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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
I'm all stock, all original settings. All the phone and all apps.. Hasn't change a thing

White? Eh.. I have never seen bbs in white

PS. I have only charge in fast charge mode and think it give me good battery time. But all you that doesn't really know what's going on with the phone. Do some basic check... Flighmode about 7-10 hour, And see the drain, over a day look in bbs how long awake, screen on, Gsam monitor and look apps that running. It feels like everybody wanna have 7 hours screen time but you can't compare 2 persons phones.. It's all depend on usage. And then find what's not working so good with your phone... Think as you phone individuals. Radio, WiFi, apps in background, sync. Every little thing you'll change can be the change that make your phone drain. What's why I always have first week just stock, and all original app running and everything on. Then I know I my phones behave in Stock mode.. And started to play around with flash.

The only really thing you can compare are Flighmode it should be nearly the same drain 0,5-1,0(it where common usage since s2 - s4 imo) over a night.

Skickat från min SM-N910F via Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rmlsalta:
What can you say about this?

[YOUTUBE]cukwVXoq_TE[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Nothing.. Broken link?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rmlsalta:
are you sure? see attachment.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Okej, now I can see. Looks good.. Never used the battery saving mode. But 8 hours screen time really good. Then you in battery saving mode you can choose different setup? Black /White screen and so on.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rmlsalta:
yeap, it was on powersaving mode without grayscale, i think i will add more if it was on grayscale, but that SOT is enough for me.. :D
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Bbs screens during screen on

A test to see the screen time.

All setting as previously post. Stock, fast charge. Nothing changes.. Sync, gps, 2 email, Facebook, kik, chatt program, xda, some spotify(about 15 min) all program /app original setting. Push /intervall. , s-heath on, usage under the time are under normal usage.. Mostly, used kik, Facebook, browser, Youtube. But just wanna see screen time /awake.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jonneymendoza:
My stats. Got mine rooted but using stock rom. Not installed any custom roms or kernels. Just rooted it so I can use battery stats and wake lock detector
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
YouTube test.

Same setting as my previous post all apps /program on and sync original setting and push intervall. Auto brightness. Xda app on, and some chatt app, Skype on,

Run YouTube til the phone died.

(best fireplace HD 8 hours)

About 7 hours ink some small interrupt with some kik, and browser, Facebook time, answer people. Think it's really good run time to watch YouTube /film.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
You will nearly always get better battery life watching a video, since touching the screen ramps up the CPU. Unfortunately, video benchmarks aren't representative of real world use (unless you use your device as a digital picture frame ).

Sent from my SM-N910U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AMKhatri:
My battery stats, after the second full charge.

Brightness set to lowest, increased it when required.

Mobile Data was almost always off except for like 25 mins in total. Was running on wifi mostly.

Airplane mode was switched on at night.

3 mins of UHD video recording, and a few pics.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Yes, of course, as you can see in my previous post.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Its only my 3rd day with the phone. I guess I can do better with turning off s health. Not a fan of rooting..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] booncol:
Exynos N910C, WiFi On, Sync On, Screen Auto. Web and tapatalk browsing, few minutes of video watching, few minutes of gaming, couple of phone calls.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] CandyAndy:
My battery is just horrible compared to my previous Z3. I can get maybe 4 hours of SOT. I could somehow live with this, but the most curious thing is that also my Moto 360 battery is bad with Note 4. There is something to make battery drain also for Moto 360.

Previously I could do about 1,5 days with 360, but now battery will be dead after 12 hours.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
I wish I could get 5/5.5 hrs. I would be happy..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AMKhatri:
Wow..

Awesome man!!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Jonathan-H:
I got the phone Saturday. Struggled to get 4.5 hours screen on time with my normal setup.

Last night I drained the phone to 0 and charged it to full over night.

Today i've disabled bloat such as S Health and Samsung Account etc, and i'm on 2.5 hours with 58% left so I guess i'll get around 5-6 now.

Fingers crossed at 5 hours is a useable minimum.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Misk77:
Have you seen mine? And don't think it's good? My previous 4 post are imo pretty decent
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AMKhatri:
How do you disable S health?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jonneymendoza:
No idea
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Settings > Application Manager > Go to "All" tab, look for S Health > Disable (and will uninstall any update downloaded).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
Dropped from my usually 7hrs SOT to 6 yesterday but it was off the charger for 27hrs and I streamed radio for 1 hour and listened to locally stored music for 1.5hrs.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
I dont want to disable s health :( they say battery takes few cycles to attain max capacity.. It was only the 3rd day. Hope it goes upto 5 hrs.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] AMKhatri:
Thanks!

Done and Dusted [emoji16]

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
Does anyone know if it is possible and how to disable weather, I have no interest in my phone checking the weather and I don't have the widget active yet Greenify says it still keeps starting up...a lot.

Also YouTube keeps having to be hibernated even though I haven't opened it and have notifications off...any ideas why or how to stop that?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
How to disable? I've just showed that above. It's the same way, just find the Weather app under "All" tab. And Disable Youtube if you're bothered by that. I don't.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] themaximillian:
Weather widget isn't possible to disable.... At least not on my Sm-n910f running 4.4.4

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Oh Ok, I guess you can't. I thought I disabled mine when I saw "Yahoo Weather" and disabled it. Well, I use a weather widget anyway, but not the stock one, I use HD Widgets. I set it so that even though it is set to refresh every hour, there's a battery saving setting to make it only update when the screen is On.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] insang-droid:
I think. these should do it.. I don't have weather widget anymore.

adb shell "pm block com.sec.android.widgetapp.ap.hero.accuweather"

adb shell "pm block com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.liveweather"

adb shell "pm block com.sec.android.daemonapp"

source

http://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/general/disable-knox-ota-root-t2972263
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thetonyclifton:
Thanks. Does that last one do anything besides weather?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kapybarus:
Hello, I´m going to purchase note 4, but I would like to ask if someone could compare battery life of note to lg g2. Is it at least similiar? What about web browsing where most of the screen is white, does it have very bad affect on battery life on note 4 amoled? Thanks
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
I browse Internet daily facebook calls and lots of white screens and all that stuff its good for me :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sefrcoko:
Can't believe my eyes... Sure, it was on wifi all day, but stilll! Rooted N910W8, running DynamicKat 4.0 rom and latest AEL kernel. Using Greenify but haven't even frozen anything with TitaniumBackup yet.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
That black background theme helped a ton. Wish I can change the background with stock ROM and unrooted.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Same here
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
+1 it worries me that Lollipop is so bright and white. I want a black theme back, even if just to improve the battery life (and to save my eyes).

Sent from my SM-N910U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Soryuu:
This is what today looked like for me:

Seems average but

Data and wifi were on for most of it and screen brightness at half, sometimes at max. So I'm pretty happy with battery :)

Sent from my SM-N910U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Considering I didn't fully charge it and I took HDR pictures. WiFi sync 3G on.. Couple of games... I think its pretty decent..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Cruzaders:
Is it good enough? 910C and 19h on
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Almost 20 hrs on... WiFi mostly. Sync email social media YouTube
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
Why is voice call using so much battery on 910c? I had s5 sd and never such an extreme battery drain.

I use bt for voice on both devices.

Battery life on my s5 was supreme... Little disappointed in exynos.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
I have exynos U model although i dont use bt i get good mileage for voice calls.. might sort itself out after a few updates
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
HD voice is enabled (default values) and i have 4 bars 3G (also disabled lte in settings).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Keiex:
it seems bad, but if you are playing 3D games probably it's normal.

i got a incredible sot by mostly reading ebooks with a black background and white text.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Cruzaders:
No. I was on wifi all Day long and brightness was auto. Seems pretty bad huh?!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Keiex:
maybe it's s the brightness.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Skylit4u:
lucky you ,my phone can't last for more than 5 hours of screen on time.I don't know what's wrong it's the N910C
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Kind of bored people complaining why their SoT is so bad (eventhough 5hr SoT is already great!)

People need to understand that everyone use their devices differently, such as whether they read e-book with black background, or browsing the internet, or emailing, or texting, or Instant Messenging or watching videos locally or Youtube etc etc.

Then there's also the factors of signal strength, 4G or 3G, screen brightness, WiFi connectivity, what sort of apps they install (weather, email accounts, instant messengers, etc) and how often they sync, check the internet.

So many factors! So if your SoT is bad or why your battery drains so fast, it's mostly due to some misbehaving app, and/or to usage.

Everyone's here trying to show highest SoT possible, while I'm just sitting here wanting to see how the standby time is like on this thing. Heck, I don't have the time spending half my waking hours playing with my phone.

Always on 4G, No Power Saving, Auto Brightness, occasional WiFi and BT, checking WhatsApp messages. As you can see, terrible signal like almost all of the time.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kojobaafi:
I agree, no matter what you do everyone's battery life is going to be different but I think we can all share tips and tricks to enhance our battery life. For example I've been playing around with mine and normally get anywhere from 5.5-6.5hrs screen on time. I got 7.5hrs one time but couldn't remember my settings. I'm definitely a heavy user. I've been testing my phone the past few days with different settings and when I used the TW launcher and had Google now and location on power saving and manual brightness I got about 6hrs 15 mins and total phone usage around 16hrs then I turned off Google now and location, switched to Nova launcher used my phone the same way I always do and my results are below. I don't know if Nova and Touchwiz affect the battery in any way but turning location and Google now off gave me an extra 1hr 35 mins. I'm going to test different ways because I want the best battery life possible but without crippling my usage. Right now I'm using it with Google now on, but location off so mostly for the news aspect.

I was on Wi-Fi all day, XDA a lot reading about 50 pages, used hangouts, instagram, chrome, watched a few Youtube videos, Google+ etc. I have all my accounts including G-mail & two exchange accounts synced at all times, except from 10pm-6am. Oh and I was on manual brightness.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Braxos:
The only issue would be night drain, as loosing 2-3% per hour when on standby at your desk at night. Even different apps on phone can drain it at night if they are not optimized.

Rest is b...**** I read lots of ppl suggesting airplane mode or disable sync or disable WiFi and 3g wtf why do I buy a smartphone if I have to make it dumb to have better battery performance. Get a second charger or a car one or a second battery and live with the battery "drain"

Merry Xmass
[Galaxy Note 4 General] drocksmash:
I totally understand that there is a fine line between reasonable or not when trying to conserve the battery. I was just disheartened to see a SoT of <1 hour getting me down to 50% where as others are blasting a 4+ hour mark.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
I dunno about you.. But I got the flagship phone so that I can use it as a smartphone. I dont want to disable anything so that I am connected. What's the use if you only want to last days and not use anything? Get old Nokia 1100. It turns on even after 30 days off charger and last whole week (personally tried) with phone calls and sms both.

I dont mind charging my phone every night.. But I want it to last whole work day (typically 15 hrs) with everything on. And so far my note 4 does.. So am happy with it.. In fact it lasts longer than 15 hrs on WiFi
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Well yeah, this phone would last the whole day with everything turned on.

I'll let you in on a little secret, with my experience so far, I get more battery by having it on 4G/LTE rather than WiFi.

On full bar 2.4GHz WiFi, my battery drain is around 1% per hr, on 5GHz, it would be 1% per per 30 minutes. The phone is only 2 meters (6 feet?) from the WiFi Access Point. Yes, the WiFi Power Save Mode is set to ON, Smart Switch is OFF, so are all the other Settings under Advanced, all OFF.

But funny enough, on 4G/LTE that has only 2 bars, it's 1% per 1.5 - 2 hrs. Even though it is weak signal, yet it still conserve more battery than on WiFi.

I have been monitoring the battery draining rate with Battery Monitor Widget the past 3 weeks, clearly shows my findings above.

Normally WiFi would conserve more battery compared to 4G/LTE, so I don't know why my phone is demonstrating otherwise. So I only use WiFi when I need to download / upload something large.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Ive got note 4 for a week only so can't comment much on this but yesterday my battery was at 10% and had to rush my sister to the hospital. Had my phone plugged in for 10 mins and got it upto 35%. At hospital it was either no reception or 1 bar. But it lasted me almost 3 hrs (standby) with phone calls WhatsApp web browsing (few mins each). And still my battery was still 29% when I got home. So I would agree with ur theory
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Another example.

PS: I downloaded FIFA 15 ultimate team on WiFi and played it for 20 mins. Along with music and a run on treadmill with s health. N m sure if I use it normal now.. It would last me till end of the day.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RomBox:
Some applications will be more active if they found the Wifi is on, that's the reason I guess.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mahdibassam:
I just hit 4 hours SOT with 5% left.

4G coverage in my suburb is shady , I wonder if I will get more if I switchboard 3g.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
I'm aware of apps that rely on WiFi.

1. I used GSam Battery Monitor for apps activity, barely any difference in usage between WiFi and LTE

2. I switch off download-over-WiFi features on all apps that I know (eg. backups, I switched to manual or OFF)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Michael_EF:
First charge cycle! Really pleased with the battery life so far. I used the phone really hard on this charge, as I had just gotten the phone. I'd say 40% of the time I was on LTE and 60% of the time I was on wifi.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Soryuu:
I'm not sure whether it's just a placebo effect of sorts but I'm seeing the same thing. Being connected to wifi at home will drain my battery fairly quickly. But when I'm on 3G/4G and I'm out somewhere I could be out the whole day and it's still drain less than 10% in a few hours.

The standby time on this is fantastic though. I forgot to charge my phone overnight when it was at 25%. 8 hours later, 24%

Sent from my Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] t1337dude:
Damn, I can't get over how good this battery is. After 2 days of use it was still over 50%! It's absolutely amazing. To preserve my batteries integrity I only use my battery from 90 to 40 unless I'm doing a once per month full discharge like I am this moment. As of this moment my screen on time is at 4h 21m, and I've done a decent amount of gaming on Brothers in Arms 3.

Really, I'm in love with how big, beautiful, practical, and long-lasting this device is. I don't make a lot of money but this phone is essential and worth it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BS87:
^^^ agreed. This is after mostly light use:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Maelik:
Pretty good for a day of heavy usage and a bad signal for most of the day. (Mostly on LTE, with maybe a couple of spots of 3G and wifi here and there.)

Oh, and does thing charge really quickly!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
Ok, please look on my usage today. Of the charger. Something is fishy. I surfed, Tapatalk, messenger in first half of use, and after 2 calls I took a snapshot. It says voice calls use more than screen. Can it be or its some glitch? 910 c. I lost around 9-10 %for 1h of surfing. Witch seem Ok.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sugar 7:
For me seems the wifi such...

Envoyé de mon SM-N910F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
You had a total of 1 hr of Voice Call within your 3 hr off the charger. While calling, normally the screen is OFF, and the History Details (First screenshot) would show a long "Awake" stat -without- being accompanied by "Screen On" stat.

It means your screen was ON while you were making the calls, were you using the Loud Speaker perhaps during Voice Call and using the phone that kept the screen ON?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
Yes that is because i am using bt headset and turn on screen to check here or there. Think i make 3 calls in duration of 1 h.

GSM arena say 28 h of 3g calls for note 4. Its probably ideal usage, but for some battery apps say 6h 26 m 3g calls for 71%battery remaining or 11 h 15m for 2g.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
lol, if this is your first ever mobile phone, I can understand you may be believing those "Manufacturer's quoted hours of usage" and comparing to what your battery app says. What you see on GSM Arena is what the manufacturer say, not from real world tests.

If you have used mobile phones, you should know better to take those manufacturer's quoted hours with a bucket of salt.

Besides, your battery app was just projecting the remaining hours of usage based on the previous Calls usage since it is off the charger and how much battery was drained during the calls since then.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
Ok, but logic say, if tests for s5 are 21, and n4 28 h, why I not experienced such high voice call percentage on s5 phone.

Is 10 h call time estimate is ok for note 4 or there is some very different consumption because Bluetooth/modem chip..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Snapdragon models seem to have better, more efficient modem than Exynos. Using Bluetooth definitely drain more battery on Voice Calls. Did you Voice Calls on the S5 exactly like on the Note 4? Bluetooth, doing stuff on the phone while talking etc. I don't know what you do with your phone.

I don't think anyone here has test how the battery does for Voice Calls. Again, people use their phones differently, so results will vary.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
What i see is less life then on my previously S5 with some usage pattern. And to my eye very high voice consumption with bluetooth what i didn't see in S5.

So what i ask is in relativity good signal, is 6-7% without BT and data/wifi and around 10% per hour with data in background and bluetooth are normal result for 3G on note 4.

Would it be much better on N910F model?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
I say that is normal, but then it's subjective, need a comparison with similar usage but would be proven difficult as everyone here is all about the longest Screen On Time.

N910F would only be slightly better, probably.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
Well, thanks. What bothered me is that i have some faulty unit.

:)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
NP, if the phone is new, give it a few charge cycle and let the battery break in. Other possibility is misbehaving app when screen is on.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] dajumper:
My best stats ever!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] michsu:
Snapdragon :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Michael_EF:
What kind of settings? Wifi?? 3g? Brightness levels? Gaming? Texting? Lol

Sent from my SM-N910W8
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Just want to share with everyone of my stand by test. Extremely low usage, because I only wanted to test Stand-by on 4G, and everyone else here only acres about SOT. Occasional WiFi and BT, WhatsApp, Auto Brightness. With the same usage, the phone would have died on 4th day if using WiFi full time. Only used WiFi to download/upload big things. BT is used to sync Gear Fit each night before bed.

Probably I'll test 3G next.

Pretty much 7.5 days of stand by if I waited till 1% battery, but it's Monday now and need the phone fully charged again.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] lmedland:
This is crazy, considering how bad your mobile signal looks! Wow.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] acts4:12:
My android OS and android system are using more battery than my screen. What do you think could be causing this? I do have my screen turned way down and it is not on auto. I have disabled all the bloat I can and have my location settings set to power saving mode.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Cruzaders:
Turned off fast charging and connected the phone at 30%. Also disabled auto brightness Omg. Battery suddenly increased the usage. - using exynos
[Galaxy Note 4 General] razno:
If you used a screen very little in that period it's all normal.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jdomadia:
Fast charg giving less battery juice agree.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] acts4:12:
Had the phone since Friday. Very happy with battery life thus far
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nh97103:
Battery life is certainly better than on the Note 2. I'm getting about 6 hours screen time... Without any gameplay. With just about any gameplay, I can't get above about 5 hours screentime, which is a bit disappointing to me.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] msavic6:
Once the Android L update comes along, battery life should be improved even further. A Nexus 5 running the developer version of Android L had very noticeable battery gains over a stock kitkat Nexus 5, the Note 4 will hopefully experience the same.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 9e705ebbf0:
FWIW Phonearena mentioned in the comments that the battery life analysis was performed on the Snapdragon variant.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] LoverOfTech:
Was posted in wrong thread. My ipad fault. Apologies