Show us your battery life on your 6 Plus

[jdhooghe]

Light usage day

 

[AlexJ92]

Excellent battery life!!

 

[Bekrah]

This is largely being connected to Wifi most of the time.


Connected via LTE the majority of the time.

 

[EEZ123]

So I think this is going to work out pretty good. I used Strava and run keeper on a 2 1/2 hour bike ride today well using the Music app to stream music. when I got done the ride I was at 83%. If this had been my 5S it would've been probably around 20%

 

[blueshapti]

10 hours usage, 40 hours standby, with 10% power left. 

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[TheFirm]

Sent from my 128gb iPhone 6+ using Tapatalk via Sprint Spark

 

[DougFNJ]

I'm impressed so far. With heavy usage and now conditioned, over 9 hours including GPS usage and bright screen most of the time.

I have now lowered the brightness, I want to see if I could pull over 10.

 

[SprSynJn]

This is largely being connected to Wifi most of the time.
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Connected via LTE the majority of the time.
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That is exceptional. I hope to see results like those when I get mine.

 

[jdhooghe]

Back to my normal usage except for tapatalk Do you all find Mail or the Gmail app to be more power efficient?

 

[itsgusmetropolo]

I think I will set as new and see if it gets better. It's good, but many people are getting better.

 

[tekjunkie28]

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I think I will set as new and see if it gets better. It's good, but many people are getting better.

If your primarily on 3G then I would expect those hours. You will likely get better battery life on LTE.

 

[itsgusmetropolo]

If your primarily on 3G then I would expect those hours. You will likely get better battery life on LTE.

I'm 70% of the time on LTE, but some areas have only 3G

 

[brijuhaha]

Sweet

 

[add309]

 

[TheFirm]

Mostly LTE with a little Wi-Fi


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[nikkisharif]

 

[Designed4Him]

me on 100% brightness

 

[vsnlweb]

If your primarily on 3G then I would expect those hours. You will likely get better battery life on LTE.

3G gets better battery life... LTE uses more power, not sure as to how much but it uses more... If he were to use 3G all the time is would be even better, but speeds would suck... I have a feeling 3G is the new EDGE...lol

 

[tekjunkie28]

3G gets better battery life... LTE uses more power, not sure as to how much but it uses more... If he were to use 3G all the time is would be even better, but speeds would suck... I have a feeling 3G is the new EDGE...lol

Not necessarily, LTE used to use more power. Now with more tweaking and smaller lithography the techs should be pretty dang close. Is there a test out there that is honest AND recent?

One thing to consider is that a 3G connection requires the modem to be processing the same amount of data for a longer amount of time. Side effects of that is additional 'wait time' that is responsible for additional screen on time and app power draw. An LTE modem can process data and return to low power state far faster. Side effect of that is greater processor usage. This is my theory that I have derived from common sense and technical articles. Does anyone have links to tests as this is pretty neat stuff about the dynamics of battery life.

Next year or 2 we could see LTE using less power then wifi chips.

 

[mattrock2003]

I've had my 6 plus for 3 weeks now. This is the best that my phone has done. All on wi-fi with heavy usage. It seems to be getting better and better as time goes on for some reason. I'm not complaining though!