[Q] Terrible Battery Life? - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I have had my HTC One for a good while now, and I have been hopping between roms to try and find my favourite. I have just switched from GPe to InsertCoin. I have been getting what I think is very bad battery life on every rom I've tried (stock, GPe and InsertCoin) that I can't explain. Is this a software issue or is there something else happening here?

jackos2500 said:
Hi, I have had my HTC One for a good while now, and I have been hopping between roms to try and find my favourite. I have just switched from GPe to InsertCoin. I have been getting what I think is very bad battery life on every rom I've tried (stock, GPe and InsertCoin) that I can't explain. Is this a software issue or is there something else happening here?
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Indeed it seems a terrible battery life, but I bet you didn't let the ROM settle. If you continously change ROMs you'll get bad battery life, you should keep the ROM for at least 3-4 battery cycles to get an idea of battery life. Another suggestion I could give you is charge it while turned off, sometimes the phone shows it's full, but actually it isn't. Leave it till the light turns green, turn it on and than another half an hour
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elvisypi said:
Indeed it seems a terrible battery life, but I bet you didn't let the ROM settle. If you continously change ROMs you'll get bad battery life, you should keep the ROM for at least 3-4 battery cycles to get an idea of battery life. Another suggestion I could give you is charge it while turned off, sometimes the phone shows it's full, but actually it isn't. Leave it till the light turns green, turn it on and than another half an hour
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Yes I understand what you mean about letting it settle, and I probably should have mentioned that I have had bad battery life while staying on GPe for several months. I saw the same thing I don't understand: Android System using about 80-90% of battery in the battery usage even though I was using the phone and there seemed to be no long wakelocks...

jackos2500 said:
Hi, I have had my HTC One for a good while now, and I have been hopping between roms to try and find my favourite. I have just switched from GPe to InsertCoin. I have been getting what I think is very bad battery life on every rom I've tried (stock, GPe and InsertCoin) that I can't explain. Is this a software issue or is there something else happening here?
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I am facing same issue of battery, need help as well!
Do I have to change my battery or update software?

hoa1 said:
I am facing same issue of battery, need help as well!
Do I have to change my battery or update software?
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how can you change your battery?
though you can update your firmware to the latest
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Every once in awhile I notice unusually big battery drain. it is almost always one app or another, not very easy to spot, it takes some amount of trial and error. my flow is:
have BBS at the ready, ideally your phone rooted and ensure BBS has root permissions. measure battery consumption at night, during the day for at least several hours. check the culprit app in all tabs, sometimes BBS doesn't seem to get access to all wakes for instance I could only find the trace of the drain source under network usage. usual battery drainers are google location based apps but I've also seen a system file Explorer that would gain access to network too frequently while in background. hibernate or freeze/disable those apps as you see fit, rinse and repeat. regardless of the rom I get in the end approximately 0.3%/hr of batt drain at night, 0.7%/hr during day while phone is in standby. I keep in background llama, accuweather, Tapatalk, mail, Dropbox, textra and a couple system apps. I use greenify to hibernate user and system apps alike. I only turn on location when I do need maps.
hope that helps.
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kamilmirza said:
how can you change your battery?
though you can update your firmware to the latest
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Well, it's been months i never updated it could you please guide me in which system to update it.
Thanks

elvisypi said:
Indeed it seems a terrible battery life, but I bet you didn't let the ROM settle. If you continously change ROMs you'll get bad battery life, you should keep the ROM for at least 3-4 battery cycles to get an idea of battery life. Another suggestion I could give you is charge it while turned off, sometimes the phone shows it's full, but actually it isn't. Leave it till the light turns green, turn it on and than another half an hour
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As we are talking about battery life over here, can anyone tell me about zerolemon battery? I've heard it's an external battery pack, does this help us in HTC phones? Any suggestions!

hoa1 said:
Well, it's been months i never updated it could you please guide me in which system to update it.
Thanks
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for updating your firmware: you need S-OFF first
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kamilmirza said:
for updating your firmware: you need S-OFF first
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S-Off is?

hoa1 said:
S-Off is?
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dude do some research yourself
try Google, it's free & fast
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kamilmirza said:
dude do some research yourself
try Google, it's free & fast
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You are right! Thanks
Have you ever used zerolemon external battery?

hoa1 said:
You are right! Thanks
Have you ever used zerolemon external battery?
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no
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=247918711

kamilmirza said:
no
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=247918711
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this link is invalid but let me ask some other about zerolemon battry.
thanks

hoa1 said:
this link is invalid but let me ask some other about zerolemon battry.
thanks
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the link was to search for ZeroLemon in HTC One Accessories
good luck :good:

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Not getting good battery life on my ONE

Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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arknailed7754 said:
I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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Well I think I'm a medium to heavy user. But most other people, especially reviewers who probably used the phone heavily are easily getting over a day of use.
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Yeah suprsingly I am almost. It's weird. I think blinkfeed helps in a weird way. Instead of checking your facebook. Twitter.news apps etc it's all there to look at. Might save juice I don't know.if your worried return it though dude
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lte ...
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
chuckbert said:
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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I don't have lte :/ lol
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yvibes said:
Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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If you loose power so quickly on new phone you have two options - battery not good or you have too many things going on!!! I will bet it is the second option! Under too many consider all processes you have running on the device.... less job for processor(S), more battery live! All phones come with a lot of crap installed form the vendor(map, wheather, location services, etc...) I will recommend to kill(dissable/enable) all processes you do not need!!! Make a test, but get all important staff out of the phone, so you may need to factory reset if you kill something important. Do not worry, with fact. reset will be like new..... and all the crap already started So good luck
Found this in another device forum, but it could (possibly) help you with your wakelock problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1717237
I've never had the mediaserver wakelock (nor do I have the One yet), so don't know how well this will work. I suppose it's worth a try. If not, you might try Googling the mediaserver wakelock problem to try some other solutions. Seems to be a relatively common problem.
I'm guessing you're a heavy user!
What apps to you have installed? how many apps to you have?
My phone lasted 1 day and 9hrs on one charge with moderate internet use, txt messaging, phone calls - and that was without power saving mode enabled.
chuckbert said:
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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LTE actually uses almost as little battery as being connected to wifi...

[Q] Ridiculous Battery Drain

Dear People of XDA,
I have this issue since a few days and I don't know how to solve it. My battery drains out after 10 min while using wifi and the phone will shut down of course. Leaving it for about an hours time, some power will be regained and I can continue using my device. It all started when I reverted back to stock ICS from cm 10.1. I thought flashing Carburano's ROM might help but apparently not, same problem. I know batterys don't always go nuts but when they do, it's progressive. Any one know what might be wrong?
Regards....
TheNesski said:
Dear People of XDA,
I have this issue since a few days and I don't know how to solve it. My battery drains out after 10 min while using wifi and the phone will shut down of course. Leaving it for about an hours time, some power will be regained and I can continue using my device. It all started when I reverted back to stock ICS from cm 10.1. I thought flashing Carburano's ROM might help but apparently not, same problem. I know batterys don't always go nuts but when they do, it's progressive. Any one know what might be wrong?
Regards....
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Use the better battery stats app and check which app running in the background is draining your battery without allowing the device going into sleep....
but if the drain is like what you have described....then it is time to move on to another battery....
just a word.....Kernel is something (other things being Baseband) which takes care of the battery performance....so maybe you can try changing this and check which one suits you well.
CHECK IN THE FORUM TO FIND INFO ABOUT APPS LIKE GREENIFY...
Hope this helps you
TheNesski said:
Dear People of XDA,
I have this issue since a few days and I don't know how to solve it. My battery drains out after 10 min while using wifi and the phone will shut down of course. Leaving it for about an hours time, some power will be regained and I can continue using my device. It all started when I reverted back to stock ICS from cm 10.1. I thought flashing Carburano's ROM might help but apparently not, same problem. I know batterys don't always go nuts but when they do, it's progressive. Any one know what might be wrong?
Regards....
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Thinking it like this: the phone probably can drain a fully charged battery in 10 minutes if you turn on every major component, like vibration, flash, display to 100%, gps, wifi, 3G and what else... But having just wifi on and getting a phone shutdown in 10 min seems excessive. This would suggest your battery is not charging properly. This can result from end-of-lifetime battery only charging to some 10-25% of original capacity, broken charger, battery self-discharge and probably some other reasons I could not think of right now.
The best solution, most likely, is to replace your battery (like SREEPRAJAY above already suggested), but if you like to troubleshoot you could try to charge your phone via USB to reduce the charging current (Li-ion batteries show a lower voltage during charging with lower charge current until 100% is reached). This way you may be able to charge to higher capacity. Also, it may hint that some kernel might work better for you, but I'm not sure about this, since I don't remember what part of Android (SW, charger HW or what) handles the charging logic, i.e. what triggers the charging actually to stop.
Thanks...I'll try the suggestions
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TheNesski said:
Thanks...I'll try the suggestions
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well maybe your battery isn't so good anymore or you must try also other roms like jelly cream and those kind of roms and if you wanna know the rom slimbean and cm10.2 from tonyp are also pretty smooth and battery saving but cm10.2 is sadly not working camera still but further it's damm good
Hi I have experienced some issues with battery draining, when I check battery stats it says that most of the battery is drained from Android . media. Service... I have no idea how to work out or disable whatsoever is using those services.. Btw I'm on cm10.1 latest nightly
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Urgent help needed....!!!

My note switches off suddenly with a white pixelated screen.Sometimes it starts after removing and keeping the battery again but sometimes it won't start at all.one month back I have given in mobile shop and he told me that it is some hardware issue.He charged 1000 for that.For few days it was normal and it started again now.What might be the problem ?? I'll post screenshots of the mobile at the time it strucks
Try an alternative battery.
nokiamodeln91 said:
Try an alternative battery.
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Nope the battery is good.It's just 2months old and original.There are no charging problems also.It charges at a good rate and discharging also fine.No battery drainage issues for me
pavanvvs said:
Nope the battery is good.It's just 2months old and original.There are no charging problems also.It charges at a good rate and discharging also fine.No battery drainage issues for me
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He didn't say BUY a NEW battery. He said TRY an ALTERNATIVE battery.
How often does it switch off? If it's often then you could try leaving it in recovery mode to see if it does it there...
XxPixX said:
How often does it switch off? If it's often then you could try leaving it in recovery mode to see if it does it there...
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Recovery mode does not use much resources. So it will be hard to tell.
pavanvvs said:
Nope the battery is good.It's just 2months old and original.There are no charging problems also.It charges at a good rate and discharging also fine.No battery drainage issues for me
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I have a 2 month old original battery in my note. I noticed screen flickering a week ago which is a sure sign the battery is past its prime.
Still, some questions:
Have you dropped this phone?
Are you still running stock android? root?
Did you overclock / undervolt anything?
How often is this happening?
Is the phone hot when this happens?
Ofcourse,I've dropped it many times.I think problem also because of that droppings only.Running on stock firmware.No overclock.Can't say how often....The phone won't be hot but may be sometimes I feel slight hotter.
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I've flickering issues in my last battery.I know how it turns off when battery is damaged.so I can say it's not battery issues.I'm thinking of hardware problem only coz of so many droppings.Can you suggest me what could be damaged coz of falling on ground....and also can I try custom rom to get rid of this....???
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pavanvvs said:
I've flickering issues in my last battery.I know how it turns off when battery is damaged.so I can say it's not battery issues.I'm thinking of hardware problem only coz of so many droppings.Can you suggest me what could be damaged coz of falling on ground....and also can I try custom rom to get rid of this....???
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There is no guarantee that a custom rom can help, but it is much easier than dealing with hardware issue. Definitely should try a custom rom 4.12 to see if it helps.
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Custom rom also not helping.Today it switched off completely and not switching on even.sometimes it switches on after sometime but no luck this time.so please someone suggest me,what are my options now ?and What would I do now ?
pavanvvs said:
Custom rom also not helping.Today it switched off completely and not switching on even.sometimes it switches on after sometime but no luck this time.so please someone suggest me,what are my options now ?and What would I do now ?
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Personally, my next step would be opening it up, remove all the dust(if any) and check all connections.
If that does not help, you have a problem.
If all fails, consider maybe overvolting and/or underclocking.?

Problem with my htc one battery life, Please help

Hello..
I have a problem with my htc one, every time when i charge it the battery goes down to 95%-90% in a minute and i'm not running anything, it's kinda weird only the android system is taking 98-100% of battery usage. the battery drains bad
i don't know what to do?
i want to know what does other htc one users see in the battery usage
This has been discussed to death, please search.
Basically, you need to charge for maybe another half an hour after it reaches 100% charged.
BenPope said:
This has been discussed to death, please search.
Basically, you need to charge for maybe another half an hour after it reaches 100% charged.
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It's already dying, i don't know what's the problem and why it takes that much of the battery, is it a problem with my phone?
i tried charging it for 2 more hours and it went well but it still draining
It will drain of course, as all phones do. Search, and then search some more. Please.
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bbinder said:
It will drain of course, as all phones do. Search, and then search some more. Please.
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I know it will drain but not like that i had it for 6 months now, and the system is taking to much of the battery, other phones OS doesn't take that much.
see the screenshot.
Everyone has a screenshot that looks like yours. It's normal. Just because it's high doesn't mean it's draining too fast. I don't even bother looking at mine. Much better readings from other apps on what causes battery drain. Looking at your screenshot isn't one of them, as you can already notice.
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bbinder said:
Everyone has a screenshot that looks like yours. It's normal. Just because it's high doesn't mean it's draining too fast. I don't even bother looking at mine. Much better readings from other apps on what causes battery drain. Looking at your screenshot isn't one of them, as you can already notice.
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Ok man thanx, i thought it was a problem with my phone.

Terrible battery life. How to fix?

I am experiencing terrible battery life. It seems something is keeping my device awake while screen off? Any idea can find that out and fix it? Thanks in advance.
already so many threads just do a little reading
and as i can see your device is not sleeping is awake most of the time thats the issue
your job is to find out which process is keeping the device awake
nitinvaid said:
already so many threads just do a little reading
and as i can see your device is not sleeping is awake most of the time thats the issue
your job is to find out which process is keeping the device awake
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I know some process are keeping it awake. But I don't know what it is and the top command seems does not provide much information.
Use better battery stats API from XDA search Google for it
4.0.3 has nice battery life.
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Try Greenify, Naptime..
nitinvaid said:
Use better battery stats API from XDA search Google for it
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Thanks for the advice. Turns out it's the Google play services that's waking up my device. I have encountered this before and tried various methods in the forum yet still not fixed permanently. Anyway, for now, it's solved by rebooting the device.
JayYip said:
Thanks for the advice. Turns out it's the Google play services that's waking up my device. I have encountered this before and tried various methods in the forum yet still not fixed permanently. Anyway, for now, it's solved by rebooting the device.
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Have your device manually power off/on during night say 1144Pm to 445AM. Some folks received many calls I don't so no need to have my phone on ALL night. Plus it helps my phone last way. .Way longer. This are my stats just from yesterday...http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/58a44fe5442fc/Screenshot_20170214-174412.png?
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nano303 said:
Have your device manually power off/on during night say 1144Pm to 445AM. Some folks received many calls I don't so no need to have my phone on ALL night. Plus it helps my phone last way. .Way longer. This are my stats just from yesterday...http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/58a44fe5442fc/Screenshot_20170214-174412.png?
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No. But turning off at night will improve the battery life? That sounds nonsense...
JayYip said:
No. But turning off at night will improve the battery life? That sounds nonsense...
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None sense??? Lmao none sense is leaving your phone on all night and expect the battery life to not drop.. that's nonsense
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nano303 said:
None sense??? Lmao none sense is leaving your phone on all night and expect the battery life to not drop.. that's nonsense
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NONONO. I mean I don't care night usage since I usually charge it overnight. I complaint about the battery life at daytime.
rahulrs0029 said:
4.0.3 has nice battery life.
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Try Greenify, Naptime..
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I have Greenify and Naptime. But still... It just cannot fall asleep. I use Force doze now and it seems works. Still waiting for more data to confirm it.
JayYip said:
I have Greenify and Naptime. But still... It just cannot fall asleep. I use Force doze now and it seems works. Still waiting for more data to confirm it.
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Hey Jay,
Are you rooted ?
D0M1N13 said:
Hey Jay,
Are you rooted ?
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Yes.
JayYip said:
Yes.
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What ROM are you using and what kernel ? The reason I am asking is, that kernels really matter in terms of battery life.
D0M1N13 said:
What ROM are you using and what kernel ? The reason I am asking is, that kernels really matter in terms of battery life.
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OOS4.0.3, Franco r12. I know kernel matters. But it seems lots of people are getting great battery life with Franco.
JayYip said:
OOS4.0.3, Franco r12. I know kernel matters. But it seems lots of people are getting great battery life with Franco.
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use some battery monitor app and check which app is using the most & keeping the cpu awake..
rahulrs0029 said:
use some battery monitor app and check which app is using the most & keeping the cpu awake..
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Google play services... Of course
JayYip said:
Google play services... Of course
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Well... I don't have Google Play Services eating up my battery... when I go to battery stats, the most percentage that is eating up my battery is Android OS which is at 3% But I did hear some users complaining about bad drain from Google Play Services. Try this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/help/google-play-services-battery-drain-t3537545
Also, use this kernel: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/development/kernel-elementalx-op3-1-00-t3521298 with instructions on how to get best SOT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSa-9aWmTFk
So first try the methods to fix the battery drain issue with the thread that I posted, and then go and install the Elemental X kernel, and tweak it using the instructions on the youtube video Should work like a charm !
I'm with Franco and in getting amazing battery life. You should clean flash oxygen and the flash Franco kernel again
D0M1N13 said:
Well... I don't have Google Play Services eating up my battery... when I go to battery stats, the most percentage that is eating up my battery is Android OS which is at 3% But I did hear some users complaining about bad drain from Google Play Services. Try this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/hel p/google-play-services-battery-drain-t3537545
Also, use this kernel: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/development/kernel-elementalx-op3-1-00-t3521298 with instructions on how to get best SOT:
So first try the methods to fix the battery drain issue with the thread that I posted, and then go and install the Elemental X kernel, and tweak it using the instructions on the youtube video Should work like a charm !
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Thanks for the help!

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