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[Galaxy Note II General] xtra10000:
Thanx for reply bro
[Galaxy Note II General] arturo90:
Hello. im new here :) do you use BATTERY SAVING option in yours note 2 ? or apps like juice defender ?
[Galaxy Note II General] MohJee:
Mind that I still have 40% left in battery. Basically, with my current average use of the phone, I could get about 1.5 days run time with ~7 to 8 hours of screen on time. Phenomenal battery performance for a phone with this screen size.

My usual usage includes:

- Reading articles/news using Flipboard, Pulse, and Pocket applications (white background not black).

- Watching youtube videos (in Wifi when I'm at home and on data when I'm outside).

- A lot of Whatsapp chatting with my friends.

- Always on auto brightness. (Decrease the bar to the left when I'm at home/ increase it to the right when I'm outside under the sun)

- When I'm sleeping I close Wifi and data but don't put my phone in airplane mode.

However, if your usage includes a lot of gaming, then you should be ready accept lower results.
[Galaxy Note II General] pakure:
OK guys..what is the average time it takes to charge the phone from 0 to 100%...seems long for me...obviously bigger battery ..but still with 2A charger?
[Galaxy Note II General] DanDroidian:
TAKES ME LESS 2.5 hours. Powered off
[Galaxy Note II General] MohJee:
I would say that it takes maximum two hours to charge from 0 to 90%. Charging from 90% to 100 % happens at a slower rate (I believe this is an intended safety feature, someone could correct me if I'm wrong). So all in all, I would say that it takes 2:30hours maximum.
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
Never ever use this app.
[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
I have keep monitoring my device from yesterday when we were talking about a huge awake lock on my stats. It seems that it was the FM radio app to lock the phone.

Today the juice seems to drain more slower, but i was always monitoring what apps were active by using a widget i found in the stock rom.

48% after more then one day with more than 2 hours of screen on and more than 1 hour of voice recording

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[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
yes thats really smart, just always keep on monitering the phone. Like today i discovered 2hr wakelock from facebook app.

The best way to judge phone is to charge phone to 100% and leave it like that for few hours. If battery drains during that time, it will let you know what exatly the problem is...

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[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
yeah the bad signal on 3g maybe it happens when i'm inside the building were i work. there we have wifi but you can only access from one device not simultaneously. so i keep the data on, on the mobile phone. i will try to change from 3g to 2g when i'm at work to see if i can get even more juice.

latitude it will also be a battery drainer but not so much as i thought. i mean, after i found FM radio as the cause of the wakelock, today i'm experiencing a 50% drain over more than 24h =) so not so heavy drain this latitude i desume :D

---------- Post added at 07:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:30 PM ----------

yeah facebook it's another app to close manually, and another is FM Radio for the n7100 version who got it. if you let it run underground it will keep phone awake as you can see in mine yesterday's posts
[Galaxy Note II General] arturo90:
why ?
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
cz it drains more battery rather than saving it. This app has to run in the memory all the time bcz it monitors different process at one time. This keeps the phone busy in the background and this drains battery

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[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
I'm sorry what app are you talking about?

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[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
Guys i need help.In fact i have very good battery life but with huge android sistem drain(check image).

Tell me what informations you nees from bbs to help me.

Tnx a lot
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Juice Sucker, I mean Defender, lol.
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
can,t make any guess by this image, what is your firmware version and for how long you use wifi or data?

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[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
Yeah i used it time ago when i got a nexus one. It did seem to work, with its in app infographic on how many times your battery lasts using it despite not

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[Galaxy Note II General] bobyboby:
An estimate from my observation:

deep sleep: 1% every 4 hours

screen on with some usage (but overall dominated by current draw of screen): 10% per hour
[Galaxy Note II General] MohJee:
"Other", "Kernal Wakelocks" and "Partial Wakelocks"
[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
0kay...other..kernel and partial

Tnx
[Galaxy Note II General] MohJee:
This only shows the last 4h 16min. You need to change "Since Boot" to "Since Unplugged" for example to get the full results.

However, from the screenshots above I can't see anything out of the ordinary. Your Screen on time is 43 minutes and your Awake time is 52 minutes. That means your phone has been awake for 10 minutes whilst the screen was off (This is normal, your phone get woken when you recieve a notification for example while the screen remains off). The biggest thing that woke your phone is "AudioOut-2" but again this normal (this wakelock happens when your phone makes a sound).

Maybe if you post battery stats of the full 14 hours we can pinpoint the problem better.
[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
Uhh i cant i have only this...
[Galaxy Note II General] MohJee:
I think that means that betterbatterystats wasn't installed (or wasn't running) when you last unplugged your phone from the charger. That's why the unplugged event wasn't detected.

Anyways, your last 4 and half hours show no problem. So perhaps the reboot that you did fixed whatever issue you had.
[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
I still have problem with sistem android drain...26% vs 25% screen on.

Tnx
[Galaxy Note II General] MrPhilo:
Not always, some kernel do really target battery life. The nexus 7 for example, forgot the kernel name but it did add 1-2 hours onscreen time extra 'somehow'.
[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
What about this cycle?

Just 5h of screen on but also 1.5 h of voice recording and 0.5h of fm radio. accurately killed every active process when i close the app if it doesn't do it automatically. Latitude always on and many different syncing apps (Facebook and his messenger, twitter, google+, gmail, whatsapp, instagram, pinterest, google current, goggles).

No games played except one little nethack session. Lot of google current reading and browsing. Taken also 20-30 photos with flash led on automatic and the screen back light was on automatic too.

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[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
^^

i can see a lot of battery is being wasted by google maps. Since you rely on it, so nothing much you can do. The other thing hurting you is the poor cell signals, a lots of yellow lines in the green bar, that must have hurt the battery as well. Finally keeping wifi on also drains battery

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[Galaxy Note II General] zkyevolved:
I have no idea how some of you are getting 5-8 hours of screen on time! I can barely get through 4-4.5 hours a day of screen on time. haha. An improvement without a doubt over my original note, but still.
[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
it's not a waste by google maps, it's latitude locating me during the day! it were a waste if i do not even use it :P

poor cell signal it's very strange because this time i shut down mobile data connection when inside my work building, and i live in the second or third bigger in italy and we have officially full 3g hspa coverage. I don't know more.

keep the wifi on drains less battery then mobile data on, i suppose, doesn't it? when i'm home i on the wifi and off the mobile data. wrong habit?

i'd like to keep the phone syncing, of course. either i would not have bought a smartphone, we're not in the 2k's anymore we're on 2k10's :P
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
i think i said it already that we are using android so its all up to us, we are free the way we want to use. You are getting 5hr screen on time with all this latitude work going on with wifi on. I think you shouldn,t ask for more. It is just fine in my opinion.

You are right about wifi, wifi drains lesser battery as compared to data on.

When someday you want more battery huice, now you know what you can do and this is what all about battery on android. If you get to know how the battery is being in android, you will get the best out of it. :)

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[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
if i use the device more of this use, it will reach even more then 6-7 hours screen on with the same services/apps running, but the battery time usually decrease under the 30 hour. this is not a problem because it's still more then one and a half of a real working day :good:

not 2 full work though, it would be awesome :cyclops:

oh, do you have any strategy to reach like 8 hours of screen on? like don't mind about long standby time but use it as much as you can in light weight jobs like browsing?
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
Let me reach that mark, only then I can tell how I did it. Today I changed the stock kernal to Redpill, I will see how many changes it will bring.
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Almost 2 days, 8+ hours screen on. Again. And almost an hour browsing in stock browser.

Well I'm not an Android lover or fan, but how can I not be impressed with this!
[Galaxy Note II General] bobyboby:
I think this is reasonable, your phone is in "awake" state 1/3 of the time
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Guys a small request, when you are quoting a post which has lots of screenshots please use the HIDE option.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
yeah you know sometimes you gotta use this mother****er eheheheh :D

seriously every time i hear a notification from tapatalk or gmail or the many others syncing apps i have a rule: oughta check that notification soon as possible, or i'll end goin on keeping my phone on deep sleep just to see how much lasts :P
[Galaxy Note II General] kebabs:
I find using my phone when on cellular (3G) i get about 20% loss per hour screen time, I see no way I can get 8hrs+

How Are you guys using your phones? Wifi? Watching Videos?

Not complaining, it seems about on-par with the iPhone, I just thought from the rave reviews it would be doing better... (iPhone can do 8hrs+ on wifi too)
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
8hr is quite possible, if you just spend most of the time using tapatalk app, :P

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[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Yes, with white background. So that means other apps with white background would more or less drain same amount :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] kebabs:
Would a white background not kill the battery more? Are people just using their phones with dark screens or something ? How would 8hrs on 3G be possible with the screen on?
[Galaxy Note II General] barondebxl:
Can you guys imagine the even better battery life with roms and kernels? Fantastic!
[Galaxy Note II General] MrPhilo:
Sometimes stock kernel and stock rom gives the best battery life. It's true, even though in theory it shouldn't. Depends what type of kernel it is 'performance or battery'.

But seriously, 10 hours screen on time? Defiantly on par with the Razr Maxx.
[Galaxy Note II General] ithehappy:
Sorry not sometimes, but all the way through.

:cowboy:
[Galaxy Note II General] barondebxl:
Youre half right lol, an excellent custom rom with the stock kernel is usually the best, like the S3. If someone like Mike 1986 were to make a rom for this note, I wouldnt be surprised if we can reach 11 hours of screen time.
[Galaxy Note II General] mg35pt:
58% left after 16h30m. 3h14m screen on time. Bluetooth on for around 10h. Half a dozen calls.
[Galaxy Note II General] Twistedchild420:
Pulled off the charger at 6:30 am.....used HEAVILY at work...not too shabby
[Galaxy Note II General] barondebxl:
Really fantastic

and whats even more amazing is that the phone charges very fast.
[Galaxy Note II General] twospirits:
Awesome stats. wow.

TS
[Galaxy Note II General] Twistedchild420:
Pulled of charger at 6:30 am......used HEAVILY all day.....this pic is right before charging at 10:45 pm......Razr Maxx who? Lol
[Galaxy Note II General] MiguelHogue:
The battery is looking awesome.. You wouldn't even need an extended battery for this thing..

-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss
[Galaxy Note II General] hagba:
First day battery experience= phenomenal.
[Galaxy Note II General] jbounours:
Nope. But getting at least a spare will be awesome.

I'm getting 7h30+ on screen time with N2. Just about X2 compared to OG Note. Sweeeet.
[Galaxy Note II General] Urban_225:
My note 2 :
[Galaxy Note II General] snakkarike:
awesome battery
[Galaxy Note II General] freemini:
Mine's at 40% with almost 4 hours of screen on, about 10 of standby. Isn't exactly amazing but still very good, it drains quite slowly while you use it. Please note that signal in my school is terrible and varies all the time.
[Galaxy Note II General] kojaraty:
The battery is awesome and it is still the first day of use. After a couple recharging cycles it will be more awesome :thumbup:
[Galaxy Note II General] pepeto2001:
Thanks for the stats, looks promising, but It's more useful if you also post screen time....
[Galaxy Note II General] barondebxl:
The battery drains really slowly when you use the phone and standby is awesome. What I find really amazing is that its charges SO FAST!!!! Yesterday at around 8:00pm I had 17hours of use with 7 hours of screen time (easily could have been 8 hours, thats ipad territory....) and I was at 11% so I decided to charge it before I go to bed at 1am cause I dont like charging overnight. I figured between 8:00pm and 1am it will be fully charged....it was done charging before 10:45pm:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
[Galaxy Note II General] CooLasFcuK:
Amazing stats. I am jealous :D
[Galaxy Note II General] joshyth:
i don't really know how some of you guy's battery life look so good

mine just look average to me, and i don't even use it that much
[Galaxy Note II General] craigels:
Why do I have a no signal wake lock my signal seems grand to me
[Galaxy Note II General] jauhari:
can you tell us More detail About you setting.

Wallpaper. Widget. twitter. FB and others related

so we can reach the same level as you
[Galaxy Note II General] jauhari:
Tell us more detail about your configuration please
[Galaxy Note II General] tawheed12:
Can anyone let me know what improvements I can make?
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
you have bad signal reception and this has caused about 1 and half hour of bad kernal wakelocks. The maps usage is also very high

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[Galaxy Note II General] tawheed12:
What shows the 1.5 hours of reception wakelocks? As in what should I be looking for? Also, any way to get maps usage down? I don't leave gps on...

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II General] rakan1182:
WoOoW , i can't say anything to say

i'm just very very sad :crying:

N7100 have 3100 battery , and mine can't complete more than 14 hrs

don't know why :(

soon i'll put my battery stats to see what is the problem :(

some of batteries life are SUPER GREAT :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Yes, white background will definitely drain more battery than a dark background. I hate dark backgrounds. Kills the purpose of OLED.

And btw, I am on 2G. I rarely turn on 3G.

Wallpaper is the stock S3 lockscreen one. Just two widgets, Be Weather and Flipboard. Seesmic for both Twitter and Facebook, with Sync (background update) set at every 6 hours.

Once again, I'm on 2G.
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
i have hoghlighted all the major damage. Either you had 3g on all the time or you were using it when the phone signals were low.

Regarding maps, well you can always force stop it or even uninstall it if you don't use

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[Galaxy Note II General] steve17360:
I'm consistently getting 10 hours screen time, and have the following settings/usage:

2G.

Wifi on most of the time.

50% brightness.

1 push email exchange account. Approx 20 emails per day.

Approx 20 photos per day.

Approx 1 hour of calls per day & 10 texts.

Manually check Facebook & twitter regularly throughout the day.

GPS off.

Bluetooth off.

Approx 2 hours web browsing.
[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
How you use 2 g? When you leave wifi..right?
[Galaxy Note II General] steve17360:
I can't make calls on Wifi where I live. Wifi is left on for data when I'm at home or work, but all calls are on my mobile network.
[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
I am not sure that i understand....

Why you mentioned calls?
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Nah.

Settings- More settings- Mobile networks- Network mode- GSM only

There is a code too to do the same, but I can't recall it.

Now that's it. I was wondering when someone would come up with double digits. Congrats pal. Now I'll try to match up with you :D
[Galaxy Note II General] stefanjadex:
I' m coming from SGS2 and I'm impressed about the battery life of my SGN2: 1 day & 6 h, and still 52% battery left.
[Galaxy Note II General] jaipo:
Normal Use

podcast listening, installing apps, web browsing, listen to music on bluetooth headphones, texting and calls. i'm impressed.
[Galaxy Note II General] tawheed12:
Perfect, thanks. No issues with Fast Dormancy or anything? I have disabled it using the app as I don't believe my carrier uses it.
[Galaxy Note II General] dzontra11:
Fast dormancy....can you tell me code?
[Galaxy Note II General] rakan1182:
Great

Can you tell us which rom that you used ?

Please .. thx
[Galaxy Note II General] rakan1182:
You Rom Is ??

Kernal ??

Modem ??
[Galaxy Note II General] kebabs:
Screen time seems to correspond to wifi, we're you using wifi Internet the whole 8hrs or cellular?
[Galaxy Note II General] Pitnefor:
what about stuff that matters, like wakelocks
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
it has never bothered me

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[Galaxy Note II General] D_Magic:
Gotta love the Note 2 :D

Verstuurd van mijn GT-N7100 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note II General] Mad_Wolf:
Guys is it normal for mediaserver to eat my battery when I play games

I have also a s3 and there is no mediaserver there
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
try to stop media scanner before playing a game and then observe it later

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[Galaxy Note II General] Mad_Wolf:
what should I observe ?
[Galaxy Note II General] dipas:
is that possible?
[Galaxy Note II General] sohebq:
go to app apps- media storage- force stop it before playing the game. Play the game and then check the media scanner usage

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[Galaxy Note II General] CitizenLee:
2 days, 8 hours and I still have 16% left.

That's with light to moderate use... a bit of Angry Birds SW, a few texts, lots of web browsing, checking out Play Store etc.

General settings:

WiFi always on

3G/H if out of WiFi range

50% brightness

30s timeout

All haptic feedback off

All smart sensor stuff off

3 Gmail accounts on push

Facebook manual sync

Everything else set to sync every 3hrs

ROM and kernel in my sig ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] imkr1:
No screen on time = meant nothing...
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
I am always on latest Stock ROM buddy. LJ3 PDA.

And I use WiFi, not 3G.
[Galaxy Note II General] CitizenLee:
3hrs screen time bro.

Besides, this shows how good standby drain is which is an important factor for me.
[Galaxy Note II General] Dpk1:
Excellent Battery Life!

Guys, this is what i get from 92% charged battery on Note 2 (screenshots below) on Stock FW and kernel with NO root. It includes 3 days &14 hrs of standby with 8hrs screen on time and 1.5 hrs of calling (no wifi use only minimal mobile data). Amazing screen on time along with above average standby time imo :good:! Oh.. and that too for a gigantic 5.5" screen n powerful QC proc :D! Battery life is almost thrice as good when compared to my Sony Xperia S.
[Galaxy Note II General] coldfever94:
what is the app you're using which calculats download and upload
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
I guess this was asked for me, please quote/address me. It's Network Monitor Mini, free in Play Store.
[Galaxy Note II General] Lucidmike:
I'm about 5 weeks into owning this phone. I get about 24 hours average, no complaints.

I don't pay attention to leaving wifi, gps, bluetooth on or off. Sometimes I have 10 apps open, sometimes I have 5. I just let it manage it by itself. No more killing apps. No more putting custom roms in to save battery. I used to do all this with machine like precision. I still have some obsessive habits like having to charge all the batteries as soon as it requires a charge. I even go as far as charging my gf's batteries and phone, like a parent making sure their kids can go out with the warm clothes on during winter.

I'm slowly breaking those habits.
[Galaxy Note II General] jauhari:
8 hours screen on with stand by more than 3 day is awesome. What's App you are using when you play around with screen on?
[Galaxy Note II General] kebabs:
So uh.. What were u doing with ur phone screen on for 8hrs?

http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-2-Gets-Strong-3200mAh-4020873.php

And who the hell wrote that ****?
[Galaxy Note II General] rakan1182:
Will try the same Kernal and modem and test them

Thx dear
[Galaxy Note II General] Dpk1:
Installing and testing out various launchers and themes (I tried at least 7 launchers & think this consumed the max of my screen on time), watching videos, organising photos, editing some pics, changing wallpapers, playing with the S pen, using the camera (mainly still photos), installing/unistalling different softwares, some gtalk chat, minimal mobile data for updating softwares, editing my contacts, etc. Thats all i can remember for last 4 days ;)! Actually i'm finding very little time nowdays to play around with my new note 2 coz of exams ahead (till dec).

P.S: My note 2 running on all stock firmware (screenshot below), with some useless apps disabled using app manager (like samsung apps, chat on, learning hub, reader's hub, game hub, flipboard etc).
[Galaxy Note II General] rakan1182:
For the ppl who has an excellent battery life

please please please , when u post ur battery life ,

please post also ur Rom version , kernal and modem even if they Stock

Post them to help us

Thx