Battery getting worse over time...

[Yguideslou]

Are you connected to anything like a smart watch? I just got a Garmin Vivoactive 4, and the app recommended turning on the power saving exclusion for it so it can stay updated with the watch. That tanked my battery life, even though the app wasn't anywhere near the top of the battery stats list (Android actually sucks when it comes to figuring out what is draining the battery, in my opinion). I removed the exclusion and battery life is back to normal, and the app still runs fine.

Even if you don't have something like that connected I would still double check that you don't inadvertently have something excluded that could be draining the battery.

Nope, no connections.

The only kinda new setting I started using over the last week or so, mainly out of curiosity, and I'm going to turn off today to see if it makes a difference, is WiFi calling.

Having only ever had unlocked phones, this feature was never available, and I wanted to check it oit.

My friend is on Tmobile, uses WiFi calling, and it blows chunks, he's forever dropping calls... just horrible. He's out in the country where he has jack all for signal, so he has to use it.

I figured that I'd try it to see how it works for me.

No complaints at all from people with whom I speak... though I also never had service provider calling issues either.

We'll see if that helps at all.

Frankly I use my phone A LOT and now that I realized how to see SOT, I'll see over the next few days how it goes.

As I mentioned above, it may be nothing more than having analyzed my usage, which is a lot, that may be why the drop in how long a charge lasts, and no harm, no foul.

 

[TMavC5]

My battery usage are the same as my N20U to date.

 

[Talderon]

So, I haven't had mine for too terribly long, but I have not had any issues with battery life. I did an experiment a few days out (and my PC rebooted before I saved my notes), but for a 12 hour period (8am to 8pm), I recorded the SOT as well as percentages and some notes on activities and in that 12 hour period, I had about 3h 25m of SOT and was down to 44%.

I'll re-do this with notes later, but all in all, for me, it's on-par with the Note 20U I had (which reminds me, I have to ship it back today).

 

[sulla1965]

Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum.

 

[mustang7757]

So, I haven't had mine for too terribly long, but I have not had any issues with battery life. I did an experiment a few days out (and my PC rebooted before I saved my notes), but for a 12 hour period (8am to 8pm), I recorded the SOT as well as percentages and some notes on activities and in that 12 hour period, I had about 3h 25m of SOT and was down to 44%.

I'll re-do this with notes later, but all in all, for me, it's on-par with the Note 20U I had (which reminds me, I have to ship it back today).

Lol keep the Note

 

[mustang7757]

My battery life has been OK. My biggest gripe is poor standby time. But that is common with a lot of Samsung devices. I know iPhone's are the best at this and I believe oneplus is too. I'll take phone off the charger and a few hours later with minimal use its down to 85% or so.

Samsung done some tweaks where it turns notifications off when in standby , no loss in battery in that mode

 

[sulla1965]

Samsung done some tweaks where it turns notifications off when in standby , no loss in battery in that mode

Sorry I thought I was in the z flip 3 forum.

 

[mustang7757]

Sorry I thought I was in the z flip 3 forum.

Happens to me also

 

[Talderon]

Lol keep the Note

Honestly, I have no reason to keep the N20U. The Fold 3 works great for me and replaces my iPad and Kindle eReader. I have not had ANY issues with the phone, either hardware/software or usage.

Perfect? No, but is there anything glaring that keeps me from using it as a daily driver? No.

My "biggest" complaint, if you can really call it that, is when playing games, when my finger run across the crease, it can be a bit... different... but I only have 4 games installed and Pokemon Go is the only one this impacts and I can still catch them all!

 

[mustang7757]

Honestly, I have no reason to keep the N20U. The Fold 3 works great for me and replaces my iPad and Kindle eReader. I have not had ANY issues with the phone, either hardware/software or usage.

Perfect? No, but is there anything glaring that keeps me from using it as a daily driver? No.

My "biggest" complaint, if you can really call it that, is when playing games, when my finger run across the crease, it can be a bit... different... but I only have 4 games installed and Pokemon Go is the only one this impacts and I can still catch them all!

I like to have at least one back up but if you dont have reason then yeah understand. My only gripe is lack of cases.

 

[Talderon]

I like to have at least one back up but if you dont have reason then yeah understand. My only gripe is lack of cases.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a Z Flip, that I have yet to even unbox, a couple of Note 10+'s and Note 9, which all work great. I have backups, but also, these are not just for me. lol

 

[mustang7757]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a Z Flip, that I have yet to even unbox, a couple of Note 10+'s and Note 9, which all work great. I have backups, but also, these are not just for me. lol

You keeping the Z flip? , i might get one down the road

 

[Talderon]

You keeping the Z flip? , i might get one down the road

Yeah, it's actually a great phone (I have played with one) and in all honesty, for anyone that wants to get in on the foldable phones and not sink into the Z Fold series, the Flip is great. I have a Business line that I am using a S21 on (normal phone, if I am carrying more than one phone, I wanted the second one to be smaller) and have thought about swapping that one for the Flip, but I just have not done it yet since all I do on that phone is text and take a few calls here and there. I might save the Flip for something else. Christmas is coming!

 

[mustang7757]

Yeah, it's actually a great phone (I have played with one) and in all honesty, for anyone that wants to get in on the foldable phones and not sink into the Z Fold series, the Flip is great. I have a Business line that I am using a S21 on (normal phone, if I am carrying more than one phone, I wanted the second one to be smaller) and have thought about swapping that one for the Flip, but I just have not done it yet since all I do on that phone is text and take a few calls here and there. I might save the Flip for something else. Christmas is coming!

Cool

 

[tadpoles]

This is subjective but it feels like my battery life has gotten better since the update. It feels like standby battery drain has decreased a little.

Yay.

 

[Yguideslou]

This is subjective but it feels like my battery life has gotten better since the update. It feels like standby battery drain has decreased a little.

Yay.

It's actually not subjective at all.

I regularly check my time on a full charge, and it started off at over a day, it's been slowly ticking down to today being just over 12 hours... no subjectivity at all.

However, since I hadn't been regularly checking my SOT, it may be that, using the phone a lot, the phone learning my usage patterns, that it may have appropriately adjusted the time downwards, and there may not be anything wrong,

I'm going to keep everything as is over the next week and check my SOT regularly to see if it stays more or less the same.