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[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
I have noticed some fast drains at different points in the start, the middle, and at the end of the battery charge. Nonetheless, the overall performance seems satisfactory.

By 6:20pm I had 22% charge left, but 8:33pm I was down to 5%. So in little more than 2 hours I lost 17% of charge. This seems to be the normal rate of drain while doing activities like watching videos/movies.

Usage: 97% in 1d 7h

SOT: 8h, 46 mins

3% to 4% charge left. I am guessing the

phone can pull off a 9 hrs SOT

, depending on how I utilize the remaining charge.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ambervals6:
Post some screenshots let's see.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
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[Galaxy Note5 General] dajumper:
Strange the battery on s6 edge plus is much better then note 5
[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
I'm entirely confused with Lollipop's battery stats.. Why is it that the percentages are not adding up to 100%? Anyone understand how to interpret battery stats?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Zanr Zij:
You battery screen has two point make your phone last longer:

- You charged a short period within this cycle

- When you play video, you will last much longer than normal
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mashari_F:
After 2 weeks, my usage is average+

Battery lasts for 12-14 hours sometimes 10 hours
[Galaxy Note5 General] alexcarterkarsus:
Would bad signal reception be a good reason for bad standby time? I live on the 1st floor in a tall building and the signal is really weak, usually one bar. So I have really bad standby time, overnight N5 can lose 40% battery by itself with only wifi! N4 before it didn't do much better, either. Makes me wonder if this is really just an android thing. Because my Iphone 6 plus won't lose more than 2% overnight...
[Galaxy Note5 General] whatnow275:
My galaxy s6 goes on track for 20+ hours with 6+ sot in a decent signal area but only 15ish hr with barely 4 to 5 at home with a very weak signal. Does iPhone not drain fast in poor signal area?

PS wifi also drains faster than LTE even with it set to turn off when asleep
[Galaxy Note5 General] alexcarterkarsus:
Well I changed to airplane mode and disable location, and it's better, but still not good, down overnight 15%...
[Galaxy Note5 General] ambervals6:
Clear cache, disable auto synchronize/push notification.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alexcarterkarsus:
Well tried all those, doesn't get better... the culprit always seems to be "android os", and sometimes "android system".

What had me scratch at my head is this, my iPhone 6p has installed almost the same apps as I have on N5, and syncing the same email accounts, having the same push notifications, but there's just no comparison battery life wise, N5 flat out loses, and don't even get me started on standby time....
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pappy35:
How long was it off the charger? I think it would be very good if, say, it was unplugged, used for 6+ hours, then on standby for 10-12 hours. That screenshot by itself doesn't provide enough data to assess whether it's great, ok, or bad...
[Galaxy Note5 General] robertopod1968:
This is mine for today. On pace for 20 hours and 7-1/2 screen time today. Using it a lot today being sunday. Some navigation and Bluetooth streaming a podcast in the truck. Damn good battery on this thing for sure. No worries for me.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pappy35:
All that damn crying about how bad the battery is. Oh brother...

This is great news cause I ordered one yesterday and all these bad commentaries and whining about this and that had me second-guessing my decision.
[Galaxy Note5 General] kEvinErd:
Here's my battery stats. About 80% of the time on WiFi, rest of the time on 4G+. Power saving mode NOT turned on at all. Screen time at 3.5 hours with 27% battery left. Total time off charger is 27 hours! Brightness is at 30% with auto brightness turned off.
[Galaxy Note5 General] robertopod1968:
Glad to see that mine isn't some fluke special note 5 with extraordinary battery. The optimizations have truly worked people. The phone has excellent battery life!
[Galaxy Note5 General] DrexelDragon:
Sheesh. Usually when I see people with outrageous battery stats I think it's like a fluke or they do don't anything on their phone.. but we have multiple reports of great battery life so I am super encouraged.

Now T-Mobile, PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY
[Galaxy Note5 General] robertopod1968:
I'm a phone junkie and pretty much try every phone. I'm normally not the guy that gets great battery. I normally don't get really horrible battery life either. I dont disable a bunch of stuff or turn off data to try to raise battery life. Most of the time I'm right about in the middle. I'm ready to see more people's input this week.
[Galaxy Note5 General] haidar7:
That is truly amazing.. i may get myself a Note 5 after all.. i am using Note 4 and it is cool
[Galaxy Note5 General] CLARiiON:
Has this been posted yet?

---------- Post added at 02:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

^^ I believe you are the same guy who also posted battery results in AC forum, right? :good:
[Galaxy Note5 General] DrexelDragon:
Are you me? Haha I'm the same as you. Always changing phones, etc.. I never have had a phone give me the kind of battery life I see people bragging about and I do disable apps/restrict data and never got that kind of battery life.

I really hope when I get my Note 5 I will get the kind of battery life you and others are reporting.
[Galaxy Note5 General] kEvinErd:
I'll post more battery stats if I can. But I am having problems trying to drain the battery down before I plug in and go to bed.

Currently, it's 8.45pm and my battery is at 58%. I unplugged at 6.30am. Screen time is at 1.5 hours currently. 4G turned on all the time with WiFi turned off, until just minutes ago.
[Galaxy Note5 General] robertopod1968:
Yes I am. There is so much misinformation out there an I can understand the worry about the battery. Just want to share my real life experience with anyone on the fence.
[Galaxy Note5 General] King p1n:
So why the hell isn't the S6 getting this kind of battery life.

Wth Samsung.

Major thing putting me off S6.

But waiting to see more on Note 5 battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] adidasfreak:
Excellent battery life reports here.

My battery stats:

http://xdaforums.com/note5/general/note-5-battery-life-t3180515
[Galaxy Note5 General] CB620:
Yeah T-Mobile is pissing me off with the late launch. Already have my accessories but no dam phone lol.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Zorachus:
These battery results are BS, or just done wrong or something, bias towards AMOLED displays or Samsung phones.

Real world, real forum users in hands testing is all that counts.

I have the Nexus 6 ( which I love :) ) I also owned the iPhone 6 Plus back in Jan + Feb, that I returned on day 30. Anyways, there's no comparison with battery life, the iPhone 6 Plus blows away my Nexus 6 for battery life. By a wide margin, the 6 Plus is a battery champion. So obviously these tests results above are meaningless, just based on that, with them showing the iPhone 6 Plus so far down on the chart.
[Galaxy Note5 General] TechBSwift:
I have an issues with this report because my s6 is not getting anywhere close to 7 hours as this report stats... And my phone is rooted, debloated, Verizon service so I always have 4 bars of lte, and I don't play games on my phone

Sent from my SM-G925V using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note5 General] DrexelDragon:
You aren't in the S6 forum, you are in the Note 5 forum.
[Galaxy Note5 General] robertopod1968:
I think where the iphone 6plus really shines is with standby time. Since this is a test with it constantly being used, I believe it. But nobody uses the phone for that many hours straight.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Yes but the point is if the numbers are wrong for other phones they're probably wrong for the note 5 as well.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nickname_marco:
Which theme is it?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Jinsuke32:
Was facing the same problem. The only fix that actually worked was flashing a custom kernel. Now using arter kernel and battery drain is pretty low. Before I would leave it at 100% before i went to bed and wake up to find it at around 30%
[Galaxy Note5 General] alexcarterkarsus:
how is your battery loss overnight now with the custom kernel? Problem is I cannot flash it because I wanna use Knox for work... that leaves Samsung to get its act together and improve it... or one can always hope android 6.0 to solve all our problems, just like we hoped 5.0 would be the magic bullet... :p

Well, at least I have my Iphone 6p to turn to :)
[Galaxy Note5 General] coinmanmat:
Okay so I got my Note 5 the day it came out and at first I had no complaints about the battery life but now that I have had the phone for almost 2 months my thoughts on it have changed drastically. So I have the Verizon Note 5 by the way, and now I'm noticing that there may possibly be an issue with the battery. Over the past couple weeks I have been noticing some crazy battery drain on the device. I'll go to bed with it at 65% and wake up with it at 30%. Then last week I had a issue where the phone was at 32% and it shut itself completely off. It would not come back on till I connected the charger and then it said it was at 5%.

Has anyone noticed any weird issues like this?
[Galaxy Note5 General] sultanshariff51:
Hello guys till now my battery status after using wifi for 13 hours n watching videos n listening to music it's awesome..[emoji6]
[Galaxy Note5 General] Jinsuke32:
Alot better. Drains like 5% over 8 hours. Guess you'll just have to wait for an update from samsung then :\
[Galaxy Note5 General] 954wrecker:
WEYO
[Galaxy Note5 General] FunkyMcBain:
I've been seeing a very high usage by Android System lately for some reason
[Galaxy Note5 General] cricketgirl90:
Same here. On my note 4 as well as my tab 4

Sent from my SM-N910H
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
Try uninstalling Google play services and then reinstalling it from the play store.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nickname_marco:
afrai, it's only possible to disable it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
Go into security, scroll to the bottom, more security options, device administrators turn android device manager off. Then you can uninstall play services and reinstall it. Then just turn device manager back on
[Galaxy Note5 General] biye1010:
very good!
[Galaxy Note5 General] nickname_marco:
i disabled it, but still it allows me only to uninstall the updates and disable it - i cannot uninstall it completely.
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
Then uninstall the updates, then go to the Google play Store and search Google play services. Then update it from there.
[Galaxy Note5 General] PoorAtreus:
How much usage by Android System would be reasonable?
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
On my note 5 I'm hitting around 10%

But I have location history turned off in the Google settings ( cog Wheel icon).
[Galaxy Note5 General] nickname_marco:
yup, done it, thank you. i am trying to track down the random battery consumption, let's see if it helps.
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
It should help. I'm on t-mobile. I have WiFi always scanning turned off ( WiFi, more, always scanning.

I have volte turned off.

I have location history turned off.

I hit 6-7 hrs SOT every charge. You just gotta tweak things which to don't really use to suit how you use your phone
[Galaxy Note5 General] klyzon:
my horrific battery life
[Galaxy Note5 General] FerraraZ:
Mine is seemingly worst! ^^
[Galaxy Note5 General] arberkokoshi:
Help please!

I have a very big prob with my note 5. Its an international version phone 9200c. The battery is very very bad, i cant even get 6 hours whith a charge and i dont surf or facebook i only use it for phone calls.

In the battery meny i see that android os use 25%. I cant explain it, i tried everything, rooted the phone, factory reset, unroot, factory reset again but nothing work.

Iam preaty deprerated, can anyone help me?

I would realy apriciate it. Thankx
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
Read the last 2 pages of comments. Someone else had the same problem or similar.

Sometimes you gotta help yourself before others will help you
[Galaxy Note5 General] Fenzox:
I turned off volte, brightness is at about 10-20% most of the time, wifi off, location off and on at times and sync off

Hi, please advise how to increase screen on timing or should i get a warranty claim?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Fenzox:
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[Galaxy Note5 General] Krokogator:
If you explain me what did you want to show with your screenshots

Wysłane z mojego SM-G928F przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy Note5 General] klyzon:
My wifi sleep bug burns me 16% an hour lol
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
Have you turned off WiFi always scanning in the advanced WiFi options? I only lose 2-3 while I'm sleeping for 8 hours
[Galaxy Note5 General] hlcm151:
It's depend on how do you use cellphone.

IF YOU JUST READING BOOK OR WATCH SOME VIDEO ( OFFLINE VIDEO ) it won't bite your battery .

PLAY GAME OR USE 3G A LOT WILL EAT YOUR BATTERY AND YOU ONLY GET ONLY 2-3 hours SOT
[Galaxy Note5 General] klyzon:
I can only choose scanning while wifi is on or always scanning
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB__CD:
Not the world's best, but fairly solid, and more than enough for my use. Always have a battery pack with me anyway.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Fenzox:
It's my gsam battery screenshot
[Galaxy Note5 General] Stanlehh:
anyone in the same situation as me that GSam Battery Monitor app is not working properly whenever handset is charged using Samsung's fast wireless charging pad?

it does not detect it as fully charged and the battery usage measurement in app goes haywire.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dsmpampis:
The battery life on this phone after using it for over 3 weeks it's to be honest very good, not so good like the oneplus one with KITKAT but, yes, the best with lollipop. I take always 6 to 7 hours SOT.

Tapatalked with my Note 5
[Galaxy Note5 General] brandon1108:
For me, battery has been great while using it.. not that great on standby though...?

Guessing that will only get better with custom kernels, marshmellow etc.

(Nameless rom v1 and atar97 kernal)

usually 4hrs SOT
[Galaxy Note5 General] u2u:
overnight battery drain almost 50%

Coming from Note 4, the note 5 is way faster but battery is very disappointing. I am a heavy user ( location,Bluetooth, WiFi, full auto brightness, etc.. always on) and Note 4 easily last a full day. Note 5 lasts 3-4 hrs low but that's understandable considering smaller battery. The real problem is overnight battery drain. It's goes down to 50% overnight from 100%.

Buying a premium phone and still having to worry about turning every thing off before sleeping doesn't add up. I simply have to charge my phone twice a day now. I am most possibly going to switch back to Note 4. Note 5 was supposed to be better. Having better screen is not every thing.
[Galaxy Note5 General] guaneet:
Sounds like you have rogue apps or something

Try this app and see what's giving you wake locks

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm

If you're rooted download the companion app for it and see you get more wakelock details

I get all day usage with ~5-6 SOT. And I usually have everything enabled
[Galaxy Note5 General] u2u:
Thanks for the help. Downloaded the app and hopefully will find out the culprit. Otherwise I will do a factory reset and give it one more chance.
[Galaxy Note5 General] TheNinja370:
Good tip. I am getting decent battery life, but will try this as well.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alexcarterkarsus:
Are you living in an area with weak or bad signal? I do, and it boggles my mind that even with only wifi on, my Note 5 in airplane mode, it still loses 20% battery overnight. And the culprit is none other than "android os", which kept the phone awake all the time. All the while my iPhone 6 plus, lying side by side, wifi on, cell signal on, barely loses 2%...
[Galaxy Note5 General] The.Yield:
I've done a boat load of tweaking on my Note5 to improve battery life, but I'm getting crazy "Wifi Active" percentages in GSam. I see from your screenshots that yours is nice and low, percentage wise - so I'm wondering what could be causing the problem.

I did a full rundown yesterday. While I got about 26 hrs with my usage (nearly 4 hours of SoT) I couldn't help but notice my crazy high wifi active percentage. GSam is reporting that it's responsible for 20-30% of my spent battery life :(

Any ideas?
[Galaxy Note5 General] jerrywan:
the new firmware downloaded thru OTA is amzing! battery life superb!
[Galaxy Note5 General] alec66:
I can confirm: Achilles' Heel of this device seems a bad nightmare from the past, standby battery usage is now near ridiculous %

Talking of my 920CD with latest FW N920CXXU2AOJ5 installed.

I'm now just praying for a new modem/radio release to improve reception (this device seems everything but a champ on this)
[Galaxy Note5 General] kuti5344:
Here are my stats been using the phone for 3-4 days, came here from nexus 5 and I am not happy with the battery life. Android os, android system and play services consuming too much battery according to battery section. Any way to fix this? Yesterday I had to charge the phone before I'm home.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Abu-khulzat:
I also suffer from an extensive drain caused by android system on the latest firmware. I didn't have that on OH4 firmware
[Galaxy Note5 General] Techcoffee:
After reading through the thread there seems to be people getting good numbers and others getting bad ones. It seems that depending on how you have Android configured is really what's going to get you good results. But in checking the first post for a link or sticky, there doesn't seem to be a collective "set up your Note 5 like this for better battery life" post in these 43 pages yet.

I'm aware that depending also on what you need to use your device for will affect what settings you pick, but still, there's got to be a general set up that will yield better results than Samsung's stock settings. I'd really appreciate someone who's familiar with all this and getting good results posting a recommended settings "profile". To add to its use you could even state beside each change what adverse effect it might cause, again, since people use their phones for different things.

Highly appreciated as a new Note 5 user looking to optimize his device.
[Galaxy Note5 General] kuti5344:
Most of people that are getting those results have root access and already disabled & debloated most of the Samsung's app that they don't use. You can look into debloating and de touchwizzing thread on this forum.

I still don't have root because not sure the phone will stay or not, yet. I have a couple of days to return but note 5 will perform a lot better after marshmallow update I can guarantee that. Even nexus 5 getting significant improvement over lollipop with marshmallow.

I think the important question is "will Samsung update touchwizz on note 5 along with galaxy s7 after marshmallow?" because its terrible. May be they can make it less heavy like Sony or HTC sense?
[Galaxy Note5 General] u2u:
I was having worst battery life like everyone else but now I don't have this issue anymore. Maybe some else did things as I did so might be useful for you.

When I first setup the device after buying I didn't restore any backups to install my apps from my previous phone (Note 4) and my phone battery was working fine. Then I factory reset my device so that I can transfer all my stuff from Note 4 to Note 5 using smart switch and thats when the problem started. My phone was losing 50% battery overnight (100% before sleeping, 50% left when woke up). The normal use battery was also really bad. I went through all posts in this thread but nothing worked. So after 2 days of worst experience I was thinking of returning phone but decided to give it one more chance. I factory reset my phone again (also wiped cache before reset) but didn't restore any apps or data from my old phone. I installed all apps directly from play store, setup my accounts etc. Copied important stuff manually and the battery problem went away.

Now my phone loses max 5% battery overnight. For day use with wifi always on (LTE data when no wifi), location on (no gps), bluetooth on (smart watch connected), auto sync (3 accounts plus viber whatsapp etc.), full auto brightness and normal use (checking emails, social media, calls, messages) I am getting decent battery life as was expected from Note 5 (approx 19 to 20 hours).

So basically some apps makes battery consumption crazy if not installed properly. My suggestion is reset the device (hard reset after cleaning cache) and install apps manually.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Zanr Zij:
First part of your story just your mistake.

And how about your sot?

Some screenshots :)
[Galaxy Note5 General] 954wrecker:
I think if my network signal was ever more than 2 bars i could hit 24 hours battery with 8 hours SOT
[Galaxy Note5 General] nickname_marco:
that's insane. did you root? any specific advice to get such a silly sot? i can't figure out how you can have such a low awake time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nanias:
I am coming from a tired old Note3 and I am very impressed with the battery life and fast charging on the Note5
[Galaxy Note5 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
nanias, are you using Package Disabler Pro, or are you rooted?
[Galaxy Note5 General] showmo:
android system is killing my battery

I'm getting barely 3-3.5 hours SOT after my last update and android system is killing my battery. Asking for your help. Thanks!

SM-N9208
[Galaxy Note5 General] Techcoffee:
What update do you mean? From what firmware to what firmware?
[Galaxy Note5 General] showmo:
I don't recall the previous firmware but I've had an update lately and the build number is: LMY47X.N9208XXU2AOJ5 & my model is SM-N9208. Oh!! I just got my note 5 two days back and updated the firmware in same day. Since I am a new member thus I'm not being able to share screenshot by now however my GSM battery monitor is showing: the maximum battery is consumed by "Android System" :( Please do suggest me what shall i do :( I am having horrible battery life. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note5 General] ShadowFlare:
First Battery Cycle

Just posting my battery result from my first cycle, not bad.

Usage was mostly setting up the phone, WhatsApp, tinkering with apps, install, disable, listening to music. About 3 hours worth of watching local video just so I could kill the battery.

Notice my 4G (LTE) signal strength, yeah, it's just 1 bar throughout the cycle, 4G signal sucks at my house.

Phone is not rooted, N920C 64GB latest firmware.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ekjl:
My Note5 (SM-N9200) doesn't have the greatest of battery life either. But I'm not complaining because it's hell of a lot better than my Nexus 5 that I had prior. Maybe not quite as good as the iPhone 6+ I had too.

I'm a complete stock user meaning I don't download apps that modify the out of the box experience. Everything I use on my phone is pre-installed on the phone.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
The out of the box setup is embarrassing. Seriously there is so much garbage in these phones.
[Galaxy Note5 General] sarasws:
First time, I have seen my Smart Phone crossing 6 hours SOT. Quite happy with Note 5 battery. Good OS/battery optimization by Samsung. BTW my Note 4 never crossed 4 hours and used to heat up a lot.

In fact it crossed 6.5 hours with 5% left. In the night while sleeping I have put it on ultra power save mode. WiFi on, 50% 3G, what's app, office push mail, moderate camera usage, YouTube, kindle, Facebook, a lots of browsing, Google now on, google maps occassionally & finally 'Black Sky' theme. Also observed the built in browser is consuming a lot battery than Chrome. Set power save mode to start at 50%.
[Galaxy Note5 General] luciferiusXI:
Try cm browser. Super fast, very light and hreat features.