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[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
Well thank you OP. I did the basic and already see a marked improvement in battery life. Jumping from a vanilla Android M7 to the N5, the bloat and lack of custom ROM development was my biggest fear. I took the time to doable most of the junk and you provided the necessary advanced tweaks to really improve the performance and battery life. I did it mid day after removing from the charger but I'm at 4h SOT, 1 hour calls, 13h since last charge with 45% remaining.

Amazing battery life and performance. Thanks again!
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Awesome! Yeah I was coming from mostly nexus devices so I was used to rooting from day one and doing endless flashing (maybe that's why factory resets don't bother me too much). I love tweaking to get the most out of a device so this has been fun. And I've learned a lot. I'm on the fence about whether I should root the note 5. I'm getting great battery life and performance as it is. The big benefits are using multi window on any app, better backups, free tethering (maybe?). I may be able to live without that stuff. Especially since rooting will trip Knox, void your warranty and you won't get OTA updates and stuff. The nice thing about this method is that it's completely reversible. Just re-enable all the apps and reboot and its just like it was out the box.
[Galaxy Note5 General] AndroidmanFTW:
Anyone having issues with the phone not being recognized when plugged in to the computer?

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Had to enable mtp application for the computer to recognize the phone.

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Here is the battery life.. It seems very good. 10% = 1 hour. I did not play any games though. I was on XDA forums and sent some sms messages and a few short calls. :)
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Yes, MTP was disabled before but I re-enabled it on the the most recent 8-31 extreme. Trying to bring back some more functionality.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Updated basic package in the first post. A little of this a little of that. 155 disabled apps. About to start another work week and I think both are in a good place so I probably wont post any more updated xml files for a while. Enjoy!
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
BTW, whenever I import a file, the Amazon app, Android System Webview, Ant+ DUT, and ANT HAL Service dont get disabled even though I disable these in every xml file. I dont know if that happens to anyone else but I guess no one else would know that except me. You should disable all those.
[Galaxy Note5 General] whittikins:
I don't recommend disabling Android System Webview. It is used to patch security holes that are discovered.

Source: http://m.androidcentral.com/android-webview-security

Another source: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Android-system-WebView-app-and-how-can-I-use-it
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Thanks for the info. The description on the playstore isnt as informative. I agree, I will leave enabled for now on. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
Hi,

I've followed your package disabler guide and disabled a lot of apps. I think I used the old xml file with over 170 apps disabled.

However I still get quite high idle battery drain as well as away time.. Is this normal?

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[Galaxy Note5 General] Willyman:
Disabling and re-enabling seems to have solved it. I'll keep monitoring it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Sorry, Im not used to used to looking Gsam battery stats. Are you getting a lot of cell standby battery drain in battery stats in settings? If so, do you have Voice over lte enabled? Hows your signal? Is wifi calling enabled? Those are the 3 main causes of high cell standby drain.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
I may have found the culprit. I believe my youtube app is keeping the phone awake. but I'll need to monitor it a bit more
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
YouTube doesn't like to behave. Go into mobile data settings and disable its background data. That's what I do.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
the permissions for the app says it likes to keep the phone awake.. and runs during startup. i just disabled it but will try what you suggested first
[Galaxy Note5 General] tee00max:
Im not sure if its been covered or not but what if I do not have the directory storage/emulated/0 on my device? Where do I place the xml filee?
[Galaxy Note5 General] tee00max:
That file directory is not listed. I'm on the AT&T version.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
That's it right there. You have an XML file there at the bottom. That's where they go. First place you go when you click on device storage in that app.
[Galaxy Note5 General] tee00max:
Ahh gotcha, I am so use to that folder being separate. Now I just have to figure out why its not reading the xml file...
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Make sure its unzipped first. All the XML files have to be named disabledpackages.xml to be recognized.
[Galaxy Note5 General] HiDEFF:
[MENTION=4246110]rlsroufe[/MENTION] is there anything in your 8-31 xml that would be affecting wifi calling? At times, I get an error or won't stay connected.
[Galaxy Note5 General] tee00max:
In the process of trying to import the xml file, something must have went wrong and put me in a bootloop. So I just got finished setting my device up from scratch and then I was able to import the basic xml file with the 155 apps. Anxious to see how the results turn out!
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Shouldn't be. I'm using WiFi calling on T-Mobile right now its working fine. Had some weirdness at home last with texts going through really slowly but I think that was t mobile's fault. I would boot into recovery and wipe your cache to see if that helps.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eep02b:
I keep getting errors from S-Note saying it's closing. I'm running the lite version. It's not when I'm using it, I'll just get toasts randomly that it's shut down.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
No issues with S note here and tried to preserve all the apps and functions related to the S pen. I would make sure the app is updated in the Galaxy Apps app first, then wipe the cache and/or data (dont wipe data if there are things in there you need of course) of the app and reboot into recovery and wipe device cache as well.
[Galaxy Note5 General] efrommel:
you recommend doing a cache cleaning after disable these apps?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Nosferatu.:
this was a good read

I went off your most recent screen shot of disabled apps and cherry picked certain ones to throw back on. Overall I'll see how the phone runs. I was happy with it before tweaking it (AT&T variant). I'll see how it goes now. :)

My biggest fear was rebooting phone. It started right back up! Phew! I'm not used to not having Titanium Backup and TWRP around to get things back up to speed quickly. :)
[Galaxy Note5 General] AndroidmanFTW:
I normally just reboot.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
I think people that have used Android for a long time, especially lay people like me that don't understand all the technical details of how the OS works, tend to get into habits/superstitions. That is one of them for me. I can't give you the detailed reasoning but I think it has something to do with optimizations for installed apps. So when disabling a bunch of apps that were there before, wiping cache should re-optimize the remaining apps to run smoother. At least that's how it works in my mind lol. It's cleared up some app weirdness for me in the past and it has never hurt anything so I just do it from time to time if I've been messing around with disabling lots of apps. Someone else on here I'm sure can give a more correct explanation.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrAwesome75:
I have to agree with you on the, "To root or not to root..." Issue. I'm looking forward to trying Samsung Pay (even if I end up not using it much). And in contrast to you not minding factory resetting, I am kind of tired of constantly having to start over every time I flash a new ROM or update a ROM (even though I got pretty fast and efficient at it). With this phone I am looking forward to being unrooted, being able to take the OTA's, not losing my warranty (even though it hasn't made a difference with my 2 previous Notes), etc. I just wanted to be able to change the theme of the menus and disable bloat; that's the whole reason I started rooting in the first place. Then I got into custom ROMs; it's been fun, but I think I'll enjoy having the phone stock for a while; now that I can disable bloat and theme the phone. I also like how you can reverse everything if we need/want.

Thanks for starting this thread, it has really helped me love this phone even more.

Sent from my SM-N920T

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I had the same issue yesterday, as well. I re-enabled this:

com.samsung.android.sdk.spenv10

S Note doesn't FC or say its force closing anymore.

Sent from my SM-N920T
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Ahhh thanks I overlooked that one. Should have left it enabled. Good catch!
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Cool! Seeing so many people with 8-10 hour screen on times with a device with a qHD 5.7 inch screen and isn't rooted is pretty cool to me. I have to try hard not to have a sot of 8 hours now. I never bought a Samsung phone before because I hated touchwiz and all the bloat but I'm in love with this phone with the material dark theme, changing icons and removing the bloat. The s pen is icing on the cake. I may not switch to a different phone until the next note comes out and thats very unusual for me. I usually buy 2-3 phones every year.
[Galaxy Note5 General] AndroidmanFTW:
I really like this phone to. I am using the space odyssey theme but it is a trial version with a 5 minute time limit. I disabled com.samsung.android.themecenter after enabling the theme and now the theme does not revert to stock anymore after 5 minutes. I got a paid theme for free, LOL. ?
[Galaxy Note5 General] martinezma99:
I think we are at the same place. Now what to do with my Nexus 6, S6 Edge, and Moto X (2014). Note 5 is my go to and it may be for a while.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrAwesome75:
Uh oh. Once you go Note, you don't go back. I've been a Note fan since the 3. Every year when the new flagships come out, I want all of them and can't make up my mind... Until the next Note comes out. I'm not even a true Samsung fanboy either; the Note is just a great piece of hardware with great software. And every year it gets better.

Sent from my SM-N920T
[Galaxy Note5 General] Djapatos:
Fyi... Not sure if anyone even uses this but if pressing home 3X didnt bring you the one handed operation, it's because the easy one hand is disabled
[Galaxy Note5 General] oneandroidnut:
Does disabling Knox help with battery?
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
No idea but generally the less things running in the background the battery life is. I just tried to disable everything manufacturers try to put on the phone to spy on you.
[Galaxy Note5 General] oneandroidnut:
Gotcha I need to dig through your xml and see what I should disable
[Galaxy Note5 General] Nosferatu.:
I noticed some of the multi window features aren't available. Which system apps should be enabled for it to function properly. I don't have the middle circle to click to resize minimize and expand
[Galaxy Note5 General] efrommel:
I have the android OS using more memory than the screen. Is that normal?

I have the facebook, messenger, instagram & wifi direct.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
You must be using an older configuration. I think I re-enabled that feature on 8-31 extreme. But its com.sec.android.app.FlashBarService.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
I used the basic debloater on my Verizon note 5. It definitely helped, but basically took me from 4:30 to 5:30 SOT.

So not the 9 hours some people are somehow getting, but still better and with no noticeable loss of functionality.
[Galaxy Note5 General] AndroidmanFTW:
I am getting 7 hours SOT with 15% battery life still remaining on my T-Mobile note 5, however I disabled more then the basic version and not as many as the extreme. I have about 180 apps disabled.

Edit: If I was to run the phone down to 1% battery i could get 8 hours SOT but I did not feel like it at the time.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Screen on time isn't the best judge of battery life but its probably the best we have. But people use their phone very differently. I'm ocd about not having a lot of stuff running in the background and I hate poorly designed apps that have a lot of unnecessary background processes. Almost always the causes of less than optimal battery life are rogue apps or poor signal. I don't care what people run but if you care about battery life be careful what you install on your phone.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Nosferatu.:
Thanks... I used your photo capture but figured this out shortly after you mentioned it. Thanks. I also noted some apps were required for handwritten input from the s pen that were improperly removed. It may be rectified in your newest one I just can't check now at work.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
You need direct pen input enabled for handwriting recognition in text fields.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
And also my script resource manager I think.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrAwesome75:
I agree. I don't know how anyone gets insane SOT. I was shocked and amazed the first time I got 5 hours. But I decided to not care. My phone lasts well beyond what I need the way I use it. If I need more juice at the end of the day it only takes a little while to get up to beyond 50% battery and that's enough to last around another 8 hours (or more, conservatively).

When I first got this phone, I was more than disappointed about the battery life, but now I am extremely happy. I didn't mind the sealed battery or the non-removable storage, but having the battery last my full day was pretty important.

I should also add that even though I get less SOT than some of the extremes, I still use my phone a lot for various tasks, so I get a lot from my battery besides SOT.

Sent from my SM-N920T
[Galaxy Note5 General] runtohell121:
I use the debloater method for disabling/hiding apps, but battery life isn't much improvement on my end. Though I didn't really disable too much, mostly just AT&T bloatware and a few Samsung ones. Maybe have about ~50 disabled. Only about 4 hour SOT.

Using Samsung Galaxy Note 5 AT&T model.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrAwesome75:
Based on my SOT before this discovery, I'd say 4 hours SOT is very respectable. But like I said in a previous post, having the phone last all day under normal use is probably more important than squeezing out maximum SOT.

Sent from my SM-N920T
[Galaxy Note5 General] Willyman:
Have used the basic file, but had to re enable quite a lot of things that I do use (email app, Microsoft, Facebook,...). Still about 100 items disabled.

Before I was getting 4 to 5 hours SOT. I'll see if I notice any improvement.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
[MENTION=4246110]rlsroufe[/MENTION]

I'm just curious what exactly you use your phone to do? I noticed on one of your xml profiles, that you have the stock messaging/phone/contacts app all disabled. Do you make calls or text anyone?

What about S-Pen and multiwindow functions? I'm looking at downloading your extreme profile, but with 90% of the phone apps all disabled, I'm just wondering how you use the device...
[Galaxy Note5 General] eventheodds1:
That's quite impressive, I just tried the extreme(8/31) and I was able to get 4 hours on SOT with auto brightness and location on battery saver mode with Wi-Fi calling only on when signal data isn't available, turned of VoLTE as well. What else can I do inorder to increase my battery life?? [MENTION=4246110]rlsroufe[/MENTION] thoughts??

Few things i enabled

-Facebook

- Internet

-touchwiz

-amazon

-lookout
[Galaxy Note5 General] thekid1982:
How can i change to dark background in SETTING?
[Galaxy Note5 General] niftyguy239:
It's the material dark theme from the store. Our phones benefit from the darker images which require less power which yields longer battery life.

So today, I didn't get quite 9 hrs of SOT like I have been getting. But, these are some pretty damn impressive stats.

181 apps and packages disabled.
[Galaxy Note5 General] JasonJoel:
Everyone has different uses.

I leave Bluetooth, wifi, and data on all the time. I like my screen on the brighter side, so leave it on auto (which seems kind of bright in this phone). I use GPS relatively regularly, so leave location on high accuracy.

I'm sure those three things lose me a chunk of time.

Cell signal is another. I'm usually in medium strength locations, so probably lose some there too.

So with all of that, I think I'm going to end up at 5 hours SOT. Which I can live with.
[Galaxy Note5 General] danon.brown:
Is this working with root? I had it working prior to rooting.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
I'm glad you asked! I may make a battery life guide one day. You should read the first post though, I did disable the stock messaging app and replaced it with Google messenger. Just my preference. I have never disabled the stock phone or contacts app. But to answer your question, I use my phone like a lot of people do I think. I text message with my wife at work, I have two gmail accounts which I'm using quite a bit, I make 1 or 2 short phone calls every day, I take a few pictures and back them up with Google photos only when charging, I use chrome to browse and check news and tech websites and check Facebook (the Facebook app really is a battery hog and you should not use it if you can get by without it. I don't need the advanced features of the app so I just use the website. I'm certainly not the only one. this is common advice on xda), I use fenix to check to twitter, I use Tapatalk to read and post on xda and I use pocketcasts to listen to podcasts. I have spent a lot of time choosing my apps very carefully. I check what's running in the background all the time and if an app isn't behaving I see if I can tame it in the app or system settings. I only let the Google apps that absolutely need to sync automatically. I block background data usage on a ton of apps. I use Samsung's smart manager to disable background activity on the ones they let me and I don't need push notifications or background sync for. The big thing I do is keep the location toggle in the notification shade and only turn it on when I need it which isn't that often, just when I'm commuting to work mostly (I'm at work or at home 80% of the time, why do I need location services? I know exactly where I am. Use those toggles!). Nfc is off unless I need it. I keep Bluetooth on most of the time on work days because I need it in my car and don't want to remember to turn it on and off and auto brightness on except when I'm at home. And a few other little tweaks. As I have said, I'm ocd. People on this thread are benefitting i guess from my "ocdness."
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Oh and I don't game. Not because of battery life. I just don't think gaming on a touchscreen is the best experience. I have an xbox one at home if I want to play games.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
would you say it's safe to try your extreme profile? i read that others are having issues when restarting the device
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Where are you reading that? Here? Yeah had those problems a while ago. I would say thats uncommon but not impossible. The most recent one should be a lot more stable. No guarantees of course. I would still call it experimental. The people who want to live on the edge should be OK with having to do a factory reset if needed. If that's not you, I would stick to the basic version.
[Galaxy Note5 General] egren58:
What does wifi direct do?. I also enabled facebook, and Microsoft. I used the basic.. id say i have a small improvement not kuch o was getting 5 hours sot on stock.. so i will see how today goes
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
No idea. But if I was rooted I wouldn't use this app at all. I would use titanium and go through the list and freeze what I didn't want.
[Galaxy Note5 General] danon.brown:
Sad I purchased that,but never use it. Can you import xml files?
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
I think it does actually but you will have to find the setting and test it out. I have never done that and I don't have a rooted phone with me at the moment.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrAwesome75:
I was thinking about that the other day. I purchased a lot of apps for rooted phones in the past few years. I can't use any of them since I'm not planning to root this time. Oh well...

Sent from my SM-N920T
[Galaxy Note5 General] Nosferatu.:
if you think $4 from 3 years ago is going to make or break you...I don't know what to tell you.

As for root, that's what I have my wife's phone and my tablet for. Daily driving I'll keep the Note 5 stock for now, especially since I'm running Samsung Pay and I'm enjoying using it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] egren58:
Okay for some reason android OS is using more batteru than the screen itself!?... what may cause this?.
[Galaxy Note5 General] pj1980:
i still have klms agent showing in the apps list on the phone, i've looked through the debloat app list but cannot figure out how to freeze this one.
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Doesn't look that unusual to me. How much has the screen been on? The more screen is off, the more Android OS and system creep up. Screen is always highest but android system and os are alwwys right after it for me. There are a ton of things that are in Android OS and Android system though so wouldn't be easy to pin down a problem.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrAwesome75:
Haha. Yeah I wasn't saying it would break me. I also have a Nexus 7 and a Note 10.1 for rooting and moding. I like the Note 5 as is.

Sent from my SM-N920T
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
I know, it's been bugging me too! I'm still trying to figure that one out. My guess is its some low level Knox process that Samsung won't let us get to no matter what.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
Where do you disable only certain background data usage? Like you I disable notifications. It is there something more that can be done without disabling all background data? How about removing that annoying notification that goes along with it?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Shudder123:
Go into data usage and then background data. then choose the apps you want to disable.
[Galaxy Note5 General] thekid1982:
Can you share the name of the font ?
[Galaxy Note5 General] egren58:
Briemscript i believe its called from ifont app.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
That's interesting. On the ATT version you cannot select which apps you want to block. It's all or nothing.

I'm going settings, data, more (in upper right corner), block background data.
[Galaxy Note5 General] danon.brown:
The screen where you see the apps long press the app.View attachment 3459329

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[Galaxy Note5 General] eskimochaos:
Got it! Thanks!!
[Galaxy Note5 General] eep02b:
I think I figured out the issue. I had my s-note set to sync with my Samsung account. Everytime it tried to sync, I would get error messages. What do I need to re-enable to allow it to sync??
[Galaxy Note5 General] rlsroufe:
Yeah sorry I never used that before. But I would try enabling backup and restore (the Samsung one), samsung sync adapters, Samsung account, Samsung cloud data relay and galaxy apps if not already enabled. Probably don't need all of those but those are the ones I could think of that may be related to sync.
[Galaxy Note5 General] DrexelDragon:
Is using this going to break the Samsung Pay app?
[Galaxy Note5 General] danon.brown:
No. Only rooting the phone.
[Galaxy Note5 General] redline06:
First off, this app is amazing! thank you so much for sharing.

Secondly, Im seeing a lot of "cell standby" issues on here, I have T-Mobile and my Note5 doesnt show "cell standby" being one of my top battery drainers, havent disabled Wi-Fi calling nor VoLTE either.

Only time I had that issue was when the Galaxy S6 first came out but it went away shortly after, around the time of the first update T-Mobile released for it on june 15th I wanna say.