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[Galaxy S6 General] pdxrealtor:
I've used the V messaging app since I came back to Android a few weeks ago, so I can't say. I really needed text over WIFI so it's not really an option for me in any event.

I will post a screen shot of my file I exported. Not as much as most people I see posting their lists on this thread.

Here's battery pics from yesterday -

I use active sync, Cloud Mail email app for Gmail and my Exchange mail (push enabled), strong location accuracy, wi-fi always on, bluetooth always on with Gear S watch attached, OK Google, Google services (or cards whatever you call that), Adguard, Cyberdust chat app, Chrome, a bit of phone, a bit of navigation (approximately an 1.5 hours of each yesterday), Peel remote, tons of news notifications (all local channels and AP), Twitter, Find my Freinds app with one other person only, and .... that's all that is coming to mind.

As you can see, my Adguard is back. I'd mentioned earlier it was gone since the package disabler app was activated, but it's back. Day two today. Although it shows a lot of usage they say it's being falsely reported. I can't explain it but it's easy to find by a Google search.

Any questions feel free to let me know.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What brightness did you use?

Were you at home or work. ?

I would say this its impossible.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] pdxrealtor:
Auto brightness. Away from home for ~2 hours. I have absolutely no reason to lie. Lol.... I only posted the pictures because I was asked about it. I only took the pictures so I could monitor my battery use.
[Galaxy S6 General] demmo81:
For me I have a huge drain with whatsapp only on lte it's like always pinging the server and I don't know how to stop it. I don't want to lose the instant notifications but it's killing the battery even if I'm not opening the app. However on WiFi same use and even more it never show on the battery stat and it doesn't drain battery at all.. I can't understand ....anyone facing the same thing ?
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
Its about mobile data bug in lollipop you cant stop it unless you disable background data and i believe it cant be an option for a messaging app. Btw it doesnt drain that much stats are just wrong.
[Galaxy S6 General] demmo81:
Thanks for the reply but it shows whatsapp and mobile standby both

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As u can see from the screenshot
[Galaxy S6 General] mgfjd:
There is something wrong with your phone or app. I have about 100 apps. No problem here.
[Galaxy S6 General] lucianus_luciferus:
4G and adguard are melting your battery

i only switch to 4g when i am streaming or downloading something.

i assume adguard is using a vpn connection thats why is using a huge chunk of your battery

i used to have a firewall that did the same thing but did not like the high battery usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
No bug isnt about standby as you can see whatsapp connected for 1.5 hours its the bug and it can happen on every app for example launch an app with data connection and use it for 5 seconds then exit and check that battery stats later it will be connected to internet around 1 hour and it will be on your battery list. But like i said no matter what the battery stats show it actualy doesnt drain that much battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] vimto25:
Mine device is good on battery better than expected I'm just fed up with my faulty screen :/
[Galaxy S6 General] imkr1:
Don't know how ppl get over 5hrs of SOT. I can barely read reach 4 hrs SOT...
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
Try using a true black theme like Weyo from HS or Blacksky!
[Galaxy S6 General] pdxrealtor:
Good point. I forgot to mention I use a theme called zero dark.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
One advice, i tested until today some themes even some paids ones.

And give up .

Stock is the better. Because during the day with black theme we need more brightness more battery. My opinion 60% with auto for the sun.

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[Galaxy S6 General] IamAlexD:
I am using cm on my s6 battery life is better i think and performance is awesome
[Galaxy S6 General] UncleAcid:
I'm getting 5.5-6.5 hours of YouTube (have YouTube running all day at work) on a full charge (using WETA rom, power saving mode disabled, auto brightness low), I'm amazed at how much of a difference from stock it is. No complaints here.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
You use Cyanogenmod? :D

Tell me how... -.-'

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Which kernel do you use? And any other modifications?
[Galaxy S6 General] UncleAcid:
Using UniKernel v8-0002, selected Battery profile when flashing. Other than that, nope.
[Galaxy S6 General] imkr1:
Usually I set brightness at 30% indoor while a few minutes outdoor set to 100%.. So that's maybe shorten the battery life.. So now let's set auto at 60% as some of you advise and will see the result...
[Galaxy S6 General] demmo81:
OK so I test the standby at night with the new uni kernel v9 and again I didn't open the whatsapp but as u can see ... everything is working as normal usually I drop like 2% in 8 hours sleep but now it's more. ..
[Galaxy S6 General] Roco91:
I Don't Post Much But...

I don't post a lot on here, but I do read a ton. I recently dropped an 80lb dumbbell on my G3 so I figured I'd share my battery stats since I was really skeptical about switching to this phone from my LG which had great battery life. I would make it through a day no problem with about 3 hours of SOT which was fine for me, so coming from a 3,000 MAH battery to this I expected to have to be charging all the time. NOPE. This phone is amazing. Not one force close, no reboots, and it's faster than when I bought it. Here are some pics:

I have the AT&TT variant

Rooted and running Xtrestolite 1.5

Greenify (Donate)
[Galaxy S6 General] superleeds27:
Anyone know why beaming service would cause wajelocks?

Android OS seems to be awake a fair bir, checked with betterbatterystats using the PC app and beaming service is at the top!

I've disabled this app along time ago.
[Galaxy S6 General] vimto25:
Mine is awesome I'm very surprised also im coming from huawei p8, I wish the battery wouldn't drain on fifa 16 so much tho i guess it's my fault for playing it for long times lol
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Now this is what I call good battery life. Brightness between medium and low all day (no auto), powersave mode most of the time, mostly WiFi but also a good 1h screen on spent on mobile data. Latest Unikernel, no screen filter, only Greenify, still running latest XtreStoLite. Can't say I'm regretting not waiting for the Note5 so far.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Why didn't you take a screenshot of the graph?

As long as you don't show it, I can't trust your screenshots since I don't know if you plugged your device in for at least a few minutes every now and then. ;)

So, thanks for sharing. But I don't trust you
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Alrighty then

Actually the sickest part is where I went to sleep, switched to flight mode and in 7 hours I didn't even lose a %, I was like wtf is this real life??
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Thank you!

And now tell me what you have greenified and if you use xposed and which profile you chose for unikernel. :)

Thank you! :D
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Very simple setup actually, the kernel runs on stock settings, Greenify has everything greenified except for Gmail and Whatsapp, which are basically the only things I need syncing. I'm surprised myself because when I was aggressively disabling processes with MyAndroidTools I was basically getting worse battery life. Not sure what is happening here but I like it lol.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Okay. Thank you.

So no xposed at all? [emoji14]
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Nope. I'm actually not a great believer in that...I don't like to have a cluster**** of hacks running on my phone all together, it makes it a PITA to troubleshoot if I start getting crashes or weird behaviour, I like to keep my motor clean, nomsayan.

I did use it back in my Nexus days but now no more, it kept causing trouble more than anything else.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Excuse me!

This is what i call a good battery life.

And guess what:

- no root

- no custom kernel

- no custom ROM

- no Greenify

- no Package disabler

I only used airplane mode for a couple of hours while watching a movie.

For the rest of the time 4g, wireless and sync were on.

Unfortunately i had to go to sleep, so i couldn't measure any further.
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
That's pretty sick, you could have broken the 9h mark easy. Honestly I don't even think that root, Greenify and whatever hack can improve battery life much, assuming one keeps the phone clean. If it becomes a bloated mess of apps and tweaks then maybe all of that can becomes a necessity IMHO. I've been through all that for too long, now I just try to keep it simple. Basically I only have root for a couple apps that require it, for adblocking, and mostly because I simply feel safer with a recovery installed and a couple backups and flahable packages in case something bad happens to the system.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
WTF .

this i might say its not possible 8h?

Really .

You must have a extra battery on.

Its the only way.

I don't believe it.

This is my first day of some hard use and only with H+.

Always Facebook messenger and Web.

I get 4h until now and have to charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here it is
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
It sure is possible. This is where I'm at today:

Granted, I've been on WiFi all day, and it's still worse compared to the last day because I used higher brightness and 2+hrs YouTube. Oh, and I forgot about the fact that my Unikernel is slightly tweaked through Aroma Installer: noop scheduler, battery tuned interactive and enforced mode 0 on both clusters.

I do a lot of browsing and I use CM instead of the stock browser, maybe that helps. Just try it out, it performs just as good. I also use it as my default search app.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I see you are a expert, im not .

Ihave stock rom

With some bloatware disabled and i only use what I need.

The max i did was 6h18m at home only with wifi.

But 8h its too much even with custom Rom.

Its really hard to believe.

But only with mobile data always on nobody do more than 4h to 4.3h.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Try harder. :)

Some of us figured out how to do it.

Others did not realized yet, so i will try to explain.

If i want to obtain a good SOT, i know exactly how to do this.

If i want to obtain 2 days of usage, no problem! Cause i know exactly how to do it.

The algoritm is simple.

You can have 2 days of usage on a full charge, or 8 hrs of SOT in 15 hrs of usage.

My point is as follows: you cannot squeeze more from one small battery. You simply move the tasks to the point you need the most.

From my point of view the S6 has a mediocre battery life comparing to other devices i previously used.

Now let's try another point of view.

If i was a developer and wanted to sell a custom rom, kernel ... bla bla bla, or to give it for free with some restrictions but asking for donations later, i could say that i have obtained this amazing results by using: X kernel + X ROM right.

From this point i can say that i manipulated other users from this forum right? Now the users that i manipulated will try to obtain the same results right? And will install the X kernel + X ROM that i previously stated to be used by me! Right?

I only share this thoughts to underline that all the efforts to improve battery life by installing "x" rom and "y" kernel made by developer "z" might not be necessary as long as you know how to manage your resources. And let's be fair. Did any of this tweaks significantly improved original results without sacrificing other resources?

And so on dear forum colleagues.

Ps: as far as i know this forum is in the general category. It was fair to discuss tweaked results in development category right? Or it's just me noticing this?
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
2 extra batteries not only one :)
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
The development section is actually supposed to be where you post if you are a developer or you're helping out a developer, to my knowledge. General is for more general phone related discussion, not strictly for stock users. We just can't have randos cluttering the dev sections with general discussions like this, otherwise it would be impossible to find the ROMs, kernels and all sort of goods provided by devs. After all this is Xda, not necessarily your typical casual phone user forum, so some hack talk has to be expected here and there [emoji6]
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Ok :)

Thank you.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I install now cm browser and i like it.

I disabled Facebook app , drain like hellthe battery and ram.

Im using now Facebook lite for some notifications and use the Facebook from CM its very fast.

Let see the drain tomorrow.

Thanksfor the advice vnvman
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
Can I ask why anyone thinks 0% drain over 8 idle hours in airplane mode is impressive? My HTC aria running a FroYo ROM with its original 1500 mAh battery will do that...
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Well idk, for quite some time I wasn't able to go there with the most recent phones I owned for some reason.
[Galaxy S6 General] D4rk_nVidia:
My HTC One X done that too without any tweak.

My usage:

Facebook

Messenger

WhatsApp

Browser

YouTube

2 hour Wifi

At the rest mobile data

I tried a few ROM´s and Kernel but the battery life is the same every where.

I cant get over a day and I get 3 hour SOT without playing any game.

is that normal? Never had a phone with a bad battery life like that.

With my Note 3, it wasnt a Problem to get over a or maybe 2.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Today with 4g always on

I only get 3.3h

But i dont use that much the Facebook and have a massive drain in the battery .

Is this normal?
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Idk man 3hrs is very very poor, like Lumia 800 poor (trust me I have it in my drawer). There must be something wrong with the hardware.
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Got the edge guys and only had it few days. Does it take few weeks for the battery to settle? And using juice defender is it worth using those apps? Sorry it's been a while since I had android so please forgive my Noobness
[Galaxy S6 General] Maxxxel:
Got it some days now. I usually have to load it 1 time a day.

I hear 1.5H music

I play 1H games

I surf 3H

WhatsApp 0.5H

And when I load it its never under 20%
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
It should only take a few charges. Not a great fan of juice defender, I think you can get decent battery life already OK n stock if you disable some bloatware and your smart about your usage. Rooting may help with disabling some services but I wouldn't go there because it's a risky business if you're not sure about what you're doing. I have root myself but I only use Greenify and BetterBattery to detect wakelocks and such.
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Hey man how you been. Remember you from the good old s2 days. Wouldn't root to be honest as I feel don't need to. Plus for my banking apps and such not worth it. See how it goes to be honest. Got all my juice chargers that I get from training so might as well start using them if needed. Lol. Great phone this is.
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Yea you actually sounded familiar..I don't have any mileage on stock software (flashed the phone straight out of the box lol) so I can't talk from experience but there are some users on this thread like Ciprian who managed to exceed 8hrs sot on stock so it's definitely doable to get good battery life on it. As to me I've been playing aroudn for a couple years with WP after I sold the S2, gone from Lumia 800 to Omnia W to Lumia 920 to Ativ S...then back to square one with the Nexus 5 last year and now I'm hooked again on Android.

I honestly still love WP but the platform went from being stale to actually regressing lately, so scratch that.

Currently on this S6 and looks like I'll stick around for a while. Can't stomach the size of Note phones and I can definitely endure the S7 release and go straight to the 8, also because this thing really flys and the battery is good enough for my usage (sot is like 2x what I was getting on the N5), and quick charging seals the deal.

How about you, did you get on dat deere iPhone time for a while? [emoji16]
[Galaxy S6 General] D4rk_nVidia:
I will never buy a Samsung again.

the battery life with my s6 us terrible. Can't understand why we have less mha than the S5.

Maybe I buy the blackberry priv or a new lumia.

I need to charge my phone twice a day

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[Galaxy S6 General] hare89:
For me battery is preety good,it can easily go thru all day and i recharge it before i go to sleep...
[Galaxy S6 General] kukuthejak:
Quick charging?
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Idk man...this device is much more power efficient than the S5, I can easily get 2.5/3 hrs sot with heavy gaming, 4-5 of YouTube/video consumption and 6-7 of browsing. Maybe your unit is just defective bro, get it checked.
[Galaxy S6 General] D4rk_nVidia:
Yeah maybe you are right but my device is Knox is tripped. I can't flash the stock firmware. I think it's because my bootloader or modem is to new....

any solution?

Because it's really hard to get over a day.

without gaming. ..

Since a week without quick charge :D

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[Galaxy S6 General] Shipoftheline:
It does my head in, I've had to get a battery charging case
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I try with 4g all day in saving mode,

Its seems that Facebook stays closed a little bit longer.

Standby time its a little better.
[Galaxy S6 General] demmo81:
I have this whatsapp issue only on 4g but when on WiFi it doesn't even go to 1% . it's making me nuts I don't know why it's always like this with the 4g only

any idea guys. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
Can u guys help me with some advice about this nasty Google Play Services drain. I'm syncing only contacts, chrom and keep with location/history and always scanning off. I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling Google play services. :( Please advice. Its like 4 hours of mobile radio active for the day.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
The only thing I used from Google is the play store, everything else disable, the stock browser works fine since last update .

You dont need to let the sync on all day.

And see if you have this disable below, i think makes difference.
[Galaxy S6 General] demmo81:
anyone ?
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Let's not argue about semantics guys...thing is this is mostly a modder's forum, so there is no reason for blaming people who flash their phones, we should be here to help, if anything...
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Thread cleaned.

Please don't argue in open forum. Take your disagreements to PM please. Also, remember to treat all members with the same respect you would expect for yourself.

Regards,

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[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
This is my best.
[Galaxy S6 General] Marcgyver675:
Hi, just wanted to ask how do you get to the second screen?

As much I try I can't get there [emoji20]

Thanks

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[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
You go to lock screen and e security ,

Other security settings,

And usage data access.

Hope that helps.
[Galaxy S6 General] Marcgyver675:
Thanks that worked, but all of them were already deactivated and I still have the Google services on top.

Hopping android 6 will solve it

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[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Maybe its because i have almost all the apps from Google disabled and don't have sync on.

I could put here screenshots of the apps i have disabled.

And i found that before disable the app we force stop than disable and stays stopped.
[Galaxy S6 General] NOSTALGIA:
the golden rule
[Galaxy S6 General] golfinggino:
the battery life is actually quite a bit better then i was expecting - i have 3 hours SOT with 35% remaining - with location and bluetooth on all day connnected to my gear s, the phone is stock.

i am used to much better sot with my nexus 6 and moto 360 combo but was surprised how well the S6 has done
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
I've had my S6 for couple days now and running stock android 5.1.1. Pretty impressed with the overall battery performance. The concern is not wakelocks but data usage is pretty weird here. Google Play Services uses almost 2hrs data during 7hrs nighttime. Facebook does pretty much the same but that's not any wonder since facebook app/apps have always been battery killers. Anyway even tho there has been couple hours data usage with Google Play Services as well as Facebook app/messenger battery lost only 2% during that 7hrs period, which is a lot better than I've experienced with nexus 5 and other phones before. Is this data usage behaviour normal with stock and is there anything to be done without root? I've read some similiar stuff here so I believe it is normal samsung's stock ROM's behaviour I'm not so willing to trigger KNOX yet. I know root could help me in many ways (disabling looping services, greenify etc.) but as I said I wouldn't do it yet here...
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Good things coming from PhoneArena regarding the S6 edge's battery life.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Our-...-test-shows-flagship-worthy-endurance_id67631
[Galaxy S6 General] AndreiLux:
They ran the edge at 180 nits instead of 200 for some reason, so it's not representative.
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
As much as we'd like, there's no perfect test environment. For example, AMOLED screens with perfect viewing angles, low reflectance and deep blacks offer as much visibility or say "comfortable viewing" at a lower brightness as an IPS panel that loses brightness quite fast when looking at it at a slight angle. Which is why I realized some time ago that I naturally set the many dozens of IPS screens I come by brighter than the AMOLED ones I test, cause 50% of my time I'm not facing the screen perfectly, which is quite noticeable in the case if IPS screens. Web browsing in particular works well on amoled, cause even at lower brightness the contrast ratio makes black text perfectly visible. whereas if you set an IPS screen relatively dark, reading experience becomes more difficult, especially at imperfect viewing angles. So I guess a proper screen battery life test would calculate brightness and contrast ratio and reflectance and viewing angles into the equation, which by technology would always mean lower brightness on light omitting technology compared to backlit. This is obviously a personal opinion. I just use lower average brightness on an AMOLED screen for the same comfort.
[Galaxy S6 General] AndreiLux:
It is objectively measured by a spectrophotometer head-on on the display. Josh managed to setup both devices within 1.7nits near 200 nits, so I don't know why Phonearena wasn't capable of the same. Subjective usage like what you mention isn't quantifiable so it doesn't matter to the actual testing methodology.
[Galaxy S6 General] Szadzik:
Why would they be big? The difference in battery capacity is 200 mAh, which is around 7%, so did you expect battery to last half the time of S5? I have no idea what the whole fuss with battery capacity is.
[Galaxy S6 General] SilentEYE:
Maybe you didn't understand what the point is.

The s6 has a more efficient display and cpu/gpu but at the end, the power consumption is nearly equal to the s5.

If you compare the battery size of both it is easy to nail the fact that the battery life of the S6 can't be much better than the S5.

At the end it will be a bit less or the same.
[Galaxy S6 General] Szadzik:
Iwas saying, that people generally are whining about the smaller battery size, not considering how much smaller it is and that it is not going to be worse than S5. We all know it is not going to be much better either; at least until someone comes up with better battery tech.
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Why do you think there is a large variation in manual brightness for Edge and normal model?