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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] choboii:
I feel like I have something in the background or something. Or maybe it's an app I installed, but I am at 46% and my screen on time is 2 hours. And it's been on for about 11 hrs. How do you disable bloatware? I have location/gps off and a lot of things are similar with most of the people on here. So I don't get what is wrong.

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I didn't read this before, but this is just like me. My first day, I had like 6 hrs of screen on time, but today I'm at 2 hours with less than 50% left on battery life. I'm so confused cut I haven't changed my usage. If anything I was on my phone less today to see how much I'll have left at the end of the day.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
One thing to note is that if you have bad signal, your battery will suffer. Being on wifi will help a lot.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
Oh hmm. I'm still trying to find the best settings myself.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mike208:
If I disable the wifi scanning, does that mean it won't auto connect to my work and home wifi when I come within range of them?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] drmacrofish:
Here was my usage for the day.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
Here is my usage today... kind of light today.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wdkingery:
Did you root? I'm wondering if that's related.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jokesonme:
Agreed 100%, my first two posts were 7 hours screen time with about 16 hours total and still 15% left.

Currently I'm at (below images). Not the best.. I am rooted now yes. I'm going to use this last 40% and run either music with the screen on or video for the rest and see what I end up with for screen on. I'll report back
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jokesonme:
Update:

This is with power saving off until the last 20%. With my earlier screenshot I thought I would end up with bad stats.. These aren't too bad. Also from 40% to 2% I left the screen on and looping a song on poweramp the entire time. Brightness a little under 50%. Update new stats tomorrow night with power save on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
My battery life hasn't changed much other than my usage. The last few days I have been in terrible wifi and cellular signal for extended periods of time. I usually get 3.5 to 4 hours of on screen time before I hit 55%. The last few days it's been 2.5 to 3% instead.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
So how much more battery did having power saving on saved you?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] geekasso:
The battery is quite impressive, even coming from the note 2.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pikezer1337:
Music for a few hours, searching the web and social apps, and about 400 some text messages.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] choboii:
Wtf?!?! 10 hour screen time? What are your exact settings? Lol.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pikezer1337:
I had mostly every battery drainer turned off. I mostly kept the phone screen on in between texting. If I turned it off after every text I probably could have gone around 3 days with maybe 5 hours of screen time.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Celeste Amaterasu:
I definitely don't try too hard to conserve battery. I freeze almost all of the AT&T and Samsung bloat, but I leave the screen on max brightness and just let it sit and stream 1080p content with flash on dolphin browser while I'm at work.

I'll get a little over 5 hours of battery life while it powers through the day. Hoping to get a ZeroLemon 10000mah batter once they're available to that I can make it through the entire day.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] djtiko:
How do you get a wallpaper behind the settings like that?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pikezer1337:
I believe it's called xwallpaper for the Xposed framework.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] choboii:
This is probably a dimb question, but how do you freeze all the bloat?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] djtiko:
I believe you can go to application manager and click on the app and click on disable or if you are rooted you can install titanium backup and use the freeze feature
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Celeste Amaterasu:
I personally use Android Tuner to do most of my tweaking, has an app list that allows me to freeze them or uninstall them. I prefer freezing just in case I ever need them again.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zanson:
I'm loving my battery life. I went on a trip the other day. 2 hr car ride both ways had music strewming . uploaded videos to Facebook was using the phone heavily all day. 16 hours on battery and still had 40% left. This phone is a beast.

Battery life from today

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] austinslater25:
This is probably a stupid question but I cant find the screen that says how much on screen time I've had while on a charge cycle.

First cycle with my new phone and I am very impressed with the battery. Awesome knowing it should only get better too.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
Settings>general>battery then click on screen
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Gravol:
Although that was only 2 hours of screen and since that post I've made a few texts and what not and i am down to 70% I can't decide if I'm happy with this battery life or not
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] NickyNew:
Coming for the note 2, I didn't think I could get and better with battery life. But with stock TW. I got over 2 days of use with a little over 5 hours screen time
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JvKintheUSA:
Here are my stats for today. Had the phone for a week.

Sent from my Note 3 on AT&T
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
Holy crap it had been a week hasn't it!!!! I didn't realize that I got it last thursday

Here is my usage after a normal day usage for me
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] theonedub:
So far 8.5hrs screen time with a day and a half on time is my high. Going to turn on all battery saving features and see if I can get to 10hrs like that other guy.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
What screen brightness did you have on? And were you on Wi-Fi or mobile data most of the time?

Also did you have the power saving on with everything checked?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pikezer1337:
About 10 percent, wifi was on for the most part throughout my screen time, and mobile data on for a few minutes, power saving was on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Garnerj013:
Does the battery life get better after a couple charges or is it as good as it is going to be out of the box?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
It got a little better for me after a few charging cycles
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zanson:
Definitely gets better as you charge a few times and make sure you do a reboot or 2. My battery was draining a lot the 1st day and after a reboot it got a lot better. Just make sure to setup everything then reboot.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wudien:
Removing Facebook helped loads. I'll install it once I have root and greenify :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] musclenerd11:
Great battery here
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
No Wi-Fi and low reception really lowers your battery life.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] chadiz:
Phone blazing hot with 64 gb memory card inserted and indexing service killing my battery.. .. need sw update ASAP!!!

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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] austinslater25:
Thanks!

I will post results soon but so far I love the battery life. First phone I've had were its really hard to run the battery down in a day of heavy use. I'm coming from the htc one x and my wife has the htc one but this thing is far and away ahead of those phones for batter life. Loving it!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] beka1982:
I Love the battery on this phone. I was on battery almost 30hr see the screenshot :good::laugh:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Hardcore73:
30 hours on, with Wifi and blue tooth almost whole time. 3.75 hours on screen time. Still have 30% battery. Going to run until it shuts down. Have cycled it about 3x so far. Keeps getting better.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mastaofdacat:
I read that on screen orientation should be put on adapt display so I just turned it on just now .Im not getting the same quality battery stats as some of you guys. Had movie setting on before . Do you guys have this on ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mastaofdacat:
Can someone tell me this is good ?? I believe so ....am I right ?? I felt like my note 2 did a better job at saving with very close settings as I have on the note 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wrightc88:
My battery life has been great!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] littlewierdo:
For the first time for me anyway, the screen isnt the main thing dropping the battery (its actually third in the list). At the top of the list is something called media server, after 12 hours of constant playback through Beyondpod at 1.5x playback (which is the only thing I can figure is using Media Server), Media Server is around 30% of my overall battery consumption. I usually only have around 1-2 hours of screen on time in a 12 hour period so all I can say is that Samsung appears to have really gotten the screen power consumption under control. Oh, and I end the night with 55-70% battery after a 12 hour shift (and an additional 30 minute drive to and 30 minute drive home with a total of 13 hours of bluetooth streaming of audio podcasts).

I havent really disabled all that many apps, mainly, anything with AT&T in front of it and anything that appears to be a trial of some kind.

AT&T Code Scanner

AT&T DriveMode

AT&T FamilyMap

AT&T Hot Spots

AT&T Locker

AT&T Messages

AT&T Navigator

AT&T Ready2Go

Games (an app from WildTangent, appears to be some sort of store for Android games)

HP Print Services Plugin

Mobile TV

myAT&T

TripAdvisor

I dont know if Im missing anything that could potentially charge me money in the future (those are the apps I want to remove). I have noticed the yellow pages app, not sure if I should leave this enabled, not sure if its adding any functionality out of the box or not. On my Note 1, there was an app called CityId that told me from what city and state a phone call was coming from, my Note 3 appears to be doing the same thing but yet has no app called CityId installed so Im not sure if this functionality is built in (after 90 days, CityId asked for money on the Note 1 so I always disabled it). I dont use the yellow pages app for anything, in fact, I dont think Ive ever even opened it.

Battery life in comparison to the Note 1 is on a whole different level. My Note 1 had an extended battery (Mugen 5600 MAH) and was running Jelly Bean. For the most part, settings were stock with the same type of bloatware listed above disabled. The extended battery increased the thickness of the phone by at least 2-3 times and made the phone weigh around 50% more.

My Note 3 with the stock battery is getting the same battery life my Note 1 did WITH the extended battery.

Im not sure why anyone would need / want an extended battery for this phone.

The only people I can figure that would are those that are just being plain silly about battery usage. Sure, if you are keeping the screen on 100% of the time during an 8 hour period, fine, but who really needs to do that? Be sensible and you get good battery life.

Hell, I keep the radios on 100% of the time, have wifi scanning enabled and have all apps set to pull new data as frequently as possible and Im STILL happy with the battery life.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Rippley05:
Question for you guys. On a normal battery cycle, how long is "Google services" keeping awake?

sEnt from thE noTe 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
Mine is just sitting at 5% which translates out to 30 min.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JBallin4life27:
Has anyone else tried a 3rd party SMS app? I've been using Handcent SMS and realized it was using more battery...I've had better batter life since uninstalling. I liked Handcent a lot but not at risk of higher battery drain? Anyone use 3rd party SMS with no extra drain. Stock is rather bland for my liking
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mastaofdacat:
Back in the old htc mytouch days I used handscent .loved it but is a complete battery drainer . Chomp also is a complete drainer .
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jokesonme:
Can I get your screen time for this? Your general usage and what settings you are using for battery life? :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JBallin4life27:
Wow, had no idea all this time. I've been using it for about 2 years. Probably could have had better battery on my GSII if I had known. Guess I'll stick with stock for the time being
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] :
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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] skyline23:
My battery life has been fantastic.

12 hours on, and 3 hours of screentime ~ 50% left.

the only 'bug' I see with the battery meter is when you use the phone immediately after unplugging. It will go down to 95% pretty quickly--usually within 20-minutes.

With my old G-Pro, I can use the phone for a good 30-minutes, and the battery meter will stay at 100%.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] androidmechanic:
Here is mine. Rooted and debloated. One PowerGuard from play store also installed.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Rippley05:
lol. Que the "my battery lasts a week with 40 hours screen time" Crowd.

sEnt from thE noTe 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
What is your screen on time. And how much of that time are you on wifi?

Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] androidmechanic:
It is the post right before the one u quoted
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] sacberg:
Stock, unrooted with location services turned off. About 45 minutes of phone calls. This is easily double my old OG Note that was rooted, slimmed and tweaked. I got no complaints on the battery life.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mutantblack:
So far the battery life is pretty good for the way I used. I use really heavy.

Auto brightness using LUX

WIFI on data on constantly using

Bluetooth on with headset and galaxy gear connected.

emails pull every hour

weather widget and twitter widget
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] butchieboy:
Is this good battery life with moderate use? All gestures off wifi scan off several apps turned of.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
No way of knowing for sure without screen on time. Might be good if you have 3 to 4 hours of screen on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] butchieboy:
How bout this thanks in advance.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Yes. That's decent.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Here's mine so far today:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Not sure what is going on, had 2 pics and only 1 came up.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] butchieboy:
From what Madmax says this is pretty good..thsnks Mad.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
To me, good is: 24 to 30 hours with 7-8 screen on or 40 hours with 6+ hours screen on. These are what usually average with my normal usage. No power saving on. No airplane mode. GPS always on. Some blue tooth. Usually on LTE exclusively (had to use WiFi a lot recently as I got my first warning ever on data throttling a week ago).

Bottom line is: if I don't ever have to worry about my battery dying in one day, no matter how I use it, then I am happy. And this phone and the note 2 have never made me unhappy.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] androidmechanic:
Rooted
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] butchieboy:
4hrs screen time.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] tmb993:
Really happy with the battery life I'm getting. I use the GPS on my phone all day for work and I never come close to draining my phone in a day. Today is the lowest I've ever gotten it.

Sent From My AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] tmb993:
Here's the other pic. Mostly on wifi.

Sent From My AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] inmotion:
Not to bad at all on mine
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zwodziarz:
Got a record of discharging in 12 hours HSDPA network all the time and Chrome browsing
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] theonedub:
Went for max life: power saving features all on, only a couple hrs LTE, just slightly above min brightness (auto when outside).

Definitely think 10hrs screen on is possible with a day standby.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
Hmm. You guys are getting great battery life. Did you guys do any battery conditioning when you got your phone or did you guys just charged it like normal?

My battery life is getting worst after only about 3 weeks of having the phone.

And I don't have any wierd apps eating my battery or causing long wake locks

Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
Another question : does anyone know if the " my magazine" feature does any background updating?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Mine is getting better. No conditioning at all. Started using it straight out of box at 60% to around 20%. Put it on charger and just started using as normal.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Shots from last charge. That is with over 2.5 hours of music playing. Phone just loves to sip battery. Can honestly say it is better than note now.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Why is tapatalk only allowing 1 attachment?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Last one was completely different but posted same shot?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
How are your settings like? Are you on wifi most of the time? I'm no where close to that.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] choboii:
I'm in the same boat. How r u guys getting great battery life???

Here are my screen shots.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] choboii:
This my second screenshot. Can anyone help me out? Thanx
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pandawg:
If you're on LTE all day that's great battery life in my opinion.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] :
They are cheating.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:
Okay I got to hear this. How are they cheatng.:rolleyes:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] choboii:
Yeah i've been on LTE all day. But even with Wifi, ill get maybe an hour more screen time. Still baffles me how people are getting 8 hrs screen time.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
How am I cheating? Run it exactly th same way I ran my note 2. Except the note 2 was on a custom ROM with the ability to set the min frequency to 100 (which I found didn't help noticeably so I left it stock). Even then the custom ROM did not get better battery life than the stock ROM debloated.

I have rooted the 3 and debloated it somewhat. I keep it on auto brightness with slider at 50%. I get the same battery life whether on WiFi or LTE (fortunate to live and work in very good coverage area). The posted is with wifi because i got my first ever text warning for excessive data use right after my son downloaded 3gb of games in a 45 minute period. He assumed I was on WiFi and didn't bother checking. Up until then, I had ran it exclusively on LTE. I Do not use the power saving mode. GPS always on. Location services set to the pic
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Anyone else having problems with xda app and pictures? Tried to attach screenshot and it told me I need login to upload. Already logged in. Lol. Here is the shot.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Because I'm cheating.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bkeaver:


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Care to elaborate???
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zanson:
Turned off location history and a few other g+ notifications and now I'm getting great battery.

2hr of phone calls and 2.5 hours of screen on time and 45 min of navigation.

50% currently after 21 hours.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
You had 2 periods of charging during that cycle. Can't really use this as an example of good battery life .
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] supers2k:
I consider myself a heavy user and I'm so happy I finally have a phone I can go all day with.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Pandawg:
Got me through the whole day with heavy usage. I was using Pandora while driving, and watched some live stream on Twitch. Loving this phone!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
Yes it is! And I think it will still get better for you.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] butchieboy:
Mine is doing ok.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
How is your Google now set up like?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] kelvinzhou905:
Battery for Note 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
Help guys.

I see this wake lock is killing my battery.

I have location reporting and location history off in Google now.

And I have " use wireless network" unchecked in location services.

Help!

Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
What boot manager app are you taking about?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jokesonme:
If you guys saw my post above from the beginning of this thread, I was getting for the first few weeks basically 15-16 hours life with 6-7 hours screen time. Since it has been drastically reduced. I will post some images tomorrow. I really haven;t changed much, I greenify everything, constantly making sure nothings running in the background. Same settings, no wake lock issues, just getting shorted on both the overall life and screen on time. Anyone else experiencing a drastic drop in stats from lets say the first weeks of having the phone?

Also (and maybe we need a new mini thread for this) it would be nice to see some postings and settings for anyone changing the governors and scheduler.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
Yes! I'm in the same boat. My battery life at the beginning was great. Now it's worst in terms of standby time and screen on time. I didn't change any settings. In fact, I even turned off some features to increase battery life.

There's no way that the battery on this phone is loosing charge already.

I'm gonna try to condition the battery and report back.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Mad383Max:
It gives me local weather, local events, time to work cards.

I posted my location service settings in above post.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] side808:
In the beginning battery life was great. Now I'm seeing a drastic difference. Battery isn't lasting the whole day like it use to.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] dv8nathan:
I can go 12+ hrs usually but notice a drain on mine as well. I will note that i have been drawing mostly on note instead of tablet and wonder the impact the wacom digitizer has on battery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
It's wierd that our battery is not lasting as long. It's only been less than a month. No way the battery is already loosing charge.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
Anyone have an issue where the Android os is using 50 percent of the power?

I had my phone on airplane mode for 2 hours and my battery went down by 20 percent.

Looked it up and it was the Android os keeping my phone awake the whole time.

Help!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] dv8nathan:
You know. Maybe....you think..it might have to do with gear. I think maybe it has been happening since the galaxy gear update...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
We haven't had an update to our phones. Only sprint had an update I think.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] willreds:
I just noticed a HUGE drop in battery time yesterday as well. When I 1st had this phone, After a full charge the night before, the next morning, the phone only went down by 1-2 % MAX. But yesterday, I noticed that after I charged it and went to bed for 7 or eight hours, the battery dropped from 100% to around 80-85%

I'll check how much the battery discharges tomorrow morning after I wake up and post it here.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Dreadsteel:
I'm wondering if using the regular micro USB to charge vs using the micro USB 3.0 cable that came with the phone makes any difference in battery life.

Just like you my standby time wss great when I first got the phone. But now it's like 2 to 3 percent lost an hour of just idling.