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Note 5 battery drains quick even if not in use. barely last 12 hours. What can I do to fix it?
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Okay so:
Cell standby 20% - do you use a screen saver, a moving wallpaper, do you use your phone to check the time a lot, what is the screen time out set to (30 seconds or less is ideal) ?
E-mail sync - I would double check your e-mail sync settings and see if they are set to PUSH and how often. Usually you can set them to 5-10-15 minutes.
Wi-Fi - If left on constantly will constantly use your battery. If you're not using it I suggest using the quick button to turn it off. Along with Bluetooth.
Can you finish providing the list of what's using all the battery?
Can I get the rest of the battery stats? Should say how many hours your device has been on.
You can also just take a couple screen shots and post them if that's easier than replying.
Can you go into settings>battery and relay what the top 5 uses are and their %?
The top used to be email sync. I turned off automatic sync and it helped a little. But when I sync manual still uses a lot of battery. Cell standby is number 1 now, like 20+% of my battery. I already played with the Wi-Fi setting and it helped a little but my battery is at 50% by noon with not little use.
Okay so:
Cell standby 20% - do you use a screen saver, a moving wallpaper, do you use your phone to check the time a lot, what is the screen time out set to (30 seconds or less is ideal) ?
E-mail sync - I would double check your e-mail sync settings and see if they are set to PUSH and how often. Usually you can set them to 5-10-15 minutes.
Wi-Fi - If left on constantly will constantly use your battery. If you're not using it I suggest using the quick button to turn it off. Along with Bluetooth.
Can you finish providing the list of what's using all the battery?
Can I get the rest of the battery stats? Should say how many hours your device has been on.
You can also just take a couple screen shots and post them if that's easier than replying.
Mine, after 2 weeks, all of the sudden is draining very quickly by comparison to what was "normal" in the 2 weeks leading up 'til now. This happened when I first got this phone too, and I did a factory reset which helped for about 2 weeks. From what my battery list displays, it appears that all of the sudden Bluetooth is hogging the battery. Previously, it did not appear on the list (ever). Since owning the Note 5 I have had a Gear 2 smartwatch connected (constantly) which requires that Bluetooth is on at all times (and it has been since day one). I really do not want to do another factory reset to get the battery/Bluetooth back to normal. Does anyone have any experience in fixing what is seeming a "rogue" Bluetooth battery drain process?
You could try deleting the bluetooth cache and data and then reconnecting the watch.
I tried that yesterday but it didn't seem to help. I'll definitely try it again and see if I have better luck today. Hard to understand how you go from 1.25 - 1.5 days worth of battery to ~1 day with no change in behavior. What's more is why it worked for almost 2 weeks after new, and then another nearly 2 weeks after factory reset...
1 day is pretty decent having bluetooth on 24/7. I don't use my phone a whole lot and get 1.5. You also have to understand that eventually the battery holds less and less charge and the reason it holds a lot of charge new and after factory reset is because you don't have all your apps running in the background. I'm guessing bluetooth is the top used app when you looked under settings>battery - which is correct having it on all the time.
I agree and after owning a long list of Galaxy/Android phones, I do understand typical behavior of these smartphones. However, previous to yesterday (with Bluetooth always on due to the watch), the battery usage list didn't even include Bluetooth (same for the first 2 weeks prior to factory reset). Sudden decline in battery without a change in behavior/usage - not something I expected...and never happened in the nearly 5 months I owned the Galaxy S6.
And to be clear - when I mentioned ~1 day isn't 24 hrs, it's more like 15 hrs. So, I go from 15hrs of use, 8 hrs of standby overnight, and 2-5 hrs of use the following day to ~15hrs of total use - basically a 20-30% reduction.
Next time you charge your phone to 100% and then use it for what you consider a day, take a screen shot of settings>battery. Just wait until it gets down to 30% I'm curious what else is running.
It appears I finally got it figured out. After a few searches on Google downloaded gsam battery app and found that Gas Buddy was a huge resource hog (apparently the app update included a function of using Bluetooth to determine location). Anyway, uninstalled Gas Buddy and Facebook and the battery drain is better than ever (instead of Facebook, I added a shortcut from my browser to the home screen - works fantastic!).
This thread is 3 months old but the problem is still not fixed!
I have the same problem with my week old Note 5.
If Wi-Fi is ON my battery goes from 100% to 25% overnight (6-7 hrs)
If Wi-Fi is OFF my battery goes from 100% to 95% overnight.
This is ridiculous, I'm pretty much forced to keep Wi-Fi off all the time, otherwise I gotta charge 2-3 times a day.
I even thinking to return the phone. Never had problems with Note 3 before.
FIX IT ASAP!!!
Again, seeing what's actually being used can be seen under settings>battery. Sometimes it's not at all what you think.
It's best to charge your battery to 100% because it resets battery usage and then use your phone until 20% or below and take a look at the battery usage.
In my opinion, I think for a device such as the Note 5, I find it ridiculous for Samsung to use a non replaceable battery 1st off, then a mere 3020ma battery on a executive device like this? Now, to get a full day out of this phone, I purchased a Morphie Juice CASE specifically for the Note 5 with an added 4200ma battery in the case..... 2.5-3.5 days before a charge......It was worth the $99.00.
*end rant*
I agree. I prefer phones where the battery can be removed. I'm sure things have improved, but it's happened before where I needed to remove the battery to get the phone to unfreeze. Not having that option is worry some.
Before making that purchase did you confirm what was using up your battery? I've noticed a lot of people come here to complain, but no one reports back of their actual findings.
Most of my bleeding issues was power sacking 3rd party apps.
But, as a heavy user, I need as much as I can get. It's a shame the note 4
sported a larger capacity battery than it's next gen the note 5.
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