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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Chuckleb0ne:
The Android OS and system seem to be draining my battery the most. Tried wiping the cache on some of the apps but nothing seems to work. Maybe it's a bug.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] justpastfinish:
Same here. And I always disable bloat and turn most syncs off sans the Google stuff. And without a working no root wakelock detector I'm at a loss
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Mmmjj123:
Battery sux...but i expected this so im good. Jus gotta keep a spare handy. Battery technology needs to improve asap. overheating is a major issue with my device as well.

Sent from my Note 4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mrlaigle:
Where did you get the charge? I've had it for my note 2 and 3. Samsung is still backorder online.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Lieutenant Fudge:
I actually ordered mine from the Samsung website last Saturday and it came yesterday. I'm sure if you wait long enough it will be back on stock
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
yeah I'm gonna use my coupon for that too.

also today I got 5 hours screen on time.. only 10 hours off charger though. I had it charged to 95 percent, not to 100 so i could've probably squeezed some more out.. oh and also I randomly used power save mode. you guys getting great battery life astonish me!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] fillyo:
What more do you want?

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4 on Verizon unlimited!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Serinety:
Pretty damn good if you ask me. And considering I can charge it back up to 80% on the time it takes to take shower.. I'm thrilled lol.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
if you're happy with the battery life then that's great! idk why i expected better or equal life as my g2...lg did some amazing things with battery technology in that phone. I could stay at 100 percent at one hour off charger and 20 minutes screen on time... then it'dfinally hit 99. but this is a qhd screen with only 220mah bigger battery... so i bet the screen sucks up more juice than ever. but even idling wise, the note sucks up more juice just idling doing nothing where the g2 would stay at a percentage. so idk.

thing is, android system is the number one culprit of awake and battery draining recently. I wonder why?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sincerity:
Not good today...64% 5 hrs off charge and hr 40 mins scree ugh
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] lazer9:
Android System & Android OS battery increases rolled in with KitKat. Observed this on my Galaxy S4.

I'll post my Note 4 stats to this thread in a day or so after it's cycled charging several times to get a more accurate reading but so far pleasantly pleased and noticing an overall increase coming from the S4. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Chengalang:
At 5 hours off charger and 60% brightness on. Screen time of 1 hour 30 minutes and I'm still at 77%. I've played games and downloaded apps so it's safe to say that battery has improved from this, thanks again
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
it's insane the battery life you guys are getting. ugh. android system is being my main drain again today with lots of awake time and cpu time. it's funny bc my Galaxy tab s used to have terrible battery life which pissed me off because my nexus 7 could idle for a week no problem, but the tab, with a bigger battery, couldn't last 2 days. now it's on 5 days, with 2.5 hours screen on and it's at 20 percent. android system is low down in the list with only 2 hours of awake time within 5 days!! my note 4 gets like 1.5 awake time within 14 hours. there's definitely something wrong. and maybe there's hope it gets better with time?

I have google now off, location services off, location off, wifi off, wifi scanning off.. i just don't understand.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] johnpacheco7:
Jayochs, are you on WiFi or LTE? If LTE, how far are you from the closest LTE antenna? I know that the further away you from an LTE antenna, the more power the phone uses to push/pull data. Also regarding the Android OS using more power, try to clear the cache of both the Google play services and Google Play store and then reboot according to BizzLeonDaCouch "go into settings > application manager > select google play services - clear cache, the select google play store - clear cache... Reboot. This should help set things straight". check out his post: Post #37.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
thanks, but i did that and rebooted and it did nothing. I'll try again before I goto bed but meh. also, I'm on lte. on my tab s, wifi drains battery like crazy so I don't bother on the note. idk how far I am, but typically around - 100dbm.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] justpastfinish:
Verizon note 4. Disabled a lot of crap. So far so good. I can't kill it!

Sent from my SM-N910V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
here's mine today. I just don't get it. I've included android system. hey justpastfinish, can you post your Android system screens hot? show how much usage like I did? bc i feel mine is way too high.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] justpastfinish:
Mine seems to be like yours

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] crazed_z06:
Today I'm at 49% and phone's been off charger for 10 hours.. 2.5 hours of screen time.

At this rate, 20hours with 5 hours of screen time wouldnt be bad. Also, I keep everything on (GPS, BT, Wifi, NFC, etc).

I did turn off location reporting in Google Maps and uninstalled Paypal because it keeps waking the phone constantly.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
wow yet you get such good battery life. so android system isn't really a drain then. wtf else could it possibly be!?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] starvenmarven:
Mine been good
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
depressing.. was just looking at old screen shots of my g2... i had 24 hours off charger on one, 4 hours screen on time with 5 percent battery left lol def can't do that in here... another one had 3 hours screen on time, 49 percent battery and 17 hours off charger. my god. that phone was truly a beast when it came to battery life. oh well.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] brentsten:
Unplugged at 95%, GPS on high, battery saver off.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
leaving for work at 86 percent... when my g2 would be at 95 percent. oh well. god this reminds me of the awful battery in my droid dna days. damnit!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] klemono:
Mine yesterday
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] :
Very impressed with the battery life :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tu3218:
Don't worry about it. All phones report battery differently. My G3 would hold its first 10% for forever and than it would tale off quick. I'm still getting use to this battery but this phone seems to be even throughout its charge. With that said, I'm still getting about the same, if not slightly better battery life than my G3. Take the the percent off your screen! Just use your phone and I bet you'll be happy. Constantly looking at every percent drop is going to drive you crazy.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Gareee:
And worse case, at least you have battery saver mode in a pinch, or quick charging.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] johnpacheco7:
Is it possible you may have a bad unit. Bring it back, see if they'll exchange it. Also have you tried a factory reset just in case?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Gareee:
If you have download booster on, turn it off. It took me forever to charge with it on.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
nah, I could try a factory reset though. but in terms of had device, then every device i ever had would've been bad lol i never get amazing battery life like everybody else.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bzd0730:
All Samsung cell phone battery life is not long,Maybe it is samsung fatal weakness
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mchief298:
The qhd screen is a key factor. I'm not getting awful battery, but I'm not seeing what I saw on the note 3...

Before anyone says anything.. 8 of those 10 hours were me sleeping... The drain is awful.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] fillyo:
I am happy with the battery life, no issues getting through the day and I've been using it a lot, tailgating, streaming music and NFL app, I am getting over 4 hours of on screen time and have not charged once during the day. Can't ask for more than that. As my usage normalizes, I will likely not need to charge for two days at times.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] k1ng617:
That's horrendous! You should try to freeze all the Verizon and Sammy junk you don't use. Yesterday on a full charge at home with wifi on all day and auto brightness I got 6+ hours of screen on time over like 15hours just setting stuff up. No gaming done tho which I know can be very draining. Good luck!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] truckinwithmydroid:
I have actually hit 7 hrs on screen time with everything turned on and syncing.14 hrs on the battery
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] skrubol:
Anyone know why the Weather widget requires high-accuracy location? I don't really think the weather 300' down the road is going to be much different than where I am.. Seems like too much of a pain to turn high-accuracy on/off to save battery life.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] lazer9:
Agree with this post - question? Somehow I had it set up on my GS4 working without "high accuracy" and thus reporting the weather to my Gear 1 Samsung Watch. Now I can no longer get the weather sent to my watch unless "High Accuracy" is set on and it locks on to GPS while outside, doh... :silly:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cas239:
I'm not complaining. 3+ hours of on-screen time
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] klemono:
Today heave usage though 7 hour screen time
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
today I'm doing well. 14 hours 40 minutes off charger, 51 percent battery left and 2.5 hours screen on time. that's typically what I got with my g2 which I guess is pretty good here for how I use my phone!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
here's my final charge for the day! pretty good for me. yay
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Chuckleb0ne:
Mine for today looks OK. Android System is still a little high.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tu3218:
Guys hitting 6-7 hrs screen on time, what is your brightness at? Today I'm trying to turn it down a bit. The default auto brightness is rather bright when in darker environments. I know in my house, it's more than bright enough. I'm trying it out today but will most likely still go back. Screen is too beautiful to turn it down. But just curious if that's whats holding me back from 5+ hours screen on time. I'm get about 3-3.5 now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] alexyaz:
Right now on battery widget I have 75% and it shows about 22 hours I deleted/turned off almost all Verizon ****. I also have power saving mode on to decrease screen output and turn off the touch key lights. The first day I had the phone I got an awful 9 hours out of the full battery. coming from my rooted S3 I was very disappointed. Now I am a little happier but I still need to look through and turn off some more stuff I am consistently running at 80-90% Ram with only a few apps open. I am sure by the end of the week I can make this phone a solid two days with out charging.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] meonline06:
I'm getting good battery life. I've done an hour or so of gaming, several hours of streaming pandora, and a few hours of reading news feeds. The phone has lasted well over a day. I'm coming from a Note 2 and I would say that the battery life is pretty Comparable to when I first bought the Note 2.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] oilfighter:
2 DAYS 10 hours, with 5h28m screen on time.

Wifi on, BT on, location off, auto brightness, 2 gmail sync

I took it off the charger while leaving the house Saturday, and the phone lasted till my end of day Monday. That's 3 days of use! Pretty freaking good!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] k1ng617:
That's only about three hours battery. I've disabled a lot of junk, surprised Android still drains that much.

Sent from my SM-N910V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Rippley05:
I try to ignore the silly posts like "I'm getting 4 days, 10 hours screen on time, full brightness, downloading 60 movies, blah, blah, blah".

Battery life threads have been around since the beginning of Android, and, there are always people claiming silly battery life.

I prefer real stats and real use. I'm not one of the guys that apparently won't be around a wall outlet for a week, so charging daily is NO problem for me. This battery life, while not amazing, is on par with what I used to get on my Note 3. That in itself is pretty good. I roll with max brightness (because who cares!) and use the typical battery saving tricks (less sync, gps, etc). I don't use my phone much at work except on breaks, but I easily get through the day with 2ish hours screen on time and anywhere from 55-70% battery left. Weekends I get over 4 hours screen on time and could probably get 5 if I tried.

That's about the best you're really going to get (give or take a little) with real use, not using power saving modes, screen at 15% brightness, blah blah... unless of course, your phone has been blessed by Harry Potter and Gandolf together, then maybe you'll get the magic life that some people get.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
quite true. and now I'm getting battery life closer to my g2 which I thought was good!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] The Black Droid:
Moderate use, 4G on, Auto brightness.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] XPLAYMAKAX:
After my 3rd charging cycle after getting my note 4 a couple days ago... I have to say I'm very impressed... Had auto brightness on, Bluetooth on, GPS on, playing games and very heavy use... Here are my results
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] eboy1718:
Verizon Note 4. Lte and wifi.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hopesrequiem:
Solid. might still get the nexus instead though. Not sure yet haha
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Sean Z:
Lol, how... That's crazy.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] XPLAYMAKAX:
Training your battery always helps... I do this for all my phones when I first get them and it's worked well for me... 100% to 1% then charge it up to 100% and repeat cycle about 7 to 10 times...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] fillyo:
Latest cycle, 3 hours 20 minutes on screen time, brightness kept at about 45%.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 4 on Verizon unlimited!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] le0.br4zuc4:
There is my battery. So far I'm loving it. I never connect the phone to my WiFi, always use it on LTE.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
With 2hr 35 min screen on time. Not sure why WiFi looks to be on. I had it off for two hours.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mchief298:
Mine was subpar at first. Now I'm 8 hours in with 1 and a half hour screen on and 69% left on 3G... >>
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
that's my typical day. maybe around 6-7 hours though. every 20% is like an hour for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] 299792458:
Go into Wifi settings then hit the menu button and go into "Advanced". Turn off "Always allow scanning".

Cudos to whoever it was that helped me narrow that down a week ago.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
Thank you sir. Should this help with battery life?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Chuckleb0ne:
This is what my normal usage has been for a couple of days now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JippleStar:
Was not aware that there were people in the Verizon section :gasp:

I've noticed that on average, I will get 4~6 hours of Screen-On Time. It doesn't matter if it has been discharging for 1 day or 2 days o3o;; That is, unless you use air gestures.. because that drained the crap out of my battery once I turned it on.. But I still got almost 2 days! :3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mzahiri:
My results while at home with good cell coverage.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] blade14443:
I'm doing fairly well on my battery life. with this screenshot I had roughly about 2 1/2 hours of screen on time. It was a work day, so mostly some web browsing, mostly Messaging/Snapchat.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tu3218:
Do you guys charge every night or generally go till it's about dead? My understanding is its bad to let the battery go all the way down till they're dead.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] buhohitr:
On theory, you only need to do this the first 2-3 time (break in period), but after that charge when ever you like. I did this to all my 5 phones and never have to replace any. The longest one is 4 years until I trade it in.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] blade14443:
Usually I just wait till its low (below 20%) then start charging. Love that it only takes an hour at most.

Does anyone know if Fast Charging is bad for the battery life?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
i charge overnight every night. i typically run it down to like 20%
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] alexyaz:
This last weekend I got a full 2days but I was being extremely conservative. At the moment I am at 50% with 3 hours screen time. I always play PSP on my phone and that always sucks up the battery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tu3218:
Heavy user? I really have to run my note hard to get to that level over just one day.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
yeah pretty much.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] :
I've been streaming some Adult Swim episodes, made a lot of phone calls, and also had ESPN playing all night while I was sleeping. With WiFi and GPS on the whole time, and this is how long my battery last
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] TaZ2k:
I don't know about you guys but in addition to all the battery saving tweaks, I changed all my email non-gmail email accounts to manual sync vs push/fetch. I know it requires hitting the sync button manually, but it's fine for me.

My battery lasts even longer now!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Sean Z:
Where can I access that menu?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] TaZ2k:
It's in email accounts, under each account/sync
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
today's battery life! getting much better.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] HoudiniJr:
My battery life had greatly improved from day 1. I thought my Note 2 was better battery wise, but after 2-3 days it picked up. This was with about 20% to spare. Everything always on regardless. So WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, 4 email accounts, high accuracy location, Google now. Everything syncing.

I now average about 14-17 hrs a day and 4.5-5 hrs on screen. Really for me its different depending on the day but typically get 4.5-5 on screen time during the week when I'm working and emails are coming in at a high rate.

Also doesn't show but about 30-60 mins of games and some Spotify at about 1 hr a day during the week and a ton of texting. Get more out of it on the weekend when emails are not as heavy. I'm no light user by any means and I'm very impressed so far with it. I experimented with the power save but didn't notice a difference, mainly because I only could bring myself to only limit the CPU and screen and not anything else.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anastatow:
This was my use the first Saturday I have really gotten to play much. This included about an hour of music streaming to my car through Bluetooth and maybe a little shy of an hour of clash of clans. I was also in an area that traditionally has weak lte signal (this phone handled that like a pro) for most the day. I am running with power saver on (all syncs still on) since I honestly experience no difference in performance. I do now run with location set to power saving and nfc off and just toggle them on if I have a need for them. With everything on and running full strength I typically will get about 5 hours screen time during the work week. Have had absolutely no trouble making it the entire day and usually have plenty of juice to spare when I finally go to sleep.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] raziel36:
Definitely handling my usage quite a bit better than my S5 did, though it wasn't a slouch, either.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
My awake times are way off and I cannot figure it out. If I go to sleep and wake up the phone would be "awake" the whole time
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
you have an app keeping it awake. download GSAM battery monitor, and it should be able to point out whats keeping it awake.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] riricomposer:
samsung has always design a bad phone. It has a really bad battery life.

Also android has a to much feature as a phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Sean Z:
Lol.....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jamezr:
Wrong and wrong......

Battery Life! This phone is a beast! This was at home wifi most of the time.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jkersh4:
I'm getting the best battery life of any phone I've had. With half brightness I'm getting 30+ hrs with about 4-5 hrs of screen time with some streaming involved. Of course I disabled as much bloat as I could
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tu3218:
Definitely getting best battery life I've ever gotten with a phone. The fact I was able to get over 48 hours with using the phone how I normally do is impressive. I didn't sit around on my phone though during this time. Just did my daily routine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] U01637:
i don't know what i'm doing different but i'm getting horrible battery life...fast charging or not...nothing beats great battery life, period

the worst part is that i have no clue how they'd even develop an extended battery with the layout of the back of the phone...guess ill be carrying a spare as i did with my note 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
my battery is kinda crappy today. I switches to a new 64 gig samsung card and dcm has been running cpu time lately... wondering if I have a bad file or something. either way it's nice to have a 64 gig card!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masri1987:
28 hrs of awake time, 4.5 hrs of screen on time, 60% wifi.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MatroxD:
Not bad for the first "calculated" run.. Very happy so far..

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anastatow:
Define calculated... those results a tree incredible
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MatroxD:
I just mean by calculated in that this is the first time I have ever just purposefully ran it down to see what it does.

Honestly I'm enjoying the quick charge so much that I don't even think about my battery life(hence the calculated statement). It gets me through the day really easily, and if I need to, when I charge, this crazy thing is back up and running in a hour.

The only thing I haven't researched, and would be awesome is an in car fast charger! That would be utterly insane! I already am not going to run lemon battery on this one, and honestly, this is the first phone I really want to go naked with.

But the battery, it's nothing I did to be honest. It's really just the device itself. It's really just an awesome device..

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anastatow:
Nice. Was just curious if you had done something special. Best I've had was 7 hours screen on time over about 15 hours (which is still great)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MatroxD:
Not really to be honest with you. I haven't had to with this phone. First one ever.

I just charged it a few times before trying to see what it did. I got it last Wednesday and this is by far the lowest is been. Unlike before, I haven't paid much attention to the battery.. I just quick charge it and don't even worry about it..

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] dogredwing1:
Here what I'm currently at!! love that battery life I'm getting with this phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jayochs:
so i found out today that watching Netflix streaming on lte for 45 minutes with brightness around 75 percent yields better battery life for me than just using my phone for browsing, texts etc lol. I'm getting the best life today with the most screen on time I've gotten in forever, all bc i did something that I thought would murder my battery. I think an entire episode killed maybe like 3 or 4 percent within 45 minutes. that's awesome lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Daciple:
As good as my custom Note 2 with modded kernal!