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S8 losing charge

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  • 01-02-2019 3:31pm
    #1
    Talula_d
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭


    My s8 is almost 2 years old and had been perfect up until the last week. It now goes from 20% odd to completely dead in sometime a matter of 2 or 3 mins! Is battery done for or could this be resolved? I also noticed it seems slow and takes longer to unlock when I press the button to unlock.


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    #2
    [Deleted User]
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    go for a battery replacement.

    if you constantly charge batteries up to 100% they degrade quicker/ "wear" in terms of capacity. e.g if it was 3000mah at the start will degrade to 2000mah capacity

    the ideal is to get a phone with a bigger capacity battery (min 4000mah) and only charge to say 85% (and only let it go down to 20% ideally not to 0%). this is if you want your battery to last longer in terms of holding it's capacity.

    a free app like accubattery allows you to put a battery charge alarm on it e.g. that when you get to 85% if wil buzz/ make a noise

    download accubattery and run it - after charging it will give you an estimate of what the real state of the battery capacity of your current battery is

    it also shows you different wear levels of charging up to 85% , 90% etc by changing the charge alarm slider setting


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    #3
    Talula_d
    Registered Users Posts: 305 ✭✭Talula_d


    glasso wrote: »
    go for a battery replacement.

    if you constantly charge batteries up to 100% they degrade quicker/ "wear" in terms of capacity. e.g if it was 3000mah at the start will degrade to 2000mah capacity

    the ideal is to get a phone with a bigger capacity battery (min 4000mah) and only charge to say 85% (and only let it go down to 20% ideally not to 0%). this is if you want your battery to last longer in terms of holding it's capacity.

    a free app like accubattery allows you to put a battery charge alarm on it e.g. that when you get to 85% if wil buzz/ make a noise

    download accubattery and run it - after charging it will give you an estimate of what the real state of the battery capacity of your current battery is

    it also shows you different wear levels of charging up to 85% , 90% etc by changing the charge alarm slider setting

    Thanks for that, I'll download accubattery and see what that's says. I'm due an upgrade in the next month or so, was thinking s10, or should I look at something else do you think?


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    [Deleted User]
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    s10 should be very good - maybe check to see what reviews say


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    #5
    Cina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,387 ✭✭✭Cina


    I wouldn't go for a battery replacement.

    It's been happening to a lot of people online, and on here, just check out the dedicated S8 thread to see.

    It's happening to me too, and I am pretty sure it's software, not hardware related. Some app or update messing things up. Thing is, my battery hasn't actually gotten worse, it's just not counting the percentage correctly. I believe when it dies at 20% it has actually hit 0% but just hasn't been calculating the percentage drained correctly until that point.


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    rustledjimmies
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭rustledjimmies


    Try recalibrating your battery first: https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device


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