Software Update s10 SM-g973U - Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers

Hi Guys
I have a problem. I bought a refurbished Galaxy s10 in Switzerland and after I received it I realised it is the Snapdragon Version. So far I was very happy with that. But since I have got it I have never received a single software Update. My Current Software is Android 11 with One UI-Version 3.1 Software Version G973USQU5GUBH/G973UOYN5GUBH/G973USQU5GUBH and Security Patch Version March 1st 2021. I think its an ATT unlocked Device, because the Software Version of the Provider is SAOMC_SM-G973U_OYN_XAA_QQ_0007 XAA/XAA/ATT.
Does anyone know how to Update the Software manually without the OTA Updates, because i'm not connected to an ATT Network. Also in Smart-Switch it says it is on the latest Software.
If I would flash a newer Firmware Version on it, which one should i take, because I'm a bit confused that the Model Number is G973U and not U1, even though I think the Firmware on it is for the G973U1?
I hope someone can help me with this rather complicated situation.
Thanks a lot in advance
Fast Lessy

It makes sense that you are not getting updates, because you are not on the ATT network. The phone will only get an update if it recognizes the carrier it's on, which in your case it cannot, of course.
For this reason, you will always have to update manually, unless you're in a country where the Snapdragon is normally available and you can find a ROM with a matching carrier.
Your XAA/XAA/ATT means that, yes, the phone was built as an ATT phone. However, the XAA/XAA means that the ROM cannot recognize the carrier you are actually on, so it's staying on the USA "universal" ROM which is XAA. It also doesn't recognize your SIM, hence the second XAA there.
If your phone is working for you fine, then you can remain on this setup. I would recommend getting another XAA ROM and installing that using ODIN. You should be able to do this with ODIN's "upgrade" process, but I'm not sure if that will erase anything in your phone or not, so I strongly recommend having backups of whatever is important to you, just in case.
I would also recommend NOT using Android 12, as many have had issues with this latest version of the OS - as an OS and because of incompatibilities with software. I would recommend A11. You can download a suitable A11 ROM via various websites. One example is samfw.com. I like them because they show you what you're downloading, for example, here is the A11 for ATT: https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-G973U1/ATT/G973U1UES6GUL1
You will see that the files are OYM, which is the "XAA" version of the ROM you are using now (in your typing, you may have had a typo because you typed it as "OYN" in your Provider?). That's why I suggest this version, as it matches what you already have. Makes sense?
So, you get this version, install the HOME_CSC type via upgrade in ODIN (see why you use HOME_CSC here: https://technastic.com/csc-home-csc-samsung-odin/) and it should update your phone to the latest A11 version (December security patch level).
I take no responsibility if you have problems with this process. Always have backups, just in case anyway.

Thank you so much for this very detailed answer. As i already have Android 11 on it and you don't recommend Android 12 i will propably stay on this Version. I just thought it was nice to have Android 12 but if its like you said i better stay with what i have. Thanks so much for your help.

Actually the OYN was not a typo. Thats the confusing part for me. It literally says OYN.

Yeah, ATT does some weird stuff. They refuse to release their own ROMs, so things get a little weird in there.
That said, G973U is a non-unlocked phone ROM... and for that, you would get OYN... so you're correct there. However, you can't find OYN ROMs online because, again, ATT won't release their ROM.
The comparable is the G973U1 ROM which is for an unlocked phone, and that has OYM.
If you wanted to get OYN again, you can get the multi-CSC OYN here, for example: https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-G973U/SPR/G973USQS6GUL1
It says it's Sprint, but that would be an OYN version, and it says Multi-Cert so it should be fine for your usage. You could do an update with that, and it should remain "XAA" and should work the same. It might be good to do this since your version is much older and doesn't have the security updates.
Alternatively, you may be able to find a ROM that works "properly" with your carrier... but that would likely require a wipe of the phone since you're changing the ROM "type". (You could get lucky and just have it work with an upgrade as well, but I don't know for sure.)
If it was me, I would backup and give the OYM version a shot. Or, if you want to be a little "safer" run the upgrade OYN version from the Sprint carrier that I linked. Both would probably be equivalent in the end... the latter is just easier since it is an upgrade.
Again, the risk is yours to take... I can't promise anything!

Is it possible that the battery drains quicker because as you said the phone doesn't recognize the network and SIM Card. I can connect to the cellular network normally and use my SIM Card without any problems but since I got the phone I've had medium battery life. It isn't bad but for Snapdragon I thought it would be around 6-7 hours of SOT. Instead I have something between 3 and 5 hours on a normal day. I'm rarely gaming on my phone and most of the usage is YT and Instagram or browsing.
Do you know anything that could prevent the drain, because I tried quite a lot of things to improve the battery life.

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Is it possible that the battery drains quicker because as you said the phone doesn't recognize the network and SIM Card. I can connect to the cellular network normally and use my SIM Card without any problems but since I got the phone I've had medium battery life. It isn't bad but for Snapdragon I thought it would be around 6-7 hours of SOT. Instead I have something between 3 and 5 hours on a normal day. I'm rarely gaming on my phone and most of the usage is YT and Instagram or browsing.
Do you know anything that could prevent the drain, because I tried quite a lot of things to improve the battery life.
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Sorry for the delayed response... yes, not having the carrier synced could cause reduced battery life. I've heard that this can happen because the phone is trying to use frequencies it has, but those may not be the right ones supported by your carrier, so it has to hunt around and use whatever is available... which could even be a weaker signal.
All of this is theory - I have no experience with it like this, but I've heard this explanation before. I would certainly recommend trying to get it synced to your carrier if possible.
Beyond that, you should also check the battery usage - if the cell signal is the major draw, then this makes sense, but I honestly haven't seen that much draw related to SOT... so I'm thinking you may have other drains, but the wrong carrier is a possibility.
FWIW, my S10+ estimates 10hrs of SOT, according to AccuBattery...

That would also make sense to my and explain the drain. However when I check Accubattery or Gsam Battery monitor, the battery usage of the Network is normal at around 2 percent. The usage in those apps shows no unusual battery drain or power drawing service. Thats what drives me a bit crazy. Everything shows up to be perfectly normal and I think the battery got replaced before I bought the Phone 9 months ago. I cant explain the SOTs because I dont have a very heavy usage. The standby drain over night is quite good aswell with around 3-5 Percent in 6hours. However if I have my phone in my pocket during the day as a student, the battery drains quicker. I dont really get it but luckily it isnt a huge problem for me because I can charge my phone whenever I need to during the day. I just wished I could find a fix that would make the SOTs around 5hours in normal usage.
But thanks a lot for explaining everything to me and trying to help. I really appreciate that.
Fast_Lessy

You're very welcome. With the drain your seeing, what are the actual items showing higher drain, then? I mean, the apps (and even the built in battery graphs) should be able to show you where it's going?
Also, in accubattery you should see the battery health - how is that looking?

Thats the cursed thing. I dont see anything unusual in the power consumption of the apps. Accubattery says the battery has 83% of capacity left, which I doubt, I think its higher. I can charge my phone with a USB-Tester to see to what capacity it will charge. Today is quite a good example of the battery life. I had my phone in my pocket for most of the time. The battery is at 63 percent after 1h30mins of SOT. As I mentioned before its not very bad but I would like to get more out of it. As you can see on the screenshot I have Power Saving mode activated and still have these SOTs.

I attached my screenshot for reference. Not sure it helps, but good for comparison at least.
Your usage pattern seems more like my wife's... she uses Chrome a LOT and usually drains the battery before the end of the day. I would check her SOT and stuff but she's using her phone at the moment, so I'll try to get that to you later.
You'll note that I use Firefox instead, and have much less battery usage (yours is 10% for 14m of use, mine is around 1.2% for 6m of use... extrapolating that means I should still be around 2.4% for 12m usage, which is quite a bit less than Chrome). I'd say give that a try? I switched her to FF as well, and I think that has helped her as well...
You're right, though, I'm not seeing anything unusual in your usage... but you should get more SOT. As you can see, I get much more SOT and I have white screens, no battery saver, etc.
Like you said, maybe your battery isn't quite up to capacity. I had Accubattery on my old phone, and even after 5 years it kept saying I was above 90% capacity. I don't believe that to be true... so we may not want to believe in that too much. That being said, however, if you're showing 83% capacity, I might say you actually have LESS than that (based on my previous phone info). I agree, if you can do a USB charge test, that might be helpful.
EDIT: Do you use any "battery saving" apps? I've found those can make things worse... I use none of them.

Here's my wife's battery data for today. As I said, she uses the web a LOT versus my usage. Also note how 3 hours of usage on FF only took about 24% battery.
Accubattery on her phone also estimates about 10h SOT. Again, she doesn't use any battery saver apps, settings, etc. She usually has her screen on much brighter than mine as well... and yet she gets that kind of life. Impressive.
Remeber, these are both S10+ units, not S10 (standard). Your SM-G973U is a standard S10, so that will matter as well. S10+ is the SM-G975...

Thanks for your help. I think the difference might be because the S10+ has a significantly bigger battery. After all i love the S10 and Samsung has no newer Phone that I would want to switch to so I guess I will use the phone until the battery really gets worse and then replace it.

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[Q] Is this graph normal / nothing to worry about?

The Battery Use graph will normally show these little 'peaks' down to ~75%. Normal? Or does it indicate something I need to start worrying about?
CyanogenMod-7.1.0-N1
(Slightly higher res version here http://i.imgur.com/ys3c1.png)
EDIT: Realized I should provide more information regarding the phone. Bought it new off of Amazon UK about two weeks before Christmas. Rooted / Flashed it within 12 hours, and these peaks have always been present since day one.
If your battery life is ok - I believe that these might be just SW miscalculations.
Especially if you always had them, I don't see a reason to worry.
This is normal for rechargeble batteries, since they have a habbit to lie their actual charge level, and the phone just graphs them. You might just get a speare one and test to see if same happens and also good to have extra battery.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy Note critical battery life after 4.1.2 update

Hello!
I know that there were a lot said about battery problems in 4.1.2 android, but i still haven't found any solution on my problem. My Note was bought with GB 2.3.6 and had an awesome battery, but after i updated it to JB 4.1.2 (via Kies), suddenly battery life is catastrophic. I have everything off (bluetooth, wi-fi, gps), my screen brightness is on minimum, i use my phone on GSM band (not 4g), i also disabled some of unused apps, etc...everything said was also my practice on previous version 2.3.6 and phone battery lasts up to 4 days, but now, it drains off in 17hrs and I barely use my phone!
If I check battery stats, it shows that screen is the major consumer of battery and it seems like it is on all the time, although the phone screen is physically off most of the time. It means something causing my phone being awake all the time instead of being off.
Any ideas how to fix this??
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Hello!
I know that there were a lot said about battery problems in 4.1.2 android, but i still haven't found any solution on my problem. My Note was bought with GB 2.3.6 and had an awesome battery, but after i updated it to JB 4.1.2 (via Kies), suddenly battery life is catastrophic. I have everything off (bluetooth, wi-fi, gps), my screen brightness is on minimum, i use my phone on GSM band (not 4g), i also disabled some of unused apps, etc...everything said was also my practice on previous version 2.3.6 and phone battery lasts up to 4 days, but now, it drains off in 17hrs and I barely use my phone!
If I check battery stats, it shows that screen is the major consumer of battery and it seems like it is on all the time, although the phone screen is physically off most of the time. It means something causing my phone being awake all the time instead of being off.
Any ideas how to fix this??
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4 days? really? think that is unheard of. Either how, it should last longer than 17 hours.
Try going back to factory settings, perhaps theres something running thats divided by zero :silly: .
If you feel adventurous you can also choose to root & try a custom rom. Though thats your responsibility and choice entirely.
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4 days? really? think that is unheard of. Either how, it should last longer than 17 hours.
Try going back to factory settings, perhaps theres something running thats divided by zero :silly: .
If you feel adventurous you can also choose to root & try a custom rom. Though thats your responsibility and choice entirely.
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Yup 4 days, not kiddin...4 days of average use.
I forgot to mention that i already did the factory reset and i also wipe the cache partition in recovery menu... I disabled practically everything, and i use things when i need, nothing is set on auto, sync or anything. Last night I didn't touch the phone for about 9 hrs and battery consumption was around 1% which is ok, but it's draining everytime i turn on the screen like 5% in 10mins. BBS shows that well known GTALK_ASYNC_CONN as a battery eater. Is it possible to kill this annoying thing on un-rooted phone???

Android System Battery Drain?

I know that this topic is pretty old, but despite all my searching, I couldn't find a satisfactory answer.
Anyway, in this thread, people are able to get extremely good battery life. However, no matter how hard I try, nothing seems to get me even close to that level. Here are my stats from today.
As you can see, Android System uses quite a bit of juice, and the kernel holds the phone awake quite a bit. My total app usage comes to around 55 - 60% according to GSAM. But in the international forum, that number is in the high 20s, mid 30s. So I think that this is a Sprint specific issue.
I can't be the only one around here with battery drain. How much does Android System use for you guys? If I can't solve this, I may go back to Jelly Bean:
I really need help on this guys. I can't even use my phone anymore without worrying that I won't get back home with enough juice. Any comments/advice are appreciated.
I am using htc power history to tell you my android system its at 83% however since I see no mention of my kernel I am guessing its included in that as well. my battery life is kind of decent
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sauprankul said:
I know that this topic is pretty old, but despite all my searching, I couldn't find a satisfactory answer.
Anyway, in this thread, people are able to get extremely good battery life. However, no matter how hard I try, nothing seems to get me even close to that level. Here are my stats from today.
As you can see, Android System uses quite a bit of juice, and the kernel holds the phone awake quite a bit. My total app usage comes to around 55 - 60% according to GSAM. But in the international forum, that number is in the high 20s, mid 30s. So I think that this is a Sprint specific issue.
I can't be the only one around here with battery drain. How much does Android System use for you guys? If I can't solve this, I may go back to Jelly Bean:
I really need help on this guys. I can't even use my phone anymore without worrying that I won't get back home with enough juice. Any comments/advice are appreciated.
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It's probably the Google Play Services wakelock bug. You can disable location services or rebooting works fine for me.

I9295 becomes very hot and huge battery drain

Hey guys
I already posted my problem in the thread related to LineageOS, but since the issue couldn't be solved I want to try it this way.
So what is my problem?
While using my phone it gets very hot. According to Powerful Monitor the CPU gets up to 65 °C and battery up to 35 °C, while under load. Besides this my battery goes down rapidly. So watching 10 minutes of YouTube sucks up 8-9 % battery. Just a plain normal video.
What is my setup?
I9295, running LineageOS 14.1-2017-06-06-UNOFFICIAL-jactivelte, OpenGApps 06-07-17 nano, only apps installed manually are GeekBench, Powerful Monitor and YouTube. Baseband is I9295XXUDOB4 (German unbranded DBT). I bought a new original Samsung battery and currently using it. So it's basically stock LineageOS.
What have I already tried?
- flashed stock firmware (all available for Germany that are unbranded). With and without erasing NAND, with different Odin versions. Last time I flashed I used Odin 3.07
- different batteries: the old ones the phone came with (bought it used), the new one I bought separately, a new one from PowerCell with higher capacity (2900 mAh)
- different phones. I have a second I9295 from a friend, that worked definitely without any issues. Same problem.
- different custom ROMs: now I'm running LineageOS, but I also tried CM13 (20161228), CM12.1, MIUI and Super WizCyan (everything from xda)
Is it possible break something ciritcal when disassembling the phone? Both phones came with broken covers for the USB port, so I opened it, but only removed the screws and the mid-frame (?) and replaced the cover. Nothing was damaged, at least I was very carefully and didn't see anything that looked suspicious.
Another very strange thing I noticed:
If I use the phone a lot (lets say 30 minutes, so almost 25 % battery!) and after that the phone is not in use for an hour or so, the battery goes up for up to 7-8 %. How it that possible?
I really have no idea what else to do.
Any help is appreciated.
dotnano said:
Hey guys
While using my phone it gets very hot.
I bought a new original Samsung battery and currently using it. So it's basically stock LineageOS.
Any help is appreciated.
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Hey there. Well, there are tons of possible reasons why your phone acts like that. My modest opinion is that you have some sort of wakelock active in background. Install both Wakelock Detector and Gsam Battery Monitor, grant all the permissions and let it obtain data for some minutes. Than look at the results, and check if there's any Wakelock active. If instead Gsam shows an excessive consume by the kernel, try in terminal the following commands:
Code:
su
setenforce 1
setenforce 0
Then see if there's still the drain (you have to wait some minutes).
If it still doesn't work, I'd advice you to update to the latest stock firmware (doesn't matter which Country, just select a non-branded one), reinstall LOS again and verify if with nothing installed you still get the battery drain.
Anyway, IMHO it's not an hardware related problem, even messing up with the components this shouldn't happen. The only hardware fault could be the battery short-life, but 1st you said you just replaced it, 2nd it would not justify the thermal overload. Let us know
Thank you very much for your answer. I'm quite short on time next days but maybe I have a few minutes on sunday.
On the matter latest stock firmware: already tried that on monday, still too much battery drain, but I didn't install LOS till now. Maybe sunday.
But still thank you
Finally I found some time to try your suggestions
I skipped the part of trying it on the old setup, so I flashed everything new with latest stock(UDOB4-DBT, not the last one but still Android 5.0.1), then TWRP 3.1.0, after that LOS 14.1-20170606 and OpenGApps 7.1 nano from 17-06-06. Only apps I installed beside that are GSam Battery and Wakelock Detector. Root activated and granted where asked and needed.
Here I uploaded the pictures I took from GSam Battery.
So what seems strange to me:
- why is Phone Radio used at all? I don't have a SIM card inserted...?! It's on a very high level, even if the screen isn't on.
- The battery gets hot quite fast. If it's not in use, everything is fine. But as soon as I use the phone it gets hot.
- As you said: kernel usage seems quite high, tried to install "Terminal Emulator" and executed the commands - no difference.
According wakelock: where do I check that?
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- Why is Phone Radio used at all? I don't have a SIM card inserted...?! It's on a very high level, even if the screen isn't on.
- The battery gets hot quite fast. If it's not in use, everything is fine. But as soon as I use the phone it gets hot.
- As you said: kernel usage seems quite high, tried to install "Terminal Emulator" and executed the commands - no difference.
According wakelock: where do I check that?
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Sorry for the delay, but if you do not quote/reply me I cannot see the message cause I'm not extremely active on XDA. Anyway...
- Phone Radio is used even without SIM, at least in TouchWiz, dunno in LOS, but it looks like so. The only way to disable it is Airplane Mode.
- It gets hot due to kernel usage, what I still do not understand is why it does so.
- Those commands where the only commands I think could be useful in this case (they set SELinux Permissive/Enforcing)
But if you say you get the Drain on TouchWiz too, the problem is serious and there's a (little?) chanche it would be HW related.
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Sorry for the delay, but if you do not quote/reply me I cannot see the message cause I'm not extremely active on XDA. Anyway...
- Phone Radio is used even without SIM, at least in TouchWiz, dunno in LOS, but it looks like so. The only way to disable it is Airplane Mode.
- It gets hot due to kernel usage, what I still do not understand is why it does so.
- Those commands where the only commands I think could be useful in this case (they set SELinux Permissive/Enforcing)
But if you say you get the Drain on TouchWiz too, the problem is serious and there's a (little?) chanche it would be HW related.
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No need to apologise, you're doing this in your free time...
Besides that, I wasn't at home all week, so I couldn't try anything even if you had answered.
So, how do I get the kernel to calm down and stop draining my battery? I mean, I didn't install anything besides clean LOS and GApps. So what could lead to so much kernel usage? Are there any further information that could help you?
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Thank you very much for your answer. On the matter latest stock firmware: already tried that on monday, still too much battery drain, but I didn't install LOS till now.
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I didn't read this post before, the points are two:
- No need to write Thanks, there's a button for it. It's free and very grateful
- If it drains even on stock it's a serious problem.
dotnano said:
So, how do I get the kernel to calm down and stop draining my battery? I mean, I didn't install anything besides clean LOS and GApps. So what could lead to so much kernel usage? Are there any further information that could help you?
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The situation is very weird. Let's analyze.
1) TW/LOS doesn't matter. Battery drain in both
2) No apps installed which could cause wakelocks
3) Battery SHOULDN'T be the problem
4) The drain is recognised as kernel "usage", though it couldn't be real 'cause of point 1
5) Neither Permissive nor Enforcing SELinux mods helped
At this point it doesn't look so much a SW problem, but more an HW one. About:
dotnano said:
If I use the phone a lot (lets say 30 minutes, so almost 25 % battery!) and after that the phone is not in use for an hour or so, the battery goes up for up to 7-8 %. How it that possible?
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Well, sometimes the discharge happens so fast the battery doesn't calculate the remaining capacity so well, and after some minutes the real charged cells are more than the "estimated" ones. It would explain the "goes up" of the percentage, but still not the drain.
It's very strange and very rare, but there's an infinitesimal possibility that the thermal paste went to the hell. And in this case there's not that much to do.
That's pretty pessimist though. I'd advice you to format everything, reinstall the latest stock TW and stick with it, and if it still doesn't work, try with some apps like Greenify and ForceDoze (this one works just with 6.0+) in order to at least TRY to reduce the drain.
I'm sorry I cannot help you more, if anyone has some suggestion, please let us know.
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I didn't read this post before, the points are two:
- No need to write Thanks, there's a button for it. It's free and very grateful
- If it drains even on stock it's a serious problem.
The situation is very weird. Let's analyze.
1) TW/LOS doesn't matter. Battery drain in both
2) No apps installed which could cause wakelocks
3) Battery SHOULDN'T be the problem
4) The drain is recognised as kernel "usage", though it couldn't be real 'cause of point 1
5) Neither Permissive nor Enforcing SELinux mods helped
At this point it doesn't look so much a SW problem, but more an HW one. About: Well, sometimes the discharge happens so fast the battery doesn't calculate the remaining capacity so well, and after some minutes the real charged cells are more than the "estimated" ones. It would explain the "goes up" of the percentage, but still not the drain.
It's very strange and very rare, but there's an infinitesimal possibility that the thermal paste went to the hell. And in this case there's not that much to do.
That's pretty pessimist though. I'd advice you to format everything, reinstall the latest stock TW and stick with it, and if it still doesn't work, try with some apps like Greenify and ForceDoze (this one works just with 6.0+) in order to at least TRY to reduce the drain.
I'm sorry I cannot help you more, if anyone has some suggestion, please let us know.
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Next strange thing is, I have two S4 Active devices, both have the same problems. Am I just unlucky enough to get two broken phones?
Still, the device I got from I friend was ok the moment he gave it to me. He said battery lasted for only one day, but that would be ok. So it has to be something I did with the phone.
Youre are not alone. My Phone was/is also getting hot.
Then I did a full wipe ( format also internal memory partition!)
I'm current running cm13 (CM13 (20161228)). Batterie works now / normal ok / 1 / 2 Day s ( no great usage ). But when i telephone with someone it's getting hot in 15 min. Modem Version is I2995XXUDPB3.
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Next strange thing is, I have two S4 Active devices, both have the same problems. Am I just unlucky enough to get two broken phones?
Still, the device I got from I friend was ok the moment he gave it to me. He said battery lasted for only one day, but that would be ok. So it has to be something I did with the phone.
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Have you flashed any custom ROM? Try downloading an entire stock firmware for your country / carrier from sammobile and flash through odin 3.09 and check. The S4 active generally gets hot on usage but should not get very hot. You can also try using powersave mode that limits cpu max freq and prevents heating. Battery on normal usage shoukd last for little under a day to a day with normal usage unless you are using data (otherwise set mobile networks to GSM only which saves battery and reduces heat)
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Have you flashed any custom ROM? Try downloading an entire stock firmware for your country / carrier from sammobile and flash through odin 3.09 and check. The S4 active generally gets hot on usage but should not get very hot. You can also try using powersave mode that limits cpu max freq and prevents heating. Battery on normal usage shoukd last for little under a day to a day with normal usage unless you are using data (otherwise set mobile networks to GSM only which saves battery and reduces heat)
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I have flashed the latest DBT (unbranded German) and I have the same problems. Does the version of Odin make a significant difference? I used 3.10.6.
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I have flashed the latest DBT (unbranded German) and I have the same problems. Does the version of Odin make a significant difference? I used 3.10.6.
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Normally i have seen issues flashing through odin 3.10 and prefer 3.07 or 3.09. If the firmware flashed correctly and you do not have any issues then it should be fine.
CPU temp of 65% without powersave mode is fine and watching youtube videos does consume battery. Try a different charger / cable combination as that too can have issues. If the battery gets charged quickly (on stock kernel under 2 - 2.5 hours from 0 to 100) then there is definitely an issue with the charger and it will drain quickly too.
JASONRR said:
Normally i have seen issues flashing through odin 3.10 and prefer 3.07 or 3.09. If the firmware flashed correctly and you do not have any issues then it should be fine.
CPU temp of 65% without powersave mode is fine and watching youtube videos does consume battery. Try a different charger / cable combination as that too can have issues. If the battery gets charged quickly (on stock kernel under 2 - 2.5 hours from 0 to 100) then there is definitely an issue with the charger and it will drain quickly too.
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I tried 3.10, 3.12 and 3.07 so far. Not successfully. Tried 3.09 now, we'll see.
I have a Sony Xperia Z1C as comparison, YouTube needs maybe 1% for 5 Minutes.
Cables/Chargers shouldn't be the problem. I have the original Samsung, also cable. Charged to 0 to 75 % in 90 Minutes. Same with cable and charger from Anker. So should be fine?
So no new ideas?
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So no new ideas?
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I have no idea too but i have the same Trouble with mine BUT I'm still using the original Rom and didn't flash it. So maybe it is an Hardware issue.
My Battery is getting old, yes, but it is the third one. The Phone gets hotter than in its first years.
I hope you'll find a reason!
My i9295 always has been like this: 1 minute on-screen time = 1% battery loss. So this basically is a 2 hour phone... Stock or custom rom didn't matter. A friends i9505 used a lot less power, therefore I assume that the LCD (instead of the S4's AMOLED) is the problem.
Vardion said:
My i9295 always has been like this: 1 minute on-screen time = 1% battery loss. So this basically is a 2 hour phone... Stock or custom rom didn't matter. A friends i9505 used a lot less power, therefore I assume that the LCD (instead of the S4's AMOLED) is the problem.
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Nah, why should it? There are a lot of i9295 users that don't have any problems.

SM-G7810 (HK) Some concerns

Hello,
I just ordered the S20 FE 5G at a pretty good price on Rakuten at 504 € in 128GB / 8GB RAM version. I just received it this morning. I unpack it but not yet turned on. The phone is 100% new, no damage, nothing to report at this time.
Nevertheless, I had a little disappointment when I saw the SIM drawer thinking it was 2SIM + SD Card and in fact it's your choice. Either 2 SIM or 1 SIM + 1 SD card. Anyway ... After doing several searches on the eSIM (since initially, I wanted to use my personal SIM + my pro SIM for work + the SD Card), I came across several concerns:
- Updates for Hong Kong models that seem to arrive last (least serious of all but annoying all the same)
- The flash of an XEF ROM which seems to be a problem
- May be instabilities in Samsung software such as Samsung Pay
- The eSIM which may never happen?
- Network antennas
That being said, do you think that it is still possible to switch it to an XEF version without bricking it?
And are there any SM-G7810 owners here?
Thank you !
I'm not complaining abouth this model so far. It's not buggy, performs well, battery life is great and updates do come as today with February patch. It did skip January. I came from LG and they only updated Europe version each 3 months. Chinese versions got over 4 months to 6 a update.
Hi,
Ok thanks for the feedback! If everything works fine, so much the better. My biggest concern is with the eSIM which I think probably won't be available for HK models ...
Le_Cee said:
Hi,
Ok thanks for the feedback! If everything works fine, so much the better. My biggest concern is with the eSIM which I think probably won't be available for HK models ...
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I don't think any fe model have esim build in.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/no-e-sim-functionality-on-5g-variant.4171135/
Here is more info if it helps
Indeed, it is not very reassuring ...
Le_Cee said:
Hello,
I just ordered the S20 FE 5G at a pretty good price on Rakuten at 504 € in 128GB / 8GB RAM version. I just received it this morning. I unpack it but not yet turned on. The phone is 100% new, no damage, nothing to report at this time.
Nevertheless, I had a little disappointment when I saw the SIM drawer thinking it was 2SIM + SD Card and in fact it's your choice. Either 2 SIM or 1 SIM + 1 SD card. Anyway ... After doing several searches on the eSIM (since initially, I wanted to use my personal SIM + my pro SIM for work + the SD Card), I came across several concerns:
- Updates for Hong Kong models that seem to arrive last (least serious of all but annoying all the same)
- The flash of an XEF ROM which seems to be a problem
- May be instabilities in Samsung software such as Samsung Pay
- The eSIM which may never happen?
- Network antennas
That being said, do you think that it is still possible to switch it to an XEF version without bricking it?
And are there any SM-G7810 owners here?
Thank you !
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Let me get this straight - you would prefer faster updates, XEF software, no issues with Samsung Pay functionality, and the frequencies you use in France - so why did you buy the HK model again??
Hi,
For the price quite simply and the 2 GB of ram more for the S20 FE in HK version. However, I had not considered this kind of concern.
Otherwise I just started it and so far everything is working fine. The battery, however, is not the best ... A small disappointment at this level. Otherwise, everything else is really there!
Le_Cee said:
Hi,
For the price quite simply and the 2 GB of ram more for the S20 FE in HK version. However, I had not considered this kind of concern.
Otherwise I just started it and so far everything is working fine. The battery, however, is not the best ... A small disappointment at this level. Otherwise, everything else is really there!
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Try turning 5G off. With 5G turned off, the battery life on the Snapdragon models is excellent.
Thanks for your return,
I had already done this seen that I do not have a 5G package yet but no visible difference. Today, for example, I used it to research the internet for over an hour and reply to messages. I went from 80% (this morning at 6.30am) to 44% at the time of writing this message (3.15pm).
I don't know if it's normal but it seems weird to me ...
Le_Cee said:
Thanks for your return,
I had already done this seen that I do not have a 5G package yet but no visible difference. Today, for example, I used it to research the internet for over an hour and reply to messages. I went from 80% (this morning at 6.30am) to 44% at the time of writing this message (3.15pm).
I don't know if it's normal but it seems weird to me ...
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No, that doesn't sound normal - but the phone will improve over time as it puts unused apps to sleep, etc. Look at your battery usage to see what is causing the most drain. You should be getting at least 4 hours of screen-on time from a full charge. Cell signal can cause battery life to vary widely in my experience, but even then, this phone should get excellent battery life.
Ok, thanks a lot for the information.
It's been 4 days since I started it but the analysis program of my habits is not yet finished.
Having said that, I haven't done a full charge yet. I only did 40% to 80% small charges to better preserve the battery as I know full charges damage the battery. Maybe I should do one now?
Hi,
I come back to the news. The phone has finished studying my battery usage. It tells me that my battery can last 1 day and 3 hours. A little weak, right?
Especially since I don't play any games. I just use social media / Apple Music / and small calls every now and then. In short, a very common use.
disable google chrome if you don't use it. I've never even opened it and I've disabled it twice (after updates) and it still has two instances of high battery drain.
Hi and thank you for your reply!
I take note of it but it's a bit annoying as this is the browser that I mainly use.
go outside your comfort zone for one week, try another browser and see if it makes a difference.
My sm- g7810 get 6h screen on time with still 30procent left today.Battery is set at maximum performance and 120hz refresh and I don't use auto optimalisation battery, I restart my device just once a day and that's it.
I debloat most useless apps like chrome and social media I don't use. Also standard mail and Google mail and and exchange service I dumbed because they could cause drain. I use my mail and use opera browser that's much better. I have zero complaints of this phone. Maybe u use optimize battery frequently so could drain your battery faster
Hi ! Thanks for the information.
Personally, I did 5 hours of screen yesterday. I started at 90% when I woke up in the morning and I was at 30% around 11pm. On the other hand I am in normal mode, I did not put the performances in maximum mode. I will also try not to use Chrome because I see that it is indeed greedy. Although from what I could see the most greedy are Apple Music and Messenger. The problem is that Messenger, I cannot put it to sleep otherwise I will not receive notifications.
If not, do you think my battery is intact there or should it last longer?
Le_Cee said:
Hi ! Thanks for the information.
Personally, I did 5 hours of screen yesterday. I started at 90% when I woke up in the morning and I was at 30% around 11pm. On the other hand I am in normal mode, I did not put the performances in maximum mode. I will also try not to use Chrome because I see that it is indeed greedy. Although from what I could see the most greedy are Apple Music and Messenger. The problem is that Messenger, I cannot put it to sleep otherwise I will not receive notifications.
If not, do you think my battery is intact there or should it last longer?
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Don't worry to much, everything thing that stream like apple music is a battery eater.I depends on every user how much it affect battery life tru the day. Now I did 5h 11min with 25 procent left. You can't expect the same results
Le_Cee said:
Hi ! Thanks for the information.
Personally, I did 5 hours of screen yesterday. I started at 90% when I woke up in the morning and I was at 30% around 11pm. On the other hand I am in normal mode, I did not put the performances in maximum mode. I will also try not to use Chrome because I see that it is indeed greedy. Although from what I could see the most greedy are Apple Music and Messenger. The problem is that Messenger, I cannot put it to sleep otherwise I will not receive notifications.
If not, do you think my battery is intact there or should it last longer?
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Your battery is fine. Try playing around with some of your settings to see if it makes any difference. For example, although I have two SIMs installed, I'm not currently using the second one, so I turned it off. This seems to have helped a lot. Also, 'Double Tap to Wake' etc., drains battery, so make sure your phone is set up as you like/need it (and nothing more) - then stop worrying about it.
Hi,
Thanks to you for these answers.
This reassures me about the life of my battery!

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