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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
Problem for you seems to be the signal, and bad signal kills battery too fast.

Also what I did, is to sum all the percentages of each application, and that should be close to 100%. When is not close enough, it means some sensor or service is draining the battery; this was my case and I disabled the options I told you, so better check your settings.

;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Deathman20:
Update on mine. Bad indicator right now with just 4 hours of SOT and 20% battery left but fixed a battery drain issue with SMS permissions.

So when I started this cycle, that night battery drained quicker than expected. Went around 1.3 to 2.1% battery drain per hour just letting it sit. Disabling the SMS for Google (search) and Play Store (leave the services one on) did the trick for me. As well having SABS blocking unnecessary crap has helped as well. Now during idle down to 0.4-0.5% per hour. This is with WiFi, Bluetooth (to my gear fit 2 pro), NFC enabled. Along with apps sending out notifications and such. Screen brightness fixed to 40%.

Impressed with the battery results already but this will be nice. Already exceeding usage time vs my iPhone and less battery drain now during the night. Heck I lose about 35% per day on the iPhone with almost no use right now and limited items on the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
Would you mind to post a screenshot of those options, please?; probably it would be helpful for people having battery problems.

Thanks!

:highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Deathman20:
Yeah. Found the issue and then got BetterBatteryStats to pin it down. That is when I noticed a big issue on wakelocks and it not going to sleep. After digging and figuring out what Icing ment went to the system - apps drawer. Hit the... at the top and went to app permissions. Went into SMS and disabled or made sure these were not getting permission. Keeping google play service though was a requirement for something (forgot it if was really just for the playstore or Google Pay) and isn't an issue anymore for showing up.

Really if your having a battery problem and at least know a major drain happening during the night, your phone isnt sleeping. Get a better battery monitor and dig into it.

Between SABS cutting out a massive amount of data being sent out to app controllers that has helped a little. But the SMS thing was huge and started noticing it right away.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] TheJesus:
First full discharge with the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
Funny, I don't even have those applications showing in that menu.

I mean, I don't have any issue with my battery, but maybe it was something to take in mind.

;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] hem.acharya:
Here is mine 4 days old s9+. How do you easily access Battery stats. So many clicks to reach the graph screen. There used to be setting widget to see battery usage in stock Android but can't see that in Samsung skin
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Lol Outstanding battery life AT&T S9 Plus.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] sourabh.note:
Excellent!

5 hours and 53 minutes of SOT over 19 hours. Disabled a few apps. Bixby voice wake up is always on, GPS is on high accuracy, hotspot was on for around 30 minutes, AOD is off, always on LTE data, using 2 SIMs.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Cristi10:
With playing a heavy game like pubg, i think it's ok.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] meyerweb:
I'm getting the most SOT I've gotten from any smartphone, ever. 5 hours SOT with 38% battery left, after 23 hours since last charge (9 hours of that idle, during the night).
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] FLUFFYMANGOES:
first full battery drain. Fully charged before going to sleep to see standby battery drain. watched a lot of youtube too. really good battery life for me right now :D
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Swordchan:
Yeah about 15% is usually being used somewhere else. I think i disabled those settings. No wake up while hovering with your hand over. No auto WIFI.. also disabled location on some apps. Still no battery gain. 24 HOurs 4 Hours SOT. :s

Hi, is your phone rooted? I bought this app and at startup it tells me it needs to be rooted to gain information to everything.

And what is SABS? Im new to this "advanced forum" so i don't understand most of the things :d
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Labeled:
This was the first time I pushed my phone to its limit, at fhd+ and regular usage from the weekend with social, reddit, youtube, GPS and falling asleep with streaming audio. The usage stats are definitely wrong per app because it doesn't add up to all the screen on time and I was always in an app when the screen was on using recent apps and rarely the launcher.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] erosq:
3 days old s9+
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
To all the people having problems with battery, I would recommend to give a try to the battery saver feature, which gives really nice results; I also attach my configuration:

:highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Swordchan:
Really weird. U shouldn t need to disable alot of stuff to get decent battery time. Is there any1 in sweden using telia as operator and only getting 4 hours sot and around 20 hours battery time? Everything disabled except for.. aod. Brightness etc.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Swordchan:
Battery:

Sorry for double post. But.

Battery :
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] hem.acharya:
I also have not so great battery life too. Nothing disabled. Gps on aod on nfc on. Mostly on wifi
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Inpain:
Doesn't WiFi eat alot of battery juice when it's always on ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] hem.acharya:
Well not more than the cellular data.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ambird:
Exynos 9810

so my experience with this phone as far as battery life goes has been pretty bad. The only way I can produce "good" SOT is through extensive light use, e.g. by using the phone as an e-book reader. that way I get 5+ hours. doing anything more heavy duty and I get into <3h territory. I had the S7 Edge and the OnePlus 5 before and I'm very disappointed about this. My observations mostly allign with the very informative comparison of the Exynos and Snapdragon version on anandtech.com (I can't post the link because this is a new xda account).

I hope Samsung will be able to fix these issues with software updates. At the moment I kind of regret my purchase. Seems as with the 9810 I chose the wrong generation to get back on to the Samsung train :(
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] uishido:
totally agree with this unfortunately!

and for the record, here's the anandtech article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12520/the-galaxy-s9-review
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Timefusion:
I just came back to samsung after 4 lg phones. Battery life on new s9+ is excellent. First 4 full charge cycles averaged at least 3hrs SOT plus 3 hrs of calls (half phone / half what's app) and 48 hours on charge.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Swordchan:
Let me know if u fix it. Seems like we got the same "problem".

I would be so happy to fix this sh*t
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] hem.acharya:
I dunno if there is any fix. It probably is because of my bad cellular reception at work though. Not very sure.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] shmogt:
Been using it for a week or so now. I get about 6hrs SOT and about 24hrs total time. I watch a lot of YouTube, read various articles, use apps like snapchat and instagram and always get around the same amount. I am using a dark coloured theme and on wifi most of the time. I have noticed in the past that poor signal from your carrier is the number 1 battery drain. Those in buildings or work in areas that don't get perfect signal will definitely get much worse battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] lopri:
Getting a great battery life (7+ hrs. SOT) since settled so I gave it a 5 star rating. S845 U.S. unlocked.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Inpain:
Exynos variant, With everything turned on except for NFC, and WQHD for the screen, got a 5H 30M OT. I'm happy with it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Allesa:
Ok, out of the box, as per my previous posts, I only get 3,5-4,5 hrs, qhd, everything on.

I turned off aod, nearby scan, disabled unused apps via app drawer, and.. Disabled 30 packages thru bk package disabler

By far the best I've gotten. Medium usage, no gaming. Whatsapp, chrome, local indonesian apps

Yes this is with qhd, exynos, mix wifi (mostly) and 4g, single sim usage.

In case anyone wondering what I disabled here's the xml

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iffZfkYXvDTLxRkY8khNMvK4LfHdl2yQ/view?usp=drivesdk

In case anyone thinking I stare at blank screen 24hrs: no I did not. For the sake of battery test tho, I did not stream Spotify, nor using navigation.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Timmmmmay:
I'm digging it. Tmobile snapdragon 845[IMG="Tmobile S9 plus, snapdragon 845"]https://photos.app.goo.gl/aAWdfOsIzM9npZir1[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Timmmmmay:
Tmobile S9 plus, snapdragon 845.

Pretty happy with the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Venom0642:
I believe you i get 8 to 9hrs SOT on my AT&T S9 Plus with over a 1 day and a hour without charging, if someone doesn't believe it , ignore it , It's jealousy bro as long as you know you are getting those SOT that's all that matters.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Here's mines all day on 4G LTE no wifi , brightness set at 95% no auto and Display WQHD over 4hrs SOT still at 53% AT&T S9 Plus.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] hem.acharya:
This is excellent result. What's the trick?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Allesa:
I believe that sd 845 version have better battery life than exynos tho.. Anandtech review also suspects it. Since s8 I think sd version is ahead on battery efficiency
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] sjani:
Not so bad

Light usage over a day and half, always on WiFi. Auto Brightness at around 30-40 % . Still 22% battery left after 31 hours and 4.5 hours of SOT, Expecting that 6 hours of SOT can be had easily. No game play or heavy apps.

EDIT : Unlocked Exynos model.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Venom0642:
Battery life on my AT&T S9 Plus just keeps getting better and better Outstanding ???
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] airwolf83:
I have nothing to complain about my batterylife.

I have the exynos model.

Brightness around the 50%
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
4 cycle
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Crisjj2x:
Surely this is fake. I have exynis and barely scrape 4 hours SOT. How are you getting this?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] mudzung:
What did you disable ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
Is not fake, I have pretty similar consumptions with Exynos models well:

;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Crisjj2x:
Interesting. I see you have no other apps listed other than screen as battery consumers. Good to hear you are getting these results. I have enabled mid battery saving but not limited the processor and I am seeing some improvements which is good. Still not 7 hours of SOT over 24 hours. That would be the dream.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Carach_CZ:
Im actually quite satisfied with battery life. Almost hour and half of gaming and 30% down. So it would be almost 6 hours of SoT (gaming). :)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Cristi10:
Today was a heavy day. At my uni i have bad reception, but still made a hotspot, navigation, switching between wifi and data
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] boston909:
Exynos version - in UK - I tend to get two to three bars of reception in my house, which is where most of the battery usage came in this cycle

- WiFi used most of the time - mobile data off apart from when I've been out of the house, for a couple of hours a day

- Bluetooth on when I'm in the car or at the gym, apart from that it's usually off

- I have a live wallpaper active via the "AnimGIF LWP 2 Pro" app, using a cropped image of waneella's office animated gif from his tumblr site

- SABS installed, facebook and gmail disabled within SABS itself, using greenify to hibernate apps

Apart from the app usage shown, I also listened to music for a couple of hours with the screen off most of the time.

Please see my full settings below too, which have always suited me for my usage (although I understand that some of these settings won't work for everyone's needs or usage patterns. I backup my phone regularly to my PC and then upload to the cloud from there, although I do use box.com and BoxSync on my phone for immediate photo backup).

I'm quite anal about having a settings file for my samsung phones, so this has been a WIP since the S7 Edge, now updated for S9+. Hopefully this may help some people to achieve the same as me for the Exynos version.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] zathus:
How the heck did you manage to use youtube for 2 hours and only use 2%. That's insane
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] boston909:
I'm not sure about that figure - the battery definitely went down a lot more than that would suggest... I had it on for over an an hour to deplete the battery at the end of the cycle for that test - and the battery went down from 17% to 5% in that time, so pay little attention to that, as it would have used probably 25% of the battery over the full 2h 21m for which I used YouTube (the normal ratio of that 25% being 'YouTube usage', WiFi, Speaker being active and 'Screen On' of course)...

I can only assume that the YouTube app itself used 2% battery and the screen, WiFi, speaker etc. used the rest of the actual percentage by which it drained in that time (I am guessing approx. 25% battery used by watching the YouTube videos with screen/wifi/speaker all active etc.). Someone more technical than me will probably be able to offer a better explanation. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] zathus:
I'm pleased. No battery saver on. Auto brightness. QHD. Gear S3 always connected. Bouncing between Wi-Fi and 4G. Traveling a distance of around 200 miles. So lots of cell tower changes. I love this phone!!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] GodXen:
So big difference between WiFi and Mobile data..
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] skivnit:
It's easy to have great SOT if you are just reading off an app. I used the economist and Washington post apps to read few articles and only used 10% for an hour and half of usage.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] skivnit:
All on wifi 75% of the time sync on aod off wqhd resolution
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] LKS007:
im back to s9+ after using iphone7 :(

sucha pain in the ass
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Cristi10:
All the time on wifi, 50% brightness, wqhd+. Btw, comparison between exynos and sd

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssanjy:
First few days battery was worst.. Did a factory reset from settings.. Not improved.... Installed BBS and noticed phone doesn't go to deep sleep... So went to recovery and cleared cache... Phone started going to deep sleep... Then turned off the WiFi scanning option... Last night turned off WiFi and location and battery consumption was 0.3% per hour... Turned in battery saver to mid without limiting the CPU when battery reduced to 15%... Screens attached... By the way Exynos make S9+....I think that's fine to me..
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] stanimir187:
How do you get so much SOT ?

I literally have facebook,messenger,instagram and spotify.

Always on wi-fi using my old phone as hotspot and I'm getting like 4h and 30 min.

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Sorry if pictures are too large.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] hem.acharya:
This is about the same I get
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] skivnit:
Guys just install BBS
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Swordchan:
No1 can explain why some phones differs so MUCH? how come some have problems getting over 4 hours SOT?

Disabled bloatware, disabled some settings, disabled APPS... , put apps to sleep.. .

Why do they create a phone that is so "unique" in battery life ..

Disabling bloatware will not give you +4 hours in SOT
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] zathus:
Usage, signal strength and screen brightness. Those are the 3 key factors. If you only use web based apps..like browser, XDA, really any fourm app it's going to use very little resources.

If your phone is always struggling to get a connection or you have poor connection that also uses a bunch of battery.

And screen brightness for obvious reasons. Somebody who works in an office or is always indoors even on auto brightness is going to average much lower than somebody who works in a very bright environment or Outdoors.

You could literally go on YouTube search black screen. And there are videos 50 hours long that are just nothing but a black screen. You could turn that on and you would get 10 hours screen on time no problem. Does it matter? Does that make your phone better? Some people are all about that "look at me"! Lol. But if you actually believe there's just some super lucky folks out there that got Samsung's best while you got screwed I'm sorry that's just not the case. It's almost always going to come down to how you as an individual use it.

The only real difference is exynos and snapdragon. Because that's an actual Hardware difference. So you will see different results based on that. But other than that, it's usage

Edit: actually, there's probably a fourth reason. There are some bloatware apps that do use up battery. I couldn't tell you exactly which ones they are but there are a few threads that discuss bloatware apps and which ones to disable. So maybe try disabling some of those too
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy S9+'s battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] remb:
It's alright, looses about 1.4% per hour when not plugged in over night. Might improve when more tasks are disabled. This is running without powersaving mode on.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ruben_machado:
I'm facing the exact situation, around 1.4% per hour when on standby.

Is it normal? I just came from a 3 year iPhone usage and was not used to this kind of battery consumption levels.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] remb:
Personally, I think it could be better. All my android phones have been rooted and when I use and ASOP rom that is never (Android 7 or 8) they are usually really good at standby with Doze and all. Was getting about 0.3-0.8% percent on my MI MAX running Oreo ASOP rom.

I think that samsungs skin is quite heavy and it's got a lot of processes that are going on in the background that is preventing the phone to doze properly.

I mean I found a debloat list of 250 apps that can be disabled on the S8+ so...I feel that there are a few apps that could be disabled as well on the s9+ since the samsung experience 9 between s8+ and s9+ aren't that far off.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/help/s8-debloat-list-t3703985
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] puiradu2009:
After I charged 100% it was closed with WiFi connection open. I checked the phone after 3h and a half and was 99% battery left. In this case under 0.33%/hour in idle

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In the first 3 charging cycles the consumption will be increased until the phone will learn the consumption modes.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] zathus:
Samsung LG and apple are known for kind of cheating at the top 100%. What's the idle drain like if it's at like 50%?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Deathman20:
Mine last night was fantastic. Was wifi, bluetooth was on, AOD disabled. SD845 chip here.

Started at 31% and got up and was 27% say with it being not used for 7 1/2 hours give or take a little.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Nine9•:
US unlocked s9+ on TMobile; excellent standby. It takes only 2 to 3% charge at 7/8 hrs sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] xnostra:
im a heavy user but the standby drain is too much for me my mate 10 pro lasts longer
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
I was facing the same issues, but I disabled some options, mostly related with sensors usage and those who are always searching for WiFi, devices, etc.

Right now the consumption has improved a lot with all those disabled, and this is my consumption right now:

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You guys should give it a try.

;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Edoardo001:
Can you suggest me what to disable and where? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
For me the big improve was to disable the Wi-Fi option to enable/disable automatically, disabled the look up of devices and awake the device with the palm.

It seems these settings are using the sensors and other services constantly, so they drain battery a lot.

Try to see if those make a change for you.

Also take in mind that battery life the first 3-4 days is horrible.

;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] GodXen:
Same here, came from mate 10 pro, so battery is weak on samsung :) anyway i better carry powerbank with me instead on having half working OS from huawei.

Edited. Ok and here is my battery drain over 5 hours of idle. (Sorry, I don't sleep much)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] GodXen:
Wasn't able to post screenshots in edited post
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] zathus:
I don't have a SS because it didn't even have battery data yet. I got home last night. Set my S9+ up. I always start fresh. Go in manually and download apps, log in to sits, add PWs etc. Started set up, including latest TMO update at around 55% out of the box. Ended up at 28% when I went to bed. Set the phone down, 7 hours later it was at 27%. I hope that's a good sign of things to come!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] kendoka15:
I haven't charged mine at night so far to test standby drain at different battery levels (so no 100% cheating) and I'm averaging 0.4% / hour. SD845 model

Edit:

I have GPS high accuracy on, wifi always on, Google Assistant always on, and no always on display.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] thangpq.fuhl:
On both my Note 8 and S9+, i realized Google Play Services frequently consumes a lot of battery, even up to 30%. Then I tried to switch to Google Play Services Beta and ultimately it no longer eats. Worth trying
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Nine9•:
3% per 8 hours. (US unlocked s9+)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] meyerweb:
After giving the phone a few days to settle in, I charge it fully before bed, then let it sit for 9 hours. Only lost 5%. With AOD on, lost 11% after about 8 1/2 hours. By far the best standby performance I've ever seen on a phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] kingdave82:
I'm losing about 1% every 10 minutes! If I use the phone its about 1% every couple of minutes. The battery life on mine is ****e.