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Anyone else own one? I've had it since November and I'm finding the battery life abysmal.
It was 100% battery at 1600 and at 2015 the battery is on 62% already. I have Bluetooth on for my Huawei watch and battery saver on and screen brightness set to below half.
2 and half hours of screen on time. Listened to music on YouTube for half hour and just internet browsing.
Missus has a Huawei Mate 20 pro and she uses it around the same and hers is on 90%.
Really considering flogging it for a Huawei P20 liye or another midrange phone.
Any suggestions? Must be USB C, food camera and headphone jack preferable.
Something wrong there. I have an S8 and never had less than a day and a half out of it, on full power mode. Normal use it’s at least two days before it needs charging.
My S9 is fine, BT GPS WI-FI easily lasts from 7am to 7pm.
I have 2018 Note 9 which I bought recently from far east. 😀
The battery life was at 80% plus at 9.30am this morning and now it is 36%. However, I don't do much to it apart from web surfing now and then ...
If you are not into taking notes or writing then go for top end Huawei.
P/s: 128GB version 6GB Ram at equivalent £600. But you are required to use continuously speaking for 5 mins before you can switch to EU/UK Sim.
Yup the hardest it gets worked is browsing the internet.
Can't afford a Huawei flagship but if I sold this for £300 I could afford a midranger.
The note has a massive battery so hardly a comparison.
Just checked my Pixel 3. 100% at 7.30 this morning. 2 hrs screen time including some faffing with dji Osmo mobile according to wellbeing and its showing 62%.
Not bad I reckon considering its a small battery. Deffo better than my old S7
The note has a massive battery so hardly a comparison.
Still power hungry though but at least it is better than previous Note according to my mates at home. I moved on from non-smartphone to Vivo cheapo smartphone for a year then to Note 9 ... still can't believe I need to charge it every day or every two days as my old mobile can last for few days on standby. 😀
Over in the far east it is either Samsung or one of the Chinese brand with Huawei preferred.
Something not right. I have a S7 edge, comes off charge at 6:45, Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS are on. Few calls and messages, waste away dinner break on it and watch a bit of YouTube later on and it's usually around the 40% mark by 22:30 ish.
We have S9 as workphohes, I found the battery life pretty poor as do a couple my colleagues. Smashed it mtbing with the kids over New year and got a new one last week interesting to see the new one is better
Does it have a built in battery app type thing, might be under something like power /battery /optimization..
Quite useful to see if any apps are using the lions share of battery power.
Also any apps that are constantly polling for weather updates or new social media posts etc.
That said a 3000mah battery should easily last 24 hours with light usage, half that of you're on it all the time.
One of the reasons I got my LG g6 alongside weatherproofing is that it has a bigger battery at 3300mah, which does make a notable difference.
It has an older tech 1080p screen too which helps also, the Samsung screen is higher resolution and newer tech so screen on time might be reletivley worse for battery consumption?
I've got one. Battery life can vary a lot. If I stay home all day on WiFi whilst on a desk it is on about 70% by the evening. However the day I spent riding through the countryside with it in my pocket it was on about 15% after 8 hours.
What does the battery usage page say?
My wife has just gone from an S7 to the A9 - 3,800 mah battery, and more cameras.
Battery should last all day though.
Agree with Molgrips, new year around the FOD where there's no signal the battery was getting battered.
Heres a thought - is it new? When I got my prior Moto G5s I had a similar issue which turned out to be Outlook polling all the time. As I didn't want Outlook as a mail client anyway once I removed it the battery life was excellent.
As recommended above, have a look at the battery stats in settings see what's using the most power.
Modern Android phones go to sleep when they aren't being moved. So if you leave it in your pocket all day when it's being jiggled it'll use up quite a lot more battery than if you put it on the desk or coffee table etc.
Heres a thought – is it new?
Also new to Android is the optimisation of which apps you use and which need to be active in the background - on a new or freshly upgraded phone they are basically all active which trashes the battery - after a few days it becomes way more efficient.
My s9+ on 3 network updated to android Pie today so, it may be worth updating the software as it's got adaptive power saving whatever that is?