Battery saving tips?

Mansevolver

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I'm very happy with the battery life I currently get with the Note 3. Surely I can improve even more so?

I keep GPS and location services on. All the Samsung sensors, gestures, ECT... are disabled. It's ROOTED,and I used Root Explorer to delete .APKs (Sprint and Samsung software.) - I did this many times until I released I deleted important ones, so I had to flash stock rom and re-do about 3 times. Lol.)

Bluetooth, and NFC are off. Screen brightness is set manually to 70% (Give or take)

I get 1D 14hrs or so total on time, with about 4:45 or so of screen on time.
Since I have Sprint, LTE is non existent (It's some sort of pastry, if I remember correctly? Any ways.. we don't get this..."LTE" thing...)

I keep WiFi on 24/7.. my 2G signal is fairly bad (2-3 bars. And given this is a Samsung phone, it's antennas aren't good..) so I usually keep it roaming on.

With the provided info.... any thing I can do to improve my battery life? (Not complaining! I'm very happy!)
 

ycats

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Don't use Live Wallpapers.
Only time I have WiFi turned on is at the house. Once I leave for work, I turn WiFi off so that it's not searching for networks.
Turning off Google Locations is a battery saver.......but I'm like you, would rather keep it turned on for GPS, etc.
I have all of the "connect and share" options turned off.
Air gesture and Air view are turned off, Palm motion turned off.
I leave Voice control, Air command and Motions turned on, but could be turned off.
 

swiss_knife77

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I use juice defender ultimate. Get about 20 hrs on the bat. On a hard day 10 hrs of use with about 4hrs of screen on. Not bad for me playing ingress all the time. And that was with a stock kernel! . Lean kernel I've got up to 26 hrs with light use on one charge..no ingress. =)

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mjcollum

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Also get rid of anything you don't use.

I've had great success in battery life running my minin3 rom.
The upcoming minimus should be even better.
In the development section

/shameless plug

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Compusmurf

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Use Greenify.

And seriously, your brightness is at 70%? Holy cow. Mine is at 15% and it's still quite too bright indoors.

I'll bet your screen eats up 70% of your battery to match. :)
 
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