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?
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.