[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] br0adband:
Just a followup. I wanted to see how far I could take this battery life thing so, I decided to do a full video run meaning:

- charge the battery to 100%

- set brightness at ~50% (since the way Touchwiz works it's hit or miss but close enough to the middle of the brightness slider)

- start playing a video in MX Player Pro with hardware acceleration enabled and the video on a loop

- give it a few seconds to get moving

- disconnect from the AC adapter

and then wait till I get to the 5% point for the battery.

So where did I end up? Well, here's the 50% point I just crossed a few moments ago:

Pretty damned awesome indeed. Yes I realize that hardly anyone is going to sit around watching videos for 8+ hours, let alone the potential 16 hours I might actually achieve (and again I don't use the power/ultra power saving modes, at least not once since I got this Active). Here are some details on the actual video I'm playing:

- it's TimeScapes which is pretty damned awesome itself

- it's the 1440p version of TimeScapes, at 2560x1440 resolution so the entire Super AMOLED display gets a full workout, every last pixel without fail

- it's about 48 minutes 21 seconds long (again, I have MX Player Pro set to loop it over and over)

- it's an MP4 container with the h.264 video stream with stereo AAC audio

Here's the MediaInfo for those that might be interested:

General
Complete name : Z:\TimeScapes\TimeScapes 2560x1440.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/mp41)
File size : 6.19 GiB
Duration : 48mn 21s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 18.3 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-05-25 11:04:10
Tagged date : UTC 2012-05-25 11:04:10
©TIM : 00:00:00:00
©TSC : 24000
©TSZ : 1001

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 48mn 21s
Bit rate : 18.0 Mbps
Width : 2 560 pixels
Height : 1 440 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (23976/1000) fps
Original frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.204
Stream size : 6.08 GiB (98%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-05-25 11:04:10
Tagged date : UTC 2012-05-25 11:04:10
Color range : Limited

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 48mn 21s
Source duration : 48mn 21s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 317 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 416 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 110 MiB (2%)
Source stream size : 110 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2012-05-25 11:04:10
Tagged date : UTC 2012-05-25 11:04:10

I intend to let this one keep going till I get to the ~5% point and then take another set of screenshots and see just how far this thing will last and I'll update this post when I'm done. Wi-Fi is always on, Location is always on (high accuracy), my Google services are active (pun intended) and I get notifications from apps just for the record as well - I do check some things every 30 minutes or so (Flipboard updates, Hangouts messages, and some other stuff) that usually just takes a couple of seconds then I go right back to the video as well.

The Energizer bunny apparently has nothing on this Galaxy S7 Active. ;)