Galaxy S20 - Battery Life (Better Then Note 20) By J TheAndroidFreak

Hello YouTube welcome back to my channel and in this video I'll, be discussing the battery life on this brand new Samsung Galaxy s20 now I'll stay brand new, because obviously this is the flagship for the year 2020, but with note 20 out already. Obviously that takes the leading role. However, this still remains uh, the flagship for Samsung when it comes to the regular s series. This is by the way, the Enos version which comes in the UK, and it's a global version technically, but in America and other parts of the world they get the snapdragon version. It's a snapdragon 865 that comes on the s20 series. Uh.

We in the UK always end up getting the Enos for which we are a bit unlucky. I guess because the snapdragon version is superior in both battery life and also performance. Okay. So now, let's have a look at this version. The one we've got like I said this is the Enos 990 chipsets.

So now, let's quickly get into the Samsung Galaxy s20. I use the on screen fingerprint sensor so going into settings and about phone, and here we get all the information that we required. This is the one UI version 2.1 a 2.5 is out already. Hopefully at some point I will get this on my UK based Enos 990, Samsung Galaxy s20, it's running correctly, android version 10 and all the other details and obviously running the past level. First of july 2020.

In fact, as we speak, there is an update available already and that's for the month of august. I will also be discussing how the updates have been affecting the battery life on this version. Ever since I've been living with the phone uh since March, I think, maybe with the second week of march, when I unboxed the phone and since then, I've been living with the phone and the Samsung have been releasing quite a number of updates, uh, primarily related to the camera, and also obviously, the monthly patches, which is now a common trend on uh, top-end, Samsung, galaxy and other flagship phones, but also there were quite a few updates which mentioned the camera and, as we all know, the s20 has its own set of issues with the camera, especially with focusing. However, this video is about battery life, so, let's quickly get into it. So without further ado, let's quickly get started those of you following me.

You know my uh way already guys. I take screenshots, obviously of all the screen on times and various other things, as I am trying to measure the performance of battery life on a smartphone. So, let's get into gallery my first screenshots give you that I chose higher refresh rate, which is 120 hertz refresh rate and see how the battery life would go on this refresher later. In the video you'll also see me selecting 60 hertz as well and see how the battery is affected. Then, okay, on my first screenshot here guys you can see I was using WhatsApp you tubing social media, uh, Amazon shopping, Twitter and all that kind of stuff emails as well, and I was able to achieve five hours and nine minutes of screen on time.

I think the screen is a bit brighter, so just make it a bit lower, so you guys can see a bit rather easily, so you can now. You can see five hours and nine minutes of screen on time. Just to give you guys, a heads-up, Samsung have now changed their approach towards the battery stack. So if you go to settings and go on these settings here to look for the screen on time and if you have had used your phone for over a day, and you haven't charged it, it will reset the clock for the screen on time, which can be a bit confusing at times. I think this has been done perfectly.

In my opinion, I'm not blaming Samsung as such. Obviously, it's time for them to do whatever they want to do with their phone, but for us consumers it is not as easy to take the screen on time as it was in previous galaxy phones. However, obviously there's always a solution to every problem. I have installed the third-party app a GSM battery uh. I think it's called GSM battery.

They got battery, monitor I'll, be showing you some screenshots, which I took along with the other stats as we go further down. Okay anyway, so five hours and nine minutes, and then the first update came in the very first month of march, which is March 2020, and this is where I unboxed the phone and started using my Samsung Galaxy s20, as you can see on the top here, says a camera improvement along with obviously security monthly patch update as well. So as you can see, a camera was a struggle from day one for the first few months. I did have some issues with focusing. Eventually things did improve, but they haven't improved as much as I expected.

So the s20 continues to have a focusing issues sometimes it's not too bad, but it's not the best. I think the s10 does better than the s20 when it comes to auto, focusing anyways further down now here and the screenshot you can tell here on the 16th of March 5 hours and 48 minutes of screen on time with over an hour of what sapping face booking chroming, using a Google map for satellite navigation half an hour, emails YouTube, Samsung, music, all that kind of stuff, and, like I said I was able to achieve a five hours and 48 minutes off-screen on time. I honestly did not expect this kind of screen on time on the s20 with the Enos 990 chips inside. But then later I did installation like. I said the GSM monitor app to see if that made any difference with the actual screen on time, anyways here once again, a six hour than 53 minutes again using one hour you tubing over an hour and a half of emailing, what sapping, Instagrammer and all the rest stuff once again, another screenshot once again, four hours and 43 minutes of screen on time.

I did observe one thing: there was quite a lot of variation on the screen on times every time I would take a screenshot. It would either be on the extreme end like getting close to six and a half hours of screen on time or be on the lower end, like sometimes as bad as three and a half or two four hours only so there was quite a bit of variation whether it was the OTA updates, the Samsung I've been releasing or whether it was something else. My usage with the Samsung s20 was pretty consistent. Brightness was around 70 occasionally I would probably take it all the way up if I was out and about obviously being in the sun, but mostly was around 70 to 80 mark and I had the normal optimized settings and no power boost or power performance mode just the way it was out of the box. Okay, once again here, uh two hours and 23, but here obviously the battery was down to six percent.

But then again this was the second day of the first day that I took here so like I said it can be a bit confusing and, as a result, I decided that's probably good to install the GSM uh battery, monitor app to give us a more accurate reading. Now here I was measuring the charging out of the box. I used the standard, Samsung charger, and you can tell it says one hour and 19 minutes now. By the way, the Samsung Galaxy s20 has a 4 000 William battery on a 6.2 inch, a quad HD screen, so keeping in mind such a big massive battery. The charging speeds were not too bad.

Like I said, I used the standard box charger, the Samsung charger, and it was able to charge my phone fully in just over one hour, which is fantastic now on paper. The readings might not be as good as the same, but for some reason the phone tends to charge very quickly, like I said for a massive 4 000 William battery. Also, then I changed, obviously the rate to 60 hertz instead of 120 to see if that made any difference to the battery performance. Here I took the standby screenshot on 26th of march. As you can see, the battery was down to 35 percent just past midnight and when I checked in the morning around quarter past nine, it was down to 32.

So overnight it had only lost about three percent Enos chipset quad HD screen 6.2, not too bad. I was expecting worse, okay, so further down again another screenshot heavy usage of social media, Twitter, Instagram news republic, WhatsApp. All of that it shows you two hours and 30 minutes. Once again it wasn't the accurate representation which I expected. Like I said, it's a bit difficult to now measure sot and that's why I installed a GSM battery monitor app to see actually how much screen on time I got from the moment I unplugged the phone and then the phone plug the phone back into the socket.

As you can see here, it says six hours and 30 minutes of screen on time, so my Bluetooth was also pretty much always on by the way my Bluetooth is always on, regardless of whichever phone I'm reviewing. My Bluetooth is always on and reason for. That is because I'm always connected to my either my car studio or my honor watch smartwatch or any other accessory, so my Bluetooth is always on. I don't like switching my Bluetooth off so here I was like I said, able to achieve six hours and 30 minutes of screen on time here once again, fast charging one hour and 18 minutes from 10 percent. This is me using the standard box charger out of the box.

Okay, once again, I was testing the standby time here on 27th of march the very next day the battery was down to 46 around 4 o'clock. Just before four in the morning, when I checked it around midday, it had gone down to 43, so from 46 percent to 43 again only lost three percent uh. I was fairly happy with this, because I've known Samsung Galaxy phones in the past losing much more than just three percent overnight, so not too bad, considering it's an Enos 990 chipsets, which does tend to heat up sometimes and loses a lot of energy and consumes a lot of battery okays here once again: uh 27th of March 5 hours and 11 minutes of screen on time with battery down to nine percent. Again, obviously, this wasn't an accurate representation of what I wanted to get and that's why I took another screenshot on this GSM battery monitor app, and this time it gave me seven and a half hours of screen on time. This was the only instance where I was able to achieve uh, seven and a half hours.

I think, because I did spend a lot of time at late at night and my brightness was quite low around 40 and that might have played a significant difference to the actual screen on time. Okay, again fast charging one hour and 70 minutes, this is fantastic. To be honest, fast charging is perfect on the new s20s. I'm really, really happy it's almost as good as you have on the OnePlus phones. Dare I say that I know they got one of the quickest charging warp charging dash charging, but this is not too far behind to be honest.

Okay, then again, I change the refresh rate to 120 hertz and here once again trying to measure the standby time at 56 battery just past one o'clock in the morning, and when I checked it, I go to eight in the morning. It was down to fifty-three percent once again only lost three percent, so very consistently losing only three percent overnight, which again is very satisfying once again, another screenshot guys here at three hours and 33 minutes, and I was able to achieve a total of four hours and 51 minutes of screen on time. By the way most of the screenshots you can see were on Wi-Fi. Occasionally I did switch on 4g, but my 3 UK is very terrible when it comes to 4g. I haven't been having a good time with 3 UK.

The performance has gone from bad to really worse. So that's why, in most cases I would be trying to access 4g, but I would not be able to actually browse on 4g. That means the phone will be looking for the signal. Looking for the internet connection and I will keep struggling, struggling and hence I will lose battery for no reason, so that wouldn't be an accurate representation of the actual 4g usage. But every time I did switch the 4g on it did make the difference of an hour two hours on average.

Okay. Here again, I was still going on 60, hertz and once again screen on time at 6 hours and 49. Obviously this probably wouldn't have been accurate. So once again I took the GSM battery monitor app screenshot, and it gave me seven hours and 41 minutes. In fact, I'm sorry I was lying earlier in the video.

It did give me again seven hours and 41 minutes again. It was down to low brightness and mostly browsing at nighttime that resulted in that kind of figure, again 120 hertz once more here getting into the screenshot here, as you can see, seven hours and 34 minutes and using WhatsApp and all that kind of stuff hour and a half of what sapping lots of chroming as well Instagrammer lots of emailing and that related in five hours and 37 minutes of screen on time with battery down to, as you can tell at 10. So as you can tell you know as I go along and show you more and more screenshots, this is by the way for the galaxy airbus, which I also have Samsung, are quite good at sending regular updates as well. So if you have any questions regarding the earbuds, the galaxy earbuds, please do feel free to ask me in the comments section: okay, so uh once again, another update that came up, I think, just about a couple of months ago or a month ago, and it was around 168 megs again it was the security patch update, but these updates did not have much of an impact on the battery life that the battery life on the s20, in my opinion, is slightly unpredictable at time. It will take you to seven hours.

At times, you will get around six and a half hours, five and a half hours four and a half hours, depending on how you use the phone. If you increase the brightness of way too much, you really hammer the phone YouTube gaming, you probably won't get more than four hours, but if you're going to be browsing, only keep the brightness low have a fairly normal average WhatsApp Facebook kind of use emails and most likely you will get around the five to six hours mark on average, further down once again as update it was in the month of may, you can tell. May 20 and all these screenshots more skin on times all of that guys. So another update was key. That came in the month of June and once again I was able to achieve around three hours and 18 minutes.

Here I remember very well. I was using more 4g and less of Wi-Fi, even though Wi-Fi sees activity, but there was me having the Wi-Fi on constantly at the back end, but it was more to do with me using a 4g and less of Wi-Fi, so it does have an impact. If you significantly use 4g, it will drain the battery a lot quicker, resulting in um drastic kind of screen on time, as you can see three hours and 18 minutes only and here the battery goes down to a 14. So, as you can see guys, uh unpredictable kind of screen on times normally around the six hour to five hour mark massive big 4000 William battery. It does make a difference.

However, to me, it's a bit unpredictable and the phone still tends to heat up a bit. Now I'm getting reports of the note, 20 getting even worse battery and then the s20, despite having a four and a half thousand William battery inside still, the note 20 seems to be struggling because I think the s20 probably is a better bargain. So if you are in the market right now, looking for a phone and if you're in the UK- and you are in love with the galaxy phones- and you don't like getting any of the phones- then yes, s20- probably is your best bet. However, there are more phones out in the market like the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus 8 pro the OnePlus 7t. You got a few phones from Huawei as well.

Obviously they got their own share of issues with android, but there is some choice out in the market. The OnePlus note is out as well I'm hearing that that's also giving a good decent battery life, so I would personally prefer a snapdragon version, firstly because it doesn't need as much, secondly, because it gives you more performance. And thirdly, you can probably see better figures of screen on time and battery as opposed to what you can see on the Samsung Galaxy s20, but keeping in mind this is an Enos version. I think the overall result is not too bad. The phone will in most cases, even if you really hammer it should be able to get you through a nine to five Monday to Friday working day and obviously charges very quickly as well.

So most people will have no problem uh with the Samsung Galaxy s 20 going through a day. But if you are obviously always on the phone, then you might have to charge your phone at least once before you go to bed at nighttime. This is my observation of the s20s battery. So far ever since I had the phone from launch, if the battery situation changes in terms of being more consistent, obviously I will give you an update. If not, then, probably the next time I'll be on a Samsung Galaxy phone most likely would be a s21 or whatever a model.

They call it because I tend to upgrade my phone every year as I'm on the Samsung's upgrade program. If you like my video, please give a thumbs up any questions. Please feel free to ask me in the comment section and like always, please subscribe as it helps, and I shall see you in the next video.

Source : J TheAndroidFreak