The Note 7 Battery life Thread

[garak0410]

What kind of charging habits is everyone using on their Note 7? I am on call 24/7 so I like to have a decent batter amount most of the day...I usually charge in the mornings to 100% and around lunch, if I am below 50%, I'll charge again and won't charge again until morning.

 

[Infamousx14]

I'm gonna lose my mind trying to fix the battery issue. Are there any important apps that I should not disable? I plan on disabling everything except the apps I downloaded.

 

[CehowardNote7]

Coming from the Note 4 with 3 to 4 spare batteries with, I was leary to have to depend on the single battery. However, in the 4 days I have my Note 7, it has performed great, battery seems stronger than the Note 4. I haven't been on any long travels and/or bicycle /motorcycle jaunts where the removable battery was worth its weight in gold.

So far, battery great.

 

[Nilo7]

Tomorrow, I will test my battery with the S7 Edge fix of disabling the Knox setup wizard client and seeing if the Android System percentage is lower.

Currently, I'm at 49% battery with about 2 and a half hours SOT. Screen usage is 23% and Android System is 21%. The battery is pretty good despite the high Android System usage.

Maybe there isn't even a problem..

 

[erasat]

Do some of these percentages that Android System is using raise any alarms? They seem especially high, on mine, too. I remember a similar problem on the S7E and the fix was to disable the Knox setup wizard client, or something to that effect.

A little. I've never had an Android phone that uses so much battery from Android System.

As far as I can remember a lot of Samsung own services are all included in Android System, so if you have all of those mixed and added together it makes sense. It's not new and it's not exclusive to the Note 7 as my S7 edge both shows the same. Only thing I couldn't understand before was that the Exynos versions were not showing that, so we can assume that it was related to some Samsung Apps and services on the Snapdragon 820 not behaving as expected.

But I can assure you that in normal circumstances it shouldn't impact your battery life, my S7 edge, even with the above has given me the best battery life on any phone I've owned before.

 

[dpham00]

 

[Infamousx14]

those of you with good battery life, what the hell did you do? ugh

 

[Nygiants1991]

Yeah this phone battery isn't bad. But the s7 edge was definitely better

 

[recDNA]

I had the same thing happen on my S7 and my Note 7. In both instances I restored either from a backup or the smart switch. With my Note 7 I would take it off the charger at 9 pm before going to work and would be at 30% by around 3 am. Not great. So despite the time it took to setup the phone I decided to do a hard reset, as I did with my S7. Now by 7 am, depending on use, I'm at 30-40%. That's with using an audio book player on for about 3-4 hours. Still tweaking it a bit. But it's gotten better.

I'm going to try package disabled and see where I get after that. Hopefully it should get better.

FYI.... I also use dark themes on the phone and any apps if available. I also keep the screen at about 50% brightness which is fine for me since the nits on this phone are crazy bright.

I don't get batteries. Night one phone drained from 100 to 92 percent overnight. I find that satisfactory. Night 2 it drained to 75 percent. I changed nothing. I will never get this stuff.

 

[SAENZ_SCENE]

Do you have a lot of apps on your phone? Facebook or any other power sucking apps? Usually, people who aren't getting good battery life has a rogue app or 2 or a bad signal. Just curious.

I don't have Facebook so I am sure that has helped significantly. I do have other apps like Reddit, Twitter and Snapchat. I have also used an application called, EZ Disabler pro which allows me to disable system apps from running.

 

[Infamousx14]

Which one of these apps can I disable? I have no idea what some of these are.

com.ampsvc.android
galaxy apps
gear vr service (don't plan on getting gear vr)
google app
google play services
google text-to-speech engine
help
knox
my files
pen.up
RcPcomponents
Remote
S Health
S Voice
Samsung Gear
Samsung Notes
Samsung Pay
Samsung Pay Framework
Samsung Print Service Plugin
Samsung Themes
Setup & Transfer
SIM toolkit
Smart Limits
Smart Switch
Usage Manager
Visual Voicemail (Does removing this mean I won't get voice messages?)
Writ on PDF
YP

 

[darthlacey]

Sorry for the late addition to my previous post regarding my battery's soul being sucked out of it. Here are some screenshots of battery usage and whatnot. These are from yesterday but today it is still the same - there's NO way the system should be eating 55%, correct? Any ideas on what to fix?

I've checked my location using apps, turned off all unnecessary settings and again am using mid-level battery saver.

 

[Stealthieone]

those of you with good battery life, what the hell did you do? ugh

I did a complete reset.. Didnt let it restore
And added every thing back manually.

I'm cool with this

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[Stealthieone]

4 hrs left at 38% so should get more than 5 hrs of screen time

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[jjj651]

My battery life is crap. Drove most of today and the battery will just drain. My iPhone would have been at 80 percent battery

 

[Stealthieone]

Are u ^ being sarcastic? 12hrs left?

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[spasell]

Does anyone really think that resetting the phone completely is going to answer anything? I'm being serious.

Also I tried to hold power button and volume down to bring up the system cache to wipe it but that option isn't even there any longer.

 

[TheLegoJoker]

4.5 hours screen time and 13% charge remaining. I have nothing disabled. Very pleased with the performance as is because I can top off the battery whenever I need to during my work day. Battery life was my #1 concern switching to Android but I'm glad to see it's nothing to be concerned about.

 

[erasat]

Does anyone really think that resetting the phone completely is going to answer anything? I'm being serious.

Also I tried to hold power button and volume down to bring up the system cache to wipe it but that option isn't even there any longer.

Yes, when it's because of software like most of battery life issues are, a software reset will certainly fix it, but if it's an app and/or a combination of an app and some settings and you do the same than the first time after the reset, it will most likely comeback.

Wipe cache Partition is done via the Recovery Menu and it's not power and volume down, is Volume up-Home-Power button.

 

[jjj651]

Are u ^ being sarcastic? 12hrs left?

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That drain is a lot to me considering the fact that I didn't even use my phone during most of that time.