Lollipop battery

[stuarta]

Hi,

I'm after some thoughts if I may a out battery drain since lollipop upgrade. I know my phone is almost 2 years old but so is my wife's N4 and her battery is amazing since the upgrade. Now I can only guess that maybe I have an app that she doesn't but I regularly get to 12% within a days charge at the moment and wondering if a factory reset or cache wipe might help.

If I do either of these, I guess I need to backup my contacts and any files that I might have on my phone?

For interest this is my phone today, off charge about 10am so been about 12 hours. I never seem to see a massive draining app

 

[lunatic59]

I recommend the reset. A factory reset will wipe the cache, so you will in effect be doing both. Especially since lollipop (5.0) went from Dalvik to ART, there can be bits of the old OS hanging around getting in the way.

I've outlined a pretty efficient method for resetting without losing much, if any data and settings. Read this.

 

[stuarta]

ok just blatted my phone and putting on just basic apps. Will see how it compares now

 

[egDonald]

old thread - I know, but just curious how it went.