Has anyone tried comparing the performance of S23U when using standard and light performance profile? Noticed any performance drop when using Light mode?
I haven't noticed a different in performance but I also haven't noticed a difference in battery life either. I haven't been able to see much of a benefit but since I don't see any performance drops I just leave lite mode on. Hopefully someone on YouTube does a battery comparison.
mmafighter077 said:
I haven't noticed a different in performance but I also haven't noticed a difference in battery life either. I haven't been able to see much of a benefit but since I don't see any performance drops I just leave lite mode on. Hopefully someone on YouTube does a battery comparison.
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I have experienced the same thing. Don't notice any performance differences and didn't really notice any battery life differences either. I keep it on in the event it is making a difference cause I haven't noticed any negatives.
Light profile under battery profiles
Hello all, has anyone used this profile? If so, is it any good?
forum.xda-developers.com
Standard vs Light performance profile
I haven't seen anyone do a comparison between the two, but what are your experiences so far with this setting?
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No difference regarding performance. However somehow I've got less SOT on light mode compared to standard lol
It is kinda strange when ppl claim on reddit that light performance gives them 3h more to sot. I don't see any difference on mine device. And I belive it is placebo what ppl writing. Also same to Ram plus. I try off and on and no single minute adding to sot.
I don't notice performance difference, but my battery seems to last more than before. Which was also goo... With s23 Ultra I no longer have battery Anxiety.
Maybe this function is just to turn off the "for galaxy" over clocking of snap 8 gen 2
peeweew said:
Maybe this function is just to turn off the "for galaxy" over clocking of snap 8 gen 2
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I believe you are right. Because I have one of those device info apps installed and when I have light mode on it says the max GPU is 615 and with standard mode is 719 megahertz. So I think you are correct it just defaults it to the standard Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 setings.
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I believe you are right. Because I have one of those device info apps installed and when I have light mode on it says the max GPU is 615 and with standard mode is 719 megahertz. So I think you are correct it just defaults it to the standard Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 setings.
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Nah, it pulls back further on the core. You can see that in the benchmarks. It limits the maximum X3 core clock to about 70%.
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: Benchmarks reveals performance difference between Standard and Light modes
Samsung's new flagship phones, the Galaxy S23 series, debuted with new performance modes: Standard and Light. That feature appears to have been a masterstroke, with benchmark numbers indicating a slight drop in performance when in Light, accompanied by significant prime core efficiency gains.
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I did the test and posted the results in the battery thread. I gained 1 hour. First test with Standard was 10:51 and Second test with Light was 11:54.
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I did the test and posted the results in the battery thread. I gained 1 hour. First test with Standard was 10:51 and Second test with Light was 11:54.
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That's a significant extra on the battery life. I'll stick with light since mostly what I do doesn't require heavy usage.
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That's a significant extra on the battery life. I'll stick with light since mostly what I do doesn't require heavy usage.
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I am doing another test now with No Social Media Apps installed on phone. Just my normal phone, text and email apps, work apps and Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Disney+ for streaming apps. Bet I gain at least an hour without Facebook and Facebook Messenger installed.
Probably affect heavy performance core, so that with standard daily usage you can't see the difference
Haven't had any performance issues on Light mode. And quite significant improvement on the battery consumption. So I'll stick with Light.
What i wonder is the NPU (Neural Processing Unit) aka A.I.
If light mode lowers clockspeed from CPU and GPU, does it affect NPU?
I mean will it affect post processing during picture shots?
I've tried to spot a difference between these two perfomance profiles after may update and I did notice few things:
Light mode: device is less warm while multitasking, charging and casually browsing. However I did notice that I lose some "frames" using navigation apps such as "waze" and on heavier multitasking(spotify, facebook, reddit and instagram for example). Battery is a little bit better than standard mode but not that noticable at least for me.
The only thing I noticed was the phone got tangibly warmer when using the camera and the subsequent photo processing in standard mode.
You all know S23 phones use overclocked Snapdragon Gen 2, right?
If you want a stock Gen 2, just use light profile.
You won't notice anything.
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You all know S23 phones use overclocked Snapdragon Gen 2, right?
If you want a stock Gen 2, just use light profile.
You won't notice anything.
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Wow, now that's a bold claim! Light mode = standard Gen 2 clock speed and Standard mode = overclocked speeds...This needs to be verified.
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According to the review from The Verge, Transformer Prime loses out in battery life to iPad 2 and other competing tablets and is only marginally better than iPad 2 when the keyboard dock is attached.
I find this very disappointing, I did not expect Asus to announce their battery life with the device in its lowest setting, while iPad 2 gets eight hours of battery life in 'normal mode'.
5 hours is very, very low. I expected them to at least match iPad 2, especially when they announced that it will survive for 12 hours.
The Verge review is by far the lowest of any of them. Several report 10+ hours when playing video. Anandtech has 8 hours with an apparent mixed load.
It was advertised as 10:04 on Balanced, the default setting. That review uses Normal, where the two power-hungry cores are always active, instead of shutting off when they aren't needed.
Check out the bolded "NOTE:" where they say they're rerunning the battery test. Engadget said it lost to the iPad 2 by only 9 minutes on Balanced.
EDIT: And, according to the comments, this is without discharging/recharging the battery - battery stats aren't calibrated yet.
I think 5 hours is just for the dock and 10:17hours (according to engadget) for the the tablet...a total of whooping 15+ hours, not BAD at all
No, the review on Engadget said that they expected 15+ hours with the dock.
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I think 5 hours is just for the dock and 10:17hours (according to engadget) for the the tablet...a total of whooping 15+ hours, not BAD at all
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No, they cannot test how long battery lasts on the dock alone. The Verge found that it survives 10 hours with the dock.
Balanced mode or not, fact is that iPad 2 is rated being in 'normal' mode for more than eight hours. Prime in normal mode only gets 5 hours. They may advertise their 'balanced' mode, but that is not as good in performance according to the review. In fact, the whole quad-core for tablet is put in doubt, it doesn't make the interface (and browser) faster at all, it only seems to help with games.
I am disappointed.
I'm impressed as this tablet doesn't need to run in normal mode 24/7, meaning 4 cores on all the time. That'll be a waste when balanced mode alone makes it as snappy ,if not more than ipad2. This still has the best battery life of any android tablet I've seen. All sites I've seen that reviewed it are very impressed with battery life. Plus the source you listed isn't as reputable as the main ones churning out the praises on battery life. Instead of just taking that one review and making an assumption, compare all of them. Seems strange that one site out of several giving it negative battery comments. As it's also strange you being disappointed already on an assumption from a sub par tech review site..lmao.
Get an ipad2 then while we blow past ya with the excellent performance and battery life of the prime.
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Get an ipad2 then while we blow past ya with the excellent performance and battery life of the prime.
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Well, you won't. iPad 2 has a better GPU and does not need a 'balanced mode' to have a battery life as long. iPad 2 gets 8 hours of battery life in their 'normal' mode that only lasts five hours on Prime.
I am still going for Prime, because I'm Android developer and my phone is an Android, but I was hoping that Prime would have battery life longer than devices released six months ago without having to tune down the performance that makes it fast.
Now it is a trade-off.
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Well, you won't. iPad 2 has a better GPU and does not need a 'balanced mode' to have a battery life as long. iPad 2 gets 8 hours of battery life in their 'normal' mode that only lasts five hours on Prime.
I am still going for Prime, because I'm Android developer and my phone is an Android, but I was hoping that Prime would have battery life longer than devices released six months ago without having to tune down the performance that makes it fast.
Now it is a trade-off.
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I think you missed the point of what he was trying to say. The site you are quoting your stats from in regards to battery life was the only one that rated it low in that regards. Let's take engadgets review for instance which on "normal" mode lasted for 10:17 which was 9 minutes shorter than their iPad 2 test. So the idea was if placed in "balanced" mode it would get longer life than its already good life.
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Well, you won't. iPad 2 has a better GPU and does not need a 'balanced mode' to have a battery life as long. iPad 2 gets 8 hours of battery life in their 'normal' mode that only lasts five hours on Prime.
I am still going for Prime, because I'm Android developer and my phone is an Android, but I was hoping that Prime would have battery life longer than devices released six months ago without having to tune down the performance that makes it fast.
Now it is a trade-off.
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iPad 2 gpu has more raw power but not the resources to back it up. There are hardly any ipad2 only optimized games out. Most stuff I can still run on my ipad1. I don't think Asus never claimed 12 hours battery life with 4 cores running at once. I never assumed that either. I see what you are saying though. Just compare the different battery reviews. Plus battery wasn't even truly calibrated yet. So it'll get more than 5 hrs. In normal mode. You have to remember to we talking about apple, the king kong of tech..lol they have the money to be lit years ahead of the game. That's why my ipad1 still performs great for me although it's clearly not the highest spec tablet out now.
The go out in get an ipad2 was just a joke. Android is getting closer and closer to closing the gap on quality and performance with iPad. This Asus Transformer prime is what will start the next wave/revolution of high tech tablets and Android in general. I've been thinking also about those different power modes and display modes of which I would use the most. Seems like the balanced mode does well without noticeable drop in performance since it uses amped up dual core. I would think normal mode only needed for intense gaming or very resource hungry apps. We will see once it comes out. Regardless, this will be a great price of machinery at a lower price entry and higher gb storage than ipad2.
Anand review reports 9 hours and Engadget reports 10 hours battery use....both tablet only..
either the unit the Verge got was faulty..or their battery test was significantly different
What is this Prime "normal mode" and "balanced mode"?
I know what they are, but is there some kind of a "switch" to choose between normal and balanced mode?
An option in the setting?
I thought the Tegra 3 will determine this 5ft core functionality (when to use) automatically.
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What is this Prime "normal mode" and "balanced mode"?
I know what they are, but is there some kind of a "switch" to choose between normal and balanced mode?
An option in the setting?
I thought the Tegra 3 will determine this 5ft core functionality (when to use) automatically.
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Asus implements 3 different settings for the Quadcore, this is from Anandtech.com:
There are three power profiles ASUS and NVIDIA have defined on the Prime: Normal, Balanced and Power Saver. Normal allows the CPU to run at up to 1.4GHz with only a single core active, and 1.3GHz otherwise. Balanced is the default setting and it drops maximum CPU clock to 1.2GHz and favors lower clock/voltage targets on the curve compared to Normal mode. Power Saver caps CPU frequency at 1GHz with 1 - 2 cores active, 760MHz with 3 cores active and 620MHz with 4 cores active. It's unclear what the impact is on GPU clocks/performance.
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Thanks ... So the difference between Normal and Balance is 0.1 - 0.2 ...
Normal = Max 1.4 GHz (1 core) or 1.3 GHz (2 - 4 cores)
Balanced = Max 1.2 GHz (1 - 4 cores)
Not much different, isn't it?
I would choose Balanced and be done with it.
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Asus implements 3 different settings for the Quadcore, this is from Anandtech.com:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-nvidia-tegra-3-review/6
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Thanks ... So the difference between Normal and Balance is 0.1 - 0.2 ...
Normal = Max 1.4 GHz (1 core) or 1.3 GHz (2 - 4 cores)
Balanced = Max 1.2 GHz (1 - 4 cores)
Not much different, isn't it?
I would choose Balanced and be done with it.
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The mode also determines how the CPU speed scales to meet loads
ie Balanced would be slower to rise to its max 1.2 GHz than Normal
wow op sounds like an apple fanboy, he just keeps ignoring what everyone has to say about the review being the only one to state a 5 hour energy life.
if its only 5 hours i wouldn't buy it.
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wow op sounds like an apple fanboy, he just keeps ignoring what everyone has to say about the review being the only one to state a 5 hour energy life.
if its only 5 hours i wouldn't buy it.
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I do not own a single Apple device and recently purchased Galaxy Nexus in my line of Android devices. I am also an Android developer. Just because I am disappointed by the battery life on the so-called 'normal' mode does not mean I am an Apple fanboy.
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I do not own a single Apple device and recently purchased Galaxy Nexus in my line of Android devices. I am also an Android developer. Just because I am disappointed by the battery life on the so-called 'normal' mode does not mean I am an Apple fanboy.
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both anand and engadget reviews were running Normal mode too...and the batter life rivels iPad even without dock..and certainly the best among all android tablets.
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I do not own a single Apple device and recently purchased Galaxy Nexus in my line of Android devices. I am also an Android developer. Just because I am disappointed by the battery life on the so-called 'normal' mode does not mean I am an Apple fanboy.
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You still fail to accept what everyone else is saying.
But here's an idea: Just get the prime and send it back to where ever you bought if it doesn't please you...
What about checking the battery life YOURSELF before whining here? Good idea?
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You still fail to accept what everyone else is saying.
But here's an idea: Just get the prime and send it back to where ever you bought if it doesn't please you...
What about checking the battery life YOURSELF before whining here? Good idea?
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Are we turning into Apple fanboys ourselves!? Seriously, I can be critical about the device, stop acting as if I don't have a right to voice my concerns or share my opinion.
Of course I will check the battery myself once it's released. I simply expected it to perform better in reviews than it has. This is not just because The Verge shows weaker battery life than devices released months ago, but also AnandTech, where the battery apparently lasts less than iPad 2 as well. I keep bringing out iPad 2 not only because it is so widely known, but also because it is the standard other devices are measured against in terms of application speed and UI.
I simply expected it to blow opposition out of the water, but it is only marginally better in some ways. The quad-core also does not enhance Android experience as has been pointed out, it doesn't make the UI and apps slicker unless in really obvious examples, like a game (and iPad 2 is also great in games).
I am also disappointed to hear that some of the integral things, like a browser, is not as fast as one would expect from a quad-core device. The lags in zooming and moving around have been pointed out in reviews.
And it just outright loses against iPad 2 in processing power too.
So it costs as much as an iPad 2, but loses out in both battery life and performance. It is better in some ways, like the camera, but really, it does not blow the opposition out of the water. It will not be the 'best Android tablet' out there for long either.
I own a nexus 10, I like it, but a big complaint by many is the battery life. Apparently a large portion of the battery drain is attributed to the screen, which makes sense due to its high resolution.
I was curious as to whether you can dumb down the screen but still have text legible and images viewable without too much loss of quality. Also if it would actually benefit battery life.
What I mean by that is turning the 2560x1600 into 1280 x 800 by turning off pixels in a checker format, every other pixel being turned off. If it looked terrible they'd be no point, if it didn't save any battery life they'd be no point.
Reason as to why you'd want to do this, is that if you were reading a simple text file you might not care about high detail, maybe some games don't work at high resolutions and maybe reasons I haven't thought of.
Is it possible? Would it save battery life? Would you still be able to read text?
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I own a nexus 10, I like it, but a big complaint by many is the battery life. Apparently a large portion of the battery drain is attributed to the screen, which makes sense due to its high resolution.
I was curious as to whether you can dumb down the screen but still have text legible and images viewable without too much loss of quality. Also if it would actually benefit battery life.
What I mean by that is turning the 2560x1600 into 1280 x 800 by turning off pixels in a checker format, every other pixel being turned off. If it looked terrible they'd be no point, if it didn't save any battery life they'd be no point.
Reason as to why you'd want to do this, is that if you were reading a simple text file you might not care about high detail, maybe some games don't work at high resolutions and maybe reasons I haven't thought of.
Is it possible? Would it save battery life? Would you still be able to read text?
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Search around the forum a bit - I recall seeing a few mods that essentially turned the screen into a 1280x800 rendered screen. Until we see some stability improvements (hopefully) in 4.3, there are a few people still running it for the speed.
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Search around the forum a bit - I recall seeing a few mods that essentially turned the screen into a 1280x800 rendered screen. Until we see some stability improvements (hopefully) in 4.3, there are a few people still running it for the speed.
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Thanks for pointing this out, I assume it uses 4 pixels as one, which is great for certain games and general performance I imagine. However I doubt it would improve battery life, right?
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Thanks for pointing this out, I assume it uses 4 pixels as one, which is great for certain games and general performance I imagine. However I doubt it would improve battery life, right?
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It could. Less demand on your CPU, GPU, and RAM should mean better battery life.
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Thanks for pointing this out, I assume it uses 4 pixels as one, which is great for certain games and general performance I imagine. However I doubt it would improve battery life, right?
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I don't think it would improve battery life very much, no.. I get awesome battery life when watching a movie or reading books, but when it comes to any kind of streaming (netflix in particular) my battery just drains, even more so then on my phone. I usually underclock when doing that, because it really doesn't require that much CPU. The tablet still kicks my laptop's butt in battery life, so even at 6+ hours I can't complain - and when I hit 8 or so I'm really quite pleased.
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It could. Less demand on your CPU, GPU, and RAM should mean better battery life.
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While it probably would reduce some drain, I'd imagine it would be minimal based on percentage of battery drain mostly being the screen. Perhaps under clocking and under volting would reduce some battery drain, the main way to conserve battery is reducing screen draw. That is why reducing brightness has such a big effect, I was hoping that you could turn off pixels to reduce the drain. Though I'm not sure it's possible or it would look good.
Lolwut? Battery life a major complaint? WAT? It is a 10in tab with insane hardware pushing an insane resolution that averages 7-8hrs of SOT. How is that bad? Some people's expectations need to be brought back down to Earth.
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The majority of the battery life is not from the pixels....but the screen itself (i.e., the lighting).
Yes, the pixels does use up more CPU/GPU cycles, but the majority will always, and I repeat always, be the screen. Why do you think the iPhone gets such awesome battery life? They have a tiny screen.
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The majority of the battery life is not from the pixels....but the screen itself (i.e., the lighting).
Yes, the pixels does use up more CPU/GPU cycles, but the majority will always, and I repeat always, be the screen. Why do you think the iPhone gets such awesome battery life? They have a tiny screen.
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Still, the rendering of the bigger number of pixels uses more power. Not sure about percentages though. This is specially important when running 3D games or other graphics-intensive apps. But I still credit your point about the back-light being a great deal of it.
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Still, the rendering of the bigger number of pixels uses more power. Not sure about percentages though. This is specially important when running 3D games or other graphics-intensive apps. But I still credit your point about the back-light being a great deal of it.
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If that's the case, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S should have gotten worse battery life than their Android counterparts back in the day. Did that happen? No. The energy footprint on ARM devices are so minute that the backlighting still takes the trophy in terms of energy footprint.
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If that's the case, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S should have gotten worse battery life than their Android counterparts back in the day. Did that happen? No. The energy footprint on ARM devices are so minute that the backlighting still takes the trophy in terms of energy footprint.
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Apple only has a small set of fairly similar devices to support. All have the same series of GPU, similar hardware, and iOS is a less resource intensive OS. There are too many differing factors to fairly compare battery on two devices on the two OS's.
How are people finding this huge 5000mah battery?
In all honesty, I was expecting a little better performance. Perhaps it's still too early to tell but I'm on my 3rd battery cycle, have "balanced" battery mode active, power saving feature applied to most apps other than essentials, don't have Facebook installed etc. Have rooted and also Universal Doze for magisk installed.
I'm currently on 10% with 5hr30min SOT. Granted, I have been listening to Spotify today but over WiFi.
Just doesn't seem to be blowing me away and not feeling like my battery is 25% bigger than my previous Xperia 1 ii, with the exact same setup/general usage. If anything feels the same size, maybe even less?!
Used BetterBatteryStats and nothing seems out of place there.
Will continue to monitor. Still extremely happy with this phone.
Hmm so quick update, I had Dual WiFi (blend of 2g/5ghz network) enabled previously however today it's now disabled.
I'm currently on 45 mins SOT and still at 97% battery!!
Anyone else any experience with this? I haven't changed any apps but seems this setting may have been the cause of high drain for me....
Will continue to monitor....
My battery life has been pretty good after a few cycles
Not bad. I keep it on mobile data most of the time. And i charge it only to 90% with a 500mAh charger. And i do have Facebook app, a Garmin smart watch and many synced accounts that run in the background
Not bad at all IMO. Received the phone today and it was at around 40 percent. Haven't charged yet. Refresh rate is on auto.
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How are people finding this huge 5000mah battery?
In all honesty, I was expecting a little better performance. Perhaps it's still too early to tell but I'm on my 3rd battery cycle, have "balanced" battery mode active, power saving feature applied to most apps other than essentials, don't have Facebook installed etc. Have rooted and also Universal Doze for magisk installed.
I'm currently on 10% with 5hr30min SOT. Granted, I have been listening to Spotify today but over WiFi.
Just doesn't seem to be blowing me away and not feeling like my battery is 25% bigger than my previous Xperia 1 ii, with the exact same setup/general usage. If anything feels the same size, maybe even less?!
Used BetterBatteryStats and nothing seems out of place there.
Will continue to monitor. Still extremely happy with this phone.
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Are you more satisfied with the ZenFone 7 than with the Xperia 1 II?
How does the loudspeaker compares?
Im in doubt between the two.
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Are you more satisfied with the ZenFone 7 than with the Xperia 1 II?
How does the loudspeaker compares?
Im in doubt between the two.
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Overall, yeah I'm very happy with this phone.
Comparing the two:
- the speakers were better on the Xperia, front facing always wins as avoids you accidentally covering the bottom firing one up on the Zenfone plus the top earpiece one isn't great. But, it's still good enough and they sound decent to keep me happy
- the less wider feel on the Xperia was also very nice but I really don't mind the feel of the zenfonr
- the camera on the Xperia was very good, but I just didn't feel like I was amazed by the point and click usage. Which I know it was really aimed for Pro users, but still....
- for the Zenfone I love the feel of it. A very fast phone, great camera, I'm a big fan of the flip camera, very good selfies (more concerned about video calls as the Xperia has a horrible smoothening effect which they didn't fix)
-the led on the Xperia was very nice whereas there's not as many colours on the Zenfone
Ultimately one of the biggest factors for me is rom and gcam development. It was virtually non existent for the Xperia but I enjoy it too much to sacrifice it. Already there is a decent gcam for zenfone and havoc & omnirom are being worked on
So I guess it boils down to what matters the most to you. Both very good options to be honest!
My first cycle from 100% down to 0% (won't be doing this often). Auto refresh, mainly on wifi (95%), AOD off, balanced profile. Not bad > 7 hour SOT.
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My first cycle from 100% down to 0% (won't be doing this often). Auto refresh, mainly on wifi (95%), AOD off, balanced profile. Not bad > 7 hour SOT.
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On 90hz?
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On 90hz?
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Auto refresh rate as I said.
I'm gonna try turning wifi off and see how long the SOT is from 100%-0% using just 4G (5G is off as my carrier doesn't support it).
Might try forcing 90Hz on a separate occasion too.
5 hr 53 min SOT ON dual sim 4G only.
battery life is good. not as good as zen 6. However its a all day phone. Charges really fast. Fastest charge so far.
90Hz is noticeable.. Keep your NFC , Bluetooth and especially Location off to save allot more battery..
Overal the phone is a winner .. only major peoblem.. I cant seem find ANY info to get 4g or even 5g here in USA> I thin this phone is NOT compatible for USA cell bands.. I even brought it to att store and they couldnt ge it to work past 3g.
This battery could be better, Asus need optimize better the kernel. I have bad performance on game Genshin impact (drop frames) and bad standby, 6h it goes 3,5%, on my motorola edge plus it goes 1% with the same condition.
I had pretty bad standby at first but then I disabled all battery optimizations and got great standby. I think "Optiflex" was the cause of it. Just turn it off.
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I had pretty bad standby at first but then I disabled all battery optimizations and got great standby. I think "Optiflex" was the cause of it. Just turn it off.
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Are you on Balanced profile still? And is Adaptive Battery enabled or disabled? Optiflex is meant to "saves battery on standby" too lol
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I had pretty bad standby at first but then I disabled all battery optimizations and got great standby. I think "Optiflex" was the cause of it. Just turn it off.
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Just disable optiflex ?
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Are you on Balanced profile still? And is Adaptive Battery enabled or disabled? Optiflex is meant to "saves battery on standby" too lol
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Just disable optiflex ?
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The only battery saving setting I still have enabled is "hibernate apps" under battery settings. Optiflex, adaptive battery, detect battery-draining apps all off. Using balanced power settings but I'm mostly on 90Hz.
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The only battery saving setting I still have enabled is "hibernate apps" under battery settings. Optiflex, adaptive battery, detect battery-draining apps all off. Using balanced power settings but I'm mostly on 90Hz.
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How much you feel the stand by battery conservation ?
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How much you feel the stand by battery conservation ?
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From using about 1% per hour to about 2% in 8 hours sleep. Check your APN also, I've seen some mention the phone does not use the right one automatically.
Going from the Zenfone 6 to this Zenfone 7, there is certainly a slight drop in battery endurance. The better chipset/hardware etc I don't feel explains the difference but it won't put me off the phone.
Just wish phone batteries would massively improve!
So I just picked up a Galaxy tab S7 plus 128GB with 5g.
Before purchasing I watched and read benchmark reviews but I'm getting considerably less performance than pretty much all benchmarks I have seen.
Single core/gpu/memory benchmarks are exactly where they should be but multicore is around 20% less than expected.
This is a new device, I even did a factory reset and tried again, not much installed and settings are default.
Anyone have any ideas?
I don't think you should believe in benchmarks anymore, it's better to refer to real-world tests and reviews from users.
Actually many Android devices have implemented hidden switches which temporarily disables thermal/performance constraints when it detects a benchmarking app being run (similar to a defeat device) so it scores much higher than it normally should, with a risk that the device might be damaged due to overheat and such.
From my experience, Samsung isn't doing well with the optimizations, making some games lag horribly, and this is getting even worse with the most recent Android 11 update.
I was just a little disappointed that's all, multicore is only slightly higher than my snapdragon 855 phone, nubia red magic 3. Much better single core, gaming and emulation though on the tablet.
It is running great though and I'm enjoying it.
Love the device ..... But it seems to handle Kodi worse than my Nvidia Shield. That's my pretty anecdotal comparison for Android devices
So after a bit of playing around I think I found the main culprit, it was nova launcher prime.
After using the tablet for a day I looked at the battery stats and noticed that it was constantly running and used over 20% of the battery over time.
Uninstalled and benchmarks are much better but not completely there, in geek bench 5 I get 980 single and 2950 multi, was 2600 multi.
I expect 3000-3200 from this device so only a little under now, it is possible that the benchmarks I saw were using android 10 before the update to 11.
Looking at the battery stats One UI is under 2% battery consumption by comparison.
Johnnio said:
So after a bit of playing around I think I found the main culprit, it was nova launcher prime.
After using the tablet for a day I looked at the battery stats and noticed that it was constantly running and used over 20% of the battery over time.
Uninstalled and benchmarks are much better but not completely there, in geek bench 5 I get 980 single and 2950 multi, was 2600 multi.
I expect 3000-3200 from this device so only a little under now, it is possible that the benchmarks I saw were using android 10 before the update to 11.
Looking at the battery stats One UI is under 2% battery consumption by comparison.
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Wow .... Would have never guessed. I do in fact always use Nova. Maybe I should delete. Wish I could save (backup) desktops like with Nova
jcrompton said:
Wow .... Would have never guessed. I do in fact always use Nova. Maybe I should delete. Wish I could save (backup) desktops like with Nova
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I was surprised too as I have been using it for years now.
Not saying 100% that it will solve your your issue but it is at least worth considering.
It could be a problem my end or even perhaps how android 11 records battery usage but Samsung UI has 1.8% battery usage vs 20% for nova launcher, I need to use the tablet longer to see if that translates to longer screen on time.
Johnnio said:
I was surprised too as I have been using it for years now.
Not saying 100% that it will solve your your issue but it is at least worth considering.
It could be a problem my end or even perhaps how android 11 records battery usage but Samsung UI has 1.8% battery usage vs 20% for nova launcher, I need to use the tablet longer to see if that translates to longer screen on time.
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Keep me/us updated on what you find. Thanks.
jcrompton said:
Keep me/us updated on what you find. Thanks.
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I'll report back in a day or so with a screen on report.
jcrompton said:
Keep me/us updated on what you find. Thanks.
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So, a couple of days later I would say that I do seem to be getting more out of the battery, around one hour more with the same mixed usage, YouTube, gaming, reddit is fun app, Firefox, screen brightness 65%, volume full, 120Hz with WiFi and mobile data enabled.
Screen on time from 100% to 10% is roughly 7 hours, not as good as I was hoping for but I am hammering it and I expect that the battery test videos I have seen are using auto brightness.
Hello all, has anyone used this profile? If so, is it any good?
amirage said:
Hello all, has anyone used this profile? If so, is it any good?
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Very good indeed save allot of battery life without any noticeable loss in performance and no reduction in screen's refresh rate
Many people praise this light mode but I don't really get it, if it's so much better and literally same performance as the standard mode; what would be the reason or higher performance of the standard mode? Doesn't make sense at all.
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Many people praise this light mode but I don't really get it, if it's so much better and literally same performance as the standard mode; what would be the reason or higher performance of the standard mode? Doesn't make sense at all.
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It's not the same performance. The peak clock of the X3 core is reduced in this mode. The thing is, it's not going to be noticeable in the day to day because the SoC is so beastly anyway. If you're doing heavier duty tasks like gaming or video encoding, you're more likely to notice.
ETA: I just found out that Light performance mode is disabled when Samsung's gaming tool detects a game so there would actually be no negative effect on gaming when using Light mode. Really there probably isn't going to be much of an impact other than on benchmarks that's noticeable to anyone as performance stability should be improved as well providing a smoother overall experience.