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[Galaxy S6 General] lorin_93:
No, it's never plugged in overnight. I usually put charge it for like one hour before I go to bed, with fast charging, that's enough to get it to 100%.

There were no apps whatsoever, the phone was freshly installed, I only had my Google and my Samsung accounts signed in, sync was off, and nothing else. I think 12% over 8 hours with Wifi on is unacceptable by any means. Turning on notifications for the apps (or installing them, for that matter) doesn't mean they have to be running and fetching notifications all the time, that's not the way they are supposed to work. We had GCM for some time now. If developers avoid that and keep doing processing when they shouldn't in order to get notifications, shame on them.

But this is not about the apps since I did not install anything, this is about the OS, because Android OS was wakelock-ing the phone for like 10 minutes every hour, while Wifi was on. If I turned Wifi off, I used to get 0-1% drain over 8 hours. Furthermore, the phone was failing to turn wifi off. After two hours with the screen off, the phone was still connected to my router and exchanging data with it, even though I've set the wifi to never keep on during sleep! Lollipop has no such issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] momo220499:
How do I disable smart manager?
[Galaxy S6 General] lorin_93:
You need to buy/"download" an app named Package Disabler Pro.
[Galaxy S6 General] momo220499:
I know sorry I mean which files exactly should I disable?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
You are on 5.1.1 or 6.0.1
[Galaxy S6 General] momo220499:
6.0.1 ?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Package disabler have a lot of things in rose that you can disable.

And you see what you don't need.

I disabled Google apps in the phone.

And the rest on package disabler.

Go 2 pages back and see what I disabled.

Its safe i tested.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Start the day in 4G and the standby inprove a little. Package disabler works.

Even in standby android OS doesn't get higher due the apps i remove.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
You should change your status to: in a relation to my battery :)

Get another phone, less headaches :)
[Galaxy S6 General] 85Christian85:
It´s ok but not good :D
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Hahaha maybe.

Im just trying to help,and learn something.

I already have note 4.

It's a little bit better.

But i will change my s6 for the s7 edge.

Hope that largest 3600 battery do some miracles.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
I was thinking myself for a S7 edge, but most likely i will look at the M10 first. If none of this will ring any bell the 6S will be my next friend :)
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
I'm getting this with XEF and without package disabler and without removing smart manager. Seems like doze is working perfectly.

What i have done.

1. Restored (reflashed) phone to XEF factory firmware with Smart Switch. Google and Samsung accounts signed in. Around 56 GB data including Apps, Games, Movies, music etc.

2. Didn't run the smart manager. Didn't enabled any permission in smart manager for security or disk cleaning etc. In summary don't run it ever.

3. Wifi setting to turn off on sleep except on Charger.

4. Google app, music and movies, playstand disabled.

5. Gmail sync off. Rest of sync on

6. S voice disabled.

7. Rest of everything stock.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
So you lost 3% after a bit more than 2h on battery?

Dont know what you see there that is impressive
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
It's 3 hours with partial use. See the flatline at the end. That flat line is device idle time. Almost no standby drain.
[Galaxy S6 General] lorin_93:
Possible fix.

So here is my situation: I ended up going back to MM and I managed to sort of fix my draining issues. I don't have a final fix, but I know what it is caused by and hopefully this will help some of you who are in the same situation.

The obvious: after updating to 6.0.1, the Galaxy S6 drainage skyrockets when the phone is sleeping with Wifi on. I estimate the drain at about 2%/hour (could depend on different factors), and Android OS is the at the top of the usage stats. If you disconnect the charger after fully charging, let the phone sleep for a few hours (don't touch it) with Wifi on and see Android OS having 100% of the drain, this is your issue.

What's happening: The phone keeps exchanging data with your router/a device on the network for some reason or another. It is NOT caused by the apps you have installed on the phone, so stop debloating the OS, it's not going to make a significant difference.

How to fix it: try to follow what's described here, it seems to be the same issue: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/help/puzzle-wlanrxwake-wakelock-sgsii-t2133176

I have two routers in my house, one being the main one and the other one being in WDS with the first one. I always connect on the main one (faster, and closer to me), which is draining the battery in MM. Yesterday evening I connected to the second one (the one in WDS) and the drain stopped. I experienced a 4% drain overnight (8 hours), with wifi on, while connected to the second router (so that's roughly 0.5%/hour, 4 times less than before).

The main router is a TP-Link Archer C2, while the second one is a TP-Link TL-WR841N. The wifi settings/channels/security are similar between the two. I know it's not TP-Link's fault, but I will get in touch with them, if the second router can work fine with the MM on the S6, then I'm sure they can tweak the software on the Archer C2 so it'll do the same.

Let me know if what I said was of any use.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Xtrestolite 3.0 beta 3 with some adds on and arter kernel 12.

First cycle of the battery with the new kernel.

If it will improves i will rest on this rom.

From 100 to 80% i got 30 minutes of SOT but at 50% 2 hours and 30 min of sot with hard use.

I hope that tomorrow from 100 to 90 30 min of SOT.

Very happy for now
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
I have do better in stock MM...
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
Guys, how many mAh does the stock browser use for you in a day? Mine got 2h cpu usage and therefore 400 mAh which is more than the screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Guys one question: Does Synapse work on Marshmallow?
[Galaxy S6 General] JHoang:
Anyone else have problems with standby time and having Android OS making the phone be awake for like 7 hours?
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
It's kernel related. There is no reason why it shouldn't. Just keep in mind that at this point most kernels are still barebones so some of them may not be compatible yet.
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
I can confirm this. The standby drain on wifi is related to router. I have one all in one Samsung horizon box from my cable operator. The standby drain on this router is 2% per hour. No matter how many apps I had disabled on phone.

I have a 2nd router Netgear WNDR4500 (N900). Yesterday I setup that and with exactly the same phone settings, my standby drain reduced to 0.5% per hour. There seem to be something in how routers are communicating in sleep mode.

I have lost only 4% in around 8 hours at night.

On my office wifi, I get horrible battery drain of 4% per hour, however this is same for my iPhone 6 plus on office network as well.
[Galaxy S6 General] TasEsmuEs:
6.0.1

All stock, no package disabler and getting 5+ hours SOT with XEF firmware even with leaving it overnight and with normal brightness. LTE, WiFi, GPS and all sensors on.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Today always on With 4G but not much use and drains a lot in standby maybe 3%hour or more.

Its too much
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Yeah, too much drain.. bro, try to install arter kernel or adam kernel i think they wuold improge the standby time
[Galaxy S6 General] tattooalex28:
I think I can get to 6 hours without playing water splash. Original firmware.no root.only some disabled apps.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
It seems this night standby was not so bad 7h 3% with no airplane mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] chestermeisterrr:
battery life from 15 hours of usage. 100% on wifi

package disabler, metal for facebook, instagram, whatsapp, youtube, web browsing. brightness on 25%.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
I'm impressed. I was scary to move from iPhone 6 to s6 bcuz of the battery..but it is so much better
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
My usage right now
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
First cycle from 55% to 0 % 2.55 hours of SOT. I'm back to COI9, with optimization OFF, then when i have some results and compared it with Marshmallow i will install Xposed and see how much is better than stock
[Galaxy S6 General] 85Christian85:
The first screenshot shows the usage over night without wifi. Considering the LTE signal the result is ok for me. Against that the second screenshot looks terrible. Here wifi was enabled the whole night, the result is a very high drain.

Under consideration of the lower battery consumption of wifi instead of LTE the standby drain would be great but not in my case. So what now?
[Galaxy S6 General] Ave666:
You're not alone bro. Brace yourself
[Galaxy S6 General] daniel.fanucchi:
Hi at hall, I don't never take 4 or 5 hour of screen, the person can take 4 or 5 hour of the screen can describe the setting of luminosity or anything else? Thank you
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I can reach 4 hours of SOT with some tweaks but most of the time is 3.45 hours of Sot.

Brightness is a big drainer of battery: i put it in 15/30%.

Also signal of your simcard is a big factor.

5 bars all the time?

Your phone doesn't stress it self too much for searching signal.

Disable location/Bluetooth/sync and advanced features that you don't use.

Install package disabler pro for disable all the bloatware and if you have deep sleep problem try one kernel!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I notice in M with or without package disabler i have the same ram free.

Battery is the same .

Only disabled what system let me.

Its working normal .

But i made a call.

Selling my s6 asap.

Definitely keep my note 4, note4 i can leave it 10h and drain 2%.

Can run 2 days and make 5h sot.

I thinking in s7 edge but some guys don't make much better sot.

The only way to get good sot with s6 is in 8h to 10h.

If leave it to much in standby it will drain.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Use amplify and greenery with agresive doze.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Thanks, but i already use everything i can use with stock .

I already make 6.45h sot only with wifi at home .

But a normal day, with 90% to 100% 4G hardly more than 4h sot

In around 12h 14h of usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] Gagan Varshney:
Hi
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
4h on data is the best you will get on any phone. Data is very battery hungry. I had a g2 and it lasted like 4 h on data no more. So I think this phone has very good battery life if you tweak it a bit.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
S7 flat made 5 hours of SOT with heavy usage.

Wifi, Bluetooth, 4g+, Maps, uploading 300 mb for a video on YouTube.

I don't know anymore how to reach 5 hours...
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What i can tell you is, note 4 make 5h on 4G.

And i see by my side a friend with wiko pure 4g 2000battery 200dolares kill my s6 with 5h 4G.

And i ask it worth a expensive phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
LOL. You re forgetting the screen difference..2k vs what ever that phone has.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Yes i known that. Samsung has the best screen.

But also lots of bloatware and features that half of the people don't use or disabled.

Thats heavy for the battery.

But for the what I heard s7 edge have a good improvement.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Guys in your opinion the S7 battery can fit in our S6?
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Lol... Simply No
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Uhm.. okey! :)
[Galaxy S6 General] mwatson:
and can I fit the S6 camera module in my S7?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I don't know man ahah :)
[Galaxy S6 General] NightSky256:
is this *real* ? or it is a rumor ?

'cause every phone i bought (including S6) there were lots of people saying marvelous things about battery but after buying them that fu**ing battery never lasts to the night... ok i have chargers anywhere... but at this moment they will give me 300 euros back for my S6/32Gb to buy an S7 (still have to know if it's available the gold one) and would like to know it there are real improvements to spend 400 difference euros...
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Real, one Italian user made a live on his website to test the S7 Flat and edge Battery! :)
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
Wow near gs7 battery life with no android os or system drain
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Seems like not a big difference between S6 and S7.

http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s7_battery_life-blog-17202.php
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
I am not switching from S6 Edge (SM-925F) to S7 Edge. I don't see any incentive.

In terms of battery life it works perfectly after upgrade to Marshmallow (rooted XtreStoLite DeoMod 3.0 Beta 3)

I am getting 1% drain in 11+h with WiFi on and sync on (typeapp for email, eweatherhd - weather app, signal for messaging).

Deep sleep is 90%

This leads to 36hrs of uptime

SOT is 7hrs45min so I could easily get ~10hrs SOT with less uptime on single charge.

SOT consists of Netflix, browsing (firefox), maps/location/bluetooth, bbc and guardian news apps plus google app store

When I got my phone it run on lollipop 5.1.1 and battery life was not great so I did try package disabler but then I realized that how limited this tool was.

So I rooted the phone and I did not use Package Disabler (it refuses to work on rooted device anyway). I fact I do not see much use for PD. It disables stuff that I do not use and has no control over apps that I use frequently. This leads to used apps lurking in the background and using up battery.

In contrast my approach is much better than Package Disabler application. I just use Xposed module that shuts down any program not currently in use.

More importantly I can control my phone in a ways that stock ROM will never allow me to do including privacy.

At this point I am pretty happy with the results and don't feel like it needs any improvements as I am getting better results than previously mentioned iPhone stats (2-3% battery/10hrs)

unfortunately I can't post any of the screenshots because I need ten posts to upload external links.
[Galaxy S6 General] HydrogenCyanide:
What application do you use on xposed? I'm using greenify+Powernap+Amplify+Radio active fix. And I just can get 3hra of sot. On the night I just lost .20% or less than 1. I'm using Arrow Rom and hacker kernel. Why my batter sucks a little.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
I am using Amplify, Greenify and Prevent Run.

Prevent Run module keeps apps shut as soon as I stop using them. I whitelisted firewall, typeapp, signal and eweatherhd. Did not messed up much with system apps except the obvious (as in the case of greenify).

I am using stock kernel because after experimenting with custom ones I have found very little to no advantage and often bugs that prevented some of the apps run properly. Underclocking made system quite often sluggish, overclocking killed battery with no advantage (no games on the phone).

here are some links:

http://

battery drain overnight (11hrs)

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deep sleep

s7.postimg.org/o4fdyszkr/Deep_sleep.png

total time on single battery charge

s30.postimg.org/5gm0lm5yp/One_charge_time.png

SOT

s16.postimg.org/yr3mo09kl/SOT.png

and antutu benchmarks so you can see that this is stock kernel and pretty standard results (without disabling whitelisted apps)

s11.postimg.org/gptrspltf/An_Tu_Tu.png
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Guys as someone wrote earlier and been discussed on reddit, disable/uninstall Facebook native app and Facebook messenger and use the web version through a desktop shortcut. I have seen instant gain of 15 - 20% increase in SOT. Previously I was hardly getting 4 hours. After this I am between 4.5 - 5 hours on my S6 with MM XEF. I have also disabled google app, play movies, music, newsstand and google+. All bugs like play services drain etc are gone. I get around less than 0.5% drain per hour in standby connected to wifi always on and 3G. And all stock, no rooting etc.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
[MENTION=5102039]Waycloud[/MENTION]

don't forget to whitelist Amplify, Greenify and (if you will use it) Prevent Run accordingly in these apps.

Because you are rooted, getting SOT 10hrs is pretty easy and still you can use phone for whole day.

For me the only difficult par was actually sitting in front of my phone and using it quite intensively.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
If you use BTU Facebook is not system app

You can optimise it.

And don't drain.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
In my opinion, this is a limitation of stock ROMs. Whether you have facebook as system app or not gains are really small. All apps in stock ROMs once used will stay in the memory at least in part. If this is not system app then reboot may (but not necessary) stop specific app running in background. This is of course not applicable (rebooting device after each use of specific program) in real life.

In addition with stock ROM user is unable to control services related to the specific app. Even if (lets say) facebook is not a system app user can't control wakelocks and alarms related to facebook services.

If you multiply this by the number of apps running without control, then obviously most well optimized setups with stock ROMs can get close to 6hrs SOT while hovering around 20hrs total assuming optimal conditions that is with good wifi/data signal.

On the other hand I am getting practically no drain with wifi (or data does not matter) and can double (maybe more) SOT with still much better battery life from single charge.

This let me use programs like VPN and Tor which are CPU intensive (encrypt/decrypt network traffic) and some custom apps without any issues with battery.

I believe that Samsung claim about high quality hardware is justified of course and because stock ROMs are so bad then user have no other choice than root. Just switching from one stock ROM to another can get you that far which is barely usable.

I am not endorsing rooting because even on this forum I have seen plenty of posts complaining about soft bricked phones. Not to mention that just rooting and installing custom ROM/custom kernel will not help and in fact may even worsen battery life (as some posts on this forum also would suggest). However when done properly it really makes S6 Edge fly. At this point I do not plan to get S7 and will wait for the next release (S8 or whatever) which hopefully will bring more to the table.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
That's not true.. Root doesn't do anything to do battery life. I I went from 4h sot on stock to 6h sot after rooting and installing amplify and Grenify. Rooting is the first thing you have to do if u want a real flagship phone. I don't see any disadvantages of rooting
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
I don't think that I ever have written that just rooting somehow improves anything.

Root privileges give control allowing to install software that will not work otherwise.

I can't endorse rooting because I see a lot of posts regarding problems with rooting and also a lot of posts where users did not gain much.

In other words users decide what they want to risk and gain.

If after rooting you are getting similar SOT as users can get without rooting then unless you want other options not available without rooting then the final result is exactly the same.
[Galaxy S6 General] NightSky256:
why are you all talking about 4h/6h SOT ??? while mine barely reaches 2h SOT since i got MM ? for me MM was a devastation in terms of SOT and battery...

it was just mine ?

i did not rooted yet 'cause of knox... maybe should i just wipe...
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
It all depends what you want to do and what apps do you have installed?

In my opinion if you decide against rooting in optimal conditions you can see 6hrs SOT and close to 20-24hrs on one battery charge. This will deteriorate fast with less than optimal conditions (just to make sure if rooted your uptime will shrink too but you may have more cushion).

If you try to root you can get 10hrs SOT or more and 24hrs or more uptime.

However it is impossible to predict what you will get with your particular setup.

I assume that you don't want to root. In such case you can try BTU or XEU ROMs (Europe).

Next install Package Disabler (Google Play) and disable all apps that you don't use (careful with system apps).

Consider using web interface for any social media related activity and disable applications such as facebook with PD.

another group is related to the news apps. Consider using web sites.

Camera apps and photoediting apps are very chatty.

Encryption costs a lot so if you can live without it that is great.

Of course disabling everything for the sake of great SOT will make your phone useless.

Rooting will give you more control. No need to disable apps if you want to use them. Instead you can control how and when specific app will do something.

And there are things that you can't fix: e.g signal strength

In any case it is difficult to predict how much you can improve your phone usability.

best luck
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Just flash the new XEF.

Package disabler doesn't make difference in M.

Just disable what you dont need and system let you.

It will work perfectly.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
It seems that it can always get a little bit better.

Only 4G.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Theme ?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Like this because its same icons like stock
[Galaxy S6 General] EasyGoingXD:
You can choose on any Theme the stock icons :)
[Galaxy S6 General] adrimarti15:
How !!!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
It seems new XEF is making a wonderful job in standby 4G drain the same as wifi.

Very good.

First 50% 4G other 50 wifi
[Galaxy S6 General] EasyGoingXD:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63007838&postcount=939 :)
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Just wanted to see how long I can play videos. Came back from work and left it on the table running Netflix.

It looks like more than 7hrs of SOT. Not bad I think.
[Galaxy S6 General] self_slaughter:
Doing a lot better for battery since downgrading and going back to a custom kernel.

Dont bother with greenify and all that other ****. Just close apps when I'm done with em rather then waste more juice trying to automate it.

Leave data / wifi etc on the whole time. Brightness at auto (slider maxed out)

Just stooging on facebook / tapatalk etc.

I reckon just making facebook a normal app vs a system app makes a huge difference though. That cranks the battery on a stock rom.

S6 flat. (920i)

and wow, my reception peaked to 3 bars to make a liar out of me during the screenshot. Normally on 0 lol
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
It is interesting how different setup work achieving more or less a similar result that is long battery usage in single charge.

For example I never observed that closing app will really close it. I had simple test for this just by using orbot/orfox duo. Orfox will not connect to the internet if orbot is truly closed. However closing orbot interface does nothing and orfox can still connect to the internet. On the other hand when I force closing orbot with prevent run, then orfox will not connect to the internet. When apps are closed one can still notice that their services are still lurking in the background.

I noticed difference in battery life on single charge when apps are controlled and shut down. Of course this may not apply to your settings but it works for me.

with light use (that is usually what I do: mail, firefox, some news a little bit of Netflix which constitutes of ~8hrs SOT) I am getting on average 1.5day on single charge. However I do use greenify, amplify and prevent run. I am not concerned much about RAM because it always is hovering ~1GB RAM free, even if phone is online for few days.

Clearly these are different setups with the results that are more or less similar. It seems that there is no single way of setting up energy efficient solution. That is a pity.