I should have taken a screen shot, but my SOT was around 5 hours 30-40 minutes with 20 hours or more of stand by time. That's about three hours of talk time, some blue tooth as well. Not bad!
VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
{GUIDE} Tips that helped me improve my S7 Edge battery life (Verizon)
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When I am in EZ package disabler I have more possible bloatware and other system package apps. Why is this?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 post my current battery life screenshots, xml 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 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 might be enough. If your sot time does not improve I recommend trying the way I suggested.
Yes I'm able to view the picture just fine on my end.
Trying to understand what your saying.... If you are saying why is there more bloat than what I show listed in my op it is because I am only showing what I actually disabled. There are apps that ez disabler calls bloat that I don't want to disable because I don't consider it bloat. Those are not listed in my guide. Feel free to look through those other "bloat" apps and disable what you want. I can only recommend freezing the apps I have listed because those are the only ones I have tested.
If you are saying something else then I'll need you to explain more in detail.
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Here is what the picture looks like once you download it and open it in your gallery
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Two days ago I did 8h sot so I think that it's all about the kind of usage. But I don't understand what Android OS is exactly.
About the images do you use Tapatalk? I see it only if I download it.
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Yeah that is what I meant, my apologies. What would I need to enable to get software updates?
As far as I know you MUST re-enable EVERYTHING before you take any ota. Seriously, the developers of these disabler apps say bad things can happen if you take a software update without unfreezing everything. There is an option in the app to unfreeze everything with one click, so at least it's easy lol. Refreezing everything is the sucky part.
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From what I can tell unless you use some specific apps that depends on that app for location, disable that sucker. Here is some info on it....
http://mobile.vzw.com/LocationAgent
I use to think it helped the modem to find radio towers, but now I highly doubt that.
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Ok, I think how you charge your phone matters as well. If I do a non fast wire charge, I seem to get better battery depletion. So I normal wireless charged my phone, and for some reason my phone seems to be draining fast, even with all the tweaks.
VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
i disable all app following the list at page 1, but the always on display mode was turn off. Anyone can tell me which app i need to enable to turn on always on display please?
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Reread this six page thread. I asked the same question.
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Are you saying you aren't getting good battery life because of wireless charging? I always use wired charging without fast charge.... Seems to work the best for me as far as battery life is concerned.
Yes as stated in the OP the package mentioned earlier that you need to re-enable is AODservice.
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Me too. For now I never used fast charge, only wire normal charge.
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Always on Display can be turned back on by finding AODSetting and ENABLE it
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I went through and was clearing the memory and noticed 4 separate apps that had allocated memory in ram and were also listed to be disabled. Would enabling those increase battery vs having it disabled yet "running" in system memory? I have re-enabled those apps and trying it out now.
Those apps being:
Ant Hal Service,
Context Service, com.sec.android.app.wfdbroker,
Samsung Content Agent
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Those apps being:
Ant Hal Service,
Context Service, com.sec.android.app.wfdbroker,
Samsung Content Agent
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Are you guys having Android System battery issues still?
To pinpoint which service within Android System is causing the most wakelocks without Root, you can use this app (Wakelock Detector Lite) & adb to view the stats.
Here's the link to the Play Store app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot
After you install the app, go into Settings > Developer options & turn on USB Debugging.
Then connect your phone to your PC, open adb, and type:
adb devices
Then
adb tcpip 5555
Now you can view your wakelock stats without root!
My number one wakelock within Android System is GpsLocationProvider_ex. It prevents my phone from deep sleep & Doze.
The only workaround is to turn off GPS until needed.
Please share your findings.
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To pinpoint which service within Android System is causing the most wakelocks without Root, you can use this app (Wakelock Detector Lite) & adb to view the stats.
Here's the link to the Play Store app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector.noroot
After you install the app, go into Settings > Developer options & turn on USB Debugging.
Then connect your phone to your PC, open adb, and type:
adb devices
Then
adb tcpip 5555
Now you can view your wakelock stats without root!
My number one wakelock within Android System is GpsLocationProvider_ex. It prevents my phone from deep sleep & Doze.
The only workaround is to turn off GPS until needed.
Please share your findings.
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@dajmanjt I disabled most of apps that were in your list, but I wanted to keep gallery so I didn't disable the ones that were related to it, but now on gallery, the "time" section doesn't work where it displays my photos as a timeline. Do you know how I can fix this? I'm pretty sure it's because I disabled something. Thanks
Edit: I also found that while changing my wallpaper, it says that something has been disabled. Do you know which system apps that involve gallery?
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Edit: I also found that while changing my wallpaper, it says that something has been disabled. Do you know which system apps that involve gallery?
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Guys, don't disabled everything. Disable only the apps that you know for sure. The important thing is enjoy the phone and arrive to the end of the day without needing to charge the battery.
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