Samsung Galaxy S21 Battery Drain Issue Fixed With Second February Update

A new day and a new Feb update is live for the Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphones. More importantly, this latest update fixes the battery drain event which several Galaxy S21 users were facing.

Notably, this is the second February update for the Milky way S21 devices. The previous one updated the security patch level to February 2021.

Although the changelog does non mention anything related to fixing the bombardment drain issue, multiple Galaxy S21 users took to XDA forums to report that the update indeed fixes the battery bleed problems.

Some time back, users of Galaxy S21 reported that switching over to the LTE module drains out the bombardment excessively. This issue surfaced the Galaxy S21 units after the previous update.

Moreover, multiple apps were nevertheless running in the background draining the battery, despite setting it to deep sleep. Merely the Exynos variants of the Milky way S21 and S21 Plus were affected by this problem. The temporary fix for this outcome was to put the telephone in Airplane style.

Samsung, fortunately, best-selling the issues every bit shortly as the outcome was reported. The visitor even said that it is working on a fix for this result and volition soon roll out an update.

Snapdragon models and Exynos Galaxy S21 Ultra were not plagued by the bombardment drain outcome

As per multiple reports on Reddit and the official Samsung community forum, the Snapdragon models and the Exynos Milky way S21 Ultra devices were non suffering from this battery bleed outcome.

The expert thing is that it seems like the fix is arriving with this 2nd Feb update. Talking about the update, it arrives with firmware version G9988XXU1AUB6 and weighs around 257.34 MB in size.

The update keeps the security patch level at Feb 2021. The changelog of the update mentions it brings improvements in the camera and overall system performance.

Despite no mention of fixing the battery drain effect, several users have themselves confirmed that the latest update with software version AUB6 solves the bombardment bleed problem.

At present, the new update is rolling out only for the users in UK, Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany. Nevertheless, it is expected to expand over to other regions in the coming days.

The update, as usual, is rolling out via OTA in batches. It volition make its way to all the devices gradually. So, if your device has not picked upward the update yet, and so you demand to probably look for it.

You tin also manually check for the update by heading over to Settings>> System updates>> Download and install. Your phone will then commencement checking for the new update.