guys, got a question.. what is your phone signal colour bar under Settings > About > Battery usage > then touch the top screen where it shows hours on battery

My phone signal is showing yellow line... shouldn't it be green? I'm on maxis...

thanks.

what about playing 1080p movies on a class 4 microD card?

This post has been edited by entaro: Nov 17 2011, 07:17 PM

Can someone check your phone signal bar colour please.. need to know if yellow is normal...

Oh ok... din notice it sorry... I believe there's green as well so just worry yellow means weak signal thus may eat more juice...

You can monitor using Battery Monitor Widget... When I watch youtube via Dolphin web browser, the batt temp shot up to 41-44 degree

Just look back through the BMW history.. charging will heat up the battery.. mine is as high as 54 when charging... also if you surf heavy flash site, the batt will heat up as well...

Bro of course is high it's charging...

Guys, I just want to share my findings on battery saving that is not well documented.... I've done researched on this since day 1 I got the Note on 11.11.11 and after much testing with BetterBatteryStats and Battery Monitor Widget, please allow me to present to you my findings... this should apply to all android phone, I will not talked about those more commonly battery saving method that is well known all over the internet, just google it. One good source is here by fellow LYN member jjamain :
http://jjpda.blogspot.com/2011/10/android-battery.html

Anyway, the below look daunting and too much steps or too long. Some may think it's too technical but overtime when you'll get use to it and understand it, it really is simple. I hope you can give it a go below and feedback to all us so we can have good data on this :

1. Install BetterBatteryStats - it's free at XDA but pls consider to buy it from the market to support the excellent software development... I did

2. Install Battery Monitor Widget - it's free from the market and had a nice battery widget and you can un-install it after you achieve your goal

3. Charge your phone to 100% before you sleep, unplugged the power cable and put your phone to sleep, recommended to leave it overnight to have better reading, if you dun hv the time and in urge to test it right away, then 2-3 hours sleep would be good enough to get a good reading

4. The next day when you wake up, open BetterBatteryStats and show the option Partial Wakelock and Since Unplugged, by the default the stats is ordered by time which we will concentrate first. Tap left soft key > actions >history, it will show you a graph and what you should be looking at is awake and screen on.

Or you can go to Battery Usage under Setting > About and you should see Awake and Screen On should roughly have the same blue bar... if your Awake is more then your Screen On then read on....

If you did not installed any battery saving apps, you will most likely see RIJL, GTALK_ASYNC_CONN, AlarmManager with high wakelocks. Else you may see your battery saving apps likely in the top of the list eg. Juice Defender... so in actual fact the battery saving apps may eat more juice than save it

Now WTH is wakelocks, in layman term, wakelock will prevent your phone from sleeping or when your phone is sleeping an apps or service may make a wakelock call to perform something so even though your phone is sleeping it is interrupted to check on something in the background, eg. weather sync, account sync etc. No one like to be interrupted or disturbed when we are in deep slumber right? So is your precious Note ... You can read read all about wakelock and betterbatterystats from XDA or google it...

5. So if you see RIJL and GTALK_ASYNC_CONN as your top wakelock "performer", the culprit is likely Google Maps, you can then either uninstall it, freeze it or disable it, then repeat step 3-4 to test the result. While you are at it, logout from latitude, it's another major battery draining apps.

6. Now tap the left soft key in BetterBatteryStats and then touch Order by Count - this show that the service/apps is calling wakelock to your note multiple time in a very short time frame.... you should likely see AlarmManager in top 5 (also likely u will see the RIJL, GTALK_ASYNC_CONN and your battery saving apps as top "performer"). If you are using the stock Calendar then that's your problem, replace it with others calendar and try again to see if AlarmManager give the same high reading, if yes, replace it again... until one that does not cause AlarmManager to have high wakelock... I'm still testing this.. so if you guys have good result with any 3rd party calendar, please feedback.

Lastly, if your Android System has high wakelock or high processing % then the culprit is Network Time. I know most of us use this setting because we want the most accurate time but we'll be better of turning it off. To do this : Settings->Date&Time-> untick Automatic

Oh, that's not the last... it's recommended to calibrate your battery even if it's new after 7 to 10 days of usage... I've not done this but I will do it on the 21st which is exactly 10 days of usage... will calibrate using Battery Calibration from the market, will update later on this after I perform the calibration...

That's all guys, I hope with the above, you can enjoy a longer battery life duration... I hope this help you all... do let me know if you have any issue and I will try to answer it with my limited due diligence thus far on this topic... This is my contribution to my fellow Note users... enjoy

This post has been edited by entaro: Nov 18 2011, 01:23 AM

Waveweaver is right you need to root your phone...

Easiest way is to root your phone and install titanium backup (buy it, it really is damn good), use it to freeze the apps

Alternatively, use autostarts or Gemini App Manager to stop it from startup... need root as well to disable it from startup...

If you don't want to root it then uninstall the apps....

hahahahaha... that's a good one.... use zerg exploit for the fastest and easiest way.... they have a new version I believe...

Looks like mobile odin is the way to go now... super easy and fast...

uncheck that USB debugging for the PC to detect the Note...

[quote=fit,Nov 18 2011, 02:20 PM]
[quote=irenic,Nov 18 2011, 12:53 PM]
Yup it doesnt work.
Just wait for CF provide the CF-Kernel

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Sorry it's still not working....

This post has been edited by entaro: Nov 18 2011, 02:52 PM

Try green power from market... it will do this automatically for u...

To freeze using free app, use Gemini Apps Manager...

+1... din use many android phones before except the Tab.... but my fren changed phone every year and I tested all of them.... and really this is by far the best so far.... I have also poison him to get one...

How was it so far? BTW, will using the ODIN cause the yellow triagle and increased counter?

FOr Gemini to freeze/block the apps.. you still required root...

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Added on November 22, 2011, 4:45 pmThis is wifi/mobile management apps...

This post has been edited by entaro: Nov 22 2011, 04:45 PM

Can we use mobile odin to flash the Rom?

Use spareparts and uncheck compatibility mode...