Ok the honeymoon period is starting to wear off....

[TechNut79]

Hmm. Never had an LG Android before. I've only ever had samsungs other the the OG droid, droid x and the galaxy nexus. They all dropped off quickly from 100 to 99%.

The last LG I had was the Voyager.

She swears by them and won't get anything else. She wants the G6 or possibly V20 or 30.

 

[tekjunkie28]

She swears by them and won't get anything else. She wants the G6 or possibly V20 or 30.

I loved the voyager. I just don't trust LG anymore after the G3 or whatever had that bad solder. I've seen several die sadly.

 

[ronin_cse]

Yeah the unknown factor would give me pause as well.

Wellllll to be fair I can always get the X and then return it for another Note 8 if it disappoints me

 

[Carrie Greicar]

I'll just say that this hasn't been my iOS battery life experience at all. My wife has had iPhones since the 4s and her battery life has always destroyed mine, and she has always gotten the smaller ones when those started coming out.

Like I mentioned it HAS to come down to individual use. Something about the way I use my phone just kills the battery since this is an issue I have had with every Android phone I have owned, and something about how iOS handles background tasks must mitigate what I do to drain the battery so fast.

See and I had an Iphone 6s plus that would be down to around 50% by noon so I think it is a phone issue. Maybe your 8 is a bad one? The battery life on mine is great.

 

[Almeuit]

I'll just say that this hasn't been my iOS battery life experience at all. My wife has had iPhones since the 4s and her battery life has always destroyed mine, and she has always gotten the smaller ones when those started coming out.

Like I mentioned it HAS to come down to individual use. Something about the way I use my phone just kills the battery since this is an issue I have had with every Android phone I have owned, and something about how iOS handles background tasks must mitigate what I do to drain the battery so fast.

See and I had an Iphone 6s plus that would be down to around 50% by noon so I think it is a phone issue. Maybe your 8 is a bad one? The battery life on mine is great.

Oh no it definitely comes down to individual use. When I had an iPhone I could kill it mid afternoon but I do things that aren't typical (such as streaming HD live video over LTE for hours). My dad with his iPhone 6S Plus doesn't need charged except for every 3-4 days since he uses it so lightly.

 

[TechnologyTwitt]

Yeah that is one thing I never agreed on. I never felt iOS had more polished apps when I used them. They ran the same as my Android one -- sometimes worse then my Android ones because certain features would be restricted due to iOS.

Not all, for example, my banking app (TD Bank) has fingerprint authentication on iOS but only typed password authentication on Android.

 

[gyounk]

My iPhone 7 plus battery was amazing. In my note8, I am charging more often.

I know.what you are going through. I wonder.how long will it take Apple to make a iOS update that just makes the notch flush with black boarders on each side? That was my only gripe with the iPhone X design.

I am.giving Apple two.years get an Integrated Apple pencil.

 

[LegalAmerican]

Oh yeah this happens with every phone sadly...I think iOS may have just ruined me for Android though as TBH despite being mostly an Android user, got my first one in 2009 and the 7 was my first iPhone, I have found that I don't seem to care for most of the advantages of Android.

All that being said I do really love the Note 8. The screen is absolutely amazing, performance is top notch, the S-Pen is way more useful that I thought it would be, Samsung Pay is of course brilliant, etc... Sometimes I just have trouble deciding on which trade offs are more important to me .

Your comments remind me a ton of my brother in law. I'll start off by saying this....if Apple and iOS was REALLY that good, you wouldn't have gotten a Note 8. You just wouldn't. Android is perfect for me, so nothing Apple does convinces me to get an iPhone because I know I have found the sweet spot for myself. It's definitely easy to nitpick little things if you're just not happy. And there's no reason to suffer when you can go back to iOS for "free", and be happy.

Back to my brother in law....he was an Apple fanboy for years, but then he got the original Note. He loved it for a week, and then went back to Apple and hated so much about Android. Then he got the S3 and loved it so much that he convinced half of my in laws to switch to it from their iPhones. Once they all switched, he got sick of it and went back to iOS and they all followed suit. Then he did it with the S7 edge, went back to Apple.

I feel bad for people who don't feel at home with either operating system. I think it's wise to just accept that for some people, neither are as good as we tell ourselves in order to justify a new, exciting device. There will always be good and bad, and you just have to decide where the bad is too bad, and the good is good enough. If that makes any sense.

 

[Almeuit]

Not all, for example, my banking app (TD Bank) has fingerprint authentication on iOS but only typed password authentication on Android.

Yeah that is just the app dev being lazy. Not really an OS specific issue.

 

[Vipmediastar]

Back it up and reformat it. Im getting better battery life by the day. Maybe it finally settled in or something but I had 60% by the end of my work day. Yesterday I had 70%. Same use and all. Change the sim card, reset network settings etc. Possibly bad signal on your end.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Apple does a great job at copying everything Samsung.

So true, in a few years Apple will have what the note 8 has now. But kidding aside, get the phone you like, we can't tell you what phone is for you.

 

[ronin_cse]

Back it up and reformat it. Im getting better battery life by the day. Maybe it finally settled in or something but I had 60% by the end of my work day. Yesterday I had 70%. Same use and all. Change the sim card, reset network settings etc. Possibly bad signal on your end.

If I need to start the cycle of resetting my phone for it to perform properly two weeks after I have bought it that is unacceptable. Signal is fine and everything, again it's just my particular use scenario for some reason. Like I said this happens to EVERY Android phone I have owned, at this point it's obvious that I am the problem

 

[ronin_cse]

Your comments remind me a ton of my brother in law. I'll start off by saying this....if Apple and iOS was REALLY that good, you wouldn't have gotten a Note 8. You just wouldn't. Android is perfect for me, so nothing Apple does convinces me to get an iPhone because I know I have found the sweet spot for myself. It's definitely easy to nitpick little things if you're just not happy. And there's no reason to suffer when you can go back to iOS for "free", and be happy.

Back to my brother in law....he was an Apple fanboy for years, but then he got the original Note. He loved it for a week, and then went back to Apple and hated so much about Android. Then he got the S3 and loved it so much that he convinced half of my in laws to switch to it from their iPhones. Once they all switched, he got sick of it and went back to iOS and they all followed suit. Then he did it with the S7 edge, went back to Apple.

I feel bad for people who don't feel at home with either operating system. I think it's wise to just accept that for some people, neither are as good as we tell ourselves in order to justify a new, exciting device. There will always be good and bad, and you just have to decide where the bad is too bad, and the good is good enough. If that makes any sense.

Lol I tend to suffer quite a bit from "new shiny syndrome"...honestly that's why I got the iPhone 7 Plus last year too, I had decided that I was happy with my S7 Edge until the S8 but then release day came around and I had to have it! EXACTLY the same thing happened here where I had decided I was happy with my iPhone 7 and was going to wait for the X but then the Note 8 got released early and then I HAD to have one .

 

[Amele]

Yeah that is just the app dev being lazy. Not really an OS specific issue.

Yeah My Wells Fargo app gives a choice. Some things we all blame on the operating system are really app problems. Sometimes including battery life.

 

[brau0303]

I think with anything, after you have had it for a week or two the shiny begins to wear off and you begin to wonder if this truly was what you really wanted. That's ok, because only you can decide what's right for you. So many choices. is there a perfect phone? If there is I have yet to find it, I can say that I am happy with the Note 8. It has features that I want/find useful. Go with what you feel is right for you.

Cheers,
BR

 

[durandetto]

Hmm. Never had an LG Android before. I've only ever had samsungs other the the OG droid, droid x and the galaxy nexus. They all dropped off quickly from 100 to 99%.

The last LG I had was the Voyager.

All the LG phone's I've had will stay at 100 for a couple hours before dropping off. By the end of the day they never got better battery life than any of my Samsung's though.

 

[durandetto]

She swears by them and won't get anything else. She wants the G6 or possibly V20 or 30.

Can't speak for the v30, but the v20 and g6 are pretty stellar phones. I had the v20 and my wife and kid have the g6 now.

 

[durandetto]

I loved the voyager. I just don't trust LG anymore after the G3 or whatever had that bad solder. I've seen several die sadly.

LG is now extending the manufacturer warranty to 2 years now. I believe because of that issue.

 

[garak0410]

I admit I am missing the battery life I had on the Pixel XL and Moto Z Force Droid (the phones I had filling in the gaps when the Note 7 was recalled.) I am still getting by with charging once every 24 hours but just barely. Sometimes I charge twice a day with moderate use. Wireless charging is so slow on the Note 8, so I generally use USB-C charging.

 

[CTREV21]

Once they removed the ability to replace batteries I had to change my way of thinking. I basically solved my issues with battery life if a few simple steps. At work (I'm lucky enough) I have a charging station at my desk. When I'm on the go my car has a charger. When I go to sleep its on a charger. It's basically 100% most of the time.
Now when I'm out for an extended period of time, I carry a 3ft or shorter cord. I also have a simple fully charged Anker battery pack to go to if I need juice.
Sorry but when you seal the batteries on phones you get what you get. If you have an app that sucks up power uninstall it and find an alternative. And lastly your phone comes with power saver mode. Use it once in awhile.