Screen is not the main battery eater in Lollipop anymore?

[bat0nas]

With KitKat screen was always on top of the list.

What your battery options say?

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[Rod Ruppenthal]

Here's mine

 

[ELHHLE]

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[atakin77]

I think lollipops battery burn report is hosed. GSam is reporting entirely different results. The GSam results are what you would expect, the lollipop results make no sense.

Agree. Switched to gsam on my moto x when it went to lollipop for this very reason. Using it on my note now for the reason

 

[clevin]

I think lollipops battery burn report is hosed. GSam is reporting entirely different results. The GSam results are what you would expect, the lollipop results make no sense.

Gsam is reporting 15% more sot than system, seems to good to be true......

 

[ELHHLE]

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[kirksucks]

Android system killing it. Noticed a few days ago that screen on wasn't at the top.

 

[ELHHLE]

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[Princepia]

Mine works perfectly and is always on top. Great battery life. On 5.0.1.

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[ELHHLE]

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[sensi09]

You can prove the lollipop battery report wrong by leaving the brightness on high, watching the battery quickly die then looking at the report.

 

[dukejake4]

Idk with is going on with my battery now?? My top two are OS and android system- 24% os & 21% system

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[jbarrack]

My battery life on Lollipop is all over the place. Either the battery is incredible and takes a lot of use to drain, or it will mysteriously drop 50%+ over 3 hours of sitting idle with no use. It's a total crap shoot on what I get from one day to the next. I've found that restarting the phone each morning helps the drain to not occur, but I never that issue with KitKat.

When I investigate, the culprit is always Android System. I'm pretty sure the root cause is the lollipop memory leak issue with a particular app, but who knows what that app is since it all gets pushed into "android system". GSam's breakdown is much better, but again, when you look into "apps" that are draining your battery it just points to Android System as the screen shot above shows. There is no granularity past that.

After I notice the battery drain a restart will fix the issue and bring battery life back to being great. But at that point, I've already wasted 50% of the battery on nothing.

 

[maduro78]

If your device is mostly on standby for a couple days your screen won't be at the top of the list. For obvious reasons its barely being used

Moto X 2014

 

[skatergirl]

I would definitely like to know more than just the blanket Android system because really who knows what is using up the battery which makes the issue very difficult to address.

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[lagunarad]

Battery report is complete bunk. I haven't used Tweetcaster at all and its notifications are off. Screen isn't even on the list even though it usually is about 4th on the list. That said, my battery life is nothing short of awesome.

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[lagunarad]

Battery report is complete bunk. I haven't used Tweetcaster at all and its notifications are off. Screen isn't even on the list even though it usually is about 4th on the list. That said, my battery life is nothing short of awesome.

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Also, why does it show WiFi on when it has been turned off for the past 15 hours?

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[dukejake4]

^It might be connected with your GPS systems for location. I think you can go under more networks tab or location and adjust it. WiFi and GPS are used together for more accurate location.

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[MalinoisK9]

Even with 5 hours sot the top user since 5.0 is android os. Not sure if 5.0 changed the way that the system reports or if it's something else. Did a factory reset about a week after updating to 5.0 because of this and the fact that some days battery life was normal and other half of what it should be. Battery life is back to normal but still have os using more battery than the screen which I still don't understand.

 

[ELHHLE]

My battery life on Lollipop is all over the place. Either the battery is incredible and takes a lot of use to drain, or it will mysteriously drop 50%+ over 3 hours of sitting idle with no use. It's a total crap shoot on what I get from one day to the next. I've found that restarting the phone each morning helps the drain to not occur, but I never that issue with KitKat.

When I investigate, the culprit is always Android System.

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