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[Galaxy S6 General] :
The guide is **** tho. Done so much since. But follow this guide http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-to-battery-life-t3092593

and this guide

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884

(without the Xposed part, as we don't got that yet.) Disable Service instead of amplify to disable services.
[Galaxy S6 General] ¿Will-it-Blend?:
What default apps do you use daily? (For email, music, Web browsing, those kinds of things).
[Galaxy S6 General] misterepicwin:
I use

Gmail with sync off

Play music

Opera for browsing

Instagram

Twitter

Snapchat

Whatsapp

Tapatalk

Lucid launcher

And sunrise calender

Nothification except whatsapp and Tapatalk off because it is ok for me to open the app to check if there is something new and so I limit the back round data for them too

I think that is all I use daily

And two German news apps

I have the s6 edge by the way but I think there is no real difference with that 50 mah more

Not rooted because not needed
[Galaxy S6 General] belloni:
This is pointless especially if you want notifications from apps on data.
[Galaxy S6 General] misterepicwin:
If you need them it is

If you don't it doesn't hurt
[Galaxy S6 General] Neuz:
Appreciated.

Thank you

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[Galaxy S6 General] ammadb:
Guys i was suffering from the battery drain which i was hating. i came from S5 and felt if i had done a mistake in upgrading. anyway what i found out was that Google Services was consuming a lot of my battery including the time on standby. I uninstalled its updates and from then my life is a bliss. battery timing is almost the same as my S5 giving me a day on normal use with wifi.

for anyone suffering, do try this.
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Don't know what happened to my battery.

Charged my phone before going to bed, turned on Airplane mode and hibernated my apps right then and I lost 17%. I don't have syncing or Google Now on. Don't know why this is suddenly happening?

Just last week I would loose 0% overnight.
[Galaxy S6 General] misterepicwin:
Something keeps it awake and don't let it go into deep sleep
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Up until last month I normally got 8-9 hours sot on my sprint s6. Now usually 4-6. I started a new job so my signal being bad sometimes might be a big factor. I started syncing my Gmail account (not hotmail or my .edu accounts though) and turned brightness up because I'm outside a lot for work. But would those things really account for such a drastic change? I'm thinking it must be the signal. Before, I was always home on wifi 24/7 so that would likely help.
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
How do I find out? I'm not rooted and there were no apps on the battery screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
8-9 hrs is amazing was you stock rom rooted or custom rom. I work from home and only use wifi and I only get 5 hrs SOT maybe a bit more
[Galaxy S6 General] vphilot:
I used to get 4 hours SOT and 24 hours of total battery time. Then, out if freaking nowhere, I started to get 2 hours SOT and less than 12 battery time. That's where I am now, and 5.1.1 didn't solve the problem.

I'm just waiting for a safe method of rooting 5.1.1 without voiding Knox because I can't wait to get my hands on Xtrestolite
[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Stock rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] irzero:
my battery is horrible.

i lost 85% in one day and screen says 3%
[Galaxy S6 General] vphilot:
I tried this one but there's a warning every second bugging me about updating it back and won't let me use any google app. Will have to update the damn thing back. How did you manage this?
[Galaxy S6 General] misterepicwin:
You can try GSam battery monitor

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[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Last night it stayed at 100% all night. Really weird..

Here's the GSam app screen
[Galaxy S6 General] rankoradza:
My battery is fine on my S6 single sim.. but tomorrow i want to buy s6 duos.. so any1 here use it? Will i feel drastic battery change ? Dual sim variant phones spend more power, and how much more?

Should I buy dual sim or not..
[Galaxy S6 General] vphilot:
How did you manage to get these results? Can you please help me? Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] irzero:
how do you fix the ****e battery on this phone
[Galaxy S6 General] misterepicwin:
Ok that is crazy

There is actually no drain at this screen

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I mentioned that a viel pages bevor

To make it short

Keep so many apps awake as possible
[Galaxy S6 General] abbz123:
Just curious what users Battery life is strictly on 4g or LTE.
[Galaxy S6 General] slikr:
Guys is there something wrong with my s6 standby time?
[Galaxy S6 General] Hemant:
Its correct. It will show you the average remaining time based on on few days usage. Mine shows only 10H even thought last 2-3 battery cycles i have gone around 24H.
[Galaxy S6 General] misterepicwin:
Can be more or less

The actual battery live is important
[Galaxy S6 General] vphilot:
5.1.1 India OTA has solved my deep sleep issues. FYI
[Galaxy S6 General] ammadb:
I didnt face it. I am using XtreStoLite ROm
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
What base recomended for improbe battery life .

Great this captures of 8 hours screen time ???is good

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[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
can anyone help i only get 4 hrs screen on time i used to get 6 hrs. Since latest update BOG8 my battery drains really fast. But when not using phone say at night i loose nothing if i go to bed with 100% battery i wake up with 100% battery. It seems to drain really fast when using phone any ideas. I have sync turned off location off just wifi on all the time
[Galaxy S6 General] slikr:
Mobile data is the culprit
[Galaxy S6 General] twisted_mind:
Unibase V2 kernel. 3G on all day.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I read about unibase and people are really getting absurd battery life on it. How is your experience? Any bugs or performance issues? How is the RAM management?
[Galaxy S6 General] twisted_mind:
Well I have always got good battery life from unibase kernels. Like them more than unikernel which had a bit of a drain issue for me. No bugs or any performance issues whatsoever with the latest bog8 v2 kernel. Ram management also spot on. The latest India fw COGA seems to fix the RAM management issues from what I've read not that I've experienced those issues earlier.
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I also have G920I and the RAM management is excellent after COGA update and getting 5-6 hours SoT under heavy usage on stock ROM. I guess I'll wait till my warranty expires before rooting, maybe try Samsung pay.
[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Hi

My s6 normal is a problem

3g+ and whith navego is a h+ is a problen recepción.

Or the fhone problem??
[Galaxy S6 General] tmorterlaing:
Ditto - I wonder how far off that is? Of course, if there's ever the option to 'untrip' knox we'd be all over it.

I wonder what it is in the kernel that manages to save so much battery without sacrificing performance... it also begs the question, what the HELL is going through Samsung's head? I mean seriously - XDA proves time and again that actually a 2500-3000 Mah battery actually IS pretty good when paired with excellent software (Apple, HTC One M8) - but Samsung clearly don't even seem think about it (just including a low battery mode doesnt count - that should be for emergencies). And then they include knox, which I can't see the point in.

The S6 could be SUCH a good phone, if only Samsung stopped being so stupid with their software, from the kernel up.
[Galaxy S6 General] twisted_mind:
Agree with you on this. Am nowhere close to understanding the coding part but from what I read, the unibase has some kill tasks so obviously Samsung could have put better effort into their stuff to begin with. I use unibase purely for the root part and any bonus with the battery life is more than welcome.
[Galaxy S6 General] The Zel:
Has anyone here owned a nexus 4 before the s6? How's the battery life in comparison?
[Galaxy S6 General] evie12604:
I find it an improvement over nexus 4, not a massive one but it's definitely better and the other benefits make it a great choice
[Galaxy S6 General] roiyak:
Here my battery life for now:

Some points:

- Use 4g for 3 hours +-

- Auto brightness

- Medium+ use on the phone

- Not rooted

- I have it 2 days

At the most of the time I get 3.5H SOT at 20%-25%.. and at the end of the day I can get 4.5H-5H SOT.

Its good for that phone?
[Galaxy S6 General] The Zel:
Thanks! How much was your SOT with your nexus 4? What about the s6's? Do you manage to get through the day? Sorry for all these questions, but I'm really curious about it...

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[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I got about 1.5-2 hours SoT on Nexus 4. Same for my friend. Less than 1.5 hours while playing clash of clans continuously. S6 gets about 5-5.5 hours SoT in normal use and 5 hours playing clash of clans. It's night and day difference.
[Galaxy S6 General] evie12604:
Never over 2 on nexus 4,never under 4 on s6
[Galaxy S6 General] The Zel:
That's actually a big improvement for me, thanks guys! You made my decision clearer now
[Galaxy S6 General] PioneerZgZ:
I also came from a nexus 4 and for me it is not that big of a difference.

My nexus 4 stock rooted SOT was consistenly between 3:45-4h.

On my s6 SOT is like a rollercoaster:

Somedays 5:45-6:15h

Most of the days around 4:30h

Somedays between 3-4h

And this incosistency is what I don't like.

Other than this the two phones are not comparable by any means.
[Galaxy S6 General] The Zel:
I never get that much with my nexus 4, I barely reach 3h SOT :(
[Galaxy S6 General] Ave666:
I guess it's depend on your mobile signal strength
[Galaxy S6 General] tmorterlaing:
My Nexus 4 (even rooted with every conceivable combination of kernels and roms) was awful. Really awful. Coming from an iPhone I assumed there was an issue, but it turns out it was just really bad on the battery life front, and I certainly never saw 3:45-4h SoT doing anything meaningful. The S6 is substantially better. It certainly isn't anywhere near as good as the HTC One M8, my previous phone (despite the similar sized battery), but it hasn't caused me issues yet, and I haven't even rooted it etc. I expect to get about another hour out of it when I do that.
[Galaxy S6 General] dandrumheller:
I came from an LG Optimus G, which is close enough to an N4. Best ROM / kernel combos got me about3. 5 - 4 hours SoT in an 18 hour day of use. I get about the same on my ATT S6, but I have to turn Google Now off to get there (it was on on the LGOG). Faster performance and better camera on the S6, no lag issues on the LGOG.
[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
Can anyone help me with my battery life? Google play services is killing me..my situation on screen shot..android 5.0.2 no brand..

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[Galaxy S6 General] Inelukis:
If your phone is rooted you can use Disable Service to disable some process in Play Services! We need some infos to help you ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
No root :( and I haven't my pc with me right now in these weeks..

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[Galaxy S6 General] scarchelli1:
Unsync some of that stuff if you don't need it.

Signal strength is the biggest factor of battery life, for sure. Days i dont work and dont leave the house at all, I'll get 6-7 hours on wifi. If i work and I'm out all day and then the gym before home, I'll get around 3 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
I was on airplane mode all the time..I disable some syncs but the situation doesn't seem to get better..don't understand why google services drain like this..I just disable also google now...you suggest me to upgrade to 5.1.1? Don't know what to do..my battery life doesn't seem good like others..never get 4 sot..max 3

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[Galaxy S6 General] Inelukis:
You can try to unistall Google Play Services and then re-install it, usually it works.. Or you can try Greenify

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[Galaxy S6 General] arsenalfreak:
Stock, no root

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[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
I can't uninstall it...I use greenify yet,but I don't know how I can resolve the google play services with that...no other solutions? It really drains my battery..don't know what to do..I can't uninsyall it...

Ok i did it..let's see if this work.. I don't know if update to 5.1.1 or no..

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[Galaxy S6 General] :
Do NOT hibernate Google Play Services as it will cause more battery drain and less deep sleep, as every time Greenify hibernates, it wakes itself, then hibernate, wakes itself and that continues.
[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
Anyone else notice huge cell standby drain with flight mode on just using WiFi?
[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
Same here

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[Galaxy S6 General] undeadadd:
This is what I'm getting. I bought this phone yesterday afternoon put it on charge set it all up while on charge and pretty much abused the phone all day and left it on overnight and used it some more this morning. Been on WiFi since I got it. I'm suspecting 4g to be much worse lol. Very happy with the WiFi performance as this actually beats my one plus one on WiFi
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
What firmware you on also what phone you got
[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
How did you get 7 hours sot? I only ever get 4-4.5
[Galaxy S6 General] undeadadd:
I have the 32gb s6. And I'm on Android 5.1.1. Not sure where the firmware is lol. Just for the record I only played about 5mins of agar.io and about 20mins of YouTube the rest of the screen on time was messing with wallpapers, flip board, Google Chrome and a bit of photo taking. And before I put my phone on charge my screen on time was around 7hrs 45mins with 4% left
[Galaxy S6 General] AB__CD:
It's very solid, and I would say just slightly above average.
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
Overnight I don't drain much, maybe 5% or something, but my screen on time hardly hits 3h! What stats should I collect so someone can help me find the issue?
[Galaxy S6 General] undeadadd:
Well today my usage is much worse, mostly in a poor cell reception area.
[Galaxy S6 General] mgfjd:
Battery life from latest update today.
[Galaxy S6 General] ham4ever:
rooted phone and flashed XtreStoLite , this is battery life

brightness set to manual , i use facebook, chrome, messenger , calling couple mins, 9gag (10 mins) little youtube amd music
[Galaxy S6 General] :
The major problem is your big drain overnight. Is you on completely stock, rooted or on another rom etc?
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
I'm get really bad battery drain when using phone. Over night I only use 1% which is good but when using phone it drains really fast and I only get 3 and a half hours screen time. On 5.0.2 I always got 6 hrs+ screen time. I have sync off no GPS I have factory reset cleared cache even used phone with no apps installed and it still drains. I'm completely stock Debloated what I can nothing works
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
Latest Xtrestolite, latest unikernel. I messed around with some stuff and got a 2% drain overnight. I'm not too bothered about my overnight drain since Wakelock Detector said it was only 3% awake. I'm more concerned about Screen on time.
[Galaxy S6 General] Darktitor:
Using Note 5 port and arter97 Kernel [emoji14]

Wi-Fi

A bit of Gaming (Clash of Clans and Fallout Shelter)

A lot of sms

Facebook

Messenger

Snapchat

Looks good to me

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[Galaxy S6 General] amirtengteng:
Hi, anyone here know whats the cause of "Smartmanager Framework Thread" wakelock?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Well less standby drain equals more SOT. Isn't that pretty logical?
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
Yes, of course. What I'm saying is that the battery drains sooooo much quicker when the screen's on. Of course that's meant to happen, but I now only drain about 2% overnight but hardly hit 3hrs screen-on time! :(
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Of course it do.

Are you having full brightness on all the time and gaming?
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
No, I have brightness as low as I can handle and I don't game at all. I get my < 3 hours SOT, with whatsapp, twitter etc etc and on wifi. Less with 4g.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Something is definitely wrong with your phone you could start posting some data from GSM battery monitor and Wakelock Detector or Better Battery Stats.
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
Just screenshotted a load of stuff from today.http://imgur.com/a/aKAKb

3.5 hours SOT is the best I've had in a while.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Nevermind what I said. Your battery is more than great.

You're using every battery hungry app that is available on the Play Store.
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
How? I have Twitter, Facebook,whatsapp, Instagram all greenified. Which other apps are battery hungry?
[Galaxy S6 General] Sevael:
Greenify only really works its magic when the screen is off. Having those battery-hungry apps can definitely contribute to a shorter SoT since they're not usually hibernated while the screen is on.

I removed those apps from my phone (via Titanium Backup) and use the websites instead.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Your Google Now is doing some wake-ups and so is your Android System. Also, your Wifi is draining like hell. Don't why tho. I have it connected for over 24 hours and still 2-3% max at the drainage.

But as you can see in wakelock detector, they all wake your device up from time to time. Your deep sleep is really bad.

With those apps, you have the battery life you will get. By just using them they drain your battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamgam:
Google Play Services is killing me.. The only thing I'm syncing with google is gmail and calendar. Location services turned off, no google now or anything of the such. I'm dropping 5% an hour and the phone is just sitting on my desk. I've disabled all the bloatware I can also.

Wifi is turned on, strong signal, strong 4G signal, background running apps closed.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
You can try to remove your google account, perform a cache clean from recovery, and then log back in to your google account. This might solve your problem.
[Galaxy S6 General] jamgam:
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I'm not a heavy user so my phones typically last a couple days before needing charging but this one is dropping overnight big time
[Galaxy S6 General] WolfsFang:
Just randomly decided to check my battery life and screen on time and was really surprised to find this. Now I play a few games (clash of clans, bomb beach, and fallout shelter; don't judge me) and don't really know what to think of it.
[Galaxy S6 General] ipmanwck:
I am getting similar. Games, movies, emails etc and very impressed tbh. Better than my lg g3 was so I am very happy. It gives me hope for the note 5 :)

I have no complaints and what makes it all great is the fast charging !!
[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
I really don't understand what's the problem on my phone...all stock, 5.1.1..disabled bloatware, no GPS, no Bluetooth, auto brightness..few apps on the phone..no root..and this situation is really bad..gsam isn't showing any app sucker..

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[Galaxy S6 General] javitolopez69:
Is a bug of Samsung .resolved factory reset .test and the battery is best
[Galaxy S6 General] drkrack:
Yes doing a factory reset improves the battery life after last update..
[Galaxy S6 General] Bonvaz:
It doesn't seem so good your battery ..how much sot? So I have to do a factory reset?

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[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
I'm so lucky had my s6 edge replaced and it came with 5.0.2 now back to 6hs + SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
Nothing to complain about from my perspective, location disabled, and settings optimized for my usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] drkrack:
It was much worse earlier, I expected it to last 24hrs at least before next charge.

SOT is standard 3- 3.5hrs max.

Location disabled, WhatsApp, Gmail, no gaming, occasionally YouTube, browsing that's all. Probably patchy network connectivity is hampering the battery life.

Any suggestions?
[Galaxy S6 General] arayoflight:
I remember those days. Now even 5 hours SoT is a struggle. :crying:
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
I feel your pain mate lol 5.1.1 was a total disaster for me never got over r hrs SOT
[Galaxy S6 General] 19insomnia84:
GoogleLocationService and GoogleLocationManagerService used by play services prevent my phone to go to deep sleep with partial wakelocks.

Disabling both services allow to go to deep sleep but apps like cittymapper and those ones using location don't work properly.

Any idea? Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] Shocky2:
I always find something killing my battery over the day, yesterday it was the BBC news app staying active for 2 hours in the background using 13% of my battery., the day before that it was a weather app and tunein radio is also a frequent offender

Lollipop sucks, I've resorted to using the clean all memory option a lot to try and stop this but I don't always remember. :(
[Galaxy S6 General] k1lonbo:
hello, everyone!

My contribute for the topic.

Mostly web browsing.. nevertheless i think is amazing :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Fullmetal Jun:
And I thought I was the only one who experienced that with 5.1.1! Thought that 5.1.1 was working amazingly great for others!

In fact I never planned to upgrade from stock 5.0.2 as I've always got less battery life when upgrading from the stock version of any device. But made the mistake of checking updates and the thing downloaded the whole update in the background. And I installed coz the notification would never go.

And now the horror: Got 5hrs sot only twice :( while I was even getting 6hrs sot sometimes before!!
[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
Well this is me half way through my battery already. 5.1.1 EE UK variant. My phone restarts at least once a day too for no reason.
[Galaxy S6 General] pnr2020:
This is what I did download and install BTU firmware it won't trip knox because its stock . Then get package disabler from Google play and freeze everything you don't use anything in pink is safe to disable. My battery life doubled EE firmware full of crap
[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
Yeah was planning on doing this at some point to see if it helped.
[Galaxy S6 General] ipmanwck:
LOL. My phone did the same restart today for no reason ?? Thought it was a bit weird but hey ho.
[Galaxy S6 General] phochiom:
Is this restart thing only on EE?
[Galaxy S6 General] joshiy3:
No idea my friend has the exact same phone on EE and he hasn't had any reboots.
[Galaxy S6 General] butthurtlocker:
Are you on stock 5.0.2?
[Galaxy S6 General] msavic6:
Yeah I am still running stock 5.0.2 as Canada has yet to receive the 5.1 update.
[Galaxy S6 General] kendall1004:
After about two weeks of using the phone unmodified, i am now running XtreStoLite v 2.2 Deodexed & Vindicator R.4 kernel-

battery life seems to have doubled while performance is soo much better #fastashell :p

Seriously, i will post a screenshot after a few days usage, i'm amazed right now.

If you don`t care about Knox, i strongly recommend to try this and discover what this device is really capable of!
[Galaxy S6 General] FSOP:
I'm using EVR and never had a an issue with reboots
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Hi friends.

I jump from a note 4 to s6 because i had problems with all 3 notes i had and i decided to change to s6.

I'm testing this battery but the note last a little more but for the first day of use i think its good.

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[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Never thought this could be possible with s6.

Definitely im surprised with the battery.

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[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
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[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Liar liar
[Galaxy S6 General] flashflash:
Another EE user here. Yes, my phone now does random reboots as well.

Sack of crap.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Are you call me a liar?

Are you sure?

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