Why is my battery life so bad?

[DoyouFanBoyBro]

this^

 

[warpdrive]

Galaxy S6 battery life bad? This update might help http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s6-battery-life-bad-update-might-help

Android Central as of now. Hope this really is being seen by other users.

Posted via My Samsung Galaxy S6 Handheld Device

This really is not needed and is not the ultimate fix for cell standby. At least I don't think it is.

But whatever. My battery lasts me far longer than my old S4 by at least 25% and in some cases 50% improved battery life.

I guess 5 to 6 hours of screen on time for some people is just not enough.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[jcp007]

This really is not needed and is not the ultimate fix for cell standby. At least I don't think it is.

But whatever. My battery lasts me far longer than my old S4 by at least 25% and in some cases 50% improved battery life.

I guess 5 to 6 hours of screen on time for some people is just not enough.

Posted via the Android Central App

Who has that much time on their phone? Maybe a different hobby perhaps?

Posted via My Samsung Galaxy S6 Handheld Device

 

[brushrop03]

This really is not needed and is not the ultimate fix for cell standby. At least I don't think it is.

But whatever. My battery lasts me far longer than my old S4 by at least 25% and in some cases 50% improved battery life.

I guess 5 to 6 hours of screen on time for some people is just not enough.

Posted via the Android Central App

Who is getting that much SOT? I think people wouldn't complain if they were squeezing out 5hrs SOT. I can get about 3.5 max.

 

[warpdrive]

I'm going to sum things up for like minded folks like me. Doing tweaks to gain battery life or better efficiency of a smart phone in 2015 is an absolute cop out. I'm a very advance user and I've just had to finally put my foot down and said enough is enough for all of that. The money spent of these devices now demand that I don't settle anymore for the same old song and dance. It is not my job to solve Google and the OEM's problems. Alot of you may want to keep doing that, but tell me when does the compromises stop? When does the excuses and cop outs stop?

My S6E went back yesterday as I won't put up with the compromises and excuses from android and it's OEM's anymore. Tweaking the themes, changing backgrounds, sounds, icons are indeed tweaks. Having to shutoff WiFi, VOLTE, WiFi calling, lower brightness, disable autosync on accounts /email, and doing cache wipes are compromises. Sorry to bust peoples bubbles but the definition of tweaks and compromises to me must be different than a good group of people on this forum. My Smartphone resolution for 2015 is no compromises anymore. I will not compromise on battery life or smartphone functions. I will not disable autosync, smartphone functions like WiFi, VOLTE, and the such for better battery life. I will take the device back and get something that can do the job of a smartphone which is to be smart and capable. I will lastly not compromise myself or this creed just for a few extra new uber features.

This is my Smartphone resolution and prayer for now until I die. I will not compromise anymore.

That's why for my first 4 days of use I left everything turned on including wifi (set as always scanning), bluetooth, location services, everything syncing including email and social media, VoLTE turned on, so on, and so on.

With an S6 from AT&T, this is the results I'm getting...

That is with over 3 hours of video gaming, more than an hour of YouTube, some web, email, text, and helping users here on AC.

As I posted earlier, if I turn off VoLTE, I can get an added hour of Screen on time.

Beemed to you with the GS6

 

[maj71303]

That's why for my first 4 days of use I left everything turned on including wifi (set as always scanning), bluetooth, location services, everything syncing including email and social media, VoLTE turned on, so on, and so on.

With an S6 from AT&T, this is the results I'm getting...

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That is with over 3 hours of video gaming, more than an hour of YouTube, some web, email, text, and helping users here on AC.

As I posted earlier, if I turn off VoLTE, I can get an added hour of Screen on time.

Beemed to you with the GS6

Without the compromises I cast doubt on your claim. If the first 3 hours of the graph is any indication of just standby time after a charge it looks like your batter life fell down a steep cliff and then suddenly leveled off. The level off is indicative of being idle with no use / standby. Then it shows you using it as it once again goes down steeply. Your signal is not good at 2 - 3 bars as well. SO it verifies that I indeed made a good decision to return the S6E.

You don't make a good case at all.

 

[warpdrive]

Who is getting that much SOT? I think people wouldn't complain if they were squeezing out 5hrs SOT. I can get about 3.5 max.

With VoLTE turned off and wifi on but not always scanning and allowing it to sleep when not in use, I'm getting 6 hours of screen on time and 16+ standby with med to heavy use. I've already posted screens to show this earlier.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[brushrop03]

With VoLTE turned off and wifi on but not always scanning and allowing it to sleep when not in use, I'm getting 6 hours of screen on time and 16+ standby with med to heavy use. I've already posted screens to show this earlier.

Posted via the Android Central App

Well the AT&T version doesn't even have VoLTE. Turned wifi scanning off right out the box and haven't broken 4 hours.

 

[warpdrive]

Without the compromises I cast doubt on your claim. If the first 3 hours of the graph is any indication of just standby time after a charge it looks like your batter life fell down a steep cliff and then suddenly leveled off. The level off is indicative of being idle with no use / standby. Then it shows you using it as it once again goes down steeply. Your signal is not good at 2 - 3 bars as well. SO it verifies that I indeed made a good decision to return the S6E.

Clearly you have no idea how to read a graph with additional information given to you as to why it looks the way it does. So for the extremely uninformed among us....

I'm a gamer. I play games on my devices.
I don't play games that are not cpu/gpu intensive (candy crush). I play games that are far more demanding than anything else you can throw at your phone such as Dungeon Hunter 5, PBA Bowling, and the new game Hearthstone.
Such games will drain your battery faster than anything you do on your device.

With that said, if my graphs didn't show such dips then clearly you can call me a lier. But since they did, and my screen shots prove I game, your reply is worthless and uninformed.

Thank you for playing, not go back to the little kiddie pool with the rest of the children.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[warpdrive]

Well the AT&T version doesn't even have VoLTE. Turned wifi scanning off right out the box and haven't broken 4 hours.

AT&T sure did have VoLTE. It's located in the settings under mobile network, then mobile data.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[Adranalyne]

Clearly you have no idea how to read a graph with additional information given to you as to why it looks the way it does. So for the extremely uninformed among us....

I'm a gamer. I play games on my devices.
I don't play games that are not cpu/gpu intensive (candy crush). I play games that are far more demanding than anything else you can throw at your phone such as Dungeon Hunter 5, PBA Bowling, and the new game Hearthstone.
Such games will drain your battery faster than anything you do on your device.

With that said, if my graphs didn't show such dips then clearly you can call me a lier. But since they did, and my screen shots prove I game, your reply is worthless and uninformed.

Thank you for playing, not go back to the little kiddie pool with the rest of the children.

Posted via the Android Central App

Maybe this is more to his liking. This was a steady drain from start to finish. Auto brightness, WiFi scanning is off, VoLTE (Enhanced 4G on AT&T) is on. A lot of Facebook, Fenix (Twitter), Chrome browsing, some voice calls, and a whole lot of texting.

Posted via Galaxy S6 edge

 

[katiheefner]

I'm going to sum things up for like minded folks like me. Doing tweaks to gain battery life or better efficiency of a smart phone in 2015 is an absolute cop out. I'm a very advance user and I've just had to finally put my foot down and said enough is enough for all of that. The money spent of these devices now demand that I don't settle anymore for the same old song and dance. It is not my job to solve Google and the OEM's problems. Alot of you may want to keep doing that, but tell me when does the compromises stop? When does the excuses and cop outs stop?

My S6E went back yesterday as I won't put up with the compromises and excuses from android and it's OEM's anymore. Tweaking the themes, changing backgrounds, sounds, icons are indeed tweaks. Having to shutoff WiFi, VOLTE, WiFi calling, lower brightness, disable autosync on accounts /email, and doing cache wipes are compromises. Sorry to bust peoples bubbles but the definition of tweaks and compromises to me must be different than a good group of people on this forum. My Smartphone resolution for 2015 is no compromises anymore. I will not compromise on battery life or smartphone functions. I will not disable autosync, smartphone functions like WiFi, VOLTE, and the such for better battery life. I will take the device back and get something that can do the job of a smartphone which is to be smart and capable. I will lastly not compromise myself or this creed just for a few extra new uber features.

This is my Smartphone resolution and prayer for now until I die. I will not compromise anymore.

So what phone are you going to chose?

 

[maj71303]

Clearly you have no idea how to read a graph with additional information given to you as to why it looks the way it does. So for the extremely uninformed among us....

I'm a gamer. I play games on my devices.
I don't play games that are not cpu/gpu intensive (candy crush). I play games that are far more demanding than anything else you can throw at your phone such as Dungeon Hunter 5, PBA Bowling, and the new game Hearthstone.
Such games will drain your battery faster than anything you do on your device.

With that said, if my graphs didn't show such dips then clearly you can call me a lier. But since they did, and my screen shots prove I game, your reply is worthless and uninformed.

Thank you for playing, not go back to the little kiddie pool with the rest of the children.

Posted via the Android Central App

So by the graph from 0030 - 0230 you are up playing all these games, youtube, and other crap you say after you took it off a full charge. The from 0230 - 0700 ish it is idle doing nothing. then from 0700 - 1000 roughly you are at it again with all your activities.

Meaning I couldn't give less a flipping bird about your experience with your S6. The only experience that matters is mine as I brought it. If I don't like it nothing you say will change that opinion. If you feel the need to be such a defender of your purchase please do it quietly in the corner of the fanboy pool. Most people with complaints are issues that relate to them. A lot of what you say they should do doesn't work for the particular person. This is the problem with a lot of posters like you don't get not everyone wants to cripple / compromise with there smartphone and you will hear it alot more often now.

 

[Adranalyne]

So what phone are you going to chose?

He's got limited options. Good luck with that.

Posted via Galaxy S6 edge

 

[Bodzm]

I'm going to sum things up for like minded folks like me. Doing tweaks to gain battery life or better efficiency of a smart phone in 2015 is an absolute cop out. I'm a very advance user and I've just had to finally put my foot down and said enough is enough for all of that. The money spent of these devices now demand that I don't settle anymore for the same old song and dance. It is not my job to solve Google and the OEM's problems. Alot of you may want to keep doing that, but tell me when does the compromises stop? When does the excuses and cop outs stop?

My S6E went back yesterday as I won't put up with the compromises and excuses from android and it's OEM's anymore. Tweaking the themes, changing backgrounds, sounds, icons are indeed tweaks. Having to shutoff WiFi, VOLTE, WiFi calling, lower brightness, disable autosync on accounts /email, and doing cache wipes are compromises. Sorry to bust peoples bubbles but the definition of tweaks and compromises to me must be different than a good group of people on this forum. My Smartphone resolution for 2015 is no compromises anymore. I will not compromise on battery life or smartphone functions. I will not disable autosync, smartphone functions like WiFi, VOLTE, and the such for better battery life. I will take the device back and get something that can do the job of a smartphone which is to be smart and capable. I will lastly not compromise myself or this creed just for a few extra new uber features.

This is my Smartphone resolution and prayer for now until I die. I will not compromise anymore.

We have two clear camps here. One camp thinks poor battery is due to the user not switching off sufficient number of functions (lol) and "not taking ownership" - whatever that means,
And the other expects a reasonable 2015 device that can actually last a day under normal use with advertised/enhancing features switched on

 

[maj71303]

So what phone are you going to chose?

I'll wait and just see what else comes down the pipe. There hasn't really been a big leap in smartphone tech like in previous years. This year just feels off and not right with smartphones in general. If nothing comes that peeks my interest better luck next year. My phone needs are not great as the two I have will get me by a couple years by my guess. IMO I think we my have hit a stagnation point with these devices.

 

[maj71303]

He's got limited options. Good luck with that.

Posted via Galaxy S6 edge

nope it's just that my two yester year phones still work fine in 2015 software and apps haven't gotten to the point to leave yester years tech behind just yet. So I have time to wait. Also still have phones that yet to be released / unveiled. I'm very patient and can wait as long as my current devices continue to function well. Seeing a new device hit market doesn't make me want to swipe the AMEX that easily.

 

[maj71303]

We have two clear camps here. One camp thinks poor battery is due to the user not switching off sufficient number of functions (lol) and "not taking ownership" - whatever that means,
And the other expects a reasonable 2015 device that can actually last a day under normal use with advertised/enhancing features switched on

And it shouldn't be like that, but people think it's an insult to be question on things they do and react with lots of hate and anger. But that seems to indicate the herd mentality of our time. IF a person is good with there decision they shouldn't care what others think. But if they lash out, then you've touched an obvious nerve and took there psychological high so to speak from them and now they doubt there decision. Such is the world.

 

[stevelam]

Why do you must assume "out of box" config is always the best?

There is no secret here, just look at windows pc, is out of box config the best? no. You can spend $3000 on a high end gaming pc, it still need your attention once you got it.

The question is not about if out-of-box config need to be fixed, it just is, the question is if you will do it.



Thats true from our point of view. But Google ecosystem is so complex, it would not surprise me if they had calculation somewhere that says they get more benefit from a different kind of "phone-server communication" than asking people to actively use it....

this is literally the WORST comparison you could make. why do you think samsung decided to dial back touchwiz? disable a bunch of things by default? cause hardly anyone wants to tinker around all that much anymore. you're comparing a niche enthusiast group (hardcore pc gamers) vs the mainstream audience that samsung wants to target. hence getting rid of card slots and removable battery options that barely anyone really used.

 

[Adranalyne]

this is literally the WORST comparison you could make. why do you think samsung decided to dial back touchwiz? disable a bunch of things by default? cause hardly anyone wants to tinker around all that much anymore. you're comparing a niche enthusiast group (hardcore pc gamers) vs the mainstream audience that samsung wants to target. hence getting rid of card slots and removable battery options that barely anyone really used.

I changed literally 3 options on my phone and I can get 4-5 hours on screen and 15-20 hours total usage. These people you're talking about don't use their phones nearly as much as someone like myself. My mother has a Note 4 and has never even come close to killing it. She wouldn't be able to kill this in a day, either.

This battery life BS is getting old. This phone is a solid performer with battery. Anyone who disagrees is either a fan of another device that they want to push as superior somehow or they're plagued with the bug that Google itself is responsible for that's also present on other devices, even Google's own Nexus 6.

Posted via Galaxy S6 edge