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Hi All,
I have always been a fan of Samsung Galaxy Note since its inception, that is why I never switched to any other phone. The battery deteriorated and had to replace. I got the original battery from Samsung store. However , the battery performance is not good at all.
Currently the brightness is at minimum, with no gaming apps, or any other apps running. But still the battery in my opinion is draining very fast.
I have attached two dumps, one which was when i tried keeping phone on sleep mode, and the other one which was when I used phone for some time (no heavy usage)..I would like to assume the battery is original and something is wrong with my phone
Please advice how to get a better battery usage, as my roommate is an iphone user and taunts from him are making life miserable.
Cheers
Thanks
Not sure about the first one.
But second one doesn't look good. 16% loss in 13 minutes of screen on time (total half an hour awake)doesn't seem to be acceptable. More over you are on stock 4.1.2. So battery life should be better than aosp. Still I manage screen on time of more than 4 hours.
Here's my current bbs screenshot on cm11.
And I've also attached a screenie of old good days. ?
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So Guys android 5.0 is here and i think most of u have tried it.So hows Battery performance on lollipop?
I feel it's worse TBH. I've tried several different roms and revisions and it still seems to be worse. Maybe I'm just playing with my phone more but my SOT can't seem to break 4 hours and it usually can't go all day on a charge.
Same. My battery life definitely seems worse.
I had better battery life on the developer Preview!!
this sucks
after removing Google Now and Google Fit, it has improved a bit, but still bad.
On some days it's pretty bad and on other days it isn't with pretty much the same setup... LOL
I accept the fact that battery has gotten worse with Lollipop, but I'm sure they'll fix this on the next release.
Chill~
Worse.
Developer Preview was significantly better than stick KK, final release the same as KK if not slightly worse. Was definitely expecting more from LP.
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mine is definitely way way way better
I'm a heavy user and its better than KK
I had the dev preview and Battery life was better than KK
Now on final release battery life is 1% drain per minute if I dont use the phone (but I discovered exchange services and gmail had updated from the one from the apk's I installed on the dev preview
re built again last night and max is 4 hours again without using the phone
2nd rebuld I did not restore anything
KK could be a day or 2 with using the phone before needing a charge
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Ok, here is my xperia z3 compact not been charged for at least a day, has all the same apps and is used about the same as the Nexus 5 (z3 running kitkat, with NO power saving features enabled) and actually has a lot more apps running than Lollipop
and this is the Nexus 5 with only the apps you can see listed as running apps that was from a full charge overnight
It has dropped another 4% since taking that pic
In my case, the standby time of my N5 (which is new, I got it back from a RMA a month ago, so its battery isn't worn) is much worse on Lollipop than Kitkat: it drops 5% battery in one night in airplane mode, while 4.4.4 barely dropped 1%. On the other hand, the battery life when using the phone is way better! Before updating, I always got less than 4h SoT; now I get past 4.30 without even activating the battery saver.
So I'm not voting at the moment.
Mine is better than KitKat, some random drain's, quick soft reset fixes it.
Battery has definitely taken a hit wid L. Clean flash where
Mine's definitely better. I'm not a heavy user, but on KK I would need to charge during the day at work (usually afternoon time)...but now I can leave it till I get home.
I don't charge my N5 overnight, instead I wait to come in to work where I have a Qi charger on my desk. Usually I see it sitting at about 95% when I put it on the charger at work after leaving it alone all night. This morning I see it at 65%. I have never had it drop that low in one night before android 5 showed up.
What is even more interesting is that the battery stats claim that basically no one has been using any battery power. The highest number is 3% for wifi with 2% and 1% for a few other things, so where the heck did the 35% of the battery charge go?
I was in a similar situation as most people in this thread but currently I'm on my first discharge cycle on optipop rom with uber kernel and im on 4 hour screen on time with 20% to go.
I have google now off and location on and spent most of my time on wifi with avg cell signal.
I flashed the OTA manually and haven't done a factory reset, but the battery life is better than ever. 3 days and 9 hours, and 3.27 h screen on time. Brightness is set to auto.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tmykcaqcyhm6eaz/Screenshot_2014-11-18-23-46-52.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlxcn1ctmnijs5j/Screenshot_2014-11-18-23-46-57.png?dl=0
Of course, if pay more games, I'll get it down much much faster.
I have some random battery drain issues too. But I think the issues belongs to 3rd party apps. In the safe mode there's not any battery drain. The 3rd party apps aren't compatible with Lollipop yet. So the main issue is this apps. Now 'Im trying to uninstall and reinstall the apps to find which apps drain the battery in deep sleep. I think which apps has a "cancel deep sleep mode" permission may drain battery if it's not updated for Lollipop. It's just a guess though.
First my battery life was really bad. I couldn't figure it out. I decided to do full wipe and it helped a lot. Now the battery life is better than on kitkat.
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I'm getting worse battery life than any ROM stock or not I've run on the phone. I had better battery life on the dev previews. I don't think I've broken 3 hours screen on time or mixed usage(screen time+music time)once since the official image came out. I've done 2 or 3 clean flashes of the image and had also tried the Nexus 5 Experience ROM. I've used it each time rooted. Last night I did another clean flash of the image locked the bootloader and am going to try running it unrooted for a day or so with only 4 or 5 user apps installed. It shouldn't make a difference but I'm going to see what happens.
I have a new 1254. I never used the stock ROM. I unlocked it and put cm13 out of the box. I get about 5-6 hours of screen time out of it . Mostly browsing, I used it for movies on a flight. Is this good? Not sure what to expect. Would a stock ROM be better?
What's everyone getting out of their battery?
Daught said:
I have a new 1254. I never used the stock ROM. I unlocked it and put cm13 out of the box. I get about 5-6 hours of screen time out of it . Mostly browsing, I used it for movies on a flight. Is this good? Not sure what to expect. Would a stock ROM be better?
What's everyone getting out of their battery?
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i'm still on stock ROM (LP 5.1), rooted, bootloader unlocked, but running Xposed. I get great battery life (rarely dipping below 50% at the end of the day) to the point where I'm hesitant to flash anything else.
I'm new to this device (1 week old), changed ROM on day one for Mokee lastest nightly and battery life was really bad, it lasted half day. Yesterday I flashed BB kernel and Intelliprofile in battery saver mode and now I get almost a day.
I don't play games, mainly browsing and some GPS.
So far I'm really disappointed with the battery of this phone, I bought it for its massive 3.900 mah battery but it's lasting the same as my previous Galaxy S4mini (1900mah).
I went to computerfreak ROM. Moto ROM is definitely not as nice as CM. I want to see what this phone is really made of on stock ROM. Unless it's ridiculously better I will probably go back to CM.
Battery life is definitely better. My phone rarely warms up a bit. I wonder what causes this pretty big difference. I think my next step will be a custom kernel in cm13. I am guessing the cm kernel is way more performance oriented than stock.
priccis said:
I'm new to this device (1 week old), changed ROM on day one for Mokee lastest nightly and battery life was really bad, it lasted half day. Yesterday I flashed BB kernel and Intelliprofile in battery saver mode and now I get almost a day.
I don't play games, mainly browsing and some GPS.
So far I'm really disappointed with the battery of this phone, I bought it for its massive 3.900 mah battery but it's lasting the same as my previous Galaxy S4mini (1900mah).
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What rom was on your s4?
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What rom was on your s4?
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S4 mini AICP 10 (5.1.1)
Computer freak's ROM is LP
I'm going to try with Stock MM (MPG24.107-70.2 Brazilian 6.0.1 for XT1254[TWRP Flashaeable]) tomorrow.
I been on vacation since I started the thread. I get about a day out of the phone with some city map use, occasional browsing(1.5h max) , pictures 15 min of phone talking and about 20 texts. I have about 20% left at the end of the day.
Is the battery capacity displayed in apps like gsam the actual capacity or designed capacity? I wonder if I should just replace the battery.
I don't remember ever getting 5-6hrs SOT. Even when new, I would get about 3-4hrs... and I'm still getting about that on stock-44. It's good enough for my needs, but I still wonder how people get so much more SOT than I do... what am I doing wrong?!
My wife is barely pushing 2hrs SOT... really don't know what's wrong with her phone... still trying to figure that out. She ends up with a dead phone by the end of the day, with very little usage. (I game a little on my phone, and I still get more SOT).
I get around 4 hours of SOT with playing games and browsing. I'm using computer freeks ROM because I can't go without 4g. 3g is just so freaking slow it makes me not even want to use my phone.
For me, the best ROM for battery life is the Brazilian Marshmallow ported to droid turbo by @iiWoodstocK. I get ~6 hours of SoT and once the phone lasted 3 days with >6 hours of SoT. Usage included Youtube, WhatsApp, tapatalk, browsing, routine calls and text and a few hundred times of opening the settings and looking at the battery screen
I am finally getting great battery life
CM 13
BHB27 kernel
Interactive governor
Intelliprofiles
Govtuner set to daily
Greenified shallow hibernation most apps.
My locked phone battery draw with music playing is ~50-70 mah. Can go as low as ~30 without music. I used to be above 300 mah. Phone never warms up while idle. I get good SOT battery life, but I don't have numbers to compare.
jco23 said:
i'm still on stock ROM (LP 5.1), rooted, bootloader unlocked, but running Xposed. I get great battery life (rarely dipping below 50% at the end of the day) to the point where I'm hesitant to flash anything else.
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Let me chime in on this.. Do not put a lot of stuff on your device with stock rooted or unrooted.. My phone had Xposed and gravity box installed.. For some reason, a lot of apps tend to over heat this phone to the point were it become useless.. Hell the battery would drain in about 3 hrs of use.. I called Moto about it, and at one point my phone was 129F hot... This phone is fine, but can not imop handle a lot of apps... My wife Note 4 can handle anything I throw at it without ever over heating..
My phone used to get hot browsing... heck even sitting. Now it does not get as warm even with GPS and music streaming at the same time.
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My phone used to get hot browsing... heck even sitting. Now it does not get as warm even with GPS and music streaming at the same time.
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I turn WiFi and GPS off when not using them. Battery life on Bliss ROM with custom kernel, phone is always cool and battery life is amazing.
stock rom
4g, wifi, etc etc
at home with wifi about 6 to 7 hours
with 4g out about 5 hours
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Samsung Galaxy Note5 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
SOT is usually 1 hour 23 minutes at 50%. With the Display brightness a little less than half.
The biggest culprit is Android OS stay awake time is always high.
Man I've been more than impressed by my SOT of the Note 5 compared to my crappy old Nexus 6. I can get 4-5 hours on here vs the 3 hours max I got on the N6. Blows me away. So much better phone than that was too.
I normally see about 3hrs on nougat where as MM I usually got closer to 4 hours which is a bummer but still reasonable. Main issue is the screen off battery drain on nougat. Seems to want to drain 8-10% per hour no matter what I'm doing most days.
It's ridiculous. I've drained my new note 5 in 2 hours SOT just browsing Web and reading this forum. I've got 4-5 hours of browsing with my old note 2. That's just crazy low. Xiaomi MI max 2 can easily give you 8 hours SOT. Thinking of exchange already :/
I don't understand how it is possible that every big review on the Internet that I found claims it is more than 8 or 10 hours of Web browsing possible on note 5! How can it be true? Some tests on YouTube shows there is only 4 hours from 100 to 0 without heavy cpu and network utilisation and just screen on...
I consider myself as a Power user. I Only get 2:30 hours no matter the screen resolution, 1080P or 2K. Nougat or Marshmallow doesn't matter. But I'm OK with that, I have a lot of apps and 3 Gmail accounts so I'm getting notifications all day long.
Oh man flashing the n fuel xl Rom was probably the best thing I've done with my note 5. Sot is still lingering around 3 hours or less but stand by time has literally doubled. Now when the screen is off, the phone actually chills out and doesn't burn up battery.
Went from 12-13 hours to 25-26 hours with my normal usage.
new note 5 user here
after reading many of your comment guys, i feel really lucky
i had a note 2 for more than 4 years (still have it) and with my average use i usually get 3.5-4 hours of screen time on
i just bought a note 5 like a week ago and i'm getting more than 6 hours of screen time on
i use the powersaving mode on "mid" and i usually dont need more than a low brightness ... i dont use my phone for games that much cuz i have a ps4 for that ... usually use it for social media and these stuff
i know its very good only bcuz i just got it but with my experience on the note 2 i will try not to drain the battery life and keep it good
note is just the best there is
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Oh man flashing the n fuel xl Rom was probably the best thing I've done with my note 5. Sot is still lingering around 3 hours or less but stand by time has literally doubled. Now when the screen is off, the phone actually chills out and doesn't burn up battery.
Went from 12-13 hours to 25-26 hours with my normal usage.
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Oh can you show me a link to the Rom? I am not a heavy user so about 2h sot is fine for me. However I need my phone to be able to last longer while in Standby. I get only 11hr of the phone, including 2hr sot now.
My note 5 battery is dropping >10% per hour with light use. SOT guesstimate to be about 3 hours. Standby drain is great but not when I start using it. Such battery drain defeats the purpose of a smartphone. I guess Samsung has a reason to design the phone with irreplaceable battery. Ordered the S8+ as replacement.
I was studying my battery life/SOT today. I managed to take some screen shots when my phone was around 8%. I'll upload them a little later when my phone is charged up. I let it drain all the way to try and calibrate it. I notice it shut off today at 2%. Around 8% I noticed my screen on time was over 5 hours or higher. Can't recall now the exact number but it seemed unusually high. I think I got around 10 hours of battery life. Once I post screen shots later can someone tell me if they seem accurate and if I get good battery life since I just upgraded to Nougat?
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My note 5 battery is dropping >10% per hour with light use. SOT guesstimate to be about 3 hours. Standby drain is great but not when I start using it. Such battery drain defeats the purpose of a smartphone. I guess Samsung has a reason to design the phone with irreplaceable battery. Ordered the S8+ as replacement.
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You can replace the battery by the way
greatnorthgnome said:
Oh man flashing the n fuel xl Rom was probably the best thing I've done with my note 5. Sot is still lingering around 3 hours or less but stand by time has literally doubled. Now when the screen is off, the phone actually chills out and doesn't burn up battery.
Went from 12-13 hours to 25-26 hours with my normal usage.
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True. Irrespective of MM/Nougat, there is not much we can do about SOT. The best case can be just above 4 hrs. I am on PureX ROM of Rajeev. Between FuelXL and PureX, the best part is on Deep sleep. When the screen is off, the power consumption is close to Zero. The only reason appears to be that both the ROMs are heavily debloated. Any further major improvement to battery life of Note 5 can be only with Oreo ROM. In my Oneplus, i flashed custom Oreo ROM and the battery life is dramatically extended. So, lets wait and pray for Oreo form Note 5.
So everyone on stock N gets around 3-3.30hrs of sot. Felt relieved to read becoz i was worried and thought mayb my phones battery has loosen its capacity.
Btw is there any app that can tell us exact wear level of the battery?? I tried googling some apps but none gave me the exact info that I needed.
I thought my battery was still bad even after changing it but I'm getting well over 3 hours of screen time so it looks like I'm all good for now
I have 4.5-6 hours SOT every day. I'm on stock N, GPS, wifi, sync and lte on all the time. However, every now and then I make a cache reset in recovery, always after a new app installation. Guess my system is quite clean. Battery life is awesome om this device.
ChaTy said:
So everyone on stock N gets around 3-3.30hrs of sot. Felt relieved to read becoz i was worried and thought mayb my phones battery has loosen its capacity.
Btw is there any app that can tell us exact wear level of the battery?? I tried googling some apps but none gave me the exact info that I needed.
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Before I sold my Note 5, estimated the battery wear with AccuBattery.
I recommend getting LG V20, its a great upgrade to the Note 5.
YPG70 said:
Before I sold my Note 5, estimated the battery wear with AccuBattery.
I recommend getting LG V20, its a great upgrade to the Note 5.
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I disagree, better keep Note 5.
Better in speedtests
Better battery life
Better display
Better camera
and so on.................
YPG70 said:
Before I sold my Note 5, estimated the battery wear with AccuBattery.
I recommend getting LG V20, its a great upgrade to the Note 5.
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A stupid question
For how much you sold your note 5
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Lasse58 said:
I have 4.5-6 hours SOT every day. I'm on stock N, GPS, wifi, sync and lte on all the time. However, every now and then I make a cache reset in recovery, always after a new app installation. Guess my system is quite clean. Battery life is awesome om this device.
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No way you're getting 4.5-6
Although to a certain extent, we even came to doubt that Samsung would update the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 devices with the OneUI 2.1, it is finally here, and it cames with Deep Sleep Apps feature, which will allow to actually suspend all services and processes associated with an app.
This has resulted in a relatively big battery life improvement when the device is on standby with S10 and S20 devices in controlled tests1.
Galaxy S9, S9+ and Note 9 are devices released more than 2 years ago, and surely the battery stamina is not the same as they were in their first months of use. Samsung stats that the batteries used on these devices should keep a decent stamina for 2 years with the average user.
Some people have used their phones with battery care measures1, in order to extend battery life.
So, with the recent release of OneUI 2.1 for Samsung Galaxy Note 9, the battery life with the device in standby is expected to be longer (but not the screen on time), although the magnitude is yet to be determined in the coming days.
This thread is aimed to share our opinions on the subject, as the update becomes available and we can evaluate the battery life.
Footnotes:
1 https://www.xda-developers.com/batteryguru-track-usage-optimize-battery-health-longevity/
IOS uses a choise in his battery settings to charge the battery up to 80 % of it's capacity and then charging will stop to improve the battery's durability.
It's known that standing in battery's 20/80% capacity increases its life and durability and doing this you can charge how many times you want because one parzial charge will not be counted as an whole cycle of charge so the battery might last more than 3 years going on like this.
This choice is not implemented in Android even with one UI 2.1 and it's a shame even if the new feature will improve battery's autonomy due to the lower consumption of the apps and even if it's impossible to perfectly be able to stay in it's 20/80 percentage range, there's an app that I found that will avert you when reaching 80 % of its charging capacity so you can disconnect the cable to preserve the battery....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery
joedellosso69 said:
IOS uses a choise in his battery settings to charge the battery up to 80 % of his capacity and then charging will stop to improve the battery's durability.
It's known that standing in battery's 20/80% capacity increases its life and durability and doing this you can charge how many times you want because one parzial charge will not be counted as an whole cycle of charge so the battery might last more than 3 years going on like this.
This choice is not implemented in Android even with one UI 2.1 and it's a shame even if the new feature will improve battery's autonomy due to the lower consumption of the apps and even if it's impossible to perfectly be able to stay in it's 20/80 percentage, there's an app that I found that will avert you when reaching 80 % of its charging capacity to preserve the battery....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery
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You're right and I keep charging between 30 and 80 but this shouldn't be how the phone charges by default as you said. Many people charge from 15 to 100 and want that extra 40-50% they'll get by doing so. I found that without fast charging it takes 1 hour from 30% to 80% so it's no big deal to look at the clock when you leave the phone on the charger.
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You're right and I keep charging between 30 and 80 but this shouldn't be how the phone charges by default as you said. Many people charge from 15 to 100 and want that extra 40-50% they'll get by doing so. I found that without fast charging it takes 1 hour from 30% to 80% so it's no big deal to look at the clock when you leave the phone on the charger.
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Even your right, there are even people that continually from 0%(completely dead) goes to 100% after charging the battery for the whole night... that's why what I said for charging should be a choise (like in IOS) and not a default setting.... strange thing that Android or Samsung didn't consider implementing this choise. Fast charging even worns the battery first... it stresses the battery and it will last less but at least they gave us a choise in using it or not.
Absolutely true! Samsung should have implemented a feature to limit charge at 80%, or implement a Bixby Routine to enable this behavior (for example, when charger is plugged at night)
50% increase in my case. And i used OTA Package to update manually.
From: 4h SoT in 24h
To: 8h SoT in 24/30h
Idle times are impressive.
EDIT: just FYI, i rarely charge up to 100%. So my average case is from 85/90% to 5%. Very rarely do i go for a 100 to 0.
One UI 2.1 improvements are all courtesy of the Deep Sleep feature.
I've added everything i barely use or dont need to create wake-ups on the Deep Sleep list. On the normal sleep list, i have low priority things like Play store, etc. And i make sure i white list everything i need untouched (Messenger, WhatsApp, etc) and also do the same thing on the Memory management. Solid results.
Edit: 100% to 1%. 10h SoT with a 30h cycle. It's like getting better and better.
My tab a 2019 has the 80 percent feature and I do not understand why they wont offer the simple setting actually I do because phones they want you to replace the phone instead of the battery in 2 years. I run my note 9 from however low to 100 every night but only because I dont have the option these newer android 9 then 10 now 2.1 adding more and more apps into the firmware but wont add a simple little feature as this. Also I would like to be able to choose if I want to do ota with my data! But I cant.
For me One UI 2.0 was already worst with about 3 to 3.5 hrs of screen on time. Now with 2.1 i barely get close to 2 hrs of SoT. My note 9 is running stock since i bought it at launch and have never done any factory reset. Only thing i do is wipe the cache after a upgrade.
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For me One UI 2.0 was already worst with about 3 to 3.5 hrs of screen on time. Now with 2.1 i barely get close to 2 hrs of SoT. My note 9 is running stock since i bought it at launch and have never done any factory reset. Only thing i do is wipe the cache after a upgrade.
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I've Snapdragon variant, running one ui 2.0. Battery life on my note 9 is phenomenal ?
ankydu said:
For me One UI 2.0 was already worst with about 3 to 3.5 hrs of screen on time. Now with 2.1 i barely get close to 2 hrs of SoT. My note 9 is running stock since i bought it at launch and have never done any factory reset. Only thing i do is wipe the cache after a upgrade.
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Bro you need to factory reset and start fresh and if that doesn't help something is wrong with your battery I get 9 SOT all the time with 10 2.0 with android 9 it was about 6 SOT, I haven't received 2.1 yet. I have us unlocked version.
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Bro you need to factory reset and start fresh and if that doesn't help something is wrong with your battery I get 9 SOT all the time with 10 2.0 with android 9 it was about 6 SOT, I haven't received 2.1 yet. I have us unlocked version.
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You have a snapdragon variant which is anyway much better than exynos variant (my phone) for battery backup.
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Stop saying Exynos is not good for battery life. I can easily get 8h SOT of regular usage on my SM-N960F running OneUI 2.1. Obviously I don't play games like Asphalt 9, etc but I never use power saving modes and never limit myself in order to save battery life. I play 8 Ball Pool when I want to, I watch YouTube for as long as I want to, I browse Instagram and use Samsung Internet Beta when I feel like it. Not once have I ended up in a dire need to recharge when I was outside or when I needed to use the phone. Also the phone charges 50% for 1h (I charge between 30 and 80%) so I just leave it charge while having dinner, watching TV or something like that - when I normally wouldn't use the phone anyway.
On my N9 seems battery life abit improve from previous 2.0. Sammy did great job this time.
Here is my screenshot to prove it.
It takes time to see improvement in your device's battery life after installing OneUI2.1. As the software AI needs to learn all your habits again before any improvement in battery life will occur. This process should take a few weeks