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[X Play General] mattiassulg:
today i got 3h 30 min sot... didnt even use it that much... WIFI is taking ALOT of battery tho.. over 2 days it took 2500 mAh :S any apps to modify wifi ontime while screen is off or something ????
[X Play General] duffixda:
[MENTION=5860776]mattiassulg[/MENTION]

settings > location > 3 dots > scanning > turn off Wifi and Bluetooth scanning
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
You can always flash it back after a reset.

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Hell, I used for a lot of time and it isn't even showing up in battery stats. ??
[X Play General] rgshah3:
My device refuses to doze if the network is weak

Network was yellow all night, and phone didn't doze

Just got 4g in my city 2 days back, that could be an issue?
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
Absolutely seems that.
[X Play General] LaurenceGough:
Cell Standby is always the top of my list too, yet it never seemed to drain much on Lollipop... Same conditions....
[X Play General] AtomicStryker:
Over 5 days without plugging, was at 18% (if i pushed it to the limit i could get a week). Hot darn it's almost like a ... PHONE. Using Google Now, GMail, Whatsapp and Skype in terms of active notification providers. Tapatalk is a massive battery drain in my limited experience, so i do not use it. Gravitybox allows to reduce the minimum brightness to the point where the screen don't hurts the eyes in a dark room, very nice, and probably battery saving too.

(and it was around 25% before i did a TWRP backup, Dalvik and Cache wipe for Viper4Android right there at the end, that cost a lot)

Brazil MM, Squid Kernel 15 with lionfish governor.

Gravitybox network control to switch to 2G when screen off (is usually in WLAN, though).

Gravitybox min brightness reduction

Side note: I had used the phone as my GPS logger during a short skiing trip, worked perfectly, although having GPS turn on every 60 seconds drains about half the battery in 10 hours or so.
[X Play General] brian10161:
That's awesome Atomic, that last pic made sides leave this planet though omg
[X Play General] varunadi:
So after doing a factory reset and a few charge cycles, finally I'm getting good SOTs. Got 6h 30 min SOT 2 days back, and now I got 5h 30 min (including 2h 33 min of intensive real racing 3 gaming, and Wi-Fi on most of the day). Up time almost 44 hrs.

My setup is - greenify + tasker (have set it up to use lionfish governor at all times except gaming and browsing) , nothing else special. Also set up tasker to turn Wi-Fi off at night and flight mode at night. Tasker is just brilliant! Oh and the squid kernel is excellent, especially the lionfish governor.

Will soon try to get higher SOTs out of this beast. I'm pretty sure I can reach 7-8 hrs if I don't play games.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Is there anyway to root without voiding the warranty ?

Just asking if kingroot works ?
[X Play General] ProudRed:
New to Moto X play. No root access as I am not ready to compromise with my device warranty, on LP now (Just received the device today). Should I opt for MM update ? Since I do not have any tweaking feature without rooting would that not drain a lot of my battery ? If XDA suggests I will opt for it , if not I'll stay on MM only.
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
Rooting involves unlocking the bootloader which voids warranty. The 6.0 is bug free. One thing is that you may lose the shutter sound button in camera app.

Everything else is working fine.
[X Play General] Saanus1:
Khiladi r u forget about the wifi bug?? Or u got any solution for this. Please tell me if there is somthing. And if its ok to use squid kernel. Wifi bug exist or not after using it?
[X Play General] ProudRed:
I was asking about stock MM update .. Should I go for it ? Does it drain more battery than LP ? If battery life is better or even same I will apply the update. Let me know.
[X Play General] varunadi:
The MM update is pretty good, except for the Wi-Fi bug, which can be gotten rid of by disabling the right settings. Also, it is advisable to do a factory reset of your phone after the MM update. Only then you would be able to get very good battery life, as good as Lollipop. I faced this problem after I installed MM, noticed a drastic drop in SOT (from 6 to 4.5 hr). However, a factory reset and a few charge-discharge cycles brought back the 6+ hr SOT (mine is rooted so I am using greenify+tasker+kernel adiutor and installed the squid kernel, which is a brilliant addition). I am sure I could easily get 7-8 hr SOT if I stop playing Real Racing 3 on my phone :P

So go ahead and update to MM, and perform a factory reset (do remember to back-up your apps before the reset ;) )
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
The wifi bug in my opinion after seeing so many users report is I think a miscalculation of how much battery wifi used according to the battery stats.
[X Play General] pijes:
I've never experienced the wifi bug after updated mine to MM. Probably because I did a full clean flash (not OTA) and then did a wipe directly after that. I've also disabled the wifi scanning option.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Will post screens soon, Got 4.5 hours of SOT with 39% battery remaining last night when I went to bed. Woke up and saw it became 27%. Now its 20, and SOT probably would be 5 hours. I dont think I can get max of 5-5.5 hours if I let my battery drain completely.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Got 7 hours of SOT on first charge cycle. Is this good enough ? No Root, No MM.

Battery drain on standby looks too much. Any way to kill that ?

Looking to get better with better app management apps. If anyone has any tip and suggestion to share keep them coming.

Screen Brightness - Adaptive brightness disabled. Should I get back to adaptive brightness for better results ?

Was on wifi for most of the period. Data connection was only upto max 2 hours.
[X Play General] varunadi:
That's quite good. 7 hr SOT without root and MM is good. I think you can improve it more if you root it, and that battery drain on standby can also be minimized after rooting and using some apps (like greenify, amplify etc). However it is up to you if you want to root or not. Rooting has a lot of advantages, but it is a risk as well, so if you have second thoughts, it's better not to do it.

Regarding adaptive brightness, you can turn it off, that's another sensor which drains battery. So keep adaptive brightness off, it'll give you worse results if you turn it back on.

App management can be done by Tasker (it is a brilliant app, one of the best out there). You can automate your phone to go into flight mode at night (assuming you don't receive phone calls while sleeping of course :p ), this saves a lot of battery. And there are various other things you can do with tasker.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
I know having advantages of Root access as I already have Moto E rooted and Xperia Z rooted too :p.

Issue is with root access I will void warranty and tomorrow if anything happens to the device I wont be able to pay if its hefty. Hence will wait at least sometime till I Root my device.

I tried tasker but everything went over my head[emoji14]

Using greenify without root (paid)

Problem is without root, support for battery is limited unfortunately.
[X Play General] varunadi:
Regarding Tasker, there are various tutorials online. I was in the same place as you (unfortunately tasker is not user friendly for beginners), but I read quite a few tutorials and was able to create a few good profiles for my phone. Here are some useful links for that, if you are interested -

Tasker tutorials on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzY9te12UI0&index=1&list=PLjV3HijScGMynGvjJrvNNd5Q9pPy255dL

Complete guide to Tasker on XDA - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1110775

Detailed tutorial for Tasker on Android Authority - http://www.androidauthority.com/big-update-for-microsoft-next-lock-screen-675760/

I know it takes a lot of time to understand Tasker but it is very well worth it :D
[X Play General] brian10161:
I don't know if I would too excited about battery standby right away. Give it a few days and you may notice it settles down a bit.

I have rooted mine and installed amplify, greenify and powernap. Gonna test it for the next few days, but I have already seen the standby time increase a little bit just in the short periods it sits idle now.

I'll post an over night shot if I can get one.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Anyone using Greenify effectively here ? There are plenty of moto apps which are running in the background. I dont know if its safe to touch them. Can someone guide me on this please ? Some system apps too.

On custom roms I've hardly had issues previously hibernating anything as there are too little bloatwares. Here too many motorola apps which I dont know to or not to greenify.
[X Play General] rgshah3:
I've started losing battery very fast in the past 2 days

I drop more than 10 % at night even with doze

Standby takes too much battery
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Same here. Cant be done anything about it unless your device is rooted.
[X Play General] varunadi:
Try a factory reset, and do 2-3 charge-discharge cycles. It should help. It certainly helped my case, because even I was losing some battery overnight and on standby.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
I am on LP. Factory reset neccesary ?
[X Play General] varunadi:
Oh, I'm not sure if it would be necessary for Lollipop. Someone who knows this better over here might be able to answer your question.

Why don't you update to Marshmallow?
[X Play General] ProudRed:
I have read people are having a lot of battery drain compared to LP. I wont be able to get back to LP after getting to MM.. So if there is a chance of having a poor battery life with MM I would regret not staying on LP :)

And I am getting 7 hours of SOT with 17-18% battery remaining on LP..
[X Play General] varunadi:
Ah I see, if that's beneficial for you then you can stay in Lollipop itself :) I was initially unhappy with Marshmallow because of reduced battery life but after a factory reset, it got better.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Have you been getting more battery with MM compared to LP ? In that case I can try MM[emoji14]
[X Play General] varunadi:
Yes, I am getting more battery life in MM than in LP, however it is after rooting, flashing squid kernel and using lionfish CPU governor.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Oh... Then need to know from someone who has not rooted ..
[X Play General] brian10161:
I found the battery life got slightly better, but the main difference I found was MM had better performance. There is very little lag on Stock MM compared to LP 5.1.

I have since rooted and tried a few different things for battery. I actually found after I got Greenify and Amplify and all that stuff installed streaming music to my Chromecast Audio started stuttering. Badly.

I went back to stock and just rooted so I can have adaway and Xposed module Gravity box. That's all I'm doing now.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Can you post SOT you get on MM ?
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
All moto branded apps.

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Initially after updating to MM, you would get lesser battery as phone would set up to according to new version of Android.

Factory reset your device once updated to MM and then install apps.

If you don't game at all and just use messenger apps, the SOT usually hovers between 6.30 hrs to 7.30 hrs. Can go past 8 hrs easily.

See the thing is the SOT isn't a direct measure of battery life. SOT is just the timing a screen remains on using battery available. So if the battery available to you is less, it would give less SOT.

If you want a high SOT, then you have to use your device continuously without resting it much as the battery would drain during standby.

Also disable all unnecessary apps. Keep brightness at lowest. Turn off adaptive brightness. Turn off location and scanning.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
I know that longer the phone in Idle lesser the battery available.. Hence my curiosity was if MM has 10-12% standby drain over 4-5 hours.. if the drain is less with MM then I am sure I'll have more battery available. Now the question is with everything tweaked I get around 7-8 hours SOT on stock (without root), Thats wth everything disabled when screen is off.. all apps hibernated and screen brightness to minimum.

With MM I assume there would be more heavy processes and apps running while in use, so SOT would be considerably lesser compared to LP ?
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
The standby drain is a lot less in MM. Rest assured your battery life won't dip if it won't rise.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
I called Moto care.. they have asked me to boot to safe mode and see if there is battery drain. Their claim is its due to third party apps.
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
LP is known to drain a lot of battery when sleeping. MM reduces the battery drain when idle because of doze feature.

But doze needs about 30 minutes to start.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Have you tried Greenify (Aggressive Doze) or Doze Editor/NapTime ?
[X Play General] K.khiladi:
Nope I want to keep my device as stock as possible.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Just wanted to confirm if they are working better on your device..

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Meanwhile having done as instructed by Moto care over 4 hours I got 5% drain and 1% was from Idle mode. I even had wifi on.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Alright guys... couldnt resist myself and have upgraded to MM. Plenty of pros around who have been on MM for sometime esp unrooted ones. If there are tips or two for a new user,keep em coming.
[X Play General] coolkingler1:
I AM using Aggresive Doze in Greenify, on MM. It seems to work.

My standby battery life is very, VERY good. I think I could let it sit there for a week (without wifi/internet though) and it still would survive. Obviously I don't, but yeah.

Screen on time is just as good if not better sometimes than with Lollipop.

I have wifi scanning off, location off (if I am not walking somewhere, I use Google fit so when I do walk I put it on along with 4G), wifi turns itself off after like 15 minutes idle. I have set wifi to 2,4Ghz channels only. I do still use Greenify too. No Facebook app. I use screen brightness adjustment at night and have it off at day. (it's a little bit annoying to turn it off and on every time but it works!)

Try these tips, max your battery life imo. :P
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Has anyone tried using Nova launcher instead of Google to minimize battery drain ? I was using NL in LP.
[X Play General] coolkingler1:
50% left. Been playing a DS emulator this morning and noon. So airplane mode though.

So double this and it's 9 hours+ SoT :P it was at 10-20% brightness, non adaptive.
[X Play General] varunadi:
I use Nova Launcher. Used it in Lollipop too. Best Launcher out there IMO, so smooth and sleek, lag free. I didn't test the battery drain vs Google Now launcher (installed Nova launcher as soon as I bought the phone :D ), but I think it shouldn't be there.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Anyone has a fix for standby drain on mm ? Updated to mm after that had a reset. This has drained 8% of my total battery and after that 7% coming from screen on. On 55% battery now after only 2.5 hours of SOT.
[X Play General] pijes:
I found this - http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-0-0-hour-idle-battery-drain-stock-t2973588

you need root and full version of amplify.
[X Play General] ProudRed:
Device just a week old. Voiding warranty would mean I'd be bankrupt. :(
[X Play General] pijes:
on stock rom unrooted, it is normal to get 5-6 hours of SOT within a day usage. so 2.5 hours of SOT with 55% remaining is expected. after updating to MM, did you try doing wipe cache partition through the recovery menu?
[X Play General] ProudRed:
My concern is the cell standby drain.. If it was only SOT I wouldnt have bothered.. I managed to get 8.5 hours of SOT with LP.. After updating to MM I did a reset from backup and reset menu.. Was that not enough ?
[X Play General] scrocco13:
I think I need your help

I have the X Play with root, xposed, greenify, everything. Before this I almost got 3hrs of SOT, now 4.5hrs. I think I could get more, could you help me please? Thanks in advance!
[X Play General] bablu048:
if you have apps like Facebook or related you won't get good SOT. apps like ucbrowser keeps running in background select "ignore state" in greenify. and after a major update always do a factory wipe from recovery. and drain the battery fully once or twice.

i just have greenify and i have disabled location and i am always on mobile data 90%of the time browsing and it lasts more than a day with . at the end of day i have 30-40% left with 4-5 hour SOT.

everyone has different usage needs, for example i don't need google to keep syncing my contacts and data every 5 minutes, i don't add contacts everyday. i just switched it off. i sync once in a while manually. and also restricted background data for most apps (i am on mobile data). if you want good battery you have to sacrifice some things.
[X Play General] scrocco13:
Ok

I have FB, TW, Tapatalk, Snapchat... Outlook with auto-sync. I disabled almost every google sync. FB I could try using another one, maybe FB Lite? Twitter also drains a lot? I do not see it on the battery stats... Tapatalk and Snapchat the same, they don't seem to drain. But you tell me, I think you have more experience than me. :)
[X Play General] bablu048:
google about fb app and its effect on battery. i suggest uninstall fb for a few days and check the results. fb in chrome has same UI . idk about fb lite, i hardly use fb.
[X Play General] .czarodziej:
Hi everyone. I'm going to buy new smartphone and I'd like to ask about battery in Moto X Play . How much SoT can I get by only browsing the internet (Opera Mini) via Wi-Fi? 6 hours, maybe 8? Thanks for answers.
[X Play General] GtrCraft:
Your use will be different from someone elses. So the only way to know the SOT is to test it yourself
[X Play General] pijes:
Look at the battery life thread, probably from 30-40 page onwards
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salemsnake:
Hello all, I wanted to keep my rom stock as possible so I just installed root and kernel that allowed it and then removed Knox, after some time I would lose root and today I think I found out why, it happens after security policy update, as soon as I reboot it goes into boot loop , I tried rooting and flashing kernel from recovery and from pc, tried flashing firmware over this and still it doesn't fix it.

My question is: Is there any way to recover root so I don't loose all data?
[General Topics] Skalofrio12:
cool, thanks for the list.:D
[XDA Assist] dev_rohit:
Hi,

I have accidentally formatted system partition of my Lenovo A6000.

Using fastboot i had booted twrp on device, but accidentally factory reset, now the device has no os.

My device has stock recovery installed and also i can boot in twrp recovery using fastboot boot command.

Device can't boot in download mode, and connecting to pc it shows qualcomms usb diagnostic 9091. Hence, i can't flash stock rom using lenovo downloader or qfil.

All i can do is can boot in twrp via fastboot.

Please, help in this context.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproofdroid:
Hello fellow enthusiasts,

I have a burning question that I need answered, and can't seem to find the info anywhere online. I was thinking about s off'ing my m8 dual sim and flashing the regular m8 radio, as I only use one sim. My provider has lte, and i have an lte plan, but the radio range is 800mhtz, where the phones lte radio is 1800. The question therein is, would flashing a non dual sim radio to a dual sim device brick it, or work?

I've flashed radios before on many different phones, just not a dual sim variant.....

Thanks for the help!!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
They are different hardware, and different radios.

I'd say a brick is probable. Failure is almost certain.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] venelar:
Not sure how many of you will like it but here's a theme i made.

portrait:

landscape:

ThemeGenCE doesn't make the bars black..use regedit and edit HKLM\software\microsoft\color and edit the basehue to dword 160
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] galaxys:
very nice looking themes! thanks for sharing them.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] MetroKnight:
Good stuff! I love the landscape wallpaper.

one question: How do you get all the icons at the bottom of the screen by where the comm manager is normally? Please pardon the newbie question.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] venelar:
PHM Tray app.

it's below.

Just browse to the .exe you want and put its complete filepath. Ex: /windows/pword.exe would get the word shortcut.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] MetroKnight:
Thanks Venelar! I appreciate it! less than 17 days to Halo III. woohoo!

Have a good one
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] g35driver:
Nice theme!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] BenThon:
TSK and BaseHue

No ! It is not ThemeGenCE which is unable to make Blackbars. If you put BaseHue = 160 in the TSK, Windows Mobile when it installs the theme change the BaseHue to 137.

You have to tweak the registry after the theme is installed by tweaking the registry :

Making a cab with 160 for BaseHue and run it.

Use a registry tweaker.

Or use ThemeGenCE and go in the tab WM5, BaseHue & DPI, (make sure that before this you are connected with ActiveSync !), check the checkbox "Interaction with PDA". Click on the gray scale and move the mouse while button down and you see BaseHue changing nearly in direct. If you want to keep the BaseHue value you choose then uncheck the "Restore" checkbox.

...

Nevertheless, if you do a "Soft Reset" BaseHue is changed to 137.

From my constatations, with a TSK you have

:

Any value from 0 to 240 for BaseHue in the TSK gives after theme installed : BaseHue = 137

Any value of Black in color 5 (and BaseHue not defined) gives after theme installed : BaseHue = 137

After theme installed, if you change Basehue in the registry, you can choose any value from 0 to 240.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BrookSK:
Hey guys, i like to root my new iNew U3 with android 5.1

So i used several programs like Kingroot, oneclickroot aso. but no apk works.

May the device is simple not to root atm?

Thanks Brook
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MioCZ:
I have tested all available root apps, no success.

I have Readbacked boot, recovery and system images, boot and recovery have special format, not possible to unpack and repack by available tools, mainly repack is problem. System is native EXT4 mountable under linux, injected by supersu files and modifications, but because of SELinux files are not available to exec under running android. I am not able to set right files contexts under Ubuntu.

I will let you know if find solution.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Zenigata04:
Hi guys, I bought this phone ( Inew U3 ) on Ebay .

The phone is not so bed!! But I can't move any app on the microSD !!!!!!

In any case app can move on SD, It is that the main memory is set to the phone, whether the main memory is set to SD !!!!!

Even with third-party app, type Link2SD you can move apps to the SD, are always on the phone memory !!!

Also you can not do root in any way !!

Solutions?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] MioCZ:
OK, found way how to root this phone.

Method is "simple":

First OTA update to version iNew_U3_5.1_V1.1.0, not sure if root survive OTA. Do factory reset.

Use SP Flash Tool to backup system.img,

mount is under linux to /system folder as ext4, it is pure ext4.

Unpack latest UPDATE-Supersu package.

Open file update-binary file as text, do all as in instructions.

Umount /system folder after finished.

Flash system.img back to phone.

If not shown reinstall SuperSU app from Playstore.

I will share modified system.img with scatter on needrom later tomorrow.

EDIT: Dwnload link: http://www.needrom.com/download/inew-u3-prerooted-system-img/#
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] merhans:
I tried it, but it didnt work.

Everytime i extract the Zip i get a failure, that the file is corrupt?

Is there any other way?