Samsung Galaxy Note5 - user opinions and reviews
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TN, 12 Mar 2016Fortunately you can see the charging on the graph chart as a slope up. The only reason why the... moreNote 3 even without using LTE and with extra battery cannot beat Note 5 battery stamina.
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AnonD-77443, 12 Mar 2016All batteries degrade but the note 4 battery degraded quicker than my pervious 3 notes. I am p... moreHow do you explain why Samsung still keep the fast charging with S7/S7 Edge?
And for sure they will still have it in Note 6.
Kindly elaborate how the Samsung designer will keep it to the succeeding models if it will have bad effect?
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AnonD-430264, 12 Mar 2016In my opinion: If you can afford a Note 5, you should be able to afford the battery replacemen... morego for lg g5.
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It is another "fiasco". In this way, Samsung will loses his market share. Far not enough to build a good looking gadget! This gadget made many steps back. Has a poor camera, no Micro SD card slot, no anymore IR, no FM radio,lazy time sampling, and after all this is a very expensive one! I was in fond of Samsung products and I used to buy all premium products until the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. After that I stopped buying new Samsung products hoping to recover the handicap, but they didn't. So I decided to buy a new premium phablet by another manufacturer and I am very satisfied. Sorry for Samsung, but they follows a wrong path...
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AnonD-77443, 12 Mar 2016All batteries degrade but the note 4 battery degraded quicker than my pervious 3 notes. I am p... moreIn my opinion: If you can afford a Note 5, you should be able to afford the battery replacement when you need it. Even if someone was on a 2 year contract, I doubt the battery is going to be horrible until close to the 2nd year. Or, if the battery is bad at the end of the 1st year - the replacement should last another.
Not saying it's the answer to a removable battery, but; why buy a phone with a sealed battery and complain when you have to get a replacement?
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Anonymous, 11 Mar 2016Same thing about what's going to happen with sealed battery - it's going to crap out by 18 mon... moreAll batteries degrade but the note 4 battery degraded quicker than my pervious 3 notes. I am pretty sure it is because of the aggressive rapid charging.
The issue with the S6, S7 & GN5 will be worse as the rapid charging is more powerful and the battery is sealed. If you only keep your phone for 12 months its ok but if you have 2 year contracts your phone will be really struggling. I normally only keep my phone for 12 months (apart from the note 4) but will be turning off fast charging most of the time for the GN6.
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AnonD-430264, 12 Mar 2016I'm curious what "regular" use is. Do you do some texts and make some calls through the day? I... moreWhatever "24 hours" on "regular use" would only be under 2 hours of Screen On Time usage. He'll never say what SOT he's getting because it will never reach the 3 hour mark.
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[deleted post]I'm curious what "regular" use is. Do you do some texts and make some calls through the day? I don't game on my phone but I do videos here and there. Do a lot of browsing (sorry, no Flash - PARAG B). I've never had 24 hours on my Note 5 nor has my fiancé had 24 hours on her Note 5.
What the hell is REGULAR USE?
My thoughts are: why buy a Note 5 if you're going to do basic tasks through the day? That's like buying a gaming computer to surf the Web and use Microsoft Office. Do you even use the phone for what it was intended to do?
Just curious.
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I just got my Samsung Note 5 today. Although I do enjoy the phone. I did previously owned the HTC one M8. One big improvement between the phones is the stylus which I'm using as I slide text. It's pinpoint accuracy is fantastic. I do miss my front facing speakers I had on the M8. I also was worried about performance. All together I have 156 applications. On my M8 my background process consumed my phone. All apps are now running on my Note 5 and run perfectly. Battery consumption seems normal for a heavy user like me I'm going to enjoy my wireless charging. I also have on order the wireless battery pack. Transfer was easy. It took a while though. In my transfer I moved 22,012 (yes that many) text messages. All my apps and contacts. It took about an hour to transfer. And about 4 to reorganize. I now have every app on one page in catagories built with folders. Overall great phone besides speaked easy to cover. The Samsung app for utilization on my pc works great. I use Google Drive for school/personal and one drive for work. With my 365 subscription by Microsoft I have all the latest office apps. I also integrated Cortana from windows 10 on my note 5. It really sealed the deal on turning this phone into the ultimate production tool. So sorry HTC, but Samsung was just better at productivity. Apple isn't even a consideration in this productivity level. Sorry to Apple lovers everywhere. Although I enjoy them, Samsung beat you to the productivity level.
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Anonymous, 11 Mar 2016Same thing about what's going to happen with sealed battery - it's going to crap out by 18 mon... moreAnd somebody is claiming that the microphone on top of S7 was the IR blaster.
LOL!
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TN, 12 Mar 2016Fortunately you can see the charging on the graph chart as a slope up. The only reason why the... moreOh yesterday I got a hold of the S7 on one of the demo unit in store and I cannot find the infrared from the settings. Neither the TV remote from the stock app.
Where did you get the ignorant idea that the microphone on top was the IR blaster?
LOL!
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AnonD-430264, 12 Mar 2016Just discovered a nice cheat I'm thinking these bozos are using to get insane battery numbers.... moreFortunately you can see the charging on the graph chart as a slope up. The only reason why they get "24 hours" is minimal >1 hour screen on time daily usage, notifications off, using wifi or 3G instead of LTE. Screen On Time usage is one way of measuring the stamina of the battery.
If you have your notifications are on and constantly updating, and on a weak network signal area, your device can get >4 hours SOT over a span of >15 hours. This is not a surprise as Galaxy Notes 2 to 5 are similar in hardware. I even confirmed these findings with my collegues' Notes 4 and .5 models, even S6.
And somebody claim "24 hours" with full screen brightness,
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Anonymous, 11 Mar 2016Same thing about what's going to happen with sealed battery - it's going to crap out by 18 mon... moreJust discovered a nice cheat I'm thinking these bozos are using to get insane battery numbers.
I was down to 12% with just over 3 hours SOT. I charged the phone for a bit to just over 26% and now I'm back down to 16%. Instead of the numbers resetting in the stats they just keep going. I'm now going on 4 hours SOT. Let's see if I can keep going with small charges.
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AnonD-77443, 11 Mar 2016Any new premium phone can last 24 hours. My Note 4 gets about 9-10 hours of really heavy use a... moreSame thing about what's going to happen with sealed battery - it's going to crap out by 18 months for sure. I make sure I change to new set in a year. They think seeing the percentile battery indicator is correct.
As for light usage - my supervisor can even get 3 days on one charge because he uses the Note.5 for mostly calls and text. He turns it off nightly. Total SOT is just 3 hours. Nothing so special in bragging about having a charge lasting "24 hours" because of light usage.
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AnonD-77443, 11 Mar 2016Any new premium phone can last 24 hours. My Note 4 gets about 9-10 hours of really heavy use a... moreSame thing about what's going to happen with sealed battery - it's going to crap out by 18 months for sure. I make sure I change to new set in a year. They think seeing the percentile battery indicator is correct.
As for light usage - my supervisor can even get 3 days on one charge because he uses the Note.5 for mostly calls and text. He turns it off nightly. Total SOT is just 3 hours. Nothing so special in bragging about having a charge lasting "24 hours" because of light usage.
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Sallu, 10 Mar 2016Which one to buy....note 4 or note5???? as i have never used note series smartphones before..Depends on your use.
Note 5 is a bit quicker, looks better, has a bit better camera.
Note 4 has 4-8x the storage space with an sd card, better battery life, replaceable battery, is stronger in drop tests and is cheaper.
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Tcool, 11 Mar 2016At last somebody who will support my testimony of more than 24 hours of battery power with Not... moreAny new premium phone can last 24 hours. My Note 4 gets about 9-10 hours of really heavy use and can get close to 2 days on very light use (now that i have replaced the 18 month old battery which was at 60% health). The key thing is screen on time and what you are doing. 1 hour of a game like Clash on 4G will chew 4x the battery life of 1 hour of reading an e book which is a lot more than 1 hour on standby.
The Note 5 battery is good (but not great these days) with an 85 hour endurance... im hoping the GN6 will be great with over 100 hours endurance.
http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3
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Last night I Update My N5 to Marshmallow 6.0.1 in UAE. one Day Experience is Quite Better
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Its been 2 n half month i am using note 5. I am a moderate to heavy user. Playing games, web browsing, YouTube. The phone never hanged. Battery life was between 14 to 19 hours with SOT 3 to 4 n half hours respectively. Sometimes on heavy usage batery has dropped from 100 to 30 in 6 hours with SOT 3 hours.
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