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[Galaxy S6 General] yvibes:
Nope not trolling. That was my usage from yesterday. I used the phone for everything I usually do. Snapchat, twitter, instagram, reddit, xda, youtube, spotify, whatsapp, texting, a few calls and Netflix. I'm also still in the process of setting up my phone so I've been doing a lot of app downloading from the play store and signing into all my accounts etc. Someone requested that I use power saving mode from 100% until the device ran out of juice. This 10h SOT was doing exactly that, power saver mode was enabled for the whole run. I watched 2 episodes of SUITS (no spoilers please I'm on season 2) on my train journey to work and 3 episodes on the way back. I use manual brightness at about 25% which is perfect for me. Obviously I crank the brightness up to above 50% if I need to while I'm outside. You're right about my idle time, I lost 1% after 9hours of idle time. My phone signal is weak at home...it's always at 1 or 2 bars. However, outside it's always at 4 or 5 bars. I have quite a few things disabled, these are all apps/services that I don't use. I use the Internet for browsing Facebook, have Google now and OK Google turned off, have location turned off (turn it on for my transport app every now and then), I'm not using any of the edge features, I'm not sending usage stats to Google or samsung, I manually sync emails (have it on if I'm expecting an important email), I have vibration feedback turned off for the keyboard and the capacitive keys, I'm not using the briefing homescreen and I only have select few apps installed (a lot of battery drain is caused by having a lot of apps installed with some of them being rogue apps and you can't tell which app it is).

I've attached screenshots of apps I've disabled and of my other days in terms of SOT (I don't have any battery monitoring apps installed).

This is exactly how I use all the phones I've owned before.

Edit: I use the dark/AMOLED theme for an app if the option is available for the app, I use a dark wallpaper for my homescreen/lockscreen, I have wifi scanning set to only when wifi is on, I only use palm swipe capture in motion and gestures, I'm on wifi when I'm at home and my router is in the same room as me (also have powerline adapters across the whole house), I use 4g outside but switch to 3g in areas where 4g isn't great and I am a casual smartphone gamer (have a few games installed at the moment but leave the gaming for my ps4).

All for now
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
[MENTION=3872078]yvibes[/MENTION] thanks for the detailed reply.

Glad to know that the power saving mode works so well. I must give it a try lol
[Galaxy S6 General] yvibes:
[MENTION=5178107]Gboss01[/MENTION] Haha no worries. I'm on the s6 edge by the way, I think I might have forgotten to mention that. Yh you should try the power saver, it doesn't slow the phone down and I couldn't seem to kill the phone when I had it turned on. Although that was for testing purposes only...I have it set to turn on at 15% battery now.
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
My battery life has tanked again in the past few days, with Android OS the top culprit. (Lost 30% of my battery just sitting overnight)

I've done all the tweaks mentioned in this thread, and after a factory reset I would see only maybe 3% loss overnight.

I'm not a heavy heavy user, and am almost always on WiFi. Nothing keeping the phone awake according to GSAM.

I'm usually near outlets and so can recharge without trouble, but really liked with my S4 that from waking up until going to bed I almost never had to even think about remaining battery life.

Anyone beat the Android OS resource hogging?
[Galaxy S6 General] Juzh:
I solved it by restricting background data. This will restrict apps from accessing internet connection if not on WIFI. Drawback is you have to live with an exclamation mark warning saying you have them disabled. But It did help my GS battery drain from like 50% a day, down to negligible. Try it yourself and report.

I have the exact same issue, but not to such a large extent as you had before factory reset. Main battery drain for me is AOS with 3-5% battery drain over night. Not managed to solve it yet. My WIFI always scan is turned off.
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
I did find one setting that I realized might have gotten turned back on--I briefly tried using Smart Lock, then decided against it. But it's not enough to just not have any trusted devices--you need to go into Settings > Lock Screen and Security > Other Security Settings > Trust Agents and turn SmartLock (Google) off, if it isn't already.

I can envision that this was a setting that was off when I first did my factory reset but that got turned on when I tried it out, and so could in fact be the sudden difference in my performance. I've just recharged, and fingers are crossed.
[Galaxy S6 General] Bass-15:
What are the drawbacks of restricting background data for Google services? Does it affect my ability to receive emails automatically from Gmail? Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] aydc:
Hey guys! I have reached 510 hours of screen on time. This phone is awesome!
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
OMG!!!! How did you do this...please let us know, we have the right to know!!!!!

:D ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Juzh:
Yes, unfortunately. Unless you're on WIFI, no app will be able to receive any kind of internet information over your carrier mobile network (gsm/3g/4g-tle). You have to do it manually.
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Basically my second charge cycle. A lot better than yesterday so I guess the battery life is getting better.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
This is day 3 for me on ATT. First day of basically normal usage for me in my usual area. Wi-Fi / micro cell at home, decent LTE at work. Samsung gestures off, google now off, location on (history off) bloat apps disabled. Background sync on, no greenify. This is pretty comparable to what I was getting on some of the better battery kitkat roms on the LG optimus G I came from. The OG could do better, but often did not. I'd have to say I'm pretty happy so far.
[Galaxy S6 General] AndreiLux:
First full discharge. Slight undervolting and some modifications.
[Galaxy S6 General] haqone:
I got the same 10 hours with power saver enabled with similar usage so it is legit.

I think I'm going to do what people are accusing me of and just leave my phone on a black screen in power saver with air plane mode enabled and show what the phone will do. I wonder how long it will take to drain lol.
[Galaxy S6 General] iba21:
S6 or s6 edge?
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Full sync on. Could have gotten another hour with the 20% I had left!

Only thing disabled is Google Smart Lock and Location History.

For some reason Facebook Messenger has been showing up today and I have yet to use it to chat with anyone since I got this phone.

Hopefully the Play Services gets fixed soon!
[Galaxy S6 General] Gboss01:
Those are some awesome stats [MENTION=4167023]AndreiLux[/MENTION]

Is there any possibility we will see a Perseus Kernel for the S6? :D
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
[MENTION=346281]Andrei[/MENTION] good to see you're on the s6 bandwagon, can we expect a perseus kernel for s6/s6e?

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[Galaxy S6 General] djaidyc:
I'm loving the battery life on my s6, after a weeks use. 4g and sync on. Average use,a couple of hours music no games or videos.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Great battery now if only i could undervolt

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[Galaxy S6 General] AndreiLux:
If my device is still going to work after I tear it down. Also I want to have an article out before releasing some of the modifications I made.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
/me crosses fingers

great to hear, used ur kernel on my s3,NII and S4, you didnt get the S5, hopefully we go back to using it on s6/s6 Edge
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Is not true at all. I get around 6 hours SOT (with data on, high usage at times, smart watch connected, screen brightness decent, as I like a bright screen) and my phone is 'smarter' than my older phones. (SG5, Z3 and SG3) as I just really got into tasker.

I don't need sync, as I check my emails myself and half the emails I get things I don't need to check very often. I never liked the Facebook app, as it had to many permissions, so I check it manually from a browser, which works just fine.

So just that saved a lot of battery. Then I turned off GPS and tasker then turns it on when I open apps that need it (or it get a message if I lost the phone) to turn it on.

In the morning and after work, it check loc every 15 minute, to check where i'm. If i'm at work, it goes on vibrate and WIFI on and turn 2g on. At home it goes onto 2g again and wifi on.

When screen is off, it use 2g, when I turn screen on, but not use any apps, it stay on 2g, else go on 3g. If 3g connection is slow/bad it goes to LTE.

and then I turned off all the bloat that I have never used, like alle Google apps, smartlock, wifi scanning and so on.

In the morning it put bluetooth on, check if my watch connects and if not, turns it off again for the day (depends on outfit, if I want smartwatch or not ;) )

And then some CPU control, that lowers CPU if no high cpu app in usage.

Also greenify apps that should not run in background, like games etc when closed.

But with tasker, you can turn your smartphone into a super-power-saver-phone, where it's still smarter than before, but using less battery.

All I need for now is Xposed and then we might hit 8 SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
Why my phone is suddenly doing this?!

Why my phone is suddenly doing this?! I didnt change any settings. What shall I do? Location on wifi+network, wifi on, smart watch connected via Bluetooth, Google loc off, brightness auto, smartlock off, samsung push services updated
[Galaxy S6 General] dondavis007:
Hmm. Getting unsure if I'll sell my Note 4. Having used this phone for 3 weeks now it has never survived a day. I have extra chargers at work and in my car, but it's like back in the 2011.

I'll wait until next update until using the sell button I think. Otherwise this hardware is going the Note4 way instead.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
This is got damn insane.

7 hours SOT. I know I got low standby time(and 7 hours SOT.. No life today), but well my standby time drain is around 1-2% every 10 hours anyways.

This is with my smartwatch connected all day, 2-3 hours music using Spotify, and around 1-2 hours max brightness as I was sitting in the sun.

Could probably hit 9 hours with grayscale + lower brightness and no smartwatch connected.
[Galaxy S6 General] sephiroth33:
What do you think of my stats? I was expection more from the S6 battery. Around 3 hours of SOT for me.

My settings are:

- Sync on ( 2 gmail account , whatsapp, messenger )

- Screen around 50% (auto)

- bluetooth always on for Pebble

- GPS, NFC, gesture Off Wifi On only at home

- I have Dropbox and Onedrive but sync only on Wifi ( I did not take many pics )

- no Power Saving

- no gaming

Coming from a Mate 7 that with the same usage and app suite lasted for 6 hours of SOT... It is a bit painful :(

Any Advices?
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Whoever gets less than 5 hours SOT has either a defective device, a rogue app or I'd unlucky :)

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[Galaxy S6 General] sephiroth33:
Well, This doen't really help me understand ! :D Do you think that I should contact Samsung and try to get them review my battery unit?
[Galaxy S6 General] Jarrive:
My dear, the ones that have above 3hours SOT are not making any calls. I saw a lot of screenshots like this. S6 series are mobile PHONES. Using them as accesories makes the comments useless.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
so many deffective devices? implausible.
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
If you notice, anyone with a high SOT don't have a very long standby time. Most are under 12 hours. I rather have 24 hours standby and 3 hours of SOT!
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Yeah like this
[Galaxy S6 General] Bass-15:
Or like this :)
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
I agree, long standby is good. I got 2 days 6 hours with 5.5 sot. An hour was with almost full brightness, location set to highest accuracy and a battery intensive app.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Great write up. If you don't mind can you share your tasker profile. I would like to do exactly same as you and turn on wifi when at home or office and 2g on. And while other times open 3g or 4g if outside.

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[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
You sure?

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[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
Please try to disable location services and Google Play services to get the best standby time, please disable wifi/bluetooth too in idle mode as they got bugged and keep scanning now. This phone idle consumes a bit battery, it is hard to last for a very long standby time like s800/s801, not sure modem problem or software problem.

My best record is 8.5hrs SOT but this is only with light use(no gaming) and enabled power saving mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] DrearierJester1:
These people are so conscious with SOTs, why not go out, enjoy your phone and live your life? Oh well who am I to judge. :))
[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
You can't blame them bcoz this is a new phone. After some periods no one will care SOT again.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
,no its not about that, it's about showing what the phone is capable of to the people complaining about battery life, bashing it and selling it cos of that

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[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
I did a clean install of phone last night, left it from 100% overnight, after 9 hours it as lost 20%, that doesn't feel right. It says the phone was in deep sleep the whole time also and no rogue apps?
[Galaxy S6 General] TheDKGunner:
Poor signal [MENTION=5301084]belloni[/MENTION]?
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
I'm at home on full bars WiFi. When I go to battery stats it says 100% WiFi on, but also under it 100% no signal? Confused.
[Galaxy S6 General] WhiteHartMart:
Mine is just about acceptable. Had a few good days but the norm is 13 hours total and about 2.5 SOT - I've tried all methods to save battery too - turning off more syncing processes than on any other recent Android I've had.

I'm waiting until 5.1.1 to give this phone a fair shot but can't help thinkinh I'm going to have to accept it as it is or look to the G4 :(
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
Even with Wi-Fi on, the cell radio is working to maintain a background connection to the network for calls. If you have crappy cell service, the radio will drain more battery even when you are also connected to Wi-Fi for data. If you don't need phone calls, kill the cell radio with airplane mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jeffero:
I'm disappointed with the battery life.... 5-6h sot is max. That's terrible. iP6 and iP6+ are known of their poor battery life and I have always trusted media opinion about that, but then my friend bought an iPhone 6. His sot is 7h 30min. I checked some forums about iPhones and that seems to be normal for an iPhone. People get 7-10h sot! WTF is wrong with SGS6?... I hope there will be a fix for it.

How is it possible that SGS6's results in syntetic tests done by ex. phone arena show that SGS6 lasts on battery a bit longer than iP6?
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Wtf you're talking about of the iPhone does 6 hrs SOT it dies an hour later, plus usage time is different than SOT on iPhone. And i get +6 hours SOT with 1,5 day uptime

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[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
It's the 5.0.2 problem....... HTC, LG, Sony and even Nexus all got poor battery
[Galaxy S6 General] Jeffero:
So what's the difference between usage time in iPhone 6 and screen on time in Galaxy S6?
[Galaxy S6 General] dondavis007:
Didn't know you've get SOT on iPhone, but my 6 plus gets at least like the note 4 grenified like nothing else.
[Galaxy S6 General] se1000:
Straight from the horse's mouth:
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Hope you got your answer :) so no ip6 doesn't have a better battery :)

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[Galaxy S6 General] Jeffero:
Haha, another trick from apple. Thanks for info, now my 5h 30min sot doesn't look bad :D .
[Galaxy S6 General] easycure1974:
It is no trick :) But the 2900 mAh battery in my iPhone 6 Plus destroys the 2600 mAh in my Edge by miles. The ordinary iPhone 6 has a 1800 mAh battery. It is so boring because otherwise the Edge is a dream, it is the nicest looking phone ever made and the camera is great. But can't stand the lousy battery, will be waiting for the Note 5

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[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Too bad for you, as my edge destroys my cousin's ip6+.

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[Galaxy S6 General] dondavis007:
I'll say that you need to own both phones to claim that. I have the normal S6 and it's not even close. It's not bad but it's not good either.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mirejcz:
I had an iPhone 6 four month and I can say, that realworld battery life has SGS 6.
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
My mother has an 6+ while I have my S6. Trust me, the S6 destroys it in literally every way. I get just about the same battery as her 6+ as well.
[Galaxy S6 General] easycure1974:
Are you dreaming? [emoji4]

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[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
Nope, just polished off a steak bowl from Chipotle. I'm wide awake lol!
[Galaxy S6 General] nellush:
I can do a max of 4hrs SoT if WiFi and location is off. Had the phone only a week so still testing it out. I did see an improvement on day 4 after clearing app cache. Not sure why that is but will let it run up again and see what happens to my battery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] Shan89:
Edit:

wrong thread.
[Galaxy S6 General] i9100g user:
Nvm just ignore the troll
[Galaxy S6 General] ac7822:
I'm trying to say this in a way that doesn't imply your lying but 12% drain with 2 hours sot over 5 total hours. I dunno man that's 16 hours sot over 20 hours, that's just insane. I've seen your other high sot posts, but this is just crazy
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
No that doesn't work Mike that, as I finished the day with a SOT of 6hrs. When reading the WSJ or the economist, the battery drops 1% every 12 minutes, when using the browser it drops 1% every 6 minutes. So that gives you a rough idea of the SOT you can get

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[Galaxy S6 General] ac7822:
Got it
[Galaxy S6 General] dondavis007:
Does it really matter? This is not the iPhone 6 plus thread and the S6 has a pretty small battery and hungry cores, depending of what you use them for.

I just chipped in because I own both phones and a Note 4 and using them every day. Not my cousins, mothers or close friends, but me. Had the iPhone had Android it would be my daily :)
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
I'm just curious. How many apps do you have downloaded?
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
40

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[Galaxy S6 General] J-Hop2o6:
After a few weeks, my battery life has gotten a bit better. Doing light-medium tasks I get these results:

(Note: Google Location History=OFF | Location Locating Method=WiFi & Mobile | WiFi Calling=OFF (I have signal everywhere I go) | VOLTE=ON)

Brightness @ 25% = up to 7 hours of SoT

Brightness @ 100% mostly = around 5-6 hours of SoT

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Heavier use (non-games):

Brightness @ 100 mostly = up to 5 hours of SoT
[Galaxy S6 General] vas0:
My standby is terrible, i got battery drain 3%/h in standby, (24% overnight) that is awful. Btw i have friend with S6, we bought the phones from the same place, same model G920F his battery drain in standby is 0.3-0.6%/h (~3% overnight) that is a huge difference. The phones are with same apps installed and same settings. Anyone have any fix for this? Here some screenshot from my phone and his phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Mine loses 0.3%/hr when sleeping so something is up with ur unit. Probably some Google or Samsung app

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[Galaxy S6 General] bkeaver:
Yeah mine will lose 3% overnight. I went to bed with 51% and woke up to 48%. That's with everything on
[Galaxy S6 General] lizaSB:
Has anybody experienced mediaserver reporting this? I'm not entirely sure if my drain is normal or not, but this keeps popping up. It says Audio On for hours even though I haven't been playing audio or using touch sounds and yet the number keeps going up and up... My regular battery stats don't show it, but BBS is definitely showing the system as the top used process
[Galaxy S6 General] jacindc:
I am finding that going into airplane mode for a few moments when there's a big drain happening will stop the drain and improve battery life, at least until the next time it starts running away again. Really does seem to be the cell radio for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
Scientists and analysts argue that by putting your mobile phone in airplane mode you are supposed to drain battery because it puts the phone into a mode where the hardware is aware that its above normal human height so it works harder trying to keeps its equilibrium by keeping a strong balanced hold of the chip and processor, it's obvious that drain would be present at this stage.
[Galaxy S6 General] asdfvtn:
Is that a joke? Cause if not I'd really like a source on that.
[Galaxy S6 General] tee00max:
Best I have been able to get so far.
[Galaxy S6 General] XenoCrash:
Got to 9% after 23.5 hours yesterday with just under 4.5 hours of screen on time. The only major thing I have turned off is location services, since it's of little use in my small, boring city. I've also uninstalled or disabled a handful of apps that I don't use that were draining battery (or annoying me). I probably had about 4 or 5 hours of playing music & podcasts during that time too. I wasn't convinced by the battery in the first couple days, but this seems pretty good.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
I tried this for the heck of it last night. Had a couple days prior with pretty severe drain (14-16 hours off charger with 2.5ish SoT). Today I when I got done with work I was 11 hours off charger with 20 minutes of calls and 45 min SoT, and still had 80% battery left. Only other change I made was to turn ON enhanced LTE services.
[Galaxy S6 General] Magic815:
So I was hoping to get some insight on if I might have a bit of a lemon with my S6 or if I'm simply just not using good practices with how I use my phone.

The facts:

- I'm currently finishing day 4 of owning the phone.

- I took the phone off the charger at 7:30am this morning, and it lasted 8 hours total, with 2.5 hours SoT before going from 100-0%.

- I would say I had light to medium usage of the phone. (Decent amount of texting, maybe 10 minutes inside Facebook/Messenger. 25 minutes of listening to an audio podcast, 5 minutes of GPS use. Light to medium texting throughout the day. Downloaded 3 small-ish apps from the Play Store. Youtube for 5 minutes. Took a couple pictures, uploaded them to google drive, etc. I wasn't streaming music all day, watching Netflix, or playing any games.)

- Screen brightness is on auto (and then about 60% through the day, I download Lux and created an auto profile that kept the screen dimmer than the stock "auto" setting).

- Location is set to high accuracy

- Wifi was set to "always search", but then I turned it off about 50% through the day.

- Power saving has been off all day

- Smart lock was on most of the day, but I've now turned it off.

- I think VoLTE is on, but I can't find where to turn it off.

- I did a cache partition wipe when I was about 30% through the day.

- Google location history is on. (I see people say to turn this off, but I'm not convinced I wouldn't want to use it. What happens if my phone gets stolen and I try to use "find my phone"?)

- I did a a quick check in CPUspy where I kept my phone on sleep for 15 minutes, and it said it had deep sleep for 80% of the time. (This seems normal, right?)

That's all I can think of for now. Let me know if you would need to know the status of any other settings.

Does this seem right to you all? Or is there a chance my phone might have some sort of issue? I realize that I can probably keep tinkering, but I don't want to throttle my phone back too much to get useable battery life out of it. I also don't know if it's still too early to panic since I'm only on day 4. Is there a guide to the proper way to condition a battery in the S6? I keep seeing mixed information on this. Any help is appreciated!