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New to Galaxy Note 3 and Android in general. Need battery advice ASAP!

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RogueLeaderX

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I just picked up the Note 3 the day before yesterday. I come from the Iphone previously. I am gradually starting to get used to the device. However, there was one major problem I started to noticed today: BATTERY LIFE!

The phone seems to drain at a fast rate. What is weird is it seems to be draining faster then when I first got it a few days ago. This could be a mistake, because I wasn't using the phone that much yesterday and the day before, but I definitely seem to feel it is draining faster then when I first picked it up. I think part of this is due to the fact that I installed a good number of additional apps since I got the phone. However, I am uncertsain about this. I haven't really been using the new apps much. I did add a widget or two. I looked into this matter a little for causes like the ones I mentioned. The battery seems to do down by quite a bit, even when it is idle. Nothing that seems too awkward though. Let me give you my battery stats (one thing I learned how to do) and see what you guys think:

Battery:

38% - Not charging

9h 27m 32s - on battery

Screen - 24%

Google Services - 17% (This seems to be unusually high. Is there a way to disable some of these services? What will it affect)

Modern Combat 4 - 14%

Android OS - 11%

Android System - 8%

Angry Birds: Star Wars II - 7%

Cell standby - 6%

Device idle - 4%

Zombie Gunship - 3%

What is weird is it seems to be draining faster as the day goes on. Part of this I am sure is because I was using it more as the day went on, but it seemed to drain faster as it was idle too.

What do you guys think about this? What can be done? I am wondering why Google Services so high? Any tips for a new user for power conservation. OH and why is the device using power so much more rapidly now then two days ago. I am really enjoying my new phone thus far. However, this power consumption issue is really bugging me.
 
james27007 said:
That is not that bad, most other phone would have died around 7-8 hours and you still have 38% left.

However, check out this post: http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/618583-truth-about-your-battery.html

It talks about G Sam Battery app that is killer at telling you what really uses the battery juice.
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The thing is, I wasn't using it much for much of the day though.

Its pretty startling how much your battery can be drained so quickly. Going down by a percent every 3 or 4 minutes. This can even happen when the device is idle.

Thanks for the link though! I will give it a read over.
 
If you go into battery settings, press on the graph. Look for a bar under Awake and see if it's a solid or broken. If you see a solid bar, then that means you installed an app or apps that is constantly keeping the device awake and draining your battery.

As mentioned by james, GSam Battery app is a good trouble shooting app that can help narrow down the culprit.
 
My Samsung Galaxy Nexus run through the battery like crazy as well...even with a 3800 mah one. I was hoping Samsung had worked on this issue as well as poor radio quality. I will see when mine comes in.
 
RogueLeaderX said:
I just picked up the Note 3 the day before yesterday. I come from the Iphone previously. I am gradually starting to get used to the device. However, there was one major problem I started to noticed today: BATTERY LIFE!

The phone seems to drain at a fast rate. What is weird is it seems to be draining faster then when I first got it a few days ago. This could be a mistake, because I wasn't using the phone that much yesterday and the day before, but I definitely seem to feel it is draining faster then when I first picked it up. I think part of this is due to the fact that I installed a good number of additional apps since I got the phone. However, I am uncertsain about this. I haven't really been using the new apps much. I did add a widget or two. I looked into this matter a little for causes like the ones I mentioned. The battery seems to do down by quite a bit, even when it is idle. Nothing that seems too awkward though. Let me give you my battery stats (one thing I learned how to do) and see what you guys think:

Battery:

38% - Not charging

9h 27m 32s - on battery

Screen - 24%

Google Services - 17% (This seems to be unusually high. Is there a way to disable some of these services? What will it affect)

Modern Combat 4 - 14%

Android OS - 11%

Android System - 8%

Angry Birds: Star Wars II - 7%

Cell standby - 6%

Device idle - 4%

Zombie Gunship - 3%

What is weird is it seems to be draining faster as the day goes on. Part of this I am sure is because I was using it more as the day went on, but it seemed to drain faster as it was idle too.

What do you guys think about this? What can be done? I am wondering why Google Services so high? Any tips for a new user for power conservation. OH and why is the device using power so much more rapidly now then two days ago. I am really enjoying my new phone thus far. However, this power consumption issue is really bugging me.
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I've had my note 3 for a day too. I moved fr OK m the iphone 5s and I'm loving this device. My battery life is about 10 hours usage. I don't play games but broke alot and have been downloading heaps of apps. That's much better battery life the iphone 5s.
 
New phones rarely get great batttery life. Not only are you constantly playing with it (cuz i'ts new), but things have yet to be optimized and settled in. My Note2 gets aweswome batter life. I turn on powersaver in the settings but only have it set to save on the processor. I always have my screen at 100%. Seems like powersaver helps a lot. All that being said, i also have a custom kernel and use custom settings with that. I have my voltage set down about 50 mhz globally. I also use "ondemand" for my governer, which I feel allows the device to idle much better. Unfortunatey for the Note 3, since root and custom kernel's, etc are not available yet, your options to tweak like this will be limited for a while. Still, I recommend going with these settings on the Note3:

1) turn on powersaver in settings (only for cpu, uncheck the rest of the options)
2) turn off extra things like all window animations. I don't like the animations anyway (to me they make things laggy). This includes Window, Transition and Animator scale settings - set them all to off.

Those two things should help get better battery life - they do on the Note 2, which already had excellent life to begin with.
 
RogueLeaderX said:
I just picked up the Note 3 the day before yesterday. I come from the Iphone previously. I am gradually starting to get used to the device. However, there was one major problem I started to noticed today: BATTERY LIFE!

The phone seems to drain at a fast rate. What is weird is it seems to be draining faster then when I first got it a few days ago. This could be a mistake, because I wasn't using the phone that much yesterday and the day before, but I definitely seem to feel it is draining faster then when I first picked it up. I think part of this is due to the fact that I installed a good number of additional apps since I got the phone. However, I am uncertsain about this. I haven't really been using the new apps much. I did add a widget or two. I looked into this matter a little for causes like the ones I mentioned. The battery seems to do down by quite a bit, even when it is idle. Nothing that seems too awkward though. Let me give you my battery stats (one thing I learned how to do) and see what you guys think:

Battery:

38% - Not charging

9h 27m 32s - on battery

Screen - 24%

Google Services - 17% (This seems to be unusually high. Is there a way to disable some of these services? What will it affect)

Modern Combat 4 - 14%

Android OS - 11%

Android System - 8%

Angry Birds: Star Wars II - 7%

Cell standby - 6%

Device idle - 4%

Zombie Gunship - 3%

What is weird is it seems to be draining faster as the day goes on. Part of this I am sure is because I was using it more as the day went on, but it seemed to drain faster as it was idle too.

What do you guys think about this? What can be done? I am wondering why Google Services so high? Any tips for a new user for power conservation. OH and why is the device using power so much more rapidly now then two days ago. I am really enjoying my new phone thus far. However, this power consumption issue is really bugging me.
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With Google services being that high, I would check in the Play store and see if you have your apps on auto-update. Back when I had my original DROID, I had 60+ apps and all of them were on auto-update (now the Play store has it as a universal setting instead of an app-by-app basis). I was lucky if the phone lasted 4 hours. :p

To check the auto-update:
1. Open the Play store, and make sure you're in the main menu.
2. Click on the menu button and choose "Settings".
3. If "Auto-update apps" is set to anything else, change it to "Do not auto-update apps".

Aside from that, I would recommend going through all of the phone's settings and turning off any features you know you won't use. Just as an example, with my phone set up as it is, I'm able to play a few games and surf the Web for up to an hour, stream music over wifi to a bluetooth headset for 10-12 hours while at work, receive several texts, emails and phone calls, and so far this week, have consistently had over 20% battery life when I get home. With that same regimen on my previous device, I would have to plug it in after 6 hrs of music, or it would die. :p

PS: Sorry for the long post. Let us know when you get your battery issue figured out, and what was the cause. :)
 
I just want to really thank everyone on here for the wonderful advice.

Really helpful. I am gonna look into all the matters you guys brought up and get back to you.
 
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