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Zenfone 9 - 25% drain from "others"

Biggie
Rising Star I

So i love my zenfone 9 so far. But ive had a bit of mixed results when it comes to the phones battery life. The first few days was amazing, FW was 34.2050.2050.32 and i could easily get 6h of SOT even if i set max charging to 90%. Then Android 13 came around the corner and i happened to get the update a week or two later. Updated it and it ran pretty good with nice new features, but battery life got worse. Could barely get 4h SOT. Decided that a downgrade to 32.2050.2050.34 with a clean wipe would be best option. So i did exactly that. Except, it didnt really help much. Still could barely get 4h SOT. 

I was looking around a bit on Google but didnt find much that helped me, so my latest attempt was to just upgrade to android 13 once again, and it somehow worked, even without doing a complete wipe. I was finally able to get that 6h+ of SOT. Except it got nerfed like a day after. What i have noticed about this issue though is that it only happens when im driving around in my car or anywhere else than home. I suspected the issue was just 4G and the bluetooth draining the battery. But checking the battery usage shows that 4G only used around 4.5% and bluetooth barely used 0.5%. So those two cant be the issue.

Scrolling all the way down however reveals that ~25% of the battery has been drained by "others". Cant check the specific apps under that category so im kinda lost.

I saw another similare post but older that also had the same issue, however the thread was closed. So im posting my own in hopes of fixing this issue. Ill see if i can get a log of tomorrows battery consumption.

 

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Im using accu battery but its not showing nothing strange only time in Deep sleep is strange. So maybe i will try better battery stats

I finally snapped an did a factory reset 2 days ago. And it fixed everything! Took the phone 2 days to reconfigure the battery and all the smart functions but comparing my battery life now and a week ago, its a HUGE difference. Today Ive got ~3h SOT with 12h standby, still got 44% left. This phone is a MONSTER when everything works as intended!

 

Hi thats great info i will try that but Did you need to make a copy of photos and everything before the factory reset? 

I use Google Photos as backup. Although 15GB gets filled up pretty quick so i clear all the photos once every year. I usually dont have any important photos to begin with so its chill.

Hey, just to make sure, is the battery life still good? I noticed that I was getting good battery life after each reset for about one day, so I just wanted to make sure the issue is completely solved before factory resetting my phone