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[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Thoroughly impressed as time goes on with the s6. My other phone the s6 edge just as good :)

Browsing, ton of benchmarks, camera, all my usual stuff. 4 hours sot at the half way battery mark! Omg

The really good thing about the phone is practically no power is used up on this thing during idling times! When I'm not using it 0% drop in battery! Over night 1% drop. I had a 7% drop one night but that's cause I was using night clock which is buggy and lights the whole screen

I can't wait for Android 5.1 which should make this thing even better on battery! Damn
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
Something I've noticed which I'm sure isn't new... The Google Services line item on the battery page tends to change icons every now and then. Sometimes it's the icon for Play Services, sometimes it's the icon for Contacts. I haven't seen it switch to anything else yet, though. What's up with that?
[Galaxy S6 General] apsis:
Great stats, your app battery usage, especially the android is way lower than on my side. I wonder how you archived that. I can't complain about battery (6 hours SOT most of the time)but android system drain is always quite high
[Galaxy S6 General] RCJ89:
This rings true for myself, very impressed with the battery life.

whilst not using the phone also 0% drain and overnight 1 or 2am - 8.20am only 1% drain.
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
That's pretty incredible idle time. Do y'all have the full gamut of Google and location services turned on?
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Yep I'm getting about 7 hours sot. Can't complain about that. If I absolutely cain it, 5 hours 45 minutes. That's playing tekken 3 for ages

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I got the usual Google/gmail and Samsung accounts auto syncing, wifi always on, even Facebook which is usually notorious for draining. I only put location on when i need to, bluetooth is on all the time though cause I just want to get into my Q7 without having to remember putting it on. If I get a call in the car I just want it to come through the speakers, no remembering to enable it

I'll try leaving location on and see what happens. Smartphones are meant to handle everything smartly. We should be leaving everything on. Feel sorry for those having problems, especially the tmobile usa lot. It's software, I'm with O2 UK and they've nailed their software and seem to have really optimized it for their network.
[Galaxy S6 General] RCJ89:
I have nothing on, no wi-fi, no 4G, screen brightness at about 20% on auto, just music player left on pause, alarm set for 8.20am also apps probably still open aswell as i never close all apps before I go to bed, so things like camera, messages, whats app, music player, call logs still idling.

This is the same procedure I have had with all phones I have had in recent times and most phones i have had have dropped atleast 2-8% in the same time frame.

Previous phones being:

Note 4, 2% drain (my fiance now uses my note 4 as her note 3 smashed) it still is 2% drain I tested it the other night

Xperia Z3 (my cousin now has that) that was between 2-3% drain

Galaxy S5, 4% drain

Galaxy S4, 4-5% drain

HTC M7, 6-8% drain

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I cannot complain about the batter life on my s6 atall, admittedly I havent put it through a thorough test as I am at work for long periods but I still text alot during the day and use whats app alot, make a fair few calls, browse the internet intermittently via 4G and the battery drains slowly which is good.

All i can say is I buy all my phones S6 £660, Note 4 £630, Z3 £550, S5 £560, S4 £580 and all those phones bar the s5 I have never regretted spending money on but the s6 is just a different level of no regret from the look to the feel to the user experience I just love it and everyone who has seen it wants one espeically gold model that I have which more of the time looks a silvery Gold.
[Galaxy S6 General] crazymook:
No idle time, 7 hours SOT.....us americans are getting f'd.
[Galaxy S6 General] elbos2k:
Were not...
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
I just got gsam and it shows me having just used 4% in 12 minutes. Is that normal? Brightness is auto, location off, no google now, many things disabled, average sot is 5.5 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] anewday:
http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s6-battery-life-bad-update-might-help

Anyone noticed a difference after the update?
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Not yet. It'd be nice if it did something eh. Doubt it though. Keep us posted.
[Galaxy S6 General] elbos2k:
That's actually really good. You can use Location but make sure you select the Wfi/Data Location option if you need it...

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I updated that app in the morning and so far I haven't noticed a difference. I'm still getting great battery life either way...
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
Is this custom rom? Thanks in advance and if its not, is this with the new update? Thanks and what carrier do u have?
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
No custom rom. O2 UK latest firmware. Stock everything, no root.
[Galaxy S6 General] cheetah2k:
I'm really happy with my S6 128gb. Managed 4hrs 42min SOT yesterday down to 15% and that was with a lot of downloading and setting up the phone after a unboxing and a full charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Is there a way to manually adjust brightness with power saving on? I like all of the things it does like turning the cpu down etc. but it makes the screen too dim. Any way I could adjust it a bit and have power saving mode on? Or maybe do some of the things power saving mode does via developer options?
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
If you pull down the notification bar, you can manually adjust it once power saving mode is enabled.

Sent from my SM-G920V
[Galaxy S6 General] amieldl143:
Here's mine today. From Sunday when i got the phone battery was terrible after few charge cycles all is good..after update and samsung push service update pretty good for smaller battery qhd screen and powerfull.processor.. cant complain...
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Thank you. I didn't realize power saving would stay on with the brightness adjusted manually.

Is it recommended to have on normally? I think I'm getting pretty good results even without it (5.5 hrs sot) but I am obsessed with better battery life now haha.
[Galaxy S6 General] Phineuser:
Battery life compare to the galaxy s4

Please I have right now the galaxy s4 for two years now and I'm really interested to buy the galaxy S6. I want an honest answer: for those who already had the galaxy s4 how is the battery life compare to the s6. Is it at least as good as the s4 or just better?
[Galaxy S6 General] kemo6600:
S6 is definitely better than S4, S4 was bad when it comes to battery , i needed Clean rom + Xposed + Greenify to last a full day of heavy usage .
[Galaxy S6 General] Phineuser:
Great!!!

Thanks you. That's a good news!! Actually I'm happy with Galaxy s4 battery life. If so, the galaxy S6 battery life will be fine for me
[Galaxy S6 General] MJFox78:
my standby battery life was really poor until I disabled LTE and switched to HSDPA only... now the standby battery life is MUCH better

I understand that LTE uses more power, but coming from HTC devices I'm surprised that the Samsung S6 is always conntected to LTE, even when the phone is idle

my HTC devices were using 3G/HSDPA when the phone was idle and only switched to LTE when the phone was transfering data (while browsing the web or downloading something)

does anybody know how to make sure that the phone switches back to HSDPA while being idle? it's a pitty that I have to disable LTE just to get a decent battery life from the device

I'm not rooted (yet), I'm using the internation version (920F) and I'm from Austria (carrier is A1)

greetings

MJFox
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
I had been having terrible battery life, but after the Samsung Push service update was installed last night I saw only a 6% drop overnight, about 1% an hour. That's with wifi and sync on. No way I was anywhere close to that before.
[Galaxy S6 General] stevessvt:
Since the Samsung Push update yesterday it's been much better for me too. On my drive in to work, about 15 minutes long, I would listen to Pandora. It would drop about 2-3% in that time. Today on top of that I'm about 15 minutes using it online and still at 100% .
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
Was the update for the ppl in the U.S as well? Because mine says up to date...[emoji20] i checked last night and today...
[Galaxy S6 General] bkeaver:
This is an app in the Google play store not an update from the settings menu
[Galaxy S6 General] stevessvt:
So I just got 45 minutes of OST out of the first 10%. Which for me is a lot better than it was. This includes 15 minutes of audio streaming with screen off as mentioned above with the screen off.
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Just picked my S6 up lastnight and would like to hear more about findings on the update and the improved battery life users are reporting.
[Galaxy S6 General] mlv2148:
Verizon here. Had the phone a week. Cleared cache. Wifi off, location off, Google Now disabled, auto brightness. This is terrible. I'm considering returning this phone just due to battery life, I like everything else. No idea how people are getting five hours SOT. Any one had improvements? Do yall have it on power saving mode all the time?
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Yeah I have had it for a few hours myself, (well overnight) and even though its a new device when I got my iPhone 6+ it never drained like this and personally I do not see it getting any better. I am not a fanboy as I own many Android devices but this isn't going to cut it. I think the device is going back on my lunch break.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Wow, this ain't good. I'm getting mine on Monday and I'm already worried. Roms and kernels can't come soon enough.
[Galaxy S6 General] elbos2k:
Start reading from here and see if that fixes the battery drain...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=60134281
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Thanks for the link but no need, the device is wiped and back in the box and will be returned at lunch today. I tried to give it a chance but too many shortcomings came out of the wood works and still some annoying TW problems still persist.
[Galaxy S6 General] microserfs:
So it might seem like my battery life is slightly improving maybe. Readings this morning were 18 hours on battery with 4hrs and a half screen on time. Only 10% battery left but I think it's settled down since I disabled overactivity of push notifications on my phone and changed mail to manual sync. I still think there are times when the phone fails to go into deep sleep mode but for the most part, I'm slightly less worried. Will see how it goes tonight as I'm out so I can see if it holds up.
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Just got mine last night and i think so far so good. Did all the suggestions here but i have location on wifi/cell data only. Screen is only at 10% as its too bright for me. Overnight i lost 8% which imo is pretty good. And that's after having 2.5hrs of sot before going to bed. I will update again in a few hrs after my first cycle. Just a quick question though -- how to disable wifi direct? Disable is grayed out on app manager...tia!
[Galaxy S6 General] JDM9499:
I did both. My wife transferred hers through the Samsung Smart Switch (NFC data transfer) during initial setup, as did I. I had battery issues from the get go, she didn't. I did a factory reset (annoyingly after setting up my phone with widgets etc. on Nova beta launcher) and I was then getting similar battery life that my wife was getting from the beginning. Which leads me to believe that it's not related to the Samsung Smart Switch. There's too many irregularities concerning this. No definitive user experience with Smart Switch data transfer being the culprit. Is a factory reset the answer? Maybe. Maybe not. By the time I did a factory reset I was six or seven battery cycles in, so it could very well be one of those placebo effects, thinking the factory reset worked when all along it was the battery just getting better after so many cycles in. I simply have no idea. I'm getting 5-6 hours on screen time with no game play, while at a full day at work in the office. (will try to remember to take a screen shot of usage).

Here's my settings in no particular order:

- Google Location History - ON

- Google Now Cards - OFF (I simply do not use, nor have I ever)

- Opted out of Googles interest-based ads

- Opted out of ALL Google and Samsung volunteer and share "Usage & Diagnostics". You can do that either during initial setup, or in the Samsung settings and also Google settings.

- Location method is set to high (GPS, Wi-fi, and mobile networks) - ON

- Nova Launcher beta with two widgets running on the homescreen - a Zooper widget and month calendar.

- Turned wifi calling to "Cellular Network Preferred", and the main switch off. I only turn the main switch to on when I need it.

- All motions and gestures - OFF.

- "Always Allow Scanning" in wifi settings - OFF (no idea the true purpose of it).

- Samsung pre-installed apps disabled - Memo, Messages, Milk, Milk Video, S Voice, Hancom Office 2014.

- Third party disabled pre-installed apps - WhatsApp.

- Google apps disabled - Google Play Books, Google Play Newsstand.

- T-Mobile (or your carrier) disabled apps - T-Mobile Name ID, T-Mobile TV, Visual Voicemail.

- Gmail push service - ON.

- Office 360 email (for work) - Push is OFF and it's set to Manual.

- Screen brightness - Auto

- Screen timeout 1 minute. I do leave the Samsung feature that detects your eyes ON

- Yahoo! Weather - ON and refresh rate set at every 2 hours.

That's about all I can think of right now. I may be missing some things, but this is essentially the exact settings I used on my LG G3. Gaming obviously kills the battery, so only play when near a charger. Otherwise, I use the phone to almost the default settings. What's turned off is more for privacy and convenience. What's left on is for services I personally use and should be able to use on a smartphone in 2015. Maybe my settings will help folks. Then again, maybe not. Seems like these batteries sort of have a mind of their own. :eek:

* Note * - Woke up this morning to a pushed update from Samsung for their "Samsung Push Service". Mentioned a fix for reduced data usage and power consumption. Will keep watch to see if it helped.
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
Anandtech released their review this morning - always my favorite reviews. Here's their battery section:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9146/the-samsung-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge-review/3
[Galaxy S6 General] omersak:
After a painful 10 day slug with 3 units of the Galaxy S6, I've returned it once and for all due to my battery issues. The modem just doesn't play well with my network no matter what I tried.

Back to my 48+ hour battery iPhone 6+ but immensely missing Android and the S6. Will be monitoring the S6 for updates and 5.1 before diving in again because I absolutely loved everything else.
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
Well you can't say you didn't try. I'm almost in the same boat (though I have the 6, not 6+). I've been able to tweak battery life on the S6 to manageable, but still not to the level of other phones (including the iPhone 6). But for me the signal issues are becoming more and more of a pain. And the amount of time I've spent trying to make this great phone work over the past week...
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Yeah I wanted to love the S6 but coming from the 6+ it was a night and day difference. I just came back from AT&T where I returned my S6 and now back on my 6+. And intdroid you made a good point, you should never have to MAKE a phone be great. I feel like you have to tweak it too much to your liking and you end up disabling things that makes a smartphone a smartphone. I will be paying attention to these threads to see how it goes but I love the ability to beast out on my 6+ and never have to worry about battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] omersak:
Yup, I've acknowledged that this phone can actually give good battery (lots of examples in this thread) but it was unusable for me and my network. I even disabled everything like location and sync but it was of no use. I had the same problem with my network on the S5. Another problem was that the data would not go back to 4G LTE after a call - it'd get stuck on Edge. I had to restart the phone to get the the LTE signal back.

Interestingly, I'm currently testing a friends nexus 6 and it plays much better with my network, \ with everything ON including, 'ok google' from stand-by. I'm really tempted because I miss android but the camera is nowhere near the quality of the iPhone 6+ and especially the S6.

I've learnt over the past 10 days that the last thing I ever want to experience on a phone is battery anxiety - I'd even take coming back to iOS over battery and signal anxiety any day of the week. I mean, I didn't expect it to match the 6+, but it doesn't even get me to my minimum threshold. Guess I'm unlucky.

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Yeah, beasting out on the 6+ is quite something. I was upset with going back to the 6+ so I decided to try and kill its battery by over-using it and gaming on it a lot more than usual. Well, I'm now at 28% remaining after 33 hours of stand-by with 9 hours 6 minutes of usage. Damn it.

Anyway, the S6 in't dead yet for me - I'm hoping to eventually come back to it after an update. It is pretty amazing.
[Galaxy S6 General] stratplayer:
I've come from the iPhone 6+ after a brief stint away from the Android world. I love the phone and it has reminded me how much I have missed Android.

But I am absolutely disappointed with the battery, the iphone 6+ just beats it by miles. I know its a bigger battery but with minimal usage I am lucky to get 12 hours with 30% left which in my opinion is worse than older devices.

The new patch has made no difference at all from Samsung. I read somewhere today on XDA that Google Play Services could be to blame, it is always at the top of my usage stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] apsis:
No idea what's wrong on your end. Imho this phone has some nice kind of battery life
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
I used the smart switch app to port over images from my sprint s4 to my sprint s6. I also used the in store transfer (best buy) for some things and my contacts were on google. My battery is quite good, averaging almost 6 hours sot with location off, location history off, nfc off, bt off, wifi on at home, no auto wifi scan, all google and Samsung apps disabled, 3 emails on manual sync, no games, no sprint apps, auto brightness, 5 mins screen timeout, 1 weather widget, black wallpaper.
[Galaxy S6 General] stratplayer:
Do you have bluetooth and wifi enabled?

I have sync on, wifi on, location on, bluetooth on etc
[Galaxy S6 General] Appok:
This is my battery life, with WiFi / Bluetooth / Sync always on and using LTE. better then my S4!

The first 2 days of using the phone I barely got a day out of it, now it seemed to settle and optimize and its been great!
[Galaxy S6 General] stevessvt:
Curiously I turned VoLTE back on and the high Cell Standby usage in Battery hasn't returned. Its not even listed, and its been on for maybe 2 hours so far.
[Galaxy S6 General] assasin34:
i have sold my s6 after 7 painful day.i really loved this phone.camera,screen exc..but battery life drove me crazy.returned to my iphone6 plus.
[Galaxy S6 General] userguy:
does anyone else think that the battery stats shown seem really weird?

I mean i have over 2hours of sot and yet the consumption of the screen shows a really low number while whatsapp is high, whch i barely used.
[Galaxy S6 General] johanbiff:
Today I got the best screen on Time :) over 6h!
[Galaxy S6 General] tiptop10:
sucks for you, at least you have your i6+ . I've , however, been impressed with battery life.

http://imgur.com/xDcRKdm

http://imgur.com/pUBpDI5

And thats with wifi, tuns of social media, a bit of photo taking. I made a reddit post here : http://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/32uwqs/4_days_with_the_galaxy_s6_comparing_battery_life/
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
XtreStoLite debloated ROM

Used Disable Apps and App Ops to calm google play services.

This was with a lot of texting on bbm and some social media via the browser so very indicative of my normal use.

Still impressed i think this next cycle wilm be even better :D
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
What's crazy is today I'm running with the exact same settings I did the first two days of usage last weekend. Those days were horrible. So I disabled a ton of stuff and slowly have been adding services back all week. Based on everything I could see, my main issues were related to Google Services / location data and auto brightness. With location off or set to power saving, and an auto bright app that kept it relatively dim most of the time, things were going great.

Today I decided to just see what happens with it all back on again since things have been going well the past couple of days. Lo and behold, it's great. Idle time barely moves, and when I'm using it it's exactly what I'd expect.

Makes no sense unless that Samsung Push Service app update really did do something, or Google Services was tweaked on the server side. Color me confused. Hopefully it stays like this, though. :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S6 General] dondavis007:
I also have a M9 and it's about the same battery, in other words back to the 2013
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
First full cycle since I got my s6 yesterday. Not too shabby, eh??
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
And also got 5.5 of screen time!
[Galaxy S6 General] stratplayer:
I got down to 17% with only 1h 14 minutes of onscreen time!! Terrible in my opinion
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
I cleared the cache under recovery mode last night. See if that helps.
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
At the halfway mark my battery is defective I think. Just ain't draining. I mean wow. I have no idea why I'm getting this. Only thing I toggle is location settings even I need it otherwise I leave evening on, forgot to put bluetooth on this time too. But that drains little

Increased after Samsungs play store update I think
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
I finally cried uncle and just did a factory reset. After that great overnight performance, once I got up this morning it just went right back to its old ways. Decided to just bite the bullet and reset before I got too much more comfortable.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
My S6 arrived (i meant is arriving) Monday but I'm already afraid that I'm going to do what you did. A phone with bad battery life isn't for me even if it's the most powerful and the best camera, I need to be able to use and enjoy the phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] omersak:
Man, I hope you'll be able to get acceptable battery life on your unit, similar to what some people on this thread have been getting because everything else is pretty special. And you're right - despite how good everything else was, the bad battery made it absolutely unusable for me. Battery anxiety completely kills a phones experience.

Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S6 General] welshman010:
No issues with battery drain here. Might be my imagination but it seems to take longer to decrease the lower it goes. Had phone a week now an confident it last me the day. From 7am to approx 1 or 2am following day I end up with anything between 20 to 30% left.
[Galaxy S6 General] robertkoa:
I use low brightness on my Alpha unless outside and am thinking of S6 and curious how long battery life is at about 20 % brightness.

Let us know your screen on times at this brightness...

Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Wonderful isn't it. Same here. 1am and I've got 42% with just over 5 hours sot, must be serious variations in software in different regions maybe. Best phone battery I've ever had. Previous title went to my note 3 work it's 8+ hours sot. The 6 in on course to best that this charge cycle. I'm always on auto brightness :D
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
That's very good to hear, need more posts like this to motivate me lol