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Post Your Battery Stats

This is thread is to post the battery life that you are getting on the phone. Please post your screen shots from the power menu. This is not a contest of who can get the longest screen time. It is purely to show what kind of battery life you get and some tips and tricks to get a little more juice.

How do I take a screenshot? Brightness 10 to 30 %. So far 10% mobile, 60% wifi browsing, the rest in standby with mobile off, was waiting for a new sim. 22 hours and 10% battery life left. continuous wifi browsing looks like at least a solid 10 hours judging by the way the graph drops. Very impressed. My htc Sensation dies after 4 hours.
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Incredible battery life. Unboxed it and put the battery in, only 60% was in and get are my results.
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I don't know guys I'm not that happy with my battery life, it seems like the battery life with my note 1 was way better, almost one and a half times better, is it everyone out there or do I have a faulty device, other than the battery life, I've fallen in love with a note all over again
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Mine is just nuts!!!! In a very good way!
My s3 gives me 5 hours screen time, I got so far 50% battery left and have done 4.5 hours screen green time already!!?!?!!!??? Wow!
Someone show me how to put images up here

I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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DanielW81 said:
I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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yohanpra said:
I don't know guys I'm not that happy with my battery life, it seems like the battery life with my note 1 was way better, almost one and a half times better, is it everyone out there or do I have a faulty device, other than the battery life, I've fallen in love with a note all over again
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DanielW81 said:
I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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Lmao amazing.. 10h screen time xD
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People who are getting bad battery life probably forgot to charge the phone to 100% before the first boot, which harm significantly the poor battery.
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People who are getting bad battery life probably forgot to charge the phone to 100% before the first boot, which harm significantly the poor battery.
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Not true, it doesn't matter at all. Just use it, batteries nowadays are smart batteries and they will calibrate them selves.
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If it doesn't matter at all why did samsung bother writing a warning in the quick start guide ? (Yeah some of us do read those things)
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barondebxl said:
Not true, it doesn't matter at all. Just use it, batteries nowadays are smart batteries and they will calibrate them selves.
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+1!
This is correct only for old batteries...

Looks pretty good! I was worried about battery life because of the large screen size of the device, but it looks like the large battery has made a suitable buffer for this :]
Thanks for the pics everyone!

CreepyDroid said:
If it doesn't matter at all why did samsung bother writing a warning in the quick start guide ? (Yeah some of us do read those things)
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Thats for noobs. Bottom line is it isnt necessary. Did the same with my one x, s3 you name it.
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This is after todays usage.
I did a bunch of benchmarks with it that you can see here

DanielW81 said:
I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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This is about correct! Have used one hours screen time and have 90% left

Can, t post screen shots this evening but I'll post what I know of my battery life so far:
From a full charge I have had 3 hours 47 minutes of continuous screen time and 61% battery left. I've had quite a lot of network activity installing 144 appps, restoring data, answeing email, and reading here in this forum. I'd also been playing with the camera and watching recorded files. It's looking like I could see close to 10 hours of this sort of use. Considering my normal use for my phone and/or tablet I'll be able to go 2 days on a full charge. With a charger on hand at bedtime I'm not likely to ever run the battery down past 30% (rough estimate).
Color me impressed!

Here is my Note II battery usage. which I posted in another post already
First day
Out of box without charging at all. Used it from around 49% to 3% for around 5 hours+ Screenshot attached.
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The night before charged from 3% to 100% with my Note II power on for around 9 hours. Then unplugged and heavy using from 100% to 10%, it stayed more than 14 hours. I am saying this is pretty good juice. Screenshot attached.
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Got up this morning dully charged been on it listening to music and videos through bluetooth everything turned on wifi data sync the lot while browsing forums and internet and other messingand its gone down to 82% left if I did this all day I would get about 10hours continue playback which I will never do at work probly get 2 days time will tell .its looking good
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This is the best battery time with no tweaks and all running ...still at 33 % .... I am soooo satisfied....now my s3 going on sale
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[Q] short battery life s4

I takes about 10 hours, the lesson download much battery? when I go to sleep I lose almost 15% of battery. Any solution?: (

Battery life is terrible.
I refuse to do what my friend does:
Turn vibrate off
Turn screen brightness to lowest
Phone is always connected to Edge - unless he's using the Internet - then he switches back to Edge
Syncs his email every 15 minutes (pull not push!!!)
Always 'freeing ram' and exiting apps
His life sucks.
I am the opposite. Full brightness, 4g , push mail for my 4 emails, exchange server (email and calendar) for work and so on.
I manage this by always having a spare battery that I charge with my battery charger dock lol.
Will be doing the same thing once I can get one for my S4

I know, so far it's been below expectations for me too - I ordered a portable energy bank from Amazon this morning, and I guess I'll just carry it around with me from now on.. What a shame - the phone is extremely powerful too..

Install gsam battery monitor and let it monitor your phone and see what is causing wake locks. Also let the battery go through 3-4 battery cycles before you start comparing battery life.

That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Anyone tried this app yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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Slai said:
That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Same here, battery life is phenomenal. I really dont see how folks are having bad battery life
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Slai said:
That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Same Best smartphone battery life I've ever had and I too had quite a lot smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG. Those lasted only half as long with the same usage pattern.

barondebxl said:
Same here, battery life is phenomenal. I really dont see how folks are having bad battery life
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chalid said:
Same Best smartphone battery life I've ever had and I too had quite a lot smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG. Those lasted only half as long with the same usage pattern.
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Seriously? how much is the battery life? can post some pics?

I am also curous how many hours does it take for the battery to reach 15% and how much screen on time do you get. Please post a few screenshots!

After a day i have like 30% left. Screen on time is about 2h.
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battery life is not a issue here I don't think I can get to 15% easily most day I do not but I will try to get some pics posted after an all day use no promises I manage to be busy a lot lol.

I am constantly using it.
Whatsapp
Instagram
Facebook
Push mail for 4 gmail (only one is really active)
Synced exchange server at work (calendar only)
In 10 mins of use, it'll go down 2mins

MaKTaiL said:
Anyone tried this app yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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I'm trying it right now. It takes a bit more than two days for the app to learn certain usage patterns. I still have to wait 8 hours until the actual battery savings start. Will report as soon as I have it working.
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pedrohz said:
I'm trying it right now. It takes a bit more than two days for the app to learn certain usage patterns. I still have to wait 8 hours until the actual battery savings start. Will report as soon as I have it working.
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Let us know as soon as you can. Mine is still one day away of starting the battery saving.
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monkteo said:
Seriously? how much is the battery life? can post some pics?
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I get similar battery life as well. Sometimes 4 ton6 hours screen times
16 hour days
I found my battery life improved when I got rid of a poor quality 32gig media card and used another spare old16gig one.
I also dumped corrupted mp3 files and videos and got new ones.
I think poor sd card quality and bad mp3 files are partially responsible for lower battery life.
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just got mine
first charge cycle
4 hours on screen
total 8 hours
15% left
not very good but i think it will get better
9505

MaKTaiL said:
Let us know as soon as you can. Mine is still one day away of starting the battery saving.
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So far with battery saving on it seems that nothing changed... Will test it further with daily use. But battery life here, even before using the app was not bad by any means.
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Gillion said:
I get similar battery life as well. Sometimes 4 ton6 hours screen times
16 hour days
I found my battery life improved when I got rid of a poor quality 32gig media card and used another spare old16gig one.
I also dumped corrupted mp3 files and videos and got new ones.
I think poor sd card quality and bad mp3 files are partially responsible for lower battery life.
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Yep. I'm really impressed with this phone s battery life, not too far from the note 2 battery life but not quite there.
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5 hours of wakelocks

Hello everyone today I noticed something weird with the xz..I am getting 5 hours of on screen time but I think we can easily get some were close to 6 hours..bcoz with 5 hours of on screen time I have 5 hours of kernel wake locks..can this be fixed?? Everything is stock .253 firmware and not rooted..
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Were you listening to music?

Michealtbh said:
Were you listening to music?
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No..i disnt listen to any music.
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Ame123 said:
No..i disnt listen to any music.
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Can you tell my which app you used on the first screenshot?
Will give it a try on my Z...

this must be a troll thread.
it is impossible to get over 5 hours on screen time.
I have tried with 3 different xperia Zs. the most i have ever got was 4.5 hours. the average is between 3.5 - 4 hours.
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upon quercom
Try Gsam Battery Monitor (Google play), hope this help.
Cheers,

SirRobin78 said:
Can you tell my which app you used on the first screenshot?
Will give it a try on my Z...
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Gsam battery monitor
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samxool said:
this must be a troll thread.
it is impossible to get over 5 hours on screen time.
I have tried with 3 different xperia Zs. the most i have ever got was 4.5 hours. the average is between 3.5 - 4 hours.
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So u think i have faked the screenshort...y should i do that??
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This main 5 hours wakelock is nothing important,it's all the time used by the phone when screen is on.
5 hours screen on = 5 hours wakelock that is how Gsam works.
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gm007 said:
This main 5 hours wakelock is nothing important,it's all the time used by the phone when screen is on.
5 hours screen on = 5 hours wakelock that is how Gsam works.
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So is it completely fine???
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Ame123 said:
So is it completely fine???
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Yes it is
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samxool said:
this must be a troll thread.
it is impossible to get over 5 hours on screen time.
I have tried with 3 different xperia Zs. the most i have ever got was 4.5 hours. the average is between 3.5 - 4 hours.
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I've had two and I can easily get 4 hours and more if its on Wi-Fi and your streaming from Netflix or browsing the web. that is with Google now enabled and location history.
so I don't know what your doing wrong with your Xperia's

samxool said:
this must be a troll thread.
it is impossible to get over 5 hours on screen time.
I have tried with 3 different xperia Zs. the most i have ever got was 4.5 hours. the average is between 3.5 - 4 hours.
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Quite a number have achieved 5 hours or more of screen on time.I myself personally have achieved 5 hours or close to 5 on average when on using stock based roms.
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samxool said:
this must be a troll thread.
it is impossible to get over 5 hours on screen time.
I have tried with 3 different xperia Zs. the most i have ever got was 4.5 hours. the average is between 3.5 - 4 hours.
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I LOLed.
Maybe this convinces you: :angel:

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So u think i have faked the screenshort...y should i do that??
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why would i know?
why do trolls troll?
for $hits and giggles.
like i've said, i've tried 3 different XZs, from different locations and different batches.
all are identical in battery life.
i.e., terrible. 3.5 hours battery life for on screen time is pathetic.
i'm doing nothing wrong.
its fine when on standby, but as soon as the display is on, watch the battery drain like a motherf*cker. this is even with brightness down to bare minimum, 4G off, nfc off, bluetooth off, etc all stock firmware, not rooted.
I
checking battery stats, it always the screen as the biggest drain.
and like i said, i've tried 3 different XZs from 3 different places and with enough time between them to know they cannot all be from 1 faulty batch.
the battery life on the XZ sucks.
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I LOLed.
Maybe this convinces you: :angel:
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fine, why don't you tell me what settings you've got that enable you to reach "5hours" of onscreen [email protected]????

samxool said:
why would i know?
why do trolls troll?
for $hits and giggles.
like i've said, i've tried 3 different XZs, from different locations and different batches.
all are identical in battery life.
i.e., terrible. 3.5 hours battery life for on screen time is pathetic.
i'm doing nothing wrong.
its fine when on standby, but as soon as the display is on, watch the battery drain like a motherf*cker. this is even with brightness down to bare minimum, 4G off, nfc off, bluetooth off, etc all stock firmware, not rooted.
I
checking battery stats, it always the screen as the biggest drain.
and like i said, i've tried 3 different XZs from 3 different places and with enough time between them to know they cannot all be from 1 faulty batch.
the battery life on the XZ sucks.
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fine, why don't you tell me what settings you've got that enable you to reach "5hours" of onscreen [email protected]????
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its not hard...turn mobile sync off brightness to zero and always use wifi, only text and call...voila easy..but to do such a thing is like not using a smartphone.

@samxool @G1_enthusiast
Haha you guys are funny.
My brightness is %40 adaptive. Wifi On 3G on Stamina Off. (Wifi used mostly at home)
5+ hours of screen time as seen on screenshot.
I used Facebook and Twitter app all that time long.
I am one of those who are following and supporting the resistance at Gezi Park İstanbul. Thats why I was on twitter most of the time when I took the screenshot.
BTW. I dont have any special settings I use greenify for useless apps thats all.

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@samxool @G1_enthusiast
Haha you guys are funny.
My brightness is %40 adaptive. Wifi On 3G on Stamina Off. (Wifi used mostly at home)
5+ hours of screen time as seen on screenshot.
I used Facebook and Twitter app all that time long.
I am one of those who are following and supporting the resistance at Gezi Park İstanbul. Thats why I was on twitter most of the time when I took the screenshot.
BTW. I dont have any special settings I use greenify for useless apps thats all.
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and how much time did you spent at home using wifi? you do know if you use 3g the whole time there is no way in hell to get 5 hrs screen time with the above setting you have.
I want to see the inside of the graph where it break down your usage guaranteed it fills with wifi for most of the time.

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and how much time did you spent at home using wifi? you do know if you use 3g the whole time there is no way in hell to get 5 hrs screen time with the above setting you have.
I want to see the inside of the graph where it break down your usage guaranteed it fills with wifi for most of the time.
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My friend I said it is mostly wi-fi because I was at home browsing web, twitter and facebook.
I was outside for a short time which includes a few minutes of video taking and some photos of protests outside.
So this includes some time of under the sun activity too although it is not long.
I am not claiming my average usage is 5+ hours. I can say this was one of my experiences which I happen to see more then 5 hours maybe if I waited for %1 it might be 6 hours?
If I go to work use the phone less etc than my screen time of course drops. Phone eats battery when idle too as you can guess. But if you use the phone non stop like me I am sure you will see 5 hours and more.

samxool said:
why would i know?
why do trolls troll?
for $hits and giggles.
like i've said, i've tried 3 different XZs, from different locations and different batches.
all are identical in battery life.
i.e., terrible. 3.5 hours battery life for on screen time is pathetic.
i'm doing nothing wrong.
its fine when on standby, but as soon as the display is on, watch the battery drain like a motherf*cker. this is even with brightness down to bare minimum, 4G off, nfc off, bluetooth off, etc all stock firmware, not rooted.
I
checking battery stats, it always the screen as the biggest drain.
and like i said, i've tried 3 different XZs from 3 different places and with enough time between them to know they cannot all be from 1 faulty batch.
the battery life on the XZ sucks.
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fine, why don't you tell me what settings you've got that enable you to reach "5hours" of onscreen [email protected]????
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Not ours...its only u whose battery life sucks...u r bit unlucky..i have no extra settings even i keep my brightness to 30%...so u r trolling not we..
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Battery Woes - Help and ideas welcomed!!!

So I have had my S5 for a week now and my batt life is aweful. Yet I hear everyone saying its awesome...
Here is my setup. Nova Launcher, Wifi always on, but disable scanning and set it to only keep on while sleep if plugged in. Bluetooth always on, I use it 3 hours a day. So need it....
GPS always on, High accuracy...
Brightness in the middle and set to auto.
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rmd0311 said:
So I have had my S5 for a week now and my batt life is aweful. Yet I hear everyone saying its awesome...
Here is my setup. Nova Launcher, Wifi always on, but disable scanning and set it to only keep on while sleep if plugged in. Bluetooth always on, I use it 3 hours a day. So need it....
GPS always on, High accuracy...
Brightness in the middle and set to auto.
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I disabled print services and my battery life improved.
Settings > printing > turn both off.
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What's your screen time
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trikotret said:
What's your screen time
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15 seconds.
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15 seconds, changed at 88% today.
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That's it. Just 15 seconds. Something is running on three background or you have a DOA device
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There's something wrong with the camera on these phones. After I open up the camera or snapchat, my battery drains fast. The phone doesn't go into deep sleep after closing camera apps. I restart my phone multiple times per day, but my battery drains at 2-4%/hrs with a couple hours screen on per day.
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LocoFreek25 said:
There's something wrong with the camera on these phones. After I open up the camera or snapchat, my battery drains fast. The phone doesn't go into deep sleep after closing camera apps. I restart my phone multiple times per day, but my battery drains at 2-4%/hrs with a couple hours screen on per day.
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What's your total usage for the day
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Don't get me wrong. 16 hours is great compared to other phones in the past. Tomorrow I will try setting gps to power saver and only changing to high accuracy when needed.
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What's your total usage for the day
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Last 100-8% took 40 hours with almost 5 hours screen time. Neither power save modes were on. I had WiFi 70% of the time, with a decent 4G signal otherwise. This is 2-3 times what I get if I use my camera without restarting my phone.
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This should be posted in q&a not general
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I have a similar set up as you. I keep BT always on and GPS always on w/ high accuracy, turning BT off doesn't do much to the battery life imo.
The absolutely biggest difference for me was to go into location settings and hit Google Location Reporting and turn off location reporting and history. Also turn off geo-tag for the camera, and locations setting on FB.

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I'm sorry I thought you were asking how long I had my time out for. Re reading now I see you were asking about. How long the screen was on. End of day was like 3 hours.
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I have GPS on accuracy and use Firefox. I watch YouTube videos and all that. Sounds like a major issue.
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I have GPS on accuracy and use Firefox. I watch YouTube videos and all that. Sounds like a major issue.
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Did you make any changes at all?

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Did you make any changes at all?
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I did disable every Verizon / pre-installed application I could. I keep brightness at auto. I keep wifi off at all times because I have unlimited data. Stock on this phone is pretty impressive.
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Maybe I am nuts... But does the charging cable matter... I'm not using the OEM one, never bother to take it out of the box... Using a basic microusb cable from my previous phone that was already there. Maybe that sounds crazy...

rmd0311 said:
Maybe I am nuts... But does the charging cable matter... I'm not using the OEM one, never bother to take it out of the box... Using a basic microusb cable from my previous phone that was already there. Maybe that sounds crazy...
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It shouldn't matter. For what its worth, I'm not seeing anywhere close to what others have posted in terms of battery longevity. I use bluetooth for everything. Car stereo, bathroom speaker, gym headphones, etc. Wifi is always on, but connected 80% of the time. GPS rarely on. Screen time doesn't push past 2 hours and I can BARELY get about 1 day of battery life. I do use the stock charging cable, but I use others as well.
It seems like a big variance, even with drastic use differences.

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It shouldn't matter. For what its worth, I'm not seeing anywhere close to what others have posted in terms of battery longevity. I use bluetooth for everything. Car stereo, bathroom speaker, gym headphones, etc. Wifi is always on, but connected 80% of the time. GPS rarely on. Screen time doesn't push past 2 hours and I can BARELY get about 1 day of battery life. I do use the stock charging cable, but I use others as well.
It seems like a big variance, even with drastic use differences.
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Battery life is ok for me I guess. It gets me through a day. I am not impressed by the battery life at all, probably because I was spoiled with my old MAXX. I still expected at least a few more hours but something in the background sucks battery. When root comes, I'm sure battery life will improve a bunch. Its also not that big of a deal because the back is removable. What stinks is this is my battery life with power saving enabled for over 1/2 of the day. I really do not understand how people were getting over 10 hours of screen time and this day and a half battery life. The only way I get that is if I charge it before bed and count those 12 hours towards my battery life and I still wouldn't break 24 hours.
Maybe I'm missing something?
GPS is battery saving, print services are disabled, screen timeout at 15 seconds, screen is at auto brightness with adapt display, power saving enabled most of the time, wifi and 4g bounce between whichever is better, network mode is LTE/CDMA and I have disabled a ton of bloat. Maybe its because I have ART enabled.
Definitely not impressed by battery life but I am a heavy user and I love that you can swap batteries.

What does 'power saving mode' do? I can clearly see what 'ultra power saving mode does', but I was wondering if anyone knew what regular power saving mode does? I tried searching the Q&A forum but didn't find much and Googling it just led me to a bunch of pages touting the ultra power saving mode. Thanks in advance!

What's wrong with my note 4 ?

Hi everyone,
I have a Note 4 (SM-N910F) running android 5.1.1 (build LMY47X.N910FXXU1COH4) for about 1 year and a half now and i'm so surprised of how the performance have decreased, plus i have some weird things happening every now and then such as :
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Having no internet connection, but i'm on wi-fi. This doesn't come from the network i'm using because it happens even when i'm connected to a different one.
My battery life is really ****ty... Plus when i'm around 30%, my phone shuts down and when i turn it back on again, i'm like at 1%.
I'm not root.
I really don't know what to do. Is there any information i can give you that will give you tips on things i'm maybe doing wrong causing my phone to have weird behavior ?
The thing i want to know is if flashing a new rom was a good idea, and maybe if you have advices to give me on roms.. I'd like to be as up to date as possible, and a light rom. Doesn't care about touchwiz feature. I just want my phone to be reactive, fast, and working normally.
Thanks for your answers.

Change your battery. Some posters claim to have lag when their battery are nearly dying as well.

yesteryearisoverhere said:
Change your battery. Some posters claim to have lag when their battery are nearly dying as well.
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I second this suggestion.
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lucasriondel said:
Hi everyone,
I have a Note 4 (SM-N910F) running android 5.1.1 (build LMY47X.N910FXXU1COH4) for about 1 year and a half now and i'm so surprised of how the performance have decreased, plus i have some weird things happening every now and then such as :
Having no internet connection, but i'm on wi-fi. This doesn't come from the network i'm using because it happens even when i'm connected to a different one.
My battery life is really ****ty... Plus when i'm around 30%, my phone shuts down and when i turn it back on again, i'm like at 1%.
I'm not root.
I really don't know what to do. Is there any information i can give you that will give you tips on things i'm maybe doing wrong causing my phone to have weird behavior ?
The thing i want to know is if flashing a new rom was a good idea, and maybe if you have advices to give me on roms.. I'd like to be as up to date as possible, and a light rom. Doesn't care about touchwiz feature. I just want my phone to be reactive, fast, and working normally.
Thanks for your answers.
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Do you update regularly (Apps & OTA update)?
Try to turn off WiFi & then turn it on again.
As for battery....it's degraded to only 70% of its full capacity.
Usually when it reaches around 40% your phone will stutter + lagging heavily, so make sure to charge at around 50% if you are still considering to use that "broken" battery.
My Advice is to buy a new OEM battery or any good 3rd party battery.

It is a little similar with my 2014 Note 10.1. It also shuts down on its own at right arount 33%. But only sometimes. And yes, it also stutters. I can not vouch for other branded devices. But, I have heard similar stories from friends on their Samsung devices. Definitely get a new battery. Like another post staited. OEM is a great choice. Or, at least a very reputable 3rd party. I purchased a battery for my Note 10. And even though it was new, it was not the same. I found that the circuitry in the cheap aftermarket battery was sub par. The seller sent me a free replacement battery. And it also had issues. So, make sure you get a reputable battery.
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d4rkkn16ht said:
Do you update regularly (Apps & OTA update)?
Try to turn off WiFi & then turn it on again.
As for battery....it's degraded to only 70% of its full capacity.
Usually when it reaches around 40% your phone will stutter + lagging heavily, so make sure to charge at around 50% if you are still considering to use that "broken" battery.
My Advice is to buy a new OEM battery or any good 3rd party battery.
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Batteries aren't linear though. Its voltage drops off in a curve. (e.g. 4.2v = 100%, 4.1v = 90% and 3.7v = 20%)

Same problem on my 10 months old Note 4 N910C. And it was started about 2-3 months ago, so the battery lasted about 6 months!? Also, there's a burned-in damage on my screen (notification bar)! Yes, warranty is still valid, but anyway... NEVER AGAIN Samsung phone!
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P. S. My brother has the same problem on his SG S6
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zviki said:
Same problem on my 10 months old Note 4 N910C. And it was started about 2-3 months ago, so the battery lasted about 6 months!? Also, there's a burned-in damage on my screen (notification bar)! Yes, warranty is still valid, but anyway... NEVER AGAIN Samsung phone!
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P. S. My brother has the same problem on his SG S6
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You also need to look at your signal - it is awful and you have some wicked wake lock issues that need to be addressed.
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You also need to look at your signal - it is awful and you have some wicked wake lock issues that need to be addressed.
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Hm... You right about signal. I never looked at this, because whenever I use the phone (at home) and I'm always on 4G internet (unlimited plan), signal meter is on 1-2 bars.I don't know why is signal so bad, when phone is off. Power saving is always ON. About wake locks... I believe that they are from my smart watch (bluetooth),but Bluetooth version on Note4 should be low-power (connection is lost when I'm 4 meters away (in my department)), so... This days I can't reach 2h of SOT (4h-5h when it was new).
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Hm... You right about signal. I never looked at this, because whenever I use the phone (at home) and I'm always on 4G internet (unlimited plan), signal meter is on 1-2 bars.I don't know why is signal so bad, when phone is off. Power saving is always ON. About wake locks... I believe that they are from my smart watch (bluetooth),but Bluetooth version on Note4 should be low-power (connection is lost when I'm 4 meters away (in my department)), so... This days I can't reach 2h of SOT (4h-5h when it was new).
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Interesting. I'm curious about the power saving if that actually reduces your signal by keeping it in a lower power state. I have never used power saving mode and my rom doesn't recommend it. I wonder if running in normal mode would effect it.
Might look at what apps are using the bulk of your battery as well to see if something rogue is running.
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nine5raptor said:
Interesting. I'm curious about the power saving if that actually reduces your signal by keeping it in a lower power state. I have never used power saving mode and my rom doesn't recommend it. I wonder if running in normal mode would effect it.
Might look at what apps are using the bulk of your battery as well to see if something rogue is running.
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Before Note my phone was Sony Xperia Z and power saving on that phone did a great job.That's why I still use this feature. I also put many apps into the "optimizing mode"... There's no any special app which uses battery. There was Facebook, but I uninstall it.Battery monitoring apps are useless for me because phone is not rooted (still under warranty). Maybe I should try hard reset.
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I know it's old thread, but anyway... Last week I finally take my phone to the service, because it's still under warranty. They changed the screen because it was burned-in, they changed the battery (sudden power-offs) and strangely - they changed some faulty system connector. Phone worked and charge befor the repair. I always use only original charger, so how can be some system connector burned??? They changed it for free under warranty, so I assume that it must be some factory fault. I know few people with the same "sudden power-off" problem on different Samsung phones, so...
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