[Galaxy S6 General] Madpiercing:
HOW I GET 6+ SOT AVERAGE

My idea was to make this longer and detailed but it's easter (happy easter!) so i referenced some things from other posts and websites. This however is pretty much what i do to and with my phone to have good battery life. It's nothing groundbreaking, but maybe someone don't know all these things. If you have questions just ask.

Battery preservation

First thing you have to do to get a decent sot and standby is not ruin your battery (off course). Read this link with care http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries.

The main takeaway from the article is that keeping your phone fully charged or discharge it to 0 is bad for the battery. I usually charge it to 90% and discharge it to 15%, so i get to use 75% of my total charge everytime.

I also don't like to keep it in charge overnight, the charging process is very fast so charge it before going to bed and then pull of the charger.

Android setup

This is how i setup my phone, your mileage may vary based on what you need yours to do. I also suggest to wipe cache from the recovery (turn off phone then power on + home button + volume up, the wipe cache from the menu). This cache thing was needed on lollipop once a month to keep things smooth, seems unnecessary since marshmallow but it doesn't hurt to do it once in a while.

BLUETOOTH: off, on when needed

NFC: off, on when needed

SOUND AND VIBRATIONS:

Vibration Feedback off

Keyboard sounds off

keyboard vibration off

If you have another keyboard (i use fleksy in fact) go in your aftermarket keyboard settings and turn off it's sound and vibration feedback

SCREEN:

intelligent standby off

PRIVACY:

location off, on when needed

setting that sends your info to samsung off

ACCESSIBILITY:

Turn off the notification reminder from the main menu, then enter the sight and hearing categories and turn off what you don't need.

ACCOUNT: select to sync only what you really need. I have two google accounts and i sync calendar, contacts, gmail and drive. If you have other accounts for other apps you don't use delete them.

Bloatware removal

The phone comes with a lot of apps, that honestly are fairly useful and not the usual crappy bloatware, but chances are you don't need them all anyway. You have to decide what to keep and what not.

I have disabled all the microsoft office app (word, powerpoint, excel, one drive), dropbox, galaxy apps, the memo, skype, samsung gear because i don't own one. I kept s-health because i find it useful, also peel smart remote, love it.

Facebook deserves it's own paragraph. Facebook is a battery hog, to have a fully functional experience you need 2 apps (facebook and messenger) that overall consume a hell of a lot of battery, data and imho are also annoying. Just use your browser to access facebook.

Special mention to the google services. Disable google music, books, games, google + etc; maybe keep google + if you use it, the other are useless. If you get google play services as a battery hog in the battery info, restrict background data for it. I receive my notification just fine even with background data restricted and i never once saw it in the battery info after turning on this setting.

More info on restrict background data:

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/55831/how-does-restrict-background-data-work

http://www.howtogeek.com/140261/how-to-minimize-your-android-data-usage-and-avoid-overage-charges/

Other

- if you don't use apps, delete them.

- if you have the wi fi drain problem, read this http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/help/puzzle-wlanrxwake-wakelock-sgsii-t2133176

- don't keep brightness at 100%; you don't need it saves for sunny days outdoor. I use 20% indoor during the day, 0% when i read at night (and if you sleep in a dark room, checking for notifications first thing in the morning with 100% brightness will kill your eyes), 50-70% day outdoors, 20% outdoor at night. This alone will improve your battery.

- turn off google now if you don't use it http://neurogadget.com/2015/10/28/a...w-enable-and-disable-google-now-feature/18591

- someone experienced better battery disabling smart manager, so you can try. I have it enabled and battery is good.

Hope this helps!