Spotify draining battery
ihatemarmite
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Streamed Spotify (premium: offline streaming) yesterday for an hour in the gym. 30% drop in battery on my S5. The screen was on quite a bit as I bought a lousy case which makes it hard to change tracks and impossible to change volume without using the home button.
But 30% is terrible isn't it? I'm wondering if I have a dodgy battery. Phone is 3 months old.
But 30% is terrible isn't it? I'm wondering if I have a dodgy battery. Phone is 3 months old.
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I keep getting a message from lollipop itself telling me it's using abnormal amounts of battery even when the screen is off.
I'm wondering if I should buy a spare battery and swap it out, see if it does the same thing, if not then contact amazon and say it's faulty? I'm a bit clueless when it comes to this stuff!
It's not the phone that's faulty. Its doing it on my Mrs HTC One M8 as well.
A spare battery will help, but hopefully spotify fix it in an update soon.
battery dropped 2% using it for 30 secs to add one product to an online tesco order.
I guess just keep the charger handy that's all. So much for all the reviews about S5 superb battery life.
thanks Stiggles, hope the Spotify update helps you out too. cheers.
Samsung Media Server listed as using 36% of my battery. Way the biggest culprit. I've disabled it and hope it doesn't affect the phone and also that disabling it helps.
Spotify was at 11%, same as screen. I have screen to auto -2.
However I'm a Spotify premium member and want to use it! Anything I can do? I'd updated it. Really annoying.
If it is, you need to disable Samsung Push Service. It will ask you to replace it with a factory version before it will allow you to do it. Do it then disable it.
To do this if you don't know, go to settings > applications and at the top make sure you are on 'all apps'. Find Samsung push Service and disable it.
Then reinstall spotify as they updated it the other day and i am no longer getting the battery message.
I've now reinstalled Spotify premium and will see how it goes. I'm not planning to use it today to stream music so today it'll be dormant.
The battery killer has to be either Spotify or the SD card (samsung 64GB) one I put in the phone to increase storage. SD card is now removed. I also don't know if i should have formatted it first before using it as didn't do that.
If battery life is better without an SD card, I'll live with a 16GB phone.
So the culprit is the samsung SD card I installed. Bought it on Amazon. Can I return it as faulty? I've opened it and tried it and have no proof other than that it was a battery killer.