My battery life has become quite suckish lately!

[IAmSixNine]

I haven't doctored anything about that screen capture and we've seen what Samsung's quality control is like recently that even after a recall and some major adjustments, one of their phones is so bad they're having to cancel it altogether and issue refunds, so your can keep your snide remarks to yourself.

Your doing it again. Your bringing in a comparison of the quality issues of the Note 7 which has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation.
Just as i said your comparing a Nexus 4 to a Samsung S7 edge signal was not a real comparison. I seriously doubt Samsungs Note 7 issues are quality control related. This is looking more like a design issue or manufacturing flaw. What ever makes you happy.
Clearly you have not doctored any image because you did NOT post any image.
The image i was referencing was from the original poster not you. But i did make it sound like you posted it at the time, 2 months ago. So keep your snide remarks to your self. ha ha ha.. see what i did there.. Its called humor. As referenced by my LOL in the original comment. Which i think you missed yet other people got.
Anyway, it would have been better to simply say, oh it was not me who posted the images.

So back to being on topic. Weak signal will result in higher battery drain. Fact. As the signal drops the device will use higher power to try to keep an established connection.
Another fact is on CDMA devices your weak signal causes the device to look for neighboring towers more often to try to get a stronger more stable signal. All of this does increase battery usage.
Since your S7 edge has poor quality control from Samsung, as you stated, you should go back to that trusty Nexus 4 and never look back.
The Pixel also looks nice.

 

[Jason Gilbert]

It's your cell standby usage. I just recently had this problem on my S7E, too. (My cell standby battery usage was around 50%.) Following a post on AC about similar problems with the S6, I went into settings and changed the location services to "GPS only" and now my cell standby is down to about 13% and the battery life is back to where it was when I bought the phone. In particular, it's much better when I'm not using it. Location still works well enough for my purposes (using nav while driving), though I have heard that this might adversely affect Google's ability to magically know every place that you've been and serve up relevant suggestions. (I find this feature vaguely creepy and won't miss it.) FYI, my house and my office both have good wifi but so-so cell reception.

Hope this helps!

 

[Doc Marten]

Your doing it again. Your bringing in a comparison of the quality issues of the Note 7 which has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation.
Just as i said your comparing a Nexus 4 to a Samsung S7 edge signal was not a real comparison. I seriously doubt Samsungs Note 7 issues are quality control related. This is looking more like a design issue or manufacturing flaw. What ever makes you happy.
Clearly you have not doctored any image because you did NOT post any image.
The image i was referencing was from the original poster not you. But i did make it sound like you posted it at the time, 2 months ago. So keep your snide remarks to your self. ha ha ha.. see what i did there.. Its called humor. As referenced by my LOL in the original comment. Which i think you missed yet other people got.
Anyway, it would have been better to simply say, oh it was not me who posted the images.

So back to being on topic. Weak signal will result in higher battery drain. Fact. As the signal drops the device will use higher power to try to keep an established connection.
Another fact is on CDMA devices your weak signal causes the device to look for neighboring towers more often to try to get a stronger more stable signal. All of this does increase battery usage.
Since your S7 edge has poor quality control from Samsung, as you stated, you should go back to that trusty Nexus 4 and never look back.
The Pixel also looks nice.

lol. Well it's not a very smart phone that hammers the battery looking for a signal during the hours while I'm asleep. lol

Samsung S7 Edge
RSRP -111dB
RSRQ -9dB

Nexus 4
RSSI -110dB

 

[IAmSixNine]

All phones look for signal when it is in low network coverage, however CDMA handles it differently and is worse on battery.

 

[Android Optimizer]

Hopefully Samsung will migrate over the power saving features from the Note 7 (mid power saving mode, and maximum power saving mode) to the S7 and S7 edge models. That would all give us much better control over battery life.

It's your cell standby usage. I just recently had this problem on my S7E, too. (My cell standby battery usage was around 50%.) Following a post on AC about similar problems with the S6, I went into settings and changed the location services to "GPS only" and now my cell standby is down to about 13% and the battery life is back to where it was when I bought the phone. In particular, it's much better when I'm not using it. Location still works well enough for my purposes (using nav while driving), though I have heard that this might adversely affect Google's ability to magically know every place that you've been and serve up relevant suggestions. (I find this feature vaguely creepy and won't miss it.) FYI, my house and my office both have good wifi but so-so cell reception.

Hope this helps!

That's weird, and interesting. Under Android location is settings "Battery saving" (use wi-fi, bluetooth, and mobile networks to determine location) is supposed to be the most battery efficient setting. If GPS (which I prefer anyway) is actually more battery efficient then that is very interesting.