Thanks for the suggestions. No, would not want to go down the root path
Also I did not “debloat” it, because, compared to my previous samsung, this already feels debloated enough . If you refer to remove some of the google services, I use them quite a bit.
I’ll wait few extra days to see what happens, but this is looking not great. For instance, the official android battery usage stats reports 5% battery gone with 16 minutes of moderate browsing. Honestly it seems like it’s just the wifi - this phone is much, much faster at loading websites than my previous one (probably 10 times faster), but it comes with a hefty price in terms of battery life.
At the end of the day I will have to see if the limitations of the phone (mediocre battery life, absence of a proper way to see notifications when off, so and so camera performance) are ok for me to put up with. I understand that for people that feel more adventurous, there are other paths possible - but I sadly don’t much time to tinker between work and family. Since I don’t change phones much (last one lasted 4.5 years) I mostly want something no fuss, that “just works” - and this is starting to look like it isn’t it 100% there (which would be a pity because I like the idea behind the phone, and the great community it has!).
Well could be, I had trouble understanding why my fp4 was draining 1-2% per hour during night time when it could take 2 or 3h during day time to drain this 1% (in idle mode of coure). Until I realized my bedroom being upstairs, wifi signal was much much lower and inconsistant, which constantly forces the phone to try get better signal hence use more battery.
But yeah 5% in 16min there’s something fishy right here.
Thought of that too - but at night I leave my phone in airplane mode (and I’ve also disabled bluetooth and wifi scanning). So that shouldn’t be an issue? This morning Google Photos popped up in the battery stats, so I assume it must be running overnight to do who knows what (I do not have syncing of pictures - the microSD is my cloud ).
Also, from where I am, the phone says my wifi signal is “excellent”, so I doubt the drain has to do with interference. I’m using 5Ghz wifi, but so was the old phone (although the old phone could not go past 70Mbps anyway ).
Now that’s weird but not surprising, who knows what dodgy things Google apps are doing on their own while we sleep
A shame you don’t want to root, Servicely does a very good job at preventing those nasty services to work without permission
Something i usually do in all the phones i get is:
first disable WiFi/Bluetooth scanning (both, search for scanning in the settings)
second disable printing service (you will need it when you want to print from the phone directly without using a PC or wifi direct instead)
The scanning settings really helps towards having a better battery autonomy. The second one a bit more.
Another setting i usually disable is to always try to connect to open WiFi points.
There is another feature i remember that helps to switch from wifi to data without interruptions (or the other way around) which kind of says something like “keep mobile data always on”.
I hate to have to manually turn airplane mode at night. I’ve been searching for an airplane mode scheduler app but all I found is tasker automation which I’m not fond of as its another source of battery drain…
Why do you think I need debloat guidelines? I only wanted to give a comparison to the -15% of the OP and wondered if the energy saving mode might be the reason.
Just to note : On my FP3+ I never use energy saving mode just aeroplane mode when I’m resting, ~ so the phone may as well too. I need no notifications until I’m ready.
Oh! the alarm still works
Still the same comparison:
90% → 20% no charging in between.
Very high usage as I’ve been messing with LOS, setting back everything, flashing/playing with magisk modules.
And yet 5h10 of SOT. This is by far the best result I’ve got since I received the device.
Note that I’m running Google services, so this will probably be even better without them.
One thing I noticed is the total absence of drain overnight. I put my phone in plane mode when I go to sleep, with FPOS I usually woke up with 2% lost, with LOS it seems to be less than 1% drain.
Hey @maurizio ,
i have my fairphone 4 since last week and can see exactly what you describe:
When i put my fp4 in airplane mode over night (~8h) it consumes about 15-20% battery. This is kind of really annoying, my previous phone needed only 1-2%.
Your last post in this forum was three months ago, did this changed for you since then? Or what do you experience today with your fairphone 4?
As Amoun stated, you should start by identifying the apps draining the battery, did you notice especially high usage of a single app in the battery section of the settings ?
Since I’ve been moving back from LOS to FPOS, notably FP3S.A.0103 build, I have too noticed an inceased battery use of Google Play Service while idle. Though it doesn’t exceed 8% drain overnight in my case, I still find it too much. I’m still in the process of finding which service in particular is responsible for it.
Unfortunately i wasn’t able to identify which app drains the battery over night… No obvious behavior for now, i thought maybe this levels off automatically after a few nights.
I will try the safe mode and report back within a few days
Maybe until then @maurizio reads this and can report if this behaviour changed for him or if he is still struggling with this effect
Same problem here, I’m not able to identify which is the app that is draining the battery.
I’m thinking of a wipe data and see if that solves the problem