Phone (3a) Series Battery Life Discussion

AyushKumar_JZuatP7eh3 · 2025-03-20T12:56:24+00:00

I recently purchased the Nothing Phone 3a and have noticed that the battery drains very quickly during WhatsApp video calls. Even with a full charge, the battery percentage drops significantly within a short period. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Are there any settings or optimizations that could help reduce battery consumption during video calls? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

FlippersMan

Hello, I’ve went back and forth with the support team on E-mail and after them requesting All my info (imei,s/n,proof of purchase, compiled a data log) they went silent for 2 days, i sent them an email and they responded as if it’s a brand new complaint, then suggested I should just contact the retailer (I did mention to them I got it overseas)

Battery still cannot last me 1 day, and I don’t play any games on it (barely 7 hrs of SOT)

shubhesh_jha

Yes, I am also facing battery issue in my 3a. Developer team kindly look into this matter and try to resolve the issue in the next update.

SumitPaswan_mm9scYkeNA

The battery life for nothing phone 3a is much stable after the recent update and the recommendation is

Turn off AOD
Turn off Flip to glif ( use only when necessary)
Turn off the glif lights

Andre__Xb0DExfgX8

SumitPaswan_mm9scYkeNA then you don’t need to get Nothing

SumitPaswan_mm9scYkeNA

Andre__Xb0DExfgX8 switch on these features only when necessary to use not always

GalibHossain_EuIYRZpoTs

Anonymous931 the phone was idle and still lost 10% battery

Anonymous931

GalibHossain_EuIYRZpoTs Your signal reception is poor on that screenshot, meaning more battery drain. About 1% per hour is normal in such scenario. Try to repeat the same with airplane mode next night, don’t even connect to WiFi, that will make you 100% sure if mobile network reception is causing the drain (I’m 90% sure it is as about the same drain happens to me too when I’m “under 50% bars”).

huttonstephen5

BastiFantasti I too had battery performance issues with my NP3a pro initially and like yourself coming from a satisfactory NP2a decided to switch to dark mode, switch off ALL apps reliance on background activity whilst not in use, switched off Bluetooth unless required even automatic updates unless OS in an attempt to improve battery performance I then allowed my device to drain my battery level to 1% and charged to 100% using my 45w charger and recharged twice since applying the same method. My battery usage screen time measurements were 12hrs 27mins and yesterday 12hrs.43mins I use a combination of camera, social media, phone calls, WhatsApp, light gaming puzzles, words etc, not shooting war type games. Work related Comms, watch a few sport videos etc. I am not sure whether these are good readings, but personally I am presently happy with the performance so far, perhaps someone else on this site will tell me that my battery performance is poor? I hope that helps a little

GalibHossain_EuIYRZpoTs

Anonymous931

I have a Redmi Note 9S running CrDroid custom ROM. In the same location, my 6 Year old phone loses only 1-2% battery overnight, and sometimes it loses 0%. This is all about optimization. Not just me, but other users are facing the same problem. If the software is efficient, no scenario should cause this much battery drain.

Anonymous931

Anonymous931 Regarding my previous comment about airplane mode; two nights ago, with mobile data active and my (3a) covered with a thick cooking pan (don’t laugh) to destroy signal reception - after 7-8 hours battery went down from 100% to 91%.

Last night, airplane mode without any cooking pan, 100% again, after 8h 15m (forgot to turn on stopwatch the first time) battery went - nowhere. It stayed at 100% where I left it.

With mobile data active, so airplane mode off, I lose 0-1% with perfect signal reception over the same ~8 hours.

Again, 7s Gen 3 has major inefficiency issues with signal reception, that’s been covered in basically any review (at least on GSMArena and Notebookcheck, they go into detail on that matter) for any device with that SoC. Pretty much the only con of otherwise an amazing chip. Long story short - the weaker the signal reception is that higher the idle battery drain is.

Anonymous931

GalibHossain_EuIYRZpoTs Just do what I said, please, it’s not that you need your phone when you are sleeping. 7s G3 is known to have issues with weak signal. I lose 0-1% over night with full signal, (3a) also.

SonuKumar_G3PvCgKfZJ

Dear Community What’s up,

I have facing high battery drainage in (Nothing phone 3a) after updating OS 3.2, anyone have facing this problem let me guys comment.

And together doing better Nothing Phones guys

Please if anyone agree with my concern please clear it

Thankyou

AmanRajput_cHSpo8LUuq

SonuKumar_G3PvCgKfZJ am facing the same problem on my device.

ALLENRODRIGUES

ShameelMP

i think my battery is draining fastly even for less usage

x_5corpion

Vikasjr samw here bro,90% to 40% in just 3hr on regular usage,no gaming

lugarin🇭🇷

Anonymous931

I have an almost weak signal.

- all functions work

- even the VPN I keep on 24/7

- two devices, 3a and 3a Pro

- two different mobile networks

- 3a Pro, 1% within 1 hour and 10 minutes

- 3a, 1% within 1 hour and 5 minutes

When Wifi is on:

- 3a, 2 hours and 20 minutes for 1%

- 3a Pro, 2 hours 45 minutes for 1%

(3a is the primary device and I have multiple apps running)

According to this measurement, sleeping 8 hours during the night should be 7%. Maybe without VPN, 6%

JayRe

Same here

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