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Screen consuming maximum battery power?

My galaxy note is not even lasting a day with 1 or 2 call and mostly online via wifi. On checking battery usage stats i find the screen consuming most of the power.
Is this mormal for note?
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Since Galaxy Note has a huge screen, it is pretty normal. In fact, with normal usage, it is usually NOT normal for anything else to take more power than the screen.
With normal usage, the battery life usually really dependent on how long the screen is on. I also suggest you turn off wifi when not in range, since searching for wifi connection while none are available drains quite a lot of power.

44% is normal, but lasting only a day with a couple of calls is not.
Firstly you could turn auto-updating of apps off, as 9% is quite a lot for Market to use.
Secondly, do you need media sharing on? That's using 11%.
I have wi-fi and GPS on at all times and have no problems lasting 2 days with moderate usage.
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I think what the OP means is that he has had a couple of calls and has been browsing the net a lot (also judging by the Opera Mobile consumption), so, depending on the amount of time spent browsing the web (with screen-on), the battery time could be OK.
Nevertheless, the tips are good.

Ah, I see. Yeah, unfortunately web browsing is a killer. Makes you really appreciate sites with a dark theme / lights off option

It is almost impossible to get more than 5 hours of screen on time. Check that.
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Latoc said:
It is almost impossible to get more than 5 hours of screen on time. Check that.
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I think it strongly depends on what you're doing.
Playing a 1.5 hour video only used 18% battery for me, giving a projected video playback of over 8 hours. But it was a video of standup which is mainly dark greys / blacks.

Latoc said:
It is almost impossible to get more than 5 hours of screen on time. Check that.
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Depends on how bright your screen is, and what colors you are viewing.
You can web browse like crazy, especially opera mobile, if you go to 'green on black' mode i.e. forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326434

My screen brightness is really low with the screen Filter application. But still I get about 16 to 20 hours.
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edanfalls said:
I think it strongly depends on what you're doing.
Playing a 1.5 hour video only used 18% battery for me, giving a projected video playback of over 8 hours. But it was a video of standup which is mainly dark greys / blacks.
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Did you watch the video on minimum or maximum brightness?

kanej2006 said:
Did you watch the video on minimum or maximum brightness?
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Quite low: 3 out of 15.

edanfalls said:
I think it strongly depends on what you're doing.
Playing a 1.5 hour video only used 18% battery for me, giving a projected video playback of over 8 hours. But it was a video of standup which is mainly dark greys / blacks.
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Yup its very true...... Watching Ring 1 (almost dark all time) for 2 hrs drained battery from 100 to 81 % only. On the other hand, whatsapp (uses full white screen)continuously for 45 mins drains almost 20 %
So it really depends on for what time screen is displaying white (or brighter colours) on how much part of the screen.
Hence now i m using custom whatsapp in dark mode with black background, it helped in a lot.

Getting good battery backup [Not Rooted][Review]

Hey,
It's been 2 weeks since I got my Black 32Gig Nexus 5, I was a little bit afraid about the battery backup of N5 from reviews, every reviewer pointed out that N5 battery is downright bad but after getting my device I found out that N5 battery is NOT that bad but actually offers good backup :fingers-crossed: , the funny thing is when I charged first time and used my N5 it went down after just 5 hours with SOT of 2 hours !! but what makes me wonder is that after my first charging backup starts to increase !! I don't know why is this happening but battery backup actually increased noticeably day after day, I just don't know how this is happening may be battery is taking time to set up, I know first days we use our device with everything turned on thereby draining battery more than after getting used to but I can confirm that's not the case, backup is actually increasing. I have attached images of my current backup+settings.
Battery Status
Total time on battery : 20 Hours
Screen on time : 5 hours
Settings
Not Rooted.
Brightness: 20%(Approx.), Auto was too bright.
Location : On all the time with Battery saving mode.
WIFI: On all the time
Data: On all the time(HSPDA)
Bluetooth/NFC: Off all the time(I didn't had a chance to use it)
Google Now/ Location reporting : On
Vibration on typing(Key touch): Off (prolly most don't care about this but a big battery drainer)
Usage
30 mins of phone call
30-40 mins of web browsing with Chrome
30 mins of gaming (Temple run and NFS)
20 mins of music
Couple of photos taken
Couple of apps downloaded with playstore etc
I know battery is NOT a pro side of N5 but 20 hours is all I expect from a quad core smartphone !! also backup is really not a dealbreaker for Nexus 5.
My humble small review
Cons (That would go first)
Speaker - This is the biggest problem and a "can be deal breaker" con of N5, I never expected BOOMSOUND from this phone but current ouput is downright bad.
Camera App - Sucks big time, lot of time to focus etc but don't take me wrong image quality is NICE.
A bigger battery would have been better (Not saying current backup is bad)
Button rattling, negligible but shows production carelessness.
IR Blaster would have been nice, It's kinda asking a lot for $350 device it would have been a bigger plus since Kitkat is natively supporting it.
Pros
Everything else than cons about the phone are huge pros :angel:
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20 hours of battery life is amazing

Is battery backup the same thing as battery life?
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imneveral0ne said:
Is battery backup the same thing as battery life?
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I didn't get what you asked !!

albertpaulp said:
I didn't get what you asked !!
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He was confused with that term so am i

He's talking about battery life. Great battery stats you have posted thanks
NX5

No idea how your achieving this because I can't.
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While I haven't seen any crazy battery life from this phone I have been getting 4½ hours screen time with 20+ hours on a charge consistently. After I figured after that touch sounds were causing a bad wakelock I was having the first couple days.
So I'm perfectly happy with battery life, its an improvement over my G'Nex and that's on LTE the entire time.
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95Z28 said:
While I haven't seen any crazy battery life from this phone I have been getting 4½ hours screen time with 20+ hours on a charge consistently. After I figured after that touch sounds were causing a bad wakelock I was having the first couple days.
So I'm perfectly happy with battery life, its an improvement over my G'Nex and that's on LTE the entire time.
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So you're saying touch sounds can be a huge battery drain?

Wow never thought that the N5 can achieve 5 hours SOT!
I have a very similar phone usage, so this is a great post, thank you!
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Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V20's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Compared to the Note 7 there is next to zero residual battery drain. I forgot to plug it in one night and saw a 2% drop.

Doesnt really drain on sleep mode. Not bad.
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This is great to hear. My V10 can drop 30% overnight. I can't wait to upgrade.

I'm losing upwards of 15% at night. Not good.

This has been one of my BEST PERFORMED sleep time phone so far! Must be something w NOUGAT also? Love it!

I noticed sometime when we insert a new sd card the phone needs to create an internal list and this process can suck alot of battery. It might or might not be this issue thats causing some users to experience overnight battery loss.

I got my V20 yesterday and had it sit overnight, and the drain was practically zero. Very impressed so far.

Standby drain is beyond great. If the phone is off, then 0 to 1% is lost, depending on the stand by time.
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The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.
It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.

Slash8915 said:
The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.
It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.
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So over an 8hr night you would lose 16%? That's not gifs at all.

I just got the phone last night. First of all... damn this is a sexy beautiful phone. Sleek slim as hell and the best phone I've owned thus far.
What is not okay is the battery drain in standby. I put it on the nightstand at 100% at 11:30pm, woke up at 6:30pm (7hours total) and it was down to 40%!!!!
Not okay LG. I moved over from the LG G5 and the standby on that was excellent, would still be in the 90%s , I hope an update is issued to fix this problem

Over 6 hours of stand by time with 0% lost. I have 4 email accounts running, a few game notifications, etc... No facebook.
This was taken after I cleared most of my notifications.
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So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?

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So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?
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Give it a day or two, the battery will and should improve.
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I too have noticed that this phone has significantly less standby drain than the S7 i was using between the Note7 return and the V20. All in all just better with the battery in my opinion. I usually listen to Pandora all day long at work (wired) and then use my BT headphones at the gym for a couple hours each night too. With the S7 I had to recharge the phone near the end of the work day or i would be cutting it close by the end of my workout. Not the case at all with the V20, after my workout im around 45% still. I do have 2 email accounts / FB / bunch of other stuff running at all times too pretty much. Get a lot of calls / texts throughout the day of course too. So far it has been amazing

I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....

Sleep mode is awesome I bearly notice a drian.

titoh said:
I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....
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7 hours I slept last night with v20 unplugged after fully charging. Burned 1%.
Your issue seems to either be low signal strength or apps waking the phone.

I am havei very little sleep drain. This phone has really surprised me. I have been loyal too thenote series since the n2.... And when the n7 issue started and we had to return it I decided to give the v20 a shot. So far it has really surprised me!
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Battery life my note 8..

My battery life on screen time alway 3-4hrs only as following .. it is normal ?? Cos i notice many people will get 5 to 7hrs screen on time.. pls advice
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My battery life on screen time alway 3-4hrs only as following .. it is normal ?? Cos i notice many people will get 5 to 7hrs screen on time.. pls adviceView attachment 4310563View attachment 4310564
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Normal is relative. Is it a bit on the low side? Most definitely. Normal? Maybe. It really comes down to the apps you have and how you use your phone. I personally get about 5hrs SOT and I'm fine with that. Standby drain is more important to me than SOT. There are battery saving tips and trick you can try to google or youtube.

mrnovanova said:
Normal is relative. Is it a bit on the low side? Most definitely. Normal? Maybe. It really comes down to the apps you have and how you use your phone. I personally get about 5hrs SOT and I'm fine with that. Standby drain is more important to me than SOT. There are battery saving tips and trick you can try to google or youtube.
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My phone drains like 3% per hour on IDLE. I don't have AoD nor anything in particular that should be causing this drain. I have no idea why. The battery life seems to be fine for actual usage, but teeeerrible for AOD.

CalvinL said:
My phone drains like 3% per hour on IDLE. I don't have AoD nor anything in particular that should be causing this drain. I have no idea why. The battery life seems to be fine for actual usage, but teeeerrible for AOD.
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3% per hour no AOD is bad. You have an app causing major drain for sure. You might have to deep dive in your battery stats to find the culprit. Last resort would be safe mode to see if your able to reproduce the issue. You should go to the battery life thread and ask around.

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3% per hour no AOD is bad. You have an app causing major drain for sure. You might have to deep dive in your battery stats to find the culprit. Last resort would be safe mode to see if your able to reproduce the issue. You should go to the battery life thread and ask around.
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I'm not sure what it could possibly be since my old Note 8 did this too, but it alternated every other cycle or so where it would drain less than 1% or 3%+. I exchanged it for a new one and this issue is happening again except it was completely fine for the first week or two. There was no app that I downloaded between the time that it was fine and not fine.
I guess I'll repost this in the battery thread.

i am not losing battery overnight as much as you guys, my problem now is i can't get 6-7hrs of sot anymore, 4-5 is as much as i get, and it's only 1 month old.

There was a thread about Android OS drain.
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I miss my note 4. I use to get around 5-8 sot. With this phone only 3 and half hours. That's with everything turned off too. On my note 4 I had just about everything turned on. Will be waiting for the note 10 to release then I will buy the note 9

Screen on time is bad , really bad :(

I m getting around 4-4.5 hours screen on time , Aod off , Edge off , Just wifi is on at home and its off when i go out and mobile data is on . Usage - browsing , netflix , web . Power saving mode is disabled , Brightness is around medium and resolution is FHD+ , Its been 2 weeks + since i got it.
What should i do , I see people getting way more along with way more usage than mine .

same, its hard for me to get over 5 hours.

illitirit said:
same, its hard for me to get over 5 hours.
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I wonder how people are getting 5+ hours on more usage than mine . I saw multiple Screenshots on Another post showing 5,6,7+ SOT.

Saafir said:
Throttle cpu/gpu usage
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How ? Can u tell please.

Are you guys using package disablers? I feel the make battery life worse. Did you guys turn off all diagnostic and reporting settings (Samsung & Google's) I average 6-7.5 sot . Wifi data bt gps on at all times, screen at 20% adaptive brightness. I use FB via browser no app

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Are you guys using package disablers? I feel the make battery life worse. Did you guys turn off all diagnostic and reporting settings (Samsung & Google's) I average 6-7.5 sot . Wifi data bt gps on at all times, screen at 20% adaptive brightness. I use FB via browser no app
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How to turn off diagnostic and reporting settings ?

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Are you guys using package disablers? I feel the make battery life worse. Did you guys turn off all diagnostic and reporting settings (Samsung & Google's) I average 6-7.5 sot . Wifi data bt gps on at all times, screen at 20% adaptive brightness. I use FB via browser no app
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Turned it off just now .

First off are you using exynos version or snap?
Exynos version here. When signal is good and I'm. Not dealing with carrier aggregation issues I can get almost 8 hrs of sot

masri1987 said:
First off are you using exynos version or snap?
Exynos version here. When signal is good and I'm. Not dealing with carrier aggregation issues I can get almost 8 hrs of sot
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Exynos Version here as well. I hardly cross 4.3 hours sot on less usage.

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Exynos Version here as well. I hardly cross 4.3 hours sot on less usage.
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What service provider do you have ?

Are you using a dark theme? Darker colors are easier on the battery to produce on an AMOLED screen.
What are you doing during screen-on time? If you are doing resource intensive activities like using Navigation, that will absolutely kill battery. Someone having 5+ hours of screen-on time, may be doing something passive with their screens on. It's really difficult to go apples to apples in these cases.
User sewe used 1659 mAh on screen during his 7h+ run. How much is your stating is due to screen in mAh?

same here, exynos, running in performance mode, wifi & mobile data on, 6.45 on battery and 4.40 screen on time, 56% left on battery, I do turn screen brightness down a bit as I don't need it full whack when in doors

The only other factor is gonna be wakelocks , or Signal strength.

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Are you using a dark theme? Darker colors are easier on the battery to produce on an AMOLED screen.
What are you doing during screen-on time? If you are doing resource intensive activities like using Navigation, that will absolutely kill battery. Someone having 5+ hours of screen-on time, may be doing something passive with their screens on. It's really difficult to go apples to apples in these cases.
User sewe used 1659 mAh on screen during his 7h+ run. How much is your stating is due to screen in mAh?
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I m on a dark theme and amoled screen already , during my screen on time i watch videos , netflix , facebook , Dats it.

masri1987 said:
What service provider do you have ?
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Vodafone

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How to turn off diagnostic and reporting settings ?
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I second that.
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mjs2011 said:
I second that.
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Pull down settings and search the word diagnostics

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Vodafone
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So, it sounds like you have the Exynos version. I have been hearing some stuff about shorter battery times on different variants. I think they might be Exynos related.

Are most of you using WQHD? I had an S8 Plus and then got the Note 8 and I can say from using both phones the Note 8 doesn't have as good battery life. I run my screen on WQHD and I get through most of the day. Battery life is average in my view, but battery life isn't a big issue since the Note 8 has fast wireless charging and fast wired charging and I have a portable battery so I always have something to charge the phone. I mean worse battery life was expected compared to the S8 Plus, bigger display and all with a smaller battery...