Adjustments, tips and tricks to maximize Battery Life on Samsung Galaxy S6/edge

[tpence2177]

Not to bad. I don't have the screen on my lady odd battery usage for some reason. Last I checked it was around 3 hours. But I have listened to music overt Bluetooth in my car for around 5 hours today as well as made about an hour worth of calls around 100 texts browsed on tapatalk a good bit and I don't know what else lol did some of the recommended fixes and turn my screen off of auto and turned the brightness to a lower, but comfortable level. I have had the WiFi off all day except when I just got home because mine does have the WiFi drain. Vzw gs6

 

[anon(9409134)]

Cell standby ends up using a huge amount of battery. Last night it was at 30% when my phone was at 1%. Is there any way to make it use less?

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[tpence2177]

Cell standby ends up using a huge amount of battery. Last night it was at 30% when my phone was at 1%. Is there any way to make it use less?

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What carrier are you on? My vzw one had cell standby as the highest when I left my WiFi on all the time. I cut it off except for a little bit yesterday and it went to the lowest. Luckily I have 6 gigs of data that's just to myself so I can do this for a while until there is a fix and just watch videos and download music when I am on WiFi

 

[anon(9409134)]

I have at&t. I share 3 gb with one other person, but don't need WiFi a lot of the time. I will try this and tell what happens later.

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[jimlloyd40]

Thank you erasat. Please keep the tips coming. Don't be deterred by the idiots. You have provided very valuable information and I and many others appreciate it.

 

[anon(9409134)]

It may take so much battery because I spend much of my time in a building with little to no service.

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[anon(9409134)]

Followed these steps and found more on the Internet yesterday. Here's what it looks like for today. (I just now wiped my cache. I'll post a picture later tonight. I also found that turning off enhanced data should help too. I will post updated results tomorrow also)
Also, keep in mind I had power saving on the entire time.

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[tpence2177]

Followed these steps and found more on the Internet yesterday. Here's what it looks like for today. (I just now wiped my cache. I'll post a picture later tonight. I also found that turning off enhanced data should help too. I will post updated results tomorrow also)
Also, keep in mind I had power saving on the entire time.

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It's definitely looking better!

 

[atishc]

One thing you don't seem to have mentioned here is the Accounts setting. I have a Google account, Samsung account, Facebook account, and multiple work accounts all set to sync in the background by default. There is no reason for all of those accounts to sync everything continuously in the background. I ticked off only the things that are necessary for me in the background (email, contacts and calendar) and let everything else sync either when I open the app or manually. The important thing is to modify the device to your own needs - as I mentioned in another thread, I use Google Voice Search so I disabled S Voice; I use Facebook so I disabled Google+. I find auto brightness ideal for me, many of the apps and widgets I use require location so I keep that on, I like hot word detection for Google search so I keep that on. (I am getting >18 hours with >3.5 SOT, which is plenty for me.) It would be ideal if out of the box the battery could support heavy use for everyone, but with the size limitations and all the pre loaded apps, you just need to find what works best for you individually.

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[anon(9409134)]

Followed these steps and found more on the Internet yesterday. Here's what it looks like for today. (I just now wiped my cache. I'll post a picture later tonight. I also found that turning off enhanced data should help too. I will post updated results tomorrow also)
Also, keep in mind I had power saving on the entire time.

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Cell standby is still a major tank on my battery.

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[erasat]

Cell standby is still a major tank on my battery.

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Yes but remember that the stats won't reset until you charge it to at least 90%, so just sit tight leave it like that with all changes that you may have done today and see this on your next charge cycle.

Also, those stats don't look bad, is obvious that after 2-3pm you used it a lot and it drained a lot, so it looks more or less normal. See if tomorrow gets better.

 

[anon(9409134)]

Yes but remember that the stats won't reset until you charge it to at least 90%, so just sit tight leave it like that with all changes that you may have done today and see this on your next charge cycle.

Also, those stats don't look bad, is obvious that after 2-3pm you used it a lot and it drained a lot, so it looks more or less normal. See if tomorrow gets better.

Quick question, how do you make sure the battery doesn't get above 80%? And yes, I will post tomorrow about what happens.

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[erasat]

Quick question, how do you make sure the battery doesn't get above 80%? And yes, I will post tomorrow about what happens.

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Not charging it overnight.

I bought a wireless charger and I have it at the office and I use the OEM fast charger at home, so what I've been doing for the last couple of days is that I leave it on all night without charging, I've had a perfect timing so far as I've been going to bed with it at 45-50% it is just using 4-5 % overnight, depending on the amount of hours, so when I wake up is around 40%, I put it to charge while I get ready to leave to work and by the time I leave is at 80%.

So then I use it all day at work and when it gets near 40 I put it on the wireless charger until I see that it's at 80 again, then rinse and repeat.

So basically I've been charging it twice a day from 40 to 80% and is covering me perfectly so far, when the time comes that the routine changes and I need to charge it and I'm not at home or the office then I have my power bank and car charger on my car.

So far I've been following the suggestions on how to extend the battery life exactly as they suggest, and the plan is 2 or 3 times a month do a resync charging it to 100% and let it drain until at least 10%, so I'll see in a couple of months if it's true.

 

[RocketmanJLC]

Thanks, when I get my S6 I'll try your method. For anyone interested, I've attached a somewhat more easily readable pdf of erasat's initial setup tips (if the attachment is allowed by admin).

 

[erasat]

Thanks, when I get my S6 I'll try your method. For anyone interested, I've attached a somewhat more easily readable pdf of erasat's initial setup tips (if the attachment is allowed by admin).

Thanks but I'm trying to open the pdf file in my tablet and is saying that the document is not a pdf document, I tried Adobe Acrobat and Office Suite Pro apps and both gave me the same error.

 

[anon(9409134)]

I may have found a fix for the cell standby problem for at&t. Going into mobile data and turning off the enhanced data has fixed people's provlems. Also, booting into recovery mode and clearing the system cache (when you boot it it may say installing update) has also fixed some people's problem. If anybody else tries this, then let us know how it goes. I did these steps earlier today and will update later.
(I already posted this on another post but I want more people to try it and see if it works)

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[RocketmanJLC]

Sorry to hear that, I don't get it. I click on the link in the post on my ASUS laptop and it opens up normally in Adobe Reader. I just love computers, they're always full of weird surprises. :-[

 

[Bodzm]

No offence, but this is exactly why people don't bother with Android. Does everything need to be micromanaged? What a joke. You need instructions on how to adjust your phone so that it works how it should have been working out the box

Huge Android fan BTW, don't like iOS or Windows but I like to play devil's advocate in this case

 

[anon(9409134)]

No offence, but this is exactly why people don't bother with Android. Does everything need to be micromanaged? What a joke. You need instructions on how to adjust your phone so that it works how it should have been working out the box

Huge Android fan BTW, don't like iOS or Windows but I like to play devil's advocate in this case

When I had an iPhone my phone was built with the battery screwed up. Didn't get a new one until 2 years later. If you ask me this is better.

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[anon(9409134)]

I may have found a fix for the cell standby problem for at&t. Going into mobile data and turning off the enhanced data has fixed people's provlems. Also, booting into recovery mode and clearing the system cache (when you boot it it may say installing update) has also fixed some people's problem. If anybody else tries this, then let us know how it goes. I did these steps earlier today and will update later.
(I already posted this on another post but I want more people to try it and see if it works)

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This didn't work. I think that there is in fact a WiFi bug that drains battery. Tomorrow I will turn WiFi off for the most part of the day and post my results.

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