Received my Note 5 / Owners thread

lol sorry. I have been playing with it. Most of the day was setting everything up. Last night I had quite a few other things to do, so couldn't play with it as much. But today... I'm back to playing again lol.

It came with earbuds, sim and tools, charger, and usual manuals. The earbuds are actually quite comfortable for me.

The screen allows 5x5 apps to be put on. Very nice in that regard.
Fingerprint sensor works amazingly well and is instant. I set my screen lock to be unlocked with the fingerprint and it hasn't missed a beat once at this point.

Battery: I of course drained the battery pretty quickly yesterday. D/l everything, setting up, etc... from 49% down to 19% in about 4 hours of very heavy use. I charged it back up and took less than an hour with the charger included.
After re-charging yesterday, I didn't have much time to play with it. Only had around 1 hour of screen time and it has used 35% of the battery in 17 hours. (that includes overnight)

GSam states battery life would be 1d 6.5 hours with 5.5 hrs screen. I'm not sure about that, since I really did have a limited time to use it so far. For me, I don't think I'll have any problems with battery life, but I'll give it several days if not a week to really let things settle.

So please, don't take my very limited time with the phone to state if the battery is good or not. It's just too soon.

The auto-click pen is nice. With the phone off, once you take the pen out it shows a blank screen where you can take notes. Pretty cool and handy.

It of course comes with bloat, but for the most part Samsung put all the bloat into their own little groups. Google, Samsung, AT&T. So for me... :shrugs: Not a big deal. It does have a Samsung Pay app, and Knox. From what I see so far, you have to install Knox for Samsung Pay to work.

The back of the phone is of course a fingerprint magnet. It's very smooth, but not slippery. It's like they put something in/over the glass to give you a bit of grip. The sides of the phone (metal I think?) are a bit slick. But once you have it hand, it feels really good.

Sorry, haven't used the camera at all. I'm still setting things up and moving things around. I'll check it out a bit today though.

Phone calls seem clear. No static, etc.. for me or the person on the other end.
I haven't played any music yet, so I don't know about the speakers yet. I'll play some today.

All for now. Overall I really like the phone. Also, it's pretty cool to be one of the first customers in the world to have it in hand!

I'm not real sure what I'm looking at/for, but it gives me:

3D Fix. Accuracy stumbles around of course, but it's within 30 feet. SNR isn't very good, 20's and 30's....

This is all in my basement. Also, I'm using AT&T.

KOLIO said:

Curiosity is knocking:
Are you able to uninstall/disable most of the bloat,namely cheesy games/apps that look like CleanMaster/etc....?
Basically,anything that isn't Samsung or Google?

THX!

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It doesn't look like you can uninstall, but I just disabled the AT&T family map, and Caller ID without any problems.

lol.. Ya. I have seen some say the Note is slippery, but to me the back feels like it has a bit of grip to it. :shrugs:

Looks like the phone uses 10gb or so in memory, at least for AT&T.

I just came from a Nexus 6 for 9 months. Hence I got used to not having a removable battery nor SD card. Would I have preferred those? Of course.. but it's not a deal breaker for me.

My only problem, which has nothing to do with the phone, is coming up with an email app that doesn't use up so much darn battery. Imap really sucks the juice. lol...

The thing I missed the most while I had the Nexus 6? The LED that blinks when receiving mail, texts, etc... it drove me nuts always having to pick the Nexus up to see if I missed a mail or something.

joe71 said:

Really leaving a Nexus device for Samsung note device??? Anyway hope you like the device

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Yep. I had the Note 1-3, skipped the 4 due to Motorola finally getting a shot at the Nexus. Though I liked the Nexus 6 I missed the capability of the Note family.

The Note has 5.11, and M (5.2 most likely) isn't a huge update as K to L.

:shrugs: Hate to say it, I'm also one of those who gets antsy for an upgrade every year too. lol... shhhh Don't tell anyone!

Arkard said:

So...... how is performance a couple days in?

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I haven't had any problems at all. Everything is running great.
I did my usual routine of not using the phone much on Sunday/Monday. Had around 3 hours of screen time and the battery was at 19% with 2 days 4 hours of on-time. I do have a "do not disturb" going from midnight to 8am, with only contacts being able to reach me. So I'm sure that helps with the battery.

Now, I realize everyone uses their phone differently, with radio signals, etc.. but for me the battery will be just fine.

The s-pen works great. The fingerprint sensor is awesome. Works instantly and I only had one failure due to me only having part of my finger on the sensor.

The phone feels great in hand and everything just works.