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Battery Life Solution

I am using the CDMA hero, but this should apply to anyone with a Hero (although our GSM friends have probably figured this out long ago.) Feel free to move my post if you like.
So I too was experiencing extreme battery draw down. I considered the SMS issue with perpetual awake times but after isolating the issue, I was still hitting 30% after after 12 hours with only moderate use. I found that unacceptable considering my Treo has been in standby for 2 weeks now and the battery has not budged. Solution? Turn of Google background services.
I know it hurts to have to manually refresh email, contacts, and calendar, but the return is almost zero battery drain (unless you are actively playing with the phone.) I know this is an obvious fix and I read it elsewhere online when I first got the phone. However, I am addicted to Gmail so I was really hesitant to turn it off. The background services option seems to keep a constant data connection when I really just want it to check my email every 15 minutes or so and update my calendar and contacts once a day. Has anyone found a way to limit the update frequency without the HTC widget. (I prefer the stock Android Gmail client.)

I do not know about the frequency of Gmail syncing,
but the main battery saving trick for me
is to turn the mobile data connection completelly off
when i know i will not (or want not) to be online
for a longer period of time (e.g. in the night, longer car drives, etc)
i am using the build-in htc widget for this

Thanks. That is a pretty good solution. Still wish I could curtail the sync frequency though......

So we need to re-enable it when we want to visit the Market, right? Annoying but if it improves battery life, then not a big deal.

Battery Life?

I've had the HTC Aria for about four days now and my biggest issues is the battery drains to quickly. At first I attributed it to use because android phones prompt you to use them more often. However, even without use it still drains pretty rapidly. Does anyone know of a solution to this issue software wise. I have already turned off Bluetooth, GPS and Wifi. Are there other solutions

I got mine on Saturday, and I've actually gotten pretty good battery life out of it. I'm still in the habit of charging it every night, like I had to do with my old WinMo phone, but I think I could probably go two days without a charge. And that's with GPS / data always on, Wifi parts of the day, and pretty heavy use, since I'm always playing with it.
Have you tried something like Advanced Task Killer to keep apps closed that you aren't using? You can also adjust your screen brightness and timeout to try and save power.

It says that of my power is used by cellular idle or something like that 50% of it was used by that. Could it be my AT&T service

I don't get more than 10 hours out of mine. When I know I will be out all day, I turn the screen brightness almost all the way down to help conserve energy.

Good as it Gets.
With basic usage (some texting, a few calls and some market browsing or playing a game here and there) about 2 to 2.5 days without charging. Maybe the ones having issues with there phone sucking battery have to many widgets running.
In my current configuration I am only using 3 of my screens and only 3 widgets [favorites (small one), HTC clock/weather widget, and the HTC calendar widget (small)]. I have my work email checking every 30 minutes for syncing. I also have gmail and the default mail app pulling mail. I run ATK but only to kill apps on startup (cause it runs almost everything), other than that you don't need a task killer as you will have to reload these tasks next time and that will drain battery. I don't use it after that to kill anything. I am also running my screen at about 30% brightness.
Just some tips, widgets are nice, but they suck the battery life as well as constant updates. Check to see what you are running and disable/remove what is not needed or adjust sync times.

My battery life is fine. I got two days over the weekend with light usage. You need to look at what services are running and disable any widgets that you dont need. You may also want to look at the sync settings and turn off things you dont use (such as news). You do not need a task killer.

Also, see this post:
cranked said:
some quick tips:
1) disable market notifications - Market -> Downloads -> Notifications -> 'Don't Notify Me
2) Lower the sync times for your social network apps like twitter and facebook (or make them manual)
If you still suffer, have a look at some of the great tips HERE on the Cyanogenmod forums...ignore 1 and 3.
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Also one might do *#*#4636#*#* then change phone setting from WCDMA to GSM .... Then that get little more out of battery...

It's critical that you turn off auto-sync; I have found that it absolutely destroys battery life.
Before I was losing maybe 5-10% every hour on standby, but ever since turning off auto-sync, I'm still sitting at 100% battery after 5 hours of standby.
Turning off mobile data/Wi-Fi doesn't make an impact on battery life, in my experience.

hi2u2 said:
It's critical that you turn off auto-sync if you don't want update to happen, such as Facebook, email, google account (cal/contact) sync, etc..; I have found that it absolutely destroys battery life.
Before I was losing maybe 5-10% every hour on standby, but ever since turning off auto-sync, I'm still sitting at 100% battery after 5 hours of standby.
Turning off mobile data/Wi-Fi doesn't make an impact on battery life, in my experience.
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I edited your response..
Auto-Sync in itself is not going to be a problem.. Depends on what's syncing. EVERYONE will have different battery life because everyone uses their phones differently. Different configurations, different accounts used, different amounts of traffic on those accounts, not to mention actual usage patterns.

khaytsus said:
I edited your response..
Auto-Sync in itself is not going to be a problem.. Depends on what's syncing. EVERYONE will have different battery life because everyone uses their phones differently. Different configurations, different accounts used, different amounts of traffic on those accounts, not to mention actual usage patterns.
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90% of people will have *slightly* different battery life.
5% of people will drain it fast.
5% will use it like a voice phone and might even get 16 hrs out of it.
But to turn off all apps makes for an invalid test because then you're testing the phone as if it were a non-smartphone, like a voice only phone.
I think the battery is too small for me and probably too small for most people. I look forward to fat batteries for this great phone.

bwolmarans said:
90% of people will have *slightly* different battery life.
5% of people will drain it fast.
5% will use it like a voice phone and might even get 16 hrs out of it.
But to turn off all apps makes for an invalid test because then you're testing the phone as if it were a non-smartphone, like a voice only phone.
I think the battery is too small for me and probably too small for most people. I look forward to fat batteries for this great phone.
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My wife gets 2+ days out of hers... The battery is not that much smaller than my Nexus One, a more powerful phone, and I'm a power user with a lot of crap running including IMAP push mail, weather syncing... I look in at Market, Facebook, Twitter and manually sync those types of things etc.. I can easily get a full day out of it, off charger ~8am back on the charger midnight, 20-30% left. What I don't do is sit staring at my phone all day or play games for 8 hours at work, nor do I use it as a mp3 player..

Solution to large battery drain when idle

I have found the solution for MY large battery drain:
The problem has been, that my phone used 5% of battery per hour when it’s merely lying around. The battery graph was a straight, quickly decreasing line. So the culprit was not something that happend from time to time but always.
One very disturbing thing: The indicators below the battery graph shows when phone, Wifi and the screen were on. In additions it shows when the phone has been awake.
Even if the screen was off and I did not touch the phone, the „Awake“ indicator constantly showed every minute for a very short time. So the phone never went to sleep, it woke up constantly all the time. Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have a screen capture for this.
Deactivating automatic updates for applications and setting the Emails to sync never didn’t help. I even erased all the Samsung crapware from the system folder, but to no use. The battery died after one day of not doing anything with the phone.
Then I deactivated syncing of the contacts and the calendar for my WindowsLive-Exchange account and the battery drain stopped. I now have less than 1% per hour (see screenshot) when the phone is simply lying around.
So, for me the culprit is the syncing for contacts and calender via Exchange. Unfortunately there is no option to set the sync interval for these.
- Anyone can reproduce this issue?
- Is this just a problem with WindowsLive Exchange or does this happen with other Exchange accounts too?
- Is there a possibility to set the sync interval for contacts and calendar (somehow, maybe via a config file)?

There seems to be something seriously different if not broken in GB 2.3.3. Apps that work perfectly fine in Froyo are keeping GB 2.3.3 from going to sleep. I've isolated several apps that either keep the screen from shutting off or keep the device constantly awake even when it it's no longer running/cached/screen is off. And, these are programs that work perfectly fine in Froyo and do not cause idle drain. Wonder if this is something 2.3.4 addresses...
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I have frozen:
social hub, email (i use another one), and few more programs that I dont use but noticed that they stay on without any reason,
if 3G or wifi is ON battery drain is prery bad, I guess this is a bug in 2.3.3 as cmd512 said.
Last night I turned off wifi and 3g and made sure that wifi share + manager are off (they can be turned off easily if u untick "use wifi" in location settings menu)
so with everything off for 7 hours sleep (dont rly need my phone while sleeping) battery was down 2% only :O
the moment I turn on 3G Android OS use jumps to the skies :X

skycamefalling said:
I have found the solution for MY large battery drain:
The problem has been, that my phone used 5% of battery per hour when it’s merely lying around. The battery graph was a straight, quickly decreasing line. So the culprit was not something that happend from time to time but always.
One very disturbing thing: The indicators below the battery graph shows when phone, Wifi and the screen were on. In additions it shows when the phone has been awake.
Even if the screen was off and I did not touch the phone, the „Awake“ indicator constantly showed every minute for a very short time. So the phone never went to sleep, it woke up constantly all the time. Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have a screen capture for this.
Deactivating automatic updates for applications and setting the Emails to sync never didn’t help. I even erased all the Samsung crapware from the system folder, but to no use. The battery died after one day of not doing anything with the phone.
Then I deactivated syncing of the contacts and the calendar for my WindowsLive-Exchange account and the battery drain stopped. I now have less than 1% per hour (see screenshot) when the phone is simply lying around.
So, for me the culprit is the syncing for contacts and calender via Exchange. Unfortunately there is no option to set the sync interval for these.
- Anyone can reproduce this issue?
- Is this just a problem with WindowsLive Exchange or does this happen with other Exchange accounts too?
- Is there a possibility to set the sync interval for contacts and calendar (somehow, maybe via a config file)?
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Hmmm..it could be. I will try this also. First I just take the contacts out, because that is not so necessary for me. Calendar is pretty necessary for me and emails are a must. If I have to take the calendar out, then so be it. I will manually sync it once a week then.

By the way, I just noticed that with my gmail account the sync icon is constant in the calendar.
Now when I unchecked it and checked back it went away after a while.
I am not sure if it was sycning all the time without luck. Lets see.

I think calendar synch is on of the probleme. With calendar sync my phone drain 5% per hour in idle mode without 1% by one or two hours.

It's quite strange that there's quite a lot of these threads now all saying about how bad the battery is but I'm amazed by how good the battery is. I don't use my phone a huge amount especially at work and when I get home I use it for a quick web browse and the occasional text message and phone call. Most days I will still have 80% or more left by 23:30 having been on since 07:15. Today I checked my phone at 12:30 and the battery had only gone down 1% in just over 5 hours. All I did with it from 07:15 was occasionally take it out of sleep but not unlock it to check for any notifications. Since then I've been using the web (data) for about half hour or so, an hour of music listening and texting and right now I have 77% left after 12.5 hours off charge. Therefore I think my SGSII has the best battery life I could ask for.

AvRS said:
It's quite strange that there's quite a lot of these threads now all saying about how bad the battery is but I'm amazed by how good the battery is. I don't use my phone a huge amount especially at work and when I get home I use it for a quick web browse and the occasional text message and phone call. Most days I will still have 80% or more left by 23:30 having been on since 07:15. Today I checked my phone at 12:30 and the battery had only gone down 1% in just over 5 hours. All I did with it from 07:15 was occasionally take it out of sleep but not unlock it to check for any notifications. Since then I've been using the web (data) for about half hour or so, an hour of music listening and texting and right now I have 77% left after 12.5 hours off charge. Therefore I think my SGSII has the best battery life I could ask for.
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Really depends on what apps you have running, as you can see from my original thread on this "Awake all the time during idle" issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094666
But in general, agreed. Once I got rid of that bug, the device has been fantastic with battery life. And, for a stock ROM, that's damn impressive!

cmd512 said:
But in general, agreed. Once I got rid of that bug, the device has been fantastic with battery life. And, for a stock ROM, that's damn impressive!
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I fully agree. Now that I don't have the "wake-up" issue anymore, the battery lifetime is almost as good as the Omnia7 -that's damn impressive for a modern Smartphone with such a hardware!

For me, I turned off my wifi, gps and "my location". And most importantly, my applications are not running when it is on idle. Go to task manager by holding the home folder and click exit all. Or you might try to clear the ram memory.

i have turned off gps, wifi and syncing but still getting battery drains can´t even last for a whole day. But I installed Litening ROM just now and see if this helps . I was on KE2 before flashing custom rom

skycamefalling said:
I have found the solution for MY large battery drain:
The problem has been, that my phone used 5% of battery per hour when it’s merely lying around. The battery graph was a straight, quickly decreasing line. So the culprit was not something that happend from time to time but always.
One very disturbing thing: The indicators below the battery graph shows when phone, Wifi and the screen were on. In additions it shows when the phone has been awake.
Even if the screen was off and I did not touch the phone, the „Awake“ indicator constantly showed every minute for a very short time. So the phone never went to sleep, it woke up constantly all the time. Sorry, unfortunately I don’t have a screen capture for this.
Deactivating automatic updates for applications and setting the Emails to sync never didn’t help. I even erased all the Samsung crapware from the system folder, but to no use. The battery died after one day of not doing anything with the phone.
Then I deactivated syncing of the contacts and the calendar for my WindowsLive-Exchange account and the battery drain stopped. I now have less than 1% per hour (see screenshot) when the phone is simply lying around.
So, for me the culprit is the syncing for contacts and calender via Exchange. Unfortunately there is no option to set the sync interval for these.
- Anyone can reproduce this issue?
- Is this just a problem with WindowsLive Exchange or does this happen with other Exchange accounts too?
- Is there a possibility to set the sync interval for contacts and calendar (somehow, maybe via a config file)?
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I have noticed the same issue trying to sync to a exchange 2003 account. It seems that my calendar is syncing either every minute or about every 20 minutes. I also noticed the same issue with my gmail calendar. I have tried two different phones and reset each one several times. The same problem keeps occurring. I may have to download touchdown for email, contacts and calendar. It just sucks because then I will have two calendar applications (one for work and one for home). This is very frustrating.
Are you still having issues with echange calendar sync?

After updating to KE7, I have noticed that every time I receive an exchange email the screen wakes up for a second or two and goes to sleep again.
Didn't occur on previous firmware. Anyone else with this issue and a possible fix?

Is social hub the best solution for IM? I would like to have Yahoo and MSN messengers on always, so should I use another less power hungry client? When people mention calendar synch is it google calendar they're talking about? My google calendar is important for me, so how to optimize it?

brademcee said:
Are you still having issues with echange calendar sync?
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Yes, unfortunately. I am now syncing manually with a switch on the homescreen.
I am now hoping for Android 2.3.4 to fix this issue.

Have a look at comment #290:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126#c290

I have an X10i with Jerpelea's CM7 with custom kernel and that had a very annoying deep sleep issue (the phone never went deep sleeping) which caused the battery to drain very quickly, but Temoi19 found out that by disabling automatic time updates and manually selecting the operator, made the phone to deep sleep. So I took a shoot and tried the same trick on my new Galaxy S II and now when idle my phone barely eats power. After over an hour after unplugging I was still at 100%. I don't know if I am just lucky, but it is worth a try
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I also have this issue with my sgs2. I looked into the exchange settings and there is the option to change the syncing. It was set to push, I now i changed it to manual and will report back the results tomorrow. The drain in general only occurs when mobile data is enabled here. Didn't try with wifi yet.
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pik1 said:
I also have this issue with my sgs2. I looked into the exchange settings and there is the option to change the syncing. It was set to push, I now i changed it to manual and will report back the results tomorrow. The drain in general only occurs when mobile data is enabled here. Didn't try with wifi yet.
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You can leave the syncing to push, it's just for the EMails and they're working fine.
I'd propose to disable the calendar and contact sync in Einstellungen -> Konten -> Automatisch synchronisieren

skycamefalling said:
You can leave the syncing to push, it's just for the EMails and they're working fine.
I'd propose to disable the calendar and contact sync in Einstellungen -> Konten -> Automatisch synchronisieren
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according to the logs if there are no changes in contacts or calendar both will be synced only once per day. so this should not be the issue.

NEED HELP: New To Note/Android.

Before getting the Note, I've been an iphone user ever since the first one came out. I switched especially because of the nice large screen which is handy for the type of work I do.
Some questions though:
1- Battery Life: I was pretty handy on the Iphone in getting everything I didn't need (some notifications, location services on certain apps) turned off to safe battery...while keeping only the ones I wanted. I haven't figured out how exactly to do this on the Note. My battery life is poor...at least compared to what I was getting on the iphone. I typically start my day at 8:30AM, and yesterday by 6PM the battery was already at around 10% (where I can't take pictures....)
2- Must I have GMAIL app and MAIL app? For some reason the GMAIL app's emails update much quicker than the main app I use MAIL. So when a new mail notification comes in I have to manually refresh the MAIL app for it to catch up with the GMAIL app. Otherwise I would have to wait a couple of minutes of the mail to show on MAIL app.
3- On Mail App I have two email accounts. Why is it that my welcome page is the page showing my accounts rather than my "ALL MAIL" page which is where I left it originally?
Thanks for sorry for the NOOB questions.

Ad 2):
Depending on what other email account you have there colud be an specific app for that provider that also supports push email (eg. Yahoo). Or you colud configure Google Mail to poll for mails from your other accounts.

1.) try to close auto sync, bluetooth, gps and use wifi everytime its available because 3G drain much more battery. and lower the brightness on ur screen to ur lowest, that can save a lot of battery (just open them when u need to use it)
or Root your Note and use custom rom. There are many roms that help you with battery.
hope that helps.

lemsanc said:
Before getting the Note, I've been an iphone user ever since the first one came out. I switched especially because of the nice large screen which is handy for the type of work I do.
Some questions though:
1- Battery Life: I was pretty handy on the Iphone in getting everything I didn't need (some notifications, location services on certain apps) turned off to safe battery...while keeping only the ones I wanted. I haven't figured out how exactly to do this on the Note. My battery life is poor...at least compared to what I was getting on the iphone. I typically start my day at 8:30AM, and yesterday by 6PM the battery was already at around 10% (where I can't take pictures....)
2- Must I have GMAIL app and MAIL app? For some reason the GMAIL app's emails update much quicker than the main app I use MAIL. So when a new mail notification comes in I have to manually refresh the MAIL app for it to catch up with the GMAIL app. Otherwise I would have to wait a couple of minutes of the mail to show on MAIL app.
3- On Mail App I have two email accounts. Why is it that my welcome page is the page showing my accounts rather than my "ALL MAIL" page which is where I left it originally?
Thanks for sorry for the NOOB questions.
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Battery - 10% in a day??! How much were you using the phone?
Allow the phone to fully charge and discharge for a full cycles. The screen is a big consumer of power - don;t use auto-brightness and keep the screen down to the best workable level for you. Also, the more apps you have using push syncing, the worse your battery will be.
Depending on what you're using the phone for, you should easily get a full day's reasonable use out of it.
I agree with the point shaoran_ojo made about wifi - but also turn wifi off when you're not using it.
Finally, it's absolutely right that many of the custom ROMs will give you better battery life

You can check the battery usage over time, if you go to Settings menu and then About phone -> Battery usage. You will see there what eats most power (most likely, Display).
Touch the chart in the upper part of this page to expand it - see if you can relate biggest drops of battery charge to some particular activities. For example, playing Crayon Physics drains the battery extremely fast.

Do you happen to be in areas with poor cell coverage? I've had phones drain like there's no tommorow in poor coverage areas, especially when GPS is turned on since most phones are equiped with assisted GPS chips that use cell-tower triangulation in order to get a faster fix on your position.

You could root your phone and switch to custom kernels or roms for better battery life as well as performance. A few ways in which you could then save battery are by undervolting or underclocking the processor or using an app like titanium backup pro to freeze battery draining apps. Wifi is also a big battery drainer. You can set the wifi sleep policy to screen off to curb its usage or keep it off entirely when you dony need it. Gps and bluetooth can be kept off and the screen brightness can be lowered. Im sure you wont be disappointed with the note's battery life after you tweak it right.
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lemsanc said:
1- Battery Life: I was pretty handy on the Iphone in getting everything I didn't need (some notifications, location services on certain apps) turned off to safe battery...while keeping only the ones I wanted. I haven't figured out how exactly to do this on the Note. My battery life is poor...at least compared to what I was getting on the iphone. I typically start my day at 8:30AM, and yesterday by 6PM the battery was already at around 10% (where I can't take pictures....)
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First of all decrease the screen brightness if possible. I have my brightness set to minimum and I have Screen Filter (free in the market) installed and set to 50%. This setup works for me when I am indoors and when I am outside I just disable Screen Filter. Hopefully it will work for you too, maybe with a little tweaking of the exact percentage.
Then take notice if your phone is unusually hot when you haven't used it in the last 5 minutes. This may indicate there is an app keeping your device from sleeping. Check the battery usage (Settings -> About Phone -> Battery Usage). Tap the graph and look for unusual drops and periods when the screen is not on but the device is awake.
If you notice something, BetterBatteryStats (paid in the market) might help reveal the source of the problem. Cpu Spy (free in the market) will show you how much time has the device spent in each CPU frequency.
If you are comfortable with it just root your device and install a custom kernel. I can't begin to explain how much this can increase the battery life.
Hope this helps and is not too hard to understand despite my bad english.

Usage query

Hi All,
Just wondered if anybody is seeing really poor battery life on their S4?
Granted, this is the first charge and I know Android devices tend to need a couple to settle in but my battery seems to be draining like God knows what.
I came from a HTC One which was pretty poor - but the S4 battery just seems to be pouring battery juice out. I'm using the I9505 on EE in the UK. I've been on wifi the entire time, though with a very low signal.
Don't know what Samsung Link is but that seems to be having a particular impact. I wonder if I have a fault? I assume Google Services is Gmail etc - although I thought that would show up as Google Sync or something.
I do have most of the gimmicky features disabled - other than the one where I can wave my hand over the lockscreen to see what notifications I have. Power saving mode is enabled and screen is on auto with the maximum set to a fairly low level.
Would be grateful for your thoughts.
Thanks

First thing is you have a truly awful network signal.

Its probably fine. I let my phones die 3 times when I get them , sometimes they sit at 1% for 2 hours or more, so that will give the phone a better estimation of its battery usage and such.

Thanks folks.
Yes, the signal is bad but the drain was the same at home where I had a full signal and wifi connected.
Do you know how to disable Samsung Link or this Google Services thing?
Cheers

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.

philliplavelle said:
Hi All,
Just wondered if anybody is seeing really poor battery life on their S4?
Granted, this is the first charge and I know Android devices tend to need a couple to settle in but my battery seems to be draining like God knows what.
I came from a HTC One which was pretty poor - but the S4 battery just seems to be pouring battery juice out. I'm using the I9505 on EE in the UK. I've been on wifi the entire time, though with a very low signal.
Don't know what Samsung Link is but that seems to be having a particular impact. I wonder if I have a fault? I assume Google Services is Gmail etc - although I thought that would show up as Google Sync or something.
I do have most of the gimmicky features disabled - other than the one where I can wave my hand over the lockscreen to see what notifications I have. Power saving mode is enabled and screen is on auto with the maximum set to a fairly low level.
Would be grateful for your thoughts.
Thanks
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You may just have a defective unit. Just exchange it for a new one
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I have an excellent network & wifi signal. I've noticed the terrible battery, but I'm pretty sure mine is from constant use & such. Under these circumstances, I think my Droid X's battery lasted longer than this :/

philliplavelle said:
Hi All,
Just wondered if anybody is seeing really poor battery life on their S4?
Granted, this is the first charge and I know Android devices tend to need a couple to settle in but my battery seems to be draining like God knows what.
I came from a HTC One which was pretty poor - but the S4 battery just seems to be pouring battery juice out. I'm using the I9505 on EE in the UK. I've been on wifi the entire time, though with a very low signal.
Don't know what Samsung Link is but that seems to be having a particular impact. I wonder if I have a fault? I assume Google Services is Gmail etc - although I thought that would show up as Google Sync or something.
I do have most of the gimmicky features disabled - other than the one where I can wave my hand over the lockscreen to see what notifications I have. Power saving mode is enabled and screen is on auto with the maximum set to a fairly low level.
Would be grateful for your thoughts.
Thanks
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From screenshots you can clearly see that Goggle Services and Samsung Link are eating your battery...
Keep AutoSync and Google Now - OFF
My phone have great battery life, lost 12% within 4hrs, 1hr screen ON, brightness up to 50%, WiFi ON all the time, average reception...
Google Services used only 2% and is on the bottom of the list, NO sign of Samsung Link on my stats so you must have some apps running in background...

djembey said:
From screenshots you can clearly see that Goggle Services and Samsung Link are eating your battery...
Keep AutoSync and Google Now - OFF
My phone have great battery life, lost 12% within 4hrs, 1hr screen ON, brightness up to 50%, WiFi ON all the time, average reception...
Google Services used only 2% and is on the bottom of the list, NO sign of Samsung Link on my stats so you must have some apps running in background...
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Forgive me for being stupid, but turning auto sync off stops my Gmail getting push and also the calendar syncing, doesn't it? There no way around that?
Google Now was already off. I only sync Google Mail, Calendar, Chrome and nothing else. All the others are left unticked.
I can't figure a way of turning that Samsung Link thing off - there is no option in the settings.
Any other ideas?
Thanks