Develop Bugs

ICS Problems

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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cpcormier3 said:
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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cas8180 said:
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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cant power on with charger plugged in

I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this or hard about it happening and can tell me why it's doing it and/or how to fix this issue. basically when my phone is turned off and charging if i try to power it on ill feel a quick vibrate and then instead of turning on it just displays the battery charging icon again. it will do that every time until i physically unplug the charger from the phone and then when i press the power button it starts turning on as it normally should.after that i can either plug the charger back in and let it continue to charge or i can just leave it unplugged. if anyone has any info on this irritating issue it would be a great help . thanks
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Are you using a custom rom? I think this was an issue with one of em (freegs3 maybe) and the dev hadn't been able to fix it yet. Its been a bit though so I could be wrong on that one.
If you are on a custom rom, search that thread or ask there as well and youll prob get a quicker/better response.
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I've had this happen a few times before. I am running stock rom with trinity kernel. it's pretty weird

sorry I forgot to mention what I was running. this should explain it best.
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Yup. FreeGS3. I saw a few people mention this a while back. Dev knows about it and said he will look into it. Haven't seen much about this since but I could have easily overlooked it. Search through that thread for any other info.
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Epic battery drain on T99VVLH2

I have the latest update from videotron and since then the standby time is just horrible and its driving me nuts !!! I have the t99vvllh2 update and im kinda pissed :/
Anything that can be done !?
Thanks.
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How about screenshots without the volume indicator? You can also try GSam Battery Monitor from the Play Store, to get a little more information on what is eating the battery.

Aerowinder said:
How about screenshots without the volume indicator? You can also try GSam Battery Monitor from the Play Store, to get a little more information on what is eating the battery.
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Ahh sorry about that cant seem to get it right ! All i see in betterbatterystats is wakelocks over and over check this out...
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Did you install any app after or before update? Main reason for all drain is from app.
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What's your screen on time.

Looked kinda like liteflow might be causing problems?
Cell Standby i think is the one that is coded wrong and is lying, ignore that one.
If you press Android System in settings, battery it will show you the top components being used
Also in dev options look for and check Show CPU Usage. It will show whats using the cpu in the top right of your screen. Watch for what stays in the top few spots in the list.
There may have been something that didnt like the update. Try first uninstalling apps and if that helps reinstall them clean, no data restore. If you continue to have problems backup all data and factory reset. Start clean.
If all else fails use odin to flash the full LH2 fw.
LH2 should be a fairly stable build. Most have no issues and many get outstanding battery life. Im willing to bet its either an app or the way you updated or both.
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The only app i installed was liteflow which i deleted and screen on time is 3h30 mins max ...
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DocHoliday77 said:
Looked kinda like liteflow might be causing problems?
Cell Standby i think is the one that is coded wrong and is lying, ignore that one.
If you press Android System in settings, battery it will show you the top components being used
Also in dev options look for and check Show CPU Usage. It will show whats using the cpu in the top right of your screen. Watch for what stays in the top few spots in the list.
There may have been something that didnt like the update. Try first uninstalling apps and if that helps reinstall them clean, no data restore. If you continue to have problems backup all data and factory reset. Start clean.
If all else fails use odin to flash the full LH2 fw.
LH2 should be a fairly stable build. Most have no issues and many get outstanding battery life. Im willing to bet its either an app or the way you updated or both.
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Yesterday before i delete liteflow the android system was always ontop of the list but now it is at the very end i hope that it was simply that because i have way too many apps to delete and re install :/ but ill see how it goes today i got root and cwm so ill probably odin the lh2 as you suggested ..
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shahkam said:
The only app i installed was liteflow which i deleted and screen on time is 3h30 mins max ...
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That's really not THAT bad for a screen on time. I saw your screenshots in the OP, and you were down to 80% in only two hours of being on the battery, but you had the screen on for almost an hour of those two hours; 20%/hr for the first few hours is pretty normal. It's not stellar, but I wouldn't say it's an epic drain that being said, I'm sure you could squeeze some more juice out of it, and prob is just an app causing more drain than usual.
Also when doing a screenshot, it helps to hit the power button first, then the volume, so you don't get the volume pop up every time.
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liteflow causes battery drain. I had to uninstall mine as well.

Aria807 said:
liteflow causes battery drain. I had to uninstall mine as well.
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I confirm and googletalk also deleted both getting decent standby time..
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sleevasteve said:
That's really not THAT bad for a screen on time. I saw your screenshots in the OP, and you were down to 80% in only two hours of being on the battery, but you had the screen on for almost an hour of those two hours; 20%/hr for the first few hours is pretty normal. It's not stellar, but I wouldn't say it's an epic drain that being said, I'm sure you could squeeze some more juice out of it, and prob is just an app causing more drain than usual.
Also when doing a screenshot, it helps to hit the power button first, then the volume, so you don't get the volume pop up every time.
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Yeah it wasnt epic epic but just more then the usual i uninstalled google talk and liteflow now im gaining deep sleep ! I couldnt do that before will post results end of the day
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3:30 screen on time it's good no matter how you use your phone. I got 2.45 hours on screen with 1day and 6 hours. I've had issues with liteflow and battery as well. Others say they don't, it seems to depend on how you set the phone and liteflow to work.
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mt3g said:
3:30 screen on time it's good no matter how you use your phone. I got 2.45 hours on screen with 1day and 6 hours. I've had issues with liteflow and battery as well. Others say they don't, it seems to depend on how you set the phone and liteflow to work.
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Yeah i had setup a whole lot of stuff so idk if that may be it but it was 100% sure that liteflow was the issue anyways could anyone help me get cwm to stick whit my t999v from videotron ? I dont want to start another thread and clutter up..
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Juice defender

Have any of you used the juice defender app on the s3 yet?
Pros and cons
Any known issue with it
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bluedevils2003 said:
Have any of you used the juice defender app on the s3 yet?
Pros and cons
Any known issue with it
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Yes, use it now (Ulitmate) I have found nothing wrong personally. Mine's set for Data on with screen on, Data off screen off.. I don't have a schedule set or anything (i'm always off and on the phone anyway) does increase the battery life a bit.. Download, try it for a bit.. see what you think overall.

I did use it before, just the light version. it was indeed a battery extender. But now I am using ON(X).
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Well i have have it on my e4gt and it works great but sometimes it force closes
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Nope. IMO, battery saving apps like Juice defender burn more battery than they claim to save.

grgene said:
I did use it before, just the light version. it was indeed a battery extender. But now I am using ON(X).
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What does that app do?
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Juice defender WILL help. I get about 24hrs to a charge. It simply disables data/location/wifi when not in use and can be customized to run different ways for different apps
-SlimBean...the bulimic's choice for the Galaxy III

Hope this helps. It's fully customizable and it does wonders. U can train it to learn your wifi and after a while, never touch the toggle again. Use it for games so they don't go online and pick up those annoying ads (if your unrooted). And u can schedule when the net comes on to get emails and so forth when your not touching you phone.
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I've the free one. It works out pretty well. Same usage I've got on average two to three extra hours.
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Orrrrrrr you could change to CM10 ROM and get bout 9 hours on screen time without battery saving apps
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Been using Ultimate from the beginning and if set up correctly is the difference between night and day for battery life. It works very well with no problems whatsoever on my end.

+1 When setup properly it can save a lot of juice. Or turn data off when not needed it will save a little more than using JD. But I rather have JD running so things are seamless. For Streaming audio like Spotify I find setting for enable/screen off works the best.

r.suchil2 said:
Orrrrrrr you could change to CM10 ROM and get bout 9 hours on screen time without battery saving apps
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Be honest and tell people you have an extended battery.

i got a small issue with JD ultimate:
i set it quite correctly i think, but then, it prevents datas from coming to my phone, even when they're enabled.
let me explain better:
i set it so datas are off when screen is off and on when screen is on.
so i turn my phone on, datas take smth like 5 to 10 seconds to enable, everything normal till here, then the small H or G appear meaning i'm connected through 3G, but even then, i'm still offline... i wait, and wait 5 mins, but still, the H or G is visible on top right of my screen but.. no data.
i disable juice defender, restart my phone, didn't solve.
then i uninstall it completely, restard my phone, and everything works fine again...
anyone could help me on this one?

Cm9 car mode Phantom

I'm having trouble with car mode coming on whenever it wants to im running cm9 any ideas?
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Likewise
As of last night I started to have this issue as well. It is eating my battery life as it turns on my screen at random intervals. The clock app seems to be affected as well, as it will switch to it if I am using my phone. I am debating whether I should just remove cm9, and suffer through touchwiz. My phone is bordering on being unusable. Please help.

That usually means that there's a pin bent, or damaged in your usb slot.
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