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Hi! I have a major problem with my phone:
Please help me to get at least 3-4 hours of screen per one charging,
From the very beginning of the phone (with android 4.2) the maximum screen time was 2,5 - to a maaaximum of 3 hours per charging. The average usage was: maybe 30 minutes of call time, 20 sms, 1/2 hrs of web browsing/facebook, maybe 2 hours of music with bluetooth headset, 20 min of gaming - not heay games.
After 4.3 update the battery life dropped.
But with 4.4 android I barely get 1 -1,5 hrs of screen time (considering the average use of the phone written before) - i deactivated location.
- i checked the battery usage but google services didn't drain a lot of battery power like some users complained. I mean I could have survived with the battery consumption in android 4.2 (despite some users had 7 hrs of screen time), but i am curios how to get more battery life (now i miss those 2,5 hrs of screen time :/). If it helps i can upload some usage stats, but there is nothing unusual in them, only the things i use.
As a conclusion i wonder how can i make the battery last longer or how can i optimize my phone to get a decent battery life? Thank you all in advance.
pilifida said:
Hi! I have a major problem with my phone:
Please help me to get at least 3-4 hours of screen per one charging,
From the very beginning of the phone (with android 4.2) the maximum screen time was 2,5 - to a maaaximum of 3 hours per charging. The average usage was: maybe 30 minutes of call time, 20 sms, 1/2 hrs of web browsing/facebook, maybe 2 hours of music with bluetooth headset, 20 min of gaming - not heay games.
After 4.3 update the battery life dropped.
But with 4.4 android I barely get 1 -1,5 hrs of screen time (considering the average use of the phone written before) - i deactivated location.
- i checked the battery usage but google services didn't drain a lot of battery power like some users complained. I mean I could have survived with the battery consumption in android 4.2 (despite some users had 7 hrs of screen time), but i am curios how to get more battery life (now i miss those 2,5 hrs of screen time :/). If it helps i can upload some usage stats, but there is nothing unusual in them, only the things i use.
As a conclusion i wonder how can i make the battery last longer or how can i optimize my phone to get a decent battery life? Thank you all in advance.
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Listening to music via a bluetooth headset and playing games consumes a lot of battery. Try to enable stamina mode and stop playing games. Besides that use WiFi instead of mobile data.
Try all this and you will see that the battery lasts longer
i have stamina mode enabled.If its weekend i don't listen to music (i only listen at work) and the battery still doesn't lasts any longer. Do you find an average of 1 hr and 15 minutes of screen time to be a good battery usage time?
pilifida said:
i have stamina mode enabled.If its weekend i don't listen to music (i only listen at work) and the battery still doesn't lasts any longer. Do you find an average of 1 hr and 15 minutes of screen time to be a good battery usage time?
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No it is not.
To check your battery open service menu and go to service tests - battery.
How many apps do you have installed? Do you have root access?
i have a total of 6 menu pages of apps, but i barely use 3-4 apps. I looked into running apps and only 7-8 extra apps are running constantly besides the normal processess, but in usage stats they don;t appear as battery consumers (ex. kaspersky). I never had root access into this phone. I'm waiting until there will be no more official updates for this model
- at sevice tests, battery it says: good, no need to replace it
pilifida said:
i have a total of 6 menu pages of apps, but i barely use 3-4 apps. I looked into running apps and only 7-8 extra apps are running constantly besides the normal processess, but in usage stats they don;t appear as battery consumers (ex. kaspersky). I never had root access into this phone. I'm waiting until there will be no more official updates for this model
- at sevice tests, battery it says: good, no need to replace it
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Root and an unlocked bootloader are two different things
With root you could install battery stats for better analytics of your batterylife and appops to control the permissions of your apps.
i know, i had my previous phone routed (xperia T), and i installed custom roms in it etc (especially because of lagging). But before 4.4, the software of tihs phone worked perfect (no lags) so i had no interest in forcing running apps to close. but as i read, hope in a few weeks we get the update, if it's good i'll gona keep it and root the phone, else =>downgrade to 4.3 followed also by root
pilifida said:
i know, i had my previous phone routed (xperia T), and i installed custom roms in it etc (especially because of lagging). But before 4.4, the software of tihs phone worked perfect (no lags) so i had no interest in forcing running apps to close. but as i read, hope in a few weeks we get the update, if it's good i'll gona keep it and root the phone, else =>downgrade to 4.3 followed also by root
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Yeah I had the T, too, and 4.1.2 was a pain.
Please report back when you've testet your battery without bluetooth and gaming
When I'm at University I listen about 2 - 3 hours per day to music via bluetooth. My screen on time is about 2-3 hours. But I don't play and use wifi mostly.
ok, i will. Thanks
I can't believe how incredible the battery life is on my Sprint Note 4. To give you a real world example of what I'm talking about...I'm a ups guy and stream Sirius over my phone to my wireless boombox all day while I'm delivering. My previous android phone on a full charge would get me to about 1PM before needing to charge the phone from this streaming.
With my Note 4 today I started streaming sirius at about 8:30am this morning and streamed it non stop all day for 10 hours. While streaming I also browsed the internet on lunch for about 40 minutes of screen on time for that. I then made about 40 minutes of phone calls after work on the way home. After all of that...I still have 60% battery life left without any charging today.
Man I love this phone!
UPSGuy said:
I can't believe how incredible the battery life is on my Sprint Note 4. To give you a real world example of what I'm talking about...I'm a ups guy and stream Sirius over my phone to my wireless boombox all day while I'm delivering. My previous android phone on a full charge would get me to about 1PM before needing to charge the phone from this streaming.
With my Note 4 today I started streaming sirius at about 8:30am this morning and streamed it non stop all day for 10 hours. While streaming I also browsed the internet on lunch for about 40 minutes of screen on time for that. I then made about 40 minutes of phone calls after work on the way home. After all of that...I still have 60% battery life left without any charging today.
Man I love this phone!
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tried ultra battery saver mode for the first few days and made it from 100% to 25% in 2 days and 4 hours with ultra on and off. then played a game for about 7 hours and it drained my battery 50%. Damn impressive
Not sure what to make of mine, I lost 10% in an hour, most of that was when I was driving!
Hmmm, but then I do seem to have a lag issue like others seem to be having too?
tinker_tf said:
Not sure what to make of mine, I lost 10% in an hour, most of that was when I was driving!
Hmmm, but then I do seem to have a lag issue like others seem to be having too?
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It's either something you have installed or how you have your preferences set. I turn off wifi & gps except when I'm using them (both for battery and privacy purposes).
tinker_tf said:
Not sure what to make of mine, I lost 10% in an hour, most of that was when I was driving!
Hmmm, but then I do seem to have a lag issue like others seem to be having too?
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Reloead some screenshots of the battery for more info and in better quality because I can't see this one.
UPSGuy said:
I can't believe how incredible the battery life is on my Sprint Note 4. To give you a real world example of what I'm talking about...I'm a ups guy and stream Sirius over my phone to my wireless boombox all day while I'm delivering. My previous android phone on a full charge would get me to about 1PM before needing to charge the phone from this streaming.
With my Note 4 today I started streaming sirius at about 8:30am this morning and streamed it non stop all day for 10 hours. While streaming I also browsed the internet on lunch for about 40 minutes of screen on time for that. I then made about 40 minutes of phone calls after work on the way home. After all of that...I still have 60% battery life left without any charging today.
Man I love this phone!
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I simply can't agree more dude the batt life on this beast is simply incredible I'm averaging around 13-15hours off charge with 6-7hours On Screen, take note (pun intended ) that when I put it on charge when I go to bed I still have well over 25% battery remaining, its simply incredible, even for us heavy users.
Must have a lemon
I have had my phone for about 3 days and I charge it to 100% before going to bed. When I wake up the battery life has dropped all the way into the 60s. before this phone I had a note 2 and this is way worse than it was. Screen was obviously off all night. Any suggestions appreciated!
wedgie321 said:
I have had my phone for about 3 days and I charge it to 100% before going to bed. When I wake up the battery life has dropped all the way into the 60s. before this phone I had a note 2 and this is way worse than it was. Screen was obviously off all night. Any suggestions appreciated!
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It all depends on what you have running in the background. Push notifications? I've frozen all bloatware and turned off push. Is your wifi on maybe? gps? I leave mine unplugged all night (12 hours) and it goes down 3%
UPSGuy said:
I can't believe how incredible the battery life is on my Sprint Note 4. To give you a real world example of what I'm talking about...I'm a ups guy and stream Sirius over my phone to my wireless boombox all day while I'm delivering. My previous android phone on a full charge would get me to about 1PM before needing to charge the phone from this streaming.
With my Note 4 today I started streaming sirius at about 8:30am this morning and streamed it non stop all day for 10 hours. While streaming I also browsed the internet on lunch for about 40 minutes of screen on time for that. I then made about 40 minutes of phone calls after work on the way home. After all of that...I still have 60% battery life left without any charging today.
Man I love this phone!
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Did you install anything special like Greenify? Did you use any of the extra battery saving modes? What is your screen brightness set to?
I think the Sprint version is the Snapdragon, not Exynos, right?
I absolutely loved my Note 2 battery life, but this Note 4 battery life surpasses my Note 2 by a fair margin. I am one happy camper.
Edit: Sprint SD version.
I'm getting less battery life than I expected with my Exynos note 4. I just got out of bed and unplugged it , and used it for about 15 mins to browse tapatalk and email and etc. And in that 15 mins I lost 5% .
I also noticed a high Android System in my usage. Any thoughts on what could be causing this?
This is screen cap.
Mine today
Im only plugging in now at 24% because im going to bed.... actually i have a second battery i might let it run overnight
Pretty good
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If you have battery issues, make sure you are not syncing to drop box or google photo back up all times. For example, I use photos to back up all my photos but in the settings I have it only back up when plugged in to the charger. Hopefully this might help someone.
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Did you install anything special like Greenify? Did you use any of the extra battery saving modes? What is your screen brightness set to?
I think the Sprint version is the Snapdragon, not Exynos, right?
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Nothing special installed for battery life and not using the power saving modes. I keep the screen set to auto brightness when at work, but put it on max brightness at home on the weekends when I know I have chargers available because I love the nice bright display. Yes, I have Sprint which has the Snapdragon 805.
I turn off GPS & Wifi when I'm working for battery saving & privacy purposes, but leave bluetooth on all day. I don't have my microsoft email auto synced, but have gmail pushed.
Here are the results from today (attached). Still well over half a battery left after midnight.
To all the people with battery woes-
Pause your pedometer in s health and remove pedometer from lock screen(of course if you don't use it much). It saves a hell lot of battery. It did at least on my SD805 note 4.. I am a heavy user with 3g on all day but never run out of juice. Screen on time averages 7-8 hours daily with browsing/playing games/chatting. I have wifi, synch and gps off when i am not using them.
And yeah i charge every morning, but have never seen my battery less than 39% when i charge lol. This beast is incredible. *super satisfied*
Hi i have a samsung galaxy s6 from at&t (g920a) and the battery drains very fast. Every 2 minutes the battery percentage decreases by 1%. Maximum screen on time i had 2hrs. Help me because i can't use my phone i have to charge it twice a day so i can survive throughout the day
wifi = sleep
smecher63 said:
Hi i have a samsung galaxy s6 from at&t (g920a) and the battery drains very fast. Every 2 minutes the battery percentage decreases by 1%. Maximum screen on time i had 2hrs. Help me because i can't use my phone i have to charge it twice a day so i can survive throughout the day
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put your wife to sleep
wifi, advanced options, keep wi-fi on during sleep, and select never
ever since i have done this, i am doing a bit better on the battery front
also, went to dark wallpaper. that helped a bit to.
First, before taking any actions you should install a battery monitoring app and one for data monitoring.
After several days, analyze them to see if there is any app working and transferring data constantly around the clock.
Also, try to reduce the number of apps working (or updating) in background. For example email fetching (switch it to manually instead of auto fetching every x minutes).
I used gsam battery monitor but nothing seems to drain my battery. I could barely reach 2 or 3 hours screen on time
smecher63 said:
I used gsam battery monitor but nothing seems to drain my battery. I could barely reach 2 or 3 hours screen on time
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Then take it to a repair shop and replace the battery.
Hi I noticed that my watch battery drains so fast. I charged it at noon and finished the charging at around 1 PM and after 4 hrs of not even using it much, it's down to 65%.
I would like to return the watch if the battery drains like this so fast. Any advice?
This was my fear about buying the watch. My Galaxy Watch lasts about 6 days on a charge. Try factory resetting it, maybe. Something might be stuck running.
whilmeister said:
Hi I noticed that my watch battery drains so fast. I charged it at noon and finished the charging at around 1 PM and after 4 hrs of not even using it much, it's down to 65%.
I would like to return the watch if the battery drains like this so fast. Any advice?
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How long have you had it? There is a period where you are playing with it more (without realizing it) and it also takes the battery several charge cycles to balance out the battery and measurement.
To troubleshoot:
Go into the Galaxy Watch app on the phone and look and see what is draining your battery. If it's a watchface, change it to test. If you don't notice anything unusual, factory reset the watch and do NOT restore the backup. Run it for some time in a "vanilla" format (no apps / watchfaces / no modified settings). If it STILL drains .. you might have an issue.
I have the 45mm LTE SM-R845U. Have LTE on, WiFi on, Bluetooth on and connected to my Note 10+. Currently 1 day 14 hours 14 min on battery and setting at 34% battery available running in standard power mode.
wattsja said:
How long have you had it? There is a period where you are playing with it more (without realizing it) and it also takes the battery several charge cycles to balance out the battery and measurement.
To troubleshoot:
Go into the Galaxy Watch app on the phone and look and see what is draining your battery. If it's a watchface, change it to test. If you don't notice anything unusual, factory reset the watch and do NOT restore the backup. Run it for some time in a "vanilla" format (no apps / watchfaces / no modified settings). If it STILL drains .. you might have an issue.
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Thanks Wattsja! I'll do it today.
I'm actually playing around with "I'm Alive" for a true AOD. I'm still analyzing, but my current burn is @4% an hour with a constantly visible second hand (the non-continuous quartz motion). That's a 45% OPR, for the nerds (vs. Samsung limitation of 15% in dim mode).
I have a much more involved work around that is potentially a little better, as I suspect an active display looking for touches and gestures is a significant battery drain in this scenario. If I can get the burn down to 3% per hour, I might just keep this watch
I agree pretty much what others are saying here. Batteries need time to settle, and there's a lot more interaction with your new toy and lots of stuff updating and installing, far more than you think. It's exactly the same with phones.
So give it a few days and you will see it improve to your expectations.
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I experienced intensive battery drain. Bluetooth seemed to be in a faulty status. Watch battery duration was less than one day (SM-R800 46mm). Solution was as simple as unpairing the watch and re-pairing. No need to reset.
In a previous occasion battery drain was simply due to Wi-Fi on.
I currently own an original galaxy watch and love the 4 days of battery life . Don't like the random disconnects though. Thinking about buying the 45 mm bluetooth version of the gw3 but not excited about the battery life. How is the battery life now with the latest updates that promised better battery life?
My Galaxy Watch 3 is only a couple of months old, but so far a 17 hour day usually leaves me with about 70% when I put it on the charger at night.
With relatively heavy use, agree that battery life good. After 24 hours, still between 55-60%
GW3 Battery seems good. Definately better than my prior Galaxy Watch!
I use AOD, with a brightness hack, and constant heart rate monitoring. I'd say it's good for about a day and a half. Only minor complaint is it doesn't turn the display back on when you wake up, you have do that yourself (and sometimes a few times until it recognizes you're really up and active).
Workout tracking is a HUGE battery drain. Again with constant monitoring and screen set to not sleep, a 1-hr walk with heart rate and GPS will burn about 20% of the battery!
If it matters, it charges quite slowly. About 2.5 hours from 0 to 100%. So heavy use, and maybe an hour-long workout, and you're going to have to put it on the charger for about 2 hours every day.
So it seems that battery life is around 2 to 2.5 days then with normal use. About 1.5 to 1 day shorter than the og gw. Hmmm something to think about. I am also looking at the fitbit sense for the 6+ days battery life. Its a toss up.
As per my opinion battery life for Watch 3 is not good. Earlier i was using Huawei Watch GT2e, battery life was 9-10 days.
I do not use workout detection (or any workout function ) and a simple watch-face (weather, dual time, date and battery %) it takes around 3 days on battery! pretty good.
At the beginning I used to use complex watch-faces and the drain was huge like one day and half.
jhcomputerguy said:
I currently own an original galaxy watch and love the 4 days of battery life . Don't like the random disconnects though. Thinking about buying the 45 mm bluetooth version of the gw3 but not excited about the battery life. How is the battery life now with the latest updates that promised better battery life?
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Wanna buy mine? I had a few financial problems and need the money
My honest advice....if you're going to take advantage of all the features a smartwatch offers, then expect to live with charging every day or every other day. If not, there's really not much reason to spend the money.
If that's a deal-breaker, or if you don't want to use all the features, then maybe get yourself a nice non-smartwatch. Or get a fitbit that just tracks sleep and heart rate. Don't waste your money and convenience on a smartwatch just for telling the time. Or look into the Oura ring which is a pretty nice overall health tracker that gets about 5-6 days of battery life.
kodiak799 said:
I use AOD, with a brightness hack, and constant heart rate monitoring. I'd say it's good for about a day and a half. Only minor complaint is it doesn't turn the display back on when you wake up, you have do that yourself (and sometimes a few times until it recognizes you're really up and active).
Workout tracking is a HUGE battery drain. Again with constant monitoring and screen set to not sleep, a 1-hr walk with heart rate and GPS will burn about 20% of the battery!
If it matters, it charges quite slowly. About 2.5 hours from 0 to 100%. So heavy use, and maybe an hour-long workout, and you're going to have to put it on the charger for about 2 hours every day.
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What settings are you using?
I use AOD with stock watchface and brightness set to 6.
HR tracking set to every 10 minute.
Auto workout detection disabled.
The Watch barely make it through the day with 20% battery left when i put it back in the charger
Am i the only one getting such battery life? (maybe battery issue?)
My experience is different. If I do any exercising and have it continually monitor heart rate, speed, lap times etc, and its typically for 1 to 2 hours, then the watch doesn't make it through the day.
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My experience is different. If I do any exercising and have it continually monitor heart rate, speed, lap times etc, and its typically for 1 to 2 hours, then the watch doesn't make it through the day.
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How to you turn those features off? All I really want is heart rate.
I use
liorm0505 said:
What settings are you using?
I use AOD with stock watchface and brightness set to 6.
HR tracking set to every 10 minute.
Auto workout detection disabled.
The Watch barely make it through the day with 20% battery left when i put it back in the charger
Am i the only one getting such battery life? (maybe battery issue?)
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I have continuous heart rate monitoring. I have notifications (from phone) disabled. AOD with brightness set to 4 and no auto brightness. Wake gestures and Bixby turned off. Sleep monitoring enabled.
And with all that, and one of my brighter more battery eating watchfaces (with a dim mode hack)....I was at 25% after 22 hours. So had I exercised for an hour with GPS and continuous monitoring, I would have had @12% left and just made it 24 hours, except in reality it would be on the charger for 2 of those hours. Other watchfaces I have fair a little better.
Doing an experiment between continuous HR monitoring and every 10 minutes. I don't think it's more than 10% additional battery drain over the entire day.
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I have continuous heart rate monitoring. I have notifications (from phone) disabled. AOD with brightness set to 4 and no auto brightness. Wake gestures and Bixby turned off. Sleep monitoring enabled.
And with all that, and one of my brighter more battery eating watchfaces (with a dim mode hack)....I was at 25% after 22 hours. So had I exercised for an hour with GPS and continuous monitoring, I would have had @12% left and just made it 24 hours, except in reality it would be on the charger for 2 of those hours. Other watchfaces I have fair a little better.
Doing an experiment between continuous HR monitoring and every 10 minutes. I don't think it's more than 10% additional battery drain over the entire day.
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Hi, what is the Dim Mode hack you mention? Thanks
wilx said:
Hi, what is the Dim Mode hack you mention? Thanks
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I posted a thread way back, it's probably one of the older threads on this GW3 forum.
You need to be using Watch Maker, and also Tasker. Basically, there's a glitch that tricks the display into being brighter. It probably costs about 1-1.5% battery life per hour. I've found brightness set at 4 with autobrightness off gives a very consistent brightness between active and dim modes. A lot of my favorite watch faces were otherwise barely readable in dim mode.
I have it with Facer app dimmed mode and not black screen, watch always-on is enabled, brightness set to 4, heart sensor is set to scan continuously, stays up to 20 hours which is more than enough, to be honest in my opinion...
I'm very unimpressed with battery life on the watch. Any day i excerise with continuous monitoring (for 2 hours), it's likely to run out long before end of the day. Occasionally I get a battery warning while running, and that's the worst. It's meant to be a health tracking device. Battery is too small IMHO
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I'm very unimpressed with battery life on the watch. Any day i excerise with continuous monitoring (for 2 hours), it's likely to run out long before end of the day. Occasionally I get a battery warning while running, and that's the worst. It's meant to be a health tracking device. Battery is too small IMHO
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I'd say get in touch with Samsung service center, 2 hours most likely your watch battery has manufactury defect, my watch has the heart sensor set to continuous auto-detect work out with wifi and GPS turned on and besides the other things I said, stays solid 18-20 hours, Samsung Health App syncs heart rate and shows me everything, it shows me even my sleep...
I do not see this anywhere, there are two different size watches and each has a different size battery. The 41 will not last as long as the 44.