Galaxy S6 Guide

Galaxy S6 Smart Manager

What is Samsung Galaxy S6 Smart Manager?

The Galaxy S6 Smart Manager provides an overview of the status of your device’s battery, storage, RAM, and system security.

You can also automatically optimize the device with one tap of your finger

Please note, part of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Smart Manager actually is actually from Clean Master, a popular Android app in mass, but infamous in geek world.

There are 4 components in Galaxy S6 Smart Manager:

  1. Battery.  Actually it is just a link to Settings— Battery.
  2. Storage. This part is from Clean Master. This can help you clean some junk files. Actually, this is the only useful part of Clean Master.
  3. RAM. This part is from Clean Master. It is supposed to close apps to make Galaxy S6 faster. But it won’t! This is the useless and misleading part. Android does NOT need this. Do NOT  use this feature. It will slow down your Galaxy S6 and may cause battery drain.  If you want to make sure the apps are in proper state, try to install Greenify.
  4. Security. This actually McAfee Mobile Security & Antivirus. Again, this probably is a useless  feature for Android. But if you have the habit of getting dubious files or apps from internet or unknown sources, this “may” slightly help you. But do not expect too much.

How to use Galaxy S6 Smart Manager?

You can find Galaxy S6 Smart Manager in Apps screen.

Tap Smart Manager as shown below in apps screen will open the app.

For Galaxy S6 Smart Manager, my recommendation for you is to use only 2 (two features): battery and storage.

You should NEVER use RAM or Clean All as shown below. It unlikely helps your Galaxy S6.

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How to use Galaxy S6 Smart Manager to check battery usage?

As mentioned, the battery feature in Galaxy S6 Smart Manager is only a link to Settings— Battery.

It allows you to check the remaining battery power and time to use Galaxy S6.  If needed, you can conserve battery power by activating power saving features and closing apps that are
consuming an excessive amount of battery power.

The usage time left shows the time remaining before the battery power runs out. Usage time left may vary depending on your Galaxy S6 settings and operating
conditions. It is very inaccurate.

When the phone is being charged, it will show estimated remaining charging time.

You can tap Battery Usage as shown below to get the graphic of battery drain and predicated (less accurate than weather forecasting) drain. But it gives you a very rough idea when to charge Galaxy S6 battery.

The battery usage page also list the battery usage by different apps.

Of Course, Galaxy S6 Smart Manager may also report abnormal battery usage by certain bad apps.

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How to use Galaxy S6 Smart Manager to clean junk files?

Galaxy S6 Smart Manager can check the status of used and available storage capacity. You can delete unused and junk
files or uninstall apps that you do not use any more.

Because of lack of SD card support,  you will find your storage is running low very quickly.

In the Storage page of Galaxy S6 Smart Manager, you will find how the storage is used. You can tap Detail to drill down the storage usage for your Galaxy S6 or S6 edge.

You can also tap DELETE as shown below to clean unnecessary files, including cache, and ghost files. Please note, the cache will be rebuilt when the app is launch again. So this will not increase too much usable storage for you.

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Why you should NOT use Galaxy S6 Smart Manager RAM Manager?

I don’t want to write a lengthy paragraph to show you how Android manages RAM.

The quick answer is: unnecessary.

Android has arguably the best RAM management system. Using RAM optimization in Galaxy S6 Smart Manager will just mess up the system.

Can you use Galaxy S6 Smart Manager now?

If you have any questions on using  Galaxy S6 Smart Manager, please let us know them in the comment box below.

We will try to help you.

For other features of Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 online manual page.

For detailed guides on how to use Samsung Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 how-to guides page.



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Comments

  1. Hello,

    i’m not expert at all about smartphones and galaxy s6 flat is my first smartphone: as a consequence, installed both clean master and clean master antivirus, and i often tap on clean the ram and on optimize the device and even on tap boost while using the clean master app.

    before clean master app i used to use smart manager app and i used to clean the ram as well with it

    does it means that i’m messing up the system of my device? (i’m keeping on doing this many times a day for 1 month and a half)

    should i uninstall clean master and clean master antivirus and restart to use smart manager in the way described in this guide?

    thank you!

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  2. thank you!

    i’ve already uninstalled both antivirus and clean master.

    how can i understand if one or more apps often awake my device?

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  3. Ok, i just didn’t understand “STAY AWAKE”

    I tapped on battery usage and then on google play store (which is often on the firts positions of battery usage); it showed me:

    CPU TOTAL 38sec

    CPU FOREGROUND 38 sec

    MOBILE DATA RECEIVED 45218

    MOBILE DATA SENT 13126

    MOBILE RADIO ACTIVE 11m 54s

    I haven’t seen “STAY AWAKE”

    Anyway greenify always tells me that no apps need to hybernate. It just tells me sometimes that airdroid (that i haven’t used yet) can slow down my device.

    What does this means?

    Thank you! 🙂

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  4. ok, i’m starting to understand something 😛

    but which of the items i listed above concurs with “Stay awake”?

    my only, but recently quite frequent, battery issue is that sometimes my phone gets quite hot sometimes after using internet with 4G more than 30 mins, or, most of times, after downloading/ installing/ upgrading/ uninstalling apps, or, sometimes, even when i modify the position of the apps in the app page or in the home page for 10-15 mins.

    Once the device is hot, the battery drains faster than usual (kinda 1% less every 5 minutes if i keep on using it while it’s hot)

    In the next days i’ll search some info about how to use greenify.

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    • CPU total minus CPU foreground to get the duration of the app running in background. During this period, even your screen is off, your Galaxy S6 is awake. But the duration is meaningless if it is less than a few hours.

      of course, this is rough estimation because some apps need some background processes (e.g., downloading files). Some other tools can give you the number. But again, you don’t need them unless you have battery problems. Don’t try to solve a problem that is not existing.

      For “hot”, it is subjective. It depends on the ambient temperature and the operations. If Galaxy S6 does not slow down, you probably should not worry about it unless it is too hot to hold.

      1% every 5 min is actually quite good if you are using the phone. If you can get 4+ hours screen time, there probably are no battery issues at all.

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  5. ok, finally got it! thanks! 🙂

    well, with hot, luckily, i didn’t mean i couldn’t hold it, but it was quite hot anyway (i these situations, it becomes cold again after a little time if i stop using it at all)

    maybe battery looses 1% every 2-3 mins; i haven’t checked it very well actually, i’ll check it better next time.

    the phone anyway doesn’t slow down.

    i’m only always concerned about how fast the battery usually drains when i use the device (expecially when using internet or other apps, but also when taking pictures or videos, or even when watching photos already saved):

    do you think this is normal because of the very high pixel definition of the screen and because of the just 2550 mah battery, as they often say?

    Final question: i have downloaded WAZE gps app: do you know if it (or in general gps apps) drains a big amount of battery if i use it during a whole long travel (e. g. 3 hours driving)?

    Thank you very much! 🙂

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    • The battery life really depends on the usage and signal strength. The QHD does consume considerable battery. But the amled screen saves some battery compared to other lcd screen.

      Normally, most users get 4+ hours screen time. So, it’s usually enough for one day usage.

      GPS (and navigation app) always drains battery fast. It can roughly last 3 hours. But you can use car charger when using it for a long journey.

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      • interesting!

        i’ve always asked myself if the signal strenght drains battery: i often read about many people complaining about their low signal, and this is a situation similar to mineone because when i tap on BATTERY USAGE i always read a high level of CELL STANDBY (which is never lower than 4%, but in this moment is 7% for exemple)

        i don’t understand if it’s due to the fact i rarely use internet and the device in general (so that the percentage of battery drain by other items is always very low), or i have a real signal issue

        anyway i try to keep gsm network (in order to avoid an extra job by the device to find the 4G signal) since i rarely use internet with galaxy s6 during the day, but the percentage of the cell standby is always at the second place in the list of battery usage.

        now on the 1st position there is ANDROID OS (battery used by applications) which tells that CPU TOTAL is 13m,16s and STAY AWAKE is 16m, 27s (but i’m not worried since, as you teached me i have to take afeter it only if the level reaches at least a few hours 🙂 )

        Finally about the car charger: is there any specific car charger for galaxy s6 or any charger is suitable?

        I have no car charger.

        Thank you!

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  6. do you think the signal strenght depends on the place where i am or on the carrier or on the network of my country (italy). they say that in Italy 4g network hasn’t growth enough yet, or that in italy there aren’t systems suitable to support it well, or smth like that.

    thank you for all! 🙂 🙂

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  10. i just bought the phone yesterday and didnt installed any new app till now…but the device security is showing threat found and asking to restart the phone.even after restarting it’s showing the same.what to do??

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  11. I have the128GB S6 edge. I know the S6 has 3GB of RAM, but is there any screen on the phone that says Total RAM 3GB? I see under Storage it says Total Space 128GB and gives a breakdown of what’s used. The closest thing I can find for RAM is under Application Manager>Running. There it gives a breakdown of RAM usage but says nothing about Total RAM. This came up when telling a friend about the phone and I went to show him the Total RAM and was surprised not to find it.

    One more question. When trying to leave a comment on this site using my phone or tablet, typing is difficult because duplicate words or characters will just pop up, Why is that?

    Thank you for your hard work in maintaining this great site.

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  12. My phone does not have the smart manager installed. Are there any other apps like this which are safe to use?

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  14. Yes I did but not any more. It’s look like it is but if I will press and hold the button the massage is from security log agent. I have deleted the 360 security that I had restarted the phone after that clean the cache in both SLA and SM and the massage sill is popping out.

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  15. I have done the factory data reset. And the massage pop out anyhow. And I even clean the cache in booth apps and nothing. I’m really in a dot now.

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  16. Yes I’m sure I have done it properly. This massage pop out 10 min after i have finished seting up my phone. I have only updated the apps that I have already on my phone, 1min later it pop out.

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  18. This thing is seriously bugging me. Every day when I’m using Google Maps to navigate, I get huge notification messages every five minutes or so at inopportune moments asking if I want to delete unnecessary data. The notification message completely covers the screen. There is no way to disable notifications or select don’t ask me again for this. I don’t see the messages at any other time than when I’m using Goggle Maps.

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  19. How do I disable this app? I can’t find the “disable” button or “uninstall” button on app manager. I get messages every 3 seconds (not making this up!) to tell me an app is using too much battery. total rubbish and this has only started in the last 24 hours. Driving me insane!!!! I did not ask for this app and I want to remove it. Thanks for your help in advance!

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  20. My SmartManager keeps notifying me that a particular game is causing the device to slow blah blah blah. So annoying you cannot uninstall easily or even turn of notifications!

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  22. I have galaxy s6 edge plus and it does not have a smart manager app or task manger , does the plus even come with a smart manager?

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  24. i have bought galaxy grand prime. i didn’t see any ‘smart manager’ in the apps menu. it suddenly appeared yesterday when i turned on my phone. is smart manager really embedded or was it some virus in disguise of an app that i may have unknowingly downloaded?

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  27. Why is Samsung resorting to forcing us to use unwanted apps ? They are not even offering us the option to disable or delete it. Out of four features provided, two of them are useless and redundant. In the garb of ” software updates ” they have resorted to bundling this app in our phones without giving us the option to decline the offer. Shame on Samsung

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    • Probably just for the sake of money. A lot of app publishers are willing to pay money to Android vendors to preinstall their apps.

      Smart manager is even worse because Samsung branded it as a Samsung product AND mark it as an essential app so that it cannot be disabled.

      You can also see more annoying M$ apps on most Android phones.

      Anyway, if you hate such bloatware, you can try Nexus and Moto devices. They are very clean.

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      • Thank you for your reply. I am using a Samsung Galaxy Note Edge with stock rom. I got this useless ” freebee ” with the recent software update ~ 5.0.1. I agree with you. Samsung is famous for forcing bloatware on its users. Seems they earn more money from App Publishers than they from the total turnover of Mobile Phones.
        Really sad !!
        One of the main reasons why people resort to rooting their phones is primarily this ~ the easiest way to get rid of bloatware On the one hand they give you 2.71 GB of Ram and on the other, a host of apps which we never use, which are eating into the memory. Why can’t they offer a choice of what we want, and what we can refuse?

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      • You’re kidding, right? Nexus doesn’t have bloatware? Then what do you call a Nexus 7 tablet with 28 Google Apps on it, pre-installed with no option to uninstall (I choose not to disable, prefer uninstall). I love my Android devices, but that Nexus is the worst I’ve ever had for this issue.

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  28. I had a software update on my phone and smart manager has appeared. When my alarm goes off it plays for literally 2 seconds then goes off because the screen needs unlocking. I am going to be late for work
    When I have done clear cache clear data force stop, it is running again within 5 minutes .

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  31. I have Smart Manager 5.0.1 in my Galaxy S4 and it does include a feature within the Battery section that doesn’t figure in your article nor in your images. It’s called App Optimisation (“Save battery power by optimising the battery usage of your apps”). It runs automatically every once in a while, but I’m not sure how it works. Do you have an opinion on it?

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  33. Mr. Simon U answered lots of questions so I don’t need to ask anymore but I would like to say thank you for your precious time that u spent on this site. I do appreciate your effort. Thank you

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  34. How can I erase this app from my phone .it has access and permission to all my content without any permission .and can change setting and make calls and has access to my microphone and camera without permission

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  36. Hello,

    I’ve got an S6 Edge and my Device Security is CONTINUOUSLY scanning the device for threats, non stop. It hasn’t stopped for weeks. Any idea why and how i can make it stop? I’ve gone into the Smart Manager and i try to click on the blue shield to see if it gives me options, but it just continues scanning. I keep getting notification of it on the home screen.

    Any advice?

    Thanks

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  37. Hi,
    I have samung j7 with smart manager and it always said “scanning device for threats” and it will running background and unable to stop my app manager too. Pls help me to solve this.

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  38. I cleaned my ram by mistake earlier today and it deleted half my photos. Any help with restoring them??? Have to S5 and just did the May 2016 update/

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  40. The situation could be frustrating and can go a long way to slowing down your system’s speed. What do you do at this time? There is need to delete those unnecessary files.

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  42. I wish i had reviewed posts before i had optimised my s6. It appears i have deleted 2 yrs of photo’s by cleaning storage files. Any ideas if possible at all to recover ?

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