hi! regarding the battery life of galaxy buds 2, does it really decrease this rapidly? these are new (not even a week old). the noise cancellation is on also. they said that the battery life is 5 hrs but it doesnt feel like it?? am i the only one experiencing this or my buds are defective?

Pretty annoying every single reviewer claims 5 hours with ANC, they're just basically quoting Samsung and that's it.

Here's my experience with them. I left my home to go to the gym at 17:40, that's when I started streaming music from Spotify with ANC ON.

Left the gym at 21, at 21:03 they died.

So from 17:40 to 21:00 that's 3:20. Paired to my Galaxy S10+ so obviously using SSC codec which should, in theory, be more efficient as well.

3 hours and 20 is WELL below the advertised durability. Pretty disappointed because otherwise I absolutely love them but this, theoretically worse than most high end buds.

If the battery in the case of your Galaxy Buds 2 is empty/dead all of a sudden and you cannot charge it, no matter what charger you try, chances are that its voltage is too low. Hence, the charging circuits decide not to charge it anymore. (Before doing anything else, try cleaning the contacts!)

Well, I would say there are two options for you: A) Buy a replacement battery B) Revive your current battery

A) is arguably easier. It is definitely advised if your battery is visibly broken (bloated) or if it has been dying on you anyway.

If you think that your battery has some life left in it and you want to try to revive it, here's how you do it:

1. You remove the Buds from their case. You pry open the case, meaning you separate the grey inlay from the outer shell. You can do this with thin metal tooling or a plastic plectrum.

2. You remove the battery by unscrewing the too little screws holding it in place.

3. You get an external charger. I did this with a dedicated battery charger that always shows charging current and voltage. I think this is helpful.

4. You localize the positive and negative terminals on the battery.

5. With any means you can think of, you connect the negative terminal on your charger to the negative terminal on the battery; the same for the positive terminals.

Your battery should now start charging.

It can be quite the finicky setup however. I'll show some pictures of mine. I put in a battery dummy with masked-off poles, in order to clamp some wire to the charger terminals. Good thing is that you only have to hold it in place for one or two minutes. All you're really trying to do is to jump-start the battery (increase its voltage slightly), so that the original charger will recognize it again.

Best of luck! Hope it helps someone.

P.S.: During the time it took to write this, my case has gone from 2% to 13%.