While watching a TeamPGP stream @wendell talked about apps that do basically a lot of bad stuff in background without us knowing it. I believe he has run S-Trace on a few of the apps and found some interesting things but he did not get in to details on stream. Wendell if I am wrong about this please correct me and if so please elaborate more on what you have found if you can.
I run a Nexus 5x on Project Fi.
I immediately deleted Twitter and Reddit App(Official one). My battery life before this was around 16-18 hours at moderate usage. 2-3 hours of Screen On Time.
I also disabled Cloud Print, Google Drive, Play Games, and Play Movies.
I disabled Android Pay but it magically enables itself after a few hours. Sneaky Google!
The Apps themselves I believe (do not have any proof) were somehow hiding a lot of there stuff from the battery life stats cause they would never show up on the stats more than 1 or 2% no matter how much I used each one.
Anyways I have now increased battery life to around 24-28 hours with same on screen time.
If I don’t use my phone very much it last almost 34-40 hours depending on cell signal and other factors.
I also want to note that the phone properly goes into Doze mode now after deleting/disabling apps. If you do not wake phone to check for notifications then it will use maybe 1% of battery over the course of a several hours. This was never the case before and when I would check my battery stats it was always doing the downhill drain no matter how much/little I used it.
I hope this is helpful to anyone experiencing the same issues I was and should work across all Android phones for the most part.
helps if you have a rooted phone but idk if its really required since app developers need this same functionality
this looks vaguely correct but I havent done this on anrdoid 7 yet
Also check out NetGuard, an app firewall basically you just block everything accessing the net unless you allow it
I use to root my phones and do the custom rom deal but lately as I have gotten older I just want my phone to work and not hassle with it. Though I may crank up an old phone that is rooted and play with S-trace to see what these apps are doing and maybe report back.
Also I think its pretty good battery life increase without completely degooglifying phone.
Also if you don't have any special needs disabling the background sync helps too. Doze is also a pretty good app that I've found and basically creates a local VPN to enable connection only for certain apps and can run all the time so even if you're using the phone not all the apps that you have installed will start refreshing in the background. Disabling data when you're on wifi works pretty good too. With all of this tricks I can get about 3.5/4 hrs of SoT with a 3 years old Moto G 1st gen.
What charger and cable are you using? That makes a difference too.
Original cable and charger.
I thought doze was the built in feature in android 6.0 and 7.0?
Facebook is known to use up battery like crazy. Either use the browser to access or use the app Metal.
I guess the point of my post was that these apps are coded poorly and are just constantly having to talk to something in background and use my data and battery. Why can't the apps go quiet and only talk when I actively use them. On twitter I even turned notifications and everything I could think of to limit what it did and I swear it still kept do everything just didn't notify when it had found a new tweet or something.
I wish i would have kept screenshots of past few months to show you guys but I also in 12 days have only used 156mb of data and usually I have been close to 1gb by now.
End of the day its ridiculous.
I use Avast battery saver to kill programs that want to run in the background. Tapatalk is one that likes using resources in the background.
Yea i know there are apps to help but I hate having to install an app to control my other apps issues.
Yeah, but there's that app that aims to "port" the doze feature of Android 6 and 7 to other versions of Android.
I use Greenify to kill apps
There's some free apps that will show you what all stuff the mic is picking up in the ultra high frequency range. Should run that in public places too it'll melt your brain how much of that there is. Even in television also.
So our phones are listening to ads being played at frequencies out ears cannot hear?
That's one of the leading causes of battery drain from e.g. Facebook app
what the hell......
Something something red pill welcome to the real world.
It's an easy way for your phone or anything with a mic to fingerprint what you are doing with regard to media consumption. Cross platform ads.
Hulu delivers a unique hf audio code to each viewer? If the code that is heard by your phone and gets back to Hulu they can marry up those two IDs. Then it gets real spooky combining that with Adsense ids
Well I appreciate the feedback and the alarming facts. I am not completely tin foil hat kind of guy but this stuff should be flashing in red and you have to agree for it to work. All apps should also have an option to turn that off. I mean is it that hard for all these guys to be upfront about it and they could even "sell" it for tailoring everything towards you. No they just put it all in that fine print that probably isn't even worded correctly and kill my battery life.