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[Galaxy S6 General] Thoth33:
Battery life is flat with screen off and looking at over 7hrs SOT. I think the biggest factors are running in 1080 mode and ktoonsez kernel.
[Galaxy S6 General] warfexion:
google now on or no?
[Galaxy S6 General] Thoth33:
Nova Launcher Prime
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
What's 1080 mode and what governor you using as I'm with ktoonsez also?
[Galaxy S6 General] Thoth33:
I use Ktoonsez MOD profile available in the Ktweaker shop because I had stuttering issues on Pandora. It fixed that.

I use an app called Resolution Changer Pro to run 1080. Its a free app and can even set dpi. I use 480 for dpi.
[Galaxy S6 General] lugiank:
I'm experiencing a unusual drain from youtube, actually i've used it for about 30 min, but it's power drain is unbelivable

http://imgur.com/MNajue0

http://imgur.com/m0YMZoN

Any help?
[Galaxy S6 General] Thoth33:
After 4hrs+ of SOT and streaming music from iHeartRadio and half batter left. I think it mau have been telling the trith when it said I have 10hrs SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Why would changing the resolution help battery life, sorry if that's a dumb question.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Check the reply posted here.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61285587&postcount=49

I tried only for a while but the battery lasted longer as i think i was using on wifi consistently but next day the usage was same.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
can you tell me what all you have froze? I lose 4-5% per hour and just have 1 hour distplay on time after a day..
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
You realize that SoT stands for "screen on time"?
[Galaxy S6 General] Sevael:
Freezing stuff wouldn't fix that kind of battery drain. Sounds like you have the deep sleep issue from rooting. There are threads on here with instructions for fixing that.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
I just have a lot of deep sleep..

Maybe you can give me a list with all things I can freeze? Then I will freeze them all.. Maybe i will get good battery stats then every day...

At the moment I have very good battery but I don't know why I have sometimes so hard battery drain like yesterday... but although I turned off WiFi at the moment..

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[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Have you installed GSam to see what app or process is using your battery?
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
Can you give me a list what I can freeze?

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[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I have frozen 3dTourViewer, AllShare FileShare, Android System WebView, ANT + DUT, ANT HAL Service, ANT Radio, ANT+ Plugins, Beaming Service, Briefing, CarmodeStub, Enhanced features, Galaxy Apps, Galaxy Apps widget, Galaxy Talkback, Gear VR Service, Gear VR SetupWizard, Gear VR Shell, LiveWallpaper picker, Magnifier, My interests, my places, Quick Connect, S Finder, S Health, Splanner (the 2nd one), S Voice, Samsung Billing, Samsung Content Agent, Samsung Galaxy 2.0, SapaMonitor, Screen Mirroring, Theme Store, Voice Wake up, Weather, Weather Daemon, + all apps that came with the phone that I don't use (Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, etc)
[Galaxy S6 General] Thoth33:
I do. I spent that whole time surf the web with the screen on while streaming music.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
do you have freeze it with titanium backup?
[Galaxy S6 General] KnownDominance:
Battery calibration does not exist anymore with the newest Li-Ion batteries...
[Galaxy S6 General] holsma:
Well the battery calibration does not exist, but the controller calibration is still exist. So if you need the phone to show correct charge you still need to calibrate the controller from time to time.
[Galaxy S6 General] apsis:
It's a really bad idea to freeze the ANT Hal services. People already reported that after disabling those, the device won't go to sleep on mobile data
[Galaxy S6 General] Orion575:
Stock rooted 5.0.2 with Vindicator kernel
[Galaxy S6 General] metinrecepi:
Just stock + Vindicator kernel? no modifications?
[Galaxy S6 General] heahmad:
my battery stand by time is not more than 4 hour, even though i have freeze a lot of apps but i still suffer from the battery.

do i have defected battery?
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
I didn't notice any decrease in deep sleep when I was on mobile data. Do you know what ANT hal does?

Edit: found out the ANT Hal services deal with sensors like the heart rate and other fitness sensors. Since I don't use these, I haven't noticed anything negative by disabling these services. GPS still works and that's all I need. This shouldn't have anything to do with mobile data.

source: http://en.miui.com/thread-34436-1-1.html

source: http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-4/464268-what-ant-hal-service.html

edit 2: I guess I hadn't used Google maps in awhile, but with ANT apps frozen, my location indicator wasn't working. I guess every time I checked the weather, it had been getting my location through WIFI vs. GPS. So if you use maps a lot, don't freeze ANT apps.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
pls tell me what are your settings etc. i just get 24 hours with 100 % and just 1-2 hours display on time..
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
um... you recharged your phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
Verizon S6 64GB for comparison. Not bad to get by until Note 5 for idle or SOT for gaming benchmarks. Expecting normal usage SOT to be around 6.5h.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
What are your settings? Rom kernel appops? Greenify? Etc...

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[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
Stock unrooted with defaults, default auto brightness, etc. to establish a baseline on any new device. Did full stock ROM upgrade with Smart Switch and disabled bloat/apps I don't use though.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
How you disabled bloat/apps? And which one?

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[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
Go into app manager and disable then reboot phone. Some of these might be carrier specific.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
I am rooted and don't have apps like this anymore :/ but still have bad battery usage

Don't know why.. maybe my battery is defekt or something like this.. can i test it?

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[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
Keep in mind what I posted is not combined but separate test cases. One for idle time and separately screen on time running gaming benchmarks.

Did your device behave the same when it was stock? If unsure try returning to stock unrooted to make sure rooting didn't introduce wake lock issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
I went to sleep at 1 am at 100% and woke up at 7:30 am at 96%..seems a bit much for 6.5 hours sleeping. It was storming overnight and my wifi was on so maybe storms knocked out the wifi at some point causing my phone to search for it or something? Normally I get 1-2% per 8 hours of sleep. Gsam shows 17 minutes held awake per 12 hours on battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
But did you have your thunder buddy with you?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Tips for improved battery life

Someone may have already suggested this, but something I did that improved battery on stock ROM, unrooted:

I was typically getting less than 2 hrs screen on time before. Phone would only laay ayne 9-10 hours.

I uninstalled all updates to Google Play Services, cleared Play Services app data, rebooted, cleared cache, then installed the latest Play Services, and now GPS (which was a high battery user before) is not at the top consistently anymore and my phone probably lasts about an hour longer SOT and a few hours longer overall.
[Galaxy S6 General] lugiank:
Guys, give a look at this

5 hours+ SOT

I also had a huge drain from Opera Max, wich i suddendly uninstalled, but i got 5 hours sot anyway

(first 2 hours i was in a cinema, so my phone was screen off, but opera max gave me that battery drain)

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/themes-apps/tutorial-galaxy-s6-edge-amoled-battery-t3131438
[Galaxy S6 General] Orion575:
Just stock without any mods
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Very helpful, thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] Alpione:
I actually thought you were joking by saying that 4% in 6.5 hours was too much.

What is that, like a 7 day standby?

Your phone is fine. Your OCD? Maybe not. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
I meant 4% overnight (6.5 hours). Seems high considering most people get 1-2% drain overnight.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
I normally charge at night, but in normal circumstances, I typically see about 1% per hour idle, with stuff turned on.
[Galaxy S6 General] beaverslayer:
Uhhh, that's only about 0.7% an hour which is better than the1 to 2% per hour you mentioned.
[Galaxy S6 General] gorilla p:
So I had a strange experience today.

I purchased a replacement battery for my Nexus4 about 8 months ago on Amazon. There was a lot of talk about whether or not the batteries were really Genuine/OEM, but it looked Genuine and worked fine.

Now I went on eBay and found another replacement battery and ordered it (again, only about $8. Seller was in U.S.).

The battery looked exactly the same as my previous 2 batteries except one thing. The seller or (wholesaler or eBayer, idk) covered the LG logo with a black marker?!

I included 3 pics. 1 is what a normal LG BL-T5 battery looks like, 2 is what mine looks like, 3 is a close-up of the marker job...

On the close-up it's hard to make out, but it has the circle/smiley face on the left, then the letters "LG" to the right of it.

Is this their way of wink-nod letting me know its not really OEM, bit for that price I should've known better? The seller does include a 6mo warranty, so its hard to lose at that price... Unless it catches fire...
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Did I word my post wrong or are you lacking basic reading comprehension? 1-2% over 6.5 hours is less drain than 4% over 6.5 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] twiz0r:
Just FYI my replacement device does not have the cell standby drain issue. It did until I did the workaround. With 8 hours+ on battery (about 7 of which were at home on WIFI), I have only 3% standby drain. On my other S6 I would have about 15% in that amount of time. Interesting, but I am happy :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Good. Care to share your workaround.
[Galaxy S6 General] beaverslayer:
No, I just read it wrong. I'd like to see some evidence of "most people" getting 0.3% standby drain. Is this your first smart phone? Just curious.
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
I saw that most people go to sleep and wake up in the morning with 1% or maybe 2% drain which I also usually got until last night.
[Galaxy S6 General] twiz0r:
Turn off advanced calling. Clear cache in recovery. Turn advanced calling back on. Turn off always allow scanning in WIFI advanced options (this may or may not have helped, have to test more). Some people said that they turn off keep wifi on during sleep - but I didn't need to do that.
[Galaxy S6 General] gorilla p:
Disabling those WiFi always on, and always allow scanning can make a significant difference.

Each time your device is scanning, not o ly is the WiFi radio draining power, it is waking the device and taking it out of deep sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
Getting better all of sudden, great!
[Galaxy S6 General] cpxyz1:
Contemplating to change from the n3 to s6. I see screen shots of 4-6 SoT which really isn't bad in my standards. The SD card and removable battery seems like it would be a problem for me though. If the battery really is 4-6 hours I'd love to go for the s6. Do you have to be rooted with custom kernels or is it all stock to have decent battery? It's either this or the note 4 for me. But the note 4 seems like nothing has changed besides the metal frame. S6 has gotten an amazing makeover with some downgrades. . Decisions, decisions...
[Galaxy S6 General] sintro:
I've always "struggled" with battery life. The absolute max I would get would be 4 hours SOT in combination with a charger off time of around 16 hours...ish. But ever since I started to use leandroid, my standby time has gotten amazing. I use only 0%-1% an hour now if the phone is just locked. Also, I use the paid version of root booster (doesn't actually recquire root) and use the stability setting. My screen on time is UP TO 6 HOURS NOW! And that's using clash of clans for like 5 out of those 6 hours. I can wake up in the morning and use clash of clans for an hour straight. My battery will drop less than 10% in that hour of screen on time!

I also use lux because the default brightness values are crazy bright for me. I actually turn lux to -90% brightness, the absolute mininum possible and it's still not dark enough at night. I actually apply an additional screen filter over that in combination with cf lumen (rooted version)
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
Seems better now, mostly on wifi.
[Galaxy S6 General] Dunams:
Seems I'm getting good results when I'm on wifi rather than mobile data.

45 minutes of SoT 10% battery used, that's over 6 hours for 100%.

On mobile data I get around 3.5h SoT.

Why is that?
[Galaxy S6 General] gaston_garcia:
I just got my S6 9 days ago. It's my first Android phone after using iPhones for more than 6 years.

My initial perception is that the S6's battery life is just as good (or bad) as the iPhone 6's. I've been using both in the very same way: Wifi on all the time, location services all the time, using Pocket Casts for podcasts about 2 hours per day. Just constant use all day long. I wake up early at about 5:20 am. By the time it's 12:30 pm, when I'm going for lunch, my battery in my S6 is at about 40%. Now I could say it's bad... but hey, it's what I was used to with my iPhone 6.

One thing I'm loving about the S6 is the Quick Charge. iPhones take forever to charge their batteries. The fact that I can be at 40% and then 35 minutes later bring the battery back to 100% is great.

Today I'm going to use my phone regularly and then post the results later. But for now I just wanted to say that Quick Charge seems to be pretty great.:good:
[Galaxy S6 General] netshl:
Not so nice but OK.
[Galaxy S6 General] Alarand:
The issue I'm having is with screen off drain. At first I thought it had something with google play services but I think it's actually something to do with my kernel / wifi setup.

The phone radio is listed as the highest % battery use in gsam and android system has like just over half of all battery consumed. The screencap is from before but in the last 4 hours radio-interace / lli_pm_wakelock / wlan_rx_wake have 894 wakelocks.

Gonna see what the battery life is like with wifi off. The best I saw was around .2-.3%/hour drain. I have no way of replicating it though and using my current rom its around 1-2%/hour
[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
Anyone still having issues with drain try reflashing/resetting with Samsung Smart Switch utility and try stock.

Download links on right side of page

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/smart-switch-support/#!/

Video how-to

https://youtu.be/y8AZyalTf5Y
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
I recommend clearing the phones cache if your experiencing standby drain.

Simply hold the volume up and home button while turning the phone and clear cache and reboot.

It fixed Android system drain I was having earlier this week and there's really no downsides to clearing cache.
[Galaxy S6 General] gaston_garcia:
Google Play Services

[IMG="Battery Drain"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ktSnRJ4F4hxgbH_P-HvPsOqfvT9LxjieZsDJvZZTc4pm=w413-h734-no[/IMG]

My issue is obviously with Google Play Services.

Any suggestions on what I should do to stop this?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] genetichazzard:
Google Services cover a lot, from games to apps, to software updates.

If you play games a lot, you'll notice high Google Service usage too. Many apps also ride under the Google Service blanket.

You'd have to figure out which app is causing large Google Service usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] Alarand:
Is there anything else you know of that I can do to reduce android system drain?
[Galaxy S6 General] Alarand:
Also what in the world is RILj0 wakelock
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
I am just restoring with smartswitch an update with smart switch.. you said all default.. do you have sync and gps and wifi on all the time?

Bluetooth on or off?

E-Mail Sync on? Which intervall?
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
With everything on, it's getting even better. :D
[Galaxy S6 General] D4rk_nVidia:
Maybe the phone is optimized for everything on :D Sometimes I get the same feeling
[Galaxy S6 General] netshl:
Only 8h on battery ?
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Sorry but that means absolutely nothing
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
That's good. What was your on screen time?
[Galaxy S6 General] netshl:
Does anyone can tell me what the hell is wrong with my battery??

How 10% per hour?? Max battery time was never over 12 hours...

How to fix this?
[Galaxy S6 General] B$!ngh:
Almost 2 hrs on screen can easily drain 20 to 30 % battery especially with mobile data browsing. Instagram and facebook are battery draining apps as well.
[Galaxy S6 General] Roobwz:
Planning on buying an s6 but I'm a bit worried about the battery life after reading some of you guys posts. In the future when custom kernels are out, is it going to be possible to achieve this kind of battery life that I achieved with my old S3?. Any other tip besides that to maximize the battery life of my future S6

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[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
After optimisations, there should be no issue in getting 18 hours of battery life out of the S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] Roobwz:
I meant SOT

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[Galaxy S6 General] Fille84:
Jeez...We don't even see what you did during those 7hrs of SOT dude. Its pretty much impossible to answer that question then ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
Anyone knows why I have bad battery like this?

Tried stock and freeze these apps
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Try using Greenify
[Galaxy S6 General] Jannik185:
So you think I should root my phone again? Which apps I should greenify?

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[Galaxy S6 General] Roobwz:
Well my fault that I didn't post 1 more picture. But my usage was pretty light if you can say that. Most browsing tapatalk and other social media's.

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[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Greenify works better with root, so yes I'd say root your phone. The apps you greenify will depends on the ones you have installed. Because Xposed doesn't work, I greenify pretty much all apps except messaging ones or ones where I need their notifications.
[Galaxy S6 General] ak4d4:
Running stock with root. Seems that playing videos sip the battery. As in nice optimizations or whatever.
[Galaxy S6 General] ra9b:
I'm getting this kind of battery life on cleanrom lite (i have a verizon s6). I used my phone for normal things like Facebook, snapchat, yik yak, texts, browsing, watching videos, playing some mortal kombat, and then I ran 3 antutu benchmarks. (just wanted to compare my rooted s6 to my sister's stock s6 and my mom's iPhone 6) I'm pretty happy with the results! I also just downloaded and applied this black and red theme that you guys see in the screenshot. i'm sure that it will improve my battery life a little bit, but nothing too significant. anyone know how to make this better?

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[Galaxy S6 General] ottakon:
Stock with root. I am using greenify and if possible apps in dark mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] ra9b:
Wow! How would you describe your usage?
[Galaxy S6 General] ottakon:
I set the screen brightness manually and lock the phone with greenify.

I dont use Google Now.

No GPS

No NFC

Bluetooth only when i need it

Energy saving mode <20%

Wifi and mobile data are always on

Apps i use most are

9gag (dark theme), Chrome, Facebook (from Playstore), Gmail, MiFit, Periscope, Pushbullet, Snapchat, Sync for reddit (night mode), Twidere (Dark Theme), Whatsapp and Youtube

Root apps

Adaway, Galaxy Button Lights (to set button lights off), Greenify, SD Maid

Deleted some system apps i dont need (attachmens)

I think thats it, maybe it helps you :p
[Galaxy S6 General] solidmac:
I believe I solved my battery issues today. The solution came with the latest update too. Just go to battery, detailed, and select the apps that you do not want running in the background. I never used greenify but that app does the same thing right?

After setting it up I've only lost about 10% over night. That includes some over night auto updates too.
[Galaxy S6 General] cpxyz1:
New record!! (For me atleast) . I'm on stock and haven't rooted yet. Got the phone like 6 days ago and this is the highest SoT I've seen on my phone. The transition from my note 3 to s6 really isn't as hard as I thought it would be.. (in battery terms) ??
[Galaxy S6 General] Isus <3:
I'm getting more than 5 hours sot plus this phone has fast charging. I don't see why are people complaining about battery life
[Galaxy S6 General] solidmac:
[QUOTE=Isus some people are getting 2hours or less SoT. Samsung touted this things battery life strongly and so far many of us have not been able to achieve that.
[Galaxy S6 General] morell2:
which optimisations

?
[Galaxy S6 General] ambervals6:
I get exactly the same on wifi. Auto brightness. Texting, couple of phone calls, web browsing, 10 mins of asphalt 8. Everything stock.

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[Galaxy S6 General] -fReEsTyLe-:
Is there a solution for the Google Play Services Battery Drain?
[Galaxy S6 General] corona63976:
That's not true there is no way to fix battery drain on S6.....period.
[Galaxy S6 General] cpxyz1:
Seems like running a custom kernel helps battery? But I've read alot of people complaining about getting wake locks. Sticking with stock for now. 5-6 SoT isn't that bad in my opinion :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Romanius:
Well I use an international version of the S6. There is no 4G LTE in my country and there is no option for VoLTE and wifi calling. Still I get lots of battery usage from both Cell Standby and apps like Google Play Services, Samsung Push Service. Android system,android OS is also there. But the funniest part is WhatsApp is the top drainer. Can anyone offer a solution?

In this image I had 8 hour on battery, 3 hours of SOT. %37 percent of battery was remaining. I just wonder how can Whatsapp have more battery drain than screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] milwis1:
I would not really use stock battery stats. GSam is much better. Stock stats are not even a bit accurate.

Tapnięte z S6
[Galaxy S6 General] ambervals6:
Those that get wakelocks probably have crappy apps like facebook synchronizing non stop. Custom kernels are okay I guess, but I find them to sacrifice performance for better battery life and I do not like that because I will feel like I am using galaxy s3 instead of galaxy s6 lol

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[Galaxy S6 General] Jonathan-H:
True because there isn't any.

---------- Post added at 01:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 AM ----------

Any proof to back that up? I've not noticed a difference between the basic data stock info gives me compared to GSAM.

Anyway 5-6 hours SOT over 2 days is decent battery life and matches what we should get with a qhd screen and such a small battery
[Galaxy S6 General] buddybin:
My battery stat

I run my stock s6. I little use my phone. Always connect 3G for instant messenger and surfing.

Anyone tell me about my battery stat? normal?.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
That looks pretty good to me! Although your SoT isn't high, it's due to the long standby.
[Galaxy S6 General] sksjkj3:
This are my stats of the second charge of my phone (Stock rom).

I have wifi and mobile data always on, bluetooth off, location off and the brightness at 30% on auto mode.

I don't know how you guys get 5hours or more SoT. Hope it will be better after a few charges.
[Galaxy S6 General] MistaJae:
I'm using XtreStoLite 1.5 with the Unikernel, DHA fix & Alliance framework (light)

Yesterday, I observed the best battery life since I got my S6 (see image). 3hr screen-on time and 48% battery left! Was on 4G pretty much all day... used FB, gmail, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, snapchat plus a couple of calls & texts, but location was switched off. By comparison, the stock ROM would be at about 18-20% with this same usage!
[Galaxy S6 General] zujko:
Why is so weak (poor battery performance) battery on S6?