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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] umair239:
XDA is not all about root and the fact that you equate death of root to death of XDA only shows that your opinion is more negative than anyone else's opinion on here. I never asked anyone to quit rooting. I simply stated that having no root has provided more benefits to me than vice versa.

I am not going to sit here & explain myself to anyone else who crawls out the woodwork with his pitchfork anymore. No root for me doesn't mean death of root for you.

Also quit killing yourself over what others' opinions lol. Chill out and keep rooting if that suits your needs ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] idksomuch:
Almost 23 hours since last full charge and at 5%. SoT is 6 hours. Bluetooth was on the entire time, fell asleep with YouTube video playing for about 20 minutes and BT headphones connected for 3 ish hours. AoD on except from 2:30 to 8:30 am. Lots of redditing, decent amount of YouTube, and some coloring using Samsung's PEN UP coloring app. A tiny bit of note taking during class. Battery life is pretty good. I haven't been measuring battery life at all in the last few months and haven't worried about it much since every phone I've gotten has been able to last me a day. When I'm driving a lot, I have my phone connected to Bluetooth and playing music from Google play music and that, obviously, drains battery so less SoT.

Edit: I'm coming from an S8+ that I've had since launch and battery life in that is damn good too. Not sure which one is better but Samsung has been really good with battery life the last year or 2 years.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
Screen always on is a battery hog. If you want more juice turn it off.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] :
Just finished my first day with my Note 8. I'm at 5 hours SOT with 20% remaining.

With my S8 +, I could easily squeeze almost 8 hours SOT with a single charge.

Both devices are configured the same in that AoD is off, brightness is @ 50%, display is set to HD+, removed varied packages via ADB and disabled various other items via BK Disabler.

However the battery is still in the learning stage and results could differ in a week's time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Motawa88:
cows go "mooh"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] yiyi28:
6 hrs SOT is perfectly fine for 6.3" QHD+ screen with 3300mah battery. I mean, how much do you want? It's pretty obvious that most people are getting around 5 to 6 hrs of SOT. The price of the phone has nothing to do with its battery life either. If you just want battery life, you should choose those phones with Snapdragon 424/625/660 and battery over 4000mah. That should give you insane SOT like 12 hrs under normal usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
lol lol so true.

but for all the people who are only getting 5 and 6 hours what screen brightness level are your phones set at?

what sort of apps do you usually use and have running in the background?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] iChase666:
I'm sitting at 6+hours SOT with 20% left and that's including a system update that I left the phone unplugged for. After disabling all the VZW bloat and a couple of the Samsung ones. It'll be at 7+ before I finally plug it in for the night.

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Oh and I do have it on full resolution between 50-80% brightness. And I don't turn any of the settings off except NFC.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
As a ballpark figure how much would you think Screen always on would reduce the battery life by?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I turned it off today and did the same thing as yesterday and I got about 40min more SOT. But I did not take a screen shot. Yesterday I looked at my usage and screen always on was 9% of my battery. It was in the top 4 or 5 can't remember of my battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Yeah, its a gimmick, going to turn mine off also. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I like it but damn its a drain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Th30n1:
I'm waiting on my note 8 unlocked its backorder I think I won't get it until October. And I see everyone getting 6 or so on sot I'm here with my nexus 6 getting 4 sot and this has been since day one lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] EP2008:
Yeah, the first few days will never be accurate because the phone is working extra hard. Heck, when I reinstall Evernote, I fully expect it to crush my battery for several hours as it downloads and indexes over 16,000 notes. LOL
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
I hate that feature. It's pointless to have a screen on when no one is looking at it. They should have had an always on eye monitor and turn it on when it recognizes someone is looking at it rather then when sitting on a desk.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I turn it on at night when it is on the wireless charger so when I am sleeping and I look over there I can see what time it is.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] G-NiK:
Why didnt they make it so it shuts it self off when you slide it into your pocket or if the phone is idle facing up or if its face down on a table???? Seems like they just threw it in last minute.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
It does turn off in your pocket
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
I think you actually need to turn that setting on
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
Well slicktune, it's all in how you use it. Today I am at barely 5 hours on screen time with all my bloat re activated because I was testing that other guys theory that it doesn't matter if you debloat and turn things off. I'm going back to shutting off crap I don't need/use. The other day I'd get home with about 40% left or more on battery, today I'm at 9% and not even home yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] :
Ended my first 100% charge with 8h 5m SOT after 19h 29m.

This was with brightness at 50% with some at 20% reading in bed. Turned to medium power saver setting at 25%. Didn't actually notice a drop in performance!

Wi-Fi always on and always on display on between 7am and midnight. Obviously I was hammering use of my new toy. Did a bit of just about everything.

This phone is a beast.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] DrunkFuX666:
So since its been established the always on display is a gimmic, is there no setting for the screen to just turn on when a msg comes in...? Or has anyone figured out how to get the edge notification to work when the screen is off...?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Good question.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] masri1987:
what theme is this
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
Here you go screen resolution max screen brightness around 85 all day. Plus restarted my phone about 30 times today.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I would be lucky to get 4 hours of SOT on my LG v20
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] RomBox:
stop talking SOT without condition

I used to care SOT very much -- till one day I installed AccuBattery(or anyother app that will show you the discharge current). It seems at least since Note5 the phone provided information of the real-time battery current information. On my note8, when the phone is idle, set screen brightness to lowest may get around 100mA discharge rate, set to highest may only get around 300-350mA. that's quite big difference, right? but, when the cpu/gpu become busy, you will see 2000mA! that totally changed my way of look at the battery life. also the sensors, cameras will eat lots of power when they are on.

Now I think the SOT only valid for same environment, same use pattern. with a same phone different people will have different SOT/battery life.

the estimation of AccuBattery makes more sense for battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] the1stSecond:
I'm happy. All that "buzz" about small battery...pfft

This is better than my S8+ (stock) was for sure.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] masri1987:
First full day of use . Not bad. It'll get better

Does anyone know if adaptive wifi draws battery ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] iowamoe300:
I enabled battery stats via adb so I could monitor with 3c toolbox pro. I call bs on aod being a battery hog. It used 900 mah in 14 hrs which is nothing. This thing could easily do 9 hours sot. Everything on, multiple bt devices, aod. One of the screen shots is projected time by 3c toolbox pro. The others are actual use. I ran it hard with a bunch of Netflix too at least 3 hours. Blows away my n5 and every phone I have ever had.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Just enabled a bunch of crap i disabled and now its a big piece of shiiiit literally... this is so horrible I'm gonna stamp 2 return labels on it so its long gone boyage!!! Eff this phone XDA IS FAKE these are paid xda bots and nothing is real, run while you still can before you think its real to the viewers that don't post...i see u..that used to be me but this is the 3rd phone i own depending on xda comments and living with the experience myself none of these screenshots are accurate it might sound funny but exclusively to the viewers that silence and don't post and just lurk THESE POST AREN'T REAL DON'T BUY THE PHONE!!!!

PS: THERE ARE NO 3RD PARTY APPS DRAINING I REPEAT NO 3RD PARTY APPS DRAINING....NO FACEBOOK NO INSTAGRAM NO SNAPCHAT... NOTHING!!!!!!THIS BATTERY SUCKS...3300MAH BATTERY ITS JUST MATH....IT SUCKS.. THESE GUYS ARE PAID POSTERS.... IT ISN'T REAL DON'T BUY THE NOTE 8....DON'T!!!!! FROM 100% TO 3% 3HRS SCREEN ON TIME AGAIN NO 3RD PARTY APPS ANDROID SYSTEM DRAINS AND IDLE TIME SUCKS....!!!

Garbageeeeeee im returning this on the first available labor day!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
Yes, as fake as that mental illness you're nursing. Pretty much every post you've made has been irrational and over-dramatised. Can you just return the phone, go get an iPhone and stop clogging up threads with your inane over-reactions to everything? Please.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
So Your sarcasm is implying that you guys are real (paid posters....has a ring to it.....must be real) and my screenshots are fake? I mean its either one or the other and im proving it with screenshots....and real usage with stock apps
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
You and reality aren't even acquainted. Your SoT (31 hours between charges with 6 hours SoT) was fine before. Who knows what you've fiddled with and totally borked by now.

Factory reset the phone and try again.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] imatts:
TLDR: 8hrs SOT over 17hrs, light usage from 100-40%, heavy usage from 40-25%, video playback from 25-3%. I consider this moderate usage, and my opinion is that out of every other phone I've used, this is by far the most consistent usage I have ever seen. I'm genuinely impressed with the optimization.

Second day in, another work day with mainly random browsing, light gaming and drawing with BT/LTE/GPS never off, brightness at 70%. The battery at this point was roughly 40%. After work I tested a few UHD videos, HD slow motion (240fps), additional camera testing followed by heavy gaming (RR3, GTASA), battery life at this point was about 25%. Lastly I watched a couple hours of TV shows at 50% brightness with WiFi on. This is what brought the battery at its state now, 2% while writing this.

It appears the Note 8 is incredibly well optimized for video playback and does a very thorough job keeping to light CPU states and aggressive idle.

Here's a collage of the battery stats:

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Hey, dude... Chill!

Download and install BK Package Disabler, disable all bloatware (literally choose "Disable all bloatware"), re-enable anything you may need, and your usage will surely go up.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] iowamoe300:
Slicktune idk what triggered you but you need to take a med. I'm not a paid poster not to mention what would anyone gain from that? You need to have realistic expectations or go away with your triggered rants.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
It used as much power as Metal for Facebook that's a lot. Like I said I got a extra 40min of SOT by turning it off.

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Send the phone back.. Ha ha we don't care. I love my Note 8 best battery than any phone I have had.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] iowamoe300:
Yes you are correct. I just don't have an issue with it. I think it's cool to be able to glance at it and see what's going on instead of actually waking the phone. For me the 900mah and 40 minutes don't really matter. There are alot of people ragging on the aod so I wanted to let folks know. Now if it was 4 hours sot like I'm used to with my n5 I would shut that crap off. Then there are people like slicktune who wouldn't be happy if they got 10 hours sot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Something is definitely messed up, i charged it too 100% and only 8 mins of screen on time very low screen brightness, and already 93% what gives!!!!???? This is what triggers me, now let me confess something... i left my phone charging over night 3 times by mistake... could i have messed up the battery that way?

Thanks in advance!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
that's crazy horrible battery life. however, i noticed that the curve on your usage is almost like a straight line going diagonal....in 12 hours with 3 hour sot there should be some points where that line moves more horizontal or flat. it's seems something is constantly draining your battery. you say there are no 3rd party draining the battery, but i see whats app in that list, wish you had screenshot it's mah usage, connection time and cpu usage, and same for android system.

you said you've "enabled a bunch of crap" that you had disabled...what did you use to disable them in the first place? maybe you need to backup your data and do a hard reset.

it's weird that you believe you are the real person while everyone else is fake. just like people think i'm lying when I post screenshots of my 9 and 10 hour sot (is what i get almost every time) it looks weird to see that you're only getting 3+ hours.

something is definitely draining your battery in the background. i don't think overcharging would degrade your battery performance like that, plus batteries now have mechanisms to prevent over charging for the most part, and I don't believe there would be battery memory this quickly.....unless, did you fully cycle your phone when you got it, as in, no charge until battery fully discharge, charge to full then no charge until battery fully discharge for a couple times?

when you look in your about phone what is the mAh on your battery?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] G-NiK:
Wow I cant find it though lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Because some genius on here tried to argue that disabling things made things worse...that root wasn't necessary so because at the time i was only getting 1 day and 6hrs with 6hrs of screen on time, so i thought that by re-enabling a bunch of crap back would make me go over 6hrs of screen on time and that maybe that was what was keeping me from reaching 8hrs of screen on time....annnnnnd the ppl that were stating that they had great battery life also said they were using 2k resolution. Soo i switched from 1080p to 2k + re-enabled stuff.[emoji17] [emoji17] [emoji17] [emoji17] i basically sacrificed my device just to prove to him that "root is life, disabled apps works wonders"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] G-NiK:
I found the setting you where talking about in display settings. Unfortunately it does not turn the AOD off. It just gets really dim, I would prefer it to competently turn off. I have never had screen burn on Oled displays yet. This is my 3rd oled cell and I have a Oled Tv they are great but I never have settings on that would leave a static image and even on the tv a screen saver pops up after 4 minutes if you pause something. So I have no experience with leaving images up. The moto x screen turns completely off in the dark like in a pocket or face down on a table. Hopefully they update it so i can use it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
To turn it off while in pocket ; Prevent the screen from detecting touch input while your phone is in a dark place, such as a pocket or bag. 1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps. 2. Tap Settings > Display > Block accidental touches to enable or disable the feature

To turn it off altogether : From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps. 2. Tap Settings > Lock screen and security > Always On Display. 3. Tap On/Off to enable the feature
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
I used "BK disabler"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] G-NiK:
Ah yes i should have been more specific I know how to do what you are saying. I mean I wanted to the AoD to function more like the MOTO X. Current AOD doesn't turn off when put into your pocket its literally on at all times it just DIMS really low. I would like it to wake up and go back to sleep. Thanks for the reply though
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Why does it seem like everything eats up my battery after the last update that went out for T-Mobile?? And battery capacity went to 3900mah i think i inflated my battery's capacity inside my phone for overnight charging
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
Woah 3900mAh? that's crazy man, maybe you could try retraining that battery (full cycles, no charge until it's dead, only charge when device is dead from 0% to 100% or until LED goes green).

I can only say back up, reset and start over again and keep an eye on the apps that use the most battery or cpu time

I have to agree with you about the last t-mobile update, i noticed that my phone now gets slightly warm on tasks it never used to warm up to before. i used to play asphalt 8 airbone to a semi cool phone now it gets warm, not sure what they did, but i think they F'd up something with that update
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Slightly off topic. Does fast charging still reduce the life of the battery? I remember Samsung saying something like this when they introduced it a few years back.

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If he says it was alcohol trigger then I'd accept that. Lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] masri1987:
Second say of full charge . I reached 3hrs SOT by 50% with one hour phone call
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] G-NiK:
I imagine it could degrade bit faster but negligible amounts. I think going from 0% to 100% is far worse then just fast charging from 20%,30%, ect

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I imagine it could degrade bit faster but negligible amounts. I think going from 0% to 100% is far worse then just fast charging from 20%,30%, ect
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Honestly i had a couple drinks last night but thats besides the point lol my battery sucks typsy or not lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] gotti109:
Its the "High contrast theme" in the store
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Was just putting a bit of a smile into this thread [emoji2] nice pics
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] ishanmu:
Amazing!

I've been getting around 6-7 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] masri1987:
After second full charge
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
So i think the main issue BixtchB effin up my battery so i disabled it all! Also i have resolution at 2k, Standby time is amazing now, hopefully screen time will be better. For those with great screen on time (6hrs and above) what's your combo?

Bixby: disabled/ enabled?

Resolution: 1080p/ 2k?

I think that's what will make the major differences.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I have my resolution to the Max and still get 6 hours of screen time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Bixby enabled?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
Yes I don't have it enabled to turn on by voice. But I don't ever use it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Never mind guys my phone is really a dud.... look at how crazy my battery drains it makes no sense... if i use samsung internet its 25% the hr draining speed, combined with just looking at gmail thats another 15% the hr..lmaoo even samsungs very own "device maintenance uses 12% the hr WTF! what fun or good is this phone if as soon as i turn the screen on it drains like crazy...?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] dude12v:
I think my note 8 is a bad phone too ..

Look at how horrible its estimating this at.. does this seem right? Wondering if i should swap it out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Jesus 5% with only 23 mins of screen on time, and 11hrs left? what i noticed we have in common is the amount of sleeping apps we have i wonder if its making "device maintenance" work harder in the background thus making it drain like crazy.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] dude12v:
Well i think we both got **** phones.. there is no way this is normal. Here are the other stats.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] POLO_i780:
First full day with my beast was great
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Bigbottomend:
:) Battery getting better every day for me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] matt.b.powell:
I am also having crappy battery life, the other day 10HRs standby 1Hr SOT and at 15% battery... Has anyone tried a factory reset (there are 14 pages here and I haven't bothered to read through all of them....). My S8 under very similar setup conditions regularly hit 4.5 to 5 hours SOT and would last me all day.

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Uh.... how did you make this happen........... just I mean... how????
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] wk0308:
Well the first day of the phone !
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I have had this phone since the 7th. I have gotten 6hrs plus of SOT every day. That's running my resolution Max and my brightness at 85. I do not have bloatware remover and I am not using any battery saver or anything. Best battery out of any phone I have had. Sorry for the people that are having problems. Guess it's hit or miss. I do turn Bluetooth off when I am not in my car. At night I drop my brightness down to 50. That's it I have been enjoying this phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] matt.b.powell:
Got my phone on the same day... I guess I will just give a factory reset a try. Do a full cache/factory wipe. My wife just decided to switch from a 7 Plus to the Note 8 last night. I'm curious to see how hers does as well. She used smart switch.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
I did not use smart switch I just started new.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] matt.b.powell:
Yeah, I always do a fresh install in hopes to avoid this. No backups from anything, this time it still didn't work well enough.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
That's just an estimate. Use the phone as normal and check the stats when the battery gets to 10%. If your real usage stats are the same as what was estimated, try a factory reset and make sure you cycle the battery from full to dead a few times. Then test again.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] dude12v:
Yeah i think i might just do that .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] jason504:
Here we go Max resolution brightness at 80 best phone I have ever had.