Battery life discussion

[choboii]

I feel like I have something in the background or something. Or maybe it's an app I installed, but I am at 46% and my screen on time is 2 hours. And it's been on for about 11 hrs. How do you disable bloatware? I have location/gps off and a lot of things are similar with most of the people on here. So I don't get what is wrong.

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I've gotten around 7.5 hours with about 10% battery life left, but today I'm at 58% with an hour and 48 minutes of screen on time -_-. I feel like I'm back on my S4. Overnight it only dropped 3-4% while idle, so I'm a bit confused. My usage habits from yesterday to today did not change at all: texting, a few phone calls (2 mins each), internet browsing, and viewing PDFs.

I didn't read this before, but this is just like me. My first day, I had like 6 hrs of screen on time, but today I'm at 2 hours with less than 50% left on battery life. I'm so confused cut I haven't changed my usage. If anything I was on my phone less today to see how much I'll have left at the end of the day.

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[Dreadsteel]

I feel like I have something in the background or something. Or maybe it's an app I installed, but I am at 46% and my screen on time is 2 hours. And it's been on for about 11 hrs. How do you disable bloatware? I have location/gps off and a lot of things are similar with most of the people on here. So I don't get what is wrong.

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I didn't read this before, but this is just like me. My first day, I had like 6 hrs of screen on time, but today I'm at 2 hours with less than 50% left on battery life. I'm so confused cut I haven't changed my usage. If anything I was on my phone less today to see how much I'll have left at the end of the day.

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One thing to note is that if you have bad signal, your battery will suffer. Being on wifi will help a lot.

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[wttisme]

One thing to note is that if you have bad signal, your battery will suffer. Being on wifi will help a lot.

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The weird thing is, I was in a full LTE signal area all day, whereas I wasn't yesterday. I wasn't on wifi either day. Looks like I'm going to pick through my local store's N3 stock just like I had to with the S4 . No rooting for me yet.

 

[Dreadsteel]

The weird thing is, I was in a full LTE signal area all day, whereas I wasn't yesterday. I wasn't on wifi either day. Looks like I'm going to pick through my local store's N3 stock just like I had to with the S4 . No rooting for me yet.

Oh hmm. I'm still trying to find the best settings myself.

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[mike208]

If I disable the wifi scanning, does that mean it won't auto connect to my work and home wifi when I come within range of them?

 

[wttisme]

If I disable the wifi scanning, does that mean it won't auto connect to my work and home wifi when I come within range of them?

No, I have it disabled and my saved WiFi networks will still connect automatically. I believe it just stops the Wifi radio from constantly searching for WiFi networks even when the radio is disabled.

 

[drmacrofish]

Here was my usage for the day.

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[bkeaver]

Here is my usage today... kind of light today.

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[wttisme]

I did slightly better today. It's been off the charger for 11 hours and 3 hours of screen time @ 50%, still nowhere near the time I had the first few days.

 

[wdkingery]

I did slightly better today. It's been off the charger for 11 hours and 3 hours of screen time @ 50%, still nowhere near the time I had the first few days.

Did you root? I'm wondering if that's related.

 

[jokesonme]

I did slightly better today. It's been off the charger for 11 hours and 3 hours of screen time @ 50%, still nowhere near the time I had the first few days.

Agreed 100%, my first two posts were 7 hours screen time with about 16 hours total and still 15% left.

Currently I'm at (below images). Not the best.. I am rooted now yes. I'm going to use this last 40% and run either music with the screen on or video for the rest and see what I end up with for screen on. I'll report back

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[jokesonme]

Update:

This is with power saving off until the last 20%. With my earlier screenshot I thought I would end up with bad stats.. These aren't too bad. Also from 40% to 2% I left the screen on and looping a song on poweramp the entire time. Brightness a little under 50%. Update new stats tomorrow night with power save on.

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[bkeaver]

My battery life hasn't changed much other than my usage. The last few days I have been in terrible wifi and cellular signal for extended periods of time. I usually get 3.5 to 4 hours of on screen time before I hit 55%. The last few days it's been 2.5 to 3% instead.

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[Dreadsteel]

Update:

This is with power saving off until the last 20%. With my earlier screenshot I thought I would end up with bad stats.. These aren't too bad. Also from 40% to 2% I left the screen on and looping a song on poweramp the entire time. Brightness a little under 50%. Update new stats tomorrow night with power save on.

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So how much more battery did having power saving on saved you?

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[geekasso]

The battery is quite impressive, even coming from the note 2.

 

[Pikezer1337]

Music for a few hours, searching the web and social apps, and about 400 some text messages.

 

[choboii]

Music for a few hours, searching the web and social apps, and about 400 some text messages.

Wtf?!?! 10 hour screen time? What are your exact settings? Lol.

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[Pikezer1337]

Wtf?!?! 10 hour screen time? What are your exact settings? Lol.

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I had mostly every battery drainer turned off. I mostly kept the phone screen on in between texting. If I turned it off after every text I probably could have gone around 3 days with maybe 5 hours of screen time.

 

[Celeste Amaterasu]

I definitely don't try too hard to conserve battery. I freeze almost all of the AT&T and Samsung bloat, but I leave the screen on max brightness and just let it sit and stream 1080p content with flash on dolphin browser while I'm at work.

I'll get a little over 5 hours of battery life while it powers through the day. Hoping to get a ZeroLemon 10000mah batter once they're available to that I can make it through the entire day.

 

[djtiko]

Music for a few hours, searching the web and social apps, and about 400 some text messages.

How do you get a wallpaper behind the settings like that?