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-Wifi and Bluetooth on whole time
- Tons of texting, a lot
- Over 1 hour of phone calls on Bluetooth
- Over 3 hours of A2DP streaming
- Periods of no signal (subway)
- Screen on for 2 hours
- Google Reader and Web browsing
- Used the phone as I would normally without thinking about battery at all.
Very very happy. UPDATED with recent screenshots before I plugged it in.
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Out of interest, how many times have you charged your phone (0%-100%)?
Never drained it to zero and started using it right away without charging it. Its been charged to 100 twice already. My uptime is 73 hours and that's exactly how long I've had the phone.
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Wow! I wish mine was as good as that, seems to be getting better with each charge though, which is a positive.
Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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me too OP: share your secret!
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Probably dim screen. Usually screen takes 60%-70% of the power.
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Most I have got is 12,
Hopefully this will increase over time
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Honest question, how many times are you more than 12 hours from sleeping or relaxing in your house?
12 hours is more than adequate for a normal user
This is mine after a fresh wipe and no apps installed. Just thought i`d see how it did with normal use.
Here's mine; at a point the phone got itself shut down for some reason, and I couldnt get it restarted at that moment, so I left it like that, and when I could turn it back on, it was quite warm around the camera unit, and also the battery was pretty much drained - thats what you can also see on the screenshot at the "20minutes" part of t he scale. After I've removed the battery and put it back, the phone was working for quite a while again, like 12 more hours.
I'm sure auto brightness helps as it keeps screen dim but during my use it was brighter especially outdoors. My whole point is there is no secret, you should use the phone as you would like it. One thing I could have done I'm sure to improve battery life is turn off wifi and bt when they weren't in use and possibly not have as many apps running but then what's the point in having the phone?: D
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I get around 11-13 hours. Not too impressed. My iPhone 4S gets 20 easily. I'm really conservative on my Nexus too because doing anything intensive (games, video recording, youtube etc) really rapes the battery. I'm guessing some of you turn off auto sync or something.
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I'm currently on 1 day 1 hour, with 50% left. Although with light usage.
Stretlow said:
Honest question, how many times are you more than 12 hours from sleeping or relaxing in your house?
12 hours is more than adequate for a normal user
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true, just a pain in the ass to plug in.
would be nice if it lasted 18hrs so if I can wake up, stay out late, and then plug it in when I go to bed
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true, just a pain in the ass to plug in.
would be nice if it lasted 18hrs so if I can wake up, stay out late, and then plug it in when I go to bed
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I was able to do that last night but honestly not a big deal plugging it in.
It's simple really - the more you use the phone the worse battery life is but that's because you used the phone more! I never use the phone LESS just for battery life because then you're doing yourself and the phone injustice.
43% - 14h.. screen taking up 48%
from what I can see, apart from the screen, the biggest battery hog is wifi/3g
I installed Juice Defender and I am getting fantastic battery life now:
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from what I can see, apart from the screen, the biggest battery hog is wifi/3g
I installed Juice Defender and I am getting fantastic battery life now:
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So JuiceDefender works fine for you? I just read that alot of users had problems with ICS and JD. Would be great if it worked though!
Here's mine. Since I was at work all day I only got time to play Dillo Hills for about 20 mins but I've found the battery is REALLY good after flashing the Android Revolution ROM. MoDaCo causes too much drain IMHO.
Battery life isn't too bad on mine. I got mine on the 10th and I used it right out of the box. Battery life wasn't that great until I did a charge to 100%. The OTA update didn't change much for me in regards to battery. Currently at 21h uptime and I'm at 32%.
Background: Rooted, stock rom.
- Just bought the phone on Saturday, charged it fully and played around with it on Sunday literally just moderate texting, making short calls, and taking a couple of pictures and the battery pretty much dies by 2 PM. Will the battery life improve over time?
This is with the settings tweaked to maximum battery conservation (15% screen brightness, NFC/S Beam off, No motion controls, battery savings on, the works.)
- Also, in that time the phone seemed to be fairly hot, I cannot recall the temperature, but it was hot to the touch. And when I tried downloading the OTA update from T-mobile, the bottom half of the phone (everything below the battery) became drastically hot. But the battery remained relatively cool. Is this something I should worry about?
I'd just like to know so I can exchange the phone while I still can.
I just got mine on Friday and I noticed the same issue. It seems to get hot whenever its doing something data intensive live streaming a youtube vid or downloading a app.
Thanks for the response.
I used it for about 15 minutes this morning reading a web page on Chrome and it seemed to get warm.
Also streamed HD YouTube as well as Spotify for about 15 minutes and it's still warm.
The thing is, these are the first really data-intensive things that I have done so far.
I'm going to go through a whole day just to see what happens.
Forgot to add that I even reduced my CPU through SetCPU to 1.2Ghz the since I rooted it
It's at 87% after 2h 20m 46s on battery.
With only 42m 23s of screen time.
It should calm down after a couple of charge cycles. For battery. Also make sure auto brightness, auto sync is off, gps, motIon control, voIce cmd, etc.
I dont use the battery saving feature and get great life. But I remember a few times it getting hot after a fresh flash but it always calmed down for me. Getting warm is normal, especially if on the charger while using.
Theres a lot of features I like but dont use much so for me its worth the few extra seconds to turn it on/off.
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I am having the same issues. I got acwhite one last week and it is constantly hot near the home button. I am probably gonna revert to stock and return for another. My s2 did not do this.
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It's at 87% after 2h 20m 46s on battery.
With only 42m 23s of screen time.
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13% drain for almost 45mins screen time.
Sick
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Update
So I have completed my school day.
11h 25m 45s on battery
Battery percentage is at 57%.
I barely used the phone however.
Sent about 10 texts, went on Chrome and searched the web for about 15 minutes, took 8 pictures, instagram for 3 minutes.
Also kept getting e-mails (probably like 10 of them)
I turned on Power Saving mode as well.
Screen is the highest with 1h 32m 24s using 38% on my battery.
Would this be normal on the stock T-mobile rom with no updates?
I've never had an Android phone before so I wouldn't know.
But after researching, some people managed to be at around 70% usage by the end of the day. While doing more intensive tasks.
It's probably the service when you're inside buildings. If it's bad service it'll drain your battery.. if it's constantly trying to connect 4g you're going to have a short time *insert ski instructor meme*
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I suggest you guys flash Exajoule. His ROM is insane on battery & its really fast as well.
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I had the heats issues and ot turned out to be a borked phone. I returned for a swap and the new s3 is worlds apart from the last. Less heat and better performance
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You should check to see what's consuming CPU... (long press the home button, and go into the task manager...) should see something consuming cpu...
(when my phone's warm, it's generally because something's gone psycho on cpu use...)
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You should check to see what's consuming CPU... (long press the home button, and go into the task manager...) should see something consuming cpu...
(when my phone's warm, it's generally because something's gone psycho on cpu use...)
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Or better yet in dev options turn on Show cpu Usage. In the top right corner of your screen it will show whats running.
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Teo032 said:
It's probably the service when you're inside buildings. If it's bad service it'll drain your battery.. if it's constantly trying to connect 4g you're going to have a short time *insert ski instructor meme*
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At home, I literally get 0-2 bars. But at school I can consistently get anywhere from 1-4 bars.
This could possibly be it, but I am not too sure how much my signal fluctuates throughout the school.
Britannia, troklwit
belial20xx said:
I had the heats issues and ot turned out to be a borked phone. I returned for a swap and the new s3 is worlds apart from the last. Less heat and better performance
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I had given my local T-mobile store a call and they said that smartphones should be regularly heating.
It's strange to me how I can do a task a simple as texting and it heats up though.
How long did you have the borked S3 for?
I 2nd the bad carrier coverage notion. Just as a test, I put my phone into airplane mode while watching a video. I watched the same video while out of airplane mode. The battery drained faster while on the carrier's network than not. I noticed the signal meter was at 3 bars before I played the video.
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Or better yet in dev options turn on Show cpu Usage. In the top right corner of your screen it will show whats running.
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I haven't tried that... though most of the time my phone's running cool...
Better Through Time
I decided to instal CM10 on my phone and it really did help.
I just got home from school/finished most of my day and here's the update:
63% left
9h 45m 29s on battery
1h 21m 33s screen on time
This makes me feel so much better considering that I actually used the device more today than ever before.
(HD YouTube videos, streamed Spotify, lots of internet browsing, more calls/texts.)
Even with the added usage CM10 seemed to have improved my battery life by a lot!
Not sure if I can totally attribute it to CM10 or just more charge cycles, but everything seems to be working better for me.
Thanks for all of the help!
The phone still runs hot sometimes but it has decreased over the last couple of days.
I have noticed on my phone that since installing Liquid Smooth rom has resulted in much better battery life than on the stock rom. However, ever since I have owned the phone, if i have the screen on for more than 10 minutes or so the screen gets really warm right above the home button. Anybody else experiencing this?
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I have noticed on my phone that since installing Liquid Smooth rom has resulted in much better battery life than on the stock rom. However, ever since I have owned the phone, if i have the screen on for more than 10 minutes or so the screen gets really warm right above the home button. Anybody else experiencing this?
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Same problem. I just assume that's where the processor is? It doesn't bother me. Its quite funny because the top of my screen is cold. And it doesn't get hot when I'm using it for browsing, texting, the usual. Not unless I play a game.
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trimble83 said:
I have noticed on my phone that since installing Liquid Smooth rom has resulted in much better battery life than on the stock rom. However, ever since I have owned the phone, if i have the screen on for more than 10 minutes or so the screen gets really warm right above the home button. Anybody else experiencing this?
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I'm assuming that Samsung's stock TouchWiz isn't as optimized as the ROMs that the devs make on here.
Which is a definite plus to having a device that has a strong community of developers behind it.
That happens to me as well. I have kind of gotten used to it. Just slip on a case so when you hold it your hand doesn't get sweaty and you should be fine. I would assume that's where the processor lives, but I am not too certain.
What sort of battery life are you all seeing with this years note? come from the ipad 3 where i usually saw 10-11 hours screen time and 2-3d standby, today is the first time ive had it from 100% and i only lasted 6 hours screentime with 7 hours overall on time, i still havent run it down completely yet but surely i should be getting more than this?
Its such a shame because i love it so much, but i cant deal with this short battery life
It's much better than that. I found it better after a couple of charges. I rooted mine and deleted or froze b.oatware and I get 13 hours heavy use
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What sort of battery life are you all seeing with this years note? come from the ipad 3 where i usually saw 10-11 hours screen time and 2-3d standby, today is the first time ive had it from 100% and i only lasted 6 hours screentime with 7 hours overall on time, i still havent run it down completely yet but surely i should be getting more than this?
Its such a shame because i love it so much, but i cant deal with this short battery life
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I came from an ipad 3 as well and had the same problem until I disabled several apps, turned off GPS, etc and over the long weekend I was getting ~12 hours of web surfing.
I haven't rooted yet so that should be a number that can improve. I'm sorta trying to wait for a root that doesn't trip knox. I don't want a custom rom so no reason to install a bootloader and lose my warranty if I can be patient. Tried Cydia Impactor but I had already upgraded to MK1. I'm wondering if the shipping rom (P600XXUAMIE) might have the 4.3 vulnerabilities unpatched.
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I came from an ipad 3 as well and had the same problem until I disabled several apps, turned off GPS, etc and over the long weekend I was getting ~12 hours of web surfing.
I haven't rooted yet so that should be a number that can improve. I'm sorta trying to wait for a root that doesn't trip knox. I don't want a custom rom so no reason to install a bootloader and lose my warranty if I can be patient. Tried Cydia Impactor but I had already upgraded to MK1. I'm wondering if the shipping rom (P600XXUAMIE) might have the 4.3 vulnerabilities unpatched.
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What apps did you disable and how Exactly? Thanks alot
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I've freezed all unnecessary apps and i am getting like 9 - 10 hours screen on time with 8 hours standby. Standby is great for me nearly no battery drain.
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What apps did you disable and how Exactly? Thanks alot
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I thought it was more, but looking at the list.. go to settings, General, Application Manager, select the prinstalled apps you don't want running all the time and click Turn Off. I've turned off BlurbCheckout, Businessweek+, NYTimes, Polaris Office, Screen Saver and Twitter. I think more important was turning off GPS, Screen Rotation, Bluetooth, Reading Mode, Smart Stay, Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, Auto Brightness then adjusting the screen brightness to something a bit less retina searing than the default.
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I've had mine since Saturday soooo, 5 days now. I get easily 10-11 hours of screen time. I loose about 1% per 8-9 hours in stand by and i loose about 9% per hour of video streaming from either my Netflix, HBO GO, or Slingbox account and that's with brightness about or just above 50%. I'm also NOT rooted yet. Totally stock with just certain apps turned off and i restrict a lot of the background data on individual apps that i don't need running background data
Have you guys try using this damn thing at 100% while indoors? It hurts the eyes with a white screen.
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I've had mine since Saturday soooo, 5 days now. I get easily 10-11 hours of screen time. I loose about 1% per 8-9 hours in stand by and i loose about 9% per hour of video streaming from either my Netflix, HBO GO, or Slingbox account and that's with brightness about or just above 50%. I'm also NOT rooted yet. Totally stock with just certain apps turned off and i restrict a lot of the background data on individual apps that i don't need running background data
Have you guys try using this damn thing at 100% while indoors? It hurts the eyes with a white screen.
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What apps did you disable in the background? Would love to get battery like that
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arty93 said:
What apps did you disable in the background? Would love to get battery like that
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Hmm, I think I misspoke about the background data on this tablet. I do that religious with my phones (Bionic, GS4) but I went to look at what i did and there is no option to turn off background data. I would normally go to settings>data usage and tap whatever app and the check "restrict background data". I must have thought I did that on this tablet but obviously not.
i think the battery life is great on my tablet - i dont game with it - today it has been running for 13 hours 48 minutes with 5 hours and 48 minutes of screen on time and battery is at 52% - not rooted yet - i have everything i dont use turned off ( ie. smart stay/scroll, air view ) and running nova laucher prime and dont use power savings mode
Face it - it's nowhere near ipads. That's my biggest concern.
It lasts the day, charge it at night, what's the problem, as long as it lasts all day there's nothing to worry about
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And actually review Vs the two say ipad has about an hour more battery life, not night and day
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Face it - it's nowhere near ipads. That's my biggest concern.
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I dunno, doing pretty good over here. Rooted, but have no froze anything. Only rooted to get gameCIH installed screen is between 25% and 50% brightness depending on what im doing or where i am. I mostly just use it for playing a few games here and there, taking notes during lectures.. etc. This is about typical, sometimes I get a little less, screen brightness seems to play a huge role in battery drain (obviously) but ive never run it dead during the day.. ever. I start every day with 100% charge and dont usually plug it in till I go to bed. If I have a charger around and im not doing anything ill plug it in (I mean.. why not) but I don't ever have to "worry" about it going dead on me.
I'm currently on 9 hours of battery time, probably at least 4-5 hours of that is screen on time reading comics or doing sketchbook pro pictures.
Battery is on 46%.
So yeh, battery is fine. Brightness is about 30%.
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Face it - it's nowhere near ipads. That's my biggest concern.
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Right... It's better then an IPad. I doubt the IPads beat 11-12 hours of screen time at roughly 50% brightness and an IPad has a smaller screen and less pixels to power.
freeze those mofos
I use app quarantine...
theres a dude that posted all the system apps u can freeze
and I followed his suggestions
cant find his post
when I do I will update this one...
Hi all, I just bought this tablet, I have not turn it on yet...
Do I have to charge the device fully before turning on like some cell phones are?! or I can just start using it right away?!
and what kind of battery it does?! how's the charging process?! should I wait for it to be fully discharged, and then charge it to 100 percent?! or should I keep it between 40 to 80 percent to save the battery life...
in a nut shell, if you have any forum or link or information that could help, please share
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Hi all, I just bought this tablet, I have not turn it on yet...
Do I have to charge the device fully before turning on like some cell phones are?! or I can just start using it right away?!
and what kind of battery it does?! how's the charging process?! should I wait for it to be fully discharged, and then charge it to 100 percent?! or should I keep it between 40 to 80 percent to save the battery life...
in a nut shell, if you have any forum or link or information that could help, please share
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Dude, just turn it on and use it. The days of cycling a batter (let it drain and then charge to full) were over in the 90's with Ni-Cad batteries.. these do not develop a memory. From dead, the tab will take 5-6 hours to charge with supplied charger and in the wall. Using it while charging will still cause it to lose battery but a a much slower rate.
All stats are without root.
Day 1 - 100% full charge 6 hour battery life.
Day 1 - updated with OTA - approx 7 hour battery life @100%
Day 2 - full software update with Samsung switch utility
Day 2 - Battery 11 hours light usage messaging a few fast calls and in stand by while I was at the hospital for my shift. Recharged while making dinner to 100%
Day 3 - ! Missed Shift ! 1 hour late to work. The phone was in standby for 7 hours and drained out. My alarm didn't go off to wake me up.
Day 4 - returning this POS to the TMO store in 15 minutes.
Back to my nexus 6
And yes my fingers print scanner does not work either or if it does it takes multiple attempts
Yeah no doubt some serious battery issues as has been well noted. Mine was 85% after multiple daytime charges at 3pm and at 7pm it was at 9%. I was barely able to get an Uber and was down to 2% when I got home. I was in a very strong signal area those few hours. Pretty close to returning mine as well.
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All stats are without root.
Day 1 - 100% full charge 6 hour battery life.
Day 1 - updated with OTA - approx 7 hour battery life @100%
Day 2 - full software update with Samsung switch utility
Day 2 - Battery 11 hours light usage messaging a few fast calls and in stand by while I was at the hospital for my shift. Recharged while making dinner to 100%
Day 3 - ! Missed Shift ! 1 hour late to work. The phone was in standby for 7 hours and drained out. My alarm didn't go off to wake me up.
Day 4 - returning this POS to the TMO store in 15 minutes.
Back to my nexus 6
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Never depend on a phone to be your primary clock alarm or camera for that matter. Anything can happen, even with devices with the best hardware and software.
Sorry you're having these issues with your device. There are ways to improve the battery life on the device but if it's causing you this much distress, by all means, you should get something else. I hope you find something more suitable to your needs.
I'm rooted. After 2.5 hours, my phone is at 98% after a full charge. There are also unrooted solutions to the battery drain issue.
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Yeah no doubt some serious battery issues as has been well noted. Mine was 85% after multiple daytime charges at 3pm and at 7pm it was at 9%. I was barely able to get an Uber and was down to 2% when I got home. I was in a very strong signal area those few hours. Pretty close to returning mine as well.
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Have you tried to investigate what app or apps might be draining your battery?
I actually exchanged mine. Because I like the device hoping it was just my device. The new device has issues too. Finger print scanner fais 4/5 times
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Never depend on a phone to be your primary clock alarm or camera for that matter. Anything can happen, even with devices with the best hardware and software.
Sorry you're having these issues with your device. There are ways to improve the battery life on the device but if it's causing you this much distress, by all means, you should get something else. I hope you find something more suitable to your needs.
I'm rooted. After 2.5 hours, my phone is at 98% after a full charge. There are also unrooted solutions to the battery drain issue.
Have you tried to investigate what app or apps might be draining your battery?
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Yes I have. Tried the cache wipe, etc. I did a hard reset last night as a last resort. Will see how it does today.
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Yes I have. Tried the cache wipe, etc. I did a hard reset last night as a last resort. Will see how it does today.
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Since I've been using Android devices, it seems I've always had some sort of battery drain issue. I've always been able to track down the culprit(s).
Preroot, my S6 Edge had decent battery life. No serious drain from what I could see. Post root, the drainage was literally 10% an hour and the device ran warm to hot on standby. The various fixes mentioned in this forum helped immensely and now I'm getting excellent battery life. Honestly speaking, I was on the verge of returning this device myself prior to finding solutions. I hope you all find one that works. If not, I hope you find a device that works better for you.
Fingerprint works excellent with my edge phone charges in roughly in an hour more and less.
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I actually exchanged mine. Because I like the device hoping it was just my device. The new device has issues too. Finger print scanner fais 4/5 times
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The fingerprint scanner is more finicky than the one on the iphone and you have to be careful to cover the button with your thumb. The top part of the thumb is a no go where that worked fine on ip6. It seems to need more proper alignment to register.
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I actually exchanged mine. Because I like the device hoping it was just my device. The new device has issues too. Finger print scanner fais 4/5 times
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The fingerprint scanner is more finicky than the one on the iphone and you have to be careful to cover the button with your thumb. The top part of the thumb is a no go where that worked fine on ip6. It seems to need more proper alignment to register.
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I'm not having issues with the finger print scanner either. Are you going into the Fingerprint Management options to try several finger print reads? I have four different fingerprint profiles and many different finger positions registered on the device. So my fingerprint scans rarely fail.
It has taken me 2 weeks to get great battery life out of mine. Today I'm at 14hrs on with 3hrs sot and 35% battery left. I did the smart switch thing on xda we're it takes your phone back to stock and puts the latest firmware in it. I've got to say in extremely happy with it now. And my finger print works 90% of the time so I'm good there to. I came from the nexus 6 also and it's actually the same battery life I was getting on it now.
I would try that method. But give it time. It was about 4 days after doing the smart switch before the great battery life came into effect.
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I have excellent results with the fingerprint scanner... I would say better than 95%
I too went with for fingerprint profiles... Both thumbs and both index fingers
ok so at first battery horrible i cycled it it 0% and recharged 1st test 6.5 hrs of standby i lost 23% i thought it was decent but way more than I'm use to.. fingerprint i can say works 99% of the time.. i did the samsung push update which help a little with battery
I'm going to just wait it out to root/rom for a few weeks until more testing has been done. It's surprisingly lean in it's stock experience.
So far very impressed with this rendition of touch wiz. Seems like most of the major lag issues have been resolved and they've added a bit of material design to the UI.
Only 2 issues I'm noticing this far is my S5 got better battery life than this device, and my S5 and wife's note 4 are both nearly twice as bright on high brightness
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Lol... Op cracked me up, hell...if it's gonna cost me this much I'd rather buy iPhone 7 plus.
Hey you guys,
I charged my phone to 100%, unplugged the cable and went to bed at 3:00am in the morning, when I woke up at 7:00a, the battery went down to 94%.
I looked at the battery usage, there was no Screen usage listed -even though I have the Night clock on-, and the Android System took the cake at 36% followed by Android OS at 14%, the rest of them were small numbers.
I have disabled bunch of packages through EZ Disabler, I have my screen on Auto and the slider is at 30%. I have all the Edge functions off. I do have Always On enabled but I have it disabled at night through the morning.
Now after a minimum browsing, looking through the settings, trying to figure out what's going on, the battery is at 82%, 14% drop in an hour or so.
I came from an iPhone 6 Plus, I've never heard a battery drop 6% on idle within 4 hours time. That's just crazy.
A few questions I have:
01. Is my battery defective?
02. When you Force Stop an application, will it auto start after you restart?
Thank you
A drain of 6% with the night clock on looks totally fine to me. Mine does the same as well. I also had alm the bloat wares disabled earlier, then I re-enabled them since the battery life dropped again. Things seems to settling in for me now. Can go a fill day with around 4.5hrs of screen on time.
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Thanks for the respond Amith007
I expect some battery consumption when the screen is used for the Night clock, but is 6% drop within 4 hours time normal? Maybe it is? I don't have experience with an Android device before.
I'm going to test it out tonight without the Night clock to see if I still get the drain or not.
I don't know what burnt it though, was it from the screen or from the app itself, because I don't see Screen usage under the battery usage.
From what i read, the always on screen feature isn't supposed to consume more than 1% per hour. Mine also seems to eat more battery than that though.
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so leave it on the charger at night
TywinnLannister said:
Thanks for the respond Amith007
I expect some battery consumption when the screen is used for the Night clock, but is 6% drop within 4 hours time normal? Maybe it is? I don't have experience with an Android device before.
I'm going to test it out tonight without the Night clock to see if I still get the drain or not.
I don't know what burnt it though, was it from the screen or from the app itself, because I don't see Screen usage under the battery usage.
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I belive you will still see some drain even with the night clock turned off. It's mainly due to the app or service running in the background. I see a drain of 5 to 6% over a period of 7hrs while I sleep. You can out the apps to sleep manually from the Battery menu if you are extremely concerned about it.
The overall battery life is not so good for me after switching to Note 7 from Nexus 6P. However the quick charge sort of solves the problem for me. The charging is extremely fast when compared to my iPhone 6Plus. So I stopped bothering too much about it . I guess it's good if you can make it a day with almost 4.5hrs of screen on time.
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It seems normal to me. That being said, Samsung does have more bloatware and even if you disabled a lot of things, there might still be background processes that are using up battery.
Also, if you haven't already, set screen brightness at auto if you don't want a super bright always on display at night
Thanks all. Sounds like it's the norm then.
A little bit of disappointment to be honest, but I guess I just need to get used to it. It feels like the same experience I had to go through when switching from iPhone 4 to a Windows Phone years ago, but eventually I managed. Plenty of promising features this Note 7 has, too bad if I have to turn off a lot of them for the sake of the battery.
@ParishM
The reason why I left it uncharged is to test out the drain.
A quick question:
I know this just came out last week, but do you guys use a portable battery that you would like to recommend that is optimal for USB type C?
I belive there is an official 3100 battery pack case from Samsung if you wish to charge while on the run
http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-note7/accessories/
There are several Type C quick charge battery packs on amazon which you can look at. I am sure reading the reviews will be a good idea. I can't speak for one as I have never used one so far.
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@amith007
Thanks for the Samsung recommendation, I will take a look at that.
The Amazon review, I'm sure they can be trusted, but I'd prefer a recommendation from this community better. Plenty of the reviews are based on a free product they receive in return for their "honest and unbias' review, I don't know whether to trust them or not.
Lol, those honest and unbiased reviews in exchange of free product are very trustworthy