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anyone has sudden battery fall problem?

This morning i woke up the battery was at 92
when i turn on wifi and browse for like
a minute the battery falls to 87
the phone was brand new stock rom and kernel
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I would say these things happen, atleast to me also. Best bet is to look at longer time intervals and average the battery usage. Install Better Battery Stats and it can help give you a general idea of what is causing battery drain.
I've had the phone go 10 hours in overnight and not budge from 100% and show a similar drop to what you''ve had on light use after.

sucre213 said:
This morning i woke up the battery was at 92
when i turn on wifi and browse for like
a minute the battery falls to 87
the phone was brand new stock rom and kernel
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I had this exact problem and RMA'd. It may be an issue of power cycling the battery so many times but I didn't want to take the chance. My new phone has a strong battery that lasts 5 hours on average.

avink said:
I would say these things happen, atleast to me also. Best bet is to look at longer time intervals and average the battery usage. Install Better Battery Stats and it can help give you a general idea of what is causing battery drain.
I've had the phone go 10 hours in overnight and not budge from 100% and show a similar drop to what you''ve had on light use after.
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So do you want to replace it ? To be honest, the battery is the only issue i found about this phone . I mean for a phone that has 2100mAh battery and 28nm CPU, the battery performance is only a little bit better than my i9000, that's disappointing...

dralways said:
I had this exact problem and RMA'd. It may be an issue of power cycling the battery so many times but I didn't want to take the chance. My new phone has a strong battery that lasts 5 hours on average.
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I was going to say these forums have the worst reasons to RMA. Then I saw the username and suspicion was confirmed.
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sucre213 said:
This morning i woke up the battery was at 92
when i turn on wifi and browse for like
a minute the battery falls to 87
the phone was brand new stock rom and kernel
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Had the same issue b4 getting it bricked... sent for RMA !

joshnichols189 said:
I was going to say these forums have the worst reasons to RMA. Then I saw the username and suspicion was confirmed.
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Lmfao what the hell is your problem, kid?
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMNET, THIS CREEPY KID FOLLOWS MY POSTS ON XDA JUST TO POST BRAINLESS, SPINELESS REAPONSES TO MINE. PLEASE BEWARE!

sucre213 said:
This morning i woke up the battery was at 92
when i turn on wifi and browse for like
a minute the battery falls to 87
the phone was brand new stock rom and kernel
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its the battery bug...hops in between... if this time is ur only problem....it may not come back again....
dont rma just for that... if it comes often then u can

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Lmfao what the hell is your problem, kid?
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Lol you are some kind of self centered to think someone follows you around. You just happen to post useless information in almost every. Single. Q/A thread.
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Off topic I know but if anyone knows of an option to block a member on this forum so that their posts become invisible, please PM me.
Edit: nevermind figured it out, had to use browser.

sucre213 said:
This morning i woke up the battery was at 92
when i turn on wifi and browse for like
a minute the battery falls to 87
the phone was brand new stock rom and kernel
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Its probably because you turned on wifi at that point, while you were browsing the phone is also checking for updates in the background

I've definitely had this problem.
I was getting really good battery life. I've had GSam battery monitor installed since opening and my average is showing at 21h 18m. Yet in the past 2 or 3 days the battery life has fallen off a cliff. I've had about 7.5hrs use so far today, with well under an hour of screen on time, and yet am at 30%.
The big change is battery drain in inactive states. I used to be able to leave it unplugged overnight and the GSam graph would basically be flat. I might lose 1 or 2 per cent. The other night I lost 40%.
The main differences in the GSam app usage section is that the Kernal (Android OS) is now sky high (13.2% for today). I'd hardly registered that as anywhere near a top used before. Chrome seems to be eating up background battery too now, whereas it never used to.
The only change in usage is that I bought a Maxell Qi charging pad, and have used it once or twice. I have to admit, I'm a little concerned. For now, I'm currently on stock everything.

I have same problem whit my Nexus 4.
I charged it today from 15% to Full and then unplugged it and gone to caffe bar whit my friend for a 3 hours and then went home.
That means my Nexus 4 was full time on sleep mode,but when i checked battery % its was on 97% thats pretty much for standby isnt it??
Mediaserver was on top whit 85% and Sleep mode was second whit 10%.
But i think i found solution for this battery drainage.
1.If you have battery drain issue turn off you Nexus 4.
2.Let it be off for an 1 or 2 hours.
3.Turn it on.
4.There should be no Mediaserver battery drain.
NOTE:If you turn you device off again for 1 or 2 hours problem will come back.
For now problem is somehow solved for me whit this Turning off for several hours.
Please report if there is success!!

Actually dropping tot 97% in 3 hours of standby does not sound like a problem. Also depends a lot on the signal quality during standby.
Dropping from 100% to 98-97% goes very quick on my phone. That's a matter of calibration of the battery meter. After that little drop it works like I expect it would.
Remember that the percentage is just an interpretation of battery voltage expressed in percentages. It's an estimation instead of an exact figure.

My nexus was dying after 3-4hrs of standby....with no use and data/WiFi off.
Also seemed like the phone took forever to charge. It got to a point that I turned it off to ensure I would be able to make 1 or 2 short calls during the day
It also stayed burning hot.
RMAd it and new phone has No issues.
Easily gets through day and night with very heavy use. I still haven't updated to 4.2.1.
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Okay so here is my screenshots.
One from early morning and after work.
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Karlo666 said:
Okay so here is my screenshots.
One from early morning and after work.
Sorry for Croatian i forgot to change to English in settings.
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I'm confused. What's your issue? If I had 16 hours use with only an 8% drop in battery I would be ecstatic. I'd have about 75% use during that time ... on a good day. On a bad day, it would have died after 12 hours.

stenard said:
I'm confused. What's your issue? If I had 16 hours use with only an 8% drop in battery I would be ecstatic. I'd have about 75% use during that time ... on a good day. On a bad day, it would have died after 12 hours.
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Dont you read?
I left phone home not useing it at all and its full time sleep mode

My battery is acting weird lately as well. It actually went up charged to 98% to charged in the span of one hour
what the heck?

Mine fell like that when I went out in the cold. 30% in one minute. Then I stayed on 3% for 45 minute till I found a charger. Hmmmmm
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[Q] 2 hours screen on time normal?

Recently bought a Nexus 4 and I knew the battery life wasn't great, but I didn't think it was this bad.
I'm running the latest version of paranoid android and is getting about 2 hours of on screen time (With 3g on, sync off, auto-brightness) normal? Or would it be worth contacting Google or buying a new battery or something.
The thing which confuses me is that some people report having good battery life while some report having bad battery life, is there a fundamental difference in their hardware? Or are they just different usage level users?

georgeos said:
Recently bought a Nexus 4 and I knew the battery life wasn't great, but I didn't think it was this bad.
I'm running the latest version of paranoid android and is getting about 2 hours of on screen time (With 3g on, sync off, auto-brightness) normal? Or would it be worth contacting Google or buying a new battery or something.
The thing which confuses me is that some people report having good battery life while some report having bad battery life, is there a fundamental difference in their hardware? Or are they just different usage level users?
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1. battery life mostly depends on your own setup and usage. we all set up our phones differenyly and use it differently.
2. try a different rom and/or kernel.
i get anywhere from 3.5-5.5 hours screen on time, depending how im using my device.

simms22 said:
1. battery life mostly depends on your own setup and usage. we all set up our phones differenyly and use it differently.
2. try a different rom and/or kernel.
i get anywhere from 3.5-5.5 hours screen on time, depending how im using my device.
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Used to be on stock rom with Franco Kernel, couldn't push past 2.5 hours.

georgeos said:
Used to be on stock rom with Franco Kernel, couldn't push past 2.5 hours.
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maybe its your setup? the more apps syncing in the background, the less battery. the brighter your screen, the less battery, live wallpapers equal less battery, low quality of your phone/data connection equals less battery, more rom "features" that are active equal less battery life, the worse your phone deep sleeps equal less battery, etc..

I get about 3.5 hours on a rooted nexus 4 with stock JB and no custom kernel.

I get between 3 and 4 hours screen on time with AOKP and Faux123 kernel. That's a mix of WiFi and mobile data, usually with an hour or so of audio streaming.
Your signal strength has a huge effect on battery life, too.
Sent from an N4 blessed with AOKP and sanctified by Faux123!

Try matrix kernel 9.5 change the governor to Wheatley and bam amazing battery life 3+ of sot
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Totally stock I get 4 hours OST.
2 hours? That sux man!

Brightness is probably the biggest issue I would think. I managed to get an easy 3.5 hours screen on time on the lowest brightness but struggled to get more than 2.5 on full brightness yesterday (although I was also listening to music a fair amount it must be said).
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I use to have around 3 hours of SOT, if not more. I usually use my phone on Wi-fi, have a good GSM signal by my house.
Like 2-3 hours of wi-fi, lots of texting, few games, and auto-brightness always on.
SaberMod, with Franco Kernel .156 (nightly). Also, I have Touch Control installed which takes about 1-2% of the total battery over two days, not that bad

One thing that makes a major difference is turning Location Access off whenever you don't need it
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But.. These guys that say they do 5 -7 hours of sot are not using their device.. I'm willing to bet android system idle in I. Their battery consumption list.. Or they have almost everything turned off.. Which then why own a smartphone?
Depending on how your using your device anything between 2-3 hours of sot is perfectly normal. I average just under 3 in a 12 hour battery span.. But over 24+ hours I see less than 2 hours of sot.. But I'm not a lite user..
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Try greenify!

PJcastaldo said:
But.. These guys that say they do 5 -7 hours of sot are not using their device.. I'm willing to bet android system idle in I. Their battery consumption list.. Or they have almost everything turned off.. Which then why own a smartphone?
Depending on how your using your device anything between 2-3 hours of sot is perfectly normal. I average just under 3 in a 12 hour battery span.. But over 24+ hours I see less than 2 hours of sot.. But I'm not a lite user..
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You can not increase sot and not use the device. Get it? Any time the screen is on, the device is in use and the screen just being on is one of the biggest battery users. Try setting your screen to where it won't turn off in the settings menu and then just set it down somewhere. You will find out how quickly the battery drains vs with the screen off. I get 4-5 hrs sot on cellular and 5-6 on wifi. I have background data, syncing, wifi, and gps on all the time. The things I do keep off are Google Now and Google Currents. I also have screen brightness set to roughly 30-35%. I also typically have a good cell signal, in a major metro area. When in a bad location, my sot does drop to around 3hrs.
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fernandezhjr said:
You can not increase sot and not use the device. Get it? Any time the screen is on, the device is in use and the screen just being on is one of the biggest battery users. Try setting your screen to where it won't turn off in the settings menu and then just set it down somewhere. You will find out how quickly the battery drains vs with the screen off. I get 4-5 hrs sot on cellular and 5-6 on wifi. I have background data, syncing, wifi, and gps on all the time. The things I do keep off are Google Now and Google Currents. I also have screen brightness set to roughly 30-35%. I also typically have a good cell signal, in a major metro area. When in a bad location, my sot does drop to around 3hrs.
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I understand.. That's what I'm saying.. If I didn't use my phone very heavily I'll go a good 20+ hours apposed to a 12 hour period where I was using it much more... That's why its this way for me.. Get it?
And I keep everything turned on.. Except for notifications in certain apps like Facebook cause its annoying.
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PJcastaldo said:
I understand.. That's what I'm saying.. If I didn't use my phone very heavily I'll go a good 20+ hours apposed to a 12 hour period where I was using it much more... That's why its this way for me.. Get it?
And I keep everything turned on.. Except for notifications in certain apps like Facebook cause its annoying.
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I thought you said this, " These guys that say they do 5 -7 hours of sot are not using their device.." When I get 5-7 hours of screen time, it is because I used my device for 5-7 hours and this is typically in a 8-12 total battery period. If I don't use my device much, I can also go 20 hrs.
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PJcastaldo said:
But.. These guys that say they do 5 -7 hours of sot are not using their device.. I'm willing to bet android system idle in I. Their battery consumption list.. Or they have almost everything turned off.. Which then why own a smartphone?
Depending on how your using your device anything between 2-3 hours of sot is perfectly normal. I average just under 3 in a 12 hour battery span.. But over 24+ hours I see less than 2 hours of sot.. But I'm not a lite user..
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the harder that you use your device, the more screen on time that you will see. if you use up your battery within 7-10 hours, chances are that you will see more screen on time than someone who uses up their battery in 20+ hours. heres one of my random days usages, i dont disable crap just to disable it. instead, ive learned to take care of my apps so they dont misbehave, and have my system highly optimized. this is my average battery life. i have gotten 5.5+ hours many times, but will post this one because its my average.
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simms22 said:
the harder that you use your device, the more screen on time that you will see. if you use up your battery within 7-10 hours, chances are that you will see more screen on time than someone who uses up their battery in 20+ hours. heres one of my random days usages, i dont disable crap just to disable it. instead, ive learned to take care of my apps so they dont misbehave, and have my system highly optimized. this is my average battery life. i have gotten 5.5+ hours many times, but will post this one because its my average.
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To me it looks like you just set your phone to not turn the screen off and sat it there.
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PJcastaldo said:
To me it looks like you just set your phone to not turn the screen off and sat it there.
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funny, i was willing ro bet that youd say that no matter what. unfortunately you are wrong. try mx player, see how much itll drain if you just open it and not watch a movie. it wont drain, onl y if you watch a movie. plus, im a photographer, and spent lots of time editing photos. of course there are all those apps that are below 4% that arent shown in the screenshot, like the browser. and of course, running antutu doesnt count either, right? or do i have to use my phone exactly like you do for it to count? sorry, i dont have the facebook app installed

simms22 said:
funny, i was willing ro bet that youd say that no matter what. unfortunately you are wrong. try mx player, see how much itll drain if you just open it and not watch a movie. it wont drain, onl y if you watch a movie. plus, im a photographer, and spent lots of time editing photos. of course there are all those apps that are below 4% that arent shown in the screenshot, like the browser. and of course, running antutu doesnt count either, right? or do i have to use my phone exactly like you do for it to count? sorry, i dont have the facebook app installed
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I was only messing with you..
That was my pont . I have noticed a trend as of late where the majority of people seem to be in some kind of pissing match over SOT.. And depending on what your doing will affect your personal experience..
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Hi
I am using GT i9500 stock firmware. I think my battety drains really fast
Any suggeations ??
Here are my battery stats
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laksh2293 said:
Hi
I am using GT i9500 stock firmware. I think my battety drains really fast
Any suggeations ??
Here are my battery stats
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Well honestly speaking.....according to the screen shot.....your battery life is pretty good....i mean its run over 18hrs with 50%....thats really good
Anyway if you want more battery life...try these out
1. All your radios ( Wifi, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth,etc) are huge battery killers....use them only if you need to....i know mobile data and wifi are always needed.....so i suggest you use wifi over mobile data....the usual battery consumption is higher on 3G and 4G rather than wifi.
2. All the smart settings (smart pause,stay,scroll,and rotate) cause battery drainage too....so if you want to consume every last drop...i suggest to keep only the necessary ones on.
3. Same can be said about air gestures and air view.....the related sensors are always on....they are constantly monitoring whether you are going to use the motions....so keep only the essentials on.
4. Dont keep all your apps opened.....long press the home key and swipe away all the unnecessary opened apps....because this can prolong battery life as well.
5. There are little things like haptic feedback....keyboard vibrations and sounds....lock screen and dial pad sounds as well as others i may not have mentioned....these individually don't amount to a huge battery drain...but when all of these little elements are combined....they could waste a considerable amount of battery.
6. Even screen brightness tends to drain the battery...i suggest auto brightness or ...you need to keep sliding the brightness bar to reduce the excessive back-light. Also auto rotation is another one of those tiny battery killers.
7. Auto syncing data all the time leads to a huge battery drain....so i suggest you switch it off when not in use....you could save a bit more juice.
8. Use power saving mode to get even better battery life....it reduces the CPU level and slightly dims the screen.....and of course offs haptic feedback....these can be useful....especially if the CPU is running at a lower level...its battery consumption is less.
9.Dont drain your battery to 0%....i suggest you to to start charging at about 15-20%.....over discharging the battery can be harmful to your battery life...also dont over charge the battery for too long. The thing is...with these new Li-ion batteries....they installed a circuit that prevents the battery from over charging...but we should also not do it just cause we can right? If its charged to a 100% take it off the charger.
10. Well if you are still not happy with your battery life....check the XDA forums...they have really good tutorials regarding this.....also i suggest using 3rd party applications such as juice defender to aid you to get better battery life.....
Well as i did mention earlier.....you already have have pretty decent battery life....but one must try to get the maximum right? So yeah....hope this helped you...hope it gave you some idea as to what you are dealing with....good luck

laksh2293 said:
Hi
I am using GT i9500 stock firmware. I think my battety drains really fast
Any suggeations ??
Here are my battery stats
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With the same usage your battery life will last for about 36-37 hours. That's 1 day and 14 more hours. Sound pretty good to me.
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More than a day with an average of 5hours screen time for average user...

My battery does not lasts mre than 22 hrs. I have replaced my battery...no luck..what should I fo ??
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I have already done all the things you stated...but my battery lasts not more than 22 hours..I have factory resetted my phone a couple of times...no luck..what should I do ??
I have replaced my battery with a new one...still no luck
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And in that 22 hours..7 hours my cell is idle coz I am sleeping. And as of now in 1.5 houts my battery has drained about 10 percent. I used facebook for 5 mins 1 or 2 calle for abt 2 min each and 20 min music
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laksh2293 said:
And in that 22 hours..7 hours my cell is idle coz I am sleeping. And as of now in 1.5 houts my battery has drained about 10 percent. I used facebook for 5 mins 1 or 2 calle for abt 2 min each and 20 min music
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Yoir screen time?

laksh2293 said:
And in that 22 hours..7 hours my cell is idle coz I am sleeping. And as of now in 1.5 houts my battery has drained about 10 percent. I used facebook for 5 mins 1 or 2 calle for abt 2 min each and 20 min music
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Your battery life seems just fine to me. And if you do the calculation 1.5h = 10% it means that your battery would last more than 10h with that usage, so getting about 4h of screen time (thats average for me) is definitely possible

laksh2293 said:
I have already done all the things you stated...but my battery lasts not more than 22 hours..I have factory resetted my phone a couple of times...no luck..what should I do ??
I have replaced my battery with a new one...still no luck
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While you may not have done anything major....and you may have followed my steps....but it could also be the apps you use.....they maybe working in the background hogging your battery life....honestly it all comes down to the way each person uses his phone.....plus anyway your battery life seems to be pretty good anyway.....

no more than 2 days for me

I think your battery life is great! Mine is about 20-26 hours with 3-4 Hours screen time with heavy use. I am on Arrow Rom with Stock kernel. I think is very good too.

Screen utilization 33%
Time on 4 hours and 15 mins
Battery 10%
Total phone time 21 hours 37 mins
Is it normal??
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Terrible battery life. Compare battery stats!!

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I am only getting around 5-6 hrs of screen on time with moderate usage. Android system and android os are probably the main problem that is causing this battery drain. Can you guys show me how ur battery life is and if u are having the same problems.

Also does ur battery stats show mobile data turned on even when it is off??

That's not bad, it is average for a phone with such power. The Note 3 was the same way. That is why they made and sold the Zero lemon battery and case for it. Which was three batteries combined.
Mines been up 13 hours and is down to 57% with the screen being 37% of the load becuase I keep brightness on max at a times. I also have bluetooth on all the time for my car as well as SPARK looking for a connection all the time.

Yeah 5 to 6 hours of screen on time is pretty good. I would say if you want anything more you need to get an extended battery.

Let your WiFi sleep when screen is off.

dschachm said:
Let your WiFi sleep when screen is off.
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If your wifi sleeps when the screen is off, it will use 3/4G to collect data. I wonder if that is better or worse?

I believe the wifi scanning will drain the battery more. If you are truely concerned, you can download deep sleep battery saver and it will turn everything off.

I consider that Pretty good battery life coming from the n5.
Here's my gn4:
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That's pretty good battery life. I've never had a phone that could make it more than 4-5 hours screen on, not without disabling half the **** I use.

Im at 39 percent after 16+ hours
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I get the same 4 to 5 hrs screen time, which is amazing. what are u smoking, OP?
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I got 24 hr screen on time today.....plugged in. I'm sure I can get longer screen time too!

I used the 50% off coupon code Samsung sent me for buying the phone to order the spare battery and charger from their store... After code it was only $20! Now I'm not worried about battery life lol. Just arrived yesterday

And THIS thread is the reason I'm looking forward to my upgrade date Nov 1st. My Nexus 5 tapped out after 6 hours with only 2 hours of screen on time.
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I've had 8 hrs of screen on time with moderate use on my note 3. Even the s5 that I've used gotten better screen on time than the note 4

Tried installing better battery stats, required install as system app and wasn't working.
Now it won't uninstall, reboots phone!
Can someone help?
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imex99 said:
Tried installing better battery stats, required install as system app and wasn't working.
Now it won't uninstall, reboots phone!
Can someone help?
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I'm actually very happy with my battery life. I had a rooted GS3 before the Note 4 and I bought the ZeroLemon extended battery for the S3. I had decent battery life on that but I use my phone so much, with the screen on, that I wanted to stay off the charger for more than 4-5 hours at a time.
I was concerned about the battery life with the Note 4 before I got it because I've never had a Galaxy Note before. I have to say that I absolutely love the phone and the battery life I've been getting! I'm not rooted, at least not yet. I'm getting 6.5 to just over 8 hours of screen on with moderate to heavy usage. I am on WiFi almost all the time. I hardly make or receive phone calls but I do text and use WhatsApp a lot. No Bluetooth, no NFC, haptic feedback turned off for everything, brightness turned down very low. Mobile data turned off when I'm home since I'm on WiFi. I use the s-pen quite a bit. I use Tasker to change some settings when I go out, come home, etc. I play games (Restaurant Story, Stand O' Food, and some others daily), watch YouTube, Facebook, XDA app, lots of reading articles using Chrome Beta, lots of apps that I'm sure don't tax the phone too much. I use the black background for every app that has it as an option. Now if I've been playing GTA: San Andreas then the battery crashes fast. LOL But that's expected.
Anyway, I'm just trying to give an idea of what I do on my phone. I consider my usage to be pretty heavy but everyone has their own opinion of what heavy or moderate usage means.
Edit: amazingly I just hit 9 hours of screen on. I'm down to 2%. Now that I hit 9 hours I can plug my charger in. LOL Saw it getting close so I waited.
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Dont know about you sir but the battery is amazing on my end.....moderate use at work all day and the phone is still on 92%.....

died4u525 said:
I'm actually very happy with my battery life. I had a rooted GS3 before the Note 4 and I bought the ZeroLemon extended battery for the S3. I had decent battery life on that but I use my phone so much, with the screen on, that I wanted to stay off the charger for more than 4-5 hours at a time.
I was concerned about the battery life with the Note 4 before I got it because I've never had a Galaxy Note before. I have to say that I absolutely love the phone and the battery life I've been getting! I'm not rooted, at least not yet. I'm getting 6.5 to just over 8 hours of screen on with moderate to heavy usage. I am on WiFi almost all the time. I hardly make or receive phone calls but I do text and use WhatsApp a lot. No Bluetooth, no NFC, haptic feedback turned off for everything, brightness turned down very low. Mobile data turned off when I'm home since I'm on WiFi. I use the s-pen quite a bit. I use Tasker to change some settings when I go out, come home, etc. I play games (Restaurant Story, Stand O' Food, and some others daily), watch YouTube, Facebook, XDA app, lots of reading articles using Chrome Beta, lots of apps that I'm sure don't tax the phone too much. I use the black background for every app that has it as an option. Now if I've been playing GTA: San Andreas then the battery crashes fast. LOL But that's expected.
Anyway, I'm just trying to give an idea of what I do on my phone. I consider my usage to be pretty heavy but everyone has their own opinion of what heavy or moderate usage means.
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Edit: amazingly I just hit 9 hours of screen on. I'm down to 2%. Now that I hit 9 hours I can plug my charger in. LOL Saw it getting close so I waited.
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Wow that is awesome. I have never seen a device get that much screen on time without being rooted. Is it a software problem for me then that is causing a battery drain ?

HTC One M9 Battery life and SOT discussion

I couldn't find a thread about battery and SOT, so here it is.
Battery life is one of the most important things in today's gadgets and even if it's often up to what kind of apps and usage pattern you have there is still good to find a baseline to benchmark your own battery life against.
Please show us your battery life, SOT and any findings you have about what to do, and not, to maximize it.
If possible , please use gsam battery monitor and post screenshot. Gsam is a great tool and will also show you parts of what's going on energywise. Root is normally needed for more granular reports.
Thanks!
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I'll put up some screenshots tomorrow after I've had a few full cycles. But its not looking good IMO.
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It's still a very early firmware and hopefully it's possible to find what's draining.
Looking forward to it, but sad news if it's the same for everyone.
Thank you!

First cycles with all initial syncs were getting me about 6:30 hours. After a few cycles, intensive usage (very little gaming, but lots of browsing, twitter, FB, sports timer, some camera etc) I am getting around 8:45. I noticed that changing brightness from default auto (too dark for me) to manual +2 (very bright) doesn't impact battery life much. I think the main drain comes from the 810 and theming.
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8:45 of screen on time ?

avara said:
First cycles with all initial syncs were getting me about 6:30 hours. After a few cycles, intensive usage (very little gaming, but lots of browsing, twitter, FB, sports timer, some camera etc) I am getting around 8:45. I noticed that changing brightness from default auto (too dark for me) to manual +2 (very bright) doesn't impact battery life much. I think the main drain comes from the 810 and theming.
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Theming is known to be able to drain.
Is there a "stock version" that don't drain and is it possible to measure?
When it comes to the SOC, I imagine that's mostly up to Qualcomm and HTC to fix.

Actually more around 8:00 screen on with 45' screen off. Note that I disabled FB and Twitter feed sync, and configured location services only on one Google account and did not use theming on these cycles.
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avara said:
Actually more around 8:00 screen on with 45' screen off. Note that I disabled FB and Twitter feed sync, and configured location services only on one Google account and did not use theming on these cycles.
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About 8 hours of SOT with more than 50% brightness sounds really good, even if you turn location and stuff off.
Can you upload som statistic about what is taking battery and SOT?
Thanks

8 hours is quite consistent with the reviews, e.g. Engadget:
In the standard Engadget rundown test (with a video set to loop endlessly while the screen's set to 50 percent brightness), the M9 stuck around for eight hours and 19 minutes -- a decent increase over the original One M7, but far short of the 11-plus hours we squeezed out of the M8 last year and the 10-plus hours the G Flex2 put up. That seems abnormally low, especially considering that the M9 did just fine when it came to average daily use: It regularly hung around for 13 to 14 hours of continuous work use (including a few spells as a mobile hotspot during press events) without batting an eye.
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Also in my experience 8 hours with the screen off will drain 10%. This is without the phone doing much and WiFi only as I don't have a SIM in there yet.
Coming from a first gen Moto G I don't feel too concerned.

Xero Xenith said:
8 hours is quite consistent with the reviews, e.g. Engadget:
Also in my experience 8 hours with the screen off will drain 10%. This is without the phone doing much and WiFi only as I don't have a SIM in there yet.
Coming from a first gen Moto G I don't feel too concerned.
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True, but most of those test is normally about looping a video, web-script, on 50% brightness.
I you just got the phone and using it in a mixed way 8 hours is pretty good. I never had 8 hours on the M8, even when reading books with flight-mode on (weekend in another country, don't want to get ruined
But... I also have close to 200 apps running god knows what in the background.

dondavis007 said:
About 8 hours of SOT with more than 50% brightness sounds really good, even if you turn location and stuff off.
Can you upload som statistic about what is taking battery and SOT?
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Absolutely no way is anyone getting 8hrs of SOT with 50% left. Not even then 720p blue studio energy with a 5000mah is.
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robstunner said:
Absolutely no way is anyone getting 8hrs of SOT with 50% left. Not even then 720p blue studio energy with a 5000mah is.
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No one said they had 50% battery remaining after 8 hours of SOT. They were talking about the screen brightness being set at 50%

I think you've misread that. It's 8hrs SOT with brightness at 50%. Not remaining battery at 50%.
Here is mine so far tonight after 2 full drain and recharge cycles.
It seems the system itself is a big impact on the battery. Need a lot more work on the firmware.
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It seems the system itself is a big impact on the battery. Need a lot more work on the firmware.
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I think this is the only encouraging thing anyone can say right now.
We know that the M8 is capable of great battery life. The M9 has a bigger battery than the M8 so hopefully the firmware can improve.
As apposed to the S6 where the battery size leaves the battery life nowhere to go but down.

I've been testing a Verizon version with all the test software on it so it's hard to gauge battery life. My main complaint about the phone is its slow charge rate. Takes hours to charge
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pwned3 said:
I've been testing a Verizon version with all the test software on it so it's hard to gauge battery life. My main complaint about the phone is its slow charge rate. Takes hours to charge
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im guessing your not buying the htc quick charger 2.0?

PlatinumNick said:
im guessing your not buying the htc quick charger 2.0?
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That's using a Motorola fast charger that came with my nexus. I think that the last update slowed the charge to help with battery temp problems many of the testers were having
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spikeydoo2006 said:
No one said they had 50% battery remaining after 8 hours of SOT. They were talking about the screen brightness being set at 50%
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Even 8 hours in general is hard to believe in real world use.
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im guessing your not buying the htc quick charger 2.0?
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I used an Apple iPad charger which gives out 12w/2.1a. It still took nearly 5hrs to charge my dead phone to full power.
My iPhone 6 plus with the same charger takes about 2.5-3hrs to charge a dead phone.

Charging m9 with out of the box charger from 12% takes me about 2 hours and 15 minutes. I'm in France . Don't know whether this is the 'quick' charger or not.
Also, power history graph crashes if I try to launch it while charging
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