Note 5 Battery life thread

[maskedcarrot]

I've thought about that too. But I can't give the camera and 2k AMOLED screen up...

Ya I totally agree. The camera on the Note 5 blows away the 6s camera.

I guess I'll see what happens with the replacement on Monday.

 

[aspiller1998]

Android system is at 1 hr & 8 min now

 

[aspiller1998]

What's funny is that my friend has a galaxy grand prime with 5.1.1 on tmo and gets better SOT than my note 5.

 

[Venom0642]

For those having issues with Battery drain, why don't you do this to calibrated your battery, on the dialer press *#0228# after will show a menu with battery details and in the bottom a button saying QUICK START, press there and it will lock the display, unlock and wait a little bit at till get a message. After close everything and drain the battery at till 0 and after full charge and then should be calibrated , this works on any Samsung phone.

 

[dennisharrison]

Almost 3k posts here. New Note 5 owner. Does anyone know if the tips/tweaks have been summarized somewhere yet?

 

[Aaron_Jones]

For those having issues with Battery drain, why don't you do this to calibrated your battery, on the dialer press *#0228# after will show a menu with battery details and in the bottom a button saying QUICK START, press there and it will lock the display, unlock and wait a little bit at till get a message. After close everything and drain the battery at till 0 and after full charge and then should be calibrated , this works on any Samsung phone.

Is there a certain percentage that the battery has to be at in order for this to work properly?

Does it matter if I use the quick charger or a slow charger?

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[Venom0642]

Is there a certain percentage that the battery has to be at in order for this to work properly?

Does it matter if I use the quick charger or a slow charger?

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Doesn't matter if it's quick or slow charger, first you need to let battery hit 5 % then dial the code i mentioned after that recharge.

 

[Venom0642]

Doesn't matter if it's quick or slow charger, first you need to let battery hit 5 % then dial the code i mentioned after that recharge.

Actually i myself did it this way dial in code where ever your battery percentage is at then once you reach at 5% recharge phone at 100% works this way as well mate. @Aaron_Jones

 

[Aaron_Jones]

Actually i myself did it this way dial in code where ever your battery percentage is at then once you reach at 5% recharge phone at 100% works this way as well mate. @Aaron_Jones

Thanks, I'm at 9% now and im at work, but I don't have my fast charger with me. I will keep it close to 10% til I get home.

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[dennisharrison]

For those having issues with Battery drain, why don't you do this to calibrated your battery, on the dialer press *#0228# after will show a menu with battery details and in the bottom a button saying QUICK START, press there and it will lock the display, unlock and wait a little bit at till get a message. After close everything and drain the battery at till 0 and after full charge and then should be calibrated , this works on any Samsung phone.

I'm not sure we should be advocating running this on phones carteblanch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561236&page=3

 

[anon(9228075)]

If we got a fix for the WiFi cell standby bug I'd be happy camper.

I'm 11 hours on battery, 6 of them sleep overnight time, 3:45 of screen on time, 44% left and my breakdown is 26% of use is cell standby.

26% !!!!!

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[burwil]

If you have GSam please post your graph showing phone signal strength. Note here I arrive to work very early in the morning. My cell strength jumps up considerably as I get a much better cell signal at work than at home.

 

[Aaron_Jones]

I hope I can get a MOD to delete this post and I will repost the right one...

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[burwil]

Ooops, you did temperature.

 

[anon(9228075)]

If you have GSam please post your graph showing phone signal strength. Note here I arrive to work very early in the morning. My cell strength jumps up considerably as I get a much better cell signal at work than at home.

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I don't have it but am going to go download it now.

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[Aaron_Jones]

Phone Signal chart

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[burwil]

Mine updated with more data..

Point of all this is that a weak signal is going to drain your battery more. And while I see that Gsam looks at your phone signal and classifies it as 'medium' I bet if you look at Settings/System/About Device/Status/Sim card status, you'll find your signal strength probably near or above -100 dbm....anything in triple digits is bad. For example, in an extreme case, I took a trip out to the sticks while on T-Mobile. My cell coverage was horrible...I was barely getting any signal at all. I come home and look at my data usage....it had skyrocketed during that period even though it wasn't receiving any data. I could only surmise it was the cell phone working extra hard to grab signal.

 

[anon(9228075)]

I've never used GSam. Any special settings or is it good straight as is upon install ?

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[Venom0642]

Here's how 4G LTE Network in my area works so far, and this isn't bad it's normal

Of course if i was at home with wifi it's better.

 

[burwil]

That's kinda my profile. When it's mostly not in use, about 3% per hour. It was even better before I added my Gear S2 Watch and a bunch of apps.