Apparently, like most people here, you didn't read the post before responding. I said there were people on other carriers getting acceptable battery life with this phone. You assumed that it was the native battery leak from lollipop I was referring to. This is a T-Mobile issue from the research I have done. They need to solve this with whatever software modifications they made that other carriers did not.
While others have chimed in to defend my words, I would still like to give you my thoughts and a reply.
The problem with lollipop is that even today most don't understand what the bugs are and how to avoid them. In the beginning, it wasn't even known who was responsible for such bugs and how to deal with them.
While I didn't follow the nexus 6 that closely in the beginning, I have followed the Nvidia shield tablet from the beginning on KitKat, and to today on lollipop. Since it got lollipop faster than most nexus devices, people on the forums also blamed Nvidia just like some here are blaming Samsung.
The more that users posted issues like faster than normal battery drain, the more they blamed Nvidia for messing up.
But like the nexus 6 and the Nvidia shield tablet, the problem today is not that only that some are affected, but really all phones and tablets are affected. And like the other products, the S6 is definitely affected and it's not just some, but all of them. But you say that some get great SoT and standby? That's right. Just like my phone, I get great SoT and standby. But that doesn't mean that I'm not affected. I still get high cell standby if I'm on 5ghz wifi. Yet still get great numbers.
So why are you so affected and not me? Well that's a complicated issue. While I might be affected in some ways with everything turned on to the max. Others aren't because they may have turned some things off or they aren't dealing with some of the same technology that I am.
With you, you are affected in more than just one issue and this starts with your wifi and ends with your carrier. But again you in particular are dealing with probably 4 issues and there is no guarantee that battery life will be better on a new device. (maybe with a new device you'll only have 2 issues now, but in your case with limited info you're almost guaranteed to have some issues... And if you stay on T-Mobile and they don't fix their bugs, then who is to say you'll have any luck this year)
Only after all this, yes, T-Mobile (as well as all the other carriers in the US) has some possible issues on top of lollipop that may be aggravating the issues. I've repeated this time and time again, even with my conversation with Phil in this forum.
But mark my words, getting a different phone may help tremendously or may be the same or worse than what you have now. It's one of the things that I'm sure Phil misunderstood when I spoke to him. So when I said that today you have to buy a phone that works for you, I wasn't talking about features or screen size that might appeal to you, but to buy a phone that woks and doesn't have issues that you have right now. For you that could be the new G4. But then again, who is to say that the G4 might not be even worse for you too?
The problem with lollipop is not that it has bugs, but that when it comes to lollipop, you may have to be really lucky and win the lollipop lottery to not be affected.
So with all this said, the real question is "do you want to not get a phone this year or make a few tweaks that will minimize the bugs to almost nothing?"
If you're expecting most Android writers to speak honestly about such issues, and not diss the S6 for horrible battery life... Well I wouldn't hold my breath.
This is not a Samsung issue. This is not a T-Mobile issue besides some minor bugs that may aggravate your issues. It is Google that messed up badly and any phone you buy this year may be affected as much as what you have now or worse.
The best of luck to you in what ever you do.
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