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[Galaxy Note 4 General] ghawyhob:
Yes iam using it from 100 to 90 continuously ,i used it for browsing web ,facebook,whattsapp,xda app and calling.now the results is 2h and 11m and it 73%
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gofrei4ik:
Here's mine

Sent from my SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] daddioj:
best battery life ever
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Questions:

1. Which model do you have? N910F? N910C? N910U? etc

2. Is it rooted?

3. Is it on the latest firmware (ANK5)? or

4. Is it on a custom ROM?

5. Which Country?

6. Brightness Level? Auto?

7. 3G or 4G (LTE)?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] daddioj:
N910C

No Root

Latest Firmware

No Custom Roms. all Stock

i am in the USA so i went on a hunt to best Mimic USA Functionality. Because it seems the region i had with the 4g icon and data would stall and i would have trouble with MMS . closest would be mexico stock rom but only carrier branded one was available . i downloaded the stock Columbia rom. fixed all mms issues. as well not had the LTE icon instead of 4g. and seems to have the best battery life. i dont know why.

Auto Brightness

mind you this is with being on wifi. i dont know how much less i would get on constant LTE. but i would imagine even a hour less or 2 would still be killer battery life
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Thanks for the reply. I noticed how good the lack of wakelocks on it and how the standby time was well over 1-day even with your 50%-75% Mobile Network Signal. Maybe Columbia's firmware helped, is yours COL or COO ? I'm just looking at Sammobile's firmware database for Columbia.

My N910C suddenly just blitzed my battery, 40% to 0% while I was asleep, smh.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] daddioj:
mine is the COO version. most of the day was heavy use. for the first day. that night i had around 40+ percent maybe. left it b overnight and it only drained like 2% or something. then used it the rest of the day today until tonight and got almost 10+ hours of on screen time. i dont game so i wouldnt know. but i think i will test that next. and even made quite a few phone calls as well. was on the phone even with 4% left and was on for like 25min and the percent still didnt budge i thought maybe my phone was broken lol
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
My N910C would lose 3% in a 15 minute call lol.

Just an observation, my XSG firmware (United Arab Emirates) weighs at 1.6GB while COO (Columbia) at 1.5GB. Means there's less bloatware for Columbia firmware! (maybe). Wonder if I should try flashing it on mine, hm.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] daddioj:
my phone came from the same region. Exynos XSG i think i cant remember now or could have been EGY . but anyway i am sticking to COO right now.. also what i did was install custom recovery wiped everything system and all. flashed COO booted. then shut down. and then stock recovery and factory reset
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
Whatever I do I get max 18-20hrs of standby and 4hrs of screen on time. That's totally ok for me. 4hrs is enough.

Sent from my SM-N910C
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
U don't need to ask all this, it's easy to get all this

1. The brightness might even blind the eye

2. Then am so sure he does nothing other than flip through the UI in most cases.

3. He doesn't do anything real with it

4. And last he has other phone that he uses so he can leave the phone to stay idle for a whole lot of time.

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Mate pls we can't understand all this
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
I only have 1 full day of use and spent most of that figuring out all the things I wouldn't need and could switch off, uninstall or disable, that has been the only real chore in switching from a stock android, much, much, much more clutter.

I have performed a couple of 'tests' and wanted to see how well it was stacking up so far.

1st day I got 5 hours of SOT: mostly internet and changing settings but also an hour of streamed music and another of streamed podcasts on top of the SOT

Overnight cpu spy says that over 8-9 hours the phone drained down to 97% with 90.2% in deep sleep

FYI

I manually sync email and calender but there is a gmail and an exchange attached to the phone

Screen is set pretty low - about 15% maybe...not sure.

I disable everything I didnt want AND knew what it was...so all the S Health type stuff is gone (but I am sure there is loads more I can dump)

I switched off notifications for everything I dont want notifications from

I run greenify but I actually dont have tons of apps - but always nice to make sure Facebook and twitter actually switch off again :)

I am going to run the phone like this for a while........unless anyone has any suggestions for stuff a non Samsung user wont have thought of - or a list of disablable apps (I am on Three network in UK...unlocked so not much if any carrier bloat...just samsung).

I am really enjoying the phone, the battery seems good enough especially when I get a spare and I wont have to worry much at all. I am not going to obsess about battery life but I do want to make sure my phone is as efficient as possible and learn what a non stock android phone is doing before I relax about it...if that makes sense.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nampaboy:
my stats

i didn't use a lot my phone, just bought it, so installed greenify, nova and some apps, i use often hangout

i had some wakelock in the begining so i rooted and installed "disable service" apps. i don't use shealth either

blutooth switched off, same for location. on the screenshot, i have 61% battery left so i guess, my note 4 is doing pretty well

(note 4 910F snapdragon)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] daddioj:
your right i havnt done anything extensive. but text all day long. some phone calls. etc. the only time it was idle was overnight when i went to sleep. and no i do not have another phone i use. and dont anything real with it? its a cell phone i text and make phone calls. take pictures. just because i do not game doesnt mean i dont do anything "real" with it. i didnt have the phone all that long. and i still think its pretty amazing for the phone to get that amount of time. my nexus 6 would drain and laugh at me without even touching it
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
What battery saving options are available with root access? I am new to Samsung phones, I had previously gotten better battery life on stock android using a custom kernel (Franco) but what actions could I take once rooted with the note 4? Is there an idiots guide or could someone give me the short version? :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] VuBoo:
Everything Stock, no root, NJ4, N910F

- much YouTube

- watched a whole movie

- a lot of browsing (Facebook, Web)

- Whatsapp

- Calls and SMS

Ps: charged for about 10% while Display was off (Data backup).

Because i flashed NJ4 over NK4.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
my crappy battery life has surely rubbed me the wrong way. I miss my galaxy s5 :( 4 - 5 hours screen on time is GARBAGE!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pokosik:
I got 5h OST after first full charge. Mine is with exynos. I think it's not bad.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
I got 5hrs SOT day one and over 6hrs every day since. I am happy enough but dont know how it compares. I dont use a lot of syncing or bluetooth, NFC, location services and I keep my screen low.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
What is a respectable Android Services level? Mine seems high close to or above the screen....like now it is above - 24% vs 21% with 3.5hrs SOT today (still 40% left).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] shadowster:
When I first got the note 4, I realized that my battery drains ridiculously fast. After some tweaking (disabling bloatware, screen brightness...) it seems to have improved, but I'm still barely managing to get 4hrs of SOT and can barely get to 14hrs. Today, I forgot to turn on wifi and found my battery life to be drastically improved, more like the battery life other people are posting.

Reading around the internet, people seem to agree that wifi uses less battery than 4G LTE, but in my case it's the complete opposite. I thought of two reasons why this may be happening:

1. Some app only syncs when there is wifi.

2. I have bad wifi (This seems unlikely since I am at a university with pretty fast wifi)

Anyone else have issues with wifi draining battery?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Bbs screen?

Hi. Really like this kind of forum, but i think the screens I have seen, doesn't really say so much, give right info. Like, : screen on, ROM, kernel, stock, WiFi on, sync on, email sync /data usage, brightness level, etc

Bettterbatterstat, BBS, screens show pretty much info except kernel, rom.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
GOLDEN!

after reading your thread i thought about , and tried smart network switch module, and ALREADY im seeing increase in battery life and screeen on time, its true the 4g lte band is draining my battery,
[Galaxy Note 4 General] joelteixeira:
Really impressed with your results but what impresses me more is the fact that I have the same model, also stock, also auto brightness, and similar network quality (Most yellow bar) and I barely get 2H SoT. Do you have sync on, right?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] daddioj:
yes but just gmail. music and contacts.

oh and i dont fast charge.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] naira1:
I am inclined to agree with you. You've the best battery life I've ever seen on a phone not just the note. The best I can get is 7+ SOT. Am impress mate.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] lawtq:
It looks good upon first look but god knows what he was doing to get this. Could have been browsing the app drawer most of the time or just tinkering with settings. Don't see the 9+ hours of sot by really using the apps on the phone normally. But if true good for you god damn it
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
Someone had suggested that Touchwiz is far better on battery life compared to Nova Launch.

Not understanding how Nova could be the source of battery issues, I decided to try both for at least a week each, so the stats could average out,and the results are shocking.

I use the device pretty much the same way using both launchers, and they are using the same widgets and icons.

Might be worth investigating if you've had battery issues and use Nova.

Sent from my SM-N910U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] shadowster:
Back about the wifi battery drain. So, after even more googling I read that some wifi routers tend to drain battery on android phones. Apparently certain routers send a signal to the device to see if they are still connected which causes wakelock. After reading about this, I set up an ad-hoc network on my computer and tried to get the through the day either on 4G LTE or the wifi from my computer. Surprisingly, my battery life was pretty stellar with mediocre usage.

Conclusion: My phone didn't have anything wrong with it, it was just my university's wifi was draining my battery. So for people experiencing bad battery life, maybe check your router out and see if that's the problem?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tom540:
That's crazy that Nova uses so much more battery! Has anyone found a fix or another custom launcher that uses less battery, cause I cannot stand the stock one ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
I know... I switched back to TouchWiz after posting that and those numbers are already improving again - 3 hours and 20 minutes and I've got 46% left. I would have been nearly at zero battery with Nova. So disappointing, but at least it makes my device more practical.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tom540:
Yeah it is really dissapointing, have you tried other launchers? I'm going to try out Action Launcher 3 and see if I notice any improvement
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
I tried Action Launcher 3 for about 5 minutes and has no less than 3 popups asking me to install premium add-ins... I will never try it again.

I purchased Nova, so that's what I've used for years, but saving that much in battery life makes it hard to go back to Nova. Maybe Lollipop will change things?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] shadowster:
I have been on Nova, and have had pretty decent battery results after fixing my wifi issue.

Config: Disabled blast ware, use lux to control brightness, Nova launcher.

I know I don't have longest screen on time, but I'm not a heavy user so I'm pretty happy with the results!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
My battery has been getting better throughout my first week. I am now hitting 7hrs SOT with mixed internet, Facebook, twitter, email use with added YouTube, podcasts and music playback (1.5-2.5hrs combined). I have GPS, Bluetooth etc which I don't use switched off and my email syncs manually, screen is on a low setting, maybe 15-20%. I am using Nova, I will run it like this for another week and then switch to TW (even though I don't want to!) to see if I get extra battery time once I have a decent battery average from this usage. Can I change the icons manually on TW? If so how?

Does anyone know if there is substantial battery savings to be made depending on the podcasting app? I am currently using 'Player FM' and was wondering if there was a better looking or performing app...I have no complaints...just wondering if there is a better app battery-wise or in general.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cornelito:
My battery has greatly improved since i have switched back to TW Launcher.

I used to run my device with Nova Launcher and my best score was 6hrs SOT.

Now im at 50% with over 4 hrs SOT and 18 hrs standby.

Screenshoots attached

N910F with Echoe ROM + AEL Kernel 5.1
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
2 cycle stock.

2 email push, Facebook, original settings push /intervall. Sync on, gps location on, WiFi on, spotify Ca 40 min. All original/stock program/apps installed and running. Auto brightness, some game playing and browser.

Kik, Skype, Dropbox on /sync

Launcher are apex.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] donkon:
My battery has been horrible lately, not sure if it's the update or what but I guess I'll turn off nova
[Galaxy Note 4 General] POLO_i780:
Glad to see more people getting the incredible battery life that I posted about getting on my Note 4 back in mid October.

This beast is truly frugal :) which is especially good for those of us here in SA with all the scheduled power cuts due.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
Are u on 4G variants of the note 4?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] POLO_i780:
Yep, I have the Snapdragon Note 4, all the Snapdragon variants of Note 4 are LTE Cat.6.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
So you mean you have snapdragon version of note 4 in SA?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] POLO_i780:
Yep. Vodacom (Vodafone SA) have the Snapdragon N910F, while MTN and Cell C have the Exynos N910C and Telkom Mobile have the non-LTE Exynos N910H.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
Are they of the same price ? if no pls what's d price listing and pls tell me do SA ship to Other African countries ? If yes can you list for me stores that sells that . most probably the unlocked version thanks
[Galaxy Note 4 General] POLO_i780:
They are between $900(R9,900)-$1045(R11,500).

Orange Store SA Online store will have the best prices:

http://store.orange.com/za/

Not sure if they ship outside SA though. Avoid the N910H!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tee00max:
I have been getting decent battery life but not near a whole day like some of you are getting. I'm on unrooted Note 4 of course and disabled all my bloat. I have also cleared my cache settings in recovery and currently running Nova launcher. I will try to go back to TouchWiz launcher and see if that improves since some in here says it does. My android system is slowing dropping my in the percentages so I will see. Still don't think battery life is good.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ReventonX:
Is it the nova making the drain ? Strange. I can live with TW but i miss the gesture. Tomorrow will try see the battery gets better with TA or not.

So far i feel Samsung phone battery life like roller coaster. Sometime good sometime bad. It fluctuate often compare to sony or htc which IMO more stable on battery drain
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
Thanks God bless
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
I am trying out TW.... I am not a fan but will check it out for battery life.

I wish you could customize more in touchwiz, but oh well!!! Maybe I will only us TW on days I need great battery life and use Nova all the other times.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
3 Cycle stock= no root

1 hour spotify, 2 email push. Sync on , gps on, s-health running step counter and so on =All stock /bloat program sync and running runtime. Brightness auto,

Same setting as last + Tapatalk and xda app running push.

And a hole lot of playing around with the phone and browsing.

Launcher apex.

The only thing that's little weird is that bbs screens doesn't show real screen on time, doesn't really know why. Since I got home(about 4 hours ago) the phone has been running screen on and awake and been played with.. Hmm.

But I'm really impressed with this battery.

Just wondering how it will look like then I close /shout down all app /program that running and sync. But why change anything if it's running like this.

Only thing I gonna do and long for is lollipop and omega rom, and kt kernel. This phone will run for days

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] LeoNote4:
use go.

not nova aka battery drain.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Spo0f:
This is mine - detached on Sunday in the morning and plugged on Tuesday night. I'm vert happy with this - 3d days is something I haven't see for a while. This is my normal usage - I don't have 7h daily to spend on the phone.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Lwam Moe Wai:
My phone is Exynos version. SM-N 910H

I doubt my phone is draining battery than normal. I'm working at a Samsung brand Shop. There is three Note 4s running the retail mode for the whole days. This retail mode is always running videos with full brightness, turning on wifi, bluetooth,gps, nfc,. I tested these phones and it get more than 8 hours of screen on time and left 10% of battery. My phone only get about 2hours of screen on time but it use almost. 50% of battery. During my test, I did not play games. I only used facebook with mobile data. What should I do? My phone battery is also good.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
Blah
[Galaxy Note 4 General] aartvv:
Non rooted 910f.Nova launcher pro.At the pictures i had 7% left.

Update:Brightness automatic Sync on Location off Wifi and 4g always on except at night.

Disabled some bloat but there wasn't that much on it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Sync on? GPS on? Deep sleep time? Brightness level?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
FireKat V6 ROM
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Quezacot:
Got my note 4 2 days ago. Does Basic Screen Mode and turn off fast charging increase your battery life? I'm really curious about the screen eating my battery very fast. I notice that the g3 have good battery life than my note 4.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] booncol:
I did fast charge once and saw the battery gone much faster. Never again did that and now I'm getting 5-6h on N910C and 7-8h SOT on N910F.

For me, standard charging is fast enough.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jonneymendoza:
Shocking battery life
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jonneymendoza:
Shocking
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Hmm it doesn't say so much.. Shocking.. Bad?.. Good?. For my is seems like little... Battery drain

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] jonneymendoza:
Umm down to about 40 in 8 hours and the os using up more then the screen time? Plus when not in use the battery as u can see declines!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Stock? Or and look upp with Bettterbatterstat and gsam app. Seems like some prog/app are running in the background.. Radio drain.

Service running.

One good thing to see if it's drain the same in flighmode.. Gps /wifi off.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jonneymendoza:
I dont have root yet so batterystats dont work and of course yes i am in stock.

Usually whilst on the overground train going to work on a 30mins journey i listen to my offline playlists from spotify music and occasionally browse forums using tapatalk and send/recieive messages via whatsAPP.

network of course is up and down during the train ride and then after that i walk for 20mins to the office with full bar signal and mainly listening again to music.

by the time i get to teh office i have already burned almost 20% yes 20% of battery.

Soon as i im in the office, my battery continues to drain till about 60% at lunch time. I hardly use my phone when i am at work as i listen to my music and browse forums on my work laptop.

Still it drains a further 20% before lunch time and i have to plug it in the afternoon for a bit of a charge else by about 7-8pm its dead completely.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Okej.. Something strange.. You should see if the phone are awake all the time and /or screen on. You can see what in bbs unrooted and also you can see app/prog the phone use in Gsam battery monitor...

Setting as previously note.

Spotify about 1 hour, some games, prog. All original setting, Facebook, 2 email and Tapatalk and xda running with instant push and original settings.

Skype, gps, kik, on. And a whole lot of other app on and sync /push.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Michael_EF:
How did you get the settings menu dark like?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Who are you talking too?

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] ayeitschris:
wow this phone is amazing. Got nearly 7 hours screen on time with 18 hour standby. Mostly was watching YouTube videos and on reddit. Screen brightness at like 35%. T-Mobile note 4 Running firekat.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mikimarchio89:
Whaaaaat???

Ok there is definitely something wrong with my phone (and the other Note in my family)...!

I have a N910U full stock, with some bloatware deactivated and no root. Unfortunately working for big G i am not allowed to customize anything (root included) as they would find out as soon as i connect to the corporate wifi. Yes, i tried and got a very scary email the second day. :eek:

I usually keep wifi activated, auto-brightness and nova launcher. I read here that nova can impact battery life but also with the ugly TW there is almost no difference. I never got more than 3 SOT and absolutely never got close the 5-6 SOT that i saw here!!

[MENTION=5037576]admins[/MENTION]: can you enable me to post screenshots? It says that I am not allowed..

Thanks!

P. S. It's clear that I am not one of the technical guys of the company :p
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jasenko:
Are you saying that fast charging is not quite fully charging the battery? Could it be a coincidence? It would be great if you could go back for a few days and fast charge, use the phone as you do right now and report if there is a difference. There could be something in this but we need more examples to know for sure. I am fast charging and getting around 4h screen time (not much video watching), location on (power saver), 4G on, wifi on, pretty much everything is on default settings. Display is set to Photo mode.

I am on stock, no root and have a feeling that I should be easily getting around 5h+ but can't quite pinpoint the culprits. Android System and OS are always very close in usage to the Screen and I think they should be at least some 30% behind.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] booncol:
I think You can do it by yourself. If you own Note 4 why you cannot compare battery life with fast and normal charging?

Wysłane z mojego SM-N910C przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Michael_EF:
Haha talking to you. Just wondering how you got your settings background black instead of white. Do I have to be rooted?