S5 Battery

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Hey anyone have the new S5 with stock OS running? If so, how's your battery life? Mine's complete shit right now and I'm not even using it very heavily.

[Ferris Bueller]

You can teach any phone to have a good battery life by letting its battery run out.

Just let your phone battery die then charge it. Keep doing that for more than a week and you should see results.

As for a specific answer, @Doc should know.

[Jim]

You can teach any phone to have a good battery life by letting its battery run out.

Just let your phone battery die then charge it. Keep doing that for more than a week and you should see results.

As for a specific answer, @Doc should know.

The mighty Doc knows all.

[[MPGH]Doc]

Had mine for about 4 days now, fully charged it twice. A full day of use will see it drop to around 30-40%, with constant downloading, gaming, streaming. Today I used it normally (checking it every half hour or so, played a game for half an hour, browsed reddit) and it is sitting at 76%. You might have a dud unit. I have the 4G/LTE version though.

[Ticherhaz]

Google is your friend...

[Mokou-Sama]

I always though that dropping battery to zero more than the first time reduces battery life time.

[Jhem]

Off some useless stuff like Bluetooth to reduce battery life time.

[Genesis]

Got mine at 1:30pm today, Quick charged it to 100% and it was off the charger by 3pm.
It's now 12:39am and it's at 68% with just general internet browsing, 4g usage and camera usage. Seems okay to me.

Will see how it goes over the coming days on a full charge.

[Leossez]

I always though that dropping battery to zero more than the first time reduces battery life time.

It's actually recommended that u let it run down to zero once per month and then do a full charge up to 100%, this way the battery life will last longer.

[Mokou-Sama]

It's actually recommended that u let it run down to zero once per month and then do a full charge up to 100%, this way the battery life will last longer.

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

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Had mine for about 4 days now, fully charged it twice. A full day of use will see it drop to around 30-40%, with constant downloading, gaming, streaming. Today I used it normally (checking it every half hour or so, played a game for half an hour, browsed reddit) and it is sitting at 76%. You might have a dud unit. I have the 4G/LTE version though.

Got mine at 1:30pm today, Quick charged it to 100% and it was off the charger by 3pm.
It's now 12:39am and it's at 68% with just general internet browsing, 4g usage and camera usage. Seems okay to me.

Will see how it goes over the coming days on a full charge.

I usually do a full charge every other day, depending if I use the phone that much. Normally, I have my WiFi and LTE on but I'm mostly using WiFi. The phone barely lasts a full 24 hours on a full charge with just simple web browsing. Ultra Power Saving mode actually kills my battery faster than just the normal OS running. And today, when I tested the phone, I was just browsing Wikipedia for about 25 minutes and I dropped about 10% on WiFi with the brightness to near minimum.

I contacted Samsung a few days ago and they said this is apparently normal; however after reading your comments, I am starting to doubt that. What can I do to claim a warranty or can I just bring it back to my carrier for an exchange (with T-mobile in the US).

[[MPGH]Doc]

I usually do a full charge every other day, depending if I use the phone that much. Normally, I have my WiFi and LTE on but I'm mostly using WiFi. The phone barely lasts a full 24 hours on a full charge with just simple web browsing. Ultra Power Saving mode actually kills my battery faster than just the normal OS running. And today, when I tested the phone, I was just browsing Wikipedia for about 25 minutes and I dropped about 10% on WiFi with the brightness to near minimum.

I contacted Samsung a few days ago and they said this is apparently normal; however after reading your comments, I am starting to doubt that. What can I do to claim a warranty or can I just bring it back to my carrier for an exchange (with T-mobile in the US).

You would probably have more luck going back to your carrier, you'd have more consumer power by doing so, because you are a direct customer with T-Mobile not Samsung. Not to mention T-Mobile has a vested interest in its customer satisfaction rates considering it's latest business strat.

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You would probably have more luck going back to your carrier, you'd have more consumer power by doing so, because you are a direct customer with T-Mobile not Samsung. Not to mention T-Mobile has a vested interest in its customer satisfaction rates considering it's latest business strat.

Okay. Thanks for your suggestion. I'll head out to a T-mobile store sometime this week and hopefully get it exchanged. Any particular advice when talking to them about this or should I just state the issue and see what they do from there?

[Kiritsugu]

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

Turn off all of the useless shit like Air gesture, etc. I use an S4 so I assume they're similar. Also about letting the battery run down to 0, I heard it was a good thing but usually by nighttime my S4 has around 30-40% left and if I don't charge it then it'd run out of battery the next day. So I never let my battery run down to 0.

[Genesis]

Battery is fine on my device. Had the phone off charge since 11am and I took this picture at 2am last night.



Could have lasted another whole day if it wanted to.