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[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
No, clearing the cache won't do anything. Try signing out of all of them and adding one Google account only, remove the sync items you don't need and leave it overnight to see if the drain flattens a little also put location on battery saving and make sure NFC, Bluetooth etc is turned off. The best method would be to remove Google Play/Services altogether but we can't do that :) Everytime Google Services updates or changes for me I get the crazy drain, I have to keep an eye on it all the time. Very annoying and all Google fault!

PS, even with my phone which I've Greenified and signed out/in from the wakelocks from Google Services are there, here they are on my phone. To fully get rid of them I'd have to start disabling certain services which I can't be bothered doing and I can get decent sleep drain regardless of....
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Braxos:
Try this click on Google services then app info then on location there check if unified daemon is listed, if it is click on it and clear cache. It did help me a lot now Google services aren't on first place.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cosimoss:
Got any details?

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SM-N910F United Kingdom (O2) 2015-04-01 5.0.1 N910FXXU1BOC3 N910FO2U1BOC1
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mitchec1:
From Sammobile

Country United Kingdom(02)

Version: 5.0.1

Changelist: 4456564

Builddate Fri, 13 Mar 201506:50:03+0000

Date 2015-04-01

Product Code 02U

PDA N910FXXU1 BOC3

CSC: N910F02U1 BOC1

PHONE: N910FXXU1 BOC3
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cosimoss:
Now we have to wait for Samsung to pull their finger out and put out the UK BTU firmware.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] henklbr:
N910FXXU1BOC3 Vodafone NL (VDF)

Model	SM-N910F

Model name	GALAXY Note 4

Country	Netherlands (Vodafone)

Version	Android 5.0.1

Changelist	4456564

Build date	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:50:03 +0000

Product code	VDF

PDA	N910FXXU1BOC3

CSC	N910FVFG1BOC2

Download for install with Odin: MegaNZ
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tinker_tf:
Comes to something when the UK phone operators are getting their firmware before the unbranded firmware!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] btrmpt:
Hi tinker_tf

Those of us who buy unlocked phones are used to this I'm afraid. The networks must have some sort of deal with the manufacturers as clearly it would be quicker to have the firmware without the carrier bloat added.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] @home:
Yeah it stinks.

We pay up front the full amount & have to wait till last
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
No it won't void your warranty, just like how you've flashed firmware already and the CSC doesn't matter :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cirian75:
So as UK peep

Buying a Note from Amazon.de so I get a german DBT CSC Note 4 would be a smart move ?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Doesn't really matter where you get the phone from besides price. Have a read back and you'll see that as long as you have 910F version, you can flash any firmware that isn't network network firmware (I.e. voda or o2 etc)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] cirian75:
ah yes, but those lucky germans always seem to be 1st for OTA updates with samsungs.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Usually Poland that's first as Samsung have an r&d centre there

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[MENTION=5211228]Batfink33[/MENTION] I finally got round to doing what you suggested and only left one Google account on and I'm now getting the flat sleep in the battery graph.

- I removed all Google accounts

- Rebooted

- Checked the sync options of all other accounts incising Google account

- Went into location and set in power saving mode

Will see how it goes but looking promising! Haven't used greenify as not rooted yet (can't bring myself to do it!) But doing the above certainly helped.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
Nice one :) You need to keep an eye on it because mine suddenly starts again sometimes. Damn Google!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Cool thanks for the help. Least I can see the flat sleep on the graph :)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
Would having an account (google) and not syncing ANYTHING help? I mean, I have an old google account (way way way back when it was in its 1st beta) and on that account I ended up buying 90% of my apps and games. Now, I have another account that isn't so infantile (haha), and I keep that first account logged in for the store to have access to everything I've purchased. I still purchase under it, actually. So, if I go into its sync settings and disable everything, could it still be a problem starter?

On another note, I saw that Unified Daemon was under "high" usage, and I simply turned it off. Everything else was classified as "low"
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Batfink33:
Hmmmmm, not sure. I think there are services that run anyway and cause wake ups so even if you don't sync anything there are things still running in the background. I have some really weird wake ups from the likes of Google fit etc which even when I don't sync, still cause wake ups. To get rid of them you need to use the app disable services (think that's what it's called) but you need to be rooted to use it.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] malybru:
Mod Edit

Thread cleaned

Back on topic , please.

Thank you

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Galaxy Note 4 General] creonx:
here are a good website to see a live update for firmware releases for all, they don't want to wait too long for a download at sammobile etc. ... most downloadable with uploaded.to premium :)

Mod Edit link removed
[Galaxy Note 4 General] malybru:
Mod Edit

A quick reminder that both sammobile

and

samsung updates links are not allowed on XDA , as per :

http://xdaforums.com/note-4/general/lollipop-variants-roll-t3029201

Thank you

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mitchec1:
Same thing happened with the s4 most of us just flashed DBT then as well
[Galaxy Note 4 General] GidiK:
This DBT release of a few days ago is again a multi-csc release. It's the same PDA version (BOC3) as the TPD release before that, so it will behave the same. The following CSCs seem to be included:

BTU (UK)

CPW

DBT (Germany)

ITV (Italy)

KOR

XEF (France)

XEO

So if you have any of these CSCs as your current CSC (of your phone, not of your most recent firmware flash, check with Kies etc), this is your BOC3 update.

All the 'extras' of the previous DBT (Whatsapp, Facebook, Messenger, etc) seem to be back, while they were mostly gone from the TPD release. Because I don't have any of the above CSCs, my encryption password prompt after restart is in German; I'm interested to know what it will be for e.g. the UK users. And also because of the same, the 'texting just got better' message is back; I will need to do a factory reset, restore and reflash to solve that.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jdomadia:
Sorry Off the topic but it's interesting to know about benefits of encryption & r u able to flash new rom threw ota or odin while encryption was active?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] GidiK:
Benefits: I don't know, I'm just testing the feature. Actually I usually forget I have it turned on, which is a good thing...

I think it was already encrypted when I did the dirty flash through Odin a few days ago. Since the flash is only the firmware and not the data, the data and its encryption should not be affected. Not 100% sure though. I assume that after a factory reset, I will have to re-encrypt.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] jdomadia:
Thanks bro....as long as encryption is not affecting performance in bigger scale, it should be better for security reasons.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] The Divide:
Sorry for the noob question.

I'm on EE, kind of getting impatient with waiting for Lolipop. Would there be any problems flashing the Vodaphone variant as a temporary measure. I'd imagine there isn't although some of the carrier bloat might not work (which is fine), is that the case? Thanks

I'd flash the German one but I have had problems in the past with changing the CSC codes (on the S3)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
Well I disabled the unified daemon, and these are my results.

View attachment 3255846View attachment 3255847

Not bad if I do say so myself :)

Thanks. Now tomorrow I'll add my other accounts and let's see how they make my device act up, if at all.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ionut Ciprian:
I think you are wrong. The release might be multi CSC, but if i flash it i will have DBT instead of BTU, as far as i know there is no option to select CSC before install.

On the other hand this release installs 2 german programs already included in ROM. So the rom is branded for Germany.

Untill each country releases it own version, Kies will not display any update, cause the update is related to phone's CSC.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] henklbr:
The "texting just got better"-message is due to the German CSC DBT; I think it has something to do with the carriers in Germany.

I see you are from the Netherlands too, so I recommend to install the Dutch TPD-release till PHN is released; the latest DBT is the same build as the TPD.

In a short time we can expect the PHN-release (I'll place a link in this thread when available)...

Samsung is slowly releasing the BOC3-build to other countries too (yes, also for BTU)...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] GidiK:
I know, I reviewed that earlier in this thread...

The "Texting just got better"-message is not something from the German providers, it's something Samsung included in the firmware (PDA) which gets disabled during CSC install. If you do an 'aligned' CSC-install, like a multi-CSC package containing DBT on a DBT phone, the CSC install will de-activate the IMS-services, getting rid of the message. If you install TPD, which is single-CSC, the CSC-install will always de-activate the IMS-services; they are still included in the PDA.

I guess I typed enough TLAs now...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Best reading back as we've already discussed the issue with csc and flashing firmware. In short CSC doesn't matter as long as it's European. My experience on using a network variant is that it doesn't work so I would suggest you stick with the Dutch release TPD or German DBT for the time being until UK EE release is out for your phone. Also EE phones seem to be locked so you'll need to check that out as well.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] The Divide:
Thanks for your response. I'll look into this
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Braxos:
[MENTION=939586]zkyevolved[/MENTION]

Don't disable just clear cache then the drain is/was fixed on my n910c
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zkyevolved:
Are there any adverse effects to disabling it? I haven't encountered any... I didn't use the weather widget to begin with. Is that the only thing? :s Thank you =)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] GidiK:
I was going to factory reset anyway, so I checked. I installed KitKat BTU, aligned CSC of phone to BTU, confirmed that situation in Kies and recovery, then flashed this multi-CSC. All clean flashes. I now have an BTU lollipop on a BTU phone (again, according to Kies and recovery), without any German apps:

Also, /system/csc/sales_code.dat is set to BTU, where it was DBT if I installed it on a phone with a CSC that wasn't in the package. The recovery log after flash also shows that the flash has given the command "update_home_csc" to the recovery, which is then followed by symlinking all the BTU stuff instead of the DBT stuff. So, in a way you can preselect which CSC is chosen from the package, by making sure your phone is already aligned with that CSC before you flash.

Because I now flashed this package on a phone that had a CSC that was in the package, I'm also not getting the "texting just got better"-messages that I did get otherwise.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Good job my friend,

So i need to recap, if i perform a clean flash right now on my KK BTU with this German release my CSC will remain untouched? All this considering that i have alligned CSC.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] GidiK:
All I can say is yes, that is what happened when I tried it. But as always on xda, everything is at your own risk...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Ok thanks,

I guess i will wait for the official release and perform the update via Kies, so i can keep everything in place.

I'm just tires of flashing over and over again.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
I was reading recent posts about the recent German DBT release having multi CSC so I thought I'd download and give it a go by just dirty flashing over my current firmware (TPD). I promise that I haven't done any of the extra steps that some have had to do with regards to the CSC. I came from ANK4 KitKat and straight to BOB4 DBT and then onto BOC3 TPD. I haven't cleared cache in recovery or done anything extra, just flash over the current to the new. After flashing the Dutch BOC3 I did have misaligned CSC with original being BTU and the baseband being TPD. Having just flashed the recent German release my CSC has now aligned back to BTU.

The details are a follows:

Original CSC code: BTU

Firmware CSC code: BTU

Active CSC code: BTU

CSC country: UK & IRE

CSC country ISO: GB

Product code: SM-N910FZWEBTU

My phone isn't rooted either.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Here's the screenshot
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Here are my battery stats before and after with the amendments suggested. Great stats in my opinion. Getting deep sleep periods and extended battery. I'm not using any battery assistance, just turned off Bluetooth and any syncing I didn't need. Still on high accuracy on location though and WiFi continuously on.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BadBoyR:
Which amendments?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tinker_tf:
So If i'm reading this right, I could possibly flash the DBT version and it could show as the BTU version? I'm getting bored of waiting for Samsung to release the BTU version when they've released the 02 and vodaphone one. Plus I am still running the DBT version that came out when this thread started, and my god it's awful...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Amendments suggested were:

- remove all Google accounts, reboot and add one at a time starting with the main one you use on Google play. I have five but only got one added at the moment.

- put location on power saving mode

- check syncing options for all mail accounts and remove tick from syncing options you don't need e.g. calendar on an account you don't use calendar for

- if rooted, try greenify to force sleep apps that are used often but don't need syncing. I didn't try this as not rooted but I'm getting great battery without this.

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Yeah, make sure it's the one uploaded on 7th April. Like I said, I did nothing extra, no cache cleaning or anything. Previous CSC was TPD but now all CSC is BTU. Give it a go and try the amendments that have been suggested in my other post above
[Galaxy Note 4 General] GidiK:
Yes, that's what we are thinking. However, this previous DBT you are running also contained BTU, so your CSC should still be BTU at the moment. But this new DBT is much better than the one you use, so there's no reason not to upgrade anyway...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BadBoyR:
I did exactly this. Flashed the latest dbt version and my csc has re aligned. The O2 version did not work for me.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Great stuff, told you it would work lol
[Galaxy Note 4 General] alom5:
I'm running the dbt and my battery life has gone much better...getting near 22 hrs uptime and 5hrs sot I expected this as this is what happened on the note 3. Also have more ram free now. But my csc is all messed up. ..not that I'm bothered.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tinker_tf:
My CSC is also messed up and showing DBT instead of BTU, which considering Samsung are really slow releasing BTU software I'm quite happy to have a messed up CSC if it leaves me free to do the upgrades if and when they get released instead of waiting.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BadBoyR:
The o2 ota update for lollipop is out and even re aligning my CSC I can't get it. Any ideas how I can? I'm currently running latest dbt version.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gandalf67:
Is it worth to upgrade to 5.0.1 if I got something like this on my current 4.4.4?

Average every day use:

100 emails to read

1 hour of music on Bluetooth

1 hour of Web browsing (news)

5 minutes of talk

10 texts.

WiFi 12hrs (home)

4G 9hrs (work)

O2 UK custom rom

EPIC launcher

Bloatware removed.

Sent from my Note4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] arovik:
What is Samsung waiting for? Why don't roll out for the rest of the world?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Just flash the firmware. Download from sammobile and flash the o2 update.

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You seem to have answered your own question :) . With your note being on a custom ROM, a lot of the system functions etc will most probably have been disabled or removed with a number of tweaks. Going into stock firmware is going to be a step back for you if you're getting those figures on the custom ROM. I've never seen a phone battery last that long and it being used everyday. To be honest, having WiFi and 4g on all the time doesn't drain the battery as much as earlier models as they've been improved and now more power efficient. Bluetooth is also more power efficient and you're not really using your phone as much as a power user would, I.e. almost every time something pings on the phone :P
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Gandalf67:
You're absolutely right mate. That was an example of average use. One hour on Skype or three hours of streaming movies to my TV kills battery fast like a hell.

I think, we have to think twice before flashing our device : do we really really, need it? What kind of benefits do Lolipop bring to us? New 'cubism' design, new icons? Is that all? Until now we've got new system restrictions and battery drain only - because the famous new look you can get by installing one of various types of launchers. I know it's that kind of invisible force pushing us to check another 'something new' but this time I'm gonna pass.

Sent from my Note4
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BadBoyR:
I have tried this and it fails.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
At what point for it fail? What errors are you getting?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mih3y:
Hi Guys,

So what is the main difference between DBT and BTU?

I am on stock German DBT, and i am thinking to flash my original Vodafone (uk) stock rom, i guess it will be BTU? Should i? any difference?

THanks :good:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
The Vodafone UK stock rom isn't BTU. Basically, like DBT, BTU is not connected to a network so doesn't have any bloat from networks and doesn't have the network startup boot animation.

The reason why some of us like BTU is because it has always been known to be a stable release and also had no network bloat. Just as DBT, it's a completely stock firmware from Samsung. Flashing Vodafone UK will not help you at all. It will have Vodafone boot animation and also any bloat that they add. In my experience, don't flash network firmware unless you're with that network. There are specific settings in the firmware for the network which can result in your phone not getting signal etc if you're not with that network, also the fact that it's a different country's release.

Where are you from by the way?

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I hear you there! I used Nova launcher and it was lollipop as much as it could be, besides the menu and settings of course. You're right about wanting to try something new or being amongst the first. Happens everywhere, phone launches, product launches in general, clothes, fashion etc. My rule is, do you need it, if not then move on. I always use that when buying stuff but I think I give myself exceptions when it comes to tech, especially software updates lol :P
[Galaxy Note 4 General] mih3y:
Thx friend! So would recommend flashing a BTU for better performance/battery life? If you got a link i would appreciate it.

I am from Russia, but i am in London now.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
You're welcome. At the moment BTU have been released but you can use the latest DBT that was release on April 7th. Overall performance is better because of the lack of extras that network firmware have but to be honest, it's how you use the phone and how much you use it which will determine battery and performance etc.

If your phone model is 910F then you can use this link to download and flash the latest DBT firmware:

Mod Edit link removed
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BadBoyR:
Right at the end, it says failed when almost done.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Have you got reactivation lock turned on? You need this turned off. You could try deleting the Samsung drivers from device manager and letting you laptop reinstall the drivers. Could you post the info from Odin in the bottom left corner of the screen?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] argtoub:
Please do not post links to sammobile , as these breach XDA RULES # 11 & 13

MEGA:

https://mega.co.nz/#!oUdUFbSL!78NAUT...xl1_2rBMv2vv9A
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
OK, can't see any other way around it. I tried private messaging you but seems I can't. Could you possibly help me understand where else we can refer people to for downloads? I don't have access to any mega uploads and it would take me downloading from "that site" and then creating my own mega download for others, even for downloads that I don't have any use for.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] SleemLDJ:
Is it possible for one to install the resize able keyboard of s6 on note 4 for this rom?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Try this forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3041330

There's a lot of s6 items that have been pulled and ported over.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tommolo:
Is the BOC3 CSC the latest firmware avaiable? I have an italian no brand Note 4, and I'm tired of waiting for the upgrade to come. It seems that Samsung forgot about this country!

The update is available only for the Vodafone Note 4, and I was thinking to install this german no brand upgrade, is it stable?Mod Edit link removed
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Yes it is stable. I am using this release myself. You can flash the recent DBT firmware and it will be fine.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tommolo:
I read that this is a Multi CSC firmware and it contains the ITV CSC (italian). What does it mean?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Basically, it means that it allows the CSC to remain aligned to the CSC for you phone to show ota updates.

If you go into dialer and dial *#1234# you'll get your CSC information. Also download "Samsung Phone Info" from play store which will confirm details for you like the picture below.

All the CSC info needs to be the same, for you it will be ITV, but it really doesn't matter if the CSC isn't the same but with the recent DBT being multi CSC, you shouldn't have any problems with the CSC changing.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Tommolo:
So, if I install this firmware, everything will remain ITV?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Yes, that's what happened with my phone when I flashed the recent DBT release.

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Disregard this guys post about breach of rules. He's not a moderator. I have checked with XDA. This user has been reported.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Ulster1690:
You sure about that :sly:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] uktechguru:
Lol yeah, I've asked for clarification as the rules don't exactly state that you can't. I'm await a reply.

The problem is how exactly are we supposed to refer people to download the right firmware etc without links. There's no way I'm downloading every single version and then uploading to a storage site to then share access to the file.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackS0ull:
Hello,

The above link from MEGA is not working. Does anyone have this firmware

Model name	GALAXY Note 4

Country	Germany

Version	Android 5.0.1

Changelist	4456564

Build date	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:50:03 +0000

Product code	DBT

PDA	N910FXXU1BOC3

CSC	N910FOXA1BOC3

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 4 General] sPEADy:
There you go mate
[Galaxy Note 4 General] BlackS0ull:
many thanks mate! :good: