Help Pore battery life after GB update!

[MarkR]

Ever since the GB update (I updated on the release date) my battery life has been cut in half. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[Turdbogls]

what eating up your battery?
settings, about phone, whats using the battery?

 

[MarkR]

Just the standard items. Display, dialer, standby. before the update my battery was normal by TB standards. I made no other changes since the update and my battery life is down to about 3hrs with same usage.

 

[Buddha64]

No. I can go all day (ex. streaming Pandora/4G) and have 30% by bed time. Prior 4, maybe 5 hours and the battery was at 20%.

 

[Turdbogls]

in theory, Gingerbread should be better on battery life. not sure what to tell you.
are you using any task killers or anything? 4G? 3G?
i hate to tell you to factory reset the phone, but it may fix your battery issues.

 

[MarkR]

No task killers and have always kept it on 4g. I'm thinking a reset is my best bet. I just wanted to see if anyone else had this problem before I went through a day or so setting up my phone.

 

[DVDA007]

I had this happen as well, i had excellant battery life w/ froyo and the stock battery, phone totally stock, no task killers, occasional 4g. After doing the GB update, i could barely get through a day w/ minimal usage. I ended up doing a factory reset, for another reason (lost all data and could only get 1x using LTE on/off). The battery seems much better now. Also, not sure how true but i have read somewhere that the new OS needs to build up cache, and that will help w/ the battery issues. Good luck.

 

[Joewoowoo]

been going for 12 hrs now off the charger and have 64% left. 40% voice calls, 3% internet, display 32%, bluetooth 1% android system 7% and a few others with low percentages

 

[Tide311]

I wasn't aware batteries had skin.

 

[TxGoat]

Try scrubbing your battery with some of this....

 

[CaymanSMC]

Mine did the same thing. The battery life was very bad after the upgrade. I didnt do a factory reset but I took the battery out and restarted. It now seems to be as good or a little better. I would try shutting down and taking the battery out before doing a factory reset

 

[Joewoowoo]

Try scrubbing your battery with some of this....

lmao, "pore" it on!

 

[TxGoat]

lmao, "pore" it on!

lol, yeah I know, "pore bastage"....I'm sure someone with a pore sense of humor will be in here shortly to pore in their barney fife-dome...

 

[mplevy]

I found my poor initial battery life after taking it off charge is a result of the alarm, of all things. I was noticing that in the first hour after I wake up (taking it off charge when I wake up) it was dropping by 14%. This morning I took it off charge after dismissing the alarm, then went in and turned off the alarm then turned it back on. I'm only down 4% on the battery 4 hours later.

I'm now in search of a new alarm clock app...

 

[Yeahha]

I'm now in search of a new alarm clock app...

The app is gone. You need to make a clock widget and click on it to get to the alarm clock

 

[mplevy]

The app is gone. You need to make a clock widget and click on it to get to the alarm clock

Thx, I'm aware of that, I use the stock clock/weather widget. What I mean is, I need a different alarm, the stock alarm is a battery drain until the full hour has passed, even if I dismiss the alarm on the first ring.

 

[PoweredByLE5]

no lol my battery got hella better