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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rekman:
Can someone please explain "google services" to me? I don't see it in anyone else's screenshots, but on my phone it's way at the top under "Screen." I'm not using the gmail app, and I don't know of any other google apps I'm using. I don't understand why it's the second most battery drainer on my phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ZPaul2Fresh8:
If you're using your phone is a sunny environment it will boost brightness all the way to improve the display against the sunshine. Just one random thought, another one is, do you know if you're using "Adapt Display" setting in display settings? It's suppose to adapt the color saturation dependent of what the RGB sensor sees. It may not even effect power usage, but like I said that was a few random thoughts that came to mind after reading your post.

Google Services I believe has to do with your Google Account. Could you have been restoring your account to your new phone at that time? Let's not forget that there is an option for Power Saving in the settings app.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mingdanger:
Thanks!

So, is my battery life normal?

If i do some texting and news reading and very few youtube, running on LTE and wifi, how many hours should I get out of it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] willdeng:
I still haven't charged my S4 since I got it Friday. Wi-Fi has been turned on the whole time. I used Bluetooth for about an hour when I went jogging. Played some games, surfed the web...

battery life on this thing is amazing. Way better than the S3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Andro0:
Seeing times like this makes me really think something is wrong with my handset... I have to charge mine atleast twice a day one overnight and one mid afternoon to make it till until I go to sleep.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ZPaul2Fresh8:
It's hard to say what you "should" get out of it, because different apps will use different resources (GPU/Processor cores & speeds etc...)but I think it's okay. Since you're coming from Apple to Android I will tell you that a good practice to do would be to use the BACK button to exit out of your apps if you do not plan on multitasking. If you use your home button it will keep those processes active and will only close them when your phone needs the RAM.

So keep the auto-brightness setting ON and remember to use that Back button to exit apps and I think you'll be on par.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cali3350:
I checked my phone today and it said MAPS used around 20% of my battery, which is odd since I didnt have MAPS on...

Im assuming the Pedometer in S-Health walking uses MAPS in some way, they was def crushing me a good bit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Maps is known for wakelocks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lilmikey201:
Idk if this is good or not? From about 6am till now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] play2lose:
3 hours 30 min is my best screen on time so far, so it seems normal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
From what I have seen the majority of people are getting 4:30 to 5:30 screen on time. Not sure how 3:30 is normal. With a 2600mAh battery you should expect to get 4:30 or more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lilmikey201:
havent let my phone die yet.its about to die now then ill give it a full charge and see what happens from there
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rbj13:
This is what I got on my first full charge. My display was on auto brightness.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chodaboy19:
Not too bad on mine:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Marshall24:
I'm very pleased with it so far. Was on 4g for 12 of the 14 hours. Played like 45 minutes of games, rest of time spent texting/twitter/instagram/other internet. All features on like GPS, smart scroll, smart pause, NFC, bluetooth, etc. I'm anxious to see tomorrow when I spend the wholw day with all of those features off unless I decide to use one how it will be. And then the day after I'll be on WiFi 8-3 so that will be very nice.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fjr1300sgs2:
Very happy!

Sent from Samsung Galaxy S2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cybershawngates:
Most of all samsung options off (air gesture, smart scroll), sync on, mobile data and wifi on. Not bad.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jamezr:
Here is mine....normal use for me....email, texts....5 calls...Pandora, Rocket music player....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] linkin275:
Here is today's stats
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Its pretty useless without screen on time
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damon20r:
I only wish I could see 3 or 4 hours of screen time, more less 5 or 6. I've had my phone a week and this seems pretty average for me regardless of how I use it. Most of the samsung features are on, GPS and Bluetooth are also on. I turned off Maps location updating but hasn't really made much of a difference in battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RMXO:
Here's my stats after my 1st charge which was last night. Love the 7hr of screen time.

-Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Nice 7 hours! Just a quick question to you all with crazy on screen time. How did you cycle your battery? Full charge out the box for 8 hrs then full drain?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xZip-:
Its good to see that you have good battery life. My phone on the other hand, not so much. I take my phone off the charger at about 7 a.m. and by noon I am at ~50% from texting, pandora and very light games like flow free and super stickman golf 2. Anyone else having terrible battery life like me? Anyone know what I should do?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Khalsa4G:
Did you disable all the bloatware?

I'm averaging like 4.5 hours screen and about 20 hours overall. That's if I'm on Wi-Fi though. If I'm on 4G then it drains quick.

Sent via my Samsung GALAXY S4 using the xda app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xZip-:
No I forgot to disable all the bloatware. I'm on 4g almost all day because my schools wifi sucks. Any more tips?

---------- Post added at 10:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:54 AM ----------

Ok. I disabled all my bloatware. I will post my battery stats in a day or two when im comming from a full charge.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RMXO:
I just got done with the 1st cycle last night. The phone came with 60% so I used it until 10ish % & full charged it.

Mine is rooted, froze all AT&T bloatware & the apps I don't see myself using but left Samsung Apps alone. So I have all the Samsung apps on my phone. Wifi, BT & all features turned on. I even have the animations on 1 & don't have any lag whatsoever. Also running Apex as my default launcher.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Prodian:
About 4 hours screen
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] theraker007:
im doing about 4 hours as well per day so far of screen on time. However, I am not doing anything to save battery, and im outside in sunny south florida a lot so the auto brightness really ramps up quite a bit throughout my days.

I keep bluetooth on due to my ford sync being useful, and i turn wifi off when i leave the house, but 4g never gets turned off. All att bloat frozen, samsung apps kept running because i actually use a decent amount of them, especially the link app that lets me stream straight to my enabled TV set.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
I got 4.5 hours of screen-on before hitting 5%.

Total time on battery was 13.5 hours.

Was pushing it hard too. Played games, restored my apps, downloaded stuff over LTE and Wifi, took pictures, used the GPS navigation, etc.

I'm pretty happy with the battery life even if it's not in the Note 2 amazing territory. Rooted and FROZE all the bloat I could find though =)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hyghonryce:
I can get about 4 hours in as well. but I am highly disappoint in the sleep state. ~3% battery drain while the device is asleep. I lost 11 % in roughly 4 hours ... this is worst than my GS2 which drained 2% every hour.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Planktron:
This is my best so far. I don't know why google services is still eating so much juice. I've disabled google now, location updating etc. Bugging me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] McCadi:
My best so far. Bloat frozen, most services turned off. Auto brightness, indoors most of the day.

How can I increase screen on time?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MikeC4510:
Well here's mine after my first charge. Moderate-heavy use. Some bloat disabled.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] M1nd64m3:
Here's my best. Has some bloat disabled.

I did the OTA update last night and now my battery life was terrible today, and the google search process took up 23% of my battery in 1 hour and 25 minutes which is really weird. Overall very happy with the battery life except for today, gets regular usage with pandora and texting and I go 1.5 to 2 days between charges since I bought it on launch day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Planktron:
I'm not sure I understand. Screen on time is how much time your screen spent on. If you want to increase screen on time, use your phone more. :confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
I'm sure he means how can he increase screen on time and get greatbattery life at the same time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MentalToast:
I feel like I'm one of the very few with quite the opposite effects on my battery.

Throughout the day it drains pretty quickly, but the biggest and most noticeable thing is overnight I lose about 17-20% life while its just idle and sleeping.

I have all the features turned off except wifi,sound, mobile data, and sync.

My only thoughts are that sync is sucking up that much battery life, but it still shows the screen as the one taking the most.

Anyone have any thoughts?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xZip-:
Ok. So after disabling all my att bloat and running qualcomm's battery guru, this is what I've got.

This battery amazes me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] peaster3:
Here's mine. Major debloat. Using Greenify.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bri315317:
Major debloat on latest OTA and using Greenify. I am impressed :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] McCadi:
Lowest brightness, qualcomm battery saver. I feel like everyone elses results are too good to be true, but maybe my phone is a lemon. Ah well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
You got some nasty Wakelocks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] j510:
Probably. But from what I can see, your phone is struggling to find service. That takes a lot of battery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AlterBruin:
First post! I don't use my phone nonstop like some people, but I'm pleased with the battery life so far. This is from an incomplete charge, about 92% if I recall. The OTA update was installed on this charge as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ripper4209:
Didn't use it much those days was a little busy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lordandroid:
As of right now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] d.cortez:
i can live with this...

i'm getting more than acceptable battery life on my GS4; not like my GN2 but i can manage. results below include about 60 texts, 74 emails (responded to 41), 2 hours of calls and some internet browsing. still had 38% battery life left. this is on the MDL at&t stock, rooted TW ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ronj1986:
Here is mine
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] krips2003:
Here's mine. Quite happy with battery so far. In fact quite better than Galaxy S3. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] burak_star:
Sweet Spot

Well, my battery lasted somewhere around 1d,7hrs and 4hours screen on time. I used the device constantly such as watching youtube videos,browsing, playing games, etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DeeDrizzy:
Was wondering how my battery stacks up to others. LTE and wifi always on. With only 3:20 hours screen on time. Don't see how to reach 4 hours+
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] acruxksa:
Only a little over an hour of screen time, but there is also about 40 minutes of wireless tethering near the end. I'm going to be travelling tomorrow so I won't be able to let it run down to see how far I can go, but it's still looking pretty good in my opinion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] robstunner:
you charged your phone twice.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lordandroid:
Yes I did for a short period of time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MentalToast:
This is the best I've gotten.

I seem to be using my phone about an hours worth of screen time and get about a day or a little over on average, some days my apps seem to work against me and soak up more battery than others. Not sure why.

Also Google maps still likes to randomly pop up , for short increments and soak up battery too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
I feel that considering the 2600mAh battery inside the S4 that 3-4 hours of screen on time is quite bad. Although I feel that as the software is optimized, people will begin to see drastic improvements in battery life. Heck my galaxy nexus with an extremely power hungry screen and processor manages 2:30 - 3:00 screen on time. Yes its not quite a fair comparison but it has only a 1750mAh battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lordandroid:
I've achieved 5+ on screen hrs and so have others with there S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
It seems that for every picture of 5:00 screen on time, there is four or more or 3:30-4:00. That could be contributed to user error, low signal strength, wake locks and possibly a faulty device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lordandroid:
Perhaps so. But the times I've made 5hrs my device has continued to function fine I'm happy with it. I have never made it to 19+ hrs with my S3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] trikar21b:
I'm getting average battery life, about 20 hours but only with an hour and a half of screen on time? Didn't take a screenshot but I'm letting it run its course today and treating my phone how I normally do on a 9 hour work day in the office. The past two days I left work with 20% and didn't play any games and answered no more than 20 texts. Will screenshot at the end of the day to see if anybody has suggestions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mrbro0ks:
Is it good/bad to let your battery drain completely? I know it's not as big of a issue since the battery is removable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Roco91:
Best I've had so far, better than my S3 with its extended battery - I know that's bad but I've always had horrible signal where I live so this is awesome for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] trikar21b:
Here's my screenshots from yesterday. Not sure what is the exact cause of the wakelocks so if somebody could explain them I included those screenshots as well. I searched around and just can't grasp what I have to do to minimize these. I see many of you have next to no wakelock activity.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jaythaovadose:
I say use the phone as it was intended. Enjoy is features and if you don't use something of course turn it off. The beauty of our phone is the back comes off. Carry a spare battery and you won't miss anything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
im not sure how much onscreen time i have but im getting almost as good of battery life as i had with my note 2. standby time is really good to.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daraj:
Wanamlite. couldnt be happier
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] megagodx:
Stock ROM, stock kernel, OEM battery, rooted, no bloatware removed from the device.

Activity: Web browsing on LTE for several hours, as well as Wi-Fi, occasional game, switched back and forth between auto-brightness and full brightness. Power-saving mode only enabled for about 5-10% of the time in which I used the device throughout the whole day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lordandroid:
Just now using LTE through out the entire duration.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Sur2eaL:
Battery on this phone just keeps improving for me. This cycle was with a solid hour or so of gaming. I had roughly 10-12% battery when I fell asleep, woke up and it was at 8%. I think I could have came very close to 6 hours if I kept pushing it. I just love this phone, amazes me everyday.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NovaSlim:
This is my 3rd 80% discharge(100%-20%) since I bought the phone a week ago:

8hr 46m of H.264 video playback(from my micro sd card) with MX Playerpro (w/Hardware acceleration), Max Brightness(Dynamic Mode), using phone speaker(volume 8/15), no Airplane mode or Power saver:

So this means even for a intercontinental flight I can spend almost 9 hr onboard watching video while still having enough battery to get to the hotel charger outlet after touchdown, very impressive.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] megagodx:
What the hell. How did you possibly even achieve 8 hours of screen time? Extended battery? Under-volted? Under-clocked?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NovaSlim:
None of those, stock rom with stock battery.

Granted my 8hr 46min of screen time is all h264 video playback, most other people's screen time are probably from web browsing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Tinag379:
I'm running stock with power saving mode on. This was me today bored at work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
Coming from a Verizon Galaxy Nexus, where 2 hours of screen on time was a good day, this battery life makes me deliriously happy. I am using the bone stock I337UCUAMDL ROM, stock kernel, not rooted, no bloatware removed or disabled. Basically exactly as it came out of the box.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] linkin275:
Today's stats, which are about normal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dark5577:
My Google Services was also taking up a good chunk of the battery. If you go to the Google Play services in the app manager and clear its data it might use next to no battery.

The first set of screenshots is normal for me and the second set is all video. These OLED sure have a massive range of power use depending on what content you're looking at.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] REDFOCZ:
My roommates stock gs4, three hours screen on time

Mines less then this lol

Sent from my AOKP Galaxy S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jerseykirby:
I was quite pleased with the battery and I'm on stock. Most gimmicky features are off also.

Today though I noticed Maps taking up a lot of battery. Never before though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] b3w4re:
I love not having to freak out if I forget to charge my phone at night.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jacindc:
I love not having to freak out if I forget to charge my phone at work in the afternoon after charging it all night! (came from an Atrix 2)

My stats aren't exciting enough to screencap, but I'm at nearly 14 hours with 32% battery remaining, with 1 hr 25 min screen time (but a couple of longish phone calls too). It's been a pretty normal day for me, and so I'm quite happy with that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NovaSlim:
85% discharge for today, 18hrs with 3hr+ of screen time. Brightness 100%, screen mode dynamic. Power saving off. I might be able to go longer with auto brightness & normal screen mode but this phone last long enough for me on Max brightness.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MikeC4510:
I know I cheated a little (was plugged in for a maximum of 3 mins since I was transferring a file), but I was on track of having 6+ hours of screen on time regardless of me charging it. I also watched an entire movie with max brightness and it only brought down 20% of my battery... :) :cool:

Sent from my I337~SGS 4 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AnthomX:
Haven't looked through the rest if the thread, but here are mine. Modb stock kernal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] haloimplant:
Typical day for me. 4h screen time at bed time and it's still got almost 1/4 left in the tank. Wifi most of the day but still pretty good.

Only thing I did was turn off location history in Maps which improved the idle drain a fair bit. 3 weeks in i think the battery life has continued to improve so far, anyone with a really new unit who is a bit disappointed give it some time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lordandroid:
Took these shots last night
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] megagodx:
Stock battery, stock kernel, custom ROM, switching between auto and full brightness, mostly web browsing, light gaming and video viewing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ambush510:
Using KT kernel with MJ custom rom and also 5200mAh extended battery. Getting awesome battery :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] stevehkim:
How thick is the backing on that 5200 mah?

ATT S4 Rooted. Beastin.

4.2.2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ambush510:
not too thick. just a smooth bump which also gives good grip. I can sacrifice the slim aspect of the phone in order to obtain long battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lyrad12:
Not bad.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PLUG313:
small question, if I decide to buy one of those extended batteries, how do I keep the stock battery saved? fully charged? or discharged? because some day I probably would need it again and I'd like it to still be in good shape
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mr.Mischief:
A general rule of thumb for batteries is to charge them to 30-40% and store them in a cook dark location.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] s384:
obviously using phone heavy this is 3g web browsing. stock unrooted. not sure why it says gps on. its not. but yea pleasantly impressed with my s4. only charged once since I bought it. dont think battery is going to "improve"

also stock battery. batteey optimized settings obviously

have the quad core lte model
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PLUG313:
guys you should start saying if it's the i9505 or the 9500 or else nothing's gonna be of much use
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mcsingh:
Rooted, stock rom. Gps not on, not sure why it says it is. Wifi, lte and sync all on. Love the standby time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mr.Mischief:
This thread is specifically for the AT&T model(i9505). No one should be posting i9500 battery stats.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] REDFOCZ:
Here's my usage today

Sent from my Clean S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tyshemi:
Holy cow man how'd you get that sot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PLUG313:
O_O it seems I was a bit lost, I thought I had subscribed to a thread on the general S4 forum
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] s384:
the top 50% seems to last lomger than bottom 50. but yea for those too lazy to click I got 55minutes screen on time and 3 hours up time and at 90% battery. this is incredible. with 3g web browsing I comfortably made it all day and 7.5 hours sot yesterday. yes. im at work. and I am extremely bored. though I really dont have anything else to do
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Shalakwa:
How so? I've been using it for months and have found that it works wonderfully. Do you have an explanation, or perhaps a link to one? Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sharpehenry:
Not a heavy user. Almost 10 hours of usage and still have near 70% left. Impressive. My old Atrix 2 wasn't like this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
Only my first charge. I literally couldn't kill it so I put it to charge and went to bed. Overall I am impressed for wifi only usage. As this is my first day with the S4, I have all the smart features on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] d.cortez:
i'm continuing to to get good battery life as well.... my usage is probably atypical given that i spend more time for phone calls than others. i'm running a stock partially de-odexed ROM (SecPhone, SecContacts, SecCalendar and System UI). i keep an OEM Stock battery with me in case it's needed...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jimmer411:
I'm getting awesome battery life, could have easily hit 5 hours screen time if I took it to 0%

Running stock TW that's been debloated and exposed framework only.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jimmer411:
Not sure why but wouldn't left me post all 3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] megagodx:
Web browsing all day on Wi-Fi.