[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Magic815:
So I posted this in the battery discussion thread in the General S6 forum, but figured I could use some specific guidance from fellow Verizon members. I'm currently on day 6 of owning the phone, but was wondering what people thought of my current battery situation. I'm worried that it's less than typical for this phone. Yesterday I saw roughly 14.5 hours of use, with a little under 3 hours SoT. See attached screenshots.

My settings/usage amount:

-I've disabled roughly 11 apps so far (mostly unused google and amazon apps)

- Location is set to high accuracy, and is on all day

- Wifi "always allow scanning" is turned off. Although wifi toggle is set to on all day (including when I'm at work with no wifi signal).

- There is a chance I'm getting poor signal in my office. We use signal blockers in certain conference rooms, so I'm sure that walking throughout the building forces my phone to fight for a signal at points. (Is there an app that can measure what my daily signal is like? Maybe this is causing some extra drain?)

- I'm on Verizon, so my understanding is that we don't yet have Wifi Calling (so it is the equivalent of being "off")

- I use the app Lux to set the screen brightness. I have a profile set up that allows for it to to stay pretty dim. The screen is probably at 20% on average. I'm fairly certain this is giving me a dimmer screen than if I stuck with the stock "auto" mode.

- Smart lock (google) within Trust Agents is turned off

- VoLTE is on (I can't find where to turn it off)

- NFC is turned off.

- I have my google account and facebook account both syncing (I can't really see how to control how often they sync though)

- Google location history is on (what does turning this off impact? I want to keep all current location functionality)

- Google Now is active

- I use Nova Launcher Pro with a custom icon pack

- I ran CPUspy overnight (two nights ago) while the phone was asleep and saw 84% deep sleep over the 7 hours. I noticed that 400MHz was showing as used for 32 minutes. Is this normal?

- I use GSam to do battery monitoring (I've heard some people say not to use this?)

- I have done a cache partition wipe, but have not done a factory reset. I also booted into safe mode, and then did a reboot to see if that would help.

- I'd classify my usage as "medium". Throughout a day, I might use GPS a couple times for a total of 15 minutes. Probably 20 minutes of voice calling. Sporadic texting/hangouts throughout the day. Maybe 30 minutes of total Facebook/Messenger time. Listen to audio podcasts for 30-40 minutes. Maybe 1-2 youtube videos a day (totaling 5-10 minutes). 0.5 - 1 hr a day on Reddit (through the 'Reddit Is Fun' app). 0.5 - 1 hour of music listening (songs are on the phone, not pandora/songza). Maybe 30 minutes of Feedly browsing. I do use Google Drive, Evernote and Slack for maybe a total of 20-30 minutes a day. I don't do any lengthy video watching, and I don't play any games on the phone.

Knowing all the above, does anything seem out of the ordinary for my usage? I realize I could be more proactive with toggling wifi and location on only when I need them, but otherwise I feel like I've done almost all of the suggested optimizing. I would love to see 4+ hours of SoT with my "medium" usage, if that's possible with this phone. Are there any further optimizations I should still do on this phone that could net me some sizable battery savings?

Any help is appreciated! I'd like to figure out what's happening. I figured it could be one of three things:

1. I'm dealing with a lemon of a battery

2. My office with it's signal blocking conference rooms is making my phone freak out all day (I'll check my battery life this weekend when I'm out of the office).

3. My usage is higher than most people, and this is the expected result with a typical S6 battery.

My goal is to figure out the issue or to return the phone before my 14 day trial with Verizon ends.