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Always Awake

has anyone else noticed that if you go to the battery usage on the S4G it shows the phone as always awake? check the graph. it's really strange!
perhaps this could be linked to some of our heat/battery issues? the phone is not sleeping correctly?

You have a rogue program that isn't shutting down. Now you need to figure out what it is.
When I had this it was VTOK since that program never shut off.
Go to Settings> Applications> Running Services and look at the times that everything has been running and try to figure out which one doesn't belong

HTC watch can be a culprit too
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xnifex said:
You have a rogue program that isn't shutting down. Now you need to figure out what it is.
When I had this it was VTOK since that program never shut off.
Go to Settings> Applications> Running Services and look at the times that everything has been running and try to figure out which one doesn't belong
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I practically uninstalled every application that had an associated service, disabled everything from startup that I could find and the issue persists.
The only way I can get it to not be always awake is if I disable data completely... not background data, or autosync, but all data. no 3G, no 4G, no Wifi, nothing.
As soon as wifi comes on, I get a "sync" circle in my status bar (despite the fact that all sync is disabled on my phone), and the problem returns. The only active connections are to Google IPs (as shown by a netstat from the terminal), looks like gtalk/market ports...
I'm stumped.
I'm going to update the market, see if that helps.
EDIT: it didn't.

Just an update:
Downloaded ATK from the market, there seems to be a lot running for a phone I just rebooted.
I killed everything one-by-one, none of them made the sync icon go away.
There was only one that I could not kill... Watch.
... it also has a service that will not die either....
but if it's watch, surely someone else out there has the same issue?

HTC watch was the issue with mine, it took some time until i figured it out

Utking said:
HTC watch was the issue with mine, it took some time until i figured it out
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it was. I disabled the account and rebooted a few times.... I'm good now.
very strange. And for some reason, when someone said "watch" I thought of a clock.... ha. that wasn't any help.
No, the video application. turned out to be the culprit. ffs.

Mystik said:
it was. I disabled the account and rebooted a few times.... I'm good now.
very strange. And for some reason, when someone said "watch" I thought of a clock.... ha. that wasn't any help.
No, the video application. turned out to be the culprit. ffs.
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great if else you could freeze it with titanium backup

How do you determine which app is causing a partial wakelock?

I just did a full wipe and flashed CleanRom 2.1, and since then I've been having partial wakelock problems.
I keep getting LocationManagerService partial wakelocks that stay there forever (>95% of the time). The phone never goes into "deep sleep." I can't figure out which app is calling the service, and it comes up under "Android System" in BetterBatteryStats.
In the Alarms tab on BBS, com.google.andoird.apps.maps has 95 wakeups in an hour, almost all of them ALARM_WAKEUP_SENSOR_COLLECTION_POLICY. I haven't used Maps for anything.
I can make this go away if I disable "Google Location Services" and reboot, but that seems to increase how long it takes to get a location lock (I'm always on Wi-Fi).
Anyone have any ideas / experience with something like this?

scorchedsky said:
I just did a full wipe and flashed CleanRom 2.1, and since then I've been having partial wakelock problems.
I keep getting LocationManagerService partial wakelocks that stay there forever (>95% of the time). The phone never goes into "deep sleep." I can't figure out which app is calling the service, and it comes up under "Android System" in BetterBatteryStats.
In the Alarms tab on BBS, com.google.andoird.apps.maps has 95 wakeups in an hour, almost all of them ALARM_WAKEUP_SENSOR_COLLECTION_POLICY. I haven't used Maps for anything.
I can make this go away if I disable "Google Location Services" and reboot, but that seems to increase how long it takes to get a location lock (I'm always on Wi-Fi).
Anyone have any ideas / experience with something like this?
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I've had similar problems in the past and Latitude was the culprit. I also had LocationManagerService wakelock problems from the last update for 1Weather after they upgraded their radar map to GoogleMaps.

Try going into maps--settings--location settings--and uncheck the report from this device option
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I just updated 1Weather and noticed the new radar...uninstalled and I haven't seen the wakelock since rebooting. All boxes are ticked in location services. I don't have a report from this device option - only VZW, GPS, and Google.
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The report from this device option is in the settings for Google maps
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I just updated 1Weather and noticed the new radar...uninstalled and I haven't seen the wakelock since rebooting. All boxes are ticked in location services. I don't have a report from this device option - only VZW, GPS, and Google.
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If you updated 1Weather then that was likely the issue. Same thing happened when I updated. I spoke with their support department last week and ended up sending them a few logcats. They sent me several updated apks and after a few tries they were able to stop the wakelock. I believe they are supposed to be updating the app sometime this week with the fix.

Try a different kernel too... I know one other person besides myself had wakelock problems with the kernel that comes with CM10 Official. I put lean kernel v0.9 on my phone and now my phone is sleeping like a baby when I'm not actively using it.

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If you updated 1Weather then that was likely the issue. Same thing happened when I updated. I spoke with their support department last week and ended up sending them a few logcats. They sent me several updated apks and after a few tries they were able to stop the wakelock. I believe they are supposed to be updating the app sometime this week with the fix.
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Yep, after a factory reset and no reinstalling 1Weather I can confirm that was the issue. Glad they got it fixed, the app is great otherwise
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Wifi is constantly downloading

When connected to wifi at my home, the orange "download" arrow is always on. I've had this phone for 6 months with no issue, but all of a sudden this started happening yesterday (right after the phone also fried my external SD card). I have tried resetting the router, turning off all computers/devices in the house, and returning to stock/installing a new ROM, but it's always the same. I installed a traffic monitoring app and within a few minutes there has been 300+ KB of "system traffic," which doesn't exactly help me.
There's a few topics around XDA and other sites about this, but almost all of them are from the ICS days. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this on JB and if they ever found a solution.

Could you capture it in a screenshot and post it?
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Could you capture it in a screenshot and post it?
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Yes.

Hmm, wonder what that could be. And you say it doesn't go away? Even after a reboot or if you toggle wifi off/on? In Settings/Account, do you have any sync option that hasn't finished a sync? It would have an arrow going in a circle which means it needs to sync or there would be an exclamation mark. Basically, each option should just have the name on the left and either a checked box or unchecked box to the right.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Hmm, wonder what that could be. And you say it doesn't go away? Even after a reboot or if you toggle wifi off/on? In Settings/Account, do you have any sync option that hasn't finished a sync? It would have an arrow going in a circle which means it needs to sync or there would be an exclamation mark. Basically, each option should just have the name on the left and either a checked box or unchecked box to the right.
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It does go away... kind of. Basically, the orange "download" arrow is showing about 80% of the time (I'd estimate 8 out of every 10 seconds). The green "upload" arrow appears briefly; probably half a second for every 10 seconds.
I've rebooted many times and turned wifi on/off many times. Nothing changes. Stock ROM, CleanROM, Synergy, etc... no difference.
In settings->accounts, I only have Dropbox (sync disabled), Facebook (sync disabled), and Google (all options either have checkmarks or no checkmarks; there are no rotating arrows or red exclamation marks).

Quacker said:
It does go away... kind of. Basically, the orange "download" arrow is showing about 80% of the time (I'd estimate 8 out of every 10 seconds). The green "upload" arrow appears briefly; probably half a second for every 10 seconds.
I've rebooted many times and turned wifi on/off many times. Nothing changes. Stock ROM, CleanROM, Synergy, etc... no difference.
In settings->accounts, I only have Dropbox (sync disabled), Facebook (sync disabled), and Google (all options either have checkmarks or no checkmarks; there are no rotating arrows or red exclamation marks).
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Do you think setting your wifi to a static IP address would affect anything? Also, do you mind taking screenshots at various points in the day using that wifi scanning app you used earlier? Maybe a screenshot every four hours then post them tomorrow or the day after you read this post so we can see if anything is constantly using up the most data. Another off the cuff suggestion, do you use Picasa Sync at all? I'm thinking this is either an app specific issue or something with your specific router.
Edit: Also, I never actually look at my download arrow when I'm connected to wifi. I just want to get that out there as well. I just stared at it for about a minute and my download arrow lights up once every 5 to 8 seconds when I have auto sync enabled. So if ten seconds pass, it will be unlit for roughly four to six seconds quite often. This should be a baseline I suppose to compare.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Do you think setting your wifi to a static IP address would affect anything? Also, do you mind taking screenshots at various points in the day using that wifi scanning app you used earlier? Maybe a screenshot every four hours then post them tomorrow or the day after you read this post so we can see if anything is constantly using up the most data. Another off the cuff suggestion, do you use Picasa Sync at all? I'm thinking this is either an app specific issue or something with your specific router.
Edit: Also, I never actually look at my download arrow when I'm connected to wifi. I just want to get that out there as well. I just stared at it for about a minute and my download arrow lights up once every 5 to 8 seconds when I have auto sync enabled. So if ten seconds pass, it will be unlit for roughly four to six seconds quite often. This should be a baseline I suppose to compare.
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I could take screenshots periodically, but unfortunately the wifi scanning app only lists everything as "system data" without any specifics. I don't use Picasa Sync or anything like that, but I'm thinking it could be a router issue rather than an app issue.
There are at least 7 devices usually connected to my router. Out of curiosity, I changed the router password to kick off all devices and just connected with my phone. The wifi downloading issue appeared to be gone, and it was closer to that baseline of "every 5 to 8 seconds" as you mentioned. Once all the other devices reconnect, the issue comes back.
Is it possible that some device on my network is causing the router to constantly send a signal to my phone? That's the only idea I have at this point.

I am having the same problem with my S3. The orange arrow goes off and on about every 3-4 seconds. Every once in awhile, the green arrow lights up too. I get horrible battery life on wifi because of this. I have tried wiping my phone, reinstalling a rom, and not installing any apps. The only thing I have installed, is Gmail and my Google account. I'm losing about 4% per hour when connected to wifi while the phone is sleeping.

lennie paz said:
I am having the same problem with my S3. The orange arrow goes off and on about every 3-4 seconds. Every once in awhile, the green arrow lights up too. I get horrible battery life on wifi because of this. I have tried wiping my phone, reinstalling a rom, and not installing any apps. The only thing I have installed, is Gmail and my Google account. I'm losing about 4% per hour when connected to wifi while the phone is sleeping.
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I've tried everything as well with no change. Sometimes the orange arrow will literally never turn off and other times it will go on and off every few seconds. Battery does seem worse since this randomly started.
But it doesn't look like anyone knows a solution

You might have some apps or accounts at up to only sync when in wifi and that certain one might always be trying to sync but is failing. I do recall someone saying something from Google was trying to sync. Go to settings, accounts, and select Google and see if they are all syncing correctly.
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mikeman45 said:
You might have some apps or accounts at up to only sync when in wifi and that certain one might always be trying to sync but is failing. I do recall someone saying something from Google was trying to sync. Go to settings, accounts, and select Google and see if they are all syncing correctly.
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I only have Gmail and Calender syncing in the Google account. Both are syncing correctly.
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Quacker said:
I've tried everything as well with no change. Sometimes the orange arrow will literally never turn off and other times it will go on and off every few seconds. Battery does seem worse since this randomly started.
But it doesn't look like anyone knows a solution
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To answer your prior question earlier in this thread:
Is it possible that some device on my network is causing the router to constantly send a signal to my phone? That's the only idea I have at this point.
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Yes it is possible. I've read before that one's email app (not GMail but the generic one included) could also be the culprit. In some workplaces, sometimes a rooted users email could be the root cause of instability on the wireless network if it pings the server too often which could impact the network for others. I know this happens to you at home but yes, it is possible that one phone (or even yours) could impact everyone else's wireless in a similar fashion.
lennie paz said:
I only have Gmail and Calender syncing in the Google account. Both are syncing correctly.
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Only thing I could suggest is to try setting your wifi as a static IP.

Google Search keeping phone awake?

Google search seems to be keeping my phone awake and destroying my battery.
Using the GEL, my phone was awake any time my launcher was active. Switching to Nova, it seems this issue is mitigated, however if I ever go to use the search app (or Now), it initiates the battery rape-fest.
Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue. I know lots of people here have their data and/or wifi enabled/connected 24/7, so it may not effect them.
I'm linking photos stored in my DB account showing some of these battery drains.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhw1f4prbneyg45/2013-12-26 06.19.30.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfhr2vf1z5kf4tw/2013-12-26 06.19.24.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f506skwf26q3se/2013-11-27 01.43.17.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ky7yjo2628p1ngl/2013-11-27 01.43.22.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dr0e2jjswt52mce/2013-11-27 01.43.26.png
The periods of no signal is when I'm at work - there's no service out here so I might as well have it on airplane mode.
Unfortunately, I really like the GEL, and was hoping that there'd be an easy fix to this. Switching run times doesn't help. I'm currently on ART.
Any advice is helpful.

Do you have hot word detection on? If so then it off that could be triggering it it solved the issue I had with it
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Once or twice Search would keep my phone awake and drain the battery. Something to do with toggling some Location settings on or off.
Force stopping the application fixed the issue for me each time once I noticed it on my battery list.

bblzd said:
Once or twice Search would keep my phone awake and drain the battery. Something to do with toggling some Location settings on or off.
Force stopping the application fixed the issue for me each time once I noticed it on my battery list.
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Hmm I also had this problem and also was tinkering with location settings the other night... interesting. If it starts acting up I'll force stop it.

I wanted to disable or uninstall Google Now and Google search and it wiped my homescreen

kevtrysmoddin said:
Do you have hot word detection on? If so then it off that could be triggering it it solved the issue I had with it
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This was the first thing i thought of. I turned it off, no change.
bblzd said:
Once or twice Search would keep my phone awake and drain the battery. Something to do with toggling some Location settings on or off.
Force stopping the application fixed the issue for me each time once I noticed it on my battery list.
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My issue is that I shouldn't have to force stop it. Why is it running wild? This is a Google application, shouldn't this be near flawless?
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new ion? said:
This was the first thing i thought of. I turned it off, no change.
My issue is that I shouldn't have to force stop it. Why is it running wild? This is a Google application, shouldn't this be near flawless?
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I just know it's a pretty easy fix (force stop or reboot) so not a huge deal IMO.
If I had to guess Search is trying to look up some location information which it can't currently access. Instead of stopping it just keeps trying forever. I've yet to see the issue since disabling Locations completely and experienced the issue only with partial location services enabled.
My advice would be to leave Location services completely on or completely off. It may effect those with locations on, but either reporting or history (or both) off.
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Oooo, apparently I had history on and reporting off. I'll try turning both off and letting search run for a bit tomorrow, I'll see what happens. If it comes down to it, I'll submit a bug report.
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shouldn't be an issue
I have been having the same identical issue as you guys. I have found shockingly little in my searches, which I've been doing periodically for the last few months, really, since I've had the phone(12/5/13).
Now for the particulars :
I have a nexus 5. I'm running the stock ROM and kernel via OTA (4.4.2).
I am rooted (via wugfresh's toolkit) and I have the xposed framework installed along with only a couple of modules, (gravitybox, bootmanager).
Now all this means I am essentially bone stock which means since its a nexus 5 I have the GEL launcher by default and I love it and the setup in general, (my favorite setup so far of all my phones, nexi and other).
Now I've been fortunate and have never really needed to track down and eliminate software causing battery decimating "wakelocks" on any of my devices. And apparently the newer versions of KitKat make finding and solving wake lock issues difficult using apps developed for the purpose.
If I were to upload screenshots of my battery screen when the issue is presenting itself, Google search is up in the top five at least. And when I click it for details it shows similar readouts to what's been posted by OP in his screenshots.
I can't be the only one having serious issues with wakelocks cause by Google search on their nexus 5 and I'm baffled by the lack of discussion I've been able to find regarding this issue, (my google-fu is in my opinion at least up to par)
Whenever I notice my battery draining faster than normal without fail I go into my battery settings and discover that my phone is awake constantly regardless of screen-on time and the culprit is always exclusively Google search. Now its far from difficult to force stop the app and go about my business. And it usually doesn't cause me any issues for a time once that's been done. However, the unpredictability of the Google search app causing a crippling wake lock is for me the main issue as it means I cannot leave my phone unattended for more than a few hours without the possibility of coming back to my phone with my battery that's been molested. The battery in my opinion is more than acceptable and I quite like it. However the uncertainty is horrible.
I've read through the posts In this thread (regrettably few) and I have not been able to make a correlation between location services being on in any of the three modes and Google search wakelocking my ****. Also, I use Google Now all the time every day, and hotword detection is always on to call it up from the home screen by voice which i use even more so. So in my opinion while it is possible I'm sure that somewhere in all that there is a trigger for the issue, it is by no means predictable and in my experience never reproducible.
Now, for the "Google Search" app to cause a wake lock that will persist until the apps been manually force stopped, completely unpredictably represents a HUGE BUG that un-does all of the amazing work with our chipset and kernel and os that gives us such great battery life without having to sacrifice clock speed via custom min/max settings or governor controls.
I just don't get it. This is the first time I've ever encountered such a glaring problem/bug with so little complaint or even discussion.
I think we all should submit official bug- reports to Google about this issue and start being vocal in all of the android communities. I very very rarely comment or post as I am always able to make do by searching and reading diligently. But this blows my mind, the lack of posts and discussion would normally suggest this is a very limited problem affecting a very small minority. But I don't buy that. My set up is too stock, too close to the largest percentage of nexus 5 users to be so. Maybe people are just force stopping the app and forgetting about it, chalking it up to something they've personally done to their phone because "how could Google search be doing this to everyone else". I don't know. But this has to be more widespread of an issue than search results are indicating.
In summation: what OP said lol. But I don't think it has anything to do with what's been suggested by other posters on this thread. Their suggestions may work, and they may mitigate the issue. But if that is the case. Than this a very huge bug that threatens to undo all of the amazing work that's been done with aosp regarding battery efficiency and optimization.
- FerrousState
PS. Let's get some real discussion going in this community and all the others. Smarter people than us should be working on this - Top men guys, TOP MEN!

Hey guys I have this problem as well. I can't view the pics in OP but Google search is running at about 14%
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Brockg said:
Hey guys I have this problem as well. I can't view the pics in OP but Google search is running at about 14%
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Tap Google search in your battery and check how long it's kept your phone awake. Then back, and check again. If the seconds just got higher it's currently eating your battery and needs to be force stopped.
Any suggestions are just to mitigate the problem for now of course. Hopefully it's being worked on.
I've yet to see the issue again but I have Locations and Hot Word off, Google Now on. I strongly believe using either "device only" or turning off the 2 settings within Locations can act as a temporary fix however.

[Q] Can't run apps simultaneously

Hi all,
I just bought a Moto G LTE 8GB (XT1045) and so far, I'm loving it! However, I have run into difficulties running two apps at the same time. For example, when I use the Rdio app to play music, and then press the home key, and then run Google Maps, my Rdio app will quit (i.e. not just stop playing music, but really quit). Then, if I start navigating somewhere in Google Maps, and then go back and re-run Rdio, Google Maps will quit as soon as Rdio boots up.
This doesn't only happen with these two apps-- it happens with my Audible too with my running app, and stuff like that.
Any ideas? Is it sound-related? ROM-related? (And if it's ROM-related ... is there any ROM out for XT1045 that fixes this?)
Thank you so much! I tried searching the forums but could not find an answer ... I learned that Back button ends app while Home leaves it running, but I have only been pressing Home.
best,
toohsieh

I've been having this same problem lately. Figured I would bump this thread. I've been using Titanium Backup to freeze some Motorola apps because i think Motorola's background services are to blame, but not positive it is helping.

In developer mode, go to "Background Processes" and verify that 1 process isn't clicked. You could even experiment with forcing more apps to run in the background.
I don't know if this is the problem but it's a simple place to start.
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jtcartrite said:
In developer mode, go to "Background Processes" and verify that 1 process isn't clicked. You could even experiment with forcing more apps to run in the background.
I don't know if this is the problem but it's a simple place to start.
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For me at least, they do run in the background, but only for like 10 minutes. After a certain time one of the apps will be cleared out to make room for ram. I have been monitoring the ram and running Google Maps Navigation and Google Music in the background and the ram is indeed listed as Critical (<96mb inactive). Cleared out a ton of the Motorola services and it did help a ton because they all ran with a Nice priority of 100.
After running the phone for a while there seems to be memory leaks. Restarting helps a lot. I'm using XPosed, so I wonder if Gravitybox is doing anything nefarious to my ram, but that is purely speculation. I'm thinking of switching to GPE to see if that helps.
EDIT: Switching to GPE has helped immensely so far. But, I'm noticing Google Maps seems to grow in memory over time a lot too. It has gone from 70mb to now 170mb over a few hours in navigation mode.
EDIT2: Maps seems to cap off at 170mb. So I guess it is fine. Ran Google Music and Google Maps for about 8 hours and they both continued without closing.