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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kevinrubio1:
how...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Euro_Rules:
I have done nothing...

I kept my mobile data always on...

But make sure that you keep off "always on display" feature. ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Turbine13:
I have WORSE standby drain issue because of the wifi

the settings "Never" or "While Charging" on "keep wifi on during sleep" seems not to do the job.

My wifi stays allways ON.

on GSam the wifi, and the phone radio is allways in the same number of minues and hours .

on the graph i have FLAT consist line of wifi.

Any ideas ? :/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. FOR THOSE HAVING TERRIBLE IDLE DRAINS. CHECK YOUR APPS. CHECK YOUR ROUTER SETTINGS AS WELL. The phone gets you 7hrd SOT minimum it has been shown A LOT of times. Badly configured routers can cause excessive wakes of the phone thus draining
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] seanie2322:
Can I ask is the always on display a big battery drain? I can't imagine it is but I only got my galaxy s7 the other day and not over happy with the battery in it. I have aod on because I quite like it but wouldnt be lost without it either. I find the Idle drain at night with WiFi and data off to be excellent only dropping 1% over 8 hours.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Turbine13:
oh yeah ? please in the love of god tell me what router settings could effect the idle draining ?

plus, i check GSam, and background apps, nothing special.

have aggresive doze ON, and app hibernate / optimization . still WIFI behave weird.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
You are on an F. This has far less battery issues than the snapdragon variant.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Is ur device rooted ? Just turn air plane mode on and check if threres a drain and activate wi-fi then see what happens.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Turbine13:
Stock samsung ROM.

on air plane mode everything is ok.

its must be an app keeping the wifi on all the time. i wish there was an app that shows you what apps using WIFI atm.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Burns2k13:
Don't know how everyone had that battery, Don't have the same at all..

22h31M on battery, sot 3h6m, 21% left at this time..

Exynos version, disabled some bloatware that i don't use.. Location disable too..

Can't post screen, don't have too much posts
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
Try the same thing as long as there's no drain with airplane mode on it means an app is using either ur location or ur data/wi-fi
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Burns2k13:
Try it, more than an hour in airplane mode and still 100% so any problem with that..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] gleggie:
Airplane mode disables calls right? Would you get the sake benefit from just disabling WiFi and mobile data?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Burns2k13:
I don't want to permanently switch on/off WiFi and mobile data... It's not the principle of a cellphone..

Since my last post, used 5% with 22m SOT only on internet and homescreen
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] vhc:
according to GSAM, most of the standby drain is from "phone radio" and "android system"
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] seanie2322:
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56% in just 4hrs 39mins, should I be worried? I was using the phone a lot but only on what's app and Facebook messenger. Generally I only have 2 bars of coverage in my home but it says the screen is the main culprit. I'm using auto brightness. Aod is on, any ideas? <br />

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Is this a joke? Are you really complaining?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rlin5741:
According to the screen, you used the screen for 4 hrs of the 4hrs 39min you had the phone active. A bit unusual, but if true, this is more than fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] AB__CD:
a bit unusual?! That's considered excellent battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] hoaivu1508:
You can improve battery life by disable unused apps and services, may be some bloatware (samsung default app)

I found this app in Google Play, It name "App Package Disabler (Samsung)"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kunkunsoft.packagedisabler

it work WITHOUT ROOT to disable Samsung apps

After I use this app (disable Gear VR service, S Health....), my battery life was improved
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dachao:
I manage the cell phone account for the company I work for and today I had a chance to compare 4 GS7 phones. My phone Gold and three black phones. My phone had the worst battery life out of all phones based on the battery stats. Are there different components in different color phones?

At 62% battery my phone shows 10 hr of usage left while two other black phones show 31 hrs left at 61% battery. The third black phone shows 15 hrs left.

One of the phones showing 31 hrs left has not been charged for 27 hrs and has 1.45 hrs of screen on time.

My phone was charged 6 hrs ago and has 10 hrs of usage left.

All t-mobile gs7 phones.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] fabiok81:
The battery stats depends by the telephone use. It could be the other phones have a different and mostly stanby use

Inviato dal mio SM-G930F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This is actually exactly what I would have expected from the edge. Almost 20% more than what I'm getting on the regular and most people get. Then there are these anomalies of people getting like 9 hours SOT on the edge
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XxJustaSexiBoyxX:
I'm quite pleased with my experience. This is my second s7 edge, though the first one did not have as good of battery life as this one. I use the following to help extend my own usage;

1.package disabler pro

2. Auto lux brightness

3. Disable WiFi scanning

4. Auto sync off

5. All gestures off

6. Black wallpapers

7. Nearby device scanning off

8. Location off.

I use a Bluetooth during day, but turn off when not needed.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] skivnit:
This battery amazes me everyday. I have been using it mostly on 4g with Gmail accounts syncing. Watched an hour on bbc iPlayer then a lot of browsing and the Internet and tapatalk. I don't use power saving mode nor do I use airplane mode at night. Streaming spotify to the car through Bluetooth.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] the Doctor:
Here it goes: On my first full charge since buying mine (G930FD), I used it from 100% down to 6% over 23h 21m. SOT was almost 6hrs! I'll post screenshots later.

It's not quite as good as my OnePlus One, but beats every other phone I've had. I'm pretty happy :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] hoaivu1508:
I'm using "App Package Disabler (Samsung)"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kunkunsoft.packagedisabler

And I think it better than PDP to disable Bloatware Without ROOT
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
apologies for the late reply.

Used app package disabler to disable most of the bloatware/stuff i don't use.

Removed the stock FB app and replaced it with folio.

Used Greenify to set the phone to aggressive doze mode/hibernate when it's not in use.

Not really a big bluetooth user so that's off most of the time, location wise only switched on when need, at most 5-10mins a day I would say.

But yeah this was a pretty extreme day as mention earlier where i mostly did some light reading on kindle as well as web browsing.

I would say about 50/50 split on lte and wifi?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] barondebxl:
One word, Exynos ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] obutto:
Anybody else getting 20%++ battery usage by Android System?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] the Doctor:
Yep, seems to be true. I'm glad that's what's in my S7

http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s7-battery-life-review-683968/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dragon2208:
My battery is bad, it really hard to use it in a day or more, please help.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Krautmaster86:
Yeah, there was a playstore update of the app "Samsung Push Service", try to uninstall and it will downgrade. Fine drain again. Something broken on this stuff. Affects all, even S6. Found out yesterday after I wondered...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] AB__CD:
Excellent battery life, never gotten less than 3.5 hours, a notable improvement over my Note 5. Was lucky to get 3.5 on that device without excessive measures.

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Thats par for the course for the standard S7. Unfortunately not much more you can do - you can try using things like Package Disabler Pro, a black wallpaper, disabling features you dont use, but its unlikely to get much better than that, because that's really actually quite good - you wouldnt be getting that kind of battery or last year's S6 or LG's G5.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sprog123:
I'm only on my first full charge cycle after taking the latest PC8 update from T-Mobile for SD820 variant, and my battery life has been stellar. 3 days standby with almost 5hrs SOT and 7% remaining. That's good for either another half-day of standby or another 40min of SOT roughly, and on par with 9hr SOT in a more continuous usage, as good as some of the best Exynos numbers I've seen so far. Very impressed. You can see more details in my post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66252822&postcount=262
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Krautmaster86:
could u please check if you have a Samsung Push Service Update pending n ur Playstore?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sprog123:
I do, and I'm glad I didn't update it. I disable all automatic updating. I only took the PC8 system update after reports of much improved battery life and other bugs being fixed, at the risk of losing possibility of root.

Galaxy App store will also auto-update, even if you disable the app. I kept getting notifications that Samsung apps were updating, and I couldn't figure out why until I re-enabled it and dug into the settings to disable any sort of auto-updating, and then I promptly disabled it again.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Krautmaster86:
yeah maybe I gonna test the update again tomorrow to verify that the update of " Samsung Push Service" really kills doze and at least doubles or triples the standby consumption. I'm using Always on Display = off and loose max 1-2% / h over night, of not less than 1%. Normally my S7 is getting loaded every second or third day. I saw the constant drain yesterday morning, thought a reboot might fix it but it continued absolutely stable and fast. I already sent screenshots and analyses to their contact address pushsamsung@samsung.com (from playstore)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rlin5741:
I didn't even realize it, but the push services updated on my phone a couple days ago, haven't noticed a difference in my battery life.

I am on Verizon with the SD820. We haven't gotten the battery saving update that a lot of the T-Mobile guys did.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] gleggie:
I'm also on Verizon and I'm going to Uninstall the push update and let my phone sit overnight to see if this was indeed causing increased standby drain
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ShadowFlare:
Battery stat 3rd cycle

Just sharing the stat on 3rd battery cycle, UK Galaxy S7 Exynos. Battery is alright.

- Connection mixed between LTE and WiFi

- Stock ROM, no root

- Disabled some bloatware (not too aggressive)

- WhatsApp drains battery faster on LTE, so on long chats I switch to Wifi if available

- Auto brightness

- Around 90 mins listening to music on headphone per day

- Battery drain at night is around 6-7% on 8 hour sleep

- Note that GSam SOT reading is less because I only realised GSam was not running initially
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] obutto:
"Alright"? My Verizon QC S7 can barely last 12 hours with 1 hour screen time lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PlatinumNick:
After T-Mobile update battery is very good only thing I did was disable Google now I never use it anyways
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Mine still sucks. Nothing debloated, brightness maybe 30%. Greenify is set to aggressive doze
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] shaq1907:
I think S7 has amazing battery life, especially comparing to S6. I had similiar results a few times so it isn't coincidence:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
I would have to agree the battery life is just simply amazing.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] seanie2322:
9 hrs SOT [emoji33]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] gleggie:
Ugh I wish the exynos variant worked on Verizon... I typically get 4hrs SOT...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sprog123:
Wow, 962mAh consumed for over 9hr SOT? That's just over 100mA that your screen is burning. That seems very low for regular usage. What is your brightness setting and/or are you just viewing very dark pages? :p

Is there any way to tell hardware manufacturer of the OLED screens? Maybe a certain batch is much more efficient than others.

When people report their SOTs, they should also note the mAh consumed, divide mAh consumed by SOT to get mA and that will tell you how much power your screen is drawing and normalizes to the consumption of everyone elses screens.

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Exynos version is no more battery efficient than SD820 after software bugs are fixed. You should wish for getting the update that the T-Mobile users got recently that fixed the Android System drain bug and greatly improved battery life. Also, how much mAh is being consumed for those 4hrs of SOT? That will give you an idea how efficient your screen is (and should be related to brightness setting). Just lowering the brightness some might have a large impact to SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
The T-Mobile update helped but trust me didn't fix it. See attached. I cannot figure out any solution for this embarrassing battery
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sprog123:
Something's not right since Android System is still the top contributor. Disable all unnecessary bloat and reporting back to Google, Samsung, and T-Mobile (settings all over the place, including some in T-Mobile app), and turn off automatic app updates in Google Play Store AND Samsung Galaxy App store. Also, revert the latest Samsung Push Service update if you've taken it, since someone else was reporting that was ruining everyone's battery life, including on S6.

This is what I've disabled:

Amazon

Galaxy Apps (after disabling auto-update) and Galaxy Essentials Widget

Lookout

S Voice App

Samsung+

T-Mobile Name ID

Also disable step counting in S Health if you don't care about that, and use the native browser instead of Chrome as some have reported Chrome is fairly battery hungry as well if most of your usage is web browsing. Turn off OK Google always listening if you don't need that either, and disable AOD if you don't use it.

I only lose about 0.5%/hr in sleep, and am on track for almost 9hr SOT of light continuous web browsing usage over a shorter period.

Here's what I got after my first charge with the latest PC8 update (I leave wifi on all the time even in sleep, but disallow background scanning). Not much continuous use, just sporadic sessions of web browsing and Google Maps/GPS navigation spread over a 3 day continuous period:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Thanks for the thought out response. Here is the stuff I know.... 1) stock apps have been disabled. Not using package Disabler 2) aod isn't on 3) don't use stock browser or chrome 4) all reporting has been off since the start 5) play store updates are off 6) already reverted push service 7) OK Google isn't on.

I'll go through the rest of your stuff now
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
How do you disable this? The second option can be disabled but not this
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
I've now disabled all apps you posted and s health except name ID and Amazon which I use and confirmed all diagnostics reporting is off.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
Brightness is usually set to auto setting which tended to hover around 40-60% normally. But probably around 3-4 hours of that was used at night where it's mostly dimmer around 10-20% and when I was reading on a black background in Kindle.

I would say it's probably a 60/40 spilt between LTE and wifi.

Little things I do to help with battery life, no Bluetooth, location services only switched on when required. Usage of a dark theme and wallpaper.

I also make use of package disabler to freeze unwanted apps and packages like Facebook, Knox, Gear VR etc. Lastly, I also used greenify to kill tasks and hibernate the phone when I know I'm not gonna use the phone for a extended period of time like when I'm working on something or heading to bed. Oh and no AOD just find it not very useful since it doesn't support 3rd party notifications.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sprog123:
Sorry, I thought there was another option that had some weird wording but amounted to never update on any type of connection once you parsed out the meaning. It was super confusing. I just re-enabled Galaxy Apps to see what the setting is, but now it's forcing me to update it in order to continue, so I just disabled it again since I don't know if the update is going to change some of the settings. I might have also misread the original settings. I do know that even with Galaxy Apps disabled, apps were still auto-updating, which really confused me, until I re-enabled it, reread the settings, changed, and then disabled. I haven't seen any auto-update notifications since, but maybe there haven't been any since then.

I also don't use any disabling apps, just the built-in Android disabling. Also forgot to mention I keep bluetooth and NFC off (manually enable when needed, which isn't that often) and location setting to only use wifi and cellular networks, and only allow GPS when using Maps and when done with maps, I go back to wifi/cell location only.

You could also try clearing caches or factory resetting (not pleasant if you have a lot of custom settings). I don't know if those actually help or not as I didn't have to do it after taking the update, but others claim it can help sometimes.

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Oh, I think I remember now. You mention the second option could be disabled but not what you're showing now. I think the "Samsung Galaxy Apps" (with capital "A") means updating the "Galaxy Apps" app itself. The second thing was for apps downloaded from their app store, right? So basically the way to "disable" auto-updating of the "Galaxy Apps" app store application is to turn it off in Android app manager settings. Whew, confusing, right? :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] vhc:
Wow, how much of that is chrome?

Browsing seems to drain my battery quite a lot for me. Any tips?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Thanks. Unfortunately, turning Location off when not in use is not really a good idea for most people, since you cannot locate your phone when lost.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nansensical:
Best battery life ever with most flagships I ever own since S3!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dachao:
I have not used my phone all morning and now that T- Mobile fixed the Android System battery drain the Android OS is draining battery like crazy.

My old Z3V had better battery life than the S7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sprog123:
I don't turn off location, I keep it at wifi/cellular only. Wifi/cell positioning is pretty accurate these days. Of course not as accurate as GPS down to meter level and not good enough for navigation, but good enough to tens of meters. For getting the general area of a lost phone, it should be good enough. When I need maps, it prompts me to enable GPS. When I'm done with Maps, I long-press the location icon in the notification shade and set it back to wifi/cellular accuracy.

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Did you take the Samsung Push Service update? Someone else reported battery life got destroyed by that update. There's some bug in it that affects all devices using it, not just the S7. Not sure if it's been fixed yet in another update since I disabled automatic updates and haven't followed up on this issue in a while.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] fabiok81:
This is my results with s7 Exynos.

30%wifi and 70%Lte

35 min of call

Most of the time (about 3 hrs) on instantgram sharing photos and chatting.

Facebook for 1 hour about

A lot of Whatsapp (about 1 hour)

Photo editing for 1 hour

Tapatalk for 30 min

Web browsing for 30 min

Foto, music, installing apk, and other apks etc etc...

I've disabled Google apk, Samsung push and Knox thanks to Samsung app disabled.

Brithness at 30% but in auto mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Let's ban anyone with exynos from posting their battery life. It's depressing
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] lunzi88:
about 14-15% of that is chrome so about 3-400 probably?

Sorry, don't really have any tips for minimizing chrome usage.

I would use the stock browser, but unfortunately it doesn't allow me to import bookmarks from chrome.

Hence the reason why i'm still using chrome. :cool: