These tips can be applied at pretty much everything, laptops, phones, what ever. Great video, I also really appreciate your dedication to the surface duo series. It's nice having someone in a world where no one knows that even exists lol
Very helpful, thanks! Another thing you can do is to install Naptime from the Play Store. Once you grant it the necessary permissions via ADB i only loose 1% battery overnight on my duo1.
Often times the best way to save battery that no one talks about is just shutting off whichever of mobile data, or wifi that aren't in use currently. Are you at home on wifi? Turn off mobile data. Are you away from the house and can't connect to wifi turn off wifi. One of the biggest battery drains on devices are when the radio is constantly pinging looking for connection. If you shut off half of those radios you use a good deal less of that power.
you’re the only person who can probably help me with my duo. everytime i play games or open social media, the right side of my duo tends to get hot. is there a way to fix it? thank you.
Here's a few tips I hope help someone : I disabled Google Assistant and I simply use Alexa by swiping from the corner on my Duo 2. I use Alexa in my home so it made sense. Another plus is I noticed it saves me quite a bit of battery. Also toggle the Override force-dark setting to be always on in developer settings. Depending on how strict you want to be about background tasks, you can also set the Background process limit in developer settings as well. I do that when I want background processes to work, but I don't want to go through 20 apps to change the settings to "restrict". It changes day by day. I have it set to 2 or 3 generally.
I am very concerned. I got my brand new duo 2 yesterday. I fully charged my phone over night, I woke up and used it for 15 minutes and it drained 20%. My battery says 80% will die in 1 hour 20 minutes. I have done all your tips and still an extreme drain. I've not run any apps, only chrome for browsing. Could this be a battery fault? I am gutted about the battery 😭
What are your thoughts on the idea you shouldn't let your phone charge to 100% or discharge to 0% regularly? I have a battery charger alarm and set my phone to 80% full and 20% full, meaning I always have my battery charged between those numbers.
The data is pretty clear, fully discharging or fully charging your battery does adversely affect its longevity. That being said, it's not something that's going to cause the battery to deteriorate past the point of decent function very quickly. You're still going to get multiple years out of the device. Super rapid charging definitely degrades it as well.
Great video once again. Luckily my battery holds up super good. Is it normal, that the screens of my Duo 1 flexes? 🤔The screen on my iPhone didn't flex at all 😅
Really handy video as per normal, thank you so much Shane, but I went to look for your links to the chargers you mentioned, and I couldn't find them - I was interested in the fast charger. I hit your Amazon link, but that took me to a generic home page on Amazon so that wasn't a help either lol. If you have a link to the charger, please drop it below, thank you and keep up the awesome content :)
Okay, my late response. 1) My battery on an average day ends with about 20% charge remaining. 2) On a heavy Duo Panel Day refill at dinner or about 12~14 hours . 3) On a lighter Duo Panel Day 50% at 18 hours. 4) My Stand-by time is into the second day.. I use Mint Mobile as data (t-mobile) which sucks adjusted to wifi calling. 5) Battery saver may be my bad adjustment, the wifi stays on one of four modems or extenders. I have to force modems change when I walk 50 feet from primary modem to backyard extender.. Comcast speeds are 50m. Sadly my note 20 has att better signal in this area East if Oakland California. One bar LTE if I'm lucky. Z~Booster home cell booster does not help (Mint Mobile/T-Mobile) inside of 2 story house. Damn what a word salad. I believe Russian Dressing and a White Russian helps explain. (Not First Again as I am Slipping)
interesting presentation. I'd rather see the duo screen full screen than you talking though. it is very hard to see the duo screen when shrunk down to half screen.
Love the device, on the fence over going for it. This is actually Microsoft's job to iron out all these issues, tweaks and ship a complete product that gives both software and hardware experience. It took Google 6 iterations of Pixel to get it right in their 7th Gen. Microsoft being a pioneer in software field since time immemorial, this is least expected out of them. Users should not be put to task; specially after having paid a hefty premium for a user experience so clunky.
Have to keep in mind that while Microsoft has been making software for a long time, they've only just started making an Android phone. They're still new to this part.
@@scaryifliteral my point of view is that Microsoft(MS) has been a pioneer in developing and porting mobile operating systems since ages for ARM devices. Windows CE OS for PDAs 20 yrs back; being their own baby doesn’t give them the leeway to mess it up with Android. After all being one of the most affluent tech companies, rials to Apple, they have enough resources to hire the best android developers and make it shine ✨…..
@@scaryifliteral my point of view is that Microsoft(MS) has been a pioneer in developing and porting mobile operating systems since ages for ARM devices. Windows CE OS for PDAs 20 yrs back; being their own baby doesn’t give them the leeway to mess it up with Android. After all being one of the most affluent tech companies, rials to Apple, they have enough resources to hire the best android developers and make it shine ✨…..
It is not a joke but you are becoming the Surface Duo guru ,because your dedication and knowledge with it .
These tips can be applied at pretty much everything, laptops, phones, what ever. Great video, I also really appreciate your dedication to the surface duo series. It's nice having someone in a world where no one knows that even exists lol
Yep, only a couple are Duo specific. Maybe just one actually.
@@scaryifliteral I'm pretty sure your the only one, if there are others, yours has more in depth content instead of just mentioning things.
You're definitely the MAN as far as Duo/Duo2 goes... Your reviews got me to dump apple for the Duo2... Keep up the great work
It's weird but you have become that youtuber that i go watch every day 🔥
That's awesome, thanks!
As always, appreciate your diligence and hard work
Just got a Surface Duo and your video was very helpful. Thanks!😀
Glad it helped!
I got my duo and I am crazy, I returned my Z fold 4 to best buy. No regrets, will wait to see what pixel fold and Z fold 5 will bring
I don't know if it was meant to be there but we can see your email at 17:23. However, great video !
Not the end of the world, I guess I forgot it was on screen the second time 🤣
Very helpful, thanks! Another thing you can do is to install Naptime from the Play Store. Once you grant it the necessary permissions via ADB i only loose 1% battery overnight on my duo1.
I'll have to look at that one
Surface duo or galaxy fold? I vote surface duo. What about you?
For me, Duo. Love my Fold though.
Microsoft launcher using quite lots of battery on my device. I limited battery usage. Hopefully it saves somewhat juice
Battery saver mode has made the single biggest impact on my power consumption.
Often times the best way to save battery that no one talks about is just shutting off whichever of mobile data, or wifi that aren't in use currently. Are you at home on wifi? Turn off mobile data. Are you away from the house and can't connect to wifi turn off wifi. One of the biggest battery drains on devices are when the radio is constantly pinging looking for connection. If you shut off half of those radios you use a good deal less of that power.
you’re the only person who can probably help me with my duo. everytime i play games or open social media, the right side of my duo tends to get hot. is there a way to fix it? thank you.
The right side is where your SoC is and it's going to get hot when it's under load. Duo is very thin and can't dissipate heat very well.
Overnight battery drain for me is between the 1 - 4 percentile for the most part.
Here's a few tips I hope help someone :
I disabled Google Assistant and I simply use Alexa by swiping from the corner on my Duo 2. I use Alexa in my home so it made sense. Another plus is I noticed it saves me quite a bit of battery.
Also toggle the Override force-dark setting to be always on in developer settings.
Depending on how strict you want to be about background tasks, you can also set the Background process limit in developer settings as well. I do that when I want background processes to work, but I don't want to go through 20 apps to change the settings to "restrict". It changes day by day. I have it set to 2 or 3 generally.
My duo 2 battery works average 14 hours a day. RUclips, candy crush, emails, Facebook, and multitasking with ppt, word etc.
I am very concerned. I got my brand new duo 2 yesterday.
I fully charged my phone over night, I woke up and used it for 15 minutes and it drained 20%.
My battery says 80% will die in 1 hour 20 minutes.
I have done all your tips and still an extreme drain.
I've not run any apps, only chrome for browsing.
Could this be a battery fault?
I am gutted about the battery 😭
Thank you very useful as always
I use greenify to stop background processes to save battery
What are your thoughts on the idea you shouldn't let your phone charge to 100% or discharge to 0% regularly? I have a battery charger alarm and set my phone to 80% full and 20% full, meaning I always have my battery charged between those numbers.
The data is pretty clear, fully discharging or fully charging your battery does adversely affect its longevity. That being said, it's not something that's going to cause the battery to deteriorate past the point of decent function very quickly. You're still going to get multiple years out of the device. Super rapid charging definitely degrades it as well.
Is it possible to sync galaxy watch 4 alarm with Duo 2
Great video once again. Luckily my battery holds up super good.
Is it normal, that the screens of my Duo 1 flexes? 🤔The screen on my iPhone didn't flex at all 😅
Your iPhone also isn't 5mm thick. That's the culprit for the flex.
My idle time is great, but especially over night. I assume it's because I use bed time mode but I really don't know why.
Which brand and model watch are you using with the surface duo/duo 2?
TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra.
Really handy video as per normal, thank you so much Shane, but I went to look for your links to the chargers you mentioned, and I couldn't find them - I was interested in the fast charger. I hit your Amazon link, but that took me to a generic home page on Amazon so that wasn't a help either lol. If you have a link to the charger, please drop it below, thank you and keep up the awesome content :)
I was having tons of issues with RUclips yesterday. Looks like it didn't save my last edit. Let me do it again shortly!
Fast charger amzn.to/3OKWmGX
Okay, my late response.
1) My battery on an average day ends with about 20% charge remaining.
2) On a heavy Duo Panel Day refill at dinner or about 12~14 hours .
3) On a lighter Duo Panel Day 50% at 18 hours.
4) My Stand-by time is into the second day.. I use Mint Mobile as data (t-mobile) which sucks adjusted to wifi calling.
5) Battery saver may be my bad adjustment, the wifi stays on one of four modems or extenders. I have to force modems change when I walk 50 feet from primary modem to backyard extender..
Comcast speeds are 50m.
Sadly my note 20 has att better signal in this area East if Oakland California. One bar LTE if I'm lucky.
Z~Booster home cell booster does not help (Mint Mobile/T-Mobile) inside of 2 story house.
Damn what a word salad.
I believe Russian Dressing and a White Russian helps explain.
(Not First Again as I am Slipping)
Does the duo have the option to disable mobile data or WiFi for certain apps?
Not that I'm aware of. You can restrict background data per app though.
interesting presentation. I'd rather see the duo screen full screen than you talking though. it is very hard to see the duo screen when shrunk down to half screen.
Where did you get that wallpaper?
wallpaperaccess.com/black-windows-11
im just seeing this video lol stupid notification bell didnt show me
anyone elses slim pen 1 completely stop working wiht duo1?
Not completely, but this ruclips.net/video/1kwUC0de5mI/видео.html
Love the device, on the fence over going for it. This is actually Microsoft's job to iron out all these issues, tweaks and ship a complete product that gives both software and hardware experience. It took Google 6 iterations of Pixel to get it right in their 7th Gen. Microsoft being a pioneer in software field since time immemorial, this is least expected out of them. Users should not be put to task; specially after having paid a hefty premium for a user experience so clunky.
Have to keep in mind that while Microsoft has been making software for a long time, they've only just started making an Android phone. They're still new to this part.
@@scaryifliteral my point of view is that Microsoft(MS) has been a pioneer in developing and porting mobile operating systems since ages for ARM devices. Windows CE OS for PDAs 20 yrs back; being their own baby doesn’t give them the leeway to mess it up with Android. After all being one of the most affluent tech companies, rials to Apple, they have enough resources to hire the best android developers and make it shine ✨…..
@@scaryifliteral my point of view is that Microsoft(MS) has been a pioneer in developing and porting mobile operating systems since ages for ARM devices. Windows CE OS for PDAs 20 yrs back; being their own baby doesn’t give them the leeway to mess it up with Android. After all being one of the most affluent tech companies, rials to Apple, they have enough resources to hire the best android developers and make it shine ✨…..