Recent content by Eric Peterson8

This will be my last update. I still have the Galaxy S6 but also have a refurb iphone 7. The battery life on the iphone is great. The fingerprint unlock actually works, unlike the Samsung phone. But various things are less optimal, for one thing, Apple dumbs everything down. Many apps are...

About 4% per hour now.

No change, 3% per hour plus any use (e.g. with 5 texts today, in 8 hours it used 26%)

3% an hour without use, about 1% a minute with heavy Chrome.

3 hours 7% this morning with Device idle and Android System at 3% each, nothing else listed. I don't think there's anything that anyone can do about it.

Took about a dozen pictures. That usage caused a pretty big drop looking at the battery graph. Overall today I used 32% in 12 hours. I think the idle use is down a little, but battery usage is still higher especially when doing things with the phone.

Hi Mosh. I leave my phone plugged in. In another forum thread they asked my to run the GSAM monitor and send screen shots. I don't know how to take and send screen shots so I have not done that. I'm not sure what they would see other than Device idle and Android System eating up CPU...

Can someone explain how GSam shows what is keeping the phone awake? My Galaxy s6 is not rooted. The held awake screen almost never shows "deep sleep" (1% at most). The doze time light to deep ratio is about 5:1 The app usage screen shows just "combined app usage", and it varies widely...

I've had battery usage problem on my Galaxy6 for months which started the day I upgraded to nougat. Highest usage is Device idle followed by Android System. I do nothing with the phone. The factory reset didn't help, nor cache wipes. Safe mode and MAX power saving mode turn off all the extra...

Abi, I have no idea but I think the ball is in Samsung's court. Do you have a Galaxy S6 like me? I leave mine plugged in so it less useful. I have wasted many hours trying various suggestions, from many well-meaning people, but ineffective to solve the problem. It is almost certainly a bug...

And there doesn't even seem to be the excellent ultra power saving button that was on Marshmallow Under settings -> Device Maintenance -> Battery there is a Power Saving Mode menu with Off, Mid and Max. I have mine on Mid which doesn't help with my lousy battery life (started when I...

Thanks josue89, I reinstalled Package Disabler Pro after having had it prior to doing factory reset. The new version wanted "PD engine" which I installed (I didn't want to do that before, but bit the bullet). I asked for it to disable "bloatware" and it disabled 84 packages. Then I disabled...

I do give it a full reset every 3 or 4 months Is that done by a complete discharge followed by complete recharge?

Has my battery gone bad? I normally never let it run down by much. Why would my battery go bad the day I upgraded to Nougat? Would a bad battery show up as high usage in Device Idle and Android System? Those are always the highest, each about the same, but Device idle sometimes 1% higher...

Ran down the battery to zero and the phone shut off. Then I turned it on and it booted, then shut off pretty much right away. I turned it 14 more times and it shut itself off. After 15 times it didn't want to turn on, so I waited a bit then turned it on, it booted and shut off. I waited...