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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
Both my phones are SD and you mentioned you got better battery life on your iPhone 7+. I do all of those you do including paring my S2 Classic. My theme is dark because it is more visually appealing to me. Also how often are you going to be staring at a theme screen or in settings? Honest not enough to affect the battery life in a large way. I would use another theme I purchased which is more appealing but a lot of its parts are not compatible and actually makes it look less appealing. Waiting for an update and that theme coming back.

About 3 hours of heavy gaming should eat more battery than a multihour recording session. I turn nothing off including syncing while playing heavy graphic intensive games. I don't use package disabler. Even try and use Bixby while having all the Google services turned on. Only have Wi-Fi connected(never off) when I am at home as I get faster speeds there than when I am out and about. I also even if I am playing a game I will silence the game and be playing it while on the phone call. I can and often will be on the phone for up to 6 hours(part of the job). I probably don't have my phone off long enough for any deep sleep functions to come on.

In comparison my wife with her S7E and she barely does anything with it gets like 50 hours standby it seems lol she only texts me and calls me when she needs something and I have yet to see really do anything on it. She'd do fine with a flip phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] BanziBaby:
What theme are you using in those screenshots?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
I think you and I probably get similar useful battery life. You said 12h total, about 7h SOT with your usage pattern. I'm about 6h SOT with my usage pattern but the problem is that I need the phone to last from 6am until midnight every day, with about another 10% to spare as a contingency. I can't do that today it seems. To do that I have to "manage" my SOT and device usage, something that I am unwilling to do. I should not need to adapt to the phone. Phone should adapt to me. I need about 7.5-8h of SOT and 18h of active time to be acceptable. It's always a bonus if I'm not at zero by the end of the day. As for the 7 Plus, I think it just handles the type for workload that I do more efficiently than the S8+. It is very probable that for gaming the S8+ may hold up better.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
Quite possible. With my usage and my schedule I find what I have enough. I have roughly 15% with those numbers and if I needed an extra few hours at the end I would fast charge for 15 minutes and that would last me until I got home. At that point I would use other means to finish my work or entertainment.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rocku_dj2000:
There will be very few phones that can handle your type of usage..i have 7plus and s8plus and today was the first working day when i used both of them. I think on standby 7plus does better and if you use the screen, s8 plus will be better. Thats what i got from my usage today.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
You are probably correct about this to an extent. It seems that the iPhone just handles background operations better than Android, more efficiently. I think too many things wake up on Android when the phone is sleeping, even with the updated Doze functionality in Nougat. Until Nougat I could not even use an Android device without Greenify. The standby battery drain was just too much all the time.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rocku_dj2000:
Yes.. on standby ios almost doesnt lose any battery (i have also disabled background app refresh) but with screen on (especially watching videos) it will drain faster than s8plus.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] standard101:
one thing that eats up battery life is the Google Market app. So many apps push updates so often, it's downright annoying. That's a different topic for a different day, but does the iPhone apps push updates as much as Android apps do? this would be a difference maker at so many levels, including battery life. I've never owned an Apple device except some early generation iPods.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
Depends on the app but yes it can auto update in the background.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Apple apps update often too, but I would say not nearly as often as Google Play Store apps. Different out of the gate quality standards. I have never identified this as a primary issue. As mentioned, another topic for another time.

Just out of curiosity, are you seeing Android System and Kernel (Android OS) high on your usage list? These are almost universally now at the top of my list...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
For me it's always screen followed by calls in majority of cases.

Currently right now those are 2 and 3 but that'll change soon.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Right, sorry for the confusion, I ignored screen as I just assumed we agree it is in fact number 1. So you see the same thing as me then, screen followed by those two. Why do you say that it will change soon? Are you expecting some background operations to complete?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
I just started my day and when I start doing more calls more emails and such it should start falling down on the list.

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I would worry if it was 1/2 way through my day and was on top of the list.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rocku_dj2000:
Yes.. if mostly on standby, android os will always feature on top of the list. God knows what its doing? That's where ios beats it with almost no standby battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Haha, yes, maybe I should just turn off the battery % marker and use the phone until it is dead and then see how I feel. :p
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
I don't bother. I just go with the flow. Life is too short to worry about batteries.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
It's called sd black

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Bruh I'm done lol clearly our experiences are different... some people just unlucky I guess.....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferdinandnl:
My batterylife
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
I don't any any specific to save battery life. Set up what I need and leave the rest alone lol. One thing we also have to look at batteries don't always behave the same even if they come out of the same batch.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Yes I totally understand it lol but I hate it when they say we "claim" things not to be true..when clearly screen shots are present....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] albaniandroid:
Whats the app for battery stats ur using ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] buttsak:
I just let the app do what it does. I did turn a few back on and some other bloat I'd never use off. If you really want I can post some screenshots. And no adverse side effects everything runs smoothly and perfect
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] standard101:
The Android OS does seem high on the list for my S8+, which I never noticed on my S6. But this is only about four days of use since I got it and so I assume it's all the changes I made settling in with new apps and such. I'm almost certain the Android System was always mid to high on my usage list even on the S6. S6 was the first android phone I didn't root, which meant no debloating. I remember reading a year or two ago the Android System usage goes down significantly with some of the "bloatware" removed, so I never paid much attention to that on the usage list.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jonathan3579:
I'm pretty satisfied. This is my first full charge and is currently where I'm sitting at right now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jgruberman:
You can export a list from the menu and attach the XML to a post. Then we can download it and import the same blocked list to ours. I did the same wikth another guys and he had 180 packages disabled and the phone was still going smoothly.

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Side note to this... I had the same issue and some crappy battery life so I took the phone to the AT&T store and they verified there was something wrong internal with the battery and charging system. So..... now this replacement device is running much better.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] brackett5:
Sprint US variant.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jgruberman:
As a note to anyone who has very high Android OS usage(mine was in the range of 25% with little to no use), I actually had a defective charging system and AT&T was able to test it in-store and give me a replacement. It has been working great ever since then and I'll post up battery stats eventually. However, wanted to throw that out there in case someone else besides me got one from a bad batch.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Good to know. I have high Android OS usage. I do not think I have a problem with the charging system though. Everything seems to work fine. The phone just drains like crazy when the OLED is displaying light or white backgrounds, especially daytime. That's a shortcoming of the OLED screen. Not much can be done about that other than using a bigger battery and since Samsung decided to go conservative we're kind of stuck now. The Android OS and Android System seem to be related to typically weak Android management of background services that has been around since day 1 in the Android OS.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jgruberman:
To give you an idea of what I was experiencing... I had about 40% battery drain in STANDBY mode in 4 hours while I was asleep(right after a factory reset on the device). I clearly had an issue, whereas it's MUCH better now with the new device. Just wanted to throw it out there in the event that you had some abnormal battery consumption while everyone else was ranting and raving about how great it is.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
For sure. I think it is great to share information like this. Nothing that high on my end. I was losing about 1.1% per hour during standby at night. AOD was on. No optimization at all on the device and in high-performance mode with high-precision location. Disabling AOD reduced that a bit. Disabling high-precision location brought it down to about 0.75% per hour. I will give it another day or so to settle in and then I will try standby drain again with AOD and high-precision location. I expect it to come in somewhere around 0.9%-1% per hour of sleep. It is not as good as my S7 Edge that was losing only about 0.3%-0.5% per hour while sleeping. My iPhone 7 Plus loses maybe 1% in 8 hours of sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] craigels:
Latest battery stats
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
My AT&T S8 Plus Battery life is definitely better than my S7 Edge! When traveling for almost 2 days to visit my daughter, didn't have to charge at all, now this was when i went traveling, but on SOT the other 2 cycles i did had SOT 8hrs with 17 min, don't have a screenshot of it since i usually don't bother in showing my stats, So keep in mind traveling battery life it's a bit different from just being in hometown, But definitely it's a very decent battery life on traveling!﻿

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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jgruberman:
Dang my new one still lost about 8% last night...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
That is in line with what I'm seeing as well. I mentioned in my post that I am losing about 1% per hour, so that is 8% over 8 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] netengineer:
I am using a dark theme with Nova Launcher. Works great.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Shuthefrontdoor:
Friendly reminder for everyone to turn off nearby device scanning, turn off all report diagnostics including Samsung and Google,
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jgruberman:
Where?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Shuthefrontdoor:
In settings, if u can't find it use search function in settings
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] netengineer:
I have never gone a full day without a charge with my normal use... Till now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] firedodge:
Awesome Battery Life!

So i really didn't use the phone to much as with playing games or watching videos. Just for texting, phone calls and checking my emails too. But still a lot better than my Nexus 6 which would only last me about a day doing the same stuff. Diffidently liking the S8+. :D:D
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ashwinrajan:
Battery life on my phone

Snapdragon version
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Ausboy 2011:
no aod or location 4g/wifi/Bluetooth-gear s3 always on facebook spotify youtube browsing. easily 5 hours sot with 50% remaining
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Nice...

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And depending what you do looks like you could squeeze another 3 to 4 hours?....nice
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Ausboy 2011:
easy as 8 hours could go 9 but i don't like letting my battery drain below 15%
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] teddyelbobo:
My battery life is bad no ? iam in LTE 90% time , always on is off. S8+, Europe version.

I send back to samsung or its normal ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] varun.gid:
Thats good battery life considering ur always on LTE. 6 hrs plus is great don't worry.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] misiokicio:
Well let me join then xd.. aod on.. location on. Nfc.. 4g. Wifi 5ghz email sync every 15min.. two gmail acc.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
So in other words you can get through a work day doing what you want with no worry? Because that how I feel lol it's about time I just hope this lasts because I'm having too much fun

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Nice....I really like what samsung has done so far with this phone
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] misiokicio:
Yeah with nae hassle... saying this... my s7e when i bought in last year did the same lool.. hope s8 plus battery will not loose its charge over the year
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] teddyelbobo:
I dont have always on and iam in full hd.... I think my battery is bad no ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] craigels:
At what percentage do you let your phone go to before charging?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6] Supergoji:
Android version

Android 6.0.1

After the most recent update I stopped receiving texts. Went to Samsung who couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. The tech used Odin as well to pull out and reinstall the software. Sprint with their ****tiest customer service in the world was no help either.

Reset phone,

updated profile and prl

swapped sim at the store

Factory reset phone

Odin

nothing has worked so far.

What ideas do you have ladies and gents. Im stumped and im out of factory warranty.

Maybe an apn issue? the only one im showing connected to is APN2 LTE internet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6] Supergoji:
I did that as well. No change.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6] Supergoji:
Reinstalled google voice after the nougat update and it's fixed. only getting texts through voice however. so it must have one setting on a wierd yes / no option.
[LG G Watch R] pananza:
I've been using my LG G Watch R daily for over a year and even with screen always on and a "normal" set of notification the battery lasted 1.5 - 2 days.

Got the Android Wear 2 update two days ago and now the watch can't even last until I go to bed. It's empty after about 14 hours.

Anyone else experiencing this, or have any tips?
[LG G Watch R] Scoredx:
I have simmilar situation.

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Maby google will release any "patch"
[LG G Watch R] lil-devil:
Try going into the dev menu and turn off all the animation and flashing the 2core boot IMG
[LG G Watch R] drewcu:
Found that to be the case initially but after a factory reset, cache dump, and installing only the apps I really use, it has since normalized to something acceptable (but not great).

On AW 1.5 it used 30% in an average 12 hour work day of limited use (but screen always on). Now on AW 2.0, it used roughly 40% yesterday under the same parameters and is on track for about the same today (small sample size, I know). So yes AW 2.0 uses more battery than its predecessor, but it's not terrible and hopefully in future updates this can be improved upon.

My theory for which watches were slated to qualify for AW 2.0 centers around battery life: only those watches with decent battery life would get it because Google knew it would consume more than AW 1.5. Probably not the whole story but could be part of it.
[LG G Watch R] vegeta340:
I have similiar situation. I will try to remove/disable as much as I can. Custom ROM will be probably the best solution, it will be more exciting than aw 2.0.
[LG G Watch R] Luca69:
Guys wait for a couple of days. The system is still updating in background. Once it is completed, battery life goes back as AW1.5 at least this is my experience

Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk
[LG G Watch R] JanSchotsmans:
With me battery drained quickly after install. After leaving it for a few days, updating the apps that I use and removing the ones that it just opted to install because they were on my phone, it normalized quite well.

Then I thought "hrm, since it's a major update, maybe just factory reset and start anew".

Now the watch runs about 1.5 days while recording my heartrate on the watches sensor every 15 minutes and about an hour a day of it being paired with my Wahoo chest strap displaying detailed heartrate on my watch itself.

The important thing to remember is that now actual apps get installed on the Watch instead of just face interfaces and other ultra light interfaces. It'll take a while for things to normalize, but the battery life isn't exceptionally worse then before for me after a full reset and some care taken in what I installed on the watch itself.
[LG G Watch R] lil-devil:
This is my battery life with stock 2.0 with the 2 core boot IMG. Similar battery life as I had before.
[LG G Watch R] datawrhsdoc:
Jan, how did you get it to work with your Wahoo? I have one as well and would love to get it working with my LG G Watch R.
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
My GWR has outstanding battery life on standby and a respectable while using. I cant complain. More or less the same as my other watches
[LG G Watch R] zviki:
Battery life is ok for me but it's laggy! View attachment 4144405
[LG G Watch R] JanSchotsmans:
Most often I used a BTLE watchface that pairs with a BT heartrate monitor. But now that Google Wear is really just Android, you can use full fledged HRM apps and pair the HRM with sports trackers right on your phone (granted, those use a ton of battery, while the watchface was rather soft on the battery usage.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] kitila:
Take it not to take an update is the question. Unlocked bootloader just worried it will f up something.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] 5.1:
Hello...

Bootloader unlocked or not, it doesn't matter in case you want to update via OTA. If you are on stock firmware, you are good to go... :good:
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] kitila:
That is what I thought just wanted to double-check because these damn pixels seem like they have went the way of Apple
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] TTUStudent:
I experience this odd error that when I try and align my screen it wont let me. The align screen activates but when I try to click the little crosses nothing happens. The only way to get out of it is to soft reset. Its not a critical error as my screen is aligned allright... Any ideas how to fix this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] sWuRv:
you must first disable the touchflo cube, then soft reset, then align screen, then re-enable touchflo cube.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] TTUStudent:
thanks dude. I would have never figured that out. It would be a nice if we could find a way of categorizing this information. I did search the forum without luck.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] BlueJeans:
Is there any method to force use 5GHz WiFi only in custom ROMs? MIUI has an option to manually select WiFi band to either "2.4", "5" or "automatic". But it seems that there is no such option in LineageOS and Nitrogen OS and they use something like "automatic" as default setting which prefers 5 GHz over 2.4 GHz if the network uses same SSID for both the bands.

Most of the times it works good. But when it switches to 2.4 randomly, the speed becomes considerably slow. My university uses the same SSID (and I can't modify router settings of course) so it becomes a problem when it switches to 2.4 GHz band.

Is it possible to do something from terminal or via root to use only one band?