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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] chungdae:
Nice I'm not too sure but I did disable a good amount of bloat with PDP it may have helped.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
Will try PDP aswell
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
Used PDP and I'm seeing atleast a 10% improvement. It's really worth it to try it out.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] PlatinumNick:
whats PDP?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
Package Disabler Pro. You can find it on Google play it removes all of Samsung's bloatware and you don't even have to be rooted
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Lucoso46:
Which theme do you use? :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] fabiok81:
What packages have you disable?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Truth6199:
Hey Guys,

Thought I would post some of my findings on this matter. Firstly, Snapdragon V Exynos is always going to be compared to one another. But you have to realize, people use their devices differently. Some have LTE/Different networks active at all times, some have wifi only on at times, some play a lot of games, some do browsing, other a number of other things. You should be getting around 4-5 screen on time on average depending on what you're doing. When some disable apps and etc, you can squeeze a bit more out of your device. Their will always be someone who has amazing battery life, better then you or I may ever see. But you don't have a broken unit if you're not matching it. If you feel you received a lemon, get your money back. If that is difficult to do, take it to a repair center, you'll receive some help. I hope this helped and enjoy your beautiful S7 device, I know I love mine. Now when we can get the graphics for games up to par, it will be the best thing ever . Until then, :).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
Can't remember lol. I clicked disable all bloatware then unticked apos like Instagram, Facebook and screen mirroring which was considered bloatware. I left s health unticked aswell. That's it! All other "bloatware" disabled.

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I consistently get over 6 hrs sot no matter how I use my phone but I get your point ;) I wouldn't say this is a 4-5hr sot phone though, atleast not the exynos version. If you not getting atleast 5:30-6hrs sot or closed to 7 in most cases then you have to be an extremely heavy user. If you're net getting close to these numbers then something's up...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Truth6199:
Unfortunately, exynos has better battery life then the S820. Just true at this point. That's why us in the states keep getting updates to help with it. I'm sure it will subside and equal out soon enough. But great to hear you're having such good battery life. I hope I can reach that soon.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] sprog123:
After the latest T-Mobile PC8 update, SD820 battery life is as good or better than Exynos. I got nearly 5hrs of SOT over 3 days on my first charge cycle since taking the update. At those levels of drain, I'm estimating around 9hrs of fairly continuous SOT usage. My rough analysis and more details here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66252822&postcount=262

As I've been saying all along, the Android System 50% bug is pure software, and I'm glad T-Mobile and Samsung put out a fix for it so quickly. Let's put an end to everyone thinking Exynos has better battery life now. It's simply not true. I guess it makes sense they'd favor their in-house platform when it comes to priority in software optimization/updates, but it's good to see that they eventually will also optimize for SD820 to at least be equal to Exynos. Doubt they'll really put in the effort to make it outshine their own Exynos though. Still waiting to see how HTC 10 pans out in terms of performance and battery life. I've always had a soft spot for HTC since Touch Pro 2 and One X days. HTC's been known to optimize well since they really need to squeeze out every last bit of performance to be competitive given they have pretty poor marketing and dwindling mindshare now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] robertkoa:
Yes. That is strange.

Does this mean that the Snapdragon CPU wastes a lot of energy on the 'Android System' just crunching numbers inefficiently ?

Not the overall CPU efficiency but the 'Software/Firmware' math where 820 is doing repetitive tasks unnecessarily etc.?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] sprog123:
No, it means Samsung had a bug/poorly optimized software, and they fixed it in the latest PC8 update for T-Mobile. My Android System went from over 30% (more than 1000mAh consumed) and being the top contributor in a ~2 day period to 10% and near the bottom contributor over a 3 day period. This is normal behavior compared to my other Android devices and on par with my past experiences on Android. SD820 is at least as power efficient in hardware as Exynos. It could be more so, but Samsung doesn't really have any incentive to optimize it beyond their in-house solution unfortunately. HTC and especially Sony are known for heavily optimizing Snapdragon, so I'm curious to see how the HTC 10 and the X Performance do when they're finally released.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] VTG4LIFE:
This battery life is amazing. I just got 6 hours and 45 mins screen time with 22 hours usage today and 8% battery left. I couldn't believe it. Yesterday out of nowhere the battery broke in I guess and started to perform amazing. That's with wifi in all day, but only connected 4glte for 90% of the screen time because I wasn't home. So it's even more impressive taut I left the wifi on by accident, and got about 6 hours screen time outside all day with verizon 4glte, and the other 45 mins were using my wifi. With the wifi on all day but not being connected, which I never do, it causes more drain so I can't imagine with it off. I could easily get over 7 hours screen time on this thing. Best battery I've ever had. Snapdragon processor if anyone is wondering. My s6 edge was crap compared to this. I'm so glad I upgraded even if it was from an s6 edge. This battery life is amazing. I just got 6 hours and 45 mins screen time with 22 hours usage today and 8% battery left. I couldn't believe it. Yesterday out of nowhere the battery broke in I guess and started to perform amazing. That's with wifi in all day, but only connected 4glte for 90% of the screen time because I wasn't home. So it's even more impressive taut I left the wifi on by accident, and got about 6 hours screen time outside all day with verizon 4glte, and the other 45 mins were using my wifi. With the wifi on all day but lot being connected, which I never do, it causes more drain so I can't imagine with it off. I could easily get over 7 hours screen time on this thing. Best battery I've ever had. Snapdragon processor if anyone is wondering. My s6 edge was crap compared to this. I'm so glad I upgraded even if it was from an s6 edge.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
Battery life just keeps getting better on this exynos version. I was on wifi for 75% of the day and 25% on H+ data. My usage mainly contained browsing social media, we browsing, some light gaming, about 30 mins of YouTube and 30 mins of calls. My screen brightness was between 30%-40% and around 15-20% when my battery level was under 10.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] kahush:
Here's my usage: Galaxy S7 Exynos variant. Light web browsing, tweeting, brightness at around 40%. This device is worth every penny.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] limitbreak09:
Anyone here got an S7 flat at&t exynos version? I already got a s7 edge SD but im thinking of getting the flat version and Im interested with the battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] major_major:
S7 flat exynos on AT&T here for 1.5 weeks, routinely getting 6.5-7 hrs SOT for full charge
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] milicevic:
Galaxy S7 Exynos 6 hours 27 min. 4% left
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] barondebxl:
Same here
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
100% wifi. Brightness at 40% and no I didn't watch videos all day as that heavily skews the results since Samsung phones are so efficient in video playback. This was under normal heavy usage for me. About 1hr YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, web browsing, a couple other apps but no gaming. This is the best battery life I have ever gotten on any smartphone period!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] nansensical:
Best battery life ever! Regular exynos S7!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] PlatinumNick:
you rather get the flat than the edge? why? im curiouse
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] limitbreak09:
I feel like the s7 edge is still too big for my use. I want something compact and can be easily use one hand ( because im a lazy mofo) Only reason I got the edge is bc of the titanium silver color and the battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] PlatinumNick:
Lol were all lazy
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] cnadshc:
23 hours total time, 16% left, 3 hour SOT. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Kev1000000:
I get the same thing on my Exynos S7. Standby time is amazing. Usage time is pretty poor. I drop about a percentage almost every minute during use. 6/8 cores are always in use according to CPU-Z. Phone gets noticeably warm during normal use (just normal app use, no games). This can't be normal?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jboodram:
Something must be wrong with your device I get 5-6 minutes - 1% while in use
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] eddiep20:
very nice on this
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Samsung Galaxy S7's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] innit:
hi there. got my s7 few days ago and it sleeps like a baby hehe 1% lost in 6 hrs
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Fear_The_Fluff:
I lost 10% of battery the past two nights. I have the always on feature turned on tho.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] fabiok81:
The mine 0,5% a hour

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] gleggie:
I typically lose about 4-5% overnight. Not bad, but not as good as a Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] fredriks:
I have a massive batterydrain in standby when I am connected to WiFi. When I'm on mobile data I have no batterydrain at all in standby

I don't have a clue why it is like this
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] captobie:
I lose 18% over 8 hours. Maybe I'll try turning wifi off tonight. That said, battery life overall seems really good. No problems whatsoever getting through a full day on one charge.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] chungdae:
Go to WiFi > more > keep WiFi on during sleep > off

More than likely your WiFi is causing the drain by the always scanning feature turned on
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] fredriks:
Yes, do try that. It would be interesting for me too to know.

Have that setting now but should not have to. On my S6 I have it allways on and there is no batterydrain problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Astraphic:
with heavy use, 2 days battery life without charging. and also its charging is pretty fast too :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] julien32:
I loose 1% over a 7h night on plane mode.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] shekinah:
I bearly loose 1% per night (wifi on/always on display). Even in heavy use, the battery doesn't give up that easy...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] gleggie:
What tweaks/optimizations do you have? Exynos version or SD820?

I have the SD820 with package disabler pro and greenify and I lose about 5% overnight...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] shekinah:
Hey man,

I have the exynos version. Still on stock, i just used "package disabler pro" - as you do - to get rid of all the bloatwares and apps i don't use.

Oh, and i don't know if that's relevant, but i disabled the fast charge, in order not to preserve the - non switchable - battery, it still charges quite fast.

I've checked three times now, i was never below 99% when i woke up.

Hope it helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] vhc:
only lost 1% with Always on Display? That doesn't sound right

I lose about 2-3% over night without Always on Display
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] shekinah:
Yet this is. I just turn the phone back (with the screen hidden) so that the "always on" doesn't turn on.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] dspain28:
I am having massive battery drain

My phone drops 20% in 2 hours on standby and I'm at my wits end trying to figure out why android os is taking 500mb of data a day
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Ray Adams:
20% Over night absolutely not normal!

Have to recharge phone twice a day.

I am on stock and cannot apply root (this is company phone).

When I had Nexus 5, battery drain was not so horrible.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] fredriks:
Here is a picture of my battery drain

From start I have WiFi on and then I turn WiFi off and the battery drain stops

Can't understand why WiFi is draining my battery like this ?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] dspain28:
View attachment 3706969

Anyone wanna explain wtf is going on with this, I don't have any backing up turned on. No syncing no diagnostics uploading. No Google photo no Google Drive, all of that disabled with tons of apps disabled with package pro disabler
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jetbruceli:
Hey all, I have the note 5 and s7. My Note 5 started the whole Android OS battery drain when I reflashed stock. From what I understand, if you have tripped Knox, and went back to Stock Firmware it causes this battery drain. So on the note 5, I flashed a prerooted stock rom and no battery drain. On my s7, I havent rooted it and I do not have a battery drain at all. Maybe you all should check and see if your device tripped knox.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] jayesh:
Thanks. That last part helped me resolve the issue. I had setup my s7 initially and forgotten to switch it to 5 ghz. I too have the r8000 and switching to 5 ghz, resolved the standby time being **** on the s7
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Travis Bickle:
Almost 4 days with 48% battery left and 1 hour sot with WiFi on. Over night I have 2-3% battery loss. I know this doesn't say much as not everyone uses their phone the same way. I currently use my nexus 5 for browsing. Exynos, stock.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] meboy:
Nope. You still have the problem.

Shows right in your screenshot that Android OS and System are draining.

There is no fix.

All MM phones have the same issue. Disabling Wifi helps but that is far from a fix.

Maybe N 7.0 will fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] swoopp:
Yeah but it's the best I could do under the circumstances is what I was getting at
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] wpkwolfseye:
Quick connect ??? Whats that ??? How about actually saying in details what you mean, instead of "Hey, it works for me with that..." :) Sorry, right now the battery drain situation is frustrating, and I see so many people post "Oh yeah, I got it fixed!" which is so absolutely NOT helpful. ;)

If you mind, what do you mean with Quick Connect ? Thanks m8. ;)

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] meboy:
Nobody fixed it.

Don't bother.

Some may have slightly improved their battery life but this android system / os drain bug is not fixable with tweaks. Which is the main culprit.

It's been months and there is no hope.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] mgfjd:
I don't have an issue with stand by drain anymore. I unisntalled apps that I dont really use from my phone. I turned notification off in some of the apps, stop background usage. My phone is working great.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] meboy:
Screenshot showing Android system and os are not near the top of the list in battery usage please.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] flaviolealsilva:
Same here 10%... I'll test today w/o Always On... Tomorow post rhe results...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] MrDusan:
I'm having about 3-5% of drain over night. I turn almost everything off.

Cell standby takes about 100 mAh over night. I don't like that, because i leave the phone only on 2g over night.

Also, android system is very close to screen usage, always second on the list, 100-200 mAh difference.

I really don't know what's eating the battery so much, back on s5 I had 1-2% of standby drain, and android system never ate that much battery. I hoped that s7 would at least keep up with it!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] DSF:
Uninstalling facebook and facebook messenger seems to not help on improving standby battery life.

From 100% to 97% in 4.5h showing only 2 items in battery usage: cell standby and device idle.

I've achieved better score with Facebook apps installed in same spot :p. But whatever, android battery life is so random.

So facebook apps doesn't consume too much juice or negligible standby battery life.. myth busted?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Eurofighter_ty:
Can you give any advices what can I do about battery life ? Thanks !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Travis Bickle:
100% to 97% in 4,5h is not that bad, that means 16% in 24 hours, well even less since at night doze kicks in. Facebook app is bad for the battery when you actually use it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] DSF:
That was overnight.. also i've got even better scores, 5% in about 8-9 hours (with Facebook apps installed).

There were multiple people which said that those apps affect standby times significantly.

Anyway, battery life is random. Sometimes i get preety ok battrry life, sometimes bad.. sometimes the phone goes crazy hot for "no reason" (background processes goes crazy) and so on.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] youguesswho:
Hi all, I recently purchased a galaxy s7 but I've got to say, the battery life for me at the moment is all over the place, sometimes I get 1-2? drain on standby but at other times it seems to take at least 10?. I'm going to implement suggestions made in this post to see if they all help improve my battery life, but I can say that in comparison to the iPhone 6s it's much better
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] fredriks:
If you are connected to a 2,4 ghz WiFi try to connect to a 5 ghz instead. If my S7 is connected to 2,4 ghz my phone drains battery hysterical, if I'm connected to 5 ghz there's no problem.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] youguesswho:
How do I do that? As in how do I change to 5ghz? I have no idea :silly:

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Never mind I found out, will see if this improves it at all.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] *Detection*:
3% battery drain lastnight over 8h40m
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Malik828:
4% drain in 10 hours pretty happy
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] htcplussony:
Mine does that but don't know why though.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] elijahblake:
my battery life has gotten horrible in the last couple of weeks. I'm not a heavy user and lately I have been down to 15% by 8PM. I can't figure out why it's so terrible, I even did a factory reset over the weekend because it was almost dead by 3PM with hardly any usage...

Does better battery stats or any other app really work to tell you what is causing the drain?

by the end of the day. It's usually Android system, Android OS, then Google Services as my top 3 battery uses. I rarely ever have 2 Hours Screen On Time.

https://goo.gl/photos/Q2JdLGRY91i5b9Sd9

https://goo.gl/photos/2gg1zgan8NNqKj2p9
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] navid0308:
Go to playstore and uninstall updates for google play services. Then reboot. It'll update automatically again.

I think theres also this app on the playstore that deals with this drain called the gps(google play services) fixer. Anyways, good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] sonoflife:
I've been noticing no many how many posts I read on the battery drain and heat issues, there doesn't appear to be any definitive traction made in solving this hinderance for us S7 users. Out of similar frustration I just wrote this up, maybe a few eyes can take a look and verify whether it helped or not?

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s7/help/help-s7-rooted-battery-drain-phone-heat-t3453130

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] nanca:
So... to summarize things up:

-Wifi seems to have a huge impact on battery life,

-Too many apps also does,

-Samsung push and play services might or not also be the problem,

-Usage...

However i would like to hear from you guys, specs about your room. Is it BTU, PEQ... whatever...

Also, did you do something different from stock, any tweaking? Did you change your ROM for another stock one?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] harunjo:
if you are using 5 ghz wifi connection then try to switch it to 2.4 ghz, and next see how the battery drain effect on this.

if your battery performance become less drain after switch to the 2.4 Ghz then maybe the problem is on your wifi router.

also if you still have problem with 2.4 ghz freq, try to check how noisy wifi signal arround you, how good your wifi connection quality etc.

find following thread related to 5ghz wifi conn problem with android 6 :

Massive battery drain on 5ghz wifi and android 6.0/6.0.1

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197460
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Doofy911:
End August-September Update changes???

Hi guys, I just want to know if anyone has done the latest update i.e the August/September update - the one with the changed gallery UI....Anyway has anyone noticed a change in the standby drain bug and does the reboot after a charge still has to be done with this update:confused:?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Running the update with the gallery UI change (Do not like it at all) and there is no battery drain or reboot needed after charging, never even heard about needing to reboot, why would you need to reboot after charging?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Doofy911:
The reboot was needed to stop the cell standby drain manifesting. Was and still is a well known problem.

I'm from SA and didn't receive the update yet, so I was just keeping my hopes up that this update fixed the issue. :fingers-crossed:

Thanks for the feedback though, good to know you have no drain:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Ah right, never heard about that, didn't affect me before this update either, but I only got the phone one update prior to this one

I also disabled a load of bloat with package disabler pro too, so possible something in there was the cause of the drain, and disabled AOD
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Doofy911:
Many forums say it was the April update that messed things up. Hoping this update helps me out.:crying:

I don't have root, but I've disabled/turned things off on everything possible with no root.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Package disabler Pro doesn't require root, I'm not rooted either

Just add the app to the Administrators list, and you can disable everything
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Doofy911:
Damn, I didn't know that.:good: Thanks bro
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] *Detection*:
No probs, life saver app ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] zic1:
Regarding Package Disablers, I noticed many similar apps... EZ Package DIsabler, BK Package Disabler.... and all for same purpose. I don't know which app is better - worse. Any recomendation? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] *Detection*:
Only tried PDP, as long as they can disable packages, I wouldn't imagine there would be much difference