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[Galaxy Note 4 General] JAMIE1000UK:
My average usage..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] JAMIE1000UK:
Forgot the PIC lol
[Galaxy Note 4 General] clintonroche:
Screen time? Your average includes charging? Lol ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Spo0f:
Everybody is talking about SoT ...

What about stand-by? How does the phone/battery handles in stand-by mode. Because if it can handle 5h SoT for one day, can it handle 2,5h per day for 2 days? Or five days with 1h SoT per day ...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] 2ndammendment:
The batteries come with a partial charge because lithium ion batteries don't like being charged to 100% or being deep discharged to 0%. They don't have memory like the nickel candium batteries of of 90's, they can be taken off the charger whenever and be charged whenever. Just keep in mind that high voltages and low voltage stress the cell. The prefer partial charges(think between 80% and 30%, not necessary but will extend the service life. )
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pikul:
Heres mine, still some juice left, working great so far, brightness set to auto and mine its unlocked so no bloatware, running stock rom so far unroot

Sent from my Galaxy NOTE 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Amb669:
Hey guys, I'm currently the owner of a G3 but I was considering moving to the Note 4 because of the lack of kernel development on the Canadian G3 is next to none.

The only custom kernel for the Canadian G3 REDUCES my battery life by 30%, I was hoping for the opposite effect which is why I'm leaning to the Note 4 & the Ktoonsez kernel.

I'm wondering if anyone who has gone from the G3 to the note 4 can shine some light on the battery life comparison of the G3 to the Note 4.

I know I can read reviews and numbers, But I would like someone with hands on experience let me know which one they find lasts them longer?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] markyboy81:
Check out the Samsung advert featuring Reggie Watts. Not everyone's taste but I like the guy, has done some interesting stuff you can find on youtube!

S Penning GALAXY Note 4 with Reggie Watts: http://youtu.be/og7eldUVIU4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] koppee1:
I actually switched from the g3 to the note 4. From probably the same usage, heavy clash of clans, chat, permanent data on, no auto sync..

g3 root, greenify, titanium backup frozen lots of bloatware...standby was awesome...barely moves when off. when the screen is on though...you can see the battery life drop literally. I probably get on average 2.5 to 3.5 screen on time

note 4, not rooted, no greenify, i probably get around 3 to 4.5 screen on time. standby isnt as good as the g3 though...i lose around 10% every 6 hours of standby...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] th3hate:
Stock rom, no root, Wifi and data on all the time, no power saving.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tom540:
If that were true you would be able to keep your phone on standby for 50 years with 1 second of screen on time per day ?

Standby does drain some battery, for me its between 2 and 4% overnight (8 hours) and more if I'm in a bad signal area
[Galaxy Note 4 General] istrikerx:
So basically, I have a faulty unit then?

Standby drain is still ridiculously bad on my n910c. 1-2% per hour.

No rogue apps or anything, even from fresh wipe it happens. Disabled all the bloat etc, actual wifi/network usage is almost non-existant. It's very poor.

Again this is the exynos C model, so not sure how other users are doing.

Copy and paste from my Q&A help thread:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] markyboy81:
1-2% battery drain per hour isn't actually that bad, sounds about normal to me.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] easycure1974:
Can only agree
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
And who said bad signal affects battery life.. ;) this battery life is amazing
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
That's one amazing battery life. I have similar mobile signal health (on 3G even) to yours but ~3 hours SOT, all bloatware, including S Voice, disabled, unrooted.

Perhaps the radio modem on N910U is more optimised compared to N910C.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
Arg battery life still terrible

My battery life still stinks, even after disabling the android wear wake locks, turning off my live wallpaper, rooting using amplify and media scanner stopper and debloating! I STILLLLL CANT GET OVER 5 HOURS! this is annoying me to no end, eventually I'll be getting another battery
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Maybe lol iam rooted using greenify but stock rom
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sanderskm:
Anyone have any experience, thoughts or opinions regarding Snapdragon BatteryGuru?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] TheRealToddster:
Did you disable fast charge yet? Fast charge typically only gives you 8 hours of charge. Try turning that off and let the battery charge over night.

This has been my personal experience.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] HuStLaZ:
I used to use it on my S4, but haven't installed it on my Note 4. I've been pretty happy with battery life so far so haven't felt the need.

If someone else uses it and gets noticeable improvements I might start using it again.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
I recharged with rapid recharge turned off so far this is where I'm at, hopefully this does the trick!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ar216893:
I'm quite happy with my battery life.

But need to find way to make it better. This is my 4th day with this beast anyway
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedmond:
That won't help one bit.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Vangelis13:
Say what again..? O.o

Source please.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] markyboy81:
+1 having fast charge on or off should make no difference
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
This is where I'm @ currently slight increase I suppose
[Galaxy Note 4 General] demolientje:
I got my Note 4 this sunday. I've let it bleed out untill I went to bed and then let it charge over night. I'm still on my first charge and got 11% left. These are my stats now, very happy with it!

Oh, edit: I have the snapdragon intl version, and screen brightness set around 35 - 40-ish
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
5 hours 30 minutes?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mehrdadt63:
maybe differnet model modems of note 4 have a diffrent batterry consumption . is it true ?

it seems all note 4 n-910U have a great battery life ....

1) Qualcomm Gobi MDM9x25M / MDM9x35M (in all models with Snapdragon, N910F, N910G, N9106W, N9100 etc) - MDM9x25M is CAT4/LTE-A and MDM9x35 is CAT6/LTE-A

2) Intel XMM7260 (in N910U) - CAT6/LTE-A

3) Ericsson M7450 (in N910C) - CAT4/LTE-A

4) Samsung Shannon 303 (in korean models N910S, N910K, N910L) - CAT6/LTE-A
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Fimor:
That's pretty good. I wanted to purchase note 4 but wasn't sure about battery life.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tmac31:
Your battery life just sucks. Im getting 6-7 hours sot easyly with 910c. No root etc.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
lol, yes it's very obvious that my battery life sucks, my Cell Standby is always on the top of the list of battery usage, if not second to SOT. It drains 1-2% per hour while idling too while connected to WiFi. But if I switch of WiFi and let it idle on 3G, it drains even more.

But I'm always on a mission to optimise my battery without purposely trying to save battery such as manually controlling the brightness, running Greenify, killing apps, etc. Although I do aggressively disable Google and Samsung stuff that I do not use.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tmac31:
My brightness is always on auto +3 im always connected mobile network. I just disabled some stuff and using nova launcher its all i did. I have 3 mail sync always. And i dont even close apps that i used. And location is on power saving. Nothing else i did.

You just have signal problem i guess. If 910c is what samsung selling in your country a modem update probably solve the issue.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mehrdadt63:
The Qualcomm's one should be the most efficiency being made in 20nm process ,,,

intel made in 40nm

ericsson made in 28nm
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Yeah my brightness is on Auto -5 even, not to save battery, but the screen is just that bright for me. I even wish I can tone it down a little bit more. I really like having such a bright phone though, don't get me wrong.

I live in London and use LTE, the N910C is imported from UAE, currently travelling in Indonesia, using 3G. I don't close apps either, and Location Services is ON (while Location Reporting is off), Sync in On, only have GMail syncing.

I've plugged in my phone today at 19% battery left, 3hr 10mins SOT through 1 day 9 hr up time..

It's just annoying that I'm not getting good signal anywhere I go :rolleyes: I just get good signal occasionally when the mobile tower is in view lol :silly:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thatguyhaikal:
4G LTE

》(Turned on throughout)

WIFI

》(Turned on only when I'm at home)

Location services

》 (Turned on only when using Maps)

Power Saving

》(Turned off limit CPU performance)

Screen Brightness

》(Set at 30%)

Greenify

》(Turned on throughout)

Sent from my SM-N910G
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
Want to see some insane battery life? here we go ;)

17+ hours standby,

9+ hours sot

i stopped measuring at 4 % since the mobile got charged 1 or 2 percent when i copied files from my pc. Still impressive.

Watched 2 movies, rest of the time whatsapp, and reading.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Nice, I'm sure that is mostly thanks to the healthy signal you are getting, your Cell Standby is only 4%. Oh, are you on 3G or 4G?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
After ank5 fw update my cpu is always at 400MHz

Sent from my SM-N910C
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Idan73:
You do realise you are on wifi? Which is a huge battery saving if you have data on and on full wifi, regardless of the phone signal level.

Sent from my SM-N910W8
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
3g , no 4g yet here in my city
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
That's cool.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
not just due to good signal reception but also due to controlled amount of wakelocks :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
I also have some amount of wakelock controlled, I still see a number of wakelocks, some are activating GPS... dunno what else I can disable really. Maybe I should just switch off Location until I need it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
I always turn off location services, no use for it as my commutation is limited to few places. Using GPS only when required

Texted from Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] SAVVAS.:
Healthy signal does help but to achieve the 9 hours SOT its because he watched 2 movies so almost a 4hrs SOT in which Snapdragon really shines at video playing. Still, if you try replicate what he did, then I am sure you will get high SOT as well ! Here plays role the usage pattern and the brightness level more than signal to achieve this.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] dr.m0x:
I've used it in the past and didn't see much difference if any.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
i have a question to ask my gurus in the house, is it possible to flash official stock rom of the same variants but different region or country. what i mean for example is: is it possible to flash SM910H stock rom of region A on SM910H of region B through odin?

Thanks looking forward to the replies
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tmac31:
2 different chipset in a single model is so retarded thing. My country is getting exynos version and i cant even test it all demo units are snapdragon , most reviewers have snapdragon and samsung doesnt give any information about exynos will it be 64 bit or not ? And the battery seems worse like last years note 3 exynos.gpu is worse etc etc.

Samsung always disappointed me but this time so much fail hope atleast they fixed touchwiz...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Squirrel_Master:
It's 64 bit, Samsung has had that listed on the (Canadian) website for weeks.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] The_MutenRoshi:
A battery review here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSilaP5OgUI
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
That's so disappointing :( I don't want 2-3 hour screen on time - I want 5-7+ hours, which is what I can get with my 2 year old Note 2!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] The_MutenRoshi:
I think you can get more than that. At the minute 2:23 you can see that he managed to get 2:52h screen time and left with 52% battery :)

Plus some wakelock blockers, root, greenify, you should get more juicy :p
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pj_rage:
What firmware are you on with your Note 2? At launch I was getting insane battery life on the order of what you're saying, but now I'm lucky if I get 1.5 hours screen on over 12 hours. It's been that way for a while - at least since 4.3. I am running / have been running custom ROMs since they were first available, and I've tried everything to track the problem and fix it, but I've been unsuccessful. It does appear to be Google Play Services which is the culprit. If I freeze it for a day, battery life improves significantly.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
I was on DN, but moved back to stock 4.4.2 with root. I do disable a lot of bloat, use greenify, and optimize where I can, but still... 2-3 hours is nothing! I'm hoping that with the right tweaking, the Note 4 will get as much.

At one point, I had my hourly standby rate under 0.5%, but I haven't worked very hard to get that back to those levels.

Here's an older screenshot from my Note 2,just so you know I'm not bull****ting.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] DelBoy:
I get 5-6 hours SOT every day. It can easily gor up to 7 hours, with custom rom especially.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kawaisa:
is that the exynos?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
That's reassuring, but I wonder why so many review videos are showing very poor battery life.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] route9:
Galaxy Note 2 also got the best battery-life after the first system-upgrade. I hope that note 4 will have similar behavior with Android L
[Galaxy Note 4 General] patriotaki:
Is the exynos version region locked?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Lodix:
My N910U is not.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
I think the Exynos is LTE band restricted rather than region-locked. There's an explanation somewhere here the bands supported by Exynos compared to the Snapdragon. However, there are LTE bands that Snapdragon do not cover but covered by the Exynos I think. So it's vice versa between them.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] SquidgyB:
That's interesting (I've decided to import an Exynos too). Whereabouts are you located, and - if I may ask - where did you get yours from?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Lodix:
I am from Spain and I bought it from 28mobile but there are cheaper options in Ebay.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] JJ2525:
Surprising to see that Phonearena just put the Note 4 through the paces and it's almost on par with the Z3 in terms of battery, considering the sentiments in this thread.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] *Emix*:
Surprise, surprise! The Note 4 defies expectations by acing our battery life test, becomes the longest-lasting QHD phone

- Around 30% better battery life than Note 3.

-40% better than iPhone 6

-Takes 1h30m to charge from 0% to 100%! Xperia Z3 for example takes 4 hours to charge the battery!

Samsung did it again!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] thearch1tect:
That may be the case on WiFi all the time but I would expect more in the 5-6 hour sot max in a real world setting of being on and off of WiFi since signal level plays a big role in battery life
[Galaxy Note 4 General] RomBox:
Unbelievable :D that means N4 actually not that bad and we just need better ROMs?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] koppee1:
anyone else notice that using the stock samsung launcher makes the battery last longer? I've been testing nova (paid) and the samsung launcher....for more than a couple weeks now....the samsung launcher will always give me longer sot...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
Have you recorded battery stats to confirm this? How much longer are you talking about?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] andyting:
hey guys, i notice that i have this .keyguard thing at 2-3% for my battery usage, is this normal? cause i am using a custom lockscreen app (echo lockscreen) which shows that it uses around 5% of the battery.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bala_gamer:
Yes you can

Texted from Note 4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] pedodroid:
I've actually noticed this too on my S4. I've tried the Sony Home launcher,Google Now Launcher and NoVa launcher and batter6 life hass always been worse than with the stock launcher. I used to think it was just my imagination but with the Touchwiz launcher i usually get 4 1/2 -5hrs SOT which would reduce to 3 1/2-4hrs with other launchers especially the Sony launcher would run the battery down like mad.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] koppee1:
I haven't recorded it..and sometimes I think it's my imagination...but I've never gotten 5 hrs SOT with Nova Launcher and have achieved it a few times w the stock launcher. Nova Launcher will average me around 3.5 to 4 hrs SOT....the stock launcher gives me around 4 to 5 SOT
[Galaxy Note 4 General] gentillo:
I'm picking mine yesterday. Today I try use endomondo. And I was terrifying. In quick 20 minutes walk battery drop 10%. My old note 3 in the same scenario drop 2%. This is madness! Exynos version.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ce:
Don't worry, mine had the same. After a few charges battery life will absolutely get better.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
Why is my screen taking chunk of my battery, my network actually doesn't. Am always indoor and my brightness is always on auto. Exynos version
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
My screenie
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ce:
Have a look in this thread. You can see some screenshots of battery usage. On a lot of lists "screen" is on top. It just uses the most power, that's all.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EP2008:
I'm going to use touchwiz launcher for the day and see how it does. I use Nova and didn't even consider it a potential battery drainer, since it's never listed on any of the battery monitoring apps as being high in usage. I will say that Touchwiz is using an insane amount of ram (close to 200mb) vs Nova's (80-90mb), and I haven't even finished setting up my widgets.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jdomadia:
Agree TW using much more ram compare to Nova.

Give one Thanks,Get one free?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] leandronb:
Can a note 4 user make a youtube drain test? I already saw one in youtube that it lasts 6hours and 23min with 100% brightness. I want to see the same drain test with 50% or 0% brightness to see how it will impact in battery. I was a bit disappointed because i can get almost the same with my htc one m8.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
I have given up on my battery I brought back my live wallpaper and all for the time being anyway pathetic battery life, decent stand by life I suppose
[Galaxy Note 4 General] lawtq:
What model number is this?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] hiimimtayaz:
Guys! Just a quick question.... does increasing touch sensitivity of screen drains the battery?

Only today I used this feature and felt disappointed by SoT end up with 4.5 hrs (heavy usage) as normally I usually get 5.5 to 6 hrs.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mrmenace:
tmobile
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Denli:
Battery getting better by the day

This is my battery ussage with combined brightness of Auto +5 and cca 85% brightness through the day
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Kcube989:
I constantly get 6+ hours of SOT using nova launcher, at just a tap above lowest brightness (though i do crank it up when in bright places/outside) and pretty much mobile data all day (3g only). Im still waiting for my carrier to support retaining the same phone number on a new lte sim.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] themaximillian:
Yesterdays results just in.....

Second charge, i'm happy....
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kunlegzy:
Fast charging ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] themaximillian:
What about fast charging?

Skickat från min SM-N910F via Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 General] trichrome1:
:) ordered an extra battery.. But haven't needed it yet.

Auto brightness +5

Lots of XDA, browsing, YouTube, streaming podcasts, all stock. Using nova launcher as default. I've disabled things like Facebook and anything else that I consider intrusive.

SM-N910W8 on Rogers Canada
[Galaxy Note 4 General] losta:
I'm still impress with the battery. Im still on stock rom Not rooted (yet) exynos version. though i did not use the phone heavily but i did some browsing and scrapbooking also read wattpad and a few hours on facebook. Never set the brightness at 50% while at home. Always below 50%. When wifi is off i use 3g data network all the time.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mbernstein:
Battery life is very good IF there is no "IndexService" issue. I had it. The culprit was the SD Card. I first used a Samsung Class 10, 64GB. "Index" was killing my battery. I formatted the card inside the phone, but it was no use. Then I exchanged the card for Sandisk Ultra 64GB, which I believe is in the same Class. Magically, "INedex" issue stopped and then I got very good battery Life! Result is: Samsung Card was not compatible with Samsung phone... Who can understand these things happenning..?!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] velimr:
I am getting 2 days standby (to be precise from 7AM to 10PM next day) and 5:30 - 6h SOT with NK5 firmware - out of the box, nothing disabled (yet) and only after 2 charges so it should get even better. pretty happy :good:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] TheMach:
How did you know index service was killing your battery? Where you using an app that told you? I have a Samsung SD card as well and I believe I could be getting better battery life. Now I'm wondering if the card is the culprit.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mbernstein:
Hi,

I'm not talking about a little improvement, my problem was fast discharge vs good battery. I don't know about marginal gains, not worried about it. In my case, went to Settings/Power Saving and saw that "Index" was ALWAYS, all the time, the biggest battery drainer, top spot in Battery Use. When I killed the Service, battery was kept at good levels. After I changed the MicroSD card, "Index" works a little more if I change batteries, but just for a brief time. If battery is recharged, no more intense work was noted. To be clear, I did not keep checking all the time, just enough to solve the matter.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ausboy 2011:
Actually, regardless of data being active, if you have poor network service the phone has to work harder to keep a signal. Iam with vodafone till the 20th of December as obviously they are horrible but using vodafone makes my phone hop 3 frequencies all the time. Previously with telstra in australia i had full phone service with -78 dbm so back i go
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
+1

Being on WiFi only alleviate the burden of maintaining connection to the Data service, but the burden of maintaining Voice service continues and very much affected by signal health, which of course affect battery drain.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] TheMach:
It does help. Sounds like for you it was a substantial battery drain. I don't see index service in my battery logs so I'll assume the card is working for me. Thanks for the response!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mbernstein:
Very substantial. Not only it made usage difficult because of battery drain, but the phone was always HOT in my pockets, making it very uncomfortable to use/carry, and it is not the most pocketable phone to begin with... Now all good.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] EpicChineseTime:
:good: Unistalled almost every crapware and obviously rooted.

N910F (Snapdragon)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] booncol:
N910F Stock ANK4, Screen brightness Auto, Wifi ON, Mobile data ON, Sync ON

Wysłane z mojego SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Zanr Zij:
What is your font name? Tks
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Is it Rooted and did you disable any apps? I notice the lack of wakelocks from the screenshot while mine is riddled with wakelocks eventhough I disabled as many apps as I could. I'm not rooted.

Also I do not see GPS in the screenshot, did you disable Location completely all the time?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] losta:
its called pointened got the ttf file from dafont :D
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ghawyhob:
My great battery results after 1 hour its still 90%,will be updated soon
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ShadowFlare:
Did you use it continuously from 100% to 90% for 1hr 10mins? And what were you doing during the Screen On Time?