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
    2015-12-14T18:56:34+00:00

    I got my Lumia 950 on the first day that it was available and after installing my regular stuff, it worked great, with a battery life of 3 to 4 days; the next charge lasted the same, and the next.  I haven't changed ANYTHING, but as of a couple of days ago, the phone gets hot and the battery life is only about 7 hours.  I now also get a message that the phone is out of memory after I charge it (garbage message since when I check the available memory, there is 24GB available).

    Both of these items seem to be caused by some recent update, or something else that I did not initiate.  Don't give me any hints about changing my settings to improve the battery life; this is a firmware issue that was pushed on me, and NOT some setting that I have made.

    Microsoft, please fix it, or put it back to the way it was.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-11T03:13:57+00:00

    I did a system reset and turned off the Glance Screen and now it is working much better.  But again, Microsoft needs to find a solution for this.  If I turn on the Glance screen, it drains the battery and the phone gets really hot.  I know keep the Glance screen off until Microsoft fixes it.  

    Everything else is running normal.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T23:37:56+00:00

    Stop making excuses. This shouldnt be happening. Msft should provide us with an explanation and a fix

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T21:41:14+00:00

    I guess the benefit is the battery is replaceable. I had the 930 and it was a fast drainer so i updated to the 950. Also my phone seems to be slower and less responsive than the 930, possibly software?! Even typing this i was watching the text catch up for about 10 seconds after finishing.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T05:27:16+00:00

    This is NOT a solution, just aт observation results!

    OS update

    Last 24hrs I got 10586.29 build (update taking about 2-3hrs, don't know why so long) and still battery drains faster then light, BUT! At night battery drains only 2-3%. It was just a stand by mode, so background apps and other was actually turned on.

    That is much-much better, still not perfect, but better.

    Software update

    Email, calendar, messaging and other built-in apps are updating almost every day (seriously, last three days - three updates for each of built-in apps). And now looks like that apps eating a little less battery. 10-20 minutes of emailing or planning in calendar eats ~5-10% instead of ~10-15%.

    Once again, that is not a perfect yet, but much better than before.

    Stats after update

    For now is 15h 36m since last charge and there is 37% left. There were 2-3 times of active use for 5-15 minutes, and all the time: background apps is on, wi-fi is on, bluetooth is on, location is on, 4G is on, battery saver is off.

    Average discharging rate now is 3-6% instead of 8-12%.

    Summary

    Looks like MS is working on OS and software updates, and optimization is in progress.

    If you want/can to wait, then you should just wait for an updates (and constantly report any problems or positive feedback to MS and community).

    P.S. I had not any problems with an update, it just was really slow and phone was hot as **** while updating (I got 10Gb free in storage and no sd-card).

    If you got a problems with recieving update, just find a solution in the web - I saw some topics yesterday.

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