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[Galaxy S 4 General] carlaba2:
Please ignore the usage hours since I charged it for some time a while ago... but can someone tell me if media and SO android should be consumming so much?? Even more than screen :-S . What could be causing this?
[Galaxy S 4 General] iam_Ibz:
Google Edition NULL_04

Sent from my GT-I9505 using magic wand
[Galaxy S 4 General] theo80:
All stock. Not rooted. MG5. Auto brightness.

More than 3 hours SOT with 51% battery remaining.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] chavxxx:
Basing on the graph, you charged you phone.

Devices:

Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505

Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100

Motorola Droid Razr XT910

Apple iPhone 4

---------- Post added at 03:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:12 PM ----------

Thats normal coz you have your screen ON most of the time.

Devices:

Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505

Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100

Motorola Droid Razr XT910

Apple iPhone 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] tom_car:
i9500 with stock rom (UBUAMDK)
[Galaxy S 4 General] jrfurlan:
I don't know how but now my battery usage is very nice! :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
Here goes nothing. I did charge the device for 10 mins in between. All stock!
[Galaxy S 4 General] coolnessQ:
Thats long!! Only google services drain much on urs

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] jrfurlan:
i disable the auto brightness and change it manually!
[Galaxy S 4 General] GalaxyS49505:
I dont think so.This is with my rom v6

Send from i9505 using Tapatalk 2.4.13
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxmentxX:
What kernel ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] pnr2020:
some of these stats must be fake i never get over 3 hrs and i dont use it much
[Galaxy S 4 General] noideaforusername:
You probably use maximum brightness all the time. It drains the battery pretty easily.

Try set it on auto and see if it helps. I got 4.5-5 hours+ screen-on easily with stock and now I get 6 hours+.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Schnedi:
this is mine
[Galaxy S 4 General] CoolKick:
I got 24 hours here

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[Galaxy S 4 General] pnr2020:
i only have screen at 40% but i will try auto mode and see if it is better
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
hey guys..i am new to the S4 forum. i got a galaxy S4 E300L. the octa core variant with Exynos 5. i get roughly around 4 hours screen on time with all day usage. mobile data on, auto brightness and few smart features on. but i see people getting 5 or 6 hours of on screen time. how is this possible? is there any tweak that i need to do? i am on stock rom and kernel, rooted.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Norbzzz:
Hello guys

I'm new here, I just switched to Android after many years on iphone. I got myself a S4 (quad core version) a week ago. But while the tests where quite enthousiast about the battery life, I find mine to be a total bummer.

The thing is that, even with auto -5, my screen seems to drain a LOT of power. Every smart features is disabled, media server too, GPS and bluetooth is off, abosulety no synch activated, and position update disabled on gmap. Also turned off GNow.

I never went past 3h of screen time. Today I was in the subway, turned to airplane mode, played like 10min with screen to 10% or something, and I went down by like 12%. Here are the screen of today's battery usage.

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(sorry about that, seems I can't post links right now)

The thing is that by deactivating everything and almost not using my phone, I get less than 24h.

Could you guys helps me figure what's wrong with the phone ? I just installed Better Battery Stat so I will have more info hopefully on next discharge.

Thanks !
[Galaxy S 4 General] anewday:
^ Try gsam battery monitor instead.

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Verizon
[Galaxy S 4 General] LegendJo:
Nope, They're not fake, I always get 4Hours of screen on + 2 Hours of voice call.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
I guess stock kernel is not that good for battery life. But unfortunately my S4 E300L does not have any development. So i cant flash anything :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] ra_van:
Used only with wifi for browsing, reading and video streaming mx player.

Everything stock.
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
Hi at all. I attached the screens of first cycle of battery with stock I9505XXUBMGA. Could seem battery life was orrible but actually it was first day with S4 so I used it very heavily. Meanwhile my S4 has lost the stock ROM for another cooked one. What do you think? Battery life could been better in the next cycles? :)

P.S.: sorry for my bad english :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
My battery usage

using it quite heavily. all time mobile data on, screen set to 25% brightness, all smart features off EXCEPT air gestures. I have got this phone for a week now and its probably 3rd or 4th cycle. I played little games and music. mostly used the phone for browsing. what do you think guys? i see a lot of people getting more on screen time with heavier usage. little disappointing.

The screen shots says the battery has been highly used by the android system.. i think thats pretty odd. and i dont seem to understand the kernel wakelocks pretty well. can anyone tell me whats wrong and how do i solve it?

Galaxy S4 SHV-E300L. fully stock. (rooted)
[Galaxy S 4 General] LegendJo:
I use Adam Kernel
[Galaxy S 4 General] Obagleyfreer:
Here's mine.

CM10.1 Nightlies and Ktoonzes' Kernel.

AWESOME combination :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] coolnessQ:
Google service = an excuse for google to make phones with longer battery, and make others slower and drained.

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
Thats almost impossible. I wish could flash super stock roms and kernels like these in my E300L. How did you use your phone? Is there any specific app or settings u did to get such good battery life?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
I get decent battery life but when I turn on mobile data. My battery drains double. Is it because I have the LTE version and it looks for 4g networks. Moreover I dont have the option to select network types under mobile networks. Is there any way I could just enable 2g?
[Galaxy S 4 General] xp3rto:
Crash rom 4 with pursues alpha 6

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 General] offdotba:
i have nice battery life with stock 4.3 v7 rom, and i lose 3% overnight. very satisfied .
[Galaxy S 4 General] xp3rto:
Crash rom 5. Persues alohq 7.2. With some gaming vitua tennis and csr..
[Galaxy S 4 General] » Arrow «:
My Rom (Arrow ROM)
[Galaxy S 4 General] demlasjr:
S3 is charging 1%/minute but have smaller battery, but still close changing speed . S600 is pretty similar battery life, not so powerful but similar battery life, enough power and a decent gpu (not like Octa)
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
Hahahaha Wtf do you expect? Are you guys serious? Do you want note2 battery on a 2600 mah battery? Some people need to get back down to earth. U have a 5 inch 1080p phone lasting more than non hd phones with smaller screens

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 General] demlasjr:
Dude, cool down, put your head in a refrigerator. I'm not comparing non full hd screens or complain about battery life. I'm happy with S3 and s4 battery life, I'm just comparing Octa with the S600. Is the s4 S600 have a full hd screen? YES. So you better read my whole posts before commenting or shut off.

I'm just an undecided Samsung fan who doesn't know which S4 version to get.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fade2green514:
the big problem with the s3 is that it doesnt charge very quick. if you use it heavily you cant plug in for 15min and gain much battery life. the s4 and note 2 both come with 2amp chargers though. not sure if this is true but my friend said his s3 came with a 700mA charger, which is pathetic. my guess was 850mA and even that is a little low.
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
The guy said 6hrs screen on time you said not impressive at all so I responded accordingly. Anywho pocketnow made a comparison between the two variants. Check out. Battery is better on octa they say

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 General] hoholee12:
Sorry to bump into ya, but 720p is also an hd.:)

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[Galaxy S 4 General] demlasjr:
What about

a backup battery in the pocket? 15% juice saving isn't so much. (Samsung said it will be 75%).

Yup, also the screen size difference is insignificant. But still 1080p is using more cpu and gpu, so more energy. However, the 500mAh should make the difference, but I don't see big difference between S3, S4 Snapdragon and S4 Octa.
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
It's hd alright but not full hd. Not same pixel count. Anyway about the octa vs snapdragon, the samsung boss said not to worry about it since they offer the same performance. 15% is not 0 so that's battery saving :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] hoholee12:
Pixel count mostly doesnt have anything to do with battery. Its the dedicated gpu which needs more power to render bigger resolutions.

You get battery drain there.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] Al Gore:
This was my first charge cycle - http://imgur.com/a/oaUfS

****e, but it was the first one and with 3G enabled in a place with extremely poor reception and all sensors enabled. Brightness 40%.

upd: this is exynos version
[Galaxy S 4 General] fade2green514:
my guess is that the s4's strength will be in everything but screen on time. that 1080p 5" sucks the life out of even the 2600mah battery that comes with it.

however, you could download a movie in the background without it killing the battery too quickly... compared to the s3's 2100mah at least.

its definitely a power hungry device, i personally wouldnt be surprised if the note 3 came with like a 3800mah battery though
[Galaxy S 4 General] :
First charge with patchy crap signal all day and still 11 percent left.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tft:
i went to bed at 39% and when i woke up the device was still at 39%.. with wifi on and push mail off. is that possible? my s3 would drop 5-8% over night.. granted i had push mail enabled.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fade2green514:
with all the features shut off its perfectly possible. it has a 2600mah battery so even though the screen is a hog its standby time will be outstanding. im surprised it didnt drop 1% though
[Galaxy S 4 General] lt4mula:
I am not getting anywhere near the life that you guys are getting. I was considering returning my phone today because of it, but maybe someone can help me solve this issue.

Basically, media server has been pulling on the battery heavily. I cannot figure out what is making it run, and I did not see it running in the menu to "end process."

The second issue that started as of today is that Maps is now running, for no reason that I can find. It is equaling the screen in power drain. I ended the process for Maps (there was two of them) and after about 5 minutes it reappeared as a running process. Help would be wonderful.
[Galaxy S 4 General] allmine1976:
The media server battery drain problem can be caused by corrupt mp3s , there's an app in the play store that can sort that out .

Open maps and go location settings and turn off everything and that will stop maps running in the back ground .
[Galaxy S 4 General] shortie1987:
I had exactly the same problem with Maps when I first got mine. allmine1976 is exactly right, it's location services. Maps > Settings > Location Settings, then UNTICK Location Reporting and Enable Location Sharing. That's dropped maps down on mine from the second highest power drain (only behind the screen), to the point where it doesn't appear on my Battery screen anymore.
[Galaxy S 4 General] JAG131990:
It is seriously ridiculous that these sorts of problems have been around since I first got my GS2 and are still present today on a brand new flagship phone....
[Galaxy S 4 General] lt4mula:
Thanks. I killed the maps stuff. Now I need to figure out the media server stuff. I have not loaded any mp3's so it must be something else.
[Galaxy S 4 General] demlasjr:
Is yours a I9500 or I9505?
[Galaxy S 4 General] chavxxx:
I9505 with Echoe Rom, Ausdim Kernel and Comadose Mod:

Devices:

Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505

Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100

Motorola Droid Razr XT910

Apple iPhone 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] Chelonee:
Quick question

Hi all :)

Just a short question: Since I flashed WanamLite MGA 1.4 yesterday my battery usage shows sometimes very thin black lines as you can see in the atteched picture.

Is this normal? Or should I flash the Rom again?

I'm not sure, if i should be concerned or not. :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 General] theo80:
Did you restart the phone during those time? Or maybe the phone just reset without you knowing it.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] Chelonee:
Now that you mention it, it made a backup in cwm recovery and restarted. Thank you! :) I guess those lines are just the energy the recovery used.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
g internet quite a lot of times for browsing but disabled it when not needed. Played little games and watched few videos. All smart features disabled other than air gestures. Ultimate juice defender enabled which i have noticed given me better battery life than without it. Is this decent battery life? i have seen people getting more than 5 hours of screen on time with 3g..Android system consumes major portion of the battery. can anyone tell me what apps are causing this drain and what to do?

Moreover i get fast dormancy wakelocks. downloaded the fast dormancy toggle app from the play store but does not work. any other way to remove it?

Galaxy S4 E300L- Stock
[Galaxy S 4 General] Alasdairyee:
Hey dude, seems like you're getting around 2 hours of wakelock, check out betterbattery stats wakelock section to see if it's fully because of FD. And apps that aren't working properly like the FD app you downloaded might be the cause of it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ionutzvio:
Guys i have android system a little high. What can i do?
[Galaxy S 4 General] andreip90:
what rom ? what kernel?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Choucko:
So we got a i9500 recently. It's my dad's but he let me use it for the week. Anyways, battery usage is average losing around 40% with 1 hour of on-screen time but standby time seemed exceptional, barely losing 1% per hour.

BUUUUUUUUT

Last night, I went to bed and 10 hours later I woke up late and found out the phone was dead. 60% battery just disappeared on the new phone... so the alarm didn't go off

.

Installing Rom's is out of the question, no way he'd let me do that, but it's terrible if I continue getting such bad battery life on such an otherwise great phone. Is there anything I can do to improve the battery?
[Galaxy S 4 General] SilentEYE:
It is clearly an app or setting, draining your battery
[Galaxy S 4 General] ionutzvio:
Sry. I use wanam 1.4 with Adam kernel
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
This is just crazy.. any battery saving apps? Underclocked? Its sad that the korean s4 users who are so huge in no. dont have access to development.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ionutzvio:
I use greenify, frozen s apps, no location reporting, sync is off, the usual stuff and wanam's room with his kernel.

And no underclocking.
[Galaxy S 4 General] aliendna999:
thanks wanam

adam kernel 1.5

wanamlite rom MGA

i think its very good for 100% mobile data:D

when im not using screen as heavy, maye just 3 hours, i get well over 1d5h

:good::good::good:

:highfive::highfive::highfive:

:victory::victory::victory:

edit: and max brightness!!!

edit: I use greenify, disable gtalk in system tuner for the google services wakelock ( to not get it), and i also used Hardcore Trulyclean

:happy:
[Galaxy S 4 General] andreip90:
so i''m not the only one who says that wanam rom with his kernel have the best battery life..
[Galaxy S 4 General] FireWall123:
My usage : half hour of YouTube , some whatsapp , live wallpaper , some browsing , installed/uninstalled some apps and tapatalking :)

Brightness : auto. +3

All smart features are on , except smart scroll

Sync on , WiFi on but not during sleep.

Used Greenify

Rest is in my tapatalk sign.

Vocaloid fan? Check out this thread!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2376692
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Using the phone in non-intensive apps is frugal.
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
Holy bazooms. Mind sharing how you got this much screen on time Andrei? If its with your kernel then hats off!
[Galaxy S 4 General] MaKTaiL:
I have horrible battery life when 4G is on. The phone looses 10%/h without even touching the phone and even more when I'm using it.

When I let it run on 3G the battery goes back to normal, barely 1%/h.

I've used stock rom, google edition rom, cyanogen, they all have the same problem.
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxmentxX:
What ??? What kernel and rom do you use ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
WiFi sleep mode activated.

Manual sync.

No FB, What's app or other push app.

Browsing Fb, tech sites, googling and downloads.

No power saving.

Brightness on auto at first and then at 80 percent while watching videos.

Tons of video streaming using browser video player.

More videos using dailymotion (discovered quite a few playboy models :p)

Little gaming. Couple rounds of subway surf

Serious mind fu**ing Skype call about 45 to 50 mins long.

Smart bla bla turned off except my personal favorite smart call.

No data or 3g Hspa etc.

7 to 8 text messages

10-15 mins of cellular calls

3 to 4 camera shots

Xda thread lurking for about 15 minutes.

Kies file transfer for about 5 mins

Couple app downloads, Polaris office and Samsung video editor. Along with some wtf apps like nude scanner etc followed by a quick uninstall.

Last but not the least, wandering around the os finding bugs and what not. Playing like a child.

Yes, I sleep too :p.

Still got a high media scanner usage as I have just factory reset my phone three days ago after the new mg5 update for i9500. Still not fully satisfied with my deep sleep and standby timing but I guess its because of the media scanner as the ROM is new.
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
My own.

That particular run was due to use mostly as an e-reader, manga specifically. Very CPU light, even if the screen is mostly white it still is very frugal on the battery.

Outer runs are like 9h45m over 20h. I rarely get under 8h screen unless over extended standby.

Generally it's 10% per hour screen-on or 10% per 24h idle.
[Galaxy S 4 General] chavxxx:
Are you using a stock battery or an extended one? The screen time is unbelievable! I wish I could have that, or even half of your screen time would be much ok... :D

Devices:

Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505

Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100

Motorola Droid Razr XT910

Apple iPhone 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] offdotba:
some random ebay china battery, 2800 mah
[Galaxy S 4 General] Waffeleisen666:
Battery lifetime is great

Edit: trouble with uploading pictures...

Btw. 5 minutes waiting time between editing is just stupid
[Galaxy S 4 General] pauldexter:
Is this normal? I think it isn't.

Sync off, Wifi On, Power Saving On, Air View off, and Air Gesture off.

Browsing, FB, and some games.

Omega 9.0

Stock Kernel.

Can anyone recommend me on how I can improve my screen time?
[Galaxy S 4 General] adi.vint:
I9505

- 2G with data on

- Brightness : Auto + 5

- running DBT latest firmware : UBMGA
[Galaxy S 4 General] noideaforusername:
You don't use the smear fix, right? Cause with the smear fix I can't get more than 7 Hours.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
I get 20% per hour screen on. Running E300L stock rooted. Build MG2.. any idea what can I do to get such awesome battery life?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ro xl123:
Slept at night @ %100 charge, not charging, when I woke up, it was @ %97, really good I got to say. I play, watch things for hours, goes realy good.
[Galaxy S 4 General] anewday:
What brightness, rom, and version of s4? That's very impressive.

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Verizon
[Galaxy S 4 General] yahyoh:
i think the battery on I9500 is great :good:

on my sister device : 10 hours total usage ( FB - twitter - light gaming - chatting - browsing ) with 3:49 screen on and still 46% :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 General] trc13:
Very similar to my usage but I get only 1:30 ~ 2:00 hours of screen on till reach 50%... :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] BuT_TeR:
While surfing On 3g i am getting 1 % battery loss every 2 min ... thats only 3 hours of batterylife. :( here are some Screenshot from betterbattery stats and Phone battery Stats...

Please help :)

thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] yahyoh:
probably u have wakelocks :(

BBS will help u to find them especially if u r rooted

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
[Galaxy S 4 General] noideaforusername:
Halfway through my test with the smear fix of perseus kernel which prevents the blacks to turn off and right before charging my device.

Really great battery life, even when the black aren't turned off at all.

Sent from the octa planet in the fourth galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 General] Brazu:
Hi guys...I noticed some days ago that Gallery is consuming too much energy. Now I'm trying to close gallery...but sometimes I just forget. DOES Anyone experienced this? What can I do?

Enviado desde mi GT-I9500 usando Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] matheus_sc:
Yes because your device is a snapdragon, is kernel you can Config low cores and all frequency.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
My devicw is exynos too.. I dont get this good battery life. Running E300L stock
[Galaxy S 4 General] andreip90:
That screen time you got by playing a movie at the lowest brightness setting. It's irrelevant your post from the octa planet:)
[Galaxy S 4 General] noideaforusername:
Actually, it was by playing a game called Coloris on Auto brightness and reading XDA :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] alberber:
Hey guys, don't know if these statistics are normal or not:

I used my phone almost 45 minutes whatsapping and tapatalking (3G always on) and that was with a 10% of battery.

What do you think?

BTW, I9505 version.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9505 usando Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S 4 General] Morff_pl:
With SlimRom
[Galaxy S 4 General] theo80:
stock MG5, brightness on auto

smart stay on, air view on, air gesture on

power saving off
[Galaxy S 4 General] abo965:
Foxhound

Foxhound 1.4

Adam Kernel 1.5

Power saving On

Air View On

Sync On

Mobile Data On
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
thats just woooww... i am on stock MG2 E300L.. i get 5 hours with power saving on.. :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] s.illes79:
14 hours on battery, 3 hours on screen time, max 50% brightness, powersaver mode, wifi on, sync off, all samsung bloatware magic off

not bad, but was expecting a bit more screen on time:(
[Galaxy S 4 General] Marcostk:
After MG5

Sync On

Wifi On

Mobile Data On

Power saving Off

All other features Off

Before MG5 it was lasting 1,5 to 2,5 days.

Profile: Low usage. Few Browsing and bluetooth headphone

Sorry about poor English.
[Galaxy S 4 General] theo80:
Thanks! I'll try it with power saving on this time and will see how long the battery lasts :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] mohaimed:
do you use any power saving app??
[Galaxy S 4 General] theo80:
nope. I will just use the stock POWER SAVING toggle.
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
Stock MG5
[Galaxy S 4 General] anewday:
What is mg5?

Sent from my Galaxy S4 Verizon
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
MG5 is the latest official Samsung firmware available for GT-i9500 variant of S4. So far, my battery life has been good with this firmware.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ricoflacko:
Sprint, no power saving. MF9
[Galaxy S 4 General] robertogl:
I don't know...i've only wifi on, no data, energy saving mode on, brightness at half, no game, 3hrs of screen, 20hrs of battery...how people have 5hrs of screen? They turn on the screen with a black image on all screen for 5 hrs?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jul84:
Looking at the charts posted, it seems I9500 gets around 6h screen on time and I9505 (like mine) only gets around 4h-5h .

If this is true I don't get why I9505 users say battery life is good, to me it is just average.
[Galaxy S 4 General] CrazyXperiaA:
Thats pretty cool huh.

Used it only for music through headphones with screen off and in airplane mode for around 5 hours a day