Anyone experiencing faster battery drain on 4.4.2?

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l337m45732

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I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?
 

Maribou

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Mine was draining a bit faster than normal after the update. I let it run all the way down, and charged it up, and it has been fine since then.
Hope it works out for you guys.
 

ryujeff

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I updated to 4.4.2 a few days ago and am noticing faster battery drain. Just curious if anyone else noticed this?

Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?
 

bigfdaddy2

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Mine drains extremely fast but seems to charge just as fast

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l337m45732

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Ive gotten better battery performance since setting up Battery Guru and disabling all app refresh unless I open them. Still seeing very fast battery drain, but it's definitely improved.

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CAG-man

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YUP. I work 3rd shift and used to be able to go all night with one charge. Streaming music on wifi all night. Now I have to recharge at lunch.

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KeeperOfThePizza

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Yeah I've noticed that the battery life is a little worse than the past two updates.

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kennyx13

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FAst drain slow charge

The battery on mine would drain quick and charge forever. It would take me close to 12 hours charging it to be full. Any help?
 

stlfan

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Camera bug = Battery Drain

Did some looking around, and it appears to be a bug related to the camera (i know, sounds a little odd).

Here's one link of many I've found regarding this issue...Samsung has acknowledged an issue and is working on a fix:

"cultofandroid.com/53672/google-vows-fix-android-4-4-2s-camera-battery-drain-bug"
 

shamelin73

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I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.

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iceman4357

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I am thinking this is more regarding the ASOP camera. We don't have that file or app that they say to look for.

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I posted this in the 4.4.2 issues thread, but will post here:

EAS continuously running....I found this out as well after the update. I cant believe its low priority for such a major issue. I switched mine to manual just to be safe. I also found a major battery drain issue when surfing on the internet via LTE service.

Any way, I wanted to see if others could replicate my issue:
-Stock (non-rooted) S4 phone with the recent 4.4.2 update on LTE with 5 bars of service.
-I am using Chrome to surf the internet.
-I have Exchange and Gmail accounts. Gmail is set to PUSH and exchange is set to manual. (My hope is that having Exchange set to manual I avoid the EAS issue described above.)
-Majority of the boatware turned off

Scenario: While using Chrome to surf via LTE service I am literally able to see a 1% decrease in battery ever 2-3 minutes of surfing on the internet. Wifi is better, but still drains faster than 4.3.

Can anyone else try and replicate and respond back? I may have to do a hard reset to see if it will remedy the issue. :-/

Thanks,

Eric
 

l337m45732

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My battery life has been exponentially better since enabling battery guru. Use inactivity power boost to disable all app refresh after 15 minutes of inactivity. Set everything to manual refresh.

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CoNsPiRiSiZe

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Yes I have had worse battery drain with the KitKat update. Hoping for an AT&T update since we dont have the option to flash roms...
 

loudnslow

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Jan 17, 2010
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What are you actually seeing for battery consumption?
I have google+ at the top of the list with >30% use. Definitely new after 4.4.2 update.
Seemed to be ok for a day and then popped back up. I'm going to try to see if it's caused by 1st use of the camera.
 

d-rail

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Well I would up flashing the MK2 revert, then changed my mind and re-updated to NB1 (these two processes involved many full-wipes and even flashing a .pit file). Installed all my apps one-by-one. I'm now getting better battery life. Still higher than previous usage by Android System (usually ends up being 14-17%).
NB1 now works pretty damn well for me. Once we get root I will be able to disable some stupid things like the boot sound and charger connection sound, along with a few apps that just don't need to be running like Knox and Security Policy Updates...
 

sifuentes2013

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battery drain

Yes mine is really bad. i even lowered the brightness. like it loses 1% every two minutes even though its screen is off. I gotta get Zerolemon battery or use SetCPU. Does any other 4.4.2 devices have battery drain?

I have a big battery drain and serious wifi issues, cant connect to wifi cuz some security is blocking it, at the moment I have rooted the device and am going to install a custom rom,screw Samsung and their BS