GSam "Android System" Manage... anybody tried this?

[sswitzer]

I know, from GSam, that Android System pretty well consistently is my #1 battery drain, and that it has a bunch of packages... and I just noticed today that there's a Manage button that I can then use to force-stop individual packages. This seems like a very useful thing, but also very risky if I don't know a) what packages are using up the battery, and b) what happens if I disable them.

Anybody have experience with this?

I have the SystemPanel and OS Monitors apps which tell me how much CPU the packages are using, but not how they affect battery.

 

[anon(782252)]

I don't run Gsam normally do haven't played around with that.

You don't want to guinea pig it for us? Haha

 

[sswitzer]

I don't run Gsam normally do haven't played around with that.

You don't want to guinea pig it for us? Haha

Maybe, maybe not

I found this one about Android IPSec Can I Safely Disable IPSec Service? | Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge | XDA Forums with someone asking basically the same question. At least from that I think that the packages are listed descending order of battery usage.

I've just done a Force Stop of IPSec Service... it looks like it's the VPN, which I don't use, so I should be OK. But since I don't know how much battery it was taking up (is CPU usage a directly correlation to battery usage?) I don't know if it's beneficial.

 

[Javier P]

Re: GSam "Android System" Manage... anybody tried this?

When you tap on "manage" Gsam will open a menu where you can select the package to manage (see screenshot). If you tap on any of those options it will send you to settings - apps for that particular one.

 

[sswitzer]

Re: GSam "Android System" Manage... anybody tried this?

When you tap on "manage" Gsam will open a menu where you can select the package to manage (see screenshot). If you tap on any of those options it will send you to settings - apps for that particular one.

Are they listed in any particular order? I'm hoping to do a force-stop on service packages that are using the most battery.

 

[Javier P]

I ran a little test and checked the packages/apps included in that list and for most of them the only options available are force stop and clear cache.

 

[sswitzer]

I ran a little test and checked the packages/apps included in that list and for most of them the only options available are force stop and clear cache.

I'm OK with doing a force stop ... I know it will start up again when I boot, but that's a very rare occurrence with this phone So I've now done a force-stop on IPSec, and maybe my battery usage will improve (although I'm pretty happy with it as is.) I imagine there's a root way to kill these packages automatically.

 

[Javier P]

Re: GSam "Android System" Manage... anybody tried this?

Are they listed in any particular order? I'm hoping to do a force-stop on service packages that are using the most battery.

I'm not sure about the order. It should be nice if they came sorted by percentage. I'm going to take screenshots at different times and check if they change positions. Got curious now I'll let you know tomorrow how it goes.

 

[djh2011]

I find GSam to be worthless for me. I don't know what the majority of the Android system services do. 19.5 % for them and 11.5% for Android OS. Something is killing my battery today and have no idea what it is and GSAM doesn't help.

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[sswitzer]

I find GSam to be worthless for me. I don't know what the majority of the Android system services do. 19.5 % for them and 11.5% for Android OS. Something is killing my battery today and have no idea what it is and GSAM doesn't help.

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Try something like https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...id=com.eolwral.osmonitor&hl=en&token=d1xRZ8HC to see what is eating up your CPU; I know (at least I think) that CPU is not a direct correlation to battery, but it will at least tell you what's happening. It shows actual processes, not just an app list.

 

[belodion]

I had a problem with Google Play Services guzzling battery. Nothing that I tried helped much, until someone suggested turning off Location History. That seemed to fix it, but soon after that Google Play Services was replaced for a while in the battery stats by Android OS. It's as if Google stuff simply will not be switched off....either it switches itself back on or finds some other way of doing what it wants to do. In my own case it settled down eventually, so I'm not sure how relevant the Location History trick was.
Feedback from Google on these things would be very welcome.

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[sswitzer]

I had a problem with Google Play Services guzzling battery. Nothing that I tried helped much, until someone suggested turning off Location History. That seemed to fix it, but soon after that Google Play Services was replaced for a while in the battery stats by Android OS. It's as if Google stuff simply will not be switched off....either it switches itself back on or finds some other way of doing what it wants to do. In my own case it settled down eventually, so I'm not sure how relevant the Location History trick was.
Feedback from Google on these things would be very welcome.

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There was also some talk (in one of the Google Play threads noted in http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g4/544443-common-issues-solutions.html ) about using "disable/uninstall" to set GP back to the version that came with your phone, and that helping with an issue with a particular version of GP. I've never been that concerned about it, but there were people having battery and lag issues that they related back to an update of GP; it's entirely possible that GP has since been updated, and this is no longer an issue.

 

[Javier P]

The whole list stayed the same. I checked before and after a full charge and nothing changed. Safe to say that it's a static list, so no much help from that