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Anandtech posted review of S9 with Exynos vs Snapdragon 845. For some reason SD845 version lasts longer than S8 but Exynos version got worse than S8 counterpart. If this is correct, your battery experience seems in line with that.

Yes, that's correct. I tried disabling it with WiFi on. Still lots of drain, only slightly better than HD voice enabled. It seems cell standby with WiFi on is the main culprit as I suspected.

I posted my stand by drain getting worse suddenly in other thread. It used to drain only 3~4 overnight on WiFi. But from couples weeks ago, it drained like 20~30% doing nothing overnight. I tried FC, cache wipe with little to no effect. But I found turning off WiFi stopped excessive stand by...

I tried turning off WiFi and it seems to stop excessive stand by draining. But it's no good having to turning off WiFi to preserve battery. I read on S6 forums that turning off VoLTE (HD voice) solved it. Might give it try with WiFi on. Still, I think at&t should solve it via OS update.

What carrier are you with? I'm on at&t and seeing the exact same issue from last week. I have had great stand by time with my S7 though it took slight hit with Nougat update earlier this year. But now it' like losing over 25% overnight, which used to be around 3~4% normally. I even turned off...

Re: Why does my battery drain so fast? Help! Make sure to turn off google location history and smart network switch if enabled. Those are known battery suckers. I think the phone will settle down in next a few charging cycles.

Re: Why are note 7 catching fire and not edge 7 plus? We are still waiting on the real cause of note 7 catching fire from Samsung. But I think it's most likely the design of battery compartment being too tight. That would be very sensitive to any external shock or not having enough room to...

For now it looks like at&t stopped supporting it indefinitely. But it's hard to say "never" for anything. Things are changing so fast these days. who would have thought this would happen just a week ago?

Re: S7 Edge or Pixel XL as a Replacement Its core spec is good (CPU, RAM, screen). But other than that, it doesn't have hardware features typical found in flagship galaxies like water-resistance, micro-sd slot, OIS lens, wireless charging, etc. Just bare bone phone hardware. They claim best...

Re: S7 Edge or Pixel XL as a Replacement I gave up waiting on note 7 sales resuming in US. It probably wouldn't happen the way things are going now. Just upgraded my S5 to S7, which should be good for an year at least. Not interested in Pixel phones which look too much like iPhone and much...

Wow, this truly sucks! There is no other android phone maker that makes me as interested as Samsung. I'm so bored with iPhone 6 from my work, so I still keep my old S5 as backup which still works like charm and my colleagues at work with S7 are all pretty happy with it. I can only hope at least...

You probably got some some rogue apps badly draining battery in background. See if you can identify those from battery stats or GSAM. then you can tone down syncs on those or even disable them if not important apps. If that's not found, try factory reset without re-installing apps automatically...

So is it safe to assume that all S7 active on sale now are ones with fixed build quality for water-resistance?

There is difference between turning it into dumb phone and one fine tuning for best battery life. Turning off sync is probably the former, and I wouldn't do that either. But things like google location history is really unnecessary for most people and it has big negative impact on stand by drain...

This. The 3000mAh battery in S7 might look small compared to S7E or Note 7 but it's powering smaller screen and doesn't have extra features like edge screen, S-pen. So real world battery life would be much closer than 17~20% difference in capacity. I thought about upgrading to Note 7 from S5...