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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?
Thanks
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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kulzboy said:
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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I put around 6-7 hours of screen time yesterday and still had battery left. Also it looks like the radios they are using are very efficient with very little battery drain.
Nothing scientific to report, but this morning I've used 3 hours of screen time and still have 66% battery left.
Love it!
I am happy to report similar findings. 4 hours screen time and im at 30% battery with 20 hours without a charge.
I don't know why but the radio's are definitely doing better than my S3. I'm picking up Lte more often and its not jumping back and fourth either. So far showing the same as far as battery, maybe even better.
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Even with all the bloat? That's pretty great
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The Note is known for great battery life. I've seen some people even get 10hours.. I get 5 hours screen time on mines and 14-17 hours of usage
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Unbelivable battery on any phone ive come across. No wifi at all and use nothing but 3g and lil 4g to stream movies/drama at my rate im looking to get 5+ screen on time. Thats to me is unbelivable. So far 2:40 hr screen on and still have 58% left. Total time is at a lil over 7. Betterbatterystats say 6% per hour.
3 hours of heavy usage only down 10% with screen brightness halfway up. I feel like its too good to be true... someone is finally getting something right!
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Got my Note 2 yesterday and used it most of the day then charged it overnight. Used it off and on today and still sitting on 77%. So much better than my OG EVO was. Im really loving this device!
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Got my Note 2 yesterday and used it most of the day then charged it overnight. Used it off and on today and still sitting on 77%. So much better than my OG EVO was. Im really loving this device!
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Don't get me wrong OG Evo was great at the time but battery on that thing is horrendous. I have to carry a case with 4 extra batteries, lol.
Yeah I bought mine on day 1 and was trying to wait till the next nexus device came out but I sat on my evo and cracked the glass. Anyway very happy with my purchase and I've been riding this phone hard and still at 58%. I know its a 3100 ma battery which is double the evo but I never expected it to do this well on the battery. Very pleased thus far.
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Common guys show yor screenies of battery
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Common guys show yor screenies of battery
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Here you go!
Almost no wifi at all accept maybe 5 mins when I came home from work. This was all watching online flash movies, games and surfing.
This battery is definitely beast.
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i got 4 and a half hours of screen on time yesterday and that was with moderate use...hope my screen time gets better..before i got the phone i read articles about the reviewer getting 12 hours of screen time with moderate use
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i got 4 and a half hours of screen on time yesterday and that was with moderate use...hope my screen time gets better..before i got the phone i read articles about the reviewer getting 12 hours of screen time with moderate use
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I believe that. My 6hrs of screen time was me trying to put it through the ringer.
I can't wait for roms with battery tweaks. We might see 2days of screen time.
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So far I'm at 1 day 6 hours, (2 hours screen on) and I'm down to 56%. I'm really impressed, and this offsets the sourness I feel with the crippled SIM/wireless charging. Heck, who needs to even charge this thing with battery life like that!?
What really impresses me is the fact that I've been out several times today - yet the battery graph is perfectly steady. Whereas every other phone I've had immediately starts plummeting when I'm on the go and it has to switch towers, etc. I can always take one look at a graph or SystemPanel and know exactly when I was out, but not with this phone. :good:
Samsung really must have done something good with the radio in this thing.
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So far I'm at 1 day 6 hours, (2 hours screen on) and I'm down to 56%. I'm really impressed, and this offsets the sourness I feel with the crippled SIM/wireless charging. Heck, who needs to even charge this thing with battery life like that!?
What really impresses me is the fact that I've been out several times today - yet the battery graph is perfectly steady. Whereas every other phone I've had immediately starts plummeting when I'm on the go and it has to switch towers, etc. I can always take one look at a graph or SystemPanel and know exactly when I was out, but not with this phone. :good:
Samsung really must have done something good with the radio in this thing.
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Hey man good to see you. I remember you from the OG Evo days. Hope we can get this place crackin like back in the og time.
ffolkes said:
So far I'm at 1 day 6 hours, (2 hours screen on) and I'm down to 56%. I'm really impressed, and this offsets the sourness I feel with the crippled SIM/wireless charging. Heck, who needs to even charge this thing with battery life like that!?
What really impresses me is the fact that I've been out several times today - yet the battery graph is perfectly steady. Whereas every other phone I've had immediately starts plummeting when I'm on the go and it has to switch towers, etc. I can always take one look at a graph or SystemPanel and know exactly when I was out, but not with this phone. :good:
Samsung really must have done something good with the radio in this thing.
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Hey! I remember you too! Lol
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On wifi quite a bit of the time, but still very happy with the battery. Includes gmail email sync, default mail client syncing an imap account every 15 minutes, about 2 hours of podcasts and music, 20 minutes of voice calls, and other misc stuff. No video.
I picked up my Note 2 on Friday, and charged it that night. Saturday morning at 10:00am I disconnected it. I have turned off wifi and SCO so it was running on 3g all day, I decided to not charge it Saturday night to test the battery to see how long I could go without charging. I went a full 48 hours on one charge and still had 11% at 10:00am on Monday. I didn't have heavy use on it, but spent a couple hours browsing the internet and Facebook, as well as 2 hours of Draw Something off an on. Very impressed. I didn't think to take any screenshots, sorry.
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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not too bad
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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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Hey guys,
I've had my Moto 360 since Sunday evening and have been getting to grips with the device for the past few days.. I have one big problem though :/ Before buying the watch I saw EVERY review there was to see and read EVERY article there was to read to have the widest opinion about it since I would have to order it without seeing it in person. I decided to pull the trigger and buy it... It was a bit smaller and taller than I initially thought, but I like Android Wear, don't mind the lag (even though I do notice it) but the battery has shocked me a bit tbh. Everyone said that a full 12 hour day with ambient mode off is no problem and after the update it should be even better. I don't get nearly at all this batterylife. I took it off the charger today at 7:15, haven't used it as much as I wanted to at all just to see if the batterylife is acceptable and now at 4:25 ( a bit over 7 hours later) I'm at 21%. I even formated the battery prior to this( drained it completely and charged it up completely 3 times) and will do again today. I reseted the watch AND my phone yesterday so I can't tell if it helped or not. I am running software version 4.4W.1 build number KGW42R. Any ideas ? I only installed pixtocam. :crying: What are your findings with the batterylife? Thnx
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Oh and two last things: 1. Have been using with my Galaxy Nexus two days and since then with my Sony Z1 and 2. the watch takes longer to charge aswell I've noticed It takes cca 1 hour and 25 minutes to get to 100%
LAST EDIT: Down 14% in an hour and about 20 minutes.
I've been getting literally about 24 hours on one charge with the minimal watch face, and no ambient light (auto dimming on) there seems to be a correlation between watch faces and battery life. A basic face gives you more life compared to a face with many dials and info. This was only achieved after the last update. Before that I was getting about 13 hours.
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I am getting awesome battery life out of my unit. It's currently been off the charger for 19 1/2 hours and I'm at 57%. I'm also on the same build/software version as you
I get close to 30hrs with ambient off and 15 with ambient on. I'm thinking you might want to exchange for a different one. Unless its pixtocam. Did you reset the device and install no apps for a few days?
I've only had it since Sunday so I'm going to try that today and see what I get :/ But replacing it would be a real pain I'm the a** since I'm studying abroad
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Wow. I got about 8 hours of use yesterday. I like the "simple" watch face. Does anyone have any battery issues with that one ?
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I just can't see that EVER happening on my unit.... I got rid of all the apps and everything and after half an hour (which consisted of me swiping away all my cards once and checking the time like six times) and I'm down to
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Wow. I just don't see that EVER happening with my unit. I uninstalled all the apps and everything, have ysed the watch like 6 times to check the time and have dropped 6% in half an hour!!! Am totally lost, this is no where near what I hoped for
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Not pleased with 9 hour battery life
Ok, there is much variation here. I've had this for 3 days, charged to 100%...and after a 30 min commute, I'm at 75%.
I ride a motorcycle...is it possible the fitness sensor is going crazy? I had 3800 steps regsitered.
So today I turned the watch OFF and only turned it on after getting to work. It was charged to 100% before I left and it was 97% after 30 minutes...OFF! Today, after 9 hours I was down to 18% battery...I swiped maybe 10 cards, and checked the time maybe 20 times all day...no apps have been loaded other than default setup. It's build #KGW42R, ambient screen is OFF, watch face is MINIMAL.
I basically have to turn it off in the afternoon at work, otherwise it will go to 0%. I'm online now to find a charger I can keep at work.
Was expecting better...
Yeah man that sounds exactly like my situation! Apart from the fact I don't ride a bike lol Anyway I'm down 6% in an hour and a few minutes with basically zero use and about 10 time checks :/ it dies after about 8 and a half hours Thus being miles away from " all day battery life"
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You guys didn't happen to update your android wear app?
Yeah I did but I had the problems before as well
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You guys didn't happen to update your android wear app?
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I dont know about anyone else, but I've been actually having muh better battery life with the update am at 7 hours off-chrage atm and have got 53% left... Thats still probably not what I expect, but miles better than 9 hours of use
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I dont know about anyone else, but I've been actually having muh better battery life with the update am at 7 hours off-chrage atm and have got 53% left... Thats still probably not what I expect, but miles better than 9 hours of use
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Well at least your in a usable range now. But your still off. I just got 18 hours with ambient on with 5% left. Did you try no auto brightness. I usually keep mine on 2.
No I haven't tried that yet, but I want to try it tomorrow do you think it will help allot ?
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Auto-brightness kills battery?
I dunno... It would seem a bit counterproductive if u ask me....
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I can't imagine that the CPU cycles it takes to bring the display backlight to an appropriate level is anything worth mentioning. However, I'll test it out
Yeah that would be great thanks! I've actually just noticed something though... I didn't install the Moto Connect app today and have gotten better battery life. I installed it about half an hour ago and since then have dropped at least 6%... Wat up with that? Anyone else notice this?
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Fixing the brightness at 1 got me around 18 hours. Pitiful
I'll try disabling motoconnect tomorrow and then checking.
Since I'm rooted, I'm also going to check the better life with the hrm disabled
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.