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Note 3 Battery Life?

jakedsnake said:
The battery life got much worse with the firmware update. Thanks Samsung!
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Who is your carrier?

Will_T said:
Wonder why that might be? Has there really been an update already? My phone says it is up to date.
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Depends on the carrier. Updates aren't always universal.

Will_T said:
.....Does anyone know if it is still bad for batteries to be charged regularly when they are only partially depleted? Or has technology improved to the point where that does not matter. I could charge it tonight to be safe, but I am pretty sure it will get through another day with no problem.
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You'll be fine charging it whenever you like.

androidexpat said:
If you are not surfing the net often and switch to just regular GSM Network I would not be surprised to see 3-4 days out of this battery.
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I've never been on a GSM network. CDMA can kill a battery if your network connection is weak to nonexistent.

Gearu said:
It seems to drain kinda quickish until around 60%, then it seems to slow down a bit. odd experience for me. Wouldn't say it's bad but I wouldn't jump on a couch about it either.
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LMAO @ wouldn't jump on a couch about it either!


Also, remember that more times than not, battery performance also takes a huge hit if you have apps that aren't playing nicely in the playground or a rouge app gone wild.
 
The battery life on my Note 3 is simply insane. I took it off the charger this morning at 6:00 am and have played with it a good bit of the day. Also, installed apps and the Note auto updated a ton of apps and it is right now 4:00 pm and I am sitting here with 81% battery left. This is just to crazy. I never, never got anything close to this on my Nexus, even with the 3800 mah battery I have on it.

Loving this phone :smokingsomb:
 
I take my note 3 off the charger at about 4:15 am. Usually run bluetooth Pandora for about an hour either once or twice a day, have about 4-5 hrs of screen on time 2-3 hours of talk time. With that only, my phone is usually good with about 30-40% left when I get home around 9 at night.

I have, however uploaded some large videos to youtube and the battery usage speeds way way up!
 
Does anyone have a recommendation on brightness? Those of you not trying to conserve, are your screens at 100% brightness or auto?

Thanks.
 
How did you get Star Wars onto your phone? Do you use a streaming service?

The_Chief said:
I have virtually every single option turned on. I am TRYING to kill this thing, putting it through its paces. I can take it off the charger at 5:00 in the morning, surf the web, shop, bank, text, make calls, watch 30 minutes of Star Wars in glorious 1080p, navigate to somewhere, check the time throughout the day and use Google Now incessantly. Use I would consider MODERATE. And last night at 10:30 I put it back on the charger by my bed and it had 37% battery left.

Of course YMMV but my poor Galaxy Nexus would have been dead three times in that span of time... with her extended battery. I have never experienced anything like the battery life I'm getting with the Note 3.
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Do you use a streaming service?

Enzo Heavenly said:
Saturday 6am, WiFi on, watching HD videos on the bus for 50 minutes, go to my workplace, was kinda dead, so web browsing... Out of work, listening music for 30 minutes. Back home, WiFi on again watching some youtube channels, time to sleep.... 50% left.

Sunday, (repeat all that happened from Saturday), at about 6pm, I reached 10% so I decided to charge it for a bit.

Conclusion, I'm effing impressed with this thing :D
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For those of you with great battery life are you having Google+ auto sync your pictures etc. Google Services is normally my first or second battery drain culprit when I view Usage Manager.
 
metsnfins said:
Is it bad for the battery to leave it on the changer When charged?

Is it bad to charge it when it's at 50%?
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I have four extra batteries 4200 mah with three wall mounted/USB chargers. For the first two months i charge the batteries to 100% and replace them around 2% charging the batteries in the seperate chargers above. The 4200 mah battery last about 24hrs stand by and medium talking, they last 10- 15 hrs streaming medium to heavy use. LI batteries are not supposed to have memory but they do, so it's a good ideal to condition them the first two months by charging them full and discharging them fully. My thunderbolt original & 3 extra batteries last the entire time I had the phone by doing this (about 3yrs)
 
I use my phone almost constantly: between calls, texts, email, surfing and streaming Google Play Music All Access all day, I regard it as moderate to heavy use. I have yet to kill this battery in a day... in fact, I think my longest, heaviest day with it ended at 23%. Just amazing.
 
So far my experience is the battery is GREAT. Here is my daily usage.


I unplug at around 1PM
Watch about 1 hours worth of a movie on my train ride to work
Throughout the day I check emails, surf web, play games and go on facebook
Leave work at 11PM and watch another hours worth of a movie on my train ride home
Throughout the night I check emails, surf web, play games and go on facebook
I replug at around 4-5AM

I dont think I have ever seen it go lower than about 10%:D
 
This is the first cell phone forum I've ever contributed to. That said, the common denominator here seems to be very uncommon. People are all over the board as far as battery life is concerned. If I was in the market for a new phone, battery life is something that would be down on the list of important features, I know you can always have a spare. I'm hardly ever very far from a charging port so I don't sweat it.
If I'm on vacation camping for a week, the cell phone is powered down and is not brought out until we leave.
 
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