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Samsung S23 Ultra battery draining

(Topic created on: 13-11-2023 11:19 AM)
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Katzn
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I have heard this phone will take a few weeks to analyse battery usage before it settles and then I'd get a good day if not more in usage. My phone is 2 months old now. 

I find just light usage drains the battery. I have to recharge before the end of the day. This can't be normal... can it?! 

I limit the battery charge to 85% as I've always had battery issues with my previous Samsung phones and read this gives you optimal battery life. 

I'm mostly scrolling Twitter watching a few YouTube videos namely cooking. I'm looking for houses so I'm scrolling Zoopla and Right Move, but that's about it. I don't play games much although the phone is game app heavy, all put to deep sleep.

Can anyone please advise what I'm doing wrong as I feel like I've got a dud 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Tourbillon De La Vie
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I also recharge at least once a day. Find it normal

GoanGeek
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Scrolling usually will use more battery.

Simply because everytime you touch your phone the refresh rate goes upto 120 htz and so drains rhe battery. Not to mention the phone trying to load fast from the Internet.

If you wanna experiment binge on YouTube or Netflix or any streaming app non stop for a day and see the difference.
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Joeeye
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It all comes down to app usage and setup. Typically I'll see about 10% per hour SoT doing the usual YouTube streaming and browsing. But I keep a fixed screen brightness at 30%, WQHD+ 120hz dark mode.
GoanGeek
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The screen never stays at 120htz while streaming.

If it does its because you are keeping the brightness too low forcing the phone to use 120htz to compensate and loose battery.

You'd be better.off at say 40-50% brightness have even longer battery life.
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Joeeye
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I know how it works, thank you. I've also done extensive testing from day 1 and found 30% is most optimal.

Just wanted to also note, that behaviour you refer to does not appear to be present in the S23 Ultra, according to testing done by GSM Arena. Even set to minimum brightness, the screen still drops refresh rates down.
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Katzn
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Thank you for your replies.
Would it be normal for doing a Google search for recipes for just 11 minutes uses 1.3% of the battery? Mtia
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GoanGeek
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Google as a whole (Google play services) is a battery drainer because of app permissions like location and background data and stuff.

You might consider watching a couple of YouTube videos on battery saving . ( most of them will dumb your phone down but give good battery life.) You can pick and choose which to keep.

Ideally you need to see your overall SOT ( Screen on time) for the day. Fro. Say 100% - 15% and post it here so we can Evaluate what's drains your battery.
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ZSA1
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Same here just get an iphone. I am sick and tired of this thing after 7 days.

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S23UGalaxySam
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A lot of the old advice really doesn't apply to this phone. I messed with it a lot and now I can get up to 2 days of battery life and I'm on my phone all the time. Playing big Games will deplete it much faster but even if I play Call of Duty for an hour, I can still get over 1 day battery life. I never use limit 85% battery, especially when new, the phone needs to learn your battery capacity. Limiting it won't help it adapt. Also, I noticed my phone would charge to 85% in 20 minutes then slowly charge to the rest. Finally, don't underestimate that 15%! For some reason, if I charge my phone to 100% I get much more battery life than 99%. It will even stay at 100% for quite a while after leaving the charger. My one rule is I never keep the phone on a charger overnight. It charges so quickly there is no need. To prevent apps from eating my battery in the background, I generally keep the phone on Power Saving Mode. Unfortunately, this limits the phone to 60hz (I really wish this was kept separate in the app settings). It makes a huge difference. Without it on, while I am sleeping my phone will lose 15-30% battery. With power saving mode, I lose 1%. I made a Bixby routine to take the phone off power saving mode when I am charging, and this gives my apps a chance to backup and sync when it won't cause problems for me. I also have auto update apps off, and manually update my apps. Try creating different Bixby routines to automate the power hungry settings you might need, so they are on when you need them, and only then. Today, android lets you see exactly which apps are causing the problems so find them and restrict them or limit background data. 

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