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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ks3rv3rg:
Nice to see some folks still positive and hopeful. :) This device is selling more than the iphone. There MUST be some talented hackers and developers working at getting this baby rooted. And hell, whether or not the bounty will be completely paid I'm sure there will be a huge chunk that will be donated by stoked people.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
New Hampshire FTW!

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Don;t be jealous..why would you start a thread two months before the phone was even available? Besides, that's just GS5, this is VZW specific GS5

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Not quite sure what you're talking about that's "terrible"...16-20 hours with 5 hours of on screen time is actually really good...yours just looks like you've had your phone on with not much use..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kidruk:
TO DEBLOAT AT THE VERY LEAST lol! Honestly this version of Touchwiz is clean enough that I don't care much for AOSP. Don't get me wrong... I love AOSP but honestly it is a step behind. A nice blacked out themed rom running touchwiz debloated is all I am asking for lol!

I mean this thing is weighed down with so much crap its not even funny. With no apps on in the background im still running at 1.22 Ghz. It's ridiculous!

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Have you disabled some of the bloatware?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ireknole:
How do you disable the bloatware without root?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kidruk:
Settings> applications> application manager. Scroll over to all and get turn off some of that crap lol. Gets me angry thinking about it.

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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] WillTheGreat:
Yup, that was the first thing I did. I think the only one I kept is Verizon Messages and S Health. I didn't notice a huge difference. So far the biggest contributing factor for me was location history for Google Now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kidruk:
I def just diabled mine. Gave me a decent chunk of my ram back! :highfive:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] WillTheGreat:
Ah yeah, that's true. Kinda neglected that, was only thinking about battery life lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] idle0095:
Someone from NH on XDA wow. Ive been here a long time and havent seen a NH XDA Member. LOL

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No way jealous. LOL. I know this is the VZW one. I opened mine as a place holder thats why. But anyways nice to see another NH native. 3rd one here just in this thread. Sweet.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] putney1477:
I have been here for years as well! Too funny. Go NH!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] idle0095:
Since 2006 here. 3 people from NH just in this thread. Dame right go NH. LOL
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] WrathfulWine858@yahoo.com:
The notification tray is as useful as ever. It adopts design language similar to the settings panel, but the effect is much different. The icons and toggles are easy to read and discern from one another. I do dislike how much junk has become part of the notification tray, though. In addition to toggles for the radios and other controls, there's a brightness slider, another row of controls, and then the notifications. The extra controls take away valuable real estate from the notifications.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Arikara:
Using which launcher?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pman219:
Mine for now.

c'mon ROOT
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ks3rv3rg:
Launcher/theme?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Mine for now, nothing special.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] susheel.bobin:
My HTC one v
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pman219:
Nova launcher

3K03 Siri Black Icons
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Kinda liking this now
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Guadalupeohara:
Which theme you have use here ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shaun100689:
Almost 60hrs on battery......

Sent from my HUAWEI MT1-U06
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Mean Green for Apex/ADW/Nova launcher, I'm using Nova

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Not trying to bust your balls, but that's not his dialer lol it's his lockscreen
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] putney1477:
Oh jesus! hahaha. Good catch :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
From what I see on your battery usage, your on screen time is non-existent in your battery stats which is why you have such a long battery life

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Same here! Does anyone know any causes yet? I don't use Google now, I always have my wifi turned off unless I'm somewhere I often connect to, in advanced settings I have the "always scan" and "notify me when wifi available" off, I always have my GPS off and Android OS and System still are much higher than my On Screen Time..even with like, 3 hours of OST already used up...

Anyone know of an app that can specifically show which apps/system programs are the ones draining this?

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haha no worries! All us New Hampsh!ts should grab a beer sometime and talk S5 lol
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
Im sure mine would be high too if I connected to a charger for a few minutes once in awhile
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
As you can see, not the best right meow:(

As you can see, no GPS (except the brief period I needed directions)

Wtf is system and os using?!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
I been watching a few movies online... now im on charge guess this is ok
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Hehe
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Ah ha! So was dinking around on the phone, found the processes draining the battery through system/os. Fingerprints was running the longest, followed by Google play services. There was one other, but I stopped it and can't remember. Just a heads up out there
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mbaran:
Did you just look at each line item under system to see which one was running longest? Can you disable fingerprint service?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
You can force stop the two running applications, but you can't disable them unfortunately. If you wanna check which system/os processes are draining your battery and let me know of the ones I forgot to settings > applications>swipe to the right to Running. Then scroll down and see the ones running the longest
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sitdownpro:
Meh, could be better :p
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mbaran:
How much screen time?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
So here's a great update. An upgrade from 7 hours ago, notice my Android system/os hasn't gone up? It's from fo4ce stopping those processes I mentioned earlier. Overall really nice for 5 hours of hard core screen time. Can't wait (if ever) root to make this even better! BTW, I use ART.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
I havnt tryed art is there any major difference with lags are anything?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] scadilla:
I have to say I am pretty impressed so far. First day with the new phone. I had a galaxy s3 with cyanogen 10.2 and would normally get around 2.5 to 3 hours screen time. Phone is stock just loaded up my normal apps and enabled power saver. Had about 2 hours of calls on bluetooth, numerous emails and already have 3.5 hours of screen time and still have 24%
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Oh ya, big time! I've even noticed a difference with launcher lag. There's a bunch of apps like chrome, Facebook and such that have been designed to work better with ART. An app will take a second longer or less to first open, but once that first time is outta the way it's crazy fast after. When you restart phone from switching to ART it takes forever too. And it's funny when you switch back from ART to Dalvek and it reboots it shows the unlock symbol and says custom. Those who owned the S4 know this
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
I might give it a shot see how it goes I hope battery is just as good
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
ART is designed to actually get better battery life, it's an Ahead-Of-Time compiler. This directly affects how applications run in the background and should have an impact on battery life.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Guadalupeohara:
:p:silly:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mbaran:
Not sure how this battery life is... I think pretty good. Was my second charge overall, let it get to 1% from 100%... I got 1d 3h with 4 hours of screen on time. Thoughts? That was mostly LTE, limited WiFi. Some daylight, always auto bright, 2 exchange + Facebook syncing all day. I don't know how I could squeeze out 5 or 6 hours of SoT like some people...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
So here's an improvement by selecting 'power saving mode'. I'm not seeing a lack of performance. I realllyy wanted to drain this down to 1-3% before I posted but I had been up almost 24 hours yesterday and barely took these screenshots before I passed out but I probably could have exceeded 6 hours OST and 24 hours all together which is insane.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] erw38:
First Full charge:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Lol I looked at your % and my current %...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] erw38:
Whoops :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
I tryed mine with battery saver my android system stayed at 29%
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jimbohurt:
My screen! :)

Loving the s5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sitdownpro:
No idea honestly
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Crooke356:
Lol, sorry, Nova

cRookeD Nexus 5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ks3rv3rg:
Super cool. Launcher?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jimbohurt:
Thanks dude. It's just nova launcher
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ks3rv3rg:
what's the theme or icon pack? Those are some of the best icons I've seen.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] WillTheGreat:
Wanted to check my battery stats for the day, and it's pretty darn good. About 1 hour and 27 mins of screen time, but over 4 hours of streaming Pandora on LTE and at least 3 over BT.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
This is me absolutely killing it. I'm not sure why it only says 7 hours OST, since I've been playing pokemon on my phone for over 10 hours. But anyways, just some pics. Can't wait for root to kill these damn system apps draining battery.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kidruk:
Bro! This is insane. I did plug in my phone to transfer some music for about 20 minutes. Gave me about a 5% jump.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jimbohurt:
Influx
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] DANIEL AMBRUSO:
My normal home screenshot..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
My home screen with stealth
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
One last shot of battery. Looking good, not too shabby.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] gslarmour:
This is from a day off. Really impressed with the staying power compared to my S III
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
General question to the people here...

I had my phone on Power Saver, black background, and just setting on my desk, and in the course of 8 hours, went down about 40%... I am guessing that is probably NOT good?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
I had a similar affect with battery saver not that much drain but it was enough to notice my android system would stay at 28% with it off it was at 12-17% with high usage
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
So if I am losing this much in 8 hours that could mean.....?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
I have know clue.. I have friends with s5 an they don't have that issue
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Best bet would be to see what's eating up your battery usage. You might be running apps that drain battery usage in the background, whether or not your phone was on. I've noticed having Location on constantly, or the WiFi settings to "always search" for available spots KILLS your battery, especially on 4.4.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
I keep 'killing' apps as I get done with each phone use, and I have WiFi 'always scanning' off. I have location, sound, screen rotation, data, and Sync, on. I don't have any choice on the last as I have 2 work emails tied to my phone and if they need to reach me by email, they have to be able to and get a quick reply. So other than that, and keeping my processes clear. Hell, I even turned off the 'Window'/'Back' LED lights on the bottom of the phone, and set brightness to Manual 1/4... Still draining bad. My mom has an S5 as well, and hers is not like this... :mad:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Have you checked in the battery stats what is draining your battery? Location always on (especially with apps that use it) can drain it pretty well. I also keep my phone on auto brightness helps as well. If after all this (list here the processes that are taking the most drain, download a battery app from the play store that can be more precise on what is draining this significantly) there's still issues, I'd go back to Verizon, bring it up with them and see if it's a fault battery or something else.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
As I sit at work right now with my phone attached to the charger here, and have streaming media, these are the items that have been active. Granted I have only been here for 30 minutes, but streaming media doesn't seem to be eating it. [MENTION=5097452]Dennisg34[/MENTION]

Sent from the S5 with FoxFi freedom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
WTH is verizon support thing? Also, the best thing to do would be to let it run down to almost 0, and then check the battery stats. Try this with location off, wifi off (even if not scanning, i keep it off because it does actually still can the area) and your brightness level set to Auto. sync, data, and screen rotation are fine to have on ( i do).
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
Verizon Support thing? You don't have it on yours? I have tried being rid of this dang thing, but no dice.

I also disabled the Location, WiFi has been off, other listed items are set..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pman219:
Does anyone happen to know what icons these are ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
I have it turned off, looks like bloat crap. But ok good, at the end of the day reply to me with your new battery stats

Looks like phone, message, chrome and camera
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
I was unaware that it could be turned off. I had tried at one point to do just that, but couldn't. It's also off now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pman219:
I meant what theme silly
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Lol I figured, I was just being a smart@$$ unfortunately I do not know the theme. Have you tried (which I'm sure, just double checking) asking the source where you found that picture?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
[MENTION=5097452]Dennisg34[/MENTION] About 2 hours of Puffin use for Flash stuff online and and Music streaming in the background for 6.5 hours straight.

Disabled Location and reset screen timeout and LED function buttons on bottom.

Sent from the S5 with FoxFi freedom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
What's the on screen time, and the official length of battery (without charge) length? Are you happier with these results?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
I forgot to check those before Tethering via FoxFi.. But official length was over 16 hours, down to 40% with moderate to heavy use.. Far more pleased now. Thank you [MENTION=5097452]Dennisg34[/MENTION]
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
No problem! That sounds much better, 16 hours with 40% left after moderate/heavy use is what you should be having:)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
Shweeeeeeeeeeeeet! Danke!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dennisg34:
Michigan ehh? I was baptized in Davison, lived in Onaway fews years ago.."yooper" is now in the webster dictionary LOL
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mbaran:
I finally hit the 6 hour club... Location on precise, wifi scanning turned off, verizon bloat frozen.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] popkurn611:
I did a double take when I saw the percentage of my android os. How is that even possible? My phone sat on standby all night while I slept. I looked on my gsam battery app and its the kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] elliwigy:
not bad.. i plugged it back in at 11%...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PuffJr2:
NH FTW!

Not to much screen time, but my infant and 4 year old take all my time. im about 3 hours Screen Time atm.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kingsley404:
Bloat frozen power saving mode on. Heavy use are these good results? Way better than my galaxy nexus so I'm happy regardless. First charge as well.

Also any tips to reduce the system load on my battery?!? I turned location scanning off.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kingsley404:
Whoa :eek:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
Stupid question, but which clock/weather/info widget is that?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
HD Widgets and Kairo XP add on for HD Widgets.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
Thanks, which widget did you add? I really like it!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
It's 4x2 and I'm using the Weather & Indicators layout.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] davidstre:
There is a little more to this than the screen shots show...

Dock:

Contacts icon is a folder containing contacts, Facebook, messenger, Twitter, and avocado.

The camera icon is a folder containing camera, gallery, instagram, pixlr, and picframe

If you swipe up on the dialer icon it brings up sound settings, swiping up on SMS or Gmail icon it brings you to the respective compose activity. Swiping up on the contacts icon launches apw's favorite contacts widget via the app pop up widget, and swiping up on the app drawer icon launches the ram manager.

When you open the web folder you can launch the bookmarks widget via pop up widget.

Finally gestures,

- swipe down for play store

- swipe up for flashlight toggle

- double tap for poweramp

- pinch in for goggles

- 2 finger swipe down for Xbox glass

- 2 finger swipe up for magnifier
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
Battery life is not much better than the s4.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
those pictures don't show any usable numbers
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
They show that the battery life is ****.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
no they don't. the numbers are cut off. you showed arbitrary lines
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
You can see all the numbers. I don't know what you mean. Screen on time is 32 minutes. Android System 24%, Android os 21%, Chrome 7% and screen 6%.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
and the percent remaining is???

regardless, I don't believe your results are typical of the device, as you and I are the only ones in this discussion.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
You can see it at the top by the battery icon. It's 65% left after barely using it. It's at 48% now with only an hour of screen on time.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kingsley404:
these results aren't typical. have you tried disabling the bloatware? I usually have around 2 and a half hours of screen time at 65 percent.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
Yeah I pretty much disabled everything that I could besides a few that I actually use like Amazon MP3. The only time I'm near the usage you said is when I'm home for most of the day and connected to wifi. I've been out of town in Houston since Wednesday and that's when the bad battery life really started to show. I've been using 4g and not wifi but I don't think it's that because Houston has very good coverage pretty much everywhere.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kingsley404:
That's very strange. I get good battery life almost regardless. Hmmm I wonder what could be draining your battery like that. Have you tried turning power saving mode on?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] con100:
I just turned it on. But I shouldn't have to turn it on to get good battery life.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] KennyG123:
Here is the place for all those photos, home screenshots, speed and battery stats etc...all others will be closed...this is it! Have fun, be respectful....
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] sleshepic:
Quick question for others about cam that have tried. How are your pics in gallery zoomed in? Mine seems to be blotchy, almost impressionistic when zooming in on taken shots, I thought there was an effect on at first. Worried at the moment as have tested in various light settings. Will post when i get a chance

Edit: seems to be a "raising of expectations" effect. I will test tomorrow in better light. Compared to my note 2 it is winning out by far in low light, which was my test at first
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] thunderwagn:
Slesh, have you moved on to the s5? My biggest complaint on the note 2 is the low light capabilities. I'll be interested to hear how this pans out with the camera. I've been due an upgrade for months but just haven't been won over really with any of the new releases..
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] reverepats:
Man, well this is Def the best camera I've used so far, hands down. Super fast, and really crisp. I'm not a huge photo buff, but i do take the occasional photos. Especially for work purposes.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] sleshepic:
last night did side by sides with Note 2 and s5 in low light, S5 blew it out of the water. At first I was upset at clarity of s5 in a certain lighting, then tried Note 2 in same scene and saw it was pitch black in that area by comparison. Was like a night vision difference. There still seems however to be a blotchiness/effect it seems going on in pics when I zoom in on the the pics. But it might just be me
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
I think it might be you bc I think I can see some boogers on [MENTION=3368649]reverepats[/MENTION] dog once zoomed in! :laugh:
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] sleshepic:
No, I actually am now having some concerns. Maybe it's just my phone. Will post when I get a chance. Comp tied up with other stuff at moment
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] B1GQ1B:
View attachment 2683005

Haven't had enough time to set up all my home screens yet, but here's the first.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] fatboypup:
yawn
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] durandetto:
Not too bad for the first charge. Maybe even slightly better than my g2.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] slickdealers:
Picture test! Zoomed out and zoomed in.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Shad Stang:
The camera gets water pretty good.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] slyjai:
First photo taken with my S5; DTLA
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] sprint_dobbs:
Lizard in the first pic.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Benconquerer:
Wanam works

From the new and improved galaxy s3 code named gs5
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] dlinfiniti:
yes, you can indeed take pictures underwater using remote viewfinder
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Hey dude what's the hex code for that blue used in the toggles? Thanks!

Sent from a Galaxy 4 light years away
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Benconquerer:
Awe man I don't even know I just eyeball the colors on the wheel. I have changed them to white since then

From the new and improved galaxy s3 code named gs5
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Kchitown1977:
From a ? far far away
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] reverepats:
Looks to be the ICS hex, which is 33b5e5
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] offtheRIM:
So...getting my S5 in a couple weeks. I'm looking to take underwater pics. in my salt water aquarium.

Any ideas how that's gonna work out for the phone? (salt water).
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] durandetto:
Pretty sure the phone doesn't actually function while submerged. Just an observation I made watching the YouTube videos.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] smooth703:
:good::good:
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] arnelolavides:
S5 HDR on West Palm Beach
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] JoeFCaputo113:
Is anyone else getting this ridiculous Android System battery drain.. Got better battery on my S4 :/

Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] thunderwagn:
That's actually a really nice shot.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] neonfreak20:
Yea i am, I don't understand were its using it from.