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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] akira888:
Don't know why but I reckon my battery life sux whilst I am at work...

Look at that slope!! I am already using ForceDoze.

Interestingly when I unplugged my phone this morning (after a reboot) and left it there for an hour or so, the phone seemed to be in deep sleep. You can tell from that relatively flat level of the chart at the very beginning. But as soon as I started to use my phone, drain seemed to start to happen?

Also does the wake time of the proximity sensor seem high? DeX home has consumed the most juice according to GSAM
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bkchr:
Do you had Wlan disabled or at least was not connected to a Wlan? I have the same problem, that is a bug somewhere in the software of Samsung. If you have Wlan enabled, the proximity sensor gets disabled sometime after disabling the screen, but with a mobile internet connection the proximity sensor is always active... I already know that it is the MotionRecognition service of samsung that is causing that behavior, but I don't know which app is calling this. SHealth is disabled and I don't have any other such apps installed ;) The issue needs to be in system...

Ps: Dex Home is actually Android System, Gsam sometimes displays there DeX Home, not sure why. On my device it can not be DeX Home because I disabled the app.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] akira888:
Wifi is enabled always. But not connected at the time. It was connected to wifi for an hour or so before heading to work, not connected to wifi at work.

So what you said actually makes sense to me. With wifi, I seem to have better battery life. Also I do have SHealth enabled. So according to you, even without SHealth, you still have this proximity sensor issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bkchr:
Yep, I have the issue also without SHealth. I also disabled everything I could find that may use the proximity sensor, but the sensor is still used.. That bug is really annoying.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] markvd90:
Pretty light use, 30 minutes navigation and mostly browsing, whatsapp and Facebook.

Using Friendly for Facebook.

50% of the time on mobile data.

Still 41% remaining.

I'm satisfied so far.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] gabriellovesmusic:
Moderate usage at max brightness, WQHD, always on display, location turned on, no power saving. Exynos version. I'm very very happy with the battery life. No longer need to charge after every couple of hours or even every night. Coming from the horrible battery of the Galaxy S6, the S8+ battery life is so good, this feels like a like a dream :victory:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] johnwayne27:
10 hours setting last night only last 4%.

I was at 95% before bed.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] BanziBaby:
What theme are you using?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dpk1:
Here is mine after first full charge (screenshots below). Moderate use.. 1 day standby with 6+ hours screen on time, 1 hour of chrome browsing, whatsapp, gmail, playstore updating, installing/uninstalling apps, camera, videos, calling etc. 60:40 4G/wifi use, Data/wifi on all the time. AOD off, auto brightness. Stock firmware with few disabled apps. S8 plus (exynos dual) bought yesterday!

Edit: S7 edge comparison below (next post).
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dpk1:
For comparison here is the battery backup of my S7 edge (exynos dual) on similar usage pattern (screenshots below)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] markvd90:
This one
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MaSsAcRe1992:
the stats thast came with the phone under settings-devicemanager-accu

I only apllied a black theme :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Goku1992:
Used the phone less the second full charge cause im in hostpital. But very nice standbye time so far, most of the time in lte, nights 6hours in airplane and a few wlan time... Could have gone another day with light usage :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] racingmatt1:
What theme are you using?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] BanziBaby:
He posted a screenshot of the theme in the theme store, search for orange burst.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Caalex:
This feels like the only real post here... is everyone just going to post "Spiced up" "Bettery saver" "Dissable everything" battery life... ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] soggly:
Nope, this is with nothing except location turned off at Quad hd
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] akira888:
I just uninstalled SHealth and connected to company's wifi today. Yes, you are right, proximity sensor pretty much is not used when wifi is on, but once mobile internet is on, the sensor gets used quite a lot.

Can anyone shed light on this issue? Would appreciate a screenshot​ of the android system usage from GSam from the folks with awesome battery life! Wanted to see the usage of you guys' proximity sensor.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
I don't get what you mean?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] hellsgods91:
Win?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tamila:
is ur resolution set at HD+ ???
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tommason1968:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Caalex:
I mean comparatively, if you think mathematically, s7e had a much bigger battery and a smaller screen and racked up 5-6 hours screen on time with normal use (no power saving mode etc). People posting a phone with a much bigger screen, smaller battery, more battery life?

2+2=4

2+1=6?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] underdog_656:
The s8 has a more efficient CPU which is 10nm. It's claimed that it's 40% is more efficient which seems to be true...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Caalex:
If this is true my Note 8 excitement just skyrocketed because it will most likely support the same efficiency 0.0
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
But we've been getting 8 hours on screen time almost consistently we've shown proof that it can last longer then then s7edge without power saving modes.... you calling us liars lol just kidding I don't know why I'm getting 7 to 8 hours on screen time with my s8 plus I've shown proof with only WiFi then some dude who didn't believe That it would last with data only and I showed proof that I was Getting 8 hours on screen with 4g only....maybe samsung did it right this time? Like I've said before will it last? It has so far lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
And here is today's usage I was at work no WiFi I get bored so I've listened to a couple podcasts on youtube I've been on xda almost all night I've been on the web looking at big ol b....i'll keep that to myself lol....shopping for cases getting emails and ...with sync on all day....bluetooth as well I'm at 47% and I'm confident ill squeeze 2 to 3 more hours no problem but I am using dark theme as intended to to help battery but no cheap battery saver modes
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Caalex:
That's awesome, also what font is that??
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Willowitc
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] akira888:
Dude! This looks awesome man!

Do you mind if I ask where you are located? How many bars of signal did you have when you were on 4g?

This is my setup (S8). I can normally do 17 hrs total usage with close to 4 hrs SOT.... Any advice?

Do you mind also showing your Android System status via GSam? I suspect my proximity sensor played up because it gets used frequently when I am on mobile network, but when on wifi, it gets used a lot less!

AOD on

Infinity wallpaper on

Wifi and bt scanning off

BT off

Keep screen off setting off

No SHealth

Location history off

ForceDoze installed

Wifi/4g 50:50. 4g signal is quite weak at work though.

Wiped cache partition once after an OTA update.

Reset all app preferences oncr so I can keep an eye out for the access granted.

Auto brightness on

NFC on

Edge lighting on

No FB app, only use the wrapper Swipe with 2 hr update interval

WhatsApp, WeChat, Twitter installed

Adblocker for Samsung internet installed

FHD+

Outlook with 3 email accounts with sync and push on

Google Feeds off
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Zorachus:
Are you guys getting the awesome 7h and up Screen On time using the International Exynos version, or do the SD835 also get great battery life ?

I might ditch my iPhone 7 Plus, only reason stayed with 7+ was for the great battery life, but if the S8+ can match or best it, then I'm all in.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] aroy97:
I have the Snapdragon variant and I get excellent battery, here's my results I posted awhile back with heavy usage, was on it the whole day.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/post-battery-life-t3587865/post72060640#post72060640

Compared to my Nexus 6, my phone would die once it reached 3 and a half hours SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] samcex:
Is it Exynos or Snapdragon ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tom-Helge:
Exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vimto25:
I think it's great on battery coming from s7 edge

I still had 14 per cent left too i think I was around 8hr screen time overall.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Blue:
My battery on the Snapdragon variant. It was at 11% when I plugged the charger in.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
I just can't say enough how impressed I am with this phone (Snapdragon variant). With only com.qualcomm.atfwd, IQService and Samsung Pay/Gear VR packages disabled I cannot make this thing do less than 7.5 hours SOT. This is my worst day this week. Best was 10 hours 22 minutes of SOT. Coming from the S7E that struggled to get 2.5 or 3 hours SOT each day I am completely floored.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Finally somebody gets it
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
Yeah, I see people here and on Reddit all the time posting stuff like "I've disabled 197 packages and still can't get the battery life people talk about!" - That's WHY they don't get the battery life. There are only a handful of detrimental packages. Virtually all others can either be disabled via the app drawer or uninstalled now (even Samsung Pay really, don't know why I blocked that). IQService is really the only major one in my experience and it's not even on every carrier. If I recall correctly in fact with the S7E it was an AT&T only thing. Anything else though and the phone seems to constantly call on things that won't run and therefore it drains the battery more. I've tried both ways and disabling more than these items caused a noticeable drain. And the more I disabled, the exponentially worse battery life was. The phone shuts down/puts to sleep things that drain battery and you don't use on it's own, and it works because the phone then KNOWS it's shut those things down. Let it do it's thing for a day or two and it all levels out fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Zorachus:
So how exactly do you go about disabling those ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
You need BK Package Disabler then you can disable those 2.

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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Zorachus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFCwcsE7_s

This reviewer says the regular S8 only gets like 3.5h to 4h Screen On time, and the S8+ only a half hour better, and overall says it's a great phone, but that both have poor battery life.

I am confused, because I read all the people here, saying their S8+ is getting them easily 6h Screen On time, and a lot of people getting even 7h and better.

Which is true ?

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Do you need to be rooted to use that ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
No!

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@Zorachus and the video it's obvious not true!

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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vimto25:
I was abit unsure with the battery life before i purchased and the reviews wasn't great on it either. But I've had over 8hr of sot from a 3500mah battery that is out of this world. And it looks low both snapdragon and exynos are on par producing great results.

My self I'm in a exynos and I have not disabled nothing with 8hr plus sot
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
It all depends entirely on how you use the phone. If you play a lot of games or watch a lot of videos for example you'll have far worse battery life than someone like me who uses their phone HEAVILY, but only does things like email, text and other non intensive things. I watch maybe 30 minutes of videos during lunch, take probably a dozen or so photos on average and never game. It also depends what you do as far as social media. Things like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and so on use an excessive amount of battery power (even when not being actively used) and can also affect battery life if you don't manage them and "put them to sleep" when not in use. I mean put them to sleep, not just close the app. You can close the app and kill it in "recents" and it will still be draining you in the background (big time with Facebook and Snapchat in my experience.)

Plus, reviewers tend to estimate a little on the low side so that people don't complain if they don't get the same battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] efrommel:
Hey guys i have a tmobile s8+ and im having max like 5hrs of sot but im seeing that i have in my battery history the "Screen" on top and then i have the "Android OS" and after that i have "Android system", and normally i'm seeing that is always the "Android system" on top of the "Android OS". Can someone help me fixing this. i think i could get better battery life. thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Another thing is I just love keeping my phone clean it does not make since to have every feature on if I'm not using it...it all depends on the user...i watch a lot of youtube videos and listen to a lot of podcasts Joe Rogan experience for example and those alone are 2 to 3 hours long...i was never interested in playing games on any phone so that helps as well...bluetooth is connected most of my 8 hour shift at work...im always on xda reading learning... I'm always on amazon lurking window shopping lol.... all night long....that's what I consider heavy usage because I could never do this on previous phones....i haven't even thought about taking my charger with me to work...other phones that I've owned that's a big no no... but we all know some dude is gonna tell me that's not heavy bro.... lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh LaCelle:
Not sure how anyone is getting 5+hrs of SOT! The first day I got 6hrs of SOT! That is the only time. Had the phone for two weeks now and can only get 5hrs SOT. Not complaining as I think that is pretty good, but not sure how others are doing so much better!

I have the Verizon S8 Plus. I have LTE/WIFI on all day pretty much, Bluetooth off, FHD, GPS off, Brightness 50%. I have most Verizon bloatware disabled and some Samsung apps. I use S Health, Samsung Pay and Samsung Gear apps, so they aren't disabled of course.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
before you debloated is that when you got 6 hours on screen time?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
No debloat on my AT&T S8 Plus and i get 8hrs, 48min SOT, over 20 hrs no charge be at 4%

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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
There we go!!!!! Don't debloat because the phone might need those things to work properly maybe I'm talking out my a$$ but I have never debloated anything and I'm getting what your getting lol....i might be wrong I'm just trying to figure this out... because battery life is too good for me out of the box... it's been 2 or 3 weeks since unboxing my phone no lag awesome battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] paras:
Love the battery on my s8 plus. Auto brightness,qhd, till 60% I used 4g and after that mostly WiFi for YouTube. The battery is really great and love it. I think I can squeeze another hour on it tbh. No power saving.

No bt or GPS enabled.

Indian exonus version.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ksekhar:
Mods: Force Doze and Adhell.

On mid power save mode from 15% battery

Bluetooth on all the time, wifi/3g on all the time

I'd say my regular usage with few calls

I'm impressed with the battery life :)

Never thought I could use any Android phone without root until now ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] samcex:
What's the name of this theme ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dime04:
Getting great screen on time here as well. GPS on, Bluetooth on, Wifi on, Auto brightness on and disabled a few apps. Lots of web surfing and social media use.... and watched a 3.5 hour or so boxing event. Impressed to say the least. Still had 20 percent left....

Edit: After looking through my apps I only have 1 app disabled which is the Lookout Security app. I'm also running the Samsung SD Black theme which I'm sure helps in getting 9+ hours of screen on time.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] m3lover1:
Quite interesting. Before i had quite a bit of packages disabled via package disabler pro. Overnight standby drain was pretty good, but nothing to write home about. Usually about 4% battery discharge from when i go to sleep and wake up.

So to test i decided to re enable most of the packages back, and just leave a few disabled that i know i don't want, such as lockout, some Samsung duplicate apps. One test so far, but last night it dropped 0% overnight. Will check and see if it's the same for tonight.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vin4yak:
After some binge watching on Netflix and gaming.. I'm satisfied.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Well I had a good conversation with some one and we both agreed people shouldn't disable a bunch of stuff because maybe everything works/helps battery optimisation....maybe?....i never disabled anything and battery has been good since launch....

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Wow! That's impressive
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
That's pretty much how it works. On the AT&T Snapdragon variant of the plus, there are exactly 2 packages that negatively impact the battery life and disabling them noticeably improves SOT. There are about 4 that make no difference either way. Everything else in my testing gave me a noticeable loss in SOT when disabled and many drastically reduced SOT. The more you disable, the worse it gets as the phone is constantly calling on processes it can't access. If you disable the TWO that need it, the phone handles the rest from there. It learns from your usage and turns off **** you don't use or need. No battery life lost that way as it then knows those things are off and no longer calls on them unless you open them yourself.

It's funny when people post things like "I have 150 packages and bloat disabled and I can't get anywhere near the SOT people are claiming. What's wrong with my phone?"... that'd be the reason they've got ****ty battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
So far outstanding ??AT&T S8 Plus
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vin4yak:
True. We shouldn't go and disable a bunch of stuff. Uninstall whatever you don't require and disable the VR and Antivirus stuff at most.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
We're all just trying to figure it out....lol...we shouldn't apply the same routine we've been doing for years on older model phones on our newer model phones maybe it works better with everything in sync this time around....?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vin4yak:
Indeed. I'm coming over from a nexus device and I feel Samsung has come a long way in the software game. I actually like the UI now and the tweaks they provide are simply awesome. Don't find a reason to root or flash custom roms anymore.

I do miss native adblock though...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Only thing I need is viper4android when it comes to needing root..... but I have my lovely note 4 with all the rooted goodies as back up...cheers sir..
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tommason1968:
This phone does a great job not using power while in sleep mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] yash92duster:
First day usage of my Galaxy S8+

Full Brightness

AOD on for few min

Power saving on for some Time

4k rec few min

Music on speaker for 1hr full sound

Qhd mode

Screen basic mode

GPS on

4g

WiFi on

No noticeable red tint on basic mode

Edges had tint on top left and right after update and set to cool no tint anymore

Battery life is really excellent:laugh::D:D
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Wireratt:
Mixed day on LTE for 8 hours rest is wifi.

All radios on.

Connected to gear s2 all day bluetooth

Only direct tv and att bloat disabled through stock manager.

1440p, Aod On.

Browsing reddit, email, txting and web browsing mostly.

Could easily added more sot since I still had 20% but the day is over.

At&t s8 plus.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh LaCelle:
No, but I went back and enabled everything and I got 6hrs SOT with 28hrs on the battery lol I am finding if you try and make your battery last longer it doesn't!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] corvette72778:
BK Disabler won't block system updates. You'll need Package Disabler Pro (Samsung)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
Latest BK Package Disabler few days ago they updated the app and has it now !
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] corvette72778:
Ok. Cool. I'm the one the emailed them about the system updates/S8 but I already bought the other Disabler mentioned.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bambam126:
I'm pretty happy I haven't charged it since yesterday left it unplugged all night been using it and this is my progress so far :) happy camper here
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
Bingo!!! That's awesome battery stats btw
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Josh LaCelle:
I agree! Best phone I have ever owned for battery life! The 835 must really do a great job of conserving the battery life. The one thing I have noticed is the battery seems to drain faster once it get down below 50%. Or maybe I just think it does.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Quickvic30:
So I was digging around with es file explorer and found some cool battery info, looks like they had a demo battery of 6000mah, could you imagine that lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] AhsanU:
Battery life on this phone is insane. I'm on 1080p mode, but still. 12 hours off charge, and I'm home now ready to sleep with 55% charge left. Crazy.

I can easily get 8 hours of SoT off a full charge. Yes, I'm on a custom ROM, but still. I'm very happy.

I've got the international model, so the Exynos variant.