I have 2 pluses in the house and from my experience, if you use it continuously, it will go from 100 to 5 in about 7 and a half hours. If you use it every now and then, you'll get much higher numbers.
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This mirrors my experience with them, too. And we have 3 in the house at the moment.
Also depends on whether your use was mainly on wifi or on LTE.
When I'm working from home and I use my phone from here, I get WAYYYY better battery life than when I'm out and about and using my phone.
I wasn't super impressed the first day with my Plus, but after a week or two I'm very happy with the battery life.
People's definition of "heavy usage" must be way different than mine. I can go two days on moderate use. I am down to 20% or less on heavy use. I will define heavy as "anything that has me running the screen for more than five hours a day". None of that is ever gaming...
Could it be that the iPhone alters the way it consumes battery power after a few days of use? I noticed that after a week of using my 6, my battery life gradually began to improve. I realize this is totally subjective and I'm probably wrong, but it seemed like the device required recharging more frequently when I first received it.
I think it has something to do with calibration. The first day my iPhone 6 dropped from 70% to 5% in just 3 hours. Since then I've been able to get at least 8 hours of usage off of a full charge.
The most accurate post in this thread. Lmao@ at people claiming two days of heavy usage without a charge.
That was my experience exactly. My friend who got a 6 at the same time was also griping about his battery life initially, and now seems content. Good to hear I'm not crazy. Maybe the OP of this thread will experience the same eventually.
I had a Galaxy S5 and now have an iPhone 6+ and can affirmatively say that you have a defective battery or you are lying.Picked up my 6+ and I was eager to see the battery life performance. I expected something spectacular considering all positive comments. Having a note 3 and Galaxy s5 I must say that the 6+ doesn't stand a chance.
Any GS5 users here and how is your experience?
There is no middle ground here because the 6+ battery far outlasts what any Samsung phone can do. The only phone I have ever had that can touch the 6+ battery life is the droid maxx and even then the maxx falls short of the 6+.
Coming from a Note 4 which I had since 10/13 got it early do the preordering I can say battery life is about the same. One thing Samsung has better is the fast charging feature.
How do you know? Don't tell me you compare the hopelessly exagerrated usage time on 6+ with the screen on time in note3? I bet you did.
Most Ifans take the usage time of iphone as the same as screen on time of android. They are not the same.
There is no way to objectively compare as apple is too afraid to give the screen on time for iPhone. Instead it gives the pretty useless usage time which really isn't usage at all since if you don't use the phone the usage time keeps increasing.
I know what the screen time on droid means and what the usage time on iPhone means.
With that in mind the 6+ destroys Note 3 in web browsing in my personal experience. I already posted screenshots in the battery thread and unlike some, I don't bother to inflate my usage time with activities which contribute to usage stat, but run with the screen off. 8+ hours on screen time with 4G on. Safari/FB/Whatapp/Home Screen responsible for 95% of battery usage so that's "screen on".
6+ also destroys Samsungs in standby time. 0-1% drain after 8 hours standby, compared to 4-6% on Note 3.
My 6 Plus (just like others) said it blows out the Note 3. Persoanlly I believe part of that is from a significantly better signal on both wifi and cellular. I many times had 1-2 bars on my VZW Note 3 while now it's a lot of full signal.
Op here.
I must admit that I was frustrated when I made the thread. But as some of you mention it can be that the first charge will give crap result and that it will improve radically (which I hope).
On Gs5 I got at least 5h-6h screen on time with normal use. Charging every second day.
On my note 3 I got 6-8 hours screen on time.
I agree that Samsung sucks on standby time. Yet to see the result on iPhone. Lg really shines here, especially on lg g2.
I really hope the battery life will improve because I'm in love with the battery life on my iPad and MacBook Air.
Oh and one thing I really miss from android is the multitasking. Maybe I have to learn but I really would love to be able to switch between apps MacBook / iPad style by swiping fingers. Now I have to double press the home button. Any better way?
I must admit that I was frustrated when I made the thread. But as some of you mention it can be that the first charge will give crap result and that it will improve radically (which I hope).
On Gs5 I got at least 5h-6h screen on time with normal use. Charging every second day.
On my note 3 I got 6-8 hours screen on time.
I agree that Samsung sucks on standby time. Yet to see the result on iPhone. Lg really shines here, especially on lg g2.
I really hope the battery life will improve because I'm in love with the battery life on my iPad and MacBook Air.
Oh and one thing I really miss from android is the multitasking. Maybe I have to learn but I really would love to be able to switch between apps MacBook / iPad style by swiping fingers. Now I have to double press the home button. Any better way?
When I read that Anandtech boss works for Apple, now I take whatever comparison Anandtech put out with full of skepticism.
I think you thought you got 8+ hrs of screen time but most probably you got a lot less. As there is no system screen on time in iOS there is really no way of telling. Screen on time is what matters. When the screen is on most likely it is in the range of 10-20% drop per hour at auto-brightness. I usually get 6 hrs screen on time with Note3 on uptime of 36-48hrs. This with lots of widgets, push email etc.
I am not contesting with you on standby time but I bet you can only get 0-1% drain per 8 hours on 6+ if you turned off background refresh + push. In this case it is like turning off data. If I turned of data on my Note 3, the drop is like 0.1 to 0.2% per hour.
I have used Galaxy S5 from May and also using iPhone 6 now. iPhone 6 battery life beats the S5 noticeably.
Thats a good comparison fill with imaginary numbers. While I don't debate the order listed I've never come anywhere near 11 hours of doing anything on my 6 let alone web browsing.
the OP tricked me into opening this thread.
If he had put I6 battery in the title, I could have skipped over it.
why is it so freakin hard to make a reasonable title?
If he had put I6 battery in the title, I could have skipped over it.
why is it so freakin hard to make a reasonable title?