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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sstanton86:
Wow that's really impressive. A good hour longer than mine..
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Dunno why people complain about battery life maybe their usage and apps are causing higher drains. But I'm happy with mine. I could have gotten 8hrs if I hadn't a terrible 1 bar cell reception this whole morning
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
What version do you have? I still have January patch
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Same here I'm about to flash the new few available on samfirm though
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] limestar:
Are you always on 3G or 4G? What build are you using. I can't get anywhere near to what you have.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Same, pissed to have a beautiful device and I've to disable everything in order to improve a little bit battery life .. lower resolution of the screen, reduce cpu perfomance, turn off gps, bluetooth, WiFi when I'm not home, disable always on display, apply dark theme, lower brightness...
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
I'm always on 3g/4g auto switching, resolution is wqhd , auto sync on 4 gmail accounts. Brightness between 20 and 50%. Check samsung cloud maybe it's always auto syncing, also check that you dont have wifi scanning under location.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ticalo:
The secret is to turn off your device.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Haha I have. Back to my Pixel 2 XL and Mate 10 Pro. S9+ goes back in box until a few more software releases
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] t-shock:
G965F with both 4G/WiFi

2nd battery cycle

It could be better tho
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] gutrrobert:
Antutu benchmark snapdragon variant!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vulgaros:
Exynos variant.

Very impressed with the performance so far.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Silenus21:
Hey guys.

At the end is the Exynos noticeable faster than the SD?

Please confirm.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
I'm done I return it
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] limestar:
Yours is almost identical to mine for drain with no real reason!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
You should. Have you tried using the phone with the metatrader app?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Yes, in the weekend I didn't use metatrade, it didn't change much
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Well then you should return it :)its impossible for a 3500mah battery to give you only 3hrs SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ticalo:
Everything is possible for Samsung. If Apple can't, Samsung can ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
I owned every samsung flagship phone since the s3 and the only phone with very bad battery for me was the s6edge and that was for everyone. When 10 people complain about the battery out of 100s than its certainly not the phones battery;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Depends what you use your phone for, if your sot is 1h per day and you make no calls or light usage s9+ can last a whole day without issue
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
I don't really have an issue with the battery on mine. Sure it could be better but works pretty well so far for me at least.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
2 hours of YouTube only costs you 3%? That's odd. Was that on wifi?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
About 30-40mins of that was actually on 4g, it surprised me too first time I've actually seen WhatsApp actually uses more battery than YouTube

My usage is pretty much 40/60 between 4g and wifi since during the day being at work, I don't really use YouTube much probably just light browsing or have a book open
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Whatsapp uses more battery as it's the background services that are sipp9ng the juice . If you open the info on the app u will see how long it runs in the background
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Allesa:
With the same usage, all features on, on my pixel 2 xl, it would be on the 90 percent mark..
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
There's something wrong with my device lol
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Allesa:
Samsung never learn how to keep their background usage to a minimum..

Coming from pixel 2 xl, i am really really disappointed

all features on including bixby, bixby home, AOD, mix 4g wifi, , whatsapp, google now voice detection, bixby voice, QHD resolution. Need to test the whole phone for my youtube channel. No way im gonna judge this phone based after i cripppled some features.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
True, I'm back to the mate 10 pro, I'll miss the camera tho.. :(
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vimto25:
Do you think the s9+ has a better camera?

I had the mate 10 pro and I'm missing that camera tbh
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Yes, much better, especially in low light imho
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vimto25:
Thanks thats Interesting. I'm yet to play around with the camera much on the s9+
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lawtq:
The camera is so mediocre for me! Nothing special at all.

Been getting 8hrs sot though. Not bad. Don't know what's going on this charge cycle though but battery is really good! Heading for 10hrs sot! I'll believe it when I see it
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
I've just moved to the S9+ from the Mate 10 Pro. The video on the Mate 10 Pro fails massively against the S9+ or S8 or S7 for that matter. The stabilisation on the Mate 10 Pro is poor which was the deciding factor for me in the end. On the whole it is a good phone but the video stabilisation is incredibly bad which resulted in choppy video, wavy video movements etc. Stills camera is great but S9+ better in my opinion . Also I found the Mate 9 to be snappier than the 10.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
I'm back to the mate 10 too... Now I don't have to disable everything to have a phone that last a full day .. right now 50% of battery with 4hours+ screen on time (no save mode settings, I've everything on and I don't even use a dark theme) .. I even did 1 hour of calls and played a 3d game.. s9+ would be almost dead .. and I didn't even had games installed on the s9...
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
Battery on mate 10 Pro is better, well it's larger so go figure but after taking a trip and seeing how the video camera compared to the S8+, I just went right off the Mate 10 Pro.

With my S9+ I'm estimated to get 8.5 hours screen on but I'll be happy with 5 if it manages it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
I prefer the battery and still camera on my Mate 10 Pro. But video better on S9+. I barely use video so back to my Pixel 2 XL and Mate 10 for now. Battery is far more important
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Allesa:
Any tips on achieving such a good battery life? Mine and my friend's s9+ have s*itty battery life. I'm used to the awesome battery life of pixel 2 xl. 3.5-4.5 hrs screen on time only with this phone.

Comparison with similar usage between pixel 2 xl and s9+ attached

Pixel 2 xl everything on no tweaking whatsoever

S9+:

Disable apps Facebook briefing etc from settings

Settings

Phone visibility

Nfc

Turn off Google Location history

Nearby device scanning

Full HD screen

Disable Bixby

Nova launcher

Also, camera in medium to low light is not as what I expected. Yes it is better than mate 10 pro, but inferior to pixel 2 xl. Mushy details on faces.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ticalo:
Yep, this sounds like a Samsung phone. You pay for 100 features and need to disable 99 of the features to be able to use the phone...
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
Pros and cons with all. I spent weeks deciding between Note8 2XL and Mate 10 Pro. All have positives and negatives. The screen issue with the 2 XL was a deal breaker in the end, and it spent 10 days trying that and other phones. Flagship phone with an iffy screen. I would rather charge more often.i was back and fore between the three phones then I bought the Mate 10 Pro. I hate the Mate 9 before and so wanted to love the 10 but I found it sluggish in places.4k recording crashed (just when I was about to video a really important clip) and as I say, there was that choppy video. I'lll upload it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
So - here is the video I took and you can see the coppy issue that occured with the Mate 10 Pro. I also had this with the Mate 9 but don't recall it being as bad. I Chose the mate 10 for it's better low light ability (compared to Mate 9) but with this amount of chop and focus issue was the reason for changing to the S9+.

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Mate 10 pro ( no power saver mode, no dark theme) vs s9+ (power saver mode and everything that I could do in order to improve battery life)

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
What apps do you have running? With my mate 10 I usually averaged 6 hrs SOT. I had the usual hogs on there tho, Facebook, messenger, Snapchat to name a few. I will miss that little extra bit of battery life but I've resigned myself to charging when I need juice and I'm OK with that now. Though I've been massively spoiled with the mate 9. Sadly hard bricked doing a firmware finder update.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
I run all basic stuff too, fb, messenger, instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube with Chromecast on TV, I don't use chrome tho, I use Samsung browser because I like it more and they say it drains less battery
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
Huawei have a more aggressive app management I understand. On my S9+ I've got Facebook as a link to the mobile login, I've stopped using the app after I noticed certain ads appeared on my timeline after it been discussing said topics with friends. I reckon I'll see 4-5 hours screen on and I'll he fine with that.

It's only my second day with the S9 so will see how i get on.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
So you are using the s8 with the metatrader app that's is the main draining app but its nowhere to be seen on your mate 10 also this is a galaxy s9+ benchmark and battery. I dont understand why you keep coming back. We know, for you the battery is the worst in the world. Most are satisfied with theirs. I dont see why this is becoming about mate and other phones
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
I don't use metatrader app on weekends, tbh Samsung battery life didn't change much without metatrader, that's a 2d app, it doesn't use gpu, with mate today I even used 3d games and still better battery life. I'm not the only one to say s9 battery life isn't that great, you get mediocre battery life disabling pretty much everything.. I'm trying to help people who wants to buy the s9, I just share what my experience with that phone is. Right now, if you don't use phone that much during a day, it's the best phone out here, imho
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] brouwerchris:
Totally happy with my S9+ and it's battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ticalo:
SoT is not the problem with S9+, it's the idle time that's the problem. I'm able to get 7-8h SoT when the phone is fully charged and continuously using the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Wow wish mine got that. Barely 3 hours. Drains so fast when using
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Allesa:
Well hold on..

I factory reset my phone, start everything from scratch.

Here's my progress so far

Aod off, fullHD+, disabled apps I don't use (linkedin, Facebook, etc), disabled Bixby, auto brightness around 25-30% (it's more than enough, it's night time over here).

Before the factory reset, 1 hour sot equals to 13-16 percent drain. Same apps like before.

Maybe the arc4 update fixed something that needs a full factory reset for it to bear fruit?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Ok I am going to try it
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Same
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Alright I reset on the newest fimware and I also didn't do any type of restore. Let's see how the battery holds up
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] LiNe1771:
The method to get good sot is to barely use apps, only 1 or 2 like most of the good sot users here, use apps to maintain your screen on just to fake the sot.. There's no miracles. If I use the phone alot u won't get 7 or 8 hours sot. I get about 6 hours and I use all social media apps, Twitch, camera, music, Bixby.. Simple as that. I know some will 'cry' because some users like to show up their awesome sot but behind that sot is a user that fakes it or barely uses a app.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ticalo:
I uninstalled Facebook, Facebook Messenger and disabled App Monitoring. My battery is great now.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Cristi10:
For me it's been good. What do you think? These are 2 different days btw.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sstanton86:
Although I do agree some do this, as I've seen it on other forums. But for the last three days I have got around 7-8 sot, and I use numerous apps. Spotify, BBC news, BBC sport, Instagram the camera app, Google photos and that's just to name a few.

I certainly wouldn't feel the need to lie about it, I'm only stating my own observations.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] LiNe1771:
All that and 4g.. Sure mate. I joined android world yesterday.. Anyway, it's your phone, if u need to fake it and forbidden yourself of using it for a few hours just to show up its up to you, I'm enjoying my phone alot.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] brouwerchris:
Main reason for today' s good sot: all day at home on Wi-Fi.

I think you should be carefull in your judgement on others.My screenshots do not show the apps I have been using today, Hours of Chrome browser,XDA,making KWLP widgets,using the great camera and at the end of the day one hour on WhatsApp group,sharing the loss of my best colleague returning home yesterday.He died just after departure from Singapore on his way home to Amsterdam.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] abrahamjones:
Came from Mate 10 Pro, worse software, better battery (Huawei freezes everything). I am having more or less 3 hours of sot which is really bad (4g, wqhd, aod, bl, wifi all on). I will try power saver only with -5% or -10% brightness and cpu limiter tomorrow. Hope it helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sstanton86:
Like I said, these are *my* personal observations of my own phone. I have no reason to fake it, I don't gain anything.

I use my phone a lot, so not sure how you can claim '.. using it for a few hours'.

I'm glad you're 'enjoying your phone' and the little screen on time you get, that's your usage, not mine. No need to go in all defensive, obviously we've touched a nerve. ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Some people just dont accept that others have more sot, yes some are faking it by just looking at a black screen but most have real battery, mine has been 6-7hours with aod off, 4g all the time as I have bad battery life on wifi due to my router settings (wlan rx wakelocks) gmail syncing, wqhd, 30-40% brightness

Idle is what's killing the battery. I'm losing 1-1.2%/hr when it should be 0,5% as I used to have. Shealth is acting since their latest update
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sstanton86:
I only use mine on FHD, not so much to save battery but i completely forgot about changing it to wqhd shortly after getting it at launch. You think the amount of battery saved from wqhd to fhd is negligible?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] abrahamjones:
Installed BetterBatteryStats enabled it via ADB (no root needed anymore). WakeLockManager:BLE_Scan was at the top of the list. Found nothing on the internet. Turned off Connections>More connection settings>Nearby device scanning, the wakelock seems to be gone.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Yes always install BBS before judging a battery life on a phone. You will never know what's going on in the background unless u have BBS installed
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Thanks turned it off too
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Allesa:
Did it work? I slept for 8 hours last night, battery only went down 0,6-0,8/hr. Not bad. 79% this morning. Let's see how it holds up during the normal work day use (GPS, Spotify streaming during commute, and so on)

Update:

6hrs sot over 22-24hrs up time is possible on fullHD without aod. Not amazing, but acceptable. Let's crank the screen to qhd now.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] btblue:
So I'm now on day 4 and I've achieved pretty much 29 hours. This includes 4.40 screen on time.

Some audio streaming over 4g whilst driving, WiFi on overnight etc...
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] kivanov:
AOD - off

WiFi, 4G, Location - on

No power saving

WQHD+
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Yours is about the same as mine. When after resetting
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vulgaros:
Well color me impressed, restoring the Exynos 9810 to it's 2.9GHz glory really puts it in A11 territory, at least benchmark-wise.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Chirag22ster:
My first battery cycle. Bpught the phone yesterday.

3.5 hrs sot. Screen FHD+. Wifi on. Location on intermittently. AOD off.

Battery now at 43%.

Normal usage. Watching youtube videos, whatsapp chats, browsing facebook and watching videos on facebook.

Need to keep screen on wqhd. Does it make a big difference in screen picture quality?

Your thoughts on this battery life? IMO its better than what my S7 edge did when it was new.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] whoamanwtf:
I don't understand people saying the 845 is way faster, the xynos smashes the 845 in CPU benches, utterly destroys it and comes very close in GPU, it is a large upgrade in GPU from anything else out and the CPU performance should more than make up the difference. Also we will be able to get kernels and what not to make it even better.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Tom-Helge:
Well.....

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] whoamanwtf:
Yeah, that single core is noticable in my usage.

And I've not felt it get warm, as for the GPU I've thrown every game at it I could think of and had no hiccups.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] whoamanwtf:
Mine, stock.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] zathus:
Because, benchmarks are just that. This is the first year I would say, based on real usage by reviews and testing the SD is out preforming the exynos. There's already been a few side-by-side comparisons and in all of them the Snapdragon is quicker. It's also, based on feedback from users on XDA outperforming on battery as well. You make a valid point that in the future that could change because of the unlocked bootloader. But that's an unknown future. As of this very moment out-of-the-box the Snapdragon seems to be performing slightly better. Slightly! Would you ever notice? Probably not. The only way to notice is to do an actual side by side. [youtube]khFMwIbMO3o[/youtube]

So, there you go.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] denzel09:
Mine
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dondavis007:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12520/the-galaxy-s9-review/8

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
And this

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12520/the-galaxy-s9-review/5

I'm REALLY REALLY mad at Samsung. I hope they can fix this.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] harry92008:
I am getting just 4 hours SOT on my exynos. Have done everything there is to enhance the battery. Don't know where it is going away. I am waiting for some custom ROM. So far we do not have any custom Rom. Given the phone was launched just last week, I hope we will get a few ROMS in a couple of weeks.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ndarkside93:
Look over in the Treble enabled development forum on xda and you can flash those, particular Los. Needless to say it's not the same as the old flashing process but just writing a system image to /system using Odin. PM me if you wish she I'll try to help
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] neflictus:
The battery life issue is present in the exynos version.

Snapdragons are ok this year.

Samsung, you dog.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] harry92008:
That's great. Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Nope not for me. I think theres a bad batch of batteries as in the poll I created. Theres a wide difference between what people are getting
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] pacorola:
.

---------- Post added at 09:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:24 PM ----------

It totally seems to be an issue with metatrader having a wakelock and preventing the phone from going to low power sleep (a probable bug or incompatibility with Oreo or Samsung experience power management). Not using the app won't prevent it from happening since it clearly is running in the background. See if uninstalling or disabling metatrader helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 6pounder:
Thanks but I returned the phone, using mate 10 pro right now and I don't have any issue with that app
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] harry92008:
After tweaking everything like, AOD off, permanently sleeping apps all except 2 or 3, changing animation to 0.5 , I am getting close to 4.5 hours that too on very light usage. Is that normal or should I return my phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] barankas:
S9+ Exynos 256GB with 1st SIM 4G+VOLTE 2nd SIM 3G Only.

SABS+Package Disabler Pro+AOD Off+Black Theme+Mid Battery Saving+WiFi Scanning Off

7-8hrs SOT

Actually depends on how and what you use the phone for.

If you play high quality graphics game (i.e PUBG Mobile), it won't even last 2-3 hours.

This battery life debate will still continue to go on and on until the end of the world.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] harry92008:
You are right. But the surprising part is many users have posted close to 6 _7 hours of SOT. Today I turned everything on and the SOT is measly 2 hours which is really bad. Makes one wonder if there is any fault with the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Whanksta:
Are you using a US carrier VOLTE?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] barankas:
How about your mobile coverage in your area? Is it stable? Or the signal goes haywire up and down?

I'm using Exynos, I don't think US carrier VoLTE will work. For my country, carrier/phone also detected what CSC u are using in order for VoLTE to work.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] harry92008:
Mobile coverage frankly is unstable.