Note 20 Ultra Battery Life, Does It Really SUCK?! 2 Week Review By Shane Starnes

What's up guys Shane stars here, and I've been using the Galaxy Note 20 ultra as my main device for the past couple of weeks and so far I'm having an incredible experience, but I'm seeing all over twitter that people are having issues with their battery life and for most of them they're saying that the battery life is terrible. Is it really all that bad we're going to find out in this video? This is my real life in-depth battery review, where I'm going to show you guys what real day-to-day use on the Galaxy Note.20 ultra means in terms of battery life. Let's go ahead and get started, so this video is not sponsored, but if you're going to be buying any Samsung devices, the Galaxy Note 20 the Galaxy Note, 20, ultra or any other Samsung device be sure to use my referral code in the description below it's going to save you five percent and then, of course, I get a little of a kickback which helps me because I'm able to buy these devices at a highly discounted rate so that I can cover them here on the channel so go to the link in the description use. My referral link and referral code, and you'll get five percent off the purchase of your device. If you were to purchase a note, 20 ultra using my code you're going to save about 75, which is pretty awesome so over the past several days, I've actually been tracking my battery consumption, so I'm going to show you guys how I actually use my phone during a normal day and then what that means in terms of actual battery life. So right now it is two o'clock in the afternoon.

I pulled this off the charger at about seven o'clock, and I'm at 78 percent, so there had been a few changes that I've made when I first started using the phone I didn't have 5g included in my package, so the phone was only using 4g. I had adaptive brightness turned on, and the hertz display turned on, and I found myself regularly getting six hours or more of screen on time and I didn't have to charge this phone at all throughout the day. So, over the past few days, when I've actually been recording my battery usage, I've been on 5g, so I now have 5g included in my package wherever I'm able to pick it up, I'm able to use it one thing that I wish that Samsung would allow for here. If I go into my connections and I go to my mobile networks, there is no option to turn off 5g. So if I wanted to save a little of battery life, there's no way for me to turn 5g off.

So, no matter what, if you have 5g on your plan, if you're picking it up anywhere you're going to be using 5g and for now there's no way to turn that off that may be fixed in an update. Maybe we'll have the option to turn 5g off. I think that would actually help with saving some battery life, but for now that's not an option. So for me, I've been using 5g where available, 120 hertz is turned on, and I've had adaptive. Brightness turned on so with all the settings that we just talked about August 25th was the first day that I actually recorded my usage, and you can see here that I had almost six hours of screen on time with five percent left, so I didn't quite get to six percent.

And if you look at my usage here, I had 18 minutes of actual active YouTube, so that's YouTube turned on while viewing the screen. I do a ton of driving during the day, and so I had five and a half hours of background use. This is me listening to podcasts, so the phone is actually being used for that five and a half hours, but the screen is not turned on. I had two hours of Netflix use, so I had the screen turned on. While I was watching Netflix and then an hour of twitter, and you can see, the screen would have been turned on there, 50 minutes of chrome that amounted to five hours and 47 minutes with five percent left with the settings that I had enabled.

I don't hate that battery life, but it definitely could be better. So, on August 27th I finished my day at 10 35. I had 24 left with four hours of screen on time. I would have pulled this off the charge at about 7 30 or so. If we look at my usage here, I had six minutes of active YouTube usage.

There you get about five hours of listening to podcasts one hour of twitter, one hour of Netflix half an hour of chrome, so August 28th with the exact same settings. I finished my day at 11 31 with 24 battery remaining, and I had four hours and 42 minutes of screen on time. The usage here were 57 minutes of actual active YouTube, viewing two hours of HBO Max one hour of twitter, 13, minutes of chrome and two hours of listening to podcasts on YouTube. In the background, so august, 29th was the last day that I recorded my battery usage here at 11 o'clock in the afternoon. I still had almost 80 left and I had two hours of screen on time, so I did make a couple of changes here.

So I made one specific change here. I turned off adaptive brightness and I kept my brightness right about 20 to 30 percent the whole day. This screen actually gets incredibly bright and when you have adaptive brightness turn on, if you go outside it bumps it all the way up past the maximum brightness you're, getting like 1300 nits and even in the sun. You don't need that much brightness. For me, 20 to 30 percent, is really the sweet spot.

If I go indoors, I actually turn the brightness all the way down and that saved a little of battery life. So at 11 o'clock I had 80, and it used two hours of screen on time. At this point, I'm trending towards you know seven to ten hours of screen on time, which is actually perfect battery life, but that didn't last throughout the entire day. So at four o'clock I was at four hours of screen on time with forty percent, so this is still looking really, really good and then, if we go into uh five thirty, I had thirty-five percent with still about four hours of screen on time and here's where I finished my day at 11 30, I had seven percent left, and I just barely got over six hours of screen on time. So to me this is still not incredible battery life.

So when I was on the s20 ultra, I actually got really, really good battery life. I got about seven hours of screen on time every single day and the only difference is that the s20 ultra has an extra 500 William hours of battery. I know that they took away some of that with the s pen, but for me, I would actually prefer for the phone to maybe come a little more flush with the camera bump. This phone has an insane camera bump on the back and Samsung could have maybe come out just a little further with the back here, made it a little thicker. You know, I love the fact that this is super slim, but I wouldn't mind a little bulkier of a device if it meant better battery life.

Now, really, I can't call this bad battery life. I did find myself having to charge the phone at about five o'clock in the evening, but I didn't really have to do that at all with a note, 20 ultra, so I still get an entire day's worth of use without having to re-up my charge, but I feel like this definitely could have been better. I definitely could have been getting all the way through my day with six or seven hours of screen on time plus having 20 left had they included an extra 500 William hours. Now there are several things that could help with battery life. If Samsung gave us a 4g option to where we could turn off 5g that, I think, would help if you scale down from the 120 hertz display to the 60 hertz at 1080p.

That would help, but there again you've paid 1300 for a phone. Why would you want to it? I don't really see the sentiment and crippling the phone just for better battery life. I'd rather just stick it on a charger. If I had to, and then you know, another way that you could save on battery life is turn off anything you're not using if you're not using Bluetooth, be sure to turn it off if you're not using Wi-Fi, be sure to turn it off. Whenever you are around Wi-Fi jump over onto the Wi-Fi, that's a little more efficient than 4g or 5g.

Definitely turning off the adaptive display and keeping your brightness low throughout the day there again you're kind of crippling what this display is capable of. So, are you really willing to make those sacrifices to get better battery life there again, in my opinion, for the two weeks that I've had the phone, this is certainly better battery life than other phones that I've had, but I feel like it could have been better had Samsung giving us that extra 500 William hours of battery. What are your thoughts? Do you think that the Galaxy Note 20 ultra needs better battery life? Do you think that the battery has performed pretty well? Let me know in the comments below that about wraps it up for this video thanks guys for watching be blessed I'll, see you in the next one.

Source : Shane Starnes