Lumia 950 battery drains rapidly

Anonymous
2015-11-23T01:12:15+00:00

My Lumia 950 was at 95% battery today.  I had it in my pocket for 2 hours and didn't take it out once or use it in any ways.  After 2 hours I pulled my phone out and it was at 72% and it felt very hot.  Is this the experience others are having with their Lumia 950 or does this sound like I may have a defective phone and/or battery?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-24T21:33:31+00:00

    I have the exact same issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-22T14:10:12+00:00

    This phone is ridiculous. I can charge it all night and the battery dies mid-day without me even using it. It gets very hot also. I think Microsoft should refund everybody their money because they didn't deliver what they promised.

    • Battery sucks.
    • Apps that were promised don't exist
    • Future of eco system not promising
    • Facial recognition a gimmick, I can unlock the phone 3 times with password by the time it recognizes my face.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-11T02:07:19+00:00

    Very good one, LOL, "W10 work-in-progress..."

    MS should use it as a logo.

    The post is still valid even today as of 10th of February

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T22:47:29+00:00

    I feel your pain. Nothing has been fixed in 2 months of being released, typical for both 950 devices:

    -restarts

    -poor battery life

    -Wi-Fi 5g doesn't work

    -text to speech inconsistently works

    -live tiles don't update for read text or emails.

    -impossible to type responses on this website

    -time to leave for work

    -visual voicemail

    what bothers me the most is they broke things that worked perfectly in 8.1

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-12-04T20:12:35+00:00

    Haha, I agree. W10 mobile is still in its infancy in my opinion...right now yeah there isn't really any optimization, but a lot of things I noticed is that MS wants to know how you use your phone to assist with that optimization, but then again, if we leave all of that on to assist, then we can't use our phone for very long...so it's kind of a lose-lose situation.

    Hopefully, it gets to the point of where 7/8 was soon, and I keep telling myself that universal apps/OS will be a good thing.

    Michael0924, there is one thing you can check...it has a built-in battery monitor, if you go to settings -> system -> battery saver -> battery use it shows whats eating up your battery...that should help you narrow things down.

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