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My Charge has seen decreasing performance. I'm running 2.3.6, the last TBH leak, and I was initially getting Quadrant scores as high as the 1400's. Now, I'm down around 700! Needless to say, the phone has gotten laggy.
I'm using OSMonitor to look at what processes are busy, and I keep seeing k3g_wq running, using anywhere from 20% to just under 40%. Never used to see it before. I figure it's a system process, as if I kill it, it starts back right away and always has the PID of 54.
I've searched here and with Google and I can't find anything about what this process is. From the name, I might guess it has something to do with 3g access, but it's running like that even when I go into airplane mode.
Thanks for any info.
just a suggestion but since GB has officially been released i would wipe cashe,dalvik and data. Then flash infinity, tweak stock or danalo's stock debloated/deoxided rom. Then flash imoseyon's repacked voodoo kernel. you will get a quadrant score of around 2000. Im currently running infinity ext4 without tsm, imoseyon's kernel and v6 script. its been pretty good for me so far. i have no complaints.
But if anybody else has a better setup. I myself would like to know as well
Wow, that's quite a prescription! For now, I'd just like to know what that process is and why it's running, so I can try to get it to back down.
Thanks for the tips. BTW, I was running voodoo lagfix back in the day, and it got me quadrant scores similar to what I was getting with this GB ROM (not 2K, but 1600 wasn't unusual); I'd like to get back to that point. Without necessarily starting over.
You're basically going to have to. The TBH leak is really old.
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The TBH leak isn't that old (I downloaded it on Nov 7th), and the age of it doesn't make kernel processes run away. It's GB 2.3.6, basically the same as the latest OTA. And it only started doing this recently.
I'm afraid either something I've installed recently is triggering this (the better option, as I can start uninstalling stuff until the problem goes away), or there is something gone wonky with the hardware itself that the kernel is reacting to (obviously the worst case). That wouldn't surprise me, as this is my 3rd Charge, the first two having had lost their minds, running really hot and then rebooting every few minutes (this on the stock OS, rooted with the voodoo lagfix kernel).
More data (if there's anyone out there who actually knows what that kernel process is): OS Monitor's "messages" list is flooded with this:
"k3g_work_func: fifo entries are less than we want"
I get dozens of these PER SECOND.
Again, if anyone has any insight on what that process is about, glad to hear from you. Those who say "Nuke and pave!", not so much.
Fifo is an io scheduler if I remember correctly. Try changing it and seeing what happens.
"Nuke and pave" still seems like the best option.
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Fifo is an io scheduler if I remember correctly. Try changing it and seeing what happens.
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Fifo is a general term for a queue -- "first in/first out". Many kernel processes live their lives managing queues. This one is complaining about it's queue being shorter (fewer entries) than it thinks it should have.
Did I see your name attached to a thread about trying to compile a kernel? If so, would you do me a favor, so I don't have to get all into git so I can get to the AOSP code, and grep for "k3g" and/or "k3g_wq" (still sounds to me like like "kernel 3g worker queue") and see if you can see what it does? Nothing in depth, just in general what it handles.
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"Nuke and pave" still seems like the best option.
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Funny thing happened today. It was getting worse and worse. Battery stats showed a shocking thing--for the first time ever, Display wasn't the biggest battery hog, it was Android OS!
So I decided to just reboot, to see if I could get it back to good enough to do backups and start the nuke-n-pave process. I had rebooted a few times over the last few days, and it didn't solve anything. Today it did! Back to normal, and I ran Quadrant twice and got a 16xx on the second run. Nice. A few hours later, and it's still good. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Oh, I had also uninstalled DropBox (which I wasn't using yet anyway) and this massive Gameloft game, "Tintin". Those didn't help, before reboot. But maybe those, coupled with the reboot, did.
I may still nuke and pave, but probably with the stock GB and just root after that. And keep hoping the CyanogenMod comes out with a ROM for it.
Thanks.
I'm gonna revive this thread because I have a similar problem. My dad's charge is fully stock. He has never messed with anything. It was fine the whole time he had it except today. He has not used it at all today (10m screen time in 12 hours, and half of that was me trying to fix it) and the battery drained down to 30% all by itself. Me being the tech guy, he gave it to me and I checked battery usage. Android OS was reported to be using 89%. Cell standby was at 3%, and display came in last at 2%.
Since "Android OS" is very generic, I used adb to put the xda version of betterbatterystats on his phone, and under process, there is this thing called "k3g_wq" with almost a full bar. Under other, it shows the phone being awake 98.2% of the time. This problem only arose today. As he has not used the phone at all, there would be no rogue apps unless something just turned up. I disabled automatic updates in the market since the stock tunewiki app updated its permissions to read SMS (spyware???).
Does anyone have a solution to this besides factory reset?
K3G is a sensor, specifically the level sensor. Not sure why it would take up system resources, but I would think turning off auto screen rotation may be one method to try and limit its use and battery drain.
See my posts on k3g_wq above. Note that I found error log message about it not having enough entries--thus my supposition that wq == worker queue. If imnuts says it's a level sensor, then that's got to be it; from the name, I figured k was for kernel and 3g was...well...3g.
In my case, I was able to see it using OS Monitor (free in the market), using consistently about 30% of the CPU, which resulted in the OS being the largest consumer of battery.
And, for me, it finally just stopped doing it, after one more reboot. Hasn't come back. But every time the phone gets a bit laggy, I go look at that process list.
On another note, we're using my Charge at work as a test phone for our Android app, as it makes it blow up like no other device we have.
I have noticed a sensor leak associated with google maps. Try opening maps in that phone, exit out of it and see if sensor usage persists. I hadn't mentioned it before assuming it was unique to my device.
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I also notice runaway usage of k3g_wq in the last week. I have stock OTA EP4 and it had been running fine for many weeks with no issue. So there has to be something that changed recently. My guesses are the new version of Google Maps, or new version of Tiny Flashlight with the "shake on lockscreen" feature. I don't see Tiny Flashlight running any services, but since I disabled the shake on lockscreen feature my k3g_wq usage seems to be OK.
I factory reset the phone and the problem disappeared.
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Ooooh, I just had the k3g_wq high usage issue while actively using my phone. OS Monitor showed it using 40% of processor all the time. So I tried the following:
1) disable auto-rotation. No impact.
2) started and exited maps. No impact.
3) Unistalled maps update and tiny flashlight. No impact.
3) Turned off wifi, GPS, data, BT. No impact.
4) Killed every running service that would stay killed. No impact.
5) Rebooted. This fixed it for now.
This makes me think back to the flash destroying early leak of GB for the Fascinate. This ROM would also have a similar process that got stuck using lots of CPU. On that dirty ROM, auto rotation needed to be enabled to see the issue. However once you had the problem, it wouldn't go away until reboot. The only safe thing was to disable auto rotation, reboot, and never reenable. Perhaps the Charge is now the same.
My opinion of Android and Samsung is not improving. In fact I do have some anger issues.
Give me a freaking iPhone at this point, I'll do anything for a quality engineered and tested device that actually works out of the box. Android and Google are sloppy if nothing else. Open sloppy mind you.
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Ooooh, I just had the k3g_wq high usage issue while actively using my phone. OS Monitor showed it using 40% of processor all the time. So I tried the following:
1) disable auto-rotation. No impact.
2) started and exited maps. No impact.
3) Unistalled maps update and tiny flashlight. No impact.
3) Turned off wifi, GPS, data, BT. No impact.
4) Killed every running service that would stay killed. No impact.
5) Rebooted. This fixed it for now.
This makes me think back to the flash destroying early leak of GB for the Fascinate. This ROM would also have a similar process that got stuck using lots of CPU. On that dirty ROM, auto rotation needed to be enabled to see the issue. However once you had the problem, it wouldn't go away until reboot. The only safe thing was to disable auto rotation, reboot, and never reenable. Perhaps the Charge is now the same.
My opinion of Android and Samsung is not improving. In fact I do have some anger issues.
Give me a freaking iPhone at this point, I'll do anything for a quality engineered and tested device that actually works out of the box. Android and Google are sloppy if nothing else. Open sloppy mind you.
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Must resist urge to flame... Seriously though, I think it's just good practice to get used to flashing ROMs, making backups, and learning to mod your phone. I've had some curious problems that only a reflash would solve. In any case, the only thing worth a damn on the iPhone 4S is the camera. The internals are fast, but what's the point?
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Must resist urge to flame... Seriously though, I think it's just good practice to get used to flashing ROMs, making backups, and learning to mod your phone. I've had some curious problems that only a reflash would solve. In any case, the only thing worth a damn on the iPhone 4S is the camera. The internals are fast, but what's the point?
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If you're a geek and have time to flash and mod, that's great for you. I used to be in this camp. Now I just want my phone to work without contanstaintly modifying it, babysitting process and battery life. I want a phone I could recommended to ANY friend or parent without worrying. The Charge definately isn't it.
My brief history in Android:
Samsung Fascinate: got tired of poor battery life and runaway processes.
Samsung Charge: got tired of poor battery life and runaway processed. Also, voice quality is horrendous.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Tons of reviews of runaway "Android OS" proccessed during idle. Voice quality is bad and outbound audio drops.
With each generation, problems weren't fixed and Google/Samsung continue their careless ways. To me its just sloppy, sloppy, execution.
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I'll do anything for a quality engineered and tested device that actually works out of the box. Android and Google are sloppy if nothing else. Open sloppy mind you.
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You're running a leaked, unofficial build that was part of the testing process, not the result of the testing process. If it's a software related problem (either due to a rogue app or to a bug with the leaked build), there's no one to blame but yourself for installing it. If it's a hardware related issue on the other hand, there's probably warranty coverage that would cover the problem.
Go back to stock, OTA, unrooted. See if the problem persists. Reinstall your apps. See if the problem persists. If it does, your phone will be "stock" and you can pursue a warranty claim.
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You're running a leaked, unofficial build that was part of the testing process, not the result of the testing process. If it's a software related problem (either due to a rogue app or to a bug with the leaked build), there's no one to blame but yourself for installing it. If it's a hardware related issue on the other hand, there's probably warranty coverage that would cover the problem.
Go back to stock, OTA, unrooted. See if the problem persists. Reinstall your apps. See if the problem persists. If it does, your phone will be "stock" and you can pursue a warranty claim.
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No man, i already mentioned, I'm stock OTA EP4. I'm also unrooted.
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No man, i already mentioned, I'm stock OTA EP4. I'm also unrooted.
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Sorry, thought you were OP
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k3g_wq ... it came back, and then I killed it, I think
OP here.
Today I was looking at my Charge and marveling at how I was getting pretty good performance but better battery life due to my latest tweaks in SetCPU, when I looked at battery usage: Android OS was creeping up on Display as juice-user No. 1.
Uh oh.
So back to OS Monitor, and sure enough, there's k3g_wq on a steady 25-30% of the CPU.
Opened and closed Maps--no luck.
Killed its process in the process list in OS Monitor (it appeared to be swapped out, but what the heck)--no luck.
Opened another cool app called Elixir that shows you sensors, and lets you enable/disable them. Hrm...gyroscope, rotation and orientation sensors. All were off; turned each on, then back off.
Looked in OS Monitor and...YES! k3g_wq is gone!
Wild guess time, but apparently the start-up/shut-down of whichever sensor it is doesn't always work right, and leaves that service looking for its momma (that's a highly technical description of the problem, sniff).
Anyway, if you're seeing k3g_wq running wild, give that a try. Next time I do, I'll try them one at a time, see which one does the trick (assuming it's only one).
LDog
PS -- Kudos again to imnuts for letting us know it's the level sensor. Or sensors.
Well, this is not why I bought this phone for. SOT is only 25 minutes, and it is worse than my Xperia Z Ultra.
zllovesuki said:
Well, this is not why I bought this phone for. SOT is only 25 minutes, and it is worse than my Xperia Z Ultra.
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I dont get it.....???????
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caseyk621 said:
i dont get it.....???????
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battery sucks for some reasons, solutions please?
zllovesuki said:
battery sucks for some reasons, solutions please?
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Assuming you started from %100?
I found after some app updates that my play services cache was rather high and I had some unnusual battery drain. So I went to manage apps and cleared the cache on play services. Seemed to correct itself after that.
If you just got it then cycle it a couple times, it gets better after a week or so.
If you've had it awhile then a rogue app is causing it. BetterBatteryStats or gsam from play store will do better at helping figure it out.
5hrs 36mins SOT
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KitKat and Jelly Bean have both had battery drains related to location services. I'm keeping location turned off until the next release. I'm not happy about it, but it does seem to make a difference.
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KitKat and Jelly Bean have both had battery drains related to location services. I'm keeping location turned off until the next release. I'm not happy about it, but it does seem to make a difference.
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I don't have an issue with location services unless I have google now enabled then it is a battery hog.
I had a massive battery drain because of WiFi even when off. Go to WiFi settings advanced turn off scanning always on.
you need to use better battery stats. just research xda for it. and follow the posts directions. you will find out what exactly is eating your battery.
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Well, this is not why I bought this phone for. SOT is only 25 minutes, and it is worse than my Xperia Z Ultra.
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Battery drain has been a relatively common experience after the KitKat 4.4 update. I have a Droid Mini, not a Maxx, but I've been seeing a lot of reports for all three of last years Droid line (Mini, Ultra and Maxx). Troubleshooting battery life is typically done through looking at events called wakelocks. Wakelocks are created by apps on your phone to prevent it from going into "deep sleep"--basically, they allow the CPU to stay on when the screen on your phone seems off. BetterBatteryStats or WakelockDetector are two apps that can be used to gain a little more insight into what wakelocks you are experiencing and what might be causing them.
However, wakelocks are broken down into two categories--those run by the Android kernel itself (kernal wakelocks) and those created by apps running in the background (partial wakelocks). Unfortunately, the 4.4 update made it impossible to view the partial wakelocks directly without root permissions. If you did as I did and naively updated to 4.4 without root, you won't be able to root your phone (as of now) to see the partial wakelocks. Instead, the wakelocks will show up under the kernal wakelocks that can be viewed--but instead of an app by app breakdown, they are visible only in the aggregate, so figuring out which app in particular is causing your problem can be a real trick.
One way to do so is to look at the apps running in the background of under the "Apps">"Running" in settings and see which apps you have actually been using and are supposed to appear and which apps are not. Then select the apps that you didn't start and force close them in sequence, checking Wakelock Detector or BetterBatteryStats after each to see if they have fixed your issue at all. The best way IMHO to see if they had an immediate effect is to look for increases in the "Deep Sleep" stat--if the app had been keeping your phone awake, and you force closed it, the Deep Sleep time should go up after you shut off your phone.
All that being said, troubleshooting is a real *****. There is an abundance of non-app-related issues with 4.4, or so it would appear. I have seen posts attributing fixes to turning location services to "GPS only". Others recommend clearing the Google Play Services cache in the Apps menu, clearing the cache in phone more generally, and using every other more conventional battery conservation trick in the book. Still others reported the only fix as a factor reset. These things had little to no benefit to me--although I never had to resort to a factory reset since I found a fix this morning. For me, all it took was going into Wifi>Advanced>Wi-Fi frequency band and changing from "Auto" to the 2.4GHz setting. This seems to have nailed the persistent wakelock issue that had been showing up as "Android OS" under the stock battery life in the settings, which showed up as a kernel wakelock under "suspend_backoff" in BetterBatteryStats. Hope that something out of all of this can help you--I'm immensely frustrated with how poorly my phone performed for the last month after the KitKat upgrade. It appears, however, that the fix I just found has restored my battery life from the 3-6 hours I have been getting lately to 12-14 hours. I'll update in a couple days after I see how things go. Best of luck!
Update, after a real short period of time:
Somehow doing this appears to have broken my Touchless Control. I can't get Google to recognize the "Ok, Google Now" bit, which it had done in the past nearly flawlessly, nor will Google Search transcribe voice searches, period. Going into the Settings>Touchless Control shows Touchless Control to be unchecked, but tapping the button to enable Touchless Control doesn't do anything. The button dims slightly, as if the press is registered, but the box doesn't check and the Voice Search and continues not to work. Interestingly, putting the Wifi back on "Auto" as opposed to 2.4GHz doesn't seem to fix this; rebooting into Safe Mode makes it work fine though. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling my Touchless Control app, but I'm hoping this isn't a persistent issue for me. Ugh. In any case, I'll take battery life over Touchless Control for the time being.
EDIT: Voice input doesn't work anywhere on my phone--I can't press the microphone button on the keyboard and speak, for example, to dictate a text message. Potentially this is unrelated to the battery life issue, but I'm going to do some more digging and see what I can find.
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Update, after a real short period of time:
Somehow doing this appears to have broken my Touchless Control. I can't get Google to recognize the "Ok, Google Now" bit, which it had done in the past nearly flawlessly, nor will Google Search transcribe voice searches, period. Going into the Settings>Touchless Control shows Touchless Control to be unchecked, but tapping the button to enable Touchless Control doesn't do anything. The button dims slightly, as if the press is registered, but the box doesn't check and the Voice Search and continues not to work. Interestingly, putting the Wifi back on "Auto" as opposed to 2.4GHz doesn't seem to fix this; rebooting into Safe Mode makes it work fine though. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling my Touchless Control app, but I'm hoping this isn't a persistent issue for me. Ugh. In any case, I'll take battery life over Touchless Control for the time being.
EDIT: Voice input doesn't work anywhere on my phone--I can't press the microphone button on the keyboard and speak, for example, to dictate a text message. Potentially this is unrelated to the battery life issue, but I'm going to do some more digging and see what I can find.
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What do you have checked under settings, language and input?
Do you have any third party keyboards installed?
Have you done or considered doing a factory data reset?
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jfriend33 said:
What do you have checked under settings, language and input?
Do you have any third party keyboards installed?
Have you done or considered doing a factory data reset?
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No third party keyboards whatsoever. Up until now I had been really happy with Google's stock keyboard. Under Settings>Language and Input I have Google (English) checked, as well as Google Pinyin Input, and Google voice typing, which is set to English (US).
Been thinking about doing a factory data reset but would like to avoid it if possible because I've been horribly disorganized about curating my contacts across a variety of Google accounts--I know that if I had to, I have all my information backed up, but it'd be a big pain getting it sorted again afterward. I've heard others say that an FDR has fixed the battery all on its own. I don't know if I mentioned, but booting into safe mode restores the voice input functionality.
Got a Droid Mini now myself for a few days, it's at 4.4 and obviously unrooted and there apparently is no hope for the Chinese unlock nowadays either, sadly, so that means doing whatever possible to ensure the best battery life on mine as well. I hadn't considered forcing the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi operation so I set it that way just now and then immediately attempted to use touchless control and it's working fine for mine with only that one change from Auto to 2.4 made.
I was using GSam Battery Monitor to get some idea of what's going on with this device but recently decided to just give the Snapdragon BatteryGuru a shot and see what happens (got another 1.5 days of monitoring before it does whatever it's supposed to do).
On complete idle it does lose about 1.2% per hour (with Wi-Fi off) but I might redo that test now with the 2.4 GHz manual setting and see if anything is changed.
It's not anywhere near the battery life of the Droid MAXX I had and sold, obviously, but so far it's doing ok. I ordered an Incipio Ghost 100 Qi-charging base a few days ago, hopefully it'll be here by the weekend so I can stop wearing and tearing the microUSB port.
Will see what happens...
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Got a Droid Mini now myself for a few days, it's at 4.4 and obviously unrooted and there apparently is no hope for the Chinese unlock nowadays either, sadly, so that means doing whatever possible to ensure the best battery life on mine as well. I hadn't considered forcing the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi operation so I set it that way just now and then immediately attempted to use touchless control and it's working fine for mine with only that one change from Auto to 2.4 made.
I was using GSam Battery Monitor to get some idea of what's going on with this device but recently decided to just give the Snapdragon BatteryGuru a shot and see what happens (got another 1.5 days of monitoring before it does whatever it's supposed to do).
On complete idle it does lose about 1.2% per hour (with Wi-Fi off) but I might redo that test now with the 2.4 GHz manual setting and see if anything is changed.
It's not anywhere near the battery life of the Droid MAXX I had and sold, obviously, but so far it's doing ok. I ordered an Incipio Ghost 100 Qi-charging base a few days ago, hopefully it'll be here by the weekend so I can stop wearing and tearing the microUSB port.
Will see what happens...
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Glad to know that the Wi-Fi settings aren't the likely culprit of my ****ed voice input. I tried the Snapdragon BatteryGuru for a while--for me the effect was negligible over a period of about two weeks. What was the wakelock keeping your phone up?
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Glad to know that the Wi-Fi settings aren't the likely culprit of my ****ed voice input. I tried the Snapdragon BatteryGuru for a while--for me the effect was negligible over a period of about two weeks. What was the wakelock keeping your phone up?
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I have no idea, haven't bothered to look at the wakelocks presently. I got used to using TricksterMod to monitor everything but of course I can't do anything with it because of no root access.
Really wish a miracle would come along at some point, we could use a working root definitely.
Hell, we could use 4.4.2 AND a working root to be honest, hopefully whenever 4.4.2 comes along it'll fix a lot of crap in 4.4 that Motorola and Verizon just broke for whatever reason. Bleh.
Come on, Motorola, make it happen.
<and offer the option for us end users to purchase an unlock code direct from you, too...>
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I have no idea, haven't bothered to look at the wakelocks presently. I got used to using TricksterMod to monitor everything but of course I can't do anything with it because of no root access.
Really wish a miracle would come along at some point, we could use a working root definitely.
Hell, we could use 4.4.2 AND a working root to be honest, hopefully whenever 4.4.2 comes along it'll fix a lot of crap in 4.4 that Motorola and Verizon just broke for whatever reason. Bleh.
Come on, Motorola, make it happen.
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Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm hoping we get 4.4.2 by mid/end of the summer, and in the meantime sitting here kicking myself for not jumping on top of buying an unlock code while they were available. $40 would have been cheap compared to putting up with this broken ****. I've been hugely disappointed in Motorola for failing to address the bugs in 4.4 in any sort of official capacity for the Droid lineup. It's funny--I didn't really care about having root so long as my phone was working. But trying to fix everything that has gone wrong has gotten my just drooling for root. Hopefully we get it eventually, and I know that the next phone I buy will DEFINITELY have an unlocked bootloader. Ugh.
I swore I'd never purchase another Motorola product and I suppose technically I haven't meaning I will never directly buy one from Motorola or from a carrier with their products (not even Google) - I got this Droid Mini for a decent price from someone off craigslist after selling the Droid MAXX for a very nice profit indeed so, in the long run I got the Droid MAXX free of charge to begin with, made profit from that then bought the Mini which is basically the same device in a smaller package more or less and still no money has gone directly to Motorola (or Verizon for that matter since I use T-Mobile just fine).
Gave up on Motorola when they pooched all of us Atrix and Photon owners so to hell with Motorola for that fiasco. Now it seems like they're doing it again by being slow and stupid for whatever reason.
I cannot for the life of me understand why it takes these companies so damned long to release a fix or update for a device - consider that the Moto X, the Droid Ultra, the Droid MAXX, and the Droid Mini all have the same X8 custom chipset and are basically the same devices in almost every respect and yet it still just doesn't get done like it should.
It's pathetic but I'm ranting now... my intolerance for stupid people (and companies) is well known so, Motorola, I can see not much has changed and so neither will my opinion.
I like the Droid Mini, it's a nice device, works fine given the limitations (no root yet, no 4.4.2) and the rather meager 2000 mAh battery. I could sell this I suppose, get me another Atrix HD (and still be mostly locked down I guess) but then slap that RAZR MAXX battery in it and get near-Droid MAXX battery life once again.
Nah, I think I'll keep the Mini unless someone makes me another offer I can't refuse. I see them listed on craigslist for rather low prices - exactly why I got this one a few days ago - and I honestly think there are a lot of people that just don't realize this is basically a "Moto X Jr" model that does effectively the same things including Active Display and "OK Google Now" touchless control.
You'd think most consumers were stupid or something for not noticing just what a fine device this Mini actually is. </sarcasm>
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I was using GSam Battery Monitor to get some idea of what's going on with this device but recently decided to just give the Snapdragon BatteryGuru a shot and see what happens (got another 1.5 days of monitoring before it does whatever it's supposed to do).
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I tried that a week or so ago. I didn't let it control WiFi for me, but otherwise let it do its thing. (I also wouldn't let it turn off GMail syncing unless the phone was on - having GMail come to me close to push is one of the reasons I carry the thing with me.) It didn't make a damned bit of difference for me; it's off the phone now.
I've done the 2.4 GHz only thing. We'll see if it helps.
My ultra was doing the same thing. I back up my phone and factory reset it. For the first couple days I was killing the battery quickly from setting up my phone again and with in a week or so my battery life seemed to come back as it was in 4.2.
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I was very excited to see this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...w-to-update-to-g900voc4-5-0-keeproot-t3068546
So, I pushed ahead thinking that Lollipop has already been in the wild long enough, surely the initial kinks like WiFi drops and battery hogging have been resolved. No such luck, and after doing it, it looks like I'm going to have to do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880
Lollipop is horrible. My phone no longer does one of the most basic things that's been around since the G1: Go (the F) to sleep! Seriously?!?!
Here are my other problems:
-Phone doesn't sleep on its own if timeout set for longer than 30 seconds (and even then, it's not reliable)
-WiFi doesn't reconnect after sleep (when sleep even happens, which is only when I push the button to force it). I have to toggle WiFi off/on to reconnect.
-Battery drain is pretty bad. My first month with the S5 had me barely even thinking about charging. Now, with Lollipop, I feel like I'm back on my old HTC MyTouch!
-The silly way they implemented the lockscreen. Here's my problem: I can ONLY use Settings > Sound and Notification > While locked with the option "Do not show notifications". Why? Any other setting blocks the Owner Information (Settings > Lock screen > Owner Information). If I don't, and if I'm unfortunate enough to have lost my phone, yet fortunate enough to have it found by a good samaritan, I better hope I haven't miss any calls or received any messages in the meantime. This one REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS because it's a horribly-implemented Feature ... at least the others are unintended bugs, but somebody had to give this one the green light.
-I can't adjust the icon sizes anymore. There used to be a choice of large or small icons.
-Oh, and for some bonehead reason, Samsung decided their stock ROM wouldn't have the Lollipop built-in flashlight icon.
-Another intentional feature that I can't disable: the phone keeps a history of recent activity that persists through reboots. YUCK! Why can I not disable this?!?! Again, another bonehead call that somebody had to green-light, without even considering the possibility that I might want to turn it off!
-All the UI "polishing" and improvements don't mean a thing to me, I want it to work.
I found all of the above in less than 24 hours on Lollipop! I might lose my s**t entirely if I keep it for much longer.
Here is my take on why:
Google and Apple are in a heated race to the top. They wrongly assume that what will set each apart from one another is almost entirely dependent on what a few bloggers say about some hot new feature. The paradigm appears to be something like: "Who cares if millions of loyal subscribers lose functionality when we want 100 people to have this one obscure and half-baked feature?"
Latest != Greatest
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I've had a change of heart on this. It's not too bad, I just needed to adjust a few settings and live with the other issues.
I too do not like the lolli. Bad battery life, and for some reason the Heart rate monitor led turns on whenever anything is within a half inch of it. I just can't figure that out, but it sucks the battery like a red led vampire!
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Tldnr
Don't start a thread just to complain
Lmfao when I saw that link and clicked it, I actually had that same thread opened moments before opening this thread because I, too, am having to go back to KitKat. I laughed for a good 20 seconds. Lollipop is freaking terrible at the moment. Zero customization and Google + Samsung are forcing too much garbage on us without giving any bit of customization.
mygraine said:
I too do not like the lolli. Bad battery life, and for some reason the Heart rate monitor led turns on whenever anything is within a half inch of it. I just can't figure that out, but it sucks the battery like a red led vampire!
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Heart rate monitor thing was fixed in OC4 I think, but if it still goes off a factory reset will fix it.
Agree
OP, I agree with you. It probably is the first version without the definitely improvement overall for users. It is risky to upgrade and troublesome if it didn't work out well on your devices. Wish Android 5.1 could be better than Kitkat overall.
I have absolutely no problems with the lollipop. I always had it stock from the start and just let the OTAs take over on their own. Have you tried even rebooting into recovery and wipe cache? Even though it's not a custom recovery you can still do that, also even when you dirty flash nightlies that's something that's good practice. My wife's phone had similar issues that I wasn't experiencing, until I did that to her phone and now she's having no problems. Now the general annoyances of how Samsung implemented ****, I understand, it's stupid with not having native flashlight, tethering is annoying having to use foxfi, and the lockscreen.. bleh. But other than that, everything is actually working like it is supposed to
Chiming in, Yes it's bad.
I have two lines with Verizon, both with S5 phones on them. Great device, its actually the first Android phone I've had that I did not do anything with beyond the out of the box experience. That changed when Lollipop was pushed via OTA, the most prominent issue I experienced on both of my S5s is general responsiveness issues, simple things like switching apps or launching apps sometimes would leave me with a white screen for between 5-10 seconds, an eternity especially when the device was lighting fast on 4.4.4 Kitkat. I followed every suggestion from wiping the device in Android, Wiping in recovery, wiping cache, all of these with only marginal improvements. It really is a shame that Google / Samsung did not do a bit better quality assurance on this build before it was pushed out to carriers and ultimately peoples devices. It says something that other carriers skipped 5.0 and that very rapidly 5.1 surfaced on Newer devices / Nexus devices.
As of last night both of my phones are Odin'd back to 4.4.4 and its like having a brand new phone. Sure, there might not be as much polish, but there are no features I will die without having. The only one that I can say I do miss is the feature where the device will disable the lock screen when your smart watch or home WiFi is connected.
Here's to hoping that Google eventually gets Android 5 right in the optimization department and that Samsung picks it up for the S5, and that Verizon gets it ready for OTA before I am ready to move on to a new device. Not interested in the S6 at all for its sealed nature for storage and battery, but that's for another thread on a different day.
-Nate
I Have to agree. I've given it several chances to perform to expectations but it just fails.... ( insert sad puppy face here ) no matter what I have tried it just under-performs and the biggest thing is the horrible battery life. Sooooo yeah like most of the other commentators in this thread, I'm moving back to 4.4.4......
Unfortunately/fortunately, I have found most of my battery issues were solved with a factory reset. I'm more frustrated that Samsung seems to having issues with Android Auto.
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Observations, not complaints. Getting these points out in the open is an essential stepping stone to getting them fixed. Maybe, just maybe, a Producteer or architect at Google has read this by now so they know what to improve next time. Problems cannot be solved until they are defined.
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The issue with the screen not sleeping was actually related to the "Show CPU Usage" setting in the app "OS Monitor". I've used that for years on previous Android version with no problems. In Lollipop, it must be disabled.
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Observations, not complaints. Getting these points out in the open is an essential stepping stone to getting them fixed. Maybe, just maybe, a Producteer or architect at Google has read this by now so they know what to improve next time. Problems cannot be solved until they are defined.
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The issue with the screen not sleeping was actually related to the "Show CPU Usage" setting in the app "OS Monitor". I've used that for years on previous Android version with no problems. In Lollipop, it must be disabled.
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Yeah, go start a petition, just like the bootloader guys, see how far it got them? No one from google reads your complaint threads and regrets their work...
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Yeah, go start a petition, just like the bootloader guys, see how far it got them? No one from google reads your complaint threads and regrets their work...
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Yeah, I guess that was wishful thinking.
In any case, it seems this thread was a complete waste of time. It made me feel better at the time, but looking back on it and the purpose of this site, it doesn't add any value or help anyone modify their phone. Not only that, one of my primary reasons for the OP was the screen lock issues which turned out to be an app, not the Android version.
So, I stand corrected. Live and learn. Enough said.
My wife would never let me root her phone ever. After this update either I find a way to go back a few with root or it goes against the wall. Looks like I have to start reading and figure out how to do this.
Lol I love how you described it. Sometimes you have to vent. Lol
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The issue with the screen not sleeping was actually related to the "Show CPU Usage" setting in the app "OS Monitor". I've used that for years on previous Android version with no problems. In Lollipop, it must be disabled.
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Care to share where this app is?
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This is the one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eolwral.osmonitor&hl=en
It's a great app, but something about it staying active in the Notification Bar keeps the screen awake. I still use the app, just can't keep the notification active in Lollipop.
And in case it isn't obvious, even though I still have my concerns about Lollipop, I never did go about the procedure of downgrading. It looks like a risky procedure, and I don't want to trip Knox, or worse, have a brick.
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This is the one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eolwral.osmonitor&hl=en
It's a great app, but something about it staying active in the Notification Bar keeps the screen awake. I still use the app, just can't keep the notification active in Lollipop.
And in case it isn't obvious, even though I still have my concerns about Lollipop, I never did go about the procedure of downgrading. It looks like a risky procedure, and I don't want to trip Knox, or worse, have a brick.
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Ok, so it's not a stock app. I am still having poor battery life and overheating issues.
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When using an app or a game the screen brightness suddenly changing as if I had auto brightness on but it isn't, always seems to go dimmer and sometimes goes to dim and light in quick succession. Is there something in the settings that I need to change?
Samsung S7 I am using.
Same
I have this problem as well, my screen gets brighter some moments.
I notice the colors on the screen become lighter, after a few moments it wil change back to normal.
I don't know what's causing it.
me as well
Yea me too, seams to do it when ever it want not in the app or program.
I'm having the same issue on my S7. Pretty annoying.
Edit: Found a solution here: reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/4a5kkv/when_i_open_certain_games_the_screen_dims_but_the/d0y94nq
You have to install package disabler pro and disable gameservice
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It's a feature not a bug.
Maybe screen settings is on adaptive mode?
Soufiansky said:
It's a feature not a bug.
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It does not matter if it is intended or not, he is looking for how to disable or fix it...
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It does not matter if it is intended or not, he is looking for how to disable or fix it...
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I know , and the solution is already available so...I was just confirming.
Travrew said:
I'm having the same issue on my S7. Pretty annoying.
Edit: Found a solution here: reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/4a5kkv/when_i_open_certain_games_the_screen_dims_but_the/d0y94nq
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That does fix it but you don't need to install package disabler pro.
Go to Settings/Applications/Application Manager/More (upper right)/Show System Apps/ then scroll down to "GameService" and disable
I had tried Disabling Auto Brightness, turning off Adaptive Display and Power Saving but turning off GameService finally worked.
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hey thanks alot. i appreciate it. now if i could just get this thing to cool off. thats the mosst disappointing thing about the s7 other than the screen triping out every once in a while, oh and the lag issue, and that they took out the ir function although i much rather have the expandable memory & Micro sd slot, the lack of volume is a disappointment, and the fact that i still haven't received the vr free gift package that t-mobile promised even tho i pre-ordered on the feb. 23 and got the phone like a week later. did i mention how hot this dam thing gets? my s6 got hot a little bit but this is horrible. kinda makes me want my s6 back.
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hey thanks alot. i appreciate it. now if i could just get this thing to cool off. thats the mosst disappointing thing about the s7 other than the screen triping out every once in a while, oh and the lag issue, and that they took out the ir function although i much rather have the expandable memory & Micro sd slot, the lack of volume is a disappointment, and the fact that i still haven't received the vr free gift package that t-mobile promised even tho i pre-ordered on the feb. 23 and got the phone like a week later. did i mention how hot this dam thing gets? my s6 got hot a little bit but this is horrible. kinda makes me want my s6 back.
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It shouldn't be getting hotter than your s6. Granted it should get slightly warm, but my biggest issue with s6 edge was it would get scorching hot to the point it was uncomfortable. This phone never gets that hot for me. So keep an eye on that, or hand?
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Been running into this with my relatively new S7 Edge and the Package Disabler Pro approach with gameservice seems to have done the trick for me, too. Thanks!
This is happening on crazy spammy's note 10 + as well
Got it root'd up but don't see game service when searching for it in titiamum backup
I recently got the same issue on my S10. And couldn't find the game service too. Have you found any solution for this issue?
https://twitter.com/sarvikas/status/955753890770665472
Get it here :
https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/betalabs
Cool. Bought the phone today, and it's already on 8.1. Hoping Nokia will keep up the pace
I have been battering it since installing and i cant make it cough, splutter or hiccup, seems all but finished to me rather than a beta.
Not quite. I discovered and reported a rather annoying kernel wakelock that doesn't allow CPU deep sleep for hours, causing battery drain.
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Cool. Bought the phone today, and it's already on 8.1. Hoping Nokia will keep up the pace
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Do you mind doing a system dump for me? If you need help look up how to do a system dump, but I think you need root and do adb /pull system .
xterminater07 said:
Do you mind doing a system dump for me? If you need help look up how to do a system dump, but I think you need root and do adb /pull system .
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Hi, and thanks for asking. At the moment I am so happy with the barbone Android, that I don't see a reason to root. Maybe at some other point in time...
By the way, it took just a few seconds to enter Nokia beta and download the 8.1.
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Not quite. I discovered and reported a rather annoying kernel wakelock that doesn't allow CPU deep sleep for hours, causing battery drain.
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Thats weird, everyone else is reporting better battery life.
amunarjoh said:
Cool. Bought the phone today, and it's already on 8.1. Hoping Nokia will keep up the pace
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amunarjoh said:
Hi, and thanks for asking. At the moment I am so happy with the barbone Android, that I don't see a reason to root. Maybe at some other point in time...
By the way, it took just a few seconds to enter Nokia beta and download the 8.1.
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I do not have the phone, I have another phone that uses the same sensors as the Nokia 8, that's why I would like to have the system dump so I can see some information regarding cameras. Or if you can link me to the beta download that would be great. I can try to pull files and info from it.
I haven't noticed any crashes on this beta, but the battery life is definitely worse for me.
This device has no root, so pulling the system will be difficult I think.
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Thats weird, everyone else is reporting better battery life.
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That's what beta testing is for. "Works on my computer", you know, is not an acceptable excuse for programmers doing paid work. In some circumstances, on some models, in some regions, with some mobile service providers, etc, etc, you get intermittent weird problems that are impossible to catch during the "closed" beta testing phase. On my phone, there is almost no CPU deep sleep due to some kernel wakelock (I cannot get more details than this without root access, and there's no root for this model). After 3 days on 8.1 beta, I rolled back to 8.0 stable; no wakelock issues whatsoever. Of course, I submitted a comprehensive bug report before rolling back, so hopefully HMD catches and squashes this bug.
If you set animations to 0.5x you can notice the speed improvement more. Though could be placebo. Before 0.5x was more choppy and 8.1 feels smoother.
8.1 is definitely smoother!
The double tap on recent apps (for fast change) are waaay faster and without a single hiccup for me.
Battery have better stand-by with wifi and auto sync on.
Less than 1% per hour! (almost two hours to drain 1%)
Sent from my Nokia 8!
aoleg said:
That's what beta testing is for. "Works on my computer", you know, is not an acceptable excuse for programmers doing paid work. In some circumstances, on some models, in some regions, with some mobile service providers, etc, etc, you get intermittent weird problems that are impossible to catch during the "closed" beta testing phase. On my phone, there is almost no CPU deep sleep due to some kernel wakelock (I cannot get more details than this without root access, and there's no root for this model). After 3 days on 8.1 beta, I rolled back to 8.0 stable; no wakelock issues whatsoever. Of course, I submitted a comprehensive bug report before rolling back, so hopefully HMD catches and squashes this bug.
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Wow chill your beans, i am fully aware what beta testing is and i certainly do not need preaching to about it by the likes of you.
I was about to report that the standby times on my phone are also reduced but i don't think i'll bother now, you seem to have it all covered with your comprehensive report.
I observe that when i take my phone out of my pocket it automatically unlocks the screen lock( i put my finger on fp sensor when i take my phone out of my pocket). After that i checked if there is a problem with the light sensor, so i covered it so it couldn't get any light but still unlocked the phone when i used my fp to unlock it. Do you guys have that problem? Also to note that when i am making phone calls light sensor works like normal.
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USB tethering also doesn't seem to be working correctly and causes reboots.
still no ambient display......
Also the pop up when i want to disable the mobile data is frustrating. Is there a way to disable this?
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bluetooht not working
bluetooht also doesn't seem to be working correctly and causes reboots. when i make calls over carkit
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bluetooht also doesn't seem to be working correctly and causes reboots. when i make calls over carkit
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I'm using Bluetooth with two different car kits, speaker and headphones. No issues at all. Actually it seems to be using less power than on 8.0.
On 8.0 sometimes I couldn't connect to car kit. On 8.1 this issue seems to be gone.
This is the kind of battery life i am getting now after a few days running the beta, i still think standby times are worse but not shockingly so.