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Galaxy S6
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That is nice. I have yet to get a wireless charger and ive had a couple of phones that i could use it with. I just dont think i need one. I dont have a desk job.
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OK, i have NFC turned off and BT on but BT doesnt use really any power to speak of. My brighness is on Auto.
I have the Samsung wireless charger. Its a nice little round thing.
I use mine on my nightstand. But the light bugs me to no end. The light pulses blue...then green when it is fully charged. Granted it is a low level light and not very bright but it still annoys me at night.
Is Auto better for the battery or is just keeping it relatively low constantly better? The only time I pump up the brightness is if I'm using my device in direct sunlight (it's great to be able to see in sunlight. The brightness is bright!).
If you have it set to auto, even if you move brightness slider to middle, then when it direct sunlight the auto mode enables Samsung's feature of going extra bright and increasing contrast artificially to boost outdoor visibility.
Its actually a trick they have copied from Nokia who had incorporated this feature into windows phones for the last 18-24months to improve outdoor visibility.
But yeah turning off auto disables the extra ramp in brightness and contrast they use in daylight so you don't get as good outdoor visibility if you don't have it set to auto.
you're basically saying if you have access to charging your device, then use it. not sure how thats really a benefit besides just using common sense.
and for the record, iphone 6 also has 'quick charge'. you can just get an ipad charger which will charge your iphone much faster.
Sort of. Except the charging options for the s6 are much quicker and more convenient than typical ways of charging before. And not everybody immediately knows of the benefits of wireless charging and quick charge. But ya, basically. I'm assuming you don't have access to a charger in your day to day? Then as I've said before, maybe you need a phablet with larger batteries. The s6 battery is small and is pushing a lot of tech. I wish it would last longer on its own too.
Cool. Never knew about the iPad chargee working that way.
Sadly it doesn't work on android devices alongside iOS so you have to use a turbo charger for android on those devices, but the iPad charger really does speed up charging on my 6+ it can fill it up from empty in an hour.
It is impossible to recharge the 6+ from empty to full in an hour. If you look at maximum current accepted by the 6+, it isn't even programed to accept 2 amps but instead accepts a maximum of 1.6 if I remember correctly. The iPad charger is capable of outputting a theoretical 2.4 amps but the 6+ is unable to fully accept all of that current.
The 6+ has a 2940 mAh battery which when tested by Annadtech charged in roughly 3 hours using the regular charger and 1:40 to 2 hours with the iPad charger.
A general guideline to determine how long a device will take to charge is take the battery capacity and divide by the current output of the charger. A device like the 6+ would be 2940 / (1.6*1000) = 1.8375 hours.
Interesting. So not quite the same considering Samsung's quick charge promises hours from just minutes.
Looks like MRU and the 5.1.1 guy both made Forbes news because of the memory leak lol:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/01/samsung-galaxy-s6-memory-problem/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/04/30/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-android-5-1-1/
When they actually say something because the Samsung UK thing seems pretty generic.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/01/samsung-galaxy-s6-memory-problem/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/04/30/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-android-5-1-1/
When they actually say something because the Samsung UK thing seems pretty generic.
Wow ...talk about over hype and journalistic integrity. That article is just plain bad.... a few people having the issue all of a sudden turns it into a "barrage" of complaints and makes the S6 a bad successor to the S5! wow....talk about sensationalist journalism.
The articles says the phone will slow down and crash? Wow just wow....I have not experienced either of those and I have had a S6 since day one....
Good news is that oversaturated coverage will badger Samsung CR, PR, and CQ to work on the issue. If Samsung wants to keep my business, they need faster updates. I am on the verge of just giving up and moving onto the 6+.
Agree. It's a shame this "issue" got so spun out of hand, but the upside is that Samsung cannot ignore it.
Are you speaking in regards to the memory leak/RAM issue? Or just updates in general?
I'm looking forward to updates and hope we get them speedily, too, however, I will also say the delay of updates "issue" that everyone always warns you about when switching from Apple doesn't quite bother me as much as I thought it would. It's great that Apple does their generation-updates across the board in one full swoop, but it's also nice that Google continues to update their core apps throughout the year. They can sometimes be big updates too. It's nice these apps get improvements year-round as oppose to one big improvement-dump annually.
Having said that, I hope Samsung is able to step up their update game both in terms of minor bug-fix updates, and major generation-updates. Android M is around the corner.
How long did it take Samsung to update the GS5 and the Note 4 to Lollipop? A few months? Haven't they been getting better with updates? I'm not sure.
The Verizon S5 was one of the first Androids (other than Nexus and Moto X) to receive lollipop. That was a big surprice since Verizon is notoriously late in getting out updates to their Androids.
That is not going to happen. Samsung is not the one to send the updates. Google is first in line then the carriers get into the mix.
If you want cutting edge updates you are stuck with some Moto or the Nexus line of phones. Or as you say move over to Apple. Apple is in the unique position to control things from end to end.
But it varies with carriers. I hate that fact. Apple bloat > T-Mobile bloat. And yes, I was referring to the memory leak issue. But in general, updates are horrific. I had the Note 3 w/ AT&T and it took from November 2013 to March 2013 to even let the GPS become usable. Even then, the GPS told me to start driving straight north, but it was so badly calibrated, I was parked. If I didn't have common sense, I would've driven into a canal with the bad software issues. The Note 4 didn't get Lollipop on T-Mobile till last week. Samsung didn't update the Note 4 before the Note 3 or S5.
Cross gen update at once coupled with true customer service has made me see the benefits of owning two apple products. I love iPads. iPhones will take time to get used to, but I am going to roll with the S6 Edge tomorrow to take photos of my graduation.
Gotcha. No denying Apple wins in terms of update speed and customer service. If those two things are most important, they're definitely the way to go. (Sometimes immediate updates backfire though. The debacle that was iOS 8 bricking phones last year comes to mind.)
For me, though, the "insurance" of those two Apple advantages pale in comparison to the day-to-day usage experience one gets with Android. If we're talking about daily usage, the S6 and Android in general beats the iPhone 6 and iOS. Quite easily. Even with whatever quirks or issues Android may have, the ability to customize the experience to exactly how I want it cannot be beat; this is a device I use every single day, multiple times per day. And with conveniences like double-tap for instant camera (love this feature to death!), wireless/quick charging, and the gorgeous screen (sorry, but my iPhone 6 LCD side by side just looks really sad), the day to day experience knocks it out of the park.
Having said that, I'm sure I'll be tapping my foot as I witness Samsung's update schedule when Android M comes out. I don't mind that there is some delay, and to some degree, I even understand why -- to hammer out bugs, to get through carrier shenanigans, to tweak TouchWiz's extra features to bring them up to speed with the latest updates, etc. -- I get all that. The fact that Google updates their core apps all throughout the year makes the wait a little more forgiving, too. But it's also got to be a reasonable time frame. I'd say a few months is fair. Anything more, not good...
Moto adds features I may not use. Samsung has the best features on Android though. Nexus is so hum drum, it's really sad. They didn't even try to add features to make it mainstream since the device has shifted from a total developer device to casual users. No fingerprint scanning? I feel like I cannot use a phone now without the feature. No IR Blaster even though the GPE models have one and have software specifically for it? No extraordinary battery life or camera?
iPhone takes the best of the worlds with cameras, battery life on the 6+, updates, cool features, and continuity. What has kept me from making the switch is the lack of necessary stuff like notification LED or predictive dialing or easy to get free music.
Moto adds features I may not use. Samsung has the best features on Android though. Nexus is so hum drum, it's really sad. They didn't even try to add features to make it mainstream since the device has shifted from a total developer device to casual users. No fingerprint scanning? I feel like I cannot use a phone now without the feature. No IR Blaster even though the GPE models have one and have software specifically for it? No extraordinary battery life or camera?
iPhone takes the best of the worlds with cameras, battery life on the 6+, updates, cool features, and continuity. What has kept me from making the switch is the lack of necessary stuff like notification LED or predictive dialing or easy to get free music.
So far today, through my typical usage I'm on pace for a 6hr sot. While I agree with others that this isn't a battery champ the likes of my iPhone 6+, it's also a much smaller device, and I think its solid for what it is.
