Battery Drain Since T-Mobile Update

[jmssarno]

Anyone on T-Mobile experiencing a significant battery drain since the recent update? I received the update with the December security patch and I've experienced a significant battery drain since...

I've went from 92% -78% in about an hour. I've dropped 7% while the phone was idle and not in use for about 30 minutes...

It seems "Android System" is eating up my battery since the update.

 

[jmssarno]

Stats...

 

[jmssarno]

Stats...

 

[anon(782252)]

Have you tried rebooting? Sometimes Android system or Android OS get a rogue service that keeps the phone awake which is happening for you. A reboot usually stops that.

 

[jmssarno]

Have you tried rebooting? Sometimes Android system or Android OS get a rogue service that keeps the phone awake which is happening for you. A reboot usually stops that.

Yes, I rebooted twice and still seems like its the same. I'll try again soon...
Thanks

 

[anon(782252)]

Yes, I rebooted twice and still seems like its the same. I'll try again soon...
Thanks

Did you just update today?

There's definitely a service running rogue because Android system should never have a keep awake time that high.

 

[jmssarno]

I updated two days ago...
So it's definitely since then. I'm gonna shut the phone down completely for a few and see if that helps.

 

[Brent Michael]

mine seems to have a large "phone idle" battery usage. Most I've noticed previously was probably about 6%

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I noticed similar today.

 

[X1tymez]

Same here. Hmmm

 

[Chris Dontworryaboutit]

I have a V10 with a similar issue. Not as bad as some here but I went from unplugging the phone around midnight and seeing 100% to 99% in the morning to suddenly seeing it drop to around 90 to 95%. It always seems to be Android OS and Phone Idle on top of the list. For me it started a couple updates ago and I have done a couple full resets with no improvement.

 

[jmssarno]

Outside of performing a factory reset (Who knows if that will even work)
Is there a solution to this battery drain? Or are we at the mercy of T-Mobile and/or LG, in hopes of a quick fix through an incremental update...

If such an update will ever materialize.

 

[djepperson1]

I think it might be a lg think because i am having some of the same issues these past few days and i am on sprint

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Outside of performing a factory reset (Who knows if that will even work)
Is there a solution to this battery drain? Or are we at the mercy of T-Mobile and/or LG, in hopes of a quick fix through an incremental update...

If such an update will ever materialize.

Try clearing the cache partitions. I just did that earlier and my battery seems a lot better than even before.

 

[jmssarno]

Try clearing the cache partitions. I just did that earlier and my battery seems a lot better than even before.

Yes I've done so, thanks....
I'll try it again, I'll try going through the system apps one by one as well. Hopefully clearing individual cache and cache partition will help

 

[Guyinbox]

How do you clear the cache partition on this phone lol? When i restart and hold the power and volume down it only gives me the option to do a factory reset.

 

[djepperson1]

How do you clear the cache partition on this phone lol? When i restart and hold the power and volume down it only gives me the option to do a factory reset.

What carrier because this works for me i assuming tmobile ... I am on sprint..Shut phone down then hold power button and volume down will boot into recovery mode scroll down with volume key until it reaches wipe cache partition select with power key then it will prompt are you sure select yes. Then reboot system

 

[Guyinbox]

What carrier because this works for me i assuming tmobile ... I am on sprint..Shut phone down then hold power button and volume down will boot into recovery mode scroll down with volume key until it reaches wipe cache partition select with power key then it will prompt are you sure select yes. Then reboot system

Yea that's how I've done it on any other phone but it won't work on this one (T-Mobile.)

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Yea that's how I've done it on any other phone but it won't work on this one (T-Mobile.)

yeah I couldn't do it that way..

settings > general > storage > internal storage > cached data > ok

 

[jmssarno]

I'm really hoping there will be an incremental update soon to address this battery drain... It's getting bad. I've done everything but a full factory reset. Since it's due to the recent update, I don't think a full reset would do any good.

I can only hope that both T-Mobile and LG are aware of this and they are working on it.