[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note5] seh6183:
Retain your factory warranty and Samsung pay with this guide. I assure you your phone will FLY after you do these mods. As an Added benefit your battery life will be increased as well. Here we go:

Unknown sources - Needed for installing the next app.

Before we get started lets go into settings and enable "unknown sources"

-Open settings>lock screen and security

-Turn "unknown sources" to ON

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Adguard - Replacement for adaway for non-rooted phones.

-Navigate to https://m.adguard.com/en/install.html

-Scroll down and click "download and install" (yellow button)

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-When download is finished click on it to install the APK

-Once the app is installed open it

-Click the grey button in the middle of the screen to activate adguard (it ill turn green)

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Package disabler pro - Replacement app for Titanium Backup's "freeze" feature for non-rooted phones.

-Open the playstore

-Search for "Package disabler pro"

-Don't be cheap, pay the 2 dollars. It's worth every penny.

-Install the app and run it.

-When you open the app it will look like this:

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-I can sit here all day and go through the hundreds of entries. Or you can just import the .xml that I made. I researched every single package that I disabled individually and then tested for weeks to make sure there were no glitches or missing features. **WARNING** disabling certain services or apps can cause you to have to wipe out your phone and restore the firmware. The ones in my .xml will not harm your phone. If you want to experiment beyond what is in my .xml just be sure to research before disabling anything. Also I may have disabled apps that you use so you may want to scroll through what is disabled to make sure I didn't turn anything off you want.

-In the top right click the three dots

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-Click "Import from xml" (this is for the T-mobile variant, but will work for all Note 5's)

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-Select my xml ("disabledSAFE.xml") and click import (it's attached to this post as a .zip file)

Speed up all animations.

-Go to settings>about device

-click build number 7 times to enable developer options

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-Go to settings>developer options

-Scroll down until you see "window animation scale".

-You are going to change "window animation scale" and the 2 entries following it, for a total of 3 changes.

-Change all 3 to "0.5x"

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**MISC**

Battery life

I took it upon myself to do some battery life testing. I calibrated my battery by running the phone until it shut itself off. I then plugged it in and didn't take it off the charger until it was at 100%. That night I took the phone off the charger, it was at 100%, I did not turn the screen on. I just let it sit for 8 hours while I slept. I had google now and location totally disabled. By morning I had lost 4% battery. The next night I did the same thing but with location services enabled. I lost 5% that night. The next night I enabled google now. That night I also lost 5%.

Something to note. The battery discharges faster from 100% than it would at, say 60%. If the phone were at about 60% when I ran my test, I would probably see a loss of 2%.

These findings are interesting becuase I have done extensive testing in the past regarding location services, using better battery stats, wake lock detector, and GSAM battery monitor. In the past, on previous phones, I always had significantly more drain when anything location related was allowed to run. I noticed when I got the Note 5 it slept really well out of the box. So maybe they figured it out with this phone, I don't know. The battery is smaller than my Note 4 was, but certainly lasts longer.

Anyway, try out this setup and tell me what you think!

T-Mobile Wifi Calling

I added a new .xml called WifiCallEnabled.xml for T-mobile users. This is the same as the original zip, only with Wifi Calling enabled.