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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] colklink14:
Thanks for all your hard work, I have been following you for a couple of phones now.

Hi All

Originally had Echo 1.41, then 1.5, now I am back to 1.41

My original install of 1.41 had fantastic battery life, using kernal aditor, and govtuner. I went to 1.5 and it all went to hell. I went back to 1.41 thinking it might be the ROM, but I am still in the same boat regarding battery. life Every install was a full wipe

I know my 7e was sleeping because cpu spy listed it. Now cpu spy is listing the 307 freq as dominant, with very little sleep. I tried taking off govtuner and going to L speed, but still very little sleep, even at night when it is charging. In every install, I have unistalled quite a few programs that were bloat.

I have been using wake lock detector, and am seeing that the Google App has 23,124 wakelock triggers since 7 this morning. Everything else in miniscule.

Under Battery usage, it shows android system 22%, android os 21% (since 7 this morning), everything thing else is again miniscule.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this may be?? what needs to be turned off?? what to look for?? how to find it??

Thanks in advance,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] lrcquest:
I am facing the same problem. Have anyone faced similar problems... Any solutions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] beertastical:
Did you ever figure this out? Seems like something I disabled lost the Samsung screenshot feature, which I like for scrolling capture and prompt to crop.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] kk-ftp:
"screen capture?"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] beertastical:
Yes. Screen capture, screenshot, whatever it is called. What I mean is after pressing home+power. Something from the original topic disabled the Samsung version of screen capture. Now it behaves like stock (saves directly to gallery). I want the option back for crop/scroll/save. The scrolling capture was quite useful.

I just can't figure out which disabled package that broke this function.

There is something called Smart Capture, but I did not disable that one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] _velocity_:
Did you disable the "Advanced Features" package? Or disable Smart Capture in the Advanced Features section of settings? I've disabled almost every package throughout my ownership of this phone and never lost the ability to grab a screenshot.

I'll try to find some time tomorrow and dig through the packages more and see if I can find something.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] beertastical:
Thank you! Yes that fixed it. I don't see an "advanced features" package but...

Settings -> Advanced Features -> Smart Capture was off.

Not sure how that happened...package disabling, recent Nougat upgrade, or I turned it off inadvertently (I don't think so).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] _velocity_:
Nice! Glad we found the problem! Don't exactly know how it would have disabled itself - doubt that disabling a package would have done it, but stranger things have happened lol

[MENTION=2318259]lrcquest[/MENTION] - try above to restore screen capturing, let me know if that doesn't resolve it for you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] lrcquest:
My issue was fixed in the latest update. Had discussed this with the dev and they supported to enormous relief.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] miketunes:
Do these same services apply to Nougat? My battery hasn't been bad, but defiantly more laggy since upgrading, I'm thinking because everything is re-enabled. Also I think one of them may be blocking google reward surveys, any idea which ones?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] kk-ftp:
Try it and let us know please :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] Krazie99:
I have some all of this and battery life still isn't all that great night order a battery case.. anyone help? I've done like everything possible
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Upgrade to the S8 or S8 plus, the S7 edge battery degrades after a year. Also, the Snapdragon 835 is much more efficient than the Sd820 that the S7 Egde has. My wife's S8 gets decent battery life, but since she has AOD on and stuff, it does drain some, but my S8 plus has has excellent battery life.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] Krazie99:
Anyone know what I can do to help save battery life? Just rooted my phone and want the best battery life i can get
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Flash to U Firmware.

---------- Post added at 10:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:01 PM ----------

Flash to the U firmware.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] ricoyakuza:
Are you using the newest version of EZ Package Disabler? The newest version also has feature that allows you to clear data within the app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
To be honest 2% over a 6 hour span is what I would expect with doze working while still allowing apps to check for updates. From the way that your battery graph looks doze is definitely working. The 40 minutes that it was kept awake over the 6 hour period is probably any push services you have installed, like gmail or facebook or simliar apps. It could also be google location services if you have not turned that option off.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
I was on the newest version but did not see that there is a "more" button that shows the extra options for clearing data from the app. That now officially makes EZ Package Disabler my go to bloat removal app. Thanks for pointing that out!

I might update the guide to show the process using EZ Package Disabler, for those people who want to use it instead.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] ricoyakuza:
That's perfect!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
I have updated the guide to reflect using EZ Package Disabler to disable bloat apps. I have also included the EZ Package Disabler xml document for easy import.

Thanks for the feedback!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] ricoyakuza:
Thanks for your helpful topic!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Downloaded quickpic, I think I might like it better than the Stock gallery. I like how it gives you an option to edit your pics on other editing apps.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
Look how to edit slow motion videos, since until now I always used default gallery for that.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Gonna maybe buy Ez and ask a refund for the Package Disabler. But since your tweaks, I've gotten awesome battery life!

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] marlin29311:
So I applied your logic to my already extensive list of app disabling and have noticed that I am getting even better battery life now as a result of clearing the app data prior to disabling - it definitely makes a difference!

For reference, I started a thread at Android Central that shows all of the apps I have disabled, following a similar logic to disabling as the OP. I've since gone back through, re-enabled each app, cleared data, and then re-disabled, and I have since noticed an uptick in battery life - I am generally getting 5 hrs SOT in a standard day, now I am pushing 6 hrs with this minor tweak.

Here's my thread - I've actually disabled more than the OP:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-package-disabler-pro-my-verizon-s7-edge.html

I'm going to make reference to your thread OP over on AC - get it more traction!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
This has been mostly, if not ALWAYS on 4g LTE

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] JediDru:
Great guide. Does any one know off hand which package controls the always on display? Mine doesn't work now and I was thinking I would ask before going through it one by one to enable it again. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Maybe AODservice, its after ANT

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Very glad that you are getting results similar to mine! I decided to keep both package disabler apps just in case...... I like experimenting with with both apps [emoji16]

That's awesome! Thanks for confirming the clear data aspect. I have really noticed a difference from clearing the data prior to disabling the apps versus just disabling apps. Spread the word as much as you can so that other users can get on the battery saving bandwagon!

Same here. I am always on 4g, never on wifi.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Thanks, man for sharing. Had this been my initial battery life, I'd have been somewhat content.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Yes the app is AODservice. I disable it (as stated in the OP) because I don't use always on display. Make sure to review the apps I disabled to verify you won't lose any functions that you want to keep. Let me know if you have any other questions!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
I disabled some packages with EZ (after I already had bought Package Disabled Pro, I threw away those money), but I don't see a huge difference.

About clear data before disable the package, is it the same thing if I disable the packages and then I clear data using EZ?

P. S. Why I see this instead of a clear image?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
I'm on pace for maybe 18-19 hours on and 6 hours screen time. Not bad. Bluetoothing included and some youtube.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
No, you need to enable all the bloat apps and then restart your phone. Then go in to each app, clear data, then disable. Then restart.

Not sure why the picture looks blurry on your end. Maybe try downloading the picture or opening up the forum on a web browser instead of Tapatalk.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
I enabled the app, clear data and disable it again. Then I restarted, I think that is enough. Will see. About the image do you see it properly?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
I should have taken a screen shot, but my SOT was around 5 hours 30-40 minutes with 20 hours or more of stand by time. That's about three hours of talk time, some blue tooth as well. Not bad!

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] kench33:
When I am in EZ package disabler I have more possible bloatware and other system package apps. Why is this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
That might be enough. If your sot time does not improve I recommend trying the way I suggested.

Yes I'm able to view the picture just fine on my end.

Trying to understand what your saying.... If you are saying why is there more bloat than what I show listed in my op it is because I am only showing what I actually disabled. There are apps that ez disabler calls bloat that I don't want to disable because I don't consider it bloat. Those are not listed in my guide. Feel free to look through those other "bloat" apps and disable what you want. I can only recommend freezing the apps I have listed because those are the only ones I have tested.

If you are saying something else then I'll need you to explain more in detail.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Here is what the picture looks like once you download it and open it in your gallery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
Two days ago I did 8h sot so I think that it's all about the kind of usage. But I don't understand what Android OS is exactly.

About the images do you use Tapatalk? I see it only if I download it.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] kench33:
Yeah that is what I meant, my apologies. What would I need to enable to get software updates?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
As far as I know you MUST re-enable EVERYTHING before you take any ota. Seriously, the developers of these disabler apps say bad things can happen if you take a software update without unfreezing everything. There is an option in the app to unfreeze everything with one click, so at least it's easy lol. Refreezing everything is the sucky part.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Whats your take on verizon location agent? Disable or no?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
From what I can tell unless you use some specific apps that depends on that app for location, disable that sucker. Here is some info on it....

http://mobile.vzw.com/LocationAgent

I use to think it helped the modem to find radio towers, but now I highly doubt that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Ok, I think how you charge your phone matters as well. If I do a non fast wire charge, I seem to get better battery depletion. So I normal wireless charged my phone, and for some reason my phone seems to be draining fast, even with all the tweaks.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] hoainamvtvn:
i disable all app following the list at page 1, but the always on display mode was turn off. Anyone can tell me which app i need to enable to turn on always on display please?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] JediDru:
Reread this six page thread. I asked the same question.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Are you saying you aren't getting good battery life because of wireless charging? I always use wired charging without fast charge.... Seems to work the best for me as far as battery life is concerned.

Yes as stated in the OP the package mentioned earlier that you need to re-enable is AODservice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
Me too. For now I never used fast charge, only wire normal charge.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
gonna use normal charge for now

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] mainomain2:
Always on Display can be turned back on by finding AODSetting and ENABLE it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] JediDru:
I went through and was clearing the memory and noticed 4 separate apps that had allocated memory in ram and were also listed to be disabled. Would enabling those increase battery vs having it disabled yet "running" in system memory? I have re-enabled those apps and trying it out now.

Those apps being:

Ant Hal Service,

Context Service, com.sec.android.app.wfdbroker,

Samsung Content Agent
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] 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.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] gainstatom:
[MENTION=3017790]dajmanjt[/MENTION] I disabled most of apps that were in your list, but I wanted to keep gallery so I didn't disable the ones that were related to it, but now on gallery, the "time" section doesn't work where it displays my photos as a timeline. Do you know how I can fix this? I'm pretty sure it's because I disabled something. Thanks

Edit: I also found that while changing my wallpaper, it says that something has been disabled. Do you know which system apps that involve gallery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
Guys, don't disabled everything. Disable only the apps that you know for sure. The important thing is enjoy the phone and arrive to the end of the day without needing to charge the battery.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] kittiyut:
Can one achieve the same "freezing" effect using Titanium Backup?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Let me know your findings. Those apps were showing nothing after I cleared them and disabled. I don't think they are getting memory allocation on my phone.

Very helpful! Thanks for this info. Good to know that we can find wakelocks without root.

Tbh the only thing I thought I disabled related to that was gallery. I'll take a look and let you know if I find something disabled that could be causing that issue....

Absolutely! However on Verizon we will probably never have root, meaning we will never be able to freeze anything with titanium. If I had root I would not need any of this guide actually lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Ok I would go and enable these Samsung services and see if it fixes it

If it was me I would enable them one by one and test to see if it fixes the issue. That way once you find the one app you need to leave on, the other ones can be left off.

The Samsung content agent and story mode apps look like likely suspects.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] hoainamvtvn:
tks for helping me, do you know which app to enable edge lighting and edge feed mode ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] JediDru:
I don't know buddy. I have a standard s7 and just lurk here. Considering how popular our side of the forum is [emoji12]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
There is a peoples edge and a tasks edge that I disabled, so it might be one of those. Other than that I am not sure, because I still use my edge for apps and ruler and have no issues with it. I don't use the lights edge but don't see a specific package related just to lights.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Use normal charge to see best results, folks! I think fast wire or wireless fast or normal, I guess drains batter more. Use standard charging

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] hoainamvtvn:
when i enable people edge or task edge, edge light work, but edge feeds still not woking
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Although this might not be the reason your feeds edge is acting up, looks like lots of people are having issues with it.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...edge-feeds-not-showing-up-galaxy-s7-edge.html

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ask-question/666783-galaxy-s7-edge-edge-feed-not-working.html

http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/help/s7-edge-feed-t3335560

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ask-question/654939-edge-feeds-not-working-galaxy-s7-edge.html

Looks like a glitchy function to begin with. I have never used it so I cannot comment on why it is not working on your phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] hoainamvtvn:
i confirm that edge feed will work if we enable Briefing feed and yahoo edge :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
It works without Yahoo edge too, if you don't want to use Yahoo notifications [emoji3]

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Awesome! Thanks to the two of you for researching that and finding which apps were needed to keep that function. That will help the next person who comes in here with the same problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] JediDru:
After enabling these my standby battery usage went down. Perhaps on an edge with the larger battery it would be more noticeable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] turtuv:
What are exactly this services? If I disable them, can I have trouble?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
Alright so after investigating what jedidru has enlightened us on I discovered that several applications are continuing to run even after being disabled, therefore possibly creating standby drain. I have re enabled all the processes that were still running while disabled and will report back on whether my battery life improves or decreases. There were quite a few processes still running while disabled. I will post the screen shot showing the app disabled and yet still running, and I will also post a screenshot of all the apps I have re enabled. The screenshot will show all the apps that are still disabled and the apps I have re enabled that were disabled.

UPDATE 1

Ok so if you disabled your apps with package disabler YOU CANNOT RE ENABLE THOSE APPS WITH Ez package disabler. It will look like your re enabling things but once you restart you will realize you wasted all that time, like I just did lol. So you need to re enable all your apps from whatever app you used to disable them, then only use one app to disable apps from then on. I have done this and have disabled only the apps that were not running while disabled. I have chosen to use EZ package disabler as my go to disabler app. I will post that list here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
This is probably the best Verizon Battery saving thread

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] cpufrost:
Looks like it's back to sucking down the battery again. Phone staying awake. It was clearly a mistake getting rid of my Note 5 for this phone.

The phone is also just laggy in some apps too.

With no chance of root and dealing with this I might as well plug forward with iOS.

Yep, I said it!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
I'm sorry to hear that frost. I personally have not had any significant battery drain since I have been freezing certain apps. Maybe you have a rouge app that is draining your battery.....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] SEVENEDGE:
Do you close all apps when charging or before going to sleep? Or do you leave them running and just the phone optimize them?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Dis] dajmanjt:
I don't ever force close any apps unless they are in Greenify, in which case whenever I run Greenify it force closes the apps I want put to sleep for me. Greenify takes care of helping certain apps sleep. I don't ever go into my recent apps and force close apps manually, unless I know a specific app is acting up.