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[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Wow... HTC One M9? So you went from a $200 phone to a $650 phone?!?! I hope you at least got the Developer Edition for that price... :/ Why not just get a Nexus device then?

How do you like your M9 in comparison? Obviously it is a better performer and HTC has always been known for decent cameras, but like [MENTION=2759219]Cryosx[/MENTION] said, the general reviews of this device show the battery life is pretty poor for a 2015 model device, Geekbench 3 Battery Test puts the Moto G3 (6h 29m) at almost double the battery life of the M9 (3h 43m), of course, benchmarks can be deceiving compared to real world, but this is a pretty massive difference.
[Moto G 2015 General] goels:
This is from mine.
[Moto G 2015 General] theundead176:
I have been having battery issues recently. Initially I was getting good on screen time ~5hrs in addition to a single charge lasting more than a day. I don't play games or use the camera. I do listen to a lot of music, sometimes through the loudspeaker but mostly through my earphones. Here are the screenshots. Any ideas why my battery time has suddenly gotten worse?

Look at the drain from 3 to 8 am. I was asleep during the time.
[Moto G 2015 General] Cryosx:
On just WIFI the M9 would get somewhere between 30 - 40 minutes of SoT per 10 percent. In other words it was hard to break past 6 hours of SoT. For comparison, I had the M8 was draining like 40-60 minutes per 10 percent and I was able to squeeze out 3 hours of SoT by 70% (then I killed the battery with music + bluetooth). If the Moto G can achievce 7+ i'd say keep it. Other issues I have: screen out of the box for the M9 looks washed out and quite bad (if you can get ElementalX kernel on it you can adjust saturation which makes it usable again. But then again the sound quality on the M9 pretty top notch) and overheating (get's hotter than a S801 phone). Other than that it's okay I guess, sound's great.
[Moto G 2015 General] Preep:
I see your phone is not going on deep sleep. Something is draining your battery on stand by, in your graphic phone is always wasting battery.
[Moto G 2015 General] theundead176:
How do I make it go to deep sleep? What kind of app could cause this issue?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Get an app like GSAM or BetterBatteryStats and run it for while and check the stats, it should be obvious.
[Moto G 2015 General] theundead176:
Here are the results. The slept at around 3am last night. I've uninstalled a lot of apps, moved back to Google now launcher. Still the same battery drain. It used around 10% during my sleep which isn't good imo.
[Moto G 2015 General] xFuGiToiDx:
Could be your phone is constantly changing towers finding the best signal. Try switching from lte to 3g network mode
[Moto G 2015 General] theundead176:
Hmmm. I have mobile data turned off permanently because most of the time, I so have Wifi access. Carrier doesn't support lte anyway so I'm on 2g atm.

Could it be some app that's interfering?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
You are draining at 1% per hour in standby with stuff active, and in deep sleep 90% of the time... What more do you want? Tbh, that's fantastic!
[Moto G 2015 General] theundead176:
Well actually if you see my previous screenshots, i was getting much worse battery times. I've tinkered around and something has cured the problem. Don't know what that is though ?

Thanks for the help everyone!
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
I lose 4% overnight.
[Moto G 2015 General] ericlikeseatin:
Share your secret! I never get more than 3.5-4 hours screen on time but I'm using the game to fuel my Clash of Clans addiction haha.
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Me too played clash of clan and i am also addicted to it....... But idk how i got that may be i dont use the phone much except watching movies.......
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Gaming is very battery intensive... To get better than what your getting you should look into a phone with better battery life. Tbh, 3.5-4 hours sot well gaming is pretty good with this device.
[Moto G 2015 General] rizwan.mahai:
I use the charger that came with my HTC 820 and it just takes about an hour to charge from 0 to 100.
[Moto G 2015 General] MrBelter:
Its 550mAh higher than the one you get in the UK lol
[Moto G 2015 General] xbs:
Good thing is that ir came with a free moto Streamer and power adapter which is also 550 mAh :)
[Moto G 2015 General] eemgee:
Hi guys, what is battery drain like overnight, preferably in airplane mode?

Intrested in people who use GPS at some point during the cycle too.
[Moto G 2015 General] eemgee:
I take it no one uses airplane mode then ....
[Moto G 2015 General] Bazilli:
I get +24 hours with 5h of SoT and still 25% left.
[Moto G 2015 General] loynaveen:
I get 6hrs SoT with a close to days usage! Awesome indeed! Had a G2 earlier that din survive long n had a sad SoT too!

On stock ! N mostly using WhatsApp, streaming videos, gaming about 2hrs n then d rest goes fr stand by! Hell great :D
[Moto G 2015 General] s3quoia:
Round about 1 %, depending how long you sleep. :p
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
I lose 3-4% over 8 hours at night. Not connected to wifi/cellular. location on. With wifi on, drain is the same.
[Moto G 2015 General] Dasaviour_official:
An hour or more of Asphalt 8 gameplay, Music play back, Wifi and general day to day usage...

On an average it gives me 7-7.5 hours screen on time... (No Battery saver)

ROM: Resurrection Remix v5.5.8
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Could u send me the link of the gapps ur using.
[Moto G 2015 General] Dasaviour_official:
I use Slim_mini_gapps.BETA.5.1.build.0.x

Here- https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=35756
[Moto G 2015 General] quakeaz:
Charged and went to bed with it around 94%. Lost 3% overnight with WiFi, data, full location turned on.

Sent from my MotoG3
[Moto G 2015 General] Yousvel:
False. I always leave mobile data(4G) on, the most battery percentage I lost overnight is 4%. I believe sim else is draining the battery.
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
Admittedly late to the conversation, but I'm super impressed by this battery. Coming from an HTC one m7, this is amazing... Wow.

At 50% I got 5 hours of use. It is 'Light use', though. Only running Chrome, feedly, Shuttle music, and some minor odds and ends. Still, at 50% I'd have been lucky to get to 2.5 - 3 hours on the m7.
[Moto G 2015 General] afek10:
Interesting

Interesting
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Record defeated.....;):D

Look at the sot only not the graph. (Graph is the proof that i didnt charge my device.)
[Moto G 2015 General] theundead176:
Wow. You people have great battery life. And here I am, struggling to get ~5 hours of sot
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
That looks like a bit more than what I got... 5 hrs in half the battery (approx 10 hrs for full charge). Seems you got 9h 40m with 7% left. With 7% you should be able to hit around 10 and a half hours, I'd bet.

Fantastic battery life this thing gets. My old htc is in a drawer crying right now. ☺
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
Question for everyone...

Has anyone done any tests on the screen settings? Specifically, adaptive brightness vs keeping it at a low-ish setting all the time? Wondering what is the best for battery.

Thanks!
[Moto G 2015 General] Yousvel:
I would suggest people to use adaptive brightness because keeping it low is not good for your eyes.
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
You can try bluelight filter app it is very good for eyes . It works like live display in cm. And adaptive brightness consumes more battery because it continuously settles the brightness keeping he cpu awake which is not shown on the graph.
[Moto G 2015 General] riggerman0421:
Not too bad. I've had this Motog3 for about a week and this about my average for daily use. Doing some web surfing, some gaming, texting, eBook reading, couple calls.
[Moto G 2015 General] kosmasgr:
Very good battery consumption
[Moto G 2015 General] lcampori:
For those complaining not to have more than 3 hours SOT. Don't mind, it's absolutely ok.

On screen battery life depends on the apps you use when you have screen on. Check the available benchmarks, it's normal to have 10hrs SOT if you only browse under wifi, or watch videos.

Second, it depends heavily on the quality of your signal, both wifi and mobile. All other things equal under different networks you get different battery life.

And of course sensors, sync, screen backlight, trusted devices, radios, you name it.

For my own usage patterns (occasional text/whatsapp, web browsing, traffic info from google maps, two bluetooth trusted devices and two trusted places, moto display and moto actions on, two gmail accounts - family and personal) under mobile network I normally get 2.5-3 hours SOT, 2+ days of battery life, and live very happily with that. Under wifi, add some 50% more to those figures.

I always have location services on. As a daily commuter, I take a big advantage from traffic info, which in google maps is generated mainly via crowdsourcing, as far as I know. I do not want to be a 'free rider' and it is fair to contribute myself to that precious info.

Google Now is off, though.
[Moto G 2015 General] jnsson:
Here is my battery after my first proper day with the phone

Information about features on or off:

Bluetooth: On between 9AM-7:30PM

Google Now: On

Location: Battery saving

Wi-Fi/LTE: 25/75%

Has also listened to podcast about 4 hours with Bluetooth
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
Has anyone found an improvement with Doze?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Yeah... If you can meet Doze criteria, phone must not be moving (meaning still, not in pocket) and apps need to no hold it awake.
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
Left the phone overnight:

No movement, no data, good cellular signal, no wifi. Lost 3% overnight, which is the same as Lollipop.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Better than me... I average 1% per hour. If you have no data then it won't make any difference, Doze Mode essentially puts data to sleep for a while (doze) then wakes it up to sync periodically. That's a bit simplified but without a data connection of some kind, Doze mode won't do anything.
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
I posted my battery stats when I first got the Moto G. They seemed good, coming close to 10 SOT hours for a full charge. That was actually a little wrong since I had to plug it into a computer to transfer files , which charged it for a little bit. Still, I would have probably gotten 9 hours or more. Then the upgrade came for Android 6. I'm now been getting six to seven hours SOT typically. I know the battery fluctuates quite a bit, based on what you do.

What worries me is chrome and wifi are up there day in and day out as the highest battery users. Is this much normal? Looking at other shots posted, I don't see this. I've attached a screenshot.

UPDATE: I'm adding another shot (later captured) just to show the graph details. It looks like the wifi had been on all day but it has been turned off since before 8am.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.
[Moto G 2015 General] riggerman0421:
Tap the menu button in Location settings and see if you scanning always available checked. It is used to help improve finding location.
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
Thanks. Done. Hopefully that helps. I noticed on this phone, compared to my old m7, that no matter if that is set or how location is assigned, it still wants GPS turned on to figure out where I am in maps and weather Underground. That makes this checkbox in wifi useless... It dosent do what it was intended for.

I also turned off automatic brightness. Hopefully keeping it on the low side and other having the system actively checking and changing it will help battery.

Anyone have any ideas on why chrome is gobbling the battery? I don't know if it is of any help, but I do use data compression in chrome.
[Moto G 2015 General] lcampori:
Maps needs GPS only when in navigation mode, otherwise you can rely on battery saver mode location (wifi+mobile network based location). Some moto services also require GPS, i.e. to locate you keychain if you have a Power Pack Micro, but I do not use those.

Apart from some specific tasks, there should be no need for GPS to be on.
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
That's another oddity.. When I turn on location it defaults to high accuracy mode. I can't just hit the switch in the shade... I need to go in and adjust to power save each time.

In the end, I'll only turn on GPS when I need it.
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
Yeah! Today I just hit 4h 43m screen on time to 50% power, with total power on time at about 8 hours. Thanks again, the wifi setting and going to manual brightness seems to have helped. [emoji1]
[Moto G 2015 General] lcampori:
I might be wrong, but as far as I know keeping wifi on with the "notify new networks" option disabled (maybe the exact wording is a bit different I have Italian local on my phone) should be exactly the same as letting wifi scan networks even if wifi is off, the only difference being the this way the phone does not connect to saved networks. Hence battery drain should be exactly the same. I leave wifi on all day, and have no drain from wifi. You should save some battery if you turn off both wifi and "always scan" option, but you lose some location capabilities, since you only rely on mobile networks and GPS.

Manual brightness and keeping brightness down does help a lot, for two reasons: 1) the brightness sensor does not try to measure light, 2) the energy required is much lower (see https://www.luculentsystems.com/techblog/how-backlight-brightness-affects-battery-life/ as an example).

In any case, screen on time depends mainly from the apps you use. Yesterday I browsed the web for one straight hour at home under my wifi network. 1hour 5min sot with 91% residual battery. That makes a projected sot of more than 10 hours, which is consistent with current available benchmark figures, but I do not use phone this way and normally I get 3-3.5 hours.
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
Notify open networks will notify you if it detects an open network IF the Wifi is on. WiFi scanning means it can scan even if WiFi is off.
[Moto G 2015 General] lcampori:
Not exactly. Wifi can be on even if wifi button is off.

Wifi radio needs to be on to let your device scan for wifi networks!

With wifi button off and wifi scanning on, wifi radio is on. So battery drain, other things equal, is exactly the same.
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
I have set wifi scanning, Bluetooth scanning, and notify when public wifi network is available to off. I have GPS on in battery save mode. I do seem to get the location needed for weather. In order to use maps I'd obviously need to switch normal GPS mode on. With this setup,my battery is awesome.

Today I got a few minutes over 5hrs screen on time for half the battery (down to 50%) with these settings using feedly, chrome, music, and tapatalk. Mind you, no heavy drains like games(though chrome does seem to be somewhat of a battery hog).

Next I'm going to keep all the same except location... Which I'll swap to high accuracy mode. My theory, from what I have read, is GPS won't actually run (and use battery) unless something polls it. So that should theoretically give me the same as now, as long as I'm not using maps, etc..
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
Ok, so I set it to high accuracy mode, but kept the wifi scanning etc off. According to the graph I had last night, it ran wifi all day still. Anyone experience this?

Shouldn't high accuracy only add GPS to the mix, not change how wifi works?
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Even my battery statistic showing wifi all the time

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I slept at 12 when battery was around 94 percent..when i woke up at 6 it was 40 !! While in lollipop it wud be at the least 89 at 8 am...idont know who is the culprit..i turnoff wifi while sleeping..

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Wifi and mobile stand by ...consume around70 percent of battery all the times
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
At 1 am its 100 percent . At 10 30 am its 83 and wifi draining battery..i had turned it off.
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
I have turned off network notifiation in wifi advanced settings
[Moto G 2015 General] Konstantinos Reppas:
Have you measured the battery difference from when you have it turned on?
[Moto G 2015 General] jnsson:
When I had my Nexus 5, with Android 6.0 so was the Wi-Fi the uppermost in the battery detail list, but for my Nexus 5, it was a miss calculation, because it didn't drain the battery
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
There is definitely a bug here...

The wifi won't turn off according to the chart, when GPS ( high accuracy mode) is on. I had to reboot my phone to get it to stop running.

Now I'm curious if it is a graphical bug or if it is actually running. We need to do more tests, I guess.
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Its actally wifi which will be always on top..irrespective of wheter its on or off
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
I don't understand why everyone is having these issues... I am completely stock, on Android 6.0, everything turned on and WiFi uses only 2-3% of total battery consumption. It often doesn't even show up in battery settings usage list, have to open GSAM just to see its usage.
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Tried restarting and it worked..!!! I had not restarted the cell after updating to android 6..now wifi is not even appearij in the list and i lost only 5% over the night. 12 am to 8 am
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
There has been some talk about a fix for the WiFi issue in some other forums... at least one user has reported doing a Network Reset and it fixes the problem, go to Settings -> Backup & Reset -> Network Reset and Reset All Network settings, then reboot. This will mean you have to re-enter any WiFi Passwords but it is much better than a full factory reset.
[Moto G 2015 General] RestlessScreams:
Today I finally got a pretty standard student day.

Unplugged at 9:30am, back at 1:30am with 5 1/2h SOT and 3% battery .

Played some games and listened about 1 hour to music.

I'm really happy with that.

Gesendet von meinem MotoG3 mit Tapatalk
[Moto G 2015 General] mrdoug:
So, been doing well for days. Today, here is my battery stats. Notice the wifi on. This is the odd part since it has been off for seven hours (since 7am). The background scanning is still set to off, too. Very odd.
[Moto G 2015 General] avinash666:
Noticed a dramatic drop in standby time after updating to 6.0. Since I was travelling, it wasn't on doze. Bluetooth was connected the whole time and play music running. Camera and GPS were used for some time. Still, I think a 9hour stamina is a little less. I used to get more than that with the GPS constantly on previous trips. I haven't factory reset it after the update. Does it have anything to do with it?
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Again the same battery problem...wifi top of the list..dont know whats happening
[Moto G 2015 General] jnsson:
Are you sure it is really draining the battery? Because for me, it was just an incorrect calculation
[Moto G 2015 General] jnsson:
My battery life is pretty good, at least without Facebook.

Wi-Fi/4G 50/50

Google Now: On

Bluetooth On for the most part of the day

Brightness: Auto

Wi-Fi scanning: On

Android Version: 5.1.1 CM 12.1

I shall now test with Facebook tomorrow

Skickat från min MotoG3 via Tapatalk
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Yes again it started drainig..but then i rebooted. Thereafter i charged it fully. Now though wifi is on top of the list i dont think its draining much.
[Moto G 2015 General] sticktornado:
Yeah, in Marshmallow there's a new bug with WiFi using a ton of battery. If you go to: Settings > Location > 3 dot menu > Turn off WiFi Scanning. This helped me.
[Moto G 2015 General] ..::Matr!x::..:
wifi battery drain workaround (as already said by [MENTION=6905088]sticktornado[/MENTION] )

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/guys-call-wifi-battery-drain-6-0-t3219870
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Cqn you post the slution please.i could not find .. thank you
[Moto G 2015 General] ..::Matr!x::..:
it's under spoiler.... go to location setting >>> 3dot menu >>> scanning >>> disable wifi-scanning ...

p.s. it doesn't matter if location is disabled ...... wifi scanning must be disabled....

Workaround :

Well after using phone for entire 3 charging cycles with different settings I think main problem for this is "WiFi always scan" in location setting..many users reported how to turn it off in comments (thanks ;) )

If you still facing this problem...

Go to Settings>Location>Scanning(top right)>Wifi Scanning ( disable it ) & Bluetooth Scanning (disable it as well)

if bug appers after few days, 1st check your "WiFi scanning" in Location again (turn it off if it's on ) it starts automatically after using navigation (randomly) !
[Moto G 2015 General] siddarthsmallya:
Already done that.. not working for me ☺
[Moto G 2015 General] rahulroyale:
Can users post their experience on marshmallow

Hi friends how is the battery backup with marshmallow?

Here is mine
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
I'm not sure why, I haven't changed anything I can think of other than standard updates to apps, but under Marshmallow on my XT1540 2GB model, my screen on time has increased significantly. Prior to the last week with equivalent use I was averaging 4 hours SOT before hitting 20% (when I usually connect the charger), the last few days I have been getting 5-6 hours. Odd, but I'm not complaining.
[Moto G 2015 General] rockshj:
i got 7 hours..sot
[Moto G 2015 General] rahulroyale:
Almost got 8:15 hr sot in marshmallow

Hi folks ..here my renewed battery stats after 2 complete recharge cycles.

I am using stock marshmallow & i have using wifi for 2 days.. used non google apps turned off sync , moto app also.

Plus minimum brightness without adaptive brightness.

I got 8:14 hr while i drained my battery to 0.
[Moto G 2015 General] rockshj:
rahulroyal u hv really nyc bttry backup.... sm ppl wr die to gt 8 hr backup

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pls share ur deep bttry graph..which u vl gt by tap on ur bttry graph..
[Moto G 2015 General] Sithhy™:
That slang tho...
[Moto G 2015 General] rahulroyale:
Here it is but at 20%

Brother here it is but at 20% i didn't take that screenshot at 5%
[Moto G 2015 General] rockshj:
jst tken these screenshts... 3h50 min... SOT left with only 33 % :( :eek:
[Moto G 2015 General] rahulroyale:
Try a factory reset then use methods which i tried ...

If i turn on adaptive brightness and 3 g all the time i easily gets 5:30 hr sot.

Also use your phone in safemode with autosync off +wifi all the day.

After this try to calibrate your battery twice(0 to 100%)

Then post the results.

Please post the battery used by all apps screenshot
[Moto G 2015 General] rockshj:
here are the new results...:confused:
[Moto G 2015 General] Gingernut78:
I really recommend that instead of a factory reset you reinstall the latest ROM for your phone using fastboot, my battery stats were very similar to yours until I did this.
[Moto G 2015 General] rockshj:
i dnt want to root my phone... nd i was thinking tht these stats were gud isnt it??
[Moto G 2015 General] Gingernut78:
You don't have to root or even unlock the bootloader to use the fastboot method.

There is a great guide in the general section.
[Moto G 2015 General] rahulroyale:
Kudos to you

This stats are very similar to mine

Only for battery don't root your phone

You would be getting easily 8 hr sot now.

One more thing use greenify also
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ander Alves:
Hello, recently acquired this device, as it has the 4.2 version of android, decided to look for some more current ROM unfortunately not found, I saw that the other models of the Galaxy SIII have Custom ROM, then come here to ask developers to please, to create a Custom ROM, be it 4.4 or 5.0, many users need this help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingUnderSky:
Anything yet

C'mon, I have this phone and I can't find any custom rom for it...:crying::crying::crying: