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A5 2017 amazing battery life normal?

I'm at 15% and got 8h23 SOT. Surely will hit 9h mark I assume.
4G enabled but mostly wifi, volte, Bluetooth. Watched 2 series, was on the Internet all day and some Internet radio on high quality. So no compromises.
Haven't had this much battery life with any smartphone, flagship Sony, galaxy s7 edge and oneplus 3t recently.
Anyone else have this? Didn't expect this at all..
Edit: almost 10h SOT short a few minutes. Added screenshots to show.

Yes, this is normal for this device. I'm sorry for your inconvenience. Since you're dutch, you can read this for more information on batterylife.

Well yea, will need to send it back!
"battery life too good"

Yes, it is amazing and it is normal. It seems Samsung finally put some effort into the optimization.

Samsung has nailed it this time
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Mine gets as high as 4.5-5 hours of sot. 2G, full reception, data off, BT off, sync off, occasional Wifi usage, Facebook crap disabled and AOD on. quite disappointing.

Is this normal sot...after 3 days of use?
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crni6 said:
Is this normal sot...after 3 days of use?
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I think so, 52hrs of standby time also takes some batterylife. So.... Did u also use always on display?

No...I dont use always on display. And my sot i about 7h after 2/3 days.
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Battery life is amazing on Samsung Galaxy A7 2017
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well, i had my a5 2017 tow days ago and i only charged it 1 time to full.
those a 2017 a5,a7 are battery beast i belive.
almost 56h with 2 charges.

wtwota94 said:
well, i had my a5 2017 tow days ago and i only charged it 1 time to full.
those a 2017 a5,a7 are battery beast i belive.
almost 56h with 2 charges.
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I hit the mark of 1 day and 19 hours with the first half charge, right after unboxing... Although it seems it won't repeat as my previsions are for 22 hours with 80%... Anynway, very good battery life

Look at this stats . Wifi +sync +4g allways on.
Best device i ever had regarding battery life

Battery life is simply amazing on this device... with Nougat
All sync on, wifi, BT and so on.. google services such as location history and assistant...
After 2d 4h 45m on battery and 7h 21m screen on I still have 23% battery left !

Samsung made a mistake in the design specifications of the 2017 series. They currently use a battery that uses a low-radioactive component that is superior to the standard battery but it has not been tested for the long term. just kidding It's not only the A5 also the A3 shows this kind of battery stats. Battery usage with GPS (not including wifi/cell location) is also very good from my experience with A3. But have noticed that after a week or so the battery will go down faster but am not so sure because of irregular use of chat apps running that receive messages frequently.
I'm on Marshmallow. I like to know how Nougat does in comparison

Is there still anyone who get these kind of stats in nougat? I got 6h of sot and I'm at 12%. Is this normal? Also, I woke at 17% (didn't discharge a single % overnight) but it dropped to 12% only by using fb, samsung default browser and settings...

syvanaLTU said:
Is there still anyone who get these kind of stats in nougat? I got 6h of sot and I'm at 12%. Is this normal? Also, I woke at 17% (didn't discharge a single % overnight) but it dropped to 12% only by using fb, samsung default browser and settings...
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I get similar, seems MM had bettery battery life.

Yes, A7 is champion in terms of battery life.

That's weird my A5 just got the Oreo update and now the battery drains faster than before... When I check the device maintenance I can see cell standby consumption is higher than the screen. I wiped all the data and cache, reset factory, restet network settings, disabled sync, location... and the issue remains. I don't know what to do to solve the issue and am afraid they're not going to take the problem seriously if I send it back to samsung... Anyone can relate?

It is not in a single charge but that's what I get. The stamina is still correct though so idk if it is more like a display problem or if it does show the real consumption and so the battery should last way longer.

need your opinion

I brought an used a5 2017 for $183 (12500 INR)
8 months warranty left ...device is overall awesome...but im concerned about battery ...battery is good almost give me 6-7 hr of screen on time but it drain in ideal condition. It drains almost 6-7% during night time... Is it normal for this device..???
This device is running on nougat
I have disabled all bloatware with package disabler pro...
Writing for first time:silly:
Sorry for bad english

shady_rohit said:
I brought an used a5 2017 for $183 (12500 INR)
8 months warranty left ...device is overall awesome...but im concerned about battery ...battery is good almost give me 6-7 hr of screen on time but it drain in ideal condition. It drains almost 6-7% during night time... Is it normal for this device..???
This device is running on nougat
I have disabled all bloatware with package disabler pro...
Writing for first time:silly:
Sorry for bad english
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I have a a5 2017 running nougat too and the battery stays the same during night I don't lose any %. I turn airplane mode on though.
BTW I get the same sot..
Hope it'll get even better with Oreo!

Do you leave the always on display on?

Reeii said:
Do you leave the always on display on?
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Alway on display is off

Is there In your battery usage something that drains the battery more than phone idle or cell standby during night?

nubry said:
Is there In your battery usage something that drains the battery more than phone idle or cell standby during night?
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I think it's cell standby, last night i actually turn on airplane mode ....and battery stays at same %

shady_rohit said:
I brought an used a5 2017 for $183 (12500 INR)
8 months warranty left ...device is overall awesome...but im concerned about battery ...battery is good almost give me 6-7 hr of screen on time but it drain in ideal condition. It drains almost 6-7% during night time... Is it normal for this device..???
This device is running on nougat
I have disabled all bloatware with package disabler pro...
Writing for first time:silly:
Sorry for bad english
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Always on display will not take really any power. The a520w has an AMOLED screen, so only the pixels lit up is being used not the whole screen. I get about 2 days on one charge and I use it about 2 - 5 hours playing games and 1-3 oh YouTube. Try using an app to stop things in background.

Is this normal ?

Had this for 2 weeks basically same stats why does android take so much battery?!? Standby drain is horrible. I'm on latest update. This has been from the first day I got it.

My battery life is almost the same

I'm in the same situation, horrible battery performance, I have the Exynox SM-N975F

bovoro said:
I'm in the same situation, horrible battery performance, I have the Exynox SM-N975F
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Another one here.
Have the phone for 5 days and it loses 30%+ overnight... My old S8 loses only 9%.

RoyaL said:
Another one here.
Have the phone for 5 days and it loses 30%+ overnight... My old S8 loses only 9%.
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30% is a lot.. Go for battery setup and try to find an reason (some apps maybe eat little bit more, then they should). Second problem is processor... Owners of Exynos have bigger battery usage, then Snapdragon users, that is fact. Maybe try to turn off voice activation of Bixby.

Stanislav.K said:
30% is a lot.. Go for battery setup and try to find an reason (some apps maybe eat little bit more, then they should). Second problem is processor... Owners of Exynos have bigger battery usage, then Snapdragon users, that is fact. Maybe try to turn off voice activation of Bixby.
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Another night, another 31% drained. From 60 to 29...
I killed all open apps before going to bed. And still...
Battery usage shows nothing. The game was played before going to bed, so it was not the caused.
This is a big disappointment.
Edit : yep, just noticed I had Bixby voice wake up enabled. Just killed it. Let's see tomorrow.

I was about to make a similar post asking for help. To me it doesn't seem right Android system is using 2-3x battery than any other app/program. And lost 13% in just one hour.

I installed CPU Spy and my Phone never ever entered Deep Sleep. 0 seconds
I've just reset all network and system settings but it seems done anything to the issue.
Really want to avoid factory resetting...
I feel I returned 10 years in time, getting back to troubleshoot deep sleep and wake locks on Android 2.0... But now on a 1K device. Shame on you, Samsung...

RoyaL said:
I installed CPU Spy and my Phone never ever entered Deep Sleep. 0 seconds
I've just reset all network and system settings but it seems done anything to the issue.
Really want to avoid factory resetting...
I feel I returned 10 years in time, getting back to troubleshoot deep sleep and wake locks on Android 2.0... But now on a 1K device. Shame on you, Samsung...
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Mine sleeps like a baby 20 min runtime 18 min deep sleep
I have the exynos version

Running US version mine uses about 2% overnight sometimes less

Mine Exynos looks so . The Battery can better, don't know what I do wrong

I have the same results. 4hrs, sometimes barely 5hr of SOT
Android system, and idle device seems to drain too much battery ... I'm disappointed.

Yeah me too,
I see a lot of people with crazy SoTs that go beyond 7 or 8 hours. And i'm stuck here with 4 to 5 hours. I don't see why since Samsung develops its own Exynos platform. Maybe Android isn't fully optimized for Exynos ?

My Note (Exynos) use about 5% max 10% battery over night. Always on display is off and Bixby still off. 10% if everything is turn on.

Any solution to this guy's? Its driving me crazy brand new phone with huge battery drain problems...

RoyaL said:
Another one here.
Have the phone for 5 days and it loses 30%+ overnight... My old S8 loses only 9%.
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Def something wrong! I have the Exynos model and i lose 4% over night

Ranop11 said:
Any solution to this guy's? Its driving me crazy brand new phone with huge battery drain problems...
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Nope. I think it depends on the LTE band and provider. is just a guess.

I have finally fixed my problem. Reset all Network and System Settings (without factory reset), put all the settings back how I had before, and now it is going fine into Deep Sleep overnight.
Went from 31% to 5% battery drain in 8h sleep. Now its perfect.
Don't know exactly what was causing it but it must have been a bug as all the settings are exacly as I had before.

RoyaL said:
I have finally fixed my problem. Reset all Network and System Settings (without factory reset), put all the settings back how I had before, and now it is going fine into Deep Sleep overnight.
Went from 31% to 5% battery drain in 8h sleep. Now its perfect.
Don't know exactly what was causing it but it must have been a bug as all the settings are exacly as I had before.
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Thanks will test this out.:laugh:

Friends, I have 5 charge cycles with this equipment, I suffer from battery drain too, does anyone know what the battery health means in the "PHONE info" for samsung APP? the Battery Health value that appears to me is 40.1%. Is my battery defective?

[HELP] Note10+ bad screen on time

As the title says... is there something wrong with my battery? I got abysmal SOT of 4hr35min on mobile/cellular data only (No WiFi). Bluetooth OFF, WQHD+, location OFF, dark mode OFF, brigtness 40% or less, Samsung Cloud, Google Photos & Google One back up & sync - all OFF,. Bixby home, bixby wake up, literally everything bixby related OFF. Wake to lift OFF, smart stay OFF. Optimized battery settings, exceptions to optimize made on gmail, whatsapp, instagram. Everything else on optimization. AoD - always on, dynamic background on home screen - yes.
Exynos
Also worth noting - after fully charging the phone, I went from 100% to 98% in like 3 minutes. I also went from 5% to 0% in a couple of minutes.
Is there something wrong with my battery? Surely 4 hrs 35min shouldn't be a norm, not even on cellular data only.

I am also having a same screen on time. My screen resolution is set to wqhd+ always, is that the reason for this? I have heard normally other guys are getting a 6 hours SOT.

Same here, hope they will fix it in one UI 2.0

Exynos or snapdragon variant ?
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Exynos has worse battery life.

I also have Exynos, but 4hr and 35mins on mobile data? Are you kiddin me? That surely isn't right...
Wish someone else could chip in with maybe some info... is the battery even right or should I seek replacement lol

Exynos device from my sister, bone stock. Nothing debloated or what so ever.

furiouszagreb said:
I also have Exynos, but 4hr and 35mins on mobile data? Are you kiddin me? That surely isn't right...
Wish someone else could chip in with maybe some info... is the battery even right or should I seek replacement lol
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If the battery consumption is so high using cellular data and not with wifi, it is probably due to signal strenght, when the phone seeks the better signal, depending on your network prefernces, switches between 2g/3g/4g lte, thus using more battery, where I live, there is always high fluctuation in signal strenght, with my note 8, the batt drained faster than normal because of this, in my case I found that locking in 3g gave me better batt life, so, with my note10+ I just knew what to do, and now my batt life is good, 7~8 hrs SOT, and little more than 20hrs idle, btw, there are already some posts regarding this topic, there you will find many useful tips/advices

winol said:
If the battery consumption is so high using cellular data and not with wifi, it is probably due to signal strenght, when the phone seeks the better signal, depending on your network prefernces, switches between 2g/3g/4g lte, thus using more battery, where I live, there is always high fluctuation in signal strenght, with my note 8, the batt drained faster than normal because of this, in my case I found that locking in 3g gave me better batt life, so, with my note10+ I just knew what to do, and now my batt life is good, 7~8 hrs SOT, and little more than 20hrs idle, btw, there are already some posts regarding this topic, there you will find many useful tips/advices
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Could you please link me to these posts and threads so I can check?
Thanks

I keep performance mode on, 4g on all the time, max resolution and use it a lot during the day as I am a heavy user. I bought the note last week and I have managed to have minimum 7 hours screen on time which for me is fantastic as none of my previous phones could handle me that long. The max i got on the note 10+ is around 10 hours Screen on time. My version however is not the Exynos one but the Snapdragon and usually the Snapdragon proccesor manages the battery better than the Exynos one even if this year they are really close

Tediberdyna said:
I keep performance mode on, 4g on all the time, max resolution and use it a lot during the day as I am a heavy user. I bought the note last week and I have managed to have minimum 7 hours screen on time which for me is fantastic as none of my previous phones could handle me that long. The max i got on the note 10+ is around 10 hours Screen on time. My version however is not the Exynos one but the Snapdragon and usually the Snapdragon proccesor manages the battery better than the Exynos one even if this year they are really close
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Everybody knows that the Samsung devices with SD are wayyyy better on battery than the exynos ones. The most sot which my sister was able to produce, was around 7h. Good enough for a day, but not great for that much €. My 400€ K20Pro clocks in at around 10h...

t0m2k said:
Everybody knows that the Samsung devices with SD are wayyyy better on battery than the exynos ones. The most sot which my sister was able to produce, was around 7h. Good enough for a day, but not great for that much €. My 400€ K20Pro clocks in at around 10h...
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Yeah but it makes no sense to compare.
And old nokia mobile phone battery will last a week... so what

t0m2k said:
Everybody knows that the Samsung devices with SD are wayyyy better on battery than the exynos ones. The most sot which my sister was able to produce, was around 7h. Good enough for a day, but not great for that much €. My 400€ K20Pro clocks in at around 10h...
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What? Seriously? What is the point? You trying to convince people here that they should be better having a k20pro? LOL, and LOL

I have also the same issue... with full usage the phone barely get to 6hr of battery,, and the note 9 with SD with the same usage go to 1 day and 30% to the next day..

4.5 hrs is normal i guess. i get 5 hrs on wifi
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UPDATE!
First of all, I did a factory reset. Then, I did 100% do 0% and then charged the phone while OFF to 100% again and other time I did 100% to 0% and charged it while turning it on after couple %.
I also disabled EVERYTHING Bixby related AND I disabled Facebook running in the background.
The result are in, aaaaaaand.....
MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT!
I am now getting at least 7hrs 30mins with 70%/30% wifi/mobile data usage.
On WiFi Only, I can now get EASILY 9 hours SoT
See screenshots - #1 & #2 showing 7hrs 30mins wifi/mobile data. Screenshot #3 WiFi only, 8hrs 10mins WITH 22% battery to spare! So, easily 9 hrs SoT...

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy S11's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Exynos version 1.5%/ hour or more for several nights. Data from accubattery

mangdionisio said:
Exynos version 1.5%/ hour or more for several nights. Data from accubattery
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I get 0.8%/hour with AOD display off and 1.6% with AOD on/hour. so if you get AOD on, it is OK.

maximus81 said:
I get 0.8%/hour with AOD display off and 1.6% with AOD on/hour. so if you get AOD on, it is OK.
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So it's about here, overnight, 0.7% without AOD ..... S20 Ultra Exynos
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maximus81 said:
I get 0.8%/hour with AOD display off and 1.6% with AOD on/hour. so if you get AOD on, it is OK.
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I have AOD off. i dont use it at night.

Bad battery, so much drain screen on and off s20 snapdragon

applicationz said:
Bad battery, so much drain screen on and off s20 snapdragon
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It must be some application you are having that it drains your battery. Mine is 0.4%/hour on LTE.
S20+ snapdragon

mishufac said:
It must be some application you are having that it drains your battery. Mine is 0.4%/hour on LTE.
S20+ snapdragon
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Hmmm, your s20 is showing amazing stats. It is not any particular app. I am sure device js taking time to seetle.
Are you on 120?
My screen on consumes too much 16% an hour.

After returning one handset to O2 thinking it was faulty because of the standby drain I got my 2nd one
A exynos chip S20.
After changing all the settings such as refresh rate, dark mode, disabled apps, sleep settings, always off, 5g ... It still drained something terrible.
I dropped from 100 to 77 percent in 1 hour, checking the battery stats there was no single app using it.
I did find that after a factory reset and manual install of apps (not smartswitch) it lasted a little longer but no way I'd get through a work day one one charge

dlevick said:
After returning one handset to O2 thinking it was faulty because of the standby drain I got my 2nd one
A exynos chip S20.
After changing all the settings such as refresh rate, dark mode, disabled apps, sleep settings, always off, 5g ... It still drained something terrible.
I dropped from 100 to 77 percent in 1 hour, checking the battery stats there was no single app using it.
I did find that after a factory reset and manual install of apps (not smartswitch) it lasted a little longer but no way I'd get through a work day one one charge
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1% hours with wifi and gps on and optimized mode

applicationz said:
Bad battery, so much drain screen on and off s20 snapdragon
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Don't know what settings you have or what's wrong with yours, but I have the US Snapdragon S20+, and my battery is absolutely awesome, standby drain included. My settings are dark mode, hidden 96hz refresh rate, WiFi full-time (damn COVID19), optimized mode for battery, location and Bluetooth on full-time, no NFC on ever, and automatic brightness settings. Like I said, I've gone 2 full days on a charge before, but pretty much always get around 36hrs, with 9-10hrs of screen on time. I'm loving this phone ??

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Don't know what settings you have or what's wrong with yours, but I have the US Snapdragon S20+, and my battery is absolutely awesome, standby drain included. My settings are dark mode, hidden 96hz refresh rate, WiFi full-time (damn COVID19), optimized mode for battery, location and Bluetooth on full-time, no NFC on ever, and automatic brightness settings. Like I said, I've gone 2 full days on a charge before, but pretty much always get around 36hrs, with 9-10hrs of screen on time. I'm loving this phone ?
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This is crazy figures! I don't get why Samsung are rpping Europeans off with the crappy exynos models. I have the exynos variant and need to turn aeroplane mode on overnight and get 0.4/hr drop.
Sot is usually about 8-9%/hr so from a full charge I should expect 9-10hrs SOT. I have had to fiddle with my settings a lot though.
Rubbish.

Do you guys have auto sync on? That affects battery but I don't know how bad it affects it.

Love to know how. Iv sacked off the device now. #worsehandsetever lol

That's issue with exynos have to do a lot of tinkering disabling apps and other stuff turning location and sync off and aod, ridiculous really, seems like snapdragon is top drawer straight out the box

I wonder how many people jumped into this thread to give a 1 star after owning the phone for less than a week. Give the phone time to learn your usage patterns, jesus christ.

dear all,
I managed to reduce the standby battery drain for Exynos.
Now if you don;t use the phone the battery won;t get consumed.
I am using Package Disabler Pro and some bloatware xml
i will create a thread here step by step how to.
cheers.

My S20+ Exynos drains about 0.3% overnight. Nothing special, wifi always on, sync on, 120 hz.
I had S10 SD version and it was draining 1.5-2% overnight on same settings

My s20 ultra exynos drains the same, ~2% overnight, but that is after ATD3 update

Always I am getting very bad results
I swithed off 5g and screen is running at 60htz
Battery drain on stand by is around 2% on wifi and around 4% if i use 4g data
Other thing that my phone is warm almost all the time.
I disabled many apps but with no improvment.
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