Hi everyone,
I have a Note 4 (SM-N910F) running android 5.1.1 (build LMY47X.N910FXXU1COH4) for about 1 year and a half now and i'm so surprised of how the performance have decreased, plus i have some weird things happening every now and then such as :
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Having no internet connection, but i'm on wi-fi. This doesn't come from the network i'm using because it happens even when i'm connected to a different one.
My battery life is really ****ty... Plus when i'm around 30%, my phone shuts down and when i turn it back on again, i'm like at 1%.
I'm not root.
I really don't know what to do. Is there any information i can give you that will give you tips on things i'm maybe doing wrong causing my phone to have weird behavior ?
The thing i want to know is if flashing a new rom was a good idea, and maybe if you have advices to give me on roms.. I'd like to be as up to date as possible, and a light rom. Doesn't care about touchwiz feature. I just want my phone to be reactive, fast, and working normally.
Thanks for your answers.
Change your battery. Some posters claim to have lag when their battery are nearly dying as well.
yesteryearisoverhere said:
Change your battery. Some posters claim to have lag when their battery are nearly dying as well.
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I second this suggestion.
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lucasriondel said:
Hi everyone,
I have a Note 4 (SM-N910F) running android 5.1.1 (build LMY47X.N910FXXU1COH4) for about 1 year and a half now and i'm so surprised of how the performance have decreased, plus i have some weird things happening every now and then such as :
Having no internet connection, but i'm on wi-fi. This doesn't come from the network i'm using because it happens even when i'm connected to a different one.
My battery life is really ****ty... Plus when i'm around 30%, my phone shuts down and when i turn it back on again, i'm like at 1%.
I'm not root.
I really don't know what to do. Is there any information i can give you that will give you tips on things i'm maybe doing wrong causing my phone to have weird behavior ?
The thing i want to know is if flashing a new rom was a good idea, and maybe if you have advices to give me on roms.. I'd like to be as up to date as possible, and a light rom. Doesn't care about touchwiz feature. I just want my phone to be reactive, fast, and working normally.
Thanks for your answers.
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Do you update regularly (Apps & OTA update)?
Try to turn off WiFi & then turn it on again.
As for battery....it's degraded to only 70% of its full capacity.
Usually when it reaches around 40% your phone will stutter + lagging heavily, so make sure to charge at around 50% if you are still considering to use that "broken" battery.
My Advice is to buy a new OEM battery or any good 3rd party battery.
It is a little similar with my 2014 Note 10.1. It also shuts down on its own at right arount 33%. But only sometimes. And yes, it also stutters. I can not vouch for other branded devices. But, I have heard similar stories from friends on their Samsung devices. Definitely get a new battery. Like another post staited. OEM is a great choice. Or, at least a very reputable 3rd party. I purchased a battery for my Note 10. And even though it was new, it was not the same. I found that the circuitry in the cheap aftermarket battery was sub par. The seller sent me a free replacement battery. And it also had issues. So, make sure you get a reputable battery.
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d4rkkn16ht said:
Do you update regularly (Apps & OTA update)?
Try to turn off WiFi & then turn it on again.
As for battery....it's degraded to only 70% of its full capacity.
Usually when it reaches around 40% your phone will stutter + lagging heavily, so make sure to charge at around 50% if you are still considering to use that "broken" battery.
My Advice is to buy a new OEM battery or any good 3rd party battery.
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Batteries aren't linear though. Its voltage drops off in a curve. (e.g. 4.2v = 100%, 4.1v = 90% and 3.7v = 20%)
Same problem on my 10 months old Note 4 N910C. And it was started about 2-3 months ago, so the battery lasted about 6 months!? Also, there's a burned-in damage on my screen (notification bar)! Yes, warranty is still valid, but anyway... NEVER AGAIN Samsung phone!
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P. S. My brother has the same problem on his SG S6
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zviki said:
Same problem on my 10 months old Note 4 N910C. And it was started about 2-3 months ago, so the battery lasted about 6 months!? Also, there's a burned-in damage on my screen (notification bar)! Yes, warranty is still valid, but anyway... NEVER AGAIN Samsung phone!
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P. S. My brother has the same problem on his SG S6
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You also need to look at your signal - it is awful and you have some wicked wake lock issues that need to be addressed.
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You also need to look at your signal - it is awful and you have some wicked wake lock issues that need to be addressed.
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Hm... You right about signal. I never looked at this, because whenever I use the phone (at home) and I'm always on 4G internet (unlimited plan), signal meter is on 1-2 bars.I don't know why is signal so bad, when phone is off. Power saving is always ON. About wake locks... I believe that they are from my smart watch (bluetooth),but Bluetooth version on Note4 should be low-power (connection is lost when I'm 4 meters away (in my department)), so... This days I can't reach 2h of SOT (4h-5h when it was new).
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zviki said:
Hm... You right about signal. I never looked at this, because whenever I use the phone (at home) and I'm always on 4G internet (unlimited plan), signal meter is on 1-2 bars.I don't know why is signal so bad, when phone is off. Power saving is always ON. About wake locks... I believe that they are from my smart watch (bluetooth),but Bluetooth version on Note4 should be low-power (connection is lost when I'm 4 meters away (in my department)), so... This days I can't reach 2h of SOT (4h-5h when it was new).
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Interesting. I'm curious about the power saving if that actually reduces your signal by keeping it in a lower power state. I have never used power saving mode and my rom doesn't recommend it. I wonder if running in normal mode would effect it.
Might look at what apps are using the bulk of your battery as well to see if something rogue is running.
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nine5raptor said:
Interesting. I'm curious about the power saving if that actually reduces your signal by keeping it in a lower power state. I have never used power saving mode and my rom doesn't recommend it. I wonder if running in normal mode would effect it.
Might look at what apps are using the bulk of your battery as well to see if something rogue is running.
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Before Note my phone was Sony Xperia Z and power saving on that phone did a great job.That's why I still use this feature. I also put many apps into the "optimizing mode"... There's no any special app which uses battery. There was Facebook, but I uninstall it.Battery monitoring apps are useless for me because phone is not rooted (still under warranty). Maybe I should try hard reset.
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I know it's old thread, but anyway... Last week I finally take my phone to the service, because it's still under warranty. They changed the screen because it was burned-in, they changed the battery (sudden power-offs) and strangely - they changed some faulty system connector. Phone worked and charge befor the repair. I always use only original charger, so how can be some system connector burned??? They changed it for free under warranty, so I assume that it must be some factory fault. I know few people with the same "sudden power-off" problem on different Samsung phones, so...
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Hello,
My S4 is nearly a week old now, it's the international GT-I9500 octa-core version. Since it dons a big battery of 2,600 mAH (middle point of S3 and Note 2) it was suppose to last long more even with heavy usage.
My usage is moderate, a few calls, but I use connectivity extensively i.e. WiFi indoors and Mobile Data outdoors.
I tried switching off the WiFi to preserve battery and to see any boost but zilch.
Whenever I put the phone on charge, it charges very quickly and when the charging is complete and I remove the phone from the charger, it discharges pretty quickly, goes to 99% in a minute WITHOUT any usage.
What could be the issue? I even formatted my memory card from S4 as I read some bad mp3 files or something can cause the battery drain and such.
Everything is stock, both ROM and Kernel and the phone is not rooted atm
I'm attaching the screenshots for my cycle with minimal WiFi and Data usage.
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Hello,
My S4 is nearly a week old now, it's the international GT-I9500 octa-core version. Since it dons a big battery of 2,600 mAH (middle point of S3 and Note 2) it was suppose to last long more even with heavy usage.
My usage is moderate, a few calls, but I use connectivity extensively i.e. WiFi indoors and Mobile Data outdoors.
I tried switching off the WiFi to preserve battery and to see any boost but zilch.
Whenever I put the phone on charge, it charges very quickly and when the charging is complete and I remove the phone from the charger, it discharges pretty quickly, goes to 99% in a minute WITHOUT any usage.
What could be the issue? I even formatted my memory card from S4 as I read some bad mp3 files or something can cause the battery drain and such.
Everything is stock, both ROM and Kernel and the phone is not rooted atm
I'm attaching the screenshots for my cycle with minimal WiFi and Data usage.
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No issue its normal same results here also
however if u want to see some changes try putting ur device in auto brightness and power saving mode
Hope this helps
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No issue its normal same results here also
however if u want to see some changes try putting ur device in auto brightness and power saving mode
Hope this helps
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Tried power saving, no improvement.
Brightness is already kept at Auto with the throttle set to 0.
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Tried power saving, no improvement.
Brightness is already kept at Auto with the throttle set to 0.
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Still urs not bad I totally get abt 15 hours with average usage
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Still urs not bad I totally get abt 15 hours with average usage
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I can get more than 16hours on my S2 easily with average usage...This is just BS optimization from Samsung...
It's better than the s3 because the battery is larger but I'm telling you that screen is a hog. It's larger and brighter and its 1080p; yes the resolution causes the gpu to eat more battery too.
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I freaking hate watching my battery drop.. and mine goes by quite quick. . I have wifi and mobile data on.. When I leave my house I toggle off wifi. I read that having mobile data on all the time doesn't use battery. . Is that true?
Anyway. .I just turn off the battery percent.. Can't stand putting the phone to sleep at 80 and turning it back on 20 min later at 75.
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Yaaaaawn. Gnote2 still going strong here.
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Tried power saving, no improvement.
Brightness is already kept at Auto with the throttle set to 0.
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for me, i even keep it to -5…
screen mode set to movie… the dimest mode screen usage still 66%
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for me, i even keep it to -5…
screen mode set to movie… the dimest mode screen usage still 66%
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im wondering if there's a way to switch the screen to 720 mode instead of 1080p to save battery life. similar to switching a computer monitor so you stress the gpu less during a game... this would also save a small percentage of battery life...
also a more efficient auto-brightness would be great.
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Yaaaaawn. Gnote2 still going strong here.
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Yaaaawwwwwn 3,100mAH. Please gloat somewhere else
GR13V3R said:
I freaking hate watching my battery drop.. and mine goes by quite quick. . I have wifi and mobile data on.. When I leave my house I toggle off wifi. I read that having mobile data on all the time doesn't use battery. . Is that true?
Anyway. .I just turn off the battery percent.. Can't stand putting the phone to sleep at 80 and turning it back on 20 min later at 75.
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Same here, hate watching the battery drop so soon. For me, what I've observed is that WiFi eats a lot of battery than mobile DATA for this set when it should be the other way around...
I have my internet disconnected at home due to some upgrading of the lines in my area so I haven't been using WiFi at home, only at office, so mobile DATA was switched on all day yesterday at home and when I go outside and surprisingly the battery didn't drain a lot.
I'll post screenshots of this cycle as soon as the battery drains down to 2%
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I read that having mobile data on all the time doesn't use battery. . Is that true?
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No! Mobile data is one of the biggest battery killers going! I have my toggle within the first 5 so I can turn it on and off when I need it easily
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With big screen and higher resolution, it will definitely consume more power. try to turn off screen and kill running apps when not needed.
16hours on battery is quite good considering the WIFI indoor and Data on.
i probably get a little bit more than that but less wifi usage and data is only EDGE in my country.
MajorAly said:
Hello,
My S4 is nearly a week old now, it's the international GT-I9500 octa-core version. Since it dons a big battery of 2,600 mAH (middle point of S3 and Note 2) it was suppose to last long more even with heavy usage.
My usage is moderate, a few calls, but I use connectivity extensively i.e. WiFi indoors and Mobile Data outdoors.
I tried switching off the WiFi to preserve battery and to see any boost but zilch.
Whenever I put the phone on charge, it charges very quickly and when the charging is complete and I remove the phone from the charger, it discharges pretty quickly, goes to 99% in a minute WITHOUT any usage.
What could be the issue? I even formatted my memory card from S4 as I read some bad mp3 files or something can cause the battery drain and such.
Everything is stock, both ROM and Kernel and the phone is not rooted atm
I'm attaching the screenshots for my cycle with minimal WiFi and Data usage.
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Flash to OMEGA ROM
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Nothing alarming
Firstly, your stats are perfectly normal. I got the same results on my stock octa core version.
Try omega its much better battery consumption wise. Other tips: Switch to 2g only if you are using your phone just for chatting, keep backups off and turn unnecessary sync off. Turn off your screen tap sounds.
You might already know all this.
Anyhow, trust me 16hours at 60% is not bad. Hopefully samsung will do something about it with future updates.
CHEERS.
Ow and if you are over with your honeymoon with all the air motion gestures smart eye tracking features, turn them off if you want to save some more.
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Firstly, your stats are perfectly normal. I got the same results on my stock octa core version.
Try omega its much better battery consumption wise. Other tips: Switch to 2g only if you are using your phone just for chatting, keep backups off and turn unnecessary sync off. Turn off your screen tap sounds.
You might already know all this.
Anyhow, trust me 16hours at 60% is not bad. Hopefully samsung will do something about it with future updates.
CHEERS.
Ow and if you are over with your honeymoon with all the air motion gestures smart eye tracking features, turn them off if you want to save some more.
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I'm keeping it stock atm as net in my house is currently out and the lines are being upgraded so not flashing until I have a perfect net up and running incase anything goes south.
Lol gestures and everything are all turned off, smart functions were the first to go lol
Hello everybody I just got my Note 3 N9000Q this Sunday. I loved the phone except few things.
Firstly, i unlock my phone via pattern however, it sometimes does not recognize the pattern (it does not even show that red thing meaning i did wrong). Few times it even did turn its screen off while i was trying to unlock my phone (which neans it does not feel i am touching). Other than latter no issues with touch screen. Did anybody came across the same problem?
Secondly, my battery dies rather too quick. For example, 2 hours 27 minutes 10 secs and down to 86% battery (even dropped 1%when the screen was off in around 10 minutes). Backlight (brightness) is at -5 and screen is on for only 48 minutes. Anybody has any idea?
Thank you in advance.
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My Note 3 model is N9005. having some battery drain too.. culprit seems to be Google Services on battery usage list
I noticed the battery drain yesterday aswell, google services seem to draw more power than it should.
I read some old threads about the issue (general on android, not on this specific phone) and they recommended turning off location services alltogether in the settings.
I did that last night and so far it has only drained 6% in 4h15m
Amazing battery life out of my note 3 I love it
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Batterylife improved and android services isn't even in the battery settings.
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Disable backup to Google in Backup and Reset solved my huge battery drain. BBS showed that it was continuously keeping the phone awake and disabling resolved the drain.
I have just disabled smart stay and my battery lasted more than 1 day from 75%. Tho after turning quick glance on it started to drain a bit faster (atill better than before).
The pattern thing annoys me tho. I suspect it is something about software. Also noticed a metallic sound on phone calls (time to time) like a metal cable got loose and hitting the ear piece. I will give my phone to service next week i guess and ask for a change.
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Do you guys turn on the battery saving mode?
No. I never turned on battery saving on my Note 2 and it lasted way more than 1 day. Same goes for this guy
Edit: Typo
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dannycanrock said:
Amazing battery life out of my note 3 I love it
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Can you give more information on how you are achieving this ? It looks like you have smart rotation on too - I got 14 hours yesterday with 3 hours of screen time, but its not enough to last me a whole day. I turned it off today to see how it will do, but as I just posted in another thread, i had a huge problem with the battery jumping percentage today (39% to 1% then to 20% after I took it out)
Do you have auto backup turned off as some of the other people have suggested?
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jasperjoey said:
Disable backup to Google in Backup and Reset solved my huge battery drain. BBS showed that it was continuously keeping the phone awake and disabling resolved the drain.
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What kind of stats are you getting now ? I am tempted to turn this off, but I feel like it's kinda important especially if I'm always adding new people's numbers ...
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Can you give more information on how you are achieving this ? It looks like you have smart rotation on too - I got 14 hours yesterday with 3 hours of screen time, but its not enough to last me a whole day. I turned it off today to see how it will do, but as I just posted in another thread, i had a huge problem with the battery jumping percentage today (39% to 1% then to 20% after I took it out)
Do you have auto backup turned off as some of the other people have suggested?
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What kind of stats are you getting now ? I am tempted to turn this off, but I feel like it's kinda important especially if I'm always adding new people's numbers ...
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Nothing I have smart pause and Air view and 3g on all the time turned off Google backup and location and made the brightness auto -3 and I have the motions off all what I do browsing and music video and tapa talk and playing with some apps setting and what's app and Facebook hope I helped any other qus am here and here's a photo of today's battery and I forgot to say I played modern combat 4 like half an hour
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Twmade said:
Can you give more information on how you are achieving this ? It looks like you have smart rotation on too - I got 14 hours yesterday with 3 hours of screen time, but its not enough to last me a whole day. I turned it off today to see how it will do, but as I just posted in another thread, i had a huge problem with the battery jumping percentage today (39% to 1% then to 20% after I took it out)
Do you have auto backup turned off as some of the other people have suggested?
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What kind of stats are you getting now ? I am tempted to turn this off, but I feel like it's kinda important especially if I'm always adding new people's numbers ...
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I'm getting 2 days of battery life with 5 hours of screen time. Helped me a lot
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Have everything turned on (backup-gestures-movements and even quick glance) except smart thingie. Been speaking a lot today (around maybe 2 hours) and messaging all the time with full wifi and these are my battery stats
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Nothing I have smart pause and Air view and 3g on all the time turned off Google backup and location and made the brightness auto -3 and I have the motions off all what I do browsing and music video and tapa talk and playing with some apps setting and what's app and Facebook hope I helped any other qus am here and here's a photo of today's battery and I forgot to say I played modern combat 4 like half an hour
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I'm getting 2 days of battery life with 5 hours of screen time. Helped me a lot
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Digie said:
Have everything turned on (backup-gestures-movements and even quick glance) except smart thingie. Been speaking a lot today (around maybe 2 hours) and messaging all the time with full wifi and these are my battery stats
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I'm so jealous guys. I only got 14 hours of phone usage yesterday with, with around 3 hours of screen time. I wonder what makes my stats so drastically different than you guys?
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I'm so jealous guys. I only got 14 hours of phone usage yesterday with, with around 3 hours of screen time. I wonder what makes my stats so drastically different than you guys?
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How many days it has been since u purchased?
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How many days it has been since u purchased?
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Two days. My brother has also bought the same phone, and he got roughly the same stats as me. We both have the International version from TW (SM-N900). Thoughts?
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Two days. My brother has also bought the same phone, and he got roughly the same stats as me. We both have the International version from TW (SM-N900). Thoughts?
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Mine was battery hungry for 2 days than it got better.
Taken just now
How long is the screen on time?
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How long is the screen on time?
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Guys from your information I have stopped the following
1) Always on - wifi - disabled
2) Location services off - though i think this might be important for google to provide me with important updats
3) Android services off for backup
What else?
how to disable smart screen ?
will share my screenshots soon
so far 20 hours and 21 % not charging is that normal?
My latest battery info is as follows
I only have smart stay of which u can disable from Controls - Smart Screen (At bottom side)
Spent the night with wifi on.
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Hi,
Now that the Note Pro 12.2 has been out for a while now, what kind of battery life are you getting?
How much Stand By and On-Screen Time are you getting?
charge time
I would also appreciate if people can share how long it's taking to charge from 0-100%. Thanks.
I used mine quite heavily on Friday night and Saturday. Probably 8 hours in total. I still had 65% battery left. I did root and removed a lot of bloatware.
From my usage so far, looks to be about 6-8hrs screen on time.
This isn't very specific I realize but battery life seems considerably better than my old nexus 10 and recharging is also much faster.
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What about charging it?
It is time for my old original LTE tab to go.I want an LTE, but like my old tab, Verizon is picking it up, and development on the verizon version might be sparse.My factory Tab, will only charge with a certain voltage. The Devs wrote a script to override that on it.
Does it charge in the car? If so, what amp is it? Do you have to have special charger or will it work on one of the 2 amp chargers, say for an Iphone? Have you tried it?
Thanks
standby is fantastic; as is video watching (dont' have exact total time but I think 3 hours of video watching used approx 30% battery).
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however this game I was playing, symphony of eternity, really kills the battery. 2 hours used approx 45% (wish I had exact figures). Mind you the game has gotten old but I want to finish it (I play a few hours on trips - so started it approx 1.5 years ago; but finally near the end).
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TTboy404 said:
What about charging it?
It is time for my old original LTE tab to go.I want an LTE, but like my old tab, Verizon is picking it up, and development on the verizon version might be sparse.My factory Tab, will only charge with a certain voltage. The Devs wrote a script to override that on it.
Does it charge in the car? If so, what amp is it? Do you have to have special charger or will it work on one of the 2 amp chargers, say for an Iphone? Have you tried it?
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Battery life is getting better and better. 6 hours screen time with 60% charge left.
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I think it may be better to specify which version of the device you are using before mentioning the hours. I think I heard that the LTE version has better battery management?
Sm-p900 =12.2 Wifi
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So far very impressed with the battery
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I have the sm-p905 LTE version and i’m very impressed with the battery life so far.
on time screen that the tablet actually was on is right now 9h59m and battery still on 20%
watched in the 10 hours about 4h15m video's
transferred about 6 gb files with wifi direct
transferred about 19 gb files from my portable hd to the tablet with usb 3.0
then browsing, facebook, chat, ....
i must say all the apps i don’t use i have turned out permently.
4G was always turned on during the session, total time off the ac now is 1 day an 1h
my device isn’t rooted.
when the battery is completely empty, i’ll charge it and let you know how long it takes. First time i charge it .
I'm also very impressed with my Note 12.2 battery... I would say it can do 1 hour screen time per 10% of battery. I replace my third generation Ipad with this tablet... I the only thing iPad is better right now is battery life on stanby... Apple has done an excellent job on this side because it's way better on the iPad, even if I keep the sync on all the time for emails, contacts, calendar and other apps.
On the Notepro 12.2, if I keep the wifi off while on stanby, it's good (not excellent)... but if I keep it on all the time, I have to charge my tablet every 2 days. While it's off, I can get 3-4 easily when my regular weekday usage.
I've watched a complete film of 2 hours film on my tablet a few days ago... streamed from my Plex server to the Android Plex app on the tablet... and I lost around 20% of battery only... which is excellent.
By the way, I have the wifi only version (Exynos CPU).
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I'm also very impressed with my Note 12.2 battery... I would say it can do 1 hour screen time per 10% of battery. I replace my third generation Ipad with this tablet... I the only thing iPad is better right now is battery life on stanby... Apple has done an excellent job on this side because it's way better on the iPad, even if I keep the sync on all the time for emails, contacts, calendar and other apps.
On the Notepro 12.2, if I keep the wifi off while on stanby, it's good (not excellent)... but if I keep it on all the time, I have to charge my tablet every 2 days. While it's off, I can get 3-4 easily when my regular weekday usage.
I've watched a complete film of 2 hours film on my tablet a few days ago... streamed from my Plex server to the Android Plex app on the tablet... and I lost around 20% of battery only... which is excellent.
By the way, I have the wifi only version (Exynos CPU).
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That's a bit odd. I am not using mine much at all at the moment, maybe half an hour a day and it's now on day 8 and still 30% left. My Wi-Fi is off when in sleep and I don't turn it off when not using it.
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That's a bit odd. I am not using mine much at all at the moment, maybe half an hour a day and it's now on day 8 and still 30% left. My Wi-Fi is off when in sleep and I don't turn it off when not using it.
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What is your screen time right now?
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What is your screen time right now?
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Hi. Sorry only just got this. Annoyingly I put it on charge overnight as I'm back to work today. Battery stats have reset. No idea what the screen time was.
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What about charging it?
The Devs wrote a script to override that on it.
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ICan you give me a link? I can´t find it.
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Why music app takes too much battery even when not used. ..I have not even played music for one time but it has eaten up 8 % battery..? Is there any way to stop it from running in the background?
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Why music app takes too much battery even when not used. ..I have not even played music for one time but it has eaten up 8 % battery..? Is there any way to stop it from running in the background?
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Rom toolbox. You can set autorun permissions. Keep things from starting themselves
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The battery is good, if I dont use it, I just turn off to save battery. Otherwise i need to charge everyday (wifi on, sync, games, web, no sleep mode), now I can use few days in a row on single charge, depends on what I'm doing on it. This is not a smartphone/cellphone, so he dont need to be everytime on
So I have had my S5 for a week now and my batt life is aweful. Yet I hear everyone saying its awesome...
Here is my setup. Nova Launcher, Wifi always on, but disable scanning and set it to only keep on while sleep if plugged in. Bluetooth always on, I use it 3 hours a day. So need it....
GPS always on, High accuracy...
Brightness in the middle and set to auto.
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So I have had my S5 for a week now and my batt life is aweful. Yet I hear everyone saying its awesome...
Here is my setup. Nova Launcher, Wifi always on, but disable scanning and set it to only keep on while sleep if plugged in. Bluetooth always on, I use it 3 hours a day. So need it....
GPS always on, High accuracy...
Brightness in the middle and set to auto.
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I disabled print services and my battery life improved.
Settings > printing > turn both off.
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What's your screen time
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What's your screen time
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15 seconds.
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15 seconds, changed at 88% today.
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That's it. Just 15 seconds. Something is running on three background or you have a DOA device
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There's something wrong with the camera on these phones. After I open up the camera or snapchat, my battery drains fast. The phone doesn't go into deep sleep after closing camera apps. I restart my phone multiple times per day, but my battery drains at 2-4%/hrs with a couple hours screen on per day.
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There's something wrong with the camera on these phones. After I open up the camera or snapchat, my battery drains fast. The phone doesn't go into deep sleep after closing camera apps. I restart my phone multiple times per day, but my battery drains at 2-4%/hrs with a couple hours screen on per day.
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Don't get me wrong. 16 hours is great compared to other phones in the past. Tomorrow I will try setting gps to power saver and only changing to high accuracy when needed.
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Last 100-8% took 40 hours with almost 5 hours screen time. Neither power save modes were on. I had WiFi 70% of the time, with a decent 4G signal otherwise. This is 2-3 times what I get if I use my camera without restarting my phone.
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This should be posted in q&a not general
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I have a similar set up as you. I keep BT always on and GPS always on w/ high accuracy, turning BT off doesn't do much to the battery life imo.
The absolutely biggest difference for me was to go into location settings and hit Google Location Reporting and turn off location reporting and history. Also turn off geo-tag for the camera, and locations setting on FB.
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I'm sorry I thought you were asking how long I had my time out for. Re reading now I see you were asking about. How long the screen was on. End of day was like 3 hours.
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I have GPS on accuracy and use Firefox. I watch YouTube videos and all that. Sounds like a major issue.
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I have GPS on accuracy and use Firefox. I watch YouTube videos and all that. Sounds like a major issue.
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Did you make any changes at all?
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Did you make any changes at all?
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I did disable every Verizon / pre-installed application I could. I keep brightness at auto. I keep wifi off at all times because I have unlimited data. Stock on this phone is pretty impressive.
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Maybe I am nuts... But does the charging cable matter... I'm not using the OEM one, never bother to take it out of the box... Using a basic microusb cable from my previous phone that was already there. Maybe that sounds crazy...
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Maybe I am nuts... But does the charging cable matter... I'm not using the OEM one, never bother to take it out of the box... Using a basic microusb cable from my previous phone that was already there. Maybe that sounds crazy...
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It shouldn't matter. For what its worth, I'm not seeing anywhere close to what others have posted in terms of battery longevity. I use bluetooth for everything. Car stereo, bathroom speaker, gym headphones, etc. Wifi is always on, but connected 80% of the time. GPS rarely on. Screen time doesn't push past 2 hours and I can BARELY get about 1 day of battery life. I do use the stock charging cable, but I use others as well.
It seems like a big variance, even with drastic use differences.
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It shouldn't matter. For what its worth, I'm not seeing anywhere close to what others have posted in terms of battery longevity. I use bluetooth for everything. Car stereo, bathroom speaker, gym headphones, etc. Wifi is always on, but connected 80% of the time. GPS rarely on. Screen time doesn't push past 2 hours and I can BARELY get about 1 day of battery life. I do use the stock charging cable, but I use others as well.
It seems like a big variance, even with drastic use differences.
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Battery life is ok for me I guess. It gets me through a day. I am not impressed by the battery life at all, probably because I was spoiled with my old MAXX. I still expected at least a few more hours but something in the background sucks battery. When root comes, I'm sure battery life will improve a bunch. Its also not that big of a deal because the back is removable. What stinks is this is my battery life with power saving enabled for over 1/2 of the day. I really do not understand how people were getting over 10 hours of screen time and this day and a half battery life. The only way I get that is if I charge it before bed and count those 12 hours towards my battery life and I still wouldn't break 24 hours.
Maybe I'm missing something?
GPS is battery saving, print services are disabled, screen timeout at 15 seconds, screen is at auto brightness with adapt display, power saving enabled most of the time, wifi and 4g bounce between whichever is better, network mode is LTE/CDMA and I have disabled a ton of bloat. Maybe its because I have ART enabled.
Definitely not impressed by battery life but I am a heavy user and I love that you can swap batteries.
What does 'power saving mode' do? I can clearly see what 'ultra power saving mode does', but I was wondering if anyone knew what regular power saving mode does? I tried searching the Q&A forum but didn't find much and Googling it just led me to a bunch of pages touting the ultra power saving mode. Thanks in advance!
What's new:
Improved camera UI
That's it. No other improvements. The update is 150mb in size, so i am hoping there would be behind the scenes bug fixing. Especially hoping it would fix the wifi sleep battery drain issue. Will update this thread in a couple of days on my findings.
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Update: I can confirm that this update does not fix the wifi/sleep issue. Went to bed at 10pm and checked the tablet at 6am. Lost 12% battery. Battery Usage tells me the tablet was awake the whole time and did not go to sleep mode. This is really bad compared to my S8+ which only loses 3% battery overnight.
Still the fix would be to switch off wifi before going to bed and the tablet will only lose 1 to 2% of its battery.
This one lost 5% over sleep but that's still a lot. I'm testing an old Asus Nexus 7 for the hell of it (it hadn't been turned on for 4 years and literally two days ago updated it to 5.1 and just left it to see if the battery would hold). The Nexus 7 is beating the S3 so far. Also have an iPad to compare and that thing can stay in standby for a month solid.
I'm just going to turn it off when not in use, waiting a minute for bootup (plus fingerprint so no having to fiddle with pw screen) isn't a huge deal to me.
Yeah it's annoying that Samsung can't get it right, even after more than a year with several devices running on the SD820 platform. I just don't get how my pixel, with nearly the same hardware, is so much smoother and more battery efficient. /rant
Anyways, I just have WiFi set to turn off when the screen is off. I only charge it once every 4-5 days with light to moderate usage
Idiots are probably not aware of the issue. WTF is there no theme store?? Getting tired of this SAMMY BS.
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Does anyone have a link so I can Download the latest update? Or do I need to remove root and then update in the traditional way? (I would prefer to have a file I can flash in Odin)
your help is appreciated.
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Update: I can confirm that this update does not fix the wifi/sleep issue. Went to bed at 10pm and checked the tablet at 6am. Lost 12% battery. Battery Usage tells me the tablet was awake the whole time and did not go to sleep mode. This is really bad compared to my S8+ which only loses 3% battery overnight.
Still the fix would be to switch off wifi before going to bed and the tablet will only lose 1 to 2% of its battery.
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FYI - I have a case I keep my tablet in. WHile in the case, I didn't use the tablet for two weeks. Busy having fun with new S8+) anyway, I still have over 50% of my battery remaining. When I open the case, the screen comes on very quickly. It appears that being in the case has helped to put this thing to sleep and I guess that puts battery drain down to about that 2% to 3% your S8+ gets.
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Does anyone have a link so I can Download the latest update? Or do I need to remove root and then update in the traditional way? (I would prefer to have a file I can flash in Odin)
your help is appreciated.
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FYI - I have a case I keep my tablet in. WHile in the case, I didn't use the tablet for two weeks. Busy having fun with new S8+) anyway, I still have over 50% of my battery remaining. When I open the case, the screen comes on very quickly. It appears that being in the case has helped to put this thing to sleep and I guess that puts battery drain down to about that 2% to 3% your S8+ gets.
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Remove root and go back to stock if you want ota update.
You should be able to find the firmware on sammobile.com.
I also have a case on mine with the screen on off function but still the tablet doesn't go to sleep.
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Remove root and go back to stock if you want ota update.
You should be able to find the firmware on sammobile.com.
I also have a case on mine with the screen on off function but still the tablet doesn't go to sleep.
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Sammobile doesnt have the firmware for XAR which I beleive is the US. I saw a link previously for the old firmware somewhere to samsung firmware - but when I search that site, I can't find the new update. I will try other options.
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Everyone seems to be using the tablet for light duty thus far.
I'm going to chime in and add that I'll be using it for CPU intensive apps. Re: SoundCamp, FL Studio, and other heavy tasks. Don't think this will live up to "12 hour run time" that everyone's oohing and awwing over XD
I wound up getting the battery to about 13% and turned on "battery saver" for the day. It was supposed to last 23 hours. When the work day was over (about 16 hours by the time I got home) it was off. Figured it was worth testing time to complete-off from full charge. No idea when it actually turned off, but the system isn't optimized for this so-called battery saver mode either. Every other device I've owned with this feature has had accurate results (sometimes more), but not here.
Thinking of returning mine coz of the wifi bug and going back to my s2.
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Thinking of returning mine coz of the wifi bug and going back to my s2.
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What kind of bug? Lost connection? I have this issue on mine s3
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The battery drain bug thats been referred to in many places here. Not sure if and when it will be fixed.
The older S2 doesn't have this problem and it seems like the Exynos 5433 with it's 8 standard ARM cores as opposed to Qualcomm's custom 4 cores in 820 (though theoretically faster) handle Touchwiz better with less UI jankiness since both run Nougat 7.0 now.
There is a a ADQC firmware out for a lot of countries including UK, trying that one to see if the Wifi bug is fixed. Why do they delay the US version so much is beyond me? Same story with the S2 firmwares, went to the Germany/Singapore version since US receives firmware updates last, even though there are no carrier delays for the Wifi only versions.
This firmware resolves the issue: http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?record=1D0F4E90377111E7963AFA163EE8F90B ! Confirmed 0% drain over 3 hours on standby would have def lost at least 2-3 % by now.
Look for BTU firmware T820XXU1AQDC if the link expires.
Does anyone not charge their tab overnight? That negates all of this *****ing. Then it is at 100% when you wake up. Win win for all.
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Does anyone not charge their tab overnight? That negates all of this *****ing. Then it is at 100% when you wake up. Win win for all.
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I charge on the weekends. I use the tab to take notes for work during the week.
Currently, I have tasker turn off wifi when the screen is off. I have updated, so I'll try without tasker.
I take my earlier comment back, aqdc still has the wifi drain bug, very annoying. Also, the new ipad pro makes this look like a joke. We need an 8895 in this tab not useless qualcomm chips.
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The battery drain bug thats been referred to in many places here. Not sure if and when it will be fixed.
The older S2 doesn't have this problem and it seems like the Exynos 5433 with it's 8 standard ARM cores as opposed to Qualcomm's custom 4 cores in 820 (though theoretically faster) handle Touchwiz better with less UI jankiness since both run Nougat 7.0 now.
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I have a EU LTE Tab S3. It's connected to Wi-Fi continually when I'm home. I lose 2-3% when the tablet's sleeping overnight. I didn't know there was a Wi-Fi bug until I saw this thread. But I do have a Netgear R9000 which is a beast of a router. Is there any commonality to the Wi-Fi drain problem? I don't remember which Samsung phone it was but one had a big problem with D-Link routers specifically.
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Does anyone not charge their tab overnight? That negates all of this *****ing. Then it is at 100% when you wake up. Win win for all.
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So it's now referred to as "*****ing" when people are noticing a very clear obvious issue with a device and would like to see it fixed. Amazing. Maybe for the S4 they can just not put speakers on it and we can all be considered "*****ing" because we should all just use headphones?
Anyway......completely ridiculous that there are constantly issues with these things. I TRY to switch away from iPad constantly and there is just not an Android tablet on the market that is in the same ballpark and at this point I doubt there ever will be. I've lost 8% of battery life today already and the thing has been on for like 2 and a half hours, and of that time I've probably spent like 5 minutes actually using it. The rest of the time it's just been sitting there, screen off. Pathetic. An iPad would still be at 100%, MAYBE 99%.
Please report the wifi issue here to pressure samsung for a fix :
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Tablets/tab-S3-wifi-power-drain-bug/m-p/123511#M5427