Note 5 Battery life thread

[Almeuit]

I've attached a screenshot for this question. Why does this keep popping up constantly in my notifications? I use SwiftKey and disabled Samsung keyboard completely because it was happening all the time. Still keeps happening.

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it is a KB notification, it will pop up when you have any KB active IIRC.

Clint is correct -- this is normal.

 

[erasat]

I am 100% convinced that poor battery life is result of two things:

Google App.
Poor Cell Coverage

I noticed Google app was high on list of things eating battery. After 2 hours this AM it was at 6% So I disabled Google Now (even though I Iike it).

Results? Magically my battery has gotten better. No question for me this was biggest drain or one of them.

I ordered cell range extender and will attempt to solve that over the weekend.

Then I will turn Google Now back on and test that side of it.

Just hate fact I have to spend my time doing it.

BTW. I'm also sure that the hardware internals of iPhone is better. Meaning I believe they have more radios that help to pull better signal. I never had an issue with my 6+ with coverage but before I had that phone I had the Note 3 and did have it.

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The thing about Google Now.. It uses location, which uses GPS, WiFi and cell network, so good signal cam change that.

When I was reading this post of his, I immediately thought of the Location History (Location reporting) being the issue here, he may have explained this already but with the amount of posts on this thread is not easy to follow everybody, so spasell, do you have Location History on? You can still use Google Now but until Google changes back to separate Location reporting from Location History I'd always recommend to turn Location History off.

If you have Location History on, look no further, this is your battery drainer, it pings your phone every few minutes, every time it detects a different location, you can still use Google app, just turn your Location to Power saving Mode (Wifi and cell signal) and just use High accuracy when you need to use Google maps or any other similar app, you will see that you won't notice any difference with location on or off when in power saving mode. Plus you can still use Location services on google Maps, the one that tells you the nearest places and stuff.

 

[erasat]

I've attached a screenshot for this question. Why does this keep popping up constantly in my notifications? I use SwiftKey and disabled Samsung keyboard completely because it was happening all the time. Still keeps happening.

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Like it was explained above, it will pop up when you have something to write to on screen, but it only appears if you have multiple keyboard installed and activated, so you can easily switch between them, if you leave just 1 keyboard, it won't appear.

 

[spasell]

When I was reading this post of his, I immediately thought of the Location History (Location reporting) being the issue here, he may have explained this already but with the amount of posts on this thread is not easy to follow everybody, so spasell, do you have Location History on? You can still use Google Now but until Google changes back to separate Location reporting from Location History I'd always recommend to turn Location History off.

If you have Location History on, look no further, this is your battery drainer, it pings your phone every few minutes, every time it detects a different location, you can still use Google app, just turn your Location to Power saving Mode (Wifi and cell signal) and just use High accuracy when you need to use Google maps or any other similar app, you will see that you won't notice any difference with location on or off when in power saving mode. Plus you can still use Location services on google Maps, the one that tells you the nearest places and stuff.

Location history was turned off a week ago

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[spasell]

Oh I don't doubt it. A lot also depends on what you have Google Now doing. I ran it on my Note 4, but didn't have it giving notifications for much or many cards being used.

The more you use it for, the more location is used, if your signal is bad, location keeps on and on trying to send a location to Google.

Location history was off. Notification was on because I like it for reminders. I love reminders. When u shut off notifications reminders down pop up.

With my iPhone I would just speak what I wanted to be reminded to do and worked perfectly. So does Google but Google now needs to be a active and notifications on.

Since I disabled it from what I am seeing I might get BETTER battery than my 6+ at this rate.

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[Kelly Kearns]

Location history was off. Notification was on because I like it for reminders. I love reminders. When u shut off notifications reminders down pop up.

With my iPhone I would just speak what I wanted to be reminded to do and worked perfectly. So does Google but Google now needs to be a active and notifications on.

Since I disabled it from what I am seeing I might get BETTER battery than my 6+ at this rate.

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Still if signal is the issue, you will get better battery with Google Now when the signal isn't an issue and the booster is used.

 

[KJ78]

When I saw the screen and battery specs on this phone I knew there would be a large battery life thread. I didn't anticipate over 1k replies though.

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[Kelly Kearns]

When I saw the screen and battery specs on this phone I knew there would be a large battery life thread. I didn't anticipate over 1k replies though.

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Always battery life threads, since the beginning of this forum. Most of the posts are just a few people having specific issues.

 

[zeuswsu]

When I saw the screen and battery specs on this phone I knew there would be a large battery life thread. I didn't anticipate over 1k replies though.

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To be fair, 500+ of those replies are from Kelly

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[Kelly Kearns]

To be fair, 500+ of those replies are from Kelly

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Probably lol

 

[KJ78]

To be fair, 500+ of those replies are from Kelly

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If that's the case then that's a lot more reasonable of a thread size.

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[jdhooghe]

I found that Google now has always been a huge drain on my phones so I don't use it. I recently down loaded Cortana for the Siri like stuff I enjoyed on iPhone; it seems to be behaving.

Here is my battery life up until the update last night:

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[jdhooghe]

T-mobile also has better signal than Verizon where I'm at(I know, who would have thunk)

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[spasell]

I found that Google now has always been a huge drain on my phones so I don't use it. I recently down loaded Cortana for the Siri like stuff I enjoyed on iPhone; it seems to be behaving.

Here is my battery life up until the update last night:

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Whoa wait. There's a Cortana app?

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[spasell]

It is only there when you have the keyboard up on another screen.

I have two keyboards that are options. SwiftKey and Google Voice typing. When I turn off voice typing it greys out the SwiftKey. Doesnt make sense and this is now a big pain in the ***

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[Kelly Kearns]

I have two keyboards that are options. SwiftKey and Google Voice typing. When I turn off voice typing it greys out the SwiftKey. Doesnt make sense and this is now a big pain in the ***

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Been that way on Samsungs for a long time.

 

[Almeuit]

Mod Note - Just a reminder to please keep the discussion civil.

Thanks!

 

[spasell]

Been that way on Samsungs for a long time.

It never popped up on my Note 3. There's got to be a way to stop the constant notification that appears 4-5 times a day? Again I never saw this happen on my Note 3.

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[Kelly Kearns]

It never popped up on my Note 3. There's got to be a way to stop the constant notification that appears 4-5 times a day? Again I never saw this happen on my Note 3.

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It popped up on my S, S3,S5,S6E, N2, N3, N4 and N5. Can't remember for sure about my N1.

It started when my S upgraded to gingerbread, because the first update, it wouldn't hold the default keyboard and I used Swype.

 

[centerwaters]

It popped up on my S, S3,S5,S6E, N2, N3, N4 and N5. Can't remember for sure about my N1.

It started when my S upgraded to gingerbread, because the first update, it wouldn't hold the default keyboard and I used Swype.

Just pulled out my old Note 2, Note 3, as well as S5. Also my current S6 and Note 4. None of them have that notification. I've never seen it before.

Although all of them are Verizon phones, so perhaps that's the reason?