No battery problems at all after ICS for me.
Same here. Twenty five hours so far on battery and 31% left. And that's with browsing web, twitter, emails and some other random stuff.
rule of thumb, dont install ANYTHING unless you really need it, and remove unwanted apps asap. Like a pc, all these apps can cause conflicts in addition to battery drains.
So basically you had everything switched off and didn't use the net much???
Not only do I have the battery drainage, but even clearing memory still leaves large amounts in use with nothing running, presumably being used by the system.
As soon as I can find an official (not custom) GB ROM to download I'll be using Odin to revert.
If any of you who have not yet upgraded can tell me the ref no of the Samsung UK GB firmware I should be looking for I'd be grateful.
Should have made a note before I upgraded - hindsight is a wonderful thing!
If you haven't previously rooted your Note, doing a factory reset may solve your post-ICS problems. It's reported that if your Note has been rooted then doing a reset is a risky choice and may brick your phone.
Ian
If you haven't previously rooted your Note, doing a factory reset may solve your post-ICS problems. It's reported that if your Note has been rooted then doing a reset is a risky choice and may brick your phone.
Ian
Honestly man you guys should read more before just throwing out this type of info. I have read that a bunch of people have had great success resetting their phones on stock ICS with no problems and phones run great. But all the guys in the know say do not do it at all stock, rooted etc etc...they actually recommend downgrading first. Samsung ICS has an issue...at least thats what people who know way more than any of us say. They also say you can do it once, twice whatever but that 3rd time or 4th could be the brick. Just know beforehand that on a fully stock ICS you can brick by doing resets flashes full wipes etc. The rest is up to you but I would feel bad if I said just reset it man no worries and you end up getting a brick because of what I just threw out there.
And for the record I have read a ton on this because I was having serious battery issues. I have not seen it anywhere state that you are more at risk for bricking if you have a rooted phone running stock ICS.
I rooted mine and installed Titanium and froze a bunch of apps that were hogging up the juice on my battery. Kept track of the phone going into deep sleep with CPU Stats and tried to figure out what was causing the issue of no-sleep using Better Battery Stats. I can also say this has been a total pain to have to worry about it but I didn't want to just reset my phone for the fear of bricking. I can now say with all the little tweaks I have done I am getting good battery life without resetting.
If you are thinking about wiping your phone then I recomend it if you havent tampered with your phone.
On my first charge since doing it, its been on for 17 hours and I have 47% left.
The battery seems to go down really slowly, very happy now.
I'm a bit uncertain here.
I've seen several reports, as stated by jbeef86, that a factory reset may (just may) brick the phone, rooted or not (mine isn't).
When I first got the phone the battery would drain quickly, I was advised to switch of social hub and since then it improved loads.
I have also upgraded and installed ICS and noticed a big drop, for some reason I can't switch of background data which is also another drain but in all the excitement of getting ICS I completely forgot about Social Hub.
Switched it off yesterday and Im.up to 45% left with 11 hours use.
My advice is to kill social Hub and see how you get on, previous to this I was struggling to.get 8 hours out of ICS although I have now drained the battery 3 times so it could be that.
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