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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] rfd78:
I have it for the past 5 days.

Initially it lasted around 2.5h sot and a total of around 10h (not even a full day of work since waking up and coming back home).

Then I "tweaked" it a bit: no Bluetooth scan, battery save in location, brightness around 40% and not adaptive. And that's pretty much it..

I use always on display, 2 email account (samsung email app for Microsoft 365 account for work - that I receive around 100 a day - and gmail app for personal emails - what a true nag gmail doesn't show badge count!), and then the usual apps like whatsapp, facebook, instagram, google maps, calendar, castbox, etc. No gaming at all.

I have always used iPhones and had ok battery with most notifications turned of except the essentials. By the second day with the S8 I felt it was similar to the iphone (but much more stuff turned on, on the S8) but now 5 days later... what an improvement! Much better battery and with a lot of notifications and other stuff that iPhones do not have! Looking now at my iPhone it looks archaic..

Really happy with this change. So happy, that I even convinced my wife to change from an iPhone 6 plus to a S8+!

S8 Duos, Exynos, bought in Dubai.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
I'm going to share my battery stats before it dies. My battery life is doing so much better now that I disabled Google now feed. Sitting at 50 percent with 6.5 hours left on battery (has been running for 8.5 hours) and 3 hours SOT
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Where is this Google Now feed?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
Go into Google now, press the 3 line menu button, go to "my feed" and turn it off. I would put screenshots but it won't let me upload images
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Ah ok thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
I left my feed on but disabled location history and my battery is absurdly better. 5 hours 9 minutes, 1 hour 18 minutes of SOT and 84% left.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Forgive my ignorance but how do you disable location history please?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
It is under location settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] eldar4uk:
I have tried to turn off the facial recognition few days ago and was really surprised how longer phone is working on one charge now. seems like this facial recognition feature are really drain battery
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] v01rider:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suyashsrijan.forcedoze&hl=en

installing both those greatly improved my battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
How do you do this?

Edit: nevermind I see
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
I've been using it hard today and i'm quite impressed.

Tomorrow will be real test when i'm out.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
By turning off location services are there any unintended consequences you guys became aware of? Always hard to decipher what turning something off could impact other functions
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
Nothing as of yet
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
I turned off location history, not services. Big difference. History stores your location with Google for things like parking reminders, proactive weather and traffic and more
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Ah ok thanks

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And you noticed an improvement by turning this off?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Vogal:
Is this normal? Looks like it never gets deep sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Huge difference
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Wow ok
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] big_b0sss:
Bad signal or bad chip bining could be an issue. And both of them exist on my s8. I have a freeging 2 g3d and low signal all the time. Barely hit 4h sot. Guess I have to live with that
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
What I still cannot figure out is all this sensor consumption
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
Does this app require root?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
No just adb permissions issued to the app
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Alvincp:
I was just thinking the same as you, but after a week of usage I'm finding the battery to last more.

Maybe it's just coincidence.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
No AOD

No Wifi

Bloatware disabled

Google feed disabled

Location history disabled

LTE with great service

Bluetooth on (Android Wear)

Edge Lighting on

FHD+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
That's a ridiculous amount of Snapchat use
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
I tried my best today to not use it. But all my friends text me on it now. Idk why. If I were to uninstall Snapchat there's no doubt I could hit a good 16 to 17 hours
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
Running same stuff as yesterday
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
This is my battery stats from yesterday.

Over 13 hours and still had 60+% left.

Used Music, GPS, Wi-Fi and internet and took photos. was really impressed.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
My battery this morning already down to 91% and not been using that long. Phone says 13 hours left.

That's a big drop from yesterday.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
Battery at 73% now since my last post been out and taking photos and very pleased.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
Here's my latest from today.

Again happy with battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] leoking3:
I was really surprised. This is without AOD, which in my case made a huge difference.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
Try accubattery and it will show you what apps are sipping more juice when using them, in terms of discharge speed as shown here I think it's quite helpful
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Blackhawx:
I'm not sure if this ist actually that bad, but I'm Not very impressed with battery life to say the least
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] jackfrost3821:
Battery life on my GS8 has been pretty bad compared to what users are posting here. I hardly get 3.5hrs of SoT and battery is around 15-20% by the end of the day. AoD is off, Brightness is 50-60%, no gaming mostly browsing through social media apps, Fingerprint and Iris scanner are on, cell reception is moderate to high and maybe a small ~5min video a day. Considering this, I guess I can classify battery life to be below average.

Need to monitor which apps are draining battery. Location history might be the culprit here, going to monitor the battery life after turning it off.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
You might have to factory reset and don't restore apps from smart switch then see how it goes if u have a terrible battery life maybe u got a bad battery.

Here's mine I'm on 4g only syncing 4 gmail accounts brightness at 50% FHD resolution and streaming spotify to my Bluetooth headphones for an hour

4g is well optimized as I got a 10% drain over 4g vs 8% on Wi-Fi although I wasn't using spotify on Wi-Fi pretty surprised and pleasantly so with the s8 battery not as bad as reviews said
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] philipone69:
There's a big debate here on SOT and battery life . I also get great battery life (~7hrs SOT with at least 12hrs stby) but i own an exynos s8 not a snapdragon. By the looks of it exynos gets way better battery life and SOT. Maybe when posting you should also tell witch variant of s8 you got....exynos or snapdragon. Maybe someone starts a dedicated thread on battery life depending on SOC?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bob*nwk:
Very happy with this result without root!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] tileeq:
New screens
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Ugh. See attached. Only thing keeping my phone awake is Android System. Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
Always install BBS as you can see if there's a partial/kernel wakelock
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
I have that but does the same thing as GSAM. Partial Wakelocks in BBS show literally nothing significant. Highest wakelock is Google Photos at 2m 55s. Kernel just summarizes Partial. Sensor usage shows 3h 18m from WhatsApp and 1h 3m from DeX. I dont know if this is low power sensor use though that doesn't constitute a wakelock. DeX is impossible since everything DeX is disabled. Since it is bundled with Android System, reporting is never clear on an Android System package.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
No it's not the same trust me on gsam you will see DeX on BBS you won't also kernel doesn't summarize partial as you could have Wi-Fi wakelocks or umts/4g wakelocks or mmc0 detect wakelocks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
So what does the attached tell you?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
See your Wi-Fi router is keeping your phone awake
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Doing what? It isn't a DHCP lease expiring or anything. I will assign a static IP though and see if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
I posted a thread on the guide forums you can check it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Since making the changes you recommended, I still have 19 minutes of WiFi wakelock. That implies no improvement. :(
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
When u check the network tab on BBS any are there any apps with big amount of data?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bdneuman:
Are you BBS users rooted? I can't get it to show anything but the attached on all but the CPU tab. I did the adb deal to grant BBS permission to BATTERY_STATS per the link on dev's OP for the app but I'm getting nothing.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
No nothing unknown or weird
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] chillmeow:
I can't get BBS to work either.

This is my battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bdneuman:
So this morning, I opened the app and wa-la! it works now. wish I could tell you what i did but I didn't change anything - just charged it back to 100% overnight.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
Yes you have to charge it to 100%, or you can try raw data then it should work
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Blaalad12:
Im personally amazed at the battery life so far! Now yes i only got the phone today so its not like i have had enough time with it to really give a proper assessment! However! The phone was powered on at 59% and i have been toying with it non stop all day! Currently have 3 hours screen on time and still have 30% left.

Perhaps it wont be quiet as impressive when i download some apps and my usage will likely be a little different but none the less so far im impressed!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sp1312:
Which theme??
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Rafi1985:
I lose 15-20% of battery every night. :(

WIFI + AOD is on.

GPS, NFC is off.

Very disappointing.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Blaalad12:
Iam completely blown away by

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Iam completely blown away by how good this battery is. Admittedly, yes ive made some sacrifices as i do with all my phones but for my usage, these sacrifices aren't important to me. I've also been indoors all weekend so brightness is relatively low. Iam. Currently on 75% battery with over 12 hours usage and 3hours screen on time. Obviously this isn gonna be consistent once i go outdoors more and brightness turns up plus start using mobile data etc but so far no phone comes close to matching what iam getting from the s8 battery so far. My HTC 10 under the same usage would have at least 50 - 60% zapped and i considered the battery in that to be decent. The s8 is miles better and ironically has a smaller battery too. Bloody incredible..... Let's hope it stays this way ha
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] AB__CD:
Not bad for the first day, on 4G for the whole time. No special tricks whatsoever. (Gap in the middle was when Samsung rep turned off phone to put on screen protector)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] javitolopez69:
how is the battery in s8 ?? .

the screen is perfect for battery?? pixel size
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] AB__CD:
Excellent. Great optimization on Samsung's part. Consistently can get 5+ hours over a whole day, I'd say at least 25% better than S7, which I wasn't expecting to be able to say.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Blaalad12:
I can't get over how insane the battery life is on this phone. I came from a HTC10 with a slightly bigger battery and a smaller screen so i was genuinely expecting the S8 battery to not be on par but its MILES better! How samsung did it is beyond me!

I'll be the first to put my hands up say YES i made adjustments! They are adjustments i can personally live with and i do so on ALL my devices! 4G / Mobile data for example is turned off as iam connected to wifi 90% of the time (therefore i keep wifi always on) and if i do require 4G/data then its easy toggle them on within 2 seconds! I also have my current theme set to a black one and as i have been indoors all weekend my brightness has been all the way down for the majority of time!! I also see no point of having everything auto sync as the phone is almost always in my hand so i manually sync things as i choose/desire!

With that aside and bare in mind my HTC 10 (which also had these settings and also has a bigger battery and smaller screen) would average 5-6hrs screen on time at best!

My Samsung S8 is currently on 2% and has a standby time of 1day14hours and a screen time on of 12hours32minutes.

This is the best of any phone i have ever had! I feel i can up the brightness and still easily get close to 10hrs screen on time!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] linom:
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone help me how to enable battery stats through ADB for BBS? I searched the forums, but couldn't find it. I am averaging 3.5-4 hrs SOT and surely can improve if I find the wakelocks.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] cavags5:
12h? On s8?

I don't see any app with high percentage of usage,

What use did you do to get 12h?

And your settings?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
If there's one thing this thread has taught me it's that individual results may definitely vary I certainly am not getting the battery life is out of this like others
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] AB__CD:
Well for one I'd seeing more Exynos than Snapdragon users
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Agreed I'm Snapdragon here
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] linom:
This thread seems to be duplicate of https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/battery-life-t3592722.

Mods/OP/Admin can you please merge and close one of them
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] cavags5:
Is there a problem having two threads?

They are on different sections.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] linom:
Its easier to follow a single thread. And mods generally would want to keep the forums clean. Everyone would otherwise begin their own threads with same topics.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] cavags5:
I see your, point, but could be one in to discuss battery life, and other only, screen on time, the op who open the thread, only need to change the main title.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Blaalad12:
Thats because none of the apps i use are using a high % of battery! I mostly was using facebook (but not the facebook app, i use friendly for facebook instead) and i used, whatsapp, viber, pof, donedeal, kik, chrome and i used the camera momentarily once or twice!

I do however have 4G turned off and mobile data turned off as i have no need for them to be on because iam almost always connected to wifi! I manually toggle them on if iam outdoors for the day! Brightness was down very low and i also used one of the black themes from the theme store!

Brightness seems to be the biggest factor! I was working the past two days in a bright room so didnt have the luxury of being able to keep the brightness down as low and had to have it around half way! I have managed 1d24hrs with 8hrs screen on time and still have 19% left at this moment in time! Iam guessing my average screen on time should stay between 8-9 hours which is still very impresssive! Getting over 12hours is gonna be impossible for most users!

I might go back to my default theme when i next fully charge the phone and test the difference that makes as i reckon the black theme is likely adding at least an hour screen on time!!

Over all iam massively impressed! As i said in a previous post! My HTC 10 had a 3,200mah battery and a smaller screen and i was relatively happy with it so wasnt expecting much from the s8 but my s8 blows it out of the water! The battery is far superior and i have both phones set up the same way in terms of whats turned on/off! Only difference is iam using a black theme on my S8
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
When you go to max battery saving, it disables biometrics and says a gain of 800 minutes of battery. Why
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] cavags5:
Sorry but for you have 12 or 9h sot you must have a app that you use more, even if it is web browser, ex, if you are browsing in the web reading a page without touching the screen, that it will always show in battery status.

You can share your full screenshots, and what have you disabled.

Remember I'm not saying it's not possible, but with normal usage it's not.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Removing WhatsApp for me was a huge help. No one can explain it's sensor usage
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] linom:
Everyone should try and do a factory reset once. I had about 3.30-4.0 hrs SOT before reset and after I did a reset I am going to get about 5.30 hrs SOT. Pretty satisfied with this
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Here's mine. Not sure if I'm happy about it or not!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Duck Quan:
So I had to get a replacement Galaxy s8 because I broke my screen. But my battery life on this new s8 is so much better than the last one. It also doesn't have the red tint problem which I think might affect battery life. The flat like is when I feel asleep which was around midnight last night and I unplugged my phone around 7:15 that morning. Pretty damn good if you ask me. I am very proud of the s8 now.

Bluetooth on all day (Android Wear)

FHD+

WIFI

LTE

EDGE LIGHTING

AOD disabled

Bloatware and any other useless apps disabled
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Is AOD supposed to still be on in a pocket even with the setting to keep screen off enabled
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
Looks about average around here. Seems like most people can get 4.5-5 hours easy and 6 if they really try
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] _xttandroidgamer:
WHAT THE F**K?

I have the S8 from AT&T. I get 4 hours SOT on FHD+ and no power saving. HOW?!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] andresg97:
battery life is great, better than i expected, on a s8 +. Using mobile data does lower it significantly tho.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] raunak.0731:
This is the first time any phone has given me 7.5 hours SOT.. this happened after I put aome apps on sleep mode.. i think it makes a huge difference..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] km8j:
This is because the usage was only over ~9 hours. You won't get this amount of SOT over 24 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] raunak.0731:
That's true.. but I've been switching between quite a few phones over the past 5-6 months( S7, OP3, iPhone 7+, OP3T then this).

No other phone has given me battery life such as this, with the same kinda usage.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
Battery life is pretty awesome so far.
[General Questions and Answers] RUBZERK:
Hello everyone.

Looking to keep Foxfi working with Nougat.

If I root my Note5 with Nougat update installed will Foxfi still work?

I'm currently on a grandfathered UDP with Verizon and mainly use Foxfi for my car since I have a cheap Chinese radio.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] premgupta22:
Hi,

My moto g5 plus rear camera glass cracked unfortunately. What are the options to get it repaired. please suggest available options. I visited to service center but there is not available moto g5 plus parts.

Regards, Prem
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] bvsbutthd101:
Motorola has a repair center.

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/mcp/service/
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] wingnut_2u:
Look up the lense repair guide on youtube then order it from http://www.witrigs.com or ebay. easy fix. just don't touch the camera lense or it will be toast.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] ivywonderful:
Moto G5 Plus camera lens replacement

You can get a camera lens replacement in witrigs, they get several kinds of glass lens, for me I highly recommend the corning gorilla glass one, anti-scratch and anti-fingerprint.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Cyclops1055:
Does anybody know of a way to get NFC to turn ON/OFF automatically?

Here's what I would like to do:

I use the Scotiabank app for tap & pay payments, so I would like to know if there's a way to have NFC turn on automatically when I launch the Scotiabank app and then off when I close it. I think you can do it with Tasker and the Autoinput plugin but I can't figure it out.

I'm using a non rooted S7 Edge on Nougat.

Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] private69:
Hello,

Anyone know a soft like shunIPCalc for ppc KAISER ?.

Thank sin advance.

Private69.

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[Android Auto General] PittBrad:
Hello,

i have bought a head unit for my Golf7.

It's a Allwinner R16 astar_y3 with Android 5.1.1 (4 quad Cortex A9 1,6 ghz)

My HW_ID is 34. I used twutil to check for the HW_ID. But unfortunately there is no manufacturer listed on russian board. Maybe somebody knows correct manufacturer.

I used KingoRoot for rooting device. Now i'm looking for a android 6 rom.

Can you pls help? Thank you!

Greetz, Pit
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] eduardmc:
Dont know if this has.been post before. But im glad battery degration will be minimum on this device.

"However, Samsung developed a new battery technology that will significantly diminish battery degradation. According to Android Police, the new batteries will be able to preserve about 95% of their original capacities after a year of typical use. The Galaxy S7’s battery only keeps 80% of its original battery capacity after a year."

https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2017/03/30/galaxy-s8-plus-vs-iphone-7-plus-battery-life/amp/
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] VaderSS:
That knowledge was instrumental in my purchase of the S8. I would not have bought it otherwise.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Deleted member 2870764:
"... and the Nexus 6P only keeps 50% battery after a year...." #sarcasm but it's totally true... with 53,000 views on the forum and a class action lawsuit now, it's why I went to Best Buy on Saturday and paid cash for the S8....

https://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/general/nexus-6p-randomly-shutting-50-youre-t3522911
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] SevenD2:
So does anyone actually have only 5 % wear on their battery after even one year of use?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] capuagenclik:
I bought my phone around the time pixel 2 was coming out nov 2017 and I already lost %5. it all depends on your usage habits in my opinion. Obviously advanced technology makes it better most of the time.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] matistight:
Exactly, and also how can we tell?