Hi...i wanna know how the battery life in this phone. Kinda thinking of buying this... its between this phone or htc evo 3d
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Stock battery is definitely underwhelming. Though saying that, this is the best phone I have ever used. The fluidity and smothness of Ice Cream Sandwich makes the phone not even feel like an Android almost.
I don't know if you're planning on rooting, but if you are, this is THE phone to get. Tons of different customizations which will make the battery life on the phone go from 6 hours to 19 hrs and higher depending on the amount of use. Hope this helped.
I've had it for about three weeks and had the 3d. The gnex to me has better everything by using both and feels better. I get 8-14 hours depending on my use this is with the GSM model.
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Geez...its not that hard to reply....
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I must be in a weird boat because I don't have any problems with battery life like other people. I charge for about 8 hours a night and when I go to plug it in at the end of the day after about 16 hours off the charger I usually have around 40-60% left.
That's "normal" use though. Some texts and emails, some browsing, 30-45 mins of "Words with Friends", maybe some YouTube videos, a couple 5-10 min calls. Even right now after 7 hours off charger I'm at 80% with 26 mins of screen on. And yes, that's stock everything with 4G on and connected (even in the office where it's always going between some and no signal) and Wi-Fi.
If you are the type to use your phone as a gaming/media device like many of the people who complain about battery life, yes, it probably does suck a bit getting 2-4 hours between charges. But that's a lot to ask of such a tiny battery when you are using it non-stop.
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thing is you'll get WAY more info just searching. People have been talking/complaining about battery life for 4 months now.
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considering there are pages of battery threads... its not that hard to use search.
If you are doing a search you want good and bad when I searched I only ever saw bad post on battery because if there's a problem got to tell the world why if its good no one will post
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Battery is pretty awful compared to my last phone: iPhone 4.
But, the problem is solved if you purchase a couple of more batteries and an external battery charger. I just carry a battery with me and keep one in my backpack.
Only had the phone for a week. I find the battery much better than my previous captivate.
These were taken last night before plugging it in.
I'm very impressed. Not a lot of talk time on my phone during the work week though.
Joe-
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Ive been trying to get my battery life to 24 hours! i am so close
anyone getting over 24 hours of battery life? share how ya did it!
what kernels are you using? Different Roms? are you over clocked or under-volting?
lets see some screen shots!
There are so many battery threads already out there..
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thats correct, but this one is specail
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thats correct, but this one is specail
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special in that it's less useful because you did not post screen time?
you probably didn't get much past 4 hours screen time if you even got that far so it's not like it's an achievement.
I see very little screen on time. I have done 18 hours stock with 3.5-4 hours screen on but it's on it's last leg at that point. Lol
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Why is there so much awake time even though your screen is not on? And unless you got really high screen time, 24 hours isn't that all impressive.
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There are so many battery threads already out there..
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Do you know how many threads there are out there with someone saying there are so many types of these threads already?
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Do you know how many threads there are out there with someone saying there are so many types of these threads already?
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One per thread of course.
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I got 3 hours of streaming music over 3G with 30 minutes of screen time today until i hit 15%.........
Forgot to add, my tbolt with extended battery would take me from NY to Philly using navigation the entire way and streaming music and at the end of 3 hours drive with the screen on I was down to 75%......
It's extremely easy with Juice Defender: Ultimate and the Extended Battery..
GSM, Apex ROM, ORIGINAL 1750mah battery.
1 day 4hours
3hrs 13minutes screen ON time.
I forgot to screen cap the other pic of the huge graph.
This is only on WIFI though during the weekend when I was home all weekend long.
I can't get this high if I was using cell data/wifi during workdays.
Wow. I think I won. I took out the battery and waited 2 days and then I put it back in the phone. I got 2 days and 16 hours out of that.
Try to top that.
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It's extremely easy with Juice Defender: Ultimate and the Extended Battery..
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Some of us have corporate email, does juice put the device to sleep? I need push email.
I can get 3 days quite easily if im busy and dont get much use out of it.
This state was with about 3 hours screen time.
The main point to take about battery life is that you can make it use all during screen off with Franco kernal and AOKP for example but if your gonna be playing games/watching films the battery will hollow out in no time (notice the 2 big dips on the pic that was while playing GTA3 on full brightness)
So the best you can do is minimise the battery drain when you are not using it. Otherwise its all about screen-on time and a bit to do with how much junk you have running
Setup as detailed in my sig
Another "I get amazing battery life but barely use it" type of thread. Seriously we all know how long the battery can last based on the usage.
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Wow. I think I won. I took out the battery and waited 2 days and then I put it back in the phone. I got 2 days and 16 hours out of that.
Try to top that.
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Yeah and I bet you had the screen on for about an hour.
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I'm on lean kernel and quite frankly, I couldn't tell you the last time I didn't get at least a day. You want better battery life? That is the kernel you want to be using.
Whit the following settings: screen turned all the way up 4g turned on few times just to check fb/xda and most of the time listening to music whit screen off about 50 texts a day ? Could the following leave me whit 50% battery at least ?
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Whit the following settings: screen turned all the way up 4g turned on few times just to check fb/xda and most of the time listening to music whit screen off about 50 texts a day ? Could the following leave me whit 50% battery at least ?
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I get around 16 hours, with up to 3 hours of screen on 4g always on. But I do use lower brightness
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Whit the following settings: screen turned all the way up 4g turned on few times just to check fb/xda and most of the time listening to music whit screen off about 50 texts a day ? Could the following leave me whit 50% battery at least ?
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Guess you'll find out. There's no formula that you can just see what your battery would be with specific criteria.
There are soooo many more things that factor into your battery, down to where you live and the load on towers you're connected to.
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Guess you'll find out. There's no formula that you can just see what your battery would be with specific criteria.
There are soooo many more things that factor into your battery, down to where you live and the load on towers you're connected to.
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Thing is i cant decide between this phone and htc amaze 4g i don't like sense but love aosp but this has 2 downside camera and battery :/
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With a custom kernal and ROM, yes, you can get that good... Get the nexus, you will not REGRET IT
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With a custom kernal and ROM, yes, you can get that good... Get the nexus, you will not REGRET IT
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Also make sure your Freeze the Maps app or remove it, it tends to open randomly in the background and drain battery. I get an extra hour or so since I did this.
I normally get 16.5 hours with 3G + Bluetooth on. I don't have anything syncing though (all manual updates, Tasker forces a sync every hour to check e-mails.
Screen on time is ~3 hours or so.
Music (Rdio/Ubuntu Music) kills battery more than anything else for me though. Even with sreen off I get at best 2.5 hours of music
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Thing is i cant decide between this phone and htc amaze 4g i don't like sense but love aosp but this has 2 downside camera and battery :/
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You're seriously comparing the Nexus to the Amaze 4G? Cmon man...
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Thing is i cant decide between this phone and htc amaze 4g i don't like sense but love aosp but this has 2 downside camera and battery :/
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Didn't see this before. I had an Amaze 4G and if one thing sucked, it was battery life. I make it longer on a standard batter in my GNex. I put an extended one in the Amaze just to get it to were the GNex is normally (albeit sense is probably to blame here).
Well people there reports 14 hours of battery whit 4 hours screen on time here barely 3 hours screen on time and 6 hours total im not a heavy user tho gonna get the xperia s coming for rogers next week! Thanks everyone for helping out though
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They said 16 hours not 6.
Figured I start a thread specifically for the T-Mobile variant. I will say that I'm pretty pleased with the battery life thus far. I hated having to give up the ease of some functionality just so my Samsung OG Epic 4G could make it through the day. Meaning, turning off bluetooth, live wallpaper, wifi, etc.
I feel like I haven't had to do that even though there is a battery saver mode already. I'm currently sitting at 54% and it's been a day since taking it off the charger.
I currently have all the bells and whistles going. Live wallpaper and facial recognition to unlock. S-Pen detection and the whole 9. Anyhow, just wanted to see what everyone else is getting.
I'd be happy with 6 hours screen on time
i had the galaxy s3 before the note 2 and i have noticed huge battery improvements
I was briefly reading through the manual and saw this:
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before
charging your device. Repeating this process of a complete
discharge and recharge can over time reduce the storage
capacity of any battery.
Pg 15
just thought I'd pass it along. I usually run my battery all the way down and let it die before recharging:
blazinazn said:
I was briefly reading through the manual and saw this:
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before
charging your device. Repeating this process of a complete
discharge and recharge can over time reduce the storage
capacity of any battery.
Pg 15
just thought I'd pass it along. I usually run my battery all the way down and let it die before recharging:
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dam thanks i was about to do a few full discharge and full charge again, thanks for the info.
I'm not getting great battery life yet and have had the phone for over 24 hours since I picked it up yesterday morning. Can't pinpoint wjat could be draining it.
What do you guys think?
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I'm not getting great battery life yet and have had the phone for over 24 hours since I picked it up yesterday morning. Can't pinpoint wjat could be draining it.
What do you guys think?
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My guess wouod be your cell signal. Lot of yellow in there. Weaker signal means more battery drain
Good point. At work I'm on wifi but when it's not it is on edge
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All I have to say is wow.
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All I have to say is wow.
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Total screen on time?
offdutyninja808 said:
All I have to say is wow.
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Looks like my battery life on my S3 with the Anker 4400mah battery!
Fairly light usage while I was at work. I always run power saving mode and auto dim.
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Heres my battery
Here's mine.
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Unbelievable. Its DOUBLE what I get on my note 1. This is the first time i can remember in years not changing a battery during a day.
I have had WiFi on most of the time.
I never thought I would see 14 hours.
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The battery life on this is simply amazing. I am still shocked to see how good it is. I tried everything today to run it down. Barely even used WIFI today. Basically all 4G. Screen brightness was about 50% at least all day. Never below as well. Crazy awesome battery
My battery life is insane. Ive used my phone nonstop all day and its still going. I should easily get between 8-9 hours of onscreen time.
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Im Impressed
Pretty impressive!
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Pretty impressive!
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Agreed graveghoul.. I cant kill this thing. This is near tablet like battery life.
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Agreed graveghoul.. I cant kill this thing. This is near tablet like battery life.
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Me too. 6+ hours of screen time. No screenies at this time.
Not surpriesed though. Near tablet size should equal near tablet like battery life.
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Battery life is very good compared to the previous releases. I ran for forty minutes with Bluetooth turned on while listening to tune in radio and using endomondo app. Google now turned on. I lost fifteen percent compared to losing 35% with similar usage. Very satisfied.
What do you think?
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Why would you make a thread linking to a post you made in another thread?
Bit unnecessary. To answer the question it's too early for me to thoroughly test battery life.
Bump
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thats not fantastic at all...
I would wait for at least 2 complete battery cycles to make a thread like this.
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I would wait for at least 2 complete battery cycles to make a thread like this.
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Ditto. My phone ran like a champ on a freshly flashed ROM. Then my phone realized it was born as a Verizon-Nexus mutt and had a psychological breakdown to the point of 1.75 hours of on-screen time the day after.
Twas a sad day
I'm reading my work email over the exchange service account. After upgrde to 4.2 the exchange service process eats my whole battery so I can't tell about any improvement.
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When it comes to battery life (in general, though especially true with this newest release), it's crazy how many divergent opinions you get. Some people claim to get amazing battery life (exactly what quantifies for amazing?) and some people claim the battery life is crap. This is just to remind you that unless you have a good way of measuring battery life, your measurements can be plus/minus hour(s). Someone who just leaves their phone on a black screen with no wi-fi and cell may get 10 hours of screen-on time. Someone who is watching videos with cell/wi-fi might only get 2 hours of screen-on time.
In the future, I can make two recommendations:
Always report a complete cycle (from 100% to close to 0%). This is because the battery does not discharge at a constant rate.
Always report screen on time
Average for GNexus in previous builds was 2-4 hours. I've no idea about the plus/minus, but they tend not to be under 2 and over 4 with moderate usage. I think an average of 3-3.5 hours is what most people are happy to report.
And that is really sad because my old atrix used to get over 8 hours on Wi-Fi with over twelve hours of standby time. I wish they would make this phone but with a smaller screen size. The technology used on this phone is not battery efficient at all.
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This tells us nothing....u don't show ur screen on time and uve been charging off and on..
Battery life in sleep mode is worse for me. I am losing 3% an hour with the screen off, I used to lose only 3% total overnight with the screen off not per hour. I tested this over the last 4 hours only waking the tablet up long enough to check the battery level and it has gone down by 3% each time. Nothing has changed with any apps or setting since I upgraded from 4.1.2 to 4.2. I got concerned when I noticed this morning that my battery was over 15% less then when I went to sleep. Anyone else notice this?
This is very good battery by my standards.
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This is very good battery by my standards.
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Not great by mine....and I have an LTE GNex
This is my battery life stats after using 4.2 for 2 days... Is it good?
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The screen on time is good but not much of an improvement. Also it appears you had WiFi off for most of the time.
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Last shot before my battery dies...
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50% left 23h 11m on baterry. wifi and location on all the time and 10% wasted on need for speed most wanted also. brightnes at 80% aprox. im very pleased with the baterry really maybe becouse the phone is relatively brand new and the battery still very fresh allways charging with care after discharge not on and off the charger all the time
yeah using the 4.2 factory image with trinity a4 and getting great battery life
So I decided to do what the manufacturer recommends when it comes to the battery, you know, charge it fully then discharge it. So I pulled it off the charger at 6am at 100%....moderate to heavy usage all day as I just unwrapped it, went to bed at 76%...so i turned on navigation and opened up a movie on Netflix hoping that would drive the battery down. I woke up at 56%! Myvold note would be dead, but this thing just keeps going! Christmas have mercy, this thing is amazing!
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So I decided to do what the manufacturer recommends when it comes to the battery, you know, charge it fully then discharge it. So I pulled it off the charger at 6am at 100%....moderate to heavy usage all day as I just unwrapped it, went to bed at 76%...so i turned on navigation and opened up a movie on Netflix hoping that would drive the battery down. I woke up at 56%! Myvold note would be dead, but this thing just keeps going! Christmas have mercy, this thing is amazing!
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Yea man,Samsung did a phenomenal job this time around with the battery .I came from the i717 and I am so happy about battery life now!!!!
agreed. I was skeptical about the battery life reviews prior to purchasing and with a larger display and faster processor I figured no way any of this could be true. Coming from Galaxy SII that could not make a 6 hour day of use without being tethered to a PC and going out with anything less than a full charge was a recipe for disaster.
I can go a full day browsing and playing music on my Note II and not drain the battery.
Battery life is amazing. I have to really try and kill it to get it dead inside of a day.
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Battery life is amazing. I have to really try and kill it to get it dead inside of a day.
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It's not too hard to kill the battery on this monster. You can do a few things to really get the battery down, such as actual gaming, watching movies, and a lot of web browsing. Outside of that, it's really difficult to kill this battery under 24 hours. I have had very limited usage on my phone over the holiday. I am up to 77+ hours of battery time and a little over 3 hours of screen-on time and still have 7% battery left! If someone put a gun to my head and asked me to truthfully tell them when's the last time I had a phone other than the Note II, that could last 3 days without a charge, someone better call a really good clean-up crew!
I love the battery life, but I'm thinking about getting an extended battery just for the heck of it.
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This thing rivals some of the later model RIM devices I've had. Well done Samsung.
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I agree. It's amazing. Makes you wonder if they are going to put an even bigger and better one in the note 3.
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I am shocked at the battery life on this, if I knew it was this good I would have bought it the first day it came out about twice as long as my note 1 and quite a bit longer then my nexus 4. I bought the phone Tuesday rooted and running clearom 3.5 and note2core ex kernel and about to get over 8 hours screen on time on the first full cycle of the battery I am amazed !!!
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Its nice to have a phone that you can run a live wallpaper on and it not drain the battery like crazy!
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Im getting 24 hours plus on my phone...cant complain one bit
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I am shocked at the battery life on this, if I knew it was this good I would have bought it the first day it came out about twice as long as my note 1 and quite a bit longer then my nexus 4. I bought the phone Tuesday rooted and running clearom 3.5 and note2core ex kernel and about to get over 8 hours screen on time on the first full cycle of the battery I am amazed !!!
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8 hours of screen time watching movies on a cross country flight and I landed at 60% Holy smokes!! I've never come close draining the battery on a full heavy usage day.
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Im getting 24 hours plus on my phone...cant complain one bit
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I have everything turned on. Bluetooth, exchange sync, all Google services sync, Skype in background, IM+ in background, weather update at 15min and still can't come close in draining the battery. I am also trying to fully charge the battery and drain it. It takes me a day and half to kill it with everything running and navigation running wherever I go.
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8 hours of screen time watching movies on a cross country flight and I landed at 60% Holy smokes!! I've never come close draining the battery on a full heavy usage day.
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I have everything turned on. Bluetooth, exchange sync, all Google services sync, Skype in background, IM+ in background, weather update at 15min and still can't come close in draining the battery. I am also trying to fully charge the battery and drain it. It takes me a day and half to kill it with everything running and navigation running wherever I go.
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I find this hard to believe, 8 hours of movies only using up 40%. That's 5%/hr, that's amazing if true.
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I find this hard to believe, 8 hours of movies only using up 40%. That's 5%/hr, that's amazing if true.
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It was in airplane mode though since I was in the air.
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When the phone uses L T E connection the battery goes down 10% per hour. I guess that is normal for everyone too.
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When the phone uses L T E connection the battery goes down 10% per hour. I guess that is normal for everyone too.
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I get phenomenal battery life. Cant complain. I average about 32-36 hours per charge y about 4 to 4 1/2 hrs of screen time
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Yeah Im on stock still and im on my second day of messing around. Im so used to my Note 1 that every night needed a charge even with power save on lol. Super well done. Charges quicker as well.
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I too am quite surprised by the battery life offered by the Note II. This thing simply smokes any other phone I've used in terms of how long I can get out of a single charge, it's really impressive. I'm used to plugging my phone in every 6-8 hours on a day of heavy usage even with power saving mode turned on, whereas the Note II seems to be able to go pretty much all day and even then some depending on the usage.
I have the s3, but two of my good friends both have noteII and the first thing they both mentioned to me about the phone is the battery life! After being around one for a full day with much usage, I must agree it is very impressive for such a big screen!