Best kernel for battery? - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3

I had like fantastic battery life with stock ROM unrooted (kinda froze up at times / lagged a bit tho). I flashed Jedi Elite with Saber Kernel and boom battery went half of what is used to be.
Around 8 hours of screen on (lasted 1 whole day easily) became around 4 hours of screen on (within half way through day almost dead) after flashing that ROM.
What is the best kernel for battery for the T-Mobile Note 3?

Every phone is created not equal. So what works for me might not work for you. You have to try them out for a few days. Then you can tell what the kernel can do.
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Personally I've had exceptional battery life with the leankernel, about 7 hours of screen time.
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Here is an app tht can help u u backup ur kernel

I've been using leankernel for a few weeks now - typically I get 3-3.5 days of moderate use on a full charge.
I haven't tried to just watch videos all day to drain the battery quickly though, so YMMV.

I'm using leankernal as well in conjunction with darthstalker and battery life is typically 2 days with about 8 hrs of screen time. Moderate to heavy use lots of texts, calls, and games.
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My - Battery Sucks -

I have to charge it twice a day, and my use is for only couple of hours talking and few browsing.
I tried that with stock as well as
[ROM] cwm-Phantom-X-
is anyone else also experiencing the same?
a few hours being like 10 hours straight talking?
You're crazy. This battery is the best I've seen in a long time.
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Deebo took your bike too?
im getting 12 hours with normal use and 8-9hours with very very heavy use(basically on my phone all day non stop)
I can drain a battery in 6 hours or less. I can't make it through a 8 hour work day without charging it. I guess you guys that go 12+ hours on a charge aren't power users. I tried every rom and kernel and my results are exactly the same.
Maybe the people who are complaining about battery life came from a flip phone or a blackberry. As far as smartphones go, this is the best you'll find for the features and enormous screen we have. Don't believe me then get an Amaze, Sensation, myTouch 4g Slide or G2x.
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jessejames111981 said:
I can drain a battery in 6 hours or less. I can't make it through a 8 hour work day without charging it. I guess you guys that go 12+ hours on a charge aren't power users. I tried every rom and kernel and my results are exactly the same.
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this is exactly what I am talking about.
Before I had HTC G2 and same amount of use it last for whole day (around 12+ hours) but this one hardly goes upto 7-8 hours with one charge...
I did the battery wipe with full charge, if that makes any difference.
jessejames111981 said:
I can drain a battery in 6 hours or less. I can't make it through a 8 hour work day without charging it. I guess you guys that go 12+ hours on a charge aren't power users. I tried every rom and kernel and my results are exactly the same.
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I drain mine in 6. But i'm on it constantly. That's damn good for a phone like this.
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Deebo took your bike too?
Getting 24 hrs+ with a custom rom, juggernaut....
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I dont know bout anyone else... but the only battery problems ive experienced is the fact that ive become so damn lazy on keeping the phone charged.
The battery lasts so long that i forget to charge it, and then i run out of battery
I'm a heavy user literally all I do is watch 1080p movies and plays games on my phone. I get twelve to fourteen hours every day. I also get at least a text every fifteen minutes if not more. Maybe the developers didn't remove career ciq which bogs down performance and drain the battery. You can also try a different kernel.
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don't forget that in areas where you have crappy signal, you phone pumps up the power to try and compensate. you may notice your phone heating up in your pocket too. If you have no signal at all, i weep for your battery life.
go into airplane mode to save juice.
I too get 24 hours or more from light to moderate use with juggernaut.
Heavy use still nets me at least 10 hours. Although I toggle things off if I remember and don't need them. Like wifi, data, auto bright, sync, etc. although WAY lead important with this phone than it was with vibrant running cm7.
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I had some weird battery drain with the stock rom. I couldnt get more than 5 hrs with light usage or heavy usage. I flashed streamlined (a mostly stock rom) from teshxx and im back to having 9-10hrs of battery life with moderate to heavy usage (3hrs of on screen time)
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I have a 12-14 hour work day and I have 25-35% battery life left when I get home, heavy usage. Best stock battery for Android I've ever had. This is my 8th Android phone.
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shyboy1 said:
this is exactly what I am talking about.
Before I had HTC G2 and same amount of use it last for whole day (around 12+ hours) but this one hardly goes upto 7-8 hours with one charge...
I did the battery wipe with full charge, if that makes any difference.
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Why don't you try adding another core to your G2 and see if you can even get 6+ hours!!!
Cmon man, this is a dual core phone...it's just common sense that it will use twice as much battery power to get it to run smoothly.
But honestly, I was able to get 21hrs out of a full charge. With heavy use but i had it UC'd @ 1.2max and 192min. Still ran pretty smooth tho.
I get about 18 to 20 hours from a full charge. Stock. Non-rooted, and no modifications of any kind. I have all my apps auto-sync every 4 hours, and my usual display "on time" is around 4 to 5 hours. Here are some screen shots. This is the best battery life I ever had.
Just to add. My brightness is at 40%
is it better to use autobrightness on our device or a set brightness setting to save battery?
immunityx said:
is it better to use autobrightness on our device or a set brightness setting to save battery?
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I'd say set it to certain level. Having the phone constantly adjust I would think would use more battery.

How is the battery life on your epic?

This is what I'm getting using my current Rom. Not sure if this is good or bad
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Freaking awsome...
And that was with about 32% battery left to.
Running the stock rom... Just rooted it for the free tether.
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Phenomenal. Great.
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I get a day out of my battery.
It's not perfect, but it's perfect enough.
I get about 18 under moderate usage (using Bluetooth audio, fair amounts of data And syncing 3emails and all Google services available)
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I have averaged about 16hrs using Calkulin's, TZ, and the AOSP roms..and that's with undervolting and underclocking, on conservative or on demand governors
I get a good two days before my battery gives out. If I really having a power hungry day ill get like 9 hours though.
I get between 12 and 18 hours depending on use. That is ****ty. I run calk's rom.
This is an average day for me. The major drop is when I took the battery out to test something. I'm lucky if it's 49% by 8PM and it's almost always in standby. I never get to use data because sprint sucks where I'm at so I'm pretty dumbfounded that this is my battery life.
You want good to great battery life??? It's all about radio control!!!
I get a day and a half out of my battery by only turning on my 3G or wifi radios when I need them.
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I am looking to get the Epic 4G touch in about a week or so, and if everyone is having battery life like this I think I'll love this phone
SouthPhilly said:
You want good to great battery life??? It's all about radio control!!!
I get a day and a half out of my battery by only turning on my 3G or wifi radios when I need them.
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I agree it has to do a lot with radio control. I can get almost 3days like this with 3+hours of screen on time. Plugged it in to turn it back on cause i went to the store and forgot phone at home. Came back and it was dead.
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Right now i have hit the 24hr mark with a lot of battery left, This is with mild usage, no bluetooth or wifi Just the very tip of the batt guage is disappeared.
Will update as time goes on.
Stock unrooted Wsgs2 (White Samsung Galaxy S 2)
Left Vzw and the Gnex for Sprint and the Wsgs2.
I must be doin something wrong lol cuz I can't get passed 6 or 7 he's I use to get a day even 12+ now after flashing so many roms I can't get it back to a day...even after calibrating
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Im getting around 18-36 hours depends on my signal strength or juice defender. At work im near the 18 hours but depends on where all i go in my building. When im at home using my airave its closer to 36 hours since i use my wifi which doesnt use no where near the battery for the data.
No root, stock err thing
Right now I'm very happy with my battery life! Running Calk's 2.8 rom
In a average work day, I use my phone about 3-4 hrs. My phone is over 2 hours with display on...and I'm still at 40%.
Total battery time SO FAR: 1 day, 6 hours. Loving it!!
Wifi on 100% of the time; use browsing, gps and play games for a little bit here, a little bit there
Confident that a phone this powerful could last a full day with heavy use
I get pretty good battery life.
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I get pretty good battery life.
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That's not really good. With heavy usage I get 3 1/2 hrs of display with
8 hours
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Update as of 10:00pm i will have 36hrs.
around half batt life left.
No bluetooth,
I have been running wifi since noon, 12:30ish

How long your battery last you on your T989?

Curious on how long your battery last you on your T989? Various 4G phones from samsung suffer some pretty serious battery problem.
Have anyone been having major batteries issues? Sometimes getting only 4 hours before runs down entirely on stock batteries
Extended batteries such as these seems to be helpful.
http://www.amazon.com/QCell-T-Mobil...5JSO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329809813&sr=8-2
Have consider slim with chargers like these but unsure how long one last before swapping:
http://www.amazon.com/QCell-Samsung...5FYM/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1329809813&sr=8-6
6 hours flat, using BT all the time for music, 1 hour of talk, and inet for browse and Whatsapp, some pixs too, i will play some games and run some apps for studying.
But i'm not running the stock kernel.
around 25 hrs . moderate to heavy use
I average about 15-18 hrs.
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Right around 15+ hours. Consists of low-moderate web browsing, heavy texting, about an hour of talk time...and streaming Spotify when I'm in my car. I don't keep games on my phone...too distracting
About 11 hours with 4G always on, playing games for a total of an hour, and kindle reading about an hour, and a lot of texting. On juggernaut 5.0
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13+ hours with heavy text / talk use and moderate data use.
Your Rom + kernel combo has the greatest effect on battery life.
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About 6 hours with insane use. About 14 with moderate and I have never done low use so I don't know but I bet over 24.
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Exodian said:
About 6 hours with insane use. About 14 with moderate and I have never done low use so I don't know but I bet over 24.
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Six hrs on insane use sounds about right. on juggernaut 4.1 with bullet kernel, i ate 50% of thr battery in 3hrs.
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Being on the entirely other side of the spectrum with little to no usage, the phone can go about four days max in my experience.
Typically I get like two days.
12+ with heavy use on jugs current
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After ripping all the still existing bloatware from juggs . I get 15-18 hrs. On heavy use.
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Less than 12 hours on stock. With moderate usage (gaming). And 4G on and off. I only turn it on when I need it....
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12 with heavy use (3 hours of web, 1 hour of gaming, 1-2 hours of messing around in settings and market). Stock ROM, Darkside kernel. Wifi/4G radios handled by juicedefender.
According to Battery Monitor Widget, about 18 hours with the OEM standard battery, and about 20 hours with the OEM extended battery.
About 24+ hours with moderate use, about 18 with heavy use. Running the latest (2.3) Darkside ROM and kernel.
10-12 hours on moderate use
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moinsheriff said:
around 25 hrs . moderate to heavy use
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Define moderate to heavy? 4g on? What's screen on time?
Rom and kennels have drastic effects on battery life only if you're not a heavy heavy user. It doesn't really change maximum battery drain all that much.
6-7 if Im lucky under heavy use.
15+ hrs moderate use stock ROM with X kernel.

Which ICS rom has given you the best battery life?

So right now I'm on AOKP, and this and every ICS rom I've had bad battery life, I have only gotten 2 hours of screen on time, maybe 2 hours 20 min. I came from Juggernaut when I would easily get 3.5 hours of screen on time, and I even find myself charging my phone a lot more often. So just wondering which rom/kernel has given you guys the best battery life
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elflip88 said:
So right now I'm on AOKP, and this and every ICS rom I've had bad battery life, I have only gotten 2 hours of screen on time, maybe 2 hours 20 min. I came from Juggernaut when I would easily get 3.5 hours of screen on time, and I even find myself charging my phone a lot more often. So just wondering which rom/kernel has given you guys the best battery life
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On GB: Juggernaut/Synergy
On ICS so far: Telus stock v4.0.3/stock kernel
Darkside Telus 4.0.3 build has fantastic battery life for me. I get about 2% battery drain per hour (when the phone is sitting idle) and on a typical day I will still have more than 50 - 60% battery left when I go to bed. That's after the phone has been on for 15 or 16hrs with moderate use.
If I use the phone more heavily I can get over 3 hours of screen on time.
If we're talking ICS rom's, I'd say 'CM9 20120620 Unofficial' gave me great battery life. I used it for almost a week. I had BLN disabled and was very impressed with the battery life. I could make it an entire day with mod/heavy use. I've run several ICS rom's, and by far it beats them all hands down. It might not be on par with our GB rom's yet....but it's getting close. They've now removed BLN support from the kernel because of the battery drain. But I found just disabling it was enough for me.
I'm getting ready to flash nightly 6/27 with bln disabled. I'll see what kind of improvement I get, if any, with it being disabled.
elflip88 said:
So right now I'm on AOKP, and this and every ICS rom I've had bad battery life, I have only gotten 2 hours of screen on time, maybe 2 hours 20 min. I came from Juggernaut when I would easily get 3.5 hours of screen on time, and I even find myself charging my phone a lot more often. So just wondering which rom/kernel has given you guys the best battery life
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i put on darksideevolution v7 yesterday and after 10 hours i had 65% left. i did about 40 minutes on the phone, texting all day, wifi/data turned off when it wasnt being used (easy to turn on/off with the toggles)
Honestly I haven't had good battery life since I got this phone 2 months ago. I've been tinkering alot, mainly with Darkside and now AOKP with Eugene's kernel on lionheart. My wife's stock t989 gets great battery life, but I can't live in stock. It seems like I can leave my phone unused sometimes, maybe overnight, and the battery life is great (9% used in 10 hours) but as soon as I pick it up, it drops 20%. Must be that big screen. Anyway, I'm trying to get this worked out. I'm getting my preferred rom figured out and then hoping to let the battery settle into it. Always an experiment...

[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.
benji667 said:
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)

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