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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Samsung Galaxy S9+ before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
I go my phone on thursday the 8th and I'm currently I'm getting about 3-4h of SOT.
I would say I'm a pretty heavy user, a lot of Podcasts, Spotify and Youtube (I've installed the Vanced version of Youtube).
I'm also not running the phone on 2k but 1080p settings. I have yet to enable batterysaving mode but I might try having it on medium where it limits CPU power to 70% and decreases background tasks.
Over night when its not plugged in i'm loosing about 1.4% per hour, during the day when I'm using it about 10-11% per hour.
Not really that impressed by it to be honest.
Although I'm coming from a Mi MAX that was designed for batterylife and that I modded to be as efficent as possible.
The phone is not rooted but I've just installed SABS, BK Disabler so I'll be disabling some bloat (I don't use SHealth, GearVR etc) and I'll see if it Improves when the phone stablizes over the coming days.
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I'm getting about 3-4h of SOT with an unrooted Galaxy S9+. No power saving modes enabled and a lot of use such as Podcasts, Youtube, Spotify and such.
I am a heavy user. Today is my first full day with the phone. I restored the apps from Samsung cloud, and the messages from other phone using dongle. Yesterday I managed to fully charge the phone after restoring and configuration and it seemed fine as I achieved around 4hours sot and plugged the phone with remaining 20% battery. Today the battery went dead in below 3hours of sot and it was before 17:00, phone was unplugged around 8:00. This is not bad. This is shocking. I will maybe factory reset and restore everything from cloud, if the battery life won't improve, I will be giving the phone back..I have 6,5h of SOT on Pixel 2 XL which is satysfying. I was hoping to get around 5, but 2.5 is unacceptable.
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I was hoping to get around 5, but 2.5 is unacceptable.
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Samsung is always like that at the beginning. Leave it to do it's thing and then check in a couple of days.
That's not my first Samsung, and I've never experienced that big battery consumption
Started of on my first charges with around 7hr sot, ended with the last two on around 3-4hrs, super confusing. I feel like the phone is draining so much in the background, so if i dont use it i wont get good enough SOT.
s9+ btw. Heavy user, snapchat/reddit gifs etc.
Are you guys using the exynos or snapdragon version of this phone?
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Exynos in my case. 7% batt with 3,5h SOT. That's a huge disappointment
23% with 5hr 18min screen time, 10hrs since charge. Also 3hrs of apple music and 1 hr YouTube over cellular.
I'm really happy with that.
Unplugged for 16hrs 9min. 19% battery. Screen Time 5hrs 42mins.
No complains here. The battery life is not outstanding but it is definitely acceptable.
When i turned on the device it had like 50-ish % juice and it managed to hold for like 6hours. Obviously not 6 h of SoT but just was using it on and off, installing apps, moving data, playing some media, etc...
Now its my first cycle since fully charged and i'm sitting at 50% with 4 hours of SoT. I did not do any gaming tho.
First cycle on my AT&T S9 Plus SOT over 4hrs and 52% battery life is amazing so far.
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Well at 11% and got over 7hrs SOT for first cycle not bad at all battery life seems outstanding for first cycle will see how it goes once it settles after a week should get even better.
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Early SOT Results
I received my Unlocked S9+ a little over 24 hours ago (US version). After setting it up last night and some this morning, I am finally on my first cycle of normal use. I am currently at just about 4 hours of SOT with 50% battery (see photo). I know it is way too early to measure the real battery performance, but thought i would share my early results. This is definitely on par with what I have been experiencing with my other phone (Pixel 2 XL) and the settings/apps are almost identical.
Standby battery drain
Charging the phone (S9+ Exynos) before bed, removing the charger and letting it drain the battery during the night, with wifi on, viber, WhatsApp & gmail syncing, I get a battery drain for the last couple of nights of 0.6% per hour, without AOD.
At least for me it's a bit better than my Exynos S8+ could manage.
Could it be, based on this post, that the SD845 version has better battery life than Exynos?
IUH1991 said:
Could it be, based on this post, that the SD845 version has better battery life than Exynos?
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Not sure but it's all over New Snapdragon is battery friendly compared to Exynos , Which Exynos eats more battery. Snapdragon has got to the point is better in different ways from Exynos.
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Could it be, based on this post, that the SD845 version has better battery life than Exynos?
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I think this theory could be correct from what I've heard.
Someone mentioned having 4 hours SOT and they're at 50% on the Snapdragon. I'm on an exynos and I certainly would only be able to get 2.5 hours to 3 hours max on about 50% battery.
The question is, can the software be tweaked enough with updates to make the exynos more efficient, I wonder?
I am on exynos and have 4 hours en 10 minutes screen time when i am on 50%
The day before yesterday my phone was up fot 1 day and 10 hours and my screen time was 7 hours and 35 minutes.
AT&T S9 Plus Snapdragon as you can see SOT 2hrs and 1min on 72 % ,so battery life is is gonna keep getting better by the time i go down to 10% pretty sure i will hit 7hrs and half to 8hrs , I also get this type of SOT on my AT&T Note 8 Snapdragon , So not sure why Exynos is having battery issues.
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I just got a pixel 3 and so far am a bit disappointed in the battery life. I have on adaptive battery and am hoping that it will improve. I've turned off ambient display as I heard there was a battery drain issue. Overnight it drops like 15 percent!! I'm probably getting 3.5 to 4 hours SOT max.
Can anyone report back if they found theirs to improve after a few weeks or if you have any tips. TIA!!
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I just got a pixel 3 and so far am a bit disappointed in the battery life. I have on adaptive battery and am hoping that it will improve. I've turned off ambient display as I heard there was a battery drain issue. Overnight it drops like 15 percent!! I'm probably getting 3.5 to 4 hours SOT max.
Can anyone report back if they found theirs to improve after a few weeks or if you have any tips. TIA!!
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It's not just your phone or usage, battery performance is just trash in this phone. I was wondering about the same thing when I got my Pixel 3 (November 2018), I think the overall performance of this phone is bad, Multitasking, I see foreground apps crashing which is ridiculous for a $1000 flagship phone from a company like Google. I don't even have heavy usage, I don't game, all I do is average 3 - 5 minutes everyday phone call, texting most of the time and Spotify 2 - 4 hours every day.
I have also gone through a whole defective phone exchange process because the phone which I received initially had freezing and lockout issues. I am not saying the replacement device is any good, I have seen this new one lock-out too, like completely go retarded, touch would stop responding, phone wouldn't come out of deep sleep, I could tell phone is ringing but I can't pick-up because it won't come out of sleep mode or the screen won't come on. I never had such horrible issues with my 4-year-old MOTO X PLAY which died because of my stupidity, even though it was old, I had better battery performance.
I think it's not the hardware but the whole Android Pie feels like its still in BETA. The whole point for me buying this phone was a Software optimization which is seriously poor and Camera optimization which is outstanding. If it wasn't for Camera, I would have returned this phone and bought a OnePlus 6T.
Let's just hope Google will fix everything.
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It's not just your phone or usage, battery performance is just trash in this phone. I was wondering about the same thing when I got my Pixel 3 (November 2018), I think the overall performance of this phone is bad, Multitasking, I see foreground apps crashing which is ridiculous for a $1000 flagship phone from a company like Google. I don't even have heavy usage, I don't game, all I do is average 3 - 5 minutes everyday phone call, texting most of the time and Spotify 2 - 4 hours every day.
I have also gone through a whole defective phone exchange process because the phone which I received initially had freezing and lockout issues. I am not saying the replacement device is any good, I have seen this new one lock-out too, like completely go retarded, touch would stop responding, phone wouldn't come out of deep sleep, I could tell phone is ringing but I can't pick-up because it won't come out of sleep mode or the screen won't come on. I never had such horrible issues with my 4-year-old MOTO X PLAY which died because of my stupidity, even though it was old, I had better battery performance.
I think it's not the hardware but the whole Android Pie feels like its still in BETA. The whole point for me buying this phone was a Software optimization which is seriously poor and Camera optimization which is outstanding. If it wasn't for Camera, I would have returned this phone and bought a OnePlus 6T.
Let's just hope Google will fix everything.
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Yeah I actually have a one plus 6t and am giving this a week or so before I decide to keep it. The 6t is absolutely insane when it comes to battery so I think I'm spoiled haha. Easily could get two days out of it
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Yeah I actually have a one plus 6t and am giving this a week or so before I decide to keep it. The 6t is absolutely insane when it comes to battery so I think I'm spoiled haha. Easily could get two days out of it
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Here's my absolutely outstanding battery performance.
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Here's my absolutely outstanding battery performance.
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So 7 hours plus of screen time?? Jeez I'd be happy with that!!
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So 7 hours plus of screen time?? Jeez I'd be happy with that!!
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That makes me wonder why my sleep time is so bad. I don't have any kind of apps causing battery drain. Everything reports fine.
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I just got a pixel 3 and so far am a bit disappointed in the battery life. I have on adaptive battery and am hoping that it will improve. I've turned off ambient display as I heard there was a battery drain issue. Overnight it drops like 15 percent!! I'm probably getting 3.5 to 4 hours SOT max.
Can anyone report back if they found theirs to improve after a few weeks or if you have any tips. TIA!!
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This sounds really bad. I'm sitting here at 3 hours SOT and 52% battery left.
Faspaiso said:
This sounds really bad. I'm sitting here at 3 hours SOT and 52% battery left.
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I am seeing a bit better battery after a few charges. I've read it gets better so I guess I'll give it a week or so.
As long as I can get 4-5 I'm OK
Why don't you try and switch off the adaptive battery? Some people complain about battery drain with adaptive battery on.
Coming from the Nexus 5 I find the battery life great! I always left adaptive battery on and don't feel any difference after 2 months...
And can't complain about any performance problems...
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Why don't you try and switch off the adaptive battery? Some people complain about battery drain with adaptive battery on.
Coming from the Nexus 5 I find the battery life great! I always left adaptive battery on and don't feel any difference after 2 months...
And can't complain about any performance problems...
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thanks for that tip, I'll try it now and see if it makes a difference!!
Yeah it's not great. I've got 5H SOT here and there but mostly 3.5-4.5. It lasts me the day so I guess it's ok. Performance is really great otherwise.
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Mostly I'm at 3h when I hit 20%.
Overall I've gotten 3-4h SOT over one day (so around 15 hours).
Sleep drain is about 1.25% per hour with AOD off.
I keep location on all the time, BT off, wifi off if I'm on the go.
Other than that everything is at its default setting.
What are you guys doing to get over 4h SOT?
I know it's heavily dependent on your screen brightness, signal strength, how much standby drain and general use/settings.
Maybe you can give some tips.
Android needs time to adapt all for your personal usage. Battery get better and better in couple of days.
I had Galaxy S8 before and Pixel3 batery life is probably 50% better.
But night drain must be around 5%. Bigger drain is probably from weak network. Or bad app.
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Android needs time to adapt all for your personal usage. Battery get better and better in couple of days.
I had Galaxy S8 before and Pixel3 batery life is probably 50% better.
But night drain must be around 5%. Bigger drain is probably from weak network. Or bad app.
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I got my pixel 3 at launch, left adaptive battery on for 3 months, non-root, all stock, no special tweaks or mods etc.
With adaptive battery on, overnight drain with screen facing down is about 10% over 7-8hrs....
After 3 months I gave up on adaptive battery, turned it off, overnight drain is now consistently less than 5%.
Can't say I'm not disappointed...
Please use this thread to post everything about the Battery live of our S22 ultras
Pretty bad the first day (drained 40% in 12 hours of not doing anything).
This is currently day 3 of me using it. The battery learning or whatever is done and it is noticeably better (but not perfect). Although the fact that on low brightness/ambient light you are stuck with 120Hz kinda kills the battery in the evening.
My Phone runs actually 2Days and 1hour without Charge. I have 7% remaining and 6h 5 Minutes SOT.
I Use energysaver mode(always on+bluetooth+wlan is non stop on) and all apps in deepsleep that i dont need
For me it´s good so far^^
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My Phone runs actually 2Days and 1hour without Charge. I have 7% remaining and 6h 5 Minutes SOT.
I Use energysaver mode(always on+bluetooth+wlan is non stop on) and all apps in deepsleep that i dont need
For me it´s good so far^^
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exynos or sd?
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exynos or sd?
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Exynos
Kubas_inko_CZ said:
Pretty bad the first day (drained 40% in 12 hours of not doing anything).
This is currently day 3 of me using it. The battery learning or whatever is done and it is noticeably better (but not perfect). Although the fact that on low brightness/ambient light you are stuck with 120Hz kinda kills the battery in the evening.
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Thats sad mate... hoped that the Battery will be atleast as good as my s21 ultra...
Hope an Update will fix this. Also using 120hz and Füll HD and mostly mobile data. ...
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My Phone runs actually 2Days and 1hour without Charge. I have 7% remaining and 6h 5 Minutes SOT.
I Use energysaver mode(always on+bluetooth+wlan is non stop on) and all apps in deepsleep that i dont need
For me it´s good so far^^
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So without 120hz?
Thats my s21 ultra...
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Thats sad mate... hoped that the Battery will be atleast as good as my s21 ultra...
Hope an Update will fix this. Also using 120hz and Füll HD and mostly mobile data. ...
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When it comes to battery drain while the phone is not doing anything (just sitting with the screen off and all apps closed) it is worse than my almost 4 years old S9+...
While using it it is hard to tell, but sometimes it seems to just eat through the battery.
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When it comes to battery drain while the phone is not doing anything (just sitting with the screen off and all apps closed) it is worse than my almost 4 years old S9+...
While using it it is hard to tell, but sometimes it seems to just eat through the battery.
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Think the "day one patch" will fix it a bit. Many people have stutter issues seems like driver Problems with the AMD gpu. it will release this Week.
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Think the "day one patch" will fix it a bit. Many people have stutter issues seems like driver Problems with the AMD gpu. it will release this Week.
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I hope. Although people say that updates won't fix it or make it better, the phone is running firmware from January 1st. So it seems like a prerelease to me.
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I hope. Although people say that updates won't fix it or make it better, the phone is running firmware from January 1st. So it seems like a prerelease to me.
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Yes the phone isnt officially out yet... Updates Wort fix something? The fixed my s21 ultra which also had bad battery in the beginning.... also Performance is was better than on Release day...
I can't even get into the boot up screen to clear cache. It kicks me out and rebors phone.
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I can't even get into the boot up screen to clear cache. It kicks me out and rebors phone.
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Tried with USB conection to PC?
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So without 120hz?
Thats my s21 ultra...
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I would be happy to have your results. Look at my S22 ultra (Exynos 12/256) Battery drain ! Just from reading my mails and using telegram and a little bit of whatsapp
Day one battery life is pretty awful! Hope it improves..
. I take it off at 100% and I watch the battery tick down almost immediately. Just general use dropped 16% in the first hour. Hope it gets better than this.
Q: Whats the name of the Samsung optimizer app that.one is supposed to run after an update?
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I would be happy to have your results. Look at my S22 ultra (Exynos 12/256) Battery drain ! Just from reading my mails and using telegram and a little bit of whatsapp
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Wtf thats **** mate :/ hope we will See an Update on the official Release:/
Day three. This has the worst battery life of any device I have used in years. For example, Dropped 5% in first 16 minutes of use today. I used smart switch. Maybe that did it? Or is 5G?
I have 2 full days in now, and the battery life is good. S22U 512K unlocked SD version, no power savers, adaptive brightness. I have fast charge turned off and using Anker wireless charger, recharge in about 3-4 hrs.
Feb 23rd : 8h 43m SOT, 8h 22m screen off, 36% remaining at end
Feb 24th : 8h 48m SOT, 7h 51m screen off, 46% remaining at end
I'm on day 5. S22 Ultra with 12/256. It is technically getting better but I do not like how quickly it drains. I been finishing about 5-6 hours SOT max but with battery almost completely dead. Just from unplugging it and driving to work checking notifications, it goes down to 97%. Never seen a battery drain that quickly. Maybe I am just spoiled from the iPhone battery. Also running everything max QHD, 120Hz, auto brightness and Snapdragon version.
One additional comment, I wonder if the battery drain could be due to the GPU and people's different usage patterns. I don't watch a lot of video or play games and my battery seems OK. That and the reports of the phone getting really hot when playing games and the refresh and screen glitches makes me wonder if people reporting higher drain are using the GPU more.
I upgraded to the S22 Ultra from an S20 FE 5G.
Is it normal to burn through 30% battery use with an hour and 30 mins of screen on time primarily scrolling through old FB messages on messenger, and friends lists (no videos, few photos). Brightness was at 25%. Extra dim is on, extra brightness is off. WQHD+ on. Adaptive motion smoothness on.
It feels like this phone burns through the battery much much faster than my S20 FE.
Switched over to tiktok and was on it for 4 minutes with the same settings. I went from 40% to 36% in just 4 mins.
There are other threads that address this same topic. Battery life is something that with these new devices take a while to get "to the point". Battery and system need about a week to learn your usage pattern and determine how to distribute power (as I have read). I got my device yesterday and it's still to early to issue an honest opinion on the battery life, I don't complaint at this moment as I know it will take a while for this to "calibrate" to my usage and needs.
btw TikTok will always drain more battery as you are basically streaming video on a huge ass screen so it is a power consuming task.
I find battery life generally poor to awful. I'm on 5th day. No change. No draining apps. Nothing unusual.
Same with me. Got my device on Monday.. now im finally seeing how much usage i will get on a full charge.
100% - 17hrs remaining. Sigh.
That March update needs to come quickly. Most of us had this same issue last year with the s21 ultra when it launched.
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There are other threads that address this same topic. Battery life is something that with these new devices take a while to get "to the point". Battery and system need about a week to learn your usage pattern and determine how to distribute power (as I have read). I got my device yesterday and it's still to early to issue an honest opinion on the battery life, I don't complaint at this moment as I know it will take a while for this to "calibrate" to my usage and needs.
btw TikTok will always drain more battery as you are basically streaming video on a huge ass screen so it is a power consuming task.
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It doesn't take a week. It takes 2-3 days to learn patterns. Or are you saying after it learns your patterns it takes a few additional days. My s22 ultra stopped giving me the learning patterns message after two days, and it predicted I would have 17 hours of battery life. I ended up having about 12. The battery life on this phone is abysmal. I had atleast a day on the s21 ultra. Even the people showing high amounts of screen on time, are only getting about 18 hours. That is not a day, that's still short 6 hours. Something is seriously long with the battery consumption. Oh, and I have a snapdragon which is supposed to be better, but clearly snapdragon has done a terrible job with this year's chip as far as heat and battery efficiency.
Most people require 6-8 hours of sleep to function in the real world so 18 hours battery life will satisfy 95% of users.
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It doesn't take a week. It takes 2-3 days to learn patterns. Or are you saying after it learns your patterns it takes a few additional days. My s22 ultra stopped giving me the learning patterns message after two days, and it predicted I would have 17 hours of battery life. I ended up having about 12. The battery life on this phone is abysmal. I had atleast a day on this phone. Even the people showing high amounts of screen on time, are only getting about 18 hours. That is not a day, that's still short 6 hours. Something is seriously long with the battery consumption. Oh and I have a snapdragon which is supposed to be better, but clearly snapdragon has done a terrible job with this year's chip as far as heat and battery efficiency.
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Based on past experiences (N20U and S21U) after it "learned" it still worked on optimizing performance. I have not experienced heating issues on Snapdragon S22U. Battery is not bad, could be better of course, but then again, I think it matches S21U in how much it lasts.
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Most people require 6-8 hours of sleep to function in the real world so 18 hours battery life will satisfy 95% of users.
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Fair enough, but why are we making excuses for Samsung. I've had an s7 edge, an S10 plus, and S20 ultra, and S21 Ultra and now this one. All of those versions were exynos which were worse than Snapdragon on battery life, and all gave me over a day of battery life.
Are we seriously giving Samsung a pass because a person doesn't stay up for 18 hours?
As I mentioned mine isn't even that high. After learning patterns, mine said 18 hours. I ended up getting 12 hours on that day. Inexusable. This is a snapdragon variant that I have.
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Fair enough, but why are we making excuses for Samsung. I've had an s7 edge, an S10 plus, and S20 ultra, and S21 Ultra and now this one. All of those versions were exynos which were worse than Snapdragon on battery life, and all gave me over a day of battery life.
Are we seriously giving Samsung a pass because a person doesn't stay up for 18 hours?
As I mentioned mine isn't even that high. After learning patterns, mine said 18 hours. I ended up getting 12 hours on that day. Inexusable. This is a snapdragon variant that I have.
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I'm not giving it a pass at all as I havent received mine yet. However if I find it's performance unacceptable I'll simply return it for refund and get on with my life.
If you optimize it, it is the same.
Go to app info and set apps as restricted battery usage.
Also turn off apps on Usage Data Access.
Change to LTE if you are on wifi at home, set a routine.
A chipset manufactured using a 4nm process, yet underwhelming @ batterylife.
Miss Andrei Frumusanu from Anandtech.
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A chipset manufactured using a 4nm process, yet underwhelming @ batterylife.
Miss Andrei Frumusanu from Anandtech.
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Good point, Samsung stated the 4nm chipset improved "efficiency" by 30% which implies battery life would improve significantly. Samsung's touted a number of specs for the S22 which have failed to materialize.
In my experience with Samsung phone's I find that even after the initial learning phase has concluded the battery tends to drop pretty fast from 100% to around 75% and then stabilises.
Its Good for me
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Its Good for me
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How long your are using? I am getting poor battery life compare to S21U. I am on SD version. How you achieved this battery stats/
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How long your are using? I am getting poor battery life compare to S21U. I am on SD version. How you achieved this battery stats/
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Sinne thursday but only charged twice so far. Needs a bit time to optimize usage. Im using samsung Browser and Phone is debloated
My battery underperformed after I updated to April ... now I've applied the May update so let's see how it goes.
Snapdragon btw.
I have big problems with battery..In the first 2 weeks it was fine, but after those 2 weeks the battery life it's awful..Can't get more than 5h SOT even with social media apps uninstalled, I'm starting to hate this phone, it's worse than my ex S20+
Exynos 256gb last April update
robi101012981 said:
I have big problems with battery..In the first 2 weeks it was fine, but after those 2 weeks the battery life it's awful..Can't get more than 5h SOT even with social media apps uninstalled, I'm starting to hate this phone, it's worse than my ex S20+
Exynos 256gb
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Snapdragon too? What's the ROM version?
Got the pro delivered today. Ive noticed battery life is quite poor. Dropping 5-10% every 30 mins or so. Battery usage seems to suggest the google app is using about 25% of the battery. Usage is nothing over the top. Coming from a pixel 5 with excellent battery
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Got the pro delivered today. Ive noticed battery life is quite poor. Dropping 5-10% every 30 mins or so. Battery usage seems to suggest the google app is using about 25% of the battery. Usage is nothing over the top. Coming from a pixel 5 with excellent battery
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Dude it's your first setup and install. Give it a day or two. Normal. I have used the 7 and 7 pro now for 3 weeks which is great.
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Dude it's your first setup and install. Give it a day or two. Normal. I have used the 7 and 7 pro now for 3 weeks which is great.
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Yea. I agree. But drain seems very rapid. Just dropped 3% since i posted the question. Will wait a few days and report back
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Dude it's your first setup and install. Give it a day or two. Normal. I have used the 7 and 7 pro now for 3 weeks which is great.
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Hows the face unlock and fingerprint ? Fast and responsive or laggy ?
Iam waiting for my 7pro and iam affraid about problems from 6 series
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Hows the face unlock and fingerprint ? Fast and responsive or laggy ?
Iam waiting for my 7pro and iam affraid about problems from 6 series
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pixel 6 fp issues are mostly fixed now because of software updates
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Got the pro delivered today. Ive noticed battery life is quite poor. Dropping 5-10% every 30 mins or so. Battery usage seems to suggest the google app is using about 25% of the battery. Usage is nothing over the top. Coming from a pixel 5 with excellent battery
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Just try to charge it fully and use it for a few more days, also for new phones there will always be updates for battery issues!
Been using both 7 series for 3 weeks. Fingerprint is perfect. Hardly use it with face unlock though
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Been using both 7 series for 3 weeks. Fingerprint is perfect. Hardly use it with face unlock though
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OK...let's have it...how in the world have you been using the phone(s) for the last three weeks?
It's a 5nm(or 4nm) Samsung fab made SOC, it's going to have poor efficiency.
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OK...let's have it...how in the world have you been using the phone(s) for the last three weeks?
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Because I work for a network in the UK. Only allowed to talk about them after launch
I'm not sure if others have issues with battery drain and I did see the article on display on the Pixel 7 Pro being a battery killer...but after using the phone for a few days now, I can confirm that the phone, software, all the fancy features are absolutely great but the battery sucks. This phone is a battery killer indeed. I'm monitoring with accubattery and trying greenify but no luck yet. I have even tried keeping the Smooth Display disabled/turned off (to prevent refresh rate being increased to 120 Hz) but the brain drain literally is insane. I am not an expert and I am not sure if more battery charge cycles, optimization through phone use etc will help over time either. I have tried restricting battery use for many apps as well and tried disabling background data for some apps - no luck on this one too. Hopefully the underlying cause can be fixed with some usual Google software patch magic...if not, it's going to a year of battery misery I guess. I'm curious to hear others experience and any suggestions. Thank you.
I am on the same page when it comes to battery... I have the 7 Pro and since 6PM last night it dropped to 38% with only 1h 45 min of SOT... That is never going to get close to even 3h of SOT.
It is on 1440p and 120hz but still, I don't think this is ok.
Mine is so much better than what my P6P was, yesterday i had 54% left after 17 hours off charge and playing with it given its a new toy, My P6P would have been down to 20%'ish.
I've lost 20% today (since 6.20am) but i have had Poweramp playing music for a couple of hours, i have been out and about taking photos and i made a 30 minute call.
MrBelter said:
Mine is so much better than what my P6P was, yesterday i had 54% left after 17 hours off charge and playing with it given its a new toy, My P6P would have been down to 20%'ish.
I've lost 20% today (since 6.20am) but i have had Poweramp playing music for a couple of hours, i have been out and about taking photos and i made a 30 minute call.
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Yeah, mine has been really good also. Really good idle drain and overnight it's in deep sleep around 97% of the time. Active drain has been good as well.
Mine seem to be be about on par with my P6P. Not great, but not horrible.
Compared to my poco f2 pro which only has a 4700mah battery the pixel 7 pro's battery life is pretty abysmal. I used to run twice the **** on that phone and it still didn't die as fast as the p7p. Hope a few firmware updates will get it to a better place. Turing off pick up and tap screen to wake made a little bit better but it's still abysmal imo.
For whatever it's worth, I've had mine (unlocked google / 512) since Thursday. Accubattery has been on since Friday when I rooted and started restoring apps . Just checking it and coming off a full charge overnight (trickle charge) it's estimating I have 11 hours of SOT, 62 hours screen off time. Since it was off the charger around 3 hours ago it's dropped 2% with 26 minutes of SOT.
To be fair I use my phone for email, texts, minor information/news gathering and music streaming and light photo/video recording without much running in the background so I'm not a high power user. YMMV
Weird. My experience is completely the opposite - 6 hours 23 minutes SOT with 21% remaining yesterday on my first full cycle when I put it back on charge. No complaints at all.
Did anyone with poor battery performance transfer apps to the new phone through cable? This has been bad for battery on new phones as ooposed to letting the new phone download the apps.....
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Did anyone with poor battery performance transfer apps to the new phone through cable? This has been bad for battery on new phones as ooposed to letting the new phone download the apps.....
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The Pixel 7P and 6P I have here ran like total garbage when I transferred data between the two with a USB cable. A fresh install made both phones run great.