Still having major battery drain since Nougat

[Nandroid83]

I know Nougat has caused some people's battery life to improve, but mine has deteriorated so that my phone is almost useless. With moderate use I have to charge it once, sometimes twice a day, so as not to die before I go to bed. I could make it through the day no problem before. I have downloaded every update for every app that comes out, since I know sometimes that's the problem. I have wiped my partition cache which helped a tiny bit but not much. My phone is less than a year old so it can't be the battery dying. This is bull*%&. Did anyone else have this problem and did it eventually resolve with updates? I am not doing a factory reset. Screw that. I'll go back to a Blackberry if I have to completely reinstall and reset everything on this phone! Thanks for any suggestions short of FR. I'm disappointed with the whole look of Nougat as well so I'm this close to dumping this phone I used to love anyway! Thanks!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Is it the Google Search "nipple" as I call it. There are theming apps that can take care of that.

Any new messaging or social apps? I think some of those keep your device awake. Nothing in particular that I could point to but that makes sense to me.

Welcome to the Android Forums Nandroid83!

 

[Nandroid83]

LOL? Search nipple?? If you mean the "look" I don't like, no, it's not that. I hate the skinny, skinny fonts, the outlined symbols instead of color, all the white space, the lack of bubble choices and colors in messaging, etc. I especially hate the look of notifications. I can barely see them. Themes don't really help with most of that. Launchers do, but I hear they are pretty buggy.

No, no new apps, no new nothing. I've even removed some apps hoping it would help (my AT&T email app doesn't work at all anymore for some reason). I've had this happen before with battery drain with other updates (like for Marshamallow) but after a week or so of downloading all updates it leveled out. I've had this for almost a month now and it's not better. It's really made my phone a burden. Have to carry a charger everywhere. Really will need to either trade for a new phone that's still running Marshmallow or switch to something else...

 

[Nick The Great]

My battery kinda sucks anyways, kinda a Samsung thing in my experience.

But my drain seems worse today (just installed Nougat this morning) and worse than that, my GSam Battery Monitor doesn't seem to be working

And I miss the stock battery graph.

 

[Nick The Great]

Any more word on this? I'm having severe drain today, not sure what has changed.

I found the battery graph, but GSam doesn't show individual app usage anymore, something with Nougat. So it's hard to narrow to a specific app.

 

[seVer]

settings> battery. once it calculates, tap "battery usage" at the top. there's your graph and the apps that have used the battery.

 

[InfernalByte]

Your prepared to use a Blackberry rather than do a Factory reset? As that's going to amount to the same thing, I'd suggest a factory reset.