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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eak1080:
Why this is at 53% of my battery.

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BTW used your Roms for the Htc one X (AT&T) loved it. If you need any testers for that installer or roms for the S4 PM me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MentalToast:
Is keeping your phone plugged in after the battery is 100% bad for the battery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
No, the phone has a chip in it that keeps it from being over charged. Most chargers (the good ones) have over charge protection too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
right out of the box, mine had great battery life, after the MDL update, even got better, the battery life on the G4 wipes G3 a$$.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hamzer11:
I had this exact problem. I even made a thread but no one responded. It only lasted the first few days though. As if it were syncing up and after that it went away. Now my battery life is fantastic. I did kill the process several times. I'm not sure what it was. Whether time or a process. I believe it's effected by Google Talk and Voice accounts. Either way it eventually returned to normal and I can go 2 days of light use on LTE with 1 exchange active sync, 2 hotmail active-sync, 3 gmail active-sync accounts, as well as a weather widget. I love the battery life compared to my S3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bruceo:
I used TiBu to resore my exact setup from my S3 and the battery life on the S4 has been far better and much smoother. If the skin wasnt so ugly especially the dialer/contacts section I don't think I would even bother installing a custom ROM which would make it the first device in almost 20 years that I wouldnt feel the need to flash custom firmware....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] paleman27:
My battery life is awesome. The SG4 on stock beats the Sg3 on the most efficient ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] D00lie:
I'm getting great battery life though I do get the odd wakelock. For instance, last night, I went to bed with 42% battery, had no tasks running out of the ordinary, and when I woke up this morning, I had 7%. weird.... Thats happened twice since i've had the phone. Most nights if I start @ 50%, when I wake up, its @ 42-44% (8 hours)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Baldilocks:
I'm getting around 6-7 hours of screen time. Works for me. :)

**pics posted in later post**
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Shammyh:
There's an old expression around these parts... It goes something like this:

"pics or it didn't happen"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Baldilocks:
No need for pics. It happens.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] surf1:
40% with 4 hours screen on time... damn, now I want to get the S4 lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sulpher:
I'm getting some amazing standby time with this thing.. pretty nice screen time as well! 90% of my screen time is browsing the web.

The standby time is with wifi always on set to 'never', and sync on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bruceo:
Yesterday when I checked my stats I was at just over 4 hrs screen time with 39%. I never turn anything off. I use GPS, WIFI, bluetooth etc and heavy camera video/still use.. I rooted and froze any apps that run processes I dont want.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] penguinjoe:
So far really happy with battery life. Way better than my SGS3s were (I have both US and Intl variants)

I did hear though that an OTA update went out from Samsung that addressed the initial release battery life and performance issues. My OTA update happened when I was powering up in the Virgin mobile store with my sim card in so I don't have any before/after stories to pass on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sulpher:
Very nice! Im thinkin this thing could do 8 hours of uninterrupted use.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] stevehkim:
The battery life between my s3 and s4 doesn't even compare. Even with running aosp and custom kernel on the s3 with battery tweaks for that a$$ still can't compare.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Baldilocks:
Aaaaaaand since some people just want pictures. Here it is at 50%. Now simple math can help you figure the rest. Phone brightness 100%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Baldilocks:
How about another recent one?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] milicigoran:
Samsung told me it is and I stopped doing it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] milicigoran:
Wrote how are you getting that. I thought I was getting good battery life with 4 hours of screen time. And I use deep sleep battery saver to improve battery life by turning off Mobile data and wifi when the phone is off.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Baldilocks:
Rooted. Froze all carrier apps and bloat. No S features in use. WiFi always on. No 'smart' features on. That's about it. Don't need any 3rd party apps. That just adds more bloat. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] milicigoran:
Oh. That's where I'm different I have all the smart features on but I'm rooted and froze all the Samsung and att apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MrPlNK:
Bone stock, s features normally off, normally on data, all sync on, gps off, whatever you get the point...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tommykim1987:
Powerful cpu leads bad battery life of course,:laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] WrongRom:
Auto brightness, wifi always on, all AT&T and S Apps disabled. I am very impressed with the battery life of this phone. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rsarwar:
So far pretty good .. around 11am EST will be 2 days of usage without charging. Auto brightness, Data used and turned off when not in use, wifi used and set to turn off in sleep mode plus games my son played on the phone. S Apps were kept on for the most part as well.

Overall much more happier than my SGS2 :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ssmita76:
As per my view, Mobile consumes more battery if the mobile data is in use. If you are not using internet on your mobile, it will work for long time.;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ronj1986:
Your stats are invalid because the 1st picture clearly shows that you charged your device some.

Optimus G Pro
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] milicigoran:
I think someone asked if it's on to keep the phone plugged in to a charger after the battery is at %100. I just noticed that the notification actually tells you "%100 charge please unplug the charger" so it is bad to keep the plunge plugged in. Even the Samsung people told me the same thing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cinnabar:
I have never really had a big problem with that the so called 'over charging' issue. Before I went the way of the S4 I had a S2 with original battery. I had the phone since Fall '11 and I never had any issues, especially after I flashed new ROMs (Shostock2/3). Lithium Ion batteries don't have the same issues that the NiCad batteries did where you had to religiously drain the batt before charging and unplugging when it hit 100%. Most of the time it's the charging unit that is at fault- the cheap ones will keep on pushing a current even after the battery is full. Smart chargers like the one's that come with the phone usually work fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cpufrost:
I'm coming from a Note II so of course I'm biased!

I don't think it's bad, actually if it gets me through the day with 1-2 hours of voice calls and same with screen time that's good enough.

What's bad?

Galaxy S2 Skyrocket and HTC Vivid. Ugh! I was looking for an outlet by lunchtime!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] getbuzzin:
6 hours of screen on time is not too bad. Almost a whole day and all on cellular network.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 2girls1cup:
For me media server was killing me due to 32gb sdcard. I reformatted card from device and froze most att bloatware and also froze Samsung browser. (Use chrome) I cleared the caches from all media apps (gallery, google music, etc). Now im noticing significant improvements with battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ganashii666:
yeah kinda

compared to the note 2 its like a 10% less powerfull thru the day but it can be that i had jedi x on my note 2 because that helped alot and i highly recommend it plus i wish developers star putting on some good roms for the phone im freaking out
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rsarwar:
Well I actually managed to get 3 days out of my Rogers S4 :D

I am wondering though .. if you take a look at the screenshot attached, near the end on the right, it looks like there was a slight spike of power increase .. I never had it plugged in to charge nor did I attach it via usb to the computer for transferring purposes. The same happened in the middle of the graph as well, maybe 1.5 days in .. Any thoughts? :eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
This usually happens when phone/battery heats up and it drags the current down. When it cools back off the reading is more accurate again.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sabre31:
I have bad battery life as well. Makes me miss my note 2. By 1pm my battery is down to 10% I do get a lot of emails but definitely this device does not last all day unless you turn off a lot of stuff and hardly use it. When I travel now I actually go back to my note 2 or LG Optimus G Pro can't be without battery life when your in planes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] haloimplant:
A few days in my battery was initially just OK, losing a few percent per hour during idle. I noticed most of it was wake time from Maps, and since turning off location reporting in there my idle drain seems quite low.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] :
Speaking relatively, this battery is a huge improvement over the S3 and even more so the HTC One XL. So take it for what it's worth.

I usually never let the battery go below 35-40 before plugging in and when that occurs I'm usually between 3 - 4 hours of on screen time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I haven't had any battery life issues on mine so far. Yesterday it wasn't connected to WiFi at all. It was connected to LTE all day save for maybe 2 hours on HSPA+. When the battery got to 9%, total time on battery was 12h15m with a screen on time of 4h20m. That's using auto brightness. In addition, NFC, autoscroll, smart pause, smart stay, and sync are all on. This is phenomenal when you're used to a Verizon Galaxy Nexus where you get 2 hours of screen on time of you're lucky!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
Ugh. That's poor if I'm coming from a gnote2.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
I'd venture to guess that a Galaxy Note 2 also has a much bigger battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
And a much bigger screen.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] oldblue910:
This amazing life on the Gnote2...was it on the stock ROM and kernel or were you running custom stuff?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DJsCrIBbLe:
I've noticed ok battery on LTE, on wifi this thing is a beast i can get like 5-6 hours screen on easy and maybe 1.5 days out of it. With data though maybe 2.5 hours screen on and a full day or 1.5 days out of it. My issues is i have so many damn wakelocks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
I am running completely stock with root. I was expecting the gs4 to be almost what the note2 is in battery but it is not. Maybe when I get mine I will get that as I am a battery mizer. The gnote2 is a beast.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NovaSlim:
Gnote 2's screen is much lower res(1080p have 2.25X the pixel count of 720p) & not as bright (max 240nits, GS4s max around 320 nits), combined with a 20% larger battery it is no suprise that Note 2 is better in battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
I am well aware of the higher pixel count. Between the bigger screen and full rgb and the higher resolution and smaller screen of the gs4 I figured Samsung could make the gs4 more comparable in screen on time. I am still gonna get the Google gs4 in hopes that it can be optimized more and the smaller pocket size will be welcome.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] NovaSlim:
You seem to overestimate the power consumption of Note 2's bigger screen and underestimate the power necessary to push all the pixels on the brighter GS4 screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX:
I get anout 3 hours of screen on with 60 % or so
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] viper_insane:
My battery life has been sub-par (4 hours before ~50% drain). Admittedly with heavy use. I'm also in a crappy connection location so that has always drained my phones. I was using ATT smart wifi, but that was 26% of battery use. So I have since disabled it (and will try and manually toggle wifi). I liked the auto connection to wifi tho, so if anyone knows a good way to do this without too much battery sacrifice, advise would be appreciated...

I also stopped a lot of the bloat, so we'll see if this improves
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
I have had GREAT battery life, keep in mind it is a combination of things that will help with battery life, some kernels have better battery tweaks than others, some roms have better tweaks for batteries, it is just a matter of finding a good combo. Even out of the box, stock had impressive battery life for me also.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dexywexy:
Been using the (AT&T) S4 for a little over a week now, and what I've been able to deduce from BetterBatteryStats is that:

1. My phone comes out of deep sleep mostly from GMail and Talk/Hangouts

2. Turning off Google Now saves me about 10% of my battery every day (on average)

I have the phone connected to my work GMail account, and it gets pretty crazy because I'm on a few user support lists that go directly to my inbox. I tried turning off push for a day and found that my battery was still at 80% at the end of the work day, as opposed to ~55% with push turned on.

TL;DR the battery is great, it all depends on what you have running
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cotasa:
How do I enable the deep sleep mode?

I have the s4 stock, rooted and with all the bloatware frozen, then, if I turn every signal off (airplane mode on), and left it for the night (about 7 hours), the battery goes from 100% to 80%, and CPU SPY shows a use of 99% of the time of the cpu on 384mhz (not showing any deep sleep time or option listed)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] switters1:
1. Download and install Autostarts from play store

2. Disable almost all entries from "startup" events. Check other events and disable unnecessary apps from starting up

3. View--> hidden then disable all entries for Google maps (this removes all location wake locks which are most common)

Enjoy 90% deep sleep
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sohilpandya:
Bad Battery

Hi, New to XDA, also new to the S4, currently my battery life is quite bad, I am attaching a couple of screenshots so that you can get a better idea of whats happening with my phone.

Here is a list of items that are on:

GPS

WIFI

Mobile Data

Sync ( Google account only )

Brightness ( Auto )

The problem I have is that I have heard a lot of people say they get 3-4 hours of screen time, as you can see from the image below, I have only had 38 minutes of screen time, one thing I will add is that my screen gets warm when I am using it ( you can feel its warm/hot when you touch it ), is this ok?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] viny2cool:
Warming up device is the main cause of battery drain I guess. My S3 started having very bad life and i noticed it warms and started loosing battery like anything. I got a new battery for it.

Same with my S4, whenever the screen is warm (like if surfing heavily in LTE area) it looses more battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sohilpandya:
Any Tips? with regards to it? its just 2 weeks old! cant be a fault with the battery already.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] @rbiter:
Try a combination of power saving mode and snapdragon battery guru from the play store. If you are able, perhaps undervolting the CPU and/or GPU might help.

sent from my gt-i9505
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dvandriesen:
Mine isn't the best either drops battery fairly quick but that's prolly cause I'm on it alot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hyukki:
Leaps and bounds better than the Note.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chaosclarity:
This device has awesome battery life compared to my Galaxy Nexus. I'm rocking the latest 6/21 CM10.1 nightly and am getting 4hr+ screen on time, easily reaching 24hr+ between charges as well. I have 1 gmail account auto-sync, and 1 exchange activesync account. I also stream via bluetooth google play music whenever I'm in the car.

I have turned off GPS all the time and use wifi at home/work to minimize the battery drain that cellular data speeds put on the device.

It can take a bit of tweaking to get great battery life but once you've found out how to manage it, it will return good results.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] msavic6:
Auto brightness with all the smart features on. This is wifi only usage.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] McMichael96:
Wow that's horrible. I get amazing battery life, granted I don't have my wifi?Bluetooth on.

Like others are stating it must be because it's getting hot. My old HTC One Xl drained rapidly if it got hot. Only thing was I couldn't replace the battery haha

Sent from "Michael's Galaxy S4"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] maldinimi:
Seems to me or greenify does not hibernate apps anymore?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] fix-this!:
Im consistantly getting well over 24hrs with omega rom + faux kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sk8trix:
Yea look how horrible my battery life is

:p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dacho:
Check your sd card and format it. I had the same problem and i just took my sd card out because i don't use it and battery life went back to normal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ThePublisher:
I use my phone pretty heavily, much much more than the average user. I am working on it constantly through the day so it's not 'asleep' much. For example, after yesterday I had 4 hour 24 minues of screen on time. The phone was on for about 16 hours, lots of texting, camera use, Gmail and web browsing. I still had 27% left at days end.

I am rooted and using Greenify and LBE security master to keep things from going on in the background that I don't want happening though. That seems to help a lot. Certain Apps can attack your battery if you let them. Facebook, Maps (if location is not set up right) and many others that want to constantly tell their servers what you're doing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SysAdmNj:
+1 for try greenify, helped my battery life lots.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RCranium666:
Tunein always drains my battery.
[HTC One X] Poojan Patel:
hi,

i am having problem with my battery.it is draining too much fast..now a days battery back is around 8-9h.i daily use only mobile internet(2g)..what i suppose to do??help me.. :(:(

current rom:- android revolution hd 21.0(with some extra mod)

kernel:- n3ocort
[HTC One X] teejayd:
When did your telephone battery started draining?

Did you change anything or install some apps?

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One X met Tapatalk
[HTC One X] Poojan Patel:
battery started draining around 4-5 days ago..i have some system+kernel tweaking app,some normal apps and games..
[HTC One X] archie winnington-ingram:
Whenever this happens to me I just start from scratch. Back up any of the stuff I really want to keep (pictures, and themes usually) and then do a factory reset/full wipe, battery stats and cache etc. I then reinstall the rom, or install a different one.

This has always fixed it for me, infact it has fixed most problems for me. Overheating and lag as well as battery drain!
[HTC One X] Poojan Patel:
i did many times...is this happaning bacause of custom kernel??should i install stock kernel??
[HTC One X] teejayd:
Try the program better battery stats from the playstore and find out what is draining your phone.

Maybe some bad app

Send from my HTC One X
[HTC One X] Poojan Patel:
thanks buddy..!!
[HTC One X] Rexton270:
Task manager is what you need. I know it was discussed many times and classified as redundant, but I had same issue like you. Fully charged battery was dropping faster than petrol from my bmw 540i. Within 4 hours down to 54%. Now, installed Clean Master from play store,and using built in task killer and can tell you its a HUGE improvement. With this app now battery show 82% in same period with same settings. Try it out and you'll see...
[General Questions and Answers] mickomounir:
hi everyone ..... what is rhe problem with the new viber versions??? can anyone help
[General Questions and Answers] immortalneo:
What is ur problem with Viber?

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Blender7:
Hi Guys,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a strange issue I have.

When I flash to stock root ROM my phone works fine, including my camera, however, when I flash to ANY custom ROM my camera only works when my flash is off. If I turn the flash on the camera attempts to take a picture and then freezes and I have to do a battery pull to get it back on.

I will through a curveball here and say that I have had extremely limited success (but success nonetheless) when I use my original OEM battery.

The flash itself works fine as I can use apps like flashlight no problem.

Oh and app's from the Play store work fine as well w/ flash on.

Anybody experience this before? I have searched and found nothing,

Thanks everyone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
How are you wiping before flashing? I recommend wipe data, cache, dalvik, format /system.

And by "any" ROMs do you mean 4.2 ROMs or both 4.1 and 4.2?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Blender7:
Well the stock ROM was 4.1.1.

The thing is I've had this problem for a long time now so it would be on both 4.1 and 4.2.

New development though, I just re- flashed to PKD ROM and the flash works intermittently. It seems when I take a picture if something closeup with flash it works but when the subject is far away the camera app just goes black.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
So, about your wipe procedures...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Blender7:
Sorry,

So when I flash a ROM I wipe data/factory clear dalvik and clear cache.

I've done that from stock to custom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
The next time you flash, have everything backed up/saved to your sd card or pay and follow the wipe procedures I recommended above. It wipes the OS completely off, leaving you a completely blank slate for the new rom. Have your desired rom and gapps on your micro sd card
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] x0ne215:
You forgot to format /system manually in mount/boot, that causes a lot of errors (it caused a bootloop issue when going from stock to Slim for me)
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] polo2883:
Other than Samsung directly. Does anyone know where I can order an OEM Micro USB Cable? I think using a generic cable is causing my computer to fail to see the note 2.
[Galaxy Note II Accessories] TheXclusive814:
Search ebay for something like Galaxy Note 2 OEM usb cable.

I just ordered a few of these.. 5ft long too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Samsung...Phone_PDA_Cables_Adapters&hash=item417257f789

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I have had older samsung cables work with Kies. If your running a non touchwiz rom any brand of cable should work fine. But if running TW, Kies is very picky on your cable, in my experience.

I have a few "China ebay cables" and they charge the phone but fit very loose and will stop charing if moved a little bit.