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[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Hi, I'm not rooted. Full stock XEF rom. I use package disabler for some bloat, greenify and doze app. Wifi always except during sleep and bit of 4G, auto brightness 40%, play services background data restricted and i don't use Facebook app... Dark themes should help a bit.

No, i haven't charged in middle of cycle as you can see in the battery graphic.
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Damn that Facebook app it eats our batteries out. Lucky that you don't use it. Thanks anyway man.

Sent from my Galaxy S6 running XtreStoLite 3.3.1 and Hacker Kernel.
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Try to do the same steps from my last post. But i advice to factory reset first and then the rest.
[Galaxy S6 General] jaswinky:
Please, read a bit more this thread (some last pages will be enought) and you will find the reason, and how to temporarily solve it before Google developes a final solution.

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[Galaxy S6 General] pankeca:
My phone is wrost than ever
[Galaxy S6 General] Shadyfurball:
I'm trying this force doze app.

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-forcedoze-force-doze-mode-screen-t3377694

Seems to help with idle drain whilst the phone is off.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
more 3g use and web browsing.. for me is satisfying
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
Can you tell me how you changed the font on Marshmallow ? It doesnt work anymore. ( on stock unrooted of course )
[Galaxy S6 General] leomchd:
It seems your device is downloading a handful of data in background.

What could it possibly be? 229MB for Android OS is really weird.

I currently have 6h of use with 427 bytes downloaded from "Android OS".
[Galaxy S6 General] alessa:
Hello

how much screen time you made? me this is max 3 hours in the afternoon with the screen at 50% with 3g and wifi, greenify pro with his doze force without auto synchronization, no push, no location ...
[Galaxy S6 General] benyben123:
Hi there. Thanks for sharing this.

I bought an S6 running XtreStoLite ROM. Never run stock.

Not happy with battery.

Do you recommend going back to stock?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
i tried every rom , kernel combination when i was rooted but nothing gave me such amazing results

i tried amplify and grenify..still not compared to what i m getting now

you should restore to stock like i did and disable only the apps the system let s you. dont use any package disabler they are pure ****
[Galaxy S6 General] benyben123:
Thanks amazing!!! I will try this right now.

Is stock fluid/fast?
[Galaxy S6 General] Shamako:
Wow, that is incredible! Which stock fw are you on, also how much brightness do you keep ur phone on during those results? Incredible!! I get LESS than 4h SOT on average with a FULL charge with all the usual crap like greenify etc, and you are getting 4h SOT with 50%!!!
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
I think it is very bad that Samsung and the money is worth the cell phones we must restrict services to the battery will last.

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[Galaxy S6 General] benyben123:
May I ask about this "Smart Switch"?

So just download this software and it will revert the phone to factory?
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
you have to put your phone in download mode and then use emergency restore on smart switch.

this is what i got till now

80 percent battery life left

2h sot
[Galaxy S6 General] benyben123:
That's kind of crazy. Are you sure there are no other modifications or variables which affect your results? This is probably the most I have seen (although I am new to the S6), and your scores beats the top ROMs out there.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
No man.. As i said i didnt belive it too.

Im stock. Unrooted

I will never update my phone ever again. I dont want to loose this battery life.

Also when i was rooted with every update my battery was worse
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
How is that possible ? ?
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Then you must have everything disabled, nothing installed, all the features are off, brightness is the lowest.

That's not how to get the most out of your Galaxy S6.

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
haahha.ok man

i dont post to argue with you. look at the graph and you will see if i charged my phone or not.

ppl gets mad cuz i get more battery life than them lol

i will stop posting..it s not worth my time with some of you.

ppl calling me liar and **** lol :)) why in the world i would lie..i dont get anything out of a lie

as you can see after the restore my mah on screen was lower idk why..never happened before. thats why i get amazing sot. cuz my screen started taking less mah per hour spent when the screen is on

i always use automatic brightness and my display is set to adaptive...maybe the adaptive mode takes less mah idk

trust me or not..i get that sot without stoping using my phone as a smartphone.

bbye
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Why so angry? I just said what my head told me to say.

Who said I'm here to argue? Calm down pal..

Anyway, do you have any apps installed that can eat your battery out?

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
do i have any app installed?
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
That's ****ing amazing then.

Never seen a battery like that, why does your screen takes small amount of mah?

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
i really dont know..maybe is the screen mode idk...it all happened after a smart switch restore
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Ah, I see..

So after the restore you didn't play with the settings, changing there and there, right?

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
i disabled the apps that system let me...the apps i dont use..like google plus,hangouts etc
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Okay thanks.

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[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
this is what i get at 52%. even better than last time
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
I have now 1h 3 m SOT and 140 mAh, so after 4h I will have 140*4= 560 mAh, but not 387, so your brighness is lowe when mine. Mine is auto with 50%. But i can't imagine, how you can use aphone in normal condition with lower brightness.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
i use auto too. as i said.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
in auto mode you can change brightness too, slide slider and screen will be brighter or dimmer.
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
i know . i have it around 30 when inside and to full when outside.still it s not a big of a difference between them...it s bugged as hell:)) the real full brightness is when you enable outdoor mode on xtrsolite rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] EthanDev:
download fontfix app from apkmirror.com:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S6 General] Soufiansky:
Thanks ! It's on the playstore i removed it a week ago since people said it caused the bootloop issues
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
Great great battery life. Mine is good but your is amazing. Your sinal reception helps too. In my town i usually get 2/3 bars. At this time i have 60% of battery and 2:15h SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
theoretically ~40%, you get ~100 mAh per hour, I 140 mAh. Now is sunny days and I cant understand how you can comfortable use phone with 30% outdoor, but if this is good for you - then ok, or you nightman :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
i use full when outdide man, 30% indoor
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
so, every time you slide? :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
it s auto. it does it automatic. when in direct sunlight
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
no, slider let's add values from which adaptive(or automatic) brightness work. That mean, if you slider is on 30%, automatic brightness (or gamma) will be max till 30% on direct sun light. Now everything clear, you get good SOT with low brightness(gamma).
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
ur so wrong m8. go outside with the slider at minimum. it will go to full brightness in direct sunlight..at least thats how it works for me
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
set slider at 30%, go outside and check you screen brightness, when slide slider to max and whualia, screen will be a lot of brightener!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
why is it calling automatic brightness if u manually set it =))))
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
I don't know. It's automatic change, but work a little bit different than me all think. If i good remember this starts from LP
[Galaxy S6 General] Security555:
I have time to time a huge battery drain caused by Android system - backup.

Only restarting help to solve the issue

SGS 7 Edge exynos
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Exactly what apps do you have disabled? And what of your location and Google settings?
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Everything else is stock
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
I do use svoice but I disabled the Google app too. Usually hit 2 hrs SOT by 80-75% while on LTE.
[Galaxy S6 General] EthanDev:
nah! its pretty fine for me SM-G920I
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
So.. you are on atock with app disable.. but it's impossible.. i'm happy for you
[Galaxy S6 General] timeshiftt:
???????????
[Galaxy S6 General] Shamako:
I use dynamic screen option, maybe adaptive uses less power??
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
I think so
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
He use lower brightness or gamma. Mine now show 1:28h and 198 mAh

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like mine, brightness automatic and slider ~50%?
[Galaxy S6 General] Diaze:
Thats more mah not less . LOL
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Just put it automatic and set to 30, consumes 100 mah
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Gamma app or what?? App

This settings I (don't) understand.

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[Galaxy S6 General] keijikage:
Has anyone been using game tuner? I noticed that the latest update allowed you to tune things like web browsers. Since chrome has always drained the most power, I'm giving it a try.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
When you open notification drawer a see slider, slider change gamma, not brightness. And when you put brightness to automatic you can slide with slider and change gamma(screen stays brighter). I checked by myself, if slider at 30% one hour screen ussage about 100 mAh, if 50% - about 140 mAh.

This info i found in forums, where peoples talked about automatic screen brightness after LP release
[Galaxy S6 General] racingmatt1:
Game tuner?
[Galaxy S6 General] keijikage:
Game tuner let's you throttle/force graphics to lower quality. It basically renders content in a smaller window and then up scales it to the native resolution.

You needed a certain version of mm in order to have game tuner work.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/1...me-way-to-scale-any-games-resolution-and-fps/
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
when phone sleep, drain ~2-3% per night, but then I start it use................. SOT 1.3h and 180 mAh.

Note 5 has the same hardware, a little bit bigger battery and bigger screen, but phone works without problems 2 days, 8-10 h SOT ......... something wrong with ours s6, need to change to note 5 :)
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
No, note 5 does not go for 2 days or 8-10sot.

I get day or day and half standby and around 4.30 hrs sot. I once got 6 + hrs sot but that was for 1 day. But yes note 5 s battery is slightly better than s6. As I've used s6 previously.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jetbo4:
I mean I think you could get 5 hours SOT. I am really worried about standby time. It doesn't seem to be the screen that is killing the batteries. Look at the percentages. I think mine was well under 10 percent for the screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] alexforget82:
If i can get 5 hours SOT and 16-18 hours StandBy, that's ok for me !!

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[Galaxy S6 General] testinguser:
How is the experience like going from N5 --> S6? I'm sure many of us with N5 are considering pulling the trigger.
[Galaxy S6 General] wund3rground:
No cell standby here
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Come on guys, need little more perspective here. How many screenshots have you seen where display is taking most power?

In a situation, where display is taking most battery, yet the SOT is less, it would be a valid reason for to complain about QHD display.

Most screen shot we see either have Google Play services or Cell standby as the worst battery consumers. What does that tell you? The data is inform of us, so before we blame the QHD or the processor, let's looks first into the data.

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You would find this tough with Android as long as it's under control of Google. Android is notorious for standby issues, not for first time I have seen that. Samsung when moved to Tizen in smartwatch increased batterylife by around 2x compared to Android. iOS/WP are both known to have much superior standby. Just looks at nexus phones (I have one), they seriously suck at standby.

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SOT?
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
If you're getting no cell stand-by, I assume you're getting at least 6 hours SoT. Give us the screenshot when it dies.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Any theories on why Wi-Fi triggers this cell standby draw and high Android usage. Like is the cell part thinking it should be being used so trying to make itself priority?

I can also confirm turning of Wi-Fi is the fix

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[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
Nope. Like i said 14 nm just mean its using less power than a higher nm IDENTICAL soc. Even 20 nm 5433 can use less power than 14 nm 7420. Cuz they are different soc. 7420 has higher clock speeds and more core gpu.. so you just can be sure its more efficent or not if you didnt measure how much W its using in full performance. Again im i saying 14nm means nothing alone. You need to consider power consumption with whole package. And im not saying 7420 is using more power than other soc im just saying its possible 14 nm dont have to make it most power efficent soc. (Its not for sure)if you did dig deeper and know whats tdp of 7420 or how much W its using on max freq with 8 core feel free to share 5433 had 8W tdp with cpu only its probably higher than every 40 nm soc out there

And about tests if they are pushing cpu to limits it means there isnt any big.little advantage in that test
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
If that's it, it's terrible coding. We should expect a bug fix soon. Also, another explanation can be Samsung's own modems instead of Qualcomm ones.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/All-...msung-Shannon-LTE-modems-Wolfson-DACs_id67880

This needs to get fixed soon. I'm certain that the device can produce great results and after the bug is fixed, it can easily go up to 7-8 hours of SoT.
[Galaxy S6 General] laureanop:
Coming from a Nexus 6, I'm receiving my S6 tomorrow. I have owned a Samsung S , s3, s4,s5, and Note 4 ( as well as gnex, N4 and N5)

In all my Samsung phones Android System and Android OS always alternated with Screen for top battery consumer so there's definitely something wrong here with Cell Standby. The only time Cell stand by should be in the top 3 is when the phone is idling for hours with very little screen time.

As was the case with the Nexus 6 and a couple of bad wakelocks, hopefully we can figure out together what's causing or what triggers this issue.

The Wi-Fi thing is a good start
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Andrei has already commented on GPU. You can expect much deeper analysis once their review is up.

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That's LTE modem, Samsung's 3853B5 Module handles WiFi. Previously they mostly used Broadcom solution

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You are on for about 6hrs SOT, which is a decent number.
[Galaxy S6 General] omersak:
http://samsung.hdblog.it/2015/04/03/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Test-Live-Batteria/

Live battery test on going at hdblog. So far there's 32% battery left with 1h 40 min SoT in 4 hours of operation.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
That gpu power drop probably per core. But 7420 has 2 more cores. So yes we need more analysis like i said all im trying to say 14 nm itself doesnt make it more efficent alone than other socs. Cuz they has different cpu and gpus.
[Galaxy S6 General] assasin34:
after checking out all pages i can say that battety life is really big disappoinment on galaxy s 6.definitely decided not to purchase.i wish they could use full hd display instead of unnecessary Qhd display.
[Galaxy S6 General] 77Pat:
Mine after first night. Have not played around with many of the settings, yet. I am coming from a Nexus 5, which my main complaint was the camera and battery life. It too had a similar battery drain (went to the gym and put phone in the locker, came back 3-4 hours later and phone was dead).
[Galaxy S6 General] userguy:
Lol, now please tell me you are able to understand anything you read? If you could, you would see that none of the issues leading to bad battery life are related to the QHD Display. It is rather some Background processes which are keeping the device awake. Therefore this must be Software related and is not a Hardware fault. Even in the Reviews they write that the battery life is pretty good when the phone is used but the standby drain is too high. This will certainly be fixed sooner or later.
[Galaxy S6 General] wund3rground:
To be honest I was on the fence but now that I have it in hand I like it quite a lot. I really wanted it just for the camera, and it doesn't disappoint. Being on a Nexus device since they came out the bloat is irking me a little but after disabling everything I don't use I'm not seeing any issues. I'm definitely interested in rooting, but I'm a Mac user and so far that seems a little up in the air at the moment. I'm pretty fluent in ADB and Fastboot but I don't know anything about Odin or its Mac equivalent yet, and I'm feeling a little like a fish out of the water. The phone is solid and built very nice, the screen is stunning and the camera is amazing, so far so good.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Yeah thought I was in pace for 6hrs but lost a good amount while I was sleeping. Still need to finish setting phone up and remove unused apps. Surprised to see Android system down so low, which is good, as it was always near top with screen in previous devices.

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[Galaxy S6 General] jamezr:
Thanks for posting the battery stats. For me and my usage habits....if I can get 4 to 5 hours SOT i will be ecstatic!
[Galaxy S6 General] Jiyeon90:
Jesus, it looks like the phone never sleeps [emoji33]
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
Ok, thanks for info. I just saw discuss in xda forum about 8h SOT, but like here, some users do test not in normal conditions. So we can say, what in 2016 battery did top phones with middle battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] nvrmndryo:
If you keep your phone on plane mode and wifi / data off, ofcourse you will get 8 hours of sot. Ppl do this and just while taking screenshots they turn on their wifi /data or mobile network.

It varies on person to person. But yes if you have very good cellphone network, and with some optimization you can get around 6hrs of sot.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
So, with normal use note 5 battery better than s6? Or bigger screen, bigger battery ussage and finally you get the same battery life? Can you get 48h battery life with 4g/wifi middle use with note 5?
[Galaxy S6 General] gelocatronico:
Finally switched to s7 (g920f > g930f) and im very impressed with the battery performance.

exactly the same apps and even more usage can go up to 3 days in 4g+sync always, location and wifi only when necessary.

its a shame a great device as the s6 has a poor software
[Galaxy S6 General] jocaboss:
The battery is larger, the internels upgraded. If you haven't getting a better battery life, that should be strange.

I can do this as best of my use:
[Galaxy S6 General] warboss:
chilling im bed with wifi, playing clash royale, browsing, whatsapp & youtube - everything stock with root

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btw: brightness on auto and middle
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucoso46:
Which theme are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] warboss:
it's called "blue and black amoled" - it's on the store and for free :)

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g2 charge now...
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
I have the worst battery ever..

Thank you Samsung
[Galaxy S6 General] Mofezzda:
Me on galaxy s6 edge tmobile variant watching youtube videos all day on wifi.

-Stock tmobile kernel

-Stock tmobile rom

-Yes im a not rooted

-No battery saver or tweaks

-Theme: Sifi
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
+- like me, I think, need to go back to 5.1.1
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
How after week? It's still amazing or back to MM battery killer?

I found old my photo with LP, so 2 day with 3h SOT was normal, wiht MM it's impossible. Mine ussage the same then and now.
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
MM has a better look and improved performance but the battery life has turned to the worst.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
where you see performance? For me like LP.

But theoretically - bigger performance, bigger cpu usage and bigger battery consumption :) I think, only in 6.1.x situation will be better, like always with google.
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
I'm talking about MM that has a better performance lol

In LP I feel like wanting to go back to MM cuz of the performance but that "small" battery drain is killing me.
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
I thinking, back to LP or not. In MM killing me:

1. battery drain

2. double notification in skype (between phone and PC)

3. After 3rd party app lock, I can't unlock phone with finger scanner (this begins from MAY update, google somethin changed in android politic).
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Haha yeah, I just want to have a great battery to make my day better.

Speaking of going back to LP, I recommend flashing XtreStoLite 3.3.1 and Arter97's kernel and tweak it with L Speed. You'll notice improved:

Performance

Multitasking

Decreased lags (if any)

Better battery life
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
If i go bacj, i'll go to stock, because my Knox is ok and I don't want loose warranty.
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Okay.

May the right decision come to you flying and shouting. Haha good luck :D
[Galaxy S6 General] justgamer01:
I only get 2 hours and 45 minutes SOT for two days! The most time I only use whats app, browser and a little bit youtube. Guys what do you think is it worse battery life ?

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[Galaxy S6 General] Sleep04:
Im lucky to have a 400mah batyery with my lenovo a5000
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Hi.

I used to have two hours SOT and like 10% left.

Now after I flashed XtreStoLite and Arter97's kernel and tweaked it via L Speed, I get 4 hours SOT, with heavy usage, brightness most of the time 60%, outside 100% and inside like 40-50.

UPDATE:
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
I've observed that on Marshmallow, power saving mode plays a big role on battery life. Before on Lollipop, it was negligible for me, but after mm, I lost about 1h sot on normal mode. With power saving, I'm back to battery life of lollipop including the choppy scrolling of lollipop.

So I guess that on lollipop, the OS was not going full speed. That's why after mm, the choppy scrolling disappeared and battery life decreased as the phone is now running at its full potential!

With power saving mode, Android OS seems to be less battery consuming. So try leaving power saving on all the time and see if the battery bonus outweighs the minor lags ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Zinux:
Just use L Speed to improve your battery life and performance.

Using power saving mode will just decrease your performance. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] elprince_99:
which version of arter kernel and what is your setting for L speed ??
[Galaxy S6 General] paulyz:
i don't think, need google (or samsung) optimize system. Like battery drain from *backup*, is this normal? NO!

P.S. reverting to 5.1.1