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[Galaxy S6 General] musvi:
I've been using S6 just over a week, battery used to last around 3 to 3.5h sot, but strangely today battery is refusing to die! as u can see sot surplused 4h mark, mostly with WiFi, several 3g calls and over an hour Asphalt 8. And still 30% + battery left, I'm confident that I'm gonna get 5+hrs of sot, I'll update once I reach 5% mark.....

Donno how battery sot suddenly jumped from 3.5hr sot to 5+hr.....

For your information my S6 is G920I and absolutely stock...
[Galaxy S6 General] musvi:
Update from last post:

1st of all sorry I couldn't wait till 5% but trust me I've been using phone constantly and again its refusing to drain... :v btw since last post I did internet browsing, tapatalking and youtubing constantly until down to 10% and for your information screen brightness was down to 50%(automatic), location = off, automatic sinc= Off (I turn it on during charging usually) aaaaand that's it and here's the result, so far the best I got since I bought her(8-10 days)
[Galaxy S6 General] big_b0sss:
Mine is not too bad
[Galaxy S6 General] vagelis74:
I think it's very bad shot for the s6.

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[Galaxy S6 General] vagelis74:
Stock s6 with disable pro package charging beginning with the official wireless charger

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[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
Well I had a lazy day the other day so I took it as far as I was willing to go and got 9 hours SOT browsing reddit, news, pocket, youtube and others.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ryem:
Wow that's really impressive! What rom and kernal do you use?
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
So tmoblile just got an update (at least for me) that added app optimization, and the battery life has been sweet.
[Galaxy S6 General] musvi:
none! absolutely stock.... :)
[Galaxy S6 General] kinghu:
Pretty good battery from my new 920FD (duos but currently just running one sim). Still the first week so cycling the battery etc.

Mostly wifi online, Tapatalk, YouTube, Relay, eBay, Chrome, Outlook, streaming a movie from a NAS.

Stock with a few things disabled using package Disabler. Pretty happy so far and idle seems OK at 0.7% per hour but can't wait for Doze
[Galaxy S6 General] theronlas:
Li chemistry does not improve with cycles, only possible outcome here is a loss in capacity (though it would be tiny unless you did hundreds of cycles).
[Galaxy S6 General] mefxes:
You should show results since disconnected, not last full charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
I'm not sure why you think that because the battery life is how it's used from a full battery (ie last full charge). Please explain?
[Galaxy S6 General] mefxes:
No, battery life is determined by unplugging it at 100% and then not plugging again until it drains.

If you use the stats since last full charge you can charge it many times as long as you don't fully charge it the stats won't reset.

Just change it to the correct one, since disconnected and send another screen.

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[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
That's what I said my friend.

Someone could quite easily plug it in and give a 2nd charge, measuring it before it's unplugged. Also, if it reboots the stats are lost.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Horrible battery

My battery life is absolutely horrendous. It was fine up until a few weeks ago when I'm not sure what happened. I've done a factory reset and deleted a lot of apps but it seems to do nothing. Too lazy to get screenshots off my phone and post (bad internet) but here are my stats:

28% battery life left, it's been 4 hours 26 minutes since the phone was fully charged, it estimates 3 hours left.

Screen on time: 2 hrs 17 min

Apps used: screen (11%), Warlight (6%), Android OS (4%), Android System (4%), #NoChromo (3%), Google Play Services (3%).

Totally stock (5.1.1) with all bloatware disabled. Bluetooth on, connected to Android Wear watch; mobile data on; wifi off; Llama (automater app) set to only turn on sync for one minute every 15 minutes. Battery is HORRIBLE. I used to be able to use the phone for at least 12 hours each day with about 3~ hours of screen on time. Any thoughts?
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
My battery is so so so bad, I hardly get 2 hours screen on time. What data should I collect so you guys can help me work out what's going on?
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Mate try disable few things that you don't use
[Galaxy S6 General] LMH1998:
I don't get more than 3 hours SOT.

Which ROM has the best battery performance?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
For me BTU.
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
For my is The Best. This Rom is The boom.

My problem is no sleep weell.
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
Disable Samsung Push Service is a start! Reading the user comments on its page on Play Store made me lmao! Then the usual Google and Samsung bloatwares!

BTW: If u want good battery life, your screen brightness should always remain in range of 1-10%... When you're outside, just put automatic brightness on!
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
Just for you :p
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Expland

Edit

Firmware. France. Germany. Btu.....
[Galaxy S6 General] Ryem:
Holy ****! That's one of the best SOT I've ever seen. What rom and kernel do you use mate?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Stock?
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
Yup

It's stock. Kernel is 3.10.61.5972182.

The screen takes up most and there is very little in the way of background processes because I've disabled everything. If you keep the brightness on about 10%(I've only been using indoors to get this) with power save on there shouldn't be any reason why other people can't get the same. It does vary of course, because the last time I tested I was getting 9+ SOT when I was down to about 15%
[Galaxy S6 General] hare89:
Is the BTU only rom that doesnt come with these 4 apps preinstalled...

I am Xeu i think is it possible to switch to btu without root and have fully functional btu room with ota updates ?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
You don't have to root anything to flash any official fw, and always receive updates like your original rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] itzik_man:
Yes, you can install (Odin) any official FW as long it is the same or newer to yours current FW!

However, you are not going to receive any OTA updates as long has you don't have your carrier stock FW on your phone, but you can Odin a new one manually.

OTA is looking for a match between FW version versus the CSC carrier code.
[Galaxy S6 General] mefxes:
That's amazing SOT.

But unfortunately it doesn't picture the real usage of the S6. =(
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Are you sure, even the unlock phones get the updates.

And if try to search if it has any. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] AhmadJanjua:
Which theme you have pal? :confused:

Octane X?
[Galaxy S6 General] itzik_man:
I am not sure what factor or rule of OTA update changes once the phone is unlocked, but from personal experience I was on another Canadian carrier stock FW and when I found out that my carrier released a new FW, I couldn't get OTA of the update for weeks, till I downloaded it from Sammobile and Odin to my s6.

I had an incident over this FW with Samsung service centre: Went there and told them I can't upgrade my FW, they checked the phone and told me that my warranty will be voided (if they fix it) because I installed on a VTR phone (my carrier CSC) an "illegal" FW from another carrier CSC -TLS !!!
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
BlackSky. Everything is black as much as possible

Well when the screen is on I read news, reply to emails, watch videos on YT, read Reddit and Twitter, and play either scrabble or chess (I don't play any graphic intensive games). I'm not really sure how much more detailed I can be with that.
[Galaxy S6 General] AhmadJanjua:
Thanks Man :)
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
No problem ! :cool:

I've turned virtually everything black - icons, wallpaper (I have a live wallpaper that's mostly black but with a subtle hint of colour), and apps with dark themes wherever possible. I can't compare the battery life to what' it's like compared to any other way because I've only tested the battery life since I made everything black/dark.
[Galaxy S6 General] zeehkaev:
I flashed my S6 to another country rom beause the Brazilian Samsung always takes too long to release updates.

I received all OTA's since then, and very fast. ( to 5.1.1).

If you flash an Original Rom the phone will basically work exactly the same... Even the knox counter didn't changed (it says device unchanged).

edit: My phone was already unlocked, just changed because of the time it took to the Brazilian model to receive the updates.
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
I am having some horrible cell standby battery drain
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
What do you.guys think of greenify
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I think it don't need it.

I think package disabler do what we need.

Greennify its one more app to comsume ram,

Now we cam optimize apps and they still closed.

I have BTU fw and its more 4apps i can optimize.

Im satisfied.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Do you use BTU firmware?
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
Nope. Stock
[Galaxy S6 General] AhmadJanjua:
Good work pal. I also try to stick with black apps and themes. It really helps to get few extra hours with batter life. I'm currently using "Cogul Dark" It's an amazing theme. Paid one though I've got it for free by activating trail and then freezing theme store. :p

I'm on DN5 S6 ROM bcz of it's beautiful interface and some extra features which I don't have on stock ROM.
[Galaxy S6 General] Faelz:
My phone consumes TOO much battery in stand by mode... Not to mention with screen on (but i can survive that).

What can i do to it last longer? (asides brightness, vibration, etc, i already did that)
[Galaxy S6 General] warriorpluto:
All batteries suck on samsung s series phones. Get a mophie juice pack or a note of you want something to last all day
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
There is a few things that you can do, disabled apps you don't need,

And 3 things more important, 4G ,brightness, and signal is very important in standby. If you go to sleep don't use the phone put in airplane mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] Faelz:
Yeah, but i saw people here managing to get the phone at a reasonable use of battery... thats what i intend to...

I dont left apps on background, im using 3G instead of 4G, brightness is on minimum... I cant put it all night in airplane mode because i need to get some calls...

For what i saw whats draining my power is Android SO itself not 3rd party apps. :/
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Give me by the weekend and I will write a guide on what I did to improve my battery life. That way I can guarantee you guys will get good screen times
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
One of the largest issues associated with battery drain on smartphones is radio signals. No amount of playing with settings or disabling apps will help the people who face either poor cellular coverage or a heavily encrypted WiFi network like myself.

With that said, alot of people are experiencing excessive battery drain due to rogue apps and settings. If my assumptions are correct, your guide would deal mostly with rectifying this kind of battery drain which should prove helpful to the majority of users posting here.

In an ideal case, the only noticeable swing factor on battery life would be your cellular signal strength and screen brightness. Now If only Google and the device manufacturers would deal with the software drain once and for all.
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
You are right. Radio signal is the worst. But what I do is I turn it on and off only when I need it.
[Galaxy S6 General] RM37:
Boas! (De Portugal xD)

O meu tem um consumo bem reduzido em stand by! Para teres noção, consigo 3 dias de Bateria se não der muito uso ao telemóvel, tipo jogos e net...

Tenho tudo stock, e apenas não tenho instaladas aplicações "estranhas"...
[Galaxy S6 General] Faelz:
Boas! kkkk

I think we have to talk in english (forum rules)...

Now im getting less drain on stand by but i cant even imagine getting 3 days of use...

Regarding the 3rd apps i only use the basics, WP, Snapchat, Chrome, etc...

Now it seems that the phone is getting better...
[Galaxy S6 General] smela:
Hi!

I'm really unsatisfied with battery life on my galaxy s6 (G920F) and I just wanted You to tell me if I'm getting normal battery life or is my unit faulty? I should probably note that my s6 is all stock, not rooted, up to date, brightness just a little above the lowest point.
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
Anyone able to help me identify what's up with my battery? http://pastebin.com/tRThVuZd http://imgur.com/a/oeyqx This should be enough info for you hopefully. Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Íf you use a lot of Spotify im sure the sot decrease a lot.

Do you use wifi or 4g ?
[Galaxy S6 General] smela:
I would not call it "a lot". It was 1h max, on wifi.
[Galaxy S6 General] Starship706:
The main Problem with my S6 Edge is that it suffers from the mobile Radio active bug. Meaning the modem is always active. Highest drain is caused by Google apps and other apps, NOT by my Screen. I get like 5 to 10% Screen and the rest is apps and Services!
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Im testing one last thing in my phone

Then i will post everything how it works.
[Galaxy S6 General] iPap:
My battery life is crazy. Sometimes I get more than 5 hours SOT while others I get about 3! Stand by mode definitely plays it's part. In airplane mode at night it won't drain more than 1% (usually 0%). If it is not in airplane mode it will drain about 5%? What's up with that signal reception!??
[Galaxy S6 General] Abstrk_2dx:
get wakelock detector from the playstore youll see whats using your battery:)
[Galaxy S6 General] raymonlelsz:
battery life weta rom

Im running weta rom last build, with hackers kernel, battery go from 6:00 pm til 3:00am, test it alot of time's always around the night it go off, i use it heavy calls and youtube videos
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here the first part.

30 minutes in the morning in wifi and around 9h o'clock start 4G .

This is no power saving,

And the option to optimization of the apps turn off.

I will post later everything and explain also everything.
[Galaxy S6 General] raymonlelsz:
battery fine if you run custom rom

From 6:00 pm till 3:00 am every day i easy get that with weta rom, you will see if cm13 get stabel it will be amazing.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
No root, only stock.

I could do more but like the phone fast with no power saving.

Later i will post everything.
[Galaxy S6 General] raymonlelsz:
Never use it, power saving is not even in my phone anymore, i delete it,

by stock rom you need it, becus you dont have controle over your background apps, even if you shut down it with killer apps it will go on later again.
[Galaxy S6 General] alphanash:
As much as I love my S6, the battery is abysmal. On a typical work day it can't stretch a day. I have a desk charger at work so I can juice-up near the end of the day before commuting home. Charging twice a day can't be good for the general longevity for the battery. This is definitely the last Android phone I buy wish a small / non-removable battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
I read on the play store under Google calendar a user found that to be a battery drain. Do you have that installed? There must be something under the skirts eating away at your battery during sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What do you do to drain battery less than a day.?

Dou you work, ?

Whats is your sot ?

What time you leave charger?

Is with wifi or 4G?
[Galaxy S6 General] alphanash:
I'll have to get back to you on exact SOT figures.

I won't lie... I am a heavy user. I use my phone for work, play and just general day-to-day stuff. My battery is fully charged when I wake up in the morning then is almost dead by 4pm. That being said, my previous phone was an HTC One M8 and that phone handled the exact same usage and managed to cling keep going until the next day!

To answer your other questions:

What do you do to drain battery less than a day.?

1 - Phone is connected to my personal and work emails. Both are Gmail so push email with calendar and hangouts. I am very active on all of them throughout the day.

2 - I use a lot of IM and social apps. Primarily Slack, WhatsApp, Skype and Twitter.

3 - I generally take a lot of videos and pictures. Foodie, out and about and of my kid.

4 - I also consume A LOT of media on my 1.5hr commute. Both ways that's about 3 hours of locally stored TV shows, YouTube, music, news, audiobooks, comic reader, iPlayer etc.

5 - I game moderately. Usually puzzle games though so not very intense, but still a lot of SOT

What time you leave charger?

- Morning 7am.

- And then charge again at 4pm before my commute home/trip to the pub (battery is usually around 15% by then).

Is with wifi or 4G?

- I have both enabled and switch between them. I also have location permanently on.

I recently bought a tablet to offload a lot of my usage and now I can just about get through to the end of the day with a single charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Thats a heavy usage,i assume you get around 5h to 6h sot on wifi.

That battery will not last a full day.

Maybe you need a note 5 ?
[Galaxy S6 General] alphanash:
Well last year's flagship phones kept up just fine with my usage. My workplace gave me a Note 4 for work. Battery life was phenomenal but it was too big for my trouser pocket. They then gave me an S5 which was the perfect size and battery, but I soon got annoyed with carrying 2 phones around. In the end I just put all my work emails and apps onto my personal phone, the HTC One M8. That phone handled work and play like a freaking boss. The only issue I had with it was the camera, which just wasn't good enough.

When it came to upgrade time, I originally went for an LG G4. Amazing camera, but it was too big and the battery was a huge step down from the M8. I returned it and got an HTC One M9, which was a little too buggy for my taste. Most worryingly it had an issue where if got crazy hot if I played music while it was charging. It shut down a couple of times overnight because of that bug. Dangerous... So I tried the S6 and here I am.

I do really like my S6 though. It is an upgrade to my M8 in most aspects, just not the battery (nor audio, but that's liveable). Quick charge and qi somewhat makes up for it I suppose

TL;DR: Note 5 is too big
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What do you have disabled in s6.

Do you have package disabler?

What is your firmware?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here it is until the end with 4G

No power saving, and no apps optimization.
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
For daily use ?

Is Good.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Lets start.

Thanks for few friends here i test other things.

First i have BTU firmware because i can optimize Facebook. Makes a lot of difference in standby.

2. Black theme helps a little but not much.

What i did,,installed nova launcher, lighter, faster, drain less battery than touchwiz, and i have stock wallpaper with stock itens with the black theme. Great combination.

Have package disabler with all bloatware disabled and a few more.i will post all screenshots.

Stock weather i remove it.

Drain more and need location.

The app a have don't need location to update.

To manage the brightness is very important depends what people want. I have smart profiles to change the brightness and other things at the hours i want and need.

The 4g i have always on until get home, some of you could always turn on when you need it,or change to H+,last a little more. During the day i have always 50% brightness,sun goes down 20%, start night 10%and before bed 0%.

Reboot every day, wipe cache partition once a week.and phone cache.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
This is nova launcher
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
This is the smart profiles
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Package disabler.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
More
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
One more thing and in 4G you could restrict some apps you don't want to run in the background.

Hope i coud help.

Anything i could help just ask.

And if someone has more tricks let me know.
[Galaxy S6 General] hungnguyen490:
I recognize that S6 get battery drain when data is enabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] pleasedie:
someone know if the battery in the S6 and S6 edge have the same dimensions? I saw a high capacity batterry (3800mah) for the S6 edge, if the demensions are the same or close, maybe with some modification it can be used in the S6
[Galaxy S6 General] haris182:
can you share your xml file, please?

thank you
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
A major thing when it comes to battery life is the data signal you get and which provider you use.

I experience a huge battery drain since I'm in the UK and since I'm using a prepaid Sim card by Three. I enabled an Add-on which gives me 3000 SMS, 3000 calls and unlimited data.

I assume that whenever I use data connection or whenever I call somebody the SIM 'asks' the provider if I'm allowed to do so.

I'm not a technician nor anybody who knows enough to explain this procedure technically, but it makes sense to me.

So there's much going on in my phone while it should be asleep and even while I'm using it.

I haven't had this problem in Germany.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Yes you are right, the signal low drain a lot i forget to mention that. I had that experience when im in some places without signal.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Could you please share your xml FILE. Not what's in the file? [emoji14]
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
file:///storage/emulated/0/disabledpackages.xml
[Galaxy S6 General] syspt:
I got the Cell Standby battery draining issue that a few people commented about.

Since the latest update removed the possibility to disable VoLTE, I have to disable 4g completely for this to be ok. Any other ideas?
[Galaxy S6 General] AndroidPurity:
Just came back to my S6 after about a momth of using my new 6P and there was the update to DOJC firmware soon as I booted. I updated all my apps first then did the software update.

I had worse battery life than I remembered. Getting only like 1 hour 40 minutes screen on time. Before I could usually get close to 3 hours almost. So I cleared all cache on the phone and did the first restart since the restart of the update. That did not help. It's still just as bad and I only have screen brightness at about 30% with nfc and blue tooth off too.

Guess it looks like I will be doing a factory rest tonight. Only 33% battery left and only gotten 1 hour 8 minutes of screen on time right now. The Android System and cell radio and sucking power like there is no tomorrow!
[Galaxy S6 General] pdxrealtor:
If you turn off advanced calling, it disables volte.

I uninstalled GasBuddy app, and followed some of the steps here, most notably the Google play fix,

http://trendblog.net/increase-samsung-galaxy-s6-battery-life/

And my battery life is back to awesome status. I'm actually getting 'cell standby' and 'system idle' in the battery usage screen. First time ever.

After I'm stable for a week I will re-eneable the advanced calling and see what happens.

I'm on the latest update too.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
1.40h its very bad, almost impossible to do.

Like i said a few posts back, people have to explain the sot.

Every phone and usage is different.

Unless you use Spotify all day or your phone like hotspot.

Never never do less than 4h.

Depending the usage.

And if you let 4G on in standby of course android OS will rise to the top.

But for me doesn't drain much ,4G in standby 1% per hour.

Or you could have very very bad signal then the battery drain faster.

Bad signal i advice to change to H+.

There is a lot of difference things.
[Galaxy S6 General] syspt:
I also don't have that option anywhere with this update.. :(
[Galaxy S6 General] mariodiniz21:
After a lot of research I think this is the best we can get out of a full charge with stock rom, no root, etc.