battery life gettingg worse - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When I got my phone I use to get 6 hours screen time after a while went down to about 5 and a half aftre about 3 weeks of that 4 and a half now I'm averaging 4 hours screen time I don't know why this is happening I keep smart futures off air futures off other than quick glance and BT off NFC off etc ? Same settings as always brightness 50% unless I'm watching video where I set it full

GMoneyDTP said:
When I got my phone I use to get 6 hours screen time after a while went down to about 5 and a half aftre about 3 weeks of that 4 and a half now I'm averaging 4 hours screen time I don't know why this is happening I keep smart futures off air futures off other than quick glance and BT off NFC off etc ? Same settings as always brightness 50% unless I'm watching video where I set it full
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do you discharge the battery at all

jaythenut said:
do you discharge the battery at all
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Yea every night I make sure its 5% or lower before I put it on charge

GMoneyDTP said:
Yea every night I make sure its 5% or lower before I put it on charge
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Yeah that might be the problem try not to let it get so low i read somewhere that it's not good try no less than 20% i always charge mine at about 50% and the battery is as good as the first day i got it

jaythenut said:
Yeah that might be the problem try not to let it get so low i read somewhere that it's not good try no less than 20% i always charge mine at about 50% and the battery is as good as the first day i got it
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Yup..Its not like the old Ni-cad batteries in which you need to completely discharge it before charging.It is not a good practice to do the same with Li-ion batteries.It may actually lead to worse battery life.It's recommended to charge the phone at 40% and charge it till 80%.

GMoneyDTP said:
When I got my phone I use to get 6 hours screen time after a while went down to about 5 and a half aftre about 3 weeks of that 4 and a half now I'm averaging 4 hours screen time I don't know why this is happening I keep smart futures off air futures off other than quick glance and BT off NFC off etc ? Same settings as always brightness 50% unless I'm watching video where I set it full
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Im pretty sure you have a lot more apps than you did on day 1 of getting your phone that will use additional power sync
Also as stated do not let the battery completely drain as this may limit the capacity

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How long should a battery last?

sorry if this is somewhere else, can't search with app.
my phone has been unplugged and used off and on for an hour now and I am at 84%. I've read people say they use their phones for 12 hours without a problem. I have tried 2 different batteries and its the same. by 5pm if I haven't plugged it in, it's dead.
oh good lord. it all depends on your usage pattern.
if you fill your car with gas - how long time car you drive it?
no-one can answer that question.
christiankk said:
oh good lord. it all depends on your usage pattern.
if you fill your car with gas - how long time car you drive it?
no-one can answer that question.
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ROFL that is an awesome analogy
tonnic said:
sorry if this is somewhere else, can't search with app.
my phone has been unplugged and used off and on for an hour now and I am at 84%. I've read people say they use their phones for 12 hours without a problem. I have tried 2 different batteries and its the same. by 5pm if I haven't plugged it in, it's dead.
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i used to only make it 6 hours on one battery. but then yesterday we found a new setting which i can now go 12.5 hours yesterday without even trying hard. go to *#*#4636#*#* and change to GSM Auto (PRL), this more than doubled my battery life. and you do not lose 3G, the phone will still use 3G just like normal. try it out.
RogerPodacter said:
i used to only make it 6 hours on one battery. but then yesterday we found a new setting which i can now go 12.5 hours yesterday without even trying hard. go to *#*#4636#*#* and change to GSM Auto (PRL), this more than doubled my battery life. and you do not lose 3G, the phone will still use 3G just like normal. try it out.
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Thanks for the info Roger. Why does it more than double the battery life in your opinion?
oh good lord. it all depends on your usage pattern.
if you fill your car with gas - how long time car you drive it?
no-one can answer that question.
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I don't think I use it out of the norm. I check my phone when it notifies me of messages, come on this xda app and sometimes browse the web.... it's not like I'm streaming music, playing games or anything else a lot.
i too have found my phone dead in the morning when before going to bed was at 65% full. im still wondering the best settings for home and travel before switching to gsm auto prl because i dont want to drop totally dead when going outside 3g tmobile.
i also found my wifi is always on even if sleep. after i figure out this network deal ill do something with the wifi only being on when the phone is screen on and in my home. that will prob save me tons of battery.
I run wifi constantly on, the overnight drop is around 10-15%.
It should last 14 hours if you use 100 Ma of power per hour from a 100 percent charge to 0 percent charge.
I didn't know it was possible, but with IntersectRavens kernel (or whatever his name is lol) I can actually lose 1 percent of battery life in one hour (or close to an hour).
Though without turning my mobile internet off with Juice Defender's APN widget, this wouldn't be much possible. I found this very surprising, I thought people were making false claims about this.
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1% in 1 hour..so your battery life "could" be 4 days
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Lol I must have exaggerated quite a bit. I was just astonished.. I don't really know how to explain my battery life I guess.. Its a day, and most of the night. Half of the next day might work as well if I didn't charge it through the night.
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Eclair~ said:
I didn't know it was possible, but with IntersectRavens (or whatever his name is lol) I can actually lose 1 percent of battery life in one hour (or close to an hour).
Though without turning my mobile internet off with Juice Defender's APN widget, this wouldn't be much possible. I found this very surprising, I thought people were making false claims about this.
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1% in 1 hour..so your battery life "could" be 4 days
muncheese said:
It should last 14 hours if you use 100 Ma of power per hour from a 100 percent charge to 0 percent charge.
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Perfect answer
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1% in 1 hour..so your battery life "could" be 4 days
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Lol I must have exaggerated quite a bit. I was just astonished.. I don't really know how to explain my battery life I guess.. Its a day, and most of the night. Half of the next day might work as well if I didn't charge it through the night.
I should edit that post, shouldn't I.. four days would be impressive.
I'm gonna plug an app for this. It's not exactly the best thing out there in terms of an app killer (which from what I understand is a no-no anyway) but there are some nice little features that will really help narrow down some power use issues.
Do a search for SystemPanel and turn on Monitoring. It'll track when you have the phone on a charger, relative battery drain as well as device usage and cpu utilization all in separate histograms over time. History is saved (most likely in a log file) and can display from the last 2 hours to the last week. Without having to dive too deep into system settings you can track this info with just a few button presses.
I found out that using GSM Auto (PRL) and dropping the auto brightness and live wallpaper really did save a bunch as well and I was able to track the difference with the app. I also found out that playing too much Jewels will eat my battery like it was a cake at a weight watchers center.
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Thanks for the info Roger. Why does it more than double the battery life in your opinion?
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i dont think anybody knows why or how that works. i'm still confused as to why it would even make a difference, but it DOES seem to help from my testing so far. today i am at 8 hours since unplugged, and still have 57% battery left, which is much better than i used to get. that's on pace for at least a 16-20 hour day which i would be happy if i could make it thru a day like that without having to charge.
Aren't there any explanations from Google about those settings ??

Battery - up 'n running for

...4 hours of heavy usage (wifi connection and 3g on but idle)
Mid to periodical usage could reach 24h.
6th day of usage....
i think this is mediocre for me. please report your battery performance to compare.
Any tips to improve this?
I can get around 8-10 hours with heavy usage... constant music, etc.. and about 2-3 days with light-medium usage.
infamousjax said:
I can get around 8-10 hours with heavy usage... constant music, etc.. and about 2-3 days with light-medium usage.
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Hmm so i guess there is a problem with my device.
Great!, and how am i supposed to explain this to the service?
I get about 12 to 15 hours of heavy usage via web, text, and email. If i watch video it's less but I am pretty happy with the battery thus far.
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I can only get around 7 hours of use.
I have a problem that if i even dont use it, the battery still drain. I got it full charged and theb unplug it. About 8 hours later, it went down to 50%.
Is there any problem with my device?
T33H00 said:
I can only get around 7 hours of use.
I have a problem that if i even dont use it, the battery still drain. I got it full charged and theb unplug it. About 8 hours later, it went down to 50%.
Is there any problem with my device?
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same here. i don't know how you guys are getting so much better battery life. i can barely last a day and i don't use it all that much. maybe 2-3 hrs of surfing the web over wifi (not even 3g). i even used setcpu to underclock to 200Mhz when screen is off.
Maybe it has something to do with the very first charge.
When i unboxed the battery was fully charged so i drained it and had it charged for 8 hours. maybe it needed to be charged prior first usage.
raqball said:
I get about 12 to 15 hours of heavy usage via web, text, and email. If i watch video it's less but I am pretty happy with the battery thus far.
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Is that 12-15 hours with the screen on? Because that's much more than I'm seeing.
I've done a few measurements just to get an idea of the battery life. They are just extrapolations based on a few hours of runtime for each so they are by no means exact, but my impression is that they give a decent view of real values nonetheless. The battery percentage indicator does not seem to be terribly non-linear.
Video playing (SD quality) with full brightness: 5.5 hours
Video playing (SD quality) with lowest brightness: 9.5 hours
Idle at homescreen with full brightness: 6 hours
Idle at homescreen with half brightness: 9 hours
Idle at homescreen with lowest brightness: 12 hours
Music playing in headphones (screen off): 90 hours
Can't believe how lazy reviewers seem to be, I haven't read a single one where they have properly measured battery life for things like playing movies or reading an ebook. It's all just subjective feelings (which are obviously very unreliable).
All in all I am pretty pleased with the battery life (but I've just had it for a few days). I especially like the fact that it's basically a normal Android phone just with a giant screen and battery. This obviously means that standby and music playing times are going to be excellent.
Edit: Those of you who think you're seeing bad battery life, what does the battery use thingy in settings say? Or is that not a good tool?
I read a post somewhere where the OP was getting horrible battery life and found out that the Gallery app was draining the battery.
The OP in that thread said even exiting the app did not kill it, and it kept draining the battery.
Perhaps you can look into this more. I never use the gallery app so maybe why this is why i get decent battery life?
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Here is the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826472&highlight=gallery
If it's this post you're referring to it's by me . The Gallery application shows up under battery use though, so I'm pretty sure that's not it.
Are you sure it's really as much as 12-15 hours with the screen always on? If it were 9-10 hours with brightness at half it would around what I'm seeing I guess, but 12-15 is quite a lot more. Not that I'm disappointed, but if better is possible better is what I want
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If it's this post you're referring to it's by me . The Gallery application shows up under battery use though, so I'm pretty sure that's not it.
Are you sure it's really as much as 12-15 hours with the screen always on? If it were 9-10 hours with brightness at half it would around what I'm seeing I guess, but 12-15 is quite a lot more. Not that I'm disappointed, but if better is possible better is what I want
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No not 12-15 hours with the screen always on.... I get 12-15 total... Screen on for usage, off for a while, back on to email and SMS ect...
Ah ok, then there's no discrepancy .
I got 10 hours from full to complete off. I was using it to watch streaming movies on 3g
for a couple of hours and then watch a movie off of the sd card and an episode of supernatural.
After that its just web and ebook reading. Its pretty good. Almost the same as my ipad.
I got a total of around 14 hrs plus with wifi and edge on, screen brightness at 20%, around 7 hrs of standby while i was asleep at night, with 4 hrs of heavy surfing, youtube etc. . . No calls though, only some sms and always on IM with nimbuzz logged in.
What i am seeing is with heavy usage i.e. Multiple apps running, wifi and edge on, i get anywhere between 5-7 hrs of battery life which i think is fair enough for a device this size which am constantly fiddling with.
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Can someone please post,
Using the supplied mains charger, how long does it take to fully re-charge a drained Galaxy Tab?
As it is a large battery what sort of charging times to expect?
(This is while NOT using the device).
Charusen said:
Can someone please post,
Using the supplied mains charger, how long does it take to fully re-charge a drained Galaxy Tab?
As it is a large battery what sort of charging times to expect?
(This is while NOT using the device).
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it takes 4hours for me
I only get about 5-6 hrs tops under constant usage...browsing,fb,tweeting,watching video...but I buy the phone 2nd hand...I'm going to buy a new battery in the new future..let's see if the battery life over 8 hrs I would be happy : )
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Sorry guys,I didn't notice that this is for galaxy tab...forgive me : )
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I've not used mine for that long, but the Battery Left app(which I found to be quite accurate on my N1) shows that for MY usage, I'll get about 25hrs.
I've got the auto dim turned off, and brightness at max. I mainly use mine for checking emails, txting, and a few games.
Nothing heavy.
I'd recomend the Battery Left app to you guys looking to find out your battery life. You DO have to "train" it though, which requires a 100%-0% run for you.
Guys,
does.anyone know, do we need to cycle the battery to give it the best performance?
Example, charge up the unit, then drain it completely and recharge it again? Like in the old days.
mine hasnt gone down much. I have it unplugged at 6am and at 4pm i still have about 75-80% batt left.
This is with about approx. 2 hrs of talk and 30mins of data usage and voice calls paired to my BT headset. My screen brightness is set to 40%
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I once got up to 20 hours of moderate usage. But with heavy usage I get about 12 hours or more. I lose about 7% when watching an episode using flash....kinda sucks but I watch a lot of anime online. But I use this as my main phone too. Its replaced my nexus completely. though it was nice with my nexus cuz I could swap batteries. This is how I condition my battery. I let it get to about 2-5% then I recharge it. I don't let it get to zero cuz I heard you can damage the cell. sometimes I charge it to about 20% then I unplug it and drain it to 5% then back up to full. I just kinda switch it up. At first I was getting horrible battery life but ever since I started conditioning it this way I get great results.
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Your battery life so far?

At the moment it seems like I'm getting around 5 minutes per percent (around 8 hours of constant use). The weird thing is that seems to be the case across all use, I get the same results from web browsing as I do reading comics in airplane mode.
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I get pretty incredible standby though with set cpu. I'll go to work and come back after eight hours or more with one or two percent gone.
Yeah the standby life is amazing
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set cpu app helped me get amazing stand by times. i mean i lose 1% every 24 hours propably.
during normal use, i get average 4-6 hours. surfing youtube, downloading, playing games. usually 5 is about right. People who say they get 8-10 hours heavy use are on one.
I would agree with 4-6 hours with constant use such as reading or twitter browsing. I previously had a Nook Color with CM7 on it and got about the same. Standby is amazing I almost never turn it off.
After about an hour of surfing or playing a game I lose about 20% so about 5 hours. But when watching videos I get around 7 or 8 hours
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What screen settings do you use?
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mrazndead said:
set cpu app helped me get amazing stand by times. i mean i lose 1% every 24 hours propably.
during normal use, i get average 4-6 hours. surfing youtube, downloading, playing games. usually 5 is about right. People who say they get 8-10 hours heavy use are on one.
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This sounds awesome I just got 48 hrs on included 4--5 hrs of use. Down to 2% ... wifi is set to go off with screen (after 1 min) not. Sure wat else to change
Hmmm. I was hoping that rooting/SetCPU/screen settings could get me closer to 8 hours of life, but that's not the case. I'll probably just sell the Iconia since the battery life is my main reason for owning a tablet, and in this case it isn't that much better than my laptop.
Run time.
52 hrs. %79 & moderate use. Never shut it off & still testing. Want to see how long it can go until I reach %30.
not trying to be an ass, but what are you guys using your tabs for? i run taboonay rom with thor kernel and good to very good battery life. I use my tablet all day long at work for e-mails, pdf viewing, gaming when i shouldn't be, and playing around on the internet. I wake up at 5 am everyday unplug my tab and start the day. With said usage i can go from 6ish AM till almost midnight and still have 20-30 something percent battery left. I wouldn't say i use it hard core, but i put it work. Just charge it while your asleep and it should last all day. Now on the occasion i watch movies on it it does drain the battery like a bastard but i can still get 5-7 hours of non stop movie watching on it. I really can't complain about the iconias battery at all. If you expect this thing to run like Carl Louis all day long without plugging it in you're in lala land. Theres alot of threads on how to get rid of cell usage drain, and look at whats killing your battery it may be an app or something you did settings wise to drain it faster.
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Completely agree, I got mine on Saturday and apart from the initial charge it's only been plugged in twice. Used on and off throughout the day on Sunday, most of Monday evening, all Tuesday evening and all Wednesday evening, playing games and on the web with a bit of youtube and playing around. First time charged at 35% on Monday evening, second time yesterday at about 11pm as it was down to 10%. I think that's pretty damn good myself. It's on OTA 3.1 and Rooted
As for comparing to netbooks, have a look at the size of the battery in a Netbook compared to the Iconia. Of course they're going to last similar amounts of time - The Iconia has a smaller battery but has less to power versus the netbooks larger battery with more devices to power.
I'm at 67% after about 27 hours with about 2 hours of actual use. I guess that's ok. I flashed the Minimalist rom on Tuesday so I probably haven't given the battery enough time to break in. Sorry for being a *****, I'm just impatient >.<
I was kind of afraid if it would last me through a day of classes when college starts back, but I think I'll be ok.
I was getting around 5 days total with 1 to 2 hours display usage before the update to 3.1. Now it only goes 2 days when on standby with less than an hour of usage. Going to download SetCPU and try that. I have not changed anything (widgets) since before the update, so I have no idea what's eating up the battery.
Does anyone use there tablet in this post?Lol
I use my tab all-day long and I usually have 20% by the end of the day.
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I use my tablet about 4 hours a day
I have to charge every 2 days
I charge during 2H30 arround.
Mine has been doing pretty well lately. I guess flashing roms took its toll
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setcpu settings?
I'm using SetCPU as well, but getting no where near what you say. I left it on sleep last night and it drained 15% - same as before.
But, maybe I'm not using it right. I enabled the "screen off" profile and dropped the speed.
What are you doing/setting to get that standby time?
mrazndead said:
set cpu app helped me get amazing stand by times. i mean i lose 1% every 24 hours propably.
during normal use, i get average 4-6 hours. surfing youtube, downloading, playing games. usually 5 is about right. People who say they get 8-10 hours heavy use are on one.
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Ok, I activated a couple more profiles including "time", temp, low battery. Low battery definitely turned on and I saw the change in the icon on the bottom right. I think the "screen off" is not turning on - basically can't see it when the screen is really off . But, it's definitely draining the same amount of battery.
Am I doing something wrong?
kqboat said:
Ok, I activated a couple more profiles including "time", temp, low battery. Low battery definitely turned on and I saw the change in the icon on the bottom right. I think the "screen off" is not turning on - basically can't see it when the screen is really off . But, it's definitely draining the same amount of battery.
Am I doing something wrong?
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SetCPU didn't help mine either. Tried a few different profiles. I thought the one that would help the most is Screen Off, I set it max and min to 216mhz. No difference in battery drain overnight.

Post Your Battery Stats So Far...

With the couple of reviewers stating the battery isn't that great. Let's see if it they're right..my "screen on time" was a little over 5 hours*...
This is mine after a full 100% with auto brightness with moderate to heavy use..
Edit. remember to include "screen on time screenshots" unlike my OP.
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After running down the out of the box battery to 20%, gave it a full charge. Since then, sitting at 6.5 hours off battery, 2 hours 1m 46s of screen on, mostly surfing the web, facebook, a handful of texts, using the Moto Display, Wi-Fi on half that time, off the other half, and about 10 pictures, 79% left.
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This is mine after a full 100% with auto brightness with moderate to heavy use..
Add On: I have do something about this moto voice lol
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Screen on time is the most important battery stat. Any chance you can edit your OP to include a screenshot of it starting from fully charged?
Yeah please post screen on times when reporting back.
I picked mine up yesterday, got it all setup, and charged over night. I'll be able to report back later this afternoon once it's had some significant uptime. I also have my LG G3 and Moto X 2013 next to me, and I'm trying to keep the usage uniform across all 3 to compare.
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Yeah please post screen on times when reporting back.
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Screen on time is the most important battery stat. Any chance you can edit your OP to include a screenshot of it starting from fully charged?
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Yeah I just remembered about that but I did check it out before I charged it. It was about 5 hours before it finally died out ...I'll do it again today
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Got mine and it was at about 44% out of the box. Ram it down until it shut down and have been having baby use with it since (except for about 7 hours sleeping). And yeah, that is totally a rogue app. Never had problems with it before though. :/
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This is comparing a Verizon G3 and Turbo, as well as a T-Mobile Moto X 2013. I've always had issues with the wireless keeping the phones awake, so the battery life isn't what most of you would probably see, but it's still a fair comparison.
DROID Turbo:
LG G3:
Moto X 2013:
So basically it's doing better than the G3 and way better than Moto X 2013. I agree with you though I think the poor Wifi reception is causing the phone to be awake more often or spend more battery maintaining signal. I'm at about 5 hours with 1 hr SOT and 80% battery. Seems reasonable but I thought it'd be better.
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So basically it's doing better than the G3 and way better than Moto X 2013. I agree with you though I think the poor Wifi reception is causing the phone to be awake more often or spend more battery maintaining signal. I'm at about 5 hours with 1 hr SOT and 80% battery. Seems reasonable but I thought it'd be better.
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That's my conclusion as well, I will run these through the night and I'll have a better comparison, then this weekend will be real world use.
It has something to do with our wireless infrastructure at work that causes devices to stay away 90% of the time, at the end of the work day I'll have 6-7 hours of it being away with very little SOT.
I'm surprised that it's only a slight improvement over the G3 though, I was expecting more.
Still trying to get through my first few cycles. So far this morning my phone is at 90% with only 25 minutes of screen on time. I did run google play music on the drive over here. But still, those are rather terrible battery stats, hoping to get through the first few cycles and get better battery life.
Juliann826 said:
Still trying to get through my first few cycles. So far this morning my phone is at 90% with only 25 minutes of screen on time. I did run google play music on the drive over here. But still, those are rather terrible battery stats, hoping to get through the first few cycles and get better battery life.
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You gotta give it more than the first 10% of one cycle to get an accurate representation. Let us know after the battery is down more.
Still gonna let it get lower before charging again. This is with a full charge. I am coming from the G3 and batt life seems way better on this, but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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(...)but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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Exactly, it takes few charging cycles for the battery and the phone to calibrate and maximize the battery life.
Alright here's mine.
Bought yesterday, charged to 100% overnight, used all day at work.
Thus far appears much better than my previous phone, an LG G2, but battery life has never been a problem for me.
Did well in phone arena tests though:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Step...the-new-king-of-flagship-battery-life_id62350
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Still gonna let it get lower before charging again. This is with a full charge. I am coming from the G3 and batt life seems way better on this, but can't tell since not even 1 charge cycle
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So we have 1 legit post from 100% to 0%. 4 hours screen time.
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So we have 1 legit post from 100% to 0%. 4 hours screen time.
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Here is my final before going back on charger
PS. This is with 1hour streaming music and 4 hours streaming Plex
Seems like battery life it pretty dam good. Don't see why other people's reviews about battery are so crappy.
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Here is my final before going back on charger
PS. This is with 1hour streaming music and 4 hours streaming Plex
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I think this is not good. Four hour screen time is awful.
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I think this is not good. Four hour screen time is awful.
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SOT isnt the only thing that shows how a battery is good or not. Like I said, I streamed a lot...with my G3, it would have crapped out long before going a full day, and the battery is only about 20% bigger. I got more than that out of the Turbo. Also note, this was the full first cycle. If you dont know already, the battery will get better after a full cycles. So Im loving it. I only have one true gripe and that is the low call volume, but I know that can be fixed through an update, which I hope they do soon.

LG G4 battery life

How are you guys experiencing the battery life? I had 100% at 12 PM now it's 3:23 PM and it's on 64%. I haven't even used the phone that much, 1 hour screen time only. I don't feel like this reflects the size of the battery (3000mah)
I have it on lowest brightness, I always kill the apps right after use and it just keeps draining fast.
Hanozy said:
How are you guys experiencing the battery life? I had 100% at 12 PM now it's 3:23 PM and it's on 64%. I haven't even used the phone that much, 1 hour screen time only. I don't feel like this reflects the size of the battery (3000mah)
I have it on lowest brightness, I always kill the apps right after use and it just keeps draining fast.
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Hard to say. Personally, I'm struggling and I can't get over 3 hours SOT. I own other phones and I do that routinely. Other people are getting ridiculous SOT, so I guess its all subjective. This thread should help answer your question.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/hows-battery-life-t3114153
There's already a thread for this. Please search before posting, rule number 1
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mtva24 said:
Hard to say. Personally, I'm struggling and I can't get over 3 hours SOT. I own other phones and I do that routinely. Other people are getting ridiculous SOT, so I guess its all subjective. This thread should help answer your question.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/hows-battery-life-t3114153
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I switched to the G4 from the Xperia Z1, I loved the battery life of the Z1. Now 3 hours of SOT is really a struggle, I don't think that's good at all..
Dennisg34 said:
There's already a thread for this. Please search before posting, rule number 1
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I know but I also wanted tips on keeping my battery life longer, I already read the thread before posting.
Hanozy said:
I know but I also wanted tips on keeping my battery life longer, I already read the thread before posting.
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#FAIL
Sfkn2 said:
#FAIL
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Lel yeah, I found some tips on the other thread but not new ones only what everybody already knows.
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This is my first day off use after a full charge, I'm pretty happy so far.
I've been unplugged for 7 hours and I'm at 46%.
2.5 hours of screen time
With the screen off:
1.25 hours of phone calls over Bluetooth
1 hour of listing to music over Bluetooth
Connected to my Moto360 the entire time
hlb3 said:
This is my first day off use after a full charge, I'm pretty happy so far.
I've been unplugged for 7 hours and I'm at 46%.
2.5 hours of screen time
With the screen off:
1.25 hours of phone calls over Bluetooth
1 hour of listing to music over Bluetooth
Connected to my Moto360 the entire time
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I got 3 hours and 46 minutes of SOT from 100 to 0, I had 0% brightness most of the time and only had wifi and 4g on, nothing else. This kind of upsets me, those are not good stats at all...
The battery needs a good few days and a few cycles of discharge and charge for it to become most effective. Wait a week before making any conclusive decisions on battery usage.
Bear in mind this is a large hi-res display, so watch your brightness if you want to save battery.
For me battery life has been great. I easily get a full day out of it with around 3 hours SOT and medium usage.
the_scotsman said:
The battery needs a good few days and a few cycles of discharge and charge for it to become most effective. Wait a week before making any conclusive decisions on battery usage.
Bear in mind this is a large hi-res display, so watch your brightness if you want to save battery.
For me battery life has been great. I easily get a full day out of it with around 3 hours SOT and medium usage.
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:good:
hlb3 said:
This is my first day off use after a full charge, I'm pretty happy so far.
I've been unplugged for 7 hours and I'm at 46%.
2.5 hours of screen time
With the screen off:
1.25 hours of phone calls over Bluetooth
1 hour of listing to music over Bluetooth
Connected to my Moto360 the entire time
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Wow. I'm pretty jealous of you. When i got my LG G4, on my second day, it only lasted for about 8 hours!!! Even though i had Bluetooth off, data off, 3/4G off, location off, battery saver on and brightness on auto. I am so disappointed with my phone as i am having to charge it in the day and sometimes through the night and i've only had it for a month.
Screen on
Can LG G4 screen on over 4h?
I am having great battery life
Good battery life
Getting through a working day easily. It could even last longer if I was more careful about closing the apps and all those usual battery saving tips. I just leave most of the stuff on... Bluetooth, WiFi, Location... Screen brightness is set on auto and it's plenty bright for my use even outdoors. :good:
spritear said:
Can LG G4 screen on over 4h?
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Did you even look at screen shots posted in this thread? And SOT varies greatly depending on usage. One person may get 4.5 hours, while another only gets 2.5.
A thread to discuss,post your battery life is already available
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/hows-battery-life-t3114153
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