Besides tweaking deep into the device OS, there are some general ways to limit the battery drain on your NEXUS 5.
Here is a list of some painless and easily executable steps to make the Battery Juice last longer.
1. Identify the culprit app
Poorly coded apps and the ones with a lot of advertisements are resource intensive. A trip to Settings > Power > Battery Use will reveal the applications consuming most of the battery.
Try to get rid of the apps that you rarely use or don't use at all. There's no reason to keep them in your list and share a sip of juice.
Keep the applications updated, as the updates include bug fixes which make them stable and efficient. Doing so will help you in extending the battery life.
2. Pre-installed applications
Your android device comes with many pre installed applications aka bloatwares. They keep running in the background as a background process and suck most of the battery juice. And in most cases you cannot delete that app. Thanks to the device manufacturer.
You can squeeze some juice by disabling these applications by taking a trip to Settings > Apps. Click on the application and then click Disable
3. Location Services
Using your location to serve you with Google Cards, and to help you find your way with navigation, uses GPS, the largest battery sucker. Turn off the location services from Settings > Location.
Turn off Google Location reporting from here which reports your location to Google time to time, to send you the location of nearby restaurants and other places to visit.
4. Auto Sync
Set apps to sync manually or set them to sync less frequently.
When an app is scheduled to sync, it'll use internet connection — and the process uses power in the background. Set the app to "manual sync" or to sync after a longer duration (3-4 hours). Email services and instant messaging services use auto sync. Keep an eye over Gmail, Yahoo and other applications.
Moreover, select to sync over WiFi instead of 4G/LTE.
5. Display Settings
Tweaking the display settings will provide a major boost to the battery performance.
Set a desktop background which is black in color
Don't always rely on auto brightness as its intensity is always larger than that required. Set the brightness manually to the lowest comfortable level. Using a brightness toggle widget is advised.
Reduce the screen timeout to 1 minute or less. Faster the screen goes off, the more juice you conserve.
Live wallpapers or the animated wallpapers should be avoided.
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Wakamatsu said:
You didn't even bother to edit out the portion about amoled screens...
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So, I just upgraded to Android 9 and I use a lot of widgets for various news feeds, weather, baseball scores, etc. Most of my widgets are not refreshing (even when prompted on the widgets) or even loading (unless I take them off the homescreens and replace them).
This is happening with Falcon Pro, Tweetcaster, MLB At Bat, Eye In The Sky Weather, and Talon.
Please help me.
Happens to me with Timely, in fact, the app (alarm) does not even work at all and caused me a few missed days at work. But they haven't updated it for quite a while.
The problem is that in Device Care, we cannot white list apps anymore like we did in Oreo.
PlutoDelic said:
Happens to me with Timely, in fact, the app (alarm) does not even work at all and caused me a few missed days at work. But they haven't updated it for quite a while.
The problem is that in Device Care, we cannot white list apps anymore like we did in Oreo.
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Of course you can!
Go into App-Info and enable background usage
Also
Disable Battery Optimization in App-Info
Reaper1337 said:
Of course you can!
Go into App-Info and enable background usage
Also
Disable Battery Optimization in App-Info
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My screen options don't look like that.
There aren't options like the ones you've listed.
Dankees said:
So, I just upgraded to Android 9 and I use a lot of widgets for various news feeds, weather, baseball scores, etc. Most of my widgets are not refreshing (even when prompted on the widgets) or even loading (unless I take them off the homescreens and replace them).
This is happening with Falcon Pro, Tweetcaster, MLB At Bat, Eye In The Sky Weather, and Talon.
Please help me.
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Are you using mobile data or wifi?
I've found so far there's a difference.
My sports side panel only seems to update on wifi.
So I'm guessing it's a permissions thing?
Dankees said:
My screen options don't look like that.
There aren't options like the ones you've listed.
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You need to enter this menu
Reaper1337 said:
Of course you can!
Go into App-Info and enable background usage
Also
Disable Battery Optimization in App-Info
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All the apps that i want to be able to talk on the background have the background allowance. And i am reluctant to disable battery optimization.
But that was not my point. On Oreo, you could black list apps (always sleeping) and white list apps (do not put to sleep) on device care/maintenance. In Pie, you can only black list.
Nevertheless, i think in my case it's the Apps fault. Last update was prior Pie release. However, the widget many times is at least an hour or two behind (a clock widget from the same app).
Thanks for the feedback.
I get your point.
You are right, the white-list is no more.
I had a similar problem with my widgets.
Using my settings above fixed it.
You can disable battery Optimization without hesitation, if the app itself does not suck your battery.
I configured, HD widgets for example, usage and have the same battery usage with and without battery Optimization.
Widgets not refreshing since Samsung update
I'm having the same issue...HD Widgets, Evernote, Business Calender (all widgets I've had for years and love) are not refreshing after I "wake" my phone or reboot. If I remove the widget from the screen and re-add them, they work fine...but I'm not about to do that every time my phone sleeps for a while. This is on my Galaxy Note 8 running Android 9.0.
Is there a fix? Thx
Dankees said:
So, I just upgraded to Android 9 and I use a lot of widgets for various news feeds, weather, baseball scores, etc. Most of my widgets are not refreshing (even when prompted on the widgets) or even loading (unless I take them off the homescreens and replace them).
This is happening with Falcon Pro, Tweetcaster, MLB At Bat, Eye In The Sky Weather, and Talon.
Please help me.
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So, for the apps I want to use widgets for, I need to turn off "Optimize Battery Usage" in the app's options?
OK, I think I've got it working now.
But, my Proximity Screen Off app keeps stopping.
One more pie related annoyance, what a pity
I have the above settings but several widgets still not working e.g. Google Fit. A cheeky app that still tracks you even with permissions denied.
Anyway, I have a Galaxy A10 Android 9.
It's become a major bugbear for me.
Can it be fixed? I can only update widgets when I manually go into the apps.
Cheers,
Anthony
My phone is Global ROM PFGMIXM 10.3.5.0.
Model M1901F7G. Bootloader locked. Many apps were removed using SAKI program.
I mainly use my phone for gaming, listening to music, messagings, and browsing internet. I experience no lag at all even when I play pubg.
Overall I'm more than satisfied with this phone, especially when compared to my previous phone, Samsung J7. Below are my random thoughts/nitpickings/wish on the phone and things I noticed through my daily usage. It's really subjective opinion of mine, but could be more intriguing than most of those same boring reviews you can find on YouTube. If anybody knows how to fix or can suggest for workaround for my complaints, please let me know.
Pros:
Bluetooth headphones' remaining battery % can be checked in bluetooth connected device inside settings.
Removing app vault and Google app using SAKI program seem to have noticeably extended the battery life.
Unlocking with finger print really is responsive.
Because battery lasts really long time and it charges super fast with Q3 charger, I don't even charge it over 70% these days. Q4 charger is overkill too.
Headphone sound quality is surprisingly good. Comes with many presets you can choose from. Also LDAC audio codes is supported. Great for Sony headphones.
Available RAM increased by 0.1GB after uninstalling app vault and disabling it inside Home screen & Recents setting.
Cons:
When I set timer in clock, it doesn't show how many minutes left in notification bar, instead it shows what time the timer will go off. I wish it showed countdown time.
When I receive WhatsApp message, it doesn't give notification although I didn't disable it. This is pretty bad.
Golf clash app suddenly shut it self down. Happens once in 3 days or so, pisses me off when I go out of time because of this. I've reinstalled the app after the last crash and that might have solved it, didn't crash for 2, 3 days now.
When I play pubg for long time, sometimes the phone gets quite hot.
I've seen MI shopping/payment icon showing up in notification bar while browsing internet with chrome. This was very strange because I've removed all the MI apps through saki already 10 days ago. It's the icon that looks like shopping bag with "M" in the bag.
After uninstalling Google app, if I swipe up from home button, screen is covered with blank Google app remainder. This can only be solved if I changed launcher as I understand because there is an integration of Google app in MIUI launcher. Something minor and I'm not changing the launcher just for this.
Stock weather app update only once a day. This really bothers me. If I install 3rd party weather and time app and its widget, I can choose to update hourly. But then the time in notification bar shows up when in home screen. I don't need 2 times shown in home screen.
Stock camera can't be removed.
Can't choose gcam as default app to launch it by pressing volume down button twice.
Hello,
if my Huawei P20 Pro has been locked with EMUI 10 for a few minutes, I do not receive any notifications from some apps. Examples are GMail, Foraum or Google Weather. Whatsapp or Discord notifications, on the other hand, always work. Then as soon as I unlock my screen, I'll get the notifications that were due.
I've already tried everything that is on the Huawei site:
- Energy optimization settings for apps: do not allow
- Notification settings
- Allow apps to be active in the background
- Energy -> Always connected#
- Energy -> Auto Start is set manually
- I uninstalled Power Genie with ADB
I am at the end of my possibilities and would be happy if someone has an idea what I could still try.
I've also read that this is a problem when sideloading apps with P30 or P40 due to lack of GMS, but in P20 this should not be a problem, right?
Best wishes
aless_x
So I found that the reason is the doze mode. i deactivated it via adb the way it is explained here:
[Guide] Notification FIX - Works 100%
So if you are having issues with notifications not coming in or coming in late this is finally how to fix it 100% on every app. It seems to have a very slight impact on battery but nothing major. From what I saw it was about 1% per hour drain...
forum.xda-developers.com
Now every notification comes through and the way I see it for now, the impact on the battery is almost zero.
I want to disable power drain notifications for some apps, like the music player. Did not find a way to customize this.
Another thing: it looks like it has an adaptive power saver but it's more aggresive than the Android stock one. It sometimes takes 1 day or until I open the messaging app to receive messages. Is there a custom setting somewhere that I'm missing? I've just enabled the adaptive power save that I also have on my Pixel, which worked ok. No 'extreme power saving' features have been activated.
Which system mode are you using? The most extreme is the ultra durable mode. Advanced is the customisable mode. I'm using ultra durable (with some changes), adaptive battery and even a 3rd party app called Naptime and have no problems receiving messages.
I was using the standard (dynamic) mode, then switched to advanced and disabled all of the options. Now, after the latest system update, it works better, but was wondering is there anything that I can do. WhatsApp and Signal both took hours to sync with the phone screen turned off.
Oh so you need apps to sync in the background? I thought you don't receive SMS messages lol. If you already disabled "force restriction to background sync" in advanced mode's settings, check if WhatsApp and Signal are optimised in apps & notifications>special app access>battery optimization