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A couple fixes for some of our problems

Lets face it. All devices have bugs upon release that the normal person won't care about nor think of it as a bug. This device has it's share but as a reminder. There is no software bug that can't be fixed. By the way, make sure you don't skip the initial setup and if you did just wipe and restore.
1) Some are having a problem when using WiFi. There 4G or 3G data is not turning off and instead of your device using WiFi to exchange data it is using your 4G or 3G data. If you turn WiFi on and don't see a 4G/3G icon in the notification area then your device is working properly in this department.
The Fix: There is three "My Account" apps on our devices and there causing a conflict when 2 or more is running at the same time. To fix this you need to delete all of them (I used Root Explorer). If you use "My Account" you can download the current version from the market. Next, freeze or delete WiFi calling and the T-Mobile app pack. After you have deleted everything you have to reboot your device. Note: While deleting or freezing some of these, you might get some looping force closes. Just simply remove your battery to reboot the device and once it reboots the force closing will be gone.
2) Some are having a problem when moving from cell tower to cell tower. If you are losing a data signal every once in a while but the 4G/3G icon is still showing in the notification area, you need to do the fallowing.
The Fix: Go into your Mobile Network settings and make sure your device is setup to automatically use GSM/WCDMA. Then click on search for networks and at this point you will see T-Mobile UMTS, T-Mobile GSM and ATT GSW. After they appear click on select automatically. While your at it go ahead and click on data roaming since T-Mobile has contracts with other providers so your able to roam on there towers. Don't worry, you won't be charged for roaming since T-Mobile only charges for international roaming. After all this do a reboot.
Some of you think that there is a problem with your battery if your device is showing your "cell standby" above 30%. This is not a problem. Every time you charge your G2X it will reset usage percentages as you know. Well if you emediatly start using your phone and don't put it down for 2 hours than I promise you that your display will be at the top of the list. Obviously if your device stays off for a little bit and upon waking it you look at your battery statistics your going to see Cell standby and Phone idle at the top since the display was off. If your wandering why Cell Standby is using more juice than WiFi it's because when you turn your display off it automatically sleeps your WiFi.
The percentages in your batter statistics need to add up to 100%-105% and something is going to use more than the rest depending on what your doing with your device after removing it from charge. Ask yourself this. If my G2X is in my pocket for 1 hour after removing it from it's charger. What would I like to see using most of my battery? I can tell you right now. Certainly not your display since it's been off the entire time.

There's only one MyAccount app on the phone. I looked myself in the System/app folder. If you see multiple MyAccounts in a task manager it is just another instance of the same application.
Also there's NOTHING wrong with Wifi Calling or My Account. I have both on and use them extensively. My phone has gone now 26hrs without a reboot or hitch of heavy usage. Wifi works, 3G/4G works perfectly. I don't have any issues right now...until the next reboot
Want to give people another perspective since you don't have to give up MyAccount or Wifi caling to have a usable phone.

jrwingate6 said:
Ask yourself this. If my G2X is in my pocket for 1 hour after removing it from it's charger. What would I like to see using most of my battery? I can tell you right now. Certainly not your display since it's been off the entire time.
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Cell standby of course

mobilehavoc said:
There's only one MyAccount app on the phone. I looked myself in the System/app folder. If you see multiple MyAccounts in a task manager it is just another instance of the same application.
Also there's NOTHING wrong with Wifi Calling or My Account. I have both on and use them extensively. My phone has gone now 26hrs without a reboot or hitch of heavy usage. Wifi works, 3G/4G works perfectly. I don't have any issues right now...until the next reboot
Want to give people another perspective since you don't have to give up MyAccount or Wifi caling to have a usable phone.
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Thats WHY you don't have any problems. Because you only have 1 "MyAccount" application. Those of us that had 2 or 3 have the problems. By the way I had 3 and no they weren't showing in task manager. They were all deleted using Root Explorer.

Where did you see them? They were all in system/app??!?
Odd how they could all exist together - were they named differently?

mobilehavoc said:
Where did you see them? They were all in system/app??!?
Odd how they could all exist together - were they named differently?
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Yes, different version numbers and branding included in the apks. I had 2, version 1 and version 5.x.
OP, for some reason when I try Search Networks I get: "Error while searching for networks." Any ideas?

mobilehavoc said:
Where did you see them? They were all in system/app??!?
Odd how they could all exist together - were they named differently?
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They all existed in the system folder. It seemed like instead of the new versions updating the existing app, they were just creating new files. Your right, it is odd but I can see how that would create a problem.

rfm2113 said:
OP, for some reason when I try Search Networks I get: "Error while searching for networks." Any ideas?
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I got the same thing. I had to enable wifi, then shut off wifi calling. Then it worked.

OP, for some reason when I try Search Networks I get: "Error while searching for networks." Any ideas?
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I got the same thing. I had to enable wifi, then shut off wifi calling. Then it worked.
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Worked perfectly, thanks!
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

A hopefully useful battery poll.

Lets start a poll and hopefully this will shine some light on battery drain reasons.
Answer these questions:
1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone)
2) Are you freezing apps?
3) Are you using a task killer?
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app?
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box?
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto?
7) How is your battery life?
Sent from my rooted G2X

Answer these questions:
1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone) 2.2.2
2) Are you freezing apps? Yes
3) Are you using a task killer? NO
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? NO
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? no
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? WCMDA/GSM auto- both on the secret and non secret menu.

1) What is your software version? LG-P999-V10f
2) Are you freezing apps? Yes, car dock, wifi calling, my account etc
3) Are you using a task killer? no
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? yes
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? yes
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? auto

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone) 2.2.2
2) Are you freezing apps? Yes(Except My Tmobile and Wifi Calling)
3) Are you using a task killer? NO
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? Watchdog lite(But it only monitors battery use
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? Yes
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? WCMDA/GSM auto- both on the secret and non secret menu.

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone) 2.2.2
2) Are you freezing apps? I uninstalled ALL T-Mobile apps, wifi calling included
3) Are you using a task killer? Not currently. Was using AutoTask Killer (or whaever JuiceDefender wants you to use)
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? No. Its installed but I have yet to enable it
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? Yes
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? WCMDA/GSM auto- both on the secret and non secret menu.
Battery life was great for the first week, then got crappy. Did a factory reset and now its good again. Will see how it goes.

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone) Same as everyone's will be....V10f
2) Are you freezing apps? No
3) Are you using a task killer? No
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? Superpower
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? Yes
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? auto
And, I'm not sure why this was left out
7) How is your battery life? According to Battery Life Pro, my Full life is 58:77 (and yes, I've had it running without charge for over 2 days).

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone) 2.2.2
2) Are you freezing apps? yes - all preloaded apps, including the games.
3) Are you using a task killer? no
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? no
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? yes, then did a factory reset and did the setup again.
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? auto
the first two days my battery life was incredible. for the last 3-4 i've been trying to figure out why its become terrible again. today i basically uninstalled all apps from my phone and am going to run it dry to see if it lasts any longer than the 6 1/2hrs with mild usage from yesterday.

MWBehr said:
7) How is your battery life? According to Battery Life Pro, my Full life is 58:77 (and yes, I've had it running without charge for over 2 days).
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I really thought I put that in there..lol
Thanks for pointing it out, modified.
Sent from my rooted G2X

1) What is your software version?
2.2.2
2) Are you freezing apps?
Appack, browser (done yesterday), 2 - car homes, 2 - com.logmeins (done yesterday), email, maps, 2 - my accounts, tmo tv, tegrazone, videochat, zhino & zprovider (both done yesterday)
3) Are you using a task killer?
I was, ATK. Killing apps 20+ times a day. Removed ATK yesterday.
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app?
Just Watchdog to watch for things actually using up the battery. All is well.
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box?
No. Purchased at TMO store. She took it out of the box and turned it on to get everything swtiched over. She handed me the phone at the google setup, I hit skip. I set it up later when I got home.. and then I charged the phone.
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto?
I thought it was on auto. It was on GSM only. Will switch to auto tomorrow after a fresh charge.
7) How is your battery life?
Been watching closely.. Pulled the charger at 8a (EST) yesterday. I just hit 32hrs. 24% remaining. A cpl web browsings, cpl txts, a handful of lengthy calls, messing around w/ uninstalling/installing apps, rebooted a couple of times while dealing w/ tmo on the phone.. minimal usage.
Wifi is on 95% of the time, with wifi calling.
Something interesting changed yesterday and I'm not sure specifically what app/service I froze that did it (I listed all that I did yesterday). Cell standby and wifi were always the top 2 dogs in battery usage.. this has been the case every single day since I've had the phone.
Today, phone idle is the top dog for the first time.. 35%. Cell standby 25%, wifi 24%. Cell stndby and wifi have been mainly up in the 35-40s. But then again, my usage hasn't been that high in the last 32hrs either.

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone)
LG-P999-V10f
2) Are you freezing apps?
No
3) Are you using a task killer?
No
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app?
No
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box?
Yes
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto?
Auto
7) How is your battery life?
Very happy with it, better than my nexus one by a lot

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone)
LG-P999-V10f
2) Are you freezing apps?
Not freezing but did root and remove some bloatware
3) Are you using a task killer?
Nada
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app?
No
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box?
Yes
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto?
Auto
7) How is your battery life?
Got about 20 hours of use with texting, browsing, and an hour of GPS use with phone screen on max brightness. Without the GPS use I might have gone another 3-5 hours I believe.

1) What is your software version?
2.2.2 : LG-P999-V10f
2) Are you freezing apps?
app pack
car home
telenav
qik video
tmo tv
3) Are you using a task killer?
No
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app?
No
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box?
Right out of the box
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto?
auto
7) How is your battery life?
At first it was ****. 8-9 hours heavy usage. I followed the steps outlined in "steps to 20 hour battery life" and I now have about 17 hours with heavy usage.

1) What is your software version? (settings -> about phone)-v10f
2) Are you freezing apps?- I tried that and found that myaccount still ran even when frozen as well as another tmobile app. can't remember what it was though.
I uninstalled all tmobile apps.
3) Are you using a task killer? I use a task manager, but not to auto kill anything. I only use it to free up memory, if needed.
4) Are you using juice defender, or a similar app? No.
5) Did you do google setup after a factory reset or right out of the box? I tried it both ways.
6) WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM auto? Auto
7) How is your battery life? I get about 8-10 hours on medium to low use.
I also had a problem last time I charged my phone. I charged it with the phone off for about 6 hours. I cut it on this morning and it was only at 94%. I also have the wifi bug that causes wifi to not work properly. I'm not sure if all of this is tied together somehow.

v8dreaming said:
7) How is your battery life? I get about 8-10 hours on medium to low use.
I also had a problem last time I charged my phone. I charged it with the phone off for about 6 hours. I cut it on this morning and it was only at 94%. I also have the wifi bug that causes wifi to not work properly. I'm not sure if all of this is tied together somehow.
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Have you successfully gotten a 100% charge yet? I'm sure you have, but gotta ask. I wonder if it's just a bad battery. Have you tried to get a new one from TMO?

WiFi Always on (Hack)

Hello All,
Is anyone working on this or interested in this? I am really needing this to make WP work for me as the 3G connection is terrible and causing significant power drain.
Thanks.

Can you tell me what the problem is? Because I have no problems in toggling WiFi on and leaving it all day. Of course, I'm forced to use 3G when there is no hotspot or I have no signal from my router, but there's no problem in leaving that on.

Spaqin he means that wifi turns off when screen is blocked
djdurance currently you can only set screen block time to infinity by patching the registry

Thank you. Are you able to provide a link for the registry edit?
Sent from my SGH-i937 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

On most phones you don't even need a registry tweak to set the screen lock time to "Never". However, doing so will destroy your battery life as the screen never turns off, and is one of the main power consumers on the phone. So far as I know (and I might be mistaken) there's no hack yet that lets you use WiFi while the phone in unplugged and the screen is off.

djdurance said:
Thank you. Are you able to provide a link for the registry edit?
Sent from my SGH-i937 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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Here you go m8 .. Alot of reg tips there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907971

There is no hack but if power use is what you are concerned about just turn battery saver on, you will have to manually sync email and a few other things but your battery will last you days. Also another thing you try try is setting you phone to use edge only since your 3g is terrible anyways and that will save you battery as well.

it would be nice if we could make wifi stay on under lockscreen, I work in a school that gets absolutley no cell phone signal inside. but we have wifi in the whole building. Too bad i cant toggle off my data connection and wifi would just stay on.
MS needs to implement this especially for business users that would possibly be connected to a private network or something.

Install Spotify, then turn it on and press start (home) and as long as Spotify will run in the background wifi will be ON. Depending on the ROM you have is need to have checked in andvanced configuration ''Don't dehydrate apps on pause'' .

ok... I will try that. Such a pain to keep that in the "open" list of apps...
One thing that will improve with Tango hopefully... Although I'm not holding my breath. Windows Apollo I guess.

It works fine with Spotify. the battery lasts longer with the network data off, because at my house the reception is poor.

Any reported results here?

Here's a trick: http://mobilitydigest.com/wp-tips-tricks-keep-wifi-running-all-the-time/
Thank Jim for finding it and myself for sharing it!

oh ,thanks a lot

[Q] galaxy 3 as wifi router

Hi everyone,
I need your help to solve some problems I got with the galaxy 3.
I live off-grid and it also mean there is no wired phone line so Im using a old g3 as a wifi router.
I do this for a year and the phone is always pluged and connected in H and wifi in ap mode (no adhoc cause other phone dont connect)
Of course, you already know what happend, battery is dead. And the phone start stopping itself.
And of course you cant using without battery even pluged in.
So, as there is always electricity i would like to remove any part of the rom who interact with battery. Simulating 100% all the time so the phone dont cut.
I also would like to automatically boot on and it might have something to do with kernel.
Finally i would also remove all unneeded stuff and start automzticaly the wifi tether ap mode, and why not a proxy through ssh so i can encrypt if i ggo through proxy or surf in clear if no proxy selected in computer settings.
Can you guy lead me to the right way to do this, at least or the battery part or the autoboot part?
By the way, buying a battery is not an option it cost more than a lowcost android phone. And i dont lile to waste .
Thanks a lot
Yodb

Wouldn't it be possible to find a battery on eBay or those type of non OEM batteries?
Sent from my GT-I5800 using xda app-developers app

It is probably possible. It will probably end like this but it would have been much more fun for me to learn a new tricks
I read all over the net that many android phone start when pluged in. My galaxy note also do it, apparently only if it stoped alone. If i switched it off manualy it show a green battery.
Id like to do the same with the g3. Any kernel would do that? Even a old one? I only need a ap mode wifi tether, i dont use it at all apart for that (fixed on the wall where good reception is)
Finaly i also could kick out the power button and plug it to a raspberry who will check if its on and power it if not.
I can compil my own rom but for the kernel part i dont know how to play with.

Very Slow/Inconsistent Notifications

Hi, so the simplest way of stating my problem is when my device is either unlocked (AKA browsing apps and whatnot with the screen on), or locked (sleeping), notifications are slow to arrive. Right now I've been testing with Skype, and Gmail, both of which are inconsistent. My OPO does not currently have a SIM card (haven't setup the plan yet), and I've tried with both LTE and Radio off (using *#*#4636#*#* on the phone info page)
Info about my OPO/Setup:
Flashed CyanogenMod 12.1 as stated in the Sultan thread before flashing Sultanxda Rom
Using Sultanxda Unofficial CyanogenMod 12.1 Sep 14, 2015 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...m-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-12-1-t3120259)
Using AK v.020 CAF Kernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/orig-development/kernel-ak-t3189886)
Using StyloKing v1 Synapse profile for CAF (http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...ad-oneplus-t3163211/post62600798#post62600798)
Using build.prop mods (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/build-prop-tweaks-device-t3168207)
Using TK Gapps Pico (http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/tk-gapps-t3116347)
Using Oxygen OS Modem ONLY (http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...dio-updated-modem-radio-files-oxygen-t3072516)
Using Xposed for Lolipop (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811)
Using Greenify and Amplify with settings from both of these threads (http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-0-0-hour-idle-battery-drain-stock-t2973588 & http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884)
My OPO does not currently have a SIM card (haven't setup the plan yet)
Things I've tried:
With both LTE and Radio off (using *#*#4636#*#* on the phone info page)
Older Skype versions
Push Notification Fixer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andqlimax.pushfixer&hl=en)
Disabling Amplify by disabling the module in Xposed, and rebooting
Double checked that Greenify isn't touching Skype or anything related
I also have a Samsung Galaxy S3 that is using the stock ROM (Android 4.1.2) with root permission and a custom recovery. That is the device I've been using to test with. If I send a Skype or Gmail message from my OPO to the Galaxy, it takes 2-3 seconds EVERY TIME consistently.
If I send a Skype or Gmail message from the Galaxy to the OPO, sometimes I'll get the message within 3-5 seconds, other times it takes 1 minute+ and even a few messages don't arrive until I unlock the device and open Skype or Gmail.
When I leave Skype open, and lock my OPO, it seems to get the messages very quickly almost every time.
Also, it appears that when my phone sleeps for a certain period of time, seems inconsistent, the WiFi will disconnect - and I DO have keep WiFi on while phone is sleeping.
I've run out of ideas short of trying a full wipe and different rom/kernel/who knows what at this point...=\
Any/all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Edit/Update: Found this post (http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/107023-cm12121-wifi-connectivity-issuesdrops-workaround-included/) on another forum, and that seems to have fixed it for me. Doing further testing, but so far positive results.

The delayed response is most probablye due to the Greenify/Amplify tweaks that you've made. Remove everything related to Gmail, Skype, Google Play Services from Greenify & Amplify and then test. Add back the tweaks one by one and find the culprit.

I've already tried that. Fully disabling Amplify, and double checking that I've touched nothing close to Skype or Gmail or Google Services in Greenify's settings.
As I put in the edit in my first post, I found out going to /system/etc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini and changing the line
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McastBcastFilter=3
to
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McastBcastFilter=0
appears to have solved the issue for me.
But when I did that, I also noticed something else, and I wish I hadn't unplugged my device (AKA wiping battery data so I could show a clear screenshot of what I mean), because I saw when I was looking at the battery usage chart, all day long while I had McastBcastFilter=3, my WiFi signal was turning on and off CONSTANTLY throughout the day, and sometimes for decently long periods. Now that I've changed McastBcastFilter=0, my WiFi signal shows that it's on 24/7 in my battery screen.
I'm worried that this is going to cost me a fair bit more battery, but at the same time I need my notifications.
I found another setting in that file with this comment:
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# Enable suspend or not
# 1: Enable standby, 2: Enable Deep sleep, 3: Enable Mcast/Bcast Filter
gEnableSuspend=3
Before I made any changes to this file, it was set to 3, which makes sense with the McastBcastFilter changes I made. But attempting to get some more battery life so my WiFi goes into some sort of partial power save mode for battery longevity, I'm going to try my OPO with Enable Deep Sleep on all day. We'll see how the battery fairs and if notifications are still delayed or not.
Edit: I was able to get the data from my secondary battery app so screenshots for all!
This is what my Wifi/Battery was like before I changed McastBcastFilter at all:
Code:
imgur.com/ZXmFYhI
This is after I changed it from 3 to 0:
Code:
imgur.com/H5ZlXc2
And this is what it's been like since I rebooted last night with gEnableSuspend=2 (AKA Deep Sleep):
Code:
imgur.com/2O6GuVE
Obviously when the WiFi is off, I'm not getting my notifications. >=\
(Gave the URLs CODE tags so I could link the images...)

Well so far I haven't seem to have come across any issues with leaving BcastMcast at 0 and using Deep Sleep for WiFi. I'm still getting all my notifications, and as far as I can tell the battery life is give or take about the same. Possibly a little more battery drain than with BcastMcast on, but I haven't done any sleep tests yet, just initial observations with using OPO in a daily setting.