Battery at 94 percent and says estimated life 5 hrs???

[alnova1]

Was just wondering if anybody else had run into this. It says I'm at 94% and its showing I only have 5 hours of battery life estimated left. Can this be right? My Samsung S7 Edge has 87% and it's showing it's going to last 10 hours. I'm running 7.0 nougat also.

 

[adsubzero]

Uh, that statistic doesn't mean jack ****.
If I've hardly touched my phone for a few hours, it's going to say 20+ hours remaining (with the current usage), so that is completely irrelevant for almost any case.

 

[Matrix_19]

it's the estimate based on the current use, so if you unplug the phone from the charger (100%) and use your phone for 20min and the battery go down to 94%, then the estimate will be based on that and will show ~5hour left.

so basicaly , what adsubzero said : "that statistic doesn't mean jack ****."

 

[alnova1]

Uh, that statistic doesn't mean jack ****.
If I've hardly touched my phone for a few hours, it's going to say 20+ hours remaining (with the current usage), so that is completely irrelevant for almost any case.

Uh I know it's not 100 percent accurate but thought it was odd that it should that little. Thanks for your wonderful insight.

 

[adsubzero]

Uh I know it's not 100 percent accurate but thought it was odd that it should that little. Thanks for your wonderful insight.

It's not that it isn't 100% accurate, it shouldn't ever be even considered.
It basically takes into account what have you been doing since the last full charge and tries to project the remaining battery life.
That would only be accurate if you were using the phone in the same linear behavior from 100% to 0%.
The conclusion: don't worry about that.

 

[thanhngo]

That's would be 5h SOT if you using it constantly until the battery drain out completely

 

[adsubzero]

That's would be 5h SOT if you using it constantly until the battery drain out completely

Check the screenshot.
So this would mean I have 13h SOT left?
Nope, over the 9h I've used 40% of the battery, so it estimated that it would take 13h for the remaining 60%.
See how it draws a straight line to 0 from 100, which means it's a simple linear calculation.
If I went beast mode and started gaming it would be at 0% in 2h or less, and that is a big miscalculation which is why it shouldn't be taken seriously.