Battery Life WTF!?

[cripesy]

Have had the Note 2 for a week now upgrading from a Nexus S. Huge upgrade! /rant IMHO, the reality of prompt upgrades of the Nexus devices does not live up to the potential. The A team does the release version, the B team handles the updates with predictable results (****ty battery life, lags, crashes etc)

Anyway, I like the note but I am perplexed by its battery life. No matter what I do it seems to run down. I have a decent number of wake locks, but it's hard to pin down to anything more than Google Services, Kernel, Android OS. Bizarrely even when I switched to Airplane mode battery continues to run down. I didn't switch to airplane for long, so I will try again soon...

What I was expecting to see was 1 or 2 percent per hour with screen off, wifi on, sync on (gmail and a couple of news apps set to infrequent auto updates). I am seeing more like 5+, which sucks! Any thoughts? Rooting not an option.

 

[cripesy]

Oh, I realize my cellular signal sucks, but thought that having good wifi would mitigate. In any case, switching to airplane should make that irrelevant.

 

[Eclipse2K]

You're not doing poorly in terms of battery life. 3 hours and 33 minutes of screen time seems about right with poor signal and Wi-Fi. The question is what have you been doing when the screen was on? Internet browsing, texting, video, etc? Any phone calls? I was getting about the same when I had my Note II.

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[andy roddy]

I usually get around 10pct drain per hour of screen time, a little less for GPS navigation or phone calls, and 2 pct per hour with the screen off.

5 pct per hour with the screen off is definitely not right. Have you set the Power saving features under settings?

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