New update killed my battery life

[azack]

My phone was fully charged before i fell asleep so i unplugged it. When i woke up its all the way dead. Before it would sit over night and I would have like half battery left this sucks.

Anyone else seeing poor battery life after update?

 

[2kmy477]

Actually I have better battery life after the update,I did hard reset right after the update.

 

[SBT]

Yup, my battery life COMPLETELY SUCKS since doing that update early yesterday.

 

[KingOx]

Yes thats because now the phone runs more services after the update, so I've been using Autorun Killer and my battery is fine again.

 

[ZoogieZork]

Strange, I haven't had any battery life issues after the update. I wonder what changed that seems to only be affecting some people?

KingOx: What services did you disable? I'll see if they're running on my device as well.

 

[KingOx]

google talk service, nascar(why does this need to be a running service? come on sprint), photoshop express, qik, sprint football live, sprint nagivation, sprint zone and a few other market apps that were running services too. My Battery life has been better since then, I also use juice defender. Most of this crap never ran as a service prior to the update.

 

[ragnarokx]

After I updated I noticed the "Time Without Signal" shot way up. After toggling Airplane Mode on and off, it fixed the problem. Now anytime I reboot or just once in a while I'll hit that Airplane Mode button a couple times.

 

[ZoogieZork]

google talk service, nascar(why does this need to be a running service? come on sprint), photoshop express, qik, sprint football live, sprint nagivation, sprint zone and a few other market apps that were running services too. My Battery life has been better since then, I also use juice defender. Most of this crap never ran as a service prior to the update.

Hmm... I do have all of those same services, but they're not actually running. The only service that's running that I didn't expect was the Sprint Hotspot service; all the other running services are either core services or apps which I intentionally want running.

That may be it right there if those services are starting up at boot then not shutting down.

 

[fortemusic]

Whoa, just experienced my first battery drain issue post update. I accidentally did not plug my phone into the charger last night and woke up from full battery to 5% in 7 hrs of idle. This absolutely was not a problem before I updated, I'd wake up and still have 50-60% battery life. What is everyone using to kill services? This is ridiculous that we now have to rely on a task killer after an official update. FAIL!

 

[ragnarokx]

It would be helpful if everyone who is having this problem posted screen shots of their battery usage screen. Perhaps there is a common theme to what is the battery vampire here.

 

[twoshay]

I used to get 14 hours of battery life (100% -> 10%) before the update, now I get 7 hours. I wished I never updated...

 

[HAAS599]

Go to Running services and check what is running.

Download Autorun killer and put the junk you dont want running on the disable list.

I was doing this before the update which is probably why I'm not getting the battery drainage some of you are getting.

 

[Marty1781]

Update killed my battery life as well. Tried killing all non-essential apps/services with ATK but still bad battery life. Multiple hard resets have not fixed the issue.

 

[footysr]

The update was waiting for me this morning so I installed it before work. I normally check my phone during breaks through the day and notice right away that battery life was suffering. I turned my phone off and pulled the battery just to make sure I got a nice clean boot, I was at 66% already at a time of day that would normally still be in the 80% range. After the boot my battery was at 33%. So from 66% to 33% in the time it takes to reboot. Something seems off.

 

[flynlow]

Where do you access the battery usage screen?

It totally screwed mine up, BAD. Used to easily get a full day, from 6AM to 11PM. I would be at about 45%. It was taken off charge at 6AM as usual, it is now 630PM and am now at 3%. This is ridiculous. If there isn't a real fix to this, they can have it back and I will fire the EVO back up.

 

[ard9000]

My battery life tanked after the update too. I was getting 1-1/2 days of use out of it if I put the phone into airplane mode at night. Now I'm not making 12 hours. From my batter usage (now at 20%, was fresh off the charger this morning):

Display 46%
Cell Standby 19%
Phone idle 13%
Android 12%
Voice calls 3%
Gmail 2%
Yahoo 2%
Android Core Apps 1%

I don't have any battery usage reports from before the update but the phone idle and cell stand by seems suspect.

 

[footysr]

I loaded up Advanced Task Killer and killed all. Seems the email app keeps coming back up though and I'm not even using it.

 

[flynlow]

My battery life tanked after the update too. I was getting 1-1/2 days of use out of it if I put the phone into airplane mode at night. Now I'm not making 12 hours. From my batter usage (now at 20%, was fresh off the charger this morning):

Display 46%
Cell Standby 19%
Phone idle 13%
Android 12%
Voice calls 3%
Gmail 2%
Yahoo 2%
Android Core Apps 1%

I don't have any battery usage reports from before the update but the phone idle and cell stand by seems suspect.

So where do you find this info in the phone? Settings> ?????????

 

[ragnarokx]

So where do you find this info in the phone? Settings> ?????????

From the home screen: Menu Button -> Settings ->About Phone -> Battery Use

My battery life tanked after the update too. I was getting 1-1/2 days of use out of it if I put the phone into airplane mode at night. Now I'm not making 12 hours. From my batter usage (now at 20%, was fresh off the charger this morning):

Display 46%
Cell Standby 19%
Phone idle 13%
Android 12%
Voice calls 3%
Gmail 2%
Yahoo 2%
Android Core Apps 1%

I don't have any battery usage reports from before the update but the phone idle and cell stand by seems suspect.

Your Android System seems a little high..

 

[vertcobra99]

So where do you find this info in the phone? Settings> ?????????

You can get to battery usage by going to settings, about phone, battery usage.

You can get to running service by going to settings, applications, running servics.

I just downloaded auto run killer and it seems to be running nicely now