Battery Life - Can It Be Improved

[Anonymous]

Question for the group.

I have a SG Note 3 which I have had for about 9 months. It was a refurbished device from o2 and has o2 bloatware installed.

Over the months the amount of use I can get from the handset "appears" to have reduced. Typically I am charging it 1.5 to 2 times per day. That said I do hammer it. It gets a lot of use.

So my question is: would getting a new Samsung Original battery improve things or is it just the way it is?

Answers on the back of a postage stamp please. 😃😃

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
I've been on the Note 4 for about 2 hours, wifi, screen on auto and adaptive display on and I'm at 93%.

But seriously, is the screen more energy efficient, or is it just darker?

This battery life difference alone is pushing me to the note 4, but I'm skeptical that such a vast improvement has been made, and want to be sure that it's not just different usage patterns.

I have disabled the auto brightness, and just have it on maximum all the time.  Presumably that will kill battery life on the note 4 as well, but how much?

If I could get a whole day of heavy use out of it, I'd buy one today.  But it seems an impossible dream.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:
The screen is on about 35% and yes using wifi.

I would have expected better than that if you're using the screen that dim...

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Hence my question really. 

I have 3 choices here. Either:

I just accept it fit what it is

I change version of OS

Get a Note 4

 

@Anonymous the improved battery life @MI5 mentions is really true, (sorry to doubt, but it seems incredible to me), it's a no-brainer.  Note 4.

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[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
Firmware alone won't change it that dramatically, so only one option really......

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Small matter of £600 of my finest hard earned at a time when I am moving home etc and all those costs.

[Cleoriff]

Nick... NOTE 4....No way are you going for the Edge you were dreaming of.... last year...

[Anonymous]

The Note Edge would still be my ultimate wish list item but £££££

[MI5]

I can easily get a whole day, but it means nothing to you as we will use our phones differently.
I'm not one for turning stuff off though - I believe in using everything to the max so power save is not on, I have 2 email accounts set to push, facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram etc all running, I use it to go online, listen to music, watch movies and I've even been known to call and text on it too
Screen efficiency is the most dramatic difference with this phone to any other I have owned and I do believe it is the biggest contributing factor to better battery life, but of course, if I had it on 100% all the time that would negate the effects of the adaptive display software and probably kill the battery just as quick as the Note 3.......

[Anonymous]

My note 3 was charged 100% overnight. Using it with the screen on maximum brightness, wifi off, I am now on 3%.

[MI5]

Why would you need max brightness, esp this time of year?

[Anonymous]

You send texts? Make calls Rich? I don't understand. ......

No seriously I have the following:

Power save is ON
1 email account sync
Facebook (video autoplay off)
TuGO

This morning 36% of battery use is screen, 22% is android system, 18% myo2.

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous is your device o2 branded or sim free core Android?