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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] done12many2:
You are just simply wrong bud.

There is no other way to put it.

My AT&T S6 was getting well over 5 hour of SOT on the very first charge with auto brightness set. Then it only got better from there.

As I completed more recharge cycles it improved even more. I then disabled all of AT&T's bloat (I'm not rooted so it's only disabled).

As a result, consistent 6 hour plus SOT. It's really that simple in my case. No tricks, nothing to prove.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] madpete:
Hi yes I did the update. One thing to mention, when I first unpacked and setup the phone I had app crashes and lag. I received an OTA and then factory reset the phone, after reset no more app crashes or lag and battery life has been amazing for me. I disabled the apps which I don't use, and Im not rooted.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
It really just seems that some phones have better batteries then others. There are those who can't reach over 4 hours SOT and those who claim to have 6+ hours. There are a lot of variables of course, but even with similar conditions (auto brightness, full signal, wifi) There are huge variances. My phone will not achieve such high numbers, but I've gotten used to 3-4 hours of SOT.

Congrats to those who have the superior batteries.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kkkok8051:
So far so good. Already know. Don't make the hope too higher n won't let you down too deeper.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kandem:
I'm finally very happy with battery. I'm at 60 x cent and I already have 3 hours SOT

In 8 hours at night. .it still at 100%
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Not sure about that. I'm on my second edge because the first one had atrocious color unevenness. Anyway I was getting 5-7 sot on it and then very first charge on this new one I got 5.8 hours with over a day of standby and I'm on second charge right now 44% left. 1day 1hour 35minutes standby. 3:31 sot.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Iakona:
From my personal experience this was true. I had my At&t edge for 4 days until I exchanged it cuz of a "gouge in the screen, I could never manage more than 2.5hrs of SOT and with my new one I've had for 2 days with the exact same setup (as far as apps disabled and settings) I am getting 5+hrs. This is with auto brightness 50% of the time.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kandem:
Very surprised about battery. Normal use like tapatalk. Facebook. YouTube. Chrome. ..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] havrek:
I am getting terrible battery life. I work from home and yet I still can't get through an entire day without charging at some point. I've turned off th volte and turned off the two WiFi settings. I don't get it any ideas.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kandem:
Install cpu spy and check if your phone go to deep sleep. However make a restat
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
I'm still getting amazing love here. Astounded. I'm not liking the screen though, very slight pink tint. Drives be mad. What would you lot do? Keep it, slight pink screen and all but excellent battery?

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Flakito97:
not bad for my first full day with the phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] varunkumars:
Here is my CPU spy screen shot. I replaced my first AT&T edge but the second phone also has the same battery issue. When I say battery issue, i get terrific battery with WiFi off. I gets out of control and drains battery when I turn on the Wifi. Both phones have the same issue. I turned off the enhanced 4g, updated the samsung push service and disabled all the bloat. Yet no difference. Wifi battery drain won't stop. I did restart also.

I don't have any apps that use unusual battery. Please suggest.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] prking07:
I have zero complaints, if al im impressed by what numbers this little battery puts out.

Btw, im rooted with greenify and app ops, auto brightness, lte always on, dont use wifi, location off.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
[MENTION=5352449]havrek[/MENTION]

What are your WiFi settings? WiFi standby setting? Network search? Intelligent network switching?

Your device was also awake for 1:40 hours.did you listen to music? Other than that the must be something keeping it awake.

You should go to application manager > running and post a Screenshot here
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Simply impressed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] done12many2:
Very nice. I'm no longer considering 6+ SOT "strong" days. They're just days now if you know what I mean?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
My standby drain in exactly 1%/hour, there is no way getting around that. The phone deep sleeps but I don't understand why the drain is not lesa than 1%/ hour or even zero.

Maybe it has something to do with the battery monitor tools? Probably they drain battery in order to check the drain... Hmmm.

I use gsam and system monitor..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] optimummind:
How's your cell service? Weak signals will make your phone "hunt" more, thereby using up more battery.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
Is this what you are talking about?

Basically, yes I have a weak signal at home.... maybe I should switch to 2G while I'm at home...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
You've got one or more rogue Apps just look at your Android Os drain

Sent from my SM-G900F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] havrek:
[MENTION=1656180]apsis[/MENTION]

I can't find any intelligent network switching setting. Always allow scanning off. VOLTE off. Auto connect ATT WiFi off. Keep wfi on during sleep always. Network notification on.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G925A
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] erasat:
It's called Smart Network Switch and it's under Wifi Settings.

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According to your screenshot it seems that your problem maybe the Google Play services bug that is affecting a lot of different devices with Lollipop, you can always force stop it on Applications Manager and it should stop the drain at least until you reboot or there is an update for any Google App that is related to that service. If you want to be sure, just click Google Play Services on that Battery stat and it will tell you the amount of time it has been keeping your device awake, it shouldn't be all the time, the device must go to deep sleep mode when in Standby.

There is an update for the Google Play Services that hasn''t hit to all devices yet, just look in APKmirror for the latest one and if you want to sideload it, you should download the one that ends with 440.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] gyxter:
Received my phone yesterday and had its first full charge.

Facebook, spotify, little YouTube, file sharing, minimal sms, mostly on 4g through out the day:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
Standby drain

Basically i'm very happy with the battery life of the S6 Edge Unlocked.

The only issue that I don't like is the standby drain/hour.

Can someone please tell me what is your standby drain/hour? mine is exactly 1%./hour

WIFI ON, LTE, LOCATION HIGH ACCURACY, SYNC ON (using gmail app), disabled s-voice and a lot of other apps.

(S=health on, google cards on)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ilordvader:
Thanks Bro

I made a List of few :

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6-edge...ptive-fast-t3048671/post59282585#post59282585

I still have the Note Edge & i got the iWalk 6000mAh

which gives me 1 full charge if im working & useing my Phone with a Balance of 20% remaining

so i think it will charge S6 Edge at least 1.5 times

I got this cos its really small & sleek many Videos on Yourtube

to be safe people can get the one with 10000mAh which should easily give 3 times the charge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] nextrow:
Battery life is OK. When I first got the phone I played around a lot. It was empty pretty fast, like 3/4 hours screen on time.

But something that amazed me was how fast the phone recharged! Even when playing games the phone recharge so fast. 1 and a half hour the battery is full ( with screen of).
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] phewBAR:
Mine is excellent.

http://imgur.com/ngqSDqn,zukBNQX
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
I can't say I have an issue with battery life but I'm not getting the SOT others are. Based on the screen shots does this much use from android system mean something is keeping my phone awake?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
[MENTION=1207100]avatar_ro[/MENTION]

With WiFi on, lte connected, sync on,location disabled,it drains like 4% within 8 hours.so it's almost 0,5% per hour here
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
Thanks for the reply
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jhericurls:
Its a bit of a crapshoot, but I think that anywhere from 0.5 - 1% is acceptable. Remember poor signal can really take a hit on the battery.

I did a drain test over night, go sleep with full charge and wake up 7 hours later and check battery. 1 night I had 97% remaining, the next I had 94%.

Wi-Fi off, LTE on, Location (Mobile & WifI), Sync on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
Thank you very much.

I was used to a drain ranging fron ZERO%/ hour to a max 0.3%/ hour.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
Mine drains a bit more per hour in standby, but I am happy with the battery life that I'm getting. Now that Samsung has said battery replacement is only $45 for the phone, I feel much more secure in its use. Even if I end up with a bad battery, the cost is minimal for an official replacement.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cbdudek:
I got my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge on Monday and I do see a difference in the battery over the Note 4 that I had prior to upgrading. I expected this because the Note 4 is a bigger phone with a bigger battery. That being said, I never really had a lot of issues with the battery on the Note 4 because I charged it whenever I sat at my desk. I am attached to a desk a lot in my job, but I am on the go as well and that is where charging the phone when I am at my desk is important. It wasn't as important with the Note 4, but I can see with the smaller battery how it is important with the S6 Edge.

Now, with my Galaxy S6 Edge and wireless charging, its even more convenient. I just set my phone on the wireless charger and let it go. I listen to music while it is on the charger with the display on (sleep disabled) and the wireless charger keeps up. I got a few wireless chargers for my office at home, the bedroom, and my workplace. If I am next to the charger, the phone goes on it. I know that some people may say this damages the battery, and so be it. However, I love the convenience of having a full battery when I need it and that is what the wireless charger gives me. That way, when I do step away from a charger, I have a full battery.

Anyone with wireless charging just putting the phone on it if its right next to you?

As for the battery life as a whole, I was on the go all day yesterday, and I got a full 12 hours of use out of it. That is with frequent checking of email and texting. It was sleeping a lot as well since I was reffing lacrosse and playing ice hockey in the evening and didn't touch the phone. When I checked the battery, I was down to 20% with most of that going to the screen. I could have charged the phone while in my car, but I didn't.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] fletch33:
cell standby kills my phone and i keep it charging when on wifi and home.

i was just traveling for a few days and had Wifi OFF and the battery life was great and as expected. Cell Standby that is usually #1 in battery list did not even show up with Wifi OFF

hope there is a fix and this is not a real solution
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] okolobaccess:
Am having battery draining issue on my s6 edge.

When ever my phone screen is on and am operating it (doing anything at all: chatting, calls, browsing, camera, etc), the phone will start getting very hot. When the screen is off it will start cooling down.

Please i need help on this, does anyone with same issue or is there a way i can fix this? please help

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Kur0ya:
4G always on, wifi always on, usage of about 1hr call average, use about 100mb/day 4g and wifi. lasts me a day but need to fiddle with the brightness and power mode some days but makes it last. the fast charging kinda makes up for it..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
Gotta find out why Android System is killing me... kinda driving me insane.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
What's killing me right now is the Google Play Services.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Stif-Meister:
I am frustrated with the battery drain I get at night. I go to sleep with 100% battery and when I wake up and check 8 hours later, it is down to about 75 percent.

I have wifi on ('only when connected') and only scanning when wifi is on. Location on, email sync is push.

The biggest drainers seem to be email and google services. I tried to replace native email app with Type Mail, but didn't change much. All apps are updated.

And this is my second Edge phone, the first was the same. :(
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
same here m8... for me it's not that bad, I lose around 7-8%.

I am still trying to see how I can limit dem pesky google services without root.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LeKtRiCzzz:


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Is it weird my SOT isn't even listed
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Bass-15:
What do you guys think? Wifi on most of the time as I'm connected to varsity wifi. Location is on and off. Bluetooth off. Mobile radio active seems to drain a lot! Any fix?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] MasK:
Your result seem to be fine. For a 48hr use, a 3hr screen time is pretty reasonable/good.

If you see the graph being flat for the times your device is not in use, it means that it's sleeping well. No need to worry.. even if "screen" isn't the top batt sipper.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mjs2011:
So, I wasn't a big believer in the whole idea that one phone could completely differ from another, but I swapped my phone out for a new one (same exact model, color, storage, etc...) because I had 1 dead pixel. Let me just say that the battery life is night and day better than the previous S6 Edge. Same exact setup, settings, etc. Probably getting at least an hour or more SOT. So if your drain is out of control and you're still within the return window, you might want to explore that option.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] katolink:
Cool. How did you notice the dead pixel?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mjs2011:
It basically looked like a spec of dust. Barely noticeable unless the screen was dark while watching a movie, but enough to bug me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Stif-Meister:
Interesting. What about restoring - did you do anything different there (like starting from scratch with the new one, as opposed to restoring with the old one)? It just sounds strange with such a difference. And I'm trying to figure out if I need to start over and not transfering all the stuff from the old phone like I usually do.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mjs2011:
Yeah, and that's the crazy thing. Set up (restored Google and Samsung accounts) was exactly the same process on both.

Now with that said, I also did have a dead pixel, so maybe there's a chance that my first one was just a lemon and nothing to base trends off of, but the fact that I'm sitting in my office right now with my phone at 88% battery since unplugging it 7 hours ago compared to 50% yesterday with about the same usage (and again, all of the same settings and apps), that makes me think my old one had a crappy battery as well.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Stif-Meister:
I found this thread that might help you with that: http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/514532-samsung-galaxy-s6-google-play-services-battery-drain.html.

I haven't tried the suggested changes yet, since I will test other changes (regarding wifi) tonight, but if that doesn't work, I'll dig into that google stuff.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] robrob777:
Amplify (xposed) gets rid of the night drain.. Don't ha the s6 yet... Still rocking the Note 3 black gold
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Still no custom kernel?

Sent from my SM-G900F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kevinlow:
GPSD Wakelock

I am having this annoying GPSD wakelock which doesn't allow my phone to go into deepsleep

It started to appear after my first use on the googole maps and it never goes away

Tried below method and seems nothing helps:

1. Turn on and off GPS

2. Restart the phone multiple times

3. Flash stock recovery

4. Uninstall maps and waze

5. Sign out from samsung account and turn off remote control phone

Any advice on this?

I am on the rooted SM G925F with stock recovery
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bignazpwns:
Dont see why people are freaking out. From the S5 to the S6 edge the battery life is really not that bad. I mean its not amazing im not walking around saying omg guys check this out. But im not hating it. Today total use.

Today 10 hours 3 min and 2 sec.

Screen on time 2 hours 50 min 40 sec.

Played hearthstone for 1 hour 26m and 30 sec.

Ran 3 Antutu benchmarks

Streamed pandora for 1 hour on my way home

Various texting and email as well as some web use.

Ended the day with 37% Not amazing but not bad considering i was playing games and running antutu a few times. screen brightness is also set to aut. Can def. dim it and get a few more min of on screen time but love this phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Stif-Meister:
I am still getting a rather big battery drain at night. I go to bed with the battery on 100% and 8 hours later is down to 23% without me doing anything with the phone.

I have read about wifi and the native email app being big drainers, so I have installed Type Mail, and wifi settings are set to never/ scanning only when wifi on.

I am no expert so I hope you may be able to see something in the screenshots. First I have two screen shots from the native battery app, Then I have two screen shots from GSam Battery Monitor.

Do you see any clues? And can you explain why there is such a difference in what they show - for instance, the native battery app show Type Mail as the big drainer with 6%, but on GSam it is way down on the app usage list (showing 0,3%). GSam also shows that wifi and Phone Radio uses a lot, which I don't understand?

Any help will be very much appreciated. This drain at night is really frustrating. Thanks.

EDIT: Screen shots in next post :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Stif-Meister:
Oh, forgot the screenshots. Here they are.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
My battery is sht for now and since I'm not rooted yet can't see what's going on. I don't see any reason to root since there isn't a single custom kernel nor is Xposed working on tw lollipop :(

Sent from my SM-G900F
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Tonesav:
No idea on my battery life as the old 2 amp anker car charger I use between jobs along with waze GPS and bluetooth turned on it still tops up the battery nicely
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] pcguy22:
Here are my battery stats. I found disabling Samsung push notifications doubled battery life.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Wow us carriers are abusing you guys with bloat lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] desiregeek:
DOUBLED???
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Kiwi_Dude:
This is what I got today. WiFi, mobile data, Bluetooth, nfc, location, sync all on. Screen on auto (100%). Was going to try and see what SOT I'd get but I need to sleep! I reckon I could get another hour at least!

Sent from the Edge.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
If you don't get at least 4.5 hrs sot you have a rogue app or a bad phone. I managed to get 5 yesterday but since I'm doing a lot on the phone, it's not my usual usage (otg back up etc)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
What exactly do you lose when you disable Samsung push notifications?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mjs2011:
While my battery is so much better now that I swapped it out, my cell standby is still pretty out of control. Is there a definitive answer on how to manage this?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
At&t or international version?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mjs2011:
Verizon
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Seems carriers versions have this bug I got the international unlocked version from Samsung and cell standby is at the very bottom of the list
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] varunkumars:
This is my third day and may be I fixed my battery drain (AT&T version) after so much struggle. My battery was always ok with 4g LTE but with wifi it is out of control, huge drain. Although I turned off HD voice and all options in Wifi settings like suggested in other posts I couldn't stop the drain when connected to wifi. I did a lot of research and concluded that play services is the culprit.

Follow the steps in the post below. Thanks to "@kajet915" for posting the instructions on my request.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60313965&postcount=76

I followed only a few of the steps above. Just the wifi settings, turning off the HD voice (or volte) and clearing the cache in google play services. As a last step I installed "GServicefix" from play store. It's a free app. Try that and follow all the steps as the app instructs you to. Don't forget to restart your phone no matter what you try. Also charge the phone to 100% before you test it.

This is my 3rd day and the fix seems to be working. I tried to restart and use several apps and it won't drain again. Last night I lost about 10% in about 11 hours(stand by) on Wifi. This is ok for me and comparable with my Lg G2. I used my GPS for 1 hour connecting to wifi(Verizon mifi) yesterday and lost about 10% which is again not too bad.

I am sure this can fixed. I hope these instructions help you guys. If it works please thank "@kajet915" for his instructions.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Powell730:
Did you swap it due to the battery?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] spridell:
I just got my Edge, went through about 4 charge cycles. no apps installed, nothing disabled, all locations services on and VOLTE on etc..... with WIFI on..... Charged to 100% left overnight, battery was dropping 4-5% per hour.

Next night charged it to 100% turned the wifi off and just using 4g and LTE with everything syncing and VOLTE on etc... and battery only was dropping about 2% per hour.

What is up with this wifi destroying the battery life.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] momo220499:
Can someone try the battery while using it 100% screen brightness and using most whatsapp snapchat Facebook and some games? I'm so excited about that awesome phone!!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] done12many2:
That's an odd thing to ask a person to spend a full battery cycle doing.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] uscool:
dont see why someone needs it at 100%, do you know how bright that is ? and battery waste
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
Weird stuff indeed, wifi is the second highest drainer
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] desiregeek:
With Wi-Fi and data off mine still sucks battery life like crazy..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] megumi87:
Did you reboot your phone after you off wifi?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Stif-Meister:
An update. I have got much less drain after doing a few changes. Instead of going from 100 to about 75% at night, I now go from 100 to about 90%, so quite an improvement. The small changes:

- turned of 'Google Now'

- installed 'DU Battery Saver Pro' app, and in that app selected 'Screen Lock Auto-Clear' to ON and 'Auto-Clear Apps' to ON.

- I had a weather widget (HD Widgets), where I went into settings, and selected 'passive updates', 'passive weather', 'don't use GPS' and only to chech location when updating weather. To make sure it doesn't check for stuff when I don't need it.

That was it.

Just wanted to let you all know, in case some or all of the solutions can help you too. I'll try some more options in the battery saver app, like turning of the network (but allowing calls,sms, clock and alarm) at night. Other options could be to manually turn off location and wifi when I don't need it. But I like to make it as easy as possible without having to turn stuff on and off manually, so I'll try the other options first.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
I'm about to throw this thing at the wall, it drops 1% every five minutes
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] skivnit:
OK fixed the wifi issue I think but disabling multicast on my router now it's playing nice dropping just 0,7% an hour with wifi on sync on and Twitter sync as well

Envoyé de mon SM-G900F