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[Galaxy S6 General] i9100g user:
Indeed a sw/fw update could make a day and night difference in some cases(what to say of pre release then!)

So yeah jumping to conclusions would be dumb at this point of time [emoji58]

Of course unless you have some sort of bias [emoji51]
[Galaxy S6 General] zaki67:
I think I'll stick to the Z3, I love the looks of the S6 edge but will not go back to charging twice a day.
[Galaxy S6 General] abdielol:
You need to take a really deep breath and realize that it's not that serious. If you prefer the HTC M9, then good for you. There's a forum for that phone too. You look worse than an Apple/Sammy fanboy by posting that incredible wall of text rant.
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
Note sure how to respond to this as you seem not to care to understand my point. No device should be judged based on pre-release performance. Some reviewers walked away from the MWC with a pre-release S6, probably on February software. Sure, their preview is a pointer to then compare it to the final product coming 2 months later, just per definition don't call it a review, cause that'll make ppl. wrongly consider it a fair judgement. Whatever the final S6 does in terms of performance doesn't make a difference to me who tests about a 100 devices a year, I'm just stating the facts, mate: wait for something final like the Anandtech review. Sure, personally I'm not happy about the lack of SD card or bigger battery, though I'm curious to see what the UFS chips and the 14 nm Exynos can do to compensate, then I'll move on to test the next device.
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Discussion is no offence. And generally Samsung forums are more tolerant compared to other vendors in terms of open discussion. Infact you will find Samsung 'fanboys' as critical of Samsung like anybody else.

Batterylife discussions are up for debate and final assessment. Like I mentioned in this post, the battery capacity was reduced by 9%. But all hardware components have improved substantially. Those improvements are huge and should be good enough to increase batterylife over S5. We are yet to see any negative reports of Exynos so far. So, I won't conclude anything till we get more reports from other established sources.

TW/Sense is a endless debate, won't go there anymore.

As for gaming on QHD, I haven't yet found a game than runs natively at QHD. If anyone knows, feel free to correct me. Most games I know are unscaled. In that case, I don't think S6 with QHD is at any disadvantage. Also gamebench suggests that Exynos devices have been getting better framerate than other devices. It doesn't help for HTC though as they have blocked gamebench access to more data. Most games run fine on Note 4, I see no reason why it would have problems in S6.

As for camera, we will get more details soon. Some few sample comparison you will find here:

http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/...-iPhone-6-HTC-One-M9-Lumia-1520-11497424.html

Also detailed comparison between S6 and iPhone are available in mobile-review.com and hi-tech.mail.ru. And in both sites it was clear that S6 have better camera than iPhone 6+. We will soon get more detailed comparison for M9 and S6 soon.
[Galaxy S6 General] megagodx:
It has a more energy efficient SoC and Display panel than the S5. They're both running the same firmware, the S6 should be even more optimized with Lollipop, as that version of Android is what it's natively built off of. I can't explain the discrepancy in the score, but that just makes it all the more untrustworthy. If anything, their review unit they have seems to be having issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] lipz:
Slapped greenify n leandroid on the debloated the hell out this thing and voila, decent use on wi fi and lte, not note 4 territory but it'll do
[Galaxy S6 General] big_b0sss:
Download the profile on your sd. There should be a folder named lux on your sd move that downloaded profile into that lux folder. Open up lux app go to settings then profile editor then restore.

This should load up my tweaked profile don't need any other tweak.
[Galaxy S6 General] smooth4lyfe:
Use this app called ShutApp and my battery is better than ever!

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S6!
[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
Google Play service got wakelock bugs on 5.0.2, it actually happened on HTC and Sony too. Disable the location service and you will save a lots of battery, if you want to get more battery out, you can completely disable the Google Play service and enable it only when you need to use Google Play.

I think the Samsung modem on S6 is quite consuming battery too. Everything like 2G/3G/4G, wifi, bluetooth used more battery than Qualcomm platform, especially when you enabled wifi hotspot the power is draining crazy. Wish new firmware will fix it. Indeed, the 2G/3G/4G during usage is okay but idle does spend some battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] stratplayer:
Much better today. Shaving the Google smart lock seems to have made a big difference
[Galaxy S6 General] kemo6600:
Charge it before you go to bed , then sleep till the morning , wake up and check how much battery lost overnight , that will tell if it is standby or not , your problem either crazy high usage with screen on or high usage from wifi while screen off.
[Galaxy S6 General] kilrah:
Yes clearly. Got me pretty pissed off at the start coming from an iPhone 6 with which I never had a battery issue, but I should have remembered from prior experiences that android devices tend to eat up a lot of juice in the first few days after initial setup, maybe either the system or 3rd-party apps build caches, scan media, run background optimizations etc...

My latest graph is attached, the first "flat" bit yesterday happens to start right after a batch of updates (9 apps I think, no visible Google Play services or other Google-related ones though, maybe they happen silently...). Before that the initial slope was what I've had pretty much constantly since I set up the phone last Friday, with sometimes 45% of battery use overnight with no culprit reported (2nd graph).

If it stays like it is I'm happy. Battery was my only problem, for the rest I'm very happy, awesome screen and for the first time an Android phone that feels built correctly and with an UI that is smooth and fast enough to compete with the iPhone 6, and a useable fingerprint sensor. But interestingly the OS improvements seem to be due more to Lollipop/TW than the hardware, as I also upgraded my old S4 to 5.0.1 TW and that runs very well too.

Oh another issue is storage, but I can't complain too much as I received my S6 as a gift... 32GB one, I'd really have gone with 64GB if I had had the choice.
[Galaxy S6 General] YaviSGS:
I think this is the maximum for my S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] Chocolina:
How are you people getting so much on screen time?

I have my brightness to about a third, with cell radios turned off and bluetooth off and still only get about an hour
[Galaxy S6 General] YaviSGS:
You get only 1 hour SOT? :confused: What about your standby time?
[Galaxy S6 General] imminentwill:
Better Battery Stats is showing about 17 wakeups per hour for com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox in Alarms. I installed the -446 version of Google Play Services and that did improve the wakeups for com.google.android.gms but now the Google Search app is my main battery hog. Any idea how to reduce that usage?
[Galaxy S6 General] tiagovale2:
I am getting about 26 hours stand-by time with near 2 hours with of SoT.

Everything is on except for smart lock. Too bad?
[Galaxy S6 General] tjuanma:
According to my S6 "flat" i can see that my phone never goes in Deep Sleep.... whatch my screenshots please...it is normal?

If not...what can i do to solve that?

Please help me....

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] se1000:
NICE! Some of it is the newer hardware though. I've used a lot of phones, both Android and iPhone, and the camera on this phone is just out of this world when it comes to response time, both in opening the app and shooting off a shot. :good:
[Galaxy S6 General] smooth4lyfe:
Do a Wipe Cache from Recovery mode...that should help a bit
[Galaxy S6 General] abeln2672:
Update: Did the factory reset, set it up as a totally new device (no importing or restore), and IT WORKED! Yesterday was my first full day, and I was very pleased. I'll post GSam results for today to this point below. It's not the best battery life I've ever gotten, but it's more than adequate -- especially considering how much I LOVE every other facet of this device.

For full disclosure, I also changed the following (which I may switch back eventually), but I'm convinced it was the factory reset alone that fixed my issues:

1) Google Now off

2) Brightness off auto (permanently low)

3) Display switched from Adaptive to AMOLED cinema

4) Set up only 1 band of my home WiFi (5 Ghz, as opposed to both 2.5 and 5...paranoid that maybe it was switching constantly)

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] YaviSGS:
Battery life is better now after 3 cycles.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
When people say "Do a full wipe" is that just a factory reset or should I then flash stock rom with Odin?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S6 General] iPuhhh:
it's just a factory reset
[Galaxy S6 General] X-Ter:
I tried that but it told me that no backup was found. I have your profile saved in the Lux folder.
[Galaxy S6 General] se1000:
keep wiping until you see this
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Here is my battery life on the first charge to 100% and using normal use. Ben on it pretty hard today and I just got the device yesterday so better battery life is sure to be expected. Still not bad for the first charge cycle.
[Galaxy S6 General] rexxcastle:
My battery life is garbage compared to my note 4 I had. Less than 3 hours of SOT and at 12% I habe done about 5 full cycles as well as factory reset. Very dissapointed
[Galaxy S6 General] Jarrive:
I think, the best solution is to disable even the phone. Throw away the sim, and there you go. Great SOT.!!
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Good or bad? Charged at 80%, then plugged back in at 24%. Me thinks the sot is kinda low...thoughts?
[Galaxy S6 General] 0mega1:
Rooted?

TWRP?

Revert to stock recovery if you are. Phone won't deep sleep with TWRP currently for some reason.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Can't post images yet but I'm at 3.5 hrs sot at 50% so far today. Same settings as usual except I got rid of the stock email app and am using the gmail app for my gmail account, hotmail, exchange emails.

On pace for 7 hours sot haha crazy. I have all the same stuff set/disabled as some have posted in this thread. Stock sprint 32 gb s6.
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
How did u get rid of the email app? I can only force stop it and not disable :banghead:
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Good point. I didn't actually get rid of it (bad wording on my part) I just stopped using it for the gmail app. I just force stopped it and deleted my accounts in the email app, so technically, it is disabled until I add an account to it.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
I'm super happy with battery life on this phone. The standby time is fantastic.
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Same here. Did a factory reset Thursday night and I was at 89% when it finished. Here are my stats so far.

This is without Google now enabled (gonna turn that on soon) and no email syncing yet. Trying to decide between Gmail or the stock email app. I also did a little gaming in between.
[Galaxy S6 General] big_b0sss:
Go to profile editor on the lux setting. Make a backup this should create a Lux folder on the sd. Then head over the device storage look for the Lux folder delete the backup inside the folder and copy paste the downloaded lux backup into the folder. This should look like this
[Galaxy S6 General] krusty_dc:
Battery life with out too much usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
What I found with battery drain, when I'm on wifi, battery usage is normal,but when I'm on mobile Internet, battery drain is massive. Could this be hardware fault? I've lost 11% over night just with wifi off, mobile Internet on. I installed gsam so I can post screen later
[Galaxy S6 General] JLishere:
As someone who likes Google Fit, Google Now (with location on), hotword detection, smart unlock, with an Android Wear device connected 24/7, I have a feeling the S6 won't ever last me half a day.

I now have to get used to new little habits, such as :

- turning on power saving mode most of the time except when I need high CPU apps,

- turning off Location and GPS when I'm stationary at work/home,

- lowering brightness settings down even during the day (as low as I can tolerate),

- disabling auto-sync at night,

- saying goodbye to hotword detection.

I'm also considering disabling smart unlock alltogether and just using fingerprint.
[Galaxy S6 General] omrij:
My phone loose 2-3 percent per hour at night. Tried to reset it but no real improvement. SOT is actually not bad but standby is killing me.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
night battery

When I turn off wifi, during night i dont list even 1% of my battery. That's really great!
[Galaxy S6 General] Devtick.:
The standby time is horrible on my S6. I've dropped about 7% per hour. I don't know what's causing this. :(
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
[MENTION=6570238]Mirejcz[/MENTION]

Do you have mobile Internet on? On my phone when wifi is on,my battery is just great. I had 2h30min sot at 50% left battery with wifi. When I switched to mobile Internet (when I went from home), battery drained 40% in 3 hours. SOT at the end of cicle was 3h. I don't care much about sot, but I don't like this battery drain on mobile Internet... That's why I want to find a solution, even if it's hardware fault, so I can send it to service.
[Galaxy S6 General] rexxcastle:
Mine is completly stock , I have the verizon one so not sure any of that stuff is even available to ours.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
night battery

No i turned off ale internet connections. I think its not necessary to have it turn on during night when I sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
When was the last time you restarted your phone?
[Galaxy S6 General] omrij:
Maybe two days ago, why?
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Do you also have greenify? And are you rooted?
[Galaxy S6 General] omrij:
Not rooted and without greenify
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
See, I'm used to have all connections on over night also all sync on etc. I will see two cycles what will happen and will show screen of my progress.
[Galaxy S6 General] junl87:
To all that has bad standby time, send your phone to samsung service centre to get it serviced. Mine experience battery drain from 100 to 50+ when I wake up from 7 hours of sleep. After going to the service centre and get a 1 for 1 exchange, my standby time return to normal of 5% from 7 hours of sleep. Dun bother trying to fix it on your own, it is most likely a hardware fault
[Galaxy S6 General] kilrah:
Mine also dropped 50% in one night at first but after a few days returned to a normal 10% on its own.

So not necessarily worth losing time sending it back.
[Galaxy S6 General] FlowingAway:
What is with Android system and kernel using so much? There is nothing left for me to disable and I've factory reset multiple times, flashed firmware, wiped cache, greenified, yet Android system and kernel are by far the biggest battery suckers for me. I also made sure I'm on the latest Google services update.
[Galaxy S6 General] microserfs:
So something is keeping my phone awake. My GSAM stats say 10% held awake and CPU Spy states only 5% deep sleep. I only have notifications enabled for Hotukdeals and Twitter, Instagram, updates and one or two come through for Facebook. Do you think its Samsung Push notifications? I haven't used any of the bloatware (except to try out S Health) but then I'm not sure what to disable.

Saying that, I still get around 3 hours screen on time and over 24 hours on standby so I'm not sure what I should be looking to for fixes. I can post screens at some point. Had the phone over two weeks now.
[Galaxy S6 General] YaviSGS:
8 hours SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
Are you rooted and/or what rom are you using and are you using a different kernel?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S6 General] ronnienyc:
I got my second s6 yesterday. The first had badly fluctuating screen colors.

Charged this second one up and on the first charge I got 5:40 SoT at full brightness. My first s6 only got under 3 hrs SoT for the first week or so.

Even now the phone been unified for 3.4 hours and still reads 98%. So for whatever reason battery life on this one is way better than the last one. Also the screen is not perfect but does have less green|pink tints to it.

I have found the main battery drain to be wifi calling...with that off and some bloat removed this has better SoT than my Note 4 did.

(I am not rooted)
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
In gsam, I noticed my phone is being held awake by something. I disabled all samsung/google apps and have only gsam and mysms (uses to text from my tablet) downloaded.

Not sure why chrome is there, when I stopped using it for stock internet yesterday afternoon.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
night battery

Did you have turned on wifi or cellular Network?
[Galaxy S6 General] elbos2k:
Being on mobile data is still an issue. It drains battery a lot quicker for sure. I'm sure Samsung knows about it, just not sure when we'll get an update to fix the issue...
[Galaxy S6 General] omrij:
Very unlikely it's a hardware issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] aydc:
I was seriously considering buying an S6, coming from a Note3, but the horrors that I've seen in this thread dissuaded me from it. It seems that battery life is significantly less than what I'm used to, which I can't really live with. Samsung should have put in at least a 3000 mah battery and made the screen 1080p. These both would have given at least 70-80% more battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Must be a fake picture. Zero wake time, impossible for a Android phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] Bluewall:
Hello all, I'm rarely posting here anymore but I got an S6 few weeks ago and I love it.

My only problem is, like many of you guys, battery life. One thing I noticed is that Google Play Service is ALWAYS the first one in the list. Any day, whatever I do, it is ALWAYS the biggest battery drain (well, at least according to the battery life screen).

I've disabled history location and Google Now (which I don't use anyway) but it's always been the same.

I'm not sure what to think because battery drain during the night is quietly minimal. But the fact that this is always my biggest drain is quietly bothering me.

It seems it's a widespread issue and I would love, LOVE, if someone has any clue how to solve it ?
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Is that true? Would explain my 25 mins of wake time (make that an hour, I just checked) on a 30 hour standby. Sorry, I'm new to this stuff. You can see the pic I posted earlier today.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Your wake time 1 hour in 30 hour of using is ok. Wakes most times caused by User Apps or the Kernel. I have most times 30 minutes in 16 hours of standby.
[Galaxy S6 General] YaviSGS:
I still have no wake time I guess. It is real :)
[Galaxy S6 General] bigpp85:
Wow maybe the S6 is better in wake time as all we know [emoji14]
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
These are my latest results. I did wipe cache,shut down and fill up to 100%, then i turned it on. You can see whats going on...5-6% in 1 hour for doing nothing...

Edit: in time i post this topic im on 93% lol...
[Galaxy S6 General] FlowingAway:
Random and potentially ineffective but try hooking into your WiFi with a static ip. I found a wake lock that is constantly polling the router and supposedly changing to a static ip stops it.
[Galaxy S6 General] KarlDag:
Do you use s health? I do, and Google services are often on top. I think it's because s health uses play services to track location and steps.
[Galaxy S6 General] eyekyu:
I think the cell standby is due to the fact my 4g stuggles here so it uses more power to keep in service ?

s6 made me do it
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Yep it's Google. Turned on Google now and this is the result. Samsung really did a great job optimizing their software... Google on the other hand.
[Galaxy S6 General] tuan209:
Finally solved my high cell standby issue by disabling VoLTE.

I am now seeing that System (Mediaserver) is draining/consuming my battery. It is hovering around 30-35% according to GSam. What is mediaserver?
[Galaxy S6 General] kilrah:
The process that indexes your media (photos, videos, music), creates thumbnails for them etc.

It can draw a lot for a few days if you've got tons of media until it's done.

I store thousands of photos on my phone but use .nomedia files to exclude those folders from indexing to avoid that and the space the thumbnails would use. They thus won't appear in the gallery, I just use QuickPic to browse them.
[Galaxy S6 General] speedweed:
Im getting battery drain in flight mode. (Use flight mode during the night)

Its draining around 10% in 7-8 hours.

On the S5 this did not happen, maybe 1-2% during a whole night on flight mode.

Will try GSAM to see whats causing it.
[Galaxy S6 General] canglan:
4h SOT with 2 days stand by over the weekend. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Best battery life ever seen on a phone!

Today I got the best battery life I have ever seen on a phone.

3 hours and 52 minutes SOT with still 47% juice left. Standby time is only 4 hours and 50 minutes tho (yeah, I had no life today. Been playing with Tasker all day).

But the standby time doesn't really matter for my great battery life here, as I get less than 1% per 10 hour standby time.

It stays at 100% over a night when just left, so this phone easily have juice enough for a whole weekend for me, as I normally use 1-2 hours SOT a day. Sometimes less.

Check out my guide for a better battery life!

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-to-battery-life-t3092593/post60347296#post60347296
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Check my guide out.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-to-battery-life-t3092593#post60361816

There is a lot things causing battery drain on this phone when idle.

Smart lock use some power, even when not used etc. If I leave my phone at 100% over a night (8-9 hours) it's still at 100% next morning.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
I'm no longer concerned with battery life, it lasts me through the day with ease.
[Galaxy S6 General] solidmac:
I have been having a miserable time with the battery life on this phone as I can not get it to sleep while the screen is off. Gsam is reporting that the screen is using just as much battery awake than when it is in use. Is that normal?
[Galaxy S6 General] bkeaver:
This is not normal as you can see mine goes into deep sleep just fine.

You have to have a app that is causing this imo
[Galaxy S6 General] solidmac:
Yeah, I am hunting through my apps right now. I just downloaded CPU spy and the one unused state is deep sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] rexxcastle:
That's not realistic, many of us can't go that long without a phone. My phone us my job.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
All I can say is battery life is awesome for the 2500 mah battery and QHD screen. 24hrs of standby with almost 4hrs of SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
Here are some more of my times:

Easily get you through a day on light to moderate use. Heavy usage you need to look elsewhere if you don't want to charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
For those who are struggling with battery life, I would highly recommend this thread. I'm sure it would help you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=60347296
[Galaxy S6 General] tejasrm:
Tips for eliminating standby battery drain

For those who are facing high standby (screen off) battery drain, follow these steps -

1) Turn off 'keep wifi on during sleep' (wifi was one of the mail reasons of battery drain on my s6)

2) wipe cache partition (fixed Android OS battery drain)

3) Go to Data usage & Restrict background data for apps like Facebook, etc

My s6 has almost 0% standby battery drain now
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Can someone pls tell me where the settings are for toggling between 4g and 3g? Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
Settings mobile networks network mode
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Thanks. So since I am Tmo, which is 3g for me? Wcdma or gsm?