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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] nateohio:
I don't know of any early android phones that could 5 hours screen on time on a single charge...if you don't think touch wiz had been seriously debloated then you obviously have no experience in dealing with it all. Sounds like you're just making up reasons to hate this phone. I've been using nothing but android phones since the original moto droid. I've owned every moto flagship device up through the droid razr maxx hd, a moto x and I've owned Galaxy S3 and S4, Galaxy Note 2+3, and a couple misc HTC devices, I've experienced pretty much all of the manufacturers (including their interfaces) and the S6 is by far the only phone interface wise I didn't want to root right of the bat to get rid of or add features
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] buhraion:
Tried all the mentioned fixes... this is my battery life.... so sad.

Helppppppp
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bkeaver:
I'm noticing if I use a wireless charger or anything other than what came with it my battery behaves much better. Could be just me but it seems that way anyways
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bobdude5:
That proves that fast charge is a scam and it just tricks the battery icon into thinking it's full but once it's disconnected it drops fast to get to the battery percentage its actually at

Illuminati confirmed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] hopesrequiem:
I actually have thought the oppsite. I only use the fast charger from the box and my battery has been fantastic. And this is my current battery cycle. Still going like the energizer bunny.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bobdude5:
How is your battery life so damn good???? You're verizon right? I run power saver mode all day and I get half that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] nateohio:
Not bad considering the fact that I've taken no action to help with battery life. This thing will definitely get me through a day of heavy use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] hopesrequiem:
Yeah I'm verizon. I never use wifi, I feel like that helps alot as wifi seems to never stop scanning even while connected to a network. I disabled a bunch of stuff but I do use my phone a lot for games and other apps. This battery has gotten impressive. It wasn't at first that's for damn sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] nateohio:
I've had WiFi running all day and still got almost 5 hours SOT and 12.5 hours up and running, I know one thing and that's that my S4 never would have done that running a custom rom and every battery tweak I could throw at it. My note 3 could have squeaked out a few more hours running but not much more SOT.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] hoola20055:
I'm honestly getting crazy amazing battery life. I don't have gps running but I've been taking pics , listening to music, surfing the web and played a little bit on my favorite game. I'm gonna be seeing maybe 4+ on screen time. Brightness around 40%. On 4g Verizon. I switched from aluminum case to cheap speck case and get way better signal too. The neo hybrid was murdering my signal on top of this phone not getting quite a string of signal as my previous phones a well. Loving the gs6 today. Not using any battery saving modes I should add. And notice I'm still at 64% at the time of screen shot

On a side note my first day was horrible horrible battery.I let it run dry until it died and let it charge completely before using it and it has been amazing since.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
Tried to run it out today, ran out of time.

Appears 6 hrs is possible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bobdude5:
Seems to get a little better everyday
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] gambit61:
Day 2 battery life with WiFi on all day. Also on Verizon. Looks like my battery stats for screen on time and cell standby are off sync somehow.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] nateohio:
7 hours idle time=7% decrease in battery. WiFi on and the only battery saving measure I took was killed all the apps running before I went to bed. 1% an hour isn't bad at all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bkeaver:
I don't think it proves it's a scam however, my battery seems to take longer to settle back down after it quick charges
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] grumpyj1:
battery life

So far i think I've been getting pretty good battery life.

WiFi off, advance calling on all the time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] BranC85:
I have just had my S6 since Thursday, but my battery life hasn't been very bad at all. I'm at 89% right now with light-moderate use over about 6 hours. One thing that I think helps is that I have used Nova launcher since I first opened it, and never used the stock touchwiz launcher. Has anybody that is having these problems tried switching launchers? I think the "OK google" feature drains a ton of battery. When I ran the GEL launcher on my previous phone(HTC One m7), it chewed up battery at a hugely accelerated rate as opposed to the sense launcher which does not have it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Topher227:
I'm at 54% after 9 hours and 1 minute on battery, with 34 minutes and 15 seconds of screen on time.

It was one of my lowest usage days in a long time:

I listened to 20 minutes of Pandora and sent/received a total of two text messages.

I don't get how you guys are getting these 24+ hour battery times.... are you turning on airplane mode and putting the phone in a drawer?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] S6ER:
Its not hard at all to get 24 hour usage at 100% charge. I'm at 1 day and 3 hours. I can usually get about 5 hours of screen time on my phone, but I dont use it for music yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Gizmoe:
Better battery life than my old HTC one m7. No complaints here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] kandem:
Make a factory reset.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Rippley05:
This is a conversation that is ALWAYS had with Android. Since my First Android (Hero), people have been making battery life threads/posts claiming all sorts of extreme battery life. "4 days, 8 hours screen on time, full brightness!" blah blah blah. I tend to not get involved in that riff raff, because it's mostly rubbish. To get that kind of battery, you really need to turn your smartphone into a dumb phone and kill all vibrations, screen brightness, etc. It's pointless.

I like the realistic conversations about it. My Note 3/4 could definitely get 4-5 hours screen on time, full brightness....just depends on what I was doing. Some people may be getting that with the S6, but I don't know how. It's the worse battery I've had in a phone since the original Galaxy s series. It's terrible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] psufan5:
I found that wireless charging does not top my phone off like having it plugged in. Way more juice after a wall charge as opposed to the wireless.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
Sorry to quote myself but it appears Google silently removed the "ok google" option from any screen, it's just straight up gone. Perhaps they agreed the power consumption wasn't worth the feature. Unless there's another explanation for its absence I'm unaware of.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Ziocomposite:
I was honestly looking for this option the past two days and thought I disabled or messed something up lol. But yes, option is also missing from my S6. Will check my tablet and currently disabled G2 after work in about 6 hours-ish.

Best,

Zio
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] dlscott1111:
My Usage

4hrs 40m Screen-on time is pretty good! Just got the phone off swappa, it had 4days travel time to get to me. It had 94% charge when I got it and I didn't charge it at all. Just used it normally.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Shawn haz root:
Best battery life I was able to reach. The only thing different I did this day vs my last post was that I was not on Wifi most of the day, in good 4G area and Facebook was uninstalled because I noticed it using a decent amount of battery for no reason.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Gizmoe:
Facebook is a monster battery drainer. I always uninstall or disable it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] steelersmb:
I agree, I don't know how people get the type of battery life they are posting. I get about 2 hours of on screen time. After reading through this thread, people seem to be disabling everything on their phone. The whole purpose of a "Smart Phone", is to use it as such and be able to use apps to help make it a "Smart Phone".
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Gizmoe:
I leave everything running and can go through a whole day before charging. I have had devices with much worse battery life and took forever to charge. I think people are blowing it out of proportion. Maybe you have some ****ty apps running that drain your battery. And if you use the Facebook app you shouldn't even be commenting on battery life. It's the ****tiest app in the android eco system as far as ram usage and battery drainage. Just use the browser for Facebook.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bkeaver:
I totally agree with you
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Ziocomposite:
Last time I used the Facebook app was probably about 3 years ago lol. You get a new device battery life will always be so so initially.

I get about 4+ SOT in 15hours. Definitely not as good As my old g2 but that thing had a massive battery and only 1080p screen. Honestly surprised this phone lasts as long as it does with these specs.

That being said, if you need a phone that lasts from 5am to 11pm, this won't be the phone to do it without sacrifices. I work at an office so I've always got the ability to charge/top off if I'm heading out for the night. If you don't have that luxury, either get a portable charger or a different phone really.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] :
I have nothing to complain about for my needs. There is actually another 12 hours to my on time but the stats reset when I restarted my phone. This phone is more than I expected, it's fast and has decent battery life. This is off the first charge since I got the phone Saturday.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] kris510:
For what its worth..I was having pretty bad battery life until I went into recovery mode to wipe cache partiton and disabled a good amount of settings/apps I don't use. I no longer have the cell standby draining battery. I'm on Verizon with Advanced Calling enabled. I also have my screen display set pretty low.. about 25-30 percent which works for me as I'm indoor just about all day.

Also, this is with Wifi on about 10-11 hours without it being connected. This is the first day after the wipe, so we'll see how the next few days go.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Kenpachi 91:
So enabling VoLTE (aka advanced calling) should help with reducing cell standby? If I enable it, should I keep my mobile data on when I'm using my home wifi. Trying to think of the best way to have great battery life since it seems an update is needed to address this issue. Would changing the network mode from global to LTE/ CDMA help out?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] brholt6:
I'll have to give this a shot. I'm on wifi all day so cell standby is a big source of drain for me. Do you think it was wiping the cache or an app you disabled?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
Several of us have found that enabling VoLTE stopped or seriously reduced cell standby.

Up to you on whether to keep mobile data on while at home but I'm not willing to manage my device that much. All I've done is disabled the stuff I don't use anyway.

Already did a full day experiment switching from global to LTE/CDMA...made zero difference in battery performance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] grumpyj1:
my battery life

I cannot complain about the battery life now. The first couple of day it wasn't great but wasn't that bad either. This is what i got yesterday.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
Very interesting that Android System is absent in that list. May be the key to obtaining the 6+ hour SOT. It's always 1st or 2nd on my list of users, any idea on what settings you've used to reduce Android System so much its not showing up as a primary item?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] grumpyj1:
Well i don't really use WiFi i think yesterday i only had it on for couple of hours. Also gps is always off i just turn it on when i need it. I dont know if it also help that i have a lot of apps that i don't use disabled...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
If not too much trouble, would you be willing to share which apps you have disabled?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] grumpyj1:
Personally i don't use any of these apps, thats why i have soo many disabled. Its different for everybody...Anyways here u goo..

Also have disabled (vzw navigator)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] kris510:
Yes, enabling Advanced Calling helps with the cell standby(at least for me and a good amount of people from the forums that I've read). Also, do the wipe cache parition. Keeping the mobile data on wont' make much a difference, as I found that being on wifi is what is causing the battery drain(see below). I didn't notice any difference in battery switching from Global to LTE/CDMA from my test before.

Sorry, I don't mean to confuse you. I mean I did have wifi on but it wasn't connected to any network. I found last night and this morning that being connected to wifi is the culprit for having the cell standby, aka battery drainer. I only found this out because I was on wifi this morning and noticed my battery was draining faster than the day before. I went to check the battery stats and the cell standby appeared back on my battery list. I then fully charged it and went off wifi for an hour or so and sure enough, the cell standby did not show up and battery usage was great again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] magnumrt562:
So I have no idea why I am getting amazing battery life? I am on factory reset #3, same stuff disabled and installed. I have been on WiFi the entire time, and no cell standby drain! Advanced calling is on, location off mostly, email every hour syncing, browsing on chrome, workout log, a couple calls, texting, and Google music. All I can say is wow. This is Note 4 (kit kat) territory!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] broons:
I believe I read Samsung disabled the ok google because they want you to use S voice? I could be wrong though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] steelersmb:
My OK Google works fine but it may be because Nova Launcher has this functionality built-in. I can say "OK Google" from any screen and it works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] stanfna:
i was thinking about enabling this in Nova. have you seen any impact to battery life with this enabled?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] steelersmb:
Not really, but then again, I am not getting the 4-5 hours of on screen time that some people are saying they get. I doubt it has to do with this though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] aldread:
I believe the cell standby issue is caused by Lollipop, not Verizon or samsung. I have a rooted s4 running Lollipop and cell standby has been on top since I upgraded to Lollipop.

I found that if I go to Settings, Wifi, click on the triple dots, select Advanced, and turn off Scanning always available, Cell standby dropped from First in the list to tenth!! Now Screen is at the top, where it was before Lollipop.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bkeaver:
My battery life has improved since I got it a week ago Monday. The first 4 days or so I have to top it off either before I left work or shortly after I got home. Now with the same apps and the same usage it has settled in pretty good. I can defiantly live with this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Heinegrabber:
drain

Did anyone else notice a significant battery increase when they shut off or unchecked the ALWAYS ALLOW SCANNING even when WIFI is off box in the advance WiFi settings?

Sorry if I missed this in an earlier post.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bkeaver:
Not as much as turning Smart lock (Google) off under Trusted Agents
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] supersmash19:
I turned both off now and I'll see how it affects the battery for today. I never used smart lock so that doesn't bother me and when I'm not on home WiFi I'm on data

so the always scanning was another waste. Hopefully this will help it out and thanks for pointing those out.

Sent from my Verizon S6,

formerly abdel12345
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
Cool. Giving that one a try today.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Eloquence:
Would be nice if we could turn on and off data automatically from within an app, i.e Juciedefender or Green Power, but Lollipop denies this without ROOT! <Shakes fist at Google> :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] jewillia:
+1 Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] theshadles:
I use tasker... i think it simulates a toggle just set it to disable when connected to wifi.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Eloquence:
What about disable when screen off? That's where the TRUE battery savings are. Can you tell me how to do that with Tasker?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] jntdroid:
Will MMS work with only wifi on?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] Gizmoe:
Through mms apps yes. Not with your number though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] exzacklyright:
http://imgur.com/a/2Afy9 Almost 6 hours SoT! WiFi + Bluetooth + nfc + sync all enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] steelersmb:
I still don't get how people are getting this type of battery life out of this phone. I have done everything and still only get about 2.5 hours of OST.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bkeaver:
Yeah idk. I get on pace to get a little over 4 hours sot on a work day when I'm not using it as hard, but on weekends I can get over 3 sot hours before I even hit 50%. This is with everything on all the time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] iowabowtech:
On average I get 4-5. There's been some days I could get 6 but I still haven't made it there because I always call it quits before draining the battery and plugging in for the night. What I've noticed is when this CPU gets taxed, it drains at a way higher rate than expected. Things like streaming Google Music content, etc turns my battery graph downward at 90 degrees until I'm done and it goes quick. Sure its expected to some degree being a high drain activity to begin with but it drains abnormally fast compared to other devices I've been associated with. Conversely, it seems like I can leave the screen on forever and a day if I'm texting all day long, surfing and calls.

Whatever the case, I'm still optimistic the first OTA will add battery life improvements. Honestly, I'm a little surprised we haven't seen one yet. They seem to be pushing this phone hard from the marketing perspective and battery life was one of the biggest questions in many people's minds. Maximizing efficiency would only help word of mouth user experiences and increase the phone's marketability so eh, we'll see I guess. There's some known bugs many of which have been mentioned in this thread and working around them helps a good deal.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] IMMORTALKING69:
Just want to mention, after using the Fast charger for the first time, charging to 100%, i booted the phone and quickly watched it drop to 96% in under a minute and i wasnt even doing anything. I have been easily getting through 2 days of moderate use with my phone then leave it on the wireless charger over night. I did notice that if i leave my wifi enabled, i will wake with 93% from 100% the night before when i took it off the charger and will awaken with 99% with wifi disabled same process. Other then that, coming from an s4 with similar size battery, the s6 Lasts me a lot longer with same use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] krypto1300:
I've got 2 black, 128GB models. They're setup identically and one gets 28 hours and the other gets 17 hours.

The 17 hour one has much higher cell standby. Not sure what's causing this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6] bigchi11:
About average so far, had almost 6h sot once but with less total time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] parmend:
Anyway to turn this off as well as the popup window . I always activate the popup window when swiping down notifications. My note 4 had a multiwindow setting but i dont see it here.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] blake_spector:
Hello,

i have here an old HDX7 with stock ROM 13.3.1.0 and Safestrap 3.70 - i want to upgrade to a new ROM (something like this) but i don't know what the correct steps are to achieve that.

I'm sure i need to upgrade the stock firmware first (to 13.3.2.4 as in this tutorial) but i'm not sure how the procedure is affected by having Safestrap 3.70 already on the device?! :confused:

I'd be very glad if you could help me out! :)

Thanks in advance!!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DB126:
That's probably not the tutorial you want to follow. Bringing your device up to 3.2.4 will limit future options. I assume you have already rooted and blocked OTA updates. Suggested next steps:

- backup your device

- uninstall Safestrap (do this carefully to preserve your existing Fire OS install)

- install TWRP (thread)

- upgrade bootloader to v3.2.3 (thread)

- flash either of these roms: Nexus v2.0.5 or CM11

At some point you may want to unlock your bootloader which opens up additional options (eg: CM12). Please understand you each of the steps outlined above involves risk that can yield a fully bricked device that can not be recovered. Getting TWRP installed is your first defensive step beyond rooting as provides a more robust recovery environment. Please take the time to read through these forums and follow instructions carefully. Many things can and do go wrong. There are no step-by-step tutorials. Good luck.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] blake_spector:
Thank you very much Davey126!

Is there any information about how to uninstall Safestrap? I've searched but found nothing reliable so far (as you said - i want to do this carefully!)

Unfortunately the Stock ROM has been "reset to factory default" before the device got handed over to me :( so i can't find the "old" Safestrap App anywhere...

Do i need to install the APK again, and go from there?

Thanks for help!!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DB126:
I would sideload the apk and execute. It should prompt for uninstall options. If choices are provided be sure to do what is needed preserve your existing image. I have never used Safestrap so don't have first hand knowledge. However, other postings suggest this is the correct path.

You might want to take a look at this tool first. It's old but supports rooting, blocking OTA and a few other features. It must be run while tethered which avoids having to enable WiFi and potentially receive and unwanted OTA. It also verifies that you can successfully communicate with your HDX via tether which could become important downstream.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] travanx:
I posted this guide to get to CM12 from 13.3.2.4 which involved getting back to 13.3.1.0, no more safestrap, to the unlocked bootloader, to cm12. Or don't unlock bootloader and go CM11.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60186871&postcount=82
[P3600 General] jlingo:
Hi there, I just got my dopod D810. I noticed whenever I received a new sms, the left button menu was reply.

All my other dopod shows View SMS

option at the left bottom corner instead of reply. Is there anyway to change

the REPLY to VIEW? Because I often view sms instead of reply SMS.

Thanks in advance.
[P3600 General] bonar:
yooo...

i need to know it too.. :)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] samwong62:
I am facing this question in these few day

My sw3 become no touch screen , but. I can only use the power bottom. When my phone received msg, it can be present a alert in my watch. It is so amazing!!!

I have tried to shutdown my watch by using hold the power bottom in 5 - 10 - 20 , eveb 60 second , but it is no used ...

Now, I cannot reset or restart ny watch. Any bro can help me, please please pleasr!!!!

And next step is , why ? And why me ¡¡¡ omg
[Sony Smartwatch 3] o-ellinas:
How didi this happened???
[Sony Smartwatch 3] samwong62:
I think it is because of someone software crash the rom