Since this news from Andrew broke out yesterday (2.5 SoT), I went back to BB and tested battery drain under continuous usage (browsing, videos). I left it at default full brightness, high accuracy location. It seems like it loses 1% every 2 or 3 mins. At this rate, SoT from 100% to 0% would be 4.16 hours. I know this is simple test and there are more factors in real world usage. But it seems to me SoT would be easily over 3.5 hours if used more continuously rather than mixed usage like Andrew's case.
What concerns me more is his total time of 12~14 hours. That seems to indicate stand by time is not very good. It needs to be 3 ~ 4 hours more at least. Managing location, syncs will help but not that much. If S6 turns out to be more than 10% worse from S5 overall, I will hold onto S5 till next year. I hope 5.1 will help.
That's false or backwards.
Continuous use drains the battery faster as your screen normally uses the most battery.
Think about what you said, it drains 1% for each minute that you used the screen. Once your 4ish hours of straight use is up, how much battery life do you have left for standby? Nothing is the correct answer.
Also, it depends on the app that you are using. The AC app is more battery efficient then SwiftKey. A high end game will drain your battery fast.
But the less that you use the screen, the longer your standby time will be. I can get 40 to 48 hours of life with only 2 1/2 hours of sot and apps that aren't battery hogs with my m8.
Otherwise, with light to medium use (some YouTube, Web browsing, maybe some music, a few text and phone calls) I get 5 to 6 hours of sot and a total of 14 to 16 hours before my m8 dead.
But I'll only get 4 hours of sot if I game for 4 hours straight.... And I'll have about only 5% battery left at that point. So no standby and reduced usage if continuous use and battery draining apps.
Screen on time is closely tied together with total time or stand by of the battery.
Andrew also tested his unit on auto not full brightness. Generally auto mode users more battery then manual, and when outside the screen goes even brighter then manual mode.
Also remember that Andrew was using his phone like a normal person. His model had at least his emails and some social media syncing to the phone like a normal user would. Your model was not syncing anything....and just how long did you test the phone for and what apps or things did you do with it while watching the time drop? Or was the screen just on doing nothing?
Not arguing, just want to learn from your brief experience.
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