Since I got my Phairphone 6 the battery is draining faster than expected. This has been going on since september, but this week the battery was functioning normally for a couple of days without me doing something different.
Most of the time my battery won’t last for more than a day, even when I don’t use it that much. It is especially weird that it drains 20-40% each night while I don’t use my phone and it is in battery saving mode. Looking at the battery use I think there is a problem with the mobile network/mobile data, because it uses A LOT of battery even when I turned the mobile data off.
What I’ve done so far:
Bluetooth and mobile data are turned off when I don’t use them.
I use the battery saving mode at night.
I close my apps when I don’t use them.
Nightmodus is activated by regulated hours.
Battery manager is on
Charging controle is on
Fairphone is updated
Apps are updated
I checked the quality of the battery, there seems to be nothing wrong there
More info:
I use e/os Murena
Battery is charging normally
I suspect the problem is in the mobile data, but I have no clue how to fix it
Screenshot below from a timeframe at night when mobile data was turned off.
Hi!
do you have 5g enabled? That is a big drainer usually. Also if signal is not strong it can make it increase the power, or that I’ve noticed some weeks ago.
For me doing one charge to 100% increases the lifetime as it recalibrated.
You may also try to disable auto select network in our SIM parameters. In e/OS some people also reported that ntfy was draining battery. You can freeze apps you don’t use with e.g hail app. Check the e/os forum for more tips.
It doesn’t matter which ROM I’m using. Stock OS, iode OS, eOS. All with the same behavior during night time. All apps are <1% usage. Therefore I’m really confident it’s not because of a certain app. Mobile Network is at around 95-99% of system usage.
I’ll try disabling the auto select network and see if it changes anything.
Today I set up the preferred network to 4G and turned “automatically select network” off. The battery drained less then in a normal day, but still the mobile network used 86% of the battery since midnight. It is about 90% when the mobile network is turned on and about 50-60% when turned off.
For the apps, that seems normal. Apps are only using a lot of battery when I’m using them a lot.
Same problem here. FP6 with e/OS since august. I could go a whole week without charging the phone with 5G on. Last week I updated to the recent OS version and now my battery is drained after 4 days. I think this is indeed a problem with e/OS. Hope they solve it soon.
