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[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
I think that True, i check consumption % per minute
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
I'm still testing Feb vs Dec patch. Now seems to be the same in battery sot , tomorrow I'll compare again to see if I'll go back to Dec or stay on Feb
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
I don't update to 6.0 ui
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
Why I'm on Russian translate?

You are from Russia?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
I don't know. Not from Russian
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] KantmiS:
Not better Oct?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
Please develop !

I don't understand your question?

You mean Oct patch ? That's the first release .
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
All good on Feb patch
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
Still good on Feb patch.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] KantmiS:
Yes, October patch.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
I'm on Feb patch all good for now
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] KantmiS:
5.1 Oct, Wifi, 120hz
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
How old Phone? 1 year?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] KantmiS:
Ye, from 14 Feb 2023.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
Have you noticed that the battery life has become a little worse? After the new year, I noticed minus an hour and a half of screen time
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] KantmiS:
Mb little on UI5.1, but i have more battery drain on UI6, and then I rollback to A13.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
I didnt update to 6.0
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
The TikTok app take so much juice. This is killing the battery
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ghost495:
I havent this app
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] burns94:
I am having to charge my phone twice on some days due to terrible battery life.

I have cleared cache of google play services and store. Cleared cache in recovery. Used dark mode and disabled bluetooth where possible. I have also tried standard motion and 1080p. Not sure what else I can do. Usually only get around 4-5 hours sot, these screenshots are after turning the phone into a mid ranger.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

Edit: running latest oneui 6 on Feb security.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
I think the answer is right there...Google maps..it's such a great battery sucker.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
+ pretty bad signal reception. Good combination to drain battery
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
I would have a look at Google Play Services...
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ussultra23:
Is this okay screen on time? I don't get why they comolicate the screen on time view. It all was simple back in the day.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] burns94:
Even when I don't use Google maps, would struggle to get 6 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] burns94:
What would you suggest I do. I have already cleared cache etc and made sure up to date.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] burns94:
You are getting my level of sot from only 54% of battery usage, pretty damn good.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Blame iPhone for that
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
There are a lot of things at play here. You need to check cell reception, Google play services, rogue apps. It's difficult to give a solution without know how your typical goes by
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] jandro00:
I can contribute something that a few weeks ago I couldn't contribute and you wouldn't have believed me. They replaced my s23 Ultra due to an accident, via insurance. And the battery of the new terminal lasts the same or less than the unit from 12 months ago. Less than how long that one lasted. Something is wrong with the firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] blacklixt22:
google maps and scamsung health battery juice sucker
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Psych0t1c20:
What font is this?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
Made evolve sans
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] samlis:
Hi everyone I would like to know, if the February patch is better than the December for the battery .thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] enigmaamit:
It feels more or less the same. For me, it's one of the most battery friendly builds on OneUI 6.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Beefheart:
Any news for March update? Wondering if I should go back from December having downgraded from the utterly awful January update.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
Looks good. Phone fells less warm compared to February patch. But I installed It 3 hours ago lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Beefheart:
Cheers, have updated to March.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
Please share the battery life. After the learning process stops
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
I don't think the battery goes thru a learning phase after a security update. It's usually a factory reset that does this...isn't it?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
I think you are right.

After I downgrade to Dec patch it learned,but on Feb patch didn't.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Yes that's because when you downgrade you end up factory resetting the device.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
The Learning process is only to monitor user's habbits in order to make a good prognosis of the remaing battery life. It does nothing with the battery/battery life itself...
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Beefheart:
Not impressed so far, sitting at 53% with a SOT of just shy of 2.5 hours, having done little beyond a few phone calls and some browsing. On the December build I'd be on around 70%.

Will leave it a few days but might go back to December or maybe even Android 13.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
I'm the opposite battery back to normal with this update, I'm sitting at 71% with 2hr20 screen time, back to a full 2 day battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Woniu1818:
Finally, battery is back to normal 2 days usage with march patch for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
Same + phone feels way colder compared to February with same usage
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] trevzv:
Which region are you using the March patch?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Beefheart:
Definitely something going wrong with mine as it's just as bad as January for me, which made me downgrade to December. I'm on 56% after 2 hours 50 minutes SOT which has been typical of what I've had since upgrading to March.

Might do a factory reset.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] olafsand:
March update
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
March update isn't that good for me.

Today I'll go back to December patch.

Maybe I'll go to android 13 if it's possible
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Beefheart:
Definitely something wrong with March update for me, sitting at 38% with just 3.5 hours SOT.

I got this phone in October and on the October, November and December updates I'd be hitting around 8 hours SOT (sometimes over 9 hours), so would be over 5 hours SOT on 38%.

I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and point to the possibility of it being caused by having downgraded to December from January a month or two back, then when I heard things had improved, I updated from December through to February to March.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to factory reset and try again to see if that improves March. If not I'll downgrade to December again. Annoying they appear to have screwed up the battery life with every update since Christmas.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
38% with 3.5 hours would be about 9.21 SOT with your numbers till phone reaches 0.

38% with 5 hours would be about 13.15 SOT with your numbers till phone reaches 0.

How do you get only 8 hours SOT total on December with 38% on 5 SOT?

Are you using only 61%( 1 SOT with your numbers is 7.6% ) of your battery every single charge?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
This is from Dec patch or Feb patch
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Beefheart:
How is being on 38% (and therefore having used 62% of total charge) with 3.5 hours of SOT going to result in 9.21 hours of SOT by the time the battery reaches 0%?

The actual SOT before zero, and that's assuming the unlikely scenario that the phone discharges at the same rate from 38% to 0%, would be 210 (minutes of SOT so far) / 62 (percentage of battery used so far) x 38 (percentage of battery remaining) + 210. This will give you the total minutes of screen on time from 100% to 0%. You then divide this by 60 to give you the hours. Which is circa 5.6 hours. So terrible, as I said.

I think you misunderstood my post, but I'm unsure how. Without doing the numbers, maybe when I said sitting at 38% you thought I'd used 38% of battery to get to 3.5 hours of SOT. But that would be a very unusual way of wording such a claim. I would have been very happy with that.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
Ohh. I thought you said 3.5 SOT for 38% of battery. Because that's pretty normal battery consumption.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
Recent patches battery performance personally for me:

December - Excellent

January - Horrible

February - Excellent

March - Bad

Anyway, One UI 6.1 is coming on 28th March, so I just have to endure this bad patch for five more days.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
I confirm that the March patch is bad on battery, I'm back to Dec and the battery is good again.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] connectandroid:
I bought a refurbished Samsung S23 Ultra SM-918B and had it for ~1 week now. Came with Feb 2024 update and updated it to March 2024. Battery has been great from my limited experience. Accubattery reports SOT battery rate is 9.5-10.5%/hr and screen off standby is 0.7-1.2%/hr which equates to 9.5hrs SOT and combined SOT/off = 20-22hrs.

Using dark mode, 3088x1440, 120hz and capped charge at 85% and usually charge when between 15-65% battery

Using Microsoft Launcher

Not sure if that is good or not for S23 Ultra refurbished model? It matches my 3yr old Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro in SOT so I'm happy.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] shivammangla:
Update to Device Care 13.8.06.11 for pre ONE UI 6 sot data.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] djoxie:
Finally, thanks for the info!

Little hint: there is a drop-down menu, where you can choose view type between "today" and "since last charge".
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
You will need to update to One UI 6.1 tomorrow anyway, so what's the point in rolling back to Dec patch?

Unless you're happy with forfeiting all the Galaxy AI features that the S24U has? That's literally the only thing that separates the S24U from S23U (barring that awesome anti-reflective screen). Both are the same devices.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
But ,maybe with the 6.1 cames a bug with the battery again ?

You forgot about the burn-in protection that is gone from dec-march !

I'll postpone the 6.1 for the moment
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
Does anyone know how to get a more detailed report on the device's actual battery status, all I'm currently seeing is "Normal."
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] zSyntex:
Every update could bring some bug and people who say that the battery lasts less than before.

Just wait few days to let the system recognize the charging pattern again
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] zSyntex:
You should use app like AccuBattery etc. to get detailed info
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] itvaletchu:
Use ADB and "

adb Shell dumpsys battery​

"

and it will bring all the battery stats for you
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] badussy:
Ion know what people are talking about honestly, I'm on the latest update (not the 6.1 yet) I got 70% and 8h 36m screen on time, looking at the next day, it's 5% and 39m screen on time. I just have turned off all the spyware from Google(In google settingsI turned off all the spyware things), Samsung and I'm utilizing the Deep Sleep thing for all apps I don't need them recording everything I do with my phone, it's just Instagram and Snapchat that are collecting data non-stop on my device because I need them and use them and are not in deep sleep mode.

Performance Profile is set to light.

Power saving is off.

Auto Sync Data off.

RAM plus off.

DEV settings:

Wifi scan throttling on

Mobile data always active off
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
So the new One UI 6.1 has this "protect battery" feature that limits charging to 80% instead of the old 85%. I'm curious, is 80% really better for the battery's health? And when should I plug it back in, like at 15% or 20%?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
For the best battery health it's best to keep phone in 40-80% range. 80% to 100% contains a lot of juice. Slightly more than for example 40-60%. Same 20% but different lol. So in a long run 3-5 years you should have more "healthy" battery if you charge up to 80%.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] babak:
I wonder why it wasn't included in the One UI 6.1 update officially.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
I know it takes a few days after a major update but after my third full day with 6.1 battery definitely is noticeably worse, can't get above 5hrs SOT on a full charge now compared with 7-8 before the update
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] enigmaamit:
Yes, I share the same experience.

Still gets me through a whole day so I'll wait for a couple of updates and see how it goes. But it's definitely worse than OneUI 6.0
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Thank the AI features for that...if you have customisation services enabled..disable those..I have a feeling this kills the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] enigmaamit:
Thank you for the suggestion. I usually keep customisation service off, but had to turn it on to see if the adaptive charging actually works

I will just wait for a bit and see if things settle down on their own. It's too early to judge the build as I'm playing around with features more than usual.

Plus, as long as the bootloader doesn't change, I can always go back to whatever build I want. So that safety net is always there.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Hey..I had it on for a day and the drain was noticeably bad. Adaptive battery still works without the customization service anyways
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
But yet in gsam there is nothing new draining the battery no extra processes or anything, unless the AI stuff is hidden...I have customisation services disabled, I've settled for basic mode on battery protection, apart from circle to search I can't see myself using anything else that came with AI on 6.1
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
I use the call assist ai feature and circle to search. GSAM too doesn't report any new drains. It seems the AI features are hidden deep in the Adnroid OS.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
Battery after 6.1 is fine for me...

I charge only to 85%, no debloating done, everything active all the time (location, 2x SIM, WiFi, BT), smartwatch connected throughout, no battery saving, light profile though.

I do only use 4g, as 5g just uses more juice without adding much extra speed.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] LuthorKid:
How where you able to limit it to 85%? I am not pleased with new limit @80%
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
Using 2 simple routines. May not be most elegant, but it works.

See screenshots of routines in my post here...

The routines make that charging stops at 85% and charging will resume when battery is down to 80%.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] enigmaamit:
I didn't mean adaptive battery. I meant the new adaptive charging feature under Battery Protection. That needs customization service enabled to work.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Same here..I referred to the adaptive battery charging feature too. I disabled the customisation services and adaptive charging is still on. I'll most like go ahead with routines to set my max battery charge just for the sake of the battery. Customisation services are a battery hogger. Also, I disabled location. It seems 6.1 gets frequent location panic attacks that it keeps polling for location more frequently than needed. Besides, I have a routine that enables location as and when needed.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
So the latest One UI 6.1 update isn't great, in my opinion. The battery drain when my phone is idle is a bit much, even though the screen-on time is fine. I think it might be because of some new features that are always running in the background.

I don't want to go back to an older update though, because I like the Galaxy AI features. Has anyone tried debloating recently? If so, can you share your debloat list? I'd really appreciate it!
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] DUTCH Van Atlanta:
My battery life seems to be MUCH improved since installing the One UI 6.1. Nothing was changed except to download and install 6.1.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
After having a bad first few days with 6.1 battery today was completely different! 2hr42mins SOT and 70% remaining...I'm hoping it isn't a one off and this continues
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Osushi:
What battery protection profile?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Basic, I don't want to use adaptive as you need customisation service on and it is quite a battery hog
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] m3ath:
6.1

1440p 60hz
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] aafrankies:
Great battery life on 6.1
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
How it's this on 6.1
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
Battery protection seems not to work as advertised.

With basic (1) protection and reaching 100%, the charging indicator goes off (2).

But status in Device Care/Battery the status remains 'charging' (3). The graph indicate that phone is still charging (4).

When using the phone, even intensively, the battery maintains 100%. Also my Anker 737 power bank and USB power meter indicate that the phone keeps drawing power - approx 2-3 Watt. AccuBattery app also reports that phone is still charging and taking power (5).

That implies that the phone battery - with basic battery protection - will never go down to 95%, but continues charging to keep 100%.

Other observation is that Super Fast Charging seems really capped. No matter at what percentage I start charging, the maximum charging power never exceeds 25W. Before OneUI 6.1 charging power was up to 45W, using Samsung 65W charger icw 5Amp cable, confirmed by USB powermeter and display of Anker 737 Powercore 24K.

I have SM-S918B/DS, al software and apps up-to-date, no debloating.

(*) refers to attached screenshots.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Does anyone notice charging seems to take a lot longer with 6.1, it's taking 40mins to charge my phone from 60% to full, the super fast option is no longer available in charging options
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Woniu1818:
Very good battery life after week on OneUI6.1
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
Yes, as charging power taken by phone is not exceeding 25Watt.

Setting for SFC was already gone in 6.0. The option fast charging also allows for SFC, when appropriate charger is connected.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Location was, is and will always be a huge drainer. With location, I'm easily losing 2 to 2.5 hours of SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] trevzv:
Very bad, in the early versions of the One UI 6 I did about 9:30 hours of screen time with the same use.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Normusmaxamus:
Samsung S23 Ultra on one ui 6.1 update. The battery life has returned to normal for me. I'm pleased with it. From 100% down to 5%.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Naikkon:
Please tell us the secret?

Data,wifi,bt,gps, all off ?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
Bro that's great but we can't see anything useful in your screenshot. Can you open and show us what apps you were using and SOT?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Normusmaxamus:
I've already recharged the battery back to 100% when it runs down to 5% again I will post all that you requested. And hopefully its more informative.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Normusmaxamus:
I just debloat all unnecessary apps I don't use and block location. All my apps open in dark mode. With a black wallpaper for my home and lockscreen.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Location is the biggest killer in battery life, I have recently started using location sharing with my wife and I've went from ending the day with 60% battery to ending the day with 30% battery, but as long as I can still get through the full day I'm happy enough
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
Here's my graph of yesterday. Everything continuously on (2x SIM, mobile data, wifi, location), no battery saving, no debloating...

By exception I charged to 100% to test basic battery protecton - which didn't work as advertised as battery is kept on 100% when in use..
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
Could you please send your debloat list?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Normusmaxamus:
Of course no problem. Hope it helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Wow..is there anything left other than dialer 😁
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
That's less than half of the recommended services to disable in UAD. This kind of comment is really boring and only made by those who are ignorant in debloating. Every "smart" function in the phone still works fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
FYI...I have debloated my device to the point that meets my requirements. Everyone's case is different and my comment was only intended as joke which the OP understood...case closed
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
Okay, my apologies. I often see this comment made by others and it makes me roll my eyes when they comment about things which they're clearly ignorant about.

Would you mind sending your debloat list so that I can see if I've missed any junk services? Also, how many hrs of SOT are you getting per 10%? I'm currently getting 1.25 hrs SOT per 10% with debloating, but I want to improve it without losing any important features.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] TeeJae360:
How much SOT per 10% were you getting before debloating?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] OnnoJ:
I am interested to know as well. Without debloating I get 1.18 hrs of SOT per 10%. (Post 1,307 above)

I wonder whether the gain of debloating justifies the hassle...
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
I bought my phone in May 2023 and followed this guide for battery optimization: https://xdaforums.com/t/samsung-galaxy-one-ui-optimization-guide.4376755/

I also copied other people's debloating (reason why I ask for other people’s debloat list so that I can keep improving SOT without removing important features).

I can't remember my SOT/10%, as this was last year. However, I remember that it wasn't good, and I was unimpressed with this phone when I started using it out of the box. It peaked in the December/February patch, when I was getting 1.5 hr SOT per 10% and used to go 4 days before charging my phone with over 12-13 hr SOT. Now I'm down to 1.25 hr SOT per 10% and charging every 2 days (though I cap charging to 80% and recharge before 15%).
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Srbija2012:
Pretty clear who wears the pants in this relationship. :P
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Ha ha, was my idea actually, her work has her doing shifts all over the place and sharing location is very handy to see if she's near home so I can prepare food, according to gsam maps now stay awake around 1-2hrs each day so it's quite the battery hog on top of the usual location usage, but I still have no issues getting through a full day
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Srbija2012:
Haha, youre a good man...
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
I didn't debloat much except for Facebook garbage and it's goons. I kept all other features as is. I removed Google messages as well.

This is my usage. I know it's not that great but I'm not sacrificing on features that make One UI stand out from the rest of the OEMs.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Big Bread:
From 80% to 15% on OUI6.1 (March) before moving to OUI6.1 (April) today. Used the phone as normal whilst connected to buds 2 pro (fpr spotify in gym) and watch 5 pro for fitness tracking whilst outdoors.

65% used to last over 3 days for me on the Dec and Feb patches, now it only lasts 2.5 days on March patch. I'll see how the April patch compares to March.