Originally Posted by
pdqgp This exactly! I want to roll back to last Oct and stay there in terms of Android OS update.
I'm running a custom ROM on my T-Mobile Note 5 that is on the November 1 security update. I have owned this Note 5 a year in January and I have always complained about the battery life on this thing. At most I could barely get an hour screen time and it was never a phone I could count on being as my main phone.
A few weeks back, I installed this custom ROM on my phone with the November update and it seems to have finally made my phone half way usable. I've had to into recovery a few times in these two weeks to delete the cache because a few times, the battery would just start draining again with all apps closed. I was finally able to 4.5 hrs screen time, something I was never ever able to get in this year of using this phone.
This ROM had all the bloat removed and none of that other junk that the devs on the XDA forums love to throw into these ROMs.
You would have to root the phone of course to install a custom ROM and for me, that has been the only way over this past year to make this phone useable. I think I am somewhat finally happy.