First of all I want to let everyone know that I love this tablet. Its fast and performs multitasking like a champ. It has even revitalized the artistic side in me. Unfortunately I will have to visit BB to exchange it back to the Infinity. The battery is starting to upset me. It's taking me 5 to 6 hours from 20% to full charge if I leave it alone. Longer if I'm using it while charging and the thing that drove me to my decision was that while I was play mC3 it was actually draining! I was planning on keeping the Note but since I noticed this issue with gameplay, it will not work for me. I never had that issue with the Infinity. The things I've Attempted ... Discharged twice as suggested to maybe help with slow charging but it did not make any difference. I tried different cables and chargers and still no difference. Unless there is something wrong with my tablet I will have to part ways with it. It sickens me.
Can someone try playing a high end game for at least 10mins to see if it is happening to you? If your rooted will you try playing MC3 for 10mins. That's where I first noticed the issue I'm having. I'm hoping that its just my tablet that's defective and I can just exchange it.
Please make sure your plugged in and your device is charging. Thank you!
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I think that is normal.
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I think that is normal.
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It bums me out though because the Infinity doesnt have this problem it still charges in 3 hours while playing games. The Note charges at about 4mV which I guess is why it takes longer to charge vs the Infinity's 7 to 8mV and is able to keep the juices flowing even while using battery hogging apps like games. I don't mind waiting 5 to 6 hours but when I want to continue playing my games and the battery is low, I would like it to charge my device as well.
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You kind of implied this but you weren't clear: did you try using the supplied wall charger plug?
The charger supplied with the Note should supply a much higher current than standard mobile chargers that also supply charge via a USB port. The tablet itself detects whether the charger is a high current one, and charges at a slow rate if it determines that it isn't.
With the note off, it should have charged from empty in 3 to 4 hours. With it on, obviously it'll be longer. It shouldn't go backwards while being charged, as that would imply it's draining more than the charger is suppling, which is about 10 Watts. See this page for more information (the Tab 10.1 charger is the same as the Note 10.1 charger).
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You kind of implied this but you weren't clear: did you try using the supplied wall charger plug?
The charger supplied with the Note should supply a much higher current than standard mobile chargers that also supply charge via a USB port. The tablet itself detects whether the charger is a high current one, and charges at a slow rate if it determines that it isn't.
With the note off, it should have charged from empty in 3 to 4 hours. With it on, obviously it'll be longer. It shouldn't go backwards while being charged, as that would imply it's draining more than the charger is suppling, which is about 10 Watts. See this page for more information (the Tab 10.1 charger is the same as the Note 10.1 charger).
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Edit: Yes I used the charger that came with the tablet. My wifes OGT 10.1 and a generic charger. They all have pretty much the same output of 4mV. I have cooltool installed and battery monitor pro to monitor the voltage. All I know is that it does drain whenever its plugged in charging and playing a high intensive game. It takes a very long time for my tablet to charge to 100% from 20% like I mentioned in my first post while in use. I play a lot of games so I need the tablet to charge properly while I play around and its just not doing that. It kept at and around 4mV nothing higher.
Its really awesome that this tablet runs so well and it can take whatever you throw at it. But one thing that is a major deal breaker for me is battery. If it cant charge properly while its in use then it will not suit my needs. Try it out for yourself and let me know if its doing the same for you. The game I play a lot is called Modern Combat 3. Its not compatible for the Note yet but since I have a back up from my SG3 and Infinity I can give you the download link. I guess I'm I the only one that's noticed this? Or is my device truly defective? I guess you guys have already a system setup to where you dont have to charge your tablets until bedtime. I always seem to have to charge it during the afternoon:/
So I ended up returning my Note 10.1 and back to the Infinity. The first night with the Infinity... Bluetooth lag sync:/ noticeable performance issue on JellyBean and available ram went down to as low as 98Mbs after restoring all my Widgets and apps. Then light bleeding on all corners. Then clicking loose screen... Grrrr! Not the same great experience with my previous experience with the Infinity. Though the Infinity has everything I need with all its ports and keyboard with extra battery. I started missing the spen and just the stablility of the Note. So the next day I gave the Noten another go in hopes that the first experience will be better with the battery issue I was experiencing. Very happy that I did! This time around my Note was not draining while I was playing my heavy extensive games and was actually charging it! Though it still takes longer to charge then I would like. I'm now happy.
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The GN3 is an amazing phone - I love it, even with stock rom it easily lasts 2 days with about 3-5 hours screen time - which makes me ask, do/should you still charge every night?
For Note 1 and Note 2, going 2 days was pushing it, so I always charged nightly, but with Note 3, I'm wondering whether I shouldn't charge as much since it easily does 2 days?
the reason I ask is, the myths about charging too much, or leaving charged for too long, etc may ruin or reduce the life of your battery.
I still charge every time I'm next to a charger (at the office) even though I know my phone will last me another day or so.... I just like to see the battery over 50% - but is this going to ruin my batter quicker? always charging? and unplug and replug many times a day....
what does everyone else do? to charge or not to charge?
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The GN3 is an amazing phone - I love it, even with stock rom it easily lasts 2 days with about 3-5 hours screen time - which makes me ask, do/should you still charge every night?
For Note 1 and Note 2, going 2 days was pushing it, so I always charged nightly, but with Note 3, I'm wondering whether I shouldn't charge as much since it easily does 2 days?
the reason I ask is, the myths about charging too much, or leaving charged for too long, etc may ruin or reduce the life of your battery.
I still charge every time I'm next to a charger (at the office) even though I know my phone will last me another day or so.... I just like to see the battery over 50% - but is this going to ruin my batter quicker? always charging? and unplug and replug many times a day....
what does everyone else do? to charge or not to charge?
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The number of recharges (the lifetime of the battery) is clearly limited so if possible I am charging in a very conservative way - once every 2 days if it works that way. But that is not always possible (and in some days I charge after a single day), plus as a backup I have a 2nd battery (fully-charged) in my backpack.
Well, I recharge it every night with no worries. If the battery loses its capacity to a point that it cannot handle a full day I'll just buy another one.
Yes there are limited life cycles to a batery so you have to charge smart. Well if you use it... you should at least once a month use up all the battery and leave it uncharged for 4 to 6 hours after it shuts down. If it turns on its not the time to charge ot yet... let it rest another couple of hours. That way you always have the full battery at your disposal, not only a part of it... thats my experience...
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That's the beauty of having a removeable battery. You can charge everynight without worries of shortening the battery's lifespan.
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jvarzim said:
Yes there are limited life cycles to a batery so you have to charge smart. Well if you use it... you should at least once a month use up all the battery and leave it uncharged for 4 to 6 hours after it shuts down. If it turns on its not the time to charge ot yet... let it rest another couple of hours. That way you always have the full battery at your disposal, not only a part of it... thats my experience...
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Yeah, actually the worst you can do to an modern battery is to discharge it to deep...This will kill lifetime everytime you're doing this.
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sbm888 said:
The GN3 is an amazing phone - I love it, even with stock rom it easily lasts 2 days with about 3-5 hours screen time - which makes me ask, do/should you still charge every night?
For Note 1 and Note 2, going 2 days was pushing it, so I always charged nightly, but with Note 3, I'm wondering whether I shouldn't charge as much since it easily does 2 days?
the reason I ask is, the myths about charging too much, or leaving charged for too long, etc may ruin or reduce the life of your battery.
I still charge every time I'm next to a charger (at the office) even though I know my phone will last me another day or so.... I just like to see the battery over 50% - but is this going to ruin my batter quicker? always charging? and unplug and replug many times a day....
what does everyone else do? to charge or not to charge?
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The number of recharges (the lifetime of the battery) is clearly limited so if possible I am charging in a very conservative way - once every 2 days if it works that way. But that is not always possible (and in some days I charge after a single day), plus as a backup I have a 2nd battery (fully-charged) in my backpack.
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Yes there are limited life cycles to a batery so you have to charge smart. Well if you use it... you should at least once a month use up all the battery and leave it uncharged for 4 to 6 hours after it shuts down. If it turns on its not the time to charge ot yet... let it rest another couple of hours. That way you always have the full battery at your disposal, not only a part of it... thats my experience...
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Yeah, actually the worst you can do to an modern battery is to discharge it to deep...This will kill lifetime everytime you're doing this.
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Read this: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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Only empty the batterie once! (at first start to calibrate the phone)
Charge before below 30%
Charge as slowly as possible
Use google before posting nonsense
Thanks to the rest who know what they're talking about!
ps. This can be noticed when charging when dead it will be dead within a day after 2weeks of letting the batterie die everytime.
If you then charge every night again it will recover some and last longer after a while.
Let's bust a few myths here, first.
Drain cycle: Not needed. On the old batteries, you needed to do a full drain every month or some because it build up a memory. That's ancient history. It is infact very bad for your battery to do so on these new ones. Refrain from fully draining it unless you're having issues with the calibration. (Ex. if it shuts down at 20%.) Drain it once the very first time you get it. Not ever again after that without serious cause.
Best to keep at 100%: Hell no. Fully charged, particularly keeping it at fully charged, is actually quite bad for a Lithium-Ion battery.
Lithium-Ion batteries in consumer products last about 300-500 full charges before they start showing serious degradation in strength. The fuller you charge it and the longer you keep it on the charger, the lower that number becomes. Charging from 50% to 90% might make you 800 charges, where 10% to 100% will only last 300 charges.
It is best to keep the device between 30% and 90%. It is also better to charge small increments than long charges. So it's preferable to charge from 70 to 90% each time as opposed to waiting 3 days and charging from 5% to 100%.
There's been quite a number of threads all over XDA for various devices with this same question
Technology is always evolving.
But when you post a link to a specialist website you must have seen the first link who talks exacly of what I was talking about.
batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/battery_calibration
None the less it's possible, and I agree with the last post (it makes perfect sense) that things are now diferent.
That's why we use foruns in the first place. There are not smart users, and the others...
We all want to learn something...
Thank you for bringing some new knowledge to me.
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jvarzim said:
Technology is always evolving.
But when you post a link to a specialist website you must have seen the first link who talks exacly of what I was talking about.
batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/battery_calibration
None the less it's possible, and I agree with the last post (it makes perfect sense) that things are now diferent.
That's why we use foruns in the first place. There are not smart users, and the others...
We all want to learn something...
Thank you for bringing some new knowledge to me.
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If my battery level below %50 I do.
Hi guys,
I've a short time my note 3 but Im a little bit dissapointed because of battery life, I have note 3 for 3 days and battery life is terrible, I did factory reset and now it seems look good. Just tell me if this is normal that Android system drains battery almost like display. Is this stats good ?
Thank you
Biker1121 said:
Hi guys,
I've a short time my note 3 but Im a little bit dissapointed because of battery life, I have note 3 for 3 days and battery life is terrible, I did factory reset and now it seems look good. Just tell me if this is normal that Android system drains battery almost like display. Is this stats good ?
Thank you
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Yes, that's normal. It's a KitKat thing. Most people have it sitting somewhere around 25%, so 15% is nice.
A highly inaccuate KitKat thing, at that. Yesterday I played Oh Edu! Towns (a town building game that's quite heavy) for 8 hours straight, and it(stock, BBS and GSAM) said the game used 2% and Android OS 22%. Somehow I doubt that.
ShadowLea said:
Yes, that's normal. It's a KitKat thing. Most people have it sitting somewhere around 25%, so 15% is nice.
A highly inaccuate KitKat thing, at that. Yesterday I played Oh Edu! Towns (a town building game that's quite heavy) for 8 hours straight, and it(stock, BBS and GSAM) said the game used 2% and Android OS 22%. Somehow I doubt that.
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Do u think that custom rom like Omega will solve problem with battery life? I've got root I will just flash rcovery and rom.
I'm charging whenever I have the chance, always need to be on a high-level charge, preferably 90% and more.
There are some myths regarding charging habits that might extend the life span of the battery, one of which is to unplug the phone when the charge level hits 100%.
That works for me so far, I have been charging this way since July 2013
I charge it several times a day after the KitKat update. My HTC one was great with the update, yet my Note 3 battery life took a dive. I used to get well over a day (24 hours and some minutes) with about 4-5 hours screen time with jelly bean. Now I get 14 or so with 3 hours screen time. I've factory reset, tried greenify (no root, sucks) disabled everything and still don't get much more.
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Lets be honest, most of the people here tend to upgrade to the newer phone when it comes out, depending on how much better it is of course, so we tend to have a phone for 2 years or less...
Most batteries will live that long with no problem and by the time you're ready to offload you "old" phone for an upgrade, batteries cost a few $on ebay so even if it requires a new battery it isn't too expensive...
A battery should easily last you for the amount of time you're going to be using it barring of course power surges, misuse or just a faulty battery....
Charge away and be happy. If it dies it's replaceable...
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That works for me so far, I have been charging this way since July 2013
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Impressive, considering this phone was announced 4 September 2013..
ShadowLea said:
Impressive, considering this phone was announced 4 September 2013..
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Oh Man, sorry for that...
I own a Note 3 and a S4, and I just wanted to share my experience with the battery charging habits of the S4, since in this category I'm quite sure it applies to the Note 3 also.
BTW, I've been doing the same (Battery charging) for the Note 3 also.
I do but usually at 500mah when I sleep.
I've had a note 1 and currently use the note 3. I NEVER get more than 12 hours out of my phone. in fact, I carry 2 batteries with my note 3, the note 1 was even worse, I had to carry at least 3 batteries with me to keep me going for the day, and when I say the day, i mean like 18 hours. I'll freely admit that I use my phone more like a netbook than a telephone. I very rarely actually talk on the phone, instead using my phone mostly as a tablet for use with facebook, feedly, web browsing, a couple games, taking notes (evernote ftw), twitter, foursquare, pandora and maps, the occasional email, taking photos. with the battery drain level of the note 3, I'd really have liked to see a battery with roughly twice the capacity to keep me happy for a day, possibly a day and a half with slightly more casual use.
that having been said, yes, i charge every night, because one battery is dead and the other is at 5% or so when it's time for bed. - thankfully I invested in a charge dock which charges the battery in my phone while it charges a spare.
I picked up the Galaxy Note7 Wireless Charging Battery Pack for my Note 7. I have to say that I really enjoying the design of it. It does make it more bulky but in a way, I like the feel of it. This has been working great as you can leave it on all day or just toss it in your pocket, computer bag or anywhere and use it when need it.
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Nice! - Is it true what others on XDA are saying? That it can't keep up with the device in use, others are saying it drains faster than it's able to recharge.
I also notice your review says one full recharge, is that what you got from 0%? Others are reporting that it falls short which they substantiate by saying it's 3100mAh vs the Note 7's 3400mAh battery.
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Nice! - Is it true what others on XDA are saying? That it can't keep up with the device in use, others are saying it drains faster than it's able to recharge.
I also notice your review says one full recharge, is that what you got from 0%? Others are reporting that it falls short which they substantiate by saying it's 3100mAh vs the Note 7's 3400mAh battery.
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You also have the 70% or less transfer dfficiency to take into account.
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alltaken123 said:
Nice! - Is it true what others on XDA are saying? That it can't keep up with the device in use, others are saying it drains faster than it's able to recharge.
I also notice your review says one full recharge, is that what you got from 0%? Others are reporting that it falls short which they substantiate by saying it's 3100mAh vs the Note 7's 3400mAh battery.
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What I have been using it for mostly is to charge my Note 7 when I'm not using it, though I did use it a few times while the wireless pack was on charging thw Note 7 and did notice a bit slower to charge. Also on the full recharge, yes I wasn't to clear on that. It's from about 30% left battery on the Note 7.
Hey guys, I'm considering buying a GS7 as the S8 hasn't really wowed me and is also about double the price.
Just wondering if there are any well known and/or easy-DIY physical battery modifications out there? I'm talking about this kind of thing, but for the S7, not S6. 4000 mAh would be even better if possible.
Battery cases are too bulky and heavy for my liking, unless there was some slim one with say 500-1500 mAh that only increased weight by 30-50g and size by a couple mm each way.
I'm galaxy s7 user, 3000mAh battery is enough for s7, it gives me 5 to 6 hours of sot, basically, you can use it whole day on single charge with average use. Battery modification is not recommended coz u ll lose water resistant, and may be wireless charging. it can charge upto 50% in 30 mins, which is way better than modifying hardware.
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falcon15 said:
I'm galaxy s7 user, 3000mAh battery is enough for s7, it gives me 5 to 6 hours of sot, basically, you can use it whole day on single charge with average use. Battery modification is not recommended coz u ll lose water resistant, and may be wireless charging. it can charge upto 50% in 30 mins, which is way better than modifying hardware.
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Thanks for the reply and suggestion.
I don't know if it's just me as a user, my SIM/carrier, the devices I buy, or something else, but I rarely get the same SoT as other people. I've had the HTC 10 which most people claim 4-5 hours SoT on, and I only got 2.5-3.5. I have the Xiaomi Mi5 which most people claim 5-6 hours on, but I only get 4-5. Similar experiences with tablets and laptops too.
Most days I only use my phones for 1 hour but am down to 50% after 16 hours off the charger. If I go out that night, it's pretty common for my phone to drop another 20-30% depending on signal strength in bars. This simply isn't good enough for me, and sure I can just charge the phone for a bit, but sometimes I won't know that the battery has dropped so much and won't be near a charger.
I'd be happy to risk losing the water resistance for a bigger battery.
I don't think you'll face issue. I had s5 it had horrible battery time, then s6 it gave me 2.5 hour sot, and this s7 is giving 4 to 5 hours with always on display enabled.
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falcon15 said:
I don't think you'll face issue. I had s5 it had horrible battery time, then s6 it gave me 2.5 hour sot, and this s7 is giving 4 to 5 hours with always on display enabled.
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What about standby time though? Is that 4-5 hours SoT over a 16-24 hour day?
yup 16 to 24 hours on my use.
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