How would you change the Galaxy S6?

[jcp007]

Samsung really need to sort out their battery drain in standby...

In the US anyway, hoping this and RAM management are addressed in 5.1.1 later this month and/or Android Moon Pie.

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[razza1987]

In the US anyway, hoping this and RAM management are addressed in 5.1.1 later this month and/or Android Moon Pie.

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It's unbelievable when I wake up after 8 hours and my Samsung has gone down around 10-20% of battery while my iPhone is at 99% lol

 

[Almeuit]

In the US anyway, hoping this and RAM management are addressed in 5.1.1 later this month and/or Android Moon Pie.

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It would be nice if they would push that out to us. .

 

[razza1987]

It would be nice if they would push that out to us. .

Who knows when it's ever coming out in Australia xd. Next year perhaps

 

[jcp007]

Who knows when it's ever coming out in Australia xd. Next year perhaps

Don't lose hope just yet.

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[razza1987]

Don't lose hope just yet.

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I won't. I just know Australia's record with Android updates which is one of the main reasons I got a six plus xd

 

[Christopher Shelton1]

BIGGEST problem with the Galaxy S6 is the Lollipop 5.*.* software. I follow the Android Developers forum and it looks as Google has yet to come up with a fix for the battery drain issues and the memory leak issues that plague every type of smart phone out regardless of carrier or manufacture. The issues are still present in the pure android 5.1.1 release and are being reported by many NEXUS users as well as others who have received the latest 5.1 and 5.1.1 updates either via OTA or Mod version.

I wont be surprised to see Google scrap further Lollipop updates and move straight to Android M push outs if these issues can't get resolved.

 

[Gator352]

I take back what I said about the battery life. Since discovering that it was 3g that was draining my battery I got over 19 hours off the charger yesterday with close to 6.5 hours of Sot. So while I don't necessarily think it needs a bigger battery it DOES need better software managememt. Standby drainage is terrible. So is google services drain usage but that's a google not Samsung problem

You lucky SOB!!

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[Gator352]

BIGGEST problem with the Galaxy S6 is the Lollipop 5.*.* software. I follow the Android Developers forum and it looks as Google has yet to come up with a fix for the battery drain issues and the memory leak issues that plague every type of smart phone out regardless of carrier or manufacture. The issues are still present in the pure android 5.1.1 release and are being reported by many NEXUS users as well as others who have received the latest 5.1 and 5.1.1 updates either via OTA or Mod version.

I wont be surprised to see Google scrap further Lollipop updates and move straight to Android M push outs if these issues can't get resolved.

I agree! Google needs to get their crap together.

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[itguyjax8430]

Larger screen would have been nice. It's on that threshold of being too small. 5.5 would have been ideal.

 

[razza1987]

You lucky SOB!!

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Try turning off 3g and only using 4g or Wi-Fi. Especially only 4g. I find the phone drains more on Wi-Fi coverage than on 4g. This was my battery life today

 

[anon(749368)]

Bigger battery and an SD card and I would not hesitate buying it to upgrade from S5

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[jcp007]

Bigger battery and an SD card and I would not hesitate buying it to upgrade from S5

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Bigger battery is likely but not the card slot.

 

[drone3]

Is the Ram issue fixable with root?

I have never needed to root my phone before, but if 5.1 doesn't address the Ram issue I may have to.

dreaming of electric sheep

 

[jcp007]

Is the Ram issue fixable with root?

I have never needed to root my phone before, but if 5.1 doesn't address the Ram issue I may have to.

dreaming of electric sheep

Pretty confident about 5.1.1 will help and Android Moon Pie will take it another notch. I would wait to root unless you really have an itch that can't be scratched. As always, if you've never done rooting, you could end up with a very expensive brick.

 

[drone3]

Pretty confident about 5.1.1 will help and Android Moon Pie will take it another notch. I would wait to root unless you really have an itch that can't be scratched. As always, if you've never done rooting, you could end up with a very expensive brick.

Just had a peak over at XDA and they seem to have just figured out the RAM issue, several members can now use multi tasking without the apps refreshing.

Im going to try be patient until 5.1

dreaming of electric sheep

 

[jcp007]

Just had a peak over at XDA and they seem to have just figured out the RAM issue, several members can now use multi tasking without the apps refreshing.

Im going to try be patient until 5.1

dreaming of electric sheep

Heard about it this morning. I am risk averse and not very tech savvy so I plan on waiting as similar changes should be included in upcoming updates.

 

[DougC42182]

The auto flash on the camera seems to be subpar. In lighting my S3, S4 or S5 would have enabled the flash, I'm getting nothing. Lower to medium light pictures are pretty much useless looking in my opinion. I also am annoyed touch and shoot is gone on the camera. I just got the S6 today, so no opinion on battery life just yet.

 

[razza1987]

The auto flash on the camera seems to be subpar. In lighting my S3, S4 or S5 would have enabled the flash, I'm getting nothing. Lower to medium light pictures are pretty much useless looking in my opinion. I also am annoyed touch and shoot is gone on the camera. I just got the S6 today, so no opinion on battery life just yet.

I am having the same problem with auto flash. Last night I was in a room with no lights on and auto flash didn't even enable

 

[DougC42182]

I am having the same problem with auto flash. Last night I was in a room with no lights on and auto flash didn't even enable

Well at least it's not just me!