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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] thegipper:
I feel the same way. Since day one (which I got it on the first day) I was never really that impressed with the battery life. Don't get me wrong, it was WAY better back then but now, even with new batteries and hard resets, its just unbearable. Mine also just started randomly shutting off when it gets around 25%, it reboots with 0% and boot loops until you pull the battery.

Because of all of these things I will never buy another Samsung phone ever again........ever. What a disappointment. Especially now that their new phones have now SD card slots and no removable batteries, whats the point. I actually really do like the phone (camera, size, speed, ect ect) but having a terrible battery life really blows.

Looks like I'll be joining the Nexus crowd.....

Sad
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Android.Ninja:
I'm not experiencing any issues whatsoever on any of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 devices that I just upgraded to the new firmware. Battery life has increased slightly, the Autolight adjustment is working exactly as it should, the touch responsiveness of the screen is more fluid and precise, and the overall performance of each device has risen beyond that of the previous builds. The people who upgraded and are experiencing issues, did you reset your phone or anything of that nature after upgrading etc? If not, I'd highly recommend doing so. While it's not necessary or a requirement of the firmware to do a clean wipe, reset, etc, if you're one of those persons experiencing issues, then I would recommend doing so.

Developers don't need no stinkin' signature!

If I've been able to help you, please hit the "Thanks" button. ;)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] axeldiks1:
I feel you man but try what I did seems like it helped. Factory reset then disable apps like amazon Facebook and verizon c""p. Then disable location services and clear Google play services cache . Then install lux for auto brightness , reboot , wipe cache it should help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] outcasted2003:
I'm now getting horrible battery life! This update is by far worse than 5.0.1!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] axeldiks1:
Look above I posted some sort of solution . I get decent battery life considering I stream music and videos all the time plus Bluetooth to my car and headphones . I know it's not perfect but at least something on this update
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
A reduce my resolution to 1080p and going to see how that works.

I went back BPA1 to see if some of the other users fixes would help me.

So far I've installed very little apps from the play store. Trying to keep it as stock as possible for now to let the system settle in.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] outcasted2003:
Axel you charged your phone twice since the original charge. I am getting my stats from the original single charge. That's a big difference. I have always cleared my cache & factory reset after all upgrades. The phone now gets hot just from being on the web, no games, heating up and terrible battery life.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] BubbaRob1978:
Just thought I'd chime in and say that I recently picked up a used Note 4, Verizon model and it has been flawless on the latest update. Never gets hot or drains the battery anymore than it did on the old firmware. I get about 5-6 SOT and couldn't be happier. I switch between the Note and an iPhone 6S Plus. Anyway just wanted to state all is well with my Note on the latest firmware. Hope you guys get a resolution for your battery issues soon. I have been there before with my old Thunderbolt that lost an entire charge in 10 hours without even using it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] vIgGeN7:
How do you manually update the OTA on your phone. ODIN fails when i put the OTA zip as well as when i goto non dev (retail phone) recovery mode and try to install from zip.

Any sugestions and steps in order to complete.

Current VER = LRX22C. N910VVRU2BOG5

Thanks everyone! :D

Also factory restore and whiped cache.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] thegipper:
This is exactly what is happening with my phone. It gets super hot from doing the most basic things. I am almost thinking it may be hardware failure at this point.....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
Put the ota on your sdcard and rename it update.zip and boot into recovery and install from external storage.

To boot into recovery hold volume up and home button at the same while turning the phone on.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wyckedfunk:
I took the update from verizon and I've got no issues .. auto brightness works like it's supposed too, battery I'm still, "testing". but doesn't seem bad. It was actually pretty good on the last update and I'm using the original battery from November 2014.. In my case, I run nova launcher and always will. I never start an install until my battery is 100% then I take the install and run the battery down until I get the warning that it needs to be charged.. then I turn off fast charge and when it gets to 100%, I power off my phone and boot into recovery and wipe cache 3xs. then reboot the phone.. let it settle for a couple days knowing that it's still building a charging profile and see how it goes from there.. I had to recharge but only made it 70% before I had to unplug it to get out of the cab.. that was at 1:30 am .. it's 1230 now and I'm at 48%.. granted I slept from 3:30 till 9am so that's all limbo time but it was at 59% when I woke up until now. Cheers
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] EzyEric:
Since my update to this two days ago (I was on 5.0.1 before) my Note 4 has been much more responsive and my battery life is much better. I almost want to say it's almost twice as good in both respects.

I did nothing other than the update, no clear cache, etc.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
I have no idea but my auto brightness will not work properly unless I have Lux app installed. Not sure if there is a fix for sensors or not. Will Google it I guess.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Trak-X:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/65392/N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW/

Sammobile also released the full rom.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] usmaak:
Yes! Hope to see the safe upgrade soon! :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
Sweet, I'm going to reflash official BPA1 firmware to see if helps with my issues and hopefully auto brightness is fixed without haveing to use Lux.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] android-incredible:
battery life is incredible...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] usmaak:
Safe upgrade to 5.1.1 is available!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65278655&postcount=1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] pacet911:
Thanks for the replies. Turns out that by the time i got around to doing it (today) the update was available via KIES. Installed via KIES and all is good now! :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] outcasted2003:
I have done numerous factory resets on my Note 4, wiped the cache, took the OTA update, flashed the new update and still getting horrible battery life! I have no idea what is going on. I even went to Verizon and bought a brand new battery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] nh97103:
Hmm... If I was in your shoes, I'd try safe mode, booting into recovery and wiping data from there (make your your internal memory is wiped clean), flashing again, flashing back to the first 5.1.1 update, taking out any external SD card, and not installing any apps after factory resetting.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] outcasted2003:
I have tried every possible combination of methods. All results are always the same .... horrible battery life! I can upgrade in a few months, it will definitely not be the Note 5! Seriously thinking of trying an Iphone for the first time, the S Plus has gotten great reviews especially for battery use. Just undecided on what to try next.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
Just a thought, I am still testing this but have you tried changing resolution via adb to 1080p and your dpi to 480? Technically the iPhone plus is 1080p.

I have done that and use Lux for my auto brightness fix. But still testing these options myself.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bbeelzebub:
I had something happen where after a factory reset, my battery life was AWFUL. Another factory reset wouldn't help. Doing nothing, it would just drain. I used the Verizon Repair Assistant to reflash the firmware and since then, I'm back to the normal 6 hours of screen on time with heavy use to 5 days between charges on light use.

May be worth a try.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] outcasted2003:
Thanks bb, I had to use the repair tool this last time because I picked the wrong md5 file and screwd the firmware update up, it was the nj5 file which of course can't downgrade to. I used the repair assistant tool to repair the firmware.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
I am trying to do something similar to what you are suggesting, but I am using Kies to do it, is there a difference in programs?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bbeelzebub:
I've never used KIES for that, so I'm not sure how it works for it. With the Verizon Repair Assistant (It's already on your phone and offers to install it when you plug it in, or you can download from the website.) it just connects to their servers, downloads the latest firmware, warns you not to unplug your phone, then reflashes it. I think it took about 15 minutes max to do it all.

After using a combo of package disabler pro and the debloat tool, my phone was acting horrible. (both of which are completely reversible with a factory reset normally). I had done a factory reset two times and it would drain just sitting without even installing any apps or setting up email. I figured I would give that a try and it fixed it instantly. Since then, I don't mess with anything other than the regular app disabling in the settings and have had no issues.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
Yes, kies does exactly that and I am so far getting good results so far. Haven't got a chance to test it out, but so far getting normal use for myself on what I do. I never looked at my on screen time before to know what it was to compare. But far as the phone getting warm, so far so good. So thank you for your suggestion.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
I ended up doing the repair as well through Kies and I am getting the same results. I almost didn't want to try it cause I had done so many factory resets, but glad I did.

Thanks for sharing your results so others like me will try this.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
Update: if your battery takes a dump with the OTA, it is recommend that you do a repair via the Verizon assistant or via Kies.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] usmaak:
If you do that with the safe upgrade in place, I'm assuming that it will become no longer safe. Is this correct?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
That is correct if you are on safe upgrade, and do the repair it would take you off of safe upgrade to KitKat. And keep you in BOG5 bootloader.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rcurtis805:
I'm done with the whole mess called the note 4! From the slow software updates, to the lack on control of our devices like root, etc, I'm done. Not gonna get another Samsung device anytime soon...they used to be the cream of the crop for me in the smartphone area, but they've gone downhill...ordered me a 128gb nexus 6p the other day and counting down the days until it arrives! Marshmellow, rooting, bootloader unlock, more powerful processor then the note 4, everything I could ask for. So long Samsung...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mexigga:
I disagree...I think anything made by Huawei is a step or two down...but that's just my opinion. Good luck, [MENTION=5731777]rcurtis805[/MENTION]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] raneym305:
This is great!

I can handle the poor battery life- I've got a QI Receiver on my Note and between my wife (S6) & I, we must have at least a half-dozen wireless charging pads strewn about the house, and a couple more at work- And I had faith that Samsung / Verizon would roll out some sort of patch to fix the battery drain pretty quickly.

What I can't handle is my battery overheating and shutting down while trying to film our eight-month-old take her first steps or our three-year-old singing and dancing when she thinks no one is watching! Coincidentally, on both occasions (within the last week), I was using the stock battery cover WITHOUT the QI Receiver.

I'm going to give Kies and, if need be, the Verizon Repair Tool a shot this evening. Thanks for the tip!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
Have you been able to do the repair tool? If so just seeing how yours went? Is holding up?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] raduque:
I hated my Galaxy S6. It was a terrible device with terrible battery life. Bluetooth issues out the ass, didn't work with my truck's BT at all. Connected first try maybe 4/10 times. The other 6, I'd have to reboot and try again from the phone.

I left Samsung and went with a Droid Turbo 2 - I can live without root and 6.0 for a while, but what I can't live without is uSD cards and working Bluetooth.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rcurtis805:
Got my Nexus 6p the other day, and it rocks. It puts the note 4 to shame performance wise. Plus I can root it, unlock the bootloader, put custom Roms on it if I want, etc. I have full control of my device plus it performs so much better. So what that I don't have an s pen?!?!? Wish I wouldn't have wasted my time with the note 4. Lbvs
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mexigga:
+1

How did that work out? I've had 40% on my device only to have it shut off after 3 minutes of filming (battery DIED FAST)...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] usmaak:
My biggest problem with the note 4 is my screen sucks. It is pinkish on the top half of the screen. I hate looking at it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anrichardson:
I finally ended up calling verizon cause my phone isn't doing very well ever since I installed 5.1.1. I ended up getting a replacement phone, but the phone was brand spanking new. The only thing it didn't come with was the s pen and battery. But the device was new. I will test this out a few days to see how well it responds to the 5.1.1 update, this time instead of taking the OTA, I did the safe upgrade incremented.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] nh97103:
Erica Griffin, a smartphone reviewer, has talked about that. It's actually pretty common to get a two-toned display with Samsung phones. When you get a new one, it's a good idea to turn your brightness up all the way and look at an entirely white picture to see if there's a problem.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] usmaak:
Yea. I have never seen a decent Samsung screen. I might be more picky than some. I just see the differences. Unfortunately it is too late for me. But I am only stuck with this thing until October. Then it's on to something else. I usually try to keep devices longer than the 2 years. Not this one.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] nesty24:
Is there an app that makes the backlight lit lower than current backlight for a time (secs) if the device is not used? (just to save some power) Just like in some nokia phones...

I'm managing to build one but I'm a super noob in CE programming using VB.

I dunno how to use registry so that user who modified the app will stay as it is when you softreset the device.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] Maggy:
With Mortscript you should be able to write this quite easily. I once built one script to turn backlight back on when Tomtom mistakenly turned it off. The next day I received the Tomtom update that didn't have that bug...

There is hardly any learning curve, the manual is just a short reference, download some sample scripts, look into them and you can start writing.

success
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] csc6361:
Could you tell me more detail about Mortscript for TOMTOM?

I also worry about TOMTOM backlight. Now I use phoneAlarm to turn on backlight.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] Maggy:
I actually used 3 scripts for Tomtom backlight problem, but didn't save them because Tomtom 6.03 no longer had that problem. Putting it all in one script didn't work because once the script started Tomtom it paused till Tomtom closed down. So one script called the Tomtom start script, that second script ended once Tomtom was starting but the first one was still able to call the third one, which wrote the correct registry settings for backlight.

Read all about Mortscript on http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=page&entry=ms_overview&action=view
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] nesty24:
still downloading Visual Studio 2005... 2GB+ remaining...

Any suggestions?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] Maggy:
Who said anything about Visual Studio???

Mortscript is a very tiny download from the link I gave you. And it's freeware.

Visual Studio is nice for very professional programmers, although lots of them use freeware/open source tools as well. For such a tiny utility as what you were talking about it's like killing a mosquito by setting off all nuclear bombs at once.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] utak3r:
Well said :D

Plus, he wouldn't use MortScript with VS at all :p

nesty24, just take a notepad (or Notepad++ or something else you like) and voila :)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] nesty24:
LOL! yeah, i dunno mortscript. And besides, i don't like to make a program on my himalaya...

utak3r, what's with notepad? It's very hard to code just imagining your forms. And I'm noob in this programming with CE, i don't have resources at all.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] utak3r:
But you won't code forms... Just a plain code. Consider it as batch files (or better - JavaScript scripts).
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] thientan:
backlight is too dark

hi.

i have 2 xda2 and i have updated it to wm6 aku4.2 but one it backlight is darker, it have only 64mb but in the board have 4 chip infeon=128mb. i don't understand why it recognize 64mb? thanks.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] utak3r:
Then upgrade to AKU0.7.0, it's a newer build.

Did you try adjusting it?... ;)

:confused:

64MB of what?...

Your 128MB of RAM is splitted between RAM, RAMDisk and page pool.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] Maggy:
utak3r answered it already but just to be clear to all: EACH Himalaya has 4 chips infineon, always 128MB. Most of us never pick up a screwdriver to check that or any other hardware specifications.

I personally did, but that was just because:

-I bought mine with broken screens

-I'm a trained hardware technician

-I'm very curious

Unless you have similar good reasons to open your device, please don't. Curiosity does not only kill the cat. If you want to see what's inside, look at the perfect pictures in the Wiki
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Windows Mobile 6 Upgrading] utak3r:
Holy words :D

I was opening my one several times - its connector is soooo bad :mad: If you're using it in a car for navigation, this connector gets broken :(

I was resoldering it 5 times till now :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] likounin:
I got a HK version G9200(i.e. SM-G9200ZH), which drives me mad these days.

Firstly, I updated it into the latest version G9200ZHU2COJB, then I tried to use CF autoroot and it keeps reboot and reboot...(now I know CF does not support 5.1.1 anymore).

I found someone says the HK version can flash a CN version ROM so I tried his AP and CSC file——I can go into the launcher but it shows no signal no IMEI and the baseband is also unknown...

After several times of trying, I found only G9200ZHU1BOGB won't reboot(I even tried using kies3 to upgrade to the latest version, but still keeps rebooting), then I found a kernel that can root it.

so backup these files :

dd if=/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/EFS of=/sdcard/efs.img bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/m9kefs1 of=/sdcard/m9kefs1.bin bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/m9kefs2 of=/sdcard/m9kefs2.bin bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/m9kefs3 of=/sdcard/m9kefs3.bin bs=4096
dd if=/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/RADIO of=/sdcard/modem.bin bs=4096

After that, I typed:

adb shell
su
mke2fs /dev/block/sda3
mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/sda3 /efs
reboot

and my S6 cannot boot into the system anymore...it says E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument) on recovery...

I tried to flash TWRP recovery but the phone cannot be swiped on the recovery...

so does it have any chance to be alive again?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noxxxious:
I'd restore a stock firmware with Odin https://samsung-firmware.org/download/Galaxy S6/l881/CHC/G9200ZCU2COJA/G9200CHC2COJA/

And also "bbs.gfan" <-- Google, has more G9200 roms/kernels etc. for your device than on XDA. Maybe you will find there how flashing a custom recovery etc. works for your device.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] likounin:
I've just be mislead by posts on gfan... and I found a touchable twrp recovery, but what should I do now?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noxxxious:
Flash with Odin under AP after you confirm the stock restore worked. Also done under AP
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] likounin:
I flashed S6_UniKernel_v8-0002-ODIN.tar and connected the phone with my laptop, then I successfully put my efs.img file back into /dev/block/sda3 ...

then I flash G9200ZHU1BOGB again so the "E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)" problem has been solved.

But there is still no IMEI...maybe the efs.img was broken? Does anybody here have some backups?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymedina2588:
mi samsung galaxy sm-g920a

mi samsung tienes ese fail, alguien que me ayude por favor no soy root ni tengo twrp quiero que alguien me ayude por favor
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] lyczewskiand:
Hi guys.

I've just unlocked bootloader and afterwards rooted my phone.

Now I would like to be able install apps from google play directly to microSD card.

Will it affect anything? Apps could have some troubles with working?

I will be glad to hear your opinions.

Cheers.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] vic604:
Hello there. Yes I managed to do that with Link2sd but some apps won't work if they are installed on the SD ( whatsapp, Facebook) other work like they are intended to.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] manosper:
All the apps work if you dont link the lib files .i had the same problem,when i linked the library the apps didnt open or dissapeared.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] lyczewskiand:
Does Link2sd do the same as Settings>Apps>On Sd Card>Move to SD card ??

And another question.

I unlocked bootloader and rooted my phone. Then i did Back to factory defaults.

Did i loose my root privileges?
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] husam666:
They work, just make sure you don't link lib files

---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 PM ----------

no, linked2sd moves the app files to a partition on your sd card, you need a fast card or you'll run in serious app lags and slow performance
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] lyczewskiand:
I did everything from that thread.

http://xdaforums.com/m4-aqua/general/recovery-twrp-command-line-t3198973

I unlocked bootloader

Tried to root my phone but i have some problem

SuperSU Free cannot update binary code.

Tried to use Kingo ROOT - failure