I have a couple of days of warranty to decide if I return my refurbished s6 (g920p). Battery life is terrible but this may be standard for this phone running nougat.
Accubattery estimates that this battery has a capacity of 1950mah, substantially less than the designed 2550mah. I've had the phone less than 2 weeks.
Please let me know what capacity the free app accubattery calculates for your s6 after a recharge. Of my value is close to typical I will not return it saving a lot of hassle.
I had a 2 years old battery, accubattery messured 1970 mAh. I bought a (advertised as 1-2 month old) 2nd used battery, now accubattery says 2150mAh...
Maybe the 2nd battery is older than 1-2 month i don't know..
I'am also curious what others measuring.
ps. : sorry for my bad english.
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When will Galaxy S6 battery begins to fail? I just bought the phone and started to worry about battery life already. I am interesting in a 4200mah external battery case from mpj, is battery case convenient to use?
The typical estimated life of a Lithium-Ion battery is about two to three years or
300 to 500 charge cycles, whichever occurs first. One charge cycle is a period
of use from fully charged, to fully discharged, and fully recharged again. Use a
two to three year life expectancy for batteries that do not run through complete
charge cycles.
Rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries have a limited life and will gradually lose
their capacity to hold a charge. This loss of capacity (aging) is irreversible. As
the battery loses capacity, the length of time it will power the product (run time)
decreases.
i sometimes fire up my 4-5 year old phones including my original DROID and kids play with them and they all still hold a charge. i have zero concerns of the battery lasting for the time period i will be relying on the S6 as my main device. my Note 3 which was my daily driver since release date until the S6 still holds the same charge it did almost 2 years ago.
My GS3 is on the original battery and it performed flawlessly for 2.5 years. Don't see how the GS6 could be any worse.
What battery health does it report for you?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery
Had my Pixel 2 since Nov and tend to try and look after the battery with the now popular wisdom of not charging beyond about 80% when I don't need to. AccuBattery already now reporting 87% battery capacity (2362mAh total), even when benchmarking 0-100% charge. I can't recall what it reported when I first used AccuBattery - maybe mid 90's?
So perhaps I have a low capacity battery, or maybe AccuBattery should not be trusted anyway. Most users seem to get good and believable results from it. In use the Pixel's battery life seems reasonable and consistent with what many folk see, but we're only talking about a 13% margin and usage models and thus battery life change much more than that from person to person. It's just a 13% of extra capacity/life between charges that I'd quite like to have!
But how on earth do I prove reduced/poor battery capacity to get a RMA? I can't say "an app on the Play Store claimed XYZ". Phone was purchased from Google. Maybe I have to RMA based on some other fault I can cite that I can prove?!
Any ideas/experience of any of this?
I've had my pixel 1 for about 5 months (I got a warranty replacement because my previous battery would die in half a day), and AccuBattery shows my battery capacity health at 2087 mAH
My original Pixel 2 actually and genuinely stopped charging intermittently and I had no trouble getting it RMA'd. AccuBattery performs the same on the replacement.
I have now found with my Pixel 2 that AccuBattery under-reports capacity almost always whenever the phone is partially charged. It reports higher capacity when the phone is fully charged - the state it gets to beyond a reported 100% and when it actually stops charging. I put this down to a non-linear battery gauge on the phone - probably by design
I've had mine since October, never bothered with anything fussy like stopping charging at 80%, mostly used the supplied (fast) charger overnight (occasionally other chargers/power banks/USB). Today it's saying my capacity is 93%, but yesterday it was 89% and a few days ago it was 85%. The main thing I take from that is that it fluctuates by several % day to day.
Anyway I'd be amazed if they accepted 13% battery wear over 11 months usage as grounds for an RMA.
I asked this exact thing on Reddit and got nowhere. It's got to be some issue with pie and accubattery. All three of my pixel phones suddenly lost 15-25% battery capacity after pie. 2 pixel 2 and one og pixel XL. Right after a factory reset my pixel 2 shows 99% capacity and then slowly drains down after some charge drain cycles . Perviously it was always above 95%
So a week ago, I got the g7 power phone which has the 5000 mAh battery in it. It advertises 3 day battery life. A few years ago, I had a different 5000 mAh phone and I could go a week between charges. This phone doesn't go a full 24 hours. When I check battery usage, the highest usage app is Facebook at 3%. Any ideas what I can do to get the 3 day advertised battery?
Ok - this is a weird one for my S22u SD so I'd appreciate some feedback. I use AccuBattery Pro to monitor my battery and pre-Jun update (AVF1) after every recharge cycle to 85% (protect battery option is enabled) AccuBattery would show estimated capacity between 4861-5015mAh. Except for one recharge cycle, I used the same recharger but estimated capacity was still very consistent after each session. Samsung advertises 4855mAh average actual capacity for the S22u's 5000mAh battery so all is good with my S22u so far.
I updated my S22u on 6/23 and after that the estimated capacity has been between 4394-4536mAh after each recharge! I noticed this immediately and started using a mixture of different rechargers (including Samsung rechargers) and they were all consistently lower. A couple of days ago I turned off the protect battery option and started to recharge to 100%. Still, the estimated capacity after each recharge was consistently ~500mAh lower than before the June update.
There has been no "event" whereas my S22u has overheated charging or not charging or anything else unusual that has happened other than the June uppdate. So why is my battery 500mAh lower in battery capacity (about 10%)?
Still scratching my head, today while recharging my phone I had a notification that my battery was 100% charged and I was only at 88% and still charging!! The notification was from the Android 12 system UI. The phone recharged to 100% successfully. Somethings not right!
I've attached my stats below for the 10 days prior and 10 days after the June update as per my Accubattery Pro. I would appreciate it if you have Accubattery to look into the history tab and check your estimated battery capacity for a few days before and after the June update to compare mine to. You can get to the capacity estimate via the History tab, scroll to a recharging session, touch that session which will take you to the Charging tab and then scroll down to the bottom of that screen.
Not sure if this is an issue with just my phone or it is a general issue.
PS - I have not experienced any loss of SOT to justify the 10% additional battery wear.
Accubattery is cr*p for battery capacity stats, just ignore and uninstall the app and enjoy your phone. If you are paranoid, install Device Info and you may get a better capacity reading. For me it says 4800 typical. All batteries are bound to degrade after over a year or so, but not so soon.
4845/4926 ~ 98% estimated so far.
What is your battery condition?
Ps. I own AC2003 when new it estimated 90% first day.
I really dislike the new AccuBattery update. I rarely discharge to under 15% so I'll hardly ever get a new health reading. Like I'm aware it's more accurate but it seems odd considering that we are told to keep charge between 20 and 80 for best longevity of the battery.