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[Galaxy S6 General] solidmac:
GSM is 3g aka hspa aka 4g(not 4GLTE) on the status bar for a T-Mobile phone. Wcdma is 2G aka EDGE
[Galaxy S6 General] speedweed:
Thank you for replying Faspaiso.

I actually started to notice the drain after i started using my S-View cover.

I can find Smart Lock on my phone, i tried using your guide but it didnt show up:

Also, 7% drain from 3 hours in flight mode is pretty bad :/

Most used by Android system:
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Someone mentioned on here that samsung lock only shows up if u have a lock screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Battery is getting better and better for me after a week's use. I am very satisfied with my stats. I have been impressed from the very beginning but so far much happier with what I am getting. Almost 6hrs SOT from my last charge yesterday :)
[Galaxy S6 General] speedweed:
Thank you, i was able to disable it now after using pin code :)
[Galaxy S6 General] zaydaboss:
This is the most I can get our the battery. It's very inconsistent though. I usually average 8-10 hours with 3 hours SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
How long have you got your galaxy s6?
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
From 4/16.
[Galaxy S6 General] JLishere:
If I set "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to Never, do apps continue to sync/notify using mobile data, or is the device completely offline until I switch the screen on?

If some apps switch to mobile data, wouldn't it use more battery than on Wi-Fi?

On the other hand, if Wi-Fi is off during sleep, does it mean I stop getting notifications for emails / apps until I turn the screen on?

Is there a way to compromise between the two?
[Galaxy S6 General] tiagovale2:
I keep getting near 2h of SoT with ~20h stand-by time.

Adaptive brightness, wi-fi/4G always on, GPS, fingerprint unlock, etc. Everything on, basically. Do you guys think this is normal or should I do something?
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
And what about your settings?
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=60365010

^^^ pretty much all of these settings, except I have location on all the time (wifi and cell), always have sync on, have google location history on and use a white background. I also do not use the grayscale option as I want to really appreciate the amoled screen. I have my screen on adaptive display at all times. I use clean master and greenify to boost phone's performance and put it on power saving mode at night when i go to bed. Hope that helps!
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Wanted to test out my new gold edge and see where I could get and I'm very impressed. I used the phone for two hours then wanted to see how the power saver functioned worked and if it would bother me or lag. Surprisingly it didn't bother me and was quite snappy. I did adjust the screen brightness as auto on that mode was too dim for me.

I used the phone for Web browsing, Facebook, phone calls, few games and tapatalk.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
Impossible. 9 hrs of SOT on a black screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Yup, 9 hours of looking at a black screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
I didn't say you were looking at the black screen the whole time,. but thanks for confirming!
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Could care less what you believe. Was not a black screen and was used for what I said.
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
I think my battery is a bit better now or I'm wrong? I mean deep sleep is ok, But still massive facebook and Google services battery drain. I've done everything and no luck... is there some option to check how good is battery?

Remeber facebook was opened only once when I had 100% of battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] bkeaver:
Mine is doing great now... keeps getting better and better :)
[Galaxy S6 General] JmChile:
Fantastic day.

almost 6 hours of SoT

Lots of whatsapp, twitter, Facebook, reddit, Snapchat etc

all day using WiFi
[Galaxy S6 General] waoasis:
Did u turn anything off? Is your batter getting better just after more cycles?
[Galaxy S6 General] bkeaver:
For me I have GPS on high accuracy all the time as well as wifi, volte, Bluetooth on all the time as well.

Yes after several cycles my battery is good. If I don't put it on the charger soon I will end up with 5.5 to 6 hours of sot easy.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
How does syncing account in the gmail app work? I have 3 email accounts on gmail app and none of them are set to sync in accounts yet I get emails still.
[Galaxy S6 General] gigoypotpot:
Check facebook under accts. It must be syncing to be sucking up that much.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Finally after rooting and installing Custom Chinese rom. Below stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] speedweed:
Okay, seems i have fixed the issue. Smart lock might have helped some what, but i still got the drain after disabling it. I did 2 things that did help, i rebooted my phone and installed Battery Doctor. (Not sure which of these did the trick) When i went to bed last night i had 55%, and when i woke up this morning i had 55%. I even turned the screen on a few times during the night to check what time it was.

So either the reboot or Battery Doctor fixed it for me :)
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Do any of you who are getting excellent battery life use Google Now? The only thing draining my battery is Google services and the Google app.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
I don't use it myself and get over 7 hours sot.
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
Here is mine. wifi and data changing (on and off), location off. During the night: lost 1% :)
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Yeah see that's the thing... this phone does get very good battery life without a lot of Google services running. However, I'm at the point where Google Now is way too important to turn off. Anyone else?
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
No, sync was off as it is off all the time. Still same cycle in 10 hours of standby while I was sleeping.
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
On Wifi, this thing is a beast. Currently at 44% with 3h 18minutes SoT, and 1d 36m off charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] KingFaisal:
You must have good signal strength. In my dorm I cannot adjust where the router is, so I'm forced to use 4g.

I'm assuming the ultimate way to save battery is to run it on HSPA+, but that's so slow after using LTE so much.
[Galaxy S6 General] ashirokung:
Trick : Disable Google location history and "OK GoGoole detection save your battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Juzh:
My results after 1 week. Got most stuff disabled. Everything google related, locations, G now, g fit, cards etc.. background data and such. I managed to get google servies drainage under control, but now there's another problem, which is Android OS. I tried wipping cached data, but no difference. CPU spy tells me my phone sleeps just fine.
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
Disable Google location you mean this:

Settings>accounts>google>location settings?

Where to disable "ok google"?

What I noticed now, by cpu spy my phone goes in deep sleep well, but still huge drain on 4g. Others with same mobile provider doesnt have these problems, so its not provider related...
[Galaxy S6 General] pEksi91:
Google-settings -> Search & Now -> Voice -> "Ok Google" detection
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
Ive done that now too. Lets see if battery Will be better now. Today in 2 hours and 36 minutes I am on 83%, but only 37min of sot. Still facebook and others are before screen in usage...
[Galaxy S6 General] ashirokung:
1. Setting->Accounts->Google->Location settings->Google Location history

2. Setting->Accounts->Google->Search->Voice->"OK Google" Detection
[Galaxy S6 General] FlowingAway:
I'm not sure what changed over the weekend but my battery life made a turn for the much better. Off charger for 13 hours and had 75% battery left, that included almost 2 hours of streaming with Spotify. I was on pace for 5-6 hrs of SoT when I went to bed and put it on its charging pad.
[Galaxy S6 General] eyekyu:
Battery life game tight... except for cell standby. Deep sleep game super strong only went down 2%

s6 made me do it
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
In the end at 6% made it with 5 hours SoT and 1d 9hours off charge, very happy.
[Galaxy S6 General] Alpione:
Probably normal. If you basically turn everything off, the remaining services will look like they take a ton of power on a percentage basis just because they have nothing to compete with.

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[Galaxy S6 General] yvibes:
Here's my stats for today. Only had the phone for 3 days and this is my second full charge.

(S6 edge)
[Galaxy S6 General] kevingary0611:
I'm quite satisfied with battery life on my S6. Enough for a whole day use. No drain in deep sleep, overnight with no percent dropped. Awesome !!
[Galaxy S6 General] PunishedSnake:
Completely stock volte and WiFi calling off

Auto brightness
[Galaxy S6 General] Bass-15:
Awesome! what are your settings?
[Galaxy S6 General] Juzh:
I get the reasoning, but 69% drain on androis OS alone seems overly excessive imo. Probably gonna have to do a factory reset and go from there one more time.
[Galaxy S6 General] cc999:
LOL

Not for nothing but seems by the graph your phone was idle for

12 hours (straight line). Anyone can get great battery life if you just let the phone

sit and do nothing.

CC
[Galaxy S6 General] bkeaver:
Great battery life isn't gauged on standby did you see his SOT? That isn't because he never picked the phone up.

Besides there are plentry of people reporting drain without touching it.
[Galaxy S6 General] jfim88:
What effects will produce disabling Google location history?
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Wanted to see what my new s6 could do versus my old s6. With similar usage my best before was 7hours 20minutes. Here is what I got on my new phone. WiFi off, WiFi calling off, data collection stuff for Google/samsung off, Web browsing, YouTube, reddit, texting, phone calls and some music got me this.

I'm ready for a custom rom and kernel. Still need to decide if I want to root my phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I'm baffled how you're able to achieve this SoT.
[Galaxy S6 General] robertkoa:
Excellent - that's more like I would expect/want with brightness at 25% or so.

Once I know this is common/possible

I will feel comfortable upgrading.

The 577 ppi Eagle Retina screen and Octa Core Muscle may be a bit more than needed for day to day browsing and Calling.

Future Phones may need a 1080p 2k switch for screen ppi...

Question- has anyone tried Developer Options }Limit Backgound Processes} 4 background processes

.?

I wonder if - this for Browsing and Calling does not slow down the phone ( guess- probably not).

AND does this increase SOT time by

10% to 20% or more for most people ?

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 05:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:40 PM ----------

Try to limit background processes to DeveloperOptions} limit background processes} 4

Wondering if this improves Battery SOT ?
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
It's not possible. I have the S6 and only get 4 SOT with everything turned off. Here is either leaving the phone on with a black screen or he is messing with the phone screenshots in PS or something. Again it is not possible. iPhone 6 plus has a hard time getting that SOT and that thing is a beast when it comes to battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jrad3412:
I've obtained 7 hours SOT with over 30+ hours off the charger (See screenshots). Everyone will have different results. There's too many factors to take into consideration. Now, unfortunately I haven't achieved this every cycle. This was my 2nd to last cycle. I just received over 5.5 SOT this past cycle. My results vary depending on the day. Typically, I browse the web throughout the day, use the Kindle app, and Flipboard. Don't play any games. Stream Spotify over bluetooth in the car. If I ever leave my phone over night it drains 0-2% over about 8 hours.

My settings:

VoLTE on

wifi calling off

wifi on

bluetooth on

screen brightness manual (changes frequently)

disabled apps: amazon, fb, galaxy app widget, google play books, games, movies/tv, music, newstand, google+, hancom office 2014, hangouts, lookout, messenger, milk, milk video, onedrive, onenote, s beam, s health, samsung printer service, samsung push service, tmobile account, name id, tv and whatsapp.

I use leandroid to turn off bt and wifi when screens off and greenify a few apps (nonroot).
[Galaxy S6 General] yvibes:
It is possible. I've achieved 7 hours screen on time two days in a row now. As stated above there are various different factors to consider. No ones usage is the same so you can never really compare your battery with anyone else's. My usage with this phone has been pretty much identical to when I was using my HTC One M8. However, I am getting much better battery life on the s6 edge even though my phones cellular signal is considerably weaker which I would've thought would drain the battery. Also...the phone only lost 1% of battery after being idle for 9hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
i understand that there are different factors, but a 3hrs difference SOT is a huge deviation from the mean,
[Galaxy S6 General] derWolf_:
Of course it is possible achieving about 8 hours of SoT. You just have to use your S6 as a dummy phone (very low brightness, no syns, very limited use of wifi and 3G... you get the idea), which doesn't make much sense to me since you gave a hat full of money for the device. If you want a never ending battery get an old Nokia or something....
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
I was off today and i used my phone heavyly since 6am. Almost non stop. Very happy. Rooted with Xstestrolite rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
My phone is on auto brightness. I'm over arguing with people who make assumptions. Josh let's see some of your screen times and usage stats. Show me your four hours screen time let's see why you get only 4 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
Go back a few posts/pages and you can see my times. Oh yes, and I don't put my phone in airplane mode to fabricate SOT like some people here are doing.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
I used my HTC m8 exactly how I use my s6. My s6 trumps the m8 in battery life which is all I wanted. My phone is not a dummy phone. I used it for streaming music, making phone calls, watching videos, using the Internet, navigation (small amount) , Facebook (web), checking email, texting and browsing reddit . I rarely play games on either my m8 or s6 so if that makes my phone dumb in your eyes so be it.

People geting 4 hours screen time are probably on full brightness, outside playing games for their entire screen time, syncing 50 spam email accounts, using the Facebook app and using GPS in the back ground. Sounds about right to me.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
.

I get 4 sot and have my brightness set below half. I don't play any games. No email syncing. No location services. Hardly use Facebook.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Woke up at 8:45 this morning, went to sleep at 1 am at 90%. Woke up at 89% and went to class. Used tinder (with gps location), wifi at school, lte off wifi. Tinder destroys battery big time. But home at 4pm and at 25% left and 3 hrs 45 mins sot. Must have gotten a good battery in my phone. Starting to feel less regret about not exchanging it for a gold s6 since who knows if the battery would be.

With no tinder, location off, wifi off, 3g only, I get over 7 hours sot. I typically do this at home, considering I have a tablet for anything I want to do that might kill battery fast.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
Then trade your phone in for a new one because something is wrong. Also what is your signal strength? Have you tried using lte only and not using WiFi at all?

So your phone is set like this?

How do you want me to use the phone today after a full charge? I will attempt to mimic your user patterns and see what I get.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
Reading through the last couple of pages, 7 hours sot is very possible without "dumbing" your phone. I do it all the time. Voice commands are totally unnecessary for me as is staring at a super bright screen all day.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
Signal strength doesn't seem to matter. WiFi and LTE both drain equally as much. If I put it in airplane mode then it will probably last 6hrs.

No brightness is even lower than that. My battery is fine. Standby time is great. Only drains like 3-5 % at night.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
How do you want me to use my phone. I'll see if I can get the 4 hours screen time you are seeing.
[Galaxy S6 General] shockandawe:
The battery gets better everyday. The phone did what I asked it to do, not trying to push it for SOT, but just everyday use. The iHeart was from couple hours earlier.
[Galaxy S6 General] Josh LaCelle:
I'm not sure how to answer this. I dont use it heavily when I uae it. When I use the phone I am mainly using Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram. Bluetooth on sometimes.
[Galaxy S6 General] cc999:
Advice please

I had the ATT 128 gb Edge version for a week and returned due to battery life.

I tried everything, disabled all Bloat, factory reset etc.... All the suggestions from XDA.

Here is my question, If I purchase the International Version:

Samsung Galaxy S6 128GB - Black Sapphire	(SM-G920F, SIM Free/Unlocked)

Will the battery life be any better because all the ATT Bloatware is Not

on the phone?

Please give me your thoughts....

CC
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
My sprint 32 gb regular s6 gets awesome battery life. What else did you disable? Location history? Did you use voice commands? How many accounts were you syncing? If you had third party apps something could have been killing your battery. Get gsam on your next s6 to see what apps are draining.
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Turning off Google Now (including location history, smart lock, ect) was the biggest difference for me. With all the Google crapware off my phone idled just fine and SOT was decent as well. As soon as I turned that stuff back on, Google services and Google app, became the two biggest battery drainers for me. I posted some screenies several pages back.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
I noticed tonight that if I only keep my screen on very briefly like 1 or 2 minutes at a time to look at a quick text my battery drops quicker than content usage. I tend to normally browse for longer periods of time maybe this explains why some people have a lot worse screen time.
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
From 0:00 - 9:33 (sleep time + 22 min SOT, before sleep and after I woke up at all), nfc,lte,BT,locations - all on, battery drain for 32% (I am at 68% now). How bad it is? Is it still bad as I report before or it is better?

Report is from Gsam, since in settings>battery I dont see SOT yet (G Services, facebook, messenger,... only even if I didn't opened them yet since last full charge).
[Galaxy S6 General] Karly Johnston:
So i've had the 4GB for a week now, my brother has the GS6 and they have virtually identical battery life. the camera is like no comparison, GS6 crushes it but the still photos are not far behind. as for speed, no lag on either device. Zen2 feels like a flagship that can keep pace with at least any 805, both crush the overheating 810. at first i was concerned about no backlight on the capacitive buttons, but after playing with a GS6 and the constant flashing that can't be turned off... Im GLAD i don't have it! using that phone in the dark is driving him crazy. i got the flip cover but it creaks in the back so i took it off. the screen is kinda dim outdoors while the GS6 is easy to see. speaker is loud enough inside but GS6 is a bit louder so better for music in the next room. playing games in landscape is actually nicer with the bottom lip as playing on the GS6 i acccidently press a capacitive button. the curved back is nicer to hold than the flat back of the GS6. just like holding an M8. i got the faux brushed aluminum back on it and it fools alot of people. but obviously it feels like plastic, rather thin plastic. i like to watch videos proping it at my desk, but adjusting volume with the rockers on the back is like... stupid. it only makes sense if it is always in your hand. i got it in Tmob LTE, works great. i get more bars than i did on my Ascend Mate 2. i have gotten like 5 updates, one of them improved battery life and then another dropped it back to the original. it is really nice to know Asus is supporting this phone with everything they've got.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
My 3rd replacement S6 (due to screen un-uniformity) and did a battery test yesterday.

Continuous usage for over 5 hours with wifi on, sync on, gps off, bluetooth off.

Manual brightness on high (approx 80%).

From 100% to 15% with just over 5 hours SoT. So pretty good I think.

Btw standby drain is very low as well...just 1% per 2 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] KingFaisal:
Spotify absolutely destroys the battery. I feel I get decent battery life after applying a lot of the recommended settings.

My sole complaint at the moment is the inability to use spotify without be plugged in.
[Galaxy S6 General] Fille84:
Spotify doesn't drain battery for me at all... Its actually the other way around, the battery won't tick down when im listening to spotify ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] jjmorgan79:
Ive found a workaround for battery drain

Hi

I had tried all the suggestions with settings, updating or disabling Samsung Push notifications etc, with no real improvement.

Im a low to moderate user and was finding my battery emptying at a rate of 10% per hour, even with fairly aggressive power saving settings, location off etc. This was rubbish as many of the things I love about Android (eg Google now) and the S6 in particular (eg awesome screen) were compromised in an attempt to get half decent battery life.

Previous to this Id had a Moto G, HTC One M7, SGS 3, SGS 2 - and Ive never had any issue getting through a day without topping up. The S6 was limping to 5pm with many of the functions I enjoy switched off or reduced.

Having tried everything on this and other forums, I noticed someone (perhaps in this thread?) had mentioned that switching off wifi helped reduce their cell standby drain. Although this wasnt a big drain according to my usage stats I tried switching wifi off, only switching it on when I needed it. I did this halfway through the day yesterday and when I plugged it in last night to recharge after 17hrs there was still 15% left.

This morning my phones been on for 4 hrs and its at 92%. Also, I dont think major drain occurs when I have wifi switched on, only when I have wifi on BUT Im not connected to a network. If I turn wifi on at the office and at home only it doesnt seem to drain the battery excessively.

Im now going to turn my screen to reasonable brightness and switch on location etc.

Dont get me wrong, this is not acceptable, but hopefully will be resolved by an update. This is a small compromise for me though and a million times better than having to compromise functionality and top up throughout the day.

Hope this helps someone.
[Galaxy S6 General] KingFaisal:
Wi-fi or 4g?

I don't cache music either.
[Galaxy S6 General] Fille84:
mostly wifi
[Galaxy S6 General] KingFaisal:
Yeah, can't use wi-fi in the car.
[Galaxy S6 General] jemeljsh:
Coming from Z3 (D6603) which by avg. was having 5h SOT with heavy usage I am quite satisfied with S6 (G920F). 4G on the whole time with sync and location turned off Better grip, less weight and noticeably faster even though side by side comparison (before I sold my Z3) showed that Z3 was no slouch and even faster on some website load,but still in over use S6 feels faster when summarizing the performance. What's more important for me is how much better samsungs 5.0.2 lollipop is in comparison to the one currently offered by sony on z3/z3c. Samsungs lollipop is a finished product whereas sony's one is like a half baked cake. Love the fact that quick reply for SMS when screen is alike in IOS where the bubble opens up as a small space where to enter your reply instead of big pop up.
[Galaxy S6 General] Roobwz:
You can download an app from the playstore that disables the back light. I dont know exactly what the app is called, but i know that there is one.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
It's called Galaxy buttons

Sent from my SM-G925F