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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] sweteg:
I had this in another thread;

My settings and usage with T-Mobile USA:

Always on Display: ON

Wifi: ON when connected

Location: ON

Bluetooth: ON and OFF

Sync: ON

Autobrightness: ON

Usage (16% battery left):

- majority web browsing which can be hard on battery because of data

- text, calls, 2 push email accounts

- few reboots for different things

- Music streaming

- weather auto-updates every time I turn screen on

- messing around with phone and settings, tweaking, fb, themes, etc

If I tweaked it for an iron man contest, it's likely I would get around 9+ hours. As in AOD off, bluetooth/location off, brightness static at low value, power saving mode when it drops very low. However, there is no fun in that unless I'm traveling.

Edit: To the OP, I wouldn't worry too much about what others are getting unless they show you the exact setup used to achieve those times. Obviously, everyone's usage will vary greatly depending on connection, settings, and what they use on their phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Soured Lie:
Best battery life I have gotten on any phone. Ever. Completely satisfied. I used it pretty hard. Was in the mountains so had a low signal. Still got great battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Soured Lie:
People complain about high android system use. Who cares when you are getting 9hrs SOT?

No tweaking. Even had location on the last half (about 8 hours). No power saving modes. Sync on. I use my phone. I don't cripple it. And you know I was going hard with 9 hours SOT over 16 hours off charger. That is constant use.

The best thing I can offer is that I stopped using Chrome and started using stock with ad blocker. That was my only change in habit. Also I took latest OTA. Doubt that had anything to do with it. In fact that would work against it as that wipes caches.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Vanquiz:
Man, I wish I could get 9 hours SOT
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
Exactly!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
This is great! Please also share your results on this thread so people there can see that not everyone is affected by this high Android System percentage.

http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/help/how-experiencing-android-battery-drain-t3327730
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] viking2.0:
I agree. I don't even think thats battery drain. Its just the way wake locks are calculated i guess
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
Tell that to those in the thread linked above lol. They make a huge fuss out of nothing... All I know is you can't fix what isn't broken.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] viking2.0:
Yes i posted my overnight battery Drain there. Just 2% lost over 7 hrs. Not bad
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] chavist:
Battery life

Battery life using always on display. Didn't charge overnight. 2 hour Screen time on
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Soured Lie:
Basically if you use your phone to full capacity and get over 5.5 hours SOT, be happy. That's fantastic battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Vanquiz:
I paid attention pretty much through out the day, SOT data between GSAM and built in battery usage is roughly the same.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
What apps is everyone freezing? And with what application. I will like to know/do this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jrwingate6:
I haven't froze anything and my battery life is great. When I did remove app packages, my battery life sucked
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
I just disabled Facebook crap.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
I've disabled the following bloat using Package Disabler Pro.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Can't open the link and picture is too blurry to tell the applications. Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
Sorry. I've disabled quite a bit but I literally have no need for any of these packages.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Thanks man. I see it also freed up some RAM even tho they aredisabled. Thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
I would really like to know what the folks with the 7 hrs SOT did. I'm 4 days on now and and no battery does not last more than 4.5 hrs SOT. What are you doing with your phone? Absolutely nothing? It just lost 15% overnight. I'm not getting nowhere near 7hrs and I use my phone REGULARLY. Not no heaving gaming or Facebook crap and still don't last long. Kinda disappointing.. where's that's got damn root when you need it. This phone has so much potential the lock bootloader is a kick to the nuts
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jrwingate6:
I honestly don't know what I did but I was in the same boat as you. Then 4 days ago I cleared the cache and did a factory reset. I didn't remove any packages nor did I update any applications I don't care about using.

Check out my post in this thread. Post #357 ...........http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/help/how-experiencing-android-battery-drain-t3327730/page36
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Dude my battery life sucks so ****ing bad it's indane. In going to reset this PoS and hopefully get improved battery this is absolutely ridiculous. 7hrs SOT? What are you guys doing?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
Here's everything I did to achieve over 2 days on battery with 7hrs screen time.

WiFi: Off

Location: OFF

Bluetooth: OFF

NFC: OFF

Nearby device scanning: OFF

All Smart/Gesture features: OFF

Google Usage and Diagnostics: OFF

Samsung Diagnostic Info: OFF

Disabled backlight keys with "Galaxy Button Lights" app

Greenified some apps and enabled "Aggressive Doze" mode

Disabled the following packages with "Package Disabler Pro".
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] geor9iaboy:
Man u have NFC, BLUETOOTH & WIFI all running at one time, plus who knows whatever.. Also there's a massive battery drop around like 12 am, gotta learn how to turn off stuff you aren't using. I'm not surprised you have such low screen on time.. So many factors contribute to that.. Make sure that NFC, BLUETOOTH, WIFI, LOCATION aren't on for no reason
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Thanks buddy. Funny thing is everything you told me to have off. I have on lol. I need Bluetooth and WiFi on for my smart watch and WiFi for good fast connection
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] guaneet:
Not too bad.

Also that is with terrible signal dBm over 100 in my town
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Where can I find Samsung diagnostic and Google diagnostic? Thanks man. I guess i did have everything on lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
Google:

- Go to Settings > Applications > Google

- Touch Menu More (3 dots in top right corner) > Select Usage & diagnostics > turn it off

Samsung:

- Go to Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics > OFF
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Thanks man I couldn't find the Google one but got the Samsung off lol it was on

Found it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Mu5ic92:
I will say I used to have crappy battery and then I said f**k it and renabled all the disabled services in package Disabler. I manually disabled all the bloat by going into application manager and hitting disable. Getting average 6 hour SOT now. I defiantly have better battery while on wifi though. I obsessed about it too but the reality is if the phone is lasting you for what you need it (games, videos, messaging, browsing) and isnt dieing on you then you should be happy.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Dvanzutphenkann:
My battery life was ass, Android system and Android Os were always @ 25% to 35% of my battery drain. I made a complete back up of my set up using smart switch I made a copy on my external SD card and factory reset. While restore took 30 minutes aside from needing to sign into a few app it was painless. So far my stats are good and my battery lasts like it should
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Dvanzutphenkann:
Screen shot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Dvanzutphenkann:
Sorry I screwed up and made multiple posts, I haven't posted a pic on here in a while
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] stormonya:
i get 15 hours of usage of normally usage...which is watching a **** load of videos and listening to music and web browsing and being on xda for most of the night after work.....i dont charge until the next morning at 9 when i get to work......i wake up with about 49-56% of battery lest so im not sure how many hours i will get if i dont charge until its completely dead. ..i dont do power save mode..and active display is on during the day...and edge night clock is on during the night.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] dbux:
That's pretty bad. You should have got better than this out of the box without tweaking anything. Try replacement
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Even after reset it battery life still sucks. It seems to be good like the first hour. Then battery life tanks. There nothing that I'm using to much off. Just regular phone usage. And look as of now

It's pissin me off that people claim to be having 7 hrs of SoT. I'm sure those people got everything disabled, maybe abunch of apps frozen. And do nothing but search the Web and look at videos/calls text. These people are not gaming, or doing nothing that uses a lot of power obviously.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] dbux:
I'm having better battery life than yours even with S7(non edge). Don't think anything else just go for a replacement.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
And wait a whole month for one? That's my last option. Everything else on the phone seems to work as it should except for the most important thing to me which is battery life! I'm going to reset this phone from the recovery settings itself.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] dbux:
Try it. Mostly won't make any difference I guess. Also try safe mode if the problem persists. BTW how many days fom purchase until now? T-Mobile?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
I got It the 17th. I ordered the 8th. Maybe I'm being to anal about the battery life like letting it get low and charge it all the way till full (green light) then unplug. I'm done givin a ****. Bat is at 43% plugging it in till it hits 100 then doing a recovery reset.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Soured Lie:
I get 9 hours SOT with an average of 16 to 17 hours. I can get the same SOT with longer use as well. I get this every day. I disabled a few tmo, Google, and samsung bloatwares, took latest OTA and use stock browser with adblock. That's about it. I leave sync and WiFi on. Sometimes location too as I forget to turn it off.

Not sure what I'm doing to get 9 hours, but I'm pretty happy.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] serio22:
How do you use your phone? Obviously a lot of gaming will quickly drain battery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
I use my phone to download apps. I have an android wear watch. So I need BT on. I have location off unless I need GPS. WiFi is also on. Sync is on because I need to see when I get emails. Not hours later. I have auto brightness on. No apps that eat battery really. After rest I have installed only a couple of games, I'm charging phone now. I wiped cache from recovery I read that could help with battery life. Bout to find out today.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
It's true though man. Some of us have achieved 6+ hrs screen time with non- consistent usage out of the box. I hit the 7hr mark by disabling certain system settings, which was before I even started disabling packages. I only began doing that to increase my screen time even further. Bottom line is battery life should already be great out of the box. My usage pattern always varies and I'm pretty sure the same can be said about others So I honestly don't know why some of us are achieving these amazing results while others aren't.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] serio22:
So this is my setup. I have buletooth on all the time as well for my smart watch and for listening to music in the car or ear buds, WiFi is on about a few hours a day, I get decent speeds over LTE and I don't need it when I'm at work or go to bed. I have default gestures on, sync is off, auto brightness, GPS also off because I don't need it, NFC off, and I never use power saving modes in any of my devices, also only have a few apps disabled, no doze tweaks or any other tweaks, also have Google now disabled. The app is there but cards are disabled. I use my phone for texting, taking pictures and videos, play music, snapchat, IG, xda, emails, bible, light surfing, always shopping best buy and amazon with their apps ? I also lose ~4% overnight in about 8-9 hours. Average about 6:30 hours screen time in about 35-39 hours

If your stats are still bad you probably have a faulty device. Your usage shouldn't have a huge impact as the one you are experiencing

My stats at the moment:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Thanks for your input and help guys. Have a good weekend [emoji106] [emoji106] [emoji111]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] jlczl:
One of the biggest variables in battery life is signal strength. I average between 6 and 8 hours SOT usually right at 7. That all changes though when I leave my usual geographical area and go somewhere that signal isn't great. Those days I may be as low as 4 hours SOT. Especially if I have to use the Internet a lot while in those low signal areas.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] LuigiBull23:
Have you taken the update that was pushed out this morning? Seems to have fixed the high Android System bug.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] emptydream:
We are in the new chapter of the phone~
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] JohnCorleone:
The M7 was my first non Samsung device. I had the Nexus S 4G, Galaxy Nexus, NS4G (Sprints name for the S2), then the S3, S4 and Note 2 on AT&T. It just seems like they don't want bootloaders unlocked, phones rooted, etc. When I got my M9 last May 14th, I got the JUMP! option and low light pictures are my ONLY complaint about the M9. In fact, about a month ago I got the Marshmallow OTA and it came in two parts. Something didn't fully reset so...I took it to the T-Mo shop up about a mile from my place. They shipped out a new one (FREE overnight shipping) and I have gotten the boot loader unlock bin file emailed to me directly from HTCDEV.com. They only care about water damage or shattered glass...maybe bullet holes:laugh I just know that the battery is improved noticeably on the M10, they put in 24bit DAC audio that can push real headphones. It is going to be a tough call on May 14th! :
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Richieboy67:
Not sure what this has to do with s7 edge battery life.

Battery life on the m10 was way over exaggerated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
They also said " the best smartphone camera, ever" lmfao
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tengtengvn:
And 4 UltraPixel is better than 1x megapixel. [emoji23]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nano303:
Yea sure, camera speaks for itself m8 check out the comparisons. Lol quite pathetic to call it the best camera on a smartphone. They only added OIS to the front lol. Apart from taking in less light than a s7 edge. I do like my camera better. But if you like the m10 camera that's cool.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tengtengvn:
I manage the phone account at work. I have pp asking for the S7 and S7e left and right. I have only seen this when the new iPhone releases. Too bad for HTC and others, this year's Galaxy phones check all the boxes. It's going to be a tough year for 'em in the highend phone market.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tongueman87:
Following...will post my results
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tongueman87:
I was complaining about my battery life till I looked todat....I apologized to my s7e rofl
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tongueman87:
I have no clue why it posted like this
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] chang410:
Anyone notice a 10288 under battery usage? Its sucking up about 47%
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] TechBSwift:
No social media apps... Averaging over 6hr sot daily
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] ShermCraig:
Obviously many are not getting close to that in terms of SOT....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] nviz22:
What is the best advice someone can give to a recently factory reset device owner? My settings are pretty much default except for disabling T-Mobile bloat and FaceBook along w/ Milk Music. I want to get some good battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] bkeaver:
I'm getting close to 2swizzle's stats.

---------- Post added at 09:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 PM ----------

Social media and streaming eat more battery. When I stream Pandora my stats aren't as high as they are when I'm not streaming and just doing the usual text,calls,Tapatalk, twitter , Web browsing and email. There isn't any real good advice because everyone uses their phones differently. If this wasn't the case everyone would get pretty much the same usage.

If you just factory reset your phone let it settle for a few days. Just use it. Don't over analyze it. You will drive yourself insane if you do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] ShermCraig:
I don't disagree with you, but the battery stats don't support this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] optimummind:
Are you guys having Android System battery issues still?

To pinpoint which service within Android System is causing the most wakelocks without Root, you can use this app (Wakelock Detector Lite) & adb to view the stats.

Here's the link to the Play Store app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot

After you install the app, go into Settings > Developer options & turn on USB Debugging.

Then connect your phone to your PC, open adb, and type:

adb devices

Then

adb tcpip 5555

Now you can view your wakelock stats without root!

My number one wakelock within Android System is GpsLocationProvider_ex. It prevents my phone from deep sleep & Doze.

The only workaround is to turn off GPS until needed.

Please share your findings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] v8dreaming:
When I click on the link, it says item not found. Also, battery life has definitely gotten worse than it was originally. My screen on time has had a couple of hours knocked off of it, and nothing has changed with what I have installed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tengtengvn:
Use this version: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3716691&d=1460511217
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Wcar8819:
Last night (this morning 130am) I accepted the TMo update, went to sleep while it was still updating. Today when I went to work, phone was charged 100%, about 5 hours into work my battery level was at 30% I freaked out all day and was ready to box up the S7E and go back to the Note 4.... Then I finally cooled off and found the problem.... Snapchat...using 61% with the Screen at 22% and the lovely Android System at 18. One deadly cocktail this was.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] guaneet:
i noticed something similar too with snapchat, the battery drain with these last few updates for have been CRAZY (high 20s/30s)! its been at the top of my battery usage list. was gonna quit using it all together, but how am i gonna show people what im having for lunch lolol

are you using the beta by any chance?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Wcar8819:
Haha Right? I was just blown out of my mind and blaming the TMo update. Im not using the beta, also since I have uninstalled Snapchat, everything seems to be back to working exactly how it was. Hopefully Snapchat fixes that because Im missing recording my coworkers.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] h.nocturna:
To continue using Snapchat, turn on Travel Mode. It will force Snapchat to only download snaps when you open the program and click on the snap. Also, will avoid downloading stories in the background so you don’t waste your data.

My Snapchat is usually about 2-3% battery usage per day with about 10-20 snaps sent/received. Not as nice as opening the app and having all your snaps already loaded, but much better than not having the app at all.

Hope this helps!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tengtengvn:
I finally found out why my phone wasn't sleeping properly. For some reasons the backup to Google process kept the phone awake. Turn the backup off and it's now go to deep sleep and doze perfectly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] GoMoeJoe:
Can you be more specific on this: "backup to Google process".

You mean syncing ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tengtengvn:
The one in Backup and Reset.

The process *Backup* was keeping the phone up all the time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tengtengvn:
Battery life has been remarkable today. No weird wakelock = phenomenal battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] rjayflo:
I use my S7e on ATT...and I noticed that battery life is much better when I have Tmo Sim card in and goes into deep sleep. Whereas when I have my att Sim in...it wakes often and rarely goes into deep sleep. Is it because of the different bands??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] guaneet:
This is probably one of the best usage I've gotten and I didn't have to sway away from my normal usage. Lots of social media, music streaming, and xda.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] ShrekOpher:
If you aren't getting good battery life, use battery saver when you phone is in your pocket or not being used. I easily get 20+ hours of time between charges with 6+ hours of sot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] ShermCraig:
Are you referring to the Display setting "Keep screen turned off" when in pocket? Because you called it "battery saver" which doesn't exist per-se.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] ShrekOpher:
I am referring to "power Saving mode" sorry should have been more clear. It turn on and off with a touch of a button. If you turn it on when the phone is not in use, and turn it off when you use the device, your battery life will extend greatly.

It helps keep the system and the apps from doing too much worthless stuff in the background.

I wish there was a way to make the phone go into that mode every time I turn off the screen.