[Q] Battery usage kitkat - HTC Droid DNA

Just curious if anyone else is seeing battery life cut in half since the Kit Kat update? I was getting two full days on a charge before and now im getting less than a full day. At first it did an upgrade to my existing ICS which I thought may be a contributing factor but after a hard reset battery life is still poor.
My batt usage meter says that 77% of my juice is being used by the OS.

I've only been using it since this morning, so I'll follow up in a day or two, but battery life seems to be improved for me. For last few hours its been sipping battery; used about 8% in 2 hours with a lot of texting and browsing.
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I always found that with each update it seemed to get worse. But on a custom rom it's amazing.
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I am pure stock and the battery life after the update has been about the same for me over the last three days.
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Also, if you use Google Location Services they will wake up the phone hundreds of times per day, turn on GPS for minutes etc. Very bad for battery life on our phone (that has a relatively small battery). You can disable this in settings, location, mode, and set it to Device Sensors (ie GPS). This means Wi-Fi based location no longer works, but you get better stand by battery life. Needless to say, I am upset with Google about this decision to link their location services with such aggressive mandatory location reporting.
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faulty battery?

not to sure where i should post this... q&a vs development
i've had the thunderbolt for 3 days now
rooted + tesla + lean kernal 1.41 extreme (slotted at 1222)
i can't seem to make it more than 8 or 9 hrs with minimal usage
when i look at app usage with system panel app none of my apps are eating at the battery... and display really isn't taking that much either
i should note that this also with 4g off (wifi off gps off low display setting)
i doubt it's a kernel issue cause i've tried 4 different kernels
the battery life on this device can't be this horrendous with all of the above mentioned. i'm coming from a motodroid and i would make it 7am to 11pm no problem with pretty good usage.
thoughts?
Give it a week or so. I had horrible battery life too, but now I get 15 hours on light use and it's only at 41%. This includes the 6 hours I slept.
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didn't follow that...
you're saying after 15 hrs of light use you're at 41%?
that would be much better
fixed
after wiping battery stats via recovery my battery drainage is completely fixed...
getting incredible battery life with tesla + lean kernel (extreme slotted at 1222)
thanks
Make sure you turn off 4g when not in use. I have mine set to 3g only since I don't get 4g where I am. I'm also running Tesla and battery life is incredible with moderate use.
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I've posted on other threads about the battery on this device and figure i'll reply here also. I've had the phone about 2 1/2 weeks now, have not attempted to root it yet but tried getting the extended battery, using apps like battery doctor, watchdog, juice defender, etc... even battery calibration on the original battery as well as the extended and still had very poor battery life. Luckily since I got this from Best Buy Mobile and they have a 30-day return policy, I am going to take it back this thursday and exchange for the new Samsung Droid Charge.

[Q] About the Battery....

So I officially hate the battery life in the XT912. It lasts only about 5 hours a day. Any tips on conserving battery? I was thinking of buying an external one to carry with me so I can charge it in my pocket.
I get wonderful battery life on my maxx and you can't carry a spare battery considering the razr's is nonremovable
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For conserving battery life: turn down brightnesa, turn 4gLTE off and use only 3g, disable background or automatic syncing to name a few
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Turning down brightness helps a lot more than you might think. Every notch in that slider counts!
Also, lately, I've been limiting background processes to 4 at a time. It helped me get a few more hours of juice.
So far, my average has been about 30 hours of battery if idle (even with wi-fi on [I have really strong wi-fi reception, so that might help]) and 18 hours if constantly checking Facebook and Twitter.
ZackDark said:
Turning down brightness helps a lot more than you might think. Every notch in that slider counts!
Also, lately, I've been limiting background processes to 4 at a time. It helped me get a few more hours of juice.
So far, my average has been about 30 hours of battery if idle (even with wi-fi on [I have really strong wi-fi reception, so that might help]) and 18 hours if constantly checking Facebook and Twitter.
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Okay thanks for the reply! I'll try to keep the brightness down and use a task killer app

4.1.1 Battery Life.

Can we get a consensus on whether battery life is better or worse, for those who have updated to Jelly Bean?
From my own experience, I'd say it's dramatically worse. After updating and using it for a week, I noticed the battery does drain a bit quicker than usual. And last night, i thought to myself, no big deal, I'll just factory reset, maybe that'd help.
Well, that was a bad move, strangely. After factory resetting and setting up my phone and apps, I noticed I had zapped 25% in just under 2 hours. No heavy WiFi usage either, just zipping around the phone setting preferences and just installing like 5 apps.
No such thing, battery performance depends on individual usage. I'd suggest using BetterBatteryStats to determine which apps may be causing wakelocks, and Greenify which hibernates apps of your choice to prevent them from running background services.
I'm not outright saying JB drains battery more than ICS, I'm saying it does for me, under the same usage. What I am wondering if others find JB has increased or decreased or not changed their battery life.
In my case, battery life has improved a lot. Using DX the same as before and now it lasts for 2 days where on ICS i was charging it every night.
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Mine lasts only 9 hours while 2 days in ics.
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Improved battery life for me also. With moderate use two days nicely. Yesterday almost every hour some browsing and theming, all time wifi and after twenty hours still fifty percent. ( I have only a little number of background apps, like launcher, whatsapp and notification toggles)
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i get atleast 12 hours of usage no.matter what on jb i got a max of 21 hrs usage for me battery life has improved but by a minor scale nothing too impressive actually
however what i really appreciate is when it comes to gaming i ran nfs most wanted for 2 hrs and some other games for another 2 hrs still got 4 hrs of on screen time
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Can we get a consensus on whether battery life is better or worse, for those who have updated to Jelly Bean?
From my own experience, I'd say it's dramatically worse. After updating and using it for a week, I noticed the battery does drain a bit quicker than usual. And last night, i thought to myself, no big deal, I'll just factory reset, maybe that'd help.
Well, that was a bad move, strangely. After factory resetting and setting up my phone and apps, I noticed I had zapped 25% in just under 2 hours. No heavy WiFi usage either, just zipping around the phone setting preferences and just installing like 5 apps.
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In my opinion the battery life is preatty much the same. I think this difference may appears due to the apps installed.
Longer battery life for usage mainly text and social, plus light browsing.
Build it power saving is good enough. Can stand for two days.
For me there is no change in battery life. However, I'm new with my HTC desire x(one month), my usage time last maximum 4.5hrs if I use continuously, browsing, play store, etc. but if I use my phone more less, like picking call, once a day checking play store, I get usage time around 2 hrs. But the battery life in total including idle time, it's 2day. Not sure if its normal. Can anyone give me some tips or help?
Btw, my wifi is always on, but not using continuously. Disabled all auto sync. I want to keep in wifi for viber and whatsapp and my favourite HTC clock and weather widget. Do u think this wil drain my battery in idle mode?
I tried to switch off wifi while going to sleep night. Approx 8hours when wifi off, idle mode, only 1% was discharged from battery. Not bad for idle mode. But usage consumption is horrible. Just going through some app menu and setting, not applying any changes, within 4 minutes it takes 1% of battery power. Is this normal for everyone? I think this is called as poor battery life for desire x. Now if I play a game or chat, message it might be worse. My brightness was set to auto and most of the time I prefer to keep it zero brightness. Because the auto brightness is not going to its minimum level of brightness even in dark night situations.
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For me there is no change in battery life. However, I'm new with my HTC desire x(one month), my usage time last maximum 4.5hrs if I use continuously, browsing, play store, etc. but if I use my phone more less, like picking call, once a day checking play store, I get usage time around 2 hrs. But the battery life in total including idle time, it's 2day. Not sure if its normal. Can anyone give me some tips or help?
Btw, my wifi is always on, but not using continuously. Disabled all auto sync. I want to keep in wifi for viber and whatsapp and my favourite HTC clock and weather widget. Do u think this wil drain my battery in idle mode?
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it will but only minimal i got 8 hrs of on screen continous wifi usage so idle mode is no issue since you have already disabled auto sync...
auto sync is actually the battery hog in my perspective....
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anilnc said:
I tried to switch off wifi while going to sleep night. Approx 8hours when wifi off, idle mode, only 1% was discharged from battery. Not bad for idle mode. But usage consumption is horrible. Just going through some app menu and setting, not applying any changes, within 4 minutes it takes 1% of battery power. Is this normal for everyone? I think this is called as poor battery life for desire x. Now if I play a game or chat, message it might be worse. My brightness was set to auto and most of the time I prefer to keep it zero brightness. Because the auto brightness is not going to its minimum level of brightness even in dark night situations.
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umm turn off the auto brightness in settings???:laugh::laugh:
djranbhir said:
it will but only minimal i got 8 hrs of on screen continous wifi usage so idle mode is no issue since you have already disabled auto sync...
auto sync is actually the battery hog in my perspective....
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You mean you got 8 hours of usage time? Screen being on? That's something great battery then.. How is it possible? I get maximum 4.5 hours.
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djranbhir said:
umm turn off the auto brightness in settings???:laugh::laugh:
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Yes I turned off the auto brightness and set the brightness level completely down to zero. I use the power widget to do this task with a click. Instead of going to setting>display etc..
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Gnaver said:
Improved battery life for me also. With moderate use two days nicely. Yesterday almost every hour some browsing and theming, all time wifi and after twenty hours still fifty percent. ( I have only a little number of background apps, like launcher, whatsapp and notification toggles)
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You are not using the clock & weather widget?
I'm not using sense at all
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I'm not using sense at all
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Oops.. Are u not using HTC desire x itself?
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Oops.. Are u not using HTC desire x itself?
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I'm using desire, this is my second phone
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Then u said u r not using sense? Did u mean you changed sense with something else? Rooting?
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Then u said u r not using sense? Did u mean you changed sense with something else? Rooting?
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I'm using apex and disabled the Rosie launcher. Also only a few apps with I need (no some special apps like games, news etc) keep it as simple as I can
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You mean you got 8 hours of usage time? Screen being on? That's something great battery then.. How is it possible? I get maximum 4.5 hours.
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Yes I turned off the auto brightness and set the brightness level completely down to zero. I use the power widget to do this task with a click. Instead of going to setting>display etc..
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You are not using the clock & weather widget?
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I have disabled quite a lot of bloatware apps I don't use social networking apps sound hound and I don't remember rest so I pretty much have 175 mb + ram I want for smooth gaming I played nfs asphalt 7 subway surf a lot got about 8 hrs battery life but was gaming like an hour on each game with some breaks to check on email and browsing but my battery life has always been great
I think your mobile is better than desire x then. Because its not about apps for me. Whenever the screen is on battery drains faster. Sometimes I only attend some calls and SMS, then battery stays 2 days but the usage time is 2 hours. If I use continuously, then I get max 4.5 hours.

Pretty sure I just solved the battery drain problem....

So I, like many others with the G2, have been experiencing inexplicable battery drain even after shutting down most services (i.e. Google Music, location tracking, CIQ, etc.).
I got my phone last friday and was getting absolute **** battery life until last night. For example, at 70% brightness with a lot of internet surfing, I wouild get aboiut 2.5 hours of screen time before the battery was at 10%. Just the other day, I went from 100% charge to 30% charge with only 1 h 35 min of screen time at 65% brightness. Two nights ago I lost 30% battery life over 6 hours while I slept! My typical usage of browsing the net saw the meter drop 1% for every 1-2 minutes of use at 70% brightness (wifi or 4G LTE)
I was about to return my phone for a replacement until I did more research on this android "mediaserver" and realized that it could possibly be the issue. Checking the default battery app showed that Mediaserver went from 15 to 25% of the total power used on those days. So i went into Google Settings > Google+ > Auto backup and shut that **** off
Bingo!!!!
I only lost 5% last night (9 hours) while I slept and today I have been using the phone for the past 4 hours with less than a 10% loss so far. Browsing the net gets me around 4-5 minutes for each 1% drop at 65% brightness. This is all on a stock ROM that was rooted to disable the CIQ. Nowadays my mediacenter usage is no higher than 3% on any given charge. I will post pictures of GSAM and the stock battery app over the next few days as I test it from a 100% charge.
good find, it will solve some battery drains but not all
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What bad battery life are people speaking of? My battery life has been phenomenal since I got the phone....
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Let me just say this is not typical screen time for me. Today was my off day and I spent it doing a lot of reading and browsing. Quite a bit of ratchet fight videos off Facebook too. Lol
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Pfft that's very typical screen time for this phone
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tacosrdelicioso said:
Pfft that's very typical screen time for this phone
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Ya think.... that was my point...
This is not directed at the above person:
what is bad battery life these days... man I remember getting 3 hours of screen time and you were a champ. Now phones last more than 2 day's with 6+ hours of screen time and people still complain it's bad or they need more juice... How long should the batteries last in these smart phones?
Sorry for the rant op.....
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Ya think.... that was my point...
This is not directed at the above person:
what is bad battery life these days... man I remember getting 3 hours of screen time and you were a champ. Now phones last more than 2 day's with 6+ hours of screen time and people still complain it's bad or they need more juice... How long should the batteries last in these smart phones?
Sorry for the rant op.....
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+1 to that. I've been getting great battery life on this phone with moderate use.
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I added about 30% to my battery life by turning off Google Now and all the associated location reporting (went from charging every 2 days to every 3 days).
before running cm on my phone I use to get 7 hrs screen on time and about 20 hrs on one charge. I don't know why some ppl are having bad battery.
2 days and 5 hours of screen isn't good enough battery!
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craigbailey1986 said:
Ya think.... that was my point...
This is not directed at the above person:
what is bad battery life these days... man I remember getting 3 hours of screen time and you were a champ. Now phones last more than 2 day's with 6+ hours of screen time and people still complain it's bad or they need more juice... How long should the batteries last in these smart phones?
Sorry for the rant op.....
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If you bothered to read my OP then you would see what I constitute as bad battery life. Namely, the intense drain while doing nothing and the lack of screen time for such a large battery. This phone is quoted by many to get around 5-7 hours of screen time regardless of what you can throw at it. Unfortunately, there are people that are experiencing drains like mine and can only get 2-3 hours of screen on time while only doing basic tasks. Most people do not experience this but the issue is quite prevalent in several other threads here.
Mediaserver can hang inexplicably, as G+ backup can too. Brth have happened to me.
Cycling the sync auto works for fixing the drain without disabling services.
Without a sc card, and even with, I recommend leaving it on.
Lose your phone, or get it stolen like my wife a couple months ago, and you'll wish it was on.
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If you bothered to read my OP then you would see what I constitute as bad battery life. Namely, the intense drain while doing nothing and the lack of screen time for such a large battery. This phone is quoted by many to get around 5-7 hours of screen time regardless of what you can throw at it. Unfortunately, there are people that are experiencing drains like mine and can only get 2-3 hours of screen on time while only doing basic tasks. Most people do not experience this but the issue is quite prevalent in several other threads here.
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Op I read your entire post. I stated I personally haven't seen such abysmal battery life. What phone do those with battery life that's constantly draining have.. I mean vwz att d802 or etc? Maybe we can narrow down these incidences. Over night losing 30% is a lot. I usually lose 3-4% over night. I don't turn off anything. But I do use 4.4 Google search, hangout,market, and mostly all Google apps from 4.4. Could they be using less battery or draining less??
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I was about to return my phone for a replacement until I did more research on this android "mediaserver" and realized that it could possibly be the issue. Checking the default battery app showed that Mediaserver went from 15 to 25% of the total power used on those days. So i went into Google Settings > Google+ > Auto backup and shut that **** off
Bingo!!!!
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I think there is a setting for the Auto Backup of Google+ wherein you can do the following;
Back up photos only when there is a Wi-Fi connection available.
Back up videos only when there is a Wi-Fi connection available.
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While charging only.
With these options, I think you will not have a problem with the battery esp while sleeping...
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before running cm on my phone I use to get 7 hrs screen on time and about 20 hrs on one charge. I don't know why some ppl are having bad battery.
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What do you get running CM? Is it a big difference?
Where is this setting? I looked under my google account and don't see it
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I don't know people are getting that kind of battery life! I get 2.5 hours of screen time and 38 hours of total battery life for every charge. Google Now is activated (I use it often), but otherwise GPS is off, Bluetooth is off, and WIFI is on for 15+ hours a day.
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Where is this setting? I looked under my google account and don't see it
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goto apps > google settings > google+
guys, its not about bad batterylife but a possible battery drain you may or may not have issues with.
granted Op can state a batterydrain vs the batterydrain, or state that this doesnt affect all, but if it does, this could be it
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CIQ?
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Droid Life review says battery life sucks ?

DroidLife; HTC One (M8) Review
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/04/07/htc-one-m8-review/
Battery life sucks on the M8 ?
HTC claims that the new One (M8) could see upwards of 40% better battery life over last year’s M7, but I’m not I’m buying it. I saw average battery life in my testing on the 2,600mAh battery that wasn’t necessarily greatly improved over last year’s One. My testing typically includes multiple days in a row of nothing but 4G LTE, followed by a few with WiFi mixed in. On 4G LTE-only days, my phone was almost always begging for a charger after 10-12 hours of use and around 3 hours of screen-on time.
Per this review they say battery life is average at best, and not that good, only getting 3h On Screen time, and overall just like 10h - 12h of total battery life on the phone, and with WiFi on they get 14 hours total battery life.
I thought all the real world reviews of people, and other sites were raving about the battery life on this new One M8 ? getting like 5h to 6h On Screen time ?
I think like any phone the usage patterns vary so much that there's only so much you can conclude from individual reports. On average it seems people are getting great battery life so I would go with it will be decent. Anandtech has a more controlled testing method and the M8 even beats the LG G2 in many tests so I would say it will get great battery life under normal circumstances. Droid life is very subjective with battery life while Anand is much more objective which is why I put more faith in their tests. In the end though I had the G2 while on sprint and my battery wasn't anywhere close to what most people were getting but I also had very weak signal most of the time. Now that I'm back on ATT I'm hoping when I get the M8 I will get better battery than the G2 on Sprint.
He's smoking crack. I had a bad app for the first few days of owning my M8. Uninstalled it (after finding it in battery stats on Gsam) and it hasn't even been the same phone. Blows away my M7 on battery life and is pretty close to beating most of the other phones I have used, including the G2 and Note 3.
Idle drain was around 3% in 8 hours (tested this weekend) without battery saver mode on, which is insane for an Android phone and it lasted me almost two full days over the weekend. It can't hold a candle to my 1520, but it's still much improved over the M7 and many of the recent Android flagships.
I was on 1 day 17 hours on battery before plugging mine in this morning with pretty normal daytime use including a bunch of reboots to flash stuff. Good enough for me.
K I'm blind. Where do you find the screen on time in the phone?
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K I'm blind. Where do you find the screen on time in the phone?
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Under Battery Manager in settings. I suggest using an app like Gsam Battery Monitor though. Works much better!
K tyvm
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greyhulk said:
He's smoking crack. I had a bad app for the first few days of owning my M8. Uninstalled it (after finding it in battery stats on Gsam) and it hasn't even been the same phone. Blows away my M7 on battery life and is pretty close to beating most of the other phones I have used, including the G2 and Note 3.
Idle drain was around 3% in 8 hours (tested this weekend) without battery saver mode on, which is insane for an Android phone and it lasted me almost two full days over the weekend. It can't hold a candle to my 1520, but it's still much improved over the M7 and many of the recent Android flagships.
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What you use to find the culprit in GSAM? Was it the bottom left icon that's called "App Sucker" when you open it?
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What you use to find the culprit in GSAM? Was it the bottom left icon that's called "App Sucker" when you open it?
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It was a OWA webmail app I had installed and yes, it showed up in the app list. It only had 1.5% reported drain, but uninstalling it made a huge improvement on my battery life. I guess the rule is: if it shows up there at all, it's impacting your battery.
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It was a OWA webmail app I had installed and yes, it showed up in the app list. It only had 1.5% reported drain, but uninstalling it made a huge improvement on my battery life. I guess the rule is: if it shows up there at all, it's impacting your battery.
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Ah gotcha! I've had really good battery life but if I notice anything funny I'll take a look in Gsam. Thanks!
I've owned a LOT of phones the last 2-3 years. Iphone 5/5s, Galaxy S4, Nexus 5, and now the M8. The battery life on this kills every one of them. I use it all day, going from watching videos on youtube, browsing FB, IG, and Tumblr, texting, and emailing. Mostly on LTE, but with a little wifi mixed in. At the end of the day I avg 5.5hr of screen on time, and have 25% battery left. I don't know what conditions they did their testing in, or what they may have had running in the background, but I think they should redo their tests.
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I've owned a LOT of phones the last 2-3 years. Iphone 5/5s, Galaxy S4, Nexus 5, and now the M8. The battery life on this kills every one of them. I use it all day, going from watching videos on youtube, browsing FB, IG, and Tumblr, texting, and emailing. Mostly on LTE, but with a little wifi mixed in. At the end of the day I avg 5.5hr of screen on time, and have 25% battery left. I don't know what conditions they did their testing in, or what they may have had running in the background, but I think they should redo their tests.
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I have very similar use. One Gmail account pushed, one business exchange account pushed, emailing, texting, calling, videos, browsing, camera etc all day long. And I have some LONG days since I have grad school after work two days a week until 9 PM so I don't even end up getting home until 945. Battery life is almost if not as good as the note 3 I was just using. And I chose the note 3 in the first place because it could get through my day.
They better check their hypotenuses.
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I find it hard to believe that they could have possibly had bad battery life from this phone. I charged mine overnight Sunday night, then took it off the charger Monday morning. I just charged it this afternoon. I don't have gsam, but I'm sure I had at least 2 hrs screen time, and well over 1 hr talk time. That's way better than any other android phone I've ever had.
This has been hands down the best battery life I have seen of any smartphone I have had (see signature) screen on time is greater than 3 hours with a total time off charger of 16-17 hours. Imo if you want 6 hours of screen time, get a tablet lol.
http://androidandme.com/2014/04/reviews/htc-one-m8-battery-it-keeps-going-and-going/
This review is a lot more in line with what I'm seeing. I went out of my way to use the phone two days in a row without charging and it made it home with 7%, being on the whole time with lots of picture taking and otherwise normal use, listening to music on the train, etc. Considering that only a couple of years ago one of the biggest knocks on android phones was battery performance, I'd say things are pretty good right now.
I am a power user. I got well over 6 hours screen time yesterday. And still had 10% left. I would be LUCKY to get 3 hrs on my Nexus 5.
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I am a power user. I got well over 6 hours screen time yesterday. And still had 10% left. I would be LUCKY to get 3 hrs on my Nexus 5.
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Do you not have anything to do in your life that you use your phone 6 hours a day?
Lol, I just got back from vacation. Still on it technically. Was lazy yesterday aside from going to the gym. Wanted to test the battery life so how far I could push it. Used the phone the majority of the day instead of my PC into the late night. Pretty impressive.
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On a regular day. I see me plugging in the phone before bed with probably 30-40% juice left. 6 hrs screen time won't be a everyday thing lol.
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Here is something that helps battery life in my case, if you go to your Accounts and Sync settings then click on google, you can choose what google services you want to sync. Just turn off the stuff you don't use. It's not too big, but it helps.
I have two phones M8 and Note 3 I use them equally all day one for business and one for personal the M8 which is for business had been the victor in battery life easy by 4-6 hours, I love them both there really not in the same device category but M8 has really good battery life.
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