[Galaxy S6 General] Pixelguy:
A legit guide to better battery life!

I had terrible problems with my battery life to the point my device would last about 7 hours and id get 1:30 screen on time, and id loose about 20% charge overnight! :crying:

I now get 3:20 screen on time and have got well over 22 hours device on time, with about 4% drain over 8 hours overnight.

FIRST SIMPLE STEPS FOR ANY USERS

TURN YOUR BRIGHTNESS DOWN:

Auto brightness is a killer. Set your screen brightness to around 35% and LEAVE IT, the only time you should even need to use the auto brightness toggle is if the sun is bright outside and you cannot see, but always turn it back off when not needed!

WIFI WITH NO CONNECTION IS BAD

WiFi without a connection is bad, it will continue searching draining your battery until it can connect, or even worst pick up public network and spam you with notifications. TURN IT OFF when you are not using it!

GOOGLE APP IS BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!

i cant stress enough how much the google search bar kills battery! without you knowing it is always listening, always draining your battery, waiting for the "ok google" command, if you dont use it enough to justify your terrible battery life then disable it!

but if you like to use to to search and not much else keep it active and disable this feature:

click on the search bar, go into settings - voice - ok google detection - TURN IT ALL OFF (also turning your now cards off helps)

LOCATION SERVICES ARE UNEEDED MOST OF THE TIME

Unless you are a pioneer travelling from place to place i have no idea why you need your location services on all the time, other than to be bombarded with location based ads.

90% of users use location services for one things... MAPS.

settings - privacy and safety - location off (use toggle to turn back on when you need to use something that needs gps)

also if you really are a pioneer, follow these steps for less battery draining location services

settings - privacy and safety - location on - use gps only

AUTO SYNC

auto sync is very poorly optimized on lollipop, there is no sync interval setting and that is bad because it means auto sync just does what is likes sync on its own and uses power doing so.

Put your auto sync in your toggle bar and just turn it on and off every hour or so, give it a few mins to sync but remember to turn it off.

Also disable things you dont want synced from your google account so its not wasting its time and battery looking for things that aren't there.

settings - accounts - google - click your email address - toggle what you do and dont want.

UNINSTALL APPS YOU DONT USE

Not only does this make the device faster, a lot of apps work in the background draining battery without you knowing, so why take the risk, if your not using it delete it.

USE DARK THEMES AND WALLPAPERS

Our devices have AMOLED screens, which means the dark and black pixels do not light up fully or at all, therefor if your background is black, not only does it look awesome because its AMOLED, it also isnt being lit up, therefor not using any power. go figure.

SAMSUNGS BUILT IN SMART MANAGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

smart manager - battery - detail - turn it on.

This tool is so so so so usefull, samsung listened to their consumers and put a new battery saving setting for individual apps on the smart manager, there are 3 settings..

Disable for

Auto optimize

Power saving

let me show you how to categorize

Apps you rely on and want to give you push notifications all the time - disable for

Apps you use every now and again but your not concerned about push notifications - power saving mode (APPS IN POWER SAVING MODE WILL NOT PUSH NOTIFICATIONS UNLESS YOU OPEN THE APP)

apps your not sure about so your device will decide for you after 3 days - auto optimise

Also every now and again in smart manager click the big old clean all button, it helps.

TURN IT ON AND OFF

Android devices love, being restarted now and again, it helps them free up memory and make things keep running smoothly, imagine it as a quick nap for your S6, im not sure if this helps battery but it cant do it harm!

THESE ARE SIMPLE STEPS THAT WILL 100% IMPROVE YOUR BATTERY LIFE!

STEPS FOR MORE ADVANCED USERS

INSTALL PRO PACKAGE DISABLER

This is a cool app that lets you disable bloatware and any features you dont need, safe to disable apps are highlighted in purple within the app and others you have to work out for yourself.

(stay away from greenify unless you are rooted)

CLEAN YOUR CACHE PARTITION

if your devices memory gets clogged up, it works slow, works harder, therefor uses more power to do so, cleaning the cache partition every now and again just helps.

turn device off completely

hold power, home and volume up button all at once until screen goes blue and let go

use volume keys to navigate to wipe cache partition and use power button to select

use volume keys to navigate to reboot device and power button the select

TASKER OH LAWDY TASKER! :angel:

If you own an android device and you dont use the app called tasker, you are like a person with legs that work but uses a wheelchair.

look into it

learn how to use it

watch your life get better.

Tasker is like an automation app that lets you make your device to cool things, like saving battery.

For example, I use auto sync to save battery.

Auto sync intervals Profile

new profile - time - uncheck both time boxes so it says midnight - check repeat and click every hour - close it

It will now ask you to create a task for the profile to command so make this

net - auto sync set on

task - wait 3 minutes

net - auto sync - set off

and close it, there you go, every hour your auto sync will turn on, sync for 3 minutes and then turn itself off.

There are plenty of other ways you can use tasker to save battery life you just have to look into it.

FACTORY RESET

Apparently doing a factory reset after each update helps battery life, i did it and im not 100% sure if it helped at all, but if your a believer then go ahead!

And there we have it, my amazing guide to better battery life.

good luck :good::victory: