Battery Life Issue (Is this normal battery life)

[philc21]

I've been noticing my battery has been draining a lot lately, and the majority is going to Android System. I did a search and found another post about this with no answers. I'm not getting much more than 12 hours on a daily basis, and I hardly use my phone. I'm including a screen shot of the battery usage. Is this a normal usage amount? I remember this phone being better on battery than this.
What are you guys getting for typical usage?
Anyone have any suggestions?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4axktwglfqg4ac/Screenshot_2014-10-23-21-11-07.png?dl=0

 

[tgeery]

I've been noticing my battery has been draining a lot lately, and the majority is going to Android System. I did a search and found another post about this with no answers. I'm not getting much more than 12 hours on a daily basis, and I hardly use my phone. I'm including a screen shot of the battery usage. Is this a normal usage amount? I remember this phone being better on battery than this.
What are you guys getting for typical usage?
Anyone have any suggestions?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4axktwglfqg4ac/Screenshot_2014-10-23-21-11-07.png?dl=0

as of yesterday, I'm seeing the same problem. Didn't have short battery life before that but several apps updated yesterday morning and now I have something like 50% on Android System and an unusually high "Stay Awake" - we're talking something like 10 hours when I wasn't using the phone for anything in particular - certainly not 10 hours worth!

So, I'm wondering how we tell what is keeping a phone awake?

 

[elliwigy]

usually we need more info such as what rom your using and when it started to happen..

second post might be one of the apps thats causing it so id backtrack them n see if u can find the culprit

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---------- Post added at 05:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:30 AM ----------

also, better battery stats on xda is your friend.. android system can be a ton of different things

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[scadilla]

I had big time battery issues when I was running NI2, and similar to what you were seeing Android System and Kernel, my battery would be nearly drained after about 10 to 12 hours. I rolled back to NE9 and my battery is back to being great I am usually at about 60% after about 10 hours. For what it's worth apps and programs were the same between both builds. Not sure this is much help just figured I'd share my experiences and what worked for me.

 

[CollinFX45]

I had big time battery issues when I was running NI2, and similar to what you were seeing Android System and Kernel, my battery would be nearly drained after about 10 to 12 hours. I rolled back to NE9 and my battery is back to being great I am usually at about 60% after about 10 hours. For what it's worth apps and programs were the same between both builds. Not sure this is much help just figured I'd share my experiences and what worked for me.

This was the solution I feared. I'm having massive battery drain on NI2 as well. Unfortunately, won't we lose "HD Voice" or VOLTE if we roll back to NE9? Not a deal breaker I guess.

It's really too bad Samsung/Verizon broke the phone with an update. This is seemingly pretty common now. Hope another small update gets released soon. I'm on international travel starting Friday and having a phone dead by 3pm doesn't sit very well with me.

-Collin-

 

[scadilla]

This was the solution I feared. I'm having massive battery drain on NI2 as well. Unfortunately, won't we lose "HD Voice" or VOLTE if we roll back to NE9? Not a deal breaker I guess.

It's really too bad Samsung/Verizon broke the phone with an update. This is seemingly pretty common now. Hope another small update gets released soon. I'm on international travel starting Friday and having a phone dead by 3pm doesn't sit very well with me.

-Collin-

Yes, you will lose HD Voice / VOLTE unfortunately. That was a sacrifice I had to take I couldn't deal with my phone being dead by 5:00pm.

 

[CollinFX45]

agreed. Yesterday was a complete joke. By 2pm with light use, I was down to 21%. Dead by 3:30.

I hate that I have to flash my phone back to a prior version because Verizon/Samsung broke it.

 

[elliwigy]

agreed. Yesterday was a complete joke. By 2pm with light use, I was down to 21%. Dead by 3:30.

I hate that I have to flash my phone back to a prior version because Verizon/Samsung broke it.

it is what it is.. there are ni2 roms with great battery.. few have reported battery drains but not me.. ive tried a few ni2 roms and not had a battery drain since before ni2

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[CyberpodS2]

agreed. Yesterday was a complete joke. By 2pm with light use, I was down to 21%. Dead by 3:30.

I hate that I have to flash my phone back to a prior version because Verizon/Samsung broke it.

Wake lock detector and greenify are your friends...

 

[CyberpodS2]

My about phone.

 

[tgeery]

so, after posting the second post in this thread I'm happy to post that my battery consumption returned to normal by the next day. I don't know what was going on but I'm still on NI2 and regular battery consumption - what I've been used to seeing on the phone all along.

that said, it's great to know about some of the apps that are available for better tracking/info about wake-locks and battery use.