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Terrible Battery Life!

I got my Vibrant a few days ago and as of today i can only get 4-5 hours max out of the whole battery and thats with heavy to moderate use.. does anyone else seem to have this problem.. im gonna return the phone and get a new one but does anyone else seem to have this?
I really dont understand why this is so bad..

4 or 5 hours of heavy use is about all I get. That is if I'm constantly messing with it. E.g. web, email, facebook,ect. However I think this phone has excellent battery life when I'm not constantly playing with it. Wifi definitely drains it quicker. And stupid apps like facebook. I periodically mess with my phone throughout the work day and by the time I get home I usually have about 75% battery remaining. I think that's pretty good.

ElChibo said:
I got my Vibrant a few days ago and as of today i can only get 4-5 hours max out of the whole battery and thats with heavy to moderate use.. does anyone else seem to have this problem.. im gonna return the phone and get a new one but does anyone else seem to have this?
I really dont understand why this is so bad..
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THE BATTERY IS TERRIBLE. thats why i returned it, and the slow acrolling from screen to screen with stock software

I think you can only expect about 4 hours of awake time use on this phone. I haven't had much trouble with mine, I get about 13-14 hours per charge. But my phone its idle 9-10 hours of the day.
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stepinmyworld said:
THE BATTERY IS TERRIBLE. thats why i returned it, and the slow acrolling from screen to screen with stock software
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Then why are you still in the vibrant forums... move on...

I would think by now people would be use to the type of battery life you get with these types of phones. With heavy usage your not going to last all day just how it is until battery tech catches up to phone tech. I use mine a above moderate usage and some days heavy usage. From when I unplug it at 7:00am the battery is down to about 10 to 15% by the time I leave work at 4:00pm. Thats a lot better than my HD2, Cliq, MT3G and G1.

temperbad said:
Then why are you still in the vibrant forums... move on...
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I agree 100%. Im seeing a lot of this. One thing I dont see is the "Vibrant Complaint" forum. Can't understand why ppl feel the need to come back in here if they dont like, dont have or feel they need to bash the phone from their experience. Get rid of the phone or keep it and be patient, its that simple... or am I missing something?!?!?
speoples20 said:
I would think by now people would be use to the type of battery life you get with these types of phones. With heavy usage your not going to last all day just how it is until battery tech catches up to phone tech. I use mine a above moderate usage and some days heavy usage. From when I unplug it at 7:00am the battery is down to about 10 to 15% by the time I leave work at 4:00pm. Thats a lot better than my HD2, Cliq, MT3G and G1.
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Im almost in the same boat, much better battery life then my G1! I can get from 8-8pm with moderate usage and music palying for the last hour. I was experiencing horrible battery life (8-2/3pm) when I was running notifications with Bloo 1.5.apk, auto brightness on, and Advanced task manager running. Now that I have cut the notifications from bloo (got gmail for this anyway), set brightness to manual setting, and got rid of the task manager I am regularly seeing, after bering unplugged since 8(its now 1245) and im @ 85%. Try trimming down the services you have running in the background and by an extra battery or a car charger.

Id like love to try mine out when i get it tomorrow because with
Mytouch Slide, i had Facebook, Gmail and all the usual stuff syncing and it lasted me close to 8-12 hours of Web, texting and just playing around with it throughout the day.
The Nexus One Was the same lasted me some good 10-14 hours a day syncing the usual stuff along with the weather and such. So Id expect the vibrant to be the same, or Else im returning it and thats the end of it. That also goes for lagging issues as well. And most likely get a different android phone or go back to the N1 and Switch Forums....

Have you ever owned a Smartphone before? Thats normal if you are using it heavily.

androidmonkey said:
Have you ever owned a Smartphone before? Thats normal if you are using it heavily.
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no its not normal.. ive used my MT3G with heavy use gives me at least if not more than 7-8 hours use.. what i dont understand is why the hell it takes so long for my battery to charge.

ElChibo said:
no its not normal.. ive used my MT3G with heavy use gives me at least if not more than 7-8 hours use.. what i dont understand is why the hell it takes so long for my battery to charge.
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I get 6-8 hours.

I think 5 hours of juice is really good relative to your heavy usage. I always get 15 - 18 hours a day. That's with moderate use. Even playing a game of Armored Strike for an hour. This is the best battery i've had on a phone. I can easily get over a day and a half or even more once I settle down and stop using it so much more than I need to [ because I just got it.... ]

If this is what you consider to be terrible, I don't mind how terrible my battery life at all. I made a few calls, used GPS a few times, always listening to music.. some market downloads, pictures taken. SetCPU at 1000MHZ 100% of the time.
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29% left!

Disable Google Talk. My battery life was excellent (typically all day on full charge with heavy use). I signed into google talk one day and was lucky to get 4hrs before charging was needed. I deselected the auto sign in option and killed it in the running services section. Battery life has gotten so much better 70% after 4.5hrs.

i think the battery life for my vibrant is pretty epic. when i went to cm5.0.8 and cm6 on my g1 i calibrated the battery and thought i was getting really good battery life. then i got the vibrant. i could probably make it two whole days without a charge with how i use my phone (probably moderate-light compared to most on here).
but one thing i do agree with is this phone takes FOREVER to charge.

Hmm.....
Ok.....well I consider myself a moderate-heavy user...
On that note, I actually use my phone for work calls, emails, plus personal calls and emails as well....and i'm an avid gamer and already have many games on my Vibrant and use it to play them regularly.....then there is the fact that I travel for work....a lot, so I constantly using google voice search and maps to find where i need to go (never use the gps though)....I used the internet all the time, especially on WiFi (higher battery drain)....and don't get me started on the movies, music and youtube....plus while at work I have Pandora running from my phone throughout the day....
So how is my battery life? I unplug my phone every morning at 9am, with all that use I don't need to plug it in again till 10-11pm (12-14hrs!!).....by that time of course the battery level is at 5-15%.....But I'm definitely not complaining....
I do however disable the auto-brightness feature....AND turn down my brightness to about 30%....50% brightness cuts about 2 hours off of the battery life....
But a GREAT PHONE!!! Loving my new Galaxy S Vibrant

funeralthirst said:
i think the battery life for my vibrant is pretty epic. when i went to cm5.0.8 and cm6 on my g1 i calibrated the battery and thought i was getting really good battery life. then i got the vibrant. i could probably make it two whole days without a charge with how i use my phone (probably moderate-light compared to most on here).
but one thing i do agree with is this phone takes FOREVER to charge.
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yeah, i feel the same way. As far as phone taking forever to charge, are you using the usb-computer charger or usb-wall? The usb-computer can be very weak depending on your system.
Charging from pc, i would wake up only to see 65%. That's pretty crazy. On the wall charger, it takes less about 4-5 hours every time.

Anyone loosing like 6 percent in the first 15 minutes after a full charge? 15 minutes ago i was 100% now im at 94....

I get better battery life than i got on my G1.
These are not cell phones... they are tinny laptops that you can press against your face and make phone calls.
This thing has more features than the $1200 gaming PC i built 2 months ago.

I had bad battery life the first day. Turned the phone off late at night and let it charge full. Battery has been wonderful since then.

Battery life

Has anyone seen awesome battery life with this thing or is it just me!? It's been off the charger for 4h20m and the battery is as 87%. wifi off, gps off, bluetooth off, sync ON. just text messaging all day, maybe 20 texts total (slow day today). little bit of facebook, little bit of email, thats about it, so i didn't really do much with the battery but even so with this kind of use my evo would probably be down to around 70%.
battery indicator pro says the display is responsible for 64% of the power drain and cell standby is only 12%, whereas my evo usually had around 50% cell standby and display was only like 8%. was the evo just really bad at holding a signal or what? my display is at middle brightness, if you use the power control widget.
can anyone else tell me how much % their display uses? and what their battery life is like?
after typing this post it's only dropped 1%. word.

Personally, I don't have much of a basis for comparison. I just got my Shift on an upgrade from an aging Samsung feature phone. I've heard all about the horrid battery life on the Evo. My brother has one and can't get a full day of use.
I was out with a real estate agent looking at houses for 6 hours yesterday. We used the GPS a little bit. I was checking NFL playoff scores every hour or so. I was also texting/emailing lightly. 4G was off. By the evening when I put it back on the charger it was still in the green. I didn't look at the power meter specifics... wish I did.
And today I'm just about to leave the office right now. I'm at 8 hrs, 59 min since unplugged with 6/10 green battery bars. (Hey... how do I get the exact percentage? Thanks!)
Display is 62% of my usage (It's set to Auto-brightness). Android system is next at 20%... Light email/texting use all day long at work. Played games for 30 minutes during lunch. Downloaded some new apps (using 4G). Wi-Fi and GPS off all day.
Overall it's a little better than I expected. But I know I haven't really had a heavy day of use yet.

Battery Indicator Pro is a great app that runs in your menubar and displays the percentage for you.
glad we're on the same page with the display, though

I almostmreturned the phone. My cycles were:
1st 8+ hours
2nd 4 hours
3rd 2 hours
Did a factory reset on the phone and it has started to turn around.
4th 9:40 min and at 30% when on the charger
5th 10:46 and still going. Battery is at 30%

I've recharged twice since I got it on Saturday. This seems great, coming from the sprint hero

Exactly. My hero sucked. I used my phone lightly and had it without a charge for over 24 hours. Did some playing around setting it up and then some light texting, emailing, and 4g usage. Then turned off 4g. Amazing.

vrundmc said:
Exactly. My hero sucked. I used my phone lightly and had it without a charge for over 24 hours. Did some playing around setting it up and then some light texting, emailing, and 4g usage. Then turned off 4g. Amazing.
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This isn't your dream phone, it's the one after that. You gotta take it out and play with it more!

I've had to charge it twice a day since the sixth, battery life has been terrible.
I have all the stuff disabled, it just seems to drain even when nothing is running.
I did have an issue with terrible signal on the first day, once I did ##DATA# it fixed it, but my battery life is sucking it up badly.
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Just got my wife a shift earlier today and ran it down from the half life that came with the battery in about...6 hours. That was with near constant use, the screen on max, wifi, and sync. Plus GPS on for awhile too. Compared to my epic which with similar use can go...maybe 6 hours from full? It depends. I'll be comparing her battery usage to mine over time and I'll post after she gets some use from a full charge. Under normal usage I can get up to 28 hours from my Epic so people reporting horrible battery life must be doing something wrong or have a defective battery. I fully expect her to get a couple days life out of each of her charges though she'll probably throw it on the charger every night.

anyone have an explanation of why the screen is the largest amount of usage under battery stats? yesterday was an average day for me and the display was something like 50%. on my Evo cell standby was always the highest and the display was down around 8 or 10%
edit: this morning the phone has been unplugged for an hour and a half and cell standby is 50% and the display is 11%... *scratches head*

I just switched to Sprint a couple days ago and got an EVO 4G; I am really unhappy with the battery life and though I got them to give me an extended battery for free it still seems like it's dying very quickly. I am a heavy data user and it's driving me crazy; does anyone have any experience going from the EVO 4G to the Shift and, if so, what are your thoughts, particularly in regards to battery life? Is it worth the loss of size and cameras?

i went from the evo to the shift (30 day swap deal) and i haven't even looked back. the battery life is STELLAR as far as i'm concerned. the evo sucked down power like nobody's business. i'm sure if you got an extended battery for the shift it would last you 2 days at least.

All I gotta say is my extended battery experience is amazing. I get about 36 hours out of my evo. Yea it looks a little fugly now but fck it I can abuse it as much as I want too with battery to spare.
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I just got the extended battery and haven't charged it overnight yet, but so fast I am very concerned that it is not living up to expectations. However I won't make any quick judgments until I've seen how it does over a couple days.

My Hero got better battery life.
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Typical use for me is pulling the phone off the charger at 5am, light to moderate use throughout the day (texting, facebook/twitter, apps updating ~2-4 hours, etc) and then putting back on the charger at 9pm.
I upgraded from the Hero. The Hero was rooted and running AOSP w/ modified kernel and collin's battery tweak. Battery life was impressive, but performance was an issue. I could routinely get 30+ hours battery life with the type of use listed above (battery was usually 50% or more when I'd put it back on the charger).
With the Shift, battery life is surprisingly good. For some reason I lose ~10% within the first hour, but after that, it seems to settle down and by the end of the day I'm still at ~30% (with the type of use listed above).
Based on what was possible with the custom ROM's and kernel tweaks for the Hero, I'm excited to see what the community can do with the Shift once we get root.

That first 10% drop seems normal for the new HTC phones. I know the Evo does the same thing. Just the way they're charging the batteries
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bcellis said:
With the Shift, battery life is surprisingly good. For some reason I lose ~10% within the first hour, but after that, it seems to settle down and by the end of the day I'm still at ~30% (with the type of use listed above).
Based on what was possible with the custom ROM's and kernel tweaks for the Hero, I'm excited to see what the community can do with the Shift once we get root.
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edgemaster191 said:
That first 10% drop seems normal for the new HTC phones. I know the Evo does the same thing. Just the way they're charging the batteries
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I found this article helpful in understanding the ~10% dropoff when first off the charger.

At what setting do you all have your screen brightness set? Do you use the auto-brightness option. I find consistently that the overwhelming majority of battery use (according to that screen in the settings) is from the display.

dylansylvester said:
At what setting do you all have your screen brightness set? Do you use the auto-brightness option. I find consistently that the overwhelming majority of battery use (according to that screen in the settings) is from the display.
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I have mine set at 20% and it still looks bright to me.

44 Hours of battery life!!!!

I'm running Toxic Crazy8, stock battery, Bali Kernel, undervolted an extra -25v across the board, reduced clock speed to 400mhz when screen's off. Light use gave me 44 hours of battery!
I probably could have pushed it even further. The first night it was updating 35 apps over wifi, and that sucked up almost 60%
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Got even better battery life? Post a screenshot =)

That's great an all but it comes slow. Try multitasking or play a simple game. It will lag like crazy. 44 hours is too much anyway, for me 12 hours would be the best.
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Airplane mode sure does help too
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It damn sure does...lol

I got 48hrs from the same rom, with wifi on constantly with skype. light to moderate use. Music at least 2+ hours twice in that span as well. Great rom. I chose not to UV or overclock so I have no SetCPU or anything installed, it's stock toxic with the 98 kickass script and v6. Really fast actually and no need for oc.

Penvision66 said:
I got 48hrs from the same rom, with wifi on constantly with skype. light to moderate use. Music at least 2+ hours twice in that span as well. Great rom. I chose not to UV or overclock so I have no SetCPU or anything installed, it's stock toxic with the 98 kickass script and v6. Really fast actually and no need for oc.
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thats impossible with "moderate" use.
its light, and i mean like.. VERY light not even to the scale of being the actual light... so techinically your not using light, but using little light to no light at all.
P.S. my sentence includes 6 words "light"
now that i'm done with that bull****.
Please people posting their batteries as 40+ hours, PLEASE start using your phone. or just get a feature phone, honestly.
I, too, keep my phone on standby more than actual use, but i DO use it when i can. theres atleast 8 hours of music daily, constant wifi use, 24/7, and i get near 20 hours of battery life because i consider my use minimal moderate. At the end of the day, my battery life is usually at 40%, then i charge it again.
I'm on MIUI as well so battery life isn't perfect and i can deal with that.

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thats impossible with "moderate" use.
its light, and i mean like.. VERY light not even to the scale of being the actual light... so techinically your not using light, but using little light to no light at all.
P.S. my sentence includes 6 words "light"
now that i'm done with that bull****.
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I SAID "light to moderate"... Also how can one judge what moderate is vs moderate with a guy who acts like a girl being on the phone all day texting and talking??? It's a ridiculous to even judge moderate or light vs someone else, because everyones concept of light to moderate are vastly different. So don't come at me like that bro.
Light to moderate (hence i didn't use strictly moderate) to me is at least 1 and a half hours on skype calls, at least an hour and a half on calls, a few texts on skype and sms, 10+ emails, a few show-offs lol, Wifi never turned off and skype always signed in, at least 4+ hours with music at the gym and a little after, a few random checks, a few market and web browses and maybe a short vid chat. That's light to moderate to me.
If you want to see less than light, like when I'm sleeping and checking my phone occasionally with wifi set to never turn off and skype signed in always I'll show you. It's been almost 12 hours since i was at full charge and unpluged and I am now at 94%. seems ridiculous I know and I thought so too but I ain't complaining. Stock battery as well. I'm no way saying this is light or what have you because it was idle for 90%+ Just an example of how deadly toxic 8 is with battery. And I do have apps. I dont usually play games though.

look at the attachment.That was after I downloaded 2 apps and tried them both lol and couldnt figure out how to screenshot. I'm done with this "bull****" now.

Once I see the cell standby is higher than the display I pretty much know how you use your phone.

No, you only know what you see. I am running Toxic8 also and am getting around 30+hours of real actual use, granted 8 of those are when I am sleeping, but still get strong use all day long.
Day in my battery.
Get up and go to work at 7am, listen to Iheartradio until 930-10
PowerAmp until 130 lunch with texts and email checks throughout.
130-2 XDA, random surfing
2-6 I listen to 2 different podcasts.
6-7 ride home on bus and listen to PowerAmp and check XDA again.
9-10 after kids in bed and I play a few games and check/clean some files in
Root Explorer.
Go to bed and then start over in the morning and finally plug in around 10 or 11 (lunchtime)
The cycle may shift a few hours here or there but it almost always the same. Oh and not sure if it is this ROM or not,but if I go into settings>about phone>status>batteryuse the picture shows that my display is at 75%, stand-by is 15% and phone idle is at 10% all +/- and that is clearly not the case. So you think that you see what my use is like but really you aren't.
I also use Juice Defender Plus which kills the radio/data traffic for an app-to-app basis and I have it set to kill radio/data while I am asleep.
I can post a screen shot if you like of the battery use (seeing isn't believing) or a shot of BetterBattery Stats (seeing is believing) if you like, but I am using my phone all day AND getting 30.

my vibrant hates toxic 8 for some reason. ultimate rom on the other hand has been very fast, responsive, and long lasting.

I prefer to actually use my phone for what I paid for it to do.....if I just want a phone ill go buy one out of a gumball machine or pick it out of a box of cracker jacks

iwillkillyou said:
That's great an all but it comes slow. Try multitasking or play a simple game. It will lag like crazy. 44 hours is too much anyway, for me 12 hours would be the best.
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I was at 19 hours and 31 minutes using the Stock ROM with 41% battery left.
That's 33 hours if I had let it go all the way down with the same usage, and I definitely used it more than the OP does if that screen shot is any indication.
Didn't use airplane mode or anything.
I just uninstalled all apps I don't use and use a Black Background with only 3 home screens and a 30 second screen time-out.
WiFi used whenever I could, and I keep GPS on all the time now. Automatic screen brightness, too

The people who are being negative, what do YOU consider good use? I'm on trigger 3.2 final with bali 1.8.8 kernel, and my phone can get 24 hours with occasional use and still be at 50% battery, easily 24 hours with REAL use.
Real use includes calling for 1-2 hours, playing at least an hour of games, and just syncing off for apps I don't use constantly.. I don't have the phone underclocked when screen is off or undervolted any more than the kernel is set for.
How do I get that battery life? When the screen is off, it is in deep sleep. I get less than 1% battery drop per hour when it is in deep sleep. So basically unless I'm ACTUALLY using my phone, it isn't draining.
The part that impresses me is that I get easily 20+ hours of heavy use on the ORIGINAL battery(over a year and a half old). I know that battery must have lost some of its ability to charge.. I got my phone replaced by warranty, and the battery they included WILL NOT give as much battery life.. it makes me think that the problem with some people is a combination of a crap stock battery, and wake lock issues..

Wow this is some crazy stuff! I've been on GB for a long time now. I was just thinking the other day to flash back to 2.2 just for the lulz. But then along came the ICS port.
It seems I should try this out.
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THIS is what really light use looks like.. maybe an hour of calling, a few dozen texts, reading some news..
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2.2 toxic is a great rom. i think it doesn't get enough love because of the GB and ICS options.
either way even 12hrs of battery life is pretty nice congrats

What I don't understand is:
1. How come it's on flight mode?
2. How come Display < Stand By?

Running on stock 2.2 with 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS turned off, barely any apps installed so nothing started up in the background, and not recieving any calls all day my battery went from 100% to 93% in 13.5 hours. I estimate just shy of 60 hours of potential battery life.
But that was with a phone that wasn't being used at all; i.e. a paperweight. I could just turn the phone off and claim I had a bajillion hours of battery life.
FYI when I took the sim card out of my daughter's iPhone 3G, turned off wifi, and shut the screen off it lost about 1% PER DAY. That works out to a 3-month battery life (give or take) but again it's just a paper weight at that point.
In other words, if you're using your phone as an MP3 player for 2 hours a day, why shouldn't it get 44 hours of battery life?

Ok so i read all this hype about crazy8 so im trying it out now...
Damnit im very impressed....
I watched 2 movies complete played angry birds, on my phone for most the night and this morning when i got off work 9 1/2 hrs later i still had 35% battery life.
That is awsome to me,though i did not get 44 hrs due to i actually use my phone i will say im impressed,,,,i now no longer need to carry my 3 batteries and the external charger with me everywhere i go lol
I normaly go thru 2 battery changes a night.
Tonight i will run with all the script tweeks and so on...im excited to see the results then lol...although i will not run plane mode and undervolt it and all those lame tricks, actually may oc clock it a bit.
No more miui and cm7 for me lol bad ass battery life with everything working and snappy as hell....im at home with crazy 8

[Q] Dear Note 3 owners, what do you think of the battery life?

Hi guys.
I've had the Note 3 for some days now and I gotta admit, I'm having a hard time getting thru one day with heavy usage. I went from my Galaxy S II which held an entire day with moderate usage(with custom kernel+rom tho) expecting to never, ever worry about battery life no matter what but the truth is, that it is much harder to get thru a day now. I dont know if it's my phone or just a general 'issue' but I expected it to last much longer than it does.
**I've done a few test as you can see here**
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Reinstalled, no wifi, no gps, no bluetooth, automatic brightness and went to bed(it was at 98%):
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Woke up, used it for radio(downloaded TuneIn for radio) + news(aka Reddit News) while eating, for one hour. Still no wifi, gps, bluetooth and automatic brightness on
http://puu.sh/53k1C.png
So it ate 20% battery on 1 hour with radio + Reddit News. Used the phone the whole time, screentime was 47m out of the 1 hour.
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I just reinstalled everything, again, and did another test. Havent touched any app at all but YouTube. Wifi and GPS were on as default and didnt touch that. I opened YouTube and played a 2 hour movie with auto brightness and 50% media volume. This was the outcome
http://puu.sh/53jUQ.png
The red line shows when the video stopped. So it drained 20% battery on 2 hours.
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What do you think of this, how is your battery life and are you satisfied with it?
I'm wondering if I should send mine in for repair, but I dont know if its my device or just pretty normal of a Note 3...

I have bad battery on mine too
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Iam ecstatic about my battery life but Iam also coming off of a gnex.
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jm10 said:
Iam ecstatic about my battery life but Iam also coming off of a gnex.
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I am in the same boat. Came from a GNex and absolutely love my battery life! Whereas I'd have been dead by 8pm, I'm now only at 67%. Amazing what a 3200mah battery can do!
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My battery lasts all day. Never a problem.

Rallerbabz said:
Hi guys.
I've had the Note 3 for some days now and I gotta admit, I'm having a hard time getting thru one day with heavy usage. I went from my Galaxy S II which held an entire day with moderate usage(with custom kernel+rom tho) expecting to never, ever worry about battery life no matter what but the truth is, that it is much harder to get thru a day now. I dont know if it's my phone or just a general 'issue' but I expected it to last much longer than it does.
**I've done a few test as you can see here**
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Reinstalled, no wifi, no gps, no bluetooth, automatic brightness and went to bed(it was at 98%):
http://puu.sh/53k2n.png
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Woke up, used it for radio(downloaded TuneIn for radio) + news(aka Reddit News) while eating, for one hour. Still no wifi, gps, bluetooth and automatic brightness on
http://puu.sh/53k1C.png
So it ate 20% battery on 1 hour with radio + Reddit News. Used the phone the whole time, screentime was 47m out of the 1 hour.
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I just reinstalled everything, again, and did another test. Havent touched any app at all but YouTube. Wifi and GPS were on as default and didnt touch that. I opened YouTube and played a 2 hour movie with auto brightness and 50% media volume. This was the outcome
http://puu.sh/53jUQ.png
The red line shows when the video stopped. So it drained 20% battery on 2 hours.
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What do you think of this, how is your battery life and are you satisfied with it?
I'm wondering if I should send mine in for repair, but I dont know if its my device or just pretty normal of a Note 3...
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Hmmm your mobile signal looks bad, maybe that could be why your battery isnt lasting long.
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Phenomenal battery life.
My S4 would be dead in 8 hours whereas N3 has a good 40% remaining.
I'm not rooted.
I'm on 4G & have medium to heavy usage.

I have very good battery life (with auto sync, data & wifi always on, etc...).
But I did some actions: root -> Greenify all apps which do not need really background interaction.

Turn down the screen brightness.
If I watch a video for 3.5 hours on full brightness it eats 45%. Same parameters but with brightness at 30%, it uses only 19%.
Also, get rid of Touchwiz.
I'm quite pleased with the battery life. I unplig at 100% at 2200, get up at 0440 (ah the joys of Public transport...) and when I get home at 2015, it'll be around 40%. I religiously check the railway planner every 15 minutes, email every 30min, take notes and watch films.
That said I did buy a 15600mah powerpack. Public transport is not know for its reliability here, so I need a backup plan. Particularly with the oncoming annual apocalypse dubbed 'snow'.
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It's not bad so far. Though I haven't been keeping any real track of usage and battery stats so far. I'm only on my second charge, and I've been tweaking the phone to my liking and installing the X-NOTE ROM. After this initial tweaking and fiddling period I'll get a better idea about the battery life in day to day usage.
I come from a Note 2 and so far I'd say it's about the same.
I read a post by X-NOTE developer soloilmeglio where he said that the stock kernel for new firmware version MJ6 seems much more tweaked for battery life, so that sounds great. I'm on MJ3 now, waiting for his MJ6 build.

During the first 10 days I was disappointed (I previously had a s3). But now after several refills I'll say the Gn3 battery gives about 40-50% more autonomy than the s3 did. From my experience it's a good thing to charge only when you reach 15% and to run a full charge without using the phone.
Currently with a full charge and a heavy usage it's ok for two days. Most of the time I reach 3 days. That's not far from 1 more day than what the s3 did.
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I bought this device last Thursday so it's been 9 days now. I need to probably spend another 10 days.
I have to say, as a power user, I'm not very impressed yet. Coming from an S3 (3G), I expected a significant "road warrior" bump but I'm just lasting a full day. When I heard reviewers going on 3 day weekends where they used the Note 2 and it lasted easily 2 days, I expected the same with the Note 3.
My work day is 0600 - 1630. With my S3 in moderate/heavy usage pattern I got home with maybe 15% remaining. With light/moderate usage, I'm home with 30%.
With the Note 3, my moderate/heavy pattern gives me 25% battery remaining for home. Haven't done light moderate yet. Estimate maybe 45% battery will remain.
In both cases we're talking about 3.5 hours on screen time heavy usage. 1.5 hours light usage.
Of course it should be noted that I'm comparing a 3G device to a 4G device. Also, EE 4G in London seems to have pretty week mobile signals or the Note 3 just has a meek radio. I'm really hoping that this improves after more charge cycles and/or updates. I want to be able to have a average screen on time of 4 hours and still go home with 35% remaining so I can still use the phone for the rest of the evening before bed.

Skellig86 said:
Of course it should be noted that I'm comparing a 3G device to a 4G device.
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Reading your message I realized I forgot to mention I'm only using 3G. This may affect the results as 4G eats more.
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I am having the index service issue. My S II had better battery life.

Mobile network data (3g/ 4g) uses more power than wifi. Use ur home/ office wifi and save power. Before i bought note 3, i thought the battery would b great. But its OKAY.
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Just wanted to update:
So I did a few testing sessions and have come to the conclusion that my biggest battery drainer for me: Auto Brightness.
Now after 2 days of setting the brightness manually (roughly to 15%) my battery life has definitely improved dramatically.
I'm getting over 3hrs screen on, heavy usage with 40%+ remaining at the end of a work day.
Today, I've had almost 4.5hrs screen on, heavy heavy usage (a lot of 4G, played the new free Asphalt, huge amount of web browsing) and the phone was at 5% before I finally charged it around 9pm. Not bad considering I had 4G, Wifi, GPS, NFC and Auto-Sync on all day today and listened to almost 1 hour worth of podcasts on my commute so the device was awake for a long time.
I suspect manual settings of brightness at 25% would give pretty good battery life as well but not necessary when you're indoors with lights.
Maybe still not a 3 day phone I think but with [my] light usage it will definitely be a 2 day phone.

Mine is great
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Rallerbabz said:
Hi guys.
I've had the Note 3 for some days now and I gotta admit, I'm having a hard time getting thru one day with heavy usage. I went from my Galaxy S II which held an entire day with moderate usage(with custom kernel+rom tho) expecting to never, ever worry about battery life no matter what but the truth is, that it is much harder to get thru a day now. I dont know if it's my phone or just a general 'issue' but I expected it to last much longer than it does.
**I've done a few test as you can see here**
---
Reinstalled, no wifi, no gps, no bluetooth, automatic brightness and went to bed(it was at 98%):
http://puu.sh/53k2n.png
---
Woke up, used it for radio(downloaded TuneIn for radio) + news(aka Reddit News) while eating, for one hour. Still no wifi, gps, bluetooth and automatic brightness on
http://puu.sh/53k1C.png
So it ate 20% battery on 1 hour with radio + Reddit News. Used the phone the whole time, screentime was 47m out of the 1 hour.
---
I just reinstalled everything, again, and did another test. Havent touched any app at all but YouTube. Wifi and GPS were on as default and didnt touch that. I opened YouTube and played a 2 hour movie with auto brightness and 50% media volume. This was the outcome
http://puu.sh/53jUQ.png
The red line shows when the video stopped. So it drained 20% battery on 2 hours.
---
What do you think of this, how is your battery life and are you satisfied with it?
I'm wondering if I should send mine in for repair, but I dont know if its my device or just pretty normal of a Note 3...
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My phone is not rooted, My phone lasts 2 days with moderate usage, no charging, it last a full day with 65% by the time i sleep after a pretty heavy day of Youtube in HD Over LTE, Games, messaging and others. I don't use wifi.
Phone stays really cool too, so i can see and feel this efficiency could possibly contribute to such a fantastic battery life!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47202128&postcount=375

Skellig86 said:
I bought this device last Thursday so it's been 9 days now. I need to probably spend another 10 days.
I have to say, as a power user, I'm not very impressed yet. Coming from an S3 (3G), I expected a significant "road warrior" bump but I'm just lasting a full day. When I heard reviewers going on 3 day weekends where they used the Note 2 and it lasted easily 2 days, I expected the same with the Note 3.
My work day is 0600 - 1630. With my S3 in moderate/heavy usage pattern I got home with maybe 15% remaining. With light/moderate usage, I'm home with 30%.
With the Note 3, my moderate/heavy pattern gives me 25% battery remaining for home. Haven't done light moderate yet. Estimate maybe 45% battery will remain.
In both cases we're talking about 3.5 hours on screen time heavy usage. 1.5 hours light usage.
Of course it should be noted that I'm comparing a 3G device to a 4G device. Also, EE 4G in London seems to have pretty week mobile signals or the Note 3 just has a meek radio. I'm really hoping that this improves after more charge cycles and/or updates. I want to be able to have a average screen on time of 4 hours and still go home with 35% remaining so I can still use the phone for the rest of the evening before bed.
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Hence why when I am within a Hot Spot I switch to GSM network for full bars more or less which also conserves battery.

Post your battery life info *stock rom only*

Hey guys, I'm using the iPhone 6 plus now and I'm seriously thinking about switching back to android. Just can't stand iOS. My only concern is the battery life since I got excellent battery life on the 6 plus. From the reviews every reviewer says it's very good battery life but I need to hear real experience from actual users here. How is the standby time? Screen on time? Please stock rom only and please post screen on time and overal battery screenshot. Thanks!!

Standby time? Lol I've been on it too much for that. Battery is excellent don't sweat the move from iphone.
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Standby time? Lol I've been on it too much for that. Battery is excellent don't sweat the move from iphone.
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My iPhone 6 plus has exceptional standby time so it gives me a feeling that the battery is endless. For example, how much juice does the note 4 lose overnight? (7-8 hours)

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Bluetooth and wifi always on, pebble connected, poor coverage area. I keep it set to pick up lte when available, but I only have edge where I live. I travel a lot though and still get good life when I actually get lte. I haven't tweaked anything (yet). Be warned that my first charge gave abysmal life. It wasn't until the second or third charge that I started getting decent life, so don't worry when your first charge runs to nothing after 8 hours.

Amen. I use powersaving, and you could always use the ultra power saving in a bind.
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rookiegenius said:
My iPhone 6 plus has exceptional standby time so it gives me a feeling that the battery is endless. For example, how much juice does the note 4 lose overnight? (7-8 hours)
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Around 0 to 1 percent. Maybe 2 if I get a bunch of notifications. My fiance has the iPhone 6 plus, trust me my note 4 destroys her iPhone in battery. With light to moderate use I'm easily getting 2 full days ( I send roughly 500-600 texts, maybe 20 emails, at least 20 phone calls, navigate to appointments and I'm always on pandora....also I have a moto 360 connected all day). When I'm doing heavy usage I get about 24 hours or so. But my heavy usage is actually HEAVY. I can almost guarantee you don't use your phone more than me. You will be fine with battery life.

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Around 0 to 1 percent. Maybe 2 if I get a bunch of notifications. My fiance has the iPhone 6 plus, trust me my note 4 destroys her iPhone in battery. With light to moderate use I'm easily getting 2 full days ( I send roughly 500-600 texts, maybe 20 emails, at least 20 phone calls, navigate to appointments and I'm always on pandora....also I have a moto 360 connected all day). When I'm doing heavy usage I get about 24 hours or so. But my heavy usage is actually HEAVY. I can almost guarantee you don't use your phone more than me. You will be fine with battery life.
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Thanks for the info!! I glad it does well with Bluetooth since I might buy a smart watch later. I intend to let Bluetooth and gps on,plus streaming a lot of spotify. Time to ditch the 6 plus.

Brightness at 50%. GPS on, Sync on, MultiWindow on.
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Excellent battery life. I use my phone almost all day and night. FB, messaging, music, texting, phone calls, camera, reading, photo editing, youtube. I use it extensively on a daily basis during the week. On weekends I don't use it as much so I have more than half charge by Monday.
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I turn on power saving mode at 100% when i go to bed, and when I wake up 5 hrs later I'm usually at 99% or 98%. Without power saving mode, I wake up to 96%.
I can easily get through a full day at Disney World (about 8 hrs) with light usage - mixed use of wifi and 4g, checking the disney app and checking my farmville farm, and checking feedly. I usually leave Disney with about 50% juice left. Brightness on auto, wifi on, bluetooth off, gps on.
I've tested streaming as well. On 4g, starting at 100% charge, I can stream about 4 hour long episodes on Netflix, on Plex it's usually a little longer than that before it hits 50%. At home on wifi, I can stream about double that amount before hitting 50%.
I'm pretty happy about the battery life, and the best part is I can always remove the battery if this one goes bad, or bring spares on trips. I can live with Touchwiz if it means I can have removable batteries, sd card, and the pen.

rookiegenius said:
My iPhone 6 plus has exceptional standby time so it gives me a feeling that the battery is endless. For example, how much juice does the note 4 lose overnight? (7-8 hours)
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I've done multiple tests on this. I will charge it up at night 100% then leave it off charger for the night, look in the morning. I'm averaging 3-4% discharge per night which is not too bad. My Nexus 5 was a ridiculous 10-15%. Still nothing close to iPhone that just doesn't go down if you don't use it.
I leave all things on. Don't really want a phone that acts like a 2002 device.

Hey all,
Ok So My battery is at 23% with 4 hours 45 min of screen time and it's been of the charger for 1 day 20 hrs 15 min and 20 sec

The phone charge so fast and it is amazing. I dont know if I want to do that in the long run bc fast ch arging is bad on battery!
I have a nice battery charger and it says charging the battery slow will last longer per charge and longer life cycle itself too.
So what do you do?

chong67 said:
The phone charge so fast and it is amazing. I dont know if I want to do that in the long run bc fast ch arging is bad on battery!
I have a nice battery charger and it says charging the battery slow will last longer per charge and longer life cycle itself too.
So what do you do?
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I returned the iPhone and have used the Note for 2 days now. Battery is... Well, not as good as I expected. At least not comparable to the iPhone 6 plus. But I don't sweat on this since it does take quote some time for Android battery to kick in. I kinda wish Samsung didn't push the pixels since it's truly a battery drain. Also the GPS drains battery too. These 2 functions on the iPhone are very efficient.
And yes fast charge is wonderful. I say don't worry about the battery since it's fairly cheap.

rookiegenius said:
I returned the iPhone and have used the Note for 2 days now. Battery is... Well, not as good as I expected. At least not comparable to the iPhone 6 plus. But I don't sweat on this since it does take quote some time for Android battery to kick in. I kinda wish Samsung didn't push the pixels since it's truly a battery drain. Also the GPS drains battery too. These 2 functions on the iPhone are very efficient.
And yes fast charge is wonderful. I say don't worry about the battery since it's fairly cheap.
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Simple fixes.
1.) Make sure you screen brightness is on auto
2.) Put on a background that is dark, or mostly black
3.) Set your location to device only (GPS only)
4.) Turn the run time to ART
You will easily see an increase in battery life.
Below is my normal battery life. And an example of a good background to use.
Had about 5.5 hours of screen on time.
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I actually switched from GPS only to power saving. I have quite a few email syncing tho. One interesting thing... Are you sure we should be on art? I heard its not fully compatible.

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I actually switched from GPS only to power saving. I have quite a few email syncing tho. One interesting thing... Are you sure we should be on art? I heard its not fully compatible.
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ART bogs down my phone so I don't use it. Also during boot up, it take forever to finish as it tries to optimize some apps every time. About 39 on mine. This makes my phone super hot and there's no way to bypass this process. I say ART is a bad idea.