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By reducing the screen brightness, turning off the smart features and lowering efficiency …, users can extend the battery life of Samsung smartphones.
01. Adjust screen brightness including Auto mode
Because screen brightness is one of the most energy-consuming parts, efforts on improving smartphone should simply focus on it. Even with Auto mode, you also need to scroll down adjustment a little bit. It is very quick and convenient for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge users to change the brightness immediately on notification bar rather than having to go to Setting.
02. Disable Smart stay feature
Smart stay – Smart Stay feature helps Samsung Galaxy screen stay bright whenever you are looking at it. This setting is extremely useful when you read long articles without having to touch the screen.
However, Smart stay also makes Galaxy S6 lower its battery faster because it requires the gadget to turn on the camera after a certain time period. Turning off this feature would help you conserve your battery power considerably.
03. Limit white display
Samsung uses Super Amoled background on its high-end devices and Galaxy S6 is not an exception. Features of this screen are it would consume lower power than usual when displaying in black and takes up more battery for white display. So you should set up dark wallpaper to improve battery life for the device.
04. Turn off animated wallpapers
In addition to the white wallpaper, animated wallpaper also causes Galaxy S6 to drain the battery faster. So to choose static wallpapers is a good idea.
05. Enable Negative colors
If a user attaches special importance to the issue of battery saving, this feature of Negative colors optimizes color-displaying ability. To enable this option, go to Settings > Accessibility > Vision then turn on Negative colors.
06. Change Theme
If Negative colors mode makes a great change on display of Galaxy S6 and you do not want this, there is another way to choose a new interface.
Samsung Theme store will give users a lot of interfaces, based on TouchWiz UI. As goals are to save battery for Galaxy S6, you should choose the dark or black ones.
07. Open greyscale
Some devices of Samsung are opted for omitting greyscale feature but this feature has appeared on the S6 and S6 Galaxy edge. You can activate it by going to Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Grayscale.
08. Reduce performance
With powerful hardware, it is clear that the Galaxy S6 has to consume a lot of power to work properly. By going to Settings > Battery and turn on Power saving mode, users would activate the battery-saving mode for the gadget. Now Galaxy S6 would limit the CPU speed, screen brightness and reduce frame rate, simultaneously optimize different settings to extend battery life.
09. Turn off motions and gestures
In the Settings menu, you will find Motions and Gestures item with four small ones. By turning off this feature, Galaxy S6 will save more battery because sensors are not operating regularly.
10. Install Wi-Fi
By default, the S6 and S6 edge Galaxy will automatically scan Wi-Fi even when you turn off this connection. This feature would generally make the device battery lose its power more quickly and thus you can go to Settings > Wi-Fi > More > Always allow scanning to switch to Wi-Fi network scanning only when needed.
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