Sometimes I'll be using my 5x and typing on the keyboard and notice that the keyboard is slowing down. Then all the apps slow down and start crashing until I eventually have to restart. It's driving me mad!
It seems like it always starts with either scrolling down a lot in chrome or on my keyboard, I can't tell. But SOMETHING is crapping up my memory.
My wife's phone doesn't slow down. She swears that it's because I use MySMS and she doesn't.
QUESTION: How do I find what app is making everything so unstable and kill it?
I'd try BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor in order to see which app(s) drain the most battery and thus keeping the phone that busy.
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I'd try BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor in order to see which app(s) drain the most battery and thus keeping the phone that busy.
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I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
beefamato said:
Sometimes I'll be using my 5x and typing on the keyboard and notice that the keyboard is slowing down. Then all the apps slow down and start crashing until I eventually have to restart. It's driving me mad!
It seems like it always starts with either scrolling down a lot in chrome or on my keyboard, I can't tell. But SOMETHING is crapping up my memory.
My wife's phone doesn't slow down. She swears that it's because I use MySMS and she doesn't.
QUESTION: How do I find what app is making everything so unstable and kill it?
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btw, Chrome and Gboard are known for memory hogger/leak. Usually I'll just clean up the cache for both apps.
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Anyone know just why various apps prevent the phone from sleeping despite the fact they are not shown to be running, nor reported by Spare Parts as the culprit? I mean there are some apps I've had to uninstall to get my phone to sleep, but can't figure out why it is happening. I've been using Spare Parts to see if I can catch the bad actor, but it only will tell me if it is not sleeping and the other options don't hint at the problem either. I use my wife's Epic (which never has a problem sleeping) to compare against, as she has fewer apps. If an app is not running in the background but keeps the phone away just by it's very presence on the phone, what can cause that and why is there no way to find out the culprit besides hit and miss deleting? Too bad there's not a Wakelock app or setting on the phone that you could use to let you have the app, but keep it quiet.
Rogue apps like this seem to be the number one issue with huge battery use.
You can do stuff like disable background data sync... Uninstall facebook and apps like it. Remove widgets... etc..
But in the end it's such a PITA to manage... and when you finally get it working right, all it takes is "hey this looks cool... /download" and you're back where you started.
You're probably best off buying an extended battery.... My phone lasts 10 hours now with whatever it is that keeps my phone from sleeping.
Have you tried using Watchdog?
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Rogue apps like this seem to be the number one issue with huge battery use.
You can do stuff like disable background data sync... Uninstall facebook and apps like it. Remove widgets... etc..
But in the end it's such a PITA to manage... and when you finally get it working right, all it takes is "hey this looks cool... /download" and you're back where you started.
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Oh how true! LMAO!
orb360 said:
Rogue apps like this seem to be the number one issue with huge battery use.
You can do stuff like disable background data sync... Uninstall facebook and apps like it. Remove widgets... etc..
But in the end it's such a PITA to manage... and when you finally get it working right, all it takes is "hey this looks cool... /download" and you're back where you started.
You're probably best off buying an extended battery.... My phone lasts 10 hours now with whatever it is that keeps my phone from sleeping.
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Have you tried using Watchdog?
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Yes, I tried it, but it apparently only warns if an app reaches some threshold of cpu usage. It didn't help me find an app that was only preventing my phone from sleeping...unless I wasn't using it correctly.
I've experienced this issue twice now wherein my phone would get extremely slow and laggy to the point that it's unbearable to use anymore and the only solution was a reboot. Launcher keeps on restarting, messaging app takes 5 seconds to open, camera is lagging etc and this is after a week of uptime at least.
Why does this happen in the first place and am I the only one experiencing this? I've been running only maguro milestone 5 and franco for the past month, no other roms whatsoever. Once I power down and reboot everything becomes nice and fast again.
Never happened to me on stock.
I'd say it's "normal" for a phone to slow down over time as you add apps and things, but it should never slow down to a crawl and start crashing until you reboot.
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I've experienced this issue twice now wherein my phone would get extremely slow and laggy to the point that it's unbearable to use anymore and the only solution was a reboot. Launcher keeps on restarting, messaging app takes 5 seconds to open, camera is lagging etc and this is after a week of uptime at least.
Why does this happen in the first place and am I the only one experiencing this? I've been running only maguro milestone 5 and franco for the past month, no other roms whatsoever. Once I power down and reboot everything becomes nice and fast again.
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normal for it to slow down a bit but not like how you described it. i'm running stock though.
It's not normal. Install some monitoring tool like "OS Monitor" and run it when the problem happens to find out the culprit.
Oh and installing multiple apps will not slow down the phone. This is not Windows 95.
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zapek666 said:
It's not normal. Install some monitoring tool like "OS Monitor" and run it when the problem happens to find out the culprit.
Oh and installing multiple apps will not slow down the phone. This is not Windows 95.
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lol at the windows 95 comment
although the # of apps you have alone shouldnt slow your phone down, if you have a ton of apps running in the background eating up ram it may slow down if the available free ram you have is really really low
when your phone is laggy check the ram first
Thanks guys I'll try OS monitor to see what's running. It just happened again right now and this is getting annoying, even typing is laggy but after a reboot everything is normal again.
Kill background apps.
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So far I have not had that issue. Probably like everyone else said. There is some run away app that's eating up your memory
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Its not normal, but aokp does have a bug. Check your system process in system panel, it grows larger over time if you use lock screen options etc.
Ever since I updated my phone to stock 4.0.4, it's not been the same buttery smooth Epic Touch that it used to be on Gingerbread. Sometimes the lags gets so bad that the phone would restart itself. I have done a reformat and things have been going smooth for about 2 months and it has started lagging again now. Right now I am running minimum 3rd party apps, and only limited to reputable ones such as Facebook and whatnot. The CPU Spy shows the phone is in deep sleep most of the time. Android OS still takes up about 90% of battery usage. I made sure nothing is hogging up the ram in task manager and clear memory 2-3 times a day. Yet, it still lags like crazy especially while typing or turning the screen off.
Can anyone chime in on what else could be causing this?
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Ever since I updated my phone to stock 4.0.4, it's not been the same buttery smooth Epic Touch that it used to be on Gingerbread. Sometimes the lags gets so bad that the phone would restart itself. I have done a reformat and things have been going smooth for about 2 months and it has started lagging again now. Right now I am running minimum 3rd party apps, and only limited to reputable ones such as Facebook and whatnot. The CPU Spy shows the phone is in deep sleep most of the time. Android OS still takes up about 90% of battery usage. I made sure nothing is hogging up the ram in task manager and clear memory 2-3 times a day. Yet, it still lags like crazy especially while typing or turning the screen off.
Can anyone chime in on what else could be causing this?
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since you mention facebook what's your sync situation like? just a suggestion as I remember similar threads where constant syncing was causing issues... if android os is using that much battery something is amiss... its just a matter of figuring out what...
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since you mention facebook what's your sync situation like? just a suggestion as I remember similar threads where constant syncing was causing issues... if android os is using that much battery something is amiss... its just a matter of figuring out what...
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FB's refresh interval is set to 1 hour. Is that what you are referring to?
maxspiderx said:
Ever since I updated my phone to stock 4.0.4, it's not been the same buttery smooth Epic Touch that it used to be on Gingerbread. Sometimes the lags gets so bad that the phone would restart itself. I have done a reformat and things have been going smooth for about 2 months and it has started lagging again now. Right now I am running minimum 3rd party apps, and only limited to reputable ones such as Facebook and whatnot. The CPU Spy shows the phone is in deep sleep most of the time. Android OS still takes up about 90% of battery usage. I made sure nothing is hogging up the ram in task manager and clear memory 2-3 times a day. Yet, it still lags like crazy especially while typing or turning the screen off.
Can anyone chime in on what else could be causing this?
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Welcome to ics. I get the same thing and have tried everything. Good news is they are pumping out new builds pretty quick to hopefully they are working out all the kinks.
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try a different rom.
Hello
I was not able to find, in all the posts about battery drain, someone with the same problem as I have.
I have should have attached my phone info, some battery usage and my highest RECORDED battery temperature.
Yes, recorded, because I'm sure I got a higher one at least once.
So, my phone is always kind of hot when it's turned off in my pocket, not under 35C.
When I use it normally, like for example while wrighting this thread, it heats up to about 40-45C
And when I use it to play games or watch videos, it goes to 45-50C and maybe higher, to a point where I can't even hold it anymore.
And I recently realized that the batrery drains really fast. I'm not sure if this was a problem before I updated to Android 5.0 but I do not think so.
What do you think I should do?
Thank you in advance and sorry for any typos!
I'd imagine part of the battery drain has to do with the phone being "awake" pretty much the entire time, even when your screen was off.
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I'd imagine part of the battery drain has to do with the phone being "awake" pretty much the entire time, even when your screen was off.
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Thank you, and how do I fix that?
I only know 2 causes that would keep the device awake. (probably much more)
1) Some funky app that keeps on running while screen is off. For example a game that you exit via Home button will cause that. Not all games, but some.
2) Google sync failing. I get that a lot when I travel to China. Since Google is blocked there it would keep syncing indefinitely.
thats all I know, hope it helps
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I only know 2 causes that would keep the device awake. (probably much more)
1) Some funky app that keeps on running while screen is off. For example a game that you exit via Home button will cause that. Not all games, but some.
2) Google sync failing. I get that a lot when I travel to China. Since Google is blocked there it would keep syncing indefinitely.
thats all I know, hope it helps
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Thank you for your help, but I do not think that's the issue as I never close any app without pressing "back" until it's closed and then closing it again in the "recent apps" menu. As for Google, it last synced a minute ago.
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Thank you for your help, but I do not think that's the issue as I never close any app without pressing "back" until it's closed and then closing it again in the "recent apps" menu. As for Google, it last synced a minute ago.
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Looking at your google play services. That's quite a bit of usage... Should look into it. Also I know there are apps out there that can better isolate the culprit, but I haven't really looked into it since I haven't had much battery issue for the longest time. Hopefully someone with better knowledge of the situation can help. I'll start by clearing data on the google play stuff.
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Looking at your google play services. That's quite a bit of usage... Should look into it. Also I know there are apps out there that can better isolate the culprit, but I haven't really looked into it since I haven't had much battery issue for the longest time. Hopefully someone with better knowledge of the situation can help. I'll start by clearing data on the google play stuff.
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I've already looked into it and researched it but I can't seem to fint something that I haven't already done. Maybe it's the Mobile Radio? If so, how do I turn it off?
Hey guys, im currently using the exynos variant of the note 7. I've faced significant battery drain and have already trained the clear cache and factory reset method. Getting better battery life but found out that Media Server is still draining my battery. I have tried disabling chrome, unmounting and removing the sd card, I cant find media server in my applications to force stop it. So i really have no idea what to do next, media server is still the highest running on my battery usage. Anyone else facing the same problem? Any idea what to do?
Im new here so i cant post any images or links. But its at 25% at the top.
It's trying to read your memory card. But it should go away after 15 minutes of inserting the SD card. If it keeps going then there is something in your card it has a hard time reading so it keeps trying. You may have to move your stuff out temporarily and then reformat the card with the phone. Then copy everything back.
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It's trying to read your memory card. But it should go away after 15 minutes of inserting the SD card. If it keeps going then there is something in your card it has a hard time reading so it keeps trying. You may have to move your stuff out temporarily and then reformat the card with the phone. Then copy everything back.
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I don't have a SD inserted and I have the same issue for some reason, also getting ridiculously high cell standby drain... problems just keep popping up
HeavenlyFall said:
I don't have a SD inserted and I have the same issue for some reason, also getting ridiculously high cell standby drain... problems just keep popping up
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Wow really? That's new. I think it's time for a factory reset. It will probably fix both of your issue. I know it fixed my battery drain problem. Run it for a few a few hours without installing all your apps. Install as you need them but don't restore it's data from another back up. Start from scratch.
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aznmode said:
Wow really? That's new. I think it's time for a factory reset. It will probably fix both of your issue. I know it fixed my battery drain problem. Run it for a few a few hours without installing all your apps. Install as you need them but don't restore it's data from another back up. Start from scratch.
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It's possible I have some corrupted files in my SD card. Will try reformatting it and then reporting back. I've factory reset my phone too many times already.
I have an s7 and have exactly the same issue. Some people have drawn a link to chrome and browsing on media heavy websites. Which for my own use actually makes sense. Phone would stutter on XDA etc get super hot, media server would be top battery drain, then phone would crash horribly and be unresponsive. I switched to my Nexus 5x today. But after now learning it could be chrome I'm gonna give my s7 it's final shot
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I have an s7 and have exactly the same issue. Some people have drawn a link to chrome and browsing on media heavy websites. Which for my own use actually makes sense. Phone would stutter on XDA etc get super hot, media server would be top battery drain, then phone would crash horribly and be unresponsive. I switched to my Nexus 5x today. But after now learning it could be chrome I'm gonna give my s7 it's final shot
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Same problem here. Media server sometimes draining 35% of my battery.
I've no SD card.
Heavy use of chrome.
Will try ditching chrome for a couple of days before resorting to a factory reset.
Have you guys tried greenify? Even if non root it works great. I set it with nova launcher to run greenify and lock screen and turn off when I double tap.
ReformedAppleFan said:
Same problem here. Media server sometimes draining 35% of my battery.
I've no SD card.
Heavy use of chrome.
Will try ditching chrome for a couple of days before resorting to a factory reset.
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Hi amigo,
OK so from when I sent that original message to today, I did what I read, and stopped using chrome. I only use Samsung internet - which is actually quite good - and the issue hasn't come up once. My phone hasn't crashed, or even got hot once.
From this, and my own experience I'd be confident in saying it's an issue with the Exynos processor and chrome.
This is often caused by Google Photo's or Dropbox or any application that automatically uploads your pictures/videos/files to a cloud service. I have found that this either settles after a few days or you might have a lot of large files constantly changing.
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Hi amigo,
OK so from when I sent that original message to today, I did what I read, and stopped using chrome. I only use Samsung internet - which is actually quite good - and the issue hasn't come up once. My phone hasn't crashed, or even got hot once.
From this, and my own experience I'd be confident in saying it's an issue with the Exynos processor and chrome.
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Thanks - sounds hopeful ?
Was trying to figure out why 4 hr screen time was all I was getting. Only heavy chrome use and some streaming to Chromecast. Used to get twice as much from my note 4. Disabled chrome, started using samsung internet and surprised at how much faster it Is, amd smoother.....
Giving it some juice and will try again. Thanks for the advice.
HeavenlyFall said:
I don't have a SD inserted and I have the same issue for some reason, also getting ridiculously high cell standby drain... problems just keep popping up
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high drain from cell standby sounds like bad reception.
last time a cell tower went down in my city all phones dropped to a standby time of 5-8 hours.(just standby, so not even turning the screen on once)
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high drain from cell standby sounds like bad reception.
last time a cell tower went down in my city all phones dropped to a standby time of 5-8 hours.(just standby, so not even turning the screen on once)
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Interesting. I've always had a problem with battery life and I live in an area of bad reception...
What's the theory behind this? The phone spends power continually searching for reception?
multiple reasons.
1: the further the phone needs to send a signal, the more power it sends to its transmitter.
bad or no reception means it needs to send at full strength.
2: while trying to search for a cell tower the receiver/transmitter is constantly working overtime, drawing power similar to what it would draw in a phone call.
3: while the receiver/transmitter is busy, it's also keeping your phone's processor awake.
In 3 hours of standby I have lost 3% of battery after disabling chrome. ...now 4%. The phone is like an ice block too, yet it was always quite warm. I used to lose 7 to 10% per hour which i was putting down to the phone learning etc.
I had the same media server battery drain issues. I narrowed my issue down to chrome. Used ez package Disabler to stop Google chrome and am now using Samsung internet and my battery drain of media server is gone! It's unbelievable how much another scrolling is with Samsung internet browser over Google chrome.
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Quick update: having ditched chrome my battery is behaving beautifully. Lasting all day and with five or six hours screen time.
Media server still crops up but it's using 5% rather than 35% of the battery.
Obviously I don't know for sure that chrome was to blame.
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Thanks to all those who gave advice on this thread, btw.
If you want to keep using Chrome you can try rolling back to an earlier version (uninstall updates) it seems to be a recent update causing the issues.
I'd like to give Samsung Internet a go, but Chrome has all my log in info and password for websites. Is there a way I can import that info?