Lumia 950 battery drains rapidly

We should not have to turn off apps in order to use the phone, otherwise why even bother having a smartphone.

Most likely it's a firmware issue. Since people who are using the preview on other types of phone are not having any issues. Obviously the phone wont drain while on charge or as much on battery saver.

I have been testing the phone with different options, by turning off different features, but noticed that my battery is staying well charged, not great but very good ever since I turned off the Glance Screen, just in case anyone else wants to try this as well and let us know.

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.

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.