Hi there,
I wanted to check if there is any solution to the ****ty battery life the S5 have. I don't know why Samsung talks **** about iPhone if they can't have a good battery life without the U saving mode.
I've tried everything even turned GPS off. Disabled Samsung remote location. Please help.
I used to achieve 14 hours on my nexus 5... Yes the N5, come on!
That's rough my battery usually lasts me 14 hours ish
JamesIsNinja said:
That's rough my battery usually lasts me 14 hours ish
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How many % the gpsd task shows in yours? Also is it the G900H?
Mine one lasts for 1 complete day with 4g on most of the time.. Screen time is around 4 to 5 hours
If you're coming here to find a solution then use a program to diagnose the issue like wakelock detector or better battery stats. This post lacks information and does not allow us to help you.
you can try to download wake lock detector or better battery stats from the play store to monitor your battery usage
danfalcas said:
Hi there,
I wanted to check if there is any solution to the ****ty battery life the S5 have. I don't know why Samsung talks **** about iPhone if they can't have a good battery life without the U saving mode.
I've tried everything even turned GPS off. Disabled Samsung remote location. Please help.
I used to achieve 14 hours on my nexus 5... Yes the N5, come on!
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Your problem might be due to any of these 2 reasons
1 app that uses the network is misbehaving
If this is the case than Uninstalling the misbehaving app.
2 the radio control interface
Sometimes the signal from Tower is not that good in your area so setting the network settings to AUTO mode, the phone keeps switching between GSM, WCDMA AND LTE. try setting your phone to GSM ONLY or WCDMA ONLY. it will most probably solve the issue.
Hahaha. I can't believe to see this post. That's the problem dude. I've 5-6 sot on TW with usage all day long, data all the time. And I got 5 sot on cm. Believe me as heavy user here ?
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If you're coming here to find a solution then use a program to diagnose the issue like wakelock detector or better battery stats. This post lacks information and does not allow us to help you.
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Ok I will use the wake lock app today the whole day. At the end of the day will post the results. Also I will make the suggested changes to the network to see if it helps. Thanks. Will post the results in 10-12 hours.
what rom or you running? stock samsung?
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Ok I will use the wake lock app today the whole day. At the end of the day will post the results. Also I will make the suggested changes to the network to see if it helps. Thanks. Will post the results in 10-12 hours.
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my battery lasts almost a day each time..
Omri76 said:
my battery lasts almost a day each time..
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Stock samsung, no root. I flashed the factory image to see if that helped. But no. I cannot use battery tracker apps cause no root :/
I think I will go for a LG G3, not even the SGS4 running stock samsung firmware drained the battery this much.
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Stock samsung, no root. I flashed the factory image to see if that helped. But no. I cannot use battery tracker apps cause no root :/
I think I will go for a LG G3, not even the SGS4 running stock samsung firmware drained the battery this much.
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Model:?which model are you using?)
ROM:? (which build?)
Any Recent Changes:? (have u installled anything recently)
How often do you use device: ? (how many hours per day do you do certain tasks)
they key to asking for help is offering enough information for us to assist you
posting in the correct forum may have helped too mind you
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Model:?which model are you using?)
ROM:? (which build?)
Any Recent Changes:? (have u installled anything recently)
How often do you use device: ? (how many hours per day do you do certain tasks)
they key to asking for help is offering enough information for us to assist you
posting in the correct forum may have helped too mind you
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Model: SM-G900H (Sucks not to have the snapdragon)
ROM: KOT49H.G900HXXU1ANG3
Any Recent Changes: No, using the same apps since Nexus 5. I had Nexus 5 then a Note 3 then an S3 mini then a Note then a Nexus 4 then an S4, running the same apps no issue with this.
How often do you use device: I am at work, so I use mostly for whatsapp, and at lunch to check the social networks.
I have great signal from the network, and I always use my phones with everything on except the bluetooth, I have never had this issue. I left the phone one day on stand by, and it only held the battery for 11hours, with 20minutes of on screen use. And the GPSD task was the only one that was using the battery.
What I've done so far:
I turned samsung remote location off
Factory reset
Removed google location services
Disabled all the apps that uses location like twitter or facebook
Turned the GPS off
Root the device and deleted all samsung apps (the ones that can be unisntalled)
Use the GPS on Low battery usage
Disabled the pedometer
Nothing seems to work.
I am not a really Samsung fan, but I was giving a try to the S5 because the water resistant thing, but if my S3 mini can hold up more battery than this device, for me its a crap. More if they make a lot of fun of apple iphone, and the battery life of the S5 is WORST!
danfalcas said:
Model: SM-G900H (Sucks not to have the snapdragon)
ROM: KOT49H.G900HXXU1ANG3
Any Recent Changes: No, using the same apps since Nexus 5. I had Nexus 5 then a Note 3 then an S3 mini then a Note then a Nexus 4 then an S4, running the same apps no issue with this.
How often do you use device: I am at work, so I use mostly for whatsapp, and at lunch to check the social networks.
I have great signal from the network, and I always use my phones with everything on except the bluetooth, I have never had this issue. I left the phone one day on stand by, and it only held the battery for 11hours, with 20minutes of on screen use. And the GPSD task was the only one that was using the battery.
What I've done so far:
I turned samsung remote location off
Factory reset
Removed google location services
Disabled all the apps that uses location like twitter or facebook
Turned the GPS off
Root the device and deleted all samsung apps (the ones that can be unisntalled)
Use the GPS on Low battery usage
Disabled the pedometer
Nothing seems to work.
I am not a really Samsung fan, but I was giving a try to the S5 because the water resistant thing, but if my S3 mini can hold up more battery than this device, for me its a crap. More if they make a lot of fun of apple iphone, and the battery life of the S5 is WORST!
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Id have a shot at using the debloater. its in the dev forums afaik.
My stock S5.. only changed from "Dalvick" to "Art" and using Greenify for the wakelocks.
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My stock S5.. only changed from "Dalvick" to "Art" and using Greenify for the wakelocks.
Sent from my SM-G900F.
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Didn't knew we could change to ART in the S5! Already rebooting to ART, I hope this give me at least 14 hours of battery life! :good: Thanks.
I'll let you know what happened.
I can tell the results tomorrow night when I get home after work to check if the battery life is awesome now.
Definitely some app misbehaving there. I never switch anything of - sync, wifi, GPS always on. On average 6-7 hours screen time. If doing low cpu tasks like reading a book I have got to 12 hours screen.
Worth doing a root and see what the problem is.
Okey! Well i tested the ART for two days now and got no problems so far.
Got WiFi, Bluetooth, Sync, 3G and Location on.
I hope the ART works for you, let me know.
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Didn't knew we could change to ART in the S5! Already rebooting to ART, I hope this give me at least 14 hours of battery life! :good: Thanks.
I'll let you know what happened.
I can tell the results tomorrow night when I get home after work to check if the battery life is awesome now.
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Okey! Well i tested the ART for two days now and got no problems so far.
Got WiFi, Bluetooth, Sync, 3G and Location on.
I hope the ART works for you, let me know.
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I doubt that an unstable runtime will make your battery better. Check my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55250809&postcount=1309
Using a custom kernel and with a few apps frozen I get this awesomeness.
Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
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My stock S5.. only changed from "Dalvick" to "Art" and using Greenify for the wakelocks.
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@basboy33 THANKS, ART seems to solved the issue, I have to wait until tomorrow to say that this really solved my ****ty battery life issue :laugh: hopefully it did!
gpsd = gps dalvik, is not draining my battery this far.
I will report the full battery life tomorrow, with screenshot, to check if this is really the solution for stock S5 it appears to be.
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Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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I'll be honest I didn't have hope for the one and it's battery. I got this one a week ago. It's on it's 5th charge. That's good! Are you a heavy user?
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Well I think I'm a medium to heavy user. But most other people, especially reviewers who probably used the phone heavily are easily getting over a day of use.
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Yeah suprsingly I am almost. It's weird. I think blinkfeed helps in a weird way. Instead of checking your facebook. Twitter.news apps etc it's all there to look at. Might save juice I don't know.if your worried return it though dude
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lte ...
Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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Try disabling lte ! This did the trick for me ...
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I don't have lte :/ lol
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Hi, I have had this phone for almost a week now and have noticed that battery life for me is shocking. I JUSSST about manage to get through a day and some days have to charge the phone a little half way through the day to make it last the extra mile. After the first few days of heavy usage I went back to my regular usage pattern but still the battery hasnt been good. I have posted many screenshots and posts in the 'battery life' & 'battery stats thread' in the ONE General section so check em out. I downloaded GSam battery monitor and found out that my phone has many wakelocks from 'wakelock mediaserver'...at one point I had almost 900 wakelocks from it :/ I tried everything to fix this but couldnt. Plus the phone in general would lose 1% battery every 50 seconds to a minute. I had to resort to a factory reset in the hope that it would fix the issue but that wasnt the case. At first the mediaserver wakelock was nowhere in sight and battery drain was ok compared to before, but then again its back to draining insanely fast and the mediaserver wakelocks are back. Anyone else have this problem? Or anyone else finding that their battery is draining quick?! Because if this persists then im gonna take it back to p4u later in the month and get a new one. Just want to know if this is only happening to me and if anyone has any solutions. Thanks
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If you loose power so quickly on new phone you have two options - battery not good or you have too many things going on!!! I will bet it is the second option! Under too many consider all processes you have running on the device.... less job for processor(S), more battery live! All phones come with a lot of crap installed form the vendor(map, wheather, location services, etc...) I will recommend to kill(dissable/enable) all processes you do not need!!! Make a test, but get all important staff out of the phone, so you may need to factory reset if you kill something important. Do not worry, with fact. reset will be like new..... and all the crap already started So good luck
Found this in another device forum, but it could (possibly) help you with your wakelock problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1717237
I've never had the mediaserver wakelock (nor do I have the One yet), so don't know how well this will work. I suppose it's worth a try. If not, you might try Googling the mediaserver wakelock problem to try some other solutions. Seems to be a relatively common problem.
I'm guessing you're a heavy user!
What apps to you have installed? how many apps to you have?
My phone lasted 1 day and 9hrs on one charge with moderate internet use, txt messaging, phone calls - and that was without power saving mode enabled.
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LTE actually uses almost as little battery as being connected to wifi...
Guys i would like to share with you a good battery saving tip, I Downloaded 2 applications that made my phone get twice the battery i used to get.
Go ahead and download wakelock detector and greenify apps. Wakelock detector will help you identify which apps continuosly wake up your processor and this is what mainly keeps your phone from deep sleep which means continuos battery drain, once you identify these misbehaving apps you can either do 2 things:
1. Uninstall those apps
2. greenify those apps(root required). This is very useful because this app allows you to hibernate the activities of the apps you want to control. This gives you the chance to manipulate apps and free your phone from constant battery drain.
For me Facebook app is the worse and heavy battery drainer so i keep it greenified. Just by this i get around twice the battery i used to get.
I hope this helps, i know there are many of us that have complained about battery life in this phone. In my case the phone was not the problem but poorly designed apps.
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Hey
Thanks for your effort to give us those tips but if you'd search you'd see that most people know about this.
And BetterBatteryStats is even better than Wakelock Detector
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i use greenify and one power guard . and battery hold too much
After the 4.1.2 update i have a strong battery drain because of baseband_xmm
sui785 said:
After the 4.1.2 update i have a strong battery drain because of baseband_xmm
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Yes battery drain is strong is there any possibility to fix it ?
agentourisk said:
Yes battery drain is strong is there any possibility to fix it ?
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No, i even tried with custom roms but no luck. Guess we have to stay on 4.0.3 forever lol.
sui785 said:
No, i even tried with custom roms but no luck. Guess we have to stay on 4.0.3 forever lol.
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Lol I hope no. I was ready to install SuperXE-Intact-AOSP but i will wait whishing they announce kitkat for the 4xHD.
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Lol I hope no. I was ready to install SuperXE-Intact-AOSP but i will wait whishing they announce kitkat for the 4xHD.
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I suggest u try that one out if u want, because i only tried 3 or 4 roms a couple of months ago. Its possible the issue is fixed now, i dont have the time to look into it myself.
Let me know how it works out.
My android OS is about 32% today and about the same with my three other note 3 friends, rooted and non rooted. Anyone know what is causing it or if you have the same issue?
I'm just stock rooted.
Same issue here. It's very odd.
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motive said:
Same issue here. It's very odd.
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yeah, haven't installed any new apps either...
I have a Zerolemon 10,000mah battery, no issue here.
I'm seeing the drain here too but it's not hurting me too badly. Android OS is topping everything at 32% and has been since yesterday.
Seeing NipCollectorWakeLock as the number one partial wakelock on my system by a country mile.
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I'm seeing the drain here too but it's not hurting me too badly. Android OS is topping everything at 32% and has been since yesterday.
Seeing NipCollectorWakeLock as the number one partial wakelock on my system by a country mile.
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you fixed it yet?
I tried the updated Google Play Services APK which is supposed to fix battery drain but it's still the top on my list. Can't say it's hurting me much though. 74% battery left after 12 hours (1 hour screen on time).
zerojay said:
I tried the updated Google Play Services APK which is supposed to fix battery drain but it's still the top on my list. Can't say it's hurting me much though. 74% battery left after 12 hours (1 hour screen on time).
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i usually get 1 hr 30mins to 2 hrs of screen time around 70% with brightness half, but its not like that anymore
Anyone found a fix for this android is drain? Its annoying me. My phones is warm
Exact same issue here, tried everything I can think of... it's driving me crazy.
Synapse777 said:
Exact same issue here, tried everything I can think of... it's driving me crazy.
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settings/connections/location services/ uncheck Use wireless networks
XiphoneUzer said:
settings/connections/location services/ uncheck Use wireless networks
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Its been uncheck since day one.
There's no fix yet. For me it's network /signal related. Outside at work the process is awake for about 4 hour /12 while at home on wifi most of the time is under 1 hour. Still on top of the list though.
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Its been uncheck since day one.
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Sorry, made a HUGE difference for me. I would continue to look at "location" stuff, notorious batt eaters.
Anyone know how to fix this?
so I got null rom but my google manager doesn't work on it and if u press the side button on the watch it shuts off the screen. so really I just don't like it how can I restore my gear to factory software I dont care if I dont have root I just want my watch back to originalc
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Download the original firmware for your watch and flash it through Odin and you should be good !!
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Where
Where can we find the original stock rom images so that we're able to reflash them if we happen to not like the other alternatives?
My model says its an SM-V700!
Thanks!
luisfaceira said:
Where can we find the original stock rom images so that we're able to reflash them if we happen to not like the other alternatives?
My model says its an SM-V700!
Thanks!
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I would say the best place to look is the sticky on these forums. But since you cant find it by looking here it is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2463743
The sticky is simply named [18.11] SM-V700 (Galaxy Gear) STOCK ROMS COLLECTION (Newest: V700XXUAMK7). Notice STOCK ROMS COLLECTION
You can also just change the button mapping (or just not select it in aroma). You'll find the instructions in several threads here
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The title of this thread cracks me up :laugh:
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The title of this thread cracks me up :laugh:
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+9000
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fOmey said:
The title of this thread cracks me up :laugh:
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I was thinking the same thing........LOL
fOmey said:
The title of this thread cracks me up :laugh:
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just another THANKS to you for Null 21, battery life has gone though the roof. YOU ROCK MY WATCH!!!
hollandipiranha said:
just another THANKS to you for Null 21, battery life has gone though the roof.
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My battery life is amazing also.
I have always disabled the wrist turn-on action in the past as it absolutely DESTROYED my battery life (the damn thing would go dead in like 5 hours). I hated to turn it off however because it is just so darn handy and I don't want to wear out the tiny hardware button.
With Null 20/21 I have been experimenting with different combinations for battery life. I could care less about bragging that my battery lasts 4 days etc. with all the features turned off, but I do need it to make it through a 12 hour work day before it dies.
For the last two days, I have left the motion on and the only thing I have done to increase life is leave the top clock speed set to 1200 with both cores enabled (on demand governor) and it has made it through both days with still a little spark left.
This was with blu-tooth tethering connected all day also with gmail/weather syncing (even though I could certainly live without that).
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My battery life is amazing also.
I have always disabled the wrist turn-on action in the past as it absolutely DESTROYED my battery life (the damn thing would go dead in like 5 hours). I hated to turn it off however because it is just so darn handy and I don't want to wear out the tiny hardware button.
With Null 20/21 I have been experimenting with different combinations for battery life. I could care less about bragging that my battery lasts 4 days etc. with all the features turned off, but I do need it to make it through a 12 hour work day before it dies.
For the last two days, I have left the motion on and the only thing I have done to increase life is leave the top clock speed set to 1200 with both cores enabled (on demand governor) and it has made it through both days with still a little spark left.
This was with blu-tooth tethering connected all day also with gmail/weather syncing (even though I could certainly live without that).
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do you take pictures or record with your gear? what about phone calls?
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do you take pictures or record with your gear? what about phone calls?
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I don't video with it but I do grab an occasional still shot.
I answer call with it all the time.
hey guys i recently did the 4.4.2 update but notice that my battery from 100 to 96 on screen within 7mins of usage. i did a factory reset but still giving me the problem. i was wondering if anyone was able to fix their battery issue after the update.
One person claimed nova launcher caused that on kitkat
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dadiall discourse
its un rooted i followed one of the steps from the kitkat fix on the forums here.
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hey guys i recently did the 4.4.2 update but notice that my battery from 100 to 96 on screen within 7mins of usage. i did a factory reset but still giving me the problem. i was wondering if anyone was able to fix their battery issue after the update.
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That is a very common issue with Kitkat on the ATT Note 3. Custom roms have helped it, but not much. I use to get about 2 days out of my phone. I switch batteries everyday now. I have the spare battery charging system.
So we can only wait for ether the bootloader to be unlocked or for ATT to fix it.
Unrooted and can only get 18-23 hours of charge after the Kit Kat update. Before I could do 2-3 days, easily!
Dr. Evo said:
Unrooted and can only get 18-23 hours of charge after the Kit Kat update. Before I could do 2-3 days, easily!
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damn thats what my batery life use to be. I heard something about knoxraid that helps with the battery life but it sucks that we have to wait for an update.
Subzero24 said:
damn thats what my batery life use to be. I heard something about knoxraid that helps with the battery life but it sucks that we have to wait for an update.
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A word to the wise, I wouldn't be mentioning KR around here. It is considered a taboo subject after what the creator did.
android core apps always used to show as the top battery culprit for me under 4.4.2 - the google search app with the cards ended up being the app i isolated for my issue and disabling it fixed my battery drain issue.
I have also read about a bug with the camera app - but I haven't consistently had that issue so I stopped restarting my phone after using the camera.
My battery life has also went down since the kitkat update. I am at 36% at 11hrs 39min and 3.5 hrs of screen time. That's not bad, but previously I would be around 50% around this time...
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Whenever you charge your phone to 100% (after it got to at least 15%) unplug it and reboot right a way. That fixed the problem for me.
from the tip of my fangers...!
This helped with my note, and managing "power hungry" apps also made a big impact.
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This helped with my note, and managing "power hungry" apps also made a big impact.
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What helped