Standby drain

Sandermand

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Jul 24, 2012
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Its Facebook Messenger and Facebook app. Huge battery hoggers both of them. I uninstalled them both and installed Friendly for Facebook app instead. Now I have around 15-20% more battery left when its time to put the phone to charge at night.
Holy ****, i uninstalled and disabled all facebook on my S8 and installed the Lite versions. Also of messenger.

I am now also getting 4% at night. Before it was a couple of percent per hour !
 
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ryanpm40

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Nov 7, 2010
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Something I noticed recently- I used to think this thing had horrible screen on time, but it's the standby battery that really threw me off.

Having the phone in my pocket and periodically checking it throughout the work day, and then using it for an hour or two at home, I'd barely get 3.5-4 hours. However, on a boring day this weekend, I was able to get like 6 and a half hours and probably could've gotten 7 if I were using it constantly since I unplugged it.

So yeah, moral of the story: Samsung is terrible at managing standby battery. It's definitely a Samsung thing, too. LG phones have excellent standby. Unfortunately the LG phones themselves just have nothing but problems, but that's besides the point lol
 

Nikka93

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Sep 10, 2014
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This is my situation, SystemPanel seems to don't understand what is draining my battery.

Using or not the device seems to give me the same drain....

Maybe someone can understand somethings from those screenshot
 

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Extreemator

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Jul 26, 2011
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.My averege off screen consumption is about 70mah/h .it should be considered that I have the exynos version of the s7
What are you talking about, besides you shoukd never consider anything like this, exynos is cool, snap is crap due to obvious reasons. And my exynos has 0.5% drain on average and 0.3% over night with new battery capacity. Around same that my snap had, i think it was worse 0.7% per hour.
Screenshot_22.05.18_09.01.27_AccuBattery.png
Screen is for exynos, i think i've already posted snap
 

auris1993

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May 4, 2016
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im like 2 days geting huge drains, 20+% overnight, phone says that its google services, so i tried clean cache, remove account etc, after nothing help, i tried factory reset my phone, well after all still same :D google services draining while wifi is on, mobile data not tried, but without wifi/data all seems fine.... tried google but without success, if someone have solution, ur welcome, if not hopefuly with this month samsung update it gonna fix it....
 

gabriolinari

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Dec 16, 2010
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Hi guys

This seems a common problem. We have two s8's mine on 100% full charge would show 14h of potential battery time. My wife - same phone - shows 1 full day so 24 hours approx.... i have some more stuff installed than her but seems quite low numbers to me.

The phone in new and i had like 2/3 full charges only. Not using ultra HD not doing performance mode, just 4g some calls some apps, i would say medium usage.

I installed this app Accubattery and now for example on 39% it says it will do 7h50m on sceeen off. Device maintenance says 5h49m.

Accu stats

Screen on: - 9.4% per hour but more in the day with sunlight
Screen off: - 2.8% per hour

From earlier on with device maintenance:

14h23m at 11.05
9h36m at 14.06 where are 2 hours gone??

Are these number legit or is worth getting another phone? It's not even a week old.

Latest aoftware update - stock.

Thanks
Gabrio
 

agbva

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Jan 29, 2014
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Hi guys

This seems a common problem. We have two s8's mine on 100% full charge would show 14h of potential battery time. My wife - same phone - shows 1 full day so 24 hours approx.... i have some more stuff installed than her but seems quite low numbers to me.

The phone in new and i had like 2/3 full charges only. Not using ultra HD not doing performance mode, just 4g some calls some apps, i would say medium usage.

I installed this app Accubattery and now for example on 39% it says it will do 7h50m on sceeen off. Device maintenance says 5h49m.

Accu stats

Screen on: - 9.4% per hour but more in the day with sunlight
Screen off: - 2.8% per hour

From earlier on with device maintenance:

14h23m at 11.05
9h36m at 14.06 where are 2 hours gone??

Are these number legit or is worth getting another phone? It's not even a week old.

Latest aoftware update - stock.

Thanks
Gabrio
Something's not right. I'm seeing 1%, never more than 1.5%/hr battery drain while off. Also stock with latest (T-Mobile) software.
 

yoorie016

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Jan 1, 2014
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Do this steps and you'll have a great battery life:

1. Turn-off GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Location, Wifi + Data (if not using)
2. Turn-off Auto-Brightness. You can adjust it anyways. I always set this below half (usually at 30%)
3. Reduce the resolution. the difference is quite small compare with 1080. If you always play game with our phone, do this adjustment. For streaming, unless you're too picky with the quality, stay at 720p
4. If you're on a place with bad signal reception, turn-on airplane mode before you sleep.
5. remove vibrations and tone when keypress
 

sp1312

Senior Member
Dec 5, 2012
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Amsterdam
Do this steps and you'll have a great battery life:

1. Turn-off GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Location, Wifi + Data (if not using)
2. Turn-off Auto-Brightness. You can adjust it anyways. I always set this below half (usually at 30%)
3. Reduce the resolution. the difference is quite small compare with 1080. If you always play game with our phone, do this adjustment. For streaming, unless you're too picky with the quality, stay at 720p
4. If you're on a place with bad signal reception, turn-on airplane mode before you sleep.
5. remove vibrations and tone when keypress
Basically you are saying to use our s8 as a Nokia 3310
 

yoorie016

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Jan 1, 2014
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Quezon City
Exactly XD kidding aside, these are the only things that I do with my phone, and it last a whole day change even with playing games (but not extensively). Im not saying that you should always follow this tips, but rather adjust things that you're not actually using, like GPS and Wifi.
 

froma72

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Sep 10, 2012
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Always had big draining with my s8, now that I disabled Bixby and installed naptime it's getting better. It's not a battery phone, but better.

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