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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sumitberi:
Yea this is normal because when you use any feature of gmail your action and account got synced in second app so dont remove any system app or system app2.:)

Hope it helps!!!!!
[Connected Car] iondokk:
This thread is for owners of the Sony XSP-N1BT. The goal is to get more people connected with this receiver and try to get dev support for the software used with this unit. I will be posting some video that shows the functionality of this unit.

I have been installing for many years and was building carputers 15 years ago before they had enough power to do what we needed.

I am fairly convinced after a couple of weeks with this head unit that it is a great concept that needs a bit of XDA love. So that being said who owns one of these and uses it daily?
[Connected Car] iondokk:
For the future

Here is a quick video for those that have not seen it...https://m.youtube.com/?reload=2&rdm=1hiljbep#/watch?v=rLYVFj3y86I

I am currently using my Note edge with it which works near flawlessly so you do not need a Sony phone by any sense.:cool:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] le0.br4zuc4:
For those of you who have received your Galaxy S6 Edge already, congratulations I wish I was one of you ☺

Please report how your battery life (so far) is. I know it's a small sample but I'd like to know about.

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] florencesmith:
As far as i got to know, the battery life of Samsung Galaxy S6 is quite good and is having nice longevity. It offers the 2600 maH battery life which is much good from the other smartphone's that's in the market now days. http://cdn4.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon14.gif :D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] verks:
Got mine Saturday played a ton with it that day. Sunday was much of the same. The battery was so so. By no means will I ever rate a battery week one.

Today was more of a normal day and I was pleased with the battery life. It is difficult to say how it will be. I'm coming from a Note 4 so making comparisons isn't fair.

More to come...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Code124Y:
you could post some SS for it, at least we can have some idea, thanks...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CandyAndy:
This is the only reason why I might skip the edge. I currently have Z3 and it is just so much joy to never be worried about battery life. I don't even check what is the SOT anymore since I know that no matter what I do with the phone it will last the whole day.

However S6 edge just looks so gorgeous and my blocky Z3 starting to look so last season..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] brar.arsh:
Well, if you think like this, you can never buy a new phone. There would be many downsides of Note 5 and an that point you will think of S7.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CandyAndy:
So you are saying that industry reached its peak with battery life with z3 and everything else after this it's just downhill?

I hope not!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Nlue:
I agree with Andy. The Z3's battery life was the stuff of legends compared to the crap life of just about every other smartphone out there. I miss mine too sometimes but honestly, I'm rarely without power so a quick charge is a reasonable tradeoff.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] osmosizzz:
Battery life, like mentioned is so so. It's better than my last phone, but definitely not up to z3 standard.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
In 28m 24s on battery I'm at 95 percent with 23 mins of screen time and like 2 youtube video, texting, and making changes to the home screen.

I will be comparing it to my iPhone 6 Plus and OnePlus One later in the week.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
God damn it, that's not bad at all! Keep us posted please, you lucky so and so! :D

And throw in some pics
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] le0.br4zuc4:
Agreed, from the little sample we have so far, seems pretty good.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
I'm a true power user, so I will be on the phone all day pushing it.

After some gaming and phone calls, web surfing and more texting. Pics below
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] EnIXmA:
This would end up with approx. 12 hours standby and 8 hours sot, and you are in 4g LTE heavy user...very impressive my friend
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Yeah I forgot to mention that this whole test will be done on LTE.

If I have over 45% by 5pm est I will be impressed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lawtq:
For playing games and youtube this is quite good! Let us see your stats later. Maybe at 50%, screen on time and usage details like above. You're the first to give real details. Thanks
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Anybody else getting abnormal amount of "Cell Standby" drain? For reference, I am also on Wifi Calling. This cell standby battery usage is usually higher than screen on time.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
My cell standby is 1% and I've been using the phone since 9am.

I have WiFi calling off and power save mode off. Tomorrow I will test it with power save mode on. Right now I'm sitting at 61 after 1hr of hulu. I did some textimg ,phone call and a few videos on ign also. . Next update will have pics and details
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] osmosizzz:
Same here. Cell standby is killing my battery. Factory reset may help?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Did you all do the update?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kojaraty:
Good luck with a phone that has worse battery life than the S6
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
I'm going to take a guess that it's an app you have installed. There seems to be more people getting decent to good battery life over those who are getting bad. Also, getting the M9 is a huge mistake. I can't tell you what to choose but if battery life is what you're looking for, you're NOT gonna find it in the M9.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Blanko6:
Thanks. I guess I'll keep trying diferentes setting and see. Really like the phone, camera , screen size. Just the battery is killing me.

I did rooted and deleted some samsung system apps, I wonder if I deleted an app that shouldn't have and keeps the phone awake . :(
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] dro_6o:
Alright, so waited to post on battery life until a couple of cycles. . But today was one of the best battery cycles I've had yet. Had the phone for about 5 days now and I was averaging about 8-9 hours of heavy use ( lots of social mesaaging, group txts, browsing, music, and videos) with WiFi calling on, VoLTE on, All Edge screen setting and locations on. Was reading earlier posts and someone recommended to turn all of these off and disabled TMO apps and amazon and the following stats are what I got. I will add that i enabled the regular power saver when I was around 50%.. the phone itself is amazing but I feel the battery life will be the reason I may end up hating it as I don't want to be dependent on chargers so much. Coming from an M8, this is pretty disappointing but hopefully there's more of this kinda battery life to come! :cool:
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Deusx Machina:
Email Sync battery drain

Hey all,

I got the Tmobile version of the S6 Edge yesterday and the battery life seemed pretty decent as long as wifi was off - at least until I added my email accounts to my phone.

I've noticed that the Email Sync is taking up a ton of battery on my phone - according to the battery usage meter Email Sync is using 19% with the next highest being the screen at 3%! Its only been on for 5 hours and its already at 42%.

I did add a lot of accounts - 7 total all either exchange or microsoft live/outlook accounts and all setup to download a months worth of emails and push new emails as they arrive. However, with every other phone I've used this hasn't been an issue (two most recent were a Nexus 5 and an LG G3).

Is anyone else having abnormally high battery drain from Email Sync using the native email client?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Well disabling Amazon apps worked pretty well as you can see from my results . Pic below I spent a lot of time watching videos and... also used Spotify and Bluetooth heads phones for an hr.

My setup below.

WiFi off

WiFi calling off

Amazon app disable

Auto brightness on
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] i7icegy:
Pretty interesting.. Wonder if this amazon app is different from the play store. You can actually download another amazon app from the play store. They have different icons too.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
not true for me; I had 67% deep sleep last night, but still lost 21% battery in 9 hours...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tomwestley402:
Ok. Turning off VoLTE has brought the connection time at idle down and the battery usage down to the average 4% per hour reported by a couple of other posts. Also this seems to have cleared up an issue I've had with spotty sound quality in Spotify.

Also, there is a setting in Developer Options I will try to keep apps from operating in the background while the device is idle.

I will post my findings when I have them.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] robertkoa:
The main problem with Battery Life is

the " Thinness Race" trying ridiculously to get down to a 6 millimeter Device .

The S6 is 6.8 millimeters thick-

An increase of one half millimeter or .6

Millimeters to 7.5 millimeters thick would allow 3000 to 3100 Mah Battery.

Problem solved.

Samsung needs to make an S6 Pro at that thickness.

Or perhaps a prettier version of S6 Active without the 3 hardware buttons and same construction as regular S6 but thicker with large Battery.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] levon9:
Agreed, I almost find the phone hard to hold as thin as it is. One of the benefits for a small case (in addition to the obvious protection) is that it will be easier to grip/hold. I would have gladly had a slightly thicker phone with lots of juice. The race to be thinner is silly. Bad battery life and ergonomics in my opinion.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] wase4711:
since phones have now become more of a "fashion" item, than a functional one, for the mainstream/media types, you can forget about a fatter/thicker model ever happening..

as battery tech improves, so will the battery life of these devices, but until then, carry a cord/charger/external battery pack with you, and enjoy the beautiful looks and design..
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
Yep, it is different. The Amazon store we have is the one that has their app store built-in. (The one Google removed.)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] joshnichols189:
It's most definitely NOT an app installed - I have the same issue. I've factory reset twice and I currently have no user apps installed aside from CPU Spy and the phone just doesn't go into deep sleep. I've even disabled **** that came on the phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] sweets55:
Full brightness. A lot of Web surfing G+ and hangouts. LTE most of the time.. I'm happy with it battery life. Fast charge is fast. lol I use wireless most of the time. Love how thin the phone is.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
If you feel that it isn't an app, don't you think it's time to try and exchange? I'm literally writing this with having just gotten my longest SOT yet with owning the phone. I am not having the issues you are so either it IS an app or your phone is defective. There is no way around it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] robertkoa:
What does the VoLTE switch do on Tmobile?

You already have VoLTE on a 4G LTE Tmobile phone already .

Test-Turn VoLTE OFF

See the LTE symbol on you screen ?

Make a call - if you still see LTE on your screen- that is VoLTE by default.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jonathan3579:
The switch does exactly what it says - enables or disables VoLTE. I just turned it off and made a test call and it dropped to HSPA+
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
VoLTE has no effect. I have had it on since I got the phone on the 30th. Still get 5hrs 30-40 mins of ost daily. WiFi and Amazon are the problems.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Blanko6:
I need this !! I got my phone the 3rd and nothing over 2.5 hours of on time. I might send it back for replacement cause really like the phone other wise .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
I have a similar setup and I cannot even fathom this battery life, I am lucky to get 10 hours with 2 SOT. I even use greenify. Maybe I have a bad battery?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
I'm thinking the same thing. I'm just afraid to exchange with all the scratched screens going out.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
Reset?

ANyone know how to do a factory reset? I go into Setting under back up and reset and perform the process and the phone just shuts down and nothing appears to happen. I also powered off and the power on holding vol up and home and the screen just goes black. I beleive that I am supposed to see the stock recovery, correct? However, I just see black. Anyone else?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
I have no idea why your getting that low of battery. I would return it if you don't see any changes soon.

I'm also using HTC sense 7 Luncher but I've gotten 5hr 20 mins on touchwiz on my 1st day.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aaronc_98:
How are you using the HTC 7 Sense launcher?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
You're getting really good battery life. According to GSAM I'm averaging 3 hours 40 minutes of On Screen Time.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/htc-blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438

---------- Post added at 02:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:41 PM ----------

GSAM says I average 4hr 40 mins, but I always get 5hr 20 for sure at worst.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bitwiser:
are you using power saver mode? Auto brightness? If you are not on power saver mode and keep the display on full brightness it will not last long. If you spend 2 hours outdoors using it then it will again not last long since it has to go to full brighness.

---------- Post added at 02:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:25 PM ----------

after 2 full days of use. 1st day about 2.5 hours. Second day 3 hours and 50 minutes. Not sure what today will be. I will be ok with it even if it does not increase. I could only get 2.5-3 SOT with my Moto X 2nd gen and 3.5-4 with M9. So, this will work ;)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Everyone should get at worst 4hrs ost unless playing video games. If not I strongly suggest your return the phone. When you pay this much for your phone you should never except anything less then perfect.

2hr - 3hrs is awful unless your gaming hard.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] joshnichols189:
My battery life is total ass because the phone will not deep sleep. I've disabled wifi calling/volte/wifi/location/some system services/wake ups in App Ops, and nothing. It's pretty annoying because otherwise I love the phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Check for system updates and do them, app updates, do them. Make sure all your apps and setup and logged in (a long time ago, Google wallet used to cause massive wake lock when it was on the phone but not setup, could be similar) disable built in amazon, and ONLY USE THE CHARGER THAT CAME WITH THE PHONE. If issues continue to be that bad, might wanna warranty it.

Edit: keep in mind, the first 3-4 days Wil be bad Battery life, gotta give it time to settle, then it improves dramaticlly. Just keep wifi and wifi calling off, and use greenify to catch apps that are waking up randomly and reopening (amazon, pandora)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tomwestley402:
When I put mine in Airplane Mode, the battery seems to drain more like the phone is sleeping. I think it drained 3% in 5hr 30min yesterday at work.

---------- Post added at 05:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:47 AM ----------

Sorry, but I don't know what you mean by apps being "logged." Would you mind elaborating?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ualwayslose:
Hey guys, Idk if this is the exact fix for me, but with Wifi Calling disabled and VoLTE i was still getting some bad drain, even when phone had screen off. I noticed that with GSAm I was still getting Wifi Usage so I turned off Allow always scanning which is used for the location purposes. Also I found that in the Wifi Calling settings, even though it was disabled, choosing Network Preferred seemed to really fix the drain issue. I used to get really bad drain at night, I literally got 1% discharge after 7 hours of sleep.

Or.. maybe its a coincidence, and enough charges finally made battery work better?

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] showstopper03:
My battery life has been pretty decent on my ATT s6 edge.

First full day. 36% left 16.5 on battery, 3 hours screen on time, and 1 hour talk time. Google services used 13% of the battery

I only Web browse, YouTube, google+, and hangouts﻿
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Kill3rmonk:
I've had Google services use a large portion of my battery as well. I assumed a lot of it was from initial phone setup and Google accounts syncing. Could be due to hangouts usage as well?

I'm on the Sprint S6E
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
I'm getting the AT&T Variant as well. Any issues with wifi drain? If not then I think we can finally confirm that it's a TMO issue only.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] showstopper03:
Hangouts actually showed up separate for me. it used 4%

---------- Post added at 10:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 AM ----------

I've had wifi on/off and on again lol. No problems with battery drain due to wifi.

I do not use location services with gps or wifi though. I also do not use google now.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
Turning off wifi scanning and disabling the preloaded Amazon app did wonders for my battery life. It's now 1 PM, phone's been on since 5 AM and I am showing 70% left. Heavy texting throughout the day.

Keep the tips coming guys!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] DrexelDragon:
I ALWAYS disable allow wifi scanning.. thing is a battery drain. It constantly keeps your phone awake; if you leave a phone on standby for a while and look at the battery graph, you'll see consistent pings where the phone wakes up and you can see it also keeps wifi on the entire time. Terrible lol
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] haqone:
Feel bad for some of you guys. Maybe my usage is different or my signal or stand by fix is improving my battery. Usage from yesterday was awesome. I know it's no z3 but it's the best battery I've ever experienced in a smart phone. Also I was comparing it to my iPhone 6 plus and it has not problems out lasting it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] flameinthefire:
Whats the standby fix? google services for is killing the battery the most
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Definitely your usage. I have hit 6hrs also but I wasn't using the my phone like I would normally. If you watch videos for 2 hrs you will not get more then about 5 hrs and 20mins of OST.

I do own both phones s6 Edge and iPhone 6 Plus and the plus alway last longer. But 5 hrs isn't bad for the size of the battery in the Edge.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Logged in, as in setup to your email, and signed in, like Google wallet and Google plus, amazon, etc, making sure you have already setup the app for use.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pure+:
Must be an AT&T phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
Welp, turns out it was the built-in Amazon app. I disabled that, and installed the regular one from the Play Store, and now I'm getting 4-5 hours of SOT even with wifi on. Much much better.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
Told you so :)

Good to hear your getting good screen time now.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Master Ramy:
Since i was the first person to catch Amazon, i told you both so :) haha glad to hear it man.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
I'll give that a shot!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
Yes i disabled amazon and battery life doubled. Thanks for the great tip!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] fsupartyboy850:
Is this bad?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ChristianBale:
Did disabling Amazon fix your Cell Standby drain?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] americasteam:
WiFi on all day. Amazon app is disabled. AT&T phone. Have an iPhone 6 Plus and Note 4 so was a little worried about reported battery life. Pretty happy with the results of my first full day with the phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] arayoflight:
Turn WiFi calling off. That will increase the battery life even further.

Hope this helped. I'm getting mine next week. Or maybe the regular S6.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] azibux1:
This is starting to look a bit better stats now

If you still want to use the Amazon app, can you install the one from the playstore okay without issues? Or is it the 'same' app?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
It's a different app. I'm an Amazon addict so I use the app all the time. I have the one from the play store and it's fine for me. No severe drain.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] azibux1:
That's good news... Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lilmikey201:
With root can't you just remove these apps with titanium backup? Or is root not out yet?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ForgottenGuardian:
I believe there is root, yes, but it also trips KNOX, and we don't know if that will affect Samsung Pay, although it likely will. So I'd like to use it, and therefore won't be rooting until we know more about it.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] lilmikey201:
So that means we can't use greenify without root correct
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] DrexelDragon:
After disabling VoLTE and Wifi, standby drain over ~6 hours, was about 2-3%. Sounds about right, I think?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] robertkoa:
Yes. I have Alpha now which I got for power and good Camera but NOT for "

Thinness".

There is a Galaxy S6 Active coming but will probably have those ugly hardware buttons - lol.

IF Samsung made a " prettier" glass version of the Active ( Active is rumored to have a 3000 + Mah Battery)

THAT would be the one for Power Users.

I am thinking of S6 for great Camera and wondering if Factory Unlocked Versions will have VoLTE on different Carriers ( so far no Android does this- you need Carrier Branded Phone for VoLTE- unlocked phones drop down to 3G for calls ).

So the S6 Active may be best or a Variation if Samsung does one AND if AT&T exclusive in USA - will VoLTE work on Factory Unlocked Versions across multiple Carriers ?

They must be able to do it without admitting that S6 is slightly under-powered which IMO it is.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] azibux1:
I can't see the Amazon app installed on my phone? Maybe it is a US thing only?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
What is your screen brightness set on ?

Auto or do you manually control it ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Globalrebel:
Think you could make your signature a little smaller man? That is just way to big for the forums. :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] omf05:
I always keep it on auto unless in a dark room then I lower it so it won't be too bright.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Harshaanl:
Okay guys so i had a Note 4 with Lollipop before i got my S6 Edge.

When i had the Note 4 with Lollipop i was having bad battery issues.

My friend spoke to Samsung South Africa and this is what they had to say :

They released Lollipop to the Note 4

But a LOT of app developers had exit routines and optimizations present that are not required for Lollipop on the note

So what actually ends up happening is that third party apps drain the battery faster because theirs 2 types of speed optimizations happening - 1 on the third party software - the other on the actual hardware

So what ends up happening is that the same process runs twice.

This will get fixed in the next 3-6 months when companies like instagram, facebook and whatsapp , ect start testing their apps on the new device with the new OS.

So i'm thinking the same is true for the S6 and S6 Edge.

Hope to see improvements as app updates come through.

As for you guys with the Cell Standby issues am really not sure why that's happening .
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] luisrcastillo:
So after 1 full week I'm happy with the life I'm getting. I've been all WiFi all day, with everything on and Google now as well. I'm actually against dumbing down my phone, it's the reason why I left the iPhone.

This is a device that I use for work so there's an exchange account with push mail that gets lots of mail, plus Gmail, 1+ hour phone calls, 2 hours SOT and still got 38% left. I don't think some will be happy but I am.