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[Galaxy S6 General] MistaJae:
QHD screen, small 2600mAh battery, Lollipop's poor RAM management, Samsung bloat.... plus I'm sure there's more factors impacting battery life.

I just wish the phone was a few mm thicker with a bigger battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Kapitein187:
What is: 13930000.decon_fb ? I have it at wake lock. And aren't that a lot of wake locks?
[Galaxy S6 General] Ahmed Al Wakeel:
Simple trick

I achieved 13 hrs of usage with 2.5 hrs SOT and have 50% battery left..

Google has a lot of crap and Samsung couldnt deal with it.. i just disabled google chrome and used the stock browser and i can get 6.5 hrs of SOT easily..
[Galaxy S6 General] tormit:
http://xdaforums.com/note-4/help/13800000-deconfb-wakelock-t2936445
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Chrome is awful with battery
[Galaxy S6 General] zdravkodubravec:
Last night I used my old charger (slow one ) and I am testing one guys theory about slow vs quick charging ... For now I think it is a bit better ... I always use my phone browsing the web in the morning and around 07:15 I would usually be at 84% and today it is 89% ... So I will continue to use it till I get to 25% and I will poste my time since last charge ... As I use it a lot during the day ...
[Galaxy S6 General] Jscslg:
Does the led consumes much battery ??
[Galaxy S6 General] zdravkodubravec:
The idea of led is to consume as little as possible ... And on our phone there is one ...
[Galaxy S6 General] ashirokung:
Wifi battery drain on 5.1.1?
[Galaxy S6 General] ra9b:
Go to gsam battery monitor. Go to preferences. Go to device over profiles and check "enable custom profile". Then, tap on edit power profile and scroll down till you find WiFi.active. The number will be something like 2761200, but change it to 767. Scroll down and press save. Then back out till you get to the main page of gsam, showing your stats. Refresh and you should be good to go!
[Galaxy S6 General] sksjkj3:
How did you all get these good battery stats?

I have wifi and mobile data on, bluetooth off, location off, brightness on 30-40%.

I don't really use my phone and I don't play games. I use only facebook, whatsapp.

I had a branding phone and flashed the firmeware with odin. Can this be an reasion for the bad battery stats?

can somebody help?

The maximum SoT was 3:35h.
[Galaxy S6 General] zdravkodubravec:
Battery consumption from yesterday ...
[Galaxy S6 General] diogoperas:
Google services is a fuc**** cancer when Google Now is on. It's is impossible to use google now in this phone. What a shame..
[Galaxy S6 General] midreestaj:
Unless google fixes these battery hogging components I keep disabling anything google in Touchwiz roms, be it Chrome, Google now, and sometimes the Play services too

Some days I find myself in love with everything Material and Google and I see to the Nexus 5 then.... to appease this fire :D
[Galaxy S6 General] marcdegasperi:
Im haveing no problems and im running 5.1.1 on SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
Yep. Went back to trying it today, and the standby drain goes thru the roof. 2 wakes per minute is absolutely ridiculous.
[Galaxy S6 General] marios_ch:
Pretty good at 50% i have 2hrs and 40 min screen time
[Galaxy S6 General] prking07:
My Galaxy S6/S6 Edge Battery Saving Set up: http://youtu.be/qgHdZtsPHsc
[Galaxy S6 General] bukithd:
I get to 4-5 hours SOT on every charge by doing a few things.

1. Use a black wallpaper, amoled screens like these.

2. Turn off NFC/BT/WIFI, etc if you are not using them.

3. Keep autobrightness setting low ~25% if you can.

4. Minimize the number of apps that seem to be always using system resources. Not easy, but look into it.

5. Make sure any accessory you use isn't harming the signal strength.

6. Finally, for the modders out there, use an app like Tasker to automate your device settings to optimally fit you. I don't do this, but it's an option.
[Galaxy S6 General] mhemu:
Here are my stats. Everything stock, just disabled the standard apps that most others have. Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and GPS on. Screen brightness set to auto, mode set to cinema. These stats are from sitting at home all day connected to Wi-Fi and I have lte signal that isn't so good. Screen on time was from star wars commander, solitaire, facebook, texting, and browsing the interwebs.
[Galaxy S6 General] iamhacked:
Got my best SOT yesterday. Usually get 4h30m - 5h
[Galaxy S6 General] tntgdh:
Guys i read here about dark mode on apps but could not find anything about around. Could anyone explain how to activate it?
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Settings -> Accessibility -> Vision

Turn on Gray Scale and Negative. It makes blacks white and whites black
[Galaxy S6 General] cheetah2k:
I would get well over 5hrs SOT if it were not for Facebook and Messenger app keeping radio active all day.. fkn hell, Facebook need to be shot
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
I don't have Facebook and I love my battery life ?
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Try Tinfoil for FaceBook
[Galaxy S6 General] gashishpetim:
Did you root rom, custom rom or stock rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] mhemu:
Stock Rom, not rooted, Verizon s6
[Galaxy S6 General] ashirokung:
5.1.1 rooted disable all knox and smartmanager.

10% for 40minute+ (or 7hour SOT).

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[Galaxy S6 General] tazman19:
Frustrated trying to figure out why battery is so bad. Stock ROM, rooted on 5.0.2. Debloated all I could. Tried all suggestions.
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
I managed to get 6 hours of SoT after charging with a 1 amp Apple Charger.
[Galaxy S6 General] musashihatred:
O_O is there a working root for 920F;s 5.1.1?
[Galaxy S6 General] KennyLegend:
I'm guessing u have to trip Knox, install TWRP and flash a rooted kernel.
[Galaxy S6 General] anewday:
Get very close to 6 hours SOT with clean rom 1.1 lite. :D
[Galaxy S6 General] emorej:
I got my s6 7 days ago, at first the battery was bad and i was thinking of returning it. But then i drained the battery for 4 times and charged it full each time the result was good. Now my battery is good, at one time it lasted for 1 day with 4.5 hr screen time. I use mobile data occasionally and turn it off when im not using it, I also turned off location services. Today this os my battery usage stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] Canard caché:
wow the first charge is violent... especially the first minutes ( the % decrease with seconds Oo).

Really freaky, i hope it's better after (apprently yes with what i read here).

Question (second charge): it's normal that the first 8% go away in 5 minutes when i put the phone on???

After it's strange... sometime it's quick and the last 50% is slower... and the 15% still slower?
[Galaxy S6 General] spike.trickster:
Anyone actually getting good battery life from this device? Im blaming it on Google for making Lollipop ****. Kitkat and JB was the best IMO. I wish the s6 had KK. I would revert back within the minute.
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
I'm getting 6 hours of screen on time with WiFi only use which I'm more than happy with. The battery life goes to absolute crap on mobile data though, even after spending the time to optimize background apps and disabling unnecessary apps, Google services runs wild and drains battery massively.

I'm hoping Google realizes what a mess they have made with lollipop and actually fixes something with future iterations.

Samsung spent hours and millions of engineering dollars to reduce the power consumption of its component's in an effort to improve battery life and Google comes along and takes a dump on all of that.
[Galaxy S6 General] spike.trickster:
IM getting a drain of 2% on 25 mins of standy with only wifi on. Is this normal?
[Galaxy S6 General] samappz:
With 5.1.1 on my sprint gs6 with wifi on overnight im only losing about 2-3% over 8 hours. Wifi calling is enabled too.
[Galaxy S6 General] spike.trickster:
Im literally fed up of searching for the problem. I hope the 5.1.1 update fixes the battery life a bit. For now ill have to live with this :|
[Galaxy S6 General] Joylesstuna:
I'm getting maximum 5 hours SOT which includes disabling service with greenify, app ops and disableservice also running xtresto rom. This is only marginally better then my s5. However with stock S6 I was only getting 3.5 hours SOT maximum. No idea how you guys are getting 6-7 hours SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] Canard caché:
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Oho really bad.

Same use with my lg g3 (that is very bad) i have still 35-45% with this kind of use...

But i want to know: it's the same with you?
[Galaxy S6 General] neflictus:
Yes, getting 6 hours of SOT with 24 hours of standby every day. Not rooted, no greenify. Just disable sync. You don't need it on all the time. And factory reset if that doesn't work.
[Galaxy S6 General] Canard caché:
i have 2h35 sot!!!!
[Galaxy S6 General] neflictus:
I use tasker to sync twice a day at every 6 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] dedei:
Do you get whatsapp messages with the sync off?
[Galaxy S6 General] spike.trickster:
I think its the international version or maybe indian version. because my battery life never shows anything above 15hrs
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
On my ATT version turning off Google Now and setting location to GPS only keeps google services tolerably quiet. Rooted stock, usually get 3.5-4 SoT with 18 hours off charger. Does better on LTE mobile data than on Wi-Fi.
[Galaxy S6 General] neflictus:
Of course you receive whatsapp messages.
[Galaxy S6 General] IUH1991:
Just picked mine up on Thursday. Honestly can't complain about the battery life, it is definitely comparable to my sgs3. Right now, I'm getting about 4-4.5h screen on time before the battery dies.
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
Geez! I experienced the same nightmare when I got mine yesterday! Disabled Facebook, but there's a process called com.facebook.manager something like that which can't be disabled:(
[Galaxy S6 General] Canard caché:
It's slightly better at the third charge but always thes 10 first % in 5 minutes when you put the phone on.

The 15 last % are vvvveeery long, especially the last % (20 minutes with all on and streaming video utube!!! Oo)
[Galaxy S6 General] datvini:
I got that "cell standby" thing showing up on my battery stats and i think it's killing my battery. Anyone knows how to turn it off?

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Also, i now noticed that Facebook and Instagram are native apps. How stupid is Samsung to do this? Not even Greenify can hibernate these battery drainers
[Galaxy S6 General] omrij:
It depends on the local, for example - GB roms (xeu/btu) are Instagram/Facebook free :)
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
I get 8-9 hours sot at home but when Im out im lucky to get 4 hours. Pretty sure its all about the signal. Thats the only thing that could be changing from when im home. Unless the gps searches more when im out and about?
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Greenify Donation Version can hibernate system apps
[Galaxy S6 General] tommyhj:
Enter flight mode and then turn on WiFi. That will kill the mobile radio and cell standby, and ur ability to receive calls :)
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
The S5 had an endurance rating of 72 hours so yeah, this is definitely a disappointment. And comparing it with the Flex 2, a device plagued with lag and crappy battery isn't a good idea.
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
That's pretty decent compared to nexus devices. As long as Google is controlling Android, don't expect stellar batterylife. What we get is mostly by virtue of vendor's optimization. I am yet to hear a single practical benefit of project volta.

I hope someone makes a total 'black theme' for S6. Everything is so white, and will definitely suck more battery. Just invert the white colour to black.
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
The whole of Android 5.0 came out unpolished. I think the Nexus 6 battery life improved on Android 5.1, but there are still memory leaks... there's a good chance software improvements will help what the M9 or S6 can do right now on 5.0 in terms of battery life, but there's no guarantee. The good news is, I haven't experienced signal drop, memory leaks or force closing on the edge so far.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
Since the edge battery life is not good and it has a bigger battery life than the regular s6 does that mean the regular s6 might have even weaker battery life than what your having now?
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
I honestly can't say, and I'd still wait for that mid-April release and see what happens. The mAh difference is minimal.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
What release are you waiting for? Don't you already have the edge? Final software?
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
Samsung devices often get an update upon release. SW on my edge is dated March 1 and it's 6 weeks before release so that's time for tweaks and fixes. Then again, no guarantees. Personally I'm hoping for Android 5.1 which based on Nexus feedback is an improvement.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
BTW thanks for sharing with us your awesome dude
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
I think people need to come with terms that 48 hours of battery life is not this phones goal. Its a thin elegant device. If your looking for that type of battery life you should consider something else or wait till the next phones launch. Expect 4 hours of sot out of a days use and leave it at that. Set the bar low, if it does better it's a pleasant surprise. If you hype it up or get your hopes up its a set up for disappointment. (i said UP a lot in that last sentence!)
[Galaxy S6 General] nviz22:
Can anyone tell me if I will be disappointed if I move from the Note 4 to the S6? I have had issues with Samsung with the S5 and Note 4 having bad battery life, signal issues, lag with apps. I am tired of them ,but I want to try the S6 with one last straw.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
Note 4 battery life is better
[Galaxy S6 General] MysteriousDiary:
Wasn't there already a newer one? At least in a german forum someone reported that he saw a new update on a phone in a store a few days ago and I would guess that Samsung releases one before the embargo for the press ends.
[Galaxy S6 General] lbreak:
nviz22

You need to try restarting your devices, it works wonders on Android.
[Galaxy S6 General] dashraider:
Checked out an s6 at a samsung store in nyc today the device was not attached to a display and running on its battery at about 30% left it already had over 4 hours of SOT so i think thats pretty good for this device
[Galaxy S6 General] nviz22:
By a huge margin? Is it really worse than the S5 too?

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Not like factory resetting and wiping a cache partioning would do because restarting a phone works so much better....
[Galaxy S6 General] lbreak:
The N4 and S5 have great battery, but I find the S5 is even better than the N4.

The S6 is definitely worse than both if we go by the early reviews to date.
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
HTC M9 reviews are incoming. As expected worse than M8 in most areas.

From GSMArena:

See even with FHD display and bigger battery, it gets lower browsing and video playback.

Check Anandtech review, they are still cheating in benchmarks.
[Galaxy S6 General] userguy:
I still believe that in a final SWversion the battery should be at least on par with the S5 due to the following:

- S6 has about 10% less battery

However:

- The screen is said to be about 20% more efficient. During a normal cycle my battery is about 35 % consumed by the screen (even more so in heavy use). 0.2x0.35 =7%. so more or less the reduced battery capacity is already compensated by the improved screen (depending on usage profile).

- The exynos is said to be up to 30% more efficient than its predecessor. Now lets consider that of the remaining 70% of the total battery consumption (100% - screen) about 50% is consumed by the cpu and the rest by other consumers such as sensors etc. Then 0.3x0.5 =15% reduced battery consumption.

So my point is that the battery should indeed be capable to outlast the s5 if what they say about the hardware is true! The issue can then only be software related and thats something that can be fixed. In fact several other phones showed worse battery after being upgraded to LP.

Just my thoughts.
[Galaxy S6 General] FSOP:
Would this include the demo devices on show over here in the UK? Because from the figure the reps were giving us from "real world" usage in store, they weren't any better than the results coming in from the various reviews
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
I don't buy that. It's possible but doesn't make sense.

There have been F and W8 reviews so far.

Those are European and Canadian regional devices.

They have software for Korean modems?

I do agree though that Samsung has much more tweaking they can do now and eventually even more with 5.1, 5.2.
[Galaxy S6 General] King p1n:
Did you ever release the article on your tweaks?

Curious to what you did and I'm considering the S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] AndreiLux:
Everything's on Github, I'm not doing threads anymore on XDA.
[Galaxy S6 General] King p1n:
Excuse my ignorance Im not familiar with Github I've found yours cant see anything regarding this
[Galaxy S6 General] tiagovale2:
I'd love to see this too. Searched down your GitHub but couldn't find anything...
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I seriously can't complain about the battery life on this phone. Is is comparable to my Xperia Z3, maybe a little worse.

Yes, Google Play Services sometimes runs rampant and that is what is causing the standby drain, as I get 5-6 hours SOT at least if on Wifi, little less on LTE tho, but still acceptable.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
You can greenify system apps, though I think you need the paid version.
[Galaxy S6 General] jetbruceli:
I think the battery is just fine. Coming from a note 4 which had a much better battery, the size and other features on this phone makes up for it.

By the way you know certain apps can be selected to quit after 10 minutes. It's in the battery section. Click on details on lower part above the percentage option and select all the apps you want to make certain to turn off.

Second disable all apps your not using and once in awhile do an all clear in recent tabs. But don't constantly because some apps will just boot right up again behind the scene which will eat at your battery.

With heavy usage and lots of Angry Birds Friends, I get about 3 hours sot without anything additional.

I do wish they had the older power save mode where you could choose what to turn off. Before on other devices, I would just let the CPU run slower not all the other stuff.
[Galaxy S6 General] Quinnaay:
No idea why I'm only getting 7hrs with 3 SOT. Battery is a joke tbh. Phone radio is using most and I'm in a full signal area getting H+ I do use the Internet most of my screen on time though.
[Galaxy S6 General] spike.trickster:
Standby time is better with 2G rather than 3G or Wifi.
[Galaxy S6 General] meow9:
I need some advice pls..my s6 is 7 days old, wifi + mobile data on for about 10hours per day, battery saving disabled, stock rom, and these are the bad "results" I guess..since everybody gets 4,5h SOT and my s6 only 1h SOT :( do you think I should do factory reset?
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Disable apps that are useless and turn off sync and GPS/Location. Turn off WiFi when your not near your router.
[Galaxy S6 General] nole361:
Don't you need Root for that?
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
No, I don't have root and its been working fine.
[Galaxy S6 General] phochiom:
I have H3G firmware in UK but still have Instagram and Facebook preinstalled. I disabled both though
[Galaxy S6 General] omrij:
Didn't try H3G, just XEU and BTU (which are identical).
[Galaxy S6 General] phochiom:
Doesn't need root, but will not automate the hibernation if you have secured lock screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] thegregulator:
It's the 2K screen. As efficient as AMOLED is, and as nice as the processor is, there's just too many pixels to push for a 2550 mah battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmorterlaing:
I feel like that was a poor answer. As we've already seen, some people are getting decent battery life. And again, you didn't address my main point which is WHY are people having such a go at the s6's battery life when they're not at the iPhone 6, the g4 and m9. Battery life on screen benchmarks show in a vacuum S6 battery life is at least as good.

The g4 isn't slated as often, for example, and it has the same amount of pixels and every test puts it as less good battery wise.

There are also plenty of people mentioning standby drain, which has nothing to do with the screen and shouldn't be happening. My point is, I feel like this thread is focusing on the wrong things quite often...
[Galaxy S6 General] anewday:
Getting 6 hours screen on time, auto brightness and lte on clean rom lite on verizon. It's clearly the software and bloat in stock rom that drains battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] thegregulator:
Having owned an iPhone 6, LG G4, and a Galaxy S6, I can unequivocally say the battery life on the S6 is worse than the other two phones. I actually had two of each of those phones and the battery life on the S6 just isn't there. You can run tests all you want, but at the end of the day, in real world usage, the S6 battery will die first.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmorterlaing:
And this is what I mean! Reports like that don't make SENSE! They're not consistent with EVERY benchmark out there, and go against at least 3 or 4 reviews from pretty big tech websites. This whole thing doesn't make sense. I'm not disputing you, theregulator, I'm just saying it's all so frustratingly confusing and none of the information seems to be accurate.
[Galaxy S6 General] guaneet:
1% drain overnight, 8 hours, with everything on but wifi. Surprising lol

Usually get 5% drain with WiFi on
[Galaxy S6 General] virulentt:
Explain me this :
[Galaxy S6 General] tiagovale2:
I swear to God, I don't get it! You must've been using the S6 as a dumb phone or even in airplane mode!
[Galaxy S6 General] Clay330i:
That's nice, but without total usage time it doesn't tell people much about overall battery efficiency. I'm just saying...[emoji106]
[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
At max I've managed just over 4 hours screen on time, not that impressed with the battery life on it to be honest. Will be debloating and looking at ways to extend the battery when it's back from Samsung. Purple dot on the camera made me send it in for repair