I barely use my phone and by late afternoon it needs to be charged. I have cleared the Cache. I have put a battery saver on. I have an auto run manager on the phone. I have smart booster on the phone. Nothing is helping. I want to disable some of the google apps and apps that are system apps. When you click disable it says it will make things run unstable. Will it make any difference if I disable them anyway? If I disable, is it easy to make them run again if it doesn't work out? I had to delete apps and move apps to the sd card to make room for the new Marshmallow upgrade. I have a couple of apps that I don't know what they are and have to be disabled, they can't be uninstalled. Any suggestions would be welcome. I am discouraged with the large battery drain. This has been happening for over a month, and was there before the new Marshmallow upgrade.
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Battery Drain
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It sounds like part of your problem is you're micromanaging your phone and you really don't need to. Android can manage itself, you don't need to create your own problems. Go into you Settings >> Application manager and for each of those 'smart' booster and battery saver apps, tap the 'Force stop' button, then the 'Clear data' button, and then the 'Uninstall' button. This will not just uninstall those apps but wipe away the cruft they might leave behind.
As for apps you might disable that may or may not cause instability, just keep track of what you disable and if there is a problem, just re-enable them. Some apps might need you to reboot your phone so they restart themselves again. But for the most part you can't disable really vital things as you don't have the system level privileges to do so (that's one of the aspects to rooting your phone).
Since you recently upgraded to Marshmallow, you might want to wipe the System Cache partition. It's usually a good idea to do this after a version upgrade. The system cache partition is completely separate from the general user partition, where your data and settings are stored, so this won't affect your data. Follow the directions below:
http://cellphoneforums.net/samsung-...ring-cache-partition-rebooting-safe-mode.html
Your S5 is a couple of years old now, the battery should still be in decent condition but if you've drained/recharged it on even a near daily basis all along it might be a matter were it's just worn down. The lithium-ion batteries in our smartphones have a set number of recharge cycles and at some point they just get used up. Anyway, try cleaning off those booster apps, wipe your system cache partition, and check if you've got any apps you don't really need that are just wasting your phone's system resources. If after a couple of days your battery is still a problem, for under $10 you can buy a new OEM battery from Amazon. With your S5, all you need to do is run a fingernail along the back cover seam to pop off the plastic back cover, remove the old battery, put in the new battery, and snap the back cover back into place. No tools necessary.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Repl...=1465773298&sr=1-5&keywords=galaxy+s5+battery
As for apps you might disable that may or may not cause instability, just keep track of what you disable and if there is a problem, just re-enable them. Some apps might need you to reboot your phone so they restart themselves again. But for the most part you can't disable really vital things as you don't have the system level privileges to do so (that's one of the aspects to rooting your phone).
Since you recently upgraded to Marshmallow, you might want to wipe the System Cache partition. It's usually a good idea to do this after a version upgrade. The system cache partition is completely separate from the general user partition, where your data and settings are stored, so this won't affect your data. Follow the directions below:
http://cellphoneforums.net/samsung-...ring-cache-partition-rebooting-safe-mode.html
Your S5 is a couple of years old now, the battery should still be in decent condition but if you've drained/recharged it on even a near daily basis all along it might be a matter were it's just worn down. The lithium-ion batteries in our smartphones have a set number of recharge cycles and at some point they just get used up. Anyway, try cleaning off those booster apps, wipe your system cache partition, and check if you've got any apps you don't really need that are just wasting your phone's system resources. If after a couple of days your battery is still a problem, for under $10 you can buy a new OEM battery from Amazon. With your S5, all you need to do is run a fingernail along the back cover seam to pop off the plastic back cover, remove the old battery, put in the new battery, and snap the back cover back into place. No tools necessary.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Repl...=1465773298&sr=1-5&keywords=galaxy+s5+battery
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Yes, I should turn Facebook off when I'm not using it. I don't really use it all that often. I can try that.
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Thank you, it sounds like you've given me a lot of options and directions. I'll give it all a try. I used to be able to go a few days before charging my battery, so I doubt it is overused, but it's good to know I can change the battery if need be. Thanks for taking time to give me detailed instructions. Very helpful.
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If you're not a heavy Facebook user, the FB app is just taking up space and unnecessarily using system resources so just uninstall it and use Facebook's mobile site in your phone's web browser:
https://m.facebook.com
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After the Marshmallow update I was having severe battery drain as well (battery lasting half a day). I did a factory reset and all is well now. However, when I have Power Saver on I do not get push notifications. I used to have Power Saver on all the time. Today I am at 60% at 6 pm without using Power Saver. FYI
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