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WiFi eating battery on Note 3

Hey everyone,
My mom just got a new Note 3 (yay!), and I have been quite busy exploring all its features. One thing that is nagging me, however is that both the stock browser and chrome are using up a great deal of battery. Wifi is eating 1% Every 1-2 minutes and while using the browsers this is amplified to a percent every 30 secs!
Please help me.
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Wifi has always been a battery vampire.
Do you have brightness set to 100%?
How far are you from the router? A bad signal uses more power.
Is anything syncing in the background?
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ShadowLea said:
Wifi has always been a battery vampire.
Do you have brightness set to 100%?
How far are you from the router? A bad signal uses more power.
Is anything syncing in the background?
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Brightness is set to Auto -5
Router is like 2 steps away
Nope, nothing is syncing, I have it turned off

I just don't understand why they don't use stronger batteries in the first place. I wouldn't mind carry along an additional let's say 50g in exchange for a longer battery life ...
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yongyut said:
I just don't understand why they use stronger batteries in the first place. I wouldn't mind carry along an additional let's say 50g in exchange for a longer battery life ...
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At stand by, the Note 3 hardly uses 1-2% battery every 8 hours or so, but when it comes to calling (core function of the phone!) and wifi+browsers the battery suffers greatly. I haven't tested cellular data yet because of weak signals near my house. Should I let it drop to 0% and charge to 100% or get a new battery? Really disappointed with the battery.

As a general rule you should avoid full discharge/recharge cycles (except for things such as recalibration) as this in the long run shortens the batt's lifetime even more. So it's best to recharge it more often and keep it somewhere between 10-90%.
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keytsox said:
Hey everyone,
My mom just got a new Note 3 (yay!), and I have been quite busy exploring all its features. One thing that is nagging me, however is that both the stock browser and chrome are using up a great deal of battery. Wifi is eating 1% Every 1-2 minutes and while using the browsers this is amplified to a percent every 30 secs!
Please help me.
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Yep, that happens. A battery depletes as it should. No mystery there. X)
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UPDATE
New update guys:
I left my phone with WiFi on for half an hour and it ate 3% battery from 50% to 47% which includes a phone call. And this time the phone was a bit further away from the router. So, I guess it's not the WiFi that's sucking the juice but the browsers.
Any fix for this?

I too had this same problem with my device i dont know what happened all of a sudden it got everthing allright now but it stuks alot with the ditalix lwp installed
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Here is my battery usage I'm using SM-N900
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Fixed
Hey,
Well the issue fixed itself. I now have WiFi running with Smart Screen, Air Gestures, Sync, Screen Rotating and using the web browser to do some surfing and battery hasn't dropped a percent since the last few minutes. It got fixed right after another (it's 3rd) charge and it's working now.
Guess I just needed to charge it a few times for it to work. If anyone else is having issues and have charged it only once or twice, try charging it again. Mine was at 47% when I charged.
Requesting a mod to lock this.

Battery life

So here we go again a new flagship and a lot of reviews said the phone had an impressive battery life. What is your experience? Post bbs or screenshots

I got the phone yesterday, trying to test it out myself today and get results!!!

First full charge is encouraging.
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I'm getting drain from android os and android system, since I'm not rooted I can't pin point what's causing it.

uptill now i find the battery is not so good.... g900W8

ysr84 said:
uptill now i find the battery is not so good.... g900W8
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Wait till two to three charge cycles are complete. The battery life normally increases.

How much time it is taking to fully charge
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More screenshots guys. Keep them coming

SM-G900A -- AT&T US model:

karmuh said:
SM-G900A -- AT&T US model:
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What kind of usage was this? Mainly browsing? Videos? LTE or Wifi?
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msavic6 said:
What kind of usage was this? Mainly browsing? Videos? LTE or Wifi?
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Almost all on WiFi -- browsing, installing and setting up a bunch of apps, listening to music/podcasts for roughly an hour or so, texting, phone talk time around 20-30mins...things of that sort.

karmuh said:
Almost all on WiFi -- browsing, installing and setting up a bunch of apps, listening to music/podcasts for roughly an hour or so, texting, phone talk time around 20-30mins...things of that sort.
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Pretty impressive for one of the initial charges of the device and this type of usage.
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Is it snapdragon version or octacore version
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msavic6 said:
Pretty impressive for one of the initial charges of the device and this type of usage.
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Definitely! I was impressed myself, especially since I came from an iPhone that had a depressing 1400mAh battery. In the time it took for one full discharge on my S5, I would have needed to do 1.5-2 charges on my iPhone :laugh:
sandeep20064096 said:
Is it snapdragon version or octacore version
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Mine? Snapdragon SM-G900A

How is the battery back up guys for exynous version mine is not gud
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Much better than my GS3. 30% at least.
And Charges about twice as fast.
Not kidding.

Which one do you have snapdragon version of exynous version.and how much time its taking to fully charge
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Getting outstanding battery life on my g900a. Once someone figures out root for it and i get greenify working properly it should be even better.

Siting at 8H 25M 11S on Battery. AT&T S5. The thing that is killing my battery the most, Gear Fit Manager at a19% then Android at 16% and Screen at 14%. I have only charged 2 times so far since I bought the phone on Sunday, Ran it down to 9-10% yesterday but it took forever to charge. In over two hours of charge time it went from 10% to 37%. My iPhone 5 would have been 100% or close to it. Never had android phone before (really enjoying it) so not sure if this is normal or it will get faster the more charging cycles.
Thanks

Package Disabler Pro on AT%T

I've always used Package Disabler Pro on all my phones for improved battery life.
This time I was getting worse battery life by disabling a bunch of stuff. Now, I'm keeping it simple and disabling most apps through Applications and using Package Disabler Pro for the following 5 apps/processes running in the background. See attachment.
I hope it helps. I'm getting awesome battery life.
Update: Please make sure you enable everything prior to accepting any OTA updates.
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attachment?

Thanks for this, I've always had rooted phones and just got my s7 edge today so I'm trying to figure out what workarounds to do for things I used to do with root. But just barely have had any time with it but very excited for my new device.
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Does the att software update handle the OTA android updates for the device?
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Seeing good results with a similar setup on mine. Out of the box was seeing about 5 sot, now 6 1/2 ish
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Disabling the gear vr services seems to add to more android system drain and almost 2 hours less SOT. Still testing this. Annoying since the gear vr service is constantly chugging along for some reason
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Annoying since the gear vr service is constantly chugging along for some reason
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I "love" how consistent these things are. The gear vr service has yet to show up in my power consumption lists. I haven't spent any significant time playing inside or watching video in vr yet, but it's all setup and configured and loaded and has been used *some* ... perchance do you have the Oculus auto-update enabled?

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Does the att software update handle the OTA android updates for the device?
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Yes, so important to enable to get update. In fact, enable everything prior to any OTA update.
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C0derbear said:
I "love" how consistent these things are. The gear vr service has yet to show up in my power consumption lists. I haven't spent any significant time playing inside or watching video in vr yet, but it's all setup and configured and loaded and has been used *some* ... perchance do you have the Oculus auto-update enabled?
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I actually haven't done anything with occulus as I don't have the headset yet. So I know that out of the box, the gear vr service is eating battery... I'd assume on all of our devices, since I've literally done nothing with oculus or gear VR yet.
Maybe the service is eating so little that its not worth worrying about. Also, maybe I'm misunderstanding the data im reading... I'm looking under application manager, click 'gear vr service' and I'm looking at the battery percent used since last fully charged
Edit: To me, looking at my screenshot, I'm seeing the gear vr service has eaten 5% of the 28% that's been used so far. Am I right? It would be nice if that was at zero, since I don't use VR... But when I disable this package with PDP, I see my battery life take a noticeable hit.
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I realize now that I'm reading that wrong...
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which disabler are you guys using?

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Actually good, I thought it was going to be worse.
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ardeban said:
Actually good, I thought it was going to be worse.
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Not good iff you compare with s8plus,

Huh... That's about the same as the Nexus 6p I guess. Not thrilled
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I can work with that...I usually turn off a lot of stuff I don't use and keep my screen at a brightness that I need, not want. I also disable apps that I don't use...this will be awesome

I actually read that wrong, that's much better than my 6p
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After applying Disable package
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Almost 7hrs screen on time at max brightness
https://youtu.be/WHqfE45oKU4

xdathekilljoy said:
Almost 7hrs screen on time at max brightness
https://youtu.be/WHqfE45oKU4
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Can't wait for it to launch
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Sorry was 4 am, missed the last post, sorry for duplicate. Couldn't figure out how to delete. https://youtu.be/rQqreS_LHd8

xdathekilljoy said:
Almost 7hrs screen on time at max brightness
https://youtu.be/WHqfE45oKU4
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Same here.....I got 6.5 hrs SOT today with highest resolution, screen brightness on auto and using it all day

ardeban said:
After applying Disable package
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After applying disable package? what is that?

After a couple of days, minimal packages disabled, Screen brightness average 75% (half the time 50, half at 100%), Resolution at Max, video enhance On, gps on a little, Hotspot on for about an hour, Bluetooth controller/mouse/keyboard on for about an hour. Pretty impressed! I'm going to disable LOTS tomorrow and see how much better I can get. One thing I noticed, I barely had AOD on today, but yesterday had like 8%, hope they can fix that. Nearly 10% of my battery for AOD is CRAZY!

This is my battery life today. Very impressed better than my note 7 and my LG V20.
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This is my battery life today. Very impressed better than my note 7 and my LG V20. View attachment 4267189View attachment 4267190
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I don't know what any of you paid users are talking about but GOD DAMN THIS BATTER DOES SUCK!!!! I HATE IT.... AND HERES PROOF[emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35] screen brightness at auto, location and bluetooth off, with some wifi on every now and then....wtffff jesus
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Dear users, who has already the phone, please, give some details about the real battery life including the SOT.
Please note the processor type too.
Thanks a lot

Slicktune22 said:
I don't know what any of you paid users are talking about but GOD DAMN THIS BATTER DOES SUCK!!!! I HATE IT.... AND HERES PROOF[emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35] screen brightness at auto, location and bluetooth off, with some wifi on every now and then....wtffff jesus
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Ha ha I am not paid. I really didn't think it would be this good. And I don't have the screen turned down about 85%. I turned off some apps from running in the background. My Bluetooth stays on all the time because I use it in my car and to get in my house. That was day 2 let's see how day 3 goes. I have never gotten this good of SOT on any phone. 3 to 5 at the best.
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patek said:
Dear users, who has already the phone, please, give some details about the real battery life including the SOT.
Please note the processor type too.
Thanks a lot
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That post was a true battery life and SOT. Full 2nd day.
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Dear Jason,
thanks

Ok this is day 3. I did not do anything different I did use Bluetooth a little more. Also I was driving around town a lot today.
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18hrs 4.5hrs SOT at 13%.

[Discussion] Google Pixel 2 XL Battery Life Thread

Google Pixel 2 XL Battery Life Thread
Feel free to post all your battery stats , compare them with other users :highfive:
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2 days in and so far the best battery I've ever had. I'll just leave this screenshot here...

Loving the battery life
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I'd say pretty good so far.
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Very nice :good:

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I'd say pretty good so far.
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Is this stock with no adjustments...
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works for me....

frap129 said:
2 days in and so far the best battery I've ever had. I'll just leave this screenshot here...
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using substratum? how is it so far for you?

uicnren said:
using substratum? how is it so far for you?
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Seems to be working well, a few white on white text issues but nothing bad.

bajasur said:
Is this stock with no adjustments...
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Yep. Straight out of the box.
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Seems to be working well, a few white on white text issues but nothing bad.

Extremely good battery life.
Spent the day on Reddit/XDA 100% wifi.
I can't wait until the development community gets going.

This was with 4 hours of gaming...
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70% cell / 30% wifi. Calls, texts, Reddit, Youtube, browsing.
I'm beyond impressed really. My Nexus 6 could only dream of this. So far, I'm absolutely loving this phone.

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No complaints here!

The thing that really impresses me the most is the active drain. Every phone I've had was in the high teens and low 20s. When I used to fuss with custom kernels and profiles, if I could get it to 15%/h or a tick less, I was jazzed... But those often came with compromise... More noticeable kernel lag due to fast down/slow up governor profiles, chunky scrolling, etc.
The 2XL sits around a 11%/h average for my typical day to day usage. I've been taking a ton of video and pics the past few days and that crept that average up to closer to 13...
But tonight I'm back at my usual junk and after a full charge I'm sitting at 80% with 2:45 of screen time. That's nuts.
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Just posted my 9hr SOT on the SOT thread
Here is the link if you wanna see screenshots
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/review/screen-time-t3685547/post74657933
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Anyone experiencing slightly faster battery drain with the latest developer preview?

Allesa said:
Anyone experiencing slightly faster battery drain with the latest developer preview?
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Yap.
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