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How's your battery life looking so far?
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I'm in the same boat. My original 6s Plus had a TSMC chip, but every few hours it would lose the ability to connect to BlueTooth and 2.4 WiFi. I had it replaced (fixed the problem) and got a Samsung chip.
I have to say that neither phone seemed to get that good a battery life, but I think the Samsung is worse. With the Samsung I can get about 8 hours of usage per charge. For example, it's currently at 86% after 1 hour and 21 minutes of "usage", which is basically some light web browsing, mail and whatever the phone does in the background.
Course they have way more Samsung chip phone for replacement now that so many have returned them.
oh they sent me a brand new one. its sealed in a retail box and it comes with charger and ear pods. My tsmc was a replacement too.. both was sent to me brand new. but the backlight on my screen has two different shade so i replace it again.
I only have the 6s but im thinking of returning and get the 6s plus because of the battery life. But i am thinking twice, mainly because its a huge phone. I use crutches when walking so i dont know if i will be able to hold the 6s plus with one hand if ever i need to call someone while i am walking..
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It's easy to call people with one hand. Doing other things one handed is considerably more tricky.
you could always get a portable charger if you find yourself regularly running out during the day. Or a mophie powered case.
A quick 30 minute top up at lunch would probably be enough too.
A plus would be tricky to text with one hand, although you could try out some one handed keyboards from the App Store.
TSMC battery is better and phone is faster than samsung.
Samsung (replacement phone)
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Not trying to create another debate
My first 6s plus had TSMC chip and I had to exchange my phone due to screen issue, now I am using the Samsung chip. I notice battery % drain much faster than the TSMC chip phone, especially if I am browsing on safari. When it's on standby it's fine. I also notice occasional lags when unlocking or going back to home screen.
My first 6s plus had TSMC chip and I had to exchange my phone due to screen issue, now I am using the Samsung chip. I notice battery % drain much faster than the TSMC chip phone, especially if I am browsing on safari. When it's on standby it's fine. I also notice occasional lags when unlocking or going back to home screen.
Not surprise at all. Base on all I read in this post and all the reviews, yotube anything:
very "minimal use" like web browsing, talk on phone, music: 1-2% different
3D games, 4K recording, cpu intense app: 10-20% different
Here is a 50% check in, on pace for 15-16 hours. TSMC,
This is much longer than Samsung chip. Samsung chip is just around 8-6 hours average. Your TSMC is like double of Samsung...
Apple really loses a big branding effect for this, people paid so much but around half of the people get the "suck" version.
Apple loses so much more money from this branding lose than how much money they save from Samsung chips.
I really don't think the issue is as big as people are making it, especially when apples to apples comparison aren't being made. You can't say one is better than the other when on one you were doing certain things then you return it and do other things that may not be the same as the other. When you look at people doing real apples to apples comparison (excluding Benchmark) you see a 1-3% difference. I have a Samsung chip, spend 6-8 hours of usage during work which includes streaming music and podcast, surfing the Internet and playing games and I leave work with still 75% battery left. If you have a plus and getting less than 10 hours, it's not the chip and most likely something else.
Doing a 50% usage isn't very accurate, you need to drain the battery to get an accurate determination. If I was to use that math, I currently have 4 hours usage and at 87%, this should mean I'll have 30 hours usage, which I know is not going to happen.
I don't believe it's double, in fairness the majority of this usage is podcasting which sips power. I also didn't run the Samsung in power save mode the entire 100% like I'm doing with the TSMC, so the comparison is not apple/apples. More or less I am testing the battery longevity of my current phone by using power save mode with minimal but typical daily use.. And its rockin so far.
After reading this forum I wanted to see how much I'd get, I charged it to 100% and left it alone until I needed it. It lasted through a night from 100% to 93% for a night (6 hours) of FaceTime video on pause.
Through the day I used it for iMessage and taking pictures and googling for things and making a workflow for a project in Paper. It went down to 74% - I was impressed. Then I went to my parents, just switching from wifi to 4g and bad rural network dropped it down to 65% quick, basically just standby and some push notifications.
Did an hour timelapse, put the screen on full bright just get the worst case, and did not close any apps in the background, .. instead of putting it on airplane mode, etc.
I had 60% left, it was 61 minutes for the timelapse creating a 30s video (which looked great by the way) and it took it down to 40%. Then after 10 minutes of using iMovie and uploading to YouTube it was down to 25%. Then it lasted quite a few hours again despite taking pictures and playing with live-photo and going through youtube subscriptions and an hour of skyping. When the phone was around 5% it was the same time the next day when I unplugged it. It basically lasted me a full day. But it's clear some things will trigger a drain, others won't. I suspect I would have been able to make it another night if I was using low power mode, lowered screen brightness to nothing during timelapse, used airplane mode and DND when travling etc. But.. I am quite pleased with just real world usage. It got me through an evening, a night, a day, and the evening again.
Through the day I used it for iMessage and taking pictures and googling for things and making a workflow for a project in Paper. It went down to 74% - I was impressed. Then I went to my parents, just switching from wifi to 4g and bad rural network dropped it down to 65% quick, basically just standby and some push notifications.
Did an hour timelapse, put the screen on full bright just get the worst case, and did not close any apps in the background, .. instead of putting it on airplane mode, etc.
I had 60% left, it was 61 minutes for the timelapse creating a 30s video (which looked great by the way) and it took it down to 40%. Then after 10 minutes of using iMovie and uploading to YouTube it was down to 25%. Then it lasted quite a few hours again despite taking pictures and playing with live-photo and going through youtube subscriptions and an hour of skyping. When the phone was around 5% it was the same time the next day when I unplugged it. It basically lasted me a full day. But it's clear some things will trigger a drain, others won't. I suspect I would have been able to make it another night if I was using low power mode, lowered screen brightness to nothing during timelapse, used airplane mode and DND when travling etc. But.. I am quite pleased with just real world usage. It got me through an evening, a night, a day, and the evening again.
The different is for real life with tsmc expect 10 to 8 hours battery life, samsung 8 to 6. That is from 0 to 4 more hours of different.
I got 9.5hrs usage and 16hrs standby at 17% yesterday. Happy with that. Running my 6s+ on low power mode for fun today. So far no slow down in my work flow that is enough to irk.