topic Re: Battery drain in Galaxy A Series

Battery drain

Owen001 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:36:52 GMT

There are a lot of people reporting an issue with battery drain across different Samsung Galaxy phones. It appears that a recent Samsung update is causing general issues and Samsung should provide a communication on when this will be resolved.

Up to last Thursday my phone worked normally. Since then the power has been draining at 4 to 5 times the usual rate with root cause being Samsung apps running in the background draining the power.

The issue appears to be widespread.

Samsung - Please advise on when this will be resolved

Re: Battery drain

jas123456 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:21:34 GMT

My s23 plus has been draining since the march update for no reason.

Re: Battery drain

ronald526 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:39:05 GMT

This is happening also to my GALAXY A54 after the March update, i used utilize my phone for almost 16 hrs. Now, maybe after 6 hours my battery power is only 36 percent even if i am not using that much.

Re: Battery drain

Owen001 — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:39:26 GMT

The issue has been resolved as suddenly as it appeared with. The Samsung Cloud app was draining my battery with the phone being almost un-usable. On Thursday morning, a week after the issue started, it simply disappeared and the Samsung Cloud app now consumes very little power.

During the issue my phone was charging longer each day than it was being used.

Samsung support advised some steps to troubleshoot which I carried out and when those steps didn't resolve it, had said that the phone should be factory reset which I refused to do.

It's now miraculously back to normal a week after the issue started. It's now 24 hours since the last charge and with normal usage the battery still has 34% available which is what it used to be.

Re: Battery drain

Sams30 — Mon, 27 May 2024 03:52:57 GMT

me too facing the same issue I request Samsung Teams to resolve battery drain issue at the earliest.

Re: Battery drain

Members_ZvlYQ5p — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:39:51 GMT

This would be worrying, as it implies Samsung is deliberately draining phone batteries... Rather than a mess up on the update.

Re: Battery drain

Iceman01695 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:57:01 GMT

This issue is not resolved, my battery is draining very quickly on some days, what's Samsung doing about it as its taking the ***** now.

Re: Battery drain

Jamie_Summers — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:24:50 GMT

Same issue.. It just started a couple days ago. It's either the new update, or since I switched to Samsung messages. Nobody wanted to leave Verizon messages, ugh.

Re: Battery drain

gmwd — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:30:55 GMT

Yup, same here.

Been going on since early Feb for me.

Re: Battery drain

gmwd — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:07:22 GMT

Saw a suggestion that restarting might help—I have auto-restart off.

Have just restarted. Will re-charge and let you know if it made any difference.

Re: Battery drain

Sean John — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:03:38 GMT

I also have a problem with my Galaxy A11, it drains the battery @ a 1% rate every 3 to 4 mins, I have tried everything from updates factory resets and battery reset but I still am failing to figure it out..

Re: Battery drain

gmwd — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:48:45 GMT

Restarting didn't help.

Seems to happen when I use bluetooth, especially when connecting to car.

Will let you know if I get any closer to solving.

Re: Battery drain

MisterMatt_ — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:54:40 GMT

Brand new A16 5G phone 1 week old.

Experiencing the battery draining is quick, gone from 80% to 61% to 57% in less than 20 minutes of being out of screen lock. No background apps are running. Battery saving power on. Optimisation on. Screen brightness is low?

This is frustrating. I actually feel like returning the phone. Considering I've had it for 1 week. I've also restarted x3. And still the same. My location is always off as well. So, idk anymore.

Re: Battery drain

Members_w11WGeC — Mon, 05 May 2025 05:54:35 GMT

I too have just recently started having this issue,had A52 for over 2 years working fine then few days ago noticed my battery started draining at a rapid speed.i can be fully charged and down to 50% in next to no time it's very frustrating. I have done all the battery saving tips and it's still the same,whether my battery has just come to end of its life I'm unsure or if it's an actual issue which it seems it is judging by people's posts.hopefully it will resolve ìtself I don't really want to change my phone just yet

Re: Battery drain

Amruta — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:11:31 GMT

Greetings everyone,

Just wanted to share that my phone Samsung A71 was facing similar heating issues. All of a sudden from one day to the next the battery started draining alarmingly, like it would drain out in just a couple of hours after a full charge. Although the phone is old I was sure that it wasn't the battery problem in itself...just intuitively it felt like some app was causing the drainage. Even phone diagnosis showed all is fine and that no apps were using up the battery.

What I did though was that i went to the Apps window in settings and manually went inside each app...in there I did two things. One, cleared the cache for each app (left out the imp apps like banking cause not sure how that'll affect); and second, checked for each app how much battery has been used by that App since the last full charge.

So I was able to locate a couple of apps which were taking up too much of battery, like Google Meet, Samsung Accessibility, Samsung Digital Wellbeing...taking up from 2 to 8% of the battery. So I "stopped" or deactivated the apps , as I don't need them. Also some more like Maintenance etc were taking up too much, but this is needed for the phone to function so left it as it is. And additionally I of course deinstalled any extra apps which I didn't need anymore.

This solved the problem immediately! Hope this helps

Re: Battery drain

SteveDogW — Thu, 29 May 2025 06:39:55 GMT

Same! My wifes s23 is now almost unusable, my s24 takes an age to charge wirelessly. All since the update. Samsung will lose millions here. It's all over social media, everyone is having problems and Samsung don't give a hoot!

Re: Battery drain

aurora131203 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:30:59 GMT

how did you deactivate Digital Wellbeing? Mine's at 9& but it's not letting me deactivate it

Re: Battery drain

Amruta — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:17:50 GMT

Hi, do you see an option to 'stop' ...you could try this instead of deactivate. Am guessing that for the Samsung inbuilt apps one cannot deactivate them completely but stop and cache clearing should work...

Re: Battery drain

arabisfh — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:33:25 GMT

I have two (2) S23 Ultra units. After updating to One UI 7, one of my phones suddenly experienced severe battery drain and frequent crashes. For almost a week, I tried several troubleshooting steps such as wiping the cache partition, checking battery usage stats, adjusting power settings, and using the *#9900# menu. Unfortunately, none of these made any improvement to the battery performance. It seems that the One UI 7 update may have directly affected the battery on certain Samsung units. I eventually decided to replace the battery on the affected phone, and now it’s back to normal...