So... All day battery life???

[andrew_ackley]

I'd say it's about even to the same battery I was getting with my s9 plus. Good not great.

 

[jjjjcccc]

I have just got the phone yesterday, and been very impressed with the Note 9 battery performance.

I am not a heavy user, mostly reading news/email. Since using the phone from ~ 8am - 10pm, the phone is still showing 56% battery.

With my old Note 3 phone, I would have to charge the phone every day or it would run out of juice by the end of the day.

 

[Shawn0813]

I get more than a full day on a charge. I took my phone off the charger at 5:15 am this morning and now it's 8:51 and I still have 22% battery

 

[theurbantwist]

are you using the Facebook app or viewing Facebook through a browser? One of my biggest battery drains seems to be Facebook and through the years I have read That's one of the biggest offenders... I am trying to decide if better battery life comes from using Facebook through browser instead of the app..

I use strictly the app and then at times I use Hootsuite since I do a lot with social media and have a few fan pages as well I admin.

But mostly Facebook app and their fanpage app.

 

[race4life]

I never got 6 hours SOT with my Pixel 2XL and am getting much better with the Note 9 comparatively speaking. But, we aren't using our devices the same so YMMV. Admittedly, the first 2 days my battery was draining quick but has settled down noticeably since.

This is only my 2nd full day of use so I am going to see if settles down and gets better. I things it's good but I guess I was just spoiled by the Pixel 2XL.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

Very impresses by battery life a week in, blows away my Pixel 2 XL.

 

[race4life]

What resolution are most people using, FHD+ or WQHD+?

 

[LCW]

This thing is insane!! Just got back from a Dinosaur Jr show as well and shot vids... still at 26%!! LOL!!!

 

[LCW]

What resolution are most people using, FHD+ or WQHD+?

Running anything less than WQHD+ is an insult to the Note 9's fantastic screen! That was the first thing I did when I got it... max out the resolution!

 

[Knightmayre90]

at first glance i did find my pixel 2 XL was better on the battery but as lots of posters have been saying, these things do settle down with time. I do miss the squeeze for the assistant tho. i used that way more than I realised.

 

[phusebox]

I have been using mine now for a week. I consider myself a light user; play no games, watch maybe 15-20 mins of video and listen to 30 mins of Spotify a day. No calls. The rest is browsing/messaging.

On average I get 15-16 hours of battery life with about 3 - 3.5 hrs of screen on time. Have battery monitors installed and the only gigantic drain on the battery is the display. I have turned off all "advanced features", have disabled the always on display and still the phone hardly makes it through the day. I have to recharge at night when I get home or it will deplete.

 

[freddyttt]

while this battery is good(yes all day good) its certainly not as good as the p20 pro battery, not yet anyway.
ill keep you posted!!

 

[djrakowski]

Running anything less than WQHD+ is an insult to the Note 9's fantastic screen! That was the first thing I did when I got it... max out the resolution!

Yep... Why spend $1000 to get the best of the best, then not use it as such?

 

[Gary02468]

On my first full day of use, I got 16:02 on a full charge, including 5:38 of screen time, 0:11 of voice calls, 0:25 of Skype video chat, 0:27 of camera use, and 0:41 of Netflix. That's with no power saving (aside from adaptive WiFi) and all standard features turned on, including AOD and WQHD+.

 

[queenren]

A couple of notes...
- First, iPhone comparisons are not valid, they have a long documented history of slow battery loss at the high end, and then rapidl loss as the battery gets low. This is likely programming on how the indicator displays the %'s in order to deceive you into believing the battery is fuller than it really is. The last 30% of an iPhone tends to fall like a large rock.

THIS explains why the battery in my iPhone 8 Plus would tank quickly if it was less than 30%!! Thank you for mentioning this. Oh Apple...you should be ashamed! LOL

 

[srbell67]

Is anyone going back to apple or waiting for the iphone x plus before deciding to keep your Note 9??

 

[OSCSA79]

Hello,

I will like to know what do you guys do differently because in my experience is not better than my iPhone 7 plus that exchange for the note 9. so i listen to podcast, bluetooth, google maps twice a day for about 20 mins each way, 10 to 15 m of youtube, text messages, browser.... really normal stuff and around 3 PM is in the low %30!!! so is a BEAST if you dont used it ? or what am i doing wrong ???

This is the part that make me hesita about android this morning when i got up i pick the phone %100 charge, check my alarms check my email took me about 3 min and it was already at %99 seriously !!!

 

[bhatech]

This is easily an all day phone for me, I do have an iPhone X and had Pixel 2 XL and gets better battery than both of them which I expected to given the size of the battery on this one. Overall not disappointed in terms of battery life, can easily get 6 hrs or more screen on time with my usage patterns. Other Android phones was around 5 hrs.

 

[srbell67]

This is easily an all day phone for me, I do have an iPhone X and had Pixel 2 XL and gets better battery than both of them which I expected to given the size of the battery on this one. Overall not disappointed in terms of battery life, can easily get 6 hrs or more screen on time with my usage patterns. Other Android phones was around 5 hrs.

You’re leaving iOS?

 

[anon(9918034)]

With my usage patterns and my phone always being plugged in to android auto when I commute(30-45 minutes each way). I have had this phone since last Friday and have only put it on the charger at night twice. I have never dipped below 40% battery in the week I have had this phone. That is impressive considering the same usage patterns on my iPhone x, which I had to charge every night.