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[Galaxy Note 4 General] domsch1988:
Am i the only one who has no Problem with SOT? I mean like some chase the above 5h mark. On a normal week day, i have a job. Getting 5h screen on time would mean, that i spend around 50% of my work on my phone. I'm sure my employer wouldn't like that so much ;)

For Comparison. I'm currently on 1d 5h since unplugged. around 3h screen on, 34% left. I get that i'm not the "typical" smartphone user per se. But the current cycle is "heavy" use for me. So, reddit in my breaks, Bluetooth playing podcasts for nearly 2 hours, whatsapp whenever my wife decides to write something and some regular browsing.

The Note 4 is in a state for me, where i need to charge it every two or three days. Thats much more important to me that sot. The Standby drain is what i seek to minimize. I have no problem with the phone using it's energy to provide a good, fast and bright experience when i use it, but when i don't it shouldn't use any battery at all. Doze is a good step in that direction, but whatsapp notifications don't really work well with doze.

Don't get me wrong, i really admire what people do to get every bit of usable time out of their device. It's just not my priorities. Is there any one else on this forum that feels like we should maybe look less at our screens a day and more at, i don't know, maybe our loved ones, or nature, or whatever pleases you ;)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mihir880:
Yes me too, untill they have some future updates fixing this issue will switch back to mm
[Galaxy Note 4 General] dancrow:
Could you please share with us your ezpackage xml file?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kinsman-UK:
Sure, no problem, attached. If anyone has any additional recommendations for things to disable, I'd be interested :)

EDIT: BTW I also use Samsung Good Lock, but have found that it drains the battery a bit more if I don't setup a 'Routine' called 'Everywhere' with the location set to everywhere from 00:00-23:50. With this set, it doesn't seem to affect the battery very much, otherwise it must be checking location or something.

CAUTION: I have Touchwiz Launcher disabled in this setup, so make sure you have another launcher installed before disabling it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Nazgol:
I have a rooted note 4 with Greenify installed, my battery lasts about 15 hrs.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
Strange thing

Hey guys. I just put out my note 4 battery to replace my simcard with a new one. Before putting out battery percentage was around 50% and after I put in the battery again, the percentage became 64%!!!

Whats happened?? Should I be worry about it?? What should I do now?

Please answer...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tsubasa23:
My battery drains from 15% to 1% in 2 -3 minutes. Some months ago it drains from %5 to %1 very fast.

I tried to use *#0228* for battery calibration but it did not work.

I tried to use different kernels, some kernels drain from %20.

I think this a common software problem with no solution for Note 4 !
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kinsman-UK:
You need a new battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
Heyyy... Pease answer me
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ohhdayumm:
You need to recalibrate your battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
How should I do that?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
I thought this forum is willing to help but....

Each time I ask sth it takes days till someone answer it..and now...still no one has answered!! You really helped?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
Well i don't want to say this question has been asked a million times but if you did a research you will find your answer. Try this https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
Thanks. But do you think it will fix it?? Before this happens the battery was performing perfectly with +5hrs SOT but now there is a lot of drain about those percetage that I said and even below that. Doesnt calibration harm its battery?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kinsman-UK:
Try it, and if it doesn't work try a new genuine Samsung battery (be careful where you purchase it). Then you'll know whether it's the battery or not.

EDIT: I run my battery down to 0% every 1-2 months just to keep it right. Doing it every so often won't have any major impact on the lifetime of your battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
It is just 2 months that I have bought my note 4 and as I said Im pretty sure the battery is OK. But just by putting the battery out and putting it in again that problem has occured.

I hope calibration works.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tiguy99:
Enjoying fantastic battery life again thanks to downgrading back to 5.1.1 from Marshmallow.

Not taking it easy either.

May see 7:50-8hr battery life by the end of the night :)

For those with battery issues...perhaps a brand new OEM genuine Samsung battery could help.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
Again

Hey guys. I put out the battery again to see if the percentage goes up after putting it in and I saw a 5% increase( compared with 15% increase the first time) . I havent done calibration yet. Its 2 month that Ive bought my phone. Whats wrong with my phone? Is it battery or device itself? Is it a problem at all?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] imeem:
I assume you didn't buy the device used, since u said it's 2 months old?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] arjun5463:
Well i am getting nealry 4 hours sot with full wifi on whatsapp fb browsi g etc etc.......

Is it a fair amount of backup?

Got my phone only 2 days back thus asking.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shari.:
No...its not second hand.... I bought unused note 4!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gbsa850:
My used note 4 on the Samsung battery that came with the phone, with 4g on I can go for 19 hours with the phone idle over night. 7 hours of screen on time. That very same battery on wifi goes for 10 hours with 4 hours of screen on time. Wifi drains it a lot faster then 4g
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ithehappy:
Yes it is fair.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] lisbon2004:
facebook. without it, you can get up to 2x sot.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Stonewolf:
Never less than 35%

I have never had less than 35% battery from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. What I use:

1. wifi always on

2. BT always on (at least one hour per day connected to RNS in my car)

3. LTE (4g) always on

4. Location always on

5. Whatsapp (at least 2 hours of use)

5. Exchange always on

6. Mail push every 15 minutes

7. At least 2 hours of tethering with MBPro

8. At least 1 hour phone use

9. Skype (by demand)

10. plantronics BT handsfree at least 4 hours per day (connection)

11. S-Pen by demand

What I don't use:

1. FB

2. All animations OFF (from developer section)

3. Power save

4. ONLY by demand browsing

5. ALL google play disabled (news, books etc.) - only playstore and services are on

6. ALL Samsung bloatware disabled

At the end of the day I got never less then 35%, no matter if under KK, LL or MM.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
Stonewlf:

Have you rooted your phone?

Hiw did tou disable google apps? Books, music, news enables by themselves.

My usage is very similar and my phone literally dies at 7pm.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
You don't have to be rooted to disable apps or services. Use EZ disabler from playstore
[Galaxy Note 4 General] themaximillian:
What is you guys experience when it comes to diactivating apps like Samsung apps and Google apps, does it increase battery life or actually worsen things?

Skickat från min SM-N910F via Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ProzakVizaq:
Based on my personal comparison between the rooted device, where I froze so many apps and the non-rooted one (both running stock ROM), I came into conclusion that their SoT is more or less the same. I can hardly see the difference being 20-30 minutes of SoT in favor of the rooted Note.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ithehappy:
LOL! Who roots phones to have more SoT mate? :laugh:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ProzakVizaq:
Increase in SoT wasn't my reason for rooting, you got me absolutely wrong. However, technically, when rooted, less in-built apk occupy RAM cause I turned them off. They refer to Internet less. The phone sleeps better. The SoT is definitely more!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Stonewolf:
Nope, using stock rom (5.1 and 6.0). Google apps can be disabled with EZ from playstore, but also from system itself (give it a try; I've done it myself and worked). I have a lot of apps disabled because I literally don't understand their function and never used them. Yesterday, for example, I had at 22:00 still 55%!!! But, the usage was a little less than the usual.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] vtechno:
Wanalite rom & siplcty extrem kernel & full brightnes. I watched movie.

What a shame [emoji23]

Now i m on erobot v9.

SM-N920C cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Galaxy Note 4 General] leebates1986:
My new ibestwin 10000mah. Only on 2nd charge cycle
[Galaxy Note 4 General] scaryface97:
Wow my battery won't last as half as long as yours

Are you using a custom rom or a stock rom? I'm running stock marshmallow and get barely 2 hours of screen on time on the original battery
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
Ok so I bought new battery.

I have gps always on, bt on (connected to smart watch), exchange email sync every hour, did some candy crush.

Disconnected from charger at 06:00am and now at 11:00pm I have 10% left.

Comments?

3hrs of screen time is ok. But in general.. It barely lived until the end of the day :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kinsman-UK:
Where did you get the new battery? Is it definitely a genuine Samsung, Anker or PolarCell? I got a brand new one direct from Samsung UK and regularly get 5 or even 6+ hours SoT on my N910C. I have WiFi and Bluetooth on all day like you, connected to smartwatch and headset. You seem to have something waking your phone a lot when the screen is off. Maybe try GSAM or something like that to see if you can track down what it is, and check through what apps are running and syncing in the background. Did you do a factory reset since the MM upgrade?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] quadlt:
Gotta disagree on that one. I have my Location settings off 24/7 and I still get ~3 hrs of screen on at max. I barely use max screen brightness ever and 90% of the time just idling on a connected wifi. However I haven't done many full battery cycles yet, but I stopped believing that it makes a difference long ago.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedmond:
Well, I disabled location reporting and I usually get 6 - 7 h SoT. However, use whatever suits you best.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] quadlt:
6-7...? So jealous :crying:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 2ndammendment:
It doesn't make any difference. Lithium ion batteries have full capacity from the factory. Once the software settles in battery life should be stable

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I disabled location reporting and it significantly reduced my android system battery drain. Android system used to take as much battery has the screen now it's only about 2/3rds as much as the screen. I haven't noticed any decrease in functionality from disabling location reporting. Google Now still works fine, maps works and I can even locate my device with android device manager. I'm not sure exactly what disabling location reporting breaks, but for now it doesn't affect anything I care about
[Galaxy Note 4 General] wikey22:
Hey all I'm a little bit concerned about the battery life. I have added some screenshots below can anyone advise on these.

Have turned off things like high accuracy and Gmail sync.

Paul
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ctrlbrk:
Snapdragon or Exynos?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] wikey22:
Snapdragon UK version from EE
[Galaxy Note 4 General] MafiaDroid:
I love my note 4, hard user Snapdragon version
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Jiyeon90:
Jesus Christ why does android os and android system consume almost as much battery as the screen, what has sammy done with touchwiz ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Itchiee:
If you click on android system you'll see it's attached to many different programs and the Samsung user goal is to remove and or stop as many as you don't need! I'm getting 7/8 SOT which I'm finding quite reasonable... Samsung makes great devices but they pour it on heavy with the software. Everything is always running full throttle for the user experience.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] soulfrigger:
I can´t post pictures yet but i love the battery life. Yesterday 6 hours of tethering, rest of the day messaging and calling. My day starts at 6am and at 10pm i still had 20% battery life.....i´m on sd
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ardeban:
Install wakelock detector. I was having problems with proximity Auth, which I believe it's a near future not really polished, I disabled that service and battery life is much better.

Once I have a full set of results, I will publish my saving battery configuration, feature friendly

Enviado desde mi SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Vangelis13:
I froze Google Play services. Hangouts was the only app that gave a notification saying that it needs them. In other words, if I don't use hangouts I don't need GP services? It is demolishing the battery, even though I have every possible location reporting disabled..

Edit: not true, other apps also give errors. :mad: We need roms & kernels that slow down the constant running of TW..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] m3lover1:
Google Play Services is very important, don't think you should freeze it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
Has anyone run the Benchmark to test their battery life? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.futuremark.pcmark.android.benchmark

I'm running it on my Note 2 until I've got 5-7 hours where I don't need my note 4 (over night perhaps). It'll be interesting to see how the Exynos compares with the SD 805 through that benchmark.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Hendrickson:
Same here on the Exynos. Found my G3 lasts much longer. Really disappointed and this was with the screen brightness lowered a lot. And only using WiFi and 2g when needed.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Wally93:
Got around 5h - 5:30 hours of screen time during the last (and only so far) decharging cycles. I always have wifi/3g/4g off unless when using it, android system seems to be equal to screen power consumption. Screen was always near the lowest brightness (manual) . Looking forward for a very basic rom with no extra stuff like touchwiz and see what that does.

I'm very happy with the battery life coming from a galaxy S2 with a max 1:30-2h screen time
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sharp2G:
HOLY POPSICLES! Android System is consuming battery like no tomorrow.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] an_xda:
Looks like the non-Snapdragon version wins in the power consumption usage. A lot of Exynos users clearly have issues with their battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] lisbon2004:
GPS on decreases uptime by 50%,

and Allow improve location by searching for wi-fi networks (that's when you always get 100% wi-fi in power usage details), by 50% more.

when i disable improved location (in wi-fi advanced settings), and disable location (GPS), i get 2 full days uptime.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
Thanks!!

I disabled high location accuracy and disabled wifi scanning.

Let's see if wifi will go off and won't stay on all the day.

O need location services because BT connection to my smartwatch requires this. And gps is needed everytime I launch maps or sygic navigation.

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Got it from local retailer. Not samsung shop. It was in bulk package (no nice box). I paid 14€ (so it's a bit more than 10£ I guess).

I didn't get 5-6hrs of SOT even 2 years ago right out of the box. 3-3.5hrs max.

Yes I did factory reset. And I am not rooted. So I can't find what causes wakelocks.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RaipurBoy:
Dr. Ketan rom m6 with xposed module without compromising brightness
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
Have you made any progress on this? My Note 4 is on stock 5.1.1 and was intermittently switching off between 5% and 15%, I replaced the battery with a genuine Samsung one (bought one of the external charger kits) which also intermittently does it. The odd thing is it's never consistent and it's been fine for a while but today it died at 39% which is higher than it has before and I suspect it will make it below 39% tomorrow. There's no bulge on the battery and I've tried calibrating the battery, I've read through the last few pages but your post is the only one that matches mine.

John
[Galaxy Note 4 General] dwonderbaba:
N910H battery

Hi Good People,

I have a Galaxy Note N910H with Marshmallow on it. I just noticed that the phone went off without warning, after wiping and doing a clean install of stock ROM I noticed it only comes on when the charger is plugged in. My thought is that the battery is gone but on second thought I put the phone in download mode and it stayed on for over 8 hours. This is confusing, if the battery is bad how come it stays on in download mode for hours but as soon as you boot normally the phone goes into a booting loop and eventually goes off.

I need help to understand this....

Thanks in anticipation
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Sakab86:
Welcome, according to custom rom which can display most of the time? Rom which is on display in the most? Nevermind 5.0, 6.0 only the most Powersaving on screen. Now echoe ROM is installed, but it is very bad ... Full Charge 2 hours time you can display ... bt wifi gps OFF only facebook, music, chrome. Sorry for my bad english.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nk404:
I install erobot v11 and SOT is about 4h
[Galaxy Note 4 General] happy2472:
I have tried many ROMs and kernels since the day root came out for the Note 4 SM-N910V I will say IF you have root and TWRP and or running a ROM ... exceed kernel has done wonders for my battery life and charging. Hope this post doesn't get me into trouble here.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 9h0s7:
emotion has been good to me. does that one have a zero lemon version?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] happy2472:
honestly no idea ... all I know is NOW my fast charge is legit FAST and the battery does NOT drain as fast
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Artim_96:
Yes. Go to the thread, under there download link for the ROM you'll find one for extra kernels. There is airways one with SELinux permissive and one for zero lemon
[Galaxy Note 4 General] hondax:
I got the DPL2 update a couple of days ago. So far it looks like the battery life is back to good old Lollipop level. Anyone else experiencing this kind of improvement? N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] xman66:
Hi guys i am useing N910P 6.0.1 mm rom rooted

Is there any app or mod that let me modify the charging current

Like in boeffla kernal for s3
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yoyopfk:
View attachment 4011482 Red Dragon v4 + AEL kernel + good settings.

This time including normal phone usage and some extream ones like screen mirroring, streaming and screen recording in the same time so in light condition I should go above 7 hours SOT. Original battery , 2 years old , calibrated.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
Exynos variant?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] yoyopfk:
Snapdragon
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Graivite:
Who says Kitkat was the best in terms of battery life?

Standard Samsung battery, 2 months old.

My usage:

WiFi only, mostly messenger + web browser (split screen), instagram and snapchat.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Shastri B:
Wow man, that's some incredible battery life your getting!

Can you please share what's your setup! I barely get pass 2:30 hours sot :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
There's no way you can get this sot even with a massive kernel tweaks.

Back in days i was extremely happy when i reached 6.30hr sot but 8hrs sot is definitely makes me laugh unless he has a zerolemon battery.

With my average use i can get 4hrs sot only and my phone is 10 month old

Mate if your battery is more than 1 year old getting 2 to 3 hours sot with high usage is quite decent battery life.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Graivite:
You don't need any special setup to make 4/5 hours sot. Turn everything off in the toggles that you don't use. I have only WiFi enabled.

Use greenify to hibernate apps that constantly check for notifications such as gmail, instagram, facebook, snapchat etc.

Don't unlock your screen every 2 minutes. If you use for example messenger as I do, just let it be on the top of the screen. Don't close it and reopen every time you get messege. Open the conversation and talk. I can easily get 1 hour sot on 10% by just talking with one person on messenger.

You make me laugh. Because you couldn't get pass 6.30 you think you're best and nobody can do more? I can do easily 3hours on 30% and show you full report from BBS.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
I am not thinking or not even close to best.. i am putting things based on facts.. share your bbs and show your tweaks otherwise you're just showing off.. no one reached your sot and i am not attacking you so chill.. cheers
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mha93:
I managed to get close to 4.5 hours of SOT with almost 9 hours battery. Battery life seems bad but it would probably be better if I didn't spent about 1 hour watching Youtube. The other 3 hours were mostly spent on facebook, twitter, etc. I disabled pretty much a lot of Samsung's bloat apps, gestures, multi windows etc. Apps that might help with the battery life are forcedoze, greenify, amplify, SetCPU . I'm using a snapdragon device running on a deodexed stock rom by Hard_Rock83.

One thing I noticed was that a lot of the time, the reason why my battery life was terrible was because sometimes the CPU would spend a lot of time in higher frequencies. This has an effect of making the phone overheat and when the phone overheats, I noticed that the battery level would also decrease faster. This could be the heat or because of the CPU frequency or both. What I did to remedy that situation was that I used SetCPU, or any apps that allows you to control the CPU and create profiles, and lowered the maximum cpu frequency and create different profiles for different situation. Example, min frequency of 300mhz and max frequency of 1.6ghz for when the screen is on.

Another thing is that if your battery life is really terrible, like 5-6 hours of battery life I suggest you to get a new battery. The original battery that came with the phone and the replacement battery that I bought from Samsung both didn''t went beyond 2-2.5 hours SOT even though both of them were less than a year old. It was only after I bought a third battery from a third party seller did I managed to get 4.5 hours of SOT. I'm speculating that there might be some bad batch because of the terrible battery life but the service center guy gave me the usual 'faulty motherboard'.

So if your battery life is still bad, even with all sorts of tweaks, get a new one. It took me three batteries with to get this SOT.

Tl;dr What I did was disable unneeded services and apps, decrease the cpu frequency and make specific profiles and got a new battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
That's is a fantastic battery life mate.. if your battery is new you need more time for the battery to calibrate probably..

I am going for anker battery soon lots of positive reviews here in xda
[Galaxy Note 4 General] SEVENEDGE:
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[Galaxy Note 4 General] sseennoonn:
i have issues with android os always on first place...did factory reset...i even rooted phone deleted couple of bloatwares etc...still getting problems with that
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
Are you using sync if yes try to disable it
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sseennoonn:
Nope..sync is off
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
Okay try to flash the stock through odin definitely will fix the issue
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sseennoonn:
Do i need to flash bootloaders and modems? Thats new to me...never done that before while flashing new rom etc
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amar.B:
If you have the MD5 file, you just need to use the AP button. The stock firmware from Samsung contains all the recovery, kernel and ROM as a single MD5 file.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] hopelives:
I have rooted N910C running SimpleROM and Xposed installed. Is there any suggestion for ROM or tweaks through Xposed?