real battery life. S6,G4,G3

[eao1991]

Don't dare go into the G4 forums, or any other forum for that matter as you'll also find battery saving settings listed there as well. As for Motorola, they have a history of poor battery life. Nexus, not much better history.

I will say that lollipop has borked battery life for most phones. But it's just easier to blame Samsung. I'll also say that my zf2 and m8 both have the same tweaks to help save battery life as my S6. Nothing different between phones. Oh, and the longest running phone that I have regardless of battery size? The S6.

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Lollipop did definitely ruin battery life. I had the Note 4 before it got the Lollipop update and battery life on it was phenomenal. As odd as it may sound, battery life has been pretty much the same for the three Lollipop devices I've owned (Nexus 6, S6, and G4). I no longer own the Nexus or G4, but below are a couple of links to screenshots I took for battery life on the S6 and G4. I forgot to do the same for the Nexus back when I owned it. I'm not going to go through and list all my settings, but my carrier is Verizon, location is always active, and I manually manage the screen brightness.

LG G4 battery life

GS6 battery life

 

[razza1987]

I know. I've seen your posts. I also know you turn your screen all the way to zero amongst other things to achieve it. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that others like me aren't willing to sacrifice everything the phone is capable of to achieve something that shouldn't be an issue in the first place.

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So I listened to what you and others on here were saying about my battery life on my s6 and the fact that my phone was on zero percent brightness so I decided to test it on brighter to see what would happen. The only difference I made was increasing the brightness. The last two screen shots are obviously darker because the screen gets darker once your battery gets to 5%. Here is my results. I will not be keeping it on this level of brightness because it hurt my eyes but I was just curious how the settings would go on my phone on a different brightness level

 

[syspry]

So I listened to what you and others on here were saying about my battery life on my s6 and the fact that my phone was on zero percent brightness so I decided to test it on brighter to see what would happen. The only difference I made was increasing the brightness. The last two screen shots are obviously darker because the screen gets darker once your battery gets to 5%. Here is my results. I will not be keeping it on this level of brightness because it hurt my eyes but I was just curious how the settings would go on my phone on a different brightness level

I'm the opposite of you, I can't stand anything less than 50% at the absolute minimum, and require higher often because of using outdoors frequently. I'm afraid the results people get under those conditions are too poor for my tastes. And those conditions didn't cause a battery issue for my previous and current phones. I'm not just pointing the finger at Samsung here though. I doubt any of the OEM's could've predicted that battery life on lollipop would end up so poorly coded, needing at least 3k MaH batteries (preferably higher) to compensate.

I think the plain and uncomfortable truth here is that Android smart phones are simply not ready to have pleasing battery life on devices sporting qhd displays running lollipop. To clarify that statement, I define pleasing as being able to unplug at 8am and not have to bother worrying about charging until sometime the next day's morning under medium usage.

 

[mgfjd12]

Excellent battery life here.

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