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[Galaxy S6 General] bombardierart:
Can you tell me which apps did you disable and how you turned off location services? Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
As long as your GPS is on, you'll be able to find your phone. Location history is a history of all the places your phone has been and doesn't have anything to do with whether or not you'll be able to use the Find Your Phone feature.
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
For me battery life has been excellent on my S6 unlocked UK variant. Consistently getting great battery life using my phone for call's Twitter,instagrame, daily mail and general browsing. Don't do FB etc

Trying to add two more picture not lallowing me. ** should be 3 in total
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Screen time
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Calls
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
That's quite amazing! What have you done to optimise battery life?
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
I turn on wifi when needed. I have notications coming through. I fetch email (done this with all my phones even iPhone). I have location on and NFC (although NFC does not affect battery) I turn off google location. I haven't done anything major to get these results. Seems USA are only ones having battery issue this could be due to networks.

I lose nothing or 1% over night. Standby time is exceptional I must admit. As you can see I use the phones for calls also. So using it how a phone should be used.

What I don't like is iphone shows "usage" this is everything in total so Iphone users scream they have better battery life, which isn't the case, compared to amdroid screen on time. If I ran music for last 29% I'm sure I could hit 7h + to 8+ in total on one charge .

Battery is awesome on the S6 for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
The battery on this phone is ridiculously bad, Look at my on screen time. ..this is retarded 3 hrs of screen ontime!! Jesus christ! And only a day of standby time, I've been getting that on my s4 before and even more on m8 (to the m8 users you know what im talking about) i should be able to get at least 2 days easily on the new "power efficient" processor and Amoled screen.. this is bull if i don't get 2 days of standby by tonight im returning this device to tmobile and jumping on the moto x 2014 sale $375 for the 64 gb... [emoji20] in so livid i could slam this phone but if i crack it i can't return it.
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
Sarcasm?
[Galaxy S6 General] jasonm253:
That's insane..yeah I am getting decent battery life with a USA phone but that's on another level. Wish the USA versions could get that much life.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Your phone lasts more than a day. What's the issue?
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
The issue is that everyone is getting fooled on what they "think" they should be getting in battery life. In 2011 ppl were getting up to 30hrs in battery life on their s2

Samsung should have fixed this issue its been F&$//ing 4yrs later and im only getting 27 hrs..?!?!?! thats effin bullsh!t im returning this dumb device tomorrow
[Galaxy S6 General] Biggenz:
Same here, also unlocked UK version. I've tweaked my phone slightly, disabled some of the bloat and turned off background data for some apps. But wifi on all the time, bluetooth every day etc. and I get two days normal use with still just under 50% battery life left.
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Really? That sounds like a stretch for the S2. My old S3 at best got 2 1/2 hr to 3hrs SOT with 15 hours of use. I've used this S6 for streaming music, GPS navigating, calls, and watchespn in one day and still manage 2hrs screen time with 12 hours off the charger and 50% battery left. I'm not getting fooled one bit.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
As far as anyone here is concerned, your battery life is pretty damn good. Considering the vast majority of users can get to a charger every night, phones don't really need to last much more than about a day. Also considering that in 2011, the S2 had an 800x480 display and the S6 is QHD (and on a much larger screen - 4.3" vs 5.1"), I'm more than pleased with the battery life.

The bottom line is if the phone lasts you between daily charges then that's all that really matters. If you're going to return a perfectly usable phone just because you can't get boasting rights then that's your prerogative.
[Galaxy S6 General] Giancarlo:
Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F) Battery Drain!

What is wrong with my Galaxy S6? I left my phone at home with about 70% of battery or more, then I left for work and when returned the battery was at 50%. What is the problem? I've been trying to figure it out, I disabled everything I know that can drain the battery (Wi-Fi, GPS, Mobile Data, Sync, various notifications from installed games and etc..) I did use BetterBatteryStats to show what happened during that time, maybe some smart person can help me. Waiting for response!
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
I understand u completely, but even tho it was a smaller screen and used less power it also had a smaller battery than the ones we use now, we cant keep getting brainwashed and thinking its ok to have these types of mediocre results.. imagine how many ppl that have even better battery life out there that dont know about forums that dont report their battery life... theres probably a standard out there of great battery life but we (xda users) only know what goes on in here.. imagine all the others... so we only go based on what weve seen here so we make it a standard.. who knows maybe theres ppl out there getting 3days and we dont know.... so think outside the box and dont settle for less... lets get together eff a pettition.. break into samsung headquarters take all their samsungs s7 with a slim 3500 mah battery lol jk... i kinda of fell off subject but i think yall get my point if we keep saying that were satisfied sanding will never fix anything....and were not that far from samsung giving us incremental updates like apple... apple users dont complain...so they get what they get...understand?
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Considering the XDA community purposely try and get the most out of our phone batteries, I doubt common folk would get better battery life by not trying. It just doesn't seem plausible to me. The best reports of battery life will be from the communities that try to optimise it - communities like XDA. Also, I'm fairly confident that most people are perfectly happy with 24 hours of battery life, which is why people aren't banding together and complaining. If I didn't charge my phone everyday, I could get about 36 hours of battery life out of my S6. But I never actually get the chance because I charge it everyday.
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
Exactly!!!!! 36hrs...... im only getting 27hrs at 2% see what i mean my phone is defective!!!! I must change it or return it!
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Everyone's usage is different. I put my phone on airplane mode at night when I sleep.

I doubt anyone on here would say you have a defective phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
Im confused now, is my battery good or not? Most of you show off your sot, but no calls, no device use except of some youtube etc. Here are my latest SS, so what you guys think about it? I had all of that from ss turned on, but was allmost nothing on 4g (about 1hour on 4g), WiFi mostly.

Edit: I noticed if I dont open facebook when I am connected on 4g, it doesnt eat up my battery. Is that normal?
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Battery estimate after full charge on S6:
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Battery estimate if I needed battery saver: although I wouldn't at 100% just showing some. As I saw hours on some and not days
[Galaxy S6 General] andybg40:
I might regret posting this, but i'm a little confused by the battery usage on my S6.

I went from 100% to 32% with only 1hr45mins SoT. The highest rated drain was Google Services at around 10% and then a few others in the single % digits, including the screen at 4%.

Now, this is where I may regret my post, but surely the percentage drain by each app or service when added together, plus the remaining battery life percentage, should equal 100%? If this isn't the case, can someone explain why. As far as I'm concerned, using % means that you consume a portion of 100, i.e. the above Google Services uses 10.

When adding together my remaining battery life to the usage, i get 80%, so 20% is missing somewhere? Are there things draining the battery that aren't accounted for?

When doing the same with my wife's LG G2, it gets to 98%, so my question seems valid?!
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
Do any of you guys have a strange dark shadow/line on your screen when viewed outside in daylight? I have one of the left of screen running from top to bottom, across the bottom, and partially up the other side of screen, near edges.

Verizon is sending my another unit. Just curious. Has to be a hardware defect.
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
Good question. There's probably a bunch of other things draining the battery that are less than 1% so they don't show them. That's my best guess
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
That is true 100%. For example on my screens you can see I have BT on 24/7 running mi band with it for notifications for facebook, sms, calls, email 1 and 2, gmail... and BT is not shown in battery use. And I know on LG G3 I saw BT in battery use.
[Galaxy S6 General] waoasis:
Yours is normal
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
Usually i get different results when Im on 4g. Way more battery use. Its just because mobile radio active is all the time active.
[Galaxy S6 General] waoasis:
If you're getting more with 4G, then that's implies there's something wrong with your WiFi
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
No no, with 4g is way heavier battery use. On 4g i get like 1.5h sot, max 2. Today Ive got 3.5h sot,1.5h calls, etc

Word more was stupid autocorrect, previous post fixed now
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
I'm seeing better battery life, both idle and in use, on LTE than I am on Wi-Fi. I suspect this is due to an app or several that are more 'free' with their background data use on a Wi-Fi connection. Just haven't tracked down the culprit yet, as not being rooted (ATT model) makes chasing misbehaving apps a royal pain.
[Galaxy S6 General] waterplanet:
30 hours battery life on galaxy S2?!! I don't know if that is supposed to be a joke or not?

Typical battery life of the S2 is about 8 hours of moderate use. (3-4 hours screen on per day with auto brightness). Even with a 3500 mAh high capacity battery its very hard to make it last a full day.

I don't think there are words to describe how horrible the battery life of galaxy S2 is. Or maybe there is, but I would certainly get banned from the forum forever if I mentioned them here. I really feel sorry for those who bought the S6 if the battery life has not improved at least 300% since S2.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Try using Gsam. I think Android's battery stats are effed up.

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This is a thread about battery life. You might fare better by posting your question in a new or existing thread about this.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Dude ur phone was up 4h15 you got deep sleep problems

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] Magic815:
So I was confused by that as well. However, I did another CPUspy test last night for the 7 hours I was asleep and it gave me a 92% deep sleep? Isn't that pretty normal?
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
92 is fine. Check ur data usage on Wi-Fi and 3g maybe an app is working on the background without you knowing

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] Voidmoji:
Debloating Does Wonders

After a few rounds of calibration (myth? placebo? whatever!) and tons of disabling and debloating, I am finding the S6 has a fairly solid battery life. I run Wifi and Data all the time, VoLTE on (Verizon), NFC off all the time, and these days I leave Location off unless I need it, which is a lot less often than in the past (when checking in places and such was more common). Plus, location services fire up seriously fast on the S6, compared to older phones. I have disabled or used Debloater to shut down tons of stuff, but still get the full functionality from the phone that I want.

This was from my last endurance test. It kept going, playing music through a bluetooth speaker for another ten minutes after that screenshot.
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Web browsing and videos both consume different amounts of battery even if the usage duration is the same!
[Galaxy S6 General] Magic815:
Nothing seems to jump out when I check data usage. So should I normally be seeing a "Held Awake" time of something close to my "Screen On" time? I just want to make sure I'm understanding how I should be interpreting these numbers. Is it possible that my signal blocking office building is causing this excessive "Held Awake" time if I'm seeing normal deep sleep percentages at night at home?
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
If you were, for example, listening to music while the screen is off /device locked, your device will be awake the whole time. In case you aren't, ideally you should have a screen on time close to your awake time

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
I am losing 1% during the night. Location, wifi and data = OFF
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
My usage patterns are fairly similar to yours, and I've done reasonably similar stuff to optimize battery life. I've had a couple "good" days where I've seen close to 4 hours SoT over an 18 hour run off charger. But I am having more "bad" days, where I'm on pace for more like 2.5 SoT over 16 hours. It doesn't seem to be a deep sleep issue for me - I'm seeing roughly 80 to 85 percent deep sleep (even on the bad days), with total awake time being roughly double my screen on time. This is considerably better deep sleep percentage and screen on to awake ratio than I was getting on my LG optimus G that I came from. The LGOG was typically around 60% deep sleep, with a 1:3 screen:awake ratio. My biggest issues are very heavy drain during continuous screen on, low processor power stuff, like long browser/tapatalk sessions, even with low brightness. The LGOG would drain a very consistent 15-18% battery per hour doing that stuff. The S6 is draining so fast doing this that I haven't done enough long sessions to have a good feel, but GSam reports drain rates over 30% per hour. This seems to be worse when connected to Wi-Fi.

I know the phone is capable of good battery performance, as I've seen it. I'm just really struggling to nail down what triggers the higher drain. I believe it's some app or process running away in the background.
[Galaxy S6 General] J-Hop2o6:
I have gained better SoT than when I had this phone in its first week (4 hours before, 5-7 hours of SoT now). But I still have bad stand-by/idle drain @ -1% or -1.5% per hour. Nothing really POPS out via battery usage apps. I have wifi calling disabled (I have signal everywhere I go), VOLTE enable, Google Location History DISABLED (biggest idle drainer, if enabled). The closest I can get is maybe google apps/NLP pinging often. I can't use Amplify (adjusts Google [and others] wakelocks/server pinging) to tone the wakelocks down since it requires xposed, and xposed doesn't support 64-bit SoC's yet, plus a couple of other road blocks with the S6.

Hopefully I can find whats truly causing the idle drain soon.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
This is me today with auto brightness for the most part and 90% of the time on cellular data with only 10% on wifi. Love this freaking phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] ysrini:
Good Mix of Standby time and SOT

I'm not a power-user, I use my phone moderately, mainly for reading during my commute and at home / watsapp / to listen to music. The standby time will be more than SOT on days I read less.

All Stock ROM, Few Apps disabled. Power Saving : ON, Brightness: AUTO, Night usage : Wifi / Data OFF. The phone sleeps like a bear at night losing 1% over 7 hrs.

My 4G network strength is bad at office (only 1bar). So I switch to WCDMA/GSM at home when on Wifi or during my phone's idle time to get a good Signal, otherwise I use 4G. I still use Samsung Apps / Store and S-Health and if I disable it, I might get more juice.

1st Observation

Usage: 2d 3hr 27mins

SOT : 3hr 36 mins

2nd Observation

Usage: 1d 19hr 28mins

SOT : 5hr 9mins

Anyone has an idea why my Watsapp depletes so much juice? I don't watsapp a lot (which is obvious from my SOT). I'm in 1-2 groups where I receive 100s of messages everyday. Does is lead to such consumption?
[Galaxy S6 General] XQC:
Could you share your Debloater settings for the S6? I'm interested.
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
These will be my last pics as I'm having a great time with battery
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Some more calls
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Screen on time
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Other usage
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
Besides phone calls, what else do you use your phone for?
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Mobile Active Radio is still a problem for me when not on Wifi! Does anyone have a fix please?
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Twitter, youtube, daily mail, Internet etc. I'm not on it 24/7 but I could check daily mail for 30 mins, net the same. This is not great battery life due to just making calls. I text and use whatsapp at other times too. I'm seeing 2 days easily.

I like to catch up on my news,business,sports and tech. So I do use the phone daily.
[Galaxy S6 General] daleski75:
Did you disable anything to get that kind of battery life? Reason why I am asking is google services is battering my battery and I can see on yours its not even listed.

If you could share that would be very much appreciated.
[Galaxy S6 General] C192-0:
I mainly used Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and took some photos and calls.

- debloated

- auto brightness

- GPS and sync on
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
As previously mentioned a few days back I fetch mail, turn on wifi/4G when needed. Although 4G is on when out due to find my phone etc. if I use google apps then I see this in the stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
Sounds like pretty light usage
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
It would have to be to last 2 days.
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Nothing light about my usage. Calls, Internet etc. no games. PS4 for that. Texting etc. if you see tested review of S6 (which came out a day ago) and mobile tech reviews they also speak of great battery life. I'm not all up on Twitter looking for gossip like most people these days.

I use it how a phone should be used. I recive calls for my bis it's, notifications come through. yes YMMV if your constantly bashing the phone. This is something I've never done as I'm not glued to my phone. My Note 4 last 2-3 days also. So 1 day more than S5 depending on usage.

Busy people don't just sit on there phone 24h a day. The usage varies daily depending on how the day is going. If I used it consistently I could still get 5-6h SOT. That's great for me.

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Also nearly 6 hours on battery over two days is not light usage. Considering iPhones use usage as all usage of the phone. It shows the battery can last depending on how you use your phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
What you described, I would consider light usage. Just because you use your phone often does not mean it is heavy usage. Gaming/Social Media/camera/things that take up a lot of battery, etc. would be considered heavy usage. Don't worry. I'm a pretty light user myself.
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
It's not criticism, just an observation. I hope you're not offended
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
No worries guys. We all use our phones differently. At least my battery should last a few years with my "light usage". Oh I do use the camera. Not excessively though. No selfies over here lol
[Galaxy S6 General] rexxcastle:
My battery is getting worse and worse . I'm in verizon running stock . I have done cache clears, phone wipes , everything . Today I'm down from 100 to 52 with 45 mins sot. I don't even know what all the google stuff is killing my battery
[Galaxy S6 General] -Mr. X-:
I'm having the same terrible issues on the Telus stock rom. Massive wake locks.

Check this out :/

[IMG="Massive wake locks"]https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/nrPVjLCS1pHw2rumOu6QxxAkaYMhXWGu/Screenshot_2015-05-07-13-59-07.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy S6 General] Voidmoji:
Sure. Attached is my blocked list from Debloater, minus the non-active theme elements, since that's just noise. 242 items disabled or hidden. A few notes:

1. My list does kill some functionality of the phone. No gestures, S-Health, NFC and a few other things. I never use these, so it makes sense for me to kill them. Plus, it also kills some of the options in Settings; trying to go to those subsections often just results in Settings quitting out. But since I don't use them, it's no big deal.

2. UniversalSwitch.apk & SamsungTTS.apk are necessary to turn on accessibility access for apps. I have my apps set up, and working through Debloater is so quick and easy, I just keep them dead unless I find the need to use them. For example, if you go into Safe Mode, then come back, many (perhaps all) apps lose accessibility access.

3. I generally keep all the theming stuff disabled, and occasionally enable it to check on new themes, but last time I tried, it didn't work. So I need to figure out what I disabled that caused this. Keep that in mind.

Otherwise, I have suffered no ill effects from my list. It's aggressive, but I don't feel I am sacrificing any of the functionality I want from the phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] diogoperas:
Same for me this is ridiculous. Turning off GPS or Google location seems to fix it but I don't want to lose all the Google Now features :/

The battery is so inconsistent that I'm thinking of returning it and go back do Z3.
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Can you give a link to the app you use please? There's a few on play store, or should I just use titanium back up?
[Galaxy S6 General] LoverOfTech:
Considering My Note 4 gets 6h30m to 7h screen on time I think this is excellent for S6.

Now more trying to convince people.
[Galaxy S6 General] XQC:
It's this one:

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294

[MENTION=5952903]Voidmoji[/MENTION]

Thank you very much! :)
[Galaxy S6 General] BaRdOmEtOoX:
Fast discharging

Hello to everyone. I'm also owner of the phone from a few days. I really like the fast charging but i couldn't understand something what happend 2-3 days ago.

I left the phone on 68% at 8PM with everything disabled (in my opinion it discharged from 100 to 68 for almost a hour but i thought is normal, nevermind) and on the next day i couldnt turn on my phone - it was 0% and i had to put it on charge. Later i just noticed that disabling Wi-Fi scanning while it's off helps a lot. So leave that i told myself "ok that's my fault, phone is dealing fine". Last day i turned the phone off on 51% and hours ago i tried to turn it on - i couldn't, it happend again and this time i find for worse. First time i see that and i can't explain it to myself - turned phone and discharging in the same time. Anyway i decided to do experiment and charged it to 51% and again switched it off. In 4-5 hours battery was OK - it was still 51%.

I'm really getting confused about that and i don't know what should i do. Should i return it and ask for replacement or should i leave it like that? Is there someone with familiar problem? Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S6 General] CouldntThinkOfAUsername:
You paid for it, it's under warranty. Get a replacement.
[Galaxy S6 General] J-Hop2o6:
Turning off GPS and Google History Location will not hinder Google Now. Google Now works just fine w/o those two on.
[Galaxy S6 General] matthewonderland:
Good Day, may I ask is my battery state normal? My S6 battery drop very fast whenever I am using it. Everyone same? Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] Konc:
Not bad, not bad at all! I'm getting approximately the same SOT on my HTC One M8 with Power Saver mode enabled (6 hrs average.)