Optimus G E971, KitKat ROM, and Heat Issues - LG Optimus G (International)

So I ran into a peculiar problem.. I flashed my E971 (Unlocked, Canada) and I successfully installed the KitKat AOSP rom. No problems there. However, the optimus G has problems utilizing it's cores and it heats up, therefore, as we all know, it is recommended to keep the phone in EcoMode..........PROBLEM: There is no ecomode in KitKat rom! So now the phone heats up and I lost something like 40% battery power in one hour of use last night and I had data off, location off, sync off, brightness low, the only thing I had on was wifi.
Anyways, I can surely flash back to stock ROM but I really don't want to. Can someone recommend an app to manage the cores or some way to put the phone into "EcoMode" like was possible with Android 4.1.2?
I tried a few CPU manager apps but they mostly say "You phone doesn't support multiple cores"

ryanmackk said:
So I ran into a peculiar problem.. I flashed my E971 (Unlocked, Canada) and I successfully installed the KitKat AOSP rom. No problems there. However, the optimus G has problems utilizing it's cores and it heats up, therefore, as we all know, it is recommended to keep the phone in EcoMode..........PROBLEM: There is no ecomode in KitKat rom! So now the phone heats up and I lost something like 40% battery power in one hour of use last night and I had data off, location off, sync off, brightness low, the only thing I had on was wifi.
Anyways, I can surely flash back to stock ROM but I really don't want to. Can someone recommend an app to manage the cores or some way to put the phone into "EcoMode" like was possible with Android 4.1.2?
I tried a few CPU manager apps but they mostly say "You phone doesn't support multiple cores"
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If yu have installed Houstonns AOSP rom then yu can use Trickster mod app to turn off cores....hot plug is available....ECO mode is nothing but dual core mode....this one solve the heating issue..:good:

hasan4791 said:
If yu have installed Houstonns AOSP rom then yu can use Trickster mod app to turn off cores....hot plug is available....ECO mode is nothing but dual core mode....this one solve the heating issue..:good:
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Luckily it has Houstonns. Are there other apps out there that I can try out beside the hot plug? How does one replicate eco mode? Simply switch off two cores, or lower the frequency from 1500 to 1200 and lower?

ryanmackk said:
Luckily it has Houstonns. Are there other apps out there that I can try out beside the hot plug? How does one replicate eco mode? Simply switch off two cores, or lower the frequency from 1500 to 1200 and lower?
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As far as i know trickster mod is best if yu search in free apps list.... And faux clock app in the paid list.... Also i think 1026mhz is fyn.. Im running stock with eco mode on nd running at 1026mhz freq in all cores...!!..
Sent from my LG-E975 powering Stock 4.1.2

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Which kernel should I have if I just want OC?

My phone is rooted and has s-off but I have a few issues. One is almost half the time when I hit the power button the screen doesn't turn on instantly but the soft buttons light up. It usually takes me hitting it 2-3 times swiftly to get my screen on. Another issue is sometimes wifi calling gets screwed up so it doesn't work and it drains my battery as a background task stuck on restarting. I really only want my phone overclocked so just have baconbits kernel. is there a newer version I should put on that fixes these issues?
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My phone is rooted and has s-off but I have a few issues. One is almost half the time when I hit the power button the screen doesn't turn on instantly but the soft buttons light up. It usually takes me hitting it 2-3 times swiftly to get my screen on. Another issue is sometimes wifi calling gets screwed up so it doesn't work and it drains my battery as a background task stuck on restarting. I really only want my phone overclocked so just have baconbits kernel. is there a newer version I should put on that fixes these issues?
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Baconbits, to my knowledge, is the only OCd kernel available for the stock ROM. Your screen issue might actually be caused by underclocking though, do you have a screen off profile or a minimum set?
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I just have it set to 368-1497. Should I up the minimum?
legato89 said:
I just have it set to 368-1497. Should I up the minimum?
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Give the overclock widget a try. Its available free on the market. In the advanced setting, set your screen off profile to 245 min and 806 max. Scroll down and hit "save" before you exit settings. That will keep your phone running at stock speeds while the screen is off and should stop the wake issue you're having. When you're using the phone you'll be at the higher speeds.
I already had the widget. Did what you said but it still occurs.
legato89 said:
I already had the widget. Did what you said but it still occurs.
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245 is *way* too low, especially if you have things running in the background ... just start raising the lower end up until it stops happening.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
Setting it to stay at 800 while the screen is off seemed to fix it. Any ideas about wifi calling bugging out? It usually doesn't happen very often, I think when my phone has been on for a while without a restart.
overclock widget doesn't overclock anything.... it controls the speeds AFTER you've installed an overclock kernel. I highly suggest using flippys turbocharged 1.8ghz kernel. Just because it is capable of 1.8ghz doesn't mean that you need to run it at 1.8ghz. you can just do something like 1.1 or something in between. Give it a look.
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overclock widget doesn't overclock anything.... it controls the speeds AFTER you've installed an overclock kernel. I highly suggest using flippys turbocharged 1.8ghz kernel. Just because it is capable of 1.8ghz doesn't mean that you need to run it at 1.8ghz. you can just do something like 1.1 or something in between. Give it a look.
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Nobody said the OC widget overclocked anything. Did you read the OP's first post? It was suggested so as to enable a screen off profile because the OP is having a wake issue while using baconbits.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
EdKeys said:
Nobody said the OC widget overclocked anything. Did you read the OP's first post? It was suggested so as to enable a screen off profile because the OP is having a wake issue while using baconbits.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
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set the off screen profile to the lowest speed 200/200mhz and 100% priority and he wont have anymore wake issues, don't know what I was reading hahaha
The screen on issue doesn't happen anymore but I'm not satisfied with my battery life. In the past something was causing my battery to drain insanely fast so I un installed a bunch of unused apps and started checking background tasks but when browsing the internet for 20 minutes on my way home I use 30% of the battery, bluetooth on.
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Anyone know if it is possible to run Pershoot's kernel on the stock rom that comes with the device? Any side effects?
I don't know enough to say 100% one way or the other, but I read in a post I can't find right now that only BaconBits is made to work with the stock rom.
FWIW, I tried to flash the 1.8 GHz kernal on my stock G2 this morning, and got stuck in a boot loop.
On AndroidCentral people are saying they have improved battery life with CM7 nightlies. I'd like to try running a ROM finally. Do I need to get rid of my Baconbits kernel before proceeding? I already backed up everything with Titanium.
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On AndroidCentral people are saying they have improved battery life with CM7 nightlies. I'd like to try running a ROM finally. Do I need to get rid of my Baconbits kernel before proceeding? I already backed up everything with Titanium.
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NO. The first thing you need to do is flash clockworkmod 3.0.0.5, which is totally different than ROM Manager. As of right now the latest clockworkmod available through ROM Manager is 2.5.1.3. If you haven't flashed that yet (2.5.1.3) do that first through ROM Manager. The best way to flash 3.0.0.5 is to find the .img file, place it on your sd card and run the commands from terminal emulator. After that just wipe data/factory reset, wipe davlik cache and flash the latest nightly .zip, reboot, then the latest gapps .zip. Go to the development forum and the first post in the nightly vendor vision thread has all the links you'll need.

[REQUEST] simple app: Help with overheat problem

Hello,
I need a simple app to help with an overheat problem on my EVO.
Let me recap the problem simply, when the phone gets too warm it will shut down and vibrate five times and then blink the green LED. The phone then cannot be turned back on until the battery has cooled down.
I have found a half solution, if my phone is in Airplane mode then it will not shut down even when it is warm. So, to avoid shutdown, I need a simple widget. The widget should be 2x1. On the left side, a simple battery temp monitor. On the right side, an airplane icon to let me know if the phone is in airplane mode or not.
What I need the app to do is to automatically switch the phone to airplane mode if the the phone gets above a user designated temperature. The only exception to the automatic airplane mode should be if the phone is in a current call. Seems like the phone will let me finish a call before shutting down due to heat. Hopefully the app can throw the phone into airplane mode immediately when the call ends. But if that exception is too difficult, the primary functionality would still be worth it.
This is my first app request, so I don't know if I'm being specific enough. I also know that other people can use this app. Hopefully someone out there can help us all out.
Thanks
There is an app called tasker that should be able to do that for you. At least untill someone can build an app for you.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Not sure what your doing to over heat the phone, but I would try to fix the problem instead of usong a work around. It sounds like you have an inefficient kernel or its too far ovrrclocked. I'm thinking continual use in this overheated state will cause unrepairable damage to your phone.
Just looked at Tasker, from what I can tell it does not have Temperature as an event.
And the problem cause is not my kernel, from what I can tell. I've tried a few different kernels on a couple different mods. I've tried underclocking and under volting. Nothing seems to help. From what I've read, I might have a faulty sensor.
I had a hell of a time with cm7 and the jit compiler. Poor battery life and running warm even when browsing the web. Not sure what your running but it may be as easy as tapping a checkbox.
siris420 said:
Not sure what your doing to over heat the phone, but I would try to fix the problem instead of usong a work around. It sounds like you have an inefficient kernel or its too far ovrrclocked. I'm thinking continual use in this overheated state will cause unrepairable damage to your phone.
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It's a hardware cpu sensor calibration issue, according to Sprint tech Lokifish Mars. Search for my thread in Evo General.
I avoid shutdowns by keeping battery temp < 39°C.
mine overheated when i was charging and using hotspot/tether, somehow after i wiped my sd card and everything else and installed the rom again it never overheated again.
somehow the more apps get installed the more the chanse some of them be are gonna be running in the backgroung, who knows...
omenovi said:
mine overheated when i was charging and using hotspot/tether, somehow after i wiped my sd card and everything else and installed the rom again it never overheated again.
somehow the more apps get installed the more the chanse some of them be are gonna be running in the backgroung, who knows...
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Some phones overheat and shutdown regardless of installed apps, rom, or kernel. My Evo consistently shutsdown at 39°C, even when running bare aosp w/zero apps installed.
It's only an issue for me when playing games, using the phone in high ambient temps, and flashing mods. Keeping the battery & cpu cool with a fan or ac vent is the only way I can flash mods or roms.
Elixir is a free app on the market, you can make customizable widgets (1x1 up to 4x1), one for temp, the other to toggle airplane mode.
I use it to monitor temp, battery, cpu freq, and cpu %, and to keep an eye on ram.
Works well.

[Q] LG Optimus G battery drain fast

hi all, this is the first time i come here
I am using LG Optimus G, i have tried many rom(event stock) for my phone, but in wait time my phone drain 2%-3%/1h.
When i set Screen 100%, listening music via 3G and use camera(with flash on), my phone lose 85% baterry energy for 2h 30minutes, so i think my battery phone was fine.
I have tried many ways to improve batterry life, but nothing change.
Please give me some suggestion, thank you :fingers-crossed:
I also use Greenify and Titanium to freeze some app and service, but the problem still come
And what do expect?it's like saying : "hey,i drive my car with 200km/h and i have great fuel consumption. You gave the answers yourself. 3g streaming and highest brightness on a 4.7" display?nice job. And if you are in a low signal area,the things get even better. Haven't you heard yet?3g is one of the biggest cause for drain.
Use betterbatteystats to see what causes the drain.if you don't play games a litle underclocking would save you some battery.
Sent from stock LG E975/smart phones,dumb people. now Free
@kimitza
Thank for your reply, funny man!
I have tested with "Airplane mode", and my phone still drain 2%/1h on standby mode
So you have something eating your battery. Bbstats and cpu spy to see if the phone goes to deep sleep and then look for hungry apps.
Sent from stock LG E975/smart phones,dumb people. now Free
@kimitza
My first post was placed in wrong category and i can not delete it, so sorry.
Now, i installed 2 app you recommed, i will see the hungry apps.
Thank you :victory:
hi @kimitza,
I have installed and tested with 2 apps you recommened.
"Phone Idle" has 47% and "Cell standby" has 30%(i also set CPU to minimum frequence and also tested with "Airplane mode").
I don't know why
try greenify on playstore to hibernate(freeze) bloated apps
paramoun7z said:
try greenify on playstore to hibernate(freeze) bloated apps
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I don't install any apps, so i have nothing to hibernate. I have tried Titanium and freezed a lot of services and apps
and also wakelock detector to monitor if there is any apps causing wakelocks
I duno what yu are expecting... But losing 3% / hr is fine.... Since you using 3g....also setcpu wont underclock the freq of all the cores.. It ly manages the master core i.e. Core0....so mobiles with quad core processors, setcpu is not tat grt application..... I've edited the thermald conf file in /etc and set the cpu cores to 1026mhz, by this way you can underclock the freq of all the 4 cores... With 2 hrs screen on I lost 70% of battery juice in 12hrs with ECO MODE OFF, 3G DATA ALWAYS ON, Screen brightness set to 25% with auto...
Sent from my LG-E975 powering Stock 4.1.2
hasan4791 said:
I duno what yu are expecting... But losing 3% / hr is fine.... Since you using 3g....also setcpu wont underclock the freq of all the cores.. It ly manages the master core i.e. Core0....so mobiles with quad core processors, setcpu is not tat grt application..... I've edited the thermald conf file in /etc and set the cpu cores to 1026mhz, by this way you can underclock the freq of all the 4 cores... With 2 hrs screen on I lost 70% of battery juice in 12hrs with ECO MODE OFF, 3G DATA ALWAYS ON, Screen brightness set to 25% with auto...
Sent from my LG-E975 powering Stock 4.1.2
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that is very good!! but what about the performance? i mean not in games, while browsing and listening music or something is there any lag?
ShadowsDie said:
that is very good!! but what about the performance? i mean not in games, while browsing and listening music or something is there any lag?
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Performance is gud.....I can play NFS most wanted without any lag...also keep in mind that wen yu are playing games be sure that auto brightness must be disabled as it causes lag...:good:
hasan4791 said:
I duno what yu are expecting... But losing 3% / hr is fine.... Since you using 3g....also setcpu wont underclock the freq of all the cores.. It ly manages the master core i.e. Core0....so mobiles with quad core processors, setcpu is not tat grt application..... I've edited the thermald conf file in /etc and set the cpu cores to 1026mhz, by this way you can underclock the freq of all the 4 cores... With 2 hrs screen on I lost 70% of battery juice in 12hrs with ECO MODE OFF, 3G DATA ALWAYS ON, Screen brightness set to 25% with auto...
Sent from my LG-E975 powering Stock 4.1.2
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Event I reinstall the os(rom stock), and my phone lose 2%/1h in standby mode, i have disabled some services, event i set my phone to airplane mode, i don't know why my phone lose a lot of batterry in standby and airplane mode
rongnk said:
Event I reinstall the os(rom stock), and my phone lose 2%/1h in standby mode, i have disabled some services, event i set my phone to airplane mode, i don't know why my phone lose a lot of batterry in standby and airplane mode
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Chk with cpuspy app whethr it goes deep sleep mode....
Sent from my LG-E975 powering Stock 4.1.2
hasan4791 said:
Chk with cpuspy app whethr it goes deep sleep mode....
Sent from my LG-E975 powering Stock 4.1.2
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I installed spuspy and it report "deep sleep mode 80.5%" with lowest cpu frequency
HERE...document yourself . It's for N7000,but the basics are the same. You must understand how things work first,then ask questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31352080
if you still don't make it good,i recommend you sell this phone and get a nokia 1100. heck,it even has a flashlight.
kimitza said:
HERE...document yourself . It's for N7000,but the basics are the same. You must understand how things work first,then ask questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31352080
if you still don't make it good,i recommend you sell this phone and get a nokia 1100. heck,it even has a flashlight.
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Thank you, my problem is same to this guy: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/q6-Xt6ezkE4
I try the link you gave, but nothing change
Dear Guys, I am trying to ask your eperiences with LG Optimus E975 (Originally LG F180l)
The phone is old (Feb 2014), but until now it worked great. I bought it on my trip around South Korea, but I use it at the Czech Republic.
Situation:
The LGF180l phone has started battery drain very quickly, even in idle mode (Data Off, Sync account off, GPS OFF, Brightness Min, Auto bright off, Screen rotation off, Airplane mode ON, LG Phone backup OFF ...) In this configuration, the screen still consumes about 50% of the battery. Previous vallue was about 20% in normal operation mode. So I tried using LG Flash Tool 2014 to make CSE Flash and convert my phone to LG Optimus E975. The situation has not changed. Even with a perfectly clean installation, the screen consumption instantly jumps to 50-60% after the turn off and keep it permanently.
I tried to change batteries too. 1st battery has the year of production 2013, the second has 2017, but both has the same behaviour. I've tried uninstalling Google+, Google Photos, Hangouts, and more. Still without result. Now I have back the original factory configuration of the LG E975 and still the same.
If the phone turns off, there is no consumtion and battery drain.
I'm really crazy, maybe I have to tell the boss about the new phone .

[Q] Seeder, SetCpu and many other root apps no longer working help !

My One x is falling apart !
Recently, i flashed the viper rom for a change and then went back to ARHD but when i did that my phone started heating up a lot and consume more battery and also some programs no longer work any more like seeder as i cant apply it as keeps telling me to check my root folder
and also while using Setcpu
the values of the cpu frequency i set is applied for sometime and then it changes after a while and sometimes i cant set the values as it doesnt change.
Also, my battery is pretty much screwed because every time i open mobile data and surf for 5 min i see a 15% drop
which is crazy compared while using wifi
i am currently in Malaysia so is it because i should set the radio frequency to something else than automatic or whats the case ?
Please help me !
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My One x is falling apart !
Recently, i flashed the viper rom for a change and then went back to ARHD but when i did that my phone started heating up a lot and consume more battery and also some programs no longer work any more like seeder as i cant apply it as keeps telling me to check my root folder
and also while using Setcpu
the values of the cpu frequency i set is applied for sometime and then it changes after a while and sometimes i cant set the values as it doesnt change.
Also, my battery is pretty much screwed because every time i open mobile data and surf for 5 min i see a 15% drop
which is crazy compared while using wifi
i am currently in Malaysia so is it because i should set the radio frequency to something else than automatic or whats the case ?
Please help me !
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Install ARHD with full wipe and then see if this help. It is not good to flash one rom over other withowt full wipe
oRmA2 said:
My One x is falling apart !
Recently, i flashed the viper rom for a change and then went back to ARHD but when i did that my phone started heating up a lot and consume more battery and also some programs no longer work any more like seeder as i cant apply it as keeps telling me to check my root folder
and also while using Setcpu
the values of the cpu frequency i set is applied for sometime and then it changes after a while and sometimes i cant set the values as it doesnt change.
Also, my battery is pretty much screwed because every time i open mobile data and surf for 5 min i see a 15% drop
which is crazy compared while using wifi
i am currently in Malaysia so is it because i should set the radio frequency to something else than automatic or whats the case ?
Please help me !
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Seeder can make more heating and probably consume more battery.about your mobile data,try to do search manual instead than automatic and set it up.
Regards:
khairulez,
Luaskan Kuasamu.
I already did a full wipe when i moved to ARHD
I will do it again if it helps
Plus i have been using seeder ever since i rooted my phone so im good
The thing i dont know is the mobile data battery drain issue
i installed a radio mod so is that affecting the drain or what , but i checked that it is compatible with my phone
Does it has to do with the voltage of the battery because i usually reach 4.1 V easily so i dont know if its a good thing or not ?

Deep Sleep issue and fast battery discharge, how I solved the problem

Hi everyone
First of all, I'm not an expert and I'm not a developer as well; I'm just a geek who loves to understand things and solve problems. Now, since I first bought the Mi Mix 3, I noticed that I always had a problem with the battery discharge. When the phone was locked, in fact, it kept discharging very quickly and during the winter, now that my hands are colder than my ex-girlfriend heart, I could notice that even if the phone has been locked for hours, it's always a little bit warm. So he keeps doing something in the background. On the other hand, I never decided to go deeper into this, because I use two LTE sim cards and the network signal in my room is very bad, so I always end up thinking "Maybe the problem is the quality of the signal, the phone keeps attempting to connect to the mobile antennas and it needs a lot of energy". The fact is that my Mi Mix 3 kept discharging even with a very good signal, like 100m straight line to the tower. But again, I thought it was because of the bad optimization of the beta Chinese ROM (I was testing the MIUI 11).
Ok, Two days ago, I finally decided to flash a custom ROM. I love the MIUI but the temptation of flashing stuff is too high, so I went ahead, I downloaded the Evolution X 2.1 and I finally flashed it. The problem was still there. Moreover, now I'm using only one sim card. So let's flash Magisk and then BetterBatteryStats. And finally, I discovered the real problem: The DAMN CPU (both BIG cores and LITTLE cores) never go into the deep sleep state, literally. So I downloaded Kernel Auditor for more details and listen here: when the phone is locked, the BIG cores remain at their minimum frequency (825 MHz) as well as the Little ones (576 MHz, I could set it to 300 and actually I noticed a slight improvement). But no Deep Sleep at all; Kernel Auditor itself says "Never used frequencies: Deep Sleep".
So excellent! The Deep Sleep state doesn't exist at all into my phone, I'd understand having a small percentage of it, but nothing at all, what kind of problem is that? I checked the wakelocks anyway, but there was nothing weird going on. The highest value on the Kernel wakelocks was because of the display management and on the partial ones, the highest was the Google Play Services (Nah, just 1%). So wakelocks were fine. I ended up thinking that the problem was the FIrmware or the Kernel, that's something I'll never know maybe. But I managed to solve the problem.
How did I solve it?
Right at this moment I'm using the Evolution X 2.1 ROM and, to be frank, I thought it could solve the problem but it didn't. For instance, I also tried different governors instead of the schedutil set by default, like conservative or powersave, nothing changed again.
"Ok ok, enough about that, how can I solve it?"
You have to install the XASP (M.A.R.S.) mod. This will solve your problem.
Check the topic:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-mix-3/development/rom-xasp-xiaomi-aosp-snapdragon-patch-t3931721
And the developer's website:
https://sites.google.com/view/miustone/HOME
And the developer's GitHub repository related to the project:
https://github.com/Miustone/MARS-Patch
Some hints:
You need an AOSP ROM in order to make it work. It won't work on any MIUI ROM (I think)!
The installation instructions say that you should flash it right after a fresh install of the ROM (It must be Android 9 / SDK 28 - AOSP ARM64), but I flashed it even after a few days of using and it worked as well.
You need to clone/download the repository, unzip it, move into the unzipped directory (where there's the META-INF), select everything and compress it into a zip file and that will be the patch you should flash using the TWRP recovery.
P.S. I know, it's not really a solution, I mean, If you don't want to root your phone, you have to rely on the original version of the MIUI, but from what I've seen, bot MIUI 10 global developer and MIUI 11 china developer have this problem. If you just don't want a custom ROM but you rooted your phone, you could try the MIUI EU ROM, I don't know if it has the same problem tho.
And finally, let your CPU rest a little bit!
UPDATE: The MIUI EU ROM works very well. The phone manages to go in the deep sleep state as well and everything works fine. So if you don't want to flash multiple zips and do tricky things, just use the MIUI EU ROM and you'll be ok. Let's keep reporting any deep sleep issue here tho!
And thanks everyone for the help!
EU MIUI 11 does not have the problem. I got fed up with the various inadequacies of the current AOSP-based roms and decided to give MIUI another go, although I previously disliked it intensely. Turns out that the EU version of MIUI 11 is stunningly good. Camera works properly, including with the slider, it's super-smooth and fast, notifications work correctly, but the biggest difference is battery life because when the screen is off there's almost no drain at all (in contrast to all the other ROMs I've tried). The only thing I didn't like about MIUI 11 was the launcher, even with the new app drawer option it's still not to my taste, but with Nova installed it works just like AOSP.
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EU MIUI 11 does not have the problem. I got fed up with the various inadequacies of the current AOSP-based ROMs and decided to give MIUI another go, although I previously disliked it intensely. Turns out that the EU version of MIUI 11 is stunningly good. Camera works properly, including with the slider, it's super-smooth and fast, notifications work correctly, but the biggest difference is battery life because when the screen is off there's almost no drain at all (in contrast to all the other ROMs I've tried). The only thing I didn't like about MIUI 11 was the launcher, even with the new app drawer option it's still not to my taste, but with Nova installed it works just like AOSP.
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Well, this is a great thing to hear! Actually, the Evolution X 2.1 with that mod is just amazing, but the preinstalled GCam (Which works perfectly with pictures instead of the one you can install on the MIUI) can't take videos in 4K, only FHD; in general, I find the MIUI camera app excellent, but I can't find it and I'm quite sure I can't use it on this ROM. So maybe I'll give the MIUI 11 EU a try as well, thank you for sharing!
P.S. Turned out that I was having the deep sleep issue even after flashing the patch, but I was able to notice that it was because of the Google Photo app, so check for that if you're experiencing the battery drain problem.
Takenfal said:
Well, this is a great thing to hear! Actually, the Evolution X 2.1 with that mod is just amazing, but the preinstalled GCam (Which works perfectly with pictures instead of the one you can install on the MIUI) can't take videos in 4K, only FHD; in general, I find the MIUI camera app excellent, but I can't find it and I'm quite sure I can't use it on this ROM. So maybe I'll give the MIUI 11 EU a try as well, thank you for sharing!
P.S. Turned out that I was having the deep sleep issue even after flashing the patch, but I was able to notice that it was because of the Google Photo app, so check for that if you're experiencing the battery drain problem.
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Yes! I'm somewhat shocked at how good MIUI 11 is. The app permissions are still a bit of an annoyance, they seem to install with no permissions by default, so you have to grant them, but there's a new option (I assume it's an Android 10 feature) to allow a permission only while an app is in use which is nice. I've been running it for a few days now and I can't see any reason to go back. The other huge thing it solved for me is the reboot issue with wireless charging that seems to afflict all the AOSP/LOS-based roms (random reboots and bootloops while charging, to test it put your phone on a wireless charger and reboot).
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Yes! I'm somewhat shocked at how good MIUI 11 is. The app permissions are still a bit of an annoyance, they seem to install with no permissions by default, so you have to grant them, but there's a new option (I assume it's an Android 10 feature) to allow a permission only while an app is in use which is nice. I've been running it for a few days now and I can't see any reason to go back. The other huge thing it solved for me is the reboot issue with wireless charging that seems to afflict all the AOSP/LOS-based roms (random reboots and bootloops while charging, to test it put your phone on a wireless charger and reboot).
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Look like you're right! I rebooted my phone while charging it wirelessly and it kept rebooting on MI logo. Interesting bug lol
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Look like you're right! I rebooted my phone while charging it wirelessly and it kept rebooting on MI logo. Interesting bug lol
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Yes, and if you leave it on charge overnight, it will occasionally randomly reboot then bootloop until the light wakes you up. Ask me how I know..... I highly recommend you try MIUI 11, I still haven't found any problems with it and I even managed to get Google Pay working, which I wasn't able to do on any of the other roms.
I know that the collection of scripts and stuff posted above have been massively flamed as causing issues elsewhere in the forums. I would generally caution against installing them as many users ended up fastbooting other MIUI devices after trying to install them. I think the dev who made them is trying to do good things, but I would proceed with caution. As others have mentioned, MIUI11 does not seem to have this problem.
@PWn3R Yep, had a nice stressy afternoon with the patch. Managed to make a few aditional mistakes and was locked out of recovery and ended up flashing the phone through fastboot.
I did fix my battery issues though, and it is running quite well now. Instead of roughly 12 hours of battery life I now get over 24 with the same usage.
I really hate MIUI and will never go back for the simple reason that my phone that I used for development was unable to activate ADB sideloading because it has to validate this against Xiaomi servers. And there was an issue there. To much control over my device is in China, so that is a big no no for me. I rather deal with some custom rom issues than that.
I see, but It's the only way I was able to finally put the phone in deep sleep. I don't know what's wrong with the Mi MIX 3 but it's very hard to see the deep sleep state with any ROM, MIUI or customs doesn't matter. I'm trying the MIUI EU now and guess what? The CPU is constantly running at 576 MHz. Only 2 minutes of deep sleep over an entire day without charging it. I only installed Whatsapp, Telegram X, and BetterBatteryStats. The integrated battery tool shows that WhatsApp is the cause of the massive battery drain (don't know if it's really because it prevents the deep sleep state or because it had to restore all the media after the installation); in any case, BetterbatteryStats, on the partial wakelocks tab, shows WhatsApp but only 1% of wakelocks. So I don't really know what the cause is.
Hi - here's my device with over 150 apps installed. I am running Xaomi EU atm with the latest weekly beta.
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Hi - here's my device with over 150 apps installed. I am running Xaomi EU atm with the latest weekly beta.
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+1. That looks like mine, too. With the screen off, the drain is less than I've ever seen on any device previously. Modified versions of the rom optimized for a device always perform better than AOSP, particularly on battery. It all comes down to whether you can live with the rest of the crap they usually add. EU MIUI 11 is a pretty good compromise, imo, with a third party launcher installed it's very similar to the other roms anyway.
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Hi everyone
First of all, I'm not an expert and I'm not a developer as well; I'm just a geek who loves to understand things and solve problems. Now, since I first bought the Mi Mix 3, I noticed that I always had a problem with the battery discharge. When the phone was locked, in fact, it kept discharging very quickly and during the winter, now that my hands are colder than my ex-girlfriend heart, I could notice that even if the phone has been locked for hours, it's always a little bit warm. So he keeps doing something in the background. On the other hand, I never decided to go deeper into this, because I use two LTE sim cards and the network signal in my room is very bad, so I always end up thinking "Maybe the problem is the quality of the signal, the phone keeps attempting to connect to the mobile antennas and it needs a lot of energy". The fact is that my Mi Mix 3 kept discharging even with a very good signal, like 100m straight line to the tower. But again, I thought it was because of the bad optimization of the beta Chinese ROM (I was testing the MIUI 11).
Ok, Two days ago, I finally decided to flash a custom ROM. I love the MIUI but the temptation of flashing stuff is too high, so I went ahead, I downloaded the Evolution X 2.1 and I finally flashed it. The problem was still there. Moreover, now I'm using only one sim card. So let's flash Magisk and then BetterBatteryStats. And finally, I discovered the real problem: The DAMN CPU (both BIG cores and LITTLE cores) never go into the deep sleep state, literally. So I downloaded Kernel Auditor for more details and listen here: when the phone is locked, the BIG cores remain at their minimum frequency (825 MHz) as well as the Little ones (576 MHz, I could set it to 300 and actually I noticed a slight improvement). But no Deep Sleep at all; Kernel Auditor itself says "Never used frequencies: Deep Sleep".
So excellent! The Deep Sleep state doesn't exist at all into my phone, I'd understand having a small percentage of it, but nothing at all, what kind of problem is that? I checked the wakelocks anyway, but there was nothing weird going on. The highest value on the Kernel wakelocks was because of the display management and on the partial ones, the highest was the Google Play Services (Nah, just 1%). So wakelocks were fine. I ended up thinking that the problem was the FIrmware or the Kernel, that's something I'll never know maybe. But I managed to solve the problem.
How did I solve it?
Right at this moment I'm using the Evolution X 2.1 ROM and, to be frank, I thought it could solve the problem but it didn't. For instance, I also tried different governors instead of the schedutil set by default, like conservative or powersave, nothing changed again.
"Ok ok, enough about that, how can I solve it?"
You have to install the XASP (M.A.R.S.) mod. This will solve your problem.
Check the topic:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-mix-3/development/rom-xasp-xiaomi-aosp-snapdragon-patch-t3931721
And the developer's website:
https://sites.google.com/view/miustone/HOME
And the developer's GitHub repository related to the project:
https://github.com/Miustone/MARS-Patch
Some hints:
You need an AOSP ROM in order to make it work. It won't work on any MIUI ROM (I think)!
The installation instructions say that you should flash it right after a fresh install of the ROM (It must be Android 9 / SDK 28 - AOSP ARM64), but I flashed it even after a few days of using and it worked as well.
You need to clone/download the repository, unzip it, move into the unzipped directory (where there's the META-INF), select everything and compress it into a zip file and that will be the patch you should flash using the TWRP recovery.
P.S. I know, it's not really a solution, I mean, If you don't want to root your phone, you have to rely on the original version of the MIUI, but from what I've seen, bot MIUI 10 global developer and MIUI 11 china developer have this problem. If you just don't want a custom ROM but you rooted your phone, you could try the MIUI EU ROM, I don't know if it has the same problem tho.
And finally, let your CPU rest a little bit!
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I fixed mine by disabling proximity sensor. My phone got to deep sleep just after
I am running the latest Xiaomi.eu MIUI 11. According the Kernel Adiutor Frequency Table it is going to Deep Sleep whenever not awake, but the lowest frequency for Cores 0-3 is 576MHz, (everything below is unused). Cores 4-7 are almost always in their lowest frequency, 825MHz.
So is this deep sleeping or not? I would not say battery life is amazing. The biggest battery drainer is cell standby, which is more even than screen. I can't get better battery stats to work (keeps repeatedly flashing up the superuser message).
Deep sleep is a know problem on most custom rom, solution: flash XENT kernel, been using RR with xent for a while and deep sleep work well.
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I am running the latest Xiaomi.eu MIUI 11. According the Kernel Adiutor Frequency Table it is going to Deep Sleep whenever not awake, but the lowest frequency for Cores 0-3 is 576MHz, (everything below is unused). Cores 4-7 are almost always in their lowest frequency, 825MHz.
So is this deep sleeping or not? I would not say battery life is amazing. The biggest battery drainer is cell standby, which is more even than the screen. I can't get better battery stats to work (keeps repeatedly flashing up the superuser message).
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There should be a deep sleep state even for the BIG cores; the fact that they remain at the lowest frequency (825 MHz) is not good. Also, I don't understand why, when the phone is locked, the minimum frequency is not lower than 576 MHz when the LITTLE cores could go at 300 MHz, but that's not really a problem). Maybe it's related to the fact that your phone keeps searching for a good signal, and maybe that's why stats tell you that "cell standby" is draining a lot of battery. Is your phone the global version (the phone, not the ROM) or the Chinese one?
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Deep sleep is a known problem on most custom ROM, solution: flash XENT kernel, been using RR with xent for a while and deep sleep work well.
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Interesting, I'd like to give it a try;
UPDATE : Anyway, besides the first deep issue problem, now the phone is working perfectly with the MIUI EU v 11 based on Android 10. When I lock the phone there's no more battery drain AT ALL. If I lock it at 15% and I unlock it after 2 hours, it's still at 15%. This is how deep sleep should Work. Maybe the first problem I had with the EU ROM was related to the google services syncing all my stuff (still don't understand why some things that keep the CPU from going in the deep sleep state are not shown even using BBS).
Note for anyone switching to the weekly MIUI/10 rom, I had microphone issues on calls which appear to be solved by flashing the latest firmware.
Edit: Firmware wasn't the fix. The workaround is to toggle the speakerphone on and off again. The microphone then works on all calls until you reboot the phone, then you have to do the toggle trick again.
GVN.Gallus said:
Deep sleep is a know problem on most custom rom, solution: flash XENT kernel, been using RR with xent for a while and deep sleep work well.
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Where can I find XENT kernel, please?
ChienJian said:
Where can I find XENT kernel, please?
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You can find it in the Mi Mix 3 Global Community telegram group: https://t.me/MiMix3Global
Takenfal said:
There should be a deep sleep state even for the BIG cores; the fact that they remain at the lowest frequency (825 MHz) is not good. Also, I don't understand why, when the phone is locked, the minimum frequency is not lower than 576 MHz when the LITTLE cores could go at 300 MHz, but that's not really a problem). Maybe it's related to the fact that your phone keeps searching for a good signal, and maybe that's why stats tell you that "cell standby" is draining a lot of battery. Is your phone the global version (the phone, not the ROM) or the Chinese one?
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Global version. But I fixed the battery drain. Completely uninstalled WhatsApp, deleted folder and reinstalled latest. Deleted Play Services data. Set preferred network to LTE/WCDMA. Now I have minimal cell-standby and battery doesn't drop significantly when screen is off.
Frequencies remain the same, but maybe the min freq is a red herring - Kernel Adiutor says it spends plenty of time in Deep Sleep.

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