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Everywhere I read about this phone, I don't see it mention the battery life. With a big battery there should be some baterry review.
Galaxy S II has 4.3" screen and 1650 mAh battery,
Galaxy Note has 5.3" screen and 2500 mAh battery.
it looks like Note's battery life is not much but longer than S II
Got mine today.
Charged it to 100% at 7pm.
From then i used it almost all the time with the display on (now it's almost 12pm here)
Batterie has now 75% left.
Looks good...
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Stopped charging at 7 a.m. at 100%, surfing, making 2 calls, doing some fun stuff with the pen (drawing, making some videos for youtube to show), playing some Fieldrunners HD, now 40% left.
At home since 4 p.m. and connected to the Wifi hotspot.
This is great news! Thanks for sharing. Hoping to order mine soon.
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Prinzessin Horst said:
Got mine today.
Charged it to 100% at 7pm.
From then i used it almost all the time with the display on (now it's almost 12pm here)
Batterie has now 75% left.
Looks good...
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derhannes1983 said:
Stopped charging at 7 a.m. at 100%, surfing, making 2 calls, doing some fun stuff with the pen (drawing, making some videos for youtube to show), playing some Fieldrunners HD, now 40% left.
At home since 4 p.m. and connected to the Wifi hotspot.
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Envy !!!!!!!!! handtech please send my phone soon
Looking good Here it is coming not before 3rd November. Just want to have a hands on before I buy...
Getting mine 1st Novermber!! The First thing i'm going to do is get rid of touch wiz though :/
This taken from the engadget review
Sound awesome....
Our battery rundown test (playing a video in a loop starting from a full charge) achieved an impressive 9 hours and 36 minutes, putting the Galaxy Note right into iPad territory.
got mine and will be testing it whole day tomorrow, will update how it turns out
Prinzessin Horst said:
Got mine today.
Charged it to 100% at 7pm.
From then i used it almost all the time with the display on (now it's almost 12pm here)
Batterie has now 75% left.
Looks good...
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How long does it take to charge from drained to FULLY. I have the the infuse and it takes forever to charge, it is not fast charge like HTC is or any other smartphone. Samsung seems to take forever to charge compared to other Smartphones.
falgun said:
How long does it take to charge from drained to FULLY. I have the the infuse and it takes forever to charge, it is not fast charge like HTC is or any other smartphone. Samsung seems to take forever to charge compared to other Smartphones.
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Time to charge will depend on the
1. battery capacity,
2. charger and
3. settings about how fast the battery can be charged
1- no control.
2- chargers are mostly 1mAp . Default charger for samsung gives only 650mAP ( at least in SGSII ) . So u can use a more powerful charger.
3. Kernel changes can be made to make charging faster
Downside of faster charging : Lower battery life in the long run.
Day one with a full charge in the morning.
Ofcourse I used it more than usual, its new you know....
I guess battery life will be sort of the same as the Galaxy S2, about 1 day of moderate use.
I think thats too short, way too short. (had a mophie juice for all my iPhones, and the Samsung S2 official battery pack)
3500 or 4000ma would be so much more convenient..... Room enough in the case of the note I guess.... Who cares about the few extra grams....
My Nokia E61, now that had a battery LIFE.... 3 days was normal...
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Well you had screen on very much ! What you expect with the size of this thing!
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Gede said:
Day one with a full charge in the morning.
Ofcourse I used it more than usual, its new you know....
I guess battery life will be sort of the same as the Galaxy S2, about 1 day of moderate use.
I think thats too short, way too short. (had a mophie juice for all my iPhones, and the Samsung S2 official battery pack)
3500 or 4000ma would be so much more convenient..... Room enough in the case of the note I guess.... Who cares about the few extra grams....
My Nokia E61, now that had a battery LIFE.... 3 days was normal...
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Looking at that graph your Wifi is constantly on when the screen is off.
What is your Wifi sleep policy?
Beards said:
Looking at that graph your Wifi is constantly on when the screen is off.
What is your Wifi sleep policy?
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Uhhh, "Never"...
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Uhhh, "Never"...
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That makes perfect sense then why your Wifi is on all the time.
If you change it to 'When screen turns off' it should then terminate Wifi when your not using the phone.
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That makes perfect sense then why your Wifi is on all the time.
If you change it to 'When screen turns off' it should then terminate Wifi when your not using the phone.
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True. It helps with battery but most people leave it on for background data
drgopoos said:
True. It helps with battery but most people leave it on for background data
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It's swings and roundabouts... Which do you value most ~ your battery or your updates!
I leave mine set to when the screen is off, that way I know full well when my screen is off the wifi (which is the biggest killer of battery life) is also off.
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It's swings and roundabouts... Which do you value most ~ your battery or your updates!
I leave mine set to when the screen is off, that way I know full well when my screen is off the wifi (which is the biggest killer of battery life) is also off.
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Totally user to user dependent what u need.
Background data is must for me, or else i dont need a smartphone
Hello friends,
Here finally I upgraded to ICS and honestly I get great ( huge ) battery life..
before also I get upgrade and i get very low battery life because of low calibration of battery without my knowledge..
so I've reverted back to gingerbread 2.3.5 and I'm happy
But who wants older version when the new shiny and superb upgrade of ICS is there anyone ???
So finally I upgraded to ICS and after many searching ,, finding ,,, reading and confusion with doubt The great battery life will be came out from our Loving SGN.. so please do not get disappointed just see below.
Really here I provide you some small and very easy steps by using it you will be definitely be happy with your ICS upgrade ..
you doesn't have to go anywhere and doesn't have to buy anything with your valuable money ..
Really happy
Then read it and get longer and more juice from your battery..
you have to follow some easy steps below
1 . First upgrade your ICS from any source whichever you like ... by kies air or Kies on PC or mobile odin or Via PC ODIN [ please do full charge of battery before any upgrade low battery can make your phone unusable or dead you can get more info on other threads ]
2 . Hope you have upgraded successfully.. then use your phone till your battery goes down to 5 % or below...
[ Caution ] Do not use it till it switched off automatically.
3 . Plug your charger and charge it till morning if you are charging at night or else charge it around 6 to 7 Hours even after full charged .. it's important step.. Do not Ignore it ..
4 . and then use it as per your requirements till battery shows 5% or below
5 . Repeat the step 3
6 . Do it around 8 or more charging cycles.
You get really miracle after 3 or 4 full cycles...
[ caution ] do not overcharge after that i.e just do 6 to 7 hours charging for around 5 - 6 cycles ... after that charge till battery shows full charge i.e around 3 - 4 hours. do not overcharge ..
made it habit of full charge cycles if you are comfortable with it. it really gives great battery life then average battery life.
Hope It'll be helpful to you
Regards
It is better to charge randomly than doing full charges every time on Li-Ion batteries.
Doing full charges every time on Li-Ion will result in battery being end-of-life faster...
Overcharging is also bull****. The phone automatically stops charging the battery when it's fully charged.
_breez_ said:
It is better to charge randomly than doing full charges every time on Li-Ion batteries.
Doing full charges every time on Li-Ion will result in battery being end-of-life faster...
Overcharging is also bull****. The phone automatically stops charging the battery when it's fully charged.
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As per research the full cycles of Li-on battery gives good hold of charge and also batter life..
in all honesty your post is as useless as mine right now.
According to me, It can be considered as myth . . If the battery needed to be calibrated then it must have been official.. n 2ndly the procedure above is not professional at all... So dnt even think it wud work.... Neways someone can always try and authenticate...:thumbup:
Noted by the BEAST!!
KAASHP said:
As per research the full cycles of Li-on battery gives good hold of charge and also batter life..
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Doing full charges for calibrating the battery: no problem if you do it once in a while
But you are suggesting people to ALWAYS do full charges on their Li-Ion battery...
8-10 cycles after eachother is too much as well. 2 charges will be enough.
thanks for more info bro
maybe 2 is enough but in many cases it'll be not...
Why do you need to do this just because the OS has changed? And if so then why is it not require on GB?
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Doing full charges for calibrating the battery: no problem if you do it once in a while
But you are suggesting people to ALWAYS do full charges on their Li-Ion battery...
8-10 cycles after eachother is too much as well. 2 charges will be enough.
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I totally agree with you!
Also, never let a battery dry for long periods, it will be damaged beyond repair.
Lithium Ion batteries perform better when you keep it as charged as possible.
I call this thread BS too... But I thank the user for the effort
Yeah ICS battery life sucks. I've done what OP said and I still get 4 hours less Battery life than what gingerbread would give me.
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Why do you need to do this just because the OS has changed? And if so then why is it not require on GB?
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It's essential because all the states of your battery will be wiped in most of the cases while you upgrade also it's helpful to you if you upgrade your ROM.
inurb said:
yeah ics battery life sucks. I've done what op said and i still get 4 hours less battery life than what gingerbread would give me.
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ok bro try this procedure and also report us..
In most of cases we have solved this issue with this procedure even i had this issue before now it works like a charm.
I did several full drain and full charge cycles when I upgraded to ICS. Still got the battery drain bug so I think its more luck than anything else if your battery lasts.
In my case I've discovered that power cycling the device after charging is the most reliable approach.
Install CPU Spy, run it after a charge, reset the timers, and then leave your phone in standby (screen off) for 30s or so. Unlock the phone again, and check CPU Spy - if the 'Deep Sleep' cycle is unused then do a phone restart. This has worked EVERY time for both me and a friend who I told about it. I'm getting similar battery performance to when I was running GB!
Battery life depends on a lot of things, ROM version is not the main thing.
This is my setup:
ICS version LQ3
Speedmod 3-3 Kernel
Disabled a lot of Samsung stuff (Readers hub, social hub...)
No automatic sync of twitter, e-mail, etc
I get pretty much zero battery drain when in deep sleep mode.
Of course when using the phone, screen on, Wifi On, autobrightness... battery usage is bigger and you can drain the battery in only 4 hours if you go for it.
Be careful with:
- Live wallpapers, I've seen cases where they remain active all the time
- Apps syncing data on background every few minutes (facebook, twitter, etc)
- Apps uploading a lot of data on background (google+, dropbox..)
- Games that crash and leave the CPU in a high power state until you reboot
Agree
vcespon said:
Battery life depends on a lot of things, ROM version is not the main thing.
This is my setup:
ICS version LQ3
Speedmod 3-3 Kernel
Disabled a lot of Samsung stuff (Readers hub, social hub...)
No automatic sync of twitter, e-mail, etc
I get pretty much zero battery drain when in deep sleep mode.
Of course when using the phone, screen on, Wifi On, autobrightness... battery usage is bigger and you can drain the battery in only 4 hours if you go for it.
Be careful with:
- Live wallpapers, I've seen cases where they remain active all the time
- Apps syncing data on background every few minutes (facebook, twitter, etc)
- Apps uploading a lot of data on background (google+, dropbox..)
- Games that crash and leave the CPU in a high power state until you reboot
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I am agree with this reply.
If you want to get best battery back-up;
Disable all apps which are working in background, sync n update really eat the phone battery.
I am using my note with active mobile network or wi-fi for a whole day and playing games too without doing this F**KING trick.
The only way battery life gets sucked of Galaxy note is if it doesn't go into deep sleep when not in use.
To all those reporting low battery life: How much battery do you end up losing overnight. ( approx 6-8 hrs)
I typically lose <5 % ( best case scenario has been 1 %)
I had a problem last week and lost 30% overnight and found that it deep go into deep sleep.
and the best solution i found in another thread was to unlock the phone before unplugging from charger
Simply try it: For me normal time between charges is 36 hrs ( battery is near 25% level)
Witches broom battery modification
Battery Lifecycles are connected with the phases of the moon. So you'll get the most out of your battery if you dance at midnight when having full moon spitting five times on your battery.
Many people are of the myth of overcharging n recharging, but its not true wIth lithium batteries, phone will automatically stop charging, if only anything helps its battery calibration,u can do this with a free app called battery calibration, time for the tread to be regarded as close, still useful for noobs
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I get great battery life my phone lasts for months on end without dying. I just plug in the charger every night and my battery has not died yet.
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sanghaviraj said:
Many people are of the myth of overcharging n recharging, but its not true wIth lithium batteries, phone will automatically stop charging, if only anything helps its battery calibration,u can do this with a free app called battery calibration, time for the tread to be regarded as close, still useful for noobs
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Cheers...use BatteryCalibration
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Hi,
I brought my Samsung s4 yesterday and charged it before use it, my question is i used only 1 or 2 h and stand by about 4 h, battery is now 48%.
Is others have same issue?
Is it normal ? draining battery like this ? if not should i send it back?
Please give me some advice .
Regards
Let it completely die 3 times before sending it back imo. It might just be getting poor battery readings
Had mine run GLBenchmark when I was laying down in bed. Found it still on around 7 hours later, the screen still on (after I realized I fell asleep), and was around 10%.
Again, that's with the screen on all 7 hours.
Will try completely draining but battery life is horrible for me also...
I mean I'm at 89% using Power Saver with 11 minutes screen time and only 2.5 hrs off the charger...
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Reason I brought this Samsung s4 over htc because of the large batterie capacity, Samsung disappointed me ..
And thank you friends for advice , hope that drain battery totally will solve this problem. . If not I will return this unit. .
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My battery going down quick as well, today i take at 00:37am from charger was 100% and around 7am left me 68% battery . I was shock, now is 6pm and my phone is connect back to charger because battery was only 18%. All today what I use this is was 3 or 4 call for 4 minutes long and internet connection . Bad Compare to HTC ONe rubbish result.
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My battery going down quick as well, today i take at 00:37am from charger was 100% and around 7am left me 68% battery . I was shock, now is 6pm and my phone is connect back to charger because battery was only 18%. All today what I use this is was 3 or 4 call for 4 minutes long and internet connection . Bad Compare to HTC ONe rubbish result.
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You have mediaserver running and scanning that's why. Check your stats
Swyped from another galaxy
Hi ski
Can you please explain me what do you meaning by media server?
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safeburn said:
Reason I brought this Samsung s4 over htc because of the large batterie capacity, Samsung disappointed me ..
And thank you friends for advice , hope that drain battery totally will solve this problem. . If not I will return this unit. .
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Give it a few days and then judge. :good:
Battery life its crap. Where is that big battery life improvement over gs3? All those reviewers must be shot dead! Also sound quality its *******. It looks like we got crappy snapdragon version and 3rd world countries get better octa version. Will send this ***** back.
I'm getting pretty horrible battery life as well. I'm giving it a few days do see if it corrects itself before I worry too much though. So far I have been very disappointed in the S4. Atleast the U.S. version.
damon20r said:
I'm getting pretty horrible battery life as well. I'm giving it a few days do see if it corrects itself before I worry too much though. So far I have been very disappointed in the S4. Atleast the U.S. version.
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Try installing this
its made by qualcomm to improve battery life =]
get about 5 hours more on battery
Qualcomm Battery Guru
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I'll see what my battery life is after it settles in and then might look into it. I need to have a little more to compare it to than I have after 2 days of using it.
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I'll see what my battery life is after it settles in and then might look into it. I need to have a little more to compare it to than I have after 2 days of using it.
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Yea generelly it takes about a week for batteries to settle down =] still early days
Yea you really have to let it go for a good week til it gets some battery data & breaks the battery in.
Also the screen drains the battery more than anything you could listen to music for days if you kept the screen off
I remember when I had my old droid x and that thing would run down to 20% streaming pandora for a few hours haha
fade2green514 said:
Let it completely die 3 times before sending it back imo. It might just be getting poor battery readings
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NO NO NO FOR CHRIST SAKE NO. don't listen to this swine. Letting your battery completely discharge is the worst thing you can do for a lithium ion battery, significantly reducing its life
If I helped you out be sure to hit thanks
Swyped from a minimalist S2
MultiLockOn said:
NO NO NO FOR CHRIST SAKE NO. don't listen to this swine. Letting your battery completely discharge is the worst thing you can do for a lithium ion battery, significantly reducing its life
If I helped you out be sure to hit thanks
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firstly, im not a swine.
secondly, its actually really beneficial to let your battery die. since android shuts off the phone before it hits absolute 0% you will not ruin the battery. now, on the other hand, if you let the phone die, set the battery on a shelf for a few months, and then try to use it again, that will probably ruin the battery.
ive let my droid 3's battery die hundreds of times and it still gets me through a full day regularly
leaving the phone on the charger at 100% actually potentially hurts battery life. but, this rarely effects battery life by much.
if you store a battery for long term storage, the suggested amount of charge to leave in the battery is 30-40%
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firstly, im not a swine.
secondly, its actually really beneficial to let your battery die. since android shuts off the phone before it hits absolute 0% you will not ruin the battery. now, on the other hand, if you let the phone die, set the battery on a shelf for a few months, and then try to use it again, that will probably ruin the battery.
ive let my droid 3's battery die hundreds of times and it still gets me through a full day regularly
leaving the phone on the charger at 100% actually potentially hurts battery life. but, this rarely effects battery life by much.
if you store a battery for long term storage, the suggested amount of charge to leave in the battery is 30-40%
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From what I've researched putting any unnecessary strain on the battery isn't good for maintaining it long term. Meaning charging it when it hits 15 percent or so, and yes, not leaving it at a high capacity for extended amounts of time
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Swyped from a minimalist S2
If your battery gets below 3.0 V it's bad. But the phone will shut down when the battery gets below 3.5 V.
MultiLockOn said:
From what I've researched putting any unnecessary strain on the battery isn't good for maintaining it long term. Meaning charging it when it hits 15 percent or so, and yes, not leaving it at a high capacity for extended amounts of time
If I helped you out be sure to hit thanks
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yea im not saying to leave the screen on when you're not using it. im just saying let it die during normal usage. maybe even by the next day.
if you somehow manage to wreck the battery in this thing though, the greatest thing is its easily removable lol
Post your battery life discussions here
I'm getting great battery on mine!
... Errrr, that was a dream I had last night. No edge for me yet.
Well i dont have the phone yet so i cant say to much.
but its only about 220mah less then the note 4.
It is newer tech tho and has a better battery saver then the note 3.
So my guess is the battery would last about as long as the note 3.
If the sidebar is able to display notifications/marquis stuff with the main panel off, then it would seem to make sense that during the course of a day you'd likely have a little less screen time, resulting in slightly better battery performance... thoughts?
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If the sidebar is able to display notifications/marquis stuff with the main panel off, then it would seem to make sense that during the course of a day you'd likely have a little less screen time, resulting in slightly better battery performance... thoughts?
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True.
Just like how dark backgrounds give you better battery then light one.
This would be just a small part the the screen lite vs the full.
But to truly find out we needs hands on.
Samsung announced that battery charging is only 30 minutes For 50%
whether it applies when ON or OFF? since we know that charging while ON and OFF are different, while on its faster charging.
Current condition note 3 off charging at about 2 hours for charging 100%, and when phone on, a bit faster (do not know exactly) ..
how long charging to 100% while on and off for note 4?
but it was great news for 30m for 50%
amrinal said:
Samsung announced that battery charging is only 30 minutes For 50%
whether it applies when ON or OFF? since we know that charging while ON and OFF are different, while on its faster charging.
Current condition note 3 off charging at about 2 hours for charging 100%, and when phone on, a bit faster (do not know exactly) ..
how long charging to 100% while on and off for note 4?
but it was great news for 30m for 50%
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You'll only want to do this occasionally if you want the battery to last long.
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You'll only want to do this occasionally if you want the battery to last long.
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Yup, I think so. I prefer charging while phone off, because the battery last longer. But sometimes quick charging in a hurry really helpful, doesn't it?
What difference does the phone being on or off make on longevity ? Never heard of one.
And im pretty sure they mean while off. Unless the phone can be on at 0% lol. 30 mins 0-50% 99mins 0-full.
Source the Samsung unpacked after show video on YT
Just purchased myself a second hand S4 and it is a very good device, however whenever I charge to 100% once I take off the charger it goes to 99% within a few seconds and I do not have the data on or using any application. Is it normal or is it time to purchase a new battery?
I heard that turning off features like airview and airgesture can save some juice and also prevent the phone from heating.
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How is the battery life in general?
Arshid Vinod said:
I heard that turning off features like airview and airgesture can save some juice and also prevent the phone from heating.
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thanks will try it out
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thanks will try it out
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You're welcome.
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How is the battery life in general?
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When I turn on the data I lose 1% for every one or two minutes. At night when I sleep the phone loses only 5 to 6 % within eight hours. Seems acceptable to me
As long as you're happy with it, it should be ok. If not, change the battery. But it's not always the battery. Sometimes it's the ROM or kernel or other things.
Just got myself an S4 again, the first few days, it was getting very hot and seemed laggy, the battery was draining from 100% to 50% in about 1.5 hours of hardly any use, but it was charging extremely quickly or so its seemed, this one is running official 5.0.1.
So I took the battery out and it was excessively hot and i noticed it had a slight bulge in the centre, did the spin test on a flat surface and it span like a spinning top.
So bought myself another Samsung battery, now over the last few days the phone has hardly heated up and seems to be running so much smoother, battery is very stable in standby mode, still drains quite fast, but no where near as fast as on the old battery, may take a few more days to settle in i guess.
Is it true that one should not only change get the battery when less than 40% or else it will have a bad effect on the battery. I usually keep it on the charger most of the time.
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Not sure about current cell phone batteries but my laptop battery died after running pretty much 24/7 on AC power. 1 year later it was so dead it didn't have juice to boot into desktop when not on AC - died just after passing bios tests.
I would say memory effect after not full charge is less severe than killing it completely by keeping it on wall socket most of the time
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You'd think that laptops would have some sort of charge limiters, by now, that prevents the battery from overcharging.
For stock ROM after charging the phone to 100% .. please don't unplug ..tickle charge still happens .. turn off the screen and wait till LED notification light turns green from red.. only then unplug the charger ..