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Help battery life since 4.4.2 update

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ls1matt

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My battery life is terrible since I updated my phone!!!! This is absolutely annoying. I use to go 10-12 hrs with out charging and since I'm lucky to get 5-6 hrs!

Is anyone on here having the same problem? Is there anything I can do? I turn everything off and only have my screen set at around 30%.

Matt
 
I've heard of a few people that did a factory reset right after the upgrade. They had similar battery drainage. It's a pain when you're already set up, but might be worth the effort.
 
Yes, I have the same problem. When I bought my phone I thought the battery life was amazing, but since kit Kat update my battery is horrible. I'm trying to go back to 4.3 stock.
 
abarzua21 said:
Yes, I have the same problem. When I bought my phone I thought the battery life was amazing, but since kit Kat update my battery is horrible. I'm trying to go back to 4.3 stock.
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Don't know if it is just 4.4 Kit Kat. I am still on 4.3 and last week my "use to be amazing" Note 3 battery is no longer amazing either. My battery drains very fast now and I can find anything draining it...that is the scary part. I usually down to 70% only after about 3 hours. Use to I didn't hit that spot until after about 8 hours.
 
So I started going through my phone and apps that I had downloaded. Found that the app phone tracker was using more battery than anything on my phone. Deleted it and phones back to normal. I can't believe that an app would use that much battery. Phone was dying in about 5 hrs
 
ls1matt said:
So I started going through my phone and apps that I had downloaded. Found that the app phone tracker was using more battery than anything on my phone. Deleted it and phones back to normal. I can't believe that an app would use that much battery. Phone was dying in about 5 hrs
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What app was it? How did you track it down?
 
It's called phone tracker. When I pulled up battery in settings it was using more power than my screen. Since I deleted that my phone is back to normal. Such a weird thing.
 
I disagree. Actually I think my batter life has gotten better since the update. Just yesterday I unplugged my phone at 4pm and at 4am the next morning I had about 80% left with occasional usage.
 
This started happening to me after the update. Clearly it's the dreaded camera daemon bug. Note my phone was barely used ever since being unplugged this morning.

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I was having the same issues with my Note 3. My battery life was amazing when I got it earlier this year then AT&T updated me to KitKat and my battery life has gone to crap. I didn't even want to update, but it did it automatically. So, after a month of messing with my phone, I think I figured out why my battery is garbage now. I turned off Lookout a couple of days ago and my battery life has been much improved. I'm thinking that it was running in the background constantly and killing my battery. I think it's worth a shot.
 
I was having that problem, mine was often showing the gps signal. Clicked on it one time when it showed up, saw that a voice recorder app was using it, removed the app. I also switched off Lookout. Since doing so (3-4 weeks?) my standby battery life is consistently excellent, better than it's ever been. Battery drainage while I use the phone is not great, at least in part due to the poor function of the auto screen dim, but not terrible.

It's probably an app that is not working with kitkat, that was the advice I received and turned out to be right.

Dave
 
My battery life has declined in the last month although I have not been upgraded to KitKat--still waiting on Verizon. I know Waze cause heavy consumption but it is not the only culprit. I'm still trying to identify others.
 
FWIW I'm using Waze with no issues with battery consumption. I like that it's so easy to close the program, and when in use I find it uses less battery than Google Maps did.

Dave
 
I see KitKat is now available from Verizon so I'll be updating tonight. I see if that helps are makes it worse.
 
I just upgraded to kitkat a couple of days ago and battery life is unreal bad now, using the phone for about an hours web surfing on the way to work and it used nearly 20%
google services using more battery than the screen seem not right to me.
Kinda regret updating as there was nothing wrong with 4.3
Time to root and flash a custom rom instead I think, that did wonders on my note2 which had already amazing battery life.
 
Just upgraded to the 4.4.2 release and my battery seems about the same if not better than ever. I found out a couple of things about battery life. Keep your Wifi on if your in range. Keep your GPS and Bluetooth off if you don't need it. The 2 finger swipedown makes it easy to manage connections.

I also changed my sync setting on specific applications, such as email for Exchange. I don't need to sync my email every 5 minutes. I changed the schedule not to sync overnight or on the weekends.

I agree with the previous statement that a factory default may greatly improve battery life. This will leave your 4.4.2 intact, but many times solve issues. I had to do this with my recently upgraded Note 10.1 2014 edition to solve a video playback issue. Good Luck!
 
just realized my screen brightness had defaulted to full withe update so no wonder 1 1/2 hour would eat 20% battery, switched to auto and will what difference it makes
 
MrClean said:
I've heard of a few people that did a factory reset right after the upgrade. They had similar battery drainage. It's a pain when you're already set up, but might be worth the effort.
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I always factory reset directly after a FW update. My battery has been fine. It seemed terrible right after the update, but it was cause I was using my phone a ton (setting my apps back up, etc.).

I always do the reset.

Everything has been practically no different from before the update since I finished setting it back up and reboot the device.
 
Mine seem to be getting better, might be a case it just need a few charging cycles and reboots before stabilizing, same as when flashing a new ROM
 
I got the update yesterday and my Battery life has gone to hell. I used to go from 4 am to 8pm or later with no problem and my phone struggled to make it to 3pm today. It seems to just suck the battery down.

Don't really want to do a factory reset and going to try and hold off at least till the weekend because I need my phone up and running.
 
Did factory reset and did not help sine I got Kit Kat it just eats battery. Half what I used to get.
 
I simply can't complain. I can use my phone literally all day - 12 - 14 hours and still have at least 25% remaining. The only time I see a faster battery drain is when I use GPS, but that was similar before kit kat.
 
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