are battery saving apps good for nexus 7?

[preppystud]

most of them designed for phones?

i have this called "battery doctor", it has "speed charging". is it good to speed charge or bad?

thanks.

 

[brosko]

I think those apps use more battery than they save. Just leaving the is alone to do what it has to do is the best way to get maximum battery life.

 

[sk8trix]

I think one of the apps that I have used that did indeed help save battery was greenify. For this app you will need root, but let me explain how it works. There are some apps that run in the background on most devices, some people will tell you they eat up memory but thats not even a big deal as we all know in android using more memory is actually a good thing. However, these apps wake up and use a little battery to update and other things. When you use greenify it keeps those apps from running in the background for example when your screen is off and you're not even using the device. The result is getting less battery usage because there are less wakeups. Hope that helps a little.

 

[JConn_Lefty]

I think one of the apps that I have used that did indeed help save battery was greenify. For this app you will need root, but let me explain how it works. There are some apps that run in the background on most devices, some people will tell you they eat up memory but thats not even a big deal as we all know in android using more memory is actually a good thing. However, these apps wake up and use a little battery to update and other things. When you use greenify it keeps those apps from running in the background for example when your screen is off and you're not even using the device. The result is getting less battery usage because there are less wakeups. Hope that helps a little.

is there an app like that which does not require rooting?

 

[sk8trix]

Well to be honest I am not sure there might be but i cant be sure. What you should do is disable then in setting>apps>all and diable things you dont nee. Dont disable everything either though. For example you can disable things like: (if you don't use them ofcourse)
exchange services
magic smoke wallpapers
music visualization wallpapers
html viewer
sim toolkit
nfc service
clock widget
google play music
google play movies
google play games
google play books
google +
key chain
news and weather
tags
voice dialer(its on the LTE version not sure about the wifi version)

Basically you can bring these back later if u have to use them, I wish I could help more but since im rooted idk what else can be done without root. have a good one!

 

[sk8trix]

is there an app like that which does not require rooting?

Well to be honest I am not sure there might be but i cant be sure. What you should do is disable then in setting>apps>all and diable things you dont nee. Dont disable everything either though. For example you can disable things like: (if you don't use them ofcourse)
exchange services
magic smoke wallpapers
music visualization wallpapers
html viewer
sim toolkit
nfc service
clock widget
google play music
google play movies
google play games
google play books
google +
key chain
news and weather
tags
voice dialer(its on the LTE version not sure about the wifi version)

Basically you can bring these back later if u have to use them, I wish I could help more but since im rooted idk what else can be done without root. have a good one!

 

[JConn_Lefty]

Well to be honest I am not sure there might be but i cant be sure. What you should do is disable then in setting>apps>all and diable things you dont nee. Dont disable everything either though. For example you can disable things like: (if you don't use them ofcourse)
exchange services
magic smoke wallpapers
music visualization wallpapers
html viewer
sim toolkit
nfc service
clock widget
google play music
google play movies
google play games
google play books
google +
key chain
news and weather
tags
voice dialer(its on the LTE version not sure about the wifi version)

Basically you can bring these back later if u have to use them, I wish I could help more but since im rooted idk what else can be done without root. have a good one!

thank you for the information. i'm still relatively new to android so i'm discovering things as i go and i'm loving my n5 and n7 more and more everyday unlike my lumia 920 which i ended up hating more and more everyday.

this, and the ability to block all ads is making me want to root my n5 now...