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In better battery stats, what is *overflow*

My nexus is getting absolutely killed battery wise, and the partial wakelock is mostly with this *overflow* service/process. Does anyone know what it does and how to get rid of it?

Nobody knows?

Maybe an app you've installed? Look for it on settings. It should be there.
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Type "overflow betterbatterystats" into google and the second and third links may help you.
They are talking about an app causing it but I'll leave you read it yourself.

Yep I did the google thing. nobody really knows.

spinkick said:
Yep I did the google thing. nobody really knows.
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Try eliminate apps one by one.
Freeze one, see if it is the cause, if not then move on to the next.

nodstuff said:
Try eliminate apps one by one.
Freeze one, see if it is the cause, if not then move on to the next.
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Thanks I guess. Was hoping for more but I think I might be the pioneer on this one.

spinkick said:
Thanks I guess. Was hoping for more but I think I might be the pioneer on this one.
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Afraid so.
But at least in the future when someone searches for overflow your solution will be there for them! Good deed for the day!

Did you get anywhere with this? It looks like I'm having the same issue too. I've only got a few apps installed on many sgs 3.
ics browser +
Spotify
G strings (music tuner)
Color note
Beautiful widgets.
Thanks.

Same here. I get this issue from time to time with my galaxy nexus. I have to reboot to get it to go away.

Ist it possible that lightflow is The Bad app .
It will logical. Cause the wakelocks are everytime when a message is coming in lightly send a command to the light notification to go on.
I think that's the app in my wakelocks.
I ll try it out.

I have the same entry with overflow on my galaxy s3. but from the list 3 posts up I only habe Beautiful widgets installed. and many other apps. I haven't installed lightflow.

ks2 said:
I have the same entry with overflow on my galaxy s3. but from the list 3 posts up I only habe Beautiful widgets installed. and many other apps. I haven't installed lightflow.
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I've not had this return after removing beautiful widgets. My only other offender for random high battery usage is a gtalk process, which I understand is related to google sync rather than the app itself (which has since been removed).

today I have the "overflow" process since many days back. The last weeks I had not this issue. Today I updated many apps in the market and remove "google googles".
And now, there it is. the "overflow" process is back.
Beautiful widgets is no more on my phone. I use now fancy widgets and many other programs.
I think this is a sporadic problem. I reboot my phone and looks forward.

Reboot doesn't help to remove :crying:
Why the hell the process is back.

i have the same with S3, any updates ?

not on my side.
the android 4.1 is out. but at this time only on kies. I have'nt try it out. but i think it is an user installed application that goes to "overflow"
it looks like the battery live time is the same without the overflow, so i ignore it

Have you tried posting here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

marceldy said:
i have the same with S3, any updates ?
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I'm fairly convinced it was Beautiful Widgets causing my problem.
I also found Samsung Sync was an offender for increased battery usage, disabling it has increased battery life from 2 and a bit days to 3 and a bit.
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Trifidw said:
I'm fairly convinced it was Beautiful Widgets causing my problem.
I also found Samsung Sync was an offender for increased battery usage, disabling it has increased battery life from 2 and a bit days to 3 and a bit.
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to be honest i never ever used Beautiful Widgets, yet im using lightflow ! i frozen it for few hours and till now i didnt get that problem. could it be that few apps have this problem ?

[Q] PowerManagerService wakelock

I am monitoring my battery through BetterBatteryStatus. I see that the PowerManagerService kernel wakelock is keeping my phone from going to sleep. It keeps the phone on for nearly 120 mins in a day. Any idea of what that could be? I suspect that it is due to the Smart Stay feature of Galaxy S3 and I just disabled it now.

I'm getting this on CM 10.1, so no power stay. Wondering what it is too though.

PowerManagerService is basically a catch-all for partial wakelocks (wakelocks requested by non system apps). To see which apps are actually requesting the wakelocks, go to the Partial Wakelocks screen.

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PowerManagerService is basically a catch-all for partial wakelocks (wakelocks requested by non system apps). To see which apps are actually requesting the wakelocks, go to the Partial Wakelocks screen.
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Is there any way to drill down this service and detect what exactly is draining the battery?

eboosted said:
Is there any way to drill down this service and detect what exactly is draining the battery?
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Use Better Battery Stats. instead of looking at the Kernel Wakelocks, switch it to partial wakelocks, and if I understand correctly, the sum of the partial wakelocks is effectively the powermanagementservice wakelock

Just wanted to say that i too had a lot of partial wakelocks draining battery on my SGS3 CM11 (using ART) but I've managed to solve the problem via cleaning the cache in settings->storage. Since then, the CPU is awaken only 19% of time and my batt last 5/6 days with WiFi, Now etc.. (I have a 7000mh zerolemon)
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Caoe said:
Just wanted to say that i too had a lot of partial wakelocks draining battery on my SGS3 CM11 (using ART) but I've managed to solve the problem via cleaning the cache in settings->storage. Since then, the CPU is awaken only 19% of time and my batt last 5/6 days with WiFi, Now etc.. (I have a 7000mh zerolemon)
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Have you seen any benefits by switching to ART?
If I clean the cache, what will it delete? Will I lose all my App settings and game levels? I have about 54Mb in there.

Aitch said:
Have you seen any benefits by switching to ART?
If I clean the cache, what will it delete? Will I lose all my App settings and game levels? I have about 54Mb in there.
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Don't worry you won't lose any important data.
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Florad77 said:
Don't worry you won't lose any important data.
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I just tried clearing and a message came up saying "Security policy restricts clearing of this app's cache."
Is this normal? How can I find out which app is causing the problem?

I have a Samsung galaxy note 2 and every time I lock lock my phone it suddenly turns right back on. It's been happening for two days now. I've tried factory reset and hard reset.. nothing seems to work. Looked at several forums but none seem to help either. Use wake lock app and it says this ..see attachment

Same here with various audio partial wakelocks that add up to 12 days of kernel wakelocks. This started when I upgraded to:
gapps-kk-20140606 & cm-11-20140611-snapshot-m7-snapshot kernel 3.0101-cyanogenmod-g329d6a1 build03 #1
I have gmail sync disabled but contacts sync on. I notice CM have added apollo to the lockscreen so this could be a bug I need to search for

This amount of Power Manager Display and Wakelocks especially are to damn hi, can any1 help me, I'm on HTC10 nougat, Ice, clean slate.

kmry said:
This amount of Power Manager Display and Wakelocks especially are to damn hi, can any1 help me, I'm on HTC10 nougat, Ice, clean slate.
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@kmry Gave you resolved your battery drain issue?
I'm on HTC 10 and have the same issue with huge amounts of wake locks. The device basically never goes into deep sleep.

Meshok said:
@kmry Gave you resolved your battery drain issue?
I'm on HTC 10 and have the same issue with huge amounts of wake locks. The device basically never goes into deep sleep.
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I move away from the htc10 years ago And you should

kmry said:
I move away from the htc10 years ago And you should
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Why should we move away from HTC 10?

Meshok said:
Why should we move away from HTC 10?
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even tough i still love HTC (had de m7, m8, 10) there are better, cheaper, wonderfull phones on the new and second hand market right now, im on pixel 2 xl, and plan to stand by it till maybe pixel 5 if google decide to get their **** together.

kmry said:
there are better, cheaper, wonderfull phones
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What do mean by 'better' and 'wonderfull' specifically?

How to improve battery life on jellybean?

Hi!!!
I'm currently using the black jellybean 4.1.1 rom. And I would like to improve my battery life.
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Turn screen brightness down and check for wake locks using BetterBatteryStats.
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Most likely, it's an app misbehaving.
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Try using something like juicedefender lite or go power manager from the play store. They can help you set up different modes that toggle things that eat battery life. They also tell you what apps/hardware is using the most battery.
I found that on mine, the screen was using a ton as was the 4g at work (bad connection). So Juice defender will turn off/on my 4g every 15 minutes and download updates without draining my whole battery. Good luck!

erodriguez87 said:
Try using something like juicedefender lite or go power manager from the play store. They can help you set up different modes that toggle things that eat battery life. They also tell you what apps/hardware is using the most battery.
I found that on mine, the screen was using a ton as was the 4g at work (bad connection). So Juice defender will turn off/on my 4g every 15 minutes and download updates without draining my whole battery. Good luck!
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no. just no.
@OP
you have an app keeping your phone awake alot.

How come NFC is waking up my phone when I have it turned off and frozen?!
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The thing is I use the task manager a lot closing my apps and all. But it has not improved my battery life at all. And its frustrating since I'm out of the house almost the whole day (9 to 10 hrs sometimes 12 hrs). Should I change my kernel or something?
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yuukimoonstar said:
The thing is I use the task manager a lot closing my apps and all. But it has not improved my battery life at all. And its frustrating since I'm out of the house almost the whole day (9 to 10 hrs sometimes 12 hrs). Should I change my kernel or something?
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stop using a task manager. that is probably what is killing your battery.

Add this tweak to /system/build.prop
ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=0 - This setting puts your phone into a deeper sleep when on standby. This may improve battery life.
pm.sleep_mode=1 - This sets the phone to use power collapse when in standby.
0 - Power Collapse Suspend
1 - Power Collapse
2 - Apps Sleep
3 - Slow Clock and Wait for Interrupt (default)
4 - Wait for Interrupt
Hit thanks button )
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yuukimoonstar said:
The thing is I use the task manager a lot closing my apps and all. But it has not improved my battery life at all. And its frustrating since I'm out of the house almost the whole day (9 to 10 hrs sometimes 12 hrs). Should I change my kernel or something?
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Get the Rasbean Jelly ROM and the Trinity Kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26998659#post26998659
HTH,
vG

Zepius said:
no. just no.
... Thanks that was really helpful. I still stand by Juice Defender. In areas where my data connection is weak (like at work) my phone is on for hours without dropping more than a couple percent.
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there are many reasons that are responsible for fast battery drain.
1. App using the Processor to its fullest.
2. App misbehaving (restarting multiple times in background)
3. Overheating of device due to any external or internal factor
4. Battery fault.
I would recommend you
1. Set the brightness of your phone to "AutoMode"
2. Use Power saving mode while not playing resource hungry games.
3. Download Clean master. that will solve the app misbehaving problem which results in Overheating.
4. Charge your phone wisely.

Phone never sleeps when screen is off?

I am currently running liquidsmooth RC7 and the problem I'm having is that my phone never sleeps and that causes me to lose a lot of battery even when the screen is off. Before putting my phone on charging, my battery life is about 60 percent remaining on 7 and a half hours total with about 1 and a half hour of screen time.
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Can't sleep
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U need cpuspy to see if u are sleeping or not. Also the memdroids seems to be running all the time

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I am currently running liquidsmooth RC7 and the problem I'm having is that my phone never sleeps and that causes me to lose a lot of battery even when the screen is off. Before putting my phone on charging, my battery life is about 60 percent remaining on 7 and a half hours total with about 1 and a half hour of screen time.
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Mine never sleeps either on 7 or 9.
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Get the Better Battery Stats app from the market and use it to figure out what's wakelocking your phone. Either freeze, uninstall, change sync settings, or limit auto starts on the problematic apps.
Russian smashed across the interwebz from my T-Mobile Galaxy S2. Please hit thanks if I helped.

Better Battery Stats is the way to go. I had the same issue on Liquid Smooth RC7. You need to look for the partial wake locks after unplugged. The biggest changes I made was to change syncing on most apps to 3-4 hours. I can now get a deep sleep nearly indef. You will find a couple OS based wake locks that are triggered by apps you have running. just have to week them out one at a time. I can get two days straight off the phone with minimal use.

I just installed version 1.11.00 and it says no reference set yet.
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My media would cause my phone not to deep sleep so I would have to force close it. BBS helped me locate that
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adil17 said:
I just installed version 1.11.00 and it says no reference set yet.
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You need to pick one on the main screen of the app. This option is the one that allows you to pick certain things like Since Unplugged, Since Boot, Since Screen Off, etc. This is the "reference" point from which BBS will show you wakelocks from. For the other option, you're most likely looking for "Partial Wakelocks". It's also gonna take some time to gather stats. For a quicker check, I usually use Since Unplugged, plug my phone in, make sure music and other foreground apps are closed, unplug it, don't use the phone, and check BBS in an hour or two. Check the XDA thread for the app if you have more questions about it. I just know the basics of the app. ~_~
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My media would cause my phone not to deep sleep so I would have to force close it. BBS helped me locate that
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Try scanning both SD cards for bad media files, then running a checkdisk on them if you have Windows, if you haven't tried that. It fixed my media scanning issues.
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adil17 said:
I just installed version 1.11.00 and it says no reference set yet.
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No reference is usually from it not having a start point. Meaning you have to let it charge to 100% then unplug it with BBS running. Or if you just installed it, plug it in and unplug it. It will start from there.
"Since Unplugged" it the setting to use. Along with partial wake locks. I also highly suggest the 2x2 widget that goes with it. Just tap on it for a refresh of the new info. Will display how long you've been in each state.

What I did was I download juice defender and I under clock it when I lock/put it to sleep and before I go to sleep I close the applications that take a lot of ram. Overall when my phone goes to sleep it only loses around 1-5 percent which is way better than lossing 30%-50% every night
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Verizon took out Battery Saver, here's Qualcomm's solution: Snapdragon™ BatteryGuru

I, and a few other users have noticed that Verizon decided to have HTC strip out their battery saver toggle on the Sense ROM (4.2.2) that ships on VZW's One.
Luckily, Qualcomm provides a standalone application which covers 90% of what the toggle does.
Snapdragon™ BatteryGuru
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Xiam+Technologies+Limited,+a+Qualcomm+company
(personally, I haven't found the need to use it yet, but I figured it would help some people)

Thanks man, I was looking for that battery saver mode everywhere, but I guess this will do as well.

Thanks for this info. Anyone know if this is particular app will perform better from more generic battery extenders like Juice Defender?

According to the reviews all it does schedule syncing. Don't know how that is going to save battery...

Battery saver apps are a joke. The only thing I liked about power saver mode was that it cut the CPU frequency down and cut data off after a certain period of time. Other than that, if you need to save more just turn your brightness down, turn off bluetooth, use WiFi as much as possible, and use the phone less.

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Battery saver apps are a joke. The only thing I liked about power saver mode was that it cut the CPU frequency down and cut data off after a certain period of time. Other than that, if you need to save more just turn your brightness down, turn off bluetooth, use WiFi as much as possible, and use the phone less.
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for my personal use, I 100% agree.

andybones said:
for my personal use, I 100% agree.
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1+ lol

I normally agree - I realized the other day though, that I don't need background *push* email - but I'd like to have my phone "fetch" email every time I wake it up. Anyone know of anything like that?
(there is a manual setting, but it is when you *enter* the mail app, I'd like it to fetch every time I use the phone.)
-D

dweidman said:
I normally agree - I realized the other day though, that I don't need background *push* email - but I'd like to have my phone "fetch" email every time I wake it up. Anyone know of anything like that?
(there is a manual setting, but it is when you *enter* the mail app, I'd like it to fetch every time I use the phone.)
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Think about how often you "actually" need to have your emails and set it to that. For me, my Yahoo emails I don't need it to check but once hourly. But Gmail is push automatically so I won't mess with that. My corporate email defaulted to push but I often don't need it to constantly update and annoy me so I'm contemplating on 30 min intervals. Setting your emails to longer intervals should reduce that "email stress" that most people seem to endure these days.

The app has low power mode controls.
You can turn off mobile data during inactivity.
Some other features.
It basically gives you battery saver control on any Snapdragon based device.

Lol you could always just use BoneStock ROM. Andy threw the battery saver apk from (can't remember dev's handle. sorry) back in it.

BreakingVZW said:
Lol you could always just use BoneStock ROM. Andy threw the battery saver apk from (can't remember dev's handle. sorry) back in it.
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It was actually an .XML edit.
but sane difference

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It was actually an .XML edit.
but sane difference
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Yeah... That's what I said... XML :silly:

BreakingVZW said:
Lol you could always just use BoneStock ROM. Andy threw the battery saver apk from (can't remember dev's handle. sorry) back in it.
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What does that battery saver actually do on the phone?
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dspcap said:
What does that battery saver actually do on the phone?
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What does that battery saver actually do on the phone?
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It limits CPU, dims display and disables vibration feedback. Basically everything you can do yourself in stock and if you have a CPU app like SetCPU. Just a one click option that Verizon took out bc they hate battery life I guess idk.

Im running bonestock now, and the power saver has increased my battery life fairly significantly, i'll take that, because at first i wasnt impressed with the battery life, and i watched the ifixit tutorial on how to tear this phone apart to replace a battery, and i want nothing to do with that