Battery Life

The Galaxy S5 is blest with a 10.78 Wh (three.85 V, 2800 mAh) removable battery, which can be accessed underneath the rear cover. The battery itself is long and slim, just equally y'all'd expect it provides a meaning portion of the device's weight. Charging is performed past the S5's 10 watt (2A) charger included in the box, which supports Qualcomm Quick Accuse. Wireless charging is possible with the Galaxy S5, but every bit I mentioned before you lot'll need to purchase the Qi-compatible Wireless Charging S-View Flip Cover separately.

The battery capacity of the Galaxy S5 is only a slight (ix%) increase on the Milky way S4, indicating Samsung aren't trying to push button for longer battery life, merely to embrace the extra power requirements of some of the new components such as the larger display. Due to improvements on Qualcomm's side, the Snapdragon 801 should actually be more power efficient than the Snapdragon 600 despite an increase in performance, so there's the possibility we might see better bombardment life.

Even so, during my time with the Milky way S5, I tended to get good battery life, but nothing amazing and, from memory, correct on par with the Milky way S4. I was disappointed that one time during a long mean solar day away from my desk-bound I managed to flatten the bombardment, although virtually other times I finished a solar day with effectually xxx% capacity remaining. If you play games during the twenty-four hours or utilise the camera frequently, you'll experience lower battery life.

For those of y'all who want a quantitative view on the Galaxy S5'southward battery life, below yous'll find our near comprehensive selection of smartphone battery tests yet.

In our video playback test, the Galaxy S5 performs extremely well thanks to the power efficient SoC and improvements to the brandish's ability consumption. These days decoding a 720p video is far from hard work, and each generation we run into decent gains hither: the S5 lasts 52% longer than the S4.

Looking at results for Wi-Fi web browsing, and the Galaxy S5 performs as expected. With the same SoC as the HTC Ane M8, the Galaxy S5's 7% advantage here most probable comes from the 9% larger battery and a slightly more efficient display.

Browsing in LTE reverses the advantage, putting the HTC One M8 ahead by 2%. Results like this tin exist put down to testing discrepancies, and in real earth usage you'll find both devices perform equally well.

Results in GFXBench are quite funny, because the Galaxy S5 crushes the HTC Ane M8. I'd put this down to the HTC One M8'due south ambitious governor that's designed to crook at benchmarks, wasting CPU clock cycles throughout the duration of the looping benchmark. Real-earth results would probable put the two devices closer.

Thanks to Qualcomm Quick Charge support, the Samsung Milky way S5 can charge fully in a short catamenia of fourth dimension. A 10W charger is included in the box, then I'd expect a charge time of nearly exactly what is listed above.

The Galaxy S5 packs an Farthermost Ability Saving Mode, which turns the brandish black and white while turning off all major features and restricting access to just a few critical applications. I'thou not convinced turning an AMOLED display to blackness and white will save battery as the PenTile matrix however needs to ability on to display shades of grayness, nevertheless restricting usage to a subset of the device'due south features does give notably longer bombardment life.

I wouldn't keep the way on all the time, as the device essentially turns into a featurephone, but it'due south useful to accept when your battery is running low.