Note 4 Battery Life

[foopower]

Dun think there's any phone on the market right now that can last u a day with heavy usage.

Wrong.

iPhone 6+
Note 2
Note 3
OnePlus One
LG G2
LG G2 Plus <-- Godlike battery life
Sony Xperia Z2
Sony Xperia Z3
Sony Xperia C <-- Godlike battery life
HTC One Max
Motorola G
Motorola Maxx

 

[Half-Butterfly]

how y'all note 4 able to last so long? I use a lot of whatsapp group chat and can notice the battery dropping quite fast

 

[NineNineNine]

For me it's the percentage of battery power left when I go to bed that's important. The phone charges overnight every night so if can make it to bed without charging that's good enough.

Right now it's at 45% at bed time after a day's use. How not to be happy.

 

[OKCATYEON]

Consistently getting >5 hours of on screen time.

 

[asparagus]

It's on auto brightness -2.
Heavy WhatsApp and surfing.

Had a mixture of Wi-Fi and 4g usage today.

Full 4g usually results in about 5hr screen time by the time it hits 10%.

Full Wi-Fi usually results in 6.5-7.5 hr screen time.

 

[StationA]

now My note4 can give me better battery result than note2:

 

[lebihlebbih]

happy with the battery so far! didn't really get to use my powerbank lulz

 

[Alkamizt]

For those suffering from poor battery life, you might want to make sure you do NOT link your Dropbox to the Samsung Cloud account. When you do that, the stupid Samsung File explorer will start syncing all your Dropbox files into the DocumentSync folder of your internal SD, and that will leave IndexService eating up all your power and internal storage space. It doesn't matter if you disable the Sync checkbox. It just keeps downloading the files and indexing them.

Just go to Settings->Cloud and unlink your Dropbox account. If you need to access Dropbox just use the Dropbox app directly.

 

[jazzman80]

The 6+ usage time is on screen time. The boot time is time since last full charge and is inclusive of on screen time. I monitored the calculation and the usage timer increases whenever your screen is lit on (inclusive of those pop up notifications that causes your screen to lit).

My 6+ I typically charge once every 2 days with 10hrs average usage time. 50% brightness level, on 4G.

sorry for out of topic ,TS.

i beg to differ...
hmm.. the usage time on iOS includes few minutes of screen off time too (from after the screen was switched off, to sleep ). so with your 2 days of usage, maybe the screen has been on off more than 30x? then have to use the few minutes of each screen on>off time to multiply >30x.
so maybe the actual screen on is 7-8+hrs? i don't know but definitely not 10hrs.

i ever monitored it ,before i off the screen and then on it after 1.5 hr, the usage time added on a few mins too.

while the screen on of android is literally the period on how long the screen is lighted up, the usage on iOS includes screen off>sleep.

 

[jazzman80]

ever thought of getting a note 4 too.

personally, I'm a battery freak.
the things I do to a new android smartphone,in order:

1. remove those widgets/pages not in use.

2. explore the settings ,from begin to end,off NFC/location/GPS,etc

3. to transit between apps and homescreen faster: about phone>tap 7x on build number>go back to developer options>transition animation scale>off)

4. not sure can you create shortcuts for settings on touchwiz, create apps ,so that you can monitor the RAM usage. same goes to battery usage.

5. if you do not need google+ and it's apps like hangouts,google books/games/music etc, go into each app and and each setting to off the notification, sign out of google,disable location history too.

6. access the settings of those downloaded apps to off refresh updates/auto updates, send analytics usage to Google, etc. applies to google play store too.

7. most tedious thing to do is scroll through all the apps under apps to disable those that are redundant to you.

the official facebook standalone app runs in the background when the screen is off,consumes 100+MB RAM usually. that's why i facebook on browser instead (UC mini, opera mini) with the former consumes normally not higher than 50MB RAM.

have stopped using battery saving app like "2x battery".
instead,
I downloaded and installed greenify, add those running in background apps. create widget "hibernate + lock screen". this is very useful since it does not only hibernate (force stop) those chosen apps, but also off the screen. sibeh useful.

personally I have purchased "smart data switch pro",it disabled mobile data the moment the screen is off and enable it back once the screen is on, in a matter of 2secs.

sorry for my long post. just to share only.

 

[rollanddie]

Tiagong note 4 only needs 30mins to charge from <20% to 100?

 

[mib500]

Guys do you know what will happen if we un-tick the fast charging box?

any change on the charge speed or better battery life? anyone?

 

[renfred89]

Guys do you know what will happen if we un-tick the fast charging box?

any change on the charge speed or better battery life? anyone?

charging speed will be reduced significantly.. i'm not sure why this option is here..

 

[Hello_Kitty]

For those suffering from poor battery life, you might want to make sure you do NOT link your Dropbox to the Samsung Cloud account. When you do that, the stupid Samsung File explorer will start syncing all your Dropbox files into the DocumentSync folder of your internal SD, and that will leave IndexService eating up all your power and internal storage space. It doesn't matter if you disable the Sync checkbox. It just keeps downloading the files and indexing them.

Just go to Settings->Cloud and unlink your Dropbox account. If you need to access Dropbox just use the Dropbox app directly.

Sony Xperia Z3 can reach 2-day battery life, Note 4 also can reach 2 days??? I am not using Z3 nor Note 4.

 

[jianrong]

About 1 day few hours of standby hours for me. Mainly internet usage, fifa 15 and messaging.

 

[NineNineNine]

Guys do you know what will happen if we un-tick the fast charging box?

any change on the charge speed or better battery life? anyone?

From manual:

Fast charging
The device has a built-in fast charging feature. You can use this feature to charge the battery
more quickly while the device or its screen is turned off.
About Fast charging
• Fast charging uses battery charging technology that charges the battery faster by
increasing the charging power. The device supports Samsung’s Adaptive fast charging
feature and Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0.
• To use Fast charging on your device, connect it to a battery charger that supports
Adaptive fast charging or Quick Charge 2.0.
Increasing the charging speed
To increase the charging speed, turn the device or its screen off when you charge the battery.
• While charging the battery when the device is turned off, the icon appears on the
screen.
• While charging the battery when the device’s screen is turned on, a pop-up window
appears requesting you to turn the screen off. Turn off the screen to increase the charging
speed.
• You cannot use the built-in fast charging feature when you charge the battery
using a standard battery charger.
• If the device heats up or the ambient air temperature rises, the charging speed may
decrease automatically. This is a normal operating condition to prevent damage to
the device.

 

[zXioNGz]

Wrong.

iPhone 6+
Note 2
Note 3
OnePlus One
LG G2
LG G2 Plus <-- Godlike battery life
Sony Xperia Z2
Sony Xperia Z3
Sony Xperia C <-- Godlike battery life
HTC One Max
Motorola G
Motorola Maxx

Wrong, he needs to define heavy usage, no battery nowadays can last you more than a day if his heavy usage means 3D gaming. If his heavy usage means normal messaging and Web surfing, even Note 3 can last 1 day or so

 

[zXioNGz]

My Battery usage when it's around 20% left,

Screen on at only 4 hours 15mins

But I do intense 3D gaming on it, dot area. Around 1 hour 20 mins and clash of clans around 16mins of total screen on time.

Pretty decent battery life Imo

 

[jianrong]

23 hours standby.
4 hours + screen on time.
3 hours Firefox surfing.

Battery 5%.

 

[zXioNGz]

Tiagong note 4 only needs 30mins to charge from <20% to 100?

Nah not so fast, at least an hour or more