S5 Battery affected by Gear

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philliplavelle

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Jun 22, 2008
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Hi All,

Just throwing this one out there but has anybody noticed the battery on their new S5 is not as great as the reviews all believe?

I got mine on Thursday morning in Switzerland. It's the European model - and I brought it home to the UK.

Charged it up fully, then let it discharge which took about 15 hours (though eight of those were in bed). Then yesterday, I charged it from 2% up to 100% at about 1pm. It was down to 20% by 10pm. Obviously, I'm using it a fair bit but no more than the other reviewers seem to imply.

I have it linked to my Gear 2 Neo and wonder if that's the cause. But I can't see how it would be as GSAM reckons Bluetooth is low usage and also my friend is using his connected to the Gear 2 and tells me yesterday, he had 90 mins of Netflix, Facebook and general playing before he got down to 90%. GSAM tells me that the kernel is the biggest user.

I vaguely seem to remember the S3 having a similar battery drain at first and not being sure what it was and it settled down eventually - but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts and experiences. By the way, I have Power Saving ON here too!
 

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philliplavelle

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As a guide, it is now down to 93% after about an hour off charge with the screen having barely been on.

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amsguitarist

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It's kind of common sense to expect degraded battery life due to an always connected device like the Gear.

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philliplavelle

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I thought that initially but the gear is using low level blue tooth and even GSAM says it is barely responsible

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Merc82386

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As a guide, it is now down to 93% after about an hour off charge with the screen having barely been on.

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Something might be up with your phone. I have the US AT&T version of the S5 and my Gear 2 Neo is constantly connected and set to sync every 3 hours.

After 3 hours off the charger I'm down to 94% battery. If anything the battery on my Neo is what I'm concerned about. That's at 83% at about 8 hours.
 

philliplavelle

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That's what I'm concerned about.. as a routine, I installed a load of my most commonly used apps straight out of the box, but they're not running and not huge battery drainers.


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Merc82386

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That's what I'm concerned about.. as a routine, I installed a load of my most commonly used apps straight out of the box, but they're not running and not huge battery drainers.


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Battery is at 90% right now. saproviders which has the same icon as the gear settings app (so I'm assuming this is the service) has used 4% according to battery stats. Screen time is at 30% for me. My gear has used as much of my battery as being on wifi and cell standby.
 

philliplavelle

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It definitely appears to be my kernel that's doing it - but what? And how can I stop? See attached screenshots I just took.. Hope someone can help :(
 

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calinormy

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After a new install always andoid is doing something intense ( my guess is that is scanning your phone). I installed cpu spy from gplay and I checked regularly for the deep sleep time. If you have zero time in deep sleep you have to turn off your phone and then back on. Check again deep sleep state.
P.S. Real life battery depends mostly on screen on time and the quality of network signal in your area.

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philliplavelle

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Jun 22, 2008
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Hi Calinormy.

Thanks for the response. So, I just installed cpu spy and it tells me that my phone spent a flips chunk of last night in deep sleep. I am flummoxed as to what this kernel usage is.

My instinct would say the constant connection to the Gear Neo watch but I know people also using that watch who say that it is having no impact on battery life and in the gsam stats, it seems to reflect that.

I wonder if the kernel usage will calm down after a few days.

Boooooo

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Mark0824

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I have a S5 from AT&T and it is connected to my Gear Fit. My Gear fit is the top battery user at 19% followed by Android System at 16% and Screen at 14%. Everything else is under 10% including Android OS. I would find my battery down 8-10 within 1-2 hours but I would listen to music via Bluetooth in the car ride to work which is 45 minutes. It has been 8hrs and 45minutes since my phone was at 100%. I am now at 58%, so about 5+% an hour drop. Now my usage is email, web browsing, light facebook, LinkedIn. No heavy video and have Wifi turned off but bluetooth is on for the Gear Fit.

Also, it took two hours of charge time to go from 10% to 37% charge last night which seems rather slow. I was plugged into a USB 3.0 slot on my PC. My iPhone 5 would have been at or close to 100%.Hoepfully it gets faster over time.
 

WizeGuyDezignz

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Something might be up with your phone. I have the US AT&T version of the S5 and my Gear 2 Neo is constantly connected and set to sync every 3 hours.

After 3 hours off the charger I'm down to 94% battery. If anything the battery on my Neo is what I'm concerned about. That's at 83% at about 8 hours.

I have a Gear 2 Neo as well....what do you mean by set to sync every 3 hours?

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djc-wi

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I forgot and left the GPS on (gear S). My Galaxy S5's battery started draining at an unbelievable rate. Turned of the watches GPS and all was fine. Seems as though if GPS is on, it's always communicating with S Health even though I don't use it.
 

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