Battery drains fast

[yoco007]

Hi! So I have S7 Edge for almost a month now. Great phone. Last week I got a notification for android update. I updated my phone and since then my batteries goes out in less than two days. I don't know what to do. Here're some screenshoots if it's any help. Any advice is much appreciated.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Your Phone Radio seems to be using the most battery. What's the cell signal been like? Show us a full day's graph of the Cell Signal graph in GSam.

It's also worth wiping the cache partition after major system updates, if issues like this crop up: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-25076

 

[yoco007]

Thank you for replay. I had to charge my phone again since when I posted above I only had a few % left. I'll make a screenshoot later.
Just to be sure, cache wipe doesn't delete any kind of my stuff at all (contacts, pictures, files...)?

 

[chanchan05]

The phone lasting two days is already great in my book based on my usage
Lol.

 

[Venom0642]

Hmm i definitely get good battery life on my AT&T S7 Edge G935A

 

[yoco007]

Battery usage was fine until I updated Android os.

 

[the game 161]

Less than two days? That's bad?

 

[Wizzy]

It appears you have no data connection. The phone is eating up its battery looking for data. Do you even use the phone? 20 minutes of screen time in a day and a half? Lol!

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[optimummind]

On my Sprint GS7E, I get great battery life if I turn off Location. With the phone set to GPS Only, it drains crazy, the number one seismicity being GpsLocationProvider_ex.

Any one else have battery issues with Location set to GPS Only? If so, plz state your phone carrier and/or model & firmware version.

I'm on PD3.

 

[Venom0642]

On my Sprint GS7E, I get great battery life if I turn off Location. With the phone set to GPS Only, it drains crazy, the number one seismicity being GpsLocationProvider_ex.

Any one else have battery issues with Location set to GPS Only? If so, plz state your phone carrier and/or model & firmware version.

I'm on PD3.

As you can see above photo from post earlier my battery life is excellent on AT&T S7 Edge and i have my location always on Mobile Network and Wifi and get great battery life.

 

[Kirk Burkhead]

On my Sprint GS7E, I get great battery life if I turn off Location. With the phone set to GPS Only, it drains crazy, the number one seismicity being GpsLocationProvider_ex.

Any one else have battery issues with Location set to GPS Only? If so, plz state your phone carrier and/or model & firmware version.

I'm on PD3.

I leave my location set on GPS only and I have no issues at all with battery drain. I'm running AT&T.

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[optimummind]

As you can see above photo from post earlier my battery life is excellent on AT&T S7 Edge and i have my location always on Mobile Network and Wifi and get great battery life.

How about if you set it to GPS Only or GPS+WiFi+Mobile?

I leave my location set on GPS only and I have no issues at all with battery drain. I'm running AT&T.

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Lucky. Sprint & Samsung screwed us over!

 

[yoco007]

It appears you have no data connection. The phone is eating up its battery looking for data. Do you even use the phone? 20 minutes of screen time in a day and a half? Lol!

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Yea, I use the phone, but it's been a week off for me so now not so much.

Welcome to Android Central! Your Phone Radio seems to be using the most battery. What's the cell signal been like? Show us a full day's graph of the Cell Signal graph in GSam.

It's also worth wiping the cache partition after major system updates, if issues like this crop up: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-25076

After 24h, this is how it looks!

 

[trexs7e]

why is this bad battery life? your screen on is almost 15 hours? how on earth do you get that long of a battery life? seriously?

My sot is 7 hours max

 

[Venom0642]

why is this bad battery life? your screen on is almost 15 hours? how on earth do you get that long of a battery life? seriously?

My sot is 7 hours max

Where do you see 15 hrs SOT mate , all i see is like 30 min SOT.

 

[johnriii]

I'm somewhat confused... This is BAD battery life?? I'd kill for the usage the OP is getting... LOL.

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[Kirk Burkhead]

I leave my location set on GPS only and I have no issues at all with battery drain. I'm running AT&T.

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I should state that it only activates GPS location when I use a certain app that requires it, then it turns off.

For example, if I open Maps, it will activate and use GPS the whole the app is open and being used. But when I close the app, GPS turns off. It seems that maybe yours is using GPS all the time for something?

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[optimummind]

I should state that it only activates GPS location when I use a certain app that requires it, then it turns off.

For example, if I open Maps, it will activate and use GPS the whole the app is open and being used. But when I close the app, GPS turns off. It seems that maybe yours is using GPS all the time for something?

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Yes, that is unfortunately what is happening with my phone since I took the April update.

 

[B. Diddy]

After 24h, this is how it looks!

As I suspected, your cell signal is often bad. It's in the low range for about half the time (including when you took the screenshot--look at how few bars you have), and this drains the battery because the phone is working harder to keep the signal. Do you know if your signal is bad at home, at work, or somewhere else? If it's bad at home, look into getting a signal booster from your carrier, if they offer one. If it's at work, consider turning on Airplane Mode (and maybe just use wi-fi) while you're there.

 

[yoco007]

My phone is at my desk most of the time (when I'm not working), and signal there is only one bar. If this is an issue, why start doing this now and not when I got the phone. It's been working just fine for almost a full month!