It may help sometimes it takes several days for everything to settle down. I would set everything as you feel you need it and let it settle if that doesn't work I would back up everything and reformat your phone. You shouldn't be getting that bad of battery life I can go all day with my usage ( around 2-3 hours screen time) and listening to podcasts and phone calls and such on my vzw on 5.1.1. You should be able to sync what's needed and get way more than 3 hours of battery life.
Adjustments, tips and tricks to maximize Battery Life on Samsung Galaxy S6/edge
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When I first updated to 5.1.1 my battery life was MUCH worse than it used to be. Now it's back to its usual 5-6 hours of screen on time per charge after a couple of weeks. This was when downloading the Indian firmware. Though now my Australian phone company is releasing 5.1.1 for the S6 at the end of the month so I will get to go through it all over again lol
Ps also try greenify is you don't have it. It is an absolute godsend for standby times meaning the phone then lasts longer on screen on time because the battery hasn't drained while in standby
That is all very helpful. I am going to let it settle. Like you suggested. Hopefully it improves. Thanks all.
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WiFi kills the standby time on my S6, I have to turn it off if I want the phone to last, but even then I'm only getting 4hrs SOT, which leads me to the second battery draining monster 'reception'. If you have crap reception on 4g it can really drain the battery.
After a while I just accepted that with heavy use I will need one charge at around 6pm.
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Not sure if this will. Help anyone else but I finally went into Verizon today and showed them my phone battery stats and told them how Samsung said 3.5 hours screen on time was normal. They claimed absolutely not... Swapped out my Sim card free of charge and turned on all the settings I had been shutting off..... Location, Bluetooth, put on all apps I had disabled sync on, allowed my WI fi to search if needed. I went home and charged up to 100%. That was 9 hours ago. Phone currently has 13% left and I have been on it non stop.... Videos, Facebook, instagram and texting. Thoughts??!
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I'm glad for you, but then, your problems were always them, Verizon, your cell and data signal were somehow affected by your SIM card that should have been causing the notorious battery drain while the phone is constantly switching bands or searching for signal.
Now, do some of the tweaks again, do a little fine tuning, I mean, you don't need everything on all the time, check that your Location History is not on, doing this will save you a lot of battery, also, you don't need the GPS On all the time, just use Power saving mode (wifi and cell signal) until you really need to have your exact location like when using Google Maps, there you have a Quick Toggle for that.
Also, you'll never need the Always Scan Allowed in the Wifi settings, read well the description and you'll see, so I'd advise you to turn that off.
With this couple of tweaks you should see even better battery life than what you are getting now without sacrificing any of the features and things you may want and need in your phone.
For all the others with similar issues, now you see what me and others have been saying all this time, the battery is not the best out there, but definitely not what some are saying it is, for my over 10 phones I've set and used, all of them have giving me very good battery life, all from different carriers, it can't be just a coincidence. If at this point you are still struggling with the battery life and have done most of the suggested tweaks, do what it has been told tons of times and definitely go to your carrier and ask for a replacement or like in this case, a solution from them.
Wow.....I have never seen a Cell Standby at that percentage. Holy smokes, your poor battery. That sucks.
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It could mean your phone is working very hard to maintain a signal. I think the usual cause of this is a very weak cell signal. For example, if your phone is kept in a basement overnight with weak signal, there will be very high cell standby (and battery drain) in the morning.
Is there anything I should adjust to make this better?
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If I look at your screenshot, it looks like you have a pretty weak cell signal. If the signal is usually that weak (e.g., at home) then the first thing is to always keep wifi turned on. If wifi is turned off, the phone the phone has to use the weak cell signal, which uses more battery than wifi. Also, you might want to call your provider to complain about weak signal. They may be able to do something about it. I know AT&T used to have a deal where they would give you a free network extender for your house if you had a weak signal there.
I really need to figure out how to get off the Indian firmware and back onto Telstra. Someone reported getting 5.1.1 today...
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You'll need to wait until the Telstra 5.1.1 ROM is captured and posted somewhere, once there you just simply follow the same process you did last time (Flash it with Odin), just remember that if you want to have your Telstra original CSC back, after you flash it then you need to do a Wipe cache partition and Wipe data/Factory reset.
Besides that there's nothing you can do, don't try going back from 5.1.1 to 5.0.2, it may brick your phone.
The Indian version of 5.1.1 became useless to me when in a smaller update they got rid of the auto stop feature. Like seriously wtf
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Now I just have to wait for it to show up online. Did they keep the auto stop feature for the Telstra version?
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Thanks to the xda forums I just found out that the auto stop feature still exists on the Indian firmware. It is now however in the ram management section instead of the battery section. No longer feeling the need to download Australian firmware
Aww man thanks for posting this, I was gutted to lose that feature. Glad it's still there ☺
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You're so welcome. I thought I had lost it too which was why I was desperate for the Australian version of 5.1.1 to come out but apparently it had just been moved without anyone letting us know lol
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Remember that you can also use Doze and it does a pretty good job for Standby time. The combination of this 2, Auto Stop to completely close the app after a certain amount of time and Doze to prevent that even he ones you don't want to Auto close don't keep using Data in the background works very good for any Android phone right now.
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