Note 5 Battery life thread

[Kelly Kearns]

Honestly, where is the button to show "on screen time"? I could have sworn I've seen it before...

Look at what is listed under the battery graph. Where screen is listed, tap there and it shows SOT.

 

[anon(153966)]

...that's the weird thing; "screen" isn't a choice.

PS: weird, sometimes my images show up twice...

 

[Kelly Kearns]

...that's the weird thing; "screen" isn't a choice.

Has your phone been idle a long time?

 

[anon(153966)]

...well, during the night. And so far today, I've been just checking 'lite' stuff, and taking screen shots

Has your phone been idle a long time?

 

[Kelly Kearns]

...well, during the night. And so far today, I've been just checking 'lite' stuff, and taking screen shots

Hmm.. If it doesn't show up soon, try a reboot.

 

[anon(153966)]

I should have mentioned, I've been there, done that. Rather odd really.
And, its not like I've installed weird widgets, etc.

Hmm.. If it doesn't show up soon, try a reboot.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

I should have mentioned, I've been there, done that. Rather odd really.
And, its not like I've installed weird widgets, etc.

That's odd. Did you just reboot it do the hard reset (holding down power and volume DOWN) until it reboots? That is like a battery pull in old Samsungs.

It should show up when you charge again. Also, when something isn't working right, there is always the cache wipe, it can fix many issues.

 

[erasat]

...well, during the night. And so far today, I've been just checking 'lite' stuff, and taking screen shots

Just keep using it normal, it will appears eventually. That's a weird "glitch" I've seen in all my S6 (S6, S6 edge and S6 Active) and now it seems that it was passed to the Note 5 and I'm sure to the S6 edge+.

 

[DX9]

Not a bad run.

**Edit**. I'll add that I have a business Gmail account synced and another email fetching every 15 min. I usually have about 20 or so emails a day. I browse alot and use Instagram and twitter a good amount. I don't game.

 

[quangtran1]

Not a bad run.

Not bad at all. Mine is similar. GPS, Bluetooth, wifi, nfc all on.

 

[andrew_ackley]

My Verizon Note 5 tends to be at about 10% higher throughout the day than my s6 edge. Its marginally better. I can end the day with about 7% vs before I would have to charge at some point thoughout the day. If you need a phone that has a really good battery I would suggest looking elsewhere. The 200-300 maH lost from the Note 4 seems to have made a difference. I never had to worry about battery with my Old Note 4.

 

[MikeekiM]

When you aren't testing the battery life on your phone, do you tend to top it off whenever possible?

I find that I during the working day, I am either at my desk or in my car...in both situations I can keep it plugged in... I am not sure what that does to the battery life... Charging in this manner keeps the battery level between 95% and 100% back and forth all day... Weekends (and unusual business days) are different...

Today, I am testing my battery life, so even in the car with Waze and Google Play Music streaming to work, I kept it off the cord... But that's very unusual...I would never do that in normal practice...

 

[Kelly Kearns]

When you aren't testing the battery life on your phone, do you tend to top it off whenever possible?

I find that I during the working day, I am either at my desk or in my car...in both situations I can keep it plugged in... I am not sure what that does to the battery life... Charging in this manner keeps the battery level between 95% and 100% back and forth all day... Weekends (and unusual business days) are different...

Today, I am testing my battery life, so even in the car with Waze and Google Play Music streaming to work, I kept it off the cord... But that's very unusual...I would never do that in normal practice...

I generally don't plug it in until I need to. Now of course, there are times I am planning to go somewhere and I'll go ahead and charge when I don't need to.

 

[tanson1011]

Anyone know what this SVF app is? Did a Google search and couldn't find anything on it. I disabled it. See if anything happens to my phone...

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Anyone know what this SVF app is? Did a Google search and couldn't find anything on it. I disabled it. See if anything happens to my phone...

Not off the top of my head, but that icon looks like a sync icon..

 

[Kelly Kearns]

I've been running the ShutApp and then added Doze and this is what I have after that.

 

[kcodya]

Changing "Turn off pen detection" to "off" (as pictured) really helped my battery life, an I can't tell the difference in functionality.

 

[quangtran1]

Changing "Turn off pen detection" to "off" (as pictured) really helped my battery life, an I can't tell the difference in functionality.

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Most definitely. I've always disabled that option.

 

[dunamis]

I've been running the ShutApp and then added Doze and this is what I have after that.

what is your carrier? what apps have have you selected on "DOZE"?

 

[erasat]

I've been running the ShutApp and then added Doze and this is what I have after that.

So How does it compares with previous day with just ShutApp?

The problem is that with Doze's update yesterday some things were changed that affects the way it handles the blocked connections (according to what I was told) so it may be possible that it works even better now, what I'm saying is don't uninstall it just yet if you don't really like it and give it one more full charge cycle and see, then you'll have more data to compare and get to your conclusions.