Samsung Galaxy S6

Keith186

That phone info Samsung is a good little app.

Anyone know if there's anyway so that when you press volume up/down to make the notification volume change too?

Keith186

Price is gone down again in Argos. €625 now.

MiCr0

I've gotten the 32gb flat for the last few days, running 5.1.1.
I've noticed that the battery life is shockingly bad - down 13% in one hour.
At first I'd thought it was just down to the problem that seems to exist with the email client but there seems to be something more.
I'd done a full wipe when I installed
installed 5.1.1.
Any obvious suggestions? I've got GSam installed now to see does it give any clues.

moggser

I posted back few days ago after updating that it dropped 2% while writing the post and now is no different what ever was in the update really ****ed up... you basically just watch the phone die in your hands through out the day and I thought the Nexus was bad.... I found if charged with wifi Bluetooth and data off and left off till you need them the phone can last a little longer .

astonaidan

So guys, so would it be worth upgrading from S5 to this? The edge version

Zipppy

Any way to change font size or color on notifications pull down?

MiCr0

Hopefully it's possible to rollback to 5.0.2, as this battery life is too awful to live with

moggser

MiCr0 wrote: »

Hopefully it's possible to rollback to 5.0.2, as this battery life is too awful to live with

ya'd like to think that, i doubt they'd bother even addressing the situation we will prob have to wait for the next update, there is the beta M available for the nexus on the next while hopefully there will be something small for battery drain pain in the hole

TBi

MiCr0 wrote: »

Hopefully it's possible to rollback to 5.0.2, as this battery life is too awful to live with

You can't roll back.

Jimmy Iovine

I have the Nexus 4 and the Swype keyboard is amazing. Can I get this on the s6?

I don't think I can go back to a normal keyboard. I tried it again in the airport today and the keyboard just frustrated me. It's a small thing but it's an effort with very long texts or posts on Boards.

antodeco

My OH have this phone, and without a SIM card in it, it lasted 3 days. It was being used for gaming quite heavily.

That suggests the battery issues are network related. Those with heavy battery drain, try it with 4G turned off so it will only connect via WCDMA and see does that make a difference.

moggser

ok this is frustrating any ones phone randomly shut off and wont tun on with out soft reset?
its happended twice in two days now

Slippin Jimmy

moggser wrote: »

ok this is frustrating any ones phone randomly shut off and wont tun on with out soft reset?
its happended twice in two days now

There was a poster here during the week that experiencing the same issue that you are. I don't know if they resolved it.

moggser

Didn't see any resolution to it yet anyway.... pain in the face all the same

Slippin Jimmy

moggser wrote: »

Didn't see any resolution to it yet anyway.... pain in the face all the same

That would bug the hell out of me. Which s6 do you have again?

moggser

Have the flat

ADO

moggser wrote: »

ok this is frustrating any ones phone randomly shut off and wont tun on with out soft reset?
its happended twice in two days now

This happened to me a last week or so. Went to bed with 88% battery and woke up a few hours later to discover the phone was completely dead and had to do a reset. Hasn't happened since then but I am constantly checking to make sure it hasn't happened again.

I'm having issues with the wifi on my s6. Anytime I load spotify it causes my connection to the wireless router to constantly drop every 30 sec or so. Rang Vodafone and they said to bring it to my local store as it might be an issue with the wireless chip in the phone. Find it weird as it doest happen when I use other apps like youtube or that....

moggser

Try that smart connect thing for the wifi

ADO

I have that switched off

N64

How are you guys finding screen on time on average?

moggser

**** lol

Tony H

N64 wrote: »

How are you guys finding screen on time on average?

3 to 3 1/2 hours mostly , the quick charging helps a lot if you need a quick boost .

Keith186

N64 wrote: »

How are you guys finding screen on time on average?

4 hours according to GSAM for me.

MiCr0

mine is going back to the shop - this battery life just isn't acceptable
using normal mode


using a combination of safe mode, power save and ultra power

wardie101

Have the s6......Does anyone know how to change the data usage cycle ?

When I go to Data Usage page I can toggle mobile data on/off and also set a limit

Then it has a date range

24-Jun - 23 Jul.....it has a drop down arrow but that only brings up previous months and no option to set the cycle start date.

Anyone know how to change this ?

moggser

Ummmm it's in the drop down part of that tab.... where it says change cycle

CailinGaillimh

Have had the Samsung S6 for the last week. After an initial bad start (Vodafone cancelled new sim card & then said it wasn't the sim registered to the phone despite activating it in store -.-).
Overall, I find it's a great phone. Camera is very fast acting & definition is excellent on both cams. Phone is very responsive and sensitive - texting is a lot quicker compared to the S5. Finger print technology is amazing - can register 4 prints and will read from many angles.
Battery is okay. The fast charge makes up for it, takes about 2 hours to charge from 0-100%. Charged my phone at 10 pm yesterday and am on 20% now with heavy usage!
Play service keeps crashing, but I have a feeling that this is happening right across Samsung devices as it was happening on my S5 before I changed.
Two thumbs up here!

wardie101

moggser wrote: »

Ummmm it's in the drop down part of that tab.... where it says change cycle

thats what Google said too but I just see previous dates when I scroll down there.....very odd

moggser

Ok have you the 2 tabs ticked? ?thats probably why you don't see that

moggser

Like so