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Battery draining fast

My T-Mobile note 2 battery is draining extremely fast its NOT rooted. So I don't understand why isn't draining so fast someone please help. And if anyone is having this same problem how did you fix it without getting a replacement device.
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See if anything in the Better Battery Stats thread will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809&nocache=1
That will at least allow you to see what's doing it.

I will thanks
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Check the battery stats for "gpsd". Mine started draining after updating to 4.1.2. It appears (for me at least) that the Samsung "find-your-phone-if someone-steels-it" was behaving badly.
If this is the case for you. Switch the service/function of and notify Samsung.

How many hours do you get when your battery is draining fast?

My stock phone started to drain fast as well. Within 6 hours unplugged I see myself having only 60 percent remaining with barely an hour screen on time. I tried to narrow it down to a rogue app but it seems the OTA was more plausable and easier to blame lol
Now back to using Jedi again.
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Dmwitz said:
the Samsung "find-your-phone-if someone-steels-it" was behaving badly.
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What app is that? I was not aware of that feature.

slybarman said:
What app is that? I was not aware of that feature.
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It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do

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It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
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Are you sure Dive and the remote control functions are supported on our phone?

My phone isn't rooted. And Im new too this so I'm a little bit lost on what to do. Before that T-Mobile update I would get 24hrs+ but I'm lucky enough too get 8hrs and that's without heavy use
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tabashir said:
It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
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That's only for international version like N7100... US don't get that feature on T889.
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zen0s said:
That's only for international version like N7100... US don't get that feature on T889.
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Thats what I thought.
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Same here. Hope it can get fixed soon
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Because you have Some 'crap ware app like faabook runni ng
its notorious for drain.
See what ywve got running In the background and that where the answer will be
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janjannsen99 said:
Because you have Some 'crap ware app like faabook runni ng
its notorious for drain.
See what ywve got running In the background and that where the answer will be
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That's not it ever since this multiwindow update battery life has diminished. I can't figure it out. Like right now all I did is a little bit of fb twitter Tapatalk gps music and thats it and its at 38% unplugged since 6 hrs and on screen time is 2 hrs.
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I turned off the multi window under settings cause I rarely use it and ive been unplugged for 9 hrs and have 56% left I also am syncing manually. Hopefully this will help
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Yea multi view does seem to contribute to see extra drain. But as I see it my phone lasts all day no matter what I do to it. I've never EVER had to say...dang where's my charger. Not with this phone. It's perfect for me . I use it HEAVILY
I trade commodities so I'm constantly on the Internet and syncing prices all day long. I don't use wifi. Ever
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janjannsen99 said:
Yea multi view does seem to contribute to see extra drain. But as I see it my phone lasts all day no matter what I do to it. I've never EVER had to say...dang where's my charger. Not with this phone. It's perfect for me . I use it HEAVILY
I trade commodities so I'm constantly on the Internet and syncing prices all day long. I don't use wifi. Ever
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I don't use mult window just to sgow off to my friends I ise my phone moderately and can get 8 hrs max 4, 5, or 6 with heavy use r u stock?
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G Pro loosing Data every 2 days

My G Pro looses data every two days or so. Wither im on wifi or 4g. I have to do a quick airplane mode on and off to get it back to work. The G Pro still shows the data as being there but dont work. Meaning it shows the 4g icon or wifi icon. WHat could cause this? I dont notice it all the time and I loose emails and stuff until I toggle the airplane mode.

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My G Pro looses data every two days or so. Wither im on wifi or 4g. I have to do a quick airplane mode on and off to get it back to work. The G Pro still shows the data as being there but dont work. Meaning it shows the 4g icon or wifi icon. WHat could cause this? I dont notice it all the time and I loose emails and stuff until I toggle the airplane mode.
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Unlocked or on at&t?
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Unlocked or on at&t?
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At&t

Are you currently rooted? If so what a apps do you have that are root related? Does it happen randomly? Are you at home, or in a specific area when it happens?
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lessthanzach said:
Unlocked or on at&t?
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Jammol said:
Are you currently rooted? If so what a apps do you have that are root related? Does it happen randomly? Are you at home, or in a specific area when it happens?
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Yes in rooted. Root Explorer. Titaniam back up. That's it for rooted apps. It's were ever.

Hmm, I've seen people back in the infuse threads have issues similar to these just because TB is installed. I have not personally experienced this issue.
Question...
Have you disabled any apps?
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Jammol said:
Hmm, I've seen people back in the infuse threads have issues similar to these just because TB is installed. I have not personally experienced this issue.
Question...
Have you disabled any apps?
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Yes all of the att bloatware. I removed some with root Explorer as well.

Did you just disable them or removed them completely? I'm wondering if there might have been something crucial that was removed. Wish we had a way to return to stock.
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Did you just disable them or removed them completely? I'm wondering if there might have been something crucial that was removed. Wish we had a way to return to stock.
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I only removed like 3 and the rest I froze or disabled.

Try returning your phone to stock as much as possible by undoing what you did. Even do a factory reset and use the phone without changing anything.
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I have the same prob but I'm not rooted or any thing. at&t support supposed to call me tomorrow to try and fix it.

gage0727 said:
I have the same prob but I'm not rooted or any thing. at&t support supposed to call me tomorrow to try and fix it.
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Well then bam. Its either a ROM issue or a hardware issue. Modem anyone?!
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My WiFi was shutting off randomly and turning back on after a minute or so. Just exchanged my phone and haven't seen it again yet. Never had any data issues though.
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The worse thing is it still shows I'm in 4g or wifi but data stops working. Thats what makes it suck. At least if it didnt have the icons I could tell faster and do a quick toggle of airplane mode.

idle0095 said:
The worse thing is it still shows I'm in 4g or wifi but data stops working. Thats what makes it suck. At least if it didnt have the icons I could tell faster and do a quick toggle of airplane mode.
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Swap that bad boy out then.
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Yeah I definitely suggest swapping it too. Hopefully mine doesn't have any these issues.
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i have 4 full bars of lte where i live. my htc one got maybe 1 or 2 bars. lg radios are kick ass.

k an update i ended up returning my phone and getting the Samsung s4. reason being i found out the lg dose not have a very good radio for rural areas. i found that it only has like two freq. for 3g and 2 for 2g. maybe with a rooted phone you can change out the radio from another phone or something. But an un-rooted phone it sucks. I really liked the phone too because nice big screeen and every thing.
Oh and the s4 blew the lg out of the water as far as signal and everything. I had an htc inspire before and had to mod my antenna in order to make phone calls from my basement. i was able to do the same with the s4 with out doing any thing too it.

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I haven't narrowed it down to an exact interval of time but I've seen this a number of times as well. I half wondered if it was because of the WiFi tethering changes I made as it was not happening prior to that change. It's only been the last few days...

gage0727 said:
I have the same prob but I'm not rooted or any thing. at&t support supposed to call me tomorrow to try and fix it.
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Any word from ATT on this?

[Q] Is it possible to revert back to 4.3?

This KitKat update is complete crap, it's ruined a number of things on my device and added NOTHING. A week ago I was 100% satisfied with my Note 3, I could keep it forever on 4.3. Is it possible to go back? I'm stock, not-rooted.

If you took the ota, then no.
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I took it OTA, it gave me no choice. I kept postponing the installation and then it eventually forced me to reboot my phone and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

Jfree3000 said:
If you took the ota, then no.
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Even if you use Odin to flash the 4.3 rom?
EDIT: yeah, according to a few posts in this thread -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671167&page=5 it appears nope.

Yeah I found out the hard way and tripped my knox trying to go back. ...I hear you I loved my phone way better before. .. Now I feel like I have a hd2 with all the bugs lol
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I honestly feel like buying another phone after updating to kitkat. I absolutely hate it. I can't wait until all the bugs are worked out so I can have a functional (for me) phone
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Nellyinda803 said:
I honestly feel like buying another phone after updating to kitkat. I absolutely hate it. I can't wait until all the bugs are worked out so I can have a functional (for me) phone
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My battery life has literally been cut in HALF. And that's just the beginning of the issue. Complete crap.

hfuizo said:
My battery life has literally been cut in HALF. And that's just the beginning of the issue. Complete crap.
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Mine too. Normally my battery would be at 80% right now. Now it's at 35 after only 5 hours of being off the charger. With screen on time of 1 hour. Somebody help us
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After rooting my phone I found that the cpu min frequency was locking up at 1.95...And that is what is killing your battery... If you reboot it goes back
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I just switched to T Mo last week and got a new Note 3 and being stupid, I went for Kit Kat update right away, now after two Note 3's, i'm still having a shiaty time with my new phone, especially the battery life. This really, and utterly sucks!! can't even go back to 4.3 no matter what unless I exchange phone a 3rd time!!

djtheraven said:
After rooting my phone I found that the cpu min frequency was locking up at 1.95...And that is what is killing your battery... If you reboot it goes back
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It goes back to what? To normal?

hfuizo said:
It goes back to what? To normal?
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I've noticed a lot of different things with the processor. After on for a little while randomly some of the CPUs will activate did not sleep, normally cpu0 stays on all the time but cpu1-3 turn off to save battery, and at the same time the minimum frequency would get stuck at 1.95... When you reboot everything would reset back to the minimum of 300 mhz and the CPUs would sleep as normal
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Really glad I stayed on 4.3 after hearing a lot of these horror stories mentioned in several threads. I had no intention of taking the OTA or Odin anyways just because I read a couple weeks before on a site that kitkat 4.4.2 was messing with how it handles the external sdcard and apps.
There's mixed reports of good/bad battery life on 4.4.2 and if the new bootloader really makes a difference yet, all I can say to those that did jump the gun or didn't know any better is things will get better as devs iron out the bugs and create custom kernels/roms to help you guys out. Does it suck waiting for all this.. hell yes it does but we have all been there before and just know you are in the right place here at XDA because these devs and members are here to help us all out thru hard times.
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[Q] Vibration suddenly doesn't work

Yesterday I noticed my Haptic feedback wasn't working. I tried ticking every setting and seeing if I could find what turned it off. Doesn't work when I receive a text, a call, or even when the alarm goes off. So I downloaded a vibrator app and it doesn't work. Suggestions? Halp?
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ArtificialMusik said:
Yesterday I noticed my Haptic feedback wasn't working. I tried ticking every setting and seeing if I could find what turned it off. Doesn't work when I receive a text, a call, or even when the alarm goes off. So I downloaded a vibrator app and it doesn't work. Suggestions? Halp?
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+1 I've been having the same issue. Running ViperOne At&t with ElementalX.

I'm on ViperOne 1.8 but stock kernel.
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ArtificialMusik said:
I'm on ViperOne 1.8 but stock kernel.
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Hmm so it's not a kernel issue then. Even when I boot up the phone there's no vibration that usually indicates the boot up. Even in TWRP I don't get any feedback when selecting options. Faulty motor?

Do you have quiet hours turned on I've seen it keep haptic off even if its not the specified hours
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I don't use quite hours.
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OK but just check its not turned off in quiet hours as it can affect it even if your not using it
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Checked it out and it's been off this whole time. Even in Recovery Mode it doesn't vibrate as normally. Will try installing a new rom today.

jeffalamillo7 said:
Hmm so it's not a kernel issue then. Even when I boot up the phone there's no vibration that usually indicates the boot up. Even in TWRP I don't get any feedback when selecting options. Faulty motor?
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How long as your issue been going on? Where did you get your device? I'm wondering if it was a production issue.

ArtificialMusik said:
How long as your issue been going on? Where did you get your device? I'm wondering if it was a production issue.
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I got my device from an At&t authorized seller about a month or so ago. The feedback occasionally does come back for a few seconds before dying off again. Very odd. I haven't tried flashing a new rom but I did a factory reset yielding no results.

Guess I'm gonna need to take the HTC advantage.
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Did you ever flash a new Rom?

No I just made a back up and noticed it wasn't working on twrp.
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Hmm I'll try flashing another ROM today and if that doesn't work, I'll have to unroot, which is totes lame.

I installed PA Alpha 1 with Furance OC kernel. Bought the Faux Clock app so I can **** with the kernel settings and no go. Looks like I gotta look into making my device look completely stock and get it sent into HTC..
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ArtificialMusik said:
I installed PA Alpha 1 with Furance OC kernel. Bought the Faux Clock app so I can **** with the kernel settings and no go. Looks like I gotta look into making my device look completely stock and get it sent into HTC..
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Oh wow. So it seems its a hardware issue. Oh well guess only option is to unroot.

Yeah. Im gonna get a warranty replacement from Att tomorrow or Tuesday. Oh well. New phone? Just wish I could get the sexy red one. Lmao
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ArtificialMusik said:
Yeah. Im gonna get a warranty replacement from Att tomorrow or Tuesday. Oh well. New phone? Just wish I could get the sexy red one. Lmao
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LOL just that unrooting seems like a bit of a tedious process. And I don't really have access to a windows pc, since the program is a windows one. Oh well, I'm just wondering if this is a common occurrence amongst other M8 owners or just happenstance.

Well. You can just take it to the warranty department. My only thing I think they would trip about is the red text screen. I'm gonna s off and fix that tomorrow.
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My M8 hasn't had this issue...
However, the LG G2 I had a few months back did. It worked great one day, and had no vibration the next.
I wonder if smartphone companies are just buying cheap vibration motors nowadays to save cost, and the cheap motors blow out easy or defect often.

Note 3 won't charge unless rebooted.

Since last week my Note 3 won't charge unless I reboot it with the charger on. I brought a new charge port, switched roms, went back to stock and nothing. Any idea what it could be? Thanks in advance.
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Bad USB cable? Does it work for transferring data?
Frank

Tried around 10 cables and a few wall chargers including original ones. With Tweaked I was getting "Dock is connected" With Hyperdrive I get "Battery charged" Always happens unless I insert the usb cable at reboot.
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I had similar problem with an SM-N900V which I documented somewhere in one of the SM-N900V forums. I did not discover your trick to make it work so I swapped the battery with my newer SM-N900T. The battery fully charged in that device and has been normal ever since in both devices. The problem was caused by getting wet and I think the different device reset something in the battery.
Frank

I was thinking about the battery. Brought a new one online to see if that would do something as soon as it arrives. Thanks for the information. Will give it a try with a friend.
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After re-reading this thread I recall that I have a similar problem with my Note (SGH-I717). This is probably not your problem but I'll describe it just to add information to this thread.
If the Note (SGH-I717) is off and I plug in power it turns on but does not charge. The solution is to turn on the device and wait until the first graphic image has passed before plugging in external power.
Frank

OverLordZuca said:
I was thinking about the battery. Brought a new one online to see if that would do something as soon as it arrives. Thanks for the information. Will give it a try with a friend.
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Did this problem get solved?
Frank

Not at all. It wasn't the battery either. I have no idea what else to try. Bootloader? Knox tripping? I really don't know.
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You flashed a kernel that was either bad download or did not flash right. You need to odin back to stock not flash a stock rom. Have to odin back to clear all the wacky stuff.
BAD ASS NOTE 4