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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Phil750123:
I'm convinced lollipop on 64 bit devices is bugged battery wise. Google services just seems to eat up the battery, does the same on my nexus 9 so I don't think it's unique to the s6. Believe it was fixed in 5.1 so hopefully Samsung will update soon.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] levon9:
Who is your carrier?

I have the T-Mobile (regular) S6 32GB and when I turn on WiFi it sucks the battery like crazy (cell standby). I can go long w/ WiFi turned off, but that of course eats into my data plan, plus I can't use WiFi calling this way.

I hope a patch for this problem is out soon.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] luisrcastillo:
I'm on T-Mobile. You can either turn off WiFi or make sure you set the mobile network as preferred in the WiFi call settings
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
I had volte turned off and WiFi turned off and my cell standby is 18% for today, how is that possible? I confirmed wifi has been on 0 percent of the time. Ideas?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] EnIXmA:
Luckily my cell standby is 1-2%, yet the battery is pretty average... I got 3.5hours sot and 18 hours standby today..LTE on, screen brightness on auto,Bluetooth on and connected to my watch, GPS on with some navigation, few pictures, few calls, lots of text and WhatsApp..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] levon9:
Interesting - thanks.

I have Cellular Network Preferred set in the WiFi Calling settings already. That in itself doesn't seem to suffice for me. When I have WiFi turned on I get these high standby numbers. It's only if I turn of WiFi that this value stays in the single digits.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] luisrcastillo:
It was happening to me too but somehow over the last couple of days it has gotten better. I'm baffled, but I'm happy to
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
Same thing happened to my note n910c version. 20% drop overnight on standby, cpu spy showing

the thing is deep sleeping yet still huge battery drain. Then it just sorted itself out, inexplicably
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Anybody rooted able to get more than 5 sot? Or anybody in general. With my apps and settings, I average pretty much 5 hr sot. Debating with myself about rooting or not.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lsxmma:
Can someone please tell my ignorant ass where to disable the WiFi calling and VoLTE?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Do you have a TMO phone? If not you shouldn't have to worry about it. As far I know TMO is the only one with those features.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
For turning off WiFi calling go to Settings > Under the connections group go to More connection settings > WiFi Calling > Disable

For turning of VoLTE open the phone app, click the More button in the top right hand corner > Settings > Voice over LTE settings > Do not use VoLTE
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lsxmma:
I have Verizon so no wonder I could not fins these options.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
I'm pretty happy with this. Would probably have been better had I kept WiFi off the whole time, but considering this is my very first charge on this phone I couldn't be happier at the moment. Should be clear Sky's from here on out.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] idksomuch:
Does your phone ever enter deep sleep? GSAM shows that my phone's been awake for a large amount of hours, since the device has been unplugged, it's pretty much been awake.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
I forgot to install gsam lol. I'll let you know on the next cycle. But over night I had maybe 2% drain if that so I can't imagine having that little if it weren't able to enter deep sleep. But we shall see.

**EDIT**

Forgot I have BBS. Haven't had it installed since full battery. Maybe installed around 60-70 percent like a hour or so before bed. Anyway it does indeed show that my phone had been entering deep sleep mode.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] JonM1988:
So I'm on my first full charge. Ill do updates through today. Brightness on around 10%. Whatsapp being used the most and some music playing. So far. This is the SM-G925F From o2 UK.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
T-MO questions

Anybody on T-mo's phone going to deep sleep? TO my knowledge, mine has not entered deep sleep in the entire 8 days that I have had it. I have done everything talked about in this thread and still cannot get much passed 4 pm. I refuse to disable anymore features, because that defeats the purpose of having a smartphone. It is going back shortly without some real progress.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] David111jr:
I first full day of using it and I been using it pretty heavily. Streaming music in the car from Google play playing games watching you tube texting and so far so good
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] David111jr:
Pic below
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ktetreault14:
Wow got this phone yesterday and the only complaint is battery life. Complete trash compared to my note 2,3,4 and LG G2. Love the phone in every aspect but it drained heavily while I was at work and lost 25% in 6 hours while I was asleep. With WiFi off. O.o I better see something better in 2 weeks I t mobile can have it back.

Can't stress this enough, love the phone in every other way
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erasat:
Yes, indeed, just like any other phone I've had before. If you have done adjustments and turned off VoLTE, Wifi Calling, Smart Network and Scanning Always Available (last 2 in WIFi settings) and still have issues, I'd suggest you to get a replacement.

What I did was as soon as I got the phone I didn't do anything ultil it finished with the pending Update, once it updated I went to recovery mode and cleared cache and data and as soon as it rebooted I turned off the above settings plus (My preferences) turned off Google Voice in Google Search App and disabled all T-Mobile, Microsoft and some Samsung Bloatware, and a couple of Google services I never use like Google Play Books, Music, Games and Google Plus.

Nothing I've disabled are needed to me so I'm not crippling my device, I'm just playing it smart, I always use all Toggles to turn on/off GPS and Bluetooth, only turn them on when needed. So far yesterday with first full charge I managed to get 5.25 SoT, and today I'm averaging the same even when I'm still choosing themes and setting some Contacts links and other things, very good battery life for me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
I will try some of the settings that you suggest after a few of them. I noticed I did get some deep sleep so I will give it a shot. thank you for your help.

At last, I have some hope
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
similar story for me; I disable everything I possibly can that I never use, vr service, google play tv and news, and books, wifi calling, wifi scanning all the time, and anything else I can, but I have wifi on all the time, Bluetooth, and I sync lots of email/facebook/twitter, and everything else.

I get about 75% deep sleep every night, so not sure if any of that helps, but yeah, you should get deep sleep most of the night if you aren't actively using your phone.

Battery loses about 16% overnight, over 8 hours, which is more than I want, but I can live with until I root and see some custom roms out there.(actually waiting to root until TWRP is out for this phone)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
How's this for battery life.

Screen set to auto.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ktetreault14:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.servicely

I'm trying this for help on the battery life
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
For charge cycle one this ain't bad at all. Should be up and up from here.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] JonM1988:
Another update... mostly the same using whatsapp etc. Changing between wifi and 4G. I had the phone plugged into the USB my car stereo breifly which brought the battery life up around 3%
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Slaughter59:
Hi! My 2 cents on this. First day w/ S6 edge. No cell standbye issue or else.

From 100% to 17% 10h30 since unplugged, 4h30 OST.

I feel that i've used it a lot ( a lot more than my regular usage), new toy <3, so battery life is pretty average for me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bowser84:
Can anyone explain what this Volte is and where to disable it? I can't find it anywhere. Also Don't see wifi calling anywhere.

Edit: nvm I see they are only for. Tmobile. Im with telstra in Australia and don't have these options anywhere.

So far I'm impressed with my battery. Been on it since I woke up this morning so just over 3hrs and still have 70% says about 12hrs remaining. Will post a screenshot later with usage.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
Well I'm happy. Got my s6 gold today. At 50% battery left this is what I got....

I'm now at 34% and I've got over 4.5 hours screen on time!! No cell standby drain here, 0% drain from phone radio but 16% from wifi. Hmmm. Never the less chuffed with this battery. Busses up my note 4
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] nxsone:
Not bad , but not great either , 10+ hrs in an average day , seems like the norm for this device , but the fast charger and wireless charging is a big bonus .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] nxsone:
Pic didn't attach on my first post
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Tlswofud1:
What I got on my second charge. Nothing intensive, social media, reading, I have swift key minimal black keyboard, Amazon app disabled.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Uninstall that facebook app :) Install Tinfoil.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ktetreault14:
Battery is getting better. Disabled apps. Also greenify and servicely
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
Well, I am not sure what app it may have been but I disabled everything from Samsung and Google that I dont use and Voila I now am getting deep sleep. I have also kep wifi on and no longer seeing significant cell standbay drain. Not sure what the difference might be but cell standby is not even on the list and deep sleep is working, might be a keeper after all. Will post SOT and total time tomorrow after a full day though it is not a work day.

Thanks [MENTION=3014259]erasat[/MENTION]!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erasat:
You're welcome, glad that some people are open to suggestions and not simply stubborn complaining about that they shouldn't do this or that to a phone instead of trying to look for the issues to let the community know, like over Android Central forum where I've been trying to give a hand to some of the users but you don't see any feedback from them and even over react when you insist.

I hope that others with similar issues can try what it has been suggested and let us know their results.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] megumi87:
Are you on 5.0.2 or 5.0.1?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
T-mo 5.02
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Tlswofud1:
use the last of my battery by downloading and playing games. Here's my final stats
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cbcharlie:
24+ hours on a single charge, 3 hours screen time, not too bad. by the end i was running benchmarks just to drain the battery, no battery saver modes, everything on except GPS
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ktetreault14:
We have a cyanogen beta recovery available, :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] JonM1988:
Final stats for today ☺

I'm pretty happy so far
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] hussam1988:
50 %

Sent from my SM-G925I
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bowser84:
About to go to bed so here's my stats. Pretty happy considering I been on it almost all day.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] orangeswim:
good battery on first full day.

Did some driving and used the gps. Watched youtube, downloaded some apps.

10% per hour. Chart from Gsam battery monitor shows fast charging duration and temperature.

power saving: off

its odd that gsam and the phone doesn't agree with what used how much power. I'm not sure who is right. I would say gsam is more accurate.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
After the software update.

I'm getting insane battery !!!

Really hoping it's like this all the time :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gibbo82:
Just got through my first charge.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ualwayslose:
I had really good battery today. Last night I charged with slow cable overnight while I slept. Lasted from 10 am til now (3am in the morning next day) . If anyone wants to try slow charging over night, see if that helps (I have the standard VOLTE and WIFI and WIFI calling off)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ktetreault14:
People with good battery are you rooted
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
Not rooted
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] steven.singer:
I keep noticing that Android system is the top process under battery usage. I can't seem to figure out why. Any tips are greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jdubsss:
I'm getting 20%+ drain from cell standby on verizon. Is the only option to disable wifi for now? I've disabled all the bloat crap that I'm not using.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Phrostbite:
I am not sure how to feel about this. With my HTC one m8 I can get through an entire shift with all day Pandora use and still have like fifty to sixty percent battery. Now with this I seem to be getting hit somewhere.

Edit - I also wanted to add that I have WiFi and GPS and all that turned off. I also have had power saver on as well.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] POLO_i780:
Seems the battery life is decent but not great going by whats posted here, seems to confirm what the reviews said, hopefully Samsung will push out an update to bump it up a bit, although there's only so much they can do considering the small battery.

Hope everyone is enjoying their new phones :) loads of excitement down here for the S6s, especially the Edge.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] madpete:
First charge and I'm impressed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] abid.iqbal.hgs@gmail.com:
Battery life is disappointing. Indian Galaxy S6 Edge

I've got my phone on 10th April and since then I've had a clean setup and no bloatware and no junk apps. But I am noticing battery drain, I've had OnePlus One before and with same apps and usage it gave me 1 day 12 hours and 4 hour 30 minutes SoT, I've tested the battery of that phone each day from the day I bought it to the day I sold it and that's what I got, but with galaxy s6 edge I am disappointed. It's giving me on an average 12 hours with 4 hour SoT without data usage and gps and Bluetooth and nfc. I am using Google launcher. Samsung should push some update to fix this. Tomorrow I will be going to college and I'll check it when I am outdoor and with data enabled. Will post tomorrow.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
One plus One has a lager battery....
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] @xDeepS:
With **** battery here, I am gonna go get it replaced. So annoyed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bowser84:
I dont think 12+ hrs with 4 or more screen on time is bad at all considering the small battery. If you are not happy with that buy a battery case lol.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] speedyjay:
Glad I'm not upgrading the S6. But if you think about it logically, with 4 more cores and a qHD display....you didn't honestly think your battery lives would be good did you?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Not good, but sufficient. If your a company designing a product than one of the minimum requirements should be that it's sufficient.

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] SDSpamalot:
Here are my results after my first full charge. 64GB Black version from Telus.

EDIT: I did not have wifi scanning turned off for these charges. I've just turned it off now and I'll see how that effects my high wifi power usage.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
With a 14nm processor actually yes we did.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] GreenMachin3:
I just wish they would release the specs for the 'Active' model. All these reports are not favorable for my heavy usage.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Well I've notice I'm starting to get batter result since I think the battery is settling down.

I'm sure I could have hit 5hrs ost but I wanted to charge my phone. Pics below.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] terrel_b:
I'm actually pretty impressed with the battery. I didn't have it charged for a day and a half this weekend with standard use, maybe a bit more (although it was on wireless since I was at home) and I went from its initial full charge to only 40% including a couple trips outside the house and a trip to the gym with music playing (not streaming) for an hour. I meant to fully cycle it but wanted to see what all the hubub was with the fast charger so wound up charging it back to 98% from the 40% in probably a half hour or so? Since then a full day at work and another hour+ at the gym playing music, all day off wireless and I'm at 46% starting from about 70% once I left my house and got off wireless.

So far, I'd say battery performance is better than my HTC One M7.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Let me just say that your lucky that you came from the M7. It would seem that most of is came from far more power efficient devices. I myself came from an iPhone 6 Plus and would never charge that thing except every 2-3 days. Same issue habits on this Sammy and I charge every day so far. Obviously there are very notable differences between the two devices, but what I'm saying is that it's quite an adjustment and I'm having to leave to not be disappointed with the battery.

Also is kind of ironic that Sammy would run all the wall hugger commercials about some because now I feel like one again lol. But everything else about this phone I like far better so is a trade off that's well worth it in my opinion.

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] MasK:
Hi Guys..

Here are my results for a first full charge. I am pretty pleased, however, notice that my cell standby is pretty high. Is this related to voLTE turned on or Wifi?

Also, Is there a way (or an app) that shows the sto0ck android battery graph? I'd like to see when my phone sleeps with respect to screen on. I got GSAM, but still trying to interpret the data...

Thanks guys. Awesome phone! :good:

EDIT:

Found a thread related to this:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6-edge/help/abnormally-cell-standby-battery-usage-t3070382

I have disabled voLTE for my next cycle of test. The 2 arrows icon in my status bar still remain though. Lets see how it goes...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Cell standby has to do with WiFi not volte
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
Yep, I'm tired of explaining that to people. They keep disabling things that aren't the issue and then disable more because they haven't found the culprit. It's as simple as reading.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
Reading.......on XDA?....

You're kidding, of course! :cyclops:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] shockandawe:
Not too shabby. Disabled bloat, Bluetooth on most of the time. Mostly just surfing web, and reading this site.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] varunkumars:
What device is this? I mean T-mobile or AT&T or International unlocked??

Could you share your display and wifi settings pls??
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] shockandawe:
Sorry about that. This is at&t version. I only keep WiFi on at the house where it's available. Have scanning off, wifi notification off, keep wifi on during sleep, and disabled auto connect to hotspots. That's really all I've done. I did notice when actually talking on Bluetooth, it drops faster than my note 4 and 6 plus.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
Today was my first battery run down and so far I'm very pleased with the battery life. Had an 4%drain within 10 hours standby with WiFi turned on but not connected, but connected to 3g/4g.

Afterwards great SOT imho ,no hard tasks like games. But I'm still wondering about Google services and Samsungs push high battery usage. Will try to optimise it further the next days.

No idea how people can complain about the battery life with this phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ac7822:
I dont get how people are getting such great screen on time. I posted this on the regular s6 page by mistake also, but when my screen is on my battery is just draining like crazy. Gsam showed my phone over 9 hours drained 20% with screen off, not bad since i streamed an hour of play music. But screen on drained 42% of the battery with only 1.5 hours sot. My phone at lunch today drained 20% in half an hour on auto brightness ( I was outside the whole time). Is anybody else seeing a really fast drain with their screen on??

I'm looking at that screenshot above with 3.5 hours of sot over 16 hours and 42% battery left. My phone from a full charge at the number gsam is showing would do 3.5 sot only if I never set it down, which is horrendous
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
However, the AMAZON store that is built in is also part of the drain :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
Not gonna argue that one at all! I think we all can agree, lol.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] megumi87:
I'm ok with my sot time. I don't think 3-4 hours is bad for me. However I am getting about 30% drain overnight when I sleep. Is this normal? I have WiFi on.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
My smaller battery gets plenty of screen on time, in fact it's about to beat that dudes OPO. Couldn't be happier with these results actually.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilordvader:
Hello

I want to know on heavy usage does the phone last more than 6 or 8 hrs ?

also has anyone got a Power bank, does it fully charge your Phone Twice ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Clark Joseph Kent:
Thread Cleaned and any more stupidity/trolling just report it, thanks.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] varunkumars:
I get not more than 2 hrs of SOT and 14 hrs of total standby. Could you share your wifi, screen and app settings? Also any mods. Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Mr_Bugman:
[Screen Attached]

This was today for me. SOT is currently at 3h 31m.

You can see on the graph there was a short charge earlier in the day where I have a Qi car dock but this would have been less than 10 minutes.

- WiFi on entire time.

- Smart Network Switch On

- WiFi Notifications Off

- Always allow scanning On

- Bluetooth on for 3-4 hours.

- Fairly certain I stayed in 4G LTE coverage all day. (Verizon)

- Screen Auto Brightness

- Nova Launcher, Light Grid Live Wallpaper

- Syncing: 2 Google Accounts, Facebook, Waze, Samsung Account, Verizon Cloud

- Advanced Calling 1.0 Enabled

- Uninstalled all pre-loaded games.

- Disabled all Amazon pre-loaded apps.

Not aware of any other settings that would directly impact battery levels. If there are others I haven't changed them from stock settings.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
WiFi on but scanning and auto connect off. WiFi off when screen off.

HD voice off.

Screen mode automatic.

Brightness usually around half.

All the bloat I could disable I did.

That's it.

Sent from my Samsung GS6edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Final results. Where are my OPO users now? Still not good enough?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CandyAndy:
Sure thats impressive, even beats my Z3. However how much did you have to do all kind of modifications, deleting apps etc to achieve this?

I am getting a bit lazy these days and my Z3 is basically without any bloat removing or anything and I can reach over 5 hours of SOT.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
This is really impressive. How does your average day of usage go? Web browsing? Netflix? Tapatalk? I can't touch that numbers. 4:30 is my Max SOT.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] allmine1976:
This is after the third full charge and i generally never turn anything off . My usage consisted of Web browsing , Netflix, watching TV shows , downloading TV shows through u torrent, streaming music to my TV, took some photos, xda , Facebook.........
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
I was excited that my battery got better after disabling Amazon, but seeing these results makes me think I have a bad battery again. I can't break 5 hours, and you guys are pushing 6-7. That would be fanstastic battery life.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] MasK:
The screen brightness goes way down on your last 5% (or 10%, can't remember) and I could squeeze about 20mins+ of SOT during the last few %.

Lowering screen brightness would be the first easy step to take to achieve extra SOT, imho.