You all should know by now I am a active member on the forum answering questions when I and by no means am I stupid when it comes to tweaking my Dash: Black but I am having a tricky question; and yes I did use the search feature but didn't find much to these specific questions.
1]. I remember I once tweaked the brightness of my dash so it wasn't as bright, does anyone know how I did that because I can't remember for the life of me.
2]. I also am wondering if there is a way to keep the back light on when I am using Opera or another app on my phone but when I go to my home screen it only stays on for like 5 seconds [which is the minimum] because I like to save battery power but I also like to read articles on my phone. Any suggestions? Thanks again guys!
have you tired START>SETTINGS>POWER MANAGMENT
bgtvfr said:
have you tired START>SETTINGS>POWER MANAGMENT
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Yes I have, there is only so much that option will allow you to do. I am thinking there's a registry tweak somewhere that I am forgetting that would allow this to happen, or maybe a 3rd party app.
There was life before Excalibur
Look for "Tornado Lowlight" - this may work.
It has the same chipset (OMAP 850).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4768177&postcount=32
Hey guys I really like my sense rom but the only feature that I'm really missing is the long press to kill apps thats it on cm6/7 is there anyway I can port that feature over to a sense rom? I searched everywhere and cant find any answers. Some help would be greatly appreciated.
Right i know there is a thread regarding battery stats. That is were everyone post their stats and basically each member show off their battery life and show off to people how much screen on time they can get.
What i want to do with this thread is the opposite. I want to help people who have issues with regarding poor battery life to post here there problems, to post information on their setup and were they think it is going wrong as to why they have poor battery life.
Rather than posting these issues on each individual thread all over the forum why not just keep it in one place. So that myself and hopefully more experienced members can help out others who have issues as in regarding the battery life and try to see for example what app keeps the phone awake while phone is suppose to be sleeping and try and guide members on how to resolve their issues and give them the battery that they are suppose to have.
I will try and do most of the helping and provide links to threads for example the BBS thread were you can download the application and find out what wakelocks you have and post your screenshots here of the app so we can see where the issues lie.
I am doing this to help and to keep the forums clean and organised and to keep the development threads less cluttered with battery issues. If you have those kinda issues then come here and i will try my best to help out.
If Mods feel that this thread is pointless then please close the thread. But i hope you understand my logic behind this thread and my goal to help out people were they need it.
Thanks to you all and thanks to all the developers who take their time to provide us with something amazing for our phones and to the Mods who keep our threads in order
BetterBatteryStats Explanation
Right here is were i will explain how BetterBatteryStats works. I know i do not have my phone back so it is kinda hard to post screenshots with explanations on how to work the app but will try my best to explain without it.
First of all here is the link were you can find the application:
BetterBatteryStats Thread
Apart from Titanium Backup for me BBS is the next must have application for your android phone and especially for the One X. Thanks to this application i have learned a lot in my time here on XDA on how to sass out what keeps the phone awake and what to do on how to go about fixing the issue and stoping the wakelock from happening.
Now i am thankful for more experienced members and kernel developers who take their time to explain on the different threads on what are the wakelocks and what issues they can cause. One of them is the dreaded AudioOut3 wakelock. That is caused by having keypad tones on, which is ticked in sound in settings and also lockscreen sounds and dialpad touch sounds on. By disabling those you save yourself massive battery time. To give you an example of what i mean here is an explanation:
*AudioOut_1 AudioOut is used to play notification and system sounds. Putting your device on silent or at least unticking in settings-sound and untick the following:
Touch keypad sound
Lockscreen Sound
Dialpad Touch Tone sound
This will make the wakelock go away. (thanks to Sishgupta and his thread is here for more info)
Sources:
https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/PowerManagerService
To follow more on a detailed basis regarding BetterBatteryStats is at the following link here when you can get connected to the wiki site
Link:
https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/_pages
Other issues that i found out that drain my battery is keeping Facebook on all the time and twitter as well. I would not recommend either to have on at the same time but if i was to choose which one i would like to keep constant notifications would be Twitter.
But my advice would be to once you finished from checking your Facebook stuff to log right back out straight away. Cause the connection will always be connected and that makes the phone to stay wake even when phone is in deep sleep
*Another thread that a few other members have unfortunately encountered wakelocks similar to what i have just posted here and they just go about explaining what they have done to encounter those wakelocks and stop them. These wakelocks again are the facebook and audioOut. Thread link here
*Deleting your battery stats in recovery. Do not do that. Does not improve battery at all. Bare fact it does not do anything actually. You can find more on this here.
Battery stats, stored in the batterystats.bin file, are only used to maintain information about what is using the battery when not recharging. That is, it essentially holds the information displayed in the Settings > Battery screen. Nothing more, nothing less. Thus:
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you.
It has no impact on your battery life.
List of Apps you can freeze, delete or disable if not rooted
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*AudioOut_1 AudioOut is used to play notification and system sounds. Putting your device on silent will make this go away. (thanks to
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So you recommend to put the phone on silent?
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So you recommend to put the phone on silent?
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very funny. no just untick in settings -sound and untick touch keypad sounds- lockscreen sounds and dialpad tones. use haptic feedback instead and use notification tones and normal ringtones. that way trust me you shall see that you will have very minimal audioout wakelock
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very funny. no just untick in settings -sound and untick touch keypad sounds- lockscreen sounds and dialpad tones. use haptic feedback instead and use notification tones and normal ringtones. that way trust me you shall see that you will have very minimal audioout wakelock
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Yes and did you check how much relevant difference such a wakelock makes in battery percentages? Now, trust me, <2% for a whole 24 day cycle. Thus, irrelevant
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Yes and did you check how much relevant difference such a wakelock makes in battery percentages? Now, trust me, <2% for a whole 24 day cycle. Thus, irrelevant
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I beg to differ. It could be depending on what kernel you may be running or not but i have encountered massive drainage specially overnight due to this wakelock. And unfortunately the only way to beat this is to do as stated not just by me but also in the wiki thread
Some kernels you do not have that wakelock but on some you do.. I am still trying to build this thread up as i feel it has potential and gives more of a heads up to people out there what causes the battery to drain.
Only doing this as to help out noobs who just bought this phone. I want them to know what causes the issues they might face. If the phone of a user is set up properly and as you know yourself if you have it setup the right away you can get amazing battery life. So this is the idea behind the thread. To help out others
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I beg to differ. It could be depending on what kernel you may be running or not but i have encountered massive drainage specially overnight due to this wakelock. And unfortunately the only way to beat this is to do as stated not just by me but also in the wiki thread
Some kernels you do not have that wakelock but on some you do.. I am still trying to build this thread up as i feel it has potential and gives more of a heads up to people out there what causes the battery to drain.
Only doing this as to help out noobs who just bought this phone. I want them to know what causes the issues they might face. If the phone of a user is set up properly and as you know yourself if you have it setup the right away you can get amazing battery life. So this is the idea behind the thread. To help out others
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I know mate. And that's a good thought (and initiative).
One more question, what do you call 'massive drainage'? 5,10,20,50% overnight in 8 hours?
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I know mate. And that's a good thought (and initiative).
One more question, what do you call 'massive drainage'? 5,10,20,50% overnight in 8 hours?
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10% my friend. i really wished i did this thread when i had my phone and to be able to post shots of what i am talking about..that way it would make it more clearer to everyone. like i said i will be doing more testing and prove my theories that what other people have tried worked.
so once i get my phone back i will be doing the following from a fully charged battery. One to try and cause whatever wakelock i can specially the facebook one and the audiout one. Two on a second cycle i will do the following steps mentioned above and show people the difference that those steps can make and how much difference in battery i have saved
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10% my friend. i really wished i did this thread when i had my phone and to be able to post shots of what i am talking about..that way it would make it more clearer to everyone. like i said i will be doing more testing and prove my theories that what other people have tried worked.
so once i get my phone back i will be doing the following from a fully charged battery. One to try and cause whatever wakelock i can specially the facebook one and the audiout one. Two on a second cycle i will do the following steps mentioned above and show people the difference that those steps can make and how much difference in battery i have saved
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I see. I was particularly talking about that specific wakelock (specific sounds), in case you thought I was flaming this whole idea
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I see. I was particularly talking about that specific wakelock (specific sounds), in case you thought I was flaming this whole idea
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just google it mate. or i provided links already about it..check it out
I was haning out with. My friends
and this idea struck me out of the blue
Why can't android have a easy click on wifi icon bring up local networks function like most desktops
Positive.or negitive comments welcome
If you think its possible let me know ill try my hardest to get it to work
Think of it like the status bar quicksettings in Stef of power on off make it so it turns on or off a list of avilible networks listed in the notifications click one get rather a prompt for a password or connect to open network
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for phones if you can view it in quicksettings thats would be awesome, im about to add that a rom ive been working on, and ill see if i can figure out how to incorporate it. but for 3.x/4.x android tablets, its pretty much useless since its already available in the bottom right corner.
I must agree, as a quick setting switch this would be freaking amazing. However, you can add a shortcut to any screen that goes straight to wireless settings.... I'm sure prolly every dev, which i am not nor prolly ever will be, already know this, maybe it'll help a non-dev.
maybe you can create a poll, and if we get enough people to see it, maybe an experienced dev will make it. im just starting making my own roms, so I cant do it myself (yet).
If Simone wants to start a pole go right a head.
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like when you click on the wireless network icon in taskbar and brings up the list of networks?
I would think that's awesome especially as a quick setting but my first concern would that not drain the battery, if wifi is on it'll continually scan but having the graphics change often I think that would drain the battery. To me it would be more of a tactical eyecandy.
Sounds cool, I like it
Hey guys I know I've seen no on this so much that I've given up until I decided to see what all I can do with the dev options and there she was.. The toggle for at least my version of the Z2 appears to be there. I've attached a screen shot of the developer options one with it on and I've with it off....I haven't done anything cause it almost feels like a trap .. Any advice on what to do... Should I try and root if? Anyways any help here would be greatly appreciated oh it's the xt1789-01 if that helps... Still feels like a trap button
Before i toggle it on...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=15065&pictureid=57841
And after i turn it on....
https://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=15065&pictureid=57842
I couldn't get them to load I'm sorry been up too long...just curious though should I try and root it? any thing you peoples could throw my way would help out.. anyway sorry for messing this up but the links should work..
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Hey guys I know I've seen no on this so much that I've given up until I decided to see what all I can do with the dev options and there she was.. The toggle for at least my version of the Z2 appears to be there. I've attached a screen shot of the developer options one with it on and I've with it off....I haven't done anything cause it almost feels like a trap .. Any advice on what to do... Should I try and root if? Anyways any help here would be greatly appreciated oh it's the xt1789-01 if that helps... Still feels like a trap button
Before i toggle it on...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=15065&pictureid=57841
And after i turn it on....
https://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=15065&pictureid=57842
I couldn't get them to load I'm sorry been up too long...just curious though should I try and root it? any thing you peoples could throw my way would help out.. anyway sorry for messing this up but the links should work..
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ERM... The unlock toggle isn't all you need to do. On Motorola phones you need an unlock code from Motorola's unlock site. It will tell you if your phone ID can be unlocked or not. It's worth a shot. Your warranty isn't void unless they email you an unlock code.