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My battery was inexplicably draining and SystemMonitor showed continuous 100% cpu usage even though it didnt show any individual app using a lot of CPU.
So, one at a time, I started killing apps and waiting a few seconds to see which app was hosing my CPU.
No doubt, the subject of this post lead you to the correct answer: AppBrain.
AppBrain is a fantastic app, but it was using 100% of my CPU at 1.136GHz and it will killing my battery. I don't know why SystemMonitor didn't show it as using much CPU time, but killing it did the trick.
FYI: I am on BakedSnack 1.5 on Kernel #4 (the "Fastest" Kernel).
How long have you had app brain?
I've only had it for a few days.
I only started monitoring my battery for differences because I just upgraded to BakedSnack 1.5 and whenever i install a new ROM i'm especially careful about battery life.
Please turn on system monitoring in System Panel to see what was historically killing your battery.
Its possible it could have gone rogue, but I've never seen that happen.
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My battery was inexplicably draining and SystemMonitor showed continuous 100% cpu usage even though it didnt show any individual app using a lot of CPU.
So, one at a time, I started killing apps and waiting a few seconds to see which app was hosing my CPU.
No doubt, the subject of this post lead you to the correct answer: AppBrain.
AppBrain is a fantastic app, but it was using 100% of my CPU at 1.136GHz and it will killing my battery. I don't know why SystemMonitor didn't show it as using much CPU time, but killing it did the trick.
FYI: I am on BakedSnack 1.5 on Kernel #4 (the "Fastest" Kernel).
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Did you come to this conclusion only after you turned off AppBrain and noticed a decrease in CPU usage? Did you try re-installing AppBrain to verify that it did in fact, increase CPU usage to 100% again? Sounds a bit like you're jumping the gun on this conclusion.
never have a problem with appbrain. Its latest version make it useful.
Yea, i always install app brain and its never gave me problems like that.
I think my method of
Watch CPU meter sit at 100% for 5 seconds
if CPU remains at 100% kill 1 app and goto step 1
the most recent killed app is your culprit
is pretty sound. It has worked for me on many OS'es over the years.
Nonetheless, at your requests I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app and seen the same behavior. System Monitor doesnt show any individual app eating the CPU but the CPU meter is at 100%.
I don't know what that means except that, for now, I am forgoing AppBrain.
System Panel shows CPU cycles per running app on the main screen. What are the stats?
appbrain works great here too... this is not a common problem with the app.... something else is messed
i have had no issues with appbrain. on any ROM i've used. have you tried to remove it and reinstall it to see if your issue returns?
You might be right here I uninstalled it and my battery went back to normal
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Been using appbrain since i got my evo. no problems here.
The whole, "you are dumb it isn't appbrain, it has never given me a problem" needs to be kept out of this thread. he has a sound logical method, regardless of what a system monitor shows. If terminating appbrain ends a 100% cpu lock, then obviously it is a problem with appbrain or the kernel he is running.
how bout instead of everyone saying, "works fine here!" someone with the same kernel and rom as him post up and let him know how it works for them.
how would it make you feel if you were in his situation if someone said
"works fine here and has always worked fine on my evo"
or
"I am using the same rom as you and the same kernel and I do not have the issue"
The first is useless and assholeish, the second is called contributing and is what these forums are about
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The whole, "you are dumb it isn't appbrain, it has never given me a problem" needs to be kept out of this thread. he has a sound logical method, regardless of what a system monitor shows. If terminating appbrain ends a 100% cpu lock, then obviously it is a problem with appbrain or the kernel he is running.
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begone troll. you have added nothing here.
i saw no one in here that was rude or nasty to the OP.
i see several folks letting the OP know that app brain in general seems to work ok.
i see a few folks asking basic troubleshooting questions.
i see a few folks throwing out basic troubelshooting steps.
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begone troll. you have added nothing here.
i saw no one in here that was rude or nasty to the OP.
i see several folks letting the OP know that app brain in general seems to work ok.
i see a few folks asking basic troubleshooting questions.
i see a few folks throwing out basic troubelshooting steps.
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Just a reminder XDA has rules regarding people policing forums XD
Annyway, I know for a fact that appbrain has kept my phone from sleeping. Using system panel, I have killed ALL apps, and slowly let them return. If my phone sleeps, I exclude the process so it won't be killed. After several repeats, uninstalls, and tests, it is appbrain that keeps the phone awake, though sporadically.
Just throwing that out there
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Just a reminder XDA has rules regarding people policing forums XD
Annyway....
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you provided some kinda of feedback. that is good.
skydeaner provided nothing but an attempt to stir the pot.
and you call me out for it?
wow.
I actually noticed my battery life being god awful the last couple of days (just installed app brain 3 days ago). At the moment I was going back to CM Rom however once i get there I will check to see if it is the cause as well.
I also noticed the same thing about appbrain on my Droid X with leaked 2.2. I installed appbrain about 3 days ago and I started noticing my battery draining quite rapidly.
What made it really obvious that my battery was draining a lot faster than normal was that I had just disconnected my phone from the wall charger (100% charge) at around 6:45 am; I had not used my phone at all, but when I checked it at work at 8:30 am, my battery was already at 60%......that's crazy because my battery usually still reads between 90-100% at that time with no use.
Since appbrain was the only app I had added in the past few days, I stopped it from starting up at boot with autostart, and now my battery is back to normal. I think I am just going to uninstall the app completely.
There is an app you can install that works in conjunction with appbrain. I forget the name but it auto downloads and installs apps you pick in appbrain... even from a computer. Did you install something like that? I have heard it is bad on battery life
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Is it just me or do certain apps spark reboots/freezes. Ive been trying to use google earth recently and have been getting alot of them and I never have before.
I am running a minimal amount of apps and phone runs great.
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Never had reboots before, don't use Google Earth anymore, phone runs great as it always has
Yes. Also true with computers. Certain games or apps may have an incompatibility with a certain driver and crash. I imagine the same would hold true for phones. I have noticed a couple apps causing the phone to become unstable. Haven't tried Google Earth though.
Yeah it works for like a couple minutes then freezes/reboots.
Starting today, my phone has been giving me notifications about a sign in error to my Google account. It's happened about 5 times so far, all just today. My phone is completely stock. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Are Google servers having some issues?
I think Google was having problems this morning. Maybe they still are.
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Okay thank you
Same here. I just flashed the latest Cyanogen mod nightly so I thought it was the ROM.
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Been getting that error like crazy today. I'm guessing it's cleared up though? Haven't seen it in a minute..
Just started getting it a few hours ago, completely stock.
I wonder if they're just making system wide changes in waves, you guys are getting the errors much later than me, I haven't gotten one in hours now
I am getting as well yesterday and today with 2 different ROMs so I believe its a Google issue
Confirming as well, just got one to be exact
I've been getting the log in error periodically for over a day now
It's been happening to me since last night, and I'm on a completely different phone. In searching for a solution that DIDN'T involve starting from scratch by reflashing a ROM (literally hours of work to retweak and restore everything, titanium backup and all) I found another thread regarding this issue on a totally different phone forum of xda.
I myself am running Now for ICS on my One S running Viper Rom. From this thread, with no details given I can only assume most of you are using Verizon galaxy S 3s?
But anyways. In the other thread it seemed the consensus that the issues were related to Google now. Some users reported some success from logging out of their Google plus then logging back in again. That resolution has provided me no dice so far.
Most users reporting the issue said that their google now was even not working at all. Have any of you tried google now while encountering these issues? Does it work or does it seem to be malfunctioning? Mine (along with the rest of my google apps) all seem to be working fine still. =L
Is anyone on here using a phone other than the Verizon GS3? what roms are involved? Anyone encountering this issue NOT have google now installed to their phone?
Hoping to narrow the details down in the interest of gaining a little more knowledge about this specific occurrence.
This happened to me a couple months ago, and I was running GNow for ICS back then too. Can't remember but I'm fairly certain the issue worked itself out. But its obnoxious ass all hell. Been getting the notification once every 5 minutes whenever I dismiss it, and its been prevalent since last night! It's starting to severely irritate me lol.
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I'm on an HTC Amaze running a custom Speed Rom. My battery ran out during the error message and my phone wouldn't turn on again. Luckily I had a nandroid from earlier in the month, but I still lost 3 weeks of data on my phone, not the end of the world, but certainly a nuisance. I also recall having this happen a few months ago and the issue resolved itself so my guess is that it's an issue on Google's side. I am, however, disappointed that it's taking so long. A few hours is fine, but over a day and counting?
FIXED!!! (for me at least)
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I'm on an HTC Amaze running a custom Speed Rom. My battery ran out during the error message and my phone wouldn't turn on again. Luckily I had a nandroid from earlier in the month, but I still lost 3 weeks of data on my phone, not the end of the world, but certainly a nuisance. I also recall having this happen a few months ago and the issue resolved itself so my guess is that it's an issue on Google's side. I am, however, disappointed that it's taking so long. A few hours is fine, but over a day and counting?
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Tell me about it. Im seriously starting to lose my sanity over this.
A couple users said to disable Google Account manager (via settings > apps) as a temporary solution, but for me doing so disabled all of my g apps entirely so that's definitely not a good work around.
I spotted a thread in the amaze forum involving a speedrom issue (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968141) and he seemed to think it was related to his Rom. Seemed that doing what he did resolved it, but given the prevalence of this issue accross as many devices as it has and as many roms as it has, I'm inclined to think that the issue coincidentally resolved itself while he was busy flashing lol
Regardless... I'm so desperate to stop being pestered by this issue that imma bout to wipe cache and dalvik cache and see I'd that doesn't fix the issue for me as well. I'll report back when I know one way or the other.
Edit - cache and dalvik cache wiped. Crossing my fingers. Only time will tell... Or not. Got the error whilst I was writing this paragraph lol. No dice
Edit 2 - interesting. I've had the sports card running for a couple days now. It kinda updated but didnt seem to be working 100%. Whether its related or not, im not sure but simultaneous to this behavior I noticed that the search function didn't work. Didn't open chrome up at all so I'd simply have to type my search into chrome directly. I just disabled the sports card and my search function is working again all of a sudden. Haven't gotten the error yet, if this pans out that might have been the source of my problem. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Edit 3 FIXED!!!!! (for me at least). It's now been an hour and 35 minutes since I disabled the sports card. My now search has been working for the first time in days since the instant I disabled it and the error free hour and 35 minutes is by far the longest span of time I've achieved in the last 24 hours (was getting the error within 5-10 minutes of each time I dismissed it previously). Anyone else encountering this issue have the Sports card enabled? Try it, see if it solves the issue for you as well and share with the class =)
Edit 4 - I guess it was a passing moment nonetheless. Got more errors.in the last 15 minutes after about 2 and 1/2 hours of not seeing it at all. Damn this is effing ridiculous
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Yeah AndroidAutobot, still issues here. It's really starting to get on my nerves. Kinda wish there was a way to disable specific notifications because it's not really hindering my usage. My only concern right now is draining my battery.
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Yeah AndroidAutobot, still issues here. It's really starting to get on my nerves. Kinda wish there was a way to disable specific notifications because it's not really hindering my usage. My only concern right now is draining my battery.
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Yeah. I gave up on it last night and figure with it being as prevalent as it is, it absolutely has to be server related and can't be anything Rom/system related by any means. On a positive note Im pretty sure I havent seen it in 3-4 hours so maybe they've finally fixed it. This is day 3 for me so I sure hope they did
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I just went into the phone settings then account. Removed my gmail account then resign in and I have got the error all night
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Yeah. I gave up on it last night and figure with it being as prevalent as it is, it absolutely has to be server related and can't be anything Rom/system related by any means. On a positive note Im pretty sure I havent seen it in 3-4 hours so maybe they've finally fixed it. This is day 3 for me so I sure hope they did
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Ditto, it's been a couple of hours since I've received the error. I think we have it beat!
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Ditto, it's been a couple of hours since I've received the error. I think we have it beat!
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Yep. It's been gone all day for me. At least it was persistently annoying enough this time around to actually remember that it.resolved.itself.I'd.there's ever a next time this comes up. Knocking on wood that It won't ever again of course =)
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My first post here. I've been lurking and learning for a year or more and this is the most knowledgeable place I know of.
I have the att version of this tablet and I am having serious crashing issues. I can use an app for about 20 minutes or so and it will blue screen and restart itself. After it happens once it will do it every few minutes until I leave it alone for a while. Sometimes I need to hard restart it and sometimes it will restart on its own but the screen doesn't come on. Only sound. As far as I can tell it's not overheating and this will happen even if I install nothing from the play store and just use the factory apps.
I have reset to factory many times and reinstalled the firmware with kies and that didn't help. I have returned the tablet to att for a replacement and I have the same problem with the replacement. I'm past the 14 days now and would need to return to Samsung but I don't want to do that if there is something I can do on my own.
Anyone else having these issues or can point me in the right direction to fix this?
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I am sad to say that I am experiencing the same issue. I have noticed that I experience the issue more when playing games and / or when there is a lag in data transfer in an application. I can tell this usually when playing a game that is synchronized with the server I will experience the blue screen of death and when I restart and load the game again the game is several moves behind where I actually was. I usually don't experience this error in a lot of other applications especially word processing applications, but I have noticed that it is an issue. I assume its software related, and though it is frustrating, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
For a short time I thought that it was related to frequent use of the touchscreen, but I'm not sure that this is true. I don't feel like mine restarts once every 20 minutes.
Sadly I have not found a solution to the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If anyone needs any logs or system information; if you can tell me how to send it I would gladly send it.
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Yes. It is very nice to know I'm not the only person having the issue.
20 minutes is really more of an average. Sometimes I can go longer without an issue but it is guaranteed it will crash.
You bring up a great point that I didn't notice. It is more frequent when it is an app that uses a lot of data.
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No such issues on the international P905... Not in any of the games I play (It does 6 hours straight without issue) nor in data-heavy apps.
So it's likely AT&T-branded related.
My ATT version occasionally has a few apps that crash. I just restart and usually it's good. It is the same apps that do it so I don't thinks it the tablet.
I am experiencing the same thing on my P907. Can't seem to nail down the culprit.
Are any of you that are having this issue rooted?
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Are any of you that are having this issue rooted?
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I am but I believe I saw this happen before I had rooted. Its odd its never rebooted when I am using anything. It seems to happen when its idle./
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I am but I believe I saw this happen before I had rooted. Its odd its never rebooted when I am using anything. It seems to happen when its idle./
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I had the same issue then realized it was connected to Knox. I had 'Frozen' all Knox connected apps after I rooted an thought that might be it. I did a new root and it worked fine till I installed SuperSu which was not the issue specification but rather the fact that it disables Knox during the installation. I did one more clean wipe then when I rooted this time I just left Knox alone and I have had zero random reboots or crashes and I have not tripped Knox.
No, no root. Stock. I have minimised the frequency by switching from samsung keyboard to the swipe keyboard but it still occurs.
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It happened when it was stock and it happens rooted. It's gotten to the point now that I went back to my iPad. I'm not liking the iPad since I've switched but I just can't use the note with it crashing all the time. I don't know what else to try.
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I've seen a report or two about stability issues related to micro USB cards. If any of you are using one it may behoove you to try shutting down, removing the card and running without it for a while just to rule that out. Sometimes a corrupted card can do it when an application writes or reads from a particular location of the card. It's worth a shot.
Mine doesn't crash. But I feel it freezes occasionally. Itis actually subtle, but I can feel it. Especially, I certainly feel that my note 3 runs more smoothly then the note pro 12.2. Mine is a wifi version. Has anyone else got the same feeling? How can I optimize the device?
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Mine doesn't crash. But I feel it freezes occasionally. Itis actually subtle, but I can feel it. Especially, I certainly feel that my note 3 runs more smoothly then the note pro 12.2. Mine is a wifi version. Has anyone else got the same feeling? How can I optimize the device?
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Do you use a microsd card? Most cards are really slow compared to internal memory. The Note Pro seems to install whatever it can on External-sd when adding a new app. Go into application manager to move all apps back to internal storage. See if that helps with the stutters and freezing.
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Do you use a microsd card? Most cards are really slow compared to internal memory. The Note Pro seems to install whatever it can on External-sd when adding a new app. Go into application manager to move all apps back to internal storage. See if that helps with the stutters and freezing.
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All my apps are installed internally. I got some time to run the benchmark tests and the scores all seemed to be normal. However, in Antutu, the memory score of the note pro is about 60% of the score of note 3. Could the memory be the reason for the stutters?
So I called Samsung and I am sending it in for repair. As I said in my first post I already swapped for a new one at att and I have the same results so I'm not thrilled about sending this in just to have the same issues with whatever they send back to. Be it a new tablet or if they say mine is fixed. I didn't pay over $900 for something I can't use so I will get this resolved one way or another. I will report back when it's returned to me.
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I think I may have licked it and not really sure why but I've gone from a dozen crashes a day to zero for the last few days. I went into Kies and did a Firmware Upgrade and told it to completely wipe out all of my data. It downloaded the firmware and reinstalled, I rerooted restored everything from Titanium Backup and its all good so far... Something to consider
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I am sad to say that I am experiencing the same issue. I have noticed that I experience the issue more when playing games and / or when there is a lag in data transfer in an application. I can tell this usually when playing a game that is synchronized with the server I will experience the blue screen of death and when I restart and load the game again the game is several moves behind where I actually was. I usually don't experience this error in a lot of other applications especially word processing applications, but I have noticed that it is an issue. I assume its software related, and though it is frustrating, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
For a short time I thought that it was related to frequent use of the touchscreen, but I'm not sure that this is true. I don't feel like mine restarts once every 20 minutes.
Sadly I have not found a solution to the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If anyone needs any logs or system information; if you can tell me how to send it I would gladly send it.
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im having the same problem. it occurs almost always when im playing games. I thought this device's hardware was top notvh for a tablet but it can only run on the lowest quality settings of most games. im very disappointed.
I experience this too, but it usually happens when the cover is open and it's on the back side of the device, it sometimes interact with magnetic sensor (some little movements of the case) and causes soft-reboot.
Nothing happens if cover is on the front side.
I should have my tablet back tonight or tomorrow depending on UPS. they sent me an email stating they replaced a component (whatever that is) and updated the software. We'll see if that fixes it.
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I have apps that just randomly close. No error pops up or anything, they just close. I mainly game on my phone like Dawn of Titans and Clash of Clans. Very annoying when they close and I lose a lot of work in the games. How would I go about trying to debug or look at an error report to try and figure out why my apps are closing? I don't really use any other apps for long periods of time so I rarely, if ever, see them just close on me. The phone is generally warm but not overly hot. I have had this issue on two different Pixel XL phones. The issue seems to have gotten worse after the February security patch but I can't really say since I wasn't keeping track.
Have you played with your mem free settings? Sounds like something may be set wrong or too aggressive there
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No I haven't. Not even sure where that setting might be. In developer options, because of these issues, I set "Don't keep activities". I have Franko Kernel but have not messed with most of the settings since I am not entirely sure what is best. i have been searching around and doing some reading but haven't found anyone with posted settings. I think the last time I was able to truly root and had FK was maybe my Samsung S4? Not being able to root the past few years I have forgotten some of what works.
Then you may have an app with a memory leak, and the game gets closed by the memory manager to free more memory. Could be the app itself, too, but I don't play those so can't really tell you.
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I thought there was an app that allowed to see background processes and you could see if anything showed in red? It was like a debug app or something that would show everything running. I can't recall. I had this issue with a previous Pixel that got replaced for a different reason. Maybe these games/apps aren't fully optimized for Nougat yet? Starting to think I should have just stayed with the iPhone 7+.