Apparently the WiFi AND something else is overly draining the battery. This is what I'm experiencing. Read the posts on XDA it's not fully gone it seems.
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Android 5.0 Lollipop announced
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Apparently the WiFi AND something else is overly draining the battery. This is what I'm experiencing. Read the posts on XDA it's not fully gone it seems.
RedRooster
Member
When it forced me to merge my Hotmail into GMail, it turned on Hotmail contacts sync automatically, and shit up my contacts list with useless Hotmail people.
I found if I went into the contact that had just an email address, and deleted ALL information about the user(email, first and last names) and then before saving the changes just chose delete it would delete the contact.
Phoenix
Member
Wasn't aware you could do it before. I can get to vibrate by just holding the volume button down though.
Yeah. Before you just tapped volume down when on vibrate and boom, silent mode.
It needed to back up the data to an NSA server before wiping.
So, for some reason whenever i'd try to go into language and input settings i'd get a crash message and it would never open. So I redownloaded the google keyboard and it let me into settings. (Before I only had swiftkey installed)
When you have more than one keyboard in use there is no icon in the top bar anymore like in kitkat..
OH.MY.GOD FINALLY!!
So much better, I used to absolutely hate that.
It now appears button right next to multi tasking button.
When you have more than one keyboard in use there is no icon in the top bar anymore like in kitkat..
OH.MY.GOD FINALLY!!
So much better, I used to absolutely hate that.
It now appears button right next to multi tasking button.
So, for some reason whenever i'd try to go into language and input settings i'd get a crash message and it would never open. So I redownloaded the google keyboard and it let me into settings. (Before I only had swiftkey installed)
When you have more than one keyboard in use there is no icon in the top bar anymore like in kitkat..
OH.MY.GOD FINALLY!!
So much better, I used to absolutely hate that.
It now appears button right next to multi tasking button.
Overlooked everything once I saw SUUUUGOOOOIIIII.
Why.
I was pretty surprised when I realized the Photos app doesn't have this option. Seems to have everything else from the Gallery app in the Photos app's crop section, but not the mirror option.
TouchMyBox
Member
Do not disturb mode.
Ah, geez. Thanks for the answer
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Weird, should just be there.
Nope, the star means you're in priority mode. The icon for no disturbances is a circle with a line going through it.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
For the third time, has anyone else not been able to default your own ringtone on lollipop? Ever since the update no matter which ringtone I choose it defaults to this newer one on the phone. Haven't tried hangouts calls or nothing but I was able to customize my ringtone for the phone app and now it just wont revert back to my own ringtone.
UnderWaterTree
Member
got it on my nexus 5 its pretty good so far
Have you tried changing the ringtone in the phone/dialer app settings rather than system settings?
Yeah not sure why tho since flipping a picture option should be standard
but now I downloaded QuickPic just to have this feature
Katzenjammer
Member
Yay, last night I forgot to take my phone out of the new silent mode, and now I'm one and a half hours late for work because the alarm didn't go off. Whoever designed this and thought it was a good idea? It was my second night after updating the phone to lollipop.
Soodanim
Member
You could set it to priority mode and only let alarms through. Or you could set it to super silent for X hours overnight, so you don't get woken up but you still get your alarm. The problem with that is they seem to not let you use preset times (jumps from 4 to 8 hours).
But they do need to bring back old silent. I know they tried to have alternatives, but sometimes there's nothing more simple and perfect than the way the old one worked.
MarkMclovin
Member
When you press NONE it even says in red that not even the alarm will go off.
Got the OTA yesterday, I've been playing wth the new priority/notification system, it will take a while to get used to it, but it has great ideas behind.
What I don't like right now is that it the volume slider is just ON or VIBRATE, not a total OFF for both settings like before, or am I missing something?
What I don't like right now is that it the volume slider is just ON or VIBRATE, not a total OFF for both settings like before, or am I missing something?
Hydrargyrus
Member
I've finally get the OTA update in my Nexus 5!
Katzenjammer
Member
Priority mode isn't intended to be used just to let the alarm through though, is it? I think I will start putting it in airplane mode when going to sleep, it should solve the problem. Actually priority mode would be fine if it could just turn off vibrations on an app to app basis.
Yes, but I did this hours before going to bed and forgot about it. Of course it's a user error, but I haven't gotten used to it yet. It just shows how unintuitive it is.
Set a timescale on priority mode. You don't even have to worry about turning down/up your phone. Granted its prob not the solution if you work shifts.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
You can do exactly that. In the notification settings for each app there's a setting for making that app's notifications a priority or not. By default it's turned off for all apps. So turn it on for the apps you deem most important, enter priority mode, and you should be set.
Priority mode still let's through vibration for apps even though I have none of them enabled for priority mode. The solution I'm using at the moment is to use "Silent Mode Widget" and toggle it through the options until it gives me the priority mode star without vibration. Then I basically have silent mode as I had before.
Soodanim
Member
I love notification cards being visible from the lock screen and I love that you can see and block sensitive content as desired, but it would be so much better if smart lock could unlock the sensitive content when it recognises you. So if Google fancy adding that when they're patching in classic silent and giving us a customisable priority/full silent mode (instead of just 1/2/4/8 hours) that would be lovely.
Personally, and I guess that most people do this, I have it so my starred contacts can get hold of me any time (rare, but happens), and I do that at night during my sleeping hours. So I'll never miss an urgent call from my parents or closest friends due to sleep, but I won't be woken up by a message at 6am that won't ever be worth me waking up. If you did the same, you'd probably never get calls from your starred anyway (depending on who they are) and you'd get those alarms.
It's customisation settings let it be what you want it to be. The switches are there so you can turn off calls and messages, letting it just be silent with alarms.
Personally, and I guess that most people do this, I have it so my starred contacts can get hold of me any time (rare, but happens), and I do that at night during my sleeping hours. So I'll never miss an urgent call from my parents or closest friends due to sleep, but I won't be woken up by a message at 6am that won't ever be worth me waking up. If you did the same, you'd probably never get calls from your starred anyway (depending on who they are) and you'd get those alarms.
Sticky Fingers
Member
I got the update yesterday morning on my nexus 5, so far it's really smooth and there's no lag. My only problem so far is last night when I'm going to sleep I've charge it to 100, and when I wake up its 72% with Google play services suck all the battery and it makes my phone stay awake for the night. The other problem I had is chrome always crash when I'm browsing, always, I rarely get this problem when using kit kat. let's see if tonight the problem persist.
Sophistical Bunt
Banned
I disabled that location-based smart lock feature in the end. It didn't seem to work consistently when I'm at home. I would look on the map and the marker showing my location hadn't moved and I was still inside the circle that shows the range of the smart lock, yet sometimes I would go to unlock my phone and I'd be presented with the "enter PIN" screen still.
I wish they would just add trusted wi-fi networks to it, so that I can say "when I'm connected to my home wi-fi, never ask me for my PIN".
I wish they would just add trusted wi-fi networks to it, so that I can say "when I'm connected to my home wi-fi, never ask me for my PIN".
N5. My Bluetooth light stays on even if no devices are near. I had to turn it off manually. Previously the symbol would be there but not lit up. Now it's on all the time.
Couldn't that be a result of the new function where it checks for familiar Bluetooth devices to disable the lockscreen?
Edit: Sweet, seems like Motorola is actually looking into the RAM situation with the Moto G, they're collecting info about RAM usage to see if they can make multi-tasking a bit more viable. Not that I've personally had any issues with it, I don't constantly switch between games and other shit, but still, if Chrome tabs stayed in RAM just a little bit longer that would be aces!
Or I could just root it and fiddle with the minram setting and sort it out myself. Phone was cheap enough that lost warranty isn't exactly something that makes me sad.
Then there's the question of whether Lubricus has SmartLock enabled.
MarkMclovin
Member
If there's anything that Google messed up with this update, is to show users all the new features and guide on how to use them.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Yeah, you toggle by tapping now, which makes much more sense than how the old quick settings worked. To get into the Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth) settings you now tap the text below the icon.
People have reported that draining the battery completely and giving the phone a full charge seems to at the very least restore battery life, some see an improvement though. I suppose it'll get better over time as more and more apps update their power management stuffs.
its all over the web - lollipop drains faster. there is a very nice post on XDA with tests showing lollipop over KK and its worse.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-drain-t2939701/page23
Well then. Couple those posts with the above post about his Bluetooth not entering a rest state I'm chalking this up to bugs. Growing pains etc. Isn't that also the point of the soak tests? Surely we'll see a 5.0.1 pretty soon. [/wildspeculation]
Kinda funny though, given how proud they seemed to be with Volta ;P
Off-Topic: God damn if the XDA-Dev forms isn't just the shittiest looking forum ever, such a messy layout
Edit: Wtf the RAM issues I read from other Moto G users is like "I cant listen to music while using Google Maps". So I started the music player, opened up 8 tabs in Chrome, started Minecraft then opened up Google Maps. Music kept going, the other apps did get flushed, but still. Not a huge problem. I wonder if those other people are running crazy ass launchers or something.
I'll put this way, don't expect 5.0 to be the version of Lollipop that many OEM's ship with. Expect to see a 5.0.1 before January, seriously. ICS eventually got stable at 4.0.3, JB was 4.1.2, 4.2.2 and 4.3.1. KK was 4.4.3/4.4.4. The main reason for this, is that Adobe Air apps are completely incompatible with 5.0. I believe this is because they can't run on ART and thus the OS throws them away during the upgrade. Then again, why the fuck anyone would use god damn Adobe Air is beyond me.
In regards to Volta, it does seem to be helping somewhat. Battery scheduler features are working better, but we'll have to wait for major battery drains (Play Services, GMS) to actually be updated to take advantage of them. With Google, one team implements the tools, the others update the apps... Things take time to trickle down.
In regards to Volta, it does seem to be helping somewhat. Battery scheduler features are working better, but we'll have to wait for major battery drains (Play Services, GMS) to actually be updated to take advantage of them. With Google, one team implements the tools, the others update the apps... Things take time to trickle down.
Doesnt Volta only work in battery saver mode?
Also - Im not in a 4G area - so i siwthced my Nexus to 3G - do you think will help?
EDIT
Since turning my phone to 3G and doing a full charge my battery now reports 1 full day and 2 hours lol (IF ONLY). I have wifi off atm.