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My MAJOR improvement in battery life and how I did it so simply

Settings > Locations and Security > Uncheck everything in the first portion.
I happened to find my 'Use wireless networks' turned on one day, and after turning it off, my battery life improved (on the next charge) from (based on screen-on time, seen by checking Display in Battery Usage) 2 - 2.5 hours to 4.5 - 5 hours. That's double!
A battery recalibration is recommended after doing that.
It worked for me but it might not for you, so I don't guarantee any results. This is just my experience and the advice I'd like to give.
If it worked for you, enjoy!
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It is always the same with this smartphone things. Mostly everytime you switch off some battery draining stuff, you loose comfort. I often want my phone to know where I am, because of wheather widget, bus/tram widget and so on.
This is good for someone who doesn't use these things.

yeah i always have this enabled because i want weather updates every 2 hours or so and sometimes use it ti check in to places, it doesn't use up that much battery compared to some other things.

Thats true. I didn't notice any difference because I don't use those things.
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Disabling 'Background data' in 'accounts and sync' does a lot too .. I mean in the case you don't use it, and you have both wifi and mobile network off, so nothing can't connect anyway.

Mercury0660 said:
It is always the same with this smartphone things. Mostly everytime you switch off some battery draining stuff, you loose comfort. I often want my phone to know where I am, because of wheather widget, bus/tram widget and so on.
This is good for someone who doesn't use these things.
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agree it more comfort like where you want to use foursquare or facebook to check in

You can turn off:
Wi-Fi
Data
Bluetooth
GPS
Auto Sync
3G
Might as well have one of these
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THUDUK said:
You can turn off:
Wi-Fi
Data
Bluetooth
GPS
Auto Sync
3G
Might as well have one of these
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I use to have one of those!
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how do you recalibrate the battery?

moedin said:
how do you recalibrate the battery?
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Look at my signature to make a correct battery calibration bro

THUDUK said:
You can turn off:
Wi-Fi
Data
Bluetooth
GPS
Auto Sync
3G
Might as well have one of these
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I don't get why anyone plunks down $400+ for the latest and greatest smartphone and then turn everything off.

superdx said:
I don't get why anyone plunks down $400+ for the latest and greatest smartphone and then turn everything off.
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The same reason why ppl buy iphones....only to fit in.

Is there a fool-proof way to ensure data is not turned on?

My data charges depend on the usage and it's very expensive. Sometimes, somehow my data is accidentally turned on. Is there a fool-proof way to ensure that that never happens? Is there an app that ask me to confirm if I am sure that I want to turn on data?

Go on settings
Press "more"
Go on "mobile networks"
And if data enabled is unmarked that means its off
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I don't want to always go through those steps to see if it's off.
And, it doesn't really ensures that it never gets turned on.
Is there another way?

xmizer said:
I don't want to always go through those steps to see if it's off.
And, it doesn't really ensures that it never gets turned on.
Is there another way?
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Of course it does, why won't it?
Also if u don't want to go through all those steps u can use widgets
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I can just press data enabled and it toggles on/off
Also next time post in the q&a section
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But if you really really want to make sure pop out your sim and that should work trololol but seriously those widgets work! I used them before :thumbup:
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Airplane mode... haha that will be sure you wont have data charges!!! lol

I'm guessing you could make a null APN and simply select it, that way your device shouldn't be able to use data until you choose the right APN.

^^ This will definately work.

subxero123 said:
Go on settings
Press "more"
Go on "mobile networks"
And if data enabled is unmarked that means its off
Quick settings by dragging the top nav bar down.
And just press the mobile data icon if it is on to turn it off.
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What about using Tasker or Llama to set up an event to disable mobile data if it is on?
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Why my Services of google make the baterry bad ?

What has my Services of google done ?, I can know how to improve the battery (
It is never bad like this before
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Can you help me to fix this ?, the battery is very bad
thanks you

daogiahieu said:
What has my Services of google done ?, I can know how to improve the battery (
It is never bad like this before
Can you help me to fix this ?, the battery is very bad
thanks you
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Try to disable all sync and disable location services. See if the battery improves and then activate sync one by one to see the culprit.
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theo80 said:
Try to disable all sync and disable location services. See if the battery improves and then activate sync one by one to see the culprit.
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But I don't turn any sync or location on ?
any idea ?

Check in Google maps, turn off location history and location reporting. Turn off network location in location settings of it is on. If that doesn't help disable Google now. I had this exact issue and that fixed it.
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daogiahieu said:
But I don't turn any sync or location on ?
any idea ?
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It's common if you have WiFi and network location checked in your location settings. This forces the phone to randomly use these services, even if you turned them off.
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Thanks you for helping me.
I turn it off. If it is not work, I will post to ask you in this theard
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It is not work
I turned off like you said , anybody help me (
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Turn them all off. Reboot the phone and see how it looks in a few hours. It won't show instantly, takes time.
Go into Google Play services and clear data and reboot.
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Location mode sets to High Accuracy automatically, after I change it to GPS ONLY?

Hi,
So I am trying to setup my note 4 to be on GPS only mode all the time. But everytime I turn off and turn on location, it goes back to High accuracy mode.
How do I make it stick to GPS only mode?
Thanks.

awaisuk said:
Hi,
So I am trying to setup my note 4 to be on GPS only mode all the time. But everytime I turn off and turn on location, it goes back to High accuracy mode.
How do I make it stick to GPS only mode?
Thanks.
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This is "normal." Every time you turn location on, it defaults to high accuracy and you must change the settings to power saving. If you turn location off and on again, it will default again.
I hate it too. It's annoying as heck, but it's a stupid Android problem and not the Note 4. My old phone did it on Kitkat too, and it was an LG.
The good news is that you can get to the location settings quickly by holding the location toggle in the quick settings pull down. Unfortunately, you'll have to go to the settings everyone you turn location on, or just keep location on or off.
My phone isn't really rootable, but MAYBE there's some sort of trick you can do if rooted. If so, I hope someone can help you more.
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same issue on my s5 and its damn annoying.
I posted a request in apps section to see if a dev can make a xposed module to fix it, but I am going to see if I can fix with tasker, as tasker can do cool things like toggle settings after a mode is activated.

Go into Settings -> Location and you be able to adjust the GPS connection settings there.

DarkGuyver said:
Go into Settings -> Location and you be able to adjust the GPS connection settings there.
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that only works until you disable it, then it changes again when turning back on

Just came across this INSANITY, think it's because I installed (and promptly uninstalled!) the weather.com app. It changed the settings, I'll try with clearing the cache:
Code:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3/502397-how-do-i-stop-my-location-mode-changing-high-accuracy.html
Why isn't this on the Android web site and first result in Google. It's like they WANT everyone to suffer. I can't rage here, but believe me I'm cussing right now.

Genius, got it!.. It was one of the Google apps!!
Rebooted to Safe Mode (probably irrelevant ) & cleared the data - on several Google services, dunno which is the culprit - and voila!
On Reboot, switching Location back on presented me with the dialog to NOT have High accuracy; yes, lol!
Going to try and add that screenshot to the post here. =)
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Well, this is officially the stupidest thing Google/Android have ever done. And it's been around for a while, as I see. It is still there on Marshmallow ... how fantastic. Yep, they do wanna troll you and own you ... that we get.
Here's a possible fix for rooted phones - https://csullender.com/blog/2014/01/26/automatic-high-accuracy-android-location/ just revert the procedure somewhat and make sure that Tasker tells Maps (or whatever nav app you use) to default to GPS off which is “battery saving” mode in Secure Settings.
This is insanely retarded ...

WiFi turning on and off automatically

I need help with my WiFi coming on and off automatically its driving me crazy. I haven't messed with any settings on my phone. But I did notice that when I go on location settings and turn off WiFi scan the problem goes away. It was on by default. Never had a problem before. Help please.
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It do to your location settings. If you want it to stay off go to your location settings and select GPS only. For some reason some of the apps are turning on Wifi to find your location. I had the same issue but could not figure out which app was doing it.

Thanks dude this was happening to me too

The latest Google Play Services has a bug; the above workaround is all we can do until they roll out an update.

andrewNY said:
The latest Google Play Services has a bug; the above workaround is all we can do until they roll out an update.
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Thanks I was just about to ask if any one knew why this was turning it self on

I updated a few apps thru the play store yesterday with Android System Webview being among them. Afterwards, looking at my wifi tab, I noticed it's not blinking with like before. I think the latest "Android System Webview" may have fixed this issue.
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princeasi said:
I updated a few apps thru the play store yesterday with Android System Webview being among them. Afterwards, looking at my wifi tab, I noticed it's not blinking with like before. I think the latest "Android System Webview" may have fixed this issue.
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Thanks for the heads up. So far so good [emoji106]
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Changes in router's Wireless Security had caused it in my case
I had this issue and was causing me real headache. I initially thought it was hardware failure of my phone but later I found reason is something else.
For some reason I had changed Wireless Security of my WiFi router from WPA2 Personal to something else (I guess WEP).
That was causing my phone (intex cloud 4g) often to turn on and off WiFi on its own. I changed the Wireless Security back to WPA2 Personal and phone is now back to normal (not turning WiFi on and off on its own)