Significant decrease in battery life with JB

[pistos]

Everything with the JB updated runs smoothly and is much more polished. However I am noticing significant battery drain coming from Google wallet. Each day I have to force stop wallet upon turning the device on to keep Google wallet from using over 40% of battery. I do not use wallet and have NFC turned off so this is annoying step to conserve battery.

I was having a similar problem with Wallet starting up unnecessarily. I turned NFC back on and Wallet stopped this annoying behavior. It no longer starts up, now that I have NFC on.

 

[Mellimel22]

I'm backing up my Nexus 4G and reseting the phone. I make sure to back up now since last time it wiped the SD card on reseting the phone, I thought it was not suppose to wipe the SD card if your reseting the phone. Good thing I backed it up.
:-(

Goodluck.

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Under settings data wipe its an option to wipe the SD card to uncheck that box and it will only wipe the phone

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[j_grouchy]

Do you guys have google now off? Location services turned off? WiFi on? That is massive drain over night. On ICS I had about 4-5% drop over night. Now I'm about 8%-10% over night. Still high.

I've pretty much narrowed the culprit down to mobile data (3G/4G). I don't know if it's the nature of CDMA or if this phone just isn't set up to manage it correctly...or if it's universal with all carriers...but when I am just on mobile data I usually need a recharge from nearly empty (the percentage in the teens) by 1 pm.

On the other hand, if I'm on my home wifi, I can unplug, run it the whole day and even leave it unplugged overnight and still have over 20% charge remaining when I get up in the morning.

 

[hi-tech34]

On Mine, it is the screen using the most battery, 78% today and I have hardly used the phone??
Why would the screen be using so much battery when it is not in use?

 

[pistos]

I've pretty much narrowed the culprit down to mobile data (3G/4G). I don't know if it's the nature of CDMA or if this phone just isn't set up to manage it correctly...or if it's universal with all carriers...but when I am just on mobile data I usually need a recharge from nearly empty (the percentage in the teens) by 1 pm.

On the other hand, if I'm on my home wifi, I can unplug, run it the whole day and even leave it unplugged overnight and still have over 20% charge remaining when I get up in the morning.

Yes, if you have marginal signal with Sprint, your battery gets murdered.

It can help to turn off your 4G radio if you don't have coverage, or very spotty coverage, in your area.

 

[mcantu]

the first few days after the JB update, i was having tons of up/down traffic on CDMA and battery life was trashed. its stopped doing that now and the battery is fine...

 

[berrydroidapple]

Followed advice from another thread that advised to clear data on media service, pull battery for 10 minutes, then reboot. I've seen a great improvement in battery life.

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[j_grouchy]

Yes, if you have marginal signal with Sprint, your battery gets murdered.

It can help to turn off your 4G radio if you don't have coverage, or very spotty coverage, in your area.

Nope...at home AND at work I get almost full bars. The 3G & 4G both burn the battery pretty quick in both places.

 

[skinneejay]

Followed advice from another thread that advised to clear data on media service, pull battery for 10 minutes, then reboot. I've seen a great improvement in battery life.

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I'll try this.

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[kuoirad]

Followed advice from another thread that advised to clear data on media service, pull battery for 10 minutes, then reboot. I've seen a great improvement in battery life.

I don't see a Media Service on my phone, unless I'm missing it. Media Storage, yes.

 

[hi-tech34]

It is media storage. I jus tried it this morning so I will let you know in the morning if it helped.

 

[hi-tech34]

The Media Storage clearing did not help at all. I read abotu this in another forum. I just tried this:
the steps I took to restore my battery life were:
1. disable google now

2. in system settings->location services, disable and then re-enable "google's location service" and "location and google search"

3. in google maps->settings->location settings, disable all location reporting and disable location history. (google now seems to enable these and leave it set)

worked for me, hope it helps someone else (Nexus S)

 

[opteron7]

Update.:
Called sprint they said to take it to the sprint repair center. So I made an appointment with the near by sprint store. Walked in and the most attractive woman, greeted and helped me. She explained to me jelly bean update is causing nothing but issues for them. Anyway she took the Nexus and said they will have to do a full diagnostic. They called me 3 hours later saying my phone couldn't be complete the tests and they will be replacing my Nexus. Paid them the 35 dollars and they gave me a new Nexus s..... Waiting till tomorrow to see if the battery life is better with this Nexus.

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[Paul627g]

Update.:
Called sprint they said to take it to the sprint repair center. So I made an appointment with the near by sprint store. Walked in and the most attractive woman, greeted and helped me. She explained to me jelly bean update is causing nothing but issues for them. Anyway she took the Nexus and said they will have to do a full diagnostic. They called me 3 hours later saying my phone couldn't be complete the tests and they will be replacing my Nexus. Paid them the 35 dollars and they gave me a new Nexus s..... Waiting till tomorrow to see if the battery life is better with this Nexus.

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Interesting...

Surprised you even got a replacement considering I've heard from a few people that stock on refurbs of the NS4G is very low.


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[skinneejay]

If you don't use google now just follow the steps above. Helped me a ton. I really had no need for google now.I love the idea but with the smaller battery it's just to much of a drain.

 

[opteron7]

Interesting...

Surprised you even got a replacement considering I've heard from a few people that stock on refurbs of the NS4G is very low.


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Yeah the tech said they try keeping one phone of each stocked. They tried putting me on the protection plan, but I passed on it. Might get it after the warranty is over I don't really think the Nexus s will make it another year.

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[kuoirad]

FWIW, I did a full wipe of my phone (took the opportunity to root it) and flashed back to the factory image. Lost *some* data - stuff I didn't know wasn't on my "sd card", so it's my own fault - but nothing vital.

Things seem to be better for me now - battery life seems to be improved. If nothing else, my wifi will correctly shut off when the phone's asleep now.

 

[mclasser]

Boy oh boy did this thread take off!

An update on my battery life: I followed as many of the tips and suggestions posted here as possible sadly to no avail. We have 2 other NS4G devices in the family and battery life is sucking on all of them. I rely heavily on my phone for work and need a reliable phone to last me through the day. Things got so bad with JB that I actually am now using my 3 year old Blackberry in lieu of the NS4G. Even after being off for nearly 1.5 years, the Blackberry's battery life is rock solid and I can easily use it heavily for 2 days without charging it. The 3 year old BB's radio also beats the NS4G's, which we all know is crap. I hope there is an update in the horizon to fix JB's battery glitches, or I may have to seriously consider a new device.

 

[opteron7]

Boy oh boy did this thread take off!

An update on my battery life: I followed as many of the tips and suggestions posted here as possible sadly to no avail. We have 2 other NS4G devices in the family and battery life is sucking on all of them. I rely heavily on my phone for work and need a reliable phone to last me through the day. Things got so bad with JB that I actually am now using my 3 year old Blackberry in lieu of the NS4G. Even after being off for nearly 1.5 years, the Blackberry's battery life is rock solid and I can easily use it heavily for 2 days without charging it. The 3 year old BB's radio also beats the NS4G's, which we all know is crap. I hope there is an update in the horizon to fix JB's battery glitches, or I may have to seriously consider a new device.

I was thinking of adding a seido battery pack or the power skin. I have another year on my contract so I'm not getting a new phone anytime soon.

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[hi-tech34]

I called Sprint and they wanted me to do a wipe of the phone so before I tried that I turned off Google Now and it was back to normal. Has anyone done a wipe of the pohone to see if that helped with google now turned on?