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Just got the tablet a few days ago. Love the speed. Love the pen. Love the stock UI. Love the tablet. But that battery life..... yikes. I wanted to know how everyone's battery life was. I'm on rooted 4.4.2 and it dies so fast. If I'm not using it, it stays on the same percentage for a few hours but if I'm using it, even for light browsing, the battery percentage just drops. While I'm playing Dead Trigger, it takes like 5 minutes of gaming to drop 10%. I'm on maximum performance so I didn't know if that was normal or not. But thats during gaming on max performance so I can't say I didn't expect that. What I didn't expect however, is how fast it drops even with nongaming use at low battery setting. I was taking notes in class earlier today and it dropped a percentage roughly every 1.5 minutes. Is this normal? What are your battery lives like? Does it get better if I roll back to 4.3 or 4.2.2?
Mateyo64 said:
Just got the tablet a few days ago. Love the speed. Love the pen. Love the stock UI. Love the tablet. But that battery life..... yikes. I wanted to know how everyone's battery life was. I'm on rooted 4.4.2 and it dies so fast. If I'm not using it, it stays on the same percentage for a few hours but if I'm using it, even for light browsing, the battery percentage just drops. While I'm playing Dead Trigger, it takes like 5 minutes of gaming to drop 10%. I'm on maximum performance so I didn't know if that was normal or not. But thats during gaming on max performance so I can't say I didn't expect that. What I didn't expect however, is how fast it drops even with nongaming use at low battery setting. I was taking notes in class earlier today and it dropped a percentage roughly every 1.5 minutes. Is this normal? What are your battery lives like? Does it get better if I roll back to 4.3 or 4.2.2?
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I was the same, i thought the battery life sucked but then i did a complete wipe and flashed stock 4.4.2 and now i love the battery life, using 'balance' mode i get excellent of battery life, imo the best feature of this tablet.
Jedipottsy said:
I was the same, i thought the battery life sucked but then i did a complete wipe and flashed stock 4.4.2 and now i love the battery life, using 'balance' mode i get excellent of battery life, imo the best feature of this tablet.
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Interesting. So rooting it might have something to do with battery draining so fast? I'll have to try to wipe, reflash stock, and test it out. Appreciate the input!
I have not rooted my TN7( 4.4.2 ), I use BSPlayer for videos and music and my battery shows 1% drop after playing MP3s at full volume for 8-10 minutes. That's very impresssive battery life. I use "Balanced" setting from "Settings" app. May be, you are having battery issue because you might have rooted using chinese method and that installs some chinese apps.
MC4 runs without lags on my TN7 with "Balanced" setting and about 3.5 hours of battery life. I will check what happens after changing to "Performance" setting.
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I did not experience any "impressive graphics" when playing Shadowgun THD. What was you experience? (RR3 looks very good, mirroring on the surface of cars, shadows) ...
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I have not rooted my TN7( 4.4.2 ), I use BSPlayer for videos and music and my battery shows 1% drop after playing MP3s at full volume for 8-10 minutes. That's very impresssive battery life. I use "Balanced" setting from "Settings" app. May be, you are having battery issue because you might have rooted using chinese method and that installs some chinese apps.
MC4 runs without lags on my TN7 with "Balanced" setting and about 3.5 hours of battery life. I will check what happens after changing to "Performance" setting.
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I did not experience any "impressive graphics" when playing Shadowgun THD. What was you experience? (RR3 looks very good, mirroring on the surface of cars, shadows) ...
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I've rerooted it from scratch and the battery lasts much longer. The only chinese app I had was some input keyboard one that I immediately deleted with clean master so I wasn't worried about it. I unfortunately have not tried shadowgun THD so I can't say what my experience is, but man. RR3 does look AMAZING.
Mines totally stock bar the google home laucher
I think it is pretty awful
1% every 1.5 minutes just surfing and YouTube
When running root w/ stock 4.4.2-2.1 and power saving mode w/ auto backlight, I get around 6-8 hours of use - I don't game though.
Just picked up the evga version, did all the updates to 4.4.2, battery is just draining like crazy, unit is quite warm to the touch constantly. Topped off out of the box, did the updates, was at 92%. Stepped out with friends and took it with me. It was sleeping the majority of the time, took a couple of test pictures to see AOHDR in effect. No wifi connection. 6pm to 9pm when i got home, battery was at 8% installed a couple of apps, in about 15 minutes was at 4% with the critical warning. Went ahead and charged it up all night. Been off the charger about 40 minutes, im at 75%. This can't be right, nothing near what you guys have reported. battery indicator is that screen on is the biggest drain. Im rooted, stock recovery, SD write fix applied. If i have to do a wipe, ill do it, but i've only installed bgee, sketchbook, cal, coursera, and a bunch of updates. No chance of 10 hours web like the reviews state, no chance of 10 hours of even idle running! Im using the balanced power mode, prism on, auto dimming.
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wow, 65% 1h 15m on battery
google plus has now taken the lead, 41% total use. killed it for now,w e'll see
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Just picked up the evga version, did all the updates to 4.4.2, battery is just draining like crazy, unit is quite warm to the touch constantly. Topped off out of the box, did the updates, was at 92%. Stepped out with friends and took it with me. It was sleeping the majority of the time, took a couple of test pictures to see AOHDR in effect. No wifi connection. 6pm to 9pm when i got home, battery was at 8% installed a couple of apps, in about 15 minutes was at 4% with the critical warning. Went ahead and charged it up all night. Been off the charger about 40 minutes, im at 75%. This can't be right, nothing near what you guys have reported. battery indicator is that screen on is the biggest drain. Im rooted, stock recovery, SD write fix applied. If i have to do a wipe, ill do it, but i've only installed bgee, sketchbook, cal, coursera, and a bunch of updates. No chance of 10 hours web like the reviews state, no chance of 10 hours of even idle running! Im using the balanced power mode, prism on, auto dimming.
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wow, 65% 1h 15m on battery
google plus has now taken the lead, 41% total use. killed it for now,w e'll see
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Got Evga, after the 4.4.2 the battery started to drain at aprox. 1% per minute even with the screen off, Seems to be a bug of 4.4.2, maybe the latest update shall fix that. Anyway, personally I won't know it for a long time since I bricked mine while trying to go back to 4.3 and escape from battery drain Also, if anyone could do me a favour and backup the system from cwm, I'd be really happy)
Try deleting the "batterystats.bin" file and then switch off, charge, then power on after complete charging.
I think those who are reporting battery problem, all have rooted, thank god I have not rooted till now!! I can play 720p movies from my shared windows folders over wifi with fair signal strength for about 9 hrs. Still while playing Asphalt 8, battery lasts only for 2.5 hours. I have all the default settings, not changed anything. ( Xolo Play Tegra Note )
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Try deleting the "batterystats.bin" file and then switch off, charge, then power on after complete charging.
I think those who are reporting battery problem, all have rooted, thank god I have not rooted till now!! I can play 720p movies from my shared windows folders over wifi with fair signal strength for about 9 hrs. Still while playing Asphalt 8, battery lasts only for 2.5 hours. I have all the default settings, not changed anything. ( Xolo Play Tegra Note )
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I'm not rooted
Where is this file ?
Battery life is great for me! I took out of the box, turned a few things off, but it's wonderful. I use Nova Prime launcher. Not sure if that's helping.
Guys, please post your battery life screenshots. Mine is fine :laugh:
Dont have screenies but my SOT is 3 and half hours . Pac rom Lp 5.1 Caf D802 .
There is already a thread about battery life where users posted their screens...anyway your screen in the first post is useless to determine battery life. Dont mean to be rude but it really is useless, because if you barely use the phone, you can reach 120h+ easily. You have to give more information. Even the screen on time is not accurate to determine battery life, because there are some users who use their phone like an e-reader and get massive amounts of screen time that are impossible to reproduce when using the phone on normal conditions. Not everyone uses the phone in the same conditions. A good way to determine it would be the screenshot like you gave, another one with the apps showing consumption, another one with screen time and a screenshot of cpu spy or any other cpu measuring app(because this will make it easy to spot how those e-readers get so much sot, usually their lowest cpu frequency is used a LOT, unlike normal users)
always 6-6.5 hours sot. can hold up to 3 days or more with light usage using Cloudyg2 2.2.
Fyi, cloudy g2 is not the reason you get 6h+ sot... unless you're significantly reducing performance and/or screen brightness. No rom can beat physics(and logic).
I average 5h sot over 2-3 days with wifi/data/sync/auto brightness on. Can easily go a week in standby if check it a few times a day. Running stock sprint lollipop with latest zvi update.
Well that's depressing....I have a battery life of maybe 4 hours with 1 to 1,5 hours of screen on time........I made a post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/help/battery-messed-t3297770.
If anybody has a suggestion I would be more than pleased. Been using the phone for +2 years. And looking at the screenshots of yours, I hadn't had that in a loooongloooong time
At full charge, plugging in earphone and listening to music or videos on youtube , i get like 3 and half and sometimes 4 hours depending on the rom. Screen is set to the lowest. I dont install much app, especially which connects to the internet silently in the backgroud. Disable location services and all too helps. At idle with wifi on and phone radio is 90% or more good signals, it lasts for about 3 or 2 and half days (depends on kernel too) . What rom you using @deereper ??Have you tried reducing google service battery drain via script and all ?
deereper, and anyone else getting under 3h sot, your battery is shot. I had similar battery performance until I replaced it. In my experience custom roms/kernels may make a very minor difference but have much worse performance and stability.
Yeah, I ordered a new battery.
I really don't want to but a new phone just for the battery.
And yes, with those battery stats it doesn't matter if you run stock or aosp
It's D802 btw, auto brightness 0%, wifi data gps always on. SOT 6-6.5hours only with continuous usage, if add in standby SOT average around 4.5-5 hours
Guys please post you battery life and brenchmerks on nougut and marshmallow so that we can decide which one is better. Some people experiencing poor battery life in nougut. Share screenshot of battery stat and gsm battery monitor and other battery monitoring app. And sorry for bad english.
My rom is stock nougut. Cell standby 2 percent. Phone idle 3 percent. Screen 14 percent.
Screenshot is bellow.
No screenshot on my side but for me the Nougat update has revived the phone: much better battery life (+1h SOT I would say), run cooler, less stutters, smooth scrolling in chrome, fast wifi connection and all the nougat advantages. I haven't seen bugs apart from the system UI tuner that resets itself.
I am running 100% stock, took the OTA when it was offered to me and made a factory reset.
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No screenshot on my side but for me the Nougat update has revived the phone: much better battery life (+1h SOT I would say), run cooler, less stutters, smooth scrolling in chrome, fast wifi connection and all the nougat advantages. I haven't seen bugs apart from the system UI tuner that resets itself.
I am running 100% stock, took the OTA when it was offered to me and made a factory reset.
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Can you tell SOT time. And percentage of screen,phone idle,and cell signal usage?
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Can you tell SOT time. And percentage of screen,phone idle,and cell signal usage?
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I'll try to remember next week, I switch back to my S7 for the weekend.
Getting almost 4 hours of SOT on my 8 months old device.
My device is 14 months old and I use dual sim cards, mostly I'm on WiFi.
I get 1.5-3 hours of SOT generally. I generally have to charge my phone 3 times a day.
Stock nougat
Only using WiFi
Mostly browsing and videos on YouTube.
Getting 4 to 4.5 hours of sot.
I manage to have 5 hours SoT with android stock funcionalitys only. I am doing test but i maybe i will create a teadh latter to explain how to get more SoT.
NahuelMS said:
I manage to have 5 hours SoT with android stock funcionalitys only. I am doing test but i maybe i will create a teadh latter to explain how to get more SoT.
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I have 2hr SOT. VERY POOR. NEED TO CHARGE 3 TIMES A DAY
Here are my screenshots. I was mostly on WiFi during the day, did a lot of reading/browsing, a little YouTube, and gamed for around 30 minutes. Before I would have needed to recharge mid-afternoon and was getting 2:30/3h max SOT a day.
I'm extremely pleased with the update.
After doing a heavy tweaking of the phone without root i managed to get more than 5 hour of SoT. After that i was getting an unaceptable 3hs SoT.
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After doing a heavy tweaking of the phone without root i managed to get more than 5 hour of SoT. After that i was getting an unaceptable 3hs SoT.
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May I ask what heavy tweaking you did? Just some general important things
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May I ask what heavy tweaking you did? Just some general important things
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Probably tonigth i will post a full guide with all the things i did. It is nothing magical, just disabling things, etc.
I used this to get better battery life:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...ide-improve-battery-life-performance-t3647155
Getting about 15-20 minutes of additional SOT after nougat update
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Asus Zenfone 5V before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
It goes OK for now. I guess I will use it for 2 more hours. AI boost off, gps off, wifi and cellular data on, Bluetooth off, auto brightness.
Wifi always on.
forgot to write: I listened music so much from spotify but not stream, I've downloaded them before.
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It goes OK for now. I guess I will use it for 2 more hours. AI boost off, gps off, wifi and cellular data on, Bluetooth off, auto brightness.
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Wifi always on.
forgot to write: I listened music so much from spotify but not stream, I've downloaded them before.
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Is the battery life still good? And on that note, how good is the standby drain (asking here because no one seems to have posted on that topic).
I'm worried about battery life because I'm seriously thinking about getting this over the OP6, but there aren't many reviews out there.
EdHaku said:
Is the battery life still good? And on that note, how good is the standby drain (asking here because no one seems to have posted on that topic).
I'm worried about battery life because I'm seriously thinking about getting this over the OP6, but there aren't many reviews out there.
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After 12 June update, sot has decreased. Now I get about 6~7 hrs BUT my brother (he uses this phone too) still gets 8 hrs. I'm on 20 June update but there's 22 June update (I didn't understand why ASUS gave this update very early. Also it is 410MB but the others were about 200~300 MB so I'm hopeful about this update) So I can't talk about the latest update (I didn't update)
About standby drain: When I was on 1 June update, only 4% gone whole night (11pm~7am) but I can't say anything about the other updates.
I will test sot and standby drain when I update.
Oh btw I want to write today's sot:
Last full (and last) charge: 16hrs 45 mins ago
Sot: 6 hrs 46 mins
5% left
Edit: I didn't see that my battery is 4% on screenshot. I'm sorry
Edit 2: I updated and not changed much. I got 7h25min max (used till 2%). I still couldn't test standby drain but if you want to know something, I can share my latest battery stats. 5h4min sot 15h23min total (so about 10 hrs idle) and 29% left. I guess I will get 2 more hours sot. According to me standby drain is good enough.
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After 12 June update, sot has decreased. Now I get about 6~7 hrs BUT my brother (he uses this phone too) still gets 8 hrs. I'm on 20 June update but there's 22 June update (I didn't understand why ASUS gave this update very early. Also it is 410MB but the others were about 200~300 MB so I'm hopeful about this update) So I can't talk about the latest update (I didn't update)
About standby drain: When I was on 1 June update, only 4% gone whole night (11pm~7am) but I can't say anything about the other updates.
I will test sot and standby drain when I update.
Oh btw I want to write today's sot:
Last full (and last) charge: 16hrs 45 mins ago
Sot: 6 hrs 46 mins
5% left
Edit: I didn't see that my battery is 4% on screenshot. I'm sorry
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Looks decent. Could've been better, but I guess it's because of that IPS screen. Wish the battery could've been a bit bigger than the standard Zenfone 5.
I'm getting around 5:30 hours (on a Zenfone 5, not 5z), how do you manage to get 7:25?
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6:25 of mostly youtube and chrome browsing, bluetooth is always on paired to my smartwatch, as well as wifi and 4G.
(Zenfone 5 SD636). Overall im happy with that, think i can squeeze even more, i have APKpure taking 5% for some unknown reason.
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I'm getting around 5:30 hours (on a Zenfone 5, not 5z), how do you manage to get 7:25?
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How about your cellular signal, brightness, gps, Bluetooth and firmware?
About cellular signal: Do you get less than 5? Less signal causes phone to use SO MUCH battery and heat.
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How about your cellular signal, brightness, gps, Bluetooth and firmware?
About cellular signal: Do you get less than 5? Less signal causes phone to use SO MUCH battery and heat.
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Actually the other day i was doing 6:25 SOT, which I'm quite happy with. 4G and WIFI are on all the time, and my phone is constantly connected by BT to my Amazfit Bip watch.
location is also always on, and I'm on the latest firmware (.19).
I am deeply impressed by the battery life of this phone. In first recharge I got close to 7h 43 min SOT, later in second recharge it went up to 8'36". Both cycles took considerable usage of roaming, bluetooth on for at least 4-5 hours, some streaming over bluetooth, wifi was used partially maybe not more than a couple of hours, google maps was used and finally the second recharge includes live streaming WC Final Match too. Both SIMs were occupied with primary on VoLTE and always data on.
Brightness was kept on comfortable 30-40% level except for while watching match, when it was close to 55%.
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I am deeply impressed by the battery life of this phone. In first recharge I got close to 7h 43 min SOT, later in second recharge it went up to 8'36". Both cycles took considerable usage of roaming, bluetooth on for at least 4-5 hours, some streaming over bluetooth, wifi was used partially maybe not more than a couple of hours, google maps was used and finally the second recharge includes live streaming WC Final Match too. Both SIMs were occupied with primary on VoLTE and always data on.
Brightness was kept on comfortable 30-40% level except for while watching match, when it was close to 55%.
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That's very good. I am getting about 7 hrs SOT. I am losing 8-10% overnight with wifi and data off with single SIM on 4G. Any suggestions how to improve standby drain?
kelly66 said:
That's very good. I am getting about 7 hrs SOT. I am losing 8-10% overnight with wifi and data off with single SIM on 4G. Any suggestions how to improve standby drain?
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Learn how to use mobile manager.
There stop apps from auto starting.
Close apps from recents menu when you go to sleep.
WiFi/data off.
Check WiFi settings where it does not keep looking for signals.
My standby drain over 8 hours is 1%, sometimes barely touching 2...
Am getting 4+ Hrs SOt only...Device idle has more drain in my mobile ..can any1 help to get more SOT...
muthu32629 said:
Am getting 4+ Hrs SOt only...Device idle has more drain in my mobile ..can any1 help to get more SOT...
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Check if your area has constantly signal fluctuation. I remember my friend constantly had signals switching between 3G & 4G on his 3T and his battery drain was worse, but only at his home. Otherwise it was good.
If signal strength is good, it might be something else.
Xebeck said:
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Learn how to use mobile manager.
There stop apps from auto starting.
Close apps from recents menu when you go to sleep.
WiFi/data off.
Check WiFi settings where it does not keep looking for signals.
My standby drain over 8 hours is 1%, sometimes barely touching 2...
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Thanks. Last night I kept it in 2G after taking care of above steps and lost 3% in 7 hrs, which is reasonable. However, on 4G still losing around 7-8%. Not sure if AI is consuming battery.
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Check if your area has constantly signal fluctuation. I remember my friend constantly had signals switching between 3G & 4G on his 3T and his battery drain was worse, but only at his home. Otherwise it was good.
If signal strength is good, it might be something else.
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Yes, There is lot of signal fluctuation in my home.. might be the reason for draining . Thanks
I'm quite happy with the battery life on this device, constantly getting over 7h SOT with everything on [emoji108]
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Around 4.5 hour with 30 minutes of pubg and switching between social media apps
Hope it gets improved in pue update
Initially got 3h43m sot with dual sim in 4G. Switched it to 2G/3G mode and sot increased to 5h45. So guess it was the constant fluctuations from 4G to 3G that was causing the low sot. But the last update a few weeks back and my sot has dropped to 5h, no change in my daily usage. Still in 2G/3G mode. Don’t know why the loss in almost an hour of sot
Hoping for good optimizations on pie.
Could you guys post your Screen on Time? I get average 6 to 7 hrs SOT on moderate usage.
Also would be helpful if you could share your battery saving tips
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Could you guys post your Screen on Time? I get average 6 to 7 hrs SOT on moderate usage.
Also would be helpful if you could share your battery saving tips
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Previous day's I'm kinda disappointed with the battery life/SOT since I just get an average of 4-5 hrs. This time however, I can hit 6-7 hours. IDK what happened perhaps my charging habit? Or my habit of playing/using my note 9 while charging? Also I charge my phone overnight and I must say those did not hurt my battery but improved it. 2 hours SOT and I only lost 20%
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Previous day's I'm kinda disappointed with the battery life/SOT since I just get an average of 4-5 hrs. This time however, I can hit 6-7 hours. IDK what happened perhaps my charging habit? Or my habit of playing/using my note 9 while charging? Also I charge my phone overnight and I must say those did not hurt my battery but improved it. 2 hours SOT and I only lost 20%
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I felt the same. Discharge was more during initial charging cycles then improved slowly. Now almost everytime i get 7 hrs. I felt the difference especially after the October update I'm seeing good battery life. :good::good:
even more screen time
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-9/review/screen-time-t3824664
Latest SOT (one UI beta)
I get around 16 Hours screen on time. My display is set to a Screen resolution of FHD+(2220x1080). I have a black theme and amoled black wallpaper. I game a lot (rise of the kings) and stream from Spotify regularly. My game performance setting is set to balanced and I went to... Settings>Device maintenance>battery and added apps that need to run in the Unmonitored catagory. Email Facebook Skype and so on. The rest I put into the always sleeping catagory. I have the snapdragon Canadian variant SM-N960W. Had it 5 months now and on a non gaming day I can push 20 hours. I don't watch videos tho, got a TV for that. I also disabled any unneeded apps and removed all bloatware. Hope I've given you some ideas.
Cheers!