22-01-2021 11:04 PM
So I bought the new S21 Ultra on the pre order the day it was announced. I was one of the lucky ones to get early so I could leave a review.
Coming from a Note 10+ that I had for a year and a half, I was really excited for the S21 Ultra, but was really disappointed with the battery life. I've had the phone for 5 days now and since the very beginning I've not been able to use the phone for the whole day on a single charge. It's been giving me screen on times comparable to my Note 10+ (4/5 hours) which is a much older device, but I thought maybe this was the way all S21 ultra's were behaving, just not very good battery life.
BUT, yesterday all the youtubers started to publish they're videos comparing batteries with older S devices and Iphones and their S21s were doing amazing, giving them screen on times of up to 13 hours!
I contacted support but they said this would be normal as my phone was still learning user patterns... but I'm not sure if that would affect it as bad as it is at the moment.
What do you guys think? Should I send the phone back? I'm really concerned that I just spent all this money on a new phone for it to be so bad with battery.
29-01-2021 10:04 PM
29-01-2021 10:09 PM
Yesterday it was so bad I was worried. Will see how it goes with heavier usage!
29-01-2021 10:09 PM
Did you have the display on 120hz or 60?
29-01-2021 10:11 PM
I left it as adaptive.
However and it may be important: I love my blue light filter 🤔
29-01-2021 10:12 PM
Hahahha I guess I'm the only one with AOD eating 15% of their battery, I cleared the AOD cash and restarted the phone to see if AOD didn't crashed or bugged altho there was an update today for AOD dunno if Samsung fixed anything with it my SOT is 3h:30 mins and my battery is at 18% now.....
29-01-2021 11:43 PM
30-01-2021 06:40 AM
Decided to reset the phone and install apps individually. The battery life improved from 4hrs SoT to just over 6 hrs. It is still bad, I may try to use HD+ 60Hz mode to improve battery life further but what's the point?
30-01-2021 07:00 AM
I posted earlier today same battery drain issue and i format the phone this time didnt use smart things. Just install everyrhing one by one withour copying from old phone. It made difference so far no drain.
30-01-2021 08:21 AM
I just received my S21, and the battery lifespan is horrible...
30-01-2021 09:12 AM
Welcome to the club