S23 FE Battery Drain

[Shreyansh]

Just got this phone a week ago. Not much usage.

With a SOT of 2h 31 min, my phone went down from 96% to 37%. 

This is consistently happening; even after using power saving and dark mode.

I am a student, and I need the battery to at least run a full day or two. The amount of drainage is truly ridiculous.

Also, a little funny as compared to my old phone, the A31, is that apps don't auto close at night, much unlike my A31, which produced longer battery life than the S23 Fe.

I absolutely don't want to hate the S23 FE; I love it. It is my first ever Samsung "S" series phone and as a camera enthusiast, the camera is also mindblowing, and better than the Pixel 8 (I tested my friend's Pixel 8). 

As I am writing the post, I can watch the battery roll down to 30% from 35%, albeit I have just started writing barely a minute or two ago.

Ridiculous. Any workarounds?

[ElroyC]

Same

[JP19]

Hi, I would say give it at least 2 weeks for the battery to learn ur usage. The battery drainage will be irregular. If the situation still doesn't improve by the 3rd week, do approach the service centre to have ur phone inspected.

[Members_wbNHYl7]

I gave my S23 FE to koodo. And they did nothing about it. They sent it in for repair but they said nothing happened. It's been about 4 months and the phone is still very bad at battery life. I do wanna return this phone but at this point I really can't. I might have taken it to Samsung but I don't know if they'll pay me a fee.

[JP19]

Could request for a battery replacement? Maybe at another service centre. The service varies across different service centres in Singapore.

[Ezra4all]

Definitely they won't help you even if it's within warrenty period.... Am facing the same problem... Am fighting...am writing this on my 14 day of my purchase....

[Shreyansh]

Thank you for your advice.
Tried that but there was still no change to the battery life.
I have to charge it almost twice a day. If I charge till 70% the day before, the next morning it would show 30%. So I am really contemplating visiting them again.

[JP19]

In that case, probably visit the service centre and request for a battery replacement. But do note to backup all ur data to Smart Switch prior to the visit, as for every repair, be it minor or major, they will require u to factory reset ur phone on the spot, before handing over the device to them for the repair. I have asked before if they allowed no factory reset and to use maintenance mode instead, they rejected and said that maintenance mode is only for third party repairs and it's their policy to receive phones fully factory reset.

[Shreyansh]

Let me try this out.

[JP19]

Alright. Then go ahead and have the battery replaced 😁 Let me know how it goes yeah.. thanks. 😊