Note 5 Battery life thread

[burwil]

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

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Yeah, let 'er rip. It's just gotta be off charger.When you first open it up the graph page is represented in an icon in the lower left of the screen. Click that and then click phone signal. Of course there is all sorts of other useful information it provides.

 

[anon(9228075)]

Yeah, let 'er rip. It's just gotta be off charger.When you first open it up the graph page is represented in an icon in the lower left of the screen. Click that and then click phone signal. Of course there is all sorts of other useful information it provides.

OK here is phone signal



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[anon(9228075)]

Hees is my signal strength from my phone settings here at home where the cell standby happens so bad

It's -88 to -90 dBm on average

50asu

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[burwil]

That's pretty decent phone signal strength. I don't think you have a problem with cell standby. And otherwise you battery life seems good given your screen time. Those percentages you mentioned earlier can be a bit misleading.....the numbers have to go somewhere and add to 100%

 

[anon(9228075)]

That's pretty decent phone signal strength. I don't think you have a problem with cell standby. And otherwise you battery life seems good given your screen time. Those percentages you mentioned earlier can be a bit misleading.....the numbers have to go somewhere and add to 100%

I'm going to check overnight when I have the most drain.

What is a good dBm #

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[burwil]

My chart with the strong cell signal has dbms of -82 or so IIRC. I haven't made the comparison in awhile. Right now it sucks at home..... Around -105.

Edit...just checked the phone at work....-78 dbms. Which will correspond to the Gsam graph I posted earlier. AT&T blows away T-Mobile at my work location...I couldn't get better than -105 with that carrier. A co-worker had brought by last year's Nexus 6 from AT&T to my office awhile back. He registered in the high -60s and low -70s IIRC but that's with Moto's antenna. Whenever you are trying to solve signal problems and you've reached an impasse, consider trading into a Moto phone.

 

[calicocat2010]

My chart with the strong cell signal has dbms of -82 or so IIRC. I haven't made the comparison in awhile. Right now it sucks at home..... Around -105.

My signal strength is -103 dBm 36 asu

 

[anon(9228075)]

My chart with the strong cell signal has dbms of -82 or so IIRC. I haven't made the comparison in awhile. Right now it sucks at home..... Around -105.

Edit...just checked the phone at work....-78 dbms. Which will correspond to the Gsam graph I posted earlier. AT&T blows away T-Mobile at my work location...I couldn't get better than -105 with that carrier. A co-worker had brought by last year's Nexus 6 from AT&T to my office awhile back. He registered in the high -60s and low -70s IIRC but that's with Moto's antenna. Whenever you are trying to solve signal problems and you've reached an impasse, consider trading into a Moto phone.

So lower dBm is better ?

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[dennisharrison]

So lower dBm is better ?

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Yup! Don't look for anything lower than 70 realistically WRT these LTE bands.

 

[anon(9228075)]

And below is 2 screenshots of my battery #'s and a Gsam of signal strength.

Don't pay attention to the hours on and remaining because they are skewed. I charged to 100% and took off charger around 8:30 pm, didn't use much at all and went to sleep around 10:00. The screenshot is at 7:10 and cell standby is 15% (now it is 17% at 8:16) and was down to 75%. So it went down at least 20% or more overnight in sleep mode, screen off but wifi on.

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[calicocat2010]

And below is 2 screenshots of my battery #'s and a Gsam of signal strength.

Don't pay attention to the hours on and remaining because they are skewed. I charged to 100% and took off charger around 8:30 pm, didn't use much at all and went to sleep around 10:00. The screenshot is at 7:10 and cell standby is 15% (now it is 17% at 8:16) and was down to 75%. So it went down at least 20% or more overnight in sleep mode, screen off but wifi on.

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So,the orange line is the Phone signal?

 

[anon(9228075)]

So,the orange line is the Phone signal?

Yes. Other is battery level

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[anon(9228075)]

I just noticed it didn't post both screenshots. The other was just the battery from main settings showing 17% cell standby.

So the flat line. I'm assuming that was when it was sitting beside my bed not moving. Is that signal bad or good or is that the bug that Verizon has when asleep on wifi ? The spikes up seem to be when the screen is on and using it.

Right now I'm at 58% and cell standby is 26% of my usage. Been on wifi the whole cycle.

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[anon(9228075)]

Because here is the signal now that I've been in office using it on and off.

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[jgraves1107]

Verizon sells a wireless battery charger. I picked one up to make life a bit easier should I need a charge at work. Works great with the Note 5.
Quick edit. Anyone notice android system is sending mobile data while wifi is on? I don't recall seeing this with my Note 4.

 

[burwil]

Not familiar what this Verizon bug suppose to be. Your standby percentage is going to be almost meaningless if you are not using your phone or lightly using it. The percentages have to add up to 100% so it would make sense that cell standby is very high because your phone isn't doing anything else.

 

[palanilopez12]

So just wondering because my battery has issues too (max 3 SOT hours), is it a hardware issue and we should return our phones to be replaced?

Have you done this yet?

 

[anon(9228075)]

Not familiar what this Verizon bug suppose to be. Your standby percentage is going to be almost meaningless if you are not using your phone or lightly using it. The percentages have to add up to 100% so it would make sense that cell standby is very high because your phone isn't doing anything else.

The Verizon bug is cell standby drain on the battery when on wifi. Like bad drain. More than any other carrier.

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[Venom0642]

So far at 27% SOT over 5 hrs, before the end of the day I'll definitely be at 7hrs SOT

 

[burwil]

Does Verizon have calling via WiFi? If so you might want to try toggling that.

The Verizon bug is cell standby drain on the battery when on wifi. Like bad drain. More than any other carrier.

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