Galaxy S5: How's everyone's battery life so far?

[Marina Bumber]

Yeah that is pretty awesome, what was your total screen time?

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Around 5 hours and I plugged it at 20% I will have to experiment some more because I see people getting awesome results! Like Erasat
^_^

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[edge4628]

Those are impressive numbers, I have yet to see numbers that good. Maybe today is the day.

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Is mobile data off all day?

Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)

My mobile data is never off, but I'm on a stable WiFi when I'm home and school, except for when I make runs to the store or something

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[UJ95x]

I'm a little confused as to what you mean? I made one 12 minute call to tmobile to complain about the problem. It shouldn't be using it all day.

I went to tmobile after work and was told I was supposed to let it die at least twice after full charge to kick start the battery in to known just how long it actually has. My battery lasted about 10 hours today without a single use of video and music or streaming. Looking at other screen shots I can't help but feel like mine is under performing

I mean how long do you have WiFi calling on? If you have poor cell service and no WiFi connection, the phone's radios are going to use up the battery fairly quickly. Most other screenshots show either a good connection or a WiFi connection

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[smalba]

Awesome to those getting that great on screen time. For some reason android Os and Android system are at 30% and 19% while my screen time is in 3rd place with 10% used.

Anyone know what's going on? Or have a fix? I can never get more than 3 hours of screen time and it's always using less batter than android os and android system .

I have Google location reporting on I'm not sure if turning that off will disable google now or what?

 

[joehp1]

I was having serious battery drain from the android system and mostly from Google+. Also noticed I could not save any
Apps to my SD card. Remembered a thread from my S3 days about serious drains caused by a faulty SD card.
I turned off Google+ and that helped a lot. Backed up and reformatted the SD card and battery life has been tremendous!
And, I can now save some of my apps to the SD card. Not sure if this will help anyone else! Hope it does!

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Awesome to those getting that great on screen time. For some reason android Os and Android system are at 30% and 19% while my screen time is in 3rd place with 10% used.

Anyone know what's going on? Or have a fix? I can never get more than 3 hours of screen time and it's always using less batter than android os and android system .

I have Google location reporting on I'm not sure if turning that off will disable google now or what?

One thing that helped me is to turn Google Now OFF and turn Location (from the notification toggles) OFF
I only turn on Location when I am using my GPS

 

[UJ95x]

Awesome to those getting that great on screen time. For some reason android Os and Android system are at 30% and 19% while my screen time is in 3rd place with 10% used.

Anyone know what's going on? Or have a fix? I can never get more than 3 hours of screen time and it's always using less batter than android os and android system .

I have Google location reporting on I'm not sure if turning that off will disable google now or what?

A reboot usually fixes that when I get Android system wakelocks. Also turn off location services if you're not using them

Sent from my Galaxy S4 running SlimKat 4.4.2

 

[anon6937994]

My battery life is the best I've ever experienced.

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[Marina Bumber]

Is it good for my battery to have screen on automatic lighting or is it better to fix it myself? Because I've noticed it really does a great job of recognizing the best light which I've never noticed on my other smartphones!

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[Eclipse2K]

Is it good for my battery to have screen on automatic lighting or is it better to fix it myself? Because I've noticed it really does a great job of recognizing the best light which I've never noticed on my other smartphones!

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Auto brightness is better than leaving it on full brightness but it would always be better on battery to set it lower always. I use automatic brightness as I prefer that myself.

Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Is it good for my battery to have screen on automatic lighting or is it better to fix it myself? Because I've noticed it really does a great job of recognizing the best light which I've never noticed on my other smartphones!

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I don't use Auto Brightness, I usually leave my phone at 50% brightness, its still very bright in daylight and night

 

[Thodoris Geronimakis]

Better results on my 3rd day. I think its pretty good. Right??

 

[UJ95x]

Better results on my 3rd day. I think its pretty good. Right??

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Awesome

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[dorlisa]

Re: How's everyone's battery life so far?

My battery is great if I can stay away from CandyCrush Saga! I unplugged my phone at 6 am this morning and only facebook, texted and talked, and surfed the web and I still have 58%...... if I play Candy Crush.... after about 6 hours, I need to plug it in =(

 

[UJ95x]

Re: How's everyone's battery life so far?

My battery is great if I can stay away from CandyCrush Saga! I unplugged my phone at 6 am this morning and only facebook, texted and talked, and surfed the web and I still have 58%...... if I play Candy Crush.... after about 6 hours, I need to plug it in =(

Strange how such a simple game can be such a hog...

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[bklynblaze]

I downloaded Battery Doctor and battery life has increased dramatically. I highly recommend it.

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[Eclipse2K]

Re: How's everyone's battery life so far?

Strange how such a simple game can be such a hog...

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Not really

The processor is running and the display is on.



Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)

 

[UJ95x]

Re: How's everyone's battery life so far?

Not really

The processor is running and the display is on.



Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)

Flappy Bird doesn't using that much battery

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[Eclipse2K]

Re: How's everyone's battery life so far?

Flappy Bird doesn't using that much battery

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Not since it was removed from the store.

Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)