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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
Can be those services disabled by application settings? Or am I forced to use Package Disabler Pro?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Yes it can. Try it out and if you don't see an improvement, just enable it. I could be wrong, but maybe when wifi is on, the system works itself more. If you leave wifi on all night,it might drain more the battery more than data.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
Is this the original app?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpremium

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Those are the original developers. I contacted them, and when I clicked o your link it went to that app.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
Did you used this app? The old one is no longer available.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Yes, I have that app. And yes, the old one was done away with and I guess that's their replacement
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Evil-Santa:
I second this. Best way to narrow down a problem is to eliminate all issues that you can. This is an easy one to do
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] crazed_z06:
Im back on my iPhone 6S+ ..

This battery issue is just unacceptable for a new top tier device. Maybe ill switch back if an update comes out, but I'm not holding my breath.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Roque13:
My 6s+ had worse battery life than my s7 edge.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JosepHFJ:
This Is the battery life I'm getting after t-mobile update and doing all the thing that have been mentioned on this thread except PDP, and I know I can get 7Hrs SOT.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Naemion:
Did you have a little charge boost in there? Seems kinda funny you used 113% since last full charge.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JosepHFJ:
Sometime it does that. Don't know why. I started charging it with 3%.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Yep. Since the AT&T update I'm getting around 7-8 hours SOT. Definitely comparable to the iPhone 6s+
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
For the first time I got more than 8h sot, even if Android System is always at first place.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] C0derbear:
I was thinking, yesterday while driving way too much between home and a funeral (about 9 hours on the road total), that IF the Android System has in fact percolated to the top because other components have gone down so significantly in relative power consumption, AND the overall endurance of the power system is good, then what's to care?

I mean really, yesterday when I finally returned home my phone had been on battery for over 21 hours and projected another 12 hours to go with 38% remaining. I had about 4 hours of screen-on time, had been used significantly for street navigation (Garmin Viago mostly but also Maps), phone calls, SMS, streaming music over bluetooth from SD card, picture taking and sharing, and misc distractions (tapatalk, web, email, etc.). A the end of the day GSam reported Android System at 20.5%, Kernel at 12.1%, and the next-worst contenders were Maps at 7.3% and Viago at 6.8% (with about 3x the run-time of Maps).

Sure, it may not be as enduring as some other devices, but I really have little room to complain.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Cst79:
Well, play a video continuously on minimum beightness and you will get 17h SOT :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] bluemu:
If I were in your situation, I would be quite happy as well. At least in my case, I'm getting much less battery life with far less activity happening on my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] optimummind:
On the new update, can someone test this for me? Set Location to GPS Only for a few hours & then check Battery Usage for Android System. Is the GPS constantly on for almost as long as GPS was turned on or was GPS active for just a few seconds or minutes?

Plz specify whether you're Snapdragon or Exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] zetlaw:
My issue is with the Google play services which takes a lot of battery and keep my device awake
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Going to try power saving mode most of the day and see how it goes
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
That's not my case :) But I have to be honest, I use power saving most of the time, since it doesn't make so many changes (except the screen brightness and cpu performances).

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JosepHFJ:
Can't compare both devices because of the screen resolution is obvious the 6s+ sometime can have better SOT is has less pixels to work with.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
My Google play services drain and held awake time have been awful since Monday.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Yep. My feedback was more anecdotal
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] o1d8oy:
On my phone "Android System" was on 25%. I've made clean install through SmartSwitch. That didn't help. It was still on 25%. Right after that I've decided to do also factory reset. Now "Android System" sits on 15%. Still alot but battery is draining little slower. [APD1 Exynos].
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Snapdragon: Wow, Power saving mode, auto brightness and Sync on, getting good battery life. Near 3 hours SOT and at 54 percent. This is with some bluetooth. I think I found my formula lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
With power saving mode you shouldn't be able to get email since sync is disabled to save battery. And what is the sense to use a phone like this with power saving mode? You lose all the performance, screen brightness etc. It's a shame.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Not mine, in the sun it goes 100 brightness. I dont have notifications on, but my emails sync when I refresh. If i dont have sync, sometimes my emails wont fully display. In power saving mode, it's not as fast, but I'm getting good battery life. I'd probably be around 30 or so percent (maybe) by now.

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Nevermind, guess I thought I'd try sync with power saver lol. But when at home, I will probably not use power saving mode, but only on the road or work.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
My phone goes to 100% too when it is under the sun, but if you try you will see that even if the phone has the same level of brightness, in power saving mode the screen will be always dimmer than normal mode. About sync yes, if you refresh manually so you'll get emails, but it doesn't sync automatically of course. Anyway only use power saving when I am at home and I don't play any games, or when I'm busy at work and I barely touch the phone.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ssgunner20:
LOL to the guy that one back to iphone... Really? I'll admit the battery on my iphone 6 plus i had was superb but the battery on the s7e is great for amount of pixels. i'm fine with getting 4 hrs of SOT with over 18hrs of on battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Yeah, I used to use the Razr Maxx HD with its 720 screen and 3200 mah battery. The S7 edge has a better screen, processor etc. So with heavy usage, you get anywhere between 18 hours of use with 4-6 hours. I had to keep my screen around 30 to 40, though.

VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] martinezma99:
Anyone know why Backup and Restore Manager using 15% of my battery?

I have Back Up my data set to off.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
Probably part of Android System so it shows up as 15 percent

VZ S7 EDGE ONYX
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] SEVENEDGE:
vz s7 edge onyx
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dan_ru:
I also can confirm. Downgrading "Samsung Push Service" reduces battery usage of "Android System" from 20% to 11%.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] juky7701:
I was also experiencing high Android System battery drain but it has suddenly stopped and I did nothing. I thought it was just by accident on last charge but it's happening again on latest charge. It reduced from 30-32% on 17% and its all good now. The only thing I'm still experiencing is slow lock on Wi-Fi
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
What do you mean with "slow lock"?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] juky7701:
Didn't express myself right there...Wi-Fi locks and connects fast but websites and all Internet related content is loading very slow (fb, PlayStore, YouTube,...). Tried to "forget" the Network, reconnect it again but no success. I'm only on Wi-Fi (no BT, GPS nor Data is on) at home.

Was reading somewhere about doing a phone factory reset or re-configuring the router. Didn't try any of them though yet and didn't try to connect to another wireless network through other router...any advice would bi appreciated. On 3G/4G everything works as it should
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] molanjami:
At the ongoing Samsung Developers Conference 2016 event, principal engineers at Samsung demonstrated a new TouchWiz launcher, Samsung's engineers note that battery life on a 3600 mAh battery — like the one found in the Galaxy S7 edge — could be extended by 40 minutes just by moving to this new launcher built with Vulkan.

Source
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meyerweb:
+1 Everything that's part of Android System will show the same battery use. Android doesn't break out Android System battery use so you can see what components of it use how much power.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] crazed_z06:
That was me.

IMO, A bunch of pixels mean nothing if the phone is dead.

Different strokes for different folks. One of the reasons I took a chance on the S7 Edge is a I thought the 3600mah battery would give it enough brute power to hang with the iphone. Unfortunately it just wasnt.

Dont want to mess up you guys' thread though. I'll be interested to see if Samsung and/or Google fixes this soon. The S7 Edge checks all the boxes except for battery life IMO. Samsung nearly pulled off the perfect phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meyerweb:
Possible fix to Android System battery drain?

I have the Sprint edition, and even with the most recent OTA Android System was using about 25% of my battery over the course of a day. That's better than the 30-35% I had before the update, but still not very good. (The OTA did substantially lower OS battery usage, though.)

Anyway, I was reading a post in one of the threads on battery life that mentioned Samsung Push. So I disabled it with Package Disabler a few hours ago. During that time period, my Android System use has dropped from 25% to 13% . I've also been using the app System Panel to track application cpu use (among other things). Over the last 24 hours, System Processes used 24.7% of cpu. Over the last 2 hours, 7.0%.

I'm not sure what I'm losing by freezing Samsung Push, but I haven't noticed any ill effects in the admittedly short time since disabling it. I certainly need to do more testing before I'm ready to say this is the solution, but I'll charge to 100% overnight and run tomorrow with it disabled, then re-enable and compare the next day.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ricoyakuza:
I use EZ Package Disabler to disable some running packages which i don't need, the battery is much better now. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.packagedisabler
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] bajasur:
Thanks for sharing this. Hopefully will report back!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] W00fah:
I have no idea what's happened to my phone within the last couple weeks, but battery life has suddenly gotten much better. I managed to get over 5hr sot last week. Maybe it just takes a bit for things to straighten out?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Naemion:
My question is what exactly does Samsung Push do?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] bajasur:
I believe it's deals with all of the Samsung proprietary apps and updates
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Naemion:
So what would be some of the negative aspects of turning it off?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gainstatom:
Hey guys, so ive been getting better battery since the At&t update and a factory reset, but its still not on par with people getting 7+ hours of SOT. Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] optimummind:
I have the Sprint GS7E & so far my battery issue has been related to GPS.

On all my devices, I set Location to GPS Only (Note 4 910C, Sprint GS6E, Nexus 5X). And the phone only turns on GPS & uses it when an app calls for it, such as Maps. I can verify that the GPS was turned on only briefly for such apps by looking at the GPS graph within GSam battery monitor & by going into Settings > Battery Usage > Android System. Within Android System, it tells me how long the GPS was actually being used.

On my other phones, GPS time is less than 2 to 3 minutes usually b/c I don't really use GPS apps often. My GS7E GPS time, however, is crazy high. In a 18 hr period, I'm getting numbers like 3 to 4 hrs. As a result, my idle screen off battery drain is really high. My GS7E didn't do this on its original firmware. It began after the first update - PC5.

If I set Location to Off or Wifi & Network, then battery life becomes normal & excellent.

Have you noticed something similar?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] nimkarr:
Overnight Battery drain.

Fully charged phone and sleep. overnight 15%drain

Samsung must do something for this.

anyone have solution?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] themissionimpossible:
You might have 1/+ apps that continuously require location finding, maybe added/modified by the last Samsung update, maybe you installed some new apps after the update.

You might check which apps actually require position: settings/privacy/app permissions and possibly remove their permission.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] optimummind:
I considered that possibility & combed through all the apps & their permissions already. Still no luck.

I used Wake Lock Detector & discovered that under CPU Wakelock, my highest process was GPSLocationService_ex under Android System.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gettinwicked:
I actually did this myself. I went in and turned off location for everything I felt did not need it. Went from over 30 apps to about 15. Some apps DO require it to be on for them to work. BUT, when you turn it off in permissions, if the app requires it, you'll get a popup letting you know. I keep my location on high accuracy, and it doesn't hardly drain my battery at all. Location services is way way down on the list.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
This time the things are getting worse.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hp79:
You might want to edit your signature "sended" to "sent". I don't know if you did that on purpose, but it's an eye sore. Or just remove the signature.

Again, does anyone know what negative effect we get by disabling Samsung Push Services? It is a major battery drain when updated, and okay with factory version. I disabled it anyways.

I have a verizon s7 edge (snapdragon 820) with high usge shown as android. I tried GoodLock and that also drained a lot of battery on its own. Bluetooth seems to drain a lot of power too when turned on. What a shame with a large 3600 mah battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meyerweb:
The Play Store listing for Samsung Push says

The only one of those I might care about at all is Pay, but I used my phone to pay for something this morning, and it still worked fine, and I got the confirmation message via Pay. So I'm not sure what push notifications I might be missing. So far, I haven't noticed any issues with having it disabled, and it does seem to be reducing Android System battery usage. If this continues, I might re-enable it every few days to see if I get any push notifications.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Cst79:
Bluetooth is actually very efficient on the S7 Edge (Exynos at least). I have it permanently connected to an LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition, and the battery drain before (with BT off) and after this change is almost identical, at most 1-2% battery drain by Bluetooth. I also use BT headphones around 1 hour a day, same results, no drain.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hp79:
Yeah, it's supposed to be very efficient, but mine is really garbage. Maybe it's the difference between your Exynos version and my Qualcomm 820 version.

I have a LG G Watch and have it connected when I keep BT on. It drains about 4% per hour overnight. Same drain rate even if I put my watch in airplane mode so that it doesn't connect with the phone. I have Nearby Device Discovery disabled too so BT shouldn't really be doing anything when I have my watch disconnected, but it still sucks up the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] cbqfly:
I have the exynos version and this is what I get. Android system. Use to be about 25 percent before I disabled a lot of samsung stuff and turned off most if not all samsung features like smart stay. WiFi, Bluetooth, nfc are on and there is a simcard in there. Also set all the apps to power saving. Power saving mode is turned off. Screen on time is 2h 24m. Keep in mind the phone only stays at home. Always on display is turned off. Gps is enabled to highest accuracy
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gettinwicked:
I've got a Verizon Snapdragon version myself, and Bluetooth is not a problem. I have mine always on, connected to my car for around an hour daily, and connected to my smartwatch always. The drain shows as 0.2% for both Bluetooth and Bluetooth shared. Do you have Bluetooth scanning off?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Naemion:
I will agree that it does not drain a ton of battery itself, but I'm having issues connecting to my LG tone headphones. They are the Bluetooth version and they come thru very staticky and distorted when I listen to media. On a call they are crystal clear, but when I tried to listen to music it becomes very distorted and there is a lot of static.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
Does my signature bother you?

I always use Smart Stay, very useful. Do you think that it has a negative effect on battery drain?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] cbqfly:
I would assume smart stay would use a decent amount of battery since it uses the front camera to detect whether your looking at the screen or not and as far as I know using the camera drains the battery quite a bit. and it's only an assumption from using the camera and seeing how fast the percentage goes up.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] turtuv:
Can be, but at the end of the day the phone is made to be used and enjoyed [emoji6] [emoji106]

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Canadoc:
I just downgraded back to first released firmware. Battery I can tell well be better.

Si far I noticed vibrations are stronger and touch sensitivity is higher on the original firmware.

Small trade off for better battery
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meyerweb:
Well, I'm glad I did more testing before jumping to conclusions. Disabling Samsung Push doesn't seem to have made any difference at all. I disabled and rebooted, charged fully, and used the phone for a full day. That night I re-enabled it, rebooted, charged fully, and used the phone again. Usage patterns were very close for the two days.

I actually had slightly lower battery use for Android System on the second day, but I think that may be the PD3 update finally settling in. Before PD3, Android System was using about 25% of my battery each day. Since PD3, it's down to about 14 to 15%. I'm not sure if my overall battery life is really any better, though, or if it's just distributed differently.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] optimummind:
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.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hp79:
After disabling 100 (one hundred!!! they must be nuts...) packages following other people's footsteps, my Verizon S7 Edge (Qualcomm 820) is doing much better on idle power consumption. I used Package Disabler Pro to clear data immediately followed by disabling each app.

I have Always On Screen, and for the last 15 hours since 6AM, I'm using 1.9% per hour. Still have about 70% battery left.

Android System 31%

Android OS 20%

Screen 12% (1h:35m)

The phone goes Doze mode after about 1 hour since the screen is turned off. When it does go Doze mode, the battery slope is almost flat.

Even though, I'm still not satisfied with how this phone's battery is being drained. It would be amazing if Android System and Android OS get fixed.

Attached is my disabled list in case anyone wants to do the same. The damn list is so long that even after lowering the resolution it's still 3MB.

I have Bluetooth on all time (I have a LG G Watch), and NFC on, WiFi on (5GHz), HD-Voice(VoLTE) on, WiFi-Call disabled. I get between 30%-50% Verizon signal quality most times according to GSAM Battery Monitor.

Edit: Added battery screenshot after 30 hours use. Looks much better than before I disabled 100 junk.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] shiner66:
Your link to the store is a 404 to me.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] optimummind:
I wonder if the dev is restricting to certain countries or regions. Any luck if you search manually?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] shiner66:
This one?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Juuls:
You might be right, I get the same error: 'We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.'

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This one needs root, you need one with No Root.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] shiner66:
I guess you're right, could you screenshot store page? It would perfect to have the process name.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Juuls:
I found some background information on the app, towards the end it explains something about root.

This explains more.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] shiner66:
Nvm found the tutorial, thanks.

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