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No matter which ROM i choose wether its 2.3 based or 4.0 based, Calks or Phantom. Even CM9, Team Dirt. I always get crap battery life. ANDROID OS and ANDROID SYSTEM hog the battery!!! Why is this. The only thing that has not changed will i have been flashing all these roms is the Modem. I am currrently running FF18 Modem. Could this be the culprit? Please help guys!
The android os usage in ICS is normal. What do you consider bad battery life?
So many things affect battery life. Low signal will wipe out a battery in no time, synching multiple accounts (email, facebook is notoriously bad...) and software you may have installed. How is the battery drain when the phone is sleeping? Since there really isn't much we can do about battery while you're actually using the phone, the next step is to improve on sleep efficiency and this will help the battery life overall.
Try installing BetterBatteryStats. There is a thread here on XDA you can search for and download and install this app. The best way to use it is to let the phone sleep on battery without using it for a minimum of 2-3 hours, overnight is best. Then view the kernel and partial wakelocks to see if something isn't allowing the phone to sleep properly.
battery battery life?
Couldn't you also use multiple profiles in an OC app to undervolt and underclock the phone when it sleeps? (screen off profile set to 800MHz and screen on 1200MHz) Just a suggestion, hope this helps.
I have to charge my phone twice a day because I am on it all the time. My ave battery life 11hr 47min. Running Badass Battery Monitor.
Turn off auto sync for your Google account on your phone and manually sync it from time to time. Before I did this android was at the top of the list in the battery. Now screen time dominates everything else in usage.
Iandv said:
Turn off auto sync for your Google account on your phone and manually sync it from time to time. Before I did this android was at the top of the list in the battery. Now screen time dominates everything else in usage.
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Yes I did this too, it helps a lot
Yes, synching too often is a killer.
Don't forget about the phone radio too: wifi/bluetooth/gps/data/4G all can have a negative impact if left running.
Someone recently posted that at his workplace, he had zero signal and he could barely make it through the day. He discovered turning data off entirely in that scenario saved battery in a huge way.
kram4362 said:
No matter which ROM i choose wether its 2.3 based or 4.0 based, Calks or Phantom. Even CM9, Team Dirt. I always get crap battery life. ANDROID OS and ANDROID SYSTEM hog the battery!!! Why is this. The only thing that has not changed will i have been flashing all these roms is the Modem. I am currrently running FF18 Modem. Could this be the culprit? Please help guys!
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Which phone are you using as a matter of fact?
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Bad battery to me is loosing 60% over night. That's running CM9, android is and system were the dominant battery hogs when that happened. Please help. I've downloaded betterbatterystats.apk but I don't know how to use it. Please help.
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If turned off LED notification and that seems to have helped.
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Double cores, 4g, crap out the battery in a hurry.
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Nick300 said:
Double cores, 4g, crap out the battery in a hurry.
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I guess you should try downloading any battery calibration app from the market and also try battery control.... I hope it would help you..... Or the usual juice defender :thumbup:
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I recommend underclock your cpu to 1 ghz
I've been under clocked @ 1.0
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I don't use 4g
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Try battery calibrator from market
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This has been pretty much been the most frustrating update process of my 4 Android devices that I have owned.
Hoping some of the sharp people here can help me out.
Buttons Not Working - About every third or fourth time I wake my phone my physical buttons do not work. I have to put the phone to sleep and re-wake (sometimes multiple times) to get my phone's buttons to work.
Excessive Battery Drain - Yikes!!! I have uninstalled all my apps, and it is still occurring. Any other ideas to figure out what might be causing this?
Constant 3G data movement - When wi-fi is off, my phone is constantly pushing 3g data up and down....non-stop!
Excessive Phone Heat - My phone is running like a furnace.
Now, I think the last three are probably connected in some way.
adbrown83 said:
This has been pretty much been the most frustrating update process of my 4 Android devices that I have owned.
Hoping some of the sharp people here can help me out.
Buttons Not Working - About every third or fourth time I wake my phone my physical buttons do not work. I have to put the phone to sleep and re-wake (sometimes multiple times) to get my phone's buttons to work.
Excessive Battery Drain - Yikes!!! I have uninstalled all my apps, and it is still occurring. Any other ideas to figure out what might be causing this?
Constant 3G data movement - When wi-fi is off, my phone is constantly pushing 3g data up and down....non-stop!
Excessive Phone Heat - My phone is running like a furnace.
Now, I think the last three are probably connected in some way.
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That is not ICS you have something running in the background. That would cause all of that. Get a battery monitor app and see what is running
I'm having the same problems and even turning everything off still having the issues
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battery life fix works on ics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axmj2EAZMvE
do it a couple of times if you need to.
It's not just them, I have the same problem and I've done a factory reset and hadn't loaded any apps. It's the update.
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I am glad I am not the only ones with these problems.
It has to be a ICS function that is causing the excessive battery drain.
I currently have no non stock apps installed.
I have noticed that the battery ran from 100% to 25% but battery drain had no slowed considerably....maybe faulty logic in how they are calculating percentages?
The one I would really like to solve is the buttons not working, as there will be lots of battery related threads as more and more people upgrade.
adbrown83 said:
I am glad I am not the only ones with these problems.
It has to be a ICS function that is causing the excessive battery drain.
I currently have no non stock apps installed.
I have noticed that the battery ran from 100% to 25% but battery drain had no slowed considerably....maybe faulty logic in how they are calculating percentages?
The one I would really like to solve is the buttons not working, as there will be lots of battery related threads as more and more people upgrade.
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The malfunctioning buttons have been happening to some of us on every ROM, whether it's Gingerbread or ICS. It happens to mine on stock GB or stock I'VE.
Just so you know, you can tap the volume Roche to wake up the buttons. You don't have to cycle the screen. Tap the volume button, wait second or so and you will see the capacitive buttons blink once... That means they've reset. Sometimes you have to do it twice.
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I went back to the tried and true Blazer 4.1 Nothing comes close....
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It's not just them, I have the same problem and I've done a factory reset and hadn't loaded any apps. It's the update.
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Do you have wifi turned on? Others have reported Wifi is constantly scanning.
never had those issues.. but i never updated with ota.. i used sfhub ff18 one click my physical buttons always worked from gb all the way from first ics leaks to now
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Same issue here with the retarded battery life, stock rooted FF18. It's pathetic. Constant battery drain while "sleeping", with wifi on or off. Guess i'll have to try a different ROM.
rujelus22 said:
That is not ICS you have something running in the background. That would cause all of that. Get a battery monitor app and see what is running
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Actually rule a ton of people are reporting these exact same issues in the sprint community running factory ics update. So these issues are pretty common. I am also experiencing quite a few myself.
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ebuc said:
battery life fix works on ics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axmj2EAZMvE
do it a couple of times if you need to.
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This is the first time I have ever seen this mentioned for ics. Do you by chance have any other links confirming that this works? I am very skeptical about this and sounds more of a voodoo type of fix..
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This is the first time I have ever seen this mentioned for ics. Do you by chance have any other links confirming that this works? I am very skeptical about this and sounds more of a voodoo type of fix..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28832191&postcount=375
it works. ;P
also i only meant do it a couple of times if you messed it up lol.
seriously, guys on ics, try the fix!
works for me on gingerbread. and also on ics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axmj2EAZMvE
"#1 TURN OFF YOUR PHONE and charge your phone until u see and blue light & 100% sign on your screen(while the phone is still off) #2 remove battery & then unplug charger. LEAVE BATTERY OUT FOR 5 FULL MINUTES. #3 put battery back in . Let me know if that works(it should)"
- duglessm
I tried this yesterday when I was getting terrible battery life. I went from fully charged to dead in 3 hours flat.
I ended up doing a factory reset with sfhub's one-click and am slowly testing and restoring apps to see what's acting as a vampire.
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DirkBelig said:
I tried this yesterday when I was getting terrible battery life. I went from fully charged to dead in 3 hours flat.
I ended up doing a factory reset with sfhub's one-click and am slowly testing and restoring apps to see what's acting as a vampire.
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You should try it again if it didn't work!
Not everyone's issue is going to be caused by the same thing. What may work for you may not always work for everyone else. It may be an app or ICS in general causing the issue.
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Everyone needs to pile up in the sprint stores in front of potential new customers and demand a fix.
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wcr84 said:
Everyone needs to pile up in the sprint stores in front of potential new customers and demand a fix.
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Or demand a SGS3
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There ya go
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I've had this phone for 3 weeks now from a vibrant, and so far the battery hasn't balanced itself out. I get maybe a full days use out of it. From what I've read that's pretty good for this phone, but I'd like to be able to get consistent use.
I got a little more curious and decided to install cpu spy and discovered the phone isn't deep sleeping. So my question is, is there an app I should look out for that could possibly be running in the background? I've un installed all bloat that came with the phone, turned off sync, etc.
Any ideas? Or any roms that are touchwiz based that are battery friendly?
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What apps do you have installed?
You're still on stock, right?
Heck your running processes to see if anything is running that shouldn't be. Also, there is an app called Watchdog (not the data meter) that can be setup to alert you when an all is using more processes than it should be using.
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Yeah fully stock before the ota that was sent out.
I have the same apps I had on my vibrant with an extra game or two.
Mainly gapps, dead trigger, light flow, roku, Nike Running, etc.
I read somewhere that light flow was causing issues when the phone was first released, but so far I haven't seen major drain from that app alone. I turned off accessibility in the respect to light flow just to see if maybe that was the issue a d nothing.
Currently it sits right at 384mz. No idea why.
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Heck your running processes to see if anything is running that shouldn't be. Also, there is an app called Watchdog (not the data meter) that can be setup to alert you when an all is using more processes than it should be using.
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I forgot about that app. Just installed, I'll try this out and see what I can find.
This app should help you determine what exactly is keeping your device awake and preventing deep sleep.
Not sure what it is as this so the first day I have had this issue but it appears my phone has not gone into deep sleep at all today either. Weird.
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Hm, just checked my phone, was interested that maybe the app wasn't reading it correctly.
I remember in the Vibrant, some kernels didn't allow apps to read the correct Deep Sleep stats.
Mine is working fine, 84% on deep sleep.
What ROM are you guys running?
I'm on the latest CM10 nightly and lean kernel. Oh well, time to diagnose.
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joshnichols189 said:
I'm on the latest CM10 nightly and lean kernel. Oh well, time to diagnose.
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I've had a couple issues with deep sleep as well. However a reboot to recovery clearing cache and dalvik fixes it.
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elesbb said:
I've had a couple issues with deep sleep as well. However a reboot to recovery clearing cache and dalvik fixes it.
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I'll give that a shot, thanks!
So it seems like I'm not the only one having this issue, which is nice to know.
I ended up just switching to another rom and now it's going to sleep correctly which is nice because my battery is lasting.
Thanks for all the tips!
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SimeonAS89 said:
So it seems like I'm not the only one having this issue, which is nice to know.
I ended up just switching to another rom and now it's going to sleep correctly which is nice because my battery is lasting.
Thanks for all the tips!
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What ROM are you running now?
BetterBatteryStats has done a very good job of monitoring apps/processes that prevents deep sleep.
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What ROM are you running now?
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Right now I'm running Stock sX v2.0. Its pretty good so far. I'm getting pretty similar battery life I had on my Vibrant.
Ever since I got the Jelly Bean update, Androud System has been using almost as much power as the screen? Anyone else having his problem? Any idea how to fix?
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Vanillamarble said:
Ever since I got the Jelly Bean update, Androud System has been using almost as much power as the screen? Anyone else having his problem? Any idea how to fix?
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My phone sucks more juice overall, but since I previously had great battery life , its not that bad.
Never the less, this update is getting more pathetic every day.
Vanillamarble said:
Ever since I got the Jelly Bean update, Androud System has been using almost as much power as the screen? Anyone else having his problem? Any idea how to fix?
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JB has been known to use more battery than ICS(At least with the port releases) I've seen upwards of 65%
If you're rooted use betterbatterystats and see exactly what is draining it. A known source of major drain (for me 10% an hour) was an unknown service in /system/bin called gsiff_daemon. It has something to do with gps, but that's besides the point. On every rom I flash, I go in and rename it to gsiff_daemon.bak this will make it so it won't run. I have done this the entire time I've had a gs3 and never once have run into an issue from disabling this service, but I have saved my battery by doing it
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Terrafirma91 said:
If you're rooted use betterbatterystats and see exactly what is draining it. A known source of major drain (for me 10% an hour) was an unknown service in /system/bin called gsiff_daemon. It has something to do with gps, but that's besides the point. On every rom I flash, I go in and rename it to gsiff_daemon.bak this will make it so it won't run. I have done this the entire time I've had a gs3 and never once have run into an issue from disabling this service, but I have saved my battery by doing it
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So this doesn't mess up your GPS or maps changing that file?
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I have deleted those two files in question months ago and have no issue with GPS I always get fast locks and lots of sats. I average around 1 day 5 hours on a full charge using Koontz kernel with SIO and Ktoonservative governor with some custom settings. Normally 4 hours of screen on time.
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Android system uses more battery than anything else. The core background processes running there must be incredibly draining.
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So this doesn't mess up your GPS or maps changing that file?
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Nope. As the guy below you said even if you delete it you should be okay. I just rename is just in case I need it later I can remove the .bak and the file is still there.
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Let me know how it works out for you when you delete that file.
I renamed it. No sense in deleting it. Hopefully it helps! Thanks!
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Renamed gsiff_daemon
Renamed the file, will see if it makes a difference in my battery usage in the next few days.
In my attempt to figure out wtf that file did, I noticed that it didn't trigger every day. So give it a few days. I wish I knew what it did exactly...
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When i updated to jellybean and rooted, i wiped a ton and i mean a ton of bloat and crap from my phone. My battery life is killer right now. Can't complain at all.
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Three words Folks... ULTIMATE JUICE DEFENDER! :laugh:
Mr Patchy Patch said:
When i updated to jellybean and rooted, i wiped a ton and i mean a ton of bloat and crap from my phone. My battery life is killer right now. Can't complain at all.
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Could you provide what new bloat was added that you removed (or point to a thread you used as advice)? I'm not a fan of deleting stuff like that, just in case, but I'd love to disable anything that's useless to me.
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My battery life has been significantly less since I have updated to Ma7. Running it stock, deoxded, and rooted. I've included screens shots
Any ideas? I appreciate the help.
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Looks like you got a wakelock, use better battery stats to see what's causing it. That almost solid blue bar in your 2nd screen shot shows way more awake time than what your screen on time is, awake almost 80% or so of your total uptime
I like to break stuff!
I'll give it a try and post back.
Thanks!
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Could Google now location services, such as time to work cards, be causing pipe battery life?
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All that maps stuff will kill your battery, especially if you're inside where gps can't lock fast. I use autostarts to force maps to stay off unless I open them. And yes cards in google now do hit battery pretty hard as well.
I like to break stuff!
Everybody is over looking Mediaserver skyrocketing to the top of the list since this MA7 update. I'm also experiencing a drop in battery. Mediaserver is the cause and u can't seem to find a fix :banghead:
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Yes indeed.
The Google location services is a big user as well, but to turn it off or prevent it's autostart would hinder Google now, at least I would think so.
Good point on the media server. The battery life was better before this update, and I'm sure Google was still hogging battery life. So media server seems to be the problem... Possible.
Could one possible freeze certain apps to eliminate the drain from the media server?
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RayTrue04 said:
Everybody is over looking Mediaserver skyrocketing to the top of the list since this MA7 update. I'm also experiencing a drop in battery. Mediaserver is the cause and u can't seem to find a fix :banghead:
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Mediaserver drains battery fiercely due to a bad image file or video file......it keeps trying to read the file. The only fix that I found was to backup your sd card reformat it then add a folder at a time to make sure it doesnt get stuck scanning.
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All that maps stuff will kill your battery, especially if you're inside where gps can't lock fast. I use autostarts to force maps to stay off unless I open them. And yes cards in google now do hit battery pretty hard as well.
I like to break stuff!
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I've found that it is only the network based locating that causes this particular wakelock madness. Turn off network based location and maps behaves fine... Shame really as Google Now is coded to be broken unless Google knows what network your connected to.
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neopolotin75 said:
Mediaserver drains battery fiercely due to a bad image file or video file......it keeps trying to read the file. The only fix that I found was to backup your sd card reformat it then add a folder at a time to make sure it doesnt get stuck scanning.
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I doubt it's any of my files. It never was a problem on LJC. And even now the problem is random. Comes and goes on different boots. I'm thinking maybe Samsung accounts might have to do something with it. A few days ago I noticed it updated a Samsung push service app on its own. In my head that sounds about the same time my problem started.
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Battery life is awsome here on MA7
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RayTrue04 said:
I doubt it's any of my files. It never was a problem on LJC. And even now the problem is random. Comes and goes on different boots. I'm thinking maybe Samsung accounts might have to do something with it. A few days ago I noticed it updated a Samsung push service app on its own. In my head that sounds about the same time my problem started.
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Ive had the same thing happen twice.....both times after I did that it solved the problem. ....I found the fix in either a gs3 forum here or another note forum where people were having the same issue......just saying wouldnt hurt to try that if its the mediaserver running.....but heres a good read
http://www.connect-utb.com/2012/07/buggy-android-mediaserver-draining-your-battery/
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Wish I was seeing that.
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poor battery
BlueGoldAce said:
My battery life has been significantly less since I have updated to Ma7. Running it stock, deoxded, and rooted. I've included screens shots
Any ideas? I appreciate the help.
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Brother...
I've been running Macs ROM Ma7 my battery life is incredible good...
Macksromm 2.5 galaxy note 2 sprint
Best rom ever
Give a try you will be amazed
eidercardoso said:
Brother...
I've been running Macs ROM Ma7 my battery life is incredible good...
Macksromm 2.5 galaxy note 2 sprint
Best rom ever
Give a try you will be amazed
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Do you have stock ma7 kernal or Perseus 33.4
JellyBombed Note 2 got me feeling like I'm outta this world..
Skripka said:
I've found that it is only the network based locating that causes this particular wakelock madness. Turn off network based location and maps behaves fine... Shame really as Google Now is coded to be broken unless Google knows what network your connected to.
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That's why I use autostarts to disable everything unless I open it manually. Then you don't need to turn off the location services they just don't activate til YOU tell them too. They fully function just like normal only they only function when the app is in the foreground
I like to break stuff!
Sorry of this question seems redundant.
So will doing this hinder Google now or any of its features?
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BlueGoldAce said:
Sorry of this question seems redundant.
So will doing this hinder Google now or any of its features?
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Doing what? Disabling network-based locating, or using autostarts?
Google Now to fully function requires knowledge of what wifi network or cellular network you're connected to to...Shame really, and downright creepy.
Skripka said:
Doing what? Disabling network-based locating, or using autostarts?
Google Now to fully function requires knowledge of what wifi network or cellular network you're connected to to...Shame really, and downright creepy.
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I was referring to autostarts but I guess both.
Thanks
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