The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Thread

[deckcard]

MM Standby time should be a lot better than LL becos of doze.. SOT would be marginally better if any depending how they have optimized the fw.
However, you can improved your SOT by just doing a few things
1) Use dark / black base themes/wallpaper whenever possible (because AMOLED uses very little power on blacks)
2) try to dim your screen as much as you are comfortable with
3) Switch to 3G unless you need LTE speed
4) Off data when turn on Wifi
5) Disable any apps that you are not using using Package Disabler app (apps running in the background syncing data and using CPU cycles can suck up your battery)
6) Set location setting mode to Battery saving until you run apps like Maps then switch to High ACC
7) Disable location scanning for Wifi and Bluetooth
7) Run Greenify and add apps to hibernate

These are just a few things that you can do if you are not rooted. If rooted, you have more control and can automate most of these stuff

 

[Sinkie]

anyone know how to disable dropbox? quite irritating everytime i download some pdf, the dropbox add to prompt will follow..

 

[ahkrong]

I'm trying to understand this lol

To me it sound like, SOT is better but SOT is also worse

the mm update confused me as well, dun even realised what i typing.
the battery life is better during sleep mode but using time definitely worse.
regretted updating....

 

[human_shieldz]

the mm update confused me as well, dun even realised what i typing.
the battery life is better during sleep mode but using time definitely worse.
regretted updating....

Maybe something is enabled during wake time after the update that you goto disable which you didn't. Did you reset phone? (maybe you answered that before but i don't remember who it is if it's few pages away lol)

Probably Samsung deliberately do it this way so people won't bug them for update anymore, then they can stop issuing updates.

 

[ahkrong]

Maybe something is enabled during wake time after the update that you goto disable which you didn't. Did you reset phone? (maybe you answered that before but i don't remember who it is if it's few pages away lol)

Probably Samsung deliberately do it this way so people won't bug them for update anymore, then they can stop issuing updates.

yup, reset after mm update. then i did go through all the apps and make sure notificiations turned off, except for whatsapp and sms.

then yesterday did another round of factory reset and reload everything back in.........still sama sama. dun touch the phone still not so bad. use phone is quite fast battery drain.

then if samsung no more updates liao then we jia lat liao lor...

 

[human_shieldz]

yup, reset after mm update. then i did go through all the apps and make sure notificiations turned off, except for whatsapp and sms.

then yesterday did another round of factory reset and reload everything back in.........still sama sama. dun touch the phone still not so bad. use phone is quite fast battery drain.

then if samsung no more updates liao then we jia lat liao lor...

Kakaka. Cos Note 6 coming out ma, so i think even if they know there's a drain, they won't release an update until Note 6 is out maybe 1 to 2 months until people die die won't buy Note 6 then they issue battery drain fix for Note 5

 

[ZenTape]

Realise that batt drains more on my fone after latest patch, however the fingerprint reader works quite abit faster.

 

[Jackygogogo]

Now they break it down how many mAh computed power usage by applications. You can see which app suck more juices.

 

[human_shieldz]

Now they break it down how many mAh computed power usage by applications. You can see which app suck more juices.

My Android, Instagram and screen all suck between 250-300 mah lol

 

[ATN888]

anyone did the display scaling on your Note 5?
I did mine using Nova sometime ago, but like not much diff.
In case someone wants to try, saw this app on playstore able to trigger it.
Display Scaling

 

[human_shieldz]

Wah the Google new messenger and instant app feature is really nice.

 

[KouAnKyuuKa]

yup, reset after mm update. then i did go through all the apps and make sure notificiations turned off, except for whatsapp and sms.

then yesterday did another round of factory reset and reload everything back in.........still sama sama. dun touch the phone still not so bad. use phone is quite fast battery drain.

then if samsung no more updates liao then we jia lat liao lor...

My observation of my phone usage has remain more or less the same. Battery consumed while screen is on is roughly the same. But standby time is definitely lengthened whenever I am not in motion.

Apps that I use:

Word
Camera (stock)
SG Flight info
Flight Radar 24
Auto-time stamp
30 minutes of gaming during meal.

At the end of 9.5 hours, I would usually end up with 60% battery charge or more.

 

[human_shieldz]

Sorry ask again ah. Those using Instagram, do you get delay notifications and image/video not loading often?

 

[b_ongzhenyu]

Sorry ask again ah. Those using Instagram, do you get delay notifications and image/video not loading often?

yah not receiving noti and vid usually can't load but after refresh should be ok. just troublesome

Sent from Samsung SM-N920I using GAGT

 

[human_shieldz]

yah not receiving noti and vid usually can't load but after refresh should be ok. just troublesome

Sent from Samsung SM-N920I using GAGT

Very annoying sia, now i cannot say first on people's post liao

 

[ATN888]

..
** MM breaks use of third party fonts??? **
After reset, my RobotoCondensed font install liao cannot apply, it says "Font not supported" !#@$ before reset i was still using it! tried a few fonts from playstore n GalaxyApp all same problem. Seems like MM also breaks font apps like iFont & Fontfix

Any guru here finds a solution please share here ya, thanks!

I maybe wrong but seems like $ung & monotype pa-kard want our $$$ go sung store buy fonts cos only can use font apk signed by monotype@#$!.

"ClickHere" is one for your test.
Tell me if it works. I found about 40 of them but still no roboto condensed

 

[tingtb]

I maybe wrong but seems like $ung & monotype pa-kard want our $$$ go sung store buy fonts cos only can use font apk signed by monotype@#$!.

"ClickHere" is one for your test.
Tell me if it works. I found about 40 of them but still no roboto condensed

Works ok

Sent from Samsung SM-N920I using GAGT

 

[ATN888]

Works ok

Thanks!
link removed liao .. before monotype come after me
go buy from $sung store or playstore

 

[human_shieldz]

To keep this thread alive, wanna do a little survey here. With HTC 10 looking pretty good and possibly smoother OS with comparable camera, how many of you will still be planning to buy Samsung the next time round?

 

[KeYoKe]

To keep this thread alive, wanna do a little survey here. With HTC 10 looking pretty good and possibly smoother OS with comparable camera, how many of you will still be planning to buy Samsung the next time round?

might try out other brands due to the following:
1. slow OS updates
2. multitasking not very good on samsung (even compared to htc 10)
3. samsung got too much back end processes running