Abnormally High Cell Standby on Battery Usage

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greyhulk

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Is the "charge to full" step absolutely necessary? Only wondering because I turned off Wifi and haven't seen much of a change. That would kind of suck if I have to leave Wifi off all the time to get decent battery life.
 

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Is the "charge to full" step absolutely necessary? Only wondering because I turned off Wifi and haven't seen much of a change. That would kind of suck if I have to leave Wifi off all the time to get decent battery life.

I'm sure issue will get fixed on a update. Keep in mind phone is technically not being released until April 10th. We are the lucky ones!
 
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russianzilla

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I've had massive battery drain today, but for some reason I don't even see cell standby in the list of battery stats. Any idea why that might be?
 

russianzilla

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Post a picture of usage.

Attached. Also, I swear when I posted earlier, cell standby wasn't in the list, but it is now.

Screen-on time when I took these was around the 1:50 mark. Also, I'm a little concerned with how much energy Google Services is taking up...
 

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flameinthefire

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I'm experiencing the same issue guys. This is frustrating :( i even did factory reset and turned of wifi calling. it doesn't seem to help.
 

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Good cell signal all day too. Never dropped off LTE. And stronger speeds than my Nexus 6. Weird!
 

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flarbear

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There's a Google services fix in the play store. Helped fix those types of errors on the G2 & may be worth a shot for you guys

Under what name? I don't see Google Services (or Google Play Services) listed under "My Apps" either for an update or in the list of up-to-date apps or using a search...?
 

russianzilla

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I found an app called GServiceFix that seems to be the one referenced.

Based on the reviews and the lack of an actual explanation of what it does, it looks a little too sketchy for me.

As an aside, it looks like the real culprit for high standby usage might be VoLTE, not Wi-Fi. I turned off VoLTE, turned on Wi-Fi, charged my phone to 100%, then left it on battery overnight to measure standby. I only lost about 10% over seven hours, and according to battery stats only 1 - 2% was actually standby. The rest was Google Services and some other stuff.
 
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As an aside, it looks like the real culprit for high standby usage might be VoLTE, not Wi-Fi. I turned off VoLTE, turned on Wi-Fi, charged my phone to 100%, then left it on battery overnight to measure standby. I only lost about 10% over seven hours, and according to battery stats only 1 - 2% was actually standby. The rest was Google Services and some other stuff.[/QUOTE]

Same case happened after I turned off VoLTE and wi-fi calling.
6% battery drain for 7 1/2 hrs standby with wi-fi on.
Cell standby accounts for 1% of battery usage.
 
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As an aside, it looks like the real culprit for high standby usage might be VoLTE, not Wi-Fi. I turned off VoLTE, turned on Wi-Fi, charged my phone to 100%, then left it on battery overnight to measure standby. I only lost about 10% over seven hours, and according to battery stats only 1 - 2% was actually standby. The rest was Google Services and some other stuff.

Same case happened after I turned off VoLTE and wi-fi calling.
6% battery drain for 7 1/2 hrs standby with wi-fi on.
Cell standby accounts for 1% of battery usage.[/QUOTE]

Will be trying this tomorrow (no VoLTE, but WiFI on).
 

kyleresq

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I'm on AT&T, same issue. Cell standby is a 24%. I took my phone off the charger at 7:30 AM. I was at 37% at about 5 o'clock with very light usage. Charging now to get through the evening.
 

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    I found an app called GServiceFix that seems to be the one referenced.

    Based on the reviews and the lack of an actual explanation of what it does, it looks a little too sketchy for me.

    As an aside, it looks like the real culprit for high standby usage might be VoLTE, not Wi-Fi. I turned off VoLTE, turned on Wi-Fi, charged my phone to 100%, then left it on battery overnight to measure standby. I only lost about 10% over seven hours, and according to battery stats only 1 - 2% was actually standby. The rest was Google Services and some other stuff.