Hi,
I recently got a S6 and copied my S5 onto it. I haven't switched yet as I enjoy my S5 because of the screen, replaceable battery and SD slot. So I'm only playing around with the S6 at home.
I didn't use it for a day after charging it full and was very surprised when it started beeping about the battery after only 33 hours.
I have a iPhone 6 that I use only at home for different things I need iOS for and I get at least 72 hours out of that one.
Does it sound like normal battery use? No SIM only WiFi.
Thank you.
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Hi all!
i am posting here because it seems that the Neo specific forums are not very populated...
anyway i got my new Gear2 Neo preloaded with Tizen last week and i immediately paired to my Note3 (latest X-Note custom rom) and started fiddling with it right away.
First thing i wanted to understand is battery life, so i did some experiments i want to share with you.
First of all, my Gear2 Neo has the latest available firmware upgrades, the Gear Manager is up2date and i have installed only three (free) apps from the store: calculator, calendar and watch styler, which i use normally to show my custom built all black background with bright hands watchface.
I set the screen timeout to the minimum value, i keep notifications ON for everything base plus whatsapp wechat skype and a couple of other apps (like filemanager).
So far my usage has been more or less: receive a few calls a day (5 minutes max of audio trough the watch, the rest trough the phone),
About 20/40 notifications (sms, calendar, sms, whatspp and similars).
Watch off charge at 7:00AM, breakfast, cycle to office, then busy day until evening back at home, some evening activities, then end-of-day around 23:00 / midnight, when i would recheck the watch battery.
At first i got using about 60-70% of the battery, which seemed frankly NOT acceptable, because it means i had to recharge it Every. Single. Night, which rules out carriying around if i stay away for a weekend, since i fear to lose the small charge adapter.... i was quite pissed off, but determined to understand if better can be achieved.
I noticed the screen would turn on very very often, specially while moving my arm from mouse to keyboard (i keep the mouse on my left and use with same watch arm)... so i stopped wearing it when at my work desk... BANG, battery life went up and i got to sleep time with almost 70% CHARGE AVAILABLE?? So, a 30% usage drop, compared to a 60-70% of the previous days???
Well, i disable the turn screen on when lifting arm option, and now i am at 8% usage discharge every day! So after three FULL days of usage i am down at 70% charge available!!! Considering some 1% of drop during nighttime (i don't switch it off), i am positive i can reach well up to 7 or maybe 8 days WITHOUT a charge! Now, this is much better indeed. Yes having to press the button every time i want to see the time is not the best, but afterall i didn't got it for wearing a watch, but to get a much more practical integration with the phone... and i was often turning on the phone to check the time anyway....
What i still clearly note is a battery drain on my Note3... having the watch connected all the time takes a toll on the otherwise great Note3. Maybe not too much, but very noticeable anyway....
YMMV, but i wanted to share this with you...
i agree that disabling the G sensor on the watch will give you better battery life, but is it really that big a deal? dont you have to charge your Note 3 daily anyway? if i dont use my S5 i dont have to daily charge it, otherwise it just gets plugged in when i sleep at night, along with the watch.
also, the gear charges so fast! ive seen it go from 50% to 100% in like an hour, so its not like im really "down" the watch for very long when it starts to crap out.
ive gotten down to 50% battery with very heavy usage in 1 day; so far im impressed and pleased with the watches capability all around
Hi,
I have a Galaxy Note 3 with X-Note Rom Version 18 and Samsung Gear 2,
with factory default options an Watch Styler installed, It lasts only 7 hours...
So I will try Your recommendations and report tomorrow...
I also read in another forum that time improves with a Stock Rom dramatically... I will try that one 2 days later...
Try getting rid of Watch styler, made a night and day difference in battery life with my neo.
I would live to use it, just couldn't live with the battery life.
S5 X-Note Gear2 bat life
I have a Gear2 Neo, first i use it a Month whit my S5 whit Original Strock Rom, the watch life was 3 to 4 days whit disabled G-Sensor. Now i have 2 weeks the X-Note S5 portet Rom on my S5 and now the Watch Battery life is only about 4 to 6 hours.
What is the Problem whit X-Note and Gear2 ? I have try many different options but battery life is very bad whit X-Note Rom
Noticing your Galaxy S6 battery is draining too fast? This thread can help.
Part of the problem lies within a memory leak which is a known problem that Samsung is aware of and is reportedly patching in an upcoming update.
The other issue is Samsung attempts to load everything into memory and run several services in the background as well as hard loading the phone with bloatware.
Here is how I gained 30% better battery performance. Guaranteed
*Prerequisites
*Need to be rooted for every tip to work.
1. Disable anything you consider bloatware
2. Go to settings then application manager and disable both ANT radio service apps. You don't need this. Causes massive battery drain. Google it if you don't believe me.
3. Go to the app store and download "Servicely" from Franco. Paid app but worth the money...trust me. (Need root)
4. Once in servicely add running services and apps to your hit list, choose start at boot and run hit list while screen is off.
5. Reboot your phone. Give your phone a full charge and see the difference
Attached is a screenshot of realistic usage. I was on a poor lte signal for 9 hours and conducted several calls and used my phone moderately heavy. As you can see i got through my entire work day and still have 6 hours left at moderately heavy use.
Remember, this is realistic. I could have shown you a screenshot showing 18 hours left after only using it 1 hour. What I'm showing is a legit 9 hours of usage. Before I made these tweaks I would be at 10% battery or less after nine hours of the same usage.
Post your screenshots after 24-48 hours and let's see how much you are saving.
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Post your screenshots after 24-48 hours and let's see how much you are saving.
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Do you have a VZW Galaxy S6?? or are you using a TMobile one?
Without doing most of what you have on the list:
Didn't load Servicely
Did not turning off ANT which is a low power service used by heart monitors and other physical monitors
Did already disabled the apps I don't use and
did the deal with the google services/play but not much other than that.
I don't play games on my phone, but I do use it for business, calls, lots of messaging and keep WiFi on most of the time except when I am between locations when I turn it off. I only use BT when driving and keep it off normally.
All of which can be done without root, though I have rooted my phone.
YMMV but a lot has to do with what apps you do use, what you actually turn off etc...
krelvinaz said:
Do you have a VZW Galaxy S6?? or are you using a TMobile one?
Without doing most of what you have on the list:
Didn't load Servicely
Did not turning off ANT which is a low power service used by heart monitors and other physical monitors
Did already disabled the apps I don't use and
did the deal with the google services/play but not much other than that.
I don't play games on my phone, but I do use it for business, calls, lots of messaging and keep WiFi on most of the time except when I am between locations when I turn it off. I only use BT when driving and keep it off normally.
All of which can be done without root, though I have rooted my phone.
YMMV but a lot has to do with what apps you do use, what you actually turn off etc...
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Yes I have VZW. Use your phone for a few days and you will start to see battery drain due to the memory leak primarily and your load of apps
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Yes I have VZW. Use your phone for a few days and you will start to see battery drain due to the memory leak primarily and your load of apps
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I've had my phone for 10 days now. Rooted the first day, loaded my apps and configured that day and sunday so it was work ready on Monday. Ported my number over Monday morning. Pretty much the same for the past 7 days now since then.
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I've had my phone for 10 days now. Rooted the first day, loaded my apps and configured that day and sunday so it was work ready on Monday. Ported my number over Monday morning. Pretty much the same for the past 7 days now since then.
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I would recommend that you clear your cache in recovery. Based on the ss you posted your standby drain is high. Check the battery thread or pm me if you have questions
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I would recommend that you clear your cache in recovery. Based on the ss you posted your standby drain is high. Check the battery thread or pm me if you have questions
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Its kind of like who cares?
There are 24 hours in a day and I sleep at least 7 hours of that. The screen shot shows it is 6 in the evening, the phone has been on for just under 11 hours and it still 53% full with an estimated 12 hours left. Even if I am up for say another 5 hours or so, I will still have another 4-5 hours worth of power easily and since I sleep with my phone on a charger every night I won't run out.
On top of that I have AC powered chargers all over the place, in my home office, by my recliner in the living room, in my office at work and even in my truck where I have a two port USB charger with 2A each which is better than some AC chargers. That is in case I really start using battery power for some reason and need to recharge sooner than once a day. All of which was purchased when I had my Note 3.
The costs to get into this phone has been one of the lowest of any phone I have ever purchased since it uses the same chargers, same apps etc. The only thing I bought was a light case as it is slippery without one and I picked up a $12.88 QI charger to use at work.
The phone already gets better battery usage than my previous Note 3 with a larger battery in it.
Stand by drain is high.... s not really relevant.
krelvinaz said:
Its kind of like who cares?
There are 24 hours in a day and I sleep at least 7 hours of that. The screen shot shows it is 6 in the evening, the phone has been on for just under 11 hours and it still 53% full with an estimated 12 hours left. Even if I am up for say another 5 hours or so, I will still have another 4-5 hours worth of power easily and since I sleep with my phone on a charger every night I won't run out.
On top of that I have AC powered chargers all over the place, in my home office, by my recliner in the living room, in my office at work and even in my truck where I have a two port USB charger with 2A each which is better than some AC chargers. That is in case I really start using battery power for some reason and need to recharge sooner than once a day. All of which was purchased when I had my Note 3.
The costs to get into this phone has been one of the lowest of any phone I have ever purchased since it uses the same chargers, same apps etc. The only thing I bought was a light case as it is slippery without one and I picked up a $12.88 QI charger to use at work.
The phone already gets better battery usage than my previous Note 3 with a larger battery in it.
Stand by drain is high.... s not really relevant.
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Wow I was just trying to help lol...hope you have a big epeen now.
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Let's stay on original topic and let's share ideas and be kind to one another. No need to be adversarial. Let's just offer up some cool tips.
Hello,
I just switched last week from my old note 1 to the S6 and I really enjoy it so far but the battery time bothers still a bit.
On my old note 1 and my 5.0 and 5.1 rom I never had Google play services and the android system consume more then 4-5% battery.
But now on my S6 it's always more than 20% battery usage.
And the mobile radio activity is always at the end of the day at one and a half our on play services and android system,never had that with my Note.
I don't usually surf more than 50 minutes while I'm at work.
The only apps I have installed are whatsapp,clash of clans and twitter.
I did a factory reset today only installed whatsapp and the damn battery drain is still there...
My provider/Mobile carrier is Vodafone Germany,and LTE on.
I normally have 3 to 4 bars H+
I hope someone knows how to reduce this unnecessary battery drain
I would keep an eye on your screen on time, and if you're getting 4-5 hours or more, with a day's use, you should be all good. I get just as good battery life on the S6 as my Note 4 before it oddly enough.
High drain on 1 thing might just mean that the others are draining less than they used to on your old phone.
The battery is weak in this phone. That's all there is to say about it. I charge mine twice a day just to get by. You're not alone
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I´m pretty sure now that it has something to do with the mobile network.
Yesterday i only got 3h15min battery and today at home with wifi i´m at 5h30min...
Screen time of course
The strange thing is that android system only had a total connection time of 5minutes with wifi.
And even though the battery is only 50mah bigger as in my old Note 1 i never got that battery life out of it,so the battery size of the S6 is perfectly fine in my mind.
I heard that in the 5.1.1 update the battery life is a bit better,does anybody know if that adresses my problem?
Hello, I just bought a gear s2 classic. And I updated the firmware. Now the battery life is not good at all. I mean is it normal at the begginning, until it gets stabilized or is this a bad unit? Thanks in advance!
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Hello, I just bought a gear s2 classic. And I updated the firmware. Now the battery life is not good at all. I mean is it normal at the begginning, until it gets stabilized or is this a bad unit? Thanks in advance!
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I have had the same thing happen with 2 replacements. I waited a week on the first one and it didn't get better. (went from 100 to 50 percent over night) so I exchanged it. The second settled in after 3 or so days. I think this firmware version uses more battery though.
I don't have a problem like that with mine. In fact I took mine off the charger Friday morning before work. I was wearing a motorcycle jacket so I put it in a jacket pocket when I left work until I got home that evening. I forgot to take it out of the jacket pocket and put it on the charger until Monday morning. It was still up and running with 16% power. Mind you the watch was not in use the whole weekend but it kept its charge much better than I expected. I put it on the charger in the morning and just didn't wear it that day.
Mine isn't much better than my S7 Edge (if it even is). Still lasts the day though.
I can't get through half a day. I haven't really used the watch either. Charged it back to 100% before the gym. Used it just for HR with S health. After the gym I'm down to 20%. That doesn't seem right at all. Gps is off. 4g is off. Wifi is off. Screen was set to 5 minutes because it'd be nice to actually see my HR while I'm working out. I don't understand why the screen doesn't stay on during a workout. 8nc9nstantky have to tap the screen when it goes to AOD every five minutes.
I did just update the firmware yesterday so it has two more days before getting sent back. Between this and the Bluetooth issues on my Chromebook Plus, I am not too happy with Samsung at the moment. For the first time since I left my Treo for their flip palm phone I don't have a Samsung phone. I'd this keeps up, I'll have zero Samsung in the stable.
My uncle gave me his old Samsung s7 because he didn't use it, after formatting I noticed it would get really hot in normal use, so I decided to put it on stress, I recorded 4k for 15 mins and after that I switched to CPU-z and it said it was 59 °C and the battery was 42, I noticed that the battery drains at the speed of light while the phone is really hot, I searched online but all I get is to uninstall bloatware and such but I already installed a custom rom and it's the same, but a bit better first tests I did were on the stock rom. This occurs not charging, but if I charge the phone and give it use, it gets worse until the phone notifies me with a popup. The phone has been dropped a few times but no water damage. I really don't wanna take the phone apart but I think I don't have any choice, what should I do?
Btw if I don't use the phone the battery lasts at least 4 or 5 days, like if I only use it to answer WhatsApp and use Instagram for a couple of minutes.