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[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
I don't kill them randomly. I killed the GPS check for Google services and some things I never use like android wear and cast screen. That usually fixes the problem. Awake time is pretty low. 3%

As for browser I hate the HTC stock cause is choppy till the page loads completely and I didn't din a way to install Aosp to lollipop without bugs. Chrome eats around 1% per 3-4 minutes. I use Opera mini now (1% every 6 minutes)

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[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
I got one with 12:45h SOT :D (mainly whatsup chat) kitkat was overall better tbh. Battery life(screen on, listening to music with screen off and standby), performance was fine. Lollipop got cool notifications on lock screen, but they are not something uber major anyway... hope 5.1 will fix the situation we are in. Right now I am thinking to root only to go back to kitkat... battery life is important on those phones, you know that. :D

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Hey guys, will jump in with little observation of mine. I tested stock htc browser vs chrome.

1st: chrome is... a lot faster :D loading pages/no lag if you start to scroll before 100% load/smoother in heavy pages

2nd: htc stock text reflow is really nice. For reading/forums - stock htc is better than chrome for me

3rd: simple test - I run performance monitor to see freq/load on each core while using the browsers. Well... chrome is running more cores and on around 2GHz frequency(average around 3) while htc stock runs less cores on around 1GHz frequency(average 2 or one less than chrome in same conditions/load). More importantly as with loading we got - less time more speed or slower speed and more time, with is debatable for the better one... chrome keeps higher load during reading/idle. That's for few reasons and one of them the preloading on wifi(you can turn it off, but slowers the loading of page redirection).

All in all --> for experience chrome>stock htc, but for pure reading and battery life stock htc>chrome. Also don't forget that you can't just compare chrome/htc stock % use as some of the drain is distributed in other resources like the kernel., but I am sure most of you know that anyway. :)

Peace and have a nice evening all!
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Red is HTC stock, yellow is chrome

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[One (M8) General] Callliope:
I think our problem is high android os and kernel usage wakelock

Not Chrome or another browsers
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
So today was a holiday and I decided to try and see what would I get by power using the phone, chrome, forums, social a little youtube nonstop (no games though). Basically I didn't touch my PC. Power Saver kicked in at 15% and brighness was around 20 or less at any point

Power Saver limits your cpu speed to 1.2ghz as seen in that screenshot (probably known fact) and makes the phone a little choppy in certain conditions, but not too much and is certainly worth it for those last 15% when you really need the juice. Screen time could be better I reckon If I spent time less time browsing through chrome.

My sleep drain is now around 1% per 4 hours (it could be more but I woke up) with google play services tweaked in DisableServices app, with weather syncing every hour and the random wakelocks from facebook messenger.

Also a little fact, after I disabled location service from Google Services I noticed Google Music started bugging me about Google Play not supported on this device. That might be a cause of drain, probably cause they try and sync up even while on sleep. I just uninstalled it since I don't use it anyway.

All hope in 5.1 to fix that system drain.
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
I cant get 50% app usage...

Im between 60% and 70% constantly ... that's so sad for me
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Blame lolipop. On kitkat app usage was always lower than screen for me, even with games
[One (M8) General] th3:
That figure isn't bad. It's relative.

It's low if you're not doing much

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[One (M8) General] Callliope:
On kit kat i had 50% with same usage, and i had far better battery life

I dont know who, htc or google but you messed us with this update...
[One (M8) General] 0kk0:
its this rom: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95747613655047378 i was able to use this while i couldnt s-off my m8... now its s-off but still use this rom...

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its this rom: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95747613655047378 i was able to use this while i couldnt s-off my m8... now its s-off but still use this rom...
[One (M8) General] meyghan:
I'm not used music
[One (M8) General] mizunox:
I've just picked up the M8 and am quite happy with the battery life.

Yesterday I had it on for 18 hours, with 5 hours SOT (50% auto-brightness), LTE, Wifi, BT all on and went to bed with 10% remaining.
[One (M8) General] th3:
If that's the case, then it could well be the OS at fault.

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Google Now or YouTube?

First suspects. Somethings eating your CPU cycles while it should be idling.

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[One (M8) General] DeLaLuz22:
Here are my results. For me, they are OK.

I'm on ARHD 40.3 with ElementalX, location and keep awake denied for some apps in AppOps (Nothing related to Play Services). GPS on high accuracy, and Battery Save mode only enabled when level reaches 15%.
[One (M8) General] meyghan:
YouTube is paused
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Thanks but I'm using my own custom GPE build that I made myself :)

Battery stats are as good as Sense or almost the same :p
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
Today when i checked playstore, i got one update from htc service pack, has anyone some ideas about what it contains? On google play it stated ( performance improvements)
[One (M8) General] meyghan:
Please help me

I had Reset factory

I had full wipe

All work done
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Installed it on maximus and it works fine. Don't think that it affects battery too much.

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[One (M8) General] navid0308:
after wiping cache partition in stock recovery, battery level drops suddenly. Lower the battery level, higher the drop. Can anyone else confirm this? why does this happen? is the system not reading the proper battery level?
[One (M8) General] th3:
Just restart your phone, charge till 100% and close them from Running apps. Then see if you see the problem.

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Did you calibrate the battery first (the 3 button trick)? Then wipe cache/dalvik...

It helps me.

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[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
It happens because the battery stats probably got wiped or corrupted. But the level shouldn't drop physically, if you let the phone alone you will see the battery level rise, like "magic". This happens a lot when you just flashed a custom rom and you restart your phone. In time it should settle as the batterystats file starts loggin.

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Welcome to the most stupid wakelock you can encounter. If you have an SD card try removing it. If you have any songs or media you put in internal move them to the pc and see if something changes. If you have Google Play Music try uninstalling.
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
Well... it's... caching :D + wrong reporting of the batt level. Restart the phone and charge to full with good 1hour on green(there is a chance to lid green before full actual charge).
[One (M8) General] meyghan:
All these things I've done

When i ROM CyanogenMod , OK

But when i ROM maximum HD or insertcoin com problem
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
You have something that's causing your phone to stay awake resulting in the battery drain
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
[MENTION=6379070]3alfa3[/MENTION], thats what I want :( 35% of app usage with kernel and android system at 15-20%, not like my case of 35-45%.

Last week, I decided to go full usage with my phone. AutoSync ON, AutoBrightness [MENTION=218088]Max[/MENTION], vibrate on incoming calls, no power saver... I must say that I am pretty happy. I get 5 hrs SOT, and whole day usage no matter what I do. That is what I want from the phone.

The only thing that bothers me is standby drain of +1%/h. Hopefully 5.1 will resolve this in my case, and I'll be more than happy.

[emoji41]

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[One (M8) General] TwistyValhalla:
I've noticed that the standby battery drain (about 1-2%/hr) on my M8 is caused by having Wi-Fi on. If I turn Wi-Fi off and use LTE, I get much better battery efficiency. I have a strong Wi-Fi signal so that's not an issue. Others trying to figure out standby battery drain can try it out and see if Wi-Fi is the cause.
[One (M8) General] th3:
^^ Depending on what you're doing, that's pretty good...

You have to list complete usage details in that period so we can advise accurately. Otherwise, sausage down hallway [emoji14]

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[One (M8) General] TwistyValhalla:
haha thanks but I'm happy with the battery life and don't need any advice atm. Just posted as a tip someone might find useful. :)
[One (M8) General] CM17X:
Some preliminary of my battery life:
[One (M8) General] krazie1:
I would love to use GPE Roms but the battery doesn't stack up to that of Sense Roms. On Screen time on GPE is at least a hour less.
[One (M8) General] exSD:
Are you sure you have to reapply them every boot? I don't see any mention of that in the app.
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
If you want them to stick you need to wipe dalvik and let it build again. Even then it might not stick and it will break when there is an update for the specific service.
[One (M8) General] Jodier7:
Good info
[One (M8) General] exSD:
So a simple reboot of the phone will mess it up? Or do you mean if I were to dirty flash a ROM?
[One (M8) General] CM17X:
A simple reboot shouldn't re-enable the service you've disabled previously. If that happens then you have something wrong with your rooting method.

I do disable service as well, not as hardcore on my M8 comparing to my Tablet, since i want to keep location service for Cerberus purposes, but you can go extreme and save a "lot" of battery
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
My own GPE build is almost on par or equal to my Sense and both are running stock kernel ;)
[One (M8) General] ione2380:
My battery life.
[One (M8) General] shiniyoyo:
What's your ROM / setup? I like those stats :D
[One (M8) General] ione2380:
Gpe converted, with [MENTION=1016795]loserskater[/MENTION] gpe custom ROM, stock kernel, no special setup, no battery saving apps. I don't use battery eating apps like Facebook.
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
arhd 40.3
[One (M8) General] bhay12:
What best app for monitoring battery and cpu??
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Your keep awake seems high unless you're downloading something or listening to music? :confused:

Use gsam and cpu spy? :confused:
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
Actually it's okay cause I have auto sync on, wide number of social+im apps, always mobile data, wifi, gps on, screen brightness at auto with the slider at maximum

I think it's a pretty good score for the above setup. I think the only way to reduce held awake is by removing Facebook etc
[One (M8) General] pejakovic1:
Thats bad battery life, no matter what i do i get 6 hours batt life. Heres a tip, when in house just use brightness from auto to 1 bar, gives me way more sot. Heres my last ss, did lots of reading and 1h gaming and music here.
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Looks great ;)

Haven't had that SOT on 5.x ROM anymore :rolleyes::rolleyes:

But I did saw something crazy today, 30mins of usage and 2% of battery dropped :cool::cool::cool:
[One (M8) General] pejakovic1:
I constantly change roms so that ss was like a 4th charge when the rom settled. First 10% off the charger are buggy on Android, always been.
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Facebook is evil. That app was coded by the battery satan himself. Even after I removed all permissions in App Ops I would still see 2% drain idle /hour. I caved in and greenified it, losing notifications but keeping my sanity
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
I had my phone in standby for 1.5hr and I only lost 1% today :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Facebook is known to kill battery. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Why don't you try uninstall it and use the web browser to access FB? :cool:
[One (M8) General] th3:
Or, why don't you just uninstall it from your life and see YOUR battery life jump :)

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[One (M8) General] lupin87:
I got huge "Audio on" on Gsam even though disable Nuplayer.

Anyone have suggestion, plz ?
[One (M8) General] th3:
Google Now is the first suggestion (unless you used YouTube).

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[One (M8) General] lupin87:
Sorry, none of above. I already disconnect Google Search and disable Google Now. I don't use Youtube also.
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
I've tried everything. I have also uninstalled FB and Messenger. Google now is OFF, tried factory reset and so on, but standby drain is horrible, as wake locks also. It is more than 1%/h.

I'm putting all hopes to 5.1 update and Sense 7. This Lollipop is a mess in my case. On KK it was like <0.1%/h in standby, like 1% in 12h.

I have no more ideas. Tried almost everything that is mentioned here. Had some success, but it goes back to this state after day or two.

[emoji22]

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[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Idk man Greenify it worked pretty good for me

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[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Show us your wakelocks

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[One (M8) General] xsardax:
I can't Greenify it without root right?

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@TempestZ, I can't without root?!

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[One (M8) General] Callliope:
You can greenify without root too ?
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
Ok, will try.

Look at this for example. This is my old M7, which now is used by my colleague at work:

He has better battery life than me! No power saver, auto sync and brightness on, all vibrations on, ... And kernel and android usage are very very low.

Me pissed. :)

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[One (M8) General] th3:
Anything starting audio then... Anything you use?

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[One (M8) General] Callliope:
M8 have very high app usage, don t know why, software problem
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Have you checked what apps you have installed? They might be causing issues, excessive wakelock etc.

On gsam, my app usage is over 80% but I didn't feel much of a difference for me to get past 1 day with 18+hr standby with 6+hr SOT on mobile data, no wifi :p
[One (M8) General] th3:
FWIW If my battery life is less than 20 hours in total, I generally have 55-70% in app usage.

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[One (M8) General] xsardax:
Well, the biggest problem is that APP list is the same on KK and now on Lollipop. That is what making me go crazy.

My other friend with M8 has way way better battery life than me. He is also on Lollipop, but his results are better than this M7 results posted above.

I can't keep fighting this battle any more :) Let's just hope that 5.1 will fix this issue. I really want my KK battery life back.
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
provided you're on stock and you dont like google crapps

disable play music, play news stand, google app, news & weather, and keep either chrome or internet(no point having both)

then go to google settings > location > turn off location history (you can delete the data if you want extra privacy over your whereabouts)

after all this is done, go to settings > apps > google play services > manage space > clear ALL data > reboot (this won't remove your google account from your phone)

after you've completed these steps, give your phone a nice full charge and see if things have gotten better!
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
Thnx [MENTION=4899287]navid0308[/MENTION], I have done all that now, and let's see :) Thnx for advice.
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
If you clear away google play services data, it actually deletes away your google account. I've done that before a lot of times.

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My suggestion is you do a factory reset. After that, disable all the Google crap that you don't need, install your essential apps and leave out social media apps for the time being and see how :)
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
really? i did that just this morning without issues. you only lose your google account if u force stop/disable play services

clearing its data and rebooting doesnt log you out...it never logged me out unless i force stopped it.
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
Any improvements?
[One (M8) General] xsardax:
According to the last 24hrs, yes, very much. Your advice +Greenify it is a miracle now :) i will post some SS after this battery cycle.

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[One (M8) General] th3:
Greenify can help when you have so many apps running, definitely.

So can apps like DS to force your phone into deep sleep.

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[One (M8) General] daddyodizzel:
Battery life has improved for me tremendously. Wife finally let me root her phone and put a custom rom on it. So hers will improve as well woot woot!
[One (M8) General] CM17X:
Seems like you're gonna have a good thread on bed tonight.
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Get her a Sense ROM and she will pay you back on the bed ;)
[One (M8) General] Zephi:
So, how's battery life on lollipop for you guys so far? Any improvement with 5.0.2? I'm currently on 4.4.4, afraid of installing the update because I don't want to lose my precious battery life, it's been outstanding on kitkat.
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
its kind of like a cone ice cream with a hole on the bottom

if you dont eat it up yourself it's gonna go all the same! :P
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
lollipop still has worse battery life compared to kitkat. Maybe 5.1 will fix that, but for now kitkat is overall the better android version. We got new notifications and if we think about it.. that's the only real difference. :)
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Hey guys! 45hrs standby with 5hr SOT :D
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
I thought feeding your phone redbull wasn't allowed!
[One (M8) General] suitup21:
I am now pretty happy with my battery life :)

ARHD 41.0

ElementalX Kernel

Nothing modified, I just use greenify.

GPS and 4G/Wifi always on
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
Nothing to complain about as well :D
[One (M8) General] exSD:
Post a screenshot of your Phone Radio details please.
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
I can't that ss was taken 2 days ago.
[One (M8) General] exSD:
Post one of it as of right now.
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
Much lighter usage atm.

Atm reading of 6 forums stuff I couldn't whole day, after is on menu Facebook, viber, whatsapp, BlinkFeed and and so on.

App usage is atm low compared to 1st screenshot since its fresh charge and didn't really have time to use other apps I usually use.
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
Hey Shan! Nice to see you still active mate! Care to share rom+kernel and settings? Good old hox style times? :D <3 /nohomo
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
Hey, yeah I'm sorta back.

Anyway there's no secrets here, flashed IC 7.1.2, stock kernel, removed apps I don't need, apps ops on few apps disabled location and keep awake on stuff like Google play, fb and few other.

- Kernel is stock

- brightness atm manual at 1 bar via toggles, no need for more indoor really, when I'm out auto + max slider.

- Greenify on everything but Viber and whatsapp.

- Location ( battery saver mode ) and sync on.

- Only WiFi at 5ghz set so no mobile data, with 3-4g my battery is slightly lower.

That'd be all.

I was gonna flash kernel and tweak it for even more battery but no need really, very happy with stock kernel, I push easily 24hrs on battery with average 7:30h SOT with gazillion calls and sms messages ( tho atm out of country so no calls or messages due roaming prices )

Here's from yesterday, charged it today since I didn't have anything better to do lol.
[One (M8) General] exSD:
Your cellular connection is amazing and accounts for much of your battery life. Are you on a roaming-only PRL? Corporate PRL?
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
Dunno to be honest, phone connected automatically on the network that it liked ( Orange F ) and that's all I know xD
[One (M8) General] th3:
If you have an app usage shot, we could learn a lot more.

I'm seeing **** battery life on M9, but great standby times (where you leave the phone mostly idle).

Like my last charge 2 days ago is still going ->

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[One (M8) General] akashj17:
:D
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Enjoying my SD GPE on a 2 day charge with 5.5hrs SOT with stock kernel untouched and totally on mobile data :p
[One (M8) General] go0gl3:
Oh man. On arhd 41 and my third charge cycle but seems to be draining pretty quickly =( any ideas based on this

First day was draining at 1% per hour with decent sot
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Your wakelocks are high!!! :rolleyes:

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My battery life for today :p
[One (M8) General] pejakovic1:
Your battery life may only be if you did a lot of reading.
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
that system (adsprpcd)

its a media related drain (probably some issue with a media file on ur phone's memory)

and the 2nd drainer fb....has been coded by the battery satan whose mission is to kill batteries....

as for kernel and android OS battery drain, i really dont know, its always been high on lollipop
[One (M8) General] voodoo.mutt:
regarding screen detail from GSAM, is there any particular reason why the battery would continue to discharge when the display is off?
[One (M8) General] exSD:
People need to dl this and run it against their mp3 files on their phones: http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/

It will identify/scan problems and then you can repair them.

This is a fix for high adsprpcd usage.
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
Wakelocks. And the battery will always discharge while on standby. The rate varies
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
Mostly was whatsapp and browsing of FB :p
[One (M8) General] meyghan:
[emoji17] [emoji17]
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
That looks bad :rolleyes:
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
My setup

On stock lollipop

google now, play, music, newstand, chrome, news & weather disabled

location history turned off

sim card taken out

wifi scanning always available unchecked

wifi off

all apps closed

charged to full

left overnight

after 10 hours I have 94% remaining

my top drainer being cell standby

and second on the list phone idle

then nothing else

on gsam it shows top drainer as kernel (Android OS)

followed by Android System

then a giant drop in usage percentage and then 0. sth % of some of my apps

could anyone tell me how i can reduce my phone's radio functionality when after even removing it from ALL POSSIBLE networks it's still draining battery
[One (M8) General] exSD:
What the hell is the point of doing all of that? It's not even a phone at that point. You've paid for an expensive paper weight to listen to music on.
[One (M8) General] TwistyValhalla:
He was probably just doing that for testing purposes. :)
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
I did that to experiment battery drainage in standby lol :p normally I just turn off data and wifi overnight.

Main concern is why is cell standby eating battery with SIM card taken out? :/
[One (M8) General] TempestZ:
That seems too big of a drain. I get around 1 % per 4 hours or so in standby in normal use. My guess would be some connectivity service that fails again and again. But keep awake is pretty low. Try with sim inside and airplane mode
[One (M8) General] Bobbi lim:
My idle drain is around 1%/hr with data enabled :cool: