Shooting a few moments of video depletes battery at an alarming rate.

[1812dave]

I've had the phone a week and just today have I tried video recording. Playing around with it by making 6 videos less than 20 seconds each and reviewing them once each has dropped battery by 8%. All in the space of under 15 minutes. Is this how it's going to be with this phone? Also, video "pulses" due to refocusing unnecessarily.

I made a video using the front camera, for 2 minutes, with no review. that used 1%. 36 minutes of screen time since i took phone of charger this morning and I'm at 81%.

 

[SpookDroid]

Are you recording in 4K to SD Card? That's the only scenario I can think of that would be 'worst case'. I just tried FullHD to internal memory and after a couple 20s videos and reviewing them, I didn't drop a single percent point on mine. But I'm using an Edge version, so maybe that's a bit different.

Is battery life OK with yours otherwise?

 

[1812dave]

I tried 1080 recordings and ONE 4k recording which was less than 20 seconds. Standby battery life is great, but the two issues I've had are that when removed from the wireless stand charger (quick charge) in the morning, it drops several percent in less than 10-15 minutes unless I don't touch the phone. Less than 10 minutes of onscreen time depletes the charge by several percent when it first comes off the charger. IF I charge it during the day using the samsung wireless non-fast charging pad, it will stay at 100% for about an hour if I don't use the phone. It's as if the samsung wireless stand charger doesn't do as good a job of keeping the battery up to it's max potential.

Battery life with screen OFF and playing Pandora for more than 2 hours at a stretch is great. what concerns me is battery life with the screen on (50% usually), taking photos and/or videos. Standby battery life tends to be fine. But I'd also like to USE the phone too!

 

[SpookDroid]

That doesn't sound like what others are reporting. I'd try factory-resetting the phone and if that doesn't work, then i'd start looking at getting a replacement. Something isn't right (unless you know of an app that's causing havoc).

 

[1812dave]

recorded 2 minutes of video on wife's S7. before reviewing video, battery dropped 2%. after reviewing video, didn't drop battery enough to show a lower percentage charge. So, compared to my own phone recording video from front camera any, there isn't anything to point out that my phone is doing worse than hers. I think I'm going to test video recording at some point in the future after charging my phone from the samsung non-fast-charge pad instead of in the morning when I've had my phone on the stand charger.