Suddenly horrible battery life while traveling

[cohoman]

I've owned my S6 for about one year now, and my battery life seemed fine when I was at home or at the office. But for the past week I've been on a road trip down the Calif coast and now in Arizona and my battery life is horrible. For example I'm in the Phoenix Metro area and my phone will go from a full charge to zero percent in less than 4 hours. I've tried turning off wifi and GPS and anything else I could think of. I don't have any social media apps installed (e.g., Facebook or Instagram). Strange that my battery life was fine before my trip but now it's horrendous.

I tried using Gsam Battery Monitor to see if I could find why I'm getting such horrible battery life, but nothing seems to stand out.

I'm thinking I may have fried my battery by using an old Sprint car charger cable that I previously used with my old Palm Pixi. Or, maybe having my phone plugged in constantly during some long driving stretches may have damaged the battery?

Any suggestions or thoughts? Thanks.

 

[lucianus_luciferus]

could be the battery has gone bad

 

[Hassan272]

You've probably got poor cell coverage, which drains the battery. Try enabling flight mode for a while and see if your battery life improves.

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[lucianus_luciferus]

well obviously if you enable airplane mode the battery lasts longer

 

[Hassan272]

Yes of course, but by a small amount. I meant if there would be a significant improvement.

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[bbtkd]

Anytime I'm traveling I expect at least double the normal battery usage. Still, you could clear system cache - perhaps a recent update made it worse.

 

[cohoman]

I didn't have this battery life issue last year when I was traveling basically the same path on this road trip. I'm suspecting the problem is a bad battery at this point.