Hey all!

So I was looking for an extended battery for my note 3 and was looking at AliExpress and couldn't find any trusty well-known extended battery that I trust to install in my phone!

Is there is any place in here where I can find such items at acceptable prices?

Thanks.

EDIT: Like zerolemon, Anker, mugen, etc...
How are you not satisfied with the Note 3's battery?:P

Try looking for battery covers.
Well yes I'm not satisfied!
My previous LG G2 had better battery life!

I have the N9005 (LTE) version and it drains a lot of battery! You can google "Android OS and Android System drain on note 3" to find amazing number of posts about it!

I tried everything, custom roms, custom kernels, wakelock detectors and wakelock busters, and still the battery life is not great as it should be!

Hopefully this will be solved with Android Lollipop!

EDIT: Besides the phone drains more battery under heavy usage than my old G2! Surprisingly! (because it has an Amoled display which should be better at video battery life and they both have same Snapdragon S800 processor!)
10min of Clash of Clans would draw 5% on my old G2 while it easily draws 10% on the note 3 under same conditions!
LifeEngineer wroteWell yes I'm not satisfied!
My previous LG G2 had better battery life!

I have the N9005 (LTE) version and it drains a lot of battery! You can google "Android OS and Android System drain on note 3" to find amazing number of posts about it!

I tried everything, custom roms, custom kernels, wakelock detectors and wakelock busters, and still the battery life is not great as it should be!

Hopefully this will be solved with Android Lollipop!

EDIT: Besides the phone drains more battery under heavy usage than my old G2! Surprisingly! (because it has an Amoled display which should be better at video battery life and they both have same Snapdragon S800 processor!)
10min of Clash of Clans would draw 5% on my old G2 while it easily draws 10% on the note 3 under same conditions!
It will be solved with Android Lollipop a bit, because it will come with a feature called Project Volta, just like Project Svelte for Android KitKat (allowing it to run on lower range devices) and Project Butter for Android Jellybean (allowing the UI to be quicker and more responsive). Project Volta, as the name suggests, will bring improvements to battery life.

However, if you are a fan of the Galaxy Note line, I advise you to invest in a Galaxy Note 4, because its battery life exceeded everyone's expectations. All the smartphone websites that regularly conduct battery life tests have been highly praising the Note 4 for its battery life, thanks to the Snapdragon 805 processor. You can do a Google search on that and see for yourself.
Aveline wrote
It will be solved with Android Lollipop a bit, because it will come with a feature called Project Volta, just like Project Svelte for Android KitKat (allowing it to run on lower range devices) and Project Butter for Android Jellybean (allowing the UI to be quicker and more responsive). Project Volta, as the name suggests, will bring improvements to battery life.

However, if you are a fan of the Galaxy Note line, I advise you to invest in a Galaxy Note 4, because its battery life exceeded everyone's expectations. All the smartphone websites that regularly conduct battery life tests have been highly praising the Note 4 for its battery life, thanks to the Snapdragon 805 processor. You can do a Google search on that and see for yourself.
Thanks man.
That's my first Note and may be the last in case this issue is not solved!
I already hate touchwiz (but I'm running S5 rom now where touchwiz is much better) but I wanted a bigger screen and a Spen for better multitasking and without sacrificing battery life! But I guess I was wrong! Hopefully not!

As for the Note 4 it's beyond my budget now. Yeah it surprised me too.
However numbers can be deceiving! In gsmarena tests, the Note 3 beats the G2 while in real life it doesn't!
The source that I trust is AnandTech. All the others not so much...
LifeEngineer wrote
Aveline wrote
It will be solved with Android Lollipop a bit, because it will come with a feature called Project Volta, just like Project Svelte for Android KitKat (allowing it to run on lower range devices) and Project Butter for Android Jellybean (allowing the UI to be quicker and more responsive). Project Volta, as the name suggests, will bring improvements to battery life.

However, if you are a fan of the Galaxy Note line, I advise you to invest in a Galaxy Note 4, because its battery life exceeded everyone's expectations. All the smartphone websites that regularly conduct battery life tests have been highly praising the Note 4 for its battery life, thanks to the Snapdragon 805 processor. You can do a Google search on that and see for yourself.
Thanks man.
That's my first Note and may be the last in case this issue is not solved!
I already hate touchwiz (but I'm running S5 rom now where touchwiz is much better) but I wanted a bigger screen and a Spen for better multitasking and without sacrificing battery life! But I guess I was wrong! Hopefully not!

As for the Note 4 it's beyond my budget now. Yeah it surprised me too.
However numbers can be deceiving! In gsmarena tests, the Note 3 beats the G2 while in real life it doesn't!
The source that I trust is AnandTech. All the others not so much...
Phone usage is relative with each user. Phonearena uses a specialised script to keep running that emulates various tasks, while GSMArena does it by observing the phone undergoing the tasks themselves. While they may not have sophisticated laboratories, when the phone gets similar results from multiple sources, it can be a bit accurate. I guess you can thank the processor for being so power friendly, because a QHD screen should normally suck the life out of the battery.

In the meantime if you have Superuser, you can edit the build.prop file to reduce the PPI (pixels per inch) to improve battery life. I've read it yields significant improvements in battery life whatever phone you carry, since the screen is the biggest factor in battery drain. The Note 3 has a pixel density of about 386, and at least 300 is needed to make it satisfactory. I've never needed to resort to this before, so do more research about it and use at your own risk.
I think the problem with Samsung phones is low battery quality, i am saying this from personal experience (S4) and from friends with Samsung phones.
the battery always get hot when in use and this is the main reason for the drain you know Heat is wasted energy and consumes the charge rather fast, and also by getting hot the battery will drain even faster just because heat speeds up the reaction inside of it.
my S4 stock battery deformed in shape after 1 month of use the back cover wouldn't close anymore and its capacity almost halfed, so i replaced it 2 times now.

regarding the pixel density it actually doesn't matter since changing the OS pixel density doesn't reduce the rendering resolution or density it changes the pixel density of the android UI but not the real screen density its just that the icons will appear bigger as a result of filling done by GPU so you actually end up with same density and resolution on the output which doesn't relief the GPU.
one thing that will work is changing the resolution of the screen it will give a good performance and battery life boost
DNA wroteregarding the pixel density it actually doesn't matter since changing the OS pixel density doesn't reduce the rendering resolution or density it changes the pixel density of the android UI but not the real screen density its just that the icons will appear bigger as a result of filling done by GPU so you actually end up with same density and resolution on the output which doesn't relief the GPU.
one thing that will work is changing the resolution of the screen it will give a good performance and battery life boost
I actually meant exactly that, changing the screen hardware resolution. You cannot do it unless you are a superuser. The DPI in the build.prop file refers to the screen hardware, not the Android UI. Part of the reviews smartphone websites make is the screen resolution and how good the quality is. There are apps that can change the screen resolution for you that also need root. I don't think it is possible to change the pixel density of the OS icons since they are pre-rendered and loaded when the OS is compiled.
changing resolution is totally different than changing dpi in build.prop which isn't hardware at all its just for the android UI as i said before, and i know that the icons are pre rendered but the size of them depends on the DPI, they will "APPEAR"smaller depending on size of screen try changing DPI in build.prop and you can definitely see what am telling you (same thing when you lower resolution on your PC doesn't the icons which are pre-rendered appear bigger?)

changing the screen resolution on other hand can't be done in build.prop it needs an app like This one which changes the resolution of screen and therefore lowering the DPI EFFECTIVELY, while changing DPI in build.prop only makes Android OS draw in lower DPI but the GPU still outputs the native screen DPI since the resolution in still the same hope you got the point in difference.
in both cases you need root access, try both and you will see a lot of difference
The DPI in the build.prop file refers to the screen hardware
the HARDWARE screen DPI is fixed in manufacturing can't be changed at all.
6 days later
It seems there is a misunderstanding, because what I'm trying to say is exactly what you're saying. I know very well that the hardware can't be changed. It seems I mixed up the meaning of DPI. I meant to convey what you said in the second suggestion. Thanks for clarifying.