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Does anybody know if there is a Today Screen plugin which monitors the charging uptime?
History for my question:
I changed my car and the new Board Computer (BC) doesn't show the time from starting the engine (my previous car BC did it). It was a nice feature and so I thought this could be done by my PocketPC (MDAc) starting the uptime clock when I put it into my active Brodit holder in my car....
You could try this
You could try this software.
Looks good. Will try it. Thanx for your quick response.
I could find any setting in this application to start the clock when charging. Only reset the counter to zero when charging.
Any other apps?
No software available for my request?
sounds like a pretty specific program you want
maybe you should have somebody custom make it for you
seemed to be so.
but is a today screen which displays the charging time such a special thing?
donno never heard about it before
nor have i ever wanted for it before
Contactor-E - it could be written easily enough, but I'm afraid I have no time right now, setting up my website and finishing off another ton of stuff for you guys.
I assume that someone's written one, but I really can't think of one...
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I will try to start programming my application...
I'll report here about my success.
Some of what you want may be displayed with Beemer's TodayWarrior:
http://personales.ya.com/beemer/todaywarrior1.htm
There are various toggle icons that show: battery %, elapsed time from last charge, charging, estimated remaining battery time, time to 100% charge, battery volts, current (mA), consumption (mW), temperature. There are also icons for power off, always on, etc.
However, I had problems with its WiFi monitoring side (this can be disabled). It would detect the WLAN, but then hang the application and Xda Exec. The extra WiFiKnife utility didn't work, however, my problems may have been because I ran it from SD-card - haven't had time to test further.
Thank you, but TodayWarrior does not support showing the charging time. Only "Charging" is displayed when connected on power.
here's one
it shows the charging time as well as the time running on batteries. also shows battery indicator and device active time (time the device is turned ON and not sleeping).
it can hide or change its size when running on batteries/charging to save screen space.
you can customize it separately for charging/batteries
see screen shorts
have fun.
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CAB file removed, get the newer one below
Re: here's one
Slight slip up here, this file is actually a RAR-archive and NOT a ZIP-archive. After downloading it, rename the extension from .zip to .rar.
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astage said:
Slight slip up here, this file is actually a RAR-archive and NOT a ZIP-archive. After downloading it, rename the extension from .zip to .rar.
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thanks, RAR did what I told it to do and not what I wanted it to do
Tried this on Windows Mobile 5, on the O2 Exec (Universal), and couldn't get it to do anything at all.
Hi zfiser!
Works GREAT !!!!!!!!!!! on my MDA compact !!!!
Wow!!!!!!!
Just installed but seems that this is the application I looked for!!!!!!!
Whrer did you find this app? Did you program it?
Do you know what the plugin number is for?
Thanks again!!!
Yes Works great on my Qtek 9100 under WM 5.0
Thanks for this app
The plugin number is to indicate the height you want for the plugin on the today page.
UPDATE
all right guys, since actually 3 people got it and 2 even got it working, I decided to spent some more hours on it. it's quite fun actually.
so, what is new?
1) AUTOSIZE - the plugin automatically decides its height based on your setting. You can still manually override it.
2) ACTUAL CHARGING TIME - now showing time it's plugged in to outlet and also time the battery was charged for. when the battery is fully charged the time stops and you can see how long it took to charge it.
3) ICONS! yea! I think that's pretty cool, saving you a lot of space on the screen while showing everything, plus it looks freaking awesome!
4) more options - the plug can turn itself to color red when the battery level falls under a certain percentage, set by you. now you can't overlook that your battery is almost dead
5) BUGFIXES, yea, that nasty bug not showing minutes, I noticed too, some minor tweaks
Checkout the screenshots! And have fun. And if you still miss something in this plugin (tetris, nude women, etc), let me know
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You MUST disable the plugin in TODAY screen setting (uncheck the checkbox) BEFORE upgrading. Make sure the plugin does not show on the Today screen before you upgrade!
I made the upgrade this morning => no problem
I just want to say that I had to make a soft reset after installation otherwise the plugin didn't show on today screen.
You've done big improvments since the first version
- good idea the icons to save place
- thanks for the autosize
- I'm going to test it this wee-end but no bug at this time
- what about a log file to keep trace of every data that zfTCT record ? Could be useful I think.
TL: DR - Use Rescan Media, win.
So, I think that I've finally found the source of my constant stress regarding the battery life of my beautiful Samsung Captivate SGH-i897.
I know that a good majority of you have just rolled your eyes in disbelief, or just thought to yourself, "Great....another one of these threads".
If it helps one person get their battery life under control, then roll away.
I've had the phone for about 2-3 months and I've been active on these boards since a few days after getting it.
I've recalibrated, done the on / off / on / off trick, battery stats delete, deleted battery info from CWM, tried a second battery, used battery monitors on the phone, turned off wi-fi, turned off auto-synch, turned off bluetooth, lowered display brightness, and everything else I could think of to conserve juice.
Yesterday afternoon, I downloaded OSMonitor from the market in an effort to try another app in a long line of failures.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary so I was going to give up hope.
While installed, I had clicked on the box to monitor the app in the notification bar.
I noticed that I would have times where the CPU was being maxed but nothing strange was being reported in OSMonitor.
And then it hit me.....
The entire time I'm watching the OSMonitor, I'm being distracted by the media scanner.
It's running over and over and over and over and over.
When the screen shuts off after 30 seconds, it comes back on, the media scanner runs.
When I update something from the market, the media scanner runs.
When I close a program, the media scanner runs.
It is running constantly and maxing my CPU to 100%.
It finishes fairly quickly, (I have 9.4GB / 13GB available on internal and hardly anything used on my 4GB external SD card) but it just KEEPS....ON.....RUNNING.
I do a quick search, stumble upon the .nomedia file trick from XDA archives, and VOILA ! ! ! !
I'm losing about only one half of one percent per hour while it sits on standby, where I would sometimes lose 10-11% per hour, when the phone isn't even being used by me.
I went to bed last night with 48% at around 3:30am.
It is approx. 11 hours later right now.
I've made approx. 8-10 calls, checked my email a few dozen times, and mostly just let the phone sit.
I'm sitting at 39%.
Previous to doing this, I would have lost that amount in one hour.
So, for anyone who has a phone that is losing battery life like it's going out of style, I highly recommend doing the .nomedia fix.
I did mine using ES Explorer and Super Manager.
Go into your root folder and add a file named .nomedia, then go into your external SD folder and do the exact same thing.
If you do not want to do it this way, you can go the easy route and add a program called Rescan Media that does it for you.
(link supplied)
Hopefully this helps at least one lost soul, I'm so happy to see my phone behave more along the lines of what my expectations were and not have to be fully charged 2 times per day.
For the record, I've tried the following ROM's for the Cappy:
Perception
Phoenix
Assonance
Darkytt3r's port of Darky's ROM
Stock ROM (ODIN Rooted)
Cognition
And the following kernels:
Glitterballs
SpeedMod
SetiroN
Xcalibur
Will this not cause the media scanner to not pick up anything at all then?
IE no custom ringtones/msg alerts, nothing displayed in gallery, playlists wont work with the music player....
Or will it run media scanner selectively instead of all the time?
The only time I notice media scanner running is after rebooting the phone... yet I'm still only getting about 9-10 hours on a full charge with very conservative use.
evoic said:
TL: DR - Use Rescan Media, win.
So, I think that I've finally found the source of my constant stress regarding the battery life of my beautiful Samsung Captivate SGH-i897.
I know that a good majority of you have just rolled your eyes in disbelief, or just thought to yourself, "Great....another one of these threads".
If it helps one person get their battery life under control, then roll away.
I've had the phone for about 2-3 months and I've been active on these boards since a few days after getting it.
I've recalibrated, done the on / off / on / off trick, battery stats delete, deleted battery info from CWM, tried a second battery, used battery monitors on the phone, turned off wi-fi, turned off auto-synch, turned off bluetooth, lowered display brightness, and everything else I could think of to conserve juice.
Yesterday afternoon, I downloaded OSMonitor from the market in an effort to try another app in a long line of failures.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary so I was going to give up hope.
While installed, I had clicked on the box to monitor the app in the notification bar.
I noticed that I would have times where the CPU was being maxed but nothing strange was being reported in OSMonitor.
And then it hit me.....
The entire time I'm watching the OSMonitor, I'm being distracted by the media scanner.
It's running over and over and over and over and over.
When the screen shuts off after 30 seconds, it comes back on, the media scanner runs.
When I update something from the market, the media scanner runs.
When I close a program, the media scanner runs.
It is running constantly and maxing my CPU to 100%.
It finishes fairly quickly, (I have 9.4GB / 13GB available on internal and hardly anything used on my 4GB external SD card) but it just KEEPS....ON.....RUNNING.
I do a quick search, stumble upon the .nomedia file trick from XDA archives, and VOILA ! ! ! !
I'm losing about only one half of one percent per hour while it sits on standby, where I would sometimes lose 10-11% per hour, when the phone isn't even being used by me.
I went to bed last night with 48% at around 3:30am.
It is approx. 11 hours later right now.
I've made approx. 8-10 calls, checked my email a few dozen times, and mostly just let the phone sit.
I'm sitting at 39%.
Previous to doing this, I would have lost that amount in one hour.
So, for anyone who has a phone that is losing battery life like it's going out of style, I highly recommend doing the .nomedia fix.
I did mine using ES Explorer and Super Manager.
Go into your root folder and add a file named .nomedia, then go into your external SD folder and do the exact same thing.
If you do not want to do it this way, you can go the easy route and add a program called Rescan Media that does it for you.
(link supplied)
Hopefully this helps at least one lost soul, I'm so happy to see my phone behave more along the lines of what my expectations were and not have to be fully charged 2 times per day.
For the record, I've tried the following ROM's for the Cappy:
Perception
Phoenix
Assonance
Darkytt3r's port of Darky's ROM
Stock ROM (ODIN Rooted)
Cognition
And the following kernels:
Glitterballs
SpeedMod
SetiroN
Xcalibur
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So... exactly what did you do to solve the problem? can you describe how do you do the .nomedia fix?? I have exactly the same issue..
Hm, I haven't experienced that bad of a battery drain, but I installed the market app even though it said 2.2... maybe this will make my battery life better! Thanks for the tip.
It's running over and over and over and over and over.
When the screen shuts off after 30 seconds, it comes back on, the media scanner runs.
When I update something from the market, the media scanner runs.
When I close a program, the media scanner runs.
It is running constantly and maxing my CPU to 100%.
It finishes fairly quickly, (I have 9.4GB / 13GB available on internal and hardly anything used on my 4GB external SD card) but it just KEEPS....ON.....RUNNING.
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When you say the media scanner runs when doing all of these actions, does the Media Scanning icon show in the notification bar? If so, then I think it's just an issue with your phone cause I don't think that happens with anyone else's phone.
Unless you are saying that the media scanner runs in the background secretly after every action and there is no icon in the notification bar or anything? If so, I think you can be on to something.
GTIVRon said:
Will this not cause the media scanner to not pick up anything at all then?
IE no custom ringtones/msg alerts, nothing displayed in gallery, playlists wont work with the music player....
Or will it run media scanner selectively instead of all the time?
The only time I notice media scanner running is after rebooting the phone... yet I'm still only getting about 9-10 hours on a full charge with very conservative use.
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You could just run Media Scanner manually. SwitchPro even gives you a button to initiate it. The only time Media Scanner runs automatically for me is when the phone boots (and probably some other infrequent times that I can't remember) so disabling automatic media scanning isn't much of a loss at all for me.
GTIVRon said:
Will this not cause the media scanner to not pick up anything at all then?
IE no custom ringtones/msg alerts, nothing displayed in gallery, playlists wont work with the music player....
Or will it run media scanner selectively instead of all the time?
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I'm curious of the same thing. I've only seen the media scanner run when I restart or disconnect my SD card from my computer.
trekie86 said:
I'm curious of the same thing. I've only seen the media scanner run when I restart or disconnect my SD card from my computer.
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trying to get it working... ill report wassup after...
minlee85 said:
evoic said:
TL: DR - Use Rescan Media, win.
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I did mine using ES Explorer and Super Manager.
Go into your root folder and add a file named .nomedia, then go into your external SD folder and do the exact same thing.
If you do not want to do it this way, you can go the easy route and add a program called Rescan Media that does it for you.
(link supplied)
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So... exactly what did you do to solve the problem? can you describe how do you do the .nomedia fix?? I have exactly the same issue..
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I'll be nice... see the quoted paragraph that was in your quote?
Minlee, no need to quote an entire post, especially when you aren't responding to something in it directly.
As others have said, I only ever see Media Scanning in the Notification bar when I do a reboot. If it runs at other times it is transparent to the phone.
This is probably an issue specific to myself and a few others.
Someone above asked me if I saw a lot of activity in the background or if I actually saw the "Media Scanning" icon pop up in my notification bar.
The answer is that I saw the icon pop up and then watched it scan, over and over and over, all day long, dozens....if not hundreds of times.
That little fix, coupled with the battery calibration that I've done a few times, along with getting rid of some of the resource hogs that run in the background (Do I reeeeally need Google Maps to run 23 hours out of the day???) has given my Captivate new life.
evoic said:
This is probably an issue specific to myself and a few others.
Someone above asked me if I saw a lot of activity in the background or if I actually saw the "Media Scanning" icon pop up in my notification bar.
The answer is that I saw the icon pop up and then watched it scan, over and over and over, all day long, dozens....if not hundreds of times.
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Yeah, I've never seen that kind of behavior. I only see the scanning activity when I first boot and when I do something like take a picture or a screen shot.
Anyway to change/disable them on the OTA 2.3 rom?
Drives me nuts that I need to get a 15% warning, then 3% warning, then 2% warning, then 1% warning, then very low battery warning.....
I just edited my SystemUI.apk and set the visibility to "gone" for the popups for battery full and battery low. I'm testing now...I"ll keep you posted.
The Battery Full picture didn't come up when it reached 100%, but a very simple toast popup came up saying, "Charging Complete." So that doesn't really solve that part of the problem. I'm trying to run my battery down now to see about the low side.
mmapcpro said:
I just edited my SystemUI.apk and set the visibility to "gone" for the popups for battery full and battery low. I'm testing now...I"ll keep you posted.
The Battery Full picture didn't come up when it reached 100%, but a very simple toast popup came up saying, "Charging Complete." So that doesn't really solve that part of the problem. I'm trying to run my battery down now to see about the low side.
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I thought about what I really want after I made my post. The pop-ups does not really bother me, but the notification sound. I just got rid of the Lowbattery.ogg sound file and should do the trick. Will know for sure tomorrow.
I ran my battery all the way down to 1%, and no popups came up. I didn't have my sound on, so I don't know if it would have made any sound.
But the combination of both deleting that ogg file, and editing the battery_low.xml's in systemui would get rid of it all.
I know you're already over this, but I"m updating what I find incase someone else wants to know.
Setting the visibility to "gone" for the battery_low.xml's not only disabled the popups, but also disabled the warning sound, without deleting the sound file. Apparently the warning sound must be triggered by the popup warning.
I didn't test if it makes a noise while on a call, though...because I just don't care enough.
I never noticed any sound from battery reminders.
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mmapcpro said:
I ran my battery all the way down to 1%, and no popups came up. I didn't have my sound on, so I don't know if it would have made any sound.
But the combination of both deleting that ogg file, and editing the battery_low.xml's in systemui would get rid of it all.
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So after getting rid of the sound file, I still get the sound just a different tone...
Not sure how to edit the systemui files. Is there another ogg file i need to get rid off? I would like to keep the pop up but the sound needs to go.
If not, the how did you make the visibility to "gone" for the low_battery xml?
Alright, so does anyone have any experience using a Kernel for the Moto G that enables sweep-to-wake? (Or slide to wake, however you want to call it). I'm really looking into getting the Moto G, as my Galaxy S2 is on its last legs, however after having used and gotten used to the STW on my S2. there's no way I'd want to go back to using the power button all the time.
Mainly, I'm looking for someone who has a Moto G with a STW enabled Kernel installed, as I''m also curious about how much it would affect the battery life (after going from an S2, it would be nice to have a phone with good battery life this time!)
Many thanks in advance :
I'm using faux kernel which has both sweep to wake and double tap to wake. Both work fine. No noticeable drain on battery on stock, my phone still makes it through a day of moderate to heavy use with 40% left
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pisherthefisher said:
I'm using faux kernel which has both sweep to wake and double tap to wake. Both work fine. No noticeable drain on battery on stock, my phone still makes it through a day of moderate to heavy use with 40% left
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Well, that's definitely great to hear! Roughly how much screen time do you get with "moderate to heavy" usage? I typically get 2 and a half hours with my S2 (because of the high idle battery drain), sometimes even less, and that's with pretty much everything apart from 3G turned off!
AskingAlex said:
Well, that's definitely great to hear! Roughly how much screen time do you get with "moderate to heavy" usage? I typically get 2 and a half hours with my S2 (because of the high idle battery drain), sometimes even less, and that's with pretty much everything apart from 3G turned off!
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2-3 hours of on screen time. Moto g has very solid idle battery time, I can leave it unplugged overnight and when I wake up the battery only drained by 2%
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pisherthefisher said:
2-3 hours of on screen time. Moto g has very solid idle battery time, I can leave it unplugged overnight and when I wake up the battery only drained by 2%
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Whoa, what kind of wizardry is that? My S2 would drop around 15% overnight xD
What kind of brightness do you have your screen at? I typically have my screen at 15% brightness to get a decent screen time, because going up to 50% roughly halves the time I can use it for *sigh*
AskingAlex said:
Whoa, what kind of wizardry is that? My S2 would drop around 15% overnight xD
What kind of brightness do you have your screen at? I typically have my screen at 15% brightness to get a decent screen time, because going up to 50% roughly halves the time I can use it for *sigh*
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Most of the time I keep it around 15%-25%. I'm not really sure how much higher brightness will affect battery life, but the LCD screen is pretty bright so I only find myself needing to change the brightness when I'm outside.
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pisherthefisher said:
Most of the time I keep it around 15%-25%. I'm not really sure how much higher brightness will affect battery life, but the LCD screen is pretty bright so I only find myself needing to change the brightness when I'm outside.
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Ahh, nice. I think I may have just found the perfect replacement for my S2! Now all I have to do is find a way to filter down my 20GB or so of music... unless I just keep my S2 just as a fancy music player, haha
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And thanks a bunch for the help, by the way!
AskingAlex said:
Ahh, nice. I think I may have just found the perfect replacement for my S2! Now all I have to do is find a way to filter down my 20GB or so of music... unless I just keep my S2 just as a fancy music player, haha
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That's definitely one of the downsides of the moto g, no micro SD card slot. If you're okay with cloud streaming, Google gives you 50 GB of Google drive space for buying a moto g. You can also get a small usb OTG adaptor that will let you use micro SD cards if you don't mind the extra budge it creates.
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Just a little add-on for those who might want sweep to wake type functionality on a stock device - Gravity Screen On/Off (from the playstore) can be set up to provide this functionality via the proximity sensor as can some automation apps. I use MacroDroid. I only touch my power button when powering on after a shutdown. Battery impact is measurable but still negligble in the grand scheme of things (I still get 3-4 hours screen on time over 2 days with light usage, upto 7-8 hours in a single day with heavy usage).
Re music storage - I've recently bitten the bullet and uploaded my collection to Google Play Music - the free service allows you to upload upto 20,000 tracks and doesn't use your Drive storage. You can then 'Pin' your favourite tracks/albums/artists to the device for offline listening or to minimise streaming. Stream quality can also be limited when not streaming over wifi if your data is capped and/or disabled entirely when not on wifi so that the app will only show you pinned music.
neu - smurph said:
Just a little add-on for those who might want sweep to wake type functionality on a stock device - Gravity Screen On/Off (from the playstore) can be set up to provide this functionality via the proximity sensor as can some automation apps. I use MacroDroid. I only touch my power button when powering on after a shutdown. Battery impact is measurable but still negligble in the grand scheme of things (I still get 3-4 hours screen on time over 2 days with light usage, upto 7-8 hours in a single day with heavy usage).
Re music storage - I've recently bitten the bullet and uploaded my collection to Google Play Music - the free service allows you to upload upto 20,000 tracks and doesn't use your Drive storage. You can then 'Pin' your favourite tracks/albums/artists to the device for offline listening or to minimise streaming. Stream quality can also be limited when not streaming over wifi if your data is capped and/or disabled entirely when not on wifi so that the app will only show you pinned music.
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I tried using something like that on my S2, but the proximity detector obviously wasn't all that amazing, as it kept on letting the screen switch on when it was in my pocket, so that kinda put me off that. I'd still be open to trying it, but I can't see myself fully relying on it again. Although I suppose I could use it along with a standard flip case so I know the screen would definitely stay off, but I'd have to get one without the magnet like the official one has, for the fear of the internal sensors being... fried? Idk, whatever the magnet does that makes them stop working right!
Yup, I'd been looking at Google Play Music myself. Can you download a few songs from there as a "buffer" for if your connection goes down, or is absolutely everything streamed directly? I have to go through 1 small tunnel on each journey to Uni, but it means a a few minutes of blotchy internet connection, which can be a pain and a half
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I tried using something like that on my S2, but the proximity detector obviously wasn't all that amazing, as it kept on letting the screen switch on when it was in my pocket, so that kinda put me off that. I'd still be open to trying it, but I can't see myself fully relying on it again. Although I suppose I could use it along with a standard flip case so I know the screen would definitely stay off, but I'd have to get one without the magnet like the official one has, for the fear of the internal sensors being... fried? Idk, whatever the magnet does that makes them stop working right!
Yup, I'd been looking at Google Play Music myself. Can you download a few songs from there as a "buffer" for if your connection goes down, or is absolutely everything streamed directly? I have to go through 1 small tunnel on each journey to Uni, but it means a a few minutes of blotchy internet connection, which can be a pain and a half
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Yep - you can 'Pin' tracks from Play Music and they are effectively kept on local storage and those tracks are never streamed. If you are streaming an album / playlist / instant mix it also caches tracks (about 5-10 tracks in advance) so intermittent loss of connectivity shouldn't interrupt playback. The app also picks up music that is manually added to the Music Folder like any regular player. The 'Pin' method is preferable for me, but only because I use Play Music with Chromecast, and it can't stream tracks to Chromecast that have been manually added to the music folder.
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Yep - you can 'Pin' tracks from Play Music and they are effectively kept on local storage and those tracks are never streamed. If you are streaming an album / playlist / instant mix it also caches tracks (about 5-10 tracks in advance) so intermittent loss of connectivity shouldn't interrupt playback. The app also picks up music that is manually added to the Music Folder like any regular player. The 'Pin' method is preferable for me, but only because I use Play Music with Chromecast, and it can't stream tracks to Chromecast that have been manually added to the music folder.
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That's awesome, thanks for the info!
One final question, if you don't mind me being so annoying? How do you upload the music to Google play? Would I have to put some songs on my phone, upload them, download some more, upload them etc etc, or is there a way to upload the songs directly from my computer?
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That's awesome, thanks for the info!
One final question, if you don't mind me being so annoying? How do you upload the music to Google play? Would I have to put some songs on my phone, upload them, download some more, upload them etc etc, or is there a way to upload the songs directly from my computer?
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You can upload from your browser
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AskingAlex said:
That's awesome, thanks for the info!
One final question, if you don't mind me being so annoying? How do you upload the music to Google play? Would I have to put some songs on my phone, upload them, download some more, upload them etc etc, or is there a way to upload the songs directly from my computer?
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From browser at Google Play Music, via the Chrome Play Music App, or by Music Manager program (https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1229970?hl=en-GB) which you can set to watch specified folders on your computer and upload from those folders as and when you add music to them.
neu - smurph said:
From browser at Google Play Music, via the Chrome Play Music App, or by Music Manager program (https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1229970?hl=en-GB) which you can set to watch specified folders on your computer and upload from those folders as and when you add music to them.
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So, after going to download Google Play Music, it turns out that I cannot do that. I only have a Maestro card, and Google do not accept this. And for some reason you need to register a card, even when asking just for the free version of the service. That's a bit of an annoyance, to say the least.
Don't suppose you know of another alternative that has this same functionality? I've never really been one to use online streaming services like this before so I'm not sure on what apps are trustworthy and which will just fill my phone with adds. I'd be fine with paying a little for a good app, but I'd need a free one until then, because... well, I can't use my (only) debit card, so I'll have to wait until I can get a Play Store voucher... card... thingy... I'm not 100% sure what they are, I've never had to get one before xD
Alright, I think I might be having some issues, and I was wondering what your battery life like?
I charged mine earlier this week, used it a little bit after I pulled it off the charger and have barely touched it since. This morning when I went to go and watcha Youtube Video, my tablet was completely dead. Now I used it about 2 days ago and it still had over a 40% charge. To me it seems odd that the tablet drained over 40% just sitting there for 2 days.
I checked the battery manager for some statistics and the most battery draining services were the Screen at 34%, Tablet Idle at 22% and Android OS at 18%. I am not sure if this is normal for the Shield Tablet or if I might have something stuck running in the background or might even have a defective unit.
So I guess my question for you guys other than what your battery life is like, is do you think this is normal? Or should I try a factory rest? Any other suggestions? Returning it to BestBuy is an option as I bought it about a week and a half ago.
Thanks for the tips
menendez1293 said:
Alright, I think I might be having some issues, and I was wondering what your battery life like?
I charged mine earlier this week, used it a little bit after I pulled it off the charger and have barely touched it since. This morning when I went to go and watcha Youtube Video, my tablet was completely dead. Now I used it about 2 days ago and it still had over a 40% charge. To me it seems odd that the tablet drained over 40% just sitting there for 2 days.
I checked the battery manager for some statistics and the most battery draining services were the Screen at 34%, Tablet Idle at 22% and Android OS at 18%. I am not sure if this is normal for the Shield Tablet or if I might have something stuck running in the background or might even have a defective unit.
So I guess my question for you guys other than what your battery life is like, is do you think this is normal? Or should I try a factory rest? Any other suggestions? Returning it to BestBuy is an option as I bought it about a week and a half ago.
Thanks for the tips
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I'd try to manage background applications with Greenify. You'd have some more options like BootManager if you have root. Don't worry, root will disappear upon factory reset if needed for returns. Besides those two controlling agents, there is a flashable MOD I discovered recently called ComoDose 3.5 here on XDA. With all three, my S3 hits the bed as soon as I turn off the screen, boosting idle time tremendously. You'd need to go a step further and install a custom recovery to try ComoDose; if you have any issue and need to return, there is already a guide here on how to get rid of it. So don't worry about that!
Most likely, your device just isn't going to sleep. I don't think it's unusual.
Settings > Shield Power Control > Apps tab:
Let Nvidia Optimize everything. It seems to end up saving me a ton of battery life. Using apps that don't need much power (like Cheezburger, G+, Udemy, Play Store, etc...), the Nvidia governor seems to handle the clocking very well. Then it cranks it up as needed with games (I bought a few that are listed in the Shield games thing).
You just need to remember to go in and optimize new apps that you install. By default it doesn't put a governor profile on them, so the apps just run as Android tells them to, instead of how Nvidia profiles them.
I've been charging my Shield Tablet about once every two days. That's maybe an hour of gaming a day, and a lot of web browsing, and various forum reading, and whatever other random stuff I do during the day.
The pre-installed app Camera Awesome installs a bunch of corrupt jpg's to internal storage. While they are their it causes the "media server" service to keep running constantly in a loop. Was so bad that while plugged in, my battery went down while actively using the tablet. Since I removed those corrupt jpg's the battery has been fine. So step 1, check for corrupt jpgs.
Harfainx said:
Settings > Shield Power Control > Apps tab:
Let Nvidia Optimize everything. It seems to end up saving me a ton of battery life. Using apps that don't need much power (like Cheezburger, G+, Udemy, Play Store, etc...), the Nvidia governor seems to handle the clocking very well. Then it cranks it up as needed with games (I bought a few that are listed in the Shield games thing).
You just need to remember to go in and optimize new apps that you install. By default it doesn't put a governor profile on them, so the apps just run as Android tells them to, instead of how Nvidia profiles them.
I've been charging my Shield Tablet about once every two days. That's maybe an hour of gaming a day, and a lot of web browsing, and various forum reading, and whatever other random stuff I do during the day.
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Just did that this morning while it was on the charger, hopefully it makes a difference like it did to you.
daeymon said:
The pre-installed app Camera Awesome installs a bunch of corrupt jpg's to internal storage. While they are their it causes the "media server" service to keep running constantly in a loop. Was so bad that while plugged in, my battery went down while actively using the tablet. Since I removed those corrupt jpg's the battery has been fine. So step 1, check for corrupt jpgs.
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Now that you mention it, I did have the media server service running and taking up battery. I guess I will delete the pictures I have and replace it with a different (Google) Camera. Thanks for the tip.
daeymon said:
The pre-installed app Camera Awesome installs a bunch of corrupt jpg's to internal storage. While they are their it causes the "media server" service to keep running constantly in a loop. Was so bad that while plugged in, my battery went down while actively using the tablet. Since I removed those corrupt jpg's the battery has been fine. So step 1, check for corrupt jpgs.
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Its still too early to call but I think you hit the nail on the head with this one! I wasn't getting drain with the screen off but it was draining really fast with the screen on. Thank you so much for this suggestion of deleting these corrupt files because right now my battery is finally draining like it should.. nice and slow. Thank You!!
dukehazard77 said:
Its still too early to call but I think you hit the nail on the head with this one! I wasn't getting drain with the screen off but it was draining really fast with the screen on. Thank you so much for this suggestion of deleting these corrupt files because right now my battery is finally draining like it should.. nice and slow. Thank You!!
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How is your screen on before and after deleting the corrupt files? Would you mind posting screens or stats
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daeymon said:
The pre-installed app Camera Awesome installs a bunch of corrupt jpg's to internal storage. While they are their it causes the "media server" service to keep running constantly in a loop. Was so bad that while plugged in, my battery went down while actively using the tablet. Since I removed those corrupt jpg's the battery has been fine. So step 1, check for corrupt jpgs.
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Hi,
Where exactly on internal storage I can find those corrupted files?
I would like to give it a try.
Thanks in advance.
pghostek said:
Hi,
Where exactly on internal storage I can find those corrupted files?
I would like to give it a try.
Thanks in advance.
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Android/data/com.smugmug.android.cameraawesome
Check any sub folders in that folder as well.
There are apps you can get which will scan your device for corrupt image files too.
I'm not an android expert, so apologies if I say anything out of turn.
I think the .jpegs appeared to be corrupt as some of them might have been for the 'picture frames' of the camera awesome 'special effects'. Thus they are 'transparent' in the centre of the image.
I had some in the Android/data/com.smugmug.android.cameraawesome/downloads directory.
I read an article, which said if you add an empty .nomedia file to the directory it should stop the media service from reading from it.
Would adding that file not be enough to stop the media service, rather than deleting all the files?
Silverfox476 said:
I'm not an android expert, so apologies if I say anything out of turn.
I think the .jpegs appeared to be corrupt as some of them might have been for the 'picture frames' of the camera awesome 'special effects'. Thus they are 'transparent' in the centre of the image.
I had some in the Android/data/com.smugmug.android.cameraawesome/downloads directory.
I read an article, which said if you add an empty .nomedia file to the directory it should stop the media service from reading from it.
Would adding that file not be enough to stop the media service, rather than deleting all the files?
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I had similar problem. I deleted all the jpg files, infact deleted the entire folder,Android/data/com.smugmug.android.cameraawesome/downloads directory. However, everytime i opened camera app, the folder generated itself (check in ES file explorer). Better option is to disable the app (you cant delete as its a system app) and use google camera or any other camera of choice. My battery life has increased (screen on and off) i get about 4 hours of screen on time (lot of browsing, drawing, you tube and 40 mins of gaming). Its not as much as others are getting. Also i am not rooted. On a side note Lollipop is coming in couple of days, it should alleviate some battery issues.''
I have a problem with battery life. Was at 100% this morning 11am, now it is 3h20 pm and there is only 58% remaining.
The problem is it was in my bag between this morning and now and it has not been used... WiFi is set to be off while screen is off, and is not available for location when wifi deactivated. Nvidia camera is disabled. I will do a factory reset to see how it goes...
If I go to battery menu : it show only one line : screen, 1%, which of course is impossible.
EDIT : ok, it is unusable with such battery life... Since I bought it yesterday, I decided to do a factory reset and to NOT restore anything from other devices.
I'm currently charging it and will make a report later.
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I have a problem with battery life. Was at 100% this morning 11am, now it is 3h20 pm and there is only 58% remaining.
The problem is it was in my bag between this morning and now and it has not been used... WiFi is set to be off while screen is off, and is not available for location when wifi deactivated. Nvidia camera is disabled. I will do a factory reset to see how it goes...
If I go to battery menu : it show only one line : screen, 1%, which of course is impossible.
EDIT : ok, it is unusable with such battery life... Since I bought it yesterday, I decided to do a factory reset and to NOT restore anything from other devices.
I'm currently charging it and will make a report later.
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EDIT 2: time to RMA. Yesterday : a factory reset, no google account configured and charged at 100% , airplane mode. 8hours later ( this morning) , shield shutdown itself during night. So bad.
Judge584 said:
EDIT 2: time to RMA. Yesterday : a factory reset, no google account configured and charged at 100% , airplane mode. 8hours later ( this morning) , shield shutdown itself during night. So bad.
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Are you on lollipop or kitkat?
Lollipop. Is that the problem ?
Judge584 said:
Lollipop. Is that the problem ?
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I Still dunno. I'm waiting to be able to flash the kitkat firmware. I bought shield 3 days ago registered to nvidia dev site just today. Let's see
I bought it Wednesday and received 4 OTA updates without registering to dev site
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I bought it Wednesday and received 4 OTA updates without registering to dev site
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So it worked as intended lol I need to be registered and agreed to dev site to be able to download the firmwares
But do you have same problem as me?
I've not had any battery issues and I'm running Lollipop.
I have set my screen brightness to Auto (Screen On uses up a lot of juice).
Using the "Shield Power Mode" I've set the "Processor Mode" to "Optimise".
Under the Advanced Wifi options I've turned off "Network Notification", I've left "Scanning Always available" on, and set "Keep Wifi on during sleep" to "Only when plugged in".
Finally in Android/data/com.smugmug.android.cameraawesome/downloads I've made sure there is the empty .nomedia file.