I've had my current Motorola phone for roughly three years. Normally I would go 3 to 4 days before the battery would run down to roughly half (its mostly sitting idle and used for 2FA and the occasional text) and I would charge it. Several weeks ago I started noticing markedly increased battery drain.
I noticed that if I charged my phone from 50% to 100% while the phone was on, battery life would decrease at roughly 1% an hour (with android OS estimating roughly 4 days battery life).
Conversely, if I turned the phone off before charging it (all other factors remaining equal), upon turning the phone back on it would drain at a SUBSTANTIALLY slower rate (now android OS is estimating roughly 7 to 8 days battery life).
So what's going on exactly? Don't have any bloatware on the phone, nothing eating power in the background (just cell standby, wifi standby, and the OS itself). there wasn't any OS updates, it's not updating apps in the background or anything.
Is this just a case of the android OS battery charge calibration needing to be reset? Any way to force that without running it down to 0% (can't imagine that's good for the battery).
What gives?
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