Battery Life discussion thread.

[mustang7757]

Question, did you set it up fresh or used a backup ?

Back up from Samsung cloud

 

[Mr Segundus]

I turned off 120Hz because it was eating a lot of battery. Now my battery life is pretty dang good, almost as good as my iPhone 11 Pro Max.

 

[spinachie]

I returned my note 10 plus because of the average battery life compared to my P30 Pro.

So far the battery is draining fast and I shouldn't have to use dark mode etc to save battery.

My P30 would still be on 98% at this point but am on 91% just browsing twitter and chrome.

 

[spinachie]

I turned off 120Hz because it was eating a lot of battery. Now my battery life is pretty dang good, almost as good as my iPhone 11 Pro Max.

QHD or FHD?

 

[stridr69]

...kicker is...almost as good...

 

[Mr Segundus]

QHD or FHD?

FHD. I don't notice much difference between the two.

 

[bkeaver]

What would you recommend?

Anything but smartswitch. I'm not a fan of it, it always seems to create some rogue setting or app that sticks on and drains battery faster. If I use smartswitch I always end up factory resetting and starting over.

 

[Serkle K]

Thanks. My area is covered with 5G, but I have no 5G. It must be because I'm still on a old Unlimited Plus plan, that actually has a real unlimited mifi that I hate to get rid of......ugh, plus I don't think any of their newer plans offer anything more than I have now other than being more pricey?

This is literally my same exact issue and thought process. I've been trying to research plans but they just seem more expensive with little to no benefits over my unlimited plan.

 

[Serkle K]

Also, just wanted to chime in on my premature battery life... the 20th was my first full day of use with the N20U, mostly transferring basics like messages, call logs, and pictures and other various data. Also streamed Mixcloud to my Buds Live for about 90 minutes while I did some yard work. I was off the charger for about 19 hours and managed 7h 57m of SOT, on WiFi at home and it says 5G but only getting LTE in my neighborhood and with that about 1 or 2 bars in my house. The 21st I was off the charger from 9am till about 2am and I had 7h SOT, and all connections still the same, but I also installed just about all of my other apps from scratch. It is very impressive to me so far, but I have to say last year with the Note10+ I had very good battery life for about the first 3-4 days, and then the next 2 weeks I had a strange battery drain. Only after an update, did it seem to resolve itself. So, I am cautiously optimistic about it at the moment.

I am a little worried about how it will learn my usage because last year I was working on the road daily, and now I am home all day, so usage isn't going to be ideal to my average daily use. But we'll see how everything goes for the next few days first.

 

[spinachie]

From a full charge at 11.30am its now 20.45 and on 17%

Screen on time is high as have been up since 1am.

I'm a little concerned

 

[TheOpusFuller]

It's 2:01, I unplugged my phone from the charger at 7:15am and I'm currently at 69%. I'm running the 120hz. Now, I didn't transfer over any apps, settings, etc. I did backup my text messages and call log on my Note 10+ and restored it on my Note 20 Ulta. I was always under the impression that apps can get buggy, corrupt, etc. so I always back up important things like, texts, etc and restore those. But when it comes to apps, I clean house and don't install the apps that I rarely use. So far, the battery life has exceeded my expectations.

 

[Notefan161]

Better battery life day for day 3

Phone off charge about 9am and at 19:00 it’s on 29%. Had 3 hours, 20 mins usage. So i would say it should make it to 5 hours screen time hopefully or close.

Did an AOD display test and it drained 3% in an hour with AOD on all time and with it off it drained 3% in the next hour so it does seem like AOD makes no real difference if it’s on or off.

 

[bandofbrothers2112]

It's 2:01, I unplugged my phone from the charger at 7:15am and I'm currently at 69%. I'm running the 120hz. Now, I didn't transfer over any apps, settings, etc. I did backup my text messages and call log on my Note 10+ and restored it on my Note 20 Ulta. I was always under the impression that apps can get buggy, corrupt, etc. so I always back up important things like, texts, etc and restore those. But when it comes to apps, I clean house and don't install the apps that I rarely use. So far, the battery life has exceeded my expectations.

Do you use Smartswitch or Samsung Cloud to move your info across to your new phones ?

 

[evohicks]

I decided to do a clean install this time so all I did was go to Google play and go to my library and go down the list and install what I wanted and leave all the crap behind. The only backup I used was text messages, call logs and ringtone,notification tones and alarms from Samsung cloud.

I'm getting close to my Note 10+ settings now, and right now I'm on 69% battery with 3hrs 30 mins SOT. I've been browsing most of it but alot of camera pics and comparisons too, still haven't put my sim in yet lol so gaining in battery there somewhat. I pretty much remember the note 10+ being roughly the same. I'm not a phone gamer but I do like lots of photo taking and intensive S Pen related tasks.

 

[Notefan161]

I'm on 13% left with 4 hours, 10 mins screen time with 12 hours total

Certainly an improvement on the past two days

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

^^ REALLY?? ^^

Wow my Note 10+ was pretty good.

My S10+ also has issues with battery at times. But I do get quite decent life unless I am playing my dragon mania game for too long. But I think it lasts me longer than my Pixel 4xl did. And I am running the Exynos version of the S10+.

 

[evohicks]

I'm on 13% left with 4 hours, 10 mins screen time with 12 hours total

Certainly an improvement on the past two days

Do you have the adaptive power enabled?

 

[Notefan161]

Do you have the adaptive power enabled?

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I have had it off today. Dunno how much a difference it makes though

 

[spinachie]

I am surprised how much Samsung phone owners are expected to do to help battery. Using dark mode, using power optimiser, setting AOD off, disable 120hz etc etc. I don't understand how a phone like the P30 Pro doesn't require any of these alterations and just kills this battery issue. iPhone too.

 

[Notefan161]

I am surprised how much Samsung phone owners are expected to do to help battery. Using dark mode, using power optimiser, setting AOD off, disable 120hz etc etc. I don't understand how a phone like the P30 Pro doesn't require any of these alterations and just kills this battery issue. iPhone too.

Well in fairness iPhones don't need to worry as its a basic interface and the os is built differently

Also battery life issues or limitations is due to exynos. SD models are fine

Hopefully exynos 1000 fixes these issues