Well... I reciece my extended battery from assesoryswap.com today. Its the 3500 mah.. i put it in today at 1:30 p.m. at 72% and i havent charge it yet. Im gonna let it die and charge it all night and give u guys an update tomorrow and let u know how much life i get out of it.. until tomorrow. Later....
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I can't wait to get mine in on Friday. Hopefully it works just as good. Although I only paid 10 bucks so what's to be expected.
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Ok. I took the phone off the charger at 7:10am and it started with a 96% and 70% 12:37 pm , now its 9:52 and i still have 51% left of battery time... Im guessing this was a great investment. Mine u. I had wifi and Bluetooth running from 7:45 am until 5:30 pm ,those are my working hours.. The only thing i change is my phone brightness, because i know that runs down a battery for sure. Im freaking amazed..
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Extended battery's are awesome...sure you have to sacrifice size, but not that much....but its well worth it.
Looking at your battery stats will be a thing of the past.
And the car charger, I don't even know where I left it at
E3D comes off the charger at 830am
I have everything on, all full time..Gps get used about 1 to 2 hours worth every day ,wifi,4g,bluetooth,auto bright is off and brightness is on max,3 apps updating every hour,150 text,3 hours more or less talk time,moderate to heavy internet use with 4g..
When I get home at night about 9pm I have About 20 to 30% left
On the weekends I don't use the phone as much only on talk time.
I unplug from charger on saturday 7am and by sunday night i have 80% left
4000 mah seido
I just received my extended battery any tips for first use of it. Do I need to wipe battery stats? As I understand all you do is put it in the phone as soon as you get it and then drain it completely then charge it to 100% unplug take battery out then repeat until you take it out put it back in and it reads 100% immediately, is that correct?
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I just received my extended battery any tips for first use of it. Do I need to wipe battery stats? As I understand all you do is put it in the phone as soon as you get it and then drain it completely then charge it to 100% unplug take battery out then repeat until you take it out put it back in and it reads 100% immediately, is that correct?
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I think you have to wipe your battery stats, but first let it drain it completely. If you are rooted use the current widget while it is in charge, and when ONLY this widget shows to you 100%, then from Rom Manager boot to recovery (do not unplug the phone), then wipe the battery stats from there, reboot the phone, and when it goes to 100% again, then unplug the phone. I use the stock battery and the battery lasts for 30 hours, having the data always on, calls around 1 hour, screen time around 3.5 hours. Its not bad at all i think.
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I think you have to wipe your battery stats, but first let it drain it completely. If you are rooted use the current widget while it is in charge, and when ONLY this widget shows to you 100%, then from Rom Manager boot to recovery (do not unplug the phone), then wipe the battery stats from there, reboot the phone, and when it goes to 100% again, then unplug the phone. I use the stock battery and the battery lasts for 30 hours, having the data always on, calls around 1 hour, screen time around 3.5 hours. Its not bad at all i think.
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you must be in an area with kick-ass signal strength. I am always barely hovering above 0 bars and get like 16 hours of normal (heavy) use and can get 24 hours out of it if I mellow out data use, screen on auto brightness, wifi off, bluetooth off, 4g off, toggle mobile data off when I know I won't use it for a while, disable background data and syncing.
Shoot I was lucky if I got 8 hrs of light use on my stock battery.
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I bought 2x Galilio 2000mAh Batteries. I recommend you stay away from these. 100% charge @7am, using the phone once to make a 2 min call and to check face book 3 times. Battery was dead at 5pm. Everything except for mobile data was turned off. Screen at 40% brightness. Garbage.
Maybe I've done something wrong but last night this new battery drained completely. I followed my instructions in the last post. Wiped battery stats when the app said 100% and not before. My phone has now been off the charger for 30 mins and I've already lost 12% I wasn't using my phone I was outside mowing my lawn. This is the 3500mah battery from handheld
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Nice!
Very Useful post good job guys! I have the Otterbox defender so im stuck with a standard size battery. I will get a 2000MAH today. However I use Virus Rom and there is the battery saving mode built in and man it rocks! I get up at 8 am and by time I am home around 9 ish 10 ish I am still with about 30-40% and I am a pretty heavy user. I recommend virus rom for battery saving.
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Extended battery's are awesome...sure you have to sacrifice size, but not that much....but its well worth it.
Looking at your battery stats will be a thing of the past.
And the car charger, I don't even know where I left it at
E3D comes off the charger at 830am
I have everything on, all full time..Gps get used about 1 to 2 hours worth every day ,wifi,4g,bluetooth,auto bright is off and brightness is on max,3 apps updating every hour,150 text,3 hours more or less talk time,moderate to heavy internet use with 4g..
When I get home at night about 9pm I have About 20 to 30% left
On the weekends I don't use the phone as much only on talk time.
I unplug from charger on saturday 7am and by sunday night i have 80% left
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bahaha. i have the same battery. i dont look at the usage stats either... ever. i unplug the phone at 6 am in the morning, go to work, where i get HORRIBLE reception, use my phone a lot throughout the day, and usually don't have to charge it till mid afternoon the next day.
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Very Useful post good job guys! I have the Otterbox defender so im stuck with a standard size battery. I will get a 2000MAH today. However I use Virus Rom and there is the battery saving mode built in and man it rocks! I get up at 8 am and by time I am home around 9 ish 10 ish I am still with about 30-40% and I am a pretty heavy user. I recommend virus rom for battery saving.
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imagine......... virus rom...............
with the seidosupersex4000
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Linophryne said:
I bought 2x Galilio 2000mAh Batteries. I recommend you stay away from these. 100% charge @7am, using the phone once to make a 2 min call and to check face book 3 times. Battery was dead at 5pm. Everything except for mobile data was turned off. Screen at 40% brightness. Garbage.
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not surprised....
thats not a whole lot bigger than the stock one bruh. lol
if you are gonna spend the moneys you might as well go balls out right?
seido... u mirin??
I take my previous statement about this battery back. I've had my screen on watching and downloading 3d movies all day and just now it hit 10%. Screen on the whole day. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005G6571U/ref=mp_s_a_2?qid=1315691427&sr=8-2 this is the battery I bought this is the first day it can only get better from here.
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Not to get off topic, but do they make a full body hard case that will fit the phone since the battery sticks out?
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Yes they do @seidio.com
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Yea he has a good point
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Got the seidio 4000mah extended battery in the mail yesterday. This this is a beast! Glad I made the $58.94 investment.
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How big is the brick now?
7 hours and still at 92%, nice!! As DarkMan asked, how big is it now?
If only the Defender case would fit around an extended battery. My phone dies too fast with Bluetooth on all day and making calls all day for work. Plus the loads of texts and surfing, lol.
O snap! Thats amazing.....
How long has the screen been on?
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I would like to see the display on time during that period. And also the wake time by pressing on the graph. I could get the same screenshot on my OEM battery by leaving it off and sitting on my desk for 7 hours.
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I would like to see the display on time during that period. And also the wake time by pressing on the graph. I could get the same screenshot on my OEM battery by leaving it off and sitting on my desk for 7 hours.
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Sure that would show some nice info, but with the 3D there's no way the stock battery would only use 8% in 7 hours even with the screen off (unless mobile data was shut off.)
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wardfan220 said:
Sure that would show some nice info, but with the 3D there's no way the stock battery would only use 8% in 7 hours even with the screen off (unless mobile data was shut off.)
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Um...yeah...on WIFI at home, I can leave my phone unplugged and even with push syncing on my gmail and exchange account, if I leave it on my nightstand, it will only use about 10% over 8 hours. I will do it tonight and post up a screenshot tomorrow morning.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18718449&postcount=2947
This is what I'm talking about.
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Um...yeah...on WIFI at home, I can leave my phone unplugged and even with push syncing on my gmail and exchange account, if I leave it on my nightstand, it will only use about 10% over 8 hours. I will do it tonight and post up a screenshot tomorrow morning.
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To be honest I think that WiFi uses less battery than mobile data, so even with the push email it'll use less than just the mobile data without push. Let me rephrase what I said then. There's no way I'll ever see that little loss over that length of time, even without using the phone just in my pocket I lose 10% in less than 2 hours.
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This is what I'm talking about.
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Wow, again, no way I'd ever see that battery life. I'm running Steel's ROM with one of the dual core kernels, nothing that should be draining it, just crappy data here so I guess it struggles to work draining the battery.
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A weak cell signal is really rough on the battery. I use wifi at work and home, both have full signal 90% of the time. If my phone is just sitting there at idle it barely uses any battery. Showing battery life since unplugged really isn't giving any info. Up Time and Awake Time since unplugged, with either Data or Wifi on, is what everyone should be showing. That actually gives everyone a general idea of battery life...
With my Anker 1900mah batteries, I get from 20-34 Up with 5-6 Awake, depending on my usage.
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Still on the single charge. I can easily get 60 hours with moderate use.
3VO
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Still on the single charge. I can easily get 60 hours with moderate use.
3VO
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Once again, show us the display time and awake times. What you are showing us is useless.
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Here is my phone with stock battery.
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Here is my phone with stock battery. View attachment 760755View attachment 760756View attachment 760758
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I must have a bad battery , I have that same amount of screen time and Im lucky if I get 6 hours tops .
how does the ebay extended battery compare to this?
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A weak cell signal is really rough on the battery. I use wifi at work and home, both have full signal 90% of the time. If my phone is just sitting there at idle it barely uses any battery. Showing battery life since unplugged really isn't giving any info. Up Time and Awake Time since unplugged, with either Data or Wifi on, is what everyone should be showing. That actually gives everyone a general idea of battery life...
With my Anker 1900mah batteries, I get from 20-34 Up with 5-6 Awake, depending on my usage.
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How do you get that much off it? I have the anker battery too and I get around nine-ten where my OEM gets seven to eight. All I do is play words with friends. Most of the day my screen is off with only mobile data on. No way can I get 20 hours.
first part was anker second is OEM
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DJ1994 said:
How do you get that much off it? I have the anker battery too and I get around nine-ten where my OEM gets seven to eight. All I do is play words with friends. Most of the day my screen is off with only mobile data on. No way can I get 20 hours.
first part was anker second is OEM
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you have some serious wakelock issues.. thats probably why you get ****ty battery life
I, on the other hand get ****ty battery life because of the ****ty signal and ****ty coverage sprint has in my area... dropped more than 40% in 7hours with the phone just sitting there
DJ1994 said:
How do you get that much off it? I have the anker battery too and I get around nine-ten where my OEM gets seven to eight. All I do is play words with friends. Most of the day my screen is off with only mobile data on. No way can I get 20 hours.
first part was anker second is OEM
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If you look at the time where the battery dropped the most, your phone was awake but the screen was off that whole time. There is an app that is keeping your phone awake. I have never had that problem before but I am sure that there is a program on the market that would help find the culprit.
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I had watchdog for the longest time and it never alerted. If someone knows what I can do to fix this it'd be amazing.
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DJ1994 said:
I had watchdog for the longest time and it never alerted. If someone knows what I can do to fix this it'd be amazing.
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Which battery monitor program are you using?
I know this topic is always repeated but I fly I should havr made a thread anyway. This morning, in 15 minutes of web browsing, I lost 3% battery. In 10 minutes, I lost 2%, so it seems to be progressive. I just got this phone Friday.
That can't be normal, is it? I don't want to return it but I will if its a bartery issue. Could it be as simple as buying a new battery?
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Most people report good battery stats. Give it a week and see if it settles down. Might need a few recharge cycles to level out.
As mentioned, the OS needs a few power cycles to generate its Batt Stats to give you a more accurate baseline. Also if you need your device to last all day and into the evening with no supplimental charging, you may want to look into taking certain measures to ensure your battery life is sipped and not gulped. I am not sure your level of experience or you tech knowledge, but basically anything having to do with comms is going to suck life. BT, wifi, 2g/3g/4g, and gps are what we’re talking about. You can manage these manually or use apps to do it for you such as Juice Defender and 3gWatchdog to name a couple. My office is in the bowels of the building where reception is spotty. The first week with this phone, my battery was at 40% by lunch time. This is because it was constantly searching for signal and when it did get one, it was being forced to high power to maintain it. Since I really don’t use my handset much in my office, I decided to take drastic measures to see what could be done. I installed the previous mentioned software already to keep my data use under control (came from a unlimited plan sucking down 8-12 gigs/mon on average) so with a few tweaks it was set to assist me. So when roaming my building I check it occasionally and when in my office I switch to airplane mode since I have my email in front of me and I use Google Voice to ensure all my calls find me no matter where I’m at. I arrive at work at 0700 and stay charged in on my drive to work. So at 0700 I was at 100%. I switched to AP mode after 15 minutes of typical goodmorning watercooler talk. At 1200 I looked at my Note and it read 99%. I went to lunch and opened all connections up while in our cafateria and after 45 minutes I was down 5% with comms going and lots of email and FB browsing. I’m back in my office and still at 95%. Obviously not everybody can follow the scheduled use as I laid out, but it works for me since I don’t have signal anyways and will make day much easier when I have to do lots of running and wont be plugging in untill tonight around 2300 except when commuting. I’m hoping this trend of juice sipping continues on for the rest of the day.
Screen brightness\use also is a big juice sucker. So, with the big screen on the note you need to be mindful of that, too.
Thank you for taking your time on that long informative answer!
Asides, today at school, my phone was on complete idle standby with lowest possible brightness and Wifi off (but mobile data on) and by 2:00 (6-2 so 8 hours) I'm down from 90% to 75%.
Is it defective or is what I'm getting normal?
Edit: Forgot to add I have a Tasker that disables mobile data when turning the screen off.
Edit 2: The Tasker profile is for the screen facing down, not being off.
Still, is that not a lot?
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I know this topic is always repeated but I fly I should havr made a thread anyway. This morning, in 15 minutes of web browsing, I lost 3% battery. In 10 minutes, I lost 2%, so it seems to be progressive. I just got this phone Friday.
That can't be normal, is it? I don't want to return it but I will if its a bartery issue. Could it be as simple as buying a new battery?
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What are you complaining about those are great numbers. Losing 1% every 5 minutes means 500 minutes of screen on time, which is 7 hours and 10 minutes. Remember that's just with the screen on. With the screen off and sitting in your pocket you will lost about 1% per hour.
2g/3g/4g...each step you take the worse it is on battery. Restrict to 2g (edge) if you arnt downloading or doing anything. There's lots of toggles. What Juicedefender does is kills the connections untill you turn the screen on and I believe periodically between screen ons to pull any texts and such. The weaker the signal strength (bars) the more battery its using in order to stay connected. Try a few things and you'll be surprised at how stepping in a little to restrict its juice use will make a difference in battery life. Plus, as mentioned, give a few days to build those batt stats up, then it will give a more accurate measure of the current capacity.
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Thank you for taking your time on that long informative answer!
Asides, today at school, my phone was on complete idle standby with lowest possible brightness and Wifi off (but mobile data on) and by 2:00 (6-2 so 8 hours) I'm down from 90% to 75%.
Is it defective or is what I'm getting normal?
Edit: Forgot to add I have a Tasker that disables mobile data when turning the screen off.
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So you lost about 2% an hour. Typically you should see 1% per hour. So either you were in a low signal area which caused it to use more power to find a signal, or else you last charged it with a USB charger which prevents it from going into deep sleep (known bug). Or you could have a misbehaving app.
Download CPUSpy from the market an BetterBatteryStats from XDA and see if your phone is deep sleeping and check for wakelocks.
I last charged it with the OEM Samsung charger.
Is that the problem? The reason I started this thread is because I see people reporting (yes I know) that on standby they get great battery life.
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Every phone discharges differently, especially when new. The overall life is what's important as to whether it's acceptable to you or not. Give it 2-3 days of good ol fashion heavy use. A few good full charge then full discharge are good for getting a good baseline. I remember one of my phones would lose it's top 10% (100 to 90) in a matter of minutes of being unplugged, but then would be fine the rest of the day. This is what I mean by the overall being the important part. But the rogue app part could be something to look into. Aften when we get new phones we go hog wild with new apps with the "lets see what this baby can do" mentality, I say this because I am very very very guilty of it. Sometimes you get an app that malfunctions or is just straight BS. There some that open by itself. Some that you get Ppush notifications about buying ingame currency for and other shady stuff. I try to install only a couple apps a day to keep an eye on weird stuff happening.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
Chief Greek, are you seeing around my results or do you think it is simply a matter of my battery stats not being correct as you said?
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I have been using my method I stated in my first reply. Here I sit about 9 hours later and my phone is at 92% with no supplimental charging.
Do you know of a way to get a 4G toggle into the dropdown menu for easy access alongside Wifi, Rotation, etc?
Those are some good stats though.
Edit-One app I do have installed is "RAM Manager" and I replaced Samsung settings with settings in app. Could that be detrimental&
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Havnt played with ram manager, although used something called cachemate before. Seemed to do the trick when phone was acting goofy or very lagged out. I would wait a few days and see if it levels out. Keep screen off when you dont need to use it and if you really really want to do something about it now, install the free juice defender and see how you like it. If you like it and want more controls, upgrade to one of their pad versions.
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It seems deep sleep is working. On the other picture, Alarm Clock had a wake lock of 44 minutes, is that bad?
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I can go for hours in standby w/o loosing any amount. Except when I forget the work-around for the charge wakelock. I will loose several percent per hour then...
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tjw - no, it doesn't look right.
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tjw - no, it doesn't look right.
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I loose 1% per 20-30 minutes on standby =/ What settings do you have/how many apps do you have? Do you keep Wifi/Mobile Data on all the time? Reason being, I want to get this figured out before I root/go any further. If it is indeed my own issue, I want to to get it sorted out. Is it worth a factory reset?
Not to get off topic but are the batteries from the international version and the Att version the same? Could they be a different type or manufacturer?
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Not to get off topic but are the batteries from the international version and the Att version the same? Could they be a different type or manufacturer?
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I am not an expert answer on this but yes, I'd like to think so. In some cases it would not be the same (being that ATT has NFC and International does not) but considering the NFC chip is NOT in the battery, it leads me to believe that the they are the same 2600mah batteries.
So, I was just with Samsung chat agent (who probably didn't know a lot about the phone) and she said lost of 25% was normal standby. Am I the only one with this? Techntreck, you get hours on standby?
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10% Battery left at this point. I started the day with 100% at 6:20am. It's 7:58pm (19:58) now. Is this bad?
Charged to 100%, calibrated battery and got 8 hours before battery was completely spent and phone turned off.
Use was moderate with Web surfing, email and a single 10 minute call. Both wifi and LTE use.
This is almost about 100% increase from what I had been getting before calibrating battery.
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Sweet.......
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Not impressed with my battery at all.
Good standby time but that's about it. I'm in an HSPA area and it's still bad.
Another thing that bothers me is the time it takes to charge. My battery will occasionally DROP even if it's plugged into a wall just because I'm using it. It's depressing
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Just over 22h unplugged- about 20 minutes wifi use and the rest was going in and out of LTE (Atlanta) and H+ zones. 25mins of voice calls too. I'm in love with my battery life.
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Screen on 2.5 hrs, not sure that's accurate spent alot of time playing games and surfing internet. If you guys have bad battery life turn your display all the way down. The display on the lowest setting is brighter than some phones on the medium to high setting. I typically get thru my work day with 70% left. Then by the time i hit the hay its around 20-30%.
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Quite a variety of results.
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Yeah i've been getting about 24 hours with 5 hours of screen use.
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Not impressed with my battery at all.
Good standby time but that's about it. I'm in an HSPA area and it's still bad.
Another thing that bothers me is the time it takes to charge. My battery will occasionally DROP even if it's plugged into a wall just because I'm using it. It's depressing
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I had that happen to me at first. I tried using a different usb cable that I had along with the stock charger and haven't had that happen since.
im averaging about 18 to 20 hrs of use with about 3 hours or maybe a little more of on screen time. I can easily make it through the day so I am good. Now I will say that I am using JD to help me get there.
I spend alot of time reading forums and some technical websites, lots of work emails (corporate admin here so I get a ton) my calls arent usually long ones unless they are support related so I average about 30 min total time of calls for a day and average about 30 texts. I put this as moderate usage. I dont know how some people get 5+ hours of on screen and still make it 24hrs tho...
There are noway you guys can get it 5 hours screen on unless you charge it a bit more at the middle. Mine is 3:15 mins and 3:30min with Juice Defenders
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There are noway you guys can get it 5 hours screen on unless you charge it a bit more at the middle. Mine is 3:15 mins and 3:30min with Juice Defenders
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Here ya go naysayer.
First pic is screen on time, second is right before I put the phone on charge before bed. Made it to 21h officially that day. After screenshot of screen-on time, there was no more screen usage for the next hour when I plugged it in... might have lasted longer but Gmail caused a wakelock the last hour and ate some battery. (Sending a big photo and it stuck)
No charge, no juice defender, nothing but usage.
Check my usage graph rrreeeaaalll closely. No charging.
Now, stop incinuating that we are liars when we get stellar battery life. Something is up with your device.
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By the way, juice defender mostly increases standby time. Not much else. We can't do anything for things like the battery being used by the screen.
Which is why this battery sucks. I get more frustrated with it each day....
But I'm very happy with the GPS performance and screen quality
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On one of the other battery threads, a poster gave a few commands to be used in a terminal window to see at what amperage the charger was running. The factory supplied AC charger was around 700 millamps (IIRC). I tested the cylinder style charger that came with MY HP Touchpad and it puts out 1000 milliamps.
This seems to be a handy way to ensure your charger of choice is putting out enough juice to charge your phone.
Here are the commands that pj_rage posted (phone needs to be rooted to run these):
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_current_adc
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charging_source
The reported number should be a 0, 1, or 2. 0 = no charger connected, 1 = data lines NOT shorted, USB normal charge, and 2 = data lines ARE shorted, AC fast charge.
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pbk105 said:
On one of the other battery threads, a poster gave a few commands to be used in a terminal window to see at what amperage the charger was running. The factory supplied AC charger was around 700 millamps (IIRC). I tested the cylinder style charger that came with MY HP Touchpad and it puts out 1000 milliamps.
This seems to be a handy way to ensure your charger of choice is putting out enough juice to charge your phone.
Here are the commands that pj_rage posted (phone needs to be rooted to run these):
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_current_adc
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/charging_source
The reported number should be a 0, 1, or 2. 0 = no charger connected, 1 = data lines NOT shorted, USB normal charge, and 2 = data lines ARE shorted, AC fast charge.
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You mean even the charger come with the phone not charging right?
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bkeaver said:
im averaging about 18 to 20 hrs of use with about 3 hours or maybe a little more of on screen time. I can easily make it through the day so I am good. Now I will say that I am using JD to help me get there.
I spend alot of time reading forums and some technical websites, lots of work emails (corporate admin here so I get a ton) my calls arent usually long ones unless they are support related so I average about 30 min total time of calls for a day and average about 30 texts. I put this as moderate usage. I dont know how some people get 5+ hours of on screen and still make it 24hrs tho...
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The guy above said he can and i really doubted. 98% of Note users have average of 3-3:30 screen time. His hand may have rechargeable function that wirelesslly charge it like X-man/Superman.
I have poor batery but that's because 1 house of the day I'm playoff draw somethug and that is a major killer! Takes up about 50% of my battery! So I just miniseries the use of t took I get home but still its really hard ob NY battery!
I avergae about 3h of on screen, and maybe around 13-14 hours? So like in the middle!
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Can't discount LTE use - it eats up my battery life. Using the full dicharge/full charge with a battery calibration atleast I have doubled what i was getting before.
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Charged to 100%, calibrated battery and got 8 hours before battery was completely spent and phone turned off.
Use was moderate with Web surfing, email and a single 10 minute call. Both wifi and LTE use.
This is almost about 100% increase from what I had been getting before calibrating battery.
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I'm very happy. I've been getting 10 plus hours use per day.
Mine seems ok....I have tried posting a second pic of display time weird cause won't load (wrong file ext? Its a freaking screen shot! )..its 4hrs 8mins with 11% battery left!
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Only way to get like 5+ hrs is to use you phone really aggressively right when you remove it from the charger. Web browsing is 3 minutes per percent on my end.
3 minutes / percent x 60 minutes = 300 / 60 = 5 hrs screen time.
Btw: this is on STOCK with display on 10.
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Hey everyone,
I've been playing around with some ICS roms (Energy and revolution roms) amd noticed that the battery life is AMAZING on idle/standby, but when using the phone, the battery drains VERY fast.
Are all the ics roms like this atm? Are you guys getting similar drains? I'm going to try another rom and see what happens in the meantime.
Here's a screen cap of my battery life.
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i completely agree.i'd like to post in development but can't as yet(forum rules).i'm running arhd 2.2.1.s-off.my battery drains out approximately 6 and a half hours on moderate use(music etc.)i wonder if it's due to the stock kernel or as u said if ics is like this.apart from that the rom is solid and very ice.
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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sherman8or said:
Same here, the only problem im having with the ics leak is the battery drains extremely quick. And I have my brightness all the way down.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated.. before I would have to swap batteries half way through the day.. now I just charge when I get home.. and I work 12 hours a day.. Monday to Saturday.
After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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I'm on the Leak ICS and I haven't seen that problem... I think it's improved my battery since I've updated..
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Ditto. The first day I was on the ROM I noticed a huge increase in battery life.
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After resetting battery stats this is what I saw and was impressed with. I have email set to auto sync from 7am to 6pm for work along with my gmail account, facebook set to sync once a day as I don't really care to be notified every time someone posts. Screen brightness set to auto, however this phone did not see sunlight on this day so I'm sure the screen was never maxed out.
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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How did you reset the battery stats? I've got 4EXT installed as my recovery, and DID notice a "Wipe battery stats" option. Is that the same thing?
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it is
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
auiotour said:
Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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wow, that sucks. Personally I would wipe / reflash the ruu. then slowly add applications back. Not sure what apps you have running, I have about 150 installed, however I limit what can sync. there is a paid app called better battery stats that can help identify rouge apps too.
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Ill try wiping my battery stats, but i been getting really bad battery life since upgrading. down from 2-3 days to 6-12 hours.
edit: forgot to mention, i can't charge via USB anymore, as it says it does not provide enough power. It used to work just fine with same cable, same usb port on my computer at work. Now it can't charge, have to bring wall charger to work.
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Wow, with stock GB on TMO I got maybe 7 hours max. With stock ICS I got over 12 hours and was very pleased. I just flashed a yesterday, so I'm not sure what I'll get now, but from the drain it looks like about 20 hours or so with moderate usage. I suspect my normal day will be OK (about 16 hours).
I'm not having any problems with charging on the leak or NRG.
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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It is supposed to delete the battery statistics so that the device builds up an accurate battery stats file. If the stats file had statistics for a smaller battery (or poorer battery), it could be telling the OS that it was out of power when in fact power was still available. I can't speak to how well it works, but I do it whenever I flash a new ROM.
lamenramen said:
What does wiping batter stats do? Is it more like just resetting a timer or does it do something more like recalibrate your battery so the phone doesn't shut down your phone prematurely due to a perceived lack of juice? (when there is actually still more juice remaining)
Edit myself: according to other posts, a Google engineer said it's a myth that this does anything useful.
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Actually, I am not sure about that myth anymore. I had CWM installed and I flashed 4EXT. My battery died within 4 hours and I barely used it. I was at 55% and I had everything turned off as well as the screen, 5 minutes later, I was at 40%. The next day, I fully charged it to 100%, booted into recovery, and wiped the battery stats. My phone lasted for 17 hours without even charging it in the day.
I guess wiping the battery stats does work?
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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Thank you! MrMako debated this with me... I called it the BEST DAMN PLACEBO EFFECT EVER... cuz it works
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haha. Well I can confirm that it works. Oddly, it happened when I flashed the new recovery, but overall, the battery is ALOT better than ever!
You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Ditto--stock has the best battery life for me as well. Cache wiped, super wipe, dalvick wiped. everything wiped.
Left my phone charger in the car last night. Before I went to bed my phone was at 3%. I expected for it to turn off at any min so I just laid it next to my bed. Woke up 7 hours later to my phone at 3%.... I received 4 text during that time, but was not read until morning.
Stock amaze no root or s-off with ics
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You know It's weird. Battery life hasn't been great on the custom ROMS the stock RUU seems to have the best battery life.
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Tell the rom developer - I have gotten surprisingly little feedback on mine.. I tried flashing a few roms before I chose a base to work with, and the only one that didn't have any errors in the logcat, didn't have any wakelock issues, was Android Revolution HD. I've picked out every htc app I could constantly checking both logcat for errors and wakelock issues from rogue htc apps looking to keep the phone from deep sleep- and all is well.
But amazingly today someone using my rom(pdcrzylazy) posted this article on an easy flash that is supposed to "ten fold" battery life- I researched it, I made sure it flashed well.. and have had immediate big differences, even under heavy use.
There is specifically one process on how it handles memory that I think makes the biggest difference- but it HAS made a big difference! It flashes perfectly and I was able to confirm the settings took effect..
If anyone tries it you can run this command in terminal on the phone before and again after and you'll see the settings took.
Code:
sysctl -a| grep vm
The output is crazy long, so if you wanted to you can run it as an adb command - "adb shell sysctil -a > /whereeveryouwantit/name.txt"
hi all i just received a 5200mah extended battery with back cover.
after i give it its full charge i will let you all know what kind of life im getting out of it, my battery i got with the note don't even last a full day with lite use so im trying out this extended one.
the battery is 2 1/2 x the size of the original one and the battery cover is a great fit with a rubbery feel to it and standoffs just little nubs to keep the back of the phone off of the surface it is sitting on.
it took only a few days to show up and $9.39 you cant beat the price.
they also have nice cases and accessories almost all under 10 dollars.
the site is http://www.tmart.com
link to battery http://www.tmart.com/search.html?q=i717
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when the battery hits 100 percent i will start updating with drain time and all
i know with my oem battery it will be at 95 percent 10 a half hour after i take it off of the charger.
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when the battery hits 100 percent i will start updating with drain time and all
i know with my oem battery it will be at 95 percent 10 a half hour after i take it off of the charger.
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its 1:05 pm Monday Aug 18th battery is at 100%, will update throughout the day or hopefully days
keeping an eye out for more updates...
i'm a bit disappointed with the stock battery as well.. been looking for an alternate.. but i didnt really want a bulging-out battery with a whole new back cover.. ultimately, i've got no choice..
tutusinghsohi said:
keeping an eye out for more updates...
i'm a bit disappointed with the stock battery as well.. been looking for an alternate.. but i didnt really want a bulging-out battery with a whole new back cover.. ultimately, i've got no choice..
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it is now 6:30pm and sitting at 73 percent battery with heavy use since my phone is my main computer so wifi always on emails about 20, sms about 10, talk about 30 min, internet a lot and music 1hr.
so from 1:05 to 6:30 thats 27 percent in 5hr 25min, way better than oem.
will update a lil later on life, going to get some netflix in on the phone.
27 percent loss in 5 1/2 hours, i would be charging my oem by now.
the site i got it off of is a great site and there cases are also nice and well under 10 and some under 5 with free shipping on anything.
How'd the cover fit?
Link to where you got it?
How long between order and delivery?
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How'd the cover fit?
Link to where you got it?
How long between order and delivery?
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it was shipped out on the 8th from nj usa and arrived on the 10th, it took so long to start reviewing it because i was in tacoma with family.
the cover is tight, nice and no gaps, has a rubber style finish with a good feel.
i didnt think i would like the taper area on the battery cover but it makes it easier to hold the phone.
it is at http://tmart.com and here is a link
http://www.tmart.com/search.html?q=i717
look up the cases also.
down to 65 percent 10:00pm my time so 1:05 to 10:00 5 mins shy of 9hrs heavy use and still have over half power.
i will update tomorrow since its late and im ready for bed but all in all you can get over 18 hours easy with heavy use and over 24 hours on lite use maybe a few days.
when i say heavy use i mean the only thing i do on the pc is firmware and forum posts everything else i do on my phone, ie, netflix, youtube, music, mms sms talk, camera and also use it for music in the car and much more so im always on my phone.
11:08 pm down to 63%
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12:10am sitting at 59%
11 hours and still running strong.
This is a awesome battery.
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What's the screen on time sitting at?
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WOW! $9.39!!!! That's awesome but at the same time scares me. The Mugen extended battery is $95. That's a huge difference. Keep us posted on the performance after a few days. I am gonna order one right now. Even if it sucks I only spent $10 lol....I've bought bigger P.O.S. for more money so.....
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WOW! $9.39!!!! That's awesome but at the same time scares me. The Mugen extended battery is $95. That's a huge difference. Keep us posted on the performance after a few days. I am gonna order one right now. Even if it sucks I only spent $10 lol....I've bought bigger P.O.S. for more money so.....
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Mine was working perfect, until it just upped and died on me. It had 50% or so battery life, walked from work to the shuttle to go to the parking lot, and its completely dead.
It was only $10, but just beware, my battery only lasted a few months.
woke up this morning and around 9am it was sitting at 55 percent so 20 hours and less than 50 percent drop not bad
chrstndsgnr said:
What's the screen on time sitting at?
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screen on time was sitting at 5h 46m
keilbaca said:
Mine was working perfect, until it just upped and died on me. It had 50% or so battery life, walked from work to the shuttle to go to the parking lot, and its completely dead.
It was only $10, but just beware, my battery only lasted a few months.
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i have only had to return one item to tmart and that was a laser pointer but they have great customer service and exchanged it without no problems.
we get our wireless controllers, phone items and lots of other stuff from there.
my issue with the oem battery is i drove from tacoma wa to spokane wa a 4.5 hr drive and had my phone in my pocket the whole time, well when i got home i was sitting at 20 percent battery after only 4.5 hours and no real use.
thats why i decided to go with a extended, i figured if i even got a few more hours i would be happy but this battery went way beyond a few hours.
my phone don't seem to be heating up like it used to could be related or not just saying.
Got the battery to die it took 24 hours but I did a full backup using cwm and flashed 3 roms and re installed all apps with each rom install just to test them out after flashing, backups and all put a lot of stress on the phone so in all I will say its a great battery.
Screen on time for my phone was almost 10hrs
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