Newest Update Battery killer?

[NancyinWI]

I got the update yesterday. Battery fully charged. I've been reading this forum for 5 minutes and it just dropped to 99%. Before the update, I was getting about 12 hours on a charge. I'll be curious to see if it changes at the end of the day today.

UPDATE After a couple hours with minor use, I am down to 82% and have 10 hours of battery life left. This IS worse. Even with fairly heavy use, I'd get around 15 hours of battery. Now, I'll be getting 13 tops with very little usage.

 

[Crude Berry]

I swear on everything that is holy, if it comes back my phone is possessed.

It'll come back when you restart. Just have to remember to go back in and turn off background usage again. Helped my battery on Oreo a bunch turning this off.

 

[Ihazterbo]

Well explain this...said there was an update and I already knew where this was going. I said remind me later and it went into continue? Ok fabulous. So now its Oreo all over again and once again in a matter of 1 hour I've gone from 75% to 45. Seriously?? I've turned everything off in the background and deleted fb app as well. Getting super frustrated.

 

[anon(123856)]

Besides telling you to get package disabler to get rid of it or a priest I'm out of ideas. Lol

There's always Holy Water...

 

[CraftyMe2323]

Well explain this...said there was an update and I already knew where this was going. I said remind me later and it went into continue? Ok fabulous. So now its Oreo all over again and once again in a matter of 1 hour I've gone from 75% to 45. Seriously?? I've turned everything off in the background and deleted fb app as well. Getting super frustrated.

If you decide to downgrade again, flip this switch off in developer options.

 

[NancyinWI]

A I'm down to 40% after 9 hours. But more disturbing to me is that the phone is overheating. That's what used to happen with my S5, which I had for 3 years. Until the 8.0 update, this S8 NEVER got warm, let alone hot.

 

[Ihazterbo]

Here is what keeps coming up. I don't even have Pandora going. SHealth maybe but...

 

[Ihazterbo]

If you decide to downgrade again, flip this switch off in developer options.

Excellent!!

 

[BuckyBadg]

Does anyone know if the Oreo update enables previously disabled apps.? I have to check it out but that could be a source of battery depletion.

I may still change my mind but I think the decreased battery life is worth it in light of it’s increased speed. What I’m afraid of is that the batteries will go bad sooner (hopefully I will move on to a different phone before that happens).

 

[Shujinko]

I think it's actually much better and faster UI and battery now. But I always have my phone on battery saver. Maybe you should try that?

 

[sitlet]

Does anyone know if the Oreo update enables previously disabled apps.? I have to check it out but that could be a source of battery depletion.

I may still change my mind but I think the decreased battery life is worth it in light of it’s increased speed. What I’m afraid of is that the batteries will go bad sooner (hopefully I will move on to a different phone before that happens).

Normally a major update like this one will usually re-enable apps that were previously disabled.

 

[Ihazterbo]

So after a few months now of this last update, my battery life has been destroyed. My phone barely goes 24 hours now. I've done a factory reset and now have maybe a few apps. However this thing keeps somehow turning itself back in and I have to stop it by turning off background activity. What the flippity flop!???
I have it in mid range for battery so of course videos dont load like they should and things aren't as great as they could be.

 

[mark7914]

I've been arguing with and I think finally managed to defeat the Oreo update on my S8. It's now stuck on Android 7 and all the nag messages to update it have gone. This required disabling several packages on the phone and a particular sequence is needed to achieve that.

Whether it is of interest or not: I did note the phone seemed much slower, even though I didn't upgrade it. That seemed to coincide with when the phone detected and began nagging about the upgrade.

Eventually the phone became more and more persistent about the upgrade and the battery life seemed to worsen. However "seemed to" is hardly proof.

In succeeding in resetting the phone and disabling Software Update completely I went through a process of resetting it multiple times. Each time I'd note that the moment the software update nag messages became prevalent, the performance would drop, as did the battery life. With almost nothing installed on it.

The suspicion that I have, and it is only that, is that the degradation begins when the update nag messages become persistent - move to level 2, if you like - even before the Oreo update. Based on witnessing the same thing three times. The key is to stop the phone from even detecting that an update is available.

Now I've overcome all that and it's back the way it was out-of-the-box with plenty of apps installed, it's like greased lightning again and the battery life is much more stable.

Incidentally, and confirmed by Samsung - the phone ignores the Developer Option (Auto Update System) and the Software Update option (Automatically Download Updates). It's a fault out-of-the-box, some might say, by design.

Those settings do literally nothing and will not prevent the phone from downloading the update and nagging about it, a more hardcore approach is necessary.