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[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
http://imgur.com/a/4ArbI

Any help guys? Can't even hit 2 hrs SOT? Also here is my netter battery stats log http://pastebin.com/rcvKGApd
[Galaxy S6 General] CRiSTiANVASiLE:
What about this?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I think good :)
[Galaxy S6 General] CRiSTiANVASiLE:
I'm on 6.0.1. If i install a custom rom , can i get more SOT?
[Galaxy S6 General] ampash:
I find that social apps take a lot of battery life from your phone. Use an app called Hermit for social apps. Turn of location only when needed. An average person will easily last a whole day from 7 am till about 10:30 pm with 25% of use remaining. Keep display brightness on auto. If you want to squeeze more then set display to 15% as I use my phone mostly indoors.

Galaxy S6 Stock Android 5.1.1
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I don't know.

But i think these roms we have now are only debloated nothing other.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
UPDATE: 3 hours with 40% for me is pretty damn good!

P.S. I unplugged my phone at 94% so count 15 minutes of SOT plus.

This is second cycle of charge. What do you think?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
That's good.

But with time i notice 2 things that S6 are losing, battery and brightness, when i update to first 5.1.1 i post here a few pages back,that i made 6h.2m sot only with Wi-Fi. Some people even 7h or more. Maybe battery is not what it was,or the first update was better. And the brightness i compare with my other phones, i had s3 mega 6.3, my wife note 4. And even with a new one in store its a little more brightness than mine.

And i already compare with J5 and the new A5 have better screens.

Its evolution. ,?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Thank you. Now I have 18% 3.30 hours of SOT. Good
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Usually battery until 50% last 2h to 2.3h 50 to 0 drains very fast.

If i could flash the first 5.1.1 i test it to see the difference

But we can't.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Yep
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Good.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Only wifi. Or mix
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Mix with a little bit of 3G.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
See this and tell me what you think

I think the app optimization is crap.

Since that and when came the last update 5.1.1 never had that time again. Check page 283 here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3033385
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Yeah man.
[Galaxy S6 General] Archmag3:
Mine..The best I have had so far...3g + wifi both. Stock.
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
Nice I'm only able to get 3.5 if I'm lucky

What apps did you install
[Galaxy S6 General] Archmag3:
I have tons of them :|

Here is screenshot : http://i.imgur.com/7HhDhuJ.png
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
Dang lots of them and I have most of them too

I noticed another launcher tho

Is it Nova or Google now
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I highly recommend who has yet 5.1.1 the latest fw XEF, much better battery than BTU and with stock launcher, and package disabler.
[Galaxy S6 General] Archmag3:
and how do we get it ??
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
If you have 920f you download fw in sammobile and flash it with odin.
[Galaxy S6 General] Archmag3:
I wish i could but i have 920i :(
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
What launched are you using?

I switched to Google now launcher and right away I'm on track for 4.5
[Galaxy S6 General] Archmag3:
Its holo launcher and I have disabled default launcher from package disabler pro. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
XtreStoLite 2.1 unikernel v9 test.

Heavy use.

3g and Wifi( Metal, WhatsApp, Instagram, games.)

I will install the new firmware soon. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
My friend you have to quit custom rom.

I don't have this long time ago,

4G always on,2h.15.m until 18h00 and 55% when i get home. the standby its great.

Now im n wifi and more than enough to spend.

Big difference from BTU to this XEF K5.

And don't use nova launcher in this rom.

I think im not gonna touch anything for now. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
? im happy for now
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Finally :)
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
Hopefully marshmallow can resolve some of this
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
What's wrong with nova?

Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Nothing my friend, nova launcher is the best launcher i have been using.

But don't use it in this rom yet.

?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I will give a try to this new firmware
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
Xtrestolite 2.4 ROM with Hacker kernel (the battery mode flashed).

I got brightness at around 45%, Location/Sync disabled ( I use them when I need them), phone is all the time connected via BT with my Gear S2, 4G and WiFi always on (turned off the always WiFi scan).

Almost 24h without a charger (I had the phone pluged in my laptop for like 2 mins to transfer some files), 4h15min SoT.

You could say that I am pretty happy :D

I think that right now I could push it easily to around 4h30min SoT, and maybe to 5h if I dont play the addictive games..
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Which theme are you running?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Quite good for me!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I think its the normal use. Around half hour 10%.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Today i have all the 5 bar of signal. At 60% other days i reached 1.30h of Sot. Good. When I arrive at home i will install the new fw XEF. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
I am using the "Vanilla" theme from the Samsung Theme store :).

Minimalistic, dark (saves a lot of juice) and beautiful.
[Galaxy S6 General] BigBoi:
I'm on Stock 5.1.1 and I get around 6h SoT. Gestures, BT, location only activated when needed. Brightness set to automatic low.
[Galaxy S6 General] 115dan:
Where can i download XEF firmware? I don't know what PDA have on sammobile.
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
That says 3 hours...

Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
When he will arrive at 0% 5.30/6 h of SOT

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Go to Sammobile and firmware.

You have to create an account nefore install the firmware
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
On COL1 (newest firmware)
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What country is this fw.?

Its comes with Facebook and messenger pre installed, ?
[Galaxy S6 General] 115dan:
Is Sweden and it's not latest firmware, latest is one from Nordic Countries because it has bigger changelist.
[Galaxy S6 General] NannyFe:
What Theme is that?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Yeo facebook preinstalled.

Now I'm using Facebook and see how is draining.

Then i will use metal.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Good.

First cycle.
[Galaxy S6 General] ailtongomesdasilva:
Sim
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
2nd cycle. Sunday= a lot of stress use.

Only in WiFi, a lot of video on YouTube more than 1 hour.

I don't know why but this fw is superb. Did Samsung really optimize well this time? I hope yes!!
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
Had a 1% battery drop overnight with the latest Sweden firmware. In contrast, there was 10 to 15 percent drop with Russian rom.

I really think they fixed it.
[Galaxy S6 General] bigbamboo5:
Are those of us on stock going to see battery benefits over the beta, do you think - or is it likely only those who are rooted will really benefit?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
If you have a good rom 5.1.1 i doubt it if M it will be much better, i think its a illusion for users.

S6 has a good hardware but battery its not.

Im waiting for 21 this month to see the battery of S7 they say its the best battery ever made until now.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
To me battery life is solid, goes through whole day. And i have few quick chargers so it's not problem to plug it in for 10-20 minutes for additional hours of usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
Over 6h SoT with latest Sweden firmware

WiFi connection all the time, no 4g connectivity

Disabled weather and Facebook, didn't use smart manager

Mostly browsing in chrome
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Very good.

But you don't use smart manager or disable it?

This fw brings Facebook pre installed. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
Yes, Facebook is preinstalled, but I used package disbler pro to disable several apks connected with Facebook

BTW I hardly got 3.5 sot on my previous rom, so the difference is very noticeable
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
The XEF rom it cames without Facebook pre installed.

I will try it tonight.
[Galaxy S6 General] bazzzyl:
I have weird sh*t going on with my battery usage.

When I'm at home and phone is idle (wifi and 4g off) i have 1-2% usage for period of few hours.

When I'm at work and phone is idle (wifi and 4g off) i have 10-15% (i san see it drop much much quicker than at home) usage for period of few hours.

The only thing that is different is that my cell carrier roams and my prime carrier has poor signal where i work.

What the hell is going on?
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
I think it's your phone constantly switching between cell towers, or just searching for new ones to connect due to poor signal
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I notice something strange, i turn off the apps optimisation and use Facebook and doesn't show the usage, the sot its the same.

I really thinking optimisation is crap.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Oh s**t. O.o
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
that's because the app optimization doesn't affect system apps, and facebook is a system app...
[Galaxy S6 General] marios_ch:
Unless you flash BTU rom so you can optimize it.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
No its not

BTU it's not

And XEF its not too.

Can be optimised .

My country THP rom and others are system app.

What i was saying is turn off all the optimisation .

Doesn't make difference.

Im running XEF and turning off the optimisation Facebook close himself and don't run in the background without being optimised.

I try to flash Sweden fw today but says fail. I don't know why.

Return to XEF.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
When does it fail? After hidden.img is tried to be installed?

Had the same issue.

Try to extract the hidden.img with winrar from the firmware .tar. Then rename hidden.img to hidden.img.tar

After installation failed with firmware .tar reboot into download mode twice (because first time it will say something with smart awitch) and then flash the hidden.img.tar you just created through AP/PDA option in Odin.

Now your phone should boot.

Dunno why it's not working the original way...
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
I'm talking about the stock rom, how in the world could I think you were talking about another rom if you didn't specify it in your post?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Sorry friend.

In the beginning i didn't know that samsung make different FW's for different countries.

I think its wrong.

Because some bring social media other don't.

I know so far that doesn't bring Facebook and others is ,XEU,XEF and BTU. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I think app optimization activated only when the phone is in Deep Sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] bazzzyl:
Yep, that was it. I have forced the one with better reception (in roaming) and now battery doesn't drain.
[Galaxy S6 General] predator21:
I was using s6 edge plus which has spame specs hardware wise with s6 and s6 edge only diff is creen size and 1 gb ram. Since m in defence forces size to carry matters.. so i had to shift to s6 coz of good size to be used in uniform... and with new update 5.1.1 i was hoping for good result...

My old fone s6 edgge plus gave me nearly 3 hrs or 4 hrs of cllng plus approx 4 + hrs sot and i was happy...

my this day old s6 goes down fast even after hard reset after installing 5.1.1

M so confused.. why? Both hv same specs with only difference of 400mah batt on and 1 gb ram on other side edge plus has bigger screen..

why s6 has sch drain..i have disabled many apps like instagram..microsoft crap.. etc.

can any1 suggest the rsn behind this ?
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
This is my battery test for geekbench. I m using greenify and power saving mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
I have seen many people get 4000+, how's that?
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
What were you doing with your phone to drop by almost 30% in a bit over 1h?
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
Played asphalt for 18 mins other than that what's app and browsing. Power saving mode is always on.
[Galaxy S6 General] predator21:
how cm such amazing batt life...
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
Are you being sarcastic?
[Galaxy S6 General] predator21:
No i am impressed see what i asked.. i am not happy with mine jst got my fone yesterday and even after update loosing 4% in 20 mins and even when not in use losing 1% every 25 mins ..installing nova launcher helped a bit.. how come u r having sch good batt life m horrified with mine..

This is what i asked

I was using s6 edge plus which has spame specs hardware wise with s6 and s6 edge only diff is creen size and 1 gb ram. Since m in defence forces size to carry matters.. so i had to shift to s6 coz of good size to be used in uniform... and with new update 5.1.1 i was hoping for good result...

My old fone s6 edgge plus gave me nearly 3 hrs or 4 hrs of cllng plus approx 4 + hrs sot and i was happy...

my this day old s6 goes down fast even after hard reset after installing 5.1.1

M so confused.. why? Both hv same specs with only difference of 400mah batt on and 1 gb ram on other side edge plus has bigger screen..

why s6 has sch drain..i have disabled many apps like instagram..microsoft crap.. etc.

can any1 suggest the rsn behind this ?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
what rom are you using?

do you use package disabler?

nova launcher is the best choice.

but you have to disable touchwiz.
[Galaxy S6 General] predator21:
I have disabled apps via appliation menunot pacage disabler.. m on stock 5.1.1

Now i have disabled touchwiz
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
This is what I got few days back.

Well, I got s6 week ago and was pretty disappointed by battery life. I disabled many apps, turn on power saving mode but did not help me alot. I saw there were many apps running even I didn't even opened once since install. So I uninstalled apps which I really don't use. Then I installed Greenify, and greenified all background apps other than what's app, email and few more apps which I need to synch all the time. So now I have greenify, power saving on, I adjust brightness manually as I need, clear ram once in while. My wifi is on all the time and when I don't use wifi my data is always on. I have pretty bad network [MENTION=1536651]My Home[/MENTION] which also effects battery.

And I am kind of heavy user. Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S6 General] predator21:
Thnx bro
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
I would suggest you to turn off Location services (because in your screen shots Google Play Services ate 10% which is pretty huge) and turn it on when you need it. It helps A LOT.

Also, not sure if its an important service for you, turning off Sync (bacground) helps also a lot (whatsapp, viber, instagram, facebook, messenger, etc. will still work, you'll only have to manually check your Gmail account).
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
My location service is always off. Yes but my synch is on, I'll turn off the synch n see.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
I had terrible problems with Google Play Services eating up to 20% of my battery so I had to turn off Location & Sync.

It did the job for me, hope it does the same for you

PS: Did you debloat your ROM?
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
I did turn off synch now, I hope it will increase my battery backup. I am using stock rom because I don't want to lose my warranty.

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How can I debloat without root and without losing warranty

?
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
There is an app for Windows called Debloater (you can either Google it or just search it here in XDA) and there is a thread [MENTION=6727555]Galaxy s6[/MENTION] General (I think) called Safe to Debloat apps where you can find a list of useless Samsung/Google/Android apps that just eat up your RAM and battery.

I did that before I rooted my phone and it really helped a lot (everything became smoother).

Its an alternative if you dont want to root your device.
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
Thanks I will search. But after debloat will I get regular Samsung updates?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Can anyone give me some tricks to improve? Kernel for example
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
With 45% remaining battery, you will easily get 2 hrs + screen time which makes 4.5+

So you already have good battery backup.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
Yes everything stays official. Every single app you decide to debloat is still on the phone, its just disabled (doing nothing).

Its the only way, if you are not willing to root your phone, to get better performance, battery life, and swiftness.

The apps that arent disabled via Debloater will still get regular updates via Galaxy or Play Store.

PS: [MENTION=1182072]lucos[/MENTION]co46, add some more screenshots (the whole battery usage would be nice).

I would suggest you to try the Hacker kernel (battery mod). Its brilliant, power efficient and still smooth.

Alsto turn off stuff like WiFi auto scan (settings-wifi-more(top right corner)-always allow scanning-scan only while wifi is on), autobrightness (put it manually to like 40-45%), Location & Sync also eat a lot of your battery.

Try apps like Greenify that hibernate apps that are running in the background (like Chrome, Facebook, Messenger, etc.).
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I debloat a lot of apps, Yeah i don't install Greenify 'cause i wanted to see how battery drain.

6 minutes of SOT= 1% for me.

Now I Will install Greenify and root my S6.

Thanks a lot mate!!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
this is today, i test my rom with optimization off.

in my rom THP Facebook is a app system.

1h Wi-Fi early morning, then 4G all day, arrive home at 21h with 15% then Wi-Fi. not bad.

this weekend i will try to flash again Sweden rom and test it without optimization too.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
off course Facebook is high because i use it.

but XEF until now is the best i try.
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
Is there a BTU or XEF ROM for the 920I?
[Galaxy S6 General] Rajaasim1980:
It seem people are getting between 4 to 5 hour screen on time on s6 which prove that all these sites of gsmarena and phonearena lies about battery testing. I was getting between 6 to 7 hour screen on time on xperia z2 and it seem i will miss that as seem s6 is worse than s5
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
920f only

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920f only.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
I think people who are getting 4 to 5 H SOT is already great in my eyes. I am using G9200 dual sim ones and have a non-rooted one currently and i hardly can get anything over 3h Sot. Just today for first time i got 4H Sot in 19H usage. For me i think this is already great and if i were to get anything over 4.30 or 5H i would be more than happy but alas i dont since i keep 4G signal on all the time though data is off most of the time.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
Well not really. When people do official reveiws of a phone, they simply test it out-of-box. So the phone on the test runs a bunch of bloatware in the background. Thats why many reviews were saying that the S6 had terrible RAM usage (like 300 MB free or something like that). Meanwhile most rooted phones have about 1GB free.

I remember how bad my S6 was when I took it out of the box and started using it. I could barely get 2:15h SoT, while now I am rocking 4-5 SoT easily.

People who get 4-5h SoT often modify the phone or even root it to get the maximum out of it.
[Galaxy S6 General] Biggenz:
How do you disable touchwiz? I'm using Nova Launcher but can't see a way to disable it.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Which Rom is it?
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
6h 41m sot of internet usage with some bluetooth audio while screen is off.

It hit 4h sot while more than 50% battery remained. So it could have hit 8h in browsing-only mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
First off:

The S6 clearly has a Ram management issue. You can see it by the reloading homescreen icons sometimes or that only 5-7 apps stay open in background. And your argument that 1gb are sometimes free and therefore the device has no issue with ram management is totally wrong.

Ram that isn't used is wasted Ram.

The device SHOULD use Ram, this is what makes it fast. here you go

Second thing is: A flagship phone like the S6 should be as good as it gets when it's coming right out of the box. And that is not the case.

Most people don't even know that there are things like root and custom Roms and others wouldn't even consider to root their phone. Because of that a phone should be highly optimised by the manufacturer and not by other devs.

In my opinion a phone is a good phone if it's good out of the box. And the S6 clearly isn't. I don't want to have to debloat and root my device to have good battery life. I want Samsung to do it.

It's a flagship device for God's sake and nothing I should have to tweak till it gets where I want it.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
with package disabler

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XEF is france
[Galaxy S6 General] Biggenz:
Is package disabler safe to use? I tried it but couldn't really see any improvement in battery life. Maybe because I already get 5h sot.

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Tell me how you did that demon man!!
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
This is everything I did in package disabler, actually. Other than that everything is stock. And turned off smart manager, not sure what it's doing. The firmware is COL1.
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
Don't think I have ever gotten 4+ hours of SoT. No idea how you guys are pulling this off with an S6, hell my 2013 motox was alot better in battery life and with speed/ram.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
this is today usage,

really don't know what to say,

today some heavy usage Facebook and messenger, and web and calls. 4G all the time.

Facebook always running with notifications,

and now i see apps optimization doesn't better my battery.

in the weekend i will test it only with wifi.

only a drain from 7 to 4 %.

its great for 4G.
[Galaxy S6 General] ljubisat100:
This is mine S6. All stock, Italian Vodafone. I am very pleased with my battery.

Послато са SM-G920F уз помоћ Тапатока
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
You are absolutely Right.
[Galaxy S6 General] Rajaasim1980:
4 hour screen on time is average or rather low because even old devices manage to give that screen on time like nexus 4/s3/s4 etc

may be i am spoiled by using previous phones who had great battery life like z2/z3 compact/lg g2/s5....Z2 screen on time was best among all between 6.30 to 7 hour that also heavy usage and no others battery savings tips

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You did not get my post. I was saying that 4 hour is not good and its less compared to what these reviews sites suggested. If they test the phone straight out of the box then they should have less screen on time or battery timing that those who are rooted with some customization ..for exmaple Gsmarena state

Web Brwosing for S6= 10:56 hour

VIDEO PLAYBACK for S6 : 12:12 hours

you need to turn screen on for web browsing or watching video so how they got 3 times more screen on times than people in here?
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Which sites are you referring to? I can't remember any review that I've read that stated more than 4 hours of screen on time. :o

Most of the reviews said that the battery is horrible or 'not good'.
[Galaxy S6 General] ljubisat100:
Keep in mind those phones had smaller screens and lower resolution. There are, today, more factors that impact battery consumption than back in those days.

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