Actual Z5 owners... Post your screen on times - Xperia Z5 General

As the title... To get a good average example... Please post (ideally with screenshots of battery stats) your screen on times for a single full charge of battery and please state whether you have a Z5, Z5C or Z5P . Whether you have sync and data/wifi active etc.. Auto brightness.. Any other deciding factors
Thankoooooo
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3 hours, only my second day but thats with bluetooth/wifi on all day + full brightness (auto) + I live in a poor signal area
I am sure It will get better, its definatly far better than my galaxy s6.
Possibily very slightly worse than the Z3 but too early to tell.

3hrs SoT, WiFi all day, down to 29% now... Not stellar.

I've gotten 6 hours on my 3rd day, but I spent around 3 hours underground, so flight mode was switched on. Overall, I've spent a couple hours listening to Spotify and redditing for the most part of those 6hrs. I am pretty satisfied with the battery life, it's just a little bit worse compared to what I was getting on Z3.

5 hours in typical use with wifi or 3G data on.

~4.5 Hrs. Posted some screenshots -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63442175&postcount=97
Mine will soon hit > 5.5 Hrs though

So far so good for me. Before my Z5, I has a OnePlus One (known for its stellar battery life). Yup, the Z5 battery seems to drain faster than the OnePlus One when using it, but on the other hand I noticed it seems to use less power than my OnePlus on bluetooth + screen off, in the car. I always listen to the same podcast when I go to work in the morning (it takes 1 hour), and my Z5 lost only 2% this morning (from 100% to 98%). My OnePlus One would usually lose 4-5%.
I received my Z5 yesterday though, so I'll let it settle down a bit too. I will report back in a few days
Awesome device though. It's well built, it feels very premium compared to my older phones (a cheap OnePlus One that I liked a lot and an ugly but very good Galaxy Note 3)

Today I'm at 2hrs sot, and down to 40%. I've been offered a full refund, and I'll be taking the phone back on Monday.
I'm very disappointed in the z5, and perplexed how others seem to have great battery life.

Today so far and i was sat nav'ing for half an hour
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I personally get decent battery life by deactivating 4G

So Xperia Z5 can make it to 6h SOT with stamina mode on and 3G as prefered network.

Funkmasterchilla said:
So Xperia Z5 can make it to 6h SOT with stamina mode on and 3G as prefered network.
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Same is true for most phones, 2G or 3G networks use less battery. But running in 3G is like owning a Porsche 911 Turbo but never taking it of 3rd gear.

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Same is true for most phones, 2G or 3G networks use less battery. But running in 3G is like owning a Porsche 911 Turbo but never taking it of 3rd gear.
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3G allows up to 1.5 Mb/s here, way enough for my usage that is mostly web browsing with very little videos.

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3G allows up to 1.5 Mb/s here, way enough for my usage that is mostly web browsing with very little videos.
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I was just trying to be funny. Didn't mean to be a ****.

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I was just trying to be funny. Didn't mean to be a ****.
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Sure mate ain't no thing!! I didn't mean to be rude here

Last night before bed -
(not even 3/4 battery gone)
So 6h should be easily doable without power saver
Z5, data or wifi always connected, syncs on, brightness on auto and @ about 40%

Ben36 said:
Last night before bed -
(not even 3/4 battery gone)
So 6h should be easily doable without power saver
Z5, data or wifi always connected, syncs on, brightness on auto and @ about 40%
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And you even have Facebook installed. Impressive. Are you doing anything special to get that type of battery life?

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And you even have Facebook installed. Impressive. Are you doing anything special to get that type of battery life?
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Nope. Just using it as a smartphone
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Ben36 said:
Last night before bed -
(not even 3/4 battery gone)
So 6h should be easily doable without power saver
Z5, data or wifi always connected, syncs on, brightness on auto and @ about 40%
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Hey Ben, just noticed you're using Chrome beta. What's your usual MRA number from Chrome beta? Do you leave it in the background on LTE?

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Hey Ben, just noticed you're using Chrome beta. What's your usual MRA number from Chrome beta? Do you leave it in the background on LTE?
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Ok... It could be because it's 6am and my brain isn't functioning yet. Lol. But what's MRA?
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Post Your Battery Usage Here

Hi, I know it's a little too early but please share how's the battery life coming along..
Screenshots along with other info on wether or not Stamina/Ultra Stamina mode was used. Thanks!
From it's first 100% charge.
1h30m of screen on time, no stamina modes used. Light-medium usage for browsing, facebook, reddit, etc.
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That's quite average imho, isn't it? I mean after all the great reviews bout a 2-3 day battery life.. Was it more or less similar on the second charge?
Anyone else gettin better results?
I can't give any quantitative data, but qualitatively battery consumption is just awesome. I'm an ingress player so I'm used in measuring phone batteries in terms of ingress usage time. (screen on, GPS on, data on, moving around continously). The battery goes down sensibly more slowly than my previous phone.
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First full charge with Stamina mode activated. Mostly browsing via WLAN, testing GPS, setting up Email etc..
74% used, over 6 hours screen on time over a period of 35 hours.
Very impressive so far. This is the first phone I've used that beats the LG G2 for battery life - and it trounces it!
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74% used, over 6 hours screen on time over a period of 35 hours.
Very impressive so far. This is the first phone I've used that beats the LG G2 for battery life - and it trounces it!
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Hey Ben it's pretty impressive indeed. Any stamina mode or so activated?
Nope. Just as it comes.
That's pretty awesome. Mine currently lasts around 16 hours, with heavy usage (I'll try to get screenshots in the coming days). Mind sharing the settings you're using?
Wow amazing! Do you mind sharing your app usage as well? Thanks!
That was just with general browsing using Chrome & tapatalk, video streaming using Showbox & BBC iplayer and general messing about with the phone. No games.
Auto brightness is on, stamina is turned off, but I do use greenify (non-root mode obviously) to kill apps when I've finished with them.
Amazing battery for me as well. I used the phone HEAVILY today! Lots of browsing and talk time.
There will be no problem getting over 6 hours on screen time.
This includes a lot of music playing as well, and the total is off by about two hours since I rebooted the phone at the AT&T store.
I had stamina mode enabled for some of that, but only the performance part, I disabled the part that turns off networking when sleeping. I honestly can barely tell any difference (except for longer battery life) between having stamina off/on when it's just the performance part, so I tend to leave it on now.
This is my 2nd day, I have 4h screen time and I'm around 45% now right before going to bed. Should easily get me to 2 days of full usage. Which is amazing. This is just the best smartphone ever if you ask me...
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This is my 2nd day, I have 4h screen time and I'm around 45% now right before going to bed. Should easily get me to 2 days of full usage. Which is amazing. This is just the best smartphone ever if you ask me...
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Can you give me more details about your settings? Do you use double tap to wake it up?
Here are my stats. I literally tried to use it as much as I could while watching NFL all day. I had a ton of usage today with lots of background processes. This is paired with moto360 all day with stamina mode on with exception of gmail and hangouts. One gmail account and exchange for work.
Forgot to mention I also have Acdisplay - came from a motox and can't live without this function now
Two days so far using it from 100 to basically zero.
Not as impress as I thought I would be. Does this seem normal to you guys?
No stamina mode activated because I wanted to see how long it could last alone. I was really hoping for the "2 day" battery life the reviews were raving about.
Think it may get better after a few more days?
Day 1:
Day 2:
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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Can you give me more details about your settings? Do you use double tap to wake it up?
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Of course. I have double tap to wake on. BT and LTE are disabled unless I need it. Wifi/3G always on. Brightness is at about 30% with ambient sensor on.
Lost 3% over night, but I had a battery drainer app trying to access location all night! And I also really like, in battery stats display and cell standby are on the top. With my Samsung Android system/OS always was on top and it drove me crazy
Btw I'll post stats after another few cycles. This is just a first impression kinda thing with alot of usage time while setting up the phone.
Turned phone into stamina mode before going sleep with 37% remaining. T2w on. WiFi off.
Woke up 8 & half hours later and it dropped only 1%.
This phone is legend in standby mode. Bonkers
Does tap2wake supposedly increase battery drain?
I know it does on phones not designed for it but I figured phones designed for it would have a special kernel or something to reduce drain to normal levels...

Early report of Nexus 6 battery performance : Almost 6 hours screen on time!

What do you think???
With not so good cell reception (as he said) and so many wake-locks, I think it's pretty good!
Here is the link:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexanderMaxham/posts/Q1KxyNrj8Wc
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Now lets see how the battery handles while playing Ingress!
I would be very happy with this if it is typical usage!
If I can actually get anywhere near this I will be very Happy.
Not as good as I was hoping, but still reasonable. That's right around what I've been averaging with my Moto X.
Not good at all.
The wake locks are horrible!
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I think that is looking decent, with 13% of the battery used being on 'Cell standby' it is clear that reception was not good during the day. On my nexus 5 when cell reception is good Cell standby barely registers on the list. Max of 5% usually. So would we be looking at 6.5 hours screen time if reception is good? Also no indication that battery saving has been used or not (doesn't look like it is, on the screenshots as the notification/nav bar are not orange). Or what screen brightness set.
Who knows. It is all guessing until more reviews are out.
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Now lets see how the battery handles while playing Ingress!
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Just what I was thinking
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Yes, same with me. On my Nexus 5 with quite good reception the "mobile standby" is less than 5%.
With that in mind, we will have more than this.
And see those wake-locks, horrible.
Probably some apps, services, or accounts need to be properly setup and configured.
More battery life from that.
And for more extreme, we can use darker theme
So, I am OK with this early report, it's a GOOD BASE!
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I think that is looking decent, with 13% of the battery used being on 'Cell standby' it is clear that reception was not good during the day. On my nexus 5 when cell reception is good Cell standby barely registers on the list. Max of 5% usually. So would we be looking at 6.5 hours screen time if reception is good? Also no indication that battery saving has been used or not (doesn't look like it is, on the screenshots as the notification/nav bar are not orange). Or what screen brightness set.
Who knows. It is all guessing until more reviews are out.
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It's a great start. I'm sure we'll have them up to 10 hours SOT with tweaks in no time.
That is mush better then my Note 3... hope I can get this divce sone..
Battery thread = subjective . just leave that there
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The wake locks are horrible!
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I'm seeing similar wakelocks on my nexus 5 with the last preview. The one before it had much better battery life, at least for me. I think kitkit has better battery life than lpx19D. so much for improved battery savings in 5.0.
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I'm seeing similar wakelocks on my nexus 5 with the last preview. The one before it had much better battery life, at least for me. I think kitkit has better battery life than lpx19D. so much for improved battery savings in 5.0.
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Yeah me too. My N5 was charged fully yesterday morning and it just sat at my house untouched all day, and by the time I went to bed it was at 75%, which is pathetic. That's the last dev preview. On KK, it still would have been at 100%, or at worst 99%. I didn't investigate what was causing it, but that was bone stock without a single app installed. It shouldn't be like that. Hopefully the final version won't have that issue.
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im not impressed. my G3 can easily handle 6 hours of screen time. But its tweaked to hell. Im curious to see the N6 with tweaks. also, does anyone know what screen brightness was set to?
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This.. Battery usage is going to vary greatly by different users that's why I personally could not care less about anyone's battery usage findings other than my own.
journeyman73 said:
This.. Battery usage is going to vary greatly by different users that's why I personally could not care less about anyone's battery usage findings other than my own.
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Yes it will but it is also very nice to know about what to expect ... this should get just about the same battery life as the note 4 ...give or take 30 minutes
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Yeah me too. My N5 was charged fully yesterday morning and it just sat at my house untouched all day, and by the time I went to bed it was at 75%, which is pathetic. That's the last dev preview. On KK, it still would have been at 100%, or at worst 99%. I didn't investigate what was causing it, but that was bone stock without a single app installed. It shouldn't be like that. Hopefully the final version won't have that issue.
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I left mine (N5) at home yesterday and only lost 5% in approximately 10hrs on the same preview. Battery for me has either been great or horrible hinging on the signal
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Yes it will but it is also very nice to know about what to expect ... this should get just about the same battery life as the note 4 ...give or take 30 minutes
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I agree but some people take these findings to heart and if the battery doesn't live up to their expectations they have an aneurysm.

Coming from Sony z2 and im bit dissapointed about the S7E Battery Life

Hello,
First i have to say i really like that Phone looks and feels very nice, changed a bit the ui and rly like it actually but...
The Battery Performance is very poor between a z2 and a S7e,
sure i know better screen bigger/faster cooler but when i see my old z2 can handle 2 (40 to 50 hours) days without charging and i get 400mah bigger battery in a s7e and only get around 20-24h from it thats very poor.
I hope they get something like the Stamina mode from Sony which is learning what you do on your phone to safe more battery, actually the Power saving mode gives me 1 more hour...
this phone is 2 years old now and perform so much better in battery stats thats just unbelievable.
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I get about 15 hours if that makes you feel better..lol
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I get about 15 hours if that makes you feel better..lol
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.... thats so strange 2 years later 400mah more and empty in ~15-20hours thats a joke...
whats when i go travelling at arrival the phone is off....
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.... thats so strange 2 years later 400mah more and empty in ~15-20hours thats a joke...
whats when i go travelling at arrival the phone is off....
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That's why I always carry a 10000mah portable battery charger. No bigger then the phone do it's not a big issue to put in my pocket. I went 14 hours 27 minutes yesterday and that was down to 11%. I'm also a very heavy user tho. I stream, Facebook, text, kik, internet, watch movies, etc constantly. So to me that's actually not a bad battery. Came from the s5 and I was only getting 9 hours max on that. So this is fantastic battery life to me.
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That's why I always carry a 10000mah portable battery charger. No bigger then the phone do it's not a big issue to put in my pocket. I went 14 hours 27 minutes yesterday and that was down to 11%. I'm also a very heavy user tho. I stream, Facebook, text, kik, internet, watch movies, etc constantly. So to me that's actually not a bad battery. Came from the s5 and I was only getting 9 hours max on that. So this is fantastic battery life to me.
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i never need to carry something extra on my z2 and i would say im a "normal" user fb a bit emails whats app etc i dont play on smartphones nothing. and compared to my old z2 when i go to bed i had around 40-60% battery left actually i have around 10-20% left on the s7e... i think something is wrong with the battery/software or something.
Battery life seems okay to me. Idle overnight for 7.5 hours is only 1% drain...
I do believe than an update from Samsung will improve the battery on the Snapdragon 820 edition. It's impossible for such discrepancy between Snapdraon and Exynos. On the other hand, it may be that Qualcomm is just behind with their efficiency and people are just not believing it yet.
I get 7-8 hours SOT.
I got 30hrs runtime and 11hrs SOT and am now on track to get almost 3 days runtime and 9hrs SOT. I'm not disappointed. Screenshots are in the post your battery life thread. I'm on my z2 tablet now so I can't post them. SD820 on Verizon BTW.
Something is obviously draining your battery. I really don't see why anyone complains about battery life of any phone the first week they have the phone. Most people never put the phone down. I got my S7 Edge the first day people got them with T-Mobile so I think two weeks now. I'm a power user and killed the battery once at like 8pm after taking it off the charger at 7am. I had the Sony z1 and returned it since battery life sucked.
I can't post my Gsam stats on the mobile xda app, but I am at 42% battery life left with 5 hours and 11 minutes of active time over the course of 9 Hours. Very heavy usage those 5 Hours btw. GearVR for 20-25 mins, YouTube for an hour and Spotify both to and from my work. With the occasional Web browsing.
Damn good for me.
I want to point out I disabled the majority of the bloatware with package disabler though.
I've moved from an Xperia Z3 and i find the battery life to be much, much better. No complaints here.
Ok this morning i get a popup about some apps moved into power saving mode now.
atm im coming home and get 70% batter left, WOW!
so far it says around 40h lifetime of the battery i think you are right guys i should give the phone a bit more time....
btw im on the european version of the s7e i think thats the exynos version right?

battery life

Can anyone with >4 hours sot post screenshots of their battery life? I'm only trending at 3.5 and the only problematic things are Android system and Android os. Already used 250mah after 3 hours off the charger. Google now is turned off and used PDP already but not on system apps
Same here....on snapdrag...
Honestly my battery life is pretty add. Back on the s7 edge during build 4 of the night beta my standby time was incredible. It stayed on 100 percent for 2 hours (although I did use it for about 15 minutes thought the 2 hours) and I expected the same with this phone even though it has a smaller battery. But I can't even squeeze out 11 hours and that's with PDP (disabling all bloat and even bixby and some other small things). I'm considering a factory reset to see if that helps
Um..... My battery life on the s8 plus is the best I've ever had, on any device, with or without a custom rom. The stand by I get is incredible and screen time is always over five hours.
Already got almost 5 hours 40 min SOT and still have 40% battery left.
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rubaiet said:
Already got almost 5 hours 40 min SOT and still have 40% battery left.
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Amy disabled apps or anything else?
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Amy disabled apps or anything else?
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Nope. I even installed Knox. So I've got 3 different accounts for WhatsApp and viber running simultaneously. Bluetooth and AOD is off. WiFi and NFC always on.
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Nope. I even installed Knox. So I've got 3 different accounts for WhatsApp and viber running simultaneously. Bluetooth and AOD is off. WiFi and NFC always on.
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How odd
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How odd
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Maybe your mobile reception is poor. I get medium to high reception at almost all the time.
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rubaiet said:
Maybe your mobile reception is poor. I get medium to high reception at almost all the time.
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Poor service can affect battery life?
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Poor service can affect battery life?
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Yes mate! It can kill your battery very fast. I've lost 20% battery in an hour after leaving my phone in a gym locker with very poor reception with my S7 Edge. The worse the signal is, the harder that phone is working to stay connected. As a consequence, you get huge battery drain in areas with poor reception no matter which brand of phone you use.
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Yes mate! It can kill your battery very fast. I've lost 20% battery in an hour after leaving my phone in a gym locker with very poor reception with my S7 Edge. The worse the signal is, the harder that phone is working to stay connected. As a consequence, you get huge battery drain in areas with poor reception no matter which brand of phone you use.
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Makes sense cause I live out in the country. Thanks for the tip ?
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Already got almost 5 hours 40 min SOT and still have 40% battery left. View attachment 4123750
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Thats bs...it has extremely small battery and huge display meaning that battery cant be good...you prolly run at lowest light level and use only few apps so thats not real life usage...it works for you but not for others...
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Thats bs...it has extremely small battery and huge display meaning that battery cant be good...you prolly run at lowest light level and use only few apps so thats not real life usage...it works for you but not for others...
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You're spot on! I'm full of **** and I actually keep my phone switched off to save battery. You are very intelligent person! You caught out a liar like me over the Internet. I'm sure you also know what I'm wearing.
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I have to say battery life's been very good. Get almost 6 hours sot everyday. T mobile s8 here.
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I also have been getting 6+ hours so since I got mine this past Thursday. Just yesterday I got 7.5 hours sot over a 28 hours off the charger period. It's pretty damn good.
AOD is off. Turned off wifi and Bluetooth scanning.
Don't have bixby setup or enabled.
No disabled apps.
Have the S8+ btw
AOD is the killer - I probably hover around 5-6 hrs SOT with AOD enabled, 6+ hours easily with AOD disabled.
On my second charge I got just over 6 hours. I have the Canadian model which comes with Snapdragon. I have it set to WQHD+, AOD on, 50% brightness, changed a few things in settings, and use Package Disabler Pro to disable things I don't use. Its quite hard for me to drain the battery on this phone compared to the Note 5 I had.
Battery is better than my note 5.
I charged phone two times now every time sot at 5:30 hours with 15% left

Screen on time

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 S21 / S21+ / S21 Ultra before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Pretty damn average on S21 128GB Exynos version. Accubattery says max 6h on charged battery and it's pretty in line with my experience. Charged in the evening (around 19:00) and unplugged, I could only do 4 hours SOT before it died around 17:00 the next day.
I'm on 2.5h SOT. Same setup on p30 pro was giving me 7h of course it was without 5g and no 120hz but still it's a huge difference... let's see how it evolves
Previously I smartswitched and set everything up. I factory resetted the phone, SOT did not seem to get much better than previously reported but I think idle drain is a little better. I don't, however, have all apps set up yet and also changed Messenger to Lite, uninstalled facebook.
Battery life is poor on mine (Exynos) : around 2.5h SoT after a day of use, mostly in WiFi. I actually can't use it for a day even though I try to save as much battery as possible.
Initially migrated through SmartSwitch, I did a factory reset without this migration and still have poor battery life after 9 days of use.
I'm really considering returning the phone.
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Battery life is poor on mine (Exynos) : around 2.5h SoT after a day of use, mostly in WiFi. I actually can't use it for a day even though I try to save as much battery as possible.
Initially migrated through SmartSwitch, I did a factory reset without this migration and still have poor battery life after 9 days of use.
I'm really considering returning the phone.
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very bad battery usage... no idea what is eating at background of the device...
Just returned it, that's really not worth 700+€.
I have the unlocked snapdragon version, i dont know guys maybe you should try to do a hard reset. I'm getting great SOT with wifi and 5g
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The Exynos curse strikes again eh? I vowed never to touch another Galaxy phone after a similar experience with the S20 last year.
hanifh said:
The Exynos curse strikes again eh? I vowed never to touch another Galaxy phone after a similar experience with the S20 last year.
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It's definitely not as good as my previous two or three devices. Especially my last one. But that's not a fair comparison. Most people don't own those or even know about them (Chinese imports - flagship chips with high refresh rate displays too). I've only owned this for just over a couple days and idle drain overnight is too high. Actual SOT is average. Not terrible or awesome. Just about acceptable. My concern is, how it will hold up in the one year or more life cycle of my ownership, if this is its performance four days into owning it.
billozy said:
I have the unlocked snapdragon version, i dont know guys maybe you should try to do a hard reset. I'm getting great SOT with wifi and 5gView attachment 5239095
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What is your screen settings? Im curious how u able to achieve that sot
Exynos, got 6hr SOT, all stock, 120hz, 5g etc
DadMalice said:
What is your screen settings? Im curious how u able to achieve that sot
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Adaptive Brightness = on
Motion Smoothness = standard
Screen mode = natural
DadMalice said:
What is your screen settings? Im curious how u able to achieve that sot
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Thats basically my display settings. I had the best battery life with the May security update
I'm the only one with only 3h SoT everytime on the damn Exynos? xDD
billozy said:
Adaptive Brightness = on
Motion Smoothness = standard
Screen mode = natural
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Thats basically my display settings. I had the best battery life with the May security update
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Hi, do you have sync on? and did you limit background use for apps and also put them to deep sleep?
120hz
Pretty average SOT
rjaygalvez said:
Hi, do you have sync on? and did you limit background use for apps and also put them to deep sleep?
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The following are On all the time:
WiFi
Mobile Data
Bluetooth
Location
Sync
NFC
Power Saving Mode.
I dont manually put apps in deep sleep, i just leave that to the system to decide.
120hz refresh rate
Power save mode off
20% battery left, battery still shows 3h50min left unfortunately have to recharge.
I noticed a massive improvement in battery life on my S21 when setting a Bixby routine to automatically turn off mobile data and location services when connected to known wifi networks.
You can also set a routine for auto rotate to only work when opening certain apps, this will save you further power turning off that sensor until required.
Enable wifi calling under connections if you struggle with mobile signal in any areas where you are connected to wifi. This will assist with less stress on the phones battery searching for a better mobile connection.
Also turn off fast wireless charging in more battery settings if you do not make use of wireless charging.
My standby battery drain with the above settings is now nearly non existent.
Improvement in battery life after August update on S21
Using battery saving mode, since I already use 60hz (to save 15%) and already put WhatsApp and Telegram in sleep mode (and many others in deep sleep). I still get push from IM.
I don't have seen any problem and got much more SoT then shown here.
Soon I post a full battery only print.

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