Help Battery Draining Quickly

[Dagonus]

Try running the phone for, say, 24 hours with Spotify, Tumblr and Greenify disabled and see how your battery fairs.

No practical change. Yesterday was a bad test day (I ran out and played Ingress fora few hours so I knew why the battery got eaten that day. Although, it really didn't seem any faster than it does from browsing the internet or similar)

Today with Ingress off, Spotify, Greenify and Tumblr uninstalled, the battery life hasn't really changed from before those changes. I've done nothing much with my phone but some texting and one phone call. I'm down to 58% after 7 hours of mostly idle. Given that some people are getting days from a charge at idle. I have to say I'm still burning too fast. Look at my battery I'm still looking at 17% Android System, 4% Android OS and 4% Screen.

What could be hammering my System? As I said the other day, It's pretty stable battery life if I don't touch it at all but as soon as the phone is active, the battery is bleeding like mad (texting, browsing the internet, brief game time, not even heavy usage stuff. 20minutes of Internet browsing on wifi costs me around 10% battery) at rates far and above what they used to be. I used to leave all the radio's on and get through the day with still 70% battery after work. Now I'm babysitting everything and not getting that. I factory reset on Tuesday.

Any other ideas?

Edit : added some new screenshots

 

[Dagonus]

I've noticed my wifi stays kicked on. Now, I have always allow scanning so that when I need better locations, I can get it (Read for when I play Ingress) but I can't imagine anything that isn't location should be taking advantage of that. Since I have location services turned off except when I need them, shouldn't the wifi go down? Or does that perpetually keep the wifi antenna powered even if no application is actively requesting use?

If that is the case, what's the best way to handle powering it up and down more fully so that it can be used for location but not powered up at other times when it isn't needed? I'm hoping it's not a case of having to remember to manually toggle that switch in advanced wifi settings constantly.

 

[julieritar12]

I am having a battery problem and I can't understand why my battery drains so quickly. When I leave the house at about 8 am with 100 % battery, my phone will drop to 25% by 4 pm. I didn't use my phone in that entire time except maybe to check if I had received a message, so why do I go through so much battery? When I went under settings to check what was using up my battery, I discovered that it was Android OS, Android System, Cell standby, and device idle. Does anyone know if this issue is just with the battery or is it with the phone itself? And how can I fix this? Will buying a new battery solve the problem? Sorry, I don't know all that much about how to fix phones. I honestly don't know what to do.Thanks!

 

[ironass]

Hello and welcome to Android Forums julieritar12

Lets see if we can sort you out...

I am having a battery problem and I can't understand why my battery drains so quickly. When I leave the house at about 8 am with 100 % battery, my phone will drop to 25% by 4 pm. I didn't use my phone in that entire time except maybe to check if I had received a message, so why do I go through so much battery?

Whilst you may not physically be using the phone yourself, depending on which of the 41 different models of Galaxy S5 and firmware you have, you will probably have 10 - 30 apps running in the background doing various things. If you go to... Settings > Application manager > Running (scroll across)... you will see which apps are running on your phone.

When I went under settings to check what was using up my battery, I discovered that it was Android OS, Android System, Cell standby, and device idle. Does anyone know if this issue is just with the battery or is it with the phone itself? And how can I fix this?

Do you have any of the apps shown in post #233, installed?

Will buying a new battery solve the problem?

I doubt very much if your battery is the problem.

 

[piareziwai]

If you want to root the phone, make sure it does not have Lollipop on it

this is wrong, my S5 is on latest lollipop build available but root is still possible on my phone

 

[markoleo]

My S5 is about a year old so decided to get a fresh battery (getting to the drained in less than 12 hour life with normal use), the life span of the new battery is the same if not worse than the old one! admittedly bought it off ebay but it had a seal on it so don't see why it wouldn't be a new battery. any other explanations for this?