6.0 Marshmallow: Verizon Galaxy Note 5

[Jklein9515]

I finally figured out what was killing my battery after the update! The always allow scanning for WiFi was on and is now in a different location. It is now under Settings/location/Improve Accuracy. Switching it off made a huge difference.

 

[Climb14er]

Important update...

As I posted a few times this week, I've had a number of conflicts after Marshmallow update. These are mainly excessive battery draining, screen usage VERY HIGH, unable to enable some controls and a few that were automatically disabled by the phone itself. Most of the issues were power and screen related.

After a number of calls this week to VZ, finally got a savvy tech who cared. He reached out to his Samsung liason at VZ and after reviewing my specs and documented issues, the tech came back to me and said...

There have been problems with the Marshmallow update not completely erasing the Lollipop OS. Remnants have caused the problems I've been experiencing. Others too have similar problems.

We tried on two of my computers to do a VZ Repair but the phone would not allow the process to continue.

So... VZ will be sending me another Note 5, fully checked out by Samsung and with Marshmallow fully installed.

I've spent well over twenty hours this week on the problems emanating from the MM update. I told VZ that I expect some good credit to come from this, and they usually oblige.

Problem with Android, which I've been on for years,vyou have three entities involved. Verizon, Samsung, Google. You can talk to the first, but forget about the other two.

Honestly, this update... a real pain in the you know what.

And, once I get the replacement phone, I've got to spend hours,getting it up all over again. Ridiculous!

 

[armallard]

After the update on my N5 everything looks to be good battery and speed only thing is my notification bar is gray on my home screen and hard to see is there a way to change the color? On my wife's phone her's stayed the same any ideas?

 

[dedduck0121]

I finally figured out what was killing my battery after the update! The always allow scanning for WiFi was on and is now in a different location. It is now under Settings/location/Improve Accuracy. Switching it off made a huge difference.

Just switched this off too. Thanks for the post, hopefully this will help!

 

[CeCe0731]

I finally figured out what was killing my battery after the update! The always allow scanning for WiFi was on and is now in a different location. It is now under Settings/location/Improve Accuracy. Switching it off made a huge difference.

Do you still have Location turned on? I was wondering if having Location on drains your battery fast.

 

[carlos12001]

Do you still have Location turned on? I was wondering if having Location on drains your battery fast.

I never leave location turned on, don't trust it.

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[armallard]

Does anybody know how to get into the UI tuner on VerizonN5? Thanks

 

[carlos12001]

Does anybody know how to get into the UI tuner on VerizonN5? Thanks

There's no way to do it.

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[Ryano89]

Getting this anytime I try to buy an app. Anyone got any ideas?

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[armallard]

There's no way to do it.

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Appreciate it. I'm trying to change the notification color from gray to something else since I updated to mm it went to gray funny my wife's phone didn't change to gray.

 

[Trees]

Getting this anytime I try to buy an app. Anyone got any ideas?

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Appears that the error could be due to a problem in the Google infrastructure
http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...play-services-outage-rpc-s-7-aec-0-error.html

Looks like there were some service disruption on the 11th for Drive.
Apps Status Dashboard

 

[carlos12001]

Getting this anytime I try to buy an app. Anyone got any ideas?

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Try to update Google Play services. That's what I had to do after updating to marshmallow.

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[Jklein9515]

I do have it turned on. I use power saving mode though. Does not seem to kill my battery in any major way. I use the Google opinion app though and I like certain location features so I keep it on.

 

[Toxa]

Well, if you want to increase 132 by 8.85%, then the action is 132*1.0875 that would give you the correct answer. I am not sure what you want it to do, but this is how percentages are done on any calculator (I believe). If you want to add two percentages, i.e. 10% + 15%, then you would do .1 +.15 /100 = 25%, or if you don't divide by 100, what you get - 0.25 means 25%. I hope this answers your question.

 

[ranajit saha]

How is marshmallow treating you in note 5?

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[Toxa]

Great overall - can't complain.

 

[billykac]

How is marshmallow treating you in note 5?

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Amazing actually.
Love it!

 

[gsweinberg87]

Is anyone else seeing degraded battery performance with the MM update? I'm losing about 40% overnight. I did a factory reset and have been running the device with no third-party apps and I still have horrible standby performance.

 

[cwbcpa]

Is anyone else seeing degraded battery performance with the MM update? I'm losing about 40% overnight. I did a factory reset and have been running the device with no third-party apps and I still have horrible standby performance.

I'm losing 5% overnight. It's been great. When you check battery usage, what is using the battery overnight?

 

[gsweinberg87]

I'm losing 5% overnight. It's been great. When you check battery usage, what is using the battery overnight?

The biggest usage is coming from Android OS.