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[Galaxy S6 General] BoneXDA:
That is correct, Andrei, and I'm not arguing against such methods, I use them too. But if there could be an accurate "readability" test, the AMOLED screen would still be readable at a certain brightness level where an LCD couldn't. Or to have the same level of "video enjoyment", you'd have to set an LCD panel much brighter. It's subjective, that's for sure, but the Tab S was the closest to actually reading print paper in my experience, and it could be used for hours and hours of low-brightness reading and surfing cause of the screen tech. There's more to it than just brightness, and these web battery life rundowns are as laboratory as benchmarks. User experience is a different thing.
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
To be fair loss of brightness and contrast at angles ARE measurable. It is just not very practical to demand reviewers measure them.
[Galaxy S6 General] AndreiLux:
It's perfectly reasonable to demand that, it's just completely unrelated to the battery benchmarks. Who is to decide what angle other than perfectly perpendicular is "standard" usage for people.
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
^ Oh you are right. Haha. Following the train of thought I kind of forgot what the thread was originally about.
[Galaxy S6 General] chrcol:
major telcos in france, germany and uk have been selling the 901f as their flagship for several months.

Also none of them called it the S5+.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jiyeon90:
You were saying?
[Galaxy S6 General] lawtq:
Lol I can't wait for his reply. He's gone quiet
[Galaxy S6 General] PlatinumNick:
I dont think this forum was made to humiliate people. These are all opinions of individuals, please dont hold it against them.
[Galaxy S6 General] Poetique:
He humiliated himself. Nothing wrong with pushing him onto the sword.

Especially since he used all caps :p
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
Yeah lol. The all caps did it! You go on a rant like that you BETTER BE RIGHT!! =P
[Galaxy S6 General] das boot:
Exactly...there were plenty of people that made "predictions" on these forums that turned out to be incorrect. People need to move on....
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
A prediction is one thing, but yelling at people is unnecessary.
[Galaxy S6 General] Orginator:
130 apps, WiFi, GSM, sync always on, using arter97 kernel with XtreStoLite Deo Mod v.2.4

Here how my device sleeps at night :)
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Samsung no o make up for his undervolt processors to gain autonomy
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Cant' see the photo.

130 app its a little bit,

How much ram you have available with 130apps?
[Galaxy S6 General] Orginator:
Atm 640 MB Free
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Doing me well so far and comfortably going through the day. I have no need for NFC yet but can simply enable if required and have disabled S Health as I have no need for it at the moment.
[Galaxy S6 General] lummujaj:
its known "deffect" of all lollipop devices while using cellphone with mobile internet network , mobile radio active . already fixed it with module from exposed ...
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
Ok, I haven't noticed it on my old nexus 5 tho. What is the name of the module?
[Galaxy S6 General] Michaelgeekie:
It is quick to charge, but it’s also quick to drain, oops. And I can not making it through the day without a top-up. So I try to turn on the power saving mode that can save battery life to some degree. However, there is a cost in terms of reduced brightness, vibration, and performance lol.
[Galaxy S6 General] lummujaj:
http://xdaforums.com/xposed/modules/xposed-mobileradioactivefix-t3132956
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
Due to data usage bug on mobiledata it seems to be good idea to use as much wifi as possible. There's significantly less battery drain when I'm using wifi. Hopefully samsung will bring fix to this with android 6 update.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ryem:
HOLY!! How did you get this SOT? Which rom and kernal are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
TPH stock with all apps i can and dont need disabled.

But this SOT is at weekend when im at home only with wifi.

Yesterday i flash XEU to can optimize Facebook and messenger and im testing now.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ryem:
What do you use to disable apps in stock rom?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Nothing, had package disabler but doesn't notice the difference.

I only disabled all i don't need and some bloatware.

When I had time i put some screen shots from the apps i disabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Not complaining [emoji3]
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Nearly 3 hours later

So so happy with today's readings although I'm sure there are plenty of people getting even better results! So this was unplugged at 4am iirc and it's now 20:50!
[Galaxy S6 General] wintermute000:
1.) debloat, whether through package disabler pro, root/titanium or custom

2.) turn off location, location history and google now - this will get rid of a big chunk of the google play services bug. I've seen another XDA post suggesting freezing those services (root) - fine but PITA if you want to actually use location you need to unfreeze. In that thread they were talking about automating this via tasker LOL, I can't be bothered to go that far.

http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-one/general/fix-google-play-services-idle-drain-t3176177

Those are the two main factors - in my usage, greenify hasn't done that much, though I don't have any rogue app issues aside from bloody google play services. The team responsible for that bug need to be beaten repeatedly with a sack of doorknobs - not for the bug itself (we all make mistakes) but for sitting on their arse for a year, I'm actually gobsmacked it STILL hasn't been fixed and no fixing it in marshmallow doesn't really count.....

and I have no idea how people get these 4.5 hour SOT etc. - I've NEVER EVER been able to pull that kind of stat on ANY droid, and I've rooted/custom ROM/tuned pretty much everything I've ever owned. Maybe all those people just sit @ home on wifi all day and never actually use mobile data or play 3D games.....
[Galaxy S6 General] TheDKGunner:
Strange there's so big differences in general. Know people have very different usages but anyways... I have between 4 and 5 hours SOT during weekends or when not at work. All stock, no root and only disabled bloatware. Don't use Google now though as not much use for it here in Denmark ?

Sendt fra min SM-T710 med Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] Pixelguy:
Iv installed two tasker profiles, one that turns WiFi off when not in range of cell towers near your preffered WiFi spots and another that turns auto sync on every hour for 3 minutes then back off and my battery life has doubled.

AUTO SYNC AND WIFI ARE KILLERS!
[Galaxy S6 General] hare89:
I dont get this s6 battery stats reported by users ,stats are so diferent like we are all using completely different devices...

I am usually around 3-4h of SOT...
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
This is by far the best battery stats iv gotten, 5% drain over a 7 hour sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Flashed XEU firmware and its running just great

Until now better than mine.,now i can optimize Facebook and messenger and don't have instagram and what's up, and have more free ram.

Today i had 4g all day get home 20% and dont need the power saving mode on.

Very good.

Next week maybe try BTU just to see if are any difference.
[Galaxy S6 General] rinderkappajoe:
My battery is getting worse every week....without changing anything.....what the **** is wrong with this phone....now i even loose % in Offline mode.....

I really hope Marshmallow will bring a big improvement to battery life....
[Galaxy S6 General] Pixelguy:
I completely agree with this, even on rooted devices with custom roms i have never been able to pull these stats! :rolleyes: and i can only get 3 hours 20 out of my S6 with tons of fiddling, tasker profiles, and things disabled! :eek:
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Hehe maybe I should open a thread with tips on how I managed to get all the good sot
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Clean Master. I use that as well and that helps in terms of the battery. Really good app.
[Galaxy S6 General] Pixelguy:
If you go into smart manager and click on storage you will see that it says " powered by clean master"

I think smart manager is actually part created by the devs that made clean master so i think having both isnt needed :good:;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
True. But there is more to clean Master than smart manager does.
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
Holy sh*t Google Services is using data sooo much. Not that bad hit to battery after all but without Google f**king things up like this it would be better. I can't understand what exactly uses that data. I had sync off most of the day, all location services off, wifi scanning off, pretty much everything off I can find from settings>accounts>google. Screen on time was only around 30mins during this period, busy day at work.
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
I have exactly the same issue. Tried everything u described without result. I nailed it down to Google Location service constantly running even with all location functions off. It cant be freezed without root and i dont want to risk voiding my warranty so there is no real solution right now. We have to pray Google to fix it because it is not fixed even on my marshmallowed Nexus 5.

I can achieve 5 hours of SoT on my SGS6 when using WiFi. On mobile data i can barely achieve 3 and a half hours due to this drain. :(
[Galaxy S6 General] gauridavin:
Weird SOT on gsam and stock

i have this weird problem that GSAM tend to show more screen on time compared to the stock battery monitor. for example, when in GSAM it says 2 hours SOT, on my stock battery setting it says 1 hours SOT. anyone have the same problem? and which one is correct and why is this difference happen?

thanks in advance:D
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Guys now i awake, and see the phone, and WTF , never happen before with this or other phone.

How even it's possible, i charge 100% clean memory to see the standby and BOOM 37% away.

Does it happen to anyone.

XEU fw is gone.
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
How did you track it down to be location service? I had nexus 5 before sgs6 too but I can't remember that there was this severe data usage from Google Services on Lollipop nor Marshmallow.
[Galaxy S6 General] lavazzabg:
I observed that no matter that all location options are OFF the service keeps running and restarts itself everytime i force close it. Personally i believe this is the culprit.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
If you're using mobile data, battery will drain quickly. There is no way around it until marshmallow comes.
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
Yeah that's my conclusion as well. If even marshmallow fixes this...
[Galaxy S6 General] hungnguyen490:
there is a bug knowns as "mobile radio active". This bug exist in android 5.x.x and google has not fixed it. So, no way to avoid battery drain when we connects to internet via mobile data or wifi

"Mobile radio active" bug in Marshmallow

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=190396

"Mobile radio active" bug in Lollipop

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Restrict background data can be a solution for this?
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
For those who are rooted and are interested you can check the MobileActiveRadioFix module on Xposed. It does seem to work...
[Galaxy S6 General] hungnguyen490:
I've already tried this. However, it's not work

---------- Post added at 04:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:04 PM ----------

Some peoples reported that it not works, some people say yes :)

For those who interested in Xposed, they should give it a try
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Any more battery profiles using tasker?

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
Yes and no. This breaks some functions like youtube reports no internet connection and is unusable. Also data usage doesn't seem to stop on my device so it doesn't really fix anything.

---------- Post added at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 PM ----------

Seems like we are gonna have to live with this bug for a while... Might go and root to fix this before Google does anything about it.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
I don't want to quote your whole post as it is a pain with all the colours and your whole font changing for me. :P

First off:

Display brightness to a lower level makes sense... But the part with dark wallpapers and themes seems to be not true. There are so many reports that sate that there's literally NO change in battery life and I can approve that message.

Next thing on my list of things I can't agree with is package disabler. Yes, debloating makes sense and even using debloated ROMs makes sense, but Package Disabler gave me no real bump in battery life while I was using it. The only thing that really got better were wakelocks from Samsung's push service...

I love Tasker. Honestly... I love it.

But if you have to many tasker tasks your device will experience more wakelocks from tasker and this is causing bad battery life. So be careful with it.

My little things for bettery life:

Use a debloated Roms and try to use a good kernel. I prefer Googymax (or kernels that aren't available on XDA) which is the best optimized yet on XDA imo.

Don't install Facebok, try using Tinfoil. It's good and lightweight.

And the main thing I can say is:

DO NOT use Xposed. It might be superb for cusomizations, but to load your device with hacks isn't agood idea considering battery life. Xposed isn't fully optimized yet, even though Wanam has made a big step in the right direction and we can be thankful for so much effort.

I tried things like Amplify, Greenify and PowerNap... FOr me they weren't woth installing Xposed.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I have installed now BTU and its working fine with 4g.

Facebook is optimized now.
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
BTU?
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Fully stock non rooted and getting good battery life. No need to root. Plus using package disabler pro to debloat or just disable and really getting the battery i expect.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
Could you post some Screenshots? I would like to see what you get [emoji14]
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
BTU is United Kingdom firmware.
[Galaxy S6 General] PauldUK:
Hi guys. What kind of screen on time are people getting on the S6, fully stock and the screen off of auto brightness and on full brightness? Cheers guys.
[Galaxy S6 General] rockknee:
Just stock otherwise? Weird... Assuming that it's problem on Android not on Sammy's firmwares
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
With Facebook optimized its always close but get some of the notifications.

I can now had 4g always on and leave messenger without optimise and no battery drain. And no power saving.

I will keep BTU for now.
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Don't keep auto brightness on it drains more battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Are you sure ,at the sun could be better, but inside house is better auto.
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
For me I just have it just about 30% and that's more than bright enough. Auto will keep adjusting to find the perfect balance.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I have profile manager i control everything i need for the day and night.
[Galaxy S6 General] Pixelguy:
Yes I will agree I am not 100% sure on the background and wallpapers, I think the difference is something like you save 2% battery

As for package Disabler even if it doesn't help battery life it does not seen to drain any battery as an app itself and simply disables bloatware and get rid of the icon which is nice! Also iv had no wakelocks with tasked using 7 profiles.

I agree with the custom ROMs saving tons of battery and making the phone so much better but the problem with that is a lot of users want to be able to use Samsung pay! Including myself :(
[Galaxy S6 General] itzik_man:
5 easy steps to impruve battery life....

If it doesn't help it doesn't hurt!

Follow this link:

http://trendblog.net/increase-samsung-galaxy-s6-battery-life/
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Just leave it here
[Galaxy S6 General] Orginator:
SM-G920F

XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 2.4

arter97 8.1 Kernel

No Xposed, Amplify, Greenify etc.

No power saving mode

All time WiFi and GSM on

Brightness auto, slider set to middle

Over 130 apps (WhatsApp, FB Messanger, FB, Skype etc.)
[Galaxy S6 General] Berlinetta:
Wow. I used to get 5 hour SOT on the stock software the phone originally came with.

Progressively with each update, my battery life has suffered.

I think I'll be trying to root my S6 sometime soon. I can't take anymore of this sub-3 hour SOT.
[Galaxy S6 General] jmtast:
Exactly the same thing happened to me. I have had the phone for around 3 months and had over 4 hs SoT with normal use. Without changing it (either the usage or adding/removing too many apps) it started decreasing while I now see between 2.5 and 3 hs SoT at best. I think it has to do a lot with Google Play Services (the same happened to me with my previous phone, the Oneplus One). I am also very tempted to install a custom ROM...
[Galaxy S6 General] Baxtter:
I don't use Facebook and other crap.

Only GSM mode.

Brightness adjust AUTO.

Dark theme Black Sky.

Sensor finger OFF.

Overnight is on standby mode.

NFC, WIFI permanently ON, BT as needed.

Launch the camera off an double click the HOME button.

Screenshots show the progress that I have 4 twelves shift in a row. After the last update,the system performs optimization of applications running in the background. I dwell S6 very happy. And I moved from SG NOTE 2.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
One doubt i have,

Why do you choose s6 if you don't use the phone , the main features, like finger sensor and double tap.

correct me if I'm wrong, i think people want, is to achieve maximum sot with hard use at least one day..

I can do 2.3h in 3 days if i want.

But i do always 4 to 5h every day sot.

Because i use the phone.

And Facebook when optimized the consumption is very low.

This is my opinion.
[Galaxy S6 General] kalpesh6331:
Can we optimize facebook also?

I don't see it under the list
[Galaxy S6 General] Goku80:
Yes it's there
[Galaxy S6 General] kalpesh6331:
I tried uninstalling and installing facebook again but still can't see it in the list

Do I need to make any changes in app settings?
[Galaxy S6 General] lucky92:
sorry but i don't see facebook app in optimization. :confused::confused:
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
As far i known only XEU and BTU firmware doesn't bring Facebook, messenger, what's up, and instagram pré installed.

Then you install and optimise.

Pre installed is not possible to optimise.

I have BTU its working fine.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I did it great standby. 8h 1%
[Galaxy S6 General] chubutnet:
How did you do that?? stock fw or custom rom? witch one?? do you put it on airplane mode?
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I change a few things,

Wipe cache partition.

And airplane mode.

Without airplane mode is 2.3h 1%.
[Galaxy S6 General] joeri1985:
Quick charge

Hello,

maybe a stupid question but is it bad to put on the s6 overnight in the charger or does it harm the battery.

I get the quick charge and love it but i dont always have time during the Day.

Kind regards
[Galaxy S6 General] jr866gooner:
Nothing wrong with it at all. No harm will be done. The phones are clever enough to get what it needs. It will even take what juice it needs when using a charger to powerful. Anyway no issue with charging overnight whatsoever.
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
After disabling various bloatware and introducing as much black(does the increased blackness actually work? It seems quite logical being an AMOLED) as I reasonably can into my phone life I'm getting quite decent battery life. I've also switched off google now, location, bluetooth, LEDs.

It's nowhere near as good as my old phone even after 2 years of heavy usage with it (ie LG G2), but it gets me through the day ok with around 6-8(this is an estimate cos I've recharged before it gets down to about 40%) hours SOT when the brightness is set to about 10-40%
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Let me see if i understand,

You do 6 to 8h sot from 100 to 40%???

Can tou please put some screenshot of your battery please.
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
No, sorry if I wasn't clear.

I meant that I'm estimating that I would get 6-8 hrs SOT if I used the battery down to near 0. I've got about 5 hours and X minutes SOT before I plugged in the charger at around 40%.

It's in my post. Unless you mean from the settings like here, but it doesn't show much
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Are you stock rom?.

8h its pretty impossible to achieve in stock even with custom Rom.

There is no miracles my friend.

I never see 8h here.
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
Yup, stock. I plugged in last night and it was showing 5 hours 47 mins SOT with 32% left on the battery, so I think 6-8 hours SOT is quite reasonable by my estimate. From my observations battery life decreases about 8-9% per hour with the screen on when using the phone for reading reddit, watching YouTube, reading news/articles, etc
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
We like to see screenshot of the battery when you have 1% and the sot .

And the apps you disabled and how you manage the phone for that sot.

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] OldOldDev:
I probably won't be going down as far as 1% if I can help it, and the disabled apps are mostly irrelevant for the SOT.

I have black wallpaper and lock screen, black theme as much as possible in the apps, wifi on except when out and about or the phone is sleeping, screen rotation off, power saving on, screen brightness between about 10 and 40%(depending on weather or indoors/outdoors), location permanently off, auto sync on.

I've shown that I can get 5 hours SOT with 49% battery left, so what's your take on how much SOT I can get if I go to 1%?
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Well standby and sync will eat a few percents but yeah, I think 8 to 8.5 is still doable.

Source:
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Im not sure if black themes makes a lot of difference. Some people say doesn't make difference.

I'm sure that with themes the phone lags a little.

And with power saving even more .

I flash BTU and now i don't use no more power saving.

And have battery for one day with 4g always on and come home with 20 30% and with the rest with wifi. Get easy always 4 to 5h sot.

I just want a fast phone with beautiful screen and colours.

Its just what i don't understand why kill a good phone with the best screen with black.

My opinion is people come here and put i did 7h sot.

But for some people need to explain how.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] vnvman:
Yeah it's not easy to find a sweet spot between SOT and uptime on standby. For example one could manage 8, even 9 hrs SOT but out of maybe 12 hours uptime total, not a very common usage pattern, basically it means doing nothing but browsing on the phone on low brightness all day lol. I'd say a good 5 hrs SOT with about 18-20 hours uptime is a more realistic figure, and nonetheless some dam good battery life IMHO. On the other side of the spectrum you could probably get 2 full days or maybe more with 3 hrs SOT max, but that would mean not being able to appreciate the phone to its full potential.
[Galaxy S6 General] jedrzejczyk3:
hey Guys , i want to share we you my disovery, im using app called PACKAGE PACKAGE DISABLER PRO and i turn off some of the blotware but yesterday i discover that the AUTOROTATE cnsuming a lot of energy in my phone . When i turned it off i can use my phone with wifi , bluetooth withstands 6 hours on screen time , that was amazing for me ,its just my opinion ,sorry about my English , write what you think about that ,(maybe its a kind of bug or something with autorotating ) Cheers
[Galaxy S6 General] popthosegaskets:
That's old news already. If you're rooted just freeze or uninstall apps with Titanium Backup.