Quick Connect - battery drain

[skomes]

Is there a good program for an unrooted phone to see what's eating up your battery? The standard one just displays "Android OS" which isn't very helpful.

Yes, use Systempanel in the app store.

Then go into the app and turn on monitoring, it will then monitor each process running including those that are a part of Android OS.

Betterbatterystats also has more detailed information.

I am currently having the same issue as you are, my Android OS/Android System are destroying my battery life and I'm not sure why. It might be because I imported some kind of problem from my S3 or it might be something new, so I am currently running Systempanel to try and figure it out. Sometimes just random apps or events or bugs trigger problems. Try using Systempanel to diagnose problems, also use Wakelock Detector from the Play Store to detect wakelocks which can cause problems.

 

[DCRicky]

Power device off. Hold Home and Volume Up. Press Power until device turns on. Release Home and Volume Up once Recovery Menu appears. Select Wipe Cache Partition using Volume Down and tap Power. Once that completes tap Power to select Reboot Now.

Had the same issue. Went from above 40 to 15% in less than an hour while not using the phone. Nightmare situation to lose phone at work. Tried the steps above to see if that fixes the issue. I also turned off 'always ready to connect'

 

[Derek Glantz]

Had the same issue. Went from above 40 to 15% in less than an hour while not using the phone. Nightmare situation to lose phone at work. Tried the steps above to see if that fixes the issue. I also turned off 'always ready to connect'

Any luck with this? My phone just started doing this today after 2 weeks of awesome battery power. Hoping that this is just a temporary glitch

 

[Derek Glantz]

I followed the above instructions, fully charged my phone, and left it overnight. When I checked it this morning, there was no sign of quick connect. Battery life is good.

 

[sirmaru]

What is "Quick Connect" and how does it work?

 

[Derek Glantz]

Quick connect is some stupid file sharing service built-in to the sg5. It has been giving some, me included trouble with draining the battery at a crazy pace. Read above posts for more

 

[DCRicky]

I followed the above instructions, fully charged my phone, and left it overnight. When I checked it this morning, there was no sign of quick connect. Battery life is good.

I haven't had the issue again yet. Will wait and see

 

[Wayren]

Wiping cache partition didn't work. Issue reappeared over the weekend. I did however receive the tiny update for AT&T S5's that supposedly is just crapware. It seemed to reset Quick Connect to some degree, so I'm leaving "Always ready to connect" off and we shall see how it behaves now.

 

[Wayren]

Issue popped up again this morning. I guess I'll try Samsung's support folks again. Not impressed with the experience thusfar. Pretty sure I'm going to stick to Nexus phones from here on out from now on. Having to wrestle with OEM bloat that destroys my battery like nothing I've ever encountered before has kind of soured branded devices for me. If this keeps up I'm just going to wipe the damn thing and throw a different ROM on it.

 

[Jon Jackson]

What is "Quick Connect" and how does it work?

It lists nearby devices it?s capable of communicating with and gives you proactive help in connecting to them, using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Wi-Fi Direct.

 

[freeideasguy]

I have the same issue. Quick connect is draining 70% of the battery
I am live chatting with Samsung right now and they have no clue what even Quick Connect is. Great support for a $600 phone!

Has anyone found any solution. my phone is not rooted.

 

[Greg C]

What is "Quick Connect?" Never mind....I found it.

http://skp.samsungcsportal.com/integrated/popup/FaqDetailPopup3.jsp?cdsite=in&seq=1042280

 

[Angi Bellingar]

I didn't get ANYTHING transferred over from my iPhone when I switched and I have to re-set-up everything after a factory reset as well. You are lucky if you just use it the way it comes set to factory defaults!

 

[Angi Bellingar]

I didn't get ANYTHING transferred over from my iPhone when I switched and I have to re-set-up everything after a factory reset as well. You are lucky if you just use it the way it comes set to factory defaults!

My quick connect is always on and I can't seem to turn it off either. Also, I have stopped all the processes and they keep coming back as well... so frustrating! My iPhone never did this stuff... Did I just pick a bad time to convert??

 

[Wayren]

Issue continues. Done caring. I am so over this piece of crap. Support doesn't have any idea what it is or how to support it the three times I've contacted them now. I'm never buying a Samsung phone ever again.

 

[GWaLL13]

Issue continues. Done caring. I am so over this piece of crap. Support doesn't have any idea what it is or how to support it the three times I've contacted them now. I'm never buying a Samsung phone ever again.

Agree that Samsung support is trash, but don't give up on the product, since my post, I have noticed significantly better battery life. This is what I did:
-Disabled quick connect
-Disabled hangouts, print services and any carrier services (in my case, any T-Mobile service or bloatware)
-turned power saving mode on to only restrict performance (cpu performance and screen output)
-turn off all air gestures
-turned off all moron gestures except for swipe screen capture
-disable S voice on double pressing the home button
-the only notification icons turned on are wifi (when available), screen rotation and sync
-use a dark wallpaper for both home screen and lock screen
-keep the screen brightness down when you can (mine is usually always lower than 25% except for when I'm outdoors or watching a YouTube video.)
-lastly, close out of any programs that you're not using for a while

Hope this helps out a bit...

I started this past Saturday at 9am with 100%, used the phone's gps all day when driving, used the camera while at a wedding, made calls and sent texts, got back home around 10pm and still had over 30% battery left.

-via Android Central App on GWaLL's S5

 

[Joseph Piette]

Well I thought that my reset worked, but now it is doing it again! It only happens in certain places (like my office at work), and if I turn off location and wifi it resolves the issue. Still very frustrating though.

 

[Joseph Piette]

Just out of curiosity, how would it take you 2 hours to set up your phone after a factory reset? After I did a factory reset it took me less than 5 minutes.

Widgets, settings, menu screen, etc... I customize quite a bit.

 

[Joseph Piette]

I got a Firmware Update this morning that might have fixed the issue. I know I have said this before... but it's been on for 8.5 hours today with normal usage, and I'm still in the mid 80s on battery with no "quick connect" to be found. (I'm on Tmobile, btw)

Anyone else get the update and see improvements?

 

[Dramer77]

No update for me on att, my gs5 did this to me tonight while at a orioles game.. First time and I've had mine since launch... I dunno how it popped up or anything