Unused Application Processes/Battery Life
Hello,
On a quest to better my battery life, I went searching in my phone. I came across the "Running" apps in the application manager and noticed a plethora of applications running that I had not been using. Much like a computer, I have no idea what processes I might be able to end and what I shouldn't end for the sake of the phone's functionality. Then, there were things like 2048, which I haven't played for like a month, running...?
Can anyone help me figure out which applications I can end the processes on? And can anyone tell me why regular apps like random games/facebook/facebook messenger are still running even though I haven't used them?
Also, do these "running" apps chew up my battery life? I would assume they do.
Here's a story about my battery life:
Recently with the iPhone 6 coming out, I have noticed just how bad the battery life on my Galaxy s5 is. A couple of my friends got the iPhone 6 plus and can use the phone continuously for extensive amounts of time while hardly even putting a dent in the battery life.
To give an example, yesterday I drove somewhere that was about 2 hours away while my friend with his 6 plus had GPS going nearly the entire time without a charger, both on the way there and on the way back. I had my phone charging throughout the entire car ride there. Throughout the day, I really only used my phone for texting (and not that much) and that was about it. My friend was continuously using his phone for everything and never had a stable wifi connection.
By the end of the day, his phone was at 35% while mine was only at 40%. Clearly his battery life is VASTLY better than mine. It was basically a comparison between my phone doing close to nothing and his phone doing close to everything while mine had been charged more recently and his just destroyed mine.
Thanks for any help!
Hello,
On a quest to better my battery life, I went searching in my phone. I came across the "Running" apps in the application manager and noticed a plethora of applications running that I had not been using. Much like a computer, I have no idea what processes I might be able to end and what I shouldn't end for the sake of the phone's functionality. Then, there were things like 2048, which I haven't played for like a month, running...?
Can anyone help me figure out which applications I can end the processes on? And can anyone tell me why regular apps like random games/facebook/facebook messenger are still running even though I haven't used them?
Also, do these "running" apps chew up my battery life? I would assume they do.
Here's a story about my battery life:
Recently with the iPhone 6 coming out, I have noticed just how bad the battery life on my Galaxy s5 is. A couple of my friends got the iPhone 6 plus and can use the phone continuously for extensive amounts of time while hardly even putting a dent in the battery life.
To give an example, yesterday I drove somewhere that was about 2 hours away while my friend with his 6 plus had GPS going nearly the entire time without a charger, both on the way there and on the way back. I had my phone charging throughout the entire car ride there. Throughout the day, I really only used my phone for texting (and not that much) and that was about it. My friend was continuously using his phone for everything and never had a stable wifi connection.
By the end of the day, his phone was at 35% while mine was only at 40%. Clearly his battery life is VASTLY better than mine. It was basically a comparison between my phone doing close to nothing and his phone doing close to everything while mine had been charged more recently and his just destroyed mine.
Thanks for any help!
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