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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
Also from SA got the gold one from Vodacom, gotta say battery life on mine is pretty good before I rooted it, I got on average 5hrs of SOT with a day+ battery life, if I was constantly using I then got 7hrs of SOT with just less than a day battery life, now that I'm rooted I get on average 6hrs+ SOT and with constant usage I once got 9.5hrs BTW I'm still on 5.0.2
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] 2dorr:
I am very happy with the battery of 5.1.1. Location is off and Google now also. Also I used the auto stop option for all apps except what apps I use to get notifications like email, hangouts, whatsapp and so.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ps000000:
Night clock eat upto 8% overnight (10.00 pm - 6.00 am) I am on 5.1.1.

(may be anything else eat the battery too.):p:p:p
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
What is your display screen set to bro ?

Mines on adaptive display set to about 30% .

4G off.

And this is what I been getting . On 5.1.1. Am also on vodacom and phone was bought from them too.

Using the battery optimisations in 5.1.1 to also auto stop all apps except Instant Messaging and email and Skype.

Am also on power saving mode all the time.

That's what I'm getting.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
That screen on time tho [emoji52]

Meh

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By the way am not rooted.

Stock firmware
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
[MENTION=3661645]Harshaanl[/MENTION] I set the brightness to Adaptive and to as low as possible, at a point where I can see, 4G also Off, It's really weird that you have this poor battery life, I mean I only use Power Saving mode when I get to 20%, and my battery life is better, though I don't use Viber, Have you tried disabling all the unnecessary preinstalled apps? That should improve battery life
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mobzter:
I'm on like 5hrs 25mins with 22% left
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
Am testing today. Brightness set like yours. 4G off and powersaving off as well. Let's see how it does. Might be Viber that's causing the battery drain
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Globalrebel:
What Auto-stop options are you talking about? I would love battery life like that?!?! Do you have 4G enabled? any other radios (NFC, Wifi, etc)?

I'm lucky if I get 25Hrs with 1.5 - 2 hours SOT and average use. I use BT for about 30 minutes a day, and listen to spotify about 2 hours a day so my usage isn't crazy.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] 2dorr:
Check DETAIL option in my screenshot. In those screenshots I posted with my battery, I installed 2 firmwares and that means 5 minutes each connected to USB with ODIN. Still 10 minutes to USB charging means almost nothing. I always have Wifi and 4G active. Location and NFC are off.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Globalrebel:
That's just awesome. Wish I could get that.

What is the Auto-off option that you talked about? I'd like to try that out.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pheonix320:
Does anyone have a fix to Wifi battery drain? Wifi is using over 40% of my battery, its killing me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilan78:
I am rooted with the root of AlexV but the battery life ls horrible in 5.1.1

.

And you ? What to do ?

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Tue battery life is horrible in 5.1.1... I am rooted on s6 edge. And you ? What could i do ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Laum:
Read the first sentence again from his answer :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ps000000:
I kill some app (that I never use) with Titanium Backup.

I got some better battery life.

( Car HD Custom ROM 5.1.1 + SimplKernel )

:(:(:(

( Not use any power save mode )
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] -Frankz:
I used to have terrible battery life, my standby time was horrible, overnight I would lose 10% doing nothing.. but I managed to find a way to pretty much double my battery life by not using certain apps and by disabling everything I didn't need.

My setup;

Echoe rom v3 (5.0.2) + stock kernel, knox 0x0

I heavily debloated the rom by turning off everything I don't need in titanium backup.

Using greenify to hibernate all apps.

Using dolphin browser as my main browser and to access Facebook and send messages, since the chrome, Facebook and messenger apps are real batterykillers lol.

Always have either wifi or mobile data turned on. Bluetooth, nfc, sync, location are always off because I never use them.

Brightness on auto

My general daily usage is checking Facebook and Happening about every hour for a couple minutes, and browsing several forums on Tapatalk, checking Reddit, browsing on the dolphin browser several times a day.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
hey all, check this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61756314&postcount=243
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] saobang3886:
My phone can run two day with about 3,5 hours screen on. wifi and bluetooth alway on, 3G some time but not much, brightness is 20-30%. use the phone most for message, check facebook, G+ and play game.

Some tips:

- Disable google now.

- Disable background data of google play service.

- Turn of EDGE feature ( quick contact, night clock).
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Plogm:
S6 edge got a awful battery life, comparing to Z2 (my previous cell).

after updating to 5.1.1. RAM always full to 85% doing nothing,so it cause using so much more battery

so i'm trying to root it , see what happens....
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Globalrebel:
I don't have this window anywhere in settings. Is this the System Manager app that some of the phones come with and some don't?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
Oh bud he's referring to smart switch for PC man. .

I'll attach a pic.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elpindian:
I have no idea how you guys get the battery life you do... But this is the best I can ever get. I have everything disabled and sync turned off but the most I can ever get is 12 hours and tbh I'm on my last straw with this phone. I'm ready to cut my losses and just sell the damn thing and pick up a Nexus 6 or Droid Turbo.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Clay330i:
You will love the Nexus 6. It's a smooth phone. My wife has it and I was jealous for a while. Lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] corallus:
But to be fair, the z2 (even with its 8hr+ sot ) is only pushing half the pixels and using a less powerful cpu to do it. I had Z, Z1, Z2 and Z3, the battery life was immense on them, but when you consider what this phone is doing with the battery,, it ain't that bad at all.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mosesbd:
i would compromise all on this device but the camera for a better battery life :P

i wish i could take the screen to 1080p and make this device more than awesome :D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
My latest battery stats after updating to 5.1.1 South Africa. I'm not rooted. Official firmware.

4G off.

Power Saving off.

Auto brightness 30% .

Used Battery optimisation in Smart manager to auto stop all apps except the one's I use for instant messaging and email.

I actually use the phone.

So like Web browsing . Tapatalk . Viber calls. Normal calls. Skype for instant messaging. Whatsapp.

Some YouTube .

This is the best battery life I've had so far.

So will have to monitor the update of 5.1.1 to see if it's consistent.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] EnterLordVader:
Coming from the Nexus 6 and HTC one M9, The edge has better battery life than both of them for me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] babakmaham:
Got this phone 8 days ago .i have no issue with battery life and its enough for me .takes 2 days between charging
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elpindian:
So Smart Manager is definitely on my phone somewhere but its nowhere to be found.. Anyone know any way to enable it? I'm pretty sure Sprint just doesn't want us to have a good experience with our phone ...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mobzter:
battery life's going well for me so far
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] :
2G?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
Of course, when location and google now are off your phone basically becomes a beginning of 2000's Nokia with a color screen and snake pre-installed. Google now and location services are pretty much vital for me, and are the biggest battery muncher also.

As for me, the battery life is a 6/10. I don't disable anything, I have a smartphone and I want it to stay smart. I can go through a day where i get up at around 8am and by the time I go to bed, I have about 10-20% left. But if I go out after work, or play poker until the early morning, forget it, the battery will never last. Thats why I miss my note 4 so much, the battery on that thing was crazy, i was able to go through 2 and on rare occasions 3 days with no diet. And if i started disabling everything like 2dorr, i can have up to 4-5 days on a charge. Man oh man i can't wait for Note 5

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these stats are so BS. Edge screen night alarm technically counts as screen on time, but it barely takes any battery power. So thats almost 5h you got was probably 80% edge screen, or you optimized the hell out of your phone like disabling 4G and LTE and sticking to 2G with brightness minimum and location services off. Never would i believe an S6 going through 5 hours of SOT. Even if I turn every connection (wifi, cellular, BT) and dim the screen to minimum and set the screen to never turn off, i doubt i could hit 5h.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Clay330i:
Lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
Same here. I've tried turning off everything and couldn't get 5 hours.

That was on 5.0.2

5.1.1 is a different story .

Got 4 hours SOT with 16 hours usage.

So now am gonna keep testing and see how consistent it is
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mobzter:
Actually it's 3G and i adjusted the screen brightness according to how much i needed when i was indoor/outdoor. also i don't have edge clock cause i disabled it. so ye.. that was actually my actual screen on time
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] 2dorr:
Location OFF is not a must, you are right. Google Now is very useful, too bad I don't use it. I am not in an English country, so voice commands are not so useful to me, even though I speak English. I don't have the accent and not all the time it understands me. Also I don't use cards
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Batfink33:
I disable Google Now and have location services on Wifi and Data only. I just don't use Google Now at all. I also disable some of the sync settings. I get around 4-4.30 SOT. Coming from a Note 4, I find the battery life slightly worse and even slightly worse than my old Nexus 5 (Note 4 and N5 with custom kernels, S6 stock kernel so far) It's not terrible but it's not that great. One thing that may help is Android M, it seems to have given a big improvement on the Nexus 5 so may help with the S6 also (although I would hold out too much hope).

The biggest problem I have is that I stream stream music over bluetooth for a lot of the day which I find really kills the battery with the S6 much more than the N5 and N4.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
I am a huge fan of Google now too. Just the "you parked here" feature has saved my bacon so many times. I agree with the sentiment that it's pointless to buy the latest and greatest smart phones and disable things like 4G and VoLTE etc. Seems silly.

I leave google now (location set to max accuracy mode), bluetooth, edge clock (love that feature at night), 4G always on. Screen to auto brightness. I went through and disabled all the other crap I didn't need, AND using 5.1.1's in-built battery smart manager aggressively. I am not rooted.

Tell you what though, I am getting better battery life with the S6E and 5.1.1 than my Note 4. On any day, I wake up at 4:30 AM which is when the phone comes off the charger. At the end of a normal work day that ends around 5 PM (with very frequent tapatalk, texting and email, minor but regular camera use), I have 60-65% battery left. If I am in my other office where I get poor reception, at the end of the same work day, I have about 50-55% left.

Here's the biggest test that 5.1.1. passes. I have qi charging docks in both cars and ALWAYS use google maps wherever I am going to get traffic updates, and have the music app playing via BT. And it always used to discharge even while being on qi (my old Nexus 6, Note 4 etc. all did the same; big ass Qhd screens pull juice). Now, the S6E doesn't. And it actually gains/charges while being used for maps and music. That in itself says to me that the OS is nicely optimized that it's not pulling as much juice as it used to.

Those that are still experiencing poor battery after 5.1.1. should do a factory reset, start over, and follow one of the guides that show you what to disable in addition to using the battery smart manager app. You can just adapt the guide to what you feel comfortable living with, as I did.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Batfink33:
That's interesting about the Note 4. It may be because I had a custom kernel with battery saving settings that I was getting better battery times. This is my fourth day using the Edge and it seems to be better today, perhaps the battery just needed a few charges.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] zift:
Nop!

Just turning off what I do not care for (eg LTE in country without it, google cards and now if my language is not English, facebook, samsung push...)

But always BT (lot of time in car) data on (outlook emails) viber (cheaper than SMS),

GPS when ever waze or here on...

Interseting is that lot of you show battery stats WITHOUT phoning! In my case very often voice calls use more battery than screen. SOT 2-3 hours a day voice calls 1 - 3 hours... :silly:

Why do you buy smart (or dumb) PHONE at all?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xdafann:
Any way to reverse back to 5.0.2 ? I hate 5.1.1 battery life
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Clay330i:
Agreed. That's the first report I've seen of anyone getting better battery life than Note 4 with the S6. Lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
What screen on time are you getting tho?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sarajonee:
try using third party app to save battery life i suggest :good:

play. google. com /store/apps/details?id=com.asw.advacnedbatterysaver
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skinza:
And no edge features with 4g enabled all the time in low signal area
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
Dont believe it a second. Even for a note 4 7h sot is far fetched
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elpindian:
Are all these people that are getting 1+ days of battery life just using ultra power saving mode all day and night and then posting that screenshot after?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
What I've noticed is this.

They use their phones sparingly.

So like check it every 20 mins for like 2 mins or so.

If you use your phone straight up for like an hour of just texting browsing and music you'll never get a day. Hell you'll only even get about 3 hours SOT.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bootneckrhino:
I'm trying everything I can short of rooting to increase my battery life. I've lost 32% in 1 hour. I'm at the end of my tether with this damn phone. I shouldn't need to turn that many things off that it's effectively a Nokia 3310 to get slightly more battery
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mosesbd:
i feel your pain,

for me it helped a bit to turn off all motion and gestures (specially the one to wake up the device with your hand hovered above the screen)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Kur0ya:
do I win...?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] :
All those ppl with high SOT are not using their devices that much, which eliminates a lot of battery consuming stuff, like heat and heavy/cpu demanding programs, they just do some really basic stuff, tho I got mange to reach 6,5hr SOT with some gaming and texting all the time but now I can't reach 5hrs SOT for some reason.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mobzter:
there's my constant usage straight from get go!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] corallus:
I use mine quite heavily,

I came from xperia z3 and sot was averaging 7-8 hours.

The s6 edge is below this at 5-6 hours average.

I browse, listen to Google play music, use camera a bit, general use really but a fair amount of it.

I have screen set to 40% brightness and no power saving options.

Bottom line for me is, it lasts the day, and I'm happy with the battery life tbh.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
i can never get 5 - 6 hours.

max i get is 4 hours

mainly 3 hours 30 mins.

i do however have bad signal where i work.

and constant HSPA and HSPA + changing.

Do you think the constant changing from HSPA and HSPA + could be a huge battery drainer ?

Also i've noticed Viber drains a lot of my battery .

i've auto force stopped it today and restricted background data .

so will see if that improves the battery
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wind784:
When you can run ingress while having another device tethered, Bluetooth to car amongst constant hangouts etc and manage 3.5-4hrs SOT on stock non rooted let me know, otherwise all these screens are BS period, although hilarious. Battery is terrible beyond terrible period and major fault, spin it how you'd like. Overhype got a lot of folks.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
I disagree about getting only 3hrs SOT, if you use your phone all day you'll have more SOT as instead of leaving it there syncing everything with the phone screen off, the battery will be going down with SOT going up, but if you don't use it the whole day most of the times the battery will be going down while SOT stays constant. I use my phone always without letting the screen go OFF, I've realised that 10%=1 Hour of SOT, This is the reason why I got 9.5hrs SOT at one stage as I was for the most part browing the internet, watching YouTube videos, Twitter, Instagram and some voice calls with a 14hrs battery usage,if I don't use it much I get about 6-7hrs SOT,a day usage of battery, BTW I'm rooted using Greenify
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
Am going to try your suggestion.

And see if that makes a difference.

Otherwise if I'm working and only get to use my phone after work I'll just turn off sync and see if that improves standby time.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
What are you?10?u talk like some whiny Lil girl who didn't get her Barby. People who get 6hrs SOT are using their phone how they use it daily, ur not gonna push people to use the phone the way you use it. I'm getting 6 hrs SOT with Gmail syncing, brightness at 30% Wi-Fi most of the time, 3 hours on 4G. That's how I use my phone and the battery is great for me. If Ltd not good for ur usage go buy another phone but stop with this BS attitude (I'm not getting 5+ hours SOT so you are all fakers)

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wind784:
Apparently this 10 year old can spell properly. Try reading what I said. If your using your phone just like you said great, but don't spout out about amazing battery life and SOT time when you're glued to your WiFi in the house and disabling all the services that makes a smartphone "smart" to get every little bit and then posting nonsense SOT. For anyone going to use this phone seriously stay close to a charger and have a pack too. And yes when you are paying 700-1k depending on model it should freaking last, that's not getting a barbie - it is getting a turd. Has nothing to do with pushing people to use the phone like I do, why would I care...

But stop posting basically unrealistic shots of BS SOT with custom roms flowing, glued to the wifis with half the services disabled and purporting to potential buyers "hey look at what this can do, amazing SOT". There is a reason every reputable Android site has whined about battery, its terrible and a major flaw.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mosesbd:
True words of wisdom. I'm using thus device over 2 months and iv never got over 4 Sot and I actually tried half the time (turned off everything neat in this phone) I'll upload a screen from this very moment and I haven't even left home at all
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] x70xchallengerx:
Same, I just barely scraped 3hrs40mins SoT yesterday, that's the highest recorded SoT I've got with this phone so far. On bad days I'll get as low as 1hr40mins by the time I'm at 15 or 20% remaining. I'm on the G925P sprint variant. The best days for battery I've seen, are either completely stock or stock/rooted, or like the first two days with a custom rom. For some reason when a custom rom sets in, I get atrocious battery life. I swear I don't have a dud phone, the rest of my family all have S6's, I have the only edge, and they all see battery life similar to mine.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mosesbd:
BTW, this is the first phone ive been introduced to this term "Sot" in no other Device I had I felt the need to compare or examine closely my battery life because it was always sufficient with every phone before this one (note

4,iPhone 6,galaxy s5)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Batfink33:
I'm having roughly similar battery life between the Note 4 and this phone. Perhaps slightly more with the Note 4 but it's not massive. The problem now is that if you want top specs, a QHD screen, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, Google Now always running etc etc battery life is going to suffer, Lollipop is also terrible for wakelocks. I don't think Samsung have helped by putting quite a small battery in the S6 though. I'm still questioning whether to root and start debloating, running a power saving kernel and disabling services.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] DarkAngel117:
So uhh... Yeah... The flat parts are standby where I didn't really even touch the phone and the steep down slope happens when I use it to send a few texts and snapchats...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skinza:
My results at 50% stock 5.1.1 rom with uni kernel

1 bar 4g recepton all day brightness at about 35%

All syncs turned off in Google account besides apps contacts and calander as I don't use the rest

And disabled OK Google as I don't use it

The rest is completely untouched

All the screen time is from maps,texting a lot of Web search and scrolling and a few downloads also a boot into recovery to wipe cache/dalvik which took 4% battery in 3 minutes

S6 edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rm501:
Sorry, I don't believe this.

Sometimes I think maybe it's connected to a 200mA or less, 5V charger while in use so that it won't charge, but instead discharge very slowly. This is technically possible.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skinza:
Believe what you want I know I'm legit that's all that matters

Iv got nothing to gain from lying about it
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Skhulile:
Very much possible, I have similar battery life now at 53% I have 3hr 40mins of SOT and 6hrs 31mins of battery usage... it all depends on how you use the device, I once had 5hrs of SOT at 50% but I mainly using Opera Mini to browse and go on Facebook and also used the Instagram, Twitter and Whatsapp app that's all, and realised that with similar usage 1hr of SOT=10% battery life
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CJLewis87:
Got my unlocked UK S6 Edge yesterday. Came from a Note 4 running 5.0.1 and this is my first proper full cycle after setting up and installing apps etc. I've disabled a few Google and Samsung apps but not rooted
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skinza:
If anyone decides to root and use stock rom

I highly recommend UniKernel or UniBase kernel

They provide great performance and awesome battery life 5.5-7 hrs avg SoT depending on use

I get that with location always on (phone network only)

Brightness at 30% manual

No WiFi

And I use the edge features
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] :
airplane mood+wifi on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skinza:
Is that all

I can get that on cell network

I would of expected at least 7.5 - 8 with those settings
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
Hi , friends

In posting here and need some help and advice.

I bought note 4 a week ago and its great phone. ,

And my wife has a doubt, note 4 or s6 edge , how is the battery life ? Does a day with 4G on?

Leave charger in the morning until night. ?

Thanks in advance.

Sent from my SM-N910F