I was just doing random stuff on my phone and went to click a button near the top right of the screen, and was mildly horrified to see "1%", so I immediately put it into the charger, where the phone promptly started showing "0%" for the next ~30 seconds. The phone never died.
Has this happened to any of you?
No. If mine goes single digits, it's a crap shoot. It can take 30 minutes to go from 20% to 10%, but it will shut down 5, 3,or 1 minute after it hits 10%.
I have never had a phone where the developers were such shit at coding the voltage estimation, or designing the hardware doing the measuring, or whatever combination makes it so random.
Never buying another Samsung again. Mainly because if the uninstallable bloatware, but crap like this battery thing is also infuriating.
It's a bad battery that's causing this issue. You can't calculate for a battery that's out of spec which is why they drop from 30% to 2% in minutes or shutoff when you still show 20% remaining. The voltage sags below the minimum capable for the hardware.
Maybe. If so, it came from the factory this way; it's always done this.
So, now I'm also concerned about Samsung's QC.
I've been using exclusively Samsung phones for a long time- is any battery % below 15 being a crapshoot not a normal android thing? I remember it happening a long time ago with my LG phone too, so I kinda just assumed it was difficult to estimate battery capacity once it got low.
This is my first Samsung. I've had a few Pixels, HTC before Pixel, a Sony... a variety of phones. Low single digits, sure. And I've seen phones where the seem to have a consistent rate of drain until they get low, then suddenly start dropping faster. But this Samsung is a new level of inaccuracy. I was using it once and it got to 7% while I was finishing a writing a response, and it just turned itself off. I know, because I was nervously watching the battery level; it just shut down at 7%.
I don't think comparing the really old phones to new ones is fair because battery tech and software changes so much, but my previous Pixel was really good - at 2%, I was playing with fire, but a long as I plugged it in before that I was safe. With this Samsung, as soon as it hits 10% it's Russian Roulette.