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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dreadish:
when it comes too batterylife it wont be better with one plus 5 - except in movie playback. Like guy said, 5hours SOT is easy in s8, u can get more on average use.

Im using s8 for 3 months now and Software is improved, dual camera in one plus 5 dosent nececerly means its better. Samsung cam is very optimized.

If u dont have money buy one plus 5, but u will get more support on s8, screen in s8 is narower and easly handed with one hand - movies look gorgeous cause 5.8 inch screen.

There is always a question of durablity of internal materials when it comes too one plus, xiaomi, and other alike brands.

I think i answered ur question. (and im not samsung fanboy or something, been using Sony phones with best UI out there for last 5 years.:D This time Samsung nailed it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Evilm:
usually i get around 8h.

playing games ( real racing 3, world of tanks, and few tap games) about 4h.

then it searches constantly for mobile data cuz i'm traveling thru tunnels.

so far i'm satisfied
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Roobwz:
I can't speak for the oneplus, but I have the s8 and I'm really happy. 5h to 6h SoT easily with 4g. Much better than my old m9
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tbob18:
Debloating with BK Package Disabler helped a bit I think, another advantage is disabling bixby entirely. I can't count the number of times I hit that button accidentally and I've only had the phone for a week.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] miyuru4u:
AOD disabled

HD resolution

Wifi data sync all on

Not s8+ this us regular S8
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dajumper:
Im happy with my battery
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] domsch1988:
I still don't get how SoT is relevant. Some daYs I drain the phone with under 30 minutes of SoT. Driving all day with tidal playing. No SoT yet the phone is empty by the end of the day. What does this say about battery life?

Other days I reach 8+ hours, at home in wifi using my phone with arx app as a second screen for my PC monitoring...

SoT does not tell you anything about what you can actually do with your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] diziox72:
Here I Got mine, exynos version.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Markaner:
Hi, I'm getting really poor battery. Does anyone have a clue why? I basically have all the standard out of the box settings on. This is the exynos variant. No gaming, no streaming music. Mostly texting via what's app and surfing with samsung internet app.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cricketgirl90:
M guessing 4G
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Markaner:
Does surfing and texting via 4G drain that much compared to WIFI? Because I have only been using 4G when surfing since I got it. However based on the SOT I have not been using it for very long periods of time.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cricketgirl90:
I've just got my S8 today.. So can't say. But yes generally all phones suffer on 4G
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cavags5:
Its not that bad, but all depends your settings and and signal, and if you are moving with 4G. Read a little bit more and it will get a little better.

Check here it will help a little

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3631747
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Markaner:
Alright, will do some further investigation. But I live in Stockholm, Sweden, and we generally have great signal here. But thanks, will look into it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] PearsonDKA:
Canadian version here (Freedom) and this my 2nd day of owning it annnnd I'm pretty sure the SoT will regulate after this but uh, so far no regrets here ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] gohabs93:
I have the Canadian Galaxy s8 and my Standby battery drain is 4-5% per hour. Basically I just loaded the phone , installed a battery monitor app (SystemPanel 2) and the phone drains that much without me doing anything. The phone goes into deep sleep yet drains alot when I put a simcard. The signal is great/excellent.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dayl1ght:
Me Happy with my device s8+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Roobwz:
Surprised
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fattox:
So this is what I do and it's awesome for me, since my last with a S6 was sad. How the hell you guys do more than this? Normally I'm with 3g/4g (just now wifi), few apps + Fb, Lite messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Bluetooth always on and auto brightness.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] wbxgamer:
Iphone 7 is 1080p
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
This is near to perfect for S8. You gotta great standby with a flat line and almost 6+hrs SOT till it fully depletes. You can't expect more while using BL & FB all day. Apparently, the cellular signal seems to be pretty low aswell.

Here is mine on LTE+WiFi + 1080p and Auto Brightness but i dont have facebook installed and BL is used just for few secs in a day to sync S2.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] actinhic:
Debloated Renovate 3, Notorious 1.9, no tweaks, gapps...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] bhaavuu:
s8 plus

Its a samsung s8 plus.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pranay1007:
Battery life

Hello Everyone!

What I observed regarding battery life till now is that it's rate of drop/decrease is very high when your network strength is very low with or without data udage. I'm using dual SIM variant of s8 in India with one 4G & one 3g sim. In my office 4g signal is very weak so I just disable that sim and use data on another 3g sim whose network strength is very good (office timing 8am-5pm) while at home I use 4g data with very good signal strength and I'm getting SOT of 5hrs +/- 5 mins at 15% battery remaining.

If I enable the 4g sim whole day even without data usage I'm getting SOT of 3 hrs max at 15% battery remaining for checking this I've spent almost a week.

So even if you're connected to wifi but using a sim whose network strength is weak it will cut the battery very fast.

This is without any heavy usage of phone as I don't play games. Can this be taken care in software update?

---------- Post added at 09:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:30 AM ----------

Whenever I'm using my phone in outdoors it is getting heated up from 33° to 41°+ Have anyone noticed this if not can you people cross verify this?

just go to outdoors keep brightness at minimum level, switch off the data open normal apps like gallery and all, not games or make a call in speaker phone mode just make sure screen is on and facing to light.

Even in cloudy day phone is getting heated upto 42°C without any heavy usage.

while using indoors even with games,data it's going upto 37°.

Is this the problem with my phone only or everyone has this?

I've a screenshot of 42.5° taken using cpu-z but i don't know how to upload with this post.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cavags5:
Your sot ots not bad.

And the temperature cpu is always more hot than the battery.

My country is almost all year with sun, i have a app that shows always the temperature of the battery, in all my phones, and the normal temperature with 4G is 34 to 38c, only gets to 40 max 41, when is to hot outdoors like 35 degrees, and 4G and Bluetooth with the car and full brightness.

Could be a defective phone, because my first s8 got high temperature, went to 45c, i test it the store with a new one, and they change it.

So if you don't have high temperatures outdoors maybe its better you check some topics here about temperature.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] linom:
This is absolutely true. I also face standby battery drain due to weak signal. I also turn off 4G on one of the providers and turn on the 2nd SIM 4G on as it has a better signal.

You may have a rogue app heating up the device. Or check if you have any games running in background. If there isn't any such issues, then replace the phone while still in warranty
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] srujanchinni:
same problem for me aswell

i went to the service center so many times but they are saying the phone is good only.. 40c is common so they are not replacing the battery or processor
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] olvidado166:
Me... S8, not plus.

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajai_dev:
Went abroad for a few days and dont know if its related but now my phone has stopped to deepsleep and always stays at the min freq which results in a warm to touch feeling and lots of battery drain. Tried to force sleep it with force doze but did not work any other ideas before I have to stock flash it ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shawn_007:
Love it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gemichi:
Getting around 4hrs of sot. Game around an hour and half and mostly browsing websites. It last me through the day. Though during the day, I'm quite alert about the battery life. It is really a huge improvement over my g4.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jfriend33:
Verizon s8 plus. Doesn't seem to have terrible battery life or anything. But just dumbfounded at all these YouTube videos showing like 16hrs of usage with 7hrs SOT. or even with idle drain not even putting a dent in it overnight.

I miss the days of my droid maxx unlocked consumer edition. Heck I even gave my dad my droid turbo lol. But at least this phone does not get as warm as previous iterations and does seem to handle multitasking quite well.

Do we really think the unlocked edition will have unlocked bootloader? I just can't belive it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] __NBH__:
Loving the battery life of this phone. Got it set up the same as my old Nexus 6P but on my S8+ no root, stock ROM and stock kernel it still beats it hands down. Not really missing root at all and enjoying the phone.

Just some Gmail, Whatsapp, Facebook, Youtube, listening to music, XDA, Reddit, Chrome, screen on auto brightness, location on battery saving, AOD off, bluetooth off and a good mixture of WiFi and 4G. Just made it to 8hrs 15 minutes screen on time with still 10% left.

Anyone know why Samsung disabled the charts under the battery showing WiFi, signal strength, GPS, charging etc?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
Theme?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] __NBH__:
Swift Black using Substratum
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] guaneet:
Best I've had so far
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pockobg:
Loving my S8 ...

Generaly some Gmail, Whatsapp, Viber, Facebook, Youtube, Chrome, screen on auto brightness (mostly around 25% to 80% on a sunny day when outdoor), location off, AOD off, bluetooth off and mostly on WiFi maybe 40-50min 4G. I have disabled some other apps i do not use and i get around 7H screen on time with still 5% left.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] racingmatt1:
How did you make your settings menu background turn black
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kEvinErd:
Your screen usage is so high but I am not seeing any apps there that could have possibly kept your screen awake... Strange?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Djapatos:
Good point. Thats why reason why i can never get great life no matter what phone i have. I got a 9 to 5 job and the building is where i have the worst reception
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MacTheRipperr:
It's a theme
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] racingmatt1:
This is my first galaxy phone and I can't seem to pinpoint the theme
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Joescalon:
Settings > wallpapers and themese. Choose anything black and free
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] joeyac02:
Anyone got results running adaway?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sukhi:
Try this to start with.

http://www.samsung.com/global/theme...com.samsung.Dream_A11y_lowvision&SITE_CODE=in
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ElBeaner:
Yesterday my SOT was not great, now that Doze has taken over and put all kinds of apps to sleep it's so much better.

S8 over 2hr SOT and still at 63%
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] equake:
Which network carrier, country do these stats represent? Is it the Exynos or Snapdragon CPU? All US version use Snapdragon.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
Lol no all these are not good to me. I'm spoilt from 10 hours sot minimum from mate 9. So giving my s8 plus a chance. Nice phone, but I can't live with the battery so far.

And why is dex eating the hell out my battery?! Maybe this is why I'm not liking the battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] joso33:
How is normal s8 compared to s6 920F?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Johno_Jan:
ATTN: Hey Folks, it would help if you state which version you have and your region so we can better understand the capabilities of the phones! And if you wanna go the extra mile, state any major tweaks to settings that you may have done and your usage type.

Example:

Region: US

Carrier: T-Mobile

S8 regular size
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MacTheRipperr:
Go to settings it's one of the menus called wallpapers and themes. Log into your Samsung account and look for a by themes you might be interested in.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Roobwz:
Insane in my opinion. AoD enabled
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] olivierdo:
hi guys can you tell me how much time it takes for a full charge ?

cause i have 15% battery i plug it in and it says 1 hour 27 min before full charge... it was not 20 minutes?? thanks..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ronii_lyn:
Canada with Telus, Snapdragon
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrPhilo:
Exynos

4 hours on 4g, around 2 hour on WiFi, 80% brightness most of time. This is my first charge. Also bluetooth on for my fitbit and headphone
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] yaddam205:
Really ****ing happy with the battery life. Double the OST of my GS6. I'm thinking I can eek out a little more after I run it through package disabler. Wifi 23hrs, 4G 1hr, 40% brightness w/ auto. Can't wait to see how it does on a mostly 4G day. I'm guessing I can get another hour OST. Cheers Samsung, you created a monster.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mlock420:
S8+ second cycle
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Djapatos:
S8. Second cycle. I can never get those crazy SOT on anyone. Idk why but whatever.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] parusia:
This is my battery life first cycle.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] themaximillian:
How is the idle drain on the S8/S8+? I'm still on the fence as to if i should get one or stay on my S7E....

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
First cycle. Awesome!

All time LTE. No WiFi.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
How are you getting that breakdown? looks like GSAM but on mine GSAM just complained that from N onwards it cant tell which apps use how much and just puts everything into one line.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
Gsam can show all if you know how to use adb. Instructions are in the bottom left option ...under "more" and follow instructions

And after factory reset you can see dex drain has disappeared and I now have normal good drain...and was at 4hrs 20 minutes with 50 percent left! Wow. Haven't been impressed with the phone till now. I'll post pics later. Had to install EE official firmware via odin so that voLte would work so lost all the battery stats

Dex drain gone!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Holy cow.

That's unbelievable.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
cool thanks, got gsam working now. although it has just identified that DEX home is sucking up my battery! the confusing thing is, i disabled it earlier in package disabler pro, and i just checked and package disabler says dex home is not running!

And the next time i try to run gsam, its back to not showing the app breakdown again. it said the adb setting should stick for the life of the app install, but i havent even rebooted and its come unstuck! The "enable more stats" option in the menu has vanished (because it thinks it is already enabled....which it WAS but now isn't! Ran the adb commands again, still wont work. uninstalled, reinstalled, 'enable more stats' was back so i went there and run the adb commands again.....still wouldnt work. the very first time it showed me the app breakdown, but ever since i closed the app, it wont show it ever since, even after reinstalling it. It only ever worked that very first time before i closed the app.

I emailed gsam support, i dont know what else to do (and for the brief time it worked, i still dont know why dex home was the biggest drain when i have it disabled!).
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
That is good. Mine on only wifi so far...its always better on only wifi but the 4.3 hours sot with 50 percent left was 4g outside mostly and some wifi at work
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mobilehavoc:
Screen on time aside is the standby time supposed to be like 14-15 hours on average for an S8? Also does it make a difference if you hit home button in apps as opposed to the back. Home button keeps the app active in background so not sure if doing that excessively affects the battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] eduardmc:
Im not getting crazy battery like u guys but im more Than happy on my first run on a regular s8 getting almost 6 hours. Thats even better than my gs7 edge i have which is only 2 month old. Everything turn on AOD on. Was looking forward to 4+ cause review have been negative on battery. Not sure what pjone were they using
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mobilehavoc:
But how much standby? My concern is standby less than SOT
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] razball:
Absolutely no idea how some of you are getting the battery life you're getting lol I'm on my second day and albeit I was in an area of terrible signal for a while but I'm at 31% 2 hrs 57 min sot and 8hrs 52 min off charger lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
Yep the settings came unstuck for me too. But I ran the commands again and it came back. Probably needs support from the dev.

Dex really alloyed me. Doesn't show now after factory reset and battery is good now. Almost sent this phone back. If Samsung are right and the battery will only degrade 5% then that's great. We'll see
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
T-mobile. Max resolution auto brightness. S8+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] superior8888:
Wtf is wrong with my phone. Max 12h with 2hr sot. Any ideas? Disabled almost everything....

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
Stop downloading porn? jk You may have something installed that isn't playing nice and you phone isn't "sleeping" because of it.

I didn't use package disabler in mine and left everything the way it was including not remapping the Bixby button.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] superior8888:
Yeah i cant find what tho. Maybe factory reset Will help... if an app would drain i would see it in gsam...

Not downloading porn is never a solution ?

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
I don't know as you can see I get pretty good probably get better if I used the phone less I am guessing. Hopefully it's just some hiccup and not an actual problem with the device.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tuk1maar:
Batterylife of my Galaxy S8 seems to be noticably better than my S7 Edge. Just take a look at what I got! 1300mAh for the display with 600mAh used to snapchatting a lot.

I am satisfied with it ^^
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Semantics:
This is very confusing. Everyone with the S8+ you do realize you have your own forum, yes? Posting the S8+ battery life in the S8 forum is useless and confusing and convoluted. Just my opinion, but there are S8+ forums for a reason. It's not the same phone. You can find them here. They have lots of cool categories to post in. In fact, they are exactly the same categories.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ewokuk:
It is exactly the same phone, the hardware is pretty much identical, the software IS identical, the only difference is a bigger screen and a bigger battery to go with it which in theory gives slightly more battery life, thats it. I did ask the devs to just merge the S8 and S8+ forums into a single S8/+ forum before the launch so that people didn't constantly have to trawl through 2 whole sets of identical forums, knowing that the phones are basically the same in every way when it comes to 99% of the discussion. The idea would be have ONE forum, and TWO threads for the 1% of discussion where they need to be separated (such as battery life or maybe cases), but they didn't wanna listen, so instead we have 2 whole sets of forums where people will be constantly cross posting and looking in the wrong forum despite 99% if the discussions applying to both devices. Also means you end up with a ****load of duplicated posts that don't need to be, a nightmare for people trying to keep up with everything (because you really do need to watch both sets of forums), more server load, and double the number of forums to moderate. But hell what do i know.

So yeah, S8+ battery should go in the other forum.....but really it should go in this forum under an S8+ specific thread, much better for all concerned, but admin were more concerned that they might have a different bootloader (big deal if they do, split the roms thread into two sections instead of the ENTIRE set of forums or tell people to be clear which device a rom is for then, again 99% of the discussion will apply to BOTH).
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Semantics:
If they are exactly the same phone then why is my screen not 6.2"? Why is my battery not 3500mah? People posting things in regards to accessories, battery life, how apps adjust to screen size is confusing as hell in this forum. I go to the forum to look at screen protector reviews and I'm reading about S8+ ones. They are exactly the same phone? Yeah. No. People having been using XDA long enough to know how to search for their phone, if you feel having two forums is too consfusing then I don't know what to tell you.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
aside from those two things exactly what is different? All the hardware is the same and battery size, and screen size affects the code very little. If one is having a problem then both devices would have the same problem. In the grand scheme of things like he mentioned that 99% of the things will be the same. 1% would be different like battery, and we will have duplicate threads because of two different forums. I would like to add I didn't notice there was another one as it was just one thread for a very long time.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Semantics:
The S8+ forum has been around for weeks. This forum specifically says S8. The other specifically says S8+. There is no reason not to post in the forum of the phone you own.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tidbits:
I didn't see it for weeks that's how I ended up here and bookmarked it. Maybe days maybe a week max if you sift through to the end of the last few pages you'll see threads with both S8 and Pluses in them as proof of it. Anyway man like it's been stated there is no fundamental reasons why they need separate sections when 99% of them are exactly the same. 1% is battery and screen size.

We can argue semantics(See what I did there?) all day, but it isn't worth it.