Finally got it all uninstalled and cleared my cache and not my battery life is soooo much better. Even better than before the oculus fiasco. :)
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Finally got it all uninstalled and cleared my cache and not my battery life is soooo much better. Even better than before the oculus fiasco. :)
I don't even see anything Oculus related on my phone. How do you check for this?
You would check in your applications manager in settings. Uninstall any oculus or gear vr related apps.
The full factory reset didn't cure my problem entirely. The Oculus junk should be as gone as it can be and all of the gear services have been stopped as best as they can. Android System is still 45% of the battery use and three hours off the charger the phone is down to 85% battery left with relatively low use.
For those of you having this issue because of Oculus/Gear VR installations, and who can't ununstall all the stuff in thsoe categories, grab either EZ Package Disabler or Package Disablker Pro from the Play Store. I prefer EZ Package Disabler. Either will allow you to block apps you can't otherwise uninstall or disable.
I want to know that as well. I hate how there isn't any good/accurate monitoring system on battery, CPU, and specific processes going on in android. I uninstalled oculus and now my phone lasts all day and runs cool.
I uninstalled all Gear VR and Oculus apps this morning and all issues went away. Just checked my apps this afternoon and all the Gear VR and Oculus apps back on list as if they all were re downloaded on their own. Hopefully this doesn't bring back the original problem.
If you go to settings and then application manager, click on oculus home (or might be oculus rooms) , it'll show you how much battery that app has used. If you click on that battery info, it'll open a more detailed screen and it lists the app as an Android sys app. So I think that's the reason why the main battery screen doesn't show it as oculus being the battery drain and just lists Android Sys as the issue.
On for 9h 10m and the battery sits at 38%. Some huge draws early in the day (no Oculus on my phone now). Currently Android System is showing as 25% of the use, Google Play Services is at 17% and Android OS is at 12%. At this point the phone is estimating it won't last much past 7 p.m. My two year old Moto X did better than this thing and I only replaced that phone because I could tell the battery wasn't lasting as long as it used to. The S7 is much worse so far. Hating this phone.
I posted this in another thread, but wanted to update here as well:
I'm cautiously optimistic about Verizon's fix for my phone. It had a fast battery drain with Oculus uninstalled and even from a factory data reset. Either Samsung or Verizon (or some collaboration of the two) have a piece of software for upgrading and 'repairing' the phone. The repair part of the program backs up the phone and does something that is apparently more in-depth than a standard factory data reset. I'm at ~11hrs on the phone now with moderate use (calls, Bluetooth to my vehicle for navigation, some spotty coverage and a little web time) and the battery is at 51% left. The estimated remaining usage time is another 11 hrs. I was lucky to get 12 hours total before.
Where do I look for the apps draining like the "rooms" one? Mine says Andriod system. I have the edge s7?