Samsung Push app update promises better battery life

[nikitathedog]

My HTC One M7 and M8 both started with mediocre battery life but improved as HTC fine-tuned things and I fully anticipate Samsung will do the same here. This makes it look promising that they're moving fast to deal with these sorts of issues.

Don't decide right away, wait a month, and if you're still seeing issues then yeah move on, but if you otherwise really like the phone give them a chance before dismissing it.

I have to kind of agree here. Currently my battery life is something like six hours between charges although I haven't totally let mine go all the way down. However as being a new phone, it has been busy updating and downloading things in the background and I'm fiddling with it to set up different settings which once all this gets done it should be less of a drain. Then like every phone I have ever had, they come out, everyone complains about the battery and the manufacturer ends up pushing a few update to fix the issue or just try to improve it. So it doesn't matter if this is a fixed battery or not, you still would be charging it anyway.

 

[orangemartini]

I have to kind of agree here. Currently my battery life is something like six hours between charges although I haven't totally let mine go all the way down. However as being a new phone, it has been busy updating and downloading things in the background and I'm fiddling with it to set up different settings which once all this gets done it should be less of a drain. Then like every phone I have ever had, they come out, everyone complains about the battery and the manufacturer ends up pushing a few update to fix the issue or just try to improve it. So it doesn't matter if this is a fixed battery or not, you still would be charging it anyway.

Yes I think it's extremely difficult to evaluate battery life the first couple of weeks you have a phone that you're excited about and can't stop playing with and adjusting and downloading and this and that.

That being said, I used 60% over 17 hours yesterday (I've had it a while so I'm passed the constantly playing with it stage). So I'm very pleased. I don't know if that update did it or not, but I had wifi on all day and that Cell Standy drain did not happen. Fingers crossed it continues

 

[orangemartini]

OK, so it seems like doing all those steps (disabling wifi calling, volte, always scanning, smart switch, then partition cache wipe) solves the "cell standby" problem for a day. Then it comes back. I can do another cache wipe, problem solved for another day, then comes back. I give up!! I'm just going to deal with it by having wifi off most of the time til they fix this for good. Obviously that's not going to be a great solution for a lot of people

 

[akutch34]

I guess it's all a matter of perspective, but my HTC One M7 only drops no more than 14% with a full day of moderate use. This phone had piqued my interest, but the poor battery is a deal breaker for me.

My HTC One M7 and M8 both started with mediocre battery life but improved as HTC fine-tuned things and I fully anticipate Samsung will do the same here. This makes it look promising that they're moving fast to deal with these sorts of issues.

Don't decide right away, wait a month, and if you're still seeing issues then yeah move on, but if you otherwise really like the phone give them a chance before dismissing it.

I had the M7 and, personally, that is the worst phone I've ever had in terms of battery life. I could never get mine to last the entire day.

 

[paridge]

Check the Google Play Newsstand settings. It can decimate battery life. Even if you've never used it, it's set to be constantly updating. You need to uncheck “download via Wi-Fi only.”

 

[erasat]

Check the Google Play Newsstand settings. It can decimate battery life. Even if you've never used it, it's set to be constantly updating. You need to uncheck “download via Wi-Fi only.”

Or like in my case that I use it a couple of times a day to read all my magazines and articles, just leave all settings on default but go to your Google Account in settings and turn off sync for it. Doing this it will never connect on Standby it so only refresh when you go to each magazine, save a lot of battery this way.

 

[Jon_Doh]

I had the M7 and, personally, that is the worst phone I've ever had in terms of battery life. I could never get mine to last the entire day.

You probably updated it to Kit Kat. Every device that I upgraded to Kit Kat suffered from horrible battery life that nothing helped, including a full factor reset. I've kept my M7 on Jelly Bean and battery life has been outstanding. All my apps use Material Design so I have the modern look with a smooth, energy efficient OS.

 

[jaleelhamid]

Has anyone actually noticed a difference. .

 

[shadow82x]

My cell standby is still rocket high after the update. (Verizon)

 

[kwiizu]

I bought s6 edge yesterday and I got this battery Issue.
I have updated the samsung push app but still same problem. on 4hours I lost 30% battery.
Then I just was surfing the internet a bit and listning to music through the standard app.

Anyone have any tips or solution?

 

[Jon_Doh]

I bought s6 edge yesterday and I got this battery Issue.
I have updated the samsung push app but still same problem. on 4hours I lost 30% battery.
Then I just was surfing the internet a bit and listning to music through the standard app.

Anyone have any tips or solution?

Turn off VoLTE, wifi scanning and NFC. Also, go into Google accounts and turn off syncing for any app you don't need or use. These are general things that you should do with any new phone to conserve battery life. Also, sometimes clearing the system cache or doing a factory reset, even though the phone is new, will help.

 

[kwiizu]

Turn off VoLTE, wifi scanning and NFC. Also, go into Google accounts and turn off syncing for any app you don't need or use. These are general things that you should do with any new phone to conserve battery life. Also, sometimes clearing the system cache or doing a factory reset, even though the phone is new, will help.

Okey, I will try the factory reset, Thank you!

 

[Thanian]

Nice will have to look into this! Although I haven't really had any complaints with my battery life.

 

[kwiizu]

Turn off VoLTE, wifi scanning and NFC. Also, go into Google accounts and turn off syncing for any app you don't need or use. These are general things that you should do with any new phone to conserve battery life. Also, sometimes clearing the system cache or doing a factory reset, even though the phone is new, will help.

The factory settings didn't do much. I have about 1hour to my job.
It went from door to door about 11%. Right now 1pm it estimated I have 10hours battery life left (60%)
This seems really bad compares to other I seen on the forum that they last more than 24hours with 70% battery

 

[shaneontherocks]

not on mine...still have Cell standby (Verizon)

I don't understand how you get that battery life. I have 32gb Sprint s6 egde and I am a moderate user. I unlpug at 7:45 am and by noon I have only 70% left. now its almost 4 pm and I have 39%. I def have the lastest push version. even when I got my s6 edge I updated the software then did a factory reset and I can literally watch my battery drop percent by percent when using pretty much any app. I am stock. And I disabled most of the junk apps uninstalled the ones I could... someone please help.