hows the battery on this phone?
thinking of getting either this or nexus s
It's ok.
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Not very good
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hows the battery on this phone?
thinking of getting either this or nexus s
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I have found it depends on the signal strength. At home and work I consistantly get 4 bars and 3G signal all the time and I can go 2 days on a single charge.
When we went on vacation recently, I was only getting 2 bars but a 3G signal and a single charge didn't even last me 10 hours.
"hows the battery on this phone?" Well - it's black!
It's a very strange question...
"hows the battery on this phone?" compared to what?
To a neuclear power plant it's rubbish. Compared to my wife's Desire it's fantastic.
It all depends on several parmameters and setting. Opdate stuff all the time like mail, Facebook, Twitter, takes a lot of power. Screen brightnes also.
My battery last about 3 days.
But still a very strang question...
It's OK. Comparing to Desire, it's better. And it depends on the strengh of signal.
its much better than the desire in battery but not better in Signals...
This is just a rant.
I have droid 3 for about 2 weeks. I notice that D3 life is far worse than D2G. For the same usage pattern of me, I usually got about 4 days out of D2G. But for my D3, I always get less than 2 days of usage.
The culprit seems to be "cell standby" (there was another thread on this). My D2G always got about 5% on "cell standby" however, my D3 always got over 35% of power usage on "Cell Standby".
End of rant.
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This is just a rant.
I have droid 3 for about 2 weeks. I notice that D3 life is far worse than D2G. For the same usage pattern of me, I usually got about 4 days out of D2G. But for my D3, I always get less than 2 days of usage.
The culprit seems to be "cell standby" (there was another thread on this). My D2G always got about 5% on "cell standby" however, my D3 always got over 35% of power usage on "Cell Standby".
End of rant.
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Cell STANDBY. STANDBY. It means the phone is idling and not being used...
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Cell STANDBY. STANDBY. It means the phone is idling and not being used...
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Sounds to me like someone needs to switch Carrier Mode from "Global" to "CDMA".
Unless you severely hack your phone or travel outside of the US, you won't need Global mode.
This prevents the GSM radio from switching on.
Also, Cell Standby will be used frequently when you're in a weak signal area. The best solution to that is to switch cdma mode to "Home Only" and use Wifi if you're using data apps. Strong Wifi uses less battery than weak CDMA.
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Sounds to me like someone needs to switch Carrier Mode from "Global" to "CDMA".
Unless you severely hack your phone or travel outside of the US, you won't need Global mode.
This prevents the GSM radio from switching on.
Also, Cell Standby will be used frequently when you're in a weak signal area. The best solution to that is to switch cdma mode to "Home Only" and use Wifi if you're using data apps. Strong Wifi uses less battery than weak CDMA.
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What's the difference between cdma home vs auto?
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how did you get 4 DAYS from a D2G?!?
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What's the difference between cdma home vs auto?
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Roaming I believe.
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mohoho said:
This is just a rant.
I have droid 3 for about 2 weeks. I notice that D3 life is far worse than D2G. For the same usage pattern of me, I usually got about 4 days out of D2G. But for my D3, I always get less than 2 days of usage.
The culprit seems to be "cell standby" (there was another thread on this). My D2G always got about 5% on "cell standby" however, my D3 always got over 35% of power usage on "Cell Standby".
End of rant.
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Actually two days of usage without a charge is pretty good. That's about what I get with my extended battery and fairly lite usage. A couple of possibilities: 1) you now have a dual core cpu which is much faster than your D2G but probably draws more power. 2) You may be using your phone a lot more. I know when I switched my wife from her Droid 1 to her new Droid 3, at first she was complaining of poor battery life. Trying to trace that down I looked at her data usage for the first month she had it and it had more than doubled from about 500 MB on the last month with the Droid 1 to over 1 GB the first month with the droid 3. See, it was her new toy so she was playing with it a lot more than usual - particularly since the phone is faster which allows her to do more with it. We are in the second month now and data usage seems to be getting back to a more normal level.
The point being that when its new, the tendency is to use it a lot - even if its just getting it all set up the way you want.
Just throwing this out there... I have a Nexus 5 here has pretty poor battery, mostly when it comes to the screen time. Barely getting 2 hours per charge. In fact, I called google today and they are going to replace it; more on that in a bit.
I've tried stock, CM11, CM11 w/chaos kernel, paranoid w/franco kernel - neither is better than the other.. fter seeing some people on stock + franco and other combinations getting 6-7 hours of screen time it got me thinking. Could we be seeing a set of battery manufacturing defects? Google has already changed the speaker grill and button designs [ironically, my Nexus 5 that was ordered 1 week ago came w/the smaller speaker grill and loose buttons].
However, I'm wondering if there was a bad batch of batteries out there? If I didn't get an exchange from google I was going to pop this phone open and replace the battery with a new one just to prove a point. When I spoke to google today, they thought that a 20% drop in about 30 minutes of use was excessive, which I have to agree.
Ideas? Thoughts?
-t
I'm repeating a post from the battery thread I just made....
[quote name="wdwms" post=51191930]I'm wondering if all the variances in battery life we are seeing could be a sign of a broader issue - a large batch of defective batteries?
opened this thread for thoughts/comments: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2686119[/QUOTE]
Nope. Its the variances in usage and settings. Guaranteed.
I got 6 hours screen time plus on my Moto x....always. with no changes whatsoever, my wife gets 4 1/2. Why? 90 percent of my use was tapatalk. Mostly just text. 90 percent of her use is Facebook, mostly images....with text. Images take more power to load than text.
That primary difference in our usage patterns made a consistent hour and half screen time difference. Oh....and she makes a few calls, I barely ever had or made calls.
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Not meaning to debunk your theory....there are occasional defects....but mostly the huge differences are usage and settings.
The guys getting 6 hours plus screen time usually are running with most services off or frozen. Dim screens. Obviously not gaming much or at all. Not using location services or navigating. These things can make giant differences in battery life.
I suggest getting gsam. And doing a full discharge with it and doing some screen shots at the end. I'm betting if you think you have an issue that can be solved.....or its your particular usage patterns.
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I can stand to have location services off for the hour of better SOT. However I can't stand having a dim screen so auto is the way I go! I still get 41/2 to 5 hours SOT!
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JNMM said:
I can stand to have location services off for the hour of better SOT. However I can't stand having a dim screen so auto is the way I go! I still get 41/2 to 5 hours SOT!
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I was using auto....and yeah, generally it's not to bad....now. I think 4.4.2 improved it....doesn't Jack up to full as much.
Then I saw someone mention "display brightness" app ....its awesome. A little slider always on my screen. Love it!
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I get 6 hours screen on time on the reggie. Location left on (high accuracy) and same with Google now. I think the only things I have turned off in Google now are search history and location reporting. NFC off. Auto brightness. I agree with kj its based on your usage. I really only use my phone for tapatalk or texting mainly. Some Facebook (not really too into it) emails and a liiiitle bit of gaming.. I also use custom kernels and slightly undervolt. My phone can take -25 across the board and 675mV at 300mhz. I mostly UV for heating purposes when I game. (Addicted to robot unicorn attack 2 and smash it). Also don't use any kind of tap or swipe to wake (KILLS battery on this phone). Plus I always charge with USB. I read somewhere that lithium ion batteries discharge slower if they are charged with USB as opposed to AC. That and I don't have free A/C slots in my man cave. Just a USB port to from my PlayStation to a qi wireless charger. Yes it takes a while....
your battery life majorly depends on tbe quality of your phone/data connection. really majorly! it can make the difference of just 2-3 sot hours if not such a great signal is around, to 5-6 hours sot if there is a great phone/data signal. and it varies greatly for everyone. also, how you personally use your phone makes a large impact. its also going to vary greatly as we al use our phones differently. and how you set up your phone and which apps you use is going to majorly affect battery. and thats going to vary greatly as well. and there are even more reasons for the large variation in battery life.
Unless you heavily use GPS or voice calls, 2 hours SoT is too low. To get that you probably have a rogue processes preventing the phone from sleeping. In comparison, I've used the phone to game for over 3 hours on a charge.
Once that's out of the way and if you're still not happy with the battery life you're seeing ask yourself: what's running on my phone that I don't really need?
Every frivolous widget, forgotten service, or Google Now card is going to use some amount of battery and they add up on a limited power source.
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your battery life majorly depends on tbe quality of your phone/data connection. really majorly! it can make the difference of just 2-3 sot hours if not such a great signal is around, to 5-6 hours sot if there is a great phone/data signal. and it varies greatly for everyone. also, how you personally use your phone makes a large impact. its also going to vary greatly as we al use our phones differently. and how you set up your phone and which apps you use is going to majorly affect battery. and thats going to vary greatly as well. and there are even more reasons for the large variation in battery life.
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That's a great point @simms22, don't think people factor into the equation quality of reception. In China on crappy HSPA+ with 1 bar, I'm lucky to get 3-4 SOT. In Los Angeles on an excellent LTE connection I can get 5-6 SOT. So reception adds 2 hrs of SOT in my case.
OP, as I suggested. Get gsam from play store....do a full 100 to very low discharge and lets see what it shows.
Otherwise we're all just guessing.
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OP, as I suggested. Get gsam from play store....do a full 100 to very low discharge and lets see what it shows.
Otherwise we're all just guessing.
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Started that last night, installed GSAM this am... 18h on battery so far, 48 minutes of screen time; i'm at 78%; Wifi has been on the whole time.. Stock build, rooted/bootloader unlocked; 2 gmail accounts, 1 exchange account (30 minute syncs).
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Started that last night, installed GSAM this am... 18h on battery so far, 48 minutes of screen time; i'm at 78%; Wifi has been on the whole time.. Stock build, rooted/bootloader unlocked; 2 gmail accounts, 1 exchange account (30 minute syncs).
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Do a few screenshots when your battery is fairly low. Don't reboot or gsam resets.
For screens, try main gsam screen, app screen...then click the app screen dropdown, and do time held awake and kernel wakelocks. If you're not rooted, not sure which of these won't work.
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Do a few screenshots when your battery is fairly low. Don't reboot or gsam resets.
For screens, try main gsam screen, app screen...then click the app screen dropdown, and do time held awake and kernel wakelocks. If you're not rooted, not sure which of these won't work.
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My son played some games on the phone and i had to use the phone for work, so i need to restart the test.
Right now i'm at 1d 17h 40m, screentime 3h 28m; GPS off, google now off, hotword off, bluetooth off, wifi on, LTE.
Regardless, in gsam, the time held awake is
System 33s
Battery Monitor Widge Pro 29s
Google Play 18s
Android System 15s
Kernal Wakelogs
"no apps that have consumed the specified...."
I'm going to let the battery run out (at 6% right now); I've disabled wakelock for google play store in App ops; charge it up and then let it run w/out Wifi, and leave it on 3G.. My location is on the edge of LTE so its best to leave it on 3G here
Will post screenshots of that test when completed in the next 24-48hrs
Thoughts?
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My son played some games on the phone and i had to use the phone for work, so i need to restart the test.
Right now i'm at 1d 17h 40m, screentime 3h 28m; GPS off, google now off, hotword off, bluetooth off, wifi on, LTE.
Regardless, in gsam, the time held awake is
System 33s
Battery Monitor Widge Pro 29s
Google Play 18s
Android System 15s
Kernal Wakelogs
"no apps that have consumed the specified...."
I'm going to let the battery run out (at 6% right now); I've disabled wakelock for google play store in App ops; charge it up and then let it run w/out Wifi, and leave it on 3G.. My location is on the edge of LTE so its best to leave it on 3G here
Will post screenshots of that test when completed in the next 24-48hrs
Thoughts?
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We can look at the screen shots still....but 1day 17hours with 3 and a half hours screen time? That sound pretty darn good to me! LOL
Guys getting 5 hours of screen time and that are usually near 24 hours, it much less. At a day and 17 hours....and that screen time, I'm doubting you have an issue at all.
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We can look at the screen shots still....but 1day 17hours with 3 and a half hours screen time? That sound pretty darn good to me! LOL
Guys getting 5 hours of screen time and that are usually near 24 hours, it much less. At a day and 17 hours....and that screen time, I'm doubting you have an issue at all.
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Please refer this. Hopefully battery issues will be fixed.
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We can look at the screen shots still....but 1day 17hours with 3 and a half hours screen time? That sound pretty darn good to me! LOL
Guys getting 5 hours of screen time and that are usually near 24 hours, it much less. At a day and 17 hours....and that screen time, I'm doubting you have an issue at all.
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Let me run a long discharge over the next day or so, and see where I stand.. i'm going to leave WiFi off, and 3G on (no LTE)
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Please refer this. Hopefully battery issues will be fixed.
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I just said in another post about this.....I hope the "fix" doesn't end up messing up my current amazing battery life. LOL.
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Let me run a long discharge over the next day or so, and see where I stand.. i'm going to leave WiFi off, and 3G on (no LTE)
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Keep in mind 3g uses the most battery for your internet condition. WiFi and LTE are more efficient though your low signal on LTE wouldn't help.
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Keep in mind 3g uses the most battery for your internet condition. WiFi and LTE are more efficient though your low signal on LTE wouldn't help.
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That is false. 3g uses less than LTE. Why do you think the Moto G gets such great battery life? LTE is a battery hog. WiFi uses the least power of the 3. Unless your 3g signal is very weak, it will conserve battery life over LTE.
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That is false. 3g uses less than LTE. Why do you think the Moto G gets such great battery life? LTE is a battery hog. WiFi uses the least power of the 3. Unless your 3g signal is very weak, it will conserve battery life over LTE.
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It has been confirmed by users on XDA as well as this test.
http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
N5 LTE is more efficient than previous LTE phones due to some Qualcomm tech. Also by being considerably faster than 3G it can finish its task and go idle quicker.
Moto G battery life is mainly due to its considerably less powerful specifications.
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It has been confirmed by users on XDA as well as this test.
http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
N5 LTE is more efficient than previous LTE phones due to some Qualcomm tech. Also by being considerably faster than 3G it can finish its task and go idle quicker.
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I stand corrected. I will do my own test using only 3g tomorrow night. Thanks for the info.
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I get on average 2hrs of SOT but when I went to YouTube I saw that most people were able to get 4hrs on heavy usage and some even 8 hrs.
I get maybe an hour and a half at most. I use allot but my g3 would get at least 3 or 4 hours before i had to charge it.the g4 Battery life just sucks all together i guess
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I get on average 2hrs of SOT but when I went to YouTube I saw that most people were able to get 4hrs on heavy usage and some even 8 hrs.
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I call bull $!## im in your boat im lucky 2 get 2 hours. I have all battery saving methods in play. Ive remove bloat. Carrier iq. No auto brite and turned down. All i do is web surf most of the time. I even went as far as underclocking big and little cores i got almost 3 one day. But normally 1.5 2 hours so . No rogue apps. No sync. gps. Even deleted most of te system partition. I got sys partition down to 2.3 gb of used space
Don't worry guys, I usually get around an hour and a half before I need to recharge mine. It's terrible
Can you guys elaborate on what is consuming the battery? Is your phone getting really hot and staying hot the entire time?
I just wonder if there is some rogue app that is using the cell phone radio unnecessarily, which will drain the battery really fast *especially* if you are not nearby a cell tower.
Can you go into the settings, under "Battery & power saving," then "Battery usage," then scroll down to see the "BATTERY USE DETAILS." What does that look like? Is your top-listed thing "Android OS" or "Screen" or something else?
Type this in the YouTube search box" screen on time 8 hours lg g4 vs lg g3" watch this video the guy gets 8hrs of SOT on his G4
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Can you guys elaborate on what is consuming the battery? Is your phone getting really hot and staying hot the entire time?
I just wonder if there is some rogue app that is using the cell phone radio unnecessarily, which will drain the battery really fast *especially* if you are not nearby a cell tower.
Can you go into the settings, under "Battery & power saving," then "Battery usage," then scroll down to see the "BATTERY USE DETAILS." What does that look like? Is your top-listed thing "Android OS" or "Screen" or something else?
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In batt stats mines goes screen usaully about 60% or so then android os at about 25 or 30. Then usually chrome comes in third. Where im at i got horrible cell reception here in the mountains. Im sitting on 2 bars -95dbm -8asu. Horible signal. Im using mine gsm though also. Imo this is one of the worst reception phones ive ever seen. Im lucmy to get up 3 bars. I dont know in my case ive.been throught safe mode. Stayed in it for 2 days of coarse i got close to 2.5 to 3 hours. But no apps at all
Ive got thermal paste and pads all over in mine. So naturally from the heat disapation mine always feels warm due to the frame absorbing the heat
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In batt stats mines goes screen usaully about 60% or so then android os at about 25 or 30. Then usually chrome comes in third. Where im at i got horrible cell reception here in the mountains. Im sitting on 2 bars -95dbm -8asu. Horible signal. Im using mine gsm though also. Imo this is one of the worst reception phones ive ever seen. Im lucmy to get up 3 bars. I dont know in my case ive.been throught safe mode. Stayed in it for 2 days of coarse i got close to 2.5 to 3 hours. But no apps at all
Ive got thermal paste and pads all over in mine. So naturally from the heat disapation mine always feels warm due to the frame absorbing the heat
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Oh, I see the qcamera daemon thing listed there in your battery usage stats, and that is a known bug/error that drains the battery. If you eliminate the qcamera daemon bug, you will get much better battery life. Try quick search for qcamera daemon, I think it goes back to nexus devices, but there are several threads that specifically address fixing this battery killing bug in LG G4.
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Oh, I see the qcamera daemon thing listed there in your battery usage stats, and that is a known bug/error that drains the battery. If you eliminate the qcamera daemon bug, you will get much better battery life. Try quick search for qcamera daemon, I think it goes back to nexus devices, but there are several threads that specifically address fixing this battery killing bug in LG G4.
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Thats actually the firat time ive seen that i was using the camera rite before i made the post but only for a couple minutes but still thanks ill check into it
Like today what u see is it and im only at 1 hour sot
Just looked im at 1 hour 42 min sot. Now only thing diffrent over last 2 days is my data has been on for last 2 days trying to burn it up before my time runs out tonight. Ive also noticed ive been on 4g most of it and my signal has been a lot better with my data turned on. I think i have a issue with my radio hanging on 2g or 3g and not handing back over. If im on 2g. It seems like it stayz there. Even if 3g or 4g is detected. Vice versa for other speeds and connections. Like if im on 3g. Some reason i have to toggle data e or 4 times to get it to switch to 4g. But also like i said im running a sprint phone gsm unlocked to so i figgurez it got somethin to do with that. Sometimes i wont get calls even if i got 2 or 3 barz. But text come straight through. Other party calling me says itll ring 20 times neay before voicemail kicks in.
My usual SOT.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-GZfX7X2PZieEVIQ2gxUUs4Um8/view?usp=sharing
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My usual SOT.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-GZfX7X2PZieEVIQ2gxUUs4Um8/view?usp=sharing
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Yeah sure. If you're rooted
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Yeah sure. If you're rooted
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Yeeep, still on LP.
I brought my Note 9 from eBay two weeks ago I had problems with the battery it would drain 5% overnight fully charged. I thought it would settle after a few days the problem persisted found out it was the cell standby. I only get one bar or just nothing at all. I traded sims with my brother who was AT&T he has a S9 plus he gets two bars with Mint Mobile without dropping while I get just one bar or nothing at all with AT&T. Is there a way to fix it or do I get a replacement or my money back?
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I brought my Note 9 from eBay two weeks ago I had problems with the battery it would drain 5% overnight fully charged. I thought it would settle after a few days the problem persisted found out it was the cell standby. I only get one bar or just nothing at all. I traded sims with my brother who was AT&T he has a S9 plus he gets two bars with Mint Mobile without dropping while I get just one bar or nothing at all with AT&T. Is there a way to fix it or do I get a replacement or my money back?
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Battery drain can be a number of things. Weak signal can drain battery, but so can an app running in the background. I also couldn't tell you if 5% overnight is really bad. I charge mine overnight, so I don't know what the standby time is like.
I don't see much issue if he's only getting 2 bars and you're only getting one. Plus you're comparimg Mint mobile TO ATT. That's apples and oranges. But bars don't mean anything. You can't tell what kind of signal you have with bars. You have to check the actual signal strength in dBms in the status menu. Also run a speed test to see how fast your data is, which can be an indication of signal strength.
As far as getting it fixed or replaced, you could talk to Samsung and see what they say. But what is your signal strength when you leave your house? You could just live in a dead spot. My last house was a dead spot for all three major carriers. Walk 50 feet up my street though, and you had full signal.
R77 said:
I brought my Note 9 from eBay two weeks ago I had problems with the battery it would drain 5% overnight fully charged. I thought it would settle after a few days the problem persisted found out it was the cell standby. I only get one bar or just nothing at all. I traded sims with my brother who was AT&T he has a S9 plus he gets two bars with Mint Mobile without dropping while I get just one bar or nothing at all with AT&T. Is there a way to fix it or do I get a replacement or my money back?
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Losing 5% overnight isn't terrible... Low signal sounds more like a carrier or locarion issue too.
What model did you buy as in model number? Losing 5% overnight ain't terrible actually as been mentioned.
To gauge a true signal strength don't use the bars on the status bar . Download an app called LTE discovery and check and compare the dbm figures
R77 said:
I brought my Note 9 from eBay two weeks ago I had problems with the battery it would drain 5% overnight fully charged. I thought it would settle after a few days the problem persisted found out it was the cell standby. I only get one bar or just nothing at all. I traded sims with my brother who was AT&T he has a S9 plus he gets two bars with Mint Mobile without dropping while I get just one bar or nothing at all with AT&T. Is there a way to fix it or do I get a replacement or my money back?
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