Terrible battery usage

[sirmaru]

So why in the world would you have smartphone at all with that usage pattern? A Nokia 3300 would be sufficient! ??????

Purposes: emergency phone when away from the house and in my car, playing music (Amazon) when walking the dog and shopping in the supermarket; reading Amazon eBooks when away from the house; sending and receiving text messages with the family. Most of my actual phone calls are made from the house using a copper wire like with a base and 4 wireless extensions..

Even those, who use the apps aggressively, would benefit from use Ultra Power Saving Mode when not using the apps. They can still make and receive phone calls and text messages in that mode.

Finally, that Mode ends app activities which may have been running out of control after an update.

In that mode

 

[sirmaru]

So why in the world would you have smartphone at all with that usage pattern? A Nokia 3300 would be sufficient! ??????

Purposes: emergency phone when away from the house and in my car, playing music (Amazon) when walking the dog and shopping in the supermarket; reading Amazon eBooks when away from the house; sending and receiving text messages with the family. Most of my actual phone calls are made from the house using a copper wire connection with a base and 4 wireless extensions which is immune for the base from power outages which also takes down cell towers.

Even those, who use the apps aggressively, would benefit from use Ultra Power Saving Mode when not using the apps. They can still make and receive phone calls and text messages in that mode.

Finally, that Mode ends app activities which may have been running out of control after an update.

In that mode

 

[AZgl1500]

Originally Posted by osvanberg
So why in the world would you have smartphone at all with that usage pattern? A Nokia 3300 would be sufficient! ������

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That kind of a response is uncalled for and childish.

how Sirmaru uses his phone is his business. Like how I use mine with the internet turned OFF all the time unless I want to use the phone.

We each choose how we want to use our electronic devices.

I don't care how you use yours, or anyone else uses theirs. I do care how I use mine.

Sirmaru and I are accomplishing just about the same thing, but we are approaching it differently.

He is manually turning off the internet via the Power Saving Mode. I choose to do it with MacroDroid which senses the screen status. Screen locked, no internet and all apps are terminated. Screen unlocked, internet ON.

Getting rid of the internet unloads the CPU and lets it idle sipping battery power at a very low rate.

Sirmaru and I both have a nearly full battery when we choose to use our phone, regardless of 15 minutes after off the charger, or 15 hours off the charger... which happens to be the case for my phone right now and it is showing 70% battery available.

That after a lot of heavy use during lunch today. Don't know about Sirmaru, but I am in a very rural area and 1x is the best signal that I can get a lot of the time.... so why have the S5's radio transmitter cranking out at full power trying to find a 4g signal?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

10hrs uptime and 3hrs screen time, those stats are good considering the gaming you do imo.

Yep, I have to agree. Turning brightness down a bunch might help some, but other than that probably not much you can do other than get an extended battery or charge it more often.

 

[codyoehl]

Which phone do you have and how old is it?

Posted via Android Central App with my Samsung Galaxy S5

 

[mhaiderk97]

How is your phone not "Awake" with its screen on? :/

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[Bryan Eriksson]

Ya my battery life is terrible with very minimal usage. I'm going to call Samsung and see if they will replace my battery or entire phone.

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[Bruno28]

Cant you get an extra new battery?
Where can we buy original new batteries for the GS5?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Cant you get an extra new battery?
Where can we buy original new batteries for the GS5?

I think the only way to be 100% sure you're getting an OEM Samsung battery is to buy it from Samsung's web site. Buying from a carrier store is probably safe, too. But there are so many counterfeit batteries being made and sold that even a legit store that thinks it's buying genuine batteries may be getting fakes