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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Ryland Johnson:
Battery life is reflected in specification performance and physical dimensions of a mobile. Personally I am amazed any of the anorexic highly specified mobiles can function longer than half an hour :p

There are only two ways forward with this problem, drop the specs and make the mobiles larger thus holding bigger batteries or develop battery science that has clearly been left wanting for several years now.

Battery life for all flagship mobiles is poor BUT in reality just look what manufacturers have actually achieved over such a small period of time. My first mobile weighed over 1,5 kilos and lasted about an hour before it needed charging :eek: That was in 1989. Now we have truly smart phones that weigh less than a sandwich and are a thousand times more powerful than my first PC.

With respect to manufacturers I suggest you spend more on battery development and less on size and specs, at least until battery science has caught up.

Ryland
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] optimummind:
It is an issue with Lollipop. We've had the issue on 5.0, 5.0.1, and also on 5.1 on the Nexus 5. It's annoying I have to remember to turn it off and turn it on again after I unlock the phone but what can you do until Google fixes it & gets their act straight.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
So, I did a factory reset last night and went all day without wifi or VoLTE. I left Bluetooth, location services and NFC on. My results were better then yesterday, but still not as good as some people's, and not really where I want them.

http://imgur.com/a/ZIpLq
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] optimummind:
Those stats look promising. If I can get 4.5 to 5 hrs of SOT out of my S6 Edge, I'd be a happy camper.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
Those stats do look promising. Problem for me is, I can't seem to get near them.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] VidMan:
I have fully disabled WiFi but kept VoLTE on and the cell standby drain is gone and my SOT has increased from 3h to 5h. Definitely something fishy going on with the WiFi.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
I Always get about 5hr & 20-30 mins OST. It's like I said before keep wifi off as there is something wrong with it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] azibux1:
This is no good as I have no 3G/4G where I live... Hope this gets fixed / isn't an issue on Vodafone phones
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
This being said makes me think perhaps I have a defective battery. Even after eliminating the cell standby in my battery usage, 3 1/2 hours SOT is my MAX. I'm already at 70% battery life today with 40 minutes of SOT, and only about 6 hours off the charger. I've barely even used it today.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] luisrcastillo:
I wonder if there's an update coming soon.

I was in the T-Mobile support website searching for the edge forums and noticed that the baseband number is different on my device than what the list on their page. My baseband is G925TUVU1AOCG while the baseband they list is G925TUVU1AOC9 (note the last character)

Is there anyone out there that hasn't installed the OTA update? If so, can you send your baseband version?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I guess is what I said in my previous post...that is "Cell standby" apears on top of the battery drain list, consuming most of it. This happens when you have wifi on and as I said, I've seen it's related to the IMS Service. Disable that and "Cell standby" will return to a normal battery drain state

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Neur0Nerd:
I don't see it anywhere in my apps list
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Is not in the app list, it is in the battery usage screen (you know the one which shows you the battery drain). If you don't have it there as a major drain factor with a high percentage, then you dont have the bug

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Neur0Nerd:
Well, I got that but it's not relevant at all in terms of battery life.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Yes, for your specific case it seems it is not. If you would have the issue, that "Cell standby" could take 40-50% and it'll be on top of the list no matter what. I've posted some screenshots with it cople of months ago in this topic.

But even in your case, 10% is not a small value, it should usually be like 1-3% or even not showing at all in that list. If you see that value increasing abnormally, you could first try to disable VoLTE/WiFi calling (if you have them). If it's still not ok, you could try disabling IMS Service with Package Disabler.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Warrenforfree:
Happy New year every one... I've got an edge koren model.. SM-G925L.. Yesterday i went to my Grandma's house to celebrate a new year here in the philippines.. i'm in a little bit hurry when i leave home and i left my phone.. this morning when i got home it was placed over the table beside our tv and when i check it i'm impressed that the battery hold on for almost a day and over half of it remains of course no one used it im sure.... i attached a screenshots to justify...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] poci44:
full stock latest 5.1.1.

i am happy with that :D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Arkayge:
I must say the latest updates have helped the Edge a lot in terms of battery life. . I'm getting significantly better battery performance (might I add memory management too. .?) than when I bought this. . Kudos to Samsung for the support. . Hoping Marshmallow gives another good boost. . I have the SM-G925I version. .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] AKdballs:
Which updates specifically? I am running the same phone but my carrier is GCI in Alaska. They apparently disable all system updates on their phones so I will need to find another way to get them if they really help a lot. I have 5.1.1 installed now, and phone goes from 100% to 60% from midnight to seven every morning.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] devis:
I'm sure many of you have battery issues but it would seem that not all of us do. I don't know if it's a battery issue, (board version, manufacturer) or an actual OS issue. I bought my 925F in early December, and with both 5.1.1 and now the beta 6.0 my battery life is fantastic. I can get through the day with no issues. In the morning I open Waze for GPS with about 1 hr worth of drive to work. At work I use the phone somewhat, mostly during my coffee breaks as a hotspot for about 10-15 minutes twice a day, and for about half hr to 45 min at lunch. When I leave work my phone hovers between 45-60%, and after Waze-ing my way home I've got about 35-45% left. Some usage at home, and when the phone goes in the charger, between 11:30-12:30 at night the phone is at maybe 25-30% left. Once or twice I forgot to charge and a mere 35 battery life was lost overnight.

I'm on stock 6.0 beta.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] thiagobr03:
I have 1h50min sot, at this moment and 67% left. Im usually averaging between 3hr40min to 4h30min sot, stock rom. No root. Few phone calls. Between wifi and 4g as i have gone out. Few videos and thats about it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
Are these images for ants!

Pp.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] synescu:
not bead?! 6.0 beta Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 4G always on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] thiagobr03:
Synes, any services disabled or anything?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] poci44:
what?

ever clicked on the images?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
You click on them and they are the size of microSD cards, actually smaller.

When you zoom they turn to mush.

Not legible.

Pp. ???
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
How is the Signal and brightness during the day ?

After update Beta you did factory reset?

What apps have you disabled.

Explain please.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] fotis12:
When i was at beta i barely got 3 hours SOT, this seems impossible to me... So i decided to downgrade. Are you rooted? did you modify anything?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] synescu:
No root, no mods, a full factory reset and maybe 8-9 apps that I don't use disaiblet
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] thiagobr03:
Thats nuts. Im on 4.5hrs max. Absolutely every samsung app disabled. Every bloat wsre disabled. Gps on battery saver. Screeb from 10 to 30 brightness.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
Why in the hell people come here and say, i make 7h,some people don't understand,please explain to people understand how.

7h yes its possible, only with wifi, brightness low,good signal or airplane mode. Other thing than that is crap.

And i bet with everyone ,that no one does more than 4h to 5h sot (only) with 4G (always) on,no wifi,and depending of the signal you have.

Wifi its easy. 4G is what is matters for me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
This sounds like a pissing contest. ???

Pp. Lol.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ubercool786:
Got my new s6 edge yesterday. Updated it to 5.1.1. Was not getting good battery life on 5.0. But on 5.1.1 battery life is still same. What should i do? Battery life sucks.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
Battery life defends on how social you are, and how much porn, I mean how much time you spend online. How much bloatware you have, how many games. I have about 25 disabled apps, no social media apps, I get a full day and then some. .

Pp.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ubercool786:
I only use pre installed apps like whatsapp, insta etc. And only 1 game clash of clans
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xstokerx:
Here is an example of extreme min battery consumption only have gmail and whats app syncing on lte great reseption whole time 2.5 hours youtube and the rest web browsing u can see how well the phone sleeps by the flat lines i think it lost 1% over night im on xtrestolite mod and Unikernel set to normal no turbo mode.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cmdbr03:
Which xtres version?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xstokerx:
2.4 the one thats in the flat s6 forum
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cmdbr03:
Do u know a way to change the kernel on xtres without reinstalling?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] XDADEVX:
Battery life is really not good... worse than on my Vivo X5Pro
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xstokerx:
U can change between uni and anotherone with the add on zip
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sstanton86:
Just got my gold 64gb edge today. Charged it to 60% then did all the updates and downloads. Been using my phone nonstop, got a torrent downloading in the background and been using Bluetooth. I'm on 3hours sot and the phone is on 24% battery. This is insanity. Far better than the LG G4 and z5 premium I've used recently.

This is without a doubt the best battery performance I've used so far on android.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] XDADEVX:
I don't think that battery is soo soo good as you some describing it.. My GF needs to have it on charge every day tho..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
I want to ask something, does anyone try turning off the apps optimisation. ?

Try it and let me know
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
I tried it and this is what happened!

Not good.

Pp.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
Here's proof of the pudding!

And this is without using battery saver mode.

Battery is so good I can use it to jump start a car.

Pp. :p
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
For me o get the same battery.

And the all apps running good.

I try a lot of tests and stock roms and getting better with optimisation off.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
Stock rom will always give you the best battery life and you keep full functionality.

I'm not even rooted, just plain stock with minimal apps running.

Pp.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] XDADEVX:
Yeah but then u don't do a ything with the phone then.. Just sits on table.. Occasionally you check mail?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
Is anyone on mm now?

Any improvements in ram and battery life?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
Yeah, that's what we old people do with our phones. :p

Pp. Lolol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hegartyp:
Just about manage to last the day with my G925F. Battery life is the S6 edge's achilles heel IMO fast charge is great but if it was combined with a killer battery it'd be awesome.

If the S7 edge has the propsed 3600mah battery i'll be all over that.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] desiregeek:
My battery life on my Galaxy S6 Edge is horrible and I do not have Facebook installed on it either. Facebook should not even come pre-installed on any smartphones. Those that want it can download it themselves from the APP store. Mine charges very fast but drains just as fast.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hegartyp:
I read somewhere that the facebook app uses 20% of smartphone's battery on android/IOS. Madness.

An alternative would be to just access it via browser and disable/delete the app think that's what i'll do. I'm too afraid of getting rid of it altogether
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
I dont use facebook/messenger/insta

With thise not dissabled, the drain was abt 2-3% per hour

Now with these 3 dissabled ( with 15 more apps ) the drain is 0.3% per hour i.e. 1 % in over 3 hrs...

And this difference when i didnt even logged in those apps..

Imagine signing in and then. Constant sync and notifications...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gutsyus1:
My battery life on my Galaxy S6 Edge is really very bad despite all my efforts not to use battery hungry applications.

Let's just say that the S6 edge is a fantastic phone in many ways but certainly NOT for its battery life
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
How much SOT are you getting?

I am getting around 3.5 to 4.5 hrs which is good for me as compared to 2 - 2.5 hrs of sot i used to get on s4
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] eric150:
Have you used Package Disabler? Turn off sync if you dont need it, GPS, and use Samsung Internet instead of Chrome. Make sure "Always Allow [Wifi] Scanning" is off.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] obsydian:
Battery life is dreadful barely a day, I invested in a quick car and charger for work. I was on the MM beta was no different as in just as bad
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
It was at 100% at 12 hrs of standby
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
In mm the standby drain is excellent, i lost 0.1% through 9hrs.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] nguyenthanhvan:
Battery life, like mentioned is so so. It's better than my last phone, but definitely not up to z3 standard.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Urmet77:
Lol im on my vacation
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] vladimir_carlan:
Attached image, see hide tags:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Marne Jr:
Sorry, I am being back to XDA after a long time away.

I use xtrolite from edgar that is an amazing rom and it works with 925i edge, but you just can download it from regular S6 thread.

Bye
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
How do you achieve that? Any tips? Or settings?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] switzerland92:
Is it really sooooo hard to put thumbnails instead full resolution screenshots?

It takes up bandwidth, breaks forum formatting and makes this thread unreadable.

Jesus christ, at least think before you post
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cappone:
..its so hard for some ppl, any way im using a custom rom and my battery performance is great hold for max 4, with daily usage can say a ting, but on the stock it was to quick dead to many apps working im background
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
what theme is that?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] a2kay:
What are your settings? Tell us, please :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
Ce tema e aia?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
English please for the rest of the users....

It is dal.komm coffee Theme (the dark one). Now I use Cherry by Hitten Sony but that's paid theme and is not available anymore

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
Amazing
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tecksulfur:
How the hell you got 5h45m and 6h28m On screen time? I barely get 3h and a few mins, maybe 4h.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
Can you show other apps you use too with those screenshots?

I mean in the area where it shows screen, device idle, android system and all others...;)

I never got past 4:50.

But yeah.. my standby is good..

1% for 12 hrs
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
i`m on crissrom 3.0 and i`m using amplify+greenify with agresive doze. I get amazing standby and sot.

i used this tutorial to set up amplify and greenify

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

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i charged my phone so i dont have the screenshots anymore but i can tell you what apps i was using.

For facebook i`m using metal pro and FB messenger(the stock app)

i played 40min of clash royal and 10 mins of boom beach

i`m using xda with dark theme and 9gag with dark theme too.

20 mins phone calls

and like 30-40 mins of youtube.

I cand get a lot of sot if i`m browsing 9gag or xda cuz of the dark themes...for 1 hour of browsing 9gag and xda with dark themes i only lost 10 percent of battery life.

So if you want to improve your battery life try changing the themes to dark amoled.

i think i can easily get 6h or even 7 if i use more those 2 apps with dark theme.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Sorry but no... I'm not using that theme anymore, now I use a paid theme called Cherry. I downloaded it at the very begining when it was a free theme, now as it's paid it is not available in my region. And we would go too much off topic

Sent from nowhere over the air...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] momo220499:
Brightness 50% and more was inside whatsapp some whatsapping and writing notes out a friend send me. For me it's really impressive!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
1 hr for 10% os trully awsm... my max is 30 mins normal usage ( browser, whatsapp etc ) and 40 mins of watching movie

To those who have mm now, has battery life improved with it?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ljubisat100:
This is mine, so far the best, on MM. WiFi, data always on, all syncs (4 emails), no Facebook though. Brightness is auto, 30%.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
30 minutes 10% is the normal.

But don't worry battery last longer first 50% then other 50 goes away quickly.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sucro:
By update to MM 6.0.1 OTA, my battery darins faster than on LP 5.1.1... If someone has some idea what to try fix this problem, please post, screen, device idle, cell draing much more battery than on LP 5.1.1...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] exynoss:
take backup, and do a factory reset
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Li4m79:
The latest update G925FXXS3DPB1 which i received OTA yesterday has MASSIVELY improved my battery... I'm a moderate to Heavy user and usually by mid afternoon i'm below 50%, so far ive not charged in 11hours and am at 50%... to me this is a VERY noticeable difference!!.... whatever that update has done, i am impressed
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] javitolopez69:
how many megas??
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Li4m79:
59mb

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24% now btw .. Been a long time since I got a good 24hours out my phone
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
What sot ? I currently get 5,45 to 6h sot ? It is better than this ? Is is worth upgrading ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Li4m79:
didnt even check my sot, i never really do, I just now my battery lasted much longer. 6h sot is quite decent
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] brianj41:
after i updatet to this :

G925FXXU3DPBG_G925FGBL3DPB2_G925FXXU3DPB6

it looks like my battery last longer and dosnt drain that fast as usual.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ljubisat100:
My best battery usage so far. I am very pleased with this. All stock, few Google apps disabled.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
My normal usage like last 1 month and my max time was 4:50 and normally was 4:15 or 4:30

Turned power saving mode on for all time and here are the results.

I keep brightness at manual so didnt saw any affects coz of that coz i just moved the slider up a further.

The only thing i missed was haptic feedback...:/
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
since updating to MM my battery has improved a lot. however cell standby and android OS consume around 20-25% battery daily now. currently used 16 hours on battery, 3 hours 26 mins SOT, 49% remaining
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sucro:
Tnx for advice, but think that doesn't solve anything, cause phone was clean after installing MM 6.0.1 factory, think it's related to new MM 6.0.1, will use it for some time, if not better, will try factory reset.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Live walkman:
I recently updated my device to MM and have already tried factory reset...still no improvement in battery can you share your settings ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
After installing I did full factory reset. My settings are just normal. But low brightness, app optimisation on only use location and WiFi when needed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Live walkman:
Okay thanks for the reply...can anyone else help me ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
Try to reboot into recovery and clear cache
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Live walkman:
Already tried that
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
The beauty of Samsung flagships... awful battery
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Epos7:
I've owned an AT&T S6 Edge for about nine months. The battery life has never been great, but about a week ago it took a serious nosedive. I'm still on 5.1.1 stock software.

I use a wireless charger, and had been waking up to a phone with full battery, but now when I wake up after 8 hours on the charger the phone is at 96-97% and very warm to the touch. Within ten minutes coming off the charger, and minimal use, the battery falls below 90%. It's now been off the charger for 75 minutes, and the battery is at 74% - the screen hasn't been on for more than 15-20 of those 75 minutes. By the time I leave work today, 9 hours after coming off the charger, the phone will almost certainly be dead.

It seems like something happened in the last week or so that started causing problems. I don't think I've installed any new apps in that time.

It's also worth noting that there are times when I place the phone on a wireless charger and the battery drains faster than it is being charged. This has been an ongoing problem for the life of the phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] brianj41:
Its exactly the same problem i got, from 6am to 9 am, im loosing like 50-60% power and not using the phone much.

something must be wrong with those batteryes. i wonder if samsung give another if turned into a shop ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilordvader:
Time to upgrade to S7 Edge ;)

It is giving me almost double time to my old S6 Edge

Love it
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] javitolopez69:
no matter how hard we try this does not get better.

Samsung is a problem.contact Samsung ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
I have amazing battery life. It s much better than my old iphone 6
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] azhegu:
That's exactly what happened to my phone too!

i had 5.1.1 and it started about a week ago. I updated to 6.0.1 with the hope that i will get better battery life, but no change at all! Galaxy S6 edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cuberRKO:
Can i flash SMG925T on SMG925I ?? Austrailian firmware?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
Battery life has definately improved from s4 condidering both phones have same 2600 mah battery.

For me its decent now...:)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] javitolopez69:
No as parado ni un minuto de mirar al móvil??

your eyes are in danger
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] stefan_72:
root and Install a propper rom block notofikitation on Facebook and Facebook chat and on google and your phone and battery are saved
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
Hahaha

Well that's what happens when you are traveling in train and have nothing to do
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] DhiJay23:
Based on my experienced battery really sucks. I've been using my phone for days now and it drains really quick. I fully charged it and used it for 1 minute and I lose 3% just using facebook. Even on standby im losing battery. Do I have to return it back and get an exhange because im traveling in a few months and I dont want to look around and find an outlet just to charge it because battery drains drastically.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
Uuu
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Jason761:
What rom and kernel r u using?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
crisscross rom with spacex kernel
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
Over the last few days since my auto brightness has not been working my battery has gone horribly bad. Screen usage is currently at 56%.