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[APP] Greenify

Recently I was contacted by njstein about an app called Greenify. He wanted to know what my personal opinion was and if it worked as it claims. I had honestly never heard of it, so I did a little bit of reading on it.
My first thought was was just another app killer claiming to save battery when in-fact it did more harm than good. But as I read, I found that it "claims" to not "kill" apps, rather put them in a hibernating state. I immediately thought of Titanium Back-Up Pro's app freezing feature. It basically allows you to "freeze" an app, preventing it from running in the background. Unfortunately, with TBUP freezing an app, is like uninstalling it. Then, when you need or want to run the app, you have to un-freeze it. With Greenify however, it basically puts the app in a deep sleep state, then when you need/want to use it, you just select it as normal, and it resumes running until you close it. I thought, seeing is believing on this one. It may, or may not, do as it says. So, I took it for a spin today.
Below are some screenshots of when I first installed it, to nearly 13 hours later (check the times in the status bar, not the actually battery time). I used my phone as normal, and began testing. This is my baseline with Greenify installed. I am now uninstalling it, so I can get a baseline without Greenify. Around the same time, I will take another screenshot and about 13 hours later, I will take another. I know, I'm doing this a bit backwards, but that's ok... The ending result will show whether or not this app does what it claims to do.
My variables are:
Device: Skyrocket
ROM: ParanoidAndroid 2.99+ (jellybean)
Kernel: Lightning Zap! (of course)
Usage: Medium (play solitaire and golf solitaire a few times throughout the day, a few phone calls, lots of texting, and some surfing of XDA and the internet)
Apps Frozen:
I stayed away from freezing system apps. Just user apps. I would strongly suggest you take caution when freezing system apps.
DropBox
eBay
Fruit Ninja
Google Play Services (I know this is system apps, but I wanted to test it out too...lol)
myAT&T
PayPal
Rom Manager
ROM Toolbox
Titanium Backup Pro
USAA (banking app)
Initial Results:
I have an average battery drain of about 4.5% an hour
Voice Calls and screen are the biggest battery drainers (as usual)
My games that I play and messaging are not even showing as using any battery.

Awesome! Thanks for testing so rigorously!
Sent from a Dirty Unicorn set aBlaze by Lightning

Initial Conclusion
So, I ran a test without the Greenify app installed. Before uninstalling, I un-hibernated all teh apps I had selected for hibernation, cleared data, uninstalled the app, then manually removed any left over data on sdcard and in /app/data/data. I tried to keep my usage at about the same, but since that proved to be a little difficult, I let it run for a little while longer before coming to my initial conclusion. Here's what I think:
As you can see in the attached images, Greenify seems to acts just like all the other app killers and app managers. I causes more harm than good.
Greenify also claims:
Never should your phone or tablet become slower and battery hungrier after lots of apps installed. With Greenify, your device can run almost as smoothly and lastingly as it did the first day you had it!Featured as Lifehacker's Top 1 Utility in 2013 Best Android Apps (http://goo.gl/1VMwnE), Android Authority's Top 3 Best Root Apps (http://goo.gl/g0L0qZ).
Greenify help you identify and put the misbehaving apps into hibernation when you are not using them, to stop them from lagging your device and leeching the battery, in an unique way! They can do nothing without explicit launch by you or other apps, while still preserving full functionality when running in foreground, similar to iOS apps!
However, as for my phone running "smoothly" as it did the first day I got it, I didn't see ANY difference. Maybe it's the Lightning Zap! kernel that I installed on it minutes after opening the box.
Now my variables only changed in the fact that I only had voice calls totaling for 1 hour as opposed to the 1.25 hours I had with the previous test, and the fact that I let the test run a 15 hours as oppose to 13.
I started with a 97% charge, and after 15 hours, was at a 43% charge. Which mean I used about 54% of my charge during the 15 hours. That's an average of 3.6% battery drain an hour. That's .9% when compared to with Greenify. Not a huge difference, but a difference none-the-less
So, my initial overall synopsis:
Just another app killer. I am not saying this is a bad app. The developers have a really great concept, but it seems to cause more harm than good. I would also like to say, do not judge this app with my results. I only tested it for a day, and I think to get a more thorough and accurate test, you should try the app out for a few days, maybe even a week to let it settle in. I for one, because I think the concept of Greenify is a good one, will be continuing further testing for a more complete and accurate comparison.

App for better battery life.

Hi everyone. Just tried to use Greenify app(you can get it from Google Play Store) to extend battery life of my Optimus p500 working on KitKat ROM from ANdroid Development section. This app hibernates processes you want for example Google play servicess. In 6 hours battery went from 100% to 95%. So it is a good score. I used my phone to call for some 10 minutes in that 6 hours. No internet no wifi gps etc.
Best wishes Sial

SialSurion said:
Hi everyone. Just tried to use Greenify app(you can get it from Google Play Store) to extend battery life of my Optimus p500 working on KitKat ROM from ANdroid Development section. This app hibernates processes you want for example Google play servicess. In 6 hours battery went from 100% to 95%. So it is a good score. I used my phone to call for some 10 minutes in that 6 hours. No internet no wifi gps etc.
Best wishes Sial
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I'll try that as soon as possible! I was really looking for an application that would turn off any task that I am not using, just to save battery life. Thanks!
Kind Regards,
Xx_Jafours_xX

I think that app made my battery life longer for real. But it is only hibernating services that are, how to say it, still in use and drain battery. If you want to kill some tasks you will probably need to try aps like RAM Manager. I am not shure so try Greenify and leave feedback here

Greenfly question

Hi all
Just downloaded greenfly on my none rooted nexus 5, seems to work fine however when I select my apps to hibernate then click the button to hibernate them all its ok, but if I go back on my phone and press hibernate again it always re does Facebook and Facebook messenger even if I have not opened them since.
It's like they have reopened themselves.
Any reason for this? It does not do it all the time just at random times.
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you are new to android? apps open themselves is the norn, especially terribly written apps like facebook. its designed to open by itself and work in the background. if you kill it, itll just reopen. facebook creates wakelocks that will wake it whenever it wants. you dont like it? root your device, install the disable services app, block facebooks capabilities from constantly waking itself and your device. remembered, with linux, its considered that not used up ram is a waste of ram.

This is one of the reasons why I use the web broswer instead of the app.
Did you enable the service in accessibility?.
As above Apps will wake up the device, if the service is running it should do that automatically,

republicano said:
This is one of the reasons reasons why I use the web broswer instead of the app.
Did you enable the service in accessibility?.
As above Apps will wake up the device if the service is running greenify should do that automatically,
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that's exactly why i only use the browser for facebook! well, that snd facebook seriously draining battery when i didnt open it for a month. its been 3 years since i uninstalled the facebook app. all my devices thank me for it, or for never installing facebook

All of the above! Terrible app. My wife has my Moto X now...nothing at all has changed setup wise, and she brought it from 6 to 7 hours screen time, to 4. All....because....of....Facebook.... App.
Terrible!

Thanks I might unistall it

It does suck that bad.
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Just going back to this is there a good 3rd party Facebook app that is more battery friendly?

Yep I was on stock rooted for a while with Facebook installed I would get 2 hours sot but as soon as I removed it I got 4-5 hours of sot

Best battery back up rom suggestions please

I use like 150 apps installed in the phone.
Tried pie open beta(and also other custom roms) with kernels and other greenify apps but battery sticks with 5 to 6 screen on time.
I feel grateful if someone can help me getting the backup 7 or 7+.
I hear some guys are getting 8 and plus sot. I don't know how if everyone is using the same phone. I don't use phone for gaming. My usage involves with social media, YouTube, chats and 40 to 60 minutes using maps and gps.
Is it because of number of apps installed?

It's not about apps installed unless they keep the phone awake at all time, wish I don't think they do.
Unfortunately the best thing to do is just stop using social media lol.. Facebook and snapchat atleast.. Those apps are true battery killers.
If you feel like Facebook is really something you NEED in your life then skip the app and use the browser instead.
The other thing is making sure apps that you don't need notifications from is blocked from background usage in Battery, total usage, click the app you know you can block and select background usage, block
Last is managing the brightness, now there are times for full blast on the display and there is times for low light, don't let the screen blast your eyes if it's not needed to.

whizeguy said:
Unfortunately the best thing to do is just stop using social media lol.. Facebook and snapchat atleast.. Those apps are true battery killers.
If you feel like Facebook is really something you NEED in your life then skip the app and use the browser instead.
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I agree... Facebook is a Hog. And they push you into using Facebook messenger as well... :-/
I use this... It's a pretty slick front-end for Facebook that uses little of the resources that the app does. It also let's you use messenger without installing it on mobile!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jesture.phoenix
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harigavara said:
I use like 150 apps installed in the phone.
Tried pie open beta(and also other custom roms) with kernels and other greenify apps but battery sticks with 5 to 6 screen on time.
I feel grateful if someone can help me getting the backup 7 or 7+.
I hear some guys are getting 8 and plus sot. I don't know how if everyone is using the same phone. I don't use phone for gaming. My usage involves with social media, YouTube, chats and 40 to 60 minutes using maps and gps.
Is it because of number of apps installed?
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150 apps lol, how can you manage so much, I think just a simple browser can help you get rid of atleast 100 of them. I never understand the need of app which works on a site on a desktop. Just to keep track of your location and what you are searching online, these apps track you and kills your battery. Go smart, use no tracking browser like bromite and live the freedom.
Now for ROM part, I get the best battery with any OOS + elementalX kernel. None of the custom rom are better than OOS and yes don't forget to remove all Google apps and OnePlus apps, they track you.
Also install betterbatterystats to check what is killing your battery, I easily get upto 8 hrs. of sot if no pubg.

Battery drain after full wipe

Hello there.
I wiped my phone and rooted it, flashed magisk and downloaded some apps to help me improve my battery life but nothing help.
What can i do to improve it?
The apps i use with root:
Greenify
Naptime
Premission ruler
What else can i do?

During the day at work my battery went down very fast, which did not happen to me for a long time.
It should be noted that the phone has been completely wiped and rooted on the way, but it seems that despite the root (I downloaded apps like greenify and naptime) the battery still continues to drain.
Note that screen usage took a total of one hour and 50 minutes and the battery dropped by 60 percent from 0 usage.
The radio worked for about an hour in the background with the screen off, which in the past would not eat battery at all.
What annoys me here especially is the Google Play services, but I tried to delete data and it still goes on.
any help please?

Help?

Do you have a lot of social apps running? Those drain quite a bit. Also, the Google apps drain as well (music, movies, etc). Use titanium backup or a similar app to feeeze some of them
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nabril15 said:
Do you have a lot of social apps running? Those drain quite a bit. Also, the Google apps drain as well (music, movies, etc). Use titanium backup or a similar app to feeeze some of them
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I have only facebook and instagram, but when im at work im not using it at all.
And yes, i freezed with titanium all Google apps i dont use(Google music, Google movies and more).
Still, battery is sh*t.

maor23 said:
I have only facebook and instagram, but when im at work im not using it at all.
And yes, i freezed with titanium all Google apps i dont use(Google music, Google movies and more).
Still, battery is sh*t.
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Had the same problem did a full wipe with MSM-Tool and now its gone....

maor23 said:
I have only facebook and instagram, but when im at work im not using it at all.
And yes, i freezed with titanium all Google apps i dont use(Google music, Google movies and more).
Still, battery is sh*t.
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Update to 10.3.5 should solve the issue. Apparently an update to google play services went berserk with OOS 10.3.4!
Welcome to the inconsistent world of Android! It's these quirks that the "fun" in dysfunctional android world!