Everybody got drain!! lol

[radyoactive]

Man, I'm blanking on where I saw that. I do know that kyleresq (I think that's his handle) is showing 20-35% battery usage on standby time. That's not good. My G3 is showing 2% right now. I'm going to keep hunting, but I'm at work so it'll take a bit. Obviously there aren't a ton, but less people have them on AT&T. And standby percentage as high as he's showing, doesn't bode well.

This post?

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=512348

 

[byrds8]

Have the same issue on the Verizon Note 4. Ever since it updated to Lollipop the battery does not last nearly as long as it did prior. I could get easily two days before and now not so much. Im using about double the battery per day.

 

[jschu22]

It's been less than 24 hrs with my S6 Edge and while I can't say there's a "drain", it certainly doesn't last a long time.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[jaltman]

Today with wifi off is running about 3% per hour, which is fine by me. Turn wifi on and it zooms to 12% or more per hour.

 

[ray sital]

Seems like it's just a few complainers on this forum who have had their phone for one day.

I'm sure it's probably just caused by something silly like people leaving automatic updates on, GPS, notifications, email retrieval constantly instead of every few hours, etc.

You know what's silly? Having to turn off useful features because the battery can't support them.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[ray sital]

Not even close...it's WAY more than a few and if you go to XDA Developers, the number of people experiencing the battery drain is rampant and the frustrations are growing. It's not any of the things you said - the drain is a WiFi issue that is plaguing T-Mobile phones causing high Cell Standby and is now starting to show up on AT&T phones.

There's no setting, fix, cure, uninstall, etc. that you can try - I've been trying for 9 days now. It's a problem with the software and the drain is pretty significant, especially in Standby and is causing very decreased battery life for many.

It's funny how some people continue to attempt to dismiss the issue with the battery life.

I don't get it.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[truthteller10]

They've been doing this stuff for years. These same folks used to claim the Palm Pre would get 24 hours of battery life with heavy use..lol..Its the fanism in them.

 

[Techno-guy]

It's funny how some people continue to attempt to dismiss the issue with the battery life.

I don't get it.

Posted via the Android Central App

...and, they tell us to turn off this and shut down that but continue to ignore the fact that the phone operates perfectly normally with all those things on (i.e. no Standby battery drain) when WiFi is OFF but the second you turn WiFi ON, all bets are off and the "Cell Standby" drain rears its ugly head!

 

[DocRid]

...and, they tell us to turn off this and shut down that but continue to ignore the fact that the phone operates perfectly normally with all those things on (i.e. no Standby battery drain) when WiFi is OFF but the second you turn WiFi ON, all bets are off and the "Cell Standby" drain rears its ugly head!

Turn WiFi off until the problem gets fixed.

I'm a wizard.

 

[robertopod1968]

...and, they tell us to turn off this and shut down that but continue to ignore the fact that the phone operates perfectly normally with all those things on (i.e. no Standby battery drain) when WiFi is OFF but the second you turn WiFi ON, all bets are off and the "Cell Standby" drain rears its ugly head!

I lost 1.5% an hour last night. Steaming a podcast for 45 minute also. Edge clock on.

Gsam says I'm getting 19 hours with 5:30 sot. Not everyone has a problem. AT&T. WiFi on, Google now on.

 

[Techno-guy]

I lost 1.5% an hour last night. Steaming a podcast for 45 minute also. Edge clock on. //images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/04/09/7f2ef45b09387bb7f9d7d597d513ebf5.jpg

Gsam says I'm getting 19 hours with 5:30 sot. Not everyone has a problem. AT&T. WiFi on, Google now on.

Definitely looks like more of a T-Mobile issue than anything else. Most of the AT&T screenshots I've seen do not have Cell Standby as the primary drain. On my T-Mobile version, I would lose about 40%+ overnight while sleeping. I like yours much better!

 

[robertopod1968]

Definitely looks like more of a T-Mobile issue than anything else. Most of the AT&T screenshots I've seen do not have Cell Standby as the primary drain. On my T-Mobile version, I would lose about 40%+ overnight while sleeping. I like yours much better!

Yeah. Somethings not right with some of them for sure. I'll post a real shot of my daily usage tonight.

 

[Adranalyne]

Definitely looks like more of a T-Mobile issue than anything else. Most of the AT&T screenshots I've seen do not have Cell Standby as the primary drain. On my T-Mobile version, I would lose about 40%+ overnight while sleeping. I like yours much better!

Sounds like you got screwed because T-Mobile wasn't capable (so far) of releasing this phone without some serious flaws in the software. Fortunately, that's not indicative of the S6 or S6 Edge as a whole as I've been saying pretty much this whole time.

Hope this gets fixed for you guys. This phone is extremely impressive when your carrier doesn't handicap it.

Posted via Galaxy S6 edge

 

[allspec33351]

I played my first round of Golf using Free Caddie. Could not make it past 6 holes. That battery was draining faster than a greyhound at the dog track.
My oneplusone lasted 18 holes and had about 50% left. This is not good.

 

[showstopper003]

I'm also on ATT and getting similar results to robertopod1968. so Ray sital it's really not us dismissing your problem. we're just telling you it's your problem because we're not experiencing the same thing. /shrug

 

[t11rmh]

You know what's silly? Having to turn off useful features because the battery can't support them.

Posted via the Android Central App

I don't understand this either. I leave on what I want to leave on as the phone should be able to cope with it. If you turn off everything then you might as well not have a smartphone.

Posted via a kicking Note4 on Lollipop.

 

[hysonmb]

I've been doing some comparison tests between the Lumia 1020 (my old phone) and Galaxy S6 Edge (my new phone) over the past couple of days.

Yesterday morning I decided to do a battery drain test and see which would drop 10% first while doing nothing more than just laying on my desk while I was working.

They both have the same accounts (email, social, etc.) configured, are on the same WiFi network, both have NFC and Bluetooth enabled, and are both connected to a wireless provider with the 1020 on AT&T and the Edge on T-Mobile.

This is the result. Each time I checked I simply turned the phone on, unlocked it, and checked the battery status as reported by the phone.


I've been getting a full day of use out of the 1020 as long as I don't go nuts taking a bunch of pictures and it seems the GS6 may be able to do the same once I stop messing with it as much.

 

[Byron 5]

Seems like more people than not are experiencing abnormal drain that shouldn't be happening to a 2015 smartphone. Looks like Samsung dropped the ball on this one. By the way the HTC M9 seems to be screwed right now as well with poor battery life possibly due to the 810 processor. I think ill pass on both "flagships" this go around and wait for Sony and LG offerings or maybe the M9+ will come to the states.

Just get the Note 4, still the best phone yet.

 

[robertopod1968]

Just get the Note 4, still the best phone yet.

I would say that is a personal preference. Depends on what you want. Stylus, better battery and bigger phone or better camera, a working finger scanner, wireless charging and smaller more quality feeling build

 

[robertopod1968]

And honestly I'm not sure I'm getting less battery life with my s6 edge than I was with my note 4. Its pretty close. I'm definitely getting better battery with this s6 edge than I did with the note edge..