Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Battery Life Issues + Z Flip 5G. 😭 By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech odyssey. So today, I'm here with my friend, the Samsung Galaxy z, flip 5g. Now, if you have been following my channel for a while or watched some of my previous videos, you know that I absolutely love the z-flip phone, whether it's a z-flip or the 5g model. I love it. It's great! It's everything you can ask for on a phone except it also has the flip screen. So that's really cool.

I like the foldable ammo LED screen. It's neat super compact. I drive my car. It sits in the little cubbyhole. I don't have to worry about it.

Sliding around you know whatever it's its cool. Well, I've been using it as my daily driver again for the last couple of days, and it's kind of reminded me that this phone is not for power users, and I'm going to explain that here in a minute but yeah it's its brought back some concerns with using it on a daily basis, it's kind of frustrating, and we're going to talk about it, but before we get into that, I do want to say if this is your first time stopping by the channel. I appreciate you being here if you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and little notification bell if you want updates when new videos come out now, let's take a look at the z, flip 5g. So recently I made my follow-up video long-term review and of course I had a lot of great things to say about it. I like it.

There are things I'd like to see in the next one, but as far as what we have in the here, and now it's the z, flip 5g, the 3300 William battery. I think just is not enough. Now, if you don't use your phone very much, this phone is perfect. If you use your phone a lot, it is not perfect and just to give you an illustration here, I have clocked my battery life for the last three days and I didn't even think about doing it until I realized that, like three o'clock in the afternoon, I was having to charge my phone, which is a serious problem, because it's not even getting me through like a normal work day. So here's what we have the last three days.

One day I got three hours and 58 minutes of screen on time with 15 battery left, not very good, then the next day I got three hours of screen on time and had 22 percent battery left and then the last one. Today it got 4 hours and 22 minutes with 16 battery left. So, depending on what you're doing on your phone, your mileage can vary a little but consistently right about the four-hour mark and that's very troublesome because that's very easy to go through like it doesn't take long to burn through four hours of screen on time. If you're playing games, if you're using the camera, it really eats up the battery, so this phone is not for power users. Now, if you just want to have it as a primary phone, and you carry a secondary phone, you do all your work on.

This is fine if you just want to have it to carry around, and you know that you're going to have to charge it by dinner time, that's just something that you're going to have to live with, and I actually had to charge the phone twice yesterday two times because I got up early, I used it a lot. It was dead. I had to charge it up again and that's just awful now. Normally, when I talk about battery in the context of being bad, I'm talking about the note 20 ultra I'm talking about the s21 ultra, but that's for a completely different reason. See those initially got perfect battery life.

They were getting six seven, eight nine hours of screen on time, which was fantastic, you're talking about a 5 000 ml amp battery in the s21 ultra we're talking about a 4500mah battery. In the note, 20 ultra they're, designed for productivity, they're designed for all-day battery, so if you have a phone like that, and you're getting four and a half to five hours of screen on time with 40 percent more battery, that's very problematic. So if you can get four or four and a half hours of screen on time out of thirty-three hundred Williams, they say I'm not complaining about that. It's not that the phone is inherently bad. It's just that the battery life is just not enough to get you through a day as a power user.

So this has been a reality. I've been living with the last couple of days and I went to go. Take the sim card out of this phone today, and I was like you know what I'm not going to, because I mean I work from home. So it's not that big of a deal to put it on a charger, but I really do love this phone, and I've made lots of videos about how much I like this phone. But the reality is, it just doesn't have enough battery life for me or for a power user, and I thought this video would be helpful because if there's somebody out there who's looking to get this phone, and you think well, I hope this phone can last me all the way through the day well, depending on what you're doing it might.

But the thing is you're probably going to have to charge it by dinner time. And yes, there are probably a couple of you sitting there saying hey this phone lasts me all day. Well, I'm very happy for you. That means you probably don't use your phone as much as me or other power users. Do who really rely on that screen on time metric and a lot of people say well.

The screen on time really is a terrible metric for how good battery life is, but I think it's the best way, because if you rely on the phone to have the screen on for a long period of time, and it can't, then that means it doesn't suit your needs. So in recap, this phone is not good for power users. Somebody who relies heavily on the screen being on a lot because you're only going to get about four hours out of it. Now you can do some things to mitigate that. You can use adaptive battery, which I am in this case, but you can turn the brightness down.

You can't adjust the refresh rate because this one's stuck at 60, but you can turn on power, saving features that will help stretch your battery juice out a little farther, so it will last longer- and there is another video I made about how to increase the battery life on your s21 ultra. Some of that stuff can apply here. You can click on the link to check that out, but really, if you go in, if you use it in dark mode, if you turn the brightness down, if you have adaptive brightness on, if you turn on power saving features in the battery mode, then if you turn on power saving features in the battery section, then that stuff will help you out. It will make sure the phone lasts longer, but then you're not going to be using it. Maybe at the brightness.

You want to- or it may, you know feel sluggish, sometimes if it's not as powerful as you want, or it might take a little longer to kick something in. So that's just a couple of things: food for thought, it's great from a power consumption perspective when you're not using it, because you can close the screen and that right there helps out a lot because a lot of people waste battery when you have the phone open for a long time. So, if you've got it, where the screen doesn't time out within 30 seconds, you could be burning up battery just having it sit there. So that's one of the great things I love about this phone when you're, not using it, you can very easily fix some things by simply closing the screen and that's something that I really love about this phone. But those are just a couple ways to kind of mitigate the battery issues when it comes to this phone.

But overall I love it again. This is my most favorite phone of last year. It's still my favorite phone right now and that's why I had such a hard time. Taking my sim card out of it because I really enjoy it and yes, it doesn't have 120 hertz refresh rate, it doesn't have a snapdragon 8, it doesn't have stereo speakers, it doesn't have. You know some other things that I kind of like in the more modern flagship phones, especially like the s21 ultra, which I totally love, but this phone right here, if you want it, just understand that if you're a power user, the battery is not going to last you all day, if you're a normal phone user, it may last you all day, but that's just one of the sacrifices you have to make, and I think that that's part of this infantile stage of these novel form factors it's a learning and growing process and somebody the other day was like.

Oh. I wish that they would make these phones where you could put new batteries in them, and you could take the old one out and swap it out like the old blackberry days, but you couldn't do that in something like this and the way this phone is designed. It actually has two batteries. It has one in the bottom and one on the top, and they're connected together to give you all your battery life and that's just one way that technology has allowed us to have something like this, which is totally cool, and I really enjoy it, and it's held up really well as far as the hinge and the durability of the phone. So I don't have any issues with this phone other than it was expensive that one hurts, but you can get them cheaper now and there are some links down in the description if you want to check those out.

But yes, I love this phone, but I was just thinking about it because even myself, I found myself reaching for my sim uh sim card removal tool so that I could put my sim in another phone and use it because this one is just not quite lasting me throughout the day. But it's not because there's anything inherently wrong with the phone. It's just. It only has 3 300 Williams and there's only so much you can squeeze out of that. So that's all I've got.

Hopefully this has been good food for thought. For you, if you're interested in getting this phone, if you have one, maybe this is kind of yeah a reminder. If this is one of the problems with it and hopefully when the new one comes out, they'll address some of these issues and give us a bigger battery, and we can trade this one and get the new one, and it will fix this stuff. So that's all I've got in this video regarding the Samsung Galaxy z, flip 5g. Hopefully this has been helpful.

Hopefully it's been informational. Hopefully it's given you some insight. If you find that you're having the same issues, so that's all I got if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them down. In the comment section, I will get back with you if you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell if you want updates when new videos come out and as always thanks for being here, I appreciate you watching, and I'll see you guys next time.

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