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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] nyt:
I might have made some progress... down to about 1/2% per hour, going to see if continues like this. if so, i'll figure out which of the 7 apps I disabled is responsible.

It seems I'm on the right track, as CPU total for android system is very low now.

I've disabled the following apps, I'm not sure which is responsible yet, but I'll be narrowing it down today.

I'm not sure what these are, anyone know? I'll research more in a bit

the ese agent appears to be nfc/payment related

I believe app.apex is related to badge/icon counters on the home screen

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smartface I think is the face unlock, and faceservice I think is for keeping the phone awake if it sees your face. hs20provider is hotspot 2.0 related.

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always on displace service, weather app, and some side panel junk disabled

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some vr stuff. I've re-enabled these already, as I made this change earlier by itself with no effect. Monitoring this one now, then will begin re-enabling the other groups.

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update: re blocked the vr stuff, might be the cause after all. 33 mins on battery and I can't get anything to show up in battery stats yet

update2: looks like after i started using some apps, like facebook, android system is now eating cpu cycles.

update3:

Trying again with just these blocked. Going to reboot, then not run anything, and see how much cpu time android system has after an hour or so.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
For all the naysayers this article supports my thoughts . While we have very good battery life with the SD version, the Exynos is the superior soc.

SAMSUNG please learn from Apple : when you use two different chips please make sure they perform very similarly.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
Just a few thoughts from Nexus renowned kernel developer Francisco Franco
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] viking2.0:
When you say good battery life do you still see android system taking up the first spot in battery stats?

I ask this because I am getting good battery without resetting the phone. 27hrs on battery currently with 4hr Sot and 34% left.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] viking2.0:
I think we all should concentrate on why Sd820 uses more battery while screen on and using it compared to exynos. Android system is not a battery drain

From what I am seeing with exynos people are seeing almost 1.5 days usage with sot around 9hrs. I get the 1.5 days usage but my sot is always around 6-7 hrs
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Carterman32:
Alright all, I finally got a hold of a US CS rep for Samsung. You have to dial 1800Samsung. You will eventually be transferred to their offshore CRs, who are useless. Immediately ask for tier 2 support in Colorado Springs. There, they actually have the phones on hand. My rep said he'd never heard of the issue, BUT he picked up an S7 and S6 and immediately spotted the problem. He then pulled up both Android Central and this thread and understood it was universal across all US phones.

He said he'd send it up to the engineers, but to get it fixed, multiple people need to call to alert them that I'm not the only one having the problem. Once they agree it's an issue, the Samsung engineers will fix it, send it to Google for approval, then send it over to the carriers to release. This could happen in days, months, or never. But if you want any chance of it getting fixed, I'd call the number I provided.

If you want to use my reference number when they say they've never heard of this issue before, which they do every time, it's 2143373805
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
I tried this. Got regular support who fought me on transferring to level 2 without first troubleshooting. Ultimately placed me on hold for 20 minutes and then I got hung up on
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KrisPerry:
Would it be possible for you to share your settings for amplify and greenify, as well as the apps you have frozen in titanium. Much appreciated
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Funny thing is, Apple had the same issue on the iPhone 6s.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] d1pham:
For those still having issues. Try the following as it worked for me:

1. Disable "Okay Google" hotword detection.

2. Disable all features under "Find My Mobile"

Doing both of those decreased my Android System from 36% -> <20%
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Carterman32:
I told them I'd ONLY Talk to a US rep. And they immediately transferred me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
I promised you guys some screenshots so here they are. I was getting high standby drain along with high Android System drain for the first 5 days with the phone and then magically my battery started doing awesome after clearing the cache and doing a factory reset.

Again, I have not disabled any packages nor am I running my phone in some crazy ass battery saving mode. I've been running a mix of WiFi and mobile data along with my location on. My display is set to auto as well.

The biggest difference I see in GSAM is the "Held Awake" which is now 0 seconds. It was a couple hours before.

I am now getting results on par with Exynos users.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
No it didn't. The differences between the Samsung and the TSMC chips were minimal after testing ( barely noticeable to the public)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Well. That's what Apple wanted you to believe. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
Nothing would surprise me from Apple lol !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] nyt:
try disabling these, seems to have helped my phone somewhat. still something up, but this + the debloat list i posted seems to be an improvement at least.

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not sure which one was doing it...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
I mean our phone is still a beast... But I was kind of disappointed when I heard that we were getting the SD in the US. My 4 Exynos octa core devices had been flawless.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Crossoverdoc:
Where is Find My Mobile?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kajet915:
Trying this now. Will get back here with results tomorrow afternoon. But I also duos a factory reset

and cleared cache. When I set up my phone again. Some previous system bloat ware were gone and the home screen editing was a little different. After holding down an app to move it, there's a "move apps" icon at the top right, to move multiple apps. Point is in sure I needed the cache clear and factory reset.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Carterman32:
How did you get 0 held awake time? Do you not have anything background syncing (FB, Gmail, photos, Instagram, etc)? I have a number of phones, and even in safe mode, they still wake.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] thunderroid:
Internation Variant
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] belloni:
When you are clearing cache, are referring to going to Settings > Storage > Clear Cache data?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kenzhin:
I got this result so far..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kenzhin:
I have this one.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meblah741:
Well I have to come back and report that after I made my changes since my last post that my stay awake had crept back up to 7+ hrs. Not sure what to look at now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
Yes, I do have stuff syncing. My 1 gmail account along with Google Calendar and Contacts. I have my sync turned off for photos.

Instagram and Facebook are not synced however I do have push notifications turned on for both of them.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
I don't know you guys. I still think it might be an issue of battery reporting, not drain.

My screen has been on for at least 20 minutes and this is what I see.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Michaelmansour1997:
Garbage...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] belloni:
I think it's not a drain just reporting as said above.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] xxaarraa:
Someone on the flat S7 forum posted results from their experiment of changing wifi router settings to "n only" it supposedly cut down system drain quite a bit. I will be trying that tonight.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Willyman:
He's right you know... :p I'm pretty confident they'll work it out soon, but I have no proof for saying that.

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I have the same drainage with WiFi off... don't get your hopes up.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Beefheart:
http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884

A guide I found particularly useful. Unfortunately, to make the most use of it you need to be rooted but for those of us that are it's worth following. I have improved my battery life a lot with it, especially as I don't use location services so they have been completely removed.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
Definitely a drain issue for me, not reporting. I get 3 hours SOT
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
+1 to this, there is a very good chance I will be resetting today.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
I've gone through a warranty replacement and reset a total of 4 times. No use. I just booted into safe mode. Going to see if any difference.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dbux:
Tested it. Doesn't make any difference. All to blame on TouchWiz

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Many of the issues related to S7 haven't been not yet received a solid solution. Most of the issues can be fixed with an OTA I guess. Anyway we can get all this problems to the attention of Samsung?

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What was your SOT?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meblah741:
Another screenshot for you. The phone just doesn't go into doze. This is from GSAM.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] vahdyx:
You're probably right. Wonder what's causing the high usage.

I just need to find out if my touchscreen issues are normal or if I have a defective screen.

Also why my Amazon USB cable doesn't work with my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
Here's my system usage. I left my S7E at home and used it for maybe a half hour this morning. The system usage is above 50%
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] GiancarloMorr24:
Very high, IMO. We need to track down this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
Keep in mind it's been sitting on my nightstand 99& of that time. The standby time isn't what you would expect with doze on marshmallow
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
Seems like we have some crazy wakelocks going on. Gonna need root and BBS to start pinpointing the root causes.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] adamj546:
So in just over 7 hours your phone used 7% Of the battery. Of the 7% android system used 4%. That doesn't seem to terrible imo.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
It is when you consider that I left it at 99% this morning and my 6P loses 1% in the same time frame idle
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] adamj546:
Not saying its the best battery ever was saying when you break it down statiscally its still great battery life. If you consider my v10 would have died an d fully charged and back down to 85% to get the same battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] im1knight:
I not only have very high Android System usage, I also have extremely high Android OS, and I can see that Android OS is keeping the phone awake 90% of the time. I'm not a heavy user, but I was left with around 60% battery after 7.5 hrs off the charger and 1 hr20 mins SOT. Doze does not seem to have kicked in at all.

Granted this is the second day I have the device, but I would assume things had enough time to settle down by now, yet something in Android OS is causing the phone to not deep sleep...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
It's just disappointing considering its a 3600mah battery while my 6P is a 3450mah one.

Here's the breakdown:

S7E ~7% loss: (3600*0.07)=252mah

6P ~1-2% loss (3450*0.01) =34.5-69mah

Cleslry there's a big discrepancy between standby time on the two phones. They both have dozs so ideally both should lose the same amount. The S7E had no sim in it so I don't know why it was still draining. I can test my 6P tonight if you want with the sim in for reference.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] im1knight:
Using Nova, still top

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this is amazingly close to what I see on my device, with the exception of cell standby.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
I'm using Nova (I have since my first Android phone) and I don't intend to change that anytime soon.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Jacosta:
Out of curiosity are you all using the always on feature? Could that be what's causing this?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kirdroid:
Yes I'm using the always on feature, not sure may be I'll turn it off tomorrow and see if there is any improvement. But I would definitely want to keep it on since it looks nice :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] adamj546:
No need to test unless you want to. There could be other factors like tw or other bloat from manufacture that can cause this discrepancy. If prefer to get what your getting with 6p but s7 edge is still not to shabby for what it is.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Jacosta:
Seems like a possibility to me although I could be completely wrong. lol I would test this but, i'm still waiting on my Titanium S7E ? ordered on the 26th from Tmo...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
It's not bad by any means as I've mentioned but when it costs 200$ more than my 128gb 6P I expect more from it. If the phone was $600 I wouldn't say anything unless it was a big issue, but for $780+ tax I'm not very happy with some of the bugs and performance hick ups.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] emptydream:
Hs anyone try wipe cache? I think s6 had similar problem back then?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] emptydream:
After reading battey thread seems like Exynos variant does not have this issue. That's horrible.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ngmic:
Where do you find "Find my mobile"?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] liwei8759:
I notice the same thing about your second paragraph. Very well said.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] razorseal:
I was at 16% for 9 hours 2 nights ago. I let it sit while I slept. Did the same today, but shut off AOD. Slept 6 hours today and i went from 100% to 80%!!! I'm so disappointed. Fwiw, my shield tablet barely loses any juice running M. 2 percent the entire night.

This is horrible. I was hoping better life compared to my note edge. It's just as bad... the battery is little bigger so it lasts little longer, but 0% optimization

Here are my results:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] igotgame:
This was my Verizon S7 Edge yesterday.

Auto screen brightness, AOD off (don't need this with my smart watch), I have disabled garbage bloat I don't use with Package Disabler Pro, but KNOX is still enabled.

One thing I have noticed, at home my screen doesn't get as bright on auto-brightness so I get better battery life than I do at work, but I still get pretty good battery life at work too.

(the one blip in the battery usage meter is where I rebooted my phone)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] fluidj:
Gear VR service is still on my list as a major contributor to the battery drain. It's contributed to 5% to my batter drain. I don't own a Gear VR and i've never even opened the app or whatever....so why/how is it using 5% of my battery consistently? I can force stop it, but can't seem to disable it anymore after the recent update from Verizon. The BEST battery life I got out of this phone was the day after I'd disabled Gear VR( and a couple of other apps) and then the following day I got the Verizon update which apparently Undid whatever magic i'd done to correct the battery drain. I'm with the folks that say there is indeed a problem here. This thread wouldn't have even existed 3-years ago with a 3600mAH battery.... We all would have lost our collective minds if there was a phone being produced with a battery THIS large that didn't look like a brick.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] nyt:
I'm seeing improvements in doze with the changes I listed.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
Im running in Safe Mode. Been going for 3 hours and 40 min. Here are my current stats, I lost 8%.

Android System 38% 70mah

Voice Calls 8min 16% 31mah

Screen 11m 15% 29mah

Cell Standby 15% 29mah

Android OS 13% 26mah

If we back out the voice calls, my phone is trending at something like 2.5 hours SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Carterman32:
Guys,

There is clearly a problem at the kernel level. If you see my previous post, I finally got in touch with an AMERICAN at Samsung tech support. You have to call 1800Samsung. When you get the first wave of CRs, immediately ask for tier 2 in Colorado Springs. That's what the Tier 2 rep told me. They will ONLY fix a problem if numerous people call, as they keep a database that trips a notification if it's a reoccurring problem across many phones. So while you can keep changing all your settings, or you can pick up the phone and make a difference. Not trying to be harsh, because we all want a fix. But this is the quickest way to a solution. Samsung needs to release a patch. And before that, it'll still have to go through the carrier. Meaning, it'll be some time.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
I tried yesterday. IMHO people need to twitter both Tmo and Samsung.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] NightM@re:
This is really driving me nuts , I ordered the S7 edge and it'll arrive soon . However after seeing a couple of youtube videos , I noticed somethings .

Some phone has the model name on the back under the Samsung logo and some doesn't :\

I think for the S6 edge all phones had the logo , is this something new ? is it region controlled ?

I couldn't find any answer for this , I think having the name on the back is something very neat and classy and I wish this will be the case with my phone , does anyone has an answer for my question ?

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
The plot thickens. In safe mode, I turned the display timeout to 10 minutes and kept the display running for about 45 minutes (doing nothing) and only lost 4%. That is really good obviously.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] nyt:
I noticed after a reboot my phone would doze more, then after a few hours or a little usage, it would only enter deep sleep and not doze. Watching top after this happens shows /system/bin/sensors.qcom running in the foreground.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Carterman32:
I tweeted back and forth with Samsung on twitter. They just apologize but say they have no influence on software design and no access to that department. Your ONLY chance of getting change from Samsung is following the direction I provided in my earlier posts. This issue will stay unfixed until there are enough people complaining that it trips their system.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
I just wanted to come back and report that after disabling the "improve Google" setting that I enabled on activating the device my battery is now a lot better than before. This is what I'm now seeing. Still not ideal for how big of a battery is in this thing, but it's a step in the right direction seeing as how before I was getting ~40% Android system drain and ~20% Android OS.

Edit: anybody wanna recommend a good app to "share" MP3s since frostwire was apparently taking 14% of my battery when I hadn't used it all day?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
This is one of the settings I told people to dissable in my post a couple pages back.

If you want to improve it more then you need to delete the cache and do a factory reset. Do not check any type of background reporting to Google or Samsung during the set up.

Then once the phone boots up, DO NOT update any bloatware. Go to the Play Store and immediately turn off auto updating. Only update the apps from Google.

I have not disabled any packages and have only disabled a few pre-loaded apps through the application settings.

This is how I achieved 2 days and 8+ hours of screen on time. I am going on the 5th day straight of this kind of battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] belloni:
Did you clear cache in recovery or just settings?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] RnRexpress3423:
Everything has to be done in recovery. I plan on doing the same once I'm charged back up to a 100%
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
In Recovery....Make sure you remove your Google Account before doing this though.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] razorseal:
Double post
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] razorseal:
So can anyone tell me why on earth my phone stayed awake the ENTIRE night?

Doesn't doze override wakelock? (being held awake) I thought that was the whole point of it...

And why is my WiFi on the whole time when I have it set to "only when charging" ??
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
My WiFi stays awake as well and I have it set to the same thing.

But yea, something is definitely keeping your phone awake. Have you tried downloading the Ambien app?