Battery life Note 2 compared with S3 - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Aloha
I currently have the Galaxy S3 which is one of the best devices I have ever owned. Unfortunately the battery is quite disappointing. I only get 7 hours of battery life on heavy use (Wifi off, screen off, GPS off and only 3G) and I am thinking about switching to the Note 2 which has a superior battery.
My question is: is the Note II's battery life vastly superior to that of the S3 or isn't it that big? How long does your phone last on heavy usage?
Thanks

I regularly get 5 hours screen on time. I have no issues making it through a 15 hour day on a charge. The Note2 has a 3100mah battery, even with the bigger screen it will do better then an S3. I only owned an S3 for 20 days and returned, so I really don't have a clear idea of what battery life was like. At the time I liked my Note1 better and returned the S3.

All right thanks. Does the Note 2 get hot often?

Fadawah said:
All right thanks. Does the Note 2 get hot often?
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Nope, the Note 2 never gets hot. I know what you mean by hot because I have a colleague who has the S3 ...

Fadawah said:
Aloha
I currently have the Galaxy S3 which is one of the best devices I have ever owned. Unfortunately the battery is quite disappointing. I only get 7 hours of battery life on heavy use (Wifi off, screen off, GPS off and only 3G) and I am thinking about switching to the Note 2 which has a superior battery.
My question is: is the Note II's battery life vastly superior to that of the S3 or isn't it that big? How long does your phone last on heavy usage?
Thanks
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i Have them both and the N 2 isway better i get easily 7 hours screen . The phone never gets hot. Its vety fluid. I hate using my s3 now lol. I might sell it for a grey note 2
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I have an S3, used if for about 4 months (wife has it now), and I can easily say the N2 has MUCH better battery life. I got maybe 7-8 hours out of my S3 (moderate use during the day) before I had to charge, the N2 I can get about 12-14 hours, same amount of use. The S3 is a great phone, but the N2 is much nicer as far as battery life, and is just so much more 'snappy' to use.

Much better battery than s3. Mine gets warm at the top around the camera area if I play need for speed most wanted for about half an hour or more straight. But not as hot as my hox got
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note 2 has better battery than my s3

Mine last more than 15 hours with moderate/heavy use.
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used to have S3. but I sold it after 3 mths.. becos I simply love note2. battery life... by I used both devices the same way but of cos. not to the extend of doing indepth research.
I have to charge my S3 at 12pm after leaving hme since 7am.
on the other hand .. I can use my note2 until 9pm when it hits 20%.
if without the use of chat app. it will last even longer.
fyi pls.
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My Note 2 battery lasts 30~35 hours with moderate use. That includes gps off, wifi on always, 3g off, 20~30 minutes of voice calls, 4~5 hours screen on, everything in sync (dropbox, skydirve, camera uploads to both dropbox and google drive, gmail, etc), browsing, tweeter, and some games. My experience with Note 2 is much better than Note 1 and the good thing is it does not get hot like Note 1 or One X (could reach upto 47 C even with few minutes of game playing). Very moderate temperature (max 35 C) even after playing 3d games for some time.

Using galaxy n7100 i have 10:00 hrs screen on, and using gsIII i had 06:30 hts screen on.
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It depends on your usage. I get about 3-3.5 hours of screen time, because I use my phone for instant messaging and downloading and uploading, that's all. I mean, I use the calendar, and other apps. But 99% of my battery usage is screen + data. I go to bed with about 1.5 - 2 hours of screen time with 30-50% battery life. A lot of wifi, but at work no 3G (hardly 2G!) and very low wifi signal. So I imagine a lot of the drain is from the strain of trying to hold onto data connections while I continually send messages / pictures / download / upload / etc.
But for sure it has a VERY good battery. I had the note 1, my partner has a S3 and the Note 2 has great battery life compared. Once again, it depends on your usage.

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3 hour screen time normal?

So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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mike2518 said:
So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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The note's battery is one and a half times the size as the galaxy nexus battery..
2500 mah compared to 1750..
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I was denied a Nexus last week so waiting until tomorrow now. I have a Rezound atm and on this thing it lasts about 2 - 2 1/2 hours(constant use).
just last night I played a game called Sentinal 3 on it. phone was in CDMA mode(LTE off), bluetooth & wifi disabled, and brightness all the way down. when I started playing the battery was at 93%... played 2 levels, took a break & then the battery was at 34%.
granted, each level took about 20min... but still...
I get about ~4 hours of screen time before my battery is dead. Really depends on what I'm doing, and how spread out those 4 hours are.
I'm getting about 3/12 on a work day. With about 25% left. Which is pretty damn good considering the screen. My gpu is 384 mhz and my undervolt's are 250mv+ for each frequency. This weekend i'm seeing if i can get 5 hours screen time with wifi. I know i can get 4 hours plus already and that was before patching my kernel for upping the gpu and undervolting.
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rashad1 said:
I get about ~4 hours of screen time before my battery is dead. Really depends on what I'm doing, and how spread out those 4 hours are.
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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I get about ~5 hours of screen time before my battery is dead
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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It's possible, depending on the ROM and kernel.
mike2518 said:
So basically I've had the nexus for 2 days now, and battery life is bad for my standards. I had the Note for 2 weeks and averaged 6 1/2 hours of screen on time before the battery went dead, that includes browsing mostly on the web and the xda app. The only thing on was data and bluetooth, no wifi. On the nexus, with everything off except data, I only average 3 hour screen time. Is this what other folks are experiencing on their nexus?
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Note has pretty much the same screen as the Nexus (exactly the same except 1280x800 vs 1280x720), but a massively larger battery. That will allow higher screen on times.
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Note has pretty much the same screen as the Nexus (exactly the same except 1280x800 vs 1280x720), but a massively larger battery. That will allow higher screen on times.
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The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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I should have mentioned that those hours I was talking about were spread over 12-14 hours each day. Btw, would changing kernel and ROM improve battery?
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Mine was 3 hours too over 12 hours. Not 3.5. This is before i patched my kernel for undervolting. Also my workday is strictly cellular data with many high rises so my cellular is constantly switching radios beause of reception and congestion. I am very very pleased with how well it does. My standby drain is ridiculously good. I get about 1% drain an hour at work and about 1% drain every 2-3 hours at home. I still haven't tested light flow because it is not playing nice with ics yet. I'm sure that will affect my drain. I think people's expectations were/are too high for display time. People that are social nuts and have a live ticker feed on their homescreen so they know when their friends are picking their nose should get the s-lcd version of the nexus. Lcd power drain is a lot more linear compared to amoled screens.
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joshnichols189 said:
The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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The note's battery is a third bigger too.
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joshnichols189 said:
The Note's screen is over half an inch bigger..
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Same panel same resolution though. Its pushing relatively the same number of pixels as the Nexus, but with a bigger battery.
voxigenboy said:
I was denied a Nexus last week so waiting until tomorrow now. I have a Rezound atm and on this thing it lasts about 2 - 2 1/2 hours(constant use).
just last night I played a game called Sentinal 3 on it. phone was in CDMA mode(LTE off), bluetooth & wifi disabled, and brightness all the way down. when I started playing the battery was at 93%... played 2 levels, took a break & then the battery was at 34%.
granted, each level took about 20min... but still...
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Ahh u trader.....I'm telling...LOL..I'm grabbing mine tomorrow as well bro. Hopefully there still available in the afternoon and they don't sell out. I'm hoping the batt life is a lil better than this
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The note's battery is a third bigger too.
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I already mentioned that..
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Mine was 3 hours too over 12 hours. Not 3.5. This is before i patched my kernel for undervolting. Also my workday is strictly cellular data with many high rises so my cellular is constantly switching radios beause of reception and congestion. I am very very pleased with how well it does. My standby drain is ridiculously good. I get about 1% drain an hour at work and about 1% drain every 2-3 hours at home. I still haven't tested light flow because it is not playing nice with ics yet. I'm sure that will affect my drain. I think people's expectations were/are too high for display time. People that are social nuts and have a live ticker feed on their homescreen so they know when their friends are picking their nose should get the s-lcd version of the nexus. Lcd power drain is a lot more linear compared to amoled screens.
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Your standby drain makes me so jealous. I am in the same camp as many, seeing about 3-4% drain an hour with the screen off. That's also with Juice Defender shutting down wifi and data when the screen is off. This leads to my screen/total stats ending up around 2/12, which is frustratingly bad given the numbers I know this phone should be capable of.
I've tried 3 different ROMs, 2 different kernels, 2 basebands, multiple battery calibrations and charge/discharge cycles, but things never improve. So annoying.
I'm pretty happy with my nexus's performance.
It depends what you're doing, keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning. I get ~5 hours screen time with 25% left at the end of the day.
I take off charge @ 7.30am
Goes back on charge with 20-25% at about 11pm
I use auto brightness
I listen to internet radio during my commute for about 30minutes each way over 3G, read my rss feeds and regularly using gtalk and gmail throughout the day. I rarely make phone calls.
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I'm pretty happy with my nexus's performance.
It depends what you're doing, keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning. I get ~5 hours screen time with 25% left at the end of the day.
I take off charge @ 7.30am
Goes back on charge with 20-25% at about 11pm
I use auto brightness
I listen to internet radio during my commute for about 30minutes each way over 3G, read my rss feeds and regularly using gtalk and gmail throughout the day. I rarely make phone calls.
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I would be ecstatic with this performance. I would say though that I am lucky to get half of that screen time, with brightness set at about 15%.
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keeping wifi on seems to be a killer, im assuming that's because it's constantly scanning
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not true, specifically during standby. Keeping wifi on during standby and keeping sleep policy to always on has dramatically saved my battery life. I too was @ 3-4% an hour when wifi was off. Now I keep it on and I average 1% an hour. 3g/4g radio towers use more juice on standby than does wifi. There is countless articles about this on the web.
I get about 3:30 hours of screen time on a full charge. But I think this question is very relative. For example I could get more screen time if I wasn't streaming 30-45 minutes of music and didn't have 1:30-2:00 hours of voice calls.
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Same panel same resolution though. Its pushing relatively the same number of pixels as the Nexus, but with a bigger battery.
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Pixels aren't necessarily what matter when talking about battery life. It's important, but since both are pushing, generally, the same number of pixels...it comes down to screen size. Screen size makes a much bigger impact on battery life (nonlinearly).

GSM nexus battery life WAY better than Verizon Nexus

My two Brothers just picked up the unlocked GSM Nexus off the Play/Market store last week. One has it running on pre-paid T-Mobile, the other on Straight Talk ATT, and their battery life is ****ing unbelievably better than what three of us get on the Verizon Nexus, and we are not using 4G/LTE at all.
Both my Brothers use their phone at work, no Wifi just the 3G signal, and they both text me this week telling me battery life %. Right now after 4+ hours unplugged they both around 85%-90%, not using it except sending several texts and reading websites. And after a work day unplugged for like 10 hours they both have like 70%-75% left.
Now myself, my Wife and buddy have the Verizon Nexus, my Wife barely uses her phone at all, and at lunch time will be at like 70% battery left, and after getting home still unplugged for 10+ hours she's at like 45%. Where my Brothers with same use would be at 70%.
My buddy has the same as my Wife's usage, no WiFi wither, not using phone much and his phone is at like 40% after 12 hours or so. Both of them have 4G/LTE off and GPS off, and no sync on.
I use my phone a lot for work sales calls, and I am in the red by like 4:00pm, I get maybe 7 - 9 hours of use on a busy workday.
My Brother on the GSM T-Mobile, said after 23 hours his phone was at 45% battery life, and that was him using it quite a bit, dozens and dozens of texts, lots of websurfing, tons of e-mails. Our Verizon Nexus would never get that kind of battery life.
It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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I agree screen time is crucial. But my Wife uses her Verizon Nexus very little at work and by time she comes home is at like 45% battery after about 12 hours or so. My Brother on GSM Nexus after 12 hours and using it a bit more would be at 70% battery.
That is a HUGE difference in battery life with very similar use.
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Zorachus said:
I agree screen time is crucial. But my Wife uses her Verizon Nexus very little at work and by time she comes home is at like 45% battery after about 12 hours or so. My Brother on GSM Nexus after 12 hours and using it a bit more would be at 70% battery.
That is a HUGE difference in battery life with very similar use.
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do they work in the same building?
if your wife works in a place with not as good of a signal, i expect her battery to drain faster as the phone is trying to get more signal.
I installed AOKP 5 on her phone last night. Her battery seems much better. Unplugged for 7 hours at 80% battery now. That is a major upgrade. But again she barely uses her phone at all during work, pretty much just sits there. Where my Brother with same use today is at 90%.
I am running CM9, unplugged for 6 hours at 35% battery, but I use my phone a lot during work. Have 2.5 hours screen time. Tons of texts...lots emails...several phone calls....web surfing.
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With GSM you can expect around 3 hours screen time and tons of standby time.
The standby time is great, but the screen time is somewhat mediocre to me.
Some days my battery just gets ate and others (like today) I'm having good battery. Usually I'm finding that apps are open in the background even after I hit back to "close" them. So if I keep up on the "Recents" menu and swipe it all away, I see an improvement.
I'm waiting for the MIUI styled "X" that closes ALL recent apps in one strike. Every little bit helps. An older version of Gummy (x.8) I had insane battery life. From 8am-3pm I would still have like 75%. I'm running LiquidSmooth right now and at 3pm I am at 60%. This was with 40 emails and 2 20min calls. No texting today
But LiquidSmooth has more options and is much faster then Gummy, so IMO the small battery difference is a good trade off. Later Gummy versions seems to consume more battery while lacking in the features.
AOKP never ran well for me in either the performance or battery department. Seemed to be laggy AND battery lousy. However I haven't played with it in a few weeks.
I too keep 4G disabled but I also have WiFi on all day (I never turn it off). I also use "Bluetooth On Call" which enables my bluetooth while on a call, so I can use a wireless headset. It automatically disables bluetooth, but I'm sure it consumes more battery then a normal call.
I only have 40minutes of screen ON time too. Mostly quick checks of emails. A few turns of WordFued and DrawSomething. I do work in a dungeon with little/no signal, which I suspect eats it up.
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It is known. What really matters though is screen on time.
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But it depends what you do in that screen time. If you do a lot of gaming and browsing with 3 hours it's great. If you just swipe through the home screen and send a couple text message with 6 hours of screen time, not so great.
A cool test would be to turn on airplane mode and play a movie. I'd be interested to see if it has something to do with programming vs hardware.
Then the same test with 3G.
Both really need to be setup similarly, same wallpaper, apps, etc, to really get a good measure of comparison
This isn't a news flash. Its been pretty well known.
barondebxl said:
But it depends what you do in that screen time. If you do a lot of gaming and browsing with 3 hours it's great. If you just swipe through the home screen and send a couple text message with 6 hours of screen time, not so great.
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Well, yes and no. Gaming does use more cpu and such than just flipping through your home screens so I see where your coming from and agree to an extent.. But also consider that display is almost always the biggest battery consumer in battery stats, regardless of what you are using it for.
If you switch the 4G off then it will be a different story.
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Zorachus said:
I installed AOKP 5 on her phone last night. Her battery seems much better. Unplugged for 7 hours at 80% battery now. That is a major upgrade. But again she barely uses her phone at all during work, pretty much just sits there. Where my Brother with same use today is at 90%.
I am running CM9, unplugged for 6 hours at 35% battery, but I use my phone a lot during work. Have 2.5 hours screen time. Tons of texts...lots emails...several phone calls....web surfing.
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If you really want to compare the battery on all those phones, at the end of the day have your wife, your buddy, your brothers, etc...send you a screen shot of their battery stats. There are so many reasons why your battery life can change, and unless you are following someone all day then you really won't know the full picture.
And yes I usually say screen on time is a better "quick" comparison of battery life. Someone who has a display timeout of 1 min compared to someone with 5 min will have significantly different battery results, even with similar usage.
LTE is a *****.
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If you switch the 4G off then it will be a different story.
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This.
player911 said:
A cool test would be to turn on airplane mode and play a movie. I'd be interested to see if it has something to do with programming vs hardware.
Then the same test with 3G.
Both really need to be setup similarly, same wallpaper, apps, etc, to really get a good measure of comparison
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CDMA radio technology is a bit worse on battery than GSM, I'm betting that's where most of the difference comes from (LTE excluded obviously). With my screen on constantly, I've gone over 5.5 hours of screen on time before on my VZW GNex with about 50% 3G/50% WIFI usage. Again though, that was almost constant screen on from 100% to 0% battery. I've also watched the entirety of LOTR: Return of the King Extended Cut (4:20 minute run time) with my phone while also having 2 or so hours of standby on one charge, but I was in airplane mode for the majority of the movie watching. The screen is absolutely the worst battery killer by leaps and bounds and that will hold true no matter the variant.
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Well, yes and no. Gaming does use more cpu and such than just flipping through your home screens so I see where your coming from and agree to an extent.. But also consider that display is almost always the biggest battery consumer in battery stats, regardless of what you are using it for.
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True, it always is the biggest battery consumer as anything you do on the phone requires the screen to be on. But it also depends on what kind of users we are. If you use your phone mainly for calling and texting and emails, then 4+ hours of screen time with a total of 16 hours should be good and doable. But if you do a lot of gaming, browsing web, tasks that are heavy then 3hours+ on screen time with a total of 10-12 hours on the chart is pretty good I think.
I agree with a previous poster, screen on time is all that matters. That's why I got an ugly humpbacked Trexcell 3800 battery. Now I get 5 1/2 hours of screen on time on my Verizon GNex. Great when compared to my old time of about 2 hours.
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None of us on the Verizon Nexus have 4G on. We all leave LTE off.
So why is the GSM version getting substantially better battery life ? Seems to be at least a 25% difference, if not 1/3rd better battery life on the GSM Nexus.
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None of us on the Verizon Nexus have 4G on. We all leave LTE off.
So why is the GSM version getting substantially better battery life ? Seems to be at least a 25% difference, if not 1/3rd better battery life on the GSM Nexus.
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See my post above. CDMA radios are slightly worse on battery than GSM radios.
Like I said, I've seen 5.5 hours of screen on before once and 4+ many many times. I highly doubt the difference in battery between my VZW Nexus and a GSM Nexus under constant use from 100% charge would be more than +/-5% in either direction so the difference is somewhere in the standby times of the two devices ie. GSM vs. CDMA radio.

Verizon GNex Battery Life

I like the VZW GNex a lot after trying a lot of different devices. Reason is because the Verizon Nexus is as close to vanilla Google.
What I don't like about it is the battery life.
Is there a solution?
Not really.
VZW GNex is pretty atrocious when it comes to battery life. The best you can do is fiddle with kernels, but don't expect miracles.
Before you ask, every phone is different and each responds to kernels differently. You'll have to personally try each one to find the one that gives you the best results.
Its only bad when using mobile data extensively. Its perfectly fine on WiFi or using data in a strong signal area. Its still better than the majority of the 2011 lte phones on mobile. The s4 phones do a lot better on mobile though. I personally have had very few issues making it through the day with battery to spare. I have found that it drains very little during idle which is not the case with a lot of phones which seem to wake lock quite a bit.
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I couldn't believe how bad the VZW Galaxy Nexus was with battery until I got my GSM Nexus. I have easily over double the battery life with a smaller battery.
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Tonight, I set my phone to Airplane mode, on full battery, played Vice City for about an hour and a half and my battery died. No wifi or bluetooth was on.
I'm on stock, no root. I love this phone but the battery sucks bad. Next phone will definitely have to have a beefy battery.
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The_other_ray said:
Tonight, I set my phone to Airplane mode, on full battery, played Vice City for about an hour and a half and my battery died. No wifi or bluetooth was on.
I'm on stock, no root. I love this phone but the battery sucks bad. Next phone will definitely have to have a beefy battery.
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GTA vice city drains battery really much because of its graphics, etc.
Vice city drains battery something 10% when playing it 20min... It drains much more battery than liberty city.
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GTA vice city drains battery really much because of its graphics, etc.
Vice city drains battery something 10% when playing it 20min... It drains much more battery than liberty city.
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Oh okay, that makes sense. I'll try it again with a less intense game and see what happens. Thanks for the info.
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All phones battery pretty much suck when playing any type of 3d game. They have to run at full power mode during it so power management isn't doing anything. I can get around 4 to 5.5 hours of web browsing on wifi.
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The_other_ray said:
Tonight, I set my phone to Airplane mode, on full battery, played Vice City for about an hour and a half and my battery died. No wifi or bluetooth was on.
I'm on stock, no root. I love this phone but the battery sucks bad. Next phone will definitely have to have a beefy battery.
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That's where a Nexus 7 comes in handy
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The Gnex has amazing battery life compared to the Rezound. I had the Rezound for a year and the battery life was abysmal. It lasted a whole 4-5 hours even with it being underclocked to 384 while the screen was off and with a screen on time of about an hour and brightness anywhere from 50-75%, it also came with a 1650 MAh battery. I got my Gnex about a month ago off of ebay and it came with the 2100 MAh battery and I've been using that and it easily lasts throughout the whole day. I have it underclocked to 192 when the screen is off and even with about 2-3 hours of screen on time I get easily 8 hours out of it. I would stream pandora over LTE for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and intermittent usage in between, by the time I would get home about 9 hours later I'd be at like 20%.
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The Gnex has amazing battery life compared to the Rezound. I had the Rezound for a year and the battery life was abysmal. It lasted a whole 4-5 hours even with it being underclocked to 384 while the screen was off and with a screen on time of about an hour and brightness anywhere from 50-75%, it also came with a 1650 MAh battery. I got my Gnex about a month ago off of ebay and it came with the 2100 MAh battery and I've been using that and it easily lasts throughout the whole day. I have it underclocked to 192 when the screen is off and even with about 2-3 hours of screen on time I get easily 8 hours out of it. I would stream pandora over LTE for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and intermittent usage in between, by the time I would get home about 9 hours later I'd be at like 20%.
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Yeah, mine is pretty horrid too, after a year of use it has gone downhill bigtime with updates/use.
brando56894 said:
The Gnex has amazing battery life compared to the Rezound. I had the Rezound for a year and the battery life was abysmal. It lasted a whole 4-5 hours even with it being underclocked to 384 while the screen was off and with a screen on time of about an hour and brightness anywhere from 50-75%, it also came with a 1650 MAh battery. I got my Gnex about a month ago off of ebay and it came with the 2100 MAh battery and I've been using that and it easily lasts throughout the whole day. I have it underclocked to 192 when the screen is off and even with about 2-3 hours of screen on time I get easily 8 hours out of it. I would stream pandora over LTE for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening and intermittent usage in between, by the time I would get home about 9 hours later I'd be at like 20%.
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I too went to the GNex from the Rezound, was night and day, the GNex battery is twice as good as the Rezound's was, remember that everyone, there is worse.
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I too went to the GNex from the Rezound, was night and day, the GNex battery is twice as good as the Rezound's was, remember that everyone, there is worse.
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I have to agree with this. I have/had the rezound with the extended battery, and I could barely make it a day. The Gnex has between 50 and 75 % when I get home. The rezound would be between 5 and 40 %
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[Q] Battery life (I don't own a note 3)

I own a lg g2, 2nd thinking about the note 3
I hit 5 hours screen time easily
Browsing, texting, at least 45 min gaming too
How's the note 3's battery?????
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LG G2 has better battery
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Right now at 11 hrs with 24% battery left. Been on wifi all day. Played an hour worth of games too. Battery life is great.
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renny083 said:
Right now at 11 hrs with 24% battery left. Been on wifi all day. Played an hour worth of games too. Battery life is great.
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this stock?
bodom_hc said:
I own a lg g2, 2nd thinking about the note 3
I hit 5 hours screen time easily
Browsing, texting, at least 45 min gaming too
How's the note 3's battery?????
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I can get as much as 10+ screen on time with my Note 3 though 8-9 hours is more normal. That's with -5-6 or so hours of SlingBox/Netflix/HBO GO/YouTube streaming with Web, Note taking and email all day. I've watched whole NFL games with my SlingBox in HD with 40% brightness and still had 55-60% battery left to give you an idea. I run my Note 3 with 25% or so brightness most of the time unless I'm streaming video content. I'm not into a gaming much on my phone though. I don't want the burn in with Amoled displays so I keep my screen low unless i need it up.
I don't know a lot about the G2 but the Note 3 is a beat with battery life. The SS is from a few days ago with 4 episodes of Breaking bad and an hour of the Super Bowl streaming with my SlingBox. Damn GF hauled my ass out of the house for an hour during the SB. That's 5+ hours and still 47% battery left.
Stock battery life = anywhere from a day and a half with 12-16 screen on hours to a full days use with 8-12 hours screen on.
Zero lemon im getting up to 5-6 days with at least 24hrs screen on time but have seen 36hrs screen on before, minimum battery life i have gotten was a solid 48 hrs with heavy use and 26-32 hrs screen on.
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I'm running stock ROM but removed bloat, CIQ, running leankernel and typically go 3 days between having to charge the phone.
I am on WiFi 90% of the time, and mainly just use the phone for checking SNS, email, and some texting/chatting and daily YouTube updates for 30-60 mins.
Been getting roughly 8 hours screen-on time before hitting that 15% battery remaining notification.
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this stock?
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I'm not familiar with the real-world performance of the G2 battery. But I must say that, by far, the Note3 has the best battery performance out of any smart phone I've ever owned. (Which isn't saying much cuz I can say that about every smart phone I owned compared to the previous phone) I just use it as much as I want. I don't even worry about it anymore.
I've even gotten crazy and started underclocking to 960mhz with conservative governor. Keep your screen around 40-50% and (so long as you aren't in a very low signal on all protocols area) it barely drains and I barely notice even the slightest hit to performance. (...and I am picky as hell about stuff like that. 30fps drives me crazy, I can detect latency in the 10-20ms range...it's a curse really). I just get a clump of lag every now and then. For 2 days off charge? I'll take it.
I don't keep track of screen on time...yet. I guess I should do that one of these days. But I take my phone off the charger at 6:30am and usually plug it in again around 12:30am or so...I'm usually around 35%, give or take 10% depending on if it was a heavy or light use day.
Sorry I can't answer your direct comparison question. I can't imagine a phone having better battery life stock (even if I didn't underclock)...but from what I've read in this thread the G2 is the one to beat. It seems as though they are at least comparable within a reasonable margin of error.
I've not had the G2 but from what I've been reading if they are fairly comparable with the GS with a 5.2" display and 3500mah battery and the Note 3 has a 5.7" display with a 3200mah battery I would have to look at the OS optimizations as being better maybe with the Note 3. Plus you do get the Spen and 3GB of RAM instead of 2GB of Ram with the G2
Note 3 Battery life is amazing and even better if you get the Zerolemon extended battery (completely overkill btw)

Impressed with battery life

I have been impressed with the battery on this phone the last few days. Now that Im up and running with all my apps I gave it some good tests the other day.
On my note 3, while driving with nav and music streaming from google, I would lose about 8-10% an hour.
This weekend I did about 5 hours of total driving, with nav and music on the whole time. With a few phone calls, by the end the of the day, I was still at 46%.
Last night I tested just music. I had a 2 hour round trip. (Hour there, hour back, all highway and the same route, so cell signal would be the same)
Driving down, I started at 80℅ and arrived with 76℅. No music was playing. Phone was ideling.
On my drive back, I started at 75% and ended with 71℅. Music streaming from google the whole time.
I will be testing more, but that is pretty damn impressive in my book.
I will post my settings and turned off apps list later.
Attached is a screen shot of battery use from this weekends driving.
I agree completely. I didn't have the note 3 but I did have the note 2 and this battery dominated it. And the Fast Charge is amazing 50%in 30 mins. WOW
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Extremely satisfied as well. Even with such a powerful display and CPU/GPU this phone still manages to maintain some of the best battery life I've seen in years. Samsung really poured there hearts into this device.
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As am I
I am VERY impressed and HAPPY. Coming from an S3 that would be at 50% by the time I got to my office at 9:30am. Granted I am up early and our work starts the same. I am handling everything first thing before my trek in. Anyway, yesterday I awoke to a full battery and decided to try it out. GPS, calls, email, normal business day type stuff. I had 12% left by the time I fell asleep. NIIIICE
Its 2:20pm here and I'm at 62%. My Note 3 would be about 30-40% at this point.
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It seems the more I use the phone, the better battery life gets... The only time I have seen a considerable drain is when the screen is above 40-50%.
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I'm not that impressed. Don't get me wrong, it's way better than the 4 hours I got on my S4, but I am a seriously heavy user, and I only get about 9 hours before I need to charge. It's largely because my brightness is at 100% but I expected a full day of usage between charges lol
I agree. The more I use the Note 4 the better the battery life "seems" to get. I don't know if it's just settling down or what but it does seem to have improved over the last couple of days.

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