Better battery app, Battery Doctor or Gsam?

[Jezza819]

I currently have Battery Doctor but it doesn't seem to be doing it's job. It will tell me I have high drainage, or something like that, and will close down running apps and the the health monitor turns to excellent and shows how much time I picked up. But if you exit out of the app and then turn around and open it right back open again, it's back to the high usage warning.

I've never used Gsam and it might not even do what it's supposed to but I've seen a lot of people recommend it.

 

[belodion]

Check this:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/537322-battery-doctor.html

By contrast, GSam is a battery monitor app.

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[Jezza819]

Check this:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/537322-battery-doctor.html

By contrast, GSam is a battery monitor app.

Hmm, that makes it sound like you don't need any of them. I think I'll uninstall it and see how it goes.

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[belodion]

Hmm, that makes it sound like you don't need any of them. I think I'll uninstall it and see how it goes.

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If your aim is to improve battery life, consider the Greenify app.

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[lumei 920]

Ditto on the Greenify suggestion. It will definitely help improve your battery life. I have Battery Doctor installed and tried GSam as well. I do not use the optimize features of Battery Doctor at all. There is no point in babysitting apps that restart themselves. I only use the battery profile feature to automatically switch to power saving profile at sleep time. GSam seems to provide lots of battery statistics, but none of which matters much to me. The information from the stock battery monitor is more than sufficient.

 

[Crashdamage]

Battery Doctor is just terrible, one of the worst things you can install. Get rid of it! It throws up ads, bogus warnings to try and scare you into buying more crapware, and is totally, utterly ineffective!

For much more information on Battery Doctor and other BS check out this:

http://androidforums.com/index.php?threads/896663/

Agreed that Greenify can be useful. It not like other so-called battery savers. But it should be used carefully and sparingly. I don't use it myself, I've never found a need for it.

Android since v1.0. Linux since 2001

 

[Jezza819]

If your aim is to improve battery life, consider the Greenify app.

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After that same early August update that killed my LED notifications I noticed that my battery usage almost doubled. I'm a light user and I could go two days between recharges and still have around 70% left. Now at the end of two days it's down into the low 40's. That's the only reason I thought about using the Battery Doctor that I had already installed a long time ago. I've uninstalled it and nothing has really changed significantly.