Do users of the S7/S7e have to turn off location services to get good stand by time?
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Do users of the S7/S7e have to turn off location services to get good stand by time?
Nope, I turn off nothing and get great standby life. Doze works!!!
I have never thought to say this, but for Me , battery IS actually way better then iPhone 6s plus. I just can't kill this thing...
S7e is the first device to get me easily through the day no metter what im doing or how I'm using it. (Except gaming ofcourse)
S7e is the first device to get me easily through the day no metter what im doing or how I'm using it. (Except gaming ofcourse)
Doesn't matter what phone I have, location services do hurt m battery but I get a lot of notifications through the night as well
Google Location History is what will hurt your battery - more so than anything else location wise. Turn it off, but keep other location services on (in battery saver mode if needs be) and you will get much better battery life.
Even with Doze, Google Location History is still aggressive.
Even with Doze, Google Location History is still aggressive.
Had no issues myself so far
Thin bezels is better than big ones to me. I want to make it easier to hold and it's better on the edge for this.
I am still getting lots of false touches myself unless I really position the phone and watch what I'm doing (be cognisant of it) ...
I find myself making more errors on the keyboard than the tiny SE even.
It's actually made me 'prefer' some bezel rather than none from a practicality stand point. Just from frustration free usage.
I may switch (just trade it with someone) like some have done here already to the standard S7 at some point. (Depends how I get on with the HTC 10)
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Samsung's, tried chrooma and googles. Had same problems with both, especially in condensed view I find some key presses fail more often than I like.
Not sure what happened today with my battery life
Android ...
I still get the odd day where battery life is poop without any rhyme or reason. It's never quite as consistent as iOS - but for the most part the S7e is fairly reliable and still get decent battery even on those finicky days where Android decides to burn through the battery faster than a Fatty in a Cake Shop gets through Donuts ...
Will see next charge haAndroid ...
I still get the odd day where battery life is poop without any rhyme or reason. It's never quite as consistent as iOS - but for the most part the S7e is fairly reliable and still get decent battery even on those finicky days where Android decides to burn through the battery faster than a Fatty in a Cake Shop gets through Donuts ...
As yesterday I got 5 hours, 40 mins SOT and like 17 hours total
Maybe it's too many widgets
So first you told us you had no issue, but now you tell us you have issues and switched keyboards to deal with them.
No issues in terms of handling the phone no which was the first thing I replied to. There was nothing wrong with the Samsung keyboard but as somebody who has big hands having a keyboard where I can increase the size was better for me
Would certainly rather have the bezels of the edge than the iphone on experience so far
I'm having inconsistent battery life also with my exynos S7, around 3-4.5 hours sot. Sometimes I'm on 3 hours sot with 50% left, but only get 1.5 hours sot in the next 50%. Other times it's down to 50% with 1 hour sot, but survived another 2.5 hour sot in the next 50%.
I've seen some people at xda getting more than 6 hours sot with custom rom or battery saver tweaks. Will try that someday.
I've seen some people at xda getting more than 6 hours sot with custom rom or battery saver tweaks. Will try that someday.
On the battery life subject im not a big SOT person due to my usage patterns but i usually get around 2 full days off the plug before i need to charge with around 3 hours SOT on the regular S7.
Anybody here leave screen on display on? Haven't switched it off so maybe might be worth doing
I flirt with it - some days on, some days off. Uses around 10-15 % at an estimate of my daily consumption.
I have it on all the time since day one. No issues here. It really doesn't consume that much battery. Maybe I could get a half hour more without it. But eh, that's no big deal to me.
Have you tried clearing your cache in recovery? That's usually my go to move in regards to troubleshooting abnormal battery drain.Can't figure out why this is happening
97% down to 60% overnight
Yes this may help.
But also - you have an absolute **** ton of notifications in your status bar which makes me suspect doze / sleep isn't working properly. Some app seems to be keeping it awake, preventing proper sleep / doze. (A wakelock)
Where do I go to clear the cache guys? Yeah I get a lot of notifications during the night due to basketball
How to enter the Galaxy S7 recovery mode
Switch your Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 edge completely.
Boot into Galaxy S7 recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Down, Home and Power keys at the same time.
Release all three buttons when Samsung Galaxy S7 screen flickers and you see a warning sign.
Press Volume Up to continue to the main screen of Recovery mode. Or, press Volume Down if you aren’t sure and want to go back to the normal mode.
You are now in the Galaxy S7 recovery mode, aka download mode. When you want to switch back to the normal mode, you can simply use the Reboot option. At any time, you can also exit the Download Mode by pressing the Power button for about ten seconds. This trick also works in cases when your device gets stuck while you are in the Download Mode.