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[Galaxy S6 General] Cuzeg Spiked:
I followed this guide and it helped but to actually get 8 hours SOT, I would undervolt by a fair amount such as -75mv (12 steps down in synapse) for little cluster and -50mv (8 steps down in synapse) for the big cluster (excluding overclock frequencies or anything under 600mhz underclock for CPU). For GPU, I undervolt by -37.5mv (6 steps down in synapse) and for RAM, undervolt by -25mv and no more (4 steps down in synapse)

I also reduced screen resolution to 720p using resolution changer pro and brightness as low as possible, some wakelocks limited by Amplify , Greenify to cut Google play services wakelocks that were listed or by Better Battery Saver Xposed app.

Also not to make the mistake like I did by using phone while charging and playing games or so. Fast charging also can shorten battery life due to heat (heat is the enemy).

I do remember actually getting 8 hours SOT on the first day of getting custom ROM on the S6 (at 1440p)and battery saving for the S6 and it was consistent until I shortened it by 2 hours due to charging while using and fast charge. Now my maximum is 6 hours.

Edit I did use Xtrestolite Marshmallow.
[Galaxy S6 General] pauloswear:
This rom runs android 7.0?
[Galaxy S6 General] tuk1maar:
Downgrade back to the last known stock firmware with the best battery life. Don't need to debloat. This is THE BEST solution. Custom rom's are NOT the way to go. I remember certain Lolipop stock ROM's and 1 or 2 MarshMallow stock ROM's with THE BEST battery life. I used to have an Galaxy S6 and I got between 2 and 5 hours of SOT. Obviously the S6 lasts long on WiFi but it doesn't on 4G+ like most smartphones. So keep that in mind! Also, if you travel a lot by far/bus/train with 4G(+) enabled, it will impact your idle drain by A LOT. Switch to 2G/Edge if possible and enable 4G if required when outdoors. This holds true for ALL smartphones! Also, make sure you have GREAT COVERAGE! Bad signal/reception on a cellphone or WiFi drains the phone A LOT. BE WARY OF GOOGLE PHOTO'S! IT'S NOTORIOUS FOR DRAINING YOUR PHONE DURING THE ENTIRETY OF THE DAY!

Currently I own the Galaxy S8 (exynos) and batterylife is amazing. I am torturing it with usually 2-3 SOT daily at 100% brightness (this is extremely more bright than the S6 display can do) and about 4 hours of Spotify streaming. As usual I Snapchat a lot, about 30-60 minutes a day. I'm about 50/50 on 4G+ and on WiFi (I don't use 2G/Edge) and always end the day with about 40-50% battery to spare. If battery life is important to you, try getting your hands on an Exynos Galaxy S7 Edge or Galaxy S8. The S8 does last about 10-20% longer on 4G+ than the S7 Edge though! On WiFi they last about equal....or the S7 Edge might edge it out by 1 or 2% battery!

Other great options are the Galaxy A5 2016/2017! Expect about 6H SOT over 2-3 days with WiFi/4G on 100% brightness + at least 5 hours of TuneIn Radio streaming. It's idle-drain is nearly zero, it's amazing! It's my mother's phone and she uses it A LOT. Her phone is basically her computer.
[Galaxy S6 General] gmajnkek:
I am geting 8h SOT with no problems with OdexLite 4.1 and nog33k kernel with no extra settings (no power saving or smthing). The only modification: s7e battery inside :)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Well, my 4g coverage is 1/5, while my 3g coverage is 4-5/5. So it definitely increases my battery using 3g.
[Galaxy S6 General] Simplyeduardo:
step by step if you may.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Settings->Mobile Network->Network Mode->Choose WCDMA for 3g.
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
Xstrestolite Rom saved the S6. It is so battery friendly it's insane.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I completely agree. It's insane to see how much Samsung bloatware ruined the experience! Both performance and battery life improved.
[Galaxy S6 General] GaMeFaNaTi3:
Which rom is better odex or the other one?
[Galaxy S6 General] barondebxl:
The one that has the most reply, not sure which one it is loollll. 1.5
[Galaxy S6 General] psych0r3bel:
What app did you use to block these processes? Titanium Backup shows process names, not com names. :(
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Deodexed rom. Remember to backup! :)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I used DisableService. No need to see the com names. The last few names is the service name. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] GaMeFaNaTi3:
Backup with twrp right? I've not got that installed yet hope I don't brick the phone trying. Hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult. I'm already rooted and on 5.0.2
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Yes with TWRP.

You just install the .zip from TWRP and you're ready to go. When you have set the phone up, you find the Aroma Package (in same post as the rom). It's filled with Samsung Apps and features and you choose which to get.

Features like Fingerprint scanner and so on will not work before flashing the Aroma package. :good:
[Galaxy S6 General] KuroTheBang:
Whcih app do I use to disable services?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Disable Service
[Galaxy S6 General] f1ux:
I just greenified everything except messnenger but my battery drains quicker now bizarrely!

Google services has switched to being the biggest drain
[Galaxy S6 General] :
You should not greenify everything and especially not Google play services. They will make a loop which drains the battery cause it keeps hibernate Ltd, then it wakes up only to hibernate again.
[Galaxy S6 General] f1ux:
I didn't tick 'Greenify system apps' so play services isn't greenfield
[Galaxy S6 General] HSNP:
I'm on the stock rom and battery life is excellent, I don't need to flash custom kernels as they are buggy.

You just need to pay attention about the apps battery usage and track them in battery section.

By my experience 5.0.2 had better battery life, sadly 5.1.1 still have bugs, I hope samsung fix it next month.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Hmm, I've been greenifying google play services since April and I usually get about 40-50 hrs of battery life on a charge. I've just turned it off to see if maybe this will improve.
[Galaxy S6 General] tiagovale2:
Looking forward to your feedback.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Well you have something that is going in a hibernate-wakeup loop, else it can't cause more battery drain. One thing tho, you should not hibernate apps you open all the time, as they should rather run in the background, so you can use too much CPU for opening them all the time. Like, if you always open Chrome after unlocking the phone, don't hibernate it.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
It only wakes up if you use Google services, which I use a lot. If you don't, I THINK it is fine to hibernate.

I just witnessed so many error messages by hibernating it and it kept waking itself up, even when I cut off wake-up paths.
[Galaxy S6 General] gianton:
8+ SOT is achievable. Got my S6 last Monday and on third full charge cycle managed to achieve this. Running 5.1.1 full stock with no root. Total time is from 1 to 2 days depending my usage.
[Galaxy S6 General] bruciebabie1963:
I have installed disable service, but I cant find any of the services the OP suggested we disable to save battery. I tried search still no luck, are they under Google play services..please help
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
Same can't find any of them
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Just search for the end names. Like Locationmanager and so on.
[Galaxy S6 General] kociubin:
GoogleLocationManagerService and Yelp

Unfortunately, disabling the GoogleLocationManagerService prevents Yelp from being able to work properly. It's not able to use any of the location features (even when I'm outside with the GPS on). Has anyone figured out a way around it?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Well that's strange. My GPS still works fine in every app. Just takes a little longer to get the location now tho.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
This is with 4g all day, 1/5 in connection, wifi on, but not connected all day (only a few hours and maybe 1-1.5 hour SOT on Wifi), bluetooth on and connected to Android Wear all day and of course sync on as promised.

Battery left, 48%, SOT 3 hours and 41 minutes, 15 hours since unplugged, brightness on auto, mainly low (cause I was inside, but half an hour outside, full brightness). Half an hour music playing in the background.

My screen timeout is 30 minutes and I admit I forgot to lock it once, so it just sat on homescreen for 30 minutes. So well, with sync on I would see around 5 hours SOT, maybe more. The use have been pretty light today. Only a bit of surfing and so and mainly lowest brightness (from auto) cause I was inside.
[Galaxy S6 General] madnav:
Sounds good.

But do post a screenshot at the end of battery cycle.

I may have to send my phone for replacement depending upon results as I can barely reach 3-3.5Hrs SOT with stock+greenify
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Well haven't been at the end of a battery cycle since I flashed. Maybe tomorrow. Will be out all day with 4g on.
[Galaxy S6 General] jah2110:
6 pages of only words? Where are the photos of that's 8 hours of screen? We're is the grafic of the batery? Without that this are useless.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I don't need to prove anything. Take it or leave it. I told you how to get better SOT. For the sake of the argument, I will do it anyways. I was told to test with sync on, so I did so. So that is the reason for this screenshot. Wifi have been on all day, but only connected an hour or two. 4g is on 1/5 as you can see and have been on all day + music playing in background for like half an hour. Bluetooth connected to Android wear all day.

I have reached 7 hours on WiFi on stock, so this is defiently capable of more. Only had the rom for 2 days now and haven't run a full battery cycle yet, cause I have been having over 40% left when the day was over (worse today tho, cause if sync).

Happy?

EDIT: Also, others have confirmed that XtreStoLite battery is way better than stock.
[Galaxy S6 General] abthegreat:
I cant get Disable Service to do anything on rooted stock 5.0.2. Does it need a deodexed rom to work ?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
No. Sounds strange. Not expert in it tho.
[Galaxy S6 General] abthegreat:
Tried after restarts, re granted root. Still no luck for me, does your fix solve the dreaded lollipop mobile radio active bug. Cause as you said 4hrs SOT with data on stock itself is a mean feat let alone 5 !!.

EDIT: Resetting the app worked, looks like it didnt get root permissions the first time round.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
No idea what that bug is. My standby time is great. But I think it's mainly the debloated rom + services disabled.
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
None of them showed up, maybe Verizon removed some apps.
[Galaxy S6 General] abthegreat:
Great, i am going to try out on the stock rom+greenify+frozen bloatware and see how it goes. I am guessing those services you have disabled are likely the fix for terrible battery life on data.

Heres a link for the bug, apps that use push for some reason keep the data connection active longer than needed

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558
[Galaxy S6 General] lugiank:
Awesome.

Only disabling play services analytics i cut down my awake time (screen of) from 20/30% to 4/6%

It's unbeliavable how google is able to destroy battery performance of a phone

PS: A huge "go fu@k yourself" to anyone asikng "pls give skreens of 8 SoT11!!!!111!", it's unbelivable how this thing can boost your battery, just give a try and shut up.
[Galaxy S6 General] logzz:
I need to see a pic of the 8 hours sot I don't believe it unless your brightness is almost zero, and I don't think it is worth tripping knox either for the sake of better battery life the stock firmware for me is perfectly fine
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Not going to sit 8 hours on my phone to prove it. Some people already confirmed that Xtrestolite increase your battery + do the other I mentioned. 8 hours sot is on wifi. I'm hitting 5-6 on data.

Already posted a screenshot on data, bad coverage sync on and 3 hours and 40 minutes with over 40% left.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
It's not apps. It's in system and then Google play services.
[Galaxy S6 General] lugiank:
8 hours maybe is a best case scenario, what i can say is that now my standby drain is almost zero, i got 1/2% drain tonight (almost 9 hours), my wakelock time is about 30/40 minutes over 12 hours.

I can't tell you more because i used this tweak starting at 50% battery, i will post my full battery usage tomorrow with 100% battery

This tweak will not decrease power consumption of your device's screen, but less drain from screen off equals more screen on time, and i can confirm you CAN actually reach 6+ hours of SoT with average automatic brightness and a medium high usage (browsing + youtube + games)
[Galaxy S6 General] eric150:
How do I get there?
[Galaxy S6 General] Völkr:
XtreStoLite

Which version of that rom are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Deodexed
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
5.1.1.?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Can you find a 5.1.1 version? Cause I can't.
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
I swear ive seen a deoxed version of 5.1.1 international tho... But i cant find it any more... Wierd... So im assuming your on 5.0.2.?
[Galaxy S6 General] Völkr:
1.5 right?

Did you flash another kernel?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S6 General] saar17:
Can someone give me a list of every Google play services service that I can disable, if im not using wear products, wants to use location only when I open Maps or Waze and the same for GPS, anything that has go do with fitness tracing and anything else in general that is huge of battery life?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Slicktune:
Dudeeee your definitely gonna get like amazing battery life bro like alootttt if you do that dude.. 9hr screen on time status...[emoji33]
[Galaxy S6 General] saar17:
OKKKKK broooo thx

Can someone answer?

Thanks

BTW, is it ok to greenify samsung push service? and what other samsung services apps it is ok to disable?

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7. Auto sync off. Tasker profiles sync ever 3 hour and every 8 at night.

Can you tell me how to set those setting in Task?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Just download synker. Got Tasker plug in
[Galaxy S6 General] saar17:
****ty app, doesnt do nothing if you dont pay
[Galaxy S6 General] Shocky2:
Best I can get is around 4 hours SoT, usually around 3 hours I keep most things disabled including data when I don't need it.
[Galaxy S6 General] abthegreat:
I accept thats about the best even i can get, even after doing the suggested fixes in this thread. Of course not using a custom rom/kernel , but i dont see anyway to improve battery life especially if you use data. I still had the mobile radio active bug thats been plaguing all lollipop builds. My note 4 went from 5hrs30min SOT 4.4.4 to at best 4hrs now on 5.0.2. It looks like theres no fix for this issue yet unless customs kernels/roms dont have the bug.

why is my radio active for 4 times as long as i was using the browser ? On wifi play services was 2nd bottom in terms of battery usage, it went to 2nd from top on mobile data in just 3-4hrs
[Galaxy S6 General] Psych0t1c20:
Gotta try this
[Galaxy S6 General] Psych0t1c20:
So does anyone know what SSP_wake_lock, ssp_sensorhub_wake_lock, wlan_rx_wake, and lli_pm_wlock are and how to disable the wake lock if possible? They cause some drain
[Galaxy S6 General] FM5:
hello [MENTION=6037486]Faspaiso[/MENTION]

what kernel are you using?

attached is a full cycle of my regular use before trying your tips and I only get 4 hrs of SOT

I bet disabling those services and greenifying some apps would make a huge change

I will update you on my experience, Thanks!!
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I use the Deodexed version tho.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Not sure, as I'm not too much into it. But I don't even see Google play services on my battery stats after disabling those services. But I don't know if they stopped the battery active bug.

A thing you could do if rooted is to use Tasker to force kill the browser every time you close it. Yes it will ruin the multi tasking experience, but it would definitely increase battery life if it fix the active radio bug. Just a bandaid fix till Samsung fixes it.
[Galaxy S6 General] GaMeFaNaTi3:
What theme are you using Faspaiso?
[Galaxy S6 General] FM5:
Lucky, I hope they make one for 5,1,1 soon. Because the odexe is the only rom out there right now. Stock kernel or unikernel?

I'm trying out pixel filter, greenify, and disable services.
[Galaxy S6 General] Völkr:
During the AROMA installer process, did you select the multi-tasking (Memory Management) fix?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Not much into kernels. Barely know what they're or is doing. I was on stock rom rooted and then I just flashed the deodexed rom.

Was not even aware it was there. If it was checked as standard, I did, else not.
[Galaxy S6 General] Fightoffyoredeamons:
It just came out a few hours ago

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/development/rom-xtrestolite-deodexed-mod-edition-1-0-t3094423
[Galaxy S6 General] FM5:
thanks for looking out, about to try it out :victory:
[Galaxy S6 General] unrated87:
I have somehow a Problem to disable the Services mentioned in the first post. I'm using XtreStoLite 5.1.1. After granting root Access to "DisableService" and when I try to disable a Service the tick is not disappearing in front of the Service. Is there another way to kill that Service?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
For me 8 h SOT is always
[Galaxy S6 General] virulentt:
Just for everyone's information, I had Servicely installed and attempted to stop Google Play Services and Google Services Framework, and it caused my battery to drain a LOT MORE! It seems like whenever Servicely was killing the service, Google was trying to restart it. I don't use Servicely nor Greenify anymore and my battery life is better than ever! XtreStoLite 2.1 with UniKernel v3-001.
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
never try to stop Google play services
[Galaxy S6 General] virulentt:
Tried to stop it during screen was off because it was the process that was taking most of my battery :/
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
better way is to change version , not to stop
[Galaxy S6 General] jordan.elliott:
If u want even better battery try greenify in the playstore. It saves memory also by putting unused apps into hibernation
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
op, you can change name of the topic now :PP
[Galaxy S6 General] thiagofbrito:
What kernel? Could you share what to do in order to have this great battery life?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Most people like to use their phone tho and not just having it laying there with screen on. WiFi have been on all the time which consume way less power than mobile data. Full signal strength for both phone radio and WiFi. Screen lowest brightness, maybe a filter. Used 75% of the power while apps used 12% which tells me you either did nothing or watched a movie. Maybe a battery test, just running over night.
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
if you look at the time in screenshot , u will see overnight consumption mate. i used viber all the time, mostly on wi-fi but i also was gone frome my home for few hours. Screen was on auto, no filter. Only thing i did was to delete all unnecesary aps and with sdmaid i disable all un needed startup items.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
How did you get wakelock detector to work?
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
update to last beta SU
[Galaxy S6 General] Obagleyfreer:
What app did you use to stop the services running
[Galaxy S6 General] criszz:
sd maid
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Disable Services as I wrote in the thread.
[Galaxy S6 General] Obagleyfreer:
What did you use to disable them though? As I wrote in my post.
[Galaxy S6 General] evie12604:
The app is called Disable Service
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Disable Service as I wrote in the thread.

You know what it means when the intial letter is big? That means it's a name.
[Galaxy S6 General] DeadPotato:
Quick question: I'm not familiar with Disable Service, but the name is self explanatory I guess. My question is why did you pick Disable Service over other options like Amplify or Servicely, is there any significant difference, or was it just a matter of personal taste?
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Amplify requires Xposed and Disable Service got better UI (at least my opinion). You just click the app like Google Play Service and you get all the services.
[Galaxy S6 General] DeadPotato:
At the moment I am stock but I'll flash and give this a try, thanks for the tip :)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Thanks, the rom itself should increase your standby time by a lot. But with disabling services + Greenify, it should get way past that.

I woke up at 8am and after almost 12 hours I have 91% left. Not used my phone much today tho. 26min SOT on lowest brightness on Wifi.

I have a smart watch, so I read all notifications through that (so no need to wake my phone screen) and I get less that 1% drain in over 8 hours.

So well, it's sure worth it!
[Galaxy S6 General] Obagleyfreer:
I appreciate your advice, but....

I haven't disabled any services at all and just running a custom ROM and Kernel and over 10hours of phone being unplugged overnight I woke up and still had 100% battery!

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Then maybe you should use capital letters in your OP ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] cdx47:
On my phone there is no need to disable those services. I know this because BetterBatteryStats shows my phone fully sleeping when not used after installing the XtreStoLite rom. I loose maybe 2% at most over night.

The most battery efficient option is to install the rom with stock kernel. Your battery life will double because this is the first tuned kernel I have "ever" seen from a manufacturer.

As for Greenify? I used to use it in root mode without Xposed on my Nexus and it was awesome. But it really struggles on the s6 without the extra Xposed features. So for me it made things worse.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
Well it's clearly better than stock, but I lose less than a % at night with greenify + Disable Service.
[Galaxy S6 General] skridovaste:
I flashed Xtrestolite and I have UniKernel but I still lose more than 10% per night on WiFi, even after greenifying the apps causing wakelocks (imgur from my battery drain last night http://imgur.com/a/icDkZ - I also have the BBS log if you want to see). Also I only just hit 3 hours SOT, yes on full brightness, but still only three hours? Please excuse what's coming next, I'm not very technical with this stuff and I think I did something wrong - basically, I flashed TWRP with Odin, then backed up all my stuff, then after flashing the ROM and kernel, restored all the app data using TWRP. Is this what I'm doing wrong? Should I just do a clean flash, by backing up all my stuff using Titanium Backup and then restore apps as necessary? What do you suggest? Any help is appreciated - thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] cdx47:
First of all those are excellent numbers. I was doing similar to you with disabling services before I installed this rom.

Do you leave wifi on in the background? Also you are using greenify with Xposed right? To be honest I will take my 1-2% with everything I want running.
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I have nothing on at night and how am I able to use Xposed? I'm on a Galaxy S6 if you have forgotten that.
[Galaxy S6 General] cdx47:
I think there is a beta floating around somewhere for Xposed. Anyway I probably loose 1% because of wifi and alarms. But I am also still using 1.5 because of the enforcing stock kernel. There seems to be mixed opinions as to whether 2.1 is a good as 1.5 for battery life. But if you are using 2.1 then the answer seems to be yes.

I am happy with my results on 1.5 with very little tweaking. You are happy with yours :)
[Galaxy S6 General] :
I haven't seen a difference between 1.5 and 2.1 in battery life, but I squeeze as much battery out of the phone that it's capable off too, by underclocking, greenify, disable services and undervolt and I'm not a heavy user either. I neither use sync, Facebook nor messenger. Opera just check for facebook messages and give me a notification. I check most notifications from my Smartwatch so the screen is off a lot too.

I don't think there is a Xposed for this phone for now. But if there is I would be more than happy if you could find it.

Thanks in advance