I purchased a new prepaid T-Mobile Note 4 from BestBuy few days ago. Today I have noticed that when I run benchmarks, I am getting very low scores. On Antutu, I am only getting around 26000, but sometimes I am getting the normal scores i.e, 46k. Even when running other benchmark applications, I noticed that I was getting only around half scores but sometimes I am getting normal scores.
I don't understand this strange behaviour. Is my phone defective ? Should I return it ?
P.S: I have not rooted this phone. I tried a factory reset, and there is no power saving mode turned on.
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I have 2 g2's. One needs to be returned becasue it has some stuck pixels. Ive had the replacement one a few days and noticed some frame drops and occasional jankyness. Also GPS seems much slower then then my first g2.
So I wiped them both last ngith. And started running benchmarks on them (I know benchmarks are meaningless) But in this case they might mean something.
The 2nd g'2 scores consistantly lower by 10-20 percent in every benchmark Ive thrown at it. Gps also side to side is much worse. Also the second one seems to get hotter then the first, even when both starting at the same internal temp.
Ok I think I've answered my own question by typing this out, they both get returned and I'll hope for better luck on the third.
I think you're just being way too picky.
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bring back cant be so that two identical units behave so different
Its already discussed, different pvs bin gives different result. Lower pvs bin tends to get hotter meaning will work at full speed not as long due to thermal throttling, thus the lag. Not only on G2 phones, others does too, only less noticable.
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What is the typical battery life / performance for Galaxy Note 4 users on this board? And what is the typical life advertised by Samsung, and featured in reviews?
I get about 13-15 hours, with 3 hours screentime on my Korean Note 4 (sm-n910k). But I thought I'd seen reviews boasting near two day usage...six-ten hours screentime.
What is going on then for me? I am BITTERLY disappointed with battery performance: The attached screenshot shows my typical day. Is this normal for you too?
In this screenshot example no calls made during the day, no GPS usage, and almost no apps beyond Gmail and Twitter. I have just a handful of additional apps installed, but the phone does however appear loaded with bloatware.
I took the device to Samsung Service Center in Seoul on the weekend (for a second time) and showed them the problem. It drained 5% from 15 mins of screentime right in front of the engineer.
After resets and reboots engineer said this was normal and that all tests showed the phone to be normal.
Or is it only normal for the Korean variant, but NOT for the international variant?
Help much appreciated!
Mine from Korea too 910L
And I haven't use 3g that day, only play some heavy graphic game 45 minutes and use wifi
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I got both the SM-N910K an the SM-N910C at home, mostly because at first my 910K did not want to enable 4G in my country no matter what (even though it was supposed to be supported) So when we got the local 910c i got one too. It turned out that after a firmware update, my 910K started working in LTE in Brazil normally, i dont know why. But what shocked me was the terrible battery life of the K in comparison to the C. SO i swapped their batteries to see if it was a battery issue but the C kept maintaining amazing battery life. So I rooted the K, replaced the rom with a custom N910S rom that i found online (it works just fine because they are identical) and begun deleting crap that i knew was unneeded because my C didn´t have it and while i am still running some tests it would seem that the battery life of the K has been improving. There are a ton of bundled crap inside the firmware, even the custom one...so hang on to your K, once a decent custom rom comes out of it, it will be a lot better. Mind you, i also compared them a bit and the screen on the K seems better than the C when it comes to color fidelity (the C is a bit warmer), and going thru benchmarks, the K always pulls ahead by a bit. It´s almost as if it was clocked a wee bit higher. Keep digging!
N910H with N910C SweetRom v2
12-15hrs autonomy, 5h30 to 6h of screen on time. 50% WiFi, 50% HSPA+.
Disappointed a bit because I expected an improvement over Note 3 and it's not the case at all.
OP, something is wrong there try a factory reset or a custom ROM. Root and install a wakelock detector to figure out what's happening
Thanks for the feedback. What are others getting in terms of time?
Especially interested in non korean models.
I have a galaxy note 4 on sprint. When I first got the phone, it ran great. I love the long battery life and multitasking abilities. However, I've noticed recently that it seems to be running slower. I'm on stock, unrooted firmware and I've only had the phone about six months. When I first got the phone, battery life was excellent. I only seemed to lose about ten percent battery for an hour of normal use (screen on, low/moderate processor use). Now I lose about twice that. I also downloaded the AnTuTu benchmark test and ran it. When I first did this with this same phone six months ago, I achieved a score of around 50,000 but I ran the test again last night and scored 27,000. I had a friend run the test on his note 4, also about six months old, and he scored about 50,000. I also cannot connect to a Bose Soundlink Bluetooth speaker that I used to have no problems with (still with same note 4 unit) and I had to factory reset my android wear watch to get it to connect to my phone, another issue I've never had. On top of that, I can no longer get the phone to vibrate with the arrival of a text message. It will give a notification and sound, but no vibrate. These issues are frustrating, especially as the phone is only around six months old. Any help with this stuff would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I have a galaxy note 4 on sprint. When I first got the phone, it ran great. I love the long battery life and multitasking abilities. However, I've noticed recently that it seems to be running slower. I'm on stock, unrooted firmware and I've only had the phone about six months. When I first got the phone, battery life was excellent. I only seemed to lose about ten percent battery for an hour of normal use (screen on, low/moderate processor use). Now I lose about twice that. I also downloaded the AnTuTu benchmark test and ran it. When I first did this with this same phone six months ago, I achieved a score of around 50,000 but I ran the test again last night and scored 27,000. I had a friend run the test on his note 4, also about six months old, and he scored about 50,000. I also cannot connect to a Bose Soundlink Bluetooth speaker that I used to have no problems with (still with same note 4 unit) and I had to factory reset my android wear watch to get it to connect to my phone, another issue I've never had. On top of that, I can no longer get the phone to vibrate with the arrival of a text message. It will give a notification and sound, but no vibrate. These issues are frustrating, especially as the phone is only around six months old. Any help with this stuff would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I think the current and last few versions of Google Play Services have a battery drain bug. Google Play Services (which I'll abbreviate as GPS) is updated automatically via the Play Store, but you don't confirm the update like a normal app. So it basically updates without your knowledge.
My battery life was normal on my ATT Note 4 about 2 weeks ago, with Location always on (power saving), power saving mode on, bluetooth always on, and my Moto 360 connected. Lately though, the battery life has started dropping faster. I used to get home from work with about 75% battery left. Now I'm between 50 and 65%.
If GPS is indeed the issue, then all we can do is wait for Google to fix it in a newer version. You can uninstall the updates, or even manually install a certain version, but within about 24hrs, GPS will automatically update itself to the latest version again.
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Thanks for the information! I didn't think of that. Would that cause my AnTuTu benchmark score to be low, as well? The phone just seems to lag sometimes and the benchmark score seems to be evidence that it's more than just my perception
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Thanks for the information! I didn't think of that. Would that cause my AnTuTu benchmark score to be low, as well? The phone just seems to lag sometimes and the benchmark score seems to be evidence that it's more than just my perception
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Maybe?
You can try uninstalling (which will downgrade to a very old version) GPS updates via settings-general-applications-all-google play services
You won't be able to properly use many Google apps while downgraded though, and GPS while probably auto update over night. But while downgraded, don't open Play Store and try Antutu again to see if there is any improvement. Run your phone like normal too and see if battery life improves. If all this is better, then it's definitely GPS.
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Not sure what happened, but the benchmark score is back up (around 46000). Battery life has not gotten any better, and I'm having more Bluetooth problems, specifically with my LG g watch now. This is frustrating. Anybody have any idea? Would it be within the realm of possibility to get the phone replaced under warranty? I've only had it since February. I'm also having problems with text messages actually sending. They show as sent from my phone, but people don't receive them
hi, i just bought this from off of Expansys and received it today. After using it for a few mins (playing around with the settings, installing apps, etc..) I notice phone gets kinda warm. I waited until the phone felt like room temperate, but right after i used it again, it's the is feeling warm again. I did 2 benchmarks from Antutu and 3Dmark and both r reporting that my phone is underperforming and i took some pictures of the temperatures. At one point it was reporting 80 C, but it felt the same same it was like 40 C. Is my phone normal or defective? what should i do? Also, should i try installing the 5.1.1 OTA update to see if that fixes it? the phone is currently on 5.0.1 (or something similar)
The title pretty much says it all. I'm curious what people's typical benchmark scores people are seeing in Antutu, and what tweaks can be made to achieve higher scores?
So far I haven't even come close to 130k, and my scores have been even worse since I tried the ENG root, U firmware and other such modifications. Im back to fully stock now and consistently getting a disappointing avg. of around 90k in scores...
I've been concerned that there is something wrong with this phone. Ive not been getting the "buttery smooth" performance that many people talk about. Even right out of the box. Ive only owned the Edge for a couple weeks now.
Also my cell reception is awful. Always between 1 and 2 bars at home. I just upgraded from a S5 and I alway used to get between 4 and full bars at home. I live in a high coverage area too
My wife also just got the regular S7 and shes been experiencing better reception than I have..
Attached mine below. Tried stock with root, U FW with root and U without root. So far I've had the best experience with U unrooted. No mods or anything disabled.
Currently sitting at 55% battery with just over 3.5 hours SOT. I'd consider myself a fairly heavy user.. few YouTube videos on lunch, streaming music from various sources almost constantly at work, Tasker is always running and most of my profiles are location based so GPS is always on too.
Bottom line is.. it always runs smooth as butter.