topic Re: Decision between battery life and mobile data in Android

Decision between battery life and mobile data

srgsrdgr — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:55:45 GMT

Greetings community,

I use Spotify a lot, as I got a premium membership.

The playlists I listen to, I downloaded on my device, which is a Samsung Galaxy S7 with the newest Android on it.

Now I got a flatrate with 1,5 GB per month and here starts the problem:

Problem A: I use Spotify in online-mode and it consumes a lot of data, despite the fact that I downloaded the playlists. I think, that it gets the covers and some background information. But here lies the problem: it consumes roughly 500-600 MB data per month, which in my opinion is a lot more it should.

Now I thought, that I am smart and use the offline mode, but here comes the next problem:

Problem B: As soon as I put Spotify in offline mode, I can watch the battery go down very rapidly. In fact its so fast, that when I charged my phone at work, drive home and do some sports with Spotify on, the battery is back to like 50% again, as normally in Online-Mode it used to have 75-80% after the same period of time.

Is there anyone which has the same problems? I googled for it, but all I found were some topics from like 2013.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: Decision between battery life and mobile data

Joe — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:42:37 GMT

Hi. I have an S7 Edge and haven't noticed increased battery drain in offline mode but I'll test this to see if I can reproduce. Any chance of posting screen captures showing this?

Two screens would be helpful:

settings > battery > battery usage
application manager > spotify

Thanks.

Re: Decision between battery life and mobile data

srgsrdgr — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:47:34 GMT

Hi Joe,

thanks for the reply.

I hope that its not a problem, that my screenshots are german.

As some background information: Roughly from 6-7.30 AM I use Spotify, as I take the train. The rest of the chart is while I am at work and dont use Spotify at all.

Sometimes I take a look at my mobile. Sometimes I write back at WhatsApp Web, because I use it on my Windows 7, with a connection to my mobile.

Screenshot 1 shows the battery chart:

The flat part is over night, as I deactivate any mobile Data, despite Bluetooth and put my mobile in "Do not disturb"-mode.

As soon as I activate mobile data or WLAN it goes down rapidly again.

All with Spotify put in Offline-mode

Screenshot 2 is from the application manager:

Screenshot 3 shows the usage percentages from an app I installed, to identify my sudden battery loss:

When I use Spotify in Online-Mode, the battery chart is much more flattened out and the drop is not that harsh.

Appreciate your help. Maybe there is something.

Re: Decision between battery life and mobile data

Joe — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:17:08 GMT

Hi again. German's fine as long as the layout is the same but I did have to put my glasses on:)

The GSAM screen didn't help much but the other two screens were useful. The battery usage screen for spotify shows it used 384maH which is only about 11% of the battery capacity so that doesn't seem at all excessive.

The main battery screen shows that spotify only used 18% of the total used since last charge so android system and other apps used 82% between them.

I'd suggest you power the phone off and back on as that usually fixes issues like this and maybe take a closer look at the other apps listed on the battery screen. But hey, you're getting 24 hours usage on one charge, which isn't too bad.

I use power saving mode on my S7 and get close to 2 days on one charge. You might want to give it a try and see if you can live with the disadvantages such as no always on screen, slower notifications and a few others.