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Battery seems to be worse in 6.0.1

For the past 2 months I have been using all the 6.0.1 ROMs and I hardly get around only 4 to 5 hours sot with those,but I remember of getting around 6 to 7 hrs sot with the earlier version 6.0 so I decided to switch to a 6.0 ROM again and there we go the battery life tends to get way better ,I just want to know whether its happening only for me or its a bug in 6.0.1?

Heck, I was on chroma since 5.0 and all the way till 6.0.1, could not get more than 2,5 hours of SOT and 6 hours of STAND BY no matter what kernel configuration I tried, changing kernels, Naptime... Decided to try Pure Nexus and fortunately now I get around 4 hours SOT with 10 hours StandBy, using HellsCore kernel. I agree that on 6.0 the battery was waaaay better, like 6 or 7 hours SOT and 2 days stand by. Any solutions?

you guys do realize that battery life is all dependent on your use, your setup, and your quality of signal? right? before 6.0.1 I got 5-6.5 hours sot daily, depending on what I was doing, and after 6.0.1 I am getting the exact same battery life. so, how you setup your device is also very important. I keepy brightness down at about 5-10%. and every time I raise my brightness by about 30%, I'll lose one hour of sot.

simms22 said:
you guys do realize that battery life is all dependent on your use, your setup, and your quality of signal? right? before 6.0.1 I got 5-6.5 hours sot daily, depending on what I was doing, and after 6.0.1 I am getting the exact same battery life. so, how you setup your device is also very important. I keepy brightness down at about 5-10%. and every time I raise my brightness by about 30%, I'll lose one hour of sot.
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I use the exact same setup for every rom I use,but this battery life difference is humongous between 6.0.1 and 6.0 roms which is almost 2 hours of sot !!

showstopper1 said:
I use the exact same setup for every rom I use,but this battery life difference is humongous between 6.0.1 and 6.0 roms which is almost 2 hours of sot !!
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again, rom doesnt determine battery life, at all. battery life is determined by your use, you apps installed, your setup, and your signal quality. sure, you might get an occasional wakelock ruining your battery, but its mostly determined by those factors. maybe your signal quality just sucks now?

I have noticed this too ... same setup and usage as before was wondering why I needed to charge so much

I'm on 6.0.1 (MMB29S), rooted, with Xposed running only Gravitybox, and I get over 6 hours (with brightness dialed down to about 40%). I could probably get even more SOT if my radio signal wasn't as crappy as it is.

How good is the battery life for you guys?

I know it's a large battery that's why I'm asking this question. My p9 plus drops from 100-95 relatively quickly just by using whatsapp and instagram. like less than an hour. Is that normal or is it just me?

Sorry but that is bad?
Which mobile are you coming from???

vodovodo said:
Sorry but that is bad?
Which mobile are you coming from???
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errr..? the huawei p9 plus? Cause some people say they could get more than a day out of this phone with normal usage but I can't seem to do that haha. I could if I keep the screen off like most of the time but definitely not normal usage.

A lot depends on the phone signal, if you move into areas where the signal is poor the phone is constantly looking to better that signal... Using more power. 5% an hour is pretty good by my reconning.. Will give you around 20 hours to zero.

I am coming from samsung A8. Comparing A8 the p9 plus is better in battery back up for me.

Mine is good too. Comparing with Xperia Z1 Compact is much much better. I have 5 to 6 hours of SOT and above average usage. With normal usage usualy I have close to 7 hours and 3 to 5% juice in it.

my battery life is amazing, best I've ever had on a phone, I would install wakelock detector and see whats eating your battery, I recently got over a 100 hrs between charges which is amazing, SOT was 7 hours 26 min, I do have greenify installed though which helps.

2 days and 1 hour here with 22℅ left and 5 hours SOT
This thing is just amazing

For me battery is perfect, mostly 2 days between charge and 6 hours SOT, no root pure stock for now all with normal usage.

Best battery I've ever had on any phone, even the ones with 4000mAh battery can't match this. This thing just rocks! After 3 full charging cycles I am stable on 2 days between charging with most of the time on wi-fi or 4g/3g and gps on when needed and my SOT is 8hrs up. Righ now I have 11%batt remaining and 8hrs 01min SOT.
Huawei P9 Plus (VIE-L29, stock-rom b170)

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Best battery I've ever had on any phone, even the ones with 4000mAh battery can't match this. This thing just rocks! After 3 full charging cycles I am stable on 2 days between charging with most of the time on wi-fi or 4g/3g and gps on when needed and my SOT is 8hrs up. Righ now I have 11%batt remaining and 8hrs 01min SOT.
Huawei P9 Plus (VIE-L29, stock-rom b170)
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What do you mean full charge cycle? And 2 days with 6 hours screen on time meaning your battery can last 2 days inclusive of the 6 hours SOT? cause for mine, I plugged it out at 9am and now it's already at 49%. Screen on time probably about 3-4 hours so far.

That is insane amount of screen on time. If this for was 2k screen I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. I have to wait for the P10 Plus

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What do you mean full charge cycle? And 2 days with 6 hours screen on time meaning your battery can last 2 days inclusive of the 6 hours SOT? cause for mine, I plugged it out at 9am and now it's already at 49%. Screen on time probably about 3-4 hours so far.
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i think he means that he load the P9 Plus 3 time from 0 to 100%

Dropping from 100% to 95% after using Whatspp and Instagram for an hour is normal. My P9 Plus can last me more than 1 day with noramal browsing, emails, SMS and Whatsapp. It is way better than my LG V10.

First battery cycle and second cycle
WhatsApp all day
1 hour instagram
1 hour eyeem
2 hours lightning browser
Some photos
Easy 6+ hours SOT

The battery is not as good as I expected. I unplugged it at 6.45am and my usage are as follows:
WhatsApp
Facebook
Clash of Clans
Instagram
WeChat
and a little bit of browsing
My battery was 11% when I got home at 7pm. SOT was around 3 hours. Is this normal? I have to charge my phone everyday unlike what others has said.

everyone have different apps installed and we all use our device differently. Waste of time to compare each others battery life.
I have a lot of **** running in the background and i just charge when i need. Nothing i worry about, always a arm length from an electrical outlet. (home, work, school, train etc.)

Mahao said:
The battery is not as good as I expected. I unplugged it at 6.45am and my usage are as follows:
WhatsApp
Facebook
Clash of Clans
Instagram
WeChat
and a little bit of browsing
My battery was 11% when I got home at 7pm. SOT was around 3 hours. Is this normal? I have to charge my phone everyday unlike what others has said.
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Unfortunately all the apps u r running are power-intensive. I suppose if u keep running those apps from 6.45am until 7pm (which is more than 12 hours) and still left some juice on it, this should consider very good battery life already.

The P10 should be a serious contender when it comes out. I am torn between Samsung S8, Sony Zeus and the P10 Plus. I'm really interested to see what the P10 plus and Sony Zeus have to offer.

I just got phone two days now ,At second charge,very satisfied

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Samsung Galaxy Note5 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

SOT is usually 1 hour 23 minutes at 50%. With the Display brightness a little less than half.
The biggest culprit is Android OS stay awake time is always high.

Man I've been more than impressed by my SOT of the Note 5 compared to my crappy old Nexus 6. I can get 4-5 hours on here vs the 3 hours max I got on the N6. Blows me away. So much better phone than that was too.

I normally see about 3hrs on nougat where as MM I usually got closer to 4 hours which is a bummer but still reasonable. Main issue is the screen off battery drain on nougat. Seems to want to drain 8-10% per hour no matter what I'm doing most days.

It's ridiculous. I've drained my new note 5 in 2 hours SOT just browsing Web and reading this forum. I've got 4-5 hours of browsing with my old note 2. That's just crazy low. Xiaomi MI max 2 can easily give you 8 hours SOT. Thinking of exchange already :/
I don't understand how it is possible that every big review on the Internet that I found claims it is more than 8 or 10 hours of Web browsing possible on note 5! How can it be true? Some tests on YouTube shows there is only 4 hours from 100 to 0 without heavy cpu and network utilisation and just screen on...

I consider myself as a Power user. I Only get 2:30 hours no matter the screen resolution, 1080P or 2K. Nougat or Marshmallow doesn't matter. But I'm OK with that, I have a lot of apps and 3 Gmail accounts so I'm getting notifications all day long.

Oh man flashing the n fuel xl Rom was probably the best thing I've done with my note 5. Sot is still lingering around 3 hours or less but stand by time has literally doubled. Now when the screen is off, the phone actually chills out and doesn't burn up battery.
Went from 12-13 hours to 25-26 hours with my normal usage.

new note 5 user here
after reading many of your comment guys, i feel really lucky
i had a note 2 for more than 4 years (still have it) and with my average use i usually get 3.5-4 hours of screen time on
i just bought a note 5 like a week ago and i'm getting more than 6 hours of screen time on
i use the powersaving mode on "mid" and i usually dont need more than a low brightness ... i dont use my phone for games that much cuz i have a ps4 for that ... usually use it for social media and these stuff
i know its very good only bcuz i just got it but with my experience on the note 2 i will try not to drain the battery life and keep it good
note is just the best there is

greatnorthgnome said:
Oh man flashing the n fuel xl Rom was probably the best thing I've done with my note 5. Sot is still lingering around 3 hours or less but stand by time has literally doubled. Now when the screen is off, the phone actually chills out and doesn't burn up battery.
Went from 12-13 hours to 25-26 hours with my normal usage.
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Oh can you show me a link to the Rom? I am not a heavy user so about 2h sot is fine for me. However I need my phone to be able to last longer while in Standby. I get only 11hr of the phone, including 2hr sot now.

My note 5 battery is dropping >10% per hour with light use. SOT guesstimate to be about 3 hours. Standby drain is great but not when I start using it. Such battery drain defeats the purpose of a smartphone. I guess Samsung has a reason to design the phone with irreplaceable battery. Ordered the S8+ as replacement.

I was studying my battery life/SOT today. I managed to take some screen shots when my phone was around 8%. I'll upload them a little later when my phone is charged up. I let it drain all the way to try and calibrate it. I notice it shut off today at 2%. Around 8% I noticed my screen on time was over 5 hours or higher. Can't recall now the exact number but it seemed unusually high. I think I got around 10 hours of battery life. Once I post screen shots later can someone tell me if they seem accurate and if I get good battery life since I just upgraded to Nougat?

auky said:
My note 5 battery is dropping >10% per hour with light use. SOT guesstimate to be about 3 hours. Standby drain is great but not when I start using it. Such battery drain defeats the purpose of a smartphone. I guess Samsung has a reason to design the phone with irreplaceable battery. Ordered the S8+ as replacement.
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You can replace the battery by the way

greatnorthgnome said:
Oh man flashing the n fuel xl Rom was probably the best thing I've done with my note 5. Sot is still lingering around 3 hours or less but stand by time has literally doubled. Now when the screen is off, the phone actually chills out and doesn't burn up battery.
Went from 12-13 hours to 25-26 hours with my normal usage.
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True. Irrespective of MM/Nougat, there is not much we can do about SOT. The best case can be just above 4 hrs. I am on PureX ROM of Rajeev. Between FuelXL and PureX, the best part is on Deep sleep. When the screen is off, the power consumption is close to Zero. The only reason appears to be that both the ROMs are heavily debloated. Any further major improvement to battery life of Note 5 can be only with Oreo ROM. In my Oneplus, i flashed custom Oreo ROM and the battery life is dramatically extended. So, lets wait and pray for Oreo form Note 5.

So everyone on stock N gets around 3-3.30hrs of sot. Felt relieved to read becoz i was worried and thought mayb my phones battery has loosen its capacity.
Btw is there any app that can tell us exact wear level of the battery?? I tried googling some apps but none gave me the exact info that I needed.

I thought my battery was still bad even after changing it but I'm getting well over 3 hours of screen time so it looks like I'm all good for now

I have 4.5-6 hours SOT every day. I'm on stock N, GPS, wifi, sync and lte on all the time. However, every now and then I make a cache reset in recovery, always after a new app installation. Guess my system is quite clean. Battery life is awesome om this device.

ChaTy said:
So everyone on stock N gets around 3-3.30hrs of sot. Felt relieved to read becoz i was worried and thought mayb my phones battery has loosen its capacity.
Btw is there any app that can tell us exact wear level of the battery?? I tried googling some apps but none gave me the exact info that I needed.
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Before I sold my Note 5, estimated the battery wear with AccuBattery.
I recommend getting LG V20, its a great upgrade to the Note 5.

YPG70 said:
Before I sold my Note 5, estimated the battery wear with AccuBattery.
I recommend getting LG V20, its a great upgrade to the Note 5.
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I disagree, better keep Note 5.
Better in speedtests
Better battery life
Better display
Better camera
and so on.................

YPG70 said:
Before I sold my Note 5, estimated the battery wear with AccuBattery.
I recommend getting LG V20, its a great upgrade to the Note 5.
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A stupid question
For how much you sold your note 5
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy J7 using XDA Labs

Lasse58 said:
I have 4.5-6 hours SOT every day. I'm on stock N, GPS, wifi, sync and lte on all the time. However, every now and then I make a cache reset in recovery, always after a new app installation. Guess my system is quite clean. Battery life is awesome om this device.
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No way you're getting 4.5-6

Share Your SOT (Pixel 3a).

On average i get around 5-7 hrs sot with stock kernel depending upon how heavy the usage was.
Currently i am satisfied with the results.
Everyone share your sot.

Mine is 8+ hours.
But it's been just 4 days since I got this amazing mobile.
I had Pixel 3 before this and had to charge it twice daily. Life seemed tense then.
I don't play any games and I've literally found no difference in usage with 3a other than the amazing battery life.
Love it.

Mine is 6+ hours light usage, 4/5 when i play some games heavy usage (a little bit of wifi, much 4g)

Has anyone found a battery drain test for pixel 5?

I cant find even a single one on youtube

There would be tons of them if the battery was poor... ?

ihuman007 said:
I cant find even a single one on youtube
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In my case，after 2 days of use, both from 100% to 5%，SOT is 7h30min.

7.5 SOT for me too.
Same usage, my old Pixel would do 4.5 hours, maybe 5 on a good day.
This is with forced 90 refresh on in developer settings.

First couple of days I was getting about 5hrs 30 mins sot but since then it has dropped to 4hrs at best. Can't work out why. Phone reports no unusual battery drain.