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

[PainFX]

I actually have power saving mode on all the time and still, bad battery life if I got a bad battery is there any way to replace it? Ive turned off gps sync and a bunch of apps and my battery decreases by about a percent every 8 minutes! Its ridiculous!

Post up your battery status. Something is draining the battery, not a bad battery.

 

[kingsley404]

That right there is why you get such good battery life. Everyone could do that with any form of Power Saver turned on.



Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)

yep, i love it, considering it doesn't really slow my phone down at all or have any noticeable negative effects. Haha it's pretty great. I have yet to ever use the ultra power saving mode though
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[sped98]

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Ive had mine 2 weeks and I was using 2 x batteries every day from 100% to shut down. Each battery lasting 6/7 hours. All apps disabled and app killer and Battery monitor was installed.....still no good. Also experiencing very hot screen at periods throughout the day.
Yesterday I downloaded " Juicedefender " from play store and my phone is currently sitting at 27% and has been in use now for the last 15 hours.... A dramatic improvement with one app.....Very happy now. Highly recommended.

 

[ponytd]

Something over the last 2.5hrs has caused my battery to plummet. I've already disabled all the carrier bloatware that I could and have GPS and Sync off. Usually get pretty good battery life. For example, took my phone off the charger Sat morning at 6:30am and didn't plug it in until last night around 9:30pm and had 14% left with a lot of usage. but today, when I checked my phone before I went to lunch, I was around 84%, which is normal for me around noon. when I got back from lunch at 1, I was around 74%. only checked 1 email while I was at lunch and wasn't on the phone any besides that. I'm now at 50% and have only checked twitter once and the settings and battery dr to see what's going on. Only thing I can tell is the Android System is normally around 20%, but has jumped to 44% for some reason. I haven't downloaded anything or changed anything. I've even restarted the phone twice. Anybody got any ideas?


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[Ruchy Reich]

So this is a screenshot of my battery life...:/

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[PainFX]

Something over the last 2.5hrs has caused my battery to plummet. I've already disabled all the carrier bloatware that I could and have GPS and Sync off. Usually get pretty good battery life. For example, took my phone off the charger Sat morning at 6:30am and didn't plug it in until last night around 9:30pm and had 14% left with a lot of usage. but today, when I checked my phone before I went to lunch, I was around 84%, which is normal for me around noon. when I got back from lunch at 1, I was around 74%. only checked 1 email while I was at lunch and wasn't on the phone any besides that. I'm now at 50% and have only checked twitter once and the settings and battery dr to see what's going on. Only thing I can tell is the Android System is normally around 20%, but has jumped to 44% for some reason. I haven't downloaded anything or changed anything. I've even restarted the phone twice. Anybody got any ideas?
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FYI, onscreen time is 1 hr 0 min 36sec

Android system is draining your battery. Go into Application Manager and start disabling apps. Becareful what you are disabling though.

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So this is a screenshot of my battery life...:/

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Again, Android system is draining your battery. Start disabling apps in Application Manager.

 

[ultravisitor]

What's the point of owning a smartphone if you disable all of those things jw

Right. And honestly, it's not hard to make a battery last for days when you basically turn off the phone.

 

[AZgl1500]

today's stats.....

very light use today, all work and no play for me this time.

 

[PsychDoc]

Post up your battery status. Something is draining the battery, not a bad battery.

^^^ - What he said.

 

[ponytd]

Whatever it was draining my battery, it stopped. When I got home, it was around 30%. I charged it for a few minutes and got it up to 50% and that was around 5:30pm. at 9:30, it was at 44% with moderate usage. Crazy

 

[mathivh]

Since last update (4.4.2) my battery life got a lot worse.
Before the update I would end my day with +/- 56% left, and consider me as quite an intensive user.
After the update it can barely last a day, I am even forced to use the power saving mode, turn brightness lower and the other casual stuff.

 

[Thodoris Geronimakis]

best battery life i had on a smartphone !! i really love this phone, keep watching movies on this amazing screen all the time !!!

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[PainFX]

best battery life i had on a smartphone !! i really love this phone, keep watching movies on this amazing screen all the time !!!

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How many hours of screen time until 4%? Because that's not great by all means.

 

[Almeuit]

How many hours of screen time until 4%? Because that's not great by all means.

His second shot shows that... 6 1/2 hours.

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[sparker04]

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

71 percent battery with 4 and a half hours screen time? Can you show the rest of the graph.. There had to be some charging there .

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There must be! If not I want to know how!!!

 

[monicakm]

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

I'm at 1 day, 4+ hours and 48%. Screen time on is 2h 34m, 27s. Thankfully, I'm not trying to set any world (or androidcentral.com) record. I'm very pleased with my cell phone life style/habits and the S5's battery PLUS I keep all the "fluff" activated Just got rid of a few apps I'd never use.

 

[Thodoris Geronimakis]

Sorry mate but not many of my phones gave me 6+ hours of screen time ! U get more i guess?

 

[Eclipse2K]

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

I'm at 1 day, 4+ hours and 48%. Screen time on is 2h 34m, 27s. Thankfully, I'm not trying to set any world (or androidcentral.com) record. I'm very pleased with my cell phone life style/habits and the S5's battery PLUS I keep all the "fluff" activated Just got rid of a few apps I'd never use.

We set the bar here at Android Central. If my phone can't last 2 days worth of display time on a single charge its not good battery life. Plain and simple!

Android Central battery heads unite!

Samsung Galaxy S5 (Verizon)

 

[PainFX]

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

There must be! If not I want to know how!!!

True that. I want to know also. Best I've ever got was 10% per 1 hour screen time.

 

[Kiddhunger]

I have no idea if this is good or bad so.....

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