General Battery life underperforming?

[ryfly65]

I upgraded to the S22 Ultra from an S20 FE 5G.

Is it normal to burn through 30% battery use with an hour and 30 mins of screen on time primarily scrolling through old FB messages on messenger, and friends lists (no videos, few photos). Brightness was at 25%. Extra dim is on, extra brightness is off. WQHD+ on. Adaptive motion smoothness on.

It feels like this phone burns through the battery much much faster than my S20 FE.

 

[ryfly65]

Switched over to tiktok and was on it for 4 minutes with the same settings. I went from 40% to 36% in just 4 mins.

 

[joancolmenares]

There are other threads that address this same topic. Battery life is something that with these new devices take a while to get "to the point". Battery and system need about a week to learn your usage pattern and determine how to distribute power (as I have read). I got my device yesterday and it's still to early to issue an honest opinion on the battery life, I don't complaint at this moment as I know it will take a while for this to "calibrate" to my usage and needs.

btw TikTok will always drain more battery as you are basically streaming video on a huge ass screen so it is a power consuming task.

 

[ekerbuddyeker]

I find battery life generally poor to awful. I'm on 5th day. No change. No draining apps. Nothing unusual.

 

[readymarc]

Same with me. Got my device on Monday.. now im finally seeing how much usage i will get on a full charge.

100% - 17hrs remaining. Sigh.

That March update needs to come quickly. Most of us had this same issue last year with the s21 ultra when it launched.

 

[eyeatoma]

There are other threads that address this same topic. Battery life is something that with these new devices take a while to get "to the point". Battery and system need about a week to learn your usage pattern and determine how to distribute power (as I have read). I got my device yesterday and it's still to early to issue an honest opinion on the battery life, I don't complaint at this moment as I know it will take a while for this to "calibrate" to my usage and needs.

btw TikTok will always drain more battery as you are basically streaming video on a huge ass screen so it is a power consuming task.

It doesn't take a week. It takes 2-3 days to learn patterns. Or are you saying after it learns your patterns it takes a few additional days. My s22 ultra stopped giving me the learning patterns message after two days, and it predicted I would have 17 hours of battery life. I ended up having about 12. The battery life on this phone is abysmal. I had atleast a day on the s21 ultra. Even the people showing high amounts of screen on time, are only getting about 18 hours. That is not a day, that's still short 6 hours. Something is seriously long with the battery consumption. Oh, and I have a snapdragon which is supposed to be better, but clearly snapdragon has done a terrible job with this year's chip as far as heat and battery efficiency.

 

[hand-filer]

Most people require 6-8 hours of sleep to function in the real world so 18 hours battery life will satisfy 95% of users.

 

[joancolmenares]

It doesn't take a week. It takes 2-3 days to learn patterns. Or are you saying after it learns your patterns it takes a few additional days. My s22 ultra stopped giving me the learning patterns message after two days, and it predicted I would have 17 hours of battery life. I ended up having about 12. The battery life on this phone is abysmal. I had atleast a day on this phone. Even the people showing high amounts of screen on time, are only getting about 18 hours. That is not a day, that's still short 6 hours. Something is seriously long with the battery consumption. Oh and I have a snapdragon which is supposed to be better, but clearly snapdragon has done a terrible job with this year's chip as far as heat and battery efficiency.

Based on past experiences (N20U and S21U) after it "learned" it still worked on optimizing performance. I have not experienced heating issues on Snapdragon S22U. Battery is not bad, could be better of course, but then again, I think it matches S21U in how much it lasts.

 

[eyeatoma]

Most people require 6-8 hours of sleep to function in the real world so 18 hours battery life will satisfy 95% of users.

Fair enough, but why are we making excuses for Samsung. I've had an s7 edge, an S10 plus, and S20 ultra, and S21 Ultra and now this one. All of those versions were exynos which were worse than Snapdragon on battery life, and all gave me over a day of battery life.

Are we seriously giving Samsung a pass because a person doesn't stay up for 18 hours?

As I mentioned mine isn't even that high. After learning patterns, mine said 18 hours. I ended up getting 12 hours on that day. Inexusable. This is a snapdragon variant that I have.

 

[hand-filer]

Fair enough, but why are we making excuses for Samsung. I've had an s7 edge, an S10 plus, and S20 ultra, and S21 Ultra and now this one. All of those versions were exynos which were worse than Snapdragon on battery life, and all gave me over a day of battery life.

Are we seriously giving Samsung a pass because a person doesn't stay up for 18 hours?

As I mentioned mine isn't even that high. After learning patterns, mine said 18 hours. I ended up getting 12 hours on that day. Inexusable. This is a snapdragon variant that I have.

I'm not giving it a pass at all as I havent received mine yet. However if I find it's performance unacceptable I'll simply return it for refund and get on with my life.

 

[bluefish196]

If you optimize it, it is the same.
Go to app info and set apps as restricted battery usage.
Also turn off apps on Usage Data Access.
Change to LTE if you are on wifi at home, set a routine.

 

[Virgo_Guy]

A chipset manufactured using a 4nm process, yet underwhelming @ batterylife.


Miss Andrei Frumusanu from Anandtech.

 

[varcor]

A chipset manufactured using a 4nm process, yet underwhelming @ batterylife.


Miss Andrei Frumusanu from Anandtech.

Good point, Samsung stated the 4nm chipset improved "efficiency" by 30% which implies battery life would improve significantly. Samsung's touted a number of specs for the S22 which have failed to materialize.

 

[BandOfBrothers1]

In my experience with Samsung phone's I find that even after the initial learning phase has concluded the battery tends to drop pretty fast from 100% to around 75% and then stabilises.

 

[Goku1992]

Its Good for me

 

[kamrul.auntu]

Its Good for me

How long your are using? I am getting poor battery life compare to S21U. I am on SD version. How you achieved this battery stats/

 

[Goku1992]

How long your are using? I am getting poor battery life compare to S21U. I am on SD version. How you achieved this battery stats/

Sinne thursday but only charged twice so far. Needs a bit time to optimize usage. Im using samsung Browser and Phone is debloated

 

[stygi4n]

My battery underperformed after I updated to April ... now I've applied the May update so let's see how it goes.
Snapdragon btw.

 

[robi101012981]

I have big problems with battery..In the first 2 weeks it was fine, but after those 2 weeks the battery life it's awful..Can't get more than 5h SOT even with social media apps uninstalled, I'm starting to hate this phone, it's worse than my ex S20+
Exynos 256gb last April update

 

[stygi4n]

I have big problems with battery..In the first 2 weeks it was fine, but after those 2 weeks the battery life it's awful..Can't get more than 5h SOT even with social media apps uninstalled, I'm starting to hate this phone, it's worse than my ex S20+
Exynos 256gb

Snapdragon too? What's the ROM version?