Worst Battery Life in Any Phone that I've Ever Had!

[skirush2014]

This phone has THE WORST battery life of any phone that I've ever had. Even if I read an email, I can see the battery percent drop almost every minute. I've never seen anything even remotely as bad as this. I wife has an iPhone 6 and we play videos on it for 20-30 minutes at a time, and the battery hardly drops. I haven't tried videos yet on this phone, but I'm guessing I would go from 100-20% in a matter of 15 minutes of screen on time.

I've turned off NFC, auto wifi. I have auto brighness on for the screen, and I turned off a few other automatic things. I do NOT have twitter or facebook running in the background. I have to say that I do NOT buy the story that people are using this phone all day with one battery. I doubt it would even make it to the end of an average work day. I think people might be exaggerating if they're claiming regular battery life with this phone.

I simply do NOT understand how anyone with this phone is not just utterly disappointed with this pathetic battery. I think I might still be within my return period...I think I might return it due to the battery, and the battery alone. I do not understand Samsung's failure here.

 

[Golfdriver97]

When did you get the device? If less than a week, it still might be in the break in period where the battery still needs a few more charges to get in the swing of things.

 

[Rukbat]

Run SystemPanelLite to see what's really running. Force stop (long press, then Process Control Panel) things that shouldn't be running. You could have a rogue app in there.

(People who claim 8-10 hours of heavy use on a single charge are usually running the battery from 100% down to 5% or so to get that - and then hey wonder why the battery won't hold a charge in 4 months. Nothing the manufacturers can do about chemistry, so if you let the battery drop to less than 40% charge, you're asking for a battery replacement sooner than you should need one. Gel cells would be better, but no one wants to carry that kind of weight around. [A gel cell battery with the same power as a 2000mAh lithium battery would weigh about a pound.)

 

[sdmf]

Run SystemPanelLite to see what's really running. Force stop (long press, then Process Control Panel) things that shouldn't be running. You could have a rogue app in there.

(People who claim 8-10 hours of heavy use on a single charge are usually running the battery from 100% down to 5% or so to get that - and then hey wonder why the battery won't hold a charge in 4 months. Nothing the manufacturers can do about chemistry, so if you let the battery drop to less than 40% charge, you're asking for a battery replacement sooner than you should need one. Gel cells would be better, but no one wants to carry that kind of weight around. [A gel cell battery with the same power as a 2000mAh lithium battery would weigh about a pound.)

Not disagreeing with you, but I've never had to replace a battery or experienced one losing any performance. I never worry about when I'm charging it or how low it gets since, we'll the last 15 years. I think the battery worries about how low to discharge are way overrated. Would I recommend draining to 0% Everytime.... No, but I often plug mine in to charge when it reaches 10 or 20%....