Display brightness setting?
Anything specific that you did to enhance the battery life? Disabled apps/services (root needed?)?
Did you use GPS ?
Would be really helpful to a bunch of MotoG users if you could reply to these!
Well I was facing awful battery drain issue earlier after updating to kit-kat... then I headed over to xda and deduced the following things -
1. Latest version of "
Google Play services" is a huge battery sucker, so don't update it, if already did, then uninstall updates and revert to previous version i.e
factory version 4.0.34.
2. Turn off Google Now and Location if you don't use them, or enable them only needed.
In case you don't know how to do this, then heres how -
tap Google Setting icon -> select Location || Search -> Turn them off (top right).
Note:- You MUST reboot your device for changes to take place.
You can also do few more things, but these will limit some functionality of your device.
3. Turn off Auto-sync & Background Data
- Pull down notification bar with two fingers -> select tile with your network carrier written over it (airtel or whatever) -> tap on option at top right -> uncheck "
auto-sync" and check "
Restrict background data"
Note - i. You wont' get new emails, or whatsapp updates or any push notification.
ii. These option are automatically enabled/disabled when your battery drops below 15%.
some obvious or general tips
1. Turn flight mode on at night during sleep.
2. Keep an eye on apps running in background (setting -> apps -> running) or simply
install GSam Battery Monitor it will do it the hard work for you, it displays the apps the were running in the background and how much battery they ate. Although it works better when rooted.
3. Use Greenify
Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, to stop them from lagging your device and leeching the battery, in an unique way! They can do nothing without explicit launch by you or other apps, while still preserving full functionality when running in foreground
read more here. It also needs root.
4. Set brightness at auto or
instal Lux Lite. It adjusts the brightness of device according to the environment and works much better than stock brightness option.It has some great options for adjusting brightness at night, some kind of red/sepia light.. and you can also reduce brightness below 0 for comfortable reading, without pain in the a̶$̶$̶ eyes.
that all, I know..
. Will avail COD. Will get 16GB + Royal Blue flip cover.
