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[Galaxy Note5 General] HNIC215:
How do you know this? You don't even have a Note 5! Lol
[Galaxy Note5 General] ambervals6:
No rocket science.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Contrary to popular belief. I have RR3 and other games, I constantly stream YouTube through chrome and Facebook through Metal. I consume on average of 12gb of 4G LTE data per month between video conferencing, streaming, phone calls, and texts. I have customized my phone the way I like it. It nets me what I want. Those photos are unedited so they're hardly BS. Have a great day.
[Galaxy Note5 General] CB620:
I can not use my phone and get 16hrs sot... Some of your post are irrelevant to the thread.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
Instead of attacking maybe you could ask anyone of us getting insane battery life on this device how we do it? I've stated how I do. I'm willing to help, not be judge because someone else became jealous.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ambervals6:
Such a noobish statement. You all get it wrong. Different people use their phone differently. There are some that worry too much about how to make it last 8 hours SOT and never enjoy it, and there others that don't give a single **** about battery lifr because there are chargers everywhere nowadays :)

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A
[Galaxy Note5 General] Warnahly:
actually my battery life is meh, its like the same as my note 4, maybe a little bit more

i never got more than 4h sot on normal social media apps, is it normal ? non-rooted
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
I get about 4.5 SOT. Debloating really made little / no difference.

My SOT is about the same regardless if I'm on wifi or not, too.

So that is just what I'll get on this phone with my use, sensor on/off selections, and brightness setting. Just is what it is.
[Galaxy Note5 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
That's because there is a huge misconception about debloating. Debloating will not increase battery life despite what a lot of people on XDA believe. It simply will just give you more storage space.

Battery is all about your specific usage and what accounts and apps you have syncing, running in the background, etc.

I wish people would stop with this "debloating will increase battery life" placebo.

P.S. I'm not saying you are part of that group.
[Galaxy Note5 General] TheNinja370:
Getting us back on track...this is what I got with wifi-calling off, s-pen off (that one setting where it says it will save battery), wifi-on most of the work day, and brightness on about 20% (auto off). I installed RR3 at the end of the day, which sort of increased the decline, but, oh well.

Question: Why is the screen on time different on the native battery app, versus the GSam app. Am I interpreting the times display incorrectly?
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
I disagree because of much the Samsung bloat is stuff that runs in the background using CPU cycles and battery, stuff like s voice and the Samsung syncing accounts, all that carrier crap runs in the background monitoring your usage, Knox is monitoring for "security threats" running in the background, and on and on. Debloating isn't everything, but in combination with using the proper location settings, wifi settings, screen brightness, restricting background data usage on apps and stopping the apps you do use from running in the background unnecessarily you can improve your battery life. It's just a part of what you need to do but its an important part.
[Galaxy Note5 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
Yes, that's why I said disabling things that sync or run in the background will help battery life. If that means disabling the apps or controlling how they sync, that's what I meant. But just debloating apps in general won't save life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Oh ok we are saying the same thing then. Debloating helps battery life if you debloat the right things, the stuff you don't want running in the background. I agree.
[Galaxy Note5 General] andythilo:
Pretty happy with mine. Disabled a load more stuff tonight though so I'll see how it goes tomorrow.
[Galaxy Note5 General] daraj:
Thats what im getting after 3 charge cycles.
[Galaxy Note5 General] varun.gid:
My battery life is horrible especially standby.

Android system using alot of battery despite using Package Disabler Pro,

Any help?
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
I have Note 5 Duos (one week now since I bought it) & the battery life is horrible. Since past few days I seem to have gained some control over the discharge/drain during idle state by disabling the sync (for just about everything). Now I am losing just 3% to 5% average. But once I start using it I lose the charge by the minutes. It lost like over 35% in just couple of hours of usage. All I used it was for few Facebook posts, & messages.

I have just deleted some of the apps I installed. Although I doubt it would help since I have been having battery problem even before I installed them. VLC is/was the only app installed since day one.

Any recommendations would be welcome.
[Galaxy Note5 General] pbedard:
Don't use viper of your rooted it drains battery
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mashari_F:
Bought my Note5 4 hours ago, drained it then fully charged it, now 93% and 45 minutes of heavy usage, I'm very pleased, coming from note2
[Galaxy Note5 General] TheNinja370:
Much better for me today. This included watching an hour worth of mp4 video off of my meenova microsd card adapter.

Mixture of wifi, lte, and bluetooth throughout the day, package disabler pro (with a few things enabled, like Instagram, Hangouts, NFC). Going to keep plugging away, but this is probably as good as it will get for me. Very pleased with the minimal drain during sleep. Look at that nice, flat, graph. :) Livable.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
this is after a month of use... nothing disabled other than Facebook and Facebook messenger. Google now and GPS on all the time

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[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
I wish I could get that standby/idle drain... What's your idle drain like in terms of %/hr?
[Galaxy Note5 General] cricketgirl90:
I was thinking of getting note 5 duos... now m gonna stick to regular one.

Sent from my SM-N910H
[Galaxy Note5 General] ky3bmu4:
My duos arrived yesterday, with one sim inside, sync turned on, location (wifi+cellular), wifi and bt it lost 22% overnight w/o even touching the thing, my gf's iphone 6 drained like 1-2%. WTF samsung? How on earth you are going to compete if your top phone is crap out of the box and requires hours of flashing, debloating etc. just to resolve drain issues?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Zanr Zij:
There is no perfect one for all people. Flagship Android one for who need and ready for customizable, some other thing like dual sim, sd card support ... If you need better factory OS optimized ( esp battery drain ), you should go iOS!

I'm considering both 6s Plus or maybe Meizu 5 Pro after tired of bad Samsung update for Note 4 although I paid at high price tag. Next year you will face the same problem like Note 4: bad OS support/upgrade!
[Galaxy Note5 General] ky3bmu4:
Customizing and flashing never been a problem for me, I enjoy it most of the times actually, but this is just ridicilous how bad things can be out of the box for 744 USD phone! And also since I had to purchase a 9208 model I'm afraid there will not be much ROMs for it on XDA or anywhere... Marshmallow with doze is my only hope at the moment.

I also consider Meizu Pro5 but it's a little bit to big I'd say, the had to make it 5.2" with the same resolution or at least go to QHD.

I am not a fan of iOS but if things continue this way, I would totally understand why the top segment is dominated by iphone.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
Approximately 1%/2-2.5hrs.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mashari_F:
Got 14 Hours on the first charge, 5 hours of screen usage, very impressed

now it's on the Ultra Super Fast Charger, 4% to 20% in less than 13 minutes, impressive
[Galaxy Note5 General] varun.gid:
Well my duos is 920CD and its equally bad. Horrible drain it doesnt sleep. just hoping someone will make a custom kernel and solve this issue.
[Galaxy Note5 General] bruciebabie1963:
try this

This helped me a lot, I get about 20 hrs on battery with 5 to 5.5 hrs sot. This http://xdaforums.com/note5/general/guide-bloating-touchwizzing-note-5-t3184563
[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
How do you get that awesome idle drain? Right now, my phone usually drains 1.6-1.7%/hr with WiFi on, location off, sync on (3 gmail accounts), and BT off. What else can I do? I got similar drain even after I factory reset and didn't install any new apps..
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
Not too sure, man. The only difference between our setups is I have location on all the time and only one email synced... Wifi is on, BT off.. Like I said, I have Facebook and messenger disabled.. Maybe that makes a difference? Do you have those apps enabled? I use metal for Facebook.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nam.fbwrapper
[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
I also disabled Facebook and use Metal. I do use messenger alot, but as I said when I factory reset the phone, I didn't log into Messenger so it shouldnt be the cause of the drain...

If you don't mind, could you upload screenshots of what processes are running in application manager? Also what carrier are you on?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
I'm on Bell in Canada

*edit* the whole screen cap didnt fit
[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
I don't understand...I have way less processes running. I don't get why I have ****ty idle drain :'(

Thank you for uploading screenshots though!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
No problem man. Sorry I couldn't help.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Clearest:
Does Gmail seem to be draining anyone else's battery. I left my phone for 3 hours and it went down a good 7%. I noticed Gmail also seems to like to sync one of my outlook accounts and retrieve every single email (I've already cleared the cache in Settings). If anyone has fixed this issue could you please give me some pointers?

p.s I have 4 emails linked to the Gmail app (2 Gmails and 2 Outlooks). Outlooks are set to sync every 15 minutes. Cheers
[Galaxy Note5 General] CB620:
Loco Rom

Froze all tmobile apps+touchwiz

Modded Black Material Theme

Black wallpaper

Auto brightness

Greenify everything except root apps

No xposed

6 email accounts

No package disabler

Nova Launcher

Volte on

GPS only

Arter test kernel
[Galaxy Note5 General] Word_play:
I tested it out again last night just to confirm... So I took the phone off the charger at 9:30pm last night and didn't touch it again until 5:30 am this morning when I woke and the phone was at 96%. So it seems to be draining at 1% every 2hrs.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dannyyang524:
Jeez...that's excellent. I might just be a carrier issue. Maybe Sprint messed something up on the software side and is causing the battery drain. Or it might be a CDMA radio issue. I heard Verizon phones are also having issues with battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dlscott1111:
I thought gps only used more battery. Am I wrong about that?
[Galaxy Note5 General] CB620:
It does. Just use it cause it's more accurate. I don't leave location on only when I need it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] gaston_garcia:
My battery life is definitely a million times better than with the S6.

But days like today with tons of WhatsApp it's been so so.
[Galaxy Note5 General] CB620:
You do know our phones do more hence the drain..... Right?

That's like comparing a blackberry to a flip phone in terms of features and battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ~~Tito~~:
So far so good on current setup. Have not updated to latest system ROM, but battery life is stable now.
[Galaxy Note5 General] abauer:
I am still on my Note 2 ... but want to upgrade to Note 5. How do you think of Note 5 in general as experience. .. is it worth it or maybe wait for Note 6.

Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mashari_F:
From your signature i see you have Note4, from my point of view there's isn't much difference unless you're looking for performance device and better camera
[Galaxy Note5 General] abauer:
No i am on Note 2 .. but the rom i use makes it just appear so. ..i used to get 9 hours of screen time on Note 2 when the battery was new. . And now i want to change just bcs i am getting 4 hours or less ... how about you ?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Mashari_F:
On my note5 i get 5-6 maybe 7 hours, depends on brightness and network type

On note2 3-4 hours
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
I only get 4.5 hours on my note 5. What you'll find if you ask "what do people get" is that it will range widely between 4 and 8.

So your experience may vary...
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
The battery life is certainly perplexing & controversial here. Made even worse by the fact that battery is not removable (at least not by normal methods).

I see those of us who have made shift from iPhone (5S & above) to Note-5 (or have just compared the two phones) find the Samsung batteries far more disappointing. Those who have upgraded from previous Note models to Note-5 are usually in praise. I made a shift from iPhone 5S to Note-5 (I previously did own Note-2 & Note-3). By the time I made the shift my iPhone battery had become bad. It would lose avg. 6% in 1 minute when making videos, or playing any sort of a game. It would heat up beyond normal when turning the device into internet hotspot. So I decided to go back to Note series. When I got my Note-5 Duos I realized I wasn't getting the desired result & performance. The new battery of Note-5 performed just as bad as the messed up battery of my old iPhone 5S.

I guess it is suffice to say that Apple's batteries have better performance. If nothing else the Idle drain of iPhone is certainly amazing. I guess the iOS sits well with the iPhone's battery by severely limiting its activity when the screen is off? I have observed this with the iPad mini & Galaxy S-Tab as well.

Anyway, my Note-5 battery seems to have become somewhat tolerant. Idle drain is down to 2% to 3%. Usage drain varies, with background functions remaining more or less the same. Sometimes it just sucks the life out of it, & sometimes it just amazes me.

Here is my usage data from GSAM when I was monitoring/testing the battery yesterday.

* While in usage

3% in 6m, 38sec

6% in 16m, 59s

* Idle drain

7% in 9hrs, 38mins

9% in 10hrs, 4min

As evident the usage has had great stress on the phone. However, I forced the Note-5 to drain the battery even faster last night & brought it to 5%. I than recharged it to 100% & began using it in the night by watching few episodes of my favorite TV shows downloaded to the device. The performance was as follow

* 5% in about over 1 Hour. The video brightness was at Max.

* In the morning I found 2% drain when the device was in idle state.

Somethings that might have helped:

* Complete/extreme draining of the battery & then proper recharge via the charger (not though usb connection).

* Power Saver on

* 50% or less brightness (except when watching videos)

* Sync disable (except for Mail)

* WiFi off when sleeping

* Mobile Data off when not in need (I have tried keeping it on for some hours when I was away from WiFi & noticed it didn't have any extreme impact on the battery, & I was putting stress on the device at the time as well).

* Bluetooth off.

* Keeping the device in portrait mode, unless required otherwise (not too sure if that has any impact whatsoever. But it could be that motion sensors on the device reduce their battery usage in this mode).

As I write this via my PC I have noticed on my phone that I have lost 1% in 51 mins while occasionally tuning my Note-5 on & off to see the settings I have mentioned above.
[Galaxy Note5 General] daffie:
Note 5 FW (5.1.1) has a nasty wifi deep sleep bug. I have experienced some 5-6% (!!!) battery usage per hour in standby on wifi. Normally this is approx 1% every 2 hours...quite a difference. Battery stats indicate Androis OS on top, with mention of stay awake 100%...hence no deep sleep.

Therefore I rooted my Note 5 using SpaceX custom kernel and this kernel has deep sleep fix build in. I can confirm battery usage in standby is normal again, 1% per 2 hours. Also the Android OS process is not on top any more in battery stats.

If you do go the root way using SpaceX then be advised fill wipe is absolutely necessary otherwise you may encounter some occasional random reboots.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dsmpampis:
The battery life of this thing is amazing! First day of usage

Tapatalked with my Note 5
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
What were you doing? WiFi on?
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
I've never seen a battery drain when in deep sleep on wifi. Every night my note 5 only loses 2-3% while I sleep for 6-8 hours
[Galaxy Note5 General] dsmpampis:
Yes, at this time only WiFi. But the standby is exceptional too!

Tapatalked with my iPhone 6 plus
[Galaxy Note5 General] Lambetts:
Hey guys.

Just upgraded from N4.

Well, I'm really surprised to see these stat's in here. I'm flat out hitting 4hrs...whucj us what I got from my Galaxy Nexus. Currently not very impressed...a little annoyed actually... But, I do notice you do need to give he phone tine to get into the swing of things and 7 to 10 days is the mark usually do I might be calling this a little early as I've only had the phone for 5 days.

Should I call it DOA? Could it be faulty?

Thanks guys!
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
What happens when you start using the phone once you wake up? What's the average rate of battery drain then?

I lose 2-3% when asleep (even if the WiFi is on). But once I start using it in the morning the charge begins to drain quickly, though I have observed that the battery performance might have improved in the past 3 or 4 days. I bought mu Duos more or less 9 or 10 days ago.

* As per GSam Battery Monitor I have used 76% in 1d 2hs.

* As per Note-5's Battery usage monitor my usage time has been 23h 51m, with 26% charge remaining.

But still it feels that the battery is running out fast when in use. :rolleyes::confused:
[Galaxy Note5 General] GB1978:
I hit around 18 - 20 hours on a charge with 6hrs 30 mins - 7 hours SOT. To me the battery life is the best I've had in a smartphone
[Galaxy Note5 General] daffie:
Same here. I'm getting excellent battery life on my Note 5. Easily get 2 full days of use on 1 charge, with at least 6 hours SoT.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Lambetts:
Edit - plus, I'm on 3g so I 'save' battery. I don't think I need to be doing that? Especially from what I'm reading.

Thoughts?

Thanks again guys.
[Galaxy Note5 General] tallazzPilipino:
that's like worse than what my S6e was getting. I've never had less than 10 hrs on my N5 at any time even when used heavily.

(Sent from my iPhone via Tapatalk)
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
I am getting around the same.

My last full charge was night before last night. In between I have connected my phone to PC for some file transfers, which re-added few extra percentages of charge to it. In any case I seem to have beaten the 24 hours mark by a mile.

My SOT right now is around 6 hrs 30mins as well, with 14% charge still remaining. I guess 6 to 7 hrs is the normal SOT offered by Note-5 battery?
[Galaxy Note5 General] ky3bmu4:
Well mine is 2-3 hours sot with ~ 24 hours of usage, so it varies a lot. I never had sot more than 4 hours, not even talking about that crazy 6-11 hours ppl are talking, and to be honest I don't expect it either.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Lambetts:
Yeah same. I wonder why were not. Faulty battery do you think?

Am I right it saying the phone has to go through a few charges, like 7 to 14 before it shows proper amounts? Anyone can weigh in here by the way haha.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note5 General] ky3bmu4:
I don't think anything to change dramatically in 2 weeks with the phone. I also don't think that our batteries are faulty. But also I have no idea why there is 3-5 time difference between my own sot and ppl who post 10 hours sot with any device: the same way it was with my 1+1 for example, i got 4-5 sot max with all the greenifications, kernels and synapse profiles, while ppl got 10-12 hours with the same settings.
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
May be it has less to do with the settings & more to do with how they are using their devices. They might not be as avid music listens & video/movie watchers on the phone as the rest.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ky3bmu4:
well yeah, i think so. However videos and music shall be very light on battery but my todays stats proves otherwise. This is 95 to 19%. Mostly browsing, social network (VK) and listening to music via BT speaker (VK and Google Music). For me this is kind of horrible battery life, maybe I'm not that "power user" who is able to get sot of 10 hours because I never spent that much time per day with the phone in my life, I dunno.
[Galaxy Note5 General] No Username Left 2 Choose:
81% drain in 2 hrs of SOT doesn't seem right. May be you should get it checked. But before doing that try draining the battery completely (or just to 1% or 2%), turn the phone off, & recharge to full via charger. Once 100% leave it on charger for about few more minutes. Try using after that. Mine started to behave somewhat better after this, though I connected the charger at 5% & did not turn the phone off.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ky3bmu4:
Well it seems like bt streaming of music drains battery very much indeed. Last day I intentionally did not listen to any music, only my LG watch R were paired to the device. The results are twice as better: 4.1 SOT with 26 hours of usage (no gaming at all, just browsing and social). Too bad that it is required to limit oneself from using obvious functions to achieve a decent battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] sohebq:
Which kernal is giving best battery life?
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Havent tried any but the arter97 kernel since it is the most stable, but those of us who have tried most of his kernels would say 4.2 is the best.
[Galaxy Note5 General] andythilo:
Very happy with my 920C, stock firmware, no root or kernal. Heavily debloated via package Disabler pro. Granted haven't used it that much today but standby time is amazing. SOT was approx 2 hours
[Galaxy Note5 General] Lambetts:
The more you let the phone settle in, the better it gets. I was on 2hrs screen time at 70% yesterday. That's with standby time at 14hrs too. Not bad.
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
After a decent day of trolling and surfing. Phones been off the charger since 0600.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dlscott1111:
Varied usage. 30 min gaming, 30 min youtube, mostly LTE about 1.25 hrs on wifi. Debloated, manual sync email. Lux for autobrightness. Location on GPS only. On pace for 6+hrs SOT.
[Galaxy Note5 General] PoorAtreus:
You guys are clearly doing something right.

I barely touched the phone today.

I lose easily 30% overnight, to wake up to a dead phone every time.

Any thoughts?

Damn. Can't post screenshots.

29% Battery

1.5 hours screen time 22%

12h phone radio & wifi 7%

7h held awake 2%.

Apps 69%.

Average:

Battery: 15h41m (9h 23m Active)

Screen on: 3h 10m ((3h 41m Max)
[Galaxy Note5 General] Lambetts:
Is this normal?

Thanks guys.

Bearing in mind I've changed to 3G... Not LTE... I'm going to do a test with LTE tomorrow. I'm on 9th charge since bought.

Appreciate some feedback!

Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note5 General] thekoRngear:
Did u try This one?
[Galaxy Note5 General] billykxda:
Going purely by usage, the N5 clearly outlasts any phone I've owned yet. My cell phone use only increases over time, across handsets, and the N5 goes on the wireless charger most every night with about 40% left. Simply amazing, for my usage patterns.

Really couldn't be happier.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
Insane batter life on my end.

1d3h standby

2h SOT