Honeymoon is over

[scotiez]

I have the US Verizon version with the snapdragon 820. My days are 18 hour days with alot of phone use, email text messages, facebook, music, web surfing, phone calls, tumblr, Pinterest, and many more things. At the end of the day my phone still has between 50 and 60% battery life left. This is the best phone i have ever had. Most of us don't have the choice to get the Snapdragon 820 or the Exynos 8890 Processor. So why does it matter which one gets the better battery life? If you get better battery with the Exynos processor then good for you. I'm happy for ya, just as i am happy with my snapdragon.
And I charge my phone nightly with the Samsung fast wireless charger. Battery technology today is leaps and bounds better then it was years ago. So charging overnight no matter what battery percentage you have left will not hurt your battery.

 

[anon(7775)]

I have the US Verizon version with the snapdragon 820. My days are 18 hour days with alot of phone use, email text messages, facebook, music, web surfing, phone calls, tumblr, Pinterest, and many more things. At the end of the day my phone still has between 50 and 60% battery life left. This is the best phone i have ever had. Most of us don't have the choice to get the Snapdragon 820 or the Exynos 8890 Processor. So why does it matter which one gets the better battery life? If you get better battery with the Exynos processor then good for you. I'm happy for ya, just as i am happy with my snapdragon.
And I charge my phone nightly with the Samsung fast wireless charger. Battery technology today is leaps and bounds better then it was years ago. So charging overnight no matter what battery percentage you have left will not hurt your battery.

screenshot of said phone use,no way are you using this phone hard for up to 18 hours with anywhere near 50 to 60 percent battery life

 

[Aquila]

People who are charging their phone half way through are destroying they're battery. You're not supposed to plug your phone in until it reaches 20% or less.

Exactly the opposite. Letting it discharge too much (such as below 20%) is much worse for it than a shallow discharge and recharge.

 

[NokiaBeast]

Same here, battery life has been outstanding! T-Mo version

 

[sumner929]

I have been getting a good day out of my phone. Verizon variant. I've been home sick so I didn't get out of bed until 10am today, but seeing as how it's almost 2am, I'm still at 30% battery life. I've made calls, checked/sent emails and texts, streamed some video on youtube as well. I've been home though, so I'm not sur eif being connected to my wifi is helping my battery life or not.

As a side note, my screen turns on randomly as it does if I got a text or email, however nothing is there. Is this a bug? Are other people experiencing the same thing? I have smart stay and Always On turned off, so the only thing I can think of is maybe an app is causing it. I don't know really. Any thoughts?

 

[t0ked]

Verizon version and getting amazing battery life. SOT of about 2-3hrs and it's up about 13hrs and I usually have about 40% left by the time i plug it back in. It gets better battery life than my droid maxx! I usually have wifi on, BT off, location on battery saver, volte off, AOD is on. I had fb messenger on the phone for about a day and I drained battery a lot. Uninstalled it and I'm back to getting the above numbers. That stupid app did the same thing on my droid maxx. What a crappy program.

 

[Ray Adams]

I do not know guyz where did you get "amazing" battery life on Verizon version. Since the beginning I have bad battery life. Over nigh phone is loosing 20%, my iPhone 6S only 1%. I have two phones and battery on S7 does not last longer as iPhone 6S even though I have only 2 emails on S7 and 7 on iPhone.
But I think the biggest problem is with fast charging. It seems after using fast charger battery life much worse.

 

[monicakm]

Verizon.
Phone on battery for 15 hrs 47s
SOT is 2 hrs 31 mins
Battery is at 40%
BT on.
Wifi off
Location services on

 

[Rlin5741]

Verizon.
Phone on battery for 15 hrs 47s
SOT is 2 hrs 31 mins
Battery is at 40%
BT on.
Wifi off
Location services on

I get about half this on Verizon. Usually hit the 15% by the time I get to your usage (16hrs with 2.5hrs SOT). I keep wifi and BT on at the same time, wifi calling ans VoLTE, and have FB and FB Messenger. Two push email (one exchange, one Gmail), push notification on several news apps (CNBC, WSJ, among others). So more heavy use than you, but wouldn't expect it to be 2x as draining.

Wonder if I have a faulty unit...I got mine on launch day, maybe Samsung fixed it up a couple weeks later?

When did you get your s7?

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[DizWhiz]

I have the SD model on AT&T. I average about 15-18hrs daily with between 3-4 Screen on time. Mostly on various WiFi connections but I've had days out away from it and still managed close to the same numbers.

Make it so.

 

[MKairys]

I could use some help here. I've had a Verizon S7 for two weeks now and I'm getting 10-12 hours at best with what I would call light to moderate use. I use Facebook once or twice a day at most, don't play games or videos, mostly read email and news apps. I have only three widgets, Network Signal Info, Battery Monitor, and NY Times. I have GPS location off, Active display off, Bluetooth off when not in use. I'm almost always on Wi-Fi. My only extravagance is a live wallpaper I'm quite fond of. When I look in the battery settings I always see 50-60% going to Android System + Android OS. I don't know how to dig further into that.

I've read all the postings I can find and it seems I'm getting about half what others are reporting, with similar usage AFAICT. Is it possible I have defective hardware? How would I convince Verizon of that? Or is app or service usage of which I'm unaware? How can I find out?

Any help appreciated.

 

[sling1]

Here you go...

The Exynos chip on the Global model comes out way ahead of the Snapdragon in this GSMArena battery life test, also.

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge battery life (Exynos and Snapdragon)




Galaxy S7: Exynos vs Snapdragon performance and battery life comparison

"Conclusion
With one draw and two outright victories, the Eynos 8890 seems to be the better choice when it comes to choosing a chipset for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The results weren’t marginal either, suggesting that Samsung spent a lot more time optimising the Exynos variant than the Snapdragon model — or perhaps the Exynos chipset is simply superior. Either way, American and Chinese consumers might be wise to import a European model… as long as they’re planning to use their phones on a GSM network in their home countries."

The reason that the U.S.A. and China have the quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip and not Samsung's octa core Exynos 8890 chip is because they both have the minority CDMA networks instead of the worldwide GSM. So blame China Telecom, Verizon and Sprint.

Thanks much for info.
I'm very happy with snap but wow what a diffrence side by side performance.
T-Mobile received update this morning that address some setbacks found in snap version hopefully steps in right direction. I installed see how it goes.

 

[anon(1733)]

I get great battery life out of mine. Mine is Verizon as well. Lasts me all day and then some and my WiFi and Bluetooth is on all day as it stands constantly paired to my gear watch. Here is my battery life as of now.

 

[monicakm]

I'm curious to see how many more time Mr Ironass thinks we need to read that the Exynos chip is superior to the SD chip. I think he's more proud of it than us in the US care that we don't' have it Starting to sound a little like a broken record there Mr IA I'm pretty sure we "get it"

 

[sling1]

Here you go...

The Exynos chip on the Global model comes out way ahead of the Snapdragon in this GSMArena battery life test, also.

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge battery life (Exynos and Snapdragon)




Galaxy S7: Exynos vs Snapdragon performance and battery life comparison

"Conclusion
With one draw and two outright victories, the Eynos 8890 seems to be the better choice when it comes to choosing a chipset for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The results weren’t marginal either, suggesting that Samsung spent a lot more time optimising the Exynos variant than the Snapdragon model — or perhaps the Exynos chipset is simply superior. Either way, American and Chinese consumers might be wise to import a European model… as long as they’re planning to use their phones on a GSM network in their home countries."

The reason that the U.S.A. and China have the quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip and not Samsung's octa core Exynos 8890 chip is because they both have the minority CDMA networks instead of the worldwide GSM. So blame China Telecom, Verizon and Sprint.

I'm curious to see how many more time Mr Ironass thinks we need to read that the Exynos chip is superior to the SD chip. I think he's more proud of it than us in the US care that we don't' have it Starting to sound a little like a broken record there Mr IA I'm pretty sure we "get it"

Well he has provided great info good to know stuff but yes , those posting broken record there is no hope SD users got screwed sky's falling is a real downer for those that invested big $ on this device .
Both versions of this device are solid , adjustments will be made to kernel etc improving Snap batt & performance in future updates

 

[zerospace-net]

I haven't had mine long enough to really say for sure yet, but the battery life seems to be just fine for me so far (snapdragon/AT&T model).

I had 3 reasons why I didn't go for an exynos/international S7:

1) No manufacturer warranty. I hate saving money on a phone only to have to waste most of it just to buy a 3rd party warranty in case I got a lemon. Manufacturer warranty support might suck, but it shouldn't cost extra.

2) No Samsung Pay support in the US. (I really wanted to at least try this feature).

3) Exynos graphics issues with some more demanding games (or so it would seem, from last year's S6 and S6 edge models with Hearthstone and similar).

So yeah, some folks can hype up how much better the exynos variant is, but I'll go with what matters more to me (and I suspect others will enjoy their snapdragon models just fine, too). Those with their superior exynos models can leave us happy snapdragon owners alone, thanks. I knew it when I bought the phone and I purposefully chose it.

Why does this "issue" smell an awful lot like the quibbling over the two different processors Apple used somewhat recently? Oh, the irony...

 

[Phonecovers]

It's a terrible experience of the battery life for my samsung also