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[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Battery calibration method

1. Discharge your phone fully until it turns itself off.

2. Turn it on again and let it turn itself off.

3. Plug your phone into a charger and, without turning it on, let it charge until the on-screen or LED indicator says 100 percent.

4. Unplug your charger.

5. Turn your phone on. It's likely that the battery indicator won't say 100 percent, so plug the charger back in (leave your phone on) and continue charging until it says 100 percent on-screen as well.

6. Unplug your phone and restart it. If it doesn't say 100 percent, plug the charger back in until it says 100 percent on screen.

7. Repeat this cycle until it says 100 percent (or as close as you think it's going to get) when you start it up without it being plugged in.

8. Now, let your battery discharge all the way down to 0 percent and let your phone turn off again.

9. Fully charge the battery one more time without interruption and you should have reset the Android system's battery percentage.

Remember that it is not recommended to perform this process regularly. Even when your battery is so dead your phone won't even turn on, your battery still has enough reserve charge to avoid system damage. But you don't want to poke the tiger with a stick. Perform this process once every three months at the most. If it is required more often than that, you have bigger problems at hand.

Put plainly: fully discharging a battery is bad for it. Trying to overload a battery is also bad for it. The good news is that charging batteries will shut off automatically when they've reached their safe limit and there's always a little in reserve even if your phone won't start. Again: only do this when really necessary, because it does have a negative impact on battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] BurakkuShippu:
Battery life is been pretty decent for me!

Unplugged it at 6:45 AM and at 9 PM i'm at the charger. Pretty good for the small battery.

Mostly YouTube, WhatsApp, Music and Samsung Health.

[IMG="Battery Life"]https://puu.sh/vqHa3.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy S6 General] Jhoward22:
Battery life has been pretty good for me so far. I've been getting between 3hrs to 4hrs and 10 min max. I'm running the latest stock firmware to for my SM-G920P.
[Galaxy S6 General] Shaker96:
Hello, I updated to 7.0 and since then 'device idle' has been on top almost matching screen usage, I used to get 4/4.5 hrs of sot, now it dies at 3/3.5, the phone is on wifi most of the time, Bluetooth, GPS and even sync are off, most of my usage is social media (specially facebook messenger, instagram and snapchat) i'm on the stock rom and i just rooted the device... thanks in advance for any recommendations
[Galaxy S6 General] pauloaopiedade:
How did you get the black theme?
[Galaxy S6 General] Jhoward22:
Samsung theme store; I think it's the Pixel dark theme.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jim1973:
I've just started a post before I saw this one already running. I've been experimenting with different batteries, roms and apps and I think I have now got the perfect formula. I have just got over 48 hours standby by time including over 6 hours SOT and my Galaxy S6.

I'm using a patona S7e battery, rooted with an s8+ rom, greenify and forcedoze.

This was achieved on normal mode (ie not on powersaving). I had AOD switched off but Bluetooth and wifi on. GPS was on battery saving setting and WiFi scanning off. I charged it Friday evening and it was still on two days later on Sunday with nearly 6.5 hour so screen on time. I was pretty amazed. This was the first ever full charge on this new battery so I'm hoping to beat this once it beds in a bit.

Accubattery is estimating 4700 mah after two charges which can't be right. Hopefully it will settle to provide an accurate reading over a few more cycles.
[Galaxy S6 General] RevolverRz:
what is the device idle charge drain?
[Galaxy S6 General] rizaledeguerre:
anyone using official stock nougat rom? is 2-3hrs screen on time is normal?

and i wanna ask about battery replacement. is it true after battery replacement the paint in rear and front will peeling off?
[Galaxy S6 General] TheElfLord:
It mostly is, Im on stock and i get 4+hrs, you just need to tweak settings.
[Galaxy S6 General] angelocorvalette:
I think it's just not specific enough. But it's still pointing in the general direction of the problem.

If you install a third party app that gives much more specific info then you'll see processes that wake and use CPU while it's in sleep/standby.
[Galaxy S6 General] TeoShow:
In any problem about calibration with s7 battery(3000mah) in a S6?
[Galaxy S6 General] alfonzoyoon:
Since the edge battery life is not good and it has a bigger battery life than the regular s6 does that mean the regular s6 might have even weaker battery life than what your having now?
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
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Enviado desde mi M6 Note mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] nsherbina1999:
I have changed 2 batteries, and have poor use time. Like usage of messengers (Kate Mobile (russian lightweight messenger for VK), Telegram), 1 hour of music and 1 hour of YouTube, and battery drains in 3 hours. If I don't have usage, it's between 6-8 hours, maybe. When phone on 15%, battery QUICKLY drains, 1% in MINUTE. It's with disabled screen and on low brightness. Also, 3 hours drains with ~20-50% of brightness, black wallpaper, and with only Wi-Fi, no BT, GPS, or 3G. No viruses, only sometimes, like 1 time per 2 weeks, Samsung screaming about Telegram battery usage. What I can do? In backgrounds I don't have any apps. Firmware is stock, latest. I have wiped cache in recovery, used many times reset. No changes at all.
[Galaxy S6 General] TeoShow:
I replace the battery at the service (not Samsung).

After a three 0-100% charge cycles battery life is very poor(about 1h 30min-2h sot) .

What can I do ?
[Galaxy S6 General] TeoShow:
My battery according to this apk(battery status for galaxy s6) has 2358 mah. I recent replace the battery.

My phone at 100% is on 1970mah.

What ca i do for a real full charge ?
[Galaxy S6 General] ts_firehawk:
Since we're all talking about battery here, how is the battery life while running Lineage? Is it any better?
[Galaxy S6 General] soopoolleem:
Tips for Those Who Want to Go Deeper

Samsung Galaxy S6 is now not worth much, probably less than $50 trade-in value in 2019. I would advise you not to buy a new battery for more than five bucks. Anyway here's a few tips when you're buying your new battery.

S6 phone battery is specified as follows:

- 3.85 V Li-ion

- 2550 mAh capacity

- 9.82 Wh operating power

- 4.4 V charge voltage

- EB-BG920ABA (S6 flat)

- EB-BG920ABE (S6 edge model)

- Manufacture date (most important)

TIP #1

Your new battery should have 4.20 V when fully charged. If you read below at 100% charged, you should consider a refund.

TIP #2

If you decide to store your battery, maintain at ~3.85 V (~45% charged). Check the voltage every six months or so.

HOW TO TEST YOUR BATTERY CORRECTLY

[IMG="S6 Battery"]https://i.imgur.com/qNnpNtn.jpg[/IMG]

1. Find Terminals

- Remove black tape on the top right

- DO NOT use any cutting tools (e.g. knife, scissor) when peeling tape. Use your fingernails or paper/plastic tools instead.

- DO NOT remove battery protection board and ribbon connector.

2. Connect Multimeter Probes to Terminals

- Usually red cable to positive (+) terminal; black cable to negative (-) terminal.

You can also attempt to direct-to-terminal charge your battery without your phone.

*MUST CONNECT (-) to (-) and (+) to (+). DO NOT OVERCHARGE. NEVER LEAVE CONNECTED UNATTENDED.
[Galaxy S6 General] alexforget82:
For me "usage" is when the screen is on, no?

Envoyé de mon iPhone 6 Plus en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] jamezr:
I use my phone at the gym for 1.5 hours a day listening to music with he screen off. It syncs with a bluetooth headset. I also use it for probably an hour a day while driving to and from work using bluetooth to stream music through my car speakers system. All of this while the screen is off.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-galaxy-s6-edge-battery-life-tests/#comment-1947316958

No, it's not fishy. It's the excellent calibration from Samsung that both phones have identical battery life. Also, the G920F variant GSMArena tested doesn't have the cell standby issue.

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That usage field in iPhones denote the time when the phone is active. For example if it's syncing or playing music while the screen is off, it counts in usage. My iPad air 2 goes upto 19-20 hours of usage while the screen-on time is barely 12 hours( that thing is a monster in battery life)
[Galaxy S6 General] WhiteHartMart:
No point comparing iOS and Android stats - they report differently.

Brought to you by a CM12 Lollipopped OnePlus One :)
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
You are wrong or you two are arguing over something different. If 28nm SOC is shrunk to 14nm, maintaining same design ("Copy Exact"), then the 14nm SOC will always be more efficient than 28nm SOC performing the same task.

Of course an advanced manufacturing process alone does not guarantee that in real life due to oh-so-many variables. (Just look at the S810.) But it is a reasonable expectation that a 14nm SOC, barring bugs or design deficiency, will be more power efficient than a 28nm SOC.

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Unfortunately it did not help. To be fair what you said is what I thought initially. Or maybe you misread what I said. What I found out is that Geekbench battery test actually lasts exactly as long as the final number says. If Geekbench says 4:30:25, that means the phone was on for 4 hours 30 minutes and 25 seconds while running the test. In other words, the time reported is an actual run time, not some extrapolated estimation. Galaxy S6 actually stays on that much longer (by nearly a factor of x1.7) than S80x. It is not the case where a fast SOC lasts shorter amount of time and getting a higher score because of amount of work done is larger.

Now, the scores it gives are a different story and I do understand that work completed may be entered into. I wish Geekbench explains in details what exactly it measures and how the scores are given.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
"You are wrong or you two are arguing over something different. If 28nm SOC is shrunk to 14nm, maintaining same design ("Copy Exact"), then the 14nm SOC will always be more efficient than 28nm SOC performing the same task. "

i said same if cpu design or pretty much everything is identical 14 nm will definetly use less power. but i was trying to say different cpu/gpu architectures use just different power. a cortex a7 soc will use alot less power than any a57 soc.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I think you misunderstood me. There are two scores in geeekbench test. One is time and one is score. The time tells how much did the phone lasted while the score tells how many calculations it did.

For example, S6 lasts around 7-8 hours and the score is around 4500-5000.

Take a look at this score:

http://browser.primatelabs.com/battery3/35475

Now, this phone(or whatever) lasts almost 17 hours and still the score is not double that of S6. Why? Because S6 does more calculations per-second and hence in the same amount of time, it gathers more score. So Geekbench doesn't punish faster SoCs.
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
Oh I understand that. I thought I indicated that in the post you are replying to. ("extrapolated scores based on work completed..")

My original wonderment was this:

It seemed a bit too good to be true, was what I meant to say, I guess.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Ran another cycle of very heavy use to about 25 percent left. Don't want to run below that for now. Watched YouTube, played some games, took pictures, sent texts and browsed the Internet.

I came from a HTC One M8 and my average SoT was around 4 hours on a custom rom with similar usage.

If I ran this phone down to 1 percent I'm pretty sure I could get over six hours screen on.

I'm very impressed with the battery so far.
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Impressive!
[Galaxy S6 General] tft:
well to me that is disappointing.. my 2 yr old s4 gets 5 hrs screen time with 10% remaining on a debloated rom. honestly, samsung doesn't really seem to give a sh*t on drastically improving battery. they should of tossed in a 3000mAh battery, i would of gladly accepted the 1mm increase in phone thickness...

next year they'll probably use a 2400mAh battery on the S7 and we'll see the same battery life.. :pathetic:
[Galaxy S6 General] elbos2k:
What were your settings? Sync, location, brightness, etc...
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Auto brightness, WiFi off, WiFi calling off. On LTE the entire time. Turned off GPS unless I needed it.

I never owned a s4 or s5. I've been attached to HTC for the last few years and I'm impressed with the battery.

Also I forgot to mention my stand by time is pretty awesome too. I dropped 1 percent after 8 hours. I think most people that are having issues need to turn off the WiFi and WiFi calling until Samsung / T-mobile updates.
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
You are comparing apples to oranges mate..

This is based on default stock firmware, not something de-bloated or specific ROM. Once you de-bloat or apply certain specific tweaks, this also improve. If you want to compare, compare stock S4 to stock S6. That's the

only

method to judge batterylife.

Don't forget, S6 also have much higher pixels, brighter display and much much powerful processor. Considering all these differences, you can't say Samsung isn't interested in batterylife. The improvement in batterylife from S4 to S5 is itself quiet significant, and that's not down to battery capacity increase (actual battery capacity was increased by 8% only).

Battery capacity itself isn't the only factor, just look at M9.
[Galaxy S6 General] Sumit.K:
Could the battery drain be because of this issue of flash diode always on?

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/help/flash-lit-t3069039
[Galaxy S6 General] robertkoa:
I appreciate some actual Battery Stats

versus the vague graphs and descriptions Reviewers are writing.

4 to 5 hours SOT is only decent for a Flagship IMO.

I get the same 4 to 5:15 SOT from my Galaxy Alpha with weak LTE Signal mostly using about 25% brightness.

Would expect more from Flagship- at least 6 Hours SOT at 20 to 25 % reasonable indoor brightness....
[Galaxy S6 General] KarlDag:
Agreed. 5 SOT sounds ok to me, but I need that ON TOP of some standby time.... I'll see how things go, but I might get a mophie type case in few weeks/months, as long as it doesn't make the phone too long/large... Wouldn't mind a thicker phone if it means freedom.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
If you are getting 5 hour sot on alpha you can probably get 8-9 hours on s6...
[Galaxy S6 General] elbos2k:
Cool. Well I preordered the S6 on ATT. I'm also coming from the HTC One M7.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
Coming from iPhone 6

I have preordered galaxy s6 and i am coming from iPhone 6. I am expecting slightly better battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
I would kill for 5 hours of SOT. I'm on Verizon (CDMA), so battery life is always worse than GSM carriers. My S4 will go for 3 hours on mobile network, max before the battery is running on hopes and dreams. I can easily get 3 when I'm on wifi, but that's it. Last time I got 5 hours of SOT was back when I had my Galaxy Nexus (Verizon), and I had the ZeroLemon 5750 mAh battery. I hit a max of 6 hours, took screenshots, and then the battery died.
[Galaxy S6 General] Sumit.K:
Could someone check this out and confirm if this can be an issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] jayr04:
I did a hard rest and now I'm at nearly 2 hours SOT with about 65% battery left. Before the hard reset I was getting 2 hours SOT with about 45% battery left.
[Galaxy S6 General] KarlDag:
Is it possible to just wipe cache instead? I hate to lose all my in-app data (those without cloud backup) when I reset...
[Galaxy S6 General] jayr04:
I doubt it.

I believe there are apps to back app data
[Galaxy S6 General] KarlDag:
I know, not planning to root though , so I can enjoy Samsung pay
[Galaxy S6 General] mattman83:
Brilliant! Coming from an m8 myself and battery has been the main concern. Glad to hear another m8 user is happy. Hoping to have my s6 early next week (silly local carriers actually obeying launch date... Sigh)

M.
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
I second this. It is the next best thing aside from physically measuring the power draws using multimeter.
[Galaxy S6 General] Code124Y:
easy... wait some custom ROM, etc- temasek ROM? (hope he will get 1 S6 XD!)

and wait for Boeffla to work over kernel staff..

Valla! you have 12Hours SOT..

side info:

(my currect S3 on Temasek CM11 ROM having 6Hours SOT/24hours discharge without Gaming; 3Hours SOT if play game 50% on castle clash...)

im not showing off... all those fantastic SOT wont happen if we dont have those GREAT Devs... even the devices dose not appear on earth... so...

come on... why comparing those screen on over custom ROM ;)

make a root, wait for good Custom ROM and Kernel... (anyways i dont thinks its good idea to go on for exynos SoC, im still having a lot bad time with my S3, i lost my HDR)
[Galaxy S6 General] NJGSII:
Ask and you shall receive. This was after a few minutes of letting it run with screen manually set at roughly 50% brightness.
[Galaxy S6 General] NJGSII:
Another one this time on auto brightness in a room that's not too light not too dark. Waited once again till the cpu in the background reached an idling point.
[Galaxy S6 General] torr310:
2600 mAh is just a meh.

Someone said 200 differenCE isn't much, then why not make it to 3200 mAh? I really want to see the DIFFERENCE! Wish it lasts 1.5 times longer than my S5.
[Galaxy S6 General] NJGSII:
I hear ya but so far in about 25% of battery usage I got over 1.5 hr screen on time with a fair bit music playing and even some streaming music. Bigger battery definetely would had been nice, but it seems pretty damn good despite the size.

Just wait till the community starts to work on this phone.

Edit: Added screen shot. Beats my One M8.
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
Not bad
[Galaxy S6 General] anewday:
Very impressive, what brightness was it on?
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
auto
[Galaxy S6 General] rjayflo:
Mine after 1st full charge. WiFi on, 50% auto brightness, location off, and both WiFi calling and VOLTE off
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Can we just quiet crying about freaggin' numbers? We all know what it is, there is no point discussing "what if it was 3200". It's not 3200, and let's get along now and check what we can achieve with this 2550 mAh capacity.

Thinness is a new marketing mantra, and as long as this remains, battery capacity won't increase much.

BTW, M9 increased battery capacity but decreased batterylife, go figure..

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Impressive!!

S6 or S6E?
[Galaxy S6 General] Droid_Evo_8:
I just lol'ed on people crying about battery life. Just go buy a damn Note 4 if you want a bigger and removable battery. SMH
[Galaxy S6 General] perikach:
My battery for today. For my standards and use, this is good battery life from a 5 inch smartphone.

-brightness set to auto

-over an hour of calls

-30mins whatsapp calling

-tonz of texting on whatsapp

-tonz of instagram checking

-little browsing

-night standby (7 hours of sleep) 2% lost

-mixed 4g and WiFi usage

Cheers.

-
[Galaxy S6 General] wund3rground:
Not gonna bother posting up screen shots as different people's use varies, but I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the battery life so far. Granted, I came from a Nexus 5, but even the battery life on it didn't bother me. I couldn't care less about getting 6 hours of screen time because I'm usually around a charger, and who really has that much time to be buried in their phone. There's a whole wide world out there.
[Galaxy S6 General] testinguser:
Those idle charge draws are half of my N5, though the max current draw is several times higher. I suspect this has to do with the big and little arch of v8 arm. So the key would be to find apps which cause such a large current draw, those are the ones that need to be disabled (if possible). Clearly known apps that tax the cpu such as benchmarking and some gaming would do it, but it would be more interesting to find out which stock apps or added bloat ware is causing the high current draw.
[Galaxy S6 General] erapmicks:
Screenies or gtfo
[Galaxy S6 General] robertkoa:
OK NOW we are getting there- this means you are at about 6 hours SOT which is respectable for a Flagship IMO.

Wonder if at lower brightness indoors this can go to 7 hours at 20% brightness.

On my Alpha 20%to 25 % is very readable etc indoors I turn up for a Movie or Cool Video but on a long day away from Charger - wondering how far I can stretch the S6 IF I get one.

Mostly for that Camera- my pictures will be clear even on a 17" Monitor - right ?
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
6 hours SOT? I've owned every major flagship from every major OEM over the past few years and rarely have I had a device get 6 hours SOT. The only ones that have come close are the ones that should have - Razr/Droid Maxx/Turbo lineup, Note lineup, etc. If you're getting 6 hours SOT with the S6, you're not doing anything with the phone. No software optimizations can make up that much battery life with that screen resolution.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
Savage
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
The S5 consistently gets 6 hours of screen on time on WiFi and 5 on LTE. The One Plus One also gets 6+ hours of screen on time. The Xperia Z3 and Z3C also get over 6 hours of screen on time.

So, no you don't need to own a Note or Droid Turbo to achieve that kind of battery life, there are plenty of devices on the market which can achieve that kind of battery life with mixed use.

The only way you wouldn't get that kind of battery life is you if had a million wake locks or you spent the whole day gaming/ recording 4k video.
[Galaxy S6 General] jntdroid:
I've had a couple of S5's, on Verizon and on T-Mobile, and an S5 Active on AT&T. Never came close to 6... maybe 4 on a good day. And Xperia Z3 compact was one that I should've lumped in with the Note/Turbo. It's pretty incredible.

Trust me it isn't gaming or 4k video. Maybe it's wakelocks, but I've owned a lot of different devices and keep them pretty clean from wakelock culprits - most of the time anyway. Who knows...

Maybe total time used should be a factor that I'm not thinking about. For example - for me personally, I take my phone off around 6 am and don't like to *have* to plug it in again until I hit the sack, which varies, but is around midnight. Well if I'm trying to get 6 hours SOT over an 18 hour period... then my statement holds true as not many devices will do that. But if we're talking 6 am to 6 pm, that's a lot more feasible for that kind of screen on time.

Does that make sense, or am I off in my thinking...
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
That is an unbelievably low number for a 5.1" 2560x1440 screen. My Nexus 4 would idle at ~200mA/4.25V and Xperia Z Ultra idles at ~320mA/4.1V.

Can you do it under airplane mode and see if it gets even better? And using multi-window, you should be able to read the power usage while running SunSpider, for example.

Thank you for the replies. Much appreciated.
[Galaxy S6 General] wund3rground:
Totally. He's obviously an alum of the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good...
[Galaxy S6 General] NJGSII:
I beg to differ. Look at the attachment for my post here.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59946861&postcount=533

That's was with listening to music and even Spotify along with pretty decent usage

Was on track for well over 6+SOT at that point. The screen on this phone used very little power with the screen on and CPU idling. It at times was using about half the power my Nexus 5 was under the same conditions.