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[APPS] PowerTutor - Contacts and Messaging Destroying Battery?

I've been using a power usage app designed for the N1 called "PowerTutor" for the past week or so (app link, homepage link).
Ever since I've started using it, I've noticed that two apps are constantly using tons and tons of battery, despite me never using them: Contacts and Messaging. Notice in the screenshots below they have been running 100% of the time since my last reboot and using the most battery, more than any of the apps that I actually use:
Left: Current Power Usage (As of this second).
Right: Total Power Usage (Since reboot).
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These apps never go away. Now, I understand how Android task management works, so the fact that they are running isn't the problem; but the fact that they are using battery constantly seems to be a huge issue, since A) I never use them and yet B) together they have by far the highest power consumption apps on my phone. What the heck??
What is going on here? Does anyone else use PowerTutor?

Interesting find...
Seems like no one dares to comment on this...now I´m curious.

The app must be messaging your contacts in the background...
Or maybe this app drafts a message to one of your contact, then discards it and then drafts the same message to another contact and again discards it and so on....
The tutor in the name suggests that it wants to teach you a lesson... Don't install random apps on your phone and them give it permission to use whatever resources that it wants...

If you using CM ROM so maybe you lock messaging in the memory (CM setting > performance )

I messaged the developer and he responded with this:
It may be related to a bug (it's more of a limitation of the Android API) in PowerTutor. In reality Android gives no way to know what application is currently in the foreground so we have to estimate it using some information they do give us on the priority of each application. Unfortunately the phones I have work with don't have this problem so it's difficult for me to debug. The problem is related to the Messaging and Contacts applications having foreground priority despite not actually being in the foreground.
Try simply filtering out OLED (click on the OLED panel in the application view) to get more meaningful numbers for now.
-Mark
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Interesting...
My question then is, if we were to filter out OLED, wouldn't that mean we'd be missing out on some data (data that is actually valid)?
Though I'm not sure I understand what it means to have an app listed in multiple categories? And what that will do when one category is filtered out.

up 10chr aara

BriEE said:
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Hah, thanks for the bump. I am subscribed to this thread but actually uninstalled PowerTutor long ago. It seemed too inaccurate.

[APP] WhoIsIt Lite (Free)-Contact-Specific Ringtones (Gmail, SMS, MMS, GTalk, GVoice)

Hi All,
I just published WhoIsIt Lite to the Market. This is a free version of WhoIsIt which offers a subset of features found in the paid version.
WhoIsIt Lite will allow you to define contact-specific ringtones for phone calls, Gmail, SMS, MMS, GTalk, GVoice, and K-9. You can also configure WhoIsIt to provide spoken announcements for your notifications as well as define contact-specific vibrations for each of these notifications.
Please give it a try and post your feedback.
Thanks!
Andy
Market Link: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.handyandy.whoisit.lite
Review: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/customize-notifications-for-calls-sms-gmail-gtalk-etc-on-android/
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Anybody give this a try? Just curious if you find it useful.
Thanks!
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Looks good. Will try it out.

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Looks good. Will try it out.
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Thanks! Let me know what you think!
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I attached the APK to the first post in this thread in case it makes things easier for some people.

Tried the app. Looks very good
WOuld love to see - Ability to test the vibration on selection , like ringtones.
I will give a detailed review after testing the full app.
( Should be worth the purchase. )

drgopoos said:
Tried the app. Looks very good
WOuld love to see - Ability to test the vibration on selection , like ringtones.
I will give a detailed review after testing the full app.
( Should be worth the purchase. )
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Thanks for the feedback! If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Some of the other features that I'm considering are:
Group Notifications
Gmail Label Notifications
LED Color Control for Contacts

Alert for a word in subject for k9 and gmail wouldt be great!
I mean when there is a special word like fire or something in subject it should play a different alert sound for emails

Nice ;D i like it

I just downloaded this and after playing with it for a few minutes I think this is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. I love the fact that I can now set different ringtones for my notifications. I have alway thought it annoying that I had to have only one tone for all notifications. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

seems like an awesome app..will try it

will this override any settings from go sms?? i have custom led & sms ringtone from that but i would love just the individual caller feature

Could somebody provide details about CPU/RAM/Battery usage by this app ?
Thanks !

I still love this app. Thanks for the development.

bmcnary said:
I still love this app. Thanks for the development.
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Thanks! I really appreciate it!
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Ok I found my first little glitch. I downloaded the pay version today. In the preferences I set default notification to silent and assigned a SMS tone and clicked the manage sms check box. Now when I get a text it plays the tone I assigned and some unknown tone I cant even find on my phone. I then went into settings and force stopped the program and rebooted but I am still having the same problem.
Any Ideas?

Everything is perfect about this app except for one thing: vibration selection.
Why can I not use the phone default vibration for anything except "Default Phone Vibration?" I am forced to use the -. vibration styles for my Google Talk preferences. Putting in ---- does not give me a long vibration, but instead, four distinct - vibrations.
Is it possible for you to update the app and allow for us to select "Phone Default" for all vibration settings? I would much prefer the default long continuous vibration offered by my phone.

[APP] GoSMS Ex

GO SMS has a beta app called GO SMS EX. Awesome features like a DIY Theme.
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Support chat style and list style(Switch it in Conversation Customization)
Many cool,special themes
Popup, quick reply
Full MMS/SMS support
Stock SMS can be removed
Have Icon and Medium widget
Fully look customize
Support multiple user define settings
SMS backup and restore, by all or by selected conversations. Support XML format,send backup file by Email.
Settings backup and restore
Security lock
Blacklist
Animation effect in title or conversation list
Custom by individual contacts(notification,signature and conversation)
Custom individual ringtones
Batch mode, batch deleting, batch backup
Split large messages for CDMA
Time offset adjustment
Avoid messages wrong order:sort by time or by order of messages sent/received
Quick text
Night mode
Messages grouping
Reminder notification function
Privacy mode (on notification bar and popup window)
Handy build-in Contacts;Quick find: by any letter, name, keyword; Support phone group, Google group and GO SMS group
Facebook photos support
Group texting
Most users' feedback: Love how it's easy to use and very fast

Hm where did this come from? Curious how old the apk is.

Thanks got the notice today but when downloaded phone froze and couldn't get it anymore, love the new theme... thanks again and to the above op this was just released not even a week ago so it's brand new beta...
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Hm where did this come from? Curious how old the apk is.
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The APK was downloaded from the GO Dev teams server today. This software is beta, it's the most recent version of GoSMS.

thanks must try it

Yep I've been using it since they released it. Seems to have some enhancements with speed and the pop-up behavior.
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It looks great, thank to the GO dev team.
I'm gonna try this right now.

http://gosms.goforandroid.com/
Point 4 is how to manually join the pre-release trial and get update notifications.
"4. How to Join our pre-release trial? Run GO SMS—>Menu—>Help us—>Join our pre-release trial. And then kill the task, reopen GO SMS, you will get our trial notice."
Point 5 is of interest:
"5. This version is GOSMS EX beta, can only be tried for 6 days, after that, you need to update to newer beta version(if any) or uninstall this beta version and install the formal one, please be noticed."
I imagine that they'll either keep it up-to-date weekly, or just push the changes to the non-beta app.

[APP][4.1+] Pagendar, Keep close to your agenda every moment

Hey Everyone This is my first application on Play Store.
My first goal is 10k downloaders. I wish i could do that.
Therefore, I will keep close to this post for replying and viewing feedbacks.
I would like to hear more feedback about it.
Pagendar is a new way to check you agenda. Unlike normal agendar apps.
You can check your scheduled without open your Calendar.
Just a single tap, open your agenda to new or edit event!.
More than that, all of above are able to use even you're in whatsapp, email, browsing or in a phone call.
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changed to Black skin,
changed the logic on displaying calendar events
allow to make the countdown ball transparent by double tap
Credit
pingpongboss from XDA, StandOut
Thanks pingpongboss, your library is very useful.:laugh:

It's a very clever and useful idea. Working well on my I9300.
It seems to only show today's schedule. I think it would be more useful if you could scroll forward to see the following days also, when you are on a call and checking your schedule to see if you are available.
Edit: the second time I opened it, it did exactly that! But it doesn't show repeating events.
I would also like to hide its icon in the status bar.

rossarnie said:
It's a very clever and useful idea. Working well on my I9300.
It seems to only show today's schedule. I think it would be more useful if you could scroll forward to see the following days also, when you are on a call and checking your schedule to see if you are available.
Edit: the second time I opened it, it did exactly that! But it doesn't show repeating events.
I would also like to hide its icon in the status bar.
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Thanks for replying.
hide into status is a good idea.
and repeating events are headache on me. thanks man, i try to update it before tmw:good:

Shame. I can't open it. It crashes. Using Android 4.2.2 Rootbox ROM
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Can't see any calendar on the calendar list, just empty list.
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V4lve said:
Shame. I can't open it. It crashes. Using Android 4.2.2 Rootbox ROM
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Crashes, oh. I'm looking on it now.
Thanks for reporting:good:

SagiLo said:
Can't see any calendar on the calendar list, just empty list.
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It's weird. If you had login google ac on your device.
That supposed to show. I will try to find this bug.
Thanks for reporting:good:

[Q] Twitter notification tone

Is any one else having problems picking a notification tone with Twitter? Every time I pick one it just goes back to default. Thank you for any help.

Yes I posted the same problems.. and now I'm getting no notifications

Download fenix instead or the new twitter from www.apkmirror.com

Brava27 said:
Download fenix instead or the new twitter from...
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the latest APK does the same - reverts back to the default. One option my wife thought of was to change the default to silent and then change the notifications in the other apps.
There are many other apps but none will push the notifications outside of the app for the tweets of people you request because of the Twitter API.

Eequetsuorcha said:
Is any one else having problems picking a notification tone with Twitter? Every time I pick one it just goes back to default. Thank you for any help.
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I have the same problem. The button to save the notification sound setting is missing (and exiting the page doesn't automatically save the change).

any resolution on this subject?

No there's been a few updates but no fix for this on the s6. I reported it to twitter but I suppose it's not a very big issue really

Still not seeing any resolution on the latest build 5.69.0

Same issue on the note 5

Here we are 6 months down the line and they still haven't fixed it.

Set "default notification sound" in phone settings to the one you want for Twitter then change notification for messages to the one you want for SMS msgs.
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The problem is there is no OK button on the notification sound dialog box on the GS6/Note 5.
My wife has a Note 4 and the same Twitter app version has an OK button which successfully changes the tone.
My Note 5 doesn't have an OK buton. Backing out is the same as the cancel button.
Note 5:
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Same problem on the Samsung S7. This is really annoying. Please somebody fix this problem

Agreed. Seems like both a minor issue, and because it has lingered for so long, a very annoying one.
Even the Default/Messages setting workaround upthread is a no go for me, because there are apps (i.e. my local news app that send breaking news alerts) that give the Twitter sound with that setup.
Seems this should have been fixed a long time ago.
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Download es file Explorer. Remove the app defaults for twitter/media storage. Open twitter and go to notifications. When it pops up the app to use choose es file Explorer and browse to ur customer notification. Works for me on s7