- Jun 20, 2012
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Like many, I have having battery issues since 8.1. At first I just put it down to a new Windows install and the usual stuff a fresh copy does to set itself up. In particular the new search functionality would require an indexing to be complete. When that didn't sort it I then looked at the other posts.
I too was seeing the phone get quite warm while doing nothing. For the first few days after the update I was out of the country and roaming so data was off. I thought it might be Bing weather as I had the live tile set to show the weather for my current location. While I was away I what a commute of about 40minutes each way. I wondered if it was changing GPS locations and trying to update which was generating CPU activity. I also wondered if maybe Cortana was causing it. So, I disabled both and drove from Birmingham to London in the UK and the phone still got hot, especially if it was in my pocket.
Through all of this I had WiFi, location services and Bluetooth on. I figured I would wait until I got back to Canada where I am able to get a solid LTE connection and am used to getting 2-3 days of use with everything on. So I got home yesterday and was still seeing abnormal battery usage.
I then read a post here somewhere that suggested turning off wifi sense. It seems it might make a difference. After 9 hours still 78%. We shall see, but so far looks promising. Kudos to the original poster.
We should not have to turn off all the goodness in our devices to get decent battery life.
I too was seeing the phone get quite warm while doing nothing. For the first few days after the update I was out of the country and roaming so data was off. I thought it might be Bing weather as I had the live tile set to show the weather for my current location. While I was away I what a commute of about 40minutes each way. I wondered if it was changing GPS locations and trying to update which was generating CPU activity. I also wondered if maybe Cortana was causing it. So, I disabled both and drove from Birmingham to London in the UK and the phone still got hot, especially if it was in my pocket.
Through all of this I had WiFi, location services and Bluetooth on. I figured I would wait until I got back to Canada where I am able to get a solid LTE connection and am used to getting 2-3 days of use with everything on. So I got home yesterday and was still seeing abnormal battery usage.
I then read a post here somewhere that suggested turning off wifi sense. It seems it might make a difference. After 9 hours still 78%. We shall see, but so far looks promising. Kudos to the original poster.
We should not have to turn off all the goodness in our devices to get decent battery life.
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