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[Galaxy S6 General] zaydaboss:
Play services just started to out rank everything else. This is all of a sudden. Fire the record I average about 4 hours screen time. 9 hours standby. I lose about 20-30% battery in standby over night. Any suggestions? Volte off, Wi-Fi scanning off, I'm on LTE (I'm starting to think that may have a lot to do with it) I'm on Wi-Fi 75% of my day. Phone showing held awake longer than screen time.
[Galaxy S6 General] diogoperas:
I find that whenever I go out battery starts do drain like madness. If I stay home/work with wifi that's ok and it stays almost the same.

I had a Z3C before and of course LTE consumed more battery than wifi, but not like this bullsh**.

It almost seems that if I'm moving, it starts to track where I am every second (like if I had google maps opened), causing the drain. I don't know, just guessing.
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
Maybe you have a bad cell signal in your area
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
Quick question: ~10% over night with wifi, data and sync on (around 10 mails over night, few fb notifications) and 2-3% over night without wifi and data on, thats ok?
[Galaxy S6 General] phositadc:
It might be ok for a gs6 given all is issues, but I could leave Wi-Fi data and sync on for many other phones and lose only 2 to 3 percent overnight. So 10 is high compared to a lot of phones, but may not be terrible for the gs6 unfortunately.

Sent from my SM-N910T
[Galaxy S6 General] FlowingAway:
I have did multiple factory resets and total Odin firmware flashes trying to help the battery. The thing that finally helped me was doing a reset and firmware reset using SMART SWITCH. It's on Samsung's website and flashes the firmware in a different way than Odin and seems to be a more complete firmware flash. Battery is much better for me now.

Also if you're rooted, disabling the system update service found within Google services has been good.
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
True, on my g3 i lost 3% with wifi and sync on, but on other side it was bigger battery. Or Im wrong?
[Galaxy S6 General] phositadc:
Dunno, but I doubt it was 3 times bigger. It probably was not as power efficient as the gs6 either. Any phone that loses 10% overnight is going wrong somewhere. Look at the iPhone 5. It has a tiny battery and loses less than 5% overnight.

Sent from my SM-N910T
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
My G920I loses about 1% overnight. 10% is too high. I can't believe it.

I turn off WiFi at night when I sleep.
[Galaxy S6 General] phositadc:
I'm not the person who said I lose 10%.

Out of curiosity, do you also turn data off? Or just Wi-Fi, but leave LTE on?

Are you in the U.S.? If so, which network and which firmware are you running?

Sent from my SM-N910T
[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
I will do one more test with 100% battery with sync and wifi on. Will gsam be enough to check whats going on? [MENTION=6336201]arayoflight[/MENTION] thats with wifi and sync on (~10 mails and few fb notifications). I forgot to mention before that BT is 24/7 for miband.

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This is my latest usage. But take in count that mostly i was on lte data and signal is...as you can see poor.
[Galaxy S6 General] agarmim:
I'm getting a high cell standby and Google play services drain. What is this, and has anyone figured out how to fix it?

3% drain per hour overnight. :(
[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
Yeah, I figured out how to fix my cell standby drain. I did it last night.

Sent from my Galaxy S6 ~
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
Care to share?
[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
My cell standby was like 40 percent drained since I got my phone yesterday but I read online for hours and found a fix that works..at least I hope it stays this way.. turn off phone, then Hold power button, volume up and home button til it goes to this teal screen then wait a few seconds. Then when it goes to this menu use the volume down button to scroll down to wipe cache. Do that then at the top reboot phone. Then turn on advanced calling if you're on Verizon...if not Verizon I think it's just called volte.. Then restart phone and then your cell standby won't drain near as much. Hopefully this update coming out fixes it for good though.

Sent from my Galaxy S6 ~
[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
This guy must explain it a bit better.

Sent from my Galaxy S6 ~
[Galaxy S6 General] agarmim:
Thanks! I've tried this and will report back.
[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
From what I read through, it's definitely a software issue and not hardware. They will fix it for sure with an update hopefully sooner than later. Idc really though honestly my battery life is really awesome.. Does this seem pretty good to you guys? Before I did this "fix" my standby was like 50 percent... Was insane.. Btw, these screen shots are with wifi on, data on, sync on, location on and 50percent brightness level.

Sent from my Galaxy S6 ~
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucidd33:
Anyone know if the latest update has any affect on batt life? Thx
[Galaxy S6 General] Roobwz:
What fix did you use?
[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
I posted it a few posts up.

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[Galaxy S6 General] droidhd:
Something keeps up awake my phone, its in android services i guess... this was over night

BT, data and wifi on, ive got 2 missed calls and 9 emails, 3 tapatalk notifications.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I turn mobile data as well as WiFi off while sleeping. I don't want my phone beeping and waking me up in night.

Sometimes it drains 0%, sometimes 1%.

No, I'm not in US.

BTW here I made my battery life summary after one month of usage. Check it out.

http://sonictech101.blogspot.in/2015/05/galaxy-s6-what-about-battery-life.html

Hope this helps. I'm extremely happy with the battery life :)
[Galaxy S6 General] tiagovale2:
Powersave always on.

Wifi mostly off.

4G always on.

Sync mostly off.

GPS off.

Auto brightness.

Heavy facebook messenger usage and some minutes of full HD recording.

Do you guys think this is normal? Any tips?
[Galaxy S6 General] Cygnuss:
I am using Go power Master and i am loving it did a few build prop tweaks changed rom and kernel i am scoring 70k on Antutu and battery life is very good i manage to squeeze 28h and i use wifi and mobile data a lot
[Galaxy S6 General] likearaptor:
See second post. My daughter made me post it before I was done :)
[Galaxy S6 General] likearaptor:
I've had great success with an app called ShutApp. I heard about it on drippler. I went from 5-6%/hour to 2-3%/hour on my battery drain with no changes to my usage patterns other than looking at the widget that comes with it. If there are more than 5 apps running in the background I touch the widget and it cleans them up. It doesn't shut down any system processes and I have add about 15 apps I whitelisted.

I only use 1-2 screen hours a day but it's enough for what I need. Here is a screenshot of the last few weeks of usage. From rows 2-13 are with me using ShutApp. You can see what I was getting before (rows 14 and later).

I'm not rooted and plan to wait for the Samsung pay before rooting. I usually have location off or set to low accuracy.

I'm on sprint and have some low coverage at my house usually just one bar but the cell standby and idle usage is really low. I think yesterday I was 12%of the time with no signal but cell standby was around 3 or 4%
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli:
International s6 gets way better battery life. I'm in a sprint user in the US (location, nfc, bt, location history all off, no google apps, no samsung apps, syncing 3 emails on gmail app, no facebook, brightness on super low, 4g off, wifi usually on or 3g) and can maybe get 7 hours max, but more like 6 hrs normally.
[Galaxy S6 General] bruiselee:
my battery drain is real bad.

can drop 20% in a night of sleep.

i'm rooted with pingpong root and have went ahead to debloat most of the stuffs listed in another "safe to debloat" thread for S6 in xda.

I have also offed VolTe for phone calls as well.

any suggestions for me?

i have also tried to do the "wipe cache" method, but i'm unable to get there, holding power + home + vol up brings me to odin recovery instead.
[Galaxy S6 General] Tron666:
You need to hold vol down instead of up.
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
Yes, because in the real world, marketing beats quality. That's why Samsung was able to churn out nothing but plastic crap for years and still get much higher sales than htc.

It doesn't matter if the SD 805 is the better option for phone quality if everyone will trash you for not going with the 64-bit processor. Hell, I bet 99% of the people harping about 64-bit CPUs don't even know what 64-bit is, but it sounds "next-gen" and they decided they won't buy anything that's not 64-bit.

Also, there have been reports of SONY, htc, LG and other OEMs begging Samsung for the 7420, but Samsung refused their offers, seeing as they have a HUGE upper-hand in processor performance for this year. I bet Samsung felt redeemed, since most of those OEMs who begged Samsung mocked the Exynos processors in previous years. With Samsung not willing to share their jewel, their only options are mediatek (LOL) and the SD 810. It's not that the other OEMs are "stupid". They just didn't have a choice.
[Galaxy S6 General] derWolf_:
Of course they had an option - the SD805. As we saw from the Note 4 it is really capable processor.

Anyway... we started jumping from a topic to topic too much. We'll see later in the year all about the SD810's issues, now is all just speculating of which, frankly, there isn't much point.
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
Yes, the 805 is the far better option, but you forgot about what I said concerning marketing and quality.

Going with the 805 would be a marketing nightmare, since everyone would attack you for not having a 64-bit processor. The other OEMs who would use the 810 would attack you in their ads for not using a 64-bit processor. It doesn't matter that their phones throttle after 5 minutes of usage and lag worse than gingerbread devices; they would attack you non-stop for using a 32-bit processor and the average Joe would say, "Android phones with 805 is bad because 32-bit. Must go with 64-bit processor phones."
[Galaxy S6 General] manojmcn:
Apple cleverly goes with experience & eco system, hence they do not need to compete on specs.

Android devices, especially Samsung went on specs war successfully against Apple and other Android manufacturers & gained huge market share.

So this war is going to last a few more years, till smart phones become like televisions or laptops.

The top notch hardware in S6 plus the premium build, if it succeeds, will make competitors like LG to put the best available to stand a chance to grab their bit of market share. Else they will be seen as mediocre against Samsung's S/Note & A series counterparts.
[Galaxy S6 General] Poetique:
Like they basically did around say... 2008? :P
[Galaxy S6 General] xdafann:
Hello guys, great news for you, check this out : http://www.geeksandcom.com/2015/03/14/test-samsung-galaxy-s6-sous-android-5-0-lollipop/

It's in French so I guess you can't understand, but here's my translation for the battery department :

"In reality, I noticed a superior battery life to that of the S5 in most uses. I never had any issues to last a day with medium uses, while an intensive use allowed for the battery to last about 14 hours. The testings with Geekbench 3 confirm this feeling : 8.5 hours were needed to kill the S6 battery in an intensive use of the processor while 5h were enough to kill the Lollipop-running S5. The improvement is thus substantial. "
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Here you go - for people who are too busy to read :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
WOW... This look more accurate, since the results are from GB and their battery life measures always matched real-world usage fairly well.

Looks like the S6 will have the best battery life by a WIDE margin.
[Galaxy S6 General] xdafann:
I'm guessing the reviewers of this last test got an update or the latest build, only that could explain the difference with gsmarena figures. That or GSMArena just rushed it for the sake of being first.

Anyway, it seems very promising indeed. It's getting harder and harder to resist to this phone :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
No other phone even comes close to that figure under intensive load.

They all have 3-5 hour SoT.
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
The French site had a W8 (Canadian model)

GSMarena had an F (forget their markets)

Not sure if that has anything to do with it. It shouldn't.

Just thought I'd point it out.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
It's almost double that of the S5, and that's for the most intense uses...If this holds true in real world the battery life will be killer, since the S5 has good battery life.

Sent from my SM-G900T using AllianceR(●)m
[Galaxy S6 General] smooth4lyfe:
Definitely reassuring! I hope this holds true. At the end of the day though, battery life depends on how the phone is used
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Another review: http://www.mobile-review.com/review/samsung-galaxy-s6.shtml

On batterylife (using Google translate):

What load is he talking about, I have no clue. But 10.5 hours of video at full brightness sounds decent.
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
God bless Google Translate for trying but man that is confusing lol
[Galaxy S6 General] smooth4lyfe:
Ive always loved reviews from Mobile-Review because they are full and detailed

"By and large, Galaxy S6 was very pleasing, functional, and what you expect from the machine line Galaxy, but also there is no memory card that many consider a minus. Comparing this model with similar devices in the same price range, we can say that they are very inferior in all respects. This device without any compromise, the best in almost everything. Subjective things can interfere with personal rejection of design and / or to Samsung. But this matter is so thin that it makes no sense to discuss them. From a market perspective, Galaxy S6 sets the bar very high in both productivity and everyday usability. The ergonomics of this device just fine."

Awesome!
[Galaxy S6 General] CLARiiON:
Their reviews have all possible screenshots of the UI. You won't need to see any other youtube videos ;)

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:laugh:

My thoughts exactly. Here's what Bing did, not much help either.
[Galaxy S6 General] Applesexual:
Honestly, I think discussing current S6 battery life is pointless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdVAqO3PWPg&feature=youtu.be

"Unfortunately I was told on the 12th of march to avoid battery testing because I have a a 'training device' and there will be new updated software on the retail version of the Samsung Galaxy S6 upon its release (April 10th in the UK). Therefore any tests I do wouldn't be a true reflection of the device. Everything else on the phone I should be able to test in full."

If what he's saying is true, all battery life tests of the S6 are inaccurate.
[Galaxy S6 General] Protagoras:
Well it gives us a basis to think about, and what else do we have at the moment? If what they say is true, that only means the battery time we'll get will be EVEN BETTER than the one these reviews are measuring. So it's all good :)
[Galaxy S6 General] tomatoguy:
the battery is just so so, that's why I bought two chargers, one is at home, the other in the office.:D
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
Aka airplane mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] qkevinto:
I just spent the last 3 days going insane trying to figure out why the hell my Galaxy S6 was getting nothing more than about 10 hour of battery life with only about 1 ~ 1.5 hour SoT, and some terrible standby time. I'm quite a "power user", so I have plenty of apps installed (with accompanying Sync accounts) and use my phone quite a lot. Though I figured it couldn't be this bad... I thought my device was a lemon until I saw so many other people getting abysmal battery life in this thread as well – I was determined to figure out what the sh*t was going on.

I tried taking people's advice here and disabling Sync and even Locations, but that didn't make a very big impact.

I installed BetterBatteryStats and GSAM Battery Monitor and ran through 2 or 3 charge cycles. It turns out my device was having a very hard time getting into Deep Sleep, averaging only about 50% Deep Sleep every charge cycle, which is horrible!

Then I stumbled upon an app called Wakelock Detector. The developer says it requires root but also provides instructions on a workaround to use it without the need for root. So I followed the instructions, fired up the app and therein lies the answer to my wakelock woes (looking under "Wakeup triggers").

Google Search was waking up my device in excess of 1000 times in less than 24 hours, Facebook up next with about 700 times and Facebook Messenger close after with 600 times (not to forget WhatsApp with 400 times though I need it so I left it alone), so I uninstalled/disabled those 3 apps. Just for reference, Tasker was waking up my device only about 200 times and then it jumps up to those crazy apps.

Results? After disabling/uninstalling those apps then a reboot:

Uptime: 02h 07m 48s
Screen On: 00h 12m 51s (10%)
Awake: 00h 28m 24s (22%)
Deep Sleep: 01h 39m 24s (78%)

That's going from an average of 50% to 78% Deep Sleep, and 6% to 2.6% battery usage per hour, just from disabling/uninstalling Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Google Search. These numbers still aren't fantastic, but as I use my phone a lot, I have many other apps installed that I could look into as well, but for a start this is definitely a significant improvement.

I'll provide some updates after some more thorough usage over a few more charge cycles, but give this a go if you're having terribad battery life and see if it helps!

Update #1

Uptime: 11h 10m 55s
Screen On: 01h 05m 41s (10%)
Awake: 02h 28m 59s (22%)
Deep Sleep: 08h 41m 56s (78%)

Very consistent battery usage. Went to sleep at about 01:00 and woke up at about 07:15, over the 6 hour and 15 minute period the phone went from 60% to 55%. That's only 5% over about 6 hours, compared to 20% the previous night. That's with WiFi on, Sync and location off as well. Then a bit of browsing for about 15 minutes, and listened to podcasts for about 45 minutes whilst commuting to work which then left the battery at 45%. Didn't get a chance to charge the phone to 100% yet (been quick charging to about 80%) so I won't post a battery graph here yet, but I will do a full charge today and see how that goes.
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
This is when i am sleeping. When i am working (during the night) i have wifi always ON, also data, but still losing almost nothing.
[Galaxy S6 General] DevonSloan:
Just my 2 cents on my experiences: I never noticed significant drop before - though have had extreme drop during high use days. That said, my phone usually charges in the evening to 100%, and then I take it to bed to play games or check FB, and then set it on the bed next to me as I sleep. Usually the phone is at 90-95% when I set it down, then about 75% when I wake up - so about 20% drop while sleeping. A bit crazy, but not horrible. Last night, I wasn't at 100% when I went to bed, so when I set it down, it was about 70%. When I woke this morning, it wasn't to my alarm, but to the low battery sound at 15%. That concerns me.
[Galaxy S6 General] 20blks:
I've had my phone for about a week and a half. First few days, my battery battery had an expected life of 10 hours a day. A few days later, it went up to 12. Now, it's at 16 hours. Seems to get better once it settles in
[Galaxy S6 General] BobbyHenceMcGee:
Sorry but judging by the sales figures of the S6 and S6 edge I would say you are very much mistaken.

Hitting the mainstream market may not be the best thing for you or other people but it clearly is the best thing for Samsung.

Their sales figures for the Galaxy S6 have fully redeemed themselves after the terrible S5 sales slump.

It has pushed the Apple sales figures down substantially as well because let's face it.. Why buy Apple when you have something that looks better, has a better OS, better camera.. Hell, better everything?

I have a Xiaomi 10,400MAH battery pack sitting next to me and while it weighs about as much as two of the S6's it's still suitably small to carry around with you if you absolutely need it. Plus it has small dimensions. Plus there is smaller battery packs which would fit any size pocket and weigh less and still provide you with two full charges of an S6 easily enough.

Then there's the battery cases which provide an extra 100% battery life.. Wireless charging.. Universal micro USB charging (tried every charger for every phone that uses micro USB whenever I come across a new one and they all work with the S6).. There's so many reasons why having a ridiculously long battery capacity on the S6 is unnecessary. Light usage two full days of usage with 40% to spare. Moderate usage - Full day usage with 50% remaining. Heavy usage - 9 hours. Either way you're able to get to a charger or alternative charging method in these time frames :cool:
[Galaxy S6 General] beaverslayer:
Out of curiosity, have you tried force stopping Google maps when not in use to see what a difference that makes. That app sucks some battery even when not in use. Also do you use power toggles. There is a box to check for each toggle that stops the app from running when the screen is off. Not trying to insult your intelligence but these to have caused me significant battery trouble in the past.
[Galaxy S6 General] qkevinto:
Thanks for the tip [MENTION=4518424]beaverslayer[/MENTION]! I have not tried force stopping Google Maps, though it doesn't appear to be running in the background when I go to Application manager > Running, I'll be sure to keep an eye on it though. As for Power Toggles, are you referring to the app? I'm not familiar with it and have not used it before.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
This seems ok to me, but with the GS5 I had much better SoT.
[Galaxy S6 General] NaimC:
Getting pretty solid screen on times with my S6, though I do use it at mostly lower brightnesses. Still fairly heavy use though, with lost of web browsing, YouTube, music, calls, texting, WhatsApp, camera etc. I'd say so far I've gotten a wide range of anything between 4.5 hours and 6.5 hours screen on time, depending on what it is I was doing. Gaming and video recording seems to affect the battery most, but with everything else it fares well. About the same as my S5 used to get before the Lollipop update.

Example.

[IMG="S6 Screen On Time"]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/nchoudhury/Screenshot_2015-05-06-00-35-59-picsay.png~original[/IMG]
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
hi Can you share more details regarding the power toggles and the check box for stopping the apps running when the screen is off. TIA.
[Galaxy S6 General] bruiselee:
Getting real bad sleeping battery drain, seems like phone can't deep sleep, and fb and whatsapp is the culprit?

But I'm highly dependent on this two apps... My previous phones have no such issues with thwse apps as well..
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Are you rooted? If so, there's a deep sleep bug which is fixed by flashing the stock recovery.
[Galaxy S6 General] bruiselee:
Yep I'm rooted using ping pong root.

How do I go about flashing this stock recovery..?

Will I trip Knox?
[Galaxy S6 General] MaxieA:
If you read the root thread you will see that a lot if people ate saying that it doesn't trip Knox by flashing stock firmware via Odin :)
[Galaxy S6 General] bruiselee:
Alright thanks. Thought there's something different between firmware and recovery
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
Let us know how you get on and if it helps you.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
Ping-pong root does not cause the deep sleep bug - If that's the only root method you have done, you still have and never lost stock recovery. That's not your issue. If I'm reading your screen shot correctly. That shows something like 65 facebook wakes over 8 hours. That's also not an issue. I have FB installed, get many more wakes than that, and still deep sleep around 85% at idle.

Gotta keep chasing it.