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[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Rooted 910W8 using FK v11 but rooted stock was pretty much same on life.

I have location setting off all the time except for times I use (just) gps for travel.

Debloated of course but that is only stock apps, you could say I bloated myself with over a hundred user installed apps (yes I have to and will trim that).

I haven't played with UV (yet) for any length of time but is currently at stock levels.

Interactive gov most of time. Row sched.

I'm not even a huge greenify fan but use it occasionally on some buids/Roms. It is not running atm.

Screen is huge thing for me.

I guess you could say I'm lucky a chunk of usage is late at night in dark so can use low brightness and which pitch black I use night mode to go even lower (as even low stock brightness can be too high in dark, especially on white pages, apps)

I do use 2-5hrs at 40-75% level and 100% when needed.

I guess another key is finding the apps/services that kill battery in background of which I have none atm.

This is another ss from yesterday use. Another great day of 18hrs use with 10.5hrs sot. Nothing crazy mind you, just lots of simple browsing, Forums, texts +4hrs Bluetooth of which 2hrs audio and 2hrs video.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
I am just loving this new lollipop update. This is my first run at the battery life cycle with stock TouchWiz boc5 Panama rom (N910H). I installed Uzbekistan rom earlier but it wasn't as good as this one.. i wud get like 3.5 to 4 hrs of battery life tops. This ones getting me atleast 2.5 at 50%. let see how it is tomorrow..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ialopux:
After rooting and greenifying some of the apps I've got way much better battery life with the same usage as I used to have non-rooted.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] trn20:
My SM-N910A has just awful battery life; I disabled everything I could, reset cache and everything. Here is today which was a day in the office and hardly any screen on time yet 9:00 PM and the phone has 30% battery, WTF samsung!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Some ppl r saying u need to factory reset your AT&T device. Then it works fine
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
If your phone is hardly being used then it's being kept awake WAY too much! Two thirds of the time! Need wakelock detector and see what's keeping it awake and stealing battery..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bekasulaberidze:
Guys I need your help, latest lillipop firmware (sm-n910c) I'm not using it, just regular use phone calls max 10 minutes, facebook max 5 minutes. why is connection time 10x more than usage time ? any suggestions ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bekasulaberidze:
forgot SOT... just 55 minutes :/
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bekasulaberidze:
Guys I need your help
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
I get the same battery with H+. It's better on WiFi. Try factory reset.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bekasulaberidze:
Tried everything ! :eek:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bekasulaberidze:
what the hell is this ? I'm notusing phone and it drains extremely fast
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
App usage?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] justvalencia:
here's mine. If i remember it right i am mostly on wifi and wireless headset connected via bluetooth. watched few episode of anime. any comments? is this fine? or are there area for improvements? since my screen uses almost 48% others i saw uses only 36%

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roaring from the beast NOTE 4(N910C)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
Just to share my experience that I posted on another thread. My phone was not deep sleeping when the screen was off and in the power usage graph you could see it was draining whilst the screen was off. I read that Play Services has been updating a lot recently and causing wakelocks. I signed out of Google in the accounts menu, rebooted the phone and then signed back in again and this stopped the draining whilst sleeping. I now get around 3% drain overnight whereas before it was around 10-15%. If you're getting a lot of drain, check your wakelocks and especially play services/android system.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sarasws:
Battery life after updating to Lollipop and resting the device. View attachment 3244588View attachment 3244589
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sPEADy:
You mind sharing your font there in Pics, Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bekasulaberidze:
guys how do you get much SOT ??!! help me
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Do you have your sync on or off?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackCrow-It:
Without root and with rom stock samsung how much sot did you get?

This is my situation. I have the snapdragon version, kitkat. I get at least 5h sot with H+ and it is near with 4G/4G+. 6sot using only wifi. But the problem is that I get this using low brightness.. Which app/service kill the battery?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Well, I basically get this on stock too.. Radio and WiFi on 100% Bluetooth 2-3 hrs everyday, half of which is music and other half video.. 6-8hrs sot average of which half is 50-75% and half at low.. And good days I get 10-11hrs sot.. When mostly just browsing, Forums, text, etc..

You have to try and find what might be doing this.. Location services off most of the time correct? Use battery apps to see what is hogging most awake time and battery. Maybe try Greenify. Everybody swears by it although I only use it on builds if there is a culprit.

Which note4 model you using again?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] xdm9mm:
I get 7 hours screen on time watching netflix and screen brightness set to auto +2, and the phone is next to the window.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sarasws:
Yes. Sync and location(Hi-accuracy). WiFi with Edge at home and 3G with Bluetooth outside. The same set up use to give max of 4 hours SOT on KK. Now it is giving a min of 5.5 hours SOT after resetting the device
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackCrow-It:
N910F anyway I use Nova Launcher Material maybe is it the problem? Location is off. I can say one thing. I get 1h screen on using first 20% of battery. When I bought it I got 7h using gps email etc etc, mostly in wifi and just a little in H+. After 5 days, I started to get just 4/5h sot with the same usage.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gochanote:
Bro (dzma) new ll rom has battery drain problem. Try to install wanamlite 2.1 if you have n910c and adam kernel 2.1. then try to install boc5 modem(sweet rom v10 post #1855) . perfect battery life. Only private MODE Does not work with adam kernel.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] scoopdreams:
Wow lollipop on 910G seems to be doing great! Installed it two days ago... Factory reset it afterwards. No root location always on. 6hours SOT till 17% whereas on KK 6hours SOT and I'm usually below 10%.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
I'm on beta Nova's too. No issues here (with battery drain that is)

Something else in background most be contributing to your loss..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sarasws:
Flora font :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackCrow-It:
I haven't rooted yet so which app should I use? ( to see what is draining). In the end I got 7h sot only with wifi and low brightness and mostly with dark screen. I know guys who get 6/7h sot with 4G, and this make me feel a little sad :D
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Why can't I get 6 to 7 hrs of SOT :( I've tried everything.. :(
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
Same... i am doing a full reset and trying again. Mine bottomed out at 4 hours today. Really only installing whats necessary.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Try and then temme I'll do it over the weekend
[Galaxy Note 4 General] emergencystilts:
Got these stats today, I tried leaving the screen on all day to stress the battery. Mostly wifi enabled, screen brightness on auto, firekat v11. I have all bloatware disabled as well as Google play services (it's not worth how much battery it consumes imo). I can post my full tweak / app setup if people are interested. I believe I could get 16-17 hrs of OST if I used my phone more efficiently during the stress test I'll try and see what I can do!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
I did it, left it at 99 percent when i went to sleep and woke up to find it at 64... 7 hours later. No apps installed. Just one gmail id configured and that's it. I give up on this for now. Going to just use and charge and not look at battery stats.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Never experienced that much drop on my phone overnight. Max it's been is 10%
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
Yea i am really surprised myself. I got max 7-8 percent back when i was on KK. I am sure it will sort itself out, but you know when you are just in and out due to work, you cant spend time depending on the device to behave itself.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
I read somewhere to delete all ur Google accounts restart the device then add ur Google account.. I did that and drain is relatively v slow
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
It would make sense, but i just reset. Going to swap my other network's sim into the note 4 and see if that makes a difference. Both networks have equally good strength normally at work/home.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Graivite:
O.o amazing.

If you could post your full setup I'd really appreciate it. I can't get past 5 hours using web browser, facebook messenger and instagram. One time I had over 5 hours is when I've been watching couple of movies on my phone.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gull_s_777:
GSM Arena and phonearena reported quite good battery on Note 4, but this thread doesn't seem to agree much.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
You need to check your phone is deep sleeping. I check this with a battery app but you need to be rooted. When my phone is deep sleeping I can get 5+ hours SOT. When it's not, it can be as low as 3 hours SOT. Usually apps or Google Play services stay awake in the background and cause the phone not to sleep and this causes quite bad battery drain.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] emergencystilts:
Here you go,

This is what i have so far. Although this setup is not for everyone, I disable google play store and Google play Services, as well as disable any type of cloud syncing or auto app updates. Google play store / services is a battery eating monster and its simply not worth the services it provides, and there are ways to live without it. Simply download all APK's elsewhere just search google. The only app that doesn't work that i've found is Youtube, however "Viral Video Pro" Is a free alternative which is much better than youtube official app (imo).

Step 1: Flash stock ANK4, Root Phone, Install TWRP. (Use Odin)

Step 2: Install the FireKatN4ANK4V11X Rom.

Step 3: Install SuperSU, Greenify, ROM Toolbox Lite, Smart Network, BatteryCalibration, Nova Launcher.

Step 4: These are the apps I have hibernated using Greenify (I have the pro version of greenify which lets me hibernate system apps but ROM Toolbox Lite can do essentially the same thing and its free) 3DTourViewer, BeaconManager, BoFA, Briefing, com.sec.android.pagebuddy, DeviceTest, DiagMonAgent, Email, Flud, Gallery, Google Play Books, Google Play Store, Maps, Netflix, OneBusAway, ScrapBook, Shazam, Unified Daemon, Video Player, Visual Voicemail, VLC, Youtube,

Step 4: Use ROM Toolbox Lite to disable system apps, I have the following apps frozen (its very important to disable every single one i have listed) ANT Radio Service, ANT+ Plugins Service, Beaming Service, Blurb Checkout, Briefing, Bubbles, Calendar, Calendar Storage, Drive, Dropbox, Exchange Services, Flipboard, FWUpgrade, GalaxyApps, Gear VR Service, Gear VR Shell, Gmail, Google Account Manager, Google Calendar Sync, (ANYTHING WITH GOOGLE PLAY INCLUDING GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES), Hancom Office 2014, Hangouts, Health and Safety, Health Service, Help, HP Print Service, S Launcher, Live WallPaper , Live Weather, Market Feedback Agent, Milk, Mobile Print, Mobile Tracker, My Interests , My Places, Nearby Devices, Nearby Service, NFC Service , Phase Beam, Photo Studio, Print Spooler, Quick Connect, Quick Connect Interaction, S Finder, S Health, S Note, S Voice, Safety Assistance, (ANYTHING WITH 'SAMSUNG' IN THE NAME. although I left SamsungSans unfrozen not sure what it does), Sapa Monitor, Scrapbook, ScreenMirroring, Screenwrite, Selfie alarm, Settings Storage, Studio, T Mobile Name ID, Talk Back, Travel Wallpaper, Trim, Unified Daemon, Video Clip Studio, Video Trimmer, Voice Recorder, Visual Voicemail, Voice Recorder, Youtube,

Step 5: Use SmartNetwork to have phone disable wifi while screen is off and switch to lowest cell network.

Step 6: Use BatteryCalibration and follow the instructions to make sure your battery is calibrated correctly.

Also im sure you will have different apps than me, make sure to greenify the ones you can and use WakeLockDetector to find out which apps keep your phone awake.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
A couple more 10+ hrs sot days.. One from few days ago and other was yesterday..

The one quick line break was a reboot in the afternoon when my Bluetooth disconnected and then wouldn't reconnect to my headset or speaker..

Lots of basic browsing, Forums, etc first half of day. Bluetooth on good chunk with couple hours of audio/video later on.. Only short bits of gps.. 17hr day

(btw I am embarrassed a bit that I avg 7+ sot and get many 10/11hr days.. Waaaaay too much time on phone lol.. Need to cut that back.. I do get some good productive time and plenty of tech audio/video streaming... But still way too long lol)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
As you will see, WiFi and cell radios on all day. No Greenify (not saying it's bad but seldom need it)

910W8 running FK v11
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tommolo:
Mine, Kitkat stock, no root
[Galaxy Note 4 General] alom5:
Obviously, there's something wrong with your phone ? get it checked out at the service centre soon as you can.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
I'll get right on that ;)

I sure can't complain about battery life.. It's the best phone I've ever had in this regard.. And although typically I swear by having a removable battery (and removable SD as well) I can do without it and doubt I'll ever put another battery in here, unless I have this phone long enough that it starts to not hold a charge anymore.

I do feel bad for the many people who just can't get much life on this phone.. Different varients and must have setups/apps that are ducking it dry..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gold3nCloud:
Can anyone please tell me if this is good? Thank you. :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
Well a couple of days later and what a difference. Battery life has increased pretty much to what i would expect. Got 4.5-5 hours SOT and over a day in standby. It settled on its own ( 4 charge/discharge cycles in)

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Envious battery life. Good stuff.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
From 51% went down to 34% while i was sleeping...

Stock ,no root 4.4.4 KK

Which services should i disable?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
The one(s) that's causing the problem of course! :p

I don't mean to sound sarcastic lol.. But it's not same for everyone... So use an app(s) to check what's draining battery or wake lock detection.. Then you can better address this.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cricketgirl90:
Awesome :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gold3nCloud:
I have one quick question. Should you charge your phone when it's about at 50% or let it go down to around 20-30%? I want to make sure my battery is healthy. Thank you.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedmond:
50 - 70%
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
Im not rootes how will i check this?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Well wake lock detectors won't work but most battery apps will.. Stock battery app gives some idea.. Gsam Battery is pretty detailed.. There are several..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Hard to believe what I'm about to show. .. Because my wife put LP back on (my other Note4) the other day (accidentally after I had flashed back to kk) I figured I'd use that phone for a few days and well today, the battery life is even better (then the great life I get on fairly stock kk and FK)! As posted recently I get 7-9hrs sot regularly on a fairly heavy 18-20hr day/charge, with days I've hit 11hrs sot.

This screenie is from earlier tonight..

I had been on battery for 14 hours.. Done mostly browsing, Forums, etc.. Bluetooth on most of it but only headset and only couple of calls.. 1hr video and 2 hours audio streams.. Brightness mostly 40-60%..

At time of ss I had 14hrs use - 7 hours of sot and was at exactly 50% left!

I'm blown away.. Didn't think I could do better.. Stock battery, only thing on that is probably only half the charge cycles then my normal note over past 6 months (whenever it was released) but that's not a big difference yet as both batteries are still young..

This is insane.. Not even sure how this is possible and expect that there has to be some drop off now and there is no way this will double before the phones needs a charge..

At present.. New stats are 17:10 total use.. 9.5hrs sot and 29% left...

Only real difference on this that I notice is os usage is 8% as opposed to 12-14% I normally see.. Wow
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Jorexapps:
I've got a question about battery life. If there is something wrong with N4 or with its battery if it can last just over one day? Most of the Samsung's smart features are turned off, but data connection is on all the time. Except that there are 2h of screen turned on and few h of talk time.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackCrow-It:
which app do you have on your phone?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
If you've got high drain then you probably have wakelocks or Google Services causing battery drain. On average, people who have minimised wakelocks and Services drain get around 4-5 hours screen on time. Control what is running on your phone and you'll see your battery life increase.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Which "app" do I have on my phone? What do you mean?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackCrow-It:
I mean if you use facebook, dropbox on your phone.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
Just out of curiosity, are you guys trying to get 6-7 hours of screen time... In a single day? Wow...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
I'm not proud of it lol

Lately has worked out this way with my scheduling. I do a fair bit of productive work as well.. I leave video and Forums open in the background often (with my stand case)

But ideally I'd like just 1-3hrs of sot use.. Way too much time on my phone... I know.. But hey, if I *can* do it then it's nice my phone handles it no problem through a Full 18hr+ day :)

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I'm hardly on Facebook and don't have it on my rooted phones typically or I freeze it.. But on stock and on the other Note (currently LP) it's there.. Surprisingly hasn't done any cpu/battery damage.

Dropbox.. Not anymore.. I use Google Drive and I-drive but solely for backup. I don't like relying on cloud.. Hence my preference for ext SD and my multiple 64/128gb cards..

Google music is my go to for music streaming.. MX player for video (some VLC too).

Nova Prime for launcher (only way to go imo)

Tapatalk for most of my Forums.. Still currently Chrome for my browser although slowly being convinced on stock..

Screebl for display keep on/shutoff (have used for years and swear by it.. Want phone to ALWAYS stay on when I'm using it whether I'm touching it or not but to shut off within 15 seconds when not

System Tuner PRO to monitor hardware and tweak if wanted.

Autostart to control what loads (and what does doesnt) on boot

And lastly Night Mode... I know this helps a lot for my overall screen time when I'm using my phone at night in a dark room.

Usually a couple hours at night in pitch dark room, even the stock minimum is too bright (bugs the wife too) .. So I use that app (an overlay) that allows me to go darker. Heck if I did a full day in the dark and was able to run that the whole time I guarantee I'd get 15+hrs sot lol

Use camera everyday (10mins to half hour)

Bluetooth everyday (headset and speaker)

Some gaming (if kids want to)

That's about it for the most part.

Ftr: my typical heavy day is 17hrs (24 if left uncharged until morning. 7-8 hours SOT. 10-11 sot is not normal and only some long days with primarily browsing, Forums, texts, documents, etc
[Galaxy Note 4 General] markyboy81:
Maybe you should charge it when it gets to 50% for a healthy battery. But to be honest I've just been charging my phones whenever they've needed it and haven't noticed any significant battery decline.

In any case if the battery does decline prematurely you can always get a new one.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jdomadia:
No root, result after enabled encryption.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Read this:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

A great source on all things batteries.

Bottom line is the less you let it discharge the longer the life of the cell. So 50% discharge is healthy (and much healthier than discharge to say, 5%.

What matters more is to NOT charge to 100%.. That's technically an over charge and is over volting the top end of it.. Much healthier to only charge to 95/90/85%

Check it out
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jayesh:
What's so great about that? I tend to do that 5 days a week, if i can help it. I am very heavily dependent on my devices, for just about everything. Specially during travels.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
Oh there's nothing wrong with it at all. If you can, that's awesome. I'm just curious. I used to use my phone a ton. But not so much any more. Maybe I'll get 1.5 hours. Not because that's all I get, but rather that's all I need... I don't have all too much time and I don't use it for work other than messaging. Buying phones is more of a hobby for me ☺
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
Yep I am too at times.. To each there own, tight!

Some use heavy, some don't.

Like I said though.. I (personally just myself) need to settle down a bit lol.. Too many days or charge cycles (1-2 days) where I'm on it 8-12hrs..never thought I'd be on a phone that much.. But at least it's not all leisure..

I hear that.. And once again, to each their own.. Id like to be down to 1-2hrs a day too..

I'm also like you as well where the phones are hobbies.. I have 5 different ones now.. Have had just about every flagship in the past couple years.. Love testing and tweaking.. Lots of Rom'ing and pushing hardware to the limits to see what's possible.

I'll admit it certainly helps that I have great connections that allow me to get most phones for free or 50% off.. If not for that I likely wouldn't be using/testing so many phones lol
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gold3nCloud:
It's ridiculous charging it up when it's about at 50% though. What's the point of having phone if you're not going to use your battery till it's about at 15-20? You're basically using 50% of the battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
constantly getting 1 day of standby with 6 hours sot after lollipop update. Settings include, location on with high accuracy mode and sync on. Quite happy with the battery as this seems to be the right balance between battery and performance without compromising any functionality.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] electech13:
No one is saying you should do that all the time.. It's totally fine (and quite normal) to discharge down to 10%,etc but it's just a tidbit of info that you get less longevity on the battery in term of charge cycles.. That's all.. And who cares right! It's a big battery and IS swappable /replaceable so kill it.. It's just something to consider for some.. I typically drain to low battery everyday..

Should still get 1.5 years life on that one battery still.. No prob..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
How much to you lose on battery power when you go t sleep and wake up?

Stock non rooted?