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I usually get 3 hours screen on time. Did I get a dud? I only have 2 days left. Should I trade it in for a new one? Will they know if I rooted then uprooted and deleted superuser?
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I usually get 3 hours screen on time. Did I get a dud? I only have 2 days left. Should I trade it in for a new one? Will they know if I rooted then uprooted and deleted superuser?
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I just got this as a test.
starting 98%
ending 30%
time on 14 hours
display on 3:43h
Special conditions:
1) two hours of watching youtube with lowest screen brightness (lower energy consumption)
2) two hours with wifi on (but not connected) and very poor signal (higher energy consumption).
I think one should be able to get 5-6 hours of continuous use (unless it's 3d games.)
Wifi is normally on and connected, signal is usually 3-4 bars. Autobrightness on.
I get this with no video watching, only Gmail contact sync. Most use is twitter and web browsing with plugins set to on demand. Think I'm gonna have to exchange it just to be sure. Hopefully I don't get the restocking fee. Should I just tell them I'm not satisfied with my battery life compared to everyone else's? Thanks for the reply.
Use a mostly black background, including inside of APPS as black saves a lot of display power.
I'll try an all black background and see how that goes.
3 to 4 hours on continuous web browsing sounds about right if you are not using WiFi. Those are the times i get from mine.
There aren't enough already. I get great battery life. How about you?
Crazy world, ay?
Thanks for the constructive thread. My battery life is awful.
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How dare you.
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14h and still have 70% remaining.
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6 hours and I have 66 percent remaining, light usage.
Placebo effects are interesting.
I bought the extended battery, and placed the old one on my desk. After charging it up I noticed a decent gain in battery life. The next day, bored I picked up the old battery laying on my desk and noticed it was 2100mah according to the sticker. Confused I was like "woooah my phone must had come with an extended battery" then I decided to check what my phone had in it....1850mah *head slap* somehowI mixed them up when I installed it.../sigh
Good standby time (gotten up to 18 hours with light use), but about 3 hours screen on time. Disappointed.
7hours and im at 55% power... right on track for my average usage between 12-14 hours per charge
The unit does not charge. In the beginning before the issue with it dying after the first two seconds began it wouldn’t charge unless it was turned off. There are cases opened about both of these issues on the android website and the only problem is I can’t try any of these solutions because the phone won’t even boot up. Not even into fastboot mode. I tried charging all night and it still will not go past the colorful boot screen sequence and sometimes I can’t even get it to turn on to say Google. And when it does turn on, it only stays on for 2 seconds and then it just dies. That’s the reason why it won’t let me flash the factory images. I tried the USB charging unit that came with the phone on my international Samsung galaxy s2 and it charged just fine.
Anyone have any ideas?
after about 8 hours i burned thru 60% of my battery. meaning I had 40% left over. I would say this is with moderate to heavy use. downloading/updating apps, surfing the web, going on facebook, texting, emails. etc.
Today i had almost 8.5 hrs off battery and just under 3 hrs display time with 39% which is about par for me. I don't have any sync on but i check my mail constantly, check xda, read news and surf the web and occasionally light gaming but not today. At lunch i'm on it about 40 mins on average. And i have spotty signal throughout the day, especially during lunch. It really boils down to realistic expectations and actual usage. A lot of peeps that compare to me wonder why their battery is so terrible but i don't have anything serious going on when i'm not actually using the phone. I don't do social networking. I don't have my phone constantly polling for data on top of the constant polling for signal on top of the constantly checking my battery stats wondering why I'm not getting 6 hours display time. I think some of the battery rage is wasted on that alone. Motorola Droid phones have historically done well on battery because Motorola's usually have great radios on top of the usually great reception Verizon brings. Also, we demand much of our phones, a lot more than last year and the year before. Faster data speeds demand more juice also. Verizon 3g is slow in comparison to T-Mobile/atnt hspa but better efficiency, better architecture and smaller chip sets have helped cancel out a lot of that on hspa radios Lte is still early generation tech and those speeds are ludicrous for a mobile device yet some Verizon folks wonder why they cant pull down 4 hours display time much less 3 when hspa is far more efficient and adequate for the time being. If Verizon wasn't so crooked i more than likely would be an lte nexus owner. I think more people really need to consider what light, moderate and heavy usage really is. Today was realistically heavy moderate use for me. A heavy day for me is tanking the battery in less than 10 hours with 4 hours display. Some of you are light users but your phone is working while you are actually working and you only get 2 hours display time because you had to have your phone tell you bobby cussed out his boss today because of no Xmas bonus, sally cheated on bobby, and bobby is getting sloshed tonight all waiting for you as soon as you pick up your phone and while you're catching up with the on demand soap opera your phone is downloading all your emails in the background. And while it is doing all this your phone is heating up and making electrons have more resistance in the circuitry. The cooler your phone is the less demanding it is on the amperage. Anyways, hopefully this weekend i will get to see if the screen can 5-6 hours display on wifi on one charge. With hspa on.
Crazy world, ay?
14 hours 7 min. Light usage, only one hour on wifi... 57%.. So ya, battery life is just fine
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I'm a bit confused here and hope someone can clear it up for me. Some of the reviews are saying the battery life is under eight hours. However the review from Androidpolice is saying he got 22hrs heavy use and with normal use it could be almost 2 days. Can someone tell me what the battery life is really like?
I suspect the shorter times are referring to performance in a battery run down test where a HD video is put on a loop and played until the device dies.
I have only had mine for 2 days and this is not normal use because of downloads etc... but I believe I'm getting 8-10 hours out of the 2014 edition where I was getting 6-8 hours out of last years Note 10.1. I still have last years model as it is going to ebay soon so I know there is an improvement!
I'm hoping it lasts 9-10 hours at least. Coming from an iPad, I have a feeling the battery life will be one of the worst things about android for me.
I'm getting around 8h. battery life
really enough juice for me
Hello, i am a engineering student and i am very happy about my Battery life.
I Use my P-605 to take notes in the university.
For example, on a day with three lectures.
First Lecture, i use LectureNotes to mark something in the PDF scriptum and write down a few notes.
Second and third, creating a whole Entry which causes that the screen is nearly 95% of the 1,5h Lecture active.
After that, driving home with the bus with listening to music and checking facebook and xda.
The Energy saver made was enabled (because it was implemented for Such reasons) and screen on Auto (+0, +1).
After that day, 70%, not bad, or not?
I used some of the tricks mentioned here in an xda threat to increase the Batterytime.
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I'm hoping it lasts 9-10 hours at least. Coming from an iPad, I have a feeling the battery life will be one of the worst things about android for me.
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That's about what I get of screen on time.
At this exact moment I'm on pace for about 9 and a half hours with 2 days on time
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8-9 hours screen time is what mine gets. This is with a 1 minute time out and 20% brightness. If you use the default 30 second time out and auto brightness, you may be able to squeeze out another hour or so.
Go by screen time and not total uptime. One person's "heavy use" is someone else's "casual". I'll use the Note for 5 or 6 hours straight. That will get me down to 30% or thereabouts. As such, I'll never get 2 days out of it or an iPad.
Playing any type of game, even ones that aren't graphically demanding like clash of clans or plants vs zombies 2 drains the battery very very fast, i could lose 50% in 2-3 hours.
Just about hitting 8 with all the extras disabled and just browsing the web and youtube
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depends
davidcave said:
I'm a bit confused here and hope someone can clear it up for me. Some of the reviews are saying the battery life is under eight hours. However the review from Androidpolice is saying he got 22hrs heavy use and with normal use it could be almost 2 days. Can someone tell me what the battery life is really like?
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it really depends on what you do. i watch movies using plex, browse, play games for about 4 hours a day. i recharge my tablet every 3 days. at the time it still has 20%. also note that when it is in stand by mode it loses some charge
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?
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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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Yes this was stock at the time
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)
Well at least I still have my (shady) sense of humor.
Hey guys.
2 weeks with the Note 10+, 256GB/12GB - Exynos. I keep seeing those wonderful SOT reports. 8 hours, 9 hours, 10 hours! I'm not even talking about those posting screenshots of 12-14 hours...
They all use WQHD. They all use Facebook. They even use youtube and netflix, on wi-fi and on mobile with more than 50% brightness, and they all get at worst 8 hours of Screen on time.
Little me, on the other hand, uses mostly whatsapp and text, reduce his brightness when possible, check for hungry apps all the time, yet even on Airplane mode, I barely get get to 0% with 5 hours of SOT.
What am I missing? What is the magic trick? Is it possible that I'm having some sort of a hardware failure? Bad luck?
Don't get me wrong, 5 hours of sot, compared to my dying and evil LG G4 is still amazing, but I just can't wrap my head around this difference between exactly the same devices, this huge difference.
Let there be light
and sot.
in the same boat as you are my friend.. note 10 + exynos is a ****ter..
missing my old p30 pro
Don't worry mate, those 8,9,10 hours of SOT are for people who watch lots of Videos like YouTube etc on their device and seldom use camera or do gaming on their Phone. SOT is very subjective and differs from person to person. I get 5 to 6 hours of SOT myself and is pretty happy with it
As others said it's hard to compare, for example weak cell/wifi signal can discharge battery pretty fast even with screen off. After saying that, you should disable everything you can that you don't use. Also, forget SOT, see how much your phone discharges overnight when it's not in use. For example charge before sleep to 100%, wake up and see what's the charge after 6-8 hours of standby. If it's less than 94-92 %, then you may have rogue app than runs down your battery and finding it and fixing it may help you a lot.
Shtihi said:
in the same boat as you are my friend.. note 10 + exynos is a ****ter..
missing my old p30 pro
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No, it is not
Anything over 5 hours is not that bad imo! However, i would expect that the note 10 plus should easily be hitting 6 hours minimum for the majority of users depending on there usage! I have literally only got my hands on my device today and after about 30 minutes use plus a software update it has dropped just 6%
my .2 cents , if your phone can last long enough for you to achieve what ever you want to do achieve in day and without you running behind a charger then you got yourself a keeper .
so don't worry about SOT , standby time ... use your phone to its fullest extent and enjoy it
vinumsv said:
my .2 cents , if your phone can last long enough for you to achieve what ever you want to do achieve in day and without you running behind a charger then you got yourself a keeper .
so don't worry about SOT , standby time ... use your phone to its fullest extent and enjoy it
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I can totally agree with that, but there's this little voice in my head (Well, there are plenty, but that's not our current burning issue), that's just keep telling me that it doesn't make sense that when both people use the exact same device, with almost the exact same settings, the difference will be so big...
EagleXDR said:
I can totally agree with that, but there's this little voice in my head (Well, there are plenty, but that's not our current burning issue), that's just keep telling me that it doesn't make sense that when both people use the exact same device, with almost the exact same settings, the difference will be so big...
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but main culprit would be Radios ... so are you using same mobil service provider and living same locality then we can worry if comparatively the battery is life lower.
Me too.onmy have 5 hrs max sot, but I play around 1 to 1.5 hr of Intense gaming.
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vinumsv said:
but main culprit would be Radios ... so are you using same mobil service provider and living same locality then we can worry if comparatively the battery is life lower.
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Living in a small country, compared to some people who use the same network in the same city (Maybe 5km from each other). Obviously, it's still not a purely scientific comparison, but it's something/
I used to wonder why there was a big difference between my battery performance and the ones I see on the net. Until I went to Taiwan for a vacation. My sucky battery phone then suddenly lasted the whole day. And that was with constant gps usage, constant checking, messaging, googling, etc.
I think the network strength and consistency is the biggest determinant of battery life given the same usage patterns. I live in the Philippines where the signal is not great which is probably why i get a lousy battery life compared to others.
However, the Note 10+ is giving me the best ever battery life ever. Out of all the phones I've owned, this is the only phone to actually surpass the 5 hour screen on time mark.
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I used to wonder why there was a big difference between my battery performance and the ones I see on the net. Until I went to Taiwan for a vacation. My sucky battery phone then suddenly lasted the whole day. And that was with constant gps usage, constant checking, messaging, googling, etc.
I think the network strength and consistency is the biggest determinant of battery life given the same usage patterns. I live in the Philippines where the signal is not great which is probably why i get a lousy battery life compared to others.
However, the Note 10+ is giving me the best ever battery life ever. Out of all the phones I've owned, this is the only phone to actually surpass the 5 hour screen on time mark.
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Signal strength affecting battery life makes sense, I have heard that before, but I have tried going a full day with just Wi-Fi, airport mode and no sim installed, and I got just the same results, so I guess that in my case, it's not related (sadly).
During my normal daily use, at the end of day I end with SOT of 3 to 5 hrs and 65-45% battery left. So absolutely I can get 8-10 hrs and this is with highest screen resolution, 50% brightness, GPS, BT, NFC, AOD and Edge screen on. You may have rogue apps running in the background and using your battery, did you check under settings/device care/ battery what is using your power, even if it's not very accurate, could give you some hints.
I check it constantly, no rogue apps whatsoever. I even did a factory reset, installing only whatsapp and disabling some Samsung apps, yet I still can't reach more than 5 hours of SOT, in almost "lab clean" conditions. Honestly, it's driving me mad.
How much do you loose overnight, when phone is not used at all. It should be no more than 0.5 to 1% per hr. Also force stop whatsup for few hours, maybe is searching and updating too often. I know what you mean, I had a phone couple yrs ago, wouldn't last whole day even if not used, drove me crazy until found out I changed some obscure setting in wifi before and forgot about it, once I reversed that setting phone went back to normal 0.5% per hour (it was discharging 10% per hour even not used before fix).
pete4k said:
How much do you loose overnight, when phone is not used at all. It should be no more than 0.5 to 1% per hr. Also force stop whatsup for few hours, maybe is searching and updating too often. I know what you mean, I had a phone couple yrs ago, wouldn't last whole day even if not used, drove me crazy until found out I changed some obscure setting in wifi before and forgot about it, once I reversed that setting phone went back to normal 0.5% per hour (it was discharging 10% per hour even not used before fix).
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Hmm... I believe I lost 5% last night. I'll check back tomorrow morning for a more accurate answer.
Shtihi said:
in the same boat as you are my friend.. note 10 + exynos is a ****ter..
missing my old p30 pro
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+1
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pete4k said:
How much do you loose overnight, when phone is not used at all. It should be no more than 0.5 to 1% per hr. Also force stop whatsup for few hours, maybe is searching and updating too often. I know what you mean, I had a phone couple yrs ago, wouldn't last whole day even if not used, drove me crazy until found out I changed some obscure setting in wifi before and forgot about it, once I reversed that setting phone went back to normal 0.5% per hour (it was discharging 10% per hour even not used before fix).
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Wtf I lose almost 10% on aod overnight
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The Exynos SoC is garbage.
I learned the hard way with the Galaxy S10+. I thought to myself: "I'll buy the Exynos version so I can have an unlocked bootloader and enjoy custom ROM's and all the good stuff!" Little did I know, it's tough to enjoy the good stuff with such crap battery life.
Snapdragon users of the S10+ were reporting amazing battery life, meanwhile I couldn't get 4 hours of SoT with very careful use. I decided not to make the same error with the Note 10+ and ordered it with a Snapdragon SoC. I can happily report 7-8 hours of SoT and it was only getting better. I'm back on the OnePlus 7 Pro because I may return the Note 10+ for the Galaxy Fold, but I am leaning towards keeping it because the camera is so damned good.
Either way, never buy an Exynos phone. I enjoyed my S8+ with the Exynos chipset, but made a grave error with the S10+. Avoid at all costs if you can. If you need the radio bands that only the Exynos version has - look into getting a battery case because you'll need it.
Good luck Exynos users