Hi,
I got a new battery for my GS3. There is a lot of conflicting info out there. Do I first charge it right away before using the phone or do I use it until it dies and then charge it?
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I always thought it was a myth until I tried it out. My sister's phone had the same things as mine all stock and widgets are the same. I drained my battery right away while she kept her battery full. The result? Hers averaged 4 hours screen on while mine is 2 hours
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So what did your sister do to get such great screen time vs what you did?
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So what did your sister do to get such great screen time vs what you did?
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I drained mine to 10% she kept hers at 76%
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I drained mine to 10% she kept hers at 76%
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Note: both phones have the same setup
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The let it die first then start charging is a myth... just research it, there are numerous sites claiming the results will diminish and kill Li-Ion batteries faster. Just use it as normal.
How does she get 4 hours of screen time. What is she doing during that time? I can barely get 2 hours but that includes about 2 hours of talk time. Does my usage sound normal or on the low side? Based on what I read here on xda I was expecting better battery life.
We would need more info on your use and what not, after a full days use post screen shots of your use time awake time and call time. We also need to know if you're stock rom and what your signal is like.
My signal is always full bars 4g. I am 100 percent stock. For example right now I have 37% left after 11 hours of uptime. This includes 1 hr screen time and 1.5 talk time. I did nothing but talk email and text today. I did about 20 emails and 150 texts. Is this on the low side? This is why I had t-mobile send me a new battery and am considering trying it.
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My signal is always full bars 4g. I am 100 percent stock. For example right now I have 37% left after 11 hours of uptime. This includes 1 hr screen time and 1.5 talk time. I did nothing but talk email and text today. I did about 20 emails and 150 texts. Is this on the low side? This is why I had t-mobile send me a new battery and am considering trying it.
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I would call that kinda normal, I don't talk on the phone for more then 25 minutes per day, and send about the same amount of text and data massages (whatsapp and gtalk) few emails, I average about 3.5-4 hours through out the day... If I were to talk on the phone I'm guessing I'd be getting around the same as you, and I have a spare battery that gets about the same performance.
What percent are u left with by the end of the day once u get the 3.5-4 hours? Now I'm wondering if I'm being paranoid. And if there's a point of trying a new battery if u think my usage is somewhat normal.
On average while stock I'd say 20ish percent... no on non stock roms I play with my phone more and use more battery haha... that's up to you I've seen reports in between both of ours from 7 hours of on screen time to people with barely 2 on screen time. Everyone uses their phone differently.
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anyone else having outstanding battery life with this phone?? I am at 18 percent after 17 hours i honestly can't believe this battery life is this good. amazing.
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btw when i got it yesterday i let the battery run all the way down then charged it all the way back up it at around 1 yesterday central time ran it all the way down and charged it all the way back up around 7 pm and it's still on the same charge. and i have been using the hell out of it (no 4g though)
I only got 7.5 hrs today
I got 12 hours today, HOWEVER, 8 of those hours were with music playing none stop and 1 hour of internet while music was playing. Didn't touch a charger once. My EVO, rooted with godmode and freedom kernal still had to be charged at lunch to last throughtout my 10 hour shift.
I love this phone.
I had a weird issue just now. Battery was at 26 percent. Did a reboot by holding the power button down for 8 seconds or whatever it is. When it booted back up about 30 seconds later i had 10 percent battery. anyone else have this happen?
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I had a weird issue just now. Battery was at 26 percent. Did a reboot by holding the power button down for 8 seconds or whatever it is. When it booted back up about 30 seconds later i had 10 percent battery. anyone else have this happen?
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I just had the exact same thing happen. I'm wondering if there is a bug with the battery gauge and if our battery life isn't as good as we think it is
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Since today was back to work day I decided to test the ET in a "real world usage scenario." All radios were on, including Bluetooth and Moar-Geez. I had sync enabled and hourly, including a push E-mail account. During the "beefy part," of the day, meaning 8am - 3pm, I was using moderate to heavy. During the downtime between 2pm - 5pm, I was using heavily and from 5pm - 8pm, there was moderate usage. So, I came home and right before plugging the phone into the charger I was at 40% battery on 15 hours. I am stoked. It is good. Zen.
You guys should calibrate your battery. Let the phone charge to 100%, run the app, unplug your phone.
This will wipe your battery stats and SHOULD give you a pretty accurate description of where you stand. We did flash a new kernel, and that can take some time for the system to get used to it. That's what I've learned from my Evo anyways.
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I have let it die 3 times and life is still crappy nothing like yall are getting
I even hard reset but no improvement
Im close to taking it to sprint
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I have let it die 3 times and life is still crappy nothing like yall are getting
I even hard reset but no improvement
Im close to taking it to sprint
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Yeah same issue here. Phone been disconnected for 2 1/2 hours and 50 min of screen on time lost 40% battery..almost makes you believe people that are claiming good battery life are full of it.
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I just had the exact same thing happen. I'm wondering if there is a bug with the battery gauge and if our battery life isn't as good as we think it is
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Its a samsung issue. Og epic have had the same problem since it was released. Don't reboot unless you have to. Also churro its your fault you don't have good battery life even on og epic you were always complaining about everything
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tinybfk said:
I had a weird issue just now. Battery was at 26 percent. Did a reboot by holding the power button down for 8 seconds or whatever it is. When it booted back up about 30 seconds later i had 10 percent battery. anyone else have this happen?
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I had that as well. I've also found the power save settings such as the screen timeout stick at the lower level after it is recharged.
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You guys should calibrate your battery. Let the phone charge to 100%, run the app, unplug your phone.
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Could you clarify -what app?
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I had that as well. I've also found the power save settings such as the screen timeout stick at the lower level after it is recharged.
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Could you clarify -what app?
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Battery Calibration app
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Battery Calibration app
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Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Dohh - it requires a root - I'm not ready to go there yet.
How can it be my fault lol
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Its a samsung issue. Og epic have had the same problem since it was released. Don't reboot unless you have to. Also churro its your fault you don't have good battery life even on og epic you were always complaining about everything
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tinybfk said:
I had a weird issue just now. Battery was at 26 percent. Did a reboot by holding the power button down for 8 seconds or whatever it is. When it booted back up about 30 seconds later i had 10 percent battery. anyone else have this happen?
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This happened to me, but it went from about 45% to 20% after I reset. However, it took for ever for it to go down to 19%, 18% and I still had about 17% when I plugged it in around 11p.m. after taking off the charger around 7:30a.m. That was with a little over 3 hours of on screen time. I was surfing the web, about 100 texts, xda, about 10 mintues of vid games. I had skype running in the back ground most of the day. I had Wifi on all day and connected about 90% of the time. I didn't have GPS, 4G, or Bluetooth on. That's pretty damn good. I think the drop must have been a software issue.....?
from 7:30am - 12:48, I'm currently @ 72% from full charge.
Not as good as i hoped it would be.
Could it be from Launcher Pro?
my evo 4g would get to 50% from 7:30-5:30.
I dont have my 4g or bluetooth conected. just 3g data.
Not too good from me. 2h49m screen time only have 20% left ....
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My battery life has been killer since day 1. Unplugged Saturday night at 8pm and when I woke up on Monday morning I was at 5% left. Over a day of use is amazing compared to my old hero and the evo 3d I test drove for a month.
Amazon?
Out of curiosity, do the people who get astoundingly good battery life have Amazon's app store installed?
On my Evo 4G I used to sometimes get up to 48 hours on a charge. Then it went down considerably and I could never figure out why. Even a new battery didn't work. I uninstalled a bunch of my key background apps like Settings Profiles but they didn't do the trick either.
The Amazon App Store runs poorly at best. Thus I always wondered if it could be the culprit.
Coming from the OG Epic, the ET's battery life is amazing. I haven't yet needed to reboot my phone due to the battery problems I've been hearing about. *knocks on wood*
I bought a used Galaxy S3 just a few days ago and have had pretty crappy battery life, or at least crappy when compared to what I read in some reviews. This guy claims that a 90 minute video with sync going on in background drained the battery to only 82%. I'm seeing much worse numbers. Leaving the screen on for one hour drained the battery to 75%. Other than occasionally touching the screen, I didn't use the phone for anything else during this time. Screen brightness was set to about 60% and wifi was off. The phone is rooted but still on stock UVLH2. Screenshots of the battery usage screen are attached. Does it sound like I have a bad battery?
Most people are getting about 5 hours of screen on time per battery charge.
At that rate you get 4 hours thats what I average with 2 different batteries.
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At that rate you get 4 hours thats what I average with 2 different batteries.
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But I'm not using the device for anything. There is nothing running. You can see in the screenshot that the only two things using the battery are the screen and the system process, which is at 2%. Is the number cited in the review I linked to in the original post simply BS?
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But I'm not using the device for anything. There is nothing running. You can see in the screenshot that the only two things using the battery are the screen and the system process, which is at 2%. Is the number cited in the review I linked to in the original post simply BS?
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Duse clearly you have to have your screen on. ...
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Duse clearly you have to have your screen on. ...
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I don't understand what you are trying to say. I left the screen on as a mean of draining the battery that can be easily and consistently reproduced. Browsing the web, playing a video, or running some app introduces additional variables that I can't easily control for. If, as dkmlb says, most people are getting about 5 hours of screen time while also using the phone (browsing the web, playing a game, etc.) and I'm getting only 4hrs while not using power for anything but the screen, then there is possibly something wrong with my battery.
you need to use the phone more for the battery to adjust itself. I set the brightness at 50, wifi on (when outside, 4G on), GPS on. My daily usage includes checking email, reading news on Pulse, check google play,etc yesterday the total screen time on was 3 hours. All of that last over a day (24h) and I still had 10%. (I dont play video, music, games, etc..)
What you said was true I didn't even think about it, but give it a couple days and cycle the battery normally (don't let it go past 3% with out plugging it in) and use it as a daily use and see if its good for you.
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im posting a day's usage for GS3 Tmo
can you guys tell me if the battery life is normal, bad, good?
(im posting the batt. life and top 5 usages)
the next 2 apps
What rom ?
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What rom ?
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completely stock, tmo bloat disabled, screen @ lowest brightness, sync off
With 27% left, I'd say that's about average-good.
Dear God, I get about 8 hours with average usage. Seems very good life to me. Do you have power saver and/or sync enabled?
It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know
Battery life good bro, cool story
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Mine's absolutely horrid, I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell's wrong with it. I'll run out of battery after about 12 hours, with the screen time at 1 hour and maybe 30 minutes if I'm lucky? The phone drinks away my battery in standby mode like a former alcoholic united with an opened beer. When I was on ICS, turning off 4G every time the screen was off with the AutomateIt app would give me excellent battery life. Ever since Jelly Bean, it doesn't seem to make a difference. I just don't even bother using AutomateIt anymore, I even uninstalled it. Useless. I check marked the option, "Restrict Background Data," but I actually had worse results with that on even. Following the thread about the Guide to good battery life, I turned off auto-sync. The only thing that seems to do for me is not get my emails in real time. No effect on the battery though. I'm guessing the battery drain has something to do with being on data (even though turning it off doesn't seem to do much) because everytime I go to school where there's little WiFi, battery's worse. Also, somehow my Messaging app takes up more battery than the screen. What's with that? I'll text every now and then, but it shouldn't eat away my battery like a fat man with the last batch of Twinkies. Enough with the dumb similes, haha, but I actually need help with this. I really don't wanna buy a battery off eBay cause the damn people are too lazy to send you the battery until a month passes, and I hate charging in the middle of the day.
I'm on 100% stock. I used to root and mess around with a ton of ROMs, but then I realized all my favourite ROMs were the ones closest to stock...
.... look at the eBay expected arrival and/or look for a seller in the USA ?
Anyway, that bit aside - have you installed something like BetterBatteryStats to be able to see what the problem is so you can fix it ?
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It's exactly like mine. However, some users actually got theirs up to 5 hours screen time. How? I'll never know
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5 hours... how !?
Easy !
I'm on stock and if I'm almost all the day on WIFI, not playing too much games, and with auto-brightness,
I can get 5 to 6 hours screen time.
(but on 4G all the day, it's more around 3 hours screen time)
This is what most people get with normal use around 14 to 16 hours and 4 to 5 hours screen time. I think the biggest issue is that 4G radio that most people have on all the time. I I have wifi everywhere so most of the time I have mine off that helps a ton. Plus all the sync stuff off, I get about 6 hours over 17 hours battery life and about 30 to 40% brightness.
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14-16 is what was normal for me when I first got my GS3 (after JB update). If you want more battery life, I recommend trying juice defender (custom settings for data off while locked). If you have stretches where you don't use your phone it works really well. Just thought I would throw that out there.
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This is my battery with light gaming and slight use with data on, with a lot of texting.
90% of the time my data is off.
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This is my battery with light gaming and slight use with data on, with a lot of texting.
90% of the time my data is off.
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Lucky you! I've been working on tweaks to my stock rooted system to get past 7 hours with data on. I'm going to test tomorrow or Monday.
Looks almost exactly like mine.
Man what are you guys doing? Here is mine over the past few days.
Mind you this is about 15-30 of minecraft and Epic Pirate Story during lunch. Full data and sync on with 4G/3G but mostly WiFi. About 30-40 min of web browsing. Tons of google talk and feedly news reader. Tons of pictures and about 5 min of video taken for each of those days.
Only mod to the phone is the camera mod.
pictures may be out of order but I think you get the just of it.
it all comes down to screen on time. less than 4 hours of screen time between charges is not very good.
Seeing a little over 4 hours of screen on time while using the AOSP roms.
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it all comes down to screen on time. less than 4 hours of screen time between charges is not very good.
Seeing a little over 4 hours of screen on time while using the AOSP roms.
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I already hit a 5h 15m mark once letting the kiddos watch a movie off the internal and then Netflix. The movie was hour and forty and Netflix took it down the rest of the way streaming on 4G.
on average I get roughly 2.5 to 3.5 hours in each charge which I'm fine with considering I could barely hit 8 hours before a dead battery with 2 hours screen on with my old Epic 4G Touch.
I'm sure I could get 4 hours screen on time if my phone wasn't the on sprints horrible network. I'm constantly searching for a data signal in Arizona. I do usually get just over 3 hours screen on and about 18-21 hours total between charges.
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I ALWAYS have my data off during the day and I never really connect to WiFi.
I don't need my data on for the day. XD.
Edit: when I go back to school Monday, I'll screenshot my screen on time and battery life length.
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Im getting almost 2 days with light usage. Data is off when I am out and bout. Wifi on the whole time I am home. Screen brightness at 30 for most of the day. Full stock rom on its 4th recharge.
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I never see such battery life EVER.
I unplugged my phone at 100% at 4 AM once, woke up at 8, it was down to 75%. Wifi and sync were on..
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I never see such battery life EVER.
I unplugged my phone at 100% at 4 AM once, woke up at 8, it was down to 75%. Wifi and sync were on..
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Sounds like you have an app in the background doing something. Even my Epic 4G Touch wasn't that bad. Maybe a weak WiFi and or cell signal causing the battery to drain faster.
An update was this weekend.
Unplugged phone at 908am saturday morning. Plugged it in Sunday night at 1145 with 5% battery.
during the weekend I played Epic Pirate story for 25 min. Shot 150+pictures. Shot about 18 min of video. Wifi coverage was 50% of that at home and the rest was 3G/4G. Oh and streamed two episodes of revolution VIA FTP from my home Android server on 4G. Other than that I cruised the web and used feedly for news feeds.
At work I generally drop 3% in an hour and half without touching the phone with 50% cell signal and corp WiFi at 25% signal strength. At home I have an Airave and pull from WiFi(I have to access points in the house for solid coverage so signal never drops below 50%) and I drop around 1% per hour. Signal really matters when it comes to battery life.
I believe my screen on was around 3h40m.
So all in all I am impressed and love this phone!! Just wish the camera wasn't so crappy.
im at 7.5 hours with 66% left.
Light to moderate use including web browsing and about 15 min of angry birds star wars. Rooted Stock Rom with Loki's IA tweaks as my daily.
Sigh. 35 percent.
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I went into settings and used the quad core control. I dont notice any difference in speed but i am also not a gamer. You guys that are having not so good battery life may want to try that and keep screen brightness below 40.
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not too bad
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I went into settings and used the quad core control. I dont notice any difference in speed but i am also not a gamer. You guys that are having not so good battery life may want to try that and keep screen brightness below 40.
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I tried that for two days in a row and didn't see any difference in battery life. Performance was untouched as well so I think that maybe it's already on and/or the app is broken.
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Yep that is about what I get with screen on less than 2 hours.
So yesterday I played Epic Pirate story with 50% brightness for 45 min and dropped 25% in battery. Then about 10 min after I stopped playing my battery jumped up 7% LOL. I am seeing this a lot with this phone as it seems that the way the battery is read throws lower % than what is actually there. Odd thing...
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So yesterday I played Epic Pirate story with 50% brightness for 45 min and dropped 25% in battery. Then about 10 min after I stopped playing my battery jumped up 7% LOL. I am seeing this a lot with this phone as it seems that the way the battery is read throws lower % than what is actually there. Odd thing...
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It does the exact same thing to me.
Or when I barely use my phone for an hour, then start texting it drops about 3-5%
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It does the exact same thing to me.
Or when I barely use my phone for an hour, then start texting it drops about 3-5%
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For me I don't see any real drop when texting or anything like that it's only when I run a game or something that really pushes the phone. When I stop playing I'll be at say 50% and then when I look at my phone 10-15 min later it's up to 55-59%. It's like the app reading and watching the battery miss reads it during an intense usage period.
Here's me.
Unrooted.
seems like battery dies sooo fast when listening music.
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What sort of battery life are you all seeing with this years note? come from the ipad 3 where i usually saw 10-11 hours screen time and 2-3d standby, today is the first time ive had it from 100% and i only lasted 6 hours screentime with 7 hours overall on time, i still havent run it down completely yet but surely i should be getting more than this?
Its such a shame because i love it so much, but i cant deal with this short battery life
It's much better than that. I found it better after a couple of charges. I rooted mine and deleted or froze b.oatware and I get 13 hours heavy use
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What sort of battery life are you all seeing with this years note? come from the ipad 3 where i usually saw 10-11 hours screen time and 2-3d standby, today is the first time ive had it from 100% and i only lasted 6 hours screentime with 7 hours overall on time, i still havent run it down completely yet but surely i should be getting more than this?
Its such a shame because i love it so much, but i cant deal with this short battery life
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I came from an ipad 3 as well and had the same problem until I disabled several apps, turned off GPS, etc and over the long weekend I was getting ~12 hours of web surfing.
I haven't rooted yet so that should be a number that can improve. I'm sorta trying to wait for a root that doesn't trip knox. I don't want a custom rom so no reason to install a bootloader and lose my warranty if I can be patient. Tried Cydia Impactor but I had already upgraded to MK1. I'm wondering if the shipping rom (P600XXUAMIE) might have the 4.3 vulnerabilities unpatched.
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I came from an ipad 3 as well and had the same problem until I disabled several apps, turned off GPS, etc and over the long weekend I was getting ~12 hours of web surfing.
I haven't rooted yet so that should be a number that can improve. I'm sorta trying to wait for a root that doesn't trip knox. I don't want a custom rom so no reason to install a bootloader and lose my warranty if I can be patient. Tried Cydia Impactor but I had already upgraded to MK1. I'm wondering if the shipping rom (P600XXUAMIE) might have the 4.3 vulnerabilities unpatched.
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What apps did you disable and how Exactly? Thanks alot
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I've freezed all unnecessary apps and i am getting like 9 - 10 hours screen on time with 8 hours standby. Standby is great for me nearly no battery drain.
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What apps did you disable and how Exactly? Thanks alot
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I thought it was more, but looking at the list.. go to settings, General, Application Manager, select the prinstalled apps you don't want running all the time and click Turn Off. I've turned off BlurbCheckout, Businessweek+, NYTimes, Polaris Office, Screen Saver and Twitter. I think more important was turning off GPS, Screen Rotation, Bluetooth, Reading Mode, Smart Stay, Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, Auto Brightness then adjusting the screen brightness to something a bit less retina searing than the default.
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I've had mine since Saturday soooo, 5 days now. I get easily 10-11 hours of screen time. I loose about 1% per 8-9 hours in stand by and i loose about 9% per hour of video streaming from either my Netflix, HBO GO, or Slingbox account and that's with brightness about or just above 50%. I'm also NOT rooted yet. Totally stock with just certain apps turned off and i restrict a lot of the background data on individual apps that i don't need running background data
Have you guys try using this damn thing at 100% while indoors? It hurts the eyes with a white screen.
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I've had mine since Saturday soooo, 5 days now. I get easily 10-11 hours of screen time. I loose about 1% per 8-9 hours in stand by and i loose about 9% per hour of video streaming from either my Netflix, HBO GO, or Slingbox account and that's with brightness about or just above 50%. I'm also NOT rooted yet. Totally stock with just certain apps turned off and i restrict a lot of the background data on individual apps that i don't need running background data
Have you guys try using this damn thing at 100% while indoors? It hurts the eyes with a white screen.
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What apps did you disable in the background? Would love to get battery like that
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What apps did you disable in the background? Would love to get battery like that
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Hmm, I think I misspoke about the background data on this tablet. I do that religious with my phones (Bionic, GS4) but I went to look at what i did and there is no option to turn off background data. I would normally go to settings>data usage and tap whatever app and the check "restrict background data". I must have thought I did that on this tablet but obviously not.
i think the battery life is great on my tablet - i dont game with it - today it has been running for 13 hours 48 minutes with 5 hours and 48 minutes of screen on time and battery is at 52% - not rooted yet - i have everything i dont use turned off ( ie. smart stay/scroll, air view ) and running nova laucher prime and dont use power savings mode
Face it - it's nowhere near ipads. That's my biggest concern.
It lasts the day, charge it at night, what's the problem, as long as it lasts all day there's nothing to worry about
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And actually review Vs the two say ipad has about an hour more battery life, not night and day
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Face it - it's nowhere near ipads. That's my biggest concern.
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I dunno, doing pretty good over here. Rooted, but have no froze anything. Only rooted to get gameCIH installed screen is between 25% and 50% brightness depending on what im doing or where i am. I mostly just use it for playing a few games here and there, taking notes during lectures.. etc. This is about typical, sometimes I get a little less, screen brightness seems to play a huge role in battery drain (obviously) but ive never run it dead during the day.. ever. I start every day with 100% charge and dont usually plug it in till I go to bed. If I have a charger around and im not doing anything ill plug it in (I mean.. why not) but I don't ever have to "worry" about it going dead on me.
I'm currently on 9 hours of battery time, probably at least 4-5 hours of that is screen on time reading comics or doing sketchbook pro pictures.
Battery is on 46%.
So yeh, battery is fine. Brightness is about 30%.
kaimyns said:
Face it - it's nowhere near ipads. That's my biggest concern.
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Right... It's better then an IPad. I doubt the IPads beat 11-12 hours of screen time at roughly 50% brightness and an IPad has a smaller screen and less pixels to power.
freeze those mofos
I use app quarantine...
theres a dude that posted all the system apps u can freeze
and I followed his suggestions
cant find his post
when I do I will update this one...
Hi all, I just bought this tablet, I have not turn it on yet...
Do I have to charge the device fully before turning on like some cell phones are?! or I can just start using it right away?!
and what kind of battery it does?! how's the charging process?! should I wait for it to be fully discharged, and then charge it to 100 percent?! or should I keep it between 40 to 80 percent to save the battery life...
in a nut shell, if you have any forum or link or information that could help, please share
swamks said:
Hi all, I just bought this tablet, I have not turn it on yet...
Do I have to charge the device fully before turning on like some cell phones are?! or I can just start using it right away?!
and what kind of battery it does?! how's the charging process?! should I wait for it to be fully discharged, and then charge it to 100 percent?! or should I keep it between 40 to 80 percent to save the battery life...
in a nut shell, if you have any forum or link or information that could help, please share
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Dude, just turn it on and use it. The days of cycling a batter (let it drain and then charge to full) were over in the 90's with Ni-Cad batteries.. these do not develop a memory. From dead, the tab will take 5-6 hours to charge with supplied charger and in the wall. Using it while charging will still cause it to lose battery but a a much slower rate.