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[Galaxy S6 General] ashouhdy:
battery update

After the new update that samsung pushed the battery changed tremendously

I am able to get 5 hours and more of screen on time

Its now great

U should all update the samsung push services in the playstore
[Galaxy S6 General] big_b0sss:
Really disappointed with battery life :( any suggestions?
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Yes, check the post right before yours.
[Galaxy S6 General] othersteve:
Suggestions? It's day 2 for me any my Verizon S6, and I'm unwilling to sacrifice simultaneous voice/data as I run my business from the phone. Besides, it didn't even seem to help when I tried it.

What's up with this? Love the phone but just can't live with this sort of endurance.

Edit:

Already tried:

-Samsung Push Service update

-Wipe cache partition

-Disable Wi-Fi

-Switch Wi-Fi to 2.4 GHz from 5 GHz

-Disable Wi-Fi features such as Smart Network Switch and Always scanning

-Disable VoLTE (temporarily)

Zero change.
[Galaxy S6 General] ashouhdy:
here is the battery after the update

Global version S6 non edge

5hours+ SOT

Most of the functions on

Wifi and data 3G (dont have lte in my area)

Auto brightness to the max

Lots of camera and social apps

No games

Location is off as I didnt use it

Wifi always scanning off
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Awesome. Pretty similar stats to mine!! Leep trying, people! This phone is awesome!! ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] ashouhdy:
After my fifth day and the update I got 5h20m SOT

The battery gets better with time, dont worry guys
[Galaxy S6 General] beef356:
Sprint s6 64gb

Bluetooth connected to moto 360 all day

No wifi

Samsung update already aplied

Email accounts set to manuel

Bloat apps disabled
[Galaxy S6 General] ac7822:
I saw one person mentioned switching Wi-Fi from 5ghz to 2.4. Is that confirmed to help battery?

I've been following the battery life threads pretty closely and that's the first time I've seen that mentioned.

In going to try it though, today My phone was connected to 2.4 mhz Wi-Fi all day and idle drain was about 2% an hour. I got home and I drained about 15%in 3 hours on my home 5ghz Wi-Fi.
[Galaxy S6 General] othersteve:
As is the case with nearly all these solutions, that one makes no difference whatsoever.
[Galaxy S6 General] ac7822:
Ya I think it's just a T-Mobile and the other Us carriers thing at this point who knows. I was on track for some decent battery today though till I got home and I get a full 4-5 bats of signal at home.
[Galaxy S6 General] apsis:
Not my best battery run, had several drains. But for 29 hours that's fine for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
How do i do this? I'd like to give it a try even though i am already getting awesome batt life now.
[Galaxy S6 General] ZaKaTRoN:
People that is having good battery life, please, can you provide a screenshot of CPU Z, tab SENSORS.

I think two sensors mines are failing, and it can be the reason of the draining battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I got the same results as you in CPU-Z
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Hope this helps. I attached my first cycle of charge as well for reference.
[Galaxy S6 General] m8980:
Here is my battery life of international G6.

I'm not very happy with that at the moment :(
[Galaxy S6 General] stratplayer:
I love the device, but I too am not impressed with battery life
[Galaxy S6 General] geoff5093:
I have it disabled and get mediocre battery life, so the update is useless for me and is not the main cause of bad battery life.

Sent from my "bigger is smaller" LG G3
[Galaxy S6 General] ashouhdy:
U shouldnt disable it

It got patches for fixing the battery

---------- Post added at 02:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:43 PM ----------

Also after about 6 cycles of complete discharge/charge

The battery got better.
[Galaxy S6 General] geoff5093:
The update is for the Samsung push service, which was using data and draining battery. They updated the service to not use as much data, which in turn increases battery life. With it disabled though it uses no data.

Sent from my "bigger is smaller" LG G3
[Galaxy S6 General] ZaKaTRoN:
Wifi and location always on. 4G and bluetooth disabled.

After system update system wiped

Samsung Push Service installed yesterday morning.

Bad battery life I think...

Plain mode at night. I have used only Facebook (sync disabled from app), Twitter (sync disabled from app), Tapatalk and Chrome.

I charged yesterday at 10pm, plain mode from 12am to 9am, and just now 3:47 pm 9%
[Galaxy S6 General] ashouhdy:
Still 18% this easily gets you an hour SOT !
[Galaxy S6 General] ZaKaTRoN:
I don't think one hour more... Now is 9%.

I have edit my post.

Do you think I'm having a good battery life?. Because I'm planning a replacement...
[Galaxy S6 General] ashouhdy:
After 5 full cycles of battery discharge/charge it got better.

Also update the Samsung push service from the playstore if it wasnt updated already
[Galaxy S6 General] ZaKaTRoN:
Samsung Push Service updated yesterday morning. I didn't noticed any improvement.

Sorry for my bad english, but what does mean SOT on your previous post?
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemlocke:
SOT = Screen On Time. That's your screen usage during a full discharge cycle.
[Galaxy S6 General] MJFox78:
after 4 or 5 load cycles my battery got much better! I'm quite happy with the battery now!
[Galaxy S6 General] kazgor:
Well nearly 1 week with the S6 and i am very happy.. came from the HTC ONE X.

Seem to have a really good Idle time when not being used.

Location, GPS, S Voice/Google Now Voice - turned off.

syncs. Twitter / Facebook / GMail

otherwise i haven't tweaked anything else.

There was a small Charge, just testing the Wireless charger for 5mins.. but otherwise not charged..

SOT around 2h30m

Almost tempted to not charge it tonight again.. see how much it goes down.
[Galaxy S6 General] trekage:
Something about this phone's battery just isn't adding up.

Can someone please help me out. The Galaxy S6 has a 2550 mAh battery, the Nexus 6 and the Note 4 both have a 3220 mAh battery. So the battery on both of these phablets are about 26% larger than the Galaxy S6. Now lets look at the iPhone 6 Plus which has a 2915 mAh battery (14% increase in battery capacity). Owners of these phablet devices are reporting phenomenal battery usage, many if not all are claiming that their devices are able to last two days, and extremely light users are claiming they can even go up to three days of usage on a single charge. So someone please tell me how a 14-26% increase in battery capacity allows users to last about two days on a single charge, but many Galaxy S6 owners cant even get through a single day on a charge? Samsung needs to step up and realize that they need to do some serious software optimization and tweaks to improve the battery life on their devices. Imagine the increase in sales they would achieve if they just set aside a team to optimize their software and get an increase in battery life. Clearly this shouldn't be happening and its definitely not a battery capacity issue. Im wondering, hypothetically speaking, how the battery life would be if someone put Kitkat on their Galaxy S6 (I understand the 32-bit to 64-bit operating system difference)
[Galaxy S6 General] visitor29:
I feel the difference deleting under root Samsung push service.apk and all other Samsung stuff coz basically not using at all that service
[Galaxy S6 General] lagania:
Xperia Z3 has 3100 mah not 2330
[Galaxy S6 General] trekage:
My mistake, thank you:good:
[Galaxy S6 General] johanbiff:
new update on google play coming

new update on play services on the roll, hopefully this will get my(great) battery life even better if they fix the wakelock bugg
[Galaxy S6 General] Funkym0nkey:
This first charging cycle. It was a weekend, so light day compared to usual at home.

Screenshot taken just at the time I connected the phone to charger at night.
[Galaxy S6 General] apsis:
[MENTION=6585981]johanbiff[/MENTION]

Where did you read that? Any source?
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-7-3-28-1863718-440-android-apk-download/
[Galaxy S6 General] the Doctor:
Here is battery testing done right, at a constant 200 nits for all phones. The S6 does pretty well.

http://anandtech.com/show/9146/the-samsung-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge-review/3

From the conclusion of the article:
[Galaxy S6 General] Sevael:
I can't comment on iPhone, but for the Note 4, few people get that kind of battery life on stock unrooted. With a good battery-centric ROM (FireKat) and optimal settings, I was getting a consistent two days out of my Note 4, and that was two days plus 5-6 hours of screen time. That was with two accounts set to sync, location/wifi/bluetooth all on 24/7, and often in medium- or low-quality signal areas.

With a stock ROM and freezing some apps/processes with Titanium Backup, I am already able to get ~30 hours of standby with 4-5 hours of screen time with my S6. Same accounts and settings as the Note 4. Considering the smaller battery size, I see nothing to complain about. :good:

Does the S6 work this well right out of the box? No. Should it? Probably. But I don't mind doing a bit of footwork in the beginning. I don't buy Android phones for a stock, plain-Jane experience. I like to get under the hood and tinker until it's just perfect for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
?? Holy poodle. Could it be that there is a silicon lottery going on?
[Galaxy S6 General] isaacgalaxy:
So my adaptive fast charger that came with my phone seems to be charging my phone awfully slow. It says 3 hours+ to charge phone so I tried another charger and it says 1.5 hours to charge. I am yet to see any fast charging either. I've had my phone down to 15% when i plugged it in and no message came up saying it was fast charging.

Is my charger faulty?

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So i just tested the charger with another USB cable and it works fine.... So samsung bundled me with a faulty USB cable i guess?
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
The Note 3 was also only a 1080p device and was replaced by the QHD wielding Note 4. The Note 4 had noticeably improved battery life in testing and in real world usage which showcases Samsung's ability to optimize the power consumption of its displays while pushing AMOLED technology forwards.

Samsung has managed to do the same with the S6's display, resolution and brightness is up while power consumption is down.

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S6_ShootOut_1.htm#Table
[Galaxy S6 General] camnop:
I think 3000mAh enough!
[Galaxy S6 General] matheus_sc:
Read test of gsm arena and you see this test in snapdragon variant, exynos variant only did 52 hours
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
The Galaxy Alpha with its 1860mAh battery and Exynos processor managed a score of 52hr. The Exynos variant of the A7 was not tested by GSMArena.
[Galaxy S6 General] MikeyMike01:
I suppose you're right. I thought it was better than the S 5 but apparently it's not.

All I know is my 5s isn't making it a whole day anymore.
[Galaxy S6 General] thiagomme:
According to Sammobile, the Active version will feature a 3500 mAh battery. Fingers crossed!

From Sammobile:

"What will change though, are the dimensions (but obvious), which will now read*73.6 x 146.9 x 8.8 mm (as opposed to 70.5 x 143.4 x 6.8 mm of the Galaxy S6), and the battery size, which will be upgraded to 3500mAh."
[Galaxy S6 General] David_freestyle:
I hope it will be better this time
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
I like the g3, still considering it actually since it's price is lower now. $469 at tmobile last I looked...great phone just saw many complaints about the larger battery not lasting so long cause of screen and heat.

Funny thing is, I have S5 and for what ever reason my battery life has been lasting longer and I feel like I use it more now than some months ago...and it's been charging faster with the same sick charger. Weird!

That S6 active 3500mAh battery should have been the standard size for S6 and S6 edge, and not tried to make the phone so skinny, bet every one would prefer the phone last over 1/3 time longer for an extra mm in thickness

Sent from my SM-G900T using AllianceR(●)m
[Galaxy S6 General] das boot:
A 3500 mAh battery would have put the S6 in the 9-10 mm range. Would it be terrible? I don't know, but considering the M9 looks like an aluminum brick in that size...I'm glad they went with the smaller battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Protagoras:
They wanted to make it thinner than an iPhone 6 which is 6.9mm for marketing reasons, so they made it 6.8mm and they put the biggest battery they could fit in that thickness. That ended up being 2600MaH. I think that's what happened. And that's also probably why we lost the SD slot and replaceable battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
The article stated 8.8mm active versus 6.8mm S6/S6 edge... We are talking about mm here! Would you notice two mm, or an additional 950mAh more in daily use?

Sent from my SM-G900T using AllianceR(●)m
[Galaxy S6 General] David_freestyle:
I think I'll prefer it to be bigger and with a better battery... But, it's marketing...
[Galaxy S6 General] Sacher_Masoch:
In this video the guy is testing different games during nearly 15 minutes.

You can see that after the test the battery lost 10%

https://youtu.be/90p8mDZxDDs

Do you think that's a good average ? (sorry if my English is not good).
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
That's about 2.5 hours. Full brightness playing intense games..not amazing but not bad at all IMO.
[Galaxy S6 General] Sacher_Masoch:
Do you think we can up to maybe 4 hours with a low screen bright?
[Galaxy S6 General] poliooo:
I'm sure it can. Brightness is the ultimate battery killer so dimming it will improve battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] rkial:
Same nonsense every time. Make it a mm thicker and put in a bigger battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] AndroidDeveloperLB:
But think what would have happen if with all the nice advancements in the hardware, the battery would stay like on other smartphones, or even have larger capacity.

They could have a win in all directions, and not just performance.
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
This. I'm impressed with what Samsung has crammed into the confines of the device, but every time a manufacturer advertises "Look at how thin this is." I want to respond with "look how stupid you are"
[Galaxy S6 General] David_freestyle:
Yes, they wanted to do it so thin they couldn't put a better battery... That's bad... I'll try with a Zerolemon's 4000 mAh battery case
[Galaxy S6 General] kinghu:
I've stopped monitoring battery life now. After one week, I'm consistently getting 5 to 5.5 hours SOT under mixed wifi and lte with auto brightness and BT to my Vivosmart.

Nothing is restricted or crippled to make it last longer. The same way i used my Note 4 and got 6-7 hours SOT is yielding 5-5.5 on the S6 which is more than reasonable given the smaller battery and beefier specs.

There's a bit of headroom in my usage so i tend to charge to 85% and recharge at 15% - plenty enough to last my day.

-- from my S6
[Galaxy S6 General] gambit61:
Battery was pretty good today, haven't had 5 hours SOT in a long time with my Note 2. Also, the percentage readings on the Cell Standby stat and Screen stat look a little off lol.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
What was your battery life at beginning? My is 4 hours SOT. Wifi on, location on, brightness auto
[Galaxy S6 General] kinghu:
First few cycles were 3-4 hours then it settled on 5 or a bit more.

-- from my S6
[Galaxy S6 General] richyb86:
Really random drain. This hasn't happened over the last few days.
[Galaxy S6 General] deep0ew:
Try to clear cache in recovery. I had the same problem. 4 hours of nothing 20% drain. After clearing cache, now I have 6 hours 12% lost and 1 hour SOT.

Hope it helps for you.
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
My factory reset totally did the trick. I'm currently at almost 20 hours since my last charge, with 30% left. That's only about 2 1/2 hours of screen time, but it was also almost all totally normal usage for me. Wifi always on, NFC always on, auto brightness, location on, Google Now launcher, Facebook, Twitter, a fair amount of time out and about on LTE, and also a lot of installs from the Play store (which won't happen anywhere near as much from now on).

I will be more than satisfied if this is now a normal battery drain for me. Before this I was lucky to make it 10 hours on one charge.

If you moved from another phone and let Google/Samsung reinstall all your apps, and your battery life stinks, you might want to go the reset route.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
SOT screenshot?
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
I started off with decent enough battery when I was stock and unrooted.

Then after root and disabling a few thing I started getting major standby battery drain.

Now I've been going in circles.

Every time I charge to full and watch DS Battery stats I have some new process that's chewing threw standby battery using CPU and wake.

Emergency service, Ant Hal, on and on. Right now it's Samsung keyboard.?? WTF?

I keep freezing more and more in Titanium but they still run.

Seems like I have to restart the phone or even clear cache and dalvik. But then it's something else. On and on..

Samsung and/or Google really screwed something up.

I've never had anything like this.
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
Didn't get one for the screen time, but as I said, it was about 2 1/2 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] das boot:
no problems here

I'm happy with it....except that cell standby of course
[Galaxy S6 General] eyekyu:
The cell standby OUCH ...

I didnt read 100pages of post so please dont be to mean, but im guessing theres no "fix" or anyword of an update

s6 made me do it
[Galaxy S6 General] nateohio:
There has got to be a bug in the reporting of these stats. There is absolutely no way cell stand by is 39% of your battery drain when you have that much screen on time. That would mean we'd have a phone that is capable of 8-10 hours of SOT once the theoretical bug was fixed....there's just no way...it would be the most efficient phone ever by a long shot
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
I think it's just not specific enough. But it's still pointing in the general direction of the problem.

If you install a third party app that gives much more specific info then you'll see processes that wake and use CPU while it's in sleep/standby.
[Galaxy S6 General] das boot:
All I know is when I'm on my phone I'm playing Clash of Clans, or on XDA, probably 90% of the time on clash. I think that's great battery life considering I'm gaming the majority of the time. If my phone survives the accidental drop in the tub, it will truly be the best phone I've ever seen. I'm hoping she fires up tomorrow with no issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] stratplayer:
As you can see from my screenshots, with a whopping 38 minutes of screen time my battery % is useless. I was connected to wireless most of the day so no cell issues.

I so want to keep this phone, but something has got to improve.
[Galaxy S6 General] MrWGT:
Compared to my oneplus one the sot and standby time is bad.

But compared to my older Samsung K Zoom it's good.

WiFi, BT, LTE always on. LG G watch connected to S6. Played some music over Bluetooth, watched ~20min YouTube, some photos, adjustment with Snapseed, reading news with chrome, whatsapp, facebook.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Should i disable samsung push? I updated it the other day but just disabled it today.
[Galaxy S6 General] X-Ter:
This is 100% anecdotal evidence, but I think switching to basic screen mode has helped my SoT. I switched from AMOLED photo. Does anyone know if this has an impact on battery?
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunul:
Has anyone noticed a better battery life since the update?
[Galaxy S6 General] nitrio:
4-5 SOT but it seems the battery drains much faster everytime using WiFi-Calling.
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
I am really satisfied with mine getting 5-5.5 hours of sot. I have stopped monitoring battery after 3 cycles of full charging. I am now just doing up to 80% then replugging at around 30%.
[Galaxy S6 General] Comando156:
How are you guys having no battery loss even during idle... i can be at work for 8 hours not touch my phone once, wifi off, email sync set to longest sync possible, and use greenify to stop background stray apps. And no matter what my battery graph is always a down slope... at no time can it go without loosing battery... i ask this because allot of screen shots show flat areas of no loss...
[Galaxy S6 General] deep0ew:
These are my results
[Galaxy S6 General] Biggenz:
My battery life was a little concerning when I first started using the phone. I'm now on my 5th full charge and after a bit of tweaking my battery life is brilliant. Didn't think it was possible to get this sort of usage from such a small battery. Oh and as for flat curves with no battery drain, see screenshot. :D
[Galaxy S6 General] subben2003:
Not bad at all. I´m so pleased
[Galaxy S6 General] robertkoa:
That would be great. I use Alpha at low screen brightness unless watching a movie or looking at photos and average 4 to 5 hours...5 + hours is if I am browsing a lot during an 8 hour period and would go down to 4 hours if I was out for 12 hours with an hour of calls.

I can get 2500 mah battery for Alpha but I need that Camera from S6.

Bad news is I am MetroPCS/Tmobile which is the most problematic version.

Usually Tmo has the simplest most Universal Samsungs ( S4 S5 etc).

Not this time..m
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
What's your Screen on Time?
[Galaxy S6 General] subben2003:
On that run prox 1h 30 min
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
I had a problem with my phone not deep sleeping try CPU Spy to see if your phone is deep sleeping apparently it's a common problem. To fix this I had to reflash stock recovery and now I get nearly 6 hrs OST
[Galaxy S6 General] Jarrive:
Not so satisfied.

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I took the decission. I am returning the phone. The battery is crap.
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
It ain't crap you just need to know what's draining battery use CPU Spy to see if you phone is deep sleeping and GSam battery stats to see what's making battery drain. I had Sam problem as you and now my battery is amazing
[Galaxy S6 General] Jarrive:
I use Gsam. Unfortunatelly, i am a power user.
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
I use my phone a lot and get good battery life not as good as s5 but close what's your app sucker stats in GSam also see what always running on your phone freeze what you don't use it really helps.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Wow, you really need some periods in there.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
My battery seems to drain quite a bit after a full charge (at least in my office) and it's really perplexing me as I have a strong LTE signal here. I've even turned wifi off. The weird thing is it doesn't seem to be this bad when the battery isn't full - so if it were at 50%, it would stay at 50% much longer. Any recommendations would be really appreciated!
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
Check with CPUspy that you have deep sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] Sevael:
WiFi, Bluetooth and location on 100% of the time, one account syncing everything, one account syncing email only, medium signal quality, 40% screen brightness. This also included an hour-long speaker phone call.

I rooted and lost deep sleep, restored stock recovery and got deep sleep back. Froze some bloat and other stuff I didn't need, including Samsung Push Service.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with my battery life!