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Battery life is incredible. Post your results here.

This is with screen on full brightness, moderate use, all sensors, sync enabled, and on mobile data. Leaps and bounds over E4GT.
Edit: battery is at 57% still
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What's your screen time?
My battery life actually hasn't been that great, almost equal to my S3 if not worse :/
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inlineboy said:
What's your screen time?
My battery life actually hasn't been that great, almost equal to my S3 if not worse :/
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3hrs 13mins. About 30 minutes of that was using the camera.
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Agreed. Mine has blown my E4GT away in battery life, and I haven't even been using the little tricks like turning data off when I'm at work yet.

I normally would have to plug mine in by noon after being unplugged since 7am. And that was screen halfway dimmed and barely any use
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Zerolemon 3000mah = win

I agree. Compared to my 3D, AMAZING. Walked out of work at 6PM, it had just dropped below 60% and my 3D would get to that point by 11:30AM.

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I'm consistently getting 5 hours of screen time, which I'm pretty happy with. Haven't ever ran it all the way to zero, so could probably get a little more.
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All phones have ****ty battery life when you're hacking and popping bursters everywhere. But my GS4 has done the best so far!

I'm excited to see it. I'll leave my house with a full charge, and streaming radio over 3G to my bluetooth headset for 2 hours and browsing the web for 20 minutes knocks my Evo 3D down to 30%.

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I'm consistently getting 5 hours of screen time, which I'm pretty happy with. Haven't ever ran it all the way to zero, so could probably get a little more.
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How?? I only get 4 hrs of screen on time when I have wifi on, power saving mode on, and have brightness at the bare minimum.. Did you 5 hr screen timers do something else to your device like disable sprint bloatware or something?
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Not doing anything special here. Haven't removed any bloat yet, not using power saving mode, using auto brightness.
Maybe I just have a strong signal. Weak signal can cause the radio to ramp up power and chew up a lot of battery...
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JasonJoel said:
Not doing anything special here. Haven't removed any bloat yet, not using power saving mode, using auto brightness.
Maybe I just have a strong signal. Weak signal can cause the radio to ramp up power and chew up a lot of battery...
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This. Turning data off when I'm at work (in a thick building) makes a ton of difference.
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mjs2011 said:
This. Turning data off when I'm at work (in a thick building) makes a ton of difference.
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Will try especially since I have wifi access at work. But yes, I do have a not so great data connection in my area with sprint.
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Does killing the data make it impossible to send SMS?

My battery sucked till I installed Greenify, and Juice Defender
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This is from today. Only an hour screen on time. Everything enabled, screen full brightness.
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Pretty good. The last phone I had with this good of battery life was my Samsung a920 flip phone!
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On my first charge so we will see. Please post your battery life stats and pics.

Six and a half hours and it's almost at 50%. I had an iPhone before this phone, and if I used it half as much as I have been using my phone today, it would probably be at around 10-20%. I love the battery life. Screen has been on half brightness, WiFi/Bluetooth off, no battery saving mode on.
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Here is what I have so far. Going to let it get to the power save mode before I charge again (IF that actually happens before I sleep), so I will post again then. This is mostly on LTE, btw, as I've been away from home most of the day.
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with screen time guys
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Six and a half hours and it's almost at 50%. I had an iPhone before this phone, and if I used it half as much as I have been using my phone today, it would probably be at around 10-20%. I love the battery life. Screen has been on half brightness, WiFi/Bluetooth off, no battery saving mode on.
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That's good to hear. I've been using a One M8 practically in place of my 5s all day today and with battery saver on (only decreasing CPU speeds) but Wi-Fi off the entire time (just 4G LTE), I'm only down to 48% after being unplugged for 13.5 hours. Looking forward to what my GS5 will deliver.

Coming from the iPhone 5 (had the 5S, but got damaged so I switched back to the 5 during the waiting period) the battery on the GS5 is incredible. I'm just now doing a full charge cycle, so I'll report back later with some battery results, but I can already tell I will be very happy with this.

I just plugged my phone in so I wasn't able to take a screen cap. I was at 32% battery left with 16 hours on battery with about 4 hours and 2 minutes of screen on use. Most of the day was on LTE, but I did not turn off the wifi radio. All background data options were left on along with location services.

not great..barely got through the day with fairly heavy use. 4 hours screen on time.

Not doing so good. It is the first full charge so I will judge it after it has a day or two to settle in.
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Coming from iphone 4s, battery life is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!:good::good::good::good:

Pretty disappointed. Worst phone on battery that I've had for 2 years. Looks like there is something up with the kernal android os
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Pretty disappointed. Worst phone on battery that I've had for 2 years. Looks like there is something up with the kernal android os
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Just charged up for the first time. I'll report back after a few
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Putting this all in one thread folks...go here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714014

Gs5 Battery life

So um on my second full charge and so far with all day usage I am still string at 72% battery how's everyone else holding up?
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My 5 is much better than my S4, that's for sure

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So um on my second full charge and so far with all day usage I am still string at 72% battery how's everyone else holding up?
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Pretty good, but not THAT good. Not much running in the background?
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Mine is hit or miss, doing the same things with the phone at the same places every day, some days it is decent and I will have 40-50% left when I get home, other days (like today) it was almost totally dead. That's with sync and wifi on, but location turned off. Its decent, but far from great IMO.
The battery life is WAY better than my wife's Nexus 5, but it is garbage compared to my international Note 2 I was using previously. I'd have 70-80% left when I got got home doing the same stuff as I am with the S5, plus I would leave Bluetooth, wifi, sync, location, and GPS on all the time.

natefish said:
Pretty good, but not THAT good. Not much running in the background?
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This is all the stuff running in the background so far.
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at the end of the day by bed time i have 30% or so left. my old htc one x would be in the teens %. it doesn't help that i leave bluetooth and wifi on and searches all day since i'm too lazy to turn BT on only when i get into my car and i'm too stupid to learn how to use NFC tags.

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at the end of the day by bed time i have 30% or so left. my old htc one x would be in the teens %. it doesn't help that i leave bluetooth and wifi on and searches all day since i'm too lazy to turn BT on only when i get into my car and i'm too stupid to learn how to use NFC tags.
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I use everything on. On my S4 I didn't much, because my battery would die sooner buy with this battery so far I'm getting better life with more things left turned on.
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Holding up much better than my S4 which I returned as I could barely get it to go 3/4 of a day without dying with normal usage. Now I end the day with at least 30% left. Also outperforming my iPhone 5S which would be close to dead by the end of the day. Very impressed!

great battery
I had an S3 before. When left alone at night, I can see phone 'Awake' numerous times. As viewed from Battery settings.
Except Gmail, I had sync disabled on every app. I also had most of the apps greenified. Still phone wakes up numerous times at night when not in use.
With S5, I have installed all the apps I had on S3. I have configured only few of them. None of them are greenified now. Also, I have left more apps to sync in background. Previous night, in the 9 hrs I left it alone, it woke only 2 times. Thats really good. In that 9 idle hours, battery dropped only 4%.

Battery is similar to the m8 (very good)... I'm thinking I'm going to have to return the htc
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So um on my second full charge and so far with all day usage I am still string at 72% battery how's everyone else holding up?
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I'm really not getting very good battery life at all. I am shocked when I hear of others getting 5+ hours of screen on time. I'm getting nowhere near that and unfortunately for me I'm on my phone all day for work (calls, emails, etc.) because I work from home. This is also my 2nd SGS5. The first was having major screen issues and the capacitive buttons stopped lighting up for some reason.

t91180 said:
I'm really not getting very good battery life at all. I am shocked when I hear of others getting 5+ hours of screen on time. I'm getting nowhere near that and unfortunately for me I'm on my phone all day for work (calls, emails, etc.) because I work from home. This is also my 2nd SGS5. The first was having major screen issues and the capacitive buttons stopped lighting up for some reason.
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Have you disabled all of the built in apps you aren't using? Try to cycle your battery. Go on your Google account and disable sync on thin you don't need. Or call ATT and ask for a replacement under warranty maybe your battery is bad. They are very good when it comes to warranty exchanges. Best of luck.
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Have you disabled all of the built in apps you aren't using? Try to cycle your battery. Go on your Google account and disable sync on thin you don't need. Or call ATT and ask for a replacement under warranty maybe your battery is bad. They are very good when it comes to warranty exchanges. Best of luck.
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I've tried cycling, I have more than half of the sync items turned off and I'm still having this issue But thank you for the suggestions. I am going to head to the store tomorrow and see about a replacement. I just can't guarantee it will be another S5 at this point. LOL

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I've tried cycling, I have more than half of the sync items turned off and I'm still having this issue But thank you for the suggestions. I am going to head to the store tomorrow and see about a replacement. I just can't guarantee it will be another S5 at this point. LOL
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Att wouldn't even let me return the phone without restocking fee. Which was a joke.
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Oh really? I'm still within my 14 days because we just switched to them and I've had issues so that may be why I've had no trouble?
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Today's battery life.
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Fantastic battery life so far. Since unplugging it from the charger Wednesday morning, my battery is at 86% this morning! I do have the power saving mode on (not the ultra power saving mode, the regular one), and don't use it a whole lot during the day (not for hours on end at least, just a few minutes here and there)
Better battery life that I was getting on my S4.

I average about 5-6 hours screen time every day no matter if on WiFi or data.... I bet I could crack 7 if I was on Wi-Fi the whole time but yeah, coming from the nexus 5, this thing kicks the crap out of it in battery department
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My first battery cycle I got 7 hours screen on time and the last two I haven't gotten more than 5 hour if that. I disabled about as much bloat I could. Can some one explain what it means to cycle your battery

I think the battery life has been really good so far...
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Bad battery life...what's the deal?

I am having terrible battery life and I just don't understand I deleted most of the bloatware. I tried to use betterbatterystats to see partial wakelocks but I guess you need root now to see them. I'm at a lost now
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80 people can look at this but no one can offer insight.....oh joy what a great community this is turning out to be
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The stats you posted shows there isn't much running in the background. I would say do a factory reset:
Turn the phone off
Hold volume up+home+power buttons
Use volume keys to scroll down to wipe data+cache. Power button to select. Warning: your apps and progress are gonna be gone.
Let it boot up normally. Start installing apps and setup your phone. It takes 2 or 3 charge cycles and a couple of reboots to reach optimized battery usage.
Tip: dialing *#*#4636#*#*
1- you can check the health state of your battery (does it charge to 100%? My battery voltage at 74% charge is 4013mV)
2- you can go to device information and turn off LTE from preferred network types. This saves battery when phone is sitting idle or if you're on your homes WiFi and it is faster than LTE anyway
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Commodore 64 said:
The stats you posted shows there isn't much running in the background. I would say do a factory reset:
Turn the phone off
Hold volume up+home+power buttons
Use volume keys to scroll down to wipe data+cache. Power button to select. Warning: your apps and progress are gonna be gone.
Let it boot up normally. Start installing apps and setup your phone. It takes 2 or 3 charge cycles and a couple of reboots to reach optimized battery usage.
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1- you can check the health state of your battery (does it charge to 100%? My battery voltage at 74% charge is 4013mV)
2- you can go to device information and turn off LTE from preferred network types. This saves battery when phone is sitting idle or if you're on your homes WiFi and it is faster than LTE anyway
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I really appreciate your help man. I really really don't want to factory reset but I guess I have no choice
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I'm at 60% with 3898 mv. This battery cycle is definitely better than yesterday's
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I was wondering. How bad is your battery life? How much percent after a minute and stuff like that.

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I was wondering. How bad is your battery life? How much percent after a minute and stuff like that.
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Do you mean fast does my batter % per minute? How do I check that without staring at my batter for a minute?
Today's battery cycle is slightly better
I am at 21% with 8 hrs 22 min on battery and 4 hrs 35 min screen on time
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Might be the apps that you've installed because I regularly get 16+hrs on battery with 6+ hours of screen on time without power save mode.
Click android os and see how long CPU awake time is
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skyrocketeer said:
Might be the apps that you've installed because I regularly get 16+hrs on battery with 6+ hours of screen on time without power save mode.
Click android os and see how long CPU awake time is
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I got around 1.5 hours
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Yeah, you definitely have something going on there. Assuming don't have power hungry apps running in the background, I would say you either gotta do a factory reset or swap out the battery. Those stats are definitely not normal.
I'll get the screen on time up to about 7.5hrs before it dies out on me on this cycle. After the few few initial cycles, my stats have evened out and become more consistent. Have you tried doing a hard power cycle by removing the battery and keeping it out for at least a minute? If not, I would give that a try before your next full charge.

I'm also experiencing pretty subpar battery (I disabled all the bloatware etc.). It was rapidly draining at first but I managed to 'slow it down'. That being said, I only charged this phone once since I just got it. Is it possible that my battery will 'optimize' after a few cycles or should I save myself the trouble and factory reset now?
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karmuh said:
Yeah, you definitely have something going on there. Assuming don't have power hungry apps running in the background, I would say you either gotta do a factory reset or swap out the battery. Those stats are definitely not normal.
I'll get the screen on time up to about 7.5hrs before it dies out on me on this cycle. After the few few initial cycles, my stats have evened out and become more consistent. Have you tried doing a hard power cycle by removing the battery and keeping it out for at least a minute? If not, I would give that a try before your next full charge.
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I have not tried a hard power cycle. Can you elaborate more on that. I just have to wait till my phone is dead and take the battery out for a minute
abraxo said:
I'm also experiencing pretty subpar battery (I disabled all the bloatware etc.). It was rapidly draining at first but I managed to 'slow it down'. That being said, I only charged this phone once since I just got it. Is it possible that my battery will 'optimize' after a few cycles or should I save myself the trouble and factory reset now?
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I would say give it 3-4 cycles I'm on my 4th and if I don't see any improvement I guess I'll factory reset
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Going thru all your posts. I picked up my phone 2 days ago. Charged it to 100% once (the night I picked up the S5). Monitoring the improvements after a few cycles.
Below is the consumption after 1 full charge.
Going to plug it in now for a full charge.. will post tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it improves.
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ravennyc said:
Going thru all your posts. I picked up my phone 2 days ago. Charged it to 100% once (the night I picked up the S5). Monitoring the improvements after a few cycles.
Below is the consumption after 1 full charge.
Going to plug it in now for a full charge.. will post tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it improves.
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What's your screen on time
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LeKtRiCzzz said:
I have not tried a hard power cycle. Can you elaborate more on that. I just have to wait till my phone is dead and take the battery out for a minute
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Yup, that's basically all you do. Either let it die completely or have it a few % off from dying, take it out and let it sit for at least a minute. I'd keep it out for about 5 minutes, though. Pop it back in, fully charge and see if anything has changed. If not, it looks like a factory reset or replacing the battery would be your next steps, unfortunately.

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Yup, that's basically all you do. Either let it die completely or have it a few % off from dying, take it out and let it sit for at least a minute. I'd keep it out for about 5 minutes, though. Pop it back in, fully charge and see if anything has changed. If not, it looks like a factory reset or replacing the battery would be your next steps, unfortunately.
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I let it die completely yesterday got 5 hours today I'm going to let it it get down to 2% and let it die it's at 15% right now
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ravennyc said:
Going thru all your posts. I picked up my phone 2 days ago. Charged it to 100% once (the night I picked up the S5). Monitoring the improvements after a few cycles.
Below is the consumption after 1 full charge.
Going to plug it in now for a full charge.. will post tomorrow. Fingers crossed that it improves.
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Here is the 5 days with the phone.. Charged it last evening..
Screen time: 5h 9m
Voice: 2h 44m
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If you can't see the problem in app usage stats, try an app like Watchdog .
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If you can't see the problem in app usage stats, try an app like Watchdog .
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Is the one you are Referring to?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zomut.watchdoglite
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That's the one.
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8.4 & 10.5 battery life results.

After my first full charge from 0%, these are my battery results at 9%. Has been mainly used for Tapatalk, Facebook, 2 email accounts, Web browsing and general messing around. Only used for a small amount of video useage. Screen brightness was set at about 35-40% most of the time. Hopefully will get even better after a few more charge cycle's.
Whats other people's results?
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Here's mine is this good?
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craigels said:
Here's mine is this good?
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Can you tell us what you did when you had the do drastic drops? Played games?

craigels said:
Here's mine is this good?
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What was your screen on time?
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I don't know what I did when it droped maybe it was music playing loud ?
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My "screen on time", is the same as my " battery time." I had my brightness on 50% and it was also on power saver. The only time I don't use power saver is when I'm using games. My battery drain was for watching videos (YouTube, Netflix) ,Tapatalk app all day, and web browsing.
Almost 7 hours with 53% battery drain. That's fantastic for me and my usage.

so far mine is pretty awful lol my nexus 7 seemed to have better life but we'll see!
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xRevilatioNx said:
My "screen on time", is the same as my " battery time." I had my battery on 50% and it was also on power saver. The only time I don't use power saver is when I'm using games. My battery drain was for watching videos (YouTube, Netflix) ,Tapatalk app all day, and web browsing.
Almost 7 hours with 53% battery drain. That's fantastic for me and my usage.
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If you tap on the SCREEN statistic and you will get ACTUAL length of time screen has been on for
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hmm lost 7 percent idling overnight. don't really like that.. hoping this battery is just breaking in because a 4900mah battery should be getting better life than my 3000mah LG g2, and so far it isn't lol
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So far the Tab S seems to be getting less battery life in mixed use than my Gpad 8.3 and Galaxy Pro 8.4. I've been spoiled by the Nexus 7's 10+ hour of screen on time and none of the 8+ inch tablets get near it. I find when I leave home I take my Nexus 7 because of the great battery life. Sometimes 6-7 hours is not enough.
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It seems that our device, for some reason, is not going into deep sleep mode. I saw my battery info under the settings menu, it's always awake. Can someone confirm this?

wongchuntingjoe said:
It seems that our device, for some reason, is not going into deep sleep mode. I saw my battery info under the settings menu, it's always awake. Can someone confirm this?
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Go into settings, connections, wifi and check the setting that switches wifi off when in sleep mode. Saves battery for me.
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honestly I don't get why the standby time on this battery is so bad. it's 4900mah and yet I drain 10 percent within 11 hours, whereas my 3000mah g2 will drain 1 to 3 percent. it's ridiculous. this is with 8 min screen on time and the Google search awake time is only about 5 minutes. stupid TouchWiz.
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jayochs said:
honestly I don't get why the standby time on this battery is so bad. it's 4900mah and yet I drain 10 percent within 11 hours, whereas my 3000mah g2 will drain 1 to 3 percent. it's ridiculous. this is with 8 min screen on time and the Google search awake time is only about 5 minutes. stupid TouchWiz.
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I actually find standby time on the 8.4 really good. Screen on time is between 5 to 6 hours for me with moderate to heavy use. I would like more, maybe future updates will improve this.
Have you calibrated the battery? I let my battery run down until it switches off. I usually do this about once a month on my other gadgets. It seems to help. Also battery life should improve after the first week.
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Letting a lipo battery die completely shortens it's life.
GM only let's the lipo batteries in the Chevy volt go down half way before the volt stops using them. This makes the volt battery last 10 years instead of the 2 to 4 years most electronic devices get out of lipo batteries

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Letting a lipo battery die completely shortens it's life.
GM only let's the lipo batteries in the Chevy volt go down half way before the volt stops using them. This makes the volt battery last 10 years instead of the 2 to 4 years most electronic devices get out of lipo batteries
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As far as I know the batteries don't die completely. They automatically power down when the battery gets to near empty.
Been doing this to my iPad 3 since they were released and battery life is still great after all this time. My galaxy Note 2 hasn't suffered any ill effects either.
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hmm my screen on time still isn't that good. my battery life blows lol
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craigels said:
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About the same as what I get. I'm quite happy with that.
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