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[Galaxy Note 4 General] t1337dude:
For people that seem confused about how to best maintain their battery...

Basic Battery Tips

- You shouldn't regularly recharge to 100% (92-95% is better, it's better to always leave headroom on battery)

- Once per month do a full charge and discharge (charge to 100%, use until 0%).

- Don't leave your phone on the charger (it's safe, but it lessens battery life to leave battery at full charge for periods of time)

- It's best to not run your phone below 35%

- Put your phone in battery saving mode when listening to music and performing non-video intensive activities.

- Put your phone in ultra battery saving mode when using phone for basic functions (text/call/web)

- Keep your phone away from heat

Follow these tips and your battery will live a long, happy life.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] michsu:
70% update.. trying to max out OST..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] skanj:
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Pretty happy with my battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] trichrome1:
Disable Facebook notifications. I find that's a huge battery killer

SM-N910W8 on Rogers Canada
[Galaxy Note 4 General] michsu:
That's very good.. a standby of more than 1 day.. and about 4-5 hours usage.. :)

Let's say an average of 16-18 hours per day not sleeping (I sleep less than 7).. you will probably play around with the phone for 15 minutes per hour on average...

17 hours (avg) x 15 minutes => 255 minutes => 4.25 hours .. so the phone has to get at least 4.25 hours OST for it to be worthwhile.. so I have to keep tweaking then...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 2ndammendment:
92% to 95% is extremely arbitrary and unnecessarily confusing. It makes more sense to inform consumers that every 10% off the full charge doubles the cycle life of the battery. 90% gives you double the cycle life, 80% gives you quadruple and so on.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] michsu:
60% update
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Piercing Heavens:
Here are my tips.

Charge it when its almost dead.

Take it off the charger when you need it.

By doing that the battery will last a few years and you probably won't notice any change. In a year time batteries for this thing will be dirt cheap and I don't see a reason to baby the battery or stress about draining and fully charging it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] t1337dude:
It is arbitrary, but not confusing. The Android OS already reserves a few percent of battery, so charging your battery to 100% isn't actually a "full charge". I've seen no exact figures citing how much % is reserved, but around 92% is effectively 90%. The point is that the specific % doesn't matter, as long as it's ~10% less than the full amount (which we don't know exactly what that is). Between 92 and 95% is where you want to take your phone off the charger, 92% being preferable, 95% being less preferable.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 2ndammendment:
I don't see that. When I charge to 100% I get 4.20v after the surface charge dissipates. There is no buffer in the upper limit but there is a buffer in the lower limit. 100% is 100% but 0% is not 0%
[Galaxy Note 4 General] donkon:
michsu how do you recommend I reduce the android usage. I find myself constantly greenifying apps and its still around 27%
[Galaxy Note 4 General] an_xda:
I have a feeling a lot of folks getting 6+ hours of battery time must not be running on LTE... I simply cannot comprehend how your screen can be powered that much on LTE with 12+ of uptime.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
mind telling the font name ? :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
To the people who debate on battery charging and being careful on how to charge it, I'm gonna say this again, don't worry on when and how long you should charge it. Just plug it in whenever you want and need, even if you discharge to 0% and recharge to full everyday, it should retain good charge for a whole year.

Then when you think the battery is not holding charge as good as it use to, you can buy another battery and replace it. This is the beauty of user-replaceable battery! Go out and have fun with your phone, battery charging cycles concerns should be the last on your list :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] KindaJackedForANerd:
Heavy use

GPS everything on not bad at all
[Galaxy Note 4 General] koppee1:
Is 6 percent discharge while I'm asleep good or bad? Maybe 6 hours sleep
[Galaxy Note 4 General] juliano76:
Google play service

Hello!

I'm suffering from big battery drain due to google play service. I was searching the web for any solution, but found nothing that may fix the problem. Of course disabling location services are not an option for me since this will make pointless the fact of having smart phone. I have axactly the same settings on my old Note 3 but it's going flowlessly.

Any ideas will be much appreciated!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Zanr Zij:
Install AppOpsXposed and switch off Location and Keep Awake of some processes :).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] dannysmith43:
First charge on my Note 4...

24 hours off charger, 4.5 hours SoT, mixed brightness medium usage. Some airplane mode overnight but I'm very happy for my first charge. Unfortunately I have some screen colour issues so I'm getting this handset replaced....hope the new one is as good.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] skanj:
Yeah of course it's salsa regular
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
1% per hour is still Normal, especially if you have other things running in the background, which you didn't mention.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] donkon:
Well i'v installed DU Battery Saver pro and memory booster pro last night . l have slept and also used the phone when I woke up and am sitting at 65% with 2h 5m SOT and 8H battery time . I love this phone and won't return it but l am wondering if they ever release better aftermarket batteries you can replacefor the note 4

BTW I am also on power saving mode at all times so my stats are bad
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Exynos version not even full/1st charge wifi for a few minutes and 3g for the whole time and been using the **** outta this phone lol looking forward to full charge
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
That looks very good. Could you also, when you post your battery screenshots next time, include the History Details screenshot by tapping the graph on your first screenshot.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Here u go
[Galaxy Note 4 General] podface:
Is this normal?? No or unknown signal 100%...

Also woke up to ~80% battery so I lost ~18% overnight 8hrs. So about 2% drain an hour

BTW I turned my 4G off in settings so only 3g and my signal bars are always 3 to 4 bars
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cathain:
I'm really convinced that there is actually a physical problem with some of the batteries that come with the Note 4? Or at least there is huge differences in the battery capacities and it is just luck of the draw what you get!? I returned my Note 4 and got a new one. After the first charge I am down to 60% and have had nearly 2.5hrs screen on time which is around what I would have when I got down to 15% on my previous note 4? At this rate I should be looking at close to 6hrs SOT when battery is down to 5%. I'll post screenshots later when I run the battery right down.

All my apps are the same and phone is set up exactly as my previous one was so the only thing that would explain it is physical differences in the battery?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] michsu:
For the DU Battery Saver Pro, you have to add memory booster to the safe list and vice versa.. the programs that kill/free up memory cannot kill each other.. otherwise, it's basically as if you never installed it in the first place.. You need to run all the programs you use and then run their advanced battery savings to remove them from the background.. Memory Booster just activate the auto boost (I set it for every time screen off and 10 minutes auto boost)..

Also, I'm trying LUX now.. it seems the display is still the biggest battery eater of all.. I'm linking my lux values at 43% for 176lux.. 44% at 181lux now.. basically a little darker (about 20%) than the auto-brightness of Samsung.. so basically don't use Samsung's display settings.. so let's see what happens.. also, lowered a few settings too.. it will still auto adjust, it is just set to auto-adjust at lower settings..

Once I get it back to 100%, I will run a 10% drop test again (at least until 90%), so I can compare from yesterday..

my time to beat from previous settings.. 82% battery with 2h 28m and 1 hr 47m OST...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
My battery life with Dalvik

This is my battery life with normal everyday use. Even though I had some issues with battery for the first couple of days, now it seems to be working fine. I once converted runtime system to ART and it seem that battery is even better on ART.

I forgot to mention the brightness level was at 80% cca
[Galaxy Note 4 General] podface:
Im also gonna try for an exchange. Hopefully they don't F me over!! grr :eek:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] t1337dude:
It's really not difficult to greatly extend the life of your battery by being mindful of the tips I gave - it'll last a lot longer than if you just consistently do full charges and discharges. Then instead of spending $40 on a new battery, you can spend that $40 on something else (like your girlfriend) :p

Of course, to some people, $40 for a new battery is no big deal, but I personally prefer to keep my things at their optimum and spend less money replacing things. Thankfully the phone's battery is so good that you don't have to be particularly mindful of the battery to get much enjoyment out of it. :D

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That is contrary to what I've researched but you're probably right. Then 90% is what you should aim for (optimally).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] dannysmith43:
2nd charge stats....airplane mode overnight and most of the day at work as my reception is zero!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
Dalvik to ART

Just remember when converting to ART some apps may stop working or may not show at all. I converted to ART few moments ago, again, so I will test the battery with ART, but I am positive it will be better than on Dalvik.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
6 hours overnight i got 1% drop thats with apps greenified and no data/wifi
[Galaxy Note 4 General] t1337dude:
I was at 50% battery life, and after my apps were optimized, my battery life was at 35%. Holy cow!

Some people have been reporting better battery life on ART but I haven't seen anyone actually document it yet.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] an_xda:
Here was my latest drain. Location services off, WiFi overnight for 7 hours. Thinking of enabling location services again...

Google Play services
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
You have to be patient. Give it some time.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] donkon:
at least knowing that the nexus 6 battery is worse I don't have buyers remorse wondering if waiting would have been better . I wonder if rooting and de bloatingwould help with battery life

Sent from my SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Update just under 50% wow this phones a freak on battery used 3g all morning till i got home then wifi. Been facebooking xda'ing non stop spotify brightness is about a quarter of the way up manual of course!! Easy get 7 8 hours sot
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Manjunath324:
one thing I noticed that all guys who r having screen usage ratio high , r getting better on screen time.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
No kidding ;)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
That is true! Also heres my 1st day of full charge! Bloody fantastic 3g all morning wifi from 11am pretty much till now, bit of Bluetooth spotify fruit ninja xda youtube episode of family guy lol everything!! Superb
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ozaghloul:
Every single phone I have ever owned has never ever even come close to what people post in the battery thread. From HTC to LG to Samsung I never get more than 50% of the average battery life posted on the battery thread. However, out of all my Notes (1, 2, 3, and now 4), the Note 4 is by far the worst battery by a long shot. I have less than a third of the apps on my Note 4 that I did on the Note 3 and I can never get more than 12 hours of moderate use and 3 hours of screen on time. All settings similar to Note 3, but with even fewer apps running and syncing. I really hate the battery life of the Note 4. Really really really hate it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Dunno what is wrong dude maybe u could post a days use of stats and we can have a look for u
[Galaxy Note 4 General] iridaki:
I'm very impressed by the phone's battery performance! I put it on Ultra Power Saving every night for 6 hours while I sleep, which of course helps.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ozaghloul:
Do you find that your GPS doesn't automatically switch back on when you exit ultra power savings?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] iridaki:
Yes! Also WiFi turns on even if it was off when I enabled power saving. But I'm sure those will be sorted out with an update at some point.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] koppee1:
on my non rooted note 4...installing greenify seems to make battery life worse.....anyone experience the same?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Greenify is better when rooted mate
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
If anyone's using CPU Spy or BBS, what's the best deep sleep you've had? My device is either at 1300mhz or 400mhz and in deep sleep only 80% or less.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thearch1tect:
Battery life depends a lot on your mobile network signal quality. I get about 5 hours of SOT on average but I drive around and go through some crap signal areas from time to time.

And of course if you're on your phone all the time then you're also going to get higher SOT because there's a lot less idle time for your phone.

I'd love to have longer SOT but its just psychological. I get through my day just fine with 20-30% left (going from 7am to about midnight).

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Sent from Sprint Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tomakas:
My baterry stats i think its good. I had some calls sms. Used some hours of 3g/4g network. Also wifi. Where im living also is not good enough signals.

I have disable some samsung crap apps. And location turned off.

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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Yes it does depend somewhat on the signal but the idle time has nothing to do with it. I could get 7hr sot and 2 days use if i wanted i just use my phone alot that's all. I just woke up 7 hours sleep wifi on and didnt loose 1% :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
I just converted to ART run time... lets see what happens. Initially the battery was horrible(for like 10 minutes) but the last 30 it has been sipping the juice... will report back later.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] markyboy81:
Just don't switch it off as it may take ages to reboot after optimising apps..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] donkon:
waiting for an update as I'm curious if it will help.

Sent from my SM-N910F (Note 4)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Will try art now after these results
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
So far so good.... But will track changes tomorrow after a full charge.

Don't read to much into this.... Wifi when I got home.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
8 hours screen on. That is pretty good. [emoji5]
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
He has great signal, so only very little drain maintaining mobile signal. That's why I always consider the battery history details screenshot (his 2nd screenshot) is important to show when anyone posting battery screenshots.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Yup :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedmond:
I would say that's pretty normal.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] polish_pat:
He's lying because it is airplane mode. Anyways, we all know this phone is a beast when it comes to battery life, but my BS meter is off the charts. The only way to turn off mobile signal if through airplane mode.

As for my participation to this thread, I got a comfortable 1.5 days with 3.5h of screen on time at mostly 60 to 70% as I like my screen nice and bright, no airplane, no power saving, not even greenify. I love this phone.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] inaya45:
If the phones were tested at 100% brightness, wouldn't the N4 AMOLED display use about 37% (399/291) more energy while the iP6+ LCD would use the same? In that speculative scenario, the N4 would be considerably dimmer than the iP6+.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Finished my 2nd charge, results I quite like. No Power Saving, Auto Brightness -5, No Greenify, No Root, No System App Removal/Disabled. Only location Reporting is OFF.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] samaxen:
Wow which model are you using Snapdragon? in Exynos I have pretty ordinary battery life
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
This is..... incredible to say the least. HOW DID U DO THIS!? I know it depends on the carrier of 3G, or mobile operator... but this is unbelieveable! Though you have 4G which is really economical to 3G on which I am right now.

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Is there anyway to remove, or at least disable bloatware on offical nonrooted rom? If so, is there any list on bloatware that can be disabled without any problems to other apps? I think this would also improve battery life drasticaly.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Yep if u wanna disable apps/bloatware you can. If your in the apps drawer hit the settings button and hit Uninstall/disable
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
It's an Exynos model.

4G drains more battery compared to 3G, especially with crappy signal I have, just look at that mobile signal quality, really ugly. I don't want to root my phone just yet, so I just work around stuff I can to avoid battery drainage. So I don't know how disable bloatware other than through the Application manager.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
I don't believe that it's crappier than mine here in Serbia hahahha

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I do know there to remove it, I just don't now which apps to remove....
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
I don't know either, so I didn't disable any :p

There was a thread or a post mentioning apps that are safe to disable on Note 4.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
Maybe normal before a few tweaks (using the Xposed module Amplify).

Sent from my SM-N910U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Lodix:
7 hours with screen doing what ?? Because the app that sucks more battery is whatsapp and it only took 2%.

So you did a very soft use of the phone.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tmac31:
Media server is there so he watched videos . And other usage shouldnt be soft battery stats definetly cant really show what you did. I always get 6 hours sot on mine mostly i do is browsing web like 4-5 hours so its not a soft usage but it only shows 8% or something for browser screen for 40-50% percent. So we cant decide his usage really.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Yep, it was low usage. Since everyone has tested how the phone would hold up in a day with high usage, so I tested its standby endurance with some playing around the phone configuration, browse the web a little, etc.

At the end of 2nd day, it still had 23% battery left with 4.6 hours of SOT, so I thought I'd just burn the remaining battery by looping a 48 minute 1440p video (managed 3x) before it hit 1% , so I could charge it to full before I go to work.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] samaxen:
[MENTION=763497]EP2008[/MENTION] Could you see kernel wakelock in BBS, at first it was not working, so I installed Enable battery stats xposed module. Now everything except kernel wakelock works.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
I can't see alarms or kernel wakelocks in BBS, and I've reported it in the official BBS thread - oddly enough, all other apps I've tested will show those stats, and I've tried 3 different version of BBS without luck (and that Xposed module too).
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
So far so good with the ART running. Been a normal day some Hotspot use as well. Normally I would be lower at this point.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] quadlt:
Amplified, greenified, frozen tons of bloatware, still as bad as it can get. 45 mins of Android OS just eating me alive, BBS doesn't see any major wakelocks though... What is wrong with you Samsung?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
I think this is not a bad result at all. It seems that Note 4 has better SOT when using the phone. My phone is not rooted, all bloatware is here, runs on Dalvik. Most of the time brightnes was at AUTO 0, but I used it with +5 as well.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Razvann90:
Which is the best battery?

Snapdragon or Exynos? I don't know what to choose.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] samaxen:
I guess you are using version 1.1.5. For alarms you need to turn root access, which is by defualt turn off in v 1.1.5. Once you do you enable should be able to see alarms. Only the kernel wakelock doesn't work
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
Root access is on, but I don't see alarms in BBS (but I do in other battery monitoring apps). Hasn't worked on the 1.1.5, 1.1.6 or the 2.0b2 versions :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
Looking good with ART running.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] samaxen:
Oh strange I am also using exynos n910c though, I have all except kernel wakelock
[Galaxy Note 4 General] POLO_i780:
I'm getting just over 7hours On Screen time on about 12-15hours off charge with my Snapdragon, so I can assure you it has incredible battery life. I do not own an Exynos so I cannot comment on it, but I can confirm the Snapdragon is a super efficient beast. :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Vichenec:
How hot does your device gets? I live in Thailand where temperature is rarely below 31c , sometimes phone becomes as hot as 40c, also what I notice is that it works pretty much lag and stutter free at about 28c but if it gets higher it starts to Lag ever so slightly, and battery goes down quicker (perhaps it is just me) . For those of you who have SOT more then 4 hours, how hot does your phone gets? What is your ambient temperature throughout the day? Do you experience thermal throttling?

So far I'm not that impressed with battery life, it is not bad, but seeing some users get more then 5 hours I wonder what is so different on my device. Not rooted, no greenify, auto brightness - 5, s health switched off, sync off, location battery saving ( from 50% turned on high accuracy).

I'm on international exynos n910c
[Galaxy Note 4 General] hung2900:
Seems something wrong with your device. Have you tried factory reset?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Vichenec:
I'm still trying to figure out the reasons for high amount of wake locks, just noticed that Skype has group message notifications turned on, which I remember from my note 2 was a huge battery drain. Don't want to root the device and void the warranty just yet, in case it is faulty and I would have to return it. Does your device gets warm /hot sometimes?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tmac31:
Im generally getting 6 hour sot on my exynos version with mobile network usage. If i use wifi it gets around 7 hours(no game etc ofc) and all i can say its the coolest phone ive ever used. Didnt see it pass 35c my htc one with same usage it always goes over 40c easy same goes for my old snapdragon note 3. Definetly something wrong with your phone. .
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
Has anybody already made a list of Note battery saving tips? What to turn of what not etc?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Mine runs very cool in in australia so its not exactly cool here but my exynos model never gets warm and I hit 7 hours sot easy
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mbernstein:
Sorry if this has been answered... How do I use a regular charger (for when I'm not home, for instance)?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedmond:
What do you mean how? Like any other charger...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mbernstein:
It is not charging. Only with the charger from the package...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Maybe try this: Before plugging a regular charger, go to Power Saving and

uncheck

Fast Charging. Then plug the regular charger.

See if that works.