Hi guys,
I have the watch for a month and was very happy with it. Charge lasted 3 days and more.
A few days ago the battery suddenly started to drain fast. Know it dies on me after 7-8 hours.
Didn't get any relevant advice from Amazfit.
I did a reset to factory settings a few times. Installed the app again. new login, airplane mode, etc. Nothing helped.
Any Ideas what to do?
thx
Yoram
yorammelnik said:
Hi guys,
I have the watch for a month and was very happy with it. Charge lasted 3 days and more.
A few days ago the battery suddenly started to drain fast. Know it dies on me after 7-8 hours.
Didn't get any relevant advice from Amazfit.
I did a reset to factory settings a few times. Installed the app again. new login, airplane mode, etc. Nothing helped.
Any Ideas what to do?
thx
Yoram
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I'd let it drain completely and charge from 0 to full, just to check
I have done that many times.
Today the watch lasted 2.5 hours from 100% to 0%.
Sometimes at around 30% it shuts off and when I connect it to the charger it shows 30% and charging.
Is it possible to replace the battery?
Idea of replacing battery is good, but I belive that Amazfit as most other sport watches is glued, so no way to change battery by yourself. I also know for one known sport watch company that they dont repair their watches, they simply swap with new one.
yorammelnik said:
I have done that many times.
Today the watch lasted 2.5 hours from 100% to 0%.
Sometimes at around 30% it shuts off and when I connect it to the charger it shows 30% and charging.
Is it possible to replace the battery?
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This is exactly what mine has been doing just the last few days? I've had it for over a month and I have been getting 4 to 5 days of charge. Then it just started draining really fast. I did a Factory reset, Drained completely and recharged. Nothing is working. Seems like it might be a software issue? Googling online i am seeing more people with the same issue that has started recently.
Exactly like mine.
I have exactly the same issue. It was 4-5 days battery life, and now about a day or less ?
maybe the watch start sending secret massage back to mainland
mine also , after one month, the watch battery start crazy draining ...
Mine was working quite good and lately battery drains so fast it doesn't even last for a day... Compass has stopped working as well, so I don't know if it's related
The same happens to me but the compass works me, amazfit pace
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Same here! Bought on gearbest website
Same as you guys I have started to feel that Amazfit's battery lasted lesser than it used to be. After reading comments here I asked Gearbest for a refund, I would recommend you to the same if you have the warranty.
I had this battery drain issues only after installing maps offline navigation. Since there was no way to close the application after starting GPS ran all the time and draining the battery through the night. Uninstalled the app, restart, charge and again working for at least 5 days normal usage.
Hi
For me, it was the same problem after swimming in salt water, now the watch is "dead"
opoyserc said:
Same as you guys I have started to feel that Amazfit's battery lasted lesser than it used to be. After reading comments here I asked Gearbest for a refund, I would recommend you to the same if you have the warranty.
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If I already did paypal geobuying
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maps offline navigation
Melhiat said:
I had this battery drain issues only after installing maps offline navigation. Since there was no way to close the application after starting GPS ran all the time and draining the battery through the night. Uninstalled the app, restart, charge and again working for at least 5 days normal usage.
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What is "maps offline navigation"? I have the google maps app which has an option to download offline navigation maps, but I don't know how to uninstall just that portion. Do you mean uninstall google maps?
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What is "maps offline navigation"? I have the google maps app which has an option to download offline navigation maps, but I don't know how to uninstall just that portion. Do you mean uninstall google maps?
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I'v installed the app described here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/amazfit/apk-maps-amazfit-watch-offline-gps-t3629809
but as i said, after installing the app battery drain issues started.
How to uninstall:
- connect watch to computer (with installed android sdk)
- open power shell or command prompt (cmd) and go to Android\sdk\platform-tools
- type "adb shell pm list packages" and you get a list of all installed packages
- type "adb uninstall "package-name"" to uninstall
br,Tomi
Possible problem charging
Not necessarily draining fast but taking forever to charge. I think there might be a bad contact between the charger and the watch. I don't have a multi-meter with me, but can anyone point out the +5v and 0v of the charger dock? I think I'll try to charge it using a stripped down usb cable and some duct tape hack. But I need to know which pins are which. Thanks
A user who had problems with the battery has tried totally disconnecting the WiFi from the clock through these commands and has managed to move from a day of autonomy to 4 days. Sorry for my English
The steps are:
Disable (break) your wifi
adb root
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
mv /system/lib/firmware/wifi /system/lib/firmware/wifi_off
reboot
Enable (Fix) your wifi
adb root
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
mv /system/lib/firmware/wifi_off /system/lib/firmware/wifi
reboot
I have a really strange thing with mine. If I wear the watch at all times then I get 6 days from it, but if I put it down on my desk - as I dd in some very hot weather a couple of months ago - then it loses about 10% per hour. The first time I thought I must be imagining it, but I tried a couple more times with the same result!
cobra1000 said:
A user who had problems with the battery has tried totally disconnecting the WiFi from the clock through these commands and has managed to move from a day of autonomy to 4 days. Sorry for my English
The steps are:
Disable (break) your wifi
adb root
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
mv /system/lib/firmware/wifi /system/lib/firmware/wifi_off
reboot
Enable (Fix) your wifi
adb root
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
mv /system/lib/firmware/wifi_off /system/lib/firmware/wifi
reboot
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well, that was me, and this issue indeed help a few users to get better battery times.
Pseud O'Nym said:
I have a really strange thing with mine. If I wear the watch at all times then I get 6 days from it, but if I put it down on my desk - as I dd in some very hot weather a couple of months ago - then it loses about 10% per hour. The first time I thought I must be imagining it, but I tried a couple more times with the same result!
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i think the green LED from the watch must be on automatically, to detect human skin in determine are u asleep or not, ...
as my previous post, i send my watch for warranty claim after several attempt failed , i send whatsapp video and image showing my watch battery draining to my seller, but as i though my supplier said my watch is normal after he receive it, but i gladly he replace it with new watch ..
and i hope my new watch can last at least a year,
another thing that i found, my new watch now can sync with strava application, the old one cannot sync ...
lesson i learn here, always buy this watch with a seller that have warranty although the price are high.
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Hey peeps!
Got my new G6 two days ago and BOY is it a beautiful phone!
One thing though that I didn't expect to have issues with; the battery life is horrible.
First day I got just under 3 hours of screen-on-time.
Charged it and left it over night. Was at 94% when I went to bed and 51% when I woke up 8 hours later.
Can't be normal? I've tried resetting the phone, but I don't think it worked.
Left home at 9:55 and the battery was at 37%. Arrived at work at 10:33 and it was down to 31% and I had barely touched it during that time.
I'm new to Android so I'm not sure what to do next?
Help! :c
There's an issue with the phone sometimes draining for no apparent reason when it's sleeping. It's happening to a lot of people. Most likely it's a bug in Android 7.0 and will be fixed in the next Android update. For now I put my phone in Airplane Mode when I go to sleep. It fixes the problem and my phone only drains 1-2% overnight.
Let it settle for a while, at least for a week. You could try with a factory reset if you want, I didn't.
Now I have at least 4h SoT under wifi. I'm currently at 42%, after 19 hours from the last charge, and 3h45m of SoT.
Please bear in mind that 4G, traveling and low reception are generally speaking the main battery killers, and there is nothing you can do about that.
For those who complain about battery life of G6, Here is a short view
9am-5pm continuous voice recording with 1 hour break in between
Around 10-15 camera clicks
Browsing use BRAVE browser, disable chrome for better life. Use BRAVE browser which is based on same chrome platform but more efficient.- 2hours
Facebook app used 40min around
Twitter sometime
WhatsApp for around 2hours
Screen brightness between 35~50%
Two sim cards, one on 4g LTE
Screen on time 6hours 10minutes
Remaining battery-20%
There is something wrong with your battery. It should last about 5h SOT. Drain after the night should be about 2% with AOD disabled.
Something is draining your battery. Begin with turning off location services if it's enabled and see if that helps. I get minimum 5 hours screen on time and closer to 6-8 for the most part even when on mobile data a lot.
I've got the same problem. I'm rooted, have all sorts of bloatware disabled, running servicely and naptime. I've shut off my bluetooth and my location and I'm on Wifi. In the last 3 hours since I've unplugged my phone from the charger I'm sitting at 66% battery with 1 hour of screen time, 1.5 hours deep sleep, and 30 minutes awake. So I'm looking to get a little over two hours of screen on time. I can't think of anything else to do.
Look into disabling QuickMemo bull****.
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I think there is not a battery problem
For me, It is surely a software bug.
I use AOD for all the day, 3 email account, WiFi and 4G on, many apps in background like facebook, messenger, whatsapp, telegram and other and I get 5.5hrs with 7% battery.
But only if I use the phone more than usual. Otherwise I got 3.5 hrs with the same configuration due to a big draining issue of the "idle phone" process.
Probably we have to wait the next big update hoping that it fixes everything.
I have oneplus 3t and lg g6 and htc u11 LG's battery is the best out of the three devices
I updated the phone with LG Bridge (there was no OTA updates available) and for some reason got a completely new firmware.
Not really an update but it installed a, what seems like, a firmware meant for the Chinese market. Had the Korean on before.
This *seems* to have fixed it.
picia89 said:
There is something wrong with your battery. It should last about 5h SOT. Drain after the night should be about 2% with AOD disabled.
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Even with aod enabled I get less than 2% drain overnight on airplane mode.
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The LG Bridge update didn't actually fix it. The problem was back after a while.
Downloaded GSam and realised that the Google Quicksearch Box was stuck in wakelock or whatever it's called so I disabled the Google App in settings and that did indeed fix the whole problem. My phone has been sitting at 98% for almost 3 hours now (haven't touched it obviously).
johanruda said:
The LG Bridge update didn't actually fix it. The problem was back after a while.
Downloaded GSam and realised that the Google Quicksearch Box was stuck in wakelock or whatever it's called so I disabled the Google App in settings and that did indeed fix the whole problem. My phone has been sitting at 98% for almost 3 hours now (haven't touched it obvicously).
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Damn, i use that a lot... Could you check if it was a temporary problem or is the widget itself? Thanks in advance
Killua96 said:
Damn, i use that a lot... Could you check if it was a temporary problem or is the widget itself? Thanks in advance
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I've fiddled around with it a bit today, but the version installed from the Play store is still not working for me. Horrible battery drain.
I found a newer (beta) version on apkmirror that I installed and that seems to have fixed it. I've got the quick searchbox enabled and no battery drain so far. It's only been a few hours though but I don't think it's gonna flare up again. It should've by now if the problem was still there.
Faulty version: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-search/google-search-7-6-17-release/
Beta that works: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-search/google-search-7-7-12-release/
johanruda said:
I've fiddled around with it a bit today, but the version installed from the Play store is still not working for me. Horrible battery drain.
I found a newer (beta) version on apkmirror that I installed and that seems to have fixed it. I've got the quick searchbox enabled and no battery drain so far. It's only been a few hours though but I don't think it's gonna flare up again. It should've by now if the problem was still there.
Faulty version: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-search/google-search-7-6-17-release/
Beta that works: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-search/google-search-7-7-12-release/
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I've had a couple of force closes from the Google app and random battery drain at times that I couldn't pinpoint. Overall I've actually loved the battery life on the phone when the phone isn't reporting an idle drain. I appreciate the beta link, hopefully that fixes the problem I've had. :good:
I run stock 7.1.1 on my Moto Z and lately I have seen that the battery life is terrible. If I take the phone off the charger at say 7am I will be lucky to get to 3pm before needing charging. I don't play games or watch videos using the phone primarily for phone calls (!), texts, email, news reading (I use Google Playstand) and the occasional social media (no Facebook).
The only "customisations" I have are using the Pixel Launcher 3 instead of the Motorola one, the Google camera and the native AOSP dialer rathen than the Motorola one.
I had seen a few posts from folks saying a factory reset might fix it but I want to avoid that if I can with many work apps having quite convoluted processes to get then to authenticate and sign onto to Enterprise servers again,
Thanks
Maybe reflashing the stock ROM via fastboot avoiding the line "fastboot erase userdata" because if you'll avoid this line your personal data wouldn't be erased
lchiu7 said:
I run stock 7.1.1 on my Moto Z and lately I have seen that the battery life is terrible. If I take the phone off the charger at say 7am I will be lucky to get to 3pm before needing charging. I don't play games or watch videos using the phone primarily for phone calls (!), texts, email, news reading (I use Google Playstand) and the occasional social media (no Facebook).
The only "customisations" I have are using the Pixel Launcher 3 instead of the Motorola one, the Google camera and the native AOSP dialer rathen than the Motorola one.
I had seen a few posts from folks saying a factory reset might fix it but I want to avoid that if I can with many work apps having quite convoluted processes to get then to authenticate and sign onto to Enterprise servers again,
Thanks
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Check your battery wear using Accubattery.
I have the same issue. Did you find any solution?
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the only thing that help me with this problem, was a factory reset with a fresh install of all the apps, avoiding the restore
You could try to install Greenify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify if the phone uses a lot of battery when the screen is off.
41LY45 said:
Check your battery wear using Accubattery.
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I've been running that app for a few days now and it says my battery is 91% of health which is pretty poor for a phone and was purchased new in April of last year.
lchiu7 said:
I've been running that app for a few days now and it says my battery is 91% of health which is pretty poor for a phone and was purchased new in April of last year.
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It is?
Then what about mine?
87%, purchased about the same time (about a month later).
41LY45 said:
Check your battery wear using Accubattery.
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Loader009 said:
It is?
Then what about mine?
87%, purchased about the same time (about a month later).
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Given both our phones are less than one year old I wonder if Motorola will replace the batteries under warranty?
lchiu7 said:
Given both our phones are less than one year old I wonder if Motorola will replace the batteries under warranty?
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I first let the app run for a month... my first value was 83%, which was awfully low...
I could live with anything nearby 90%.
My phone has 1 year and battery was terrible. I've got it replaced and it's working fine now.
leofa said:
My phone has 1 year and battery was terrible. I've got it replaced and it's working fine now.
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HOw did you about that? I went to the Lenovo support forums and a senior agent replied as follows:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z/MOTO-Z-battery-life-terrible/m-p/3927759#M4349
Only one day but after deleting the cache partition, today's usage is much better - almost 14 hours.
However battery health is only 90% which seems low.
If you follow accubattery recommendations you should keep your phone ideally between 40-70% or at most 20-80% and don't ever let it run to zero unless you're recalibrating the battery and don't charge it to 100%. My Z Force is from August 2016 is at 95%, but even with that there's been a reduction in battery life.
lchiu7 said:
HOw did you about that? I went to the Lenovo support forums and a senior agent replied as follows:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z/MOTO-Z-battery-life-terrible/m-p/3927759#M4349
Only one day but after deleting the cache partition, today's usage is much better - almost 14 hours.
However battery health is only 90% which seems low.
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I went to a local repair shop and paid something about 50$ to get it replaced.
I was playing a Daydream VR game that froze up and had to hold the power button to restart. Battery was around 70%, when the phone restarted it showed around 15%. My battery has been downhill since. This was last week. Today I have my phone plugged in charging with the Incipio battery back on and both showed 100% with the phone on. Powered the phone off while still plugged in and the power off screen shows the mod as 100% but my phone battery shows 78% and will continues showing 78% after 15 minutes of charging. Powered it back on and the mod is still at 100% and the phone battery is at 78%. Not sure whats going on. Accubattery shows 57% health after about a week of use. I have a battery replacement ordered...
First signs of the phone going to catch fire like my Z force did.
Took an update and it caused massive issues. Battery life was horrible and started to over heat. Not long later sitting at the Android set up screen about 1% battery drain per minute. Motorola said it's normal and no issues. Phones frame was getting to 90c again Motorola said ots normal and withen spec. Then other caught fire. Can't comment any more due to legal process. I'm just posting stuff I already have when I first seen the issues.
Be careful. Lucky at that point I was charging my phone in a metal pot. So if you see a huge battery drain and start to see overheating and reboots keep it in a metal pot. The pot is what saved my house from burning down.
swanryan81 said:
I was playing a Daydream VR game that froze up and had to hold the power button to restart. Battery was around 70%, when the phone restarted it showed around 15%. My battery has been downhill since. This was last week. Today I have my phone plugged in charging with the Incipio battery back on and both showed 100% with the phone on. Powered the phone off while still plugged in and the power off screen shows the mod as 100% but my phone battery shows 78% and will continues showing 78% after 15 minutes of charging. Powered it back on and the mod is still at 100% and the phone battery is at 78%. Not sure whats going on. Accubattery shows 57% health after about a week of use. I have a battery replacement ordered...
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I think that the incipio mod is the problem, O noted the same behavior using the mod, some weeks ago I purchased the turbo mod and it works better than the incipio.
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I'm having the very same problem and will send the phone in for battery replacement.
Hundreds of users are complaining over there in the Lenovo Forums about this problem that came with 7.1.1.
Motorla recommended one user to clear the cache partition, but I don't think this will finally solve the 7.1.1 problems.
Let's wait for a software fix from Lenovo/Motorola or hope for Android 8.0/OREO
I think It's from some weird bug from 7.1.1
I got this problem after flashed 7.1.1 and now, it's in the warranty for battery replacement :/
and with my experience, nothing will fix if you flash back to 7.0.0
Check this too:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/help/issue-2-crazy-battery-behaviours-t3680766
I replaced my battery. Before the battery would give 1.5-2 hours screen on time (57 percent drain an hour). Now I'm getting 4-5 hours of screen on time (17 percent drain an hour). Both measurements are on the same Android version 7.1.1 and same settings
What's wrong with that battery? It drains damn fast.
Im using Nova launcher rnow and phone is kinda laggy at scrolling and battery is also draining quick af..
Any suggestions?
p.s factory launcher sucks.
Try https://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-s8/review/standby-drain-t3740440
Now I've had an opportunity to experiment - my phone finally arrived yesterday - I find that uninstalling the two adups apks dramatically improves battery life on my device.. Of course you have to go through all the rigmarole of installing adb and so on. And for all I know the com.adups.fota and com.adups.fota.sysoper packages were doing something important other than spying. Without them I can certainly forget about OTA updates. But I can live without that till Oreo comes out for the s8 and then factory-reset before installing it. Or install it by hand ...
Anyway, ymmv, but right now this phone is behaving as if it had the amount of battery it has. Which makes it an awfully nice device for the price!
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Now I've had an opportunity to experiment - my phone finally arrived yesterday - I find that uninstalling the two adups apks dramatically improves battery life on my device.. Of course you have to go through all the rigmarole of installing adb and so on. And for all I know the com.adups.fota and com.adups.fota.sysoper packages were doing something important other than spying. Without them I can certainly forget about OTA updates. But I can live without that till Oreo comes out for the s8 and then factory-reset before installing it. Or install it by hand ...
Anyway, ymmv, but right now this phone is behaving as if it had the amount of battery it has. Which makes it an awfully nice device for the price!
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oh man, if battery it's dramatically improved. Please let me know how the heck can I remove fota packages..! Is there a guide? I'm a newbie on Android. (iPhone user for a long time)
Sure, steverway, it's not hard once you've installed ADB. There's a tutorial on doing that at https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/ .
Then you just - wait, before I say "then you just" I should say YOU DO THESE THINGS AT YOUR OWN RISK - this worked great for me, no idea if this will brick your phone or make it blow up in your face - I mean I don't think this is harmful but you start dicking around with the thing whatever happens is on you - anyway, then you just:
0) turn on developer options on the phone by tapping the build number 7 times
1) turn on usb debugging in the developer options and plug the phone into your computer
2) do "adb devices" on the command line and then on the phone give permissions in the dialog box that pops up
3) There should be a message on the command line that says your phone is a registered device. If it says unregistered, unplug and replug the usb and do the previous steps over again.
4) type "adb shell" on the command line
5) remove the two offending apks by typing:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.adups.fota
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.adups.fota.sysoper
6) type exit and then unplug and restart the phone
Right now I'm getting about 30 hours of normal use from the phone between charges. I'd guess that's about 6 hours of SOT but standby drain is super-low too. And I wasn't seeing that kind of performance before I removed the spyware even though I'd also:
a) used Greenify - free from the play store
b) turned off location history and anything else I can turn off to do with location in google maps - there's some kind of bug in its use of the GPS where it polls it like 300 times a minute
c) turned off duraspeed - which is reportedly bloat - and
d) under developer options, limited the number of background apps to 3
Which are all probably good ideas as well! Anyway couldn't be happier with battery life now - it's far better than my old oneplus one ever was.
Oh, one more tip - the charger that comes with the phone is junk. Takes like 3 hours for a full charge. So go buy a fast charger. This phone now charges from zero to full in about 90 minutes for me. I know that's slow compared with flagships but ... well, this device cost $200 USD, couldn't be happier!
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oh man, if battery it's dramatically improved. Please let me know how the heck can I remove fota packages..! Is there a guide? I'm a newbie on Android. (iPhone user for a long time)
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Sure, steverway, it's not hard once you've installed ADB. There's a tutorial on doing that at https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/ .
Then you just - wait, before I say "then you just" I should say YOU DO THESE THINGS AT YOUR OWN RISK - this worked great for me, no idea if this will brick your phone or make it blow up in your face - I mean I don't think this is harmful but you start dicking around with the thing whatever happens is on you - anyway, then you just:
0) turn on developer options on the phone by tapping the build number 7 times
1) turn on usb debugging in the developer options and plug the phone into your computer
2) do "adb devices" on the command line and then on the phone give permissions in the dialog box that pops up
3) There should be a message on the command line that says your phone is a registered device. If it says unregistered, unplug and replug the usb and do the previous steps over again.
4) type "adb shell" on the command line
5) remove the two offending apks by typing:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.adups.fota
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.adups.fota.sysoper
6) type exit and then unplug and restart the phone
Right now I'm getting about 30 hours of normal use from the phone between charges. I'd guess that's about 6 hours of SOT but standby drain is super-low too. And I wasn't seeing that kind of performance before I removed the spyware even though I'd also:
a) used Greenify - free from the play store
b) turned off location history and anything else I can turn off to do with location in google maps - there's some kind of bug in its use of the GPS where it polls it like 300 times a minute
c) turned off duraspeed - which is reportedly bloat - and
d) under developer options, limited the number of background apps to 3
Which are all probably good ideas as well! Anyway couldn't be happier with battery life now - it's far better than my old oneplus one ever was.
Oh, one more tip - the charger that comes with the phone is junk. Takes like 3 hours for a full charge. So go buy a fast charger. This phone now charges from zero to full in about 90 minutes for me. I know that's slow compared with flagships but ... well, this device cost $200 USD, couldn't be happier!
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First of all Thank you for your time. You guide was 100% helpful. So after a long wait for a possible Oreo update I was finally tired. And followed the demonstration to remove adups. Everything went well, but I don't feel there is a huge battery change. Just feeling a little more smoothy experience with the apps. Maybe it's greenify which helps a lot. I don't know. Where can I check Screen on time ?
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First of all Thank you for your time. You guide was 100% helpful. So after a long wait for a possible Oreo update I was finally tired. And followed the demonstration to remove adups. Everything went well, but I don't feel there is a huge battery change. Just feeling a little more smoothy experience with the apps. Maybe it's greenify which helps a lot. I don't know. Where can I check Screen on time ?
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I think you should increase the battery capacity to improve battery lifetime.
If you switch one battery parallel. That increase the mAh (heavier + thicker)
You can buckle up a little power-bank on you elephone back
A big screen + MTK 10 cores make a lot of battery drain ....
joh9 said:
I think you should increase the battery capacity to improve battery lifetime.
If you switch one battery parallel. That increase the mAh (heavier + thicker)
You can buckle up a little power-bank on you elephone back
A big screen + MTK 10 cores make a lot of battery drain ....
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Always having a power bank with me the last years. I think I'm a heavy user. Because some people get 1-2 days and I'm only getting about 9-10 hours.
I only estimated the SOT I'm getting - not certain whether there's an actual measurement of it in there somewhere.
I think you're correct that Greenify helps, but have recently found Hibernation Manager is really fantastic at getting rid of drain while the screen's off. I've only started to triy it out today but was really amazed.
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First of all Thank you for your time. You guide was 100% helpful. So after a long wait for a possible Oreo update I was finally tired. And followed the demonstration to remove adups. Everything went well, but I don't feel there is a huge battery change. Just feeling a little more smoothy experience with the apps. Maybe it's greenify which helps a lot. I don't know. Where can I check Screen on time ?
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I only estimated the SOT I'm getting - not certain whether there's an actual measurement of it in there somewhere.
I think you're correct that Greenify helps, but have recently found Hibernation Manager is really fantastic at getting rid of drain while the screen's off. I've only started to triy it out today but was really amazed.
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Is that a greenify alternative ? Or you use them together?
steverway said:
Is that a greenify alternative ? Or you use them together?
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I think on MTK-processor: Duraspeeed + whitelist is the most saving method, because you can turn off all services automatically and more than turn off all, can't be done ....
But tring goes over thinking and dreaming ?
I'm using them together atm. I might try dumping greenify after a couple of days and see if that has an impact. But right now standby drain is a horizontal thing o' beauty. After a couple of days I should be able to say more about how well it works with my typical use.
Also on my list above I forgot to say to turn off wifi and bluetooth when you're not using them ...
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Is that a greenify alternative ? Or you use them together?
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Interesting. I didn't think Duraspeed did much of anything so turned it off. Can you say more about what you see it doing and what kind of impact it has on your device?
joh9 said:
I think on MTK-processor: Duraspeeed + whitelist is the most saving method, because you can turn off all services automatically and more than turn off all, can't be done ....
But tring goes over thinking and dreaming
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Not a big difference there. I think Duraspeed helps but even with Hibernation manager Im still getting 75% of the day with this phone. Tommorow I will just try just Duraspeed by itself because I think greenify does the exact same thing.
Plowmanx said:
Interesting. I didn't think Duraspeed did much of anything so turned it off. Can you say more about what you see it doing and what kind of impact it has on your device?
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If I'm looking on running apps (under development options) there is only what duraspeed accept.
steverway said:
Not a big difference there. I think Duraspeed helps but even with Hibernation manager Im still getting 75% of the day with this phone. Tommorow I will just try just Duraspeed by itself because I think greenify does the exact same thing.
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I will know your experience, too.
Pls report ?
I was having serious battery issues--4 hours standby for a fully charged battery. The phone was also hot all the time. Used DuraSpeed to only allow things that I need running in the background, and that fixed the problem completely. I suspect that the culprit was Google Play (store and services). Not entirely sure how Whitelist helps though.
Saxphile said:
I was having serious battery issues--4 hours standby for a fully charged battery. The phone was also hot all the time. Used DuraSpeed to only allow things that I need running in the background, and that fixed the problem completely. I suspect that the culprit was Google Play (store and services). Not entirely sure how Whitelist helps though.
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Do you think greenify helps? Or Duraspeed does the whole job?
Plowmanx said:
Interesting. I didn't think Duraspeed did much of anything so turned it off. Can you say more about what you see it doing and what kind of impact it has on your device?
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Is there a way to get back the adups package except Restoring the device????
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Do you think greenify helps? Or Duraspeed does the whole job?
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I'm very satisfied with DuraSpeed. I'm now getting battery life comparable to when the phone was brand new. I haven't tried Greenity, but it seems to do the same thing as DuraSpeed.
I think just root it and flash the new ROM if and when it's available. I haven't rooted mine yet but there are threads on here about how.
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Is there a way to get back the adups package except Restoring the device????
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Hi all,
I am one of the many people complaining for the very poor battery life of the Exynos S9+, but my problem is more extended.
In the previous days I read all the topics related to battery drain in the S9+ and S9 sections of the forum, without finding any solution
My problem is very strange: every Samsung Galaxy I owned (S6, S7edge, S8 and now S9+) has a standby drain around 4%/hr. This is very bad, since more or less 60%-70% of my battery during a standard working day is drained without using the device. In 24hrs I can reach 0% battery with a few minutes of SOT.
I tried to disable almost everything (AOD, sync, location, google location history, nearby wifi bt search etc), hard resetted the device and started from scratch, but the standby drain is always the same.
The very strange thing is that if I configure with all the same apps and accounts a device which is not a Samsung galaxy I have maximum 0,5%hr standby drain. I tested it recently with Lg G6 and Xiaomi MiA1 and the drain is not present. Again, same apps and same setup of the phone.
There should be something specific in the configuration of my Galaxy devices that causes drain, but in 3 years I couldn't find it.
Is there anyone who can help me? What am I missing?
Did you disable the 4G usage while on wifi in the developer settings?
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Did you disable the 4G usage while on wifi in the developer settings?
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No, I will try today thank you. But for the most part of my day I am not under wifi, I am under 4g (full bars), so it will have effect only on the few hours I pass at home with the wifi connection
dauzrulez said:
No, I will try today thank you. But for the most part of my day I am not under wifi, I am under 4g (full bars), so it will have effect only on the few hours I pass at home with the wifi connection
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Ah ok, then this will maybe not help too much. Whats the battery usage percentage of your android system? Please add a screenshot of your statistics at the end of a battery cycle.
This is one of the best battery cycles of the last days:
12h 50min since unplugged
16% remaining battery
2:54 SOT
3,2%/hr standby drain
More than half of the SOT done under wifi during the evening, from 8:30am to 18:00 under 4g.
This is a terrible battery life, I cannot get to the end of a working day.. And this was one of the best days. Sometimes the standby drain is more than 4%/hr
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This is one of the best battery cycles of the last days:
12h 50min since unplugged
16% remaining battery
2:54 SOT
3,2%/hr standby drain
More than half of the SOT done under wifi during the evening, from 8:30am to 18:00 under 4g.
This is a terrible battery life, I cannot get to the end of a working day.. And this was one of the best days. Sometimes the standby drain is more than 4%/hr
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Nothing obvious jumps out but that does look worse than normal, are you travelling around/ in bright sunlight a lot?
Few things to try -
1) Download betterbatterystats and enable through adb commands
2) what was the screen brightness like on GSAM?
3) factory reset did work for me
Something is wrong.
Do you have any apps running in the background all the time ?
Or dozens of accounts syncing?
Does your phone actually go into sleep or dozens mode ?
Do you have running bixby or google Assistent on ?
Do you use Iris scanner ?
Thanks for the support. I also have yesterday's screenshots of betterbatterystats, here attached.
It seems to sleep a good percentage of time.
No, I'm not traveling, I stayed the whole day in the office.
Accounts : Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter.
Yes, intelligent face scan is on
Same here i just bought the phone a few days ago. Disabled bloat and still i cant even get close to 24hours max apx 14 if i dont touch it. My Old S8Plus was so much better. Going to try a factory reset in the next few days. I must admit i did restore from a previous backup.
dauzrulez said:
Thanks for the support. I also have yesterday's screenshots of betterbatterystats, here attached.
It seems to sleep a good percentage of time.
No, I'm not traveling, I stayed the whole day in the office.
Accounts : Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter.
Yes, intelligent face scan is on
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Facebook is a known battery hog, please try to use the official lite app from facebook. Intelligent scan always activates the iris scanner as soon as you turn on your device. Do you use your lockscreen alot while not unlocking your phone? During this time the iris scanner is wasting energy cause it constantly scans for your eyes. I have setup my device to start scanning only when i swipe up on the lockscreen.
Whats with that 1h20min of Google Play services. Did you use the playstore or some other stuff from Google for that long amount of time actively?
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Facebook is a known battery hog, please try to use the official lite app from facebook. Intelligent scan always activates the iris scanner as soon as you turn on your device. Do you use your lockscreen alot while not unlocking your phone? During this time the iris scanner is wasting energy cause it constantly scans for your eyes. I have setup my device to start scanning only when i swipe up on the lockscreen.
Whats with that 1h20min of Google Play services. Did you use the playstore or some other stuff from Google for that long amount of time actively?
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I will try today to remove Facebook and install Lite (the strange thing is that with my LG G6 and MiA1 with the official Facebook app I have zero problems).
Iris scanner and lockscreen are almost never engaged. The phone is sitting on the desk, and I wake it up through fingerprint most of the times.
Now here in Italy it's 11AM, the phone is unplugged since 7:30Am and the standby drain is already 4,5%/h
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I will try today to remove Facebook and install Lite (the strange thing is that with my LG G6 and MiA1 with the official Facebook app I have zero problems).
Iris scanner and lockscreen are almost never engaged. The phone is sitting on the desk, and I wake it up through fingerprint most of the times.
Now here in Italy it's 11AM, the phone is unplugged since 7:30Am and the standby drain is already 4,5%/h
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Ok, thanks for the info. Hm but still, is your usage of Google Play Services always this high? Mine isnt even listed with hours and minutes, only with 3% usage in 30h! And im still on 46% battery.
dauzrulez said:
Hi all,
I am one of the many people complaining for the very poor battery life of the Exynos S9+, but my problem is more extended.
In the previous days I read all the topics related to battery drain in the S9+ and S9 sections of the forum, without finding any solution
My problem is very strange: every Samsung Galaxy I owned (S6, S7edge, S8 and now S9+) has a standby drain around 4%/hr. This is very bad, since more or less 60%-70% of my battery during a standard working day is drained without using the device. In 24hrs I can reach 0% battery with a few minutes of SOT.
I tried to disable almost everything (AOD, sync, location, google location history, nearby wifi bt search etc), hard resetted the device and started from scratch, but the standby drain is always the same.
The very strange thing is that if I configure with all the same apps and accounts a device which is not a Samsung galaxy I have maximum 0,5%hr standby drain. I tested it recently with Lg G6 and Xiaomi MiA1 and the drain is not present. Again, same apps and same setup of the phone.
There should be something specific in the configuration of my Galaxy devices that causes drain, but in 3 years I couldn't find it.
Is there anyone who can help me? What am I missing?
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I have an S9+ Exynos since launch, and even when at first it came with some drain issues, those and many more were addressed with latest update (BRE).
From what I can see, you are using 2 SIM's and your signal is not that good, which contributes to the battery drain.
Other question: how are you doing the backup/restore of your things?, because the S9+ is known for being picky with these, and if you don't do it properly, it will impact battery and application behavior.
More info here (1:10):
https://youtu.be/mBAjdcP0ZEM
Is better if you can try a clean installation and remove/disable the things you don't use. I'm able to get +5hrs SOT in a period of 40-48hrs constantly; I recharge my phone every 2 days and the battery drain overnight is around 3%. I'm all stock, no root or ADB tweaks, and the only thing I don't use is AOD because is not useful for me.
Also I know many other people with similar results as mine, so is a matter of configuration or your phone is defective and you would need to change it.
Good luck!
Galaxo60 said:
I have an S9+ Exynos since launch, and even when at first it came with some drain issues, those and many more were addressed with latest update (BRE).
From what I can see, you are using 2 SIM's and your signal is not that good, which contributes to the battery drain.
Other question: how are you doing the backup/restore of your things?, because the S9+ is known for being picky with these, and if you don't do it properly, it will impact battery and application behavior.
More info here (1:10):
https://youtu.be/mBAjdcP0ZEM
Is better if you can try a clean installation and remove/disable the things you don't use. I'm able to get +5hrs SOT in a period of 40-48hrs constantly; I recharge my phone every 2 days and the battery drain overnight is around 3%. I'm all stock, no root or ADB tweaks, and the only thing I don't use is AOD because is not useful for me.
Also I know many other people with similar results as mine, so is a matter of configuration or your phone is defective and you would need to change it.
Good luck!
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Hi,
My main problem is that I have the same exact problem with the S8 and S7edge, but not with the LG G6... so it's something related to my configuration on samsung phones (same account, same apps, same everything). That's the reason why I'm sure that the phone is not defective.
I have the same problem if I use it in Single sim, and 90% of the day I am under full bars of 4G+ coverage.
The configuration started from scratch (did not start from previous backups). I had just setted up my google account and then reinstalled everything from play store. The only backup I recovered is Whatsapp (through the internal backup function of the app on google drive)
Thanks to everyone for the support!
Facebook Lite: no results. Still at 3,5% standby drain per hour.
Please help :crying:
dauzrulez said:
Facebook Lite: no results. Still at 3,5% standby drain per hour.
Please help :crying:
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Try to disable background activity for "Android System".
For some people, this helped a lot.
Galaxo60 said:
Try to disable background activity for "Android System".
For some people, this helped a lot.
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Which are the implications of this choice? What will I loose?
dauzrulez said:
Which are the implications of this choice? What will I loose?
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Has no implications, it seems that for no reason that option drains a lot of battery for some, so maybe you want to give a try.
Everything works perfectly with it disabled, I run this options since I got my S9+ and is day and night difference.
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Has no implications, it seems that for no reason that option drains a lot of battery for some, so maybe you want to give a try.
Everything works perfectly with it disabled, I run this options since I got my S9+ and is day and night difference.
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How can disable Android system
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Has no implications, it seems that for no reason that option drains a lot of battery for some, so maybe you want to give a try.
Everything works perfectly with it disabled, I run this options since I got my S9+ and is day and night difference.
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Does this option stick on your phone? Its activated on mine again after each restart.
Hello, i have a brand new amazfit gtr my question is>
in 6 days i lost 15% on battery, with 0 gps, all notification on, AOD off, 1 sleep track, and today evening i turned on DND, almost 4%-5%/day, this i normal? it said someone its a faulty battery thats true?
thx for the answers
rambogancs said:
Hello, i have a brand new amazfit gtr my question is>
in 6 days i lost 15% on battery, with 0 gps, all notification on, AOD off, 1 sleep track, and today evening i turned on DND, almost 4%-5%/day, this i normal? it said someone its a faulty battery thats true?
thx for the answers
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Wait for few chargins, update firmware, should be fine. 6 days and 15% looks normal
Wysłane z mojego BLA-L29 przy użyciu Tapatalka
It doesn't seem normal to me. Of course it depends on how many hundreds of notifications you have.
I've got GPS OFF, app notifications ON (WhatsApp, SMS, Calls), sleeptracking ON, no activities.
Charged the watch on sunday and now on thursday it's still at 100%. Maybe 10 notifications per day.
When I received my first watch, it was 0% straight out of the package. I charged it and it drained 5-6% overnight even with the watch OFF. Faulty battery. Returned the watch and got a new one. This one was 65% charged out of the package and is now holding up well.
Edit: Do you monitor heart rate? I don't.
Don MC said:
I've got GPS OFF.
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How you turn GPS completely off on the watch? Didnt found any setting about that
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Yes it will be great thing.
Training like mi band with bigger screen it's all I want ?
GPS in this watch sucsks.
thommi12 said:
How you turn GPS completely off on the watch? Didnt found any setting about that
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Maybe I got it wrong. There's no such setting that I know of, but I never use activities that could use GPS on the watch. So GPS is off in that sense.
If you start an activity from the phone, it should use GPS on the phone and not the watch. Haven't tried it though.
It's dropped to 99% now. 1% sunday to thursday. Should I be worried?
https://en.amazfit.com/gtr.html all information is here, Rambogancs
Hi!
I got my new GTR 42 today. Big issue: battery goes down to 20% in three hours. I charged the phone twice already today (once when I unpacked it, once one hour ago), and it's the same issue.
I don't really see what I could do to make it better. Any idea?
Thanks a lot
P.
try this
pierrozek said:
Hi!
I got my new GTR 42 today. Big issue: battery goes down to 20% in three hours. I charged the phone twice already today (once when I unpacked it, once one hour ago), and it's the same issue.
I don't really see what I could do to make it better. Any idea?
Thanks a lot
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please see my post in another thread. Try it yourself and report if this makes any difference:
Hi, another user with GTR battery drain issues.
My newly bought GTR 42mm drained from 100 - 0 % in 4 days (no AOD, no HR, just Notifications & auto brightness). This was 1% per hour.
There, I read and tried few things, and this one seems to temporary patch the situation.
I unpaired and uninstalled all related apps (this is android user) and deleted the amazfit folder on the device. (read somewhere that there might me a corrupt settings file in there).
Then I installed some previous version of Amazfit app - current version on Play Store is version 3.4.4, and I found and installed version 3.2.0. Now my drainage fell from 25%/day to about 14%/day. I suspect that not the watch but the sh1tty app works in background doing god knows what and drains battery as hell. I did test with no connection to the phone (battery safe mode) and it was not draining single % for more than 8h.
This is not a cure, but probably will help someone until the chinese programmers do their job and release working sync software.
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Maybe I got it wrong. There's no such setting that I know of, but I never use activities that could use GPS on the watch. So GPS is off in that sense.
If you start an activity from the phone, it should use GPS on the phone and not the watch. Haven't tried it though.
It's dropped to 99% now. 1% sunday to thursday. Should I be worried?
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can you help me...
i got problem with my Amazfit GTR 47, after i use. i forgot to charge it, and when i charge, it stun on amazfit logo, and turn off again , and go back to logo.