Verizon Note 4's are still on 5.0.1 because you know Verizon. AT&T Note 4's got their 5.1.1 update earlier this month so I'm hoping the Verizon ones will get it soon.
Without seeing your phone it's hard to say what might be causing a battery drain on yours though. It depends on what you were doing too, if you had 4 hours of screen on playing a game or something you're going to kill your battery pretty hard. If you're seeing battery drain while using Chrome, try the Samsung stock browser instead. On Android, battery life will vary wildly from one device to another and it will depend on what you have installed, what's running, what you're doing, etc. It's not like on iOS where apps are heavily restricted on what they can do so sometimes if you get a battery drain you need to hunt down the offending app and terminate it with extreme prejudice.
Yeah I know it's pretty hard to get a general picture of what the phone is doing without a pretty thorough report of what apps I'm using. I'm using GSam battery monitor and I'm going to post the results in here after a full day's cycle (meaning tomorrow since I downloaded it in the middle of a charge cycle today). I know it's a lot more a complicated matter on Android given things can run in the background continuously so it's not nearly as straightforward to figure out battery usage on it than on iOS.
All I really am doing on the phone is the occasional email check and mostly browsing GAF. No game playing or using apps other than the occasional GroupMe, Slack, or Google Hangouts text. Really nothing heavy. And other than the previously mentioned apps I haven't installed much. I did try to disable most of the bloat that came with Verizon's shit, and gladly none of it appears to affect battery in any of the usage reports I'm seeing, so that doesn't seem to be the issue.
There seems to be something that drains the battery on its own. Regardless of which browser I'm using (either Chrome or Samsung's own generic internet browser), and regardless of whether or not I have Battery Saver turned on, I average around 5 minutes of active use (web browsing mostly) per 1% of battery (I also get that amount of battery use when on the Settings menu, meaning not using any apps). Sometimes a lot less, if I'm on a website like Android Central that spams intrusive ads and leaves me literally at about 1% per 2 minutes or less. There's also drain while on standby. Today I had a class in a building where apparently there's low signal, because I easily lost 10%+ while I wasn't doing anything to the phone, it even was running hot when I took it out of my pocket after class. Yes, I was on Wi Fi, but apparently that doesn't turn off mobile data?
I can't seem to find the Wi-Fi Calling/VoLTE settings (I want to turn that off to see if helps any), where can I find those settings?
My battery performance has been amazing so far. I'm getting 6 1/2 hours of on screen time per charge. I've got a Tmobile unit so I'm glad the battery life doesn't suck since it's a smaller capacity than the Note 4. Someone on this thread posted that Samsung is going to push an update that makes battery life ever better!
That's good! Didn't know VZW Note 5s are a version behind, which kinda sucks. Not used to seeing updates being brickwalled under two layers (Samsung and VZW), which definitely does suck
So starting today I'm going to use the GSam app to monitor my battery, but based on my guesstimations on phone usage patterns vs. battery performance on my old phone (iPhone 5S), I seem to get about a 1/3rd better battery life? Last night I was at around 30% whereas I would've probably had a drained battery on my iPhone 5S, and my usage pattern was about the same...but again it's all subjective on my end so I guess I shouldn't still harp on about performance before I can see the GSam reports.
Where can I find the sync settings for how often my email and stuff gets synced? I keep feeling like I'm missing one or two settings somewhere that could save a lot of battery. I already caught a couple of settings that look like they're overusing the battery (Continuously Scanning for WiFi and "Accurate" Location detection instead of "Power Saving" location detection).
