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[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] atvxda:
I was easily getting 5.5 hours of SOT on my Fold2, most times I was averaging 5.5 to 6.5 hours of SOT with nearly 24 hours off of the charger. My Fold3 is now getting anywhere between 4 to 6 hours max of SOT. Initially, it was getting 3.5 to 4.5 hours of SOT. I cleared all app cache and cut off my wifi scanning in order to get my current numbers. The point being, Fold3 was getting worse battery than my Fold2.

The higher front screen refresh and slightly smaller battery has some to do with it, however we were all expecting comparable stamina because of the new SO

Try cleaning out all of your app cache and turn off wifi scanning. Mine went from 3.5 to 4.5 hours of SOT to anywhere between 4.5 to 6 hours of SOT. My Fold2 averaged 4.5 to 6.5 hours of SOT.

My Note 10 Plus was averaging 6.5 to 7 hours or SOT, absolutely loved that phone but traded it in for my Fold2. My N20U always struggled,.only averaging 3.5 to 4.5 hours of SOT. Loved the optical zoom but I hated being so conservative with my device while out and about.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
I think battery life is pretty good. It's 5:30pm and been off the charger since 5:30am. Used half front screen, half inside screen. GPS and all wireless radios kept off except cell and wifi. Disabled Google Discover and Samsung Free. Left 120hz on, power saving off.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Mr. Orange 645:
I actually just did a factory reset and I shut off WiFi scanning. It's been much better today. But I still think my ZF2 got better battery life. I'm still hoping it settles and gets better battery life, especially after some updates.

My N20 Ultra never really struggled. It got better over time and is an absolute beast now. I may never get rid of it, LOL.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] lawtq:
This is good! How has Google play services not eaten your battery? What else you disabled? Cause that's the culprit for me and a few others suffering. Google is consistently at the top, or near the top of battery drain. And I've tried to disable everything google
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
I'm not really sure. I turned off ad personalization, covid notifications, device backups, Google assistant, "hey google", device sharing, and more... turned off pretty much everything other than Gmail, Drive, contacts, calendar, and Keep notes syncing. I suggest opening your phone settings -> Google (Google services) then turning off as much as possible.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dave5777:
Love my Z Fold 3, hate the battery so I ordered this...

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[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] atvxda:
I've considered the factory reset option but have decided not to do to the improvement. Hopefully it only continues to get better. My Fold2 definitely got better battery life.

Not sure what to say about my N20U, other than my wife loves it, haha. She's averaging 4 hours at 1080 120hz. The reality is, we're always by a charger;Home, office, car, portable battery but it would be nice for the next evolution in smartphone tech to be higher capacity batteries with faster charging speeds...
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] androidkid27:
A little something. But I love power saver
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] alxlwson:
My ZF3 doesn't ship until the end of the month, just have been educating myself. I'm currently on a N20U.

One of the things that I've been reading/watching from the YT crowd is that turning off Bluetooth Scanning and WiFi Scanning inside the GPS menu's Improve Accuracy options has provided some significant battery savings. Apparently this is always on and always sucking away battery, but your actual GPS receiver and cell triangulation do just fine anyway on their own. Just thought I would share with everyone since I haven't seen anyone mention it in this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dezborders:
Same here up to 6 hrs on large screen and up to 9 hours outer screen - Wifi mainly and 5G network is disabled (as i dont live in a 5G area)
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] ronaldheld:
If you have no 5G signal, why disable it?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Mr. Orange 645:
So your phone isn't constantly searching for one.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] MorePAIN:
My old phone was the Z Fold 2. I expected the same or better
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] ycats:
After making some adjustments in the settings, my battery life has been much better. I changed the refresh rate back to standard, display time to 1 minute instead of 2, among other things.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
Hi everyone,

Just want to jump to the wagon and ask the same thing, so I am sorry about it.

For me I can get around 5.30 - 6 hours SOT. However my standby battery is really not good. Here is the screenshot

Btw my settings are

Location off

Sync on

Wifi almost all the time

Google account settings are mostly off

120 hz

Always on display on

So I wondering what is happening with the standby drain? I slept for 5 hours and the battery went down like 8 - 9%
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] HaiKaiDo:
The three things that I have found to make a real and noticeable impact on battery life extension are:

1.)Settings > Location > Improve Accuracy - Turn off both options in this menu. Have made no difference with location accuracy but have helped with battery

2.) Standard 60hz

3.) You're all probably going to be hesitant to accept this as a feasible solution but hear me out. Turn on Power saver mode with only the option "Limit cpu to 70%" on (you have to go into the settings for Power Saving Mode and toggle the other options off). This has made a massive difference in my battery life with no noticeable performance degradation. The cpu in this phone is so insane, that limiting it to 70% seemingly means nothing. I say give it a try and see how it works for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Talderon:
This 3rd option is interesting. I am still waiting for my phone to arrive, so I will give this a go after a week and see if I can tell the difference. Honestly, I kinda agree that with how insane this CPU is, limiting it to 70% (unless you are a hard-core gamer), should not really impact things overly much as most normal activities won't even make the CPU hit 70% anyhow. :D

Thanks for this one!
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Mr. Orange 645:
Oh limiting it to 70% isn't a big deal. But I won't give up the 120Hz refresh rate is the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] HaiKaiDo:
I wish I could find a way to set the outside screen to 60hz and the inside screen to 120hz. I couldn't really care less about the outside screen being 60hz. I bet even with 120hz mode on, you would still get a significant battery increase with the power saving mode enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Talderon:
Check this: https://xdaforums.com/t/app-galaxy-...e-adaptive-mod-and-more.4324855/post-85603589

Looks like this app will let you (in a future update). At least it is being talked about. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
I'm happy with my battery life. 120hz on, power saving off, black theme, wifi on all the time, GPS + bluetooth + NFC off unless I need it, Google disabled, Google Assistant disabled, Google Discover + Samsung Free off, Google contacts + Keep + calendar + Drive + Gmail sync on, Samsung sync on.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
How to get the 21 hours? I dont think my battery can do that kind of standby without draining itself out
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
Try doing what I did. Also, delete/disable any apps you don't use, use the 96hz app, turn off any auto-refresh stuff like weather, stocks, news feeds, etc., unnecessary notifications and error reporting, use static wallpaper, turn off video auto play, turn off app auto updates.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
I did, most of my apps are in deep sleep. Turned off everything except sync. Disabled all google stuffs. Makes you wonder paying expensive price only not able to use the features lol. I came from Samsung m51 which having 7000 mah battery that would last me for 2 days, so i really can feel the difference
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] archaen:
This is my usage after 1 week of having the Fold 3. Used both screens equal 50-50%. I don´t have any issues with batteri life, came from a S20 5G and it was worse.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
What settings do you have?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
its like buying a lambo with 1liter fuel tank. so just watch it but no driving
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
Yeah im at the edge of sending this back and replace with note20 ultra, samsung is going to weird direction here. If they can provide phone with superb battery i think people will start to buy this and invest om this phone
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
you are guys are lucky, we indians do not have return for refund at all, only replacement. so once we purchase the device we are stuck with it :(

placed the order today, thinking about cancelling the order

wanted to try something new, i need that big screen for trading stocks n crypto but worried about plastic feel, also cameras :(

so confused :(
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] lawtq:
I'd say wait a while. Mine going back. Just ain't good enough. It's nice though, just not excellent.

Battery, camera, and the fact it feels no different at all ero the fold 2, which is what you probably should buy. Cheaper
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
to be frank im only paying 200$ after all offers, main problem is inside plastic wobble screen and cameras
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
Tbh, inside screen seems solid compare to fold 2, cameras is different for each person but battery life sucks. Thats the main problem
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
is there any difference b/w this ones camera and note 10 plus camera? at all like in hardware. my wife still uses here note plus 10 plus. it feels dumb to get 3yrs old hardware lol

got a new born so taking lots of pictures with my iPhone 12 pro max
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
I dont use camera much, its decent but im not sure on the specs comparison with note 10+
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] waltnich:
Lightly used all day still had 67%. Next day when at 41% my 65W charger arrived. Let it charge while showering and it was at 100% when I took it off the charger. Today I started with a full charge I'm at 84% right now half way thru the day. I'm the happy camper in the crowd so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
so what you are saying is using this power house mobile cum tablet like nokia a 1100 will not drain the battery? 😓
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] waltnich:
All I said was "lightly used" which is No streaming or games to start. I activated the phone, got it mostly set up and used the phone, text, email, lightly some apps. That night it was at 67%. My new charger arrived the next day and I pugged in the charger with battery at 41% and then got a shower, etc. When I went for my phone, maybe about an hour - it was fully charged. Personal experience, no structured test just seems peachy to me. Yes, I guess I could find a way to abuse it and make it fail but that's not how I rock.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
what case did you buy for it. mines coming tomorrow, biting the bullet here :(
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] waltnich:
I got the case they are shipping for pre-orders. You will need to get used to the case. It will be a different tactle feel from what we are used to. Now my 3rd day and I am liking it better. Because it folds from the screen and not the spine (which you wouldn't want) the cover has further to cover when it is closed. The result is the left flap isn't attached to the left half so that the cover is wider than the phone and left flap is loose. Second, the pen attaches to the spine so it looks like a piggy-back.. Well, I didn't like it at first and went bareback and stuck on a Pop Socket. Well, that wasn't what I wanted either and I ended up putting the case on again. Day 2 I mostly went without attaching the pen until I went home. But today I've left it on and am getting used to a new feel, and I am getting to like it more. It's purely a matter of personal preference. If you hold out a while there will be plenty of choices.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Slicc98:
How do you change the amounts?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Acoustichayes:
Just so you're aware, the fold 3 is limited to 25 watt fast charging and won't charge any faster than that
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Acoustichayes:
Just to help some that keep cellular network enabled when on wifi to increase battery life. Wanted to share after testing this.

Use Tasker to switch to LTE when you connect to wifi, then switch back to 5g when you disconnect from wifi.

5g, similar to when 4g first came out, uses more energy than 4g. So switching to 4g when you're connected to wifi will net less battery drain.

Currently on 4 hours SOT at 46% battery left at 50% brightness and about 70% inside screen use.

Location and Bluetooth on, with wifi and mobile data active
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
Can i see your "last charge will last about" information? For me after i charged to 100% it will go downhill to 95 and slow down there all way down to 0, kinda weird
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Acoustichayes:
Yeah, I do have it on the charger now though. Since it's a Friday, want to make sure it lasts all night lol
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] dinadan007:
Looks good, mine only says 10 hours with all serious saving battery tweaks. I dont know where it went wrong so im thinking to give it back
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
Just got mine. This what im getting after hard-core tuning

Disabled all blotware with disabler cloud app. Around 30% brightness no cpu limit. 95% USED MAIN SCREEN
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] xxpawzxx:
I don't know if it was mentioned before but the way that helped lengthen my battery life was turning the Screen Mode from Vivid to Natural. Bringing the screen refresh rate down to 60hz was marginal compared to the Screen Mode.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
This is from yesterday. I used the large screen 100% of the time.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
please, for god sake how did you do it. just tell me already
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
Lol... Just disable or uninstall all unused apps, turn off Google Discover & Samsung Free (the swipe right on homescreen thing), disable Google (the app, not account syncing) and Google Assistant, turn off Bluetooth/NFC/GPS until you need it, use a black theme, turn off unnecessary notifications, error reporting, and feedback, use static wallpaper, stop app auto updates and auto refresh (weather, stocks, etc), turn off always-on-screen.

I don't do this, but for even more battery use 96hz or 60hz and turn off vivid screen mode.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] kwadrat530:
Do you also get faster charging towards the end? I am using a wireless charger
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] klemen241:
i have noticed that too with wired charghing lol
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] freezingpoint:
That happened to me as well when I first charged to 100%.

I was a bit anxious that the battery was defective but everything seemed normal with usage and succeeding charges to 90%.

I don't usually charge past 90% but it seems the 90-100 tops up fast. Maybe they're limiting the maximum charging?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Acoustichayes:
Your Comment should really have more praise. This is actually a good idea. I set mine to natural from the get go because I also do photography and vivid blows out the blues in my photos heavily.

But yes, it takes more power to display the increased color space. Since Samsung for some reason doesn't use color management properly, it is always showing the larger color space even if something is tagged srgb
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] klemen241:
or set refresh rate to 90 and enjoy speed and baetter battery
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
How? The app in xda forum is crashing all the time.

Any other way to set refresh rate to 96hz

Battery life sucks 😢
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] tupac19861013:
I would also love to know a way to get the Refresh Rate to 90?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] klemen241:
https://xdaforums.com/t/app-galaxy-max-hz-refresh-rate-mods-screen-off-mods-and-more.4181447/
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] bryanhayn:
Ok, this is my last screenshot. 120hz, 95% large screen use, 90% indoors, natural screen mode, wifi & cell on all day, other radios off.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] atvxda:
That is outstanding. Even better than my Fold2. My Fold seems inconsistent. I charged up yesterday afternoon and am at 26% currently and that is running for 18h off of the charger. However, yesterday I got 5h 50m of SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
After disabling the location battery life doubled 😬 I will just switch on it when I need it
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Mr. Orange 645:
Your stats show you charged it from near empty, back to full, then ran it down to near empty again to hit 8.5 hrs screen time. That's only about 4-4.5 hour screen on time per charge. Not that impressive.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] eswar539:
Shettt. Im confused with sot graphs. The old software just shows sot, now its all confusing 😱
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] kxdaorbit:
This is roughly the ballpark figure that I'm also seeing on forums, and what I'm getting too. Anything beyond this is usually only achievable by running it as a 'brick'.

Also, whilst here, is anyone experiencing problems with the S pen glitching? Sometimes when typing, I have to hit a key multiple times before it registers, but using a finger to input works.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] kill.i.an:
I got my Fold3 early in the U.K. — been using it since August 25th. The only way I've been able to get decent battery life is by having Power Saving Mode on constantly. I switched from an iPhone 12 so was used to a phone that lasts all day. I just can't get that kind of usage from the Fold3 without Power Saving Mode.

I've been reading through this thread... I'm going to try the 90Hz display trick because I'd really like to take advantage of a faster refresh rate if I can, and I'm also going to switch to using the natural color mode instead of vivid, since some users have said that also helps. Does anyone have any other tips?

I have Bluetooth on constantly because I also have a Galaxy Watch4, but I have been keeping a keen eye on app usage and getting rid of anything that runs in the background for too long. I've stopped using so many apps just because they were sapping too much battery life. So I know it's not that; I check usage regularly and use the tool inside the battery "menu" to optimize usage several times a day.

I do use Digital Wellbeing, but only to schedule bedtime mode. Could that be having an impact? I read one comment that said it's a battery life hog, but would it really use that much just scheduling bedtime mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] JayRolla:
Disabling wifi and bluetooth scanning helped a lot for my phone. Also instead of running in battery save mode always I setup Bixby routines to turn on battery save only when closed and to turn off when opened. I use the front screen for most stuff other than media content so it helped me save a lot of battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] kill.i.an:
Thanks for the reply. I can't seem to find a setting for scanning in the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth menus.

The Bixby tip is great — I'll give that a try!
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] JayRolla:
It's under location and then improved accuracy. Can also just search wifi scanning in settings
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] kill.i.an:
Thanks very much!
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] SquithyX:
So glad its not just me, I have upgraded from my now over 2 year old Fold 5G to the Fold3 and the Battery life is dismal to say the least! I can use my Fold 5G for a full day at work... only using the main screen, bluetooth music, Wireless Android Auto, multiple checking / playing with and all the other good stuff and still have at least 35% battery life when i get home 14hrs later. I have NEVER had the Fold 5G power off on me in the last 2 years, have had the Fold3 for a week and only managed to make it through a full working day once and then it was at 6% when i hot home, after driving in silence as i had turned off AA and limited my usage through the shift!

Will be trying the refresh rate, wellbeing and wifi / bluetooth fixes - non of which were needed on the Fold 5G
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] nswenson:
Turning on Battery Saver mode with default settings, location precision off, and natural color profile makes the battery life acceptable for me. I also enabled battery protection (85% charge limit) and can get near 7 hours SOT. You basically pick up a little over 2 hours SOT with these settings. Regarding 85% charge limit, I think it’s a good idea as the batteries in this device will be very difficult to replace as compared to normal phones. Better to top off many times a day when possible then to run full battery cycles which will degrade battery significantly in 2 to 3 years. That last 15% to reach 100% is the most damaging for Lithium batteries.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] ShaKki:
The first two days for me were pretty rough but i knew the battery will learn some stuff, many updates and playing arround.

Ytd i went to real life daily working routines and i'm pretty happy . Over 8h SOT

GPS on, NFC on, Wifi on, 5g on, no energy saving modes above 15%
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Acoustichayes:
I'm testing battery savings with digital wellbeing permissions revoked, and then with it fully disabled to see how much it can help. Almost 4 hours SOT at half battery with 90% inner screen use. Yesterday was the first day and it honestly seemed to make a noticeable difference, but since it was only the first day, there could be other variables. Time will tell
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] whatwhatster:
Wow don't know why but last charged my phone and unplugged it around 22.00 at 100%.

Phones gets in flight mode at 01.00 and at 06.30 it was like 83%.

And the juice kept moving down over the day and constant high temp above 30 degrees.

I was home with 13% left.

Don't know what happened suddenly without changing anything, I am two day user until today but this is not cool....
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Metalshadowx2:
I'm treating this phone as with great power comes great responsibility.. but this battery is really bad. It doesn't make it all the way to the end of day. I got a battery that stays with me and I'm always near a plug. I just gotta make sure I charge it often because I do love the two screens and I got it for a cheap price. I will endure until then.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] ycats:
Mine has been decent after some adjustments...........60hz refresh rate, turn off nearby device scanning, turn off wifi when not in use, Screen mode to Natural, screen timeout to 1 minute, in Developer Options - change animation scale, transition scale, duration scale to .5x.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] whatwhatster:
Don't know what my issue suddenly was for the strange battery behavior of Android system and Android kernel.

Was pushed for hard resetting and right now it's normal again.

Never experienced this kind of drain since I think S6 Edge and hope it was a one time thing.

I tried everything, clearing cache, multiple reboots, phone for xx minutes and go on.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] ilordvader:
Im happy with the battery life
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] ycats:
About the end of my first week of having the device, something was draining my battery..........went from 90% down to 60% really fast.................I rebooted it and placed on the charger, then started adjusting the settings and seems to be fine ever since.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Metalshadowx2:
Am I wrong for being ok with this. 5g turned off. 96hz both screens mostly inner screen used. No battery saving
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] kxdaorbit:
Very similar to my battery stats, though I do have 5G on, 120hz, tend to use inner screen mostly (sorry, but can't help myself) no power saving, vivid display.

Additionally, I'm using Nova launcher, only charge to 85% via battery saver, and I'm definitely not a happy chappy.

Am I being churlish, I don't think so, comments welcome.
[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3] Bl4ckLine:
My battery usage, averaging 6:30h SOT, i'm glad about it