@SmashMix wrote: @mite_jan wrote: Apple and Samsung fined by Italian authorities over slow phones https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45963943 Good news that authorities in some countries are awake of this issue and that smartphone giant are making changes under the hood of our phones 👍 Hope this will force Samsung to release fixing update for us and change the direction for future of newer phones and their users. Yeah but they were only fined 5M€, which is nothing to them and the eventual profit from ppl buying new phones will cover it easily.   Personaly, I will exclude samsung of all the hardware i'll buy in the future, smartphones, TV etc. Good alternatives can be found for any product. I'll also advise friends and family to chose better.   If there has been no improvements until now, there won't be any in the future. They have to sell new phones to get enough profit to satisfy stockholders, so clearly older models are not a priority. If some guys can tweak roms and do better than Samsung's teams of engineers, it means they're not even trying to solve it.   Going for custom roms is the only solution for our S7. ... View more

@doktermy wrote: Samsung is a very good product to use including a long battery life  You created an account one hour ago just yo post that? Working at samsung? ... View more

@MightyAli wrote: I have actually managed to solve my drain issue by flashing with odin and calibrating my battery. I get a fine 4-5 hours of SOT of light-medium usage. Before I used to get a 2-3 hours of SOT Did you revert back to Nougat ? Or did you cocktail the Oreo firmwares? ... View more

Just got september's update.     Will keep you posted, looks like a security update. ... View more

@MightyAli wrote: I've got the update and so far the battery drain is still there.... I don't know if I should replace the battery or not. The Samsung member app says my battery health is good and nothing is wrong with it. Should I replace the battery? Any suggestions would be much appreciated  No, some went to the samsung service center, had their battery replaced, and there was no change. Still *****ty battery life with a brand new battery. From the look of it it must be a security update. Except changing your phone or downgrading to an older firmware, I don't think there's a lot to be done. ... View more

It has already been 3 months now, I don't have any hope left that samsung is going to fix this.   Some manufacturers had the same problem after updating to oreo (one plus I think), but it was fixed way faster. I would like to say they're doing it on purpose but I previously owned an S3 which got an update screwing some memory chip at the time. No offense to everyone working at samsung but if their phone are built the way they're programming the software part, I'm not surprised some of them are exploding.   Just looking at how they're managing firmwares & completely different release dates for region / countries (delay of more than 2 months for the same firmware between 2 countries), and you'll have an idea as to how they are poorly organised.   I will keep using the phone since I bought it barely 1,5 years ago, but it will be a good reminder never to buy a samsung product ever again 🙂 ... View more

@zagakuf wrote: I was facing the same issue, but I guess with the recent security patch update of aug via developer open source it's working fine.   Regards, Zogakuf You guess it's working fine? Not sure to understand what you mean. ... View more

Same here, august update since thursday, battery still drains like Nasa is running their simulations on my phone. No improvement at all so far. It may be even worse. ... View more

Hi guys,   I used to think that ERG2 had fixed my problem, but it hasn't.   In fact I was on holidays when I received the update, and I could reach up to 4H SOT with a complete charge, with my S7 flat, on one of my carrier's antenna. Being back home, things are way different, the best I can get is 2h30 SOT, and overall it feels bad.   I'm getting the feeling that since I'm not on one of my carrier's antenna, the battery is being drained pretty bad, trying to find my carrier's signal, and using roaming instead to connect to 4G (VOLTE disabled). Seing the huge difference (with the same phone and firmware) between being on my carrier's network or roaming over a competitor's, I'm afraid there won't be any improvement soon.   I upgraded to ERGE this morning, and it looks even worse, battery looks like it's melting while being idle, but it's probably too soon to tell. ... View more

    For me it was fixed with the july update and disabling 4g calls: with my S7 flat, my phone can last around 3h SOT on 2 days (with 2*8hour on airplane mode) or 4h SOT on one day, only on 4g, never on wifi.   Not much if you ask me, but my phone never was great on this aspect.   Way better than the 1st Oreo update. ... View more

  Battery does last longer for me after the update, but since I'm away from home it could just be that the signal is slightly better. Still, if I reach 4 hours SOT, can't complain.   Just to be clear I also deactivated 4G calls (VOLTE) through my carrier's app (noticed a big improvement at the time), and disabled most of the bloatwares with a well known app. ... View more

@Xsever wrote:I'm running the latest ERG2 modem on my S7 flat and last night I put the phone in airplane mode for 5 hours and slept and when I woke up, battery drain was 0%. Yeah, I've wiped the cache today, I'll see tomorrow morning. Might be just temporary. ... View more

@VSiam wrote: With ERG2 modem and LTE: first night (8h) - 2% discharge (as it should be) second night - 18% So, no magic bullet for me yet. ( @my phone has been on 4g for 20 hours, as well as 2*8 hours of airplane mode. With SOT @ 2h20, I'm left with around 25% this morning. It feels better, previously I would never reach the second night.   However for some reason, while in airplane mode, battery decreased by 6% last night, which seems quite high (1/2% previously). ... View more

I got an OTA update yesterday (340mb- erg2) on my S7 flat, and although it's too early to tell, the battery drain looks better on 4G.   I've noticed using gsam that before this OTA update, under the application details, kernel (android OS) and android system were consuming around 35% of the battery used by apps. Now it's down to 13%.   The global battery consumption looks more balanced between the screen and the app usage. I'll keep you updated.     ... View more

Great guys, keep us updated on your results, hopefuly it will fix it ! ... View more

@utahman1971 wrote: I will just enjoy my s7 edge, when it does not even have this problem at all. I got the T-Mobile update on 6/29/2018 and it has been working just fine, with no issues as others have been saying on any thread about the Oreo update. Hard for me to feel the same pain, when I am not having it. I am not going to agree or join into the hate posts. I am just going to state the fact my phone is not having a problem, like this people griping. I love and happy to have the update to Oreo. Too bad Samsung just can't please everyone. These forums are like people that review movies on IMDB. Complainers. Are you a troll? I guess you are.   If Oreo has ben working great battery wise on your phone when comparing to Nougat then you're lucky, and we're not.   When you're paying 500-700$ for your device, barely 2 years old, and the update completely mess up your phone's battey life, you are entitled to complain. Good for you if it worked fine on your phone. As you said Samsung doesn't have to please everyone, just the people who bought these  phone (and I mean most of them).   Just look at how many are having the same problem. It's like a lottery winner saying to everyone you should not complain since "I've won and everything is great for me". Except this isn't a lottery, we all paid for the same thing here.   With these last sentences of yours you're basically complaning that people are complaning. You're a perfect fit for writing reviews on IMDB. Troll. ... View more

@AntS wrote: Hi all.   Just a brief update: Our software teams are investigating this issue, but determining an exact cause has proven to be more challenging than expected. They're continuing to look into this until they find a cause and a solution for you - and we'll keep you posted on any news.   In the meantime, please do keep submitting your experiences here and log files via error reports through the Members app; as well as keeping your phone's software and apps updated to the latest versions. Well as you may have read in the previous pages, it seems it comes from the modem firmware, people flashing their modem with the latest EREO firmware from HK & Taiwan (only flashing the modem, not the other parts) seems to have seen their battery life increase quite well. ... View more

4h54 screen on time before modem update and 6h52 minutes after?   S7 edge and not flat I guess? Is it only on 4G or mixed usage between 4G and wifi?   *****, i think I barely ever had more than 3h30 with 4G on my S7 flat, even on marshmallow. ... View more

@James0071 wrote: Hi, which carrier are you on and how did you access the carrier settings? I'm on Vodafone UK and can't see how to access them. Thanks. @I'm in France, @ SFR. I accessed it because my carrier has an app which allows me to suscribe/unsuscribe options and get your invoices etc., but most likely your carrier has a website to log on to as a customer.   After a few days without 4G Call, I can say it's better, but still not very good.   ... View more

Ok guys, this morning I managed to disable VoLTE (or 4G Call) not though my phone, but through my carrier's app. It was an option that was deactivable, just not under the phone's settings (with my firmware, no options to turn it on or off), so i think it was on all the time. I also disabled all facebook and Gear VR process.   My phone has been unplugged for 5 hours and I used it intensively for 50 minutes (meaning 50 minutes SOT and web browsing on 4G with a pretty bad reception : one bar only). I'm still at 75% battery, which seems quite good. At this rate I should reach 3H+ of SOT (against 1h30-2 at max before). It's not huge, but already feels like a big improvement.   I didn't touch Wifi calling, since my wifi has been disabled, I don't see how it should affect the battery on 4G, and my battery on Wifi seemed quite good. For those who can't disable it on their phones like me, you should try looking through your carriers settings, on their website or dedicated app, if you can deactivate 4G call / VoLTE.   I don't get it since it should have already been in use on Nougat, and it just wasn't draining this way, but anyway i'll keep you guys updated to see if it really is better or just a temporary feeling. ... View more

  @Carolll wrote: @LongDenis wrote: I had the same battery drain issue after S7 edge Oreo update until I disabled 4G call (VoLTE for other regions) in Settings -> Connections -> Mobile networks -> 4G call. No need to restrict background usage. Also disable Wi-Fi Calling. Hope this works for you as well and Samsung fixes the issue fast. It's a good thing that it works for you, here I don't have VoLTE nor WiFi calling but I still have the issue so maybe I'm missing something or simply I cannot disable what creates the problem Same for me, I can't diable these settings (can't be found on some specific firmwares), and it's not the 1st time I hear about VoLTE.   I read it can be disabled using some app by killing process which names contain IMS. It seems weird I can't disable VoLTE but it seems I do have these process running in the background (IMS logger, service and settings).   I'll try disabling these tomorrow.       ... View more

How did you limit the mobile data for settings?      When I get into the mobile data used by settings, it just give me a list of all process linked to settings, and I can't do anything about it. ... View more

Ok, got the update more than a week ago, and as everyone here, huge cell standby battery drain oy my S7.   It maybe a wrong display as Samsung pretends, but now I can't barely get 1h30 screen on time with 4g enabled. With Oreo I was around 3h SOT. Even if it's a wrong display, something's wrong.   I tried : 1 : Wipe Data / Cache 2 : Complete Factory Reset   Nothing works, still huge battery drains, barely using any app right now. Some say it's because of VOLTE, in my case my carrier doesn't support it, so I'm not using it, and I barely called anyone. A guy on a different forum try mixing up fimwares and ended up using the nougat firmware for the modem part, and Oreo for everything else, and it seems his battery is much better.   Update comes very late, and is messed up. Last samsung phone for me, too bad since the hardware is great, but it seems Android is still a huge problem for Samsung after all these years. ... View more