Battery life anyone?

[RionDunn]

Hello all!

So I got away from my beloved Nexus 6P because of its horrible reception issues and mic issues. Got a Priv. Man oh man is the performance and reliability ever incredible. However I am running into some issues with battery life. It seems as if it's all over the place.

Anyone else have anything to report on the battery life? One day I had over 5 hours of SoT but ever since then it's been weird.

Any tips besides the usual? Or does anyone have anything to report on the usage?

Just turned off Google now and Google locations reporting. Also switched to WiFi and mobile network on location services. I know I had to do this on my Note 5 and it gave far better battery life.

Any suggestions?

 

[middbrew]

I've heard running Greenify helps with the battery life by keeping some apps from sucking the battery down.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...d=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=en&token=ikjB6-ZJ

 

[RionDunn]

I've heard running Greenify helps with the battery life by keeping some apps from sucking the battery down.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...d=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=en&token=5PTTFq6i

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll contemplate installing this app. I usually avoid this sort of thing because of all the horrible battery saving apps out there. It has great reviews though.

 

[GeneralHerzog]

Ensure your 'Preferred Network Type' is set to your proper cell service. If you really only get 3G, tell your phone not to search for LTE/4G/3G.
Scanning uses extra power. Set it to 4G/3G

Do you truly need to have your phone double tap to wake? Turn that off if you haven't already.
Is lift to wake on?......yup, more power.

If your data plan allows it, why have WiFi on for everything. Only use it for large downloads. Yes it means a little more effort on your part but you're lookin for max battery efficency and while you're out and about, it's scanning for networks.....more power.

Enter dev mode and turn off window and transition animation, turn off animator duration. Yes these take away the nice little animation features of opening and closing app windows, but they use power and are they really that important? It will also give you 10 seconds on bootup.

Lastly, and I know this defeats the point of having a slider but if you don't NEED to use them pkb, then don't. The backlight uses power and is on the whole time you type.
It's a trade off for me. I have to announce to the world that I have a slider and show the world I'm typing on it so I accept it but it does make a difference.

Downloading podcasts doesn't help but we each have a vice, mine is stalking er uh I mean searching, all things Taylor Swift.

Review everything in your settings. If you don't actually use it, why have it on. Simply because it looks nice or is a nice feature goes against trying to save power.

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STV100-3 on Rogers

 

[RionDunn]

Ensure your 'Preferred Network Type' is set to your proper cell service. If you really only get 3G, tell your phone not to search for LTE/4G/3G.
Scanning uses extra power. Set it to 4G/3G

Do you truly need to have your phone double tap to wake? Turn that off if you haven't already.
Is lift to wake on?......yup, more power.

If your data plan allows it, why have WiFi on for everything. Only use it for large downloads. Yes it means a little more effort on your part but you're lookin for max battery efficency and while you're out and about, it's scanning for networks.....more power.

Enter dev mode and turn off window and transition animation, turn off animator duration. Yes these take away the nice little animation features of opening and closing app windows, but they use power and are they really that important? It will also give you 10 seconds on bootup.

Lastly, and I know this defeats the point of having a slider but if you don't NEED to use them pkb, then don't. The backlight uses power and is on the whole time you type.
It's a trade off for me. I have to announce to the world that I have a slider and show the world I'm typing on it so I accept it but it does make a difference.

Downloading podcasts doesn't help but we each have a vice, mine is stalking er uh I mean searching, all things Taylor Swift.

Review everything in your settings. If you don't actually use it, why have it on. Simply because it looks nice or is a nice feature goes against trying to save power.

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STV100-3 on Rogers

I've done everything you've suggest except for the network type. The only reason that I haven't chosen a specific network is because I am not sure what the UHT network is? Is that 4G? 3G is pretty much replaced in my area of usage so 4G and LTE is fine.

Any idea?

 

[RionDunn]

I've done everything you've suggest except for the network type. The only reason that I haven't chosen a specific network is because I am not sure what the UHT network is? Is that 4G? 3G is pretty much replaced in my area of usage so 4G and LTE is fine.

Any idea?

Nvm, I've figured it out. The next step in network is just without GSM. Which Canada doesn't really use. And I use all other networks. There has to be something else that it using up the battery. It can't be the screen only, this phone has a bigger battery than the Note 5 and the Note almost has double the SoT. Very odd, the battery info doesn't show me anything that's out of whack. Pretty weird.

 

[middbrew]

What brightness level do you have the screen set at? Mine will drain if I have it set any higher than 75%.

 

[RionDunn]

What brightness level do you have the screen set at? Mine will drain if I have it set any higher than 75%.

Yea I usually keep it around that level, 75%. But I do need it that high as I work outside all day. I'm in my car and I have a mount so when a notification or something pops up then I need to be able to see the screen. My issue with the Priv is that it should have killer battery life due to the huge battery in it. I actually just switched back to my Note 5 and its crazy the difference in battery and quality in screen. I'm probably going to return the Priv as I bought it outright from my carrier and it seems to be ton of money for major issues that effect me day to day.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the updates to fix the issues with the Nexus 6P cause I'm in love with that phone.

I maybe being picky but I guess that's allowed when you're spending that amount of money on a device.

 

[midnightdoom]

So for me I've done basic things in settings like turning off the screen to turn on when I get a message, turn off lift to wake.. I like double tap so left that alone. Keep location off when not needed. Bluetooth, nfc etc and all features I never use off (i went in every menu I could find)

I turned off auto brightness and keep it at about 15% or 0% if in a dark room.

I checked all my account syncs, for example under google it tries to sync lots of things I don't even use

I downloaded AVG WiFi assistant to turn my WiFi on at home and off everywhere else.

Also am using CPU monitor advanced and OS monitor so I can track cpu usage to try and narrow down what app is sucking extra power

I was using apps like snapdragon battery guru and Greenify to control apps from running in the background but they messed up my email accounts from syncing so I opted to just monitor myself and decide how important certain apps are. Plus people said apps like Greenify that force close apps can use mode battery because some apps refuse to stay closed and will keep re-opening

I also went into data usage menu and disabled background data for most of my apps.. (Beware if you do on say Opera and your watching a video the video will pause if you leave the app)

I go in an and see how much ram apps are using and what features. Then check the app and see if there's a way you can disable that feature. Some apps this works so they don't open in background, other apps it's all or nothing.

Try competing apps if possible, I find that Firefox uses more battery, cpu, ram and makes my phone warmer than Opera does doing the same task (even tho stock battery monitor says it's not much different in usage)

I agree the stock battery usage monitor sucks compared to the bb10 one. It never displays right for me.. For instance pinterest uses pretty high cpu and makes my phone 42 degrees Celsius and I watched it use 12% in approx a half hour... but battery monitor says it only used 2%..
I need an app that reports battery usage better.

I thought turning LTE off might help as I get poor signal at home, but 4G wasn't getting much better according to battery monitor graph so I turned LTE back on as 1 bar LTE is faster than 5 bars 4G I found

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[shabbs]

So far, my experience following initial setup, update and all that settling in has been very good. Keep in mind, I'm coming from a Z10 which I needed to charge pretty much every 2-3 frigging hours it seemed.

A typical work day has me taking my phone off the charger at 6:30am and by 5:30pm when I get back home it's down to about 50%. I'm good for the rest of the night at home by the time I head to bed, it's still got juice left. I do leave bluetooth, wifi and NFC on all the time. I also have Box Sync activities going on as well as a number of headless apps that are running in the background. I don't have wifi at work so it relies on my cellular connection. Usage varies a lot during the week and I have 6 IMAP/ActiveSync email accounts setup, one with all my contacts and calendar (outlook.com). Google Fit is keeping an eye on my movements etc... BBM Groups, Whatsapp Groups are pretty active all day long. I'd say "medium" as far as usage. Heavy usage with lots of screen activity takes a toll for sure.

I do notice sometimes that my Twitter app "Plume" gets jammed and starts to chew up battery. If I notice a faster then expected decline early in the day, I'll check on who the offender is and it's usually Plume, which I'll force stop to clear the issue.

But coming from a Z10, this is dream. As long as I can get through a whole "real day" from out the door in the morning and back home at night without even thinking about battery life... I'm good. I have quick chargers in my truck and bag if I need an emergency top up.

 

[xtremesniper]

The suggestion to keep WiFi off only makes sense if you're spending most of your day outside of wifi zone. Cell data uses more battery than wifi data, so if you're really concerned about it then just make sure you have wifi on when you are near a network you can use, and off when you aren't.

I don't have a Priv myself to give my own numbers but I've been reading a lot about this stuff because I'm thinking of getting one and I'm interested in knowing if this is a real widespread problem or not.

From what I've seen, some people have great battery and some people have really bad battery. The only tangible difference I see between most of those scenarios is that those with great battery have done a clean wipe and did not migrate or transfer any data from another device. It might be worth a shot, aside from deleting problem apps.

At the end of the day, you shouldn't have to disable 75% of the features your phone offers just to last one day on battery (assuming you're a normal user).

 

[shabbs]

FWIW, I did not use the BlackBery Content Transfer app to move from my Z10. I re-established everything manually. Not an issue for me as all my data is in the "cloud" so to speak. The only items I missed out on were SMS messages and WhatsApp chats... which I was fine starting fresh with. Not sure if that really is a factor.

Battery life has so many variables it's impossible to really have a silver bullet solution that works for all.

 

[Jonneh]

My battery life is great.

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[RionDunn]

This is awesome everyone! Let's keep plugging away at the battery issue. Maybe someone with an experience will help someone else's issue.

On that note I found an interesting thread and had a great discussion with a Blackberry rep I know through work. They stated that the Blackberry keyboard could potentially have something to do with the battery drain while using the phone. So for example you've fresh wiped your device and cleaned it out. Apparently that wipes the stored data for the keyboard and you start fresh with it again. So while you're typing the phone is aggressively storing the info it thinks you want stored. So over time, suggested a few weeks if usage, the keyboard will stop attempting to learn all of your inputs and thus save battery power, or some battery power. The reason I thought this would be worth mentioning is because I swear I watch the battery lower while I'm typing on the device. So I attempted to use another keyboard for a bit, Google keyboard, and I couldn't handle it. I had to go back to the Blackberry keyboard. It's so good. This is coming from using the Google keyboard for years. Also! I'm using the virtual on screen keyboard, not the physical one.

 

[Deleted member 2678566]

That's what I like to see....

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[christenmartin]

This is awesome everyone! Let's keep plugging away at the battery issue. Maybe someone with an experience will help someone else's issue.

On that note I found an interesting thread and had a great discussion with a Blackberry rep I know through work. They stated that the Blackberry keyboard could potentially have something to do with the battery drain while using the phone. So for example you've fresh wiped your device and cleaned it out. Apparently that wipes the stored data for the keyboard and you start fresh with it again. So while you're typing the phone is aggressively storing the info it thinks you want stored. So over time, suggested a few weeks if usage, the keyboard will stop attempting to learn all of your inputs and thus save battery power, or some battery power. The reason I thought this would be worth mentioning is because I swear I watch the battery lower while I'm typing on the device. So I attempted to use another keyboard for a bit, Google keyboard, and I couldn't handle it. I had to go back to the Blackberry keyboard. It's so good. This is coming from using the Google keyboard for years. Also! I'm using the virtual on screen keyboard, not the physical one.

This is very interesting and something that has not really dawned on me. How much the phone is compiling on a new user.

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[RionDunn]

This is very interesting and something that has not really dawned on me. How much the phone is compiling on a new user.

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What do you mean by compiling on a new user?

 

[midnightdoom]

That's what I like to see....

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Pictures like that that are full don't count.. Use your phone a half hour and that 3 days will quickly change to like 20 hours.

Pictures that are almost drained are only worth showing so we can see the apps google claims is sucking up battery along with real time use note estimated. Or clicking the graph to see why kind of cell signals were factors even

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[midnightdoom]

I haven't noticed any major drains lately. Or since I've downloaded monitors even.. I did have a bad drain before I got "OS monitor" to watch my cpu etc..

One thing I notice, when I leave my house WiFi to go to work, android system process "system_server" jumps in cpu for a long time at like 15% or so.. Seems to eventually settle down hours later or if I reboot phone then it goes back to 1-2% cpu...

I don't know why it goes up, but seems to be a daily thing. Don't see anything weird at home on WiFi then when I get to work that process is around 15%

But I haven't had major drain issues since I got the app so I don't know if that is a contributer

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[bitek]

I haven't noticed any major drains lately. Or since I've downloaded monitors even.. I did have a bad drain before I got "OS monitor" to watch my cpu etc..

One thing I notice, when I leave my house WiFi to go to work, android system process "system_server" jumps in cpu for a long time at like 15% or so.. Seems to eventually settle down hours later or if I reboot phone then it goes back to 1-2% cpu...

I don't know why it goes up, but seems to be a daily thing. Don't see anything weird at home on WiFi then when I get to work that process is around 15%

But I haven't had major drain issues since I got the app so I don't know if that is a contributer

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Which OS monitor do you use ?