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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] SDSpamalot:
This might be kinda weird, but I restarted my phone for the first time since Friday afternoon (Which is when I applied the OTA update) yesterday evening and my huge wifi drain issues have disappeared. I'm gonna let it go through a full drain today and post my results, but as of right now GSAM is reporting that my wifi is now 5% of battery drain, compared to 40-50% when I posted my screenshots on Sunday... I mean, I'm super happy about it, but my mind is boggled! ;)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
U did all that but your app usage is 15% lol... Seems like u don't touch the phone at all and leave the screen on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] garretts703:
which completely nullifies buying the device in the first place. Why buy a phone with a beautiful screen such as this if you're just going to tone down the brightness and not utilize the screen to it's full capabilities?

I'm barely getting 3 hours SOT right now and the standby time is even worse. First night i lost 30 % battery while I was sleeping and last night lost 25%. this is by far the worst battery life I've ever experienced on a smartphone. I'll be sending mine back and re-activating my note 4.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] allmine1976:
Use your brain . It's done by percentage and I watch lots of TV shows on my device (about 4 and half hours on this occasion ) so obviously the more time spent watching TV shows will shrink the app percentage down.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
Sent from my SM-G925I

Sent from my SM-G925I
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
Wrong. It'd be more if used.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] varunkumars:
You should really put your phone for auction...Lol.. I am not any where close to you.

Looks like samsung started working on 5.1. Lets hope for a fix.

http://www.sammobile.com/2015/04/15...0-and-5-1-for-galaxy-s6-grand-prime-and-more/
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] allmine1976:
Obviously I was wrong about telling you to use you brain as you don't have one .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
Mad af. Cuz caught letting screen on just to prolong batt life lewlz
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
I think your forgetting that this device has a quad HD display and that its only logical that the longer its on the higher the % of battery it would use. This is true with every single device with a qHD screen that I can think of. And doing something like watching TV would easily create the results seen here as after a long period of time the battery being used by the screen would greatly overtake the battery being used by the rather small amount of processing power that would be required to watch videos.

Switching subjects, how about you both stop acting childish? Really? Arguing about someone's battery life? Its pathetic and this is not the place to do it.

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
I had the nexus 6, note 4 now the s6. And I think I know all about it bring qhd and how it affects app usage...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Ok well if your so versed in qhd phones then why act so childish? Surely with all your vast knowledge you could've formed a more respectful argument? Although, by your attitude and demeanor, it seems more likely that the only reason you initially commented was to start ****... So in that case why don't you just end it here. I don't care if you believe his results or not, but there's no reason to call him out on it. Simply move on. It's the mature, logical, reasonable thing to do.

Sound okay?

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
Cool
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Great.

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilordvader:
Is that 5hrs in heavy or super heavy usage

Please
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
Personally? My usage is light to medium. I check emails, some social media stuff, stream a bit of music (GPMAA) and basic tasks throughout the day. Nothing really serious, but I'm on the phone a decent amount of time. Even with this usage my battery life isn't great.

Today isn't a good measure, since for some reason I dropped to Edge for a good portion of the day. Guess T-Mobile was working on the towers or something similar.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilordvader:
Thanks bro

so do you carry a power bank if so which one ?

wondering which power bank charges this phone Fully twice :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
Sorry man, don't have a powerbank yet. I'm usually near an outlet so I haven't had a need for one yet.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilordvader:
Thank you :cool:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] allmine1976:
Your grammar is amazing! Troll.

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If defending yourself is childish then count me in .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
56% still and I got 3+ hours of screen on

Sent from my SM-G925I

Sent from my SM-G925I
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
2 things.

1: we've come to an agreement about how it should've been handled and its no longer an issue, so why bring it back up? Move on.

2: defending yourself isn't childish. Its how you did so that was childish. You could have easily done numerous other things from the way you responded, the wording uses, to simply not responding and none of that would've happened. I'm not saying either of you are at fault because it takes two, but both of you handled it poorly.

So to recap, move on. The issue is over. Get on with your life and stop dwelling on a damn comment made on a forum. Its simply not worth thinking twice about.

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Blanko6:
I can't not get anything better then 3 screen on time. I'm rooted , t-mobile, VoLTE off, WiFi calling off. No amazon app. Most Samsung apps disable, auto screen broghtness. Some of you guys are just having amazing battery life. :(

I don't have the FB app cause it was a major battery killer .

Might need to unroot or return this this .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] idksomuch:
I'm not sure what's going on with my phone but two nights in a row I've fallen asleep to asmr vids, both of which were 19 minutes long and screen was at minimum brightness yet I wake up to 4 hours screen on time and at around 70%. I got over 8 hours screen yesterday apparently I and today I woke up with 69% and 4 hours SoT. I'll post pics when I get home
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
I hear ya, these users are getting insane battery life. I thought I was average, and decided against returning. Now I'm past my window and realize that my battery life is awful in comparison. I'm just hoping 5.1 will help battery life a bit when it releases.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] MasK:
Yea I do agree, however I'm just trying to point out that the screen brightness has a huge impact on batt life. Alot of people here have varied batt life and hardly anyone talks about brightness levels. Even auto-brightness has a relative level to adjust. I'm ok with 80% auto-brightness that gives me at least 4-4.5hrs.

For loosing batt while sleeping could only mean a rouge app that's causing wakelocks. You can try some tools that would help you find the culprit.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] deejw:
I bought this one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2T7U90/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I love it! I got over 3 full charges on it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Damanis1:
17 hours and counting. Phone works great for my needs, no wifi all day, streaming music for total of about 3~4 hours. All auto update disabled for unused apps, no google location tracking. Sprint comnections manager off. Unrooted sadly sprint phones having root problem
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Tlswofud1:
Can someone explain this to me? Screen only used 17% and the rest barely used battery but I'm at 24%? Does this even make sense? What is going on.

Can't even figure out what's draining my battery and I don't want to root...

Few days ago I was getting 4 hours + now I'm getting like half...

I'm now using power saving mode most of the time and have 20% auto brightness.

There was recently an update to ant+ services, is that it? Anyone confirm? Tmobile btw
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] OnlinePez:
Not sure why facebook is the top app using battery. I only used it once for about a minute.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
It stays awake and hinders the phone from entering deep sleep. That's at least what I ran into with Facebook. Remove it and try the Web version and report back
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] varunkumars:
I am going to try this myself now.

http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s6-battery-life-bad-update-might-help
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] theartialmartist:
10-cycle battery life?

Now that the phone has been available for (about) a week, can those of you who have fully charged the battery at least 10 times post their stats & Screen On Time?

maybe at very least 7 times? (once a day since Friday)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] garretts703:
doesn't change anything.

look, the battery life is just horrid. the 2600mah battery is too small for the qhd display despite the new 14nm exynos soc. they wanted too bad to make the phone slim that they sacrificed battery life and no software upgrade or app hotfix is going to change it. i'm sure everyone would have easily sacrificed a few more mm's thickness for a larger battery.

hopefully sammy comes correct with the note 5 battery.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] EnIXmA:
Battery life is fairly disappointing... I have to recharge once every day, but on the plus side it only takes around 40_60 minutes to fully charge

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy s6 Edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] theartialmartist:
can I get some Screen On Time man *twitch* just some Screen On Time.. , maybe a total on-time
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
I disabled "Samsung push services" because I have everything else with Samsung in the name disabled so there is no point in leaving it on.

Anyway it makes a big difference for me so far. I'm still at 90%+ battery but usually I'd be in the low 80's high 70's by now.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] megumi87:
Den how to you receive notification??

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Notifications for what? Everything else is a non sammy app and doesnt need sammy push
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
I took the update. I am at 69% with 4 hours on battery, 1 hour and 15m SOT using 5% while cell standby is sitting at 7%. Now I am at work without wifi calling. Cell standby doesn't seem to be going away. I also rebooted the phone hoping it was an rogue app. Will update more later.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
Cell standby killing you. Looks like the phone is searching for signal when it's that high.

And we all have to remember that 5.0.2 ain't that good. I see battery being better when 5.1 arrives. Some of you getting ok battery
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Watch a few more mins of hulu and did some random things.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] akong702:
Whoa, that looks really good for the battery. I can't wait to get mine delivered tomorrow. I was worried about battery life being worse than my LG g2 but it looks to be the same or better with the s6.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] XxKINGxX2580:
Got the S6 Edge yesterday. Impossible to do a full review of the battery life now, but so far it's been about half way between Nexus 6 and Nexus 5

http://imgur.com/zdZ65ak

http://imgur.com/Ol9C1Vc
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] verks:
My Cell Standby is off the charts. Never had T-mobile before, is it normal? I assume not. It's at 17%, I'm on wifi and although I'm in a basement I'm getting 4 bars/-107dBm (that's pretty high)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] showstopper03:
Thanks for sharing. keep it coming!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Did you use the new sim card provided or from previous phone? Just curious. I have same cell standby drain and I used my old sim card.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
I used my old sim card and am not having any problem with it so far. I have 2% cell stand by and I used it for 7 hrs so far.

I recommend turning WIFI calling off unless you need it. Might not even be that, but its one of the two things I don't have active. WIFI CALLING and POWERSAVE.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
Holy crap! That's the kind of battery life I'm hoping to see. I've been seeing a lot of reviews saying not ever expect seeing more than 4 hours SOT. That looks really good!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Just an update, I turned wifi calling on in the office and the cell standby battery usage doubled within half a hour.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
1hr of milk music and Bluetooth headphones and about 35 mins of using my fitness app at the gym. A few phone calls and a bunch of texting. I will keep it up until I hit 1 percent.

I think I can hit 5 hrs of screen time if I only used it to watch videos. All has been done over LTE. Pics below.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Poetique:
Do you see any sort of "high performance" wifi option that might be ticked somewhere?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Okay I was finally able to kill the battery... it died as I was checking the stats 5hrs and 20 mins of screen time. Charging seems very fast also

Pics below
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
I have the S6 and I'm having Cell Standby issues so hopefully turning off WiFi calling will fix them. That's unfortunate though. WiFi calling was one of the reasons I upgraded.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
This is me today. I will try turning WiFi calling off tomorrow and if that does not work, I will try turning off volte.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
Yeah that's not good. I'm having the same issue. I tried turning off WiFi calling and it doesn't seem to help. I have no idea what the issue could be.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erapmicks:
Go to settings:WiFi:advanced:and untick always scanning. Maybe its on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Maknora:
Guys the cell standby is a lollipop problem. All my phones on 5.0.2have bad cell standby. We need Google to fix it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
What a bit of a shock. I come from a Z3 Compact with amazing battery life :) Even with their 5.02 build, this was not an issue. If this is a bug in 5.02, why aren't all people with s6 having this problem?

Just to update, I've tried the following:

+ Turning off VoLTE

+ TUrning off Wifi Calling

+ Changing APN

+ Factory Reset

+ New Sim
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
How does one do this update?

thanks,
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] megumi87:
Cool let me try

Sent from my SM-G925I

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] EnIXmA:
This was on WiFi, 0 brightness and locations off. .it drains a lot faster on lte, 40% brightness and GPS on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
You must have some bad reception. As far as I know, LTE consumes less energy than 3G.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] drunkenjay:
alright guys, I will show you my battery stats

thats with 50%-100% brightness(initially it was 50% brightness but i cant remember when i put it on 100%)

wifi,4g was on all times. gaming(~2hr 30 mins),browsing(the rest), music(10 minutes),

before i fast charged, it was around 4 hours and 6 minutes. dropped to 5% and started recharging.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] MJFox78:
how did you disable it?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rikz112:
I was finding that the EMAIL app on the phone which i used for hotmail was killing my battery and also gmail one aswell! so I dont have my email on sync and seem to get more deep sleep around 85-95% during screen off time which is good or not what u think guys??? I have twitter on sync... but i think email which on my S4 didnt drain showed yday as 2nd in my battery list at around 14%
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
Sent from my SM-G925I
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] theartialmartist:
what the actual ufk.. 44 hours with 4 hours sot? that's amazing!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] drunkenjay:
i havnt disabled samsung push service and i had great battery life.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Settings>Applications>and then just look around for it>once you find it you can click on it and disable it.

I was getting great life with it on as well. 6-7 Sot. But if I can get better without it since I don't need it for any reason and it still consumes battery for doing nothing, then why would I leave it on?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Globalrebel:
People with new phones. Let your phone discharge to 10 or 5% and then do a full recharge. Use it normally for 2 days, then fully charge in the morning and test battery after that. All phones require at least a day or two to settle and the battery needs the cycles as well. I'll be posting after 3 days of usage to add my thoughts.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] drunkenjay:
[QUOTEI was getting great life with it on as well. 6-7 Sot. But if I can get better without it since I don't need it for any reason and it still consumes battery for doing nothing, then why would I leave it on?][/QUOTE]

well if you dont care about notification popups and how many messages you have received on your phone, by all means go for it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
well if you dont care about notification popups and how many messages you have received on your phone, by all means go for it.[/QUOTE]

I don't use any Sammy apps there for Sammy push is not needed for notifications.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
Battery life wie immer ok.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jhericurls:
Had my Edge for 2 days and I'm averaging 12hr standby and 4hr sot. This is with about 40mins worth of calls and 3 hours of spotify. This was all on mobile data and no WiFi, no doubt I would get better life on WiFi.

So last me a full working day, I can live with that.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
Well, things are getting better here. Maybe its the O2 network cause even my note 4 was nowhere near this good on battery.

I'm averaging 10% battery drain every hour of screen on time! Could the Samsung push service play store update have anything to do with it? No idea

But 2 hours sot already and I've got basically 80% battery left. Can't be. That's some good **** right there!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] theartialmartist:
you have a huge Google Play Services drain issue!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] memzworld:
Battery life is pretty good on my unit now, except for the first two days, which were not good at all..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] havrek:
How do you get that second battery screen? The only one I get is the graph I e. ATT S6 5.02
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lilmikey201:
This is my life so far do u guys think this is good? And it is entering deep sleep good
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] done12many2:
Brightness set to auto entire time. WiFi on the entire time. No bluetooth. No NFC.

I use the phone quite a bit throughout the day for XDA, typical communication (call/text), pictures, and shopping. Oh and I jammed out for a while with some headphones taking advantage of that excellent Wolfson DAC.

16+ hours on the battery

Almost 7 hours of SOT
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
No matter what you guys post, it all depends on the apps each one one of us has installed, some apps are badly coded others keep requesting connection etcetera

Sent from my SM-G900F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
Ye but it shows that this phone is able to achieve some awesome battery life, keep in mind is a qhd display and a small battery.i was never expecting such a good battery life out of this phone and I'm really happy with it.

But a lot of people just complain on each page ...they should have made the phone 1mm thicker and put a bigger battery inside.

No one seems to analyse their battery drain. These Screenshots just show that its definitely possible to have great battery life on this phone
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] optimummind:
Here are my battery stats.

This screenshot shows my usual battery drain rate.

After 13 hours off the charger with 2 hrs 20 mins of SOT.

18 hrs 37 mins off the charger with 4 hrs 8 mins of SOT:

For a phone with a 2600mah, I'm more than satisfied with this. With the upcoming 5.1, the SOT & battery drain rate should improve, as it did for my Nexus 5 on 5.1.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Jason0071:
Battery Life...hahaha

There is nothing better than the Z3 in the history of android and iOS phones. Droid Turbo runs a close second. Regardless, the Samsung Galaxy S6 has a battery life that doesn't live up to Samsung's claims. That being said my personal use of Edge since the 10th is that on a heavy use day, which is a screen on time close to 3.5 to 4 hours, it wont last 8 hours. With screen off from a 100% charge to when the phone auto shuts off, with no screen on time (meaning the phone is removed from power and just sits) it will last about 17 hours. A moderate use day with screen on time of 2 to 3 hours it will last about 12 hours. With continual use with the screen constantly on (sitting in front of the TV double screening, binge watching whatever) you'll get about 4.5 hours..maybe more like 4 or less. I really like the phone but like previously stated in this thread the Z3 battery life is the stuff legends are made of, nothing compares. One good thing is that the Edge charges really quickly.

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Holy Christ how did you get 18 hours with a screen on time of 5 hours +? Have you not installed any other apps?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] optimummind:
I have over 150 apps installed on my S6E.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Jason0071:
I'll see what GSAM says my stats are..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
Jason there must be something wrong on your side. I get 20 hours with mostly 6 hours screen on fine. WiFi, sync, 4g always on auto brightness
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] havrek:
I find these long battery times very suspect. Even with a factory reset abs the optimisation changes must are making I can't get these. I also notice that I'm always at a steady -267 MA abs these screen shots show numbers that are up towards -967mA.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] megumi87:
Agree
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] dimkit:
I am pretty sure that all of them who achieve SOT more than 5 hours have their screen brightness to the lowest level.

All of them who are posting their battery stats they do not include to the information they give the most important factor for battery life, their screen brightness.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jhericurls:
I get about 4 hours+ screen time and always have my brightness under 50%.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] madpete:
Here's my latest run, Im staggered by what this phone can do on a 2600mah battery. The virtually flat part of the graph is over night when I was asleep (radios off at that time). At one point early on I copied a few pics over to my pc via usb cable, but it only took a minute tops. I have wifi, gps, mobile data and bluetooth (for the moto 360) on all the time. I run a business so I have 4 email accounts syncing and also an outlook calendar. Screen on auto but the slider set down as its bright enough for everything except strong sunlight (when I bump it up a few notches).
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
Spoken like true jealousy. Just be bloody happy for us. Signal and screen are the number one highest strain culprits. Hope yours gets better
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mjs2011:
Has anyone here switched from the iPhone 6? Just curious what your thoughts are regarding the battery comparison.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
That's just a lie, I always wrote that I was in auto brightness the entire day.

That's just hilarious, instead of posting Screenshots, asking for help to kill your drain - people are jealous here.

I wonder when the next one will appear and say that people with those battery life's do photo shop their pics.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hchxoom:
Just ignore the trolls. Likely the same folks who are convinced that every screen is scratched and that those who say they have unscratched phones just can't see or don't know how to look.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Jesseownzzz:
Did you update the Samsung Push Service or have it disabled? I'm trying to figure out where 8% Android OS of my battery is going