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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
S9+ Exynos version here, coming from S7 after 2 years. WQHD+ resolution. Have uninstalled or disabled several apps that I don't use that came with the phone (did the same with the S7). Definitely getting more battery life in all scenarios (although that may be expected, since I really should be comparing to S7 Edge?). Standby drain seems identical to S7 with AOD enabled (about 1% per hour), while my first period of heavy use yesterday since I got the phone yielded good results - 2.5 hours of GPS (High accuracy with mobile data enabled...think was mostly 4G and 3G), while bluetoothing music to the car for the same 2.5 hours. Lost about 10-15% per hour (S7 would have been closer to 20% per hour). Think brightness was around 40-50% though (as it was a overcast day? I have auto-brightness enabled), so perhaps it would have been closer to 20% per hour if brightness was higher?

I prefer the above real-life feel/comparison than some random shot of "Screen On Time" where there are so many variables. Overall I'm content with the battery life, and struggle to understand how/why people are being so critical of it. I would say the majority of people would get through the day easily (probably not even dipping below 50%). For others who only seem to use their phones during the day (and not spend much time on anything else?), you're likely to need to top up your phone during the day regardless of what phone you have.

Sure, the Snapdragon variant may be better, but again, I think the majority of people wouldn't notice this, or more importantly, need this.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
1. The thread reads "screen on time" and people will post screen on time only and so very much relevant here.

2. I too prefer real day usage scenarios and I need to charge the S9 plus twice a day and NO, I never had to do that with pixel 2 xl, One Plus 5T or few top tiers.

3. People are critical about it because it makes no sense that,

(a) A 2018 expensive flagship fails to get you through the day, performance is just like last year's flagships or even lower in few scenarios, heats up unusually and then throttles that wasn't the case with any other flagship in recent times.

(b) At the same time the Snapdragon counterpart is not plagued with any such issues that costs the same or even less.

(c) Unless u have only this phone with you, u will be happy, but if you start comparing and or get a chance to use the SD variant or other flagships side by side , you would instantly notice the difference in regards to "performance-heat-endurance" ratio and at most, will regret.

Hope u understood why people r critical about it:)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
As far as I have been reading in the last months, you are the only one here complaining over and over about the same things. If you need to charge your phone twice a day, clearly something is wrong with your unit or with you.

Speaking about heat, is funny that mention it, because Pixel 2 XL is one of the hottest device ever:

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You always come here and speak based only in your personal opinion, and you give as a fact that your bad experience is bad for everyone here.

You should better return your phone and get over, because your posts are not helping anyone here and we are not Samsung either to be reading over and over your complaints about the same.

:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
As far as I've been noticing you are the only 1 defending the Exynos s9 plus no matter how and what and thanking every1 who inspite of issues says good about the s9 plus in this thread.

I've seen the video u r posing now, yesterday itself, it says about producing heat while making video calls, phone calls, charging, 4k recording etc. And NOWHERE he spoke about the issue people are talking about, the "performance-heat-endurance" ratio at the same instance of time. Be factual about things being discussed and not irrelevant things just to make a mockery out of yourself. You are owning a s9 plus Exynos single sim variant and thinking its the best phone in the world.

In one of my earlier posts itself I very clearly mentioned I checked another s9 plus Exynos just to come out with the same result. Go to S9 plus Indian users thread, or other forums out of XDA, you will understand better or more.

And yeah, nothing is wrong with me, I'm surrounded by gadgets from morning to night and I'm hooked up with them all the time, professionally doing this for more than 1 & half decade so far :fingers-crossed: Nothing is wrong with you either, it's just your fanboyism that gets fired up when u see something "unpleasant" against your beloved s9+.(see I had to brand u for the 2nd time) Enjoy your s9 plus to the core :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Fair enough. Perhaps you should consider simply going back to the Pixel 2 XL? I personally would have gone with the Pixel 2 XL if I wasn't already used to the Samsung environment (and no, I'm not making an opinion about whether the Pixel is better or not, as I've never owned it). As I said, I've come from the S7 (released 2016) which had almost universally "well above average" battery life at the time of its release - and for the last 2 years, it has easily got me through the day. Going to the S9+, I personally don't see any huge improvements, but one thing I'm familiar with is extended GPS use (which is quite draining on any phone with mobile data enabled). If you calculate my above real-world use, I should achieve around 7 hours of screen on time of continuous GPS (High accuracy with mobile data enabled) and Bluetooth car music enabled - that's impressive to me, as my S7 would only have got around 5-6 hours maximum. I'm sure other phones out there can get 8-10 hours, so good for them. I (and perhaps the vast majority of people) don't need such endurance.

When you consider that the S9+ has a 37% larger screen (and only a 17% larger battery) compared to the S7, the above is actually quite impressive. And no, I'm not being a "fanboy" here, as I've already contributed in other threads and forums about some of the "negatives" of the S9+ - these include black crush (S7 doesn't have this), arguably inferior photos to S7 in some situations (but I think it's because the S7 "over-processes" and many think this is nicer looking), slightly slower to capture an image and be ready for the next one (but only by about 0.1-0.5 seconds), occasional lag of about 5 seconds when opening the camera via Quicklaunch (double pressing power button) - workaround for this is to not close out of the camera app, and not as accurate/sensitive camera voice control/commands (Shoot, Cheese, Capture, Smile, Record Video). Most of these are rather "OCD" or "first-world problems" though, so they are certainly not "deal-breakers" for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
U r speaking facts and being clear about stuff in this response and is respectable.

Well, I've owned every galaxy phones(excluding the note series) in the past, quite habituated with "Samsung" and S7 edge was the best all-rounder amongst them, no doubt about it, and kept it for the longest period of time - for about 2 years.

Regarding screen size, what if I tell you the S8 plus with same size screen & Exynos SoC gave much better battery life than the s9 plus? It's not the screen size that should be in question here with a so called "upgraded" and effecient SoC that should have delivered better in every aspect but couldn't - on board.

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The pixel 2 xl had issues in completely other areas, like the rattling speaker distortion issue(that's a purely hardware issue and no fix for it) and screen that failed to impress - are the reasons I had to let go of it. Honestly I have not found a well balanced flagship in 2017, and 2018(available in my country) so far that can stay with me with negligible issues(that i can easily ignore) for a long period of time. And so, probably will end up with 2 phones as a daily driver that I hate doing or may live with the s9 plus unhappily till the note 9 comes up without these ongoing issues on-board as that seems to be the only hope for me, before pixel 3 lineup.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
Maybe is an India related issue, because the vast majority of people here in the forum that are outside India are having decent consumptions, and also I belong to the forums in other languages and thay also have decent battery life.

Of course there's always few persons with problems in batter, but nothing so critical as you.

By the way, I have been running a P20 Pro from the past 2 weeks.

;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
1. It's not India related, it's the SoC related issue as the performance throttles at higher ambient temperature and wasn't the case with the very recent Exynos equipped predecessors.

2. The US, China, Latin America, Japan, Canada etc. getting the SD versions and no one is talking about bad battery life or performance issue in any forums or respective Samsung forums as SD version isn't affected. But the whole Europe, Asian countries are talking about it loud and clear as these countries gets the Exynos versions. And I can very well see how people are complaining about the battery life in Samsung forums. An example:

https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5...battery-issues-is-this-issue-real/td-p/474588

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Enjoy your P20 pro:good:, not to my liking though for fare share of reasons.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Can you do a video (or link one here) comparing the battery drain between S9+ and S8+ to demonstrate this "much better battery life" of the S8+? Exynos version I suppose.

Here's a video showing the S9+ exynos comfortably winning a battery drain test (although no S8+, but Note 8 was there):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jMnpHtK1Zg

EDIT: and here's one with both S9+ exynos and S8+ exynos showing both getting about the same (S9+ wins by a few minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL92Gb44Ciw

...and here's another one showing the S9+ exynos defeating the Note 8, iphone X and Pixel 2 XL again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxQNkmezpQ

....and here's an interesting one which actually shows the S9+ snapdragon version doing rather poorly - worse than even S8 (non-plus)!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17b6z9v_NqA
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
First charging cycle since last update April 1.

Exynos 256GB Duos
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
How do you notice battery life?, for me standby time was been a little bit worse.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
I don't have the s8 plus with me now to show a comparison. Have the 5T, s9+ and redmi 5 Pro with me currently and I know how exactly the battery life of these phones deliver on similar usage patterns.

Now coming to the tests you r linking up, these are all stacked up tests where the devices constantly run videos or games on a loop and give a verdict at the end. Who uses a phone that way?? NONE. It's purely non-scientific and in no way real world endurances. If u go by these tests to decide which phone is giving the best battery life, you gonna get mislead like many others the way I used to get years back . For example, gsmarena tests like this with their decade old procedure and smartphones have come a long way where such test precedures are questionable. I have been surprised by their "battery life" section for the phones they test and how significantly they differ in real world usage as there are so many variables that these stacked tests can't be brought to the table while testing like that.

A reviewer(David Cogen) from one of the links you brought above himself says in another video that such tests r no way scientific by any means( look at 2:08) and asks viewers suggestions for better way of checking battery life. Even there too, s8 plus gave better battery life than s9 plus,

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Just another link below to show the s8+ where it betters than the s9 plus in battery life,

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/galaxy-s9-battery-life-and-charge-time,review-5197.html

Or another one in real world.

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I can bring another 10s of links to show where s8+ is giving better battery life or how bad s9 exynos duos battery life is digging up Google..... (u can do it on ur own if u r interested:laugh:).

My usage patterns don't change, settings don't change, and I can tell you if u go by actual battery lives, it goes this way,

Redmi 5 Pro>=5T>Pixel 2 XL>GS9+(dual sim, exynos).- these I used in recent times and currently using 3 of them. But when a stacked test is performed, S9 plus would come up as "eye-catchy" only to disappoint later. GS9+ is the only 1 here that requires so much of "tweaks" and "measures"(not all) to get better endurance and even then can't come close to the rest.

A suggestion: Don't be illusional, go deeper as much possible , it really helps:)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
I disagree with most of what you've written there - let me explain. Firstly, I never claimed that there is anything "scientific" about what I've written in this thread. I was just giving some information. I've already described an example of my real-world use - getting an estimated 7 hours of SOT with continuous GPS High accuracy, mobile data and bluetooth car music enabled surely is an example of at least moderate-heavy use - 7 hours is rather impressive in this context.

Secondly, a few hours ago, you wrote this:

All the links you've given above refer to the SD variant! So that already confuses me. I'm not sure who's being "illusional" there. You mention there are "10s of links" showing S8+ giving better battery life - well actually, you haven't given a single link showing the S8+ exynos version is superior to the S9+ exynos version!

EDIT: and furthermore, all the evidence you've provided so far is on the same level as what I've provided (that is, humans testing battery drain in a "non-scientific way" as you would say, and humans describing their real-world experience with the battery life). The difference with my evidence in terms of linking to humans testing in a "non-scientific" way is that I've actually linked the

exynos

version, so I'd suggest that I've got more data to conclude that S9+ has better battery life than S8+.

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Funnily enough, if I'm reading things correctly, gsmarena tests (that Virgo_Guy implied heavily they should be dis-regarded) actually show what Virgo_Guy is trying to demonstrate - S8+ exynos is higher than S9+ exynos with their "battery rating". However, it's only a difference of 2%, and the S9+ beats the S8+ in "talk time" and "video playback", while losing to it in "web browsing" (and going by the differences, they must have heavily weighted "web browsing" in the final score). I doubt they did the "web browsing" in identical conditions though (eg. testing both phones side by side with the same internet connection at the same time), as the S8+ is a year old of course, so they've probably tested it a year apart.

My conclusion so far is that the S8+ and S9+ have fairly similar battery life overall (and I've seen this theme reported in many posts/comments all over the internet with regard to "real-world" use based on feeling etc). This is obviously very different to Virgo_Guy's apparent conclusion that the S8+ has "much better battery life" than the S9+.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
SD tests not enough??? :laugh::laugh: That will be the height of illusion as Exynos performs poorer. I understand u missed earlier posts.

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http://www.bgr.in/news/samsung-gala...tery-life-compared-to-snapdragon-845-variant/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-S...erformance-over-its-predecessor.286764.0.html

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Edit:(for your 2nd part)

Lol, I didn't rely on gsmarena's tests, even then s8+ won in comparison to s9 plus in their own tests, and hence the reference, makes sense to you now? Funny, isn't it!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
I've seen and read all those before. And all those fall prey to your own criticism - not scientific or real-world. In fact, I'd argue that the battery drain tests I linked earlier are more "real-world" than anything you've linked. That 2nd to last video you linked actually shows the Exynos and SD variants of the S9+ are very close with video playback, and the Exynos won with the video recording part. The internet tests again weren't identical conditions as they admitted, so 1-2% difference isn't anything convincing and likely within error.

I note that you also haven't made comment on your previous claims, which I suppose I will have to quote again:

And with regard to the gsmarena tests, all I would conclude is that the overall battery life is pretty similar between the S9+ and S8+ exynos variants. Nothing funny at all. Anyway, I think I've written all I wanted to express now, so please re-read my previous posts as needed.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] skivnit:
Exynos here. I dont think sd is more battery friendly it just depends on the settings/usage and apps installed
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] AeroDelight:
I'm been using the S9+ since the 9th of March and I must say, I'm less than satisfied. I opted the the S9+ mainly because of the bigger battery over the S8, but I seem to be getting worse battery life, standby and SOT, even with almost exactly the same apps and settings as the S8.

In the screenshot below I've been using Power Saving Mode since around 19%, but it doesn't seem to have made much difference for me, which is disappointing, but what I also experienced with the S6 and S8 before. (I think I must be using it wrong, since almost everyone else reports the PSM saves a lot of battery for them)

I'm extremely happy with the phone itself though, and I carry a power bank with me almost always, so it's only really a small annoyance.

Hoping it will improve in time, but I guess we'll see.

Both S8 and S9+ are Exynos versions, by the way.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Artood2s:
You might have an app drain issue. Display is normally the biggest battery consumer by a wide margin, at least on every Android phone I have owned (5).
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] skivnit:
Dude you cant have an app on top of the screen as a top drainer. That app is not optimized it seems
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Deathman20:
Just got my phone today. It's a Verizon SD phone. Right now 3:40 SOT 48% battery. Been 7 hours since I disconnected the charger are 100%. Light user of LTE, downloading a few games, ran some benchmarks, been playing with the camera and was on the phone (speaker) about 20min.

Actually exceeding my expectation on battery life so far.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] abrahamjones:
Please tell whether you are using FHD+ or WQHD+ resolution, that makes a difference
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] skivnit:
I'm using wqhd
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] dieselhazza:
Don't expect too much of the exynos version. The SD version is a better option in terms of daily usability and battery life. It is unacceptable for a device with a 3500mah to get anything under 5.5 hrs SOT.

Look at the pixel XL 2 for instance. Great performance with great battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] sreten89:
Exynos version. Sabs installed, bloat disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Deathman20:
Oops WQHD+ here as well. Only 3% drop battery in 7 hours while sleeping as well. Got to 6 hours SOT before I decided to start charging. 22% battery remained.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] GodXen:
7,5Hours SOT
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] sstanton86:
I updated my phone yesterday morning to the ARC5 latest build. I'm not sure if that has something to do with it or if my phone is beginning to optimise apps etc but I'm currently on 66% and have 3.20hours sot which is absolutely brilliant imo.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] viper31573:
My battery life is fantastic
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Venom0642:
No complaints here over 3hrs and 3min SOT 56% still left Outstanding battery life on AT&T S9 Plus resolution WQHD and brightness at 95% .

Edit; On Snapdragon.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] datboycuong:
First day of use today. I had 28% battery left with 2 hours 28 min SOT. Extremely terrible. I had my brightness between 10-40% all day. I'm hoping as the days go by, the battery will get much better. I'm optimistic that it will
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] VICosPhi:
Anyone posting battery stats, can you please state if you're on Exynos or Snapdragon?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Allesa:
Well don't just state exynos or sd845, also add wqhd/Fhd, apps disabled, aod on/off?

3.5-4.5 hrs only on my exynos with wqhd, aod on, no apps disabled. Battery sucks
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] GopalKaul:
How did you do the nice thing in the background?

Looks awesome!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] viper31573:
How do I find out which I have? I have the Verizon s9+
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] viper31573:
Does this tell you anything
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] :
s9+ 256GB exynos here...

mainly email, whatsapp & surfing only...
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Other than those unscientific stacked tests where reviewer himself says thats unscientific, decade old gsmaren's procedure that you are so fond of(including a few others too:D) and users who are so proud of their s9+ exynos coming from few-year-old flagship and first time Galaxy flagship users feeling damn good about their super smartphone, I am just not seeing anything non-scientific in XDA, Youtube, Samsung forums, Reddit etc. and users who fiddle around with different flagships at the same time:good::good::good::laugh:

*Forgot to tell u in my earlier msg that gsmarena doesn't re-run battery tests on a year old phone while testing new flagships's battery endurance to compare. Instead, they compare that chart with the newer ones'. The only instance they re-run such tests when first time they receive phones with unfinished software or there happens to be a new version of firmware required to run on two different flagships for a fare comparison. So your "probably" doesn't arise.

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Lastly, those 1-2% you are talking about , there no such 1, 2% ... The reality is that S9 exynos has been a fail for now as its unable to maintain a steady balance between "performance", batterylife and heat resulting in throttling and behaving like last years exynos 8895 Octa, and that too with a lower batterylife. :highfive: