battery life after lollipop

[Fuzzy761210]

Did it improve, stay the same or get worse?

 

[Rukbat]

From the reports I've seen, it gets a lot worse for a few days to a week, then settles down to about normal. (Which is normal for any major update.)

Whether it gets better or worse once it settles down depends on the usage pattern. Some usages get better life, some get worse. (There's something called "side effects" - you can't change just one thing. So making an improvement in one place often messes up something in a different place.)

 

[kyle1745]

I have only had mine for 3 days and started with Lollipop. So far I would say battery life is comparable to the 2013 moto X and if anything slightly better.

 

[GuyWith4Kids]

For me, battery life has been worse.

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[GingerSnapsBack]

No change here. I work nights and had my phone with me last night. I used it the normal amount and by the time the relief shift got here, I was needing a charge, but it wasn't anything drastic like dropping off before 4AM after normal use.

 

[cgardnervt]

For me its been a lot better! For one reason...The Pure Edition lacked some LTE bands so the phone would switch to H and LTE a lot. Since the new firmware on the radio its been A LOT better with its signal! However it was livable before. So over all I'm loving the L update thus far!

 

[jephanie]

I can't say I've seen any noticeable change to the battery life on the Verizon variant. It seems to be pretty much the same to me.

 

[NoYankees44]

Mine has been about the same, however I am still having Google services and Android os use ALOT more life. Like Google services uses 15-20% every day. With or without location on.

Sent from my XT1096

 

[alambertus]

For me, battery life was significantly worse. I was getting a low battery warning around 1 or 2 o'clock, without a significant change in how I was interacting with my phone (prior to the update, I would get a full day of battery life, and still have ~30% remaining when I plugged in at night). So, as with when flashing a custom rom, I performed a factory reset. It took a while for my apps to load onto my phone again (damn my app addiction!), but my battery life has been significantly better since.

Long story short, perform a factory reset if you're continuing to have battery life issues. Although it's annoying at first, it helps out significantly in the long run.

 

[Citizen Coyote]

I cleared the system cache right after I updated (sort of a factory reset light) and find my battery life to be better with Lollipop than with KitKat. The phone seems to idle better under Lollipop, and I've seen people getting over six hours of screen on time as well.

 

[rlb]

For me, battery life was significantly worse. I was getting a low battery warning around 1 or 2 o'clock, without a significant change in how I was interacting with my phone (prior to the update, I would get a full day of battery life, and still have ~30% remaining when I plugged in at night). So, as with when flashing a custom rom, I performed a factory reset. It took a while for my apps to load onto my phone again (damn my app addiction!), but my battery life has been significantly better since.

Long story short, perform a factory reset if you're continuing to have battery life issues. Although it's annoying at first, it helps out significantly in the long run.

What is the best way to perform the factory reset? Through the settings menu?

 

[68bowtie]

I just recieved mine yesterday, and the battery life is terrible. I will be going back to my s5. Today i used 24% in 4hrs, with only 43min of screen time. THats terrible. THe camera is also not even close to the s5. Acually the camera isn't much better then the htc m8. The ppl getting 5-6hrs of screen time i just can't believe that. I don't even get that with my s5 with a bigger battery. I guess i don't see why this phone is so popular seeing the bad battery and camera.

 

[On2Vegas]

I just recieved my moto x yesterday and i'm not impressed. Probably going back to my s5. The camera is no where close to as good as the s5, and the battery is terrible. In 4hrs i used 24% already and i;ve hardly used it. I only have 43min of screen time. I think the ppl getting 5-6hrs must be hooking up to a external battery source because i see no way they get that. I can't even get that on my s5. I don't understand how this phone is so popular with the bad camera and terrible battery. I had a htc m8 phone and i thought that camera was bad, the moto x itsn't much better.

I just recieved mine yesterday, and the battery life is terrible. I will be going back to my s5. Today i used 24% in 4hrs, with only 43min of screen time. THats terrible. THe camera is also not even close to the s5. Acually the camera isn't much better then the htc m8. The ppl getting 5-6hrs of screen time i just can't believe that. I don't even get that with my s5 with a bigger battery. I guess i don't see why this phone is so popular seeing the bad battery and camera.

Wow, you've had the phone a whole day and you're already calling people liars. Nice!!

Sorry, you've had a bad one-day experience. Enjoy your S5. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

[Old Stoneface]

Long story short, perform a factory reset if you're continuing to have battery life issues. Although it's annoying at first, it helps out significantly in the long run.

I don't mess with it, any more. Any time I do a major OS upgrade I do a cache partition clear and factory reset. It's a PITA, but it saves no end of grief in the long run, IME.

 

[NoYankees44]

I just recieved mine yesterday, and the battery life is terrible. I will be going back to my s5. Today i used 24% in 4hrs, with only 43min of screen time. THats terrible. THe camera is also not even close to the s5. Acually the camera isn't much better then the htc m8. The ppl getting 5-6hrs of screen time i just can't believe that. I don't even get that with my s5 with a bigger battery. I guess i don't see why this phone is so popular seeing the bad battery and camera.

Any brand new phone is going to have odd battery life for the first few cycles as the OS does background. You cannot even begin to make a judgement until you have had the device a week.

Plus, %numbers reported by the OS are one step above garbage. Sense a battery does not discharge linearly, the OS reports heavily rounded numbers for the % remaining. This gets better as the phone records battery data over time, but it is till heavily rounded numbers. Plus, your phone can be anywhere from 90% to 100% when you take it off the charger even though it says 100%. It intelligently bounces between 90-100 to keep the battery from degrading too fast. All this is true for all phones.

Anyway, do whatever you want.

 

[68bowtie]

Any brand new phone is going to have odd battery life for the first few cycles as the OS does background. You cannot even begin to make a judgement until you have had the device a week.

Plus, %numbers reported by the OS are one step above garbage. Sense a battery does not discharge linearly, the OS reports heavily rounded numbers for the % remaining. This gets better as the phone records battery data over time, but it is till heavily rounded numbers. Plus, your phone can be anywhere from 90% to 100% when you take it off the charger even though it says 100%. It intelligently bounces between 90-100 to keep the battery from degrading too fast. All this is true for all phones.

Anyway, do whatever you want.

I have 14days to return it, so i'll give it a few more days.

 

[Old Stoneface]

Brand new phone, or brand new battery in an existing phone: I charge it up, use it. Run it through a few normal use/charge cycles. Then I run it until it shuts itself off. Thereafter: I just plain use it--always putting it on the charger overnight. About once every three-four months I run it all the way down again.

 

[flumdog]

I'm on Verizon and am impressed with the battery. GSam shows 1 day + 9.8 hours average battery life since Nov 25 with average 2 hours 8 minutes screen on time. I wiped the partition and did a factory reset after upgrading. I generally have an average LTE signal (-105dbm right now at home). The real test for me, based on my usage patterns, was on a recent road trip where I streamed music and used maps navigation for 6 hours straight (didn't have the screen on the whole time, obviously). It was a tossup between the X and the Turbo and I'm glad I went with the X. I highly recommend a Turbo Charger with the X just because it makes life so much easier. They probably should have included it with the X since I don't see why the Turbo really needs it.

 

[reddyd]

Got my moto x 3days ago.
Factory reset and wipe cache last night. Have almost no additional apps except gsam, calculator and local traffic.

Right now battery life seems comparable to my nexus 5, but android OS and kernel use approx same battery life as 1.5hrs of screen.
No Bluetooth or location or NFC. Same as with nexus 5.
So the countdown starts for me. Will wait a couple of days and see if android os/kernel stop using so much battery.

When I upgraded nexus 5 to lollipop, took 2 days....

Will report back, with screenshots.

 

[freakyhair]

Yesterday was my first full day of using my new Moto X (I updated to Lollipop Tuesday evening), and it was much better than my 1st generation X. I did quite a bit of Pandora streaming from 3G and wifi, and a good amount of browsing, and still made it through from 6AM to 11 PM. Sorry, I don't have exact numbers of screen time, but I know I'd definitely have to plug my old moto X in for awhile to go even close to that long. I'd say I was at ~12% when I finally plugged it in , mainly because I was downloading a ton of music from Google Play Access for a local cache.

That said, I wish it was better (like a Turbo, or Z3), but it's an improvement over my previous Moto X.