Question Flip 4 Battery Life?

[Matterhorn]

I find the battery life quite good compared to my stolen Pixel 6 pro. I am using Samsung's battery optimization settings and the 85% battery charge cut-off.
I do hate the samsung dialer though. Unfortunately I can't use the google dialer since it doesn't support the back screen for calls.

 

[jwats01]

My battery life sucks too. I use the phone all day long, and have to constantly tether to a charger, or I'd definitely run out of charge during an inconvenient time of the day. Not impressed. I also had this issue with the Flip 3.

 

[clintoons]

5h sot with such small battery and strong CPU, refresh rate 120 Hz is not a bad result, I don't know how it could be expected more, just don't buy this phone

 

[johnny8910]

Yep, about the same for me after 3 weeks.
More than happy

 

[mt2020]

Battery not as good as my last, big, heavy phone, but good enough and finally legs me carry my phone without thinking about it. Only issue I see is it gets pretty hot when charging in car and using Android Auto.

 

[clintoons]

Just to show it's not so bad...

 

[ione2380]

After the 3rd charge.

 

[fjer]

I am getting the same battery health here. Did you return your phone? is this some first round phone problem?

I considered it many times, but never got around to it because I couldn't be bothered to backup and wipe everything and set it all up from scratch on my old phone. But the warranty claim would probably have been rejected anyway, because I think my poor battery health was due to AccuBattery getting confused by Samsung's 85% charge limit.

I charged my phone to 100% once upon receiving it and enabled the 85% limit feature immediately afterwards. Since then, my battery capacity has been dropping a few mAh every week according to AccuBattery, however a few days ago I decided to try disabling the 85% limit and charge the phone from 40% to 100%.
After that, my battery health in AccuBattery suddenly jumped from 3199 mAh to 3225 mAh (based on 36 sessions with 36813 mAh charged in total). When looking at the battery capacity graph, I can see that the battery capacity was estimated to >3600 mAh during that specific charging session, which is a new record:

So... I don't think AccuBattery's health predictions can be trusted when the phone doesn't charge beyond 85% - it seems as if 0-85% is considered 0-100% from AccuBattery's point of view when the Samsung charge limiter is in effect.
I have been very happy with AccuBattery in the past, but now I regret that I ever installed it on this phone because it has caused me nothing but worries.

 

[Matterhorn]

Another way to save battery life:
When you're at home or work with a good internet connection, toggle the phone in airplane mode. Then reactivate Wifi and Bluetooth. Just make sure that wifi calling is also priority and everything works fine including text messages.

 

[wpscully]

For a quick and easy starting point, I like to go to Settings --> Battery --> Background Usage Limits, and turn on Put apps to sleep. Then go into:

• In Deep Sleeping apps, manually add all your installed (or preinstalled) applications. Then...
• In Never Sleeping apps, manually add only the applications you really, really care about. for example, I have my email, music player, launch screen, VPN, and "Find my Device" apps as never sleeping.

I find that I do not need Phone or (Google) Messages in the never-sleep list in order to get calls and messages in real-time. I found that my music player stopped playing after a minute or two after the screen-saver locked at the gym. You'll want to curate your own list of never-sleep apps.

 

[acytoo]

Don't worry about the battery life guys. The screen's pwm flickering is so painful, I seldomly use the phone, and change it once every two or three days now ...

 

[joasjoas]

Those of you who have been around for a while, how about the battery and day-to-day use? I'm hesitating to change my oppo x3 neo, and I don't know what to do (it costs me only 5 euros per month, 4 years in my company)
I would like to know a reference in the approximate screen consumption, people who have things activated wifi, bluetooh, 5g...... and they are not usually juggling deactivating almost everything.
For example, my normal use is WhatsApp and some social networks, although I don't usually go in much.

 

[Jakub.Stefan]

Those of you who have been around for a while, how about the battery and day-to-day use? I'm hesitating to change my oppo x3 neo, and I don't know what to do (it costs me only 5 euros per month, 4 years in my company)
I would like to know a reference in the approximate screen consumption, people who have things activated wifi, bluetooh, 5g...... and they are not usually juggling deactivating almost everything.
For example, my normal use is WhatsApp and some social networks, although I don't usually go in much.

After the November update, the battery life became a non-issue. 4-5 hours of screen on time and about 50% of battery life left after a 15 hour day. Yesterday the update to Android 13 happened, so let's see

 

[O1sson]

My battery is draining faster on Android 13. Someone who has the same experience?

 

[Jakub.Stefan]

Oh I just thought I'd share...

 

[tonygamble]

"Just make sure that wifi calling is also priority"

Has this been removed from the latest Android update. I can't see it using v13, o2.

 

[gartysparty]

I have a big difference in battery when I turn off 120 hz refresh. I usually get around 4 hours sot with the faster refresh vs around 6 hours without it. On busy days I have to turn it off to make it a whole day.

 

[tonygamble]

"On busy days I have to turn it off to make it a whole day."

Turn what off? It seems odd to sell a phone that has to be turned off to last a day. What are you doing with your phone to run it down in six hours?

 

[gartysparty]

"On busy days I have to turn it off to make it a whole day."

Turn what off? It seems odd to sell a phone that has to be turned off to last a day. What are you doing with your phone to run it down in six hours?

Did you read my prior sentence when I explain it's the high refresh rate I'm turning off? I have to turn off the high refresh rate to make it a whole day using the phone because it makes a big impact in my use. Which is very basic.

 

[tonygamble]

" I usually get around 4 hours sot with the faster refresh vs around 6 hours without it."

So when do you only get six hours?

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