Samsung Galaxy s6

spongebob89

So what do people think of this phone so far? I have mine two weeks now its quite a piece of kit and they've really corrected this phone alot from the s5

However it all counts for nothing when the battery is very poor.. Id take it off charge at 8am be in college all day so not alot of use by any means regular checks on social media and it would be almost dead at about 4.. Its unacceptable in this day an age of technology that this flagship smartphone dosent have a battery that lasts all day until you go to bed.. So so poor it deters me from wanting to use it much during the day which is just not right im almost contemplating going back to my previous phone.. Shame!

Gazzmonkey

I have mine about two weeks and it's a great phone in general, battery charges mega fast but discharges just as fast. I noticed that if I leave the phone alone it'll last almost two days but if I dare use it (activate screen) it's dead in a few hours!!!

Also, with that huge camera it doesn't sit dead flat on a table and due to how it is made, the phone gets a rather weak signal most of the time, they had to add plastic inserts to the bezel to allow signal to pass through the case.

Oh and the phone is super slippy and will hit the floor eventually

Kimbot

I use mine non stop and can get a full day out of it. Maybe its the amount of app with push notifications causing yours to drain really quick?

Gazzmonkey

Now that you say that, the default email app has used 22% of my battery, I only have 3 accounts hooked up to it but they are all set to push!

You might be onto something.

Sir Oxman

Never use the default mail app!

donkey balls

I got an S6 64gb two weeks ago I find the battery on it good at the moment i would normally listen to the music for around 90 mins while out training and the battery would still be at 85%.
It has Android 5.1.1 at the moment and I am after receiving a push notification to up date the software,The thing is the last two galaxy I had (S3/S4) when I updated the software the phones battery life went downhill and kept freezing.
So has anyone updated from 5.1.1 and if so what was the battery life like afterwards.

Keith186

5.1.1 is the latest Android version on it, I'd say your update is just a minor one to fix some bugs/security stuff. The last one I got did download Excel & Word as system apps but you can disable them if you want.

The battery life is fine. I did have an issue before for about 5 days where the battery life went terrible. I uninstalled a recently installed app and switched some WiFi setting for scanning even when off to off and the battery went back to normal. Not sure which thing caused my battery problems as I done both of those fixes at the same time.

spongebob89

Sir Oxman wrote: »

Never use the default mail app!

Why not?

AnimalRights

The minute I use games/Internet battery takes a hit, switching to the LG G4 in 5 weeks!!

Testament1

http://www.pixmania.ie/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s6-cosmos-black-4g-32-giga-smartphone/22516199-a.html

Would this be the cheapest you'd pick up an S6? Torn between this, a Z5 or Moto X Style.

JoyPad

Testament1 wrote: »

http://www.pixmania.ie/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s6-cosmos-black-4g-32-giga-smartphone/22516199-a.html

Would this be the cheapest you'd pick up an S6?

I looked at that offer when I bought mine two weeks ago, but I was wary that the phone was not sold by Pixmania, but some seller, and their reviews were few and rather disappointing.

Ended up buying mine on expansys.

The phone is great, but I'm having issues with applications randomly crashing. The most obvious ones are Spotify (music stops playing) and Endomondo (workout stops being recorded). There might be other apps crashing, but I couldn't tell, as they don't provide continuous information to me.

This seems to be a fault of the phone + Android, and not the apps themselves. For example, if I reboot the phone prior to my run, Endomondo does not crash.

Has anyone else seen random applications crashing on S6?