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[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
@ kj I am using a phone locator app that is suppose to report my location via GPS every 6 hours. I have my phone set to device only with no data or WiFi. The problem is that when I look on the apps website to find my phone it doesn't show anything for the past 6 hours.
[One (M8) General] :
One drawback of device only is being indoors. Often you won't be able to connect to the satellites indoors. So that app probably couldn't locate you the last time it tried.

Not much you can do if its important to you, except put location on battery saver and hope it's not too bad on your battery life.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Anyone using BBM? It has the highest wakelocks. Just want to see how it's going with others.
[One (M8) General] :
It's always been like that. Not much you can do about it if you want to receive notifications.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Yeah but it eats battery like ....
[One (M8) General] :
I actually don't find a big difference with it installed or not. Yeah, there's lots of wakes, but very little awake time total.

I don't know why it's so poorly coded, most other similar apps don't have near as many wakes.

But it is what it is. You can greenify it , but won't get notifications.
[One (M8) General] liorderei:
I never understood why bothering buy a crazy snartphone with crazy battery just to downclock i, never use wifi, 4g and usefull apps, but it's my opinions, anyhow my avrege is 2 days with 4:30-5 hrs screen time, I never passed the 5:30 hrs of screen tine, I never understood how ppl get this screen time without compromising on usage, I use ARHD 11.1 with stock kernel
[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
guys please help me out here... I've had the phone for about 5 days now. I charge the battery overnigt and unlug it at 100%. However, by morning i loose about 6-7% battery to google play services. This happens even on extere power saver mode!! Yesterday night i manually turned off data and i lost only 3% battery, which was strange. I have gmail app and i have turned off its notification. But is there any other app or service related to google play services that i need to turn off? Other wise the phone's battery holds on pretty well during gaming and other day to day stuff. Help would be appreciated! Thanks
[One (M8) General] :
That's really not bad. With data on, it could be your signal causing a bit of extra drain...or the apps using it.

Need useful screen shots from gsam or something. If you're rooted...get gsam root companion as well and show us the held awake time and times waking the device. Go from 100 to about 10 for meaningful stats. Or, if it's only standby bothering you....charge to 100 and unplug and go to bed. Take screen shots in the morning.

Really though, depending on your signal, apps using data and setup....your drain could be completely normal for you.
[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
thank you! I will post fresh results by tomorrow along with the screen shots. Battery otherwise is great, just need to get this sorted :)
[One (M8) General] mohsinraza:
Excellent excellent battery life. 30m of gaming and youtube. Continuous whatsapp, social media, emails... About an hour of music via HTC music app.

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[One (M8) General] punk_zappa:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.gservicefix&hl=en

Other suggestions were to clear cache and data of the app.

You do not use WiFi? It would be a good comparison how much you lose between between wifi and data. I am assuming that you are using 4G/3G/LTE when you mentioned data.

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Can you post your app sucker please. Thanks.
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
How good does this app work on this phone?
[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
thanks for the link, i will try it out :) and i have been switching off data for the last couple if nights and the battery has lost just around 2% overnight. so my assumption is the bad 3g network is causing the issue (3g reception isnt great at my place). So i think im sorted for now :)
[One (M8) General] CrimzonEyed:
As a new owner I'm pretty happy with the battery life and that's from someone coming from a note 2 user.

Haven't dared to root and s-off yet but so far I've never been able to go a week with my new android phone without rooting.

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[One (M8) General] Drowzz:
Had a great run last night aswell
[One (M8) General] :
Half way there....?
[One (M8) General] th3:
ROM?

I want that battery icon in your top bar...

5hr active, seems alright. Dunno how you get so low app usage tho

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[One (M8) General] :
Sinless Rom. Sense version.

My usage is all fairly lightweight...tapatalk,browser and texting mostly. Not much else in an average day.

And "everything off". I toggle stuff when I need it. Except data/wi-fi. Always on for those.

And "display brightness" app for manual brightness.

That's it. ?
[One (M8) General] croppz:
Here's mine from today. No complaints whatsoever especially considering my screen on time.
[One (M8) General] walle4893:
Unless you were listening to music for like more than 2 hours that battery is considered slightly below average I think. Look at that 6.6% drain per hour you might want to check anything that was not completely put into deep sleep.
[One (M8) General] PaulWilks:
Mine lasts well over a day. I usually charge overnight anyway, but it's usually only down to 30-40%.
[One (M8) General] n3tr0m:
I barely get through one (1) day by not doing anything at all. GSam says it's used 75% in 10 hours! That can't be normal? With an average of 3h screentime.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Hmmm it's normal if you are using Autobrightness at Max with sync always enabled. Your 4G signal seems weak and u have so much wake time unless you were playing music a lot. Use wakelock detector from play store to see what's keeping your phone awake and preventing deep sleep
[One (M8) General] n3tr0m:
Im using autobrightness at 60% or so. Sync is only enabled for a few apps and I normally use 3G (weak 4G here..). I dont play music, either streaming or stored on the phone itself. I'll check with Wakelock detector and see whats keeping it awake all the time ..
[One (M8) General] subcola:
I got better results than with note 4
[One (M8) General] Jiyeon90:
Wait does the note 4 have worse battery life? Wow that sucks
[One (M8) General] route9:
I cannot believe this.
[One (M8) General] frankieworld:
Well the MIUI v5 for the M8 is doing well. Batt life for someone glued to the M8 lasst near all day and lucky to have 8% in the morning if i ease up on youtube. lol

Edit, Really hating the XDA anti spam conditions. Must wait 5 mins to fix up typos?!?

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[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
When my 3g is weak then i easily loose 10% in idle state in 6hrs. I'm guessing with 4g its gotta be even more brutal on the battery!
[One (M8) General] n3tr0m:
Right. I switched to not using 4G at all, only 3G (which gives full signal). I unplugged my M8 from the wall at 7:45 AM this morning, and now, 9:40 AM, the battery has gone from a 100% to 87%. And I got 34 min with screen time, thats about it. Does that look normal? I did have a short idea of getting a Note 4 because of the battery life in the M8, though the Note 4 might have way worse with TouchWiz and QHD.
[One (M8) General] th3:
Let it get to 50% used, then let us know.

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[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
looks like it. However the only way i found out that 3g is the culprit is because i turned off 3g completely from settings overnight and then by morning i lost only 3% in 7hrs. So to find out if network is the issue try to turn off data completely and check the battery drain in idle. this should give you a give idea.

I now switch off data when im asleep since it saves me battery. However, once i turn on data in the morning and the sycn begins then i quickly loose 2-3% in 5 mins or so. but after that its fine...
[One (M8) General] bumbarush:
please write how much SoT you get when using 50% auto brightness and 3G Internet. Also very interesting how long you can play heavy games on 50% auto brightness

thanx
[One (M8) General] n3tr0m:
Thanks alot mate! I'll try it tonight. Im not at 78% with 52 min screen on time. Looks better than it did a few days ago. Phone radio (as you suspected) is using quite a bit of the overall power usage, at 10,8% (looks a bit high in my mind). I'll try a few hours later without 3G/ data :)
[One (M8) General] nontryer:
This is mental, battery lasted me from friday morning to monday night (last night), so - 4 days and 5:30 hrs SOT.

All stock, power saver was on all the time, wifi/3g was on + auto brightness.

And extreme power saving was on every night.

This is without any games though, i mostly used Viber, Gmail, browsed the web with Chrome on wifi.. but i am still very impressed nonetheless.
[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
im with you on this one! if i dont game then the battery easily lasts me 3 days with lots of browsing and music :p
[One (M8) General] abinash:
Seems like battery is draning faster than when it was brand new......may be it is beacuse of 3g usage.At the begining i was on wifi all the time and battery results came out great...but now the problem arise.

Anyone experiencing the same with 3g and wifi??
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
What are your other settings? Also how do you keep your wakelocks down so low and do you think this possible on a stock unrooted m7?
[One (M8) General] nontryer:
Nothing much, GPS/location on, auto-sync for gmail account, facebook chat/notifications turned off completely and i disabled pre-installed apps which i don't use and so on.. and i don't use any widgets besides HTC's clock/weather widget. My phone is not rooted so i didn't underclocked/undervolted anything.

I had M7 as well and this is best result i got with it afaik. S801 is much better in managing battery juice than S600 and M8 also has a bit bigger battery than M7, so..

EDIT:

As for the wakelocks, i don't know.. i didn't bothered killing them because you can't see wakelocks without root on kitkat, at least not with GSAM and Betterbatterystats.

Don't know about other apps..
[One (M8) General] th3:
Fifa 15 count?

I play it daily (only div 6 yet...).

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[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
yep 3g causes battery issues for me when im at home since the coverage is pretty bad... i loose 10% overnight (7hrs). so i switch off mobile data at night.

other than that the battery is doing fine...
[One (M8) General] th3:
50% auto brightness, no power saver until 15%, extreme power saver after 5%, poor WiFi signals, 2.5 hours YouTube, 2.25 hours Fifa 15 UT, and the rest is mostly 4 phone calls, internet, Google Home, Maps, Whatsapp and messages (on a bloated setup with bad drain).

Gives me 7hr SOT and +9hr active.

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[One (M8) General] th3:
The bottom bit of pic is there, just truncated to surpass the upload size problem.

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[One (M8) General] :
Our average SoT according to Gsam is about the same. ?
[One (M8) General] th3:
Great phones think alike... And all that [emoji3]

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[One (M8) General] mushages:
anyone suffering from bad wakelock from Google play services?
[One (M8) General] :
No, cause I have Google now and location off. ?

If you need those on, look into something like app ops to stop it.

See post 3 in the battery thread in my signature for info on that. ?
[One (M8) General] jshamlet:
Yes. Which is why I used App Ops to disable wake locks for Google Play services. :) (along with several other offenders)

As a general rule, unless an app needs to keep the phone awake, such as a music or video player, and it does so when I am not using it, it's getting its privileges nicked.

Also, unnecessary network traffic is a battery drain. In addition to killing abusive wakelocks, I disable almost everything in iptables, leaving access only to apps that actually have some real need to get on the network. (messaging, email, web browsers, etc.) You would be amazed at what wants network access that doesn't really require it. Fold in Adaway, so that unnecessary ad requests get round filed by the local host, and you can see some significant battery gains.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
I switched off Google now and location services but I still get wakelocks like 20mins awake in 3 hours. It disappears on WiFi but when I'm out and when on 4G I still get them. Just now 3 hours on 4G 8% with 20mins awake now I will reset and switch off battery to see what wakes my phone
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
What would cause my phone to go from 20% awake to 95% awake when all I did was unplug my phone from the charger. In 3 the first three hours it went from 100% to 95%. I haven't changed any settings or install/uninstall any apps. It was fine until today with the same settings (high accuracy location,mobile data, and power saver on)
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
Edit:
[One (M8) General] :
That's a tough one cause its kind of a mix of partial wakelocks that makes up that one.

I don't know wakelock detector as well.

Could you try a full discharge with Gsam and Gsam root companion installed and the screen shot the main screen, kernel wakelocks , times waking device and time held awake?

We can see what those say.

High accuracy location is not very battery friendly at times. Especially if you ever have a weak data signal.

The other problem could be an apply you just recently installed is misbehaving badly.
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
I'm not rooted so do you think a wipe cache might help?
[One (M8) General] :
It sure might. Without root....tracking wakelocks is near impossible . Just got to investigate and experiment with questionable apps and use the process of elimination.
[One (M8) General] tonyafc:
Will disabling location for playservices have any negative affect on using the device? Have you noticed anything?
[One (M8) General] mushages:
I disabled Google now which was a location based function that prevents the phone to sleep and causes tons of wakelocks (i didn't have this problem with Google now before) anyhow location services are still on but no Google now (because I still want to track my phone via android device manager in case I lost my phone) and now wakelocks are reduced by 80%.. and I noticed more wakelocks from Google now while on data because I was out and moving a lot so more movement more wakelocks due to aggressive location update.
[One (M8) General] jshamlet:
Not that I have noticed. However, I keep the GPS and all location services disabled unless I need them - that is, unless I am trying to use Google Maps / Navigation. That said, I doubt there would be an issue with cutting off just Play services from location.
[One (M8) General] tonyafc:
Thanks for reply i want to turn off location but when i do the weather widget on the lockscreen wont show the weather its says weather unavailable any workaround?
[One (M8) General] :
Yeah, I noticed that. Luckily I use Nova launcher, so can't use the Sense clock anyway. Most weather Widgets I've ever used don't need location on...but apparently the Sense widget does. Not cool.
[One (M8) General] jshamlet:
Not that I've found, and yes, that is annoying. I am hoping that HTC will offer an option to just let us tell the widget where it is instead of depending on location services.
[One (M8) General] th3:
I get mine always showing and right, even with the GPS off (WiFi or data on)

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[One (M8) General] tonyafc:
I turned my location off last night just to see if it would stop the wakelock but it didn't I'm getting 5hours screen on time roughly so i guess i just have to be grateful
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Bo

I thought my battery started dying but today I realised that I went crazy last month enabling everything and thinking I will get only a bit less battery life didn't know it will make a HUGE difference so today after installing ARHD 20.1 I did this experiment. ( didn't start from 100% )

- android 4.4.4 ARHD 20.1 (running ART)

- sync ON all the time

- Battery saver on .

- minimum brightness

- 90% WiFi

- location OFF.

- push mail for Google and Outlook.

That's it and mostly all social apps installed (bbm,instagram,snaochat,hangouts,what's app,twitter etc) without greenify or anything.
[One (M8) General] lazydesi:
Closer to 8hrs SOT
[One (M8) General] alhadee12:
That's amazing, I will have to recheck my device. Something's draining it from the Android OS to the tune of 52%.
[One (M8) General] jorgemoya:
How is this a real life test? You aren't using more than two apps. No wonder you are getting incredible time.
[One (M8) General] alhadee12:
Wakelock requires root on 4.4.
[One (M8) General] msavic6:
This is such a stupid change in Kitkat, probably one of the biggest annoyances.
[One (M8) General] hung2900:
This year there are damn many good phone. Im still thinking about buying the M8. The battery above is damn good.

However, I think the usage is different with different person. I usually use my phone outside with 100% brightness for gmail and web surfing. Can you guys show your usage (app using, average brightness)?

Thanks
[One (M8) General] Rachorid:
Has anyone noticed a significant battery drain/improvement by enabling/disabling Motion Launch Features and Fitbit? (not neccesary both Features, I mean in general)
[One (M8) General] h.han:
Extremely happy with m8, easily last 2 days with about 5 hours on screen time, which includes 2 to 3 hours gaming - not the heavy 3d ones though.

Same usage on m7 did not last two days.

The biggest point is standby power consumption, I don't have stats backing it but I feel if I don't play game, it might last 3 days.

Overall very happy ex-m7 user.
[One (M8) General] ZeroRilix:
Lol I know. Real life for me though. Tuesday was a work day and didn't use it much and still had 70% left when I went to sleep and wanted to see how long it could last on my day off when the screen is on more. I get about 6 hours screen on time on my days off, Wed and Sun. Mostly from a lot of reading and you tube watching. Though, I didn't watch YouTube much yesterday. I was catching up on 25-30 pages I was behind on the "HTC Flagships - Mega Tech Discussion" thread in the XDA General section. The other app I used a lot yesterday was the call of duty app since my clan is participating in its first clan war that started yesterday

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[One (M8) General] yvibes:
I will try and disable motion launch gestures, blinkfeed and fitbit to see if that improves battery life.
[One (M8) General] rotchcrocket04:
This is

exactly

how I feel after coming from the M7.

The M7 pleased me in every aspect except battery life. This phone made up for it greatly and added some other wonderful features (lock screen gestures have become a big addition for me).
[One (M8) General] alhadee12:
I'm not sure of GSAM is accurate. M

y phone had been unplugged for almost 10 hours and it says my screen time is only 26 minutes. I've been on my phone longer than that.
[One (M8) General] Rachorid:
Very first charge. Auto brightness, Auto sync, apps: whatsapp, tapatalk, BlinkFeed, Facebook, instagram, stock Browser and stock music

I'm really impressed so far.
[One (M8) General] shankly1985:
Even though sense 6 have removed the screen on time it is still possible to work it out. Check how long you been on Battery example 6 Hours then check how long it's been in standby mode example 4 hours this would = 2 hours screen on time.

I dont bother with these battery apps now I did used to like Better batter stats but for some reason it will not work on this phone.
[One (M8) General] Root-Maniac:
Battery life is awesome!!
[One (M8) General] Root-Maniac:
Epic
[One (M8) General] jondawisha:
Android system

Android system is at 64% for me. Should this be expected considering I just got the phone and set it up? or would this be considered a problem? Thanks
[One (M8) General] dsymbol:
Battery's Graph, The Honest Truth!

Could you please post 2 screen shots:

1. History/Graph (Settings > Power > History) *Most Important*

2. GSam Battery *not so important*

GSam battery will tell us a tiny bit about the usage & screen on time, that's cool. However, History will tell us how the phone is being use, i.e. whether the user is idling the phone, then doing the reading for 9 hours straight to produce an incredible stats.

Thanks guys!
[One (M8) General] Root-Maniac:
History
[One (M8) General] dsymbol:
you get quite a lot of wakelocks huh...you have any idea what causes that?
[One (M8) General] Root-Maniac:
I was just noticing that as i posted this screen shot. im on KNOXRAID. that maybe it, i will have to talk to the dev and see if he is interested in checking it out. pretty good battery life for all the wake locks!
[One (M8) General] lazydesi:
8hrs sot
[One (M8) General] th3:
12 minutes screen on with 0% battery change makes no sense at all. It's impossible.

Can you back it up with a settings>battery history, screenshot?

Do you use the phone at all?

This isn't a numbers competition...

Everyone can get +9hrs by screen on, a blank black screen, doing nothing. Your average SOT is showing as near 6hrs.

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[One (M8) General] :
My average at bottom... Yes, I use it. ?
[One (M8) General] :
This one is more current actually, the above was only a few days of stats... Today my screen was left pretty bright... So much lower screen time...
[One (M8) General] th3:
Your averages are really good (SOT and active time). Overall time average is good too [emoji106]

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[One (M8) General] bumbarush:
stock ROM, 2 mail acc sync anc other, about 40 min games, brousing, new, social - up time 2 days with 6:19 SoT, auto brightness. Superb for 5"/801 with 2600mAh
[One (M8) General] n1234d:
Stock 4.4.3, rooted and xposed

Social apps, Play books, a few pictures, some YouTube, a little music

Half 3G, half wifi

Phone radio set to 3G only

:)
[One (M8) General] Psych0t1c20:
Anyone know anything about this ButtonsBlink wakelock? It's been trashing my battery.
[One (M8) General] th3:
Today's battery ending shot, after a shotty 72 hours awake with 36 hours at work I am totally frooked :( :(

2.75hours of it playing Fifa15 and watching YouTube. 3G on at all times when WiFi not available. Probably one of the best active times I've experienced.

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[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
wow thats really nice, considersing the gaming time... perhaps this encourages me to game more on my baby :)

coming from the htc one x, im very happy with the battery. i get 4hrs SOT on an average. Thats due to 7-8hrs of music everyday!
[One (M8) General] th3:
A lot depends on your settings and apps on top of usage. My setup is very bloated, like 400 apps installed.

The new base has lower power draw idling, I don't know how...

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[One (M8) General] 09eric09:
That's impressive being you actually put real usage in the phone.

About how long does it take your guy's phones to fully charge? Mine takes about 2.5 hours, kinda seems a little long, idk.
[One (M8) General] th3:
Yea mine takes the same amount using the 1.5A charger.

If you don't have wakelock problems or unnecessary apps running, those times should be pretty common with that usage.

All that matters is the SOT and the Active Time. And in that drain, active time was very good. It's very good if you get above 9hours :cool:

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[One (M8) General] :
Same
[One (M8) General] kartoonz:
charging from 1 - 100% takes about 2-2.5hrs
[One (M8) General] Smoke08:
Has anyone checked the condition of the battery in HTC function test?
[One (M8) General] Karish1989:
Anyone using the WiFi optimize function. Is it a battery saving option ? :)