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[Galaxy Note5 General] oneandroidnut:
Exactly why I bought one to compare side by side with my note 4

You name it. Only about 50 gb free on my sdcard
[Galaxy Note5 General] MajorTom_:
Easy. Music in FLAC format is one big user of space.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Jesus. Well whatever gets you through. That's just insane, people carrying 128 gb of stuff. But to each their own.

I own a 32gb "black sapphire" (we all know its really blue) Verizon Note 5. I started with the Sprint Nextel i80 and the other Nextel devices as they came out, then Samsung Instinct, Sprint Buzz (Nextel/Sprint hybrid) then HTC Hero, HTC Evo, HTC EVO 3D, then a BlackBerry, then IPhone 4, 4s, 5, then a HTC One M7, One M8, and now arrived on the Note 5. Hands down the happiest I've ever been with a phone. This sucker beats any other phone/device I have ever tried. The snappiness, surfing speed, the screen, and battery life is great for a phone as large as this is. I get an entire day (0600-2230) of heavy usage out of it before it gets set on the charger.

My only complaint. If your staring at the phone, why have the speaker at the bottom where it makes it hard to hear? I wish other manufacturers would follow the dual front facing speakers like HTC has. That sound was incredible and it felt like at time surround sound.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rushless:
People with Note 3 and 4's already know how good the Note is :) I have used the Note 5. I do not like the glass case and refuse to pay a premium for less storage. 96gb less.

Not depending on the cloud or the tradeoffs of using OTG. Note 4 with my 8000mah battery and 128gb card IMO for my use destroys the Note 5 from total perspective.

This is my use and choice and not an imposition on anyone else.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pat.:
I am a customer & I like phones with removable memory/battery.

I don't care if it's not trendy.
[Galaxy Note5 General] jpbl1976:
Don't worry. You've got plenty of company. Samsung's decided that they're going with the fashion phone crowd now. Ignore the folks who keep saying the Note5 is the bomb. They've mortgaged 2-year commitments with their carriers so of course they're going to say it's awesome. What else are they gonna say? Watch them cry when Sammy does a 180 and launches the Note6 with 128GB of storage and an SD-card slot...

Also, it's funny that they're posting in droves asking what people put in 128GB of storage. None of their damn business. Besides, they're on XDA, 24 gigs free on a Note5 32GB leaves space for exactly 2 Nandroid backups and some apps. Why they're even on XDA if they're not into that sort of thing is beyond me. They should just go to the Verge forums or Android Central... or on Engadget where the reviewer believes that the Note5's memory management is awesome.
[Galaxy Note5 General] v2.2v:
Believe me I see both sides....but you may as well get over it now.

They will never bring back the SD slot...128gbs absolutely.... SD slot , no. And the majority could care less because this phone is the best Android experience to date.

You don't need 64gb to root and be active in flashing roms. 32gb is enough for most people.

Finally, the Note 5 is leaps and bounds ahead of the Note 4... in every aspect. Of course this is just my opinion but if you can't see it then you are clearly not using the Note 5 lol
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB33:
If someone gave me the Note 5 I would have to sell it. I have to swap batteries about twice a week depending on my work day not to mention the storage concerns. The sad thing is I can upgrade for free via T Mobile's original JUMP program and avoid paying taxes via Costco.

Currently in my Note 4 I have:

4 GB of apps

10 GB of Pictures

10GB of Music

65GB of Videos

Most of my Videos and Pictures come from me being a parent of 2 active kids and I don't always have the time to transfer certain videos right away. It is all mixed between the 32GB on board and a 128GB card. I use various cloud services to back things up but the cloud is WACK when your in certain places and buildings with bad coverage or when you have to wait for things to download.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
I am on XDA because I used to root all my phones and devices back when this site was getting off the ground. Now, I have a family to feed and people to save. So my time is precious. I asked about the memory, because frankly. I'm my times, I have never had the need for more memory. I am a power user and the phone works for me. When I get home, I have a wireless 1 TB hard drive connected to my network (and my plex account) and my phone backs up as soon as I connect to my home network. Once it's backed up, memory gets cleaned and I have 24gb for the next day. If it doesn't for you because of x,y,z. Then I'm sorry you can't see past it. But I am certainly not posting how "good" it is because I'm "locked" into a 2 year mortgage. I am posting to help others and share my experience.
[Galaxy Note5 General] jpbl1976:
No it isn't. Don't kid yourself. One Nandroid backup will eat up half the free space on a 32gb device. You'll have 12gb left over. Where do you store your apps and media library? OTG's are going to be the accessory to have if you got 32gb. Minimum's 64gb if you want a good experience.
[Galaxy Note5 General] kamranhaghighi:
Don't worry about screen size, atleast for me, as long as it's more than 5.5 or 5.3" you will get used to it after a few days and it will be the same as a 5" phone too you! i However feel the difference when connecting it to my gamepad! or use a smaller phone after months of having it, but after like a week of using the smaller device it gets the same for me :) it might be me however
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
I always put my nandroid backups on otg, even when I had SD cards... Why would I want that on my phone 24/7?
[Galaxy Note5 General] force70:
32gb is a joke lol..i sold my G2 because thats all it had and i loved that device.

The 64gb on my nexus is workable but ive had to adjust how i use my device to make it work. Knowing nexus have never had sd card slot i was prepared to do so because i love the device and taking im the good with the bad with it.

128gb would be acceptable and why they did not include that option on the note 5 of all devices is beyond me.

Makes no sense in my mind.

Sent from my Nexus 6 or Note 4
[Galaxy Note5 General] jpbl1976:
I already wrote about this. Some people will definitely keep their backup on an OTG... But what if your phone suddenly goes haywire and you haven't got your OTG drive on you?
[Galaxy Note5 General] KanjiMan1977:
I was looking forward to upgrading to a Note 5 but no micro SD is a major deal breaker. I was actually going to upgrade my tablet as well and I like to have the same brand for ease of connectivity. I recently moved and sold all my 7000 dollars worth electronics to lighten the load and was going to replace it all with all Samsung... TV, Surround system, tablet and phone. Now my plans are messed up and have to redo my research. I am really pissed off about the micro SD... enough to switch brands to someone else. I have had 3 different notes and various other phones. SAMSUNG you just lost another customer. Without micro SD I will never look at you the same again. Stop pushing your stupid cloud services.. they are only good for wifi and that is not available in remote locations which I frequent, otherwise I need a big huge expensive data plan to access my media. OTG.. could be an option if it was sleek and not hanging out all over like a 5 dollar hooker on main street. I have OTG on my sony Xperia tab Z (was gonna replace with a note tablet) and fell asleep and it fell on the floor in the middle of the night and bent the otg cable's pin so it was loose and the slightest movement would make it disconnect. that and having a usb stick plugged in made my lollipop phone look like a big rectangular lollipop. I really wanted to upgrade... i have very little faith left in you guys... I will wait until christmas time now to see if anything happens (Like a note 5 edge) otherwise im jumping ship cause I feel this boat is about to sink. I do have to admit the design is awesome. but I dont want an i-Note... and that is what you made the Note 5 into.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Then I live without a phone for a couple hours until I get home from work? The world doesn't end when you turn off your phone...
[Galaxy Note5 General] jpbl1976:
If your work depends on it, it does. You must not get too many important calls.
[Galaxy Note5 General] shook187:
Wow are we still talking microSD? Guys take your little micro SD's with your junk in it and keep it in your Note 4 and move right along.
[Galaxy Note5 General] force70:
Lol...

The title of the thread would be why its still being talked about, you know..a step backwards.

There are many ways the note 5 is clearly way ahead of the note 4 but in a few areas it went the other way.. The sd card is one in many peoples opinion including mine.

Dont agree? Thats cool your entitled to think what you want of course but no reason to mouth off like that over it. I certainly do not consider the contents on my sd card to be junk nor do others I'm sure.

Maybe try and have some respect for others opinions...thats sorely lacking around here lately.

Sent from my Nexus 6 or Note 4
[Galaxy Note5 General] Brinith:
Note 5 is certainly not the next generation Note that we all hoped for. However, it is certainly not a bad phone.

First off, lack of MicroSD card sucks, but I don't much storage so it doesn't bother me. What bothers me even more is the exclusion of MHL. Such a useful feature that had no reason to be taken out.

Replaceable Batteries have always been a gimmick for me. With the freak occasion that you use your phone for your battery to die, a battery bank is a stronger alternative as you don't need to carry around 10 batteries to match the capacity (20,000 mAH battery pack for $20)

IR Blaster - Meh, a traditional remote or universal remote just feels better in the hand. All I have seen it been used by people who have phones which have IR, just use it as lame party tricks if not use it all.

Also, I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the Note 5 HAS BETTER BATTERY LIFE than the Note 4 despite the smaller battery, and top off with the Quick Charging, I really don't see this to be a problem.

Finally the refinement of the S Pen and Samsung related apps just make it a good experience using the Note 5.

Note 5 is a far cry of what the ideal Note 4 successor should have been (hopefully the Note 5 Active will be it); nevertheless, its a great phone with a great stylus (albeit pricey -_-)
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
If you depend on your phone in a critical nature like that you should NOT be modding it, and taking the chance it will barf/crash in the first place. That is irresponsible...
[Galaxy Note5 General] ryanalan82:
Did you know that if you put the s pen in clicky end first, it will make it work better and be more sensitive the next time you use it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] planetbeen:
Bahahahahahaha!
[Galaxy Note5 General] ernie092:
I too am very disappointed for note 5,beacause that's not i hope for .
[Galaxy Note5 General] kingwicked:
its really funny to read here ,how people justify that more memory is not required on a Note5. LOL

its none of anyones business to ask what we will keep on 128GB.

I have used Note1,2,3,and 4 . Just sold my Note4 as its getting devalued after arrival of Note5. I bought it unlocked for $700. have been using it with a 64GB microsd card

Was interested in getting a 64Gb model with a memory card slot. well i am very very dissapointed. Not every one around the world has data connectivety all da time to use the cloud services.

I am waiting and looking for other options besides samsung , like Oneplus2, Xperia Z5, but still i am very pissed off as i dont have any good options.

Shame on you Samsung for behaving like Apple , for what i have been with Samsung for last 5 years has all gone . what difference is there now between an HTC, Apple, or Samsung phone in terms of outlook.

A very pissed offf samsung fan
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pat.:
I might not when YOU turn your phone off but all my business is done via my mobile data connection.

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So my .pdf 's that I need for my business which are parts/instruction manuals that I need immediate access to even in data connection dead spots are all junk are they ?

Maybe go & play on Facebook ; )
[Galaxy Note5 General] iverson3-1:
Sigh I was so excited to upgrade from my Note 3 to the Note 5 and didnt get the Note 4 like I was going to do when the rumors of the Note 5 coming out in Aug started. Now I dont know what to do I am tired of my Note 3 I need that new gadget fix I guess im stuck with upgrading to the Note 4 I looked at the G4 but I think I would like the N4 better & some of the issues people are claiming they are having with the N4 such as lag after they upgraded to Lollipop I assume can be fixed by installing an awesome rom.

The biggest killer to me was maxing out the GB at 64gb, no ir blaster sucked & was surprising & I do use mine, no removable battery or sd card slot sucked but was expected & i can live without it if they offered 128gb but Samsung decided max at 64gb & that was the last straw I have a 128gb sd card in my N3 & its great not having to worry about storage or deleting things to manage storage.

Its not all bad tho my N3 is paid off & im on Tmobile and have jump if I do get a N4 im not stuck with it for to long if something better comes out as I can use Jump anytime
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Just buy yourself a wireless 1-5 TB hardrive and when your home allow it to backup and store the memory. Add plex to your hardrive and your cloud problems and lack of SD card are gone. All your media at your fingertips regardless of size. You can set it up to auto backup when you enter your WiFi network. No more need to have an SD card and no more complaining.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Then you shouldn't be messing with that phone AT ALL!! Then you wouldn't need to worry about your phone messing up.

If my livelihood depended on my phone working 24/7 I sure as heck wouldn't be tinkering with it...

So I guess I think you get what you deserve in those cases.

It all changes nothing though. The note 5 doesn't have an SD card, so either carry an OTG drive or buy a different phone that meets your needs. No amount of complaining is going to change the note 5.

Email/tweet/Facebook samsung directly if you want to get your voice officially heard.
[Galaxy Note5 General] BarryH_GEG:
Who's "we?" That's the problem with this thread. Everyone's reflecting their expectations on the forum and fighting over who's expectations are right. There is no group expectation.

For "me," I've had the phone for two weeks. It is hands down superior to the Note's that came before and I've owned them all (except the first). The thing charges so silly fast I'm not worried about the non-removable battery. I never swapped batteries in any of my previous Note's I just wanted it "just in case." I cleaned up my files before transferring them over and what was 57GB is now less than 30GB. I upped my AT&T plan to 15GB anticipating more cloud usage so I should be just fine. I played with the IR blaster to control my Samsung TV but the novelty wore off pretty quick. Notice my use of "I" and "me." I have no idea what percentage of the masses I represent.

Clearly Samsung has taken a new direction. All the above are gone most likely never to return. So either adapt or give your business to another OEM. Lamenting the same thing over and over here isn't going to change a thing. BTW, for those predicting the Note 5's imminent sales failure, its launch in Korea has been the most successful of all the Note's.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pat.:
No idea what you are on about "messing with my phone" ? ?

Anyway I don't want to carry extra drives if I don't need to. That's the entire point of inbuilt memory slot, apologies if your new to mobile devices...

You mentioned me complaining directly to Samsung.. but I can't remember saying anywhere I havnt done that so that's also a strange thing to write but thanks for the... er.... advice.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Yeah, I guess the >30 phones I've owned the last 10 years makes me a newbie. Lol

Anyway, my original point was that some like the note 5 and it meets their needs. Some don't, because it doesn't meet their needs. Nothing wrong with healthy discussion. In the end though, it is always 'buy it or don't'.

If it makes you feel better complaining on a forum, that's ok too - just don't expect any results from it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ryanalan82:
If you didn't notice there are a crap load of people unhappy about the isamsungphone. And of the s7, note 6 are like this yrs, most of these people including me will not purchase Samsung again. That is fine. What you're not getting, is we don't want to. WE were happy with the way the note line was up until now. The note line IS for power users and always was, and isn't suppose to be for ex iPhone people that don't pay attention and put the s pen backwards. I do email Samsung about all this. I do troll them and Sprint on the chats asking why can't I add a line with a note 4. Why was is it pulled? Not a usual thing that happens. If your happy with the phone then go start a I'm in love with my note 5 thread. But this is a complaint thread, you clicked to come in here, complaints against your so called amazing phone. This is not the only thread on the only tech site that has plenty of complaints against the note 5. Me, I've been waiting for at least the level of storage I have on my phone now since the flip phone Moto razor when sd cards were 512mb - 1gb. I'm not about to backtrack 5 yrs in terms of storage space. And paying $1000 for a 256 gb version of a phone is ridiculous as well just cause they are trying to **** you out of money. Non removable battery isn't so bad but they should have made it much bigger if they were going to do that. And you upped your plan to 15 gb.......Lol. on Sprint I use 30-40 a month without streaming movies or music which I have on my 160 gb note 4. So what would my usage be if I was 60 gb a month. AT&T is a ****ing joke and I'm so glad I left them long long ago.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Brinith:
Quite Aggressive for no reason apparently. Please get that checked out.

The Note series was meant for power users and the micro SD card slot and replaceable battery were important features of what defined a Note. Just because you like it, doesn't mean its a good successor to what the Note series stood for. If you actually had enough patience to read my entire post rather than scrutinizing a single word (I say "we" as in the people who got a Note for its intended purposes of being a power user device and from seeing negative reviews and outcry on carrier sites and retailers, I would say that's a majority from the looks of it), then you would have noticed that I hold the Note 5 in pretty good regard, but just not as a successor (which is why so many loyal Note fans have been put off with the Note 5).

Not to mentioned, you basically echoed my opinion on replaceable batteries and IR Blaster, which considering how you only quote the first sentence, probably didn't see at all.
[Galaxy Note5 General] BarryH_GEG:
Exactly how many people equal a crapload and what's your source? The tech elite here on XDA also don't represent the masses. Things we care and obsess over are things they probably don't even understand. Have you ever been in BB or a carrier store and listened to a conversation a rep is having with a smartphone neophyte? It's pretty scary. Nexi haven't had expandable storage and earlier devices (N7) maxed out at 16/32GB of storage. Somehow they sold well and people survived.

Here's an automotive analogy that's appropriate. When BMW moved from hydraulic steering to electric their fan base and the motor press went nuts. And V1

was

worse than what it replaced. But the change was generational because of the benefit delivered in efficiency. Then, once that dust storm settled, they started to replace their world regarded inline 6 with turbo 4's. Again, more power and better efficiency and packaging. Another dust storm came and went. BMW's just fine and now electric steering and small displacement turbos are pretty much industry standard.

Samsung without question decided that form would help them sell more phones than function. And for people who haven't used a Note 5 for more than a few hours there

is

a huge benefit to Samsung's new memory approach. The uber fast RAM and storage makes the phone fly and the more read/write intensive the task the more that stands out.
[Galaxy Note5 General] force70:
Agree about the storage being faster, there just is not anywhere near enough of it.

Here in Canada 32gb only which to put it bluntly is pathetic.

Why they would offer 128gb on the S6 and not on the Note just baffles me...makes no sense whatsoever.

Sent from my Nexus 6 or Note 4
[Galaxy Note5 General] Dannar:
It doesn't seem like much makes sense about the Note 5 or the business decisions behind it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] beaverslayer:
Sounds like you should be carrying around a laptop instead of a phone, dude!
[Galaxy Note5 General] pierrekid:
Lol #pengate. S-pens already breaking from clicking mechanism.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
I am extremely happy with my phone. Battery life for days. Literally.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pat.:
Again you are giving me advice about forum use even after replying to me about something written by a different user (the messing with my phone speech) & then not taking the opportunity to apologise.

Because of this i find it difficult to value the opinion, i hope you understand.

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I couldnt have posted a better example myself, you bought the latest Note & had to delete 27GB of data !

That simply shouldn't have to happen.

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Can i just quickly point out that this thread has the title

"Over all a step backwards compared to the Note 4 ?..."

There's clearly a question mark at the end so it's asked our opinion on that. It's not constructive to accuse people of complaining on a thread that is asking about a phones shortfalls.

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I'm fairly confident the reason Samsung didn't market the Note 5 in Europe is because they knew it would damage the company.. credibility wise.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rushless:
You apparently do not use your phone much. Literally :)

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Seems the incredulity police are in full force. The people that do not want sd or care about it, but impose their own standards is lame. If you do not use media much, or a proud cloud fan, good for you! Still does not mean it is good for others, or have the inclination to app and media juggle.

I will stick for now with my Note 4 with 200GB micro sd and 8000mAh battery. I travel and have no desire to rely on public WiFi or carrier data access. Nor deal with OTG as standard, which has poor media integration, awkward unless not moving, and can not charge when using.

Now, if data becomes unlimited and public wifi becomes a lot more prolific than it is now- Then the cloud is more practical as a backup anyway.

I think we will have 256gb phone options way before that ever happens. There is one already.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
It's ok, jealousy is a common emotion. Just let it out. I'm here to help. :)
[Galaxy Note5 General] ryanalan82:
Um no it's definitely not jealousy..... android system is 6%. The other is messages at 1%. If he was using it screen would be the highest%. Anyways why is android at 6%, that seems high? If I take my note 4 off charger at 100% and use it some and get down to 88% it would be similar. So quit riding the note 5's nuts cause u wasted $800 on it.