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T-Mo Note II Battery Life Thread: Post Screenies!

Figured I start a thread specifically for the T-Mobile variant. I will say that I'm pretty pleased with the battery life thus far. I hated having to give up the ease of some functionality just so my Samsung OG Epic 4G could make it through the day. Meaning, turning off bluetooth, live wallpaper, wifi, etc.
I feel like I haven't had to do that even though there is a battery saver mode already. I'm currently sitting at 54% and it's been a day since taking it off the charger.
I currently have all the bells and whistles going. Live wallpaper and facial recognition to unlock. S-Pen detection and the whole 9. Anyhow, just wanted to see what everyone else is getting.

I'd be happy with 6 hours screen on time

i had the galaxy s3 before the note 2 and i have noticed huge battery improvements

I was briefly reading through the manual and saw this:
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before
charging your device. Repeating this process of a complete
discharge and recharge can over time reduce the storage
capacity of any battery.
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just thought I'd pass it along. I usually run my battery all the way down and let it die before recharging:

blazinazn said:
I was briefly reading through the manual and saw this:
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before
charging your device. Repeating this process of a complete
discharge and recharge can over time reduce the storage
capacity of any battery.
Pg 15
just thought I'd pass it along. I usually run my battery all the way down and let it die before recharging:
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dam thanks i was about to do a few full discharge and full charge again, thanks for the info.

I'm not getting great battery life yet and have had the phone for over 24 hours since I picked it up yesterday morning. Can't pinpoint wjat could be draining it.
What do you guys think?
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mmorabe said:
I'm not getting great battery life yet and have had the phone for over 24 hours since I picked it up yesterday morning. Can't pinpoint wjat could be draining it.
What do you guys think?
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My guess wouod be your cell signal. Lot of yellow in there. Weaker signal means more battery drain

Good point. At work I'm on wifi but when it's not it is on edge
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All I have to say is wow.

offdutyninja808 said:
All I have to say is wow.
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Total screen on time?

offdutyninja808 said:
All I have to say is wow.
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Looks like my battery life on my S3 with the Anker 4400mah battery!

Fairly light usage while I was at work. I always run power saving mode and auto dim.
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Heres my battery

Here's mine.
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Unbelievable. Its DOUBLE what I get on my note 1. This is the first time i can remember in years not changing a battery during a day.
I have had WiFi on most of the time.
I never thought I would see 14 hours.
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The battery life on this is simply amazing. I am still shocked to see how good it is. I tried everything today to run it down. Barely even used WIFI today. Basically all 4G. Screen brightness was about 50% at least all day. Never below as well. Crazy awesome battery

My battery life is insane. Ive used my phone nonstop all day and its still going. I should easily get between 8-9 hours of onscreen time.
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Im Impressed
Pretty impressive!

graveghoul said:
Pretty impressive!
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Agreed graveghoul.. I cant kill this thing. This is near tablet like battery life.
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Geo411m said:
Agreed graveghoul.. I cant kill this thing. This is near tablet like battery life.
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Me too. 6+ hours of screen time. No screenies at this time.
Not surpriesed though. Near tablet size should equal near tablet like battery life.
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Baterry Life Geesh!

So I decided to do what the manufacturer recommends when it comes to the battery, you know, charge it fully then discharge it. So I pulled it off the charger at 6am at 100%....moderate to heavy usage all day as I just unwrapped it, went to bed at 76%...so i turned on navigation and opened up a movie on Netflix hoping that would drive the battery down. I woke up at 56%! Myvold note would be dead, but this thing just keeps going! Christmas have mercy, this thing is amazing!
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LittleRedDot said:
So I decided to do what the manufacturer recommends when it comes to the battery, you know, charge it fully then discharge it. So I pulled it off the charger at 6am at 100%....moderate to heavy usage all day as I just unwrapped it, went to bed at 76%...so i turned on navigation and opened up a movie on Netflix hoping that would drive the battery down. I woke up at 56%! Myvold note would be dead, but this thing just keeps going! Christmas have mercy, this thing is amazing!
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Yea man,Samsung did a phenomenal job this time around with the battery .I came from the i717 and I am so happy about battery life now!!!!

agreed. I was skeptical about the battery life reviews prior to purchasing and with a larger display and faster processor I figured no way any of this could be true. Coming from Galaxy SII that could not make a 6 hour day of use without being tethered to a PC and going out with anything less than a full charge was a recipe for disaster.
I can go a full day browsing and playing music on my Note II and not drain the battery.

Battery life is amazing. I have to really try and kill it to get it dead inside of a day.

Aridon said:
Battery life is amazing. I have to really try and kill it to get it dead inside of a day.
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It's not too hard to kill the battery on this monster. You can do a few things to really get the battery down, such as actual gaming, watching movies, and a lot of web browsing. Outside of that, it's really difficult to kill this battery under 24 hours. I have had very limited usage on my phone over the holiday. I am up to 77+ hours of battery time and a little over 3 hours of screen-on time and still have 7% battery left! If someone put a gun to my head and asked me to truthfully tell them when's the last time I had a phone other than the Note II, that could last 3 days without a charge, someone better call a really good clean-up crew!

I love the battery life, but I'm thinking about getting an extended battery just for the heck of it.
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:what:
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This thing rivals some of the later model RIM devices I've had. Well done Samsung.
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I agree. It's amazing. Makes you wonder if they are going to put an even bigger and better one in the note 3.
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I am shocked at the battery life on this, if I knew it was this good I would have bought it the first day it came out about twice as long as my note 1 and quite a bit longer then my nexus 4. I bought the phone Tuesday rooted and running clearom 3.5 and note2core ex kernel and about to get over 8 hours screen on time on the first full cycle of the battery I am amazed !!!
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Its nice to have a phone that you can run a live wallpaper on and it not drain the battery like crazy!
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Im getting 24 hours plus on my phone...cant complain one bit
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golfinggino said:
I am shocked at the battery life on this, if I knew it was this good I would have bought it the first day it came out about twice as long as my note 1 and quite a bit longer then my nexus 4. I bought the phone Tuesday rooted and running clearom 3.5 and note2core ex kernel and about to get over 8 hours screen on time on the first full cycle of the battery I am amazed !!!
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8 hours of screen time watching movies on a cross country flight and I landed at 60% Holy smokes!! I've never come close draining the battery on a full heavy usage day.
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gman4nj said:
Im getting 24 hours plus on my phone...cant complain one bit
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I have everything turned on. Bluetooth, exchange sync, all Google services sync, Skype in background, IM+ in background, weather update at 15min and still can't come close in draining the battery. I am also trying to fully charge the battery and drain it. It takes me a day and half to kill it with everything running and navigation running wherever I go.
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wiser212 said:
8 hours of screen time watching movies on a cross country flight and I landed at 60% Holy smokes!! I've never come close draining the battery on a full heavy usage day.
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I have everything turned on. Bluetooth, exchange sync, all Google services sync, Skype in background, IM+ in background, weather update at 15min and still can't come close in draining the battery. I am also trying to fully charge the battery and drain it. It takes me a day and half to kill it with everything running and navigation running wherever I go.
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I find this hard to believe, 8 hours of movies only using up 40%. That's 5%/hr, that's amazing if true.

msavic6 said:
I find this hard to believe, 8 hours of movies only using up 40%. That's 5%/hr, that's amazing if true.
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It was in airplane mode though since I was in the air.
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When the phone uses L T E connection the battery goes down 10% per hour. I guess that is normal for everyone too.
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etrustin said:
When the phone uses L T E connection the battery goes down 10% per hour. I guess that is normal for everyone too.
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I get phenomenal battery life. Cant complain. I average about 32-36 hours per charge y about 4 to 4 1/2 hrs of screen time
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Yeah Im on stock still and im on my second day of messing around. Im so used to my Note 1 that every night needed a charge even with power save on lol. Super well done. Charges quicker as well.
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I too am quite surprised by the battery life offered by the Note II. This thing simply smokes any other phone I've used in terms of how long I can get out of a single charge, it's really impressive. I'm used to plugging my phone in every 6-8 hours on a day of heavy usage even with power saving mode turned on, whereas the Note II seems to be able to go pretty much all day and even then some depending on the usage.

I have the s3, but two of my good friends both have noteII and the first thing they both mentioned to me about the phone is the battery life! After being around one for a full day with much usage, I must agree it is very impressive for such a big screen!

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

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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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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Post - 4.1.2 Update.. PDA:MA5 to MA6?

hey guys.. just received a new "firmware" update on my International Note 2.
Please check out the screen shot i took.
Anyone knows whats in the update?

vash_h said:
Anyone knows whats in the update?
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According top your screenshot, the update "may improve performance"... seems like Samsung isn't even sure what their updates do. Lol.

EP2008 said:
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According top your screenshot, the update "may improve performance"... seems like Samsung isn't even sure what their updates do. Lol.
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And they are not sure if it will improve performance or not.. lol
But I did noticed sightly less batt drain overnight. Normally my batt drain overnite is around 8%. Now it's 4%.
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vash_h said:
And they are not sure if it will improve performance or not.. lol
But I did noticed sightly less batt drain overnight. Normally my batt drain overnite is around 8%. Now it's 4%.
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Yeah, it's quite strange when an update intended for a single phone "may" improve performance. Did they add performance enhancing tweaks/changes or not? :banghead:
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EP2008 said:
Yeah, it's quite strange when an update intended for a single phone "may" improve performance. Did they add performance enhancing tweaks/changes or not? :banghead:
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To be honest I do not feel or see any other changes except slightly less batt drain. And can't seem to find any changelog on the Web..
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vash_h said:
To be honest I do not feel or see any other changes except slightly less batt drain. And can't seem to find any changelog on the Web..
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Exactly. No changes for me as well. Battery life need a few more charged cycles to determine.

and here is another update.. 3rd update since 4.1.2...
any ideas whats in it? its still downloading over kies..
Current Firmware Version : PDA:MB2 / PHONE: LK5 / CSC:MA4 (XME)
Latest Firmware Version : PDA:MB4 / PHONE:LK5 / CSC:MA4 (XME)

Probably battery fixes.
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TBH I don't even believe anymore what those updates "may" do to the device.
Some people are happier with 4.1.2 than 4.1.1 and otherwise.
Me and my co-worker bought a note 2 on the same day and update it to 4.1.2 a few days ago. We tested both devices on 4.1.1 and we were about the same on battery drain (well +/- 1%). After the update he says his battery is better while I am about 3% off his usage. We both tested the phone in exact same manner for 8 hours straight. We switched the batteries and we had almost the same exact result.
It also depends on how you use your phone, where you keep it (colder ambient temperature=bad for battery etc.) even some market updates may eat up some percentage.
Just today we discovered in about 4 hours that listening to music @ 50% (him) against me @80% drains 9% extra more power. So in the end a few % more or less it is starting to become a bigger and bigger BS.
Or it might all come to the quality of the device build or battery build in the end.

Battery life.

I've got to say, battery life is pretty bad with this phone. I bought it brand new yesterday so not sure if it needs to condition itself or not but I came from a LG G2 which has a 3000mah battery, which is slightly smaller than this but battery life was far better. Granted the screen was slightly smaller but still. Is there any Roms that improve battery life but still relatively stock?
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Have you disabled all the smart scroll and air gesture stuff? Its useless and hogs battery life. Auto brightness and juicedefender and I can rock it for 2 or 3 days straight.
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antoni908 said:
Have you disabled all the smart scroll and air gesture stuff? Its useless and hogs battery life. Auto brightness and juicedefender and I can rock it for 2 or 3 days straight.
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I have NFC, GPS disabled and this.
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C-4Nati said:
I've got to say, battery life is pretty bad with this phone. I bought it brand new yesterday so not sure if it needs to condition itself or not but I came from a LG G2 which has a 3000mah battery, which is slightly smaller than this but battery life was far better. Granted the screen was slightly smaller but still. Is there any Roms that improve battery life but still relatively stock?
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How long is it lasting for you?
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Ya, this sounds bizarre.. I've found this battery to be amazing. How long is it lasting? I've had mine for less than a week and I've used it heavily everyday. I have not even had to worry about charging during the day. 24 hours no problem.

Same here. The first week it was lasting all day but with only 3 hours of screen on time. After some tweaking, I'm currently getting still 20ish hours with 5-6 hours screen on time.
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I just don't get it. A lady I know has the sprint variant and I looked at her settings and she had 15 and a half hours off the charger with 5.5 hours screen on and had gps and all the air features on as she's not tech smart so her phone was like out of the box and her brightness was up. I have a custom ROM with GPS, NFC and all the air gesture **** off with the screen at like 35% brightness and I get no where near that.
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NeoAndroid said:
Same here. The first week it was lasting all day but with only 3 hours of screen on time. After some tweaking, I'm currently getting still 20ish hours with 5-6 hours screen on time.
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Also what tweaks did you make? I should rephrase that I get good battery life with the screen off, it lasts all day but screen on time is horrible.
In this pics android os and google play services is destroying battery. The screen time was only like 1 hour and 15 minutes at that time.
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C-4Nati said:
Also what tweaks did you make? I should rephrase that I get good battery life with the screen off, it lasts all day but screen on time is horrible.
In this pics android os and google play services is destroying battery. The screen time was only like 1 hour and 15 minutes at that time.
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I'm still stock Rooted. I'm using Greenify app to kill most apps in the background.
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I'm still stock Rooted. I'm using Greenify app to kill most apps in the background.
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I downloaded that we'll see how it works. Like I said the battery easily last 24 hours with medium to little use but it dies fast while using the screen on, I'm seeing others with everything on like GPS, NFC and al the touchwiz things with their brightness up getting far better on screen time than me with everything off and brightness dimmed

Any suggestions appreciated. Anyone try an extended battery yet ?
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Stock rooted, I was getting about 24 hours per charge with about 6-8 hours of screen time.
I just recently installed Faux123's kernel and enabled the Intelliplug and Intellithermal drivers, now I'm getting about 60 hours per charge.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500888

trek7000 said:
Stock rooted, I was getting about 24 hours per charge with about 6-8 hours of screen time.
I just recently installed Faux123's kernel and enabled the Intelliplug and Intellithermal drivers, now I'm getting about 60 hours per charge.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500888
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Well my actual battery just must not of been created equal with other phones because after tweaks I'm getting better battery life but only about 5 hours screen time and I have everything turned off with screen on 35% so I don't know :/. I'll check that kernel out.
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C-4Nati said:
Well my actual battery just must not of been created equal with other phones because after tweaks I'm getting better battery life but only about 5 hours screen time and I have everything turned off with screen on 35% so I don't know :/. I'll check that kernel out.
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Doesnt Facebook app drain battery? Unless it's been fixed recently that right there is battery drainer.
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trek7000 said:
Stock rooted, I was getting about 24 hours per charge with about 6-8 hours of screen time.
I just recently installed Faux123's kernel and enabled the Intelliplug and Intellithermal drivers, now I'm getting about 60 hours per charge.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2500888
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60hrs!?!? That's awesome, what's your screen time look like? Could you go indepth about your settings and what rom your using to get this number. Thanks!
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Doesnt Facebook app drain battery? Unless it's been fixed recently that right there is battery drainer.
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That percabtage is from me using it though.
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C-4Nati said:
That percabtage is from me using it though.
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Well if that is the case your battery life isn't terrible. 24h with 5h SOT and 24% life isn't bad at all. Its not great but it is far from terrible.
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GallardosEggrollShop said:
60hrs!?!? That's awesome, what's your screen time look like? Could you go indepth about your settings and what rom your using to get this number. Thanks!
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I'm just using the stock ROM, rooted with the Kingo Root app. Installed TWRP and then Faux Kernel (hltetmo-faux123-003u)
Be warned, TWRP did trip the Knox counter to 0x1. I had to install Knox Disabler so it would stop complaining.
I was getting about 24 hours per charge, until remembered about the FauxClock app and enabled the Intelliplug driver and Intellithermal manager. About this time, I also installed Advanced Task Killer after going without it for a few years.
Screen brightness is on auto, WiFi and mobile data are both on constantly. I have not had to make many calls though, so I'm not sure how this may affect battery life...
So far, I haven't noticed any decrease in performance. Right now I've been on battery for 30 hours and I have 45% left.

@rbiter said:
Well if that is the case your battery life isn't terrible. 24h with 5h SOT and 24% life isn't bad at all. Its not great but it is far from terrible.
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Because of adjustments... Custom ROM and kernel, Screen is at 35%, gps and all location services off, NFC off, all the phones extras like air gestures multi window etc are off, I use greenify to freeze apps and I have most Google syncs off and I'm only able to achieve this. I know a lady who knows nothing about phones and has everything/feature on the phone turned on with full brightness and gets 15.5 off charge with 5.5 screen on time by the time she's at 30%. I don't get it.
Edit- I should note I made this post while stock. Because I heard phenomenal things about this phones battery and was quite disappointed.
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C-4Nati said:
Because of adjustments... Custom ROM and kernel, Screen is at 35%, gps and all location services off, NFC off, all the phones extras like air gestures multi window etc are off, I use greenify to freeze apps and I have most Google syncs off and I'm only able to achieve this. I know a lady who knows nothing about phones and has everything/feature on the phone turned on with full brightness and gets 15.5 off charge with 5.5 screen on time by the time she's at 30%. I don't get it.
Edit- I should note I made this post while stock. Because I heard phenomenal things about this phones battery and was quite disappointed.
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Signal strength and the binning of your CPU could be differentiating factor. Reading into other people's experience too much can lead to disappointment.
sent from my sm-9005.