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[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
100% wake time is caused by rogue apps. Install something like Better battery stats, that should show you what causes it. The easiest option, may be, to reboot in safe mode and see if it is better, bcs, I think, safe mode disables all user apps. If it does not help, try flashing clean rom. There is a lot of bloatware preinstalled and even more, when you have carrier specific, custom tailored ROM. If you mean bad mic as the other side cannot hear you clearly on call, then it might be caused by worse signal. Look at the battery graf in the settings under it you should see signal strength or chances are, you have HW problem, which is getting worse. I would advise you flashing clean KK, if it solves your problems then stick with it and get used to it, as I did (not really a problem, after few days you won't notice any difference). If it doesn't help service it.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazza7111:
Is note 4 still worth getting? Other choices would be Galaxy s6 or lg G4. ??
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
It depends on what you want... Note 4 has stylus. I have had LG (optimus 2x) before and their attitude was a bit problematic no updates etc. I Don't know what battery life S6 has, but if you don't mind bigger size then Note 4 is a winner at least for me.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavags5:
My opinion is if you don't need big screen don't buy note 4

I change my S5 for the note4 3 days ago

And for twice the price doesn't worth it.

Performance is the same and battery too.

And 4g sinal worst than s5.

Im in change for the lg g4.

Because battery removal and sd card.

Sent from my SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazza7111:
Thanks for the replies. I'm used to good finger print scanner now that's the problem. Never used the Samsung swipe?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavags5:
I think best finger print scanner is the S6.

Sent from my SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
The Note 4's finger print scanner is pretty unreliable. If you really set your finger print from more angles it goes better but it is still a lot painful when you need to unlock your phone in a hurry or when holding it in any nonstandard way.

You are going to change to LG G4, bcs of removable battery and sd card? Note 4 has it too, if you didn't know that. I would definitely not say, that Note 4 is like s5 and definitely not in terms of battery. Performance is the same? Really? It is like saying jet boots are the same as sandals... yes you can really wear both as you can call from both phones, but there any similarities end. I know ppl how have S5 and the phone is a lot worse in every single aspect.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin818:
Please help removing welcome screen!

Hello everyone. I'm currently using a Note 4 (N910F) (5.0.1) and i want to remove the O2 welcome screen. How i can do that? Please help me. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soundofmyownname:
Google and your location settings when first starting device

Good day,

When I bought my new device, the salesperson helping me with the purchase quickly went through a few of the initial start-up screens. I found a YouTube video showing the settings that my phone is now set with, and I am wondering if there is a way in the normal phone settings to change these 'initialization' settings.

At the Google and your location screen when starting a phone for the first time I see 3 settings. I am wondering if there's a way to find/change these without having to reset my whole phone. They are:

Allow apps to estimate your location with Google's location service. Unknown location data will be collected and sent to Google, and may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.

Get more relevant information when using Google apps. GPS and Google's location service may be accessed, even when you're not using Google apps.

To improve location accuracy and for other purposes, Google's location service and other apps...

Anyone know where I might find these settings?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavags5:
I have the same things like in s5, animation 0,5 , disable all the apps dont need , clean cache and reboot every day, normal things for the phone is always fast. And the note is only better because pen and multitasking. Nothing else. My s5 antutu 44500. Note 48500 both lollipop. Not too much different, you have better screen,ram and little things. I use 4g all day in both both came home battery in the end.

And the design metal its great.

And lg g4 has better performance.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruvien007:
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N916S

Hello Guys,

I have Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N916S Exynos Version

I just want to know if we can use different firmware on my SM-N916S, because the camera shutter doesnt have any toggle to turn on or off, its always ON, i've tried to Mute the phone completely and it still has the shutter sound on it. Anyone knows if we can use other firmware from sammobile.com?

Thanks in Advance!
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itzST:
Miscellaneous file disappeared!

Hey guys,

my miscellaneous files menu seem to have disappeared in the storage menu. It shows in the first split second that the storage menu takes to find how much data is being taken up, however, as soon as the numbers show up, the option for miscellaneous files disappears. After adding up the others, the space taken up doesn't quite equal 32 gb, so im sure that the misc files are still there. Has anybody had this problem? I know this seems minor, but my OCD is really kicking in, and I just want to know how to get them to show up again. Thanks!

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I think that it does that no matter what, as all my system sounds sounds are disabled but the camera still makes noise. To answer your question, yes you should be able to switch to any SM-N916S firmware. If you are gonna flash another firmware, I would flash one without a carrier in parantheses, as sometimes the firmware has carrier bloat.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatness:
when i get home tonight i will take screenshots in my gsam battery monitor app and show. its android os and android system that is highest up all the time , btw inside these in that program can i see somehow which one that it is that drains alot? like do them change places inside of them depending on how much battery they drain? there is a few things that is higher upp while my wakelock is 100% and some that are missing while i have 100%wakelock etc. im starting to wonder if it might be an app i do have install afterwards that does it also and the time i checked with no apps installed might maybe been a fluke.

Btw how do i run safe mode x D? Never done it actually.

i was gonna post a link of a txt comparison but they didnt allow me cuz i have posted to few posts, alot of files in android os have moved like migrations are higher up etc on the one with 100% wakelock.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
Flash clean stock ROM from Sammobile.com, you should see more ROM versions here including carrier specific and non-carrier versions. Look at my older posts here for more info

All of these options are available. Some in Settings -> Location and GPS settings and in Google Settings -> Location

Come on man... I am sorry, but these are absolutely non-sence arguments. In your case I believe it would be the best to just buy old Nokia 3310 and you will be absolutely happy.

You are right, that there are not that much differences, but it mainly has Fast Charge, a bit faster CPU to handle everything which is more power conservative and 3GB RAM, it is always better to have more of RAM as in today world nobody cares about optimisation and apps are more and more hungry. One guy here modded the system a bit and now he has almost 10 hours Screen-on time. I doubt you would achieve that with S5. But yes for less demanding users S5 might be better, but expect it to start being laggy in near future as 2gb RAM is a minimum now.

Yes it is possoble :). It is written in my older post how to flash different ROM and which to flash to be safe and do not trip Knox.

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taken from Android Central (search button again ;) ): "If you want to access Safe Mode, power down your phone completely — hold the power button, then select Power off from the menu. Once the phone is off, press and hold the power button to turn the phone on, and as soon as the "Samsung" logo pops on screen, release the power button and then press and hold the volume down button until the phone boots up completely."

Better battery stats shows everything you could ever want to know, but it has a catch, or at least had it before. It requires root for most of its features, but still give it a try and see what it finds out. I tried GSAM too, but it is bit unreliable and its measurement is unclear + Android OS and Android System are packs of many small system apps. They probably contain 50% of apps installed in your phone. It is normal to have high battery usage results for these two "processes". My values are between 15% - 50% depending on my phone usage. If you get at least 4hrs screen on time, then it you phone works normally. I have also find out, that air wake up is pretty stupid function which wakes up device randomly if you have case on it.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavags5:
You are right note 4 is always better of course.

But im only not happy because its second note i change and im changing for the 3 lets see if im lucky.

The 1 does work heart sensor, and this have the 4G signal very low.

But you understand what i say.

Can you tell me what that guy do for get 10h on screen i really want to know.

And is with stock rom?

Thanks.

Sent from my SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soundofmyownname:
Hello there,

Thank you kindly for the reply and for trying to help.

As far as I can tell (and pardon me if I am incorrect), but the two places you suggest actually lead to the exact same place, which does not actually have the settings I am looking for.

See attachment.

Any other thoughts or suggestions?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Herp94:
Note 4 Stock ROM

Hello there, I don't know if I am posting this in the right thread, but here it goes. I have received a Note 4 from my cousin, who bought it from France, as I know it's from SFR and it's rooted. I want to know if it's possible to put a stock firmware (SM-N910F) without the apps from the mobile company and also to have the latest OTA updates:confused: .

Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
Oh, i do understand why don't like it now. When I bought it, i thought it will have Exynos but not, it came with Snapdragon. I was pretty angry, i had no luck returning it bcs the shop had bulletproof shopping agreements.

The guy has nickname [MENTION=4403427]Kernel ranger[/MENTION]. Hope he does not mind linking his posts about his battery results. He helped me to diagnose my phone and he did wonders with battery life of his SGN4. Here are his results and here how he achieved that.

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You are right about where those two ways lead.

In the Location menu, there you see the "Mode" - High accuracy means exactly your first point. It uses data and google location to increase accuracy. It sends data to google. Set the Mode to GPS only and then back to High Accuracy and a prompt with exactly the sentence you are looking for will appear.

This may appear when using google news/weather or may be a voice search?

not sure where this comes from. It seems pretty common sentence for any app.

Question is why are you searching for those settings?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itzST:
Of android system is consistently at the top it means that you just have really bad signal and there is nothing you can do about that, except maybe turn off mobile data. That's what it was for me.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
You probably nailed it. Bcs he said he had problems with 4g
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soundofmyownname:
Thank you for your reply. Great to find the first one. If anyone else might know where the other two are directly, it would be much appreciated.

I am looking for them because they were set without my consent and I like to know what I am consenting to and make my own decision. Knowing where those settings are (outside of an initial start-up scenario) allows me to turn them on or off at my will. It would be quite a hassle to have to reset my entire phone just to adjust these settings, and so far, that's the only way I have found to be able to access them all. Make sense?

Thanks again. Any further input appreciated.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
I have expected this answer and it makes perfect sense, but there is no need to search for those sentences. They are description of system settings. Just go thru every setting in Google Settings and System settings and and just them as you like it. It will have the same effect :)
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kernel ranger:
I have no problem with your linking, my phone is still performing wonders especially now that I have Wanam Xposed module running in it. I have wakelocks heavily controlled so much that on idle standby it is hitting 10hrs and draining only 2% at that. I have encountered quite a number of uncontrolled wakelocks and I can clearly say that wakelocks and autostarting apps are greatly responsible for severe battery drain. In addition, the Exynos variant has it that, there will be an instance where all 8 cores will be drawing a significantly high current from the battery during these wakelocks making it 5% faster overall than the Snapdragon but in this time and age, I value the amount of battery life saving you can achieve with the Snapdragon than with the Exynos compared to performance gains over the same.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
If I wouldn't loose warranty I would gladly join the Custom club :D I would still use auto-sync and chat apps but still there is a huge space for performance and battery improvements :)
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Zork-:
Hi all, i just purchased a note 4 N910U for my father. I´m update to lollipop and getting root and TWRP

I want to flash a Rom stock with optimization in section Androd development, the point i don´t have chance to test each one because the phone isn´t for me. So need a recommend which one have a BEST battery life for mail, social etc, not for game don´t care a lot perfomace :confused:

Regards and thanks
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatness:
i have turned off al airwake up things, theonly thing i might still have is the one were putting it at your ear and away lights on/off your screen, might try to disable it? i will try having it on safemode later today and see how it goes!

if i let my phone be on the same place for hours at end and dont touch it should it be on the same signal the whole time or should it flactuate still?

this is how it looked like for me yesterday

[IMG="battery stats"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/2015-07-14%2019.33.20.png[/IMG]

[IMG="battery stats"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/2015-07-14%2019.34.16.png[/IMG]

[IMG="android os"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/2015-07-14%2019.35.03.png[/IMG]

Edit: Btw on myway home after i took these screenshots so did the phone die around 23:30,

meanwhile what i did was listen to a downloaded spotify list for 20min and a youtube clip in 480p for 15min, later just let it be on my pocket and i did absolutly nothing with it at all and it died right before i came home. Came inside of my doors at 23:45.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
There is a rogue app running. System is not the problem, the consumption is a little higher, but that might be caused by other factors, like low display usage.

These images are mostly useless. 1. you didn't screened the app section of GSAM, 2. no signal graph from Settings menu. Having million applications running just to measure battery is unwise, they consume power too. How do you want to measure if anything is wrong when you have Spotify running and the biggest and most useless bull**** ever made like mobile Steam? :D Steam could very likely be your rogue app. It pings online friends all the time, fetches community news and who knows what else.

Then your signal, depends on where you live. You might be in a town, but even though you have good signal it does not mean low consumption. Your phone has to increase antenna's power to overcome problems like concrete walls and thousands of other cell phones. To answer you question, your signal can fluctuate very easily. There are a lot of factors, which influence it.

You should get 4 hrs Screen-on time. When doing intensive things like using Spotify it could be less. Try normal usage. Some chatting, browsing net, etc. You should get more then 4 hrs or something like that. If yes your phone is OK, if not it could be an app or your antenna might be broken.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatness:
I have checked steam and used without it and that one didnt change much at all for battery drain and spotify i completly turn off after i get to work, only listening while i travel to work.

[IMG="1715"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/batteryNote4/New%20folder/2015-07-15%2015.15.36.png[/IMG]

[IMG="1716battery%"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/batteryNote4/New%20folder/2015-07-15%2015.16.22.png[/IMG]

at like 1830 wakelock went to on all thetime

[IMG="1926"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/batteryNote4/New%20folder/2015-07-15%2017.26.12.png[/IMG]

[IMG="android os"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/batteryNote4/New%20folder/2015-07-15%2017.28.10.png[/IMG]

[IMG="battery around 0037"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13092928/batteryNote4/New%20folder/2015-07-15%2022.38.00.png[/IMG]

this prob wont show super much, but i had great time batterylife all day and around 18-19 my wakelock went on and my battery started to drain like 50% of what it drains with screen on while my screen is off. this is kinda what i have problem with, cuz i have super good battery later i do nothing els from what i usually do and wakelock just goes on all the time and my battery drains like i dont know what

https://www.diffchecker.com/pmqddukr

left one is right when my wakelock goes on alot and right one is when my battery hit 1%
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
Yes it is a bit weird and i understand, that you want to know what is happening. There is noticeable difference, but nothing dramatic. According to diffchecker (btw. interesting website i didn't even know about) there is little to no difference. Most of the red values are there, bcs those processes are on different lines. Not sure If it was you how said, that he does like Lollipop and does not see solution in flashing KK (i am to lazy to find it out). If yes, then i don't see any other solution, sorry. I have had similar problem like 30% of my battery drained over night or half of my battery drained just within 2 hours one sunny afternoon, without any apparent reason. Everything was solved by flashing KK.

Other option is, that you battery is faulty and badly calibrated. You phone might not know what capacity you battery really has and then may happen this fast discharge. Problem is it should happen every time although slightly differently.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatness:
im starting to wonder if it is a problem with the camera app, if i change between front and back camera i get up a window saying like you have disabled "midas something something" please reactivate it.

and i had good battery right now untill i opened up my camera app and after that it went to 100 waketime again, i do remember for a longtime ago some people wrote that lolipop had a bugg with the camera app that after u closed it, it was still running in tbe background draining battery etc.

btw i actually did get a new battery from samsungs techcenter a few months back right after lolipop hit us and i had good battery for awhile but later it went bad again. might been the same deal with new battery = the phone had no power for awhile so it couldnt keep app memory upp and running. but im gonna try out safemode this weekend and see how it goes. the thing is if i use my phone with screen on all the time i have like 6-7h battery life even with this waketime but it just drains so much battery while it is locked like it uses 50% of what it does having the screen on.

btw about that txt differ one what i meant is some files are in different order and if i understand it correctly so is it that the higher up they are the more they are being used and the more battery they drain. like highest up uses the most and the one longest down uses the least amount.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
Let's start with the last thing first :D it is possible that the most intensive process is up but without real values it it mostly useless bcs it may differ by 0,000001 from up to the bottom of the list and th3n it is totally possible that those processes change positions.

About the camera you may try manually killing it. Also try looking into active apps - press the physical left button and then the onscreen left button which looks like pie graph. There it could be running.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatness:
just so u know, im not completly a moron with that kind of stuff^^ and that dont work beaucse if i go into processes in development window it is still running even though i do that etc.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
I am sorry if it sounds like I think you don't know anything I am just trying to give precise instructions :D if it runs all the time it might be the problem. I checked my processes and the camera is not present. So if yours run all the time it could suck your battery, but it is lollipop it could be normal :D
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kopower:
Whenever I turn on the phone, I always get notifications about missed phone calls. I clear them out, and it still happens the next time the phone is shut off and turned back on. Not a huge deal, just annoying they keep showing up. Any thoughts?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stingrey123:
How do you clear them? Swiping out or deleting them from notifications, won't delete history. Easiest way, is by opening phone calls history directly, then it should stop.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markm3:
i am not sure i am in the right area , but can any one help me to stop my international not 4 kitkat form being updated to lolipop version ,thx
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavags5:
If you do a hard reset before you turn on the WiFi you go to wifi settings and turn off the wifi autoupdate , and coud after disabled the app.

Sent from my SM-N910F
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markm3:
u mean uncheck all boxes in about device/ software updates or somthing els ?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sleep04:
What's the best phone manufacturer of Android?

Samsung

Sony

HTC

Lenovo

Asus

Sent from my Lenovo A5000
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavags5:
Yes the software updates

But you only turn on wifi after

Sent from my SM-N910F