Bad battery life...what's the deal?

LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 26, 2014

I am having terrible battery life and I just don't understand I deleted most of the bloatware. I tried to use betterbatterystats to see partial wakelocks but I guess you need root now to see them. I'm at a lost now

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 26, 2014

80 people can look at this but no one can offer insight.....oh joy what a great community this is turning out to be

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Commodore 64 · Apr 26, 2014

The stats you posted shows there isn't much running in the background. I would say do a factory reset:
Turn the phone off
Hold volume up+home+power buttons
Use volume keys to scroll down to wipe data+cache. Power button to select. Warning: your apps and progress are gonna be gone.

Let it boot up normally. Start installing apps and setup your phone. It takes 2 or 3 charge cycles and a couple of reboots to reach optimized battery usage.

Tip: dialing *#*#4636#*#*
1- you can check the health state of your battery (does it charge to 100%? My battery voltage at 74% charge is 4013mV)
2- you can go to device information and turn off LTE from preferred network types. This saves battery when phone is sitting idle or if you're on your homes WiFi and it is faster than LTE anyway

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 26, 2014

Commodore 64 said:
The stats you posted shows there isn't much running in the background. I would say do a factory reset:
Turn the phone off
Hold volume up+home+power buttons
Use volume keys to scroll down to wipe data+cache. Power button to select. Warning: your apps and progress are gonna be gone.

Let it boot up normally. Start installing apps and setup your phone. It takes 2 or 3 charge cycles and a couple of reboots to reach optimized battery usage.

Tip: dialing *#*#4636#*#*
1- you can check the health state of your battery (does it charge to 100%? My battery voltage at 74% charge is 4013mV)
2- you can go to device information and turn off LTE from preferred network types. This saves battery when phone is sitting idle or if you're on your homes WiFi and it is faster than LTE anyway

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I really appreciate your help man. I really really don't want to factory reset but I guess I have no choice

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 26, 2014

I'm at 60% with 3898 mv. This battery cycle is definitely better than yesterday's

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gainstatom · Apr 27, 2014

I was wondering. How bad is your battery life? How much percent after a minute and stuff like that.

LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 27, 2014

gainstatom said:
I was wondering. How bad is your battery life? How much percent after a minute and stuff like that.

Do you mean fast does my batter % per minute? How do I check that without staring at my batter for a minute?

Today's battery cycle is slightly better
I am at 21% with 8 hrs 22 min on battery and 4 hrs 35 min screen on time

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skyrocketeer · Apr 27, 2014

Might be the apps that you've installed because I regularly get 16+hrs on battery with 6+ hours of screen on time without power save mode.

Click android os and see how long CPU awake time is

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 27, 2014

skyrocketeer said:
Might be the apps that you've installed because I regularly get 16+hrs on battery with 6+ hours of screen on time without power save mode.

Click android os and see how long CPU awake time is

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I got around 1.5 hours

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karmuh · Apr 27, 2014

Yeah, you definitely have something going on there. Assuming don't have power hungry apps running in the background, I would say you either gotta do a factory reset or swap out the battery. Those stats are definitely not normal.

I'll get the screen on time up to about 7.5hrs before it dies out on me on this cycle. After the few few initial cycles, my stats have evened out and become more consistent. Have you tried doing a hard power cycle by removing the battery and keeping it out for at least a minute? If not, I would give that a try before your next full charge.

abraxo · Apr 27, 2014

I'm also experiencing pretty subpar battery (I disabled all the bloatware etc.). It was rapidly draining at first but I managed to 'slow it down'. That being said, I only charged this phone once since I just got it. Is it possible that my battery will 'optimize' after a few cycles or should I save myself the trouble and factory reset now?

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 27, 2014

karmuh said:
Yeah, you definitely have something going on there. Assuming don't have power hungry apps running in the background, I would say you either gotta do a factory reset or swap out the battery. Those stats are definitely not normal.

I'll get the screen on time up to about 7.5hrs before it dies out on me on this cycle. After the few few initial cycles, my stats have evened out and become more consistent. Have you tried doing a hard power cycle by removing the battery and keeping it out for at least a minute? If not, I would give that a try before your next full charge.

I have not tried a hard power cycle. Can you elaborate more on that. I just have to wait till my phone is dead and take the battery out for a minute

abraxo said:
I'm also experiencing pretty subpar battery (I disabled all the bloatware etc.). It was rapidly draining at first but I managed to 'slow it down'. That being said, I only charged this phone once since I just got it. Is it possible that my battery will 'optimize' after a few cycles or should I save myself the trouble and factory reset now?

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I would say give it 3-4 cycles I'm on my 4th and if I don't see any improvement I guess I'll factory reset

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ravennyc · Apr 27, 2014

Going thru all your posts. I picked up my phone 2 days ago. Charged it to 100% once (the night I picked up the S5). Monitoring the improvements after a few cycles.
Below is the consumption after 1 full charge.

Going to plug it in now for a full charge.. will post tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it improves.

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 27, 2014

ravennyc said:
Going thru all your posts. I picked up my phone 2 days ago. Charged it to 100% once (the night I picked up the S5). Monitoring the improvements after a few cycles.
Below is the consumption after 1 full charge.

Going to plug it in now for a full charge.. will post tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it improves.

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What's your screen on time

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karmuh · Apr 28, 2014

LeKtRiCzzz said:
I have not tried a hard power cycle. Can you elaborate more on that. I just have to wait till my phone is dead and take the battery out for a minute

Yup, that's basically all you do. Either let it die completely or have it a few % off from dying, take it out and let it sit for at least a minute. I'd keep it out for about 5 minutes, though. Pop it back in, fully charge and see if anything has changed. If not, it looks like a factory reset or replacing the battery would be your next steps, unfortunately.

LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 28, 2014

karmuh said:
Yup, that's basically all you do. Either let it die completely or have it a few % off from dying, take it out and let it sit for at least a minute. I'd keep it out for about 5 minutes, though. Pop it back in, fully charge and see if anything has changed. If not, it looks like a factory reset or replacing the battery would be your next steps, unfortunately.

I let it die completely yesterday got 5 hours today I'm going to let it it get down to 2% and let it die it's at 15% right now

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ravennyc · Apr 30, 2014

ravennyc said:
Going thru all your posts. I picked up my phone 2 days ago. Charged it to 100% once (the night I picked up the S5). Monitoring the improvements after a few cycles.
Below is the consumption after 1 full charge.

Going to plug it in now for a full charge.. will post tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it improves.

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Here is the 5 days with the phone.. Charged it last evening..

Screen time: 5h 9m
Voice: 2h 44m

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dlavery845 · Apr 30, 2014

If you can't see the problem in app usage stats, try an app like Watchdog .

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LeKtRiCzzz · Apr 30, 2014

dlavery845 said:
If you can't see the problem in app usage stats, try an app like Watchdog .

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Is the one you are Referring to?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zomut.watchdoglite

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dlavery845 · Apr 30, 2014

That's the one.

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