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[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] nmt1900:
That actually sounds believable because at first days of setting everything up I was actually surprised to see how much screen-on-time was the phone able to take (over 5 hours SOT with quite heavy overall activity and just about 60i(sh) % of battery consumed to that). Even on these days the estimate for full charge was 3 days, while it is now in about 4 days (and all that without any connectivity functionalities switched off).

Old S20+ was barely able to reach half of that at best. Considering that S20+ had 4 Ah battery and S23 Ultra has 5 Ah we have very significant advancement in overall efficiency.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] nmt1900:
There's one thing that is actually used in electric cars and can be used anywhere else where lithium batteries are used - some of battery capacity is hidden from the user making it a "buffer". This way user can see degradation starting only when this buffer is exhausted i.e. the actual battery capacity decreases to the "net level" which is made available/advertised to user.

There's of course another issue as well which can not be hidden - degradation causes the internal resistance of battery to increase which leads to quicker drain under heavy load while behaviour under standby might not seem to be affected (yet).

Anyways one of the biggest factors affecting battery degradation is still the temperature. I usually use the routine that switches charging over to "slow" (fast charging OFF) based on charge level while charging and reverts the change afterwards.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] phormskaran:
Do whatsapp etc count also to that or only messenger and facebook?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matushsvk:
Can anyone advise if we should use "Adaptive Battery" or should we just disable it?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Use adb app control and delete meta services, delete everything to do with Facebook and meta apart from the Facebook app then the battery drain will stop for Facebook
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Facebook and messenger..whatsapp is standalone.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
People say this but Facebook isn't even in the top 10 for wakelocks and averages about 3 minutes a day on my device, hardly worth noting at all. I set the app to optimized battery and Messenger to unrestricted and neither of them drain my battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] mtm1401:
It could drive system/play services/kernel wakelocks though right?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
Not happening on my device. I have limited permissions as I suspected that the location permission was the one causing wakelocks on previous devices and ever since, it hasn't been an issue except one update where the app was running nonstop but they dropped a patch the next day to fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] JazonX:
Any tips particular or unique to S23 to conserve battery drains ?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
Don't restore backups from your previous device. If you don't start fresh, you'll have all kinds of wakelocks and unexplained drain. Other than that, put social media apps on restricted or optimized and just use the phone. Not much really needs to be tweaked. I average 6.4%/hr screen on and 1.5%/hr screen off with a poor signal, WiFi, Bluetooth attached to my Galaxy Watch 4 Classic (which isn't connected to LTE so everything it does goes over Bluetooth), Bluetooth playing shows on VLC with the screen off at night while I'm sleeping, auto brightness on, 1080p (I don't see the point in 1440p on a display this small so I just leave it at 1080p), 5G on, using dual SIM, on full performance mode... It is a struggle for me to kill this battery in a single day unless I'm gaming heavily.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] JazonX:
Awesome! Thanks a ton for the detailed feedback :)
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ssj100:
Yes I also believe heat is a battery's arch enemy and have always avoided fast charging, and have never used it - that is, I always disable all fast charging in my Samsung phones since 2016. In fact, I actually charge slower than using the default Samsung cable, as I have a "mashed up" connecting cable via my laptop cable which slows charging even further - so charging speed is around 0.5% per minute, which is plenty fast enough for me.

Interestingly, wireless charging (not fast) appears to be even slower than 0.5% per minute - I'd estimate it around 0.3-0.4% per minute, and yet it quite obviously heats up the phone. With my 0.5% per minute via above cable setup, I notice no obvious heat at all.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] jasons1004:
1440p

Auto brightness

mainly wifi

global 24hz-120hz with some apps limited to 24-60hz

918U1 model

This screenshot was at around 17% remaining battery. 23u has been great for me 👍👍
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] bodomfan:
So good
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] donkeyman1234:
I freezed mata services. It was the main culprit for night battery drain.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Yeah meta services is a bad drain, the first Samsung device I got was the s21 ultra and meta services and carrier services drained my battery so much everyday, it took ages before I learnt how to delete them, ever since every phone I get they are the first built in apps I delete although with the s23 ultra carrier services wasn't on the device
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Virgo_Guy:
Over Wi-Fi I easily get 8-9 hrs SOT in a total runtime of about 24 hrs in medium to high usage pattern. With similar usage pattern, I never used to get such high endurance in any Samsung S flagship ever.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Piratepower:
in another forum a guy told he had bad battery life with running good lock , camera assistant and stuff. He didnt use backup, just fresh start with the phone. He didnt know what causes his battery drain, so he he installed everything new and fresh again but without good lock and now he has great battery life. is it known to cause battery drain or is it just a coincidence?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
No issues on mine. Never faced any issues with battery drain on any S flagship ever.

Was there a proof that good lock caused that battery drainage? There are many application which can cause battery problems. Never heard before that good lock does that.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Piratepower:
no he doesnt know for sure good lock was the drain, it was just his suspect cause it doesnt appear in battery consumption list
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Fl1nt91:
Lately I've been having a bad battery life.

I mean, kind of 8 hours of SOT under wifi...which is bad

I don't know what happened, I went holiday and i used the phone connected with android auto (so always in charge at 85%). Since then battery life significantly decreased

I will probably reset everything after the next update
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] AA37Q:
Unfortunately, I have had poor battery life after the March update. Mostly from Google Play services. I turn off autosyncing, denied location request from most apps and even cleared cache and data. It went from using 2-3% of battery to using 10-16%.

PS. Deleting the data on google play services forces you to reset your galaxy watch so back up your watch data on wearable before you do it.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
It seems gmail and google play services are major culprits in Android 13. I have been on Samsung email app which means there isn't much google play services running. Try samsung's email app
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Fl1nt91:
What happened to my device?

Used to have amazing battery life

Consider that I'm using every type of power saving
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] AA37Q:
So the March update battery drain fix is this:

Uninstall updates to Google Play services in the app page, also clear cache and data, turn off auto sync in the account settings page, under Google app turn off precise location and use approximate location. Under location deny location to apps that don't require it. Go to battery settings and look for apps using alot of battery put them under restricted instead of optimized. Think Facebook, Instagram, snapchat etc. Power off the phone and reboot holding the power button and volume up and scroll down wipe cache partian and clear it. Then scroll down to repair apps and select it, then let the phone reboot and you should be set.

Google play services went from using almost 18% of battery to using under 2% in one day. Today is my first day since the change so hopefully it's good from here on out.

I'll keep you guys updated with any changes and may take the advice of the other poster above and use samsung email instead of Gmail but I'll give it some time and see.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Klaudas:
Did you meant April? March update was a while ago
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Reaper1337:
You had 7 and a half hours of SoT, having 17% left and you are still complaining?

What the?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Fl1nt91:
Used to be better, much better...I lately noticed a degrade I battery life, after my holiday where I used the phone often plugged to the car for Android auto

Anyway, seems to be back on track on this cicle (charged at 85%)
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Keos214:
The baterry can not work everyday at the same performance

I have like 7 to 10 hours sot depend how i use my s23u

Some days you have sync in background on WhatsApp, Google app,PlayStore and other

So dont panic everythings is fine for now
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Absolutely, as long as you don't have obscene battery drains, you shouldn't worry much...1-2 hours SOT here there are just normal since everyday usage varies.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
What made the Google play services drain disappear with me was turning off everything to do with location, Google location accuracy is a big battery hog, also find my mobile, Samsung and Google has their own version, turn them off and my Google play services went from 4% a day and being top of the list to not even being in the top 10 and a 0.3% drain
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
So does that mean there's no need for Google location accuracy. That is, just the location needs to be enabled in the device? And, does that mean the Google location accuracy is a vestigial feature?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] AA37Q:
I started having the issue after I updated on March 22. It's showing as the March update and also Google Play system update was the same day. I have a unlocked U1 device not sure why the update was so late for me
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] AA37Q:
Go through your settings unfortunately you get duplicated features from samsung and Google and start turning them off. As far as I can tell the only app that needs my precise location is Google maps, everything else is unnecessary imo.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Yes, that I know and I have done that. But when the location is disabled don't we have to disable the location accuracy too. Else, wont Google location accuracy unnecessarily ping for location even if GPS is disabled?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] blackhawk:
These phones seem obscenely inefficient.

10 hrs SOT = 500 mAh, average SOT usage.

7 hrs = 714 mAh, average.

A baseline of 350 mAh in SOT be reasonable, maybe 400 mAh.

My optimized stock N10 is using an average of 350 mAh with screen on, if you were getting that you would have 14 hrs of SOT!

You also have a lot of junk running... consequences.

I see my actual real time usage drop as low as 70 mAh a couple times a minute when idling. When the lowest value is above 100 mAh at idle I know there's a problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ssj100:
Not sure if comparing with Note 10 is useful - screen is smaller (although the 10+ is the same I think), screen resolution maximum is 1080p, and refresh rate can't exceed 60Hz. I'd suspect there are also numerous other "under the hood" differences (including simply a better display) which allow the S23 Ultra to perform better (in various tasks) but also use more battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
I have these things turned on and my Google Play Services battery is quite minor at .2% currently today and .2% over the last 7 days.

The reality is the average consumer wants to get through a workday without having to charge and this phone delivers that in spades. You also can't compare the two unless you were running the same software with a similar configuration. This is common sense. If people need days and days of battery, and are willing to make the sacrifices necessary in internals and absolute phone size, Oukitel has them covered with a 21,000mAh battery - https://oukitel.com/pages/oukitel-wp19
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] robbbzilla:
That Oukitel looks like a beast and as slow as a beast. Lol. UFS 2.1! 12nm MediaTek with 2 a76 and 6 a55. Ddr 4.

At least it will last a week on a charge because you are going to need extra time doing normal things.

No case needed and also serves as an emergency window breaker and assault weapon 🔪🔫. 😂
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
Yeah it serves a very specific niche for sure lol. They do have higher-powered options with smaller (but still ridiculous) batteries in the 9000-12000mAh range.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] nmt1900:
It has been mentioned before, but one should turn off "App install optimisation" in Google Play Store settings. This is a one of sneaky ways for Google to "spy" on app usage by using Google Play services in a background (to "make apps faster to install, open and run for everyone"). I disabled that option and it helped more than any other tweak related to Play Services. It dropped quite a lot down in a battery usage list...
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] lawtq:
Who feels battery is better after April update?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] BarBoZza23:
Unfortunately I have tried my best but I still have very poor battery life compared to others on my S23 Ultra. Besides that I believe that I have bad readings also about my battery consumption.

I fully charged my phone this morning, to 100%. Since then it seems that I have 50% left. Gsam pro with adb commands, I am not rooted, states that I have eaten up 67% of battery life. My stats are since my last full charge.

In general I have disabled nearby device scan, Find my phone, Location history, Wifi Scanning, Bluetooth scanning and all of the battery eating services that I could find from this thread. I also followed by the book the guide from the first post of this thread up until Google Play Settings.

During the night I have enabled a routine that disables wifi, mobile data, enables do not disturb mode etc. except Bluetooth because I use it with my Galaxy Watch 3 for sleep tracking. During that 9 hour period it loses up to 3% which is acceptable I guess.

My settings for the day:

WQHD+

Wifi Off for most of the day.

5G on most of the day, off when I got home and opened my wifi.

Standard profile mode

AOD On.

Location On for about half an hour, always off in generar.

Forgot to mention that Battery Guru states that my battery is 104% (!) Healthy.

Any kind of help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Here's what I could

Here's what I can suggest you 1. Move to 4g...WiFi preferable. 2. Get rid of Facebook and its cronies. But if 2 is not possible then you need to live with this battery drain. As for your battery life, battery guru should give you a better idea. You can also check the kernel wakelocks in that app.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] BarBoZza23:
Most of days I am on Wifi only. Yesterday I was away from home staying in a hotel so I decided to use 5g only until I got back and decided to post. My battery drain is the same. When I am on Wifi I am constantly to 2g only with a routine.

I thought of Facebook too but actually the battery consumption is not that bad from it. I also have frozen meta.services and other Facebook related packages from App Freezer. I believe it's some wakelocks that I cannot find how to resolve like Ims_Service which are causing the problem.

Ims_Service for example keeps my phone awake with screen off. I googled about it and found out that it has something to do with Volte and Wifi Calling. I decided to keep them off for today and see how it goes.

Besides that wakelock I cannot see any other indication which explains such a high battery drain.

I am now starting a battery calibration process found on the thread of the first post. Already have charged my battery to 100% while my device was off. I let it die. Calibrate it and I will let it die again tomorrow.

Worth noting is that normally I am charging my device with a 120w baseus charger but now I have charged it with a 25w Huawei charger from my previous phone. I want to see if more watts have screwed up my device but I really don think so.

PS I looked the GSam stats again from my previous posts and understood that 67% battery drain from my apps when I had 50% battery left. It makes sense now.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] lil_kujo:
Almost two month since I got the device and never have I had a device with such battery performance. All stock besides some apps put into deep sleep by the system, I don't use social media app besides Instagram and its also restricted. Other than that everything is full specs not saving options. Still have not gotten the April update, but I don't think battery can get better than that. First device I actually can use for two days without charging and first device that I am not worry about running out of juice before I get home.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
the only thing that looks suspicious for being a battery hog in those screen shots is ims service which is wifi calling, unless you really need wifi calling id keep it disabled, but your held awake time is still extremely high, what does gsam say under the"view time held awake" and "view num of times waking the device"? this will tell you exactly what is keeping the device awake
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] BarBoZza23:
After my battery calibration I disabled Wifi Calling and Volte. Ims_Service wakelock is gone now. I had tried that before without any luck but now I am also using Naptime app which I believe has helped a lot! A new wakelock arrived though called "deviceidle_maint". Also Aod Notify seems to cause some drain as well I believe.

My time held awake is now about 57 minutes on a 16 hour use. I don't know if it's still high to be honest.

About YouTube. I had it unrestricted because I have premium sub and when I had it restricted and listened music with my screen off sometimes it was cut off. Android stopped it from being open. The funny thing is that yesterday I opened it for like 5 minutes tops, not 15, so I restricted it again because it causes some drain. Since then it has not opened again.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
ims_service wakelock has to do with VoLTE than with wifi calling as far as I have researched...Btw, do you use DEX a lot? If not, I'd suggest getting rid of it entirely. A possible reason for the drain you're experiencing could be dual-sims. Dual sims will always have more battery drain than single sim. If you have a spare phone, I'd suggest moving 1 of the sims to this and living with carrying 2 devices or accepting this drain for what it is.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] BarBoZza23:
Ims_Service is gone entirely after I disabled Volte. I took your suggestion and I disabled my second SIM entirely to see if it will help.

I noticed something strange though. I discovered that emergency notifications like earthquakes etc had been enabled again on my Google account. Wifi Scanning also had been re-enabled although I had them disabled since day one. Any ideas what may have caused this?
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] amirage:
Did you reset your network settings or general settings? If so, this could cause these to be re-enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] BarBoZza23:
I disabled Volte and Wifi calling recently. Before that I installed the April update which installed some apps I had disabled via adb since day one. Google app for example. In any case I will monitor it now and then and see if they come up again. Thank you for your help!
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] matty100147:
Judging by those screenshots, YouTube and always on display seems to be the main culprits also your Google play services is awake a wee bit more than it should be and I'm a bit confused as to what that app is at the top of the "num of times held awake" section, with the Samsung Dex icon, do you use Samsung Dex? If you want an improvement in battery life you need to kill these drains, put YouTube into deep sleep and that should be end of that drain, as for aod, is it vital to be on all the time? I have aod at the default setting which was tap to show and it has no drain on my phone, as for Google play services, if you turn Google location accuracy off in location services along with Bluetooth and WiFi scanning your Google play services should stop waking your device up, also try to find out what that Samsung Dex process is at the top of your "num of times waking held awake" and put it into deep sleep,

The only 2 sections I use for gsam is view times held awake and number of times held awake, whatever comes out on top of these 2 sections is what is keeping your phone awake
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] BarBoZza23:
Yeah that icon had me confused as well. It's AOD actually I don't know why they use Samsung DEX icon for it. I will change AOD to tap to wake and see how it goes.

YouTube has been to deep sleep since yesterday because I saw that drain as well. I had it unrestricted because of my premium sub. When it's restricted It stops playing music when my screen is off after some time, that's why I had it loose. But it's restricted now and indeed has stopped waking up my device.

Wifi Scanning had re enabled it self for some reason but it's off now. I will turn off location accuracy also.

Thank you for your help, much appreciated!
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Fl1nt91:
Also for me imsService it the major wakelock...

The problem is that I don't have any option to disable nor wifi calling or Volte...probabile my phone carrier doesn't support it, but then the option is hidden in my settings
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] ssj100:
Just an update and interested to know people's experiences too - not sure if it's since the April update or not, but I've noticed "overnight drain" on 2 consecutive nights now to be unexpectedly good when starting at 100%. Over a 6-hour period (with about 2-hours having the AOD always enabled), it drops to 98-99% only!

Prior to both nights, I purposefully left the phone charging for an extra 30-60 minutes after it hit 100%, as I read some people claiming that it still charges for a while even after it displays 100%. I'm not sure if this made the difference. However, I'm actually a bit disappointed by all this, as it doesn't appear to be an accurate representation of battery % remaining.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] m3ath:
1440p 60hz
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] EtherealRemnant:
Many devices hit 100% and keep charging for awhile, it's not unique to the S23 Ultra.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] KantmiS:
2% 💀
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] m3ath:
The battery has been successfully squeezed
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] JohnTheFarm3r:
Not sure what people are complaining about but so far my usage pattern gives me this and it's far better than what my other device (Pixel 7 Pro) gives me. 5H SOT with 28 hours total time and 7 hours Spotify in the background with DUAL SIM and 4G data with crap coverage.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] dancrow:
My phone after one week
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] xgerryx:
Can someone please respond that is using 1440p, 120hz, and basically normal settings beyond that? Like Bluetooth, Wifi on, mixed use on Wifi and 5g and tell me the kind of battery life you're getting, maybe a screenshot and screen on time?

On the s22 Ultra right now, I love the phone, the battery life stinks.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] iamnotkurtcobain:
Battery life with S23 Ultra is soooo much better than S22 Ultra.
[Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra] Xode:
Here's today...about what you listed + I use Light mode in Performance Profile and Battery Guardian mode (Good Lock) in which I put some apks in 60hz...full batt up to 85%...