Awful Battery Life! (<2 Hours SoT) - Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I've been getting some pretty abysmal battery life so far. Running out of ideas of what to do!
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I've done a full factory reset, which made no difference. And the screenshots above were taken with location services completely disabled! Any suggestions?
There's quite a lot of wakelock time from Android OS and Android System, but would that really be enough to cause this much drain? Then there's the problem of actually finding a way to stop it. It's just annoying as otherwise this is a fantastic phone, and I really want to like it, but this is just putting me off.

I think it might good idea install a Wake-lock detector app to whats happening also check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note-4-battery-thread-t2893547

vinumsv said:
I think it might good idea install a Wake-lock detector app to whats happening also check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note-4-battery-thread-t2893547
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Thanks, I've been taking a look through that thread but haven't found anything specific just yet.
As for a wakelock detector, I'm not rooted just yet, so there's very minimal information I can actually get annoyingly.

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Battery Help ( Read other theads and indepth info)

Ive read the other battery threads and applied some of the tips, downloaded the programs and also calibrated my battery. Running, cognitive rom, Bigbang ICS and a ICS live wallpaper
This is while I was asleep, battery went from 100% to 87%
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After about 6 hours of moderate usage
my friend you should post the partial wakelock screenshot. What i found is, there are certain apps keeping your phone awake even during standby. Cant say much from the screenshots posted!
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my friend you should post the partial wakelock screenshot. What i found is, there are certain apps keeping your phone awake even during standby. Cant say much from the screenshots posted!
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O I taught, those the initial screens were the wakelocks... Damn, I guess im going to let this thread die since, I cant retrieve the data of yesterday anymore and will redo the process

Suggestions on battery life?

I'm running Hyde right now and I love it, but something seems to be killing my battery quickly. I'm not blaming Hyde at all, just wanted to point out the fact I was running a custom rom.
I do have a original galaxy gear that has Tizen flashed, but prior to rooting I was getting a full day on a single charge. Now I'm getting only about 6 hours. I posted a couple of screenshots below.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why android and screen on would be tearing up my battery so much when I don't have my phone screen on constantly?
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I'm running Hyde right now and I love it, but something seems to be killing my battery quickly. I'm not blaming Hyde at all, just wanted to point out the fact I was running a custom rom.
I do have a original galaxy gear that has Tizen flashed, but prior to rooting I was getting a full day on a single charge. Now I'm getting only about 6 hours. I posted a couple of screenshots below.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why android and screen on would be tearing up my battery so much when I don't have my phone screen on constantly?
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Are you using a custom battery or the original battery?
It's an OEM battery. I have xposed with greenify installed as well.

Really bad battery life? Help

So I've been experiencing some very bad battery life ever since i got this phone. I get between 5-7 hours of battery life with an average of 3 hours of on screen time. I do use a lot of Spotify, Bluetooth and Instagram. Instagram makes my phone feel hot quickly. Like its using a lot of CPU. I've also noticed i got a few wakelocks. Any help? Anyone got any tips? I don't feel like deleting Instagram neither lol
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I also have Instagram Greenified. If i didn't manually close Instagram before shutting the screen off, it would keep running in the background and keep my phone hot.
This might sound stupid, but it worked for me before, but have you tried just restarting the phone? One time I was getting terrible battery life over several battery cycles and doesn't know how to get rid of the wakelock so I restarted my phone and next cycles were a lot better. It might just be a "band-aid" for the real problem, but it might help some.

HUGE battery drain, WTF is this wakelock?!?!?!!

I've searched and can't find anything. I've installed multiple apps to help figure it out, but it never gets better. The pics say it all... what the hell is going on? I have flashed multiple ROMs and it never gets better. And yes, I wipe and do a clean install every time. This event6/irq thing is killing me. The phone never goes into deep sleep.
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@strodda there are maybe more wcd9xxx-irq related things but if you read this file
https://android.googlesource.com/ke...ffe023c1290de57c699/drivers/mfd/wcd9xxx-irq.c
which is also getting used for compiling then you will read also about PM_locks wakelocks. I also believe that it's getting used for some audio related things but I am not sure and I am too tired to find it out. I don't know or it's normal cause I never use any other app to see what apps were the most intensive for the battery then the included feature in settings.
If you have any audio mods, I suggest to turn them off/turn them a bit down since setting audio quality high on viper4android or some other sound mods are asking for alot of cpu usage, just like on games.
I also suggest to try Dorimanx Kernel or some other kernel in the development forum.

Okay... What is up With my Battery Life?

Currently running stock 8.0 most recent firmware. Most I can possibly squeeze out is 2.5 hours of SOT with AOD enabled and about 50% screen brightness.
One other issue unrelated is that I simply can not get OEM unlocking to show up in dev options. I have updated manually with the update.zip to the newest firmware and waited multiple weeks and it still hasn't shown up. Not sure if this has anything to do with my horrible battery life. You may say that it seems normal but my battery is supposedly at 89% life and is only lasting until around 5pm, which I'm sure is not the case for most of you.
Relevant screenshots attached. Any help is appreciated!
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The latest update seems to have caused this. Mine was affected too, but found a hard reset and careful managing of apps has helped. But still not as good as battery life on Nougat. Hoping the October patch will fix this....whenever that gets released.
I don't know why this is happening to some, but here i can't complain about anything... I am using it like before with all the apps that i have. I even didn't turn off the apps monitor etc.
i dont even use my phone like i used to, and its battery is crappy now ): guess i need to factory reset it so it can be lit as before

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