yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
The google play service is an integral part of the Google system - it delivers mails to gmail, helps other apps get their location settings, and provides ad-based apps their ads. Basically, it does all the background work too.

1. Try turning off the "check for updates over wifi" and "automatically update apps over wifi"

2. It may also be that another app that is usinf play services has gone rogue. Try booting into safe mode and see if the problem persists.

3. Try switching your GPS from high accuracy to the less accurate, power saving mode. Often apps receiving gps data from play services may be malfunctioning.

4. Try to switch off sync as sync errors may be repeatedly hogging battery

5. If you have a task killer installed, it may be so that it is programmed to stop Google play services, which again restarts repeatedly after being shutdown, thus causing more drain.

6. Play services is set to "Not optimised" by default and thus prevents Doze to turn it off. Go to Settings -->Battery-->Battery optimization and select the Play services app and set it to Optimised. That should reduce a lot of drain-related issues by enabling Doze to take care of Play services.

If all fails, simply Factory reset phone and see if its solved. Do let us know which one works for you.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] _MartyMan_:
My SOT. Adin kernel R6, latest Freedom OS. Medium usage.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] _katho_:
I did a wipe/delete of dalvik and cache and battery is back to normal, ~1% in idle. Was up to 5% before the wipe.

This with nothing disabled and BT always connected to my smartwatch.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] baileyjr:
I've only had the phone a few days and I've been tinkering with it every few hours. I'm still easily getting a full day out of a charge. I've been off battery not for 23 hours and still have 35% left.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
Stock or different rom? Rooted? Any modifications done?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] _katho_:
FreedomOS with Magisk, no specific mods.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
What's the best rom for max battery life?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dasti555:
Stock kernel?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] _katho_:
Yes. But will try some alternatives. :)

Before I did the wipe/format cache/dalvik the phone never went into deep sleep for some reason and it was impossible to track down why really.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dasti555:
And what's your SOT now?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] _katho_:
It's fully charged at the moment..

But I honestly don't care about SOT, I want my device to run at least 24 hours, up to 36-48 hours with my usage pattern (which is all individual).

I would never accept to switch off functionality (BT/location/notifications/screen brightness etc) to get the desired battery life, when a phone drains 5% hour idle that is pretty much impossible. :D

But now it seems to run fine as I wrote earlier. Will try some alternative kernels to see if it can improve even more.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dasti555:
But you know more SOT = more usage time

About 7h SOT if I get I would be very happy but now it is just 5h :| even with greenify ..
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] _katho_:
I have a smartwatch, don't need to look at my phone all the time, hence maximum SOT isn't important to me. :)

And as I wrote, I refuse to compromise on functionality, turn off GPS/location etc because of battery life not meeting my needs, then I'd get another device if I was unhappy.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] foomanjackel:
That my friend, is an understatement:

16hrs SOT

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Stock ROM and kernel, autobrightness on, wifi and data on at all times. Used data at work (no wifi signal, but still left on), wifi at home for remainder of the time. A few phone calls, a handful of texts, snapped some pics while out hiking....and a ton of internet browsing while in "reading mode". That's it, no tricks, no tweaks.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Hrithan2020:
Any specific tips, that you would recommend to get good battery life. I've already followed the battery life tips and tricks in the One Plus forum (which was very basic stuff). Some like google now disabling, (I have one without location related feeds), or auto brightness disable, I would prefer not to do. I would definitely want auto brightness, and data to be on always. Others, I'm willing to configure. Do report, if you have got good results. Not planning to flash a different ROM, as I've heard the camera quality won't be that good.

Would really appreciate your help. I am in two minds whether to use greenify with aggressive doze (but with shallow hibernation enabled, so multitasking is relatively good). Currently, trying without.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dasti555:
If rom is OxygenOS Based then camera quality is same as in stock ROM
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
Now that's insane :o

How many hours (approx) with reading mode on?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] foomanjackel:
Well besides the few texts, phone calls, and snapping some pics while out hiking....the rest of that SOT was spent browsing the web using naked browser pro. And I would say about 95% of that was in reading mode.

Also I do not use greenify or any other battery saving apps. I used pico gapps and flashed the aroma-debloating script to remove most other Google things. I don't use Google now either.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
I see, well "no chrome" and reading mode definitely helps. Thanks!
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] xgerryx:
My SoT went from 6 to barely getting 3 the last couple days. Noooo idea what's going on. Still huge usage from Android System above all else. I'm on Stock 4.5.5, Magisk, Viper, Stock kernel. I did try Elemental X and saw no difference so I flashed the stock kernel again.

Anyone figure this out? I know a lot of people have had this happen. 4.5.5 seemed to have fixed it for a day or two but then, back to the same as 4.5.4.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] carlese:
For me flashing rom again helped.. I can do 4.5/5h SOT now, which is fine to me but could be better..
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
How to flash gapps and use tge aroma debloating script? Kindly guide me, so that I can achieve better SOT.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] arsenal74:
I find battery good Vs say an S8 but do think it has room for improvement.

Question... is greenify still worth it on Nougat?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ShaolinPunk:
Joining this thread late - just to add in though, I normally get 1-2 days out of my OP5 .. currently on 1 day 3 hrs with 17% remaining .. the other day i got just shy of 2 days out of it.. This is mainly voice calls, FB, WiFi etc .. i also run SMSBackup syncs overnight & have greenified a few apps in the background too..

One aspect that may make a difference is screen brightness.. I turn mine quite low ... Currently on 6hrs 34 mins SOT (according to the 'screen' usage iin battery information) and 492 mAh

Can post screenshots if you like, but i'm getting much better battery life out of this than my OP2 .. that was normally 20 or so hours, same browsing habits etc.. Can also provide more information as to set-up etc if needed..

TBH the days it hits 1 day battery are the days i'm thinking "wtf whats killing the battery?" .. my expectation is to have 1.5-2 days now..
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] JAlvarezFlores:
First full day with 1+5.

Very happy. My previous phone, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Qualcomm had better SoT, but 1+5 win with Dash Charge.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
Can you specify the modifications and tweaks that you made to achieve it? Stock rom?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
You can easily achieve 8-11hrs SOT on stock rom, settings with average usage. Incase, your usage is high, you can expect around 6-7hrs SOT. The onscreen active drain on OP5 is already awesome and best in class. It suffers heavily from active & standby WiFi drain which hits the most when the device is idle(night hours). For every hour the WiFi roughly consumes 10-12mah which further narrows down to loosing more than two hours of SOT over a 1 day usage (10*24hrs = 240mah). For the time being, you can choose Never for "Keep WiFI On During Sleep" to minimise the drain during standby but you can't do much for the active WiFi drain. Not sure if these 2 WiFi Antennas draw excessive power because i have never seen this WiFi drain in any of the handsets till now.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
Just had my first day of use with my OP5. I used it pretty much all the time, full wifi, update, download apps, transfer data, watch videos..and I got 6.5 hrs sot wtih 5% left. I gotta say thats pretty amazing.

Just imagining how long it would last if it has 4000 mAh battery like the Honor 8 Pro.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] JAlvarezFlores:
Unlocked + Official TWRP + Magisk + Encrypted + Stock ROM & Stock Kernel + Auto Save Battery at 15%.

No tweaks. GPS. Autobrightness Mode. Dark theme.

Spotify, YouTube, typing and some photos.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] vimto25:
I got better battery life on 4.5.3 , still getting reasonable but I can clearly see a difference. My internet doesn't seem as good as it was on 4.5.3 maybe this is my problem.

Either way I still get around 6-7sot
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
I am using stock rom and getting almost same SOT...I used it so heavily during my first day, definitely sure I can hit 8 hr SOT if i use reading mode a lot for browsing.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dsg2003:
A little bit off topic, but what internet browser is the best choice to prevent power drain on the 1+?

I always use Yandex browser or naked browser.... But are there better options?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] foomanjackel:
go naked, or don't go at all! love that browser....great features, lightweight and fast!!
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dsg2003:
Do you use free or pro version?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] foomanjackel:
used the free version for a long time, am now on the pro version.

---------- Post added at 05:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:13 AM ----------

for the aroma debloater, see here:

https://xdaforums.com/oneplus-5/themes/aroma-oos-debloater-1-0-t3630135
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] shobhit92bhar:
Hey all,

Can anyone help understanding what kind of wakelocks these are? I am seeing it for first time.

I am on stock rom with elementalx kernel, rooted.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Binary Assault:
This still blows my mind I can get 2 days worth of battery and then some

8 hours SOT this run

4 hours using Pandora

Countless hours on Bluetooth.

Very minimal GPS
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
I see lot of screenshots that are showing a weak signal (eg: the signal bar contains lots of orange and red parts..). Are the antennas really that bad? Considering that the phone has high sar levels..
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] JAlvarezFlores:
My job is at floor -1... Weak signal 8h at day!
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] mammothjojo88:
Here are my results:

Completely stock.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] PrakashGD:
Phone not entring into deep sleep. Constant battery train throughout night neatly 10%. Hibernated all background apps when i going to sleep. WIFI draining too much battery ?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
First cycle.

Best battery ever on a mobile owned by me (full list here.

Almost all thru wifi, a bit on 4g.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dinjesk:
can you show the history details grafik?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Pouic:
Change your wifi settings to 2.4ghz only and report if the drain still here overnight, for me it did the trick
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
9h SOT in 19h.. no battery saving, no black themes. Mostly chrome and YouTube a bit: twitter, xda, facebook also downloading multiple games via app store.

I'm impressed for now.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeet77:
Battery life is good. Stock with black theme.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
How to change wifi settings to 2.4 ghz ?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] 3DSammy:
Settings->WiFi->(Menu -three dots top right corner)->Advanced->WiFi-Frequency band->2.4GHz only
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] 3DSammy:
Here is a YouTube video which is relevant to this thread, plus there is a AMOLED specific app Pixel Filter which is relevant to the OP5's display. I'm trying it now in lue of my usual Lux Auto Brightness which doesn't save battery but auto adjusts screen brightness as the Pixel Filter app supposedly saves battery and dims the screen.

See for three products to save battery: DOUBLE Your Android Battery Life for FREE!
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] L22EEW:
Since owning my OP5, I have been using the battery as follows:

Full charge when took out of the box

Allow battery to discharge to a minimum - lowest so far has been 2%

Then will re-charge battery to 100%

How are other users charging/discharging?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] liver20:
Best kernel to idle battery performance?

Enviado desde mi SM-G955F mediante Tapatalk
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
It seems that idle time sucks with the OP5, as with any other android devices i've owned :(. Plus the wifi idle drain it's higher than my older nexus 5 (like 2-3x more drain)

But continued usage it's very good. You can easily get 7-9h of SOT.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
Can you post your wifi consumption over idle? This is mine from last idle time. Thanks

(Also lost 4% overnight)
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
Exactly the same problem here bro. :(
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPepperino:
I dont know. Is mine better?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
LoL. You lost 180mah in just 18hrs which roughly equates to around 2.5 hrs of SOT.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPepperino:
So??
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
Nope :(.

For a comparison, look how it's on the nexus 5.

I thought that newer chipset are more efficient (!?).

Shall we mass report the issue to oneplus?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPepperino:
Well yeah this is better right. Mhm strange. Has someone stats of a LOS-based or AOSP-based rom?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
Not sure if a software fix would minimize this drain and if still it does, it would be very minimal. They introduced dual wifi antennas in OP5 for better throughput and they are bound to draw more battery. The only thing they could do is to introduce a choice or a toggle to use a single antenna when needed.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zathus:
I keep getting massive wakelocks in the first half of day. Then awake goes away. Any clues?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
Install an app to look for the wakelock. Do you use any google services during your commute?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zathus:
YouTube. I installed better battery and it's giving me a crazy list of Kernel wakelocks. I rebooted my phone to clear cache so the stats reset. I'll see if it persists tomorrow
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
Mistake. Pls delete. Sorry
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
Hmm, interesting.

I see many stuff related to wifi in logcat and also the NETLINK wakelock count is huge. Don't know how to interpret or if this can be a culprit / is relevant..
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Asifjaved007:
I had the same problem. But it improved after I switched off the *scanning always available* for wifi
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
What if we change the wifi frequency band from automatic to 2.5ghz or 5ghz only.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Asifjaved007:
Umm.. I haven't checked that. But what has frequencies to do with *scanning always on/off*.

I guess it should just be as good as the automatic
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
I've tested with 2.4ghz only and it's the same. I have turned wifi scanning off already
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPepperino:
With the wifi drain i only have 0.8-0.9 % idle dain of the whole system. This is good i think
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
I've installed boeffla kernel and xxx rom today. And the screen on time is great. Also the idle battery drain is less. Will share it with you in a day or two.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] atistang:
Anyone else having high drain from Google Play Services? Yesterday I had awesome battery life and was using the hell out of my phone. Today I barely used it and I am down to 42% after 15hrs with 2hrs of SOT.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
This is happening with everyone. When you have been using the phone, the SOTyou get is he'll awesome. But when the phone is idle, the battery drain is too high.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] atistang:
I feel like most people have high wifi and android system drain, mine is Google Play Services then screen just under it. I know there was a snapchat update yesterday morning, I wonder if thats the culprit.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zathus:
For those of you wondering why some people are getting 8 to 9 hours screen on time and you might be getting 4 to 5. Look at the screenshots of those provided with high screen on time. If there using 650ish mAh for 8 to 9 hours it cuz their brightness is at pretty much zero the entire time. A black theme will help a little but most apps aren't black. Games, YouTube your web browser these things have color. they have white. The only real thing to lower the amount buy a significant amount of what the screen uses in power is the brightness.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
Even on 25% brightness, I'm getting 8-9 hrs SOT.

Also, you can thes most of the apps like YouTube , whatsapp, telegram to pitch black using substratum.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zathus:
YouTube's framework, sure. But are you on YouTube to look at the black borders or watch videos? Is my point lol. I'm not saying it as a negative. I'm just reminding people to keep in mind screen brightness will be the greatest factor. If you spend a lot of times outdoors your not going to get what someone who spends most of the day indoors will get. Someone a few post back had 9 hours SOT with 540 mAh used. I'm currently at 800 mAh with 6.5 used. So comparing his to mine would be pointless considering we use our screens differently. I like it bright. That preference cost me screen on time.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] dlads:
First charge 3 days, amazing, from then on, 2 to 1 depends on app usage. Completely subjective.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] atistang:
My first full day I had 7hrs SOT with 27% battery left when I went to bed. I played games, watched youtube, snapchat, reddit, chrome, etc... I feel like the battery of this phone drains about the same rate no matter what you do. I know thats not the case, but it feels that way to me
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ipredatorv:
I also have crazy battery drain from Google Services, wakelock detector reported 30-40% of drain comes from it... Using Hydrogen OS, only need Google services for the Playstore in China. Any way to stop GS from waking my device unrooted or do I need to root it for that?
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
You feel that way bcuz active drain = idle drain which is not the case with other phones. OP just needs to work on the idle drain (WiFi drain) and things should be all set. On my S8 with the same apps, i just get 2-3% drain in the whole night whereas with OP5 it is anywhere b/w 6-8%
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
And the thing is, this idle drain is not reducing by using third party apps like greenify or forcedoze. OP needs to roll an update about this.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
SOT is very good on mine. I don't use black themes, etc, use lots of non-black background apps (chrome for sites, facebook) or video/image content. The screen is in auto brightness mode, and the slider is at about 15-25%. For me it's perfectly fine, i don't like very bright and use the phone mostly indoors.

The problem is idle drain..

I tried greenify but didn't feel any improvement so i uninstalled it as of idle drain (android system, phone idle, android os and wifi - top drainers).

Again, look how good the wifi battery drain is on nexus 5... I am wondering how it is on oneplus 3t, if anyone got the device pls post.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
I guess OnePlus needs to roll an update. It's happening to most of the users.

And everytime in the top 5 drainers, Android system and wifi and phone idle are present.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] RzuwBuotny:
Full stock, 7h SOT and still 14%. Good score? Or should I install custom Kernel like elementalx? Thanks for reply

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[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] turbotorsten:
This is what I got on a day of traveling with streaming music and Netflix all time. Charged the phone last time the day before I went in the evening and left the phone overnight. Also mobile hotspot was on for a few hours.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] turbotorsten:
Added.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] zathus:
It's not draining very bad on me. This is only out of 14 hours but it still gives a pretty good sample
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
Because you haven't used WiFi much. Change the WiFi sleep policy to Always On and let us know your results. For all who face the WiFi idle drain have it active all the time irrespective of whether it is connected or not.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
Yes absolutely. My phone was idle from the morning and see the drain.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] atistang:
I have the same issue as you, Google Play Services is always in the top 3. It wasn't like that the first day and the phone didn't have much idle drain, now it is typically the number one battery drain by the end of the day
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
I guess it has increased after the 4.5.6 update.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] atistang:
I hope their next update focuses on some battery things. I went from having 3 times the battery life of my last phone to marginally better. This is very dissapointing because one of the main reasons I upgraded to the OP5 was battery life.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bewildered Wolf:
Chill bro.

If it's happening on such a big scale. It will be fixed. :)
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
But has anyone reported the wifi drain issue to OnePlus?

I just hope it's not (only) a hardware issue..
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] keessonnema:
I'm experiencing battery drain for the last 8 days. It's been totally fine before. I can last a day, 23h idle, 2.5/3h sot with 15% left. Before it was 1d 5h idle and 4/5h sot with 20% left. No idea what happened, haven't installed apps or something.
[OnePlus 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] atistang:
I haven't, but idk that I have the wifi drain. I only have wifi turned on on my days off. So here's what I've noticed that I find weird. The first full day with my OP5 I had incredible battery life, I did not work that day so I had wifi on all day. The next 3 days I worked so I had wifi off and didn't use my phone all that much. I had battery life almost comparable to my Nexus 6P which had bad battery life. Yesterday I was off work so wifi was on all day, I had excellent battery life again.

What I noticed is when I have wifi off for an extended period of time Google Play Services is in the top 3 for battery use. When I have wifi on most of the day Google Play Services is way down on the list. So I'm not sure if this is an OS bug or an app doing something weird when wifi is off.