DROID TURBO 5.1 Lollipop: Battery Life after Update?

[PowrDroid]

Keep us updated please. Curious to see results. Thanks.

After 26 hours, 31 minutes I am at 35% battery remaining. That's with 59 minutes of phone use, total of 3 hr. 31 minutes screen time (I'm at about 35% brightness, not using adaptive brightness.)

App Usage, Top Five
1. Android System 10.9%
2. Kernel (Android OS) 5.6%
3. 1Weather 3.4% (Great app, used more battery because updates were set to 15 minutes; have since set to 1 hour.)
4. Google Play 2.4%
5. Email 2.1% (probably need to adjust update times.)

Those Android OS share of the battery is steadily decreasing. I guess that's what people mean when they say the phone needs to "settle in" for a week.

Overall, battery life is definitely improved since I did the factory reset, but not where I was at before the OS upgrade. I haven't disabled a bunch of apps yet, like I did with Kit Kat. With typical use I could go two full days on Kit Kat and be down to about 15% remaining when I plugged it in going to bed on day #2. I don't think I'll get that this time around, but we'll see.

 

[PowrDroid]

After 30 hours, 55 minutes, I'm down to 17% battery remaining. That's 1 hour 17 min. phone use, screen on time of 4 hours 52 min. I'm going to disable a bunch of apps, recharge and try it again.

 

[mobrules]

What is your 4g signal strength? I have really bad coverage. Usually my signal is about - 115 to - 120. Which is the biggest drain on my battery.

 

[PowrDroid]

What is your 4g signal strength? I have really bad coverage. Usually my signal is about - 115 to - 120. Which is the biggest drain on my battery.

Signal Strength = -99dBm.

 

[mobrules]

Signal Strength = -99dBm.

Lucky

 

[PowrDroid]

Lucky

I've been walking around my house checking it and I've seen -99, -107 and -109.

 

[mobrules]

Feel grateful. The numbers I posted earlier are the biggest drain on my battery. I use to go 3 days easy, there are screen shots in the battery life thread. Now if I leave 4g on I barely get 12 hours.

 

[PowrDroid]

Feel grateful. The numbers I posted earlier are the biggest drain on my battery. I use to go 3 days easy, there are screen shots in the battery life thread. Now if I leave 4g on I barely get 12 hours.

I guess I'm not quite understanding your dilemma. Earlier in this thread you said: " I used to use Tasker to shut down my 4g signal when my screen timed out. That would actually use a lot of battery life. Now I can't do that and it's Verizon fault."

How is this Verizon's fault? It's a by product of Google's implementation of Lollipop. Isn't this what you are talking about?:

https://code.google.com/p/android/i...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=78084

Anyway, I suppose you will have to manually shut off data at night, for starters.

 

[mobrules]

When I checked with a buddy that works at Verizon he asked around and said it was a feature that Verizon had requested from Google . And a couple tier 2 guys admitted it also. I have a Nexus 9 lte. It has 5.1.1 not rooted. Tasker works just fine on that. So it leads me to believe this is a tweak/feature that big red requested.

 

[PowrDroid]

When I checked with a buddy that works at Verizon he asked around and said it was a feature that Verizon had requested from Verizon. And a couple tier 2 guys admitted it also. I have a Nexus 9 lte. It has 5.1.1 not rooted. Tasker works just fine on that. So it leads me to believe this is a tweak/feature that big red requested.

So you believe only Verizon branded devices upgraded to Lollipop have lost the ability for apps to control data connections?

 

[deesugar]

I'm on track for two days of usage but I got a replacement phone (with a fresh battery) and I think some people may have batteries that are going bad if there are no apps that are secretly draining your juice. It doesn't hurt to go into a Verizon store and show them how horrible your battery is with proof of the results and try to get a free hardware replacement, it was easy for me to do at my Verizon store. Also I usually have a -107dBm or worse signal.

Anyway I'm enjoying my replacement:

 

[mobrules]

So you believe only Verizon branded devices upgraded to Lollipop have lost the ability for apps to control data connections?

OH I have no idea if it's only Verizon. I have nexus 9 on AT&T and Tasker works. I need to get a Verizon sim card and put it in there and see what happens. But I have no idea if only big red devices do this. I just know what I've been able to find out.

 

[Johnboys26]

Re: DROID TURBO 5.1: Battery Life after Lollipop Update?

Battery question. I downloaded and installed Lollipop on Saturday afternoon. Charged my phone overnight on Saturday. Played around with it a moderate amount on Sunday. Went to bed last night around 11:00 o'clock and noticed phone charge was at 50%. When I looked at my phone around 8:00 this morning, charge was at 35%, meaning it lost 15% charge idling overnight.

Is this normal? Because I don't remember the battery losing 15% overnight with Kit Kat.

 

[swelljibes]

Re: DROID TURBO 5.1: Battery Life after Lollipop Update?

I can offer another testimonial for the battery life improvement to be gained by clearing the cache partition. Granted, I'm not a high-usage type and I didn't take empirical measurements for the before/after comparison, but the improvement was quite noticeable and very welcome. As others have suggested, I generally charge/top-off the battery every night, but it's nice to know that in a pinch I will be able to last well into the second day.

Thanks to all the comments/responses in this thread. Very helpful to hear the feedback/suggestions.

 

[88horizon5speed]

Re: DROID TURBO 5.1: Battery Life after Lollipop Update?

even with cache wipe kk definetly got better battery life than lollipop, by alot

 

[88horizon5speed]

since L i had to uninstall and disable google now launcher and google app, so I have NO google searching unless I open chrome...it sucks and it was fine on KK, but since L google app was using more than anything all of a sudden

 

[Phoenix212]

Re: DROID TURBO: 5.1 Lollipop Update

A quick update on my Turbo battery life. After updating to Lollipop, my battery life dipped from 32 hours down to 18 hours. Performed a cache wipe a couple days ago and battery life is markedly improved. Charged battery this morning up to 92% and, after 5 hours 30 minutes (all on a weak 4G signal, limited use/mostly on standby), phone has 41 hours remaining. Granted, that is with about 3 minutes of screen-on time but that's a huge improvement over what it was. On standby I'm using just over 2%/hour compared to before the cache wipe where the phone was using 5.8%/hour.

 

[motorcycle_monkey]

After 26 hours, 31 minutes I am at 35% battery remaining. That's with 59 minutes of phone use, total of 3 hr. 31 minutes screen time (I'm at about 35% brightness, not using adaptive brightness.)

App Usage, Top Five
1. Android System 10.9%
2. Kernel (Android OS) 5.6%
3. 1Weather 3.4% (Great app, used more battery because updates were set to 15 minutes; have since set to 1 hour.)
4. Google Play 2.4%
5. Email 2.1% (probably need to adjust update times.)

Those Android OS share of the battery is steadily decreasing. I guess that's what people mean when they say the phone needs to "settle in" for a week.

Overall, battery life is definitely improved since I did the factory reset, but not where I was at before the OS upgrade. I haven't disabled a bunch of apps yet, like I did with Kit Kat. With typical use I could go two full days on Kit Kat and be down to about 15% remaining when I plugged it in going to bed on day #2. I don't think I'll get that this time around, but we'll see.

Are you optimizing in any way? I cannot get more than a day if I am using my phone much. My best day may have been 3 hours of SOT. I have done an FDR and disabled a lot of VZ apps. I just installed the latest system update and it optimized 109 apps, so I don't have that many apps either. I don't want to have to shut off things to get better battery life. I want to be able to use my phone as is and see the battery life as promised. I don't expect 2 days, but barely making it 16 hours seems too low.

Thanks!

 

[John_Thomas]

Granted, I've not used my phone very much the last day and a half. Unplugged yesterday around 7:30 am. I've made a couple dozen texts, used the internet a bit and received a couple calls. I'm at 78%.

 

[PowrDroid]

Are you optimizing in any way? I cannot get more than a day if I am using my phone much. My best day may have been 3 hours of SOT. I have done an FDR and disabled a lot of VZ apps. I just installed the latest system update and it optimized 109 apps, so I don't have that many apps either. I don't want to have to shut off things to get better battery life. I want to be able to use my phone as is and see the battery life as promised. I don't expect 2 days, but barely making it 16 hours seems too low.

Thanks!

Not sure what you mean by optimizing. I disabled a bunch of apps. When the system update was downloaded and installed it optimized 125 apps. I"m getting about 30 hours until I'm down to 20% or so, not as good as with Kit Kat, where I'd easily get over 40 hours.

With Kit Kat I was using AutoMateIt to shut off my wifi and turn on bluetooth whenever I left the house (turn on wifi, shut off bluetooth when I got back home.) That little tweak saved about 5% battery life over 40 hours. But that function no longer works with Lollipop, so bluetooth and wifi are always on now.

I've been taking screenshots just bafore I charge it. After I've got a bunch of screenshots with various SOT and apps usage I'll post some of them.