Battery dying ridiculously fast after new update

[RO99]

Anyone else noticed their battery draining super fast after the update. It's 2:pm UK time and usually I'm on 80%. At work indont use my phone and it's gone down to 50% already? 

Any solutions ???

[Joeeye]

And this was from a couple cycles before that with low active use I posted on here. Just to bare in mind, I use maximum settings with no power saving features whatsoever, no routines, no sleep mode, no battery saving. I keep a 120Hz WQHD+, 5G, BT, NFC, UWB all enabled.

[Billymayn]

Seems like your battery has halved between these two. Dont you think its a huge difference?

[Joeeye]

No seeing as both are from the same update. One has more active use, the other was practically an idle run.

Both those are from the latest update which I installed on 16 May. This one is from within the April update. So do I see the updates as affecting my battery usage? Not at all. That huge dip you see in the chart here, that's YouTubes fault and illustrates the abnormally high drain it seems to randomly exhibit.

[Billymayn]

That was mine yesterday
Any thoughts?

[Joeeye]

Social media is the bane of most phone batteries. They maintain constant connections and often poll enough to keep a heightened state of power usage, even worse when actively used. Don't know their specifics because I don't use them, but things like Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are notorious battery killers.

[Billymayn]

Yeah, you're right, but I used all those apps before and got at least 6 hours of screen-on time. Instagram's a battery hog, I think. I'll put them in sleep mode and see if the battery life improves. As a last resort, I'll have to factory reset it, which I really don't want to do.

If I transfer data from my old phone, such as settings and apps the battery life's usually pretty average. I think i need to set it up fresh

[Joeeye]

If using them is a must, try switching to light mode. It may limit their overall battery usage, but it isn't a guarantee. It's really just about app optimisation and the fact newer phones can use more power, even unnecessarily, hence a bigger power drain.

[Billymayn]

But new chips should be more efficient as well this is what i expected from s25u. Up to s23u the battery life was great, since s24u it has been downgraded dont know why..
I dont like light mode as i feel it slows down the phone such as animations and general tasks.
App optimization seems to be the real issue on android i guess . Pixel phones battery is even worse and they are made by google itself.

[Joeeye]

Try it, as you point out the newer chips "should" be more power efficient (and they are to an extent) which means even light mode may feel no different to standard, even in general UI usage. The double edged sword here is, even though they are more power efficient, the overall gains is really determined by the SoC Qualcomm geared it towards, in this case the SD 8 Elite is a far more performance chip than an efficiency design, hence it's great gaming and CPU benchmark numbers. To put it in perspective, the CPU can run at speeds over 40% higher than last generations design and none of it's core clusters are efficiency cores, the lowest clocked cores are 3.53GHz Vs the 3.2GHz max clock in the 8 Gen 3. For reference, the 8 Gen3 used 2 efficiency cores which ran at 2.3GHz.

Technicalities aside, the new chips are basically powerhouses, designed on a more efficient manufacturing process, but nonetheless powerhouses designed for heavy lifting. Efficiency wasn't the highest priority for Qualcomm with this generation.

[Billymayn]

I will experiment with light mode for a few days to assess its impact.

Furthermore, screen-on time (SoT) is not a comprehensive metric for battery life; consider, for example, using your phone as a hotspot, which consumes battery power even without active use. The drain is dependent on the number of connected Bluetooth devices and the amount of streamed audio.

Unfortunately, many users mistakenly believe SoT is the sole indicator of good battery performance..