How can I save the battery to last longer?

[Vashkar_B]

Hello Good people,

At first, I thank to those who always come forward by giving me suggestions to improve my usage.

Now, the today's concern.

I just got my repaired (replaced Battery) S23Ultra back tomorrow. Thanks to Samsung as they did it free of charge as a Goodwill Gesture. 

As I was expecting better outcome from a new battery, but it seems like battery is loosing it's power quite fast.

I would be grateful if anyone can answer my queries, please:

• 1. Does Samsung put a brand new battery when they replace battery on Customers device?
• 2. I know it will be a foolish question, still, are these batteries adaptive? Google says, 'Yes'. Is it like, first few days, the battery will learn my usage and lost power quite quickly. After a while, the adaptive feature will kick in and I will see improvement in battery longevity. 
• 3. I am not a heavy user, and stays out most of time. So charging my device once/twice a day is my maximum limit. So to save battery power, if I use Dark Mode, black wallpaper (home and lock screen), and power saver 24/7, will it help?
• 4. "Maximum charge to 95% and never let battery go down below 15%" - would these be of any help in long term? Letting not battery go below 15% is a hard call for me though. 

I am using this device since last 2 years. After each major update, battery falls by performance. But OneUI 7 just degraded it to death. 

Thanks in advance. 

[johnz237]

Hi!

1. Yes, Samsung would use new batteries.

2. It can take up to 14 days to calibrate.

3. Download "Good Guardians" and use the battery guardian.

4. Yes it will help- amoled screen when black= less energy used. Turning on battery protection is helpful for longevity. I wouldn't go below 20% if you can help it.

Sharing battery screen on time from care app would be helpful to show what numbers youre getting in terms of battery life

[arianwen27]

For ideal long term battery life. Limit charge to 80% and don't let it go below 30%. Yes that's harsh but that's ideal. If possible, basic battery protection and not letting it go below 20% would still help quite a bit.

For normal use, your number 3 section is right yeah. You can also tweak power saver to do different things. Kinda "fun fact", if your phone is doing nothing, battery usage can almost fully stop. Eg, if you leave your phone over night, battery usage is almost non existent. So battery drain might be being caused by an app you have that's preventing sleep.

For 2, samsung phones in particular learn battery usage quite well. Meaning it takes maybe a week for things to settle.

Honestly I wouldn't be happy living in power save mode the entire time. Something is probably wrong

[Abravenewworld]

Fully disable "digital wellbeing" its useless and spends 24/7 tracking how much you use each app and everything.

[Vashkar_B]

Brilliant. Thanks a lot. Refer to No. 3, I can't find 'Good Guardian' in the playstore. You can see the attached image. With a new battery, around 14 hours with 91% charge. Though it's an assumption, and never last till that time.

[GoanGeek]

Hi.

In the UK its better to just exchange your phone for a newer model as you get better chip and better battery optimisation.
( budget permitting)

Samsung does really good preorder deals and freebies plus decent trade-ins on older devices.

Even for 2 -3 year old devices .

The thing with lithium batteries are that they will degrade over time whether you use the device or not.

Also keep everything on our phone on Auto and let it do its thing.

Stop trying to save battery by stop stuff and other things as it will confuse the phones automation.

Enjoy your phone to its fullest.

If you want to Dumb down your phone then might as well get a budget phone.

[johnz237]

https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.android.samsung.utilityapp

Its on samsung store

[Vashkar_B]

Thanks. That's definitely an option to consider. But I am more of a type of user who tries to use a device for at least 2/3 years. Moreover, when it comes to exchange, the exchange value of a one year old premium (£1300+) device becomes £450. So, the recycle value becomes too low.

How can I put everything on 'Auto'? Would you please enlighten me?

I agree with you to use and enjoy its fullest power. Still, being a non-heavy user, when I see battery degrading quite fast, I sometimes doubt my decision to buy Samsung.

If I always keep thinking of saving batteries, I will have to consider and compromise with many options that pushed me to buy such premium devices.

I have a 1.5 year old iPhone 15 pro max at home. But I have never seen such poor battery performance compared to my device compared to my wife's 15pm. My wife's phone has at least 2-3 hours more SOT than mine, and she comes home with 30% battery whereas mine with 10-15%.

[Vashkar_B]

Thanks again.

[Vashkar_B]

The latest performance with 88% of battery usage