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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] haqone:
Crazy that you are getting only two hours. Do you turn on and off your phone a lot and only check things very briefly then turn the phone off? Or do you use your phone in longer sessions like 30 minutes? I could play a extremely intense game and break 2 hours screen time so easily.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Facebook is the mother of all battery hogs, if you want us battery back you better disable it.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] robikonobi:
Uninstall facebook and use an app call tinfoil instead. It is much more battery friendly and offers more privacy than the original facebook app.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pixelguy:
But surely if your phone is plugged in and at 100% the battery then starts relying on the charger as a power source? Or maybe stops charging drops to 99% then charges again and repeats? I always though phone batteries worked that way lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Marne Jr:
Thank you guys!

Now I am back on track...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
Those of you that's getting good battery life, would you be happy with these results? My phone deep sleeps well but when I use it I feel like it drops like crazy.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] optimummind:
No, I wouldn't be happy with that. I would expect at least 4 to 4.5 hrs of SOT, which is what I get.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
Thanks. I'm having reception issues as well as dropped calls in areas where I've never had problems with previous phones. Thinking about doing a factory reset to see if that helps and if not was gonna exchange for a new unit.

Anyone know how best buy handles this? Do they exchange there, send you the replacement, or send you to verizon (my carrier)?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Maknora:
The Compact phone you got there and Sony z3 are legends. The compact screen ppi vs battery makes it have long lasting stamina. It's raw power that's beating the software issues. =) great phone btw.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] arcanexvi:
I'm also getting terrible battery life with Wifi enabled. Wifi Calling or not doesn't matter. I'm dropping about 10%/hr which is very high. If I disable Wifi it seems to be a more normal 3-5%/hr
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
I have done a ton of testing. Can't seem to find any issues on my end so I'm assuming it's either a hardware defect or something is bugged with the software. Because of the fact that multiple people are having this issue and they all appear to have T-Mobile I'm going to go with the software defect.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] arcanexvi:
It's definitely software. Makes me wonder if that's why the nexus skipped 5.0.2
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ryan09266:
Just switched to T-Mobile, having problems with cell standby as well. Battery isn't horrible, but faster drain than I would like. Going to try turning off wifi calling.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] dynot:
Maybe my expectations are too high but I'm not seeing anything encouraging here. I need at least 14-16 hours to get me through the day.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
Y'all bought a phonewith 2600mah battery and y'all complaining battery life?....
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Well so far my test from today has been good. I have no cell stand by problem. I keep wifi off.

Im at 70% battery as of now. with 2hr 45 mins on on screen time and about 2 hrs of movies. and 5hr total use.

I'm going to assume it has to do with WIFI in some shape or form.

Yesterday proved to me I could get 5 hr 20 of screen time. Just don't except the same life as the higher 3100 mah phones.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
If it's wifi it could be the multicast wakelock, anyone with BBS check if you get eventxx kernel wakelocks. Usually cell standby is related to the network, wifi wakelock should go under Android Os. The s3 had same bug on jb before a software update

Sent from my SM-G900F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Pic below of cell standby.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Total connection would be the same as Time on for me. Seems like having WIFI on is causing this problem which means its the same 5.0.2 bug people are complaining about on multiple devices.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
That's the only thing I think of for sure. Since my wifi has been off at all times and I haven't had any problem so far.

I advise people to bring this to Samsung and T-Mobile attention. Hopefully they could get an update out.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bubblebuddyi:
I'm having a similar issue, I believe android OS is eating up with WiFi on, haven't tested with it off.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] arcanexvi:
It's definitely a Wifi issue. Now to see if hey can push out a fix in a timely manner...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
Got my phone a few hours ago and am also having the cell standby issue. ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bubblebuddyi:
I still have severe battery drain without WiFi on, I'm not sure what's going on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Maknora:
Seriously. I would be happy if I got 3-4hrs sot. If you need anything more just get a z3 or a droid turbo.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
Settling for a weaker device I see
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] arcanexvi:
Not in the battery dept
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] defiantbeast:
I've had mine 2 days the battery life seems good considering I've been playing with it non stop. What really has me impressed is the fast charge. Phone was down to 5%, plugged in for 11 minutes 42% charge, IN 11 MINUTES!!! This will be the feature that will be the most have from now on

Sent from my S4 in a galaxy far, far away.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
It's all about idle drain, I'm pretty impressed, on Wi-Fi with Twitter notifications on and, 3 Gmail accounts syncing

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
I did a factory reset as others have suggested and it seems to have helped me. This is only the first day and first full charge since the reset but I wouldn't have been able to achieve this prior to resetting the phone. I haven't changed a thing, set the phone up the same way.

Edit: I'm thinking the high android system might be related to fingerprint unlock. I have mine lock instantly and I probably unlock my phone hundreds of times per day. I've also wondered if it's cuz I use Bluetooth all day with my moto 360....
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Crispy92:
I'v got an unreal battery problem i'v been trying to fix for the past two days, the battery life has gradually being getting worse the more I try fix it ha, I'v disabled all Google / Samsung background apps that drain battery (reported in this post), everything is off apart from WiFi and last night when I went to bed, late night at 2am, I unplugged from 100% charged and this morning at 9am i checked my phone. 33%!!!!!

I'll go through what I did in attempt to reduce drain and increase battery life,

- Disabled Google Services // Samsung Push Services

- GPS / NFC / Everything other than WiFi & Mobile Data turned off

- Running DU Battery Save Pro

- I am running stock email however I don't see this having this kind of impact (see attachments)

I'm going to manually back-up all my data to my PC and then do a full reset as that's all i'v found left to do, I don't understand why the battery life has so dramatically deteriorated in the last week, from a full 100% charged in the morning the battery loses around 10-15% per hour on standby and double that with minor 10-15 minute use per hour.

Can anyone help before I do a full reset?

I'm also unsure as to why Android System is using 43%+ ??
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] zooriver:
Did you clean your cache
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Marne Jr:
Try to use DS battery saver instead of DU battery saver...

Is your phone rooted?

Did you installed stock recovery?

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Try to use DS battery saver...

Is your phone rooted?

Did you installed stock recovery?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] zooriver:
If he hasn't cleared his cache - turn off phone then press hold up volume, power button and home button at the same time. Then clear cache and many problems will clear up. You will not lose any data.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gustrick:
Is very good if I think that I have so many features enabled. At least 23 hs

Greatins
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
Terribe battery life

So I decided to leave my 5 days old in the night with Sync, WIFI and Mobile data on but it seems like my battery might have got a huge hit by dropping from 64% to 55% while i had left it only for like 4 hours, I realised that Google Play services and Samsung Push services(which i have since disabled) were the major culprits, is this normal and how can one minimize the drain? Note my device is NOT rooted and i have greenify installed and have disabled most apps like the google apps excluding gmail and google plus. I also realised that Cell Standby was 3rd on the list in terms of battery consumption, I have disabled VoLTE but i don't have WIFI calling setting as some have suggested turning it off too. Can someone please help if possible

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Graffiti Exploit:
Usage is with wifi on all the time. Downloading torrents. Social media - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Videos. Auto Brightness.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Graffiti Exploit:
On a good day, this happens too.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
You turned off data? LOl
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
How long was the phone off charger?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Shadyfurball:
I'm getting like just over 4 hours sot. Not much better than my nexus 5! How are you guys disabling Google services etc? What's safe disable?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Crispy92:
I cleaned the cache using the power off - power button - home - volume up method but in the end resorted to a full reset. I did notice something though, throughout the day I had brilliant battery life, only installed viber which i use alot and re-added phone numbers as I was at work. I lost about 10% over 7 hours with a 15 minute call, 20 minutes viber ish and around 10 minutes internet searching.

However after reinstalling certain applications, facebook, du battery pro and other small applications same old battery problems, draining a good 8-14% per hour when i'm not even using it.

If anyone has a link to a step by step guide to saving battery life i'll be most grateful :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ksekhar:
Use AppOps (from play store) and disable awake option for ones you don't like to keep running like Facebook. It worked for me!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jemael972:
Greenify ..auto mid brightness ...simplkernel

Envoyé de mon SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Jesseownzzz:
Is there anything specifically that you would say made a big difference?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
Is 3.5 hours normal with this phone? ?

I have had it for over a week now and in have this weird battery drain problem when just using the screen wifi on or off doesn't matter (only matters in standby battery drain) so what the hell is wrong ?? I disable a lot of stuff i even try a factory reset still phone only achieve 3 hours sot...

I could have stayed with my lg g2 if this was the case

So again guys my main problem is not with the standy it's with just using the phone...

Please help tell me if i should wait an update or get a replacement asap?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
What's ur standby drain per hr? What's ur deep sleep? What do you use most when screen on?

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
Okay i only use whatsapp snapchat and some instagram and some web browsing even Facebook is uninstalled to save battery

Deep sleep working fine

My standby drain per hour is abt 0.3%

I am telling you no issues regarding standby and deepsleep..

It's the screen use and i am always on 10% 20% max brightness 90% of the time
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
To complete my other reply with some proof
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tzitzos:
i come from an iPhone 6.

identical use with the iPhone 6 i had something about 10% at night starting from 100% the morning.

with the edge i have more than 30%.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Don't blame your phone, I get 0.3%/hr drain at night so that's 2.1% over 8% and fully stock. You should check ur deep sleep and background running apps

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
I have a similar issue. Mine idles fine but when I use it I feel like it sucks battery. I did a factory reset and it seems to of helped a little. I don't get close to the 4 or 5 hours others do though.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] busterblood:
Google play services drain my battery :(

Anyone have some advises for me?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
what are the problem you get if you turn off google services?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Maywell:
After having this phone for 4 days, I can say that with my everyday use, which is quite often using phone, my battery down from 100% to 30% in around 6 hours. In my place 3G is the common signal, 4G rare. Maybe searching and switching signal drain quite a bit battery life. But I'm sure I want improvement for this phone's battery. Any advise?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Your not really going to get more then 6:30 mins ost. If your phone screen is on the whole time that sounds about right and for me 30 percent to 1% takes while before the phone dies out. I have gotten 2.5 hrs from 30 to one percent running netflix on data.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mariuz:
I just found a very nice app called "pixel battery saver " wich basically apply a black overlay mash on you screen and the battery improved considerable. It is true that you lose the default resolution but it's very handy when you need to save battery. Also you can set it to enable the mash at a just at a certain level of battery.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jeff_roey:
Go to Settings - Accessibility - Direct Access. Turn the feature on and choose Grayscale. That allows you to toggle between a full color display and grayscale with 3 quick clicks of the home key. A nice built-in feature that does essentially the same thing.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Can't get passed 6,5hrs SOT which is good for my usage. I'm UV/UC was hoping for some huge battery difference but sadly no. Anyway very happy with the phone except for the yellowish screen :(

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
Can someone be so kind and supply a solution to Google Services battery drain, I mean on my battery usage it's high up there at 24% while the second thing that drains is only 7%. The annoying thing is the fact that it drains like this while the phone is idle, so if possible without root access to minimize this draining from Google services
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ac7822:
Factory reset is what did it for me. Same issue as you. Also turning off location really seems to help bring down the android os and services drain. But that's just for research purpose. I like the Google now location features too much to leave them off.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
Thanks I already did the factory reset, but not getting better, I also like the location services that i'm reluctant to turn them off, anyway thanks for your input
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Z-Saber:
Do either of these actually save battery? Anyone compared the drain with and without?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mariuz:
When I use the pixel battery saver app on high I would say that the display takes just half of the power which normally would so saving the battery. But I use this option only when I got 30% of battery left and I know that I can't charge it for another couple of hours because I think it's a shame to lower the picture quality of this superb screen.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Running stock rom with ktoonsez kernel - 75 mv on all steps both Lil and big cores. Underclocked Lil cores to 1500 and big ones to 1800. Greenify Tasker running, all other features are on exception location and Google now. Gmail syncing 3 accounts. Most F the usage is forum browsing and themes installation. Some Spotify and calls as well. I haven't used any power saving. It suits my usage so yes the battery is better than my S5

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
Before rooting and doing all that kernel and greenify how was your battery? And how did u get rid of the high google services usage if you ever had it because i keep facing a huge battery drain with these google services and why on earth would whatsapp have a higher percentage of battery drain than sot on ny device ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
I don't understand how you're achieving this. I'm stock everything with a Verizon varient if I had 3.5 hours sot my phone would be nearly dead. Beat I've ever gotten is 3.5 as a matter of fact. This was today.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
This is my best stats I've gotten. I cannot figure out why my Android System is always so high.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Before rooting I had a good battery life with a SOT of 5-6 hours but now it's even better. I never had high Google services usage because I'm not using any Google app except for Gmail. For your what's app problem I think it's stuck syncing so you might need to wipe it's cache. I also have a very good idle drain which I believe is helping achieve higher uptime and SOT. For example at night I lose 0.4% per hour meaning for 8hrs I lose 3.2%.

Sent from my SM-G925F

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Why the hell you have high android os usage.? You need to look into Google Apps and location settings

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Sdr001:
I used to use S5 and thought that battery life was decent, but never had anything like what I have now with the S6 - over the weekend I charged it on Saturday and then again on Monday morning! To be fair didn't use it that heavily as was out and about but still had about 3.5 hrs SOT, played Deezer for couple of hours, checked maps, few pics and vids and it still lasted over 48 hrs. I've got Greenify and have disabled apps I don't use and replaced Facebook app with Tinfoil for Facebook app. I do have a slight issue now as there is a something called 'CatchFavourites' that appears to have eaten 4% of my battery and I've no idea what it is. I disabled it when it was at 2% and the only thing that seems to be affected is the Yahoo ticker on the edge that has stopped working, which I don't really care about - but it still increased to 4% since I disabled it so not sure if this is really connected (screenshots attached)? Anyone has an idea?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Gooner4_1998:
My battery is getting destroyed in no time at all, making it almost unusable as my main phone!

Down 78% with only 1 hour screen time. Biggest drain is "wifi active" and the android system as per the attached. Don't understand why wifi is taking so much battery and if I turn it off I lose the smart ability of my smart phone!!!

No idea what is causing the battery drain from the android system. Anyone have a view?

At a bit of a loss as to what to do. Any advice?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Wow that's some bad battery

Now I'm very happy.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CapraSebi:
You can get almost 5 hours SOT based on that, I can't understand how this is bad lol!?:))
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] trazfer:
I suggest when posting your screenshots you should include the rom you are using and kernel. Because i use pure stock and i only get from 100 % 5h 50mins standby and 4 hours SOT with 14% remaining.

Any suggestions? Any people on pure stock reach 6h up SOT?

Edit: btw i have 3 hours of brave frontier and i also have a smart watch
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
I'm running stock.

Lollipop 5.0.2

And am getting bad battery
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Gooner4_1998:
I'm also stock 5.0.2.

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It's down 78% to 22%, not down to 78%!!!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
Can you please elaborate how are you getting this?

LTE - ON/OFF? are you using a lot of 2G?

Mobile Data - ON/OFF?

WIFI - ON/OFF?

Location - GPS+WIFI+CELL?

Screen Brightness - ?

Are you using apps like Pixel Battery Saver Booster?

That OST is based on what? How much video/twitch are you doing and how much web broswing/chat are you doing? Because I also get a lot of OST with video/twich (around 6 hours.)

How many apps are disabled? Everything Greenified with Root? -

Are you using any google apps in background? - Google Cards for example

thank you.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Sure,

I'm at work from 9 to 6pm. So it's all Wi-Fi

From 820 to 9 I'm in the car so 3G listening to Spotify via Bluetooth

No GPS, no location

Brightness is at half on auto

Most of my usage is forum browsing Spotify and Internet

I disabled all Google Apps except Gmail which I use for my work and personal emails so it's always syncing

I also sync twitter with notification enabled for 15 people I follow

Samsung apps are disabled

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
thank you mate.

Rooted with Greenify or not?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Yes I am, greenfied a lot of apps.

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
Thank you very much for the great support :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
Which google apps did u disable exactly ? Because i tried once disabling Google play services and that deleted all my contacts and everything regarding my Gmail account...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Oh no, just disable hangouts, Google+ Google now, you can't disable Google play services but you can greenify it

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
is there any point using greenify if i cant root (verizon phone)?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
I just looked in greenify but i cant find google play services to hibernate

How exactly did u manage to greenify ģoogle play services?

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Yes there's u dont have to root to use greenify
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roobwz:
I you have root, then use disable service
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
I am sorry can u explain further ? I didnt understand
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] theartialmartist:
I used power-saving mode all day for this 5 hours of SOT on at&t, s6 edge gold platinum 64gb

Can someone explain the pesky Android Services drain in Appsucker? I know why chrome is up there, I was facebooking exclusively through there
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Graffiti Exploit:
Greenified except for Nova, Zooper, TeslaPlugin, Minima Pro.

Auto Brightness. Wifi was on all the time. Usage was mostly on social media and videos.

Downloaded a couple of torrents through Flud.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
I've been trying to find out why. It drives me insane.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] anonymousss:
How do u that .. damn
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Graffiti Exploit:
Sometimes I don't get that though. I don't know if it's bad reception but most of the times I do get that a lot.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
Seems like I get around the same usage every time. Android system is always high.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tryfound:
Use your phone indoors, on a wifi connection without moving from that area and thus not having the radio switch between mobile towers and the screen not having to adjust to various amounts of light from the sun for example. Also keep using your phone for long, continuous periods rather than unlocking it and locking it again frequently.

This is why I hate SoT posts because there are so many factors which affect battery life and some people feel as though they may have an issue that doesn't exist because they can't hit these elusive 7+ hour SoT examples.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bibiner:
Those who had bad better life, are you on some sort of carrier? Like verizon and att. I seeing people with bad battery are mainly from these network.