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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
Try reading the post properly, I specifically mentioned the only difference being the screen size and battery, I couldn't have made it any clearer. As for apps adjusting to screen size, I am not sure what you are taling about there, the screen sizes are TECHNICALLY the exactly the same from an app point of view so again there is NO difference between the 2 devices.

The problem us CAUSED by having 2 forums for what is essentially the same phone. If it was ONE forum then people would be much more careful to indicate which device they were talking about and much less inclined to post in the wrong thread or forum. This is exactly the problem I was attempting to flag when I asked the mods to merge the forums. For almost every discussion you can have about these 2 devices, the discussion will apply to BOTH, so the simple solution is one set of forums that apply to both devices, and then youll just have a few threads that specifically talk about battery for one of the devices, rather than 2 entirely duplicated sets of threads where people are duplicating the exact same discussions all the time. It would also mean I can just monitor a single set of forums for ALL posts related to my phone, instead of trying to read through two sets of forums where half the posts are effectively the same thread, and the other half are things that I would have missed if I had only looked at one of the forums (hence needing to look through both).

Also what I will do when I need to post a question on something is post it in the S8 forum even though I have an S8+....the reason being I know more people will have the S8 than the plus, and so itll get more views and more assistance. Of course whatever im asking will apply to both devices, but i am going to get far fewer replies than I would if the forums were merged and im being forced to post the thread in a forum which is technically not for the device i own, simply to get the best responses on it! That isnt the way it should be.

So yeah you aren't wrong, S8+ battery discussion should go in the S8+ forum, but the problem would be far less if we didnt have the forums set up in this way.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
Ok Mr we all have to do things correctly. You do realise this is a battery thread? Create a thread to complain, you're more off topic than anyone else. At least they're talking about battery life.

Liking my battery so far
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
Speaking of battery, since I cannot get gsam to work even with adb, is there an alternative that will be just as good, at least so i can see whats going on until gsam is fixed? No point me even trying to test battery further until i know i dont have something draining it after I saw dex at the top.

Also, why would gsam show things like DEX draining the battery, and yet the battery stats within Nougat itself dont even mention DEX (which basically makes it useless)?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
AHA! I just charged it to 100% and suddenly, gsam is now working properly again. So I guess it requires charging to full after the adb trick before it will work properly

I have DEX Home as my top drainer again, i disabled the dex package itself in package disabler pro, but according to gsam theres a LOAD of packages that are part of what it is calling DEX Home, wallpapers, fingerprint, settings, knox, just loads of stuff! so i guess it isnt really the DEX Home app, which i disabled, its all this other stuff that gsam has just decided is part of it?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
It's a glitch it seems after investigation. It's Android system. A restart switches to that or dex it seems
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
Ahh yes, its sitting just under kernel on mine so android system would make sense, was scared i might have to factory reset for a minute, after spending 3 days setting things up and tweaking stuff!

I installed accubattery when i thought gsam was not gonna work properly and it seems quite nice, i like how it shows exactly how much power is being used, and the screen on time prediction is nice, its predicting 10h 24 mins haha. wont get that but its a nice thought :P it only shows foreground apps though so ill probably uninstall it and just use gsam. also tried battery doctor but accu seemed better.

probably a few more packages i can disable yet but without knowing exactly what they are and what they do i cant tell if they can go or not! I have disabled 77 so far.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] joeyac02:
Still don't know if I'm happy with these stats or not yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] razball:
Now that I've had it a few days the battery seems to be significantly better and I turned off the medium battery saver which I was using the whole time and battery has improved with out using it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nagle3092:
10 hours sot, 20% battery left.

T-Mobile regular S8

settings

Auto bright on

FHD+

Screen timeout 1 minute

Smart stay off

Mid power saving mode on

speed limiter on

background network usage on

Always on display off
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] themaximillian:
Is that with the S8 or S8+?

Really leaning towards ditching my s7E for one of the s8s

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Roobwz:
The "normal" s8
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] themaximillian:
Thats awsome.

Seems like the the idle drain is quite good:)

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] f41lbl0g:
To get better battery life, use a black theme. This way, the black pixels will turn off when displaying the UI.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EDubs11:
Man, are you using any package disabler or anything like Greenify? That is absolute insanity. I have a T-Mobile S8 and I am getting no where near those numbers. I mean no where near it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nagle3092:
Nope, just uninstalled the apps I didn't use. Try the settings I posted. The black theme probably helps some as well as the fact that I always have good signal.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] preot:
What theme do you use?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
You guys will always get great sot on Wi-Fi but on 4g and gmail syncing you will struggle to get 4hrs
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
How have you set it to mid power saving but still able to turn background network usage on? I wanted to use mid power saver but have AoD on and background network on but AoD was greyed out and background network option i couldnt find.

Alternatively i could manually have mid power saving on by restricting the cpu myself and dropping the brightness by 10% (I think thats the only other things it does?) but not sure if thats possible.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elitefleet554:
[IMG=https://imgur.com/gallery/UbcnG[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nagle3092:
You can customize it under device maintenance, battery, the click mid and customize.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
Doh, thanks. I saw that button when i first turned it on and tried to press it but must have miss-pressed as it didnt do anything, I didnt take much notice after that, just assumed it wasnt a pressable item.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
People should just post the bbs stats as u can see screen brightness doze time and more useful info
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] razball:
Idk about that im never in WiFi and I have instant sync Gmail and im a power user and right now im at 75% with 1 hour 35 min sot. I don't have aod enabled and I use the mid battery saver with 10% reduction and brightness reduced and I have the background usage on. And I have the black theme installed. So far it's gotten better each day but right now im on target to hit close to 6 hours sot. If not more. I personally don't think I can even use my phone that much lol but if I did I could hit that.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPhilo:
Nougat theme dark edition
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Then I must have a **** bin or something else I had full bbs logs but I turned on power saving and it killed the stats

4g only gmail syncing wqhd brightness 50% Spotify for 1hr installing/ updating apps gear s2 paired with notifications from every app. I have a lot of notifications enabled
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] razball:
I have full hd maybe that's the difference?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nagle3092:
Cant imagine the 4 gmail accounts syncing is helping either. Maybe set those to sync once every 30 minutes instead.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
I don't mind tbh as I use them for work can't miss any email. But will try tomorrow with fhd+. What I can tell you is that after i turned power saving at 4% it lasted a whole 10mn before it dropped to 3% and that's just an adjusted mid I just powered to resolution to fhd+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XBlackChaosX:
This is mine from yesterday.... I was so amazed by that battery life as I've absolutely never gotten that great of battery life on any smartphone I've ever had.

Edit: I can't seem to be able to upload the other screenshot via XDA labs?... Had to make a second post.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XBlackChaosX:
There :

Oh, I forgot to add that i'm using the regular S8 on sprint: usage for me was close to average, connected to WiFi the whole time (GPS was also toggled) I spent most of my time browsing on the web browser, flip board, a few videos watched on ogyoutube (downloaded a couple videos), a few TV shows watched on showbox and I was also configuring apps that I had forgotten to configure. CPU profile is set to "optimized" screen resolution is set to FHD. The day before that (23rd) however I was not getting this kind of battery life and I was experiencing a few issues so I factory reseted and ever since that battery life has been amazing, earlier today with 6% left I had 6hrs and 42 minutes of SOT with 8 hours of overall usage. :)

I'll keep FHD untill the end of this week just to see if battery life will remain at a stable 6hr+ SOT after that I'll bump the resolution to 2k and test that out for 1 week.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] corb06:
I didnt even get 3 hours screen on time with 50% auto brightness....

Almost 16 hours since I unplugged the charger, been using the phone all day. 2 hours 40 min screen on.

Display set to QHD, Entertainmentmode activated, Always on Activated, Location, Bluetooth, Wifi all activated all day.

Link to fullsize screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/689WAWo.jpg
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Everyone with great SOT seems to have low time off the charger implying a lot of usage condensed in a short time. The issue for many others is wakelock, sensor usage and more that are slowly chipping away throughout the day in between usage
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tileeq:
Exynos version of s8 80% on 4g 20% on wifi telekom network brightness on 50% no adjustments except screen res on fhd+ but still on performance mode and using black theme
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] inphamous36:
This is where I'm at. No games, just texting most of the day and browsing Facebook. Listened to Spotify for the whole drive home, which was about 50 minutes.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ausboy 2011:
s8+ telstra phone no aod no location. facebook youtube xda sms browsing calls gear s3 connected via Bluetooth 247. easily get 8 hours sot
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] akfritz:
With moderate use all day
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] J-Hop2o6:
Getting great battery life on the S8. I don't even need to bring my charger to work anymore ?. 4 hours of SoT with 50% left!

AOD: off

Google Location History: OFF

WiFi & BT improved accuracy scanning​ OFF

Auto Brightness ON

WQHD+

Mix of WiFi and LTE

Mostly just browsing apps, no games this run.

"Bloat" still installed

Sync ON

"Entertainment" Profile
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nmck117:
Pretty happy with my S8 battery life (coming from iPhone 7 plus).

This is my first full cycle so will see over the next week how things go.

Region: UK

Carrier: EE

AOD: off

Bluetooth and nfc: off

Google location tracking: on

Mix of Wi-Fi and LTE

Screen brightness: auto
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dtrayers:
Sprint S8. Pretty much stock. I uninstalled some bloat, disable a couple more. Coming from a S6E, I'm loving the battery life.

The below screenshot is typical moderate use during the day. Took off the wireless charger at 5:30AM. Hasn't been on a charger since (8:30PM now...). I have 40% left. During the day, I had a few calls and about 90 minutes of Bluetooth audio book streaming in my car. Checking emails (Gmail, Yahoo and Exchange are pushed) pretty regularly. AOD is on. Read some Flipboard for about 30 minutes while waiting for an appt to arrive. Wifi is always on. Bluetooth is always on. I'm thrilled.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dumraden:
Here's mine too...

AOD on, wifi gps 4g constatnly on. I guess the reason cell standby is so high is because I spent almost 4 hours in the tube yesterday with no signal.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vogal:
So, after read previous posts, when Dex Home is appearing in those stats I should do a factory reset? I was wondering if Dex isn't just other name for android system...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skizz3tto:
Region: ITA

AOD: off

Bluetooth and nfc: off

Google location tracking: on

Mix of Wi-Fi and 4g+

Screen brightness: auto

Last two pictures from my S7 Edge... i would like to come back :(
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EkoXE:
Hey guys,

Quick question. I got an S8, can get 5-6 hrs sot, but as today at work I didn t use it much. U see, almost 2hrs sot, now at 50%....

I was on 4G all day long. But as little as I used it I think it drained alot. What fo u think. Is this acceptable or ro you think sth drains too much the batt? I only used chrome.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
On 4g all day I get 5hrs SOT maybe you have a wakelock somewhere
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EkoXE:
Okay, thanks. What are my options? Should I try to reset? Ir how to find this wakelock?

Best regards
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Install BBS look for it on xda and then look for how to BBS without root using adb it's quiet easy
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EkoXE:
Okay. I have bbs, will try it using adb! I ll feedback!

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vogal:
For those who have good battery life, do you use the facial recognition to unlock the phone? That function must use a little battery using the front camera all the time, right?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
I have both FP and iris scanner enabled I don't see any impact on battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tuk1maar:
Exynos Galaxy S8 user here. 4G+ and WiFi has been used. Here and there a phone call, some snapchatting, webbrowsing and mostly using social media. I might have watched at most video for 20 minutes. Brightness has been as you can tell put on very high (automatic mode, mostly at 100%). A few hours of Spotify as well ;)

The S8 outlasts my S7 Edge (exynos) by quite a lot to be fair. Especially since using it on 4G+ and WiFi don't seem to be any different at all for battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BigBen60:
More than 8h SOT with my S8 yesterday ! Auto-brightness, wifi & 4G all day, bluetooth a little bit, gaming, lot of internet, facebook, etc...

I have good results after disabling every useless bloatwares, after disabling some battery-draining useless features (see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF41hBoK1aM&index=3&list=LLBX5ghY33QY4PV_v2KhikbA), using greenify on non-root mode and gives excellents results !

I also used Package Disable Pro to disable this Bixby crap
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] barondebxl:
So I have been pleased with the S8 battery life to the point that I never checked my battery stats. I just woke up 5 min ago and got curious to check and here are my results. This was HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY use, I was off work yesterday and was on it constantly, streamed a whole nba playoff game (Spurs vs Grizzlies but Go WARRIORS!!!), watch a whole homeland episode, did a lot of YouTube, web browsing, texting and an hour and half phone call plus just messed around with the phone. I'm so freaking happy. No Wi-Fi at all, S8 on verizon
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
I must have a bad phone or something as I can only reach 6.5 sot and that's with cpu speed limit and aod off. I have BBS installed through adb so I can see wakelocks and doesn't look like I have a rogue app as my phone sleeps 96% of the time when untouched, when using it though, it's nose diving.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tuk1maar:
I have enabled the fingerprint scanner, iris scanning and facial recognition. I use any of those three to unlock my phone depending on the situation I am in. I'm comfortably achieving the best batterylife I've ever had on a smartphone on my Exynos S8 (previous phone is the S7 Edge exynos-model, iPhone 7, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5S, LG G3, Galaxy S4 (exynos)). This phone from my experience lasts at least twice as long as the LG G6 and iPhone 7 Plus and about 2.5x as long as the iPhone 7 when using the phone as intended of a flagship phone (heavy usage, 1-2 days on a single charge). The S8 is a warrior on 4G as it does not increase battery drain than when used on WiFi (this is the case for all other phones I've owned previously, except for the S4 Exynos which seemed to do equally well on 4G as on WiFi). Standby on the S8 is great, but performs worse than my S7 Edge which did the best among all my previous owned smartphones.

For my batterylife, look up my previous post as I display how great the S8 actually is on battery.

If you want the best batterylife but don't care about screen readability, go get an iPhone 7 Plus and use it at 0-10% brightness (with this setting, it will outlast our S8 at the same brightness level). If you use the display at any higher brightness than that, than the S8 will start to outrun the iPhone's by a humongous amount.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Yes i concur my fear was the drain on 4g as it was on the s7e but to my surprise it drain as lilttle as on Wi-Fi. Samsung nailed on this front
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] iandr0idos:
I decided to look at the battery stats and was pleasantly surprised by how well the battery was doing, considering I haven't had a Samsung phone since the GSII.

And for the sake of disclosure, I didn't do anything special. Just stock settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dreadsteel:
What do you guys think of the AOD ? How much extra battery does it drain for you guys.

With it on my battery drained 18% over night. My phone dozed about 5 hours that night and I was asleep for about 7 hours. Something seems off.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
The Always-On display is pretty efficient. The smartphone only consumes 0.13 Watts during standby and 0.23 Watts (on average) with the Always-On display.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rubixcube92:
To be honest i am pretty suprised by the battery live. I have a galaxy S8 with GPS, bluetooth, 4G and wifi on all the time. Have my brightness to about 70 percent. AOD is off. It's a lot better then my Oneplus 3. Had about 3 hours Sot with that one. Usually about 5 on the S8 :D Gonna do some tweaking to get more :p
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vogal:
Why some have big differences between screen and android system and android Os and others are almost at same level? How can we make those services to drain less?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
What theme is this

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Lol this is outstanding
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AB__CD:
Sounds very promising. My S7 flat Exynos isn't so great on 4G drain, so I'm looking forward to this.

Although i'm not sure how much I trust someone who puts the words "S4 Exynos" and "well" in the same sentence talking about battery life ;) (for me, six words: two hours screen on time max)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] oriostoteles:
Best settings for good battery life is lowering down your screen resolution to 1480x720

Then , go to Settings> advanced features and disable the following features:

smart stay

one handed mode

smart capture palm swipe to capture

direct call

smart alert

swipe to call or send messages

direct enhancer

these features tends to ping the phone frequently to keep these services alive and it drains battery.

Also, make sure to disable location it drains lots of battery too

disable wifi if you're on data and vice versa.

My battery duration is very decent now, almost and entire day of use.

i'm on snapdragon
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] zingxao:
How much difference will the QHD resolution make?

I've been using FHD since I got the phone, attached are yesterday's results.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
What's the point of having such a phone of you disable all the feature?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
My battery really sucks today specially when I started playing music on Spotify through Bluetooth .

Gonna have to reset the phone I guesshttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5904a5f657c16/Screenshot_20170429-144855.png?

http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5904a6061aa19/Screenshot_20170429-144852.png?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dyn4myT:
Do you think exynos are better than the snapdragon? I don't have a good battery life with my s8, only 4h30 with almost all disabled and everything black.

I have a s8 from fido Canada.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
4g only Spotify drains way too much when screen off
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elitefleet554:
5 hours sot haven't been on wifi all day wqhd display and been watching YouTube and Facebook a lot it's my day off lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] racingmatt1:
That's not bad sot for having a white theme
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] big_b0sss:
Woah! Battery usage got better for me. Was hitting 4h sot end of the day with 10% ramaining. But today I have 50% left
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
I think I have a lemon or the latest update made my battery sht

I lost 10% in 3hrs idle
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dra444:
This is my battery life after having the phone for a week. S8+ Snapdragon on AT&T. Awesome battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPhilo:
Anyone have accubattery installed to see how many mah they have in there device?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Roobwz:
First full cycle
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vogal:
I'm trying to find the reason for my poor battery life.

In those screenshots from Bbs, someone knows what is that process 12806000.decon_f ? I can't find any information about it.

Btw, it's normal that use in Google services?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
It has nothing to do with what you are posting. That process is the screen same as the display wakelock you should look at partial kernel and alarms
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vogal:
Thank you for your reply.

Here are the alarms, isn't to much wakelocks even for Google services? I don't use Google location history.