S6 or G4?

[anon(5630457)]

There's no doubt that both devices are of the highest quality and yet it's the G4 that has won Phil's heart. I feel the same.
Why I'd buy the LG G4 over the Galaxy S6 | Android Central

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I get 2 1/2 to 3 hours SOT on my S6 on automatic brightness. If you want that, go with the S6. Otherwise, get the G4 and its bigger (and replaceable!) battery.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

I get 2 1/2 to 3 hours SOT on my S6 on automatic brightness. If you want that, go with the S6. Otherwise, get the G4 and its bigger (and replaceable!) battery.

I get around 3ish hours SOT before I have to charge my S6. Auto brightness as well.

I find that any site that just benchmarks the battery life results shows the S6 with the higher scores, but reviewers who use the device day to day and comment on the battery life, claim that the G4 lasts longer than the S6.

I don't care for battery tests. I don't sit my phone on a table and just run benchmark apps over and over. I use the phone and want comments from reviewers who use the phone day to day as well.

Phil Nickinson, Alex Dobie and the AC team have said that the G4 just flat out lasts longer than the S6 on charge. And I believe them. I'll have to wait till I get my unit, but I don't have any reason to doubt what they say. They actually use the device every day when they are writing a review. If they just did battery benchmarks and commented on that, we wouldn't get an accurate battery life section from them. It would just be what GSM arena and Phone Arena do and just post the scores and not comment on real usage.

You can flash all the benchmark results you want, but end of the day, real world use is what's more important. And from what I've read by the people who use the phone - the G4 lasts longer.

 

[anon(5630457)]

I get around 3ish hours SOT before I have to charge my S6. Auto brightness as well.

I find that any site that just benchmarks the battery life results shows the S6 with the higher scores, but reviewers who use the device day to day and comment on the battery life, claim that the G4 lasts longer than the S6.

I don't care for battery tests. I don't sit my phone on a table and just run benchmark apps over and over. I use the phone and want comments from reviewers who use the phone day to day as well.

Phil Nickinson, Alex Dobie and the AC team have said that the G4 just flat out lasts longer than the S6 on charge. And I believe them. I'll have to wait till I get my unit, but I don't have any reason to doubt what they say. They actually use the device every day when they are writing a review. If they just did battery benchmarks and commented on that, we wouldn't get an accurate battery life section from them. It would just be what GSM arena and Phone Arena do and just post the scores and not comment on real usage.

You can flash all the benchmark results you want, but end of the day, real world use is what's more important. And from what I've read by the people who use the phone - the G4 lasts longer.

The Verge did a review of the G4 (see here: LG G4 review | The Verge) and said this about the battery:

"The swappable 3,000mAh battery had no trouble lasting a full day of heavy use, and if you’re less demanding on your phone than I am, it will likely last into a second day. It’s better than the Galaxy S6, which just barely eked out a day for us"

 

[Duncan1982]

The Verge did a review of the G4 (see here: LG G4 review | The Verge) and said this about the battery:

"The swappable 3,000mAh battery had no trouble lasting a full day of heavy use, and if you’re less demanding on your phone than I am, it will likely last into a second day. It’s better than the Galaxy S6, which just barely eked out a day for us"

This varies as in my S6 Edge i have over 12hrs and 17mins on battery with 2hrs 34mins SOT with 47% remaining which for me is not bad

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[StevenJ_AK]

Having the phone for 25ish days now I can say there's times I get 3.5 hrs of SOT, and there's times I get 6hrs SOT. it's a coin toss for me. Rarely will I get less then 4 hrs. Usage on the battery us yay around 11-17 hrs and that sometimes includes sleeping because I never rely plug my phone in. I'm a retired guy and I'm on my phone browsing or catching up on the news pretty much all the time. I don't use a laptop or tablet very often at all. I keep my phone on auto brightness with the slider maxed out to the right. I don't close my apps ever really either.

The 6hrs one is yesterday. The 4hr 20 min one is from right now, I just snapped it. The others are completly random. Battery life is what it is. I could and have killed a G4 batter in under 2hrs SOT as well, but any phone you could say that about.

 

[belodion]

I get 2 1/2 to 3 hours SOT on my S6 on automatic brightness. If you want that, go with the S6. Otherwise, get the G4 and its bigger (and replaceable!) battery.

Oh, I have got the G4. Second day into it.

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[tpence2177]

Rd_nest, if you love your GS6 why are you here?

Anyone with half a brain knows that real world usage and battery drain tests do not always equal. (no one but kids watch movies all day on a phone). Considering pretty much every reviewer who's used both for an extended amount of time as their daily device has said the G4 has a better battery, I don't care what in lab testing shows.

No defending anyone and I don't really have a dog in this fight. ( I have a s6 and love it, and if I would've spent a little more time researching before I got my s6 I may have went for the g4) but this thread is called g4 vs s6.... so that may be why he is here lol.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

The Verge did a review of the G4 (see here: LG G4 review | The Verge) and said this about the battery:

"The swappable 3,000mAh battery had no trouble lasting a full day of heavy use, and if you’re less demanding on your phone than I am, it will likely last into a second day. It’s better than the Galaxy S6, which just barely eked out a day for us"

Yeah that's exactly what I mean. I notice reviewers who don't put the phones under benchmark tests (which are just scripts running over and over) tend to get better battery life on the G4 than the S6. Whereas reviewers who just use benchmarks to tell them if the battery life is good have the S6 coming up with higher scores.

I'll go with the people who use it hands on like Phil Nickinson: Why I'd buy the LG G4 over the Galaxy S6 | Android Central

"I'm not afraid to charge a phone when it needs it. But the GS6 needs to be juiced up before I leave the office in the late afternoon. The G4 makes it to bedtime. End of story."

I trust the AC writers, don't believe they'd have any reason to deceive us and I think that's Phil's experience with the battery life.

Not disputing that the S6 does better on battery life benchmark tests, but they don't translate to real world use.

 

[MDMcAtee]

Yeah that's exactly what I mean. I notice reviewers who don't put the phones under benchmark tests (which are just scripts running over and over) tend to get better battery life on the G4 than the S6. Whereas reviewers who just use benchmarks to tell them if the battery life is good have the S6 coming up with higher scores.

I'll go with the people who use it hands on like Phil Nickinson: Why I'd buy the LG G4 over the Galaxy S6 | Android Central

"I'm not afraid to charge a phone when it needs it. But the GS6 needs to be juiced up before I leave the office in the late afternoon. The G4 makes it to bedtime. End of story."

I trust the AC writers, don't believe they'd have any reason to deceive us and I think that's Phil's experience with the battery life.

Not disputing that the S6 does better on battery life benchmark tests, but they don't translate to real world use.

And more importantly they never will.

Benchmarks can be a useful tool and any tool can be used improperly but unfortunately there are those who don't fully comprehend that the results garnered from them will never reflect the average usage from different carriers or regions. To many who love to spout off how great a device over another synthetic benchmarks are their holy grail. It's real day to day usage on the same carriers that truly matters for the majority of people.

Is the s6 Phills choice, no it's not and for anyone who has to use synthetic benchmarks to call him a liar about his day to day usage results should be admonished IMHO.

Phil and the rest of the staff here give honest opinions and base their respective recommendations on this and this is done without the fanboy mentally that runs rampant on most other Android sites. I for one am thankful for this and value his opinion on the matter

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[Carrtman]

If I would be in the market for a new phone the G4 would for sure be my number one non phablet choice.

It just hits all cylinders, powerful, removable battery, sd card slot and a beautiful premium leather back.

Only thing I don't like are the on screen buttons

 

[Duncan1982]

There are so many variables in terms of battery life.

1)Installed apps

2)what you have synced

3)Brightness levels

4)The way in which you use

So i tend not to get into any debates.

Yes if a certain number report poor battery life then that paints a negative picture.

I am a heavy user as my phone is one i use for work also. So my usage tends to be the same. However if i am driving alot in the day then obviously I'm not screen on.

But my S6 Edge has been solid so far, i am on a custom rom & kernel though.

Will be interesting to see how the G4 holds out in comparison.

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[warpdrive]

Yeah that's exactly what I mean. I notice reviewers who don't put the phones under benchmark tests (which are just scripts running over and over) tend to get better battery life on the G4 than the S6. Whereas reviewers who just use benchmarks to tell them if the battery life is good have the S6 coming up with higher scores.

I'll go with the people who use it hands on like Phil Nickinson: Why I'd buy the LG G4 over the Galaxy S6 | Android Central

"I'm not afraid to charge a phone when it needs it. But the GS6 needs to be juiced up before I leave the office in the late afternoon. The G4 makes it to bedtime. End of story."

I trust the AC writers, don't believe they'd have any reason to deceive us and I think that's Phil's experience with the battery life.

Not disputing that the S6 does better on battery life benchmark tests, but they don't translate to real world use.

I agree, but both Andrew and Phil are using broken phones when they are talking about battery life with the T-Mobile S6. Yes, you also get similar results, but you may also fall into the broken category. AC also did a front page article asking about how the battery life is holding up on the S6, with less than 10 percent saying that it was poor, and the rest getting twice to quadruple the SoT and standby, it seems that all S6 is not like Phil and Andrew phones.

I would not use a broken phone as a good comparison to another phone.

My results with real world use (with 3 hours of gaming)... 5 hours of SoT and 16+ hours of standby, out of the box untweaked. Tweaked, as much as 7 hours of SoT.

Again, sorry the S6 didn't work out for you Hero. I hope you have much better luck with the G4. It's looking like a great phone to me.

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[anon(5630457)]

I agree, but both Andrew and Phil are using broken phones when they are talking about battery life with the T-Mobile S6. Yes, you also get similar results, but you may also fall into the broken category. AC also did a front page article asking about how the battery life is holding up on the S6, with less than 10 percent saying that it was poor, and the rest getting twice to quadruple the SoT and standby, it seems that all S6 is not like Phil and Andrew phones.

I would not use a broken phone as a good comparison to another phone.

My results with real world use (with 3 hours of gaming)... 5 hours of SoT and 16+ hours of standby, out of the box untweaked. Tweaked, as much as 7 hours of SoT.

Again, sorry the S6 didn't work out for you Hero. I hope you have much better luck with the G4. It's looking like a great phone to me.

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C'mon. What's the odds of both Phil and Andrew using broken phones? Are many of us with poor battery life results using broken phones? Odds are no, no we're not. The fault is on Samsung's end on this one. The people who are saying they're getting 5-6 hours SOT on their S6's are liars.

 

[tpence2177]

C'mon. What's the odds of both Phil and Andrew using broken phones? Are many of us with poor battery life results using broken phones? Odds are no, no we're not. The fault is on Samsung's end on this one. The people who are saying they're getting 5-6 hours SOT on their S6's are liars.

If they have screenshots to prove it how are they lying? I haven't ever gotten 5-6 hrs but I have gotten 4 hours with 24 hours on battery. It wasn't heavy usage, but I wouldn't call them liars. I could see it being possible if I cut some more things off, which I'm not willing to do.

 

[warpdrive]

C'mon. What's the odds of both Phil and Andrew using broken phones? Are many of us with poor battery life results using broken phones?

The odds are about 95% since people who have returned their original got at least 35% increase in battery life out of the box, compared to their old and tweaked out originals.

I've posted countless screen shots that Hero has acknowledged seeing and is well aware of what I've posted.

Not all phones are the same. Each carrier can have drastically different results. Then there is how you test, how good your service is in your area, and so on.
If Phil or Andrew would retest even with a new T-Mobile S6, they would get different results than they have right now from the first batch from T-Mobile. But what reviewer wants to open that can of worms and possibly destroy getting future review units?

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[getbretweir]

S6 / S6E all the way.. There is no freaking way you will get better batterylife from G4, unless you have a lemon or don't know how to use a phone. Therer is no debate, it's marked on stone that G4 has much worse battery life.

Now before everyone jumps on me and declares me as a troll, read the following properly before you comment.

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Source: LG G4 Review - Accuduur: niet voor de grootverbruiker - Tweakers

For movies, the difference is like double.. LOL
WTF LG was thinking?? Are they freaking serious? They should orice the phone half of what S6 is selling

But I know, most will say that's just one site. Right?

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Source: LG G4 battery life test: nothing's changed since the G3

Ohh, PhoneArena must be paid by Samsung. So obviously they must be out there destroying the image of LG.

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Note: GSMArena tests batterylife at 50% brightness.
G4 (at 50% brightness) - 108nits
S6 (at 50% brightness) - 208nits

Meaning S6 is much brighter than G4 at 50% brightness, level at which GSMArena tested the phones. Imagin at equal brightness, the difference will be much higher in favour of S6.

And this is the result with a much faster processor. With a much slower processor, the G4 was supposed to give much better numbers.

that's why I pay 0 attention to spec tests, especially from phone arena ... every other review that's used the phone in the real world, has said the G4 beats the S6 in battery life

if spec tests are your thing, that's cool, but I've found them to be unreliable and trust real world usage a lot more. just my opinion!

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[getbretweir]

C'mon. What's the odds of both Phil and Andrew using broken phones? Are many of us with poor battery life results using broken phones? Odds are no, no we're not. The fault is on Samsung's end on this one. The people who are saying they're getting 5-6 hours SOT on their S6's are liars.

either there's a ton of people getting poor battery life, or there's a ton of broken phones. whichever is true, it's a good enough reason for me personally not to get the S6. I was skeptical when I saw the battery size, and a lot of the complaints have confirmed my suspicion

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[I Can Be Your Hero]

I've posted countless screen shots that Hero has acknowledged seeing and is well aware of what I've posted.

This is true.

I however can't get close to the battery life you're achieving. I've tried a few tweaks and fixes, but hasn't gotten better. It's fine, I still like the S6, think it's overall a really great phone, but I just want to move to something different.

I don't think the people who are getting good battery life are liars. I also don't think the people getting poor battery life are liars. I just think people are getting different battery life out of their usage and it's unfortunate not everyone is getting great battery.

 

[ffejjj]

I think this is the nicest Galaxy to date but I can't wait to get the G4 into my hands!

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[warpdrive]

This is true.

I however can't get close to the battery life you're achieving. I've tried a few tweaks and fixes, but hasn't gotten better. It's fine, I still like the S6, think it's overall a really great phone, but I just want to move to something different.

I totally understand. Again, sorry the S6 didn't work out for you Hero. I hope you have much better luck with the G4. It's looking like a great phone to me.

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