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[Galaxy S6 General] Rajaasim1980:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s6-review-1227p3.php

I mean they said 12 hour video watching and 10.50 Hour web browsing and obviously your sreen will be on when you will doing these tasks so nowhere it will even reach 6 hour in real life( no matter you play game, browse internet on 3g/4g or watch videos) let alone 10 hours or may be i am struggling to understand how they come up with these statistics

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You are right but to be honest do we really need more than 1080 p or even 720 P resolution on 5 inch screen..display of samsung galaxy A5 is as good as s6 even with 720 super Amoled display so they should have concentrate on battery improvement rather than jumping in race of pixel density which dont make any real differene in day to day usage
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
You are not supposed to recharge it, you know, right?

Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] ljubisat100:
I do. It went down to 15% and then I started charging. At the percentage on pic I realised I could take a screen. I'll make new one before recharging.

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[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Puuuh...

I don't get how they achieved such goals in battery life.

But there procedure seems not like a 'real life situation'. This is the web-browsing test procedure for example:

Maybe you can achieve such stats like 10 hours of Web browsing if your device is in airplane mode or no sim card with

WiFi connected and not really searching or syncing anything else. So maybe without any app installed or set up.

But this is not what a average user could get out of his/her phone.

And the S6 would perform like this it wouldn't be 'a bit over average battery life' like they say... it would be 'awesome' battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] nlab:
Well, 12 hours of video watching is quite real, I guess, because it is amoled. If you play it in stock player with WiFi and 3g data off.

Concerning web browsing, what they do is a script without any user interaction which means no touchscreen use and no cpu frequency spikes connected with that.

E.g. They gave iPhone 6s 12h web browsing rating, while it's hardly 6h in real life.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
12h is nonsense.

even note 5 don't do that,

check this video of the note 5 video sot.

https://youtu.be/DYLKXzjAOlw

and they say S7 does 17h video on maximum brightness, ?

i want to see that.
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
I hope Marshmallow will solve issues like Ram management and battery drain.
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
1080 is already overkill for 5 in screens
[Galaxy S6 General] ljubisat100:
Here is updated, done correctly, screen of my battery usage.

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[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
I can't understand how you guys achieve those kinds of results. In my case it's max 4 hrs SoT with no gaming and a lot of chrome force stopping. And still screen uses 12% followed by 11% of chrome, 9% Google play services and 7% android system.
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
Can somebody help to identify what is causing this insane GPS and SPS numbers ->

, , , ,

Sync OFF, Location OFF , brightness 35% , only 3G browsing. :( This is 5.1.1 COI9
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
Finally somebody with my case.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
package disabler, disable stock Weather, and are some options to disable Google services. and disable apps optimization.
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
I like stock weather and acutally using it with manual refresh. What i noticed is that Google location service is constantly working in background even though all location settings are off and i dont use any app that is adressing location. :( Do u have other suggestions ?

What i tried : Clearing data/cache and reinstalling GPS, SPS, Google service framework. Clearing dalvik cache (a desperate one, i know). Shealth, Google+ and most other Google apps are disabled. Nothing seems to help.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
if you use 4G you can disabled Google services in the background.

from Google i only use playstore nothing else.

i have a weather app paid very good.

that don't need location to update.

and nova launcher off course.
[Galaxy S6 General] bazzzyl:
My regular everyday use.

Some phone calls, playing a game, checking gmail, browsing internet and listening to the music.

Wifi and 4G off, on when i need it.
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Best tip I have found so far is to restrict background data for Google Play Services. Massive jump in battery life...Try it. Some say it is required for core functionality...don't think so everything is working fine
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
how do you do that? google play services is not listed in the apps list to restrict background data..
[Galaxy S6 General] ChristianBale:
Well whatever is going to happen better hurry up and happen. I don't like spending $700+ on a device that has very poor battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
New devices always have bugs. Plus, the phone doesn't officially release for 9 more days, so thanks for the beta testing ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] entropism:
Pretty much this. You HAVE to know that the first batch of these phones are going to have bugs, it happens to every phone. Every single one. Plus, we're still 9 days BEFORE the launch. NINE DAYS. And we've already had an update pushed. I'm not too worried, but I am still debating my purchase. Probably because the Nexus 5 was SUCH a great phone, and I could have easily stayed with it for a few months longer.
[Galaxy S6 General] rjayflo:
Opened out the box with 60% battery last night around 1030pm. Mostly Web browsing, on XDA, and going through setting to get familiar with the phone. I have not taken the update yet.
[Galaxy S6 General] darkflyer1983:
High cell standby!

Guys, i'm seeing high cell standby usage 18% of battery !

Autosync is off, and no app seems to be the culprit.

How can I fix that?
[Galaxy S6 General] assasin34:
i had pre-order s6 but i have canceled because of bad battery life rumor.i dont wanna pay +700bucks for a smartphone has meh battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lockeskidney:
im getting a strange issue where i put the phone in my shirt pocked and the IR sensor flashes red??

anyone else have that happen
[Galaxy S6 General] D15:
Is that nearly 3 days without charging?

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Remove the plastic cover on the IR sensor?
[Galaxy S6 General] darkflyer1983:
Sorry, im in the wrong forum. It s a z3 compact. And yes very solid battery, but could be even better ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] poweroutlet:
Agreed. I am in a better cell reception area today and the drain is reduced but still the battery life is poor. Yes the phone charges fast, but it also drains very fast even on idle. This phone as it is right now can't seem to even match my HTC One M7 which to me was the bare minimum for battery life. My Xperia Z3 which I run with stamina mode just blows all my other devices out of the water for battery life. It isn't even close.

I think there is almost certainly something wrong in the power management or somewhere in the software. Hopefully Samsung will patch it up quick. After all what is the point of having all these awesome features and a beautiful device if you're constantly worried about its battery dying.
[Galaxy S6 General] iMask:
Like mentionned earlier, 9 days before release, there are bound to have some bugs. I'm pretty sure Samsung will release an update to fix it soon.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lockeskidney:
anyone know if the fast charing tech interferes with portable chargers? my motorola powerpack 3000 is not continually charging my s6
[Galaxy S6 General] assasin34:
How is your battery life so far.?
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
can you show us this poor battery life? screenshots? Let the screenshots do the talking please.
[Galaxy S6 General] paranoid2007:
I don't think there will be any significant changes until shipping date. Most phones to be shipped will be in their boxes already.
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
Software updates can occur between now and then. Phone location is irrelevant.
[Galaxy S6 General] ChristianBale:
If you have Google Fit installed then that is the issue. For some reason using Google Fit will cause the heart rate sensor to be always on.
[Galaxy S6 General] akong702:
Just got my s6 and still fully charging. After taking the tmobile update, I realized that you have to click on the home button then scan your finger. You didn't need to do that before the update. How do I set it so I only have to touch the scanner like before?
[Galaxy S6 General] Phascinate:
Mine doesn't have to be clicked and I got the same update.
[Galaxy S6 General] poweroutlet:
This is what my battery life looks like for today. It is quite a bit better than yesterday since I don't have the high cell radio drain right now. Yesterday cell standby took up 16% or so. I had to get the phone back on the charger by 2:30 PM yesterday (initially took it off charger around 7 AM).
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Go to Settings- Data usage - select Google play services from the list at bottom of screen. Toggle restrict background data.
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
There's no google play services, only "google services" and it mentions contacts sync among its features

Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Yes turn toggle on for that. Contacts will still sync when you are on wifi only
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
This is the best battery life I have ever gotten.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
60% 1.30h SOT with 3g and a lot of Facebook
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
How can I get more than ~2.5 hours SOT? My idle drain is quite good, maybe 0.5%/hr which I'm quite happy with (if you look through my previous posts on my profile you can see my recent BetterBatteryStats logs). However as soon as I start using my phone properly (never anything very heavy - usually just social media etc) the battery drains really quickly. GSam still points to App Usage as causing maybe more than 70% of my battery drain, though. Any thoughts? Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
Post screenshot of your battery usage
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Third cycle with M.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Optimisation apps on auto
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
Not the same so far as me right now
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
auto is almost the same as off.

you still have the update M or you flash it.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I flashed it
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
My Today's battery stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] 3liasben711:
Good Useful App

I started using an app called DU Battery Saver and i found it very useful it boosted my battery life by 2x! Before that i used to use an app called doze though for some reason it drains my battery, probably because it connects to VPN. Hope you found this useful:D!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
this is mine today, 1h Wi-Fi, and until now 4G.

no all apps running.

no optimization.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Wow!
[Galaxy S6 General] Inelukis:
So dude, you block Doze that's the main optimization in MM about battery with a third-party crap app? Good job!
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
This ain't bad, right?
[Galaxy S6 General] spizzino:
Seems that you partially recharge your phone when it was bt 20-30%. So your test is not valid,sorry.

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[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Marshmallow is boring.

In two minutes from 100% to 98..

Now I'm at 97 since 4 minutes..

I want arter kernel 12 :)
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
Actually I connected phone t to usb for data transfer, so it charged for 8%.

I usually get 12-14 hrs of standbuy and 4.30hrs of screen time. I have posted those results recently here.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
28% a lot of WhatsApp and photos.

Also YouTube and Music. 3.30h SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
So there is some kind of black magic happening here. Just a few days ago I had ~3:30 hrs SoT in a single day with the same usage, and now this happened. The best I have ever got and will ever get I guess. :D
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
That's really great. How did you manage that?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Which Theme is it?
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
I don't think I've done anything special, just there was no Google services drain and I think it made the difference.

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It's called "Black edition" from Sammy theme store.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] ljubisat100:
I must say my battery life improved considerably. This from last 2 days.

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[Galaxy S6 General] botanicfts:
Have someone a proofed combinations rom + kernel (possibly also some settings) to get good battery life and performance? I don't want performance over 100k in antutu, i want doesnt lagging phone + battery life. thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
That's what I mean when I say that battery life is extremely inconsistent in the S6. No new apps installed nor old ones uninstalled. Pretty much identical usage. There has to be something messed up in the operating system.

Just two days ago I was pleasingly surprised and today I'm disappointed, and that's what you can expect with this phone (at least with the official ROM).
[Galaxy S6 General] 115dan:
What theme are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
Black edition from Sammy theme store.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here it is today only wifi, and no optimisation.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Sot
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
6 hrs of sot! ?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
whaaaat? O.o i'm on coi9 and the maximum is 4 hours..
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Its the normal use when im at home only with wifi, brightness is around 30% don't need more inside house.

This rom i have now is BTU.

Today i will test 4G with power saving mode to see the difference.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Good, third cycle.

Yesterday I put optimisation app on OFF today in auto for another two days.

Since next Monday optimisation on continue for see the difference
[Galaxy S6 General] unotretresette:
Spoiler content hidden.

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[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Black edition from the Theme Store
[Galaxy S6 General] unotretresette:
Thanks buddy

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[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
In this morning 1 hour or so of YouTube and surfing the net.

Now light use...

I think for the third cycle and also for my zone is great
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
50% with power saving mode in 4G.
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
My battery drain is awful. I factory reset the device then fully charged and put into safe mode over night. in 8 hours i lost 11%. unrooted, stock and factory....any ideas? Thinking the S6 is pretty poor at the moment....
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I will test with the official theme tomorow
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Official theme will give you the same sot.
[Galaxy S6 General] 115dan:
Normal use with whatsapp, facebook, piano tiles, etc... internet connectivity always on except at night. 2 hours of wi-fi and 3g the rest of the time, brightness at 25-50%. Everything stock.
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
Do any of you get Samsung Push Service battery drain? Sometimes it uses up to 30% of battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
:( two hours more SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] 115dan:
I'm sure that i can get easily 7-7 and a half hours of screen time if i use only wi fi with black theme and brightness at 0-10%.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
What's the point in that? How about you don't even use your phone, it will have power enough for a couple of days :P
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I'm having a terrible battery life. My phone went from 100% to 15% in 6 hours with 56mins SOT. Android OS, Android System, and Google Services are sucking my battery. Is there anything I can do about that?

PS: Sorry if this has been answered before
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here today 4G from 100% to 12% 4h.30m, and the rest with Wi-Fi.

No optimisation,

And power saving mode on.

Very good.
[Galaxy S6 General] AG22:
Nice time of SOT.

What seetings are you using? What apps have you disabled? With or without root?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Package disabler, no stock weather.

40% brightness day.20,10% night.

Nova launcher. And other things disabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
Are you rooted or on the stock firmware?

Try disabling WiFi always scan (settings>wifi>top right corner>wifi always scan>). I guess you have Sync and Location on because they are most likely the cause of Google Play Services sucking your battery.

Also, if you are on a custom ROM, what kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
I have this and still cannot identify what is causing it ...
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
I disabled the push service and the battery is holding up noticeably better.
[Galaxy S6 General] Bxrider117:
Has anyone in this thread run the beta version of marshmallow for the s6 and if so what have you seen as far as battery life?
[Galaxy S6 General] ShiftFTW:
Hi,

I'm having some battery issues. I bought my S6 a week ago and I am very disappointed with with.

I can't get more than 10h battery life with a normal usage. I already flashed another kernel but still the same.

Is there anything I can do or it is a faulty battery?
[Galaxy S6 General] AG22:
Thank you!

What apps have you disabled? I'm thinking about buying the Package Disabler. Does it really worth the price?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I'm on stock firmware QOLO. I had a few accounts syncing automatically. I disabled most of them leaving Google, Exchange, and WhatsApp.

Will monitor and see.

Any other advise? apart from rooting and using a custom ROM. I will moving into custom ROMs once Marshmallow is official.
[Galaxy S6 General] sebusmen69:
For me on moded mm.

Wysłane z mojego SM-G920F przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S6 General] simm101:
Luckily enough we won't be getting 6.0 because the battery life on that beta version is appalling
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Yes it worth the price its a very good tool to disable what you want.

Im thinking in making a video to show here how i have my settings what i disabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
There is an app called Debloater (for your PC - you can search XDA for it), and there is a thread called something like safe to debloat.

there you can find apps that you can "disable" on your phone
[Galaxy S6 General] AG22:
Thanks, i'll buy though.

About your video, that's a very good idea.
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
Yes there is debloater app to disable services. But what's the use of buying s6 if you gonna disable it's main features /services?

There would be no meaning of buying this particular phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I will try to do it this weekend if i had the time.
[Galaxy S6 General] jazk:
7 hours sot ( I swear) with wifi only and no data. Had 3/4 bars the whole time. This was until 4% charge left. I was browsing the Web this whole time or watching youtube. On wifi at home I always achieve 5.5+ when not gaming.
[Galaxy S6 General] Dexter_prog:
Yeah...

Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
So it' a week that i use the COI9 firmware i think i'm gonna move to another Kernel.

Hacker kernel or Arter97. And i will give you some information :D
[Galaxy S6 General] jazk:
Another day. Charged it on Thursday night but used the device to check my email and then I fell asleep. Upon waking up in read the news and browsed reddit. At work i steamed a music playlist in the background via firetube for an hour( so far this was all done on WiFi.) From around 1pm to 5pm I had my 3G data on, there was some brief email checking between this period) I then arrived at home just after 5 and continued to b connected to WiFi until midnight. During this time I browsed the Internet, read the news on various different websites and browsed reddit. Used Whatsapp a bit. I then charged the device from midnight to about 00:10 from 1% to 20% as I wanted to check a few things out before I went to asleep. In these past 4-5 days I have been thoroughly impressed with the battery life I have been receiving, for the first week or so of me using the device the battery life was lacklustre. Power saving mode was not used, brightness was about 5-15%, being varied throughout the day. I was able to tweak my N5 to get me 4+ hours of SOT 99% of the time but that required a tremendous amount of tweaking with kernels and ROMs, it took me months to attain that level. My S6 is stock on the UK network provider EEs' 5.1.1 firmware. Feel free to ask me any questions :)
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
Seems about the same as lollipop
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
What is better than waking up in the morning and seeing that your beloved phone has gone from 35% to 5% during the night. Seems like the S6 likes to game by itself when no one is watching.
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
The S6 battery is the worst i've ever had. i gave up my HTC One M7 for the iphone and hated it so went to the S6 and the battery is worse on this than my Motorola Defy. I get 10-15% battery drain over night in safe mode after a hard reset. Surely this is not normal. interestingly, i get 0% battery drain when in airplane mode overnight so issue is with wifi or cell connection. i have poor signal at home but i get similar drain at work with full bars so not 100% related to cell signal i suspect.
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
All of this is related to the infamous mobile radio active bug which is flagged with low priority by google. We cant do anything. MM wont help either. This is the sad true.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
I have to learn how to use Synapse?
[Galaxy S6 General] gorilla p:
Unfortunately, since Marshmellow, Synapse (or at least the UKM script it relies on) has kind of sucked and has had issues with retaining settings. I believe there has been some improvement if the kernel dev has made a custom UKM script for their kernel.

I recommend Kernel Adiuter at the moment. Easy to use, just install from play store.

Might require busybox. If so, install "busybox on rails" from play store and install latest busybox with 1 click
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Thank you very much!?
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
Poo battery life, around 6% drain overnight 100% on WiFi. Mostly reddit, Tapatalk, feedly, and a little bit of clash if clans.
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
I disabled google now and my battery life doubled. i had already disabled location history so google now kills battery even with location settings off....
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Did you disable "Google App" or only Google Now?
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
Now cards, left the launcher and google app in tact.
[Galaxy S6 General] cionn:
Well I can bet you don't even know all of the features in the S6.

There are tons of apps and hidden services which you will never use but they are still running in the background and eating both RAM and your battery.

I love the S6 because of the design (partly iPhone ripoff), its hardware and TW. Thats why I rooted it, put a stock firmware stripped off every bloatware and then installed only the apps from Samsung/Google that I will use. It made the phone a beast. Would suggest everyone to do the same, but no one is the same. Thats why most people cry about weak battery life or performance in general..
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
17% with LTE 3 hours of SOT.

A lot of Browser and Facebook
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
Don't know what to think of this battery life. 95% on WiFi, mainly reddit, Tapatalk, and clash of clans.