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Battery problem

Hi folks....m using galaxy note...it's not rooted...the battery doesn't last long enough as it is claimed... is it something wrong with my phone or is this what they mean by long battery life... i text alot and during texting and playing gamea my phone gets warmed up and the battery lasts less than 3hours if i continue texting...my kernel version is [email protected]#2.....please help....
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It sound like you have a faulty battery if it only lasts three hours, I think you would have to be gaming to flatten a good battery in that time.
John.

Mine is the same. If I'm browsing the web, using instagram, Facebook and receiving email my battery will go from full to empt in easily 3 to 4 hours.

Backup, factory reset, reinstall apps from market (try to install only the ones you use a lot at first), restore the data you need. If you're still seeing the same things happening, install a battery logger / system logger. Use this guide to see if there's a rogue app that's causing the trouble: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937080
If it's still acting up and you cannot identify any unusual drain, I'd ask for a replacement.
After you get things sorted, you can use apps like Juice Defender from the Market to prolong your battery life even more.
-KJ

thanks guys for the sincere contribution.... i hope your advices help me...

my top battery consuming activities are:
temple run
google play
msging
go launcher
and nothing else

gaming and browsing certainly make the battery drain almost visibly..
things above and beyond the above to try include..
1. reduce screen brightness
2. reduce frequency of or disable background updates by apps
3. no vibrate notifications
4. work more, play less!..lol
the battery life of the Note is great, unless you use it .. a battery monitor will allow you to see the battery drain over time..this will help when you address item #2 above.. if you accept default refresh times, and have lots of social apps your battery can die in 6-7 hrs without even using the Note at all!..

I really love when people give the tip to not use your phone as a battery saving tip

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600691
some hints for better battery life

Got mine the other day. First charge battery was fine. Second charge went down 7% in about 5-10 mins. Then it restarted :/ Came back on, down to 88%. Turned the phone off as was frustrating me as it restarted 3 times yesterday. But when I turned it back on I was at 83%?
Hasn't last me the day, it's on charge now. When it pops up telling me to charge it tells me to shut all apps and that using while charging may effect it charging. Is this correct? I didn't think it would have anything to do with it?

3 to the 4 hours continuous use is normal... Only if your phone is standby and then depletes in that time You should be worried. I recommend researching wakelocks in that case.
There are many variables that can atribute to batterylife depletion. Eliminate those first and you will have your answer.
I had best results on stunner version 19. To bad it has the death kernel (leaked ics)
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I am facing a similar issue, facing a massive wakelock by PowerManagerService. It keeps the phone awake all the time?
Any suggestions?

shrayv said:
I am facing a similar issue, facing a massive wakelock by PowerManagerService. It keeps the phone awake all the time?
Any suggestions?
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Usually that wakelock is there cause you are charging, or have USB plugged in
Edit, I was wrong, sorry, this guy is right, I think http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340066
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16808932 this has some good android tips
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I have my note now for 2 days and i see a lil issue with the fast draining to battery power. Although i have been on it for a few hours its expected but i shall try these tips cause they do help
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craiigman said:
Got mine the other day. First charge battery was fine. Second charge went down 7% in about 5-10 mins. Then it restarted :/ Came back on, down to 88%. Turned the phone off as was frustrating me as it restarted 3 times yesterday. But when I turned it back on I was at 83%?
Hasn't last me the day, it's on charge now. When it pops up telling me to charge it tells me to shut all apps and that using while charging may effect it charging. Is this correct? I didn't think it would have anything to do with it?
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Drain your battery up to 20%....then charge it againg. ....try charging overnite.....it worked for me...u can try juice defender also
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Had the note for 2 days. It came with LA4 FW and updated via Samsung Apps for the latest FW.
Battery drain, that was none on LA4 became very strong!
Installed Better Battery Stats and discovered that the CPU was always running.
Factory reset solved it...
Regards
Nuno

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600691
This one has some note specific tips, also pretty good. I concur on the speedmod kernel, its awesome
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I can recommend "2x Battery" free app. I'm using it today and making a very noticeable difference.
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[Q]Battery life normal? 10% used over night.

HELP! Currently my Galaxy S4 9505 is not a significant upgrade battery wise from my HTC desire with a 1350 mah battery. And it's a downgrade in terms of standby time!
BATTERY:
36%
23h 43 m on battery
Screen on 1h 32m
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Screen 44
Device idle 18
Mediaserver 8
Cell standby 6
Android OS 6
Chrome 4
Voice calls 4
Talk (google) 3
Android system 2
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CONNECTIONS
Location services off
3g on
Facebook uninstalled (using friendcaster instead). Sync disabled
Email: sync every 4 hours.
Dropbox: sync disabled.
Screen brightness auto.
STORAGE
SD-card: less than 50 media files (video/music)
DRAIN OVER NIGHT
I logged the battery usage this night and in just seven hours of sleep it dropped from 63%-53%. That is absolutely unacceptable and far from the 0-1% people were talking around early release. The endurance tests that say 7-8 hours of webbrowsing or 9 hours of video playback are far from the results I'm getting. I rarely get over 3½ hrs of screen on time. I know 3g was on, but with only Email allowed to sync I don't understand how it can drain so badly.

Zmol said:
HELP! Currently my Galaxy S4 9505 is not a significant upgrade battery wise from my HTC desire with a 1350 mah battery. And it's a downgrade in terms of standby time!
BATTERY:
36%
23h 43 m on battery
Screen on 1h 32m
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Screen 44
Device idle 18
Mediaserver 8
Cell standby 6
Android OS 6
Chrome 4
Voice calls 4
Talk (google) 3
Android system 2
...
CONNECTIONS
Location services off
3g on
Facebook uninstalled (using friendcaster instead). Sync disabled
Email: sync every 4 hours.
Dropbox: sync disabled.
Screen brightness auto.
STORAGE
SD-card: less than 50 media files (video/music)
DRAIN OVER NIGHT
I logged the battery usage this night and in just seven hours of sleep it dropped from 63%-53%. That is absolutely unacceptable and far from the 0-1% people were talking around early release. The endurance tests that say 7-8 hours of webbrowsing or 9 hours of video playback are far from the results I'm getting. I rarely get over 3½ hrs of screen on time. I know 3g was on, but with only Email allowed to sync I don't understand how it can drain so badly.
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There's probably some rogue app sucking all your battery. Use an app like BetterBatteryStats to get a better idea of what the cause might be. That amount of battery drain definitely isn't normal.

runedrune said:
There's probably some rogue app sucking all your battery. Use an app like BetterBatteryStats to get a better idea of what the cause might be. That amount of battery drain definitely isn't normal.
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Tx for your reply
Is there a free alternative to better battery stats? Or is it worth it to buy it?

Zmol said:
Tx for your reply
Is there a free alternative to better battery stats? Or is it worth it to buy it?
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If you search through the XDA forums the app is available for free by the developer as a special for XDA members.

runedrune said:
If you search through the XDA forums the app is available for free by the developer as a special for XDA members.
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Excellent! Ok I'm guessing these are the screens you need to tell which app is the culprit?

Zmol said:
Excellent! Ok I'm guessing these are the screens you need to tell which app is the culprit?
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From the top tab select kernel wakelocks. You'll need to watch that and partial wakelocks too. Run it for a few hours then post back here with pictures of both.

Ok here are the results

Zmol said:
Ok here are the results
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I read about fast dormancy. That might be the problem, right? If it is then what do I do?

Zmol said:
I read about fast dormancy. That might be the problem, right? If it is then what do I do?
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There doesn't seem to be any problem. None of those wakelocks was long enough to be considered a real problem. This is weird. But as for fast dormancy, you can disable it. But I have no idea how to on the S4. You'll have to search for that. There was an app for the S3 that you could try on the S4. No guarantee it'll work though.

runedrune said:
There doesn't seem to be any problem. None of those wakelocks was long enough to be considered a real problem. This is weird. But as for fast dormancy, you can disable it. But I have no idea how to on the S4. You'll have to search for that. There was an app for the S3 that you could try on the S4. No guarantee it'll work though.
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F*ck
If the wakelocks anren't the issue then what is? This is really frustrating. I googled around for hours about the dormancy-thing, but I found no hits for the S4. The S3 app doesn't work for the S4. Regrettings buying this phone after all the trouble with the laggy interface, the laggy menus, the horrendous low light smearing and now poor battery life.
Hope someone can help solve this battery issue at least.

Zmol said:
F*ck
If the wakelocks anren't the issue then what is? This is really frustrating. I googled around for hours about the dormancy-thing, but I found no hits for the S4. The S3 app doesn't work for the S4. Regrettings buying this phone after all the trouble with the laggy interface, the laggy menus, the horrendous low light smearing and now poor battery life.
Hope someone can help solve this battery issue at least.
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Don't know what to tell you. Maybe you should try flashing a new firmware?

[Q] Terrible Battery Life

Hi guys, my glaxy s4 has terrible battery life. Like after 5 hours, i need to recharge my phone again. My phone is rooted and on CM 12 (UB ROM). I tried to remove facebook but no luck. How can i improve my battery life? I provided a sceenshot of my battery usage.
I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance

Use BBS and check wakelocks

If ur using it all the way for 5 hours straight, it's normal.

worktorest said:
If ur using it all the way for 5 hours straight, it's normal.
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Are you sure? S4's battery is 2600 mAh. It should take about 15 hours or more to make the battery become low with minutes of gaming.. I have S3 mini and its battery is 1500 mAh and it takes about 12 hours or more to make the battery become low.

I can get 5 hours on 60 percent but I gotta be using battery saver with data off when I lock the acreen

take a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59922819&postcount=12

Thanks, i will try it
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Gaming or watching movies will discharge your battery in a few hours. 4,5 or 6 hours max. Depending on what you're doing and other stuff like wifi and screen brightness.

GDReaper said:
Gaming or watching movies will discharge your battery in a few hours. 4,5 or 6 hours max. Depending on what you're doing and other stuff like wifi and screen brightness.
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But i have galaxy s3 mini and its battery life is longer than s4. S3 mini's battery is 1500mAh, s4 is 2600mAh. S4's battery life is supposed to be longer than s3's
Battery life. Oh and i tried not to play games but tue battery life is still terrible. I hate it.
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xxhunterxx11 said:
But i have galaxy s3 mini and its battery life is longer than s4. S3 mini's battery is 1500mAh, s4 is 2600mAh. S4's battery life is supposed to be longer than s3's
Battery life. Oh and i tried not to play games but tue battery life is still terrible. I hate it.
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Was the battery life always terrible or is it just now?

I'm having a similar problem so I'll use this thread instead of creating a new one. I hope you don't mind.
My battery is draining at a rate of 15% per hour even If I leave it on standby, ocasionally turning on the screen to get a message on Whatsapp of checking the time. It was 100% this morning, 1 and a half hours later, 74%.
After reading on the forums that the cause of the battery drain could be that the phone was constantly trying to get network signal (in cases where the signal is poor, like where I live), I decided to switch on airplane mode. To my surprise, in 3 minutes after this the phone was in 75%. 10 minutes later and I got a 76%. As I write (on PC) it is on 80%.
That's right. The phone started "recharging" without a cable (I know this is impossible, just describing what the display shows me) after I turned on airplane mode.
Any ideas about what might be going on and how can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: It's not the battery itself, as I've bought a brand-new, samsung original battery and the draining was still the same
EDIT: the battery started behaving like this only a few weeks ago. So I'd assume that the signal problem could be helping, but would not be the main reason on why my battery goes down so quickly.

Venorian said:
I'm having a similar problem so I'll use this thread instead of creating a new one. I hope you don't mind.
My battery is draining at a rate of 15% per hour even If I leave it on standby, ocasionally turning on the screen to get a message on Whatsapp of checking the time. It was 100% this morning, 1 and a half hours later, 74%.
After reading on the forums that the cause of the battery drain could be that the phone was constantly trying to get network signal (in cases where the signal is poor, like where I live), I decided to switch on airplane mode. To my surprise, in 3 minutes after this the phone was in 75%. 10 minutes later and I got a 76%. As I write (on PC) it is on 80%.
That's right. The phone started "recharging" without a cable (I know this is impossible, just describing what the display shows me) after I turned on airplane mode.
Any ideas about what might be going on and how can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: It's not the battery itself, as I've bought a brand-new, samsung original battery and the draining was still the same
EDIT: the battery started behaving like this only a few weeks ago. So I'd assume that the signal problem could be helping, but would not be the main reason on why my battery goes down so quickly.
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I loose battery at the same speeed, but my signal is not so poor.
Not tried the airplane mode, but i'm sure that if i put to charge it charge quickly, too quickly.... like it was 80% 5 min after 90%

GDReaper said:
Was the battery life always terrible or is it just now?
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It was terrible from the beginning. I cant replace the battery because my phone is rooted and my warranty is now void. And i won't buy a new battery because i believe the problem wiol not be solved.
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What if i flash the official firmware from samsung? Will it fix the battery issue?
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xxhunterxx11 said:
What if i flash the official firmware from samsung? Will it fix the battery issue?
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You could try that and see if it is a rom problem.
Otherwise try to borrow a battery from somewhere just to be sure it isn't the battery.

Help with new s7 edge PLEASE

Hello,
After reading alot of reviews about the s7 edge battery life i decided to get it. so i got 2 days ago and was really excited about it. the problem the battery is draining so fast and thats really confusing
ive seen screenshots with 50 hours and 60 hours with estimated time. mine barely shows 7 hours. today for example i left the house at 8 with 92% and now im back wth 36% left screen was on auto with wifi
and 3g and sometime gps on. is this normal? am i being paranoid? is it true that the battery will get better with more days of use?
Please tell me what should i do im really worried that its faulty or something.
PS: i did a factory reset before i use it.

Yes, it will take a couple of days for the battery to level out. Do you have the Exynos or Snapdragon processor? What apps are reporting high battery use? Have you disabled any apps?
Sorry for the barrage of questions, but all of these things play a role in your battery life. I recommend GSAM battery monitor and Greenify with aggressive doze, but I will say that 50-60 hours is ambitious. I can usually get 25-30 hours with about 5 hours of SOT. That is with a combination of wifi, 4g, gps and Bluetooth on (android wear), some gaming and facebook, instagram, etc.

neezy13 said:
Yes, it will take a couple of days for the battery to level out. Do you have the Exynos or Snapdragon processor? What apps are reporting high battery use? Have you disabled any apps?
Sorry for the barrage of questions, but all of these things play a role in your battery life. I recommend GSAM battery monitor and Greenify with aggressive doze, but I will say that 50-60 hours is ambitious. I can usually get 25-30 hours with about 5 hours of SOT. That is with a combination of wifi, 4g, gps and Bluetooth on (android wear), some gaming and facebook, instagram, etc.
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Hi thanks for the reply, yeah its my fault i forgot to mention some information
I am using the Exynos model in Netherlands. the screen is always on the top of the list of the battery usage. im using gsam to monitor the battery and i dont think there is anything unusual there android system on the top using 25% or something. im really scared of using anything so it wont die on me outside today i was only navigating and doing some whatsapp calls on the 3g network "not even 4g". i only disabled facebook and using nova launcher and the AOD is off also. im not sure if i should send it back... how many days are we talking about for the battery to get better? i only want somehow a good battery not worse than my old grand prime. as i said i got it wendesday's evening and now its friday and its still bad

lollimolly said:
Hi thanks for the reply, yeah its my fault i forgot to mention some information
I am using the Exynos model in Netherlands. the screen is always on the top of the list of the battery usage. im using gsam to monitor the battery and i dont think there is anything unusual there android system on the top using 25% or something. im really scared of using anything so it wont die on me outside today i was only navigating and doing some whatsapp calls on the 3g network "not even 4g". i only disabled facebook and using nova launcher and the AOD is off also. im not sure if i should send it back... how many days are we talking about for the battery to get better? i only want somehow a good battery not worse than my old grand prime. as i said i got it wendesday's evening and now its friday and its still bad
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If I'm reading correctly, you are losing about 60% in 5 hours? If so, that is definitely excessive even during the first 2 or 3 days unless the screen was on and the phone active the entire time. Can you post screen shots of you battery stats? Maybe some app is causing the problem, but is not being reported as using too much battery.
Some folks say that the different firmwares have different battery usage. Has yours updated?

neezy13 said:
If I'm reading correctly, you are losing about 60% in 5 hours? If so, that is definitely excessive even during the first 2 or 3 days unless the screen was on and the phone active the entire time. Can you post screen shots of you battery stats? Maybe some app is causing the problem, but is not being reported as using too much battery.
Some folks say that the different firmwares have different battery usage. Has yours updated?
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ok someone told me to turn it off and charge to 100% so i dont have enough data now. but im doing a test now with pokemon go lol
the screen is on about 70% brightness wifi and gps are on and radio is off (i have low cell signal now) and music app playing in the background and now after 50 minutes i am at 89% with screen on all the time. do you think this is good or bad?
i just noticed something in most of the screen shots from other people gsam shows about 3.80v near the temperature but mine show 4.07v does this makes any difference?

That sounds normal for an hour of paying Pokemon Go. It's pretty battery intensive. That voltage is just the current battery charge. It'll drop as your battery percent drops.
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Battery drain super fast

Dear all,
My S7 edge would give me a very good battery life at the beginning. For instance, i would charge it to 100%, it would take 15 to 20 mins of continuous usage to become 99%. And further same speed till 0.
But since 2 to 3 months, it is draining very fast no matter how many times i flashed with the latest firmware. 100% to 99% in 3 mins of usage. And further every percent goes down in 2-3 mins.
Is the battery spoilt? Do i need to replace it? Any solution? I did try calibrating from 0 to 100%. No use.
If battery needs to be replaced so, do service centre replace as if it was never opened? Cause i love my phone to look new and when i sell them, no one should make out i replaced it or opened the phone.
Kindly guide. Thank you.

Your trying to tell me your surprised that the battery is draining while your using the phone?
I've been sat here surfing the net, reading tapatalk and replying to messages for the past 40 mins and I've lost 5% but you know I'm using the phone, so it's expected.
If you think it's abnormal (it isn't) check what's running in the background, hardware intensive apps are obviously going to cause the battery to drain faster, put them to sleep in the battery section and get bbs to check for wakelocks and alarms etc...
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Mr.R™ said:
Your trying to tell me your surprised that the battery is draining while your using the phone?
I've been sat here surfing the net, reading tapatalk and replying to messages for the past 40 mins and I've lost 5% but you know I'm using the phone, so it's expected.
If you think it's abnormal (it isn't) check what's running in the background, hardware intensive apps are obviously going to cause the battery to drain faster, put them to sleep in the battery section and get bbs to check for wakelocks and alarms etc...
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Thanks for the reply. Could you please tell me how to check and give you a record of the whole to cross check if possible?
The drain is very fast even after flashing and not installing anything on it.