trying to figure out what it is.
It's sucking a lot of power on my evo.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+gp_timer
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+gp_timer
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http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=android+gp_timer
So anyone want to answer the question now...
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Did you try this yourself first? The first link on there is this thread.
It's funny this post is the first result returned...
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lol i guess that went over your head, it was a joke...
seriously though, i have no idea what it is and i was just posting that up as a joke since this thread was the first thing that came up on the search. best of luck in finding out what it is though my man.
So....what is it? Aside from itself. It we define "gp_timer" as "gp_timer", we will obviously be correct, but this seems insufficient an answer as it does not further a true understanding of what gp_timer truly entails. Is it a timer? Is it a general practitioner? What does it do and why does it cause between 33 and 60% of wake ups as reported by powertop?
I have the same thing showing up in powertop on my mt3g with CM6.1(nightly)
According to the top of the kernel source code
It's "OMAP2 GP timer support."
Which after some more Google got me this showing that the GP stands for general purpose and it can be used to capture wireless frames.
Basically it's a probably a bit of code that will be polling hardware continuously to see if anything interesting happened. If it does then it can wake up something to handle that.
Main question is if it would still work if it was set to poll half as often, which could help with standby battery life. I'm guessing no, otherwise it would have been set to less.
It might also only be running as often as it is, because your connected to the phone checking the power usage...
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I recently got my Droid Incredible and while researching I came across many topics on google about the "battery bug" in which various sites and forum posts report that the dinc doesn't charge all the way when it is turned on. There have been many supposed workarounds to get around the issue, which you guys probably already know, mostly involves turning off the phone after the phone reports that it is charged to 100%.
In any case, I was searching around this board and didn't find to much topics about this here, granted I only searched up to February. Does the bug actually exist or is it the battery management function that drains that falsely reports the 100% that I read in another topic here?
But suppose that it is real, are there any permanent fixes to this issue, such as through custom roms and/or kernals?
Sorry if this has been asked (a million times) before. Thought I'd get the best answer by creating a new topic. Thanks for the read.
Here's a big part of the info you're looking for...Your batter gauge is lying to you...
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Here's a big part of the info you're looking for...Your batter gauge is lying to you...
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Ahhh, this is what I get for skimming. I didn't read the latter part of the post. Thank you for this. Now I will go hang my head in shame.
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Here's a big part of the info you're looking for...Your batter gauge is lying to you...
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Thanks for the link, I will definitely sit down and read it next time I'm on the throne.
Just so I don't completely waste this topic, I'll ask my other question here: If I got a replacement for my dinc, how likely is it going to have some bad backlight bleeding? The one I have right now bleeds noticeably from the top and a little from the bottom.
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Just so I don't completely waste this topic, I'll ask my other question here: If I got a replacement for my dinc, how likely is it going to have some bad backlight bleeding? The one I have right now bleeds noticeably from the top and a little from the bottom.
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If that is your only problem I wouldn't recommend playing the roulette game that is Verizon's Certified Like New program. There is little to no quality control and I managed to get 2 Incredibles that were completely unusable before finally getting one that worked at all.
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If that is your only problem I wouldn't recommend playing the roulette game that is Verizon's Certified Like New program. There is little to no quality control and I managed to get 2 Incredibles that were completely unusable before finally getting one that worked at all.
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Wait, they don't give you a new replacement? I'm still within in 14 day return period if that makes any difference.
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Wait, they don't give you a new replacement? I'm still within in 14 day return period if that makes any difference.
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Hmm, I'm actually not sure about that situation, I would demand it if I were you. But I can promise if you get outside of the 14 day return period you won't get anything but used, and a little light leakage is nothing compared to what you might end up with.
Ok so Im posting in the DEV section because this only happen with AOSP Roms what the heck is the deal with the High Android System usage I have confirmed this issue doesnt happen until you have use the phone to make or receive calls. EVERY single GB AOSP ROM I try to love has this issue. I have seen that rolling back your PRI will work..ok then my question is why dont you see this in Sense ROMs. I would love to know the REASON this is happening so any Devs that have been seeing this can you enlighten me/us??
TIA
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This did the trick for me: settings<privacy<uncheck "Back up my data."
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Q&A is where this should be... wrong section
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Ok Fred, thx for the insite...., no wonder all the Devs have fired up their own Forums.
Im sure Glad people like you stand ready to do NOTHING but make yourself feel better with worthless responses like that.
azfxstb said:
Ok Fred, thx for the insite...., no wonder all the Devs have fired up their own Forums.
Im sure Glad people like you stand ready to do NOTHING but make yourself feel better with worthless responses like that.
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Yup, following the rules makes people feel good usually.
Next, I'll point you to this post, to backup the point of this needing to be in Q&A: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12701583&postcount=10
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This did the trick for me: settings<privacy<uncheck "Back up my data."
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I tried that, didn't help. I still get it sometimes as high as 80%. Geting a replacement as alot of ppl don't have this happen and I've tried everything and then some.
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clap clap clap wow Im dazed by your depth of knowledge
I'm going to be completely ignorant and just tell you this:
Wrong Section.
;D
jk if they eat up too much battery don't use them? Try a different kernel?
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jk if they eat up too much battery don't use them? Try a different kernel?
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Tried many kernels,every flavor of AOSP Roms, rolled back the PRI and NV no change. Its painfully obvious nobody really knowns a dam thing for FACT as to why this happens. Oh well back to Sense Roms till its figured out.
MODS delete move change who cares what ever makes yah feel better.
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Ok so Im posting in the DEV section because this only happen with AOSP Roms what the heck is the deal with the High Android System usage I have confirmed this issue doesnt happen until you have use the phone to make or receive calls. EVERY single GB AOSP ROM I try to love has this issue. I have seen that rolling back your PRI will work..ok then my question is why dont you see this in Sense ROMs. I would love to know the REASON this is happening so any Devs that have been seeing this can you enlighten me/us??
TIA
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You might have your governor set to performance or something. Try flashing a custom kernal and set your governor to smartass with a min of 245 and a max of 960 or something similar like that. I was getting the same result you're properly getting where it seem like my system was over heating and draining my battery like crazy and this worked like a charm! Also, go to settings/accounts & sync/ and uncheck background data because that also drains your battery like crazy too!
Oh and it this helps, I'm running CM7 RC4 with Tiamat's 3.3.4 SBC kernal
Hope this has helped and don't let the idiots bother you dude!
I have been working with Barnicles on this very same issue . Some phones suffer from it others dont . Example I just finished talking to my mom for 30 mins . My "Android System" usage is now sitting at 85% , voice calls at 12% , cell Standby at 2% , Wifi at 2% and phone idle at 2% . Him and I believe it is something in the settings of GB that either records it incorrectly or is relabeling the usage incorrectly . I have tried it all myself from upgrading my pri to 1.90 , downgrading to 1.77 . I have tried different kernels and had no effect . I have tried turning off everything and disabling all apps no effect . We are still working on it but I dont have alot of expierence with reading and writting script , so hes mostly on that end while Im on this end trying different combinations of things to see if I can reduce it if not eliminate it . So far it seems to be pointing in the direction of either the frame work or the actual scripting . Like I said its a work in progress . Also i have tried almost all of the GB roms out there personally and they all suffer from this same issue . It makes me believe it is indeed part of the coding somewhere .
You battery probably just hates you for posting in the wrong section because of some misguided reasoning and then being an ass about it when someone calls you out.
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then being an ass about it when someone calls you out.
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Thank you for point out my flaws... DILLIGAF
Got the shirt
@southern Thank you for some real info
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Thank you for point out my flaws...
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Any time bro. Try reading next time.
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You battery probably just hates you for posting in the wrong section because of some misguided reasoning and then being an ass about it when someone calls you out.
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I can confirm that problem too! Batteries have been known to hate their stupid owners, especially ones that don't know how to read!...hahahahahaha
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Hope this has helped and don't let the idiots bother you dude!
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Thanks for the suggestions, pretty much have tried all that at some point. I think SouthernEVO is on the same line of thinking as I am it seems to be a GB issue. Wonder if the Nexus S suffers the same issue.
As to the "idiots" takes alot more than these gooobs to bother me. I rather enjoy it to be honest. Funny thing is unlike most of the keyboard commandos here Im the same in RL as here, RULES??? FUG the rules! MAKE THEM DON'T FOLLOW THEM.... LFFL
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Hope this has helped and don't let the idiots bother you dude!
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Only idiots are ones who can't understand basic rules. Oh, and those who defend their ignorance.
I havnt seen anyone complain that their battery life is effected. I have high android system usage too but I still get great battery life.
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I havnt seen anyone complain that their battery life is effected. I have high android system usage too but I still get great battery life.
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Once I start seeing the High Android System usage my Battery life falls on its face.
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Thanks for the suggestions, pretty much have tried all that at some point. I think SouthernEVO is on the same line of thinking as I am it seems to be a GB issue. Wonder if the Nexus S suffers the same issue.
As to the "idiots" takes alot more than these gooobs to bother me. I rather enjoy it to be honest. Funny thing is unlike most of the keyboard commandos here Im the same in RL as here, RULES??? FUG the rules! MAKE THEM DON'T FOLLOW THEM.... LFFL
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I have checked out the Nexus S forums . Most seem to complain of Display and cell stand by being the major drains on battery life . None have really complained of high android system usage . Our issue here in the HTC EVO realm seems to be its more of a cosmetic issue . Battery life doesnt seem to be impacted by it . Its still odd I can have the phone , text , surf the web , facebook and everything but when I make a phone call Android system skyrockets to the top . Maybe initially it isnt registering Android system usage at first and for some reason a call being made triggers it to appear . Not sure just been guessing at this
I noticed that there would sometimes (50% chance) that there will be a noticeable 1 second delay when pushing the power button and when the display actually turns on. It's annoying because sometimes i'll want to check the time, and i'll push the button as i'm taking it out of my pocket only to be met with a black display still.
i tried turning off the pattern lock thinkng that was it but still having the same problem.
i'm completely stock.
No delay here...when I press the power button, my display comes on instantly.
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I noticed that there would sometimes (50% chance) that there will be a noticeable 1 second delay when pushing the power button and when the display actually turns on. It's annoying because sometimes i'll want to check the time, and i'll push the button as i'm taking it out of my pocket only to be met with a black display still.
i tried turning off the pattern lock thinkng that was it but still having the same problem.
i'm completely stock.
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This had already been discussed id you remove your sdcard the delay will go away.
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***** here about the 2 second loss of time in your life.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265716
Did you really just say 1 sec???? Lol really. If your Checking the time I doubt 1 sec is that annoying!
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***** here about the 2 second loss of time in your life..
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Still thread ****ting on every topic about the delay?
Its obvious why the delay doesn't bother you; you already have too much time on your hands.
Otherwise, it's an obvious flaw in the phone. Why don't you let other people worry about their own lives and how many seconds are wasted.
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Did you really just say 1 sec???? Lol really. If your Checking the time I doubt 1 sec is that annoying!
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1 second is annoying when YOU'RE used to the display coming on instantly.
thanks for the link, i'll check it out.
yes its terrible anyone have a fix to this yet
If it's because of the SD card, trying increasing the SD Card Read Ahead Buffer. It can be built into the kernel or changed with a few market apps, or even a script. It'll also make photos/videos/anything from the SD card load faster.
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Still thread ****ting on every topic about the delay?
Its obvious why the delay doesn't bother you; you already have too much time on your hands.
Otherwise, it's an obvious flaw in the phone. Why don't you let other people worry about their own lives and how many seconds are wasted.
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Aren't we touchy! As long as people keep making threads about it , yes I will still state my opinion on the matter just like you are...have a good day sir.
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***** here about the 2 second loss of time in your life.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265716
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That's what I was thinking, who cares. Now that I check mine has the same thing, I never noticed and I really don't give a **** to try and "fix" this.. lol
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That's what I was thinking, who cares. Now that I check mine has the same thing, I never noticed and I really don't give a **** to try and "fix" this.. lol
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Amen brother...
Isn't this forum built for people who want to get the most of their devices? If everyone just decided things were 'good enough' you wouldn't have devs here writing custom kernels and ROMs. If the issue doesn't bother you then don't bother posting in the thread. And if you absolutely must, don't be a douche about it.
OT: I noticed it too. This is my first smartphone, but it stood out. I assumed it was normal. It's not huge, but I definitely wouldn't mind a fix that didn't require abandoning my SD card.
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Isn't this forum built for people who want to get the most of their devices? If everyone just decided things were 'good enough' you wouldn't have devs here writing custom kernels and ROMs. If the issue doesn't bother you then don't bother posting in the thread. And if you absolutely must, don't be a douche about it.
OT: I noticed it too. This is my first smartphone, but it stood out. I assumed it was normal. It's not huge, but I definitely wouldn't mind a fix that didn't require abandoning my SD card.
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Agreed, especially since it's a 32GB card and it's transferable between phones...
Screen lags reminds me of pre-pay gas purchases.
The last 2cents always take forever to complete.
Sycobob said:
Isn't this forum built for people who want to get the most of their devices? If everyone just decided things were 'good enough' you wouldn't have devs here writing custom kernels and ROMs. If the issue doesn't bother you then don't bother posting in the thread. And if you absolutely must, don't be a douche about it.
OT: I noticed it too. This is my first smartphone, but it stood out. I assumed it was normal. It's not huge, but I definitely wouldn't mind a fix that didn't require abandoning my SD card.
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This is your first smartphone and it stood out to you? I have had 15 smartphones and would have never noticed it until someone mentioned it. Like I said, I don't see this as an issue so I will speak my peace as you can to..we agree to disagree and just because we don't see it your way doesn't make us a douche....sorry for the loss of time in your life I'm...oh ****!...I missed the Andy Rooney farewell on 60 minutes because I couldn't get the time on my phone because it came up 2 seconds too late!
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This is your first smartphone and it stood out to you? I have had 15 smartphones and would have never noticed it until someone mentioned it. Like I said, I don't see this as an issue so I will speak my peace as you can to..we agree to disagree and just because we don't see it your way doesn't make us a douche....sorry for the loss of time in your life I'm...oh ****!...I missed the Andy Rooney farewell on 60 minutes because I couldn't get the time on my phone because it came up 2 seconds too late!
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It's not a HUGE issue, but it is something that should be fixed.
In fact, just to move things forward, I tried increasing the SD Read Ahead Buffer with an app "SD Card Booster" or some name like that, which doesn't decrease the speed of the screen coming on, but does drastically cause photos and other things to load faster when you, say, open the Gallery. That was expected though. We used to increase it on the OG Evo.
Ive owned a few smartphones noticed ET lag after 3rd wake up.
First thing I thought of was Sprint Blackberry curve 8330-M.
It did the same thing drove me crazy lol
I tell you what...take your phone back to Sprint and tell them you have a 2 second lag and see what they say...maybe you can get a new phone...its obviously a defect...
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I tell you what...take your phone back to Sprint and tell them you have a 2 second lag and see what they say...maybe you can get a new phone...its obviously a defect...
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Its not hardware defect....its software related thus Sprint will push you out the door no new phone in hand with chuckles from rep.
Will update to fix issue come?
Never! so those that think samsung gives a care you better think twice.
Oh I forgot,
My HP Ipaq 6515 had wake up lag with SD card as well
I've had this tablet for more than a week now and for some reason the battery always skips percentages in the same spots like from 83 to 81 or 80-77 and it happens randomly after that. I get decent battery life but I just wanna know why this happens or if there's a fix for this..?
My question to you is how you even noticed this... Do you sit and watch the battery go down?
lol use battery doctor let it trickle charge the battery and then monitor it.. should fix the issue.
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My question to you is how you even noticed this... Do you sit and watch the battery go down?
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Uh no, I watched it happen once and I thought it was no big deal, and then I saw it happening again so I decided to ask
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Uh no, I watched it happen once and I thought it was no big deal, and then I saw it happening again so I decided to ask
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Not trying to be a ****, just wondering how someone even notices that lol.
I'm pretty sure there are issues with correct battery information being shown with the Nexus 7. Regardless, I don't think it's anything to worry about it.
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Not trying to be a ****, just wondering how someone even notices that lol.
I'm pretty sure there are issues with correct battery information being shown with the Nexus 7. Regardless, I don't think it's anything to worry about it.
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Lol, it's alright I was just wondering why it was happening, but thanks anyway
Ok I know this question has been asked so many times but I have searched and read and read and then read some more but I can't find a real answer. I used to go more than 4 days on a single charge with minimal phone usage but then I updated to 4.2.2 (kk) and noticed a significant amount of loss in battery life. A couple of days later, the batt was back to normal however I got another update (whatever the hell that was supposed to do) and since then (a couple of weeks now) my phone barely lasts 2 days with barely even making one phone call. When I check the batt. usage I don't see anything that's more than 25%. (Cell standby for example is 23%). Anything I can do?
Also, after the update, the sidebar thing (I'm not sure if that's what it's called but it's the menu you get when you press and hold the return button) is no longer there. What happened to it?
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Ok I know this question has been asked so many times but I have searched and read and read and then read some more but I can't find a real answer. I used to go more than 4 days on a single charge with minimal phone usage but then I updated to 4.2.2 (kk) and noticed a significant amount of loss in battery life. A couple of days later, the batt was back to normal however I got another update (whatever the hell that was supposed to do) and since then (a couple of weeks now) my phone barely lasts 2 days with barely even making one phone call. When I check the batt. usage I don't see anything that's more than 25%. (Cell standby for example is 23%). Anything I can do?
Also, after the update, the sidebar thing (I'm not sure if that's what it's called but it's the menu you get when you press and hold the return button) is no longer there. What happened to it?
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Spoken to samsung/your carrier about their update? (assuming you're using stock)
Tried another battery?
There simply isn't any reason or excuse for creating yet another battery usage topic. What anybody will say here has already been said and discussed. You can also just reply to one of those topics. We do not need another as it just adds to the already diluted forums.
Electroman365 said:
Ok I know this question has been asked so many times but I have searched and read and read and then read some more but I can't find a real answer. I used to go more than 4 days on a single charge with minimal phone usage but then I updated to 4.2.2 (kk) and noticed a significant amount of loss in battery life. A couple of days later, the batt was back to normal however I got another update (whatever the hell that was supposed to do) and since then (a couple of weeks now) my phone barely lasts 2 days with barely even making one phone call. When I check the batt. usage I don't see anything that's more than 25%. (Cell standby for example is 23%). Anything I can do?
Also, after the update, the sidebar thing (I'm not sure if that's what it's called but it's the menu you get when you press and hold the return button) is no longer there. What happened to it?
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Hello there, here I am to help you out, not to tell you off or scold you. Hope no one banned me for this jaja. well so let's begining. I found something interesting concerning to battery draining starting from kitkat. The first one is "media scanner" it drains a lot of battery, so if you use dr ketang you can handle this, or if you don't want to use dr ketang just install his apk + security settings -obviously rooted device- (to get it working good - available in playstore too) and there you got something good. My next step is just research for android system usage, that is high on kitkat custom sammy roms, don't think this happens on the aosp (not sure). so I hope this is useful for you. :highfive:
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Spoken to samsung/your carrier about their update? (assuming you're using stock)
Tried another battery?
There simply isn't any reason or excuse for creating yet another battery usage topic. What anybody will say here has already been said and discussed. You can also just reply to one of those topics. We do not need another as it just adds to the already diluted forums.
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No thanks for the no help. No one twisted your hand to reply. Like they say, if you have nothing good to say, then don't say nothing at all. But if you bothered to read, there's was another part to my question that was NOT related to the battery draining thing. You guys think it's being smart when you parrot the same words.
Austtin said:
Hello there, here I am to help you out, not to tell you off or scold you. Hope no one banned me for this jaja. well so let's begining. I found something interesting concerning to battery draining starting from kitkat. The first one is "media scanner" it drains a lot of battery, so if you use dr ketang you can handle this, or if you don't want to use dr ketang just install his apk + security settings -obviously rooted device- (to get it working good - available in playstore too) and there you got something good. My next step is just research for android system usage, that is high on kitkat custom sammy roms, don't think this happens on the aosp (not sure). so I hope this is useful for you. :highfive:
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Thanks austtin. I don't really know anything about that ketang thing. No my phone isn't rooted. But thanks anyway. At least you tried instead of being rude like the guy above.
Electroman365 said:
No thanks for the no help. No one twisted your hand to reply.
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The saying is "arm" not "hand".
Electroman365 said:
Like they say, if you have nothing good to say, then don't say nothing at all.
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I did have something good to say, I told you how to post correctly and search instead of just diluting forum with your duplicate posts/questions. You will get your answer more quickly by actually reading instead of creating duplicate posts and waiting to be spoon fed.
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But if you bothered to read, there's was another part to my question that was NOT related to the battery draining thing.
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Yes and that question has already been answered on forum. Info is theer if you look.
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You guys think it's being smart when you parrot the same words.
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No, we find it annoying when newbies create duplicate topics/questions and "parrot same words".
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The saying is "arm" not "hand".
I did have something good to say, I told you how to post correctly and search instead of just diluting forum with your duplicate posts/questions. You will get your answer more quickly by actually reading instead of creating duplicate posts and waiting to be spoon fed.
Yes and that question has already been answered on forum. Info is theer if you look.
No, we find it annoying when newbies create duplicate topics/questions and "parrot same words".
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Okay good, can you give us the propper direct link to it, because we're facing the battery draining too. Searching through xda I didn't found anything, so if you know where's the thread we'll be glad. But remember this: NO ONE'S BORN KNOWING EVERYTHING. Bye felicia
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