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Yet another mini Nexus 4 review

I know there have already been a million reviews of this device, but in case anybody wants a million and one, here's my 2 cents. If not, carry on.
This is my first Nexus device, coming from SGS2 and before that the original HTC EVO. I'm on T-Mobile USA.
After one week with the Nexus 4 my verdict so far is: good with potential to become great. Here are a few quick thoughts in pro/con format:
PROS:
- Super fast and fluid, I've noticed no lag whatsoever. Haven't played any 3D games yet though
- The N4 is definitely a sexy device and feels great in the hand
- I do like the smoothness of the glass and the curved screen edges.
- Painless unlocking / rooting
- Best phone for the price, by far
- Love having a notification light again, hallelujah
CONS:
- Have to say I am a little disappointed in the screen. It's not terrible but I guess I've been spoiled by the saturated screen of my SGS2. The N4 was just.....underwhelming. Sharpness is fine but the first thing I noticed is how dull the colors seemed compared to my SGS2. I'm sure I'll get used to it but I'm not able to call it an "upgrade".
- Surprised at the bugginess of Jelly Bean, I'd say I get one random reboot per day, maybe two. There are also other random oddities such as the bluetooth toggle not working properly, force closes, etc.
- I've had trouble with connectivity/connection speeds on both WiFi and cellular data, if I can't get them resolved it may end up being a dealbreaker.
- Battery is....meh so far. I've done all the recommended tips of disabling/removing this & that, and I generally make it through my day of low to moderate usage, barely. I have yet to have screen time of more than 2-2.5 hours. If I upped my usage by even just a bit I'd need a top-off during the day.
- The device seems quick to warm up. Even when I'm doing something like light web browsing it's surprising to feel the device warm up in my hands.
- Gotta admit there are a couple of niceties I miss about Touchwiz such as the quick toggles in the notification drop down.
- Given the numerous reports of glass breakage / scratches makes me super careful about handling my headset. Almost paranoid, really. Luckily I have no visible wear so far but it would be nice to not have to worry so much about this. I do like my phones naked though so I'm probably asking for trouble.
- Some of my apps are buggy with 4.2, guess that's the price you pay for being on the cutting edge.
- Ringer / notifications are really, really, really quiet when the phone is laying flat on my desk.
- I'm not a huge fan of the growing amount of "Google Bloatware". One reason I like having a Nexus device is to not have to deal with all the carrier installed apps / services. But I dislike having to disable Google Magazines, Google Plus, location stuff, Google Talk, etc. etc. Maybe if the battery was at least up to the task of supporting all these things I wouldn't mind as much.
Admittedly most of the above "gripes" are minor, but it's surprising because on my old SGS2 I didn't really have any gripes at all. If I can clean up a few of the above items I'll be very, very happy. Overall I think I'll like the N4 better than my SGS2, but it's far from the landslide I thought it would be.

I really don't get this random reboot issue. I can honestly say I haven't had it reboot once and if had it for over a week ...
And for me the battery life is great ...
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Also about the heat ... I'm hearing a lot of talk that the voltages are set very high on stock and lowering them has helped the heat and not caused instability.. So may be worth checking it out
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italia0101 said:
I really don't get this random reboot issue. I can honestly say I haven't had it reboot once and if had it for over a week ...
And for me the battery life is great ...
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Haven't decided yet if getting a good battery is just a lottery or if it comes down to usage habits. Probably some of both. As for rebooting I just got another one upon uninstalling HD Widgets. Clicked uninstall and *poof* there it went

Strange ... Could it be a rouge app ? Iv got 30-40 apps installed and not had a reboot ... Its really strange ...
And yea totally. Its probably down to my usage . I do a lot of browsing and xda
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hfuizo said:
Haven't decided yet if getting a good battery is just a lottery or if it comes down do usage habits. Probably some of both. As for rebooting I just got another one upon uninstalling HD Widgets. Clicked uninstall and *poof*
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my battery life was terrible during the first week; I was so disappointed. After two weeks the battery life has improved so much that I easily get 4hrs of screen time. When on idle it only drops 3%/hour

sampy14 said:
my battery life was terrible during the first week; I was so disappointed. After two weeks the battery life has improved so much that I easily get 4hrs of screen time. When on idle it only drops 3%/hour
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Have a hard time believing it will get better but I'll cross my fingers. I have heard multiple reports of this, so maybe there's hope.

I have just now ticked over to 4 hours screen on time .. 15% left
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italia0101 said:
I have just now ticked over to 4 hours screen on time .. 15% left
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So jealous.... :crying:
I'm at 56% battery remaining with a screen time of 54 minutes, won't even break 2 hours on this charge.

hfuizo said:
So jealous.... :crying:
I'm at 56% battery remaining with a screen time of 54 minutes, won't even break 2 hours on this charge.
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Damn that does suck ... You doing alot of gaming and stuff like that
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italia0101 said:
Damn that does suck ... You doing alot of gaming and stuff like that
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No gaming at all, today some light web browsing, 20 minutes of podcasts, a few texts, and a couple minutes of phone calls, that's it.

sampy14 said:
When on idle it only drops 3%/hour
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You say that as if it's good. Many phones will drop 3% in 10 hours on idle.. 3% per hour while sleeping is downright bad dood.
-Sent from my GS3 running CM10.-

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

ceejay83 said:
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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[Q] short battery life s4

I takes about 10 hours, the lesson download much battery? when I go to sleep I lose almost 15% of battery. Any solution?: (

Battery life is terrible.
I refuse to do what my friend does:
Turn vibrate off
Turn screen brightness to lowest
Phone is always connected to Edge - unless he's using the Internet - then he switches back to Edge
Syncs his email every 15 minutes (pull not push!!!)
Always 'freeing ram' and exiting apps
His life sucks.
I am the opposite. Full brightness, 4g , push mail for my 4 emails, exchange server (email and calendar) for work and so on.
I manage this by always having a spare battery that I charge with my battery charger dock lol.
Will be doing the same thing once I can get one for my S4

I know, so far it's been below expectations for me too - I ordered a portable energy bank from Amazon this morning, and I guess I'll just carry it around with me from now on.. What a shame - the phone is extremely powerful too..

Install gsam battery monitor and let it monitor your phone and see what is causing wake locks. Also let the battery go through 3-4 battery cycles before you start comparing battery life.

That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Anyone tried this app yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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Slai said:
That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Same here, battery life is phenomenal. I really dont see how folks are having bad battery life
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Slai said:
That'd weird. Isn't the 9500 or the 9505?
My battery exceeds my expectations by quite a lot. Best battery I've had on a smartphone so far, and I've had a few.
Where my 920 died, this one still has 50-70% remaning.
Thats with push mail, air view, air gestures, wifi, mobile data, auto brightness, screen rotation, sync, gps and multiwindow on constantly.
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Same Best smartphone battery life I've ever had and I too had quite a lot smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG. Those lasted only half as long with the same usage pattern.

barondebxl said:
Same here, battery life is phenomenal. I really dont see how folks are having bad battery life
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chalid said:
Same Best smartphone battery life I've ever had and I too had quite a lot smartphones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and LG. Those lasted only half as long with the same usage pattern.
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Seriously? how much is the battery life? can post some pics?

I am also curous how many hours does it take for the battery to reach 15% and how much screen on time do you get. Please post a few screenshots!

After a day i have like 30% left. Screen on time is about 2h.
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battery life is not a issue here I don't think I can get to 15% easily most day I do not but I will try to get some pics posted after an all day use no promises I manage to be busy a lot lol.

I am constantly using it.
Whatsapp
Instagram
Facebook
Push mail for 4 gmail (only one is really active)
Synced exchange server at work (calendar only)
In 10 mins of use, it'll go down 2mins

MaKTaiL said:
Anyone tried this app yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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I'm trying it right now. It takes a bit more than two days for the app to learn certain usage patterns. I still have to wait 8 hours until the actual battery savings start. Will report as soon as I have it working.
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pedrohz said:
I'm trying it right now. It takes a bit more than two days for the app to learn certain usage patterns. I still have to wait 8 hours until the actual battery savings start. Will report as soon as I have it working.
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Let us know as soon as you can. Mine is still one day away of starting the battery saving.
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monkteo said:
Seriously? how much is the battery life? can post some pics?
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I get similar battery life as well. Sometimes 4 ton6 hours screen times
16 hour days
I found my battery life improved when I got rid of a poor quality 32gig media card and used another spare old16gig one.
I also dumped corrupted mp3 files and videos and got new ones.
I think poor sd card quality and bad mp3 files are partially responsible for lower battery life.
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just got mine
first charge cycle
4 hours on screen
total 8 hours
15% left
not very good but i think it will get better
9505

MaKTaiL said:
Let us know as soon as you can. Mine is still one day away of starting the battery saving.
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So far with battery saving on it seems that nothing changed... Will test it further with daily use. But battery life here, even before using the app was not bad by any means.
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Gillion said:
I get similar battery life as well. Sometimes 4 ton6 hours screen times
16 hour days
I found my battery life improved when I got rid of a poor quality 32gig media card and used another spare old16gig one.
I also dumped corrupted mp3 files and videos and got new ones.
I think poor sd card quality and bad mp3 files are partially responsible for lower battery life.
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Yep. I'm really impressed with this phone s battery life, not too far from the note 2 battery life but not quite there.
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Note 12.2 Battery Life

Hi,
Now that the Note Pro 12.2 has been out for a while now, what kind of battery life are you getting?
How much Stand By and On-Screen Time are you getting?

charge time
I would also appreciate if people can share how long it's taking to charge from 0-100%. Thanks.

I used mine quite heavily on Friday night and Saturday. Probably 8 hours in total. I still had 65% battery left. I did root and removed a lot of bloatware.

From my usage so far, looks to be about 6-8hrs screen on time.

This isn't very specific I realize but battery life seems considerably better than my old nexus 10 and recharging is also much faster.
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What about charging it?
It is time for my old original LTE tab to go.I want an LTE, but like my old tab, Verizon is picking it up, and development on the verizon version might be sparse.My factory Tab, will only charge with a certain voltage. The Devs wrote a script to override that on it.
Does it charge in the car? If so, what amp is it? Do you have to have special charger or will it work on one of the 2 amp chargers, say for an Iphone? Have you tried it?
Thanks

standby is fantastic; as is video watching (dont' have exact total time but I think 3 hours of video watching used approx 30% battery).
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however this game I was playing, symphony of eternity, really kills the battery. 2 hours used approx 45% (wish I had exact figures). Mind you the game has gotten old but I want to finish it (I play a few hours on trips - so started it approx 1.5 years ago; but finally near the end).
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TTboy404 said:
What about charging it?
It is time for my old original LTE tab to go.I want an LTE, but like my old tab, Verizon is picking it up, and development on the verizon version might be sparse.My factory Tab, will only charge with a certain voltage. The Devs wrote a script to override that on it.
Does it charge in the car? If so, what amp is it? Do you have to have special charger or will it work on one of the 2 amp chargers, say for an Iphone? Have you tried it?
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Battery life is getting better and better. 6 hours screen time with 60% charge left.
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I think it may be better to specify which version of the device you are using before mentioning the hours. I think I heard that the LTE version has better battery management?

Sm-p900 =12.2 Wifi
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So far very impressed with the battery
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I have the sm-p905 LTE version and i’m very impressed with the battery life so far.
on time screen that the tablet actually was on is right now 9h59m and battery still on 20%
watched in the 10 hours about 4h15m video's
transferred about 6 gb files with wifi direct
transferred about 19 gb files from my portable hd to the tablet with usb 3.0
then browsing, facebook, chat, ....
i must say all the apps i don’t use i have turned out permently.
4G was always turned on during the session, total time off the ac now is 1 day an 1h
my device isn’t rooted.
when the battery is completely empty, i’ll charge it and let you know how long it takes. First time i charge it .

I'm also very impressed with my Note 12.2 battery... I would say it can do 1 hour screen time per 10% of battery. I replace my third generation Ipad with this tablet... I the only thing iPad is better right now is battery life on stanby... Apple has done an excellent job on this side because it's way better on the iPad, even if I keep the sync on all the time for emails, contacts, calendar and other apps.
On the Notepro 12.2, if I keep the wifi off while on stanby, it's good (not excellent)... but if I keep it on all the time, I have to charge my tablet every 2 days. While it's off, I can get 3-4 easily when my regular weekday usage.
I've watched a complete film of 2 hours film on my tablet a few days ago... streamed from my Plex server to the Android Plex app on the tablet... and I lost around 20% of battery only... which is excellent.
By the way, I have the wifi only version (Exynos CPU).
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zadigre said:
I'm also very impressed with my Note 12.2 battery... I would say it can do 1 hour screen time per 10% of battery. I replace my third generation Ipad with this tablet... I the only thing iPad is better right now is battery life on stanby... Apple has done an excellent job on this side because it's way better on the iPad, even if I keep the sync on all the time for emails, contacts, calendar and other apps.
On the Notepro 12.2, if I keep the wifi off while on stanby, it's good (not excellent)... but if I keep it on all the time, I have to charge my tablet every 2 days. While it's off, I can get 3-4 easily when my regular weekday usage.
I've watched a complete film of 2 hours film on my tablet a few days ago... streamed from my Plex server to the Android Plex app on the tablet... and I lost around 20% of battery only... which is excellent.
By the way, I have the wifi only version (Exynos CPU).
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That's a bit odd. I am not using mine much at all at the moment, maybe half an hour a day and it's now on day 8 and still 30% left. My Wi-Fi is off when in sleep and I don't turn it off when not using it.
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bmad7136 said:
That's a bit odd. I am not using mine much at all at the moment, maybe half an hour a day and it's now on day 8 and still 30% left. My Wi-Fi is off when in sleep and I don't turn it off when not using it.
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What is your screen time right now?
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zadigre said:
What is your screen time right now?
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Hi. Sorry only just got this. Annoyingly I put it on charge overnight as I'm back to work today. Battery stats have reset. No idea what the screen time was.
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TTboy404 said:
What about charging it?
The Devs wrote a script to override that on it.
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ICan you give me a link? I can´t find it.
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Why music app takes too much battery even when not used. ..I have not even played music for one time but it has eaten up 8 % battery..? Is there any way to stop it from running in the background?
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navjot singh said:
Why music app takes too much battery even when not used. ..I have not even played music for one time but it has eaten up 8 % battery..? Is there any way to stop it from running in the background?
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Rom toolbox. You can set autorun permissions. Keep things from starting themselves
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The battery is good, if I dont use it, I just turn off to save battery. Otherwise i need to charge everyday (wifi on, sync, games, web, no sleep mode), now I can use few days in a row on single charge, depends on what I'm doing on it. This is not a smartphone/cellphone, so he dont need to be everytime on

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Anyone have any early reports on battery life

A user on Reddit has one and did a first rundown.
7.5 hrs sot on overall 8.5 hrs on a first charge.
Still to be seen how the standby is, but all reports look for it to be better than expected which is good news. Also he doesn't notice any ram issues. First impressions are good.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3h02kx/my_att_note_5_was_delivered_today_ama/

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Damn fine if you ask me. Better than my note 4. I'm surprised as hell. I never believe the improved efficiency and optimization stuff but somethings working.
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I personally am not that worried about run time on the battery. My Note 4 has great battery life for me and I would expect the Note5 to be good. Quick charge really makes a big difference and the recent introduction of quick charge external battery packs means that I will not have to really worry that much about battery life. Others may have a different point of view.
One thing that really worries me is the internal battery. I have owned the Note2, 3, and 4. I have had to replace the battery on both the Note2 and Note3 when the original battery failed. I give my old phones to other family members and sooner or later the batteries always start to fail. On the Note3 it took a little over a year and a half. Probably about the same time period on the Note2. If you go to youtube you can watch some videos that show you how to replace the battery on the S6. It looks like a miserable project. Nothing I want to worry about. Finally, I am personally offended by the throw away connotations of a smartphone with an internal battery. With a glass screen protector and a case, these phones can still be like new after a year or so of use. It just seems wrong to build a product that you know is going to fail for as trivial a reason as the battery.

robertopod1968 said:
Damn fine if you ask me. Better than my note 4. I'm surprised as hell. I never believe the improved efficiency and optimization stuff but somethings working.
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Wow. Great news.
What apps do you have installed/downloaded and which ones did you disable? Do you have all the Spen stuff enabled?
Can you show a screenshot of your apps battery usage?

That's actually amazing, with just a 3000mah battery. See, don't judge by the specs people

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Wow. Great news.
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That's probably just somebody who watched a movie for 2 hours.
I can watch 10+ hours of movies on my Note 4 with a charge.

DrexelDragon said:
Wow. Great news.
What apps do you have installed/downloaded and which ones did you disable? Do you have all the Spen stuff enabled?
Can you show a screenshot of your apps battery usage?
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I charged overnight so it's reset. I can post that this evening
All the spen stuff is on. I did disable all the AT&T apps like I always do. I haven't had location on. No Power saver. Basically Web browsing, tapatalk, a couple of you tube videos..etc.
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That's probably just somebody who watched a movie for 2 hours.
I can watch 10+ hours of movies on my Note 4 with a charge.
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No movies here dude. And you don't have to come in here and defend your note 4. Still have one myself. Just trying to show some battery life stats for people that are considering the 5. If that's not you then please move on.
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So overall is your impression that the Note 5 has better battery life than your Note 4 ? That would be impressive.

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So overall is your impression that the Note 5 has better battery life than your Note 4 ? That would be impressive.
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I'm feeling like it'll at least be as good. Which I was not expecting at all. Right now it's been better but I haven't really left wifi much.
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A user on Reddit has one and did a first rundown.
7.5 hrs sot on overall 8.5 hrs on a first charge.
Still to be seen how the standby is, but all reports look for it to be better than expected which is good news. Also he doesn't notice any ram issues. First impressions are good.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3h02kx/my_att_note_5_was_delivered_today_ama/
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According to the images they posted - They had 8hr 42mins of total battery life
The screen accounted for 24% total battery - Android System 21% etc.. Not sure how screen can be 24% and still be 7hrs of a total 8hr 42 on battery ??
Fantastic if proves to be accurate though.

nookcoloruser said:
According to the images they posted - They had 8hr 42mins of total battery life
The screen accounted for 24% total battery - Android System 21% etc.. Not sure how screen can be 24% and still be 7hrs of a total 8hr 42 on battery ??
Fantastic if proves to be accurate though.
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This kind of results is what you got when you basically just display a black image and do almost nothing.
That's what I get using aldiko (dark theme) to read ebook.
Envoyé de mon SM-N910F

Top picture is the final stats with my note 4 ( which I still have). Bottom is my stats so far with the note 5. I'm averaging significantly better screen time on the 5.
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What did you do differently to go from 6h 41m to 8h 20m SoT?

mi7chy said:
What did you do differently to go from 6h 41m to 8h 20m SoT?
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Just used the phone more. You'll see that the standby time went down as the SOT went up. I'm thinking it'll settle in around 22 standby and 6-7 screen on. Which is better then anything I've had for awhile. I have the note 4 and s6 active right now. And had a s6e. This phone will get me a little more then even the active I think.
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thank you all
can you tell us how is the Device temperature ?

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Top picture is the final stats with my note 4 ( which I still have). Bottom is my stats so far with the note 5. I'm averaging significantly better screen time on the 5.
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Question though, could it be your note 4's battery is old?
If they were both brand new then it would be a fair test.
What do you think?
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sol_671 said:
Question though, could it be your note 4's battery is old?
If they were both brand new then it would be a fair test.
What do you think?
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Well I just got my note 4 less than a month ago. I have 24 lines with my business so I've always got upgrades. I by me the latest and pass down my old phones.
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Second day by BeginnersTech on twitter with the s6 edge+ (which has an identical battery size to the note 5), not too bad if you ask me.