Help Increased battery drain since update.

[JLM]

I have a Droid turbo. Up until the latest push to Lollipop, with a full charge, my phone would lose around 50% - 60% battery over a 12 hour period. Since the push last weekend, my battery loss has been huge. Examples: Charged to ~100%...3 hours later it was at 79%. Last night, left on charge all night. In 20 minutes it lost 2%. It's now at 91% after 1 hour off the charge.

I haven't loaded any apps since the push nor have I made any changes other than trying to stop things running that I thought might be eating the battery. If I could root my phone, I could start using Titanium again, but I'm not paying to and it looks like the root won't work anymore now anyway. This is crazy! I used to be able to count on at least 18 or so hours and still have at least 10% battery left.

Thoughts?

 

[AZgl1500]

I would power the phone off at least once, and restart.
Failing that don't help, then save all of your stuff, and do an FDR which will rebuild the new OS with a clean slate.

 

[graynullfox]

Have you checked the battery section in settings to see what may be the cause? Most liking a wakelock or something syncing rapidly.

 

[JLM]

Have you checked the battery section in settings to see what may be the cause? Most liking a wakelock or something syncing rapidly.

Cell Standby (18%), Android OS, (11%), and Google Play Service(11%) are are using the majority. I keep trying to stop Google Play Service, but have not succeeded to date. The phone is warm...not overly, but warm...so I know something is running. I just found and turned off Auto-Sync. That's the last thing I can think of. Now at 30% battery since taking it off charge at 0630. Unbelievable!

 

[JLM]

Have you checked the battery section in settings to see what may be the cause? Most liking a wakelock or something syncing rapidly.

I think this may have been the problem. It was syncing...which would explain why it was slightly warm when it wasn't being used for anything else. I turned that off and it lost less than 3% over the next 1 1/2 hours. I also cleared the cache, which had the side affect of deleting most of my contact list. Odd, but it kept a few of the numbers I had put in there. I'll have to rebuild that...never backed up LOL...but at least the battery drain problem seems to have been fixed.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[JLM]

Well, this has been fun...NOT!

In trying to fix my contacts...and, it turns out my calendar was deleted too, so I was trying to fix that also...I found that Google Play Services was screwed up. And, I couldn't fix it. So I called tech support, who ended up telling me I needed to do a factory reset. So, pissed as I was at having to, that's what I did. The good news was ALL my contacts came back once I put my gmail account info in. I linked up to my WIFI and downloaded all my info, and updated the stock apps.

Here's where the fun starts....I then went back a couple hours later to finish downloading my particular apps. Well, the system says I might want to use WIFI due to the large amount of data, and I think "Strange, I don't remember turning off the WIFI, but ok." I hit the WIFI button and it turns on and then immediately turns off. I try it a few times, reboot and try again, and then call tech support once more. Guess what the outcome is? Factory reset! So, I go through that once more and as soon as the phone is back up, I try the WIFI and it still won't work.

A third call to tech support and I have a new (probably refurbished) phone coming tomorrow. Thank you Lollipop!