Hi folks, I'm considering buying a used Note 2, but I've read that the 4.3 update has had a negative effect on battery life. Has there been an update since 4.3 which has rectified the problem?
Anyone have an answer to this? I'd like to make a decision ASAP. :good:
UKseagull said:
Hi folks, I'm considering buying a used Note 2, but I've read that the 4.3 update has had a negative effect on battery life. Has there been an update since 4.3 which has rectified the problem?
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I have used many different custom roms of JB and now KK. By freezing unused apps and hibernating user apps, I get a good battery life.
There are other factors you may need to consider, like the age of the phone since battery degrades through time.
I hope others can provide their opinion, goodluck.
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Hi guys.
Just received the ZeroLemon battery for my s3, and I'm wondering what's the best way to optimise my experience with the battery?
I will follow all the instructions that came with the battery, but want a bit more advise.
My Phone runs on the stock os, since I have been too worried about rooting it, out of fear of bricking the phone. However I notice a lot of people saying they use custom roms on their phones, etc etc. Does this help optimise the battery life, and will rooting my phone and adding a rom provide more battery time for the zerolemon? Or am I fine leaving my phone as it is ?
ProdigyRep said:
Hi guys.
Just received the ZeroLemon battery for my s3, and I'm wondering what's the best way to optimise my experience with the battery?
I will follow all the instructions that came with the battery, but want a bit more advise.
My Phone runs on the stock os, since I have been too worried about rooting it, out of fear of bricking the phone. However I notice a lot of people saying they use custom roms on their phones, etc etc. Does this help optimise the battery life, and will rooting my phone and adding a rom provide more battery time for the zerolemon? Or am I fine leaving my phone as it is ?
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Pretty sure you can get over 3 days depending on your use with the battery while stock non rooted. Just try it out for a week or two and if you're not impressed with the results try rooting and flashing a debloated stock ROM
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ProdigyRep said:
Hi guys.
Just received the ZeroLemon battery for my s3, and I'm wondering what's the best way to optimise my experience with the battery?
I will follow all the instructions that came with the battery, but want a bit more advise.
My Phone runs on the stock os, since I have been too worried about rooting it, out of fear of bricking the phone. However I notice a lot of people saying they use custom roms on their phones, etc etc. Does this help optimise the battery life, and will rooting my phone and adding a rom provide more battery time for the zerolemon? Or am I fine leaving my phone as it is ?
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Yes, an AOSP rom can REALLY make a difference as opposed to stock TouchWiz
Thanks for the responses guys. Will see how it goes on the stock non rooted and if not will come back here for more advise...
Hi all,
I am new here so I hope this is the correct place for this question.
I ordered the Z1c and expect it to be delivered any moment, I already went to most threads regarding KitKat on the Z1c.
For me, battery life is the main reason why I choose this phone. It appears that updating the firmware of Z1c to the current KitKat version results in a big loss in battery life (and apparently also quite some bugs). Of course, I would like to update but I am in doubt if the advantages of going to Kitkat makes up for the loss in battery life.
In that respect, I have the following questions:
- How bigg is the loss in battery life if I update to the current version (757 in Begium I think)?
- Which official build number of Kitkat has the best battery life?
- What are the main advantages of updating to KitKat?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Dries
I'm on 757 firmware and I don't notice any big difference between KitKat and JellyBean battery life. I also didn't notice any bugs yet. However I am not constantly using my phone and usually get a bit more than 2 days of battery life.
I agree. There is a slight difference between 4.3 and 4.4, but it's not big. Most people won't even notice that. So I wouldn't worry about updating to 4.4.
Hi Zxz, Martan,
All questions evaporated with arrival of the phone: it came with KitKat 4.4.2 build 757 installed on it so keeping Jelly Bean is simply not an option.
Battery life seems very acceptable: I used about 25% toying with the phone, checking e-mail and downloading updates for some apps using WiFi yesterday evening. Over night, it lost only a few % in Stamina-mode including waking me up twice.
All in all, very happy with this phone. Runs very smooth and up to now, no bugs encountered. I expect to get several days out of it on a single charge and that was the aim from the start.
thanks for your replies
Dries
Hi everyone. I've just gotten the lollipop ota update on my Rogers One m8. I've been wondering, how good is the battery life for the m8 on 5.0.1? Is it worse than 4.4.4 or better? This will determine whether I update or not. Thanks!
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Hi everyone. I've just gotten the lollipop ota update on my Rogers One m8. I've been wondering, how good is the battery life for the m8 on 5.0.1? Is it worse than 4.4.4 or better? This will determine whether I update or not. Thanks!
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Just upgraded to Lollipop yesterday, and I haven't used it long enough to tell. However, my M8 also has the issue of GPS turning on EVERY freaking time it unlocks. Extremely annoying and can't be good for the battery life.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2ozg20/gps_turns_on_for_split_second_every_time_i_unlock/
For me battery is same or better than 4.4.4
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I'd say, its alteast 20-25% better than what kitkat offered.
hamud.q said:
For me battery is same or better than 4.4.4
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How does it convert into screen on time? I'm on 4.4.4, and its not as good as it had been when I bought the phone
Hey guys, I'm planning to buy this beast but I'm coming from an LG g2 and I'm a bit worried about battery life, I know HTC is really optimized and stuffs, but could you guys post a few screens?
Thanks.
Arjomer said:
Hey guys, I'm planning to buy this beast but I'm coming from an LG g2 and I'm a bit worried about battery life, I know HTC is really optimized and stuffs, but could you guys post a few screens?
Thanks.
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Screens of what?
knightnz said:
Screens of what?
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Battery life on lollipop.
Arjomer said:
Hey guys, I'm planning to buy this beast but I'm coming from an LG g2 and I'm a bit worried about battery life, I know HTC is really optimized and stuffs, but could you guys post a few screens?
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There already a thread in the M8 General section, where battery life is discussed ad nauseum, with screenshots galore. I think that thread has all you want, and more.
Battery life is really subjective. It depends a lot on your specific usage patterns, and local cell reception. You mileage can (and will) vary from that reported by other users. So IMO discussion of battery life is fairly pointless.
I agree that battery life is subjective. However, it might be useful to relate that subjective perception. In my case, right after the update, I felt that the battery life was much worse and the device in general became laggy. Since then I did two factory resets and now the battery life is OK, although I still did not reinstall Facebook, which many people claim is a big battery eater on Lollipop. The responsiveness of the device has also improved after the second reset. Somehow during the second reset the nu player got selected and after I disabled it in the developers options the device is running well. Strange that happened like this.
But even with these recent improvements, I still don't see the point in the update. if I could go back in time with what I know now, I would not update. Kit Kat worked well and Lollipop did not bring any significant improvements.
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I agree that battery life is subjective. However, it might be useful to relate that subjective perception. In my case, right after the update, I felt that the battery life was much worse and the device in general became laggy. Since then I did two factory resets and now the battery life is OK, although I still did not reinstall Facebook, which many people claim is a big battery eater on Lollipop.
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And I've been running Lollipop with Facebook, and battery life is great, and very similar to KitKat. No lag like others report, and while the update is not much of a change, there are some new features, and certainly nothing is "worse".
A very different (even conflicting) experience, and there you start to see where discussions on battery life aren't very useful.
There is already a massive discussion in General HERE
It makes absolute sense to continue there..
Hey guys,
I wanna stay on stock Rom (without root) and I'm running now kitkat 4.4.4
Do I go for update or do I stay on kitkat? (Will performancmce be reduced and will battery llife be worst on 5.0.1?)
93boba said:
Hey guys,
I wanna stay on stock Rom (without root) and I'm running now kitkat 4.4.4
Do I go for update or do I stay on kitkat? (Will performancmce be reduced and will battery llife be worst on 5.0.1?)
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First of all, I would update. I'm enjoying Lolly myself. No performance problems, and batter life is as good or maybe better that Kit-Kat.
Second of all, What carrier/version are you running? If you have the OTA downloaded and not installed yet, it could be valuable to other users.
It's eu version. I heard that lot of users complain about lollipop battery drain...
that's why have I concerned
93boba said:
It's eu version. I heard that lot of users complain about lollipop battery drain...
that's why have I concerned
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The problem with lollipop is that the kernel and system eat a lot of battery, or at least more than on kitkat. If battery life is your concern, I personally would not recommend going on lollipop till 5.1 hits and see if it's fixed
though how you use your phone will still make the biggest impact
That being said you can still get great battery. Usage for me never goes bellow 5 hours of screen time with games and 4g and around 7 hours without games and wifi. I could do better on kitkat but I'm satisfied. Check this thread for battery life. I enjoy lollipop though since I upgraded, but I can't wait for an update to 5.1 and better battery
93boba said:
It's eu version. I heard that lot of users complain about lollipop battery drain...
that's why have I concerned
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I have had no problems with drain, whatsoever. I'm not stock though, but on the stock kernel.
Hi,
My Galaxy Nexus 4.3, is quite slow and it has huge battery drain, even after a reset. So I was wondering to try an update to Marshmallow 6.0. Questions:
- I found many ROMS in this forum, but I have no idea which one would be the best for everyday use. Could you please recommend one of them?
- Make sense to try this update? The phone will be faster and it will consume less battery compared to 4.3?
- I have no experience in updating ROMS. Which will be the most simple procedure that I should follow in that case?
Many thanks in advance for your help!
Andygrat
Andygrat said:
Hi,
My Galaxy Nexus 4.3, is quite slow and it has huge battery drain, even after a reset. So I was wondering to try an update to Marshmallow 6.0. Questions:
- I found many ROMS in this forum, but I have no idea which one would be the best for everyday use. Could you please recommend one of them?
- Make sense to try this update? The phone will be faster and it will consume less battery compared to 4.3?
- I have no experience in updating ROMS. Which will be the most simple procedure that I should follow in that case?
Many thanks in advance for your help!
Andygrat
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lately i've been sticking to paranoid android. 4.4 though, marshmallow roms are not worth it.
Andygrat said:
Hi,
My Galaxy Nexus 4.3, is quite slow and it has huge battery drain, even after a reset. So I was wondering to try an update to Marshmallow 6.0. Questions:
- I found many ROMS in this forum, but I have no idea which one would be the best for everyday use. Could you please recommend one of them?
- Make sense to try this update? The phone will be faster and it will consume less battery compared to 4.3?
- I have no experience in updating ROMS. Which will be the most simple procedure that I should follow in that case?
Andygrat
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I can recommend this ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/development/cyanogenmod-12-beta-builds-t2958865
It has official cyanogenmod nightly status and I use it as a daily driver for my GNex. It is stable and
I experienced an increased battery drain with older CM 11 (4-5% per hour in stand-by) and Google apps package installed so I removed Google Apps completely and never went back. Battery live was up to 2,5 days with normal use and up to 6 days in stand-by.
Running with the the above ROM my GNex again can reach up to 2,5 days with my normal usage and still have about 40% of battery left.
Normally I use my my GNex for listening to mp3s and reading news sites when commuting to/from work (about 2,5 hrs/day), in addition internet research back home using WiFi, plus regular phone calls and texting.
I do not use facebook, twitter or the likes and hardly ever watch youtube on my GNex (it's more fun in front of a real screen).
For installation instructions go here: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_maguro