I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 and my girlfriend has a Verizon Galaxy S4, and over the last year or more we have noticed there is always a huge difference in battery life -- mine lasts somewhere between 2X and 4X longer than hers.
I know of two differences between our phones, but I'm not sure which one accounts for the discrepancy.
The first is, of course, that she's on Verizon and I'm on Sprint. I have noticed that she gets 4G LTE about 95% of the time, while I get 4G LTE probably 25% of the time. If 4G uses more power, that might explain it. I also know Verizon and Sprint use very different spectrum bands, so perhaps Sprint's uses less power.
The second difference is, I have always run custom ROM's that have Caller IQ removed, while she has always left her phone stock (getting over-the-air updates). I have heard it claimed that the Caller IQ and other carrier nonsense slows down your phone and hurts battery life, but I wouldn't have imagined the effect on battery life would be so dramatic.
Nerva said:
I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 and my girlfriend has a Verizon Galaxy S4, and over the last year or more we have noticed there is always a huge difference in battery life -- mine lasts somewhere between 2X and 4X longer than hers.
I know of two differences between our phones, but I'm not sure which one accounts for the discrepancy.
The first is, of course, that she's on Verizon and I'm on Sprint. I have noticed that she gets 4G LTE about 95% of the time, while I get 4G LTE probably 25% of the time. If 4G uses more power, that might explain it. I also know Verizon and Sprint use very different spectrum bands, so perhaps Sprint's uses less power.
The second difference is, I have always run custom ROM's that have Caller IQ removed, while she has always left her phone stock (getting over-the-air updates). I have heard it claimed that the Caller IQ and other carrier nonsense slows down your phone and hurts battery life, but I wouldn't have imagined the effect on battery life would be so dramatic.
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It's most likely the fact that you're ROM'd and rooted. Custom ROMs have a ton of benefits. LTE usually uses about the same amount of power as 3G, I can't speak for the different bands, but many other people that I know that have Verizon S4 have said the same thing. They can barely get 8 hours out of it. I get around 20 on average (unless I'm in a gaming binge).
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Nerva said:
I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 and my girlfriend has a Verizon Galaxy S4, and over the last year or more we have noticed there is always a huge difference in battery life -- mine lasts somewhere between 2X and 4X longer than hers.
I know of two differences between our phones, but I'm not sure which one accounts for the discrepancy.
The first is, of course, that she's on Verizon and I'm on Sprint. I have noticed that she gets 4G LTE about 95% of the time, while I get 4G LTE probably 25% of the time. If 4G uses more power, that might explain it. I also know Verizon and Sprint use very different spectrum bands, so perhaps Sprint's uses less power.
The second difference is, I have always run custom ROM's that have Caller IQ removed, while she has always left her phone stock (getting over-the-air updates). I have heard it claimed that the Caller IQ and other carrier nonsense slows down your phone and hurts battery life, but I wouldn't have imagined the effect on battery life would be so dramatic.
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You cannot compare how long your battery lasts against hers unless you are comparing screen on time, actual usage. If she spends 2 hours on Facebook or something, has brightness all the way up, has screen timeout set twice as long than yours....all these things affect battery life.
Actually, the overwhelming amount of usage is "Android System" or "Android OS" or something like that, I forget which. That's what jumped out at me -- my phone almost always has "screen" as the top power user, but "screen" is never at the top of her list. I always suspected it was Caller IQ or something like that, but I don't know if CIQ is used by Verizon.
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You cannot compare how long your battery lasts against hers unless you are comparing screen on time, actual usage. If she spends 2 hours on Facebook or something, has brightness all the way up, has screen timeout set twice as long than yours....all these things affect battery life.
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But I can say
I have had it with missed calls and texts on Sprint and moved to Verizon last month. Over 2 years on Sprint I never had a problem making it through the day even with heavy usage. Since moving to Verizon e.g. this morning, in 2 hours I am down 25 %. I turned off my phone last night, and restarted it before bed.
Also Charge time on a Verizon phone is very long especially not using a samsung charger. I can swap batteries with my spring phone and charge on any charger much faster.
I have attempted to kill ANY programs I can find that are not used, When I go back to app manager at the end of the day all kinds of things are restarted, but pulling virtually no cpu or screen time.
Granted since all units were forced to 5.0.1 even the Sprint phone lost some battery life, but not as much as switching to Verizon.
(USAGE HABITS HAVE NOT CHANGED BETWEEN PROVIDERS)
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Has anyone noticed any significant decrease in battery life after applying the recent update issued by Verizon a couple of days ago? My Fascinates battery life was actually impressing me tremendously before the update, and it seems to have taken quite a big hit since the update. Just wondering if my case is isolated, or if others are seeing the same thing.
How many hours are you getting? My battery life always lasted around 13-15 hours even before the update which is still pretty short imo. I wonder if I have a defective battery. I turn everything off and brightness to the lowest but it's always around 13/14 hours when my phone dies completely.
My battery life has definitely takin a hit...
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My battery life has definitely takin a hit...
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There's an UNCONFIRMED rumor floating around over on Android Central that Verizon and Samsung have pulled the update due to problems. Again, this is unconfirmed, and just a rumor, and makes NO mention to the reasons why. Perhaps the battery life is a more wide spread issue.
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There's an UNCONFIRMED rumor floating around over on Android Central that Verizon and Samsung have pulled the update due to problems. Again, this is unconfirmed, and just a rumor, and makes NO mention to the reasons why. Perhaps the battery life is a more wide spread issue.
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Well, isnt that special.
Took me forever to apply it manually and now it might be borked, great
I didn't really have a problem with the battery life after this update, but I did notice a signifigant loss of speed when going to websites or watching Youtube.
I installed the update by reverting to stock and updating, and then re-rooted and re-applied the lag fix, and of course re-removed bloatware. I can report that I have noticed no difference at all on data transfer performance, and also no battery life issues. In fact, when I got home from work today, I looked at my battery gauge, and it was still at 87%. That's after almost 12 hours of mostly standby time, with gmail, corporate email, and weather services updating regularly. That's actually the best battery life I've seen out of this thing yet. If your battery is draining faster than that, then you must have some kind of process or background service that's not letting the CPU sleep, which will drain your battery fairly quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit is one of the bloatware apps that I disabled.
On a side note, I still seem to have an issue where the data connection intermittently cuts out. I don't lose the 3G icon, and have plenty of signal, but it's like the connection just times out, and a few seconds later resumes again. I was hoping the radio update in DI01 would address this, but no dice. I'm actually suspicious that it's an issue in the OS itself, as I've seen similar behavior over WiFi, which is a completely separate radio and network interface. I hope it's just a software bug, not a hardware defect. If it persists after the Froyo upgrade, I plan on doing a warranty claim.
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I installed the update by reverting to stock and updating, and then re-rooted and re-applied the lag fix, and of course re-removed bloatware. I can report that I have noticed no difference at all on data transfer performance, and also no battery life issues. In fact, when I got home from work today, I looked at my battery gauge, and it was still at 87%. That's after almost 12 hours of mostly standby time, with gmail, corporate email, and weather services updating regularly. That's actually the best battery life I've seen out of this thing yet. If your battery is draining faster than that, then you must have some kind of process or background service that's not letting the CPU sleep, which will drain your battery fairly quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit is one of the bloatware apps that I disabled.
On a side note, I still seem to have an issue where the data connection intermittently cuts out. I don't lose the 3G icon, and have plenty of signal, but it's like the connection just times out, and a few seconds later resumes again. I was hoping the radio update in DI01 would address this, but no dice. I'm actually suspicious that it's an issue in the OS itself, as I've seen similar behavior over WiFi, which is a completely separate radio and network interface. I hope it's just a software bug, not a hardware defect. If it persists after the Froyo upgrade, I plan on doing a warranty claim.
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How did you get yours rooted? I have the I01 installed but cant get it rooted again now....
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How did you get yours rooted? I have the I01 installed but cant get it rooted again now....
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You should be able to redo the original root procedure as documented here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779238
Note that some have reported that they had to do the root procedure twice after installing DI01 to get root access back, though it worked the first time for me.
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Yeah I have done it probably 7 times to no avail.... :/
It freezes my phone i believe after it sents the second restart command. it comes up with device not found, even after it says it was successful....
I also tried the original version of this program (i believe), but it is the one I used to root it the first time.
I bought the phone on the 25th and got the update within minutes of leaving the store. I got great battery life the first day but it's been more standard fair so far getting 13-14 hours with moderate usage.
I unplugged my phone about 12 hours ago. I have used it all day for email, text and phone calls and I am right now at 64%. I am getting great battery life with this phone, loads better than my droid 1 and 2.
Reinstall the Samsung drivers. I had to do that and then root was achieved again. I'm an employee of Vzw and haven't heard any rumors of the update being borked. I'll keep y'all posted!
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Bought it almost a week ago and the main reason for switching from iPhone was the battery life was supposed to be jaw dropping.
I'm very disappointed. I have almost no non stock apps (just social media ones) and I'm not impressed. These results are actually some of the better ones. Usually I only get 2.5 hours of screen time.
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GSAM pics
Apps that are non stock: Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram.
Should I return it? I mean I also run with No location, no bluetooth, and brightness as low as it can go.
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If you have given up on the S5 period, sure. If you mean that you think your particular phone is defective, then no. There is no evidence whatever that your phone is defective. The S5 battery life is in fact very good. But like all things it varies because everyone uses their phones differently..
Your figures of 14 hours battery life (2.5 - 3.5 hours screen on) are on the low side for a S5, but hardly abysmal. If you do a bit of tweaking and update some apps or your firmware, I have no doubt that you could almost double that. Battery life is variable, depending on what apps you have installed and how you use your phone. Some apps like Skype or Tunein are notorious battery hogs. As is leaving wifi on when the wifi signal is weak or non existent.
Your post gives an impression of you having unrealistic expectations. Nevertheless, if you are still happy, then return it and get a different phone model. But there is nothing wrong with your handset and trying to exchange it for another S5 won't change anything. It just needs a bit of tweaking. If you play with the settings a bit you should be able to get ~ 20 hours, including 5 - 8 hours of screen time, rather than your current 14 /3. Use that as a benchmark for how you want to proceed.
If you want a better idea if you apps are the issue, then temporarily uninstall all of your third party apps. Then see what difference it makes running only stock apps for one day.
S5 battery stats thread
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I'm unsure what you want me to tweak.
I have locations turned off, bluetooth turned off, and brightness as low as it can go
In terms of apps installed I only have the following non verizon stock:
Reddit sync
facebook
twitter
instagram
snapchat
Given whats installed and what is already disabled I think this battery life is pretty bad. My gf gets 4+ hours of screen with more apps installed and still 40%+ battery on her S5
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It's not rocket science. You're on the lower normal end of battery life, about what one would expect for a heavy user or a phone that has hasn't had much optimization done. If you do a simple search for threads on how to optimize battery life and read for a few minutes, you'd have all of the tools you need to improve your battery life 50 - 100%.
If you're somehow still unhappy, that's on you. We've tried to make constructive suggestions but you seem to expect spoon feeding or magic. The S5 with minimal tweaks has exceptional battery life. If you want to improve your battery life, make the effort to do a bit of reading in existing threads. Or go ahead and exchange your S5 for some other model. And you can gripe about the battery life for that one too.
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It's clear there isn't an easy fix otherwise you would just say it.
I never even wanted a different model I was questioning whether my particular s5 is faulty. As my gf keeps location and WiFi on all day with tons of apps and gets almost 2x battery life. She doesn't read anything about tweaks so Im not sure why you keep saying that. In fact I doubt she has ever gone into the battery settings menu to even know what kind of time she is getting.
Hi folks, I just got a new LG G2 from eBay at this link:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171429816155#rwid
I have not used it at all really. It was at 0% battery when it arrived. I charged it, set up my Google account, and left it sitting pretty much. I am concerned about the rate of decline of the battery. I am on still on 4.2.2.
I have heard great things about the battery on the phone, that it can last two days with normal to heavy use and that the battery is a real advantage to this phone.
I have noticed my battery declining at a rate of about 5% per day. I am just letting the phone sit. Everything is off: Wifi, location services, Bluetooth, etc.
The battery settings say the weather widget used 80% of the battery for its GPS queries even though I disabled location services. So I just deleted the weather widget off of the home page but the rate of battery decline seems the same.
I don't have a SIM card in the phone yet so I am wondering if there is energy being used looking for a cellular signal?
I thought maybe the phone might have been sitting on the shelf for a while and the battery has degraded since it is an older phone. Maybe I need to use the battery through a few cycles to optimize its performance.
I was weighing this versus a Samsung S4. I am wondering how people think about this versus the S4 in regards to screen and battery.
Any advice or experience you have about this battery issues I would greatly appreciate. Thanks.
5%/24h= 0.2083333333% per hour seems normal to me but you can try to do a factory reset and make some charging cycles and analyze again the battery info.
LG G2 D802 20G Full Stock
xda-soar said:
Hi folks, I just got a new LG G2 from eBay at this link:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171429816155#rwid
I have not used it at all really. It was at 0% battery when it arrived. I charged it, set up my Google account, and left it sitting pretty much. I am concerned about the rate of decline of the battery. I am on still on 4.2.2.
I have heard great things about the battery on the phone, that it can last two days with normal to heavy use and that the battery is a real advantage to this phone.
I have noticed my battery declining at a rate of about 5% per day. I am just letting the phone sit. Everything is off: Wifi, location services, Bluetooth, etc.
The battery settings say the weather widget used 80% of the battery for its GPS queries even though I disabled location services. So I just deleted the weather widget off of the home page but the rate of battery decline seems the same.
I don't have a SIM card in the phone yet so I am wondering if there is energy being used looking for a cellular signal?
I thought maybe the phone might have been sitting on the shelf for a while and the battery has degraded since it is an older phone. Maybe I need to use the battery through a few cycles to optimize its performance.
I was weighing this versus a Samsung S4. I am wondering how people think about this versus the S4 in regards to screen and battery.
Any advice or experience you have about this battery issues I would greatly appreciate. Thanks.
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strange that your phone comes with 0% battery...thats really not good on the battery, to keep it at 0% for a long period of time=/. But as the above user said, 0.2% per hour is good i guess
Guys, thanks for the feedback. I gave my phone its second full charge and it has been sitting doing nothing for 6 hours and it is still at 100%! So I am happy, that seems reasonable to me. Maybe the battery had to get conditioned or something. I will update if I collect any more stats or I see anything more odd with the battery. I am going to stick with this phone over the S4. Enjoy your G2's folks.
If you aren't using any sim card then I would suggest you to definitely activate air plane mode, because the phone itself is looking for some sim signal every while.
Moreover you should check which synchronization settings are activated. For me I am only using email and contacts synchronization, but there are a lot more.
There are also some GPS settings when you go to your Google account settings, that you should turn off, so that the phone doesn't try to send your location to Google by checking your WiFi. Even when your WiFi is deactivated.
Which LG G2 model, D802?
Hi,
I found the same seller listing on ebay, wanted to ask you, did they really sent you an LG g2 d802 international version. I ask since i found out the many times sellers list this phone as d802 only because its unlocked but on reality is a different model (d801, d800).
By the way how is that phone working for you, all went well?
Kitkat has better idle (according to GSMarena G2 battery test), so you might want to upgrade. Also, give it about a week to calibrate the battery. Battery life is phenomenal on the G2. I usually get 80+ hours battery life with about 4 hours SOT and 15% battery left.
EDIT: just realized this is an old thread...
Hi..... This is my current battery life...calculated 2 daya ago.. Bought this phone in nov 2013.
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This is calculated with data network on for 90% of the time.
Very less wifi usage.
Gps off.
Screen brightness auto.
Eco mode on after 30%.
Battery saving on after 30%.
OS cloudyG3 2.1.
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without screen time, post like this are useless.
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without screen time, post like this are useless.
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Hey sorry, forgot to mention that... On CloudyG3 2.1 sadly, you can't see the screen on time ... But , yes it was less, Say 20 or 30% of the time. I was using Whatsapp, hike and other messengers and attending calls too. :silly:
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Hey sorry, forgot to mention that... On CloudyG3 2.1 sadly, you can't see the screen on time ... But , yes it was less, Say 20 or 30% of the time. I was using Whatsapp, hike and other messengers and attending calls too. :silly:
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cludy g3 2.1 does allow you to see sot details
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cludy g3 2.1 does allow you to see sot details
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Lol...my bad... I did not check that... I'll calculate the battery one more time and post it.... Thanks mate for showing that...
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I want to pick up the S7 Edge but I'm waiting to hear from you guys how it is. I've read the other forums but Verizon always screws with the phone so I wanted to make sure it wasn't laggy and the battery was just as good as the other carriers and if all the apps are there before I buy. Anyone who grabbed one from best buy or had theirs delivered yet have any real usage with it? Thanks!
I just received mine tonight so take my impressions with a grain of salt.
As I was seeing it up it got hot, like real hot, hotter than I remember my S6 ever getting which is odd given the whole liquid cooling shpeal that Samsung pitched to is. After everything was done downloading and selling in its cooled down and hasn't gotten anywhere near that hot since... But again, remember I've only had it for a few hours.
Bloat was pretty minimal compared to the S6 when I first got it but total system was just over 9 gigs of space, then add another few gigs of apps and my internal storage has already been cut in half. I have an SD card on the way so if things get too tight I'll probably end up moving some things to the SD card.
The smoothness was something I wasn't expecting. I've been very skeptical of all the reviews coming out talking about how smooth the S7E is but I've been pleasantly surprised so far. Compared to my S6 it's like night and day and I don't say that lightly as a previous Nexus 6P owner as well. Over the course of the next few days I'm going to enable the GPU rendering profile to see how consistent it is and compare more to my S6 as another user here on XDA had pointed out that function that I had never seen before and now I'm going to surrender to my ocd and run that thing like crazy to keep an eye on how smooth this guy stays...or not as Samsung is known to have performance degrade over time.
Battery life is obviously something that I can't comment on yet but I'm pretty heavy handed when it comes to disabling Samsung add ons so my usage might not necessarily reflect what a normal user would experience.
So yeah, so far, after just a few hours of use I'm very happy with the phone and in awe of the difference in the fluidity between this and my old S6.
Thanks for the reply. I bought an S6 on launch day to replace my G4 which was very laggy and had subpar battery life. The S6 was awful. It was even laggier than the G4 and the battery was terrible. I gave it to my wife and then the camera stopped focusing so we got rid of it for a turbo2. I also plan on getting rid of anything Samsung that I can except Samsung pay and all Verizon bloat. I'm hoping that one day they will update it so the SD card ca n become part of the phone storage as well. If you can update tomorrow evening on battery so we can all see how it does. I saw a lot of people in the TMobile forum with 5-6 hours of screen on time which is pretty impressive for a phone without root.
Will do!
One caveat to the smoothness that I'm just now seeing is in chrome on heavy Java filled sites, it's losing some frames/stuttering a little which is a little disappointing but still nowhere near as bad as on the S6. Hopefully when the Samsung browser is updated and works on the Verizon version of the phone we'll see a better browser experience.
How do you think the smoothness compares to the 6P?
It's almost on the same level in most areas of the UI but can't handle chrome like the Nexus 6P can. Zooming in and out of maps is sort of like that too, smoother than the S6 but just not quite there like the nexus.
Thanks for all the help!
1st Charge
So I'm still on my first charge where I unplugged yesterday morning and took some screen caps at, more or less, the same time this morning. Not mind-blowing results but I imagine it will only get better after settling in for a week. The only reason I post this at all (my opinion is that any reports on battery in the first week are bogus) is because of the doze that kicked in last night which didn't even drop 1%
Edit: My screen caps didn't seem to grab my notification bar....my battery was at 36%...still need to figure out these dang fangled internetz and how to put up screenshots and such...
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Chrome performance was very disappointing. I switched to lightning + and all is well. Plus the amoled mode and inverted grayscale rendering saves a ton of battery. Chrome was using 24% of battery, lightning + with these settings is only using 5%.
I am returning my Edge for a Note 5.
The edges are messing with me bad. My palms and other fingers are making inputs while holding the phone. Emails and meassges are being sent half completed, messanger chat heads are being opened/closed. Shift, backspace, and side numbers and letters being pressed. Also sometimes the number of inputs prevents additional touches. A few times i had to reposition the phone to continue typing.
I just got it yesterday and haven't purchased a case. But being a work phone, I think it's going to be a constant annoyance.
Super sexy phone otherwise.
It does seem to "freeze" occasionally. Right out of the box I was disabling apps and it locked up. Toggled the screen to refresh but its been randomly freezing occasionally. Probably a software bug. Nothing really noticeable but I've been on it constantly. Could be with the multiple inputs as stated above.
The phone is super slippery.
Bottom line, this requires a case.
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I am returning my Edge for a Note 5.
The edges are messing with me bad. My palms and other fingers are making inputs while holding the phone. Emails and meassges are being sent half completed, messanger chat heads are being opened/closed. Shift, backspace, and side numbers and letters being pressed. Also sometimes the number of inputs prevents additional touches. A few times i had to reposition the phone to continue typing.
I just got it yesterday and haven't purchased a case. But being a work phone, I think it's going to be a constant annoyance.
Super sexy phone otherwise.
It does seem to "freeze" occasionally. Right out of the box I was disabling apps and it locked up. Toggled the screen to refresh but its been randomly freezing occasionally. Probably a software bug. Nothing really noticeable but I've been on it constantly. Could be with the multiple inputs as stated above.
The phone is super slippery.
Bottom line, this requires a case.
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I agree. I made the mistake of not getting a case first. I dropped it at work after having it less than 12 hours. I have 4 tiny tiny marks where the metal meets back glass. I would have taken it back within a couple days if not for that.
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So...
I got an unlocked Samsung S7, the Sprint variant, to use it in my country which is Mexico and I get pretty good signal, including LTE and all that. Since I got this phone (about a week ago) I haven't been getting what I think of good battery life, on a full charge disconnecting around 9 a.m. my phone dies on me at around 6 or 7 p.m. with occasional use like checking Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and a bit of YouTube, no intense gaming or heavy browsing.
At first, I thought it would be all the Sprint bloatware and the fact that it thinks it's a Sprint phone so it tries to activate every time it boots, and I didn't really had the time to root my phone to remove all that trash until yesterday. When I finished the rooting/debloating process my phone had around 60% and it lasted me from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. only playing music and ordinary stuff.
My question is, is this kind of battery life normal? I mean, I come from an iPhone 5S (and before that I had a Galaxy S6 which is equally bad in terms of battery) and I'm pretty used to charging the phone two times a day when it's under heavy usage, but since this battery is way more big than that of the iPhone and the S6 I thought I would be getting a lot of battery life. Basically I need to charge this phone in the middle of my day so it can make it until bedtime.
And I saw a lot of YouTube reviews before getting this phone and everybody says that this battery is great (not excellent, but makes it to the end of the day) but I can't share this thought. I'm running Nougat QAA firmware, rooted and bloatware free, phone is in pretty good condition (like new, so no battery deterioration) and my usage is pretty average as I watch Netflix and YouTube on my PlayStation and usually browse the web in my laptop. I just want to know if this is normal or not, maybe I just expected too much and that makes me think that this is far worse than it actually is. I'll post a screenshot of my battery when it dies on me so you can see how this day went, and I would like to see yours too!
Cheers!
Hi, last year I bought some kind of "refurbished" 930P, unlocked of course because I'm form Uruguay and I use it here. Like you I was very disappointed about the battery life, I mean, at the first my phone died around 3hs of screentime usage. After I flashed 930U rom to solve some issues I was having with uruguayans carriers, the battery life improved a little, so now my phone dies around 3hs30m or in many cases nearly 4hs of screentime. I still waiting 7.0 Nougat for 930U to see if battery lifetime changes.
I recommend to you flash the U rom on your S7, you get free of all that bloatware and I'm sure your battery life will be better.
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Hi, last year I bought some kind of "refurbished" 930P, unlocked of course because I'm form Uruguay and I use it here. Like you I was very disappointed about the battery life, I mean, at the first my phone died around 3hs of screentime usage. After I flashed 930U rom to solve some issues I was having with uruguayans carriers, the battery life improved a little, so now my phone dies around 3hs30m or in many cases nearly 4hs of screentime. I still waiting 7.0 Nougat for 930U to see if battery lifetime changes.
I recommend to you flash the U rom on your S7, you get free of all that bloatware and I'm sure your battery life will be better.
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Thank you for replying, I installed the latest Nougat and rooted it, then, debloated it and I got about the same screen-on time, 3 and a half hours. I would like to install the U firmware but I think there's no rooting for that (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I need root to remove ads and to change the system emojis because to me they look horrible!
Also, would you please post a screenshot of your most intense usage? Gracias!
I would say the best way to improve battery life is to install a package disabler app and manually remove bloatware. Everytime I flash between U firmware and new Sprint software one of the first things I do is disable basically any samsung thing that can be disabled, and google apps I don't use etc. Also Nougat let's you change from 1440 to 1080 and that helps a lot in terms of battery life. Try that.
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I would say the best way to improve battery life is to install a package disabler app and manually remove bloatware. Everytime I flash between U firmware and new Sprint software one of the first things I do is disable basically any samsung thing that can be disabled, and google apps I don't use etc. Also Nougat let's you change from 1440 to 1080 and that helps a lot in terms of battery life. Try that.
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That's exactly what I've done in fact, I have the latest Sprint Nougat installed and I'm rooted and I uninstalled all of the Samsung and Sprint apps I don't use, my phone is rather clean actually, only a page and a half in the app drawer, still haven't had the battery I expect. I use my phone in 720p lol
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Thank you for replying, I installed the latest Nougat and rooted it, then, debloated it and I got about the same screen-on time, 3 and a half hours. I would like to install the U firmware but I think there's no rooting for that (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I need root to remove ads and to change the system emojis because to me they look horrible!
Also, would you please post a screenshot of your most intense usage? Gracias!
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Well, finally Nougat have arrived to 930U devices.
Here I share the battery life of my S7 after an intense usage with the new firmware.
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The screen resolution by default is HD (not QHD like before), and I must say both battery life and screen on-time have improved a lot (nearly 5 hours!!!) . I'm very happy with this results.
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Well, finally Nougat have arrived to 930U devices.
Here I share the battery life of my S7 after an intense usage with the new firmware.
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The screen resolution by default is HD (not QHD like before), and I must say both battery life and screen on-time have improved a lot (nearly 5 hours!!!) . I'm very happy with this results.
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Awesome!! Had to trade in my S7 for an Exynos model though, couldn't live with the poor battery life I had but I'm glad it is getting fixed!
Could someone solve the problem? I have the last update and the battery is drained and turned off with 40%