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

[warpdrive]

To the people getting 4+ SOT what apps and services do you have disabled? Verizon customers, under Settings -> Cellular Network, do you use Global or CDMA/LTE?

I tried disabling push services, print plugin, all the Verizon bloatware but I can't seem to get my battery above the 3.5 SOT mark. Other things I've done:
- Enabled Advanced Calling (apparently this is supposed to help with cell standby)
- Reduced sync for my accounts
- Removed Samsung account as I don't need it

I don't see how some people are achieving day long batteries when I can barely make it to night.

Don't hold me to it because I'm on AT&T, but if you turn off VoLTE or advanced calling this should save you allot on battery life. If left on, your LTE radio has to remain on even when on WiFi so you can receive calls (at least that is how I think it works). This setting is off for me right now and is the number 1 battery drain during my testing on AT&T.
On Verizon, you will lose voice and data at the same time if this is turned off. On AT&T, you still can do both.


To the person who spoke about how many apps are installed on a device...
Battery draining apps like Facebook will kill your battery faster than any setting tweak, so use the browser or at least don't sync it. Gaming is the same way, so the more you play, the bigger the drain. Notifications from apps also drain your battery, so if you don't turn some of them off, having 90 apps give you notifications all week won't help with battery drain.

Battery life will be different for each carrier due to issues that some have started with the S6. So on Verizon and Sprint, you now must use VoLTE or no more voice + data at the same time and this should be a big battery drain.
Sprint also is selling Spark only devices so if your not in a good Spark area your battery will drain faster.
With T-Mobile you may have issues with wifi calling draining your battery. Turn it off and use it only when needed. There are plenty of tweaks listed in the first post from the author that he worked hard on to help you improve your battery life, so try them and see if it helps.

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[20blks]

Don't hold me to it because I'm on AT&T, but if you turn off VoLTE or advanced calling this should save you allot on battery life. If left on, your LTE radio has to remain on even when on WiFi so you can receive calls (at least that is how I think it works). This setting is off for me right now and is the number 1 battery drain during my testing on AT&T.
On Verizon, you will lose voice and data at the same time if this is turned off. On AT&T, you still can do both.


To the person who spoke about how many apps are installed on a device...
Battery draining apps like Facebook will kill your battery faster than any setting tweak, so use the browser or at least don't sync it. Gaming is the same way, so the more you play, the bigger the drain. Notifications from apps also drain your battery, so if you don't turn some of them off, having 90 apps give you notifications all week won't help with battery drain.

Battery life will be different for each carrier due to issues that some have started with the S6. So on Verizon and Sprint, you now must use VoLTE or no more voice + data at the same time and this should be a big battery drain.
Sprint also is selling Spark only devices so if your not in a good Spark area your battery will drain faster.
With T-Mobile you may have issues with wifi calling draining your battery. Turn it off and use it only when needed. There are plenty of tweaks listed in the first post from the author that he worked hard on to help you improve your battery life, so try them and see if it helps.

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I realize that but I like to use all the features on my phone and try to get the best experience possible. My laptop doesn't last all day and I don't really expect my phone to.

 

[erasat]

I realize that but I like to use all the features on my phone and try to get the best experience possible. My laptop doesn't last all day and I don't really expect my phone to.

That's great and it's exactly what you are suppose to do, that's what you pay for, the key here is that you know that it will only last the whole day with everything on and all the features on, with just a light to moderate use, if you are a heavy user, the ones that use the phone for more than at least 4 hours a day then if you don't want to be charging at the afternoon or even before the you should consider using the tweaks mentioned in this post, as this phone as great and efficient as it is, it still needs to move a 5.1" QHD display with a 2550-2600 mAh battery.

So like I've said before, with that in mind is even more amazing that this phone, without bugs that drains the battery can last as long as it last to a lot of us here and to others like you that are not doing any tweaks ands using all the features and still have the owner happy with its performance.

 

[warpdrive]

I realize that but I like to use all the features on my phone and try to get the best experience possible. My laptop doesn't last all day and I don't really expect my phone to.

I fully understand and agree with you. In fact, unless I forgot, you are not doing so bad with battery life and have a good and reasonable attitude about this subject.

In fact I have everything turned on other than VoLTE. Even my location services is not on energy saver and is on full blast. But I do have history turned off because I don't use "Google now" and this setting is my number 2 biggest battery drain.

Otherwise, I use everything at maxed out or full on feature wise and I'm not missing anything that I'll never use.

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[20blks]

That's great and it's exactly what you are suppose to do, that's what you pay for, the key here is that you know that it will only last the whole day with everything on and all the features on, with just a light to moderate use, if you are a heavy user, the ones that use the phone for more than at least 4 hours a day then if you don't want to be charging at the afternoon or even before the you should consider using the tweaks mentioned in this post, as this phone as great and efficient as it is, it still needs to move a 5.1" QHD display with a 2550-2600 mAh battery.

So like I've said before, with that in mind is even more amazing that this phone, without bugs that drains the battery can last as long as it last to a lot of us here and to others like you that are not doing any tweaks ands using all the features and still have the owner happy with its performance.

I have all those adjustments made. Sync, vlte etc and I still get just about a day of battery life. I just think that people who have such long battery life don't use the phone the way I do. I've been turning off sync, GPS, wifi and all the other usual suspects since my G1 in 2008. Lol.

 

[20blks]

I fully understand and agree with you. In fact, unless I forgot, you are not doing so bad with battery life and have a good and reasonable attitude about this subject.

In fact I have everything turned on other than VoLTE. Even my location services is not on energy saver and is on full blast. But I do have history turned off because I don't use "Google now" and this setting is my number 2 biggest battery drain.

Otherwise, I use everything at maxed out or full on feature wise and I'm not missing anything that I'll never use.

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I have location on become I use Google now daily. The others are all off/disabled

 

[anon(9409134)]

WiFi being active has started using a ton of my battery, the other day it used like 45%! Also, cell standby is coming back a bit (in the default battery usage thing but not in GSam)

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[anon(9409134)]

WiFi being active has started using a ton of my battery, the other day it used like 45%! Also, cell standby is coming back a bit (in the default battery usage thing but not in GSam)

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Doing a cache wipe kinda helped it, but it still uses a lot. It might just be a lollipop bug though.

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[cbreze]

WiFi being active has started using a ton of my battery, the other day it used like 45%! Also, cell standby is coming back a bit (in the default battery usage thing but not in GSam)

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My wifi is always on but never scanning. Maybe that makes some difference as I get very good battery life.

 

[anon(9409134)]

After updating, my battery life actually is decreasing, the remaining time shown under battery usage decreased by like 2 or 3 hours!

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[erasat]

After updating, my battery life actually is decreasing, the remaining time shown under battery usage decreased by like 2 or 3 hours!

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Did you get latest update today? If yes, then let it drain at least until 10% turn it off, do the Wipe cache Partition and after the reboot do a Full charge, see what happens after that?

 

[steelers1]

Since I got my s6 I've been lucky to get 12 hours on a charge. Last night I accidently turned off location completely and today I'm at 15 hours with 4 hours screen time and just now reached 50%. I also switched mobile data from global to cdma/lte. Not sure which has helped the most. I'm on verizon

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[anon(9409134)]

Estimated time remaining at full charge has decreased by 4 hours.

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[anon(9409134)]

Estimated time remaining at full charge has decreased by 4 hours.

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Hmm, the estimated time remaining decreased but the screen on time has increased... oh well, still is good.

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[erasat]

Wow, this guy from Android Authority just did a video with 5 of the tweaks I posted here, no, it's not me, but just wanted to point this out for those of you that feel offended for the suggestions of even make some adjustments or tweaks to the phone and insist that doing this is crippling the device.

Well this guy take a little more time and explain the reason behind each of the tweaks. Sometimes it's a lot better to see a video and example than just read about it so here it's the link.

https://youtu.be/J81rcFwk7Wc

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Did you get latest update today? If yes, then let it drain at least until 10% turn it off, do the Wipe cache Partition and after the reboot do a Full charge, see what happens after that?

It is always good to wipe the cache partition after any update
I actually wipe my cache partition like once a week... Not that I need to, but for my self assurance that my battery will be good

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S6!

 

[jcp007]

It is always good to wipe the cache partition after any update
I actually wipe my cache partition like once a week... Not that I need to, but for my self assurance that my battery will be good

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S6!

Will keep,it mind. Have had to clear the cache partition only once since 2006. Earlier this week on my wife's GS4. My GS6 has been running smoothly and has been quite stable even after the recent AT&T OTA update.

 

[jcp007]

Wow, this guy from Android Authority just did a video with 5 of the tweaks I posted here, no, it's not me, but just wanted to point this out for those of you that feel offended for the suggestions of even make some adjustments or tweaks to the phone and insist that doing this is crippling the device.

Well this guy take a little more time and explain the reason behind each of the tweaks. Sometimes it's a lot better to see a video and example than just read about it so here it's the link.

https://youtu.be/J81rcFwk7Wc

Is it me or is auto brightness a little dull indoors?

 

[erasat]

Is it me or is auto brightness a little dull indoors?

Not for me, I don't use auto while indoors as most of the times is too bright for me, but what do I know if I'm the guy who uses the brightness at around 20% because it's too bright for me above that

 

[jcp007]

Not for me, I don't use auto while indoors as most of the times is too bright for me, but what do I know if I'm the guy who uses the brightness at around 20% because it's too bright for me above that

Mine is set at around 40 percent and tried it indoors. It looked dull.