I fall asleep and my phone is on 90% battery charge or so. Then I wake up-- and it’s on 20% or less.
Why is my phone dying even if the screen is black?
A solution is to leave it plugged in while I sleep, I get it.
I am just confused as to why the phone is dying when I am not even touching it.
Why is it dying when not in use?
At work, I put it in my pocket and don’t even touch it. I come home and look-- bam it’s almost dead. Didn’t even use it-- why is it dead?
Galaxy Edge is the type
Turn off any background processes and wifi etc.
If the problem doesn’t fix itself, your battery may have an issue.
Check the apps and see what’s running.
Even better, check the battery and see what’s been draining it. If it’s running Android, it’ll show you exactly what percentage of the battery each program has used.
But I’d start with looking at what programs are currently running. Never know, you might have a game or a GPS map or something that never quit when you exited and now it’s always running. If it’s hunting for wifi or has a wonky signal or if it’s roaming, that can sometimes cause it to drain the battery as well.
Also, you didn’t mention how old the phone is and how long you slept for. If it’s a 3 year old phone and you left it alone for 12 hours, that’s not unexpected.
You have angered the Magic Blue Smoke Within somehow and it seeks vengeance by slightly irritating you everyday.
How is the signal strength? If you’re in an area of low strength, the phone will crank up the power to the cellular radios, which will drain a battery faster.
The OP isn’t the clearest, there are more than one edge model out there. One’s been out since 11/14, the second since 4/15 and the third since 8/15.
If it’s one of the newer models, you should be getting a day out of it easily. Google is your friend, as are Android help sites like Android Authority, which can give advice on what settings to use for best battery life. The biggest ones are already mentioned, keep location services off until you’re running an app that needs it - then remember to turn it off when you’re done. Keep searches for open wifi networks off until you need it, and make sure you’re not in a LTE service hole that makes your phone constantly search for the cellular network. My second job is in a steel/brick building with few windows, I put it in airplane mode when I’m there so my battery doesn’t drain.
Galaxy S6edge, I get a day with about 20% left by the time I get home, if I’ve been using moderately through the day. I do a “close all apps” wipe a couple times a day, too, and that seems to help.
This phone is the Galaxy S6 Edge. I’ve had it maybe 3 or 4 months.
I typically only have 2 bars of reception on my phone. When I’m at work I suppose it’s trying to connect to the WiFi. I will try disabling WiFi then to see if this helps. I close out all apps regularly, etc.
I’m going to just turn it off when not in use until I can purchase an iPhone again (same provider). My iPhones have never done this to me. This is despicable.
You might not have noticed it, but iPhones run through power the same as Android. I think about my car. It has lights, heater, ac, windshield wipers, radio, CD player, and two usb ports. Obviously, I can’t run all these devices at once. Do I walk to my car and think “first I will turn on the ac, then the lights, then choose a source for music.” No, I just do it through years of experience. That’s what I try to train myself to do with the phone. Learning to switch the modes automatically between work, car, and home. oh, and clearing the cache and turning off notifications.
It’s not the phone, it’s you. Like I said, I get a full day out of mine just fine. Based on all the people at work who are looking for iPhone chargers every day, I’m going with settings issues no matter the model.
I turn off, WIFI, Blue Tooth and mobile network capability to get the most out of the battery life.
Check out the apps JuiceDefender and Greenify. Both will help in different ways. JuiceDefender will intelligently manage your radios based on your location, and it do things like CPU throttling, screen brightness management etc, too.
Greenify will allow you to freeze applilcations that are running in the background, especially the useless Samsung bloatware apps.
You might need to be rooted to get the full benefit from them though.
Restarting the phone usually sorts this problem.
This is due, to the fact, that the Android phone is not able to really or fully close an application when you thought you closed it.
That application may be still running full blast in the background and drain your battery.
Therefor, restart your phone and when you find out which which app is causing this, then either restart your phone after using that app, update or uninstall that app.
Android allows apps to run roughshod over your battery. After dropping my (Windows) phone, I had to go back to this piece of junk Nexus 5. do what Joey P said and look in the Settings, it should show which apps are most active.
Is overcharging an actual thing that messes batteries up?
Not anymore.
the hardware which actually controls battery charging is inside the phone, it won’t let you overcharge it.
I don’t know what rooted means-- care to explain? I am downloading the two you’ve mentioned now.
Also it says my usage is used 32% on cell standby, 16% on screen, 10% on android system, 8% on Chrome, 6% on OS
These seem to be all the very basics? Don’t think I can disable any of that. Shouldn’t be draining so quickly!
I don’t have any applications installed on my phone aside from what comes with Samsung, my bank app which I use rarely, and an app called iTriage-- also rarely used.
Looking forward to the Juice and the Greenify.
It’s the phone equivalent of having Administrator access to your PC. Your apps can do a LOT more to manage the hardware if you have root. Root access is often hidden away and/or locked on carrier models.
There are tutorials out there on the net for most models. Just do a Google search for “Samsung Galaxy YOURMODELNO.HERE root tutorial” if you want root access. It might void your warranty though.
I agree 99% with this. I helped a friend with her phone’s battery problems, eventually swapping batteries between our phones. Her battery lasted a few hours in my phone. It was a bad battery, right out of the box.
Your cell standby seems very high, try turning off “Scanning always available” by clicking on the Wifi settings, then - Advanced Wi-Fi.
Then restart the phone.