Samsung Galaxy Note 4 — Terrible Battery life

Hi

I am generally really pleased with the Note 4 which has yet to receive the Lollipop update. The main issue I have is the really bad battery life even with PowerSave mode enabled

I am evaluating the Outlook beta app and the standard email app for Exchange email (thinking of removing the latter). I am also comparing inbox v mailbox for my Gmail mail, so the duplicate push notifications may be a factor. is there a decent review on these apps I wonder?

However, I wonder if anyone also has a similar issue and what they might have done to fix it.

Daniel

Christiana B

Very interesting reply. Yes I am too a heavy user which means I am charging both in the morning and evening. I am afraid I have fallen in love with the Nova Prime Launcher as this provides great home screens so FB, Google+ and Pocket informant widgets plus a taskbar without the tediousness of TouchWiz. It even removed Flipboard ( who uses this on a Note????)

I do wonder if Lollipop isn't the real game changer her with regards to Battery Life. I am in the UK so still awaiting the official Note 4 upgrade - I am not so keen on the developer ROMS I know are floating about out there.

So you have helped a teensy little

Daniel

Christiana B

Yes I heard 5.01 is a bit buggy. a hard reset does sound extreme. I will use Kies t to backup / restore when I upgrade.

I think the Lollipop upgrade schedule maybe tied to the mobile operators to ensure there are not major disasters. I am on O2 but I imagine EE who are bigger might be further up the queue. I will try and dig to see if there is a date via O2. 1 Gig is going to need some time to run.

Daniel

Scott Shrewsberry

Daniel Westerdale

Hi

I am generally really pleased with the Note 4 which has yet to receive the Lollipop update. The main issue I have is the really bad battery life even with PowerSave mode enabled

I am evaluating the Outlook beta app and the standard email app for Exchange email (thinking of removing the latter). I am also comparing inbox v mailbox for my Gmail mail, so the duplicate push notifications may be a factor. is there a decent review on these apps I wonder?

However, I wonder if anyone also has a similar issue and what they might have done to fix it.

Daniel

Mr. Westerdale,

I received the Lollipop 5.0.1 update on my Note 4 last week and, so far, everything seems to be running just fine. I also run the Nova Prime Launcher. After the update I didn't do a factory reset. All I did was wipe the system cache and reboot. The battery life may be slightly worse, but it's not so bad that it really makes a difference for me. I'm usually around a charger anyway, so..... After I received the update I ran my Note all day with moderate use (which is normal for me) until I went to bed and I still had about 12% life left. Granted I don't run the Facebook app, which I understand really drains battery. I'm really enjoying my experience so far and I hope you get your update soon. I think the material design looks great and it really does help "tone down" TouchWiz somewhat.

Scott

Hi Scott

Thanks for the update. To be honest I was hoping you would report "dramatic improvement" in battery life. Oh well. I do run the FaceBook widget. I am running a 4 mail clients at the moment as I am try see which 2 I will drop.

Daniel