Galaxy S10 has a frustrating bug that's killing battery life

Last updated: March 18th, 2019 at sixteen:59 UTC+01:00

No smartphone launch would be complete without some initial teething issues, and in the case of the Galaxy S10 that's a rather frustrating problems that results in Tap to Wake activating when it'south non supposed to, like when the handset is in a pocketbook or a pocket — but it seems to be isolated to the US.

"I have an S10, and I go along my phone in my pocket with the screen towards my leg (since my leg is far less likely to damage the screen)," writes one Galaxy S10 owner on Reddit. "The only event with this is that I started feeling the "fingerprint rejected" vibrations while the telephone was in my pocket."

"First thing I did was activate tap to wake, I have never seen this in a Samsung phone earlier. Now I have the newest that Samsung has to offer and it does not work properly," explains some other on Samsung's US Community Forum. "My leg through my cloth taps the phone and opens information technology upwardly."

The consequence results in consistent battery bleed as the screen is waking upwardly more than information technology should exist. In some instances, Tape to Wake is too triggering the camera, which uses up even more than juice as a host of sensors are subsequently activated as the handset thinks information technology'due south operating in low-light weather.

Samsung's advice? Disable Tap to Wake and the Always-On Display. But that'south far from good plenty — when y'all're shelling out around $k for a product, information technology should work equally intended. You lot shouldn't have to disable a feature, or two, to help it last an entire twenty-four hour period on a single charge.

The upshot doesn't appear to be affecting everyone. Almost all the reports nosotros uncovered were from customers in the U.s.a. with either a Milky way S10 or Galaxy S10+, indicating that the bug is an issue with the region'southward firmware. If that's the case, Samsung should be able to fix information technology past a software update.

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Source: https://www.sammobile.com/2019/03/17/galaxy-s10-problems

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