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.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPAEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      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.

  • Chaphasilor [he/him]@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Chinese phones should generall check your boxes, they have giant batteries most of the time. Smaller screen might be difficult though.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPAEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Yea, most chinese phones would. Also what I mean by “smaller screen” is something around the size of the s24 so 6-7 inches.

    • CronyAkatsukiOPAEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      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.

      EDIT: You also missed the other point, the OVERHEATING ISSUES. Literally just opening voyager and typing this has the phone heating up like it isn’t -5 celcius.

      • rImITywR@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 days ago

        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?

        • CronyAkatsukiOPAEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          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.

      • kalapala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Where in the EU do you live? That price sounds so insane that I must check it out.

        • CronyAkatsukiOPAEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          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.

          • rImITywR@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            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

            • CronyAkatsukiOPAEnglish
              2·
              10 days ago

              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.