Battery life with WP 8.1

[jeetu4444]

Running 8.1 on my Lumia 1020 (on Telus Mobility in Canada) with the Region set to United States so I can use Cortana. The battery life went from 15 hours+ on WP8 to barely 7 hours on WP8.1.

Any suggestions?

bro check your email setting...set it to every 30 mins or soo....and disable background apps u dont use

sent from Lumia 1020 or Note 3 dual sim

 

[bijak_riyandi]

after several weeks I'm feeling the battery is now a little bit better...
one thing for sure is don't set your email accounts to retrieve messages as soon as it's arrived

 

[Vindies37]

well I guess i have no problems with mine... Viber Calls, Facebook, Surfing the web, YouTube... normal usage

 

[faalil]

My Lumia 920 is back to normal after two weeks, I disabled Cortana as I not use her much and removed start background image.. Now I can notice serious battery improvements.. But battery is dying so fast when I browsing internet using data connection as usual in Lumia 920

 

[rcazador]

Its generally good, except overnight battery drain has double. Its on Airplane mode with no data connection and hardly any background tasks still burns 8%.

 

[gosmikes]

This is insane, just look at this (I did a soft reset as a game crashed and refused to close yesterday, if that matters)



All of those apps are burning battery 'in background' with small or none battery drain is use.

Why is this happening?

 

[EwingMCSE]

I had horrible batter drain initially, but disabled a few things and now my battery life is back where it was prior to the 8.1 upgrade
1- Location services ON, but most individual apps I've set to not able to use it.
2- Cortana is ON
3- WIFI is ON, but WIFI sense is OFF
4- Sync Settings (themes, favorites, etc.) off.
5- Email accounts were deleted and then re-added with sync at every 30 minutes for 7 days of mail
6- Battery Saver is OFF - This was the single biggest drain on my battery. Even Battery Saver listed itself as the #1 drain on the battery

I've had a couple of instances where the phone starts to heat up like crazy and gets stuck in the "Loading...." screen when I hit the power button. All I've had to do is turn the phone off and back on to resolve this.

As time goes on the battery life and phone stability seem to be improving (no idea how that'd work).

Even with pretty moderate usage throughout the day (Weave News - a big drainer, lots of texting, weather, sports, some Cortana, Nokia Mix Radio) I am finishing my day (from 7am to Midnight) around 50% battery.

It was horrible at first, but this is completely acceptable now. More than I need to get through the day on my Lumia Icon.

 

[constantinosmi]

This is insane, just look at this (I did a soft reset as a game crashed and refused to close yesterday, if that matters)


All of those apps are burning battery 'in background' with small or none battery drain is use.

Why is this happening?

This is a bug that occurs when you do a soft reset. Give it time (at least 24 hours) and it will be back to normal.

 

[oryan_dunn]

I have a feeling that (in my case at least), there is some hardware that isn't being put to sleep like it should. It seems like maybe a driver in the 8.1 update may not be working with power management, or perhaps the processor never enters a low power sleep state. I've tried all the various combinataions that I listed earlier, and it seems nothing makes any difference. If I have the phone off and don't use it at all, I can get maybe 10hrs. If I use bluetooth, stream music, etc. I get 7-8hrs. Before, if I was using it heavily, I'd easily get 12hrs, and if I didn't use it much, would easily get 24hrs and likely more. I'm in a somewhat unique situation among most WPC users in that my ****ty carrier aio still hasn't released Black, so I'm on 8.1 with Amber firmware.

 

[punitsingh325]

My Lumia 720's battery life is matching that of an android

 

[anon(5348756)]

My 920 seemed to have shorter battery life the 1st weeks with wp8.1, but after a couple weeks now it seems to have stabilized. While battery drain is certainly... different than it was, meaning it seems to drain more at different times (when I'm staying in 1 place for a while it seems to do a MUCH better job at keeping battery life, while when I'm on the move location services obviously use more power) it still gets me through the day and I'll usually end at night with anywhere from 5 to 20% battery. As long as it lasts through the day, I'm happy.

 

[Deepak Patel3]

wp 8.1 battery life ... for lumia 925 ... 4/10.... hope it will improve in the next update....
otherwise these phones will become boxes.... with small windows.. and ms have to implement new solar charger cases...

 

[antodelg]

I am very happy with 8.1 and battery life,
yesterday, I broke my record with more than 39 hours without charging (NFC, BT, GPS and WiFI enabled)

 

[Jan Tomsic]

After hard resetting my 925 (settings -> about -> reset your phone) and setting it up as new (not from backup) my battery i back to almost normal. Maybe 1 hour less then before, but that should be fixed with Lumia Cyan in the summer.
On my wifes 720 I did the restore from backup (after resetting) and the battery life is almost the same as before.

Reset your phones after updating and the battery will be back (mostly)

 

[Altaf Nadaf1]

I m the user of L925 even i was going wit the same problem, after soft reset i got the battery backup back discharge speed is 2.85% per hour now

 

[Will6371]

wp 8.1 battery life ... for lumia 925 ... 4/10.... hope it will improve in the next update....
otherwise these phones will become boxes.... with small windows.. and ms have to implement new solar charger cases...

Insightful

 

[jddumawa]

Im using 625 and i must say my battery is fine. I did a hard reset though and all apps'location disabled except for blueskies, messenger and breaking news app. Touch is set to normal and double tap to wake is OFF. I noticed a drain only once when i turned double tap to wake ON.

 

[jeetu4444]

My Lumia battery life is good after I did few settings.... Its still not as good as windows 8 but way better than it was when I just installed 8.1 preview.... Getting 18 hrs of medium use.... And we are getting many apps update for windows 8.1... To optimize it for 8.1... Happy with my Lumia 1020.

 

[cbreze]

Another day that my icon's battery went all day and some to spare. These days are becoming more and more frequent. I do believe my battery is becoming adjusted to 8.1 and is nicely settled in. Its been 2 weeks and 2 days since I updated and I'm still very happy with things. Sorry for those still having issues.

 

[stol z powylamywanymi nogami]

Yup, new record on 8.1

3 days without charging.. but on 8.0 my record is over 5 days.

Lumia 620.

I'm suprised people have 100% usage of aps in battery saver.. For me it look like this.