Significant Battery Life Drop on Nothing Phone (3a)

BenedictRafael

I have noticed a significant decrease in battery performance on my Nothing Phone (3a).

When I first got the device, I was regularly achieving 9+ hours of Screen-On Time (SOT) with my typical daily usage. Recently, under the same usage pattern, I am only getting around 6.5–7 hours of SOT.

My usual usage includes:

Instagram

eFootball

Listening to music on YouTube

WhatsApp and general browsing

I haven’t changed my usage habits significantly, but the battery seems to be draining much faster

JP

BenedictRafael disable universal search app from settings>apps>all apps> show system apps …

@grepGander found that universal search uses too much resources in background and causing battery drain…

Give it a try and update here if it helps or not ..

Thomas29

BenedictRafael same issue with me and my friends, even I have recommended multiple people about this phone, now I am worried about them

RGupta

BenedictRafael Same here. 3a has become battery guzzler after upgrading to 4.1

ZORO

BenedictRafael Not only battery but camera lags as well after nothing os 4.0

BenedictRafael

JP yeah dude I tried the technique yesterday but still didn’t see any difference because I have done charging two times like 1-90 and 47-85% and it’s been happening for the last 4 months

HarshitSaini_wRFiyQmv35

Sure story. After updating it to nothing os 4.0

JP

BenedictRafael try battery calibration and send what battery usage stats here…

BenedictRafael

How to that battery calibration test

JP

BenedictRafael play Store and accubattery is using too much battery in background… turn off app background battery usage for those app .. and accubattery is not needed…

For battery calibration - charge your phone 100% and keep it in charge for another 15-20 minutes… or in your case you’ve accubattery already installed… charge until charging watt shows 0 watts…

Start using your phone normally after that…

BenedictRafael

JP actually I have already disabled the background activity for play Store and tried charging from 0 to 100 keeping it for around 30mins after full charge when the OS 4.1 update came

JP

BenedictRafael okayy .. delete accubattery and then see if it’s happening or not…

Turn on adaptive battery…

do app optimisation from settings>apps > app optimisation …

BenedictRafael

JP brother actually done everything you said also accubattery is recently installed like a week ago but the problem is been in months anyways I try deleting accubattery and tell you if I have any difference

JP

BenedictRafael okay .. if all of this didn’t solve your problem than sadly we can’t do anything about that…

BenedictRafael

I have contacted nothing team regarding the battery consumption they have said some sort of steps to try if it didn’t they asked me for photo of the charger(33w CMF) which I am using and I posted it to them.

They replied ,to go for the official 65w charger idk how the probably the issue could be solved by changing the charger even though both chargers are same brand

JP

BenedictRafael 😂 that’s funny… they must have told you to reset the device…

BenedictRafael

ZORO yep I did noticed it too

JP yeah they have said it but I am using this as my primary device so I thought of not going to do what if some files didn’t retrieve after backup

BenedictRafael

JP so keep charging it for 100 for few days if it’s fine ok !

ZORO how much sot you’re getting dude?

ZORO

JP exactly 😂

JP

ZORO btw… which haki zoro is using in dp?? 💀 Looking strange 🫠

ZORO

JP shin chan haki 😂

JP

BenedictRafael okayy… that’s an issue… but if you backup data to other device/pc/laptop… there are very low chances of loosing file… if that’s what you mean…👍🏻

BenedictRafael

JP okay I will wait for some time hope nothing fixes it with some updates or if not I try resetting the devices by backup files in laptop since the only I left with and

one more I am planning to charge the device overnight using my old redmi 10w since it causes much less heat to mobile compared CMF is it safe