Surface RT Windows 8.1 Battery Drain

[Steven Soto]

Is anyone else having this battery drain issue, I recently updated to windows 8.1. It seems to have drain in standby, like the 8.1 preview did. Any solutions thanks!

 

[Jazmac]

I didn't get the RT preview but I did update to 8.1. No difference in battery from before. I can't say if it is better or worse than before but I still don't need to take the charger with me to work. I get home and its just under a half. You seeing more drain? I would guess you might have some of that beta/preview debug code lingering on.

 

[infinidim]

I didn't get the RT preview but I did update to 8.1. No difference in battery from before. I can't say if it is better or worse than before but I still don't need to take the charger with me to work. I get home and its just under a half. You seeing more drain? I would guess you might have some of that beta/preview debug code lingering on.

Not seen any increase in battery drain since 8.1 on the Surface RT. Went straight from 8.0 to 8.1 and didn't install preview.

 

[steelejones100]

I have had NO change in battery life going from 8 to 8.1

 

[inteller]

not seeing standby battery drain, did see it in 8 though.

 

[tpbklake]

Is anyone else having this battery drain issue, I recently updated to windows 8.1. It seems to have drain in standby, like the 8.1 preview did. Any solutions thanks!

I upgraded from the RT 8.1 Preview to RT 8.1 GA on Thursday night and I am experiencing more battery drain than I did on 8.1 Preview. I already had Bluetooth enabled on 8.1 Preview and did not experience the battery drain on the 8.1 Preview.

I have tried turning Bluetooth off and it did not seem to help. The only difference in my application mix is that I have installed the official Facebook app that became available with 8.1.

 

[K3NCentral]

I'm experiencing the same issues. Tried several things disabling BT... no success...
(Preview 8.1 to Release 8.1)
K3N

 

[K3NCentral]

I just run the powercfg /energy command... seems there is an error with the Tegra. I also found a thread on the MS forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...rt-81-ga/6261e20f-73bf-46cb-968e-7aa004b99822

K3N

 

[prlundberg]

I may be having this issue as well, it sure seems like I'm losing battery on standby but I haven't looked at it closely. I also installed the new Facebook app and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if that was causing problems.

 

[inteller]

I will also say that by never letting my surface discharge below 7% I've been able to keep almost all my design charge capacity after 35 charges! this is a LOT better than my first surface which I let die a lot and lost almost 2000mah of charge capacity.

Moral of story, don't let the battery die!

 

[azcruz]

My Surface RT has gone from 8.0 -> 8.1 Preview ->8.1 RTM -> 8.1 GA and currently it still lasts about 10 hours doing my daily work- yesterday from 7:30am - 5:30pm when it prompted it is down to 10% battery life. It's always connected to Wi-Fi by the way.

 

[kristalsoldier]

Hi...

Been a lurker for some time, but wanted to chime in on this. Am experiencing similar issues Wirth battery life after the update. This is not the only thing though. I'll create a new thread and list the major issues that I am facing - maybe if you guys can comment/ advise etc.

Thanks.

Edit: Though, I will say this, I am enjoying using 8.1 - both RT and the regular versions!!! This is what 8.0 should have been! Oh well... better late than never!

 

[6Kings]

I had a huge battery drain when I upgraded my Lenovo tablet from 8.0 to 8.1. Spent a few days trying to figure out and eventually found the bluetooth driver was broken during the upgrade. I downloaded and reinstalled it and now the battery drain is back to normal. This isn't Surface RT per se but it might help others.

 

[inteller]

yes Lenovo issued new drivers on the same day 8.1 came out so I think they were aware of that. I had to do so on my Yoga.

 

[WillysJeepMan]

I just run the powercfg /energy command... seems there is an error with the Tegra. I also found a thread on the MS forum:

Now experiencing battery drain on Windows RT 8.1 GA - Microsoft Community

K3N

Yep, I see the same thing on mine. Battery life is worse now.

 

[katakulli]

Activate Bluetooth. This solves the battery drain in standby.

 

[GCrane1982]

Activate Bluetooth. This solves the battery drain in standby.

This has not made a difference to my battery life

 

[Snazrael]

Also experiencing this issue. Getting about a day and a half of System Uptime with about 4hrs of actual usage whether Bluetooth is on or off.

 

[Steven Soto]

Alright so after some days I noticed it would discharge faster when I'm connected to WiFi, when its disconnected it doesn't drain as fast! Idk see if you guys get the same result.

 

[blindfromthesun]

This is kinda related but my Surface 2 has been getting the black screen issue just like my old RT. If it happens again, I'm returning this pos. When I first started getting the black screen I assumed it was the battery. I almost never knew if my battery fully discharged or had the black screen. Anyone have a similar issue?