I'm not sure if I'm lucky but 6 hours on screen time and just under 40% is great in my book. I'm on the Sprint variant I have my phone on max brightness, sync and location always on as well.
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What you do all the time reading pdf or something ? It shouldnt be web browsing or gaming
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What you do all the time reading pdf or something ? It shouldnt be web browsing or gaming
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YouTube, reading, facebooking, listening to music, checking email. Basically just general use for me to be honest
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yeah that Sprint update made this phone bomb
well lucky you..
^this is with all of the LG bloatware deleted/disabled - fixed brightness at 65%
GPS/NFC/Bluetooth never on, use standard apps like viber, facebook, chrome
don't watch youtube videos..
Not getting that sort of SOT but this has been the best phone I've owned battery wise. Don't feel compelled to plug it in outside of bedtime.
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YouTube, reading, facebooking, listening to music, checking email. Basically just general use for me to be honest
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Yeah thats great specally 100% brightness.. I can easily go for 4 and half SOT with 75% brigtness wifi gps on using taptalk and skype viber and bat is left 30% .. I think this phone is awsome i came from nexus 5 and i am reallly happy
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My battery life is terrible. After upgrading from an S3 and watching my partner's M8 and Z3 be ****ing battery tanks this is very disappointing. ~2-3 hours SOT is comparable to the S3 I came from, and meanwhile the Z3 is at 70% battery with 3 hours SOT *with* everything turned on and not debloated. Though admittedly, this phone is wonderful in every other way so it's hard to stay mad.... Just the occasional sad stab of battery anxiety/jealousy every once and a bit. I've only had the phone a week though, so that feeling should hopefully fade.
#firstwoldproblems
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My battery life is terrible. After upgrading from an S3 and watching my partner's M8 and Z3 be ****ing battery tanks this is very disappointing. ~2-3 hours SOT is comparable to the S3 I came from, and meanwhile the Z3 is at 70% battery with 3 hours SOT *with* everything turned on and not debloated. Though admittedly, this phone is wonderful in every other way so it's hard to stay mad.... Just the occasional sad stab of battery anxiety/jealousy every once and a bit. I've only had the phone a week though, so that feeling should hopefully fade.
#firstwoldproblems
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I'm not sure if you did factory reset after when you first bought the phone, but it def helps in my case. ( I did 2 or 3 time factory, don't do the setup yet, just keep doing factory reset once the phone boot-up). I get from 2 hour SOT, to about 4-5 hour SOT with 5% left at the end of my day with the same setup as when i first setup.
PS: don't do restore apps, just do clean install all your apps and settings.
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My battery life is terrible. After upgrading from an S3 and watching my partner's M8 and Z3 be ****ing battery tanks this is very disappointing. ~2-3 hours SOT is comparable to the S3 I came from, and meanwhile the Z3 is at 70% battery with 3 hours SOT *with* everything turned on and not debloated.
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Both 1080p screens
I wish LG could have stuck with that.
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I'm not sure if you did factory reset after when you first bought the phone, but it def helps in my case. ( I did 2 or 3 time factory, don't do the setup yet, just keep doing factory reset once the phone boot-up). I get from 2 hour SOT, to about 4-5 hour SOT with 5% left at the end of my day with the same setup as when i first setup.
PS: don't do restore apps, just do clean install all your apps and settings.
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How does a factory reset double SOT for what is essentially a new phone ?
Wow quite interesting
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I Yeah, I did two factory resets when I got it because I accidentally auto-synced my Google crap, so it's all fresh.
This was just a small frustrated vent. This is my only upgrade since my S3 and it wasn't really by choice as I had to change carriers but this phone is the best option currently available (the other one on my list being the S5, cuz battery and sd card). Meanwhile my partner has hopped from a Note 2 to a HTC M8 to now a Sony Z3, and I watched the amazing all day do-whatever-the-****-you-want battery life and figured that more flagships would be like that... Instead there's this disappointing as hell battery life that isn't much better than what I had and I still need to watch what I do so I'm constrained in the same way lest it craps out midday.
So while this phone is amazing as hell, with many great features, it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I could return it and get an S5 but what a downgrade. Not really any other options with removable storage and battery. At least I can hope root with help improve some battery life, and it will certainly fix the ****ty DPI. Also hoping for a slim Zerolemon battery with higher capacity to come eventually.
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Yeah, I'm aware, and pretty terrible looking ones at that IMO. This LG screen is gorgeous and one of the few that don't look like complete ass next to an AMOLED. Shame about the DPI though, but that will come!
On a side note, I fell into a laptop with a 3k screen a couple weeks ago, and I'm really enjoying high-resolution information dense crisp screens.
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Shame about the DPI though, but that will come!
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I don't get this DPI thing. You want to reduce the DPI so it looks better
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I don't get this DPI thing. You want to reduce the DPI so it looks better
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Well we've got this glorious beautiful hi-res screen but the Gmail app can fit 6 lines, whereas on my S3 (with tweaked DPI) on the 720p screen I could have 10 lines and it was amazing. Not to mention I have smaller hands so I can adjust the DPI on my keyboard to have it take less screen space, making it easier to use with one hand, while at the same time being able to view more if my browser or texts or whatever. It's quite wonderful to be able to choose per-app DPI for different usage.
Lowering DPI which is what was being recommended in that DPi thread, gives you more text to view ?
The thing i dont understand is increasing resolution raises DPI. So lowering DPI reduces resolution. Things become bigger when you lower resolution. You can fit less within the screen in that case.
You can't raise the DPI because its already at its max. So other than reducing font size i don't understand how 'tweaking' DPi fits more in the window.
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Lowering DPI which is what was being recommended in that DPi thread, gives you more text to view ?
The thing i dont understand is increasing resolution raises DPI. So lowering DPI reduces resolution. Things become bigger when you lower resolution. You can fit less within the screen in that case.
You can't raise the DPI because its already at its max. So other than reducing font size i don't understand how 'tweaking' DPi fits more in the window.
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You're conflating DPI with resolution. The resolution is the overall amount of pixels the screen displays, like a canvas, and when you set it lower everything looks bigger but you have less room to fit things overall as icon sizes and text haven't changed. Setting your screen to anything but native resolution in most cases also makes things look worse off, depending on how well your screen scales and how low you go, it gets blurrier and blurrier.
Having a high resolution is like have a massive canvas to work with, you can fit many many things sized smaller on there. Now it can make everything appear too small, so that's where DPI scaling comes in. You need higher resolution icon and things programmed to scale otherwise when you zoom them they get blurry (like a 480p video on a 1080p screen). You can zoom too much though, leaving all that extra lovely canvas space you're screen is capable of filled up. That's what LG did, or you can zoom them out and the higher resolution you have the more you can zoom things out and have them still legible. LG zoomed everything in way too much wasting a lot of potential screen real estate. Sure it's crisp and nice, but I may as well have a 1080p phone. I want to zoom it out, while keeping the resolution, so it all stays crisp.
Sorry if that's a bit messy, I'm thinking of Windows desktop icons as I type this. Haha
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Android apps are set to scale to whatever the manufacturer deems correct, so we have these giant FisherPrice apps with massive buttons and icons taking up half the screen. Browsing the web though is beautiful so far on here though.
(There's also ppi/dpi like when Apple talks their Retina crap, but that's how many physical pixels your screen has crammed into what sized space. We're talking software DPI)
(And the DPI in the other thread is global scaling of everything smaller and has it's share of problems. Per-app DPI using Xposed is where it's at as you can have each setting independent in case problems like crashing arise, or you just don't need something smaller)
OP, are you sure you don't have auto brightness on and set to 100%? Either way you have amazing battery life. 3.5 to 4hr sot is usually the norm for me without gaming. Usual calls, web, txt, email, tapatalk, some youtube
I agree, I've had all HTC devices (currently also have an M9) and I can't get this phone to dye. Lol going on 12 hours of heavy usage with 14% still. Very satisfied with this.
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My G4 is an AT&T variant and the stand by Bayer life is amazing. Off the charger yesterday at 6AM used it maybe 5 or 6 times for quick peaks at Email or a random notification and noticed at 1 pm battery was still at 100%. Art 5pm with fairly light usage I was down to 93%. It's one week old and I usually turn off unnecessary notifications like Facebook or youtube etc. The only App that was disabled was drivemode, and brightness on Auto. Even under moderate usage I'm a embedding a 12 hour work/travel day at 80%. I don't Minnie about you guys but this is fantastic to me. It seems to me with this phone it really powers down when resting on standby.
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I Yeah, I did two factory resets when I got it because I accidentally auto-synced my Google crap, so it's all fresh.
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Restoring from phone to phone or from ROM to ROM has always introduced problems for me. Setting things up as a new device produces noticeably better results. That "feature" does not work as well as intended.
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Some of my impressions after a few days of usage
- Very snappy and fast
- Screen is brilliant enough
- Design is beautiful, the graphite colour looks great
- The Camera is great just when you know it
- 23mpx should be improved a bit with manual ISO and better detail
- 8mpx is great
- They added colours to the contacts which makes scrolling through sms threads a bit
- There is more space available on the homescreen, one extra line compared to the Z2
- Buttons are great
- I just love the sound when talking - it's the best sounding Xperia in calls to date
- Stereo speakers are quite good too
- I don't like to have SIM and SD on the same tray, I can't put in/take out SD card without a reboot
- I still use it more than usual so I cannot fully comment on batt life
- I love the much faster charging now!
- As I mentioned earlier, I was disapponted with NFC/PCCompanion performance of Xperia Transfer, Cloud option did the trick
- Calendar sync (on a fresh deice) didn't work with all the cathegories
- Deleting sms theads is very fast now
- No problems with overheating
- So far it's a very very good phone, very sleek epxerience
It's good to hear that someone has something positive to say about the Z5. I agree with most of what you have to say too, but it seems like we're in a minority.
I don't think we're minority
I agree with above too.
Love the screen. Even coming from LG G3, the Sony screen smokes it in terms of colours and quality.
I think most the negatives are around when a phone launches. Problems occur during the build process. Even mine has a slight lighter part in the center of the screen on the back light. But it's not bad enough for me to care and take it back.
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Well need to say it - Z5 bring some problems with it BUT they dont make this model bad and sum of all cons and pros still made me choose it vs s6.
Phone is fast and feels "clean" compared to samsung devices.
The design is dmn nice and buttons position + screen position vs case size is a big + when u realise it was made this way intentionaly.
Lots of ppl say - waste of space ( space between phone edge and screen edge and buttons on screen not under ) when i play on it or type on it - its dmn easier to hold it.
I rly like the phone - even if expectations were a little bit higher.
I was thinking about s6 / edge, note 4, g4 and some others. If change i would probably try htc or huawei.
The only thing i would like to know is what is the real % of unhappy ppl cos of bad working / damaged z5 compared to s6 and others.
Thanks for the review kindly update us about battery life since i can relate (z2 user also) if im gonna go with z5 or stick to z2 and go z6. Since im now in a tight budget my first baby is about to come.
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Thanks for the review kindly update us about battery life since i can relate (z2 user also) if im gonna go with z5 or stick to z2 and go z6. Since im now in a tight budget my first baby is about to come.
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I'd wait for Marshmallow before you take initial reactions on battery which means by then you may be better with Z6 [emoji1]
At moment I'm averaging about 3.5 hours SOT but lasting 24+ hours easy
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I'd wait for Marshmallow before you take initial reactions on battery which means by then you may be better with Z6 [emoji1]
At moment I'm averaging about 3.5 hours SOT but lasting 24+ hours easy
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I agree with all those points above, it's a good phone. But the battery life is pretty bad compared to other Xperias. I would wait and see if marshmallow fixes it but I have doubts. The phone uses WAY too much power when it's in use - when it's in sleep mode it's fine, the same as my Z3. But in use it's about half the battery life I got on my Z3.
I've just downloaded qualcomm batteryguru don't know if it's any good or not it's still in learning mode, i'm really happy with my z5 but battery could be a bit better...
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I agree with all those points above, it's a good phone. But the battery life is pretty bad compared to other Xperias. I would wait and see if marshmallow fixes it but I have doubts. The phone uses WAY too much power when it's in use - when it's in sleep mode it's fine, the same as my Z3. But in use it's about half the battery life I got on my Z3.
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coming from galaxy s4 and used to just make it through the day with normal use and got around 3.5 hrs sot max. with the z5 and the same use i end up with at least 50% left at the end of the day. 5.0 hrs sot is no problem.
i'm happy!
Yeah I think the battery at the moment is software related. I have no doubt we will see some improvements.
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Almost fine but they should fix the occassional stuttering of the UI and camera performance in low light / indoor + give the iso mode and others to each megapixel...
How are some people getting 5hr screen on time mine won't do much more than 3hrs?
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I got 4:30 SOT.
What's your setup you using stamina mode? Screen brightness? Just trying to figure out if I've got a rogue app munching power thanks
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What's your setup you using stamina mode? Screen brightness? Just trying to figure out if I've got a rogue app munching power thanks
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Yeah I'm maxing sort of 3.5 to 4 with no battery saving efforts. Be keen to know what people are doing to get 5 hours too
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What's your setup you using stamina mode? Screen brightness? Just trying to figure out if I've got a rogue app munching power thanks
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I never use any Stamina. Brightness around 50%.
I always turn off internet adn wifi and bluetooth off when I don't use it.
I don't use neither push emails nor automatic notifications.
And some apps turned off...
I believe Snapchat or Instagram in the background also sucks juice,
so I force close these when the phone is just on standby.
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I never use any Stamina. Brightness around 50%.
I always turn off internet adn wifi and bluetooth off when I don't use it.
I don't use neither push emails nor automatic notifications.
And some apps turned off...
I believe Snapchat or Instagram in the background also sucks juice,
so I force close these when the phone is just on standby.
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Snapchat & Facebook are two worst apps for battery
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Snapchat & Facebook are two worst apps for battery
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Mm, Facebook in my case was never ever a problem.
i have adaptive brightness on, with the slider in the default spot (half way). no stamina / savibg modes on. gps, wifi and bt always on and have 2 e-mail accounts pushing in the background.
i have deleted / turned off most sony crap, because i use google alternatives.
(still) manage to get 5 hrs.
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Hey there guys I am going to write a simple but very honest review of the Xperia Z5 after owning the device for a little over 3 months. Everything I talk about will be given a score from 1 to 5, 1 being not great and 5 being amazing.
So to start, I purchased the phone in the UK (Belfast is my hometown) and I went with the gold colour. So far the phone has held up very well in terms of durability. The gold colour was definitely my favourite as I was able to get a look at all colours, my decision was either the Green or Gold and I am glad I went with the gold as believe it or not it does get quite a bit of attention! The only thing i'm not so confident in with this colour is the nylon corners look a different shade of gold to the metal frame which looks more of a copper when certain light is on it. However it doesn't bother me too much so I'm still very happy with my colour choice!
For design I would give this phone a 4 out of 5 with the nylon corners being a different colour just edging it out of the perfect 5.
The display on this phone is absolutely fantastic, has to be up there with some of the best displays i've ever seen on a smartphone. Colours are very vibrant and blacks are very deep, with Sony's X Reality engine the screen just pops.
Display gets a solid 5 out of 5 for me.
Software has been quite hit and miss for me, when it was on 5.1.1 Lollipop it was fine with some issues e.g. Auto brightness bug and random bluetooth disconnects with my Moto 360. When I finally got the Marshmallow update it fixed most of the bugs but however I am seeing a problem when I am using the BSP10 Bluetooth Speaker it seems to be skipping a lot when playing music and I am not sure why. Could be a simple fix but i'm not sure!
Software gets a 3 out of 5 just for random bugs and the bluetooth issue.
Performance again with software has been a hit and miss, with the Snapdragon 810 on board the phone powers through almost anything you throw at it, for about 30 minutes at most then the heat issue happens and the phone has to thermal throttle the processor however if just doing simple tasks i.e. Browsing the internet, using Facebook, Youtube etc the phone handles it like a dream.
Performance gets a solid 4 out of 5 for me just with the heat issue not getting it the 5 out of 5.
Battery life has been great on some days and absolutely horrible on some other days. I'm usually averaging 2.5 hours SOT on this phone even after the marshmallow update, best SOT i've had on this is about 4 hours but that was with very light internet browsing. When gaming and the phone gets warm the battery drains like nothing i've seen before, a game I usually play is Geometry Dash and if the phone is on 100% after about 20 minutes its down to about 90% which seems very high battery drain for 20 minutes of usage.
Battery life is a 3 out of 5 just to inconsistent battery performance.
Camera is very good on this phone....if you set it up right. If using the Superior auto mode its hard to get a good shot in my own opinion. The macro focus is very bad too! You have to be a right big of distance away and there still isn't much detail! However take the phone and get a good landscape shot and the camera performs excellently. For landscape photos it's definitely the best camera i've used on a phone.
Camera is a 4 out of 5 just due to the macro focus function.
Overall I love the Sony Xperia Z5, its well designed, the camera is awesome, the audio quality is pretty good, the fact that it's waterproof just gives you a bit more confidence if it gets wet you don't have to worry about it! Yeah there are some niggles with the phone but really everything nowadays had pros and cons! But I would say if you're looking for a well designed, good phone the Z5 is a solid choice!
Hope this review helps some potential buyers! Thanks.
What about fingerprint sensor, i am not satisfied as i wanted to.
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What about fingerprint sensor, i am not satisfied as i wanted to.
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Mine actually worked better in Lollipop rather than Marshmallow, it worked almost every single time I used it however since Marshmallow it does get a lot of misreads.
Good review. I would give similar scores. However, when I first got this phone with Lollipop i was having major issues, battery was horrible, overheating issues, and some other bugs were ruining my experience. When I got MM it seemed everything just magically fixed up (Although I later found out much of my battery woes were due to my Universities WiFi).
Now I have excellent battery life and I can easily get around 4 hrs SOT and sometimes 5+ hrs SOT with the battery lasting me on average 1.5-2 days. Further, I find no more overheating issues and even with extended usage the phone does gets warm, but never hot. Although I don't play graphic intensive games.
I am so happy with my Z5 atm. One of the best phones I have ever owned.
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What about fingerprint sensor, i am not satisfied as i wanted to.
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I personally see no major difference in fingerprint reading between LL and MM. When I first upgraded to MM i did notice a slight increase in the speed and reliability, but after a few weeks, its pretty much is the same. usually its very quick and reliable, but there is that odd few occasions where it just doesn't recognize my finger.
Yes, the same, after upgrading to MM, fingerprint unlocking was noticable fast, but after some time, like it just get worste.
Also the same for heating, my everything was fine at the begining, but after it just get warmer for some reason, and i am on last update.
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I have been running at FHD (2220x1080) since yesterday but decided to try WQHD (2960x1440) and wow it actually looks even better if that was possible. I'm sure this will affect battery life but it's really mind boggling how dense the display is at this settings. It's amazing for videos and pictures more than anything but text is like paper if not better.
I've noticed some issues like the font/text size in Twitter is tiny and I can't figure out a way to change it. Most other apps seem to be ok but Twitter is barely usable. Any suggestions? Anybody else find issues running at highest res?
First day 1080p, today I went quad hd. Battery had been about the same so leaving it quad hd.
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I've been using the preset 'optimized' performance setting, and so far battery life is phenomenal. We'll see how long it holds up. Fingers crossed.
I'm at FHD and satisfied. WQHD didn't yield much of a difference to me so I'd rather conserve the battery a bit.
In regards to your twitter issue, I know certain apps had some weird scaling issues when they were set to use full-screen mode. Have you tried enabling/disabling that setting for that app?
I have been using HD+ 1480x720 lol. I cannot tell the difference. Might as well save some battery.
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I'm at FHD and satisfied. WQHD didn't yield much of a difference to me so I'd rather conserve the battery a bit.
In regards to your twitter issue, I know certain apps had some weird scaling issues when they were set to use full-screen mode. Have you tried enabling/disabling that setting for that app?
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I'll report back on battery life in this thread after a day at WQHD but man it's absolutely stunning - give it a shot you can always switch back. Twitter toggle is greyed out to on says it's optimized so can't turn off. Everything works fine but on WQHD the text is tiny - the screen is soo sharp it's easy to read but really tiny.
EDIT: Fixed it - just had to kill the Twitter app and restart - it works perfectly now. Definitely staying at WQHD
How can you see the difference between the two? Whats a good way to compare the two?
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How can you see the difference between the two? Whats a good way to compare the two?
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Assuming you don't know another person with us take it to any cell store that might have some demo units and set yours to a different resolution. My fiance has the same phone so I compared the two and I can only see a small difference in text.
I've never owned a Note but I've owned countless Android devices and iPhones too. I got my VZW pre-ordered Note 8 on Tuesday and have been using it a lot since then. This is by far the best phone (Android or not) I've ever used especially in terms of out of the box experience.
Coming from an S8 some thoughts:
- Super smooth and animations don't stutter at all - not sure how much of this has to do with 6GB of RAM and Android 7.1.1 (GS8 has 7.0)
- AMAZING multitasking - finally. My average free RAM has remained about 1.5GB (60-70% used) the last 48 hours. Apps that I haven't used for over 24 hours are still in memory and even multitasking heavy apps like Facebook, Twitter, browsers, etc. is no problem. FINALLY!
- Battery life for my usage has always been so-so on the GS8 the best I could get was 3.5hrs for example. Yesterday I took my phone to work and used it for the whole day without charging (9 hrs) and had 2 hrs of screen on time - left work with 60% battery life! That is incredible for me personally since again I have not done anything to tweak or optimize - everything is on and I used it heavily.
- The screen (even coming from a GS8) is just breathtaking. The quality, brightness and colors are awesome. Outdoors it gets so bright that it almost looks like an e-ink display. HDR videos on Amazon and Netflix look really great
- Fingerprint sensor location is not great but it's fine for me coming from GS8
- Camera seems as good as GS8 but haven't used it as much as I would like yet
- Size is perfect, it's tall but the width is perfect for holding and the keyboard is super comfortable (GS8 felt too narrow)
If you have any questions feel free to ask below. Thanks and for those waiting, it's totally worth the wait
Thanks for all these tidbits! I have been concerned with the lack of excited posts from people who have received the phone - this is awesome to see!!
Especially excited about proper RAM management. Thank goodness Samsung has learned!
Also really glad to hear that scrolling is smooth and no stuttering. Stupid test model had me worried. Thanks again for this post, I am so relieved and even more excited now!
What's your screen resolution op?
Out of the box, i read on one of these android reviews that the highest screen resolution is not selected out of the box, in order to maintain better battery life.
Since you didnt tweak anything according to your post, i assume you did not adjust the screen resolution?
I'm getting the note8 today and the first thing i will do is enable the highest screen resolution and make sure the battery performance is set to highest performance.
This will be my first every Sammy product so im looking forward to it. I have an asus zenfone 3 deluxe special edition with 6gb max and half a terabyte of storage. Ther hardware in it is top shelf but the screen is no where near the resolution of the note 8.
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Out of the box, i read on one of these android reviews that the highest screen resolution is not selected out of the box, in order to maintain better battery life.
Since you didnt tweak anything according to your post, i assume you did not adjust the screen resolution?
I'm getting the note8 today and the first thing i will do is enable the highest screen resolution and make sure the battery performance is set to highest performance.
This will be my first every Sammy product so im looking forward to it. I have an asus zenfone 3 deluxe special edition with 6gb max and half a terabyte of storage. Ther hardware in it is top shelf but the screen is no where near the resolution of the note 8.
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Yes first thing I did was change to QHD resolution and I'm running at that since the first 5 mins of owning the phone. It does come at 1080p like the GS8 so I knew to change it. So I assume if you left it at 1080p it would be smoother, faster and last even longer!!
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Thanks for all these tidbits! I have been concerned with the lack of excited posts from people who have received the phone - this is awesome to see!!
Especially excited about proper RAM management. Thank goodness Samsung has learned!
Also really glad to hear that scrolling is smooth and no stuttering. Stupid test model had me worried. Thanks again for this post, I am so relieved and even more excited now!
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Yeah, everyone uses phones differently so hopefully it works for you!
Well I am honestly shocked by this. I sort of expected the S20 Ultra not to meet my standards but not the Note 20 Ultra! Decided to stick with my Note 10+ for a bit until maybe Z Fold 2 or Note 20 Ultra drops in price or for another who knows how long.
Anyways thought I would share with you guys why I decided to stick with Note 10+ over the Note 20 Ultra.
First off the Note 20 Ultra is nowhere near a bad phone, much of an improvement over the S20 Ultra which I thought was junk. The main highlights of the device just didn't seem worth $1300+ to me.
Screen overall is literally just a hair bigger and actually a hair less vibrant and saturated then the Note 10.
Screen refresh rate still not sure why this is such a huge deal. Can you tell a difference? Yes slightly depending on what you are doing. Sort of like 4k on a tablet or small laptop really just not worth it imo
Cameras, oh yes the cameras. Glad to see the autofocus issue was fixed from the S20 Ultra and photos are great no matter what camera but the main sensor unless you are using the 108 mp for extreme detail and then you lose HDR look very similar to the Note 10. Only huge difference is the zoom lens on the Ultra and it is a big one. 5x zoom looks great and even 10x in most cases looks very good and usable. This is the only thing that made me actually want to keep the 20
Everything else is pretty much the same again as Note 10+ nothing else worth mentioning really
Few photos of the differences in whites and camera bumps and the pretty much same screens
shagy38 said:
I M also thinking Bout returning the note 20 ultra Nd sticking with my note 10 plus. The battery life isn't the great on the note 20
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I still love my note 10 even after sending the ultra back. No regrets besides Samsung still hasn't issued me credit! Says they didn't receive phone smh
ok boomer
If i had the 512gb note 10 plus instead of 256 I may not have got the note 20 ultra either (did get 512gb on it) since i just basically needed the extra storage.
Note 10 plus is such a great device honestly and the 20 may have some advantages but its by no means a huge upgrade. More like a baby step upgrade lol.
You're also forgetting the 80% less latency time with the pen. So for me, that with huge camera improvements and 120hz refresh was a no brainer for me trading in my S10+. I notice the 120hz. It's a pretty big difference compared to 60hz Samsung panels.
Its not just the refresh rate increased but the touch response rate was increased a lot too. Samsung's touch response in on their 60hz displays just always seemed laggy to me.
On a side note the haptics are the best I have ever felt in a Samsung phone. On par with some of the best. I also love matte/frosted back phones too. Feels so good in the hand.
You are right about the vivid color saturation. I noticed that being a less too. I actually wrote an entire thread about it here. Now that I have the phone manually adjusting it 1 notch cooler in display settings and keeping manual brightness around 85-90% has resolved that for me.
So do you plan to wait for the Note 30? Or likely to get something else before that?
I understand why he's returning it. So far, I'm underwhelmed this year. And I've had a note every single year they made one.
oneandroidnut said:
Screen overall is literally just a hair bigger and actually a hair less vibrant and saturated then the Note 10.
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Agree with your overall assessment, Samsung should have offered more colors in 512GB as that would have encouraged some Aura Glow users to bite for the upgrade. Can't believe no eSIM support(yet) either on the US model
AndroidPurity said:
You're also forgetting the 80% less latency time with the pen. So for me, that with huge camera improvements and 120hz refresh was a no brainer for me trading in my S10+. I notice the 120hz. It's a pretty big difference compared to 60hz Samsung panels.
Its not just the refresh rate increased but the touch response rate was increased a lot too. Samsung's touch response in on their 60hz displays just always seemed laggy to me.
On a side note the haptics are the best I have ever felt in a Samsung phone. On par with some of the best. I also love matte/frosted back phones too. Feels so good in the hand.
You are right about the vivid color saturation. I noticed that being a less too. I actually wrote an entire thread about it here. Now that I have the phone manually adjusting it 1 notch cooler in display settings and keeping manual brightness around 85-90% has resolved that for me.
So do you plan to wait for the Note 30? Or likely to get something else before that?
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Touch response should be the same as last year right? It was an improvement over s10 but note 10 I think.
I've never had a laggy flagship but I also disable a lot of stuff and have an unlocked unbranded one so that might help as well
I will give you haptics they felt very good, not that the other devices Samsung makes are bad it felt like an upgrade for sure. $1300 one though no lol
Screen color is weird not sure what's going on there and maybe I will get a fold 2 or keep waiting who knows
dottat said:
I understand why he's returning it. So far, I'm underwhelmed this year. And I've had a note every single year they made one.
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Yup note used to have so much innovation and now it's just a bigger s phone with a pen lol
VICosPhi said:
Agree with your overall assessment, Samsung should have offered more colors in 512GB as that would have encouraged some Aura Glow users to bite for the upgrade. Can't believe no eSIM support(yet) either on the US model
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Yeah I don't understand why the regular model went down from 256gb to 128gb. That makes no sense to me either and why can't I get a red one like India or wherever. They need to have more options in storage and colors.
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I'm super concerned about this battery bit right off the bad. Getting worse results than my 1 year note 10+ that hadn't been factory reset in a long time. It appears the cpu never sleeps cores and 5g chews through a lot at the same time. So if I want the same battery life as my 10+ I have to shut off 5g and lock resolution to 60hz middle setting. After that, it might as well be a note 10 with a battery mod.
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Touch response should be the same as last year right? It was an improvement over s10 but note 10 I think.
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Nope its 240hz. Direct quote from GSM Arena review....
"This one comes with 240Hz touch sampling too for speedier detection of touch input."
https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note20_ultra_5g-review-2149p3.php
I believe all 60hz display Samsung phones were 120hz touch sampling before. Either way they were less than 240hz before.
But yeah the color profile is really the only issue I have with his phone. Although its not bad enough for me to return it. Especially since I love everything else so far.
If I keep it at 90% manual brightness, on vivid, with the color temp scale 1 notch cooler its improved. But its still not quite as good color profile as the One Plus 8 Pro I also have. Still good enough for now while I hope they put out a software update to tweak the color calibration of the vivid display mode.
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Nope its 240hz. Direct quote from GSM Arena review....
"This one comes with 240Hz touch sampling too for speedier detection of touch input."
https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note20_ultra_5g-review-2149p3.php
I believe all 60hz display Samsung phones were 120hz touch sampling before. Either way they were less than 240hz before.
But yeah the color profile is really the only issue I have with his phone. Although its not bad enough for me to return it. Especially since I love everything else so far.
If I keep it at 90% manual brightness, on vivid, with the color temp scale 1 notch cooler its improved. But its still not quite as good color profile as the One Plus 8 Pro I also have. Still good enough for now while I hope they put out a software update to tweak the color calibration of the vivid display mode.
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Yeah so it looks like s20 and note 10 are 120hz so pretty decent so incremental improvement there each year. How's your battery life been? I can't say much as the couple days I used it didn't seem great but that doesn't mean anything. My note 10 is on its 14 hour and still at 44% battery left!! Don't think the note 20 would be able to top that
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oneandroidnut said:
Yeah so it looks like s20 and note 10 are 120hz so pretty decent so incremental improvement there each year. How's your battery life been? I can't say much as the couple days I used it didn't seem great but that doesn't mean anything. My note 10 is on its 14 hour and still at 44% battery left!! Don't think the note 20 would be able to top that
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I can't say for sure yet. But it seems good. Well into the good category for me. Certainly not excellent, but good.
Keeping it 90% brightness, haptics on, FHD @ 120hz adaptive, light theme, and my first full day today I got about 6.25 hours of SOT over course of about 16 hours.
I didn't take a screen shot, but plan to do more accurate monitoring over next couple days since I been so busy setting it up and exploring settings.
I got 7 hours of screen on time. That's pretty impressive! I was upset with battery life but today was awesome.
120 Hz
Mix of wifi and mobile data
Lots of pictures
Couple hours of YouTube
Auto brightness
Always on display on always show
Light theme on system, some apps dark themed
Normal day, honestly - so 7 hours was excellent!
Ok good that seems pretty good then!!
heres mine from 95% to 1%
Yes the color profile is awful. I need to trade in my note 8 which looks much more sharp and vivid.
So after speaking to Samsung and their sub repair shop. I have heard the following.
The display may have different tint because of the new gorilla glass, also there's a built in blue light filter to protect user eyes beside the one that u can toggle and last most of these emoled displays developing ghosting effect after long period of usage at hight brightness. Something that Samsung probably considering as it will be costly to start changing them for people who complains.
I have replaced twice on edge 7 and s8 phones.
cool story bro. I'm keeping my new phone.
Got my N20U 3 days ago, coming from a Mate 10 Pro. What a disappointment the Exynos version of this phone is.
Doing basic tasks like writing this very comment while a YouTube video is playing in the background heats the device up so much that I want to put it down again. The performance is fine if you set your screen to 120Hz, but that also drains your battery faster than anything else (and heats it up even more, yay!). 3h of SOT is a ****ing joke. Sure the S-Pen is responsive, the screen is nice, the device is snappy and rarely has any problems with things you throw at it, One UI is One UI, but is it worth the money? Absolutely not. Especially not if you have a Note 10+ or similar.
Don't even get me started on the camera. Capturing something at 4x zoom looks like a Van Gogh painting.
Second and last time I'm trying Samsung. Stay away from Exynos if you can.
I am between 2 and 3 hours of screen-on time and battery is at 70%. This is getting better by the day! Snapdragon here, but it was not nearly this good initially. Got over 7 hours of screen on time yesterday and today is looking to beat that!
My battery life has been pretty solid. I had the s20 ultra and the battery life on that was a hair better I think. In between these two phones I had the OnePlus 8 pro and the battery life on that was atrocious for some reason. So it has been a breath of fresh air to get great battery life again, lol.
My only gripe is no esim/nano dual sim. That was the main reason why I switched from Note 10+ after being told those features were present in the US model.