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Another sleep issue after running a particular app...

I am having a sleep issue that I can pinpoint down to one app causing it. I have a Rhod400 and sleep mode is set to 1. It sleeps fine most of the time, but when I run Slacker Radio at all even after insuring it is closed with "advanced task killer" and looking in "services" I'm not sure the phone goes to sleep, because all the LED does is a very fast flash from orange to green to orange... over and over again.
Is that some type of warning message built into the LED troubleshooting of sleep mode, or is the phone trying to go to sleep and then waking itself backup immediately afterwards? Only way to fix this is to reboot XDAndroid.
Anyone else use Slacker Radio and have the same problem or use another app that causes this same symptom?

I use SystemPanelLite to close apps, shouldn't really make a difference on which app you use tho.
Assuming the apps are closed, you should be fine.
But yes, based on your description the phone is going in and out of sleep very quickly... Never experienced the issue myself, but I don't use this app either.
If you cannot recreate the issue on a clean Android installation, I'd definitely say it's the app's fault.

I saw that on one boot too, but I never investigated to see which app caused it.
I had my phone sleep all night and when I woke it up 8 hours later it looked like it was still 100%. But later, after doing some browsing and such, it doesn't go to sleep at all, LED stays orange. I was using wifi and turned that off, but it still isn't going to sleep now. So definitely, there are a bunch of possible situations that prevent the phone from going back to sleep...

I've definitely seen this before as well, where the LED will stay orange, flash to green, and then immediately become orange again, and I've never used Slacker Radio before. Location was disabled, and I went through and killed all non-ordinary processes, and the problem remained until reboot.
There are definitely some possible situations still lurking that prevent sleep. The fact that it's reproducible with Slacker Radio could possibly be helpful to some devs?

I have this both issues too. Flashing green and orange light appeared after playing some 3D games, browsing with wifi and in some random situations. Sometimes i have one another probelem. After start i wait for green light and when this light appear, i can't wake up the phone.
I'm using advanced task killer, but i think that isn't the problem. I have RHOD100 .

Play screen flicker in games (Auto brightness?)

I have an Xperia Play currently on the stock ROM, fully updated.
I noticed that sometimes when playing some games, the screen seems to flicker as if it is changing the brightness settings very rapidly.
I did a Google and could only find a few other people having the same issue.
Is this just a normal thing with auto brightness? Sucks that you can't turn it off...
Cheers

You can turn it off, in the update 2.3.4, the Nordic Generic one, at the mo..works quite well with it off, screen looks a lot brighter(obviously!).
I was always under the assumption that auto brightness ran more battery with it's sensor always being on, at least that's what happened with my last phone.

Did you notice the screen flicker im describing?

Update to 2.3.4 to turn it off, or buy hatcyl's 'disable auto brightness' for .99$..

the auto brightness app requires root so make sure you are rooted before you buy.
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cined said:
Did you notice the screen flicker im describing?
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Yeah, in exactly the same way, also if the light in the room changed, or you would put the phone in shadow for a second, like when moving it, the sensor seems to go into overdrive.

ROM/kernel Not Playing Nicely- No "Deep sleep" & "Titanium Backup" & More

ROM/kernel Not Playing Nicely- No "Deep sleep" & "Titanium Backup" & More
I'm on Juggernaut v4.1 & Synergy kernel v.10 with an undervolt at all times in different profile modes.
I noticed this a few days ago, I'll go in order of the "symptoms" my SGS2 T-989 experienced:
1. Random shut downs which won't allow me to reboot without taking the battery out or long-pressing the power button.
2. Titanium backup lags like CRAZY. If I go to my app list, it freezes while I'm scrolling, with the only solution of a Force Close. Batch backup freezes at any random point and doesn't ever pick back up. Even a force close/reboot doesn't make any difference.
3. If I get a text message or notification, the screen doesn't turn off (only stays at the lockscreen). At one point everything worked okay.
4. My phone doesn't "deep sleep" when my screen is off. I know for a fact that this is a problem because I use CPU Spy very frequently to check up on what states my processor runs. Deep Sleep has been inactive/never used in the last few days since I reset my CPU Spy timers once I suspected a flaw.
I suspect that all of the above symptoms are all propagated by the same issue.
As a general statement, I could just format/reFlash my ROM/kernel but I would like to backup my stuff beforehand. I had this problem earlier when I first got my SGS2 but had nothing on my phone at the time so I never bothered posting about it. I'm hoping it isn't just my phone and someone has some sort of solution.
Thanks for peaking and helping out.

Joy2DaWurld said:
I'm on Juggernaut v4.1 & Synergy kernel v.10 with an undervolt at all times in different profile modes.
I noticed this a few days ago, I'll go in order of the "symptoms" my SGS2 T-989 experienced:
1. Random shut downs which won't allow me to reboot without taking the battery out or long-pressing the power button.
2. Titanium backup lags like CRAZY. If I go to my app list, it freezes while I'm scrolling, with the only solution of a Force Close. Batch backup freezes at any random point and doesn't ever pick back up. Even a force close/reboot doesn't make any difference.
3. If I get a text message or notification, the screen doesn't turn off (only stays at the lockscreen). At one point everything worked okay.
4. My phone doesn't "deep sleep" when my screen is off. I know for a fact that this is a problem because I use CPU Spy very frequently to check up on what states my processor runs. Deep Sleep has been inactive/never used in the last few days since I reset my CPU Spy timers once I suspected a flaw.
I suspect that all of the above symptoms are all propagated by the same issue.
As a general statement, I could just format/reFlash my ROM/kernel but I would like to backup my stuff beforehand. I had this problem earlier when I first got my SGS2 but had nothing on my phone at the time so I never bothered posting about it. I'm hoping it isn't just my phone and someone has some sort of solution.
Thanks for peaking and helping out.
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Why not just try a different kernel? You can flash a different kernel without loosing anything(if all goes well) ... I use the Faux kernel, and I have no sleep or standby issues ... and have used it with Jug

my HOX keeps waking itself up randomly

hey,
so im having some kind of trouble with my HOX.. when its just sitting on my desk it wakes itself up every now and then, sometimes very frequently and sometimes not.. with no specific pattern.. when im working on my laptop i just notice the screen turns itself on and then goes back to sleep.. i dunno whats causing it and its starting to get really annoying!! it's been happening for 2 days now, im running viperX 2.. any ideas on what may be causing this?
PS. i didnt install anything or change any settings before this started to happen
thanks in advance

Waseem Manneh said:
hey,
so im having some kind of trouble with my HOX.. when its just sitting on my desk it wakes itself up every now and then, sometimes very frequently and sometimes not.. with no specific pattern.. when im working on my laptop i just notice the screen turns itself on and then goes back to sleep.. i dunno whats causing it and its starting to get really annoying!! it's been happening for 2 days now, im running viperX 2.. any ideas on what may be causing this?
PS. i didnt install anything or change any settings before this started to happen
thanks in advance
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Same issu here... I think that all custom roms has this problem... But I was told that could be a recovery problem(because it also wakes up when charging) so I'm using AOKP(v1.2 AWESOME battery life now) with TWRP recovery (I was using CWM)... Tonight I'm gonna check if it still waking up itself.

The recovery has little to do with the running ROM. Clockworkmod switches on the phone when nearly charged.
The phone waling and screen.coming on is much more likely to be a rogue app.

Waseem Manneh said:
hey,
so im having some kind of trouble with my HOX.. when its just sitting on my desk it wakes itself up every now and then, sometimes very frequently and sometimes not.. with no specific pattern.. when im working on my laptop i just notice the screen turns itself on and then goes back to sleep.. i dunno whats causing it and its starting to get really annoying!! it's been happening for 2 days now, im running viperX 2.. any ideas on what may be causing this?
PS. i didnt install anything or change any settings before this started to happen
thanks in advance
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try a fresh install performing full wipe, clearing cache and dalvik cache and also use fastboot erase cache command before flashing boot img
i am also on viper 2.01 and don't have any such problems

There is no way...
I just tried everything..
With any custom rom and custom recovery, the phone wake up itself when charging off...
Only with the stock rom and oficial recovery it works Ok. Hope they find a solution..

I noticed there is some kind of pattern, the screen all of a sudden starts to turn itself on and off slowly and then faster and then it reaches a point where it stays on for about 10 seconds and then goes back off for a while.. it's very strange !! i've been using viperX for a long time and this never happened... at first i thought it was the productivity lockscreen notifying me of new emails or smth but that wasnt it... i only have google apps, xda app, facebook and chrome.. could it be one of these?? maybe its an app that uses internet because i noticed it happens much less or sometimes doesnt happen at all when i turn wifi off

task killer or smart stay ex
Had happened to me last evening. Random auto wakeup, first the touch buttons lightup and then
the screen. Then it goes to sleep on its own and then wakeup again. At first I thought it was related
to motion sensor because it always managed to coincide when I started typing in my laptop. But later
I noticed it wasn't the case as I was away from the table when it reached a very fast frequency
similar to notification LED,flashing sleeping flashing sleeping.... then complete sleep.
Went in task manager in search of rouge app, found "HTC Hub","Google Search","Google Play"
and a few other were constantly being slaughtered by the "Android Task Killer Free".
Exited the "Android Task Manager Free" and the auto wakeup has completely disappeared since then.
I also closed smart stay EX, which might have been the culprit as well since I have got dust in my front
camera and those might be recognized as faces or eyes?
I suggest you check for stray apps or task killers.
Make sure that none of the apps(background) crashing or being killed.
I believe custom roms try to enhance the performance by limiting the minimum
memory balance before which background inactive apps are killed by android.
Might be the cause but not quite sure.
So thats that, worth a try. Go to [Apps-->Running] and check if some app is disappearing and reappearing
on its own. Force stop it. Reboot the phone. Avoid any memory tweaking and task killer,
android is smart enough to know when to kill and when to keep apps.
Note: I am running a stock 4.0.3(1.29), no unlock,rooting etc...
Good luck

Rowlf said:
Had happened to me last evening. Random auto wakeup, first the touch buttons lightup and then
the screen. Then it goes to sleep on its own and then wakeup again. At first I thought it was related
to motion sensor because it always managed to coincide when I started typing in my laptop. But later
I noticed it wasn't the case as I was away from the table when it reached a very fast frequency
similar to notification LED,flashing sleeping flashing sleeping.... then complete sleep.
Went in task manager in search of rouge app, found "HTC Hub","Google Search","Google Play"
and a few other were constantly being slaughtered by the "Android Task Killer Free".
Exited the "Android Task Manager Free" and the auto wakeup has completely disappeared since then.
I also closed smart stay EX, which might have been the culprit as well since I have got dust in my front
camera and those might be recognized as faces or eyes?
I suggest you check for stray apps or task killers.
Make sure that none of the apps(background) crashing or being killed.
I believe custom roms try to enhance the performance by limiting the minimum
memory balance before which background inactive apps are killed by android.
Might be the cause but not quite sure.
So thats that, worth a try. Go to [Apps-->Running] and check if some app is disappearing and reappearing
on its own. Force stop it. Reboot the phone. Avoid any memory tweaking and task killer,
android is smart enough to know when to kill and when to keep apps.
Note: I am running a stock 4.0.3(1.29), no unlock,rooting etc...
Good luck
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That worked !! but in a different way, i have no task killers and the ROM did not kill apps before because it didnt use to happen until recently, but i tried to clean up my phone and uninstalled some apps and it stopped since then, problem is i uninstalled them all at once so i dont know which app exactly was the cause but sure it was one of 'em.. maybe it got corrupted and started crashing in the background or something because i didnt install any apps recently... this didnt happen not even once since i cleaned up those apps.. thanx a lot for helping

So the root cause could be thee Apps that has permissions to wack/prevent (android.permission.WAKE_LOCK) your devices from sleeping..
I experienced it occasionally while 'smart stay EX' was on beta time..

HebeGuess said:
So the root cause could be thee Apps that has permissions to wack/prevent (android.permission.WAKE_LOCK) your devices from sleeping..
I experienced it occasionally while 'smart stay EX' was on beta time..
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I recommend installing "Wakelock detector" which shows statistics of WAKE_LOCK usage !!

Tab S 8.4 ramdomly sleeps??

Searched the forum and did some google searches but only came up with one thread somewhere else that never went anywhere. This may be glitchy apps (although I have both on my Droid Maxx as well with no issues) but I thought I'd ask anyway.
So the problem is the tablet(SM-T700, Android 5.02) will seemingly go to sleep while actively using an app (so far it's common in 8 Ball Pool and has also happened during Beach Buggy). I don't know if it's app related or a setting somewhere. I have power saving modes turned off (as well as auto screen brightness). Anyone else experience this?

Well it may be a combination of the app not telling the screen to stay on (twitch app had this issue for about 3 days then it got an update) any you having the auto screen off timer set too short.
The permission used is under others and is called quite simply (prevent tablet sleeping). With out that mode set if you do not touch the screen in (insert screen shutoff timer length here) the tablet will turn the screen off to save power.

Thanks, I'll check that out. I'm going to run a few more apps and see if it happens with them also.