Ultimate Battery Saving Guide For All Android Devices - Part Four - Power Nap & AppOpsXposed
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Power Nap for Xposed is the SONY's stamina mod for non-Sony devices.When your screen is off, Power Nap maximizes your device's deep sleep time by stopping services, alarms and wakelocks from waking the device when the screen is off.You can get notification from the apps you've whitelisted.
NOTE: In order to download the app you need to join the alpha testers community in Google+ here and opt to become a tester.Then you'll be able to download and run the module
NB:XDA Thread for PowerNap is closed down due to lack of activity from the developer.
Set the Endurance Mode to Always ON.
You can use Power Nap along with Greenify and Amplify for a better sleep time.You have whitelist both Greenify and Amplify for proper working of both the modules.
If you need certain apps to run in background while screen off(eg:Instant Messengers),you have to whitelist them in Power Nap.
List of apps to be whitelisted:
- Amplify
- AndroidSystem
- BetterBatteryStats
- Cyanogenmod System
- GooglePlayServices (Optional)
- Google Services Framework (Optional)
- Google Account Manager (Optional)
- Greenify
- Greenify Donation Package
- Trebuchet
- Xposed Framework
AppOps is a permission manager in android.There are various versions of AppOps available in the PlayStore.I recommend the one linked with Xposed.(You can also use CyanogenMod Privacy Guard).
You can use Privacy Guard to disable some permissions of Google Play Services and Google Services Framework
Navigate to Settings->Hacks->Check FIX OP_WAKE_LOCK
Disable the following Permissions of Google Play Services using AppOps
- OP_ALARM_WAKEUP/Wake Up
- Keep Awake
- Keep Awake