What's your battery health and cycle count?

[anon(10181084)]

Just curious as to how everyone is doing with their battery. To check the health and cycle count, download "Phone Info Samsung" by vndnguyen from the Play Store, open the "personal" tab and tap several times on the "usage history" text until it shows the battery health (cycles are shown by default, and if you don't wanna have to do all the tapping every time you want to check, simply get version 3.8.0 from APKmirror).

Here are my stats for the S8 I bought new in mid August last year, and it is pretty good given the fact that I don't religiously adhere to various draconian suggestions you might see on the forums like at-all-costs keeping between 40-80% and similar stuff. I just avoid discharging below 25-30% and I fully or near fully charge every time (sometimes I also do short "boost" charges, i.e. using a fast car charger to get a few extra percent while too/from the supermarket).

 

[mustang7757]

Nice , didn't know you can get a brand new s8 anymore.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I'm happy your S8 is healthy!

 

[anon(10181084)]

Nice , didn't know you can get a brand new s8 anymore.

Straight Talk was selling 'em last year and I didn't wanna drain my savings especially since I had decided to also purchase a fairly pricey laptop shortly after. So far so good aside from some somewhat annoying screen burn-in caused by my Whatsapp addiction. Still a great phone for just $300 (where else can you get a still very powerful 800 series Snapdragon for that little?).

 

[Laura Knotek]

Straight Talk was selling 'em last year and I didn't wanna drain my savings especially since I had decided to also purchase a fairly pricey laptop shortly after. So far so good aside from some somewhat annoying screen burn-in caused by my Whatsapp addiction. Still a great phone for just $300 (where else can you get a still very powerful 800 series Snapdragon for that little?).

What laptop did you get?

 

[mustang7757]

Straight Talk was selling 'em last year and I didn't wanna drain my savings especially since I had decided to also purchase a fairly pricey laptop shortly after. So far so good aside from some somewhat annoying screen burn-in caused by my Whatsapp addiction. Still a great phone for just $300 (where else can you get a still very powerful 800 series Snapdragon for that little?).

True, I had pinkish tint s8+ that was common.

 

[blackhawkhot]

Lol, it says 40.6% , 200 discharge cycles.
Battery is at 48%
It may have run awhile. The battery is between 96-100% of it's rated capacity.

 

[anon(10181084)]

What laptop did you get?

Dell Inspiron 15 7590 2in1 (i7-8565U, 16GB RAM, Nvidia MX250 GPU, 500GB SSD with 32GB Optane cache, 4K touch screen that can fold all the way back like a tablet, active stylus). Great machine for my needs, both leisure and school, updates Windows far faster that most cheaper machines, etc... I upgraded from a kludgy custom Celeron based PC that required Windows 7 to be remotely usable.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Dell Inspiron 15 7590 2in1 (i7-8565U, 16GB RAM, Nvidia MX250 GPU, 500GB SSD with 32GB Optane cache, 4K touch screen that can fold all the way back like a tablet, active stylus). Great machine for my needs, both leisure and school, updates Windows far faster that most cheaper machines, etc... I upgraded from a kludgy custom Celeron based PC that required Windows 7 to be remotely usable.

Very nice!

 

[anon(10181084)]

True, I had pinkish tint s8+ that was common.

Exactly my situation plus the imprints from the keyboard (including hexagons from my previous SwiftKey background) and Whatsapp UI. The navbar isn't pink at all as it is basically set up as a black/green battery indicator.

 

[anon(10181084)]

Very nice!

*edit meant 512GB SSD

 

[mustang7757]

Exactly my situation plus the imprints from the keyboard (including hexagons from my previous SwiftKey background) and Whatsapp UI. The navbar isn't pink at all as it is basically set up as a black/green battery indicator.

Is it pretty noticeable or faint ?

 

[anon(10181084)]

Is it pretty noticeable or faint ?

Took this picture a few days ago carefully with my spare Galaxy A6+. The screen is quite burnt in and is supposed to be plain gray. There is no Samsung store anywhere near where I live in New Mexico, so I'm kinda stuck with this. The phone is still perfectly usable. The first burn-in that happened was actually the G logo from dark mode Gboard, so I switched to SwiftKey and ditched all dark mode but that also burnt in badly as you can see. I casually mentioned this burn in to someone at a phone repair/accessory/refurbisment shop back home, and the repairwoman in the back of shop overheard me and in a very judgemental voice said "that is because you keep your screen brightness fully turned up". Sorry, but I shouldn't have to decrease my brightness on a premium phone just to prevent degradation. This is clearly the fault of Samsung. Meanwhile my old OLED tablet never experienced any burn-in and was heavily used with HUD based vide games and various PC emulators. But yeah, the S8 is EPICLY notorious for burn-in but that wasn't much of a worry at such a low price point. This is actually why I refuse to pay $1k for a brand new model as I know the screen will degrade no matter whether I OCD-level protect it or not. The phone is there to serve me, and not the other way around lol.

 

[mustang7757]

Took this picture a few days ago carefully with my spare Galaxy A6+. The screen is quite burnt in and is supposed to be plain gray. There is no Samsung store anywhere near where I live in New Mexico, so I'm kinda stuck with this. The phone is still perfectly usable. The first burn-in that happened was actually the G logo from dark mode Gboard, so I switched to SwiftKey and ditched all dark mode but that also burnt in badly as you can see. I casually mentioned this burn in to someone at a phone repair/accessory/refurbisment shop back home, and the repairwoman in the back of shop overheard me and in a very judgemental voice said "that is because you keep your screen brightness fully turned up". Sorry, but I shouldn't have to decrease my brightness on a premium phone just to prevent degradation. This is clearly the fault of Samsung. Meanwhile my old OLED tablet never experienced any burn-in and was heavily used with HUD based vide games and various PC emulators. But yeah, the S8 is EPICLY notorious for burn-in but that wasn't much of a worry at such a low price point. This is actually why I refuse to pay $1k for a brand new model as I know the screen will degrade no matter whether I OCD-level protect it or not. The phone is there to serve me, and not the other way around lol.

Oh yeah , best keep a darker background to see it less , I always had mine on auto brightness and adjust accordingly if needed but trained it where it works in most situations automatically now, i can't get that on my pixel just doesn't want adapt to my liking.

 

[anon(10181084)]

Oh yeah , best keep a darker background to see it less , I always had mine on auto brightness and adjust accordingly if needed but trained it where it works in most situations automatically now, i can't get that on my pixel just doesn't want adapt to my liking.

I hate adaptive brightness. I like my screens at full brightness as it looks alot nicer (part of the reason I like AMOLED is the brightness/glow it gives off) and doesn't give me the weird feel that low brightness levels (and rapidly adapting levels) give me as AMOLED uses low frequency PWM (unlike the high frequency PWM on LCDs that doesn't bother me).

I will be in literal HEAVEN when Samsung switches to MicroLED for phones as that, from what I hear, has basically the same benefits as OLED minus the downsides.

 

[novahob]

Ouch! 78.70% battery health though I've had the phone from brand new since October 2018.

 

[anon(10181084)]

Ouch! 78.70% battery health though I've had the phone from brand new since October 2018.

Have you been super frequently bringing the battery to very low percentages (below 10%) or fully emptying? It is OK to do it on ocassion or when you cannot get to charge your phone, but doing it habitually will nuke your battery quickly. How many cycles do you have?

 

[novahob]

Have you been super frequently bringing the battery to very low percentages (below 10%) or fully emptying? It is OK to do it on ocassion or when you cannot get to charge your phone, but doing it habitually will nuke your battery quickly. How many cycles do you have?

More recently I've been getting to low, I kind of knew that but thought I'd be getting a new phone. However, the current price of flagship phones and those horrible cut outs on front I've decided to keep my s8 longer. I'll just need to manage looking after the battery better now.

768 discharges

 

[Gray Area]

Thanks for the app, I have a note 9, (although my S20 ultra arrives today) but I wanted to check how the battery has held up in the 17 months I've had it. The results

 

[mustang7757]

Thanks for the app, I have a note 9, (although my S20 ultra arrives today) but I wanted to check how the battery has held up in the 17 months I've had it. The results View attachment 319760

Pretty good