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Which is the best battery-saving app 2012?
Mugen power
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Hi,
In my little experience, there is no software that makes alot of diference, normaly what i do is:
disable motion
insert *#9900# and disable Fast dormacy - check is your network needs this
disable sync for accounts
disable GPS
disable wifi gps
disable wifi when not using
set brightness level to auto
set wifi sleep policy to when pluged in
Of course there are a couple more things you could do, and again this is what i do cant say it will work as good for you.
rooting.
Tasker
With it one can automate almost everything on the phone.
It's almost like programming i use it all the time and there are a lot of examples on this forum. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110775
Juice Defender Ultimate + Battery Saver Pro (by Antutu).
I tryed a few battery saver apps but no longer use them as i found if i turn auto sync off, change wifi sleep policy to never, untick network notification, and use task manger frequently to kill unused apps my battery lasts a lot longer. I also use easy task killer and set it to kill all apps every 30 mins. im using king cobra v1.1 for evo 3d gsm and the battery life is amazing!! just swapping battery's over now and its nearly 9pm!!
If any one needs any help rooting or unrooting the evo 3d gsm hboot 1.4.9.0018 let me know as i have done it a few times now. I unrooted my phone back to ***locked*** s-on with no traces of rooting, then checked for ota updates, wouldnt of installed them tho even if there was one!! then downgraded back too 1.4.9.0007 and rooted it again with revolutionary.
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forgot to mention auto brightness is a must. and i also calibrate battery after installing roms . can anyone please tell me if calibrating the battery every time it gets to 100% is good or bad? thanks.
When you use an xperia mini pro like me, with just 970 mAh, you get to try all possible battery savers... and unfortunetly no one of them makes the exception... actually as said evilchild, they don't make difference...
just disable everything that may drain your battery, your launcher effects too can be in cause, get rid of unuseful apps, put your brightness to lowest levels or just get it to auto if your rom use it... choose the best profile for your CPU... and with this you are good for 10 new hours in your daily battery life.
I'm not sure a 'battery-saving' app is real.
They just disable some features that we can manually do that. They just make it automatically disabled.
But, 2x Battery is good. It could disable Wifi or mobile data while the display is off.
one touch battery saver is awesome. create a widget to enable/disable wifi,gps,sync,brightness,bt,data ect with one touch!. free on google play
lonestrider said:
I'm not sure a 'battery-saving' app is real.
They just disable some features that we can manually do that. They just make it automatically disabled.
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Yeah. There's a thread somewhere which gives real battery saving tips
I tried some apps, but I didn't found one which really improved the battery.
In my opinion the best method is to reduce the brightness.
juice
Juice Defender Ultimate + Battery Saver Pro
lonestrider said:
I'm not sure a 'battery-saving' app is real.
They just disable some features that we can manually do that. They just make it automatically disabled.
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From the apps I tried out and used, almost all of them just disabled certain things, or tweaked settings that I could have done on my own, and eventually did do.
I found it easier to just go on a sub forum for the phone I had at the time and look up tweaks, tips etc.. I'd say doing this helped me more than any app I found previously, and was easy to do.
Dolphin companion is good and gives more remaining of time.
I use juice defender and the setting: "Only 2G"
3G takes a lot of battery..
Matheus-007 said:
Juice Defender Ultimate + Battery Saver Pro (by Antutu).
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i try yah friend.. i use script exacly but not best i think... thanks..
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None. There are no working saving battery apps, not a single one.
What a battery saving application can do is to change the phone configuration to a lower energy one, just like lowing brightness, disabling data packages and such, to sum up, things you can do by yourself and you'll save the battery that that application consumes.
The best way to save battery is to make a proper use of your phone:
-Disable gps when you don't need it.
-Turn off bluetooth when not needed.
-Keep screen brightness low at all time.
-Disable data packages before going to sleep and enable them again when you wake up.
-Keep your phone clean by periodically uninstalling apps that you don't use anymore and that make unnecesary use of memory, cpu and battery energy.
-Check your battery use statistics and keep an eye on applications that are using energy unefficiently, and replace them with better alternatives. Facebook and facebook messenger are clear examples.
-Some people say that connecting to 2G networks instead of 3G helps as well.
-Activate wifi at home, it seems to eat less battery than connected to 3G.
There are more tips out there, just gogle it and make a responsible use of your phone. Keeping phone clean and lowing brightness will probably make the biggest difference.
Moreover, if android S.O. is on the top of the list of battery use, your phone's software entered a weird condition. Reboot it and if it persist, consider a factory reset.
I hope this helps
I just started evaluating Juice Defender Ultimate to see if it can save battery life, but there are many options that I don't fully understand. I have attached a screenshot of the Notificatin pulldown window from my Galaxy Nexus which shows the JD status. There are 9 objects just to the right of the JD shield. They include 3 icons, 3 colored circles and 3 lines of text. Can anyone explain what each of them mean? I have checked the JD online info, without luck.
My best guess is:
the up/down icon represents mobile data
the red circle next to the up/down icon means mobile data is disabled
the radiation icon represents WiFi
the green circle next to the radiation icon means WiFi is enabled
the 3G icon represents 3g mode
the red circle next to the 3g icon means 3g is disabled and 2g is enabled
As mentioned, these are just my best guesses. I have no idea what the 3 lines of text mean?
Pete
Alright so I think I'm ready to comment on my Verizon s7 edge's battery life, as well as post a little guide that hopefully helps improve other Verizon users battery life.
For starters when I first got my phone and let it settle in (after the two updates) I had consistent 4 hours SOT with pretty heavy idle drain. I started scouring the forums to try and find out how to help the battery life.
There were a couple of things that I found on the forums that did help: install greenify app and turn on aggressive doze option, put all the normal battery sucking apps that I use into greenify (ESPN, CBS, Play Music), set location to GPS only, turn off ALL scanning options that are literally hidden multiple places throughout the phone (bluetooth and wifi), turn off google location reporting, turn off samsung security report collection and transmitting function, turn off fast charging (especially since I only charge up at night while I'm sleeping), and a few other things that I'm probably forgetting. After all of this I was getting around 5 hours SOT with medium idle drain.
Like most people who have paid for Package Disabler Pro, I had originally tried freezing all the bloat right away and discovered worse idle drain than not freezing bloat apps. Therefore for most of my testing I had left everything unfrozen. After I had implemented all the other stuff listed above, I dived back into investigating the app freezing situation. I seem to have made a discovery after some extensive testing.
From what I can tell many of the bloat apps are attached to a process that continues to try and function once the app is frozen. Most of us long time android users at this point would say "duh" lol. What I figured out however was that I could reset the process by clearing the system data for each app right before freezing it. For good measure I also cleared the data for the app after I froze it. I tried to account for each app that I considered to be bloat or was simply samsung battery sucking, and every process that was connected to that app that made it work. Although I have probably not accounted for all of them, I have definitely created enough of a dent in them to account for really good minimum idle battery drain. My testing has shown that this data clearing method works, and I will provide the battery pics to prove it.
Before I I go any further, I want to make it clear that all battery tests differ according to the users activities. I always am on 4G, never on WIFI (I have unlimited data). I always use auto brightness. My activities include Camera usage, ESPN app, Youtube app, Bible app, lots of web surfing (tech sites), Amazon shopping app, Zillow app, Realtor app, and things along these lines. I do not play any games, or do heavy task orientated benchmarks, or use facebook or social media apps. Also I have not disabled anything that effects HD calling, Samsung Pay, or apps edge (i use these things). I have disabled AOD since I don't use it, as well as all wifi calling processes, and certain edge apps that I don't use.
NOTE 1: You should review the list of apps I have disabled BEFORE you disable them, to ensure you are not losing any functions that you use (aka always on display)
NOTE 2: The focus here is killing background battery drainage, with the screen on or off. I have found great results FOR MY USAGE. Your usage will be different. But the hope is that by killing some of that background drain you can achieve longer overall battery life.
Alright so lets jump into the proof pics
Here is my last 2 days battery life stats
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As you can see, for my usage I was able to go 2 days with 6 hours SOT. All I can say is this is for real, and it cant hurt to try out what I did and see if you get similar results. I was on 4G data all the time (no wifi) and I was indoors a lot (not a lot of direct sunlight). These things helped the battery some, but the idle drain is nearly non existent right now. I left my phone unplugged overnight last night and had NO BATTERY DROP in the course of 6 hours. Not a single percent.
So besides all the tips listed at the top of this post, here is what I did with Package Disabler Pro.
1. Go into Package Disabler Pro and find each one of these apps (picture of apps below and attached to the post is the xml import document)
2. For each app BEFORE disabling it hit the CLEAR DATA button. Then quickly hit the DISABLE button. I say do it quickly because some of the apps will try and re-initiate its data a second after you clear it. Whether or not this is an important detail or not I am not sure, just trying to be thorough in my explanation.
3. Verify that the app now shows no data or cache, and that it is disabled (all this info is available right there in the Package Disabler app).
4. After disabling all the apps restart your phone.
After feedback from users in this thread, I have discovered EZ Package Disabler Pro, which does the same thing as Package Disabler Pro but has better layout and features. Here are the steps to complete the process using EZ Package Disabler Pro:
1. Go into EZ Package Disabler Pro and find each one of these apps (picture of apps below and attached to the post is the xml import document)
2. For each app BEFORE disabling it hit the CLEAR DATA button (you can find the clear data function under the "more" section of each app). Then press the DISABLE button.
3. Verify that the app now shows no data or cache, and that it is disabled (all this info is available right there in EZ Package Disabler Pro).
4. After disabling all the apps restart your phone.
And that's it. That is all I did. Most of these apps that are disabled I spent much time researching and figuring out what they did and whether to disable. I have lost no functions of my phone's normal use.
I hope this is helpful to someone else. I am definitely enjoying this phone a lot more now that I have great battery life. Still not as good as the international version (exynos) but its close enough for me.
Cheers!
That's interesting - When I get some time I'll give it a shot. I just did a factory reset on my phone, and this time did not install Package Disabler Pro, and instead just disabled some annoying bloatware like NFL, some Verizon crap, Amazon, etc., none of the processes that I had disabled before. It's early on, but I actually see the performance of the phone to be much more responsive than before, and it actually looks like doze is working. I think there is definitely something to be said for blindly disabling a bunch of services thinking it's only for the better.
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That's interesting - When I get some time I'll give it a shot. I just did a factory reset on my phone, and this time did not install Package Disabler Pro, and instead just disabled some annoying bloatware like NFL, some Verizon crap, Amazon, etc., none of the processes that I had disabled before. It's early on, but I actually see the performance of the phone to be much more responsive than before, and it actually looks like doze is working. I think there is definitely something to be said for blindly disabling a bunch of services thinking it's only for the better.
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Absolutely agree. I definitely spent way too much time trying to figure out exactly what apps I should disable lol. But in the end it has definitely been worth it.
If you try it let me know your results. I will be attempting this on my dad's s7 edge when I see him next so I can try and verify it on my end as well. My dad lives 4 hours away so I don't see him very often.
dajmanjt said:
Absolutely agree. I definitely spent way too much time trying to figure out exactly what apps I should disable lol. But in the end it has definitely been worth it.
If you try it let me know your results. I will be attempting this on my dad's s7 edge when I see him next so I can try and verify it on my end as well. My dad lives 4 hours away so I don't see him very often.
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At least your mom isn't on an S3 still and perfectly happy lol
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geoff5093 said:
At least your mom isn't on an S3 still and perfectly happy lol
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lol could be worse..... my mom is on an iphone 6
dajmanjt said:
Alright so I think I'm ready to comment on my Verizon s7 edge's battery life, as well as post a little guide that hopefully helps improve other Verizon users battery life.
For starters when I first got my phone and let it settle in (after the two updates) I had consistent 4 hours SOT with pretty heavy idle drain. I started scouring the forums to try and find out how to help the battery life.
There were a couple of things that I found on the forums that did help: install greenify app and turn on instant doze setting, put all the normal battery sucking apps that I use into greenify (ESPN, CBS, Play Music), set location to GPS only, turn off ALL scanning options that are literally hidden multiple places throughout the phone (bluetooth and wifi), turn off google location reporting, turn off samsung security report collection and transmitting function, turn off fast charging (especially since I only charge up at night while I'm sleeping), and a few other things that I'm probably forgetting. After all of this I was getting around 5 hours SOT with medium idle drain.
Like most people who have paid for Package Disabler Pro, I had originally tried freezing all the bloat right away and discovered worse idle drain than not freezing bloat apps. Therefore for most of my testing I had left everything unfrozen. After I had implemented all the other stuff listed above, I dived back into investigating the app freezing situation. I seem to have made a discovery after some extensive testing.
From what I can tell many of the bloat apps are attached to a process that continues to try and function once the app is frozen. Most of us long time android users at this point would say "duh" lol. What I figured out however was that I could reset the process by clearing the system data for each app right before freezing it. For good measure I also cleared the data for the app after I froze it. I tried to account for each app that I considered to be bloat or was simply samsung battery sucking, and every process that was connected to that app that made it work. Although I have probably not accounted for all of them, I have definitely created enough of a dent in them to account for really good minimum idle battery drain. My testing has shown that this data clearing method works, and I will provide the battery pics to prove it.
Before I post my current battery life screenshots, xls list for Package disabler, and details on how to do this, I want to make it clear that all battery tests differ according to the users activities. I always am on 4G, never on WIFI (I have unlimited data). I always use auto brightness. My activities include Camera usage, ESPN app, Youtube app, Bible app, lots of web surfing (tech sites), Amazon shopping app, Zillow app, Realtor app, and things along these lines. I do not play any games, or do heavy task orientated benchmarks, or use facebook or social media apps. Also I have not disabled anything that effects HD calling, Samsung Pay, or apps edge (i use these things). I have disabled AOD since I don't use it, as well as all wifi calling processes, and certain edge apps that I don't use. You should review the list of apps I have disabled BEFORE you disabling them, to ensure you are not losing any functions that you use.
NOTE: The focus here is killing background battery drainage, with the screen on or off. I have found great results FOR MY USAGE. Your usage will be different. But the hope is that by killing some of that background drain you can achieve longer overall battery life.
Alright so lets jump into the proof pics
Here is my last 2 days battery life stats
As you can see, for my usage I was able to go 2 days with 6 hours SOT. And yes, if I was reading this post i would cry wolf and say no way, not on a sd820 verizon s7 edge. All I can say is this is for real, and it cant hurt to try out what I did and see if you get similar results. I was on 4G data all the time (no wifi) and I was indoors a lot (not a lot of direct sunlight). These things helped the battery some, but the idle drain is nearly non existent right now. I left my phone unplugged overnight last night and had NO BATTERY DROP in the course of 6 hours. Not a single percent.
So besides all the tips listed at the top of this post, here is what I did with Package Disabler Pro.
1. Go into Package Disabler Pro and find each one of these apps (picture of apps below and attached to the post is the xls import document)
2. For each app BEFORE disabling it hit the CLEAR DATA button. Then quickly hit the DISABLE button. I say do it quickly because some of the apps will try and re-initiate its data a second after you clear it. Whether or not this is an important detail or not I am not sure, just trying to be thorough in my explanation.
3. Verify that the app now shows no data or cache, and that it is disabled (all this info is available right there in the Package Disabler app).
4. After disabling all the apps restart your phone.
And that's it. That is all I did. Most of these apps that are disabled I spent much time researching and figuring out what they did and whether to disable. I have lost no functions of my phone's normal use.
I hope this is helpful to someone else. I am definitely enjoying this phone a lot more now that I have great battery life. Still not as good as the international version (exynos) but its close enough for me.
Cheers!
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Thank you for the awesome tip. I'm going to give those suggestions a try. Can you please tell me how to enable doze? I though t the S7 Edge automatically went to doze when not in use?
Jonbelloguzman said:
Thank you for the awesome tip. I'm going to give those suggestions a try. Can you please tell me how to enable doze? I though t the S7 Edge automatically went to doze when not in use?
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It SHOULD go into doze mode automatically. Sometimes it does and sometimes it gets hung up and takes forever to go into doze. Basically Greenify has an option to try and put it into doze mode really quickly, thereby giving you much better standby time. Here is an article on it to better inform you on it.
http://www.androidauthority.com/greenify-update-671216/
Cheers!
dajmanjt said:
It SHOULD go into doze mode automatically. Sometimes it does and sometimes it gets hung up and takes forever to go into doze. Basically Greenify has an option to try and put it into doze mode really quickly, thereby giving you much better standby time. Here is an article on it to better inform you on it.
http://www.androidauthority.com/greenify-update-671216/
Cheers!
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Thank you for getting back to me. I really appreciate it.
Does package disabler pro really get rid of the stuff? Or is it just hiding it?
I know on rooted devices with Titanium, when something was frozen, it was as good as gone.
This doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
cpufrost said:
Does package disabler pro really get rid of the stuff? Or is it just hiding it?
I know on rooted devices with Titanium, when something was frozen, it was as good as gone.
This doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
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In my experience when I clear the app data and force disable it through package disabler pro, it is the same as freezing things through titanium. However titanium will always have better success rate because it has root and can break any processes that are attached to the app forcibly. Package disabler does work but it is still just a workaround for us folks stuck without root forever.
I'm just glad we have something lol
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I disabled alot of what you disabled, and some I left out, but what did you disable that won't allow Gallery photos to be cropped?
VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
Ok so I factory reset my phone and noticed package disabler pro (Samsung) had a price next to it. Weird as I purchased it last fall (for my Note 5). I found another that's rated better and I thought if I have to pay (again) why not try something else? I bought EZ Package Disabler from the Play Store, installed it and manually disabled everything I don't want. Did not worry about clearing cache for each app as well. Kind of in a hurry to get my phone back LOL.
Restored all my apps from Play Store and took my phone off the wireless charger.
Got to my office this AM and noticed a first, battery at 100%.
Currently now off the charger for over 5 hours and 50 minutes, 25min of screen time and battery now is 93%. That's a first for this device LOL.
Can see in the battery discharge graph the nearly flat lines when the device is sleeping/dozing as it should be!
It may be fixed, finally!
Android system is 19 percent for now. Let's see after 2 or 3 days
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cpufrost said:
I found another that's rated better and I thought if I have to pay (again) why not try something else? I bought EZ Package Disabler from the Play Store, installed it and manually disabled everything I don't want. Did not worry about clearing cache for each app as well. Kind of in a hurry to get my phone back LOL.
Restored all my apps from Play Store and took my phone off the wireless charger.
Got to my office this AM and noticed a first, battery at 100%.
Currently now off the charger for over 5 hours and 50 minutes, 25min of screen time and battery now is 93%. That's a first for this device LOL.
Can see in the battery discharge graph the nearly flat lines when the device is sleeping/dozing as it should be!
It may be fixed, finally!
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Yes, I'm at the same situation. Currently i'm using EZ Package Disabler. It's much faster, friendly UI and has a lot of descriptions. Easier to make a decision which packages should be disabled.
After tweaks
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So Android systems is down
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But Gallery closes when trying to crop a photo argh
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Nvm worked lol
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SEVENEDGE said:
I disabled alot of what you disabled, and some I left out, but what did you disable that won't allow Gallery photos to be cropped?
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I use Quickpic instead of gallery so I disabled it completely. Didn't like how it always ran in the background lol
cpufrost said:
Ok so I factory reset my phone and noticed package disabler pro (Samsung) had a price next to it. Weird as I purchased it last fall (for my Note 5). I found another that's rated better and I thought if I have to pay (again) why not try something else? I bought EZ Package Disabler from the Play Store, installed it and manually disabled everything I don't want. Did not worry about clearing cache for each app as well. Kind of in a hurry to get my phone back LOL.
Restored all my apps from Play Store and took my phone off the wireless charger.
Got to my office this AM and noticed a first, battery at 100%.
Currently now off the charger for over 5 hours and 50 minutes, 25min of screen time and battery now is 93%. That's a first for this device LOL.
Can see in the battery discharge graph the nearly flat lines when the device is sleeping/dozing as it should be!
It may be fixed, finally!
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So I went and paid for EZ Package Disabler Pro to give it a shot and I absolutely agree that it has a much better system in place to understand applications and processes. Also the feature that lets you see everything that is currently running is AWESOME! Good find.
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Android system is 19 percent for now. Let's see after 2 or 3 days
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Mine stays around 20% consistently or below with my usual daily usage.
ricoyakuza said:
Yes, I'm at the same situation. Currently i'm using EZ Package Disabler. It's much faster, friendly UI and has a lot of descriptions. Easier to make a decision which packages should be disabled.
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Absoluetly agree about EZ Package Disabler. I prefer its layout and features. However I think some of the processes need to be reset before they are disabled. The only way I can reset them is to clear their data. EZ Package Disabler does not let you clear data from within the app. So I am using both EZ Package Disabler and Package Disabler lol
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After tweaks View attachment 3734050
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SEVENEDGE said:
So Android systems is down
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But Gallery closes when trying to crop a photo argh
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Nvm worked lol
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Yea overall I am definitely noticing much better background drain overall. Think if the s7 edge was a nexus phone running complete stock firmware..... it would have been the best phone ever made lol
dajmanjt said:
I use Quickpic instead of gallery so I disabled it completely. Didn't like how it always ran in the background lol
So I went and paid for EZ Package Disabler Pro to give it a shot and I absolutely agree that it has a much better system in place to understand applications and processes. Also the feature that lets you see everything that is currently running is AWESOME! Good find.
Mine stays around 20% consistently or below with my usual daily usage.
Absoluetly agree about EZ Package Disabler. I prefer its layout and features. However I think some of the processes need to be reset before they are disabled. The only way I can reset them is to clear their data. EZ Package Disabler does not let you clear data from within the app. So I am using both EZ Package Disabler and Package Disabler lol
Yea overall I am definitely noticing much better background drain overall. Think if the s7 edge was a nexus phone running complete stock firmware..... it would have been the best phone ever made lol
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And how do you edit slow motion video made with the camera?
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turtuv said:
And how do you edit slow motion video made with the camera?
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To be honest I have not edited any slow motion video on my s7 edge yet. But if/when I do i'll probably use kinemaster
http://www.kinemaster.com/kinemaster/main/en/
dajmanjt said:
I use Quickpic instead of gallery so I disabled it completely. Didn't like how it always ran in the background lol
So I went and paid for EZ Package Disabler Pro to give it a shot and I absolutely agree that it has a much better system in place to understand applications and processes. Also the feature that lets you see everything that is currently running is AWESOME! Good find.
Mine stays around 20% consistently or below with my usual daily usage.
Absoluetly agree about EZ Package Disabler. I prefer its layout and features. However I think some of the processes need to be reset before they are disabled. The only way I can reset them is to clear their data. EZ Package Disabler does not let you clear data from within the app. So I am using both EZ Package Disabler and Package Disabler lol
Yea overall I am definitely noticing much better background drain overall. Think if the s7 edge was a nexus phone running complete stock firmware..... it would have been the best phone ever made lol
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In about a 5 or 6 hour span, I lost about 2 percent while I slept. There is a 40 minute kept awake time. There is maybe an app that's not letting it completely doze? What thinkest thou?
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Hey All, I just wanted to know what are some of your battery optimization tips for this phone. I'm really enjoying it so far, and the battery life is absolutely great, but I want to try and get the most out of it!
Lol how much more do you want
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Uninstall Facebook, messenger and what's app and you can practically throw away your phone charger
Create as many web app versions as you can of apps with the boot flag. I use personally use Hermit for this.
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The optimizations are already built in to the phone. If you use them properly you are getting the best you can.
As nighthawk says, there are some rubbish apps you can well do without.
When not in use for a while (or overnight), use the 'Ultra' battery setting in Battery Manager. You can still receive calls & texts with this enabled.
To make the setting quickly & easily accessible, you'll want to edit the drop-down Shortcuts menu to place the 'Ultra battery' shortcut in a better position (see pic enclosed to view where I've placed it in my P8 drop-down Shortcuts menu).
Exiting this 'Ultra' battery mode is also easily done from the main screen, & it takes only a few seconds to return the phone to full functionality.
With this setting, my P8 loses only 1-2% charge overnight even though it has a low-capacity 2700mAh battery.
Hey,
Quite weird but all battery charging alarms I tried didn't go off when reaching selected charging level on mi note 10. I gave apps all permissions and locked them to be always in tray. Phone is not rooted, miui 11.
Maybe smn knows app which works.
Cheers
I've been there and tried many methods. MIUI is using different method to provide info about charging / discharging. As far as I tried and tested, there is no way to get info about charging state if you DON'T have root.
1bravoklp said:
Hey,
Quite weird but all battery charging alarms I tried didn't go off when reaching selected charging level on mi note 10. I gave apps all permissions and locked them to be always in tray. Phone is not rooted, miui 11.
Maybe smn knows app which works.
Cheers
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Found out about this problem too. Can't even get their alarm clock app right Xiaomi. My alarm only rings 30MINS after it's set.
Unacceptable.
Full battery and Theft Alarm app
works for me.
Problem sold.
1bravoklp said:
Hey,
Quite weird but all battery charging alarms I tried didn't go off when reaching selected charging level on mi note 10. I gave apps all permissions and locked them to be always in tray. Phone is not rooted, miui 11.
Maybe smn knows app which works.
Cheers
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Lock app in recently used apps!
When you open recent apps tray press and hold the app until a menu appears and you can click the lock.
And turn Off battery optimization for battery app.
I use Battery Alarm app
My first Samsung mobile and the first with punch hole camera display. I was using pixel 2 till now, and first thing I miss is notification light (definitely after squeeze, my favorite pixel feature).
Trying to find an app which can 'efficiently (battery friendly)' use Always On Display capabilities to provide notification LED like functionalities (can be paid also).
I have found below three (other suggestion are welcome too)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe > 4.3/149,006 total > last updated 26 February 2022
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.alwaysondisplay > 4.2/17,370 total > last updated 23 February 2022
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anker.ledmeknow&hl=en_AU&gl=US > 4.3/ 8158 total >last updated 18 July 2020
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=you.in.spark.energy.ring.gen&hl=en_AU&gl=US > 4.0 /4727 >last updated 6 January 2022
Try AODNotify from play store it works grear
butchieboy said:
Try AODNotify from play store it works grear
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just saw the thread for the app, will give it a try. Thanks
Like you, I went from a Pixel 2 to a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and missed the notification LED too. I have tried three different apps and found that having to work within the Samsung/Google hardware/software environment, these apps are forced to rely on the built in AOD subsystem with its limitations and requirements. This forces a simple function, blinking a small preset screen area if and when a notification arrives, to use an exorbitant amount of battery power. Between the app and the AOD subsystem, they can easily use 10% or more of the available battery charge per day. I am still tinkering with AODNotify to see if I can possibly reduce battery consumption, but I’m not too optimistic. I have submitted a request to Samsung, asking them to add this functionality to their software, which would probably solve the battery consumption issue. I am waiting for their response to my request. I have an S22 Ultra on order and one way or another, I would like to have LED notification functionality on my new phone.
neilth said:
Like you, I went from a Pixel 2 to a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and missed the notification LED too. I have tried three different apps and found that having to work within the Samsung/Google hardware/software environment, these apps are forced to rely on the built in AOD subsystem with its limitations and requirements. This forces a simple function, blinking a small preset screen area if and when a notification arrives, to use an exorbitant amount of battery power. Between the app and the AOD subsystem, they can easily use 10% or more of the available battery charge per day. I am still tinkering with AODNotify to see if I can possibly reduce battery consumption, but I’m not too optimistic. I have submitted a request to Samsung, asking them to add this functionality to their software, which would probably solve the battery consumption issue. I am waiting for their response to my request. I have an S22 Ultra on order and one way or another, I would like to have LED notification functionality on my new phone.
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Thanks for this detailed reply, would be great if something like this basic functionality is provided out of the box.
Exactly, one would think that for their top of the line phones it would be a no brainer! BTW, in the AODNotify app, in the settings there’s an option where you set the notification duration, how long you would like the notification to blink on the screen. There’s a warning there telling you that if you set this much over 5 minutes I think it says, that you will notice a big impact on battery consumption. Five minutes is way too short for me!
Another vote for aodnotify, I have used this on my S20 Ultra and now on my S22 Ultra. It is not a battery hog, and I really don't see much difference on battery usage. Keep in mind which display you choose and their duration.
larryk said:
Another vote for aodnotify, I have used this on my S20 Ultra and now on my S22 Ultra. It is not a battery hog, and I really don't see much difference on battery usage. Keep in mind which display you choose and their duration.
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What do you have the notification LED duration set to?
I set only show when screen is off, duration 15 minutes, camera edge and blink eco.
I set my app colors to match the edge lighting
larryk said:
I set only show when screen is off, duration 15 minutes, camera edge and blink eco.
I set my app colors to match the edge lighting
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Thank you and good night.