Galaxy s4 battery life

[Love Divine]

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery life terrible?

When I had my S4, I hit almost 7 with the stock battery. And I can match that with my One and its 2300mah. It seems your awake times are terrible. Download an app like Wakelock detector to see what's waking your device. What are your sync settings? Do you have auto brightness on?

 

[Christopher Congdon]

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery life terrible?

Auto brightness was on like half the time then the rest was full bright with lots of game playing.
Sync was on gps was on.
I basically tried to drain my battery by just using my phone nonstop with the screen on almost all the time.
I never left the screen on just to have it on tho.
So it was basically me using and waking the phone.

So you are saying you got almost 7 hours screen time with stock android battery?

 

[Love Divine]

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery life terrible?

Yes, and so have many others. It's possible with the phone.

Sync and GPS on will heavily drain your battery. Full brightness will absolutely eat through it. Auto, all the time. Sync off. GPS off (unless you're using nav). Download and try out Snap Dragon battery guru

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery life terrible?

This is not stock battery tho. Is this acceptable for an extended 5200mah battery?

NO it is not, I got way more life than that when I used a 4400 mah battery. U probably have a bunch of background processes draining your battery. Or u didn't follow the instructions u were given when u bought the battery

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[nickgalaxys4]

Here are my settings and battery I have all my features turned on and to save a lot of battery I took off Google now that traffic crap takes so much.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

Here are my settings and battery I have all my features turned on and to save a lot of battery I took off Google now that traffic crap takes so much.

U will always save battery when ur device is idle

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[nickgalaxys4]

U will always save battery when ur device is idle

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy s3 running Liquid Smooth v2.7 with a 7000mah extended battery powered by ZeroLemon... Because I'm not a chick, a guy with dainty hands or an HTC one user

Yea I didn't use it a lot yesterday.

 

[recDNA]

Yea I didn't use it a lot yesterday.

I think it is funny when someone pays a fortune for a state of the art smartphone then turns off every feature that makes it "smart" to get great battery life. Put a charger in your car and at work and pick up a spare battery!

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[nickgalaxys4]

I think it is funny when someone pays a fortune for a state of the art smartphone then turns off every feature that makes it "smart" to get great battery life. Put a charger in your car and at work and pick up a spare battery!

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I have all my setting on the only thing I turned off was Google Now because I don't find it useful. I get a day an a half with my battery even with all the features turned on.

 

[fishepa]

The only reason I really like Google now is I can open it and it tells me how long it takes me to get home.

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[Spartacus MD]

I got 14 hours with 4 hours screen time out of my phone. Is that good? Google services took up 20% battery....

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[Soundtrack to Chaos]

I got 14 hours with 4 hours screen time out of my phone. Is that good? Google services took up 20% battery....

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Depends, we're u mainly using wifi? Was sync on? GPS?

Sometimes, the Google services thing just balloons out of no where, a reboot usually fixes it tho

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[Spartacus MD]

Depends, we're u mainly using wifi? Was sync on? GPS?

Sometimes, the Google services thing just balloons out of no where, a reboot usually fixes it tho

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Mainly wifi, gps off, sync on, few games, some research/medscape app, lots of texting and using androud central app app a lot. Air view on and air gesture on. Multi window on

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[Craigyc]

I'd say that was pretty good! I struggle to get 3 hours screen time at most!

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[ihbsbA]

The only reason I really like Google now is I can open it and it tells me how long it takes me to get home.

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You know you can set a traffic widget for this, right?

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?? Formerly "Evo_girl"

 

[garublador]

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery life terrible?

Yes, and so have many others. It's possible with the phone.

Sync and GPS on will heavily drain your battery. Full brightness will absolutely eat through it. Auto, all the time. Sync off. GPS off (unless you're using nav). Download and try out Snap Dragon battery guru

Looking at his screen shots it doesn't appear as if GPS is using hardly any battery at all. Navigation is usually the only time GPS sucks your battery unless you set your phone up to not use net based location services.

It doesn't look like background stuff, either, otherwise more of the battery drain would be from stuff like Google Services, Android System or Android OS. It's almost certainly the screen brightness and that Bloons TD 5 game (which I'm assuming was what was keeping it on during the heavy awake times) as those two things account for 77% of his total battery usage.

 

[Rnkriis]

Re: Galaxy s4 extended battery life terrible?

I turned Google Now off on mine and I've got to say that I think my battery life has almost doubled.... When I had it on, my S4 was almost dead by 4:00-5:00 with starting at 6:00 am with moderate use, I turned it off and it's now 10:00 and still sitting at 35% with no charging thru out the day.

 

[exempli_gratia]

You know you can set a traffic widget for this, right?

Doesn't the traffic widget use up power?

I use a Shortcut to Map/Nav. That way it only comes on when clicked. (admittedly, never tested how much the widget uses, but has to be more than a shortcut)

 

[Almeuit]

Doesn't the traffic widget use up power?

I use a Shortcut to Map/Nav. That way it only comes on when clicked. (admittedly, never tested how much the widget uses, but has to be more than a shortcut)

Yes any widget or anything your phone does uses up power.. But I personally believe you should use and enjoy your phone because that's why we get them.. For the functionality (or most of us). You can always charge it back up .

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[Not Quite Right]

Yes any widget or anything your phone does uses up power.. But I personally believe you should use and enjoy your phone because that's why we get them.. For the functionality (or most of us). You can always charge it back up .

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There are people who understand this whole smartphone thing! I knew you had to exist, thank you for showing yourself ...
The market demands these devices become more and more powerful (which they have), yet people run in horror because they have to plug these "mini" computers in to charge the equally mini battery every now and then.