why is my s8 plus battery draining so fast?

[cesar Reyes4]

For the last few weeks my s8 has been draining like crazy. Before the battery used to be beast, but recently it been pretty bad. I've used greenify,doze,etc to see if it helps but nothing has worked. I've even factory reset it but nothing. My settings AOD off FHD+, GPS off, screen brightness set to way less than half but not zero, Bluetooth off. Pretty much all the settings you can think that you don't really need I've turned off, but still nothing. I see all these other s8 owners with 6 or 7 SOT but i cant even get over 430, is there a possibility something is wrong with my phone?

 

[Gayle Lynn]

I'm of the school that "less is more"and too many cooks spoil the soup. Yank apps to get back to stock. In your case maybe monitor with GSam pro

Cable and charger would be #1 As is the USBC port at fault maybe? Use of wireless charger.

 

[V J]

You're not giving us much to go on without screenshots of your battery usage.

 

[cesar Reyes4]

Sorry about that. I'm wating to charge it to 100 to get accurate resutlts

 

[wunderbar]

Screen On Time isn't a great metric to determine battery life. It all depends on usage. I could stream music over the mobile network from spotify to bluetooth headphones for 5 hours, then turn my screen on for an hour and my battery is dead, and then I'd get 1 hour of SOT.

I could also put it in airplane mode and screen brightness to 5% and get 12 hours of SOT.

It's almost certainly an app that you use on a regular basis that's the primary cause. The Facebook app is a big one, anything that pulls data on a regular basis will contribute.

 

[joeldf]

Even without a battery usage screenshot, how about at least some actual times of battery life you're getting for us to go on.

You say it was a beast. That's mighty subjective. What does that mean? A month? A week? A whole day? 6 hours?

A month would be a beast of a battery to me. I get a whole day, and I'm happy with that, but I'd hardly call it great.

So please give us the time in days or hours you think is good, and what is it now that you're not happy with.

 

[counterhit121]

I realize OP was vague, but I just encountered the same thing myself today. Haven't changed usage patterns or added any new apps lately other than switching from BlueMail to Outlook.

 

[cesar Reyes4]

Sorry for the delay. Here are the stats from GSam and the stock battery stats. And what I ment before is that I could be on it and ut would drain very slowly but now I feel like every time I look at it it looses 1%. Btw today was a pretty light day I wasn't really on it much

 

[cesar Reyes4]

Second one

 

[cesar Reyes4]

Third one

 

[cesar Reyes4]

And fourth one

 

[Centerman66]

And fourth one

That looks pretty good.

 

[cesar Reyes4]

Really?

 

[sweetypie31]

I'm no phone battery expert, but to have used the phone for 14 hours and still have 53% left seems good. What kind of stats are you wanting? I honestly don't believe that anyone is going 2 days without charging any smart phone (no matter the brand) unless they never use the phone for anything other than making calls.

 

[cesar Reyes4]

The thing is that, that day I didn't really use my phone

 

[Gayle Lynn]

"Free" that often comes with a price. And can include unwanted 'features.' Lucky if no adware or snooping or backdoors, even from trusted sites.

Some slip by, others get posted then altered when updated. One security article mentioned wallpapers, photo touch-up, flashlight, OCR camera. I'm a bit OCD.

 

[spinachie]

I'm going to try the matte black home and lock screen. I never used to have an issue with my animated background, so we will see. However my battery is crap. 45% around 1pm with simple tasks like WhatsApp, email, chrome.

 

[xplod566]

What's Samsung Dex consuming so much power.
Also I could see Waze using quiet a lot.Can u share the run time for both of those

 

[wunderbar]

yea, based on the screenshots the issue you're having is probably related to DEX. Dex shouldn't be consuming battery like that at all. If you're using DEX, the device is plugged in and charging, so not consuming battery. And if you're not using DEX, shoudln't be active.

 

[cesar Reyes4]

From what I read is the gsam confuses Samsung Dex with other programs