Do you leave Stamina Mode on?

erasat

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No, only use it at night if by any chance my phone is fully charged before I go to bed, then I turn Stamina Mode on through the night, it helps a lot of not wasting juice during those hours, but not during the hours I normally use the phone, and with everything on, GPS and Bluetooth connected to my Moto 360 all day since 6:00AM, I'm getting a constant 7.75 - 8 hours of screen on time.
 

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Wow. My screen on time varies but is usually between 5 and 6 I think, which is more than Enough. 8 is amazing.
 

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No, only use it at night if by any chance my phone is fully charged before I go to bed, then I turn Stamina Mode on through the night, it helps a lot of not wasting juice during those hours, but not during the hours I normally use the phone, and with everything on, GPS and Bluetooth connected to my Moto 360 all day since 6:00AM, I'm getting a constant 7.75 - 8 hours of screen on time.

Wow 8 hrs? You must not have a lot of accounts syncing then (Email, Google stuff, Facebook, Whatsapp, etc.)
 

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8 hours is nuts, mine is down to the 30s with 2.5 hours of screen time... I know that is horrible, just haven't figured out what is causing it yet.

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Wow 8 hrs? You must not have a lot of accounts syncing then (Email, Google stuff, Facebook, Whatsapp, etc.)

2 Google accounts, and now my Hotmail Account through Gmail 5.0, and the rest like Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Plus, etc...

I think the key is brightness and keeping an eye on Running apps at least once a day plus the usual check on the Battery usage, that tells you when you have a troubled app, but I'm not on data most of the time, at home and work I'm always on wifi, so I'm on data only for about 3 hours a day and that helps on battery life.

I unplugged my phone today at 5:30am, it's 7:45pm and I'm at 50% with 3h45m of Screen on time.

Again, for me that's what I was expecting, I replaced my Samsung Galaxy S5 with the Z3, but I was getting no less than 6h of SOT with it so I was totally expecting this battery life on Z3 with my normal usage.
 
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2 Google accounts, and now my Hotmail Account through Gmail 5.0, and the rest like Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Plus, etc...

I think the key is brightness and keeping an eye on Running apps at least once a day plus the usual check on the Battery usage, that tells you when you have a troubled app, but I'm not on data most of the time, at home and work I'm always on wifi, so I'm on data only for about 3 hours a day and that helps on battery life.

What do u keep your brightness on?
 

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What do u keep your brightness on?

Around 20% with Auto on. It's too low for outside viewing so having it in auto helps on that.

My eyes are used to that brightness and I see perfectly fine like that plus contrary to the G3 that I had for a week and in order to feel comfortable with it I needed to have it on around 55%, the Z3 seems more normal to me coming from years of Samsung Amoled screens.
 

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I think I already posted this 3 weeks ago, but just in case, these are from the 1st full charge on my Z3, I haven't been able to duplicate it, but the only thing different has been that for that whole day I didn't use my Moto 360.

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Wow thats awesome...I usually leave my screen at 50%
I can definitely say the Z3 on 50% is much brighter than my previous Galaxy S5 on 50%, so I'm not surprised the screen for you is viewable on 20%
 

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I keep my phone on WiFi for about 90% of the time and I can never exceed 5hours SoT spread over two days. I don't do much gaming, only the occasion Angry Birds.
 

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First day with my brand new Z3 powered on at 65% I was playing with things including remote play. Impressed, I would also like to add how smooth google made the transition. I didn't even have to put in my wifi password...

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I didn't remember that you could loose so many time tweaking a phone. Coming from IPhone i never tweaked any settings to save battery with my 3 Google accounts, twitter, etc. My IPhone simply died before my business journey's end and i had no alternative to remedy this.
I don't know if I should be happy because now with my Z3 I'm exactly with the same results BUT, now I read forums about it and loose hours trying to tweak the system.
My geek side is enjoying but my practical business side is pissed!
 

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14 hours total battery so far with this onscreen, have 2 email accounts, one drive backup, twitter, Facebook etc. This phone is a beast. I find it performs better with stamina mode on vs regular, I have Facebook, WhatsApp etc always syncing even with it on

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I know it's been a long time since this thread. I'm a Z5C and not experiencing the amazing battery life that it advertises. I do have several gmail accounts that sync so I'm losing a lot there, but my phone will get super hot at certain points in the day and I'm suspecting it's a troubled app (as you call it) that's doing some kind of sync. Curious how you go about looking for the problem app? Do you use a battery app to look for it? Or do you cycle through your apps to see which is the culprit?
 

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