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Ok Guys,
Kind of a weird question, but I'm using one of the ICS leak ROMS.
With general usage, 4G/wifi, I would get between 18 to 20 hours, which for me is perfectly fine. The more wifi, the more battery time. No issues at all.
Recently, our office moved where we have a dead zone. I do have full wifi access, however being in this area absolutely kills the battery. I lose 12% every hour. As a precaution, I have disabled the mobile data, and confirmed wifi is working. I have confirmed that I can make and receive calls, and send/recivee txt msgs. However, battery results are the same. Is there anything else I could try?
I'm guessing, being in a deadzone, the phone is putting in overtime trying to find a tower....
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance...
Interesting... On my Bionic with the .232 leak the option to change network types is grayed out. I was thinking if you set it to 4G or 3G only it would save some battery since the analog radio sure do suck down power (if it even tries to use that as an option).
Not sure what to do. Hopefully somebody can provide something useful.
Apps to change radio
Drunkula said:
Interesting... On my Bionic with the .232 leak the option to change network types is grayed out. I was thinking if you set it to 4G or 3G only it would save some battery since the analog radio sure do suck down power (if it even tries to use that as an option).
Not sure what to do. Hopefully somebody can provide something useful.
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You can definitely try out a couple of apps from the appstore to change your radio settings in one of the ICS leaks. The first is called "Phone Info" and the second is called "LTE OnOFF - HTC Thunderbolt". See if going with 3g (CDMA auto prl works well for me) only will help your cause.
You could turn the radio completely off, but then you obviously wouldn't get calls, texts, etc.
Ok Guys
Here are my findings...
Looking back, it seems during my move, I also upgraded from Eclipse 2.1 to Liquid ICS around that timeframe. So I back tracked and installed eclipse 2.1 and tested. Here are my findings:
on Liquid ICS 1.5mr:
In deadzone in my office, with wifi turned on, mobile data disabled, I get barely 1 hour per 10%
Everywhere else, 4g/wifi mixed. More wifi, the better, but I get roughly 2.5 hours per 10%
I re-flashed Eclipse, this is what I found
on Eclipse 2.1
In deadzone in my office, with wifi turned on, mobile data disabled, I get approx 2.5 hours per 10%
Everywhere else, 4g/wifi mixed. More wifi, the better, but I get roughly 2 hours per 10%
Overall, the ICS battery usage seems to be much better under normal conditions. In a deadzone, seems to eat away much more battery, even when mobile data is disabled. I'm geussing that its prob checking for a tower much more often then GB?
Any help would greatly be appreciated.....Thanks!
Hey Guys
Just wanted to update you on my findings....
Ok, after playign around, here is what i did. With WIFI turned on, I was getting barely half a bar in the radio signal. For a goof, with WIFI turned on, I went into phone info, and disabled the radio, and re-enabled it. within 2 sec, the radio came up and got half a bar again, but a few sec right after that, I got like 4 or 5 bars. After testing in this state, i get roughly 5 to 6% depletion per hour. WHich is MUCHHHH better.
I have a feeling that with WIFI turned on (mobile data seems to be disabled when in wifi mode), and u turn on the radio, that it connects to a different tower entirely. Because when I walk outside, and disconnect wifi, it goes to 4G, but then u can see it go from 4 to 5 bars, to 3 bars which is normal for me for that area.
Hope this helps someone....but it helped me a great deal.
Hi, need some help,
I got this phone a couple of days back, its an unlocked one. Battery on the phone seems to be draining faster than i expected it to. The first time i charged it, it took 3 hours in the afternoon. By night it was 20% this was after playing games and downloading through wifi, so it seemed ok. I then put it for charge overnight. The next day it still seemed to drained by 7pm only used whats app this day, so i had to put for charge again.
Once fully charged (2 hrs) I shut off wifi, bluetooth, nfc and others. Switched off smart stay options and the display is set to lowest brightness (not auto). The wallpapers is also black so it will not drain battery. Overnight without the phone being used (only thing i set was alarm) the charge went from 89% to 78%. During the day I also find the charge still dropping pretty rapidly. I have included the screen shot of the battery from the same day. Between the first pictures there is no difference in use and still drops by 3% in 20 mins or so.
Is this a problem with the battery or is that how it is?
(Stock, no changes to rom)
Not sure if this is your specific problem - but one thing I've found that kills this phone fast is bad 4G cell reception. By default the phone runs as LTE/GSM/WCDMA (Auto) in Settings->Mobile Networks . If you are in a location with patchy (or none at all) 4G Coverage, the phone wastes an inordinate amount of juice switching to high-power mode on the cell radio searching for the elusive 4G/LTE ... Just like a 3G phone will deplete its battery extremly fast in a location with no/poor 3G connectivity (inside the 'secure' datacentres I wander into occasionally that have cell blockers, I can deplete the battery in a phone in about 3 hours just due to it constantly switching to high-power 'cell search' mode as it has no details on any cells to 'hand off' to....)
The difference is palpable... inside my office, if I have the phone on the right side of my desk closest to some windows, it will receive 'patchy' 4G and I'll go through about 60% battery over about 8-10 hours with intermittent phone use (most of the battery goes to screen time as I'm a 'fiddler' whenever I leave my desk for a coffee/break/etc...) If I place it on the left side of my desk, where the reception is much worse, it'll fall back to 3G and I'll go through about 80% battery doing nothing different...
I'm now in the habit of switching the phone to WCDMA Only when I'm going to be working in the bowels of the building, as there aint no hope of 4G there...Doing this drastically improves battery life.. Likewise if I'm stuck at home over the weekend, I leave it on WCDMA, as where I live has very patchy 4G as well and I only get it if I walk outside and down the street...
Just a possible reason for the excessive drain... at least worth trying anyway... *shrug*
adr6ian said:
Not sure if this is your specific problem - but one thing I've found that kills this phone fast is bad 4G cell reception. By default the phone runs as LTE/GSM/WCDMA (Auto) in Settings->Mobile Networks . If you are in a location with patchy (or none at all) 4G Coverage, the phone wastes an inordinate amount of juice switching to high-power mode on the cell radio searching for the elusive 4G/LTE ... Just like a 3G phone will deplete its battery extremly fast in a location with no/poor 3G connectivity (inside the 'secure' datacentres I wander into occasionally that have cell blockers, I can deplete the battery in a phone in about 3 hours just due to it constantly switching to high-power 'cell search' mode as it has no details on any cells to 'hand off' to....)
The difference is palpable... inside my office, if I have the phone on the right side of my desk closest to some windows, it will receive 'patchy' 4G and I'll go through about 60% battery over about 8-10 hours with intermittent phone use (most of the battery goes to screen time as I'm a 'fiddler' whenever I leave my desk for a coffee/break/etc...) If I place it on the left side of my desk, where the reception is much worse, it'll fall back to 3G and I'll go through about 80% battery doing nothing different...
I'm now in the habit of switching the phone to WCDMA Only when I'm going to be working in the bowels of the building, as there aint no hope of 4G there...Doing this drastically improves battery life.. Likewise if I'm stuck at home over the weekend, I leave it on WCDMA, as where I live has very patchy 4G as well and I only get it if I walk outside and down the street...
Just a possible reason for the excessive drain... at least worth trying anyway... *shrug*
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Hi thanks for the reply. My phone does not show WCDMA in settings. It just has 2g/3g/4g/ auto OR 3g in network modes under mobile networks.
varun.k said:
Hi thanks for the reply. My phone does not show WCDMA in settings. It just has 2g/3g/4g/ auto OR 3g in network modes under mobile networks.
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I have used an app called "Radio Switcher" to activate "gsm auto (prl)", when i open the app it seems to go into "Device info". It seems to work but "Network mode" does not seem to change.
I have uploaded the screenshots
Seems as though the system is using more battery than the screen itself.
The system seems to really take up way too much battery power. Mine is at 4%.
What are your sync settings? Especially for things like Weather, stocks, news etc. If you set them to sync every hour or so, your phone will keep running on the 3G network which will end up draining your battery.
Also, switch off motion. It's a cool feature, but it's not necessary. Same with auto-rotate.
Finally, use WiFi instead of 3G where possible. That saves battery too.
If you're rooted, download noFrills CPU control and reduce your max clock frequency on days where you won't get a charge. Phone runs well enough on 800mhz, but has a tendency to keep going at 1.4Ghz for no reason.
Otherwise, get a higher capacity battery
Snowstormzzz said:
The system seems to really take up way too much battery power. Mine is at 4%.
What are your sync settings? Especially for things like Weather, stocks, news etc. If you set them to sync every hour or so, your phone will keep running on the 3G network which will end up draining your battery.
Also, switch off motion. It's a cool feature, but it's not necessary. Same with auto-rotate.
Finally, use WiFi instead of 3G where possible. That saves battery too.
If you're rooted, download noFrills CPU control and reduce your max clock frequency on days where you won't get a charge. Phone runs well enough on 800mhz, but has a tendency to keep going at 1.4Ghz for no reason.
Otherwise, get a higher capacity battery
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My sync is off, plus i have disabled sync for everything individuality and disabled all unwanted apps. Data service is also off, only use wi-fi. under motion only smart call is on and auto rotate us off.
I have uploaded a screen shot off after ti disable all these apps.(went to bed with 35% and was 28% in the mornin, turned wifi off before)
Will upgrading (official) phone to android 4.1.2 help (current ver is 4.1.1)? Current base band version is i9305BVALI5 i got an update on kies to i9305BVALI3. I don't think this is update to 4.1.2 is it?
I have updated to 4.1.2, and applied only gsm setting in mobile network. All apps are still disabled as before. The system still seems to be suing most amount of battery, more than the screen. I do not know what is using the system.
I have stared having the same problem a couple of days ago. Though I have sync enabled 0-24 for 3 gmail accounts, motions are on, screen auto rotate is also on. I am using nova launcher, almost all Samsung apps are frozen and most of time I am on wifi.
Now, this drain has nothing to do with the stuff I just mentioned (Enabled sync, motions...). I have all that things enabled all the time, and yes MPU and GPU are OC to 1600 and 640 MHz. But I was always getting >= 24h with ~3,5 h of screen on time. As I already mentioned, problem started a couple of days ago. Only thing which comes to my mind is that I have played with freezing / defrosting apps and I probably installed a couple of apps too. Like Beautiful Widgets and that's my main candidate to blame for this at the moment.
Though I am still not sure... Better than battery stats didn't show anything what could help. Network location locator or similar is at the top of the list of partial wake locks. But the time it hold the lock (About 25 min.) can't be the reason for such a high drain.
I have switched to HD Widgets, what I was using before (With this app one can disable auto location.) removed Beautiful Widgets, and turned off'Use wireless networks' and GPS in location services hoping it will help... So we'll see...
For me it still shows that adroid system and cell standby time is using a lot battery.
I don't get why android system and OS is using so much battery, everything is disabled. Network is on only GSM setting and i have network all the time, why is that also high? Does someone else also have the same problem?
If possible, install Better Battery Stats, maybe it will help you to identify the problem... In my case it is not of much use at the moment.
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Strange idea: download an anti-virus and let it run.
Might as well give it a shot now, especially since AV is free.
Snowstormzzz said:
Strange idea: download an anti-virus and let it run.
Might as well give it a shot now, especially since AV is free.
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I was using AVG, but i removed it thinking it could drain battery.
Sv: Battery Drain On s3 i19305
varun.k said:
I was using AVG, but i removed it thinking it could drain battery.
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I think he meant that it could be a virus that drains all the battery.
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sebbe312 said:
I think he meant that it could be a virus that drains all the battery.
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I did an upgrade using odin to 4.1.2, the issue still remains though. The screen shots i posted is with the update.
So any virus should also be wiped out right?
varun.k said:
I did an upgrade using odin to 4.1.2, the issue still remains though. The screen shots i posted is with the update.
So any virus should also be wiped out right?
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Anyways i tried it, does not seem to work though.
!crazy said:
If possible, install Better Battery Stats, maybe it will help you to identify the problem... In my case it is not of much use at the moment.
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I have installed better battery stats, and it says that battery drain is 6% an hour at idle. I have attached the screen shots. I do not have root access to access some of its functions though.
i just got my Moto X updated last night (11/22/13 ) and so far i like it. I'm not sure if i plugged the phone back up overnight to charge it since i moved it from my normal spot on my night stand next to my bed to the kitchen counter when i started to download and update the phone. (wanted to be closer to the wifi for the download) so im not sure if the battery drain was from the new update or not plugging it in. I'm on At&t network btw. so far i haven't really noticed anything different except for the changes in the icons for locations service and settings button. the lock screen looks a bit "squattier" but i may have must not paid enough attention to it before. i normally use my phone as my music player at work and it has so far lasted me all day and not dropped to the 10% mark till way past time i should have been in bed having to be at work so early. so i will be interested to see if it makes better or worse battery life monday. when i noticed the battery was drained today i had been playing candy crush for about 45 mins and my normal usage for weekend and it was only down to 39%. oh and for the record i keep all the radios on except Bluetooth since i don't have any bt devices with auto brightness turned on as well. the notification bar icons are now all white. (formally they were blue with the signal bars and 4g icon turning white when it switched off Lte) lastley the "touch sounds" seem to be muted now to low to be noticeable if your not listening for them now. that's something i don't like as i dont have the greatest vision and the sounds actually helped me a lot. the update went smoothly and had actually forgotten about it until i got a call so i cant say for certain if the update took more than the 20 mins it said it would. how was your experience?
That's quite a wall of text there.
I'm also on ATT and just finished my first day with Kit Kat after the update last night.
I've not experienced any explicit problems.
After 17 hours my phone is at 31%, but I also had it on the charger for a short while this afternoon while i was exporting some photos. typically I'd be at about 30% by bed time with moderate use. I did use the GPS briefly and spent more time than usual away from wifi though. I also enabled android runtime. I'd give it a few days before I pass any judgement on battery life. Prior to the update I'd had a couple days which I had near 5 hours of screen time. That's impressive by it's self and I hope it continues, but those kind of days are rare for me.
Lol I typed it out on my computer originally. It didn't look like much but after seeing it on my phone...your right. Anyway I'm happy to report a full day of use and battery was only down to 19%.
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My idle battery drain went way down on both my Nexus 7 and Moto X after the KitKat upgrade.
That's huge for me, because I often get busy at work and won't be able to touch/use my phone for long stretches, so it's nice to be able to carry my phone around for 6 hours but not have my battery life drop by 25% during that period.
Other than that, I'm happy. I wish they had kept the up/down arrows on the wifi signal. I do like the modifications to the haptic feedback, though - before, some of the vibrations were kind of rough and loud, many of them have been toned down.
Not liking kitkat, the dialer from jellybean that easily slid from logs to dialer to contatcs is gone. Im not likng the new dialer at all, the white theme it has drains more battery and is less easy on the eyes, google got it right with ics and jellybean theming most of the UI black, dialer also doesnt search for nearby places numbers like Nexus 5's dialer does, email app is good but again themed white, and a huge problem....setting the brightness all the way down isn't as low as jellybean was, this is a bug that needs to be fixed, the lowest brightness setting isnt low at all.
I'm coming from a note 3 that I used the same if not more than my nexus.
I don't use it heavily and unless I charge it during the day it's dead by 4pm after coming off a change at 5am. So 11 hours life.
Ambient display is off, I use Wi-Fi when available, screen brightness is dimmer than auto brightness sets it to. I've stopped using all widgets, which sucks. I'm currently on a CM12 build with the memory leak fix and still getting horrible life. I'm at 76% right now, 3.5 hours up time.
Is this normal? At the end of the day on my note 3i would still be above 50%, I assumed since this had the same battery size that it would be somewhat similar.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm open to changing settings or ROM's if there is something better.
Sirchuk said:
I'm coming from a note 3 that I used the same if not more than my nexus.
I don't use it heavily and unless I charge it during the day it's dead by 4pm after coming off a change at 5am. So 11 hours life.
Ambient display is off, I use Wi-Fi when available, screen brightness is dimmer than auto brightness sets it to. I've stopped using all widgets, which sucks. I'm currently on a CM12 build with the memory leak fix and still getting horrible life. I'm at 76% right now, 3.5 hours up time.
Is this normal? At the end of the day on my note 3i would still be above 50%, I assumed since this had the same battery size that it would be somewhat similar.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm open to changing settings or ROM's if there is something better.
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Whats your signal strength like? How much time is your screen on for?
Hard to help without seeing detailed battery stats, screen shots etc.
Attached a screenshot of where I'm at right now. I left hone an hour ago where I was on WiFi and have had excellent coverage since then. I do have bad coverage in my office so I use Wi-Fi there instead.
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Attached a screenshot of where I'm at right now. I left hone an hour ago where I was on WiFi and have had excellent coverage since then. I do have bad coverage in my office so I use Wi-Fi there instead.
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Its nhot really enough on its own. You'd need to go into screen and screenshot that and also into teh graph itself and screemnshot that at a minimum..
I didn't realize that you can dive in even further on those results. I've turned off detailed location and reduced the screen brightness even further and it seems to be making a difference. It's estimating I'll be able to go about 10 hours from now.
So I know there's a thread in the general forum for the Edge (all versions) but I figured with so many different variants, some have 4g, some don't etc., we could round up people's battery life on the Verizon version of the phone. I am running Clean Rom and these are the best stats I've had... greenify non essential apps, no gps unless i need it, wifi probably half the day, screen auto brightness, bluetooth always on connected to a moto 360. IDK how some people get 6, 7, or 8 hours of SOT but I have only gotten to 4 once... since running Clean Rom is seems to gradually getting better.. before Clean Rom I was struggling to get 3/3.5...
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I put my phone on the charger last night when it was at 80% after being on battery for 12 hours!
Right now I'm down to 92% after 2 hours, but 30 minutes of that was Waze screen on and I'm in a terrible service area.
I've found that the stock power saving mode is very powerful, I just can't stand the framerate drop. I'm sure the battery savings would be fine if they could change the framerate back to normal. Speaking of which, is there any possible way to edit a configuration to change only the framerate for power savings mode?
Mine sleeps like a champ. I had about 20 hours off charger yesterday with a little over 2 hours SOT and was at about 47%. I was pretty surprised by that to be honest.
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No one is getting 6+ hours SOT on an S6. If they say they are, they are flat out lying. Period.
JasonJoel said:
No one is getting 6+ hours SOT on an S6. If they say they are, they are flat out lying. Period.
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Not true. .. I've gotten 6+ hours before in this phone. It really comes down to how you use your phone. If your using it for anything cpu or graphic intensive
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Even on a stripped down rom, no apps installed, minimum screen brightness I haven't seen 6+ hours SOT.
So I refuse to believe it.
JasonJoel said:
Even on a stripped down rom, no apps installed, minimum screen brightness I haven't seen 6+ hours SOT.
So I refuse to believe it.
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Cell service plays a big part as well. Right now I'm at 1.5hr and my battery is at 80%.
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There's plenty of screen shots showing 6 hours.. I've seen 8. I think these people are disabling data for long periods of time tho... maybe even going into straight airplane mode.
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I can't get 6-8 hours even in airplane mode. I tested it 4 times. But whatever, good for them I guess.
I'm back using my Droid Turbo as my main phone until the S6 gets updated (and hopefully a little better battery life). If not, it'll be on ebay soon after.
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Cell service plays a big part as well. Right now I'm at 1.5hr and my battery is at 80%.
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That matches my experience. If I'm in a strong signal area, battery life is very good. In a weak signal area, battery life isn't as good. Still, with quick charging, I've never actually had to worry about the battery.
my battery life was never good, i barely get through the day.
Thank for information
Thank for information
I was up and thought i could publish this to you All buying an s6. This season.
SEVERAL tips to saving battery life on the s6 edge.
1. Enable power saving mode
...Settings/Battery/check Enable power saving mode
2. Turn off wi-fi draining modes
...Settings/Wifi/click MORE IN upper right corner/Then choose Manage. There will be 3 options you will want to turn off
1.SMART NETWORK SWITCH
(This setting sounds like it's efficient but it's ? and kills the battery)
2.PASSPORT
(This setting enables the phone to look for passport enabled wifi hotspots so it "searches" for them all the time when you're out and about) its ?Turn it off.
3.ALWAYS ALLOW SCANNING
(Need I text more)
Its ?Turn it off.
FINALLY PLEASE GO TO
SETTINGS /APPLICATIONS /APPLICATION MANAGER and click on amazon suite disabling this keeps the phone from constantly contacting amazon. Please Just use amazon through your web browser.
Finally/
Click on ANT SERVICES and disable ! It's ?and makes your Verizon phone look for wifi
ALL THE TIME (when phone has poor signal from cell tower)
ANT+ Plug-in services. It's ?too lol!
Oh always use auto brightness.
I have had this s6 edge + set up this way for 2 months with no drawbacks or loss of functionality and it has literally added 2x the battery life.
There's one other thing that's up to you is the advanced calling feature. This enables HD voice and Data use while on a phone call. It does use more battery but is up to you whether or not you need that capability.
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Gamerbuilt1 said:
I was up and thought i could publish this to you All buying an s6. This season.
SEVERAL tips to saving battery life on the s6 edge.
1. Enable power saving mode Didn't do. I don't want to run in BS mode
...Settings/Battery/check Enable power saving mode
2. Turn off wi-fi draining modes
...Settings/Wifi/click MORE IN upper right corner/Then choose Manage. There will be 3 options you will want to turn off
1.SMART NETWORK SWITCH
(This setting sounds like it's efficient but it's and kills the battery)
2.PASSPORT Can't find out what this is so I didn't do.
(This setting enables the phone to look for passport enabled wifi hotspots so it "searches" for them all the time when you're out and about) its Turn it off.
3.ALWAYS ALLOW SCANNING I turned that off looooong ago
(Need I text more)
Its Turn it off.
FINALLY PLEASE GO TO I don't want to disable Amazon.
SETTINGS /APPLICATIONS /APPLICATION MANAGER and click on amazon suite disabling this keeps the phone from constantly contacting amazon. Please Just use amazon through your web browser.
Finally/
Click on ANT SERVICES and disable ! It's and makes your Verizon phone look for wifi
ALL THE TIME (when phone has poor signal from cell tower)
ANT+ Plug-in services. It's too lol!
Oh always use auto brightness.
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Thank you dude!! I did just the items above in bold and it has helped immensely. Here it is 11:50PM and it just started beeping low battery about 10 minutes ago.
I was lucky to make it to 6:30 PM before.
So I downloaded an app Called Google Connectivity Services.
Strangely this seems to put my radio to sleep, which it was not doing before.
Can anyone confirm this?
I've been running cleanROM for quite some time now and it seems that my battery is getting worse and worse. I'm lucky if I can get 8 hours out of my phone with not a lot of use. For example I'm down to 82% battery and I've been off charge for 37 minutes. That is absurd amount of drain. The biggest offender always seems to be cell standby. I've tried the enabling advanced calling but it doesn't seem to have helped. Looking at trying a different rom or maybe just doing a wipe and reinstall of cleanRom. Anyone have any suggestions?
Gamerbuilt1 said:
I was up and thought i could publish this to you All buying an s6. This season.
SEVERAL tips to saving battery life on the s6 edge.
1. Enable power saving mode
...Settings/Battery/check Enable power saving mode
2. Turn off wi-fi draining modes
...Settings/Wifi/click MORE IN upper right corner/Then choose Manage. There will be 3 options you will want to turn off
1.SMART NETWORK SWITCH
(This setting sounds like it's efficient but it's and kills the battery)
2.PASSPORT
(This setting enables the phone to look for passport enabled wifi hotspots so it "searches" for them all the time when you're out and about) its Turn it off.
3.ALWAYS ALLOW SCANNING
(Need I text more)
Its Turn it off.
FINALLY PLEASE GO TO
SETTINGS /APPLICATIONS /APPLICATION MANAGER and click on amazon suite disabling this keeps the phone from constantly contacting amazon. Please Just use amazon through your web browser.
Finally/
Click on ANT SERVICES and disable ! It's and makes your Verizon phone look for wifi
ALL THE TIME (when phone has poor signal from cell tower)
ANT+ Plug-in services. It's too lol!
Oh always use auto brightness.
I have had this s6 edge + set up this way for 2 months with no drawbacks or loss of functionality and it has literally added 2x the battery life.
There's one other thing that's up to you is the advanced calling feature. This enables HD voice and Data use while on a phone call. It does use more battery but is up to you whether or not you need that capability.
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Does disabling ANT services mess with wifi calling? That's the only reason I wouldn't want to turn it off if so.
The battery life on my phone has been straight up terrible, so I'm always looking for new ideas before getting fed up and getting a 6P.
Charged to 100% last night. Took it off charger at 3AM, never touched the phone til morning, and at 930AM, it was at 75%. 6% of that, the highest percentage, was due to "Android OS".
Meh.
Mine was terrible enough to bring me to these forums to see what was up. I wiped the cache and that fixed it. I'm back to 15-17 hours (4G and Bluetooth on, WiFi off)
Applications I have turned off:
AMAZON
AMAZON MARKET
AMAZON KINDLE
AMAZON MP3
ANT RADIO SERVICE
ANT+ PLUGINS
AUDIBLE
CALLER NAME ID
DIRECTSHAREMANAGER
GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS
GOOGLE PLAY MAGAZINES
GOOGLE+
GROUP PLAY
HP PRINT SERVICE PLUGIN
IMDB
MOBILE PRINT
MY VERIZON MOBILE
NFL MOBILE
PICASA UPLOADER
POLARIS
SVOICE
SAMSUNG CAL SYNC
SAMSUNG CLOUD DATA
SAMSUNG CLOUD QUOTA
SAMSUNG LINK
SENSORSERVICE
SLACKER
SWYPE
TALKBACK
TRAVEL WALLPAPER
TRIPADVISOR
VERIZON SUPPORT AND PROTECTION
VERIZON TONES
VZ NAV
WEATHER WIDGETS
WIFI DIRECT
WIFI DIRECT SHARE
YAHOO FINANCE
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