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[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
but note has bigger screen.

My wife has I9195, battery life 3 days, but she spent in facebook about 1-1.5 h per day in facebook, ~1 h phone calls/per day and etc. So total ~4h SOT, ~3h phone calls, BT on (only at night time off)............ and 3 days battery life with 1900 mAh!!!!!!

I think what in s6 problem is with HW, because with custom rom s6 do not show good result to.

About 7-8 hour SOT, maybe it's possible, with low brightness, dark theme movies and I don't think what netflix use a lot CPU. And of course, need good WIFI signal. But if you do minimum 1 h call per day, skype, viber, email, BT, WIFI/4G on, all notifications on (sound, vibrate) - you never get 7-8h SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] H-azaard:
Can anyone help me please?
[Galaxy S6 General] turulojko:
Is there some fix about No deep sleep on S6?

It drains my battery (and not only mine) through the night about 30%

because there is no deep sleep, and the processor is on 400MHz all the time.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
If ur rooted try grenify with agresive doze.or maybe change the kernel

I get 0 battery drain overnight
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
go to Q&A, there I think found solution, disable google backup. Need to wait May release, maybe there will be fixed.
[Galaxy S6 General] erghetto:
well, ok. my mistake calling you liar, i though you were typical user who says to reach 6-7 hours of SOT without explaining how and making lose time to users.

however, you can't say that the test you have done with viewing netflix is a common usage.

most of us intend a typical daily usage this:

browser, facebook, music, some youtube, a bit of game, bluetooth, things like these.

[MENTION=4635781]paulyz[/MENTION]

i think the worst thing of our phone, is the screen resolution.

my sister has a moto g 2015, and she uses it a lot for whatsapp, browsing on facebook, youtube and music. i have seen her battery satistic and she gets without difficulty 2 days with many SOT, but she has an HD screen.

obviuosly this s6 has a fantastic screen, but on a 5'' screen, is sufficient full hd.
[Galaxy S6 General] BrendenDonaher:
I'm wondering if this is a kernel issue. To me that seems logical as the main difference in setup on the same would be the kernel..
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
There is a deep sleep fix.

Search the Q&A for "if you have battery drain during sleep do this to fix"

Or search my past started threads.

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I was thinking about trying the arter kernel next. Not sure if it can be used on the W8. Used to use unikernel on 5.1.1 but I don't think that's possible on mm.

Might look into that today. Or just try to go back to 5.1.1 and be done with it..

Let me know if you make any progress.
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
What model do you have?
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
925f
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
Running 6.0?
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Yea. Xtrsolite 3.3 stock kernel
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
There you have it: uptime 7 days so no restart or any special preparation when getting screenshots. 6hrs 45min SOT with more than 100min video, 2hrs of wireless music, browsing, email weather. This makes S6 Edge quite usable in terms of SOT/battery life.

Still with more that 24hrs on single charge.

The fact that most users can't get that SOT with less use does not mean that this can't be done with greenify and amplify without Samsung app optimization (and apps do not lag). So yes, I think that switching and paying for S7 Edge with less SOT (no root at this point) it is waste. I will wait for S8 Edge (unless something better will come up).
[Galaxy S6 General] erghetto:
Well, main drain is of netflix, all other are very down in battery usage.

So however i can't have much informations about it.

As browsing and music or youtube, i mean 1 hour and more of browser, same for music but using speaker phone, not wireless (who takes few battery). Same for youtube.
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
My fix .deep sleep 100%

No wakeups .no drine the battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Well, again: there is no such thing as "average use" that fits your profile. There are differences. The whole point of getting very good battery life/SOT is proper configuration. When I close app, it is really closed no running in background or foreground. This is not what happen when you just run Samsung app optimization: just check Application manager and you will see that all apps (open once and next closed) when selected have active button "Force Stop" which means that app is still running even though you "closed" it. E.g. once you opened youtube it will run in background after closing using cpu and battery of course. In my case "Force Stop" button is always dimmed in the case of apps that I closed after using them.

Another thing is that users do not control wakelocks/alarms/services which drains battery. So when you put this all together then you will notice that at the end of your battery cycle, even though you used (example) firefox for two hours you get more battery/cpu use than in my setup when firefox is used really for two hours and not running when I close it. This is why everything in my profile is relatively low when compared to someone else's use of firefox.

All apps are quite active even in the background. Use SockStat to see how many apps just connect to the internet (meaning these are actively running). Of course network activity is only one example of app not really being closed.

I think that I am done with explanations. Not much I can do.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
They just dont understand Man...i tried to explain this too..but neah it s not Worth the time
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
Netflix...Everyone can get great battery watching movies.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
How ridiculous you are willing to be?

Tell you what: I posted pretty detailed profile

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66816649&postcount=4225

or 7hrs of video playing. repeat this we will talk.

yes, I see. No point to discuss anything. I am just curious how Soufiansky will get easy 7hrs video playing with his setup.
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
While watching a movie the phone doesnt drain much battery it's a known fact , also calm down this is not a competition. I dont care about battery life as my phone charges quickly so stop your nervous tone and think you have the best battery life in the world.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
obviously, you are more into theory. Netflix takes a lot of battery definitely more than firefox, or mail or messaging.

Of course this is not a competition, but except dismissing easy my setup I have not seen anything proving that you have any practical knowledge regarding how apps drain battery. So please show me your stats running video for long time and then maybe firefox/mail/chat ruining your battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] robertorochajr:
My battery drain because Android os, and i don't know why, someone halp me ?
[Galaxy S6 General] jaswinky:
Try to reboot daily just after disconnect it from the charger every morning. It works for me since 2 days ago

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[Galaxy S6 General] erghetto:
But in this screen we see only netflix.

Where are other apps you said of having used?

At home, with wifi, i use a lot samsung browser, (at least one hour) and it is in first 3-4 places of battery usage.

Where is your browser?

Where is your email?

Where is everything else you said?
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
yeah, and more from me, mobile phone, talk time 54s, wtf? :D

[MENTION=7154124]jamnt[/MENTION] you don't see, what after greenify app longer open (like after phone reboot), but I see that. Of-course, you got good SOT with one app (netflix), so you didn't saw lag :D

Ok, for you greenify ok, use it, I don't care, for me this app laggy sh****, cheers! :highfive:
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
If that apps is creating lags why is it so popular ? And everyone uses it.

It has much more positive things than negative...but You clearly had some bad experiences with it.

It seems like ur the only one saying it causes lag :))))
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
I don't use Samsung browser.

detailed usage is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66816649&postcount=4225

if I watch video for 7hrs obviously I can't at the same time use firefox. Not to mention that I did not know at the time how to take screenshot of full list of apps. When I learned how to take a screenshot that is longer than screen I started to use it. The screenshot with detailed list of apps shows firefox after ~1hr of usage if that is what you are after.

I am not trying to convince anyone to use greenify, amplify and so on. Just pointed out what I have got and explained why screenshots may look like this. If the picture with listed apps is not detailed enough there is not much I can do.

If someone is dismissing my results that is fine, just provide your screenshots.

For me this is the end od discussion.
[Galaxy S6 General] turulojko:
This started before I have root on my phone.

Then I see some fix for the battery and decided to root,

but the fix didn't worked.

Today my S6 somehow unrooted itself.

Tried to flash it again with CF-Auto-Root, but without success.

Tried to flash CWM recovery, without success.

It freezes on 'Recovery in not seandroid enforcing'.

EDIT: flashed again the stock recovery and than TWRP, but nothing.

I'm on latest stock for S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Install the right kernel and the flash recovery
[Galaxy S6 General] blake.grover:
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[Galaxy S6 General] macs18max:
I agree. I went offshore with my phone, and because there is no wifi and phone network I switch it to airplane mode and started watching a full season of game of thrones. I was surprised by the result. 10 hours SOT. AMoled are really efficient screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
Yes mate this is what i told them , but they call you an ignorant when you say the truth.

I know they gonna say "oh no he got 10h SOT because he was on airplane mode" , let me tell you something , even if he was on wifi he would get 6-8h SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
this is only mine theory, but if you use you smart phone like smart phone, not media player, there works a lot-of sensors (like proximity, GPS, light sensor, accelerometer and etc), which also drain battery. For me information about battery life in movie mode isn't interested, because I use smart phone like smart phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] DarkNate34:
Clearly some people here don't seem to understand that SuperAMOLED screens are energy efficient and on the S6, the 2k resolution doesn't really cause a massive battery drain, like some reviewers online have led us to believe.

What does cause a drain is the bloatwares and the defective Kernel from Samsung. I've posted an explanation on what causes the drain when the phone is connected to the Internet on a different thread (you can check my posts on my profile to find out).

Bottom line, it's not the hardware, it's the software.
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
It's not "defective" kernel bro , it's the fact that the software as you said is not optimized , yes it's way better than previous Galaxy S phones but still need a lot of work.

Look at Apple , the 6S have a very small battery , a dual core super powerful cpu , and still it has great battery life , yes i know the screen resolution is way less than the S6 but their software is -hands down-the most optimised OS you can find in a phone.

I hope samsung can reach that level of optimisation
[Galaxy S6 General] DarkNate34:
It is the Kernel, here and here.

Nexus phones are as smooth as iOS devices.
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
Nexus phones are NOT as smooth and bug free as ios devices , this is a fact.

I dont want to talk to much about ios now because first this is an android community and second some people will think i'm fanboying , who knows.
[Galaxy S6 General] DarkNate34:
Doesn't really matter that much to me. I prefer Open Source as I can customise almost anything.

And you totally ignored my findings on the buggy kernel on Android Marshmallow from Samsung.
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
I saw them , and to be honest i dont have the issues you mentionned. No abnormal battery drain or kernel issue , battery life is good looking at my heavy usage , full stock MM 6.0.1
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
S.o samsung is the best .But in a matter of battery.

How bad is it
[Galaxy S6 General] DarkNate34:
Different variant, different baseband, different region = different firmware.

I have access to an S6 Edge as well, same problem. This didn't exist in Lollipop.

So, like I was saying, defective kernel from Samsung.
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
You just said it different phones = different experiences , the problem you have on your phone or find in another random phone cant be applied on everyone. If you think its a kernel issue ok then as you like.
[Galaxy S6 General] DarkNate34:
Can't you see the very name of the other thread?

'Android OS' on battery statistics is the Kernel. Many others users are having the same issue where 'Android OS' drains the battery. Use GSam Battery Monitor to know just what 'Android OS' is, it's the kernel, nothing more.

The problem I have on my phone is the same problem other (NOT all) people are having on their Samsung devices, some claimed similar issues on the S7. And I've seen some saying other devices that are not from Samsung but runs on Marshmallow has the Kernel draining their batteries.

So yeah, I'm done here. You can reply this post if you want to, I won't reply back.
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
I would install GSam battery app and post results of usage after a day or so.. This app goes into far greater detail to pin down a problematic app [emoji106]
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
But, if samsung 's kernel crap, why custom kernels and rom do not show amazing results? I think, this hardware problem.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
normal usage of sundays.. web browsing Facebook and whatsapp
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I think who use Facebook a lot its always better BTU fw to get always optimised. And don't drain the battery
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Facebook is bad....??
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
Core 4, 5, 6, 7, that is, the A57 cores never go below 800mhz at least from cpu-z and that might have some impact on battery life.. Anyways I can only imagine the poor battery life of sd810 A57 cores on the older structure!
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Wow! My s6 is reborned ahah
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Just repeat this with watching movie over internet. That is what I did. Personally I found Netflix more demanding than youtube (full screen)
[MENTION=6240046]Soufiansky[/MENTION]

Simply show your stats with whatever you think is difficult. Until now except saying that all this is easy you did not show anything. This is just silly.
[Galaxy S6 General] robertorochajr:
Android os drain a lot [emoji107]
[Galaxy S6 General] racingmatt1:
Are you using power saver ,GPS etc...?
[Galaxy S6 General] nuno.pinto:
Good morning, quick question and apologize if has been answered, but googled some pages 10-20 and could not find an answer.

I have a S6 bought at about 1 week, I am unhappy with the battery. It drains about 10-15% per night (yesterday was 96% and when I woke up was about 72%). The average of my SoT is 2h .. 2:30h at most.

I am considering putting XEF (as it is a more recent build), question: 1. Will i lose the warranty? CSC is different. 2. I installed the Phone Info app and in "CSC codes available" many codes of countries are avaible but XEF is not one of them. Problem or there is no problem?

3. I will continue with OTA updates from France?

In your opinion doing a full wipe to get the XEF, will i notice something in the battery consumption?

Thank you very much!
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Boas Nuno,

Just wipe your phone, flash last XEF and wipes again. After that you should see ONLY XEF csc in phone info app. If that is happening, you will receive next updates to XEF. No worries about warranty, is official rom and you don't have any problem.

Your battery life is really poor, but she will be better after flashing. Use package disabler to remove some bloatware and smart manager to optimize your apps. My phone loose about 1/2% every night...
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
XEF is a good fw , but you only get OTA if your CSC match the fw, for get the CSC XEF try reset before and after but flash the 5.1.1 then reset check the CSC in the recovery, if are right will update to the latest 6.0.1
[Galaxy S6 General] jaswinky:
One question for people who has the battery drain bug in MM: Which firmware do you have installed? Has anyone having this problem installed last SER/XEF (Russia/France) firmware? Thks
[Galaxy S6 General] nuno.pinto:
I have the TPH (Portugal) installed, and my battery only lasts 1.45-2.30h SoT.
[Galaxy S6 General] Inelukis:
What's the best kernel to save battery atm? Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I explain my situation to you.. i'm on Xtrestolite v 3.3 and arter kernel 14 beta 7.. for some days my s6 last all day but 3 hours of use.. now i see i can reach 5 hours of SOT after one year using the s6 i thinkit's a good result! For me you have to wait until battery stabilized itself.. then it will last longer..
[Galaxy S6 General] Inelukis:
I read about some deadlocks with arter's 14 beta..
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
Hello guys, I have my S6 edge since December 2015.

With all my delicate use my charger cable seems have bad function.

Every time I put it to charge it charge slowly and take about 5h to fully charge.

Can I take it to warranty to get new cable?

I am with original cable and see what shows.
[Galaxy S6 General] tamila:
same is happening with my cable too... when i checked, i saw the cable was bent and some colour change near the mini usb joint. planning to take it to service center for replacement
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
I get it work after a small research on Google, plug it with a little force and it work but I think will reduce the good condition of phone...
[Galaxy S6 General] tamila:
Wow... i dont want to spoil the phone. Will go n check with local service center guys
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
I think the service center will not help you, if they change to another cable after a small time it will get problems again.

But try and tell me what they tell to you.
[Galaxy S6 General] tamila:
Yep. Just a try. Am not too positive either..
[Galaxy S6 General] timeshiftt:
So I followed this guide http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884 and in my test I lost 5% overnight (in 7h30min of being unplugged, the phone stayed on deep sleep for 7h19min).

Is it a good number? I remember reading in the power nap thread that it could make you lose as much as 0.2% overnight.

The highest number of alarms came from Google play services: 131.
[Galaxy S6 General] robertorochajr:
No gps, no power saving
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
yesterday at 22:00 unpluged, today at 6:10 got 98%, so why need use to additional apps? Data OFF, BT OF, Wifi OFF, only GSM ON.
[Galaxy S6 General] hnegrao:
Hello.

I bought a SGS6 a week ago but I must say I am Deeply Deeply disapointed with it's Battery... It's not enough for me...

I was wondering, can I do anything to improve it without loosing warranty?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] timeshiftt:
Because I like to leave wifi and sync on. I was just testing. The thing is that the phone is wasting maybe too much on standby. I don't want to keep turning things on and off through the entire day.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
install tasker, automate it or etc, and phone will work for you :)

Like I, after alarm in morning, phone automatic turn on WIFI, BT, but at 22:00 all goes OFF. Why synchronized when you sleep? :)
[Galaxy S6 General] timeshiftt:
Like I Said, this is not the problem. The problem is the battery waste in standby. I won't be turning things on and off through out the day when I'm busy doing other stuff and just want notifications to come as they need.
[Galaxy S6 General] robertorochajr:
Poor battery, android os [emoji107]
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
Noo really? :)

There is an update,go for it.
[Galaxy S6 General] racingmatt1:
Where is this "update"? I have the same problem with Android os but I have the m9.
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
Sammobile for samsung fw.
[Galaxy S6 General] jaswinky:
https://code.google.com/p/android/i...tars Reporter Opened&groupby=&sort=&id=207700

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[Galaxy S6 General] robertorochajr:
What update ??

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I did all, and nothing

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This is today
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
[MENTION=7467062]robertorochajr[/MENTION]

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/71595/G920IDVU3EPD3_G920IVNZ3EPD3_VNZ/
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Code of Google.

For all devices mm
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Btu is ota online??

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
What the ****:o

I reverted to stock unrooted using Smart switch and i cant belive my eyes

I disabled the apps only system let me..im not using any package disabler app and i m getting the battery of an s7 edge :)))

I really dont understand what happened..usually i would hit 3h so? at 50 percent

I m using fb,fb messenger,whatsapp,xda labs and only 10 mins of gaming..clash of clans
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
........

I want your battery

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Use Smart switch to restore and then disable only the apps that system lets you
[Galaxy S6 General] EthanDev:
All of sudden Google services is draining my battery... any solutions? I updated play services manually from apkmirror.com
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Smart switch is a Hard reset fw

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Well..thats what i did
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
What's the name of the theme you are using?
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Good battery life. Mine isn't equal but generally good enough.
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
This update patch May no working well. The screen on drine the battery. Samsung More work

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[Galaxy S6 General] EthanDev:
Union flag
[Galaxy S6 General] EthanDev:
Is it good?? Uninstalled play services and did a fresh update from store..
[Galaxy S6 General] lapocompris:
Hello, I am thinking about buying a S6, is the battery life better now with Marshmallow?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Hi! so for gettin good battery life i had to work a lot.. if you have good signal (5 bars constantly) you should reach almost 4.30/5 hours of SOT which is incredible for a phone with these specs.

I bought the s6 one year ago.. now with 3 euros more spent in amplify and Package disabler I'm getting double battery life!

So the first two are from today last two from few days ago! See the difference
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Amazing.. (for me)
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
And my battery cycle for today ends like this:

I'm happy with battery life but in the past is really bad...

Good luck for you guys.
[Galaxy S6 General] bayones:
Hello. I am having a battery idle problem,my phone is on official 6.0.1 I always leave my phone overnight with 100% then after 7-8hrs, it will be at 65-70%. Wifi,location,data,nfc is turned off. Do we have a fix for this? TIA
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Factory reset will help you
[Galaxy S6 General] bayones:
Is that the only way? I dont have time to back up and restore my files.. thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] dsaklein:
Hi guys I have the latest may update, battery I'd improved but still sometimes I get deep sleep issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
What did you do? Are you rooted? If so, what ROM and Kernel you're using? If not, what firmware region? What did you use?

EDIT: Did you charge your phone the day you got 6 hours SoT?

Sent from my Galaxy S6 running XtreStoLite 3.3.1 and Hacker Kernel.