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How's your battery life looking so far?

6s, TSMC chip, used at 50-60% screen brightness, no battery save mode (except at night)

When I got my 6s 3 weeks ago, I used my old iTunes backup to set it up. But since battery life didn't completely satisfy me (averaging at 6hrs usage and 12hrs standby) I made a full reset and set it up as new. Now after the first whole cycle since the reset, I am happy about my decision! Took it off the charger yesterday morning, used it mainly for texting, Safari, Facebook, phone calls and little gaming. Used battery saver and "do not disturb" over night and used it without battery saver today until it died around 4pm. Very happy!

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My experiment with low power mode from 100% has completed and I'm well please. This is with a TSMC 6s+ and about 10-11 hours of background podcast. The brightness at tolerable levels.
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And from the battery log file as my phone died
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My Bluetooth/wifi was turned on the whole time and connected to my car for about 3-4hours. Headphones were used most of the time while listening to podcast.

I wouldn't have known the difference about lower power mode as it did not impede my usability at all.
 
Streaming podcasts doesn't use much battery. I probably stream 7 hours during the work day and only use 20-25% battery.
 
missbing said:
Streaming podcasts doesn't use much battery. I probably stream 7 hours during the work day and only use 20-25% battery.
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I found this to be the case as well. I think I got about 25-40 minutes from the last 1% charge of the phone
 
Without putting the device in airplane mode, reporting battery life is meaningless. At home, where I get 5 bars, I can get 10 to 12 hours of battery life. At work, where I get 3 bars, doing the same things I get closer to 7 to 8 hours.
 
I'm lucky in the sense I get wifi at home and at work so generally i'm rarely using 4G from day to day.
 
The Game 161 said:
I'm lucky in the sense I get wifi at home and at work so generally i'm rarely using 4G from day to day.
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It doesn't really matter. The less bars there are, the more power the phone needs to use to stay connected to a cell tower, so the less battery life it will get. Even if not using the phone or 4G/LTE data.
 
Morac said:
It doesn't really matter. The less bars there are, the more power the phone needs to use to stay connected to a cell tower, so the less battery life it will get. Even if not using the phone or 4G/LTE data.
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it matters alot as 4G drains your battery like crazy compared to wifi. signal is yes very important. at home I get 2-3 bars and at work i get full 5 bars
 
I'm getting about 15 hours between charges on my half week old 6S Plus: unplug at 7am and by 10pm it's either dead or about to die. Usage involves quite a lot of browsing, reading and app switching but no games or other highly processor intensive apps but also long periods of inactivity. Background refresh and other back-end battery draining features are all on though and during the day I'm on 4G all the time.

With this thread being so long, with some reporting a day and a half or more and some seeming to include top-up charges in the screenshots of their battery stats (which seems a bit pointless to me) I can't tell if my experience is normal?

I had thought I'd be able to almost completely stop worrying at all about charge levels coming straight from a 4S, unfortunately it seems not quite: I'd still need a top up on, say, a Friday where I might be up at 7am and out till gone midnight.
 
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If you are getting 15 hours, that's very good. I don't see anything close to that on a day to day basis.
 
Morac said:
If you are getting 15 hours, that's very good. I don't see anything close to that on a day to day basis.
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OK, thanks, reassuring. I've read some reports - and reviews - claiming a day and a half (presumably 30 hours) but I don't see how that's possible unless they're using the phone so little that owning such a powerful handset seems a little wasted on them!
 
Fean0r said:
OK, thanks, reassuring. I've read some reports - and reviews - claiming a day and a half (presumably 30 hours) but I don't see how that's possible unless they're using the phone so little that owning such a powerful handset seems a little wasted on them!
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I deplete my 6S+ to 1% and charge it every single evening. To be fair, there are occasions when I might need to charge it more often. Anyone who can go a day and a half or longer inbetween charges isn't using their phone all that heavily. There are sooo many variables to baffery life but I expect that your 6S+ is absolutely slaying your 4S in all regards, including battery life, so don't sweat.
 
Fean0r said:
I'm getting about 15 hours between charges on my half week old 6S Plus: unplug at 7am and by 10pm it's either dead or about to die. Usage involves quite a lot of browsing, reading and app switching but no games or other highly processor intensive apps but also long periods of inactivity. Background refresh and other back-end battery draining features are all on though and during the day I'm on 4G all the time.

With this thread being so long, with some reporting a day and a half or more and some seeming to include top-up charges in the screenshots of their battery stats (which seems a bit pointless to me) I can't tell if my experience is normal?

I had thought I'd be able to almost completely stop worrying at all about charge levels coming straight from a 4S, unfortunately it seems not quite: I'd still need a top up on, say, a Friday where I might be up at 7am and out till gone midnight.
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At the end of the day If you're phone lasts you pretty much all day then thats what matters. If you ever have to charge more than once then there is something wrong IMO. 15 hours or 30 hours...as long as it lasts you thats what counts
 
I don't know what happened but this morning after removing my 6s Plus from the charger I'm not see any app battery usage data anymore even after using the phone for over 30 minutes.

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Of course right after I post, the battery usage shows up:

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iNinja08 said:
My experiment with low power mode from 100% has completed and I'm well please. This is with a TSMC 6s+ and about 10-11 hours of background podcast. The brightness at tolerable levels. View attachment 595265

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And from the battery log file as my phone died
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My Bluetooth/wifi was turned on the whole time and connected to my car for about 3-4hours. Headphones were used most of the time while listening to podcast.

I wouldn't have known the difference about lower power mode as it did not impede my usability at all.
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What is your conclusion? TSMC chip battery is better or not much different from Samsung chip?
 
iNinja08 said:
Went from a Samsung64gb to a TSMC128gb
Highly impressed with both
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This was the best I could get with the Samsung, nothing intensive, no gaming, no video recording, just a few pictures and screen the dimmest I could tolerate the whole time.

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This blew me away (TSMC) this is with about 3 hours of video recording and about 30 minutes of gaming, lots of app downloads with a 30-55 brightness
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This is 10% different even without counting you did low cpu usage stuff with Samung but 3 hours video recirding and 30 mins of gaming with TSMC. I would say the real would be around 20% battery different.

Remember how Apple said just few people reported bend problem for Iphone 6/6 plus? Same trip for this chipgate, of course Apple would make it more believable by having few tech reviews website to confirm its claim. Interesting that even Consumer Review would use the lowest possible cpu test to say there is no chipgate.
 
iPhone 6s Plus (Samsung). I am pretty disappointed in the battery. My iPhone 6 Plus was better and my iPhone 6s with TSMC is nearly as good as this and has a much smaller battery.
 

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iPhone 6s Plus (Samsung). I am pretty disappointed in the battery. My iPhone 6 Plus was better and my iPhone 6s with TSMC is nearly as good as this and has a much smaller battery.
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Base on what I saw from people share this form, Samsung 6s+ you can expect 6 to 8 hours, TSMC 8 to 10 hours. Your result proves it is correct.
 
j2ee said:
This is 10% different even without counting you did low cpu usage stuff with Samung but 3 hours video recirding and 30 mins of gaming with TSMC. I would say the real would be around 20% battery different.

Remember how Apple said just few people reported bend problem for Iphone 6/6 plus? Same trip for this chipgate, of course Apple would make it more believable by having few tech reviews website to confirm its claim. Interesting that even Consumer Review would use the lowest possible cpu test to say there is no chipgate.
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You're drawing conclusions based on different usage. You've been doing this a lot. It's like you're trying to find anything you can to support TSMC being the much better chip, but ignoring all of the posts showing little to no difference between chips.
 
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j2ee said:
Base on what I saw from people share this form, Samsung 6s+ you can expect 6 to 8 hours, TSMC 8 to 10 hours. Your result proves it is correct.
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If people are only getting 6-8 hours on a 6s+ it's not the chip, something is most likely wrong with the phone. I have the Samsung and getting up to 14 hours.
 
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