topic Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain in Android

Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:16:13 GMT

Hi. I have recently updated one of my Samsung Galaxy S4 handsets to 4.4.2.

Since the update battery drain has been excessive. In an "unused" state it will lose 12% between midnight and 7 am compared to my Note 3 that uses just 1%.

I hear it is becoming a common thread across forums, any ideas folks please?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

MI5 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:24:01 GMT

What is using the most power?
Have you tried it in airplane mode overnight?
If it's the Google services bug sometimes uninstalling updates and letting the app update itself helps but if not helping it may not get any better until 4.4.3 or 4.4.4 is released.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:26:45 GMT

Hi Rich

Screen is the main user overall of battery power (not overnight of course, will measure that tonight).

Typically screen uses around 50% followed by Android Services at around 15% and F Book at around 10%.

I would say FBook is extremely RAM heavy at between 50 and 200mb at any given time.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:31:22 GMT

Hi

A last resort is to try a hard reset after backing up your data.

This is sometimes recommended after a firmware update as your aware.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:30:00 GMT

Hi @Anonymous I too have the 4.4.2 update but I can't say I have noticed any appreciable change in battery use compared with that prior to the update.

Just for clarification, and so that I can try mine in the same state, what precisely do you mean by "unused state"? If that is something I ought to know please just remind me.

Gerry

(Currently in a state of icon-fullness)

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:35:00 GMT

Hi BoB

Thank you. As there is about 25gb of stuff on it, time for a back up exercise lol then will give a reset ago. Might try a factory data reset first before a hard reset.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:36:20 GMT

Evening Gerry.

My reference to unused state basically means I charged to 100% by midnight then put the phone on the side and didn't touch it again until 7am. Nothing more tech than that lol

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:45:14 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Far be it for me to teach you how to 'suck eggs', but I'd thought I'd mention it anyway.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:46:41 GMT

Not at all BoB. Your help and support is always appreciated. Thank you ☺

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

MI5 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:55:07 GMT

Check it first thing in the morning to see what has used the most battery overnight.
I'll guess at either Google play services and or Android system.
If google services, uninstall the updates and cross your fingers.
If android system, do a factory reset (back up first) and cross your fingers...
However, you should also check it tomorrow night with airplane mode on and compare the drain. If the same or very similar it is down to firmware and not much you can do (apart from root and remove loads of bloatware) if significantly less drain in airplane mode it's an app (system or user) that is keeping phone awake.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:56:45 GMT

You're welcome mate.

Good luck.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:33:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Evening Gerry.

My reference to unused state basically means I charged to 100% by midnight then put the phone on the side and didn't touch it again until 7am. Nothing more tech than that lol

@Anonymous Oh what a let down! I thought it would at least entail a check that wifi, mobile data, sound , bluetooth , gps, auto sync etc etc are all switched off to leave the phone in an absolute state of minimal battery usage. But hey what the heck, I fuss too much is my problem. Hope you get it sorted and no doubt if you discover any means of reducing battery drain you will share with the rest of us.

Gerry

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:47:17 GMT

Ok here is this mornings update.

Between midnight and 7 am today the battery use changed as follows (main ones). Note phone was not used by me but it does do its own things overnight.

Screen was 45% at midnight, 43% at 7am.
Android Services was 14% and still is 14%
Facebook was 10% and now 11%

So tonight will try airplane mode.

Any thoughts? ???
Thank you

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

MI5 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:05:14 GMT

Check your facebook sync settings (in the app) as that's way too high.
Looks like you have it sync'ing every 30 mins or something !!
Settings >App settings >Refresh interval.....

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:07:01 GMT

Good morning Rich

Thanks for your input. FB is set to syn hourly. Is that too much?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:08:27 GMT

Actually Rich I should clarify that.

FB does not sync at all. The refresh interval is 30 minutes.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

MI5 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Actually Rich I should clarify that.

FB does not sync at all. The refresh interval is 30 minutes.

Yep exactly as I said above - Set it to "never"

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:09:26 GMT

My other half had this problem with 4.4.2 but it disappeared when we went overseas and stopped data/text/voice etc.

My Android tablet has Clean Master installed and although my battery seemed ok, Clean Master told me that the Daily Mail app was consuming lots of power.

Told partner and she removed the app from her phone (Experia Z). Result is that her battery life is now ok.

May not be the solution to your problem, but may be of use to some

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

viridis — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:16:02 GMT

It may be location based ads that run, check that Google ad services are opted out in settings / accounts / Google.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 EXCESSIVE Battery Drain

Toby — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:26:56 GMT

How are you getting on with this piper? Its an odd one!