I have recently purchased a Samsung Gaxaly S5 and the battery life is horrible. This is a 2800 mAh battery. There is no reason I should not be getting at least one day out of it.
I have turned off locations, which I feel I should not have to, VZ Protect, and VZ Cloud.
My screen brightness is turned down to about 20%.
When I went to bed last night the battery was at 52% (Around 10:30 PM). The phone beeped at 5:45 AM with only 15% battery left. It dropped roughly 5% an hour when it was not being used. I have to charge the phone a couple times a day.
Like I said, this phone was just purchased on 5/12/15. Of course the first thing that customer service wanted me to do is a factory reset. I just got the phone setup. So, the reset was done this morning.
What other crap software can I turn off? What is running in the background that is causing this poor performance from the battery?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions...
Todd
I have turned off similar garbage and deleted bloatware. My battery lasts about one day when not plugged in and that is with only a handful of phone calls and a dozen texts. It is not roaming but is hooked to local wireless and checking emails, but no more often than my old Droid Razr. This battery is not as advertised!
i find less bloatware than the old s3 & find that using the phone the same as the s3, my batt life has doubled.
no gps, vz protect/cloud, facebook, twitter, don't have any searching for wi-fi when on 4g, no vibration on any notifications.
i have 4 email, two pop3, gmail & yahoo email app, all sync with pc & i go into individual email to check email.
the only immediate notification i get is for text messages.
the above works for me but you may want/need more notifications.
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