This is a very annoying problem that I can not put my finger on it.
I am not a heavy user of games that chew the life out of battery or anything. My usage is limited to browser, some video watching application that I seldomly use, watching movie trailers and I have an unhealthy addiction to Viggle I log in to draw something once or twice a day but I exit the application as soon as I am done.
When I clicked on the battery from the control panel menu, I see the biggest offender of battery life is the screen with 85+%. If Viggle is running, it is a distant second with 6-9% of battery consumption. Then the rest are all 1-2% levels of handful items. My screen brightness setting is in auto mode.
If there are any questions, I am using the charger that came with the tablet and I believe even the USB cord is the original one but don't quote me on the cord. It is a pretty thick one. Charger doesn't even get warm, very cool to touch as of today.
I usually keep the tablet on charger overnight with the screen turned off. If I left the charge somewhere in the teens percentage-wise, I am lucky if I find it above 80% in the morning, which is about 6 hours or more charging time. The same charger used to bring a dead battery to 90% or more charge in less tha 2 hours.
Together with not being sure, I think this problem started when my android version got upgraded to 4.2 from its original 4.1 but I did not pay attention to it at the time. Few days ago, I got the 4.3 update and I think the charging situation took a turn for the worse.
Today for instance, I turned the device off, before going to bed and plugged it in. I saw the charging battery logo and left it on my desk. I think it had something like 7-8% charge at that time. 7 hours later, I turned it on and it was at 53% which is odd, considering nothing was sucking the light out of battery by running anything.
Then I made some more measuring :
device turned off at 39%
1 hr of charging
device turned on at 45%
screen turned of while device is running nothing but whatever is in startup
1.5 hours of charging
charge level at 52%
These are very unusual values compared to old days. Does anyone know what the heck is happening to my battery ? I know batteries go bad in time but it is not even 1 year old and at this stage in battery life, few percentage points of capacity loss is expected but not at this level.
I'd like to know if anyone has experienced the same or similar symptoms and if you have a solution for it ?
Thanks
I am not a heavy user of games that chew the life out of battery or anything. My usage is limited to browser, some video watching application that I seldomly use, watching movie trailers and I have an unhealthy addiction to Viggle I log in to draw something once or twice a day but I exit the application as soon as I am done.
When I clicked on the battery from the control panel menu, I see the biggest offender of battery life is the screen with 85+%. If Viggle is running, it is a distant second with 6-9% of battery consumption. Then the rest are all 1-2% levels of handful items. My screen brightness setting is in auto mode.
If there are any questions, I am using the charger that came with the tablet and I believe even the USB cord is the original one but don't quote me on the cord. It is a pretty thick one. Charger doesn't even get warm, very cool to touch as of today.
I usually keep the tablet on charger overnight with the screen turned off. If I left the charge somewhere in the teens percentage-wise, I am lucky if I find it above 80% in the morning, which is about 6 hours or more charging time. The same charger used to bring a dead battery to 90% or more charge in less tha 2 hours.
Together with not being sure, I think this problem started when my android version got upgraded to 4.2 from its original 4.1 but I did not pay attention to it at the time. Few days ago, I got the 4.3 update and I think the charging situation took a turn for the worse.
Today for instance, I turned the device off, before going to bed and plugged it in. I saw the charging battery logo and left it on my desk. I think it had something like 7-8% charge at that time. 7 hours later, I turned it on and it was at 53% which is odd, considering nothing was sucking the light out of battery by running anything.
Then I made some more measuring :
device turned off at 39%
1 hr of charging
device turned on at 45%
screen turned of while device is running nothing but whatever is in startup
1.5 hours of charging
charge level at 52%
These are very unusual values compared to old days. Does anyone know what the heck is happening to my battery ? I know batteries go bad in time but it is not even 1 year old and at this stage in battery life, few percentage points of capacity loss is expected but not at this level.
I'd like to know if anyone has experienced the same or similar symptoms and if you have a solution for it ?
Thanks