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Should I get one?

Hello dear XDA friends, Although I don't post a lot I still love you all .
Anyway, I am really tempted to get a Mate S ($/€319) after my LG G3's screen basically broke in half, the battery exploded and the touchscreen only working 10%, it's basically useless right now and I need a phone to replace it for a while until I decide what's going to be my ''real'' phone (I hate Apple but the 7+ Camera is amazing but then again maybe note 7 refurbs will be cheap.) So yeah I need to bridge the gap and I want to gift it to a relative when I'm done with it.
So is it worth it for 300 bucks?

Hi,
I have the phone since 3 months now (rooted and latest rom version) and it is in overall very good but the battery. Screen is very great but although there are a good device manager, it doesn't stand a full day without reloading.
Also you can see from the different posts that this phone is not very popular among Android's cooks. So not a lot of answers and not a lot of tricks and tweaks. I regret the time I had a Nexus 4 where community was very active. Anyway, as I am really focused on battery life, this is the real flaw of this phone for me. But I guess there are not many phones that could do better.

dai75 said:
Hi,
I have the phone since 3 months now (rooted and latest rom version) and it is in overall very good but the battery. Screen is very great but although there are a good device manager, it doesn't stand a full day without reloading.
Also you can see from the different posts that this phone is not very popular among Android's cooks. So not a lot of answers and not a lot of tricks and tweaks. I regret the time I had a Nexus 4 where community was very active. Anyway, as I am really focused on battery life, this is the real flaw of this phone for me. But I guess there are not many phones that could do better.
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What's the longest screen on time you got?

It actually depends what you gonna do with this phone.
I own it for last 8 months never really felt need for better battery during normal usage.
My typical usage with all the time brightness at auto and slider at max ( which on huawei even when inside usually means 80-90% brightness ) and outside always even when is dim day is 100% or boosted screen mode ends up with average 4:30-5h SOT with around 18-20hrs on battery. This is with about 60% wifi 40% 3g.
This includes bunch of social apps, youtube , music, calls, sms, light gaming of around 1hr per day.
The great thing about this phone is its soc and screen, the to S-amoled it never gets hot thus for it doesn't drain battery life fast like snapdragon devices.
Biggest fall of this soc is its GPU it isn't as good for heavy games like s810 devices for example.
If you're not a gamer I highly suggest this phone. If you have more money I suggest p9+, its a beast in all regards.
Here my current battery life stats
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Xdekker said:
What's the longest screen on time you got?
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As you can see, I charged my phone and unplugged at 00.14. Wi-Fi off and no mobile data, no screen on. No apps running apart from home launcher and myProfile. All others are greenified. So in around 8h sleep it decreased by 20%.
I tried many tricks and I consider myself skilful for this (my LG G2 could last 3 days) but cannot do better with this one. The ROM is not good enough yet and update frequency is not good.

Got the LG G4 so this one can be closed

General Battery life experience

Hey guys,
So a month after the launch of the Galaxy S21 Ultra, what is your battery life experience? Give us your feedback and numbers.
Please mention your chipset (Exynos or Snapdragon) and post a screenshot if possible.
Personally, I'm pretty satisfied with battery life. I usually get a day and a half with around 9h of SOT. I have the Exynos model and my screen is set to 1080p with standard motion smoothness. Bluetooth is always on and I use 4G most of the time. All other settings are set to default.
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How is you Phone radio usage so low. Mine is always way higher. Does that mean the signal is bad??

Can't complain, I get around 5 hours SOT a day with 30 to 40% left in the tank.
That said, I am stuck at home all day on WiFi, so sure that will decrease when I'm out and about with location on and 4g/5g but still pretty decent.
Exynos, QHD, 120hz, active 2 connected all day, some debloating and Bixby routines to switch to 60hz for some apps, turn off location/NFC/4g at home and sync/AOD on when charging

Standby for me has been amazing.

AlexMullerSA said:
How is you Phone radio usage so low. Mine is always way higher. Does that mean the signal is bad??
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I think bad signal is definitely a factor. In my case, I stay at home most of the time (remote work) or at the office and in both locations I have a very good signal. Also my carrier doesn't support 5G yet, only 4G.
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Standby for me has been amazing.
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Ikr, even with Bluetooth on, I lose barely 3% at night.

Still on 91% I've been playing on my iPad all day so barely touched phone.

Had Exynos S21 Ultra that i didn't like the battery life of it. I had barley 4h of SoT.
I send it back to Samsung and got a Snapdragon HK version and i am getting 4.5h with the second full charging. I hope it gets better in a week or two.

Mine is amazing. Exynos. It keeps getting better.

I got the Exynos version.

Latest update made mine worse

mayaneire said:
Mine is amazing. Exynos. It keeps getting better. View attachment 5241603
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12h of SOT, that's impressive !
adamlee2012 said:
Latest update made mine worse
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Still waiting for march security update...

First day, exynos version. Happy with result

Best battery life phone ive ever had...

Goku1992 said:
Best battery life phone ive ever had...
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Those are excellent numbers!
What's your screen resolution/refresh rate ? I assume you have the Exynos model since you're in Europe?

Goku1992 said:
Best battery life phone ive ever had...
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Exynos? 60hz?

iamnotkurtcobain said:
Exynos? 60hz?
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Yes and wqhd cause full hd uses the same... But im using dark mode Samsung Internet and dont game also debloated

Goku1992 said:
Yes and wqhd cause full hd uses the same... But im using dark mode Samsung Internet and dont game also debloated
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What did you debloat? I get 2 days usage with 6+ hours sot and 120hz.

nightoooo said:
Had Exynos S21 Ultra that i didn't like the battery life of it. I had barley 4h of SoT.
I send it back to Samsung and got a Snapdragon HK version and i am getting 4.5h with the second full charging. I hope it gets better in a week or two.
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It will get better. I was like you.
Then I reset my phone and didn't use smart switch and after couple of days I am getting now around 1h SOT per 10% with bluetooth and 4d enabled. Full resolution and adaptive framerate and sometimes I switch to 96.

iamnotkurtcobain said:
What did you debloat? I get 2 days usage with 6+ hours sot and 120hz.
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I can post my list next time when im home

Please post the debloat list when you get the chance. Thanks!

Question Accubattery showing Battery health at 47% for a new phone (1 month old)

I purchased this about a month ago. I have been reading a lot of posts out here about people having fairly low battery life. So I had installed Accubattery to see if the discharge is abnormal. I checked today and it seems like Accubattery is claiming that my battery is only at 50~% health. Now I am unsure that if this is because it is a genuine fault or because this phone is supposed to have 2 2500mAh batteries and Accubattery is detecting only one of them. Any idea about this?
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What are your SOT vs battery percent used?
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blackhawk said:
What are your SOT vs battery percent used?
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I've had my 11T Pro for roughly two weeks and I have the same issue.
It doesn't read charging speed correctly which confuses it's health calculations.
I'm sure your phone is fine.

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Those SOT numbers seem erratic. Some reasonable, others look impossible.
When you're using the browser not watching vids the usage should low.
As the previous poster mentioned it may just not have good sensing for battery usage.
Accubattery is only as good as the data it's getting. Even then it can screw up. I don't understand what's going on there.
Rather strange. I don't have that phone so I don't know what it's nominal run time should be. If it's running cool and you can get 8-10 hours SOT you're probably in the ball park.

blackhawk said:
Those SOT numbers seem erratic. Some reasonable, others look impossible.
When you're using the browser not watching vids the usage should low.
As the previous poster mentioned it may just not have good sensing for battery usage.
Accubattery is only as good as the data it's getting. Even then it can screw up. I don't understand what's going on there.
Rather strange. I don't have that phone so I don't know what it's nominal run time should be. If it's running cool and you can get 8-10 hours SOT you're probably in the ball park.
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Hmmm, okay. I'll continue observing my phone's behaviour then. I do get over 8-10 hours SOT on medium usage. Additionally, I read from other threads that the 120W charger isn't charging the phone fully and it makes sense to charge with a lower power charger. So I will try that as well. Will keep this thread updated if I see any improvements.

Accubattery doesn't work well with dual battery setup, that's why it's showing Battery health at 47%.
Set design capacity to 2500.

11T PRO has 2x 2500mah battery for ultra fast charging. Set the design capacity to 2500 and you will be fine.

Pichulec said:
11T PRO has 2x 2500mah battery for ultra fast charging. Set the design capacity to 2500 and you will be fine.
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This presents a potential problem in the future as one battery can degrade and fail independently of the other. You really need to be able to monitoring both.
If the manufacturer designed it properly each battery should have its own power controller in a perfect world. Not sure if this is so on any of the dual battery phones...

blackhawk said:
This presents a potential problem in the future as one battery can degrade and fail independently of the other. You really need to be able to monitoring both.
If the manufacturer designed it properly each battery should have its own power controller in a perfect world. Not sure if this is so on any of the dual battery phones...
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I reached out to Accubattery support team and this was their reply.
Link from the email

Question Why my battery life is so low?

I got this phone after seeing tons of reviews that Samsung S23 has amazing battery life
But i am ending up charging my phone twice a day because of very less battery life.
I am not a power user, mostly using phone for browsing and texting.
Yet the SOT is still so less?
I am using light mode in battery settings - Adaptive refresh rate - mostly wifi- Dual Sim 5G
25W official Samsung charger.
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1rahul said:
I got this phone after seeing tons of reviews that Samsung S23 has amazing battery life
But i am ending up charging my phone twice a day because of very less battery life.
I am not a power user, mostly using phone for browsing and texting.
Yet the SOT is still so less?
I am using light mode in battery settings - Adaptive refresh rate - mostly wifi- Dual Sim 5G
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Please help!
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From your picture you can't see that the battery has been charged for the last 19 hours.
So where are those twice daily charges?

You are using two sims, if the signal is not great or will drain battery.

First of all, turning 5G for dual sims drains the battery so fast and secondly, I can see very well from the image you posted that you haven't charged your phone for 19 hours and some and that's great battery life to me. Also, if you happen to be using your screen at 2k or so, you better lower it at 720p or at least 1080p cause remember that galaxy S23 is only 3900 mAh and that's not a very big battery capacity like its bigger brother the S23 Ultra which is 5000 mAh and can pretty well handle intensive work! Hope my answer helped you.

Facebook is not your battery's friend.

ze7zez said:
From your picture you can't see that the battery has been charged for the last 19 hours.
So where are those twice daily charges?
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For those who are saying i didn't charge it from 19 hours, please note that standby time was long because i charged it at 12am last night and then binge watched Netflix on TV, slept late and then woke up late too.
So mostly it was standby.
If i am using it regularly, then the SOT is very less.
Please see the SOT in the screenshot.

Ozim1111 said:
First of all, turning 5G for dual sims drains the battery so fast and secondly, I can see very well from the image you posted that you haven't charged your phone for 19 hours and some and that's great battery life to me. Also, if you happen to be using your screen at 2k or so, you better lower it at 720p or at least 1080p cause remember that galaxy S23 is only 3900 mAh and that's not a very big battery capacity like its bigger brother the S23 Ultra which is 5000 mAh and can pretty well handle intensive work! Hope my answer helped you.
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Option to change screen resolution doesn't seem to be visible to me in display option, can you please help tell where it's at?(Normal S23,not Ultra or +)

Morak75 said:
Facebook is not your battery's friend.
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neither twitter nor instagram... and facebook is the most offending application of the battery in the android world, i agree with you

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You have two sim cards active, three and a half hour of screen on time, and 19 hours of screen off time. I think it is great.
Peogle that shows a great screen on time, they do not stop using it. No screen off time.

Question Battery life of Galaxy S23

Hello, I am posting this thread because I am concerned about the battery life of my Galaxy S23 (SM-S911B/DS) (India). A lot of YouTubers and on social media too people are claiming screen time upwards of 5 Hrs. But I am getting around 4Hr only. I tested multiple times from (98-100)% charge to below (5-0)% and screen time is maximum of 4 hr 30 minutes. I am on latest software available current version s911bxxs1awbm. I am using single 4G sim (Jio 4G), with tap to show AOD, always on data/wifi, very less Bluetooth (up to 1 hr). Use mostly youtube, Instagram, telegram. 30-45 minutes calling. Adaptive refresh rate although I tried using 60hz but it had not that much effect on battery. Battery health is good. It barely lasts for 1 day. Please provide feedback…

ranit said:
Hello, I am posting this thread because I am concerned about the battery life of my Galaxy S23 (SM-S911B/DS) (India). A lot of YouTubers and on social media too people are claiming screen time upwards of 5 Hrs. But I am getting around 4Hr only. I tested multiple times from (98-100)% charge to below (5-0)% and screen time is maximum of 4 hr 30 minutes. I am on latest software available current version s911bxxs1awbm. I am using single 4G sim (Jio 4G), with tap to show AOD, always on data/wifi, very less Bluetooth (up to 1 hr). Use mostly youtube, Instagram, telegram. 30-45 minutes calling. Adaptive refresh rate although I tried using 60hz but it had not that much effect on battery. Battery health is good. It barely lasts for 1 day. Please provide feedback…
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I am getting around 5 hour 30 minutes. But, I am on permanent battery saver. Uninstalled / disabled most of the bloat already. Any tip will be appreciated! ( am on the Indian version too ). I remember my OP6T days, and custom roms were good for those looking for more out of their devices. I hope our device gets some ROMs as well..
Update- am getting 6 hour 30 Minutes+ when using deep sleep+ sleep options for apps I don't actively use. You might want to use it to get decent SOT. Battery could have been better from hardware side, but I think this is good considering the processing power of chip is good and camera is great.

the following is my experience.
I was getting even worse battery than this. battery life projection after learning usage for 3-4 days was 12 hours from 100%. i then took the extreme step of factory reset. also went to the service centre and got the full firmware flashed. they flashed the february firmware. i then set up my phone as new (without smart switch). i am now getting battery life at par with others. now i dont know if it was smart switch restore which was the culprit or the combo of that plus march update or just march update alone. but i am a happy camper now.

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Still 15% left.

Same here, I got the S23 because I was fed up with the S22 battery life. Samsung offered me 650$ CAD to return the S22 so, I figured it was a no brainer. Still, I got the phone on march 28 and I get 5 hours of SOT at most. I'm a bit disappointed. Especially because I tweaked it to maximise battery life (I avoided SmartSwitch,I debloated, no AOD and I use Light performance mode). I did a factory reset today hoping it will finally bring real good performance.

I have constantly monitored the battery performance from the day I made this post. And found that when I use everything standard without compromising with the experience like AOD and adaptive refresh rate, Bluetooth etc. I can only get 4-4:30 hours of SOT. But with conservative use it easily crosses 5-6 hrs SOT. I think the battery is very sensitive to temperature also.

I had my doubts about this phone but, after my factory reset, all I can say is : I was wrong, my doubts were cleared. This evening, I was at 60% with 4 hours of SOT and 22 hours had passed since I last charged it. What kind of sorcery is this? I'm really happy to see those numbers. My old crappy S22 would be at 20% with a similar usage pattern.