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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Another update.

So after i posted, I deliberately went on youtube and was watching videos for a full one hour and few minutes on 4g data. And came from 82% to 71%.

My current battery stats are:

Total time: 2hr 8min

SoT: 1hr 55min

As i am finishing this post i have exactly 70% left.

So here is my report i hope you can help me as much as ppossible, if its normal or not, if i should replace it or not. I just think that based on report of other my battery os worse. Some people have like even 1day 14hrs total time and a crazy 7.5 or 8 hrs of SoT.. mine was tops 1d and sot of almost 5 hrs... and well you can see from my forst post how it drained...

Hope i am not complicating and over reacting but i want to get the best out of this phone for the money i spent
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
And another update.

I talked on phone with my friend, who has LG G3, for 40 minutes.

It drained my battery from 69% to 63%.

It is funny because in the exact same time his phone also drained 9% of battery. Thats why i called him actually. And it shouldnt be like this. Cause his phone is older and has a 3000mah battery... so how can consumption be the same?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Phazonclash:
I don't know your usage pattern my friend or how is cell reception quality in your area, but I can tell you that your battery life will only get better after a few days/weeks.

Android will settle down, learn your usage pattern, optimize apps that use battery in the background but you never use, etc. Your battery too, chemically, will hold a charge more efficiently after a few charge cycles.

I've been using my Galaxy S7 Edge for 2 weeks now (with a custom ROM/kernel though), and I got 6h54m of screen-on time yesterday (auto-brightness) when I went to bed (15% battery left). That's something I've not seen since my good old Galaxy S3.

Give your phone some time to settle down, cache the stuff it needs, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Thx for the reply.

Well I have around 3 bars of 4g signal in my area.

Like I said I have had it since last thursday. Ive been using the phone since 10.30 and its 14.08 now and i have 59% and i have 2hrs 15 min SoT. (Total time around 3hrs).

I really do hope it will break in,settle in, chemichally like you said... because right now i feel its same or just a bit worse than lg g3 i had last week (which was 2 yrs old). And that is not logical to me, that a new phone has same battery stats as a 2 yrs old phone.

What were your stats the first week or two and when did it start settling in and getting better?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ProtoDeVNan0:
4G + YouTube for one hour and You only lost 11%? Your battery is really good. Also 40 minutes of call and 6% drain is once again really good.

Usually using 4G for internet and calls or videos drains battery unbelievably quickly. I get around 5:30 hr SOT with a custom rom and a custom kernel but only when I have WiFi only without 4G enabled. With 4G I would probably have like 2-3 hours of SOT if not less lol.

I've had many phones, chinese, low end, mid end, high end, iPhones. And so far S7 Edge has the best battery. Even some of those phones had a 4000mah battery and were really power efficient, but they still had worse battery life than my S7 Edge.

The results that You have are really good. Nothing to be worried about. Replacing battery might only give You a worse one or a identical one.

Edit: Just checked and G3 has 40-50k antutu benchmark score. And (my) S7 Edge 146k. It's kind of obvious that it will drain battery a tiny bit faster. Other than that display goes there too or even things like better signal(4G module) boards that take more power but still give You better signal in some situations.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] neezy13:
I think that you are overreacting. Your battery life seems pretty good. It will vary for everyone and is really dependent on usage patterns. 7-8 hours of SOT is an absolute best case and not many people will actually achieve that. Most people will fall in the 4-6 hours of SOT with normal use. I typically get 4.5 hours of SOT and 28-30 hours total.

Edit: I have gotten over 7 hours of SOT once, when I was at home all day playing games on my phone. Also, the Exynos processor version seems to have better battery life than the Snapdragon version. Which one you have is based on location typically.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Thanks guys! Thank for comforting me. I feel much better. I guess many of those reporting those crazy SoTs are in reading news in a dark room lol.

Well i have 40% left. But i was literally on my phone since 10.30 and on 4g all the time (except that phone call, during calls i disable it).

Otherwise I am really,really happy with this phone. When i bought lg g3 i had a bit buyers remorse... with this one i have mone (although lg was phenomenal!).

Also if someone withi same worries will read this... i noticed that stock browser is faster than chrome and it drains less batrery than chrome. So I will try to get used to the stock browser, also for something new, cuz i have been using chrome for ever now.

And it also has fingerprint to log into sites (stock one)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Last update on this charge.

Right now i have 4hr 40 minutes of SoT. And 20% battery left. I enabled battery saver at 25%.

Total time of battery is almost 16hrs.

And i have to say that at around 14pm i was browsing on chrome for like and hour or maybe 2 hours and id say thats pretty heavy for the device. On chrome which eats ram like dragon.

Thanks again guys for helping.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
But still nothinf compared to those guys that are getting 6hrs or 7 or even 8.

Thats like 2 to 3 hrs more than mine. Either they are having all functions turnes off (smart capture, edge feed etc) and brightness to lowest possible...or my i am doing something wrong. Haha
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ProtoDeVNan0:
Chrome is a ram killer on every device. Mostly Windows.

For now I have a 5:30 hr SOT (today) but with some battery saving tweaks(custom kernel too) and WiFi all day.

Like I said Your battery is pretty good cause my phone with 4G enabled would get not more than 2:30hr SOT. Maybe my carrier has poor signal and the phone needs more power for antennas to see signal. I've no idea.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] vashminted:
I also think there's nothing wrong with your battery, I usually get around 5 hours of SoT, right now I habe 5 hrs 12 min of SoT and it's been 16 hours since last full charge, also I have 32% left, It's about the best usage time I have ever gotten.

The difference may be that today I turned the gps off and set the auto brightness.

People reporting over 7 hours of SoT are most likely using a custom Rom or custom kernel, or apps like greenify to hibernate apps and background process.

I used to have a LG G3 before this phone and the battery was anything near this momster, and has been getting worse over time, now it barely last 2 or 3 hours of SoT and the pone gets reaaaaally hot.

I have read that the battery seems to last longer if you dissable the quick charge option.

Btw, while writing this my battery drained 1%.

I see that you came to this forum by clicking the firts link that came out in google, well lucky you, this is one of the best android forums out there, most of the greates achievement in android have seen the light here, give it a chance and you'll find a lot of help and information on here

---------- Post added at 11:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 PM ----------

Oh, one last thing, I strongly advise not to get your battery replaced, the phone needs to be oppened to replace it and it will lost its water resistant for ever
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Well let me report again.

Yesterday I activated power saving at 25% and used it normally and tried my best not to plug it in.

I plugged it in at around 3 am with 2% left. Before that I was on 9gag and facebook and got around 1 more hour SOT. Before plugging it in I checked battery stats and I had around 23 hours total use, if i recall correctly and 6hr and some minutes of SOT, and I'd say I was pretty hard on the phone yestrday with all the youtube and 4g and chrome browsing.

Right now i have total time 2hr 36min and sot 1hr 33min and im on 80%.

I feel better now that you guys told me its actually pretty good battery and I thank you for that!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Btw do you guys suggest any apps that kill background apps that i am not using? Or is samsungs system pretty okay in doing that? I never really used app killers on any phone before.

Thx
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Oh also, i have to say that i use location only when i need it. And also wifi and 4g. BT always off also NFC. Most of these are off...they are on only wheen needed. And i have almost all advenced functions turned on (AOD, Night watch,smart capture,direct call etc...) i really like them and i use them. And they are awesome, so why turn them off. Im saying these because probably some sensors are needed to be turned on to and this drains battery.

But still i am happy with the phone and battery,especcially now that you guys told me all the good stuff :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ProtoDeVNan0:
I'd say that process/app killers are going to make Your phone less smooth. Your phone caches the apps in the background and this way it launches them 2x as fast. And some apps when You clean backround processes will pretty much restart themselves immediately and slow down Your phone

I could only advice You to clean cache/apt cache every month. That should give You more space and refresh Your apps. But even if You were not going to do that, Your performance wouldn't be slower anyway :).

This phone is powerful enough to run windows xp at a decent speed(tried it out yesterday) and it has a lot of internal code that makes sure that everything is clean and smooth.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] alehawk:
I guess that this is how S7 Edge works. Yesterday I was 50% battery left when I went home after working. With my note 4 I left the office with a 75% battery full. Thou I dint have AOD in the nothe 25% battery for that it seems too much so I installed several xposed modules and from today Im testing batterys consumption. My note didnt have LTE to I will check the % used with LTE, tomorrow Ill test with 3g and comapre the results, maybe LTE requires more power. Also, after this tests Ill disable AOD and Ill test it again...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] vashminted:
App killers are really a bad idea, in android free ram is wasted ram, the phone uses more resources to start the aplications again everytime you need it, it is far better to have them loaded in ram so they can open faster and with less effort to the phone. Android manage ram and background apps based on priorities defined for every app. just let the system handle the ram on its own and it will be fine.

You can, however, use greenify to hibernate (not the same ass kill) the apps running on background, that way they stop consuming resources untill the app is woken up by user or other app.

In general, any app or wakelock that prevents your phone from going into deep sleep are the main causes of battery drain while the phone is idle.

You can search on this forum for a guide on how to use greenify along with amplify to obtain almost 0% battery drain while the phone is idle, but you going to need to read a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] vashminted:
Update:

Today for the first time I got 9 hrs of SoT

I think is interesting since the only different thing I did was turn the gps off and ser the auto brightness at 50%

Could it be that after a month of use the phone finally adapted and is managing the energy better?

I think 3 hours more of SoT than usual just for dissable the gps and set auto brightness is too much.

I hope I can still get this amazing battery life in the future
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KavaBreskva:
Well thanks for the info. I didnt know that app killers are actually bad. And I will definitely look into greenify and the tutorials you mentioned.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] last1left91:
Hi there,

I'm cycling a lot and I don't have always mobile data. So, is there any app that can save the maps offline and then track my activity only via gps? Tracking meaning maximum speed, elevation gain and I would also like the app to track the places I visit on the map...like Runtastic does but it needs mobile data...otherwise it won't count km and also will not map my activity. So, what would be that app...I'm looking for an app like Here for Sports Tracking. Thanks in advance!
[P3600 ROM Development] widigol:
Guys....

I've been searching this forum & wiki as well......but I couldn't find working tweak to hide my clock on titile bar. because I already have HTC Home, so I dont need the clock.

I tried registry

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Showtitilebarclock = 0

it only replaced my clock with battery indicator

or

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TBOpt = 0

my phone couldn't run.......must be deleted, then reset again & my phone runs well again.

I just need to hide clock & battery icon on my title bar.

FYI, using WM6 (Dopod Asia) AKU 0.3.1

Anyone can help me?
[P3600 ROM Development] dta1974:
I use SKTools and Tweaks2k2 (they´re shareware) for all my personal settings and they work for me,but you can try out these two apps.

Bye
[P3600 ROM Development] widigol:
The Tweak UI didnt work on my device.....the advance configuration worked with error.

See my attached picture.....red circle......seems I cannot see my signa; bar as well now....

I dont know about SK tools......will try it soon
[P3600 ROM Development] dta1974:
Hmmm....I do not know what to tell you....maybe it´s a matter of the rom,all these apps that I´m mentioning work great for me.

Sorry,I am not a good troubleshooter.
[P3600 ROM Development] widigol:
Dont worry...thanks for the help....I really appreciate it
[P3600 ROM Development] queer~dude:
Same here man

the circle is exactly what i did with any Tweaking programes, no matter Advanced Config, SKTools, HTC Hack......i guess there must be at least time, batter or date show on the circle side...

thanks
[P3600 ROM Development] widigol:
Yeah...I agree with your opinion, I tried SKTools....not worked.....

so...there is no solution for my question...... :(
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] stefanopoulos:
Hello everybody,

Can you help me How to increase my Honor 8 maximum volume ?

Because i found my Honor 8's maximum volume still too low, do you have a tutorial to increase it, and finally be able to fully hear my music in public, specialy with earphone.

Tanks

And sorry for my english,i'm french !
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayoosh.rox:
Do u want to take the risk? Because a phones max volume is decided based on the phone's speakers' capacity. Dont take risk of exceeding that, youll damage them
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] venom007:
try changing music players,

i recommend using poweramp, it has powerful equaliser function and some nifty audio tweaks.

morover you could use a high quality headset.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] sarathvenmony:
go here http://xdaforums.com/honor-8/how-to/boost-headphone-volume-honor-8-frd-l09-t3513360
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Romiui:
honor have 1 small speaker , so what ever apps u used might run better sound but still u have ringing issue !
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] jack-o:
Im sure they have intentionally lowered overall sound volume from updates like all dishonest manufacturers do, hoping you will buy a new phone.
[Remix OS for PC] sajdjfb:
Hi folks

I have a 64bit hp chromebox that has 4gb of ram that I was using as a standalone for openeleq. I switched that to win 10 which ran pretty much perfect with a Bluetooth speaker attached. I have since come across remix os which I ran alongside win 10 on a separate partition that worked fine also. What I want to know is can I install remix os directly to my chromebox ssd as s standalone os that just boots directly into remix os with no windows or anything. I have purchased a little external enclosure for the m2 ssd and had it hooked to my pc last night. I formatted it to fat 32 then ran the remix os install tool and installed it to hard drive (my chromebox ssd). Anyway after install I slipped it back into my chromebox but it won't boot. I get an error at the seabios screen telling me it is unable to read hard disk. Will this be possible to do if so can someone help please. Thankyou

*****update solved*****

Been hacking away at it today and I have found a solution. Plug in your ssd via external enclosure to your pc and format to ntfs. Then downloaded pendrive Linux (universal USB installer) and choose the bottom option (try unlisted Linux iso). Load up the Remix os for pc iso and write it to the ssd. Put the ssd back in the chromebox and it will boot straight into Remix os.

Note: If you are doing it from a fresh chromebox still running chrome os on it then it needs to be flashed first to a custom bios. I have option 6 on mine standalone custom core firmware.

The Kodi E-Z setup script will do this.

Just Google it and follow the instructions.

Remix os will allocate 8gb of internal space regardless of the ssd size when using ntfs. Just load up Remix os on your chromebox and follow the install till you get to the desktop screen then shut it down. Then just remove the ssd from your chromebox and put it back into the enclosure and connect it back to your pc. Just Google increase Remix os internal storage and there is a simple tutorial on how to do this. Mine is 48gb ?. Sorry for not posting links I did try but as I am a newbie I wasn't allowed.

Hope this helps anyone.
[Remix OS for PC] MinhTungMT:
do you have to custom bios to use this method?
[Remix OS for PC] sajdjfb:
Yes just google Kodi E-Z setup script and follow the instructions to prep your box and flash the custom firmware. I have mine on option 6 standalone custom core boot firmware. It works flawlessly.
[Remix OS for PC] sarge1077:
I actually made a mistake and ruined my bios been messing around all day trying to figure it out Installed Gallian Linus without fail then I ran Remix OS from USB and was able to access my internal hdd which to me is what I wanted anyway then I made another copy of my Remix OS on USB and I copied my USB drive with Remix duplicate into my hdd when it was done I rebooted my chrome box and Remix OS is running from hdd only issue I have is it doesn't load first option just takes to long been over 1hr the second option loads fine

need to find another version that works for chrome box I'm using the one from YouTube video need one that skips the guest mode and goes right into OS so I get full access to Remix and not this crap can't write stuff
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Gamingbeast888:
Hii,

Just a quick question about the game pack I.E in game offerings by samsung for s7 and s7 edge users... like they say in the galaxy apps that user will get thr class B car pack for free in asphalt 8... so how do u redeem it after installing the app???
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Gamingbeast888:
Wow

A developers platform no one even knows the ans to a simple issue?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
As per the title. Has anyone got this working on wither Android or the installed kodi?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
Nobody?

is nobody else trying to use a surround sound system on a streaming box?
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] wodgey:
Ok. finally got this resolved.

I'd tried all the menu settings mentioned in other threads/posts to no avail when I stumbled across a post saying that passthrough had stopped working for one user, after upgrading to 16.1

I found a beta fork of 16.0 with experimental passthrough support (dated 20th Feb 2016) and downgraded to that.

All works nicely now.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pi4a7a:
Hello fellas, I just bought a brand new E6553 (Z3+/Z4), I'm running 6.0.1 Marshmallow, and I'm wondering, is there ANY way to get the X's lockscreen, and transparent clock?
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RenkaHinkaru:
http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z5/themes-apps/mod-n-style-xperia-x-systemui-v1-themes-t3368086

Try it!

But I don't recommend you because your phone is new
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pi4a7a:
Keep the answers, I will try everything once I root my device!
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Domchi001:
Any developer build apk for petch to enable voLTE feature in mi4i without using data sarvice ... ppz plzz say me any mathod to conver my mi4i LTE to volte
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hsredc0re:
Hi, I have been rooted for like a month, i'm currently on Phoenix ROM, and for some stupid reason I un ticked OEM-Unlock in my developer options. Last night I left my phone on charge under my pillow, and it was boiling so I switched it off. This morning when I turned it on I got the message Custom Binary Blocked by FRP Lock. I have bank insurance but that's last resort and I have no idea if they will cover it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Phazonclash:
Happened to me a few weeks ago when I got my S7 Edge, rooted and started experimenting... I unticked OEM unlock and basically locked me out of Android with the exact same "Custom Binary Blocked by FRP Lock" warning.

In the end, I just restored the stock firmware/ROM using Odin.

Don't worry, yout phone is fine. But yeah, the sh*tty part: You'll have to start from scratch.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hsredc0re:
That's fine, I don't mind starting again. Will it let me flash firmware though, since the boot loader is locked?

(I started the firmware download this morning, should be done when I get home)

Thanks for the reply as well mate!
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chbisio:
Hello everyone, I recently bought a Moto G 2015 with 8 gb of internal storage, came with Lollipop and recently upgraded it to Marshmallow. The problem is that after restoring all my applications the sum of the used internal storage doesn't match the free space that should be available. Specifically I have 2.06 GB of installed apps and it reports that there are 3.72 GB used.. so there is almos 1.65 GB of vanished storage space. I wonder that maybe the marshmallow update file remains there and may be part of the missing space, but that cant be for all the missing storage space.

Here is a screenshot of the situation (Forum doesnt let me post link to a image: (It shows in the top bar of internal storage: 3,72GB in use of 4,54GB. Below: Apps: 2,06 GB. Cache: 2,06 MB.)

Maybe this was covered, but are the only alternatives to free that mistery space to root the phone and find the culprit?

Thanks in advance!

Carlos.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lautta10:
Hi there, android always eats up some internal storage, make a cache wiping and see what happens.

(Be careful about factory reset whether you attempt so, search about FRP, unfortunately been through that recently; basically don't change your google account password whenever you are attempting to factory reset your device).

Also, MM comes with an option to set sdCard as internal storage, check that out if you have a REALLY GOOD micro-sd maybe that could be your solution to a lot of future headache.

Regards!
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firuzmaster:
Haha, I have a 32gb Samsung EVO Performance Class 10 UHS1 card that has speeds of up to 80MBPS (read) and 20MBPS (write), and it still reported too slow. However, it works better than my Kingston 16 GB Class 10 UHS1 card... Way better. I don't think any SD card will be adequate for what the tests require, they will all say "too slow" even though it may be the highest end card.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chbisio:
Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] SSadat:
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