why does my VZW s7 batteru drain so quickly?

[chanchan05]

Android system seems too high for some reason. Have you done a system cache wipe?

 

[Seth Mishne]

No I am not comfortable doing that as I am afraid I will accidently factory reset my device by mistake.

 

[chanchan05]

No I am not comfortable doing that as I am afraid I will accidently factory reset my device by mistake.

Well that's the only known fix for the runaway Android system AFAIK.

 

[turbochgd]

Do those apps require you to be rooted at all.

No