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Help Random high power drain?

thenew3

Android Enthusiast
Has anyone else experienced random high power drain on their S5?

I've got a verizon S5 for almost a month now. Normally when things are working correctly, I see about 1% drain per hour on standby. That's with normal (not power savings mode) mode and email push etc.

But randomly, it will start to drain 15 to 20% per hour and after 4 or so hours the battery will be completely dead. Going into battery it doesn't show anything abnormally draining the battery.

I can reproduce this after using the camera app. But sometimes its doing this even when I haven't used the camera app.

The fix is always a reboot. After a reboot, it goes back to normal 1% drain per hour in standby. Then some random amount of time later ( sometimes a few hours later, other times a few days later), it will randomly start to drain the battery very quickly again until another reset.
I've tried closing all running apps as well as trying to turn on power savings mode. neither makes any difference.

Has anyone else seen this and discovered a fix?
 
Has anyone else experienced random high power drain on their S5?

I've got a verizon S5 for almost a month now. Normally when things are working correctly, I see about 1% drain per hour on standby. That's with normal (not power savings mode) mode and email push etc.

But randomly, it will start to drain 15 to 20% per hour and after 4 or so hours the battery will be completely dead. Going into battery it doesn't show anything abnormally draining the battery.

I can reproduce this after using the camera app. But sometimes its doing this even when I haven't used the camera app.

The fix is always a reboot. After a reboot, it goes back to normal 1% drain per hour in standby. Then some random amount of time later ( sometimes a few hours later, other times a few days later), it will randomly start to drain the battery very quickly again until another reset.
I've tried closing all running apps as well as trying to turn on power savings mode. neither makes any difference.

Has anyone else seen this and discovered a fix?

some app may be the cause. . . check your running apps and disable those useless ones.. or get CPU monitor to check the running services that have high CPU usage..
 
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