General Adaptive refresh rate, apps stuck in 60hz - Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40

First days, after I got this phone, I've seen that the refresh rate is adaptive between 60 and 120hz. The last two days refresh rate got stuck on 120hz, no matter what I did, it was only 120hz, except some apps. Today it's back to adaptive. Bug maybe?
Some apps are stuck on 60hz all the time.
File manager - 60hz
Google photo - 60hz (by comparation, the gallery app is 120hz).
Music app- 60hz
Mi video - 60hz
YouTube - 60hz (scrolling the comments).
Sometimes settings app and the entire UI is stuck in 60hz untill I switch to 60 and back to 120.
My s21Ultra and Z Flip 3 are 120hz on YouTube and Google photo and all other apps.
I know you don't need 120hz to view a photo or video, but it's about scrolling. And apps look ugly when scrolling on 60hz after getting use to 120 for a long time.

There's a list of apps that are to be stuck on 60hz .... Inside battery and performance apk
You'll find games , apps and whatnot inside all limited to 60hz
Benchmark apps are also there For that extra performance boost you won't actually be able to use anywhere else...
I'm pissed because I want to play mobile legends at 120hz and am not able to !
I unlocked FPS to 120 but all in vain , phone is permanently stuck at 60hz...
just buy a new phone... Non Xiaomi
My first and last time using Xiaomi
Ps. I tried everything! Nothing works as a fix , only thing I didn't try is editing battery and performance app and removing apps I don't want it to limit...
I mean I tried but it broke the phone ...
( Bootloop and after I got out everything else was broken like fast charging, GPS , Cellular... )
IF you have time you can probably figure this out , sit by ur pc and keep trying until you get the phone to be able to boot with modified app... It will require tons of reflashing probably a day or two of work at least. It's possible but I'm not gonna be doing that for mobile legends...

YouTube, Google Photos etc being 60 Hz is on purpose by Xiaomi.
There is also a bug where your phone gets set to 60 Hz randomly for all apps. When that happens, you have to set 60 Hz and then 120 Hz again, or enable & disable Battery Saver through a Quick-Tile, that's faster.

dreamytom said:
YouTube, Google Photos etc being 60 Hz is on purpose by Xiaomi.
There is also a bug where your phone gets set to 60 Hz randomly for all apps. When that happens, you have to set 60 Hz and then 120 Hz again, or enable & disable Battery Saver through a Quick-Tile, that's faster.
You can remove the 60 Hz limit and force 120 Hz all the time without Root & with Root:
Root method:
1. Install this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iamaner.oneclickfreeze
2. Disable the system-app "Battery & performance"
Non-root Method:
1. Get this program for Windows: https://github.com/Szaki/XiaomiADBFastbootTools
1.1 It needs Java installed. This Open Source version of Java worked for me: https://adoptopenjdk.net/
2. Enable "ADB Debugging" in Settings > Developer Options & connect phone to PC
3. Launch Xiaomi ADB Fastboot Tools, and disable "Battery & performance"
Basically, the system-app "Battery & performance" is doing the Refresh Rate-Limiting. It's safe to disable this system-app.
You will lose the item "Battery Saver" in App-Info's, but you can still disable Battery Optimisation in Settings > Privacy > Manage > Special app access > Battery Optimization.
In return, every game and every app that support 120 Hz, will use 120 Hz now.
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Is it possible to still keep the variable refresh rate? To have have 60hz when I'm not touching the screen?

dreamytom said:
YouTube, Google Photos etc being 60 Hz is on purpose by Xiaomi.
There is also a bug where your phone gets set to 60 Hz randomly for all apps. When that happens, you have to set 60 Hz and then 120 Hz again, or enable & disable Battery Saver through a Quick-Tile, that's faster.
You can remove the 60 Hz limit and force 120 Hz all the time without Root & with Root:
Root method:
1. Install this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iamaner.oneclickfreeze
2. Disable the system-app "Battery & performance"
Non-root Method:
1. Get this program for Windows: https://github.com/Szaki/XiaomiADBFastbootTools
1.1 It needs Java installed. This Open Source version of Java worked for me: https://adoptopenjdk.net/
2. Enable "ADB Debugging" in Settings > Developer Options & connect phone to PC
3. Launch Xiaomi ADB Fastboot Tools, and disable "Battery & performance"
Basically, the system-app "Battery & performance" is doing the Refresh Rate-Limiting. It's safe to disable this system-app.
You will lose the item "Battery Saver" in App-Info's, but you can still disable Battery Optimisation in Settings > Privacy > Manage > Special app access > Battery Optimization.
In return, every game and every app that support 120 Hz, will use 120 Hz now.
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Removal or disabling of the app disables many features and breaks even many more....
Fast charging does not work , GPS is not able to track location real time and is messing up when it does report location... Cellular radio constantly turns on and off , that's only the few stuff I've notice before reflashing.
All on latest beta version ... I remember seeing the same on miui vn as well.
Refer back to my post above - either modify the app to remove the strings or don't touch it at all!
If you have free time try disabling it on the latest global beta with performance mode on and report back if the charging is gone ...
( This one likely requires flashing system to fix all of the issues following disabling/enabling the app... Even the simplest tweak to the adaptive refresh rate breaks the module completely - you get spastic switching between 60/120hz on touch in apps that render at 60fps . Correct behaviour would be for display to remain at 120hz for 2 seconds after touching screen but after pretty much any modification this behaviour changes and you get stuff like display going back and forward between 120/60hz WHILE YOU'RE TOUCHING THE SCREEN, or simply having it instantly switch to 60hz as soon as you stop touching screen. Both are insanely annoying and in both cases I had to flash system to fix all of this ... Clearing data will likely result in the same thing as well - like tldr. is don't disable/uninstall the app and don't touch it's data ! I'm yet to confirm whether modifying app while preserving data will be issue free or not ... But hopefully you get the point now )
It should be , only way I see it allowing for fast charge is if it's silently enabled for the background user ( Like when you enable dual app support ). In that case you'll have to test and see what works and what doesn't....
Overall I still do not recommend this , you probably will lose all the benefits from the performance mode toggle as it likely utilises this app for all the device tuning...

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ione2380 said:
Is it possible to still keep the variable refresh rate? To have have 60hz when I'm not touching the screen?
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It never goes away trust me. I've disabled every single app on this phone to the point where I've butchered the system enough that it wasn't able to boot again - and still the display would always go down to 60hz when not touching the screen.
It's likely that no app controls that , is kernel related or something like that so out of your hands.

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dreamytom said:
I think my method disables that! I haven't found a way to keep the "variable refresh rate".
Although I have to say, Poco F3 doesn't really have Variable Refresh-Rate Support. ^^ The term is not correct, even if people use that term for the Poco F3.
It's not hardware-supported like G-Sync or FreeSync monitors, so it can't adapt the Refresh-rate to e.g. the current FPS in games.
It just sets 60 Hz when you don't touch the screen, or when nothing is rendering on the screen. It's simple software-logic.
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Thanks for your answer. If you disable battery & performance app, can that cause battery drain? The continuous use of 120hz?

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dreamytom said:
That's not true.
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5,7 A x 4,2 V = 22 Watt Charging for me right now
It's not charging at 32 Watt for me right now, but the Charging-behaviour is exactly the same as before disabling the system-app. It's safe.
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Which rom are you on ? Latest global beta with performance mode enabled or something else? I didn't have the issue on earlier miui before performance mode but now it's the same thing whenever I uninstall the app. I have it stuck at 2000mah charging ( Battery is basically not charging at all when gaming as those 2000 mah soon get eaten up when cpu and GPU ramp up so you end up actually discharging while plugged in )
Unless you use app like cpu float I can't really compare our results... ( It's asking me to recalibrate battery before I'm even able to use the app or see current and I'd rather not go through that when the battery is well calibrated already... )
I've attached screenshot bellow , now it's showing 15000 charging at 100% battery , it goes up to 25000 when the device is at like 20% battery. With original cable I've seen it go up to 35000/50000 current so definitely not correct metrics , but overall it's consistent.
Now when I remove the battery and performance app it drops all the way down to showing -2000 as current , and when a game is opened up it goes into positive 500 - 1000 range. ( Negative means charging, positive means discharging by that amount ).
I've had it happen last 2 times after removal of the app , instantly the fast charging works no more and phone drains while plugged in. ( I've uninstalled the app so disabling it might keep the fast charge but I can't say whether performance mode tunings will remain )

Rstment ^m^ said:
Which rom are you on ? Latest global beta with performance mode enabled or something else? I didn't have the issue on earlier miui before performance mode but now it's the same thing whenever I uninstall the app. I have it stuck at 2000mah charging ( Battery is basically not charging at all when gaming as those 2000 mah soon get eaten up when cpu and GPU ramp up so you end up actually discharging while plugged in )
Unless you use app like cpu float I can't really compare our results... ( It's asking me to recalibrate battery before I'm even able to use the app or see current and I'd rather not go through that when the battery is well calibrated already... )
I've attached screenshot bellow , now it's showing 15000 charging at 100% battery , it goes up to 25000 when the device is at like 20% battery. With original cable I've seen it go up to 35000/50000 current so definitely not correct metrics , but overall it's consistent.
Now when I remove the battery and performance app it drops all the way down to showing -2000 as current , and when a game is opened up it goes into positive 500 - 1000 range. ( Negative means charging, positive means discharging by that amount ).
I've had it happen last 2 times after removal of the app , instantly the fast charging works no more and phone drains while plugged in. ( I've uninstalled the app so disabling it might keep the fast charge but I can't say whether performance mode tunings will remain )
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I use the latest Xiaomi.eu Weekly.
AccuBattery's "Recalibration" just means it does a little check. It will ask you to connect your phone to a charger. It doesn't modify anything.
The negative current in your screenshot means it's discharging. And yes I also think your mentioned 25000, 35000/50000 milliAmps or Amps are not correct.

@ione2380 @Rstment ^m^
Don't do my method! It's not safe actually. I found out that disabling system-app "Battery & performance" breaks some background activity.
I'm really sorry. I edited my posts to remove mentions of that method.

dreamytom said:
@ione2380 @Rstment ^m^
Don't do my method! It's not safe actually. I found out that disabling system-app "Battery & performance" breaks some background activity.
I'm really sorry. I edited my posts to remove mentions of that method.
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It's been two days since the problem disappeared. I have 120gz in all the apps and no 60hz drops at all. The only thing I changed is I logged out of mi account. I'm on EEA latest stable stock.

Just clear data on battery and performance. That locks display at 120.Im using phone like that for 20 days now. Didnt notice any problems after it, but use with caution. To revert you just need to reboot phone.

I won't be watching this thread further... But everyone that replied saying no problems with this / that - enable show refresh rate inside developers option and use it for a day or two while gaming/doing whatever...
It's not that there are no problems ... It's just that you don't know how to look for them.
I've used all these fixes before and now I'm not using any because of the aforementioned problems like what's described in my first post. Fast charging and GPS mishaps are new stuff that I haven't seen before this beta , you might not see if you're not on my software build but everything else like refresh rate acting spastically is old news and will happen if you mess with the app ... Reboot does "fix" the refresh rate by going back to enforcing 60hz locks but it still exhibits spastic behaviour randomly
If you need that 120hz unlocked for a specific app and you aren't able to modify the app instead of butchering it like this then go for it ...
Everyone else steer clear, you're introducing lots of instability to your phone all for that 120hz scrolling inside YouTube...

Well I'm on 12.5.3 eea. If its that bad maybe i wont update when it comes

In 12.5.6 stable, clearing data from battery and performance app isn't doing the trick anymore. Some apps are forever stuck on 60hz now.

Yeah. And i forgot to disable auto update
Im using youtube vanced now and have normal youtube disabled so at least that stays 120hz.
You can bug ouy normal youtube by going to recent apps ,then clearing them and doing that few times, but thats just bug.
We should pressure them to give us ability to enable that as an option. like fill their feedback app with that suggestion

Go to developer options, logger buffer sizes and set it to off. That fixed the file manager being stuck on 60fps for me.

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battery life of note 8

i bought my note 8 n5100 model but i noticed that the battery lasts only 5 hours screen on in stock rom and i have wifi always on and using greenify i just browsing web using wifi and some times watching video and listen to music other times i have 40 % screen brightness and always turned on airplane mode and when i play games such as asphalt or modern combat the battery drain 10% in 5 minutes and the cpu temp reach 71 c is this normal ??
messi2050 said:
i bought my note 8 n5100 model but i noticed that the battery lasts only 5 hours screen on in stock rom and i have wifi always on and using greenify i just browsing web using wifi and some times watching video and listen to music other times i have 40 % screen brightness and always turned on airplane mode and when i play games such as asphalt or modern combat the battery drain 10% in 5 minutes and the cpu temp reach 71 c is this normal (sorry for bad english)??
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I have AT&T LTE version on rooted 4.1.2 with Greenify and I'm about the same, 5 hours of screen time with data off. It's not great battery life, but not sure that I can do much to improve it.
so do you think thats normal battery life but some say to get 8 hours surfing web on wifi
messi2050 said:
so do you think thats normal battery life but some say to get 8 hours surfing web on wifi
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My device is new and I've tried breaking in the battery. Rooted it and froze any potential battery killing apps. Use it on low screen brightness. Getting 5-6 hours screen time. I have to believe that its normal, but I can't say 100% for sure.
I believe the Note 8 with LTE tends to drain battery faster because of radio feature. I have a Verizon Galaxy 7.7 that also drains battery faster than the non-LTE version.
My Galaxy Note 8 (non-LTE) gives about 9 hours with wifi on and 40% brightness. However the tablet is non-rooted (if that matters).
esoh said:
My device is new and I've tried breaking in the battery. Rooted it and froze any potential battery killing apps. Use it on low screen brightness. Getting 5-6 hours screen time. I have to believe that its normal, but I can't say 100% for sure.
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i think thats normal
Royaltiger said:
I believe the Note 8 with LTE tends to drain battery faster because of radio feature. I have a Verizon Galaxy 7.7 that also drains battery faster than the non-LTE version.
My Galaxy Note 8 (non-LTE) gives about 9 hours with wifi on and 40% brightness. However the tablet is non-rooted (if that matters).
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9 hours screen on or general usage ?
Screen on and mainly reading book with infrequent web surfing.
Royaltiger said:
Screen on and mainly reading book with infrequent web surfing.
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thats normal because reading books drain the battery slower than surfing web using wifi
Royaltiger said:
I believe the Note 8 with LTE tends to drain battery faster because of radio feature.
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Yes, data over a cell network uses more power than over WiFi.
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esoh said:
My device is new and I've tried breaking in the battery.
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There is no such thing as "breaking in the battery" for this type of battery. Li ion batteries do not need to be conditioned like the old NiCad type batteries.
All I would recommend on a new device, is to calibrate the battery meter on the phone itself: charge to full, leave it on the charger to ensure any top-off charge is achieved (maybe 30 min or more after "full" is indicated). Than drain to 10 or 20%. This sets the "high" and "low" flags for the battery meter, so the meter is more accurate. But it doesn't change your actual battery life (just like fiddling with a car's gas gauge doesn't mean there is magically more gas in the tank).
After calibrating the meter, the best thing for battery life on a Li ion battery, is frequent short charges, as opposed to full discharge cycles.
Same Issue
Same problem here. I have 9 month old Note 8.0 wifi only. Battery life has always been atrocious. Drains 1% every 1-2 minutes of basic use By basic use, I mean internet browsing, 20% screen brightness, no other apps open, all major tasks killed. This is absolutely pathetic for a $400 tablet. If I play any sort of game, such as Candy Crush, we're talking 1% every minute. I've never gotten through an entire movie.
I finally got so fed up that I sent it in to Samsung for service. I haven't gotten it back yet, but I received an email back saying the repair was a "software upgrade." I find that hard to believe. I will post again with the results after I get the device back. My satisfaction with the Note 8 is a 1 out of 10. I wish I would have gotten an Ipad mini or Google Nexus.
I find it unusual that some of you guys have abysmal battery life. On my Note 8 I get amazing battery life, with average to heavy usage I don't have to charge it for a couple days.
I also only got it a couple weeks ago; maybe Samsung changed something inside the Note 8 since the release earlier this year?
I have a Note 8.0 WIFI that was made as an early release US model.
Like any Phone... Apps, GPS, WIFI, SD card, and Screen brightness all are factors in power drain.
I try to stay away from apps that have ads built in. Even small tickler or banner ads can cause battery drain and privacy issues.
Even though you may not see the GPS indicator being active, apps will poll GPS time to time.
In testing some apps, I found that most banking apps are too taxing on my device. Believe it or not Paypal, and Chase are real buggers to your privacy and consume more than what their apps are worth.
Bone stock with no SD card, the device consumed a lot of battery power between the first few power cycles.
I figured there must be a lot of services running in background to optimize and finish configuration of the OS.
Once that settled charging and running on battery smoothed out.
I am able to get 10% drain per hour on normal operation. WIFI always enabled, SD card installed, and lots n lots of apps installed as well.
Just surfing with power saving enabled, LEDs on, Eye watch activated, SD card installed, GPS enabled, and brightness on auto at +3, I can get about 5% battery drain every 40 to 45 minutes.
As for videos using internal speakers, I get 10% drain every 25 minutes... As the display brightness increases and speakers are at 3 with full Viper optimization.
To me being the slimmest and lightest 8 inch device, it gets pretty good battery time. One thing to note, if you feel the left side getting warm... it means you consuming power and to expect the battery to be consumed much faster.
try x note ROM
messi2050 said:
i bought my note 8 n5100 model but i noticed that the battery lasts only 5 hours screen on in stock rom and i have wifi always on and using greenify i just browsing web using wifi and some times watching video and listen to music other times i have 40 % screen brightness and always turned on airplane mode and when i play games such as asphalt or modern combat the battery drain 10% in 5 minutes and the cpu temp reach 71 c is this normal ??
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Hi,
I have N5100 too bought from indiatimes.
Here is what I did to get better battery life out of my note 8.0
1) Go to Settings -> Developer options - > use 2 background processes
2) Do not put Auto brightness, Set the brightness to 20% it will be still be good enough
3) backup and reset - > uncheck everything
4) Google account - > put sync on first in the notification bar and then go to your google accounts and uncheck everything, then disable the "auto sync" from the notification bar
5) Sound - haptic feedback off , vibration , move everything to minimum ..
6) GPS - off , use only when required
7) Developers options - > unknown sources (check only when you need , otherwise uncheck it ) , verify apps - uncheck it
8) Open Google maps, go to settings , uncheck the location services
9) go to youtube app - go to settings - uncheck anything that has syncing options
10) Screen time out 30 seconds
11) Since you said you mentioned that you are using Greenify . I am assuming you are rooted. So you can greenify almost all apps except the launcher and the ones which you use frequently.
12) you can use Rom tool box pro or root cleaner to freeze ( maps , google contact sync, bookmark sync, yahoo finance, hangouts (if you dont use ) , kies , talkback, chrome, google play music , google + , alarm , drm , samsung account , samsung push , samsung print , weather widget, sns, fw upgrade , yahoo news
13) use system control pro app where you can set the governor to pegausq min 200 Mhz, and max 1600 Mhz
14) Go to settings - more settings - Mobile networks - use GSM mode , dont use both WCDMA/GSM
15) Go to google play - > settings - > uncheck auto update apps and also notifications ,,
16) Go to all the google apps and check for any settings that use frequent checking.
17) Use UC browser it is really good for browsing and many options.
18) When charging the Note 8.0 charge it from 0 to 100 in one stretch and dont connect to charger unless it drops below 3%. If it is getting switched off by itself no problem.
19) Go to settings - > Date and Time - > Uncheck everything
20) Go to Settings - > S pen - > Check the option - > Disabling pen detection when pen is attached can extend battery life.
Clear everything in memory in RAM before you leave the note idle.
Before you can do all this. It is better you install the right firmware.
For me XCMH2 gave good battery life. Now X note build. Below is the link to that thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345299
Wipe data , wipe cache , wipe dalvic cache , do it two times in that order.
then you flash the X note build and go through all those steps.
If you do it right I am sure you will not have many wakelocks and you will get better screen on time than 5 hours.
when I did all this the highest I got was 9 hours 26 minutes (7 days).. few months. On an average I was getting 8 and half hours..screen on time with 6 days battery life .. Max standy I got was 15 days battery life with 7 and half screen on .time ..
Your note has to sleep when you are not using. then you can get good standby time and also good screen on time.
) Note 8.0 is really an awesome device. Enjoy!
Samavb said:
Hi,
I have N5100 too bought from indiatimes.
Here is what I did to get better battery life out of my note 8.0
1) Go to Settings -> Developer options - > use 2 background processes
2) Do not put Auto brightness, Set the brightness to 20% it will be still be good enough
3) backup and reset - > uncheck everything
4) Google account - > put sync on first in the notification bar and then go to your google accounts and uncheck everything, then disable the "auto sync" from the notification bar
5) Sound - haptic feedback off , vibration , move everything to minimum ..
6) GPS - off , use only when required
7) Developers options - > unknown sources (check only when you need , otherwise uncheck it ) , verify apps - uncheck it
8) Open Google maps, go to settings , uncheck the location services
9) go to youtube app - go to settings - uncheck anything that has syncing options
10) Screen time out 30 seconds
11) Since you said you mentioned that you are using Greenify . I am assuming you are rooted. So you can greenify almost all apps except the launcher and the ones which you use frequently.
12) you can use Rom tool box pro or root cleaner to freeze ( maps , google contact sync, bookmark sync, yahoo finance, hangouts (if you dont use ) , kies , talkback, chrome, google play music , google + , alarm , drm , samsung account , samsung push , samsung print , weather widget, sns, fw upgrade , yahoo news
13) use system control pro app where you can set the governor to pegausq min 200 Mhz, and max 1600 Mhz
14) Go to settings - more settings - Mobile networks - use GSM mode , dont use both WCDMA/GSM
15) Go to google play - > settings - > uncheck auto update apps and also notifications ,,
16) Go to all the google apps and check for any settings that use frequent checking.
17) Use UC browser it is really good for browsing and many options.
18) When charging the Note 8.0 charge it from 0 to 100 in one stretch and dont connect to charger unless it drops below 3%. If it is getting switched off by itself no problem.
19) Go to settings - > Date and Time - > Uncheck everything
20) Go to Settings - > S pen - > Check the option - > Disabling pen detection when pen is attached can extend battery life.
Clear everything in memory in RAM before you leave the note idle.
Before you can do all this. It is better you install the right firmware.
For me XCMH2 gave good battery life. Now X note build. Below is the link to that thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345299
Wipe data , wipe cache , wipe dalvic cache , do it two times in that order.
then you flash the X note build and go through all those steps.
If you do it right I am sure you will not have many wakelocks and you will get better screen on time than 5 hours.
when I did all this the highest I got was 9 hours 26 minutes (7 days).. few months. On an average I was getting 8 and half hours..screen on time with 6 days battery life .. Max standy I got was 15 days battery life with 7 and half screen on .time ..
Your note has to sleep when you are not using. then you can get good standby time and also good screen on time.
) Note 8.0 is really an awesome device. Enjoy!
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Woah! That is way too many things to adjust... Get greenify app, and startup manager app... and be done with it. I get 8% an hour and 12% an hour with miracast movies to my tv. Having sync on... to go and do sync settings manually is a time consumer... just turn off sync at the quick buttons. Make sure blue tooth and Sat are off. Brightness is manual setup to be be bright enough to give good detail and whites on movies. I leave it alone so it is never an issue on adjusting for most lighting conditions.
I added a simple tool to give wifi data speeds... so I can see how often high rates of data are downloaded. Most of the time small packets of data are always being sent for network discovery and authorization, along with apps like email and what not.
gooberdude said:
Woah! That is way too many things to adjust... Get greenify app, and startup manager app... and be done with it. I get 8% an hour and 12% an hour with miracast movies to my tv. Having sync on... to go and do sync settings manually is a time consumer... just turn off sync at the quick buttons. Make sure blue tooth and Sat are off. Brightness is manual setup to be be bright enough to give good detail and whites on movies. I leave it alone so it is never an issue on adjusting for most lighting conditions.
I added a simple tool to give wifi data speeds... so I can see how often high rates of data are downloaded. Most of the time small packets of data are always being sent for network discovery and authorization, along with apps like email and what not.
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Hello, that's good way but Do you setting your kernel : governor , i/o, voltage or just using default ?
And i want to ask which Kernel do you normally use in your note ? Pegasus Or interactive or hot plug or zzmove ?
gafri1 said:
Hello, that's good way but Do you setting your kernel : governor , i/o, voltage or just using default ?
And i want to ask which Kernel do you normally use in your note ? Pegasus Or interactive or hot plug or zzmove ?
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Gosh, I have been posting bits here and there, and nobody cares until now. HA!
OK, I will do a simple rundown.
OEM or stock firmware only.
Saferoot
Xposed framework
Wanam Xposed
Startup Manager for Xposed
Greenify Plus for Xposed.
Geenify
Security 360 Antivirus (Very robust app for its size, like having 5 apps in one)
Trickster Mod Pro
RootCloak and Substrate (Non-Xposed version)
Now that I have the main components listed, what to do.
Turn off in Application Manager... Will require swiping all the way to All.
Google Play Music - If updated you will need to uninstall before turning off.
Google Contacts Sync
Briefing
Clock (digital)
Favorite Apps
Flipboard
World Clock
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! News
In Greenify, tap on menu. I have added an Xposed module to make all apps have a three dot or line menu, so you may not see the menu without it, as I have no clue to what any app looks like without the xposed module running. There should be an option to create a shortcut. It will place an automated greenify all launcher. It will greenify any app that can be put to sleep. In settings you can do experimental options to greenify.
Both greenify and security 360 have a sleep or end function, they work together at eliminating apps from running in background and memory starvation.
If you find an app that is always running after boot up that you may not be able to manage in either app, Startup Manager in Xposed may offer a startup disable for the app, though not all apps are covered in the list. It is fairly simple just tap on the app and once it is highlighted it will not start during startup.
Security 360 will allow further actions, though it has an easier interface than greenify. You can add both user apps and system apps to the ignore list or remove them as well.
I would be very careful on removing system apps from the default list.
With all that set I keep everything setup automated... email, wifi, and syncing.
Though I keep my google account setup to not do much but sync calender for syncing Samsung calender simultaneously.
Once you kill all the google automation in your online google account... you may remove Google +, as I never liked it and don't use it, the options on your tablet will be in effect, so make sure what settings you have on your tablet are what you want before making online changes.
I left Samsung account active so I can get automated updates. With everything else pretty much running nicely without any glitches.
I have my powersaver setup with everything enabled, and no automatic dimming. Pretty much like the previous poster I commented on. 20% is more than enough for my viewing conditions.
With my settings the way they are, I use the tablet without thinking of turning this or that on unless I am using miracast or file sharing.
PS... I have GPS on for apps that require it. Even though it is enabled, it is off until I start an app that needs GPS location info. It seems only 4 apps that I use pull from GPS. Google Maps, HD widgets,YP, and a Navi app. I have disabled internet location settings, as they are unimportant. Knowing which apps will pull location info during use makes it easier to control location than expecting games and browsers tell me what they are doing.
Samavb said:
Hi,
I have N5100 too bought from indiatimes.
Here is what I did to get better battery life out of my note 8.0
1) Go to Settings -> Developer options - > use 2 background processes
2) Do not put Auto brightness, Set the brightness to 20% it will be still be good enough
3) backup and reset - > uncheck everything
4) Google account - > put sync on first in the notification bar and then go to your google accounts and uncheck everything, then disable the "auto sync" from the notification bar
5) Sound - haptic feedback off , vibration , move everything to minimum ..
6) GPS - off , use only when required
7) Developers options - > unknown sources (check only when you need , otherwise uncheck it ) , verify apps - uncheck it
8) Open Google maps, go to settings , uncheck the location services
9) go to youtube app - go to settings - uncheck anything that has syncing options
10) Screen time out 30 seconds
11) Since you said you mentioned that you are using Greenify . I am assuming you are rooted. So you can greenify almost all apps except the launcher and the ones which you use frequently.
12) you can use Rom tool box pro or root cleaner to freeze ( maps , google contact sync, bookmark sync, yahoo finance, hangouts (if you dont use ) , kies , talkback, chrome, google play music , google + , alarm , drm , samsung account , samsung push , samsung print , weather widget, sns, fw upgrade , yahoo news
13) use system control pro app where you can set the governor to pegausq min 200 Mhz, and max 1600 Mhz
14) Go to settings - more settings - Mobile networks - use GSM mode , dont use both WCDMA/GSM
15) Go to google play - > settings - > uncheck auto update apps and also notifications ,,
16) Go to all the google apps and check for any settings that use frequent checking.
17) Use UC browser it is really good for browsing and many options.
18) When charging the Note 8.0 charge it from 0 to 100 in one stretch and dont connect to charger unless it drops below 3%. If it is getting switched off by itself no problem.
19) Go to settings - > Date and Time - > Uncheck everything
20) Go to Settings - > S pen - > Check the option - > Disabling pen detection when pen is attached can extend battery life.
Clear everything in memory in RAM before you leave the note idle.
Before you can do all this. It is better you install the right firmware.
For me XCMH2 gave good battery life. Now X note build. Below is the link to that thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345299
Wipe data , wipe cache , wipe dalvic cache , do it two times in that order.
then you flash the X note build and go through all those steps.
If you do it right I am sure you will not have many wakelocks and you will get better screen on time than 5 hours.
when I did all this the highest I got was 9 hours 26 minutes (7 days).. few months. On an average I was getting 8 and half hours..screen on time with 6 days battery life .. Max standy I got was 15 days battery life with 7 and half screen on .time ..
Your note has to sleep when you are not using. then you can get good standby time and also good screen on time.
) Note 8.0 is really an awesome device. Enjoy!
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I do all of that and now i get 7 hours screen on good than before ty
Hello , you can try for more screen on time
messi2050 said:
I do all of that and now i get 7 hours screen on good than before ty
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Glad to know your battery life improved and you can try for even better screen on time and also in terms of days. I have put up some screen shots for your reference in the attachment. Please check.
I forgot few tips there
Converting Google play services,
Google Bookmark Sync,
Google Contact Sync,
Google Calendar sync
Google Chrome
to user app (they are system apps)
but not to worry, you can convert them to user apps.
what you can do is
1) Uninstall Google play services and Google chrome that came installed with the firmware
2) Install Google play services and Google chrome from aptoide.apk app , convert it to user app (in case if it is showing in system app)
How to convert Google play services to to user app?
If you have ROM toolbox pro latest version 5.9.5 or 6.0.3 you can open app manager in that , then just do a single click you will have bunch of options, swipe your screen to right then you will see more options where you can see below there will be option , convert to user app
3) Xposed frame work (latest version)
4) download and install call recording mod (if you need, its worth)
5) download and install greenify and check the option in xposed frame work (activate it)
6) Install Android firewall
once you convert all of those system apps to user apps, freeze them.
Google play services - dont freeze. freeze the rest ..
Max battery life achieved on my Note in terms of days was 15 days but i lost the screenshot , my second highest was 11days and odd..
Note:- I don't use power saving, flight mode , no battery doctor , no wake lock detector.. I use ONLY greenify with Xposed framework and I freeze the battery sapping apps.
Before turning off the screen, I make sure I have closed all apps from recent apps and then clear some ram from task manager just to ensure there are no wakelocks.
So far it worked out wonders and my battery life is excellent and very happy with my Note 8.0 after 11 months of usage.
Battery drain is 1% or may be 2% in 10 hours standby .. and that helps in prolonging battery longevity over 4 days , 7 days , 10days or even 15 days.. If you have battery drain overnight then your Note will come for 1 or 2 days but by curbing the battery drain over night you can get it running for 4 to 7 days easily with excellent screen on time.
I am currently on firmware X-Note 5.1 4.2.2 and use my Note for watching Videos, Songs, games, reading Flipboard, Google play stand, S-Note, PDF reader , editor ,
I got screen on time of 11hrs 12min in 4days 20h..., previous highest screen on time was 11hr 6m, and before that 9hrs 26min (stock firmware)
XDA developers is great forum, after going through lot of posts by developers these are the tips that worked wonders. converting system apps to user app was something I found out from other developers in XDA , i was hesitant at first but when I did it eventually I was extremely satisfied and you can see the results.
I hope you can get ever better results..
the fastest my note 8 drainning only in 30 minutes screen on
Drainning very fast ... with 100% brightness and disable power saving mode
Playing clash of clans and clash of lords 2
Bad battery life

Question Automatically switch to 60hz bug

Hi,
I received my F3 and sometimes I notice that sometimes it automatically switches to 60hz while I am in 120hz.
For example, I unlock my phone, it is in 60hz on the home screen and I have to launch an application (for example Play Store) so that it switches back to 120hz.
I think it's a sofware issue but are other people having the same problem than me ?
I have seen an youtube review where minimizing Genshin Impact (a game) switches the phone to 60Hz.
You then have to go to the settings and briefly switch to 60Hz and back to 120Hz to get it working again.
Looks like a software bug to me - don't have my phone yet to check it out myself (Amazon DE launch disaster ...)
Unfortunately, it's not a bug but a "feature". Stupid xiaomi MIUI feature of dynamic refresh rate that force 60Hz on almost all videogames, youtube, netflix...
Same as POCO X3 and all MI 11 family. I hope that custom fw, like xiaomi.eu, will solve this!
Go to app management and delete battery and performance app data, not Cache but data.If you dont see baterry and performance go on three dots up right and select all apps.Now you have yt and all aps on 120hz.After some time you need to do this again.For now I am happy with this solution to have yt on 120hz.

Question Poco f3 screen flash when swithcing between apps

Hello, I'm a long time lurker and a new member here. I bought this phone a week ago and I have a strange issue with it.
Honestly I have no idea where else to look for help, I've asked in several posts over on reddit and fb to no avail. I'll try to describe the issue to the best of my abilities.
Anyways, I've noticed that when I switch between apps there is a momentary flicker or increase in brightness of the screen. I searched for a while and found that the screen refresh rate drops to 90hz for a moment and goes back up again. I tried setting the display to 60 hz and the issue disappeared. I tried setting it to 90hz with SetEdit and the brightness increased a bit. As if the brightness setting for 90hz mode is a bit higher than 60 or 120 if that makes sense.
I have 2 videos below one in 120hz mode and the other in 60hz. The camera exaggerates the effect a bit but it's visible with the naked eye in low to moderate lighting conditions i.e indoor use.
https://imgur.com/a/idsj8UO
note that in 120hz mode the refresh rate drops to 90hz for a moment.
Is this normal or do I have a defective unit?
Thanks in advance
khaledegy99 said:
Hello, I'm a long time lurker and a new member here. I bought this phone a week ago and I have a strange issue with it.
Honestly I have no idea where else to look for help, I've asked in several posts over on reddit and fb to no avail. I'll try to describe the issue to the best of my abilities.
Anyways, I've noticed that when I switch between apps there is a momentary flicker or increase in brightness of the screen. I searched for a while and found that the screen refresh rate drops to 90hz for a moment and goes back up again. I tried setting the display to 60 hz and the issue disappeared. I tried setting it to 90hz with SetEdit and the brightness increased a bit. As if the brightness setting for 90hz mode is a bit higher than 60 or 120 if that makes sense.
I have 2 videos below one in 120hz mode and the other in 60hz. The camera exaggerates the effect a bit but it's visible with the naked eye in low to moderate lighting conditions i.e indoor use.
https://imgur.com/a/idsj8UO
note that in 120hz mode the refresh rate drops to 90hz for a moment.
Is this normal or do I have a defective unit?
Thanks in advance
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As for the Hz drop, this is normal when using this phone because it offers adaptive refresh rate (drops from 120Hz to 90Hz when you switch between apps). As for the flicker/brightness change, it does this to me too so I am guessing it's either a bug or just a result of the implementation of the adaptive refresh but can't be sure about that.
stavrosbin said:
As for the Hz drop, this is normal when using this phone because it offers adaptive refresh rate (drops from 120Hz to 90Hz when you switch between apps). As for the flicker/brightness change, it does this to me too so I am guessing it's either a bug or just a result of the implementation of the adaptive refresh but can't be sure about that.
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Is there anyway to force the display at constant 120hz?
khaledegy99 said:
Is there anyway to force the display at constant 120hz?
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Sorry for the long delay. I am pretty sure you can follow this tutorial for this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/munn6k
. However, I am not 100% it is permanent so you will probably have to do it and see if it changes after a few days.
stavrosbin said:
Sorry for the long delay. I am pretty sure you can follow this tutorial for this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/munn6k
. However, I am not 100% it is permanent so you will probably have to do it and see if it changes after a few days.
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It ain't permanent... Just switch to any aosp rom. I'm tired of ****king memeui.
I installed it for performance and convenience of many more features but dumb stuff like this is unbearable at this point. I've tried many more stuff other than this and usually just downloading setprop app and changing user_refresh_rate value to 0 disables refresh rate switching. But only for a while , doesn't survive reboots and locking screen or opening certain blackilsted apps like mobile legends and such that are hard locked by miui at certain screen refresh rates....
Do yourself a favour and uninstall Miui
Rstment ^m^ said:
It ain't permanent... Just switch to any aosp rom. I'm tired of ****king memeui.
I installed it for performance and convenience of many more features but dumb stuff like this is unbearable at this point. I've tried many more stuff other than this and usually just downloading setprop app and changing user_refresh_rate value to 0 disables refresh rate switching. But only for a while , doesn't survive reboots and locking screen or opening certain blackilsted apps like mobile legends and such that are hard locked by miui at certain screen refresh rates....
Do yourself a favour and uninstall Miui
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It is working for now. I'm planning to install arrowos. Do you know if it supports dc dimming for reading at night?
khaledegy99 said:
It is working for now. I'm planning to install arrowos. Do you know if it supports dc dimming for reading at night?
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No idea... It doesn't say anything

Question .037 update forced 120hz all the time

Anyone else notice the phone also got super snappy and smooth all the time? I tried turning on show refresh rate an hour ago just to find out the phone never go back down to 60hz.
I tried not touching the screen untill it actually auto lock, opening youtube, netflix, tiktok, chrome, settings etc etc. I even rebooted and no change. Battery life has been slightly better which is kinda weird though.
Also i checked twice, the force peak refresh rate is turned off.
Try clearing the system cache.
wanttotree said:
Anyone else notice the phone also got super snappy and smooth all the time? I tried turning on show refresh rate an hour ago just to find out the phone never go back down to 60hz.
I tried not touching the screen untill it actually auto lock, opening youtube, netflix, tiktok, chrome, settings etc etc. I even rebooted and no change. Battery life has been slightly better which is kinda weird though.
Also i checked twice, the force peak refresh rate is turned off.
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I just checked my phone (updated to .037), and the refresh rate is still dropping to 60hz whenever there is no input, so the adaptive refresh rate still works on my end.
My phone is dropping to 60 when there's no input as well. I just played a YouTube video and it went to 60.
On my device i have the exact same problem. As you already described, it is "always" on 120hz - it only jumps down to 60 Hz for a very brief moment, then again reaches the 120hz. This cicle is repeating itself as long as the display is turned on.
I already tried disabling all overlay services and other settings that could, as far as I could think of, have an impact on these behavior, like apps that have access to usage or device controll etc.
But as for now, I don't have a solution for this.
The strange part is that i also have a better display on time since the last update, but after checking the battery temperature for the last week (i installed the .037 on thursday) it reaches higher temperatures now as it was before the update, with around 34 Celsius on .036 vs 38 Celsius on .037 after around an hour of the same activities in the mostly same environment. The temperature difference does make sense for me, because the screen won't chill as it should. On the other hand, the longer battery life does'nt seem to fit too well in this picture.
Rauchinator said:
On my device i have the exact same problem. As you already described, it is "always" on 120hz - it only jumps down to 60 Hz for a very brief moment, then again reaches the 120hz. This cicle is repeating itself as long as the display is turned on.
I already tried disabling all overlay services and other settings that could, as far as I could think of, have an impact on these behavior, like apps that have access to usage or device controll etc.
But as for now, I don't have a solution for this.
The strange part is that i also have a better display on time since the last update, but after checking the battery temperature for the last week (i installed the .037 on thursday) it reaches higher temperatures now as it was before the update, with around 34 Celsius on .036 vs 38 Celsius on .037 after around an hour of the same activities in the mostly same environment. The temperature difference does make sense for me, because the screen won't chill as it should. On the other hand, the longer battery life does'nt seem to fit too well in this picture.
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As far as we know, it's currently buggy anyway, since the
Pixel 6 Pro is consuming more power in 60Hz mode than in 120Hz one*​
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Pixel 6 Pro Consuming More Power In 60Hz Mode Than In 120Hz One
The Google Pixel 6 Pro seems to be consuming more power in 60Hz mode, than it does in 120Hz mode. Needless to say, this is not normal, as higher refresh
www.androidheadlines.com
*in certain scenarios, like low brightness
Battery life tests have also shown that there is only a minor difference in battery life between 60hz or 120hz, so it doesn't really matter and you should - because of that - 120hz anyway since it's a much better experience.
Anyone from the UK had this update yet?
I only ask because I don't have any major issues and fingers crossed this update doesn't make anything worse.
wilpang said:
Anyone from the UK had this update yet?
I only ask because I don't have any major issues and fingers crossed this update doesn't make anything worse.
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Officially it's only a rollout in the USA and Canada, it will come to the rest of the world with the December update (or you manually sideload it, as I did).
Morgrain said:
Officially it's only a rollout in the USA and Canada, it will come to the rest of the world with the December update (or you manually sideload it, as I did).
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Notice anything major from the update?
Morgrain said:
As far as we know, it's currently buggy anyway, since the
Pixel 6 Pro Consuming More Power In 60Hz Mode Than In 120Hz One
The Google Pixel 6 Pro seems to be consuming more power in 60Hz mode, than it does in 120Hz mode. Needless to say, this is not normal, as higher refresh
www.androidheadlines.com
*in certain scenarios, like low brightness
Battery life tests have also shown that there is only a minor difference in battery life between 60hz or 120hz, so it doesn't really matter and you should - because of that - 120hz anyway since it's a much better experience.
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Adaptive refresh is totally borked on the 6Pro.

Question How to disable High-End-Mode on Red Magic 8 Pro?

I used Skyline to try out Switch emulation performance. In the otions i switched on "force max GPU Frequency", so the GPU always runs on full power. I was able to play Burnout Paradise in 1080p @ solit 60FPS. However, after about 15min the Phone gets hot like hell and starts throtteling the SoC. The Notificationbar shows a "G"-Icon witch says, High-End-Mode enabled, this will drain the battery faster and generates more Heat.
The thing is, i unchecket that option in Skyline but Android still goes High-End-Mode everytime i start up Skyline, no matter what I do. In the Nubia Gamelouncher I set CPU and GPU to ballanced but it didnt change. I uninstalled Skyline and reinstalled it, but still Android goes in High-End-Mode when I start the App. I know that there is a 4. Performance Setting on this Phone but its hidden like Dev Mode. I searched the whole Web but not even Google found something useful.
So, is there anyone here who knows how to get to this hidden performance setting?
This information would be verry useful, thx!
TheGroove69 said:
I used Skyline to try out Switch emulation performance. In the otions i switched on "force max GPU Frequency", so the GPU always runs on full power. I was able to play Burnout Paradise in 1080p @ solit 60FPS. However, after about 15min the Phone gets hot like hell and starts throtteling the SoC. The Notificationbar shows a "G"-Icon witch says, High-End-Mode enabled, this will drain the battery faster and generates more Heat.
The thing is, i unchecket that option in Skyline but Android still goes High-End-Mode everytime i start up Skyline, no matter what I do. In the Nubia Gamelouncher I set CPU and GPU to ballanced but it didnt change. I uninstalled Skyline and reinstalled it, but still Android goes in High-End-Mode when I start the App. I know that there is a 4. Performance Setting on this Phone but its hidden like Dev Mode. I searched the whole Web but not even Google found something useful.
So, is there anyone here who knows how to get to this hidden performance setting?
This information would be verry useful, thx!
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Try *#62742654# in the phone app, where you can make a call. This give you a possibility to enable and disable the ludicrous mode. In my opinion the phone should not throttle the performance with maximum cpu and gpu Performance enabled.
Damn, the code didn't work but seriously appreciate it, since I like to save battery in some or other way

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