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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] stefan_72:
Root an install a good rom like carhdrom and Arthur karnel

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Thepho3nix:
I have an S6 edge 925i. First i came up from LP 5.1.1 and then upgraded to MLLW India did a dirty flash by ODIN. Then TTT FW came out late, backed up my data and made a clean install wiping everything from recovery. And my result are the greatest. One weird thing is, when using my phone under heavy usage will show more SOT than using my phone on none heavy use of it. For me there's something broken with the energetic antenna/radio consumption and wake up power use. So far so good even with LTE signal.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jerverg:
I thought the Note 4's battery sucked. This phone's buttery sucked too but just a little more. In my usage(heavy/data always on) I get 3-3.5hrs SOT in S6edge. In Note 4 i get 3.5-4hrs SOT. In my Z3 i get 4-5hrs SOT.

You people please don't fool others by posting those 6hrs SOT. At least include that you dont use internet and data. That SOT for this kind of battery is just for texts and calls. Posting 6hrs SOT but you just let it sit beside your desk doing absolutely nothing. I was definitely mislead by you guys into buying this sht battery phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] katananja:
This has nothing to do with fooling people. S6 come with a bunch of useless functions that you need to turn it off or to disable.

To my experience, Wi-Fi drain a lot of battery since the device keeps trying to boost its signal to get more antenas, same happens when it keep switching from lte, wcdma and gsm.

Disabling wi-fi when I don't need it and set my device to wcdma only helps a lot.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] PanchoPlanet:
[MENTION=4830269]jerverg[/MENTION], here you go, knock yourself out.

http://www.androidauthority.com/15000mah-kmashi-power-bank-discount-code-684066/

Got this last week, not because I needed it but just to have, it comes in handy.

Pp. [emoji3]

Sent from my stone stock S6E using teleconetik impulses.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jerverg:
Does that work with the phone's Quick Charge?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lynxblaine:
Nope only 5v 2a
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] danveer:
I got mi's 20000 mah powerbank last week...

It also has a 5v 2a output per usb port

Thats also good.

Thats basically quick charge 1.0

S4 had this only and it could go to 0 to 100 in around 110 mins ( 1 hr 50 mins ) as against 1: 30 on quick charge 2.0 so not a big deal breaker
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jerverg:
Ive seen Aukey 10000mah powerbanks that have QC 2.0. Goes around for about 30$. Might purchase one if Marshmallow fails me after a few days. M seems to have improved the standby time quite a lot. I get screen on time of 4hrs more often now.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] alireza_simkesh:
I am having battery issues with my S6 Edge. Specifically, I see huge alarm wakelock by ALARM_WAKEUP_LOCATOR which is triggered by Google Play Services (from BetterBatteryStats).

Does anyone know how I can fix this alarm wakeup, besides disabling location services?

I am on the latest 6.0.1 Marshmallow stock Rom, rooted and with TWRP recovery.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] matturl:
My battery life has been terrible lately. On 5.1.1 Lollipop I was getting atleast 4 hours SOT, with a max of 6.5/7. After updating to 6.0.1 Marshmallow, I can't get passed 2 hours SOT! Another issue I have is Google Play Services draining battery. Look what I woke up to this morning. It was full charged last night before I went to sleep, and I took the screenshot when I woke up.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] samratunlock:
worst battery backup in S6 EDGE but charging takes less time so littlebit relief...!!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tallazzPilipino:
did the Play Store update a bunch of apps or something?

(Sent from my Note5d via Tapatalk)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] matturl:
No there were no notifications for updated apps. I don't have auto-update on either. As far as I'm aware nothing (at least in the foreground) happened. Every now and again Google Play Services will drain my battery but I've never experienced it this bad. But even when it isn't the culprit of my draining battery, my S6 Edge won't get more than 2 hours screen on time on a good day. I thought Marshmallow was going to improve my battery life, not half it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] demoncamber:
Hey guys, LG G4 here on tmobile with the SAME issue. I'm testing this right now, but I had a similar problem with wifi calling two phones ago, and I believe I fixed it with tasker and the plugin found in the store called "wifi calling controls".

I'm testing this now, so I have nothing to report yet, however my tasker profile basically turns wifi calling off then in 1 second it will turn it back on whenever wifi is connected as the state. App has a toggle option but it wasn't working well for me so I opted for this config.

Everyone who is having this issue, do you have wifi calling? Or are there carriers here who do not have wifi calling?

This was also an interesting read https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS6/comments/363121/crazy_cell_standby_battery_drain/
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] BigDoun2011:
Hey guys how much screen on time do you get? No gaming..

Is about 5 hours possible with mobile data?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
Wtf.stock unrooted. Best i ever got
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
Can you explain how you manage to get mAh lower than the sot.?

Its one thing i don't manage to do yet.

Could you post the rest of the apps are you using.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
It only show 9 gag and messenger..not all the apps..idk why...also no google play service ...that was always în my mother battery stats

I dont know how i got less mah than sot..i never got such good sot ..now i m at 3h 25 Min sot at 63

I Hope it will stay like that forever cuz it s beast
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Diaze:
I forgot the photo lok

Sync is on btw
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hanifh:
thanks. am going to download and test that right away. having terrible battery life since I upgraded to MM XXU3DPBG.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Nixing:
It's the same here. Let's hope that there will be an update soon because I can't take it anymore.

I wiped the cache, did a factory reset but nothing helped. Android system is always on the top of the battery usage list.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] FahmyAbou:
So I installed the marshmallow update and I have been using the new android version for a few days and battery life was awful till now. On 5.1.1 I got an average SoT of 6 hours with moderate use ( sometimes even 7 hours). After the update I barely made it past the 3 hours mark and battery drain was an issue as the phone never went into deep sleep. I tried to optimize and deactivate some apps but the drain was still noticable. Then I went into recovery and cleared cache and voila the problem seems to be fixed. I got 5 hours of SoT and now my phone died. I have to fully charge it and see if I can get beyond 6 hours. I will report back soon.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] FahmyAbou:
After testing the device for 3 days, the problem is still persistant. I tried to clean cache, reboot phone and deactivate all bloat apps but the battery drain is present. I still get 5Sot but with 80% battery. The other 20% are always lost due to "Android System", which somehow only happens in the morning after removing the charger. I might revert back to lollipop, since it offered the best battery life.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mykS6edge:
Hi, what's new with the latest software update in June?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] fabiok81:
Try to disable backup in Google account

Inviato dal mio SM-G930F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] APTX-4869:
Since i am not a heavy user, my battery lasts full day! :o
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xantrk:
Guys, to see what is draining your battery under "Android OS" kindly you can check out my guide here! I believe this will help a lot of people, if you guys think so please add the thread link to OP. Hope it helps!

http://xdaforums.com/note5/help/guide-how-to-fix-android-os-battery-t3423150
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tuk1maar:
To solve battery issue's, go back to one of the first Lolipop ROM's that came with a freshly bought stock S6 Edge ;)

Samsung also messed up the battery life on their newer S7 and S7 Edge too after ~4 - 5 updates.

When I still had my S6, I kept it on lolipop. With my S7 Edge, I'm sticking to one of the first stock ROM's Samsung has released. That's how you can keep getting amazing battery life...from my experience that is d:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kyle19:
I would revert back to lollipop soon if xtreolite rom fails me on 6.xx . Any tip on which lollipop build I should use to get a descent amount of battery ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] N00BY0815:
Just wanted to leave my experiance here as well, since I am new to this phone. First I was really disappointed by the battery life. It ran down more quickly than I could imagine and even my over 2 years old Moto X first Gen had a better battery life. So I looked around the web and found some general tips on how to save battery, which I already knew. But then I found a site that wrote about the non-deepsleep bug and I thought, I might as well give it a try, since I had tried everything else already.

I had disabled all apps I didnt need, turned off all unused devices,...

So I went ahead, saved all my data, performed a factory reset from within the menu, flashed my current ROM using ODIN, set up my device real quick and did another factory reset from the settings menu. Then I setup the phone properly, didn't copy data form my old device, just restored my old apps. Then again I turned off all unnecessary services, stopped google from tracking my location (security section in settings) and this time also disabled the S-Health app. And what should I say? I used the phone today with 5+ hours of screen on time (lowest automatic brightness) and still had 20% of charge left. So either this resetting and flashing thing really fixed something, that was not as it was supposed to be, or it was the S-Health app, that just wouldn't stop recording my movements and everything I did. Right now I am pretty happy and I hope this comment helps others as well, so long story short:

Dont import data from your old phone and set it up properly manually

Disable google location tracking in privacy settings

Disable S-Health and all other apps you don't use

Factory reset/flashing your ROM again might solve the problem

Turn off all services like bluetooth that you dont need.

Btw I am on 6.0.1 G925FXXU3DPDP German version

Cheers
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Ricardo_G:
Hello

I have the S6 edge green 128gb, germany version, but since may Samsung doesn´t release any update, in comparison, the XEU/ BTU version has received 4 updates in the same time

I´m using forcedoze and greenify, hibernation manager without root+ normal battery saver.... i have 30 hours , max 36 hours, i´m not using Facebook or any battery drain app, and i use EZ package disabler, Try it
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] slimboy619:
Hi can anyone tell me if this is a normal bettery time on s6 edge.i have gallaxy s6 edge sm g925v. Android 6.1.0
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
Wifi is extremely high. Try to reset network settings see if that helps. My wifi isn't even showing up on battery useage its that low.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] slimboy619:
My call been connected too on whats app.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
Possibly. Still seems high though... i use whatsapp video call and voice call daily
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] slimboy619:
How do i fix ?? Guide me how to reset wifi settings or is there something else do i need to do?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
Just go to settings, backup and reset, reset netwotk settings.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] slimboy619:
My phone was on 100% and now this is the battery performance.i didnt use my phone at all indeed i was sleeping and left my phone on 100% battery and after when i woke up i found this.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Ronbos:
I think if it brings you trough the day its good?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lynxblaine:
My battery has started tanking. It doesn't last well and now when it hits 9% it drops to 3%. Although the phone is in warranty the battery only has a 1 year warranty so will have to pay for a new one. In the US the service is only about 30-40$ which if is similar in the UK is pretty good.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] callumbr1:
The warranty in the UK is the same 12 months. To buy a brand new battery you can pick one up for around £20. Its about the same. My battery does the same but its had some heavy useage over the last year :good:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] slimboy619:
I have a very strange issue with my s6 edge battery.when it reaches to 15% it starts draining very quickly it gets to 5% from 15% with in 5 to 6 minutes and than my phone dies and when i plug my charger it shows 10% is still there. Dont know whats going on anyway had this issue? Is my battery is faulty ? Or its just the software issue and how do i fix it?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] crixley:
My two biggest tips for awesome battery life:

1) remove edge features if you don't use them. they are battery hogs

2) arter kernel
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] garytube:
same here

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same here.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] amresmael:
Same here in s6
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Warrenforfree:
Alexis rom.. latest version 7.8
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Blaze9:
Have the international version. Battery lasted maybe 1/3rd of the day with very little SoT. Just ordered a "new" battery from ebay for 10 bucks. Replaced it. First day w/ the new one. Don't know how long it's gonna last yet.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lynxblaine:
Update:

In the UK as the device is considered a unibody, you have a 2 year warranty on battery life. I sent mine back for a service to Samsung and had a new battery installed by them for free. Which I thought was pretty awesome.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] milosrdni94:
Is this normal? I have install 7.0 XEU, do factory reset, and all work super, but battery drain fast, the huge power use "device idle", the 1st place at battery usage is device idle. I think that is not normal... What you mean, how to fix it? What to do? Do you know some about this problem. Thanks
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] M1chiel:
Give it some time, your new rom needs to settle. If the drain remains after a few days you might consider a factory reset.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] milosrdni94:
I install N at sunday, and do factory reset after first boot, now, after 4 days "device idle" is first consumer pf battery. Do you think, maybe can help one more factory reset? Or somthg else? Thanks a lot for help!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] M1chiel:
I do not think another factory reset will help. Possibly an app prevents your phone from going into deep sleep. A more advanced battery monitor can provide more insight. I can recommend GSam Battery. You may also wish to consider Greenify to force your phone in a deep sleep much quicker.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] milosrdni94:
How many % you friends, on Nougat, is "device idle"? How many is normal?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] milosrdni94:
I installed Nougat 7, and I immediately did a factory reset. The consumption of the battery in the first place to me is device idle. Is that normal? The more we spent batteries from the screen. What is your experience with this, and how much you typically use device idle? Is this something that can be resolved? Thank you.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] M4r10 22:
Yes.

With WiFi and 4g always on, GPS and Bluetooth off, 3 mail account, without gaming yesterday I took 3h sot since 6:45 to +/- 23:00, phone's dead. Today like yesterday since 6:45, 1:20 sot and still 62% of battery right now with same kind of usage and with idle device at 1st.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
That does sound pretty bad. What all do you have on?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
I'm using NFC, Bluetooth, and location services. Keep in mind though, they are just on, I haven't used anything that uses those services and I've not used the phone too much.

This is my GSAM screenshot.

http://imgur.com/7U7vrTi
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
I see.... I have everything turned off except location services. I do use bluetooth when I need it, but it doesn't kill battery.

To be honest I would turn off NFC unless you need it. (which is rare)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
I will try turning it off tomorrow and see how I fair, but I've never had to keep it off on my other phones. The idea for me is to be able to have similar battery life as my previous phones with the same features.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] russianzilla:
If you look at the table in the update page you can see that the baseband ending in C9 is for the build prior to the OTA, and that CG is the latest baseband version.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] chakra:
When I try to change my wifi calling settings it flashes and says wifi calling settings crashed? anyone else?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] joshnichols189:
I'm not to the point of returning the phone, but I also have noticed that my battery kind of sucks. What I found was that the phone is never entering deep sleep. I've factory reset, rooted and greenified, etc. Android System is just keeping the phone from entering deep sleep.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tiguy99:
That's what I was afraid of.

Really liking this phone so far but they gotta do something about the excessive battery drain.

Coming from the LG G2 its gonna be hard to make the transition of S6 battery life is less than stellar.

Still get 6.5 to 7 hr screen time and 2 days battery life with the G2
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
Nothing much can be done about the crap battery life. We got android 5.0.2 to thank for that. Frustrating, its just buggy as hell. Only 5.1 will relieve this. Who knows when that will update
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] robertkoa:
On Galaxy Alpha my apartment has very low LTE signal ( Metro/ Tmobile)

but my cell standby is 2% ...very low on the List..

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OK one other thing I don't get is the VoLTE setting.

ALL LTE phones on Metro PCS/ Tmobile already have VoLTE - even my 2012 LG Motion 4G had simultaneous Voice and Data on 4GLTE -

So is there a redundancy here causing

Battery Drain ?

They SHOULD have just made the S6 and Edge 7.5 mm thick and used a 3100 Mah Battery.....

OR make a Pro Version for Power Users.

I agree -you should not have to " power manage" a Flagship Productivity Device- sorry Samsung.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bitwiser:
That is average for me on most phones...between 2 (moto x) to 4 hrs of SOT. I don't know how people get these crazy stats like 7hours of SOT. I have never seen that with any phone (even Xperia Z3)

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So wait for the Active version. It will have 3500mAh battery.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
So I went from horrendous battery life to this. This is after keeping wifi off for about 3 full battery cycles, volte is on, adaptive display is on, wifi and wifi calling off, location services on but only gps, always scan wifi off, automatic brightness, bluetooth, android wear, syncing, all the usual other than wifi.

It's important to note that I used greenish because for some reason, amazon and pandora we're staying awake in the background. They never showed up in battery usage but I disabled them last night, and now I have this battery.

I have a replacement device waiting for me at home due to scratches issue, but this definitely puts me more at ease now, particularly because I have great LtE at home and work.

What do you think? (Last time, I had power saving off, and got maybe 6 hrs of usage. See last screenshot for my usual)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Wouldn't let me edit so here is my standard usage per gsam
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
That looks better, but not great. Close to what I'm getting. I'm still concerned about the held awake stat. Mine is high as well, and I'm not sure what's causing if. Maybe I'll try getting rid of Amazon if you say that's keeping the phone awake.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Honestly it was really wierd, I downloaded greenify cause it's helped me in the past and I couldn't figure out the rogue apps any other way, and it said may slowdown phone when, for like 6 apps, so I set to hybernate them. Lemme show you my list. This seems to have made a massive difference, maybe try greenify and see if u get my same list, and results?

Yeah it's not phenominal, but it's pretty good with 25% still left

Edit: I should note that, for me, a Wear watch is connected for the whole time, a headset for most of the time, and the device was charged all night only, so no sleeping standby
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
So I'm switching from Verizon to t-mobile on Friday and getting the edge... I have great 4g lte both at home and work so not using wifi isn't an issue for me..

What I am concerned about is losing the ability to use wifi calling(due to the battery drain) ... And I think it's mostly because I don't know what it's purpose is... I assume it's only needed in areas where you don't have a good signal? Otherwise there's prolly no benefit to it?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Correct.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
Awesome, thanks! I don't care about missing that either then. I guess if I ever travel to an area that has bad reception but hopefully they'll have a patch out to fix the battery drain by then.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
For someone reason I keep having amazon force close on me even though I not even using the app... Could amazon app be causing battery drain as well.

I will run some tests today.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] azibux1:
Check post #152 near the top of this page, it has been mentioned :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
Did anyone confirm if Amazon was actually causing battery drain?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kurosawa79:
Ummm, SOT on Z3 is no joke. Especially on lollipop. I have bad LTE signal for most of the day too. Typically get 7-8 hrs SOT even with chrome being such a battery hog. Have changed to CM browser today so will see ifbit increases SOT. Should do as its so light.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bitwiser:
I had no luck with the Z3. I received it...horrible signals on AT&T in my area. I ordered the unlocked version direct from Sony. I talked to them and they sent me another one thinking it was defective. However, same result. I was only getting about 4.5 hours of screen time and the WiFi reception as well as LTE was horrid. I'm guessing that is why the battery was not up to standard. Anyway, I returned it within a week for a full refund.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Battery does seem to be a bit better since I disabled Amazon app from running.

Not a huge difference but definitely better so far...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
doesn't it bother any of you to have bought a super powerful computer/phone, and then have to turn features off, features that were some of the main reasons we bought the phone for?

I hate to be "that guy", but with external batteries being so incredibly cheap, and, how easy it is to carry a usb cable/car charger/external battery pack around for the car, office, or where ever, why don't you just throw the thing on a charger during lunch, break, when driving, or what ever? Are there that many of you that NEVER have 30 minutes of time when you are near something that can throw some juice into your phone? Or, to plug it into an charging pack for 30 minutes to breathe some life back into it?

Personally, I didn't spend all this money on a phone to have to turn off features so the battery lasts longer. I'm gonna plug it into SOMETHING for a bit during the day to make sure I can use this thing the way it was designed to be used, and get the most enjoyment out of all the bells and whistles that are in it.