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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] apsis:
I always had a great battery life on my s6 edge,but with the latest update (s6 + Features) goggle play services drain was insane, it went upwards to 40% a few days. I decided to do a full wipe and start over again.

Battery life is fine again, almost 5 hours SOT, 30% left. Still stock, no root.mobile networks connected (4g),WiFi when available. Disabled a few apps I don't need using package disabler.

Brightness at 50 percent, manually. Adaptive enabled, Bluetooth/ nfc disabled.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tallazzPilipino:
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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kartiksood1:
dude .. which theme r u using.. me liking it a lot
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] tallazzPilipino:
it's one of the Dark themes (Material). the buttons on my quick settings panel are like that because they're part of the default custom theme from my custom ROM for the Sprint version.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] snir6590:
I cant believe all of you are getting 5 -6 hrs SOT and im barely getting 2.5 hrs. Can somone help me ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] vagelis74:
Install package disable pro from play store and disable all the bloatware,after install for facebook app if you use it the tinfoil for facebook.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aber96crombie:
I'm a power user, start at 7.30am everyday and need the phone to last till 6pm atleast. 3g on throughout with WiFI when available, signals drop occasionally because uni classes in basement. Most usage is on whatsapp,calls,facebook and texting.

Is the s6 edge for me, or should I look for other options because battery life is a REAL requirement.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
If you at least 8h i dont think you have more than 2 3h sot, and if you don't see too many movies a advice s6.

S6 edge consume a little bit more battery. But depends a lot of things.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] aber96crombie:
so s6 edge not recommended for me I suppose. I'm a student and constantly on the go,cant be glued to a charging socket for alot and power banks are too inconvenient. around 5hours of sot from 7am-7pm

wont get the s6 in any case,s6 edge outdoes it for me.

I like the note 5,it's a good option but too huge for me. Last resort: iphone 6s for 8-9months,has GREAT re-sale value in my country, so use it till s7 or something amazing pops up.

what would you go for if you were me?!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] cavags5:
If i had note 5 in Europe definitely i buy it.

I already had note 4 is a great phone in battery and screen. But due a few problems i change it for s6 ,and performance its top touchwiz is better and other things .

You could also try s6 edge+.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Got my S6 Edge 2 weeks ago and now on latest stock ROM/firmware available for Orange Romania.

Battery life is great for me considering I've switched to S6 Edge from a 3 years old device. What I've noticed is that after last update the "cell standby" bug appeared (I didn't have it before upgrading) and it's sucking some battery...still the times are good but I was wondering how it would be without that bug...

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
Same problem here. Everything stock, Orange Romania. Since last update cell standby drain has come back...Any solutions ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
There are so many people that post in this thread complaining of poor battery life that have not done any of the recommended tweaks in the first place. Cell standby is mostly related to VoLTE, turning off VoLTE seems to solve cell standby drain for a lot of folks.

Just posting in this thread won't automatically solve your battery problems. Take the time to go through the basics listed in the article below, then post what your battery life is.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...mize-battery-life-samsung-galaxy-s6-edge.html
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
we do not have VoLTE on our carrier. You aggressive li'll thing you....
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Sorry to remind you but VoLTE is NOT a universal feature in all stock ROMs and neither is WiFi cslling. Be sure we would have tried that if we would have it...but we don't.

So none of those "tips & tricks" are applicable to us and please don't make assumptions without knowing. I've done all those tweaks (that are applicable ofc) without even reading that thread. I know enough about smartphones to think and do that myself without reading a guide for it. This is a bug and probably won't be solved till Samsung (or Google) will make a patch for it. Or Android M will have it solved and we wont be seeing this.

Edit: And I was not complaining, I've posted my battery life along with screenshots and only mentioned that we have this bug that could have an impact on the battery life. Nothing more, nothing less. For me, 6.5 hrs SOT + 18 hrs total standby is reasonable.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
Lol, that's a funny response. :)

Have you read that article in its entirety? It has way more than just turning off VoLTE. I am not sure how you conclude none of those apply to you, some of them are pretty basic debloating.

I think you are choosing not to hear what you do not want to hear. You so definitely conclude "there is a bug" when so many folks are posting really good battery life. I wish your battery issues are sorted out. The S6 is a good phone and hope it works out for you.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
I've done everything i could have done.....debloated...turrned off some of the things that i had too, mentioned in the link you posted..and so on....before 2 weeks ago, before the update, wich was the exact date of the s6 edge + release date, our cell standby came back. Allso, after the update my baseband version changed to G925FXXU2QOI7
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
I suggest then a factory reset and cache clear.

(maybe you should go 1st in the booloader and clear the cache first, if does not solve factory reset.)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
Cleared the cache many times till now....allso made a factory reset 1 week ago.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
OK I suggest moving to the US and getting a tmobile phone :D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I think you choose the same, that is not to hear. Read again my post... I know all about what's in that article and I mean all...not just about VoLTE or WiFi calling. Please check my profile, I am not a newbie on these things and just the fact that I have this phone for 3 weeks doesn't matter I don't know things. I don't need tutorials to tell me things I know for years. You can send me another dozen of links (which I never asked btw) to try tips&tricks but I've tried them all. Those things in the link are to maximize the battery life, not for getting rid of the "cell standby" bug. Only one or two of the tips, stated that might solve the issue, the rest having no relevance to the problem. And those are not even present as an option in our ROM.

And untill M comes out and hopefully have it fixed, or somebody magically manage to build a ROM from source for this device, it'll remain like this. If for somebody turning on or off certain features as a workaround is fine, for me it is still a bug. I don't complain about battery life cause, as I said, looks good to me. I didn't saw in this thread any screenshots with 10 hrs SOT and 2 days standby to worry that mine is low.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] neebi007:
Samsung introduced quick charging in these phones... 50% in 10 mins

Quick charge while having a sandwich?

Or buy a battery pack that'll cover ur day.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] dafadau:
I'm now getting around six and a half hours total battery life with just moderate usage. Awful.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kind3r:
I'm also on Orange Romania but I have a generic firmware (ROM) and I'm pretty happy with the battery life (actually quite surprised, coming from Z3c I was not expecting much).

I get around 24h of standby with around 2h of SoT.

You can also try changing the sim card (same provider or other, unless the phone is sim-locked). This worked for me in the past with connection issues that also drained my battery, turned out the sim was to blame.

I don't know if it's possible to install the ROM firmware over the ORO one, but perhaps that's also worth a try.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Updated stats...

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
Those look like very solid numbers to me?! Over a day of standby and almost 4 hours of SOT. What are you complaining about?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
:) I wasn't complaining at all. As I said, the figures look great for me... But I was wondeting how would those have been if I wouldn't have that "cell standby" bug. Probably much better

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
true :) much better.

The problem with the Samsung devices is the standby drain .. :( it's too damn high
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kur1oso:
Because he doesn't use whatsapp, telegram, Kik, or those stuff. You can just watch he didn't even used Facebook or social media like that.

That's why he can do 3 hours of screen and having still 50% of battery remaining.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
I attach you my screen usage til now. I am very happy with the battery of this phone. Normally it lasts me all the day.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I've downloaded Package Disabler from Play Store in an attempt to tweak things a little bit more and disable some of the packages that were not possible to be disabled from app manager. Result is a little bit more battery life.

Having in the end more than a day of usage with 6 hrs SOT is a great thing...

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
Can you tell us what packages has you disabled?

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I've attached the screenshots from the app...

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
Thanks for your screenshots.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] avatar_ro:
you could export the XML file you kow that :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Of course I know...but I was on my mobile and to attach an xml or zip file in Tapatalk is not possible...I should have renamed it first with a picture extension (png, jpg, etc) and make a whole explanation about that. It was much easier for me to take the screenshots and attach them

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Krokogator:
[MENTION=1045770]Rapier[/MENTION]

You can also try disabling volte if you didn't already (that may help with high cell standby usage), but 6h SOT I have to admit is a nice score, cpu has less stuff to do without all that bloatware. I'm assuming you use wifi only?

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Please, read my previous posts.... We don't have VoLTE and WiFi calling in Romania. Those options do not exist in our ROMs. So unfortunately that won't help us with the cell standby issue.

Yes, I am mostly using WiFi (both at work and home) and have 4G/LTE just when driving or going out, but that's much less than WiFi usage. And I don't use Facebook so this will help battery life as well as I understood that FB is a high battery drain factor. My usage consists of browsing (Dolphin Browser), whatsapp, viber, skype, e-mail, Tapatalk, Word, ocazional navigation, camera... No listening to music, no movies

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] xxaarraa:
You need to stop trolling this thread. You get over 24 hours of standby on a charge, which means 'cell standby' is going to be at the top of the battery users. Even otherwise, you get good battery life so please let others speak - those who have actual battery problems. Common sense.

Stop clogging the thread please.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I am not trolling anything, you need to look for this word's definition. I just answered to questions I was directly asked. I've also posted the setup I have for Package Disabler Pro and that was also something I was asked. If you don't like my posts, please don't read them, move along. On the other hand, you had 3 posts lately in this thread, totally useless and without even reading the questions you were answering, or without knowing the particularities of our carier or provider. You just assumed you're the smartest guy and we didn't thought about that. Guess what...you were wrong.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
Personally I didn't know the meaning of trolling. Now I know cause I have searched the meaning of this word. I think Rapier didn't troll anyone. This forums has to help people about this thread, "battery life" . Rapier lets speak all people. Did he say the opposite? I didn't read that in all his words. He only put how he obtain that great duration in his consumption. Please, we have to be positive and let people say what they think. This is the best of the forums and learn the best of us to increase our batteries.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Phrostbite:
So what in the world don't you have disabled? Lol. Have you noticed any negatives to having all that stuff disabled?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Not at all. Everything works, at least what I use. Ofc, if someone has Samsung Gear or uses the S Voice, Health and so on, those shouldn't be disabled. But there are alot of bloatware apps along with services I never use so I don't find any reason to keep them running and eating resources

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
I have tried to disable all the apps Rapier has told and all works well. I have seen an increase of battery. I will send you screenshots about it.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] ellmoon:
S6 Edge 2600mah battery is smaller than the 2800mah one on the S5, and the Edge has a higher-resolution screen. I'm not a heavy battery user, but the phone left me with around 50% battery life at the end of the day.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Batfink33:
The S6 has a 64bit processor however which uses less power than the 32 bit chip in the S5.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CandyAndy:
Does everybody else have so that even without using the phone 10% of battery equals to one hour? Like now I have 75% left and I haven't touched it much and phone says that roughly 7,5 hours left. This is ridiculous!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
Had the same problem..had to factory reset...get ridd of all the 3rd party widgets like Zooper, HD widgets, removed the launcher and so on... now i have it stock, wich looks like a gipsy...but at least it drains only 3% by night. Nasty thing now is that i have lag in the transition between homescreens. in almost one month had factory reset it 4 times, cleared the cache partition many times, still laggy. I'm using package disabler with the same configuration as Rapier.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
No, I have 85% and it says it'll last for more than 20 hrs. But that is not an accurate reading, it's an estimation based on the battery drain over the last days. If you used your phone alot in the last days and had your battery consuming fast, that's why you might have got that estimation. What's your average battery life? Have you tried disabling the features or functions you don't need on the phone? Do you know how to set it up properly?

I'll give you an example. There's a setting in WiFi that tells when to keep WiFi on when screen is off: always, when charging or never. I had a friend that thought if it put this to "off" or "when charging" he was saving some battery cause WiFi will be off while phone is in stand-by. And he was constantly loosing about 30% of battery overnight. WRONG. I told him to put the option on "always" and guess what...he now have about 2-3% drain overnight (he had a wireless network at home)

What I wanted to say is that almost anyone should be able to get a decent battery life and SOT on this phone. If that's not true, it means something is wrong with the way the phone or it's processes are configured or there is a heavy app or game used most of the time

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---------- Post added at 06:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:16 AM ----------

I have Nova Launcher Prime, ZW Widget Pro, Beautiful Widgets (for weather) and everything's fine. Also using some different apps instead of default ones like SwiftKey instead of Sammy keyboard

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] CandyAndy:
Hi, thanks for your reply. My phone does die within 10 hours usually.

This is not my first android so I know pretty well how to set it up. However I have noticed that Google services are killing the battery. I use them often so I cannot disable them.

I have done factory reset now twice and after those it's been ok. But after a week or so back to bad
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
Which version of Google Play Services do you have? I have constantly updated all my apps and now mine is 8.1.18 (2272748-240). I use Google apps frequently too (you're not directly using play services, they're called by different apps) like G+, Play Store, Maps, Inbox, Hangouts... I don't listen to music, read books or news tho. So they should take that much of your battery.

Unfortunately I am stock and will stay like this for some time at least (no ROM convinced me to break warranty so far) and since I'm not rooted I cannot use a wake-up blocker that will limit further Play Services drain.

Right now I'm happy with my setup and battery life and since 1 month ago when I got my S6e, I never had to do a factory reset (which won't do miracles in all cases anyway)

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
Since I disable the apps Rapier said before, I am very impressed about it. Everyone can try it. You are not going to do nothing bad to the phone. You can return at the beginning.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I've opened a "HOW-TO NEWBIE GUIDE" thread in help for those needing to understand how to optimize the phone HERE
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
I've reinstalled Nova, Hd widgets, Screen On and Off, Swiftkeys. Seems for me the zooper widgets were draining way too much battery (dunno why). For the moment its looks like it's ok. Gonna make a test tonight and see how much battery it drains over that period. I'm aiming for 2-3% / night. Too bad i dont have the guts to root it...i would pay Samsung even 100e to root my phone, and use just tasker at full potential, without voiding it. But no...we root...we loose warranty :( .

Btw...the ammount of lag on homescreen trasition, without a launcher, is just simply stupid for a flagship like this.....
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Roland Fediuc:
4% last night....not too bad...but still some unnecessary % gone to waste.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] efgeni:
Do I need root to disable all these apps?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Andi1000:
No .... just use Package Disabler Pro
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pixelguy:
I can only seem to get 2 hours of screen on time and around 12 hours all together standby, it also loses about 15% overnight doing nothing.

This is pretty terrible actually considering selling the phone!

Is there something wrong with my device?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
I attach you some screenshots with the installation of the new room this morning to G925FXXU3COI9.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
After disabling some more apps yesterday (in a try to get even more battery life), I've noticed today that the "cell standby" is no longer being on top of the battery drain apps, it is in fact the 5th or something like that with just 1% drain.

I'll further keep an eye on it to see if this behaviour will change over next days but if it'll stay like this I might just have found the process that's responsible for that.

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] switzerland92:
Can you share the name of that process?

I am currently at 18h of standby with 1h 15min SoT and sitting at 60%. I disabled via Debloater apps that were unneccesary but were running in background (I checked process names via Advanced Task Killer) and battery life became much better.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] rpboronat:
Rapier, I cannot see the photo you attached. What app have you disabled to obtain that?

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Pixelguy:
A fix For all those with terrible battery life!

If you have been suffering terrible battery life and screen on time like me, i highly recommend checking the link out!

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...mize-battery-life-samsung-galaxy-s6-edge.html

Since following the instructions It has literally made my phone last twice as long now if not longer! hopefully it will yours to! :fingers-crossed:

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My usage is moderate to heavy i use very intensive apps like, facebook, ebay, instagram, snapchat, all day long! and play games on my lunch break! :angel:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...mize-battery-life-samsung-galaxy-s6-edge.html

good luck! Let me know if it works for you! :D
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] nofam:
Pretty happy with battery life

I'm pretty happy with this - admittedly, it's moderate usage but a massive improvement on stock:

XtreStoLite v2.4 (XXU3COI9)

Vindicator Kernel T33 with sensorhub wakelock disabled

Xposed framework with the following modules:

- Amplify

- Greenify

- MobileActiveRadioFix​

Greenify running in boost mode

This was a mix of wifi, 3G and LTE, browsing on Chrome, and email via Gmal and Outlook apps, plus Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc. Overnight, I only lost 1% of battery (~7.5 hours of inactivity), so idle drain is minimal. All push notifications are working, and Location Service is set to GPS-only.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] akhilnaidu7:
GUYS... JUST Factory reset the phone.... It made a lot of difference in my case.

I was hardly getting 7-10hrs battery. I reset the phone and I am not getting 24hrs battery per full charge
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Neur0Nerd:
I think that might be the solution for my problems ...

Did you use any software to do it or directly from the phone ? And also, was it fully charged when you did the factory reset ?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Gerardo92:
I have a lot of apps disabled too, but unfortunately I have disabled something that stopped my parallax effect to even show as an option and stop working... Do you know what package or system app enables parallax effect?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Rapier:
I am not sure what do you mean by parallax effect. Could you please detail?

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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] switzerland92:
After flashing the latest G925FXXU3COI9 firmware and doing a factory reset I disabled some unneeded apps via Debloater and disabled Google services I don't use in Application Manager

After 3 days App Otimisations kicked in that reduces app battery usage even more and I am quite happy with batter now. Currently at 34% with almost two days of standby with 2,5h of SoT. I don't play games and use Wifi + 3G all the time.

It's sad to be honest that I need to do all that to get decent battery life. I miss Windows Phone because of that.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Gerardo92:
The on/off toggle you see when changing your wallpaper, it says " wallpaper motion effect" if I am not wrong :)

The one that makes your wallpaper move in the home screen.