How is your S6 Battery Life?

[razza1987]

Mine use to say 100% now it says 99% after charged.Could be back round apps that you are running doing this.Clear your cache and see what happens again.

I have tried literally everything. It's permanent

 

[bbtkd]

Look at the forums and pretty much every phone has wildly varying opinions on battery life. Smartphones are capable of so much that you want to use it a lot and tend to expect a lot out of it. You can't expect to get a statistically valid read on anything by polling forums, since forums tend to attract those having issues, while the vast majority not having issues are blissfully ignorant of the forums.

A lot of variables determine battery life; usage, expectations, carrier, location/signal, settings, and most notably apps. If you take two identical phones, same carrier, never used, sequential serial numbers, same location - they would likely have identical battery performance. It's not until the hoomins start mucking with them that we start seeing battery performance wildly varying, with some of them sucking. The S6 does have a relatively low capacity battery, with Samsung saying that power saving features would make up for it, but that seems to be a fail.

 

[syspry]

I have tried literally everything. It's permanent

I had a similar problem years ago with a Moto Atrix. It was a software bug in the battery stats that persisted a year before they finally patched it (only to some countries though).

 

[razza1987]

I had a similar problem years ago with a Moto Atrix. It was a software bug in the battery stats that persisted a year before they finally patched it (only to some countries though).

With the fact that I get over five hours of screen on time per charge and even longer in standby I don't want to risk getting a replacement over something like this. It's more annoying than anything else. I was reading today that a lot of phones do this because the phone trickle charges once it's get to 100% and starts discharging down to 98% then charging back up again to 100%. My phone seems insistent on immediately reading 98% unless it's been on the phone for hours. It wasn't like this to the best of my recollection on 5.0.2. Only on 5.1.1 but with battery stats like this and today testing what my battery would be like with NO WiFi you can understand why I'm reluctant to get a replacement. This was all completely on 4G and no wifi and with the phone immediately reading 96% when I took it off the charger:

 

[GoGetemB]

The S6 battery life is drab, it can be decent if you aggressively disable bloat and consolidate your apps as much as possible/ monitor running apps a bit too much for the S6 out the box. I love the S6, but I don't feel like rooting nor monitoring apps like a hawk. I found that the mophie juciepack case is pricey but is worth the money. It works very well, and does not add that much bulk to the phone. I pro & con is that the power case does make sound come from the front of the phone (which is great) / con is the case making the sound come from the front can get choppy/ muffled every now and again for calls on speaker. You'll be able to mitigate this by making sure your HD calling is on and using extra volume.

 

[Gator352]

I can say I use my phone a lot, I check it more than 5 minutes every hour. I would say 2-3 hrs onscreen every 24 hours. Most use is work calls, email, YouTube, texting and some apps.

I guess most here can assume, based on all the discussions, 2-3 hours onscreen can be considered moderate/average use. Fair?

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1 to 2 SoT is more moderate/average for me and that's considering if I make it to 3 to 3 1/2 hours before phone dies.

 

[chezm]

1 to 2 SoT is more moderate/average for me and that's considering if I make it to 3 to 3 1/2 hours before phone dies.

Because it's my work phone as well and I use it quite a bit, its hard for me to determine what average use truly is. Of course, everyone's average will be different.

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[chezm]

Anyone else using telsaunread with nova prime notice its chewing battery? Last few days its been high on consumption.

This is idle over night sleeping, yesterday after of dull day of work it was #2 as well at 11% consumption.

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[Bostski]

This sounds better than my S5. I am seriously considering an upgrade. The S6 sounds very good.