WiFi is always On with Android 6.0 - Nexus 9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

After flashed Android 6.0 I noticed worse battery life than with 5.1.1
Looking for a culprit I noticed in the battery status chart that wifi is always on. It is a solid line with no interruptions anywhere.
This did not happen before. Thinking about a bad app, I factory reset the tablet and did not install any third-party app.
Even in this pristine conditions wifi is always on.
Do you have the same problem?
Thanks!

I definitely do not have the problem. In fact I have the opposite problem. I used to have twitter setup on my tablet (just for news sites like AP, etc.) and then used pushbullet to notify me on my PC/other devices. Since I flashed 6.0 once it goes into doze I stop getting those notifications until I turn it on again.
Last night I put the tablet down around 1am at 86% and this morning at 7:30am it was at 84%

Thanks. If you click on the chart on the battery section of the settings, what do you see? I see a solid uninterrupted line for WiFi, and interrupted lines for Awake and Screen On.

luigig said:
Thanks. If you click on the chart on the battery section of the settings, what do you see? I see a solid uninterrupted line for WiFi, and interrupted lines for Awake and Screen On.
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Yep my Wi-Fi line is solid because I dont travel with it so its always connected to Wi-Fi. Doesnt drain the battery at all really

luigig said:
After flashed Android 6.0 I noticed worse battery life than with 5.1.1
Looking for a culprit I noticed in the battery status chart that wifi is always on. It is a solid line with no interruptions anywhere.
This did not happen before. Thinking about a bad app, I factory reset the tablet and did not install any third-party app.
Even in this pristine conditions wifi is always on.
Do you have the same problem?
Thanks!
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Same thing for me. I have it in settings to never stay on but wifi is always on.

Gryphie said:
Same thing for me. I have it in settings to never stay on but wifi is always on.
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I forgot to mention it in the first post but I have the same setting:
Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep => Never
Network notification => off

luigig said:
I forgot to mention it in the first post but I have the same setting:
Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep => Never
Network notification => off
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Was away for 3 hours and when I came back home my Nexus 9 had turned off wifi. So it seems it works but it takes a lot longer before it turns off wifi. Used to be 15 minutes but what it is now I don't know.
Edit: tested it now, it's now 30 minutes before it turns off wifi.

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I definitely do not have the problem. In fact I have the opposite problem. I used to have twitter setup on my tablet (just for news sites like AP, etc.) and then used pushbullet to notify me on my PC/other devices. Since I flashed 6.0 once it goes into doze I stop getting those notifications until I turn it on again.
Last night I put the tablet down around 1am at 86% and this morning at 7:30am it was at 84%
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I read over on the Nexus 5 forum that there was a wifi always on scanning bug going around that people with curing by disabling WiFi scanning under location services. I'm happy to say, after flashing fresh factory images, my 9 and 5 are working flawlessly. Like someone posted above, both of my devices left all night and half the next day only knocked a few percent off the battery. I usually charge my Nexus 5 halfway through the day, but yesterday I did not and had 40% when I put it on charge going to bed. My wife took the OTA as opposed to flashing fresh on her Nexus 5, but she has had no issues either.
I'm loving this update on both of my devices so far. The animations are so much smoother.
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WoodroweBones said:
I definitely do not have the problem. In fact I have the opposite problem. I used to have twitter setup on my tablet (just for news sites like AP, etc.) and then used pushbullet to notify me on my PC/other devices. Since I flashed 6.0 once it goes into doze I stop getting those notifications until I turn it on again.
Last night I put the tablet down around 1am at 86% and this morning at 7:30am it was at 84%
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Did you try going into the battery optimization settings and turning off battery optimization for Pushbullet? I don't know if it would help, but who knows?

GibsonSGJ said:
Did you try going into the battery optimization settings and turning off battery optimization for Pushbullet? I don't know if it would help, but who knows?
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Actually after the first day or so it got much better. They are still delayed but if thats the tradeoff for the insane standby time I'm ok with it.
Here are my N9's current battery stats:
Tablet Idle Time (i.e. time off charger): 2d 4h 40m
Screen on time: 1h 17m
Battery Percentage: 74%!!!
I use my tablet to cast shows and did some light browsing/PDF reading (trying to figure out how to get my son to sleep ) so thats why the low SOT. Normally probably without even touching the tablet I'd already be sub 50%

I believe the WiFi always on showing under battery life is a bug. My n6 is the same way. Recently went on a trip with no access to WiFi. Turned WiFi off but yet it still shows it's always on under battery. I don't notice any additional battery usage so I assume it is just a bug and hopefully will be fixed in the next update. I believe the bug was also present in the developer previews

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Razr Battery drain discussion

Hi All, I have been using the Xda for long time and I am a bit greed and I never register, yep that's right, hate plz come.
But anyway, I have used too many phones that I can't even remember.
Last couples of week, I got rid off my Nexus one and got A Razr, but the disparagement start right with the battery life!
First a few days, I was using only wifi, as one of my number does not has Web pack on it, and I notice a horrible battery performance on the device and I am
Later on, I activied my internet on phone and here comes my theory.
I notice the Wifi is always running for some reason on the background even if I set it as turn of when screen off, when I check the battery usage, it shows almost every second that wifi is on. That should not be right, it should turn it self off when screen off, and it is not doing that.
Second of all, later on, I noticed something like *WIFI* shows under battery usage, and I was thinking what the heck is that, cause there is another "WIFI" still showing, and also something called" .com.motorola.contact. something like that is waking the phone and using the wifi as well.
And there also something like"motorola.home" running and using wifi for ages. Very strange.
OK, then I went out today, yes, I most of the time stay @ home, na I am joking..
I am mostly in a place with WIFI, home, work place, and Uni. All wifi here and there. Today, I took train 3 hrs total out and back from Birmingham to London for those who like stories. it was 1:30 afternoon battery @ 80% then I listen to music for 1 hr and use whatsapp quite a bit(battery hunger app even on iOS)
On the way back I played GTA 3 for one good hour. and it is now 9PM, and 15% left, as later on I tweet a bit, web a bit. which is good, also I took underground so signal is not always there.
After all these my question is for those who had the battery drain, are U in a wifi enviornment quite a bit time and use wifi?
If so, set the wifi sleep policy to Never(this actually will help) and while not using wifi to use heavy data stuff, turn it OFF and see what happen.
Also turn off GPS espically if you have facebook on phone and also the using wirelsess connection for location, turn that off as well.
BTW the GPS on Razr is reallllllly fast on location, it took 5 second to find me from cold boot. Awesome.
And I don't use task killer or smart action, I think using sensor and active these sensor to save battery while they are using a lot juice is not so smart.
BTW: due to I am on and off subway, my iPhone4s dropped a good 15% without any use, it just sitting in my pocket. (as for now, Android is the fun bit, iOS is the backup, as it does hold battery better a bit...lol)
I am on 2.3.6 (651.167.19.XT910.retail.en.EU)
I flash the rom couple of times, it all shows me WIFI is doing some strange thing.
Today still draining and I use a data usage checker and find that moto blur is using a hug a mount of data, WTF!?
I find battery performance vastly better on wifi than 3G. Mine has had atrociously bad battery life recently, so I'm backtracking through stock ROMs to see if I can replicate the setup I got 5+ hours of screen-on time with.
Gotta love those updates. The sooner data works properly in custom ICS ROMs for the XT912, the better.
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before a week i got v3c with version want to extend battery does any one know if it comes with door ??
give us a link have a look? I am looking for the Maxx to replace on my normal razr
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I've been using SetCPU to create profiles on the ondemand governor and extrapolating from my general usage during commute, news/texts/im, fair amount of screen on time, I'm getting around 10% drain per hour which is fairly nice. With screen off and 3g running leaving the phone to idle, it drops to around 3-4% per hour which is significantly better from what I was getting right out of the box.
Battery test for Motorola RAZR XT910
Yesterday I decided to do a simple test with my new smartphone, a Motorola RAZR, I shall not charge until he get just 15% of battery remaining. So here I will put the results and thoughts about it.
8:00 AM: I woke up and took XT910 off the charger. Wi-fi was turned on;
8:00 - 9:00 AM: I passed one hour using Pulse to read some news, once or twice I shared some news in the Twitter and Facebook, with the Wi-fi on, of course. The Battery got 85%;
9:00 - 10:00 AM: I started to use Whatsapp to chat with a buddy, took at least 45 minutes of intensive use, battery got 70%;
10:00 - 11:00 AM: Cellphone in stand-by, BUT with the wi-fi on, waiting for someone, battery got 60% yet!;
11:00 - 12:00 AM: That one appeared, so I used Whatsapp again for 30 minutes, and battery got 50%;
12:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Two hours with the cells blocked, but still with wireless connection, 40%;
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Motorola in stand-by, now with the wi-fi turned off, so, in the first hour, he keep 40% and in the second, he got 30%;
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM: The final test, I passed just one hour playing Ceramic Destroyer without stopping, the battery got 15% and then the phone asked for charging!;
Well, the battery last for 8 hours with wi-fi turned on almost all time, so I think it's was fair, BUT, the battery status is a bit fake, I don't think that the information was correct, but, it works when is a simple test, you know, right?
We all know about the 1,2 Ghz processor, this drains a lot of battery, but the real villain is the connection, wi-fi or 3G, they both spend so much energy of the cel.
My last thought is... always charge your phone when it's possible, even if you don't use in an intensive form, I hope that you'll not have problems because a low-batterys cell phone.
One thing I've found is that when my battery is draining like a tub it's has nothing to do with any data connection. In running apps there's a media process that keeps my phone running at full bore. If I just kill that I get dramatically better battery life. Normally when I don't have to deal with that I can last all day with a quick touch up charge during the middle of the day. This on my xt912.
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keeb119 said:
One thing I've found is that when my battery is draining like a tub it's has nothing to do with any data connection. In running apps there's a media process that keeps my phone running at full bore. If I just kill that I get dramatically better battery life. Normally when I don't have to deal with that I can last all day with a quick touch up charge during the middle of the day. This on my xt912.
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your right, certain apps can affect battery life so it is ok to kill running task. however just want to make sure other users know that using task killer to constantly kill many apps is not a good idea! most of the apps will prob restart and this cycle will only drain your battery more. whatsapp is a good example, even they state on their homepage you should remove from task killing as battery would drain not just from the constant restart of the app but also the fact that it would continue to regain connection to their server whenever it restarts.
try use a dark colour like black as you know white colour drains much more battery. if your a constant user of google (maybe even if its your homepage too) try use the black google version. save some battery.
i think personally for me 3g uses more battery than wifi. another factor is the network bars that drains battery if low as constantly hanging onto that low connection.
you should try flight mode and see how the battery fairs there so you can get a rough idea.
also come across an app called FreshNetwork which is a signal booster & finder. Android Market - 4.7 out of 5 Star overall rating! (9,152) as i speak, and it does work.. theres been times where ive had 1 bar connections but after using it i get like 3/4bars. so it helps ease the battery drain there as connection is much better.
hope its of some help guys!!
I know theres is some apps that drains battery, one tip is just deactive the auto-sync with your accounts, other thing, I want a batterystatus app, to know better that stuff.
And I will try this connection app, thanks
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Man I even turned off my smart actions, so far I only turn on things when I am really using them. Auto-sync only with wifi!
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your right, certain apps can affect battery life so it is ok to kill running task. however just want to make sure other users know that using task killer to constantly kill many apps is not a good idea! most of the apps will prob restart and this cycle will only drain your battery more. whatsapp is a good example, even they state on their homepage you should remove from task killing as battery would drain not just from the constant restart of the app but also the fact that it would continue to regain connection to their server whenever it restarts.
try use a dark colour like black as you know white colour drains much more battery. if your a constant user of google (maybe even if its your homepage too) try use the black google version. save some battery.
i think personally for me 3g uses more battery than wifi. another factor is the network bars that drains battery if low as constantly hanging onto that low connection.
you should try flight mode and see how the battery fairs there so you can get a rough idea.
also come across an app called FreshNetwork which is a signal booster & finder. Android Market - 4.7 out of 5 Star overall rating! (9,152) as i speak, and it does work.. theres been times where ive had 1 bar connections but after using it i get like 3/4bars. so it helps ease the battery drain there as connection is much better.
hope its of some help guys!!
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Its something stock with the phone. I just got a second and it still does it. I haven't figured out what starts it. But once I kill it, like I said my battery life is fantastic.
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keeb119 said:
Its something stock with the phone. I just got a second and it still does it. I haven't figured out what starts it. But once I kill it, like I said my battery life is fantastic.
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what did you kill?
there are some very important factors of battery draining follow
Display Timeout,Display Brightness,Bluetooth Inactivity
I've complied a list of battery saving tips and put them on my blog! Please do have a look!
The link to my blog is in my signature!
Aashrey99 said:
I've complied a list of battery saving tips and put them on my blog! Please do have a look!
The link to my blog is in my signature!
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hey first of all nice site secondly your tips are pretty much on the dot.. just thought of these apps people might find useful
autostarts - helps with disabling apps from auto starting when phone boots up (may be slightly speed up boot?) & also prevent certain app event triggers (maybe an app permission u aint happy with?)
FreshNetwork - helps locate better signals in which in return would improve battery life
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In running processes, the vague media process. Auto starts and kills battery quickly.
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Mobzter said:
hey first of all nice site secondly your tips are pretty much on the dot.. just thought of these apps people might find useful
autostarts - helps with disabling apps from auto starting when phone boots up (may be slightly speed up boot?) & also prevent certain app event triggers (maybe an app permission u aint happy with?)
FreshNetwork - helps locate better signals in which in return would improve battery life
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Thanks for the suggestions! I have added them to the list of battery tweaks!
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Battery Life - HDX 7in

Anyone else having issues with battery life? I can go from 54% to 14% overnight, totally stock install with no added apps.
My HDX 8.9 only loses about 2% over night. Get a task killer and see what you can kill.
Fully recharged it, watched a movie for a few mins, then let it sit for four hours or so. It managed to go from 84% to 72%. For some reason while it does stay connected to my wifi, it keeps losing internet connectivity.
I got a taskkiller app and killed a few processes, I don't believe it should be necessary though. I wonder if I got a dud since no one else seems to be reporting the same issue.
OakyTree said:
Fully recharged it, watched a movie for a few mins, then let it sit for four hours or so. It managed to go from 84% to 72%. For some reason while it does stay connected to my wifi, it keeps losing internet connectivity.
I got a taskkiller app and killed a few processes, I don't believe it should be necessary though. I wonder if I got a dud since no one else seems to be reporting the same issue.
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Most likely you have a rouge app. Uninstall all unnecessary apps. if the problem persists then install gsam battery monitor and track the irritant. Uninstall annoyance and all is happy again
conan1600 said:
Most likely you have a rouge app. Uninstall all unnecessary apps. if the problem persists then install gsam battery monitor and track the irritant. Uninstall annoyance and all is happy again
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Totally stock install, to my knowledge I can't uninstall any of the preinstalled stuff. The battery issues persist though reboot so if it's a stock app with some issue there's not much I can do about it at this time.
On a possibly related note I've been having issues with internet connectivity, after my fire is inactive for some period of time it loses connection to the internet but stays connected to wifi. I have to toggle the wifi to get the data working again.
I finally decided to just get them to ship me a replacement, should hopefully solve all of my issues without me having to spend days trying to diagnose any problems with my limited access.
install wake lock detector and see which app is locking cpu.
azfar said:
install wake lock detector and see which app is locking cpu.
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I have discovered that the location services can cause this exact issue due to constant polling. This issue is worsened with the additional use of the Google Android location services. Make sure you do not have the Location setting turned on in the "Wireless" tab of settings.
This issue only occurs intermittently, but when it does, it continues until location services are disabled & the device is restarted.
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I have discovered that the location services can cause this exact issue due to constant polling. This issue is worsened with the additional use of the Google Android location services. Make sure you do not have the Location setting turned on in the "Wireless" tab of settings.
This issue only occurs intermittently, but when it does, it continues until location services are disabled & the device is restarted.
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It wasn't enabled, I got my new kindle today though and just unboxed it. Hopefully it's resolved now.
Edit: Nope, same issue. When I got it, I turned it on, went though the tutorial, made sure location wasn't on, then turned off the screen and sat it on my desk. Six hours later I'm down 16%. Guess it's not as bad as before, but it's still not great. I wish amazon had better battery stats.
OakyTree said:
It wasn't enabled, I got my new kindle today though and just unboxed it. Hopefully it's resolved now.
Edit: Nope, same issue. When I got it, I turned it on, went though the tutorial, made sure location wasn't on, then turned off the screen and sat it on my desk. Six hours later I'm down 16%. Guess it's not as bad as before, but it's still not great. I wish amazon had better battery stats.
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I have great battery life and idle time. Did you download anything at all? Did you change any settings?
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I have great battery life and idle time. Did you download anything at all? Did you change any settings?
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Nope nothing, I can't think of any reason why two separate devices would act this way when no one else is having the same issue.
From when I edited my previous post to now, it's gone down 33%. (Which is a little over 2% per hour)
Edit: I installed better battery stats from an APK (didn't realize it would let me do this), so hopefully now I can see what's eating up the battery.
Edit 2: Something called msm_hsic_host is what's draining my battery. Apparently that has something to do with a cellular modem, which I find odd since my device is wifi only.
Edit 3: Installed DS Battery Saver, set it to slumber (If screen's off, data's off), problem solved.

Battery Life?!?

2 days? I had a full charge in this at 6 am, now i just got a 14% low battery alert at 2:28pm...
Is this normal? I am not doing anything unusual at all, did not use it to make a single phone call, and am at work so ive only checked it a handful of times today...
what have yall experienced here??? this seems ridiculous!
Well took my gear s off charge at 7:30am and have checked it at regular points through the day including showing it off to work people and it's not 22:37pm and I still have 67% left of the battery so mines about right...
I have thus set to do Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, sms, twitter and a few other notifications so gets used fully through the day.
jongilluley said:
Well took my gear s off charge at 7:30am and have checked it at regular points through the day including showing it off to work people and it's not 22:37pm and I still have 67% left of the battery so mines about right...
I have thus set to do Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, sms, twitter and a few other notifications so gets used fully through the day.
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hmm....
i just brought up the list of running apps and found that the music app was still open (though on pause) from this morning.
i have a hunch, playing or not, that if you leave the music app open in the background it may be the source of the battery drain.
no, i do not have the clock face set to always on as well. just music app running in the background on pause.
i'm hoping this is it, though since i killed tasks i went from 14% to 1% in as many minutes. I'm guessing not...
Took it off the charger this morning at 6:30am at 60% and as of right now at 5:30pm it has 33%.
27% in 12 hours
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p64imp said:
hmm....
i just brought up the list of running apps and found that the music app was still open (though on pause) from this morning.
i have a hunch, playing or not, that if you leave the music app open in the background it may be the source of the battery drain.
no, i do not have the clock face set to always on as well. just music app running in the background on pause.
i'm hoping this is it, though since i killed tasks i went from 14% to 1% in as many minutes. I'm guessing not...
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I cleared off my recent opened apps about 3 times during the day. that might have helped my battery
you may want to check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s/help/gear-s-battery-issues-t2935271)
100% @ 8:00am - 71% Now @ 7pm.
11 hrs = 29%. Used quite a bit.
I used it a fair amount today.
Took it off the charger at 7:10am (100%)
at 7:15pm it is 62%.
It seems to be getting better.
I turned off the Wifi. Maybe that has something to do with it?
dpeagle said:
you may want to check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s/help/gear-s-battery-issues-t2935271)
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Thanks for the link...
After i re-charge i'm going to try this:
Update on Battery Life for me
HUGE day of use primarily with notifications and texting. Up and fully charged at 7am and now at 5:30pm I'm still at 48% battery.
On Wifi
BT Tethered
Clock off
Brightness at 60%
Vibrate/no sound
GPS Off - which I think is a HUGE key to success. No need to have it on unless needed anyway.
p64imp said:
Thanks for the link...
After i re-charge i'm going to try this:
Update on Battery Life for me
HUGE day of use primarily with notifications and texting. Up and fully charged at 7am and now at 5:30pm I'm still at 48% battery.
On Wifi
BT Tethered
Clock off
Brightness at 60%
Vibrate/no sound
GPS Off - which I think is a HUGE key to success. No need to have it on unless needed anyway.
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how do you turn off gps? I do not see a specific option other then disabling the mobile network alltogether...?
p64imp said:
how do you turn off gps? I do not see a specific option other then disabling the mobile network alltogether...?
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on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
dpeagle said:
on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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TY! looks like it was already off though...
what does it mean:
Location - "gps only" ?
If it means to say location = gps, its a bit confusing...
additionally, the feature i disabled that so far has helped is the mute/pause motion option. This one option seems to be the culprit for my 100% - 0% in 8 hours issue. I'm never enabling that feature again! holy cow!
Just did my first full run down on the battery without charging, been running since yesterday morning and am down to 8%, so less than 48 hours so far, but still two full work days. I can at least forget to charge once in a while.
Not as good as my Neo's 4 dayss, but better than the 12 hours I was getting on the Moto.
gottahavit said:
Just did my first full run down on the battery without charging, been running since yesterday morning and am down to 8%, so less than 48 hours so far, but still two full work days. I can at least forget to charge once in a while.
Not as good as my Neo's 4 dayss, but better than the 12 hours I was getting on the Moto.
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I heard it was brutal with the Moto
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Battery life for me is about a day and a half. I set the face to watch just to display black and white numbers I put a black background and that really helps. You don't need the full color watch background that drains a lot of battery when you decide to lift it up and down.
dpeagle said:
on the GS go to settings, go to connections, scroll to the bottom turn off location
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Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
p64imp said:
Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
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Disabling Mobile network will improve battery life, i think. Check my post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56722962&postcount=32
I get only 6 hrs from 100 to 0%.
p64imp said:
Update:
i disabled motion for mute/pause and the mobile network (i use bluetooth) and my watch now finishes at about 70% after a full day's use. VAST improvement!
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gonna give that a try. this thing is getting crazy good battery life after its 6th full charge. after 13hrs yesterday with notifications, email reply's, multiple phone calls (two calls of 20 plus minutes) the damn thing had over 60% left. that's with GS to N2 via BT.
Battery life is getting better, been on for 14 hours and still at 75%
At work 13.5 hours and I'm at 51%. Turning off the wake up motion helped me today, and running tethered to my phone helped (although I will not keep doing that), biggest help was not running with gps (but this will not be a normal occurrence). I'm going to run with phone remotely connected and gps running tomorrow and see what just having the wake motion off will do for me.
6-7 hours on GSM
Most of the posts specify battery time while using it on BT thethering.
However I like to use it as a basic phone, no worrying about carrying everywhere regular phone.
Of course I have a phone in a bag (just for case, battery!, for emails, and browsing).
- So, when using it for regular talk it lasts from 9.am to 3p.m. Specifications:
a) about 1 hour talk
b) 2 sms
c) GPS Off, WIFI off, Move ON, not installing extra apps
d) BT and SONY SBH52 ON
This is not enough.
Charging is fast - (with no connecting to plug) i can get 50% batt in 30 minutes.

5.0/5.0.1 Battery life thread

Just curious to see what the battery life is for everyone who has upgraded to lollipop either by VZW OTA or through JASMINEROM stock 5.0/5.0.1 rooted.
Battery Life is terrible for me on the lollipop 5.0, hardly comes for about 10 hours.
I think we need the next update immediately...
1.5 hours off the charger. On the phone for an hour, battery says I only have 7 hours left
maybe your issue too?
so im new to the note 3, my boss gave me one which is a huge upgrade over my old razr hd (i do miss unlocked bootloader though). anyways i noticed the phone sucked the battery dead pretty quickly but assumed it was bc of the big screen. one thing annoyed me, it constantly said searching using gps in the notification panel. after doing some searching i found that if i turned off the weather widget on the lockscreen (setting->lockscreen->additional information-> uncheck weather) that it stopped searching for gps all the time, giving me annoying notifications about it every 3 secs and my battery life was greatly improved. hope this helps someone
ncsuwolfs said:
so im new to the note 3, my boss gave me one which is a huge upgrade over my old razr hd (i do miss unlocked bootloader though). anyways i noticed the phone sucked the battery dead pretty quickly but assumed it was bc of the big screen. one thing annoyed me, it constantly said searching using gps in the notification panel. after doing some searching i found that if i turned off the weather widget on the lockscreen (setting->lockscreen->additional information-> uncheck weather) that it stopped searching for gps all the time, giving me annoying notifications about it every 3 secs and my battery life was greatly improved. hope this helps someone
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Don't forget to use the app greenify. It can really help with battery life.
I personally did a factory restore after the update. I have had over three hours screen on time with little mods like disabling apps/bloat and also disabling things like quick glance and such. I am even using bluetooth with my pebble watch. coming from an LG G2 with a 3000mah battery and smaller screen this is awesome. The lollipop update was terrible on the G2
moin786 said:
Battery Life is terrible for me on the lollipop 5.0, hardly comes for about 10 hours.
I think we need the next update immediately...
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I went from being 8 hours off charge to completely dead regardless of use pre-LP to ~20 hours with typical use post-LP. Stock battery and no changes made.
I think i had 12 hours with 8 hours screen on time the other day
About the same, 2 days of use with ~8 hours screen time.
No problems here
I *was* initially having problems since I kept leaving certain settings on unnecessarily. I like to crank up the brightness when I'm near a charger at home or in the car so that I can easily see the screen and basically ooh-and-ahh myself with a showroom look. Leaving it all the way up all day was curtains for the battery life obviously, and that's just me. People truly mindful of getting mileage out of the battery are no doubt more careful.
What has helped is that I try to be mindful of what settings I have enabled, and have gotten stellar performance after a day or two of receiving the update. I find that it's a matter of making sure WiFi is off if you're not on a network. I keep my screen brightness on "Auto," and can live with the slower performance when in power saving mode. Sucks not having root and UPSM anymore, but I can live since I rarely made it down to 20% battery life before anyway.
Your mileage may vary with the Sync setting since if it has trouble getting signal, it may get stuck in a loop and chew up battery. I don't know if there are any radio issues caused by 5.0, but I haven't noticed a difference in signal - I get as good of coverage as one can ask for in Central Ohio, and this still seems to be true so far. Anyhow, signal "hunting" has always caused the most trouble for battery life for me on several different devices.
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Battery life on my mom's Note 3 is pathetic on the Lollipop update. She would go a whole day with about 40% left and now it goes from full to dead in 45 minutes. It's GPS causing the issue. She used to leave GPS on at all times on 4.4.4 back when it lasted a whole day to 40%. Now leaving it on causes the sub-1-hour battery life and with it off it still drains faster, the end of the day leaves her with a mere 20%. The 5.1 update definitely needs to be pushed ASAP.
Hobox10 said:
Battery life on my mom's Note 3 is pathetic on the Lollipop update. She would go a whole day with about 40% left and now it goes from full to dead in 45 minutes. It's GPS causing the issue. She used to leave GPS on at all times on 4.4.4 back when it lasted a whole day to 40%. Now leaving it on causes the sub-1-hour battery life and with it off it still drains faster, the end of the day leaves her with a mere 20%. The 5.1 update definitely needs to be pushed ASAP.
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i had same problem, did you try turning off the weather widget on lockscreen off? ( i have a post about it a little bit back in this thread), it fixed my gps battery draining issue
ncsuwolfs said:
i had same problem, did you try turning off the weather widget on lockscreen off? ( i have a post about it a little bit back in this thread), it fixed my gps battery draining issue
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She wants her weather updates though, it tries to update GPS info literally nonstop so it absolutely kills the battery. I'm going to downgrade her phone back to 4.4.4 for her next time I'm home.
Hobox10 said:
She wants her weather updates though, it tries to update GPS info literally nonstop so it absolutely kills the battery. I'm going to downgrade her phone back to 4.4.4 for her next time I'm home.
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im 90% sure its the weather widget on the lock screen pinging gps, at least it was for me. i even checked my routers log and it was pinging the weather server nonstop too. i would just deactivate it and download another weather lockscreen widget from the playstore. 5.0 is too smooth to downgrade in my opinion
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im 90% sure its the weather widget on the lock screen pinging gps, at least it was for me. i even checked my routers log and it was pinging the weather server nonstop too. i would just deactivate it and download another weather lockscreen widget from the playstore. 5.0 is too smooth to downgrade in my opinion
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Alright I'm having her try that out to see if she can leave GPS on now, however she's told me about her phone saying she has no signal randomly and that phone calls randomly drop. Sounds like the update has a poor radio firmware too. Anyone else have this problem?
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Alright I'm having her try that out to see if she can leave GPS on now, however she's told me about her phone saying she has no signal randomly and that phone calls randomly drop. Sounds like the update has a poor radio firmware too. Anyone else have this problem?
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i have heard other people complain about those issues,(http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-note-3/help/lolipop-dropped-calls-t3095754) but for me my radio seems better, in places were co workers have 3g i have 4g. some people say a factory reset fixes those issues but i cant confirm or deny
Noticing poor battery life after upgrading to the Jasmine 5.0 ROM. Upgraded to Jasmine 5.02 and now I'm just deciding on when to wipe data and start from scratch.
The highest battery users were all applications, the Android OS and finally the Screen. I believe this clearly suggests that there's a battery drain bug with some of the app restores that were done after upgrading.
Hobox10 said:
Battery life on my mom's Note 3 is pathetic on the Lollipop update. She would go a whole day with about 40% left and now it goes from full to dead in 45 minutes. It's GPS causing the issue. She used to leave GPS on at all times on 4.4.4 back when it lasted a whole day to 40%. Now leaving it on causes the sub-1-hour battery life and with it off it still drains faster, the end of the day leaves her with a mere 20%. The 5.1 update definitely needs to be pushed ASAP.
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Factory reset..my battery life was considerably better on Lollipop, but I reset immediately after doing the update. Good practice
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Noticing poor battery life after upgrading to the Jasmine 5.0 ROM. Upgraded to Jasmine 5.02 and now I'm just deciding on when to wipe data and start from scratch.
The highest battery users were all applications, the Android OS and finally the Screen. I believe this clearly suggests that there's a battery drain bug with some of the app restores that were done after upgrading.
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It sucks. .by evening have to charge with light use. .ahhhh
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My battery life is great on jasmine 5.0.2 I'll let at least 5 hours screen time GPS on all day with Med to heavy use
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As you can see on the attached photo, my phone drains a lot more battery between 23:00 and 9:00 - over 5% per hour, before Nougat it drained 5% all night
I thought it was because I set "do not disturb"for that period, but it does the same without, I did a factory reset, problem stays
I took OFF most permissions, I dont have any new apps or settings that I know
Same thing was happening to me as well. Tried factory reset several times. The thing that worked for me (at least for now) is reflashing stock rom once again via LG Bridge. Just try update error recovery.
Edit: I have an international H960a variant.
Tommych83 said:
Same thing was happening to me as well. Tried factory reset several times. The thing that worked for me (at least for now) is reflashing stock rom once again via LG Bridge. Just try update error recovery.
Edit: I have an international H960a variant.
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Did it, lets see how it goes tonight, thanks :good:
Mine sometimes eats 0% whole night, but sometimes it eats 20% in 3 hours at night. I have no idea what is going on
It is ridiculous, between 14:00 and 23:00 (-9h on the screenshot) it used 22% battery, and I was using the phone moderately, calls, chrome, whatsapp, SMS, etc...
From 23:00 to 08:00 it used 48%, just sitting on the bedside table second screen OFF
I didnt have Do Not Disturb, just second screen OFF
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It is ridiculous, between 14:00 and 23:00 (-9h on the screenshot) it used 22% battery, and I was using the phone moderately, calls, chrome, whatsapp, SMS, etc...
From 23:00 to 08:00 it used 48%, just sitting on the bedside table second screen OFF
I didnt have Do Not Disturb, just second screen OFF
http://melorib.com/data/Nougat.jpg
Tonite just on the bedside table face down, nothing set, nor "do not disturb", nor second screen off, 55% 9 hours
BATTERY USE DETAILS only shows apps using 15%, what used the other 85%
Bad batterY?
Bad battery would drain a lot during the day too
Try this, goto settings>apps> click the 3 dot menu in the top right hand corner, reset app preferences. It helped mine, not a whole lot but it helped. Some apps will ask permission again when opened. Android System is my main battery drain.
I had an hunch, left the phone in the living room, face up, second screen on all night, it drained only 1% per hour
In the bedroom with face down, second screen off, it used 6% per hour
Wifi is the same, I use an internet radio as alarm, and it works fine, so it must be something related to signal strength, any ideas
A bad cell signal for example can add significantly to battery consumption. I.e., frequently dropping or low signal will make the phone search for other cells again and again.
Also, did you try disabling the 2nd screen via battery saving? Because if the phone lies face done, a sensor will disable it. Maybe that sensor can also add to battery drain.
Fushoku said:
A bad cell signal for example can add significantly to battery consumption. I.e., frequently dropping or low signal will make the phone search for other cells again and again.
Also, did you try disabling the 2nd screen via battery saving? Because if the phone lies face done, a sensor will disable it. Maybe that sensor can also add to battery drain.
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Tonite I will test with "Do not disturb" and second screen OFF from 23:00 to 9:00. Then tomorrow wifi OFF in the bedroom
Please keep us posted. I'm invested in this matter myself a great deal
My battery drain is rather constant though. Very strange that it's so inconsistent with your device.
Thanks for testing
Fushoku said:
Please keep us posted. I'm invested in this matter myself a great deal
My battery drain is rather constant though. Very strange that it's so inconsistent with your device.
Thanks for testing
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I work in IT, time to put my experience to service
With "Do not disturb" and second screen OFF from 23:00 to 9:00 it used less than 1% per hour, as it should :good:
Tonite I will test WIFI OFF in the bedroom
Thanks for letting us know! The more I read about this, the more confused I get -_-
What you could also try is setting up some apps that can track down wakelocks, e.g. Better Battery Stats or Wakelock Detector. Might be that there is some services running that sometimes keep your phone from sleeping.
If it works properly you seem to get pretty decent ratings with your device though!
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Thanks for letting us know! The more I read about this, the more confused I get -_-
What you could also try is setting up some apps that can track down wakelocks, e.g. Better Battery Stats or Wakelock Detector. Might be that there is some services running that sometimes keep your phone from sleeping.
If it works properly you seem to get pretty decent ratings with your device though!
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I dont believe the problem is with WIFI, but I have to test everything, to be sure what is the problem, at the moment I pend to something to do with network access, we will know soon
Well, tonite, in the bedroom, 5% per hour again, it is not WIFI, "Do not disturb" nor second screen for sure
The bedroom is next to the living-room, both have windows facing south, only a thin interior wall separating them, so it doesnt make sense that the network signal would be different enough to use that much battery
On the other hand, I noticed yesterday that location was ON, I always have it OFF, so I reset to OFF for last night. This morning set it ON again, and it started using less battery, so tonite I will test with location ON :fingers-crossed:
Dude i had battery saving on all the time and it eat few % at night. Now i turned power saving off and it eat 0% battery in sleep lol

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