yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Savoy2001:
I figured out what was causing my gallery app to eat so much battery. It was picasa trying to sync over and over. I turned that crap off and problem solved. In case anyone was interested to know.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
I...love...this...phone

Think my tweaks are startin to settle :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
Can a brotha get a tweak lol

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
Its a really similar tweaks package that went with my s2 roms(scripts, build.prop etc), thank god alot of android tweaks work on various phones. Off this afternoon, will hit you up later
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fryingpan0613:
Share the love :)

sent from my awesomely huge Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] intelli78:
Guys,

I want to share the results of some testing I have done.

My drain is down to less than 1%/hr, through a combination of changes. All of these things have been discussed on XDA or other forums as possibly helping drain.

(using Note Cards ROM 2.1)

-turned off Sprint connection optimizer

-turned off Gmail auto attachment download

-unchecked all 3 location services in settings

-installed Auto Lock Auto Rotate and run on every boot ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1966996)

-Perseus kernel

-enable s pen battery saving

-Disable gtalk in application manager

-and of course, install only apps I am familiar with that do not cause drain.

Today I am at 8h11m on battery with 40 minutes screen on time and about 20 minutes of mp3 with screen off. At 90%.

Previously, on rooted stock with none of these changes (save for installing only good/trusted apps), I was getting drain of up to 1% every 5 or 10 minutes of sleep.

I think in many cases, drain on this phone is hard to track down because it's really a lot of little drains adding up.

Hopefully this helps others.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yellowman82:
Im really loving this phone I couldn't use it much today since I was busy at work but did a little moderate usage a few texts, phone calls, a few video on YouTube browse a couple online and on Tapatalk but not sure why some of the apps I had used doesn't show on the graph :confused: just took these screenies
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
It does that simetines

And damn I might go back to stock/stock rooted I'm not getting those results at all

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yellowman82:
Yea im really loving stock touchwiz I havent rooted my phone yet as to I have no reason to yet but I do come on here to check maybe one day something good that catches my attention might make ne root it but until then im staying stock unrooted for now all I did is disabled most google and kies bloatwares and have Google now off since I really dont need it showing me cards and such gps off maps disable but if I need it I enable it sync off I usually check my emails and such manually.

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Another thing im loving also is lte like omg I love the way they made these radios its nothing like wimax that its a battery hug LTE actually plays well just like wifi it really doesn't drain my battery at all its just like wifi I prefer LTE on all day instead of 3g.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
I'm with you on that. I don't understand people who leave every damn thing on and then complain battery is bad.. If I don't need it I turn it off.. Then some people say that "cripples a smart phone"] which is foolish to me.. That's like having a nice car.. Im not gonna leave the radio on, air conditioner, seat warmers on, cruise control, all on just because it's there at my disposal.. I use what I need at the time

I still haven't got lte yet, but you're the second person I heard say it doesn't drain much battery.. Im on 3g alot so that might explain some of my battery results

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guirae:
Yes, do share these scripts.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Catch being even leaving everything turned on you still can get 7+hours of screen on time out of Note2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
Prob gonna just share them with Rom. Still working on alot of things, coming along though
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
That was a polite no lol

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
Lol, just havent run em for more than a few days myself. Especially on a new phone I feel like I should just really put it through the paces before I put anything out there. Will prob put out an early version of the rom soon enough, off early today so hope to get a bunch done
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
Lol I understand that.. That's respect

Talking about scripts I'm trying my damnest well phaker really is and I can't get a script to run to save my life.. Maybe if you can drop in the thread and have some fresh eyes that would be greatly appreciated http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1748208

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrflex:
Hey guys I'm new to the N2 and loving it but how does this battery life look? All stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] captaingrey:
I've seen a ton of batteries on Amazon but always hesitate buying them because a majority of them seem fake and I can't really see spending that much money (even if it's less than the normal price) on a fake battery.

I ended up buying a couple of spares through the Samsung site since they had the 50% off.

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One of my latest screenshots.... I love this phone. Granted, didn't have much screen time, but coming from my SII that would completely die after 4 barely 6 hours with no use... this is just amazing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yellowman82:
Well I just stuck mines in the charger now but this is what I finished with
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] threestripebrand:
Heres mine after installing jbomb .01 and checking the cpu sleep thing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] threestripebrand:
I just went from awesome to a wakelock. All I did was charge it back to full and disconnect and went to sleep. Anyone else getting this? Im on jbomb 10.1.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeetFace:
Hmmmmm, people getting 2 days with screen 4-5 hours, can't say I'm getting anything similar...wondering what my problem is.

Don't see any thing crazy on better battery stats or in gsam.

sent from my ginormous Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Check partial kernel wakelocks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeetFace:
I'll have to let it sit tonight without charging and see what I get.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeetFace:
I may have found the bulk of the problem. Dolphin HD was eating some serious CPU up, even while the phone should have been in deep sleep.

I froze that with TB, we'll see what happens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mideastbeast:
So what's the browser to use for best battery life then?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lovekeiiy:
Dolpin HD wouldn't even open for me. Crushed every time. On a side note, rather then freeze it, why not just uninstall it since you're basically removing being able to use it.

I went with Boat Browser so I can use flash enable sites. Otherwise, I just use Chrome.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] boldo:
The same to me.

Enviado desde Galaxy Note 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] threestripebrand:
So I charged it before bed again after having a wakelock all day yesterday and what do you know I still have 100 percent3nt when I woke up just now. So apparently its gone now. Crazy. :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
My brother sent me his screen shot. 2 days and 8 hours on battery, even with live wallpaper.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] alxndrs:
I have mine for 5 days now and had charged it twice over the 5 days. Here is where I am now, at 32 hours+ with 5% remaining. Normal browsing, voice calls, text and videos. Today especially i did about 3 hours of video total. This thing is a beast!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] madsquabbles:
i'm making a guess right now about my bad battery life. it may be that some launchers combined with certain widgets may cause some of the drain. with adw launcher ex and nova i seem to get very high drain and the majority of it coming from "battery-monitor" wake locks. i'd get up to 8hrs of kernel wakelocks from it per day. using apex and it's back down to normal with only 30minutes. i use both battery monitor widget pro 2x1 widget and bbs 2x2 widget. so far it's back to normal.

i also use these widgets on all my other phones and it seems that whenever i used go launcher i'd get crappy battery life on any phone i had where other's reported no excessive loss.

i ain't for sure about it yet, but it seems to be working fine so far.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] osmosizzz:
I have the galaxy s3 and I'm flipping jelous. You guys have the great performance the good screen and the battery life I always wanted in android. I only get 12 hours with 2 hours screen on time. :-/ oh and data off most of tbr time

Sent from my Rooted Gameboy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adamantypants:
I initially came in here to complain about "crappy" battery life to you guys in comparison. It's probably because I love live wallpapers and information coming at me from all angles but I'm only getting 18-20 hours usage with maybe 4 hours screen on and 6-7 total hours awake.

Then I remembered I charge my phone every night before bed and the fact that my phone outlasts me with my normal/heavy usage is perfectly fine. Nay, awesome. Last night before bed my girlfriend heard the low charge warning sound off on my phone and immediately said, "My phone is dying", referring to her Samsung device. She was surprised when I told her it was my phone.

That being said I routinely go to bed plugging my phone in with usually over 40% battery remaining. I LOOOOVE this phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] madsquabbles:
i wouldn't call that even close to the bad battery life i sometimes get. how about 40% from a days use with only 40min of screen time? i never keep gps on, i always have rotation off, weather only syncs every 8 hrs... just trying to troubleshoot what's causing these occasional drains (mine is battery-monitor kernel wakelock, but i haven't found out what exactly or why it happens. even with no battery monitor the drain wouldn't slow). the latest test is working great so far. 48 hrs, ~2hrs screen time and it' at 48%.

battery life while using this thing is incredible, however.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adamantypants:
Yeah, hence the quotes. I couldn't dream of calling that crappy life on any other device. Don't get me wrong, I still occasionally get weird wakelocks and corresponding terrible battery but overall pretty good.

Like I said, I keep everything on. I'm downloading usually about 100mb of data a day not including surfing, all of the stupid motion TouchWiz features are on, most apps sync to their heart's content, NFC always on, battery monitor widget and better battery running, and push notifications from at least four different apps.

Basically as long as I can get through the end of my day without reaching for a charger I'm perfectly happy. And this phone is doing all this with flying colors. Not to mention insane performance all the while.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] primetimepro:
sweeeet... best phone ever!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeetFace:
In the last 5 hours of my phone mostly sitting around since I unplugged it this morning, I have the following "Alarms":

android: 105

com.google.android.apps.maps: 72

com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox: 50

com.google.android.gsf: 34

These are my top 4. I have no clue why 'maps' has 72 wakeups. I have disabled gps, location reporting, location sharing, auto-checkins, etc. I also have not opened Google search ONCE, nor do I use the google searchbar widget.

Any ideas what these are for and how to get them to chill out? I understand the first one, 'android', and am not worried about it. That's normal system whatnot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
GPS isn't what triggers crazy Maps wakelocks. It is network-based locating. You can have gps on and gps based locating on all day ans Weatherbug Elite using gps updating hourly...and Maps will keep the wakelocks under control...network based locating causes Maps to wig out.

Sadly disabling network based locating also cripples Google Now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeetFace:
Interesting. I may disable it for now and see how much of a difference it makes. I'm not in a big city, and have little need for Google Now.

Thanks for the clarification.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
70 or so wakelocks still isn't that bad...overnight while I slept once and my note2 was on and unplugged Maps issued 3000 partial wakelocks in 7 hours. ...with my phone just sitting there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SpyFi:
I am crazy in love with this. My S3 was ok but got the hyperion 3200 mah extended battery and it was perfect.

Yesterday started at 8:00AM I work with phones and use mine all day. I got really drunk and came home an passed out cold forgetting to charge it. Woke up today and worked using again heavy and finally after 1Day and 13 Hours I hit 9% had the screen on 5 hours and had 3 hours talk.

All I can say is beast. Best part is the 2.amp charger put me at 30% in around 25 min! I took my shower let it charge and have been out and about and still have 25% to kill!

Note I am running the newest jellybomb and screen brightness is almost full.

My new 6200MAH Hyperion battery is coming tomorrow even though it is overkill why not lol! I am scared to see how long it lasts :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Please report how it works out as I might get that our the 7600mAh one
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Can anyone tell me why this media server process is sucking the life out of my battery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
Looks like you Google+ and Gallery apps were running hard. They can cause mediaserver drains when not exited out of.

On another note...I love this phone :)

Just hit 5 hours screen on time with 33% left in the battery. This thing is a beast
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Can you guys please share some settings because yesterday the best I could achieve was 3 hours screen on time and this is with power savings turned on... Any advice would help...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] theoner1:
Yes that is pretty bad. I say check your applications that you've install. Turn of network location and gps when not in use, everything else default should be okay. Make sure stuff dont sync everytime.

Mine with no wifi on and only data mobile, I've manage to get over 5 hrs screen on time. My bbs show under 6 percent an hour.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Gps and wifi don't effect battery that much. Sync might effect battery if you're only on 3g. At least on Note2. I use less battery on wifi than on 3g.

Wakelocks. Wakelocks. Wakelocks.

Check em.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
What do you mean by WakeLocks? I looked them up but didnt get that good of an explanation.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
A wakelock is when the CPU is brought out of sleep state either by an app or by the system. A full wakelock is when both screen and CPU are on, a partial wakelock is when the CPU only is awakened by some background process.

See: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1462020

I found that when wifi/network is locating Maps will issue partial wakelocks like no tomorrow sapping my battery even while I sleep....to the tune of 10% of my battery wasted overnight simply due to wifi/network location. Maps by itself isn't the problem, GPS locating isn't the problem, it is the network-based method of locating that causes it. To put it bluntly, one night while I slept and my Note2 was screen off on the shelf next to me Maps issued 3500 partial wakelocks over a 6 hour period....which is insane.

BetterBatteryStats has a page that will list wakelocks and partial wakelocks. It is a great place to hunt done wasting processes that eat battery even when screen off.

Screen-on time should easily be in the 8 hour range IME with screen auto-dimming on, CPU/display power saving on, and WiFi and GPS on (Sprint Connection Optimizer off and frozen along with AllShare, but Network/Wifi locating off which unfortunately cripples Google Now), and data syncing on every hour--i.e. minimal battery saving effort by turning features off. I'm currently at 18hrs unplugged on battery with 3 hours of screen on time and have 73% battery remaining.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Thanks for the advice! I will give those settings a try (minus the freezing apps, staying stockfor now...) and report back.

Thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
Saturday, we were on the road all day. At 9pm my battery died. only 13 hours from when I unplugged it. At the same time my husbands note was at 74% and had prob unplugged his before me. my wifi was off, gps off. I dont get it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Are you running exact setups? Are you using custom kernel or running rom.of some sort. If so theres the culprit becuase I get better life on stock verus any rom or persues kernel just saying.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Thats the sort of battery life i am looking for! I might just reset my device to factory settings and see if that does any difference.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeetFace:
Dolphin with jetpack installed?

Single greatest thing I did for battery life was uninstall both.

sent from my ginormous Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
Stock rom not rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] twigs187:
That's ridiculous, and enough of an issue where I'd take it back and get a replacement.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] theoner1:
It could also be just the battery and not the phone. I personally dont think all battery are created equal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
Yeah, Im tempted to buy an extended battery now, because we are going to be on the road all the time. The only thing holding me back is there are no extended cases!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
I agree with the battery statement and in my opinion these batteries don't last long at all. I way less than the shelf life that it's suppose to have.. Looking to get a spare myself maybe an extended

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fryingpan0613:
I thought it was just me that felt like the battery wasn't holding up as good. That's a pretty fast downfall. Don't get me wrong on a normal day I still don't need to charge, but I know I can't get 6 hours of screen on and last all day now lol

sent from my awesomely huge Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
My samsung epic 4g battery was still running strong even after 2 years of being abused by cycles of charging or letting it die completely. Etc... getting.over 100 degress in temperature pretty much every day for about a half an hour. Playing games on a single core meant for a dual core.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
My epic 4G touch battery crapped out within 5 months of new purchase.. Was Confirmed with a spin

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-Galaxy Note II Edition

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Lol same this way

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-Galaxy Note II Edition
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Huh? must of been defective, but i had the Samsung Epic 4G Non Touch the Keyboard one the 1st Galaxy S
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
I think most of the reason why some might be expiriencing such different results in battery life might be the reception quality in their area. I think that where I live (Miami, FL) the coverage is rather poor and its especially poor in the building where I work (hardly any signal if any).

Today i have just finished charging up my phone again to 100% here in the office and will not connect it back to power until it dies to get a good idea of where I am at with my battery life. I won't hold back on its use and see what results i end up with. I will post back with screenshots.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] theoner1:
This I believe is TRUE in most cases.

In her case both her and her husband are at the same place during the same time and hers died way before his. To me, I think her phone battery is pretty faulty.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vWvSTATICvWv:
I'm a pretty average user and constantly on the move within Westchester and the 5 boroughs of NY everyday. I am constantly finding new LTE spots and running speed tests :silly: I would say I'm in an LTE area 40% of the time each day, which will obviously drain the battery a little more but I'm telling you, this phone performs like a champ as far as battery life.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mulhiny:
I go about 15.5 hours with more than 7 hours screen time easy. All stock. This is without power saving mode on, GPS is on, screen auto brightness, and both gmail and yahoo push email. Best phone I've ever had in regards to battery. Well, best phone I've had period lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Update right after a heavy usage lunch hour.

Definitely burnt some battery here....

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
This is from 2 days ago
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
What kernel you on? Before it looked like your Facebook and Gallery apps were going nuts, now those stats point towards your kernel going nuts. I'd say switch up your kernel to something else for a few days
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Either stock or persues
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Im am running comepletely stock with power savings on. I am at 12% 12hrs in...

I will post one last screen before going to bed for the night, hopefully around 5%....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
This is from today different usage straight up heavy usage versus moderate from the other day screenshots I posted a few back
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] revs9k01:
Final update for the night.

I wonder if I should root and try a different kernel or something else. Might just be poor reception.

Any ideas?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Seems right, your in areas with bad singals for the most part.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnsongrantr:
Have you shutoff "allshare cast" in your systems wireless and network settings? I found this to be my biggest battery eater culprit even though I literally never use it.

I have shut if off multiple times and it starts up over and over. Hope we get an aosp rom soon, some of these background services are getting on my nerves.

If I can catch and turn off that scren sharing crap whenever it turns its self on I am getting almost 3 days juice with light useage and wifi coverage and most battery saving settings enabled
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
That's what I was thinking . annoying it keeps popping back on especially since I don't need and it mostly likely never will

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnsongrantr:
I should also mention that im on lk8 and ultralight rom 3.0 with mostly good cell coverage in my area.

But aside from the kernel its just a stripped down stock.