Question Battery life not lasting a day....
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13h SOT they may be exaggerating
At best I can get up to 8h SOT and it's totally enough for me. If you get less than your Note so less than 4h.... Well I totally feel your frustration. I would say yeah go get it back but maybe find some kind of Samsung support to diagnose where the issue come from. There are many factors that can be the result of poor battery life.
PS : 120Hz is totally fine, you shouldn't be limiting the Ultra to 60Hz. Even by doing so, if it's the only way you get a good battery life, you still have a hidden issue draining your battery off
Sigh.. i dunno what to do. I'm not really a tech person but I have very little apps. I don't download many apps, social media I only have Instagram. I'm not sure if there's any settings that I need to set but the draining is quite fast it only last me half a day. My phone gets warm too by simple browsing or scrolling of Instagram just for a short while. It happened on mi 11 ultra hence I change to S21 ultra. Would rather use mi 11 ultra if I knew about all these. Since mi 11 ultra charge rapid within 10 mins which I don't get it from S21 Ultra even when super fast charging is on.
I advise you to contact the seller and ask for a replacement (or Samsung.. i don't know how it works when it comes to after sale service) Half a day is way too abnormal and the heating situation you're facing is also abnormal
Unfortunately, Samsung out of the box is a trash can.
There is an option though to make a good phone out of it by removing all packages with the name Samsung in it (debloat)
I'm very pleased with the battery life of 2 days and 10 SOT (exynos).
In case you're not willing to debload a phone, Samsung isn't for you.
I'm using it out of the box without debloating anything (don't know how to do that, and I would buy another brand if I am not happy with Samsung software and apps).
And battery life is great so.. not sure that removing the Samsung apps would change a thing IMO
After debloatig process my SOT went from a little above 4 to over 10 Hours.
Samsung trashware also run in the background all the time even if you never intentionally run it.
Furthermore after bebloating my RAM consumption went down from 9,3GB idle to 3.3GB.
@Jorinrou didn't ask you whether you like the phone or the software or not, also she/he didn't ask your opinion but she/he asked precisely for a practical help.
will you post your debloat list? you have disbled or deleted those apps?
No offense but you advised her to debloat which is not something everyone know how to do. Plus if the Samsung apps drain battery like that why am I standing with a good battery life?
Now if debloating help to save some juice fine I hear you. But what she's facing is a s21 Ultra that doesn't last half a day. The problem is deeper so your debloating solution isn't really solving the issue. Unless what you are saying is that Samsung apps literally kills the battery but come on, that's not the case.
She doesn't need to debloat anything to get a good battery life. You like debloating or whatever, fine good for you, but that's not the case for everyone, and moreover that's not the solution to her problem.
If you don't mind me asking, what case do you use with your phone? It might sound unrelated to the issue you are facing but you'd be surprised.
Not sure where you’re pulling up those numbers when you’re referring to my note or s21u. Please send links. Or perhaps you misquoted your response.13h SOT they may be exaggerating
At best I can get up to 8h SOT and it's totally enough for me. If you get less than your Note so less than 4h.... Well I totally feel your frustration. I would say yeah go get it back but maybe find some kind of Samsung support to diagnose where the issue come from. There are many factors that can be the result of poor battery life.
PS : 120Hz is totally fine, you shouldn't be limiting the Ultra to 60Hz. Even by doing so, if it's the only way you get a good battery life, you still have a hidden issue draining your battery off
My S21u does around 5-6 hours SOT for 40% battery consumption at 60Hz. My Note 20 U did around the same maybe less.
From what I can say in my case, I have the phone for 4 months now.
I was not happy with the battery life at all, I wake up at 4:30AM and I am going to sleep around 9:30PM. I would call myself as above moderate user. I do not play games on the phone, however I use facebook, messenger,redditt, instagram etc quite often and to be honest - my battery life qould not last me a day. I had to recharge the phone usually. I will just add that I walk quite a lot, around 10k steps a day. I had to use 4g at work, some battery saving(with 120hz)
I noticed, I think since August update, everything changed. Phone is more reliable, I got constant 5G at work + no battery saving and the phone can last me till evening, yes of course I can be at 10% when I am going sleep but it is totally fine. Samsung did a great job with battery improvements.
I was not happy with the battery life at all, I wake up at 4:30AM and I am going to sleep around 9:30PM. I would call myself as above moderate user. I do not play games on the phone, however I use facebook, messenger,redditt, instagram etc quite often and to be honest - my battery life qould not last me a day. I had to recharge the phone usually. I will just add that I walk quite a lot, around 10k steps a day. I had to use 4g at work, some battery saving(with 120hz)
I noticed, I think since August update, everything changed. Phone is more reliable, I got constant 5G at work + no battery saving and the phone can last me till evening, yes of course I can be at 10% when I am going sleep but it is totally fine. Samsung did a great job with battery improvements.
Hi guys.
I have been the proud owner of the S21 Ultra for a week now and I am very happy with it. After almost 2 years I decided to give up my beloved P40 Pro. After initial battery problems, I have now managed to get by for almost 2 days without a charge. What I noticed when researching my battery usage is that the Google Play services draw an immense amount of battery or wake up the cell phone an unusually large amount and thus the consumption in standby is also higher.
Can someone help me here or name approaches that I can use to get this under control?
I have been the proud owner of the S21 Ultra for a week now and I am very happy with it. After almost 2 years I decided to give up my beloved P40 Pro. After initial battery problems, I have now managed to get by for almost 2 days without a charge. What I noticed when researching my battery usage is that the Google Play services draw an immense amount of battery or wake up the cell phone an unusually large amount and thus the consumption in standby is also higher.
Can someone help me here or name approaches that I can use to get this under control?
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Disable Goggle backup Transport and Framework.
Disable Google Firebase, in Google settings.
Disable Google play Services when not needed.
Disable playstore if not needed.
Disable any cloud apps.
Disable Google, Samsung and carrier feedback, never needed.
Disable or uninstall all Google and Samsung trashware. Some is useful or only runs when needed... don't go too nuts.
Turn off location and wifi when not needed.
Clear system cache and in Device Care>storage, use system cleaner.
Do not toggle on power management in Device Care; simply close apps when with them.
Keep screen brightness at 40-50% or lower.
Use dark mode and wallpapers.
Turn off animations.
Ditch FB, it's malware... same for twitter, WhatsApp etc. If you can't fully access the site in your browser don't load their trashware on your machine. At the very least use only through the browser...
GSMArena battery life tests are a joke. They are so far off it's just laughable.
Using a browser for Facebook is going to be even worse on battery life. The Facebook app uses a lot less battery than any browser. Especially the Samsung browser.
You mean about the SOT on the s21U? Well I usually charge my battery when I have around 30% battery left (well time to sleep, and I don't want to wait until 0% before charging, so when I say 8h SOT it's an estimation granted). I join some screenshots of my SOT from yesterday and today.
It should give an idea but battery life at least for me is very good. And I YouTube a lot, browse a lot, use Telegram, WhatsApp, rarely Facebook but the app is here and I have a VPN turned on all day.
On average my SOT is 5-6H per day according to the figures and I unplugged my phone from the charger at 5h30am. By midnight I have around 30% battery left.
I use 120Hz.
Anyway I'm happy with that I think it's okay
You can only send messages using the app so it's useless online except for viewing.
Regardless to hell with fb; spyware, malware, crapware and purveyors of disinformation.
I ran it for 1 month, 14 years ago until I started to see/understood it's risks and liabilities.
Never again... fk that $hit, deplatform fb, gut it, fb is beyond redemption.
This site uses between 6-8%@hr on my Brave browser.
That's not bad considering you have VPN and WeChat running lol.
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Nobody is trying to "prove" they have good battery life, and nobody has to use their phone the way you say, for them to determine if they have good battery life. All they need to do is use their phone the way THEY use their phone, and decide if the battery life is good for their use. The example you gave means absolutely nothing to me, because I'll never play Pokemon Go on my phone, just as my use likely doesn't apply to many people since they probably won't have 8 hours of talk time. I say that to say, how about you let people use their phones the way they want to use them?2So I bought the new S21 Ultra on the pre order the day it was announced. I was one of the lucky ones to get early so I could leave a review.
Coming from a Note 10+ that I had for a year and a half, I was really excited for the S21 Ultra, but was really disappointed with the battery life. I've had the phone for 5 days now and since the very beginning I've not been able to use the phone for the whole day on a single charge. It's been giving me screen on times comparable to my Note 10+ (4/5 hours) which is a much older device, but I thought maybe this was the way all S21 ultra's were behaving, just not very good battery life.
BUT, yesterday all the youtubers started to publish they're videos comparing batteries with older S devices and Iphones and their S21s were doing amazing, giving them screen on times of up to 13 hours!
I contacted support but they said this would be normal as my phone was still learning user patterns... but I'm not sure if that would affect it as bad as it is at the moment.
Also, I installed accubattery which is not 100% reliable but compared it to my note 10+ and it seems that battery health is even lower that my Note (95%)! Which I've had for a year and a half!!!
What do you guys think? Should I send the phone back? I'm really concerned that I just spent all this money on a new phone for it to be so bad with battery.2
I've seen a few people mention heat in that area, there's a year down video somewhere that might give some idea of what's in they area2I suggest doing a factory reset before you think about sending the phone back. Also, initially, be careful about what aps you install - try going with a minimal number of aps so you can get an idea of how the battery does when there are no aps that might pull from the battery - after a few days, add all of the aps you have been using (while avoiding any that might be a battery drain) and try for a few more days to see if you are seeing improved battery life. Good luck - hope it all works out for you.
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