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[One (M8) General] Shedeed7:
Hi guys, I'm currently using stock ROM and my battery life has been deteriorating so I was wondering which ROM is best for battery life?
[One (M8) General] :
Stock 4.4.3 KitKat with Hacker kernel and various bloat I have removed is working great for battery for me and am currently on.
[One (M8) General] iDpC1:
Link for stock 4.4.3? Sounds good
[One (M8) General] :
No link. It's just where I stopped the updates at. And then rooted it, flashed hacker kernel and removed bloat with the paid version of root explorer.
[One (M8) General] leandronb:
The test i was doing finished today. basically everything turned off.

-location off

-sync off

-google now off

-lowest brightness all time

-powersaving mode on

-data off

-wifi on

normal use, feedly, instagram, g+, email, reddit, twitter, browsing on stock browser. so is there anything i can do to improve this?

in my normal usage i do not use powersave unless the phone is at 15% and i always use autobrighness at 100%, and i need location on for tag the pictures.

also i will not use the phone like this, i will make another test with my normal settings.

do you think that google chrome battery usage is so much higher than stock browser? and about swiftkey, is it true that it drains more battery than stock or google keyboard? also i use cerberus, does it have any influence on battery?

i am at kitkat 4.4.3 btw.
[One (M8) General] :
Location will always take some extra juice... And screen at 100% will really drop your screen on time.

If you must have those, you will likely not see more than 5 hours screen time... 6 at best.

All depends on what you do on your phone too of course.
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
I personally use chrome. I think it drains more battery, but it's tons faster vs the stock browser. Locations can and will influence the battery... tho if you put background data off for google play services it will improve, but pick your exact location only on wifi, otherwise it will show your last wifi location. Don't know about cerberus, never used it.
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
chrome does drain more battery. Last I checked, 15-20mins of chrome used up more juice than 30mins of being on the facebook app!
[One (M8) General] duskdiyebiri:
what about chrome beta?

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[One (M8) General] navid0308:
Haven't tried it
[One (M8) General] shawnaye:
It's the same.
[One (M8) General] gelo01:
I do hope that Android M update would fix my poor battery life. :sly:
[One (M8) General] pillopoulos:
What's the trick?

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[One (M8) General] navid0308:
I once showed off my battery stats to my friend and I was like yeah man, badass battery life on the m8 :cool:

Then he took out his phone from BLU with 5000mah battery, average battery life 5 days and average screen on time 9 hours. :mad:
[One (M8) General] gelo01:
Greenify (Donate version so you could greenify system apps like Google Play Services)

That's it. No other BS.

I'm on the latest LeeDroid, stock kernel, always on powersaver. Manual brightness depends on where i am. Turn off wifi when my phone is idle.. that's it.
[One (M8) General] pillopoulos:
First time on stock kitkat 4.4.4, only greenify, a lot of messaging,viber, fb messenger, some web browsing. Never seen these numbers yet on lollipop despite the numerous of custom roms I have tested. Think I'm going to stick with this.... I should add that it was the first full battery, maybe in time will get even better.
[One (M8) General] duskdiyebiri:
how did you return to stock KitKat? did you downgrade hboot? where did you find the stock KitKat Ruu?

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[One (M8) General] pillopoulos:
I have a Sprint model, so that's where I found my ruu: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2729173

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[One (M8) General] th3:
After being with M9 for a few months, I can't seem to get any decent battery life with my M8 :/

My settings are average but I'm out in bright light so brightness is 70-95%, 3G-4G and GPS on (high) but minimal use.

I'm not lasting above 5.5hrs SOT at best.

Media server and system is draining heavily. I guess it's time to troubleshoot again.

I know 7hours is possible as I've achieved that many times before at these settings/usages.

I have to add, after the M9... I'd take this over it any day. In so many daily usage ways.
[One (M8) General] mushages:
7 hours isn't easy on lollipop as it was on kitkat in normal usage it's impossible unless you sacrifice data/location and brightness.
[One (M8) General] leandronb:
I tried to do a test with my normal usage but since fallout shelter came out i am charging my device two times or more in a day when it reach ~50%.

now i am using all activated besides google now and location history and i can reach more than 5h everyday even listening music or podcasts, maybe boomsound drains more battery, is a powerful two way speaker. also i reverted to chrome even it draining more battery, and disabled powersave, the loss in speed do not worth the battery. also i reverted to kitkat, miles better than lollipop in both battery and speed.
[One (M8) General] kami2k:
Great Battery Life

with

[ROM][21-6]SD v 10|Android 5.0.2|Sense7|
[One (M8) General] joni2012:
Rom redbulled v19 beta

Team SkyDragon loving
[One (M8) General] :
Stock 4.4.4 with a few tweaks [emoji6]
[One (M8) General] pillopoulos:
First time at these levels!

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[One (M8) General] andreilica:
I am using stock lollipop and this is the worst battery time I've had in a long time. Anybody knows why this is happening and why android os keeps my phone awake? :\

http://imgur.com/sy2cKn2

http://imgur.com/UGbPzAA
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
With my stock usage i get 1H Sot with 20% battery percent, cant get more, is just impossible with Lollipop
[One (M8) General] shawnaye:
You know that would make 5 hours right? And that's very good.
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
With KitKat i got 6H sometimes( with 3G) , 7( or more with wi fi) ,have the 2.5 ghz asian variant.I dont have light usage, i m on social apps every moment of day , the problem gets if i m outdoors and i m messing on facebook with 3G or 4G on, battery is dropping like thunder

Anyway, android os and kernel 15% usage killing my happiness

Btw, today i disabled lux and i m trying display brightness app which is easier to handle screen brightness manual

I want to see if Lux impacts battery

Full stock , S on, locked bl
[One (M8) General] mushages:
Your picture is dim. I don't know what app you use but it dims the output image not the display.
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
I use negative brightness that s why image is dim
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
lollipop is a lot worse than kitkat in mobile data surfing. The difference is just brutal... and radio drivers are htc work to blame for the most part. :)
[One (M8) General] fcukmayank:
Stock 5.1 gpe with xposed installed

http://imgur.com/a/j1YSi
[One (M8) General] th3:
I have one-off +7hrs though, with the same daily usage... and when I check the stats, it's always a day without my 2-4hr awake time and without a crappy signal. Like a day or two back ->

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[One (M8) General] XskipperX:
mine is great running on stock rom
[One (M8) General] modros:
No settings or programs for low consumption

Rom SD REDBULLED V18 F2FS
[One (M8) General] navid0308:
Personal best

sd v10.1

with just powersaver

no other battery saving tweaks
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
Do you guys leave mobile data and GPS on all the time?
[One (M8) General] th3:
I keep Data on but GPS on low unless I'm navigating (which is 1hr per day).

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[One (M8) General] navid0308:
I keep everything on unless I'm charging or sleeping. That's when I turn off mobile data and Wi-Fi.
[One (M8) General] qbanlinxx:
Care to share your settings? Rom/kernel/ any mods/tweaks
[One (M8) General] th3:
Won't change anything unless you have a problem somewhere.

Usage usage usage.

Mine is Plain Jane Lollipop... Rooted, S-Off, the HK-BS sound mod. Nothing much.

I have Mobile and WiFi on, Brightness auto to 100% but I change that if I'm home to the lowest.

My signal is pretty piss poor with lollipop, and even worse with my case.

I only switch on auto-rotate when I need it.

But I do have Greenify and DS Battery Saver running on Lollipop.

I needed them otherwise I had too much awake time and memory usage by apps I wasn't using (I troubleshooted it for a while).

I try to limit initiation of any media with Audio unless I need it, and if I do, I have to reset my ringer volumes and kill the audio using app. Otherwise it runs on forever with the mediaserver bug and drains my battery pretty fast.

Same with Google Now voice... I don't use it for this exact reason, although I have it setup.

Maps and other navigation is no problem. I use maps guidance at least 1hr daily.

No Facebook use at all, I was a dev on MySpace when Fb was starting and understood... No way.

Twitter reading only but only work related.

So what apps do I use daily in order of frequency and duration?

Copy Bubble

Apps Redirect

Google Now

Whatsapp

GMail

Calorie Count

Internet

RealCalc

Maps

Music

Appointment Manager

Checklist

Bill Reminder

Out Of Milk

Phone

Automatic Call Recorder

Messages

Camera/Gallery

CV Library

Monster

Daily Mail

Stocks

Banking apps

Tapatalk

Adobe Acrobat

PCM Recorder

YouTube

Dropbox

ConvertPad

File Manager.

These are the apps I will definitely use daily, almost routinely.

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[One (M8) General] th3:
I mean, this is with my regular usage, yesterday.

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[One (M8) General] kk454347:
so based on the replies im seeing, i shouldnt uprade to lollipop right?
[One (M8) General] :
That's your call. ;)

I get 5 to 6 hours screen on time still... But was definitely better on kit Kat.
[One (M8) General] MdX MaxX:
Got this phone about 3 weeks ago, installed CM12.1 right away, and I don't think I've seen my battery dip below 35 percent yet.

I'm not a heavy gamer, but I'm definitely checking Twitter, browsing the web, and watching YouTube videos frequently. I feel like I can count on this thing to guarantee me 5 hours screen on time in one day. Definitely a big jump from the old Galaxy S III where I was getting 2-3 hours on CM12.1. I'll be very excited if Marshmallow comes along and gives us even better performance.
[One (M8) General] Cryosx:
I feel good about reordering one of these monsters.
[One (M8) General] grega_slo:
Nice sleep :)
[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
I too would like to accomplish this sleep. I'm stock and unrooted if it matters and wakelock detector only goes down to 28% awake
[One (M8) General] duskdiyebiri:
Can we see the app usage page too?

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[One (M8) General] kk454347:
haha based on your comment, ill stick with kit kat and wait for 5.1
[One (M8) General] fectivi:
Since i installed GPE room 5.1 the battery life is fairly reasonable, at noon battery shows fifty percent more or less.
[One (M8) General] grega_slo:
Loli is quite OK :)

This time 3 hrs of SOT spread over 2+ days with push mail (2 accounts) no powersaver at all and constant LTE (or H where LTE not available and crappy signal).
[One (M8) General] Richylitschy:
My battery life (especially the standby time) got pretty bad during the last 3 months. I switched to several roms and kernels and even total stock, battery life is still meh...

Using amplify, greenify and powernap running on leedroid with elemtal x kernel im loosing (in flight mode!!!) over night 9%... My phone last for 4 hours SoT max.

In the beginning of this year i could easily go through 2 days of usage. How can the battery degrade that much in just a few months? (btw, i bought the phone shortly after launch). Any opinions?
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
Remove powernap and amplify(especially). Leave only greenify and see how it goes. Cheers! :)
[One (M8) General] th3:
You can search thru my previous posts, all data is there.

I don't post much now, no time.

Day after those screenshots:

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[One (M8) General] Badelhas:
Those are some impressive numbers! I have stock lolliop with mobile data on all day and full brigthness and I never got more than 3,5h SOT...ever.

Do you recommend I use Greenify?

Cheers
[One (M8) General] ahac85:
can you share your setup? do u use greenify, autobrightnes, xposed modules etc, any bloatware disabled etc, i cant seem to get more than 6hrs on lollipop
[One (M8) General] th3:
Depends on usage and notifications too, doesn't it [emoji6]

Full auto brightness or manual?

Mine is set to full auto brightness. Big difference between the two.

Yea I do recommend Greenify on Lollipop. It's definitely helped me... I was also stuck 4.5-5.5hrs.

My Lp keeps too many apps running for too long, sucking CPU power and initiating awakes in the background.

Taming Google Now awakes will make the biggest difference IMO.

I run data and WiFi on auto switch all the time. But my GPS and BT are only toggled on when needed.

I look at Active Time and SOT / Total Time.

From experience, with my settings and usage, I look for these approximate numbers:

1day runtime, 8hrs sot, 9.5hr runtime.

If they fall short then I start troubleshooting. Because they are my median barring outliers since day 1.

I don't think there's one solution, rather a different for everyone. Some low numbers are app caused, some usage, some hardware setting caused... Less being due to bugs and awakes.

For instance, cell network signal has a HUGE affect on my battery life and so does how bright and hot my environment is.

In 50C direct Sun with poor signalling, I'm lucky to get more than 5.5hrs SOT and 14hr runtime with the same usage. [emoji30]

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[One (M8) General] Badelhas:
Thanks a lot for your input. I use Google now for my Moto 360 notifications so I can't turn it off, right? I will try greenify since I have the same settings as yourself and can't seem to get more than 3,5h SOT, ever. You use the free version, right? Is it easy to use?

Cheers

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[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
What do you mean by "taming google now?
[One (M8) General] th3:
Yea just check the apps you don't want running, and greenify them. For a few days...

Then just start the phone and run as usual without changing anything.

Post some GSAM ss of your full battery runtime including usage stats.

And check with Wakelock Detector or Better Battery Stats for what is using your phone the most or waking it up repeatedly. Like this section:

It's always given me incessant awakes or mediaserver bugs that drop my battery life close to 60% the norm.

So you have to workaround that issue, depending on what it is exactly you might be seeing.

For me, it was Google Now always activated from anywhere and the voice search. Disabled the first, and found a workaround for the second.

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[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
Well I'm not rooted so,I can only do some much. I'm on the m9 if it matters.
[One (M8) General] leandronb:
don't matter what i do the screen on time is the same. if i use the phone heavily with very high brightness, i can get 3,5h-4h sot, and if i tone down the brightness and use lightly i can get 5h, never reached 6h on normal circumstances.

i upgraded again to lollipop because some apps was not working in kitkat, and i installed amplify, greenify and powernap. i get insane standby times, but as soon i start using the device the battery drain is the same even with the lowest brightness. how can people achieve 10hours? i got this once but playing a tv show in 480p in mx player with the lowest brightness, but if i use chrome, youtube, instagram, twitter, feedly, after 5 minutes i can feel the phone heating already, tried elementalx kernel too, and came back for stock after a week, i couldn't see any improvement.
[One (M8) General] duskdiyebiri:
same as me. I'm getting happy when I saw 4hrs SOT. I heavily use whatsapp. other most used apps are facebook, instagram, tapatalk, youtube, spotify, exchange mail, feedly.

I know that I can't have 6-7 hrs of SOT

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[One (M8) General] Badelhas:
Yeah, I wish I could have those SOT. I used to have more than 4h when I was on KitKat but not more than that. I truly don't understand
[One (M8) General] Richylitschy:
Yeah, same for me. How old are your phones? The funny thing is, with powernap and amplify acitve, i loose over night ~9% in airplane mode. Without amplify or powernap (just using greenify) i loose 0% over night.... Dont understand why, but the battery saving apps somehow eat my battery haha. My average is around 4 - 4 1/2 SoT, mostly over 48 hrs.
[One (M8) General] Badelhas:
Here you have some screenshots from GSam. What do you think is the culprit?

Cheers
[One (M8) General] th3:
A very different beast (had it).

It gets lower SOT than M8. I used to get 2-3 hr less. I never achieved more than 5 best case.

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[One (M8) General] racingmatt1:
I'm lucky to get 2.5-3 hours SOT
[One (M8) General] th3:
Full charge and play a YouTube movie auto brightness at full...

How many hours SOT?

I watch 720p for 7-8hrs during flights pretty easily since over a year now.

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[One (M8) General] leandronb:
i did a youtube test once. 100% brightness and i got little less than 4 hours.

but i tried with mx player with low brightness with a tv show and got 10 hours.

for me youtube even in low brightness drains a lot of battery.
[One (M8) General] th3:
100% brightness manual or auto?

My standard 720p test on full manual was 5hrs SOT as posted when I first tested the M8. I've never had similar or lower day-to-day.

Sub 6hrs on my settings/usage is unheard of, if I saw it I'd be alarmed. As if my phone was frying up.

Oh yea, I'm assuming you guys know that ambient temps being high means lower SOT.

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[One (M8) General] leandronb:
was manual, 100% all time. i did to compare with a guy that made these kind of tests on youtube. i was thinking that note 4 battery test was kinda low since i could get the same with my m8, i did it and was much lower.
[One (M8) General] Badelhas:
I think I'm just gonna accept that my normal use with the m8 on Lollipop gives me 3h SOT and call it a day :(
[One (M8) General] Shan89:
Here mine, 2nd charge after installing Ex kernel. ( Lee droid Rom )

Sync and all the stuff on, auto brightness at 100%, mixed usage 3g/WiFi.
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
You have low app usage, i'm having between 65-70% constantly , cant get past 4H sot
[One (M8) General] ahac85:
What kernel do you use?

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[One (M8) General] wakeboardsam:
Severe Battery drain on charger

Please forgive me and point me in the right direction if this is not the place to Post this question/problem, (an hour of searches didn't result in any success)...

Two days ago I was late to work due to my phone(which is my alarm) being dead on the charger.

Last night it did the same thing.

I downloaded gsam to gather some data to share in a day or two if I can catch the phone doing it again.

These are some screen shots I got from the system battery analysis. (wakeboardsam.imgur.com) (I've never posted pics here and couldn't figure out how)

Any helpful input would be appreciated. This is a sudden issue, I've been very happy with the phone upon obtaining it a month ago.

It's bone stock and rooted as i had major issues with different roms i've tried.

Any tips on gsam root companion. It's not installing when attempting the "automated method".

Thanks.
[One (M8) General] high_voltage:
Youtube is really dependent on what resolution you watch the video. You should try 1080p@60fps... lolol it's literally like if you play a heavy game! Battery drops FAST and battery can easily reach temperatures of more than 40 degrees! :D

The big problem with phones getting older is that the software and the workload goes higher... so it's not only about battery degradation at all, it's more that while things are still smooth the chip(cpu/gpu) works at full speed to do the same that the new cpu/gpu will do at light load. :)
[One (M8) General] th3:
I propose a standard, simple 'high CPU/GPU/Audio load' test that we all run and report.

It'll teach me something new too!

- We need to agree on a YouTube vid, 1080p. Post it here (I'm starting with this https://youtu.be/RDfjXj5EGqI)

- Install GSAM Battery Stats. Reach 100% on battery. Keep it connected.

- Reboot phone.

- Wait 5 mins, do nothing but the next step.

- Change settings to everything off except 100% manual screen brightness, screen timeout first setting, full signal WiFi, data off, vibration off, volume all 3 notches, Google Now from any screen on.

- Disconnect charger.

- Then play that vid until 1%.

- Take GSAM screenshots.

Left very simple. I'm expecting 5hours SOT... :)

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[One (M8) General] Etirel:
Is this battery life okay, or should I do something?
[One (M8) General] LockeF21:
Is there any way to get rid of "Mobile radio active" on GPE 5.1?

I tried xposed module MobileActiveRadioFix, but he doesn't help. :(
[One (M8) General] TarekElsakka:
I don't have the exact numbers at the moment, but I can tell you that I was having battery problems when I first got the phone but then everything checked out when I started using this combination: Sense-based, debloated custom ROM (in my case ViperOne), ElementalX kernel, and Greenify in boost mode. I get a killer battery life by using that combination that lasts me nearly two days on a single charge with minimal usage. Gaming on the device really drains the battery quickly because it heats up the phone, though. I've also heard that you can increase battery life by adjusting and decreasing the CPU and GPU frequencies in ElementalX but I honestly wouldn't want to play in those values, especially since I'm happy as it is.

I have been a diehard HTC user since the One X and I strongly recommend you try Greenify if you haven't already.
[One (M8) General] Janity:
I got best battery performance by using the stock gpe rom.

5-6h Display On are no Problem.
[One (M8) General] unlethal:
Using a rom called Doppelkanger, I am getting quite good battery life. Unfortunately I haven't used my phone enough with the rom to have screenshots, but I have been getting 3 hoursof SOT at 50%. Also using the BeyondStock kernel which comes as an option when installing the rom. Highly recommend it as well...
[One (M8) General] Cryosx:
Getting only ~30 mins of SoT for the first 10 percent with stock Marshmallow. With GPE 5.1 + ElementalX I was getting like 40-55 mins :( for the first 10 percent.
[One (M8) General] tsukasayeo:
I used Viper 4.6.1 with GoldenDroid Battery Tweak, about 1.5%/2hr when screen off(Wifi on, HTC battery saver on):)
[One (M8) General] forever_lol:
It's been way too short time to claim anything for sure. New software needs couple of days, but so far.... M seems better than L.
[One (M8) General] olvrick:
Not good for me, system process Core

translation Core(OS Android) 82%

mostly Kworker issue

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[One (M8) General] Callliope:
Do a factory reset mate

If it will be like this on Sense version, oh brother we found gold

I didnt get past 4H on screen time on one day of usage
[One (M8) General] Eezay:
Battery Life Marshmallow GPE

I recently upgraded to Marshmallow. Everything, including battery life, seems to be much better than on Lollipop (including sense and gpe). I couldn't get past 4hours sot on lollipop. Now I have 5. Though it drained 5% over night in airplane mode...

This was the third charge cycle.

Only thing bothering me is phone settings displaying other values than gsam. I think gsam is more correct.
[One (M8) General] Callliope:
44% app usage that's great , same as i was getting on KitKat , now with stock Lollipop i have between 65-70% and i cant get past 3 and half of SOT, seems like they solved that radio problem that was on lollipop
[One (M8) General] walle4893:
There's none of wakelocks whatsoever? (Google services, location, syncs etc.) That's impressive