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[Q] Which is the best "Battery-Saver" app for my non-rooted Note 3 ?

Guys , please help me in finding the most efficient "Battery-Saver" app for my Non-Rooted Note 3 (SM-900) ...
I have used "Deep Sleep Battery Saver Pro" but not really happy with it's performance.....

ketani73 said:
Guys , please help me in finding the most efficient "Battery-Saver" app for my Non-Rooted Note 3 (SM-900) ...
I have used "Deep Sleep Battery Saver Pro" but not really happy with it's performance.....
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561240

You and how you use it.
Turn off Sync. It really is that simple.
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ShadowLea said:
You and how you use it.
Turn off Sync. It really is that simple.
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Sorry but please explain in detail , I am a non-technical guy !!! Will really appreciate your help..:good:

ketani73 said:
Sorry but please explain in detail , I am a non-technical guy !!! Will really appreciate your help..:good:
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Apps like facebook, twitter, email and such automatically sync their data. This eats battery at a staggering speed.
You can change the setting to manual sync in the apps, or turn off all auto-sync by dragging down thw notification bar, opening all toggles (the right top button) and turning 'sync' off (green is on)
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Thanks a lot for your help & for sparing your precious time in explaining me in detail !!

ketani73 said:
Thanks a lot for your help & for sparing your precious time in explaining me in detail !!
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Try using "screen dimmer" as well. I use that app and in the mornings and evenings have it set to turn on. It helps a lot, I have almost. 7 hours of screen time right now with 15% battery left and not on battery saving mode. "Apps ops" allows you to change permissions on certain apps, so you can stop locations that way (just don't do that for android system and settings it causes issues) And try "wake lock detector" to determine if your battery is being drained by a certain app. Hope this helps. I'm not rooted and get pretty decent battery life, avg 22 hours, but as much as 40 depending on usage
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WIth the note 3, disabling sync wont be enough, it will still just be a matter of time before it ends up in a wakelock.

zipn said:
WIth the note 3, disabling sync wont be enough, it will still just be a matter of time before it ends up in a wakelock.
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It's been a matter of two and a half months, then...
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S5 Worst battery ever

Got this phone about 10 days ago and my battery is terrible since day 1, someone suggested to root my phone and get the BBS app and dump a file i did that and installed a system tuner to disable google CHECKIN OR GCM and unchecked them. apps i got installed to help with battery battery doctor, wakelock detector, os monitor, system tuner, gsam battery, betterbatterystats.
Apps i disabled are:
Ant radio service
Ant+ plugins
App zone
Blurbcheckout
chaton
chrome
flipboard
google play book, games, movies, music, newstand , google search, google+ , hangouts
hp print service plugin
my magazine
s health , svoice , samsung account , samsung apps , samsung galaxy apps widget, samsung push service, smart remote , Top Hd Games
got a plain black wallpaper, even after all this i cant get more than 2h30m screentime and everyone is getting 5h+ do i have a defective unit? what are my options right now? cause basically i removed everything the phone has lol. i talk to my workplace and they can send the phone for repair but i want to see if someone can help me before i do that. i have to unroot the phone if i have to send it for repair even though my phone is 0x1 on knox cause i was stupid to root with cf-root and didnt check other methods.

After all that you did, then it sounds like a faulty battery or device.
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How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.

darkfangex5 said:
How's your signal at work? I'm on 3g at half signal maybe? I get about 3:30 and standby. But when I'm at home WIFI only I get about 4-4:30 it all depends too on how bright your screen is.
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How do I check if I have a good signal at work? Through an app or through a battery status.
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This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.

Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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kgyirhj said:
This system tuner app you used it not any overclocking or something that might drain you battery?
What screen brightness do you use most of the time?
Can you see what use most of your battery? There is charts you can access in settings -> battery
I run with BLAZE kernel and Alliance ROM. (install without any samsung or google bloat if you can)
And I have been using my phone constantly, playing streemed music, installing apps, downloading from internet, browsing internet, having screen active a lot...
And Now I'm at 87% and have been running 1 hour and 38 minutes on battery. (Was at about 100% battery before)
I run +5 screen brightness and don't have any special powersaving features running that limit my experience with the phone.
You could try that kernel and ROM too, I feel they improved my battery time a lot.
I also shut down some samsung and google bloat stuff like air browse, s voice and such crap, saving a little little battery.
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I posted my info with photos ^ thanks
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Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.

Looks like ur using max brightness? Nearly 2 hours screen on time for 44% isnt the best but isnt terrible. I get around 5 to 6 hours using low brightness 3g/4g on besides when screen on. Using android tuner and greenify for tuneing. Screen uses a lot of battery to. Im using. Ktoons kernal now with oc and the batterys probably the same to to me. No beter or worse but. Im running higher clock.
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I also use normal power save eith the greyscale option selected and I have the cpu limited disabled.because ktoons app limits it for me.
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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You're set for almost four hours of screen on time there, on what seems to be very poor mobile signal. Doesn't sound that unrealistic to me to be honest.
Poor mobile signal absolutely kills battery life, as your phone spends the entire time searching and trying to get a better signal.

dandroid13 said:
Hey, here I have everything turned on and I never followed these stupid extreme battery guides and I easily get over 4 hours of screen time and one day away from the charger. I only use auto brightness, Greenify and KT Kernel.
It's a smartphone, if you're supposed to turn all the features off then you should have bought a dumb feature phone.
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I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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sofia-captivate said:
Here is my battery info and my brightness level. I have Canadian g900w from Rogers so I am not sure what roms or kernels you can use ?
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I see a couple of things interesting with your setup, Speaking from personal experience, I too have had battery issues drive me up a wall. I'd get just about a day on a battery when everyone else gets about 3-9 days more. My friend has an s5 all stock and he gets 9 days on a freaking battery. WTF
I rooted my first s5, with ANCH baseband and still couldn't solve all the issues with it. So I sent it back to t-mo and they sent me another one, getting batteries on ebay has also ended up a wash. 2 batteries I've received go down 20% from a full charge in the first hour and shut completely down at 32 percent at least I got a refund on that. (So be careful about ebay batteries, even though they say samsung.
So looking at yours here's what I see, Your system is staying awake, lets look at wake locks. Kik is really tearing up your machines wakelock (900wake locks) as well as the camera CPU time, i'd imagine you were recording a video at some point.
1. Go get greenify and greenify those Kik, Instagram and camera apps if thats usage while the screen is off. (No notifications on those apps, i'm afraid when you do that.)
2. Go get system tuner, make sure your rooted by towelroot (If you so choose to keep from tripping knox) and go into app mgr and find android system and go through activities, receivers and services and make sure everything you see that says IQAgent gets unchecked. This will help you stay out of ServiceIQ's eyes and also help your battery as your entire phone is debugged through those apps. (Help is on the forums somewhere)
3. Turn off google now, hotword detection and location history or you'll start noticing Google services draining your battery
4. Go get deep sleep battery saver and remove that battery saver, I personally never liked it it only suggests things to do rather than do them for you. At night or whenever you need to save your battery turn on slumber and it will only take like a percent to 5% in the morning
5. You probably have a bad battery, especially if its down to that low. Time to exchange or return
I'm incredibly disappointed, i've had to do all these things to really figure things out, heck i'd be on firefox for about 15 minutes and go down 18% (Happened this morning)
Android really has some issues with kitkat, and even though we try and fix these problems with modifications there comes a point where one just gives up and tries to deal with it.
I don't understand why my phone gets 1.2 days and my co-workers Verizon s5 gets 9 days with normal usage. Everyone seems to have crazy all over the scale battery life results. Heck, i've reset my phone and flashed so many roms that i'd be safe to say that I have yet to have 10 full discharges in the 4 weeks i've had the phone. At the end of the day though, it's mountains better than my iphone 5 with a lenmar battery case.
Wish I could say the same with stability, I'd be on my bike and switch tracks (or try) and stuff just doesn't respond, heck I can't even go with voice activation with wired headphones and that is really a downer for me. I want to be able to hold down the pause and play and get the google now boop boop sound and speak as i'm riding.
I'm tired of this, and google has no answers, the fixes above only seem to add a couple of hours but not the 9 days I was seeing.

Goldie said:
I think his point is that most people get 5-6 hours screen time with everything on and without following the "stupid extreme battery guides". To be honest it looks like you aren't getting great life either if you are only getting 4 hours. I regularly get 6-7 with everything on and no greenify or kernel tweaks
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So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...

dandroid13 said:
So? What do you do to have that many hours? Which rom? How often do you recharge? Which apps do you use? That's the point. I never freeze/uninstall anything...
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My rom. With nothing removed or frozen as I have to keep all bloat due to development to check everything. I recharge every night usually with about 20% left and about 5h30 screen on. Using Tapatalk, music, calls, Internet. The usual stuff.
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I get 6-7 hours normal use with the bloatware I never use frozen. And I mean never use.
Gtalk, whatsapp, line, google drive, dropbox, gmail, Yahoo mail, corporate mail, all running. No greenify. No battery saver.
Now playing games is different thing. 2-3 hours max.

My battery is amazing. I keep the screen brightness lower, keep networks and chips off when not using, i use bootmanager to prevent apps from launching ay boot and only 1 active widget. Good for a day and a half of very fair use !
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It's your probleme. Problably you have some stupid apps I'm your phone that you shouldn't have.
Like you see in my picture. My battery it's just fine and there is 2 stupid apps that eat me my battery without do anything

My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps

matheus_sc said:
My battery is great too, maybe problem is some apps
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Yup probably, the only flaw with a smartphone is its user

Battery Issues - 2-3h SOT

Hello everyone,
i am a very happy owner of a Note 4 model N910U besides the terrible battery life.
At first I didn't complain (used to my nexus 5) but after reading through the forum i got super dissapointed.
I am full stock, with some bloatware deactivated and no root. Unfortunately working for big G i am not allowed to customize anything (root included) as they would find out as soon as i connect to the corporate wifi. Yes, i tried and got a very scary email the second day.
I usually keep wifi activated, auto-brightness and nova launcher. I read here that nova can impact battery life but also with the ugly TW there is almost no difference. I never got more than 3 SOT and absolutely never got close the 5-6 SOT that i saw on the forum.
I've attached some SS and if someone can spot something wrong it would be great.
Thanks!

mikimarchio89 said:
Hello everyone,
i am a very happy owner of a Note 4 model N910U besides the terrible battery life.
At first I didn't complain (used to my nexus 5) but after reading through the forum i got super dissapointed.
I am full stock, with some bloatware deactivated and no root. Unfortunately working for big G i am not allowed to customize anything (root included) as they would find out as soon as i connect to the corporate wifi. Yes, i tried and got a very scary email the second day.
I usually keep wifi activated, auto-brightness and nova launcher. I read here that nova can impact battery life but also with the ugly TW there is almost no difference. I never got more than 3 SOT and absolutely never got close the 5-6 SOT that i saw on the forum.
I've attached some SS and if someone can spot something wrong it would be great.
Thanks!
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There are so many posts about "Why is my battery bad" in the "Note 4 Battery Thread" already. But here are some tips anyway...
You have a lot of wakelocks:
1. Is "Location Reporting" in "Location" switched ON? Switch this OFF
2. Google Play Services and Android System are high, there could be an app that is behaving badly like Weather app refreshing too often, Instant Messaging, Email Syncs.

Thanks will ask over there. Feel free to close the thread. And thanks for the tips!
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Horrendous battery drain on N9005

I have a N9005 running Alexndr's stock, rooted 5.0 ROM. Over the last few weeks the phone has had battery drain problems. I used to be able to get a couple of days out of the one charge but now I'm having to charge it in the afternoon. If it's at 50% charge when I go to bed it's completely dead in the morning. I'll attach some screenshots from betterbatterystats. One possible culprit seems to be com.google.android.gms which I think is part of google play services. Can someone please have a look at the screenshots & comment on them?
Thanks

I have the same problem.
I've always had 6-7 hours of sot, worse case 5 hours.
Now I have 2 hours.
I have done a factory reset, the problem is still there.

What kind of battery are you using? Have you tried using another battery?

Everybody try Amplify
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AndrOmega said:
Everybody try Amplify
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Amplify needs a deodexed ROM and Xposed framework AFAIK and I don't have a deodexed ROM. Interestingly, my Tab S 8.4 has developed the same problem. Turning off Google location history has helped a bit but it's still way poorer that it was.

I think the problem is in the Google services itself. On my Note 3 I'm having the same drain issue. On my wife Samsung A3 too.

Everybody try Servicely
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AndrOmega said:
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I thought task-killer apps were counter-productive?
Anyone tried the Disable Service app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice&hl=en

I Just freeze the app in Titanium Backup and test .
I also read the forum battery saving tips threads .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
Probable that its the battery .

I recently bought a new battery for my note 3 (by Anker) and it was a grand decision. The horrible battery drain is gone. I used to charge twice a day. I thought it may have been the rom but, although i did also change Rom from Phronensis to Dark Wolf pure white, my wifes note 3 is still on Phronensis and there's no drain on her phone so it most likely is the battery. Get a new battery but make sure it's a good battery. Read the reviews before buying.

+2 for Anker from me .

Anyone Still Use Greenify?

Without root, I'm finding this app more of a nuisance than anything else. I think it actually helped on my Note 8 (without root) but on my Note 9 it's just getting in the way because of how it needs to work without root. Screen constantly flashes on and off then when I need to get to my home screen I either have to hit the power button to interrupt Greenify working on something or let it do its thing until it's done.
I'm gonna just monitor my battery life without it further to see if I need to explore another option but so far I don't think I'm gonna hurt for battery life between home and school.

roaduardo said:
Without root, I'm finding this app more of a nuisance than anything else. I think it actually helped on my Note 8 (without root) but on my Note 9 it's just getting in the way because of how it needs to work without root. Screen constantly flashes on and off then when I need to get to my home screen I either have to hit the power button to interrupt Greenify working on something or let it do its thing until it's done.
I'm gonna just monitor my battery life without it further to see if I need to explore another option but so far I don't think I'm gonna hurt for battery life between home and school.
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Stopped using it since the S7 edge. BTW nice to see you on the note 9 forums.
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Yeah I had it on my Note 8 too. The battery life has been so good on my 9 that I'm not going to bother with it on this device. Those who said if you have a Note 8 there is no reason to switch to the Note 9 were wrong. The Note 9 is everything the Note 8 should have been and more.

samsung software basically has a built-in greenify

I had that on my S2 and Note3 but with the app optimiser in the late Samsung UXes, you don't really need it!

I use it on my Note9 ?
/CK

I don't think it's necessary since Samsung has kind of in-built Greenify functionality under Battery settings. You can select apps which will be prevented from working in background thus they will be hibernated.

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Yeah I had it on my Note 8 too. The battery life has been so good on my 9 that I'm not going to bother with it on this device. Those who said if you have a Note 8 there is no reason to switch to the Note 9 were wrong. The Note 9 is everything the Note 8 should have been and more.
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Your last sentence, bang on the truth .
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No greenify here, I have no need for it. I haven't used it since Oreo came out. It worked good on Nougat but not so good on Oreo in the times I tried it.

still use it to set up a shortcut to double tap and screen off / hibernate. use more out of habit as there are other ways to turn screen off.

Use BetterBatteryStats. It doesn't have the Doze options like Greenify. It just shows you exactly what Appa are using battery and why.

its work perfect to me now i download it free ,work with youtube very good

I hope there's no need to greenify..