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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] elmor0:
But his ROM is for Exynos N986F devices only.

I wonder if his fix can be made available for SD version......
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Goku1992:
Sorry mate thought you have Exynos. The only thing we can do now is waiting. Me and other senior members are writing to smartphone newssites to gain help regarding this. Many sites made an article about this :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Psych0t1c20:
I flashed sac rom and weta kernel, fkm manager and blocked the wakelock with it. Try it out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] elmor0:
And did blocking this wakelock make a positive difference to the battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Psych0t1c20:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] am84496:
Note 20 Ultra Exynos. AOD always on. No power saving. 120Hz.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] d4rkkn16ht:
Hi all, just received my SM-N985F/DS a.k.a 4G Exynos variant yesterday afternoon.

So far the battery life is a BEAST!

I get almost 10 hours of SOT after first fully charge (from around 48%...so it's not even 1 cycle yet [emoji16]) and I recharge it again at 15%....

There are so many complain about battery drain on any phones but have you checked on the Adaptive Powersaving feature?

It learns how you use the phone & readjust how it draws power from the battery.

Combined with Adaptive Display it may last for 2 days, may be more on light usage[emoji322]

I will report back here after my first full charge cycle...

Bye for now[emoji112]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
The battery life on this phone is a disaster - today from 7:00 to 13:00 the battery dropped from 100% to 10% :(

I just hope this happens because of only one application... I will install gsam battery stats and try to find out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] mike28:
I believe I didn't charge it in between because that will defeat the purpose I'm doing another run now will update later
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] kaplanfa:
I've been using it for the last 5 days and it seems like the battery of the phone is a disaster.

To give you an idea, yesterday I charged it to %100, took the cable off and didn't touch the phone at all for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes I touch the screen to see the percentage of the battery and it was down to %99. I had already made the adjustments so there isn't really anything going on in the background. But even like that, it went down %1 in 15 minutes when the screen was completely off.

Samsung needs to send an update as soon as possible for the issue. I also can't wait for the new roms without bloatwares for this phone .

It is a very big shame because the phone itself is absolutely brilliant. It is a beast..

PS: Thanks to Samsung in Europe we can only have the exynos version which I don't know how much affect it would have on the battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Let it charge fully and unplug it after midnight 12, then use it without charging in between at all and just before next midnight 12(take a full screenshot then) you will get the correct SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] njan_ivide:
Just use accubattery people, it will give you the actual screen on time from charge to charge.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] javmuh01:
First discharge - AccuBattery Stats

Went from 100% to 21%.

Got 5h 8m of screen on time, with an estimated total of 6h 52min, discharge at 14.5%hr, discharging 73%

The screen off time was 7hr 56mins and discharged 6% during this time.

SOT looks okay from whats being reported. Wish I could have more SOT, but considering the phone has a huge, bright 120hz display and I've got the exynos variant, I'm okay with the numbers.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] angka8:
You serious?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] xXPheNomEnoNXx:
So, Yesterday i checked my Battery.

17 Hours without recharging, SOT 4hrs13min.

About 2hrs gaming and 1h Imgur, AOD enabled, max brightness, whole day wifi and bad cellular coverage, 120hz.

100% to 18%

not too bad i guess

btw Exynos/256gb
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] xORJSx:
I hope you read that as phone had been on for 3 hours, and only had 45 mins SOT with battery down to 75%?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] angka8:
Oh you are right. I read wrongly. Not sure what is wrong with the battery
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ca12bon:
Wow... That's quite different to the figures In getting.. I wonder if there was something wrong with my review unit. And by review unit, I really do mean that because there is a free Samsung service in Korea where you can rent the N20U for free for 3 days. I might have to borrow it again to see if I can get better battery life
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
I got less than 4 hours SOT from 100% to 1% with everything set on 'adaptive'. And the battery went from 100% to 85% during my sleep from midnight to 6:30. IMHO the battery performance on this phone sucks big time, I'm very disappointed:(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] d4rkkn16ht:
May be some apps are hogging your system.

I just got 5 hours 26 minutes with heavy use (WhatsApp Video Chat several times, Video Recording, casual game playing, e-shopping, some YouTube, always on BT, installing apps from PlayStore, etc...)

And during standby, the battery freezes in time?

This is my first full charge cycle
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] xORJSx:
How do you get such long use with Bluetooth on? My Bluetooth drains mine really fast, 15 minute car drive Bluetooth connected playing downloaded Spotify songs with the screen off, it takes a 5% hit with nothing running in background ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] d4rkkn16ht:
I didn't know how long & how much battery that the BT was consuming...What I know is my BT on the phone is always on since the first time I set it up.

I was using BT earbuds on some of the Video Calls, always used the buds on all of the Phone Calls/WA Calls, mostly used the buds on game, YT & Music playing.

One more thing, as more & more apps I installed, the battery seems draining faster during usage, but still slow drain on standby
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
As you can see in my screenshot, there's no particular application sucking the phone's resources. I can see the same with GSAM battery stats.

On the other hand, maybe you have the Snapdragon processor, while in Europe we have the Exynos crappy one :eek:. I'm curious if there are european phones with the same good statistics as yours.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] d4rkkn16ht:
As mentioned in my signature SM-N985F is an Exynos variant ?

...And according to the new regulation in my country, it's a hassle to get an imported phone now?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
Oh OK, then I suppose I'll just do a factory reset and check the battery life without installing any new application :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] mike28:
Updated usage from today shows when I charge it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] jordanofff:
Note 20 Ultra 5G Exynos at 120 Hz. Not bad. Not bad at all. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Cyrax-001:
How on earth
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Cyrax-001:
Also how..

Can you please guys share your settings and experience with the exynos variant? That is so impressive and contradicts with the mainstream. Or did I miss something lately
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] am84496:
Disable Bixby Routines, uninstall SmartThings app. However Exynos variant still get hot easily. 60Hz will give an extra hour of battery life. 9 hours is achievable easily. Bear in mind this is all on WiFi as I'm WFH at the moment.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Cyrax-001:
What difference does smart things make? I've never seen it among applications that drain battery. And I don't mind 7 hours sot with 120 Hz to be honest. I've always used to ~6 sot on my older mobiles so anything above that is good 😅
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] am84496:
I just uninstall smart things since I'm not using it anyway. Not really sure whether it contributes to battery drain as I've seen some report mentioned that it does drains the battery. I do not use power saving. Bluetooth always on. Mobile data always on although I'm on WiFi all the time. Location always on as well. Dual sim standby. AOD always on. Auto brightness. Keep screen on while viewing. 120Hz all time. Sync always on. Dark mode. Uninstall all unused preintstalled apps. That's basically it. On 120Hz 6 to 7 hours SOT. 60Hz is 8 to 9 SOT. Basically this is with continuous usage. I believe it will be less if you are not using your device much as the standby drain is around 1% to 1.3% per hour. Each person has different usage, if you are using the camera a lot, expect less SOT. If you are using it to watch a lot of movie, SOT will be higher definitely. I would say get the S21 Ultra as it comes with 5nm chip if SOT is your main concern. I would say N20U is not a two days device. Just barely make it at the end of the day with maybe 10% or 20% left. Alternatively get a Huawei device if GMS is not a concern to you. The device just works right out of the box without much tinkering with the settings. Battery life is amazing and no heat issue with their kirin chip. SOT easily north of 10 hours. This exynos **** just heats up even when watching YouTube and once heated up, the battery drains so fast.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Cyrax-001:
Thanks for the reply. As I said anything above 6 hours of sot is enough for me. I'm not seeking a 2-day one charge device. The s21 has better hardware for sure but I'm still a note fan and the screen on the note 20u is irresistible for me (I hate curved corners lol)

Your results look perfect for me. Are you using a custom, rooted ROM that allowed you to uninstall the bloatware?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] am84496:
Nope. Just the preintstalled ROM. I'm getting tired of flashing ROM. Used to do that back in the day of Note 3. Battery life is worse back then. 😄 Whatever apps that can be uninstall, I'll uninstall it. If not I'll just disable it. That's all I did. I believe flashing ROM is a bygone era. With the advancement of chip and battery capacity, we should be able to enjoy the device right out of the box without much worries. But still Same**** managed to fuxked it up big times and charge a premium for nothing. I personally believe the switch from N10+ to N20U is not worth it. Yes curved corner screen is ugly but for the sake of better chip, better display, larger battery, I'll go with S21U. Just add on the Spen if u really need it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Been good so far since preordered day no issues with battery life AT&T Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon , on 120hz
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Still getting Outstanding battery life since preordered day, over 10hrs SOT. AT&T Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon on 120hz
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Cyrax-001:
So after some time of thinking and trying both, I decided to get the N20U. The S21U has better specs but as a Note fan, I could compromise.

Battery life has been fine. I get almost 10% discharge for every hour of SOT. That means theoretically more than 9 hours in total which is really good for an Exynos mobile. The only thing I don't like is the standby discharge. I noticed after some research that the Bixby voice wake-up service uses more than 20% of the battery which is ridiculous since I don't even use Bixby. I turned off Bixby voice wake-up toggle but that didn't change anything and I still find this among the running services under the developers' menu.

Did anyone else notice this? is there a way to disable it permanently? I even tried blocking it using the alliance shield x but it didn't work and it remained active

Another thing is the Video call effects. This service is always active although I tried stopping it multiple times.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] kalotina:
What do you think exynos variant
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Ducter:
My first full day with the Note, I don't know what so many complain about with the battery as I feel it's pretty good. Out the box I flashed the 2 betas on my unlocked version to obtain e-sim and regular Sim. Outside that, pretty much stock.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Still getting Amazing battery life on AT&T Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] elmor0:
How?

Any tweaks to get this kind of battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
I definitely am impressed with my AT&T Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] elmor0:
You sure are amazed/ impressed.

I'm too!

Care to share how you achieved this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Sukhman Bajwa:
With Bixby Routines On, as I love it. But embarrassing screen on time with Exynos Version.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] genziutek:
Exynos version. Less than 1 hour on WiFi.. Rest on LTE.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Xrunner87:
Has anyone ever compared SOT with note10+? Upgrading from NOTE10+, considering buying a used NOTE20 ULTRA, I'm a bit worried about the SOT would be much worse than NOTE10+.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] blackbravo:
i have with a new battery changed by samsung, and the sot is far away of people post here...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Lido7979:
Use adbappcontrol. Very easy to use.you disable or delete apps with just one tap
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] paparazzo79:
Guys, just got this phone in uknown condition.I wanna see how good battery is.

Someone please tell me how do you test this phone with SOT?

Do you put to play 1080p video and let battery drain or what?

How much screen brightness,wireless,gps,bt OFF?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Goku1992:
We use the phone like everyday and then post our SOT (screen on time). No Lab test like running a video till phone is dead this would be dumb...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] paparazzo79:
Yeah but SOT will not be same if one user is watching 4K video full time,other browsing the websites and like third just mixed using of everything.

Or A am wrong?

Where is the option to check SOT,under battery menu/options?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] paparazzo79:
So with all power managment options enabled I just squeezed this (pic below).

Mobile internet was ON and whole time I was surffing the web.Pretty bad,huh?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] paparazzo79:
So I charged the phone to 90% and put 1080p yt video to play, so far from 90% to 50 % and around 4h of video playback.

I suppose pretty bad,huh?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
Haha, for me the problem was the same as on my Note 8 three years ago! I deactivated VoLTE calls (also the 5G because I don't have it yet) and the battery performance suddenly improved! Can you try this? I'm curious if it's only related to my service provider.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] rkaria1970:
Is this exynos + 120 hz?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] PsiPhiDan:
Snapdragon + 120Hz, auto brightness and optimized power mode. Wi-Fi mostly, with some mobile data sporadically.

About 7 hours of screen-on time. That's more than enough for me. Very happy. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] j_hansen:
I have mine since Wednesday last week.

Exynos 256gb 986B/DS version.

I'm at 51%battery left, it's 4h 36m since I took it off the charger at 100% and I have 4h 05m SoT

120hz all the time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] xORJSx:
I have had mine the same amount of time and not even managing 3 hours SOT from a full charge! What is your SOT consisting off like apps etc? And how is your standby drain? Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
A smartphone while connected to mobile data, should last from getting up in the morning to bedtime at night on moderate usage without the user having to cripple its features. This usage scenario doesn't arise always but having a batterylife like this is a peace of mind.

Instead of making the N20 Ultra thinner than the S20 Ultra, Samsung could have made it a bit more thick to accommodate the same capacity battery to have very good battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] mike28:
Snapdragon unlock 120hz
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] AndroidPurity:
Really good. I would say 4.5 stars but I will give it 5 because it definitely deserves more than 4. In averaging 6.5 hours of SOT over 15 hours without trying to conserve battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ca12bon:
For the people who are getting good/great battery life, are you gaming or streaming youtube/Netflix at all? Just wanted to see if it's possible to get good battery life (5hrs SOT or more) with a little gaming/streaming mixed in
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] AndroidPurity:
For those who keep wanting to see proof of someone truly getting good battery life on the phone, see the attached image.

Screen on Time: 6 Hours and 35 minutes

Total Time: 15 hours and 5 minutes

- Optimized Battery Mode

- Brightness: 90% Manual

- Color Mode: Vivid with color temp set cooler

- Haptic Touch Enabled

- Haptic Typing Enabled

- Always On Display enabled for tap to show

- Light Theme

- Ringer/Notification on about 50% Volume

- Mostly on WiFi during that day.

- Snapdragon 865+ Global Unlocked Model

- Phone setup clean with no app backup.

- Currently on August Security Patch

This day involved no gaming. I don't really game. About 25-30% of that screen on time was watching videos. The other 70-75% was social media, internet browsing, and messaging.

As you can see several settings were turned on and turned nearly to the max. I could likely get 8 hours of Screen On Time over 15 hours with a Dark Theme, and 50% brightness, medium power mode, and all vibrations off.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] j_hansen:
I keep screen brightness at max 50% as anything more is to bright/sharp on the eyes.

I keep location off unless I need it for something.

Standby time on it's own I'm not sure about as I have not really paid muct attention to it but it is definitely not as good as my Note 10 plus was, not yet anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Post Malone:
Report it via Samsung Members app

you should report it using Samsung Members app, it will send system log to directly to Samsung
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Vyshakh_88:
Got the phone (n20u exynos) yesterday at around 7:45 pm. It had 64 percent battery. Did the phone setup, sync and played around with dex. The phone got warm. Went to sleep at around 11:30 and the battery lasted me till today morning 6:30, with 2 hours sot. Don't feel its that bad. I also think it might improve further as it is still in the learning phase. Today i will be using the phone only on 4g and will post the stats.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Elastep:
Getting ~5-6 hours of SOT. 120hz on, not a heavy load. YouTube, Twitter, mail, browsing. Sd model. Pretty much same as note 10 plus.

Did anyone try to switch to 60hz and see how that affects the battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Dynalife:
Hi, im from a country where samsung give us an exynos product, talking about the battery life, is it really bad for the exynos model ? should I skip it and wait for the 21 model ? or is there a way to improve the battery life?, thanks...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] philliphermant:
Yes same questions here...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Moirae:
I'm willing to bet it will make a pretty big difference.

Snapdragon 120hz, First charge I got about 6 hours 10 mins SOT. No gaming and only a few YouTube videos, mostly just browsing and texting, couple of pics, and some flashlight use. Almost all of it was on Wi-Fi. Coming from a 5500 mah 2 year old phone I actually was happier with it so far than I thought I would be. If I can get another hour after it finishes learning my usage i'll be more than satisfied.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Battery life is outstanding with 120hz can't complain on AT&T Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon

This was yesterday left one and today's right one

Didn't tweak nothing brightness set to 90%, only thing i did was disable in apps settings the apps that were allowed to disable which were basically bloatware, power mode on Optimized.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] rkaria1970:
1st charge results on my N20U Exynos.

15hrs + 5hrs SOT on 120hz. Battery still in learning mode.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] bobbylechat:
At least 5h of SOT on my exynos version would be good for me. I'm still abroad and will get mine next Monday. Arrived at home on August 21st but is waiting for me :p i'll see how it goes but i have been really disappointed with the 3 last samsung phones i tested....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] themaximillian:
I've been getting at least 5hr SOT using my Exynos for YT, Instagram, Facebook and light gaming.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] bobbylechat:
Hopefully i’ll get the same ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Well with 120hz for the past week i have been getting 8hrs and half to 9hrs and half SOT, So i'm good with that on my AT&T Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB , with brightness at 90% to 95% power mode as optimized and disabled all the bloatwares i don't use i say it's Outstanding no need for me to test battery life i am good with that.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ram4ufriends:
Care to share the bloatwares you disabled? Used ADB or Package Disabled Pro?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Package Disabler Pro i use .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] bobbylechat:
Venom, this is what i cal excellent battery life ! I so wish i could get the same, even 7h since i will use the exynos version. Care to say what packages you disabled ? Are they carrier or samsung based ? Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] kaplanfa:
Could you please share the applications that you disabled?

I was away from Samsung for the last year. Before I had a note 4 that I used for more than 3 years with a custom rom without any problem. So i wasn't aware of the "Package Disabler Pro" application. If it works as good as you say, it might be the fist app that I get by paying.

Another question I have is:

If I start to use PDP, should I make a clean reset and flash the latest software manually? I updated the software within the phone itself after I use the phone couple of days.

I've really liked this phone but the battery life is taking all of the joy from it. Can't stand the fact that I have paid **** load of money and the battery life is like this.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Notefan161:
Getting 5-6 hours screen time exynos here
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MKchrias:
Best so far from my exynos
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] themaximillian:
What's the secret mate?

My Exynos doesn't give me those kind of figures.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] bobbylechat:
There is no secret, he charged his phone and used it after midnight, so the total SOT isn’t achieved on a single charge....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MKchrias:
Gsam info