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[Galaxy S 5 General] Aradfan:
My usage: 3-6 calls for about 5-10min; fb messenger ;WhatsApp ; 3g always on; GPS on for about 15 min ; 1 or 2 VoIP calls over 3g for about 10min and music 30min. The battery in these condition last me about 1day to 1day and 7h. I'm not the person who switches to 2g or turns data off. The battery will last you 1 day for sure.

Sent from Samsung Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S 5 General] flaviosp:
Almost 9 hours on batery.

All on WiFi location data and sync.

Still on 49% with a lot of screen on.

Did put to slepp some apps like samsung Store and others.

Room original but rooted.

Nova laucher beta! !!!

What did the trick was restore the phone and install everything again.i was getting poor batery after rooting.

Biggest drainner was the Facebook app, wakes up the phone all the time.

Enviado do meu SM-G900H
[Galaxy S 5 General] Ave666:
Greenify it
[Galaxy S 5 General] bmwjnky:
Thats way more life than I'd see with my N5 with that sort of cell signal. I'm going to wait and see what comes out of Google I/O to see if its worth hanging on to the N5 but I'm getting tired of having to charge my phone twice a day in exchange for vanilla Android.
[Galaxy S 5 General] wtzky:
Had a pretty good test yesterday travelling a lot; 2 hours of video, 2 hours of music with screen on and a further 5 hours of music with screen off, further 1.5 hours of checking news, forums etc. Ended up with 27% after 14 hours, but I thought that was decent given the usage. 3g was on the whole time with whatsapp, fb, email, SMS and sport alerts all going.

Very happy overall :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] SnowFire:
For all having abnormal battery drain (~12 to 18hrs battery life), some thoughts which could help you, too:

Try to figure out all wake lock apps which block your phone to go into deep sleep and using your CPU in background with apps I recommend:

- OS Monitor (process viewer in detail)

- Wakelock Detector

With both, I was able to see which apps used a lot of my S5's CPU resources in idle state.

When figured out, closed them on buildin taskmanager. Sometimes it's useful to delete the data of some processes like Download-Manager which likes to use CPU even when no download is active (use android app manager). Delete it's data and process will calm down by itself and will go "into sleep". Also some browsers like Firefox and chrome or messaging apps like threema, whatsapp and telegram sometimes like to use CPU in background when phone is in standby and block phone to go into deep sleep. Close them with buildin taskmanager (left screen button on bottom of display glas and left options to view running processes - not just opened apps, don't remember correct name :) ). That won't have any effects with push sync.

Additionally disable the DCMProvider Process with example Titanium Backup which is providing a labeling service to the stock Gallery App. I don't use it.

Try to figure out those apps and close them, if they are not needed to be active.

Control your apps.

This helped me to get battery for min. 1 to 2 1/2 days depending on my usage of draining apps and brightness of display, which needs a lot of battery though.

I'm also using xposed module Cool Tool with CPU Usage Label to keep an eye to my S5's CPU usage (it just needs 0.3% of cpu on 2 sec interval). Normally it is between 2 to 10% during idle time (doing nothing, just display on).

Hope that will help for some ppl. At least: enjoy your phone!
[Galaxy S 5 General] Sinchero:
i'm getting pretty bad battery life compared to the ones posted here, i have 37% remaining, 5h 28m on battery and my screen on time is 1h 15m, is this normal?
[Galaxy S 5 General] FireWall123:


Vocaloid fan? Check out this thread!
[Galaxy S 5 General] tcb4:
No, you should be able to get 3-5 hours of screen on time depending on usage type and coverage.
[Galaxy S 5 General] mefistos:
i just had 4 days +-6h with 4 hours on screen and 9 percent left... didnt make screenshot tho... some calls.. some photos.. some internet and tapatalk... not bad at all :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Sinchero:
i just got rid of the samsung account, turned off google location reporting, wifi scanning when wifi is off, changed the location to gps only and i got better results today, as of right now i am in 60% with 1h of screen time and 11h on battery, that is with location off and the changes mentioned above, i guess is not as good as the others posted here, but is definitely better, i will check with my wifi on all the time to see what results i get.
[Galaxy S 5 General] cbomb101:
Had like 5 hour 30 min screen on time and like 10% left at the time. Grey scale in normal power savers nice. I turned of cpu limiting. Using android tuners cpu limiting.
[Galaxy S 5 General] mefistos:
guys get greenify and stop everything you dont use.. facebook.. messenger.. snote etc etc it will help you a lot :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] tcb4:
Kind of garbage battery life over the last two days.
[Galaxy S 5 General] drakester09:
That's your usual signal strenght? bad reception kills the battery a lot faster.
[Galaxy S 5 General] tcb4:
Kind of, I normally have between 2-3 bars. Wouldn't cell standby be using a lot more if that were the issue? Is there some sort of bug tied to android system, or is that usage normal?
[Galaxy S 5 General] *boy*racer*:
Rooted only (block adds and freedom). No power saving methods.
[Galaxy S 5 General] John822:
:laugh:
[Galaxy S 5 General] Sinchero:
do you have the Exynos or the Snapdragon version? im having similar battery life but with better reception.
[Galaxy S 5 General] tcb4:
I have the snapdragon version. I turned off location services and seem to be getting better battery life, but I've also been on wifi a lot recently with 2-3 bars of cell coverage. Wifi

Haha, spent most of today reading divergent (I can't remember the last time I read a book) on night mode (black background, white text):
[Galaxy S 5 General] gainstatom:
I feel like battery life is getting worse everyday. Why is Hangouts and SwiftKey using so much battery? My battery drains a lot faster when I'm texting with Hangouts.
[Galaxy S 5 General] -sandro-:
try with bss to check the wake locks. How much screen time do you make a full day with lte only and no WiFi at all?
[Galaxy S 5 General] It_ler:
Now on AllianceROM v4, but still on stock kernel.

Auto-sync disabled, mobile data enabled, no manual tweaks/undervolting/etc., no power saving mode, a few apps greenified.

Battery loss about 0,18 % per hour with deepsleep ration of about 99%.

Some screenshots:
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
Got this phone yesterday coming from note 2 and the battery is terrible and I tried the power saving mode doesn't let you use apps like instagram or xda ? What can I do to make the battery better? Thanks
[Galaxy S 5 General] trc13:
That's not power saving mode, it's

ultra

power saving mode. There's 2 power saving modes. ;)
[Galaxy S 5 General] fantasy2c:
I had 1 day 21 hours since charging

1 hour 53 minutes of talking on the phone

6 hours 2 min of screen on time

Did I mention I still had 23% battery left?

Stock, no root, mainly WiFi use age with some lte
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
No way proof or it didn't happen ☺ my battery sucks got this phone yesterday. I got like 2h15min screen time only
[Galaxy S 5 General] fantasy2c:
First charge I got five hours screen on time,

Second charge was better, disabled some apps only run WiFi or lte when I need it, u. Power saving at night. I know I can get more out of this phone, all about setup.
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
Here's my horrible battery ? I'm gonna sell this phone.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Fille84:
Or do a factory reset... Or replace it...
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
you think something is wrong?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Tysaunis:
Something is definitely wrong. Factory reset and see if that helps. And disable the stuff you don't use.
[Galaxy S 5 General] fantasy2c:
Never hurts to start a clean slate, u could have have a miss behaving app so after the reset slowly install apps n if your battery life takes a hit, you found it. Then tweak it as needed. Weather apps, Facebook and Google plus r big battery hogs for example.
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
How do you turn them off without root?
[Galaxy S 5 General] cAase:
I wouldn't sell the phone just yet. With my phone i get phenomenal battery life. 7-8 h of screen time on average, could without a doubt push thorough 10 h with only WiFi. I've disabled all the boat, turned off some apps with startup manager and that's it. No power saving etc.

Skickat från min SM-G900F via Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
But how to do it? People showing the photos but no one has said the instructions on how to turn the bloatware off even I get 5 hours I'll be happy. What are some useful apps to download to help me ? Thanks
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
Go to Settings-Task Manager and then swype left so you're in the All tab. There find the app you wanna disable, click on it and click Disable (it's instead of uninstall button). That's it. Have fun with your great phone :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Davidc19:
hey guys just wondering if anyone has had xperince with using performance profile on s5 and if it is ok with battery,
[Galaxy S 5 General] ac2002:
@ sofia-captivate

I just disabled the apps.

Of course I can not uninstall theese apps but even without root I can at apps settings disabled all this stuff I do no need.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hbkekko:
is there any way to decrease "Android System" percentage in battery life? it's always about 20-22% is it normal?
[Galaxy S 5 General] superleeds27:
Check the wakelocks in wakelock detector. Could be a WLAN wake.
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
What does screen time exactly means? People that get over 5 hours on screen does that mean they are heavy users? I'm a heavy user mostly instagram and I can't go past 2h30mins :( I don't know what to do really hating this phone.
[Galaxy S 5 General] fantasy2c:
This was using u. Power saving when sleeping at night or during times of day I wasn't using the phone for extended periods. Also, quite a bit of time on the 4G radio
[Galaxy S 5 General] Masum56k:
Brilliant.. And I'm sure you're 100% satisfied with Galaxy S5. :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Sensamic:
I'm surprised I'm seeing so many people having bad battery life on this thread.

I guess the battery life isn't as good as I thought.
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
After the update my battery went crazy, I'm losing 20% when idling with no wake locks
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
Why is my battery so terrible? This is 1st time I got 3h screen time usually it's 2h30m. Please help me get 6+ what can I do?
[Galaxy S 5 General] drakester09:
It's odd the amount of battery usage coming from instagram

That and UFC seem to be the culprits.

It all depends on the screen brightness you use, signal quality, greenified apps.
[Galaxy S 5 General] bleen:
why it says "turned off"? is it the same as disabling apps? if so then why mine says disabled and his turned off?:) why the difference?:)

thanks guys
[Galaxy S 5 General] msavic6:
It's provider dependent, some providers make it show up as turned off while others show disabled. It's the same result though.
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
What's a good screen brightness setup? What's greenfied apps?
[Galaxy S 5 General] fantasy2c:
I keep mine as low as I can but can still easily read the screen but when i know imma b outside working I throw it on automatic for convenience
[Galaxy S 5 General] sofia-captivate:
pmed you
[Galaxy S 5 General] jopat:
May battery stats.
[Galaxy S 5 General] fantasy2c:
Replied, may have missed something, lack of sleep and working waaaaaay to much lol
[Galaxy S 5 General] tcb4:
Why is it my phone can never live up to these standards? Lol. Some days are pretty ok, but others, like today, just suck for battery longevity.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
Chrome and G+ will absolutely destroy my battery if I forget to kill them, don't use Spotify so I can't comment on that but I see friends complaining about it being a battery hog all the time.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Vihru:
Can i ask what rom and how?
[Galaxy S 5 General] master4g:
Are you using an extended battery? 6 days with 5 hours screen on? Thats pretty crazy. Airplane mode?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
Probably sitting in powersaver mode, and used very conservatively (to check a quick thing every now and then).

I could see that easily being possible with the S5.
[Galaxy S 5 General] jopat:
Stock battery. Stock unrooted rom. Greenified and under power saving mode 24/7. Low brightness (I hate bright screen under room light).

I wouldn't call gaming as conservative. I played The Bard's Tale that week and watched 2x 40min videos.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
I was just guessing, considering 7 DAYS on a single charge is just incredible.

Wish my phone could do that.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hbkekko:
which one have i to choose in order to control my battery drain? wakelock detector or gsam?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
Either one of those will tell you what's draining your battery. Personally, I use betterbatterystats to find wakelocks.

Here's my current battery stats. It improved dramatically over the last couple of days (tweaking things around).
[Galaxy S 5 General] hbkekko:
oh gosh, how is it possible? :| maximum i can reach 4.30/5 hours OST...which tweaks you used?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
I disabled all the bloatware that's on the phone (AT&T/Samsung, there's a lot of it), converted Google Play Services to a user app (seemed to quell some of it's battery usage, and throttle Android OS and System a bit), and turned off GPS in general unless I really need it.

Battery went up incredibly, and you can still turn GPS on instantly with a quick toggle when you need it.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hbkekko:
i already turned off gps, which app you disabled? how did you convert GooglePlayService into a user app?

thanks, you're so gentle
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53771835#post53771835

That post showed what I disabled (you won't have the AT&T bloat, at least I hope not :P), no unusual effects so far.

And I disabled everything using Titanium Backup Pro. Remember, your mileage may vary.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Simone:
Here's mine. Watched one whole movie, took photos, watched videos via YouTube application, browsed using Tapatalk and Firefox, used Viber.
[Galaxy S 5 General] jopat:
Yeah, I know. I didn't mean anything about that, and thanks!
[Galaxy S 5 General] traitor123:
Good? Considering WiFi was on the whole time? And still 13% left?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Masum56k:
Here is my Battery status by using XtreStoLite ROM.

100% Satisfied. :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] DonnieDark0:
Stock, i only use my phone for calls and whatsapp, for everything else i use my Samsung galaxy tab pro 8.4 tablet
[Galaxy S 5 General] -sandro-:
wow...what have you been doing with it? Was this all on data??
[Galaxy S 5 General] Simone:
Not achievable with stock battery unless he/she just left the screen on and doing nothing.
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
But won't the screen time out in some point :confused: ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] drakester09:
Not to mention that would be a terrible idea with AMOLEDs.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Goldie:
Ummm.... It's plugged in
[Galaxy S 5 General] Inm8:
I was originally disappointed with stock battery life. New kernel and rom changed my mind ?.

Xtrestolite + Blaze kernel in case anyone's interested.
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
WTF O.O You practically used your phone for 3 hours and the screen was always on!! What did you do-play games, surf web? Thanks :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Inm8:
I took a few calls, was doing lots of texting, Web browsing, device tweaking, testing (played a game for like 40 minutes to test cpu settings), music and downloading big files. (rom updates & flashing). According to BetterBatteryStats, my battery drains at about 10% per hour during very heavy usage so I'm generally pretty happy ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
I think you know what that means :D ... I'm getting an S5 for Christmas ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Simone:
Or maybe an option to to set the screen timeout to never.
[Galaxy S 5 General] SteelerJT:
For those rooted and with Knox disabled, edit your build prop to disable TimaSerivce and remove it's wakelock. Has decreased my Android System battery usage by a few percent.
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
Is there such an option?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Inm8:
I see that wakelock all the time in BBS. It usually only runs for like 5 minutes out of a full charge but I still wanted to get rid of it.

I googled it not long ago, but couldn't find much info on it. What is timaservice associated with?

Sent from my SM-G900I
[Galaxy S 5 General] SteelerJT:
Info is scarce. But from my own googling I found it has something to do with checking your device status and somehow works with Knox to do so. So with Knox disabled, it can run abnormally.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Inm8:
Ah I see. Thanks for the info man. Just had a quick look in buildprop and found ro.config.tima.

Do you just change that to 0? Or is something else entirely? ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] snxxxxx:
Has nothing to do tonight.. playing real racing game until i got bored and i really impresed with galaxy s5 battery life. Amazing! Its almost doubled for screen on time from my last galaxy s4.

Btw, i used stock rom, rooted, greenify, and titanium backup for freezing some apps.
[Galaxy S 5 General] SteelerJT:
No problem. Yeah that should do the trick.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Flyview:
You guys seem obsessed with battery life, like me :) I wrote LeanDroid to squeeze the most out of our phones. Check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teqtic.leandata

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Galaxy S 5 General] algadeed:
first weeks of the battery was wonderfull long life , in the main time not so good :(
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
You mind posting screens with the "not so good" battery life :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Abhi97:
I don't know why my battery is so terrible. The most I've gotten it to last ever is 4 - 5 hours.
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
If you're rooted make a nandroid backup and reset your phone to see if it's draining so fast, because of some app :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Abhi97:
Nope. Not rooted. All stock.
[Galaxy S 5 General] koragg97:
Have you tried a different battery?
[Galaxy S 5 General] Abhi97:
Nope. I don't know what's the issue
[Galaxy S 5 General] sandeep20064096:
Hi guys does any body upgraded to galaxy s5 4g version in india

Sorry for posting in the wrong place
[Galaxy S 5 General] CLARiiON:
Anandtech didn't do any movie test, which is always the strong position of AMOLED displays.
[Galaxy S 5 General] jagrave:
Why is the fps on the m8 higher than the s5?
[Galaxy S 5 General] noideaforusername:
HTC cheats in benchmarks.
[Galaxy S 5 General] dragon135:
It is because of thermal throttling.

Htc's metal absorbs heat better than plastic.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 5 General] SolarTrans:
Yep. HTC is even advertising this as a s "feature".

You can toggle it on and off in the developer settings.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hung2900:
Nope. HTC invented a double cheating method. The toggle is turning on/off for normal apps, not benchmark (always on).

Why did I say "double cheating"? Coz the cpu governor for normal apps forces the cpu running slower (lower interval, not max cpu speed) to "optimize" the battery life. It results in a much lower benchmark score (antutu X showed 27k benchmark), that why HTC cheated to hide the fact from customers.

They are so smart:good::good::good:

http://anandtech.com/show/7893/the-htc-one-m8-review/6

http://www.eprice.com.tw/mobile/talk/124/4899675/1/rv/sony-xperia-z2-review/

P/s: I forgot one thing. It should be "triple cheating method". Create a toggle in developer option, answer the media with an unclear statement and make ppl like you misunderstand that you can turn the "function" off.
[Galaxy S 5 General] @rbiter:
HTC m8 passes heat better because of the metal. Plastic insulates heat and traps. Big difference.

sent from my sm-9005.
[Galaxy S 5 General] italia0101:
Anyone else seeing a very high android system usage
[Galaxy S 5 General] Harbir:
iAgree:D
[Galaxy S 5 General] SolarTrans:
HTC is laughing so hard right now.

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I'm very surprised the S5 keeps up with LCDs in web browsing! It's pushing a lot of white pixels in doing that.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hung2900:
As always from S3, S4, Note 3 (not Note 2), the initial standby is not very good in some units. Normally after a while (self debloating and wakelock control, or after updates, or even do nothing) it'll become better.

Sorry I don't get it:confused::D
[Galaxy S 5 General] skivnit:
My battery is just dying on its own I don't even have any apps installed, android os and system are main drainers
[Galaxy S 5 General] joe139:
Coming from a 2+ year old Galaxy Nexus, this thing is amazing! I noticed a nice little power saving feature when I hit 5%, the screen brightness adjuster was removed from the drop down menu.
[Galaxy S 5 General] g1g:
Is any one using the power saving mode ?
[Galaxy S 5 General] italia0101:
Your android system is low ... Mines pretty high
[Galaxy S 5 General] Hellscythe:
That tends to happen when you leave your phone in sleep a lot. At least that is what I found.

His Android system is probably low relative to his screen time.

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Usage pattern and screen on time please? :D
[Galaxy S 5 General] HAAAAAATIUUUU:
www.phonearena.com/news/Galaxy-S5-s...lagship-has-the-endurance-of-a-tablet_id55077

epic!
[Galaxy S 5 General] joe139:
I was pretty hard on it this morning. I was doing a lot of that figuring it out stuff and setting up the new toy. I would say that I was doing something with it all but a few hours of that time. The brightness was at about 50% the whole time. I don't know how much if a difference it would make, but I'm using Nova Launcher with a few apps disabled and no Magazine.

As far as recharging, it took about 2 1/2 hours to go from 5-100% using an older Samsung charger from the Nexus. Tomorrow I will use the new new S5 charger and see if there is much of a difference. With the new cable being much bigger, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit quicker.
[Galaxy S 5 General] bjc112:
I'm coming from a G2 which I loved and I am very satisfied with the results through my first full day of usage. The efficiency of the screen is really flexing it's muscles ?... I'm using straight 60% brightness, no auto.. This is 1hr 20 min talk and 1 hour bluetooth streaming
[Galaxy S 5 General] -sandro-:
how much screen time are you getting on data only with no WiFi?

Anyway use gsam battery monitor. It tells us the screen time, data used if was on WiFi or not etc.. all in one screen.
[Galaxy S 5 General] UnboundDemon:
Stock ROM, rooted and running xposed, SM-G900H
[Galaxy S 5 General] Stefanicio:
First battery charge. SM-G900F Stock ROM, not rooted. I am generally impressed by battery behavior. My last phone was S3 and with root, a lots of customization it last nearly half the time compared to S5 :)
[Galaxy S 5 General] Longcat14:
Managed to improve my battery time a bit more.

Rooted, but stock, SM-G900A.
[Galaxy S 5 General] eric-filth:
My results using one g900-m (brazil)
[Galaxy S 5 General] trc13:
How? :confused:
[Galaxy S 5 General] v_square:
Any ideas about the sec-battery-monitor wake lock? This is the only one that's bugging me from start. I can imagine at least 1 hour of more screen on time if this didn't keep the phone awake all the time.

Normally I get around 7 hours of screen on. But I wouldn't mind 8.

900H

Sent from 5th Galaxy
[Galaxy S 5 General] eric-filth:
I have disabled light touch buttons, sync off (everything), i hate vibration and sound when we are typing and im using my rom (clean and smooth).

My results the brightness always in auto and the half of all time was high because i used under the sun.

Enviado do meu SM-G900F
[Galaxy S 5 General] trc13:
Got it! [emoji108]
[Galaxy S 5 General] bigfdaddy2:
Pretty good so far using phoenix rom tmobile s5 on att
[Galaxy S 5 General] Vihru:
Thats unvelieable... O_o