Great battery improvement

[GrooveRite]

I disabled S-Voice and after 1 day of testing on my train commute I went from 99%-->92% rather than 88%.

I take a 30min train ride every morning and on the AT&T network, I have little to no signal for about 10% of the ride. Everyday I do the same thing in the morning, read flipboard articles until I get to Penn Station while also using the stock media player to play music.

Almost every day I have anywhere between 85-88% and am pleased to report today I had 92% after doing the same thing. I wanted to test this method so I loaded a few more articles than I would have on any other given day.

Hey I have an hour commute and I live in Queens, NY. I bet you live in Long Island, lol! You should try Pulse for reading articles! Good app for that!

 

[Issemann]

I've disabled....

What is Samsung Account?

 

[Issemann]

Anyone know what Samsung Cloud Data Relay is??

 

[funkylogik]

samsung account is what you log into to get more samsung apps but dont know what the cloud thing is m8

 

[pcguys]

Is s-voice the thing that launches when you double-press the home button?

If you disable s-voice what happens when you double-press home?

 

[pcguys]

If I never double-press home to bring up s-voice, how exactly is s-voice draining my battery?

(I had previously unchecked wake-up command)

Mike

 

[cjsmoove]

I notice better Improvement when I noticed Twiiter wasn't doing the every 4 hours like I set it too and it was constantly downloading...so I turned the notifications off and that helped me out big time.

 

[Zulu Warrior]

If I never double-press home to bring up s-voice, how exactly is s-voice draining my battery?

(I had previously unchecked wake-up command)

Mike

I wouldn't expect it to be draining much battery either, and that's why I started this thread. It must have enough background tasks running or something I honestly don't know. All I know is I don't have a use for it, and when I disabled it I did get better battery life. I always think it's best to disable all the stuff I won't be using anyways, keep useless stuff from taking up my precious hardware.

 

[miketko]

So I ended up Turning S Voice back on. I have an extra battery so I'm not concerned about battery life. I did though turn off the wake up command in the S Voice settings. It clearly says that this may drain battery. That makes sense since it needs to constantly be working to listen for the command. So I think as long as you have that setting off you should be fine imo.

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[funkylogik]

Is s-voice the thing that launches when you double-press the home button?

If you disable s-voice what happens when you double-press home?

then you dont get chance to double press coz the 1st press just takes u home.
i dont understand how disabling s-voice improves battery either, it doesnt show up in battery stats + i havent a way of really testin it but i disabled everything i dont use + cant uninstall anyway + a lot of people here have noticed definate improvements so its all good in the hood

 

[pcguys]

I wonder if the folks seeing huge battery improvements by disabling s voice had the listen feature set to yes???

That would explain a lot !!!!

 

[miketko]

I wonder if the folks seeing huge battery improvements by disabling s voice had the listen feature set to yes???

That would explain a lot !!!!

Probably. When I had my iphone jail broken one of the tweaks I tried out was to have siri on at all times with an command and it was a huge battery drainer

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[funkylogik]

I wonder if the folks seeing huge battery improvements by disabling s voice had the listen feature set to yes???

That would explain a lot !!!!

yeah that would explain everything lol

 

[Zulu Warrior]

I wonder if the folks seeing huge battery improvements by disabling s voice had the listen feature set to yes???

That would explain a lot !!!!

While I can't really verify that I had the listen setting on befofehand, I am just going to assume I did. The only way I could really see getting an improvement like I saw is because it shut off that setting. I don't really mind just having it disabled though, so I'm just gonna stick with that. Thanks for helping clear it up though!

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3, please excuse my brevity.

 

[pcguys]

The 'listening' feature is on by default, which I think is a shame, because bad battery like is will likely cause some users to return it and return to iphone.

 

[Kevinskeep]

Probably something simple I am missing but after executing --

Settings > Application Manager (all) > S Voice > Disable.

How do you re-enable it? I go back into Application Manager after disabling it and S Voice no longer shows up (I did check under "All").

Dave

Go all the way to the bottom of the list, disabled apps automatically get put at the bottom

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[Rev2010]

Go all the way to the bottom of the list, disabled apps automatically get put at the bottom

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This has been covered about 5+ times already in this thread


Rev.

 

[BEARD GANG]

Lol at people trying to disable every little thing now they know it improves battery.. just shows what crap comes preinstalled on these devices

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[funkylogik]

totaly lol. just glad my s3 was sim-free so its only samsung crap + no network crap

 

[kmf1]

I disabled a number of apps. We will see how it works regarding the battery life. Certainly a nice ICS feature to disable and not un install in case the apps are needed in the future.

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