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Galaxy S5 Battery Drain

Hey all,
So I've had my s5 for a while now, and I've noticed the battery life is abominable compared to their phones. Note that I've bought a new Anker battery for it less than a month ago, and it performs the same as the OEM samsung.

I go to school from 8 am to 3 pm. I unplug my phone at 7 am and put in it my pocket. It sits there, doing nothing besides when i occasionally take it out. No special ram cleaner apps or antivirus, just sitting. As of 4 pm, my phone was dead. The screen was on for literally under 2 hours in total, for the whole day, and when it was used, it was inside. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Its honestly unusable right now :(
Thanks so much.

P.S.(Here are my battery "logs")
 

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Sometimes mine does the same thing. My son said it might be the GPS locator function draining it if your data plan is turned on and wifi turned off or not available. But my usage screen is about the same as yours; nothing big running during day. Is your wifi on or is the mobile data turn on also. I put my phone in power save mode that seems to have helped a bit.
 
yeah, ive tried uninstalling anything I don't absolutely need, turned off location and sync, but still no luck. Interestingly though, my phone is never "cold", it's always at least warm to the touch, if not hot, when its asleep. Possible problem? thanks for the tips though, i think you're right
 
In your screen shots, the cell signal is very weak. The weaker the signal, the more power the phone uses to maintain contact with the network thus reducing battery life. If the service is weak enough that the phone loses the signal entirely, it will be constantly searching for service using full transmit power and that will really kill the battery. The fact you say it's always warm indicates that this may be happening.
Try putting the phone in airplane mode when you aren't using it and see if that makes any difference. You can also turn on wifi while it is in airplane mode, this will give you data connectivity through wifi but the cell radio will remain off.
 
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