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Post Your Battery Stats

This is thread is to post the battery life that you are getting on the phone. Please post your screen shots from the power menu. This is not a contest of who can get the longest screen time. It is purely to show what kind of battery life you get and some tips and tricks to get a little more juice.

How do I take a screenshot? Brightness 10 to 30 %. So far 10% mobile, 60% wifi browsing, the rest in standby with mobile off, was waiting for a new sim. 22 hours and 10% battery life left. continuous wifi browsing looks like at least a solid 10 hours judging by the way the graph drops. Very impressed. My htc Sensation dies after 4 hours.
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Incredible battery life. Unboxed it and put the battery in, only 60% was in and get are my results.
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I don't know guys I'm not that happy with my battery life, it seems like the battery life with my note 1 was way better, almost one and a half times better, is it everyone out there or do I have a faulty device, other than the battery life, I've fallen in love with a note all over again
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Mine is just nuts!!!! In a very good way!
My s3 gives me 5 hours screen time, I got so far 50% battery left and have done 4.5 hours screen green time already!!?!?!!!??? Wow!
Someone show me how to put images up here

I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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DanielW81 said:
I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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yohanpra said:
I don't know guys I'm not that happy with my battery life, it seems like the battery life with my note 1 was way better, almost one and a half times better, is it everyone out there or do I have a faulty device, other than the battery life, I've fallen in love with a note all over again
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DanielW81 said:
I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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Lmao amazing.. 10h screen time xD
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People who are getting bad battery life probably forgot to charge the phone to 100% before the first boot, which harm significantly the poor battery.
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People who are getting bad battery life probably forgot to charge the phone to 100% before the first boot, which harm significantly the poor battery.
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Not true, it doesn't matter at all. Just use it, batteries nowadays are smart batteries and they will calibrate them selves.
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If it doesn't matter at all why did samsung bother writing a warning in the quick start guide ? (Yeah some of us do read those things)
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Not true, it doesn't matter at all. Just use it, batteries nowadays are smart batteries and they will calibrate them selves.
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+1!
This is correct only for old batteries...

Looks pretty good! I was worried about battery life because of the large screen size of the device, but it looks like the large battery has made a suitable buffer for this :]
Thanks for the pics everyone!

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If it doesn't matter at all why did samsung bother writing a warning in the quick start guide ? (Yeah some of us do read those things)
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Thats for noobs. Bottom line is it isnt necessary. Did the same with my one x, s3 you name it.
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This is after todays usage.
I did a bunch of benchmarks with it that you can see here

DanielW81 said:
I think battery life is really impressive. I got a little over 10 hours of screen time out of it.
With normal everyday usage I might get throught 2 days without charging or one day with a good reserve.
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This is about correct! Have used one hours screen time and have 90% left

Can, t post screen shots this evening but I'll post what I know of my battery life so far:
From a full charge I have had 3 hours 47 minutes of continuous screen time and 61% battery left. I've had quite a lot of network activity installing 144 appps, restoring data, answeing email, and reading here in this forum. I'd also been playing with the camera and watching recorded files. It's looking like I could see close to 10 hours of this sort of use. Considering my normal use for my phone and/or tablet I'll be able to go 2 days on a full charge. With a charger on hand at bedtime I'm not likely to ever run the battery down past 30% (rough estimate).
Color me impressed!

Here is my Note II battery usage. which I posted in another post already
First day
Out of box without charging at all. Used it from around 49% to 3% for around 5 hours+ Screenshot attached.
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The night before charged from 3% to 100% with my Note II power on for around 9 hours. Then unplugged and heavy using from 100% to 10%, it stayed more than 14 hours. I am saying this is pretty good juice. Screenshot attached.
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Got up this morning dully charged been on it listening to music and videos through bluetooth everything turned on wifi data sync the lot while browsing forums and internet and other messingand its gone down to 82% left if I did this all day I would get about 10hours continue playback which I will never do at work probly get 2 days time will tell .its looking good
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This is the best battery time with no tweaks and all running ...still at 33 % .... I am soooo satisfied....now my s3 going on sale
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Is the N4 battery UN-efficient?

3 hours of screen time? Seriously? My GS2 was able to manage that with a 8 month old battery. I don't want to hear the whole "It's only 350 (16 GB) dollars, stop complaining." I love the phone, but this just sucks.
I have all sync off, no gps, no auto facebook/email/nonsense. I text with google voice.
I got my friend mark a galaxy nexus (GSM) for his birthday, and somehow he hits about 4 to 5 hours of screen time over 12 hour periods. He uses auto sync, and listens to boat loads of music and texts much more than me. Seriously?
Having sync nonsense off, I would expect the N4 to get at least 5 hours. It's a 7.7 watt-hour battery
The Nexus 7 has a 16 watt-hour battery and I've gotten it to 11 hours. Let's do some math here!
MATH TIME. Give me a moment to explain. For this process, we shall say the Nexus 7 only gets 9 hours of screen time since that's the norm.
Nexus 4 = 4.7" screen.
Nexus 7 = 7.0" screen.
67.14% difference.
Assuming the screens are similar, let's be super simple here and say the Nexus 7's screen takes 67.14% MORE power to run.
The Nexus 7 can get 9 hours of screen time. 9 hours to 16 watt-hours.
9/16(WH)=0.5625
Let's apply this new thing to the N4.
0.5625*7.7(WH)=4.33
Now that looks normal, 4.5 ish hours of screen time for the N4? Well...No. Remember the % difference?
Assuming the hardware isn't too far different. The nexus 4 SHOULD be able to pull... ((4.33*67.14)+4.33)=7.23
Let's round down to make up for differences in chip sets and what not.
7 hours of screen time should be possible. But it's not, this means than the Nexus 7 is incredibility power efficient...but the Nexus 4 is not. What gives? This would have to mean that something in the N4 is extremely power UN-efficient. I understand the N4 has a Radio in it and does a bit more work...but even if you drop it to 6 hours, or 5 hours...the N4 doesn't meet that.
Something is off somewhere. That is my point.
How do you feel about this? Post your thoughts.

Did you take into account the different battery sizes?

ceejay83 said:
Did you take into account the different battery sizes?
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Sizes? You mean the 7.7 watt-hour vs 16? Then yes, I based all my logic off of that. Or am I misunderstanding you?

The mah capacity

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The mah capacity
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Mah doesn't work like that truely. Watt-Hours is more specific.
I presume both devices run on 3.7 volts, correct? That is normal for lithium.
I'm saying the Nexus 4 is no where near as efficient as the Nexus 7. 50% efficiency would give around 3.5ish hours. Tonight it looks like I am barely going to get 2 hours.
This is terrible. Something somewhere is zapping up mah battery.

Simple quad core
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Did u just get the phone the first few days were terrible now am getting around 3.5-4 hr screen on
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Lt.Tealc said:
Simple quad core
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Did u just get the phone the first few days were terrible now am getting around 3.5-4 hr screen on
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Such is the Nexus 7. The newer core in the N4 should be AT LEAST 90% as efficient, honestly it should be better...but it's not looking at these numbers.
If the processor is the main reason, then that means it sucks, big time. It barely makes it to roughly 40-50% as effecient as the nexus 7.
Does Snapdragon just suck? XD
See my point? This phone can do more... it CAN do 5 hours. Hell, I bet it can do 6.
Sorry I didn't see your edit haha. I just got it on the 12th, but I've pushed it through about 5 cycles. Is this not enough? Ironically the first day I got about 5 hours and it wasn't fully charged. Loads of app installing, unlocking, playing, and...it got to about 4.8 hours I think to be precise.
So why am I now getting 2? Last night was 3.

Given that there are a few devices out there that have a quad core and still get a better battery life than the N4 with a lower battery capacity all leads to OS optimizations.
You give it the opportunity to use its power it will use it

UZ7 said:
Given that there are a few devices out there that have a quad core and still get a better battery life than the N4 with a lower battery capacity all leads to OS optimizations.
You give it the opportunity to use its power it will use it
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There must be something somewhere sappin it all up. There has got to be, that's what I am trying to say. Something somewhere is wack.
Because this is just silly poor. lol. Ahhhhhh Mighty XDA lords of code!....Work some magic?

Locklear308 said:
Such is the Nexus 7. The newer core in the N4 should be AT LEAST 90% as efficient, honestly it should be better...but it's not looking at these numbers.
If the processor is the main reason, then that means it sucks, big time. It barely makes it to roughly 40-50% as effecient as the nexus 7.
Does Snapdragon just suck? XD
See my point? This phone can do more... it CAN do 5 hours. Hell, I bet it can do 6.
Sorry I didn't see your edit haha. I just got it on the 12th, but I've pushed it through about 5 cycles. Is this not enough? Ironically the first day I got about 5 hours and it wasn't fully charged. Loads of app installing, unlocking, playing, and...it got to about 4.8 hours I think to be precise.
So why am I now getting 2? Last night was 3.
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Your nexus has a mind of its own lol
My gs2 used to get 8hr easy with stock touch wiz cause it was optimized but prefer once is sacrificed with nexus its the other way. It might even be a bugg some one started thread saying a rep told him there will be battery bug fix
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Google gonna pull a stunt and be like... Oh with our new update you get 50% more battery life (that you were suppose to get out of the box), take that apple! your software updates gets people lost and stranded in the middle of now where! :silly:

This is pure speculation, but my first device wouldn't charge to 100% and the battery immediately dropped to 97% after taking off the charger. This RMA device I have on my hand is still at 91% with a screen on time of 20mins with chrome usage, xda and multiple other apps also open in the background.
I think some of the batteries are **** as well.
Now I don't know which device to keep as this screen is a bit warmer and has some very little screen bleeding with a black background. However I have 20days to play with this device before I have to send a device back. I'm expecting to get about 4 hours with the way things are going right now.
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Lt.Tealc said:
Your nexus has a mind of its own lol
My gs2 used to get 8hr easy with stock touch wiz cause it was optimized but prefer once is sacrificed with nexus its the other way. It might even be a bugg some one started thread saying a rep told him there will be battery bug fix
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I am just talking about screen time.

I see what you mean, asus tablets quality control is good,s2 was good with a 2000mAh battery, I would like to disable 2 cores.since display chews battery

Inefficient.

Its not the core !
I found the main culprit sucking all the juice was Location settings, WiFi and Google now. I experimented around and found that if all these services were off, the phone lasted much much longer on standby.
The next issue is the screen - it seems to take a hell of a lot of power with very little to show for it.
The last issue is some apps - Youtube and Chrome seem to be juice eaters.

with 12.14 hours I managed to get 4.40hours screen on, web browsing, I think that's ok, disable Google now, currens etc, chrome does seem to chew more than standard browsers
stock not rooted yet.

Locklear308 said:
There must be something somewhere sappin it all up. There has got to be, that's what I am trying to say. Something somewhere is wack.
Because this is just silly poor. lol. Ahhhhhh Mighty XDA lords of code!....Work some magic?
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People already have been working magic. Go flash Faux123's beta kernel and undervolt the processor by atleast -100mv, as well as enjoy other battery saving optimisations included with it.
Here's what I got on 25% brightness, sync off and a few google apps disabled (i.e. google plus).
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xdviper said:
This is pure speculation, but my first device wouldn't charge to 100% and the battery immediately dropped to 97% after taking off the charger. This RMA device I have on my hand is still at 91% with a screen on time of 20mins with chrome usage, xda and multiple other apps also open in the background.
I think some of the batteries are **** as well.
Now I don't know which device to keep as this screen is a bit warmer and has some very little screen bleeding with a black background. However I have 20days to play with this device before I have to send a device back. I'm expecting to get about 4 hours with the way things are going right now.
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The immediate drop to 97% isn't a defect. The battery charges to 100%, takes itself off the charger until about 95%, then goes back on the charger until 100% over and over. The problem is the software will report "fully charged" after initially reaching 100% charge, even if it isn't.
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Note 3 Battery Drained and Lock Screen Pattern Issue

Hello everybody I just got my Note 3 N9000Q this Sunday. I loved the phone except few things.
Firstly, i unlock my phone via pattern however, it sometimes does not recognize the pattern (it does not even show that red thing meaning i did wrong). Few times it even did turn its screen off while i was trying to unlock my phone (which neans it does not feel i am touching). Other than latter no issues with touch screen. Did anybody came across the same problem?
Secondly, my battery dies rather too quick. For example, 2 hours 27 minutes 10 secs and down to 86% battery (even dropped 1%when the screen was off in around 10 minutes). Backlight (brightness) is at -5 and screen is on for only 48 minutes. Anybody has any idea?
Thank you in advance.
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My Note 3 model is N9005. having some battery drain too.. culprit seems to be Google Services on battery usage list

I noticed the battery drain yesterday aswell, google services seem to draw more power than it should.
I read some old threads about the issue (general on android, not on this specific phone) and they recommended turning off location services alltogether in the settings.
I did that last night and so far it has only drained 6% in 4h15m

Amazing battery life out of my note 3 I love it
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Batterylife improved and android services isn't even in the battery settings.
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Disable backup to Google in Backup and Reset solved my huge battery drain. BBS showed that it was continuously keeping the phone awake and disabling resolved the drain.

I have just disabled smart stay and my battery lasted more than 1 day from 75%. Tho after turning quick glance on it started to drain a bit faster (atill better than before).
The pattern thing annoys me tho. I suspect it is something about software. Also noticed a metallic sound on phone calls (time to time) like a metal cable got loose and hitting the ear piece. I will give my phone to service next week i guess and ask for a change.
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Do you guys turn on the battery saving mode?

No. I never turned on battery saving on my Note 2 and it lasted way more than 1 day. Same goes for this guy
Edit: Typo
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dannycanrock said:
Amazing battery life out of my note 3 I love it
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Can you give more information on how you are achieving this ? It looks like you have smart rotation on too - I got 14 hours yesterday with 3 hours of screen time, but its not enough to last me a whole day. I turned it off today to see how it will do, but as I just posted in another thread, i had a huge problem with the battery jumping percentage today (39% to 1% then to 20% after I took it out)
Do you have auto backup turned off as some of the other people have suggested?
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jasperjoey said:
Disable backup to Google in Backup and Reset solved my huge battery drain. BBS showed that it was continuously keeping the phone awake and disabling resolved the drain.
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What kind of stats are you getting now ? I am tempted to turn this off, but I feel like it's kinda important especially if I'm always adding new people's numbers ...

Twmade said:
Can you give more information on how you are achieving this ? It looks like you have smart rotation on too - I got 14 hours yesterday with 3 hours of screen time, but its not enough to last me a whole day. I turned it off today to see how it will do, but as I just posted in another thread, i had a huge problem with the battery jumping percentage today (39% to 1% then to 20% after I took it out)
Do you have auto backup turned off as some of the other people have suggested?
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What kind of stats are you getting now ? I am tempted to turn this off, but I feel like it's kinda important especially if I'm always adding new people's numbers ...
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Nothing I have smart pause and Air view and 3g on all the time turned off Google backup and location and made the brightness auto -3 and I have the motions off all what I do browsing and music video and tapa talk and playing with some apps setting and what's app and Facebook hope I helped any other qus am here and here's a photo of today's battery and I forgot to say I played modern combat 4 like half an hour
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Twmade said:
Can you give more information on how you are achieving this ? It looks like you have smart rotation on too - I got 14 hours yesterday with 3 hours of screen time, but its not enough to last me a whole day. I turned it off today to see how it will do, but as I just posted in another thread, i had a huge problem with the battery jumping percentage today (39% to 1% then to 20% after I took it out)
Do you have auto backup turned off as some of the other people have suggested?
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What kind of stats are you getting now ? I am tempted to turn this off, but I feel like it's kinda important especially if I'm always adding new people's numbers ...
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I'm getting 2 days of battery life with 5 hours of screen time. Helped me a lot
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Have everything turned on (backup-gestures-movements and even quick glance) except smart thingie. Been speaking a lot today (around maybe 2 hours) and messaging all the time with full wifi and these are my battery stats
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dannycanrock said:
Nothing I have smart pause and Air view and 3g on all the time turned off Google backup and location and made the brightness auto -3 and I have the motions off all what I do browsing and music video and tapa talk and playing with some apps setting and what's app and Facebook hope I helped any other qus am here and here's a photo of today's battery and I forgot to say I played modern combat 4 like half an hour
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I'm getting 2 days of battery life with 5 hours of screen time. Helped me a lot
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Have everything turned on (backup-gestures-movements and even quick glance) except smart thingie. Been speaking a lot today (around maybe 2 hours) and messaging all the time with full wifi and these are my battery stats
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I'm so jealous guys. I only got 14 hours of phone usage yesterday with, with around 3 hours of screen time. I wonder what makes my stats so drastically different than you guys?

Twmade said:
I'm so jealous guys. I only got 14 hours of phone usage yesterday with, with around 3 hours of screen time. I wonder what makes my stats so drastically different than you guys?
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How many days it has been since u purchased?

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How many days it has been since u purchased?
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Two days. My brother has also bought the same phone, and he got roughly the same stats as me. We both have the International version from TW (SM-N900). Thoughts?

Twmade said:
Two days. My brother has also bought the same phone, and he got roughly the same stats as me. We both have the International version from TW (SM-N900). Thoughts?
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Mine was battery hungry for 2 days than it got better.
Taken just now

How long is the screen on time?
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Twmade said:
How long is the screen on time?
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Guys from your information I have stopped the following
1) Always on - wifi - disabled
2) Location services off - though i think this might be important for google to provide me with important updats
3) Android services off for backup
What else?
how to disable smart screen ?
will share my screenshots soon
so far 20 hours and 21 % not charging is that normal?

My latest battery info is as follows
I only have smart stay of which u can disable from Controls - Smart Screen (At bottom side)
Spent the night with wifi on.
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z2 Battery Test，playing 1080p video more than 14hours+

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40% brightness
x-reality checked
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wow
that's amazing !
can you give the source ?

unbelievable
Thats unbelievable. I cant believe it. I would be happy with 6hours...... but 14!?!?
I wont believe this until I get more proof
nevertheless, thank you

Yeahh...
Screen brightness on 5%
I can do that with my Z1...
If I can get 6-7 hours on 69-70% screen brightness then I really believe I could reproduce that on 5-10% screen brightness
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funky0308 said:
Yeahh...
Screen brightness on 5%
I can do that with my Z1...
If I can get 6-7 hours on 69-70% screen brightness then I really believe I could reproduce that on 5-10% screen brightness
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But this was at 40% brightness, not 5%....

solwretep said:
But this was at 40% brightness, not 5%....
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That's something they/he/she said but it's not possible to really know...
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funky0308 said:
That's something they/he/she said but it's not possible to really know...
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14 hours even on 5% brightness is awesome anyway

funky0308 said:
That's something they/he/she said but it's not possible to really know...
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Maybe we should ask for a video of it so you can verify the findings :silly:

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Maybe we should ask for a video of it so you can verify the findings :silly:
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Video should be 30 hours long mate...
You could use 70% for a 2 hours, then 5-10% for a 10-20 hours and then 40% to record a 5 mins video.
It's not possible to know that all we could get is this...so we could believe it or not.
I don't buy that but OK...
Actually - I believe it is possible, if you lower your cpu freq to minimum and brightness to very low.
But if you are using device like every other "normal" person...
I really doubt battery could hold that much of screen time to.
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funky0308 said:
Video should be 30 hours long mate...
You could use 70% for a 2 hours, then 5-10% for a 10-20 hours and then 40% to record a 5 mins video.
It's not possible to know that all we could get is this...so we could believe it or not.
I don't buy that but OK...
Actually - I believe it is possible, if you lower your cpu freq to minimum and brightness to very low.
But if you are using device like every other "normal" person...
I really doubt battery could hold that much of screen time to.
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Yes it was a joke, it would be 14 hours long for you to watch thus the :silly: .
There's no realistic way to verify anyone's claims so you can say they are bull**** all you want, but if what he is saying is the truth then it is pretty amazing and I highly doubt the Z1 can do it even at minimum brightness.

plonkersaurus said:
Yes it was a joke, it would be 14 hours long for you to watch thus the :silly: .
There's no realistic way to verify anyone's claims so you can say they are bull**** all you want, but if what he is saying is the truth then it is pretty amazing and I highly doubt the Z1 can do it even at minimum brightness.
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Why do you think it can't?
Z2 have slightly bigger screen and 1GB RAM more so I think battery life should be similar to Z1.
With IPS screen you could get hour or two more (screen time) but to get 7-8 hours more...I really doubt that...
But OK, that's my opinion...
Maximum I can get from Z1 (and my battery is really good) is 30 hours battery with 5.30h-6h of screen time (on 50-60%) and one hour more on (40-50%).
Tested on KitKat Z1 6903 stock firmware.
If you check details, you'll see there's only MXplayer (5%) and nothing more...
Where are the social networks, wifi, gps or push emails...
I'm not trying to say it's not possible, it is but only if you stay on home screen and watch it for a 14 hours...
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funky0308 said:
Why do you think it can't?
Z2 have slightly bigger screen and 1GB RAM more so I think battery life should be similar to Z1.
With IPS screen you could get hour or two more (screen time) but to get 7-8 hours more...I really doubt that...
But OK, that's my opinion...
Maximum I can get from Z1 (and my battery is really good) is 30 hours battery with 5.30h-6h of screen time (on 50-60%) and one hour more on (40-50%).
Tested on KitKat Z1 6903 stock firmware.
If you check details, you'll see there's only MXplayer (5%) and nothing more...
Where are the social networks, wifi, gps or push emails...
I'm not trying to say it's not possible, it is but only if you stay on home screen and watch it for a 14 hours...
BTW- it won't be 14 hours long video, it'll be longer.
You'll have to prove not only screen time but standby as well...
It's not same to have 30 h and 7 screen time
Or 9 hours and 7 screen time.
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Sony themselves rate the Z1 with a 6.6 hour battery life playing video, and 10 hours for the Z2. We know there is a huge difference in screen technology and I think it's not beyond reason that there is a huge difference in power consumption (if you take into account the Z2 has a faster and thus probably more power hungry chipset)

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Sony themselves rate the Z1 with a 6.6 hour battery life playing video, and 10 hours for the Z2. We know there is a huge difference in screen technology and I think it's not beyond reason that there is a huge difference in power consumption (if you take into account the Z2 has a faster and thus probably more power hungry chipset)
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Hmm...in that last sentence you confirmed my thesis...
OK, time will show...
Nice to talk to you
I hope no one is offended here, that wasn't my intention.
If I don't have Z1 I would buy Z2, that's for sure... That's great device.
I'll wait autumn and Z3 or whatever Sony name that one...
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funky0308 said:
Yeahh...
Screen brightness on 5%
I can do that with my Z1...
If I can get 6-7 hours on 69-70% screen brightness then I really believe I could reproduce that on 5-10% screen brightness
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z1 doesnt get more than 8-9 hours on lowest brightness..

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z1 doesnt get more than 8-9 hours on lowest brightness..
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Never tried that but that's sounds right.
I just don't like to use phone with crappy brightness, I like to see bright screen
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Battery Woes - Help and ideas welcomed!!!

So I have had my S5 for a week now and my batt life is aweful. Yet I hear everyone saying its awesome...
Here is my setup. Nova Launcher, Wifi always on, but disable scanning and set it to only keep on while sleep if plugged in. Bluetooth always on, I use it 3 hours a day. So need it....
GPS always on, High accuracy...
Brightness in the middle and set to auto.
Here are two pics...
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rmd0311 said:
So I have had my S5 for a week now and my batt life is aweful. Yet I hear everyone saying its awesome...
Here is my setup. Nova Launcher, Wifi always on, but disable scanning and set it to only keep on while sleep if plugged in. Bluetooth always on, I use it 3 hours a day. So need it....
GPS always on, High accuracy...
Brightness in the middle and set to auto.
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I disabled print services and my battery life improved.
Settings > printing > turn both off.
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What's your screen time
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trikotret said:
What's your screen time
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15 seconds.
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rmd0311 said:
15 seconds, changed at 88% today.
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That's it. Just 15 seconds. Something is running on three background or you have a DOA device
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There's something wrong with the camera on these phones. After I open up the camera or snapchat, my battery drains fast. The phone doesn't go into deep sleep after closing camera apps. I restart my phone multiple times per day, but my battery drains at 2-4%/hrs with a couple hours screen on per day.
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LocoFreek25 said:
There's something wrong with the camera on these phones. After I open up the camera or snapchat, my battery drains fast. The phone doesn't go into deep sleep after closing camera apps. I restart my phone multiple times per day, but my battery drains at 2-4%/hrs with a couple hours screen on per day.
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What's your total usage for the day
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Don't get me wrong. 16 hours is great compared to other phones in the past. Tomorrow I will try setting gps to power saver and only changing to high accuracy when needed.
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What's your total usage for the day
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Last 100-8% took 40 hours with almost 5 hours screen time. Neither power save modes were on. I had WiFi 70% of the time, with a decent 4G signal otherwise. This is 2-3 times what I get if I use my camera without restarting my phone.
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This should be posted in q&a not general
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I have a similar set up as you. I keep BT always on and GPS always on w/ high accuracy, turning BT off doesn't do much to the battery life imo.
The absolutely biggest difference for me was to go into location settings and hit Google Location Reporting and turn off location reporting and history. Also turn off geo-tag for the camera, and locations setting on FB.

trikotret said:
What's your screen time
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I'm sorry I thought you were asking how long I had my time out for. Re reading now I see you were asking about. How long the screen was on. End of day was like 3 hours.
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I have GPS on accuracy and use Firefox. I watch YouTube videos and all that. Sounds like a major issue.
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FlyinLulz said:
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I have GPS on accuracy and use Firefox. I watch YouTube videos and all that. Sounds like a major issue.
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Did you make any changes at all?

rmd0311 said:
Did you make any changes at all?
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I did disable every Verizon / pre-installed application I could. I keep brightness at auto. I keep wifi off at all times because I have unlimited data. Stock on this phone is pretty impressive.
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Maybe I am nuts... But does the charging cable matter... I'm not using the OEM one, never bother to take it out of the box... Using a basic microusb cable from my previous phone that was already there. Maybe that sounds crazy...

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Maybe I am nuts... But does the charging cable matter... I'm not using the OEM one, never bother to take it out of the box... Using a basic microusb cable from my previous phone that was already there. Maybe that sounds crazy...
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It shouldn't matter. For what its worth, I'm not seeing anywhere close to what others have posted in terms of battery longevity. I use bluetooth for everything. Car stereo, bathroom speaker, gym headphones, etc. Wifi is always on, but connected 80% of the time. GPS rarely on. Screen time doesn't push past 2 hours and I can BARELY get about 1 day of battery life. I do use the stock charging cable, but I use others as well.
It seems like a big variance, even with drastic use differences.

xgerryx said:
It shouldn't matter. For what its worth, I'm not seeing anywhere close to what others have posted in terms of battery longevity. I use bluetooth for everything. Car stereo, bathroom speaker, gym headphones, etc. Wifi is always on, but connected 80% of the time. GPS rarely on. Screen time doesn't push past 2 hours and I can BARELY get about 1 day of battery life. I do use the stock charging cable, but I use others as well.
It seems like a big variance, even with drastic use differences.
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Battery life is ok for me I guess. It gets me through a day. I am not impressed by the battery life at all, probably because I was spoiled with my old MAXX. I still expected at least a few more hours but something in the background sucks battery. When root comes, I'm sure battery life will improve a bunch. Its also not that big of a deal because the back is removable. What stinks is this is my battery life with power saving enabled for over 1/2 of the day. I really do not understand how people were getting over 10 hours of screen time and this day and a half battery life. The only way I get that is if I charge it before bed and count those 12 hours towards my battery life and I still wouldn't break 24 hours.
Maybe I'm missing something?
GPS is battery saving, print services are disabled, screen timeout at 15 seconds, screen is at auto brightness with adapt display, power saving enabled most of the time, wifi and 4g bounce between whichever is better, network mode is LTE/CDMA and I have disabled a ton of bloat. Maybe its because I have ART enabled.
Definitely not impressed by battery life but I am a heavy user and I love that you can swap batteries.

What does 'power saving mode' do? I can clearly see what 'ultra power saving mode does', but I was wondering if anyone knew what regular power saving mode does? I tried searching the Q&A forum but didn't find much and Googling it just led me to a bunch of pages touting the ultra power saving mode. Thanks in advance!