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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
I've always left bluetooth enabled on all my phones and have never (yet) seen this type of issue. This includes the galaxy S7 (snapdragon) and Note 5. My bluetooth environment is: phone is paired with exactly one device (car head unit) and nothing else. For the most part, there are no other bluetooth devices around (such as headphones, watches, fitbits, etc.)

Install something like GSAM battery monitor to try and see what is keeping your device awake. Without your phone being rooted, the information you get will be limited, but it might still be useful.

Here's how I personally would go about troubleshooting this if I were experiencing it... In each case, I'd limit the tests to one hour of completely idle time (phone sitting on a table untouched, screen turned off, no touching it.) Try each test in succession and try to understand what may or may not be causing the problem via elimination:

1. Turn on airplane mode, leave wifi/bt/data disabled. (if this shows heavy battery drain, skip tests 2-4.)

2. Turn on airplane mode, enable wifi, leave other radios disabled. (is wifi causing drain?)

3. Turn on airplane mode, enable bluetooth, but leave other radios disabled. (is bluetooth causing drain?)

4. Turn OFF airplane mode, but disable wifi and bluetooth. (is network data causing drain?)

5. Turn OFF all location options

6. Turn OFF the "always on" screen display feature.

7. Disable the "facebook" application (from the application manager.)

8. This one is painful: factory reset the device, do NOT install anything or set up ANY accounts... and repeat the above tests.

Some notes on these tests:

It's possible that a whacky wifi connection is causing battery drain if your device is constantly having to renegotiate wifi or the wifi signal is weak. Network data can ALWAYS be a source of drain, even if the phone shows a strong network signal, it still might be having issues with data. I've never heard of BT causing problems myself, but others have reported it, so it never hurts to test. Location can often be the cause of battery drain, though this issues tends to resolve itself after a few days of use (unless the actual GPS is being used.) Facebook is a known battery killer. The last test (factory reset) is to eliminate all other variables such as rogue apps that never release wakelocks (such as "bejeweled blitz") and to verify that account syncing is or isn't related to the drain.

Good luck

Gary
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skiddingus:
I've used GSAM for years and it barely shows any consumption by the Bluetooth. I always leave my bluetooth enabled on all of my phones and have never had battery issues until about 6 months into the S6. There was an OTA and I noticed the difference starting the very next day. On my typical 9 hour day at work my battery would drop between 8-10%. Then one day after the OTA it started dropping about 20% until I tracked it down to the bluetooth. My S7 seemed to be draing faster than expected so I tried turning off the Bluetooth. As I type this, my phone is sitting here at 94% battery and it has been off the charger for almost 7 hours. The bluetooth radio being enabled would have dropped me to about 85% or less by now. GSAM will show it in 3rd or 4th place well below the OS.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
Keep in mind that I'm only trying to help you troubleshoot this issue, as it isn't "normal" (in my experience...)

Do you have any devices paired? If so, try to unpair them all (actually delete the pairing from the phone) and test with BT on. If there's nothing BT paired to the phone and BT still causes heavy drain, I'd start looking around to see if there's some other BT device that's TRYING to talk to your phone.

If something is/was paired, and deleting all the pairings seems to help, then re-pair devices, one at a time, until you discover which one seems to cause heavier drain.

If you have any apps that might use BLE (such as bluetooth location beacons), remove those apps as they can also cause heavy usage on the phone under certain circumstances.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skiddingus:
I appreciate the help. I've tried everything except unpairing everything. My phone is paired to my car and a speaker at my house. All are far out of range. There may be other devices near me at work but nothing has ever been connected to my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
Try this (if you haven't already): More connection settings -> scan for nearby devices -> OFF.

Also, look for a setting (that I can't find on my AT&T variant) for telling the phone to never search for an initiate a BT connection (instead forcing the connection to be initiated by the other side - such as the car.)

note that these changes might cause an issue with your BT speaker: you might have manually connect to the BT speaker when you're home.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skiddingus:
The scanning for nearby devices is enabled even when the bluetooth is turned off. The description at the "nearby scanning" toggle says that the phone will scan for nearby devices even when bluetooth is turned off. Since I am not getting a battery drop when the bluetooth is off (and it scans anyways) then I would guess that the scanning is not the cause of my battery issues. I'll try turning the scanning off and the bluetooth on tomorrow when I get to work and see how the battery holds up.

I can't find the other setting you questioned on my Verizon variant either.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
My battery stats.

Been loving it so far

International version so it's running on the exynos 8890
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] mjwhirly:
Okay so I performed a factory reset, signed into my Gmail only, wiped away all att apps and most of the Samsung ones, no Bluetooth or WiFi on, turned off aod and device searching. Last night went to bed at 73% woke up this morning to 70% after 9 hours, phones been in deep sleep for 86% of the time now. So that seemed to clear up the wakelocks, however I did notice that yesterday morning after the reset while I left the wifi on that there was a much quicker depletion of my battery at first when not in use.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
Do another test (without the reset) with both wifi on (test a) and with wifi off (test b) to confirm the difference.

If confirmed, go into wifi advanced options and turn off anything that might allow automatic connecting to ANYTHING. Also "forget" any stored AP's. Retest again where wifi is on, but no allowed to connect to anything (test c.)

If the drain with test "a" is greater than the drain with test "c", then your connecting to something that is influencing drain. There are many possible reasons for this, and most are either cheap "cable" wifi AP's or user-configurable AP's that have been badly configured.

If the drain with test "c" is the greatest, it's Okay. In fact, I'd EXPECT this to be the highest drain scenario, as it's the "worst case" of both having the wifi radio turned on AND being forced to only use cell network data.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] insang-droid:
There seems to be definite relation between Android system battery drain and Bluetooth. I turned off my BT and now battery usage has stopped increasing on Android system.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] whelmar:
Just thought I would follow up... phone is currently 24 hrs off the charger, 3 hr 15 min SOT, and I have 25% battery left.

Again, thanks to those who helped me out!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kenshin11212:
Starting to get actually good battery now. I finally used the wireless charging pad I got for free from Samsung to charge my phone last night. It's the regular slow charging model. Also turned off always on display. Someone mentioned that fast charging may affect the battery life, so I think the fact that I used the wireless charger helped.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Are you making the assertion that somehow turning off high speed charging impacts battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] w0tha:
SM-G930F Exynos AUS Telstra
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PlatinumNick:
wow thats some very good standyby battery life thanks for sharing
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] w0tha:
Pretty damn happy with it considering I forgot to charge the phone overnight :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] aaronito:
My results.

With : galaxy s7 G930F

Bluetooth : on

Wifi : on

Location : on

Sync : on email and Gmail and other apps

Screen : Full screen brightness

SOT : about 5 hours

I'm pretty happy with my battery life on the galaxy s7 compared to my galaxy s6.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
Pretty happy with my battery life, my nexus 5 managed to get around half that.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sychen79:
First day usage stats

Telstra network

With : galaxy s7 G930F

Bluetooth : on

Wifi : on

Location : on

Sync : on email and Gmail and other apps

Screen : Full screen brightness

SOT : about 5 1/2 hours with 15% left

Usage.. 1.5hours of CoC, 15mins on gps some calls..

Extra : rooted but not debloated.. Turned off always on display and condensed display view.

Can only get better... Heaps better out of the box compared to a nexus 5.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] muiacir:
two questions

1- is there any good comparison in the internet between battery of s7 and iphone 6s and s6 and lg G5?

2- about your exoerience , is the battery good or bad of excellent?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PlatinumNick:
my first full day usage, snapdragon 820 tmobile
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Gotta love my 13 hours off the charger and 3 hours SOT until 5%.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kenshin11212:
Just to verify, you're not using the 7 Edge?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PlatinumNick:
Nope, this is totally the regular s7
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Beefheart:
Ignore............
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] beezar:
not bad for snapdragon. I'm assuming you have Always-on off? Also any battery saving apps like Greenify?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kenshin11212:
Yeah I'd really like to know how your phone is set up
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PlatinumNick:
Yeah always on display off, everything else is normal.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This is nuts. I still cannot get past like 3.5 hours SOT over 15 hours. I have all of the Samsung features off, 100 apps disabled, really only Location and BT on. All the scanning stuff is off.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kenshin11212:
I think I've mentioned it before, but I've noticed that since I started using the wireless charging pad I got (slow charging), I've been getting progressively better battery life than when I was using the quick charger that comes with the phone. When I was using the quick charger, I was getting about 3.5 hours screen on time like a lot of people are. Even now that I'm checking my battery stats, I'm sitting at 3:20 screen on time with 33% left. Is everyone getting these amazing battery stats even with quick charging or what?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PlatinumNick:
Yeah I'm using the quick charging now

---------- Post added at 09:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:51 PM ----------

I find that most of the times it's either bad signal or too many apps syncing in the background
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
Just depends how you use it, you can run a benchmark for an hour and it'll deplete the whole battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] insomnia:
i guess this settles it :

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_gal...ife_both_exynos_and_snapdragon-blog-17325.php
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Im not doing anything crazy. All I really do is some web browsing, XDA, emails, etc. my Exchange is set to sync every hour and I don't get an unreasonable amount of Gmail. Android System used 1000mah today.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sychen79:
3rd day on my s7.. 7hr SOT 14% left.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
Insanely impressive with the battery life on this thing.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
What model?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
S7 international model with exynos

It just keeps on getting better and better
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] superleeds27:
So far so good :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] CLARiiON:
Those are some seriously impressive numbers.

I can now safely get this phone, Exynos model seems to be a beast in terms of everything :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sychen79:
Could of hit 8hrs sot if I wasn't playing CoC so much last night.. This was with 3% left
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kenshin11212:
howwwwwwwwww
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
Sure it is, here is a direct comparisson between exy and sd820 in terms of battery life:

http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s7_edge_battery_life_both_exynos_and_snapdragon-blog-17325.php

Sure, they tested the s7 edge but same diference aplies for the regular s7 ;)
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumberjake:
Hi guys.

I have had this issue for awhile and have put it off thinking it was a headphone cable issue but it's not.

I have already tried cleaning with contact cleaner and rubbing alcohol.

My issue is that my phone will trigger "Google voice" search just by slight movement at the cable /jack junction. This is insanely annoying considering I bought this phone due to its audio prowess.

It will also automatically pause or change tracks with the same jack/cable movement.

I am Canadian and bought this from HK via ebay. I am one of those who almost never bother with warranties but obviously would seeing as I spend near a grand on this thing. How would I begin on a warranty claim?

Thanks.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolsticeZero:
Seems to be a common issue, unfortunately. I haven't really found a way to fix it yet.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shwnr11:
How new is your device?

What type of finish is on the end of the cables ends?

I use this cable with almost no issue. Once in a while it will trigger voice when I plug in. But that's all.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00F9KUF7O/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCogito:
I've also got a phone from HK prior to release in my country and have been struggling with this.

It looks to me that this is because of the way the phone detects your device. I've that the headphones that comes with the device and other earbuds works with no problems, but my bigger M40X for example have this.

The best solution I've found so far is this:

plug it and leave it (not moving it at all) for about 10 seconds.

After this the problem seems solved most of the time.

Unplugging and re plugging it several times also worked sometimes at the begging, but it was very frustrating and probably not so good for the longevity of the jack.

I'm actually about to make a factory reset for other reasons, but I'll post here if it makes any difference.

UPDATE: The factory reset did not fix the issue, but I have the impression it's triggering the high gain with my m40x as now I've noticed increased volume and no difference to when doing that trick of plugging the detachable cable first to the phone and then to the headset. Don't ask...
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] universal_cynic:
I had this issue a few times on my previous phone (Droid Maxx) when in the car, as I was plugging it in (usually when there was turbulence). I thought it was due to the tip of the plug contacting one of the other contacts in the jack. See this link for what the different parts of a headphone/mic combo plug or jack are. I'm not sure if your cable has all of those, but if the wrong ones touch maybe it triggers the mic to listen. Or internally your cable may be shorting between the different signals. Just spitballing ideas.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCogito:
You know what guys, a friend of mine really liked my phone and got one as well. So when he got it I asked to him to test the jack problem with my headphones and it was simply not there. I do suspect this is a problem with the device. I'll try to get in touch with LG a second time for support (as the first time they asked me to get back to the country where I got it, the Philippines, and this is not really an option).
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumberjake:
Funny you mentioned the volume increase. That is a trick I learned from someone in another thread as the standard gain setting for low impedance headphones was too weak. That made a vast improvement in volume and was a life saver because I bought this phone specifically for its audio abilities.

As for the Google voice thing the only thing I found that worked was going under apps and disabling the Google app which is ridiculous considering it kills Google on tap which is a big feature of android.

I am pretty sure this is being trigggered by the jack somehow engaging a contact. Explains why it's triggered when I move.

Drives me nuts. Read somewhere that MM fixed this but not for me. I will try enabling Google app and uncheck all the voice options and see if this helps.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrCogito:
You know what, after struggling long with this I've finally gathered the balls to buy a headphone jack part and replace it myself. I've done it with my old Nexus 4 (the jack actually broke there).

It takes a while to arrive, but I'll perform the change and post the result here.

Where I got it from:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/122034019463
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] universal_cynic:
I sometimes have the voice recognition and volume issue, but for me it appears to be an issue with my headphones (Bose MIE2i). I don't have the issue with any other headphone or cable. I have this issue when I fiddle with the in-line controls of the Bose (both this and the 1st pair of Bose). My belief was that it was due to poor shielding of conductors in the controller or shoddy wiring connections.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unimatrix725:
Did u ever solve the problem with replacement? Im having issues with left and right volume. Like a shorted cable, but bought new phones & still doing that.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4103:
Just in case anyone is still suffering from this problem, I made a discovery today. I've replaced the headphone jack in my v10 3 times thinking that they're just ****ty headphone jacks that break all the time, but in my case at least the fault wasn't the contacts inside the jack itself. I found that my problem was actually related to the push-down connector that clips to the motherboard. I had a hunch that keeping the phone in my pocket with headphones connected was slowly rocking it back and forth and would eventually disconnect it. In order to add more clamping pressure to the connector, I put 3 small slices of electrical tape on top of it before screwing the back down. On my walk home today, the left earphone would disconnect with literally every step that I made. After putting the electrical tape in the problem was solved.
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
Hi everyone,

My situation:

I got a new phone and wanted to migrate my Whatsapp History over. Thought I did it right and already deleted Whatsapp off my old phone, but ****ed up with the migration.

I did do the Whatsapp Google Drive Backup just before I deleted Whatsapp off the old phone, plus I downloaded the latest msgstore.db.crypt8 backup file from the Whatsapp Backup folder.

Problem:

My Whatsapp was registered under my old phone number thats long been disconnected. Now when I reinstall Whatsapp on my phone, I cannot get into my old account, because for that I need to receive Whatsapps 6-digit confirmation code on that old phone number, which obviously I can't.

If I create an account with my new number, Whatsapp does recognize the Google Drive Backup that I did earlier in the day (2GB), but fails to restore that, probably because I'm not logged in with the same phone number that the backup was originally created with.

I have about 4+ Years of messages that are very important to me - is there any way to fix this?

Thanks for any suggestions!!
[XDA Assist] Vatsal:
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You may try posting your query with all relevant info here Ask any Q Noobfriendly, the experts there maybe able to assist you.

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[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ladainia4147:
It might be a stupid question, but I've looked everywhere, so I figured I'd try asking around. Where do games get saved on the V10 ? ? I've found where 2 of my games have gone, but I can't find the other. On my G3 and my Optimus G, there was just a designated "Games" folder when I used a file explorer or plugged into my computer, but that's not there with the V10. Specifically, normally I'd go to Games > com.mojang > minecraftpeworlds, then just copy the individual world files to be able to bring my kids Minecraft worlds from one phone to another. On this phone, I've looked everywhere and can't find the folder anywhere. Even searching for it brings up nothing. I apologize if there's a really obvious answer that I'm missing here, but I'd greatly appreciate any help on this.
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Giovix92:
If you look for minecraft folder, probably is in this folder, follow this link: /sdcard/com.mojang/minecraftpeworlds or /your_internal_sd_path/com.mojang/minecraftpeworlds
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ladainia4147:
That's exactly the problem, that those files are nowhere to be found for some reason. I'm not sure why there isn't a designated "Games" folder anymore, but I've looked everywhere and I still can't find where my game files are. I've had no problem with my past 4-5 phones in finding these files, they're always in the same place, but they don't seem to be showing up, no matter where I look. I hope I'm missing something here, because I need to be able to find these files so I can transfer my old PE worlds over from my old phone.
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YrrchSebor:
That's odd, I have a 'games' folder on the root of my internal storage, and then a folder 'com.mojang' inside games.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] omeryounos:
This thread is to discuss all about dual sim variants of Galaxy S7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] omeryounos:
So far only this news is available.

http://m.gsmarena.com/two_samsung_g...te_hint_at_exynos_and_dual_sim-news-16116.php
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] omeryounos:
Really hope that the 2nd sim slot is not hybrid with microSD slot. Rather a dedicated sim slot (3 slots in total) like some models of Galaxy A7 (2016) & A9
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikereyes01:
I reality hope for dual sim so I don't have to get a mate 8
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] omeryounos:
It will be pretty sure as they have launched Dual sim version of all their flagships in last two years like Note 4 / 5 & GS5 / 6.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] omeryounos:
Read on GsmArena that dual sim version will have a hybrid micoSD card / dual sim slot.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] F For Fake:
If true then it's dead in the water, you'd be better off getting an S6.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TikiThePug:
But why? Even the single SIM variant S7 is tons better than the S6.