Hi Guys. I posted this in other forum, and been an XDA member I thought, why not posting this here also, although I know that what I'm posting here most of you have already discovered or worked with it, but just in case you haven't or maybe it can help other newbie member looking for an answer.
So here it's just as I posted it in the other forum (Sorry for those of you that have read it over there).
Some of you won't even read this thread completely, some others maybe interested to know what I've done in the past couple of weeks to have the great battery life I'm getting right now, for the past couple of days, after I finished making all the adjustments I'm getting 6.50 - 7+ hours of screen time, twice as much as I was getting with my S4, 1.25+ more than I was getting during the days I used the M8 (no longer with me), so for those of you interested I decided to give you some hints and explained in details what I've done. Please remember that this is solely based on my needs and phone usage, so you do the adjustments that you think can fit your needs and leave the others as default.
Brightness and Display - I adapted myself since my S2 to use low brightness, I can say that about 20%, I only use the Auto option when I need it, but most of the time been at Home or at the office I don't need the brightness too high. I'm using Adapt Display after 1 year using Normal Mode in my S4, just for trying, so far it's good this way for me. My Screen Timeout is 1 minute, But if you don't need it on that long just leave it as default.
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Bloatware - From the Samsung Apps I just left on of S Health, Smart Remote, Calendar and Memo, before disabling S-Voice (Just in case) I disabled the Home Key Activation, then I installed the Gear manager to be able to use my Gear 2 Neo. From Google I disabled Google Play Music (It has been in the past a Battery killer, maybe is better now but I have no use for it on this phone as I have all my music on my SD card) and Google Books, but installed a lot of other Google apps (I think the rest of them, jaja). I also disabled Polaris Office as I have other Office Suites purchased. And all the T-Mobile stuff. (All of these I've noticed that run on the background draining your battery)
WiFi - I turned off the Smart Network Switch, because when I'm at home or in the office, connected to my wifi, I move around a lot and I stay at wifi range edges a lot, so this feature can be switching on and off constantly and it will cause battery drain. then I turned off Network Identification as I don't need this, and one thing I have learned, at least in my case is that leaving the Wifi on all the time drains the battery a lot, so I changed the "Keep Wi-Fi on during Sleep" option to Only when Plugged in. I'm at T-Mobile, so I have the wifi calling feature, it's great but I leave it off until I need it.
TouchWiz features - I love TouchWiz, for me all the others Android Skins are plain and boring, so I use a lot most of it's features, but I just turn them on only when needed, there's a reason why we have those Toggles there, so I edit them and rearrange them in the order I want so I have it available when I need them. The only options I leave on all the time are the Motions and Gestures and Air View, because I use them all the time.
Location - Just like I mentioned above, I just turn this on when needed, and even then just select if you can use the Power Saver mode. Also, I don't need Location reporting, but I do use the Location history for my Google Now and other Google Apps.
Google Now - Be sure the Location settings are in order with the above and I disabled the "OK Google" default feature as by it's nature, this is all the time on and "listening" waiting for the command.
Ultra Power Saving Mode - Great feature that I turn on every night while I sleep, in 7+ hours activated it has used only 1 % of battery.
Developer Options - Well this is something that I don't know exactly how it affected but for me it did something, let me explain, I decided to give it a try to the ART option on the Runtime System, I heard that for some it helped with the battery and performance so I did it, well it took a long time after it rebooted, and it took almost 1GB of my System memory just by doing this change, but I tried it for a day, after I saw that I didn't see any difference I could notice other than most available ROM, with Dalvik it was always using 1.40-1.5 of the 1.81 GB, with ART it went down to 1.1 and after 1 reboot I saw going to 1GB, so I like that, but, I began having the No-Response power button that some people have reported when trying to wake up the device I decided that I was going back, well, in a summary, it went back to Dalvik a lot quicker, I got my 1GB of Memory back, and for my surprise the ROM usage is lower than before, when I got the phone and until I did this, it was never lower than 1.4GB, but now after switching back I'm getting 1.2 most of the time. So I'm guessing that switching to the other one and back cleared some other stuff that was there by default. Why I'm letting you know this, well, immediately after I switched back to Dalvik I began noticing better battery life (I'm talking since Friday), it may be just a coincidence maybe not, but it won't hurt trying it if you don't find any other solution.
Well, that's all I can remember for now, if I remember something else I will post it as a follow-up, so I hope that this can be of some help to some of you new to Android and maybe some of you that are not new to Android but new to Samsung Galaxy line and are a little lost on how to have a better battery life.
For now, here it's my last Battery Stats, before I re-charged yesterday morning, I'm still at that Full Charge now, In full use now that I'm back at work and my Car Bluetooth connection and my Gear 2 Neo, so this afternoon I will have a better idea, but as of now I still have 33% battery left after 22hrs 48 mins on battery and 4h 38m Screen On time, so it seems to be going strong for 7 hrs of screen on time.
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Which of the location settings do I need on for Google now to still work? I wanna try to keep all the google now functionality enabled. I had pretty bad battery life my first full day with the phone. (I cant post imgur links since I'm new here). but basically my "Awake" bar on the battery history was solid blue all day. Phone died after about 13 hours of being on and 2 hours of screen time. Android OS and Android System took up the majority of my battery. The phone was awake the entire day and I couldnt figure out why. I turned off the wifi settings as you mentioned above and disabled as much of the samsung crap as I could find. I do leave location on all the time, but on "Power Saving" mode, not sure if thats making a huge difference.
Any input is appreciated.
Looks fine but I get 7 hours of screen time on auto brightness but set to a couple of notches below Centre. And screen mode on pro, for natural colours. The other things seem logical, though ultra power saving mode for night time seems a bit extreme. I have it on normal and it uses about 4 per cent overnight.
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AMoosa said:
Looks fine but I get 7 hours of screen time on auto brightness but set to a couple of notches below Centre. And screen mode on pro, for natural colours. The other things seem logical, though ultra power saving mode for night time seems a bit extreme. I have it on normal and it uses about 4 per cent overnight.
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what location settings do you have?
AMoosa said:
Looks fine but I get 7 hours of screen time on auto brightness but set to a couple of notches below Centre. And screen mode on pro, for natural colours. The other things seem logical, though ultra power saving mode for night time seems a bit extreme. I have it on normal and it uses about 4 per cent overnight.
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Ultra Power Saving Mode while I sleep doesn't hurt anything, anyway, I won't be using the phone all night, once I wake up I turn it off immediately and everything goes back to normal, so no harm.
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what location settings do you have?
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Exactly as you see in the picture, I have Google Now working and finally my Screen On Time is greater than Android System and OS.
erasat said:
Exactly as you see in the picture, I have Google Now working and finally my Screen On Time is greater than Android System and OS.
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What uses the Location Reporting..what does disabling it remove?
hokie2012 said:
What uses the Location Reporting..what does disabling it remove?
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It will be better for you to read the following information:
https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3118687?hl=en
erasat said:
Ultra Power Saving Mode while I sleep doesn't hurt anything, anyway, I won't be using the phone all night, once I wake up I turn it off immediately and everything goes back to normal, so no harm.
Exactly as you see in the picture, I have Google Now working and finally my Screen On Time is greater than Android System and OS.
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erasat said:
It will be better for you to read the following information:
https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3118687?hl=en
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Great, thanks a lot. I am gonna try these settings and see how it goes. I was a little disappointed before, but hopefully these can right that. I do like the location history, but not if its drains my battery like that.
S5 doesn't consume much battery at night, between 1 and 3% percent max as i have noticed without Ultra Power Mode.
You gave good tips for optimisation to those who haven't done that yet.
I suggest people to install Juice Defender as it will disable data and renable it only when screen is on or every xx minutes it's off (it makes a big difference on LTE networks now).
kthz said:
S5 doesn't consume much battery at night, between 1 and 3% percent max as i have noticed without Ultra Power Mode.
You gave good tips for optimisation to those who haven't done that yet.
I suggest people to install Juice Defender as it will disable data and renable it only when screen is on or every xx minutes it's off (it makes a big difference on LTE networks now).
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I get what you mean, but my case was more like 4-5% lost overnight, so losing just 1 with ultra power saving mode saves me 3 to 4% that I can use later on the day for about 15 more minutes of screen on time, and again, I'm not using the phone while sleeping so I don't see the need for not using the Ultra Power Saving Mode.
Follow up, I just arrived at home and even when I didn't get the 7 screen on time that I thought I'd have, I ended with 6 hours. My phone usage while working is very different than when I'm at home, plus connected receiving emails by the dozens, using Calendar, memo and other working stuff, plus the Mobile signal is at the borderline of bad, and it switches a lot from LTE to 4G and vice versa so getting 6 hours of screen time on over 30 hours on battery after a full day of work where my S4 was giving me not even 4 hours is really great and it keeps amazing me.
Thank you!
So far today I'm at 1 hour of screen time, my awake bar is now only solid when the screen is on and I'm at 87% battery with the phone unplugged for 3 hours. Finally Android OS and Android System are much lower, thanks a lot!!!! I just changed the wifi advanced settings and the location settings.
Sir.
Im having the non-responsive power button issue. ot took me a lot of uninstalling to some apps(greenify and gravity screen) now using gravity with no problem. dont want to test greenify though. but that problem was really a big issue. I couldnt even make the power button work.
Do you know if this is some kind of software issue or hardware problem?
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I think its great and all, but honestly.. except for bloatware, I have everything on. Google now included. GPS ALWAYS on. brightness to max. the fact is, our phones come packed with great features and I bought it for most of them, I don't want to lose them to get some extra battery life.. and you know why? Because with everything still on I get over a day easily with heavy use still. Back in the day with my EVO, sure I wanted some battery saving tips because I couldn't make it a day. If I forget to charge my phone now, I'll wake up and still have close to 30% left, a quick ride to work charging it and boom, back to over 50% and that'll be just fine even with heavy use.
After all that said, we have removable batteries for a reason! and nothing beats having an extra one just in case.
Anyway, my opinion but I guess this whole battery squeezing more tips is like the Prius's drivers coasting to stop signs and red lights from a mile away to save an extra 2mpg
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I get what you mean, but my case was more like 4-5% lost overnight, so losing just 1 with ultra power saving mode saves me 3 to 4% that I can use later on the day for about 15 more minutes of screen on time, and again, I'm not using the phone while sleeping so I don't see the need for not using the Ultra Power Saving Mode.
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lucky you, i go to sleep at 100% and wake up with 66%. Since im not rooted i cannot view wakelog stats. All i know is the biggest battery drainer is "Android System"
exge said:
lucky you, i go to sleep at 100% and wake up with 66%. Since im not rooted i cannot view wakelog stats. All i know is the biggest battery drainer is "Android System"
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Hey I figured I shared my experience here since I also had a massive battery drained from android system. I am rooted but u can still try this to attempt to stop the darn android system. here is what worked for me. I charged my phone 100% then I left my phone on full power save mode. Here is what I found out....my android system wouldn't go below 26%....after 6 hrs of full sleep now is at 18% and im not getting any wakelocks....ill post my screen shots...
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Here are the screen shots
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i just tried for fun to check, and lo and behold, my google now hotword was detection was on.
switched it off, and now after a full day, im at 70%
I am actually getting around the same times with my stock out of the box s5 with nothing turned off.....
erasat said:
Hi Guys. I posted this in other forum, and been an XDA member I thought, why not posting this here also, although I know that what I'm posting here most of you have already discovered or worked with it, but just in case you haven't or maybe it can help other newbie member looking for an answer.
So here it's just as I posted it in the other forum (Sorry for those of you that have read it over there).
Some of you won't even read this thread completely, some others maybe interested to know what I've done in the past couple of weeks to have the great battery life I'm getting right now, for the past couple of days, after I finished making all the adjustments I'm getting 6.50 - 7+ hours of screen time, twice as much as I was getting with my S4, 1.25+ more than I was getting during the days I used the M8 (no longer with me), so for those of you interested I decided to give you some hints and explained in details what I've done. Please remember that this is solely based on my needs and phone usage, so you do the adjustments that you think can fit your needs and leave the others as default.
Brightness and Display - I adapted myself since my S2 to use low brightness, I can say that about 20%, I only use the Auto option when I need it, but most of the time been at Home or at the office I don't need the brightness too high. I'm using Adapt Display after 1 year using Normal Mode in my S4, just for trying, so far it's good this way for me. My Screen Timeout is 1 minute, But if you don't need it on that long just leave it as default.
Bloatware - From the Samsung Apps I just left on of S Health, Smart Remote, Calendar and Memo, before disabling S-Voice (Just in case) I disabled the Home Key Activation, then I installed the Gear manager to be able to use my Gear 2 Neo. From Google I disabled Google Play Music (It has been in the past a Battery killer, maybe is better now but I have no use for it on this phone as I have all my music on my SD card) and Google Books, but installed a lot of other Google apps (I think the rest of them, jaja). I also disabled Polaris Office as I have other Office Suites purchased. And all the T-Mobile stuff. (All of these I've noticed that run on the background draining your battery)
WiFi - I turned off the Smart Network Switch, because when I'm at home or in the office, connected to my wifi, I move around a lot and I stay at wifi range edges a lot, so this feature can be switching on and off constantly and it will cause battery drain. then I turned off Network Identification as I don't need this, and one thing I have learned, at least in my case is that leaving the Wifi on all the time drains the battery a lot, so I changed the "Keep Wi-Fi on during Sleep" option to Only when Plugged in. I'm at T-Mobile, so I have the wifi calling feature, it's great but I leave it off until I need it.
TouchWiz features - I love TouchWiz, for me all the others Android Skins are plain and boring, so I use a lot most of it's features, but I just turn them on only when needed, there's a reason why we have those Toggles there, so I edit them and rearrange them in the order I want so I have it available when I need them. The only options I leave on all the time are the Motions and Gestures and Air View, because I use them all the time.
Location - Just like I mentioned above, I just turn this on when needed, and even then just select if you can use the Power Saver mode. Also, I don't need Location reporting, but I do use the Location history for my Google Now and other Google Apps.
Google Now - Be sure the Location settings are in order with the above and I disabled the "OK Google" default feature as by it's nature, this is all the time on and "listening" waiting for the command.
Ultra Power Saving Mode - Great feature that I turn on every night while I sleep, in 7+ hours activated it has used only 1 % of battery.
Developer Options - Well this is something that I don't know exactly how it affected but for me it did something, let me explain, I decided to give it a try to the ART option on the Runtime System, I heard that for some it helped with the battery and performance so I did it, well it took a long time after it rebooted, and it took almost 1GB of my System memory just by doing this change, but I tried it for a day, after I saw that I didn't see any difference I could notice other than most available ROM, with Dalvik it was always using 1.40-1.5 of the 1.81 GB, with ART it went down to 1.1 and after 1 reboot I saw going to 1GB, so I like that, but, I began having the No-Response power button that some people have reported when trying to wake up the device I decided that I was going back, well, in a summary, it went back to Dalvik a lot quicker, I got my 1GB of Memory back, and for my surprise the ROM usage is lower than before, when I got the phone and until I did this, it was never lower than 1.4GB, but now after switching back I'm getting 1.2 most of the time. So I'm guessing that switching to the other one and back cleared some other stuff that was there by default. Why I'm letting you know this, well, immediately after I switched back to Dalvik I began noticing better battery life (I'm talking since Friday), it may be just a coincidence maybe not, but it won't hurt trying it if you don't find any other solution.
Well, that's all I can remember for now, if I remember something else I will post it as a follow-up, so I hope that this can be of some help to some of you new to Android and maybe some of you that are not new to Android but new to Samsung Galaxy line and are a little lost on how to have a better battery life.
For now, here it's my last Battery Stats, before I re-charged yesterday morning, I'm still at that Full Charge now, In full use now that I'm back at work and my Car Bluetooth connection and my Gear 2 Neo, so this afternoon I will have a better idea, but as of now I still have 33% battery left after 22hrs 48 mins on battery and 4h 38m Screen On time, so it seems to be going strong for 7 hrs of screen on time.
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thegrants82 said:
I am actually getting around the same times with my stock out of the box s5 with nothing turned off.....
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Well lucky you then, i have a massive wake lock issue but cannot find whats causing it.
exge said:
lucky you, i go to sleep at 100% and wake up with 66%. Since im not rooted i cannot view wakelog stats. All i know is the biggest battery drainer is "Android System"
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I have found that on mine too, and controlling which apps were using location & how frequently helped a lot. Life360 was my worst offender by far. If I toggle off location the usage flat lines and Screen stays as top power user.
I have ended up uninstalling life360 and leaving location on.
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Is anyone else having issues with the battery life on their Gear Live lately? I'd say in the past 2 weeks or so the battery life has gotten absolutely awful with no reason at all. This is seriously as bad as the original Galaxy Gear at this point. When I first got my Gear Live back in June the battery would last all day easily, and I'd usually have at least 30% left at the end of the night when I stuck it on the charging cradle. Now when I get home from work it's almost always at 20%. I don't have any apps or custom watch faces on it because they all suck right now (since the SDK isn't available yet), and haven't changed my usage patterns with the watch at all since I got it. I've done factory resets, used it with other phones just to see if it's something weird with my phone, etc. Nothing helps. Anyone else having these issues suddenly? Thanks.
Kind of bad today 33% ..... may not make it home
AstroDigital said:
Kind of bad today 33% ..... may not make it home
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It seems to be getting worse each day. At this point I've double checked to make sure no apps are installed on the watch and just did another factory reset of it. We'll see how it is today. This is horrible, if it doesn't improve this thing is getting sold.
It was just a bad day.
I may start turning the screen off when I am out in the sun.
Wish there was or I knew how to quickly toggle the screen on/off
AstroDigital said:
It was just a bad day.
I may start turning the screen off when I am out in the sun.
Wish there was or I knew how to quickly toggle the screen on/off
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Yep, would be cool if pulling down to mute also turned the screen off unless turned on manually or by gesture.
I'm having sudden battery issues as well since yesterday. Took of the charger this morning at 8 am, by 10:20 only 75%, did reset and it changed to 49%, now at 12:45 I only have 12% left. Almost zero notifications, battery stat app shows no app use. Very confused from this.
Same issue
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Is anyone else having issues with the battery life on their Gear Live lately? I'd say in the past 2 weeks or so the battery life has gotten absolutely awful with no reason at all. This is seriously as bad as the original Galaxy Gear at this point. When I first got my Gear Live back in June the battery would last all day easily, and I'd usually have at least 30% left at the end of the night when I stuck it on the charging cradle. Now when I get home from work it's almost always at 20%. I don't have any apps or custom watch faces on it because they all suck right now (since the SDK isn't available yet), and haven't changed my usage patterns with the watch at all since I got it. I've done factory resets, used it with other phones just to see if it's something weird with my phone, etc. Nothing helps. Anyone else having these issues suddenly? Thanks.
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I can't say absolutely awful, but it suddenly lasts less than half the time it usually did. I used to go two days with around 21% left when putting it to charge, since around the 24th of December, suddenly last barely a day. I find it really weird, as I am using everything the same as before. The only thing I can think of is the watch being on Android L, and the phone on 4.4.4 KitKat. This is just a theory as I have no Android L phone to test this with, that the 2 versions of Android use the Bluetooth differently and thus create a battery leak. I am not sure, I will have to wait until my Moto G gets Android L.
I am returning my watch to Google because since 2 days ago my battery dies at 4pm when it originally lasted all day and when I went to bed I still have anywhere from 20-40% left. Also my charging cradle broke and won't stick to the watch. Had to use rubber bands to charge it. I wish I hadn't bought the Samsung Gear Live because it is a piece a junk... The Asus Zen watch costs the same and is much better quality....
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I thought I was alone
Mine went from going around 2 days to now about 6 hours. I
I've nuked it and my phone to no avail.
The only think that changed was I upgraded to Lolly Pop. Would love a fix for this
What a scam. If this is how they treat early adopters I'm not going to buy another
I just bought a used gear live, and my battery was terrible with almost nothing but a watch face really added. I went to the google fit app on the watch and scrolled all the way to settings and disabled it and it seems much improved already! I think the step tracking is killing the battery somehow.
So Today I had the wifi on the watch turned off and also had Google Fit turned off. Got a good bit of notifications for texts and such and used voice to replay to the majority of them. With always on screen turned on half the day and tilt to wake motion turned off all day it is at 50% and has been on about 14 hours and says it still has 14 hours left. I am pretty happy with that!
I was having battery issues at well. It got so bad that my watch wouldn't last from 8am until about 2pm. Finally I just stopped wearing it for a few weeks. Picked it up again a week or so ago and got the update. Since then battery life is back to what is expected. However, I haven't added my wifi hot spots yet.
Try the app SWapp True Dark. It allows you to lower your screen's brightness more than what is offered by default. I now get 24 hours out of my watch on a single charge and that is WITH the screen set to "always on"!
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Should also remember that Li ion batteries typically have a charge life of 500 cycles or 18 months before degrading quite a bit. Some of you with older ones will start to have batteries go.
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.
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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.
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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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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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