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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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Over 7 days since my last charge!
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Over 7 days since my last charge!
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Congratulations. Not doing anything with your tablet. What's the deal. Just use it the whole day and charge when you are sleeping instead of vice versa.
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The screen on time is tiny ! Use that thing !
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I'm having a strange issue with mine. Every time it goes down to around 8 or 7 % my nexus 7 completely dies. I've tried a couple of different kernels and same issue. I'm on CM10 nightly right now but I've also had the same issue on stock
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Every time it goes down to around 8 or 7 % my nexus 7 completely dies.
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I'd start charging when it hits around 15%
Deep discharges can be bad for Lithium Polymer batteries, I hear.
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dottat said:
The screen on time is tiny ! Use that thing !
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I was working mostly with my laptop, so didn't get to use the tablet as much. But it's nice to see that the battery (and possibly JB 4.1.2 standard power management) can get my stock, rooted 16GB Nexus 7 to survive for over a week between charges.
Good job, Google / Asus !
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Next time try to use your tablet lol. :beer:
Mine with severe heavy use without turning screen off and watching YouTube and movies FB, Twitter browsing gaming last about 7hrs :beer:
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This is still far away from the 300 hours which are written down by Google in the technical specs. I really wonder how they got this.
If you leave it on standby with wifi disconnected it can easy go a whole day and only drop 1-3% mine stays in my bag 8-10 hours a day without the number changing.
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Kearkan said:
If you leave it on standby with wifi disconnected it can easy go a whole day and only drop 1-3% mine stays in my bag 8-10 hours a day without the number changing.
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Interesting. Do you have some background apps installed?
Anyway, I think the Android System needs too much battery. The Apple devices have an amazing standby time. (I have an old iPod touch 2g MC, a short while ago the iPod had a standby time of 19 days. And the battery wasn't empty...)
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If you leave it on standby with wifi disconnected it can easy go a whole day and only drop 1-3% mine stays in my bag 8-10 hours a day without the number changing.
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Yep. I also turn off my WiFi on standby time and it can manage easily like 2-3 days of normal use but with the WiFI ON I get poor battery performance. No idea what is causing it. It basically shows no difference if the screen is on or off. When I leave it with WiFi On and I have like 3 inboxes/Facebook Messanger/ It just drains battery like crazy.
I tried to optimize it by looking into services and processes that run in the background. Killed everything and still it was that bad with WiFi turned on. It is a little sad : <
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Over 7 days since my last charge!
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This is very easy to achieve. If doing nothing, my Nexus 7 consume about 1% per 8 hours.
as "normal" people above have stated multiple times, nothing amazing there. quite the contrary: even with more or less the same usage, my work-provided ipad 2 (3G and WiFi) runs much longer. WiFi is a real battery killer with the 7, no doubt about that.
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If you leave it on standby with wifi disconnected it can easy go a whole day and only drop 1-3% mine stays in my bag 8-10 hours a day without the number changing.
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Yes, I go into wifi advance settings and set it to never be connected while sleeping. I think I can go a month without charging if I set it up this way and never touch it like OP did.
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Jesus how do you do it? I go through withdrawal after a few hours without using my tab.
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I agree with others, that's not too hard to reach if you just leave it sitting there the whole time. I haven't charged my iPad 3 in probably two weeks and it's still holding a charge, but I haven't been using it. I actually use my Nexus, normally at work to conserve the battery on my phone lol.
Standby time doesn't matter. Screen on time is more important (to me at least). I just got over 9hrs on my last cycle
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Soldier-2Point0 said:
Yes, I go into wifi advance settings and set it to never be connected while sleeping. I think I can go a month without charging if I set it up this way and never touch it like OP did.
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I think I'll do the same. My WiFi was set to always be ON.
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Looking at the image below, why does the tablet "Awake" frequently, even though the screen is off, and it is supposed to be sleeping?
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Nate2 said:
Looking at the image below, why does the tablet "Awake" frequently, even though the screen is off, and it is supposed to be sleeping?
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They're called wakelocks. You can get better battery stats from the xda app section to see what is causing it. It's usually a rogue app or sync settings.
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I'm on my 5th day with the gear. Just want to say I think the battery life is great.
I've had it off the charger for 5 hours today and the battery is only at 96%, and that's with some good use of S Voice. Think I could make it two or three days, although it's no big deal to charge it at night when I charge my phone.
Same for me, 4th day for me - charged it every evening so far and every evening when I get back from work i'm on around 70%, which is great and unexpected. Won't charge it today, will wait to see how long it takes to completely discharge. Will update again here...
My battery life sucks! I'm at 84% and I took it off the charger 3 hours ago. I reset it last night, thinking that might help but it didn't. Am I the only one with this terrible battery life? I think I'm going to take this watch back.
Does anyone have any recommendations for me to get better battery life?
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The battery life is a lot better than I expected. Forgot to charge it last night and I'm still at 53%. That was with a lot of usage going home last night too.
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I charge overnight, wear it from 7:45am to midnight and usually end up with 40% left at the end of the day. I get between 20-40 email/texts a day, make few calls but spend a lot more time playing with the Gear itself.
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I'm at 81% now, that's 3% drop in 15 minutes. What are your settings? My brightness is at 3 an I'm using the wake feature. I am also using the shortcut watch face with the media control shortcut.
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lyall29 said:
I'm at 81% now, that's 3% drop in 15 minutes. What are your settings? My brightness is at 3 an I'm using the wake feature. I am also using the shortcut watch face with the media control shortcut.
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I have been off the charger for 5 hours now and am at 85%. Using the brightness setting at 2 with amber text.
Getting a lot of notifications constantly. It's not too bad~
I'll try the brightness at 2 and see how that goes. Thanks for the feedback.
How do you guys check the battery percentage? I thought that you put your finger at the top of the display and held it there for a few minutes. Not working for me.
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I'm also using 3 with awake and shortcut. Did you let the battery drain completely before charging the first time? Sadly the gear outlasts my note.
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No, should I try that? I never have worried about how I charge a device. I've never had a problem with anything else. What watch face are you using?
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How do you guys check the battery percentage? I thought that you put your finger at the top of the display and held it there for a few minutes. Not working for me.
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2 finger double tap the screen while it's turned on.
303fa5 said:
I'm also using 3 with awake and shortcut. Did you let the battery drain completely before charging the first time? Sadly the gear outlasts my note.
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My Gear had 0% when I first plugged it in.
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How do you guys check the battery percentage? I thought that you put your finger at the top of the display and held it there for a few minutes. Not working for me.
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Press screen w 2 fingers for few seconds and will display apps running. Swipe LT or RT to close out. 2 finger tap will show percent and if bluetooth connected.
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Here's the watch face I'm using. I don't know if you have to drain it completely before charging but I've been told that it does help condition the battery. It's something I have always done and I've never had issues with the battery draining too fast.
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I charged my Gear last night for the first time. After which it has been on for 15 hrs now and it's at 89% battery. I have played with it some to. GREAT BATTERY LIFE!
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this is day one for me, 8 hours in and i'm at 70%, brightness is at 5 and i ahve the auto awake feature. I get alerts almost constantly with vibrate turned on. I am constantly turning the watch face on ether by moving my arms around or just the alerts. I would say this thing has pretty damn good battery life.
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this is day one for me, 8 hours in and i'm at 70%, brightness is at 5 and i ahve the auto awake feature. I get alerts almost constantly with vibrate turned on. I am constantly turning the watch face on ether by moving my arms around or just the alerts. I would say this thing has pretty damn good battery life.
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Wow! I would love to have your battery life on my watch.
10 hrs of operation, with brightness at 2, and 58% remaining now.
It appears that there are some variations in different batteries based on what I am reading.
YMMV applies here.
I think it's calming down now. I'm at 56%. I unplugged it at around 7 this morning. If I can make it a full day I'll be happy. I will let it drain all the way down tonight and see if that helps.
It's the stock shortcuts face. Left to right is media player, contacts, and dialer.
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Had a strange day today. The battery died at 2:00 after bring fully charged last night. Not sure what happened.
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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
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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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?
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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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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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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?
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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?
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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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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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About the same as what I get. I'm quite happy with that.
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I feel like my battery keeps getting worse and worse. Used to last me a day and a half and now only about a day.
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Hey mate, sorry to hear you are getting worse battery life. Are you using anything from your normal? Check out my guide and see if anything helps. Below are my stats currently. I can only see you still have your alarm on, this can cause a slight lose.
Mine hasn't ever lasted as long as your day and a half, maybe it is just leveling out? A few days ago I recalibrated my battery, maybe that would help?
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Hey mate, sorry to hear you are getting worse battery life. Are you using anything from your normal? Check out my guide and see if anything helps. Below are my stats currently. I can only see you still have your alarm on, this can cause a slight lose.
Mine hasn't ever lasted as long as your day and a half, maybe it is just leveling out? A few days ago I recalibrated my battery, maybe that would help?
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Try shutting it off ( hold the off button on right side) the turning it back on . Reboot, I had an unexplained battery issue and this fixed it, I can get 3-4 days now.
Any update @gainstatom?
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My battery is either good or bad. Right now it's fine and going good. But sometimes I think something makes my battery worse. I will keep updating with screenshot. I think 8% for only minute on screen time is not that good.
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Yeah that's great! You can install better battery stats here on xda to see if you are getting any wake locks etc. Greenify plus xposed will do this also, but bbs has more info
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I had a battery problem similar to yours not long ago. One of the things that was running it down was in Settings> Wi-Fi> Always allow scanning. The phone would scan for Wi-Fi signal even when Wi-Fi was turned off. Unchecking that box helped a lot.
I also used a battery calibration app that clears the battery stats and that has pretty well fixed the problem.
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