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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
Yes, I live in lebanon, and the weather is so hot here in the daylight...
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] fiskcz:
50?

Hello, exceeds 50 degrees?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Samsung Galaxy S9's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] CuBz90:
Much better than I expected!
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jimmydee62:
Really looks good took pictures in low light and everything came out good.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] cornel.atomei:
I just started an youtube channel focused on camera test and reviews, and my first upload is a low light test between my 2 phones: Galaxy S9 and Mate 10 Pro. I will sell one of the phones to keep new ones comming for new reviews. So wich one would you choose? (daylight review comming soon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6QlGoBpCzI&t=16s
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
The rear camera in low light situations is awesome. But the selfie in low light is very bad, even when I am outside at night and there's a lot of lights.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S9 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Killer333:
We have early Camera Test from PC World:

Samsung Galaxy S9 1.5 vs 2.4 Aperture: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3257675/mobile/galaxy-s9-camera-test.html

Go to post : Samsung Galaxy S9 Dual Aperture - f/1.5 vs f/2.4 | What's the Difference ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] RebecaCA:
Hasn't anyone got the S9 yet?

Hasn't anyone got the S9 yet?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] misiokicio:
Dx0mark the new king os smartphones, s9 plus scoring 99 points
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] bilboa1:
This post has user-made pics sample as well https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/81z7hx/a_review_of_galaxy_s9/

I notice the F1.5 does improve quality significantly in low light, though I'm not sure if that's enough for people to be convinced. you only see the difference if you zoom in and pixel peep.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Alexzander:
Just one economy bulb 15W (equivalent to a 40-60w regular bulb) bulb above my desk. The other light is coming from the monitor with an YouTube video opened in full screen. The picture was made in auto mode, and has no additional editing. I mention that the picture was taken in the ultra wide mode 18.5:9 f/1.5 .
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] kbroad:
Good quality :good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] robertkoa:
I have not had a chance to try the Camera because I just got the phone a few days ago .

The phone camera that I thought was sharpest was Note 4 and those sensors with 16 megapixels as far as trying to use it like a Camera ....everyone seems obsessed with the low light thing but I think despite the larger pixels ...not quite as sharp for landscape or Architectural shots...

What do you think ?

I noticed it averages 4 here...

Audio quality is 5 , best I have heard on a phone and I have been waiting for speakers like this since early cells.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] UsualSuspectReaL:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155432003@N08/with/42546070934/

Some amateur shots from me :P
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] *Detection*:
RAW photo quality doesn't seem as good quality as my S7, taken quite a few to compare and they seem to lose their detail much sooner than the S7
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Larommi:
IMHO I think the detail in the photos is amazing.

The camera "Auto" setting and what it does to some of the colors and/or lighting is atrocious. Medium light or mixed light sources are just horrible. The camera does not know what to do and the white balance is really bad. It is worse with LED lighting. I think it may be due to the different temperatures of LED lights. I use "Pro" indoors and I typically set my white balance with the "Kelvin" slider vs the generic lightbulb settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
S9's camera is AWESOME ! ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] christopherwoods:
Compared to my LG G4, I think the S9 has a tendency to slightly overexpose normal photos, even with HDR enabled. I find I constantly adjust the EV compensation (dragging the slider after tapping to focus).

As a point-and-shoot camera, it's surprisingly versatile and copes fairly well. The "Pro" mode UI has absolutely tiny buttons though for fairly important things (like toggling the apertures, autofocus or white balance modes) which I wish were bigger.

Here's a bunch of photos I've taken as representative samples. A handful were taken in pro mode (notably the latter London shots) and there's a RAW and JPEG for comparison. The S9's JPEG output is massively smoothed compare to the RAW original (and has some issues with dark areas of moderate contrast, like clouds in the city skyline turning into a blocky mess). Bizarrely, the DNG is almost half the file size of the JPEG version yet looks much better, even with sensor noise.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FiSH7Hjj6bVgwmLq6
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the Samsung Galaxy S9 come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jrharvey:
Some Test using the Galaxy S9 vs the Pixel but this is ONLY using Cinema 4k and Filmic Pro - https://youtu.be/pIpD05-vFhs

Here is a test in fairly low light using the stock app vs cinema 4k. Also I wanted to see how grading the footage from the stock app did. - https://youtu.be/jrXUYjpWj_E

The stock camera app is surprisingly good. I am coming from a google pixel 2 which the stock app is terrible for video quality.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jrharvey:
Galaxy S9 destroys google pixel 2 in low light https://youtu.be/ZX_JY35oFCc
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] zikronix:
IDK the pixel 2 was holding its own. Im also moving from an XL2 but I think the camera and video are better on the XL2. However im not sure they they its so much better to warrant the hardware problems i have had with the XL2
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jrharvey:
Vlogging test using the S9. Gotta say Im super impressed. https://youtu.be/pgtPisI9BBg
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jrharvey:
Here is a test with the built in microphone VS several vlogging mics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3DwY2IKUA&t=17s
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jrharvey:
https://youtu.be/rl3nI1W9ryM

Slow motion 4k 60 fos b-roll
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Samsung Galaxy S9 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the Samsung Galaxy S9 can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Pyknus:
It's actually really fast for me, but that could be because I'm on One UI Beta.
[Networking] pjackson:
Connected my Orbit to my work PC using ActiveSync 4.5. Opera and Windows messenger work fine (automatically), problem is that Internet Explorer and Google maps don't connect. Any ideas why Opera & messenger will, without any proxy configurations, connect and IE & Google maps won't?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the Samsung Galaxy S9's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
To power up, you consume Red Bull. But your phone just needs its adaptive fast charger. Rate this thread to express how quickly the Samsung Galaxy S9 can charge. A higher rating indicates that it charges extremely fast.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] kyooohei08:
Mine charges as fast as my s5
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] mukeshpacheria:
Charging speed slower than s7
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Gte12123:
Goooooooood

:good::p:p:cyclops:
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] bravelion1:
I've noticed that my s9 charges slower than my previous s6 edge for some reason...not by much but it's noticable.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] aidfarh:
In the beginning, it charged quickly with the stock charger and USB cable. However, after some time, the USB cable seemed to deteriorate and no longer supported fast charging. I was able to fast charge by using a new third-party USB cable.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Youdoofus:
after having this phone for a month and letting it update, get settled in and even allow myself to stop playing with it excessively because i suffer from what i call "new toy-itus", it charges slower than the A8 i just came from and maybe just about the same speed as mt old old S5. Stock wall plug, stock cable, aftermarket cable with known effective adaptive charging block... no matter what its relatively slow and i have a myriad of cables ranging from pretty expensive to very cheap. The very cheap ones, of course, suck... but the spendy ones with 4.5 star ratings on amazon from over 4000 reviews in total also suck.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Samsung Galaxy S9 before depleting the battery.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] TriceLL:
I usually get 4 hours top, how about others?

I use the phone moderately, AOD, 4G, GPS high accuracy enabled. Auto-brightness, QHD resolution, no battery saver, no high-performance mode.

I voted 3*
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] onesolo:
Exynio version??
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] TriceLL:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] ssgunner20:
Used to get about 5 1/2 on the s8+. So far I'm at 35% on the so and over 3hrs of sot. Expecting similar with the s9 due to smaller bat.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] bjc112:
4.5 hours yesterday ..

Today my 3rd full charge seems to be on Pace for 5 hours plus ...about 50% brightness, multiple Bluetooth devices
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] GaMeFaNaTi3:
First few days was around 4ish now I've done just over 6 twice in a row. Hopefully I'll be able to get 6 on avg going forward!
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] CrappleSucks:
I usually average about 3.5-4 hours SOT on every phone I own. So far over the last 3 days my Galaxy s9 hasn't been any different. I really don't understand how you people are getting between 5-6
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] vw671:
They probably have long screen timeout and just let it timeout... ;)

Though I got 5hrs yesterday watching a lot of video both on the SDcard and streamed over my WiFi
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] GaMeFaNaTi3:
The new system update seemed to have helped. Also I turned off location for a lot of apps that I won't use regularly since it might start using it in the background. Auto brightness is off and my brightness is always about half way or just under. Most other things are on like AOD. Not sure what else could have caused it.

It's always a good idea to check the battery graph page and see what apps are at the top of the list to figure out why your battery isn't doing well. Maybe it depends what you do on the phone too. For me it's mostly web browsing and watching videos.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] chaos_envoys:
Full charge in about 1 hour 15 minutes,

SOT averages on 4-5.5 hours

Standby drain is about 1-2% per hour
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Bananasnuff:
First few days I had about 2-3h SOT.

Now, after a week I am finally seeing 4 hours. Not very impressed. Only thing I have turned off is AOD and auto brightness. How people get above 5h is beyond me.

EDIT:

Wifi on all day, bad reception area and still 3h SOT with 50% battery left. Looks like the battery life is improving. Note that brightness was at about 20-30%
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] chaos_envoys:
[IMG="my battery usage"]https://preview.ibb.co/kp4m5H/Screenshot_20180318_020250_Settings.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="my battery usage"]https://preview.ibb.co/fuKazc/Screenshot_20180318_020256_Settings.jpg[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] GaMeFaNaTi3:
Best I've gotten so far. Very impressed after a terrible start with the battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] dellarius:
Hi guys, I have phone 7 days now and at the atart the battery was quite bad, but now it somehow improved.. I browse web a lot and watch youtube.. Mixed usage of WiFi and 4G. With those numbers I think I could get 7 hours SoT. I was thinking that I will switch the phone for plus version, because of thr battery, but I like the small factor of regular 9. So Im quite happy, that battery is improving after a week. Im on exynos version.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] ihaveabu:
This is what I'm getting on my S9 (SD 845). Picked it up on Friday so have had it for a little over 48 hrs.

https://imgur.com/a/nfeCR

How are you guys getting over 5 hours of SOT and full day of use?

My phone drains 15-19% per hour with the screen on. At night while I'm sleeping the phone drains 1.5% per hour but during the day I'm seeing 4-6% battery drain with the screen off.

I'm using AOD, no battery saving, auto brightness, Location/Scanning on, Bluetooth on, wifi on but only if screen is on or charging.

Coming from my Oneplus 5, I'm getting around maybe half to 1/3 of the battery life of my old phone.

Will the phone get better battery life soon? Seems like everyone else is reporting terrible battery life the first few days.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] ALPHAKILL3R:
Should I just throw this garbage away?

Sick of this sh*t. AOD off, WQHD+ Medium Brightness Exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] radiohead14:
as expected

2nd day, and got 6hrs sot. that's with setting up the phone, taking a lot of photos at a friend's wedding and posting on Instagram, watching YouTube, trying out different themes, downloading and listening to songs on Spotify, having GPS with multiple Uber rides, AOD on, and group messaging throughout. not as good as my previous S8+, but about what I expected with the smaller battery. this is on Snapdragon, without battery saver, and always on entertainment mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] GONEzo:
I've had it for about 5 days and so far haven't seen SOT of longer than 3 hours. Starting to regret selling my S8+ now. I was getting 4-6 hours with that, and 500mAh shouldn't be that different. I have AOD on, HD res (not QHD), and just WiFi enabled, all other connections (NFC etc) off.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] ssgunner20:
Been about 4 days on mine and have started to see 4 1/2 maybe 5 on sot. Similar to my old s8+.

What I did is fully charge and deplete battery to 0. Charge again to 100 and did trick for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Someone else has said a full flash from a service centre fixed their drain too iirc
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] :
Yeah but service reflash should be the same as using odin
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Yea it should, maybe they do something different not sure what they use to flash phones, but if you using ODIN did not fix it, and them using their method did, I'm guessing they do something we don't
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] :
Or maybe the batt was faulty.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] :
So after I got my phone back from service yesterday the battery was like 20-30%. So I shut it off and threw it in the wireless charger when I got home. I like to keep my battery between 30-80%.

In the meantime I just installed apps via Play Store and Galaxy Apps. The rest are the default settings. Switched on AOD except the 00-7 interval and disabled NFC in the morning.

These are my stats. Pretty good IMO. Standby drain was so bad I had to recharge at 2-3 PM at best to not go under 30%.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Possible yea, my guess was the firmware though as you did manage to get the drain much less by disabling things (for a while at least) if it was the battery the drain would have remained
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] herisson11:
I got 7h of SoT everyday on my snapdragon s9.

Black theme.

Black wallpaper on whatsapp (most used app on my phone).

Location always on but on battery saver mode.

On 4g all day long. i dont have wifi at home.

Sync off.

AoD ON.

Brightness at 40% most of the day.

I only charge at normal speed using official wireless charger.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] yunanda_keren:
barely get 4 hours with 80% wifi everyday, AOD off , GPS location off.. 4G , single sim , FHD res, exynos, official oreo rom.auto brightness

in weekend when 80% using 4G data,location on, it only has 3.5 hours top ..

I have turned off all notifications or background data for many apps, except email and chat app.

really tiring when the last device i have used was J5 pro with 6 hrs SOT at least..LOL
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] gadgetvstech:
Gadgetvstech

I usually average about 3.5-4 hours SOT on every phone I own. So far over the last 3 days my Galaxy s9 hasn't been any different. I really don't understand how you people are getting between 5-6
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
For normal usage, my battery lasts about 20 hours with 4.5 screen on time, how did you get 6-7 hours?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] corb06:
I get about 10-12 hours total time and around 2 hours screen on during those 12 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
If you are a heavy user, if u keep brightness at 100% or set screen resolution at max... I think it's normal for a 3000mAh battery and a very high resolution screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] corb06:
Well, screen on 50% brightness with auto adjustment. But pretty heavy user I think. Every single feature is on, and connected to our Samsung Smartstuff at home, Gear S3 Watch, all apps on Push notifications, Wifi/bluetooth/GPS/NFC/AOD/Edge light and High performance mode with 10% extra brightness are on 24/7.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
So it is normal, I think. My S9's battery lasts about 10 hours with 2 hours SOT for heavy usage.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Vmb265:
Check this out!
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] kasiopc:
And what do you do for this?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
I'm at 50% and have over 4hrs sot.

Snapdragon metropcs. How do I post a picture
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] zeanong:
This is mine...

August security patch.

Usually get 3+hours sot.

FHD+, location off

No gaming, factory reset 3 times.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] stevenl23:
Try turning off auto-updates for google play and samsung store, also are you using only wifi or also cellular data. If you are using data, check the number of bars available, if its low the battery life will be produced because more power is required to reach a signal.

Also try installing a dark theme, i use black_edition_v2 but replaced the icons with the stock ones because i prefer the look of them.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] zeanong:
Hi, I did turned off the automatic updates for both Playstore and Samsung store. Now I'm using dark theme, 4G 70% with strong signal, FHD+, brightness 40-50%. Still the battery drain is too fast. The Accubattery shows 18.7/h(screen on), 2.8/h(screen off) for discharging speed.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
My friend has the same phone as mine (galaxy s9), and we got them from the same shop. Now he has apps that took 2.7 GB of storage and mine take 6.8 GB (I have only one high-graphics game which I don't play too much, other apps are small size games and some social apps), which means that I have much more apps than her, but we are using the same settings, like FHD+ resolution, 50% brightness most of the time, AOD on except when sleeping, and we don't use location usually. She gets 6hrs and 30min or more SOT, while i get 4hrs and 30min or less. Is this related to the apps or I have a problem? (PS : I optimize apps in device maintenance every 2-3hrs) Also many of you guys get 6-7hrs SOT. What settings do u use and how much apps do u have?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
August patch has been worst battery life for me. Going back to before
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
I thought it was improved, but I think it is the same as before.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
July seems better on battery by far for me.

Almost 8hrs sot on July vs 6 sot on August
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
Bro, how do you get 6 or 8hrs? What apps and settings do u have/use?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
Nothing special. Couple games. Social apps. I'm on an unlocked s9 carrier metropcs. Snapdragon. Only thing I did was put apps to sleep
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
Is snapdragon better than exynos when it comes to battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
On s9 and s9+ by far superior
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
I am wondering why my friend's S9 exynos version has much more SOT than mine. You can see the post I wrote about this. Just idk why.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
Just read it. I'd say, don't optimize soo much. Consumes battery,to keep reloading apps. Just but apps to sleep so they don't run in the background. Give it a few days
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
Look at this picture, i did the same optimization in both updates, and I didn't change my settings or installed new apps. Also i was getting 4.5 - 5hrs SOT in june update while i am getting 3.5 - 4hrs now.
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
Yeah June update sucked for me too. July is best for me
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] jamil aboudaher:
Yes, but I noticed something. That august update made the intelligent scan faster and more accurate, especially in low light conditions. And the homescreen/app drawer animations are smoother. They didn't change too much. But few stability improvements, except for battery life :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S9  Real Life Review] Rally517:
My phone has always been quick. No studders