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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] LuigiBull23:
Possibly if you disable some packages, location services, nearby scanning and any smart/gesture features you don't use.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
Maybe not, my battery went down the pooper again
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
I'm kind of torn if I even want to do anything like a factory reset. My Android System is the biggest factor in battery but I'm still averaging over 6 host SOT which is more than sufficient for my needs.

I guess if there was substantial proof that I'd get even better battery life by clearing cache and factory reset, then I'd do it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ydoucare:
I was concerned at first with idle drain related to Android system, but this thing is still a beast. I have too many other responsibilities to be able push 5 hours of SOT like a lot of people. Usually, it's a struggle for me just to hit 2.5 to 3 hours SOT after 15 hours on battery, and when I do, I still have over 50% battery left.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Denli:
I have a 6 h SOT ever time and android system usage is at 10% right now
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gettinwicked:
I think turning off background reporting for Google did it for me. I also turned off WiFi and Bluetooth scanning on Monday, and that helped a bit. Anyway, generally the first two hours my phone is off the charger, my battery is at 80% or so... Today, I'm at 94%. Here's to hoping that's it!

BTW, I cannot seem to find where to turn off Samsung reporting. I've Googled it, and someone in here said where they did it, but I cannot seem to figure it out. Feeling a little dumb here... Someone let me know!

I'll post my battery results later when I know for sure that it's doing better. I know better than to hold my breath.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Dumb question. How do you turn off Google background reporting again?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Juuls:
Google:

- Go to Settings > Applications > Google

- Touch Menu More (3 dots in top right corner) > Select Usage & diagnostics > turn it off

Samsung:

- Go to Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics > OFF
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] ilan78:
My battery is not good..only 4H30 SOT in 14H...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] C0derbear:
I'd sit on it a couple weeks and see how usage pans out.

If actual SOT+Standby+other usage is solid for you that saves a lot of PITA factor on doing a complete restore/reconfiguration.

Using GSam (et. al.) to monitor for trouble issues is also a good thing, probably.

For example, before I reset mine (2 days ago) I only ever got a few minutes (under 20) of Doze time, daily. GSam is now reporting over 6 hours Doze time daily. It's "early returns" so not truly good quantification of the state yet, but certainly a tangible positive change to me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sanjay228:
The last couple of days have been weird. I was easily getting a day and change out of my battery now it's significantly less. I have hardly had the phone off the charger this morning and barely using the phone while at work and just saw this... Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm on the SD820 with Sprint.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
Yea. That's absurd. Try turning off the Google and Samsung background reporting. Something is not only keeping your phone awake but is doing something in the background. Also make sure your Play Store Auto Update is turned off.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sspectre:
The Samsung setting doesn't seem to be visible on Verizon phones, or I'm looking in the wrong place.

Settings > Privacy and Emergency only has App Permissions, Private Mode, Send SOS messages, Emergency mode, and Emergency Alerts.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
It's gotta be in there somewhere. If you ever do a factory reset it will be an option during initial phone setup.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gettinwicked:
If anyone finds it, let us know! And I'll do the same.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sspectre:
I did a factory reset and turned off every diagnostic setting I could find. I was just looking back to verify. Search in Settings doesn't return anything for Diagnostics either.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
So this is interesting. GramGsam is reporting different Android System usage than the stock battery settings.

Makes me wonder if it is indeed a reporting issue and not a draining issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sweendiggler:
Hi All,

I'm seeing the same Android System usage (30%+) on my G930T, but I have had a very interesting change in my phone's daily longevity recently. On day 1 with the phone I had used Package Disabler Pro disable all bloatware. Since that time I was getting through a day (~18 hrs w/ 2.5hrs SOT) and plugging back in with the battery percentage in the 20's. I felt that was unacceptable for a modern phone with a 3000 mAh battery. To try and resolve this behavior, yesterday morning I re-enabled everything in Package Disabler Pro (PDP for the rest of this post) and then used the native Application Manager to disable every piece of bloatware that I was able to in my non-rooted state. This obviously means that many of the Samsung packages I had previously disabled with PDP are now running, but I figured I'd try to live with that for the time being. From there I rebooted, cleared the cache partition, and began to use the phone normally.

For the past 2 days my idle battery drain has been exponentially better. It's now 1:00 PM EST and I've been using the phone all days for calls, mostly with the screen off. My battery still sits at 91%. My theory is that something in TouchWiz was making a system call to one of the services that I had disabled, not getting a response, and constantly trying to poll that package's processes. I would recommend that anyone using PDP export their config to XML, re-enable all packages, and then just use the native app manager to disable what they can. Once that is done, please report back if you've noticed any difference in your phone's longevity.

Thanks,

-Sean
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
These are my same findings. You can also improve the battery even more if you disable the background reporting to Google and Samsung.

But yea. Disabling packages actually hurt my battery life more than it helped. I just disabled the bloatware through the application settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sweendiggler:
Forgot to mention that - I followed your advice and double checked the Google and Samsung reporting, and both were already disabled on my device from when I set it up. I also set wifi calling to "prefer cellular", and disabled VoLTE as I'm on the phone constantly for work (often while on the road), and I hoped it would improve both battery and the ability to hold a conference call when driving long distances.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sanjay228:
Did all of those and the battery has been holding at 81% for the past hour or so. Looks like that might have done it. Thanks.

I noticed that when using another app that reported app usage. I feel like I'm more inclined to believe the stock android reporting than a third-party app. Just because there are going to be some system apps and resources that aren't as general among all devices. That's just me though.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] d1pham:
Search for "Report diagnostic info" in Settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
Can anyone else confirm if there is improvement when actually ENABLING bloat?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] razorseal:
Using package disabler I disabled all bloatware and few extra things I don't need. Shut off reporting to Samsung and Google. Bluetooth is always on for gear S. Also installed greenify and turned on aggressive doze. (I didn't hibernate anything before going to sleep this time) Here is my end result. It could be better but it's a huge improvement.

For some reason WiFi is not shutting off when screen is off like it's supposed to which is very annoying. I think that's a bug that needs to be addressed. Who else is having this issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Juuls:
I have the same with GSam and the default, in the default app it always reports Google Play Service at the top, kind of like the Android System on the SD820's. In GSam the Google Play Service is way at the bottom and both Android processes are at the top.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
I think I realized part of the issue. I totally forgot that Facebook is a system app. How do I disable it and actually download it from the Play Store? When I go to the Play Store it only gives me the option to enable it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] LuigiBull23:
You probably have "Keep Wifi on during sleep" set to Always.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
YES.....Don't remove any packages with package disabler. Just disable bloatware through the application settings.

I along with many others noticed an increase in battery drain after disabling many packages through package disabler.

Right now, I don't have a single package disabled yet I am getting roughly 8 hours SOT and almost 2 days of usage.

While in standby I only lose 0.28% per hour.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sanjay228:
You can just disable it and download the apk from online. I personally disabled the app and just created a FB Chrome link on my home screen. It works just fine and I can use messenger through the browser without having to download messenger and it taking having them both take up much if any resources..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
Hmmm. I'm not having a problem with the Facebook system app sucking down a lot of power.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Thanks! I'm curious if those with large android system drain are heavy Facebook users. Wouldn't it technically report under android system of its a system app?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] C0derbear:
For clarity, on my AT&T device ...

Google:

- Go to Settings > Device > Applications > Google (you'll need to swipe the list up, it's at the bottom)

- Touch Menu More (3 dots in top right corner) > Select Usage & diagnostics > turn it off

Samsung:

- Go to Settings > Personal > Privacy and Safety > Report diagnostic info > OFF
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Yeah. My battery life is good already but I'm curious if it's reporting under android system.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Naemion:
I found the first one but not the second one, any help?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gettinwicked:
NOT for Verizon S7's... If I type the whole thing in, I get a no results found. However, as I was typing in the above, a send security reports to samsung popped up. I went in and turned that off. Hopefully that is the same thing. Why these things need to be different carrier to carrier is beyond me...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] eric150:
Can anyone else confirm this? I use Package Disabler and get 5 hrs SoT with 40% left at the end of the day.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gettinwicked:
There's no 'personal' either... WTH
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Naemion:
How did you enable the aggressive doze? Through greenify?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] h.nocturna:
Not the same thing, FYI. I have that and the other Samsung report diagnostic info they are talking about.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sweendiggler:
I can. It made a huge difference on my standard S7. I also found users indicating the same on Reddit for the S6. If you disable certain packages, TouchWiz continues to call for the process over and over again killing the battery. I wish I knew what packages those are, but I don't have the patience to try all 50+ that I had disabled on a one-by-one basis. Now I just use the native app manager and disable what I can there, leaving the rest as is.

As an aside, I'd pay an extra $100 for my phones to get Samsung's hardware with CyanogenMod and support for things like T-Mobile Wifi Calling and the fingerprint reader - installed from the factory. I hate TouchWiz but love their hardware.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] eric150:
So I should re enable everything on Package Disable, then Uninstall it, and disable Apps Samsung allows in the Settings app? Is there a list apps that can be disabled?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sweendiggler:
Yes, you can export your package disabled apps into an XML file in case you ever wanted to go back, then "enable all disabled". From there you'll go into your android settings app, open the app manager, and disable as many Samsung and carrier apps as you can.

Some of them can't be disabled, as the button will be grayed out. Those are likely the items that destroy the battery life when you disable them in PDP. I just left those enabled as I didn't have much choice, and now the battery life is better and the phone seems more responsive during regular use.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JosepHFJ:
Are you guy's forcing Doze, Cuz I'm forcing it with the Doze app. What do you recommend?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] igotgame:
On a Verizon S7 you're seeing both? I only see the "Send Security Reports"...I don't see "Report Diagnostic Info".
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Syn Ack:
Just turned aggressive doze on in Greenify.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
Just an FYI, Google now has fingerprint reader as an API and Samsung has edited the fingerprint reader to work alongside this API, so any cyanogenmod above Android 6.0.1 is going to be able to use the reader effectively. As for the T-Mobile calling, that is a different story.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] h.nocturna:
No. Sorry, I meant to say that I can see it on my T-Mobile device so you are definitely missing one on your Verizon model.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sweendiggler:
Good to know, thanks! I think this phone may have a locked bootloader, so I may be SOL there. My GS5 did not and I ran CyanogenMod on that device without issue other than the aforementioned wifi calling and fingerprint reader omissions.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
Samsung has started placing strict bootloader's on their devices secured by KNOX, so unfortunately you're out of luck my man, I doubt we'll ever see the bootloader get unlocked. :/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] C0derbear:
On my phone the 'Send Security Reports' and 'Report diagnostic info' are separate settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JosepHFJ:
Each time I'm using my phone it drops to many batt percentage, is like if I use it for 10 minutes it drops like 5 or 6 percent is that normal?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
Nope....Not normal.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] razorseal:
I said in the post it wasn't set for that. It's set to only when charging

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Yep

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Well I envy you. Many of us tried that route and it didn't work. I'm sure others envy you too with your 1% per 4 hour rate lol
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] laureanop:
My battery life is great.... But man I'm sick and tired of chasing Google and Samsung settings all over the OS and menus, just to obtain the battery life we're supposed to obtain out of the box!!

Just when I thought I had Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning off I find " nearby scanning " on under more connections!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
Anyone have a list of "disableable" apps?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Juuls:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66008238&postcount=4
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] JosepHFJ:


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What do you guys think?

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What's bothering me the most is that we have to thinker with the phone just the get good battery life, it should at least hold the charge a decent amount of time because it has a fairly decent battery[emoji34] .
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] d1pham:
Getting good results finally with an US (AT&T) Snapdragon based S7E.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
So back to my dilemma about whether to factory reset or not. It's hard to be upset with my screen on time today even though Android System is still eating up a huge a amount of battery.

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Your SOT looks great. Just curious, did you do a clear cache and factory reset?

And what kind of Android System drain do you have?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gainstatom:
Either my WiFi or phone radio is always extremely high. Any fixes? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
There's nothing wrong with that unless you are in flight mode. One or the other should almost always be active depending on your location.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
I noticed that you both have AT&T variants, I'm slightly suspicious that AT&T has done something behind the scenes to help battery life for their variant because I'm seeing a huge improvement in my battery starting today. I believe that we may have been seeing the draining because of the LTE U or the new x12 lte capabilities in the SD820 that the exynos chip doesn't have. If this was the case then the chips would have been constantly searching for a signal that wasn't there, especially while data was active. Any thoughts on this guys?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Hmmm...could be. I haven't received any updates other than a few days ago. Today probably is the best battery life I've ever gotten though!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
My thoughts are that AT&T could be implementing a patch to the towers/signal, not the phone itself, which satisfies the search for LTE U
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Oh...I get it!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] gainstatom:
But it shouldn't be 50% or higher on gsam
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] d1pham:
Yup, factory reset and followed the instructions on the OP.

Android System usage is in the teens.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mjs2011:
Awesome thanks. Think I'll do the same since your battery life is even better than mine.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
If I were you then I would give it another 2 days to see if they really have implemented this switch or not. Just my $.02
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] APorcupine1:
I don't understand how the Snapdragon 820 with a 3600mAh battery has this bad of a battery life for so many people.

Conspiracy theory time: The US government is actively monitoring phones with Samsung Knox, causing additional battery drain :P
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] viking2.0:
is everyone reporting their android system usage from the stock battery app? Gsam is always showing lower % just wanted to clarify
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] igotgame:
Is it safe to disable KNOX with Package Disabler pro? I notice it likes to use 10-15% battery a day....At least that's what the app itself is reporting in application manager.

Sent from my S7 Edge
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jrwingate6:
I disabled it before and it was still reporting battery usage.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] km8j:
You guys are misunderstanding that *all* applications that fall under system will report the same usage. It is confusing
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] TheWu-Wei:
I did the "clear-cache-factory-reset" dance four times today. No effect on my ridiculous battery life. I opted out of every possible reporting option, disabled Play auto updates, etc. Nothing made a difference. Yay.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
This is why I am not going with this option, if it were 100% then I would, but from what I've seen it looks to me like a 50-50 chance, and I've never been a gambling man.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Juuls:
What's the gamble? You have a 50% change to improve your phone set against the chance of the phone staying the same as is. So far there has not been a significant downside to trying a reset apart from starting over your customization's. You know that a 100% chance is an illusion given the fact people use their phones in different ways. It's a fact that this phone (SD820 and Exynos) can give you 6 to 8 hours of SOT as you have read in the many threads on this subject. The way I see it you have a 50% chance to win the lottery here ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Ghstudent:
Well, given the fact that I would have to spend hours backing everything up and restoring them and I'm a full time college student that also works full time and does programming on the side when he isn't spending time with his girlfriend that is hours that I really don't have time for unfortunately.. But, it also is the fact that I have been seeing increasingly better battery life the last few days without a reset. Today I went 14 hours with 4 1/2 hours of screen on time (2 1/2 of which were used streaming youtube in 1440.) I'm very content with my battery life ATM. But with that said, to those that have the time to set aside, I don't blame them for trying and I actually encourage it if they are seeing horrible drain from system and OS.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] borisshnitkin:
I might of fixed my draining battery issue so maybe you guys can try it out too. My issue was my phone would not go to deep sleep and would stay awake even when the phones display was off so something was keeping it up. I tried all the different methods out there including the package disabler and doing the hard reset with the cache reset. I was browsing the developer options in the settings screen and looked at my running services. I noticed that my contacts and a. Program called com.qualcomm.location had a message next to them saying restarting while all the other programs just had a countdown of how long they were running. So I clicked on each and pressed stop and I also re-downloaded the package disabler and disabled the com.qualcomm.location. after all that I synced my contacts again and just did a simple reboot and after that my phone was able to deep sleep. Now my battery is not draining like it did. So in my case those 2 apps had an issue and kept trying to reset itself so the phone was never able to sleep. I would recommend looking at your running services in the developer options.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Namtaru:
I haven't gone through the entire thread, but has anyone mentioned turning off Smart Alerts yet?

On my wifes SD820 S7 (non edge) she went from 2.5 hours of SOT to 5+ simply turning that off.

When I got my SD820 S7E last weekend I did that out of the box, and have been getting 6-7 hours of SOT with ~30 hours of use.