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Help Galaxy S5 High battery usage

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So As you can see I have a high usage of 16%Hr. I have had this phone for 6 weeks and have had this issue since I bought it.

I have GPS Bluetooth and Wifi on constantly

Mobile data is not turned on

All of samsung smart features disabled. Airview smart stay etc

I use BT headphones and A pebble but doubt these cause a drain this huge and I wont stop using them even If they do anyways.

I have tried practically everything under the sun within reason so long as my phone isnt rendered barely usable to dave battery. Aka UPS mode is not a solution LOL!

Anyways help would be appreciated alot! I really seem to need it right now because it seems to get worse the more I try to solve this.


I am charging my phone 3x a day and Its really getting at me

EDIT: Sorry screenshots didn't work. fixed now
 
what kind of use are doing with your phone?

You mention WiFi is ON all the time, but is a browser on also?
Have you turned off the high power draining bloatware apps? Amazon Suites on my phone was the worst power hog of the bunch, turned it OFF and everything with the word Amazon in it.

Please make some screen shots and show us what you have turned OFF, what the Battery Stats are.

The high consumers of power percentages will be shown if you make sure "percentages" is turned ON.

You must remember that the Percentages have to be taken in context with the kind of use the phone is undergoing at the time.

If no apps are running, Android OS will be one of the top 2 consumers.
 
I use my phone for listening to music via bluetooth, few calls and texts, greader occasionally as well as reddit. Alot of internet browsing trying to fix my phone and learn more.
I also have phone on mute all the time with a pebble connected, i use pebble to choose and change music. Nova Launcher and Clocker with google now hot word disabled.

I have turned off absolutely every piece of bloatware i could. next step root and delete. although warranty is important to me at the moment.

Wifi is ON all the time because I always use wifi instead of mobile data, thus have mobile data turned off. I don't use my browser excessively, its up there but a less used app often.

Sorry pictures are fixed and up now
 
wow, are those pictures ever up now..... I thought my browser had gone crazy and my fonts weren't wrapping correctly....

I note the screen time is about half of your hours of use in that one screenshot. Do you have the brightness turned down fairly low? The lower the better for battery use.

Do you have music playing most of the time when the phone is in use? Maybe the audio is using quite a bit of power.

I don't use mine as a music player so don't know how much power that is going to use compared to everything else.

I know that when I keep my screen ON and watch a lot of videos, the battery goes down pretty quick compared to my normal use of just a few phone calls and text messages.
 
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