Crazy battery drain outta nowhere :(

Not sure if this has been mentioned in this particular thread or not, so I apologize if it has already been discussed. Normally I can get about 2 days use without a recharge, but I've noticed that occasionally (maybe once a week or two) I get the dreaded battery drain problem. I've found the solution for my phone's battery issues, and hopefully it will resolve others' battery issues too.

Last time I had the bad battery drain I checked the battery log to see what was going on. For most of the day it had been draining at about 1-3% an hour, and then mid-afternoon it jumped to something like 12-14% drainage an hour with no change in any of the phone's settings (I used 'Battery Status' to monitor drainage). I'd read before that the official statement on battery drain was something to do with Skype or Facebook syncing in a loop. I don't have Skype, so I checked Facebook (not the app, but the built in account).

I went into settings + email & accounts and noticed that the Facebook account was "not up to date". I tried to manually synced Facebook and received the 'unable to sync' error (or whatever it says). I manually synced again and the second time it synced correctly. I continued to monitor battery drain for the rest of the day. As soon as I was able to sync FB, the battery drain disappeared. I was back to about 1-3% drain per hour. I haven't had battery drain since, so I haven't been able to really double check to see if this works every time. I'll report back if it happens again.

So for those having issues, maybe check the same settings and try to manually sync Facebook. Just to be clear, I mean the Facebook account tied to the phone and NOT the Facebook app. This was the solution for me. Hope that helps.
 
I had a similar problem. My L920 would go from a full charge to 10% in about 4-5 hours with very minimal usage in that time. I checked in accounts and for some reason my MS account was syncing and failing every second or so. I've switched this back to once a day and so far it's been much better.

It looks like my MS acct somehow messed the password up, selecting "show password" and it just displayed ****************, re-entering my password has fixed the sync & hopefully the battery drain.
 
I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the display+touch and extras+info updates I got a couple of days back. Up until then the battery was great. But now I'm having the same issues everyone else seems to be having. Have tried doing multiple soft resets. I haven't downloaded or updated any apps. The only thing left is a hard reset, but I'm keeping that as a last resort.

Hopefully Nokia can figure out what the heck is happening and fix it!
 
Well, my 920 is nice and toasty right now and the battery is draining at a spectacular rate. Only thing out of the ordinary I did was launch Skype for the first time in weeks. That, and the display and extras updates came in yesterday. Not sure what's to blame, but this is super annoying. Do 8X users have these issues as well, or is HERE Drain a Nokia exclusive?
 

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