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[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
The battery life thread has gotten really quiet these days. I guess most people are happy with their battery life. I checked Android central and their battery life thread has 1000 posts and 200k views and very active with disgruntled note 5 owners. More package disabler pro users here maybe? [emoji4]
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
First day using it 100% of the day the phone was at 10% by 8:30pm. My day started at around 9:30am ish. Not too bad although my OnePlus easily lasts until about midnight though, doing the same things. So I am not 100% satisfied, but its better than what I thought it would be. Although, when I first bought the OnePlus it would easily last two days on medium to heavy use.

I hope either an AOSP ROM is developed or Samsung releases a system update that will improve battery life greatly. Between the two phones their battery capacities are about the same and I am most certianly thinking Touchwiz the big culprit here.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
You have to do a lot of debloating of touchwiz to get it to behave, but to get the most of the note you have to leave a lot of stuff enabled so you don't always get the best battery life if you want all the nice features. I came directly over from the oneplus one. I am definitely getting better battery life than I was getting on the oneplus one on LOLLIPOP. On KitKat the oneplus one was a monster, could last 2 days with medium to heavy use easily.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Yeah I noticed that too. When I upgraded to Lollypop battery life dropped to about 15-18 hours vs a day or two on KitKat.

I did disable the included T-Mobile apps, but I dont want to disable anything else. Didn't want to remove features of the device.

Battery life isn't horrible, but it could be better.

EDIT: Used the "basic" XML provided in the Disabler Pro thread. Enabled a few apps that I would use or like to have. It did free up an additional 500mb of RAM and I am currently standing on 1.1gb free. What ever it disabled sure did have an effect on the phone. I will test this heavly today. Hopefully I see a noticable difference in battery life.

I noticed it has a few features disabled too, some audio stuff and a few others. Will play with configs for the next few days to enable/disable things I want.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Cool. Post in the thread if you have any issues. The audio features seem to work with those particular apps disabled in the basic XML file. Most of them are gimmicks anyway but the adjust sound thing is pretty useful.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
What is your average standby drain? I'm seeing about .5% an hour.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
My own custom configuration. 187 apps disabled. Very respectable stats.

Oh BTW. I ended up removing FB but leaving my Instagram. Bought Adguard and use chrome primarily now.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
The cell standby was due in part to a 49 min phone call on WiFi from a friend in Louisville. The call clarity was absolutely amazing as if he was in the room with me. My first WiFi call and I'm impressed. What I'm not impressed about was the amount of battery it consumed to get to that point.
[Galaxy Note5 General] amsnair:
Friends we need a Whatsapp group to discuss our issues....if u agree this is the link...pls visit

http://xdaforums.com/note5/general/note5-whatsapp-t3194443
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Bought adguard? You mean you bought the premium license? I meant to post this earlier but I bought the lifetime premium license for $40 https://stacksocial.com/sales/adguard-premium-lifetime-subscription. Kinda glitchy buying process but it worked for me. Says 3 days left but they run promotions all the time it looks like. If youre sold on it, its better than $25 per year and it filters all your data traffic through its privacy filters and the ads out of all your apps, not just browser. I thought there may be a little more drain with it running all the time but I've been running with it all day and battery is as good as ever [emoji4] (auto brightness on, location off, Samsung pay running in background)
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Yeah. The year subscription. But I'm a little disappointed. It ate up 23% of my bat today. I hope this isn't a regular thing.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
I've heard it can drain a bit more when its connected to mobile data vs WiFi. I have been on WiFi most of the day and haven't seen it show up anywhere on my battery stats. I think I may switch to lightning browser (has built in ad blocker) and disable adguard for now though. In use battery life seems fine, and I like the ad filtering from all the apps, but I think idle drain is a bit higher with adguard running. I go back and forth.
[Galaxy Note5 General] PrsnlCrcl:
Mine has been showing that it is using a lot of battery as well, but after doing some research, it sounds like it is an error in reporting. It sounds like the system flags it as adguard use, but it really is not.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
What are you using your phone for? What is the majority of your SOT consist of?
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Mostly texting, web browsing and browsing forums on Tapatalk. I posted a response to the same question in the debloating guide thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=62614519.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Muras4m3:
My Battery life

I think it is awesome :D
[Galaxy Note5 General] TheEmpyre:
Here's what I came up with. I've disabled several apps with package disabler and have also disabled Location which has probably been the single greatest battery saver. I was pretty impressed with these numbers compared to what I used to get on my Nexus 6.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
Results after a week of owning device and after disabling some apps via package disabler.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Battery life is terrible.

The battery drains really fast. Even with certian apps disabled, and bloat removed I am seeing this currently. A little over two hours and the phone has already discharged by 24%.

Is there anything that I could do that would improve battery life a bit more? I don't want to disable too much more because I have noticed the phone feels like it is lacking and certian useful features get turned off as well.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Remove Adguard. After a week. It just wasn't worth it. It restarted 358 times in a matter of 6 hours one day.

This after after I disconnected it from the VPN.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Not sure why y'all are having so much issues with adguard. I have used it all day several times and have never seen it above 1% in battery stats. May want to check app settings. But if it was causing that many issues on my device I would uninstall it too. Try lightning browser or firefox for ad blocking.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Terrible. Absolutely terrible. I ordered a spare fast charger in order to use that vs opening the one in the retail packaging to keep the resale value high. Hopefully it will charge more efficiently vs the charger I use now.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Terrible based on what exactly?

If your screen was on the whole time, that would be awesome battery. Or if you played graphics intensive games the whole time, that would be awesome battery.

Anytime you talk about battery you really need to at least post the screen on time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Only two hours. 4-5 hours I'd understand the numbers, but its just dying too fast.

Correction. Almost three, but still. All I did was take a few calls, stream music all day, and text a bit while working.
[Galaxy Note5 General] yak84:
Didn't disable anything, brightness on auto 50%, location off, 70% of the cycle is on 4G and took about 70 photos with the main camera.

The result is pretty darn good.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Zanr Zij:
Note5 battery life nothing better than Note 4.

Sent from www.maychuchuyendung.vn using Tapatalk on Note 4 Duos
[Galaxy Note5 General] AB__CD:
Merely ok, not the world's best, but it's probably because reception is only 2 to 3 bars where I live, and that's generally true wherever I go in the city. But after the Moto X 2014, it's certainly an improvement.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mzrnzr:
Happy User Reporting....

amazing battery time !! :):good::D

wifi always on

lte >> auto connect

location >> always on

brightness >> auto

greenify >> yes

power saving >> NO !!

ussing almost everthing >> photo editing, instagram, FB, FB pages manager,

multiple email accounts (auto sync), playing videos from fb, etc..
[Galaxy Note5 General] deviance702:
After debloating touch wiz and tweaking here and there im getting much better battery time
[Galaxy Note5 General] dschachm:
I wonder if the results have to do with your carrier. Sprint service is questionable and I can't get more than 5 hours screen on time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] anirudhks:
amazing battery life

quite impressed wit the battery life no power saving mode or any setting all at factory defaults . coming from a note 4 definitely satisfied

i have auto sync on and rest all are default settings ,

only thing i have disabled is the VOLTE , singapore does have VOLTE but i dont find it necessary to use it
[Galaxy Note5 General] ETS_Turge:
Had 2 software updates today, but not bad battery usage for the 2nd day. I still need to de-bloat the phone. Got the TMOBILE variant of the Note. Also screen usage needs to go down.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
Disabled the Facebook app as chrome now supports fb notifications. Primarily only wifi usage.

Best results I've got so far.
[Galaxy Note5 General] lilbigjohn:
Disposable battery mode

And if that wasn't bad enough they charge so freaking much for a "disposable" device.....
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Crazy how much a difference getting rid of the Facebook app makes, huh? A lot of people complaining about battery life want to hold on to these battery sucking, poorly designed apps that keep their phone awake for no reason. Someone said i barely used my phone or didnt do anything intensive because Screen, Android system and Android OS were at the top of my battery stats. Thats the way its supposed to look when you dont use apps that kill your battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Interesting. Will have to look into removing FB.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
I have discovered. You want even better battery life after debloating? Disable touchwiz and run Nova Launcher. Holy crap.
[Galaxy Note5 General] whatnow275:
Posted this in the S6 forum too:

Little off topic but I'd like some opinions:

I can upgrade from my 64GB S6 to a Note 5 32GB for $75 or to a 64GB to $175. I know performance is about the same but I want battery life. What do you guys think?
[Galaxy Note5 General] awtryau89:
Do you really think Nova makes a difference in battery? I was running it but went back to Touchwiz thinking the more stock I had the phone, the better off I would be.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
I'll have pics and stats to show in the next day or two. I'm testing it out currently and will report back. But I will say, that it has extended my time off the charger.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
From what I have heard from reviewers and others who have used both, the note 5 blows the s6 out the water in terms of battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
I owned the S6 since April and got the Note 5 at launch. The difference in battery life for me has been night and day. The Note 5 has lasted at least 30% longer for me.

I say go for it!
[Galaxy Note5 General] ptflyer:
I'm seeing great battery life. Auto brightness at 50%. On wifi 50% and 4G 50%. Running on stock with nothing disabled. Just don't have a need given the current results.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JesseMT4G:
Gonna try using face book on chrome, granted I thought chrome sucked the battery life as well. Seems others are having good luck that way.

Best I have gotten so far is 20 hours with 5 plus SOT.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
Approaching 4+ SOT/1d+ stabdby with LTE browsing and some navigation.
[Galaxy Note5 General] CB620:
Just got over 8hrs battery life using Thrash rom. 5 email addresses all sync. Brightness on 10% auto. Alot of system apps frozen. Xposed modules greenify and amplify.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
Jesus christ. Hows your standby/idle drain? It must be really low!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
I disabled Facebook and I've been using Metal instead of chrome

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nam.fbwrapper
[Galaxy Note5 General] dschachm:
What's the difference between metal and using chrome to go the the mobile Facebook page? They look the same.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
I personally found that the mobile page when using chrome wouldn't update top stories, recent, etc. It would just sit there..

As far as metal goes.. You have the option for dark mode, amoled mode, viewing Facebook mobile, a slimmed downed version or the full site. You can enable notifications.. Though I think chrome allows that as well.

Give it a try, you may like it. I know I find it a lot better than the mobile site with chrome.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
I'm not going to lie. I've never heard of Metal until today. O was getting frustrated with FB on chrome. And I decided to try the app. OMG that is awesome. It's like having the app without having the app. Notifications and the best part. Bringing up my newsfeed or notifications while I'm in another app without having to reopen the FB app. Gold!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
Glad you like it, buddy!
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
So. Day 3 of testing Nova versus Touchwiz. Solid results that are on par or superior to what I could get with touch wiz. I took your basic file. Through trial and error I've disabled another 25 apps (including touch wiz). I did something different and used Metal instead of chrome today half way through. So tomorrow I'll know if that makes a significant difference. Tomorrow is the true test. 24 hour shift at work.
[Galaxy Note5 General] LagunaTechie:
How in the world are you getting almost 8 hrs SOT on the Verizon note 5? I have been getting about 3.2 hours SOT if I am lucky. That is after flashing the basic debloat xml, plus a few more things disabled. No fb app. I am using Google now launcher. Am I missing something?
[Galaxy Note5 General] ambervals6:
To me nova seems to use more ram than tw. I am surprised but that is what I found out when checking memory usage. Idk why android system always accounts for 13% of battery usage. Not sure what causes that...

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
It does. Nova has added gesture features which reserves more RAM to make the transitions and animations more fluid. I use almost every feature that Nova has. But to be honest, Nova seems to run so much better and faster then touchwiz. I have 0 lag in any menu, in any scrolling, or in any app. Even in games like Real Racing 3. It runs like a dream.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Through trial and error. I have zero Verizon bloatware active on my phone, I shut all Samsung apps or processes, I disabled all of touchwiz, I use a dark background (Material blue theme) majority of my apps that I can change the color from a brighter color to a darker color I do. All radios aside from WiFi or Cellular remain off unless I need them, screen at auto brightness 95% of the time, I close my apps under the multitasking window before I turn the screen off. I also turned off that feature that detects your face looking at the screen or not, the S PEN leash. I have Clean Master scheduled to run twice a day to clean app and system caches, I don't use Adguard (long story but it restarted itself 358 times in one day and killed my battery). And I hijack as much WiFi as I can when I'm at work. My ambulance has a WiFi device in it, I have WiFi at my station.
[Galaxy Note5 General] pezlomd:
What have your results been like after this configuration?
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
See above. Almost 8 hrs SOT 22hrs on a charge.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ready2Mosh:
I started using NoChromo browser, I get better battery life with it. It's chrome without ads, awesome browser!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Pulfe:
Firefox and screen are consistently my largest battery drains. I have disabled most if not all of the att bloat.

Battery life seems to be about on par if not just a bit better than on my s4.

I'm not sure if there are more efficient Web browsers out there, but I have a bit of loyalty toward Firefox.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Androiduser148:
My battery life has been great, getting 4-5 hours of SOT every day
[Galaxy Note5 General] Hardcore73:
4-5 hours is terrible.
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
Not really, if its all LTE it isn't. Depends on what settings, configuration he has set up
[Galaxy Note5 General] XavierD8188:
I love the battery stats I'm seeing in the feeds but my phone doesn't come close to that. I am using Package Disabler Pro. I did notice that it shut off a few things that made my phone go a lil crazy so I decided to undo it and just do the safe stuff like the crappy AT&T apps and samsung apps I don't use. I've been monitoring the running apps and these seem to be the apps running all the time. Are they safe to disable? Plus my android system is always consuming the most battery and I looked and this seems to be the issue. Any idea what it is? See attached pic:

GameService

com.sec.android.app.smartClip

Context service

SmartcardService

tuiService

Remote Controls

Passpoint Settings

Device Test

IQ Agent Service

com.sec.phone
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Yeah don't debloat what the app says is OK. Causes issues. Check out my debloating guide in general section and import basic XML file. That iq agent looks suspicious to me. I don't have it on my phone. Carrier iq? I would disable that. I would not disable com.sec.phone (I've had difficulty receiving phone calls), com.sec.Android.app.smartclipservice(can't do smart select with s pen), and context service (stock browser crashes, may have other stability purposes). The reason Android system is so high is because it is a catch all for pretty much all system apps, including location services and bluetooth and pretty much any function you see in settings.
[Galaxy Note5 General] XavierD8188:
Thank you for the info. I will check out the XML file. Also, I google the IQ Service thing and it looks like it might be carrier IQ.. I don't know why they still add that crap to phones. Plus I don't think there's a way to disable it on AT&T
[Galaxy Note5 General] HNIC215:
I just got my Note today, been playing with it ever since. I'm still on stock.

Charged it up to 100% and I've been using it pretty heavily since. It's been off the charger for 7+ hours. Currently at 30% with a screen on time of almost 5 hours!!

After going to sleep and waking up the next morning, I played with the phone a bit in the morning and waited till it dropped down to 5% (didn't want to drain it all the way).

Here's my stats:

14h 39m since last charge

5h 55m 29s - Screen On Time

I think that's excellent and pretty amazing!

Better than my stock Note 4 performance and much better than I expected it to be.

Keep in mind I just received the phone yesterday and this was my first time using it after fully charging it to 100%.

I can only imagine how great it would be if I rooted and customized it even more.

I'm very impressed so far...

Here are the screenshots:
[Galaxy Note5 General] MakaveLee:
Zero complaints from me. Been off charge 5 and half hours, 2 hours screen on and sitting at 63%. Lots of web browsing and YouTube.
[Galaxy Note5 General] daffie:
Zero complaints here as well.

I've been doing a test today by using my new Note 5 almost continously. The result is 3,5 hours SoT and 7 hours of heavy usage (no games though) with still 52% battery left!

Which would roughly translate into some 7h SoT and 14 hours battery life. That's not too shabby imo...pretty amazing actually!

Send from my Samsung Galaxy Note 5
[Galaxy Note5 General] HNIC215:
It is a good thing and a relief...

Some of the comments on different forums had me worried about the battery life on the Note 5.

I have no worries now...
[Galaxy Note5 General] Briankbl:
Completely stock. I was strictly just trying to test the screen on time, that's why time since last full charge is so low. Tons of YouTube, Chrome and Giant Bomb video watching. A lot of Web browsing and email checking. I think it passed my stress test quite well! My next test will be with Wifi Calling turned off. Just as with VoLTE, Wifi Calling kills battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Using Stock Deodexed N920TUVU1BOH6 by jovy23. Battery life has been great. Minimal use today at work, have been up since 6am. Also installed the arter97 kernel as well to avoid call reboots. For some reason the kernel that came with the ROM has that issue.

So far everything has been working great. Small slow downs here and there that get fixed with a reboot. Battery life is much much better than stock. I was hesitant with rooting at first but now I recommend root/custom ROM just to solve the battery issues that plague the device. Bloatware is the number one factor here.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
My best times so far. Ended up with 9hrs 10 mins sot before I plugged it into charger
[Galaxy Note5 General] PrsnlCrcl:
I just cannot believe this is possible. I had a hard time believing 6 hrs SOT was possible, but 9 seems impossible using just battery in the phone. Do you have a charging case or something?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
I usually get between 6-7 hrs sot.

I don't have a battery case. Only using package disabler and those results were really all on wifi as I was hungover over the weekend, so didn't leave the house.

Edit: I should add that I'm unrooted and running stock with nova launcher.
[Galaxy Note5 General] PrsnlCrcl:
Wow...that is some drunk wizardry!!!
[Galaxy Note5 General] HNIC215:
9 hours is a lot!

However, I don't see why achieving close to that couldn't be possible, I achieved about 6 hours of SoT without using package disabler or any other major tweak.

I just turned off features I don't use like location/motion gestures and disabled apps through the app drawer. Regulated background data usage through settings. Et cetera.

I also had a black theme/black wallpaper mix.

That could be it but it's really hard to replicate someone else's battery life because we all use different apps, functions and backgrounds etc...

I think the good news from all of this is that if these type of stats are achievable on stock then rooting it should technically make it even better.

There's not as many ROM's as I had thought there would be. Maybe cause Samsung skipped all of Europe. Smh.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Definitely possible. Should look through earlier posts. This was mine from yesterday. On pace for over 10 hours sot before I went to bed. And I've posted 12 hour sot with less demanding usage. Everybody uses their phone differently with different apps and setup, but this phone is definitely capable.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Zanr Zij:
With Super Amoled screen, using dark/black theme will damage your eyes! Its contrast is too strong!
[Galaxy Note5 General] tissot201:
Hey guys, quick question. Which browser drains more battery. Chrome or Firefox?
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
I just changed to the stock Samsung browser from chrome and it's equally as fast and seems lighter on battery.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
Does the stock browser sync with Google?
[Galaxy Note5 General] HNIC215:
+1

I agree!
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
What were you using the phone for? WiFi on?
[Galaxy Note5 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
I agree. I have never liked Chrome and don't understand all the love it gets. It's a bloated and heavy browser. Whenever I get a Samsung phone I immediately disable/uninstall Chrome and use the stock Samsung browser. It's just as fast and more battery friendly like you said.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
Wifi almost always on. you can see some of my usage in the screenshot. mostly texting and facebook (metal). no gaming.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ryanalan82:
Cause he barely uses his phone, than posts these BS pics. Look at how android system is 26% and screen is 13%...... Nothing else.