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How long for the battery to 'settle in'?

Hi guys I have a question, many people have mentioned that the battery will be inconsistent since you need to 'break it in' first. I had my phone for about 3 days now and was wondering when it would settle in so I could get the full amount out of it. It discharges very quick, about 1% every 2 minutes on moderate use.
Also any suggestions what I should turn off to help battery performance? My screen is already turned down and auto brightness off. Also turned scanning off of the wifi.
Thank you
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Battery life?

Hi,
I have the s2 classic and I love it. I have read on CNET that they were able to get nearly 3 days of battery life before charging. I can't get 24hrs of usage before charging. I have changed the brightness to 5 (the screen does shut off and is not on the always on mode), I shut off wifi and NFC . I am not using it all that much, what is everyone else getting on average? I just want to know if I might have a lemon.
Thanks
APT_ART

Hey @APT-ART , You can't try to turn off the automatic heart sensor for longer work on battery. Also the black background (pure black, so pixel are not lighted at all for that part of the face) will help to improve it.
For me it depends on how many notifications there are during the day, what applications I am using and how I charged it last time (I recommend to clean both the back part of the watch and the wireless charger as well). Also for some faces the brightness level of 2 or 3 should be enough to use it as a normal watch WiFi on but NFC off, also the automatic heart sensor turned on but less regular setting.
The battery stands for me for about 30 - 40 hours. But for the first two times I've got only about 16-18. Just let it discharged to 0%, then charge it to 100% without turning on. Good luck!

I keep my brightness at 3, keep always on watch face turned on, tilt to wake off, heart rate off, wifi on, nfc off, S voice watch face listening off, get probably 50 notifications per day and after a 16 to 18 hour day have about 40 to 50% battery left.
I think S Voice watch face listening, higher brightness, and tilt to wake (especially at a higher brightness) does the most damage to battery life.

KubixRevan said:
Hey @APT-ART , You can't try to turn off the automatic heart sensor for longer work on battery. Also the black background (pure black, so pixel are not lighted at all for that part of the face) will help to improve it.
For me it depends on how many notifications there are during the day, what applications I am using and how I charged it last time (I recommend to clean both the back part of the watch and the wireless charger as well). Also for some faces the brightness level of 2 or 3 should be enough to use it as a normal watch WiFi on but NFC off, also the automatic heart sensor turned on but less regular setting.
The battery stands for me for about 30 - 40 hours. But for the first two times I've got only about 16-18. Just let it discharged to 0%, then charge it to 100% without turning on. Good luck!
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Really good tip, I am going to let the watch discharge to 0% and see what happens. thanks! :good:

With very light usage I can easily get 3+ days. I turned off nfc and WiFi. I left on the heart rate scanning. I use it as a stand alone watch at work since I can't use my phone. I have the brightness at 3 and ambient display off / tilt to wake on. Not ideal usage for some, but it's a good setup for me.
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I'm assuming everyone here has the non 4g version and that's why you guys are getting pretty good battery life. Got my S2 yesterday with 4g and fully charged overnight. Took off charger and about 8 hours later the S2 is at 38%. Not happy but going to try that discharge tip. To see if it helps. Also may have to tweak some other settings. I had the Gear S 4g and it didn't drain that much. I can usually get a days worth out of it.

you need several cycles to really know what kind of battery life you can expect; one days worth wont tell you a thing

How do you change the heart sensor setting?
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phxtravis said:
How do you change the heart sensor setting?
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You can change it by going into the s health settings on the watch. Options for auto heart rate are frequent, moderate, or off. These settings are separate from if you actually go in and start and exercise. I have my auto turned off (to conserve battery) but when I go in and actually start an exercise session on the watch, it will monitor heart rate. The auto heartrate is just for random monitoring throughout the day....having it set to off will not impact monitoring when you start an exercise.

Battery Life/Screen on time

First day with Mi Note 10,
Can you share your battery experience with Mi Note 10, I don't know why it seems my battery is draining too fast, I charged it to 100% around 11pm and woke up 5am, sleeping for 6hrs, everything is off, then when I checked the phone the battery percentage dropped to 96%.
I used it for the entire day, left with 19%, with SOT of 5.24hrs, I only use camera and Spotify for most of it.
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your screenshot is not showed up,
but anyway, from 100%, normally i will ends up with 9h screen time.
as per right now, my screen time is 5h48m and 42% battery,
top usage is my game, followed by chrome, instagram and youtube

It's normal for newer Xiaomi phones, my older Note 6 Pro would lose 2% with dual sims enabled. My Note 10 loses around the same as yours with no sims even on it. When looking at battery mon there are a lot of "wake up" calls. My Mi 9 did the same thing, poor standby life. Very disappointed with Xiaomi and the Note 10. No notification LED, no phone call recorder are my biggest issues. Also phone tends to hang every now and then, requiring a hard reboot, fwiw I don't play or have any games installed.
When it comes to battey life people often get confused and quote SCREEN ON TIME. You are asking about standby time and SOT, the standby sucks, SOT not too bad.

Question Turn off adaptive battery or not?

Anyone think it would help battery?

Im wondering.. I just got the phone and it looks i lost 8 percent overnight after fully charging it, no wifi connection active. Is that normal? Using exynos variant.

Adaptive battery takes time to learn your behaviour - keep it on for a few weeks before even considering turning it off.

Question Xperia 5 III Standby battery drain

Hi, I'm experiencing a standby battery drain on my Xperia 5 III. I've just bought it, it's updated to A12, did a hard reset and software repair with Xperia companion. I lose around 1.5% per hour, around 12% per 8hours of sleep. Whether I have SIM popped in or not, GSam reports Mobile radio constantly working and it stops only if I turn airplane mode on.
I have Stamina mode on, 60Hz only, turned off mobile data always on in developer settings (although it shouldn't matter when SIM is out), smart connectivity is off, everything else I found that could be battery consuming I turned off.
Is there anything else I can do, besides flashing it again with Xperia companion? Or is this normal for this phone?

I suspect you're going to struggle to get a reply from someone that's performed this same test. My phone was charged to 90% 4.5h ago. I've used it for web browsing for about an hour since it was removed from the charger. I've never used Stamina mode. I have 120Hz display on. I use the Always On display with the clock and a graphic. Screen brightness is at 50%.
Battery is at 74%. I have done zero investigating about what has been draining the battery, as it strikes me as normal usage based on my experience with Xperia and Huawei phones.

I think you are right, the user base seems to be much smaller than I thought.
Luckily, my battery drain has improved, last night it drained only 0.90% per 7h of sleep, putting a SIM card in and turning Stamina off helped, it makes no sense but it fixed it. If I'm not wrong, as per GSam, my phone also went only into a deep sleep and never into light sleep, now it enters both.

I find that after a reset or an OS version update, the Xperia phones take a week or so to sort themselves out. I don't know if it's optimizing in the background or what. I have noticed this since my Z5, which I bought 5 years ago.

t an update today on my 5 III and after updating I have significantly better battery life and lower overall temps.

dusan92 said:
Hi, I'm experiencing a standby battery drain on my Xperia 5 III. I've just bought it, it's updated to A12, did a hard reset and software repair with Xperia companion. I lose around 1.5% per hour, around 12% per 8hours of sleep. Whether I have SIM popped in or not, GSam reports Mobile radio constantly working and it stops only if I turn airplane mode on.
I have Stamina mode on, 60Hz only, turned off mobile data always on in developer settings (although it shouldn't matter when SIM is out), smart connectivity is off, everything else I found that could be battery consuming I turned off.
Is there anything else I can do, besides flashing it again with Xperia companion? Or is this normal for this phone?
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ive been using my xperia without a sim and the battery life is also terrible. i havent switched from my old phone yet.
is the battery life better on the android 12 update?

I can't comment on 11 vs 12 usages as I didn't use my phone on 11,only 12, but others already reported improved battery life on 12.
My battery life significantly improved after 2 weeks. I did recalibrate my battery, two times drained it to 0% and charged until 100%. I did apply all the battery-saving tips and tricks available and suspended whatever system apps I could. Depending on the usage, I could reach 7-9h hours SOT easily, probably even 10 with stamina turned on. Updates really helped this phone in every possible way. IDLE battery drain was the worse thing with it and now it varies from 0.20 to 0.70% per hour. Remember to close all the apps when you don't need them,.

In the developer options you can restrict the background processes. Had 4, now 3 selected.
My apps notify me reliably, I do not notice any difference, but the consumption in standby is only a third as high.
Everything else did not work for me.

tfbiky said:
In the developer options you can restrict the background processes. Had 4, now 3 selected.
My apps notify me reliably, I do not notice any difference, but the consumption in standby is only a third as high.
Everything else did not work for me.
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Didn't help me. Still have lots of wakelocks, phone is awake most of the time.

duki92ks said:
Didn't help me. Still have lots of wakelocks, phone is awake most of the time.
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Important, you have to set this Option after every reboot.