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Galaxy Note not going idle?

Hi I think I'm having problem with my galaxy Note, I went for a meeting and leave it on my desk doing nothing and make sure that I turned off the display.
But when I came back it was so hot! It feels like it never went in idle or something.
Then I check on battery usage, it was on running on battery for about 5 hours. then this Android OS was also running for almost the same time. So I'm guessing that it didn't go to idle mode and consumed my battery significantly.
Then I remember, before going in the meeting I was reading my google reader feeds, and I just turned off/locked my screen without closing the app pressing the home button. Does it matter?
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Not sure, but that could keep the Note from going to sleep, so use it some more and see if it still happens. If it does then you'll know, if it doesn't then install this and keep an eye on it (press menu and "App Sucker")

Ok. Thanks for the app suggestion!
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I've used the badass battery monitor, for about 6 hours, the app said that kernel used 98% of the battery. Is this normal? I never used my note since I unplugged it on the charger with fully charged battery. And it drained 40%!! Even when I'm not using my galaxy note.
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Wow, no that's not normal. Mine says 3.2%. Are you rooted? What ROM do you use?

My note is not rooted... Only the stock rom I think. But I updated it when an update was available. My launcher perhaps? Keeps on draining my battery. This is really frustrating.
Any suggestions?
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Low battery life

Hello,
Since I bought my cell (about 1 year ago) I've been experiencing low battery life. I've used different roms, tried about almost everything to decrease battery consumption (2g, no wi-fi, etc) but it still lasts about max 8h (moderate usage). While using continously it lasts max 2-3h. So is this normal, what could I possibly do about it or should I just buy a new battery?
Currently running Nova Hd RC 21-39 with Supernova pre RC-3 kernel.
~XrevelationX
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No that's no where near normal. Could you get a screen shot the battery usage ?
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Not sure if you ment those stats, just tell me if it are not the right stats.
Translation:
Signal mobile network
Wi-fi
Turned on
Screen on
Charging
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Other stats are:
Screen - 92% (on automatic though) Wi-fi - 7%
Mobile stand-by - 3%
Yes, it makes 102% kinda weird ^^
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don't sorry about screen percentage, its heaps inaccurate.
Could you install system panel from the market and tell me what the cpu's are doing on idle?
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Nothing really special, it varies tho sometimes it goes to max instantly and drops back within 2s
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same issue here..
running nova hd RC22-41..

I'm pretty sure the battery if screwed. You can pick one up off eBay for a steal.
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Your cpu is at 50% all the time, how is that nothing special?
Install os monitor and check whats using the cpu.
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XrevelationX said:
Nothing really special, it varies tho sometimes it goes to max instantly and drops back within 2s
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Wait. When you say drops back? What does it drop back to?
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Short answer yes i did and it helps a nit
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Looked at OS monitor and only thing that consumed cpu is android system (5%) and system (2%)
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I'm running CM7.2 RC1
Worked fine for a while and now th phone looses 10% per hour (idle). Checked OS monitor and System panel but there is nothing eating CPU or something that shouldn't run.
Only thing that changed between the two phone states (fine / annoying as hell) is some experimenting with GetRIL. So I re-installed the RIL (v20l) that worked fine before but it didn't help.
Also I have two batteries. The original LG and the Andida, both give crappy results. Think I'm going to try to go back to the stock ROM, see if it helps.

i just did that. having two batteries will probably confuse the calibration unless u calibrated them the same way. either way, from what im guessing, not fully discharging the batt will mess the readings as 1 constant battery ?

According to my earlier measurements the Andida is also about 1500 mAh in real life. So it shouldn't differ much. From what I read clearing the battery stats doesn't do much, said some Google developer. I'm back to v20r now and it looks much better.
40% in 7 hours, before it was 10% per hour idle.
Today it was even better, ~30% in 8 hours. This looks more like I was used to.
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Any tips to increase battery life?

I got my Bionic not too long ago. I liked it right away. I flashed eclipse 3.0 a week after I got the Bionic. Then I flashed the .2233 ICS leak when it came out and then I just flashed .230 two days ago. Although I get about 13 hours on wifi and a little 3G, I think it should last longer. I do live in a bad coverage area and am using the standard battery. Is there any way I can improve battery life or have I maxed it out? Im open to flashing any functional ICS roms but would prefer not to go back to gingerbread. Thanks!
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Screen at lowest brightness
Turn off cellular data when not in use(if push messages aren't important)
Turn off 4g when not in use(you'll need an app)
Other than these, I can't think of anything.

If you haven't removed/frozen some of the bloatware that will help. A lot of the programs verizon loads run in the background and kill the battery. You can either freeze them in Titanium backup or use root explorer and goto the system/data folder and rename the file extensions. Don't delete them otherwise you'll have to reflash for an OTA (not very applicable with you being on a leaked ICS right now).
The other thing I've looked at it how many free apps are you using that have ads in them. I did an experiment and uninstalled all my free apps that had ads and saw a better battery.
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I spent the last week in South Carolina (4G LTE the whole time), and my battery held up like a champ. I could easily go a full day streaming music for at least 6 hours in that time, with Bluetooth on, reading books at high brightness too. My car charger was being a douche on the trip home though, so using Google Maps Navigation while watching HQ YouTube or streaming Pandora (with Bluetooth on still) with the screen on the whole time would kill the battery in about 4 hours.

brandogg said:
I spent the last week in South Carolina (4G LTE the whole time), and my battery held up like a champ. I could easily go a full day streaming music for at least 6 hours in that time, with Bluetooth on, reading books at high brightness too. My car charger was being a douche on the trip home though, so using Google Maps Navigation while watching HQ YouTube or streaming Pandora (with Bluetooth on still) with the screen on the whole time would kill the battery in about 4 hours.
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Are you on a custom rom, rooted or anything?
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I maximize my battery by turning data off when at home and using wifi, turn brightness down, BT off, and froze bloat. I will also periodically check and see what is running in background and close some of the apps down that im not using.
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Bioinic Battery Life
jp1044 said:
Are you on a custom rom, rooted or anything?
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I have similar issue with my Bionic with Stock Rom. Replacing it with a Note II' when I get it back from Samsung repair. Plan on giving Bionic to my Father and want best battery life for him. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Q] Battery Life on S3 Mini?

Hello guys..
I am a GNote 2 user, but i'm planning to buy a smartphone for my girlfriend and in this case, i think s3 mini is quite a good phone..
what i am asking here is, how's the battery life on s3 mini? with my note 2, i can get around 24 hours with email, twitter, facebook, and another social network app syncing every time and a lil bit gaming of course.. For the s3 mini, how long does it last in average? Thanks :fingers-crossed:

Mine lasts for 30hrs with wifi and mobile data always on, a bit of gaming, alot of messaging,few calls, browsing and so on... Great battery life all in all...
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Kvidli said:
Mine lasts for 30hrs with wifi and mobile data always on, a bit of gaming, alot of messaging,few calls, browsing and so on...
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30hrs with that usage?! That with Stock battery?
Considering the SIIIMini has a 1500mah battery and the Note2 has a 3100mah...

Like all the smart phones i had before. Play around with the phone all day and charge in the evening. I
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MalekoUK said:
30hrs with that usage?! That with Stock battery?
Considering the SIIIMini has a 1500mah battery and the Note2 has a 3100mah...
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Yep... oh forgot to mention... battery saving is on... and screen brightness all the way down
will add screen at 1%

For me 24 hours maybe 25.
Screen at 30%
Wifi always on
Lots of gaming
Internet browsing 2-3 hours
1 hour of calls.
No battery saving on.
Stock original battery
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Wow..
20hours++ are surprising.. it nearly the same with note 2...
it means that the battery life on mini is awesome.. gonna get one then..
Thank you guys for sharing.. :highfive:

As promised 3G,wifi and mobile data, brightness 25%, alot of messaging, few calls, little bit of gaming and browsing, battery saving on.
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Kvidli said:
As promised 3G,wifi and mobile data, brightness 25%, alot of messaging, few calls, little bit of gaming and browsing, battery saving on.
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My stock battery gets 14 hours on everyday use!
Do you turn your phone off at night?

Nope
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GSM Arena says the battery strength on this likely related to Jelly Bean optimisations. They say other Jelly Bean phones they've tested perform REALLY well battery-wise. Other phones with bigger batteries on older software die long beforehand. You can see the battery test for this phone here: http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-ga...hes-our-battery-tests-the-results-are-inside/
Hours, minutes:
Calls, 6.22
Web, 7.38
Video, 7.46

I'm surprised that your phones can take it that long with gaming/browsing like that.. mine normally gets through the day, with +-5% to spare..
- charges by night, till 7A.M.
- overday average usage: 25 texts, 15-30min talking, 20min gaming, 20min doing other stuff
- wifi/mobile data/sync/bluetooth are always on
- going to bed at 1A.M., so 18h of working time.
Guess I could optimize by disabling that wifi etc.. Also tried some power savers:
- juice defender didn't do a thing at first sight :/ (free edition)
- easy power blabla was buggy & gave black screens
- go power master really helps, managed to get through 2 days actually.. however, the screen transitions were quite slow. I don't know yet what settings I used, reinstalled it today & at first glance it doesn't help that much anymore.. (transitions are smooth again though)
Any other tips on power saving are also welcome

You should see the battery life on the MyTouch 4G Slide. You're lucky to get four hours on standby with it.

Mine battery is about 6-7hrs
I turned on power saving and brightness was about 50%
I use a lot of fb messenger an chrome ,little bit of music,and xda app ,3g was on all the time ,wifi was turned off ,2 app runing in bckground weather and antivieus aand i think thats all
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detexr said:
Mine battery is about 6-7hrs
I turned on power saving and brightness was about 50%
I use a lot of fb messenger an chrome ,little bit of music,and xda app ,3g was on all the time ,wifi was turned off ,2 app runing in bckground weather and antivieus aand i think thats all
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that bad man.....6-7 hours usage....what is your screen on time actually? stock or rooted rom?

3G uses crapload of battery.
Turn it off if you don't need it
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I used to get almost 2 days out of it until I put the latest version of Faria's rom on it. Now I get a days usage. Grrrr. Somehow I'm losing 24% of battery life while my phone is sitting in standby (unused) with screen off for 9 hours.

Here is my battery usage..
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only 30 hrs on flight mode ???
I bought my phone 3 weeks ago and then traveled for work outside network coverage area so i put it in flight mode and the battery lasts for max 30-32 hrs with no more than 30 min of light games like solitaire per day.
Any advice ?

hossamov said:
I bought my phone 3 weeks ago and then traveled for work outside network coverage area so i put it in flight mode and the battery lasts for max 30-32 hrs with no more than 30 min of light games like solitaire per day.
Any advice ?
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Its normal. Your phone still uses os features.
You can't expect from smartphones these days to last 4 days

How much battery time?

So two days ago i bought a s3mini and how it looks, feels and works... i'm loving it..
however, battery time seems to suck... today i'm at 43% after 8 hours.... meaning it won't make it till I go to bed (still another 8 hours).
Wifi has been turned off all day, my screen, It's a black background without any icons... screen brightness on 30%.
Is this device known to have a short battery life? or did i just have bad luck?

Idk. Is autosync off?
I get 20h on heavy usage. (Games, calls, yt videos) Wifi always on, autosync off.
Brightness 20-30%
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Based on usage i get this:
4-5 days: only calls and messages
2-3 days: light gaming and internet usage
1-2: days: medium to heavy internet and games usage

ppero196 said:
Idk. Is autosync off?
I get 20h on heavy usage. (Games, calls, yt videos) Wifi always on, autosync off.
Brightness 20-30%
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damn your phone is super :/ my s3 mini doesnt even stay 2 days without using :/ it looses about 20% while iam sleeping (6-7 hours) with 2G enabled only
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When i bought this phone, battery life was horrible.Then i rooted my phone and installed SetCPU and discovered that my phone was running in performance mode which meant that processor was using both cores at 1000 mhz non stop - even in standby.Then i installed a custom rom and GoldenKernel and started using pegasus governour with 1000 mhz max cpu clock and 200 mhz min.Since then, my battery can last up tu 24 hours with medium usage (WiFi or 3G always on, Auto Sync, high brightness, 2-3 hours of screen time).I currently have about 20% of battery and i unplugged 14 hours ago, but i streamed a whole HD episode of GoT ( 1 hour of heavy cpu/internet usage, 1.3 GB file).

If your phone is rooted, try Greenify. It will hibernate apps during sleep to save battery usage. Get more info on their xda forum.

You can find Greenify here ;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
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Buy an extended battery.

nik511 said:
Based on usage i get this:
4-5 days: only calls and messages
2-3 days: light gaming and internet usage
1-2: days: medium to heavy internet and games usage
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You are joking right?
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Battery
12 hrs medium/heavy usage
*no games, internet only :good:

ofc not. I have customized the stock rom my self. Removed all bloatware, I don't even have google (voice) search installed. All the animations as well. Huge difference in battery usage.

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ofc not. I have customized the stock rom my self. Removed all bloatware, I don't even have google (voice) search installed. All the animations as well. Huge difference in battery usage.
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Well good to know.
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I get about 14 hours of usage just Web surfing and texting
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This is from a friend his S3 Mini...
Normal usage.. all stock. No disabled apps, only in power saving mode.

Almost 4 days and still have 30% battery:

omg how do you keep it for 4 days mine cant go even one day :S

Only few calls and messages and bit gaming every day my phone lasts for 4 days... I'm not using any apps not even the powersave mode. I have just removed a ton of stock rom bloatware and rooted it my self.

Thow did you do it teach me pls
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If u just doing calls and messages and dont use any other apps why bought this phone thats mean u dont need a smart phone haha
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