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[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
SOT is bad because all 8 cores running the whole time. I remember the S4 runs most time 1 core when chatting and so on. So guys what you think. Will there be an update for this battery eating S6 monster in the future?
[Galaxy S6 General] James9000:
Plz plz help...is this battery stats fine? I mean my battery life is good? Thnx

USAGE on battery 7 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
[MENTION=6013456]James9000[/MENTION] post a picture like this.
[Galaxy S6 General] James9000:
Hmmm...ok i dont have this app i will give u stats later..thnx
[Galaxy S6 General] amankapoor4:
I just wiped the cache, i think it has definitely made it a little better.
[Galaxy S6 General] Fille84:
You can start by heading over to the LG forum and ask someone there :good:
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Don't know where you're getting that info from. The S6 uses the big.Little CPU architecture meaning that there are four main cores that run during heavier tasks and four 'smaller' cores that run during light tasks and functions. The screen is very power effecting as well, using less power than the S5's display. The main reason for people's battery drain is due mainly to Android as an OS and Google's software sucking the battery dry.
[Galaxy S6 General] amieldl143:
Oh crap. Today i used a regular 5.0 voltage 2.0 amp regular charger. Charges between 1.5 to 2 hours 1 hour on a good day and damn made a difference in battery life. Mine was already good but like today after lunch 1pm 82 percent, got off 4:30pm 81 percent. It improved standby time. Lets see how long it will last my battery after using regular charger. Keep u guys updated...
[Galaxy S6 General] Vasek Rehor:
Hello, I thing that I have quite good battery life (at least i expected something worse) but strange is that phone radio is active 38% of time. I wiped cache from recovery so i hope it will be better.
[Galaxy S6 General] beaverslayer:
Sorry, just saw this. Go into the app drawer and open the power toggle app. Click on settings, toggle settings, then for each toggle you have set click on the toggle and check the box next to "exit on screen lock". I hadn't done this and it was eating on my battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Install this and you see running cores. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.uguess.android.sysinfo.pro

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Look at this guys. I'm using the Instagram app and you can see the running cores. The greens in the picture.
[Galaxy S6 General] Denisuu:
I had 2 Oneplus one's but the touch screens where faulty and I'm tired of dealing with there customer support so I want to buy a S6, if it breaks I can just go to the store.

is the battery really that horrible? Would you guys still buy the phone again or is it really a dealbreaker?
[Galaxy S6 General] Tron666:
Getting better
[Galaxy S6 General] amankapoor4:
I guess i have found one issue why my phone is staying awake and hence bad battery life. When i am walking or mobile, the phone stays awake, initially i thought it was because of S Health counting my steps. So i disabled S health, but still the same issue.

Any pointers?
[Galaxy S6 General] neflictus:
Not mine. Wrong post. Chose something from whatsapp by mistake.
[Galaxy S6 General] unrated87:
Are you using the stock settings ? 7hrs of SoT I'm not even getting on my OPO :x
[Galaxy S6 General] Tron666:
Im using Alliance rom, with adam's 1.2 Kernel.

Use Greenify to put all unused apps to sleep. i also fixed my always awake bug, and deleted all bloatware with titanium backup.

Also wiped cache. i use LUX "day" profile for my brightness control.

if Cell Standby drains ur battery. wipe your cache and let the phone "update apps".

i heard also disabling DATA Roaming helps.

thats bascially what i did

p.s:

I also use Adguard (paid version) to get rid of all data draning ads, and even those u dont know are there. high recommended app. it boosts the speed of your browser as well.

last thing i would suggest is, Use Rom Toolbox to force restart ur systemUI. it helps to boost phones speed. it has some bug atm that the systemui sucks all your ram.

i restart it every 1-2 days..
[Galaxy S6 General] yahyoh:
All cores being online doesn't mean they are used or consuming power...
[Galaxy S6 General] unrated87:
thanks for the explanation. I will try to reproduce that :D
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
But on the S4 it shows only 1 core when chatting or so. The diagram in the picture shows cpu activity. So all are working at the same time.
[Galaxy S6 General] Tron666:
iv edited my post, and added few points i just recalled :)
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Look again on the picture. All 8 cores a active and running at the same time. So they eat power.
[Galaxy S6 General] stealyourface1:
Sent from my SM-G920V
[Galaxy S6 General] myd.:
Honestly, the battery is not "that bad".

I have root installed, use greenify and disabled all stuff I don't use. I left facebook messenger, Whatsapp and some other push services "un-greenified" and I drain about 6-7% an hour while using my s6.

before I did all the above it would drain 10-12% per hour. So to me it was worth doing so. If you don't want to go through all that hassle you can just use it out of the box, fast charging really goes... Fast. But since I don't like to unplug my device at 50% (old habit of charging from 20 - 100% only) I prefer my device lasts a full day so I can charge it before I go to bed, unplug it and put it in airplane mode. That way it's not hooked up to the charger unnecessary long and I still have 100% battery at the beginning of the day .

So to Answer your question : it's not the best battery out there, but it's not a deal breaker, would definitely buy the s6 again.

Hope this helps u make your choice.

Send from my SM-T805 using Tapatalk.
[Galaxy S6 General] kutlay1653:
If we would battery save we can try these codes

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180

ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=0

On build.prop

Sorry my bad english
[Galaxy S6 General] kutlay1653:
If we would battery save we can try these codes

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180

ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=0

On build.prop

Sorry my bad english and we can try minimum brigthness module on xposed installer
[Galaxy S6 General] Jiyeon90:
That's weird, are you sure all 8 cores are active?

my device with Snapdragon 801 only uses 2 cores when running one of the most demanding android games, hearthstone.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Not really sure. But the diagram showing it like all 8 cores running at the same time.
[Galaxy S6 General] Super Chimp:
How are people getting such high Google Services, it barely registers on mine at 2%?
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
I'm not quite sure what is up with Google Services. If I spend the day on WiFi, Google services doesn't even appear in my usage stats. Once I'm on a mobile connection, that's when Google Services begins to suck battery life like mad.

It's interesting because I have essentially disabled anything that could be leading to the drain aside from disabling Google Play Services itself.

Since it's only appearing during the use of mobile data, I'm leaning toward it being a bug that Google will hopefully rectify in the future, there really doesn't seem to be another reason why.
[Galaxy S6 General] lowjinyik:
I get similar CPU readings as well. Whatever I'm doing, chat, web, scrolling thru Instagram. I rarely ever see any one of my cores go offline for some reason.
[Galaxy S6 General] nicemsp:
This is a lollipop bug that is right now low priority to fix. Mobile radio is kept active over data but not wifi, causing battery drain only over data. Google 'google services mobile radio active' and you'll see.
[Galaxy S6 General] genetichazzard:
Google Services is a blanket for many apps, including some games, GPS and even streaming services.
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
Yeah I figured, it's kind of annoying though. The time it takes Google to fix bugs is ridiculous and I have my doubts it will be fixed anytime soon.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Is that Xposed working on S6. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] jacobb23:
So is this what you guys have been experiencing?
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
I was just looking to find an answer but GPS 7.5.71 is on top of the list for me too, way above screen, 2nd is google app. Something is not right here....
[Galaxy S6 General] amankapoor4:
Finally after getting pissed off to an extent of no return, i have formatted the phone and have not installed any app except gsam monitor and th stock apps. Let me see if it still keeps the phone awake for unreasonable hours, i will then probably need to take it to service centre :(
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
same on my phone, I don't know which app you used but I checked under /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline , that doesnt seem right, 4-7 should only be online under stress but at least when they are online 0-3 should be offline
[Galaxy S6 General] gashishpetim:
Update google play service

The latest version S6 ..<25.05.2015>

Google Play services 7.5.71 (1955121-440).....￼

http://www.mediafire.com/download/z...gms-7.5.71_(1955121-440)-7571440-minAPI21.apk
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
This is exactly my issue, makes me want to install KitKat. It's a joke of a bug. Only issue I have with my s6.
[Galaxy S6 General] amankapoor4:
No help the creepy phone just has to be awake if I am moving, wat cap, extremely disappointed and the fact I have missed my one week of exchange window means lot of trips to service centre.

Is there any way to stop the pedometer completely?
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Dude that how it works 200 mhz unless you change the governor, that how interactive handles tasks

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
But I have no root lol. And I don't want it.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
It's the default hotpluging algorithm I'm guessing, once rooted you can use different ones where all a57 sleep while nothing is happening.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Yes I know what I can do with root but I don't root again a phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
I don't understand what the problem is, when it's deep sleeping all cores are sleeping, if your phone stays awake then there 's a problem. No battery draining from 200mhz idling

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
My deep sleep is good but the battery drain when I use the phone isn't the best.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
What's ur drain % per 5 minutes? That's what you should do, see what every 5 minutes drain under different scenarios, but yes ur phone should get you through the day, I'm getting 5 SOT on 3g with Gmail syncing, Android services eat ur battery under mobile

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] neflictus:
How the hell do you get these kind of problems ? I get at least 5 hours of sot every time. Not rooted.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Last stats
[Galaxy S6 General] diogoperas:
I don't understand how people can get stats like yours. The maximum I get from mine is 3h SOT with 14h standby. And it's in a "good day". Most of the time is worse. Google play services and google services being the top consumers.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
You have updated to last google play service? And wiped the cache from it?
[Galaxy S6 General] diogoperas:
Doesn't Google Play Services update automatically?
[Galaxy S6 General] exxi:
Quite satisfied with this ****
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Updates in Play store not the quickest.
[Galaxy S6 General] jacobb23:
I have the most up to date GPS. I dropped my S5 yesterday and my horrifies at how bad I cracked it.

I love evrything about this phone except the battery so far. Im getting ok standby the next day and am going to put it through the ringer in my 14 days when i can still take it back.

Im a desk worker and it charges so fast hopefully it won't be a problem.

Anybody have any stories of the battery leveling out and getting better?
[Galaxy S6 General] Rama390:
I think that's how it works. It's called Global Task Scheduling, which enables the use of all physical cores at the same time. Threads with high priority or computational intensity can in this case be allocated to the "big" cores while threads with less priority or less computational intensity, such as background tasks, can be performed by the "LITTLE" cores.

Look it up on Wiki
[Galaxy S6 General] plaxy:
So basically the S6 is capable of running a game or program while at the same time Proccess backround data such as syncing and and alerts without interrupting or effecting the quality of Program in Front operation. this is probably also why antutu gives it such a High rating that competes with laptops in computational prowells. it trully is running octacore system wide. just no single app will be able to use more than 4 cores at one time.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I think moving forward, everyone should also post a screenshot of this screen in GSam. It would better let us know what light conditions your screen is being used in.
[Galaxy S6 General] lowjinyik:
What happened to CPU hot plugging? If the cores are not doing anything, isn't it just wasting resources staying online?
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
A little bit better after wipe cache in recovery
[Galaxy S6 General] rankoradza:
LoL, ur battery life is amazing !! How you do it? Is there smth you did, root or i don't know what ??

I use a lot Facebook, Instagram, viber etc..
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
Just a little better, im not very happy, i know this phone can do more SOT, maybe because is Dual ?

Sent from Galaxy S6 Duos
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
8h sot? what u did?:)) let the phone awake without touching it?

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[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
How do I get such amazing battery life while streaming movies constantly? 6 hour SOT with 35 percent still.

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[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
uh , no, actually i just used, and used and used
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
u didnt play any game right?

this is only possible if u just read xda or do very simple tasks.. most people around here got 4h sot but they actually use the phone..getting 8hsot on the s6....is not so credible..

can u give more information please?

what rom are u using? tweaks u did..etc kernel
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
I only get around 3-4 hours of SoT using only web browser, facebook, whatsapp and some ebay.

No games at all.
[Galaxy S6 General] anish3232:
I am getting horrible battery. My largest drain now is facebook and prior to rooting and installing XtreStoLite, it was Google Services. I usually get 1.5-2 hours screen time and about 10-12 hours of standby. In comparison, my oneplus one could last 1.5 days with heavier usage. I've tried most of the battery saving procedures (turn of google location, turn off wi-fi smart scanning, etc.)
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
I'm on custom stock rom,and I use my phone a lot. Just not using Facebook and crome. I get 7-8 hours of SOT easy

Sent from Galaxy S6 Duos
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Getting better and better
[Galaxy S6 General] bigup7:
screen brightness set to 20%, this is 3rd charge from brand new
[Galaxy S6 General] nolimit78:
So i've been trying to hunt this down for a while with no joy. Anyone else having the audiomix causing crazy wake locks? I've thought it was facebook, chrome, g+, google music but it still keeps coming around.
[Galaxy S6 General] Puten:
Not really happy with battery life... Any tips to do it better than that?

*sarcasm
[Galaxy S6 General] EMP83:
Me too i'm interested about some tips!
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
Same problem here. Tried multiple roms, clean wipe including int sdcard.

But it doesn't seem to really be affecting my battery much. See screens below:
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
Have u rooted ur phone? If so I have a few tips to nip the Google play services wake locks :D
[Galaxy S6 General] EMP83:
Yes, i have rooted my phone. Thank you!
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
Okay here goes:

You need 2 apps from play store.

1> App Ops

2> Disable service (sorry you will have to search play store for apps, I'm on my mobile so I can't give you the links)

3> open DS and swipe to go to System

4> Find and select Google play services

5> Untick the following configfetch, system update and userpresenceservice

6> Open App Ops and select Install

7> Reboot when done

8> Open App Ops after reboot and find Google Play services

9> Turn off Location at the top and Keep Awake at the bottom.

Been doing this all my CM builds on my S4 to keep Google play services from killing my battery. Seems to work just as well on my S6
[Galaxy S6 General] beanbean50:
did you try disabling NuPlayer in developer options? been reading over the past few months that it doesn't play nicely with facebook
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
Im getting less than 4 hours screen on time, i have disabled pretty much all of the samsung apps and google ones.

Any suggestions? It's pissing me off seeing people getting around 6 SoT easily while I get only half of it, what's wrong?
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
Had it going nuts for a couple days on me. I messed with poweramp just before my issue started. Ended up force stopping poweramp, and it went away and hasn't returned. No clue if this was coincidence or not.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamiescott23:
I'm in pretty much in same situation. I've the phone only for a few days and installed only basic social media and communication apps. 15 apps. It's horrible. Tell me if you find a solution mate.
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
When I disable system update service under google play I get a drain, but when I dont disable I don't get a drain?! Weird.
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
Will do.

I'm wondering if it could be that there are faulty batteries or just less good ones in some models, im no expert on that so i have no idea if that's even possible.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
So did you end up disabling anything? I have crazy wakelock too.
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Yeah I found my issue, it's because I already had the receivers disabled else where within the app. Do the following which fixed mine:

Download "My Android Tools", then under "Service", go to "System", then under "Google Play Services", search for "SystemUpdateService", make sure that is enabled. Now go to "Broadcast Receiver" on the left hand side menu, then again go to "Google Play Services", and search "Update", then remove the following ticks -

SecretCodeReceiver

ActiveCodeReceiver

Receiver
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I'm experiencing the same issue. This wakelock uses the most battery out of all my apps within the apps section of GSam. Any fixes found?

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Do you know what disabling these services does?
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
I removed my alarm app Timely and recharged my phone overnight. Now mediaserver has only used 0.2% and total time audio was on is 17s. This is much more inline with what it usually is.

I don't know exactly what each service does, besides the obvious ones like location and keep awake. All I can say for certain is after disabling the above services my play service wake locks are very low and I haven't lost any functionality, play store, google play etc all work fine.

An S4 developer Henkiegekke found that these services to be the root cause of the play service wake locks and it was his method I posted above.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I also use Timely. I'll try removing it and see if the AudioMix wakelock discontinues.

As for the disabling of services, I tried what you said just went to lunch and came back and saw that I have emails but were never notified on my phone. Obviously, I'm assuming something I just did caused this. Have you noticed the same thing or do you get all Google/Gmail notifications instantly?
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
I think that's caused by disabling the system update service. It never used to that before. I'm gonna enable it and feed back

Media server usage is right down after removing timely
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
Okay it's seems that disabling the userpresenceservice is stopping notifications from Gmail, not system update although I just turned it back on just in case.

I enabled it and sent myself an email and got the notification.
[Galaxy S6 General] EMP83:
Thanks, i will let you know if it is working!
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
high battery drain

Don't know why i have so bad batterystats

Have this configurations:

Stock Kernel, XtreStoLite Deodexed Mod Edition 1.2 rom, lates bootloader and modem

I have often bad signal, maybe cause of this? How i can get better signal?

I am using t-mobile. with my old iphone i think i had better signal.

Maybe someone can help me.
[Galaxy S6 General] anish3232:
I reformatted and installed the rom again. Battery is back to pretty good now. It shows that my battery will last 23-26 hours now when I go into battery under settings.
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
Please don't disable userpresenceservice seems without it on you don't recieve gmail notifications
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
i have 4% per hour .. very bad
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
One day's stats, with virtually no usage (like, 29 minutes of screen time).

Beginning of the graph is when I was at home with airplane mode on and WiFi on as well.

The long middle was at the office, buried deep deep in a building, with Airplane Mode off and also connected to WiFi.

The rapid descent is at home, with everything on (ie, no Airplane Mode).

It's clearly the radio that is doing me in at home. If I switch to LTE only, the battery life improves markedly.

Any ideas? I've done all the normal things, smart network switch is off, location is off, etc. etc.
[Galaxy S6 General] mathrania:
Max i can take out
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I removed Timely but am still getting the mediaserver wakelock. It says the app UID is 1013, which is the same as yours. I'll see if I can find any more info on this as it wasn't Timely for me.

Edit: I'm thinking for me this might be a Poweramp issue, though if it is, I'll just have to deal with it as my battery life is fine and I use this app too much. The only weird thing is when I go into the app usage for mediaserver, it says Audio On time is like 10+ hours which is definitely not true.
[Galaxy S6 General] momo220499:
So tomorrow I'll get my phone 128 GB gold. What should i do to get the best out of the battery? First down to 0% and then do a factory reset ? Or directly factory reset and charge to 100? Or first 0% then 100% factory reset? Can you please tell me?
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
From what I know there's no need to do anything special anymore when first charging a new phone, there's no need anymore for a first-time 12/24/36 hour or whatever charge.

Just charge like you normally would imo.
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
probably it's because your phone stays awake too long and too often
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
But most of the battery is being discharged while the screen is on, so how is that related to deep sleep issues? how do I even diagnose if I have sleep issues :confused:
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
I'm kinda happy with the battery life on the s6
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
i don't know on lollipop, nothing seems to quite work: gsam with root helper perhaps is the best option
[Galaxy S6 General] nirel.didi:
2%

my battery lose only 2 % everynight :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
I suppose I'll keep my hopes up for 5.1 update when it comes for a better battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] amankapoor4:
Hey guys can you tell me that once you have completely charged your phone and then you go to battery, what is the estimated left time the phone shows?
[Galaxy S6 General] ra9b:
21 hours for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
All about turning off LTE for me. Still have 41% after 16 hours, about 90 minutes SOT. No question that's what been draining my battery at home.
[Galaxy S6 General] theronlas:
Its funny, I swear mine runs down faster if I have wifi on.
[Galaxy S6 General] Daxxer2007:
This has been my battery life so far.