Hello, I purchased a Korean (I live here atm) Galaxy Note 4 about three weeks ago and have been experiencing extremely rapid battery drain.
Initially, upon unboxing I noticed that I'd get about 2 hours max screentime with 3G browsing usage before the phone would power down. As a result, I brought it to the Samsung store in Seoul last week and they gave me a new battery. However, the new battery appears to have changed little, though I was getting up to three hours screentime maximum afterwards, so that was a marginal improvement.
Yesterday I did a factory wipe and reset the phone, deleted all the unnecessary apps, and reinstalled just the basic extras one at a time to see if that would improve things.
Today I took it off charge and noticed the drain is still noticeable. When browsing websites OFF the charger cable I see the power drop by 1% every 3-4 minutes. Is this normal? I calculate I'd get between 4-5 hours of power at constant browsing at this rate, which would be fine if spread over the day, but the other issue is that even on standby the battery usage is noticeable.
Even following the factory reset I notice that besides from the obvious "Screen" power usage, "Android System" is one of the biggest drains on the battery. Currently it is using between 25-30% of power, and if you look at the sleep log on the battery (See attached) you'll notice it waking lots even with screen OFF. So it seems there are some extremely battery intensive processes that are going on all the while in the background. And when I click on the Android Services battery breakdown, I get about a five page list of processes that are running (also attached), which really does seem excessive for an operating system alone. Could it just be lots of network installed bloatware?
Unfortunately, Samsung told me that past Monday I'd have no chance to bring the phone back for a refund, so now it seems I'm left with fixing it myself or selling it.
As a Note 2 owner who relied on the great battery life I am very disappointed with this.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions for getting to the bottom of this -- or figuring out if there i simply a hardware fault at play here.
Here is the long list of Android System processes I've got running:
Root your phone and control your awake events by App Ops, Amplify, maybe Greenify.
Bloatware sucks. I deactivated almost everything and it works for the moment! But root will be the only way to get more Performance. S health for example i a battery drainer....
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Bloatware sucks. I deactivated almost everything and it works for the moment! But root will be the only way to get more Performance. S health for example i a battery drainer....
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Thanks: how many processes are running in your Android system now you rooted?
Is this the solution? Because obviously if I root, then it makes getting an exchange even more complicated..
Can you tell me how to take a large screenshot? I will post u the process list. My device is not rooted. I will wait to be sure that my hardware is ok.
Thanks. I actually had to make that in Photoshop. It took five individual shots.
Quick update at end of the day.
13 h phone on with 3h45 screen and I'm left with 3% battery.
Is this really the best a thousand dollar phone can do?
Chad you have to many apps in your notification bar! Check this apps pls if they are running all the time. Is this a snpadragon device? Display @ auto brightness disable all nfc / smartstuff
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That's what i disabled [emoji6]
Not sure what those apps are as they are not visibly running.... i feel the issue may be related to the sheer amount of bloatware the korean providers bundle into the system...
Is there any tool to do an optimum battery test so I can figure out if it's software?
Wakelock detector but u need root.
Dude go to appsettings and start disabling all that bull**** my phone is good now. Check every app an decide to use it or not.
My note4 SM-910L from LG+ korea too
And this is my battery stat
As you can see i use airplane mode all the time. Only use wifi and battery still good ( play shadow fight, ppsspp ,... ) and sot can reach 5h easily.
Sync takes up a lot of battery
Yes but deactivating all services of a device takes all the features u pay for.
I got up to 5-6h display time on my 3rd charge.
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Well, I'm in the Samsung Service Center again and they just updated the build of the OS, slightly different one although it's still 4.4.4
He said that would fix it, but I spent fifteen mins in the shop after getting it back and battery drained 5% already.
Yet all his diagnostic tests are coming back fine...
They're taking another look at it now, but I'm not particularly hopeful of a solution.
And as someone is suggesting: what is the point of buying these new devices if you only have to disable 95% of functionality to get decent battery life?
I'm convinced there is a hardware issue at play in mine, my two year old Galaxy Note 2 gives about 30 % batter than the brand new note 4; that can't be right!
Same problem here
Hello there i got the same problem with my rooted sm-n910k and i installed amplify and now i can see where is the battery drain . I got battery drain from :
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com.sec.android.app.soundalive
Wakelock :
RILJ1
I will also atach some pictures to find out if you got same problem like me
I have the sm-n910k too (Korean standard one).
Since going to the shop nothing is better.
Today 14 hours of power, with about 2.5 hours of screentime (not web browsing, but mainly s-note stuff).
Is this really it?!
Is Is it because the SM 910K (Korean version) uses a different chipset to rest of the world that the battery is so poor?
The guys in the Korean Samsung Service center shop told me that the battery life I am getting is NORMAL.
But look at the attached screenshots: <13 hours. Is that really normal? If so I am very, very disappointed...
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Just got the tablet a few days ago. Love the speed. Love the pen. Love the stock UI. Love the tablet. But that battery life..... yikes. I wanted to know how everyone's battery life was. I'm on rooted 4.4.2 and it dies so fast. If I'm not using it, it stays on the same percentage for a few hours but if I'm using it, even for light browsing, the battery percentage just drops. While I'm playing Dead Trigger, it takes like 5 minutes of gaming to drop 10%. I'm on maximum performance so I didn't know if that was normal or not. But thats during gaming on max performance so I can't say I didn't expect that. What I didn't expect however, is how fast it drops even with nongaming use at low battery setting. I was taking notes in class earlier today and it dropped a percentage roughly every 1.5 minutes. Is this normal? What are your battery lives like? Does it get better if I roll back to 4.3 or 4.2.2?
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Just got the tablet a few days ago. Love the speed. Love the pen. Love the stock UI. Love the tablet. But that battery life..... yikes. I wanted to know how everyone's battery life was. I'm on rooted 4.4.2 and it dies so fast. If I'm not using it, it stays on the same percentage for a few hours but if I'm using it, even for light browsing, the battery percentage just drops. While I'm playing Dead Trigger, it takes like 5 minutes of gaming to drop 10%. I'm on maximum performance so I didn't know if that was normal or not. But thats during gaming on max performance so I can't say I didn't expect that. What I didn't expect however, is how fast it drops even with nongaming use at low battery setting. I was taking notes in class earlier today and it dropped a percentage roughly every 1.5 minutes. Is this normal? What are your battery lives like? Does it get better if I roll back to 4.3 or 4.2.2?
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I was the same, i thought the battery life sucked but then i did a complete wipe and flashed stock 4.4.2 and now i love the battery life, using 'balance' mode i get excellent of battery life, imo the best feature of this tablet.
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I was the same, i thought the battery life sucked but then i did a complete wipe and flashed stock 4.4.2 and now i love the battery life, using 'balance' mode i get excellent of battery life, imo the best feature of this tablet.
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Interesting. So rooting it might have something to do with battery draining so fast? I'll have to try to wipe, reflash stock, and test it out. Appreciate the input!
I have not rooted my TN7( 4.4.2 ), I use BSPlayer for videos and music and my battery shows 1% drop after playing MP3s at full volume for 8-10 minutes. That's very impresssive battery life. I use "Balanced" setting from "Settings" app. May be, you are having battery issue because you might have rooted using chinese method and that installs some chinese apps.
MC4 runs without lags on my TN7 with "Balanced" setting and about 3.5 hours of battery life. I will check what happens after changing to "Performance" setting.
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I did not experience any "impressive graphics" when playing Shadowgun THD. What was you experience? (RR3 looks very good, mirroring on the surface of cars, shadows) ...
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I have not rooted my TN7( 4.4.2 ), I use BSPlayer for videos and music and my battery shows 1% drop after playing MP3s at full volume for 8-10 minutes. That's very impresssive battery life. I use "Balanced" setting from "Settings" app. May be, you are having battery issue because you might have rooted using chinese method and that installs some chinese apps.
MC4 runs without lags on my TN7 with "Balanced" setting and about 3.5 hours of battery life. I will check what happens after changing to "Performance" setting.
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I did not experience any "impressive graphics" when playing Shadowgun THD. What was you experience? (RR3 looks very good, mirroring on the surface of cars, shadows) ...
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I've rerooted it from scratch and the battery lasts much longer. The only chinese app I had was some input keyboard one that I immediately deleted with clean master so I wasn't worried about it. I unfortunately have not tried shadowgun THD so I can't say what my experience is, but man. RR3 does look AMAZING.
Mines totally stock bar the google home laucher
I think it is pretty awful
1% every 1.5 minutes just surfing and YouTube
When running root w/ stock 4.4.2-2.1 and power saving mode w/ auto backlight, I get around 6-8 hours of use - I don't game though.
Just picked up the evga version, did all the updates to 4.4.2, battery is just draining like crazy, unit is quite warm to the touch constantly. Topped off out of the box, did the updates, was at 92%. Stepped out with friends and took it with me. It was sleeping the majority of the time, took a couple of test pictures to see AOHDR in effect. No wifi connection. 6pm to 9pm when i got home, battery was at 8% installed a couple of apps, in about 15 minutes was at 4% with the critical warning. Went ahead and charged it up all night. Been off the charger about 40 minutes, im at 75%. This can't be right, nothing near what you guys have reported. battery indicator is that screen on is the biggest drain. Im rooted, stock recovery, SD write fix applied. If i have to do a wipe, ill do it, but i've only installed bgee, sketchbook, cal, coursera, and a bunch of updates. No chance of 10 hours web like the reviews state, no chance of 10 hours of even idle running! Im using the balanced power mode, prism on, auto dimming.
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wow, 65% 1h 15m on battery
google plus has now taken the lead, 41% total use. killed it for now,w e'll see
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Just picked up the evga version, did all the updates to 4.4.2, battery is just draining like crazy, unit is quite warm to the touch constantly. Topped off out of the box, did the updates, was at 92%. Stepped out with friends and took it with me. It was sleeping the majority of the time, took a couple of test pictures to see AOHDR in effect. No wifi connection. 6pm to 9pm when i got home, battery was at 8% installed a couple of apps, in about 15 minutes was at 4% with the critical warning. Went ahead and charged it up all night. Been off the charger about 40 minutes, im at 75%. This can't be right, nothing near what you guys have reported. battery indicator is that screen on is the biggest drain. Im rooted, stock recovery, SD write fix applied. If i have to do a wipe, ill do it, but i've only installed bgee, sketchbook, cal, coursera, and a bunch of updates. No chance of 10 hours web like the reviews state, no chance of 10 hours of even idle running! Im using the balanced power mode, prism on, auto dimming.
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wow, 65% 1h 15m on battery
google plus has now taken the lead, 41% total use. killed it for now,w e'll see
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Got Evga, after the 4.4.2 the battery started to drain at aprox. 1% per minute even with the screen off, Seems to be a bug of 4.4.2, maybe the latest update shall fix that. Anyway, personally I won't know it for a long time since I bricked mine while trying to go back to 4.3 and escape from battery drain Also, if anyone could do me a favour and backup the system from cwm, I'd be really happy)
Try deleting the "batterystats.bin" file and then switch off, charge, then power on after complete charging.
I think those who are reporting battery problem, all have rooted, thank god I have not rooted till now!! I can play 720p movies from my shared windows folders over wifi with fair signal strength for about 9 hrs. Still while playing Asphalt 8, battery lasts only for 2.5 hours. I have all the default settings, not changed anything. ( Xolo Play Tegra Note )
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Try deleting the "batterystats.bin" file and then switch off, charge, then power on after complete charging.
I think those who are reporting battery problem, all have rooted, thank god I have not rooted till now!! I can play 720p movies from my shared windows folders over wifi with fair signal strength for about 9 hrs. Still while playing Asphalt 8, battery lasts only for 2.5 hours. I have all the default settings, not changed anything. ( Xolo Play Tegra Note )
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I'm not rooted
Where is this file ?
Battery life is great for me! I took out of the box, turned a few things off, but it's wonderful. I use Nova Prime launcher. Not sure if that's helping.
Hi Friends,
Just wonder if this is normal for this phone, or you guys could give me some pointers for extending my battery life, specifically the Screen On Time?
I have:
- Stock QC2 firmware - I believe this is Nougat with the March security patch
- No Facebook installed (Disabled)
- I am on data about 8 hours a day, rest is WiFi, Bluetooth for my Watch, and NFC is off
- Generally use a black and red theme
- Doing Ad blocking with the AdClear VPN solution
- Sometimes I make conference calls of under 2 hours
- No games, no YouTube watching
With this set I can barely manage like 3 hours of SOT. Is this normal? What am I doing wrong? Any pointers? Thanks!
3 hours SOT is not normal for unrooted stock. I would suggest downloading GSam Battery Monitor and finding out what is hogging the battery. Note that you will need to manually enable the battery statistics permission with ADB for some reason, but after that it will work like normal.
The top two lines should be Android System and Kernel. If you see any non-system app in the vicinity, that is your likely culprit unless you can explain it with normal usage (for example, Firefox is at the top of the list on mine because I surf the web with it)
Alternately, if nothing odd shows up, you may have a bad battery.
The other thing you might take a look at is shutting off the Location setting that scans Wifi/Bluetooth. That is a massive battery killer
Thank you for the helpful responses guys! I'll try GSam Battery stuff... What are your SOTs BTW?
Thanks!
Also my vibration is always on, my back lit keys are always on, and a 30 second screen timeout time, if it helps? Thanks!
Finally, this is the AT&T model with all the bloat disabled.
I'm typically off charge 18 hours and on data the entire time. I do run a Exchange email app that pushes email, my SOT isn't really huge, maybe around 2-3 hours and I also have BT always on and connected to my S3 Frontier. At the end of my day, I end up with with battery around 50% ish.........
Did you recently update, or did you do a clean install? Sometimes the battery can take a few days to settle in
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I'm typically off charge 18 hours and on data the entire time. I do run a Exchange email app that pushes email, my SOT isn't really huge, maybe around 2-3 hours and I also have BT always on and connected to my S3 Frontier. At the end of my day, I end up with with battery around 50% ish.........
Did you recently update, or did you do a clean install? Sometimes the battery can take a few days to settle in
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That's pretty amazing! Yes, clean install and updated from MM to Nougat and then the latest patch.
I've got a battery monitoring app installed now... Let's see what it unveils... I'm thinking maybe it's my settings, syncing and etc, cause I NEVER get the SOTs people report on XDA LOL, on any phone really except the Mate 9 I had...
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That's pretty amazing! Yes, clean install and updated from MM to Nougat and then the latest patch.
I've got a battery monitoring app installed now... Let's see what it unveils... I'm thinking maybe it's my settings, syncing and etc, cause I NEVER get the SOTs people report on XDA LOL, on any phone really except the Mate 9 I had...
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I'd give it a few days to settle in.
Battery life is SO subjective. The app's installed and the person's usage habits play a massive part in battery life, and you saying that you never get what others are, speak a lot to that.
The built in optimizers in Nougat seem to do a pretty good job at putting unused battery sucking apps to sleep.
ProFragger said:
Hi Friends,
Just wonder if this is normal for this phone, or you guys could give me some pointers for extending my battery life, specifically the Screen On Time?
I have:
- Stock QC2 firmware - I believe this is Nougat with the March security patch
- No Facebook installed (Disabled)
- I am on data about 8 hours a day, rest is WiFi, Bluetooth for my Watch, and NFC is off
- Generally use a black and red theme
- Doing Ad blocking with the AdClear VPN solution
- Sometimes I make conference calls of under 2 hours
- No games, no YouTube watching
With this set I can barely manage like 3 hours of SOT. Is this normal? What am I doing wrong? Any pointers? Thanks!
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I notice one thing, when i connect my Gear 2 by bluetooth battery on phone less about 10-15% less. With out watch and no FB and FB messenger, NFC on, most of day on data, wifi off, 5-6 hours call ( do to nature of my job) i get around 3.5 hours SOT.
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kangi26 said:
I'd give it a few days to settle in.
Battery life is SO subjective. The app's installed and the person's usage habits play a massive part in battery life, and you saying that you never get what others are, speak a lot to that.
The built in optimizers in Nougat seem to do a pretty good job at putting unused battery sucking apps to sleep.
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I agree bud, so I think my usage pattern must be horrible, cause from the earliest Androids like Droid Incredible to Axon 7 and S7 Edge and others, I never get what people mention. And some of their claimed usage is ridiculous, they say they play games all day, LTE, Videos and still get like 5 hours or etc... Boggles my mind. My biggest battery hog I suspect is my VPN based AdGuard, maybe the vibration, but compared to gaming and etc, they sound so insignificant.
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I notice one thing, when i connect my Gear 2 by bluetooth battery on phone less about 10-15% less. With out watch and no FB and FB messenger, NFC on, most of day on data, wifi off, 5-6 hours call ( do to nature of my job) i get around 3.5 hours SOT.
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Yeah, that's more like my usage. Without my Watch, this may be the case. I don't use NFC. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
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3 hours SOT is not normal for unrooted stock. I would suggest downloading GSam Battery Monitor and finding out what is hogging the battery. Note that you will need to manually enable the battery statistics permission with ADB for some reason, but after that it will work like normal.
The top two lines should be Android System and Kernel. If you see any non-system app in the vicinity, that is your likely culprit unless you can explain it with normal usage (for example, Firefox is at the top of the list on mine because I surf the web with it)
Alternately, if nothing odd shows up, you may have a bad battery.
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This is a actually normal for USA SAMSUNG battery which is why no1 should get Galaxy S7 on USA carriers battery is even 100 maH smaller at 3500. Battery is always crap usa versions. And I am stuck in them nougat is bad for battery nothing you can do but downgrade to Android 6.0.1 with Odin. Best battery I can upload a vid for proof att Samsung S7 edge battery sucks and so will all USA carriers s8 never buying Samsung again GG. Switch phones best option iPhones have best battery but I hate them. I'd go for a phone with biggest mAh in specs and read reviews for battery. If downgrading doesn't work sorry for all Samsung lovers who read this it's just fact if you actually compare USA version to international. Battery on international is 92 ish hours not even close on USA version +1 sorry for my rant. Second best option I went to zero lemon and got a battery charging case that was like 10000 something maH and I never loose battery because I keep case on entire time makes phone weigh 4 pounds tho
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This is a actually normal for USA SAMSUNG battery which is why no1 should get Galaxy S7 on USA carriers battery is even 100 maH smaller at 3500. Battery is always crap usa versions. And I am stuck in them nougat is bad for battery nothing you can do but downgrade to Android 6.0.1 with Odin. Best battery I can upload a vid for proof att Samsung S7 edge battery sucks and so will all USA carriers s8 never buying Samsung again GG. Switch phones best option iPhones have best battery but I hate them. I'd go for a phone with biggest mAh in specs and read reviews for battery. If downgrading doesn't work sorry for all Samsung lovers who read this it's just fact if you actually compare USA version to international. Battery on international is 92 ish hours not even close on USA version +1 sorry for my rant. Second best option I went to zero lemon and got a battery charging case that was like 10000 something maH and I never loose battery because I keep case on entire time makes phone weigh 4 pounds tho
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts, bud, I think I would agree, this must be reality. An update for me, seems like getting rid of the VPN based Adblocker has helped battery. Last night, I finally got 4 hours SOT, but that was with the VPN app. Trying without it all day, let's see how it goes.
BTW, hands down, the best battery I have ever seen in the US is on the Huawei Mate 9, even on Nougat. The HUGE battery helps, but legitimately, I was getting 7 hours of SOT.
Thanks guys!
Got the attached SOT after turning off the VPN based ad blocker and using it as needed, rather than on the whole time... Is this closer to normal? ?
I only get 3-4hrs SOT but it is connected to my huawei watch and music is playing when it connects to my bluetooth fm transmitter in my car. I also usually have it plugged in while driving. The best battery life SOT I've seen is on the moto z play. My sister has that phone and she got almost 9hrs SOT. Usually gets at least 7. Someone got over 10.
First time posting. Bought two new S7 Edge phones in late November. My wife can go a day or two or three without charging, similar use with hers. I am lucky to get maybe 6 hours ever since I bought it. I don't use it for gaming, I use social media, email, news, some music, take a lot of pics of the kids, Photoshop, reading, research, etc. My phone is my laptop replacement.
I installed CPU-Z a while back because my phone is often hot. Sensor readings often exceed 150° F with battery temps exceeding 105° (with very little activity).
I've tried charging with rapid charge disabled, decreased screen brightness & resolution, shut down background processes, did malware and virus scans, factory reset, etc. No change.
I do have many apps installed on my phone and I have moved as many as possible to the 64Gb micro sd. No difference. Looking for suggestions. Is this a defective phone? Should I be looking at a replacement? My Note 4, Note II, and Thunderbolt all had much better battery performance.
Your help is appreciated.
I can get like 10-11 hours, did you check "Battery" section to see what is draining her ?
Well I can get even 12h of sot so I don't know how can you get such low battery life. Also, if it heated up to 100° Celsius the battery is not healthy anymore,you should change it
There is absolutely no way that U can get 12 hours of SOT on official rom and with average usage. Don't confuse the OP.
About the problem,
Did U try factory resetting the phone? That should be the first thing to do when the battery is draining abnormally. Also. send us pics of battery usage.
Sorry for the late reply. Apparently I turned my notifications off.
Yes, I have done a factory reset twice in the past few months. I think I'm going to backup in the next week or so and do another one and this time try installing only a minimal set of apps for a few weeks and see how it goes.
Here is a screenshot of my current battery usage. I charged the phone twice today. It's actually doing ok at the moment, usually android system uses the most juice.
Also a shot of the current temps.
Thank you all again!
guys i played with my new snapdragon s8 last night for like 2-3 hours and set everything up and i love it!
the only worry is so far the battery drain is a little more than i would like compared to my exynose S7 Edge. I have all the same apps and accounts setup now on my s8, and just in the few hours i played with it last night the battery drain was more than the s7e was in the past with that same medium/high brightness and watching a lot of videos and installing apps.
then last night, my new s8 on AIRPLANE mode overnight lost about 10-11% battery life which seems too much on airplane mode, my s7e exynos would loose only a few % overnight on airplane mode.
maybe the phone battery needs to calibrate for a few days? maybe the OS needs to optimize itself more? idk. but right now its morning here and im going to charge it too 100% and see how it fares throughout my work day
When you first get a phone, it'll use a lot more battery until it is fully set up and settled in. I give my new phones at least a week to properly settle before I make any judgement on the battery life.
Remember, you've downloaded, lots of apps, synced accounts and various bits. Give it a few days before you worry about it
Turn off Samsung backup.
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Turn off Samsung backup.
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cool ill figure out how to do that and try it
Give it a couple days and update us again - you can also use AccuBattery for a more detailed statistic.
~10% overnight with airplane mode is truly a lot. You should be getting about 1% overnight drain after the phone settles.
I get about 3 hours of SOT if i'm lucky on mine. I play a lot of BT Spotify in my truck as i'm in and out of my vehicle all day long. I was hoping for better, I even followed the guide to disable a bunch of the packages etc thinking i'd get more and didnt raise it any.
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Samsung Backup only starts when your phone is charged.
set your phone according to the debloat recommendations here https://www.xda-developers.com/the-...r-community-radically-improved-my-experience/ and you'll be over 5 hours SoT, my battery life was poor to but this link really helped.
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set your phone according to the debloat recommendations here https://www.xda-developers.com/the-...r-community-radically-improved-my-experience/ and you'll be over 5 hours SoT, my battery life was poor to but this link really helped.
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I tried that, it didnt add any to mine.
Sorry to hear that! Not sure what else to try.
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Do you have Greenify installed? It caused issues for me in terms of impacting negatively on battery life, i uninstalled it and saw big improvement.
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When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy A71's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Phone lost 24% overnight. Culprit seems to be Facebook services, which in turn triggered Google services (for GPS location). I've disabled all the FB crap now and I'll see how it goes today...
Update 19/02 - I'm using Swipe Pro for Facebook and since then the battery seems to have settled. Getting really good battery life now with not too much standby drain.
The 730G is dreadful on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - which has an even bigger, ~5200mAh battery. It performs much worse than my OnePlus 7 Pro with 4000mAh. IMO the chipset (730/730G) is NOT power efficient.
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The 730G is dreadful on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - which has an even bigger, ~5200mAh battery. It performs much worse than my OnePlus 7 Pro with 4000mAh. IMO the chipset (730/730G) is NOT power efficient.
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Likely a device specific problem. Notebookcheck test power consumption in idle, sd 730/g phones are within the same range of comparable mid range SOCs. A71 in particular consumes pretty much the same as Pixel 3a for example (Snapdragon 670), more under load but it's quite a bit more powerful as well, consumes less than Galaxy A51 (Exynos 9611), way less than Huawei P30 lite (Kirin 710) and quite a bit less than Oneplus 7 pro as well for that matter. It uses the same modem as sd 710 and 712 so that's not a problem either.
I have 2-4% standby battery drain. But I checked all apps for background battery usage, I don't use facebook app. The only background apps I use are email, sense flip clock and I use greenify on top of that.
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I have about 15% battery drain in flight mode during the night. I feel this is a CATASTROPHY! What is causing this??? Is there a FREE app that can find what app is doing this? If I check in the settings, it says all apps has drained 0% during the night..
Hey, am thinking of buying an A71 and was wondering if you still have battery issues please?
I have wifi off and Bluetooth for watch, No FB . I get 1 or 2% loss mainly messenger lite , and my games I don't shut down .. with wifi on an average day its about 40% loss . that with wifi always on , games being played, youtube etc ... Since taking of FB I have noticed a huge difference, as before I was loosing 10/20 % at night and 70% in the day ... now I charge once every 2 days, which is not bad ...
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Phone lost 24% overnight. Culprit seems to be Facebook services, which in turn triggered Google services (for GPS location). I've disabled all the FB crap now and I'll see how it goes today...
Update 19/02 - I'm using Swipe Pro for Facebook and since then the battery seems to have settled. Getting really good battery life now with not too much standby drain.
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if U use Facebook Messenger , just remove it and test your phone again
if its not gonna helpful , just check what app drain your battery in setting
Same problem. Just got mine and lost 25% overnight. AOD is not even on. I disabled Facebook the instant I took it out of the box so it isn't that. Must be another app but not sure which. All the same apps I was using on my previous device and had no issues like this.
My battery life is horrible on my A71, I come home from work with 10%, on my P20 Pro which has a smaller battery is 65-70%. I have already used package disabler to disable the crap and its still happening. Going to be returning this phone.
Standby Drain on A71 Samsung
I have the phone for 1 week now and the battery I can say is performing very poor. Just got it to 100% then after 1 minute suddenly went to 99% and after 5 mins suddenly went to 98% just on standby mode. Can anyone please explain me why this is happening?
My device is always optimized (no background processes running). Every app (even the useful ones) I have put to sleep, which means I'm sacrificing on not getting the notifications when the internet is connected as those those apps are put to sleep but I did it just to put my battery on right track. Still no significant benefit.
Standby drain is the biggest issue I'm facing. Early 2% drops from 100% for no reason at all. At night time, I see at least 3% drop in 4 to 5 hours standby with wifi off and zero brightness and dark mode on and always-on display disabled, battery saving mode on and no app running in the background.
I'm having 1% battery drop every 10 mins for just reading comments on XDA developer or GSMArena with brightness to 0%, no extra app working in background, have put all the apps to sleep when not in use, no multimedia use, always-on display disabled, dark mode on, battery saving mode on. So, when I'm using Chrome, I'm only using Chrome. When I'm watching Youtube videos on app with 20% brightness and 60% volume, I'm having 1% drop every 7 to 8 mins. I see variability between each % drop. Like for example, sometimes it drops 1% at 4 mins interval and after that it will take 8 mins to drop a percent.
I have never been so confused in terms of battery life before. Someone from Samsung should at least come forward and explain to us what is going on.
From the reviews, the new updates doesn't have much to offer in terms of battery life. I haven't gotten the update yet.
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I have the phone for 1 week now and the battery I can say is performing very poor. Just got it to 100% then after 1 minute suddenly went to 99% and after 5 mins suddenly went to 98% just on standby mode. Can anyone please explain me why this is happening?
My device is always optimized (no background processes running). Every app (even the useful ones) I have put to sleep, which means I'm sacrificing on not getting the notifications when the internet is connected as those those apps are put to sleep but I did it just to put my battery on right track. Still no significant benefit.
Standby drain is the biggest issue I'm facing. Early 2% drops from 100% for no reason at all. At night time, I see at least 3% drop in 4 to 5 hours standby with wifi off and zero brightness and dark mode on and always-on display disabled, battery saving mode on and no app running in the background.
I'm having 1% battery drop every 10 mins for just reading comments on XDA developer or GSMArena with brightness to 0%, no extra app working in background, have put all the apps to sleep when not in use, no multimedia use, always-on display disabled, dark mode on, battery saving mode on. So, when I'm using Chrome, I'm only using Chrome. When I'm watching Youtube videos on app with 20% brightness and 60% volume, I'm having 1% drop every 7 to 8 mins. I see variability between each % drop. Like for example, sometimes it drops 1% at 4 mins interval and after that it will take 8 mins to drop a percent.
I have never been so confused in terms of battery life before. Someone from Samsung should at least come forward and explain to us what is going on.
From the reviews, the new updates doesn't have much to offer in terms of battery life. I haven't gotten the update yet.
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Had the same issue and no matter what I did couldn’t fix it. I turned this off turned that off, lowered this, reduced that. In the end I gave up and returned it. Shouldn’t be that much of an effort but then it always seems to be with Samsung. Huawei for example it’s just ready to go and works flawlessly out of the box. For a phone that had 4500mah battery it performs nothing like it. I bought the new iPhone SE, it’s battery is tiny 1800mah or something and it lasts longer than the A71.
47% overnight, with no use. It's my second A71. The first, the battery seemed normal. But I did not observe this detail carefully. I changed it the first time due to the infamous discoloration defect of the screen on a gray background with low brightness. Now the second, in addition to the same discoloration defect of the screen, the battery does not last! I went to sleep, the battery at 47%. Wifi off. Mobile data off. GPS off. Bluetooth turned off. Vibration off. Always on Display off. NFC Off. Sim card removed. Only Whatsapp running in the background. All other apps have been configured to be suspended in the background. Approximately 8 hours later, without any use, the battery has zeroed. I have a Samsung Galaxy A7 2017, which has 3 years of use and a 3600MAh battery worn by hundreds of charge cycles, and yet its battery is WELL better than the Galaxy A71, which has 4500MAh and a few days of use. If a new cell phone discharges at this rate, imagine after about 2 years of use. You will need to recharge every hour. Turning the adaptive battery on or off for me made no difference. During normal use, it discharges quickly, but the problem is much more evident at night, when the device is not in use. It seems to drain as much energy in idle mode as in normal use.
The quality of Samsung's products is dropping every day. 3 years ago, you could buy an intermediary made of metal and glass. Protection IP68, OIS and Gorilla Glass 4. Today, the devices that cost almost the same as the high end, are all made of plastic. Without IP68. Gorilla Glass 3 (obsolete technology from 2013), without OIS, and batteries that although bigger, last less. Quality decreases and price increases. It is unfortunate.
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The 730G is dreadful on my Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - which has an even bigger, ~5200mAh battery. It performs much worse than my OnePlus 7 Pro with 4000mAh. IMO the chipset (730/730G) is NOT power efficient.
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I have the 730G 8GB ram variant on my A71 (This is the standard in the PH) and my phone lasts for 2 days with social media and youtube usage. OST is between 6-7 hours so no issues with the chip itself, the phone software is probably not optimized properly with the Mi Note 10.
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I have the 730G 8GB ram variant on my A71 (This is the standard in the PH) and my phone lasts for 2 days with social media and youtube usage. OST is between 6-7 hours so no issues with the chip itself, the phone software is probably not optimized properly with the Mi Note 10.
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So what's happening to the other people in this thread? Is it a case of just too many bad apples (bad/broken devices) or... ?
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So what's happening to the other people in this thread? Is it a case of just too many bad apples (bad/broken devices) or... ?
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I think we need to put things into context first. None of them talked about what apps they had running, what settings they used, etc. Also, the other dude talked about the Huawei when that phone is known to aggressively kill apps very quickly in the background to save battery as a default. You can also do that with Sammy's but you need to activate it first.
As for my phone, it's set on its default out of the box-setting which is optimized if that at all matters.
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So what's happening to the other people in this thread? Is it a case of just too many bad apples (bad/broken devices) or... ?
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I think we also need to look at which carriers are having issues. I have an open line international variant and I've had none of the issues in this thread.
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iro_ori said:
Hey, am thinking of buying an A71 and was wondering if you still have battery issues please?
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If you can find an open line (not tied to any carrier) international variant, it doesn't have any issues.
guitarsmurf2501 said:
Phone lost 24% overnight. Culprit seems to be Facebook services, which in turn triggered Google services (for GPS location). I've disabled all the FB crap now and I'll see how it goes today...
Update 19/02 - I'm using Swipe Pro for Facebook and since then the battery seems to have settled. Getting really good battery life now with not too much standby drain.
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Mine was a bit power hungry at first 6 months ago
Now that i shut off and tried to kill all processes but active ones my battery is AMAZING!
So to compare I read your post last night at around 11 ish to midnight topped off the phone to 94%, and it dropped to 93% just before i went to sleep
killed all the processes with built in battery device care and also greenify.
woke up today at 8:30am and the batter was at 90% and dropped to 89% after a min of use.
So 3-4% over eight or nine hours.... I"m pretty happy with that.