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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
Do you have the 'smart stay' enabled?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] sugarcos:
No, but i have double tap to wake. I will try disable that also.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] bobbylechat:
I’m sorry but for this price and kind of device, we should not have to disable almost all useful features in order to have decent battery life.... mine will be returned tomorrow. Trying an oppo find x2 pro, at least i’ll have the performance of SD865, wireless charging will be missed but wired charging is so fast that i want to give it a try
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] CoolPyr0:
Iam Thinking too for resell it for Battery Life
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] black96ss:
SOT with snapdragon unlocked was very poor for a week. Was only getting 4.5 hours SOT with full.brightness and heavy usage. My note 10 plus was 6.5 -7. I changed two settings which were (turned off 5g and download the app to adjust the refresh rate to 96 hrtz). Since that change im now getting consistent 7-8 hours SOT with the same usage patterns. So I may try turning one of those on at a time so break down further to see which one is the igger battery hog culprit.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] butchieboy:
Like I said, turning on a 1hr video and watching it on YouTube is not a true measure of SOT. I have tested this theory and yes doing that gave me an unreal screen on time. Actually using the phone is different. I charge to 85% and don't let it drop past 15%. This was the old standard for prolonging the battery. Dont know if it actually works in this day and age..lol but its what I'm used to. I never let my device drain down past 5%...lol why intentionally do that? With charging to 85% im averaging over 6hrs screen time and I think that is pretty darn good. Right now I'm at 50% with over 3hrs screen time. No I didn't throw phone on charger, haven't charged since yesterday. Not running 120hz...several apps disabled from running in background..display at about 65% brightness...black wallpaper..Gmail sync is off. If I want email I just open it and swipe down to update. No reason to have it pinging and looking for my phone all day. Under improve accuracy, wifi and Bluetooth scanning turned off. No need to have that searching all the time. My home wifi connects and Bluetooth in my truck so therefore no need to have it constantly searching. Mobile Network diagnostic turned off...lol At&t wouldn't do a damn thing anyway if there was a problem so why have it on.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] James vinny:
100% battery to 15% with a screen on time of 5hrs to 5 1/2 hrs (consistently poor) compared to my note 10 plus thats a year old now and that's getting 7 1/2 hours at 17%, (info from device care app)

screen is set to 60hz the rest is out the box!! with adaptive brightness

exynos :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] K0wneD:
Day of heavy use today. Used WhatsApp video call for hour and a half, YouTube for an hour or so and Google maps navigation and couple of phone calls and switch between FB and Insta entire day. Got SOT of 6hrs and 15minutes from 100 to 15%
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
If i bought the phone then i am going to use the 120hz, to me it doesn't make no sense in buying the Note20 Ultra and use it at 60hz, if that was the case then i would just keep using my Note10 Plus, Also i wanted to make sure that everyone knows i am not trying to flame anyone here, it's just my opinion how i see it, But i bought the Note20 Ultra to enjoy the 120hz which i can definitely tell the difference from a 60hz And in no way will i go back to a 60hz. Anyway everyone has there own preferences and i respect that, just thought i say how i feel. And again not trying to disrespect anyone, It's your phone, it's your money ?, anyways.

Peace out, Hope everyone enjoys there new Note20 Ultra.

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Also forgot to mention you guy's know there's a trick where you can put your phone in power mode in power medium saving with 120hz enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] James vinny:
i only set mine to 60 to test how bad it is, but i agree!! 100%
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Here's the trick with having power mode in power medium saving with 120hz on, Works on all S20 lines and Note20 Ultra. This will save you at least another 2hrs of battery life.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] umbrokhan:
Turn off auto brightness and turn off adaptive power saving. See if that helps
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MatroxD:
After 24 hours owning. Going into my first actual recharge. It looks like this one hopefully will get better over the next couple charges. But it got me through the day. Ultimately, that's really all that matters..View attachment 5091573
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] saidgta:
Yes??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] cpufrost:
Definitely missing that extra 500mAh the S20 Ultra has!

Still, however, SOT is acceptable. Haven't been stranded.

But it trails behind my S20 Ultra 512 and iPhone 11 Pro Max 512.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Commandermadi:
Battery life is still terrible after 5 days of usage. I hardly get 4hrs SOT from 100% to 15%.

Brightness at 45% - 50% and 120hz display. Gonna test from 100% to 15% again at 60hz and see the difference. However I didnt buy this phone to use it at 60 hz so I will see if the battery didnt improve im sending it back.

PS: using the LTE exynos 990 version with 8GB RAM.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Ceza21:
Screen set to 120hz ,Bluetooth always on

Location on,dual sim always on etc...

Not happy with it at all..can't even go near my 1 year old note 10+ 5g..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Moirae:
Best sot yet. Using the med power high refresh trick and refresh cap to 96hz. I don't use high brightness or auto brightness. tbh I really don't understand how some of you have it at 50% all day. Its like looking at the sun to me, brightest screen I've ever seen on a phone.

OH and I'm sd, really happy with my sot now after doing the trick. If I need all day sot this is definitely easy way to do it and phone still snappy af.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Ceza21:
Another one with 120hz display..View attachment 5093073
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] 307pavlos:
Hi guys, im getting my n20u 512gb sd865+ HK version on friday and i will post the results here. One quick question. What do you mean when you say battery is still learning your usage and how can i use my phone so i can get a better battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Moirae:
Finally plugged in the charger but I got about 9hrs sot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] K0wneD:
Note20 Ultra SD and 8hrs SOT since last full charge
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] dule2303:
0% call??? Of course you have 8h sot ,you have 0 callls
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] K0wneD:
Yes. I've had Duo and WhatsApp calls not network calls
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MrMike2182:
That's a really good SOT! After a week I'm now getting 14/15 hours SOT. I let my daughter watch YouTube on it all day the other day and made sure she never stuck it on the charger and the total SOT was 10 hours 37 minutes with 24% battery remaining and it said I still had a little over 4 hours left at 24%.. I think it majorly sucks that Exynos users are getting bad battery life that's terrible for 1,300 dollars which is really almost 1,500 dollars after taxes!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] butchieboy:
Not calling anyone out. But I think some are throwing a couple movies on to get these really high screen times or throwing it on charger for a bit. I could be wrong but gave pointed it out to a couple peeps. I have the exact same setup across the board for my NoteFe..Note8..9..10+ and the 20ultra. My 10 + kills the ultra even having the Ultra set to 60hz im averaging about 5hrs. But I actually use the phone so I'm good with that.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MrMike2182:
If they don't want to show this screen where you can see when it's being charged just by looking at the graph when it goes up that means it's been charging, then they probably are doing that or something similar.

Edit: I don't know what's wrong with the website not showing the attachments or what but I'll check it again later.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MatroxD:
Yeah it's not too bad honestly. Pretty much what my 10+ was doing. I'm not getting overly excited about it anymore though. I was at first, as I read and watched a couple reviews before purchasing mine(they said the battery life was poor compared to the 10+). But now, it's just business as usual.

I wake up about 5:25, have Bluetooth, location on(my watch, and I see no need to turn location off), get in the car, use music from it, turn the wifi off(Bixby routine), get to work, listen to music while working all day(using the s pen to control the music) , may watch a couple quick YouTube videos to cure the boredom and monotony, listen to more music to finish the day at work, get back to the car, go home, wifi back on, may use it as a roku remote or not, may do some changes to my aquarium or not, just depends on the day, but for sure read tapatalk(forums)and flipboard. Turn in about 11, and start all over again. With this daily routine, like now, I never burn through the battery in a day(work day) . If I get down to 40%, that's saying something..View attachment 5094197View attachment 5094199
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ram4ufriends:
How are you theming status bar and quick settings panel?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MatroxD:
Hex Installer...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Commandermadi:
Update: So now I have the ultra LTE version for 10 days and battery life has significantly improved. It is done "learning my usage patterns" and Screen on time now is much better than in the couple first days.

Here are two screenshots, 1 on September 4th and one today September 9th, almost 2 more hours screen on time with a very similar usage pattern and the same settings for brightness (45 - 50), optimized mode and bluetooth always on with watch connected all the time and earbuds connected for more than 6 hours and 120hz ofc.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Ceza21:
its slightly better 6h screen on time with galaxy watch 3 connected 120hz screen on and dual sim inserted..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] tribalfs:
After reading few posts here, I can say that there are still many users who are misoriented on Samsung's SOT report, by just looking on the SOT figure alone. They missed to consider the recharges/top-ups made during that day (which is visible in the graph)

Proper SOT test (and comparison) should made on a single full battery cycle.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] butchieboy:
This has been my point all along..lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MatroxD:
I'm curious. It may be a bit of topic, but, I am wondering what people could watch on YouTube on a phone for 10,12 or 14 hours?

I guess I'm curious, because yes, I could watch a documentary series for that long on my television(that's me personally), but not on my phone..

Lol, I actually woke up wondering this(well, has the average middle aged dude wake up call). Madness on my part, but I guess one of those questions that makes me say:hmmnnn...

This is more of a question than anything, for anyone that spends a ton of time on YouTube. Not creating, but consuming content.

Also, I'm curious if most people even talk(like call in the traditional sense) anymore, for the most part. I can use myself for example once again, even my wife and i, we text a ton during the week(same for my mother and me) because we are at work. On the weekends, yes we speak(in person), but nothing like on the telephone, before cellular devices came into play.

I'm curious, of trends, partly because of this battery discussion and threads like them, and then, I just wonder also. Because it seems there are really 2 types of cell users(i may be wrong). 1 the multi task person(makes very few calls, and may have a work phone) , and should I say the traditional person(calls and talks a lot)?

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And the other curious thing i really wonder, is, who walks around with a charger? My wife never charges her phone at night, therefore she's just like an iPhone owner and user in my book(and I make fun of her constantly because of this when I'm not annoyed by it), that your tethered to charge. Or, your like on pins and needles about your phone dying..

I guess because I have a routine, I'm curious what other note users do. Because this also will affect how and when you charge your device.

I'm asking, as I am one for certainty and somewhat regimental, and not, as I call it "willy nilly" or as it happens, it happens type of thing(s)...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] raul6:
i essentially had to resort to using Tasker to have only selected apps to run either @ 120 or 60hz and the rest under @48 hz in order to achieve 5.30hrs sot with adaptive refresh. Before that it was running just under 4 hrs (even my Note 4 could achieve that) which was unacceptable. With any luck future firmwares updates will be better optimised
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ggrant3876:
I find the stand by drain right on par with my Note 10 Plus. It was fully charged at 7 PM last night and this morning at 6 AM was at 95%. I installed Nap Time by Francisco Franco with a couple of adb commands for the aggressive doze features.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] xORJSx:
Went to bed last night at 1am at 100% battery. No apps are running, i have a bixby routine that puts the phone into power saving mode while not in use over night. Woke up 7 hours later at 8am and the phone had gone down to 93%, so it has gone down 7% which is 1% percent every hour being lost. Looking at app usage nothing was running in the background this entire time. Had my device for 5 days now so has gone through learning stage. This is ridiculous standby drain, is anyone else having the same issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] TechPurist:
Yes my drain is also bad. Are you guys running Snapdragon or Exynos?

I am Exynos unfortunately.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] njan_ivide:
Can any one try standby drain after installing naptime? Let us know if it helps reduce the drain.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] raul6:
I'm using Naptime and I think it does help with standby drain. it is in the par with note10 at around 6-7% over night.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] freezingpoint:
Can you share your settings? Do you run naptime the entire day or schedule it only at night?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ggrant3876:
I run it all the timed. Here's a screen of my settings, I don't disable BT on doze as I have my Note connected to my Panasonic home phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] behemot24:
For me it was much worse, about 3% per hour during sleep! I just deactivated VoLTE calls (and also the 5G just in case) and it's much better all of a sudden! Can you try this, maybe it's the same problem for you?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] MidwestFire:
Motion smoothness is the culprit

I have been playing around with Note 20 Ultra (T-mobile carrier locked version - SM-N986U)

I turned off 5G (Connections --> Mobile Networks --> Network Mode --> Switched to LTE/3G/2G (auto connect)

But even with 5G off my battery drained this morning while only have google maps open 10% in 45 minutes!

All my apps that I frequently use I have gone one by one under battery usage and selected put app to sleep.

My power mode was at optimized with so I lowered it to Medium Power saving and that looks like it took care of it.

If I go back to Optimized but keep motion smoothness at standard then the phone seems to handle battery usage much better (this is all with sync on for email push).

It much more on par with my previous Razer Phone and closer to iPhone XR territory.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] AndroidPurity:
Amazing. Only discharges about 0.5% per hour. Thats with always on display turned on.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] ram4ufriends:
Wow..you could be the first use reporting this less standby drain..I have 1% per hour with Always on and 0.5% without Always on...any special tweaks you did to achieve this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] AndroidPurity:
My mistake on this. My Always On Display is set to tap to wake only.

However to get best battery life possible with Always On Display set to be on full-time, turn off auto brightness, then you can manually set the brightness down the lowest setting.

That might get you down to 0.75% per hour, but I haven't tested that myself on this phone. However with my S10+ I did that and it helped a lot. Only downfall is you can't see Always On Display in bright sunlight. However indoors is usually still visible.
[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.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] umx:
i avg .9-1.0% a hour with screen off over night..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Post Malone:
Use Samsung Members app

if you're having an issue with battery drainage, report it to Samsung directly via Samsung Members app.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] jacktackle:
Snapdragon. Switch off wifi and normal powersaving mode with 5g still on.

7hrs sleep time, consumes battery 4%
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] rsbenedict:
I'm losing 4 % each to Google and Youtube, though the apps aren't running. I've forced them to sleep when not being used and hoping that will slow the drain. I'll have to wait a couple of days to see if that has helped.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Proday:
About 4% for a 8.5 hours of sleeping, not bad [emoji6]View attachment 5097301
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] warriorvibhu:
How do you know its 4%. i think its more. Also on a personal note Who uses Tinder bro? Get rid of that crap. Plenty better stuff out there. Not to offend everyone has their own taste, i just said it on a light note.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Proday:
Fully loaded ->100% and found it at morning @96...thats I'm certain about 4%
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] warriorvibhu:
Lucky you man. I am losing 15 to 16%, I think thats not good.. anyhow i will explore further the cause for it..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Proday:
If you have exynos n20u, don't look further [emoji2960][emoji6]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] maxpaynezm:
Exynos ,night 100% morning 95%
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] freezingpoint:
I get 6% drain over 8 hours normally on exynos, sometimes up to 9hrs - that's about 0.6-0.8% per hour.

Wifi on, mobile data on, location on, DND on (I believe sync is off due to this), optimized mode, tap to show AOD

I think this is the norm for exynos, had similar results with S20 ultra.

During the day on wifi it's probably 1% per hour.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] bmonteiro:
Using Exynos version. Yesterday which was my first day of use had a drain of only 2% from 23:00 to 08:00
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] eVoHicks:
Exynos user, around 3 - 4 % max overnight 22.30 - 06.30

But after I charge it and get to work, it drops fairly quickly in standby. My work place reception is very patchy in different areas and frequently gets no bars, just like my Note 10+ did and I could lose 10 - 15% battery in no time with just a call or two and a couple of texts.

A lot of battery drain does depend on your signal for sure.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Try it not from "fully loaded" and then report back.

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Losing less than 0.5% standby per hour on my Exynos dual sim. Really pleased all else considering.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Proday:
I had all last exynos flagship and that story with 0.5% in hour is impossible. With note 10 exynost I've lost 10-15% in 7-8 hours when sleeping.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
I already told you what I was losing. Next time I'll post pics that I'll take from GSAM to prove it, also don't use Aeroplane mode nor do I use those samsung battery saving gimmicks. You can also do the same. But like I mentioned before testing it from max 100% battery charge shows a false result in favour of battery loss. Try it with 90% before going to bed.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Here's one measurement from accubattery pro from last night.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
Stock build exynos with no packages disabled at all. Only utilizing the sleep and deep sleep features built in Android.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Jostian:
I lose about 3 to 4% overnight, my data is off only wifi on, not in 5G mode (not about yet and it eats battery looking for 5G). I don't think one can expect much better. Definitely better than S20U that I had about a month ago.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] blackspp:
This is my drain, all bloatware removed or disabled, cell/wifi on. Tonight I will check with all data off.

Update: with all wifi/data/BT off the drain over an 8 hour sleep period is 0.5%/h
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] WeiLiang78:
Wah 1 hour you use only 7%? That's amazing man... what resolution and % brightness?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] JaneSp:
try to go to a specialist that repairs mobile phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] skysatan:
My drain is only bad when i turn 5g
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
So much samsung added pork on the device. However, the best I could manage provisionally is 0.5 to 0.4% per hour drain in standby.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Deanro:
i wonder why my phone drains slowly certain times but other times it drains so fast when I'm not doing anything to it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] thinpaduser:
If you use an application like "Killapps" to forcestop system and user apps without root, I noticed that my battery lasted atleast 1 hr SOT longer.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] itvaletchu:
Weak phone signal = bad battery (3% per hour in idle)

Good phone signal = good battery (0,4% per hour in idle)

This is probably the answer if you have Exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Real Life Review] Limeybastard:
0.5% per hour drain over night lte on, as are multiple messaging apps 5G off. No Naptime or BS used for restrictions, Same drain as Exynos that I owned before.