Anyone else find the UI sluggish at times? I know is not going to be like an apple watch but was hoping for something similar.
Any suggestions to speed it up?
Not often, but every once in a while have noticed it depending on usage. Usually a reboot, or factory reset, or clearing cache will resolve it....
Not very often at all. Every once in a while it may seem as though a background process is using a lot of CPU time or storage I/O but it's usually very brief and non-persistent. What galaxys suggested may help in your case. You can also check what apps/processes are potentially using an excessive amount of resources by looking at what's draining your battery via the Android Wear app after several hours of use...
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half way through the day today, and a couple days ago, i noticed my phone slowing to VERY very much, huge lag and latency. i barley run any appas at work, ill check a couple of websites, facebook and txt messages. I checked spare parts > Battery History and Running is at 100%. when i check partial wake usage, no apps seem to be staying awake and draining my battery. any1 ever experience this? is there another way to see if there is an app/service bogging down my phone. sometimes i notice when im on 4G it also slows doen, but it has never drained my battery like this.
im considering wiping the cache and dalvik, would that help?
Yes wipe both and then go to "Other" and select 'Fix UID mismatch' while you're there.
Another app that can help narrow it down is "SystemPanel Lite", free on the market.
Or if you like, start using Juice Defender and maybe even buy the UltimateJuice for 3.99 if I remember correctly, It gives me a x1.87 boost, so It could work...GL
And I just found this useful bit of information on each method to save your battery or increase it in fact here it is the link http://home.comcast.net/~evobenchers/index.html viola enjoy
Thanks for the suggestions, ill see if it helps within the nest couple days
Good luck...nothing has worked for me. I have done all of the above and it still happens. 4g does seem to slow it up also. My phone runs around 100% but no apps are draining it. Very rarely will watchdog alert me on an app draining the usage. I do not want to do a hard reset but that is sprints only answwr.
Hey, are there any side effects to wiping the cache and dalvik without flashing a new rom? will i lose anything?
Edit1: also, i'm looking into WatchDog. which version are you using skillzo1?
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Hey, are there any side effects to wiping the cache and dalvik without flashing a new rom? will i lose anything?
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None other than your first boot up will take a little longer as it rebuilds the Dalvik.
It probably could be considered a good maintenance step as is cleaning up "Other".
Hi guys,
Anyone have an idea what would cause my battery stats to have very high "Android System" usage all of a sudden. No new apps installed.
Thanks
I'm seeing this get pretty high as well. Starting to wonder... TW really limits the information in the Battery Status dialog. Hopefully we'll get ROMs soon that have more detailed information like I had in MikG.
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I'm seeing this get pretty high as well. Starting to wonder... TW really limits the information in the Battery Status dialog. Hopefully we'll get ROMs soon that have more detailed information like I had in MikG.
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Did you recently start seeing this? Or has it been from the beginning?
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Did you recently start seeing this? Or has it been from the beginning?
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It has always been a bit higher than I am used to. I just grabbed the new version of betterbatterystats from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Hopefully I can use this to figure it out.
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It has always been a bit higher than I am used to. I just grabbed the new version of betterbatterystats from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Hopefully I can use this to figure it out.
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Please keep me posted if you find anything
System Panel works really well for me I found. Paid version is totally worth it, too.
Just another thought/question...
I am assuming since it is "Android System" causing such high usage ( I have 5% battery left and android system is 30%), that it cant be an app I installed causing the issue.
It has to be something that is either part of the stock ROM (I am stock, not rooted) or something core to the android operating system. PLease let me know if you agree with my logic that it cant be an installed app.
Just trying to find the root cause at this point or determine if I have to hard reset which I dont feel like doing.
Thanks again
The original SGS2 has an issue similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290020
They discovered with it that the processor has to ramp back up to 800MHz to do its pre-deep sleep tasks, in addition to taking longer than normal to do those tasks. So with a phone that woke up often to sync, even limiting the processor to 200 MHz with the screen off, it still spends a considerable amount of time at 800 MHz. I don't think they have a fix, but you can work around by limiting the amount of syncing the phone does while sleeping.
Don't know if this is related, since TMO SGS2 doesn't use the Exynos.
Thanks for the reply. My problem is that the battery usage for android system used to be 5% or less and now out of the blue is 25-30%.
Did you change any sync settings? Setting up an email account or maybe a widget to sync could do it. The phone has to do a bunch of system related tasks when it wakes up and goes to sleep, and those fall under "Android OS", so even if it is waking up to sync for an app, the system still has to do stuff, and more than usual when coming out of sleep. Like the other thread said, the original SGSII does all these things at a far higher clock speed than it needs to, and takes longer than most phones do.
I myself don't have the phone yet, nor do I have an original SGS2, but you could look up much of the same information the gentleman who wrote up the OP in that thread I linked to see if the issue is related.
I was so annoyed with this issue that I decided to do a factory reset. I dont think it helped.
So far after being off the charger for 2 hours....I sent 5 texts, browsed web for about 5 minutes. I am down to 87%. Display time is 46%, used for 18 min and android system is 17% with stay awake time at 3 minutes, and there are other items taking up battery at 5% or less like cell standby, android os, market
Does this seem normal, I never rememver android system taking up over 5% even with little usage. I am actually pissed because I would have thought that a factory reset would have helped for sure.
BTW, I am only syncing one acct, Google
I've been watching with betterbatterystats for a couple days now. I've got Skype running in the background so I expect that to use some battery and cause some wake ups.
But it has turned out that location services and updates have been doing a lot more, as much as 7000 in one day. They show up as something related to Maps, but I think that it might be Latitude. So I have disabled that location tracking. We'll see if it helps, there isn't much more using my battery. It is just something keeping it from deep sleeping.
If this doesn't work I'll look at other location apps like weather and such. I already uninstalled Accuweather after reading about how they transfer your location tracking information over the Internet unencrypted!
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My only real exposure to android has been through my Samsung Galaxy S3, LG G2 and now my N7. While a lot is different, there are many things that are similar. One big question I have is around battery life and what is using my battery. The details seem very limited on my G7 with Kitkat.. Broad categories like Screen, Android OS, etc. No apps are listed though (ie Clash of Clans, etc).
My battery life has just sucked since I bought this and it seems like screen and media server are the major consumers. Not sure if game play is coming under media server or not, but no individual apps are being listed and I can't seem to change the duration that the displayed average is over (like a forced reset to check usage only from that time forward).
Is there something I am missing? Can I get the detailed info per app? What about resetting the stats so I can get a picture over a specific period of time on what is using it?
Thank you for the help.
John
Unfortunately getting detailed app usage would require a separate battery monitoring app, which none work with Kitkat due to changes under the hood to a service that they all relied on. A possible fix for the media server is clearing gallery data and cache and let it all reload. Sometimes i think it gets stuck and endlessly tries to load stuff ( i don't have much experience on that particular battery drain). The way to reset the battery usage time is fully charge it, that resets the stats. Sometimes just a reboot will reset them as well, but it's usually a hit and miss. If you play any heavy duty games like modern combat, real racing, gt racing, etc, those will eat up a good amount of battery when played a lot. Something else you can check is location services, they can sometimes cause unnecessary drain. I keep those off since i don't use the tablet for GPS.
Hey guys, need some help. I have an AT&T H810 rooted 10o. My little cores seem to be running full out at 1440mhz even though my governor is set to Interactive. This is causing it to heat up incredible, to 70c+, and is draining the battery quickly. It seems to have only started occurring in the last few days! I can run it in powersave governor which fixes it to 384mhz, and it fixes the problem, but I don't understand why it is running at full speed under interactive now. The big cores do NOT have this problem AT ALL.
I've removed any apps I installed during that time, cleared my phones cache, cleared the memory, I have tried running it in airplane mode, I've looked into what apps were running and it seems to be very few. Turned location off. I've tried freezing the play services because I have been getting a very intermittent force close. I have also tried to disable all xposed modules, and used avg to scan for any malware. Possibly init.d? Possibly the new xposed v79? I'm at a loss as to what is causing this!
Does anyone have any other ideas as to what could be happening?
There's always the good old factory reset if everything else fails.
Just asking the obvious but there is no offending wakelocks or anything that sticks out in the battery usage stats?
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There's always the good old factory reset if everything else fails.
Just asking the obvious but there is no offending wakelocks or anything that sticks out in the battery usage stats?
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Battery usage Android OS is highest at 33, followed by screen at 16%.
Wakelocks, I seem to have them under control with amplify, and I don't see any new ones.
Question about factory reset, I am not near a pc for the next few days, will it cause any problems with xposed or my rooted system image, and basically what can I expect with it? I came from a M8 where with custom recovery I was pretty fearless with being to wipe and refresh, can't do that here.
Noticed that disabling 2 of the little cores with kernel auditor really helps with the heat buildup of the phone with not much slowdown
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Noticed that disabling 2 of the little cores with kernel auditor really helps with the heat buildup of the phone with not much slowdown
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Doesn't solve why it's running at full speed, but I'll keep that in mind.
question about factory reset, I am not near a pc for the next few days, will it cause any problems with xposed or my rooted system image, and basically what can I expect with it? I came from a M8 where with custom recovery I was pretty fearless with being to wipe and refresh, can't do that here.
Personally I never done a factory reset myself yet so i cannot comment.
For the most part it does look like you have something to work with seeing Android OS is taking up the most battery. The hard part is tracking down which process. I'm not the best at this so maybe someone else can chime in. Try taking a look at your currently running processes and see if there's anything odd
Well, after a few factory resets which did not affect xposed, I was able to resolve it to where the cores now return to 384mhz idle. It was something that was installed, and it took 3 or 4 resets after restoring my app backups, and I'm still not sure which app was the culprit. I'm possibly wondering if it was the Amplify module
Sorry for bumping this. I just suffered from this problem and it seems for me it was antutu. For some reasons it was running the background keeping the 4 small cores at 1,2-1,4 cuz constantly. I stopped it and now it's back to normal. Just wondering why it started itself in the first place.
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I even broke my phone with App Ops trying to figure it out, disabling wake permissions for most apps which caused FC's and even reboots. I have since restored all permissions but I still get FC's whenever I leave an app or switch out of it. Not sure if it's really crashing, but I get a FC message every time. So much so that Substratum turned off its theming for Files because it "crashed" after every screenshot was successfully uploaded to this post. Btw I just removed CrossBreed Lite and it seems to have helped. So far no reboots doing the same stuff that caused reboots! Not sure why it caused problems though. I used it for a few days with no issues.
Anyway, back to my battery woes. 30-40% kernel system usage. Why is this happening? Even Snapchat which is abusing wake locks is nothing compared to kernel system.
I'm running the latest build of AIM 8.1 with EX Kernel. I have just visited the other thread about tweaking governer values to optimize battery life so I'll report back with results although I doubt that's relevant to my battery drain.
I've Googled quite a bit on the subject and it seems that each case is different. Usually caused by a certain bug, although a lot of people say it's "normal" which I strongly disagree with.
Update: optimizing the CPU has definitely made an improvement, but the kernel battery drain still exists.
Could it really be pick up to wake and wifi search behind the drain? Isn't this phone supposed to have a sensor hub that allegedly allows for all sensors to constantly be on while using minimal power? I never noticed this drain on any other phone with both of these features on.
Anyway, I disabled pick up to wake and I'll start trying to remember to turn off wifi when not in use.
I think you're trying too hard and running a bunch of stuff. The kernal usage looks about right. I wouldn't run Gsam and BBS at the same time. They can fight each other. What makes you think there's a problem? Nothing jumps out at me.
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I also can't see anything out of the ordinary, except this one picture where it shows the phone being active while dozing. I don't know how to understand that because I don't use that app, maybe I'm reading it wrong. What does Android's built-in battery monitor show? Is it dozing properly while screen is off? What is your average SOT? Is your mobile signal strong? I'm also using AIM 8.1+EX combination with satisfying results. Is your radio up to date?
maybe Wakelock Detektor or Greenify can help you.
And if you currently have things crashing all the time, start with a factory reset. Much easier to diagnose the cause when the apps aren't doing random stuff.