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[Galaxy S6 General] joeshmoe08:
https://recombu.com/mobile/article/samsung-galaxy-s6-review-in-depth

"Battery life is actually pretty good too, considering that bright, super-crisp power-sucking screen. If you mess around shooting high-def video and generally thrashing the Galaxy S6, it won’t last anywhere near a full day. However, if you’re more conservative and limit yourself to occasional web browsing, email checks and piddling around with apps, you should easily make it to bed before the S6 dies.

And even if you do decide to stream video non-stop, you’ll still manage a solid seven to eight hours of entertainment before the battery runs dry. That’s well above average for a flagship phone."
[Galaxy S6 General] epdm2be:
Nonetheless they should have made the back completely flat perhaps even recessing the camera instead of protruding and use that extra space for a bigger battery. The same as S5 (at least) to reassure potential buyers. This looks on paper like a regression from the former top-model. Not to mention that a protruding camera is prone to scratches and shock-damage might damage the fragile OIS/AF mechanism apart from the fact that it looks hideous now!

The bump on e.g. the Nokia 808 pureview was completely metal and that glass covering the lens was Gorilla-glass. The camera assembly itself was also slightly recessed inside the metal bump. Nokia's engineers clearly had an eye for ergonomics on that model within the constrains of what was technically possible at that time with such a big camera-module.

It seems that using a brain to develop a phone isn't required for Samsung engineers. :(

Perhaps someone can donate a manual about ergonomics to Samsung HQ, maybe the same book that Nokia engineers used prior to S. Elop's disastrous "rescue".
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
While not a completely scientific test, a protruding camera lens actually helps prevent scratches, compared to flush mounted camera lenses.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/HTC-...proves-camera-bumps-save-lenses-lives_id55226

I've always kept my phones in a case, and regardless of camera lens protrusion, I have never had any meaningful scratches on my camera lens.
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
Never bought into the flat back fetish myself, it literally cries for the lens to be scratched since it meets the hard surface. It was so bad in the case of the Nexus 4 they had to add small bumps. The protruding camera with the metal frame not only hides the lens from scratching on a rough flat surface but the bump creates an angle so the lens is actually higher and moving away from the surface.
[Galaxy S6 General] tokuzumi:
I thought the bumps were put there to allow for better performance from the speaker on the back?
[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
That too. The Nexus 4 was quite cool until you realized what a completely flat back brings. It was moving around on tables. :lol: I prefer the Moto X type of back anyway, better hand comfort.
[Galaxy S6 General] yahyoh:
for everyone crying about S6 battery life ;)

and compering it with 1080P devices and bigger batteries that uses Snapdragon 810 :rolleyes:

rip HTC

edit: things may change a bit with final software you know...
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
The only one that'll improve is the S6, since the final build for the S6 is set to release this week and Samsung is lifting the review embargo at the end of this month. This means that Samsung is giving reviewers a little over a week to review the final S6 build, meaning that Samsung thinks there WILL be a difference in the final build.

The M9's embargo was set to release YESTERDAY, meaning htc doesn't think that the final build will differ from tweakers' numbers.
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
Good point!
[Galaxy S6 General] equake:
We hope so but the S6 is a counterpoint of all things Samsung. With no removable media or battery and change to premium build and lighting fast storage, charging, the s6 intends to make a bold statement.

I was hoping for 4GB of RAM but then again it's more about the optimizations and from most reports, Lollipop has major performance issues here ie memory leaks. The iPhone has a fraction of these specs but equals or outperforms this phone.

Granted it's like comparing apples to oranges.

From other LG flex 2 reviews the s6/edge stomps it on every category. The SD810 based phones have no chance against the s6 powerhouse.

My 2 cents
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
Nevermind i am an idiot!!!
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
What are they supposed to do to each other? Samsungsexuals and Applesexuals.
[Galaxy S6 General] hung2900:
As mentioned in Note 4 Exynos review on Anandtech by Andrei Lux, current revision of Cortex A53 is quite bad that have worse P/P than the latest rev of Cortex A7. Both Cortex A15 and Cortex A57 are super power hungry designs and depend a lot on the efficiency of the "little" cores. Besides, there are many weaknesses of current latest Cortex core designs, so I think all SoCs using current ARM's big.LITTLE implementation are facing the problem in increasing performance while keeping power comsuming in check. That's yet to mention the possible outdated GTS implementation of Samsung or even nVIDIA and Qualcomm (mentioned in Exynos 5433 review by Andrei)

Samsung did a very good job in being miles ahead competitors for internal memory speed, so for being an user, I prefer a comparable computing performance (of the last hardware) and a better power efficiency.
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
It explains the disappointing battery life figures from G Flex 2 and M9.

I'm assuming with Samsung's 14nm finfet process, the S6 won't be affected as much as the 810 devices.
[Galaxy S6 General] Lodix:
The Exynos 5433 in the Note is built in 20nm as the SD810 and doesn't suffer from the problems of the SD810.

It gets a very similar battery life to the SD805 counterpart.
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
From new Russian review.

From google translate.

I 'think' 2nd maybe be internet browsing or something similar. Anyone with Russian knowledge can help here??

Again, non-final firmware version.
[Galaxy S6 General] maxpayn02:
Check this review for more information about the battery life

It includes a comparison between s6 ip6 and nexus6

http://www.frandroid.com/marques/samsung/274199_test-du-samsung-galaxy-s6-tout-est-mieux-et-different
[Galaxy S6 General] *Emix*:
According to them battery is better than all 3 other devices when surfing and watching videos. 100% brightness set on all devices.
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
I'm still hoping that Samsung's official figures about improved battery life on S6 are true, but even if it isn't and what GSMArena posted is reflective of end devices, I'm not too concerned seeing as how the competition's battery life figures are even worse...

I still think the final numbers will be better. Samsung was never wrong about battery life figures before.

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This looks more right. Their numbers translate to around 10 hours wifi at max brightness. Samsung probably tested theirs at 30-50% brightness, putting SoT with wifi at 11-12 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
battery life not that good according to this review

http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/03/18/samsung-galaxy-s6-review/

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i might say compared to the s5 but to other phones its pretty good
[Galaxy S6 General] J-Hop2o6:
Removing/disabling GP Services will cause issue with Google Apps. Best to just use Greenify and/or Amplify (xposed required for Amplify).
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
My sprint s6 battery is insanely good. I got over 9 hours sot the other day. I use the internet on it a lot, some txting and twitter. No facebook. Location on max accuracy, brightness almost full. 3 emails syncing on gmail app. All google apps disabled, same with samsung and sprint apps. I dont use voice search and what not so I can disable that stuff without "gimping" my phone. Bluetooth off unless I'm listening to music at the gym for an hour or so. Nfc off. Wifi almost always on, if not, 4g. Using the phone a lot gets me around a 10% drop every hour.

Im at 5 hours now with 40% left and have been using Twitter a lot today.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
That's impossible. Even if you have 100 battery draining apps it's impossible to go from 100% to 50% with only 18 min of screen on time.
[Galaxy S6 General] rkial:
He said 18 minutes SOT.. not 18 minutes off the charger.

If he is getting that after 2 days off the charger then its nothing to complain about.

That is probably not the case though. He must have something keeping the phone awake.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
I know he said that...I repeated it in my reply post.

Still, 18 min of on screen time after 50% off charge seems very severe, unless his standby time is atrocious.
[Galaxy S6 General] thegregulator:
There is likely something running in the background that's not allowing his phone to sleep. That said, the battery life on this phone is by far its biggest letdown. It's basically the perfect device in every way except the mediocre battery life. Quick charge and wireless charging are wonderful so it's not a deal breaker, but there really is no replacement for displacement.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Agreed. A better battery life would have made this phone the best all around for the next few months because of its unmatched SoC. I'm actually considering a G4 just a use of the battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] thegregulator:
I am too. But no built in wireless charging (I know you can add it yourself) and I don't know how I feel about the Snapdragon 810. I really like this Exynos SoC. Samsung can very carefully ensure software optimizations with this chip and I like that. Similar to the Apple model.
[Galaxy S6 General] 1iam5mith:
The reason for that held awake bit is google play services I guess, and while I am not opposed to rooting, I do not believe voiding the warranty should be required to actually use the phone, because in its current state this is not usable.
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
I wouldn't be so quick to make the jump, battery life has been hit or miss in a lot of the reviews. The most notable being GSM Arena's test in which the G4 achieved only 54 hours compared to the 70+ posted by the S6. That was the final nail so to speak that has negated any thoughts of getting the G4 for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Root with Ping Pong root and you will leave Knox intact. Then if something happens to your phone, just revert back to stock firmware.
[Galaxy S6 General] lowjinyik:
Is this normal standby? I use adblock on data but if it's draining my battery I rather not
[Galaxy S6 General] myd.:
Gsam says I'm using 9,4% per hour on average, lost 25% in 2 hours 40mins, 1h SOT. I disabled some apps though.. Still wish it got better.
[Galaxy S6 General] maverick1103:
I'm starting to get a bit frustrated with the battery life in this phone, I'm coming up to a full week of using it, battery is pretty sporadic. This is the first phone for a while that I have to charge twice a day, if it wasn't for the quick charge I'd be well annoyed!

I'm a medium to heavy user but today I've hardly used it and I'm at half way already, I appreciate that I always have Bluetooth on for my Moto 360, which I think is causing issues because it keeps disconnecting all the time!

Will see how it goes.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
I know but in this particular case I'm not sure if GSM ARENA is right. Many times, gsmarena has changed the score of their battery test, thry even did that for the S6. The majority of reviewers says it last a little longer than the S6. Also the deal about the free extra battery and SD card is kinda awesome. But maybe Android 5.1 will make the S6 battery life better, it did it for the nexus 6.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I think it's your poor connection. Try to switch to HSPA+ when you are using WiFi. It will certainly help.
[Galaxy S6 General] maverick1103:
Yes my signal doesn't help, I think I'll try switching it to 2G only for a day and see what happens.
[Galaxy S6 General] myd.:
Who else thinks this is abnormal?

My screen consumes alot of power when turned off.
[Galaxy S6 General] SlamTheDoor:
Your GSam stats screen looks almost identical to mine on a typical day; my GSAM is telling me I have about 14 hour average battery life and I get a little more than that.

I've had the phone a few weeks longer than you, and nothing I've done has had much of an impact on battery life. I have not turned off 'Location History', which is something a lot of people with great battery life have done. I've become accustomed to using Google Now and its features so turning of Location History would impact that. So, baring some improvement coming from Google, I don't foresee my battery life getting any better. And that's probably okay because I can make it most of the day without needing a charge and I seldom am in a situation when I can't charge if necessary.
[Galaxy S6 General] maverick1103:
I'd be happy if I got 14 hrs average! At the moment I'm getting used to charging my phone twice a day, something I haven't done for a long time. I'm lucky I work in an office so I can charge my phone twice.

I don't like turning off features because I intend to use my phone to it's full potential.
[Galaxy S6 General] apsis:
32% remaining. Im very happy with 2 days all together.
[Galaxy S6 General] Tron666:
Alliance rom I tweaked it well...

Whatsapp

Videos (online movie streaming)

Phone calls

And Internet browsing
[Galaxy S6 General] Clay330i:
G4 uses Snapdragon 808. [emoji106]
[Galaxy S6 General] thegregulator:
That's right. Thanks for the correction. I feel even worse about the 808. Seems kind of like the Snapdragon 600 when that came out. Although, admittedly, I know very little about SoCs.
[Galaxy S6 General] J-Hop2o6:
Turning off Google Location History will NOT impact Google Now. It's mainly to track & map your travels. Unless you NEED to know where've you been, it's mainly just a waste of battery. I have it turned off and Google Now works the same with it off. Try it for yourself and let us know if it impacts Google Now.
[Galaxy S6 General] philpilar:
As promised. Could probably squeeze in another hour of SOT if I wanted to.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Thanks for doing it. On my next cycle i will try using the normal charger and see if it holds up.
[Galaxy S6 General] philpilar:
No problem. I did manage to get a bit more than 3hrs of SOT on that cycle before I hit the low batt warning.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
But you seem to be getting more out of non-fast charger. I will charge tonight without fast charge and see if it helps.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
Badass battery life after the latest update

I was hitting between 5 and 6 hours screen-on time before which was good but nothing great. I received an OTA 2 days ago and boy, has the battery improved. I also did a wipe cache partition after the update to make sure everything is done.

My usage is pretty basic. The screen is plenty bright and hence I don't need to push brightness above 20-30% indoors. I have Google Now on, sync on. All my accounts( E-mail, FB, twitter etc) are synced. I also charge with a quick charger. Also, pedometer and other S-Health things are on. So, no compromises here. And the battery lasts forever.

If you are getting poor battery life, try doing these:

1. Wipe cache partition from recovery.

2. If you are getting poor stand-by time, check your network strength and switch to 3G or 2G to get full signal when using WiFi or sleeping. This helps a lot. My phone drains about 1% in 8 hours stand-by(really!).

3. Try the usual tweaks like turning of f S-voice and apps you don't use. Monitor battery stats to get the idea if anything drains battery.

4. Try a factory reset if nothing helps. Or wait for an OTA

The phone is capable of great battery life. Software is really badly optimized to take full use of it. So until Samsung fixes it, we have to figure it :)

Hope this helped.
[Galaxy S6 General] ankur3467:
This is how much I am getting out of it after latest BOE3 update

Tell me how's my phone battery life compared to others? I haven't rooted the phone yet..
[Galaxy S6 General] le_lutin:
Lost 13% overnight (7.5 hours). I charged it before I went to sleep, so the phone started at 100% The phone was doing absolutely nothing. When I look at the battery stats I see the following (this is the entire list):

Device Idle: 1%

Cell Standby: 1%

Wi-fi: 1%

Android System: 1%

That's literally the entire list. Any ideas what I could do to try to find out what the cause of this is? I'm not rooted btw.
[Galaxy S6 General] skivnit:
Anyone with F variant having sht battery life please post ss. US variants have cell standby issue which is mostly due to their network software.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Try using GSam
[Galaxy S6 General] le_lutin:
Thanks, I'll repeat the test tonight - charge phone fully and take it off the charger before I go to sleep, then in the morning I'll check what GSam says is eating the battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] mettleh3d:
Can anyone confirm that zooper is a battery suck? Top of the list from Samsung and lower on gsam but still high. Dang
[Galaxy S6 General] SlamTheDoor:
I don't think that's correct. Google Now knows right now where my car is parked and it always knows where my car is parked. I believe it knows that through the location history; it knew I was moving in a car and then knew that I stopped. Every Tuesday night, Google Now shows me the route to the bar where I spend most of my Tuesday nights; Google Now uses my location history to find a pattern (I go there most Tuesdays) so it displays the route in Google Now. It has found regular patterns in my behaviors (going to work every morning at 7, going to the bar Tuesday nights, going to a chiropractor every Thursday after work, etc) and displays information within Google Now. Without location history, none of that is possible.

Now...you might say that those are frivolous and maybe most people don't care about it. But, I like it and if I disabled Location History, Google Now would be a lot less useful to me.
[Galaxy S6 General] id4398:
Hello,

I am seeing "android OS" consuming majority chunk of battery.

GSAM shows a different picture. I am now confused, not sure which application(battery usage in setting or gsam) is showing correct picture of battery consumption.

Attached are the screenshots.

I have disabled nfc, svoice, bluetooth, location, restricted background data for all google apps.
[Galaxy S6 General] J-Hop2o6:
See, most ppl know where they park their car. That's why I said if you NEED it, then keep it on. Otherwise turn it off since its wasteful battery drain. I've used it before to try it out to see me travels through out my cities, but I noticed crazy drain with it on. Seeing my Location History was neat, but wasn't worth the battery drainage.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
I get roughly 4x more wake alarms from Google location services when location history is on (2 per minute, vs 30 per hour with it off). Anecdotally, this roughly doubles my idle drain rate. Don't have enough solid history to provide better numbers. Having history on is cool, but I have gnow disabled at the moment, so don't need it.
[Galaxy S6 General] dt33:
I found out 2 "bugs" after montioring battery life for few days.

1. Sometime battery time wont reset and it keep old data with new. Think reason some peoples post 6-7H SoT 1 day and others day much less. Go into battery time and see if it reset after unplugged from charger for real battery time.

2. Already known bug, but I see still peoples wonder why having battery drain overnight. Had same problem and found out phone wasnt goes into deep sleep. Easy to check is using CpuSpy, reset timer and just turn screen off for 10 sec, turn back on and check if phone goes into deep sleep. Fix is that already peoples already mentioned, reboot into recovery and wipe cache.

I just cant see that S6 with 2550mah and 1440x2560 display can have 7-9H SoT (that some peoples posting), if normal use, unless root and using a super battery saver kernel. Or disabled everything and turn it into a dumb phone.

My best SoT so far is around 4H and that is with heavy using. 1-2H gaming + 2-3H listening at same time to online streaming music/radio, browsing internet 30m-1H.

Light use, can have over 1 day standby time and 2-3H SoT. Havent taking any screenshot yet, since I dont trust battery time reporting yet and doesnt bother me much. Unless have horrible barttery life.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
You are just wrong. I get 7 hour SoT and yes, my battery resets as I charge to 100% and it starts from 0 min SoT. You are just posting this to let you feel good. The device gets 6-7 hour SoT. Battery life is far from mAh and resolution.
[Galaxy S6 General] dt33:
Uh, why should I feel good? Because u got 7H SoT? Did I said, that I was dissapointed on mine 4H SoT? Read again what I wrote. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S6 General] myd.:
I'm getting wakeups from play services.. Google now, location history and location itself is all disabled.. Anyone knows how i can see what is causing these wakeups? Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] le_lutin:
Used GSam last night.

10% battery drain over 6. hours 41 mins. Keep in mind, the screen is off and the phone shouldn't really be doing anything, so 10% seems really high.

Attached is what GSam tells me.

Anyone any ideas?

EDIT: Also did a 5 minute test with CPUSpy which show that the phone is in deep sleep for 96% of the time (rest of time was about 20 seconds at 400mhz which is probably just about the length of time I had the screen on for).
[Galaxy S6 General] myd.:
Definitely using your wifi, try put him in airplane mode this night, there should be 0 - 1% drainage max. If not it's a problem with the rom, If not it's an app (or setting) that causes wakelocks
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
My idle drain is about the same when I'm on mobile data.
[Galaxy S6 General] ankur3467:
What I have observed after the last BOE3 update battery life has improved considerably... Easily going over day after moderate usage which include gaming, videos, FB, instant messaging and phone calls, also my phone is on roaming....I will show the screenshots once my battery is 100% recharged.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
You are one of the lucky few who gets this much SoT. I average about 4.5hr of SoT for a full charge.
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Did you mean AOE3? If so, do you have a link for AOE3? Struggling to download it from samsung website.
[Galaxy S6 General] ankur3467:
I meant BOE3 (15TH MAY) which came after AOE3 (8TH MAY)...
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Ok, do you have a link for it please? :)
[Galaxy S6 General] SlamTheDoor:
So, is the drain due to apps that send data over wifi? Or does the battery drain even when there's no data being sent over wifi?

Over night, GSAM will show that my 'Wifi Active' is responsible for 20% of battery usage. And then within Wifi it shows 41MB total data usage by apps, 1.5MB for System. I'm not sure which app is responsible for that usage, but it doesn't seem like a lot to me over the course of a night. Would the battery drain even if none of the apps sent data? If wifi is active, but no data is sent, does it still drain the battery significantly. Some drain seems likely, but how much?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Rarely more than 2 hrs screen on time

What do y'all do to keep battery usage down? I can never get more than 12 hours out of the phone with a little over two hours of screen on time. Google Play Services and screen use up most my battery.

I have the AT&T model, Wifi and 4G always on and VoLTE disabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] James9000:
Plz plz help me... just tell me that this battery life is great or not good...￼..plz campare with ur mobile:)
[Galaxy S6 General] ysrini:
Here you go,

Samsung Updates
[Galaxy S6 General] amankapoor4:
Not sure how some are getting 5 hr SOT, I hardly top 2 hr. Battery is absolutely crap on this thing, my 1.8 yr old g2 was doing well when I retired it.

This has been around d 5 days with me and vest I could do was 3.3 hrs SOT.

See this..