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[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
Hey man, i was thinking about rooting also since i lost my waranty. Which rom and kernel are you using? And which model of note 5 do you have?
[Galaxy Note5 General] :
I am using indian Variant SM-N920G and using Dr.ketan's Nougat port N2 with Jio Volte support with stock Note 5 patched Kernel inbuilt in rom but there are so many Nougat roms with timely updates and new features available in Samsung galaxy note 5 android development thread here https://xdaforums.com/note5/development

And you should also refer this thread for proper rooting and efs backup but remember rooting will trip your Knox which will never be reset so you can't use Knox security and samsung pay app..Devs are working on this to make SE for android status to be permissive..So if you don't care about knox then follow this guide

https://xdaforums.com/note5/general/how-to-root-note-5-t3205073
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
Dr ketans N2 rom is good, I m also using that.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
Just to confirm that doesnt work with canadian variant of note 5 n920w8?
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
New N3 rom is out with fingerprint wake up feature. You can ask in direct thread, I can't say. Search for Dr ketans Note 5 N3 thread.
[Galaxy Note5 General] RANJITH THRISSUR:
I had idle drain of 2 to 3%/hr in the past. But after using amplify to limit a no. of wakelocks and alarms...im able to get 0.2/hr. Gsam shows average of 4:56 hours SOT over last 40 days..and max SOT according to gsam over the same period of time is 6:19 hours. I'm using greenify+ amplify with xposed module. Location is always off, Bluetooth almost on, wifi always on. And ROM is khongloi V14 with skyhigh kernel. Still can say that old sick as hell and Darthstalker had better battery...like darthstalker used to give consistently around 5:30 hrs..without these much tweaks..
[Galaxy Note5 General] Cool Person:
I FIXED My Battery issue at LAST! Those suffering Battery Problems Turn OFF 2G/3G AUTO-CONNECTION And switch to either 2G (only) Or 3G (only)

I used to get only 3 Hours of screen on time on my Note 5, now I am getting 4 Hours of screen on time.

This finally solved my battery issues. I am on custom ROM By the way so Stock ROM Should give you better results.

The Reason that some of you get battery drain is because some countries or regions have poor coverage or handling of 2g and 3g connections and your phone is set to autoconnect on either of them.

This Would defiantly drain your battery like crazy.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
I am getting around 4.5-5hrs sot in note 5 on custom rom.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Cool Person:
Depends i run noughat roms those might be unstable

What rom are you running so i can test?
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
I am on Dr ketans N4 - nougat rom.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Cool Person:
I am running infinity noughat.

Will check this
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
6 Hours screen on time.

Browsing and very few gaming and youtube.

Stock noughat not rooted.

70 percent brightness

1080P

N920CD
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Oh and

no power save mode used

I will try to use power save mode and check resaults.

I should mention that my phone is brand new.
[Galaxy Note5 General] malek111:
My battery feed back

Almost 23 hours from last charge

16% battery juice still

6 hours SOT

N920C

Not rooted

Android 7.0

Power save on

Black theme
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
You are on flight mode, so it's easily achievable to get that kind of backup.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nerdninja:
I bought an AT&T Note 5 from a co-worker who upgraded. He said the battery was bad in the Note so I anticipated having to change it.

I reset it, then ran it down to 0 and recharged overnight. So far I'm getting close to 6 hours of very heavy use (surfing and streaming music) and around 3:45 of SOT at 100% brightness. That seems pretty good, isn't it? Will I gain anything from changing the battery out?
[Galaxy Note5 General] malek111:
No flight mod was only activated 15 minutes before taking the ss
[Galaxy Note5 General] Turbine1991:
As someone who had to change theirs 3 times - the rom you choose and the doze forcer seems to make the most difference. That's about the typical heavy usage one can expect, the only real improvement would be through underclocking on MM.
[Galaxy Note5 General] sionyboy:
Not sure what I've done, other than disable lots of packages through Package Disabler or booting it into Safe Mode for testing purposes has done something, but my phone finally seems to be idling as it should. Yesterday I managed over 6hr27min of SOT and it was off the charger for 15hr35min (mostly on wifi, but left it on mobile data for large periods for testing and was streaming lots of media off my cloud drive).

Android OS had been destroying my battery, especially when I was on mobile data so it would be using several % an hour just sat on my desk doing nothing.

Although I really shouldn't have to play about with Pacakge Disabler to get decent battery life, when are Samsung gonna cut down on the needless bloat?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Before changing the battery make sure you download an app to check your battery charging capacity.. Mine under 100 percent brightness gives me 4 to 4:30 of SOT Per day. Under that with 70 percent i get from 5 to 5.30.

One of the reason of degraded batteries i suppose is either a wrong battery charger or car charger. I suffered that on my s3 battery which died due to that.

Do you have Android Noughat installed?

I have heard it fixed massive battery problems.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
This is my screen on time 1080p with 100 percebt brightness.

2.30 hours of youtube

30 minutes of gaming

2.30 Hours of facebook browsing and music streaming and surfinf the ui.

If you are not getting at least 4.30 hours of screen on time then your battery is dying. Chances is that the seller chose to sell the phone because he was lazy to change the battery. Change the battery as this is not normal.

OR Update to noughat first through OTA.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
How many apps have u installed? 4g?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
No this is on Wifi.

Normally on 4g under 70 percent brightness 1080p (due to high sunlight i had to lower it) this is what i get.

Youtube seems to drain battery less any way.

Save your self some headache and change the battery it should not cost much.

Or update to noughat it could be a software issue. Noughat seems to fix ALOT of people's battery issues..

Which version of Android are you?
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
I am on Naugat custom rom, people are getting very good battery on that rom *Dr ketans N7*, I guess my battery needs replacement, I bought phone when u was launched in 2015.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
If you get 4:30 Hours of screen on time With Web browsing and muximum brightness you are set. As said before youtube does not drain battery as much as browsing.

How much screen on time do you get?

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You are getting 5 hours of screen on time yet you claim your battery is going bad??

My battery varies between 5 to 6 hours by the way under 70 percent brightness. 4.30 is normal under maximum btightness

I do not know what are you complaining about??if this is your SOT Then that is impressive for 2 year old battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] 3eefc4ke:
I can suggest KHONGLOI-NOUGAT ROM. Currently V8 is out but Im using V6 which is working great. Really nicelly done, stable ROM. Battery life is also good.

My Note 5 from T-mobile has almost 2 years now, battery can handle whole day but not more, of normal usage. Im thinking to replace battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
No that was before a month or 2,now my sot is around 4 hrs, and standby not more than 9 hrs. I tried everything.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Either that your roms are draining your battery or that fast charging is really killing our batteries.

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Getting a day with s8 or note 5 is very normal since they both carry 3000 Mah battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
Pretty envy to you guys. My device is less than 2 years and I only using Samsung owned charger. I couldn't get even 4 hours sot. The max is 3.30 hours sot.

I tried it with almost every Marshmallow Rom that support my device(N9208) and Khongloi/Infinity/Dr.Ketan Roms. Even tried play around with kernel. One thing for sure, skyhigh kernel give you extra battery life, depends on your setting on synapse.

Currently on Darkstalker Rom Marshmallow and still on my first full charged. Hopefully this rom will give me better battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Did that happen to you ever since you bought it???

Or did degrade over time?

Mine is new with 4 hours and 30 minutes of SOT At maximum brightness.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
Since i bought it. I always turn down my brightness to 30% or less and with dark theme. Couldn't get pass 4 hours. I guess its time to change battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
If you bought it from samsung then turn it to warranty.

If you bought it from some one then its normal. Normally ppl sell their devices after battery starts dying.

2 years is pretty good time for battery to die.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
Well..i already sent for warranty and they said my battery is ok. Nothing wrong with it. Check it with various battery apps, and still in good health. I just replace it with new one then, and probably with bigger capacity one.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
How big capacity will fit?
[Galaxy Note5 General] paulo13pdm:
I just bought a replacement 4300mah (which I dont if true) battery from aliexpress for my N9208. My friend has experience on replacing non-removable batteries from the samsung series.

I only get around 3 hours SOT on nougat and drains fast even while not in use.

I hope it fixes my battery life and I will let you know the results.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
Have u tested by betterbatterystats? It's any apps or anything else draining battery? Let me know how's ur new battery
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
What is that even possible.. maybe you are talking about zerolemon.

As i have told you under maximum brightness you will not be getting more than 4.30 minutes of SOT.

In 80 percent brightness you should be getting from 5.30 to 6.

I advice you to ask samsung to give you replacement battery.

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6 hours and 30 Minutes of SOT

This time 50 percent brightness 1080p. Which takes time to get use to. About 30 minutes more than om 80 percent brightness

Browsing and gaming and few music
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
How many apps u have installed?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Ï

I have filled my 32 GB including fb and messenger and instegram and whats app.

Please buy a new battery. Batteries die over time

Specially because of fast chargng.

Your battery died that is a fact you cannot escape it does not matter how many apps i have installed a dead battery is a dead battey. Hence you are getting only 3 hours and i am getting 4.30. At max brightness

Your battery propably lost 1000 mah replace it come on!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
Has anyone replace the battery for their phone? If you did how much did it cost and where you live?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Lower your brightness to 50 percent it will be bad at first but you will be getting 6 to 6.30 hours of SOT easily. I don't notice much diffrence while gaming and my eyes hurt less. And i feel comfortable knowing my phone would last an entire day of very very heavy usage.

For new battery owners try not using fast charging to avoid battery degration.

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Becarefull those stats at 50 percent brightness
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
I found some reliable seller that sell 4000mah capacity. Same spec with bigger power.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
U don't think capacity will be genuine. Post link of product
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
I found it on ebay with good seller reviews. Here you go.

http://www.ebay.com.my/itm/302212117620

Pretty tempting to buy since it cost the same as original battery. At least in my country.

And if anyone want to replace their own battery, I found some good link that show how to.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Note5+Battery+Replacement/51173
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Unplugged at 1 PM And now its About 9 PM

Auto brightness 1080p.

6 Hours and 30 Minutes of SOT Youtube and browsing and some music streaming and fb All on wifi.

Note 5 Duos N920CD.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
To my surprised, I got pretty good battery life with Battery benchmark. 4 hours and still got 20% left. Well at least I got that on benchmark, never in real usage. Already bought 2x 4300mah batteries and I was thinking maybe i should try benchmark before i replace it. Now, Im in dilemma.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
My phone is new so battery life should be perfect.

4 hours and 20 percent left is normal for real world usage at max brightness.

I ONLY GET 6 AT 50 PERCENT BRIGHTNESS.

Did you try turning off near by device scanning and scaling down resolution to 1080p?

Also i should mention oem batteries are more worth trying than the ones you speak about.. try buying an extra oem battery to see which one is grrat for you.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MatroxD:
Still getting pretty good life..
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pokemonxd:
Settings?
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
My screen brightness always at around 30% or less and I'm using 1080p. Only when I did that benchmark I got good battery life. When Im using in real life, it suck real fast.

As for the battery, already purchased it thru ebay. See how it goes later.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alya84:
I found the best ROM and KERNEL combination for battery life. Scrap nougat, tried all that can support N9208 variant but non give any decent battery. The best one(at least for my phone) is Minotaurus Rom and SkyHigh Kernel. I'm not sure for other variants but as for N9208 or Note 5 Duos, this was the best combination for battery. I could get close to 5 hours sot now. Will post my battery stats after few days.
[Galaxy Note5 General] mhdazhar:
Some other battery ?

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How to get the same ?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Half Alive:
Only getting 2.5 to 2.9 SOT

Nougat.. 1080p..brightness at 50 to 80.. only WIFI

And just replaced the battery from Samsung about 2 weeks ago.

Any help would be highly appreciated.
[Galaxy Note5 General] mhdazhar:
Give a list maybe ?disabled list
[Galaxy Note5 General] nvrmndryo:
Who is on 9208 official rom? Need some help.
[Galaxy Note5 General] 3lMghraby:
disable fast charge

try to do a factory data reset

and what was the SOT before replacement

also try to install a dark theme for theme store or pure black one it will bump your SOT up to 2x compaired to the default white theme
[Galaxy Note5 General] sutty86:
new owner of n920t variant using in uk, cant manage over 4hours new unit also, accubattery is stating 85% battery health :(

Running stock nougat (tmobile)
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mustafa Jafri:
Using Mid battery saver. Brightness is 20-40%, dont go beyond that. Theme is bright. Wallpaper and lock screen is bright too. 4hours on and still 34%. On stock 7.0 nougat. Fine for me.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Amlish:
Before update, battery was absolutely fine. After the update which was about 4 months ago, battery standby has decreased drastically and its too annoying. I noticed this "Phone Idle" is eating up a lot of battery; almost similar to "Screen" usage. I think it is the culprit. I have also used plenty of methods present online to rectify the issue like Hard Reset, Cleaning Cache, Resetting App preferences, making wifi to restrict in background etc but nothing has worked so far. I would really appreciate if anyone could help me because I dont wana change my cell phone.

[IMG="Usage Details"]http://imgur.com/nBqsb8r[/IMG]

[IMG="Details"]http://imgur.com/9ZVYsTx[/IMG]
[Galaxy Note5 General] hahajoker:
I'm in the same boat. Currently I'm getting through less than a full day with a little less than 4 hours SOT. This isn't better than my Nexus 6. I haven't been on a Samsung device in a while. Are their certain settings that suck down battery life?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Fightoffyoredeamons:
2nd full charge
[Galaxy Note5 General] Djapatos:
First full charge

Not bad i guess but why my Android System so high though
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Check your battery stats and make sure you don't have cell standy battery drain bug where cell radio won't disconnect. Only thing that works for that is disabling voice over lte.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
I've averaged 4.5 HR SOT the last 3 days. I think that is about where I'm going to end up.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
Remember VoLTE only works on calls to other VoLTE capable phones. And only if you're both in VoLTE coverage. So disabling it for now honestly isn't a bad idea unless you're always calling someone on an iPhone 6 or similar high end phone and really want that uber crystal clear audio.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
This thing is insane!
[Galaxy Note5 General] hahajoker:
Are any of you using adguard or something similar to block ads?
[Galaxy Note5 General] DrexelDragon:
Anybody think this is abnormal?

4 hours of SOT, but Google Services is taking up most of the battery. Feel like I should be getting better battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
turn off location reporting until you actually need it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] axhng:
I had days where i could only get 2-3 hours of SOT, and days where I get 4-5+ hours. I've sort of narrowed it down to poor/congested wifi connection at work.
[Galaxy Note5 General] DrexelDragon:
I turned off Location History, but there is no toggle for location reporting.
[Galaxy Note5 General] bhagiratha:
I have been getting some good battery life on the Note 5. Only had it for 2 days.
[Galaxy Note5 General] hahajoker:
After 45 minutes of SOT this morning, I'm down to 90%. I feel like that's excessive.
[Galaxy Note5 General] kEvinErd:
,... Are you serious?
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Why? That would translate to 7.5 hours SOT.... That is way more than most people get with the note 5!
[Galaxy Note5 General] hahajoker:
Sorry fellas, typo. I meant to say down to 80%..not 90%.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Yeah, that isn't as good. ☺

Since your cell standby is high, you could try turning off wifi, if not using it. At times leaving wifi on seems to cause that.
[Galaxy Note5 General] yak84:
Here's my stats for today, I'm well satisfied with this phone's battery life so far.

Been averaging 5-6 hours of SOT and 20 hours of standby.
[Galaxy Note5 General] mDaniel:
I know... this is a Note 5 thread - but Samsung really must've done some good optimisations here... I have a Note5 ROM port running on my S6 and the battery nearly last twice as long... I had about 2-3h before and just reached 4,5h with 20% battery left.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Race2Speed:
Battery life has been better than expected for me. 4 days with this device and it seems to be pretty consistent.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Djapatos:
Latest after debloating..could be better though. Only about 3hr SOT, about 1hr30 calls, and 5hrs of Pandora, i think it could better

Still don't know how some ppl be getting like 5+ hrs SOT

i think i did everything i had to
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
^ you didn't mention what brightness you used, if you had it past 50% for most of the day I'd say those numbers look right.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dmaynard83:
Is my battery life normal?

Just want to make sure while I can still return it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Seems about right. Maybe a little low, but not catastrophically so.
[Galaxy Note5 General] clintonroche:
Those 5 hours of Pandora and 1.5 hours on the phone, probably use a bunch of battery. I bet people that dont make calls or stream music are probably getting 5 or more hours of SOT. I am not that lucky, my work apps EAT the battery LOL.

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Are you happy with them? That is all that really matters. Can you bump charge it if you need to be out more then 15-18 hours? Is this you first day? Are you still DLing apps and setting stuff up?
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB__CD:
Getting ok results, anything you guys can suggest to improve battery?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
Disabling VoLTE seems to save battery for most people and unless VoLTE is something you use regularly you wont even notice it's off.
[Galaxy Note5 General] tee00max:
People get way to involved in the SOT. If your phones get you through the day then thats all that matters, idk when this trend started with the SOT.
[Galaxy Note5 General] GiancarloMorr24:
Well said.
[Galaxy Note5 General] clintonroche:
It is a good indication of how much you use your phone....someone that leave it on their desk and dont really use it can have 2 or 3 day battery life but the screen on time would show that. I on the other hand could never get that battery life, so if they post something, i can take it with a grain of salt :)
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
But how else am I supposed to show off my e-peen? My SOT is bigger than yours!
[Galaxy Note5 General] kamranhaghighi:
Yeah, but still if it had a 3500mAh with that efficiency it would be awesome ;P
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
After about my 5th charge, on WiFi and LTE, light calls, WhatsAPP, text, Netflix, YouTube and Google Play Movies... I'm on pace for 9.5hrs SOT. Coming from a Nexus 6 where I was getting barely 3.5hrs SOT at >25% charge, I can't be any happier with this phone.

[IMG="Amazed"]http://imageshack.com/a/img540/3712/9pbYIQ.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy Note5 General] GiancarloMorr24:
That's very impressive. I'm at about 5 hrs SOT on average per GSAM.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Derekwolfee:
died before I could get the screen shot but took it as soon as it came back on.. this is with WiFi,LTE, WiFi calling on with cell preferred, auto brightness, Google now launcher with always listen, and GPS on. Pretty good I think.

http://imgur.com/i1Y6fej

http://imgur.com/a/VjsKM
[Galaxy Note5 General] Salaxander:
So I just got the phone yesterday, and I'm really less than impressed with the battery life. Currently at 32% with just under 3 hours SOT. Coming from an iPhone 6 Plus this is a HUGE blow to battery life. Could anyone possibly help me troubleshoot any problems I may be having? I went through and disabled carrier bloat and what not. I can also post screen shots if that would be helpful. Currently the biggest battery consumer is cell standby followed by screen and android system.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Disable voice over lte in dialer settings if you have cell standby drain. WiFi calling will also do it if its activated most of the time. I would only turn on WiFi calling if you need it. Rogue apps are another cause of drain. Facebook app for example. You can tame a lot of apps by restricting background data access for them in the mobile data settings.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
It's been said several times in this thread and in others, but if you dont turn off VoLTE cell standby tends to use a good chunk of power. Most people don't use VoLTE so I would say just turn it off, but it's up to you. I get 5 hours+ of SOT with VoLTE turned on, but I have my brightness kept fairly low most of the time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Salaxander:
Turning off VoLTE was actually one of the first things I did since I read it before I purchased the phone. Still getting crazy high drain though.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
What is your brightness and what is your standby time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Salaxander:
Brightness is on auto, but I've noticed its been mostly hanging at around 40-45%. Not sure where to find standby time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Kaboose666:
I would turn off auto and put it closer to 20%, especially indoors.

and I just meant how long your phone has been on before last charging.