Help Battery Drain

[jackal424]

so I lost about 20% battery overnight, 7hrs. I looked at battery settings and Android OS keep awake was on for 7hrs eating 84mah.

Any thoughts on this?

*UPDATE*, see the third thread below.

It also seems that after uninstalling Gas Buddy and leaving BT on, my battery life has been super...only 1-3% drain over night, thats sweet...

 

[Rxpert83]

Very strange, Doze should have kept it at essentially 0. I wonder if it was stuck synching or something

 

[jackal424]

Since this is new, not many people talking about this. But I found this thread and seems like we found the rogue app/issue:

1) Keeping bluetooth on always
2) Gas Buddy app

Disabling these two seems to be bringing battery drain down significantly.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/bluetooth-causing-wakelock-t3237226

 

[chefdon]

I keep bluetooth on all the time and only experience 1 or 2 percent drain overnight. Sounds like it is the gas buddy app. jmo







Nice Tesla logo btw!

 

[jackal424]

Yeah. I uninstalled the gas buddy app and its been working fine with the bluetooth on. Although, some people experienced battery drain w/o having the gas buddy app. So question still remains if its a bug in bluetooth or it could also be that the person had another rogue app installed.

Nonetheless, it may be worth it for someone to cycle power to bluetooth after connecting with a a device once; maybe this helped..who knows.

 

[mogelijk]

Yeah. I uninstalled the gas buddy app and its been working fine with the bluetooth on. Although, some people experienced battery drain w/o having the gas buddy app. So question still remains if its a bug in bluetooth or it could also be that the person had another rogue app installed.

Nonetheless, it may be worth it for someone to cycle power to bluetooth after connecting with a a device once; maybe this helped..who knows.

I believe GSAM may also be causing issues with Bluetooth on.

 

[AZgl1500]

Any battery app adds battery drain.
I removed them all.
Also, if you turn off notifications on social apps, that helps a lot.

I go farther, I turn off DATA and WiFi...
Bluetooth is always on, as is GPS location capability.... The GPS receiver is only awake if an app calls it.
For instance my camera is set to all the location to each snapshot. I can never remember where I took pictures.

 

[hoserama]

I have Gas Buddy but have not experienced a drain like you are seeing.

 

[mogelijk]

I have Gas Buddy but have not experienced a drain like you are seeing.

It appears they updated their app on the 13th, that may have included a fix for the battery life issues.

 

[ella69]

I believe GSAM may also be causing issues with Bluetooth on.

I don't use Gas Buddy, but I do have GSAM and have been disappointed so far with battery life. Significant drain overnight. from about 40% to 21%.

 

[mogelijk]

I don't use Gas Buddy, but I do have GSAM and have been disappointed so far with battery life. Significant drain overnight. from about 40% to 21%.

Try removing GSAM and see if that helps. It may also help to reboot after removing the app. The problem I saw was it kept the phone "Awake".

 

[ella69]

Try removing GSAM and see if that helps. It may also help to reboot after removing the app. The problem I saw was it kept the phone "Awake".

Will do, thanks. I also changed one of my wifi settings so it won't stay on when phone is asleep.

 

[ella69]

It may also help to reboot after removing the app.

That brings up another question: when I want to restart, that open doesn't come up when I long press the power button. Is there another way to perform a restart?

 

[hoserama]

Gas Buddy was updated today. Update notes mentioned a battery drain fix.