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hey what's up guys is Naru here for Android Authority and one of the biggest problems with the Galaxy s6 edge is that it comes with the non removable battery as the first Samsung flagship that you can't date the battery out of you limited to the 2600 milliamp hour battery that comes in the hands in itself and in this video I'm going to show you some of the tips I've picked up on how to get the most out the battery right so my first tip is about display brightness and trust me how bright your display is makes a huge difference to your battery life by reducing from full brightness to around 50% or less I found they can add actually a whole hour on to your screen on time I personally keep my hands on auto brightness but the slider set to around 50% or less and this means I'm often able to get four to six hours screen on time from a full charge it's not perfect but a 50% auto brightness I found the screen is actually bright enough for most scenarios from display brightness to a problem that's definitely of Samsung's own making smart networks rich smart networks which basically means the handset will constantly scan your mobile networks and your Wi-Fi networks and whenever you're accessing data it uses whichever it thinks is the strongest network the problem with this boy it does definitely very drain your battery so let's take a quick look at how to turn this off turning this off is as simple as going into Wi-Fi networks and deselecting the box at the top and by switching this off you'll find it can add around 15 to 20 percent to your battery life in the context of ours this works out between an hour an hour and a half extra battery life which can be the difference between your handset dying on the way home from work and actually lasts until you can get to a charger at home right from a Samsung problem to an Android problem and one that affects just about any Android phone Android can do a lot but the one thing it doesn't do is manage your location well enough so it doesn't drain your battery there's loads of options so let's take a look at the best ways to preserve your battery life location is traditionally a big drain a battery but with the galaxy s6 edge it can actually be a massive problem if you're someone who relies on location-based widgets and apps you'll often find that Google Play services is listed as one of the biggest drains your battery the other thing about location is Google's own method or periodically scanning for Wi-Fi networks even when you switch and Wi-Fi off when you first attempt to use a Google service it actually prompts you to allow it to constantly scan for your location and that includes using Wi-Fi when it's switched off but this can cause massive battery drain I personally don't allow Google to do this as I prefer the battery savings that disabling the feature offers if you're on the fence about this head over to the location menu which can be accessed by pressing and holding the location button and then change the locating method to GPS only using GPS only will prevent your friend from scanning for your location using mobile and Wi-Fi networks and should help your battery massively from an android problem to a google problem an issue with sync settings now one of the great things about Android is that you can simply add your Google Account and then it just sinks every service whatsoever that means you've got your Gmail you've got your updater you've got your calendar you got your contacts you've got your Play Store you've got your Play Movies and so on the problem with this when you like me and you've got several Google accounts on my galaxy s6 edge I've got seven installed and to be fair I don't need all of those services syncing full of those accounts I mean I used one Google account for all services and the rest are just for email so me and just about anyone who uses multiple Google accounts certainly doesn't need all seven account syncing every service if you never used playbooks before you don't need to sync it and trust me Google Play newsstand I don't think on any device I see absolutely no need for it what I'm going to do now is show you how to preserve your battery life just my 15 or few options on your phone head over to your accounts menu and select your Google account then look through each of the services and tap to disable any that you don't use now if you're like me and you use them all but you have multiple Google accounts installed make sure you disable them on all but the main account you use for each service so I use the same Google account for all my services and as such all the others I've disabled Play Movies newsstand Google Play Books just to prevent it from sinking in the background and to my fifth tip which is actually quite interesting for the Galaxy s6 edge because it's easily the least bloated Samsung smartphone ever made alongside the build camera and everything else we've covered in the full review which you'll find a link to in the description below Samsung have finally decided that less is actually more this means the hands icons are just a handful of preloaded apps and TouchWiz actually lets you disable all of them anyway in this fifth tip I'm going to show you how to disable the preloaded apps that you don't use just to prevent them from running in the background and draining your battery now I personally don't use onedrive s health or s voice so I disable ease and especially in the case of s voice it improved battery life it wasn't by much but it was enough to be noticeable so there you have it five simple tips to getting the most out your Galaxy s6 edge battery and to be honest most of these can actually apply to just about any Android smartphone having come from the note 4 which has a removable battery adjusting to this galaxy s6 edges certainly been a child if I'm completely honest actually fine I'll stop reaching for the charger offer around 14 to 18 hours as I covered in our galaxy s6 edge battery overview this isn't a problem for me personally and for most consumers this should mean an average full day's usage now if you're someone who uses your phone a lot and we're talking around 5 to 6 hours screen on time you are probably going to end up charging your phone more than once a day however with quick charging built into the handset this is less of an actual problem for me personally the trade-off between all the features the Galaxy s6 edge has to offer and the battery life is not so much of an issue and especially with quick charging can add around 50 percent to my battery for 30 minutes or so I'm more than happy to charge it twice a day I'm never than this has been my quick tip video on getting the most out your Galaxy s6 edge battery and you got a tip that you think I'm left out let me know in the comments below do check out the Lim's for all of our the galaxy s6 edge content you'll find them in the description below hit subscribe to stay tuned for more from your source for all things 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