Battery Life on Nexus 4 after 4.3 update?

[Guilherme Coelho]

EDITED: my Nexus 4 is turning off automatically! WT*!


This happened twice since I got the OTA update on my Nexus 4:

- I was gaming for 5 min, with 20% battery life. Closed the app from the "Recent Apps" menu, and turned off the screen. 30 mins later, I got the phone and it was harm (like 40?C), and the battery was dead.

- Yesterday I went sleep with 50% battery life and I did the same, played for 5 min, closed the apps and went sleep. Today I woke up without my alarm.

I'll do more tests and post here the screenshots. By the way, the games I was playing was "Beach Buggy Blitz" and "Temple Run 2".

 

[Sachmojo]

After only one day of use on 4.3 I can say that my battery life has improved markedly.

I don't usually have a lot of screen time but my phone handles a bit of audio, around 3 hours per day. Usually I'm plugging it in at night at around 20%, tonight around 55% which is very encouraging.

Probably concur with some others that it seems be a really good standby battery drain improvement.

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[kymoon]

I can definitely tell that battery life has decreased for me: I used to go to bed with a remarkable 65%-75% of battery life after using it all day (8 am to 2 am) for some texts and e-mail and one or two calls a day (very light use most of the time in general). Now, after the 4.3 update, my battery is nowhere near that range when I go to bed, and it easily goes below 50%. The first time, right after the update, it was draining my battery like hell, like 1% every minute. I did a soft reset, and it seemed to fix the huge draining problem, but I'm still getting less than with 4.2 as just explained.

 

[Jdane07]

HUGE improvement in battery life for me.
15 hours yesterday with 4 hours on screen time with 37% battery left.

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[anon(847090)]

I will say this again!!! UPDATE GOOGLE MAPS. it saves about 10% battery on an average before and after

 

[anon5664829]

This is what I've read as well. Improvement to standby time but not screen time. I didn't really think there was anything they could do about screen time anyway.

But I had an improvement to SOT

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[Neox3d]

for me there was significant battery gain, as I use BL all the time.

 

[Greg C]

My battery life is considerably better.... especially on standby!

 

[Venkataraman AP]

Battery performance is awesome now...

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[ryanr509]

I think its better on standby for me. No difference in screen time though.

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[Venkataraman AP]

I think its better on standby for me. No difference in screen time though.

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That's true. But something is better than nothing...

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[thaitaff]

I have the messaging app stuck in a wake lock. Goes from 100% to 20% by morning. It appears the phone refuses to go into deep sleep. Very annoying, I was hoping this update would make the battery life better.

 

[TechZOnline]

Mine is doing great after the update, better than before easily.

 

[PcNy]

Just updated to 4.3 this morning. Didn't see any difference yet.

 

[mattopotamus]

Just updated to 4.3 this morning. Didn't see any difference yet.

I am a very light user and have not noticed a single difference. If anything, maybe slightly worse.

 

[Captainbob767]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...29578909.91488.402845979787844&type=1&theater

 

[Rule9]

So far so good, battery life appears to have improved considerably and haven't had any deep sleep issues.

 

[PcNy]

Jelly Bean 4.2.2

Jelly Bean 4.3

My Conclusion: I can't see any difference in Screen On Time.

 

[PcNy]

Update
Last night (with Jelly Bean 4.3), I turned on Airplane Mode and killed all running apps before I fell asleep. I wake up this morning and find that I lost about 7% during 7-8 hours of sleep. When it was Jelly Bean 4.2.2, I did the same and didn't lose a single % (or at max 1%) during sleep with Airplane Mode.

Jelly Bean 4.3 Before & After Bed

My Conclusion: Jelly Bean 4.3 seems to have the worse Standby Time than previous version.

 

[Rule9]

Thanks for going to that effort, I haven't done any testing so all I can say is my battery has been lasting longer the past couple of days than it used to. Maybe there's something specific to your phone preventing a similar experience?