Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014) Battery life sucks, as does charging

[Bluering48]

How come you guys are getting low battery usage for Android OS, on my tablet I am getting 47%, what am I doing wrong?

Just installed battery doctor and I have disabled google+ and the OS battery usage has now gone down to 3%, amazing.

 

[Pam Montague]

Mine does the same thing except it takes days for it to recharge :'(

 

[Melirose520]

I can only get about 3-5 hours on a full charged battery doing anything from light browsing to watching youtube videos. Not to mention it takes forever to charge. I plugged it in last night and had it charging for 8 hours and it hadn't even gotten past 90 percent. WTF? 600 dollars and the battery and charging are trash. SMH Samsung.

I am currently on my third note 10.1 as I have had to exchange two already after plugging them in to the diagnostic tool in t-mobile's stores and they were both diagnosed having defective batteries. I suggest going in to tmobile if this is where you bought the device and having them run diagnostics on yours as well, as this is the only way to determine if you really have a defective battery or not. If you bought it elsewhere, contact Samsung technical support and they'll probably swap it out if they determine it's defective. If you go the Samsung route, it'll take quite a bit longer and you'll probably have to go without your device for quite a bit, since it won't quite work like t-mobile's warranties where you receive a replacement and then send back the old one after switching them out.

 

[ereman]

I must, for the most part completely agree. Have used 10.1 3 n 4 both pathetic charge time. Now use time (I am finding just today btw) can be , I dare say, significantly improved. Have to really comb through settings ie wifi scan off when screen off BT if not using.
Continual use I cannot really speak on. I guess I got 4ish hrs. I hate to say but reducing screen brightness to auto or by 40 - 50% Will do wonders. Thats all I got for, what its worth.
Oh btw would always take crappy samsung (gone through 2 7s and 2 10s h/w issues)
over ipud any anyday.

 

[globalgirl1977]

If you had asked me two weeks ago about the battery life of the Samsung Note 10.1, I would have said it is awesome and that I have never had a problem. Literally in the last week it has all been shot to sh*t. Won't hold a charge (reading a Kindle book drained my battery in an hour and a half from about 90% to shutdown). Won't take a charge (charged for 7+ hours last night, switched off, and did not achieve more than 65% charge whereas a full charge switched off would be achieved in 2 hours previously). Won't maintain a charge if plugged in and being used lightly.

Just tried a "fix" found on another forum on this site and now my tablet is stuck on a screen with a giant Android logo, the words "Downloading... Do not turn off target!!" and it won't go away. I'm afraid to turn the thing off in case I end up with an absolutely useless piece of plastic (if anyone has any suggestions, I would be ETERNALLY grateful!).

Please help! This thing and I are joined at the hip and I would be heartbroken if it's in real trouble (it was a gift too!). Thanks, in advance.

 

[Moshe Barash]

If you had asked me two weeks ago about the battery life of the Samsung Note 10.1, I would have said it is awesome and that I have never had a problem. Literally in the last week it has all been shot to sh*t. Won't hold a charge (reading a Kindle book drained my battery in an hour and a half from about 90% to shutdown). Won't take a charge (charged for 7+ hours last night, switched off, and did not achieve more than 65% charge whereas a full charge switched off would be achieved in 2 hours previously). Won't maintain a charge if plugged in and being used lightly.

Just tried a "fix" found on another forum on this site and now my tablet is stuck on a screen with a giant Android logo, the words "Downloading... Do not turn off target!!" and it won't go away. I'm afraid to turn the thing off in case I end up with an absolutely useless piece of plastic (if anyone has any suggestions, I would be ETERNALLY grateful!).

Please help! This thing and I are joined at the hip and I would be heartbroken if it's in real trouble (it was a gift too!). Thanks, in advance.

Do you have a custom recovery on it?

 

[Nychotxxx]

Send it in to samsung. Had a similar problem with note8. I though it was the battery but it was a defective charging port. Sammy fixed it, runs great now.

 

[eracer956]

I agree...the Galaxy Note does not equal any other electronics out there, regarding battery. I am not a techie, and I just use it to browse...but I noticed the battery life was very short, and charging it ALMOST takes the amount of time equal to the time used.....I love the product...but the battery sucks!!

 

[Brandy Watford]

I am having the same problem. I cant take it to class, because it will not make it through a 2 hour class. Why get started with it;
frustrating.

 

[Moshe Barash]

I am having the same problem. I cant take it to class, because it will not make it through a 2 hour class. Why get started with it;
frustrating.

I have never experienced the battery being that bad. I am able to take it to school for the entire 8 hour school day, 3-4 hours of screen on time. Do you have power saving mode on during the day? Also if you go to settings➡controls and turn off pen detection it will save a lot of battery. The only thing the pen detection does is let the device know whether the spen is in the device or not in the device.

 

[MYDO CHANAKEL]

you are right, it s taking over 12 hours to charge, and I only get 3 to 4 hours out of it. it s driving me insane... $600

 

[Moshe Barash]

you are right, it s taking over 12 hours to charge, and I only get 3 to 4 hours out of it. it s driving me insane... $600

It would be a good idea to try to replace it.

 

[note-4]

Clearing cache/factory reset improved my battery life, and quicker charging times

Try it before doing anything else

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[Periklas DaVinci]

This exact thing happened to me the other day

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[Mai Dvices]

This morning i decided to record the time it takes to charge my note 10.1. With a room temperature of about 28c, using standard charger supplied, tablet turned off. I managed to get a 7.5hr charging time to reach 100%.

Is this normal?

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[Moshe Barash]

This morning i decided to record the time it takes to charge my note 10.1. With a room temperature of about 28c, using standard charger supplied, tablet turned off. I managed to get a 7.5hr charging time to reach 100%.

Is this normal?

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I noticed that you are using the stock Samsung charging cable. I used the app Ampere to show me the best cable for charging and I found out that the stock charging cable is horrible for charging. I started charging my tablet using only an LG cable and my charging time was down to 2-3 hours or so. I also use the stock charging brick/ac adapter. The app lets the user see the charging current, the user should then swap out cables until he/she finds the best/fastest charging cable. I am not associated with the app in any way shape or form.

 

[John Woo1]

This morning i decided to record the time it takes to charge my note 10.1. With a room temperature of about 28c, using standard charger supplied, tablet turned off. I managed to get a 7.5hr charging time to reach 100%.

Is this normal?

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I had this problem too before and found out 2 culprits. The charger pins has bended and just need to bend it back, so USB cable sit correct. DONT HAVE CHARGER PLUGGED IN WHILE BENDING IT BACK!
Samsungs USB cable is "broken", I got 3-4 of it from old Samsungs devices and only 1 is still working for charging correct.
Use Galaxy Current app to measure while charging the tab and find u culprit for the slow charging.

 

[xenia2015]

Wish I had read this before I bought mine. Charging issues from the beginning, purchased in January 2014, sent it in for repair in May 2014. They replaced the charging unit and it charged OK for a couple months but the battery life was still terrible, 1-2 hours at best with pretty light usage. Got very frustrating to continually charge, so I purchased an iPad air which has tremendous battery life in comparison. But the iPad does not have half the features I purchased the Samsung for, so after several months I tried to use my Samsung again but the charging issues and battery life got worse. Called samsung again and was told the tablet was out of warranty but someone from their"non-warranty " department would call me back. Several phone calls and several days have gone by with no response. Now I have a useless $600 tablet that I've gotten about 4 months worth of limited use out of. I've purchased 5 samsung phones and 2 tablets in the last 2 years for myself and my family. When is time for replacement I'll be looking elsewhere.

 

[jaycee22222]

Re: Battery life sucks, as does charging

NO this is not normal. I had this with the device and after sending it back they could get it to charge or hold charge at speed maybe a few times then it reverted back to slow charging and fast battery use. Eventually the replaced the device with a new one and it is fantastic to charge about 2 hours and last about 7-8 hours in use as long as aren't playing games for the whole time

 

[xxGBHxx]

Re: Battery life sucks, as does charging

So if the Samsung cord is not working for many people, what cord are you using? Anything on Amazon you can recommend because yeah it takes mine like 10+ hours to charge, when it charges.