Note 5 battery life sucks - How many are having to charge their phones more than once a day?

[carlos12001]

Turning off Google now seems to have helped my battery life out.

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[carlos12001]

There is no reason for this. No explanation for the drain that I can see.

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If you just coming from a clean install you have to at least give it a week before you start complaining about battery life.

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[anon(5719825)]

If you just coming from a clean install you have to at least give it a week before you start complaining about battery life.

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I gave it a week when I first got the phone. It never got any better so I searched and searched to find a custom ROM with all the bloat removed. After doing this several times, I can't help but believe it is that carrier and samsung/Google bloat that is helping to drain the battery.

 

[beenzy]

I constantly use a wireless charger that I have sitting near me. Battery is a non issue when I just set it on the charger when I'm not using it. I also have a fast charger in the car (just in case).

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[mhettrich]

It depends on my usage, but I'm usually charging my phone fully over night and then usually have to throw it on the charger again around 4-5pm.

 

[Trees]

When root/ROM was possible on the Galaxy S3/Note 2 (Verizon), just being able to root and then use Titanium Backup to freeze bloat helped extend battery life. Going with a stable and well done custom ROM like CleanROM was an even better experience for not only battery life, but how well those phones operated - lag free, smooth, and fast - like the Note 5 is now. I do miss those days.

Now I just try to uninstall or disable as many carrier or Samsung apps that I don't want. An example is the Amazon app that came with the Marshmallow update. I noticed it was using 3% battery and I had never even opened it up. Disabled that thing right away, which is unfortunate as I do actually want to use the app from time to time. On my wife's Note 5, she noticed that the "Caller Name ID" app was using up to 5% battery life and constantly popping up wanting to activate. Disabled that.

 

[anon(5719825)]

When root/ROM was possible on the Galaxy S3/Note 2 (Verizon), just being able to root and then use Titanium Backup to freeze bloat helped extend battery life. Going with a stable and well done custom ROM like CleanROM was an even better experience for not only battery life, but how well those phones operated - lag free, smooth, and fast - like the Note 5 is now. I do miss those days.

Now I just try to uninstall or disable as many carrier or Samsung apps that I don't want. An example is the Amazon app that came with the Marshmallow update. I noticed it was using 3% battery and I had never even opened it up. Disabled that thing right away, which is unfortunate as I do actually want to use the app from time to time. On my wife's Note 5, she noticed that the "Caller Name ID" app was using up to 5% battery life and constantly popping up wanting to activate. Disabled that.

It really is amazing how much better the battery life is when you disable all that garbage.

I kept trying to find a custom ROM that I liked and every one of them had something that I didn't like in them and most of them made a few apps I use display a distorted settings page within the app so I was never happy. I finally found one that does not do that but I still have one minor annoyance with it and that's the way it displays dialed phone numbers. The numbers are all just grouped together as one big umber instead of (XXX)-XXX-XXXX. Haven't found a way to change that and I can deal with that.

I have a Note Edge that I was able to find a ROM for that is as close to stock as possible but just has the bloat stripped out. I haven't found anything like that yet but I'll keep looking.

 

[Rafael Bernardes]

I'm charging it many times a day. But in my case it is because I'm never able to get its battery full (100%) when I charge it while it is turned on. lol, i don't even remember when was the last time I was able to full charge my note 5... I guess the 1h30m fast charge advertise only works with the phone turned off.

 

[carlos12001]

I'm charging it many times a day. But in my case it is because I'm never able to get its battery full (100%) when I charge it while it is turned on. lol, i don't even remember when was the last time I was able to full charge my note 5... I guess the 1h30m fast charge advertise only works with the phone turned off.

Of course it only works when your not using the phone, otherwise it would get too hot.

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[carlos12001]

I never noticed any difference when disabled all the carrier bloat and a few samsung apps.

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[Rafael Bernardes]

I was not talking about charging while using the phone. Instead, I was talking about charging while the phone is turned on, but with screen off.

 

[carlos12001]

I was not talking about charging while using the phone. Instead, I was talking about charging while the phone is turned on, but with screen off.

Oh, well it should work fine then.

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[zCirca]

I was not talking about charging while using the phone. Instead, I was talking about charging while the phone is turned on, but with screen off.

If the phone is under 50%, it does do the fast charging. It'll say fast charging when it is. It slows down after 50%

 

[JHStewart1023]

Did anyone who updated to Android Marshmallow have these issues before the update or after. I know that when my husband and I did the lollipop updates it basically fried the phone including the battery life. Actually my husband has to get a new phone because after resetting and hard rebooting. Even the Verizon reps ran diagnostics and were like yup you've done it all. Come to find out it was a common issue with Sprint and Verizon versions of the Galaxy s5 ATT too.

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[carlos12001]

Did anyone who updated to Android Marshmallow have these issues before the update or after. I know that when my husband and I did the lollipop updates it basically fried the phone including the battery life. Actually my husband has to get a new phone because after resetting and hard rebooting. Even the Verizon reps ran diagnostics and were like yup you've done it all. Come to find out it was a common issue with Sprint and Verizon versions of the Galaxy s5 ATT too.

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I updated with no issues, there's hardly any difference on marshmallow. But battery life did get about 15% better.

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[sandy river]

Oh. And i just realized my phone depleted faster than usual. But i'm not sure too.
So let's say my phone at night (12am) is 100%, in the morning (7am) it becomes around 90% while data connection is on (4G).
Do you think it's normal?

 

[carlos12001]

Oh. And i just realized my phone depleted faster than usual. But i'm not sure too.
So let's say my phone at night (12am) is 100%, in the morning (7am) it becomes around 90% while data connection is on (4G).
Do you think it's normal?

A little over 1% per hour on lte depending on conditions, I'd say it's not bad. But I'd charge it overnight.

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[sandy river]

A little over 1% per hour on lte depending on conditions, I'd say it's not bad. But I'd charge it overnight.

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And the estimation usage time is around 14 hours on 100%.

 

[carlos12001]

And the estimation usage time is around 14 hours on 100%.

I don't know man, dont think too much about it. Just use it.

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[guacapoli]

something is seriously wrong with my verizon note 5 battery life after the marshmallow update. I barely used my phone in a half hour time period and it went down 30%. And that's with disabling any and all bloatware with disabler pro.

I don't know what to do, I did a factory reset when I upgraded to marshamllow. Right now I can't live with this kind of battery life for my job.