i use the app 'Watchdog' to observe the cpu usage and the suspend(linux process) always comes out about 30-50% usage..daily i'll get about 30 alerts, and it drains my battery like hell!
I already searched about it and it is a very popular problem among the other android phone users but it seem no one has found the fix for it
Anybody in this atrix 2 community occur the same problem?
ewandroid said:
i use the app 'Watchdog' to observe the cpu usage and the suspend(linux process) always comes out about 30-50% usage..daily i'll get about 30 alerts, and it drains my battery like hell!
I already searched about it and it is a very popular problem among the other android phone users but it seem no one has found the fix for it
Anybody in this atrix 2 community occur the same problem?
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It appears that whenever the screen timeout is set to ANY given interval, the "Suspend" process continues to run (under SystemPanel). Set the display to "never turn off", and "Suspend" terminates.
I've have decent battery life, even while overclocked to 1.25GHz and with additional ram speed and netspeed tweaks added with my screen timeout set to "never". Also, try enabling USB Debugging (settings>applications>development) and see if that helps.
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nope..still running and hogging my battery:'(
i can't even get a full day with one charge..damn!so jealous with you guys
ewandroid said:
nope..still running and hogging my battery:'(
i can't even get a full day with one charge..damn!so jealous with you guys
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I'm sending you a DisableSuspend.apk that you can download. Install it like any other .apk and tick the "Disable Suspend" box. See if that solves your issue...
EDIT: I installed the .apk and ran it myself, so as to ensure I'm not throwing something out there that either won't work or will do other goofy things to your phone. So far, NO issues with suspend linux process whatsoever! Pretty sweet.
ROM: CM9 latest nightly
Kernel: CM9's own
Radio: T-Mobile's UVLC8 (yes, I'm on T-Mobile)
Brightness: Auto (shown in screenshot)
Synced Gmail accounts: 3
Accounts in Email app: 0
My battery drops 20% in 42 minutes, which means it will be depleted in 3.5 hours. And this is mostly due to the screen. Why? I use the phone moderately and ALWAYS press the Power button to turn the screen off whenever I'm done replying to a text or doing anything with it.
Any suggestions?
Well judging from your notification bar you have bluetooth, WiFi, fb sync all on and you aren't even connected to a WiFi network or Bluetooth device. Try turning those off when they are not needed. Also go into the Facebook app and go to settings and change you sync time to a little longer than an hour (if you can stand it). Try that for now and see what happens
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Some info on screen on time would help, 3.5hrs screen on time is barely below average. I would expect that if FB is always syncing and blue tooth.
Also I would verify you don't have a wake lock going from charging. You can check with CPU Spy, better battery stats, as well as some others. Cpu spy is likely the easiest way.
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Every once in a while I'll get a flash that does this, the battery just seems to be losing its will to live. I don't understand it myself but I restore my last nandroid backup, and then flash again. After that all goes back to normal.
ckck543 said:
Well judging from your notification bar you have bluetooth, WiFi, fb sync all on and you aren't even connected to a WiFi network or Bluetooth device. Try turning those off when they are not needed. Also go into the Facebook app and go to settings and change you sync time to a little longer than an hour (if you can stand it). Try that for now and see what happens
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I always keep WiFi and Bluetooth on. I thought neither one of those really used a lot of power unless actually connected. I use BT only in my car and WiFi only at home (evenings). My FB refresh interval is set to 1h. I hardly think this is draining my battery.
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Some info on screen on time would help, 3.5hrs screen on time is barely below average. I would expect that if FB is always syncing and blue tooth.
Also I would verify you don't have a wake lock going from charging. You can check with CPU Spy, better battery stats, as well as some others. Cpu spy is likely the easiest way.
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Better Battery Stats wasn't free, so I installed CPU Spy and Battery Spy, I am letting the phone charge to 100% and then, I'm going to unplug it and report after about 30 minutes.
meet2x4 said:
Every once in a while I'll get a flash that does this, the battery just seems to be losing its will to live. I don't understand it myself but I restore my last nandroid backup, and then flash again. After that all goes back to normal.
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I will flash last night's CM9 nightly and see if I notice a difference.
Thank you all!
Razor1973 said:
I always keep WiFi and Bluetooth on. I thought neither one of those really used a lot of power unless actually connected. I use BT only in my car and WiFi only at home (evenings). My FB refresh interval is set to 1h. I hardly think this is draining my battery.
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Might want to think of picking up some NFC tags and setting profiles so stuff like Bluetooth will automatically turn on when in your car, and off when you leave. And BT and Wifi do drain power when not connected because they are searching for connections.
Better Battery Stats wasn't free, so I installed CPU Spy and Battery Spy, I am letting the phone charge to 100% and then, I'm going to unplug it and report after about 30 minutes.
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It's free to XDA members: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
dakpluto said:
Might want to think of picking up some NFC tags and setting profiles so stuff like Bluetooth will automatically turn on when in your car, and off when you leave. And BT and Wifi do drain power when not connected because they are searching for connections.
It's free to XDA members: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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But wouldn't WiFi and Bluetooth show in the battery usage screen with a high percentage? They would show by themselves or under radio and those aren't high at all. It's all on the screen. That's the problem, it seems. And what I explained earlier is that I don't use it much. I will get a text message, I'll reply and automatically turn the screen off before I set the phone down. I never forget this. I'm actually anal about it. LOL
I just installed Better Battery Stats (thanks for the tip!!!) and will test with all 3 apps as soon as I unplug my phone to go to lunch. I haven't been able to do this yet. Crazy day here at work.
Thanks again.
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But wouldn't WiFi and Bluetooth show in the battery usage screen with a high percentage? They would show by themselves or under radio and those aren't high at all. It's all on the screen. That's the problem, it seems. And what I explained earlier is that I don't use it much. I will get a text message, I'll reply and automatically turn the screen off before I set the phone down. I never forget this. I'm actually anal about it. LOL
I just installed Better Battery Stats (thanks for the tip!!!) and will test with all 3 apps as soon as I unplug my phone to go to lunch. I haven't been able to do this yet. Crazy day here at work.
Thanks again.
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that's covered under android system I believe. Most important, it causes wake locks that keeps your phone from deep sleeping.
Flash Instigators Kernel with Smartass/Badass scripts (not a joke....)
It will help you tremendously. You must reflash with every nightly update you do.
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OK, so 4.5 hours and battery discharged 38%. I guess that's not terrible, but my screen was only on for 26 minutes of that time and the phone is reporting 55% of the battery drain came from screen use. I feel battery life could be a lot better just because of this.
What else do these screenshots tell you guys?
I noticed KIK Messenger and MailDroid there. They both sync a lot. I do have a couple of IMAP accounts on MailDroid that I forgot to mention in my OP. But, still, I go back to the fact that most of the drain comes from the screen. These aren't related.
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Flash Instigators Kernel with Smartass/Badass scripts (not a joke....)
It will help you tremendously. You must reflash with every nightly update you do.
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Oh, true!!! I flashed InstigatorX's kernel when I first started flashing the nightlies, but, since I flash them every 2-3 days, I completely forgot to reflash the kernel. OK, it's more like I didn't know it was getting overwritten and I had to reflash it. Thanks for the reminder!!! By the way, do you go with stable (4.0b) or the latest experimental (5.3.2)? Also, do you just flash the kernel? What are those scripts and what do you do with them? I did not understand his instructions. Maybe I should be asking there, but since I already have you here... LOL
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OK, so 4.5 hours and battery discharged 38%. I guess that's not terrible, but my screen was only on for 26 minutes of that time and the phone is reporting 55% of the battery drain came from screen use. I feel battery life could be a lot better just because of this.
What else do these screenshots tell you guys?
I noticed KIK Messenger and MailDroid there. They both sync a lot. I do have a couple of IMAP accounts on MailDroid that I forgot to mention in my OP. But, still, I go back to the fact that most of the drain comes from the screen. These aren't related.
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For one, turn your screen brightness down. I use auto-brightness and never have a problem seeing it, and my battery drain is ok that way.
Two, you've got the AudioOut_1 wakelock. Turn off system sounds in the settings menu (keytones, touch sound, screen lock sound, vibrate on screen tap) and that will take care of that.
Any type of instant messenger service (Skype is well-known for doing this) will wakelock your phone while it searches for IMs. No way around it other than an uninstall. You can't control IMAP pushing, but you can control folder polling, which eats up a lot of battery. I'd set your MailDroid accounts to not poll folders automatically more than once a day.
And definitely turn Bluetooth off when you're not actively connected to something. You might as well be using your phone as a flashlight with how much power BT burns through.
I am currently on RC2. I went to the 21/22 nightly but was not liking how it was behaving so I went with the RC for now.
In INSTIGATORS forum you will see in the links to the kernel one that says <-------- works with RC2.
I used that one and I am happy. Sure you could do the newer ones but I am happy where I am at currently.
Just boot into recovery and install from zip.
(Assume u download the zip on your phone....)
Its easy as pie!
You can play with the settings if you want but the default settings work pretty freaking good!
I would for sure recommend going to that forum as Instigator himself can answer ALL your questions in depth.... I am merely a messenger and user of his kernel.... wish they would just merge it into the cm9....
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T.J. Bender said:
For one, turn your screen brightness down. I use auto-brightness and never have a problem seeing it, and my battery drain is ok that way.
Two, you've got the AudioOut_1 wakelock. Turn off system sounds in the settings menu (keytones, touch sound, screen lock sound, vibrate on screen tap) and that will take care of that.
Any type of instant messenger service (Skype is well-known for doing this) will wakelock your phone while it searches for IMs. No way around it other than an uninstall. You can't control IMAP pushing, but you can control folder polling, which eats up a lot of battery. I'd set your MailDroid accounts to not poll folders automatically more than once a day.
And definitely turn Bluetooth off when you're not actively connected to something. You might as well be using your phone as a flashlight with how much power BT burns through.
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Screen brightness: I use auto as well. It's in one of my first screenshots in this thread.
AudioOut_1 wakelock: Done. Thanks. I'm going to miss the touch and screen lock sounds. LOL I left dial pad touch tones and volume rocker music controls in that same secton checked, by the way.
MailDroid: I went through all the settings, both general and for the e-mail accounts and couldn't find a place to specify folder polling interval. Do you have it installed? If so, could you tell me exactly where to find this please?
Bluetooth: I'll try my best to turn it on only when I needed. I could also follow dakpluto's suggestion with the NFC tags. But then, I'd have to leave NFC on. Doesn't that drain battery too?
And you see, although all of these will help, don't you agree based on my screenshots that the biggest offender here is the screen and this is the area I should really be looking at?
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I am currently on RC2. I went to the 21/22 nightly but was not liking how it was behaving so I went with the RC for now.
In INSTIGATORS forum you will see in the links to the kernel one that says <-------- works with RC2.
I used that one and I am happy. Sure you could do the newer ones but I am happy where I am at currently.
Just boot into recovery and install from zip.
(Assume u download the zip on your phone....)
Its easy as pie!
You can play with the settings if you want but the default settings work pretty freaking good!
I would for sure recommend going to that forum as Instigator himself can answer ALL your questions in depth.... I am merely a messenger and user of his kernel.... wish they would just merge it into the cm9....
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Here's what I just did:
1) Installed latest (7/23) CM9 nightly.
2) Installed InstigatorX's 5.3.2 experimental kernel using CWM.
3) Installed InstigatorX's BadAss script using CWM on top of the kernel (I guess that's how you do it).
I will see how my battery behaves. It'll be difficult to know which of the many things I did is the one that yielded the biggest improvement, however. Oh well.
Thank you all!
I'm testing aokp w/ stock kernel ondemand 192/1512 and it actually is working decently for me so far. Streamed like 1 1/2 hr of video last night and 2hr of Pandora today at the gym. :good:
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You see? Why can't I get HALF of that?
InstigatorX CM9/AOKP Kernel - Which One?
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... do you go with stable (4.0b) or the latest experimental (5.3.2)? Also, do you just flash the kernel? What are those scripts and what do you do with them? I did not understand his instructions. Maybe I should be asking there, but since I already have you here... LOL
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That's what I'm trying to figure out:
Which version (e.g. 4.0b or latest)?
Which script(s)?
Anything else?
(There's tons of information in these forums, but finding it buried deep in threads is like looking for a needle in a haystack.)
From the looks of that screen shot. The phone is barely being used, see how the blue isn't solid for most of the running time?
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kr3w1337 said:
From the looks of that screen shot. The phone is barely being used, see how the blue isn't solid for most of the running time?
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Yep I have power saving stuff such as turn off wifi when idle, I dont have GPS on 24/7 and I dont have wakelocks, I also set mine to use 3G/4G rather than LTE. If it was a solid blue that means something will be constantly on draining the battery.
I'm testing aokp w/ stock kernel ondemand 192/1512 and it actually is working decently for me so far. Streamed like 1 1/2 hr of video last night and 2hr of Pandora today at the gym.
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Those are the two lines from the front and the end. The blanks are deep sleep over night. Remember I said "testing aokp" "stock kernel"
If you want my "light" use then here it is lol.
Trinition said:
That's what I'm trying to figure out:
Which version (e.g. 4.0b or latest)?
Which script(s)?
Anything else?
(There's tons of information in these forums, but finding it buried deep in threads is like looking for a needle in a haystack.)
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For performance I prefer smartassv2 for power saving I would go for badass governor. With badass it doesn't jump clocks to max but goes by phases thus not aggressive and doesn't eat a lot. Test them out read the change log to see if changes pertain to you :good:
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Hey, I was curious if anyone knew a way to make it so that extreme power saving mode would automatically kick in when I turned my screen off. Now I know this may not be helpful for some people but as this is my personal phone I really don't need emails to be pushed to me right away and what not.
I've searched throughout tasker to find a way to do this but I cannot find a way for the life of me.
Any ideas or suggesting a would be appreciated and helpful. Thanks!
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MattCropley said:
Hey, I was curious if anyone knew a way to make it so that extreme power saving mode would automatically kick in when I turned my screen off. Now I know this may not be helpful for some people but as this is my personal phone I really don't need emails to be pushed to me right away and what not.
I've searched throughout tasker to find a way to do this but I cannot find a way for the life of me.
Any ideas or suggesting a would be appreciated and helpful. Thanks!
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You could just use Greenify and hibernate the GMail app.
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You could just use Greenify and hibernate the GMail app.
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Well it's not just the email app. I was just using that as an example. It's just when it's on extreme power saving mode my phone can last for days. And I often forget to turn it on when I'm done with my phone. I wish it was possible to use it with tasker. It be so easy just to turn screen off and it automatically kick in
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There has got to be a way... I'll play with it and let u know
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so i got it to work pretty simple too. and of course you can add any additional variables. such as only do during certain hours and so forth, or if you seriously want it in extreme power saving mode all the time that the screen is off, then its rather simple.
open tasker,
add profile for event, click display, and display off
click new task for this case name it EPSM or what every you'd like
click the + and select action category script, then Run Shell
under command enter this
Code:
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.htc.htcpowermanager/com.htc.htcpowermanager.extremepowersaver.ExtremePowerSaverConfirmActivity
and check the box for "use Root"
back out ensure you now see a profile for Display Off and its on and the task is set to EPSM and we are all good.
now when every you screen is off the phone will enter extreme power saving mode.
turn screen back on and you will be in EPSM, and just click exit to get out,
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a few notee / things to point out, is that you could also add a timer, so that if the display is off, for X amount of time then it triggers the script, or only run between the times of 11 pm - 8 am... the possibilties are endless.
Have fun with this.
As the title suggests, I keep finding apps that I'm using being killed, things like Google Music, tTorrent, and Sleep as Android all being closed while in use. I have selected "Don't Optimise" in the battery settings and "Advanced Optimization" is off.
Any ideas how I can stop this from happening?
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steslatt said:
As the title suggests, I keep finding apps that I'm using being killed, things like Google Music, tTorrent, and Sleep as Android all being closed while in use. I have selected "Don't Optimise" in the battery settings and "Advanced Optimization" is off.
Any ideas how I can stop this from happening?
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I had the very similar problem with tasker, it used to turn off because of something that I didn't knew, later after selecting don't optimise in the battery settings the Tasker remain in the background and it worked as it should be working.
Did you turned on anything in developer settings that limits the background activity?
mjp93 said:
I had the very similar problem with tasker, it used to turn off because of something that I didn't knew, later after selecting don't optimise in the battery settings the Tasker remain in the background and it worked as it should be working.
Did you turned on anything in developer settings that limits the background activity?
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No I've not touched developer settings. I've noticed that the "don't optimize" setting keeps flipping back to optimise, that's probably why it's being killed all the time.
Another thing I've noticed, Google play music doesn't show in the list of apps under battery optimization so I can't even switch that off.
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steslatt said:
No I've not touched developer settings. I've noticed that the "don't optimize" setting keeps flipping back to optimise, that's probably why it's being killed all the time.
Another thing I've noticed, Google play music doesn't show in the list of apps under battery optimization so I can't even switch that off.
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Weird settings should not revert on its own. I just checked mine and they are staying on what I had selected.
I am out of answers, I hope other members will help you out.
Same Thing here my Ring doorbell keep shutting itself off in deep sleep and won't give notifications
Since I got this phone ifttt and Tasker do not run any of my tasks... Anything I should check?
I'm not having any issue with Tasker. Things to check that comes to mind:
Ensure the app has root access
Disable/enable Tasker from the three dot menu
Check if it has special permissions in «Apps & notifications > Special app access»
Disable battery optimization
Toutatis_ said:
I'm not having any issue with Tasker. Things to check that comes to mind:
Ensure the app has root access
Disable/enable Tasker from the three dot menu
Check if it has special permissions in «Apps & notifications > Special app access»
Disable battery optimization
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I tried all that. Tasker will only work if I got into the app first so seems something is killing it or not allowing it to run in the background.
Tasker works fine for me as well. Maybe it's optimised under battery settings?
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Tasker works fine for me as well. Maybe it's optimised under battery settings?
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It was optimised under battery settings all of my app are. Can I turn this off?
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I'm not having any issue with Tasker. Things to check that comes to mind:
Disable battery optimization
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vwgti18 said:
I tried all that.
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vwgti18 said:
It was optimised under battery settings all of my app are. Can I turn this off?
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I was saying it was optimised. Turning that off didn't fix it. But I would like to turn it off all together.
Tasker/ifttt is still not working
vwgti18 said:
It was optimised under battery settings all of my app are. Can I turn this off?
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Yes you just need to go into battery optimization, find the app, tap it and choose "don't optimize"