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[Galaxy S 5 General] McCadi:
Well, this sucks. This is after a factory reset.
[Galaxy S 5 General] McCadi:
Here's an update with current pics. What's up with android os?
[Galaxy S 5 General] degast:
HOLY **** MAN!

84% Android System. I think we have a winner here!!!
[Galaxy S 5 General] msavic6:
Considering that you had 22 minutes of screen on time in a 3 hour period and your battery only dropped from 62% to 59% in that time frame. That is pretty good although I have never seen android usage that high on any phone. I suggest you restart and see if it does down eventually.
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
We can see that your phone is not entering deep sleep. Something is waking your phone
[Galaxy S 5 General] :
Why? Using it like mad, brilliant if you ask me so you should return your plastic ;) only messing may get a S5 today being a phone hore lol
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
Go troll somewhere else..
[Galaxy S 5 General] :
I'm not trolling, read what I've said. You made the first child like response. Its not a competition like you think it is so calm down, its just a phone.

Anyways off to the shop yo play with one and see if its worth it.
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
This is a s5 forum so you coming here telling us how the s5 is a cheap plastic phone and posting ur stats here is trolling. EOD
[Galaxy S 5 General] :
I was joking around :) - not trolling. Seeing how battery life compares to the m8. I won't get a S5 if its worse than it. Just in town now off to Carphone warehouse to try one out.
[Galaxy S 5 General] johnnyb33:
Hey guys actually quite happy with the battery life compared to my s4 and note 3. The s5's battery is so much better.

Had a wierd issue with air view and my s-view case. If air view is enable and the phone is not used at all air view seems to kill the battery life.

so if you have or are getting a s-view case make sure air view is switched off. :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] dynospectrum:
Are you all ignorant of wakelocks? DL BetterBatteryStats and check to see if your phone is having trouble staying in deep sleep.

Sent from my SM-G900T
[Galaxy S 5 General] steamb0x:
It's ok I guess?
[Galaxy S 5 General] crazymook:
Something that confuses me....you guys all have solid bars for your mobile signal....mine is broken up A LOT. I'm on wifi all day at work with a strong cell signal but I cant remember the last time I had a solid bar. Is it b/c i'm on wifi and the times I do go solid its b/c something is pinging mobile data over wifi?

Two separate examples.

(this is at home where i only get 1 bar for whatever reason but good data speeds anyway)

this is at work (on wifi since 9:15)
[Galaxy S 5 General] deafdudecomputers:
Battery stats

Here's mine. :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] crazymook:
Are you rooted? My bbs only shows screen, deep sleep and awake. Everything else tells me I need root (i hate that kit kat screwed that all up).
[Galaxy S 5 General] deafdudecomputers:
Yes, sir. Rooted and running a custom rom, which I don't think I'm supposed to speak about on certain part of forum, right? I'm a new user, so I'm a bit nervous on what I'm supposed to post or say. xD
[Galaxy S 5 General] robertopod1968:
Doesn't really help much anymore unless you're rooted. It can't tell you what is causing wakelocks
[Galaxy S 5 General] stanley08:
HEY GUYS!

Some of you can go over and try some of my battery saving tips here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2579075

And tell me how well it helped you. Cheers! :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
In the case of LCD, larger screens do consume more power because a larger backlight is needed.

In AMOLED though, the resolution decides the power consumption as there is no backlight. The Note 3 and S5 effectively have the same number of pixels to power on irrespective of size.
[Galaxy S 5 General] degast:
That's right, but a larger screen always requires more power, even if it's just the longer distance electrons have to travel to reach the pixels.
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
That's negligible.
[Galaxy S 5 General] BoneXDA:
How so? To achieve the same level of brightness on a larger area, light source either has to be bigger, or brighter, simple physics.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Hellscythe:
I think what he meant was that the difference in battery life would probably only be like, i don't know, 10 or so minutes of screen time?

Just guessing numbers here and guessing what he means by negligible
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
Note that I was comparing the Note 3 and S5 in my post. I also said that the work done by the electrons in travelling the extra distance is negligible.

The difference between the Note 3 and the S5's display is just 0.6 inches diagonally. In reality, the area difference between the two displays is not that large. There will be a small difference in screen on times of the two devices, but that quantity is very little.
[Galaxy S 5 General] leoaudio13:
I dont think screen size is that big matter. I myself have a Note 3 Canada and its battery is freaking awesome ( almost 2.5 days light-medium use) . Its all about software coding side that i do believe that matters. Battery consume for another 0.5 to 1 inch is not that much :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] BoneXDA:
A 6" phone has a 50% larger screen area to light up than a 5" one, and the Note 3 has a 25% larger screen than the S5, but you are correct, much depends on other HW and SW. The S5 is using special battery saving algorithms, so it should do well.
[Galaxy S 5 General] boodies:
That is an amazing battery life they're getting from the S5.
[Galaxy S 5 General] SolarTrans:
Anyone know how it compares to the HTC M8 for web browsing in particular? I'm curious.
[Galaxy S 5 General] leoaudio13:
Send me your M8 ill do it for ya lol. Im trying to get another M8 and Z2 but its gonna a bit slow :(
[Galaxy S 5 General] atg284:
So is the internet browsing graph with the screen on or off?
[Galaxy S 5 General] msavic6:
The screen is obviously on. It wouldn't be web browsing with the screen off. Keep in mind this is only one test so far, wait for the other tech sites to do there testing before you disregard any of the results.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JesseMT4G:
Wonder why the Flex isn't on there. I get crazy battery life. At 50% right now and 15 hours and 6 hours on screen time. Did get awesome battery life on my n2 when it was on 4.2.1. 4.3 and up was taxing on it...
[Galaxy S 5 General] msavic6:
Its probably because of the limited availability of the device.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JesseMT4G:
I thought of that after I posted. Forgot it was limited on only T-Mobile. I personally love it as not many people rock T-Mobile around here (For whatever reason as I get insane speeds!) or if they do, don't see the Flex anywhere. People stare at my phone wondering what in the world in did to it.
[Galaxy S 5 General] atg284:
Whoa there cowboy! I didn't think it was that obvious considering it was not stated anywhere. For the record I just pre-ordered the S5 a couple hours ago. I know it's getting heated with the S5/m8 debate but don't assume things.
[Galaxy S 5 General] msavic6:
Maybe I misunderstood your initial post but I can't understand how you can web browse with the screen off?
[Galaxy S 5 General] atg284:
reviewers do benchmarks with screen on and screen off sometimes. Just curious is all. I'm confident the S5 will have decent battery life. I remember reading samsung implemented battery saving algorithms in this phone. Also when I played with it today (@att store) the power savings mode was really neat and I think it will work well especially combined with its super amoled screen.
[Galaxy S 5 General] BoneXDA:
Playwares battery wifi and white screen test is done

Playwares measured the S5's heavy wifi browsing endurance (5 second page refresh, orange bars) and I think white constant image drainage at 230cd/m2 (blue bars), and it beats out the G-Flex, S4, Note 3, iPhone 5 & 5s etc., only two phones doing better browsing are the Note 2 and G Pro 2.

Source: http://www.playwares.com/xe/39621126
[Galaxy S 5 General] TomaLLoS:
That's mine battery status.
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
Amazing battery yesterday very light usage
[Galaxy S 5 General] jumbeemann:
wasn't too impressed at first, but slowly getting better.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ripolin2:
Hi mates..

Rom stock ...ANCF of Malasyia...

Not root...

Best regards.

Enviado desde mi SM-G900F mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 5 General] crazymook:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
[MENTION=561218]crazymook[/MENTION] don't feel bad, same thing for me lol. I've always wondered this as well.
[Galaxy S 5 General] crazymook:
I mean unless thats my phone completely losing signal (doubt it) or its going to sleep or something weird? Makes no sense to me and is likely the cause of my battery drain.
[Galaxy S 5 General] BoneXDA:
So how's battery life on the Exynos version?
[Galaxy S 5 General] crazymook:
According to this link, black means the radio is off..

http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...gnal-strength-colors-in-battery-usage-screens

Other links say it will just randomly appear whenever you have wifi on, which would make sense. I just want to make sure its not abnormality.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Da faq...!? Well, that's odd, what if someone is calling me...
[Galaxy S 5 General] crazymook:
Maybe that just means data is switched off?

I cant really find a definitive answer. Some people say "airplane mode" is on....which is definitely isnt.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Airboner:
i will post it in the days will come cauze i test it while..

But for 2 days i didnt test it to see how its battery..

with normal use and wifi for couple of hour maybe more,the battery takes 2 days to be 4%
[Galaxy S 5 General] jumbeemann:
how do you guys get so much screen time? i'm only getting around 3-4 hours.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Same. Maybe signal is our issue. I'm on sprint so that's a given lol..

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away
[Galaxy S 5 General] noideaforusername:
Good signal.
[Galaxy S 5 General] philliplavelle:
I mean. This is just ****
[Galaxy S 5 General] kokolaicho:
I'm happy with my phone:p
[Galaxy S 5 General] perovero:
Over the night it was on ultra power saving mode, I was mostly using tapatalk and chrome as u can see, not much gaming, the air view, air browse, smart stay were all on :D
[Galaxy S 5 General] Hardcore73:
Phillip Lavelle You had your Bluetooth on for over 9 hours is why your battery drained so fast. If your not using it, turn that off and NFC.
[Galaxy S 5 General] wtzky:
I was initially getting 2.5 hrs screen time and only 9-10 hours of battery life.

Gone through 3 full discharge/recharge cycles, installed Alliance Rom and now getting about 4.5 hrs screen time and 16 hrs battery life. Starting to feel quite nice. I may disable a couple of things and see if I can get it to 6 hrs screen time on
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
Yes I forgot I think NFC is on by default
[Galaxy S 5 General] philliplavelle:
Hardcore - Yes blue tooth was on but that was because it was connected to my gear neo. It us absolutely the sane when not connected.. remember that blue tooth uses nothing these days and even gsam points to this
[Galaxy S 5 General] RS050377:
Does always on pedometer eats a lot of battery?

Does Ultra Power Safe mode cuts the 3G data connection?

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Maybe also screen brightness is a big point in this matter.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Diskb0x:
Loving the battery in this phone.

Pedometer is on and counting

Taken many photos and some video

Gamed a little bit - 2048 though so it's not using great graphics

Ingress used to kill my old phones battery but this isn't a problem anymore.

Is it possible to turn off the pedometer sensor if we need more battery life or is it always on?
[Galaxy S 5 General] JmJ17:
Something is wrong with mine. Perhaps Gear Manager?
[Galaxy S 5 General] jagrave:
Battery is going pretty good, but it keeps waking up so many times. More than usual for some reason.
[Galaxy S 5 General] century_ali:
I'm pretty happy with my "modern glam,perforated patterns" !:p...normal use.
[Galaxy S 5 General] philliplavelle:
Two days in standby with eight hours screen on. Don't believe that for a second. Suspect that is in Ultra power saving mode.
[Galaxy S 5 General] century_ali:
Believe or not...Greenify, tasker profiles ;),debloat and a good custom rom:o.Not kidding.
[Galaxy S 5 General] philliplavelle:
Aaah.. That explains it. So what app configurations are they and how are they set up please. I would love that battery life.

What ROM and kernel? Also. What is your percentage drop per minute when screen is on and you're surfing or on Instagram, Facebook etc please?
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
I haven't rooted yet for this first time I don't feel like I need to unless I see some good kernel with neat features as with Perseus or faux
[Galaxy S 5 General] Dacra:
I'm getting about 24 hours with 3.5 hour screen time.

Currently today I've used 7% in 6 hours with 8 mins screen time, so dropping about 1 percent an hour with very low use while in work.
[Galaxy S 5 General] bkolarov92:
Finally my battery settled .... feeling great about it
[Galaxy S 5 General] jalcon9:
I have the same thing, I'm on verizon. Random huge gaps in mobile signature. I have no idea, but I have wifi toggled on too. I don't think I missed any calls or anything. I honestly think it is a glitch, bc I went to a verizon store, and the 2 on display had the same thing going on. The one guy that worked there had the S5. I asked to see his battery stats. Same thing.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ave666:
Games a lot. Mix with 3g + wifi. Data sync all the time. Brightness 70 %. No power saving.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Well I had it on my S4 too, so it's not just a GS5 thing.

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away
[Galaxy S 5 General] jalcon9:
Did you ever have a time where it gave you actual problems? I.e. you missed a call or texts or something?
[Galaxy S 5 General] philliplavelle:
I'd be really keen to know what custom roms and kernels you guys are using it you please, in order to get such phenomenal battery life
[Galaxy S 5 General] pezlomd:
This ain't bad. All stock.
[Galaxy S 5 General] theunforgivenmetal:
Oh yeah, awesome battery life!

Tbh though this was just a one off. The reason for the long screen time is because I was mainly using the kindle app to read a book the whole day.

Initially I was getting crazy android system drain as well. Like I'm talking just 2-3 hours of screen time. And then I realised it was the Sammy account to blame. After removing that started getting 4-5 hours of screen time. Which is not too bad but I think it can be a lot better. Though again in its defence I have literally everything turned on except for the NFC. Don't see the point of owning a high end phone and not playing around with its features.
[Galaxy S 5 General] jagrave:
Not sleeping to well, and I have tons disabled.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JOrtenzi:
I am getting PHENOMENAL battery life... granted, below is 90% on wifi, but it is close to 3 hours of screen on time.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ave666:
Just use stock rom and stock kernel.
[Galaxy S 5 General] GSeeker:
15 hrs standby time, 31% draining by the screen, how come more than 7 hrs SOT???:confused:
[Galaxy S 5 General] astoncheah:
for the sake of record breaking. dont take it serious.:o
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ave666:
That's really good. Are you just on your screen to achieve that stat? Haha
[Galaxy S 5 General] philliplavelle:
Yes, good idea. Becaysr if you've been reading this thread from the start, you'd see that's served me well. *shakes head*
[Galaxy S 5 General] Airboner:
Here is my own guyz..

Inform you that the the first pic shows for 2days and 1hour..but its 2days and 2 hours cauze i restart the phone of flashing many recoveries :P

So i am very happy about my phone!!

Its with dalvik no art :)

Στάλθηκε από το SM-G900H μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 5 General] jalcon9:
Well...sitting here in my office and got a voice mail..phone never rang. Reception is fine. Maybe it is more serious then a visual glitch. Fockin hell.
[Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
What kind of GS5 do you have (Sprint, TMobile, International, etc.)?
[Galaxy S 5 General] jalcon9:
Verizon
[Galaxy S 5 General] sohebq:
Are you guys using ultra power saving mode? Is it as effective as Samsung advertised?

Sent from Note 3 (The beauty & beast)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ave666:
I'm using once when I was field work. It was amazing that I can hold my 10% of battery before I get home. It last about 8hrs
[Galaxy S 5 General] peRFect!:
Hey guys.. Any idea hows the battery life on the Exynos version?

Can anyone with exynos version post their stats?
[Galaxy S 5 General] GorillaPimp:
I messed around with it. As dialed back everything is in ultra I have no doubts about it lasting forever like that. I've seen review tests from third parties that backed up how effective it is too if that's any help.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Airboner:
on my exynos

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52182560&postcount=430
[Galaxy S 5 General] BoneXDA:
Wow, that phonecall drainage is pretty monumental on the Exynos version. :D
[Galaxy S 5 General] Airboner:
that is good for battery of exynos or not? :P
[Galaxy S 5 General] peRFect!:
Seems pretty good.. U were using the phone on 3G?

And does the phone heat up a lot?
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
About heating, here are screenshots from a video. after 15-20 mins of HD gaming

FRONT

BACK

It does not heat up that much as you can see. The Exynos S4 and the Nexus 5 went up to 45°C.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Airboner:
no i dont use 3g!

the phone only on first date was heat up..the rest of them until now its not heat up,

its normally temperatures as olders phones :P

btw i am really happy with performance of the device
[Galaxy S 5 General] peRFect!:
Yes.. I saw the video by ranjit..

Seems like sammy did some hardwork to get the exynos chip right this time around!

My mother's S4 heats up like crazy below the camera region..

Ure planning to buy the phone? Or u have it already?

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Good to know.. Cos it's an issue with sammy phones getting really hot doing just normal stuff!

Btw.. How much free ram do u generally have?
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
Not planning to buy the phone. I just like Samsung products and hence I'm in this part of the forum.
[Galaxy S 5 General] peRFect!:
Hmm.. The price right now seems ridiculous.. Especially considering international prices!
[Galaxy S 5 General] system.img:
Launch prices for Samsung devices in India are always atrocious!

It will go down soon enough.
[Galaxy S 5 General] peRFect!:
Yes it will.. The trend ive seen is two major price slashes in 6 months!

S4 is available at a killer price right now..
[Galaxy S 5 General] Airboner:
i use root app delete to manage my ram-apps

and i have 1,35gb-1,45gb used from 1,85gb..

the device its really smooth no lags,i dont have any issue :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] hondabomdc5:
Seems like everyone here is getting pretty good battery life on their s5. I have the s5 through Verizon and I'm actually a little disappointed in the battery life. I have all the main things off and the only things I have on is either wifi or data, screen rotation and location ( on the battery saving option) . My screen on time is usual right at 3 hours and it's at like 2%. I guess that decent but for having most of the features off and having the screen animations down to .5 and having screen brightness super dim and black wallpaper.....I feel like it should be better. Also, in the past couple of days I have noticed android system and android os have been higher than the screen usage under the battery setting.

How are yall getting this insane battery life? Are you never using them?
[Galaxy S 5 General] LeKtRiCzzz:
I'm in the same boat as you I see all these people with 6+hrs screen on time yet I can barely break 4!! I'm on att and I've deleted all the bloatware so I'm lost. And I guess you can't use betterbatterystats to few partial wakelocks without root so I have no idea what to do
[Galaxy S 5 General] gainstatom:
How can you tell if you have a lot of wake locks or not by looking that those stats?
[Galaxy S 5 General] noideaforusername:
Just compare the screen on blue bars with with the awake blue bars.
[Galaxy S 5 General] wtzky:
I was in the same boat. After installing custom Rom and getting rid of some bloatware my screen time went up to about 5 hrs. I still only get like 14 hours total battery life though, and that's with power saving mode on a much as possible.

Really want to know how people are getting 6-8 hours screen time and >24 hours battery life
[Galaxy S 5 General] Hellscythe:
Launch prices anywhere except for the US are pretty atrocious
[Galaxy S 5 General] Chris_84:
Last time I get similar battery life if I deactivate Google+ and Google now. Also I turned off location complete. Friday I didn't use my phone much maybe one hour screen time. By the night I turned on ultra battery saving mode and used my phone more on the other day. In the end I had it running 1 day and 15 hours with screen time 5 and a half hour. I think the most who got those stats are using the phone similar.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ireknole:
This was from Monday morning. I forgot to charge it Sunday night. I didn't use it too much in Sunday though, and it was on wifi the whole day.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hokie2012:
You should try going into wifi->advanced settings and changing the keep wifi on during sleep to never as well as turn the always scanning off. My phone was constantly awake, like yours, then when I changed those (and turned location history off) my battery almost doubled. Getting 5.5-6 hours of screen time now.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ireknole:
Thanks for the tips! I unchecked the wifi always scanning option yesterday, someone mentioned that one in another thread.

I'm concerned about turning off wifi during sleep since I'm on a limited data plan with Verizon. I'd rather just keep it on and take the potential battery hit.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Stiflerlv:
Didnt take screenshots, but I had these results:

1day and ~10h time before charging.

It was my 2nd full charge cycle (so it still could improve)

I had 4h of screentime with 20% battery left

Screen took 30% of battery, Waze (GPS/realtime traffic application) took 20%

A little of gaming, one of games took another 10% (high graphics)

Mobile connection was on while driving (total of 2,5-3h driving with waze on)

GPS was on all time

Wifi was on all time, except for nights (hate notifications in night)

Im pretty glad with battery life. Previous HTC One S lost around 50% battery while driving to work, and around 30% while driving from work (45-50min one way) just from Waze +3G+GPS.

Difference 20% is because Waze takes alot of calculations, to calculate best route avoiding traffick etc (most of u know what it is) and I drive to work in traffic hour, but home from work when theres no traffic = less things for waze to calculate.

Now I lost 20% when I was driving to work yesterday with alot of traffic and thats just awsome!
[Galaxy S 5 General] CJLewis87:
Pretty damn happy with the battery life on my S5. I'm pretty battery concious, so always disable unused bloat, disable location reporting and utilise ultra power saver mode over night and during the afternoon at work (after lunch I barely touch the phone apart from checking for the odd text).
[Galaxy S 5 General] Apoxx:
Getting a bit ridiculous. Why is this an issue on S5 but never on Note3?
[Galaxy S 5 General] shockandawe:
Stock, at&t apps frozen, location off unless needed. No power saving mode. Mostly web use, downloading and reading XDA :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Gassity:
What am I doing wrong!?

Even had to buy donate package of Greenify to hibernate system apps.
[Galaxy S 5 General] arlulez:
My poor battery life.. i should do some tweaks :<
[Galaxy S 5 General] ef1x:
i have experienced that , usually some app is running in background
[Galaxy S 5 General] ratboy90:
Honestly don't understand how everyone has such good battery life: