My initial instinct was to blame the device when it randomly turned itself off yesterday. Could it be a poorly designed (or beta) app that's responsible?
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Here is a semi-fix. This trick will prevent your phone from shutting down but will decrease battery life somewhat.
1. Download "Load Monitor" from the Android Market.
2. Once installed, open the Load Monitor app.
3. Click on the Menu Button and Select Preferences.
4. Check the following Items:
* Add Notification
* Auto Start
* Wake Lock
* Only screen on
5. Go to "Update interval" and select 5 Minutes.
6. Although the Auto-start assures the app runs everytime you reboot your phone, if it ever shuts off, start the app manually; though you should haven't to do this step too many times.
Load Monitor keeps your phone from shutting down by preventing suspend via wake lock setting and by actively monitoring your load, the phone is always doing something. The main reason these phones shut-off is due to the processor going into suspended mode whenever it is not being used much and then it shuts off once it hasn't been used long enough. This trick worked for me, can't guarantee for everyone but a very good chance it will work.
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There's an app for that. Captivate Keep Alive. It's on the market.
Or call AT&T to get a replacement since there is already an internal memo about this issue and date range of phones affected.
foxbat121 said:
Or call AT&T to get a replacement since there is already an internal memo about this issue and date range of phones affected.
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The only thing that's concerning about this is that they are calling it a software issue and not a hardware issue. If you are already on a newer version then you technically shouldn't have the issue any longer. But even on 2.2 I was, so I have been using Load Monitor for a long time now. Besides, some are reporting their replacement phones are refurbs that still fall into the same IMEI range.
I'm not sure if I posted this thread in the right forum, so please move it if it's needed, but I just wanted to let people know about this serious bug.
So, "Here" is obviously one of the best free offline navigation apps but there's a pretty serious bug that started occuring after the app went from beta to stable. The app keeps running in background after closing it, swiping it away from recent apps and even after force stoping it so it keeps heating up the phone drastically and also affecting the battery pretty hard. I've had this bug on 2 different phones so it's definitely not phone or brand related (it happened on my Sony Xperia V and also on Samsung Galaxy S4). The only solution for now is to use greenify and hibernate the app after using it, because just force stoping it doesn't work (it starts automatically again). You can go into your running apps and you'll probably see it there in active processes (I've just used it once to download maps and try it out a bit and it kept running 2 days non-stop). My Galaxy S4 was very hot and battery was also worse than before installing the app so that's how I found it out even though it didn't show up in battery usage information, but it did on my Xperia V so that's why I knew it was this app that was causing the problems. So I installed "Greenify", added Here app to the list and hibernated it. Now it doesn't automatically start and my phone never gets hot, not even warm.
I hope this information will help some of you who are using this app and having overheating and battery issues. :fingers-crossed:
Hi everyone,
I have a Google Nexus 5, that has never been rooted.
Nearly each time my phone is running out of battery (meaning nearly every day because I am using Waze, a GPS app, quite often), when Android is starting a message saying "Optimizing 1 of x.. apps" and this take a lot of time (sometimes more than 10 minutes).
Do you know what is causing this issue and how to solve it?
It happens since I upgraded to a previous version of Android but I don't remember which one as is it not the latest one.
Now, my phone is running Android 5.1.1 build LMY48M.
Thanks a lot.
Can't solve your problem, but I will add some information and a test suggestion:
I have a Nexus 7 (2013) Tablet which was recently updated to Lollipop 5.1.1.
Not surprisingly, right after the update, the tablet went through the exact same app optimization process (no surprise there).
Although the tablet was charged and in 'Sleep Mode' last night, I woke up this morning to find the tablet powered off (which I considered strange).
Upon powering it back on, it went through the same app optimization process that you have described.
I considered the possibility that a software update had been applied to the tablet last night which did not require my permission (but that seems unlikely).
Then I wondered if the battery had somehow become depleted and that the app optimization process was a function of the power loss and subsequent restart.
In the Windows environment, an 'ungraceful' shutdown leads to a boot option to start the computer in 'Safe Mode'.
And I had considered the possibility that one or more Android processes or 3rd party apps might have triggered the requirement for app optimization upon restart.
This is what led me to your post.
However, I have now let the battery drain two times, with two subsequent restarts -- and I am not getting the app optimization.
So, I'm not sure what the trigger is -- but I have a suggestion for a test:
Restart your device so it is fresh
Do not start any applications or Android processes (other than those that start themselves)
Leave the device on so that the battery fully drains (you might want to accelerate the process by maximizing the screen brightness)
After the device shuts down due to battery loss -- charge it
Restart the device and see if app optimization happens
If it does not happen -- them maybe your app optimization is related to an ungraceful shutdown of one or more Android processes or 3rd party apps
If it does happen -- then I don't know what's going on
However, we can't ignore the fact that your device is a phone and mine is a tablet
And, therefore, your device always has processes running that might represent an ungraceful shutdown upon battery depletion.
Of course, this does not answer the question relating to the problem I witnessed this morning
But maybe I had too many apps open and too many browser tabs open when my battery depleted (although I still don't know why my battery depleted)
And maybe that triggered my own app optimization
There is one more thing: yesterday, for the first time, I ran an app on the tablet called Slingbox Player
That's the only thing different that I have done on the tablet for many months
And the Slingbox Player was open in the background when I went to sleep
I suppose a badly coded app could have drained my battery
But that still leave the question regarding the app optimization requirement upon restart
Please share your findings.
Got weird observation - curious, if it's only in my case or it's typical.
1. I restrict background usage of the app (doesn't matter which one - google apps as well as 3rd party) with adaptive battery on.
2. After a while (let's say few hours) this app goes back to optimized by itself.
It happens with most of my apps. I can restrict 30 apps and after short period of time only 5-6 stay in restricted mode.
Has anyone got the same problem and/or can share a solution?
Same for me, just wanted to search if iam the only one. Although I think it takes days or weeks for me. Maybe it's a setting we Activate which deletes it (maybe Using adaptive battery?)
I have adaptive battery on and restricted apps, and they stay restricted.
I don't open these apps though, perhaps if you open'restricted' apps they become optimised, which makes sense.
piotrkruczek said:
Got weird observation - curious, if it's only in my case or it's typical.
1. I restrict background usage of the app (doesn't matter which one - google apps as well as 3rd party) with adaptive battery on.
2. After a while (let's say few hours) this app goes back to optimized by itself.
It happens with most of my apps. I can restrict 30 apps and after short period of time only 5-6 stay in restricted mode.
Has anyone got the same problem and/or can share a solution?
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Thats weird, all my restricted app stay restricted with adaptive battery on
I've the same problem, restricted app goes back to optimized
I have the same problem as well, but I thought they reverted back to optimized following a phone restart - I thought that was the trigger. Anyone else confirm?
Psychlone said:
I have the same problem as well, but I thought they reverted back to optimized following a phone restart - I thought that was the trigger. Anyone else confirm?
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that should not be the trigger, i restart my phone often and I don't think it ever reverted back because of this.
Hi, I have the same problem with or without adaptative battery. Any solution?
It's annoying because I have Youtube Vanced with MicroG and sometimes MicroG consume a lot of battery. And if I choose restrictive battery, this come back to optimized
PD: I'm not root
EDIT: Not only bring it back to optimized, Garmin connect app backs to unrestrictived (it's default for Garmin app).
I recently switched to Pixel, I want an app that just tracks sleep without me having to press a button in an app when I go to sleep. Samsung Health app would detect when I stopped using my phone and then tell me when I fell asleep and when I woke up 10.0.0.0.1 192.168.1.254 . Google fit doesn't have that, and I tried like 4 different sleep tracking apps and they all seem to require you pressing a button or something when you go to bed.
If such a 3rd-party app would exist, what I doubt, then it requires / uses your phone's sensors to detect movement and determine when you are asleep.