A few questions for MIUI users - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm new to rooting, installed MIUI and loving it so far. My hw is 003. Everything is working so far but i have a few questions -
1. Do you use the default kernel or replaced it? I've seen screen tearing a few times and battery life could be better so I'm thinking of trying a different one. Read a number of threads in the root section.
2. Did you replace the lockscreen? I'm asking because I love its look, but if you enable security there's no slide to unlock and its not so useful.
3. How often do you update the MIUI build - I read it comes out every Fri, do they have major changes?

#3, the official build is done on friday, porting to individual phones is on/around sunday

1. I'm on the 1.1.28 build and using the kernel that came with it. Savage 1.6. It is by far the best kernel I have ever had the pleasure of flashing and I have no reason to use anything else. When I update to a newer build, I will most likely flash this kernel over it.
2. Still using stock lockscreen. I agree that the pattern lock could have been implemented better.
3. What elegantai said.

2 more issues I noticed -
1. Back button is now killing apps. The only way to fix it is turn off 'long press kills app', reboot, and turn it back on.
2. When in a call the notification bar cannot be dragged down.
Both are minor issues, just wondering if they are common.

1. That's not an issue at all, it's supposed to do that, and I think that's an awesome feature. If you just tap back it won't kill the app, and you can set how long the long press needs to be.
2. Never really noticed that before. Can you pull it down with a Sense ROM? It's been so long I can't remember. You can always hit the home key while in a call and pull the bar down from there.

ECrispy said:
2 more issues I noticed -
1. Back button is now killing apps. The only way to fix it is turn off 'long press kills app', reboot, and turn it back on.
2. When in a call the notification bar cannot be dragged down.
Both are minor issues, just wondering if they are common.
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I actually have the same problem with the app killing. Great feature yes but it always kills the app regardless of how long or short I press it lol. Changing the duration didnt seem to help.
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_MetalHead_ said:
1. That's not an issue at all, it's supposed to do that, and I think that's an awesome feature. If you just tap back it won't kill the app, and you can set how long the long press needs to be.
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It kills the app even when I just tap back, that's the bug. When its working yes, it only kills after a 2s tap.

ECrispy said:
It kills the app even when I just tap back, that's the bug. When its working yes, it only kills after a 2s tap.
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That's odd, it works perfectly for me. What MIUI build are you on?

_MetalHead_ said:
That's odd, it works perfectly for me. What MIUI build are you on?
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Latest - 1.2.11

I dunno, maybe it's a bug with that build.

from my observations the back tap close program happens only when a program is lagging. if you dont have too many things going on at once it shouldnt be a problem

yeahh it is a problem occasionally for me. I normally skip and flash every other week. This week im gonna flash again though, because it seems slow.

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[Q] Sense 3.0 Ring Lockscreen for AOSP

Anyone know if it can be done? Would definitely be nice.
Latest MIUI has it, works like a charm, but its ".mtz" for their theme engine, won't work on other AOSP roms.
Yes it can be done as a modified version.
Doubtful that it can be ported straight over but the WidgetLocker dev is planning on adding a similar style in the near future.
Cool.
Thanks for replying guys.
Check out Agile Lock. Free version is crap with no settings. But paid is like $1. Looks really good. It's the first release and still works flawlessly on my decks 1.2.1. Looks just like the 3.0 lockscreen. I definitely recommend
wampuscat said:
Check out Agile Lock. Free version is crap with no settings. But paid is like $1. Looks really good. It's the first release and still works flawlessly on my decks 1.2.1. Looks just like the 3.0 lockscreen. I definitely recommend
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I have downloaded this from the Market and noticed an issue.
If I lock my phone by way of the power button, the device will not turn back on resulting in a battery pull.
If the device locks on its own via timeout, the lock will appear when pressing the power button.
Anyone else having this issue? Im on CM7 Nightly's
KommodoreHeinz said:
I have downloaded this from the Market and noticed an issue.
If I lock my phone by way of the power button, the device will not turn back on resulting in a battery pull.
If the device locks on its own via timeout, the lock will appear when pressing the power button.
Anyone else having this issue? Im on CM7 Nightly's
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I was about to download this as well, and read the comments, it's a known issue.
KommodoreHeinz said:
I have downloaded this from the Market and noticed an issue.
If I lock my phone by way of the power button, the device will not turn back on resulting in a battery pull.
If the device locks on its own via timeout, the lock will appear when pressing the power button.
Anyone else having this issue? Im on CM7 Nightly's
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I'm running it on Decks 1.2.1 and its running awesome.
Viewing it
cool stuff
btw this 10post thing is ridiculous
KommodoreHeinz said:
I have downloaded this from the Market and noticed an issue.
If I lock my phone by way of the power button, the device will not turn back on resulting in a battery pull.
If the device locks on its own via timeout, the lock will appear when pressing the power button.
Anyone else having this issue? Im on CM7 Nightly's
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sanjsrik said:
I was about to download this as well, and read the comments, it's a known issue.
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all you need to do for now is press the Volume key, that'll return to the lockscreen...and I'm certain they will fix this bug soon enough.

Physical Keyboard stops working

Quite frequently, my glide's physical keyboard stops working. A reboot fixes it but is kind of annoying to do this once a day
This is a new phone (less than a week old) and I am trying to find out if this is a known issue and if there is a fix for it. If my phone is defective, I might be able to still get a replacement from newegg.
I notice that there was another thread in XDA on the same topic but it quickly moved on to discuss some other issue with no clear advice.
Thanks and appreciate your help,
urundai said:
Quite frequently, my glide's physical keyboard stops working. A reboot fixes it but is kind of annoying to do this once a day
This is a new phone (less than a week old) and I am trying to find out if this is a known issue and if there is a fix for it. If my phone is defective, I might be able to still get a replacement from newegg.
I notice that there was another thread in XDA on the same topic but it quickly moved on to discuss some other issue with no clear advice.
Thanks and appreciate your help,
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Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
dudejb said:
Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
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Thanks for the response. I went back to my old iPhone 3 (Yuck). Let me double check on that when I get home this evening.
urundai said:
Thanks for the response. I went back to my old iPhone 3 (Yuck). Let me double check on that when I get home this evening.
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If it is launching Different apps then it is the Quick launch that is the cause. You can see what Shortcut is associated with which app go here:Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch
Most Launch with Search + any key. Perhaps your search button is stuck.
JB
Mine has that problem as well usually requires a reboot as well but can't ever get it to just do it on command. U on a custom rom? Or stock?
If the random apps are opening, open the landscape keyboard and press the search button. If you accidentally press it and then you press a corresponding letter to open a certain app, it'll so that. And when you hit back, the phone thinks that you pressed the wrong letter key and has that quick open on. Just press search again. That's all lol
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I also have the problem of physical keyboard that stops working. No random apps, it just stops working. What to do to fix the issue, aside from rebooting?
Thx
phatryan69 said:
Mine has that problem as well usually requires a reboot as well but can't ever get it to just do it on command. U on a custom rom? Or stock?
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I am on stock. It's just annoying when it happens at least once in 2 days.
I am thinking of rooting it and installing a custom rom to see if that takes care of it. Will keep you all posted.
I might turn on the debugging level in the logs as well to see if I can find out what's going on. Given that this happens only every two days or so, not sure if that will help much but let me see.
antonyfirst said:
I also have the problem of physical keyboard that stops working. No random apps, it just stops working. What to do to fix the issue, aside from rebooting?
Thx
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I am on Rogers stock ROM. At this point, it certainly looks like something to do with the software (will be hard to find several of us having the same hardware problem).
dudejb said:
Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
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+1.
My keyboard stops working too, but this doesn't happen very often. I experience this about once in 3-4 weeks for now.
I have had this problem a few times as well (on stock AT&T).. QWERTY doesn't respond at all, reboot fixes it! Got me worried the first couple of times though
I continue to run in to this once in a while. I have tried pressing all kinds of keys (search, alt etc) with no success. At times, I see some of the keys working but not others.
Anyway, this looks like software / driver issue. Looks like reboot is the only cure so far.

A few small issues with my device. I'm wondering if it's worth exchanging?

Hello everyone,
I just bought my S3 last Sunday. Since then I have noticed several issues with it and I'm wondering if it's worth exchanging. They seem to be both software and hardware issues.
1. It's pretty laggy. For such a "groundbreaking" phone this is lagging much more than my old Sensation. It's rarely smooth switching between screens and going from lock screen to home screen is also laggy. Overall, it's not very smooth. Is this common on this device? Maybe I'm expecting too much.
2. The music player skips and repeats A LOT. Whenever a song is playing, it will constantly have gaps in the music. It will just stop playing for a brief second but then continue normally. It also will repeat parts of a song, such as saying some lyrics twice.
3. Whenever someone calls me, my voice sounds "distant" to them. If I call someone my voice sounds totally normal but when I receive the call I am either echoing or I sound like I'm holding my phone away from my face.
I guess my biggest problem is the lag. It really bothers me since it's supposed to be such an amazing and smooth phone. It takes several times longer to load apps and things than my old Sensation did, and I don't have many apps installed at all. Opening the app drawer is consistently laggy as well.
Are these common issues or do you guys think it would be worthwhile to exchange the phone? As of right now, I'm not very pleased with it.
Thanks for all your input, guys!
Edit: Also, whenever I hit the home button it takes several seconds to load it up. Is there a way to speed this up?
Also, I am not rooted yet. I always like to spend a few weeks with the stock setup before rooting.
Edit 2: Last thing, S Voice is a piece of **** on this. Literally. It takes FOREVER to load up and RARELY does what I say. Does this actually work for you guys or is S voice generally useless?
Not common at all. Exchange.
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elracing21 said:
Not common at all. Exchange.
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thanks! i'll exchange it tomorrow. Are the S3's generally pretty smooth? Any lag at all?
alecjake said:
thanks! i'll exchange it tomorrow. Are the S3's generally pretty smooth? Any lag at all?
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Smooth as butter.
Have you tried installing the latest OTA? It may help with some of your problems. For the home key lag, double press to open s voice, then go into settings and turn off double press home to open.
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1. Try this. Settings >Developer Options > Window animation scale ->change to 0.5x or off. Transition animation scale >animation is off
Also make sure Do not keep activities under developer options is unchecked. Check it first then uncheck it. This should solve the redraw issue on teh homescreen (at least it did for me)
2. Did not happen to me
3. Turn off noise reduction
For the distant sound issue open the dialer>call settings>additional settings>uncheck noise reduction. Even running unrooted the interface should be very smooth however.
DocHoliday77 said:
Have you tried installing the latest OTA? It may help with some of your problems. For the home key lag, double press to open s voice, then go into settings and turn off double press home to open.
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that is yet another odd thing about my device. it claims I have the latest OTA, when I know I don't. Also, it says the music hub is still unavailable (even though I know several people who have it running)
I haven't actually used s-voice myself, but a lot of reviews said it wasn't very good.
Another thing you can try for the lag you mentioned is in Developer Options, change the Force GPU Rendering option.
Also try limiting background processes to 3 or 4. Though you shouldn't have to resort to this. If other options don't work id still take it back for exchange.
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wyuan said:
1. Try this. Settings >Developer Options > Window animation scale ->change to 0.5x or off. Transition animation scale >animation is off
Also make sure Do not keep activities under developer options is unchecked. Check it first then uncheck it. This should solve the redraw issue on teh homescreen (at least it did for me)
2. Did not happen to me
3. Turn off noise reduction
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I just tried all the things you listed in number 1 and it is definitely faster, in a way. When I click the home button, the wallpaper pops up immediately. The apps however take significantly longer to load up and the app drawer still takes quite a while to load. I think I am stuck with a return. Thank you for all your help!
alecjake said:
Edit: Also, whenever I hit the home button it takes several seconds to load it up. Is there a way to speed this up?
Also, I am not rooted yet. I always like to spend a few weeks with the stock setup before rooting.
Edit 2: Last thing, S Voice is a piece of **** on this. Literally. It takes FOREVER to load up and RARELY does what I say. Does this actually work for you guys or is S voice generally useless?
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To speed up the home screen button:
Double tap home screen (bring up s-voice)
Tap menu softkey
Tap settings
Uncheck launch s-voice
You will need to do this with your new device as well.
And s-voice is generally useless, or as far as I've found.
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Yea s-voice makes home button laggy. And have u tried to factory reset it?
Do a master reset without restoring back up. Sometimes this all that is necessary on any Rom. If that fails do a buyers remorse exchange.
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sarni84 said:
Yea s-voice makes home button laggy. And have u tried to factory reset it?
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wow. i cant believe i didnt think of this. i just did a factory reset and it is a world of difference. so much faster and smoother! i still think i'm going to exchange it tomorrow, however. the speaker issue worries me since it is probably a hardware issue
alecjake said:
wow. i cant believe i didnt think of this. i just did a factory reset and it is a world of difference. so much faster and smoother! i still think i'm going to exchange it tomorrow, however. the speaker issue worries me since it is probably a hardware issue
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Yea it usually helps especially with the weird problems. But now if u are still having problems then yea take it back. Because now u ruled almost everything out or have done what u could have. Good luck
some people just want to complain.....
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Mine is so smooth. But I have not rooted it. WIthout any memory eating apps running, it is not only smooth but actually bolting fast!!:victory::victory::victory:
bipoler said:
some people just want to complain.....
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Thank you for making your own point.
make sure power save option is disable.it will make it very laggy
I haven't had any problems with my device. But a lot of times when I'm talking to my girlfriend she always asks if I put her on speakerphone and I haven't. She sometimes also says she hears an echo.
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hardware keys acting up all a sudden

Hey all. So the past few days I noticed that my Menu button on my S3 ATT has been showing the Google Now search. Additionally when pressing home often time it goes to the Multi Task window. These are settings I set for the 'long press'. I should note Im running CM 10.1 latest nightly and Nova Launcher (if it matters).
I figured this was a CM issue so I went to a 1 week old nightly but the same. Im not worried this may be something to do with the hardware buttons themselves. Really hoping its a software thing
Anyhow I appreciate any help on the subject or things I can try
Thanks!
Its worth adding that when I upgrade the nightly, then the buttons seem to work for at least a few hours. Im not sure if a simple reboot would also have this effect however I plan to monitor that when it starts acting up again and let you all know
Seems very odd to me that it works fine for awhile then gets worse and worse throughout the day
Thanks
I think what you're experiencing is a long button press bug. CM10.1 has a known issue of registering a long press (especially for hardware keys) even when you quickly tap.
So if I had to guess I'd say your phone is fine and it is CM10.1,
I should add this happens on my menu button too. It hasnt happened on my back button but I also have nothing on my Long Press for the back button.
RoachForLife said:
I should add this happens on my menu button too. It hasnt happened on my back button but I also have nothing on my Long Press for the back button.
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do you know if this is something that affects everyone on a galaxy s3, just some phones or all phones on cm10.1? i've been running cm10.1 on my d2vzw and generally stay on top of all the development related postings but see hardly any mentions of the topic. i realize it's not a huge bug as a simple restart will fix it but it certainly is annoying.
first post, btw :cyclops:
I havent seen mention of this before but I am not on the forums all that much.
Quick update - after flashing to latest nightly, its been nearly 24hrs without issue. Hope it stays this way
RoachForLife said:
I havent seen mention of this before but I am not on the forums all that much.
Quick update - after flashing to latest nightly, its been nearly 24hrs without issue. Hope it stays this way
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Update 2 - Yes, rebooting the phone does fix this. Last time I went 3 days before it began to act up. Rebooted and good as new. Kinda annoying but not the end of the world

Lots of different small issues

Hi all
I have been using this phone for a month, and I have experienced a lot of different small issues, I hope someone may have solution to them.
Phone:
Mi A2 Lite, rooted (Magisk) Android one pie, January update. Has a screen protector.
Apps:
Here are some apps that I think may cause the issue that I mention below, these apps are Nova and datally. Really can't think of a third one, I don't use any cleaning app or battery performance app.
Issue:
1. Typing experience is horrible. Using stock google input, the keyboard is not very sensitive and accurate. The letter just can't be recognized even though I am sure I have pressed the key and pressed the right key. So my typing is really slow, the key doesn't display immediately (it does seem to have a delay), and for some reason I always type wrong and missing some letters, so gotta use backspace a lot.
2. It always wakes up randomly in my pocket, so I may take the phone out with torch on and airplane mode on without my awareness.
3. When I am on a call, I can accidentally press some random on screen keys.
4. The background apps AWALYS get killed, even though I have turned the battery optimization off globally, and the individual apps that I never want to be killed.
5. Messaging service apps have huge delay when delivering the notification. It may only show when I open the app. Used PNF app but couldn't fix the problem.
Does anyone have the same issue and know the fix?
I hope it is only the software problem (Pie system) and maybe I can fix it by flashing a better rom, but I don't seem to find a stable official custom ROM for Mi A2 Lite (even lineage OS is unofficial)
Many thanks
luckyvictor said:
Hi all
I have been using this phone for a month, and I have experienced a lot of different small issues, I hope someone may have solution to them.
Phone:
Mi A2 Lite, rooted (Magisk) Android one pie, January update. Has a screen protector.
Apps:
Here are some apps that I think may cause the issue that I mention below, these apps are Nova and datally. Really can't think of a third one, I don't use any cleaning app or battery performance app.
Issue:
1. Typing experience is horrible. Using stock google input, the keyboard is not very sensitive and accurate. The letter just can't be recognized even though I am sure I have pressed the key and pressed the right key. So my typing is really slow, the key doesn't display immediately (it does seem to have a delay), and for some reason I always type wrong and missing some letters, so gotta use backspace a lot.
2. It always wakes up randomly in my pocket, so I may take the phone out with torch on and airplane mode on without my awareness.
3. When I am on a call, I can accidentally press some random on screen keys.
4. The background apps AWALYS get killed, even though I have turned the battery optimization off globally, and the individual apps that I never want to be killed.
5. Messaging service apps have huge delay when delivering the notification. It may only show when I open the app. Used PNF app but couldn't fix the problem.
Does anyone have the same issue and know the fix?
I hope it is only the software problem (Pie system) and maybe I can fix it by flashing a better rom, but I don't seem to find a stable official custom ROM for Mi A2 Lite (even lineage OS is unofficial)
Many thanks
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Try to update I never had any of those issues
I have also these problems. I have February update.
madmanwild said:
I have also these problems. I have February update.
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Do you have all these problems? or just one or two? After seeing my configuration/apps that I installed, do you think is it app related or system related?
rob420p said:
Try to update I never had any of those issues
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not even one of these? Your background app never get killed?
Are you using Stock Android One? did you root your phone?
luckyvictor said:
Do you have all these problems? or just one or two? After seeing my configuration/apps that I installed, do you think is it app related or system related?
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all these problems without wakes up in pocket. killing the background application is the biggest problem for me (I use a lot of smart home app- eWelink,Room Heat,Magic Home) and it's horrible. ewelink starts 5sec after kill, Room Heat - frequent crash like a white screen...
the next problem is huge delay when delivering the notification....
I am on Stock Android One-February update,I'm allowed only cam2api...
madmanwild said:
all these problems without wakes up in pocket. killing the background application is the biggest problem for me (I use a lot of smart home app- eWelink,Room Heat,Magic Home) and it's horrible. ewelink starts 5sec after kill, Room Heat - frequent crash like a white screen...
the next problem is huge delay when delivering the notification....
I am on Stock Android One-February update,I'm allowed only cam2api...
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You have battery optimization off? any battery improvement app? I think all these is because the 'intelligence' in Android is playing up, it doesn't understand exactly how we use the app. However, even have it turned off, the problem exists....
luckyvictor said:
not even one of these? Your background app never get killed?
Are you using Stock Android One? did you root your phone?
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I am on stock but I do have root.havent done much modification yet waiting for twrp
rob420p said:
I am on stock but I do have root.havent done much modification yet waiting for twrp
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Don't understand why there is such different, did you have battery optimisation off and all time since the first day you use the device?
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Don't understand why there is such different, did you have battery optimisation off and all time since the first day you use the device?
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Honestly I don't think so I really haven't messed with the battery besides putting a %
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You have battery optimization off? any battery improvement app? I think all these is because the 'intelligence' in Android is playing up, it doesn't understand exactly how we use the app. However, even have it turned off, the problem exists....
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Yes, all off - battery adaptation and manually set no optimization on my app...

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