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[Q] major battery issues

Hi,
I've had my galaxy for about 3 weeks and I've been dealing with horrible battery issues. I can charge it to 100% and go to sleep and wake upbto fund its almost dead...I'm in a good coverage area and I dint have any apps installed except tapatalk.
I first noticed it when I flashed paranoid..and the after that it has just been crappy ..I Odin back to stock and did the ota update and I still have bad battery life
Here is the things that I've done to my phone..
Installed juice defender
Stopped all sync
Screen brightness is all the way down..but this don't matter cause the screen isn't even on
Turning off mobile data and WiFi
I have noticed that if I don't have a SIM card in then the battery last a lot longer but not all that great
I have attached so screenshots to maybe help y'all figure out something I'm not seeing
Have others had this problem ..if so what did you do?
Should i take it back to AT&T and tell em fix it,, I bought used but I have the box and all that
Bad battery?

battery
5-6 hrs seems way off even with stock ... I would return it. Or you can root it, install CM10 & ktoonez and see how much better the battery is ...

bobby260 said:
5-6 hrs seems way off even with stock ... I would return it. Or you can root it, install CM10 & ktoonez and see how much better the battery is ...
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Lucky for me Samsung is goin to.look at it tomorrow..I have a repair center about ten mins away from me...
Had to argue with the.guy.at Samsung for a while to get him to accept it but hopefully they'll fix it
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I have a us att gs3 had it for a month and I had massive battery issues I mean I could go to sleep at 100% and wake up at 15% after a battery pull and nothing running I tried everything and I mean everything. A guy at work has a tmobile with 0 problems. A verizon guy has problems. After seeing a million people on line complaining I decided returning it for another was a 50-50 crapshoot and to just root and rom it. Right decision im running a jellybean leak called pistol by this guy drew. WOW works amazing. My battery can last me two days now depending on use. Its not a perfect software it as all custom roms has quirks but once the samsung official jellybean comes out I think the phones will be perfect
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dippo6 said:
I have a us att gs3 had it for a month and I had massive battery issues I mean I could go to sleep at 100% and wake up at 15% after a battery pull and nothing running I tried everything and I mean everything. A guy at work has a tmobile with 0 problems. A verizon guy has problems. After seeing a million people on line complaining I decided returning it for another was a 50-50 crapshoot and to just root and rom it. Right decision im running a jellybean leak called pistol by this guy drew. WOW works amazing. My battery can last me two days now depending on use. Its not a perfect software it as all custom roms has quirks but once the samsung official jellybean comes out I think the phones will be perfect
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Did you ever find out what was causing the drain? And the Rom your on now is it for the att s3? Cause I've tried two roms and both did the same exact thing
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after 6 years of annually upgrading iphones i switched to the GS3
and i swear the it's so inferior when it comes to battery charging....

whip_it said:
after 6 years of annually upgrading iphones i switched to the GS3
and i swear the it's so inferior when it comes to battery charging....
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Iv owned only 2 iPhones and they both sucked lol
I can't get away from android
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[Q] Battery drain after Looking lollipop update

My note 4 battery is draining rapidly after the lollipop update. I've read that some have had to do a factory reset and that has resolved the issue but (and forgive me for asking) doesn't that wipe everything from your phone? There has to be a better way. I've got so much music and pictures I don't want to lose and I'm not very savvy when it comes to transferring stuff.
Any thoughts? It's much appreciated!!!

I am having the same issue. Yes factory reset will wipe phone. I did a factory reset before installing rom. But still have battery drain.
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Well that isn't good news. I've noticed it takes longer to charge than normal too. I hope there's a fix for this soon.

I just did a factory reset I'll post my experience after I give it time
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You guys should probably give this a few day before wondering about battery life.

droe411 said:
You guys should probably give this a few day before wondering about battery life.
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I'll turn blue in the face saying this. People just don't get it.
Battery life will probably suck at first
Phone probably will run hot at first
Phone probably will lag/stutter
Phone might have graphical glitches
...if you have any problems like these, factory reset and STILL give it a few days.

I factory reset mine last night after 24hrs and it seems a tiny bit better but. ANDROID SYSTEM is still at the top of my stats and its climbing in percentage and im on wifi ac
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I REALLY don't want to have to do a factory reset. I sure hope it gets better as 'blue in the face' poster says. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Please let me know if anyone has any positive changes over the next few days without doing a reset or if you find anything else that works besides a reset.
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
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You just installed a fresh ROM. Give it a couple of days for your phone to adjust.

lollipop fail
droe411 said:
You guys should probably give this a few day before wondering about battery life.
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Check out my battery usage and statement on greek note4, with official german lollipop firmware,without root or mods.
It is 3 days from factory reset but the bad battery continues..
#lollipopONnote4ISaFAILURE

Mike31285 said:
Check out my battery usage and statement on greek note4, with official german lollipop firmware,without root or mods.
It is 3 days from factory reset but the bad battery continues..
#lollipopONnote4ISaFAILURE
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Sorry you are having issues, but I am not. I get 5-6 hours of screen time on, 18+ hours. There has to be something some are doing that others aren't? Or maybe a certain app that doesn't agree with LP that some don't have installed.

droe411 said:
Sorry you are having issues, but I am not. I get 5-6 hours of screen time on, 18+ hours. There has to be something some are doing that others aren't? Or maybe a certain app that doesn't agree with LP that some don't have installed.
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Sorry then, i quoted your comment because i thought you know much more than me by reading the previous posts.
Ao if anybody can help me i'll be thankful

Settings> Data usage> Mobile Data> uncheck enhanced 4G lte services

On kitkat I was seeing 5-6.5 hours of screen time. Now on lollipop I get about 4-4.5 Hours. I have done a clean factory install and wiped the cache. Android system is always at the top for me as well and it wasn't with kitkat. I actually have less apps and data on my phone now than I did on kitKat because I wiped everything. Ive been using lollipop for about a week now. This is obviously an issue within lollipop itself. I have mirrored the same settings that i had in kitkat, disabled as many useless apps and files that i can, and I'm using it exactly as I was on kitkat. Can someone just root this phone already?! PLEASE? (I won't hold my breath lol)

thanitos said:
Settings> Data usage> Mobile Data> uncheck enhanced 4G lte services
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Looks like you were right. My battery has improved since I unchecked this option. Now screen is on top like when I was on KK. No more android system.
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borijess said:
Looks like you were right. My battery has improved since I unchecked this option. Now screen is on top like when I was on KK. No more android system.
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I noticed that just by changing that setting I get two days easy on one charge, please note that when I say two days I'm not on my phone all the time, typically I pull my phone out at work for demo purposes, I'm browsing the Internet on down time, I'm streaming music on my drive home or I'm texting or playing a simple game. Anyways, not sure why the enhanced services drains battery so badly but after I turned it off on kk and updated it was back on and I had horrible battery life, was gonna factory reset but then checked this and it was on again so now I'm back up to two days on a charge.

My first day running Lollipop I got around 5.5 hrs SOT and phone was on for more than 13 hrs and still had about 12% so I'm getting around the same battery life on heavy usage that I had on Kit Kat. I'm having no issues with Lollipop as of now. Before I downloaded Lollipop I moved all my important files to my SD card and then I updated. Right after the update, I went into recovery, cleared the cache and factory reset within recovery. I've had a very smooth experience ever since.
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I have found a fix that has worked for me without resetting. I cleared my cache partition and now I'm back to almost as good as it was. Not quite 100%, but it's a drastic improvement. I'd suggest trying this before doing a factory reset. It worked for me.
And FYI, I tried waiting for as long as I could stand it and it didn't get even a little better.
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No question about the Enhanced 4G LTE setting. I was already getting at least as good and probably marginally better battery life after 5.01. Turning off enhanced 4G services has given even much better battery life. Just as others have seen, Android system has dropped in usage. In fact it is amazing how long this phone can now go between charges.

After a week of 5.0.1 (see nothing difference of the interface cause ATT made it). I have to switch back to 4.4 for some of the features missing/not support and i got back my best battery life. It's ok in 5.0.1 but 4.4 battery is best.
In 5.0.1 i got around 3h screen time and it's drain faster.
Note: below is my 6months old battery. Not new
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[Q] Battery Life Issues

I received my S6 Edge on Wednesday and rooted it the same day via Ping Pong. I'm on G925TUVU1AOCG. Is that even the latest version? Anyways, battery life is literally ****. I can't get more than 2 hours of Screen on Time. Even my Galaxy Nexus from 2012 gets at least 2+ hours.
Is this because I'm not on the latest version, rooted, or something else people have experience with?

I've had horrible battery life since I've rooted using ping pong this week. I don't think my phone is going into deep sleep but haven't checked it yet. It drains fast when not being used.
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Yea so I flashed the stock ROM with Odin and unrooted. I didn't wipe data however. But battery life still sucks. For anyone that cares .

I read a trick about disabling google now and it seemed to help drastically.

Andr3wD said:
Yea so I flashed the stock ROM with Odin and unrooted. I didn't wipe data however. But battery life still sucks. For anyone that cares .
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I went through this issue with my first S6. Re-root and download better battery stats - or CPU Spy. See if your phone is going into deep sleep. Mine was constantly kept awake by lli_pm_wlock. I couldn't find ANY information about it on the internet - but it was keeping the cores active and burning through battery like crazy. It would occasionally enter deep sleep, but only for a few minutes at a time.
I ended up returning the phone and getting my new S6 Edge. I tried everything - factory resets, flashing stock firmware via Odin, basically everything possible without tripping KNOX with a custom kernel.

My battery life has been awful. Specially after rooting with Ping Pong and specifically last night. 100% at 10PM, and at 11AM with 58 minutes of on screen time, the battery was at 13%. That is just horrible. Worst battery life I have ever gotten out of the phone.
Pains me to say it, but if the battery doesn't improve by unrooting it, and waiting for a future update to 5.1, I'll most likely change to a LG G4.

XxKINGxX2580 said:
My battery life has been awful. Specially after rooting with Ping Pong and specifically last night. 100% at 10PM, and at 11AM with 58 minutes of on screen time, the battery was at 13%. That is just horrible. Worst battery life I have ever gotten out of the phone.
Pains me to say it, but if the battery doesn't improve by unrooting it, and waiting for a future update to 5.1, I'll most likely change to a LG G4.
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If you have it rooted install Better Battery Stats and figure out the problem. If it's a wakelock, the problem is it's just not going to sleep. Something is keeping the CPU active even when the screen is off and nothing is going on. It's a common problem on the rooted phones - but usually PingPong Root doesn't have the issue. Enter recovery (turn off - then power, vol up, home at the same time) and clear the cache. Reboot and run BBS for a while.

Andr3wD said:
I received my S6 Edge on Wednesday and rooted it the same day via Ping Pong. I'm on G925TUVU1AOCG. Is that even the latest version? Anyways, battery life is literally ****. I can't get more than 2 hours of Screen on Time. Even my Galaxy Nexus from 2012 gets at least 2+ hours.
Is this because I'm not on the latest version, rooted, or something else people have experience with?
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I also have the same experience but instead I just keep my phone on Ultra Saving mode

It's been really difficult for me to try to drain my phone to see my average screen on time.
But is this normal? I'm not sure what is a decent Deep Sleep percentage.
Btw: This is after I unrooted without factory reset.
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XxKINGxX2580 said:
My battery life has been awful. Specially after rooting with Ping Pong and specifically last night. 100% at 10PM, and at 11AM with 58 minutes of on screen time, the battery was at 13%. That is just horrible. Worst battery life I have ever gotten out of the phone.
Pains me to say it, but if the battery doesn't improve by unrooting it, and waiting for a future update to 5.1, I'll most likely change to a LG G4.
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Yea we're having very similar issues. I would try the G4, but the Edge is too beautiful!! This is the first time I've gotten a phone so soon after release, so I'm probably gonna stick it out for a month or 2 and wait for bug fixes.
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So I purposely didn't charge it last night, and you can tell it has really really bad standby time.
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Try disabling WiFi or set it to keep it on only when plugged in.

Andr3wD said:
It's been really difficult for me to try to drain my phone to see my average screen on time.
But is this normal? I'm not sure what is a decent Deep Sleep percentage.
Btw: This is after I unrooted without factory reset.
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That is not normal. Backup your data and flash stock firmware with SmartSwitch then restore what you want. See if that makes your battery last any longer.

Andr3wD said:
So I purposely didn't charge it last night, and you can tell it has really really bad standby time.
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I had horrible battery life when I got it out of box. It wouldn't last more than 5 hrs with very little use. After I flashed stock firmware with SmartSwitch, Battery+ RAM Usage issue got solved. Now I get whole day with single charge. I take my phone out from charger by 7 AM and by the time 10 PM in night, Phone would still have 35-40% battery left. I get many emails [50+], 2hrs of GPS+Music streaming + random facebook & Instagram and even after this, I get good battery life. So I would 1000% recommend that you do a flash stock firmware with SmartSwitch.

kaka1 said:
I had horrible battery life when I got it out of box. It wouldn't last more than 5 hrs with very little use. After I flashed stock firmware with SmartSwitch, Battery+ RAM Usage issue got solved. Now I get whole day with single charge. I take my phone out from charger by 7 AM and by the time 10 PM in night, Phone would still have 35-40% battery left. I get many emails [50+], 2hrs of GPS+Music streaming + random facebook & Instagram and even after this, I get good battery life. So I would 1000% recommend that you do a flash stock firmware with SmartSwitch.
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That is not normal. Backup your data and flash stock firmware with SmartSwitch then restore what you want. See if that makes your battery last any longer.
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I tried using SmartSwitch and unfortunately, battery life was only a tiny bit better. However, I started getting a bunch of force closes, and the phone became laggier than before. I would try it again, but it's so much work resetting up my phone! ...especially without root.
So I ordered the G4. Hopefully I'll be getting the Note 5 in a few months .

Should mwd49b be avoided?

I just picked up a SW3, and upgraded it to MEC24H. So far, I am pretty happy with it. I'll get a full day out of the battery, and that was with the just got it fingers playing with it more than I normally would.
I've heard some bad things about mwd49b on our watch, my watch keeps asking me to update, should I just avoid the mwd49b update for now and stick with MEC24H?
Thank you!

You can deny the card when ask for upgrade but I do not know if they ask again and again later ?

dersie said:
You can deny the card when ask for upgrade but I do not know if they ask again and again later ?
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Yeah it asks over and over and over lol.
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too bad
I can't use my SW3 since this update. The watch go from 3.5% by hour to 6-8% by hour, so unusable now

I've updated and have perfect battery life, easily 2 days. Yes, I'm a light user, but still......
I'm absolutely happy with the update. GPS is fine, in short everything works as it should.........

The latest update works fine on my watch. I even dirty flashed it, no hard reset. The only problem I have is that the watch would not fully charge when turned off. It will overheat and stop at about 60% charge.
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The update crippled my battery life. I can barely squeeze eight hours with light use...
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Welp no update then for me!
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desantim said:
Welp no update then for me!
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Well I've found the update to be perfect here and same battery life as before. Strange how different people are having different experiences

Noticeably shorter battery life but the watch works much better. If you don't like to charge it every day or (almost) two - don't update but the update itself fixes many problems that occurred right after the update to 6.0
I've updated and my watch lasts almost for two days, I'm happy with the update but I'm waiting for the further fixes, mainly fixes for the battery.

desantim said:
I just picked up a SW3, and upgraded it to MEC24H. So far, I am pretty happy with it. I'll get a full day out of the battery, and that was with the just got it fingers playing with it more than I normally would.
I've heard some bad things about mwd49b on our watch, my watch keeps asking me to update, should I just avoid the mwd49b update for now and stick with MEC24H?
Thank you!
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Since accepting the update on my SW3 GPS has become unusable for any long-term tasks. It might last 20 or 30 minutes returning (relatively) accurate values but then accuracy shoots out to 64m or more and renders it useless for any serious application. I have two watches and they've both started doing the same thing. Personally I'd stick with version 5 for now until they fix it.

Interestingly enough yesterday my battery life restored close to normal after about a week of horrible drain. I did not do anything to the watch...
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Piss poor performance only on Verizon model?!

Just curious what other Verizon owners are experiencing. I love this phone and am keeping it, warts and all. But from other forums I'm getting the feeling that the Verizon model has a lot more issues than other models. My main gripe is I'm getting a total freeze of my phone, nothing happens on screen and button taps do nothing at all, this lasts for about a minute then the phone comes back, but everything runs very very slowly, then eventually it will run normally again. I'm also seeing a ton of lag, specifically something will run or animate very slowly and stutters, like for example if I close an app the animation of it shrinking can sometimes be fast and smooth, other times it's slow and stutters to the point where you can almost count the frames. My wife has a Note 7 as well and she had one episode where she was using WhatsApp, her phone completely froze on her and then after a minute or so just rebooted.
I've also had issues with wifi calling dropping calls left and right. I've had issues with the phone not wanting to switch from a weak crappy wifi signal to cellular. GPS was dropping a lot initially, but I haven't seen that issue lately. Battery life overall hasn't been stellar, but I hope that just means it is still breaking in.

I'm on Verizon and experiencing the same crap.. love this phone as well. I have disabled all the bloatware too
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i have experienced the same i am not sure what gives but i hope an optimization patch is released for it soon.

Totally agree. I got the Moto Z about 3 weeks before Note launch and that phone is fast. I figured the Note would be just as fast. Nope. The Moto is very fast to unlock with fingerprint. Note has some delay and goes to lock screen then open. Bit hokey if you ask me. I get a lot of lag doing normal things. Was using Nova, thought that might be it so went back to samsungs launcher. Kinda helped. Just does not have the zip I thought it would. Might forgo the s pen and swap with my wife. Hopefully N will help, but we all know VZW will f that up too.
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Mine hasn't experienced any of this. Maybe try a full factory reset from recovery?
Mine unlocks instantly with fingerprint. Iris scanner is OK as well.

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsun...lease/good-lock-24-0-11-android-apk-download/
Good lock is better and faster imo. I couldn't find it on galacy apps but worked just fine from here.
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firewater88 said:
Totally agree. I got the Moto Z about 3 weeks before Note launch and that phone is fast. I figured the Note would be just as fast. Nope. The Moto is very fast to unlock with fingerprint. Note has some delay and goes to lock screen then open. Bit hokey if you ask me. I get a lot of lag doing normal things. Was using Nova, thought that might be it so went back to samsungs launcher. Kinda helped. Just does not have the zip I thought it would. Might forgo the s pen and swap with my wife. Hopefully N will help, but we all know VZW will f that up too.
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Moto z is tempting, so thin and a great looking phone.
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No issues here with verizon note, 1st thing i did when i got it was a factory reset, getting great battery life about 9 hours screen on time

bayniner said:
No issues here with verizon note, 1st thing i did when i got it was a factory reset, getting great battery life about 9 hours screen on time
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no

faded03cobra said:
no
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Lol ok if you say so even tho im not the only person to say they get such great screen on time

faded03cobra said:
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Here this is with 24% battery left

cpufrost said:
Mine hasn't experienced any of this. Maybe try a full factory reset from recovery.
Mine unlocks instantly with fingerprint. Iris scanner is OK as well.
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The same here.
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I just have to say. GTFO with your magical phone. 9 hours SOT. Give me a break.
I can't comment on poor performance on the Verizon Note vs others because I haven't use the others. I will say, some performance is poor.
Thank goodness we have root tho. Maybe we can fix some stuff the Big Red dictator screwed up.
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Rippley05 said:
9 hours SOT. Give me a break.
I can't comment on poor performance on the Verizon Note vs others because I haven't use the others. I will say, some performance is poor.
Thank goodness we have root tho. Maybe we can fix some stuff the Big Red dictator screwed up.
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They got root for the Note 7 already?
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californiarailroader said:
They got root for the Note 7 already?
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Yea. Check the general section.
Edit** http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3448711
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I'm apprised at the device.. I'm getting great and unusual sot also.. And ultra without a bunch of messing with it..
from note 7

Rippley05 said:
I just have to say. GTFO with your magical phone. 9 hours SOT. Give me a break.
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Lol so how do we figure out screen on time then because according to you if i go into my battery settings and it shows screen on 9 hours that isnt possible

My phone is running buttery smooth! Slightly over 2 days battery life! No complaints.
For those with the issues, try a factory reset and dont disable anything. Run the phone and see if it still happens. If so then you have gotten bad phones.

I'm just now reading about some of these issues people are having. I've got a pre order phone. Delivered on the 19th. It's been a dream from day 1. Better than my note 5 by far. My 5 was dropping calls and battery dying in a day. Haven't dropped a call nor run out of battery. My s6 edge plus was horrible. Only had it for a day. This looked similar so I was a bit nervous. Other than it having an issue with either the gear app our the bluetooth sending ringtone to my gear s2 on all calls regardless of ringer settings I've got zero complaints.
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I haven't had any of these issues on my Note 7. I have had it one week now. Battery life is decent, but I don't know what the stats look like since I am always near a charger. I took the ota halfway through the week and it didn't seem to affect anything one way or the other.