up when I get home.
Also I installed battery monitor pro but it wont let me select 2100mAh. when I put it 2100mAh and press ok it just goes back to 1500mAh. Battery is currently at 36%.
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Just a guess bit that might indicate that your unit has been shipped with a dodgy battery. I would get it tested and replaced.
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Not too happy with my battery either. Fully charged over night and its down to 89% 1hr 30 later. Is that normal? However, you did mention lightflow earlier though which I have installed - Is that a massive battery drain? My battery stats seem to show display as being the big culprit but I have brightness set to it lowest setting.
Also, can't seem to find battery monitor pro on play?
Not too happy with my battery either. Fully charged over night and its down to 89% 1hr 30 later. Is that normal? However, you did mention lightflow earlier though which I have installed - Is that a massive battery drain? My battery stats seem to show display as being the big culprit but I have brightness set to it lowest setting.
Also, can't seem to find battery monitor pro on play?
It's wifi, don't use it in sleep mode. There's a bug with it right now that keeps it awake.
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SlimJ87D said:
It's wifi, don't use it in sleep mode. There's a bug with it right now that keeps it awake.
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Would you not want wifi active in sleep mode so you are still getting emails etc?
rendez2k said:
Would you not want wifi active in sleep mode so you are still getting emails etc?
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No, I have a data plan. But trust me wifi is the culprit. I have a topic on this in the general section.
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SlimJ87D said:
No, I have a data plan. But trust me wifi is the culprit. I have a topic on this in the general section.
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I'm on Omega V4.0 and with wifi always on, fully charged 3 hours back and when i woke up it's 95% remaining. So about 1.66% loss per hour in sleep mode. With regular usage and installing and testing different roms and backing up etc them i easily get about 8~10 hours. Phone's made in Korea and battery mfg date is 2012.5.6.
Plus tons of widgets on home screens.
Hey guys, I have no idea what's happening, but this has been going on for a while. I have an unlocked galaxy s ii, and I love it, but lately the battery drain has been unbearable. If I just play a video on it I can probably get 5 hours of screen on time, which seems pretty good to me, but if its sitting in my pocket the battery just keeps going down. Once it went down 8 percent in five minutes doing absolutely nothing. Facebook also takes away way too much battery. Could someone recommend some apps to monitor battery usage and possibly tell me what to do? Thanks
Squirks said:
Hey guys, I have no idea what's happening, but this has been going on for a while. I have an unlocked galaxy s ii, and I love it, but lately the battery drain has been unbearable. If I just play a video on it I can probably get 5 hours of screen on time, which seems pretty good to me, but if its sitting in my pocket the battery just keeps going down. Once it went down 8 percent in five minutes doing absolutely nothing. Facebook also takes away way too much battery. Could someone recommend some apps to monitor battery usage and possibly tell me what to do? Thanks
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1) try friend caster instead of Facebook
2) use better battery stats (BBS) app to see whats draining ur Batt so that u can take action with them
3) use CPU spy app to see if ur phone is entering Deepsleep r not
Rooted?
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Okay, I'll try both those apps. Yes, I'm rooted, running the latest version of resurrection remix icx.
Squirks said:
Okay, I'll try both those apps. Yes, I'm rooted, running the latest version of resurrection remix icx.
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Charge your battery till 100% boot into recovery advanced wipe battery stats and reboot.I hope this will solve your issues
hit thx if this helped
I noticed my S3 drains about 10% battery overnight. I dont think this is normal. Wifi and 3g are off, it just lies there by my bed doing nothing. Ive restarted it and no help.
Cell standby shows 41% usage. Is that right?
The 2 red circles in the screenshot show when my phone is idle just lying there.
Any help?
We need more information. What apps run? have you remove/freeze bloatware. Are you rooted? what rom are you on?
I'm going to run this based on speculation perhaps side effects of rooting your phone? I know there is no conclusive evidence of this but a hypothesis as such. My apologies if you aren't rooted.
Itadakiimasu said:
I'm going to run this based on speculation perhaps side effects of rooting your phone? I know there is no conclusive evidence of this but a hypothesis as such. My apologies if you aren't rooted.
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why would rooting your phone create battery drain?
OP the standard answer is to install better battery stats and check it again to see what those wakelocks are. Once you find out why your phone is waking up you can do something about it.
vikeor said:
I noticed my S3 drains about 10% battery overnight. I dont think this is normal. Wifi and 3g are off, it just lies there by my bed doing nothing. Ive restarted it and no help.
Cell standby shows 41% usage. Is that right?
The 2 red circles in the screenshot show when my phone is idle just lying there.
Any help?
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I'm also getting a 10% battery drain over night. I've been putting the phone in airplane mode to see if that helps at all but it really doesn't. Anyway we can inprove this? 10% seems like a lot for sleeping...
Death&co said:
I'm also getting a 10% battery drain over night. I've been putting the phone in airplane mode to see if that helps at all but it really doesn't. Anyway we can inprove this? 10% seems like a lot for sleeping...
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install better battery stats and find what causes wakelocks......as above post!
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thanks for the replies everyone, Im using the latest stock firmware... no rooting here...
Installing better battery stats as we speak and see what they say...
GSam Battery Monitor and / or BetterBatteryStats would be the first place as mentioned already.
I was able to find what was causing me most issues. It was some Calender storage and Google syncs (bookmarks, contacts etc) even though I didn't have them activated.
Anyway, after freezing them I now only lose 2-3% overnight. That is with gmail push, email sync every 4 hours and about 7 or 8 other Widgets updating every few hours. Mostly noticed a massive improvement when I flashed the latest siyah kernal.
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skimminstones said:
why would rooting your phone create battery drain?
OP the standard answer is to install better battery stats and check it again to see what those wakelocks are. Once you find out why your phone is waking up you can do something about it.
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I don't know but I get the feeling that rooting various phones might have hidden side effects as such, rooting your phone is still evolving as of today. There are still alot that the general doesn't know hence there are always new things about rooting although I might not be knowledgeable in that department. However is it possible to unroot your phone? rather revert it to stock? try doing that and see if there are any differences.
Hi, my phone drains within 10 hours on standby. It drains while off as well. It has NOTHING to do with my ROM or kernel because I've used multiple and nothing with my apps or wakelock. I bought a new battery with a bigger capacity but it didn't help. It seems absolutely random and I think the hardware is not working correctly. Any help?
Flo_wz said:
Hi, my phone drains within 10 hours on standby. It drains while off as well. It has NOTHING to do with my ROM or kernel because I've used multiple and nothing with my apps or wakelock. I bought a new battery with a bigger capacity but it didn't help. It seems absolutely random and I think the hardware is not working correctly. Any help?
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Hi. There could be numerous reasons for this battery drain. Firstly, I would recommend attempting to narrow down the problem somewhat by using many of the available apps that come to mind. Try wakelock detector, better battery stats and cpu spy.
It could also perhaps be the radio of your phone. You could also try switching to 2G only or turning GPS or bluetooth off and see if that helps.
All battery related problems take a bit of patience.
Flo_wz said:
Hi, my phone drains within 10 hours on standby. It drains while off as well. It has NOTHING to do with my ROM or kernel because I've used multiple and nothing with my apps or wakelock. I bought a new battery with a bigger capacity but it didn't help. It seems absolutely random and I think the hardware is not working correctly. Any help?
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Try to clean cache /factory reset and dalvik cache for about 5-6 times... without restarting the phone
I had the same problem after flashing a rom.. and after that i changed rom and it continues to drain out battert....
After 10 cahe wiping and factory reset i come back to normal drain
ph4t3 said:
Hi. There could be numerous reasons for this battery drain. Firstly, I would recommend attempting to narrow down the problem somewhat by using many of the available apps that come to mind. Try wakelock detector, better battery stats and cpu spy.
It could also perhaps be the radio of your phone. You could also try switching to 2G only or turning GPS or bluetooth off and see if that helps.
All battery related problems take a bit of patience.
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I've tried all of those, and the battery drains even on airplane mode. Thanks for the help though!
You tryed altought with my answer?
I tried it, didn't work. Any other ideas?
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I really need some help here, I've been trying to fix this problem forever now
have you resetted the battery stats? Your battery could be at the end of its life aswell, but I can't conclude that for you
If you're rooted uninstall google maps and use greenify for hibernate user apps,
In developer options choose background processes at most 2
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bruetje said:
have you resetted the battery stats? Your battery could be at the end of its life aswell, but I can't conclude that for you
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I got a new battery and I've wiped my battery stats too, nothing really seems to work.
akshay.mehta9 said:
If you're rooted uninstall google maps and use greenify for hibernate user apps,
In developer options choose background processes at most 2
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Nope, Nothing. Thanks though
It also charges very quickly and somehow loses about 10 percent with the battery REMOVED in 45 min.
I think your battery is not compatible with your device hardware.
Try to use the original manufacturers battery
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akshay.mehta9 said:
I think your battery is not compatible with your device hardware.
Try to use the original manufacturers battery
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The original one has the exact same problems, both batteries seem to be fine.