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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
In betas and stable Pie, "held awake" has been kinda the same and higher than the Oreo builds I would say.

But the latter's stamina has been lower than what first 1,2 Oreo builds delivered that wasn't very tasty, though wasn't bitter and way less than the P betas in my usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] c.r777:
I got the update android pie but I don't know if I upgraded or not
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] DickDokster:
What do you mean??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] c.r777:
For SOT in oreo gave me from 5 to 6 hours but pie not all give them same or close for SOT
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] kingbily:
note 9

This screen on time is pretty similar to what many get in Note 8 . So reviewers r right, there is very little or marginal battery life improvement as compared to N8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
There's a significant drop of SOT in stable Pie(CSA2) in comparison to all previous builds I posted in this thread. To even achieve 6 hr sot, I had to "tweak" further that wasn't necessary in earlier builds.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Sprov:
This is what I get after more than 1 week from update and everything set up correctly

Always on display is active tough not shown has been ON all the time at minimum manual brightness.

Phone calls are not displayed for some reason but wasn't more than 15 minutes.

60% the time on 4G+, 40% the time on wifi
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Sprov:
End of battery, now I'd say 50% wifi 50% 4G+, made some calls more, used lichess and pubg mobile.

Definitely amazing battery and enough to cover almost 1 day of my very heavy usage
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] stefanmaximum2:
I get about 1-2 hours worse screan on time on pie csa2 than on oreo.. I am not happy about one ui at all phone seems to get hot more easily than before
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Update:

I maybe conpletely wrong @ low batterylife of "CSA2" Stable Pie that I experienced and posted here.

It was a rogue app that was silently taking juice without being detected in batterystats that was always in the phone from Oreo days, but wasn't "eating" battery before silently when configured. Out of curiosity, uninstalled it and the batterylife is great again(attached ss).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] michelino159:
Nice!What app you're talking about uninstalling.

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Android system 18%?Too much.

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6% on Oreo with 35% battery remain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
MEGA by Mega Ltd.

It's been a roller coaster in my usage but I don't care about it when batterylife is great and I'm yet to know how it actually works in the background. To keep it as it is and letting it work on its own/OS to decide is the best option I believe as I had some poor experience after restricting its background activity in the S9 Plus.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Hiei11:
My record
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] BLEK0TA:
Thanks photoshop... impossible its fake
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Hiei11:
My Home Screen

Hello. Don't be angry but the assumption is offensive. Wifi video streamer uses very little power even at full brightness. It works for up to 14 hours. Unfortunately, there is no original picture so it's uploaded but I can link the original share if you think.

https://mobilarena.hu/tema/re_samsung_galaxy_note9_stylus-szimbolum/hsz_2401-2450.html

https://mobilarena.hu/tema/re_samsung_galaxy_note9_stylus-szimbolum/hsz_3101-3150.html
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Sprov:
Update with even higher usage than before, still CSA2
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] cavags5:
Hey mate, it's not that impossible, in wifi and only watch movies it's possible,

the question here is, 12h watching videos ?

I think my head explode after 3h.

as you can see in the screenshot the phone was exposed to the same usage foe 12h,in the end drop quickly, was when leaves the video player.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
FHD+, auto-brightness, Social Media, Light gaming, youtube, netflix, bluetooth spotify streaming, AOD

93%-30%
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] JesseBenson:
Im always playing games ver low sot
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] high_voltage:
I suspect you have an app that is not compatible with the android 9 and causing issues. That android system usage is insanely high. Also if you used package disabler or similar - this can cause that issue too.

Edit: oh, you found the rogue app. hehe :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ErebusRaze:
A month ago I was in here complaining that I was only getting 3 hours of SOT. Downloaded the Pie update two days ago and... Bruh... The SOT has been EXCELLENT. I don't know what battery management tweaks Google implemented in pie, but it's phenomenal.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
After looking at several posts, it seemed strange since the sot numbers arent what im getting. Im a pretty heavy user. Using at least 6hrs of 4G daily, regularly uses GPS for navigation, bluetooth music spotify streaming, auto brightness and 2 emails sync as well as AOD. This is one of the slightly better days, but the lowest amount ive ever heat was 5hrs45min sot but thats because i was playing alot of games. Normally im getting 7hrs sot on a regular day and if im using wifi only, i can easily hit 8-9 hrs sot. And if you say its because auto brightness is putting my brightness to a very low value, i stay in Singapore which us known to be a sweat inducing and sunny country
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] dancrow:
I think this is good. (stock, mostly on Wi-Fi)View attachment 4704292
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] keenn10:
I just bought my Note 9 SM-N960U (Last Sunday morning), I come from a Note 8 SM-N950U1 and I have been reading a lot here on XDA (I just updated to Pie), sot it's something i'm waiting to see, I have only expend time on updating so today is my first heavy use day. Do you have any advice for battery management? some tips? I'm excited about having 4000 mh any help will be appreciated. I'm kind of new around here but I'm glad I found XDA forums.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] robinnl192:
At wifi I get around 6 hours sot. This was today. A hour or so gaming. Some Instagram. At wqhd. Mostly 4g. Not impressive.View attachment 4704395

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-N960F met Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] sullytrny:
<=25% Charge it

>=85% Disconnect it

Easy 4 to 6k charge cycles!

Photo's[emoji2398] by Sully using SM-N960U or SM-870A
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] michelino159:
For Samsung Note9 that has a 4000mAh battery a 3h SOT it seems to me a good joke with this Pie. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Boy1g:
Amazing.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] kenpaci:
Exynos? Or snapdragon?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Boy1g:
Exynos bro.

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Exynos bro.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] miked79928:
I am curious as to why some of these screenshots with fantastic SOT show the device being idle for the same amount of time the device has been on battery?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Yes,

But the joy was cut short. I have to admit based on consecutive tests, that the batterylife on CSA2/CSA7 Pie is lower than that of late Oreo and Pie Beta builds. "Gaining in one leads to losing in another", that's what 9810 can do and after all it will very soon be a last gen SoC to be abandoned.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] high_voltage:
Sadly yes, the 9810 can perform closely to the sd845, but for the price of a lot higher consumption and that leads to poor battery life and heat. Right now they try to balance it and with android 9 they moved the line slighty towards performance and that sadly leads to noticeable worse battery life... it's not a small one either as we notice it easily.

Also I agree, it will be abandoned. What we have here is the maximum and just "easy tweaking" of the CPU control.. nothing too fancy as their best engineers already are working on 9820 (that will be blown away by sd855 btw and both make a fun of by last years A12 and not to talk about A13). When they didn't do major tweaking of the 9810 for the note 9 release it was clear that they gave up on it. Sure, it performs ok, but for 1000 euro and that's 1150$ - we should expect the same experience as the people in US.

Right now we got a lot worse battery life (and I suspect from the android 9 tuning the gap will widen), we got less real life performance as app opening and heavy multitasking, we got 30% less fps in games as the GPU is just a lot slower, we got also frame drops in the UI that true are now less, but for the price of battery life and ofc sd845 note 9 is still even smoother. Sad, but it's how it goes currently.

The phone is solid, but that SOC place is not in it for that premium price. Especially if we talk about longevity of use. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] glacies:
Not some, all. This is because device idle = time since battery stats has been reset (charge to over 90%). It's not really literally "idle".
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Caffeineshock:
I'm really not that happy after the update to pie.

I'm not even at full brightness. It's really not good after the update

On 8.1 I had up 7 to 8 hours and literally a full day charge...

(No root, exynos)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] high_voltage:
Yep, depending on the usage it vary, but *mostly* all users report a degraded battery life for the price of smoother/speedier experience (benches also confirm that samsung tweaked the SOC control for more speed, sadly this ups the consumption and from the looks of it - by a lot). If with given usage pattern now I would get 6h, before I would get 8h SOT and full day of use. All in all, I always have less battery life. Enjoying the speed boost tho, but as we can see - it hits some usage patterns even more. Tho in the patters in which I can get 10h SOT, right now I will get 6-7H too, so I am quite hit too. I am sure sd845 variant won't have that problem and continue to be not only smoother, a lot more fps in games, faster in app opening (and this is not small, when for example you open notification)/multitasking, but it also is draining a lot less power.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] gunjanadhvaryu:
I got maximum of 5 hours of screen on time. My phone is exynos non rooted,on Pie and 20 days old.

I keep the screen resolution on Full Hd+ , always on screen off, no live wallpaper, home n lockscreen amoled wallpaper, Facebook app disabled and battery profile on medium power saving. What is the problem that I'm getting so less SOT than others.

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:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Used Google maps a couple of nights ago, 4 hours of usage consumed 40% battery lol. I even had screen off sometimes..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
Has anybody tried out QHD+, Max brightness and with AOD? I was actually really surprised with the result. Had 4.5hrs of sot with 15% remaining which is really impressive
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Caffeineshock:
i really regret not importing the qualcomm version from the us

is there anyone who wants to trade? i hope there are ppl who want to root etc but cant because of the snapdragon soc^^
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
Do u use other launchers?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] billozy:
Exynos version

I used to barely get 5 hours on android pie, oreo seems better. But im still wondering how some people get around 11 hours of SoT
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
So you've got over 5 hours sot with 40% battery life and still *****in?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] billozy:
How much SoT do you get?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] gunjanadhvaryu:
Yes sir.. i use ruthless launcher.. is it possible that it might casuse this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
I think so
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] gunjanadhvaryu:
I will disable the launcher for a day or two and again post the result with battery stats.. this was yesterday's with ruthless launcher.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
Oh wow i dont see anything wrong here tho
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] robinnl192:
A lot better now. Mostly wifi. Exynos.View attachment 4710981

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-N960F met Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Sabertooth:
These pie versions are not very battery friendly. Should have been the opposite.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] billozy:
February update seems o bring better optimization for batter consumption
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
My first cycle, 4G only, auto brightness. I would day roughly the same as oreo, maybe better?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ssgunner20:
Here are my results after a week on Pie. I feel battery life has improved. TMO Snapdragon.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ToRRIIDeR:
Today my battery was stressed so hard, taking alot of photos and vidoes, bluetooth spotify streaming, very bad signal, wifi hotspot, GPS tracking, VPN Usage
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] bilotola:
I started to use my device at 100% and the battery was around 5% today (tonight?) at 1:30 AM. I used the device for almost 8:30 hours, almost continuously, because I was bored. But, what’s the SOT? The Screen on Time?

I was way too curious to know this because Note 9 got a 4000mAh battery power and their display is beyond perfection on a mobile device. So I wanted to test both of them and see the result.

Things I would like to share beforehand:

I have two SIMs on my device. Yes, that matters.

The mobile signal will be horrible inside my home.

Three days back I did “Wipe Cache Partition” on my device 25.

I used the Mobile Data for 40% and WiFi for 60%.

Brightness was around 40% to 60% usually.

I’m the using the WQHD+ (2960 x 1440) resolution.

AOD - Always on Display active.

I’m using the 8 GB and 512 GB variant. Exynos processor.

I’m using Gear Sport (Prebook Offer 1) and I connected my Gear to my Note 9 for some time.

And these are the activities (approximate time) I did from 5 PM to 1:30 AM:

Phone Calls: 40 Minutes

YouTube: 30 Minutes

Netflix: 1 Hour and 20 Minutes

Gaming: 50 Minutes

Camera: Took 20 Photos and 1 Video (2 Minutes)

S-Pen: Used it for Colouring for like 15-20 Minutes.

Location: Used Google Maps for 30 Minutes (Location ON by default)

Download: Downloaded 2GB Files (via WiFi)

Browsing: Google Chrome (1 Hour)

Music: I listened to “Apple Music” (Downloaded/Streaming) for 1 Hour and 20 Minutes. Both via 3.5mm Earphone and Wireless Bluetooth headphone. Used the phone’s speaker only for a few minutes.

Other Apps: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Reddit, etc. for the rest of the time, even during other activities.

Miscellaneous: Made payment via Samsung Pay (NFC Off though) and Paytm once.

And this is the SOT I got for Note 9:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] gyokzoli:
So you had 5 hours SoT with battery at 47%, correct? What was your usage pattern?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] jayr04:
Staring at the Home screen I bet lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] hoosdathu:
could i suggest using AccuBAttery to check the actual SoT?

that'll take the guesswork, given everybody's phone usage is different.

it also shows the percentage the phone actually goes into deep sleep when screen is off.

that's useful info about battery drain when we are not using the phone.

best thing is, it's free!

i just wish the developer can let us know what apps are causing the battery drain n the drain rate, then it'll be perfect!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] boufa:
I have a car that gets 1000 miles per gallon... of course I push it everywhere.

Without the whole story the numbers are meaningless. There are 1000 variables. Oh and lovers are gonna love and haters are gonna hate. There clearly is a lot of pre-bias in many of these posts.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] vwite:
This ^, I get like 11 mpg on my car but there's plenty of people that gets over 20 mpg on the same model.

A lot of people said the S9+ would last for a day "easily" but mine would have to be recharged from 20% to around 80% before I leave work so it would not die before going to sleep so I consistently used 140-170% each day and that was less than 6 hours SOT which a lot of people claimed to get with only 100% of charge but I used a lot of components that would consume power besides a screen with auto brightness and only watching videos or black pictures so don't think the 4000 mah on the Note 9 would make a huge difference, I'll still have to charge from 40% to 80% during the day if I don't want it to die in the night.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] rpankaj:
Great battery life so far.. used 1 hr of youtube, doodling, whatsapp, music and some canera time.. going strong..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] LilWeech:
Well here's mines SOT since last night and all LTE no wifi .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Wow. That's pretty bad considering the Note 9 has a SD 845 and a 4,000mAh battery. My Pixel 2 XL with a SD 835 and 3,500mAh battery has better battery life than that.

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Actually 700mAh could get you 2 hours SOT depending on what you are doing. When my Pixel 2 XL was brand new I was seeing a battery drain of about 10% per hour doing light stuff (browsing on wifi, etc). The Pixel 2 XL has a 3520mAh battery which means 10% is 352mAh used in 1 hour or 704mAh used in 2 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
I guess 5 hours SOT is alright for power users who are a bit carefull.

They should throw 5000 mH maybe for future.

But still Nice with all features you get.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] rey_1178:
SOT is not the best way to measure how better the battery in the 9 is over the 8. Best way is to use your phone the same as you did with the note 8. If it lasts longer then it was worth it. That is really the only reason why I upgraded from the note 8. Everything else is gravy like better placement for the finger print sensor, better pen, better cpu and nicer to look at than the black note 8.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] force70:
Re located finger print sensor and way louder dual speaker set up are 2 easy reasons to upgrade.

Id do it just for the fingerprint alone, s8/note 8 were terrible...most idiotic idea ever to put it beside the camera of all places

sent from my Exynos S9 plus, Pixel 2 XL or Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
The finger print position is still uncomfortable.

In display finger print is far easier/ fastsr to reach.

No thats no idiotic its called marketting creating the problem then soulving it in the next phone.

I use AKG Ear buds and those around me can hear Note 8 pretty well from the main speaker. Sure not as loud as Note 9 but still good enough.

My main issue with Note 9 is the fact they didn't change the selfie camera and that the back camera is almost the same just over exposed. The fact that screen on time is 5 hours SOT is disappointment. I get that with my Note 8 very easily.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] mike2518:
Just got my new note 9 yesterday. I set everything up and transferred all my apps and settings from my note 8 last night and then left it charging to full. Been using it off the charger since 10 am fully charged and it's about 5pm right now. I'm hitting 4+ hours SOT with 53% battery left. That's awesome battery life!! My note 8 would have been almost dead by now. T-Mobile 512gb Snapdragon 845 version, almost all on LTE.

I can say without hesitance that this is the best dam phone I've ever used in the past 10 years. Anyone on the fence who already has the note 8 and can afford it should definitely get the 9!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Schumi-GP:
Hi,

Batterie optimisation is awesome !

4g and wifi proactive all time, no social media apps, Greenify no root, FHD+ and more than 6h30 SoT with 42% left...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] destz0r:
Why do people use greenify on samsung software? Doesn't the samsung software already have a kind of "greenify" built in where it lets inactive apps go to sleep?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] cavags5:
One question for you, do you still have note 8?

Can you test with note 9 only the notification and calls sound, i think note 9 have less sound when you receive a notification. I test both and its disappointing.

Greenify is only a app to drain the battery, optimisation on samsung flagships is very good.

Apps sleep like a baby. And accubattery, is another to drain battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] craigels:
Cant complain with that
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] michelino159:
I dropped Note8 in favor of Note9. It is obviously the two of us to know that we can not compare it and everything is in favor of Note9. It is the most beautiful and equipped Samsung phone ever made and the battery is impressive. I enjoy this great phone and no black themes. ???

Note9 F exynos version
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Cool Person:
Propably with brightness around 40%.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Proday:
And you need more than 40% except when you are under sunlight directly?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ssgunner20:
Pic is missing...???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] benjaminllim:
On Exynos I consistently get around 5 hours SOT before and after Pie.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] Bigal77:
Mine is a beast. Snap, non rooted, Canada Rogers network

Constantly getting 7-8 SOT
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] DarthJe5us:
Battery is terrible on Pie. Barely 5h SOT. Before i had up to 9h. Exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] myid.m:
My new note 9 exynos. Android pie. No regret that i grab this beast . Love it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] c.r777:
How to get that far i can't get sot sense update to pie i barely got 4-5 hours for a day exynos
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] high_voltage:
Look at his usage - youtube. Watch only youtube and you will easily get to that number (not to mention if you watch the video @ 720p + maybe because his phone is new, he is on 1080p instead of 1440p and this will cap the youtube videos to 1080p max resolution).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] c.r777:
Same here
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] myid.m:
Yes.i do watch youtube more. Still i use it for normal usage like whatsapp,browser, music listening using bluetooth headphone, downloading apps and sync etc since it new phone. For the resolution, i change it to wqhd as i want to see how it does with battery life. One thing i sure that give such high sot i dont use brightness above 50%.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] myid.m:
Depend on usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] ilordvader:
Time 3:25 Recalibrate the Battery

Also set Auto Restart AFTER Optimization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ua2qL5N4QI

Try this also :

Disable Auto Brightness, use manual

Disable when not using: WiFi NFC Live wallpaper

Also, make Silent Random notifications

Just let important app make a sound when u receive msg

Update Phone Software

Disable not used apps to Sync in background

Use Black Wallpapers

Visiting sites that play App for 15 to 30sec also drains the battery
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] MILJANN:
Note 9.Android Pie. No optimisation.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] dawidk750i:
Lazy day, android Pie, Exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Real Life Review] VortexHD:
Is this the average battery usage for a note 9 or should it last longer.