Very poor battery life Moto Z with 7.1.1

[lchiu7]

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

 

[Ricardo2003]

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

 

[41LY45]

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

Check your battery wear using Accubattery.

 

[nexxer92]

I have the same issue. Did you find any solution?



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[leomanmfk]

the only thing that help me with this problem, was a factory reset with a fresh install of all the apps, avoiding the restore

 

[kirkx10]

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.

 

[lchiu7]

Check your battery wear using Accubattery.

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.

 

[Loader009]

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.

It is?
Then what about mine?
87%, purchased about the same time (about a month later).

 

[lchiu7]

Check your battery wear using Accubattery.

It is?
Then what about mine?
87%, purchased about the same time (about a month later).

Given both our phones are less than one year old I wonder if Motorola will replace the batteries under warranty?

 

[Loader009]

Given both our phones are less than one year old I wonder if Motorola will replace the batteries under warranty?

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%.

 

[leofa]

My phone has 1 year and battery was terrible. I've got it replaced and it's working fine now.

 

[lchiu7]

My phone has 1 year and battery was terrible. I've got it replaced and it's working fine now.

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.

 

[benjamminh]

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.

 

[leofa]

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.

I went to a local repair shop and paid something about 50$ to get it replaced.

 

[swanryan81]

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...

 

[bignazpwns]

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.

 

[pacherecords]

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...

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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[double-gee]

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

 

[Mehdi_Hp]

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

 

[swanryan81]

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