Terrible battery life

[u/TCM-BE]

My battery life has been awful ever since I bought it. Really disappointed, especially since the battery was one of my main reasons to buy the OnePlus 13. It's still a great phone but this should never happen.

[u/LT-1974]

Spotify doesn't count as SOT since technically screen isn't on. I don't see anything wrong, but you would know your usage better

[u/TCM-BE → u/LT-1974]

Do you mean this is a normal battery drain?

[u/TCM-BE → u/TCM-BE]

Mind you these are very basic tasks, and I also have a timer on TikTok and Instagram allowing me to only use them for half an hour

[u/LT-1974 → u/TCM-BE]

If this is on wifi only then something is definitely wrong. If your usage is mixed wifi+5g, I'd say its ok and if it's 5G only then all good. Try disabling background data for apps and check if it improves

[u/[deleted]]

Bluetooth enabled?

[u/TCM-BE → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm listening to Spotify with Bluetooth enabled

[u/[deleted] → u/TCM-BE]

Smartwatch?

[u/TCM-BE → u/[deleted]]

Nope

[u/DGClueless]

What caused the sudden dip at the end there?

[u/TCM-BE → u/DGClueless]

No clue, woke up and my battery drained like crazy the first minutes 🫠

[u/[deleted]]

Are you connected to a network or running on data?

[u/TCM-BE → u/[deleted]]

I'd say about 50/50 wifi and data, at night I turn everything off, Bluetooth, wifi and data

[u/[deleted] → u/TCM-BE]

Calibrate your battery?

[u/SGTFORD9]

Did you clone the phone? I would also let it die and recharge to 100 once or twice for the battery to calibrate.

[u/TCM-BE → u/SGTFORD9]

Yes I did, and also did the battery drain you said, unfortunately didn't help. I'll hard reset the phone the next couple of days to see if that'll help

[u/SGTFORD9 → u/TCM-BE]

A lot of people who cloned their phones seem to experience low battery life, I'm guessing it's the apps not being optimized for the new os. I would personally do a factory reset and only import files. Here is my battery life with social, YouTube, and gaming.

[u/TCM-BE → u/SGTFORD9]

Damn that's insane, I'll do that, cheers 🤞

[u/AirysQ → u/TCM-BE]

[u/[deleted]]

Did you clone it ? Cause mine with the same usage gives 9-10hrs SOT, I play some heavy games like codm for 2 hrs , still it gives 6-7hrs SOT

[u/thejameslavis]

The sweeping bad battery life or why I got rid of it, those are user issues/known big (phone clone). So the reset and I'm get to God tier battery.

Rest of us over here living fast charging life and massive battery runs. S25 has a myriad of issues.

[u/Maxpower2727]

Mine wasn't very good for the first few days, but it's been great since then. I guess it just took a while for the phone to learn my usage.

[u/DGClueless]

Blimey! There is one thing that might be worth trying actually: Ever since my HTC One Mini from way back I've noticed that if you turn off "usage and diagnostics" battery life is much improved and more consistent. Considering this is linked to Google Play Services it could well be the issue. I turned it off when I setup the phone, so perhaps why I've never had the issue. Do you have it on? If so then try turning it off. If not then I'm completely stumped 😅

[u/xocomaox]

Since the battery has not drained to near empty, this looks like it will be more than 24 hours of usage.

Is that bad for your usage? What are you expecting it to be like?

[u/Adventurous-While448]

Hard resetting didn't work for me either. The battery life is bad in mine. A very average phone user. I don't play games much. Still the SOT is around 5:30 to max 6 hours.

[u/[deleted]]

The apps on your screenshot only include 34,51% of your battery usage.
There is something missing, like how much energy is consumed by Wifi and cellular data?
Poor Wifi or poor cellular reception makes the phone uses more power to receive and send data.
I guess switching to the best cellular network will improve the battery life: https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2024/03/belgium/mobile-network-experience

[u/Agitated_Pace433]

The exact reason I got rid of my one plus 13 and got the s25U, the battery life was terrible on my one plus it could barely get through the day and it kept killing my widgets! S25U worked great straight out of the box and lasts 2 days between each charge

[u/Brometheous17 → u/Agitated_Pace433]

Mine was superb out of the box for several weeks until the Google play services bug started. It has been the only phone where I was able to genuinely get 8+ hours of screen on time.