The Official Samsung Galaxy S10 Family Thread

Sp00n · 5 Dec 2019 at 14:26

With a full charge I get 3-4 hours SoT with general browsing and some light gaming and an hour or so background music.

About the same as i got with my 3T which I suppose given the size of the battery in the s10e isn't terrible I just expected more.

Three cashback has now confirmed though which is good, only took a couple of months

neoboy · 5 Dec 2019 at 20:10

Should be closer to 5 hours plus that rest are getting especially seeing how WiFi battery performance is almost double. I was getting close to 6 hours on Xperia 1 with not much better capacity and far larger 6.5" 4k screen while this gives me 3.5 hours.

Basically if I don't top it up during the day the phone dies by early evening. If it wasn't so cheap I'd probably be really upset but doesn't bode well for me keeping the handset for a long time.

superleeds27 · 6 Dec 2019 at 11:03

S10e on a clean install of Android 10.

SOT anything from 4-7 hours. Depending on usage.
Battery gets me through the day
Disabled features and things i don't use

doodah · 6 Dec 2019 at 11:57

Reports that the S11 (or at least a variant of it) will sport a 5,000 mAh battery

!!!

Temujin · 6 Dec 2019 at 12:37

I think if they maintain having a smaller phone in the S11 and future lineups I may stay with Samsung.. handling my old OP3 it just seems unwieldy now to be honest and the UX is much better than the older galaxy models I had which led me to discount them when choosing a new phone!

FishLicker · 6 Dec 2019 at 15:55

doodah said:
Reports that the S11 (or at least a variant of it) will sport a 5,000 mAh battery !!!

Probably needed for that power sucking exynos chip

neoboy · 6 Dec 2019 at 17:09

Funnily enough a friend of mine has S10+ and always had great battery with EE but after recently switching to O2 is saying he can barely get 5 hours SoT before 5% warning, whereas on EE he was getting close to 7.

There's clearly something in the chip that just either doesn't like some bands that certain network providers use or doesn't like weak signals. Although I get similar battery life if I'm in the area with weak or strong signal.

doodah · 6 Dec 2019 at 18:43

FishLicker said:
Probably needed for that power sucking exynos chip

So bloody true! I'm not sure what SoC my Note 8 had but I manged 5-7 hours of SoT. My Exynos powered Note 9 can just about reach 4 hours at 1080+ lol.

neoboy · 7 Dec 2019 at 12:44

My S7 Edge with Exynos had zero issues with battery life on Three.

Richy888 · 7 Dec 2019 at 15:24

neoboy said:
Funnily enough a friend of mine has S10+ and always had great battery with EE but after recently switching to O2 is saying he can barely get 5 hours SoT before 5% warning, whereas on EE he was getting close to 7.

There's clearly something in the chip that just either doesn't like some bands that certain network providers use or doesn't like weak signals. Although I get similar battery life if I'm in the area with weak or strong signal.

Probably down to signal strength. I'm on Vodafone and I've said before that one site I work on the signal is variable to weak. On that site battery depleats far faster than other sites where signal is strong.

neoboy · 7 Dec 2019 at 22:36

Richy888 said:
Probably down to signal strength. I'm on Vodafone and I've said before that one site I work on the signal is variable to weak. On that site battery depleats far faster than other sites where signal is strong.

I've been up and down the country with places that had good signal and still have same problems.

My friend also had poor signal at home and work with EE but battery held up better than on O2.

neoboy · 9 Dec 2019 at 22:18

Apparently with Android 10 you can now have 30 second exposure instead of 10 seconds in Pro mode?

mrk · 9 Dec 2019 at 22:20

Correct

neoboy · 9 Dec 2019 at 22:36

Nice, tried to shoot night sky before but found 10 seconds little lacking to get a decent result.

LiamJ · 10 Dec 2019 at 07:50

Just got the new update on my S10 locked to EE.

stoofa · 10 Dec 2019 at 08:52

LiamJ said:
Just got the new update on my S10 locked to EE.

Thanks for that - just downloading on my EE S10e

LiamJ · 10 Dec 2019 at 10:47

So for some reason, after updating, my galaxy watch no longer connects to 4g. Rang EE and they've got no idea even after going through all the troubleshooting.

Bit annoying but I can manage without.

Other than that, update looks good. Not many big changes but I like the new gestures. New animations are meh, I'll probably go in to dev options and speed them up. Tested out the screen recorder and quality seems great until you convert it to gif, not sure why.

JRJ · 10 Dec 2019 at 23:12

Anybody know how to get 'next alarm' showing on lock screen or AOD I have it enabled through face widgets?

mrk · 11 Dec 2019 at 06:55

Anyone noticed low light 4K video has improved quite a bit since the last Pie update? I recall night videos being blocky due to noise in shadow areas but this has virtually vanished now and we have crisp video quality.

I can only imagine what the S11 is going to be like given we already know Samsung has a director mode in the camera app so are gearing it for making cinematic movies...

JRJ · 15 Dec 2019 at 19:55

Anybody having issues with Google pay since update? Paid in the morning using my default nationwide card updated lunchtime and haven't been able to use since? Tried removing and readding the card which goes through fine but when I tap to pay it tells me this card isn't supported for Google pay.

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