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[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Face_Plant:
My set up:

- FireKat V8

- Stock kernel

- Auto brightness with the slider thing at +5

- Location BS off

- Syncing 1 Gmail account

- Beautiful Widgets weather updating every hour

- Greenify everything (including system apps)

- Vibration off (including haptic feedback)

- Auto update time and date off

- All smart stay/pause/scroll junk off

- All gestures off

- Air view on

- Auto rotate screen on

- All useless (screen lock, S Pen, etc) sounds off

- Auto adjust screen tone

- Adaptive Display

-Turn off almost everything in settings+freeze almost everything I have no use for in Titanium Backup

- LTE always (Wi-Fi only when downloading big files)

- No fingerprint locks or anything

- Apex Launcher with "keep in memory" enabled

- Lots of other junk I can't remember

I consistently hit 6+ hours of SOT. Battery life sucks compared to my Note 3, but it's enough to get through the day.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
I've tried Firekat and Rapture, on stock battery

- auto brightness with slider on -5

Location off

1 gmail acct

Yahoo weather widget

Greenify everything (minus system apps)

vibration and haptic feedback off

all random sounds and noises off

uninstall\freeze as much bloat \ apps that are unneeded

Adaptive Display

auto update time and date (says it's on, shows the notification upon start up, have no idea what this does)

all smart gestures off

- Auto rotate screen on

air view off

Wifi is on and connected to a strong network essentially 90% of my day

no fingerprint lock

Nova launcher in memory

So yeah, not sure what else to do, i just added amplify to my set up to see if i can limit any google now wakelocks.. or calendar storage wakelocks (the only two that i have that are out of ordinary, and not even excessive )
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] inflewence:
Mine is looking good with moderate use and having waze on for an 35 min drive with the screen on auto.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/inflewence2
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] arjun90:
How do I force close the T-Mobile Account app. Today it consumed 19% of me battery. :eek:

Eew, T-Mobile reception.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
Freeze it in Titanium Backup.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] arjun90:
Great, I've had it. Time to Root.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] lipz:
Battery life is sweeet!

Firekat Rom on Canadian note is killing it
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] draztikrhymez:
Getting 16hrs with 5.5hrs screen on, best I've ever had on a phone
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] jyo1:
Me too getting excellent battery life. Worked for 2 days in a single charge with medium amount of calling, browsing and texting
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] tommason1968:
You can go into the application manager and can it from there
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] draztikrhymez:
Keeps getting better too it seems
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Sudbury78:
I need to root because my battery is only decent with location services off. I like having it on with power saving mode to use Google now etc. Which rom is best?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] draztikrhymez:
I'm still on stock with no root. Have exchange and Gmail set to push, FB, twitter, Instagram, Sports apps, etc.

Still getting great battery life.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] tbgreen89:
So here is my current battery stats. Not too bad considering I have only let it completely drain once since I purchased my phone on Thursday of last week. It seems to be getting slightly better everyday. Running it completely stock with a lot of bloat turned off and brightness at 50%.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Brava27:
Lord have mercy. My phone sucks.

Sent from the first Samsung Galaxy ever
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] androidkid27:
Not that bad for me
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Slicktune:
What ROM is that? And kernel

Thanks in advance!!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Cheeseraid:
Typical life for me, stock not rooted.The usual games, Google music all access, chrome, chromecast and Facebook.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] PlatinumNick:
except the xperia z3
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] davwman:
Pretty good only 10 minutes of wifi
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] inflewence:
Phone did pretty good today. Snow day so heavy use on wifi all day.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/inflewence2
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] nviz22:
AnTuTu results. Analyze as you see it. Pretty sad, right? I mean I can show screenshots of my settings if need be? Stock, without SIM card since I was using my iPhone. So I'll fill you in roughly. 22% gone in 3.5 hrs. 22 minutes of screen on time. Android system was 20%. Netflix 8%, Facebook 4%, DT Ignite was on. That's off the top of my head. I am worried about my signal strength being a major factor. I am thinking about using Wi-Fi calling with airplane mode or using my CellSpot to work with my Wi-Fi to improve strength. I also need to get my dad to test my Note 4 battery in his phone. I am using my 5C for now since the battery is not as good as others have. My software is 4.4.4 stock. Samsung tech support didn't help much today either. I did the full fledged test today too.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] joshyth:
this look okay?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] @rbiter:
Great.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] gummybear00:
Basically, the way to get better battery life is to disable all the new features and use your phone like a 2012 phone. Also have the screen really dim so you can't see anything.

Might as well go back to a Note 3 that has the same size battery except with 1080p resolution (almost half the pixels) and less power hogging CPU/ram.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MajorTom_:
Then on the Note 3 or just about any other phone do the same thing for better battery life. Disable features and lower brightness.

Personally it lasts me the whole day with moderate to heavy usage. I only disable few things i don't use like the wifi calling stuff and beaming service. I don't even use most of the stuff that's activated but oh well. It pulls through for what I need.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] gummybear00:
You forgot the part where the Note 3 has the same size battery as Note 4. So w/o 1440p screen, less power hogging cpu/ram, doing these things will give Note 3 even BETTER battery life. Note 3 wins again. Note 3 battery life >>> Note 4 battery life.

Hooray for new technology going backwards in time!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MajorTom_:
Well I can only speak for myself and there hasn't been much difference fortunately.

I do believe that disabling features and lowering brightness helps get better battery life on any device as well.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Darmxz:
Im doing it right?

Hi, first of all, thanks for your knowledge. That helps n00bs like me.

I just bought a Note 4 SM-N910C in Colombia (Claro Brand), i really love this phone and but i dont know if my battery is doing it right. Could you tell me please? Note comes with Kitkat 4.4.4 but i upgraded with Lollipop 5.0.1 with ODIN. from this thread

- Im not root, all is stock.

- I use wifi 70% a day. Then 4G.

:confused:

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ZeroCGTI:
Out of curiosity, how much battery juice do you guys lose overnight? In like 8 hours my phone seems to have lost about 4-5% battery just idling with Wi-Fi turned on and Mobile Network set to "WCDMA only". Seems pretty bad to me. It means that it would lose about 15% a day (if I don't use it at all), lasting up to just 6 days without even touching it. That seems poor, very poor.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Face_Plant:
I lost 3% overnight last night with my "ultra battery killer" set up, which isn't too bad. It all depends on your set up. If you have location on your phone is gonna wake up every couple of minutes to send location information. It'll be even worse work location history turned on. If you have rouge/really poorly coded apps apps they'll keep your phone awake and cause battery drain.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ZeroCGTI:
Well that's the thing, I've turned everything down. Bluetooth, NFC, back-light of touch buttons, Mobile Data, Location, Google Now, Sync, "Always scan for Wi-Fi", S-Pen remove detection, haptic feedback with "on press" tones, literally everything, except for Wi-Fi and Carrier's network. I don't have much apps installed, I haven't even configured Facebook. Still it lost 5% in just 8 hours... :eek:
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] holywhitebread:
If I'm not charging my phone overnight, I usually go into ultra power save mode through the night and it loses almost no battery.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Face_Plant:
Are you stock or running a custom ROM? How do you charge your phone? Fast charging? With your PC/laptop? Wirelessly? Wall outlet? If you use a wall outlet, is it a 1 or 2 amp brick?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ZeroCGTI:
I'm charging it with my Galaxy S4's charger on the wall. That said I guess I'm not using "adaptive" (fast) charging but regular speed through the wall socket. The ROM is completely stock, Lollipop 5.0.1 BOC5 (it's a n910c version), although I've rooted it with CF-Auto Root which is probably based on Kitkat 4.4.4 kernel.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Face_Plant:
Is the S4 charger 1 or 2 amps? I found that using fast charging and 2 amp chargers quickly ruined my original battery and I had to get a new one. Now I try to only charge my new battery with my laptop or wireless charger since they only put out like .5 amps to minimize degradation of the battery.

Using a Lollipop ROM may also be what's causing poor battery life. In my experience KitKat provided superior battery life compared to Lollipop.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ZeroCGTI:
It's just 1 amp. According to Samsucks it's fine to use 2A charger, after all that's all you got inside the Note 4's box, but personally I think that extept for ruining the battery (which I haven't experienced yet, the phone is quite new) it gives me worse battery life. I mean, a fast-charged battery seems to deplete faster than a "regular" charged one. But still, I'm not using Fast Charging and my charger doesn't even support more than 1A, so that's not the problem here. Could be the Lollipop, sure, maybe the Kitkat kernel as well. But still I wasn't even sure if my battery life is "outside normal" because I don't have friends with Note 4 so I had to ask what is the typical consumption overnight :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Face_Plant:
Have you tried installing Wakelock Detector to see what's waking up your phone?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ZeroCGTI:
I actually haven't. Do you mind suggesting an app that I can use to do that? :) Thanks, really!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Metalero9389:
I think Wakelock detector is the app he suggested https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Blkweezie:
I just updated to LP and it has taken 5 cycles to finally settle in to expected battery life
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] diopskill:
Running dynamic pop
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] jazzmachine:
I really should have posted this sooner (well, I did in a different thread but I can't recall which one...), as it seems that Android System being the top battery consumer is a fairly common problem. I experienced this for about half of the time that I've owned my N4, and "fixing" it really made a huge difference in my battery life.

This might not apply to all, since my fingerprint scanner has been messed up since first rooting. That in itself didn't really bother me (enough to prolong a battle between ODIN and the drivers on my Windows install anyway) since I use the Xposed module No Lock Home (auto-unlocks your phone when connected to a whitelisted wifi network or bluetooth device). However, in my case, the issue was entirely due to fingerprints.apk repeatedly trying to do... something, that it couldn't. Freezing fingerprints.apk in Titanium Backup completely set my battery consumption straight. Prior to doing this, Android System was

always

my highest battery consumer... afterwards

always

Screen (as it should be). Taking a quick glance right now, Screen is at 31%, Android System is at 11%.

If Android System is consuming a higher % of battery than Screen, particularly if your scanner is messed up from improper flashing or anything (or if you just don't use it), I highly recommend freezing fingerprints in TB or similar. Prior to doing this, the consumption percentages I mentioned above were consistently (approx.) flipped.

Out of curiosity (and for troubleshooting purposes), does anyone who has their fingerprint scanner correctly setup and used as your unlock method have the "Android System = top battery consumer" issue?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] LaRosa217:
I use the fingerprint scanner to unlock my phone and Android System is ALWAYS #1 in battery consumption. Right now Android System is 23% & screen is 14% (1:49:33 SOT) with 37% battery left.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] tommason1968:
I have a question. How did rooting your phone mess up the fingerprint scanner? Were you able to restore it? If so, how?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] lazer9:
Curious about this as I have often wondered if "fingerprint scanner - Unlock" is part of Android System high drain :confused:

Is this what you have found out?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] jazzmachine:
My bad, I should have been more specific there. It wasn't attaining root access that messed up my scanner but rather flashing a custom ROM before setting it up. See this post for more info: http://xdaforums.com/note-4-tmobile/general/psa-configure-fingerprint-scanner-t2919478

It can be restored by doing a FULL clean install, that is, flashing the official firmware via ODIN, then following the instructions in the link above before flashing a different ROM. I was unable to do so however due to a (super aggravating) problem, likely due to conflicting Windows drivers, with getting ODIN to recognize my phone while in Download mode.

[MENTION=650592]lazer9[/MENTION] It's looking like that might be the case... we need more evidence before drawing that conclusion though. It is generally known that the N4's fingerprint scanner hardware is a finicky beast, considering all of the precautions necessary to maintain a properly working scanner while flashing custom ROMs and restoring nandroids... I'm pretty curious if the same precautions need to be taken on the S6 with it's updated scanner hardware... hope not (for the sake of the Note 5). It would be very helpful if other fingerprint scanner users chimed in with their Android System vs. Screen battery consumption percentages :good:

OT thought: I can't help but wonder *if this is an issue and T-mobile is (secretly) aware of it* if it's partially responsible for the delay in our official LP update? If that is the case, and Tmo is trying to fix it (and succeeds)... then that would be awesome. It's pretty clear that they would not want or be able to reveal that info as it would imply that

every

Note 4 is flawed at the hardware level (i.e. a PR disaster for Samsung). Perhaps we'll find out, ya know, "within days" ;)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] jhax01:
I didn't go through every page, but it seems to me that one variable people don't seem to think about much is the fact that not all the stock batteries are created equal. I use my N4 all day long so I purchased a couple extra stock batteries (official ones through samsung) to ensure that I never have to tether it to the charger. I just swap a battery when it croaks and throw the drained one in the external charger. It was clear almost immediately that the stock battery that came with the phone didn't measure up to the two others I purchased. Now I'm not saying that this is always the case and I'm certainly not suggesting people who have bad battery life should go run right out and spend the $$ on a new battery, but you should at least consider that it's a possibility -- all other things being equal, of course.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] LaRosa217:
jhax01 that is a very real possibility. I'd considered ordering a spare battery anyway, might go ahead & do that.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] LaRosa217:
So far, into my second day of running Lollipop (stock, unrooted) I'm experiencing far less battery usage from Android System. We'll see how this fares over the next few days.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
Yeah I'm with everyone else. The battery on this update is garbage. I mean it still makes it through the day, but no where near what I was getting on FireKat. Guess I'll just make due until a few good ROMS come out.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MN_Wild:
I used to get 2+ days. After update I now get 19 hours. I factory reset and cleared cache. I haven't added any apps other than the pre-loaded garbage. Number one battery user is Android System, number 2 is Android OS, then third is Screen. There is a problem but unfortunately the only solution I can find is wait for an update.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
Been having some luck taming the Android System with Servicely

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.servicely
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] lazer9:
Using same app and my Android System is through the roof. :crying:

Curious as to what settings within it you are using to tame "Android System"?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] gregk232:
2nd charge after Odin to COD6

I say it's good enough. Sleeps well. Btw, I watched an episode of Gotham on it on fill brightness, and my Moto 360 is always paired. Nothing is Greenified
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] jazzmachine:
Has anyone compared battery life between stock pre-rooted and post-rooted/nuking the resource hogging trogan DT Ignite?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Raver27:
Can anyone confirm who has battery drain issues on weather resetting helps it noticeably or not,not having any other issues but battery draining pretty quickly.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
So I switch off the stock ROM to Poprock ROM and have seen an instant increase in battery. Just give some Devs a bit more time and it will be killing kitkat.

This is only with 30 min of screen on time, but it's still doing much better.

I'll post my end of day battery and if it's solid share my setup.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Knee Pads:
My crappy batter life. What up with android system and OS Omg fml literally there isn't a bad wake lock detected in better battery stats.. Any tips? This is the latest rapture and everything was wiped as if it was a new phone
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] JesusEsquivia:
You're doing fine.

Hola, es bueno ver colombianos aquí en XDA, por lo que puedo ver todo está en orden. Yo compré el mío de T-mobile hace algunos meses y si no estoy mal el modelo que vende Claro es el M910C y no el M910T (Que es el de este foro).

23-24 horas de uso es un excelente resultado, pero te recomiendo consultar en el foro de tu modelo específico.

¡Saludos!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] slycon:
I ordered a spare battery off of Amazon for $14 because my battery drain had become horrible. On Kit Kat I had 6 hours of screen on time compared to 3.5 hours on Lollipop. Much to my surprise I am getting just over 5 hours of screen on time with the new battery, a significant increase. The battery drain is much slower, it can idle for hours and only go down a few percentage points. Odd, since my old battery had no issues prior to Lollipop and was working just fine. This is without any calibration done.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] yzf750:
I got terrible battery life also after the OTA update. I wiped my phone, flashed it in Odin with the stock lollipop image and now its as good as it was before the update as far as battery life again. Ive learned my lesson as far as major updates, wipe your phone and flash it and start new. Less problems and headaches.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
Yeah I did a clean install from Odin, and my battery still blows. This lollipop update is a joke. Yeah it's fast, but it looks ugly as he'll and the battery life is trash. Not even close to what I used to get.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
android system be raping!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
give the rom a few days to settle. If Android system is still destroying your battery its time to start freezing apps. I noticed a few things that cause this drain that are all apart of the "Android system". VPN services running, location, NFC wakelock, Smart Card services. I will update a list of what i have frozen or uninstalled in the thread for that this afternoon. I am not longer having Android system battery drain issues. I will come back and link to it once i am finished.

Here you go.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=61146605

LAG Fix and FROZEN Apps
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Douchie0221:
5 hours SOT over 19 hours isn't bad, man. I can get 2.5 hours SOT over like 12 hours and i'm below 20%.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
Ya i'm well aware of that, and i'm running rapture on 1.2gb right now, so i've pretty much frozen everything that is on the list plus a few more that i know won't affect system.

Yet even things that are frozen like VPN is listed in Android System.

What we need is a true professional answer. I have wiped and flashed my phone at least 30 times trying to troubleshoot this issue and even got a replacement phone with the same issue (even tested it using stock rom rooted nothing modified) and still android system is top user, and i haven't even tried LP on the new phone .

I ordered another new phone and it'll be here tomorrow
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
Is not the phone is the software. Lollipop had way more things running in the background all the time. The more Google accounts you sync the worse it is.

It's definitely a software issue. Getting a new phone will not help you.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
I only have one google account

Also, this all began when i flashed AOSP LP on my KK TW run Note 4. Didn't like it, and went back to ANK4 odin and back to KK TW. Then I noticed decreased SOT times and increased Android System usage in battery stats.

Then proceeded the voyage of my flashing roms trying to resolve it (then getting a replacement).

Side note, my brand new phone i got from t-mobile in december was also bad on SOT, then i got a replacement which fixed my battery (and later flashed AOSP LP)

if i had a direct answer to what would be causing it i'd be much more happier and it would bring me peace lol
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] NoHype:
Battery life has been pretty good on Lollipop but not as good as Kit Kat. Still wouldn't go back to Kit Kat.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] spridell:
Went to sleep last night and 10 hours later woke up with only 1% battery drain in 10 hours.

Normal syncs and everything were on.

Great battery life.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] eduardmc:
Battery life is crazy, much better than my note 3 or m8. i'm getting 6-7 hours screen time.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] gnash.s:
I am getting pretty similar battery life too with the screen on. But the standby battery usage is awesome, esp. during the night with Wifi On, AutoSync off, <3% down in over 8hours.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MacMitten:
First charge cycle. Great battery life so far today.

Sent from my SM-N910T
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] NICEGYPT:
My M8 was so much better.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] mr pnut:
Pretty good so far :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TramainM:
So my battery Dropped 10% while on standby when I was sleeping. I barely get 4 hours of screen time. Usual suspect is Android System being number one. The only feature I use is one hand operation but I don't think thats the problem.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] RnRexpress3423:
Did you have on any power saving features? Mine seems to drain a little more than that during the night.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Killemalll:
I lost 15% battery over night although UPower Saving was on. Android Systems drained it the most. It's weird because the night before it only dropped 2%. It could be Google background activities but they should be suspended when in U. power mode :confused: