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[Official] battery stats thread

Once we get charged up (and back down), let's see how the battery life in the S4 compares to the quad core.
Please make sure to include your screen on time, as that is the best indicator of light/heavy use.

pleasantly surprised
I can't believe how good the battery has been so far, 84% after 13hours (over night)
I am a light user. still - that is impressive for stock. I never got close to that with my OG Epic on stock which was usually 3% per hour.

davidmumper said:
Once we get charged up (and back down), let's see how the battery life in the S4 compares to the quad core.
Please make sure to include your screen on time, as that is the best indicator of light/heavy use.
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Mostly on WiFi
Screen brightness set to max
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1h, 3M Battery down to 76%.
screen on for 38 min, 33% of battery usage.

Heres mine on a first day full charge...

Not too bad for first day with moderate to heavy use!

This is heavy usage. Screen on time of 3.5 hours. Downloading Max Payne and a lot of apps. Downloading and listening to audio on Google chrome. Lots of Pulse usage. Games, YouTube, and 30 minutes of phone calls.
*edit* Bluetooth and wifi on all day long.
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More information is better for those of us living vicariously through you guys. Remember to include screen-on time. Thanks!

Here's mine for the first full day. Should my cell idle be taking up that much of the battery?
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one thing im NOT noticing here is Allshare Service taking up a high percentage in your guys battery stats...
on mine its been at 7-9% and i dont know why, i have something waking up my phone when the screen is off and it might be that... ive forced stop, but i check later and its active again, ive disabled the service and the Allshare play in the application manager but still comes back on... hmmm i think im gonna have to root and just get rid of that file, or freeze it or something

Question... Does having all the motion settings on effect the battery? Also does having the NFC and sbeam on hurt the battery?

lse4 said:
Question... Does having all the motion settings on effect the battery? Also does having the NFC and sbeam on hurt the battery?
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in addition, the eye tracker thingy?

This is only the 2nd cycle. Going to wipe stats after this charge

I'm still waiting for the second cycle to finish I have the motion controls on and the eye thing and I had no drop at all overnight

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This is only the 2nd cycle. Going to wipe stats after this charge
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I wish I could get some stats like that. The screenshots are while I was sleeping and 7% seems like a lot of drain for it just sitting there. Only thing on was wifi. Cell standby time on is always the same as the time on battery, is that normal?
edit: the phone now shows 79% battery left with time on battery of 12h 46m; cell standby the exact same; screen on at 9% with time on of 48m. I'm fully stock and running power save mode.

Here are my stats. I think the battery life isn't too bad so far but we will see.

are the battery stats suppose to reset when you restart the phone? For dinner reason my persist even after a reboot
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xtrezpasor said:
are the battery stats suppose to reset when you restart the phone? For dinner reason my persist even after a reboot
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No, they will carry over until you re-charge or change the battery.
I was going to make a thread like this, but it was already here! Here are my results after my second full charge and regular usage. The results are on par with my fully modified and decked out Epic. Of course, this device has a bigger battery, but it also has a larger screen. Between the hardware and software upgrades, I'm very impressed with the stock battery life. This includes wifi on at all times as well as signal w/data. Some motion features are enabled, nfc is not, and google sync is off (I use stock email). Now how much further can this be improved?? Remember not to be discouraged, Screen On times will vary depending on what the phone is used for. Showing pictures is much less battery intensive than watching YouTube videos.
DEVICE: Sprint Galaxy S III
ROOT: Non-Rooted
ROM: Stock
POWER-SAVE: Disabled

Calibrated

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Calibrated
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What is involved in calibration?

Went thru 3 (Three) batteries tonight

Went to Bears game .Took 3 batteries with me all full at 4PM. Was using a Sprint MiFi hotspot .
its now 10PM...all batteries are dead.
Paranoid Android CM's latest which sucks as it is in the battery dept
This thing monumentally sucks...battery. More evident now thsn ever in light of my Nexus 7...which rocks.
My Note 2 will be returned on day 14 if this isn't straightened out.

Hahahaha..... go get a $15 phone from wal mart....battery life is great on those
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The note is not the problem it's your rom. Try a Samsung based custom rom and you'll get better results. I'm getting 4h-5h screen on time with rocket rom and speedmod kernel (using one battery )
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1. Buy / prepare more battery. three batteries for 6 hours, means for 12 hours you will need 6 batteries.
2. Buy $15 phone at walmart as suggested by alewis2k12, so you will have spare phone if the note goes dead. :victory:
3. Try other ROM + Kernel, to find the most suitable to your device.

I have everything updating at minimum times and BT.GPS Wifi and data on all the time and don't go through a battery in a waking day. I went through one and a half on a flight from SC to LA Using the phone the whole way for internet access and a movie.
Im thinking the OP needs to switch ROMS or buy a Nokia 6126 which lasts about a week
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go analyse your battery usage.
app running wild?
dirty install?
no deep sleep?
3 batteries? if they are cheap ones that says enought
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No..all Samsung batteries.
Screen was biggest user....and brightness was set at 20%.
Governor was 'powersaver'!
Data usage/battery drain is huge at events like that where tower usage is saturated and your taking pictures and sending etc.
I knew that...but this drain was unreal.
Granted, its an exaggerated example of how poor battery life is on this device...but a viable example nonetheless.
The Note's battery life sucks.
The Nexus 7....bigger screen, also rooted with same custom Rom puts it to shame.
Wise up to it Sammy.

good point, however powersavor governator is not a powersaver lol, but as you mentioned not main cause.
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1. Not Samsung's fault. You're on a ROM that Samsung cannot be held directly responsible for.
2. Nexus 7 is a Device with a different spec, for valid Comparison use another GT-N7000.
3. Go Stock and Report Again - Use the Original Battery.
If you're building case remember to make sure you're under Samsung's Terms of usage. I hope you all remember about the phone that blew up and user brought it up to the media's attention, and later on it was discovered that it was the user's fault (As he was trying to heat a soaked phone from an Oven).
If you're looking for help or assistance, Then I suggest you take it to the Paranoid Android Thread. I'm sure, there are users besides the General Audience that can help you out or users that may share the same issue that you have faced.
Just my N7000 cents.

Well, tablets have considerably larger batteries than smartphones, so that's not really fair.
Also, It's probably safe to assume you aren't running the same apps on either, so apps could easily be blamed.
Instagram, for example, has been known to be a battery drainer unless killed.
As others posted, I also get all day, in general, using PA - although you didn't post which version.
If you have screen display set that low, and your screen time is still the largest (what % is that, by the way? largest could still be just say, '30%'),
then I'd put your batteries under suspect. Some of the knockoffs have very little charge, regardless of what they advertise.
- Frank

You could turn your phone off and you know, actually watch the football game...

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You could turn your phone off and you know, actually watch the football game...
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best point in thread +1
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What is the capacity of the Nexus 7 battery?
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nexus 7 doesn't have 3g, turn airplane mode on the note, and battery life will double as well. Also, if you're on paranoid 0.5 and not jb, try AniDroid 0.8 kernel, you'd be surprised how your battery life improves

yeah.
I think you should bring up this issue on the Paranoid Android forums.
They sure can help you regarding this battery life issue, especially the developer, coz he will know the tweaks and changes he made on his ROM.
Rather than you blame on the device, which at the end, sammie won't held any responsible for using a custom ROM.

It has been observed that the MediaScanner is taking most of the battery in ParanoidAndroid Roms. Try stopping that.
Also you can replace the kernel and use Asylum insanity kernel to get better battery life.

Early report of Nexus 6 battery performance : Almost 6 hours screen on time!

What do you think???
With not so good cell reception (as he said) and so many wake-locks, I think it's pretty good!
Here is the link:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexanderMaxham/posts/Q1KxyNrj8Wc
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Now lets see how the battery handles while playing Ingress!

I would be very happy with this if it is typical usage!

If I can actually get anywhere near this I will be very Happy.

Not as good as I was hoping, but still reasonable. That's right around what I've been averaging with my Moto X.

Not good at all.

The wake locks are horrible!
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I think that is looking decent, with 13% of the battery used being on 'Cell standby' it is clear that reception was not good during the day. On my nexus 5 when cell reception is good Cell standby barely registers on the list. Max of 5% usually. So would we be looking at 6.5 hours screen time if reception is good? Also no indication that battery saving has been used or not (doesn't look like it is, on the screenshots as the notification/nav bar are not orange). Or what screen brightness set.
Who knows. It is all guessing until more reviews are out.

Dr Faustus said:
Now lets see how the battery handles while playing Ingress!
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Just what I was thinking
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Yes, same with me. On my Nexus 5 with quite good reception the "mobile standby" is less than 5%.
With that in mind, we will have more than this.
And see those wake-locks, horrible.
Probably some apps, services, or accounts need to be properly setup and configured.
More battery life from that.
And for more extreme, we can use darker theme
So, I am OK with this early report, it's a GOOD BASE!
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I think that is looking decent, with 13% of the battery used being on 'Cell standby' it is clear that reception was not good during the day. On my nexus 5 when cell reception is good Cell standby barely registers on the list. Max of 5% usually. So would we be looking at 6.5 hours screen time if reception is good? Also no indication that battery saving has been used or not (doesn't look like it is, on the screenshots as the notification/nav bar are not orange). Or what screen brightness set.
Who knows. It is all guessing until more reviews are out.
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It's a great start. I'm sure we'll have them up to 10 hours SOT with tweaks in no time.

That is mush better then my Note 3... hope I can get this divce sone..

Battery thread = subjective . just leave that there
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bradputt said:
The wake locks are horrible!
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I'm seeing similar wakelocks on my nexus 5 with the last preview. The one before it had much better battery life, at least for me. I think kitkit has better battery life than lpx19D. so much for improved battery savings in 5.0.

Luxferro said:
I'm seeing similar wakelocks on my nexus 5 with the last preview. The one before it had much better battery life, at least for me. I think kitkit has better battery life than lpx19D. so much for improved battery savings in 5.0.
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Yeah me too. My N5 was charged fully yesterday morning and it just sat at my house untouched all day, and by the time I went to bed it was at 75%, which is pathetic. That's the last dev preview. On KK, it still would have been at 100%, or at worst 99%. I didn't investigate what was causing it, but that was bone stock without a single app installed. It shouldn't be like that. Hopefully the final version won't have that issue.
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im not impressed. my G3 can easily handle 6 hours of screen time. But its tweaked to hell. Im curious to see the N6 with tweaks. also, does anyone know what screen brightness was set to?

monkeypaws said:
Battery thread = subjective . just leave that there
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This.. Battery usage is going to vary greatly by different users that's why I personally could not care less about anyone's battery usage findings other than my own.

journeyman73 said:
This.. Battery usage is going to vary greatly by different users that's why I personally could not care less about anyone's battery usage findings other than my own.
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Yes it will but it is also very nice to know about what to expect ... this should get just about the same battery life as the note 4 ...give or take 30 minutes

_MetalHead_ said:
Yeah me too. My N5 was charged fully yesterday morning and it just sat at my house untouched all day, and by the time I went to bed it was at 75%, which is pathetic. That's the last dev preview. On KK, it still would have been at 100%, or at worst 99%. I didn't investigate what was causing it, but that was bone stock without a single app installed. It shouldn't be like that. Hopefully the final version won't have that issue.
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I left mine (N5) at home yesterday and only lost 5% in approximately 10hrs on the same preview. Battery for me has either been great or horrible hinging on the signal

nexus6R3plicant said:
Yes it will but it is also very nice to know about what to expect ... this should get just about the same battery life as the note 4 ...give or take 30 minutes
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I agree but some people take these findings to heart and if the battery doesn't live up to their expectations they have an aneurysm.

Battery results from different Updates

Id just like to say i have 2 s7 edges
One i never updated its still on the original rom PB5
The battery lasts 2 time longer than the updated phone
This is with 2 hours talk time and 5 hours screen time. No power saving at all just straight medium use
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How your battery life and what version are you on.?
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On PD3, my best so far is 6 hrs SOT on 19 hrs.
-autobrightness
-WiFi on
-Data on
-Bluetooth on & always connected to Gear s2 3g
-GPS on, high accuracy
-NFC on
-no power savings
-sync turned on only as needed
- >140 apps installed
- Push apps like Pushbullet, Slice, Kakaotalk
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On PD3, my best so far is 6 hrs SOT on 19 hrs.
-autobrightness
-WiFi on
-Data on
-Bluetooth on & always connected to Gear s2 3g
-GPS on, high accuracy
-NFC on
-no power savings
-sync turned on only as needed
- >140 apps installed
- Push apps like Pushbullet, Slice, Kakaotalk
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Yeah i should of said that too bluetooth always on wifi always on
201 apps auto brightness
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Robalboa said:
Yeah i should of said that too bluetooth always on wifi always on
201 apps auto brightness
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What is your standby drain rate?
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optimummind said:
What is your standby drain rate?
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Im not sure . I know it last 2 to 3 days easy on the original pb5
The other phone updated to pd3
Dont even come close.
The update kills the phone. Im so glad i never updated this one. Its flawless
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I took the update cause one of the features was better battery life and I was thinking "it's pretty amazing now I gotta get this update and make it even better"
And it's total garbage. Screw the update and screw Samsung for putting it out. What once was an amazing phone is now dying just as fast as my 6P or HTC whatever.
Samsung needs to fix this crap asap
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On PD3 I've been around 20-24 hours consistently usually around 3.5-4 hours SOT due to work being in an area where I get one bar of 3g consistently
-autobrightness on
-everything on GPS on high
-bluetooth to pebble and tons of streaming music 3+ hours
Compared to the s6 edge this is miles better so no complaints here
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Versus my Nexus 5X (1000 mah smaller battery)
Similar SOT, HUGE difference in Application battery drain (same apps installed on both phones).
Samsung is now a software company my ass.
Even the Note 4 does better on a smaller battery.
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The first 2 firmwares show they are capable of producing software with good battery life. Not sure what went wrong with this update but I hope they fix it asap
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Could 7.1.1 battery drain be from apps not optimized

Optimize all apps on 7.1.1system apps is there a fast multi select way
Noticed upon boot never does it and after looking into battery history telling me to do this but setting's menu under apps don't have a method . By the way this is on pure nexus ROM.
7.1.1 seems to drain the life fast and my device is new 3/days old
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Pure Nexus isn't great for battery life compared with other ROMs I've been on. Android doesn't allow some apps to be optimized. If your battery life seriously concerns you then you might want to try an app like Naptime which puts your phone into deep doze as soon as the screen goes off. You could also download a kernel manager if you don't have one and see if you are using a performance oriented governor or something more battery friendly.

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I took phone off charger at 8:49am by 25min later it persists to drain in 2% increment drops showing 5 hours left before 0% that's insane .
Not the 6p I remember when I had it once before the day it came out .
Any fixes any options recommendations
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Try booting into safe mode and see if the problem persists.

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Optimize all apps on 7.1.1system apps is there a fast multi select way. Noticed upon boot never does it and after looking into battery history telling me to do this but setting's menu under apps don't have a method . By the way this is on pure nexus ROM. 7.1.1 seems to drain the life fast and my device is new 3/days old
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If your phone truly is brand new, you're going to need to wait longer than 3 days to achieve optimal battery life. What is the date of manufacture in recovery>>barcodes? There are a few good apps that will tell you definitively what is draining your battery. BBS and GSam are two. It is also a great time to install Accubattery and get a benchmark on your current battery capacity vs. design.

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Try booting into safe mode and see if the problem persists.
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Does that seem normal for waking up to a 100% charge then seeing 5 hr left within the first 25min off charger
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What am I looking for on safe mode ? Never did that. You telling me to run the device in safe mode as I would normally and watch the drain
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androidddaaron said:
I took phone off charger at 8:49am by 25min later it persists to drain in 2% increment drops showing 5 hours left before 0% that's insane . Not the 6p I remember when I had it once before the day it came out . Any fixes any options recommendations.
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The problem is not with stock Android 7.1.1. It could be your battery is defective or degraded. That's why I asked if your phone really is "brand new" or refurbished, and what the date of manufacture is. Install Accubattery and use it to calculate your battery's capacity vs. design.

Last few months my battery is also getting worse. Accubattery says capacity is around 2000mAh right now. I did often charge my battery, even when it wasn't below 50%. Maybe that killed it.
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kj2 said:
Last few months my battery is also getting worse. Accubattery says capacity is around 2000mAh right now. I did often charge my battery, even when it wasn't below 50%. Maybe that killed it.
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Not your fault mate, regardless of how you charged it. Battery was defective. Get an RMA if you can through Google or Huawei (even if it is out of warranty). If not, there are a few places selling good replacement batteries. Install yourself if you can, or take it somewhere to have the battery swapped out. Good luck to you.