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Note 4 Battery Thread!!

Post your battery stats and screen on time here.

This is from first day of use and from the first full charge. I was using it heavily and running around 10 apps in the background, Bluetooth GPS on, all data from lte and no WiFi.

You really brought that Note 4 battery to its knees.

cosinav said:
This is from first day of use and from the first full charge. I was using it heavily and running around 10 apps in the background, Bluetooth GPS on, all data from lte and no WiFi.
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Brightness level?

Here are mine. 29% left

Please, everyone who is about to report their stats, let us know which model do you have (Exynos or SD) and also don't forget to report your brightness settings!

ShadowFlare said:
You really brought that Note 4 battery to its knees.
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Well, it's was more like my Note 4 brought it to its knees! It is really a power house and given that the battery lasted that long on the first charge with heavy use, I'm quite pleased with the result.
kruso said:
Brightness level?
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Brightness was auto.

DelBoy said:
Here are mine. 29% left
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Exynos version, brightness were auto

While I'm not impressed with these battery levels, I must say the UI looks really nice and clean! :good:

EP2008 said:
While I'm not impressed with these battery levels, I must say the UI looks really nice and clean! :good:
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It looks, but white is not really battery friendly and everything is white.

I am looking to get 2 battery + external charger. Who would I get it from?

DelBoy said:
It looks, but white is not really battery friendly and everything is white.
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Yeah, I keep most of my apps running with a BLACK background. I wonder if Sammy could make a hybrid ultra power save mode that puts everything in black and white but allows all apps to be run, rather than the basics.

chong67 said:
I am looking to get 2 battery + external charger. Who would I get it from?
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Wait until companies like Anker produce 3rd party batteries or wait until Samsung has them up in their store and use a 50% off code.

Battery time looks rather disappointing at the moment. Even the iPhone 6+ has almost double battery life from the screenshots posted here =(

Then go buy an iPhone

I'm worried that this may be another step backwards in battery life. Was annoyed a bit by my Note 3 doing worse than my 2 already...not sure I can stomach it going down more, 9991343212312.2323 pixels more than before and all...curious to see more results!

Keep in mind the Snapdragon version usually gets better battery life than the Exynos one in the OP.

aooga said:
Keep in mind the Snapdragon version usually gets better battery life than the Exynos one in the OP.
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Source ?

Not sure that SD805 can get better battery since the Exynos are on the new 20nm fab.

Lodix said:
Source ?
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I know this is the s4, but its been the same for the note 3 as well.

Change Battery to 3800 mah

Hello,
i love my Note8 but as i came from the Xiami Mi Max 3 i'm not really satisfied with the battery. But the Note9 is way to expensive at the moment and ( for me ) not a better device than the Note 8 beside the better battery.
I have found on aliexpress a battery for the note 8 with a 3800mah instead the 3200mah from Samsung. Anyone tried this battery yet? The 20% bigger capacity would be a huge improvement for battery life.

Probably fake, but its certainly unsafe to do it, you might cause a lot of problems this way - even destroy a phone .
Try keeping your battery between 20 and 90% and you might get longer lasting battery.. That's just it, dont experiment with these sorts of things like battery capacity...

JohannW said:
Hello,
i love my Note8 but as i came from the Xiami Mi Max 3 i'm not really satisfied with the battery. But the Note9 is way to expensive at the moment and ( for me ) not a better device than the Note 8 beside the better battery.
I have found on aliexpress a battery for the note 8 with a 3800mah instead the 3200mah from Samsung. Anyone tried this battery yet? The 20% bigger capacity would be a huge improvement for battery life.
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I think the battery life is pretty decent already, you could just get a powerbank if you are that concerned, I would suggest that over you putting a questionable battery in, all while probably ruining the IP68 in doing so.

I Tried 2 bigger than original batteries in the past for a S3 and a Note 3, first, these batts lack the NFC and wireless capabilities, second, they were not even near the advertised capacity, furthermore, they failed miserably in less than 2 months

What the others said, but also, the batteries are, for all intents and purposes, none-replaceable. It's not as simple as opening the back cover and swapping out the battery. There's a lot of work involved in doing it and you could potentially damage your phone just from this process, much less even the battery itself.
I don't recommend you try this.

JohannW said:
Hello,
i love my Note8 but as i came from the Xiami Mi Max 3 i'm not really satisfied with the battery. But the Note9 is way to expensive at the moment and ( for me ) not a better device than the Note 8 beside the better battery.
I have found on aliexpress a battery for the note 8 with a 3800mah instead the 3200mah from Samsung. Anyone tried this battery yet? The 20% bigger capacity would be a huge improvement for battery life.
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Don't do it, that sounds like a fire hazard waiting to happen.

sefrcoko said:
Don't do it, that sounds like a fire hazard waiting to happen.
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Read the OP's post again.
He is trying to downgrade his Note 8 to the incendiary Note 7
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Anonymously_Unknown said:
Read the OP's post again.
He is trying to downgrade his Note 8 to the incendiary Note 7
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Lol...I actually thought I missed something at first

Anonymously_Unknown said:
Read the OP's post again.
He is trying to downgrade his Note 8 to the incendiary Note 7
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I know you are joking, but, hey! I still have my silver titanium note 7 since September 2016, ,and works really fine!

winol said:
since September 2016, ,and works really fine!
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I can imagine you have been avoiding ALL firmware updates since then ,so as not to network-brick the device.

Anonymously_Unknown said:
I can imagine you have been avoiding ALL firmware updates since then ,so as not to network-brick the device.
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As I did not want to surrender my device, yes, I used bk disabler to avoid any firmware update, but, just as a precaution, because here in Mexico the largest carrier, Telcel did not force anybody to exchange the device, in fact, you could keep it and in the event of it catching fire or anything of the sort, they would then exchage it for any other device, provided the warranty period still alive

Telcel gave you a very good deal here. Whenever you are ready to convert your Note 7 into self-destruct (nuclear bomb) mode, I'm sure this forum has several interesting ideas. On an unrelated note (no pun intended): Have you ever taken this phone on a flight before? If so, have you had any hassle doing so?
I recall in 2017 when I was re-fueling my car at a local petrol station here in Jamaica (not self-serve, but a pump attendant). A pedestrian (on foot) was on a phone call on a Note 7. I instinctively started my car, slammed it in gear ,floored the accelerator, leaving my gas cap, and forgetting to pay the fuel bill. I was determined not to die that day.

Battery for S10 vs S10+?

Hello,
Just curious from people that may have tested both. How does the battery compare between the two? I just ordered the S10 but am second guessing due to the size of the battery in the Plus. The smaller pixel the battery is trash compared to the XL. Was wondering if the same is the case for the S10 vs the S10+
Thanks

sruel3216 said:
Hello,
Just curious from people that may have tested both. How does the battery compare between the two? I just ordered the S10 but am second guessing due to the size of the battery in the Plus. The smaller pixel the battery is trash compared to the XL. Was wondering if the same is the case for the S10 vs the S10+
Thanks
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I think it is going to be a little more than try, return and upgrade to compare the difference. Hopefully someone has tried both through multiple charging cycles because that's what it takes for a battery to settle in.

Tel864 said:
I think it is going to be a little more than try, return and upgrade to compare the difference. Hopefully someone has tried both through multiple charging cycles because that's what it takes for a battery to settle in.
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Yeah I'll probably try the s10 for a week then decide. All the reviews I've watched are on the S10+. Not many reviewing the S10.
I'm hoping the S10 has decent battery. Had the note and 6t. It's been a while since I've had a smaller phone. I want to try.

sruel3216 said:
Yeah I'll probably try the s10 for a week then decide. All the reviews I've watched are on the S10+. Not many reviewing the S10.
I'm hoping the S10 has decent battery. Had the note and 6t. It's been a while since I've had a smaller phone. I want to try.
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I ordered the S10 hoping I would get at least what I got on the S9. Every now and then I don't make it through a day with the S9 but I mostly do. I'm hoping with the slightly larger battery in the S10 vs the S9 I may see a little improvement. The S10e is the size phone I wanted and has the flat screen, but the smaller battery drove me away from it.

I haven't compared but right now I'd say the batterife on my plus is not as good as I was hoping. I've had it since March 6th and it's been worse than my Note 9 and way worse than my Huawei Mate 20 pro. I hope it gets better with time. My pixel 3 was horrid for the first week or so but improved dramatically soon after

chetly968 said:
I haven't compared but right now I'd say the batterife on my plus is not as good as I was hoping. I've had it since March 6th and it's been worse than my Note 9 and way worse than my Huawei Mate 20 pro. I hope it gets better with time. My pixel 3 was horrid for the first week or so but improved dramatically soon after
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Any updates? Just got it and it's only 5 hours screen on time, waaaay worse than my POCOPHONE. Is there any difference after a while? Thanks

I'm not impressed at all with my S10+
Way worse than I expected

Here is mine, been on battery for over 24 hours with AOD on from 7am to 1am. 2 sim cards in the phone. On WiFi mainly. Browsing forums and watching YouTube vanced dark mode, Samsung browser on dark mode most of the time. I think mines not too shabby, ive seen someone get 15 hours, don't know how. As long as I can get through a day with the battery I'm ok.
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johnkabou said:
I'm not impressed at all with my S10+
Way worse than I expected
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What was so disappointing about the 4100 mah battery?

ArunRocker said:
What was so disappointing about the 4100 mah battery?
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5 hours SOT? I've seen tests over 8. And my Poco has 8+ hours. I was expecting at least the same

Content with my S10+ SD - stil selling it, but otherwise no complaints. I use bluetooth (Galaxy Buds) regularly for calls and music. This was a lighter day for me. Owned the phone since launch.
https://imgur.com/a/HttyUWL

I average about 4.5 SOT with 17-19 hours up ok my SD S10.
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johnkabou said:
Any updates? Just got it and it's only 5 hours screen on time, waaaay worse than my POCOPHONE. Is there any difference after a while? Thanks
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Unfortunately I ended up returning my s10. Battery life was never that great and I was impressed with the phone over the Note 9. Think I'm just gonna wait for the Note 10 at this point.

Whats next on the P20 Pro?

Did Huawei already kinda give up on the P20 Pro? I know that there's is coming the EMUI 10, but new features? or features that other phones are getting? The Mate 20 has announced some new stuff like moon mode, DC dimming, ultra-low latency Bluetooth (maybe here there is a hardware difference), the Nova 4 is also getting front camera night mode. Also the camera on the P20 Pro still as a lot to improve especially on the video and front camera. I just kinda feel like they already letting go a last year flagship just like that.

Low latency bluetooth might be because of the bluetooth 5 thing. Guess who's switching if they abandon the phone in the same way they did 2 years ago.

Is a shame that an 800+€ flagship is just kinda 'forgot' already just like that because there are others flagship to push out to consumers, this phone is great and still can be better but yeah f**k consumers.

We get every update possible up to emui 10. Who is forgotten??
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sniper20 said:
We get every update possible up to emui 10. Who is forgotten??
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Some of the features that the mate 20 and p30 have are mostly hardware-related. The 30x zoom could had been bought to our phone, same goes for dimming, ar lens and more stuff.

The Restless Soul said:
Some of the features that the mate 20 and p30 have are mostly hardware-related. The 30x zoom could had been bought to our phone, same goes for dimming, ar lens and more stuff.
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This.. Also when is Huawei gonna finally solve the video focus jitters or whatever is?

Hate to be devils advocate here but if they put all there shiney new tricks on last year's phone what would be the point in the p30, it's a business decision.
Sicks but it's how phones are sold, I think given the p20 is nearly 2 now it's doing well with updates.

Business is business until the customers do a massive refund and move on to something else

The Restless Soul said:
Business is business until the customers do a massive refund and move on to something else
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Something that almost never happens in real life.
The successful company must really fail on many fronts to make majority of their customers go. It must be combination of really disappointing product and terrible financial condition of this company. The closest example that comes to my mind is htc drastically losing its market share in 2011. Their models like Sensation or Incredible S had hardware defects and weren't match for Galaxy S II.
However an average user won't abandon Huawei because they don't want to make its really good p20 pro look (softwarewise) like p30 pro. Every vendor does that.

forever_lol said:
Something that almost never happens in real life.
The successful company must really fail on many fronts to make majority of their customers go. It must be combination of really disappointing product and terrible financial condition of this company. The closest example that comes to my mind is htc drastically losing its market share in 2011. Their models like Sensation or Incredible S had hardware defects and weren't match for Galaxy S II.
However an average user won't abandon Huawei because they don't want to make its really good p20 pro look (softwarewise) like p30 pro. Every vendor does that.
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I don't wanna my P20 Pro to look like the p30 pro or all the shiny new stuff that is hardware related (impossible of course) but it would be cool to have a last year flagship to record a video without is "focus jumping around" every few seconds and stuff like that that ruin the video and can be improved.

Does feel like we're being left behind tbh.
Emui 10 has been mentioned but no time line specifically. Video stabilization has actually got worse on 9.1 Vs 8.1 on 1080p 30fps
Battery had got worse too.

dladz said:
Does feel like we're being left behind tbh.
Emui 10 has been mentioned but no time line specifically. Video stabilization has actually got worse on 9.1 Vs 8.1 on 1080p 30fps
Battery had got worse too.
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This... It's a 800€ plus flagship from last year, the mate 20 will get the emui 10 fast, like every other update til now

Battery performance decreases over time. It's normal for this type batteries. I don't see much difference between 8.1 and 9.1.

forever_lol said:
Battery performance decreases over time. It's normal for this type batteries. I don't see much difference between 8.1 and 9.1.
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There is a difference, it's not normal battery degredation, this is a specific drop between bases.

dladz said:
There is a difference, it's not normal battery degredation, this is a specific drop between bases.
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It's not like i don't believe you. I've just haven't noticed one yet on my device. My battery time us pretty much the same.

My battery lasts just a bit less than on emui 9.0

The phone feels a little snappier, that's come with some drawback, it can't be just the new file system

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It's not like i don't believe you. I've just haven't noticed one yet on my device. My battery time us pretty much the same.
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Were you used to getting 9-10 hours SOT consistently on your P20 Pro on 8.1? And you're still getting that on 9.1 ?

dladz said:
Were you used to getting 9-10 hours SOT consistently on your P20 Pro on 8.1? And you're still getting that on 9.1 ?
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I was getting 7-9 hours SOT on 8.1 and now I am easiliy getting more than 7.
In order to determine whether it's normal battery degradation (just an example: my old iphone's battery lost 8% of its capacity over a year) or result of update to 9.1 I would have to downgrade to 8.1 and test which I am not really willing to do.

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I was getting 7-9 hours SOT on 8.1 and now I am easiliy getting more than 7.
In order to determine whether it's normal battery degradation (just an example: my old iphone's battery lost 8% of its capacity over a year) or result of update to 9.1 I would have to downgrade to 8.1 and test which I am not really willing to do.
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Ok so that's a pretty obvious drop?
I know personally that the phone is less efficient with 9.1, it is what it is.
You just said yourself that you've noticed no drop yet you've just gone from 7-9 to 7 ?

Question Battery at Mi 11 Ultra

Hi guys.
I have small problem with my Mi 11 Ultra's battery
Usually I charge it to about 85% , then I use it until the battery level becomes about 15%
It gives me 5 hours and half of SOT with 60 frames !! Which is awful for me, I just suffer facebook , Instagram , TikTok and Clash Royal
So I am wondering , How many hours do you get in your Mi 11 Ultra ??
Any advice for me to do ?
My ROM is Global.

Seraj2211 said:
Hi guys.
I have small problem with my Mi 11 Ultra's battery
Usually I charge it to about 85% , then I use it until the battery level becomes about 15%
It gives me 5 hours and half of SOT with 60 frames !! Which is awful for me, I just suffer facebook , Instagram , TikTok and Clash Royal
So I am wondering , How many hours do you get in your Mi 11 Ultra ??
Any advice for me to do ?
My ROM is Global.
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I have to charge mine everyday, difficult to get used to after years of my huawei 30pro lasting at least 2& 1/2 days. I am also using a p6 (non pro) and it gets about the same battery life as the 11 Ultra

tensux said:
I have to charge mine everyday, difficult to get used to after years of my huawei 30pro lasting at least 2& 1/2 days. I am also using a p6 (non pro) and it gets about the same battery life as the 11 Ultra
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I am totally agree with you
It is hard to imagine but my J7 pro (2017) it compares to the ultra

Seraj2211 said:
I am totally agree with you
It is hard to imagine but my J7 pro (2017) it compares to the ultra
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But in what other things j7 can compare with 11 ultra?
Superb hardware and performance then u want battery can hold longer?
They already have Superb fast charging so nobody care about battery now
If u want phone with extra super long battery time, take something like function Nokia phone from 2000, u can live with 1 week without charging

hungragezone said:
But in what other things j7 can compare with 11 ultra?
Superb hardware and performance then u want battery can hold longer?
They already have Superb fast charging so nobody care about battery now
If u want phone with extra super long battery time, take something like function Nokia phone from 2000, u can live with 1 week without charging
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First,I only compared the battery between each phone.
Second, When you pay for flagship, you want an excellent experience.

Seraj2211 said:
First,I only compared the battery between each phone.
Second, When you pay for flagship, you want an excellent experience.
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If u want to compares something, take other phone with the same spec, dont make funny comparition like that
2nd, the manufacter cant do anything now. People want flagship hardware, flagship performance, beauty and style design, but want battery last longer is almost impossible. So they try to make the charger as fast as possible. 30-45 mins for 5-6 hours of heavy use is balance solution

It's just crap for sure. I came from a K20 Pro Premium. 855+, 12gb ram, 512gb. Better battery life. The 888 is a trashy power hungry chip that serves as a heater. Honestly, if it wasn't for the stellar camera in the 11U, I'll be pissed off.

i get something like 8-9h sot with 60 hz no aod and full hd+

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It's just crap for sure. I came from a K20 Pro Premium. 855+, 12gb ram, 512gb. Better battery life. The 888 is a trashy power hungry chip that serves as a heater. Honestly, if it wasn't for the stellar camera in the 11U, I'll be pissed off.
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I think it's mixture of 888 chip and powerful screen without adaptive screen property.
I'm thinking from this moment , What Should I do when the summer has come

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i get something like 8-9h sot with 60 hz no aod and full hd+
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That's very interesting result!!
What kind of users are you ?? Gamer , normal person ..etc ?
And which ROM is installed in your device

Seraj2211 said:
That's very interesting result!!
What kind of users are you ?? Gamer , normal person ..etc ?
And which ROM is installed in your device
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normal i suppose, social, telegram and camera, im using miui eu latest beta based on android 11

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Second, When you pay for flagship, you want an excellent experience.
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I briefly switched to an iPhone last year for 3-4 months after being an Android person my whole life. I had heard the experienced greatly improved on iPhone and you could not do things like change default apps and such so I thought id give it a try. The experience was terrible, and you cannot change default app for texting which was the biggest thing, but it had a hundred other minor annoyances as well. Anyway, the biggest thing I noticed was that I was coming from a OnePlus 9 Pro which had abysmal battery life, and was one of my reasons for switching. I always heard iPhone battery was actually pretty good and better on average than flagship Android phones. Well the iPhone 12 Pro battery was better than the OnePlus 9 Pro, but not by much. I actually thought it was pretty bad when I had been expecting good battery from what everyone had been telling me. But after switching back to Android and going with a Mi 11 Ultra, the 11 Ultra actually has better batter than my iPhone did. Probably 15-20% better battery life really. I heard the Mi Mix 4 was even better than the 11 Ultra in this regard even with a smaller capacity. So I am hopeful for newer flagships like the 12 Ultra when it comes out, but even the 11 Ultra is already better than what an iPhone gets.

Battery life has never been good on this phone. I used to have 5 to 6h of SOT at max but since MIUI 13 update it is even worse. I barely reach 5h now and battery drains really fast. This with the update policy of xiaomi who takes months to release ROMs and doesn't include all Chinese ROMs improvements and functionalities makes me go back to samsung or oppo... Really disappointing. The Mi 11 ultra is my second xiaomi phone but i think it will be the last

I don't know why for you is like this but with some tricks I get easily 7 to 8 SoT

And what arz those tricks?

There is a thread I opened few months ago, have a look with the search function

few tricks might help.
always set the screen refresh rate to 90hz thru "setedit" app
brightness set to 75%, lower the better
turn off sync, Bluetooth and NFC if not needed
always use wifi for data and enable airplane mode if your sure no calls or text needed (there are social apps that might be used anyways to contact you)
set wallpaper to black, set icons to white only, no fancy color
turn off AOD
if you capture pictures or video for a long time, use airplane mode
if this tricks are a bummer, then this is the payment for having a flagship phone
indeed SD 888 is a device oven

battery is so bad on new update android 13
can i go back to android 11
thanks

Happy im still on miui 12.5.20, still to many probs on miui 13 for me.
I have really good battery time i think.

BigDisplay said:
Happy im still on miui 12.5.20, still to many probs on miui 13 for me.
I have really good battery time i think.
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can you share download link please