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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] lmike6453:
I appreciate you guys posting results but I'm having a tough time figuring out your results.

To judge battery life accurately, you have to include a number of variables on your device's configuration

-How much screen on time

-Auto brightness or what percent brightness?

-How much time on LTE and how much on WiFi? weak or strong data signal?(red yellow or green in battery stats)

-WiFi and/or Bluetooth and/or GPS on or off when connected to LTE?

-How many reboots since last charged?

-How much data transferred through the radio?

-How many minutes of voice calls?

-Samsung power savings mode enabled or disabled?

-SPen finder on or off?

I might be exaggerating but I think that the above counts when you have thousands of people posting various findings with vague information
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
^THIS!

My battery life has been great aside from any sort of gaming. Even ~10 mins of killing time with Candy Crush or something knocks 10% off instantly, not even Netflix does that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] GaresTaylan:
My battery life so far has been dreadful. 25% battery life drained so far this morning (off the charger for 3 hours) and I haven't picked the phone up once. Exchange services are using up 73% of my battery. My Note 2 and Note 10.1 2014 did not/do not have this same issue.

Anyone else using exchange that can replicate this issue? I have to use the device for work - so exchange is mandatory for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
mine is too man. 28% since 3 hours and only 30 mins screen on time. and it is my first day using exchange email so im not happy about it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
I have found a lot of this is determined more by the Exchange Server itself for whatever the reason. I have 3 Exchange accounts loaded and one of them can do what you both describe from time to time. The easy answer is change the sync from Push to 1 or 2 hours if you can. That will help. Push is always a battery hog. At the very least only use the Push during 'Peak'.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Bsmith0731:
Everyone Is different. Every phone is different. The point of this post is just to give some what of an insight into what the phone is capable of.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
i went back to using yahoo mail and battery life is fine again
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] W1LD5TYL3:
Here's today's usage. Not too balanced as I was in the field and used MHS for like an hour or so. Social Media, email and browsing. 4G coverage (No wifi) and screen brightness at max.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MrBigFeathers:
8 hours of LTE the rest wifi...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] GaresTaylan:
So tonight I was going to remove and add my exchange accounts in again. When I went to the accounts screen for exchange active sync, both accounts had a sync error with a message that said sync wasn't available and would be back soon. I deleted them anyway, added back in, same error.

Both accounts sync fine still on my mote 10.1, my work ipad, etc. My issues appear to be specific just to the note 3.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] razortaz18:
Meh
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slow68:
Quick battery test today
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] duwerk:
Charge time is what really impresses me with this phone and new cable (coming from rooted Note 2). Hopefully once some good roms (beans pls) come out and I gain confidence in the Bootloader/Fuse situation I'll be able to stretch the battery out a little more.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] changt34x:
What I have from my first day of typical usage. Not very impressed with the amount of wake time and battery performance in low signal situations, seems worse there than Note 2. I don't even have Now, Facebook, or Twitter installed.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bossei:
This is from today. About 5 hours on wifi and music streaming.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] xXJay_RXx:
The battery isn't what I expected so far. I also have these issues that GSAM shows me. Are they normal?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
What do you mean? You've gone 11.5 hours on 48% of the battery? What's wrong with that?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] xXJay_RXx:
At the time, I was at that with a little over 2 hours of on screen time. On my Note 2, it would have lasted longer. Again the battery n phone are still new. Maybe I'm expecting too much
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
So doubled you'd get 4+ hours screen on and 23 hours of operation. Seems pretty normal to me. Of course it goes a lot deeper into what uses battery so comparisons are general anyway. GSAM tells me my average life is about 21 hours, +/- ...

Today's the first day I've seen a noticeable improvement in battery life with no use changes, so as usual it takes a few days to settle down to begin with. Realistically you've got a bigger higher res screen, faster SoC and more RAM and only 100mah larger battery than the N2. I'd say if you expected that much better battery life even with the usual annual technology progression/optimizations vs the N2 the expectations are prob a little too high.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] xXJay_RXx:
Yea you're right. I am expecting too much lol I see these threads n I see people getting 6hrs+ n it makes me feel I'm doing something wrong. Well, back to enjoying my phone lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] fredderf81:
using setcpu

min of 729 ... i have also been using the qualcomm app batteryguru that seems to help ...freeze...sort of...certain apps i never use automatically
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
I think my battery is bad at the moment. Could rooting caused a decrease in battery? My screen is probably at 15% this is also 48 hours since owning the phone. Maybe it takes a bit to peak?? Any ideas??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cureton:
Just had a complete day between meetings, driving, shopping at different locations - maybe 30% with wifi access

Battery still has half life available which is a major change from my Droid Bionic that I charged @ least 3x day
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] harrychimp:
Here's my battery stats after fully charging my phone for the first time after purchasing the phone last night. I'm impressed, even coming from the LG G2 which topped out at 5hrs 10 minutes screen time.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] rayraycarter4:
Not to bad I enjoy this phone I have like no signal for 2 hours
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tw1n5nak35:
Not bad with stock rooted :D

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Nabraham:
I got just over two days of charge with my first charge out of the box. Was mainly on wifi with a little LTE usage as well.

My next charge which was at work (and on LTE) got me just over a day on a charge. Let me try to find the pics. This thing is a beast though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Flying_Hellfish:
Yesterday I got about 14 hours with 3.5 screen on time and 3 hours of streaming XM on the train (mix of LTE and 3G). About 75% of that was on wifi outside of the train streaming.

I'm not getting what some of you are seeing but coming from my gnex that couldn't go 6 hours without dying that's pretty good.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] fredderf81:
forgot to let the qualcomm software work

here are the batt stats after i let the qualcomm batteryguru finish testing for 4 days:

i wish i worked for qualcomm, they could pay me to promote their software :) . i just think its amazing! so i had to share
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slow68:
NVM
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
what was your on screen time?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] fredderf81:
...sorry i should have noted that the screen was really only on for an hour.....still worthy of trying the app though! just trying to help :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
I posted this in another thread, but I am curious about the experiences of others in this thread.

My Note 3 battery life is noticeably worse than my old Note 2. At first, I thought it was just because I was playing with my new toy so much. But I have had it a week now, and I am seeing a pattern. I am always down to 10-15% when I go to bed. On a couple of days, it was < 5% and I had to plug in early. With my Note 2, I almost always had at least 20% at the end of the day. I haven't looked at wakelocks, but I am not doing anything different than before. I may have to break down and get a spare battery, which I haven't needed since my S3. :mad:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] gerg004:
I posted here a few days/pages ago, but I'm still going strong here. Obviously every phone is different, too many variables to count but I'm definitely seeing better stats than on my Note 2.

its mostly browsing Internet and tapatalk. Most syncs are off. Some bluetooth Google Play Music (on device) to and from work. 60/40 ; 4g/wifi .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Impuls3101:
I am using juice defender ultimate. I ran a ant+ hr monitor / footpod for about an hour. I also made a 30+ min call and ran waze. I feel like the stats are great my old phone would be close to dead after just the ant+ workout. I am impressed !!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Despyse:
First 100 to 1 drain. Absolutely amazed by this phone's battery life!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tw1n5nak35:
I'm sorry I don't remember but I will pay attention to it on the next time I hit close to 1% drain :D

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
Where are your Google services on that list. Mine is taking up 44% and my battery is bad. No idea how to fix it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Despyse:
Doesn't even show up on the list for me? Sounds odd that it is wasting that much... Do you have a lot of google related syncing or constant location based/map usage?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
Just my G mail. I don't use other Google stuff.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
No idea what to do. My on screen time is just under 2 hours. Wtf
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tommyntpham:
im happy with my stats. :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
Something is definitely amiss with mine. I woke up in the middle of the night, checked the time (230 am) and unplugged it. It was fully charged. When my alarm went off at 5 am, it was 94%.

Looks like I will be hunting wakelocks for a few days. Yay, my favorite thing to do.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] noesilva:
If you disable all location services google services wont keep waking the phone needlessly throughout the day
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] changt34x:
I'm getting wake locks about 30-40% of the time and have not been able to figure it out. Syncing only Gmail with no Now and location updates all disabled. Also in BBB the wake locks and screen on don't add up to the total wake time, so something is wrong.

Also, anyone noticed that 3G eHRPD stays on even when mobile data is disabled?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
You don't need to go that far. There definitely are still issues with Google Wifi Network Location, but turning them all off means nothing gets even a general location and that gets annoying too. The real issue is the constant polling and syncing with Google your location.

All you need to do is open Maps or Now and go to Settings, Google Location Settings. Leave access my location enabled (checked), but turn OFF Location Reporting and Location History. Problem Solved...location framework isn't always waking your phone to sync your location and you still get your location when you actually need it. Added at least 30% of my battery life back and Play Services is back at the bottom.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] rayhodge02:
Nice stats for me
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Speedy Gonzalez:
Watched 4 episodes of arrow on 4G I would say battery life is the same as the note 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Not complaining.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] 213ninja:
i am averaging 18 to 24hrs with heavy new phone usage, on LTE.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] joshdaboss:
Thanks for this. Let's see if I can improve my battery life. Anyone else have Location Reporting and Location History turned OFF? Does this diminish the effectiveness of certain apps like Google Now?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tw1n5nak35:
13 hours, not bad and over 3 hours of screen on time :D

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] P2o8wer:
Still have a lot of battery left.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
Ok I figured out why I was getting sh!tty battery life. I was using Aviate launcher, which changes stuff based on your location. It didn't do anything for me, so I went back to stock Touchwiz. But I didn't realize Aviate was still running in the background all the time (even after multiple reboots and selecting TW as default launcher). Battery life is much better after uninstalling that leech of an app.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mycomputerisjunk:
The battery life on my note3 makes me want to vomit. I run system panel to make sure it's not getting killed by some process. Looks ok.

I will give zepfloyd recommendation of disabling the google location history reporting setting.

Yesterday I had an 1hr and 50min screen on time with 37% battery left. Ugg.. Something is not happy. This morning, I disconnected my phone at 3:30 and by 6am I had 67% left. I never turned the screen on once...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
That doesn't seem right :( I noticed that my Google services/android OS was keeping it awake a lot. I'm assuming because of Google now and stuff. But even with all that and terrible (data) reception at my job it takes about 8 hours for mine to get that low with sending messages and emails back and forth.

Do you have power saver on? If an app is making your phone go cray you should probably enable it so it isn't running maxed out with the screen off.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
You definitely have something amiss. Uninstall everything you've downloaded and make it as close to stock as possible. Then go through at least 2 battery cycles, and see if it still drains quickly. If it does, take it to a Verizon store and exchange it. If you are rooted, flash back to stock before returning it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TheodorK11:
Best cycle I have had is 1 day 10 hours total on with ~6.1 hours of screen on time.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
Thanks. :good:

My recommendation certainly won't cure everyone's battery problem but if you are seeing high Google related usage it will help.

Something is definitely not right. Do you use GSAM, BetterBatteryStats, or CPU Spy? Definitely sounds like your phone is not entering Deep Sleep or an app is going rogue.

For reference mine has been off the charger for 7 hours so far today, with about an hour of screen on time, 4G no wifi, average usage and I'm still at 86%. Admittedly I keep the screen off Auto Brightness and 'Dim' most of the time at around 15% which is plenty bright for me most of the time.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ercDROID:
I had to leave YouTube running to kill this thing. 7 hours 25 minutes with 9% left is absolutely ridiculous. I made a concerted effort to use my phone today. Was on wifi for a while, which has is my normal use, but I was on 4g and had no signal for an hour. Don't normally use my phone this much so the will easily last an entire day for me no matter what. Cheers to you Samsung!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
Not bad. Been on 4G all day. I forgot I left my wifi on lol.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Brandonrz:
40 hours alive. 5 hours and 40 minutes of screen time.

Like I said... This phone is soo hood rat!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Brandonrz:
Hehe... Do I win?? 30 hours the device was actually on and 7 hours and 30 minutes. I don't even need to say it's h.r. it speeks for itself. I'll tell you my tweeks if you guys are interested?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Tidefan13:
I love this phone. All on 4G no wifi
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] takemo:
^ are you even using the phone or you just have the screen on?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Camathy:
Been using my phone completely normal for a couple days. I woke up and realized I forgot to charge my Note 3. Went to check my battery level and remembered with our Note's we no longer need to worry.

I'm always on LTE, never use WiFi. GPS is always on updating my location to my friends on G+.

It shows 1 day 19 hours on battery and it's only ran down to 50%. Screen usage is at 4 hours 30 mins. I can see that some time yesterday I had connected the Note to a USB 2.0 on my PC to transfer a few files. Not sure if that throws off the whole scale, but I do see it doesn't count that 40 minutes in the battery total.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] VirusZer0:
No complaints about battery just wondering, What is better, greenify or Battery Guru?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Harleydroid:
Green if works best for me
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Harleydroid:
Here's my stats for today. Off work so mostly wifi. Maybe 1hr 4G. Had gps and location on but reporting off. Also turn off Gmail sync. Rooted and debloated also.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tw1n5nak35:
Just hit 5%.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tw1n5nak35:
Sorry for the double post :(
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tw1n5nak35:
Nicely done and good battery stats

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Tidefan13:
Some but not alot. I was just trying to see how far the battery would go and see how high I could get my screen on time on light usage.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] moemoney12:
This is staying with about 92% battery. I've also streamed music for over 2 hours while using Bluetooth. This phone is great, my note 2 is very comparable. But I give the edge to the 3. I'm rooted and I freeze about ten apps.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] moemoney12:
View attachment 2344705View attachment 2344706View attachment 2344707also a hour of talk plus gps, and Wife on all day.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] moemoney12:
Stats
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] moemoney12:
Amazing

I'm trying to get all pic in one post. Was using the app had to use the browser
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
Your battery stats are similar to mine, which is pretty meh. I don't see how people are getting over 24 hours total uptime with 5.5-6 hours screen on time. I have never had that kind of battery life on my Note 3. My Note 2 would do that, but not this phone. I think I may have a dud. Plus, I am having MMS issues — people don't get my pics for hours, and sometimes not until the next day. So I will probably return it and use my Note 2 until a Note 3 Dev Edition comes out.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
What's weird is when I did a battery pull (to put in my other SD card) last night it knocked my screen on time down about 30 minutes but kept everything else the same. So it's actually 6 hrs and 30 minutes
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
I figure I unsync my email and I'd get 48 hours.

shes only getting better.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bajasur:
Geez there's so crazy battery stats being posted on here. I must be doing something totally wrong... I'm losing about 10 percent an hour
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
I was losing battery quickly until I installed BBB and Wakelock Detector, and found a lot of stuff that should not have been eating battery. 8sms was the main culprit, which kept my phone from going into deep sleep. Samsung push service and a couple of other unnecessary apps were also causing wakelocks. I froze that crap in TiBU and now I get 1-1.5% drain/hr.

However, I still don't get the same battery life of my Note 2. I thought this was just my device, but a Google search reveals this is not the case. Multiple sources confirm that the Note 3 battery — for whatever reason — does poorly during web browsing. Interestingly, it excels while watching video and steaming music. But if you spend a lot of time surfing the net, be prepared to take a battery hit. I hope this can be fixed with a firmware update, but until then I will just put my phone on the charger every day...which is something I have not done since my S3 :mad:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kampana:
These 6+ hours of screen-on time blow me away. At my heaviest use I only have my screen on for 2-3 hours over the course of a day. What are you guys doing to keep the screen on for over 6 hours??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
Agreed. I just don't get it at all.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudbury78:
What do you make of this? I went to check and this is all I got.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] changt34x:
Power outage, so my results for going 2 workdays for me. Anyone have any tips for reducing Android OS wakelocks? They seem to happen only over wifi...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Well my up time consists of almost 40 hours of use. Not hard to rack up 6 hours of on time 26% of the total of that 26% 13% is internet usage 3hours. From there its not hard to rack up 3 hours in apps and games.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] haza12d:
That's what I'd like to know. I can get 4 hours at the most.

Are you guys using Titanium Backup or Greenify? If so, which apps are you guys freezing/hibernating?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] joeyac02:
Mostly on WIFI but blows all my other phones away
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slow88lx:
How can I possibly complain about nearly 8 hours of screen time. Insane!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MACHEK:
Not rooted btw, but I lost an hour on my stat cause I had a reboot that dropped a bunch of battery as you see at the end. It was random reboot and everytime it happens to me I lose an hour even though it just reboots right away.

Either way good stats
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MACHEK:
What is bbb?

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What is bbb?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
Better Battery Stats. Sorry I meant "BBS" :p
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Epic 4g:
Crazy Battery Life!

This is what I am getting on my BEAST Note 3. BEST BATTERY LIFE EVER!!! :cowboy:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] z06mike:
Wow! 3 days and 6 1/2 hrs screen on! Is this all on 4G or wifi also??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Epic 4g:
4G mostly. I am on Wi-Fi from time to time though. Maybe something like 70% 4G & 30% Wi-Fi. I have my phone on Interactive & Noop. I bought ROM Toolbox forever ago & it's what I use to change governors & stuff.

Yes I am rooted also, but no ROMS are available just yet. I hear SafeStrap is a go & they are just polishing it right now as we SPEAK. Basicly anytime now!!! :laugh: :p :cool: :fingers-crossed:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
What are you clocked at? 1.2 ghz? or maybe at 800mhz lock?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Bsmith0731:
I think I can say under clocking is overrated on this beast. I cut power save mode off and haven't noticed a drop in battery life at all.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sublimaze:
Disabling auto brightness helps. But none of the other "power saving" options make any difference for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Bsmith0731:
Oh definitely i think i keep mine on low brightness as much as possible
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
3days with 6 hours of screen time...

He did something, and I wants to know it. :D

I thought I was doing something with 2 days and 6 hours.

unless the phone just sits there, and is used as a paperweight.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mi7chy:
Probably the two biggest power consumers are:

- Having all CPU and GPU cores maxed out so governers can help here

- Having WIFI on so turn off WIFI when not in use and turn off WIFI location that override and keep it on