To all those with lousy battery times! - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General

I have a year old Note and have been getting progressively lower battery times, I have tried every possible trick and several ROMS. Recently was getting as low as 12hrs. I have had a cheap replacement battery (non Samsung) which was not used often. Recently when I used it I noticed about the same battery life as the original. I purchased a new Samsung battery and now I am getting over 40hrs on one charge with moderate use and sync on with no other changes.
My messge is : change your battery at least every 8-10 months, you will be astonished as I was. One of the great features of the Note is the ease of change of battery, use it!

Yep same for new battery and it's like I have a new phone. Without changing anything my screen on time almost double.
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I've been doing that for over a decade now but this time i bight a hyperion aftermarket.
I bought two actually. I keep one in my car. This way I'm guaranteed a full day's worth of heavy usage.
Also got the dock + second battery charger.
I'll never get a mobile without the ability to replace the battery.
Screw the new HTC devices.

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Non removable battery is a deal breaker - your phone will be useless after 12-24 months depending on the charge cycle.
Gotta visit HTC forums...

same here
after 12month I replaced my Samsung battery with a Anker 2700mha and my battery life doubles.
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I am using sun global battery 3000mAh, so far I get 4hours 30 minutes of screen on time and 12hours 45minutes of usage, 9hours wifi on
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edeplano said:
I have a year old Note and have been getting progressively lower battery times, I have tried every possible trick and several ROMS. Recently was getting as low as 12hrs. I have had a cheap replacement battery (non Samsung) which was not used often. Recently when I used it I noticed about the same battery life as the original. I purchased a new Samsung battery and now I am getting over 40hrs on one charge with moderate use and sync on with no other changes.
My messge is : change your battery at least every 8-10 months, you will be astonished as I was. One of the great features of the Note is the ease of change of battery, use it!
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i don't have the time to order a new battery online or look for it in stores so simply i swap out the kernel for the rom i'm using and with the current one i get about 20hrs which isn't much compared to when i got it a couple months ago and worse yet if you have on hsdpa+ whole day battery life drops to about 2/3

After one year (for me ten months) the note 1 needs a new battery. Decreasing bat life, random restarts, and screen flickering are all indicators. I thought i had runaway process issue or hardware problem. But i finally ordered an ankor battery from Amazon and my unit is fine andback to 20hrs.
I thought this was settled back in Nov.
Now just waiting for my jb!
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edeplano said:
I have a year old Note and have been getting progressively lower battery times, I have tried every possible trick and several ROMS. Recently was getting as low as 12hrs. I have had a cheap replacement battery (non Samsung) which was not used often. Recently when I used it I noticed about the same battery life as the original. I purchased a new Samsung battery and now I am getting over 40hrs on one charge with moderate use and sync on with no other changes.
My messge is : change your battery at least every 8-10 months, you will be astonished as I was. One of the great features of the Note is the ease of change of battery, use it!
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Do not buy a spare the time time as the phone if you are not going to use it until the original goes as it will deteriorate from the day it's made, even with out use.
From box 13......

I don't know if this is still necessary nowadays, but I always use the battery till it's about to turn off the phone. My batteries always have a pretty good lifetime, so I imagine that helps.

hyperken said:
I am using sun global battery 3000mAh, so far I get 4hours 30 minutes of screen on time and 12hours 45minutes of usage, 9hours wifi on
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My 10 month old stock battery is still giving me much more on screen time with wifi. This is reduced to half. I used to get 10-12 hours on screen time when i got it out of the box.
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qazibasit said:
My 10 month old stock battery is still giving me much more on screen time with wifi. This is reduced to half. I used to get 10-12 hours on screen time when i got it out of the box.
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10-12 hours of screen on time with a single charge and one battery (2500 mAh) ?

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10-12 hours of screen on time with a single charge and one battery (2500 mAh) ?
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In his dreams I have 2,5 hours screen on time with autobrightness. That was much better on gingerbread days. Maybe leaked Jb versions are not well optimized. We will see after official update. I think I will buy an original battery too.
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elhazguy said:
I don't know if this is still necessary nowadays, but I always use the battery till it's about to turn off the phone. My batteries always have a pretty good lifetime, so I imagine that helps.
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This is a common misconception that if you leave the battery to almost deplete every time it will be better for it in he long run. I have done a lot of research on this topic for laptops and smartphones. Essentially they use the same type of battery technology which does not suffer from memory effect, but if you stress the battery a lot (letting it deplete before you charge it again or almost deplete below 5%) than it will damage it more quickly.
The optimal way of charging your battery is:
1) After the first cycles just charge it whenever you want (even it is at 70% and you are at work, you can plug it to get another 10% and then unplug and use)
2) Don't let it deplete, it will stress the battery too much and damage it in the long run
3) Every 30 cycles, you can let it discharge to below 5% and let it recharge until 100%
I have done this on my PC which still has its battery at above 80% after almost 3 years, and to some extent on my Note, but as I can't always foresee how things will play out I sometimes need to use to until the last drop of energy .
Hope this info helps.

10-12 hours with stock rom and stock battery. Now it has dropped to 7-8 hours. With no replacement. I will be getting another battery soon.
In his dreams what dou you mean?? I posted my current battery status.
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qazibasit said:
10-12 hours with stock rom and stock battery. Now it has dropped to 7-8 hours. With no replacement. I will be getting another battery soon.
In his dreams what dou you mean?? I posted my current battery status.
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Wonderful.
You are getting 7-8 hours of 'screen on time' with a one year old degraded battery. When you get a new one; lemme know, I would like you buy the old one of yours.

qazibasit said:
10-12 hours with stock rom and stock battery. Now it has dropped to 7-8 hours. With no replacement. I will be getting another battery soon.
In his dreams what dou you mean?? I posted my current battery status.
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Buddy....it's not the screen time, its of total use. Click on screen and it will show you the screen time.
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Attaching some screenshots so please can anybody temme that my battery is working fine or not..i am lil tensed as it is discharging very quickly when i am using my handset without much wifi and no 3g and at night with no usage it is using about 7-8%.....
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That is definitely battery drain. Better post a screen of the battery your apps are using...

With a brand new battery, you cannot achieve much more than 5 hours of screen on time with general usage.
You can indeed get much more than that when watching video, but that is the only scenario where that is possible (or maybe staring at a black picture for hours).
So people saying that they get 10 to 12 hours of screen on time are really getting 10 to 12 hours of uptime, meaning the phone is turned on but is sleeping most of the time, with maybe 2 to 3 hours of screen on time.
That's lousy battery life, and those people should buy a new battery.

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Extended battery pack?

Yeah so I burn through my battery in 6 hours... people say that it can last 24 with heavy usage. But that's total BS. So is there an extended battery pack that I could get?
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I'm interested as well, I did buy a 2200mah battery on ebay but considering its coming from china i got a good 2-3 weeks before i see it.
I was looking at that and wondered if was true and not total bs. PM me when u get it plz
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If you burn through your battery in 6 hours youre doing something wrong. Try.draining your battery all the way and then charge it over night
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If you burn through your battery in 6 hours youre doing something wrong. Try.draining your battery all the way and then charge it over night
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My notifications are ALL off, i run a few chat apps for maybe 30 minutes tops, but all i really do is text. My total USAGE comes out to about 4 hours and 30 minutes with Nighttime Powersaver. And my screen time is usually about 14-16 hours depending and i'm not rooted or anything.
Im texting and using data constantly...
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Also I did the battery calibration so I shouldn't have to drain the battery and fully charge it....
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You should consider rooting it and running GreyBlur. I was running through the battery like crazy, actually got AT&T to swap for another Atrix and still had the same problems. GreyBlur really improved my battery life and I'm able to get through a day of medium usage and still have about ~40% when I plug it in at night.
So if im going through the battery fast that means it could be a problem with the battery?
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Had same problem rooted went to greyblur I'm at 20hrs and at 30% right now since my last unplug been using it hardcore for the last 4 hrs
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there is a 5000 milli amp battery for the atrix. i get 10 hours on 1930 so by simple math, this should get
24.8 hours
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...-for-motorola-atrix-4g-with-battery-door.html
I have two numbers on my battery uptime 23.5 hrs and since unplugged 13.5 hrs! What's the difference don't no but def best battery in a phone I've ever owned under heavy use considering all the stuff you can do with this thing amazing
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I have a celltronix universal portable power pack. (4000mAh)
Has two USB ports to charge stuff, comes with multi tips to charge stuff, but I just use the usb cord that came with my atrix. Outputs 5v, charges in about 4 hours.
I don't use it much on my atrix, but I have before, just plug it into the usb port and recharges my phone, can get almost 2 full recharges out of it for the atrix.
I like it cause I can also use it to charge other items also! Used it for my iphone 3gs before I got the atrix.
You can charge power pack from wall, car, or comp usb.(mini-usb plugin to charge it.
Just google "celltronix universal portable power pack" it will pop up on a number of sites. ( I bought mine in a truck stop)
You burn through it because you have a defective product.
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Yea, burning through it in 6 hours means you definitely have a bad battery. GreyBlur destroyed my battery life though, not exactly sure why it increased some peoples' but decreased others.
I had greyblur loaded once then went into recovery wiped everything then installed again first time battery barely made it to 4-5 pm when I went to for at 8 now 13+ hrs unplugged at 9am made it till 12:30am id say that's awesome. U probably got bad battery get couple new ones from what I hear they r cheap. Every phone is different t as far as battery and speed like my battery is awesome but when I run the graphic test I get 2300-2500 scores when I see others getting 2600-2800+
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Ok. So i'll go to the AT&T Store and what should I say so that theyll give me a new one? They are hardass's and I need to convince them, any help on that part?
Don't lie. Tell them you think the battery life has been unsatisfactory. And with a battery that big you should be able to get better than 6 hours.
I burn through my battery pretty quick too though. Today it was dead around 6 hours (11-5) charged and now near death again. But I don't have a screen timeout, notifications on, downloading podcasts on listen(listening to them on speaker), everything on 3G. I don't care what phone you have, that's killing the battery. Its hard to make a battery last on a lazy Sunday.
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I get 14 hours with constant usage... Facebook and twitter sync 1 hour gmail sync 30 minutes. Brightness around 30 percent no auto... Wifi scan 8 minutes. De bloat no freeze. No setcpu profiles... Autokiller set to optimum. I get around 28 hours on one charge with light usage and obviously lots of screen off time... Lol gotta sleep sometime.
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Make sure you GPS is off when you do not need it. It uses up alot of battery when on. I left it on once for two hours and killed 20% battery.
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YABB Yet Another Battery *****ing Thread

Gawdang battery, lasted too long!
So my first android was the nexus one, then the galaxy s, then the nexus S. I am used to the "fantastic" battery life of android phones. So yesterday I was deciding on whether to get the galaxy nexus to continue the tradition, but decided to get the note instead.
I want to do the right thing and that is to do a full charge and full discharge on the first few rounds of battery life but it took AGES for it to discharge fully. I am so pleased with this, I now have better battery life than my wife's iphone.
******** If you see the battery chart, I could not resist playing with the phone so did a little charge there. I am also trying to avoid root as long as possible, after the so call "stock vanilla" experience, its nice to have toggles on the notification without jumping through loops
Wow. 6 hours. That's impressive
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And that is on stock. I wonder if I flash a custom kernel, would I be able to get better? Overall very happy. On my second trip of full term charge to empty.
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5 hours screen on only took 37% of your juice? 5 hours with kill almost 100% of mine! whats wrong with my note?
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How the hell...
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That's good to hear, getting my Note in 2 days and I can't wait. Been trolling the forums and hearing a lot of good things
I got my Note on Thursday morning. I didn't have time to set it up until Friday evening. I fully charged the battery first. I've got gmail and twitter syncing, and bluetooth and wifi on. I've made a few calls and showed it off to my family on Christmas Eve. It hasn't been heavy use by any stretch, but I have yet to recharge the battery - it's at 33% right now with screen on time of just over three hours. I'm pretty satisfied so far.
gaolinde said:
5 hours screen on only took 37% of your juice? 5 hours with kill almost 100% of mine! whats wrong with my note?
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You see from the screenshot that he was charging for a while.
So I don't understand this thread. How can you know how long battery last for if you part charge it?
Not much to understand, my friend. This thread was not made to prove anything, just to show I am real happy with my phone. You are completely right, I did charge it in the middle, I was transfering songs and movies out from the computer and forgot to take it off the usb.
I am now on the second from full to zero. Lets see how much screen time I can get, but already its a winner for me. 77% with 10h on battery and 1h 39m screen time.
Happy holidays all.
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That's good to hear, getting my Note in 2 days and I can't wait. Been trolling the forums and hearing a lot of good things
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I got my Note on Thursday morning. I didn't have time to set it up until Friday evening. I fully charged the battery first. I've got gmail and twitter syncing, and bluetooth and wifi on. I've made a few calls and showed it off to my family on Christmas Eve. It hasn't been heavy use by any stretch, but I have yet to recharge the battery - it's at 33% right now with screen on time of just over three hours. I'm pretty satisfied so far.
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Congrats on your new purchases, may you have much joy with it, like I do mine.
i got the note a few days ago and im very pleased with the battery usage. right now on normal usage im on 48 hours of on time, with 40% battery left. display is the biggest usage of course, and has been on 2.5 hours. ive done lots of installing via wifi and playing with new apps and running games, and a few calls, etc. my old galaxy s would get 48 hours only with very minimal usage and nowhere near 2.5 hours of the display on.
So I am now on my 2nd discharge or 3rd and I rooted it, so there was a whole lot of plugging in and adb and stuff, but I think on a real discharge I can get away with about 4 hours screen time, that is stretching it i think but, generally still very very happy with it. Compared to the nexus S and the galaxy s before, this is heaven for me. I still maintain its better than the wife's 4S
Wow. It sounds like a lot of us with battery problems might still have half full batteries falsely claiming to be empty. Aside from turning off the heater function, this might be the next big explaination of "poor battery"
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Lol at heater function.
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All batteries aren't equal

I always wondered why some SGS3 users seemed to have great battery life and others didn't then I found out why for myself. I had my S3 for maybe 5 days then managed to crack the screen from a short fall (the screen is really too delicate) so had it replaced through my insurance. I returned the broken device but kept the accessories including the battery of which I now have two...yeah! The battery from the replacement device always drained entirely too much on standby time and gave me roughly 12 hours on moderate use. The original battery routinely gave me 17+ hours on moderate and had exceptional standby time. I subsequently returned to using my original battery and enjoying great battery life on my replacement phone.
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I always wondered why some SGS3 users seemed to have great battery life and others didn't then I found out why for myself. I had my S3 for maybe 5 days then managed to crack the screen from a short fall (the screen is really too delicate) so had it replaced through my insurance. I returned the broken device but kept the accessories including the battery of which I now have two...yeah! The battery from the replacement device always drained entirely too much on standby time and gave me roughly 12 hours on moderate use. The original battery routinely gave me 17+ hours on moderate and had exceptional standby time. I subsequently returned to using my original battery and enjoying great battery life on my replacement phone.
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ya i'm with you there cause a lot of people complain about battery life but mine seems to be great yes i can drop my phone from 80-60% in 2 to 3 hours but thats extremely heavy use where if i don't use my phone at all i find i will go through about 20% of the battery for the full day and that is with light use as well
Mainly due to signal if your in an area where your signal is bad, your phone constantly polling for signal if you use WiFi the whole time then yes you would get long battery life. That's why I don't trust any screen shot in "post your battery life" with WiFi signal. I use my phone as it comes with my plan, I don't constantly seek out WiFi spot to hook up to. It's dangerous for security reason and defeat the whole purpose of owning smart phone with data plan. If you can't afford a data plan than don't get a smart phone.
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I can't figure out the battery on this thing.
Some days I get excellent battery. Some days it will drain on standby. I unplugged it last night at 100%. I woke up this morning and it's completely dead.
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Oh well. Then posting battery life is irrelevant.
That's not necessarily true I use Wi-Fi a lot and I have 10gbs of data I only do this at home mind you cause my internet speed is a lot faster but still
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So since my battery life sucks, i should ask samsung for a replacement untill i am satisfied with battery life?
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Here are my screen shots. This is with wap.cingular apn, cpu sleeper, rooted stock rom, juice defender ultimate, battery fully charged and discharged more than 10 times, 4g on the entire screen on time, settings optimized, gestures off, battery saving mode off, gps on, web browsing most of the time, 2 push mail accounts, 1 mail syncs every hour, brightness at 35-40%, and all bloatware disabled, anything else, just ask me. Anyone with knowledge on this please let me know if this is acceptable, or ill go get a replacement unit tomorrow. This is an ATT unit.
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That's not necessarily true I use Wi-Fi a lot and I have 10gbs of data I only do this at home mind you cause my internet speed is a lot faster but still
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thats understandable but some people go out constantly looking for a place with wifi so they can get online.
Ya I see your point and I agree if you can't afford a data plan then don't get a smart phone is not worth it even 512mb plan is okay if you know how much use you are getting out of the
you don't need to buy a new phone just try and get a different battery as much as a pain in the ass as that may seem but usually that's the cause of the problem not the phone itself
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Juice defender kills batteries more than it helps I strongly recommend you stop using it. Battery saving maps don't typically work because it uses a lot of energy to re enable 3g/4g/lte and to turn them off. I disable everything I don't use. Have Bluetooth in everyday all day, GPS, and sync. I have about 60 apps.
Today I'm at 62% with 1 hour 10 mins of screen time. 8tracks for 30 minutes. And about a half hiur of calls. Not bad battery life IMO. I browse tapatalk a lot on various forums.
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agreed, ever since ics i've stopped using battery apps
I'm ordering a new battery and hoping it's going to be the fix...
Ya if I'm not using my data I turn it off but I'm at 54% and I've been on the net a lot and Wi-Fi tethered for 2 hours.... I love this phone
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My phone is stock. GPS, gesters and location are enabled. 4g LTE blazing... I can push this thing 24 hours. My 2 exchange accounts are push from [email protected] to 8P .. I have 5 google accounts on push as well
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So would the solution be going back to att and asking for a new battery? I've had the phone for about 3-4 days so im still under that 30 day warranty thing.
I have 2 batteries and 1 does seem to last longer than the other. Ima test this a few more days.
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So would the solution be going back to att and asking for a new battery? I've had the phone for about 3-4 days so im still under that 30 day warranty thing.
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Shouldn't matter about 30 day warranty, manufacturer warranty SHOULD get u a new battery beyond those 30 days. Anyone else had any luck exchange battery this way?? Also once exchanged was the battery better??
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Proof of battery life
Approximately 30 mins of call time and 2 hours of talk time... 44 hours later my phone was about ready to die! Clearly this was light to moderate use but this gives me great hope that I should be able to last more than the 12 hours I was getting on my other battery with moderate usage. I credit the longevity to the use of CPU tuner, Juice Defender, the build in power saving mode (everything checked except CPU), and applying the cell standby tweak (though its utility is debatable).

Nexus 4 Battery Life

Hey Guys,
A bunch of people are complaining about the battery life on Nexus 4. I've been waited for a couple days since I got the device, to have enough confident about the battery before I make any post here. Yes, the phone battery drain pretty fast on the first few cycles. After a bunch more charges later, let me tell this, the battery life did get significantly better. It lasted about 10-15 hr depends on the load of the usage.
Here is my typical day, off the charge at 100% in the morning, listen to a few songs, checking emails, and messages while getting ready for school. About an 30mn to 1hr of internet browser and youtube videos while on the bus. By 1-2pm the battery drop the about 70-80%. I put the phone in silent mood til i'm done with all my classes. On the way back home on the bus, I listened to a bunch of music, web browsing, maybe a few phone calls, texts or games.
Compare to my old phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 T989, im impressed with the Nexus 4 battery life. My Galaxy S2 battery always die on the bus coming back home. What I'm trying to get at: if you're a light to medium user like me, then get this phone. I was hesitate at first because I always have bad experience with android battery life. But Google seem to get its OS right with this nexus device, mainly because the battery drain minimum while in sleeping mood.
Can you post your Nexus 4 battery performance screenshot if you have been using the phone for more than a few days ?
Is there supposed to be a question being asked? Or a statement as this is in the Q&A forum.
I agree with you on many points. People need to wait at least 5 to 7 days for the battery charge to fully kick in. The first days mean absolutely nothing as it is still being aligned plus the user is still installing apps and setting up their phone.
There are some notable problems in the default kernel that uses more battery Usage than normal too.
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From full battery to this overnight + breakfast usage. Rasbean + Matr1x v3.0. Never seen anything like it. Coming from the GN, this phone is a different dimension altogether. On any aspect..
Had phone for 5 days. Drained phone to 10% then fully charged. Moderate to light use made it through a day.
Stock rooted + Franco Kernel.
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Had phone for 5 days. Drained phone to 10% then fully charged. Moderate to light use made it through a day.
Stock rooted + Franco Kernel.
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can someone post how the battery drain is wihr stock kernel with normal using phone ?
what do you think?
Getting this i am on stock kernel and stock rom
is it low?
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Getting this i am on stock kernel and stock rom
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Depends on how much screen time you got, which you didn't show us.
The trick is to be careful about using mobile data when signal is bad, I switch to WiFi when home to avoid unnecessary battery drain.
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What is this obsession for battery life, it lasts me well through the day with moderate/heavy use. I charge it at night (if needed) and unless you are homeleless this shouldn`t be a problem. It`s a great phone and i enjoy using it.
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What is this obsession for battery life, it lasts me well through the day with moderate/heavy use. I charge it at night (if needed) and unless you are homeleless this shouldn`t be a problem. It`s a great phone and i enjoy using it.
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I thought the same until my N4 actually arrived, it seems battery life is abysmal compared to my Optimus 2x which didnt have anything really spectacular in regards to battery size. On my O2x I could get 1.5 - 2.5 days depending on use, hitting atleast 1 .5 which was good and acceptable for me (I can charge at night anyways) however my N4 doesnt even reach 13 hours on similar usage!.
I am quite a light users of smartphones however I do like to have a power phone when it comes to using it on the basis of smoothness and capabilities if I need to say do work on my phone, I rarely play games though. Main usage is 2 email accounts on poll 1 hour steps, a third account that is an exchange server and polls in 30 minute steps and thats about it with some brief browsing and a handful of texts (been a quite time since I got my N4), this is less usage than my O2x and yet it still performs alot worse!
I was hoping of staying with stock as I was expecting it to finally be good, comparing it to LG stock attempts it is but battery life isnt . I will be trying the combo Vangelis13 mentioned, raspbean and matr1x kernel as that seems like a great mix however Parandroid has been on the table and it seems like alot of being are getting good results so I will try it soon .
If I can get more than a day of usage I would be really happy, if I was playing games or doing really heavy tasks I wouldnt expect it to last but right now it is doing pretty much nothing and dieing far to fast!.
One thing I've noticed since coming to N4 from S2 is that phone calls drain battery much more significantly on the N4. I could make an hour long call on my S2 and it would use no more than a couple of percent battery but the N4 used 15% for an hour long phone call the other night.
If I didn't own a nexus 4 and came to this thread to find out about it's battery life I would expect it to be good.
Point is you guys are misinforming everyone. The battery is mediocre and that's it.
It won't last a full day if you use it constantly and I do need two charges / day many times.
Let me put it this way, you will only get roughly 3 hours of screen time on stock everything. If that is good for you then it's will have good battery life, if not then you will say it's got poor battery life.
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If I didn't own a nexus 4 and came to this thread to find out about it's battery life I would expect it to be good.
Point is you guys are misinforming everyone. The battery is mediocre and that's it.
It won't last a full day if you use it constantly and I do need two charges / day many times.
Let me put it this way, you will only get roughly 3 hours of screen time on stock everything. If that is good for you then it's will have good battery life, if not then you will say it's got poor battery life.
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It's always incredibly funny when someone comes in saying everyone else's subjective battery advice is bad then claims his subjective battery advice as correct.
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joshnichols189 said:
It's always incredibly funny when someone comes in saying everyone else's subjective battery advice is bad then claims his subjective battery advice as correct.
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You clearly misunderstood my post. Food you even read it?
There is nothing subjective about 3 hours screen time.
My battery is fine.
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madmike413 said:
My battery is fine.
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madmike413!!!
How do you got this battery life?!!
mine is insanely bad with trinity kernel and toolbox and paranoid android.
thanks..
StayGreen said:
madmike413!!!
How do you got this battery life?!!
mine is insanely bad with trinity kernel and toolbox and paranoid android.
thanks..
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His phone was mostly on standby/deep sleep mode. That's how it lasted 2days.
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chrisastrous said:
If I didn't own a nexus 4 and came to this thread to find out about it's battery life I would expect it to be good.
Point is you guys are misinforming everyone. The battery is mediocre and that's it.
It won't last a full day if you use it constantly and I do need two charges / day many times.
Let me put it this way, you will only get roughly 3 hours of screen time on stock everything. If that is good for you then it's will have good battery life, if not then you will say it's got poor battery life.
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+1
you are perfectly right.
I come from an iPhone 4s, which I changed because the battery life wasn´t that great and I thought it was time to try something new.
Got the N4 last friday and played around with it during the weekend.
Monday, tuesday and wednesday this week... none of these days I´ve been able to come back home with the phone still on.
I wake up at 7.30am and I usually am back home at 6pm.
In my opinion, and honestly should be in everyone´s opinion, 10 hours of battery life are unacceptable, whatever the usage is (considering that 7.30 of those 10 hours I was at work)
I have till friday this week to return it, which is a pity because the phone is great
i get 5-6 hours sot..
rom is omnirom 5.1.1 hellscore kernel b73.
100mv undervoltage hellsactive governer.
think 7 would be possible if google services would not take a quarter of the battery.
the screen is not taking that much battery as one would think.
think most issues with battery life come from fake original battery replacements.
had 3-4 sot using "original" battery. but after replacing with real genuine from official lg spare parts shop 5-6...
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Note 3 magically recharging by itself

So i have a note 3 exynos SM-n900 model and i have noticed that every time i use the phone (screen ON), and then put it down for some time (screen off, deep sleep ON), the battery pecentage goes up by about 3%. obviously this is not some voodoo, but i guess the battery calibration has changed somewhat since 4.3 came out. Also it's not as if the 3% then just drops when i use the phone again..it just drains normally.
I am getting about 30 hours atleast on any given day with about 6 hours of screen ON time. so i am happy with whatever's happenning. lol
just wondering if anyone else has noticed this happening or is it just my phone.
I am on criskelo rom V07 and Halaszk kernel v0.14B cluster. Also have Greenify, Better battery stats, etc installed.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post.
Regards,
Interesting. Now: What planet has 30+ hour days?
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CZroe said:
Interesting. Now: What planet has 30+ hour days?
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A magical planet where phones charge on their own.
I'm gonna guess this is due to kernel/rom config, and that it reports the percentages inconsistently. Perhaps you should try stock on for a few days and see how it goes.
My n9005 lasts for more than 30 hours easily on a single charge -- with fairly heavy usage.
CZroe said:
Interesting. Now: What planet has 30+ hour days?
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HaHa, you guys know what I mean .. off topic 715 planets have just been discovered by NASA and 4 of them are apparently habitable too.....atleast one of them might have a 30 hour day.
nipuna said:
A magical planet where phones charge on their own.
I'm gonna guess this is due to kernel/rom config, and that it reports the percentages inconsistently. Perhaps you should try stock on for a few days and see how it goes.
My n9005 lasts for more than 30 hours easily on a single charge -- with fairly heavy usage.
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Yes Nipuna, the snapdragon version has better battery performance surely. Mine's an Exynos sadly..so not as good as yours. Stock Kernel is worse as i already had it for two months and didn't even get a day's use out of it. Anyway...i am not much of a commuting person and i usually have a charging point close by at any given time.
thanks!
Well, I had a spare battery (100% official) for my Xperia PLAY 4G R800at. Switching to it would often show 0% and gradually rise to 100%. It could be a similar correction as the battery controller adjusts and corrects itself.
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CZroe said:
Interesting. Now: What planet has 30+ hour days?
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mercurys day is 4222 hours long. thats 58.5 days
battery percentage is guess-timated based on voltage.
My best guess is that the calibration algorithm has not changed to reflect the monstrous capacity this phone's battery has.
If you go with ZL's 10Ah battery, you'll notice this happening a ton more.
had years ago the same magic on my old x10!!! :thumbup:
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Well my battery charges itself but in different way, when the battery reach 5 %, I turn off my phone and pull the battery for 1 min then put it back, it magically goes from 5% to 8%.
Stock rooted
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If you work near high energy substations this can recharge batteries, it's the principle the QI chargers use,and the Note 3 has the ports for it...

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