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Help Combining Battery Saving Tips: Am I Doing This Right?

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DeKraan

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Hi all,

I am currently sporting a Huawei Ascend Mate 7 with good battery life. But I'm fascinated by the possibility to make it even better. That's why with help of this forum I've done several things. But am I doing it right? Are these apps not working against each other or am I missing something essential?

I am on android 4.4.2, rooted my phone and took the following steps:
1) installing Xposed and Greenify, to hibernate a lot of apps
2) Then I also got Amplify, to limit several well-known wakelocks and alarms (selected with help of the database ofcourse)
3) I also have SetCPU and have used it to create an offscreen powersave profile to underclock my device.
4) Using Link2SD I've linked a whole lotta apps to my sd-card
5) Finally I am also using BootManager to limit apps from starting up after a reboot

Is this a good start? Are there better ways to go? Smarter apps to use? Apps to stop using? What is your setup and what am I doing wrong?

For example: this morning I've installed 2 battery. But there also is Deep Sleep Battery Saver, or Wifi Matic or Smart Battery Saver.

Who can shed some light on this subject for me?
 
Skip ALL the battery savers except Greenify, and use Greenify very sparingly and very carefully.

WiFi Matic should save just a bit of power. Depending on your usage, it may or may not be noticeable.

I don't understand at all why you used Link2SD. Your phone has plenty of space for apps. There's no advantage whatsoever in moving apps to the SD. There's plenty of reasons not to, such as slower performance, reduced reliability, slightly increased power drain, etc.

I've not a fan these days of fooling around with SetCPU, Bootmanager, etc but a lot of hardcore tweakmiesters would consider me crazy. If you're careful and believe they make a meaningful difference, well, tweak away.

Hope you're having fun!
 
Hi there! Having fun, having fun... I feel like ever since I installed BetterBatteryPlus I can't get into deep sleep myself :-)

I like your advice though, but I do wonder why you are against battery savers (apart from Greenify), since millions of people seem to use them. Although that's not a good argument, I know, I do need to ask: are they really that useless?

I got the tip to use Link2SD, because someone told me I would actually be saving energy and speeding up my phone with their linking my apps to the sdcard-trick. Receiving a warning of a full internal memory after making a second backup recently, put me over the top, but pherhaps it would be better to just store my backups on my sd-card, and move my apps back. Isn't it a power and memory saver? Than I won't bother with it.

Same goes for apps like SetCPU and Bootmaster. I read it works, I try it, I have no idea if it works, I leave it alone and just hope it does!

I even tried tinkering with system tuner to reduce play services and systems framework, but that didn't go so well...

What do you do to save battery yourself?
 
Remember, this is just IMHO but I've been using Android from the very beginning. Others are sure to disagree.

Most battery savers are a joke. Many actually use more power monitoring stuff and switching it on and off than they save. Some, like Juice Defender, Smart Battery Saver, etc are just bad, others, like DU Battery Saver are plain evil.

At best, most battery savers are a placebo. Doesn't it make common sense that with battery power such a major issue and competition between manufacturers, that if any such 'battery savers' actually worked the phone manufacturers would be all over them? Well, they're not.

Greenify works differently than most battery savers. In certain usage situations it can be useful, but as I said should be used very carefully and very sparingly.

Your phone specs say it has 32GB of memory. That means lotsa space available for apps. And you filled it? If backups are eating space, why not clear them out? On your phone you shouldn't need Link2SD. It will NOT save energy and will NOT speed up the phone. It does the opposite.

I'll just stand by what I already said regarding tinkering with the system. I will add this: I used to tinker with everything. In the early days of Android, when it was a less mature and polished OS and the hardware was far less capable, there was real rewards for doing so. Not so much with the hugely improved hardware and software we have now.

What do I do or use to save battery? Nothing. Not as far as modifications. I buy Nexus devices to avoid bloat. I setup our devices carefully, disable a little bit of unused stuff, pay attention to email sync, things like that. Battery life is fine. Android engineers have worked hard at optimizing power consumption and have done a pretty good job.
 
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