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    I used featureCounts to get exon counts. And my codes are following:
'''./featureCounts -t exon --countReadPairs  -M -O -f -s 0 -p -T 4 -F GTF -a /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/featurecount/Subread_to_DEXSeq/NY_for_dexseq.gtf -o /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/featurecount/DT_16vs0.txt /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_16_01.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_16_02.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_16_03.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_16_06.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_16_08.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_0_04.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_0_05.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_0_06.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_0_07.sorted.bam /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/04_samtools_SNPcalling/sort/DT_0_08.sorted.bam
''' But the output in terminals showed that the successfully assigned alignment scores were only around 40%.
> //========================== featureCounts setting ===========================\\
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||             Input files : 10 BAM files                                     ||
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||                           DT_16_01.sorted.bam                              ||
||                           DT_16_02.sorted.bam                              ||
||                           DT_16_03.sorted.bam                              ||
||                           DT_16_06.sorted.bam                              ||
||                           DT_16_08.sorted.bam                              ||
||                           DT_0_04.sorted.bam                               ||
||                           DT_0_05.sorted.bam                               ||
||                           DT_0_06.sorted.bam                               ||
||                           DT_0_07.sorted.bam                               ||
||                           DT_0_08.sorted.bam                               ||
||                                                                            ||
||             Output file : DT_16vs0.txt                                     ||
||                 Summary : DT_16vs0.txt.summary                             ||
||              Paired-end : yes                                              ||
||        Count read pairs : yes                                              ||
||              Annotation : NY_for_dexseq.gtf (GTF)                          ||
||      Dir for temp files : /line/WJ/project/NY_Transcriptome2Genome/fea ... ||
||                                                                            ||
||                 Threads : 4                                                ||
||                   Level : feature level                                    ||
||      Multimapping reads : counted                                          ||
|| Multi-overlapping reads : counted                                          ||
||   Min overlapping bases : 1                                                ||
||                                                                            ||
\\============================================================================//
//================================= Running ==================================\\
||                                                                            ||
|| Load annotation file NY_for_dexseq.gtf ...                                 ||
||    Features : 215200                                                       ||
||    Meta-features : 20538                                                   ||
||    Chromosomes/contigs : 335                                               ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_16_01.sorted.bam...                                    ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 31522099                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 11715686 (37.2%)                     ||
||    Running time : 0.83 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_16_02.sorted.bam...                                    ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 29776568                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 12311903 (41.3%)                     ||
||    Running time : 0.76 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_16_03.sorted.bam...                                    ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 28298923                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 12146956 (42.9%)                     ||
||    Running time : 0.64 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_16_06.sorted.bam...                                    ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 31025669                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 9508592 (30.6%)                      ||
||    Running time : 0.97 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_16_08.sorted.bam...                                    ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 28444412                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 9160038 (32.2%)                      ||
||    Running time : 0.93 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_0_04.sorted.bam...                                     ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 27512167                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 12262121 (44.6%)                     ||
||    Running time : 0.63 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_0_05.sorted.bam...                                     ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 38093207                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 14982222 (39.3%)                     ||
||    Running time : 0.81 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_0_06.sorted.bam...                                     ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 86329285                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 26742040 (31.0%)                     ||
||    Running time : 2.83 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_0_07.sorted.bam...                                     ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 58327939                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 21884010 (37.5%)                     ||
||    Running time : 1.60 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Process BAM file DT_0_08.sorted.bam...                                     ||
||    Paired-end reads are included.                                          ||
||    Total alignments : 20276198                                             ||
||    Successfully assigned alignments : 6942758 (34.2%)                      ||
||    Running time : 0.46 minutes                                             ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Write the final count table.                                               ||
|| Write the read assignment summary.                                         ||
||                                                                            ||
|| Summary of counting results can be found in file "/line/WJ/project/NY_Tra  ||
|| nscriptome2Genome/featurecount/DT_16vs0.txt.summary"                       ||
||                                                                            ||
\\============================================================================//
I have also found very high "Unassigned_NoFeatures" in summary.
Assigned    11715686    12311903    12146956    9508592 9160038 12262121    14982222    26742040    21884010    6942758
Unassigned_Unmapped 1434907 1376340 1462155 1588518 1277436 1343727 1724046 4257775 2630628 934777
Unassigned_Read_Type    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_Singleton    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_MappingQuality   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_Chimera  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_FragmentLength   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_Duplicate    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_MultiMapping 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_Secondary    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_NonSplit 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_NoFeatures   18371506    16088325    14689812    19928559    18006938    13906319    21386939    55329470    33813301    12398663
Unassigned_Overlapping_Length   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Unassigned_Ambiguity    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
I have no ideas what to do. Any help in this will really appreciated.
What percentage were you expecting and why?
I ask because unassigned no features means the mapped read simply doesn't overlap your GTF file, which might be expected. For example, I have ribo-depleted total RNA, and it turns out we capture a fair bit of nascent RNAs. So when I do counts using a regular GTF, I get percentages comparable to yours. If I included counts over intronic regions, that percentage would increase because now the nascent pre-mRNA reads get counted. There's also non-gene genomic regions that have RNA signal that I don't count with a typical GTF.
Could there be information missing from your GTF file, such as specific chromosomes?