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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Dafrag:
I've had my phone for a week today, and I have not tried a full day battery test yet.

I typically watch YouTube videos, and movies using MX Player.

Today I downloaded a few movies from Netflix, uploaded a movie to my phone from my PC, watched the entire movie, several YouTube videos, did some web surfing, checked some work emails from Outlook for Android, and left Skype business running in the background all day.

My battery finally hit 5% and here are my results.

Keep in mind I have disabled a lot of the boatware that Verizon and Samsung include, and I kept my screen between 50% and 100% brightness the entire time.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I took a screen shot of the Performance Mode screen after starting to charge my phone back up so it doesn't die while writing this ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Shuthefrontdoor:
I just went through my first charge with 43 hours and 5 hour sot, coming from an s8+ so I been spoiled ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
Very impressed here.

Max brightness most of the day, 20-30% in evenings, WiFi on all day. AOD on, nothing disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] rsswga:
well over 8 hours on screen time

5 hours more than my previous phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Mikeali_786:
What are the SOT estimates for the Note 8's with Snapdragon?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] $-MONARCH-$:
That's quite below average, You should expect at least 5-7 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
I don't think so, those that get 6-7 hours SOT only get 17 hours standby before their phone is dead. Not a day and a half like me.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] $-MONARCH-$:
Would you dare to use it straight to 1% without standby of 36 hours? Yeah I realised that.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
So we agree, it's not below average lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] dude12v:
Well I had ended up replacing my phone .. and now is really good! So it def was a bad phone .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] LinS123:
My battery life has been pretty good. This is the same if bit slightly better than my S8+.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Dude I'm honestly happy for you, i honestly feel like i got a bad phone too, but everyone else bullied me and said i was being a dramatic little sissy....so due to bullying i was intimidated to exchange my phone i feel like Samsung reps will just laugh at me too but seeing your humble successful positive post, I'm probably going to exchange mine aswell, thanks for the uplift, and sweet results, what did u disable(bixby) and what is the resolution your using, and did you buy it from Samsung direct?

Thanks in advance![emoji482]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
It really gets better with time.... Normal usage. SCREEN BRIGHTNESS 50%

FHD+

SCREEN TIMEOUT 10 MINUTES (I just cut it off when I want the SCREEN off.)

Speculation: SCREEN Timeout Kills Your Battery.

At 42% While Posting This.....So I'm Very Pleased
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Jesus christ!! Thats that voodoo battery, man i wish that was me right now
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] gingi999:
turn off aod and you will probably get an additional hour of sot. I made a tasker profile to turn on aod when plugged in and off when its unplugged. i like to use it at night in bed only.

if you want me to link it lmk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
yeah I think it might hit 7 hrs, I'm just browsing and texting now so nothing heavy.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Bixby disabled???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
Naw Bixby still on..... It doesn't seem to drain my battery, even with voice recognition.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
Correction for the SCREEN resolution. I thought it was on the middle one but it wasn't.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
You aren't using any apps tho? [emoji17][emoji17][emoji17] i knew this was too good to be true....

Should have caught on to it as soon as u said that Bixby was on...Bixby is always listening when its on...and connected to the internet....of course its going to drain...it wasn't till i disabled it that i started getting better screen on time...and u have 2k resolution on?...hyeahh...right... you got me good harden, you definitely had me "harden'd" for a sec there with those juicy screen on time

#Trollbusted[emoji852]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
Lol I said normal usage..... Facebook, Web Browsing, Text, Calls, YouTube, Bluetooth, Music, Emails.....

Heavy usage would be Gaming, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] dude12v:
Im glad to be of help. And yeah now it feels so good to say that this phone is an upgrade from my 8+. Dont feel ashamed man just exchange it :) I even tried to factory reset and it didn't help either . Also i was running everything on 1080 standard . Nothing extra on just wifi and 2 hrs of Bluetooth. I was lucky enough because I work at a sprint retail store so is ez for me:) . I kinda took advantage of samsung tho lol

Submitted a free 360 cam on first phone then when I returned it I submitted the wireless charger and a sd card! Both got approved and on their way .

Anyways good luck with everything .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
So I'm playing games which is kinda unusual for me to force myself to play games.....

So my results so far at 50%.....

So is that not still impressive. This battery and the optimization is awesome.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] yiyi28:
SOT is about 5+ hrs in 20 hrs usage. Everything is on other than AOD. No PDP or Greenify. No apps in 'always sleeping'. Pretty good so far. Not excellent, but very acceptable considering its screen size and battery size.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wtharden:
So in my case, I get about 8 SOT with just doing regular functions & 6+ SOT with gaming, which I don't do often. I think with playing games today the phone still could have lasted to about 7+ hours, but I started tethering so it's clear to say that the phone battery is more than solid for me. Spread Sheets and drawing on the phone doesn't kill the battery and that's usually what I'm doing.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
Also getting great results here. AOD on, WiFi on all day + night, mostly browsing/gallery/play store browsing, few emails etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] PsiPhiDan:
This is either a hilarious parody/joke or you're not mentally stable.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
Slicktune22 - Please stop with your crap and just return your damn phone!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Hey stop being one big mean cyber bully, i just have crappy bullschitty battery life, you obviously have great battery on 720p with stable wifi connection....so obviously you cant complain... i have to deal with bad battery and a xda cyber bully[emoji17][emoji17][emoji17]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
It's not cyber bullying at all. You've complained about your battery life for ages now, as have others. Only difference is that others have replaced their phone and it's solved the problem, where as you continue to complain about battery life.

You got a dud phone, stick a few stamps on it and come back when you've got a new one whichll have better battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Dude You think it's that easy? I bought it thru Samsung direct, and i traded my only phone(lg g4) in, now i have nothing and a bad phone...!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] PsiPhiDan:
That sucks but you obviously got a lemon so stop spewing lies and hatred (we're paid by Samsung??). This is the best battery life I've EVER had on a phone. I'm shocked, honestly! I was expecting just okay battery life.

Throw a tantrum at Samsung and they'll replace it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Are these screenshots bad?

1080p

Auto brightness (low)

Force gpu rendering on

Black theme (Substratum)

T-Mobile

Location on when needed (which was once today)

Bixby disabled

Disabled bloatware

Basically all i do i browse around xda with tapatalk, use Feedly for news and Whatsapp for chat.

Is this average?

Thanks in advance...

Ps: accubattery is like Chinese to me...i don't get it..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wk0308:
guys, those who are having the screen on time for averagely hit over 6 hours, do u guys have ur wifi all the day or data service all the day ???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
how do you charge your phone? from wall outlet or through PC usb port?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Alex---1:
Mix of both, mostly WiFi. Hour or so of data.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
no wifi all day, only sometime but data service on 24/7
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy Note 8's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Markus9229:
Very interested about this, it's more important to me than SOT. If anyone can post their standby times that would be appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
Standby time? As in how long the phone has been off the charger and power use while screen is off and not used?

edit: post pics
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
Wouldn't this show you more of an objective number? Seeing how much power used in a given amount of idle?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] imatts:
9hrs idle at 73%?? Did you even use your phone yet? Lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
Yeah I guess that isn't gonna work. It's just showing how long it's been on. I have no idea how to actually show how much usage at idle aside from unplugging it at a specific time at night and checking it in the morning
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] iowamoe300:
My idle time according to gsam is 1.5% per hour. This is sitting on my nightstand, everything on (bt,wifi,etc) and a pebble and fitbit alta connected as well as always on screen enabled. I would say it is excellent idle time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] masi0:
this is not bad at all
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Markus9229:
Okay this is what I was looking for. I'd prefer just 1% per hour but still not gonna complain, it's nice. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Fourknucks:
I charged mine to 100% last night before I went to bed. Sat it on the nightstand and it was at 96% when I woke up. That was with WIFI on and no fancy little watches or anything like that connected.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
I'll do mine tonight. Curious. How many hours did you sleep?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Fourknucks:
Went to bed at 10:30pm and woke up at 7am.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Markus9229:
4% on a whole night is pretty good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Me@Work:
Had the same experience with mine last night. Went to be at 70% charged woke up 8 hours later at 66%. Seems pretty decent really. This was with wifi and cellular on, and Bluetooth off.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
2am to 7am and 1% drop, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on connected to gear s3. But I have a bunch of apps that I don't use disabled with bk disabled like bloat stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] mhill1986:
For an Android phone, I'd say standby time is pretty spectacular, especially if you have Always On Display turned off. I don't have any hard numbers, but subjectively, it's the best Android device I've had in this regard.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] ggrant3876:
The Note 8 standby time isn't as good as my S8+ yet, but it's only gone through one or two charging cycles. My S8+ would drop from 100% to 98% in a 10 hour period over night. The Note 8 drops about 8% in the same amount of time. As I said previously I have been using the S8+ since the 14th of April and the Note is still new. I have also disabled quite a few services on both phones and they are bone stock with just Substratum and a few layers installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] pete4k:
charged before sleep to 100%, waked up 6 hours later, at 99%. Best ever, usually get 97-96 % on previous phones. But I have to admit I have sync turned off, don't use facebook or anything like that, manually killed most apps I used during day and have AOD only for 45 min, during time I get ready for work in the morning. Now, after 18 hours since full charge and 3 hr and 6 min screen time I'm at 58%. Seem to be pretty good especially that kids were playing games before, recorded some 4k video and had brightness cranked up to 50%. As it is, I should get at least 6-7 hrs screen time before battery dead, probably more if I lower resolution, lower brightness etc. Not sure why others complain about battery, more than good enough for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] imatts:
I'm interested and will do this as well. I will edit this post in the morning if I remember.

EDIT:

Unplugged at 11PM last night at 100%, woke up 8AM at 92%.

There may be an idle issue here.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Hagbard57:
I just got my Note 8 delivered today and I very interested in this as well. I am charging now that set up is complete and will check my percentage in the morning. I do like what I am reading so far!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] EMJI79:
Since two days AOD has been draining as much as 10% when it didn't even appear in the battery drain list before. I don't remember what I could have done wrong. Anyone have faced the same issue?

OK so I turned it off, rebooted and turned it on again and today it was a normal drain (2%).

So I don't know what was the problem but rebooting solved it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Joao Oliveira:
Same here. After November and December security updates, my phone is draining g for 3 to 5 %hour doing nothing. I’ve done serveral factory resets, and results all the same. I even left the phone with factory settings no apps installed for a full night and lost 25% in 8 hours while I was sleeping

I have the Exynos European version of the Note.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] moderndaycowboy:
custom kernel with wakeblock and L speed. at 9 hours from %100 to %96
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Dankees:
I have an interesting issue that I hope others can help me with...

I suddenly (as of last night) have a huge battery drain problem and I can't figure out why.

The only new things I have done are the following...

1.) Set a bunch of apps to never run in the background unless opened.

2.) Downloaded ES File Explorer PRO.

3.) Added a few tabs to Apps Edge.

4.) Downloaded a new Waze beta.

I ran Malware Bytes and there wasn't any Malware found.

Please help me. This doesn't make any sense.

(As I type this, my screen brightness is set very low (it is never above 30%) and I even have a blue light filter set at 75% on.)

I have also fully charged my phone and I have had it on for over an hour (without using it) and the battery percentage has not dropped at all...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] dieselhazza:
That is what I hate about Samsung devices. They have this unwanted battery drain which takes away from usability. I never had this issue on my sony devices. Currently rocking the xz premium and that only loses 1% overnight. Roughly 8 hour sleep. Samsung seriously needs to sort out battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Having purchased and installed Accubattery Pro for a few weeks now, I see on Average Screen off discharge of 0.6%. I guess this is relatively normal.

Under the Accubattery Pro discharging page, seems like the foreground app Whatsapp is using the most.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] pandadai00:
For the past week, I've been having annoying standby drain as well. About 5hours, it loses 10-12% with Wifi, mobile data, gps, auto sync, AOD, etc. TURNED OFF. I even put it on airplane mode after the first 5 hours then will still drain 5-6% more in another 4hours.

I've tried rebooting and uninstalling some recent apps that I've downloaded but still having this drain. This is so sad.

I'll be waiting for January security update or maybe Oreo update. If the same results show, I might have to do a factory reset the phone and manually reinstall everything.

I would have rooted my phone and installed a ROM or kernel but still waiting for my warranty to end just in case. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
In comparison
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] vojopd:
You dont need a phone then as it idles for 4 days...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
It's the cumulative idle time over a period of almost 4 days. If you were referring to my post.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
Happened to me too for a week or so. I had downloaded a few new apps recently. They weren't showing up in battery usage, but once I removed some of them the drain returned to normal. Sounds like a rogue app too in your case.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Does anyone know how to reset the battery usage chart within device maintenance?

Seems that it only resets after a full charge which I don't normally do.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] vojopd:
Charge over 90% i think??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
That's my problem, I usually charge to 80% or so. Thanks for the advice.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] bbsofficial:
Is it ok during night (10hrs) everythig off (wifi,bt, aod..) only gsm on, 5% drain? I think its too much
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] vojopd:
Too much... 1-3% is ok...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
0.5% per hour is good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
My stand by drain has doubled to 1% per hour since the January security update. I'm going by figures in Accubattery Pro app.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lbreak:
This is just what Android does, not even Google understands it I reckon.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Just an update it wasn't the January security update that was causing my standby drain to double ,it was was me disabling extra items within BK package Disabler that had caused it.

My last standby drain was 1% in 7 hours during bedtime.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] omer7:
Have u also disabled some apps from phone settings? Like i have disabled all Microsoft apps, and my standby drain is also high, just wondering enabling those apps would help lowering standby drain?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
The packages that I had disabled that increased my standby drain included, Gear VR, Bixby inc voice wake up, S health, Samsung gear, Ant,game tools, Samsung Dex, Yelp edge panel, briefing, cnn . Didn't take a screen shot prior but this is all I have disabled now with good standby drain as pictured in my previous post.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] kopkiwi:
Got the phone at launch and the battery was brilliant, 5 hours SOT no problems. But the last couple of months Google Play Services has been killing my battery. I've tried everything I could think, removing location permissions for all apps, disabling bloat, installed PDP to go that extra step further on apps that wouldn't allow it. Factory reset, cache wipe, I've done it all. Yet still, Play Services is ruining my phone, of the 10% I've lost so far in my 45 minuntes of being awake, Play Services accounts for 5% of that.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lbreak:
Wait this is interesting. So you believe disabling crap with package disabler was the cause?

How did you come to this conclusion?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
I came this conclusion because I'd added more stuff to my disabled list , during that time is when I noticed screen off discharge increase. So , last night before I put my head to rest, I unchecked everything else that was disabled except for the ones depicted earlier. Seven hours later after sleeping, the discharge of screen off was reduced again.

It's either what I did or rolling back of BK did it , which I doubt. Nothing else was installed app wise for the last couple of months.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lbreak:
1% in 7 hrs is ridiculously good!

In this time:

- Was Wifi on?

- Was BT on?

- AOD?

- 4G?

- Sycning?

- Notifications?

- NFC?

- Location?

- Google Assistant?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
In this time:

- Was Wifi on? No

- Was BT on? No

- AOD? No

- 4G? Yes

- Sycning? Mail set @4hours inc 3 email accounts, plus 3 Google accounts . Not sure what the interval of my Google account sync is though.

- Notifications? Whatsap telegram others On, except for FB messenger lite sleep.

- NFC?No

- Location? GPS only

- Google Assistant? long press home yes, but not active for home screen listening, no Google widget.

EDIT: Google assistant when I long press home is not setup. Meaning , it's on initial setup Welcome screen. However if I say Ok Google it behaves like long press home key. I'm going to turn that off now as I don't use it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lbreak:
That's great thanks for the info Limey.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
No worries. Let me know if want to know anything else.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] omer7:
Deleted!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] vojopd:
I also deleted package disabler... because standby drain got high... Google it, you will see that lots of people have the same problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Looks like it was an isolated incident - my previous screen off drain low figure.

Back to usual sub one percent now per hour.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] disturbd1:
I got excited at the prospect of getting better standby battery drain until I saw this. If you manually or automatically disable all of the above, the natural result will be stellar standby battery drain. Most of us don't want the hassle of doing it, even automatically, because as soon as you turn everything back on your phone is going to have to play "catch up" in a lot of respects. For me, the juice ain't worth the squeeze.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] winol:
I use bk diabler paid, after 3 months of disabling and re enabling many packages, ( I disabled all operator, microsoft, bixby, gear vr, facebook crap, dex, as I do ot require none of these things) using greenify and naptime, I get an overnight drain of 0.5% per hour, no AOD, sync on , wifi on, bt off, I have observed AOD eats 1% per hour, and et an overall 5 hr SOT, I am fine with this
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] gtaadicto92:
I'm getting really strange standby drain on Oreo when I'm sleeping. See the drain from 0.00 to 8.00

I did a clean flash with Odin.

Airplane mode enabled, wifi off, bt off, aod off, sync off, Gps off.

Could be the automatic brightness the culprit? I enabled that a few days ago.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] casur:
Not using a power saving mode

Edit: I managed to get .2 loss per hour over the span of 15 hours with 98% deep sleep.