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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] petzku:
But it seems that your phone is still in Nougat. I had great batterylife with nougat too. But now Oreo messed it up. Dunno if repartitioning with Oreo even works, or is it worth it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MatroxD:
First time I've actually paid attention on Oreo.....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MatroxD:
I'm going to see how long it goes.. Just for the sake of seeing..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
What is your brightness level set to?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MatroxD:
I don't know, about 40 or so.. And it varies when I'm watching videos during the day I turn it even higher than it's normal setting...

Why, lol, gonna start that "oh I'm not gonna disable my phone by making it for me" thing? And some other mess like that to make negative someone's screen time?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] scoutingwraith:
I am getting somewhere between 4 hours and 30 min to 6 hours and 20 min. Brightness on Auto, Wifi almost always on and display set to FHD
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
Ok perfect, thanks.

And no, lol... I asked about brightness because it's a major factor in screen on time. Just like signal strength...all of which most people ignore when trying to compare SOT. Boggles the mind! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sunking101:
Oreo. Auto brightness. On average 2-3 bars of signal strength.

Reasonable if not spectacular battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sunking101:
And another one but with a much longer standby time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] imkr1:
Don't know why Cell Standby took over 20% of my S9+ battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] scoutingwraith:
Recently ive started to get a huge battery drain. Is it possible Rogue Apps to cause the issue ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
Yes it's possible. Have you installed anything new recently?

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Possibly due to poor reception... Weaker signals drain the battery faster than stronger ones.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] vojopd:
No games, no youtube, music... Browsing and reading news...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sunking101:
Correct. Some calls, I do watch 30 mins of YouTube usually, and sometimes stream 3 hours of Spotify. I never get less than 6 hours of SOT. Games are a different beast though and I never play them. My N8 is no worse than my old Xperia XZ but it's nothing special when it comes to battery life. I would love a 4000mAh battery in the N8...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] scoutingwraith:
No new apps per se. But i did update a few and after that i noticed consumption went up. I made a list to see if i can revert to older revisions on all of em.

Update: Managed to isolate the apps that were causing issues. Apparently the newest updates on Whatsapp, Discord, OneDrive are causing a battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] aldoblaga:
So far...so awesome!

Will get back with updates.

Using FHD+ res, black theme, speed of m2 cores @ 1.5ghz max and apollo @ 1.7gh (buttery smooth nonetheless)

Oreo rocks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] aldoblaga:
UPDATE

almost 6hrs SOT and going strong!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] aldoblaga:
I could probably go for another hour or so...but i ll stop the test here.

It s been fun :D
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] IvanSoria:
Which rom/kernel?

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] aldoblaga:
[MENTION=7492152]IvanSoria[/MENTION] look 2 posts up
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] IvanSoria:
Ohh sorry.

I could only see the good results :p
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] yoyash:
2 days

I use always on display but I turn phone over when it is on a table. also at night. so I get around 50 hours. I did use two days without charge. I do not use much phone just LINE and camera.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] michelino159:
How is battery health? It's 95% to me :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Under EXTREME Heavy Use (Constant Music from sound cloud/Heavy gaming using Gamecube/Wii Dolphin Emulator that heats my Phone) I get 4.30 Hours of SOT till I reach 5%.

In 100% Brightness and 1080P. Which is Amazing for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] gyuri81:
Did not you have less display time than oreo? I'm about 1 hour less ...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Medium power save Mode (with Network usage On) with 80% brightness.

5 Hours SOT. All Wifi and watching youtube and playing Music And Lots of gaming using Emulatots like dol0hin (I could gain more SOT if I was not gaming).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
This time with AOD On for 5 hours over night.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Anethon:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/0Jdu1WfHvNwHCqAz1

My SOT is about 3 hours. I get this all the time now on OREO. I use AO only for a few hours a day. I tried restarting the phone and using the battery build in fixer. Still only 3h...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Try using medium power save mode to limit cpu speed to 70 percent it may help until samsung figures out a way.

Damn. I am going to reconsider upgrading to oreo.

Why does phone update tend to make the phones worse?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Anethon:
But on medium power setting, the phone just lags to the point, where I just dont want to even use him :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Wait for Android P.

Hopefully thet fix the issue in P.

Also try clearning the cache.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] aldoblaga:
I don t know guys...but batt life for me is better on oreo than nougat...i m very happy with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
Try it for a few days without using AOD at all. You can also put apps to sleep using the built-in app power monitor in the Settings/Device maintenance/Battery menu. High brightness will also significantly reduce SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] stormy_ugur:
after updated to Oreo my battery started to drain faster. i hate from this station.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
I think after Oreo, I've learned one thing. That any Samsung devices upgraded other than stock ( what it originally came with) newer OS never works as good as it did when it came out of the box. I'll stick with original OS moving forward until next upgrade of device and won't bother updating should an update arise during my 12 months of ownership.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Exactly. My conclusion too. I think they do more testing while releasing phones (in battery and such) but not in OS Update.

There are Some exceptional cases thought (the note 5 cained more battery life in noughat but in s7 edge it got worse). Its always better to read reviews about the battery before updating the phone. Never rush for updates
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Indeed. However my itchy fingers always seem to fail me. LOL
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
The final versions of any major OS are always more refined and bug-free (e.g. the last few Nougat updates)...that's just a normal result of all the minor updates along the way. Then a major OS update is released (e.g. from Nougat to Oreo), which introduces new features but ultimately may also introduce new bugs. In time minor updates will refine Oreo too. And then they release Android P, and the cycle continues.

In other words, it is not the fact that we went from out-of-the-box to a new update, or because they tested one version more than another...it's that we went from refined OS to a newer OS still in it's "infancy" stage. I've experienced this on my S2, Note 4, Note 8.0 tablet, S7, and now on Note 8. It's a personal choice in the end of course, but I always prefer just upgrading right away and letting the rest sort itself out in the wash :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
I think Android O is overall not battery friendly not just for the Note. I am personally going to upgrade when Android P comes out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
As will I :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Voytec83:
Hi,

I don't have any reference to Nougat as when I got my N950FD, straight after the first turn on, it got updated to Oreo. And I must say it was stock for 3 h ?

I will not write to much here as for my 10h SoT is more then satisfying.?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Brightness level?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Voytec83:
According to the needs - sometimes full, sometimes near minimum. But I don't know if U noticed - screen is not 'power hungry' in Note 8.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
KI am considering upgrading to Oreo.

If thats the case.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Voytec83:
Then don't just keen on my screenshot. There are so many things influencing battery usage that I don't even dare to start listing it ??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Good luck ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Not willing to Update just yet lol but just considering it.

Don't want my phone to become unusable.

I am going have to wait until P.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Muntasir Mahmud Saif:
me too... I'm still ok nougat and it rocks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
It sucks that Android Oreo has Barley any new features.

Sure some new AOD and making your notification screen transparent but really who cares if you might sacrifice some battery life for it.

I want New S Pen features and a New Ui.

Waiting for Android P :/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Muntasir Mahmud Saif:
i guess samsung wouldn't change any ui on P either
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] cristy7610:
Few weeks ago I updated my note 8 to Oreo and my battery life sucks.I tried to wipe cache and different settings without any results, my SOT never exceed 2 hours.

Few days ago I back up my phone and installed a fresh firmware with Odin and now my SOT is between 6-7 hours.

My opinion is, if you update to Oreo is indicated to do after you made a factory reset, to avoid all of these problems with battery life.

Right now I have 53% battery and SOT 3:45 min, so my note 8 is back again
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] themaximillian:
Looks good.

What settings do you use if you don't mind me asking?

Location?NFC?

Anything disabled?

Skickat från min SM-N950F via Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] cristy7610:
Location on, mobile data on when I leave my home, Wi-Fi on(home), Bluetooth On when I drove my car, NFC off, no aplication disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Better than Noughat?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] cristy7610:
Yes, better
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
So first time you updated through OTA.

Next time you flashes via ODIN?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] cristy7610:
Exactly
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Exynos Model or Snapdragon and can you link me to the XDA File?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] cristy7610:
Mine is Exynos variant, my firmware I downloaded from Samobile and flash via Odin.

If you download from Sammobile you will have 2 CSC files, I've chose the one that will erase all your data(CSC XXX) not CSC HOME(this one will keep all your data).

The idea is to install a fresh version...

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Mine is Exynos variant, my firmware I downloaded from Samobile and flash via Odin.

If you download from Sammobile you will have 2 CSC files, I've chose the one that will erase all your data(CSC XXX) not CSC HOME(this one will keep all your data).

The idea is to install a fresh version...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] stiffis:
Anyone else with a 6+ months old Note 8 struggling with battery-life even after a re-flash or/and factory reset? I only get around 3-4h of SOT.. Using Latest Oreo update. Tested with both stock and custom kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Was it better before Oreo?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] stiffis:
No, not really
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
I am really happy with my Note 8.

People who suffer in battery life are using Android Oreo.

I use Dark theme + Night browsing for web sites and get 6 to 7 hours SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] sefrcoko:
I'm still consistently getting over 6 hours SoT on Oreo... Lots of conclusions drawn out there based on a single variable...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
Pandora, web browsing, texting, phone, asphault 8 airborne, flyclops domino, camera, palabre rss reader, youtube, some rounds of 8-ball pool etc.

I don't use auto-brightness because I think that's a waste of battery as it actually use more and unnecessary power than to set it at a comfortable brightness. i don't enable diagnostics and the like.

nfc off, Bluetooth off until i'm going to use it for calls or music, i don't enable the weather connection because I can check that whenever I need to it.

I use the Samsung browser because it's faster and uses less battery than chrome, dolphin and firefox (at least that's what I've noticed)

I don't enable things that's going to drain my battery in the background or keep my device from sleeping while i'm not using it, my battery is supposed to be there when I need to use and not to be drained in the background while i'm not using it, at least that's my philosophy. so if you believe i'm not using my phone then that's what you believe, i know that i'm using my phone the way that works for me and it's been going great for me so far.

on the 15th I'm going to exchange my note 8 for a different one because my screen have a red tintish color thing going on, which i can live with but i don't want to because I paid a lot of money for this phone man....but hoping i get another phone with great battery life too. enjoy your phone man and use it how you want to use but i don't think it's cool to say others aren't using their phones. if you're a power user then put the apps you're not using to sleep that way you can have your battery to use for the things you want. the battery saving features are there on the phone for a purpose, use them.

just my 10 cents.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] imatts:
I can say with experience that using the phone at its lowest brightness and doing stuff as simple as browsing and video playing that you can achieve some insane screen on time over a full day, and on the other hand, playing the highest demand game for 5hrs straight can also yield similar screen on time, since the phone has had no time to drain while idle.

A good example of this was when I did a battery test on my Note 7, I maxed out the brightness, played a YouTube video in the background, had flash in (yep) the entire time ALL WHILE playing GTA. Got a total of 6hrs 2mins and that was completely in a row. I was just super curious if I could legit pull off a 6hr sot at absolute Max demand.

On the contrast, I wanted to see what kind of SOT I could get if I just viewed a black image, entered airplane mode and left the phone on the entire day. Came back to it a day later and managed 18hrs SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
This seems to be your default mode. If you're upset with something, I know it's probably fine.

If you can't get 2 weeks SoT at full brightness with every app you have installed running at 4K, you're upset.

It seems that everyone who has realistic expectations is very impressed with the battery life, so I'll take that as a good sign.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] robweis:
5.5-6 SOT

Ive got it every time. AOD on ,wifi Bluetooth, heavy messaging and social media. Screen on 50 percent. 70 apps on phone.

If I'm not in wifi 4 to 5.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
Well here you go. Working all day no power saving at all. Messing with the phone for at least an hour today trying to set up printing by downloading and deleting app after app, and still don't have it working. A few reboots due to trying to get advanced calling to work, and that finally is. 7 hours screen time, with top setting on screen, streaming 4k at some point, making calls all day, tons of texts and emails, so I don't know what you are doing different but that's my results (and I have about 120 apps installed) and still 4% left.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Thanks bro, pretty impressive, quick question tho: 2k resolution 1080? exynos or snapdragon, and removed any bloatware or did u keep everything?

Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
WQHD 2960x1440 resolution all day, Snapdragon its on Verizon built in Korea. I forgot to mention that's with being connected to my Gear S3 as well. I have a dark theme as you see cause I just don't like the bright white on my settings and all and running it all on Nova Launcher. As far as bloat, I have the following disabled, but I'm not sure how much these help to be honest;

BBCAgent

Carmodestub

Cloud (vcast)

DT Ignite

Dual Messenger

Yahoo Finance

Gear VR Service

Gear VR setup wizard

Google VR services

Hum

Message +

NFL mobile

Samsung Setup Wizard

Yahoo Sports

Verizon Support and Protection (not sure If I should keep that)

Verizon Location Agent

Weather (not really sure what this is used for anyway, when I ask Bixby the weather she still tells me the weather so IDK)

I'm not set on any of these, if someone can tell me why or why not to disable some of these I would probably switch it, but so far I haven't noticed anything not working properly. I asked in another thread what's a good list of things to disable but for the last 3 to 4 days I've been slowly disabling things I don't think I need.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Well I'm totally done, like FOR REAL IM DONE! with the crappy device, maybe mine is defective? i can't even scratch 7hrs of screen on time territory.. today is my fourth day with it, ill probably just return this POS...mind u i was on 1080p resolution!!!!! This isn't fair... 6hrs of screen on time doesn't justify $930 plus taxes... = $965 + $40 tmobile screen protector = $1005.....just doesn't justify...... I'm really aggravated with this device! I don't even watch 4k for god sakes...! All ido is whatsapp and Instagram... And YouTube barely....smfh!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
I heard chrome uses more battery then the Samsung browser. Maybe that's part of it? It's an amoled screen too so if you have more black you save on battery that way
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] iowamoe300:
Coming from a note 5 I'm very pleased with battery life so far. I didn't charge for almost 24 hours. Resolution maxed. Greenify. Wifi, bt, etc on all the time. A Pebble time connected and fitbit Alta. Only a few bloatware packages disabled and SW updates disabled. If I ran Netflix on a full charge I would get at least 8 hours sot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
If I'm reading those screenshots right, your screen was on for 6h 03m but your phone was on for nearly 31 hours since it was last charged. Sorry, I just can't see why you're complaining. I compared your stats to the other stats posted in this thread and yours were comparable, if not better than what other people were getting. I don't think your phone/battery is defective; just your relationship with reality. I would consider 6 hours screen on time out of a total of 31 hours between charges to be pretty damn good battery life, but maybe that's just my reasonable, realistic expectations getting in the way of a good whinge.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
I Just wanna be able to hit 7hrs of screen on time with 2k resolution like the other guy, i just removed chrome... honestly dont think it'll make any noticeable difference but we'll see i guess. Just think.....6hrs is only a quarter of a day, so i can only really use my phone for 6hrs of the day and the rest is idle time? Jesus....[emoji32]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] lennie:
Also in the Samsung internet browser you want to install its adblock plus extension so ads don't use up power either.

I don't know what else to say man, you might have a faulty device or something is burning through your batteries....Maybe try heading to a T-Mobile store on the 15th and try getting an exchange if you don't feel comfortable or do a return

Edit: I disable the features I don't use or not using at that moment like nfc, wifi, Bluetooth, location, GPS. I don't leave demanding apps running in the background for too long either because I don't believe android puts them to sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
That's the crazy part i bought it thru samsung, now i gotta ship out my phone and be left with nothing for a warrenty exchange, ill just sell it on swappa, im sure i could get at least $600 for this faulty device[emoji17] sucks because they told me not to get the first batch.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
There's nothing wrong with your phone. You're just a drama queen that likes to complain. Your phone was idle with the screen off for 25 hours out of the 31 hours the battery lasted. You could've got 7 hours SoT but you only used the phone for 6 hours with the screen on. Not sure how that's a fault with the phone. If you want 7 hours of SoT, use if for 7 hours with the screen on. If you can't manage that, then you don't need 7 hours of SoT.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Slicktune22:
Dude seriously? Drama queen? I've used this phone with less idle time and more screen on time and i got a worse score thanks for nothing...now i have less screen on time with less idle time...smh its my 5th day I'm just gonna return this faulty garbage...i probably have a lemon. When life gives you a lemon...you take a hit on screen on time.....now I'm screwed!!!! I hate my lifeeeeeeeee why me...btw i put it on 2k resolution I'm sure that took a toll but it didnt take a toll on the other user with 7hrs of screen on time and he had 2k resolution on (so he says...[emoji57] ) maybe he was just trolling?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
Not trolling, those were the facts. I'm not quite there today but still have 27% left
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Torquemada288:
Like I said...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] umair239:
I've said it before and will say it again disabling any "bloatware" is more detrimental to overall battery life of a device. Yet every few months when a new device is announced you have crazies crawling out the woodworks starting threads about which packages to disable and how to root and ****. It has never done anything but reduce the battery life of every device I've ever owned and I've used them all trust me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] MACHEK:
Sorry but I have to disagree. How could reducing the load on your usage of processing power decrease battery life? I used bk disabler on my note 3 before getting this phone and it was a day and night difference on battery with just disabling a few things. So if you are running with 30% free ram available and I am running 50% free ram available, I can't see how I would possibly be using the same amount of battery as you.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Perhaps peopole are not giving much details
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Real Life Review] stiffis:
For me it sounds like there is a hardware-problem or that the battery is just bad already, because when i first got the phone I got around 6h SOT, and it just slowly decreased over time. I have reformatted the phone completely with clean stock ROM, but still the same SOT (3-4h). Wonder if I should send it in for a service check.. :confused:

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How old is your Note 8?