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    Hello!

    Fellow 920 user it seems that I've figured out how to fix the battery issue.

    1. Drain battery to 0%

    2. Charge to 100% without removing at any time from 0% to 100%.

    3. Repeat 3-4 times.

    This enhanced my battery life significantly. Also changing the theme to light is helpful.
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    Changing the theme to light helped? I thought it would do the opposite since it would draw less power displaying black.
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    Mine seemed to be fixed after running the battery empty, then doing a full charge, then I uninstalled Nokia Drive + Beta. Now after 3 hours since my last charge, I show 1 day 11 hours remaining. I'll run it all day without Nokia Drive, then I'll add it back to see if the power issues return.
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    Wow! Changing to the light theme made a HUGE difference for me! Thanks!
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    I've killed my battery four different times. Didn't help.

    Dont think changing light improves battery.
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    I let battery drain but biggest thing for me is to make sure Tap & Share is off and then hit back button to close apps. I am getting great battery life now.
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    Check out my thread to fix the battery issue. It should definitely work. Nokia Lumia 920 Battery Issue Temporary Fix
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    Quote Originally Posted by ss4_zohair1 View Post
    Hello!

    Fellow 920 user it seems that I've figured out how to fix the battery issue.

    1. Drain battery to 0%

    2. Charge to 100% without removing at any time from 0% to 100%.

    3. Repeat 3-4 times.

    This enhanced my battery life significantly. Also changing the theme to light is helpful.
    FYI, Nokia IS NOT recommending anyone run their battery down to zero. See the below reply, post 13, from "Kosh," a Nokia moderator on the Nokia Support forum:

    ayojayjo wrote:
    Let your battery drain to 0%. Try turning it back on to make sure it is literally at 0%. When there is no life left, let the phone charge to 100% before turning it back on. Voila!

    Kosh replied:
    It is not a good idea to drain the battery completely. Previous generations of batteries might require this, but modern batteries do not and in fact may actually lose performance faster if you do. It is perfectly fine to charge at any time and for however long you can. In general and as posted before the percentage indicator in Settings is indicative and not accurate enough to base any usage claims or conclusions on. This percentage will become more accurate over time, but will always be (somewhat) relative to recent use.
    Nokia Support Discussions - Advice for customers reporting higher than expecte... - Nokia Support Discussions
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    Quote Originally Posted by ss4_zohair1 View Post
    Hello!

    Fellow 920 user it seems that I've figured out how to fix the battery issue.

    1. Drain battery to 0%

    2. Charge to 100% without removing at any time from 0% to 100%.

    3. Repeat 3-4 times.

    This enhanced my battery life significantly. Also changing the theme to light is helpful.
    I thought Battery Conditioning is an old methodology used. With my Lumia 900 I never recharge my batter untill it goes below 10% and never remove it untill doesn't reach >= 98%.

    At 10-20% it shows heart sign making the user believe that its running low but in reality I have taken 20 minutes video and made couple of calls when it was showing the heart sign.
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    Constantly draining a Li-Ion battery is a horrible idea. turn off all location services background apps such as Nokia Drive.
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    I have just turned off facebook photos on my lock screen and moved to a single static photo. I am hoping this will improve battery but disappointing as I liked this feature.
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    both of are right , although it is not advised that new battery to be drained to zero bacause you would damage it by time , but you have to do it this at least once a month but not dialy , and it is not a bad idea to do it couple of time at first !

    and remember it is always better not to let the battery drains less than 20% .
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    Check out my thread to fix the battery issue. It should definitely work. Nokia Lumia 920 Battery Issue Temporary Fix
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    So far I have come to the following conclusions

    1) Draining the battery to 0% and charge back up doesn't have any effect. It may help to calibrate the reporting.
    2) Hard resetting the phone has no effect. It may help to calibrate the reporting.
    3) The only sure way to reduce battery drain
    • Disable Blue-tooth while not in use
    • Disable NFC while not in use
    • Change brightness from automatic to Low
    • Block background tasks of apps you don't use frequently. Nokai Drive+ BETA may have some issues as its still in BETA so it makes sense to block this for now.
    • Turn of battery saver

    4) You can further reduce drain by doing the following but you lose some functionality
    • Set e-mails to sync manualy
    • Turn off location service
    • Turn off Wi-Fi
    • Turn off Data Roaming
    • Turn off find my phone


    Calibration should settle after week or so, but don't let the phone drain down to 0% as it will have to re-calibrate itself. If you still have abnormal battery drain, then hard reset and remove all 3rd party apps and monitor. If the problem persists then very likely faulty battery/phone get a replacement.
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    And... if you don't have LTE set the maximum dataspeed to 3G instead of 4G. And when connected to a WIFI network or when you are sleeping, set it back to 2G. The difference in battery usage between 3G/4G and 2G is huge.
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    What I didn't get quite well is, what possible damage will it cause if the battery drains to 0%? Windows 8 devices which have replacable batteries won't cause any damage if we remove the battery.
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    I tried turning off using facebook as my lock screen and stay at a single photo. I have barely touched my phone since I unplugged it 5 hours ago and I am at 73%. Considering I have literally not opened up an email, sent a text or done anything with my phone in that 5 hours I don't think the battery is too good.

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