Battery Drain

[Joseph Coates]

I used to get about 10 hours of battery life from normal use for me, e-reader, email, Facebook, browsing, letting my daughters play Angry Birds, etc. No real gaming, etc. I do have Netflix and could watch a full movie and use half the battery. Now, it drains about a percent a minute, with no real usage. When I looked at the data usage, it told me 100 mb was being used by Google Play and that was the top usage from April 15th until now. I turned off the auto update. Do you think this will help or should I just do a reset and see what happens.

 

[anon(847090)]

what app do you see top on settings-->battery

data usage don't always correlate to battery usage

 

[B. Diddy]

Do you use a live wallpaper?

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[Joseph Coates]

Android OS 30% Google Services 18%, Screen 16% No live wallpaper. I have used Nova Launcher since I got it, Netflix also,

 

[B. Diddy]

Try installing Wake Lock Detector, which can tell you which apps might be waking the device up to do stuff. Activities like this can drain battery; I found that with Location Reporting set to on, Google Maps was causing a partial wake lock hundreds of times a day. Once I turned Location Reporting off, the battery life improved significantly, and I had no significant effect on functionality (Location Reporting is primarily used for Latitude, which I don't care about).

After you install Wake Lock Detector, let it sit for about a day, then run it, so that it has time to build up a database of what's waking the tablet up.

 

[Joseph Coates]

Real slow dat at work on Friday. I did a factory reset, downloaded apps back on it, set everything up, reached 100% charge. Used it all day Sunday to see how battery life was, went from 100% to 60% in 4 hrs, 56 minutes. Back to normal.