yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xphome:
Minor usage, updated apps/checked the Play Store at the time the graph turns yellow. I had LTE on in the beginning causing the huge drain, you can clearly see when I switched to GSM only. I have air gestures on, all the smart view features off. I think I had power saving on during the green part and turned it off about the time it turned yellow, could have been sooner or later tho. Minimum brightness.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Oli2k:
4th cycle
[Galaxy S 4 General] Vrykyl:
Now only on my 2nd charge / cycle - heavy use today as Ive been messing about with it!

Currently showing 34% battery remaining, with 4hrs 8 mins screen on, 11 hours 8mins since unplugged

Pretty pleased with that, as it includes approx 2 hours of gaming too :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] Cpt.Curry:
I have google maps constantly taking like 11% battery
[Galaxy S 4 General] -]Megacharge[-:
Indeed it's weird, my GS4 seems to have really pathetic battery life. Wondering if I have a defective battery.
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
i get a max of 4hrs 40mins - 5hrs of screentime on autobrightness with all smart and gestures on.

so i'm not the only one with crappy battery life
[Galaxy S 4 General] DocRambone:
Low sleep battery drain

Lost 2 % during 7 hours sleep: Wifi, 2 mail-accounts as some widgets syncing.

Rom: Doc barebone

Kernle: Vamans Adam1.0
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
AOSP Carbon Rom and Alucard kernel :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Starnel:
Stock 4.4.2 & some governor tweaks, also brightness all the way down because i'm indoors :p seems good to me
[Galaxy S 4 General] deepaksupercool20:
With ozcan rom and Battery Doctor running on my rooted s4 i get 5 Hours Screen on time.
[Galaxy S 4 General] soza971:
Slimkat 4.4.4 build 7.9 alucard 1.4b

Alucard Alucard Slim Slim

2048 2048 fiops fiops
[Galaxy S 4 General] speed s:
Ozcan ROM v5 i9500
[Galaxy S 4 General] ode_:
Heavy day on i9505, running PA 4.45, KToonsez 3.4.94 kernel.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jaacoozee:
Ozcan ROM 5.1
[Galaxy S 4 General] ode_:
GT-I9506 CM 11 / [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] kernel

Mostly hanging on data connection, few hours on WiFi, Bluetooth on over 10h, 7-8h connected to car, over 1h speaking over Bluetooth.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ode_:
Deleted, duplicate.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Starnel:
I posted my stats before but now i do an update :) everything stock i337m
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxLordxX:
Hi,

Moderate to heavy usage. Read a lot of manga (for 20 minutes in max brightness), WiFi on the whole time (except for the last 2% of battery hahaha), some gaming and 3h30-4h of music. On CM11 M10.

"Dream On! Dream Until Your Dreams Come True!" - Dream On (Aerosmith)

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] mazbot:
Using GearCM for GT-i9500. Gaming (with CPU limit to 400Mhz) and only notifications for whatsapp and facebook chat activated via privacy guard (no greenify).
[Galaxy S 4 General] lawyer_06:
My battery life statistics:

I have shared this statistics on Phoenix thread before, but here now.. On Phoenix Rom v9.4 with Alucard Kernel, i got two results:

1- Statistics with less wi-fi and phone usage ("3 day 18 hour 32 min" Standby Time and "3 hour 42 min" Screen On Time):

2- Statistics with normal daily usage ("2 day 0 hour 13 min" Standby Time and "4 hour 22 min" Screen On Time):

To learn how i got this results and for more information about how to get a better battery life you can look at my previous post:

--> http://xdaforums.com/show...postcount=5634
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
Dan's CM ROM M9 Final release,GT-I9505, Alucard kernel v2.7.2a on stock settings except minor adjustments, running ART.
[Galaxy S 4 General] soza971:
AOSP Pure From Source "Broodplank" :
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
Dan's CM Final M9 release on ART, Alucard kernel v2.7.2a, 2nd full charging cycle. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] zozoz13:
Running Prism Barebone V9 with Maxfour kernel v14 Repacked. No UC, only UV -25mv with some Build.prop tweaks :)

Sent from Indonesia using S4 GT-I9500 - zozoz13@Kaskus
[Galaxy S 4 General] sch3ggi4:
Can you share your kernel settings?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
Alucard kernel v2.7.2a, stock settings except I/O scheduler changed to FIOPS :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] soza971:
Pure AOSP from broodplank + Alucard kernel 2.7.2a
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
Dan's AOSP final M9 release, Alucard kernel 2.7.2a on ART. I'm in love with this combination :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Trickee360:
Quick question: how many people in this thread have Google Now turned on?
[Galaxy S 4 General] thebestiam:
Mine's off.
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxLordxX:
Hi,

My one is turned on.

Yesterday battery with some gaming:

~Lord

"Dream On! Dream Until Your Dreams Come True!" - Dream On (Aerosmith)

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxLordxX:
Hi,

Today battery lasted quite a good time ^^

Clannad is a game BTW...

~Lord

"Dream On! Dream Until Your Dreams Come True!" - Dream On (Aerosmith)

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 General] Dualz:
Liquidsmooth ROM nightly.

F2FS

Dalvik

Ds Battery Saver

Stock, no tweaks

Moderate use.
[Galaxy S 4 General] harrisnehal:
Pure Stock.

Not rooted.

I9505xxugng2

Battery level: 1%

Standby: 1day, 6hrs

SOT: 5hrs
[Galaxy S 4 General] buffblueyes:
My battery usage has been dreadful since the August update.... Any help of advice?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Skipjacks:
Your battery drain doesn't look too awful. At the pace you are going you should get just over 3 hours of screen on time. That isn't great, but its not deplorable either. You should get 4 to 5 hours of screen on plus voice calls time.

It does look like you have a wakelock in there from the battery graph. But that could be WiFi or GPS being on constantly. Both of those will cause added drain on the battery.

Past that there isn't much I can tell you base on your screen shots.
[Galaxy S 4 General] buffblueyes:
Thanks for your response, ever since I updated to 4.4.2 that's when my battery issues git worse, I use to get at least 5 hours screen time but since the update it's just draining so much quicker, but cheers first the info you gave
[Galaxy S 4 General] Ritvars:
Is this normal battery life on heavy use?
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
Paranaoid Android with Justarch + sabermode, running ART and latest Alucard Kernel v1.4m
[Galaxy S 4 General] bombardierart:
Hi, I have a question. What is Justarch and sabermode?, Also, what does running ART means?

Thank you :D.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bobfrantic:
Stock GN8

Rooted

Greenified

Stock Kernel
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xpid3r:
4h+ S.O.T

Yes its normal...

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
Battery usage after first cycle, Alucard v2.4a, Dan's GE customized edition, ART. FIOPS as Scheduler (all 4), external read ahead 2048, the rest of the settings are stock. Regular every day use: facebook, whatsapp, tapatalk, some calls, a few youtube videos, no greenify, no gaming, lowered brightness values a little bit. Total data time: 70% wif, 30% 3g.
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
I would like to see how much screen time you can achieve on 3G only.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
My guess would be a lot less, 4:30 or less
[Galaxy S 4 General] bogdan003:
Prism Barebone v13
[Galaxy S 4 General] chris199:
Stock battery

Imperium rom

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9505 mit Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
This is meaningless.
[Galaxy S 4 General] a602820922:
Wysłane z mojego GT-I9505 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S 4 General] riricomposer:
mine has always drain after 8 hours of normal use,no video viewing. Thats really crab! I sold it already, and will not again buy any samsung phone. I can't understand why there still people out there bagging for samsung phone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bouighil:
Hi all.

First sorry for my english. I have a probleme with my battery. When i let my phone for 5mn and + he charge himself like you can see in my screenshot.

i've calibrate many times my phone with app and let him till death then recharge the battery till 100% for 3 times. But nothing changes

Please help me.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Skipjacks:
First off uninstall your battery calibration app. Its worthless junk. Battery calibration is not a thing. Its an urban legend.

Second, before you see the battery increase you were draining it pretty hard. The battery was reporting a lower than accurate total at the end of that hard use, so when it corrected itself it gave a more accurate higher reading.

That is normal.
[Galaxy S 4 General] FalconFX:
Everything Stock on 4.4.2 :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] szpic:
stock rom 4.4

Wifi/GPS etc off

3G.

Doing nothing. Screen off : 10% per hour

While browsing web 1% per minute :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] comeback4you:
Same issues with my s4

yes when screen off battery reducing more plz help if any body know what to do???
[Galaxy S 4 General] cristian.vinazzani:
hi folks, ok this is strange, your S4 in the worst case have a screen on of 3h, mine only 2.

I think that something isn't working properly

can someone help me?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] thebestiam:
Looks like Android System is using 58% of your battery life. I recommend getting better battery stats to see what's causing the problem.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[Galaxy S 4 General] cristian.vinazzani:
in BetterBattery I see abnormal consumption by Rill-FD and MsM_Hsic_host

very low but persistent Powermanagerservice.wakelocks
[Galaxy S 4 General] VoLTaqe:
Overnight :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] dclarkg:
AntaresOne LP 5.0.1 December 9th build, alucard kernel included on the build, darkness governor and bfq scheduler, external read ahead 2048, internal 1024. :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] soza971:
did you apply darkness to all governors?
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
Knox or old bootloader?
[Galaxy S 4 General] kiran.savadatti:
battery usage

sot: 3h 21min

total usage: 20h

kernel : googy max ge 1.2.2

rom: danvdh gpe pure nexus edition

apps: feedly, keep, now, whatsapp, calls, poweamp
[Galaxy S 4 General] kiran.savadatti:
screenies

attached new screenshots with usage
[Galaxy S 4 General] istoyanow:
Check this awful battery life!!! This is 9 hours sleeping in the night... Bulls*it! ****ing Samsung...

I am totaly stock, no rooted, Google search disabled and other apps ...

I am with SGS4 I9515 VE.
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxLordxX:
Hi,

Your Wi-Fi was turned on and it kept syncing for new data, making the device unable to deep sleep, that's why it happened. Next time you leave your device at night without charging turn off sync at least ;).

~Lord
[Galaxy S 4 General] istoyanow:
Thank you for the advice. But the point is I came from HTC One. Over night with WiFi turned on it was more efficient than with only data on.. Of course with sync and WiFi off the must be almost 0. Will check tonight. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] supdog:
Rooted FNG. Google and Samsung bloat disabled. 2hrs. on phone calls, a little surfing and a TED talk on wifi.
[Galaxy S 4 General] kiran.savadatti:
just check the SOT

for the first time ever, 4h+ SOT
[Galaxy S 4 General] romskii:
Galaxy S4, GPE5 with latest Googy-Max beta ;)

View attachment 3073448
[Galaxy S 4 General] enkku:
Wow guys, how you get SOTs of over 4 hours, do you only surf on web? You play any games at all? How does listening to music affect your battery life? Would gladly accept tips, since I'm not getting anywhere near that myself.

I could imagine reaching 3h SOT at VERY best. No way I could get 4h or anything. I'm on i9506 running arter97s port of Temasek v162. I've discussed about the poor battery life here: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/help/qa-aosp-galaxy-s4-lte-cm-aosb-carbon-ls-t2914251/page2

On average screen on usage I get 2 minutes of SOT per battery %.

Posting screens here too. Had no ss of SOT but I've written it up and it was 2h 39minutes at the time of taking the screenshots.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SilentEYE:
If you play games then it's quite normal not having less than 4 hours SOT
[Galaxy S 4 General] enkku:
Oh, okay then, good to hear that, thanks for your reply! I don't play a lot but maybe a total of 30-60min per day, but maybe that makes all the difference then?

To people with SOT of 4h+ (on i9506 preferably), do you constantly reach that SOT or only when you don't play any games or do other heavy(ish) tasks with your phone? Or do you still get good 4h+ SOT?
[Galaxy S 4 General] SilentEYE:
[MENTION=3703336]enkku[/MENTION] if you don't surf the Web a lot then switch to 2G network.

You can have more SOT if you have a kernel with underclocking your graphics card to 320 MHz and setting your CPU to max 1500 MHz.

Of course you can get even more with undervolting.
[Galaxy S 4 General] enkku:
Yeah ofc, there are numerous things to configure, but I wanted to do the comparison with stock especially to see if my custom rom/kernel would've caused extra battery drain compared to stock one. That's why I am not running any of my usual UC and greenify configs yet. :)

I would say the battery life got a bit worse, which is strange since now I don't have any bloatware background apps running 24/7. Maybe I will restore my backup at some point to confirm and check the battery usage on stock once more.

Edit: Got 4h SOT yesterday - probably because it was sunday and my usage was thst different of a regular worlday, but still, it's something and proves that it's really just the games that may cause the fast drain.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Soufiansky:
Omg amazing , and what are the frequences of your cpu ?

---------- Post added at 01:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:42 AM ----------

Omg men those stats are awesome , you encouraged me to flash this rom :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] Greencrow:
Stock rom, rooted
[Galaxy S 4 General] comeback4you:
Same issues with my s4

what to do now????
[Galaxy S 4 General] Soufiansky:
My batterie life in one world : epic :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] tuonoazzurro:
Imperium Rom v 13 - Imperium Kernel 1.6 stock setting except for downvolt of 50mV accross all frequency.

Never seen 3 hours of SOT! changed many rom/kernel in last months and the most process draining battery are android OS and Android System.

I'm stick with TW for the camera App. I'll try the new GE fron Danvdh with Lollipop.

Any suggestion appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 General] SilentEYE:
Facebook app and chrome are battery drainer.

Especially Facebook is using background syncing with Google services. You should check "better battery stats" apps alarm info.
[Galaxy S 4 General] zozoz13:
C'mon guys where are your battery life result with Lollipop? This thread has been died for about 7 month. Until now, no one share battery life with Lollipop. So i'll start with my battery life result.

Darklord S6 Port v4.5 with VoLTaqe kernel v12.3. Underclocked at 1400mhz for A7 and undervolt -50mV for all frequencies. Wifi all the time. Yeah it's not so great, but it's quietly good for me.

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Galaxy S 4 General] AB__CD:
These are from quite some time ago. Don't have the phone anymore though.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Yousvel:
Moto g3 soak test v5 of Marshmallow

From the s4 to Moto G 2015, no regret at all!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Mr.Brick:
Here we go...

i9515 (S4 VE) on CM12.1. Much better than stock rom.

http://s23.postimg.org/tme87t8u3/Screenshot_2016_01_03_20_37_30.png
[Galaxy S 4 General] muhammedr95:
I bought a brand new battery and these are the results. 90- 4% drain.
[Galaxy S 4 General] DrJ76:
I am so amazed seing the screen times some of you have posted. It is impossible for me to get more than 3 hours of screen, and a total of 15 or 16h of battery. The Android System and SO Android are the 2 that are taking more battery, I will report some screenshots when I have it with less % of battery......

All of you that talk about 4 or 5 h of screen are all with non official roms, aren´t you?, I guess it is impossible to have more than 3h with the official rom, isn´t it?. I currentle still have Android 4.4.2 in my S4, do you think it could get better if I install the official lollipop update?...

I am also having a lot of overheat problems some times, I have tried everything but still don´t know what could be the reason, It is not everyday, and it is not doing the same things when it happens.... it is making me crazy, grrr...

Best regards and thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 General] XxLordxX:
Hi,

First the Galaxy S4 is already 3 years old! Batteries doesn't last that much! So, if you think your battery is too bad, then it might be time to look after a new battery (you can find on eBay easily). Also, you've reported overheating, it's very likely caused by power intensive apps, data connection (3G/4G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, etc).

Regarding the software experience, I'd recommend you installing a custom ROM, since you can get an AOSP based one which is very less resource intensive than the Touchwiz (stock) one. Also, I've seen lots of friends unsatisfied with Samsung's official Lollipop update, so I'd say no, don't update to lollipop! Instead, go for a custom ROM, which will grant you less resources usage and better power management than stock ROM.

I don't remember the SoTs I've posted here before, but I am sure that they were in fact in customized software.

Good luck,

~Lord
[Galaxy S 4 General] nits05:
Aurora Full Note 4 Port - Final V2 (i9500)

:good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] DrJ76:
I have already replaced the battery with a new official one, and the times are still bad, right now I am afraid that it doesn´t get to 15 hours.... grr...
[Galaxy S 4 General] -sandro-:
CM13 optimized, anker 2600mah battery, wifi-only., mainly chatting-tapatalk and a bit of chrome
[Galaxy S 4 General] JayceOoi:
My Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 battery life test
[Galaxy S 4 General] p4j1:
That's ridiculously amazing, I can't wait to try out Adam Kernel!
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
That's a crappy battery life? What do you expect? 10 hrs screen on time? This ain't a tablet

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 General] bassmaster:
could you give me please some more information or a link of this behavior?
[Galaxy S 4 General] exec99:
Yes, that's crappy battery life. 5 hrs is what you can get from an s2 and the s4 is supposed have much better battery life.
[Galaxy S 4 General] noideaforusername:
S2 is more optimized than the S4. When Samsung's optimization starts kick in you'll see much better battery life. For example, at first I struggled to get even 3 hours on screen time from my s3. Now, I have minimum of 4.5 hours and average of 5 hours screen on time in 2 day moderate usage and more than 6 hours on 1 day heavy usage.

Just wait and see :silly:

BTW, I saw here people already getting ~7 hours screen on time.
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
you should run another test now since the first one had media scanner going on...that's a battery hog and you can see that in the test
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xphome:
I went to bed with 98-100% battery and woke up to 50% battery, this is the 4th or 5th charge. I don't know what's going on since this has only happened after the last recharge. Google Services and Facebook has been keeping it awake for a lot of the time I was sleeping for some reason, which hasn't happened before. The graph starts at about 3 AM (since that's about the time it was fully charged), charging took almost 5 hours! After I took these screenshots I restarted the phone and I'm now hoping Google Services and Facebook won't do that again. I haven't changed anything that could cause this that I know of.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fade2green514:
either a faulty battery or you've got something sucking up battery life clearly. try battery saver mode for now, see if that helps.
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
You have some synching issues with both Google and Facebook. Try disabling Facebook see how it goes then disable Google+
[Galaxy S 4 General] Paolonicus:
Horrible Battery life with XXUAMDE

I just flashed UBUAMDK this morning. I will fully charge it this evening, and I will see if there would be any difference. I have also removed some bloatwares and hopefully this would help. I have noticed that those with good battery life are using 9505. 9500 is horrible! I have also noticed with the phone. why is it that when it its hot/warm, and I plugged it on any USB Port, the battery drains even faster! And lastly, when the unit had just came out of the box with XXUAMDE, the battery usage shows that Android OS to be the biggest leech of all, like 70%!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xphome:
It's clearly Facebook and Google Services.

I'll see if it happens again, after the restart it's fine for the moment (see attachment).
[Galaxy S 4 General] fade2green514:
true , try disabling facebook notifications so it's not fetching from the internet. (for just the facebook part of course)
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
Also install BBS then you will know what was really going on. Second part of the graph looks like a good sleeping phone ;)

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 General] allmine1976:
This is my latest , but the screen time should have been more when I got to 6.34 hrs the on screen time stopped going up untill I restarted the phone .

Auto brightness + 5

Power save off as I find the battery lasts longer

Wifi on at home and off when out

3g on when out and off when in .

I watched a couple of hd movies , one 40 min episode of tv series and some live snooker .
[Galaxy S 4 General] CyberT3:
Here's my average battery usage stats so far:

I've watched couple of tv shows - about 1h 30min

Listened to the music - 1h 20min

web surfing on 3g/2g - 30 min

2-3 quick calls

few notifications

wifi + 2g/3g data on at home, wi-fi off at work (sync disabled at work)

during night 11pm - 6am everything off-phone is only turned on for alarm ;)

btw i'm using stock XXUAMDC firmware
[Galaxy S 4 General] shivaram95:
Here it is...
[Galaxy S 4 General] BennyJr:
Its based on my experience with my old gnex and android 4.2.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hollisterryann:
Whats does auto brightness plus 5 mean
[Galaxy S 4 General] Xphome:
I think it means that the device adjusts brightness automatically but adds 5 brightness levels to the brightness it would adjust to. If it for example would adjust to 50% brightness, it would add 5 "levels" to that, which would mean brightness is 70% (NOTE: I made up the numbers but you should get the idea).
[Galaxy S 4 General] hollisterryann:
How would you go about doing that
[Galaxy S 4 General] Oli2k:
Can you post a screen-shot of your screen usage? The one where you can see what brightness it was running at?

Only way I could ever get over 4 hours would be using the screen at very low brightness eg dark room
[Galaxy S 4 General] Sammath:
I'm glad if it lasts me the whole day tbh with moderate use email, and bit of Internet and such.

Not that impressed really but then again I came from a note 2 which was very hard to drain down to 0% battery.

Guess I'll buy a 3000mah battery when it hits the stores.
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
For me its 20 prct per hour of screen usage so in total i get 5hrs and that's twice in a row
[Galaxy S 4 General] AndreiLux:
Getting good battery life here on the 9500. A bit less than 10% per hour screen usage indoors. The above usage includes about 9%/30min of heavy benchmarking which did hit the battery hard.
[Galaxy S 4 General] skivnit:
I'm guessing you have the smart features off ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Al Gore:
I have ****ty battery life. After a first week of customizing/installing apps yesterday and today were first days of normal usage

Charged to 90% yesterday morning and came home today in the evening with 20%

I9500

Screen brightness about 30%, only air view is enabled.
[Galaxy S 4 General] __NBH__:
You have to be careful with the S4, apps left running in the background can cause wake locks and sometimes it just seems to get stuck syncing something, I randomly got a 1hr 15 min wake lock for my gallery syncing even though I was on wifi and I only have a handful of photos, I have no idea why it would take so long to do what it needed to do and it didn't start until I unplugged it from the charger!
[Galaxy S 4 General] nickporwal:
Awesome battery life.

Stock rom, browsing, watched movies and tv episodes, music and calls.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Oli2k:
The brightness of the screen makes so much difference. Looking at what brightness uses what power in gsam is interesting.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Oli2k:
Sorry