Once in a while, when your significant other yells at you, you might use your phone a bit less. Rate this thread to express how the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge's battery performs under light use. A higher rating indicates that the device goes a long time when you're using the phone sparingly: no gaming or video/audio streaming, light web browsing, some calling and texts, etc.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
With light use, there is barely any battery drain. You will end the day at around 60%.
I do couple hours of waze an some gaming throughout the day, with the usual texting, facebook, internet, etc. My SOT has averaged anywhere from 5 hours to 6 hours and 42 minutes (best so far) with 5% to spare.
8.5hrs SOT in 60hrs total runtime with 5% left. G935V.
today im working from home so ive been doing some casual web browsing and app store browsing for a bit, on wifi the whole time, no tethering or anything. phone has been unplugged since about 9AM and it is now 3:30 and im at 84% battery.
marquinhodsdm said:
With light use, there is barely any battery drain. You will end the day at around 60%.
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I've had a light day today (with some browsing, chatting and redditing), and I have 80% left at 1:47 (AM) (2 hours 30 min SOT and around 15 hours up-time), so I don't think I even have to charge it tonight :silly: The battery is ridiculously good (Exynos).
Definitely enough for one day use
So I unplugged mine Wednesday morning and it's currently Friday 02:52 (AM), and I still have 27% left. I'm not even trying here. I've been playing some games (for a short period of time), browsing the web and Reddit, used FB Messenger a lot, and listened to music for countless hours. Current SOT is at 6 h 24 min.
I have the Exynos version - of course. Stock and unrooted. I have only disabled some stock apps.
Update: It's now 04:40 (AM), and I'm throwing in the towel. SOT is now 7 h 40 min, with an up-time of 1 day 18 hr. I have 16% battery left. You win, Samsung. You win.
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So I unplugged mine Wednesday morning and it's currently Friday 02:52 (AM), and I still have 27% left. I'm not even trying here. I've been playing some games (for a short period of time), browsing the web and Reddit, used FB Messenger a lot, and listened to music for countless hours. Current SOT is at 6 h 24 min.
I have the Exynos version - of course. Stock and unrooted. I have only disabled some stock apps.
Update: It's now 04:40 (AM), and I'm throwing in the towel. SOT is now 7 h 40 min, with an up-time of 1 day 18 hr. I have 16% battery left. You win, Samsung. You win.
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Could You write which apps are disabled ?
Monkey Slut said:
Could You write which apps are disabled ?
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I have the unlocked version, so I don't have carrier bloat. I have deactivated:
- Chrome (I use the Samsung browser)
- Excel
- Facebook
- Google Play Movies
- Google Play Music
- Hangouts
- Instagram
- Notes
- OneDrive
- OneNote
- PowerPoint
- S Voice App
- Skype
- WhatsApp
- Word
These are the apps I currently have installed (excluding stock Samsung apps)
- Google Drive
- Dots (game)
- Feedly
- Google Photos
- Gmail
- Google Keep
- Google Maps
- Medium
- Facebook Messenger
- Netflix
- Phonograph
- Pocket
- Pushbullet
- Shuttle+
- Slide for Reddit
- Snapseed
- Solid Explorer
- SPV
- Tholotis
- TVShow Time
- Weather Timeline
- Zolt
J.Biden said:
So I unplugged mine Wednesday morning and it's currently Friday 02:52 (AM), and I still have 27% left. I'm not even trying here. I've been playing some games (for a short period of time), browsing the web and Reddit, used FB Messenger a lot, and listened to music for countless hours. Current SOT is at 6 h 24 min.
I have the Exynos version - of course. Stock and unrooted. I have only disabled some stock apps.
Update: It's now 04:40 (AM), and I'm throwing in the towel. SOT is now 7 h 40 min, with an up-time of 1 day 18 hr. I have 16% battery left. You win, Samsung. You win.
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I have the unlocked version, so I don't have carrier bloat. I have deactivated:
- Chrome (I use the Samsung browser)
- Excel
- Facebook
- Google Play Movies
- Google Play Music
- Hangouts
- Instagram
- Notes
- OneDrive
- OneNote
- PowerPoint
- S Voice App
- Skype
- WhatsApp
- Word
These are the apps I currently have installed (excluding stock Samsung apps)
- Google Drive
- Dots (game)
- Feedly
- Google Photos
- Gmail
- Google Keep
- Google Maps
- Medium
- Facebook Messenger
- Netflix
- Phonograph
- Pocket
- Pushbullet
- Shuttle+
- Slide for Reddit
- Snapseed
- Solid Explorer
- SPV
- Tholotis
- TVShow Time
- Weather Timeline
- Zolt
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Thank you.
There are very few of them. I attached my pack in xml. My battery is better than without disabling apps , but maybe I turned off too many of them? I need to check that.
Monkey Slut said:
Thank you.
There are very few of them. I attached my pack in xml. My battery is better than without disabling apps , but maybe I turned off too many of them? I need to check that.
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Yeah, a lot of people are reporting worse battery life after disabling a lot of stuff, and my advice to you would be to not disable a lot of services. Very few apps are standalone apps without any dependencies etc. so you'll probably mess something up by "removing" a key piece of software (the app itself), while the services will keep "pinging" for the app even though it's not there. This causes battery drain even though the app isn't active, the rest of the "machinery" is, if you get what I'm trying to say.
I experienced this myself when I disabled S Health. I got noticeable worse battery life when I disabled it, and I understood why when I re-enabled it. S Health is active 24/7 as a service, and it's actually counting your steps in the background, which I didn't know until I started getting notifications congratulating me by beating my personal record and so on. I checked the settings, and sure enough, it's enabled by default to do that, so I have disabled auto-logging now, but this just shows how disabling one thing can cause small things like this to get messed up, resulting in CPU time and battery life lost.
This is especially true for Samsung apps, which are deeply integrated into the framework, so there are a bunch of things that work together, and those things won't stop looking for that missing app when you've disabled one.
It's not like "Oh, Tim (S Health) isn't responding, so we'll just stop calling him". Nope, they'll try again and again and again until "he" responds, and this is going to affect battery life. So my advice is to not disable all the Samsung apps. I have most of them enabled, but I use Nova Launcher, so I've hidden them from the app drawer, and my battery is, as you can see, awesome. The pre-installed Google apps are different though, since they're more modular, and thus much easier to remove without messing with anything else, like it's easier to remove the wheel (Google) of a car than a part of the suspension system (Samsung).
So I would re-enable most of the Samsung apps again and just see what happens. Then disable one by one and if you notice anything funky, then re-enable it and go to the next one
I haven't used it much today ( 1 hour 15mins screen time) 15 hours on battery, but Bluetooth on and in a 1 bar poor signal area. This seems really good to me compared to my LG g4
squallz506 said:
8.5hrs SOT in 60hrs total runtime with 5% left. G935V.
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and what's the screen brightness? auto or 20% or something else?
lidongz said:
and what's the screen brightness? auto or 20% or something else?
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About 40% except when in direct sunlight, then it's 100%
squallz506 said:
About 40% except when in direct sunlight, then it's 100%
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It's impressive!
squallz506 said:
8.5hrs SOT in 60hrs total runtime with 5% left. G935V.
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Omg! How did you manage to get that? I could get 7 hours with 7% juice left. What was your screen resolution?
abhijeetlokras said:
Omg! How did you manage to get that? I could get 7 hours with 7% juice left. What was your screen resolution?
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That does not matter. What matters is on what software he is. Someone on Marsh Mallow can get 8-10 SOT over 2 full days. Someone on Nougat can get 3-4 SOT with luck, in 1 day.
Oh yes! I totally forgot about that. Thanks!
I usually get between 7.5 and 9 hours SOT over 2 days, depending on what I'm doing. Fairly heavy user but not a gamer.
That's on MM. I am in absolutely no rush to switch to Nougat and shall monitor user reports carefully ?
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How do I completely freeze this service using T backup pro?
I freezed Gtalk 1.0.3 the app, but using Betterbatterystats reveal that gtalk_async_conn still resulting in partial wakelock timing
I have also noticed this.
Anyway we can stop it?
Still no solution? GTALK_ASYNC_CONN is my main Partial Wakelock in the Betterbatterystats (KH3 firmware) and heavy battery drainer with about 60 min of activity during 8 hours...
same problem with me...and no one on Google does not have a solution for this.
installed 'Better Battery Stats' to see what was keeping the phone up and it's "gtalk_async_conn". The thing is that I don't even use Google Talk. I tried to disable auto-login and freeze it with Titanium Backup without any luck. The only thing that worked was to disable 'Background data' but other apps like Market needs that option on.
Literally everyone appears to have this problem, i actually froze Talk in Titanium and have had no problems but is this Gtalk_async_conn related to this or what?
This problem persist more with google Maps 5.8, 5.9 version. I uninstalled the google maps and noticed that problem was solved, issue was not present anymore in wakelock of batterbatterystats. However it's not permanent solution.
same prob here. would be nice if s.o. has a solution
I also uninstalled Google Maps (rooted; used free edition of Titanium Backup) and it helped for a while -- got really minimal battery drain for several hours. But now the problem is back so I'm wondering if it might also be related to Market or Gmail.
I would say this is the answer.
ANSWER
And it would explain why everyone has it.
That post might explain what it is, but it's not very helpful at solving the issue.
I turned off notifications in Market (some versions don't have this setting; try Market 3.1.3). If it still doesn't help then I am going to try turning off Gmail sync.
Turn off all syncing (gmail, calander, etc), turn off background data and you may have it disappear, also don't use anything that uses google c2d push notifications.
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I did the following:
- Uninstalled Google Maps (rooted; used free edition of Titanium Backup)
- Turned off notifications in Market (using Market 3.1.3)
- Turned off Google accounting syncing for everything except Gmail (background data / auto-sync still enabled)
Partial wakelocks for GTALK_ASYNC_CONN are now very low. Just a couple of seconds over 15+ hours of low use.
However I think I still have some battery drain (based on Battery Monitor Widget) so I am looking at other possibilities.
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I did the following:
- Uninstalled Google Maps (rooted; used free edition of Titanium Backup)
- Turned off notifications in Market (using Market 3.1.3)
- Turned off Google accounting syncing for everything except Gmail (background data / auto-sync still enabled)
Partial wakelocks for GTALK_ASYNC_CONN are now very low. Just a couple of seconds over 15+ hours of low use.
However I think I still have some battery drain (based on Battery Monitor Widget) so I am looking at other possibilities.
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I am not trying to be a smartass but doesn't your battery monitor widget cause some battery drain?
hondaguy said:
I am not trying to be a smartass but doesn't your battery monitor widget cause some battery drain?
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Totally valid point. But I have also tried running it with Battery Monitor Widget turned off and I still see the same drain (by looking at the battery history graph).
Also while experimenting, I had a couple of hours where Battery Monitor Widget continuously reported -1mA battery discharge (while Battery Monitor Widget was running of course). The battery history graph was basically flat. So that tells me that I can still run Battery Monitor Widget and get minimal battery usage -- if everything else is working right.
In the Better Battery Stats thread, the developer says his target battery discharge is -2mA to -10mA (measured by Battery Monitor Widget). I know it's possible because I've gotten it before, but lately I'm somewhere around -70mA so that's what I've been working on.
Getting great battery life now with the Gtalk_async_conn issue seemingly gone. I still have Maps removed -- luckily I do not need it much these days. I also notice that Market likes to stay running in the background, where it uses some CPU time even with notifications disabled. Also, turning on Google Calendar auto-sync caused significant battery drain.
Quick summary:
- Uninstall/freeze Maps
- Kill Market if it's running in the background
- Turn off Google account syncing for everything except Gmail
- Turn off "Back up my data" under Privacy settings
I was at about 50% battery after 20 hours. I am running Cognition 1.5.1 with SpeedMod kernel.
claimui said:
Getting great battery life now with the Gtalk_async_conn issue seemingly gone. I still have Maps removed -- luckily I do not need it much these days. I also notice that Market likes to stay running in the background, where it uses some CPU time even with notifications disabled. Also, turning on Google Calendar auto-sync caused significant battery drain.
Quick summary:
- Uninstall/freeze Maps
- Kill Market if it's running in the background
- Turn off Google account syncing for everything except Gmail
I was at about 50% battery after 20 hours. I am running Cognition 1.5.1 with SpeedMod kernel.
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It's good to know that these mods work, but they are pretty extreme for me, and I would assume many others. I actively use the functionality of Maps and other Google account syncing. I hope that someone can work out a way to minimize the usage without cutting off the functionality completely.
For what it's worth, I see a dramatically higher usage of the GTALK process when I am at work where some of the syncs are blocked on the office wifi. Out of the office on 3G or at home, the amount of time GTALK is active is significantly reduced.
Atrix here but same issue. I agree if turning off syncs is the way to go, I might as well buy a dumbphone
I agree it's annoying. But the battery life improvement is dramatic, even more so than I mentioned in my earlier post. I used to get <20 hours per charge. Now I get about 3 days. Hopefully these are just bugs in the apps that Google will fix in future versions.
Not sure what is causing it. I have turned off auto-sync, logged out of gtalk, and even turned off "Back up my data" and "Automatic restore" from Settings>Privacy.
I still notice 1-2 minutes of partial wakelocks.
Try killing Market if it is running.
Just want to compare and see what other people are seeing. I'm on stock rooted ME7 with a lot of bloat frozen. Data was left on, but no WiFi or Bluetooth. Email sync is scheduled not to sync during the hours I sleep, and I don't use Facebook or Twitter. About the only thing that syncs overnight is weather. I checked using GSAM battery monitor, there were only two wakelocks for like 40 seconds, and the only apps using power were android kernel and system, no third party apps. It did show the gyroscope running for 7 hours (???!).
Is this typical? I just came from a rezound, not exactly the king of battery, but that phone only lost about 1% per hour in standby...
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Just want to compare and see what other people are seeing. I'm on stock rooted ME7 with a lot of bloat frozen. Data was left on, but no WiFi or Bluetooth. Email sync is scheduled not to sync during the hours I sleep, and I don't use Facebook or Twitter. About the only thing that syncs overnight is weather. I checked using GSAM battery monitor, there were only two wakelocks for like 40 seconds, and the only apps using power were android kernel and system, no third party apps. It did show the gyroscope running for 7 hours (???!).
Is this typical? I just came from a rezound, not exactly the king of battery, but that phone only lost about 1% per hour in standby...
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Well it makes a difference what ROM you're on. Stock ROM, maybe I don't remember how it was on Stock but I've basically used CleanROM 1.0 and am now on BoneStock 1.1.4 shortly after GS4 VZW release. I get .25% to .50% drain per hour if WiFi is not on. I have Email sync once per hour even overnight. I also go under "Data Usage" in settings and I block background data on stuff that has some background usage. I DO NOT restrict background data on Internet, Android OS, Google Services, Play Store, Email, Gmail, or Media. Most other things i do restrict Background data on. Things like YouTube, Gallery, ESfile, DropBox, Slingplayer, netflix, and i freeze Maps until I need them as it burns battery even when not in use.
I hope this helps.
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Well it makes a difference what ROM you're on. Stock ROM, maybe I don't remember how it was on Stock but I've basically used CleanROM 1.0 and am now on BoneStock 1.1.4 shortly after GS4 VZW release. I get .25% to .50% drain per hour if WiFi is not on. I have Email sync once per hour even overnight. I also go under "Data Usage" in settings and I block background data on stuff that has some background usage. I DO NOT restrict background data on Internet, Android OS, Google Services, Play Store, Email, Gmail, or Media. Most other things i do restrict Background data on. Things like YouTube, Gallery, ESfile, DropBox, Slingplayer, netflix, and i freeze Maps until I need them as it burns battery even when not in use.
I hope this helps.
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dont mean to hijack thread but how do you change email sync to once per hour - is there a way to do it for GMAIL in particular?
That's about what I lost last night per hour. It varied between 1.1 and 2.4% per hour.
MDK firmware, but ME7 based rom.
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dont mean to hijack thread but how do you change email sync to once per hour - is there a way to do it for GMAIL in particular?
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Go into email then settings, and select the account you want to change sync in, then sync schedule and at the top and choose the sync frequency.
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Go into email then settings, and select the account you want to change sync in, then sync schedule and at the top and choose the sync frequency.
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any way to change it for GMAIL?
Eric214 said:
Well it makes a difference what ROM you're on. Stock ROM, maybe I don't remember how it was on Stock but I've basically used CleanROM 1.0 and am now on BoneStock 1.1.4 shortly after GS4 VZW release. I get .25% to .50% drain per hour if WiFi is not on. I have Email sync once per hour even overnight. I also go under "Data Usage" in settings and I block background data on stuff that has some background usage. I DO NOT restrict background data on Internet, Android OS, Google Services, Play Store, Email, Gmail, or Media. Most other things i do restrict Background data on. Things like YouTube, Gallery, ESfile, DropBox, Slingplayer, netflix, and i freeze Maps until I need them as it burns battery even when not in use.
I hope this helps.
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This is impressive....
i normally get around .2 to .7%/ hour on standby with wifi, gps, and all account syncing on. i do use greenify to sleep maps and g service and a bunch of other apps.
this is on synergy rom.
the biggest battery help was turning off location services.
madsquabbles said:
i normally get around .2 to .7%/ hour on standby with wifi, gps, and all account syncing on. i do use greenify to sleep maps and g service and a bunch of other apps.
this is on synergy rom.
the biggest battery help was turning off location services.
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you can't get .2% drain per hour with both wifi and gps on... They will make your Android OS drain battery much faster and push that from 4-6% up to 15% or more in your battery stats. Plus if GPS is on so are your location services.
Can someone post a good list of apps to sleep with Greenify?
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you can't get .2% drain per hour with both wifi and gps on... They will make your Android OS drain battery much faster and push that from 4-6% up to 15% or more in your battery stats. Plus if GPS is on so are your location services.
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i actually do, but i have to be connected to a wifi source at the time. i always have wifi on and gps. as for location services, i meant that i turn off the service for all google apps in google settings. that mofo drains like you wouldn't believe. with very light use today i used up 1.1% per hour while at work (for 10 hours). i used the phone a little more while off and with 41 min of screen on i'm at 70%, down from 92% at 7:30. adding that after work time i'm now at 1.83%/hour in the last 12 hours.
at home at night, i usually drop from .2% to .8% (sorry, i missed that by .1% earlier, lol). either synergy is that freaking good, my battery calibration is whacko, i've greenified the right stuff, or i'm just fricken luck. i don't really know. but my numbers are what they are. i use both bmw and bbs.
Well, as an experiment I Greenified a few apps, turned data and location services off and put the phone in power save mode, and left it off the charger over night. I lost 1% in 8 hours. That's more like it.
I've had the phone since the beginning of December. Right since then, I have had battery drain no matter what. In the first days I experienced it even overnight, I am pretty sure with airplane mode activated....
Later on, I wiped the cache from the recovery mode, didn't fix it. I used that 'GService fix' kind of magical app that everybody said it fixed their problems...it didn't fix mine. I performed a hard reset and I did not restore the google account apps, instead I manually downloaded only the apps that I really needed.
There is no apparent pattern on when the battery drain starts: I would find my phone hot and very rapidly discharging (if not already discharged), battery temp hot and cpu temp hot. I disabled all google now functions, I disabled GPS, at first I disabled only some google functions (kept only google keep, calendar and contacts on automatic sync)....but then a couple days ago I disabled the whole automatic sync. Battery still drained without using the phone.
I had read that one reason why google service would take so much battery would be having multiple accounts, or having some problems related with google play games and its sync. I do have games installed on my phone, and they require google play games to work, so that one is installed on the device but I also read that 'people details' under google account settings is relevant to the google play games sync. And in any case as I already said, the whole automatic sync has been disabled in the past 2 days, yet today the phone drained the battery while in my pocket.
I cannot understand what is going on. I am using GSAM to try to monitor things, but till now I have only been able to understand when was the battery drain starting and when was it stopping. I never found the reason. If I choose 'since screen off' on GSAM, I can see that it is again google play services taking most of the battery.
I can see with those softwares (3c toolbox, GSAM) some things, many of them I don't understand and some of them I don't even know how to set. It's pretty useless to know that suddenly my cpu goes high in clock and keeps 90/100% load if I don't know why. There is no rogue app, otherwise it would show on top, right? I can provide these two screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/wPgGlu7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9hbVG0I.jpg
First screenshot: I had the phone on my desk since 2 days or so. Wifi on, no gps, no sync. I went out around 12:00 and that seems to be exactly the time when the battery drain started. If I choose in GSAM 'since screen off', google services is on top of the list. Unfortunately this cannot be very much relate with mobile data or so, because I have experienced battery drain even with airplane mode or at home with wifi enabled. Second screenshot: I don't know what to make of those packages......
I know that other people with the Axon 7 had the same problem, I googled a lot, didn't solve anything.....and I also know that anyway on any phone this can happen. I had very randomly the same problem on the Nexus 5 but never gave it too much attention because it wasn't too bothering, it was happening every once in a while, but with this Axon 7 I am touching it every 10 minutes to see if it's burning hot or not, constantly afraid to take it out of the pocket and find it with 10% left of battery.....
Had battery drain issues and exchanged my phone under warranty. Now all is good.
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Had battery drain issues and exchanged my phone under warranty. Now all is good.
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Assuming you're rooted, install betterybatterystats (search for it on xda). Use the phone as you normally would. After 6-12 hours, look at the results. It should give you an idea of what's keeping the phone awake.
Here the same problem. Irregular at intervals of 1-2 days. New installation of Google Play services no change. Restart helps only a short time.
The problem:
Cpu %
34 com.google.android.gms.persistent
04 com.google.android.gms
01 com.google.android.gapps
A2017G Build B09
Sorry, Google translation
Fisher17 said:
Here the same problem. Irregular at intervals of 1-2 days. New installation of Google Play services no change. Restart helps only a short time.
The problem:
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34 com.google.android.gms.persistent
04 com.google.android.gms
01 com.google.android.gapps
A2017G Build B09
Sorry, Google translation
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yes! same thing with me. Google Backup Transport process fires up and eats battery for no reason. Doesn't matter if backup is enabled or disabled, I also disabled appdata sync. I posted two or 3 times in this community group as well:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1421198214846418/permalink/1431610953805144/
What rom are you using?
stock, didn't change anything and to be honest should not need to (and not even want to).
My plan: try to find a solution. Good that at least I nailed it to the process (google backup transport - gms.persistent etc etc) and can research from there. I already found tons of people who had the same problems with tons of different devices and even android version (just google com.google.android.gms.persistent battery drain and you'll find the forums full of threads....of course everybody fixed it in the most different ways, none of which worked for me till now).
2nd plan: wait for the nougat update at the end of the month and see what happens
3rd plan: change device (warranty).
I am aware it is not a hardware problem, it must be some loop in the sync (but it happens even with sync off) or a bug in google services.
Hmmm, could you say you "just can't sleep" over it?
Sorry folks, friday post
Batter Battery Stats is usually a very good way to check for rogue apps, tho.
Battery drain commes with B09! B08 i had no drain at all with B09 i have a ugly battery drain.
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Battery drain commes with B09! B08 i had no drain at all with B09 i have a ugly battery drain.
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caused by what? By the way This is my update screen, why is it showing B04 and still saying that it is up to date? I have auto updates and I also checked manually but it says it is up to date.
Fisher17 said:
Here the same problem. Irregular at intervals of 1-2 days. New installation of Google Play services no change. Restart helps only a short time.
A2017G Build B09
Sorry, Google translation
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Fixed issue with Google Play Service 10.2.91 (440-144333517). Axon 7 runtime 5 days without battery drain. :good:
Fisher17 said:
Fixed issue with Google Play Service 10.2.91 (440-144333517). Axon 7 runtime 5 days without battery drain. :good:
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5 days?? How much do you actually use the phone??
I don't know what was the cause. It was either a loop fail backup of google photos, or the update from B04 to B08 fixed it. No more drain, battery easily lasts 2 days without heavy use of the phone.
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5 days?? How much do you actually use the phone??
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:laugh: 5 days without reboot. 2 days with one load. 8 hours display time at 24 usage.
All the US stock firmwares have the battery drain. It's usually google backup transport or google persistent gms. A reboot will fix it usually, but it will occur again later... Battery life is fine other than those 2. Let's hope lineage will be ok.
Opening this thread because battery life could be better even though it's only ~2950mAh. Currently I'm getting a bettery life of 20h with moderate usage. So I started to gather infos about how to reduce battery drain and usage.
Improvements:
- AlwaysOnDisplay: off
- Playing now: off
- reduce brightness
Are there any Google APPs which can be safely deactivated without getting the phone lunatic nor have heavy impact on the system?
And why is the Google APP so large? On my Moto G5+ it was around 35MB and now it's ten times bigger?
TGHH said:
Opening this thread because battery life could be better even though it's only ~2950mAh. Currently I'm getting a bettery life of 20h with moderate usage. So I started to gather infos about how to reduce battery drain and usage.
Improvements:
- AlwaysOnDisplay: off
- Playing now: off
- reduce brightness
Are there any Google APPs which can be safely deactivated without getting the phone lunatic nor have heavy impact on the system?
And why is the Google APP so large? On my Moto G5+ it was around 35MB and now it's ten times bigger?
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I wondered the same as you before receiving my Pixel 3. Comjing from a Galaxy S8 battery / SoT was always an issue, I barely made it trough a whole day of work without recharging at 5 PM.
With the Pixel 3 I did the following:
- Set it up and migrate everything from the S8 (via the Assistant in the Setup screen)
- Restored my ringtones and Notification sounds
- disabled the following Apps (because I don't use them): Action Services, Android Auto, Chrome, Connectivity Health Services, Device Health Services, Device Policy, Gmail (I use Aquamail instead), Google Connectivity Services, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Suport Services, Live Transcribe, Pixel Ambient Services, Youtube (I prefer Youtube Vanced and MigroG instead)
- Set up a ton of Cal and Carddav Accounts for my personal cloud services
- Disabled the automativ battery saver (which would kick in at 15% by default)
- Set up Automate: toogle WiFi on automatically when I reach a specific location (I know this is build in, but with the build in version it doesn't switch of when I leave the location) and disable it when I leave, Disable Bluetooth when not in use for 5 Minutes, automatically activate DnD when I'm charging after a specific Time (I charge every night) and disable it when I remove it from the Qi Charger
That's what I set up because of my experience with the S8 and because I want most things automatically done.
Yesterday I pushed the phone to the limit (a whole workday plus 2 Hours Spotify and 3 Hours Gaming):
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TGHH said:
Opening this thread because battery life could be better even though it's only ~2950mAh. Currently I'm getting a bettery life of 20h with moderate usage. So I started to gather infos about how to reduce battery drain and usage.
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Why don't just turn on Battery Saver? It shuts down some functions, like instant response for "Hey Google", idles background running apps etc. It also switches on dark theme at least in settings. I didn't measure exact battery life, but it feels, it lives longer. However, there were some days (I think, once in a couple months) when the battery drained almost in half in literally some hours. Since I registered it aftermath, I can not recall what could lead to that, but since I live in Los Angeles with some areas of pretty bad coverage (in hills areas, on some freeways), it's possible those caused the drainage. Also it could be the result of some glitches that Pixel is famous for, so I just rebooted it and it stopped drain the battery for that reason or because I was already out of bad coverage areas.
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TimLux said:
I wondered the same as you before receiving my Pixel 3. Comjing from a Galaxy S8 battery / SoT was always an issue, I barely made it trough a whole day of work without recharging at 5 PM.
With the Pixel 3 I did the following:
- Set it up and migrate everything from the S8 (via the Assistant in the Setup screen)
- Restored my ringtones and Notification sounds
- disabled the following Apps (because I don't use them): Action Services, Android Auto, Chrome, Connectivity Health Services, Device Health Services, Device Policy, Gmail (I use Aquamail instead), Google Connectivity Services, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Suport Services, Live Transcribe, Pixel Ambient Services, Youtube (I prefer Youtube Vanced and MigroG instead)
- Set up a ton of Cal and Carddav Accounts for my personal cloud services
- Disabled the automativ battery saver (which would kick in at 15% by default)
- Set up Automate: toogle WiFi on automatically when I reach a specific location (I know this is build in, but with the build in version it doesn't switch of when I leave the location) and disable it when I leave, Disable Bluetooth when not in use for 5 Minutes, automatically activate DnD when I'm charging after a specific Time (I charge every night) and disable it when I remove it from the Qi Charger
That's what I set up because of my experience with the S8 and because I want most things automatically done.
Yesterday I pushed the phone to the limit (a whole workday plus 2 Hours Spotify and 3 Hours Gaming):
imagebanana.com/s/1383/8vZEWmFF.html
P.S.:Sorry for the broken Link, just copy the Link into your webbrowser. I lost my old account and had to set up a new one, where I will be allowed to post links after 10 Posts
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Your setup of apps and syncing is very close to mine! Some of the services you mentioned are still running on my Pixel. That's a good starting point for further optimisation. Very appreciate your help!
Che Kirila said:
Why don't just turn on Battery Saver? It shuts down some functions, like instant response for "Hey Google", idles background running apps etc. It also switches on dark theme at least in settings. I didn't measure exact battery life, but it feels, it lives longer. However, there were some days (I think, once in a couple months) when......
Since it's still April, don't forget about secret Google's signals to control all its gadgets and their owners.
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I applied already the standards for saving battery life (AoD, etc.) and as I don't use the Google services also those I was sure it doesn't break anything. Getting rid of the services I don't use is a good start for optimise it.
b1337 said:
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Unlock and root will come by time but for now I keep it locked. ??
TGHH said:
Unlock and root will come by time but for now I keep it locked.
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literally no point but ok
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literally no point but ok
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Yes, it is. Loosing warranty.
Never had a problem with this since Nexus one
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Never had a problem with this since Nexus one
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Well, it's not about the process of unlocking and rooting the phone, but just the legal side.
I would not get any service for free if I unlocked it.
I rooted every phone I had but as my Pixel is new I will wait till I'm sure that there are no hardware problems occurring.
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I applied already the standards for saving battery life (AoD, etc.) and as I don't use the Google services also those I was sure it doesn't break anything. Getting rid of the services I don't use is a good start for optimise it.
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Do you mean you applied that after special mode "Battery Saver" as additions to it? That standard mode was enough for me to keep my battery charge mostly over 50% after full day.
Che Kirila said:
Do you mean you applied that after special mode "Battery Saver" as additions to it? That standard mode was enough for me to keep my battery charge mostly over 50% after full day.
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Yep, that's what I ment. I identified already one of the drainers - my Openvpn client is consuming quite a lot. After switching to Blockada (as AdBlocker) battery consumption is quite okay.
But let's see what can be achieved by further optimization.
Try to use the private DNS setting instead, I figured this would save even more battery than a locally hosted VPN
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Try to use the private DNS setting instead, I figured this would save even more battery than a locally hosted VPN
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I will try, but one after the other. Otherwise I don't know what was a good setting.
Seems like I found descent settings to make battery last longer. So let's see how this turns out during the week (this is my normal use case - mail, some music, business stuff, photos; I don't play!).
I'll let u know what I did, so maybe others can profit as well.
While in standby/mails/some browsing the drain is descent. While listening to some music using BT the drain is quite visible as you can see.
What?? When you use the device it uses more battery then when it sleeps? crazy
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What?? When you use the device it uses more battery then when it sleeps? crazy
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LOL - sorry, maybe misleading. Yes, I used it for reading mail, some websites. So maybe I should have written moderate use.
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Which CPU mode do you use? I typically use "on demand"
Hi there,
I've been upgrading to a S21 9910 from a S9. Tried with SmartSwitch - but battery life was pretty poor (3-4h SOT).
Now I've done the factory reset and I'm still in the process of restoring - which is kind of a pain the ***** somehow. I've also disabled a few things with ADB, just basic (Bixby, etc).
Is there any "allowed" way to restore maybe things like settings / configuration / with Samsung Cloud / Google Backup AND not to impact the battery life or so?
Any help/hints would be useful.
THANK YOU!
SmartSwitch creates more problems in my opinion (but I had a Huawei so that could have also been a problem) and google backup is still an obscure thing for me (compare to ios backup).
Usually the battery improves after few days but don't expect 10hrs screen time.
This is what I did with mine to improve battery life:
- disabled AOD
- changed to dark theme
- set a routine with bixby to disable mobile data when on a specific wi-fi (like home one) and switch to 3G (if you disconnect from it the phone goes back to 4G/5G+ mobile data)
- put screen to 60 fps (i don't use social network and I mainly read on watch videos on phone so I don't need 120 fps)
- with "package disabler pro" I disabled few services/apps (OneDrive, all game related plugins, samsung kids, led cover service, google Duo, facebook services)
- switched from youtube app to youtube vanced
- blokada
- I use brave as a browser (not tested if it is better on battery side compared to samsung's one)
With these setting and without disabling bixby I can get at least 4hrs if I game a lot (tested with Genshin that takes aroung 20-25 % / hrs; obviously not 4hrs of Genshin or the phone would melt down on 60 fps setting). On general usage whatsapp, youtube, music, phonecalls, 30 min gaming, bluetooth always on and connected to samsung watch (Gear fit 2) and location on (but limited to some apps) you should get more than 6 hrs.
If you are setting up phone I also suggest you Good Lock from samsung store (a lot of customization for the phone).
Thanks for sharing your approach!
I've also AOD disabled, and a few others.
120Hz I would like to have still.
Let's see - if I get anything more than 5h I would be happy already. Will share my experience after few days and finished set-up.
What exactly is this "Good Lock" - you mean the screen lock app?
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What exactly is this "Good Lock" - you mean the screen lock app?
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Good Lock is an app that you can download from the Galaxy Store. It lets you customize lockscreen, AOD, Quick Panel, launcher, task changer, notifications, navigation bar and much more.