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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
3hours max?! I can't get 3hours min. Average SOT for me is around 5.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] quadlt:
Yeah, and the good part is that I don't even have any idea what could be causing this. Faulty battery, faulty hardware, wrong app management..? Hell, I even underclocked my cpu to no avail.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Legatus Onoris:
Don't worry. My note 4 is the same: I can afford a full day without issues but my SOT is max (my definition of max is when battery is at 5%) almost 4h.

Average is around 3hours. It's true that I live in a not so good area if we talk about signal and that I use always 4g with all in push sync but lot of tests show that it can last 4h or + with a "stress test".
[Galaxy Note 4 General] joebongo:
The last couple of weeks my battery life has gone down significantly. I noticed you can't switch off the pedometer on S-Health anymore so I have disabled the whole app. I will keep an eye and see if this makes much difference.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Chad_Petree:
I have a couple of days with my Note 4 and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed, I've read in a lot of reviews that the battery life should be great, but I'm experiencing slightly worse battery life than My nexus 6 with 5.1 :confused: , almost under 3 hours of on screen time, anyways I haven't downloaded gsam just yet , but I've noticed that a lot of times, when I turn the screen on I see the GPS Icon on the notification bar, and I've checked the Location options and it says that google play services has high battery use, any idea why google play services is accesing my GPS? :confused:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Jarrive:
Chad, wait a few days and activate Power Saving in the meantime.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
Change the power consumption of GPS to battery saving or better still disable it, unless you really have need for it. That will fix that issue right out of the box. Really no reason for it to be on,unless you depend on location services a lot.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] alexpoe:
Good Battery

Here is my battery stats:View attachment 3309762

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Chad_Petree:
I use the GPS everyday, I use an app for the train connections everyday :(

Do you think it's a problem that Google has to fix themselves?,

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gold3nCloud:
What's your maximum screen on time?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
Sorry to break this to you, but that is routine. Plus you have the same issue the rest of us do, in regards to android system taking up a huge chunk of battery. Ideally screen time should be on the very top of consumption.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
No sane person should root? LOL

I feel no sane person should ever leave it unrooted..

But all that aside.. I myself and MANY I know have had phone warranty service, repairs and replacements WITH root... Yes this is very true but just no guarantees... Depends on the problem and who services but as long as not fried board, they often will still do what's needed :)

But for the record I do at least understand the average user who is afraid of rooting for this reason and what it (could possibly) mean regarding warranty
[Galaxy Note 4 General] chololazo:
I get very disappointing battery life on my N910c (exynos)

This is with Auto brightness set to 3 and mostly on WIFi, I even disabled LTE to get a little bit more milage.

I've done two factory resets, but the battery life is just so bad.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
Your phones not deep sleeping and you've got drain from services if you look back through the thread you'll find how to solve it. You've probably got background apps running that you cant see on the stock battery list. Download Trepn profiler to see apps sucking up your CPU cycles. If you're rooted, download servicely and another app freezing app to disable apps and services that are needlessly running in the background. Turn off all sensors like NFC, GPS, Smart Stay Awake, anything that will use the sensors. After this, most people here get around 4.30hrs SOT.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bladefrost007:
Mines got about 5hrs SOT also
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedodroid:
The Babbling Boolean on YouTube got more than 7 hours of SOT with 18 hrs of battery usage.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ardeban:
Hum, rom settling and improving it seems. Currently at 60%, 9 hours and a half, 2:25 SOT.

Will post screenshots this afternoon.

Enviado desde mi SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] manojmcn:
This is after the update:

Just over 3 hrs SOT with 46% charge still there.

So i think 5-6 hours SOT is to be expected for full battery.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] m3lover1:
Mine is T-Mobile version, no update, no root, couple apps greenified.

Not too bad. Mainly texting, forum browsing, twitter, and various tech site apps today.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] toadsurfer:
I'm regularly getting around 7 hours sot with mainly 4g browsing and emailing during the day and then Netflix and video watching via wifi in the evening with exynos note 4. Battery is slightly better than s5.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] an_xda:
Is 5 hours of screen on time not good? Compared to my other Android phones - that is amazing and we have to keep in mind the number of pixels this battery is powering too!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ars_92:
Can you check the video power consumption for me? I usually get about 4 minutes of video for every 1% of battery life with my note 3. Will be interesting to know how many minutes of video we can get with 1% of the note 4 battery. Either netflix or plex will do as I use them both heavily on my current note 3 :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] toadsurfer:
Just did a quick test watching Netflix and got 4 minutes 50 seconds before it dropped 1%. Screen at 50% brightness.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ars_92:
I get 4 minutes at max every 1% with 10% brightness lol. Note 4 here I come!!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
How did the update perform in battery ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ardeban:
Yesterday I got 6 hours SOT, rooted device with greenify and some other stuff to save a little battery

Enviado desde mi SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bladefrost007:
My battery life after the update. Before its only about 5 to 5.5 SOT. Now it reaches 6 hrs.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 9e705ebbf0:
So, so good. STOP DELAYING IT AND LAUNCH THE DAMN THING SAMSUNG.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] DrexelDragon:
Can anyone tell me what's up with my battery life?

[IMG="SOT"]http://i.imgur.com/iXVfcG7.png[/IMG]

[IMG="BatteryLife"]http://i.imgur.com/W5DemXz.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nh97103:
Sometimes Android System acts up. Restart your phone, and see if that fixes it. If not, I recommend factory resetting. It's kind of a pain, but I know of no other way to fix this, and the epic battery life afterwards makes it worth the time you spend resetting things up.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] johnchad14:
Ok, Note 5 needs a 'resize screenshots to a reasonable size for forum posts' feature!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tr1cky1:
Battery porn:

Gesendet von meinem SM-N910F mit Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
Wow? Heavy use? Light use or?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kinsman-UK:
5 hrs 20 mins screen on time for me today on my N910C Exynos, and I still have 20% battery left.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] chololazo:
Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it

I've breezed back through the thread and I didn't see the discussion on deep sleep issues. Has anyone made a separate thread for that?

I've downloaded trepn profiler and this is what I've got, not sure how to make sense of it really. Any thoughts?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Danilo Pantelić:
Some application eating your battery...

Install BBS from xda!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
Keep an eye on your CPU cycles. At some point you'll see a spike from some Samsung app or something. At that point you need to use an app like Servicely to actively kill the app so that when it runs it will shut it down and stop the CPU being sucked. There also a service from Google Play that's stopping the phone from deep sleeping, it's called "update service" or something similar. That should be disabled using Servicely. There's an article written by XDA if you Google it about the Google Play service drain. To be honest it's a real pain constantly trying to find the apps causing the drain, you have to really keep on top of what your phones doing. You also have to be rooted to use Servicely. I would also recommend an app like Better Battery Stats to see if your phone is actually deep sleeping, it looks though from your screen shots yours isn't. There's a lot of learning to do with Lollipop and battery drain, it's a pain.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Chad_Petree:
A little tip for you guys, don't activate smart lock, the trusted places option it's pretty nice but it drains your battery like crazy!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] alexpoe:
I'm not complaining about battery life. This is the longest lasting phones battery I have ever had.

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Screen on is usually around 3 to 3.5 hours.

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Another option is to open recent apps and close all, because just backing out of them does not completely close the apks.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] chololazo:
I don't have root and don't really want to get into voiding my warranty so I checked out posts saying that disabling s health really did the trick, and other posts saying that going through a complete 100-0% cycle fixed the battery's calibration. I did both of those and tried disabling the fast charge feature since I had all night to charge my device.

I'm not sure what to think of my CPU not going to deep sleep most of the time? Of is this the usual case?

And my battery life is better, still not great though since I come from an Ascend Mate 7 that gets 6 hours of screen time through a full day of 16 hours left me with 30-20% of charge without having to turn of LTE or Bluetooth with my brightness cranked up to 50%.

I really hope the battery last life Ob my device be fixed with an by Samsung soon.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] robertbr108:
Disable location or put it on gps only
[Galaxy Note 4 General] deep!:
My battery life has improved greatly by deleting google calendar and stop sync for it. I downloaded sunrise instead and set push for 4 hrs.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mistah_mumford:
The non-root WLD method doesn't seem to work for me and my VzW Note and I get good battery life but I must find out why this thing wakes so much. This is from when I got up 10 mins. ago...

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Dolphin87:
Battery experts plz have a look here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3110780
[Galaxy Note 4 General] macmobile:
Kinda strange, because it says that relying on mobile networks is the energy saving mode. Any explanation for that?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] robertbr108:
I know it sounds strange but with location disabled i get normal battery life, with location location on high accuracy the drain is crazy fast, at least 5 percent on standby per hour, with gps only the drain is lower but still present. It looks like WiFi is the battery killer.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] avomagnum:
I usually don't believe battery savers do anything, but i installed Avast Battery Saver and i must admit it's helped and i've noticed no real downsides .
[Galaxy Note 4 General] @n3xp3ct3d:
Ι left intentionally my phone after a long time to closed from buttery and i charge it fully...The result was to have a new record in the display monitor about 6 hrs! :eek: The use I made was 3G & Wi-Fi,fb,messenger,instagram and much browsing...The normal use which i do when i don't have all the time the phone in my hands is 2 and 2,5 days in a battery operation but the diplay monitor is a few hours less.I'm very impressed! :)

PS:The model i have is the SM-N910C Exynos with lollilop 5.0.1 (not rooted)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rpalmer92:
Here goes...

Okay guys, I've having pretty bad experiences with every set up I've used so far on the Note 4 and only being able to obtain say 3-4 hours of screen on over a days normal usage between wifi and 4g, I have decided to flash AICP and set up some of the most aggressive battery saving options I've ever used.

I have done loads of researching and added the new knowledge to what I already know, as well as used two battery saving guides here and here from Android Software and Development section. I have also flashed L-Speed 2.0 mod and used minimal GAPPS and even flashed a debloater to remove trebuchet and other stock apps like calendar, file manager etc. then installed third party versions and greenified them.

I have set all system settings like brightness and sync and stuff to the most battery friendly settings available whilst still maintaining the ability to have a usable device, the same goes for push notifications and location services. I have tried to be conservative whilst still maintaining usability (getting push notifications, good GPS lock etc.).

I will report back with my findings.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] quadlt:
from 95% to 60% without a single wakelock?!?!

Here I am again, after finally a week of somewhat normal battery usage. It seemed I fixed my problems before seeing this (screenshots below) in the morning. Yes, from 95% to 60% drop without apparently a single wake lock. What the actual hell? I'm so frustrated by the fact this phone is so unstable. Anyone has any ideas or explanations for this invisible battery drain?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] devpod:
Could someone help interpret these battery stats for me?

I'm rooted and as WLD does not work on Lollipop, I've used GSAM and BBS to monitor my battery usage, however, I'm not able to really interpret the results, except knowing that its bad.

I left my phone unplugged overnight after charging it to 100%, and app usage was at 91%! Android System and Android Kernel being the culprits. All screenshots attached from GSAM and BBS.

If someone could help me interpret these results, it would be great.

IMGUR ALBUM: http://imgur.com/a/cYCgE

Note: Before people ask, I have factory resetted and wiped cache after flashing 5.0.1, and the entire time i was on Wi-Fi with Mobile Data switched off.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] devpod:
hey dude - what's the camera quality like on AICP? That's literally the only thing that has still kept me on touchwiz, that the camera on vanilla roms is so very bad.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rpalmer92:
I don't use the standard camera. I use Google Camera and it seems perfectly fine to me.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] macmobile:
Does anybody know, if you actually can save energy and battery by using the reduce screen size feature?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
Today i got the MPJ extended battery 6440mah gonna test it this week ??
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rpalmer92:
Scratch that...

Okay guys, scratch everything I said in my previous posts. Whilst this set up is quite good, it isn't that perfect battery life I was looking for. I'm beginning to think that Lollipop and especially non-TW ROMs are really unstable battery life on this device. Like I can get nearly 2 days with about 4 hours screen on, but I know this thing can do way better.

AICP is a great ROM - fast and usable and I'm enjoying it more than CM12.1, so I'll nandroid backup, but I am gonna have a go with SimplLite 3.1 and all the aggressive battery saver settings I used on AICP. I'll report back if it's significantly better.

Also, BBS is reporting wrong stats, this app sucks now. Don't know whether to believe this or Wakelock Detector, but according to BBS my phone has like 5 hours of wake time from *alarm* which is spread evenly across Facebook Messenger, Textra, Android System Alarm etc. They are exactly the same value and using the same wakelock *alarm* ??!?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] supertoast92:
Slightly disappointed with the wakelocks and battery life on my N910V today :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] chololazo:
Any idea why I only get 3-4 hours of screen on time?

It's mostly on WiFi, and I've disabled LTE. Brightness at auto 2, with location off the whole time. Bluetooth is on though, connected to my moto 360.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BoyMonsteR:
We got same problem before chololazo, 9 hours battery life with a 3 hours screen time :( but after a week of misery i decided to downgrade to kitkat. Now i love my battery life..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] h8Aramex:
And how did you downgrade exactly?

- If I download the latest KitKat, phone will just check for an update, and then download it with wifi. I tried removing my sim card, blocking wifi, unticking the update box, but it still - just checks for a new update and downloads it. Then I can postpone it, and there is a notification - annoying as hell.

- If I download an older KitKat version then I can disable the OTA box, and it works, but the fixes from the latest KitKat would be cool.

How did you guys solve this issue? (How to ignore/disable OTA?)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] spexwood:
Grrrrrrr...

I hate you right now (not really). My N910a doesn't have stable root so I can even try to mess with things in order to try and replicate your results. I want to though!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BoyMonsteR:
I bought my Note 4 here in Doha, it was using UAE Firmware, i used Odin and used the Philippine firmware. Then turned off the auto update. After that it did not ask me to update to lollipop again :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] h8Aramex:
Good idea, I will also try to find a country where there is no update. Its ridoculous though that we have to fight with updates.

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I cannot find a 4.4.4 country with the same PDA+CSC.

My PDA is: N910CXXU1ANK5

CSC: N910COXX1ANK2

By the way the L update is all cool and stuff, as long as you are inside the house.

But because you know, people sometimes go outside for work and stuff - it's not really useful.

I would have bought a tablet for indoor use, not a phone..... lol.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ninekaw9:
I have a lot of ssp_sensorhub_wake_lock and ssp_wake_lock especially when my phone is on the move. What are they, and how to get rid of it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] eldar4uk:
after last Android update battery life is very good, I can use it around 2 days
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Chad_Petree:
Guys do you know to prevent google now from checking my location, I like the recommendations it gives about articles similar to the ones I read, but the traffic info and nearby places are just a waste of battery, every time I lock /unlock my phone google now checks for my location and I know it's killing my battery, I struggle to reach 3 hours of on screen time :crying:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
12 hours of SOT with this extended battery

Check the review here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3116759
[Galaxy Note 4 General] hovanhuang:
I think you are absolutely right. have you try to stop the pedometer from counting in Shealth?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kernel ranger:
This is the thread that changed my mind from Note 4 exynos to note 4 SD.

Am soooo excited! I got my Note 4 SM-N910F today and it shipped with android v5.0.1 straight from Germany, has stayed at 100% for 1hr 30min before it started droping :D:D:D:D

Am only worried about my android v4.4.2 apps working with it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
lol. Mine will go from 100-94% with no use in the same amount of time xD Enjoy it while it lasts :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kernel ranger:
Something is gravely wrong with yours, even my previous s4 exynos never had such a problem as yours because by then it would only have dropped to 98% and kept holding its own until I sold it. New owner is still impressed by it to this day.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
No, it's quite common. A lot of people are having battery issues. on KK I had awesome battery life, but now on lollipop, meh... It's down the toilet. I've down everything mentioned. I might RMA my phone another day, or completely switch. It's still in the air.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] robertbr108:
I think there is something definitely wrong with lollipop 5.0.1. Samsung's fault here is failing to provide updates in time as usual. The usage pattern is also important and what we install, I think some apps are not optimized for lollipop and create issues. I exchanged my 910c with my wife's 910f and now she gets very good battery life on 910c. Location and Bluetooth are not enabled on her phone. She gets over 50% battery left in the evening while I was getting 50% at lunch. She uses Facebook, YouTube, gmail and talks on the phone more than me. I have good for enterprise, lync, skype, Bluetooth headset and moto 360 and I get now less battery life on the 910f. If I leave the location on standby drain is still a disaster on the 910f. Google fit is a drainer also. Google managed to screw everything on lollipop. It is like a windows vista crap.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kernel ranger:
On the applications yes, I see that being a real issue in some cases but you are about a handful of people making the claim of F being poorer than C on this thread, some of whom have turned out to be pulling a fast one on us, the majority fall in favor of the 910f, yours may be so because I heard the 910c may perform well depending on country location band frequency compatibility with the mobile operator. Marquess brownlee has one exact review practically showing that the C is poorer than the F battery wise and it was all to do with band frequency compatibility. Most claims are usually backed up with some evidence to go along with it but I imagine since you aren't the one actually using the 910c now, it's going to be quite difficult to prove it via screenshots.

That's funny because a page back eldar4uk says his battery life has actually improved from the update. Now my question is have you tried to investigate what is causing it or you just concluded it had to be lollipop. Mind you, I say this because I found a useless newly introduced service in my former s4 that was causing 4% battery drain every hour and neutered it, then I started getting awesome battery life (1-2% drain per hour). At that point I had heard everything terrible about s4 battery life that I could have heard enough to keep me from buying it. Right now as we speak I have already gathered potential culprits responsible for such like behavior in the Note 4. So unless you have done some investigation, I'm not buying that weak general argument as I have heard it before in my time with the s4.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] robertbr108:
I took the screenshots right now. And I did not say the c has a better battery life. I have never had this standby time while I was using the 910c. It was actually very bad. F is fine now if I leave the location off.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
I have taken a pretty good look at my apps. But I can tell you that I won't change my minimum apps that I use just because Samsung is failing to offer a decent amount of battery life. I will whatsapp and line all I want. I will sync the 1 gmail account I have, even though I have taken off a lot services I don't use. I have gone through my list of apps accessing GPS and disabled them. I watch my Wi-Fi and 3G usage. I don't have any strange apps running in the background either. I consider this to be considerably more than what a layman should have to do. I find that I shouldn't have to root to freeze or change roms on such a powerful device that's also very very new. I also expect my device to work well, which is another issue. The lag from multitasking is stupid. As is the review image from the camera. Don't say were few in number. It is all over the net. This sent from my 910F model. And really, I could care less if you buy into my weak argument. ? who are you to say otherwise? Lol. Some Samsung Nazi? If you really want to find out more, search the web or even other links. If not here, then on Android central. I've posted multiple screenshots [emoji1] knock yourself out.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] DiogoAlmeida10:
Using snapdragon!