Up until recently, I could go through the whole day and still have about 40% battery when I plugged in at night. In the past month or so, I started barely making it through the day. Last night I was at 5% when I plugged in. One note: I got my first new car with bluetooth in the last month, so I have the blutooth on at all times. My wife has the S6 and always has her bluetooth on and has 40% of the battery on at the end of the day. Could it be a recent Google update? Matbe the bluetooth? Thanks for the help.
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Recent Battery Issues
- Thread starter stevez444
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AndrizzleHD
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I'm in the same boat. In fact, I would go into the night at around 70%. Now I barely get through an evening with 20%. I have uninstalled the only two apps I installed since this problem occurred but nothing has changed. Keeping Bluetooth off when unused should help you keep some battery since the phone is "less active". But it still begs the question of what has changed. I am still trying to figure this one out.
I may have to revisit the theory of keeping my phone plugged in when its fully charged. The S6 has a faster charge and I keep it plugged in over night when I sleep. I wonder if this has somehow weakened the battery life?
I may have to revisit the theory of keeping my phone plugged in when its fully charged. The S6 has a faster charge and I keep it plugged in over night when I sleep. I wonder if this has somehow weakened the battery life?
AndrizzleHD
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What's odd is that I check the battery menu in settings and it appears neither apps or the system itself is draining the battery. Not to mention, I've always had my phone on power save mode. The phone software has not updated lately so I can rule that out as an issue.
AndrizzleHD
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Well...looks like my battery issue is solved. I updated my phone to 5.1.1 yesterday. I had to manually check to see if updates were there in the system settings. Not sure if any of you guys struggling with battery issues have the latest update or not.
Thanks for the update. I did a factory reset and got great battery life yesterday. Started at 5am and the battery was at 50% at 8pm. I'm running both WiFi and Blue Tooth. It's now running 5.1.1 so that may be why it's improved so much. Will add my apps back a few each day and see if any of them drag it down.