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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Yes, it's a good example of low drain while idle or with light use, despite AOD/Wi-Fi/LTE/Bluetooth being enabled and in use for a long period. If I used the phone more heavily from the start, I wouldn't get 27 hours on battery, but the SOT would be higher (since the screen would be used more and the battery would not be "wasted" on the AOD). Regardless, it's an example of real-world use, and it's very good. If you compare bassgenerator's graph, it actually doesn't appear like he's using the phone "heavily" at any time (the slope of the graph never gets very steep).

Again, there are just so many variations of how one uses the phone - I've given examples of what I mean by "heavy use" with all my screenshots - stuff like navigating with GPS with mobile data on High accuracy, intense gaming, mira-casting etc.

EDIT: since I've learned how to attach screenshots in this forum, I can post the very first one I did a few weeks ago for this phone (and I think things have improved a bit since then too!) - see attached. The less steep part of the graph was obviously while sleeping (with AOD etc enabled though). As I described in my post about this battery discharge cycle, the SOT is ridiculously high because I watched about 3-4 hours of offline video. However, as you can see, I also spent nearly 3 hours of "heavy use" with GPS navigation (and bluetooth to the car at the same time).
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Keeping a phone in next to "standby" mode isn't called "real world" use. This way any1 can get any length of batterylife out of any modern day smartphone and can't be considered as good batterylife . What I'm saying is based on that graph u shared and graphs don't lie. Whether u r using wifi, GPS, bluetooth, aod or not isn't seen and so questionable. As such, if u use gsam battery monitor or similar app and show the entire chart, the actual truth would come out, but even then there are many loopholes.

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As bassgenerator's screenshots, it's seen his phone is actually used as per the usage graph unlike yours. But his phone is extremely tweaked and he is honest there .

PS: Use the reply button when responding to some1.

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On the second screenshot, it's seen that the phone is used, but if u actually configured anything at all on that phone during that usage is another deciding factor.

For example, galaxy S6 used to have overall low batterylife when configured. But used to give excellent batterylife with a very misleading default battery graph when nothing actually was configured in it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
It's an example of "real world" use, because that is how I happened to use my phone during that cycle in "real life". I've posted many other examples already and have described how I used my phone in quite a lot of detail over those posts.

EDIT: I just realised that you're basically accusing me of being dishonest, which isn't surprising from you - again, very insulting once more. AOD is clearly shown in many screenshots, and so is "Maps" (regarding GPS use). But then I don't need to justify anything to someone who wants to keep insulting people.

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Not sure what you mean by "configured". I haven't changed anything between that older screenshot (the "second" screenshot) and the latest screenshot. With the latest screenshot, I already mentioned that the phone was initially either in "idle" or "light use" (basically the first 8 hours or so was while sleeping and I didn't use the phone much for several hours even after that) - this is why the AOD is relatively high and has contributed a significant proportion to battery drain. However, I still managed just over 6 hours SOT with moderate to heavy use thereafter (mira-casting, lots of taking photos and videos with the screen at super-high brightness since it was outdoor, but with relatively very little GPS this time - perhaps only about 10 minutes). One of my points was that if eg. I hadn't had that 8 hours of sleeping, the SOT could probably have hit 7 hours or more, but the total time off battery would be around 20 hours only.

I'm just posting my "real life" use here to give others an honest example of it. As I said, how one uses the phone varies a lot, but in my experience so far, the battery life has been very good regardless of how I've used the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
I can also not use the phone without configuring as per my "will", not use it for 15,20 hours and and then try people to convince thats my "real world usage" with a good looking screenshot if I wish to, that way. Issue is that, it will simply mislead people than doing any help.

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I saw u used maps, but then, u haven't posted the rest of the screen shot in the second screenshot. As so, something like gsam data would be much better.

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Reknown gadget reviewers like Anandtech, Android central, pocketnow, geenkyranjit, phonearena, hardwarezone, mobilesout, Android pit, expertrrviews.co.uk etc etc all say that galaxy s9/s9 plus Exynos have much lower batterylife than the Snapdragon one. But few users like you say it otherwise and so, it's important to know how you get it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. As I said, I'm simply sharing with great transparency my SOT (as per the thread topic). How is it mis-leading when I said it was "light usage" initially - that graph is self-explanatory that that phone was in idle or in light use during the first 12 hours or so (a chunk of that is called "sleeping"), but then it's very clear that I did some quite heavy tasks thereafter and still got 6 hours SOT (despite losing quite a lot to AOD during the idle periods).

Sure, Snapdragon may have better battery life than Exynos in many scenarios, but as people will be able to see (based on my own personal experience), the Exynos does well in all sorts of "real-life" situations. This is my experience and opinion. I don't need someone to force their opinions on me or to accuse me of being dishonest when I'm spending precious time sharing honest information to others.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssanjy:
Despite having seen great SOTs here in the thread, unfortunately my exynos device is very poor. There was only once when I was able to get about 5 hrs of SOT during charging cycle of 31 hours, which was achieved by turning off GPS and sync. It can last for just about 24 hrs with about 3 hrs of SOT now a days. No AOD and display settings in full HD, using double sim but I'm in areas with Great network signals, usually in WiFi and LTE data connection

and I think I've adjusted to live out the way..
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
It seems you have "disabled" and "tweaked" more things than me, and yet have a lot lower SOT. Could you describe how you generally use your phone when the screen is on when you're only getting 3 hours? Also, what is your standby drain like?

I also notice that in your screenshot, your top battery drain comes from only 3 minutes of utorrent?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssanjy:
It was a one time issue while downloading via LTE, it lasted for about 10 mins I guess

I've disabled just the pre built apps like MS office and few Google apps. Not much tweaked. I do use tasker and naptime though. I usually use XDA, Flipboard, YouTube etc but they are quite light usage. Facebook is not quite frequent. More than SOT, I was hoping for great standby time may be 2 days at least with my way of usage.

On the side not, could you please post your Antutu and Geekbench 4 score just to see if yours and mine are similar or not. I'm post mine too. Or may by I can PM you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Thats a dual sim version u r using. And what you are getting is the default batterylife of the Exynos dual sim version inclusive of few bloats disabled. If u want better batterylife get the snapdragon version if u can actually get it. Else live with the Exynos unless u want to tweak it heavily. First galaxy S to this S9 plus,(excluding the notes) I used all, and so far it's the s7 edge that gave acceptable batterylife in comparison to other flagships during that period of time.

PS: Torrents eat up high battery, so expect to do it better without it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Yes I guess you're not using those dedicated "de-bloating" software tools, but do you think tasker and naptime actually take up some battery too? I've never installed such apps on my smartphones, so don't have much experience with them. But I see "naptime" actually taking up battery in your screenshot, which is a bit ironic?

So all you're doing with the 3 hours (or up to 5 hours) SOT is essentially surfing the internet? So no "heavy use" at all (eg. GPS navigation with High accuracy, gaming, casting the phone's screen to another device, taking lots of outdoor photos/videos etc)? As you say, only short periods on Facebook too. That is surprisingly low SOT with what sounds like relatively "light to moderate usage". I see "Voice calls" showing up there, and likely the "dual sim" sucks more battery than single sim with this? I see you did over an hour of YouTube which, in my experience with YouTube via the Samsung browser, only takes up about 5-10% per hour, so that should actually make your SOT higher.

What do you estimate your % per hour idle drain is? For example when you left the phone overnight while sleeping.

Regarding benchmarks, maybe we can talk about it via PM.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
:))) today
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] 0alfred0:
Samsung 2018: "Buy this ridiculously expensive phone with the best specs and features on the market, but disable them all to get enough battery to make it to the lunch break."

Hell yeah, I always wanted a Lamborghini with a 20l / 5gallon tank!

It is sad to see how hard people are trying to get half way decent battery life out of this device and how much people are willing to sacrifice of these features that they spent so much money on.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Not bad. Again, I don't see the need to disable anything though - see attached. I actually forgot to disable GPS navigation when I'd finished with it this time (you have to manually close Google Maps to fully disable it). Battery drain is relatively slow with video watching (had at least 3-4 hours of YouTube via Samsung browser). As you'll see, first 8 hours was essentially while sleeping, and actually AOD drained some battery there - again, SOT would have been better without that "wasted" idle period.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Virgo_Guy:
Hell yeah. Someone echoing my thoughts.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Just curious, exactly what "features" are you talking about that people are sacrificing? I'm asking out of genuine interest, and the question also goes to people like bassgenerator - what do you think you are "sacrificing" to get your "decent" battery life/SOT? Again, there are several reports just in the last few days across this forum alone of people posting they are getting good/decent battery life/SOT - maybe we should also ask them what they're "sacrificing"? I'm sure many of them are like me though - just using the phone as it is. And by the way, I haven't spent a single cent of my own money on this phone, so I have even less reason to "defend" Samsung.

I also wouldn't call this phone a "Lamborghini", as there are several (minor?) defects with the phone, including "black crush", temporary image retention, inconsistent oleophobic coating etc. I also think it doesn't take quite as good photos as my old S7 in some situations. But for me, bad battery life isn't one of the issues.

EDIT: I've asked these people who posted in the last few days that appeared happy with their battery life/SOT:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76585041&postcount=130
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Sabertooth:
My experience

Sot of model G-965F(dual sim) about 4 - 5 hours.

Sot of model G-9650(dual sim) about 7-9 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
friend but you have forgotten that I have 2 days of battery life on the battery but you only 20 hours. LOL: D
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Hehe, yes man, I didn't say whether yours was better or not. All I said is that I don't see the need to do all that disabling (since the phone easily gets me through the entire day no matter how I personally use it). Since we're having some healthy competition hehe, you also have forgotten that I have AOD enabled. I think if you enabled AOD, you wouldn't get 2 days.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
of course friend. but I will write here this. according to me, is the use of AOD full of stupidity because I can use the gesture of swing hand. I never used and never will not. as far as I know to pick up the phone and call one thing to sway your hand in addition me can kill you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
And so I'll begin again. And the phone will be pretty deeply sleeping in idle time. And about it I'm going.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] 0alfred0:
Although I don't think you will agree, I will point out a couple.

1. You want the best, buy "the best" and then you wanna have the best experience. I look in this forum (especially sot thread) and the first think I notice are people complaining a lot. And it is simply the fact that this thread has 55+ pages that suggest a big battery problem. People keep posting pics of their battery usage etc. Why? Because it sucks and they have found a compromise and wanna share it "look, I somehow managed to get this much sot". If all was fine people wouldn't post anything in here.

2. You buy the phone with the best screen, but you keep it dimmed to 25% and on lower resolution. Many keep saying "I have Samsung cause they have the best screens, brightest, best colors." But what's the point really if you can't rock ur phone on max brightness and resolution.

3. People keep closing apps (like maps navigation) to save battery and reduce standby drainage. this phone has 6gig of ram nobody should have to do that.

4. People constantly check their battery life and/or have to be concerned about it. Nobody should even have to look in the battery settings on a normal day. It's not ok to worry about battery all the time, it is annoying and anyone paying this much should have peace of mind and focus on being productive with this phone instead of thinking where they can top up the battery soon.

I know some people with s8/9+ (mainly girls not much into tech at all) and they use a lot of social media. Most keep their phone in normal battery saving always and screen dimmed so much that I can't see what they looking at while standing next to them. They don't know much about tweaks and they don't think so much when buying a phone they chose popular brand like Samsung with a contract. Sad stories.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
I actually agree with a lot of what you wrote there, and it makes a lot of sense. However, I think keeping maps navigation open and active in the background (when you no longer need it) when you're moving around and haven't "reached your destination" yet (this is the situation I was referring to in my earlier post) is like keeping a game open AND active and expecting your battery not to drain? Sure, if it's just for a few minutes, that's no problem. But if it's for an extra hour or two, then all phones would have "bad" battery life if you did this. I don't think that's a very good example to throw in there. A better example would be closing apps like Whatsapp, Skype etc to save battery, but then I don't see anyone doing that here.

I also don't think having a big SOT thread is a good reflection of whether battery life is good or not. For example, Androidcentral forums have barely any battery threads or posts about the S9 or S9+ (there were way more with the S7 and S7 Edge), and actually many of the threads and posts over there are people "boasting" about their very good SOT.

It's interesting that you've also lumped in the S8 into your comments. I think those people who dim their phones that much etc clearly use their phones continuously and in very heavy fashion - I don't think any flagship phones would have 9 hours SOT with that sort of use, and therefore it makes sense for them to go to relatively extreme means to allow them to get through the day with one charge. I disagree that those are "sad stories", as life has taught me that things can get much sadder than "girls" spending a lot of money on phones - but then that's just my personal opinion and perspective.

To be honest, as I've said before, most people don't need "flagship" phones to get through their day. In fact, many of the people who use "flagship" phones would do better with the lower end models which easily give 3-4 days of battery life.

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Man, are you using Google Translate there? Found it a bit difficult to understand hehe. All good though. I leave AOD enabled because that was default and I'm too lazy to disable it hehe! Also I find it somewhat useful, but certainly not essential. By the way, did you answer my query the other day about Hearts? I'm seriously curious about it - it looks like you absolutely love that game! Please link it here if you can.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytesequencing.hearts_ads
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
By the way, what androidcentral forums have is a pretty big thread and many posts almost universally complaining about the S9/S9+ camera - many have posted they returned their phones because the camera is "so bad". Interestingly, the forums here don't have much of that I don't think? Just another example of the dangers of assuming too much based on the number of threads/posts on a certain forum. Although I actually agree with some people over at androidcentral that S7/S7 Edge takes better photos in some situations. Again, the S9/S9+ actually has many defects, but battery life/SOT isn't one of them in my experience. To be honest, because I'm so "OCD", I would have returned this phone by now (due to defects with "black crush", temporary image retention...although this seems to have spontaneously improved, inconsistent oleophobic coating, camera not much better if at all than the S7 etc) and got my money refunded if I had actually paid money for it hehe. But since it was free, I don't mind putting up with these things!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] 0alfred0:
good for you, probably would be the same for me. actually this phone made me realise how much i value battery life over other features. i own a huawei mate 10 pro now (before samsung i had the huawei nexus 6p which also had very good battery) and i could not be happier. i mean the huawei is no perfect phone by any means but its the better fit for me.

[MENTION=4658859]Galaxo60[/MENTION]

You are right, zero facts thats all just my subjective opinion, but it is based on my experiences. So many people have the phone surely there is people with great and poor battery life. I just had more experience with the latter, not just on the internet but mainly in real life with people who dont think as much about there phones as we do here. I just felt like commenting in this thread about how i feel things are... but in the end its the result of my experiences with the phone. I switched phones and solved my problem so all is well.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Galaxo60:
Just wanted to add my thoughts to your comments:

1) The fact that this thread has more than 55 pages implies nothing. There are some photo threads that have a lot of pages and it doesn't mean that there's a problem with the camera; people in this thread is both sharing their good battery life or complaining about it, but pretty much you can see this behavior in every phone forum: there will be always people with decent battery life, and there will be people with a regular one. There are a lot of things that can impact battery life and Samsung can't be responsible for all of them, because it also depends on the location, the configuration, the usage patterns, the carrier, etc.

2) You wrongly imply that everyone with decent battery life is because they have dimmed their screen and with HD+ resolution. By now, you should know that changing the resolution does nothing to save battery life, because the native resolution of the panel still will be WQHD+.

3) You keep implying that people is closing apps in order to have better battery life.

4) And for one more time, you think you know how people is using their phone and what they are checking and doing with it.

Pretty much you only have assumptions and zero facts just because you have seen some cases, but that doesn't mean that everyone is using the phone like that; so far the S9/S9+ have sold more than 8 million units and I haven't seen more than 50 people across all the forums complaining about battery life, and moreover, most of that people just complain and blame the phone before taking the time and think for one second that maybe is not Samsung's fault, but the user one, because is easier to blame others when something is not working for us.

When something is good for others, but not for me, there's a big hint where the problem could be, and not all the S9/S9+ users have great battery life, but neither all of them have a bad one, and the difference between all of them is just the user, because the device is pretty much the same.

:highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
Fair enough. For me, I'd rather have a bit worse battery life (since I think the battery life is very good already) and no black crush/image retention etc hehe.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] Geeksquek:
Getting 12 Hours with MicroG on Exynos variant
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] archheretic:
I know this is a s9 thread, but are there actually any flagship phones with good battery life at the moment? They all seem depressingly bad.

My s7 edge has rubbish battery life, so it's sad to see the same issues on the s9.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
What's your definition of "good battery life"? This will require quite a detailed answer, as you can't really just quote a SOT - you also need to describe what apps you're using and for how long, and how long you're expecting to leave the phone in standby for etc.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] archheretic:
Good points. My phone is used almost exclusively on 4g, and standby is perhaps more important to me than SOT. I'd be happy with 3-4 hours SOT with 18 hours standby. Even 3 hours SOT is generally enough for me, but I'm not even getting 2 currently, and standby is abysmal. I'm completely flat after 1.5 hours SOT, 10 hours off charger. Have factory reset several times. No push notifications from most apps, including social media etc. One Google account syncing, very seldom use of navigation, no gaming. Mainly Facebook use, web browsing, listening to music, little bit of Netflix etc. What I would deem very light usage. Cell signal is reasonable, very rare to lose coverage for more than a couple of minutes at a time.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] ssj100:
And that's the S7 Edge, which had almost universally reported excellent battery life across several forums. I don't know what to tell you to be honest. From my experience, I would say that you'd get much better battery life than what you're reporting with the S7 Edge. In fact, even people who are complaining here about the S9+ battery life are actually reporting better than what you're getting with the S7 Edge - 1.5 hours SOT isn't good at all.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Real Life Review] archheretic:
Yeah it becomes unusable at this level. When brand new I was getting great battery life. After about 12 months it just plummeted, never to recover. Kill switch anyone? :p