Battery issues and apps opening by themselves

[shawnks]

I upgraded to an s5 a few days ago and love it so far. My only issue has been that battery life has been less than stellar, although not horrible. After 16-17 hours I'm down to 5% battery, but that's with very little usage. When I go into the battery page it says Android OS is 35-60% of my battery usage, screen time is only 5-10%, and everything else is small. When you look at the usage graph you can see that my phone is doing things even while the screen is off.

I did some reading on here and installed Battery Doctor. It seems cool and might be helping. However, it seems like I have to run it all the time to get much out of it. Every time I run it at least a few apps, if not more, have started up that I didn't open. The main culprits seem to be google+, google drive, Pandora, and google maps. If I run battery doctor, lock my phone, then come back 2 hours later at least 2-3 of these are open. I've set my gallery to only back up to google+ when on wifi and plugged in.

What am I missing here and/or what should I be doing?

 

[Jon Jackson]

Are you using an app killer, cache cleaner, ram booster, anti virus etc? Those are battery hogs and screw your phone up. Open apps shouldn't be that big of a problem. I keep a dozen or more open, don't clear cache etc.

After a 17 hour day of moderate use I am around 40-50%.

 

[shawnks]

I had the first two on there, which I just uninstalled. Let's see if that helps.

 

[Jon Jackson]

It will and you won't have any lag. App Killer is the worst thing you can do to a phone. You want your ram being heavily used, don't worry if you're using 90% of your ram and don't worry if you have 1-2 GB of cache. Android works differently than other OS. Unused ram is bad ram. You want the phone to be maxed out , it will work better.

 

[shawnks]

I think that did it. Ever since uninstalling those two things my batter usage, at least while just mostly idling, has completely flattened. Thanks!!

 

[Jon Jackson]

I think that did it. Ever since uninstalling those two things my batter usage, at least while just mostly idling, has completely flattened. Thanks!!

I think it will even improve more so. Glad I could help, people in this forum heavily schooled me lol. I was such a noob when I arrived here.