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[Q] Juice Defender

I have heard good things about juice defender, but i have a basic question. It says it turns of data during times, or when certain apps are running, etc...
Now, is the data only internet connection? Or will it interfere with my ability to get texts as well, because that would be a deal break for me.

Data is only the internet. The only things that you'll be missing out on are e-mails, which will still come through based on your schedule set up and when you have your screen on.
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Heard so much about this app, tried it and took me only a few hours to remove it. When screen is off, it kills data, so basically apps like K-9 Mail that push my IMAP-idle email accounts and poll other accounts are basically impotent.
Plus the interface is confusing with a myriad of settings and no real hold on what settings stick or what not to set. I understand the concept of the app but it's not for me. With stock rom and mediahub-DRM-whatever-process killed off manually, i get by a work day with 50% left over on the train/bus-ride home, more than enough to do stuff before i get home.

I dave been using juicedefender for 3 weeks and it has maximized my batt an overall of 1.4x. The interface is confusing for those that don't spend time and learn it....its granular.
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U can set it to fcetch data on certain time intervals and u can get emails like that
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I'm totally happy with it - I'm getting a rating of around 1.7x to 1.9x I know I can easily go a full day on one charge. The default setting of enabling data every 15 minutes is enough for me - I don't expect to get emails that are time sensitive to the point where a maximum of 15 minute delay would be detrimental. And I play with my phone a lot so I'm usually waking it up to respond to texts and it reenables data then anyway.
edit: I'm not using any battery tweaks or DRM disabling stuff. I'm stock except for rooting.

You guys and this juice defender. you use more battery with this because it is always running in the background. i get 45 hours without juice defender or a task killer. 1 day of battery pleasssseee i could get 2 if it was left in standby or more. no drm removed. root, cwm, galaxy rom and kernel di18 & blue minimalism

Oh well f me... If you're getting 45 hours that must mean I can get 45 hours because, you know, our geographic locations have the exact same coverage and we have the exact same phone usage patterns. Wow I feel like such an idiot. Thank you. Thank you for showing me that juice defender, instead of increasing my battery life by a good 6-8 hours, is actually killing it by 21 hours...
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Actually I am second guessing it too. Sure it off for a few days...
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guruleenyc said:
Actually I am second guessing it too. Sure it off for a few days...
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That's fine - always be skeptical especially when an update comes out to improve performance. I'm about to test the new kernel without this to see if it's worth it. But I know that keeping data off on my Hero tripled the battery life and since having this phone it's definitely increased it. But you can't tell me that I'm losing 21 hours of battery life by using it - and definitely don't try to make me feel like an idiot for using it either.

shinma6980 said:
That's fine - always be skeptical especially when an update comes out to improve performance. I'm about to test the new kernel without this to see if it's worth it. But I know that keeping data off on my Hero tripled the battery life and since having this phone it's definitely increased it. But you can't tell me that I'm losing 21 hours of battery life by using it - and definitely don't try to make me feel like an idiot for using it either.
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Im sure its not killing you by 21 hours. prolly your STOCK sync settings though. i only turn it on for a minute or two 3x a day. but go with out it i bet its prolly like 8 hours. think about it when your screen is off it is running. well that is another process that is draining battery unneccessarily. My entire phone is set up like on demand it does what i want it to when i want it to not when it wants too and all of this is acheived with stock settings and checking every app for update frequency settings. I use my phone a lot so i need it to be there.

jbadboy2007 said:
Im sure its not killing you by 21 hours. prolly your STOCK sync settings though. i only turn it on for a minute or two 3x a day. but go with out it i bet its prolly like 8 hours. think about it when your screen is off it is running. well that is another process that is draining battery unneccessarily. My entire phone is set up like on demand it does what i want it to when i want it to not when it wants too and all of this is acheived with stock settings and checking every app for update frequency settings. I use my phone a lot so i need it to be there.
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So for argument's sake, and because I wanted an actual test, I installed your setup based on you're post earlier, andromeda rom, no juice, etc. gmail and facebook sync off. I even went in 4 times throughout the day to turn off running services. I got 11 hours and that was with charging while I was in a vehicle. So I would say about 9 to 10 hours really. TWS was only at 16%. Display was the biggest battery drain at 82%.
So now that I've done this, I can say without a doubt, for me personally, juice defender is really extending my battery life. While running juice defender, I take my phone off the charger at 6am typically and when I go to bed at midnight I still have over 20%. And if I don't plug my phone in, I can wake up at 6am the next day and the phone is still on.
You have a setup that works for you, and I have a setup that works for me. In my setup, juice defender gets me through a 24 hour period without charging. Now that I've got the andromeda rom and kernel, I'm going to test battery life with juice.
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45 hours is meaningless when you just let the phone sit in standby the entire time. That's like the car commercials that list higher mpg than they get in the real world.
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I have juice defender installed only for it's two toggle widgets. With defender disabled it doesn't run in background, I take advantage of the data toggle widget and I've seen it save as high as 5x's life.

Wow, the vibrant's battery.

I just switched from the G2, and I don't seem to be getting as good of a battery life. I just went down from 50 percent to 4 percent in 3 hours. Is this normal?
I don't think my phone is sleeping when the screen off. I'm kind of new to android, so excuse me asking, but how do you check if you phone is not sleeping and draining battery while idle? Is there an application or something to check?
One more thing, I just got the new update yesterday. I heard that it's not good to use a task killer, but I'm now using the built in task manager to close apps before I lock my phone seems to be helping with battery life. What are you opinions on this?

Check the battery thread, life seems to vary along among the Vibrants. A lot are reporting 11-15 hours of use before needing a charge.
I read that it's good to put Wifi on never sleep (if you're on Wifi) and use a black wallpaper

Interesting, how do I go about changing the wifi to never sleep? I can't find it in the settings!

Drm running. Go2 apps running- Apps & stop it
Vibrant + xda app

JJG2 said:
Interesting, how do I go about changing the wifi to never sleep? I can't find it in the settings!
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It is hidden pretty well. Haha. Menu > settings > wireless and network > wifi settings > menu key > advanced > sleep policy
I would change it to never sleep when plugged in. not just never sleep ever.
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Gigamaster89 said:
I read that it's good to put Wifi on never sleep (if you're on Wifi) and use a black wallpaper
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If you change WiFi to never sleep, it eats battery like crazy (at least for me, I'm bought with no data, and could barely last a day from when I woke up to going to sleep). With WiFi art to never sleep when charging, I only drain around 40% in an awake day (from when wake up to going to sleep).
Also, when I set WiFi to never sleep, my cell standby usage skyrockets.
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Extend battery life
Couple of things I have noticed with this phone
1. Get an app Task manager or similar type apps. There are a bunch of them in the store and here. This will allow you at one click to see what is on in programs and better manage that.
2. Go to the Development section here and read the Bionix 1.9 Thread. It explains how to recondition the battery. Even if your battery is new it is good information understanding how the phone views the battery.
3. If I am out of range or do not need, I stop the wifi and bluetooth. In the menu you can set the settings alot of ways, so you just have to experiment on this. (In home screen, hit lower left button and go to settings)
4. I use my email and phone ALL day (min 10hrs) and typically, I get 15-17 hr of use before it hits 10%
5. Finally, once you are comfortable with the phone, you can load a custom ROM from the Development section. The developers here are very through and Do squeeze the most out of the phone.
Good luck and you will love the phone as I do.

oka1 said:
Couple of things I have noticed with this phone
1. Get an app Task manager or similar type apps. There are a bunch of them in the store and here. This will allow you at one click to see what is on in programs and better manage that.
2. Go to the Development section here and read the Bionix 1.9 Thread. It explains how to recondition the battery. Even if your battery is new it is good information understanding how the phone views the battery.
3. If I am out of range or do not need, I stop the wifi and bluetooth. In the menu you can set the settings alot of ways, so you just have to experiment on this. (In home screen, hit lower left button and go to settings)
4. I use my email and phone ALL day (min 10hrs) and typically, I get 15-17 hr of use before it hits 10%
5. Finally, once you are comfortable with the phone, you can load a custom ROM from the Development section. The developers here are very through and Do squeeze the most out of the phone.
Good luck and you will love the phone as I do.
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1 - terrible advice - esp with JI6 having one built in (long press home).
2 - This is also in the General sticky
5 - try bionix 1.9.0 (or 1 if you want alt lock screens) and try JACs oc/uv - great battery life so far.

On average use I get close to 24 hours out of a charge using mostly WiFi and enabling no-sleep option, running Bionix 1.9.1 with stock kernel with JI6 modem. I'm also running LauncherPro Plus with facebook widget set to auto-refresh every 5 minutes, the most frequent setting for Google sync, and NoLED notification. I think that is very reasonable.
p.s. I do not use task manager since the operating system is supposed to manage the apps on its own.

oka1 said:
...3. If I am out of range or do not need, I stop the wifi...
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I use an app from the market called Y5 (free) to automatically shut down wifi if I'm in an area without it and back on if I'm in an area with it.
Works well for me.

My vibrant is less 23% after being off the charger for 4 hrs. One of those hours was me driving without using it.
Something is wrong. Dunno if it's the update, but something is lilling it FAST - wifi ang gps off the entire time...
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I use the living hell out of my Vibrant, and usually it lasts for about 4-5 hours. This being during playing games with brightness maxed, or streaming music over 3G and/or Wi-fi.
If I have a day where I am not doing the above, and just using my phone for emial and the facebook and gmail synching, I easily get over 10 hours before I hit 20%.
All in all I am quite happy with it's battery life. I have just learned to leave my phone on the charger till full charge after streaming music drains it to <20%.
I really should put MP3's on it and test how much that drains the battery compared to streaming.
Either way, I get better performance on battery and memory management then my old (work supplied) BB Bold.

My G2 definitely has more battery life than my Vibrant. That said, once you apply the above mentioned tweaks and especially with JAC's OC/UV kernel, and setcpu set at 200-1000 at conservative, the Vibrant battery life improves quite a bit. Still, its not as good as my G2. But not that bad either..

Keep in mind that the G2 doesn't have to power a billboard sized SAMOLED screen either.
Other than that flash on of Sombionix's ROMs with either of the new kernels and then recondition.
I get pretty good battery life because I don't have 3G in my area so I keep it forced to edge and I don't use bluetooth ever and wifi stays off unless i need it.
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N8ter said:
My vibrant is less 23% after being off the charger for 4 hrs. One of those hours was me driving without using it.
Something is wrong. Dunno if it's the update, but something is lilling it FAST - wifi ang gps off the entire time...
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Ditto!
Fully charged on the way to work. On the charger less than 4 hours later with moderate use. No better after update. Was using a task killer with minimal improvement. Love the Vibrant but despise it's battery life.

Something is wrong. I just went 26 hours down to 19% before charging
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People, recondition the battery. It's easy.
Charge it to 100%, keep it plugged in and reboot to recovery, clear the battery stats, drain it all the way, then charge it back to 100% again.
You can start in the morning before work/school and finish at the end of the day. I've never had an issue with battery life on this phone. I can play 6 continuous hours of video/games on this thing and still have battery left.
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Also the g2 has froyo witch uses less battery then 2.1
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try juice defender it works great for me...

Can't get past "Reinstall Packages"
I am trying to recalibrate my battery after the OTA destroyed it, but every time I select to reinstall packages so I can get to the battery section, it looks for Update.zip on my sdcard, and it wont let me get any further. All I can do is reboot the phone.... any suggestions?

Those who do not have Juice Defender, Download it ASAP :)

Not sure how many here know about this, seems some do and some don't.
The greatest program on the market in my opinion is Juice Defender. It multiplies my battery life anywhere from 1.75x to 2x or more! I highly recommend the purchase of the add-on Ultimate Juice for many many more settings and options, but Juice Defender itself is free forever. I currently use the beta which works flawlessly
Juice Defender
Reclaim your battery! Save power and extend battery life with JuiceDefender
JuiceDefender - Battery Saver is a powerful, yet easy to use Battery Manager App.
It extends battery life by intelligently managing the battery-draining components of Android devices, like 3G/4G connectivity and WiFi.
The preset modes are the perfect way to gain precious hours of battery life; it’s literally as easy as one tap.
JuiceDefender is also fully customizable through a clean and intuitive user interface. Once configured JuiceDefender runs by itself, improving battery life in a fully automated manner.
With JuiceDefender - Battery Saver you can easily manage your Mobile Data, WiFi and CPU speed, you can keep power consumption under control (e.g. disabling connectivity when the battery runs low), schedule regular Synchronization events, enable or disable connectivity for specific apps, auto-toggle WiFi depending on your location, and much more.
Run at full capacity when you need it, save battery when you don’t
with JuiceDefender - Battery Saver.
Features*:
- 5 Preset Profiles (from default mode to full customization)
- Easy and Intuitive User Interface (no annoying ads!)
- Home screen Battery Widgets
- Mobile Data toggle automation
- 2G/3G toggle automation**
- WiFi toggle automation + Auto-Disabling option
- Location-aware WiFi Control (e.g. enable WiFi only at home/work, disable it otherwise)
- Battery Consumption Optimization (e.g. when screen off, battery under threshold, etc.)
- Comprehensive Connectivity Scheduling (regular schedule, night time/peak time, week days/weekends)
- Connectivity Control for Specific Apps
- CPU scaling when phone is idle**
- Full Activity Log
- It’s FREE!
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Juice Defender Beta
Ditch your charger - increasing battery life has never been so easy!
Always carrying your charger around? You don't need to!
JuiceDefender intelligently and transparently manages for you mobile connectivity and other battery-sensitive components, greatly improving battery life.
***BETA! This is frequently updated and sometimes buggy/unstable! Don't like this? Get the "stable" version
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Ultimate Juice €3.49 (about $4.81 CDN?)
The Ultimate battery saver!
Enables advanced features for JuiceDefender:
- WiFi control with Location
- all schedule intervals
- night, peak, weekend schedules
- unlimited apps
- and more!
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It does not have gingerbread support yet, so those with CM7 are out of luck.

Despite purchasing Ultimate Juice, I uninstalled it as I felt the negatives outweighed positives. I also don't believe the 1.75x or 2x ratings, it always gives you this at the start but that seems to drop away.
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Basil3 said:
Despite purchasing Ultimate Juice, I uninstalled it as I felt the negatives outweighed positives. I also don't believe the 1.75x or 2x ratings, it always gives you this at the start but that seems to drop away.
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I agree, I also tried, and don't like it, not so good as ANDROID ASSISTANT (12 FEATURES) from Aaron, and its free, very happy and so many extras, can easly manage 2 days, or one in heavy use, very pleased with program..

Basil3 said:
Despite purchasing Ultimate Juice, I uninstalled it as I felt the negatives outweighed positives. I also don't believe the 1.75x or 2x ratings, it always gives you this at the start but that seems to drop away.
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Exactly what are the negatives you had experienced?
m7svk said:
I agree, I also tried, and don't like it, not so good as ANDROID ASSISTANT (12 FEATURES) from Aaron, and its free, very happy and so many extras, can easly manage 2 days, or one in heavy use, very pleased with program..
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I have never heard of this program, going to check it out, who knows it may make me switch.
I've used juice defender for about a year now though when I bought my milestone, and now with my dhd. Unfortunately I have been switching roms and ran into a few problems the past few days so I have not been able to check the difference between off/on using juice plotter. With my milestone it took me from ~12-24hrs to ~24-36hrs

I've used juice defender for about a year now though when I bought my milestone, and now with my dhd. Unfortunately I have been switching roms and ran into a few problems the past few days so I have not been able to check the difference between off/on using juice plotter. With my milestone it took me from ~12-24hrs to ~24-36hrs
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Which settings are you using with JuiceDefender ?

I don't really see what Android Assistant(12 features) does except be a task killer and monitor in one place?

smurcoch said:
Exactly what are the negatives you had experienced?
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Main negative for me was delay in messages in Google talk coming through when you start switching the phone's connection off and on. I'm a heavy Google talk user, its the main way I keep in touch with my girlfriend when I'm away, so it just wasn't working for me.
On top of that, I didn't see any major battery life improvements. For me, the major dictator of battery life has been hands on, screen on time with the phone. I usually get 4-5 hours display on time from a charge, and juice defender didn't seem to make any huge impact on this.
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mathewr said:
I don't really see what Android Assistant(12 features) does except be a task killer and monitor in one place?
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Just put in to search Aaron, and should be second from top.., its all in one, very useful tool ta have..., enjoy..

Basil3 said:
For me, the major dictator of battery life has been hands on, screen on time with the phone. I usually get 4-5 hours display on time from a charge, and juice defender didn't seem to make any huge impact on this.
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Juicedefender (JD) doesn't improve online screen time. It works by intelligently switching off the phone's radios (data, wifi).
My phone is in my pocket right now, switched off, with all radios off, and the battery is running down much more slowly than it would otherwise. JD occasionally switches on one of the radios to get tweets, e-mails, FB updates etc. But when I switch on the screen, it permanently enables one of the radios so that I can actually use the thing.
But, sure, JD doesn't improve the total online screen time. It can't. Nor can any other piece of software. The alternative is let the battery run down constantly. And I have never came across a phone that depletes its battery so fast when it is switched off.

1 day and 18 hours - Last unplugged.
I lost 71% of my battery.
In this 71% percent
'Inactive' used 25.56% (I always shut my phone off when I go to sleep so I won't be spammed/mailed/whatsapped or something.
Screen used: 17.25%
Standby: 14.91%
Media: 6.39%
android: 2.84
ping 2.13
mail 1.42/
This all makes the 71%.
I am confused since I used my mail about half-1 hour a day. I listen to music for 2 hours, I played Angry birds for about 10 minutes and the web for about 15-30 minutes.
But I don't mind I (L) the batterylife. Someday's I call for hours but when I use it hardcore (2-3 hours of calling, 1 hour web, 1-2 hours mail, 30minutes of messages etc) my battery should go for about 30 hours.

bobbyelliott said:
Juicedefender (JD) doesn't improve online screen time. It works by intelligently switching off the phone's radios (data, wifi).
My phone is in my pocket right now, switched off, with all radios off, and the battery is running down much more slowly than it would otherwise. JD occasionally switches on one of the radios to get tweets, e-mails, FB updates etc. But when I switch on the screen, it permanently enables one of the radios so that I can actually use the thing.
But, sure, JD doesn't improve the total online screen time. It can't. Nor can any other piece of software. The alternative is let the battery run down constantly. And I have never came across a phone that depletes its battery so fast when it is switched off.
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I realise it doesn't improve phone usage time, but that's my point. Phone usage time is the biggest dictator of battery life. A heavy user is still going to chew the battery in well less than a day.
I also don't think the phone uses much battery when not in use. If you don't use the phone it will last for days with juice defender or without....but most people charge every night so its a non issue.
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I think that we have established that there are two types of Desire HD in current use. The one that is actually available to purchase, which runs down in 4-5 hours of online screen time, and the magic one that is available from La La Land, which runs for 17 days and can be used to power entire cities.

bobbyelliott said:
I think that we have established that there are two types of Desire HD in current use. The one that is actually available to purchase, which runs down in 4-5 hours of online screen time, and the magic one that is available from La La Land, which runs for 17 days and can be used to power entire cities.
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I am on official 1.72 rom, and phone is holding with easy usage 2 days = on whole night, never swich off, only bluetooth, gps and wifi on when I need, not good 3g here, then is on only gsm, when I leave everything on = wifi, bluetooth, gps, (+ playing tank hero, stupid zombies and x construction ) gsm only and screen on 25 % hold for 20 - 22 hours, only what I use is android assistant by Aaron, and I am very happy with it. If is phones battery going down quickly can be faulty rom, with touch hd I tried a lot roms and few killed battery in 2 - 3 hours...

I think that Juice defender is alright. But most of the stuff you can do manually (turning screen brightness down, turning wifi off), it just merges it all into one place. I'm still looking for the best way to conserve my phone's battery. As I get 1 day out of it with normal use and 2 days with minimal use

If you know how to calibrate battery, it's way more beneficial than Juice Defender. There's a tutorial floating in the Dev section i think.

Awesome battery life - inadvertently achieved

I have a few Note 10.1's (for work). Part of the process to get them ready for use is to disable all the "extra" apps which come on the Note. I was working on one earlier on Thursday and then got swamped with other issues. I picked it up this afternoon (over 48 hours after putting it down) and it is at 94% battery life remaining! Gmail sync and Wi-Fi are on. Google+ and all Samsung installed apps are disabled through the Application Manager. Power Saving mode is disabled.
I am amazed that this tablet could sit powered on for a month and still have 10% remaining charge!

Agreed. I noticed the same thing a couple of days after getting my GT-N8000. Standby time on this bad boy is epic:good:

The actual screen time on this is even more amazing (at least in my opinion). I can easily get 10 hours from full charge and perhaps even 11-12 hours sometimes. This is with constant browsing and even some gaming. With similar thing, infinity lasted mere 5 hours. With galaxy note 10.1, I have finally stopped looking at my battery use every half an hour..... Well I guess I lied.. I still do that only because I am just simply amazed with Galaxy Note's battery life, and still in doubt mode how well it does.

Yeah battery life is sick. I pulled over 10hrs. Of on-screen time the other day. With constant heavy web browsing and gaming. I did have power savings mode as I was testing if any noticeable drop in performance. Which actually there was none. I played Nova3 in power savings mode and it didn't miss a beat. Which shocked me because once CPU mode in power savings is activated, the Max speed is 1ghz on one or all 4 cores. CPU spy confirmed this. Battery life is still great in regular mode also.

The battery life of my N8000 (compared with the P7500) is incredible. The P7500 was down after a usual work day in an area with poor GSM coverage. The Note 10.1 instead is now in the late evening just below 70%.

Battery Life compared to iPad 3
Howdy All Y'All,
I got my GN10.1-16W on 25 Aug from Amazon. I've owned an iPad 3-32GW for a couple of months now. I've found the GN10.1's battery life to favorably compare to the iPad 3: getting 8-10hrs of use on both.
Impressive Samsung!!!
Aloha.. Al

*Omnipresent* said:
Agreed. I noticed the same thing a couple of days after getting my GT-N8000. Standby time on this bad boy is epic:good:
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I agree, I am VERY impressed at the battery life on it!

And to disable these Google apps do you just choose Force Close? What are the steps to properly disable these apps? Also, every time I reboot my tablet will I need to disable them again or are my preferences remembered?
Thanks

Mickeylittle said:
And to disable these Google apps do you just choose Force Close? What are the steps to properly disable these apps? Also, every time I reboot my tablet will I need to disable them again or are my preferences remembered?
Thanks
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Go into menu - settings - apps, choose the app (e.g. chaton, yahoo finance etc.), tap it and then tap button deactivate .................
In case You have an updated app it will say first "uninstall update", after uninstalling You can tap "deactivate"
With Netquin app (App manager section) it is even easier .....................................

troed said:
Go into menu - settings - apps, choose the app (e.g. chaton, yahoo finance etc.), tap it and then tap button deactivate .................
In case You have an updated app it will say first "uninstall update", after uninstalling You can tap "deactivate"
With Netquin app (App manager section) it is even easier .....................................
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Thanks for taking the time to explain what isn't always obvious. Especially since most of these apps needed to have the updates UN Installed before I Could See to deactivate them.
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Any way to turn off update reminders for these Google apps? Most times I just hit the update all button and if I do that I'll be 're-activating several of these apps.

Unless You can't uncheck automatic updates in Play unfortunately no ......,.

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Unless You can't uncheck automatic updates in Play unfortunately no ......,.
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No problem, I don't have that checked so I'll just skip over updating the ones that I don't want updated.
Thanks again.

Could OP post the extra apps that were disabled or uninstalled ? I don't want to accidentally disable an S pen app or requirement.
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For that matter - how to enable them again once they're gone?
Cancel that - didn't scroll down far enough. The disabled apps show up at the bottom of the apps list in All view

may anyone write wchich apps should be deactivate to achive amazing battery life?

Also very happy with battery life. When t got it I tried running it down before first charge but after four hours of continuous use it still had 30% battery left so I gave up and just charged it.
Its interesting because I read reviews which suggested nexus 7 has better battery life. on the N7 I can pretty much watch the battery drain before my eyes, so I'm guessing Asus either over estimate their battery figures or Samsung underestimate theirs.
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My first tablet 2.5 days 10hrs screen can't complain, my HTC One X finally gets a rest 2days lasting not 16hrs
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I'd also be interested to hear which apps people are deactivating, as I get only about 4-5 on screen time on my Note. I keep reading about amazing battery life, but I'm just not seeing it. If I leave my charging cable at work and use this thing in the evening at home, it's dead before I go to bed.

loribuono said:
I'd also be interested to hear which apps people are deactivating, as I get only about 4-5 on screen time on my Note. I keep reading about amazing battery life, but I'm just not seeing it. If I leave my charging cable at work and use this thing in the evening at home, it's dead before I go to bed.
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I meant to post this the other day but yes, a running list of apps disabled would be helpful . Im getting a very good battery life but not quite 10 hours (well maybe with power saving mode)
Also, approximately what screen percentage is everyones set at and do you use power saving mode to achieve these results?

i get great battery life setting my brightness no higher than 20%. note gets really good battery life. especially in standby.

S5 Worst battery ever

Got this phone about 10 days ago and my battery is terrible since day 1, someone suggested to root my phone and get the BBS app and dump a file i did that and installed a system tuner to disable google CHECKIN OR GCM and unchecked them. apps i got installed to help with battery battery doctor, wakelock detector, os monitor, system tuner, gsam battery, betterbatterystats.
Apps i disabled are:
Ant radio service
Ant+ plugins
App zone
Blurbcheckout
chaton
chrome
flipboard
google play book, games, movies, music, newstand , google search, google+ , hangouts
hp print service plugin
my magazine
s health , svoice , samsung account , samsung apps , samsung galaxy apps widget, samsung push service, smart remote , Top Hd Games
got a plain black wallpaper, even after all this i cant get more than 2h30m screentime and everyone is getting 5h+ do i have a defective unit? what are my options right now? cause basically i removed everything the phone has lol. i talk to my workplace and they can send the phone for repair but i want to see if someone can help me before i do that. i have to unroot the phone if i have to send it for repair even though my phone is 0x1 on knox cause i was stupid to root with cf-root and didnt check other methods.

After all that you did, then it sounds like a faulty battery or device.
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How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.

darkfangex5 said:
How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.
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How do I check if I have a good signal at work? Through an app or through a battery status.
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This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.

Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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kgyirhj said:
This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.
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I posted my info with photos ^ thanks
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Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.

Looks like ur using max brightness? Nearly 2 hours screen on time for 44% isnt the best but isnt terrible. I get around 5 to 6 hours using low brightness 3g/4g on besides when screen on. Using android tuner and greenify for tuneing. Screen uses a lot of battery to. Im using. Ktoons kernal now with oc and the batterys probably the same to to me. No beter or worse but. Im running higher clock.
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I also use normal power save eith the greyscale option selected and I have the cpu limited disabled.because ktoons app limits it for me.
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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You're set for almost four hours of screen on time there, on what seems to be very poor mobile signal. Doesn't sound that unrealistic to me to be honest.
Poor mobile signal absolutely kills battery life, as your phone spends the entire time searching and trying to get a better signal.

dandroid13 said:
Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.
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I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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I see a couple of things interesting with your setup, Speaking from personal experience, I too have had battery issues drive me up a wall. I'd get just about a day on a battery when everyone else gets about 3-9 days more. My friend has an s5 all stock and he gets 9 days on a freaking battery. WTF
I rooted my first s5, with ANCH baseband and still couldn't solve all the issues with it. So I sent it back to t-mo and they sent me another one, getting batteries on ebay has also ended up a wash. 2 batteries I've received go down 20% from a full charge in the first hour and shut completely down at 32 percent at least I got a refund on that. (So be careful about ebay batteries, even though they say samsung.
So looking at yours here's what I see, Your system is staying awake, lets look at wake locks. Kik is really tearing up your machines wakelock (900wake locks) as well as the camera CPU time, i'd imagine you were recording a video at some point.
1. Go get greenify and greenify those Kik, Instagram and camera apps if thats usage while the screen is off. (No notifications on those apps, i'm afraid when you do that.)
2. Go get system tuner, make sure your rooted by towelroot (If you so choose to keep from tripping knox) and go into app mgr and find android system and go through activities, receivers and services and make sure everything you see that says IQAgent gets unchecked. This will help you stay out of ServiceIQ's eyes and also help your battery as your entire phone is debugged through those apps. (Help is on the forums somewhere)
3. Turn off google now, hotword detection and location history or you'll start noticing Google services draining your battery
4. Go get deep sleep battery saver and remove that battery saver, I personally never liked it it only suggests things to do rather than do them for you. At night or whenever you need to save your battery turn on slumber and it will only take like a percent to 5% in the morning
5. You probably have a bad battery, especially if its down to that low. Time to exchange or return
I'm incredibly disappointed, i've had to do all these things to really figure things out, heck i'd be on firefox for about 15 minutes and go down 18% (Happened this morning)
Android really has some issues with kitkat, and even though we try and fix these problems with modifications there comes a point where one just gives up and tries to deal with it.
I don't understand why my phone gets 1.2 days and my co-workers Verizon s5 gets 9 days with normal usage. Everyone seems to have crazy all over the scale battery life results. Heck, i've reset my phone and flashed so many roms that i'd be safe to say that I have yet to have 10 full discharges in the 4 weeks i've had the phone. At the end of the day though, it's mountains better than my iphone 5 with a lenmar battery case.
Wish I could say the same with stability, I'd be on my bike and switch tracks (or try) and stuff just doesn't respond, heck I can't even go with voice activation with wired headphones and that is really a downer for me. I want to be able to hold down the pause and play and get the google now boop boop sound and speak as i'm riding.
I'm tired of this, and google has no answers, the fixes above only seem to add a couple of hours but not the 9 days I was seeing.

Goldie said:
I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...

dandroid13 said:
So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...
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My rom. With nothing removed or frozen as I have to keep all bloat due to development to check everything. I recharge every night usually with about 20% left and about 5h30 screen on. Using Tapatalk, music, calls, Internet. The usual stuff.
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I get 6-7 hours normal use with the bloatware I never use frozen. And I mean never use.
Gtalk, whatsapp, line, google drive, dropbox, gmail, Yahoo mail, corporate mail, all running. No greenify. No battery saver.
Now playing games is different thing. 2-3 hours max.

My battery is amazing. I keep the screen brightness lower, keep networks and chips off when not using, i use bootmanager to prevent apps from launching ay boot and only 1 active widget. Good for a day and a half of very fair use !
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It's your probleme. Problably you have some stupid apps I'm your phone that you shouldn't have.
Like you see in my picture. My battery it's just fine and there is 2 stupid apps that eat me my battery without do anything

My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps

matheus_sc said:
My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps
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Yup probably, the only flaw with a smartphone is its user