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How's your battery life looking so far?

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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My iPhone 6s Plus (Samsung) is at 54% with 5 hours screen on time.

I had two iPhones before this one both with screen defects.. Both TSMC chips and I'm getting very similar battery life with my Samsung.
 
missbing said:
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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I wouldn't necessarily say there's something wrong with the phone. There's a lot of factors that go into battery life: cell signal strength, screen brightness and apps used. The first two have a major impact on battery life. If the phone has the brightness turned up all the way and has 1 bar cellular LE, you can expect crappy battery life no matter what you do. Likewise if you use GPS apps or 3D games, you'd be lucky to get 5 hours of battery life off the phone.
 
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Morac said:
I wouldn't necessarily say there's something wrong with the phone. There's a lot of factors that go into battery life: cell signal strength, screen brightness and apps used. The first two have a major impact on battery life. If the phone has the brightness turned up all the way and has 1 bar cellular LE, you can expect crappy battery life no matter what you do. Likewise if you use GPS apps or 3D games, you'd be lucky to get 5 hours of battery life off the phone.
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I stand corrected. But making the 6-8 and 8-10 comparison based on people using it differently isn't an accurate study.
 
Zombiecrowd said:
Either satire or a plant from an apple competitor
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missbing said:
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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User iNinja08 personal usage comparison above is fair enough.
 
j2ee said:
User iNinja08 personal usage comparison above is fair enough.
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So you're comparing one persons usage to all others that are doing completely different things. You do know that streaming music and podcasts which was a lot of his usage uses very little battery right? I spend an average of streaming 6-7 hours each day at work along with an hour of web browsing and games and end my work day with 75% left. That's because like I said before streaming podcasts doesn't use much battery.
 
missbing said:
So you're comparing one persons usage to all others that are doing completely different things. You do know that streaming music and podcasts which was a lot of his usage uses very little battery right? I spend an average of streaming 6-7 hours each day at work along with an hour of web browsing and games and end my work day with 75% left. That's because like I said before streaming podcasts doesn't use much battery.
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He has two phones with different chips and he posts the result, you have a look above. Samsung chip battery time is much worse.:confused:
 
j2ee said:
He has two phones with different chips and he posts the result, you have a look above. Samsung chip battery time is much worse.:confused:
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I saw his comparison, he got one hour more with the TSMC. With the TSMC he did a lot of podcast streaming and with the Samsung he did none. It seems like you're not getting what a true comparison is, you're just grasping at straws tying to find a 10+% difference in favor of TSMC.
 
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missbing said:
I saw his comparison, he got one hour more with the TSMC. With the TSMC he did a lot of podcast streaming and with the Samsung he did none. It seems like you're not getting what a true comparison is, you're just grasping at straws tying to find a 10+% difference in favor of TSMC.
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So you are saying his comparison is fake? I saw a lot of people over here saying TSMC gives them around 1 hour more after they have exchanged the phone.
 
6s with a Samsung chip. Wifi and data on (turned them off for 7-8hrs while I was sleeping), no location service on. Turned the battery saving mode on when the battery hit 20%. Screen brightness about 20%. This is the first charging cycle.

I am really happy with the battery life so far. Unfortunately I'm having some issues with the home button so I have to take the phone to the Apple store next week. I actually hope they wouldn't replace the phone cause I'm afraid I get worse battery life with the new phone haha. But yeah this phone definitely beats my old sgs4 in pretty much everything.
 

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missbing said:
I saw his comparison, he got one hour more with the TSMC. With the TSMC he did a lot of podcast streaming and with the Samsung he did none. It seems like you're not getting what a true comparison is, you're just grasping at straws tying to find a 10+% difference in favor of TSMC.
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My new post can show you the truth:
105 units of 6s/6s+ test confirm Samsung 6s+ uses 18% more power in high demand real-world usage
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ower-in-high-demand-real-world-usage.1931880/
 
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On a 6s with light usage: 3+ days easily. With moderate usage it's nearly dead in the evening after starting the day at around 80%.
 
j2ee said:
What is your conclusion? TSMC chip battery is better or not much different from Samsung chip?
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Based on what I was seeing, there was never an occasion Samsung had less power consumption than the TSMC. For me , that is enough. Even though the geekbench battery benchmark "can be dismissed", the fact is, there exist a certain condition on the same phone in which one architectural difference, makes a big difference. Call it OCD or whatever, but this bugs me and I can't deal with it, luckily I don't have to anymore.
 
iNinja08 said:
Based on what I was seeing, there was never an occasion Samsung had less power consumption than the TSMC. For me , that is enough. Even though the geekbench battery benchmark "can be dismissed", the fact is, there exist a certain condition on the same phone in which one architectural difference, makes a big difference. Call it OCD or whatever, but this bugs me and I can't deal with it, luckily I don't have to anymore.
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Here is my new post:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ower-in-high-demand-real-world-usage.1931880/
The test result is very clear about what is going on.
 
This is the best I've gotten from my 6S. Samsung chip, 128gb.

Also, do you guys turn ON autobrightness or leave it OFF and just adjust it yourselves? Which one saves more battery :/
 

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This is the best I've gotten from my 6S. Samsung chip, 128gb.

Also, do you guys turn ON autobrightness or leave it OFF and just adjust it yourselves? Which one saves more battery :/
 
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