I am usually a light phone user, because I work from home and I'm on Wifi most of the day in front of 3 screens and multiple computers sharing them. I have the Turbo because when I DO travel, which is rare, being able to count on my phone to get me through a day of heavy use (hour long conference calls, GPS, email, apps, the works) is of great importance. The rest of the time, my only heavy app use is a podcast app.
Before the MM update, I could get 2 full days of light use, but pretty much charge my phone on a wireless (non-turbo) changer every night to top it off. Some nights I'd forget, and it'd run down more or I'd plug it in at my desk during the day, but generally it's regularly topped back up.
Since the update, I am getting terrible battery life. I can't be off the charger for long without significant drain. Unless I use the Turbo charge or a long overnight, I can't "top it up" plugging it into the non-turbo charger at my desk, because it seems the drain is too close to the non-turbo change rate. It's nearly unusable except that... I've not had to travel with it yet.
The culprits are always cell standby and photos. I have force-stopped photos regularly with no effect. I rebooted a few times, I cleared the cache once either right before or after a reboot. So far, nothing works.
My work life has been busy, but not travel-busy, so I've not really had time to deal with it. My plan for this weekend is to top it off, back it up, uninstall the photos app (I mostly use the Gallery app from Motorola out of habit anyhow), and see how I do... But I suspect the cell standby will still be a problem. Failing that, since I'll have the backup, I can try a factory reset which I must admit I'm reluctant to do as I've never done it on this phone.
My wife also has a Turbo, which seems to be fine so far - at least, she's not complaining. I'm not someone who installs a ton of apps, but obviously our phones were configured differently. I've noticed a few other oddities - improvements and annoyances (calendar readability I see others complain about, etc.), but this is the only glaring problem so far.
My question is this - are there other things in MM I should be looking at, configuration-wise? I saw references to Doze which I assume is a battery management tool - I'll look into it. Other settings or features new in MM that I should consider? Anyone else solve the "cell standy" issue have advice?
Before the MM update, I could get 2 full days of light use, but pretty much charge my phone on a wireless (non-turbo) changer every night to top it off. Some nights I'd forget, and it'd run down more or I'd plug it in at my desk during the day, but generally it's regularly topped back up.
Since the update, I am getting terrible battery life. I can't be off the charger for long without significant drain. Unless I use the Turbo charge or a long overnight, I can't "top it up" plugging it into the non-turbo charger at my desk, because it seems the drain is too close to the non-turbo change rate. It's nearly unusable except that... I've not had to travel with it yet.
The culprits are always cell standby and photos. I have force-stopped photos regularly with no effect. I rebooted a few times, I cleared the cache once either right before or after a reboot. So far, nothing works.
My work life has been busy, but not travel-busy, so I've not really had time to deal with it. My plan for this weekend is to top it off, back it up, uninstall the photos app (I mostly use the Gallery app from Motorola out of habit anyhow), and see how I do... But I suspect the cell standby will still be a problem. Failing that, since I'll have the backup, I can try a factory reset which I must admit I'm reluctant to do as I've never done it on this phone.
My wife also has a Turbo, which seems to be fine so far - at least, she's not complaining. I'm not someone who installs a ton of apps, but obviously our phones were configured differently. I've noticed a few other oddities - improvements and annoyances (calendar readability I see others complain about, etc.), but this is the only glaring problem so far.
My question is this - are there other things in MM I should be looking at, configuration-wise? I saw references to Doze which I assume is a battery management tool - I'll look into it. Other settings or features new in MM that I should consider? Anyone else solve the "cell standy" issue have advice?
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