Why is my battery life so bad on Galaxy S5?

[codyoehl]

Can someone tell me why my battery is so crappy?

Posted via the Android Central App with my Galaxy S5

 

[Rmedy21]

You need to put the entire screen shot so we can find the culprit

Posted via Verizon Galaxy S5

 

[Rmedy21]

Nevermind. That is normal for heavy users. The only way to get maybe a few more hours is to use your phone very lightly. People who get more that a day do either one of the other. 1.) They let there phone sit on stand by to rack up hours. Or secondly they have a extended battery. If you are constantly using your phone there is no way that you are going to get more than 6 hours on an oem battery. Except for what I mentioned above.

Posted via Verizon Galaxy S5

 

[codyoehl]

Nevermind. That is normal for heavy users. The only way to get maybe a few more hours is to use your phone very lightly. People who get more that a day do either one of the other. 1.) They let there phone sit on stand by to rack up hours. Or secondly they have a extended battery. If you are constantly using your phone there is no way that you are going to get more than 6 hours on an oem battery. Except for what I mentioned above.

Posted via Verizon Galaxy S5

I used to get more those, this is mainly just today
Usually I can get about 3 or 4 more hours than I got today with the battery until it reaches 35

And how is 1.5 hours of screen time a heavy user!

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Recall what have you done different this time vs last time.

 

[codyoehl]

Recall what have you done different this time vs last time.

The only thing I did was last night I turned off some built in apps that I didn't need, which should help my battery life

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have u tried resetting your phone and clearing cache?

 

[codyoehl]

have u tried resetting your phone and clearing cache?

Yeah I clear the cache occasionally and I usually turn off my phone at night

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[Jdroids]

That's not good. How's your battery drain overnight? If it drains like 1%/hour or more, there is some problem with your S5. Your stats looks like you would barely get 2 hours of SoT. S5 should be able to do 4 SOT at least. Also consider these tips.

what's your screen brightness? set it to auto or around 50%.

how's your location setting? avoid high accuracy, gps modes except when navigating.

make sure to uncheck "always scanning for WiFi points" under advanced WiFi setting.

uncheck anything under google syncing you don't need. I keep only app data, contact, calendar, drive, gmail, people on sync.

disable unnecessary carrier bloats and some samsung bloats, especially "samsung link platform".

 

[Rmedy21]

Maybe you have a bad battery.

Posted via Verizon Galaxy S5

 

[Feldon]

Download All-In-One Toolbox.

Click "Clean" and then "Boost". It will decrapify your phone, killing off all those background tasks which are killing the battery.

 

[codyoehl]

That's not good. How's your battery drain overnight? If it drains like 1%/hour or more, there is some problem with your S5. Your stats looks like you would barely get 2 hours of SoT. S5 should be able to do 4 SOT at least. Also consider these tips.

what's your screen brightness? set it to auto or around 50%.

how's your location setting? avoid high accuracy, gps modes except when navigating.

make sure to uncheck "always scanning for WiFi points" under advanced WiFi setting.

uncheck anything under google syncing you don't need. I keep only app data, contact, calendar, drive, gmail, people on sync.

disable unnecessary carrier bloats and some samsung bloats, especially "samsung link platform".

I have the lux brightness app to keep the screen at the right brightness
I turn my phone off at night
I keep location services off
I have disabled the bloatware

Posted via the Android Central App with my Galaxy S5

 

[codyoehl]

Download All-In-One Toolbox.

Click "Clean" and then "Boost". It will decrapify your phone, killing off all those background tasks which are killing the battery.

Already have that, and no, task killers don't work. They harm the phone more than they help, and the apps open right back up anyway so it's useless anyway.

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[codyoehl]

Maybe you have a bad battery.

Posted via Verizon Galaxy S5

I guess, but I feel like it would be a gradual decrease, and I've only had it for like 5 months. The batteries are supposed to last for like 2 years.

Posted via the Android Central App with my Galaxy S5

 

[Brian Baldwin]

Could be the same issue I found - I found out that in my pocket my phone keeps waking up at the home button touch, and it keeps the screen awake. Frustrating. I had it fully charged one night, when to EMS training and had it muted - afterwards found it had been on the whole 2 hours since I was moving around.

 

[Jdroids]

I have the lux brightness app to keep the screen at the right brightness
I turn my phone off at night
I keep location services off
I have disabled the bloatware

Posted via the Android Central App with my Galaxy S5

Then maybe your battery got bad or there is some hardware problem with your S5. My battery drain is nowhere near that bad. I'm pretty happy with my S5 battery life.

 

[AZgl1500]

Go into Settings and set it so the apps close out after each use.

Change the screen unlock to a pattern or pincode so that it won't unlock in your pocket.

Turn off Keep Awake

Turn off all of the Air Motion sensors

 

[EOA DEV]

Cyanogen might help you

 

[AppleCultApostate]

Sadly rooting has become a necessity for the Samsung Galaxy s5 with all the bloatware that comes pre-installed and can't be disabled with regular stock user permissions. I rooted my phone, disabled a ton of services I don't use with disable service, stopped programs from auto-booting with battery doctor, set battery doctor to auto-kill apps on sleep, underclocked the CPU to 729 Mhz, set the governor to conservative, and then my battery had lasted 16 hours instead of 8. Twice the battery life.

 

[sctbc2]

Rooting is not a necessity for good battery life.

Non-rooted S5:

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