On January 12, Samsung began to deploy the final version of Android Nougat worldwide for all Samsung S7 and S7 Edge terminals, an update that is arriving later than normal in some countries, but which is finally available. , which was the important thing. After the update, many are the users who claim that the battery life of your devices after this update has been reduced, not much, but it is not the same that they could enjoy with the previous version of Android Marshmallow. To try to shed light on this matter, the guys at PhoneArena have carried out different tests on the same terminal, first with Android Marshmallow and after installing the final version of Android Nougat.
The guys from PhoneArena have made exactly the same tests on both terminals with one operating system and another, with a controlled screen brightness of 200 nits at all times, tests that have been repeated to be able to consider the initial results as good. The battery of both terminals is excellent in every way but it seems the Android Nougat update that they have launched is not as optimized as the guys at Samsung would like.
Galaxy S7 with Android Marshmallow vs Galaxy S7 with Android Nougat
As we can see in the upper graph, the S7 terminal with Marshmallow offers us a battery life of 6 hours and 37 minutes, while the same terminal offers a duration of 6 hours, 360 minutes, with Android Nougat, a difference of 9,4% in favor of the previous version.
Galaxy S7 Edge with Android Marshmallow vs Galaxy S7 Edge with Android Nougat
After performing the same tests on the S7 Edge, the results obtained by the terminal with Android Nougat offer us results of 395 minutes, while the same terminal with Android Marhmallow gave results of 430 minutes, which represents a difference of 8.1%.
How can we see the results in both terminals differ by half an hour, an hour measure that may be essential for users., but for others, it just means having to charge the device a bit earlier than the previous version. At the moment the only solution to this problem is for Samsung to launch a new update that solves the battery life problems, problems that are not very serious seen the results, but if we take into account that its image after the Note 7 batteries has remained a little handicapped, presumably it will fix it quickly.