Samsung S22 battery drainage

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carboy2017

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704 posts

84 months

Friday 17th February 2023
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2 months back I got the Samsung S22 and noticed that the battery drainage is very high when i go abroad (hence in roaming) ,even without any calls apart from a few youtube videos it drains very fast,infact even without any usage after a full charge if i check it in 1 hrs it will be say 95% charge left on it!,However but not the case when in the UK and battery seems to hold ok,this was a UK bought phone on an 02 contract
Any idea why?

Buffalo

5,453 posts

260 months

Friday 17th February 2023
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It took several months for the battery usage to settle on my S22, at first it was many times worse than my five year old OnePlus5 that it replaced, and i thought i'd made a massive mistake. I dont exactly know how it improved itself but it can hold two days charge at light use now.

I do cut permissions for using data back to 'only while using app' as much as possible though, which may help. The reason i mention that is it took quite a long tine to get my preferred setup sorted out as well. I kept finding settings reset and all sorts, felt like the bloody thing was gaslighting me! Its again better now, but i still find OneUI very intrusive, always asking to recheck app settings and closing apps itself, whereas the OnePlus OS was a joy to use. I dont know if i'd have another samsung.

Whataguy

972 posts

86 months

Friday 17th February 2023
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Does the roaming location have 5G and the UK location use mostly 4G?

5G uses more power than 4G.