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[Galaxy Note5 General] beygimasoud@gmail.com:
I exactly have this problem... since i updated my phone to the latest ota update... my phone battery drain just when phone is not use... for example from 12pm till 6am battery from 100 percen change into 70 percent!

But when i flash a custom rom, everything is good!

Since i updated phone then flashed a custom rom and my phone became FRP locked, now i'm on the latest version of 6.0.1...

I dont know what to do, I confused... please help...
[Galaxy Note5 General] sinkoo1979:
Please help me

I have a note 5 (N920I) Nougat with august 2017 security patch and the battery drains real fast. I go to sleep around 9pm with 100% and when I wake up at 4:30am the battery is at 80% (Battery saver mode is on). I have tried a lot of roms, kernels and no avail. Note 5 was already rooted when I bought it. So is it defective battery? or it just drains that fast. Note 5 (N920I) is only about 2 months old. The other Note 5 (N920S) that I have doesn't have this problem and it's about 2 years old. Any suggestions?

Thank you in Advance
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
do u know if its still the original battery? if it is, try to get a new battery installed it may fix ur issue.
[Galaxy Note5 General] sinkoo1979:
Yes, original battery

battery was ordered but waiting to receive.

Update: Changed the battery but now it won't charge over 50%.......

I guess I got one of the faulty batteries.....

Update 1: Disconnected the battery, reconnect and charging shows 1%

Now will check if the battery works properly.
[Galaxy Note5 General] alc2077:
I have the SM-N920I and my battery is getting decimated by android system & android OS! Phone gets zero deep sleep, have used package disabler app to disable some apps, cleared up the cache and still no deep sleep.

I'm really hoping that an OS maintenance update is received soon from Samsung addressing the battery drain issue.
[Galaxy Note5 General] TechNyne66:
Make sure you turn of VoLTE if you don't use it. There's a bug on both sides that doesn't let your phone deep sleep. It's always looking for the server to tell it VoLTE is available. As soon as we get root I'm adding pm.powermode=1 and will get almost 30 days on standby. Yes all my rooted android device have this and 3 are 5.1.1
[Galaxy Note5 General] goofy584:
how to disable VoLTE?
[Galaxy Note5 General] TechNyne66:
Settings > Mobile Network > Mobile Data
[Galaxy Note5 General] sarshar:
I found com.facebook.appmanager is the faulty app which takes wakelock all the time.

Facebook is (was) a system app then I decided to uninstall it (root access) and re install it using play store, this resulted in appmanager removal but Facebook app itself drains battery badly as well.

The last solution was to get rid of it permanently and to use Chrome for browsing FB website.

Now Note5's battery lasts 2 days with 2-2:30 hours of SOT daily, 3G connection, slightly heavy usage (it's new and I'm curious enough), debloated and rooted.

The most amazing part is screen is not consuming as apps !!! I'd rather to use my phone instead of leaving it on the table while background apps ***** for CPU and foreground ones don't !

I wish there was a safe script to remove truly bloat wares forever and ever and sleep without being worried about battery drain :D

EDIT: lli_pm_wlock + radio_interface are my main battery drainers now, which are kernel related.

but GMS is not kernel related and is in the second place of battery hogs
[Galaxy Note5 General] jhylez:
I have the SM-N9208. set the wifi setting to Scan only while wifi is on. So far the battery seemed to last longer than before. looking forward for the upcoming firmware update this december.:)
[Galaxy Note5 General] Den-R:
I have the 920CD Dual sim. I lose 3 - 4% per hour on android system usage, when mobile data is on.

If I turn off mobile data, then i lose 1% per hour.

I think, that it is something wrong with modem, because 1 hour in standby = Kernel Wake lock lli_pm_wlock: 9m 48s 854ms (771 times) realtime
[Galaxy Note5 General] Fernas:
Used to have average at best standby drain, im going a little over the board with Amplify + Exposed + Synapse (Skyhigh v3.8) and it seems to be getting a lot better, SOT seems to be improving as well, did a little ~6hrs idle test and i think i got 0.8%h with BBS, so its getting better, i cant believe a Samsung Galaxy Prime managed to not drop a single 1% in about 8hrs overnight and a Note 5 just cant do it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] azrine:
Mine is a N9208 dual sim. I was very happy to buy this amazing phone and I made 200 km to buy it.

When I go to work, I check battery level and always I loose about 20% per 2 hours :(

So when I saw that, I hated it and I want to sell it and return to sony z5
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
When i charge to 100 and leavit on with wifi i drop around 2-3 % over 8hrs and drop nothiing when airplane mode on
[Galaxy Note5 General] sand1303:
so what's the fix?

i leave my phone on charger overnight. so i get up and go at 100%. i play around and check the usual emails and social media in the morning for about 15-20 minutes before i get dressed for work i have a 45 min drive in to work. so from the time i take it off at 530am to the time i get to work and do what i have to do 1st i can be on 85% battery without even touching the thing. i use to get great battery life when it was new. i don't know if it is battery deteriating or apps i have installed or what
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
What ive learned is that chargina phone over night is not good cause it overcharge s or something like that. And since note 5 has fast charging it shouldn't take long to recharge so just charge an hour before you sleep and it should be 100 after. Maybe if youvhave root install better battery stats or non rooted then use the default battery stats or get gsam monitor to check. Have you also tried disabling some of the bloatware on the phone?
[Galaxy Note5 General] llfloyd79:
I charged mine to 100%. Unplugged it at 10pm right as I laid down to go to sleep. Woke up this morning at 4:45am and it only dropped to 98%.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nishanta2006:
Model: N9208

Rom: AryaMod 1.4

Kernel: Skyhigh 4.5

Battery Idle drain: 0.5% per hour (lost 4% in 8 hours overnight)

Settings: Wifi always on, sync always on (3 gmail accounts, FB, Whatsapp, Google calender etc)

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Could you describe your settings, ROM ? wifi on/off? etc
[Galaxy Note5 General] Michael_EF:
Hey guys. So I did a test with my note 5. I charged to 100% before going to sleep. I woke up after approximately 8 hours and had 88% left. I did the same thing the following night and this time I put the phone on flight mode. Woke up and had 99% left. Phone was on wifi. This leads me to believe that it has something to do with the wifi connection. My wifi connection is really good. For wifi settings, I do NOT have "always allow scanning" on. Anything else I can do? I've downloaded package pro. Maybe there is something I can disable from there?

Sent from my SM-N920W8
[Galaxy Note5 General] ben_v:
Just tonight, I tried this with my stock Note 5 on AT&T. I have disabled many of the bloatware apps associated with AT&T.

4% drain in 1hr.

Wifi and BT on (connected to a Moto 360)

This is disappointing. As a new Android user, what is the best thing to do to start trying to improve battery life? Disable more apps? Root? Disable radios whenever possible?

Edit: After 11.5 hr on battery, I'm down to 67%
[Galaxy Note5 General] InteliDroid:
Any fix whilst staying on stock rom? This can be fixed with custom Kernel. Also deep sleep is intentionally disabled after tripping knox (rooting, custom rom)...
[Galaxy Note5 General] adilabdi110:
Hehehe... Lol ? ?

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Yes nishanta your rit, this LP rom Aryamod os amazing in battery, good deep sleep n smooth.... Now looking forward on MM Aryamod.. When dev gets the 920i Marshmallow update.. He will make it.... ???

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My battery is up and down.. But i dont care.. Coz wanna to enjoy this Bad Boy (note 5) ?.. Yaa but Somtime battery worst, sometimes very flawless, coz keep changing kernal n Rom cant predict which one is best n which one is bad.. All are good.. Googymax kernal is good so far yet... N mow im on my friend's custom rom RSR v5.. N the battery is amazing in that.. Idle drain ( standby) is superb.. With 4G on, wifi, youtube, download everything.. AND NO GREENIFY NO amplify ??.... mustafasadaek11.. Thnks for this thread......
[Galaxy Note5 General] nishanta2006:
I moved to stock rom and stock kernel from a custom rom. I also faced idle battery drain. I then installed Dr Ketan's deep sleep fix apk. It fixed the deep sleep issue and now the battery drain is back to normal. 3-4% overnight with all connections on (wifi, data, location).

I believe on stock rom and kernel you cant do better than this, unless of course you shut down the phone overnight.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Dagnelino:
stock rom MM uae 920CD (dual sim)...

I have made some test:

6 hours on night:

on airplane mode -1% on battery for entire 6hour...

with all active (wifi, bt, position, nfc) -4% for 1 hour

with all active with wifi off same result

with only 4g connection data (bt,position & wifi off) -3% for 1 hour.

Cell standby drain is terrible :(
[Galaxy Note5 General] Jager:
My best standby drain would have to be 1.5% in just about 12 hours of standby. This was with Greenify, Amplify and WiFi active on 5.1.1 MOAR rom with SkyHigh kernel. I didn't close any apps or anything, I just set the phone down and went to sleep. This was also in a place with poor cell reception. I was quite surprised when I grabbed my phone after about 12 hours and it had only gone down one percent.
[Galaxy Note5 General] paulo13pdm:
hi where to get that deep sleep fix apk. i have stock rom and sotck kernel as well.
[Galaxy Note5 General] nishanta2006:
Lollipop or MM? I was referring to Lollipop
[Galaxy Note5 General] paulo13pdm:
For lollipop. We still dont have MM for SM-N9208 as of now.
[Galaxy Note5 General] sonny82:
Drain

I wish I could say the same. I charged my phone to 100% and went to sleep. maybe 4 hours later battery dropped to 75% ave this is while it's on stand by. I even put the phone in ultra power saving mode, the battery still drains significantly. Still a 20 to 25% drain. Some days I'll only use Facebook, instagram, the web browser and text and I'll get about 3 to 4 hours of battery life. I've thought about going to sprint to see if they could replace my phone but idk if they would. This is an everyday occurrence. Any ideas or advice?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
Are you on marshmallow? Or lollipop and try a factory reset maybe that will help
[Galaxy Note5 General] sonny82:
Example. You can clearly see how long its been since it was charged 100%. And this is where im at smh
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
If the problem was on LL and then persisted after updating to MM then it sounds like you have a bad battery and I'd suggest going to Sprint before it's to late to do it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
I've been having the same problem, and after 8 hours of standby I go from %100 to %35 all because standby -_-
[Galaxy Note5 General] sonny82:
Yes it's crazy. I'm just going to go to sprint and see what they say. I had a similar problem with my first one and they replaced it, but that was when I still had a warranty
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
I'm on T-mobile and we haven't gotten MM yet. I've been told it gets fixed in MM so I'm just waiting for it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Have you tried use application disabler from the play store and stopped a bunch of the bloatware? If not try it but do NOT disable anything that you don't know what it's for!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
I was on TEK's rom for Tmobile, and even did the radio fix from xposed plus amplify while disabling Volte and Wifi calling and still nothing. :confused:
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Your best bet is to talk to TM then.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
They said to factory reset. I've done it 3 x today through Odin, and 2x through the phone settings.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Lol, I meant to see if the store will give you another phone because asking them what to do about any type of phone problem is like talking to a retard!
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
I upgraded my phone to the latest update of COKC and after a month I got the bug from nowhere I could see. Returned it to Tmobile because of bug, and the Spen Sensor was broken too. They sent in a new phone and it still has the bug. I either have the worst luck ever or its a universal problem. Also, yes I downgraded to other versions and it is still having the issue.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Can you try this for me and see if it helps you with the battery drain at all..

Disable Voice over LTE by going to dialer app -- More -- Settings -- Voice over LTE settings -- Set this to Do not use.

Note that some of you may not have this option if you're on MM 6
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
Already did, and wifi calling as well.
[Galaxy Note5 General] eddiep20:
battery drain has never been that big of a problem on any note series phones
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Hate to tell ya but I think you should return it.
[Galaxy Note5 General] dr_irsk:
i have note 5 dual sim ( SM-N9208 ) .

i think something is wrong with the phone.

lossing 8 percent when i'm sleep in 7 hours isn't acceptable. ( wifi OFF , mobile data OFF sync off and others )

i think we have to root our devices to allow battery apps like "Battery Doctor" to use their features like reducing CPU and kill Apps to optimize battery life.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Have you figured anything out yet?
[Galaxy Note5 General] Play4Zeta:
Tmobile is gonna try but if what they want to do doesn't work then I have to send for a new device. :(
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Damn that sucks bro! I thought I read something about t-mobile pushing out MM in some places this morning but I'm not 100% sure about that.
[Galaxy Note5 General] soulless angel:
i have trouble with cell standby draining battery . even if the device idle it drains more than 6% per hour...
[Galaxy Note5 General] avengethis1:
I am having the same problem. I am still stock and re-odined to make sure it wasn't a bad upgrade. I turned off volte, ando set WiFi calling to never use cell signal. Seemed to doing better this charge cycle.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
I kind of noticed something and I hate to have to say this but I have tested this for the last couple of days, the application called package disabler when you use it to disable applications if you disable too many thinking that it's going to save battery I have noticed that it's become detrimental to the battery life and that in fact it causes it to die faster now I have tested this over 6 days 3 days with every piece of bloatware disabled and other stuff basically I disabled as much as possible and during the 3 day period I was achieving about 4 1/2 hours before I would need to recharge. After I deleted the app and let everything go back to the way it was the first time before using the package disabler app right now I am getting close to 13 hours and it's making me think either there's something wrong with the package disabler app OR we might be disabling something we shouldn't be but at this point I'm not going to put it back on the phone because my battery life without it lasts much longer and I implore the rest of you to try this and tell me whether or not it's killing the battery or not!
[Galaxy Note5 General] bonerp:
interesting...I'll try this.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
I've been using the phone since 10:30am this morning it's now 1:47pm and I still have 76% battery life available.
[Galaxy Note5 General] bonerp:
I don't think it's made the slightest difference to mine
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Well I'm on the Verizon model and not rooted just so you know so it's pretty much stock. I've noticed that even though the bloatware is on the phone, it's just using the space and not running and using any battery anyway so I don't see the point in disabling them.. This scroll picture is what I mean by they aren't using the battery. You might want to save this to see it properly.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ars0n:
89 apps disabled. 2 days battery life easy. come home after work with 60-70% batt..

All depends on what apps, what you have syncing. every user is different. Only way to truly test would be to clean wipe, do battery stats before and after package disabler with YOUR normal every day use and or dont use it for 2 days and see how long it lasts.. and signal quality which is gunna be diff for everyone!
[Galaxy Note5 General] bonerp:
Can you past the apps you've disabled on PD? thanks

Not using it for 2 days doesn't really demonstrate anything.

However I find wifi eats battery...when at home and connected.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ars0n:
Leaving it alone for 2 days which seems to be the base battery life for this phone, would give you an idea of how long your battery lasts with NO apps/sync/mods etc. You should easily get 2 days out of your battery with location, BT , wifi, nfc on etc. I can.. easily.. but like I said, everyone is different. But to get a base idea of how long your phone lasts that is a good process to troubleshoot.

Here is an .xml of my apps.. I have everything enabled but a few knox things. spen, and all perks that came with the note 5 work. I did disable the theme store and galaxy app store once I have updated and or downloaded whatever apps/theme I want. But I did lots of research on what apps to disable, what system apps to keep enabled, etc.. hope it works out for you! I also disabled the samsung sync settings for email/calendar/tasks which may or may not conflict with samsung pay. I havent had a chance to test because samsung doenst like my bank.. but I am pretty sure it doesnt.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
Have you tried using the phone for at least 5 hours straight to see how much it uses? I did my test that way with everything on and then as much as possible disabled and there's no way this phone could last me for 2 days the only way it would do that is if I didn't bother using it much but the phones made to be used lol.. Especially the beautiful screen!
[Galaxy Note5 General] ars0n:
Yeah but testing screen on time is basing the power usage of whatever app you are running, games would of course drain the battery faster than say, snapchat, email, texting, etc.

You need to first find out how long your phone works with NOTHING running. no background services, no games installed, no syncing. Nothing. This is how you get the idea/base of how long your phone SHOULD be working for with just basic use of phone and texting. Once you find that there are no problems with just the stock system and working normally, then start installing your apps and playing with them. It is tedious, but if you really want to find the problem it will take some leg work.

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I remember I had some Huge battery drain bug on my old lg g2, battery wouldnt last a day. Came down to google now cards being ****ed up and constantly trying to update or sync. It took me forever to find that bug. These phones are like PC's even though the hardware and software are the same, we as users always do things differently and install different apps from different places. We might have a bad app, a malicious app, or could be nothing more than a google app jacking everything up. But the only way to tell is to do the proper testing.. and that is one by one and seeing how the phone reacts.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ars0n:
The last update of package disabler wont import xmls. So I did a little testing the past 2 days, since I didnt feel like re-disabling everything... will know more after one more full charge and 2 more days..

But I have noticed 0 differences in performance, ram and battery with all my apps re-enabled and ran for 2 days. Exact same battery, exact same ram usage throughout the day... no f'n clue.... lol will post up again in a few days.. I can also confirm that WIFI is the main battery drainer on this phone as far as running services/BT/NFC,location etc.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
This is exactly what I was saying when I said I didn't think it was doing any good other than hiding and disabling things it doesn't increase battery life and it doesn't help with the speed side of things either so I don't know but in settings and application management, you can do the same thing pretty much and even Uninstall a few of the game apps that are bloatware.. I don't really see the point of having it unless you want to disable/hide something that you can't in application management.. The reason the battery was dying so fast on my first test was because I had to of disabled something I wasn't supposed to because when opened a terminal and did logcat something about GLes was literally flying non-stop going so fast that I actually couldn't read it fully and when I enabled everything it stopped doing it so I don't know really it's a good application but it will cause problems when you disable things you shouldn't.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
Did you find out what was disabled that caused the battery drain?
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
I think it had something to do with the contacts and calendar but I don't know which ones for sure. I didn't have the time to go through everything 1 by 1 that's way to time consuming with the amount of apps on the phones nowadays.
[Galaxy Note5 General] Ohhdayumm:
Alright thanks ill take a look around the apps ive disabled.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ars0n:
Coming up on my final days of testing, and I want to say I've noticed better ram optimization without package disabler..battery is pretty much the same.. Had to do force tasks kills to get to 1.7 free ram before. Now the phone does it on its own by just cleaning out recent apps. Pretty sure the package disabler is just a placebo effect. You feel good disabling the apps that arent being used but really, if you just disable/uninstall from the system apps manager for the same apps like mike was saying its the same thing.

My next test is to only use wifi when I am actually using it. By default I leave it on 24/7. Shall see what happens in a few days. I imagine I can get 3 full days outa the phone..
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
I didn't put it back on mine for that exact reason! You worded that perfectly, it does make you feel good knowing they're all disabled but it didn't do anything to actually give me any ram back but like you said when I did it through the application management instead the ram was released and if you also clear the data after disabling them you get some of that space back and the phone just seems all around better without it. I can't say it was worth paying for the pro version but if you need something disabled that you can't disable the normal way there actually is another way to do it through adb commands it's a little more involved but it's better.
[Galaxy Note5 General] ars0n:
Exactamundo!
[Galaxy Note5 General] lordnihilusmd:
Before marshmallow i had great battery life, after the night in the worst case i was losing 1-2%, now i lose more than 10% per night.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
After getting rid of package disabler, and using application management on the phone instead to disable and free up ram and space, you were right it can last for 3 days easily!

Proof.
[Galaxy Note5 General] MrMike2182:
You can downgrade back to Lollipop safely you know! I downgraded my Verizon variant when we were told it was impossible, so I'm back on Lollipop because MM 6 was killing the battery way to fast!!
[Galaxy Note5 General] lordnihilusmd:
I flashed the latest system tar in odin, did a factory reset and it seems that everything went back to normal. I still don't understand why battery was draining so fast, i will give marshmallow one more chance, maybe this time this glitch won't annoy me again.