This is called planned obsolescence. It's not a conspiracy it's fact.

Well, it IS a conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy THEORY. But you are 100% correct that it is planned obsolescence.

I had an s6 for 3 years and lost very little battery capability...is it more common with newer phones?

It's not a conspiracy it's fact.

I mean it can be a conspiracy and a fact. There is a documentary called 'The Light bulb Conspiracy' that is literally about the planned obsolescence of light bulbs through the years.

might check again the definitions of the words conspiracy and theory.

I have an S8 Edge and my battery went to complete shit a few weeks ago. Nothing changed, i didn't even update it recently. I use it the same amount every day. Last month at the end of the day i'd always be around 70% life left. Now it's 30% if i'm lucky. Same happened to my old Note 4 too.

This happens periodically to my galaxy s5 as well and has for at least a year. It always stops after a couple days though, if I just let my phone die completely and sit idle for a few hours before charging.

My Iphone7 over night went to shit, brand new phone. Battery never lasts, and it lags like crazy. Coincidentally right when the X dropped.

Remove some of the sketchy apps you have installed. Something is obviously draining your batter by remaining active in the background. Ask bixby to optimise your phone, you'll get a report of which apps are causing the problem

Thank you, i've never used bixby and i disabled that button but i'll turn it back on now. I had no idea you could do that!

I think it's available in the battery settings too, if you don't want to use bixby for some reason

Thanks, i figured it out. I just turned bixby off because i was constantly hitting that button by accident.

Well, there's two sides to it I guess. They're not going to drop all that money supporting older versions of their software, and they're not going to leave the extra power on the new kit doing nothing. So some sort of slowdown is just going to happen.

But then it would be awfully easy to add little bits and bobs here and there that the new kit has no problem with and the old kit can't quite manage. And they'd make more money if they did. And the odds of getting caught are basically nil, unless you take the piss with it. And when things are easy and make money and are hard to catch, they tend to happen.

Also not for nothing, your post reads like an advert. Even if it is, it probably shouldn't.

I have an S7 and it's just fine, but then it is less than a year old.

The work around is to do a factory reset. Worked for me and all my old Samsungs

I have an S8 and it's in perfect working order. Battery life is amazing on this phone.

I have been looking into DIY cell phones but it is not easy.

John's Phone may be off interest to you. Not dyi, but pretty barebones.

Tin cans and string won't have very much range :(

The shills and trolls are still strong here, apparently.

Batteries are only good for around 1 year and need to be swapped out after 2 years.

I don't know if I buy this. I had an S7 that worked perfectly when the S8 came out, so I bought an S8+. Now I have a Note8, and my brother has the S8+ and is experiencing no issues.

Planned obsolescence is real, but Samsung isn't pulling an Apple here.

As with rechargeable lithium batteries it is recommended that you completely cycle the battery, meaning let it die then charge it to 100% also it’s a good idea not to leave it on charge throughout the night. Batteries are only good for a certain number of cycles but that number can be drastically reduced by not cycling the battery and keeping a current running to it even after its fully charged. At least that’s what they told us to tell customers after receiving a battery replacement on a fairly new iPhone.

That's the opposite of what you should be doing. Fully discharging is for NiMH batteries that haven't been used in phones for almost 20 years. Lithium ion batteries are happiest when they're in the middle range of their charge. Don't let them drain, don't keep them constantly topped off.

What’s funny is Apple literally trains their techs to tell people the opposite.

I have an s7 edge an mine battery is fine. Do you user package disabler pro? Let's you shut off all kinds of rapeware an other things without jailbreaking the phone. My battery usually lasts 2 days.

I have an old HP business laptop, which is now 14 years old. I have never changed batteries in it, and I still get 2 hours of battery life when unplugging it. It's a relatively huge battery though at 80 Wh and 12 cells.

I have several old phones, and they seem to hold a charge well, even after 3 years+. However, the top brand names like HTC, Samsung and Apple that I have all had their batteries degrade rapidly after a year, and die in between 18 to 24 months.

Battery tech is very dependent on the anode "channels". It always leaves a little bit of "residue" when discharging. This is the nature of the chemical process of charge/discharge. These "channels" are getting thinner and thinner with the need for thinner and thinner batteries because phone manufacturers want thinner and thinner phones. Batteries will "clog up" pretty quick and stop working. If you get a thicker battery then you will not see the same degradation in a year to two years. And if you make battery internals too thin they can go boom too.

Are batteries designed to fail? Maybe. Even if they aren't, I doubt phone manufacturers are racing to make batteries retain their quality past a year - it's better to sell a new shiny device for more money.

My s7 was being even worse, and started around the same time period. I wouldnt even touch it, and it would lose 15% in 15 minutes.

I unistalled several things, installed a new security app, its back to normal in terms of battery.

One of the things i removed was utorrent. My theory is that program was being used to.....? (Mine bitcoin with my phone, maybe? I dont know, but im fairly sure the torrent client was the source of my constantly dying battery)

The shills and trolls are still strong here, apparently.