Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 - Battery Drain

[anon(819941)]

Alright, a few more days and the behavior is clearly stable. I get very good battery life, the only thing that was draining my battery was the alarm overnight. Strange as it sounds, because the same alarm applications have absolutely no effect on my nexus 10, but it's what it is.

At the moment I am on 63% battery left after 19 hours and 3.5 hours of screen time. That's pretty amazing I think.

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[anon(819941)]

I am back in business, amazing battery life!

I am not doing anything out of the ordinary, all is on, wifi, data, gps... So happy to get my note 3 back to its usual amazing!

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[recDNA]

No, not at all... I have seen others complain about that, but never seen the problem myself. I have a 32GB sd card, by the way.

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I put in a new 16 gb pixtor card and problem seems to be gone.

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[missdorado26]

I am back in business, amazing battery life!

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I am not doing anything out of the ordinary, all is on, wifi, data, gps... So happy to get my note 3 back to its usual amazing!

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What did you do to fix your battery life? Mine would never last an entire day.

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[Will_T]

Just posted about this on another forum and then found this thread here at Android Central. There is some comfort in knowing I am not alone, but not much!

After being very happy with my Note 3 battery life, I saw a week or two ago that it suddenly started draining quite fast. After an unusual day yesterday of almost no use of my phone I looked at my battery and it was down to 59%. Looked at stats and found the following use numbers:

Screen use: 9% - So little use. On a normal day this is a much higher number.
App use: 67%
Google Services: 29%

What I found under Google services makes me think this is the issue, but what could the cause be?

Wake locks: 19,983
# of times waking device: 2789

I have seen the sd card mentioned and indeed about a week ago I did put a couple of database files on the card. But I have done that many times before and this has not happened. Plus, why would that have anything to do with this waking behavior? Or is it unrelated? I have never looked at waking behavior before so for all I know the above numbers could be normal? Does anyone know?

Thanks!

 

[recDNA]

My Google services are only 4.8% however I don't belong to google+. I don't know if that helps. Check individual app usage for media server and index service. If index service is a big number it is your sd card. If media server is big try force closing game apps when done with them.

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[Will_T]

I don't belong to Google+. Index services is only .1% so very small. What caught my eye were the wake numbers posted above. Does anyone know it those are normal?

 

[recDNA]

I also have very high wake numbers. Media server is one cause.

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[anon(819941)]

I don't belong to Google+. Index services is only .1% so very small. What caught my eye were the wake numbers posted above. Does anyone know it those are normal?

Those are very high numbers... What is causing that? Have you installed wake lock detector? Give it a go and check if you find something obvious. In my case, I was getting tons of new wake locks, but all the usual stuff with those, like turning off location services, was futile. I then found it was the alarm that triggered them overnight.

I guess you will have to do a bit of investigating, but it is very much worth the effort!

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[byrds8]

I have noticed that the first 30-40% of my battery drains much slower than the last 60-70%. When I say a lot different I mean like Ill have 2 hours of on screen time in the first 30% but by time I have 30% left I have a bit over 3 hours of on screen time.

 

[recDNA]

Every android I ever owned is like that.

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[Will_T]

Those are very high numbers... What is causing that? Have you installed wake lock detector? Give it a go and check if you find something obvious. In my case, I was getting tons of new wake locks, but all the usual stuff with those, like turning off location services, was futile. I then found it was the alarm that triggered them overnight.

Thanks - I just did and it is showing quite a bit. I turned off one app I don't use much that had 326 wakes. Another high one was Missed Message Flasher with 773. That is not new and I use that all the time so left it. The new Google Search I downloaded to see if the always listening voice feature would work with this version. It does not but has over 500 wakes and I never use it so wonder if I can uninstall? So that shows the actual wake ups.

But what is a wake lock? And is there a way to analyze those 20,000 events?

 

[anon(819941)]

Wake locks ... I am no expert , but they are essentially processes that prevent the phone from going into deep sleep . More often than not, you will get wake locks working the way they are Supposed to . they do what they have to do , then finish and allow the phone to go back to deep sleep . However, some just won't , becoming leeches Sucking the juice from your device.

When using Wake lock detector 'you have to go to settings and euable System processes to show, In addition , you can drill down on each entry by clicking on it , which will Show more info. that's where you' ll find out .

with normal use, you should get about 5-15% awaKe time . If you get more than that as I used to , then something is wrong .

Btw, when I get Wake locks going crazy like that , a reboot always seems to fix it.

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[anon(819941)]

After further testing, I have also realised Google keep is a big battery hog, specially when location reporting is on.

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[byrds8]

I have also realized that this phone does have amazing battery life in stand by or if you are just surfing and such. It seems its batter just can not stand up to gaming. Playing any game on it just kills the battery. It didnt do this on the Note 2. The battery also seems to drain faster the lower it gets. This imho is a very odd device. Almost wish I just kept the Note 2.

 

[recDNA]

After further testing, I have also realised Google keep is a big battery hog, specially when location reporting is on.

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what is google keep?

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[anon(819941)]

The notes application?

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[recDNA]

i cant find google keep in my apps

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[anon(819941)]

If you have not installed it, that's normal, I think it's only included by default in the nexus 5 and other Google play devices.

In any case, it's an excellent note taking app, but unfortunately, even after a recent update which apparently addressed the battery consumption, it still is a battery hog for me. Even with location services off, it pulls lots of water locks.

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[chwjr]

I had this problem as well. I was getting 2 days of battery before having to charge, then without warning the battery started draining at an alarming rate. After trying a couple of things, this seemed to work. I turned off Google Services which seemed to work for a couple of days. Then I started having the same problem. So last week I took the battery out for a few minutes; reinstalled and updated Gooble Services and I seem to be getting better battery life than I was before. I have been on battery power for 2 days and 23 hours and still have 18% battery left. Don't know if this will work for everybody, but it seems to have solved the problem for me.