Note 3 Battery Life?

Sarahnya · Oct 9, 2013

How good is it in the real world. I have an HTC One S which the battery is now no longer holding it's charge and it won't even make it though half the day if I play games.

Rukbat · Oct 9, 2013

Batteries don't last forever (the ones used in cellphones have a life of about 250-300 charge/discharge cycles). If you replace the battery, you'll get back the old life.

DonB · Oct 9, 2013

Moved your post here as it has more relevance here in the Note III section since you are asking about battery life on that device, cheers

kate · Oct 9, 2013

From what I've heard most people are getting long life from the Note 3 battery with real life usage.

Battery Test:
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 battery life test - GSMArena Blog

Its battery survived for two days, during which we used the phablet for 4 hours of web browsing, 2 hours of 3G talks, 1 hours of music playback, 3 hours of video playback, 1 hour of snapping screenshots and 2 additional hours playing with the S-Pen.

Ways to increase battery life:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3/779079-saving-battery-life-galaxy-note-3-a.html
You don't have to do all of them, just one's you don't use.

Note 3 battery rated:
Standby - Up to 420 hours
Talk time - Up to 21 hours

Ckhris · Oct 9, 2013

Real world. Wake up at 5 am mild use through out the day come about 4pm battery always around 75-80 percent. While home always on it since it's new to me so I'm figuring and researching and downloading apps. Hit the sac about 10pm and I'm at 20 percent. I phone I had would have required 3 charges on a daily use I'm putting this through. I'm impressed with the battery life.

dontpanicbobby · Oct 10, 2013

It's frikkin awesome! Charged to 100% on Monday still had 52% when I plugged it in tonight after a total of a few hours reading, 20 emails received, 28 texts in and out and 6 or so outgoing calls.

androidexpat · Oct 11, 2013

I found the battery life to be very very good. Quite happy with battery life and I use my smartphone quite a bit in the day. I bought an extra Samsung Charger and an extra Samsung battery so I never run out battery while outside. Whether it be on a flight abroad or trip out of town there is plenty of battery power between the stock battery and spare battery.

dropnbassonu · Oct 12, 2013

Sarahnya said:
How good is it in the real world. I have an HTC One S which the battery is now no longer holding it's charge and it won't even make it though half the day if I play games.

I'd say it's pretty good!

Sarahnya · Oct 12, 2013

Great thanks, I'm saving my pennies towards buying one off contract as they seem expensive at around

Lateck · Oct 12, 2013

The truth is what features you have turned on.....
The other day I had a lot items on and the battery dropped 50% in just 3 hours....
Now when I don't have everything on I can go the whole day on a charge ( 9 hours, normal use ).
So, the whole battery life issue is subject to many things.
The Note 3 IS a powerful computer...... Not just a phone.

Lateck,

Teegunn · Oct 12, 2013

1) Turn on powersaver, but uncheck all the options EXCEPT CPU - it is beneficial to leave this checked so the CPU throttles better. I've noticed a big difference with powersaver on for the CPU.
2) Turn off auto sync on most apps. I do want my emails to come through immediately so I leave that on, but things like facebook, etc, I have set to manual. Obviously any app you want to sync often for whatever reason, just leave it on, but yes it will take more juice. I don't believe in gimping a phone, but if I don't need/use an app to sync or update all the time then why leave that setting on for that app?
3) Turn off location services on as many apps as possible.
4) Delete widgets. I use very few widgets anyway, the only one I have is One More Clock on my main screen.
5) I always use a dark wallpaper. Not only are they easier to see the icons, but burn less battery.
6) Turn off animations - I don't like animations anyway. Go ahead and turn them all to off. Phone seems quicker, uses less juice.

Now I like a bright screen, so during any daylight hours mine is set to 100%. At night or darker areas I use Auto. Obviously screen-on time is about the biggest battery hog of eveything, so no matter what if your screen is on a lot you will drain juice much faster. I can run Pandora all day long with my screen off and the battery hit is very minimal. That is streaming and using the phone speaker for Pandora. But if I leave the screen on it burns battery about 5 times faster. Screen-on constantly is a killer.

Deleted User · Oct 13, 2013

The battery life got much worse with the firmware update. Thanks Samsung!

PrinceOfDorne · Oct 13, 2013

Note 3 has one of the best battery life I've had. I tried using it as mobile hotspot and it gave me 9 hours of continuous mobile hotspot with 3 devices connected to it.

On moderate use, it can last up to 3.5 days.

SamMax · Oct 13, 2013

I agree the battery life is great, my first day with it It had around 50% charge and it didn't seem to last very long. Now i'm on my 3rd day and this thing is amazing!

Will_T · Oct 13, 2013

jakedsnake said:
The battery life got much worse with the firmware update. Thanks Samsung!

Wonder why that might be? Has there really been an update already? My phone says it is up to date.

I came from the Samsung Droid Charge and had to charge the battery every night. I fully charged this phone two nights ago and used it a lot yesterday while setting it up, learning, calling, texting, internet, etc. Last night I was going to plug it in and noticed the battery icon was showing almost full. Checked and it still had 80%! So that to me is a huge improvement over my old phone and I am very happy! I did not plug it in last night and left it on with the volume turned off. I have been playing with it a little this morning and one 18 minute phone call. Still at 77%.

ANewDay · Oct 14, 2013

I still don't understand how the smaller droid maxx could have a 3500 mah battery. Still, it's only 100 mah more than Note 2.

Will_T · Oct 14, 2013

And now it has been another day of normal use and setup and this battery is only down to 60%! This thing is amazing so far. The question will be how often should I charge it. Does anyone know if it is still bad for batteries to be charged regularly when they are only partially depleted? Or has technology improved to the point where that does not matter. I could charge it tonight to be safe, but I am pretty sure it will get through another day with no problem.

androidexpat · Oct 14, 2013

If you are not surfing the net often and switch to just regular GSM Network I would not be surprised to see 3-4 days out of this battery.

cosmosan · Oct 14, 2013

Battery life has been phenomenal for me. Almost 23 hours since last charge with over 8 hours of screen time and 10% remaining...

1up5dn · Oct 14, 2013

Will_T said:
And now it has been another day of normal use and setup and this battery is only down to 60%! This thing is amazing so far. The question will be how often should I charge it. Does anyone know if it is still bad for batteries to be charged regularly when they are only partially depleted? Or has technology improved to the point where that does not matter. I could charge it tonight to be safe, but I am pretty sure it will get through another day with no problem.

The technology of the modern lithium battery does not care if it is charged more often or not. However, the software that monitors the battery and reports the current percentage and time left will be more accurate the more you can run your battery down under 10% or so. Some people even say that completely discharging the battery until the phone turns off does an even better job.

I personally like to always discharge it until it is under 10% and on all my new phones that really seems to extend the time between charges.

The_Chief · Oct 14, 2013

I have virtually every single option turned on. I am TRYING to kill this thing, putting it through its paces. I can take it off the charger at 5:00 in the morning, surf the web, shop, bank, text, make calls, watch 30 minutes of Star Wars in glorious 1080p, navigate to somewhere, check the time throughout the day and use Google Now incessantly. Use I would consider MODERATE. And last night at 10:30 I put it back on the charger by my bed and it had 37% battery left.

Of course YMMV but my poor Galaxy Nexus would have been dead three times in that span of time... with her extended battery. I have never experienced anything like the battery life I'm getting with the Note 3.

Gearu · Oct 14, 2013

It seems to drain kinda quickish until around 60%, then it seems to slow down a bit. odd experience for me. Wouldn't say it's bad but I wouldn't jump on a couch about it either.

taxiron1 · Oct 14, 2013

I am blown away by battery life on this phone. And i came from a Note 2. A lot of use yesterday, including almost 2 hours of football on mobile sunday ticket. Still had 18% at 10 pm

DevinNJ · Oct 15, 2013

When I picked mine up on Sunday, it had 51%. After over 8 hours of setting/playing it was at 18% with 48% being screen on time with full brightness and everything on. Charged it fully when it hit 7%, off the charger at 5am Monday and with little use (since I'm moving and haven't had time to play) I'm at 76% now (Tuesday 9:20AM). Absolutely crazy compared to the Bionic, which I would have had to charge 2-3 times by now. All I can say is wow!!!

Enzo Heavenly · Oct 15, 2013

Saturday 6am, WiFi on, watching HD videos on the bus for 50 minutes, go to my workplace, was kinda dead, so web browsing... Out of work, listening music for 30 minutes. Back home, WiFi on again watching some youtube channels, time to sleep.... 50% left.

Sunday, (repeat all that happened from Saturday), at about 6pm, I reached 10% so I decided to charge it for a bit.

Conclusion, I'm effing impressed with this thing

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