My real main reason for root is being able to block apps and this app works extremely well for that. Used to use it on my note 4 too. It blocks all ads in browsers and across all apps. You get a 30 day free trial but I went ahead and paid the 10 bucks he wants for the app. To me it's totally worth it. Oh and you don't need root to use it which is the best part!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
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Bad link. Try again. I do not see anything by that name in the play store.
btothec said:
Bad link. Try again. I do not see anything by that name in the play store.
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You won't see a link in the play store because they don't allow ad blocking apps. Try this though.
https://adguard.com/en/adguard
t4d73 said:
You won't see a link in the play store because they don't allow ad blocking apps. Try this though.
https://adguard.com/en/adguard
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I don't know what the heck is going on but if you just do a Google search for adguard android you'll see it. Sorry.
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I don't know what the heck is going on but if you just do a Google search for adguard android you'll see it. Sorry.
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I found something called webguard on the play store that seems to work exactly like you are explaining. Maybe they renamed it?
Since it's a app always running in the background and not a hosts file, how much does it affect battery life?
Not sure yet. I have adguard now also. I will do some initial tests on them and check back. Both seem to operate in the same exact manner. They create a local VPN connection to localhost and route all traffic through the VPN that is running on your phone. If the code is written well it should have very little impact on the battery.
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I found something called webguard on the play store that seems to work exactly like you are explaining. Maybe they renamed it?
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No that only seems to block ads in browsers. Adguard does it across the entire device including apps.
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Swiftks said:
Since it's a app always running in the background and not a hosts file, how much does it affect battery life?
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I'm not sure. I've had it since day 1 with the phone so I can't really compare. He explains on his website that it will look like it's using lots of battery in your battery stats though because it's now routing all ad traffic through adguard so it will look like it's using a ton of battery. I don't really see that though.
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I've used it for ages. I have 5 licences for 3 mobiles and two laptops. I swear by it.
It has no negative effect on battery. If it did, I wouldn't use it (it just looks like it does as all apps data is shown under the Adguard heading)... don't sweat it.
Don't forget to enable https filtering (I think that might currently be a Beta option only)... that way you won't get any Youtube advertisements. It's great.
Adguard and Battery
Adguard is showing up as one of the biggest battery users on my phone. About 15-20% using the phones allocation of battery usage. It is just below android system. I have been wondering about this. I still get decent battery. About 5 hour SOT without doing anything too processor intensive. If we get root I will probably go back to Adaway which has always worked well with no hit on battery.
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Adguard is showing up as one of the biggest battery users on my phone. About 15-20% using the phones allocation of battery usage. It is just below android system. I have been wondering about this. I still get decent battery. About 5 hour SOT without doing anything too processor intensive. If we get root I will probably go back to Adaway which has always worked well with no hit on battery.
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LOL
There is no additional battery use. Read the Adguard FAQ, or even better, experiment for yourself and you will find out that there is actually a battery saving as the ads aren't downloaded (saving you juice and data).
The battery usage you are seeing as reported by the Android system is not generated by Adguard itself, it is generated by the apps concerned and this is 'assumed' by Adguard as it pipes all the data (and therefore battery reporting stats) on behalf of the apps.
LOL
More information about Adguard and battery usage is here:
https://kb.adguard.com/index.php?/K...ndroid-battery-and-traffic-consumption-issues
You may use the formula from that article to calculate the real battery usage.
t4d73 said:
No that only seems to block ads in browsers. Adguard does it across the entire device including apps.
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Webguard does seem to block ads in browsers and apps.
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Webguard does seem to block ads in browsers and apps.
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Well ok. You might want that then considering its free. I'll stick with adguard. Thanks for the tip though.
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t4d73 said:
Well ok. You might want that then considering its free. I'll stick with adguard. Thanks for the tip though.
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Well I like how adguard shows stats per app. I am giving both of them a good thorough test starting with adguard. Seems great so far. I do see quite a few apps I never use pulling data and ads. Retailmenot for example pulled 24 ads in the first 5 minutes. I have never opened it on this phone.
t4d73 said:
Well ok. You might want that then considering its free. I'll stick with adguard. Thanks for the tip though.
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It's a free trial but cost for full is similar.
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btothec said:
I found something called webguard on the play store that seems to work exactly like you are explaining. Maybe they renamed it?
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Just to make it clear, this app has nothing to do with Adguard except they are from the same city
The fact that it is still in Google Play is surprising as it violates Google's "no ad blockers" term.
Updated: September 23, 2015 -- is it abandoned?
Thanks
avatar_adg said:
More information about Adguard and battery usage is here:
https://kb.adguard.com/index.php?/K...ndroid-battery-and-traffic-consumption-issues
You may use the formula from that article to calculate the real battery usage.
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Thanks for the info. I don't have enough time to week through all this. I understand what is going on now. Sorry if I caused you any concern regarding the performance of the app.
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Just to make it clear, this app has nothing to do with Adguard except they are from the same city
The fact that it is still in Google Play is surprising as it violates Google's "no ad blockers" term.
Updated: September 23, 2015 -- is it abandoned?
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Your app (adguard) seems much more finished. The I only reason I mentioned webguard is that I could not find adguard in the app store. I have adguard installed now and I am loving it. Crazy how fast websites load now!
Related
I would prefer not to use one, but i am worried data stealing apps or ones that cost you money by making phone calls or texts.
There seems to be lots of free and payed ones around.
The battery life on the SGS2 is bad enough without extra software running in the background if i don't need it.
thanks
John.
Nope but some like to .
jje
I've been using Android for quite a while now and would say it's not necessary at all.
As long as you're diligent in checking app permissions before installing anything you're not gonna have any problems. It's also a good idea to read through a few of the reviews on the market for any given app before installing to see if any other users are having any problems/concerns with it.
I'm using lookout, wouldnt say it uses much battery really. Never found anything yet though that is hopefully a good thing
Silver420 said:
I'm using lookout, wouldnt say it uses much battery really. Never found anything yet though that is hopefully a good thing
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same here. I've been using lookout for both malware protection and device locator
I should activate the device locator really
Using lbe privacy guard and i like it alot,dont need antivirus
i'm using COMMON SENSE 2012
and never had a problem with it (0% battery drain!).
Hello everyone
I'm experiencing some problems with my battery being drained rather fast. I'm running one of the latest CM nightlies but my phone is empty after only 11 hours.
I've attached graphs made with Better Battery Stat to this post. My usage to was: The phone didn't leave my house and i didn't use the audio. I used it from time to time to play a game (BounceBall) read a bit on the internet (Chrome) or Reddit (Reddit News).
Despite never moving my phone Google Maps/NetworkLocations seem to be run pretty frequent. How can i disable this? And is there anything else that mgiht be wrong with my phone causing a battery drain?
Thanks in advance
Note maps qnd location services. Disable them and you'll be fine.
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Note maps qnd location services. Disable them and you'll be fine.
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How do i disable them? Maps is already set to not automatically refresh my loction.
It's in settings somewhere, don't remember, hold on...
Setting/Location services untick away.
Open maps and untick the location options.
Disable all google now options if you don't use it.
Just realized you're on CM, check the ROM thread.
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Turn off google now thats doing it not google maps.
Yes, google now as well.
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i'd strongly recommend also to use Juice Defender in agressive mode on. With that, your data connection will be enabled every 30min instead of being always on in the background... this saves me a lot of battery as well.
I have upgraded from ICS stock to JB stock and now my battery lasts much less than before. I am considering donwgrading to ICS 4.0.3
Hope it helps.
I'd strongly recommend you don't use Juice Defender. At all. Ever. That app (and similar apps) was designed to hoover money from n00bs who don't know better.
MistahBungle said:
I'd strongly recommend you don't use Juice Defender. At all. Ever. That app (and similar apps) was designed to hoover money from n00bs who don't know better.
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.....causing more draining than before as a result of the ap itself.
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it's a free app, and I've tested with and without, and for me it makes a huge difference. if you never tried before, you should before saying it doesn't work... it's only 3mb and runs only 1 service on the background (around 6mb).
I did try it back when I was using a black wallpaper so I would get better battery life, on GB!
Trust us, you wont save any juice with any of those apps.
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gastonw said:
I did try it back when I was using a black wallpaper so I would get better battery life, on GB!
Trust us, you wont save any juice with any of those apps.
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I was using this with my good and old ZTE Blade and it worked really well. I will try to use my SGS2 without it...
Ok, and please don't install any antiviruses.
This is linux based, not windows
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gastonw said:
Ok, and please don't install any antiviruses.
This is linux based, not windows
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Thanks this I know. I was using Linux instead of Windows in my PC for some years.
But I have Prey anti-theft installed... hope this is OK. Do you guys have any anti-theft installed?
I don't, should set something like cerebrus up now that you mention it.
Got samsung dive anyway.
I'm also willing to chop the hand of anyone that would try to take the little guy away from me.
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JuiceDefender does nothing you can't do yourself, and you'll pay a drain penalty for the (false) 'convenience'.
Prey is as good as it gets so far as those apps are concerned.
Lol, when you start looking into a device you're thinking about getting, when you're new to all of this, you only get the "battery life" part, hence you become obsessed with it.
The crazy thing is that you don't even know how your device behaves until you actually use it without all these apps, but you don't know that, so the first thing you get from play store, it's a juice saver app.
I should know, been there done that.
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Unless you read the advice of people who know from experience that these things use more juice than they save before you get your phone (Which is what I did for over a month before I got mine).
I didn't read any of that until I had already bought green power and weren't even using it.
Cool leaf logo tho.
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Use greenify (it's a free app) to freeze apps which usually run in your background, like your maps for example. Check out for a better description of the app in play store
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Over the past couple days I've noticed this as the top partial wakelock on my device. This seems to be at least partially coincident with info propagating across the internet about Google games. There is an apparent associated wake alarm, which ends in .Gms.
While these aren't insanely bad wakelocks, they are irritating to me as I'm not sure where they are coming from. The number of wake alarms from this is pretty aggressive... Previous to this maps was my most aggressive waker by a large margin, and this new one is twice as aggressive as maps.
Is anyone else seeing these? Anyone have any insight as to the source?
Screenies attached...
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Yes, same problem here but with a Nexus 4
It looks like that's caused by Messenger.
I can say for certain that it Might be caused my Messenger, as I do not have it installed ,and do not suffer that wakelock.
I do got a lot from Maps, but Greenify takes care of that.
OMGMatrix said:
It looks like that's caused by Messenger.
I can say for certain that it Might be caused my Messenger, as I do not have it installed ,and do not suffer that wakelock.
I do got a lot from Maps, but Greenify takes care of that.
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What specifically is pointing you to messenger? You're referring to G+ messenger I assume. There haven't been any updates to G+ or messenger recently...
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dandrumheller said:
What specifically is pointing you to messenger? You're referring to G+ messenger I assume. There haven't been any updates to G+ or messenger recently...
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No, but I have seen com.google.gms implicated in recent Google Play Services updates, in reference to the upcoming game center-thing Google is launching, so That could potentially have something to do with it.
DId you get rid of this wakelock. this error is not lettign my phone to sleep.
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DId you get rid of this wakelock. this error is not lettign my phone to sleep.
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No. It seems to have gotten slightly better with a different kernel, but still present. I'm still getting decent deep sleep and awake: screen on ratios... It isn't completely preventing deep sleep for me.
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dandrumheller said:
No. It seems to have gotten slightly better with a different kernel, but still present. I'm still getting decent deep sleep and awake: screen on ratios... It isn't completely preventing deep sleep for me.
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I saw this wakelock first time on my phone.. i installed a new ROM today. I used this rom before also, but i never saw this wakelock. What you have done to reduce this wakelock
atrix4nag said:
I saw this wakelock first time on my phone.. i installed a new ROM today. I used this rom before also, but i never saw this wakelock. What you have done to reduce this wakelock
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Is been around for a few days... I think it is being caused by updates to background Google services, but I'm not sure. Since I don't know what's causing it, chasing it down by freezing stuff or using greenify odd going to take time. I haven't had that time yet. So I am living with it for now.
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Is been around for a few days... I think it is being caused by updates to background Google services, but I'm not sure. Since I don't know what's causing it, chasing it down by freezing stuff or using greenify odd going to take time. I haven't had that time yet. So I am living with it for now.
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ok, let me try different options.
I tried all the options given in Better Battery Stats app, to minimize gsf wakelocks and disabling maps. I tired these settings for the first time..
atrix4nag said:
ok, let me try different options.
I tried all the options given in Better Battery Stats app, to minimize gsf wakelocks and disabling maps. I tired these settings for the first time..
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Did it help? Just out of curiosity..
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Did it help? Just out of curiosity..
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yes,it helped after fully recharging and restarting the phone. now no more nlpcollector wakelock on my phone
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?
It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
wolfboy1984 said:
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?
It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
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Could be. I haven't had really any time to chase this yet. But for grins, I installed the app AutomateIt, which if I understand correctly takes advantage of some of those new Google features. I turned on a couple options in the app to trigger things "when in a vehicle". I subsequently saw more of this wakelock.
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Anyone fount out what is the solution ?
wolfboy1984 said:
This sounds very much like the aggregated Network Location Provider that was introduced in the I/O Keynote?? Or is this something different?
It's supposed to use far less power not more... :what: It got a very good reception from the crowd tho.
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Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.
I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now
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Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.
I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now
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It may be battery friendlier than the old location services - it doesn't seem particularly drain inducing to me - but it is running on top of the old location services (I haven't noticed any reduction in wakelocks from them) so it does result in some additional drain.
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jdock said:
Sounds like it to me too. And yeah, it probably does use less power than the old default way of doing location services. Our problem is that we have tuned our phones to avoid location services as much as possible, and now we are getting them again.
I'm sure someone will figure out the best way to tame it... or we may find out it's battery-friendly enough to actually use location services now
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It aggregates it from wifi, data and gps remember.
If you are using wifi - it will be there.
Keep your smart phones smart.
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It may be battery friendlier than the old location services - it doesn't seem particularly drain inducing to me - but it is running on top of the old location services (I haven't noticed any reduction in wakelocks from them) so it does result in some additional drain.
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Yeah, I was under the impression that it's kind of up to the apps to actually USE the new service. If they still go about things the old way then the new service doesn't help anything.
I posted the following on my own thread but I'll be moving my discussion here because it's pretty much the same thing.
I noticed recently that I have two Google related networking services running constantly. They are GoogleLocationService and NetworkLocationService. Are both necessary? I remember only one was there before the new Google Services update. I also have noticed an increase in Android OS under Battery usage and a slight decrease in battery life. I think the two maybe related. Anyone have some insight?
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I think the issue is that the old service and the new service are running simultaneously and is negatively impacting battery instead of saving like what was promised with the new service. Maybe we need to find a way to remove/freeze the old service.
My wife and I both have S4s. Mine was got on launch date and has the older firmware, while hers was just got 2 weeks ago and has the OTA update. Both are rooted, but hers is stock for now. Her biggest complaint (until a few days ago ws the crappy battery life. So I rooted it and installed Rom ToolBox (I have the pro good stuff).
To get her decent battery life /she's a pretty heavy user, stays at home and practically always on the phone / I killed some 'un-neccessary' apps.
Note:
This is what I personally do not use/want. YMMV.
AllShare Control Center
AllShare FileShare Service
Enterprise Sim Pin Service
Enterprise VPN Services
Exchange Services
Factory Test
File Manager
Keep
NFL (I forget the exact title, it's not on mine it was deleted)
NFC Service
NFC Test
Phase Beam
Samsung Account
Samsung Link
Samsung WatchOn
Sensor Service
Terminal Emulator
Voice Recorder
VPN Client
VPN Dialogs
Verizon Backup Services (again, I forget the exact name, it was laready deleted). I will update this list when I get my hands on the wife's phone
I am using Eclipse (see my sig), and as I said my wife's phone is stock rooted. Hope that helps. I may have also deleted (uninstalled some apps). Plus I installed some TW apps that I ripped from Clean ROM like the TW Clock and Calc...
There are other apps that are safe to install as well
So far I find the battery life to be meh, at best. I have 2 corp accounts pulling email every hour instead of push, and gmail and in 5 hours of use its sucked down 15% battery life. Of course tonight I will be rooting and adding ROM Toolbox Pro to kill off a few things so your updated list will be interesting to see what else you killed to get more battery life.
Look for Greenify at Play Store.
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Tada10 said:
Look for Greenify at Play Store.
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+1
nice
nice infos
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+1
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I heard mixed reviews about Greenify, but I did download and install the Snapdragon battery guru and a co-worker of mine has found it useful on his GS3 so I was testing it in my HTC One DE and now on the GS4 32GB I will report back. Since Google Now requires location aware status it does suck the battery.
So far battery life for me has been stellar....
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scottgalit61 said:
So far battery life for me has been stellar....
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White battery icon.how. stock rooted me7
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I hope this greenify solves some of my battery issues thats the only reason I rooted this phone and wanted to add clean room.
all3rd said:
I hope this greenify solves some of my battery issues thats the only reason I rooted this phone and wanted to add clean room.
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If you don't like Greenify try Snapdragon Battery Guru, it takes 3 days to learn your use and is a Qualcomm app so its not too bad.
RaptorMD said:
If you don't like Greenify try Snapdragon Battery Guru, it takes 3 days to learn your use and is a Qualcomm app so its not too bad.
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Does it stop processes like uTorrent or Play Music running in the background/screen off? I'd hate for it to close them but would like something like Chrome/Browser u know.
IamPro said:
Does it stop processes like uTorrent or Play Music running in the background/screen off? I'd hate for it to close them but would like something like Chrome/Browser u know.
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It has per app settings.
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It has per app settings.
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Im trying the Snapdragon guru. The per app option dont list alot of TW apps. Does it only show google apps.
Well with my ZeroLemon 7500 mAh battery I threw 5 days
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justreboot said:
My wife and I both have S4s. Mine was got on launch date and has the older firmware, while hers was just got 2 weeks ago and has the OTA update. Both are rooted, but hers is stock for now. Her biggest complaint (until a few days ago ws the crappy battery life. So I rooted it and installed Rom ToolBox (I have the pro good stuff).
To get her decent battery life /she's a pretty heavy user, stays at home and practically always on the phone / I killed some 'un-neccessary' apps.
Note:
This is what I personally do not use/want. YMMV.
AllShare Control Center
AllShare FileShare Service
Enterprise Sim Pin Service
Enterprise VPN Services
Exchange Services
Factory Test
File Manager
Keep
NFL (I forget the exact title, it's not on mine it was deleted)
NFC Service
NFC Test
Phase Beam
Samsung Account
Samsung Link
Samsung WatchOn
Sensor Service
Terminal Emulator
Voice Recorder
VPN Client
VPN Dialogs
Verizon Backup Services (again, I forget the exact name, it was laready deleted). I will update this list when I get my hands on the wife's phone
I am using Eclipse (see my sig), and as I said my wife's phone is stock rooted. Hope that helps. I may have also deleted (uninstalled some apps). Plus I installed some TW apps that I ripped from Clean ROM like the TW Clock and Calc...
There are other apps that are safe to install as well
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I wouldn't freeze/uninstall the AllShare apps. If you do, your Wi-Fi Direct connection will not work. If you don't use that or want the capability to use it, go right ahead.
Joe_6pak said:
I wouldn't freeze/uninstall the AllShare apps. If you do, your Wi-Fi Direct connection will not work. If you don't use that or want the capability to use it, go right ahead.
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Thanks / Neither my wife or I use all share or wifi direct / I was aware of the dependency.
I made some more changes to mine as well, but for the most part, mostly cosmetic (internally) [Eclipse came out with several updates.]
clapper66 said:
Well with my ZeroLemon 7500 mAh battery I threw 5 days
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7500 - Jeez/ How thick is the phone?
Personally I have no problem charging the phone every night. I use Dock Clock (from the play store) and a cheap business card holder (staples) as a phone stand [Hey it works, and for $3, I challenge you to find something better that works and doesn't look too cheap.]
The phone then acts as a gitial clock within reach and it serves as my alarm clock to drag my a$$ out of bed at 4:15 every morning.
That being said, 5 days is insane battery life, even my work phone (HTC One) gets about 32 hours on a single charge with moderate-heavy use. 5 days would be awesome if a charger was not an option (like on a business trip/vacation. You could proably watch 5 movies on an international flight and still have 2 days left
justreboot said:
7500 - Jeez/ How thick is the phone?
Personally I have no problem charging the phone every night. I use Dock Clock (from the play store) and a cheap business card holder (staples) as a phone stand [Hey it works, and for $3, I challenge you to find something better that works and doesn't look too cheap.]
The phone then acts as a gitial clock within reach and it serves as my alarm clock to drag my a$$ out of bed at 4:15 every morning.
That being said, 5 days is insane battery life, even my work phone (HTC One) gets about 32 hours on a single charge with moderate-heavy use. 5 days would be awesome if a charger was not an option (like on a business trip/vacation. You could proably watch 5 movies on an international flight and still have 2 days left
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Actually its no thicker than a 5200 mAh battery. This is what it looks like when its in the phone.
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clapper66 said:
Actually its no thicker than a 5200 mAh battery. This is what it looks like when its in the phone.
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That is crazy big!! Does the case have wheels and a handle on it. LoL.
Pics with back cover on?
leroybrute said:
That is crazy big!! Does the case have wheels and a handle on it. LoL.
Pics with back cover on?
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The speaker is completely covered...
Ew
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The G2 has a fantastic battery already, why not make it even better?
I like to see how far I can push this phone's battery. In no way does that mean that you need too as well, but for those of you that do want a few more hours or another day, I'm happy to share what I've learned.
After I've spent time learning the quirks of this phone, and most of its respective ROMs, I've come up with quite a few tricks for improving battery life, some specific to this phone, some just in android general. I now get average 3-4 days battery life, when I use the phone quite often during the day all day long.
It is your personal preference on how much of android's background services that you use compared to apps. This is only suggestions for the users that want to improve battery life.
Heres some of the simplest questions you can ask yourself when you go through the settings center:
Do I really need this feature enabled? Do I use it often? Even if I do occasionaly use it, is it that much of a pain to just turn on when I need it?
Do I really need GPS on 24/7? How often do I really use GPS?
How many apps do I need running in the background?
Do I need to keep autobright on, or keep the screen super bright?
That being said, here are some of the simple things that Ive done.
I keep everything off unless I use it every day.
I keep GPS off 24/7, I never use it.
Out of habit, I always close all apps.
I keep autobright off and keep the screen on 14 brightness. Unless Im right outside in the sun its easy to see, and if I am I can just turn it up with the quick setting.
Some of the more advanced stuff I do, that completely varies on your ROM:
Go through all the system apps and freeze anything you dont use. Example being the Picasa uploader (for me at least).
Leave as little system services running as you need. You wouldent believe how many unneeded services android runs. On the stock roms there are TWO location daemons running.
Currently Im using CleanROM, I switch between it and Cyanogen about once a week, just cant make up my mind on stability v. features, but on CleanROM, some of the stuff I have currently froze
Nearly anything involving Verizon, the carrier APKs are massive bloatware.
I disabled a lot of google services, some people may rely on these, personally I dont, the biggest two google apps I use are chrome and Gmail.
If your on a stock based ROM, disable the LG services you dont use. Textlink wastes a huge amount of power, as does QSlide.
(This applies alot more to carrier based roms than it does Cyanogen/AOSP, but even they do have a few unneccesary servcices.) Be careful when you are touching system services, if you dont know what one does, a google on its function is helpful.
Use a different launcher. Excluding the stock google launcher, most factory launchers are very inefficient, LG Home is no exception. Personally, I use SmartLauncher, a very light and very nice looking launcher with a fantastic layout. Nova I know is very light on resources aswell.
The more widgets you have cluttering your screen, the more power they will waste.
I can personally confirm myself that Kitkat based roms have incredible battery life after they settle in for a few days, the kernel level improvements brought with KitKat are very noticable. Currently Gummy Rom and three CM11 builds exist for KitKat, why not give them a try?
If you have unusually high battery usage, check your wakelocks, and see what exactly is using all the power, and you can disable/turn it off and remove that battery drain.
On a final note, comeon guys turn your phones off at night. I have yet to hear a good reason to leave it running over night, all it does is waste power and most commonly let the notification light run for 8 hours. If you use your phone as a alarm, you could turn on airplain mode overnight.
These are just some of the things that I do, if you have any more suggestions, feel free to post them or message me, I'll be glad to add them to the list.
I do not own this device but whats the point of turning all the feature of your phone off just to get a couple more hours out of it just use it like you should and stop worrying too much...
My 2 cents.
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shahkam said:
I do not own this device but whats the point of turning all the feature of your phone off just to get a couple more hours out of it just use it like you should and stop worrying too much...
My 2 cents.
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What I do is abit extreme, but I enjoy seeing how far I can push it. A few people complained of low battery and wondered what I did. The guide is simply suggestions for improving. Most of a phones 'features' are rarely used.
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polaric said:
What I do is abit extreme, but I enjoy seeing how far I can push it. A few people complained of low battery and wondered what I did. The guide is simply suggestions for improving. Most of a phones 'features' are rarely used.
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U buy a smartphone to see how long it last? man you got too much money...
I use everything from 4G to syncing...
G1_enthusiast said:
U buy a smartphone to see how long it last? man you got too much money...
I use everything from 4G to syncing...
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I only buy a new phone when Verizon let's me, I just enjoy seeing how far I can push each phone's battery. Some people go crazy on theming, I go crazy on battery life. A few people wondered what I did, so I just made this.
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I think u shouldn't use smartphone. With my G2 I turn on everything from 3g, WiFi, GPS, push and sync everything from mail, Facebook, viber,...
Plz use smartphone, don't let smartphone use u.
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quachhanthanh said:
I think u shouldn't use smartphone. With my G2 I turn on everything from 3g, WiFi, GPS, push and sync everything from mail, Facebook, viber,...
Plz use smartphone, don't let smartphone use u.
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I'll say this again, not everyone is aware of some of the lower level services that android runs that are completely pointless and cause a lot of wakelocks. This drills some's battery life down to 8hrs or less, which they then complain about. You would be surprised at the amount of stuff I have enabled.
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polaric said:
I'll say this again, not everyone is aware of some of the lower level services that android runs that are completely pointless and cause a lot of wakelocks. This drills some's battery life down to 8hrs or less, which they then complain about. You would be surprised at the amount of stuff I have enabled.
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So u should make a thread to bring out list junk apps of android. That is more helpful.
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polaric said:
I'll say this again, not everyone is aware of some of the lower level services that android runs that are completely pointless and cause a lot of wakelocks. This drills some's battery life down to 8hrs or less, which they then complain about. You would be surprised at the amount of stuff I have enabled.
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GPS is not pointless, it uses for Facebook, navigation, weather update, yelp and a lot of apps.. what you deem is pointless is different than everyone...your reason to own a smartphone is seriously wrong in so many ways...just saying man but its your money.
Honestly people should just enjoy the phone rather than trying to make it last longer. If your phone can make it through the day then consider that a successful phone.
I assumed everyone used their phone as an alarm. I never turn my phone off subsequently.
Some nice hints for someone needing more battery; however, I disagree with your assertion that closing applications saves power. Assuming you need to open the application again it would make sense to leave the application running (idle) in cached ram.
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Great write up. Thanks for sharing ??
I have just clocked it to 1,5 and frezeed a few LG stuff. I'm always from 5 hour screentime and up. If I just reading a weekend between 8 and 9 [one time ]
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How do u freez the apps?
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Instead of turning it OFF for the night, turn ON Aeroplane mode. That consumes less energy, than a turn off and on. This also solves the alarm problem, and no email or whatsoever shall wake you up at while you sleep
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3thman said:
How do u freez the apps?
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titanium back up
Thanks for the tips!
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Thanks. I found this thread very useful
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I assumed everyone used their phone as an alarm. I never turn my phone off subsequently.
Some nice hints for someone needing more battery; however, I disagree with your assertion that closing applications saves power. Assuming you need to open the application again it would make sense to leave the application running (idle) in cached ram.
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It completely depends on how often said application is opened, and what it does while idle. I know out of hand while I'm at work I see several people with 3-4 games left open on their phone, this is more what I was reffering too.
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polaric said:
Go through all the system apps and freeze anything you dont use. Example being the Picasa uploader (for me at least).
Leave as little system services running as you need. You wouldent believe how many unneeded services android runs. On the stock roms there are TWO location daemons running.
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Could you list all the stuff you freeze? I'd appreciate more specific examples, thanks
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jesssiii said:
Could you list all the stuff you freeze? I'd appreciate more specific examples, thanks
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I wrote this late last night, so I didnt have time to look through the list of everything I froze, but I'll add it to the OP in the next few minutes since I have a few free moments.