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[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
Took it to the Samsung service centre today, phone has been repaired and will pick up tomorrow. Will let you know how I get on with it
[Galaxy S6 General] kendall1004:
Battery performance with debloated ROM and optimized kernel:

screenshot

That's about two and a half days of (for me) normal usage, compared to ~ 25hrs before with the OEM software.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
If you are using stock ROM and kernel and without any power saving option being enabled, Yes: i'm calling you a BIG LIAR. I guess your phone came out from the same assembly line as mine with the same battery right? I keep mine debloated and fully optimized and see attached the best i get, LIAR :)

Edited: forget to mention Root and other android magic tricks.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
This is true my friend ,

I went last Saturday leave my note4 and get the s6.

I remove from box update to 5.1.1 hard reset after and put everything like i had my previous Samsung.

But you make 5.3h its much better thsn mine.

But today im with 4g i will not make 5h.

But i will put screenshot what the apps i have.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
This is now .

MaybeI will get 5h :D

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
And the truth will set you free :)

You will get the same results for sure. :) This is good battery life, specially for mine which is used mostly for business with almost everything on + 3 mail accounts constantly syncing.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Which kernel do you use and which Rom? Maybe also Greenify or anything else?

Welchen Kernel und welche Rom nutzt du? :P Vielleicht sogar Greenify oder irgendwas anderes?
[Galaxy S6 General] kendall1004:
Really, there's germans in London (except from Henning Wehn)...? grins

Like stated in my signature (hüstel), i went with the deodexed Mod version of XtreStoLite v2.2 and the Vindicator kernel R4.

No regrets so far :highfive:

No need here for apps like Greenify, ~1.5GB (!) of crap were removed in my ROM compared to stock ROM, that's what constantly lurking in RAM causing issues.

But: i am not a "power user", i usually keep my phone offline & just enable it when i read mails/browse, which i certainly do a lot less than the average Joe, to be fair.

People complaining about battery life don't seem to realize almost everything they do requires a network connection and causes traffic all the time, that's what drains your battery folks.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here are the apps i have.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
And this what i disabled.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Good, but there's a lot more in there you don't use. Like the flashlight app for example. Check your toggles, there's one in there already built in stock ROM
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I know, but i dont use that.

I like more fast to use.

Can i disable more apps?

Do you can tell me more i can disable without starting to get errors. ?

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Here it is the end.

:thumbup:

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
Going to factory reset and install new XtreStoLite clean! Battery life should hopefully improve
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
New update play services. ?

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-8-1-04-2215451-248-android-apk-download/
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
You can drag the notification bar from the lock screen as well, so this is fast don't you think?
[Galaxy S6 General] whatnow275:
Compatible with our phones? Any battery improvements...oh wait who am I kidding ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] chrcol:
haahaha first time I seen this ad.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
That was before the launch, all those crazy rumors lol.

Didn't sammobile say it's on par with the GS5? So it's good enough, not like Xperia awesome but still great.

Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S6 General] Lodix:
Battery tests have proved that it is lower than the S5.
[Galaxy S6 General] matheus_sc:
I think is similar to s4
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
Any test on pre-release software means absolutely nothing.

Enviado do meu Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
Proved? Not the word I'd use for something that could change.

Looks to be Slightly less. So far.

It will not be the same as the S4.

Has to be at least a little better than that.
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
Set the edge at 50% brightness, next to the S5 at the same level, I measured 9% drop on both devives after an hour of WiFi browsing, so it seems the edge is able to very tightly match although not surpass the S5. This on my 5th cycle. The S6 seem to do a little worse based on a conversation I had, but I have no such measurement at hand.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lodix:
There can be some changes in battery life due to a software update before release, but it will not make the battery last 2 more hours playing a video for example ( the different between S5 and S6 ).

Time has proved that the battery doesn't change that much before released, indeed the "in last moment" update of the HTC M9 didn't bring any improvement in battery at all.
[Galaxy S6 General] D15:
In one of the reviews (the 40 minute review) the reviewer mentioned that he got a different battery performance from another prototype (a difference of more than one hour between the S6 and the S6 edge prototypes he tested). So let's wait for the final reviews when the final software is out.

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That's strange (because in the review I mentioned above he mentioned the exact same thing). Is it possible that the S6 Edge indeed has a better battery life? Or could it (most likely?) be that the S6 Edge prototypes are better optimized than the S6 ones at this point?

Worth mentioning here the S6 prototype he tested in the above review also took considerably worse pictures than the other prototypes.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lodix:
Prototypes ???
[Galaxy S6 General] D15:
Yeah. He meant demo units with non-final software.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
lol that is so not true the 5.1 update on the nexus 6 brought significant upgrade to battery 2 hrs or so.
[Galaxy S6 General] D15:
I think it depends where you battery goes. If your display consumes more than 50% of the battery life you shouldn't expect a huge improvement after the updates, but if the system is consuming more than 50% then there is a good chance an update will make a big difference.

Also system updates usually improve stand-by time more than anything else (which does make a big difference in real daily use make no mistake). But it doesn't usually have a huge impact on video playback after the final software has already been released (unless there is a serious problem with the software).
[Galaxy S6 General] Lodix:
Then the difference is in the hardware and not in the software.

Ok, 2h of general usage or SOT ??

And it is not the same, that is a SO update not a software updated in the same SO.

The S5 will get the 5.1 too, so ??
[Galaxy S6 General] chrcol:
there is a 40min review on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWoxVBcLNU he said battery is 2600mah

interestingly samsung have added themes support to the rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] le_lutin:
That's the S6 Edge.
[Galaxy S6 General] omersak:
Excellent new GS6 review with battery measurements. What I like about these tests is that they set the the brightness of all the devices to one pre-determined value to even out the playing field, instead of the arbitrary 'brightness was set to half-way':

http://laptopmedia.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s6-review-a-bunch-of-innovations-in-a-beautiful-body/
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
The phone definitely appears to be optimized for gaming and web surfing, which is more important, anyway.
[Galaxy S6 General] se1000:
Wow, I'm actually pretty impressed with this site's review
[Galaxy S6 General] D15:
Great review and great results. Thanks for sharing.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Yes its fast too, but all the stock flashlights give half the light that a app i install it.

You try it.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Doesnt seem to be for our models 440?
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Yes is for alls s6 .

Test and stable and battery is very good

2% drine in the night 10 hours in sleep
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
good

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[Galaxy S6 General] oOSturmiOo:
No update available for me. Still on 7.8.99 :(
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ices-8-1-05-2218116-248-android-apk-download/

Yes friend

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[Galaxy S6 General] oOSturmiOo:
I can upgrade system APKs without root? Thought that that might not work. Ok, now im on 8.1 too. Thanks :D
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
This google play services 8.x is awesome. Today I stayed on WiFi all day(even if there was no router sometimes so phone searched for one constantly). FB and messenger in background on all day sucking battery as usual and played some battery hungry games. Still 5 hours SoT. With normal usage like using whatsapp, hangouts, twwitter and browsing web, it can go upto 7 hours SoT easily.

Can't expect much more:laugh:
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I don't disagree with the fact that people is complaining way to much. They use full brightness, every battery hungry app on the play store is downloaded and running and with GPS, location history and so on, on all the time.

But the fact still is that there are older phones out there getting way better battery life than this phone. WITHOUT doing anything the Xperia Z3 was seeing 5+ hours SOT with apps like Messenger, Facebook and Spotify and with Amplify, Greenify, Disable Services and AppOps you could as well just throw your charger in the trashcan (joke btw).

If you do all this on the phone you get just through the day on heavy usage. Also the thing (at least for my phone) is that the battery is not the same every day, even with same usage pattern. Sometimes after a school day i'm at 50% with 1 hours SOT other school days i'm at 80% with 1 hour and 30 min SOT if not more and I really don't do anything else than listening to music in the bus, checking my scheme and browse. Always same pattern.
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
Bingo someone talking sense. I use my phone vertically the same everyday xda app twitter YouTube and browser and sometimes I get 6hrs other days only 3-4 hrs don't know why but I'm happy. As long as it lasts me until I get home I don't really care if it's 3 hrs or 6 hrs SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Is there any way to update via Play Store?
[Galaxy S6 General] Krokogator:
Worth to mention that s6 on auto brightness under direct sunlight can be around 60-80 % brighter than on max manual.

https://youtu.be/0fUKa2NCxeA

Wysłane z mojego D6603 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Doesn't matter if on auto or not. Try it yourself. Go out in direct sunlight and stay with the light sensor so the sun light hit it. Turn brightness to full and put a hand over a few seconds and it gets a bit darker. Then remove the hand and it light up by 200 nits extra. No way to enable this function without being in direct strong light conditions and it doesn't matter if you're on auto brightness or not.
[Galaxy S6 General] twisted_mind:
Installed Unikernel V8 002 (stock mode) and also updated Google play services to 8.x (latest one) manually. Google Play Services is absolutely gone from the battery usage stats now. Deep sleep is hitting over 90% So far more than impressed.

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Installed Unikernel V8 002 (stock mode) and also updated Google play services to 8.x (latest one) manually. Google Play Services is absolutely gone from the battery usage stats now. Deep sleep is hitting over 90% So far more than impressed.
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
My battery big better desabilte this option ando samsung sleep 1% for 9 hours .

And battery is good ..test

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[Galaxy S6 General] HYKwan:
my fingerprint sensor doesn't work after updating google play services...can anyone help?
[Galaxy S6 General] imkr1:
1st cycle of charge.. Can I expec better results after next couple of charge cycles?
[Galaxy S6 General] mrm_mrm:
What makes this apk?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Check now when awake up and see battery the same very good in standby 1% 4h.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
It seems like your stand by line from the first picture is going up a little :)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Hello all. I posted something similar in the g4 thread. Every battery life thread on every forum is a mess after lollipop. I really want to get rid of my ****ty moto x 2014 with its 14hr battery (3.5 hr sot).

Is the Verizon S6 good or bad with battery. Can someone give me some straight answers here? Anyone come to s6 after owning a moto x 2014?

Can 18hrs battery with 4.5hr SOT be achieved with the Verizon S6 (stock unrooted, no battery saving apps, etc.), with brightness at 35%, Bluetooth off, location off, and all the junk disabled. If it can't what phone can, g4, turbo, or n6?
[Galaxy S6 General] c_brown93:
I am using the AT&T S6. Unrooted on the lastest update and I have achieved 24hrs (with 5hrs screen) multiple times. And on a normal day I get about 14-16 hrs with about 4.5hrs screen on time. I am very satisfied with battery. The Exyonos processor handles power very well. ?
[Galaxy S6 General] imkr1:
please show your screenshot...

I'm nearly manage just over 3hrs of SOT. With 10hrs standby time... already on custom rom..
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Thanks for the info. What's your screen brightness set at, do you have certain things turned off? I think I would need 16-17hrs minimum in my next device.
[Galaxy S6 General] c_brown93:
Screen brightness is max 50% of my day at work and at half brightness when at home. Also nothing much turned off except bluetooth (I never use bluetooth) and OK Google commands turned off. I use data 60% of the day and WiFi 40% the other part of my day.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
That's not bad. I probably would have my brightness lower. I would need better than 14-16hrs but maybe could squeeze out even more.
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
Sent from my Note 5 Duos S6
[Galaxy S6 General] kitch9:
Is that posted Google play services definitely the right one. Wouldn't 240 be the right version?
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
How is this even possible?
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
Play services update hasnt changed anything for me still insane drain while on mobile data. Any solution?
[Galaxy S6 General] synthesis001:
Same for me after update to coh2 :(

Wysłane z mojego SM-T815 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S6 General] :
There are many, if rooted. Search for "extreme battery guide xda" in Google. Download Disable Services and disable the services mentioned under services. You can tame it even more with amplify and follow both extreme battery guide and the 0.0% idle guide. I got extreme battery life now. 3.5 hours SOT at 49% left on mobile data.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
Im not rooted and all i enabled by google is gmail sync atm location etc all disabled with activity track aswell but its still draining alot its 1st in battery drain. And i have been using this device for 4 months and with or without this problem best sot i got is 3.5 hours with full battery and now its 2.5 hours or something.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Not much you can do without root. Seriously, before I got a custom rom and xposed this phone was the worst in term of battery life I have ever had. Now I can go two days. Two and a half with light usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] tmac31:
Ye its worst for me aswell with nexus 4.
[Galaxy S6 General] Kamekazegoldi:
Just to be sure: You also need to flash a custom recovery to use amplify, Xposed Framwork, etc.? I "only" have root on 5.0.2. Struggling if I should loose my warranty to get more battery life :/
[Galaxy S6 General] vbauer86:
This might be a placebo effect but turning my display settings to basic has improved my battery life a bit. The colors are also more true to natural than oversaturated adaptive display.

Its like the overall brightness increases with adaptive display, that might drain a bit more.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
In eruope you still have warranty. You just need to fight for it then.
[Galaxy S6 General] Kamekazegoldi:
What do you mean with fight? If I take my phone - which is obviously knox triggered - to my retailer he will refuse.

Will Samsung Support give me support? How do I argue with them if so?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Your retailer will deny you for sure, but by the law in EU he should repair it if he can't prove that the root caused the failure.

Customer service in your country can run your case, but it can take over a year. They're still running mine for almost half a year now. Haven't heard from them.
[Galaxy S6 General] Inelukis:
Your retailer MUST accept your request under warranty. It's the EU law. If he refuse, you can denounce him ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Kamekazegoldi:
That doesn't sound really satisfying to me... I got a Oneplus Two from a friend and now I'm struggling whether to keep the S6 or to keep the Oneplus Two...

Camera on S6 is amazing and I love the size as much as the quick loading feature.... But without being able to flash new firmwares with all this stress concerning the warranty it it really sucks... :(
[Galaxy S6 General] Luhccas-X10:
Finally more han 6 hours of SOT...

But with Xtrestolite ROM, Arter's kernel, greenify, GSfix and some tweaks.

Acceptable for a 2550MAh battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
6h is very good, but it worth to root the phone and lose warranty because 1h sot?

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] Kamekazegoldi:
Exactly the question I'm struggling with... :p
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Acceptable? It's pretty insane.
[Galaxy S6 General] Luhccas-X10:
Not insane, just "ok" with A LOT of tweaks.

I saw devices that reached 9 hours of SOT with 2600MAh battery and Snapdragon 801...

The Exynos on S6 is 14nm and even with 2K display should give more than 6 hours of SOT out of the box. (like my old Xperia Z3 did)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I got the xperia z3 too and with lots of tweaks you can just throw your charger out anyways. You lose a lot of functionality pushing the battery so far. Some don't use those features, including myself, but for those who do the battery on this phone sucks.
[Galaxy S6 General] Luhccas-X10:
I got Z3 when we had no root.

Out of the box my phone had the double of life against S6. (one and a half day against 16 hours for S6)

The SOT was about 9+ hours without any mod or tweaks. (not even Super Stamina)

The question here is that i'm satisfied now with S6.

We can't compare booth in battery department.

Everything else is better with S6 and this is what matters to me. :good:
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
I was in the middle of a big test using Arter97/XtreStoLite/Xposed (amplify/greenify etc) combo, but sadly I did a hot reboot to install an exposed module and it forgot all of my battery stats at about 85% :( I'll be trying again and will post my results tomorrow.

My goal is to get to 0%/hr battery drain as suggested in this thread. I know it will probably not be possible but that will help a lot. Once I get my idle down I should be able to only have battery used by screen on time and any apps I use :)
[Galaxy S6 General] whatnow275:
Little off topic but I'd like some opinions:

I can upgrade from my 64GB S6 to a Note 5 32GB for $75 or to a 64GB to $175. I know performance is about the same but I want battery life. What do you guys think?
[Galaxy S6 General] manook:
I've just taken the plunge and rooted with a custom rom. Battery life is a lot better and custom kernel has made it a lot snappier. Very pleased.
[Galaxy S6 General] whatnow275:
I would love to go this route unfortunately I'm on vzw with 5.1.1
[Galaxy S6 General] KevinGleave:
That's amazing. Whats GSFix? I googled it and couldn't find anything. Also, what tweaks did you use? And your brightness level? Thank you in advanced!
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
MAYBE he is referring to this: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.pyler.mobileradioactivefix

Not sure though, I've never heard of GSFix either, but I'm guessing he might mean google services fix? Either way 6 hours is pretty nice, I'm currently doing my first test of battery. 3 hours SoT atm, 62% battery remaining (started at 95%). So I'm heading for perhaps 7 or 8h SoT. I've done the things he's done, basically just Greenify, Amplify, Arter97-kernel, XtreStoLite. I have my brightness at about 20%-25%.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
This is the bet i could get without root or any other tricks.

I only use Package Disabler to loose some apps i never use.
[Galaxy S6 General] Noxxxious:
Gsfix is posted in arter kernel thread somewhere near the end pages, it's a init.d script from a nexus 6 threads. Also i am only getting 0.3%/h idle using that "no idle drain 0.0%" guide
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
I am in genuine disbelief, never imagined I would get this kind of performance!

Arter97 kernel, XtreStoLite, Xposed (Amplify/Greenify but not too extensively), was on wifi most (90%) of the time so can't really comment on if this really worked or not. Will be able to tomorrow when I'm not on wifi all day :P Brightness was low, not nearly at the bottom, high enough to see the screen perfectly fine indoors.

Pictures attached.
[Galaxy S6 General] mrm_mrm:
For me the S6 battery is very good for a 2550mah battery can not wait any longer. It has a exelente consumption

Only using the Package disabler pro, to take what you do not use.

Had a Note 4 in terms of battery was little better, lasting 4 to 5 hours screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
Your image didn't work, you need to either save it and upload as attachment, or right click the dropbox file and "get shareable link" :)

That is some pretty darn good idle time, though!
[Galaxy S6 General] pedrodoom12:
That's insane man!

Have you used the "disable services" app?

I'm going to try this combo today
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
I did install it but didn't use it really, wasn't sure what to disable. Amplify seems to be disabling plenty of stuff so I'll just stick with it.
[Galaxy S6 General] skinza:
Try this out

Got some good tips for amplify and power nap

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3095884
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
This Thursday I am going to try and set a goal of 10 hours SoT. I'll be putting brightness to basically 0 (a bit higher so I can actually see the screen), and I will be on Wifi 100% of the time, etc. I think I can do it. Not sure what the record is, lol. I remember seeing someone get over 10 hours just by having a black jpeg open with screen always on (because AMOLED). But that's cheating :P

Now that I think about it.. that means I have to use my phone for 10 hours. Probably won't end up doing that LOL.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
10h i think is almost impossible in stock.

And if you do that you are not enjoying what Samsung has better the screen.

Im during the day always 70% brightness and get home pass to 30% automatically.

And still get 4h to 5h with 4g all day.

Don't worry about it.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
It wouldn't be too difficult to achieve 10+ hours watching movies on the S6, I just don't know why anyone would even bother with such a task in the first place.
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
I'm not on stock and I already achieved 8 hours SoT with relatively normal usage, so I simply was thinking of pushing it to the limit..
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What do you have installed. ?

Does it worth it do the root?

And clean rom?

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] arneldna:
So Far So Good

Stock Untouched 5.1.1 with power saving mode on.
[Galaxy S6 General] brezzo:
XtreStoLite Rom, Arter97 kernel, xposed (amplify, greenify). IMO definitely worth rooting.
[Galaxy S6 General] albert000:
Could you please tell us what you have blocked in Amplify & Greenify ?

I've exactly the same configuration as you but I can't get 08hours SOT... :(
[Galaxy S6 General] popthosegaskets:
Is it really that important to get 8hrs SOT? I get by daily with 5hrs of SOT and that's good enough for daily use.