vzwuser76
Well-known member
It's not like I haven't had the phone for 7 months. I know how the battery should perform - and more importantly, how it performed yesterday. ;-)
It's not hardware - degradation like this doesn't happen overnight and coincidentally to an update.
And its not signal - I have 5 bars, -85dBm 55 asu. And I've been on wifi the whole day.
My top offenders are screen, Play Services, and Android OS. No other apps or services are above 1%.
Does that mean it is "the update"? No - it could be a compatibility issue in an app, sure. But it was an incompatibility I didn't have yesterday, when I easily got 36 hours out of a charge -- not 13.
But it also seems to be a fairly common complaint that Google Play Services is killing batteries left and right after the update. Mine is just another data point.
I understand that most people here have owned this device for awhile now, but that doesn't mean that it still couldn't be one of those items. It could even be that your battery is not drawing much but the battery meter isn't reading correctly. I can't recall if you said you had done either a FDR or a cache partition wipe, which could resolve that if that is the issue.
All I'm saying is to simply discount them without actually checking them means you may be looking in the wrong area when something you thought was OK isn't. I used to be an electronics tech troubleshooting issues, and one thing I learned after many hours of chasing my tail is, nothing is out of bounds so far as the cause of the issue until it's verified that it isn't. My point still stands, if this was an issue with the update itself, everyone would be having the issues you and some others are. The fact that it isn't more widespread points to something specific to your hardware, environment, or setup. It could even be some corrupted data from the previous ROM or this one, and if it's from this one, even a FDR may not resolve it since the current ROM itself would be corrupted.
The fact that you didn't have a compatibility issue before the update is meaningless, since you're on a newer version of the OS. What may not have been a compatibility issue in KK maybe a compatibility issue in LP. I've read of people saying certain apps aren't working the same as they were on KK, so apparently not all of these apps have been updated for LP. The only way to really know for sure if it's an issue with a third party app would be to do a FDR, then see how it runs without any third party apps. Then slowly getting to add them and see if/when you start seeing the issue again.
I'm just saying don't discount anything, I've done that in the past and I ended up wasting time and effort because of it.