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ConfusedTorchic posted...

i think that you are treating the situation as more serious than it is

i would only care about what the battery is doing if it stopped lasting a full day of use for me

turning it on is always going to cause it to use a lot more battery power, since that's just how that works with it needing to actually power and go through everything, which uses more processing power, which in turn just uses more power. that's just how everything works, really. max power usage at start and then it can go into idle and use less since it's able to turn things off that aren't being used.

you should also take into account that background processes can also hit the battery pretty hard. if i give my dexcom app free unfettered rein like it wants to, then it will absolutely drain the battery (and my data if not on wifi), because it wants a constant connection to dexcoms services, and this includes location data which requires use of the gps antenna, which is just a really stupid battery draining situation.

@confusedtorchic

well now i'm scared because Yellow above you stated it is likely a faulty battery and they had to replace it for the same exact issue. the phone is only a year and nearly 3 months old. i have it mostly in idle and depend on it for authy. the battery lasts quite awhile, just gives a different percentage when i reboot. a few high or few lower. then it always quickly drops off one percentage, then stabilizes as long as its on.

thank you, i truly hope its not that serious. the phone seems fine otherwise, just weird accuracies with the percentage.