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TIPS for Improving Battery Life

Hey guys, so i've noticed that a lot of people are complaining about their battery lives. There are a few things that I have done which are not too complicated that I think the rest of you should do too (if you haven't done so already). With these steps, i have my brightness almost to the max the entire time, and the battery lasts me most of the day without needing to charge.
1) Calibrate your battery - This first step is a given, and should definitely be done, especially after rooting. You can find steps by searching in the forums for how to calibrate battery.
2) Uncheck "Use Wireless Networks" in the Locations menu in the settings. This is a huge battery hog, if not the biggest on the phone (next to brightness and 4G). If you feel like you need it to use the "Places" app better, then you can either always turn on GPS just when you need to use it, or just search for whatever you want in Google Maps directly. Many ways around this problem.
3) ROOTED USERS ONLY - Get a root explorer, go into /system/apps and move the following apps to a different folder, preferably on the sd card: Socialhub.apk, Mediahub.apk, Sprintzone.apk, SprintID.apk (sometimes called w_sprint.apk). Obviously if you use those apps, dont move them because you'll essentially be deleting them, but from my experience most people don't use them, and they are always just running in the background. Huge battery hogs as well.
- You can also delete the other sprint apps through the usual app removal process if you'd like.
Also, if you use widgets such as Beautiful Widgets, or Minimalistic Text, for time and weather that require Use Wireless Networks for updates, it would be best not to use them. Especially BW, drains a good portion of the battery. There are other alternatives that I feel are just as good, such as a decent looking modded stock digital clock and the genie widget from ICS (Thats what i personally use). They take a fraction of the others and provide the same information.

Very nice tips. I didn't really like media hub and got tired of seeing it.. but the sprint files you mentioned weren't in my folder.. The apps are still there
EDIT.. also can you like me to battery calibration instructions? O didn't even know that was a thing...
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You can also freeze those apps if you are rooted. Same results

How do I go about doing that?
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In the batch options, scroll down to freeze/thaw section
Dwayneiztheshyt said:
How do I go about doing that?
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xlGmanlx said:
In the batch options, scroll down to freeze/thaw section
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In titanium backup.
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I am always so surprised to read people with bad battery life. I have a stick phone running all sick items except having root and I well easily get well over a full day on my battery. I plug it in asst the end of the day with 60% battery on a regular and that is after 14-16 hours. GPS always on, brightness on auto, sync what needs to be synced, using the phone as a phone, with Bluetooth at times as well. The only time I lose significant power is when I use Netflix or start running games for an hour or so.
Are people running stock on this or a built ROM? Also, are you running stock kernel with CWM? CWM put my battery into a hole so I went back to stock without CWM, no idea why out would do it though.

Examples of battery life.
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jedwardmiller said:
Examples of battery life.View attachment 814656
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It seems to me like from those pictures that you barely use your phone for other things than making calls. The reason that i can come to that conclusion is because your display battery usage is just so much less than your Android OS, that just means your screen is off for the majority of the day. I'm assuming from that that you're probably an older gentleman who has less use for things like texting and Facebook. Unfortunately, the majority of my communication is through those 2, as well as some other channels.
And to answer your other question, i am running stock rooted without cwm.
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Dwayneiztheshyt said:
Very nice tips. I didn't really like media hub and got tired of seeing it.. but the sprint files you mentioned weren't in my folder.. The apps are still there
EDIT.. also can you like me to battery calibration instructions? O didn't even know that was a thing...
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I guess i can just describe it for you, its pretty simple. Just follow the following steps:
1) charge your phone to 100% (if it reaches 100 unplug it then plug it back in, it'll most likely take another 20 minutes to truly reach 100)
2) if you are rooted and have clockwork mod recovery, boot into recovery, and wipe the battery stats. Then continue to the next step. If you are not rooted, dont worry, just go onto the following step anyway.
3) from the market, download a battery calibration app and calibrate it.
4) then use your phone regularly throughout the entirety of its battery cycle (don't plug it in for mini charges until it fully dies)
5) when it dies, recharge it back to a full 100% (don't unplug it before it reaches 100%).
Then you're done.
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jedwardmiller said:
Examples of battery life.View attachment 814656
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I refuse to believe your getting 10hours of battery life with moderate emails, calls, txt n social apps running n your battery only dropping to like 80% after 10 hours.
You must not use your phone at all
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hijewpositive said:
It seems to me like from those pictures that you barely use your phone for other things than making calls. The reason that i can come to that conclusion is because your display battery usage is just so much less than your Android OS, that just means your screen is off for the majority of the day.
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I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. By the end of a 16-hour day, I have about 2-hours of screen-time, and my battery is around 50%. I have corporate email on my phone, so it wakes up frequently, and I check my messages all day long.
There's also the issue with Android OS taking up way more of the battery charts than it's supposed to. Most of the time, that bar is 2x longer than my display bar, unless I unplug it and play a game for four or five hours. There is a bug on this phone, that either calculates the Android OS bar improperly, or the phone is genuinely using tons of battery in the background and Android OS is a giant battery drain.
If you hang out on the forums a bit longer, you'll see this pop up pretty often.

trifthen said:
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. By the end of a 16-hour day, I have about 2-hours of screen-time, and my battery is around 50%. I have corporate email on my phone, so it wakes up frequently, and I check my messages all day long.
There's also the issue with Android OS taking up way more of the battery charts than it's supposed to. Most of the time, that bar is 2x longer than my display bar, unless I unplug it and play a game for four or five hours. There is a bug on this phone, that either calculates the Android OS bar improperly, or the phone is genuinely using tons of battery in the background and Android OS is a giant battery drain.
If you hang out on the forums a bit longer, you'll see this pop up pretty often.
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lol, I've actually already read those forums before, but the thing is that I just don't think its a bug with those people. The thing is that its simply a balance. If your screen is set to a very low brightness, or just off most of the day, it clearly won't be the main battery drainer, but all that means is that something else will be. Something will always be the main battery drainer, even if its not draining that much.
Maybe it just makes more sense in my head than on here, but I'm pretty sure lol.
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YoungAceAtlanta said:
I refuse to believe your getting 10hours of battery life with moderate emails, calls, txt n social apps running n your battery only dropping to like 80% after 10 hours.
You must not use your phone at all
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lol, you disbelieve all you like, here's another screenshot, from me, to help you come to terms with your issues

That's even better with showing you all his awake time. You are right, I have never wasted my time with Facebook, the internet can live on without my updates, but I do use the phone for corporate email all day as I work remotely and I am on the phone regularly for work. Not sure why you would be getting such bad battery life. I was just trying to help and see if there was anything you could pick up from me that would help with you.

hijewpositive said:
lol, I've actually already read those forums before, but the thing is that I just don't think its a bug with those people.
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It is in fact a bug. Here is a bug report in Google's bug tracker. Here's another. There's also a very long XDA thread that explains what the Android OS bug actually is, and how it works.
If the lines are proportional, then Android OS is using more power than 2 hours of display time, and I've gone as high as 5 hours and 30 minutes. I've had times when 4 hours of screen time is still less than Android OS. What? That makes no sense.
From the XDA thread:
Same network, same location, same signal strength, same ROM (Changing my font maybe fixed it....) , same wakelocks between them, same background apps running. Not even 5 minutes screen time on the two. The only difference with .14 patched kernels I'm experiencing is that it's not showing up anymore in the stats, but it drains just as much as in the right screen, showing the same CPU state behavior. It's also happening less often, and many say it's not happening at all anymore, but how would they know it it's hidden now?
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Before that were two screenshots. One of them showed a minimal Android OS bar, while the other had it at 95%. The only difference was the patched kernel. This. Is. A. Bug. Period. High Android OS usage means absolutely nothing. Even after tracking down wakelocks, it will be high or low pretty much at random. Sometimes this is a legit stuck suspend, in which case rebooting is the only fix. Other times, it's just the bad profile. There's no way to know unless you study CPU spy, better battery stats, and possibly Watchdog.
In any case, read that XDA thread that explains what Android OS is. It has very little to do with how much screen time you have.

trifthen said:
If the lines are proportional, then Android OS is using more power than 2 hours of display time, and I've gone as high as 5 hours and 30 minutes. I've had times when 4 hours of screen time is still less than Android OS. What? That makes no sense.
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wow, thats crazy.

I'm not trying to bash you or say I get bad battery life. I just don't see someone who is taking his or her phone out every 10mins getting emails, and calls, social updates, background syncing is going to get 10hours of battery with just about 95% left.
Maybe if all you do is check emails and take 15 min calls and put your phone back into sleep mode you can probly get that. But even then. I can't say real world usage = 10hr with 95% left. only if you have a extended battery on
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This is with an hour of screen time. Admittedly, that's less than half my normal usage, but I was working on my book on the train instead of reading reddit. I'd normally be in the 50's by now with about 2.5 hours of screen time.
Way better than my Eris.
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i've found that turning off facebook and twitter sync alone have greatly improved battery life. enough where i dont really have to diable anything else.
i get 24hrs without a charge no problem now. using a rom based off calkulin's EK02 rom.

[TIP] How I get ~24 hours of battery power from my Galaxy Nexus nearly every day!

I will defer to the xda mods if they think this thread is redundant. I have been using my Galaxy Nexus now for ~3 weeks. During that time, I have seen my daily battery life improve from ~10 hours to a little over 24 hours before needing a charge. I have listed out the power saving strategies I've developed during these 3 weeks following the screenshot [PROOF]:
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1.) Calibrate your battery using the following methods here: Battery Calibration.
2.) While on battery power, set your Nexus display's brightness level to ~30%. I've found that particular brightness level to be a sweet spot. Auto brightness does not work for me, so I hard set the level. I am able to get between ~4 to 5 hours total of screen time a day on battery power at that level. There are many Android Market apps/widgets that will allow you to set power profiles depending on your location and power draw and/or charge.
3.) Along with conservative display settings, I turn off cellular data entirely, or only use 2G (Edge) when connected to a WiFi hotspot. I have an unlocked I9250 Worldband GSM Galaxy Nexus, so I'm unable to address 4G LTE. But if I did have access to 4G LTE, I imagine the only time I would use it would be for tethering while the phone is plugged into a power source. Regardless, 3G (HSPA+) can be a significant power draw, and 4G doubly so. When on WiFi, 3G and/or cellular data is off entirely. My guesstimate is this saves me between 15 - 20% battery power throughout the day.
4.) I set application accounts to sync and updates only when on WiFi.
5.) Avoid rebooting or powering off the phone while on battery power. I've noticed a loss of between ~2 - 5% when rebooting the phone on battery.
6.) No live wallpapers, and the image I do use for a wallpaper is very dark. I set the homescreen widgets to nearly transparent and white text. I'm certain this conserves battery power, but by how much I can't say. [REFER]:
7.) During a typical day for me, I'm constantly using Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Gmail, the ICS Browser, TapTalk, and of course the homescreen widgets connected to network services. I would consider myself an average to heavy user depending on the day. All Gmail is pushed. My widgets update between 1 - 3 hour intervals. You can tell by the screenshot provided my WiFi signal is always on, my Awake and Screen On times are between 4 to 5 hours total of the 24 hours available. As you can see from the screenshot, during that 24 hour period I did not top off with a power charge during that time.
Any other tips for extending battery life are welcome. I hope this helps.

Cool. I keep my phone plugged in when I am in the car or desk and that seems enough for me without having to compromise. 4G is a real killer

Are you using Tasker to kill data when on wifi and enable it when not?
I was under the impression the OS did this automatically
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FYI, the original poster is a HSPA+ user. Entirely different experience from a LTE user.

Err... if there is anything I take away from this thread, its: "If you want 24 hours of battery life on your Google Nexus, don't use it."
It's hard to say for certain, but it sure doesn't look like you used your phone very much over 24 hours. :|

sc4fpse said:
Err... if there is anything I take away from this thread, its: "If you want 24 hours of battery life on your Google Nexus, don't use it."
It's hard to say for certain, but it sure doesn't look like you used your phone very much over 24 hours. :|
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Total time the screen was on was between 4 to 5 hours total out of that particular 24 hour period. Depends on your definition of "use", but I've seen definitions of moderate to heavy smartphone use defined in various forum posts throughout XDA somewhere between 3 to 6 hours of screen time on a single charge. YMMV.

zoetrope said:
Total time the screen was on was between 4 to 5 hours total out of that particular 24 hour period. Depends on your definition of "use", but I've seen definitions of moderate to heavy smartphone use defined in various forum posts throughout XDA somewhere between 3 to 6 hours of screen time on a single charge. YMMV.
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Based on that image, there's no way you got even 3 hours of screen on time.

wonshikee said:
Based on that image, there's no way you got even 3 hours of screen on time.
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I'm certain it was over 4 hours, I remember digging into the screen stats under the battery settings before taking a screenshot. I don't have a screenshot of the screen stat window during that 24 hour period.
Don't believe me? I don't really care. I have nothing to hide and nothing to prove. Just relaying my experience with the GN battery over a 3 week period.

I would rather keep 4g on and just charge throughout the day. Why pay a premium if you're not going to use it, but I suppose you don't have 4g so you don't care.

sc4fpse said:
Err... if there is anything I take away from this thread, its: "If you want 24 hours of battery life on your Google Nexus, don't use it."
It's hard to say for certain, but it sure doesn't look like you used your phone very much over 24 hours. :|
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This. Doesnt look like 4-5 hours screen time because the phone isnt awake enough.
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I don't see a problem with the battery life for the size of the phone.
I'm sure it would go a day and a half before needing a charge with my usage (which I consider 'normal') but I plug it in everynight while I sleep anyway.
The battery life definately improves after a few charge cycles.

I agree with sc4, you basically are saying not to use the phone. You do not have to take such extreme measures just to get good battery life. I get pretty good battery life and I don't disable anything.

Well I thought it was a nice post. Jeez. Especially if you compare to most of the crap that comes up in the general section.
I couldn't find where he said "dont use 4g der". I believe the idea he presented was to turn off 3g/4g while you're on wifi. Do you need 4g AND wifi? Easy, common sense. Thumbs up.

Just so you know: WiFi uses the same amount of power to transmit/receive data as 3G. You're not saving anything by turning off the 3G radio while on WiFi since the only thing it's being used for is phone calls and text messages.
In addition, being in WiFi all day long can *really* improve your battery life. It's easily the biggest thing on your list. Why? Because the cell radio isn't constantly trying to maintain a data signal to the 3G towers. It maintains a connection but it doesn't have to negotiate for it almost at all...saves a lot of battery life.
Oh, and that Battery Calibration post is ridiculous. When you first get a phone just discard it fully then charge it up fully. Do it once every few months for the life of the phone and you'll find you maintain great battery life. Outside of that, keep it plugged in as *OFTEN* as you can to maintain longevity.
Also, according to your screenshot, your screen was on a *maximum* of 3 hours, but most likely around 2 1/2. That means the data connection most likely wasn't used much more than that, as well. That's very light use over a 24 hour period.
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smot13 said:
Well I thought it was a nice post. Jeez. Especially if you compare to most of the crap that comes up in the general section.
I couldn't find where he said "dont use 4g der". I believe the idea he presented was to turn off 3g/4g while you're on wifi. Do you need 4g AND wifi? Easy, common sense. Thumbs up.
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Well, no, you wouldn't...but it turns off the LTE radio when on WiFi anyway...so that's a moot point.

One more tip:
If you use vibrate on keyboard, shorten it to as low as possible.
This is possible using SwiftKey
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hotleadsingerguy said:
In addition, being in WiFi all day long can *really* improve your battery life. It's easily the biggest thing on your list. Why? Because the cell radio isn't constantly trying to maintain a data signal to the 3G towers. It maintains a connection but it doesn't have to negotiate for it almost at all...saves a lot of battery life.
Oh, and that Battery Calibration post is ridiculous. When you first get a phone just discard it fully then charge it up fully. Do it once every few months for the life of the phone and you'll find you maintain great battery life. Outside of that, keep it plugged in as *OFTEN* as you can to maintain longevity.
Also, according to your screenshot, your screen was on a *maximum* of 3 hours, but most likely around 2 1/2. That means the data connection most likely wasn't used much more than that, as well. That's very light use over a 24 hour period.
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@ hotleadsingerguy
I'll leave 3G running for the next couple of days, see if there's any difference. Thanks for the info. Are you saying the screen on time reported by the OS is not reliable? If not, know of any apps that do report battery stats and usage reliably?
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@rbiter said:
This. Doesnt look like 4-5 hours screen time because the phone isnt awake enough.
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Agreed that is not 4-5 hours of screen time. It is blatant in the graph u provided. Look at the screen and awake times. Here is mine with only 2 hours of screen time but over an hour of voice.
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To push more, set the animation etc. to 0.5x in the developer options. This should reduce the cpu usage a little bit.
And turn off auto rotate as it consume quite a lot of cpu power. Most probably this is just a bug, there has been a report in the Google code bug yracking.

zoetrope said:
@ hotleadsingerguy
I'll leave 3G running for the next couple of days, see if there's any difference. Thanks for the info. Are you saying the screen on time reported by the OS is not reliable? If not, know of any apps that do report battery stats and usage reliably?
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Qhen you go to battery stats tap on the screen percentage. It will tell you exactly how long screen has been on.
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republitarian said:
Agreed that is not 4-5 hours of screen time. It is blatant in the graph u provided. Look at the screen and awake times. Here is mine with only 2 hours of screen time but over an hour of voice.
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I agree. I did not get a screenshot of my screen time when I took the screen pic of the timeline graph. I was relying on memory, but after comparing republitarian's pic which has roughly the same timeline span, looks like my memory failed me. Mine is somewhere between 2 - 3 hours of screen time as well. My bad.
Galaxy Nexus I9250

[Q] How's your Galaxy Nexus battery life?

I am just curious to know what other Galaxy Nexus owners are getting out of their battery.
Let me start by sharing mine.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
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I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.

I got just over 2 days out of mine with a mixture of wifi, 3g, calls, and general use with facebook, trillian and google+

I went into the bathroom with full charge and after I did my daily deed(s) I went down to 43% with brightness turned all the way down and only running xda app. wtf gives?
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pcphobic said:
I am just curious to know what other Galaxy Nexus owners are getting out of their battery.
Let me start by sharing mine.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.
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This is EXACTLY the kind of battery life that I am getting.
Quality posting. Thanks

You guys must be on the gsm versions, the only people that aren't happy are the ones on 4g

I have the lte sgn and I would say my battery life is directly related to the screen on time.
The battery is usually completely discharged once the screen on time approaches around 3 hours, regardless of the total time it has been since the last full charge.
Sometimes I can get 20+ hours total life and sometimes I can barely get 5 or 6 hours of total life. Just depends on how fast I reach the screen on time "limit" so to speak of about 3 hours or so.
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I have the 4g, and ill admit, when i got it the battery life was pretty bad. In part to newphonesyndrom, but stock is pretty bad in general
Currently running peter alfonso's bugless beast 4.0.3 and francico franco's kernel #6. Battery life has gotten wayyy better; so there is a light at the end of the stock tunnel. My phone goes into cpu sleep way more than before, and on the computer side of things, its efficient to the point that the screen uses 75% of battery compared to the 50% i used to see (more battery to screen means less everything else is drawing). And turning down the brightness, i kinda like the fuzzy whites, kinda gives it a paperlike texture
And turn off wifi if you are not actively using, it will just search endlessly. Same with turning off 4g if you are going to be in a 3g area for awhile
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Verizon LTE version with 4G turned off. I think i may have .... issues

AgentSmith03 said:
Verizon LTE version with 4G turned off. I think i may have .... issues
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How high is your screen brightness?
1h45m with screen on is most likely considerably longer than the time the other posters have had their screens on for.
EDIT: I'm saying this because most people with brilliant battery life tend to have LOW screen on time.

darrendm said:
How high is your screen brightness?
1h45m with screen on is most likely considerably longer than the time the other posters have had their screens on for.
EDIT: I'm saying this because most people with brilliant battery life tend to have LOW screen on time.
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This was at Auto Brightness. I know I had the screen on for a long time, but is this what I need to accept from now on? That after a total time of 2 hours of screen ON time, the battery will be dead? Is the only way to get good battery life to turn off 4G and not use the phone that much? I would expect the phone to be able to survive for at least 3-5 hours even if the screen was on 100%, but maybe I am just being naive.
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pcphobic said:
I am just curious to know what other Galaxy Nexus owners are getting out of their battery.
Let me start by sharing mine.
During my sleep or when my phone is idle or when I know I am not using it for a long period of time, I switch my phone to 2G.
Below is a screenshot of my battery usage during a long period of idle (overnight when I am sleeping)
I only switch it to 3G when I am actively using the Internet for surfing websites, Facebooking, Youtube, uploading photos or video.
Below is a screenshot of my usage from light to moderate to heavy.
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I am curious about your battery times. I would like to know your screen "ON" time for at least the light and heavy usage that you reported.
All the battery posts I have been reading on this forum seem to directly correlate to screen "On" time. I have a theory that the battery dies after 2-3 hours of screen on time regardless of most other factors. So some people may get 16-18 hrs of battery time, but the screen was only on for 2.5 hours or so. If you get a chance I would love to see some of your battery reports with the Display on time reported next to them.

AgentSmith03 said:
This was at Auto Brightness. I know I had the screen on for a long time, but is this what I need to accept from now on? That after a total time of 2 hours of screen ON time, the battery will be dead? Is the only way to get good battery life to turn off 4G and not use the phone that much? I would expect the phone to be able to survive for at least 3-5 hours even if the screen was on 100%, but maybe I am just being naive.
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Well, less than 3 hours is pretty awful.
That's around what I get if I play games like GTA or Shadowgun for more than an hour.
I have the GSM GN so if you did turn 4G off you should have similar times as me. Which are on average 8-12 hours of moderate use including a lot of WhatsApp-ing, some music, some Facebook, some browsing, some calls and texts.
However playing games literally will drink my battery life away, so I tend to keep 3D games to a minimal when on the go.

Sorry if I am stealing the thread. I put this to anyone else with some battery screenshots. Take a screenshot of your display "ON" time and put it next to your total battery on time.
I would love to see if anyone is getting 3-6 hours of screen "ON" time coupled with 10-20 hours of Total Battery Time. Anyone?

AgentSmith03 said:
Sorry if I am stealing the thread. I put this to anyone else with some battery screenshots. Take a screenshot of your display "ON" time and put it next to your total battery on time.
I would love to see if anyone is getting 3-6 hours of screen "ON" time coupled with 10-20 hours of Total Battery Time. Anyone?
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I seriously doubt it. That is something I genuinely miss about my iPhone 4--I could get 8+ hours of screen on time and well over a day of standby on a single charge.

Stadsport said:
I seriously doubt it. That is something I genuinely miss about my iPhone 4--I could get 8+ hours of screen on time and well over a day of standby on a single charge.
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OOOH, we are taking that route huh? Well one reason why these lower than average battery times don't bother me that much is because I own 4 batteries for the Galaxy Nexus (2 standard, 2 extended) and can SWAP my batteries whenever I feel like it. Can you do that with your iPhone 4??? No, didn't think so.
P.S. I know you just threw in a iPhone screenshot for the fun of things. Thanks for the laugh!

Screen on time of a little over 3 hours and my battery is in the 30% range.
I definitely agree that the screen on time is the biggest factor. The battery seems to die once 3 or 4 hours of screen on time has been reached, regardless of how long the total life has been.
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russ4h said:
Screen on time of a little over 3 hours and my battery is in the 30% range.
I definitely agree that the screen on time is the biggest factor. The battery seems to die once 3 or 4 hours of screen on time has been reached, regardless of how long the total life has been.
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At least you are getting 3-4 hours. I am barely getting 1.5 hours of screen on time before my battery is close to dead. It's alright though, I battery swap regularly and I will figure it out eventually. Just keep turning stuff off till my battery life improves a bit.

Here's mine. GSM, stock 4.0.1.
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Here's mine. GSM, stock 4.0.1.
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I think that kind of confirms it for me. Your screen on time is in the 3 to 4 hour range and your battery is almost completely discharged.
Once the screen on time reaches the 3-4 hour range, the phone dies. It just took you 2 days to reach the 3-4 hour screen on time.
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AgentSmith03 said:
OOOH, we are taking that route huh? Well one reason why these lower than average battery times don't bother me that much is because I own 4 batteries for the Galaxy Nexus (2 standard, 2 extended) and can SWAP my batteries whenever I feel like it. Can you do that with your iPhone 4??? No, didn't think so.
P.S. I know you just threw in a iPhone screenshot for the fun of things. Thanks for the laugh!
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Whoa buddy, ease off the haterade. I wasn't trying to start an argument or anything. I sold my iPhone 4 to buy a Galaxy Nexus, and I'm very happy with my decision. But the reality is the i4 got much better battery life, and I posted a screenshot (from my device) to support that. Swapping batteries wasn't necessary, and carrying around 4 doesn't exactly help your case.
No one is attacking your mother. Chill.

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Whoa buddy, ease off the haterade. I wasn't trying to start an argument or anything. I sold my iPhone 4 to buy a Galaxy Nexus, and I'm very happy with my decision. But the reality is the i4 got much better battery life, and I posted a screenshot (from my device) to support that. Swapping batteries wasn't necessary.
No one is attacking your mother. Chill.
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If you are rooted.....install another kernel....it will improve your battery life
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The battery life on my Note II does not seem to compare near at all that of what I have heard and seem from others I am a T-Mobile user and I've seen people get atleast 24 hours or atleast 20 hours on heavy usage, check out my screen shots and see if anyone knows? The battery discharged 1% within 3 minutes!
I even have juice defender enabled which makes it even sadder!
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The battery life on my Note II does not seem to compare near at all that of what I have heard and seem from others I am a T-Mobile user and I've seen people get atleast 24 hours or atleast 20 hours on heavy usage, check out my screen shots and see if anyone knows? The battery discharged 1% within 3 minutes!
I even have juice defender enabled which makes it even sadder!
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I have never got 20 hours on heavy usage. What is your screen on time?
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Ive gotten 16 before but ive seen screeshots on here of people with 20hrs and 1day and so on, but here ya go
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Lilryke said:
Ive gotten 16 before but ive seen screeshots on here of people with 20hrs and 1day and so on, but here ya go
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That is average. You may want to not use a live WP though.
CARBON NIGHTLY | KROZ HUE THEME | CRACK FLASHER

Really dont know about battery times of the Note II. But do battery cycles. Let the phone turn off by it self then recharge to 100% a couple of times. And I recommend you downloading BetterBatteryStats to see what really is eating your battery out. Post a screenshot of it and post it, let some of the BBS veterans diagnose the problem. With what I know I can help. BTW you on stock/stock (ROM/kernel)?
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Lilryke said:
The battery life on my Note II does not seem to compare near at all that of what I have heard and seem from others I am a T-Mobile user and I've seen people get atleast 24 hours or atleast 20 hours on heavy usage, check out my screen shots and see if anyone knows? The battery discharged 1% within 3 minutes!
I even have juice defender enabled which makes it even sadder!
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Looks like you have ****ty signal most times. If you're on wifi most of the time turn off mobile data and use wifi calling if you need. If you turn off mobile data and it still dies that quick somethings wrong. Also juice defender can oftentimes have a negative effect, try it without. Also, you used your phone almost continuously. 5 hours screen time out of 8?
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Really dont know about battery times of the Note II. But do battery cycles. Let the phone turn off by it self then recharge to 100% a couple of times. And I recommend you downloading BetterBatteryStats to see what really is eating your battery out. Post a screenshot of it and post it, let some of the BBS veterans diagnose the problem. With what I know I can help. BTW you on stock/stock (ROM/kernel)?
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Don't cycle your battery. Will only hurt your battery not help. System Tuner also works nice to tweak a few things and add some battery, Better BatteryStats is a great tool as well.

I have bbs also Im new to it but Im just not sure what im looking at but here are some SS's below
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I have bbs also Im new to it but Im just not sure what im looking at but here are some SS's below
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Yeah juice defender is causing a ton of wakelocks. Of course, again you seem to have zero data connection or signal most times. If you use your phone almost constantly juice defender will def have a negative effect. I know from experience.

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Ok. First uninstall Juice Defender its only making it worse. When not using GPS turn it off. You have weak signal plus GPS on thats 3x the drain since its always looking for location. Again same with WiFi. When not in a place with it turn it off.
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Ok so its a definite that ill uninstall JD, thanks again guys for the advice ill do all of this and as u can see in my last ss's I got the update push so ill see how everything goea tomorrow and keep u updated, thanks again gunna uninstall jd and update to the new jellybean version
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Lilryke said:
Ok so its a definite that ill uninstall JD, thanks again guys for the advice ill do all of this and as u can see in my last ss's I got the update push so ill see how everything goea tomorrow and keep u updated, thanks again gunna uninstall jd and update to the new jellybean version
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Good to hear! Also screen brightness has a lot to do with screen on time.. It not the same 3h of screen on time with 100% brightness than with 30%. The less bright as possible the better buddy.
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mar.ioo said:
Good to hear! Also screen brightness has a lot to do with screen on time.. It not the same 3h of screen on time with 100% brightness than with 30%. The less bright as possible the better buddy.
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+1 100% brightness is awesome but a major killer on battery when you don't really need it.

Its better than that one day however I did not begin to use it intensely until later on at night and just played a few games of ruzzle on wifi and it dropped about 15% within the 2 hours so its a so so solution as of now I ordered a gold battery with 4200mAh of power hopefully that'll show some improvement
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Lilryke said:
Its better than that one day however I did not begin to use it intensely until later on at night and just played a few games of ruzzle on wifi and it dropped about 15% within the 2 hours so its a so so solution as of now I ordered a gold battery with 4200mAh of power hopefully that'll show some improvement
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4200mAh its a beast my friend! Enjoy!
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I'm runnng the international XXDMB6 based ROM on mine and currently, I'm at 76% with only an hour and 3 minutes of screentime?
I don't use Wi-Fi.
My LTE signal is rather poor.
My screen generally stays around 50% but it's on auto.
Of course I let my apps sync. But that's pretty much just gmail and facebook.
I have my weather set to sync once every hour.
I uninstalled the apps that are pretty much bloat (flipfonts, the hubs, the samsung live wallpapers, musicFX since I use DPSManager, Samsung's music app and that's all I can think of)
I'm running Perseus's kernel with about 200-350mV undervolts.
Is it truly the poor LTE signal that's taking such a toll on my battery life? I used to average 5-5.5 hours before my battery dies. Now I'm betting I'll only get around 4. When I had Verizon, the power draw from LTE was unnoticeable from 3G. Is it really that different on GSM phones?

I found Battery Drain Analyzer helpful. I kept it running for a couple of months and was able to determine which apps consume the most power (widgets, by far). But, after having spent weeks trying different underclocking configurations and apps without success, I ended up buying three extra batteries. It's really awesome to not have to worry about it. I just keep them in my pocket and swap them out as needed. It's not a very technologically advanced solution, but, it sure is effective. I use this Charger for the spares. It takes a long time to charge the batteries, but charges them fully to 100% and I believe that the batteries hold the charge better, whereas, charging the battery in the phone doesn't seem to work as well.
If you would rather go the tweak/underclock route, I agree with the others that Juice Defender does more harm than good. I had better luck with SetCPU.
But, as stated above, I eventually opted for high performance and extra batteries. For me, the ability to run the phone at full speed, to multitask smoothly, and generally to be able to take advantage of the device's full technological potential is worth the cost of the spares. And, not insignificantly, now that I am no longer spending time on trying to increase battery life through hacks/tweaks/apps, I have more time (and speed and processing power since I can overclock without concern) to flash, mod, tweak, and customize all the other aspects of my phone.

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I found Battery Drain Analyzer helpful. I kept it running for a couple of months and was able to determine which apps consume the most power (widgets, by far). But, after having spent weeks trying different underclocking configurations and apps without success, I ended up buying three extra batteries. It's really awesome to not have to worry about it. I just keep them in my pocket and swap them out as needed. It's not a very technologically advanced solution, but, it sure is effective. I use this Charger for the spares. It takes a long time to charge the batteries, but charges them fully to 100% and I believe that the batteries hold the charge better, whereas, charging the battery in the phone doesn't seem to work as well.
If you would rather go the tweak/underclock route, I agree with the others that Juice Defender does more harm than good. I had better luck with SetCPU.
But, as stated above, I eventually opted for high performance and extra batteries. For me, the ability to run the phone at full speed, to multitask smoothly, and generally to be able to take advantage of the device's full technological potential is worth the cost of the spares. And, not insignificantly, now that I am no longer spending time on trying to increase battery life through hacks/tweaks/apps, I have more time (and speed and processing power since I can overclock without concern) to flash, mod, tweak, and customize all the other aspects of my phone.
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Thanks for a good advise.
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considering Note 3 how is battey

Hi Note 3 owners, are you getting 16 hours plus on the Note 3 as I do on ny Note 2 with 3 + hourse of screen time? Im considering Note 3 or G Flex (But has low resolution )
Thanks in advance.

6.5 hrs

Really depends on how you use the phone, what kind of signal you get, how you work inside, if you play games etc.
Typically I get a good 10 hours on my phone without any charging, but I am seldom in that position, I have wireless chargers at work and home and charge any time I am sleeping.
Never had a note 2 to compare with but this phone is way better than my previous and I use it a lot more than the old one.

krelvinaz said:
Really depends on how you use the phone, what kind of signal you get, how you work inside, if you play games etc.
Typically I get a good 10 hours on my phone without any charging, but I am seldom in that position, I have wireless chargers at work and home and charge any time I am sleeping.
Never had a note 2 to compare with but this phone is way better than my previous and I use it a lot more than the old one.
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Thought the 6.5 hours was a joke. Wow 10 hour is not mutch unless you are a extra heavy user. I would usually get between 14 to 16 hours with about 3 hours of screen on for internet and gaming. This was on Jedi Master x20 with custom rom
someone out must be getting 14 to 16 hours. If not is it because oh the HD screen?
going to do more research on Note 3.
thanks for your insite.

I think he meant 6.5 hours screen time.

pvaldeben said:
Thought the 6.5 hours was a joke. Wow 10 hour is not mutch unless you are a extra heavy user. I would usually get between 14 to 16 hours with about 3 hours of screen on for internet and gaming. This was on Jedi Master x20 with custom rom
someone out must be getting 14 to 16 hours. If not is it because oh the HD screen?
going to do more research on Note 3.
thanks for your insite.
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This is my screen time on my note 3.
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Battery life is good but there's better (G2, G Flex).
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barondebxl said:
Battery life is good but there's better (G2, G Flex).
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I'm getting 10+ hours of screen time on my Note 3. I'm rooted with just a deodexed stock rom with bloat removed. This phone is amazing with battery life.

Eric214 said:
I'm getting 10+ hours of screen time on my Note 3. I'm rooted with just a deodexed stock rom with bloat removed. This phone is amazing with battery life.
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10 hours off screen time uh? I believe u only if u only swipe through home screens and don't use the phone normally. I was getting 8 hours of screen time with the G flex with heavy use and the note 3 cannot pull that off, be real.
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My best is 2 days 14hrs with 5.5hrs of screen on time.

barondebxl said:
10 hours off screen time uh? I believe u only if u only swipe through home screens and don't use the phone normally. I was getting 8 hours of screen time with the G flex with heavy use and the note 3 cannot pull that off, be real.
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he is real there is someone if not him have proven with screenshots, our phone can handle that. its all about knowing how to prioritize your battery on your phone and settings. not every phone is the same so some can handle and do that others may not.
And the G-Flex isn't even out yet

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I think he meant 6.5 hours screen time.
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Bingo

XxLostSoulxX said:
he is real there is someone if not him have proven with screenshots, our phone can handle that. its all about knowing how to prioritize your battery on your phone and settings. not every phone is the same so some can handle and do that others may not.
And the G-Flex isn't even out yet
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The G flex isnt even out yet? Its been out for nearly 3 months, its called the unlocked korean version.
Second, I dont care what screen shots one provides, u cannot get 10hrs of screen on time of "normal usage" on the note 3, thats not happening unless your goal is to squeeze as much battery life as possible to prove that it can. If that's the case then even the S4 can do that, all u have to do is set the brightness at zero and swipe through the home screen the whole day. Then maybe make a phone call or 2 then boom! 8 hrs of screen time achieve but whats the point? Were talking average normal usage. If the G flex cant do it the note 3 certainly cant.
There was a thread in the one x forum where a guy pulled off 12 hours of screen on time. Do u think thats its normal usage? Be real guys.
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My best is 2 days 14hrs with 5.5hrs of screen on time.
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Thats sounds pretty good and reasonable.
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6.5 hours with normal use for me.

barondebxl said:
The G flex isnt even out yet? Its been out for nearly 3 months, its called the unlocked korean version.
Second, I dont care what screen shots one provides, u cannot get 10hrs of screen on time of "normal usage" on the note 3, thats not happening unless your goal is to squeeze as much battery life as possible to prove that it can. If that's the case then even the S4 can do that, all u have to do is set the brightness at zero and swipe through the home screen the whole day. Then maybe make a phone call or 2 then boom! 8 hrs of screen time achieve but whats the point? Were talking average normal usage. If the G flex cant do it the note 3 certainly cant.
There was a thread in the one x forum where a guy pulled off 12 hours of screen on time. Do u think thats its normal usage? Be real guys.
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Thats sounds pretty good and reasonable.
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Um in the states its not released so to most people who live in America don't have it. But it is normal usuage. My note 2 was able to get 8 Hours normal usage no playing games but internet, youtube, messaging, etc... its called customizing your phone to perform well at a battery saving stand point. On my note 2 i was running a kernel, rom, and undervolted and made everything the phone can do to push more battery life and it did. 8Hours screen on time, 12-14Hrs on battery overall.

I got about 7hrs of SOT with 17hrs of off charger time yesterday. Mostly used on WiFi.
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10 hours off screen time uh? I believe u only if u only swipe through home screens and don't use the phone normally. I was getting 8 hours of screen time with the G flex with heavy use and the note 3 cannot pull that off, be real.
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lol use my phone? More days then not I'll have an hour or so of YouTube, about 2.5-3 hours of SlingBox or Netflix going over data not wifi, i stream music for a 1-1.5 hours throughout the work day maybe an hour of web surfing 15+ emails each day and I use the Action Memo instead of pen and paper for random stuff all day and will still be at 45-50% battery left. That's not that far off from a typical day and thats fairly heavy use, so yeah, my Note 3 pulls this off. Don't hate if yours doesn't. Maybe I average closer to 9 hours of screen time but i have regularly seen 10-10.5 hours.
Screenshot is from yesterday and is a light day of use though I did watch 4 episodes of Breaking Bad and an hour of the Super bowl in HD from my slingbox (My GF drug me out of the house last night). I don't usually take SS but a friend was asking what i was getting yesterday on my Note 3 so i took one.

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Um in the states its not released so to most people who live in America don't have it. But it is normal usuage. My note 2 was able to get 8 Hours normal usage no playing games but internet, youtube, messaging, etc... its called customizing your phone to perform well at a battery saving stand point. On my note 2 i was running a kernel, rom, and undervolted and made everything the phone can do to push more battery life and it did. 8Hours screen on time, 12-14Hrs on battery overall.
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I never specified the region did I? Fact is the G flex is out. And actually folks have the flex from today in the US (at least AT&T) so what now?
Now youre bringing the note 2 when were actually talking about the note 3. If he was getting 10 hours of screen on time with normal usage then we should see more of it in the battery life thread right? But guess what? We do not. Everybody knows that the note 3 has good battery life, but 10 hrs of screen on time? You have to be kidding yourself. Nobody gets that on average unless again, youre doing everything you can so you can reach that to post it here for bragging rights. I think it is misleading as some folks might wanna purchase this phone thinking that its that kind of battery life they would get.
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he is real there is someone if not him have proven with screenshots, our phone can handle that. its all about knowing how to prioritize your battery on your phone and settings. not every phone is the same so some can handle and do that others may not.
And the G-Flex isn't even out yet
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I do tweak my phone. The only thing i do though is restrict background data on apps i don't need running in the background. I leave my location settings (wifi setting) on but not GPS and i have email sync once an hour not every 15 min. I have my google account sync turned off as i just sync it only when i add new calender events or new contacts. There is no need to have it sync 30 times a day for nothing. I use no battery saver apps as they usually just eat battery running in the background so it can watch stuff.

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lol use my phone? More days then not I'll have an hour or so of YouTube, about 2.5-3 hours of SlingBox or Netflix going over data not wifi, i stream music for a 1-1.5 hours throughout the work day maybe an hour of web surfing 15+ emails each day and I use the Action Memo instead of pen and paper for random stuff all day and will still be at 45-50% battery left. That's not that far off from a typical day and thats fairly heavy use, so yeah, my Note 3 pulls this off. Don't hate if yours doesn't. Maybe I average closer to 9 hours of screen time but i have regularly seen 10-10.5 hours.
Screenshot is from yesterday and is a light day of use though I did watch 4 episodes of Breaking Bad and an hour of the Super bowl in HD from my slingbox (My GF drug me out of the house last night). I don't usually take SS but a friend was asking what i was getting yesterday on my Note 3 so i took one.
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LMAO! Im not gonna hate because your phone gets better battery than mine, more power to u.
Can you show us your "10 hrs average of screen on time" with some detailed screen shots with the graph and everything? Like this
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