I'm pretty impressed with the S8+'s battery life!
Got my phone last week and I set it up and used it normally as I would. For a few days, the battery usage showed projections of having almost 10 hours of screen on time. I was a little skeptical, so on Friday, I decided to test it out.
After I got home on Friday, I disconnected the S8+ from my car (with a full charge) and used it as I would. A few text, social media, a Duo call (around 40 min.), streamed a little Plex, used Evernote while cooking, and streamed some audio over BT using Google Now's Daily briefing.
It's now Monday morning and the battery just hit 5% (well, 4% by the time I did the screen shots) and dimmed the screen automatically, so that's where I called it since I can't really use the phone at that dim of screen brightness.
Over the weekend, from around 4PM Friday to 9AM Monday, I got 8hours of screen on time and 2Days 16Hours and 50min of standby.
As for my configurations: My general rule was that I'd take steps to maximize my battery without compromising my experience. GPS and BT were only on for about an hour, Wifi on, Screen brightness around 45%, no power saving mode. I disabled a lot of Samsung bloat with BX Disabler, have AdHell installed, run a dark theme and have a few apps themed with Substratum (looks awesome btw).
Posted Jul 10, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC