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I have a Nexus 5, but I am looking to replace it with a Note 3. is it worth it?

I've had Nexus' my whole life and the one thing that attracts me about the Note 3 is the battery life. I wake up 5am and get home around 7pm and I use a LOT of screen time. Idk too much about the Note 3 but I'm hoping to get, at the most, 8 hours screen time from browsing the web, listening to music, and other little things.
What is your guys' experience with the Note 3? Is the development good? Battery life good? Was thinking of getting it and replacing it with an AOSP ROM.

monkey hung said:
I've had Nexus' my whole life and the one thing that attracts me about the Note 3 is the battery life. I wake up 5am and get home around 7pm and I use a LOT of screen time. Idk too much about the Note 3 but I'm hoping to get, at the most, 8 hours screen time from browsing the web, listening to music, and other little things.
What is your guys' experience with the Note 3? Is the development good? Battery life good? Was thinking of getting it and replacing it with an AOSP ROM.
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yeah tw sucks but with a aosp rom its great i have 100% battery at 7am go to work watch 4/5 youtube vids lots of web calls sms a few games and music on all day get home about 5pm and still have about 50% left
hope that helps :silly:

The average is 6 hours screen on time.

jaythenut said:
yeah tw sucks but with a aosp rom its great i have 100% battery at 7am go to work watch 4/5 youtube vids lots of web calls sms a few games and music on all day get home about 5pm and still have about 50% left
hope that helps :silly:
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Well TW doesn't suck, especially on KK, it's actually really smooth and works very very well.. but AOSP is better if you prefer a clean vanilla feel

I'll get a new one from my carrier and trade it for a new nexus 5 if your want
And plus 1, tw sucks. Even on stock rom I run apex launcher
GNote3

I have a Nexus 5, and I purchased a Note 3 for $380AUD a few days ago with the intention of selling it on Ebay for $600. After playing around with it the last few days, my girlfriend has decided she wants to keep my Nexus 5, so I'll keep the Note 3. Honestly though, other than the bigger battery, it feels like a bit of a side-grade. That being said, I can get 6+ hours easily of SOT, with an hour or so of heavy gaming. If I was to just browse the web, check emails and listen to music, I'd get 7.5 to 8 hours. I love the feel, look and concept of the Nexus 5, so I really wanted to keep that, but the Note 3 is still pleasant to use. The longer battery life is certainly welcome. The size is a bit ridiculous though. I'm used to being able to operate my Nexus 5 one-handed, whereas that isn't possible with the Note 3. I'm not a small guy either. I'm 6'2 and have pretty large hands.
All in all, if you can get a Note 3 for the price that you could sell your Nexus 5, it might be worth it. I certainly wouldn't purchase one for any more than that though, as you'll find it offers diminishing returns for the cost.

Just returned my OnePlus 2, concerned about the moto x pure's battery life.

So long story short after getting two defective Oneplus 2's in a row from Amazon I decided to step away from Oneplus to a more stable and reliable manufacturer.
I've come from a Oneplus 1 before this and I just spent the last three days going over every review of the MXPE. The only issue I have is if I'm making the right decision considering that battery life is pretty average? I'm not going to be using it for gaming, and I wont be using 3G instead of LTE.

Won't say it's bad. The turbo charged enables amazing fast charging times and Android M has surely improved some percentage of the battery. I carry a quick charge 2 enabled car charger too so i don't feel it's bad. i think you will get used to the battery offering of the MXPE.

Hi,
I had the same concerns as you have right now. The Screen of my OnePlus One got a crack, so I had to decide for myself "Do you want another one, or do you want to give an other manufacturer a try". I decided to buy the Moto X Style, which is the Pure in europe and was blown away by the display quality, the sound and the overall performance. And of course, it's as close to stock Android as it can get. The battery was a real letdown after a few hours of "testing" and recharge-cycles. Coming from a OPO, with all the possibilites to tweak and getting very high SOT, I was really really disappointed. But now, I'm getting really used to it and tweaked some settings a bit, to get more out of that battery. Now I'm on 4-5 hours of SOT and, thankfully, can go even further with the Turbo Charger. Of course, the battery could've been a bit larger (as always), but that's not a big issue in my opinion. Give it a chance, play around a little and you will see, that the overall experience prevails. With Marshmallow on the doorstep, you should get even more out of the battery, thanks to the Doze-Feature. There's a thread floating around, where a couple of users are reporting about an increasing battery life.

Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to reply guys. @doree Glad to see someone else coming from the OPO, I was used to getting 6-8 SOT with all the underclocking/volting that we used to do with AK kernel. Guess i'll do a bit more research from users using marshmallow on the X and then make a decision.

I'd say so far my battery life experience has been slightly worse than what I had with my Note 4, which is still pretty good overall. Especially since the update to MM it seems to drain less in standby. Currently have 2 hrs SOT with 38% battery left (and it last came off the charger Saturday morning). Granted, when I'm at home I always have it on Wifi which uses less battery than having it on GSM/LTE. On weekdays when I'm at work (where I don't have wifi) it drains a bit faster. And I also have a long commute which also isn't beneficial to battery life as it's constantly hopping towers during the commute.

Aleycat said:
So long story short after getting two defective Oneplus 2's in a row from Amazon I decided to step away from Oneplus to a more stable and reliable manufacturer.
I've come from a Oneplus 1 before this and I just spent the last three days going over every review of the MXPE. The only issue I have is if I'm making the right decision considering that battery life is pretty average? I'm not going to be using it for gaming, and I wont be using 3G instead of LTE.
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I've read a lot different stuff concerning battery on the MXPE - with a handful of users reporting it's not great. But I must say, from my experience, battery life has been amazing. I get between 4 and 6 hours of SOT per charge. And a full charge can easily get me through 48 hours. I've never had battery life this great on a phone before. Right now I'm running stock LP, no tweaks, no nothing. I don't use WiFi, but location is set to high accuracy, and I'm always on LTE. I do have more than adequate cell signal strength which helps, and I run minimal apps. But overall I've been super impressed with battery life. :knock on wood:

Battery life is decent as long as your not playing games with full gpu usage. I get three straight hours of battery playing games. For the days I don't play games, battery life is good as oneplus one. But my old OnePlus takes the cake playing games and gpu usage with heat.. I'm on stock MM rom on mxpe and cm12 with custom kernel on 1+. Out of the box, I like mxpe hands down. Probably why I'm still stock on this phone. But once we get Custom marshmallow roms rolling, my flashiolic will kick in!
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i do not play games but i do chat a lot, movies etc, i get around 5 hours on screen time.
the phone usually lasts the whole day but you have to watch your apps some apps just drain your battery.
keep in mind that you can get 40% of charge in 15 min, you gotta love this feature over the one plus

G4 Plus Battery Eater?

I have not had the g4 plus long. Out of the phones i own it is my least favorite. It has that gigantic bezel on the bottom with so much wasted space that my other phones took advantage of while this phone squishes the screen to put navigation buttons.
The bigger issue for me is battery drain. Under normal daily use the phone lasts 1/3 a day. Just sitting on the table it will lose complete charge before a day is complete. This is a new phone about 2 months old.
I compare it to my other phones. My old galaxy Note 4 with a new 34.00US battery from a local phone store under normal use gets two days of use and about 4 just sitting around. An old galaxy s5 someone gave me with an old battery makes it about half a day under use and about two days sitting around. The Redmi Note 4 gets about 2 1/2 days of use and i am not sure how long it will sitting around.
So what is it about this phone that causes it to consume batteries like this?

Maybe you have an app misbehaving, because my battery life is quite good, and I had the phone for 9 months.

It can't be an app issue with the phone so I used the greenify app on it with the original firmware. which hibernated background apps which did not help that much but, did a little..
I have had the bootloader unlocked for some time but waited another month to see if motorola was going to release an update. So I took the plunge and put lineage os on it with the mini version of gapps and nothing else. Today when I picked it up off the table to check messages it was black screen. I thought maybe going into hibernation bricked it but, no I plugged it into a usb charger and about 5 seconds later it lit up and the culprit was the completely drained battery at zero percent.

redmi note 4's bezels are even bigger... But yea, the battery issue may be becuase of a misbehaving app, I recommend installing "Wakelock Detector" for you to know which app is and uninstall it if it's from play store or disable it if it's a system one

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anyone bought a recent battery off ebay or aliexpress want to give me the total amount of hours they are able to get out of it?
Reason I am asking is because my battery barely lasts 3 hours of continuous use; I honestly blame the time I actually played pokemon go which was able to get a wooping 2 hour for about a month when it went to 1 whole hour! before it is completely drained for quick demise of my battery.
Even though 10-15 dollars is worth the risk; I rather spend $400 on a flagship from samsung or lg which has more reliable battery replacements available since the phone is a little slow from the apps I installed.
Thanks for any feedback.

Need some help about this battery

so I'm looking for a new phone, I currently have a Samsung S10 e and I get about four and a half hours or so of screen time. I had pickles in the past and really love them because the cameras dope. I really want to get a 4 because I'm going on vacation next week to Jamaica but all these reviews about the battery life really has me worried. I'm trying to get a gauge now that the phone's been out for a few weeks for some real time users to see what I can expect.
some of you say it gets like two to two and a half hours and then other people say it's around 4 to 5. I'm just looking for some real world battery stats because I don't want to go on vacation and have this dope camera that I can't use cuz the battery is always dead

I got like 7 hours SOT. It's a good battery.

I had a crappy battery at the beginning, but adaptative battery make it last easily a whole day now, after about 2 weeks use.

Thanks for the responses!! Yeah I went ahead and bought one off swappa.
Im glad to hear it's manageable from real users and not YouTube reviewers. There were quite a few saying it was getting like 2 hours or less which scared the crap out of me!!!