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[Galaxy S6 General] jamezr:
Take it with a grain of salt! I was reporting what i read and the benchmarks.
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
Please understand that these results, like other benchmarks are not meant to tell everyday performance. These are hardware-specific battery tests that loop high-performance CPU / IGP tasks until the battery runs dry. Because the Exynos 7420 AND the Mali-T760 are both manufactured on the 14 nm FinFET process compared to last year's 28 nm Snapdragons, these hardware-related battery results are absolutely not surprising, that's 14 nm for you.

Not to mix with all kinds of different things such as display drainage, cell standby, calling, GPS, WiFi, background tasks.
[Galaxy S6 General] rjayflo:
I have no problem about battery life. I nearly got 3hrs of SOT (60% - 0%).
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
I agree benchmarks and real world are a total different thing. I look at a benchmark as a one-size-fits-ALL type of thing, and we all know there is no such thing...What these test don't/cant show is in the real world situations like, if your in poor reception area you may lose more battery cause of the radio. If you use auto brightness but are usually in a sunny area vs cloudy area the auto brightness wil have screen brighter draining more battery. Then you have other variables like syncing to this and that cloud google etc, where someone else may not sync anything.

I can say so far for me in comparison to my seasoned S5, the S6 battery has been a mixed bag (still settling in though, just to early to tell) if I use it heavy it drains fast (to be expected), and if I go a without using (this just doesnt happen unless im sleeping :D(but then its charging)) the standby drain has been better than the S5. Still it needs time to settle in and for me to get back to a normal usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] tehdef:
Yeah, actually.

Snapdragon 805 is a 28nm chip, while the Exynos is a 14nm chip. The power savings right there is pretty significant. Couple that with the fact that the S6 also has new and improved screen tech resulting in a ~20 decrease in battery consumption with the screen on, you're looking at near or better battery performance than the 3220mah, versus the 2550/2600 (GS6/Edge) batteries.

The fact that you're laughing at this shows how woefully under-informed you are, and that anything you say should disregarded.

Have a great day.
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
So are you saying the s6 battery would last longer than the note 4 like the benchmark says? I'm all ears.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
14nm doesnt mean it should use less battery than last years snapdragon 28nm devices.
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
Every single YouTube reviews from big reviewers saying "s6 battery is avg at best"
[Galaxy S6 General] tehdef:
That's exactly what it means. Are you unfamiliar with how die sizes affect power consumption?

Die shrinks are beneficial to end-users as shrinking a die reduces the current used by each transistor switching on or off in semiconductor devices while maintaining the same clock frequency of a chip, making a product with less power consumption (and thus less heat production), increased clock rate headroom, and lower prices.

Link since you can't be bothered to research.
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
U got any screenshots of your usage with ur s6? See how well it fares with normal usage using your 14nm processor and 2600mah
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
kidding right? in same soc nm can change something. if they are different 14 nm soc can use more power than even a 40 nm soc
[Galaxy S6 General] tehdef:
Mine aren't accurate at the moment because of the 5.0.2 Wifi / Cell Standby bug eating large amounts of battery. Until it's patched and I can use WiFi without 30% battery consumption, I'll be able to tell you.

I can say that I was at 52% with 2h17m SoT, and I had 17% cell standby time, and 14% Android usage (WiFi) and that I had the phone on for ~10hr. Once the bug is fixed with cell standby and wifi, I can expect to probably be around the ~18-24 hour mark with 6-8 SoT. It seems to drain about 15% per hour of usage of screen time at 50% brightness and a LWP. I'm assuming if I went through and disabled some more of the crap apps it runs with, I could get that to 8 hours, despite being 700 mAh smaller. So the efficiency would be higher, despite the end result numbers being lower.

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Did you ****ing bother to read anything I linked you, or are you determined to fight something clearly stated in a reliable resource that has links to back it up?
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
OK make sure to tag me with your screenshot whenever you reach that 6-8 hrs sot with 18hrs run time.
[Galaxy S6 General] Nplus1:
What kind of settings did you have just after reset? 4G, Wi-Fi, location?

You might have also had a lucky few hours. In my case, with the same apps and settings I'm seeing between 0.5 and 0.9% drain per hour in idle depending on the day. It makes no sense how I can STILL lose at least 0.5% per hour in idle, with doze and everything but even even worse is the fact that not even the 0.5% are not stable

How? Stock or rooted/custom? What settings (4G/3G/Wi-Fi, location, sync, etc)?

What do the GSam graphes show you? I'm having about 0.5% drain per hour in idle with doze activating but CPU usage around 30% most of the time at the lowest frequently.

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[Galaxy S6 General] rahul8040:
Battery-Gasm!

Hello, i would like to thank everyone of XDA members to help me out with Battery life.

Getting a great 5 hours SOT (Screen on Time ) with decent Gaming, Snapchat and Facebook,Instagram and good call-Time.

All i used Battery calibration and Greenify ( DOZE Mode on) and Amplify, and ROOT booster ( Battery configuration ) and all other sync off and no auto-brightness.

Thank You!

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Best. Power saving from 80 percent
[Galaxy S6 General] don_gori:
Hi dude as i see on ur screenshot u have nice SOT but u plug phone twice on charger and up your battery maybe with 4-50% :confused:

I really dont know if there is some point if u get 5 or 8 SOT when u plug in phone in charger , yea everyone know that 5 min charging time is more than 30% battery back we miss main point :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
For me the only way to get 5.5+ sot regularly was putting brightness between 4-7% range using a brightness level app since slider doesn't show percentage.. Automatic brightness when it's too dim (so no need to adjust slider). One more thing some users including me noticed is Adaptive Display uses more battery. The most accurate mode for me was Amoled Photo. Basic is too dull.

Turn off toggles when you're not using them. It's just one swipe down!
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Amoled fotos is very optimiced??
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
This is it for today. 6h sot. With some juice left
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Battery save all Day.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
How you get notifications with power saving mode on?
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
Adaptive display adjusts the color of the screen and this consumes some battery life.

I find Amoled Photo giving the most accurate and true colours and not an oversaturated display like amoled cinema or adaptive display. Basic has a yellowish hue with it. Amoled Photo display is perfect balance for me :) You can always use the other display modes, but try not using adaptive display.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
From 80 percent. It was just a test bcuz I get 6h sot without power saving. I wanted to see if there is any improvements and it is. One h more sot with power saving on

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I only use fb messenger and fb and I get all the notification
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Ok .very Good.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I use amoled cinema in note and s6.

For day light is better.

And i like high quality ?
[Galaxy S6 General] rrenoid:
:(

Hey guys, i'm very dissapointed with my S6, i'm getting 3h & 50 m of SOT on 6.0.1 Stock Rom with regular use, only wifi and barely 3g. Is it normal?
[Galaxy S6 General] ciprian97pop:
let's set something straight

getting 3.5-4hours of sot it's about right with the s6 and s6 edge with mixed to heavy use

yes, you can get 5 or even more hours of sot if you optimize it by disabling apps and rooting it or by doing light stuff like phone calls and browsing the web but the average is of about 4 hours

am i right?
[Galaxy S6 General] don_gori:
Hi guys , these days i test new XtreStoLite 3.0 RC1 with Hacker kernel (complete new installation) on S6.

Tonight before sleeping i charge device to max and calibrate battery , then i left on my phone for 9h without touching and on morning when i screen on display battery was on 100% with turn on Wi-Fi(gone 99 when i enter in settings menu) which is exellent , here are results

So far so good. But when i begin to use my phone battery begin to drop very fast , even thou my screen brightness is on very low setting. I use a little Clash of clans and Clash Royale (less than 10 min) , Viber and FB. Here are results , battery drops very fast from 98% to 83% which is very strange for me :confused:

GSamn Battery Monitor is showing now results after wake up device (i reset data monitoring when begin to use phone)

As i see in CPU Spy there are no wackelocks that wake up my phone unusually , so deepsleep is working just fine :)

Тhe only thing that comes to my mind is kernel settings , which i change a little - i set min freq on 200Mhz on A53 cluster and 800Mhz on A57 cluster. Also i UV most use freqs in A53 and 57 for 2 steps down and for the GPU. After these settings my phone comes rather cool than before , which is good i think :confused:

Hope here will find some solutions for my fast battery drain when i begin to use phone ussually .

Cheers !
[Galaxy S6 General] n0iz3:
Hello,

I found some irregularities after I installed the 6.0.1 update.

Gsam and native battery stats are showing different values, does anyone know why this is happening?

Also, I get some drain from Android OS, as you can see below.

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] lucianus_luciferus:
gsam has always shown random values for me so i stopped using it. maybe it only shows the correct values if you are rooted.
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Mines a bit erratic today..
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
Hello guys, after I update to 6.0.1 official my battery is worse.

In the end of the day my battery was everyday like 50 40

Now with 6.0.1 it's 7h with 27%

Help please

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[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Android OS is a little high.....
[Galaxy S6 General] Lukky.adil:
S6 Battery draining overnight after Marshmallow update

Hello my s6 edge+ battery was perfect before marshmallow upgrade, after the update my battery is draining down to 30% from 100% while I'm sleeping. I turn off wifi and all other services like location GPS data blah blah... I think there is something wrong with battery usage of Android OS it is using 43% of the battery. I can't upload screenshot since I'm a new member, any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks (open this link for screenshot

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[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
My s6 edge after update is draining a lot of battery too I don't know wath is causing this. Probably tomorrow I will reset all phone...

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[Galaxy S6 General] Lukky.adil:
I have tried resetting the phone also, it doesn't help. The battery issue still remains :(
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
While this thread is focusing on S6 battery life however a lot of users are focusing on SOT results without much detail.

Here is my example:

I can get on single battery charge 13+ hrs of SOT in one discharge and 1d 12hrs of battery usage or I am getting 12hrs SOT and 1d and 4hrs of battery life on a single discharge.

The only difference is screen brightness:

with my default setting (15% brightness, auto on) I see

12h 3m 26s - 1163mAh and 18% of battery left

with 50% brightness and auto on I see

12h 31m 10s - 1534mAh and 2% battery left

This is set with adaptive display.

Everything else is exactly the same.

When users are asking questions about battery life it is important to provide as much information as possible. is device rooted or not (rooted will yield much better battery life because a lot of great apps that extend battery life is available for rooted devices only. What was used to save battery and what programs mostly are affecting battery life.

Good example how ask for help is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66075298&postcount=3800

don_gori posted quite detailed information about his setup.

In such case it would be easy to suggest the installation of amplify and greenify and that he should first follow this topic:

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884

then if there is still an issue maybe someone will be able to help more.

p.s.

In my opinion users can forget about specific battery charge/discharge method suggested by Madpiercing as this has more effect on laptop than phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] macs18max:
My battery life sucks after 6.0.1 update. It is the wifi that is causing the issue. Device doesn't sleep when wifi is on. I know some users will comment to change setting for wifi "keep wifi on during sleep" to "never" but in lollipop (last update) I has setting to always and I didn't have issues with battery life. However in marshmallow it sucks. I hope Samsung will fix this issue soon.
[Galaxy S6 General] n0iz3:
I will check that tonight, I'll turn wifi off and let it sit on 4G to see if the drain is still there.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
I would assume that you are running stock.

There is nothing wrong with wifi or 3G/4G in marshmallow.

I would suggest to install GSB. Charge your phone, set wifi on and run in stby mode overnight (that is no activity only wifi). Check what you have got and post back. I would suspect though that you have google services running amok.
[Galaxy S6 General] dghostpt:
I'm now using greenify and limited data for google services. Big improvement.

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[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
My s6e had a very good battery life in the beginning (you can see my posts here) but then it just got hit big time because of Google sync and some app using data a lot. Do a clean install use ur phone and see if there's drain.then start installing apps one by one
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
Hi, I think I solve my battery problem. You guys can try and check if solves your daring problem after update.

I'm running the stock rom without root. The phone was untouched.

I enter in recovery mode without have philz or something and I get an error. After I get the error I press UP volume and it shows a menu, I clear my dalvik cache and today I notous a big difference in my battery.

I know it's to fast to talk about differences after only a day but I notous.

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[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
Hi,

looks like after 6.0.1 update I have bigger battery drain when phone I use phone. When phone i sleep everything fine (-1-2% per night with wifi, data and blue tooth off) , but when I start use phone........... I don't see in battery stats and gsam battery monitor something strange, I just think, what problem with cores, when I wake up phone, all 8 cores start work at max and drain battery?

My phone stock, no root or etc, only some bloat ware disabled with package disabler.
[Galaxy S6 General] sha_tan:
I don't see any option to wipe dalvik cache in Stock recovery. I only see an option to wipe cache. Did that a few times. Have reset my phone too. But my phone doesn't last even 10 hours after a full charge, even with very very limited usage. Stock MM, unrooted, G920I.
[Galaxy S6 General] Kricetenne:
This seems to have worked for me.

In order to clean the cache you have to

1. turn off the phone

2. hold up+power+home

3. select delete cache

4. reboot

good luck
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
This is what I mean to say delete cache, glad it worked

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[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Roof confirm to those that may not know....is this delvik cache?

Also I assume data remains intact?
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
I havent posted here in a while. After the newest marshmellow update, my battery has seemed abysmal. I notice when the screen is off, I'll still lose about 2% a minute. All the sprint bloatware disabled, same with s apps and galaxy apps and google voice. I have wifi on, location on, bt off most of the day. Max sot is 3 hours. The turning the screen off and still losing multiple % in a short amount of time, is bothering me.

What's wrong? Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
This is not dalvik cache. Rather the normal cache partition. And yes if you clean this cache partition, all data will remain intact. Done that hundreds of times on different Galaxy S models.

There is no way accessing Dalvik without root or custom recovery.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Can you install/show Gsam Battery App Sucker results?

Can you turn off Google Play sync?

Do you have AFWall+ installed?

Do you have installed anything that can control which app would run (not disabling but controlling apps)?

What kernel do you use?

What ROM?
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Gsam is installed, what should I post?

No afwall

No, but app optimizer is on now with the newest android.

Default rom and kernal. Not rooted. 3.10.61-7280193 is kernal version.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Screenshot of App sucker may be useful.

Turn off location and check if any of google location aware app is running.

I don't use app optimizer it does not work for me and may drain battery (you would have to check this out for your setup - my phone is rooted)

Go to google play select settings and disable auto-update, and notifications

go to app manager and check (may be tedious) what apps are running
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
How do I check the location thing?

Dont know how to find app optimizer anymore since I told it to stop notifying me.

Done.

Cant see running apps in marshmellow. Only enabled/disabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
So you do have chrome running and credit karma. Both sucks a lot battery judging fro the pic.

Charge your phone, reboot and check if you still have (without starting anything) these two apps running. I assume that you want twitter on so if this is auto starting that is fine.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Well i think I might don't use my s6 anymore when its comes from warranty.

I had s6 4h sot in 4G.

Note 4 today i had 1h sot wifi in the morning until 90% Then start 4G until now. Im getting home, with 28% with 4h10m sot.

Im good with this battery.

Send from my Note 4 N910F / S6 G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Got rid of karma, no idea why I even had that worthless app. I substituted stock browser with chrome not long ago since I have a tablet I use chrome on. Does chrome hurt the battery of the s6 a lot?
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Stock is faster. And you can install an adblocker to save battery and make it even faster. To me it seems 2x faster than chrome with adblocker.
[Galaxy S6 General] AG22:
What adblocker do you use? I don't know exactly which is the best.
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
I have tried all. In my experience adblock fast is the best.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
You do not have to change anything, just install ShutApp

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yirga.shutapp&hl=en

It will keep all apps that you closed really closed,

e.g. after you close chrome, it will really not run and this way you will save on battery. You can setup any app you wish with shutapp. Just pay attention to App sucker from Gmsam battery and setup ShutApp for the apps that drain battery most. You can also turn off google syncing for some time. See how it goes. After day or two turn on google sync, see how much more battery you will loose and decide what to do with google sync (leave it on or off and update apps manually)
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
I left home at 330pm at 100% and had 40% at 1030pm. Is that normal? I was streaming a live sports game for an hour or so on youtube in that time.

Also, shutapp doesn't show chrome, at all, what does that mean?
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
I don't know if loosing 60% in 7hrs is normal. This will depend on signal strength, and what else you have been using. Not sure why you don't see chrome in shutapp. I would contact developer and ask.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Possibly had a bad signal, plus, going in and out of wifi range. I was delivering food to houses, so driving all over.

Had 2% drop over 7 hours of sleep. That's normal, right?
[Galaxy S6 General] ultimateopportunist:
I'm using XtreStoLite 3 with Greenify and Amplify only getting 2.5h sot and 10h standby. What's wrong with my device? Only doing fb, messaging and Spotify...
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
Revert to stock. I get 4 - 4.5 hours SOT easily.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Not enough information provided. Can you post gsam battery screenshot from app sucker?

I have similar setup and I can get up to 12hrs of SOT. No way that stock will get you as much as custom ROM from one battery charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] omeryounos:
12h SOT on S6. I don't believe it. Share a screen shot of battery stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66094726&postcount=3809
[Galaxy S6 General] junioric9:
What is acces cloud? With app sucker show me 69% consumed
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I dont believe either. .
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
would not say that I care, provided link with the screenshots from 12hrs SOT in my post above

here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65870190&postcount=3699

in this link I got seven hours of video playing. In addition see attachment below. In terms of what I provided it is way more that I could see in your screenshots.

I know that [MENTION=6684540]cavags5[/MENTION] is struggling but it does not mean that whatever you post is some kind of ultimate truth.

For me this is the end of discussion.

best
[Galaxy S6 General] ultimateopportunist:
What do you think about my screenshots? Is my battery defective?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Relax friend, im not struggling for nothing if i wanted more i already had rooted my s6.

But i want to change and im gonna for s7 edge.

I read and speak with few developers and they have rooted devices such as s6 and its very difficult to achieve that 12h or even 8h.

I just want know how much stock goes and try to help others who have stock.

I have others devices such a s3 rooted that last me almost 5h easy with wifi.

Don't worry friend , i know your secret.

[emoji1]
[Galaxy S6 General] ultimateopportunist:
any comments on this?
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
What do you think?

First day with XtreStoLite v.3.00 Final with Xposed (greenify, amplify, deep sleep battery saver and Youtube backgroud.)

For me its good, my phone last from 10 a.m. to 00.05 (now at 4 %)
[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
Ime with stock MM

Is this normal right?

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[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Nothing impressive. My all stock s6 is making better
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Good for you bro, but for me Marshmallow is hungry of battery, 2 hours of sot with a little bit of 3g and most of WiFi now i reached 4 hours and i'm at 5%
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
With root and those apps should be much better. I use only package disabler, shutt app and doze and it's my normal battery cycle for 2 days: https://tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=...share_tid=3320301&share_fid=3793&share_type=t

Android 6.0.1 Battery Life Dicussion
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Heavy gaming this morning i use deep sleep battery saver and this is an awesome module for xposed.

Back to the first days battery life yee but i hope it will improve
[Galaxy S6 General] jamnt:
Package Disabler does not work on rooted device. No surprise. There are better ways of controlling apps when rooted.