Guys, not sure what im doing wrong but im only averaging 10 hours. This is after 3-4 full charges, brightness at 50%, everything off but sync and wifi. Ive even turned off all the motion stuff.
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50% brightness would burn my eyes out. Have you tried lowering the brightness and putting it on auto?
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I love everything about this phone except the small battery. This thing drains faster than a lead boat with a hole in the bottom. I came from the heart note 3 and thought the battery would be at least that good. WRONG!
Now I know why they keep advertising the fast charging because the battery socks so bad. This fast charging isn't really all that new. It is a little faster than my note 3 with a 2.4 amp charger.
Downgrading the battery was a total asinine move on the part of Samsung,but I guess they have to save money where they can.
You have a high resolution screen. Doesn't matter that it is amoled. You have an octorcore processor coupled with 4gb of ram. All that put together takes a whole lot of juice, so Sammy comes up the brilliant idea of putting a smaller battery in!
At least they have a wireless charger. I think my new phone will be sitting on it most of the time!
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Now I know why they keep advertising the fast charging because the battery socks so bad. This fast charging isn't really all that new. It is a little faster than my note 3 with a 2.4 amp charger.
Downgrading the battery was a total asinine move on the part of Samsung,but I guess they have to save money where they can.
You have a high resolution screen. Doesn't matter that it is amoled. You have an octorcore processor coupled with 4gb of ram. All that put together takes a whole lot of juice, so Sammy comes up the brilliant idea of putting a smaller battery in!
At least they have a wireless charger. I think my new phone will be sitting on it most of the time!
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Hey Iron try the settings for best battery life for the S6. Make sure you go into your account settings and disable the aspects of your Google account you don't use and disable or uninstall the bloatware that you don't use.
For instance my twitter and Facebook doesn't have to keep running and syncing so I turn those off (don't disable just turn off sync). When you open them they automatically update anyway. Same goes for many other apps.
I leave google now on and leave optimal location, Bluetooth and WI fi on too and I'm getting 19 hours with about 3.5 hours of on screen time even with all that stuff enabled but the trick on Android is figuring out what you need to sync and that's it.
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Yes, that would be correct. Sorry for posting in the wrong thread. I do a lot of testing and got wrapped in the battery discussion. You can delete that post, or if you like, I will.
By the way, I do like the Note 5 and will be recommending it where applicable. Also, the first few days or even week will be less battery life than when you settle into your habits and the phone software settles down. If it's pretty good now, it will only get better
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That is normal for the app to not show on the home screen or the app drawer. When you enable it again, it will show back up in your app drawer, then you can add it manually to the home screen. I have a couple apps that I treat this way because they are rogue battery suckers.
Well, what I read from you is that you didn't want yours running and syncing, so you disabled them, but they update automatically when you reopen them. Are you talking about opening them from a browser? I don't want Facebook to always be running. I Do want it enabled because I do use it, just not all the time.
I actually said that wrong, sorry about that I meant to turn off sync and notifications on those, don't actually disable them. That way the app is always there when you open it, then it updates on the spot of usage rather than syncing all the time.
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Hmm my battery life just seems to keep going by 1% at a very alarming rate by just simple browsing through the interface of the phone (I'm not doing anything excessive or even playing games). Just got it yesterday. Unsure if its all the bloatware on the phone but I'm a newbie in the Android realm since I' coming from a Windows phone. Anyone know some tips I can do to increase my battery life?
Turn the screen brightness down and set the set the sleep after minutes of inactivity to the lowest you can live with.
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Oh, in that case, you can turn application sync off by going to settings then accounts & sync. From there, find your app in the list and tap, then you can turn sync on or off from there. Note that you can still go into the application and swipe down to sync, so don't worry about having to go to settings each time.
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Go to settings on your phone, scroll down to "Battery Manager", then tap on "Battery usage". This will bring up a list of the programs that are using your battery up, then you can get rid of or adjust the programs that are sucking too much. Be aware that all apps use power when in use, but keep an eye open for ones that use a lot even when the program is closed (Lookin at YOU, Photobucket!)
You are assuming somehow letting every app secretly sending your information to Google is "great", simply because they are on by default.
I never understand that thinking neither.
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