Updated and Battery is Worse!

[vdubskey]

I have my phone setup exactly as before. No new apps, only have 3 apps in background tasks. My outlook email is set to as items arrive, NFC is off as well as Bluetooth and always on WiFi which I think is pointless, for me anyways. Only difference is portico.

 

[ibuyufo]

I used the nokia care suite and "refurbished" my phone and now it's back to normal. 8 hours since last charge and still have 89% battery left.

 

[jdhooghe]

What do you mean refurbished?

 

[jayruguitar]

My battery has been thrown off the fiscal cliff after Portico....:angry:

 

[ibuyufo]

There is an option in the suite to "refurbish" the phone which is just erasing all the data in the phone and re-installing the latest windows phone 8 OS for the selected phone.

 

[vdubskey]

My battery has been thrown off the fiscal cliff after Portico....:angry:

I LOL'd at this comment.

 

[vingengo]

If I were you, I would get a replacement.

I'm on my third one and so far so good. For the first week, I would let the battery drain all the way and then charge it to 100%.

 

[cbrunn2]

I just restarted my phone and everything went back to normal ... must of been something stuck running ... hopefully it doesn't make a habbit of it ... i was down to like 60% before 1 with barley any use , restarted ... and now it's 520 and i have 54% still ... well that's my story

 

[MacDaMachine]

I had a huge battery drain problem before portico. And ever since I updated to portico its gone. My phone never even gets warm unless I'm charging it.

 

[jdhooghe]

Amazing weather HD is not a fan of portico. Still more testing is required but I was losing like 1% every five minutes. Seems to be gone now

 

[Derausgewanderte]

I did have the same issue after the update. Great battery life before the update with typically >40% battery remaining at 10pm. After update it went down to the single digits at 6pm. Came here to find this thread. I did a soft reset and after the phone booted it showed 35%. Barely losing capacity. As some noted this probably is related to something that got stuck using up CPU and is fixed with a soft reset or reboot.
thank you

 

[snakebitten]

I have a happy 920 before and after the update.

But, after update, each reboot results in screen being VERY bright, even though I do not have auto-brightness enabled. And I have it set to low.
Weird. So I have to switch it to medium or bright and then back to low to get it back to low.

Phone is gorgeous that bright. But i would rather have extended battery life than a suntan on my face.

 

[Skeleknights]

Is this battery life considered normal for heavy use?

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Location>Off
Wifi>On, and always on [Checkbox]
Bluetooth>Off
NFC>off
Background>WPCentral

I have drained the battery completely 3 times. Not sure if this would be considered normal. Let me know and thanks in advance.

 

[Derausgewanderte]

I have a happy 920 before and after the update.

But, after update, each reboot results in screen being VERY bright, even though I do not have auto-brightness enabled. And I have it set to low.
Weird. So I have to switch it to medium or bright and then back to low to get it back to low.

Phone is gorgeous that bright. But i would rather have extended battery life than a suntan on my face.

have you tried to turn off sunlight readability under display+touch in settings? that changed the brightness behavior on mine.

 

[PhilipArgy]

Nokia Drive is usually the culprit - make sure your Settings/Background Tasks are off for everything you don't want to run behind the scenes and battery life will go up considerably. I went from 4.5 hours and a permanently warm phone to 12 hours battery life and a cool phone by doing that!

 

[Skeleknights]

Nokia Drive is usually the culprit - make sure your Settings/Background Tasks are off for everything you don't want to run behind the scenes and battery life will go up considerably. I went from 4.5 hours and a permanently warm phone to 12 hours battery life and a cool phone by doing that!

Warm is normal with heavy usages? Warm doesn't affect battery life right? (Just curious)

 

[snakebitten]

have you tried to turn off sunlight readability under display+touch in settings? that changed the brightness behavior on mine.

Was hoping that worked. But after reboot the phone was back to high although still set to low.

Not a big deal. Just strange after update. I rarely reboot. The update itself was the first one in a couple of weeks.

Thanks though!

 

[joeynox]

I didn't have Nokia drive installed prior to the update but the update installed it and that's when I noticed the major drain on my phone even thou I never opened it. I removed it and I'm currently monitoring the phones usage.

 

[RickFelt]

My batter life has turned into complete and utter trash since the update. I hardly talked on the phone and send texts back and forth for a few hours and a little bit of IE browsing and it died within 7 hours. I bought this phone a week after it came out. Is there any chance I can exchange it for another one even though that 30 days has well passed?

 

[Skeleknights]

My batter life has turned into complete and utter trash since the update. I hardly talked on the phone and send texts back and forth for a few hours and a little bit of IE browsing and it died within 7 hours. I bought this phone a week after it came out. Is there any chance I can exchange it for another one even though that 30 days has well passed?

I doubt it. If you upgraded the phone and the problems persisted, you'll need to call AT&T to have them rollback your upgrades after you stated your problems that makes you keep exchanging phones. I did and it works but depends on the reason.