Now before anybody starts about S24 having being a great phone and amazing performance, …
I own the exynos chip version ( I live in the EU ) and the heating issues and battery draw is disqusting. I have had it for a little over a year and the battery will go from 78% at 1pm when starting afternoon shift to 24% at 10pm after finishing my shift.
It used to last 2-3 days with my usage, nowdays it can’t go over half a day with me not touching it ( I have syncthing running and tasker to disable/enable syncthing depending on conditions. And home assistant to look up automations that I have configured to use the least amount of sensors as possible ).
All I need in a phone is good battery life ( atleast a day with syncthing/tasker and home assistant running in the background ), smaller sized screen with an oled/amoled display ( I tend to read manga and webtoons on my phone ) and possibly a snapdragon chip for occasional pc game emulation ( indie games ) using fex/gamenative.
EDIT: The main problem I have with the phone isn’t the battery life, it’s the overheating issues that made the battery life to degrade rapidly that I have the issue with.
The only phones I recommend are Pixels. If you care about privacy, they’re the only ones that run GrapheneOS. If you don’t, features like Hold For Me and Call Screen are invaluable.
The 9a is known for incredible battery life.
They also get 7 years of updates, so you can get an older model for very little money and keep it for a long time.
They also are the only devices supporting the new desktop mode, if that catches your fancy.
If you’re into mobile gaming, uhhh, I don’t know what to tell you because I couldn’t care less.
Whenever you get this issue resolved, I would reevaluate your use of background services. Phones tend to keep most of their battery life by not being used constantly.
If you can use it plugged in, I know some Chinese phones are starting to use bypass power, where they run off the charger directly, not touching the battery at all. That means longer battery life.
I also have a tablet, samung one with a snaodragon chio that last me 2-3 weeks with same background tasks ( I use it to sometimes watch anime/read manga ).
I don’t see why a tablet shoukd be able to have that much battery life comoared to my phone.
Chinese phones should generall check your boxes, they have giant batteries most of the time. Smaller screen might be difficult though.
Yea, most chinese phones would. Also what I mean by “smaller screen” is something around the size of the s24 so 6-7 inches.
If battery degradation is the only problem, why not just replace the battery? You can probably find a shop that will do it, or iFixit has a guide and sells batteries for $55.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+S24+Battery+Replacement/175612
Seems pretty wasteful to throw out the whole phone because of a dead battery. Do you also get a new car instead of changing the tires when they get worn?
The battery degraded in matter of a month to this current point, I just didn’t wanna bother with replacing it knowing that I eill have to do it every few months.
Replacing and buying a new battery here costs about 500 euro while a new s24 costs 650 euro.
Ifixit doesn’t do shipping to here last time I looked and thirt party reselers shipping will cost at minimum a 100 euro, isn’t worth it.
On the car tires point, do the car tires degrade after a couple months? No, they can last multiple years.
That sounds like you just got a dud of a battery. Because phones dying in a few months is not normal. A quick look online and it seems like smasnug has a 24 month warranty (in regions other than North America). Have you tried a warranty replacement?
Warranty replacements here are a very long process that last at minimum 2 weeks up to 2-3 months, which leaves me without a phone for that time, and I don’t have a replacement in the meantime.
Where in the EU do you live? That price sounds so insane that I must check it out.
I live in croatia, and I did overexagarate the price a lot, but it’s still an issuse to me since closests phone repair bussiness to me about 110km away, I don’t exactly have a repair shop in the neighbourhood.
And even if I fixed the battery the overheating issues won’t get fixed.
I live in croatia, and I did overexagarate the price a lot
Yeah, I just put on a VPN and picked a random address in a random town. Seems like iFixit will sell the battery replacement kit for €39.95 and shipping is €9.80
And once again, fixing the battery won’t fix the overheating issues that led to battery degradation in the long run.
The exynos chip in this damn phone rans far too hot, the amount of times it heats up in my pocket doing nothing is far too common.
On another note I’m not technical enough to use an ifixit kit.
The phone shouldn’t be “heating up in your pocket doing nothing”. Something is running in the background that’s destroying it. Check battery usage and see what it is.
