is this normal?

[robinhelenehebert]

Hi folks.
So my phone was charged to 100% and minutes later its down to 98%...

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[Almeuit]

Yes this is normal.

 

[Zendroid1]

Well, it all depends. Mine lost 3% last night while I slept. Did you do anything on it in those 10 minutes?

 

[tazman69]

Mine does that and I don't consider it normal. All my other phones (iPhone, LG G3, etc) stay @ 100% for at least 2 hours if idle. So the S6 shouldn't drop that quickly. It is the one area I'm having an issue with on this phone.

 

[robinhelenehebert]

Mine does that and I don't consider it normal. All my other phones (iPhone, LG G3, etc) stay @ 100% for at least 2 hours if idle. So the S6 shouldn't drop that quickly. It is the one area I'm having an issue with on this phone.

I did take some pics but prior to that it went to 99 from 100 doing nothing

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[robinhelenehebert]

Well, it all depends. Mine lost 3% last night while I slept. Did you do anything on it in those 10 minutes?

Mine went from 100 to 72 overnight!

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[Kalvin Kerns]

Mine does that and I don't consider it normal. All my other phones (iPhone, LG G3, etc) stay @ 100% for at least 2 hours if idle. So the S6 shouldn't drop that quickly. It is the one area I'm having an issue with on this phone.

Note 3 does the same, I guess it's a Samsung thing. However, my note 3 losses like 3-4% when I restart it, my S6 does not do that. Smacks of software optimization to me.

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[dpham00]

It happens. No big deal,unless you have some other concerns.

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[tazman69]

My concerns are the idle time on this phone are really bad compared to my past phones. SOT means very little to me as I am not a power user. Battery drop while idle is more important as I go on long bike rides and want to know my phone will have juice when/if I need it. My LG G3 can go HOURS without dropping below 95%. This phone drops 2-3% per hour when on wifi (and much worse when on LTE) which is ridiculous while idle. I can charge my iPhone and G3 to 100% and go to bed and wake up 6-7 hours later at 100% on both.

 

[ballzac]

My concerns are the idle time on this phone are really bad compared to my past phones. SOT means very little to me as I am not a power user. Battery drop while idle is more important as I go on long bike rides and want to know my phone will have juice when/if I need it. My LG G3 can go HOURS without dropping below 95%. This phone drops 2-3% per hour when on wifi (and much worse when on LTE) which is ridiculous while idle. I can charge my iPhone and G3 to 100% and go to bed and wake up 6-7 hours later at 100% on both.

Yea I was trying to find ways to save on idle time battery as well

 

[tazman69]

Other than the horrible idle time on battery I really like the phone. I have disabled everything I don't need, cleared the cache, etc and it still is not doing the trick. I know it is not Lollipop as my G3 is on Lollipop and it does not have battery drain issues while idle. Maybe it is an optimization issue with Samsung's software. I still have time to try various tweaks and find a solution.

 

[fantom305]

Mine does that and I don't consider it normal.

It should not be normal, unless with the S6 this is normal however, my advise is to go setting by setting unchecking every thing that it is a battery drainer, like GPS, Sync, time the display stays on, etc.