Did you disable Moto Assist?
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Here is what fixed my battery life. I went to settings/developer options/ changed run time to ART.
Takes a while to reboot. Once this was done im back to having battery for 2 days or more. I read that ART is in beta and some apps may not work with it. So far all my apps are fine and battery life is back to how it should be. Hope it works for you.
The auto brightness feature sucks inside. I am easily in the 50% left range at the end of the day because of that. Stupid Florida sun, LOL! Otherwise, I'd be fine.
There is an app called Lux you should try. Not only does it make auto-brightness better inside, it makes the Maxx readable with auto-brightness outside, too. The stock auto-brightness just doesn't work outdoors on a sunny day on this phone, Florida or not (I'm not in Florida). There is a lite version you can try out (though it may be good enough so that you don't need the paid version).
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ils?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite&token=f2OhDPII
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...e/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&token=G0628Fee
Installed Lux Lite just to give it a whirl. Will try it for a few days and see what I think. But it appears to use the front-facing camera as its light determining factor. Where I am sitting, if I hold my camera up in the air as if to take a picture of the ceiling light, the brightness goes to 4%. If I lay the phone on my stomach in the same spot, it goes to like 54%.
So it's a start. And no matter what I do with the stock brightness setting, Lux overrides that, which is good, so there's no confusion. Lux makes itself the default brightness app. And now, I test it tomorrow and over the next few days and we'll see if it works. Again, thanks for the tip!
Make sure you link your preferred brightness levels with the ambient light. For example, if you notice the screen is too bright open the app and adjust the brightness to your preference, hit the round yellow circle in the middle, and press "link". It will remember these "links" for the future and adjust accordingly. After you have done this for a couple days in different brightness levels, you should notice that the screen is always set to a comfortable brightness. It really is a great app.
Yeah I was reading the tutorials and such last night. I'm just going to give it a general whirl in the next few days and see how it goes before I save settings. But from where I was sitting in the house, it was pretty consistent on its own without having to save anything. Anywhere I went it was like automatically perfect. I didn't have to do a darn thing. Now going outside and working out? It WILL be a different story in the Florida sun, but inside the house, based on last night, if that holds, I won't have to do any tweaking or saving or linking or anything. THAT right there impressed me about the app. I could save them anyway for posterity, but the fact is, in messing around with it, it seems to be working. But I'm about to go on my outside run, so that'll be the big test.
Well... it seemed to work well outside and adjust automatically between sun and shade trees I ran under. And as I walk around the house it adjusts. Somehow I don't think I'm going to need to save settings like it allows you to. It's like it knows me and is adjusting perfectly. That was a damn good suggestion by Doogald to try this app. Let's see how it does over the weekend now and get a much fuller feel for it.
I installed it a few weeks ago after reading some good reviews in the past. Though I liked using it, to try to determine if it was contributing to battery drain issues I decided to uninstall it last Sunday (it didn't make it better to uninstall, fwiw). But I did notice that when I was standing outside in the sun that the phone's screen was unreadable in bright sunlight with automatic brightness on. It hadn't been like that with lux. Add to the fact the crazy dimming that happens when you are indoors with automatic brightness without lux and I decided to reinstall.
It's a great app.
Doogald, I don't mean to embarrass you, but you really kick *** on here. Every time I have a question, you seem to have a good answer or at least try to help the best you can, and that means a lot.
You bet. That's why we all post here, right? To report problems, ask questions, and try to figure out solutions?
Crazy battery life today. I can't understand the inconsistency with this phone sometimes. I think my office exchange email must draw tons of battery, because on weekends it always seems to improve. It's never listed as one of the highest battery suckers. Anyone have an issue with their work email using up excessive battery.
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