Great battery improvement

[strtgng]

Any app that you don't think you'll ever use is bloatware. For me, even the Voice Mail app is bloat.

What is the voice mail app? Seems like a stupid question, but I have never seen a VM app before and always had VM functionality on my phones!

 

[funkylogik]

maybe its a visual voicemail app like Hullomail? my s3 doesnt have it

 

[Zulu Warrior]

Here are some apps that I want to disable but worried it may hurt proformance. Take a look. The ones with the Android icon.

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Don't disable those. When we're talking about bloatware, we mean in your app listing, not all the services and stuff. For example, open up the app tray. If you click and hold any of those apps, drag them to the "app info" area on the bottom. It will tell you about the app, and give you the option to disable. Some apps (bloatware, or any preinstalled app) will require that you uninstall updates first, but that option is in the same place i just told you. I'd say as long as you're just dragging the actual apps like that, you probably won't disable any important service. If you do find something not working right, simply re-enable whatever you last disabled to make it work again. Shouldn't run into any problems. I got rid of almost all the google and samsung apps this way, because I don't use a lot of them. I did keep the important ones for me though.

 

[InkedAdrenaline]

Cool I'm giving it a try now. I will never use s voice. Hell, I never used siri when I had my 4s and siri is pretty flawless

 

[mikesmith]

I turned on Power Saving and checked only CPU power and background and I've seen a BIG improvement in battery life with no lag or issues.

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[Ricky Babalu]

I thought this was common knowledge, that is the first thing I did when I got my phone. ICS introduced this feature. Below is what I have disabled.

1. All share controller
2. All share play
3. All share Service
4. Backup Assistant Plus (Verizon)
5. Apps (Verizon)
6. S suggest
7. Facebook
8. Amazon Kindle
9. Color
10. My Verizon Mobile
11. V Cast Tones
12. VZ Navigator
13.Yahoo Finance
14. Yahoo News
15. Media Hub (Samsung) ****I will stick with the "Play Store".

 

[miketko]

I've disabled....

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[miketko]

Don't disable those. When we're talking about bloatware, we mean in your app listing, not all the services and stuff. For example, open up the app tray. If you click and hold any of those apps, drag them to the "app info" area on the bottom. It will tell you about the app, and give you the option to disable. Some apps (bloatware, or any preinstalled app) will require that you uninstall updates first, but that option is in the same place i just told you. I'd say as long as you're just dragging the actual apps like that, you probably won't disable any important service. If you do find something not working right, simply re-enable whatever you last disabled to make it work again. Shouldn't run into any problems. I got rid of almost all the google and samsung apps this way, because I don't use a lot of them. I did keep the important ones for me though.

Good tip. Thanks

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[Forgetful]

I've disabled....

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Great selection.

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[miketko]

Great selection.

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thanks. Def open to more suggestions without totally disabling the "coolness" of this device

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[Rev2010]

I disabled S Voice and a ton of other bloatware apps and over a few hours now I still don't really see any difference, anyone else? I've rebooted right after as well just to make sure everything that was open is no longer running. I may need to give it more time though, or maybe it could be that at my office since we only have HSPA+ boosters and not LTE yet in the building that it's still trying repeatedly to look for LTE. I'll report back more over time. Thanks for the tip btw!


Rev.

 

[miketko]

I disabled S Voice and a ton of other bloatware apps and over a few hours now I still don't really see any difference, anyone else? I've rebooted right after as well just to make sure everything that was open is no longer running. I may need to give it more time though, or maybe it could be that at my office since we only have HSPA+ boosters and not LTE yet in the building that it's still trying repeatedly to look for LTE. I'll report back more over time. Thanks for the tip btw!


Rev.

It's really hard to see the difference cause there are too many variables. Signal, usage etc

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[Zulu Warrior]

I disabled S Voice and a ton of other bloatware apps and over a few hours now I still don't really see any difference, anyone else? I've rebooted right after as well just to make sure everything that was open is no longer running. I may need to give it more time though, or maybe it could be that at my office since we only have HSPA+ boosters and not LTE yet in the building that it's still trying repeatedly to look for LTE. I'll report back more over time. Thanks for the tip btw!


Rev.

I agree that it's too hard to see the difference here, because of all the variables. I noticed mine after a day or two. I just slowly realized at the same time of the day as before I had a much higher battery percentage. And it's now consistently much better than it was before disabling all that stuff. Hopefully with time, you'll see some gains.

 

[BEARD GANG]

Can we disable other things we don't use... or am I getting too excited?? Lol

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[funkylogik]

Can we disable other things we don't use... or am I getting too excited?? Lol

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yeah disable any app u want in ICS

 

[scottsglock17]

Very cool. Thanks for all of the great advice.

 

[NotJustAPhone]

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

Disabled apps are at the bottom of the apps list.

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[wowpaw]

I thought this was common knowledge, that is the first thing I did when I got my phone. ICS introduced this feature. Below is what I have disabled.

1. All share controller
2. All share play
3. All share Service
4. Backup Assistant Plus (Verizon)
5. Apps (Verizon)
6. S suggest
7. Facebook
8. Amazon Kindle
9. Color
10. My Verizon Mobile
11. V Cast Tones
12. VZ Navigator
13.Yahoo Finance
14. Yahoo News
15. Media Hub (Samsung) ****I will stick with the "Play Store".

Facebook?!

I basically have the same disable list as you sans FB and the All Share stuff (I own a Samsung TV and alot of family/friends picked up the S3)

 

[armixia]

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.

 

[miketko]

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.

Sweet

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