My S7 Edge's battery life is horrible

[AKFL3TCH3R]

I find myself charging this phone multiple times a day. I have a lot of features I don't use turned off. And then connectivity issues as well. Android OS drainage.

 

[Dngrsone]

Well, connectivity issues will certainly lead to poor battery life...

 

[Tsepz_GP]

I find myself charging this phone multiple times a day. I have a lot of features I don't use turned off. And then connectivity issues as well. Android OS drainage.

Are you in an area with poor signal? If not and you are still having connectivity issues you may have a faulty unit.

Do you have a case on it?

 

[AKFL3TCH3R]

Are you in an area with poor signal? If not and you are still having connectivity issues you may have a faulty unit.

Do you have a case on it?

I think it may just be my place of work. Only few areas actually have a problem with showing signal but pulling no data.

 

[AKFL3TCH3R]

Are you in an area with poor signal? If not and you are still having connectivity issues you may have a faulty unit.

Do you have a case on it?

I have a spigen dual layer case on it.. maybe the phone heats up in it and drains battery that way?

 

[Dngrsone]

In my experience, any time you are in an area of low to no connection to the cell towers, your battery will drain significantly because the phone is transmitting at highest power to try and maintain contact with said tower.

If you are able to connect to Wi-Fi at work instead, that may improve your battery life. If you are able to live without phone access during work, then try setting airplane mode while at work.

 

[SexyLi]

Have you ever opened lots of software that you don't use?? You can close those software for your phone.

 

[JOC2016]

The single most effective saver of battery on my S7 edge is to turn down the brightness of the display to around 30% on the slider - after 10 mins you won't notice you've done so. I also find turning off the GPS when I don't need it is helpful.

 

[bedscenez]

After full charge my Estimated Battery Life was 10hrs 30 mins. Is that normal. Also notice some faster battery drain after Nougat Update. Last time i used skype and youtube for 1 hour battery was around 75%

 

[Qc_Anubis]

I have a spigen dual layer case on it.. maybe the phone heats up in it and drains battery that way?

I have a spigen dualed layer aswell and no has nothing to do with it.
Question for ya: have you done a factory reset or cleared cache memory when you upgraded to 7.0 ?
Most people recommend you do one of these when you do major updates (like moving from 6.0 to 7.0 not 7.0 to 7.1)

 

[CaribMas]

If I'm in an area with low or reduced signal coverage, I usually apply Maximum Power Saving Mode.

 

[Abbers727]

If I'm in an area with low or reduced signal coverage, I usually apply Maximum Power Saving Mode.

The only issue with that, is you won't know if you have low signal coverage unless you looked at your phone and can see that it has low signal coverage.

At work, I put my phone on airplane mode.