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1hr 44min SOT and I'm at 39%. Don't know what's going on.

Top three things on the list:

Android os
Google play services
Cell standby.

Shrug.
 
Tons.

I'm at 2:54hrs screen time at with 43% left on battery.

5hrs of screen time is about normal for me, and that's in an area with blah AT&T cell service.

That's not all that far from what my Note 4 was getting, and it completely destorys what I was getting on my iPhone 6 which was about 3 hrs of screen time.

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It's about as bad on iOS. If you love your battery, use the browser mobile site.

I don't know what I was doing different than you, but I couldn't get more than 3.5 hours SOT with the S6. I exchanged it for the iPhone 6 and right now I'm at 87% with 1 Hour, 22 Minutes of Usage time and 7 Hours of standby. All I've done today is use Twitter and Safari, so the Usage time should be about right for SOT.

Since buying the iPhone 6 I've never seen it drop below 30% before I charge it when I go to bed. The S6 was below 30% by 6PM every day.

I feel safe enough with the iPhone battery that I don't even turn on the option to show the percent since I know it'll easily make it to the end of the day. I don't have to think about the battery with the iPhone.
 
I don't know what I was doing different than you, but I couldn't get more than 3.5 hours SOT with the S6. I exchanged it for the iPhone 6 and right now I'm at 87% with 1 Hour, 22 Minutes of Usage time and 7 Hours of standby. All I've done today is use Twitter and Safari, so the Usage time should be about right for SOT.

Since buying the iPhone 6 I've never seen it drop below 30% before I charge it when I go to bed. The S6 was below 30% by 6PM every day.

I feel safe enough with the iPhone battery that I don't even turn on the option to show the percent since I know it'll easily make it to the end of the day. I don't have to think about the battery with the iPhone.

See my post above. Not far off from your experience. My own experience this past week with the s6 has been similar.

I'm just not getting the sort of battery life people here are getting and I really don't know what I'm doing that's so different than others. I mean the differences are drastic.

People are also claiming there's no lag. Like zero. This has been the opposite of my experience too. The device hangs once in a while. Just now I got a hangouts message. I tapped the pop up notification to switch to hangouts. It hung for a solid 2 seconds before switching. I was in chrome.
 
IMO for such an expensive prices for a Galaxy S6 the device shouldn't include a single piece of bloatware, i don't get what's wrong with Samsung they look desperate. They copied the iphone in so many aspects this time, why don't copy Apple's policiy regarding bloatware too?
 
IMO for such an expensive prices for a Galaxy S6 the device shouldn't include a single piece of bloatware, i don't get what's wrong with Samsung they look desperate. They copied the iphone in so many aspects this time, why don't copy Apple's policiy regarding bloatware too?

Isn't that up to the carrier?
 
IMO for such an expensive prices for a Galaxy S6 the device shouldn't include a single piece of bloatware, i don't get what's wrong with Samsung they look desperate. They copied the iphone in so many aspects this time, why don't copy Apple's policiy regarding bloatware too?

You mean like Passbook, an app I never wanted, never used, and couldn't delete it?
 
You mean like Passbook, an app I never wanted, never used, and couldn't delete it?

Yup. I'm obviously an Apple proponent but I can clearly acknowledge that there is plenty of Apple bloat ware on iOS devices as well. Here's a screen shot of a handful of Apple applications bundled on my iPhone heat I can't remove or disable.

I understand an OEM including some of their own application--obviously they'd love it if you would use their software and as it's their hardware, they have that right. My bigger issue is with the carrier crap that's so pervasive on US models. It's also why I will not buy a device unless the OEM offers it unlocked and not tied to any specific carrier.
 

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You mean like Passbook, an app I never wanted, never used, and couldn't delete it?

Nop those are more system apps, i mean pizza.de, dominos, bewweeled and of course carrier apps ;) you know Samsung in that aspect is the king

Although i agree that Apple Watch icon is a PITA it doesnt compare...

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Isn't that up to the carrier?

Really? depends of the carrier? that would be news for me, still Samsung allows them...
 
Nop those are more system apps, i mean pizza.de, dominos, bewweeled and of course carrier apps ;) you know Samsung in that aspect is the king

Although i agree that Apple Watch icon is a PITA it doesnt compare...

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Really? depends of the carrier? that would be news for me, still Samsung allows them...

I don't have any of those apps and you've been cought posting a pic if bloat ware that was user installed apps.

Stop posting bs
 
Galaxy S6

Yup. I'm obviously an Apple proponent but I can clearly acknowledge that there is plenty of Apple bloat ware on iOS devices as well. Here's a screen shot of a handful of Apple applications bundled on my iPhone heat I can't remove or disable.

I understand an OEM including some of their own application--obviously they'd love it if you would use their software and as it's their hardware, they have that right. My bigger issue is with the carrier crap that's so pervasive on US models. It's also why I will not buy a device unless the OEM offers it unlocked and not tied to any specific carrier.


I think there's a big gap between the perceived bloat on an iPhone vs a galaxy phone. The carrier bloat is ridiculous on some of these flagship android phones. One thing about the iPhone is you don't have to worry about carrier bloat.
 
I think there's a big gap between the perceived bloat on an iPhone vs a galaxy phone. The carrier bloat is ridiculous on some of these flagship android phones. One thing about the iPhone is you don't have to worry about carrier bloat.

IMO, carrier bloats are not worse than OEM bloats! I've been using some of so-called 'carrier bloats' such as My AT&T, Visual Voicemail but disabling most of Samsung bloats on my S4 and S5.
 
I think there's a big gap between the perceived bloat on an iPhone vs a galaxy phone. The carrier bloat is ridiculous on some of these flagship android phones. One thing about the iPhone is you don't have to worry about carrier bloat.

To me bloat is any software on my device (phone or otherwise), that's sole purpose is to sell me on something and not to enhance the user expierence. So the apple watch app is totally bloatware as apple is trying to get me to buy the watch, but the stocks app to me isn't because that's just a system app that Apple thought I would want builtin and put it there to enhance the user expierence.

So on a samsung phone, something like s-health is not bloatware to me, but those Microsoft apps (while useful) are only there because Microsoft paid Samsung to include them because Microsoft wants to sell me on their services, is bloatware.
 
I don't know you but disabling it is not enough for me anymore, this is supposed to be a top phone $$, i thought my carrier inserted his bloatware in ALL PHONES but a couple of months ago, a relative of mine bought an iphone 6+, and not a single piece of bloatware from the carrier.:eek: why? simply, Apple doesn't allow that, and me suffering all these years with my galaxys full of bloatware...
 
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I don't know you but disabling it is not enough for me anymore, this is supposed to be a top phone $$, i thought my carrier inserted his bloatware in ALL PHONES but a couple of months ago, a relative of mine bought an iphone 6+, and not a single piece of bloatware from the carrier.:eek: why? simply, Apple doesn't allow that, and me suffering all these years with my galaxys full of bloatware...
There is a cure for your agony. Go buy an iPhone and be happy!
 
I think it would make him a masochist by not only using an android but also discussing them in the other devices forum lol
 
I think it would make him a masochist by not only using an android but also discussing them in the other devices forum lol

I have gone galaxy all these years because battery life was superior regarding Apple phones, that was the main point, now that both are almost equal no reason to go that way. Really? reducing the battery life from S5 to S6?:rolleyes:
That battery was supposed to be even greater or as equal as the Z3.

Also was nice to be one of the owners of the first galaxy s1, it was nice not going the Apple way like the rest of the people at that time..still i'm a galaxy boy.

BTW somebody knows if the future android updates are gonna take ages to be delivered on the S6 too? I notice that service samsung push? that will improve the deliver of new android releases?
 
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I don't know what I was doing different than you, but I couldn't get more than 3.5 hours SOT with the S6. I exchanged it for the iPhone 6 and right now I'm at 87% with 1 Hour, 22 Minutes of Usage time and 7 Hours of standby. All I've done today is use Twitter and Safari, so the Usage time should be about right for SOT.

A snippet of usage says nothing about a devices all day endurance. The iPhone 6 battery was not that good based upon my time with it.

I get much better endurance from my S6, and I do a hell of a lot more than browse the internet, and use Twitter. I use my phone for just about everything.

I do think the 14nm A9 in the iPhone 6S will have beastly battery life, but the iPhone 6 was lacking in this area in a big way.
 

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I don't have any of those apps and you've been cought posting a pic if bloat ware that was user installed apps.

Stop posting bs
They depend on your location. Those apps are pre-loaded the German unbranded DBT & carrier firmwares.

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I notice that service samsung push? that will improve the deliver of new android releases?

No it will not improve update rollout.

Samsung push is the app that allows little badge notifications in Touchwiz. Its not pushing software to a device.
 
They depend on your location. Those apps are pre-loaded the German unbranded DBT & carrier firmwares.

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No it will not improve update rollout.

Samsung push is the app that allows little badge notifications in Touchwiz. Its not pushing software to a device.


That's odd that there's basically different experiences in regards to bloat preinstalled on these phones. Makes it even worse.
 
No Apple Watch icon for me. I did not download the latest software.

Lately I have been trying to buy devices with very little bloat.
 
No Apple Watch icon for me. I did not download the latest software.

Lately I have been trying to buy devices with very little bloat.

he he, but that's cheating...:rolleyes:

but yeah that Apple watch icon is not cool definitely a bloatware app when you don't own an apple watch.
 
Yup. I'm obviously an Apple proponent but I can clearly acknowledge that there is plenty of Apple bloat ware on iOS devices as well. Here's a screen shot of a handful of Apple applications bundled on my iPhone heat I can't remove or disable.

I understand an OEM including some of their own application--obviously they'd love it if you would use their software and as it's their hardware, they have that right. My bigger issue is with the carrier crap that's so pervasive on US models. It's also why I will not buy a device unless the OEM offers it unlocked and not tied to any specific carrier.

Stocks .. Geesh ... it annoyed me since the first IPOD Touch and First iPhone ..
 
We are getting closer to the 14 day return period for those who got it on release day.

If you are going to return it, I'm curious as to why.
 
Stocks .. Geesh ... it annoyed me since the first IPOD Touch and First iPhone ..

Yes, Apple assuming we all care about stocks...Samsung give us Plants vs Zombies instead...geez.. i have uno and the game of life too...
 
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I got the phone today and it had 57% battery out of the box. Well, it went down to 25% in under 20 minutes setting up the phone over wifi.

I'm gonna test drive for a couple of days but things are looking way worse than I expected on the battery side of things...
 
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