Something just isn't adding up with this poor battery life.

[Wildo6882]

I just activated my S6 yesterday (AT&T - Black Sapphire 64gb). I downloaded all my apps to it on Saturday, but didn't log in to anything or otherwise set up the phone. I got it activated around 1:30PM yesterday and then got to setting everything up. My battery seemed to drop relatively fast, but I was also using it a lot. It ended up getting roughly 3.5-4 hours SOT until it hit 2% left. But that was a lot of use. I had wi-fi on the entire time, even when out of wi-fi range. I have location services set to non-GPS but wi-fi and cell signal only.

I noticed before I put it back on the charger that my cell standby percentage was around 26%, which seemed pretty high. I cleared the cache through recovery, turned off the "Enhanced 4G LTE Services" and did a reboot. Then tossed it on my wireless charger for the night. I've now got about an hour of SOT and I'm sitting at 73% battery, which would average between 3.5 hours and 4 hours of SOT - but cell standby is nowhere to be seen on my battery usage.

 

[maj71303]

IMO Google has to get on grip on android. Google makes android and yes there are bugs to it but they make a good vanilla version for the oem's. It seems things tend to go badly though when some oem's and carriers add there layers on top of the vanilla android. IMO each oem's should have there own section in Google play where they keep there skins as launchers for people that want to use. You want TW you go to Samsung's section in play store and get it, and the same with all the others. Same for the carriers, your apps in your section on the play store. If people want to use them they will find them and install them no problem. I don't see why Google can't get this done in the US. Pleased don't use the apple excuse as even windows OS and BB OS can uninstall all common carrier apps. If the smallest players in the game can make that happen no reason Google can't.

This won't mean that Google won't be open it just cleans up the android code and stops having everyone add their layers on top of layers and causing these inconsistent problems across devices. IMO this is why a device that should have better power management and efficiency shows such wide ranging results because layers have been just stacked on layers of things that should obviously been just an app downloadable from the play store. Best part it makes updates well more faster for everyone.